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Talking Simpsons - The Old Man and the "C" Student With Pop Arena (Patreon)

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2019-12-04 04:59:59
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We welcome on one of our favorite YouTube creators, Pop Arena (creator of the Nickelodeon retrospective Nick Knacks) on to talk about a really unpredictable episode! After the town loses out on an Olympics, somehow Bart befriends a bunch of old people who then engage in a Cuckoo's Nest/Titanic parody, all while Homer tries to sell springs. Grab you favorite taquitos and listen now!

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Zach Adams

I can name another Olympic mascot, Voochko the fox from Winter 84. I only know him because he was supposed to have an Intellivision game that got cancelled, but I can name at least one

Boyd Adkins IV

I'm glad I get to tell someone else this, but first seeing this episode I didn't know who Jack Lalanne was and thought it was Vince McMahon. Jim Ross once made a comparison to Vince having a "Jack Lalanne physique" and I didn't have a reference to our a face to him until this episode. Totally thought Vince was a guest on the Simpsons. Heheheheh

Frank Grimes

Probably one of the stranger (yet someone what logical/fitting) pivots from plot A to plot B. Although never liked how it ended with the springs and the ship bouncing back from the sea.

Graeme Black Robinson

I enjoyed your discussion of Olympic mascots! I actually work for a mascot design/creation studio, and in my experience almost every mascot is a proverbial camel (i.e. a horse designed by committee). I've seen some amazing work by our character artist get slowly boiled down to the blandest possible design over the course of a dozen or so revisions thanks to client feedback. So I can only assume Izzy's first draft was a lot more creative before he was rastafied 10% Also, Montreal may not have any vampires, but the mascot of their former baseball team, the Expos is Youppi! He was designed by Bonnie Erickson, the muppet designer behind Miss Piggy, Statler and Waldorf.

Joe Hodgson

My only enduring memory of Izzy the Olympic mascot comes courtesy of GamePro. That little guy was in advertisements constantly and he was also on some contest. It was one of those word jumbles you had to complete and then mail in. If you answered it correctly, you were sent a new puzzle to complete only this one had an entrance fee. My friends and I were entering it in hopes of winning a prized Panasonic 3DO. Our desire to have one was driven entirely by a screenshot of Doom for the system which depicted a realistic looking demon thing. Unbeknownst to us, that was almost certainly from a video clip in the game and the actual graphics were probably the same, or worse, than what we were accustomed to on PC. I don't think any of us fell for the scheme though and we stopped with just the free puzzle, unlike Dough Funnie who cashed in his savings bond to continue entering a similar puzzle. As a result, I just think of Izzy as a jerk-ass grifter who preys on naïve children.

Alex Irish

I have to admit I exploded in laughter at Homer dribbling Maggie like a basketball. The cartoon boing sounds help out the absurdity.

nina matsumoto

I can name all three Vancouver Olympics mascots (Quatchi, Sumi, Miga) and the Paralympics mascot (Muk Muk) because they were awesome! Well, also because I live here... but still! Look up "tokyo 2020 olympics mascot poll" -- they let children pick and in my opinion they went with the worst set.

Adam Voyde

Baby Yoda is Bob's new Bonkers.

DrKarate

Of all the episodes of what people would call the good to okay seasons, the end of this episode is one of my least favorite. It's just way to goofy for me, and even as a teen I remember thinking it was pretty lame.

crystalhearts

I have a deep love of the London 2012 mascots who are awful little eye creatures inexplicably named Wenlock and Mandeville

KaiserBeamz

Great that you brought up the 1996 Atlanta Olympics because I actually attended those Olympics. The 1996 Olympics was the first real huge news that six-year old me became aware of because it was happening in my home state of Georgia. And I thought it was coolest thing ever because, at the time, I had a huge obsession with geography and learning about other countries, and the idea that people from all over the world coming to Atlanta to compete in games had to be the biggest event in history! My dad accepted an invite from some of his old yuppie college friends to see the Athletics competition on the day before the Closing Ceremonies and he took me to see it with them. I remember being very excited seeing Olympics in person and also not wanting the United States to win gold because I thought that would be “boring.” I also remember impressing my dad’s friends by being a weird six-year who knew what the flag of Burundi looked like as well as tasting root beer for the first time. It was only a few years later when I realized that I had experienced a once-in-a-lifetime event. Didn’t ask for any Izzy merch thought. I just wanted pins of other countries flags. Again, weird six-year old.

The Home Video Update

I personally thought that Children are our Future and the way Skinner said it was a misdirection that they were going to sing "Greatest love of all" by Whitney Houston, and that was the joke.

Bennett Billard

My alternate name for that credits album cover is "A Hard D'ohs Night." Yes, that would be written as "A Hard [Annoyed Grunt]'s Night."

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

This episode definitely is all over the place but I can't help but still really enjoy it. I hope at least *that much* holds true until the end of the Scully era...

PurpleComet

Not being familiar with the Beatles movie, I've always found the sequence with the old people playing charming.

Andrew Grieve

I can’t recall if it was noted in the credits, but it shouldn’t be shocking that either NRBQ or its members at the time, wrote and performed the theme to The Pitts. Which I definitely hated as a teenager who was very active online, but a few years later I revisited it to discover it wasn’t so bad, but it could have been worse. It’s been fun to realize just how much of that hatred was rooted in group think from the forums I was a part of! The Springy mascot subplot and its fallout easily made this episode for me, it’s disjointed but still memorable for Homer’s attempt at getting rid of the springs. “Children Are the Future” gets some points from this cynic as well. Listening to this podcast reminded me of how I was just the right age to be all-in for Izzy during the ‘96 games. I had an Izzy shirt, an Izzy ornament, that awful platformer for the Genesis - and at one time, I recorded the Film Roman special when it aired on TNT. Unfortunately, I don’t think that tape survived a basement flood as I’ve been unable to locate it after a few moves. So where there’s my story, surely someone else has it on tape somewhere, or the last known copy is on a moldy VHS tape in a rural Michigan landfill. If there’s any other olympic mascot(s) I remember, it’s the animals that loved Mitt Romney from the Salt Lake City Olympics. Seriously, there were images and pins made of the mascots declaring their love for Romney, alongside a caricature of his face, as if he were part of this mascot squad. It’s a gift truly for the moderate darling in your life.

Blandon

Lapland is somewhere between Chin-a and Thigh-land

Xaq Crabwise

There is another really dark joke in the string of jokes about the Whatsit and the Montreal Vampire that goes a bit unnoticed and that neither of you bring up - but Kent Brockman also says that Springfield “can hope for the same post-Olympics boom that Sarajevo did after their 84 Olympics” and I think the joke there is that under 10 years after the Sarajevo Olympics the former Yugoslavia (the host country of the 84 olympics) began to break up. Sarajevo (the capital of Bosnia, one of the breakaway constituents of Yugoslavia) was subject to an intense siege marked by shelling of the city from its surrounding hills - including targeted shelling of civilian markets (the implied boom in the Simpsons joke - and also the impetus for NATO intervention in the conflict). As a history nerd I felt like I had to point out a really dark joke that may have gone unnoticed by the audience of the time and may have become even more archaic to current audiences. Anyhow, love you guys.

Kat Heagberg

Just really want to thank you guys for introducing me to Poparena a while back. Definitely my now favorite YouTube channel. (And another great Talking Simpsons episode as well!)