Another month has passed at the Talking Simpsons Network, and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month, our $10 Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 2000's An Extremely Goofy Movie! Listen now to this free extended preview, and then subscribe at the $10 level (...
2025-05-26 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
As the go-go '90s reached their end and Disney enthusiasm was at an all-time low, the studio relied on the highly profitable direct-to-video market to keep their animation efforts afloat. Classics like Bambi and Cinderella saw follow-ups in the cheaper clamshell format, but this money factory also made the sequelization of fairly unpopular movies profitable. So, as Y2K dawned, Disney brought us...
2025-05-26 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
"Millions of girls will grow up thinking that this is the right way to act. That they can never be anything more than vacuous ninnies whose only goal is to look pretty, land a rich husband, and spend all day on the phone with their equally vacuous friends talking about how damn terrific it is to look pretty and have a rich husband!" - Lisa Simpson
Malibu Stacy speaks for the first time, a...
2025-05-21 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
"You know, I'm not sure if being a millionaire is such a good idea. Bobby's only been around rich people for a few hours and he already looks like that kid on the paint can." - Hank Hill
Hank gets the chance of a lifetime, Bill has sex with potential cousins, and Bobby becomes a Southern dandy as the show heads to New Orleans and the fabled SuperDome—where the Saints of football play. 2025-05-19 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
"This guy's the one what done the thing that why you're here for! I'm talking malfeasance here!" - Moe Szyslak
Disgraced internet billionaire Artie Ziff returns as a rafter-sucking attic-dweller who eventually finds himself consensually living in the same home with Marge—his former flame. But when Homer ends up taking the blame for Ziff's many crimes against investors, the latter finds ...
2025-05-14 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
"Bender, I've been to wang-dang-doodles all up and down the galaxy, but this is the dangest wang I ever doodled." - Ethan "Bubblegum" Tate
Futurama rings in its 100th episode with a heartwarming, sewage-filled tale of Leela leading the mutants in their struggle for civil rights. Also, Devo is here for some reason.
2025-05-12 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
"Silly customer! You cannot hurt a Twinkie!" - Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
Apu receives a well-deserved spiritual depantsing when he knowingly sells Homer tainted meat and ends up in the unemployment line. But with the help of his oafish friend, and benevolent Hollywood superstar James Woods, he may find himself back in the good graces of the Kwik-E-Mart corporation.
Our gu...
2025-05-07 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
What's this? Your regular episode of What A Cartoon, being interrupted by something completely different? No, you're not the victim of a dastardly Joker scheme—though you'll at least hear us talk about one of those. As a little diversion from our regular programming schedule, this month we're swapping out the standard episode of WAC with a brand-new entry of our Blabbin 'Bout Batman miniserie...
2025-05-05 04:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, we've got some surprises for you on the Talking Simpsons Network. We have our usual collection of great podcasts coming your way, not to mention an early start to a themed summer of movies, and the return of a certain Dark Knight. And remember, if you'd like to listen to this month's epis...
As Simpsons season 36 comes to a close, we're up to our necks in an incredible amount of news on this super-size episode of Talk to the Audience. Listen in as we discuss the Simpsons' four-season renewal, a new voice for Jimbo Jones, the potential loss of a historic writing room, and Nancy Cartwright's new video podcast. And, as always, we read and respond to your questions and comments from th...
2025-04-30 04:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Another month has passed at the Talking Simpsons Network, and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month, our $10 Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 2003's Looney Tunes: Back in Action! Listen now to this free extended preview, and then subscribe at the $10 lev...
2025-04-28 04:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
After the glorified shoe/Michael Jordan commercial known as Space Jam, we as a people deserved a real Looney Tunes movie. And that sort of happened in 2003, when Joe Dante's Looney Tunes: Back in Action hit theaters—then did so poorly it's a shock the IP remains with us today. This live-action/cartoon hybrid has some of the spark of Roger Rabbit and the director's more notable works, but ende...
2025-04-28 04:00:23 +0000 UTC View Post
"Sweetie, you seem so blue. Did the last of something die?" - Marge Simpson
Lisa's curse of forever being in second place strikes again when she discovers Maggie somehow has a higher IQ. Can guest star Simon Cowell help Lisa get over her resentment before a shockingly realistic recreation of the human digestive system dissolves the rest of the Simpson family?
Our guest: 2025-04-23 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
"She can't be a woman! I'm still a kid! Look at me—I even got the kids' MEAL! I LOVE this toy!" - Bobby Hill
Connie becomes a woman—very suddenly—while staying at the Hills', leaving Hank to play surrogate mother until someone with more menstruation experience can step in.
2025-04-21 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
"I shouldn't let this bother me. I'm in television now. It's my job to be repetitive. My job! My job! Repetitiveness is my job!" - Bart Simpson
A trip to the box factory causes Bart to catch the showbiz bug when he sneaks away and lands a gig behind the scenes at The Krusty the Clown Show. But when a bit part on a sketch makes him an overnight sensation, he learns just how long a single c...
