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While The Simpsons news wasn't as busy as the real news this month, there's still a ton to catch up on in the July edition of our monthly community podcast. Not only that, but we had a month full of cool podcast guest appearances mixed with personal annoyances that took up more than a week of our lives. Then we catch up on all the movies/TV/games we experienced in July, tease some special upcoming podcasts, and (as always) respond to our favorite Patreon comments!

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Thad Komorowski

The stop-motion Daffy was cool, very reminiscent of Pee-Wee's Playhouse. Ironically since you read my Baby Huey comment, my POV is that Looney Tunes Cartoons is generally "Looney Tunes by Famous Studios"... It looks slick (even if most of it is rigged), but a very myopic set of pre-approved character pairings and premises and lots of cringe. (No surprise... the developmentally dangerous Johnny Ryan getting a gig as story editor on Looney Tunes is maybe THE "how the FUCK did that happen" in cartoons thus far this century.) Lots of "character versus a silent smaller animal/inanimate object" cartoons that's more of a Disney thing, too. The Porky and Daffys are the most tedious of the bunch (lots of Porky torture and SCREAMING), and I have no doubt the movie is 80 minutes more of the same. To not inspire rage and say something positive, the best stuff in this Clampett-influenced reprisal is ironically the stuff that apes Chuck and Friz (Rocky and Mugsy, Sam and Ralph, Charlie Dog, Marc Anthony and Pussyfoot). The winner of the whole run, though, is "Bonehead", a sequel to Clampett's rowdiest Bugs short Hare Ribbin' - they probably didn't sleep for months to get that one as good as it is. LTC is still a very high quality reprisal, regardless, and I'm sure if this was out when I was a 10 year old Looney Tunes fan I'd have loved it.

Art of AWD!

Max Winston's short premiered at "Animation is film" last year and was originally part of the LTC production for qualification for awards this year and he won, deservedly. There have been no LTC shorts planned since the end of the production, but there are a lot that haven't aired yet are probably shelved including a short that I WISH I could talk about that's not even a Looney Tunes property. But I read an article that I was given writing credit on the Porky and Daffy movie which is a nice surprise.

Obvs Ofcourse

Yes, better. Biden passed major climate change legislation and he got us out of Afghanistan. And he's done everything in his power to reduce people's student loan bills, even if he is stymied by the conservative court. Plus a very aggressive FTC, and banning non-competes. He is a deeply flawed president, but he is undoubtedly better than Obama.

Rob MacBride

Don't Look Now (1973) is perhaps the only other Sutherland film more cult than Bodysnatchers, I highly recommend getting it watched if you've not had the pleasure. That & Kelly's Heroes.

Thad Komorowski

Also, Bob, thanks for the elaboration on your twitter Thousand Year Door comments. I did take a listen to that Watch Out For Fireballs podcast, and I gotta say, it's reminding me how much I like Retronauts - you guys can get critical but you're always FUN about it. I'm not blind to the game's issues, the grinding, backtracking, and excessive dialogue were still painfully obvious in the Switch remake... same with the time-suck it is (I made the realization when I saw I had played for over 5 hours and I was only JUST done with the first chapter).... but god, their take was just captious.

To Boldly Joe... Moore

Hey, folks. I read that a clip of Kamala (from a few years ago) doing the "twirling towards freedom" speech was played at the 2024 Simpsons SDCC panel but I couldn't find it online. Does anyone know if it's out there? Thanks. 🙂

Josh Dietz

Blue Eye Samurai should win the Emmy but I wouldn't be upset if Bob's Burgers won since it was a very heartfelt episode about a secondary character dealing with his parent's divorce

Bryan Field

Bob, the Twilight Zone episode "Five Characters in Search of an Exit," (with the clown, hobo, ballerina, bagpiper, and army man) is one of my favorites. It is essentially a retelling of Jean-Paul Sartre's existential play, "No Exit," the source of the phrase, "hell is other people."