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Talking Simpsons - Bart The Genius (Revisited) With Eric Szyszka (Patreon)

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2020-01-08 05:00:58
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Just in time for the 30th Anniversary, Talking Simpsons returns to the first season of the show to do a much deeper dive than we did the first time! And joining us is returning favorite Eric Szyszka from the We Hate Movies podcast! We just into the debut episode, Bart The Genius, a strange but fun ep full of weiners, green skin, lying on tests, operas, and so much more! Listen now or be damned if you don't!

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Timothy Burleson

And the best Homer-headbutts-a-door animation ever.

Jason McClellan

You’re a sloppy speller. The preferred spelling of wiener is w-i-e-n-e-r.

Frank Grimes

Sweet, Szyszka the Genius on this ep!

Jacob Reed

I wish I didn’t really remember these things, but I can think of one instance where a character voiced by Topher Grace refers to Ms. Krabappel as “crab apple”. This is in a much later episode that is, in its entirety, a parody of 2006’s The Departed. With how often Krabappel ended up appearing and how often her name is said out loud, I don’t think it’s a joke that ever needed explaining, let alone 19 years after the introduction of that character

Thad Komorowski

Pre-listening hot take: the aired "Bart the Genius" is as ropey as the rejected "Some Enchanted Evening", and "Homer's Odyssey" is remarkably worse.

Frank Grimes

Maus! I remember reading that in school. I always wondered why they never tried to adapt it into a cartoon. Sure the subject matter isn't kid friendly per se, but with the boom of comic movies over the last 10 years, animation advancements, streaming platforms and other factors...it could be a sleeper/cult film

ToonJay723

Mr. Pryer thinks Bart misbehaves because of the "educational malaise" and thinks that sending him to the gifted school will fix his behavior. That's probably why Martin or Lisa didn't get in, because they don't lash out.

Kris

That's odd. I don't have a secretary...or an intercom!

Kris

So ive actually met someone with one of those annoying kid voices, except it was a grown man I was working a convention and he kept coming back to our booth, multiple times. It got to the point where when he showed up on the last day we had to ask him to leave

Boomer Spacely

Calling bull on teacher nomenclature. In high school the band teacher was Miss Horn and the cross country coach and gifted program teacher was Mr. Quick Also tale of the tape when we recorded this episode it was reruns in the summer or something. So I was today years old when I learned the first line of the Simpsons wasn't a smash cut to barts turn in Scrabble. Whether it was a later airings syndication thing or parents skipping the long ass intro is a mystery. But as a not getting the season one DVD guy my mind was blown today

Zak M

qwyjibo. Also, I was fucking 3 when this came out, how is this show still on TV?! I remember getting the first season on DVD in high school when they came out and being so stoked because the simpsons was forbidden in my household until around that time when my parents gave up on policing what i was watching on tv when I was given that set at christmas. I fully blame that ban on why i watched it obsessively in secret for a few years (I would secretly set the vhs timer and tape episodes when they were on tv and had a few tapes made this way) and I'm pretty sure that's why so much of the show is now burned into my brain. At one point when we had satellite television AND cable, I think I was able to watch 5-6 different episodes in syndication a day with west coast and east coast fox channels+my local Chicago affiliate. A simpler time indeed.

Gayest Episode Ever

Just this week I was looking at the video for Do the Bartman — specifically the part where Reverend and Helen Lovejoy are dancing and then morph into Jacques the bowling in instructor and Princess Kashmir. She then turns into a brunette woman in a pink dress and I couldn't place her for a while until I realized that it's Ms. Mellon. I guess back then they figured she'd be a bigger part of Springfield.

Joe Hodgson

I know there are a lot of warts with this season, and the walking animations stand out, but I do love the animation on Marge's dress as she and Homer are walking into the school. You can see the illusion of her legs moving underneath the dress that just looks really authentic. It's not something I really notice on later seasons, but it really stood out for me when I re-watched this one. Also, I find it odd how Martin's character changes on a dime in the classroom. He seems like a true brown-noser with an honest love for the school, but then makes childish faces at Bart outside when he's under the tree. It makes me question how sincere he is about the love of his school and instead think he's just the type of kid who gets off on being tattle-tale. His explanation to Bart in the class is more of a calculated way to explain his behavior in hopes that Bart won't be too mad, but then he gets told off so the gig is up. Either way, he's portrayed rather differently after this one.

Professor Gascan

For me this episode really doesn't get into a good, Simpsons-y ambience until the very end where Homer's chasing after Bart. It's like after enduring all the low-energy material leading up to it you realize "oh, this actually is going to be a great series."

Jo Quigley

Teacher Perspective Time: Just a quick correction that the school is more like a magnet school than a charter school. I found this episode really interesting because Ms. Mellon's classroom isn't actually that different from mine. I tell the kids my job is to facilitate their learning. I let them choose what books they read. And even the debate isn't really out of the realm of possibility for an average classroom if you provided them with some accessible texts to grasp the content. In short, despite how exaggerated things are, the classroom isn't as wacky as I feel like the writers intended. One thing I can't tell if is a joke or not is the fact the description of the school actually sounds like it would be a good fit for Bart. A school without walls that doesn't rely so much on grades and rules might be what Bart actually needs. I can't tell if the episode is a commentary on the lack of equity for kids who need it the most or not.

