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Talking Simpsons - A Star is Burns With Toby Jones (Patreon)

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2026-10-21 04:00:06
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"Let's just say it moved me... to a bigger house! Oops! I said the quiet part loud and the loud part quiet." - Krusty the Clown

It's time for another cheesy cartoon crossover as Jay Sherman visits Springfield to introduce Fox viewers to The Simpsons' Sunday night time slot companion—for about half a season. But even though Jay Sherman wasn't long for this world, this episode full of parodies, classic lines, and Schwarzenegger slander remains a timeless installment we couldn't possibly say "boo-urns" to.

Our guest: Toby Jones, writer and director of AJ Goes to the Dog Park

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Erica Logan

I regret being the person to say that the Whiffenpoofs are a Yale a cappella group

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

Toby, Toby, Toby! -- It always baffled me when I learned how this episode was a blacksheep and looked down on since I always loved it, even as someone who first caught the episode in syndication and had no idea what The Critic even was until years later. They've done FAR more annoying cross-promotion synergy BS in the age of Disney, and did episodes more offensive to their own show, and just plain worse MANY times over so it's kind of just funny how contentious this still was at the time of the DVD recording.

Alex Irish

Paraphrasing what Henry said on this episode nine years ago, but don’t hook beer to your veins: you will die.

Thad Komorowski

When I first saw this as a kid, I thought Jay Sherman was just some weird random one-off character. Which is all he deserves to be remembered for, in an actual great all-timer of the series. The Critic is utterly soulless and remains proof Al Jean was a sitcom hack who got lucky.

Ian Stratton

I think "Babaloo Smithers" might be a reference to Babaloo Mandel, one half of the screenwriting duo with Lowell Ganz that wrote a bunch of popular studio comedies like Splash and City Slickers in the 80's and 90's.

Thomas Gordon

As someone who has directed many Shakespeare plays, I can confidently say the character named Casio is pronounced KAS - ee - oh. The Japanese pronunciation for the company Casio is KAH-shee-oh This spelling change of the company name from the last name Kashio naturally led English speakers to adopt a hard "S" sound

Chris Cashmoney

Toby, I would argue that using stock footage clips was very muppet babies coded

Chris Cashmoney

I had to look this up because I like Casio and never thought about it before. Sure enough, their HQ says カシオ

Patrick McClafferty

Perfect timing for this episode to come out. I am in the middle of going to a film festival this week (Philadelphia Film Featival) though I missed the local shorts program like usual. I also appreciate the slight reference to the Animaniacs Variety Speak song (at least i assume its referencing it) with the Hicks makes splits etc quote. That sketch was how learned that terminology.

Michael Recon

You mentioned Variety Speak - Animaniacs has a song and album titled ‘Variety Speak’ it’s really good 👍🏽

Bob Mackey

I know it's spoken by those folks who went to school for just one week

driftwood

This episode is the reason I never saw the Critic. I'm with Homer, this new character is annoying.

Galileo908

My personal favorite episode! And yeah, this is all over the place (tine fillers, movie parodies, a sliver of emotional stakes, Jay being a Mary Sue compared to his own show), but with the quality of the jokes being so damn good, you let it slide.

Galileo908

I was at the Futurama panel at NY Comic Con a few weeks ago and I assure you everyone on that stage was against AI. Matt Groening did say “and I for one welcome our AI overlords,” though.

Galileo908

This episode did its job and got me to stick around to watch The Critic and was hooked instantly.

Dennis K

The talk of using characters to promote spin-offs reminds me of the brief furry comic craze that tried to ride the coattails of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The cover of Pre Teen Dirty Gene Kung Fu Kangaroos #1 boasts of a "extraoridnary short-but critical appearance of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Peter Laird!" and it's Donatello waiting for a bus in one panel. Also, Miami Mice #4 featured an appearance of all four Turtles drawn by Eastman and Laird -and- Cerebus drawn by creator Dave Sim...at a night club the main characters visit during the denouement.

CitizenMeh

Don't think The Critic ever aired in the UK (and if it did, it'd have been a random episode at 2am) so it took me many many years to discover this was a crossover. But who cares- Rainier Wolfcastle's scenes are some of my all-time favourites in ANY comedy, and "BOOO-URRRRNS" is now just a fundamental part of my vocabulary.

David Griggs

I love that you guys are redoing some of these classic episodes. I genuinely don’t mind hearing a podcast about something multiple times

Rob Z

Oh man, just... one of the all time greats. I have no idea if the Critic aired in the UK back in the day but it honestly wasn't until you guys started talking about it existing as a show (either on the early episodes of this podcast or on other ones before) that I ever learned of it. It truly worked even without knowing who Jay Sherman was and having no idea why Bart felt dirty. I've learned in recent years that there were a LOT of sitcom crossovers that flew over my head because of how they aired in the UK - mostly in Friends. I found out the joke with Ursula being Phoebe's twin sister was because she was on another show... only this year. From a 1994 FRIENDS cookbook (it's not very good). Anyway I know you haven't done line of the show in many, many years but as this is where the clip comes from, 'on closer inspection, these are loafers' may be my favourite Simpsons joke of all time. It always, ALWAYS, cracks me up

Tyler M.

Everyone should buy AJ Goes to the Dog Park. Not only because Toby is great but because former guest and all around good guy, Justin Decloux is involved with the special features. AND when you’re buying stuff from Vinegar Syndrome, you can order some movies from Bleeding Skull who put out mind melting, low budget horror that makes you feel like you have a brain tumor.

brian bonelli

I love this episode but the older I get, the more it kinda bugs me how Homer is essentially bullied into voting for the artsy-fartsy movie over the "lowbrow" one that he actually enjoys. It's this kind of mindset that has led to comedies being generally overlooked by the Academy Awards. Maybe I just have a problem with the whole notion of giving awards to something subjective like art. Speaking of, we can probably assume George C. Scott didn't accept his Oscar for "Man Getting Hit By Football," as he was famously outspoken about how distasteful he felt the Academy Awards are, going as far as refusing his statue when he won for "Patton" in 1971.

Chris G

“Barney’s movie had heart, but football in the groin had a football in the groin” still lives rent free in my head

Sean Ryan

To Henry's rant on Simpsons versions of brands or celebrities: To me, the deciding factor is whether the person has a recurring role as a citizen of Springfield. For many reasons, it wouldn't work if Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared a couple to a few times per season. It makes more sense to have a Springfield version of him that feels like he's a part of that world. If you're just going to make a one-off joke about a celebrity, especially if it's taking a jab specifically at that real-world person, then it feels more right to use the real person. Same with brands: If it's just a regular prop in the show, use the Springfield version. But if the joke targets that brand specifically, I'd say use the real brand. Though I think we're all in agreement that President Schwarzenegger was a mistake. Either make it President Wolfcastle or create a more unique character model and voice for Arnold.