Talking Simpsons - The Bart Wants What It Wants With Will Sloan

Came here late just to say this lol. The tower was meant as a broadcast tower, both for TV and radio and for CN's rail and freight infrastructure - hence why it was named after CN (Canadian National Rail). The Toronto Transit Commission also has radio equipment in the tower - a relative of mine who works at TTC has gone up there multiple times to work on equipment.

Monstromax

While we haven't seen as many movies shooting here in Toronto recently, a lot of great Television gets filmed here! What We Do in the Shadows, The Boys, both of the current live-action Star Trek shows, Lock and Key, the list goes on!

Graeme Black Robinson

The good news is no, nobody calls it T Dot anymore. The bad news is that the kind of person who used to say that now calls it "the Six." It's a thing Drake started because of our primary area codes (416 and 647) and it is even worse.

Charles

Ok so I haven't been to T'ranna since 2004, but do (cringey) people still say T Dot or T.O.? While this absolute vacantness of a Simpsons episode well deserves all the scorn and then some, I *still* quote "LAUGHING TIME IS OVER" regularly.

Jay in Madison

Count me as another Canadian who was disappointed by this episode when it was new. From what I remember, the next episode that visits Canada isn't much better. It's interesting to hear Will talk about the decline of Toronto as a filming location, because there's been a major uptick in movies filmed in my part of the country during the same time frame, mostly horror stuff like those direct-to-DVD Child's Play sequels, and many Hallmark Channel original movies.

Christmas Ape

Marges M&M quip is one of her top 10 one-liners

mavrick

It's wonderful to hear Will on the show again with his wry, understated humor and broad knowledge. (He's one of the only reasons I miss Twitter.) This is such a lame episode in every respect. I'll add that even as a middle schooler who had a decent familiarity with Toronto (not a Canadian, lifelong resident of the American Niagara Falls, so we lived 90 minutes away from there) that this generic and bland interpretation only expedited no longer needing to see new episodes every week.

Thad Komorowski

When Henry started bringing up that it was similar to another scene, I thought this was the one he was going to point at. "Hey man, I don't want your stupid glue."

nina matsumoto

The scene where Lisa takes the ball away from Maggie to prove that someone only wants something that they can't have , feels very similar to the one where Lisa and bart are fighting over the glue in Bart versus thanksgiving. I do at least appreciate that there's a Twist on the joke though

Covey M.

In case it hasn't already been said, I don't know if the sea captain has a dedicated episode but he has a level based around him in the video game, and the end of the level ends with a cutscene with him saying Sea captain: I almost never have this much important in the series Bart and lisa: huh? Sea captain: The series of events that make up our lives

Covey M.

In the season 33 episode The Wayz We Were, Milhouse wears a soccer jersey that says The House on the back

Dylan

Yeah, that's about what I figured.

Dayken

He is doing just fine, he comes from wealth.

John Harrison

The helicopter crash with the Olympic torch at the start of the episode makes me think of the helicopter crash on Olympic Bridge in Seoul in 2001 (the CH-47 Chinook was bringing the torch sculpture to the top of the bridge and it crashed) I hope that isn't the inspiration for this joke, but the crash happened in May of 2001, so maybe?

John Harrison

I can't believe I am about to be this much of a pedant, but at the same time I feel a duty to be a huge geek about this: it's inaccurate to say that the CN Tower is useless as a building. While it is a dorky tourist attraction, the structure itself has a very practical use: its antenna, which is a very important part of Toronto broadcasting and communications history. More than 30 TV and radio stations are transmitted through that antenna. Because of its height and its proximity at the southernmost/lowest point in the city, it ensures that people across the city get clear access to a lot of radio and TV. During my 10+ years in Greektown, I could watch our major conventional stations – CBC, CTV, City and Global – with just my antenna and no cable package, clear as a bell. I was always appreciative of it but didn't realize just how great it was until I moved to another county in Southern Ontario near Lake Erie and can't get a single conventional station, even the CBC, through my antenna.

Considering he ended up pivoting to selling AI generated NFTs, I can't say I feel bad for the Garfield Eats guy.

Dayken

bart not getting the hint could also mean he's a 10 year old boy.

Frank Grimes