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Talking Simpsons - Monty Can't Buy Me Love With Rifftrax's Conor Lastowka (Patreon)

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2019-12-11 05:19:41
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This week Conor Lastowka from Rifftrax and the 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back podcast returns for one of season 10's most uneven episodes! After a new Megastore opens in Springfield, Mr. Burns is no longer the most popular billionaire. In his quest for love he'll go on the radio and fly to Scotland, all leading to one of the weakest endings in series history! Listen this week to hear how Nessie ends up in Vegas!

Be sure to check out Talking Simpsons next live show at SF Sketchfest, January 14, with special guest Jordan Morris!!

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Bennett Billard

I suddenly feel the urge to visit my local Virgin Megasto- Oh, right. 😟

Thom Hore

Bring back gjhbuigiubujk you cowards!

Zach Adams

The Megastore reminds me less of Virgin Megastore and more of Incredible Universe, Radio Shack's short-lived concept where they'd buy out an entire mall and sell CDs and movies cheap to get you in the door to try and sell you ridiculous $750 grown-up toys. Our family used to go to the one in the Dallas area every year or so when I was in junior high and high school as part of a day trip, and I'd always spend $50 on 'cheap' CDs and games that ended up costing more than they would at home after you factored in the 2hr drive.

Mikey Cox

You guys are firmly arriving, for me, into the start of the ‘meh’ period of the show. I am your ages and I remember with clarity thinking this episode left something to be desired when I saw it in 98/99. That being said, I watched it recently and, lazy ending aside, thought it was good. Am looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Havo

I think this is the 1st Simpsons ep I genuinely don't like.

Jacob Reed

Oh, we definitely have a Stern knockoff in our area, and I know relatives that love him. He really drives home the idea that he is fine with being an “ugly old man”, and at the beginning of every show has dead air representing a moment of silence for loved ones that have died. This would be fine on its own, but before this reflection period he has a disclaimer that says if you’re offended by it then get lost. Don’t know how it would be offensive to have silence in your show, but he really is just letting the audience know what type of man they’re about to listen to. In all honesty, I’ve heard segments of his deplorable program and he uses the n-word freely and frequently to describe black people that he hates, but always prefaces it with “not to be confused with fine black people in our community”. This is something I’ve been dealing with in the Midwest for a long time, which is just racists trying to get away with using the n-word while declaring themselves to not be racist. Other than that, he’s just a standard Stern wannabe that claims he can do and say whatever hateful things he wants because of free speech.

DrKarate

Just wanna mention the most egregious example of Star fucking I've seen is one of the recent episodes of Rick and Morty where Elon Musk voices a character named "Elon Tusk" and is in almost every scene after they introduce him. It sucks so much!

Joe Hodgson

Branson is still out there trying to cultivate the image of the "Fun Billionaire." My cousin and her husband were on vacation around one of his (many?) private islands and while they were out jet skiing or on a rented boat they event encountered Mr. Branson who invited them to his island for drinks and merriment. And they took him up on that offer and apparently had a good time. Now, I don't mean to sound like I'm from Shelbyville, but I can objectively say that my cousin and her husband are an attractive couple so who knows if that played into Branson's generosity that day, but the whole thing certainly feels on-brand for the guy.

Brian Hortin

The only Virgin Megastore that I ever visited was the one at Downtown Disney in Orlando. It was a nice place to wander around and pick out graphic novels and obscure DVD’s. Somehow the boondoggle that was DisneyQuest outlasted that location. All of the discussion of billionaires in hot air balloons, Howard Stern/shock jocks, and Joe Rogan before he became awful left me wanting to rewatch episodes of NewsRadio again.

Dan Vincent

At least with Southwest Airlines, you know where you stand. I fly JetBlue most of the time, and they're slowly being whittled down by wall street bozos. There's also more than one Virgin airline! Virgin America (what Bob and co. flew on) was bought out by Alaska, but Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Australia still exist. Virgin Atlantic was Branson's big post-record venture and what the other two airlines (America and Australia) were trading off on as far as name recognition.

Kevin Bunch

I know this episode just kind of peters out and, even for the Simpsons, is pretty cartoony. But damned if I don’t still love it. And how often do you get to pair Frink, Burns and Willie?

