Talking Simpsons - Bart To The Future With Mike Drucker
Added 2020-11-04 05:00:01 +0000 UTCThis week we welcome back Mike Drucker for an ominous episode that predicted the future of 2016 in 2000! But beyond the heinous predictions, this episode also gifted us with future Bart as one of the most realistic dirtbags to ever be seen on TV, as well as some pretty dated jokes about tribal gaming. So listen now for some tasty podcast tuneskis, unless you only used to be cool!
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This episode turned out a lot better than I was expecting it to, having very little actual memory of it outside of Bart having a band and it containing the Trump as president "prediction." It's definitely entertaining, and while some of the future's inconsistencies with prior flash-forwards are frustrating, the continuity has always been spotty so it doesn't bug me too much anymore, especially when it's just a pretty solid episode. That being said, the casual racism towards Indigenous people in this episode is a real uncomfortable bummer. The fact that this aired in 2000 (even if it was written in 99) and not the 90s or earlier really makes it that much worse to me. I wouldn't excuse it then, but it's more understandable to still hear them referred to as "Indians" outside of this millennium, or dated, bad stuff like the "wacky Native names" jokes.
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2020-11-08 06:55:11 +0000 UTCI've always considered the current Simpsons future as the "Jenda Timeline" as she seems to be a major character that the stories revolve around. As for the episode, i actually rate this one pretty high. Its certainly in my top twenty. Why? Well, when I was a kid in the early 80s, all the neighborhood kids went over to this one house, because the kid who lived there had the coolest dad. Or so we thought so at the time. He wore hawaiian shirts and flip flops, all the time. In his basement he had an atari and all the games you could imagine. He had PINBALL, a playboy one too. He would play us Zeppelin, Queen and Kiss records while we hung out there. There was also a coke machine that was free! The dad's kid was never really smug about it, he welcomed the party that basically existed there every saturday and many days after school. He would tell us that his dad was on the radio, I assume a drive time classic rock station dj based on the sterotype he fit in. Thing was, that dad, he was Bart in this. If he lost at pinball, he's go "this stupid machine is broken/Cheating!' if he lost at atari, he'd go "good game atari" in a real sarcastic tone. When his wife would tell him to stop swearing around the kids, he'd tell her "You need to be cool babe" and such. he would talk about how he was in a band, but they wouldn't go anywhere because the record companies thought their music was too good, and it would drive down sales of everyone else. Seeing this episode for the first time in 2000 reminded me of days 17 or so years ago. That makes it 37 years ago now, oh god. I always figured the timeline was Trump, Bono then Lisa, with the budget crunch from trumps term that Bono failed to address and left Lisa with it. That may of been why Bono lost. As was said in the pod, it really feels like a late 90s thing to worry about. The GOP did hammer away at Clinton for the defect and the debt during his second term a lot, but didn't seem to care that most of it came from Regan, and then they forgot about it as soon as GWB was elected. Funny that, but then Republicans think its bad when the goverment does things like build bridges and funds education, but its good when it spends billions to blow up people in other countries that are mad the US bombed them before.
twistedmentat
2020-11-08 06:19:35 +0000 UTC