2025-04-16 04:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
"You're asking me, the renowned spokesman for Paul Masson wine, to recreate my brilliant 1938 radio broadcast merely to impress and deceive the wife of this skinny reptile? Sorry—never mind. I'll do it for free." - Orson Welles
This month, we examine the horrifying world of Omicronian love and learn that the way to Lrrr's heart is through his horns (which also house his testes).
O...
2025-04-14 04:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
"You're panhandling! I should have known from that panhandling sign! Plus that ticket you got for panhandling!" - Marge Simpson
Milhouse briefly moves away, Homer becomes a part-time vagrant, and Bart and Lisa form a temporary bond in this overstuffed episode bookended by Isabel "Weezy" Sanford.
2025-04-09 04:00:32 +0000 UTC View Post
A whole decade before Futurama wowed Fox viewers with its masterful mix of sci-fi and comedy, BBC Two launched Red Dwarf, an outer space version of The Odd Couple set three million years in the future. And, over the course of the last 30-plus years, this smash hit evolved beyond its simple sitcom premise and has seen plenty of planet-hopping adventures, alternate realities, doppelgangers, compu...
2025-04-07 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, we're taking a bit of a diversion to talk about the two-season also-ran created by former Simpsons showrunners, Al Jean and Mike Reiss. How did a live-action Krusty the Clown spin-off turn into a prime-time cartoon that mashed Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert together into one adorably pathetic, pug-ugly movie reviewer? Listen in as we explore the short-lived show that added "Hachi Machi!...
2025-04-02 04:00:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Another month has passed at the Talking Simpsons Network, and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month, our $10 Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 1986's An American Tail! Listen now to this free extended preview, and then subscribe at the $10 level (or up yo...
2025-03-31 04:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
When Don Bluth set out to show up his former employer in the early '80s, The Secret of NIMH got absolutely wrecked by E.T. at the box office—as most things were. Little did he know, the father of that wrinkled alien would contact him a few years later with the opportunity to collaborate on an animated feature backed by the prestige of the Spielberg brand. This month on What A Cartoon movie, l...
2025-03-31 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Another live-action month has begun on the Talking Simpsons Network, and, as usual, we're taking a slight diversion from our normal coverage to bring you podcasts about media that's at least cartoony in spirit. And remember, if you'd like to listen to this month's episodes of TalKing of the Hill ...
2025-03-28 19:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
We've reached the end of the month, which means it's once again time for another installment of our community podcast! Join us as we scrape together what little news we can during this ongoing Simpsons drought, check in on Disney+'s new 24-hour Simpsons stream, and celebrate the second revival of American Dad. And, as always, we read and respond to your questions and comments from the most rece...
2025-03-26 04:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
"All my life I was looking for that one woman whose execution could bring me happiness. Now I realize I was just beheading myself for divorcing you." - Homer Simpson (as Henry VIII)
Discover the magic of history and state-funded learning institutions as Marge leads us through three different tales from the past that may or may not be parodies of popular films from the 1980s.
2025-03-19 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
"You see, this is why we do shop: not to be more popular or to get into college, but to sand, and drill, and chisel things... for our moms." - Hank Hill
Hank and Peggy butt heads (and possibly butt joints) when a forced vacation takes Hank down a new path in life—one that makes him a shoo-in for the Substitute Teacher of the Year Award.
2025-03-17 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
"Lisa, never EVER stop in the middle of a hoedown!" - Homer Simpson
We explore the darker side of heavy sack beatings and taking the law into your own hands as we discuss an episode that reveals the cognitive benefits of rhythmic jug-hooting.
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"As I told you on Sucker Punch Day, I'm through being a chump!" - Philip J. Fry
As the Planet Express crew trades forms willy-nilly, they learn valuable lessons about what it's like to be trapped in a horrifyingly old or brutally ugly sack of flesh. But will they be able to get their minds back in the right skulls in a way that's mathematically possible?
2025-03-10 04:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
"If I write a book, will they tell me when it comes out?" - Marge Simpson
Learn all about the publishing world as we discuss an episode that both lampoons and harpoons the world of bodice-ripping romance novels.
Our guest: TheRealJims
2025-03-05 05:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to premium patron ToonJay, we're continuing our coverage of all things Craig McCracken with a look at his short-lived series, Wander Over Yonder. Listen in as we explore two distinctly different episodes of this colorful, snappy cartoon: one that sends up the worst period of TV animation, and another that depicts the possible rehabilitation of an evil robot via the power of friendship (a...
2025-03-03 05:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey folks, you'll feel like you've come down with March Madness (Podcast Edition) when you check out the many shows on the Talking Simpsons Network this month! And remember, if you'd like to listen to this month's episodes of TalKing of the Hill and Talking Futurama, you'll need to sign up at the $5 le...
2025-02-28 17:00:15 +0000 UTC View Post