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"I was in heaven. If horse racing is the sport of kings, then surely bowling... is a... very good sport as well!" - Homer Simpson

Journey back with us to the distant year of 1993—which wasn't so distant in 1995—to hear about the fabled birth of Maggie. When Homer at long last reaches the coveted rank of "pin monkey," the birth of his second daughter threatens to blow the Simpson family eight ways from Sunday.

Don't forget, listener: you're here forever.

Our Guest: Justin Decloux from The Important Cinema Club Podcast

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Jeremy Hawkins

I’ve been dreaming of this crossover for years!

David Griggs

I’m really enjoying revisiting these classic episodes. Frankly I’d be fine with you guys just redoing the first 10 seasons over and over again.

NewKillerStar

Same! Feels like they've always got a new discovery on these revisits. Though, I love their coverage of the "modern" episodes because occasionally there's a diamond in the rough!

Tyler M.

Absolutely thrilled to hear Justin. Don't sleep on his Blu-ray label Gold Ninja Video!

Steve Watts

This is an all-timer episode for me, usually my answer for favorite all-time episode. I think Joey is sort of just a general reference to the "sickly kid sidekick" trope but I always figured he's mostly supposed to be invoking to Crutchie from Newsies. The main character, Jack, is always talking about escaping to Santa Fe and he sings a whole song with Crutchie about how they're going to go there together and start a new life. There are probably lots of others but that one stands out to me, and the depiction of "Joey" as a turn of the century kid with a New York accent just says Newsies to me.

TJ Gaines

Wesleyan is considered one of the “Little Ivy’s”

frysjackett

The bobs burgers movie actually had some good smooth animation! Being a huge fan of the show I do actually agree with the animation style. BUT not enough to stop watching. Hey to each there own, more bobs burgers for me! And that doesn't even make sense.

Dennis K

I was a huge fan of Knight Rider when I discovered it at age 7, and was then was hugely let down when the DVD's came out in the early 00s and I got to revisit the series only to discover nearly every episode had the same plot! Michael goes to a town, meets a cute girl and her son/little brother/nephew, leaves town, learns he has to go back to stop some bad guys, rescues the girl from danger, and then KITT does a turbo boost and jumps over something to save the day. Not a great series to binge. On the subject of TV set memories, my family had one of those TV's with the big wooden frame and a magnetic spot you could put the remote control into when it wasn't being used. Our second TV was bought specifically so I could have something to play my NES on without interfering with my parent's shows.

Evan Brady

Okay fine I'll be the one to point out that besides Knight Rider, Knightboat is a direct parody of Thunder In Paradise, wherein Hulk Hogan and Chris Lemmon fought Florida poachers from a high-tech speedboat for 22 thrilling episodes in 1994

Thad Komorowski

Re: not needing to see more Bob’s Burgers, I think at this point all the long running animated sitcoms are fast food equivalents. Reliable but forgettable even if you like it. It was shitty of Fox to not give them a fall slot, though, because BB always has great holiday episodes.

Scott Lowe

As someone who spent 3 years of college working the desk in a bowling alley, I'd assumed the joke about the pants was just because there's so much grease / oil involved in being behind the scenes in the machinery and Homer wouldn't want to ruin his nice dress pants. I still love the ambiguity of his line delivery either way.

Devon Baxter

A couple of years ago, I learned that one of Swinton’s first jobs in animation was for a studio called Love-Hutten-Love, run by Golden Age animator Ed Love*, his son Tony, and Bill Hutten. I asked Swinton personally about that detail of his career - here’s what he said: “[Love-Hutten-Love] rented some studio space on Ventura Blvd in Studio City. It was towards Whittset Ave. There was so much work to get done for Saturday morning TV back then that the studios farmed it out to guys with little studios who freelanced it around town, including to people who worked in-house and picked up extra footage for extra dough. The first work I did for them was on The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang cartoon [1980-81]. I wasn't that good at it, so they put me on Flintstones and Dino and Cavemouse [from The Flinstones Comedy Show] pretty fast. I got to clean up a lot of animation by Ed Love on that and other shows over two years. As an assistant I was given a small little folder with the layouts, and the animator's drawings, and the exposure sheets. I had taken some after hours animation classes at H-B, that's where I learned how to in between and flip the papers.” (*Ed Love started HIS career in the early 1930s with Mickey Mouse and was one of Tex Avery’s main animators in the 1940s; Ed’s career lasted up to the early 1990s when he animated on the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog pilot.)

PoochieD

We love Justin!!!! Been waiting for him to pop up here for a hot minute x

Yannick Belzil

Newish listener, love the show but I particularly appreciate the writer detailed deep dives!

Stephen C. Nedell

Like so much from season 6, this episode has so many classic bits. As a K-8 Librarian, I couldn't tell you the number of times I had students ask me why my head was so shiny. I'd tell them every week I went to the bowling alley and stuck my head in the Shino-ballo. The second graders often believed me, bless those stupid gullible fools. Now that I'm in a high school, it doesn't work as well. I also remember that when this episode first aired I was in my final year of college, so Homer praying for things to stay exactly as they were, it really hit me. I dreaded leaving the safe and fun cocoon of college for the real world. Sadly the first thing I learned in grad school was that it combined the drudgery of work with the added indignity of paying for it.