Alex Irish

I recall first watching this episode in black and white, so I missed that the Loch Ness was colored purple. When the series has a precedent for purple trees, it’s hard to complain about a purple Loch Ness

Devin Hoffarth

It's interesting how apparently a big purple Loch Ness monster working at a casino is more out there/crazy than the fact just three episodes ago the Rapture came to Springfield and I guess the town just got better. BUT EH GOOD PODCAST.

Bryan Field

Everything being said, Burns' final joke, "I was a little worried when he swallowed me, but, well, you know the rest" just makes me laugh so much that I forgive all the sins of this episode. It still makes me giggle. However, what's with all "The Postman" hate?! Perhaps it's because I'm a huge David Brin fanboy (he wrote the novel the movie is based on, and his body of work merits a close look by any true fan of modern science fiction) but I truly loved the film adaptation. Watch Will Patton's performance and tell me you hate that movie.

To Boldly Joe... Moore

As an "angry northern european" (a.k.a. Scotsman), I can say that our nation loves The Simpsons, especially Groundskeeper Willie. Apparently, Willie's voice, as performed by Dan, got the strongest audience reaction at a live reading show in Edinburgh (pronounced "ed-in-buh-ruh", btw). ^_^ As for the Loch Ness Monster, I was obsessed with dinosaurs as a kid and went on multiple family holidays to Inverness in search of the legendary beast. As breathtaking as the surroundings were, I just couldn't take my eyes off the water. There's a real magic about this simple myth which captured my imagination, even to this day. I mean, I know it's not real, but to a kid, it's just so captivating. Incidentally, I remember having one of those "choose your own adventure" books about a photographer going in search of Nessie. It was actually a lot of fun, using a limited number of remaining shots while avoiding some nefarious rivals who often showed up in disguise. If it was a Telltale style game, I'd play it. I don't ever remember anything like a "homecoming" at any school in Scotland but the fake Nessie could have been the one they have in a pond outside the gift shop. ^_^ Anyway, sorry for all the rambling. I don't mind this episode as much as some others surrounding it since it wears its craziness on its sleeve but it's certainly not great. Keep up the awesome work. :)

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I'm not down on the episode as much as you guys cause I still had fun rewatching it, but I will 100% agree it is a veeeeeeeeeeeery sloppy, loose, and ridiculous episode. Each act could belong in its own episode and it would probably fit a lot better, but there's still a lot of moments I love in it even if the connective tissue is pretty trashy. I will also say that the whole Nessie thing is probably THE MOST ridiculous thing they've done on the show up to this point and borders a little bit on universe breaking.

Andrew Bouvier

Great to hear Conor on the podcast...as another Burlingtonian (Burlingtonite? Not sure what we call ourselves) I'm glad that Champ got a shout-out. And I agree with his comments on our tiny (though technically still International thanks to a couple flights to Toronto a day,) airport. You often don't get a choice of airline because your destination chooses it for you, since there might be only 1 airline going to that city.

Andrew O.

*Adjusts his glasses.* This episode claims Willie hails from Loch Ness but in s10e01 "Lard of the Dance" he said he was from North Kilttown.

PurpleComet

The way Mr Burns suddenly teams up with Homer reminds me of the Family Guy episode "Brian Goes to College" which on the commentary they joke should've been called "Brian Goes to College and Stewie Goes With Him for Obvious Comedic Reasons" For all the problems with this episode, I'll give Swartzwelder credit for writing some decent Marge jokes in the beginning.

Harry Thornton

If you think Virgin’s safety video was bad, the Air New Zealand ones in my country are even WORSE. We’ve tried so many awful ideas for them, even getting RICHARD SIMMONS for one.

Thad Komorowski

To my mind, and probably the minds of many others, the Nessie episode, the Kid Rock episode, and the jockey elves episode represent the nadir of the series that sent everyone running away screaming. I recognize that there are still plenty of gems in these seasons, but sometimes a misfire is too deadly to forgive for a gem. So that trilogy will truly be Mike Scully's lasting legacy. I'll confess, though, that I LOVE the Stern knockoff sequence, simply because it captures the sophomoric joy of prime shock jock raunch, and it has one of the funniest Burns drawings ever as he says "stop the farting!"