To Boldly Joe... Moore

Has anyone else missed hearing "first appearance of" segments? It's so cool to discuss character debuts or early versions of people like Skinner and Edna. ^_^ I remember owning this episode on official VHS cassette way back when, saving my precious pocket money to pay a hefty £14 for a whole TWO episodes! Without Sky TV, this was pretty much my only option to be part of Simpsons mania at the time. I wonder if they still had that business model today, how much it would cost to get all 30 seasons and how much shelf space it'd take up. I got my money's worth re-watching it over and over though. I'll never say anything negative about Season 1. Sure, it's not as fast-paced as later seasons but it's still a great show. Anyway, really enjoying the podcast although I think you're reading a little too much into questioning Marge's intelligence just because she couldn't find the word she was looking for in her head right away. In my opinion, this exchange exists to demonstrate Bart's growing bond with Homer (both are framed together and make the same confused murmur sound) while the actually gifted Lisa continues to be overlooked. It's subtle but it plays into the idea that Bart takes after Homer who is totally oblivious to any signs that his son might not be such a genius after all.

SomeBloke

A pedantic point regarding the derivative joke - if David Cohen *had* been on staff, he probably could have told them that there wouldn't be a dr in the final expression, so the joke actually can't work as intended. That drives me absolutely crazy every time I see it posted online or whatever. A shallow point to latch on to in an uneven early episode, but it is what it is.

Steven Jacobs

Driving home from work the other day I saw someone with the license plate "KWYJIBO" if traffic hadn't been so bad I would have snapped a picture of it.

nina matsumoto

I don’t have the biggest vocabulary, but Scrabble is all about best strategic placement of words on the board and using high-scoring letters when it counts, so whenever I play that game I’m really, really, really..... good.

Alex Forsyth

Bob, you should have used your two scrabble boards to give yourself extra Z's and Q's and kicked your parents ass.

Andrew Bouvier

Ha, I couldn't believe it when Eric mentioned Paradox, NY. It's is a TINY podunk town in the middle of the Adirondacks. I only know it because I went to school near Albany, feasting on Steamed Hams, and grew up in Vermont, so I was always trying to find shortcuts through the mountains.

crystalhearts

I find it hard to explain but I find seasons 1 and 2 hypnotic. The show isn't particularly funny but it's very nice to look at and has a pleasant rhythm.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

My older brother bought the Simpsons DVDs as they came out, so I only bought some of my own over the last few years as this podcast has been going on, and I have to admit I skipped over getting season 1 (unlike my brother) so this *is* the first time I've really watched them in years. When you guys did the episodes originally, I just went off my memory of them given that the show was shorter and I was just of the opinion that outside of 'Roasting,' they weren't very good. BUT I have to say that revisiting this one was really fun, even if it is still fairly uneven. And I'm loving you guys tackling them again in longer form with guests. Awesome episode!

John-Evan Bear

Marge buying tickets to a film festival seems more like a Lisa thing if they made this episode in the later seasons.

Stephen C. Nedell (edited)

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2026-09-07 23:00 Thank you for going back to the first season. The Simpsons premired when I was in high school though my friends and I had been fans for a while through the shorts and the Life in Hell books. That first season we even made a point of taking a Simpsons break during our D&D nights. Two things I wanted to bring up: First, I actually have seen Carmen in Russian, at a small experimental theater in Moscow in 1995. It was a very bare bones production and well...pretty crappy even for post Soviet experimental theater. To add to the surrealism of the show the actor playing Don Jose was the spitting image of Carmine Ragusa from Laverne and Shirley. Secondly, Tiny Toons oddly shared several story lines with the first two seasons of the Simpsons...an offensively accented convenience store clerk, a recitation of the Raven by a famous actor with a distinctive voice (Vincent Price) and finally, a trouble making main character switching test papers with a genius (Plucky switching papers with Egghead....who I think only appeared the one time).
2020-01-20 21:53 Thank you for going back to the first season. The Simpsons premired when I was in high school though my friends and I had been fans for a while through the shorts and the Life in Hell books. That first season we even made a point of taking a Simpsons break during our D&D nights. Two things I wanted to bring up: First, I actually have seen Carmen in Russian, at a small experimental theater in Moscow in 1995. It was a very bare bones production and well...pretty crappy even for post Soviet experimental theater. To add to the surrealism of the show the actor playing Don Jose was the spitting image of Carmine Ragusa from Laverne and Shirley. Secondly, Tiny Toons oddly shared several story lines with the first two seasons of the Simpsons...an offensively accented convenience store clerk, a recitation of the Raven by a famous actor with a distinctive voice (Vincent Price) and finally, a trouble making main character switching test papers with a genius (Plucky switching papers with Egghead....who I think only appeared the one time).

Thank you for going back to the first season. The Simpsons premired when I was in high school though my friends and I had been fans for a while through the shorts and the Life in Hell books. That first season we even made a point of taking a Simpsons break during our D&D nights. Two things I wanted to bring up: First, I actually have seen Carmen in Russian, at a small experimental theater in Moscow in 1995. It was a very bare bones production and well...pretty crappy even for post Soviet experimental theater. To add to the surrealism of the show the actor playing Don Jose was the spitting image of Carmine Ragusa from Laverne and Shirley. Secondly, Tiny Toons oddly shared several story lines with the first two seasons of the Simpsons...an offensively accented convenience store clerk, a recitation of the Raven by a famous actor with a distinctive voice (Vincent Price) and finally, a trouble making main character switching test papers with a genius (Plucky switching papers with Egghead....who I think only appeared the one time).

hollowaytape

I believe the Skinner "Pathetic." meme is a reference to a scene in End of Evangelion, where Asuka says it framed in a similar shot.