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Talking Simpsons - There's No Disgrace Like Home (Revisited) With Found Footage Fest (Patreon)

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2020-02-05 02:59:59
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2026-06
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The family embarrasses Homer in this backward episode, and we're exploring it all with special guest Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher of Found Footage Festival and VCR Party Live! We talk with them about their particular brand of nostalgia, then go deep into Simpsons' history with Al Jean & Mike Reiss' first episode. We talk picnics, pawnshops, shock treatment, and so much more, so listen before we bring out the foam bats!

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Thad Komorowski

Pretty sure Al Jean is the record holder for longest animated showrunner in history, yes. And it explains the staleness of modern Simpsons soooo much. But it should never be understated how important he was to the series' success.

Havo

The show notes should include time stamps. I'd like to be able to skip straight to episode discussion.

Thad Komorowski

"Sven Hoek" is a Carbunkle show - it's the one John K berated Bob Jaques on the phone for 3 hours over for how "Disney" it looked, then changed his tune once people started seeing it and declared it genius. Gregg Vanzo did some scenes in the first season of R&S (the first shot of the Fire Chief in "Fire Dogs"), sort of as a prelude to getting the Rough Draft deal. You can see Carbunkle kept them on their toes in that second season, because the quality definitely slides down afterwards. And, I'd be remiss to not note that RDK was supposed to do John K's "Boo Boo Runs Wild" but they refused to finish it because of his abuse. I think most of it got animated in-house ultimately (and most of it looks bad).

Thad Komorowski

I need to find it again some day (my only copy was print), but there's a John K. quote in the trades about how "we could write the Simpsons in our sleep." This would be season three Simpsons, so he was always vindictive, even during the show's shining years. You can also find more gems if you look on his All Kinds of Lies blaggh. Making it all the more hypocritical he took a pity gig from Matt and Al Jean from the show he was shitting on for over 20 years.

Professor Gascan

This episode always kind of pissed me off, speaking as a person with a father who was very much obsessed with the appearance and perks of a normal nuclear family. When my mom divorced him after like eight years, he never ever got over it, and still brings it up to this day. Keeping in mind he's an awful human being who only let my homeless brother move back in solely so he could argue with and emotionally abuse him constantly, because nothing made him happier than slagging on his own family for not making his dreams of a Leave it to Beaver family dynamic come true. Seeing it play out onscreen still annoys me to this day, even though the episode does acknowledge Homer as an awful, miserable presence in their lives.

Jacob Reed

Though I can’t say I wish they kept Marge’s lazy/stupid nature in this episode, it’s always fun to see her depicted as a character that has her own faults and isn’t just the figure that tries to clean up after Captain Wacky. Season 1 has a lot of instances of her still loving her family but showing general fault, like her or giving Lisa bad advice but ultimately rectifying it. Of course, we can see in something like the Gamblor episode that she can still have problems and even be neglectful, but I do feel those elements are something they lost for a while following season 1

Thad Komorowski

Tom & Jerry history was definitely the influence for much of Itchy & Scratchy's backstory and commentary, but their true theatrical cartoon roots are Herman & Katnip, the most violent of all the Famous Studios cartoons, which regularly featured decapitation, mutilation, and dismemberment. And Katnip dies a lot, too. And Matt Groening would absolutely have been aware of '70s gorey cat-and-mouse parodies of underground comics like Massimo Mattioli's "Squeak the Mouse" and National Lampoon's "Kit n' Kaboodle".

Tyler

The Super Bowl used to be at the end of January and the Pro Bowl was the week after. They switched it around a few years ago to give the SB teams more time to prepare.

Caleb Minnick

Has anybody ever gotten anymore to the story that Jay Kogen tells on Serious Jibber Jabber? He said that Tracey Uleman hated the Simpsons shorts and refused to have anything to do with them. Then she tried to sue for money after the show became a hit. Everyone sort of looks around nervously after Kogan says this and Conan hilariously quips "and no one else has any onion of what you've just said" making me think it's part of a legal agreement to not say anything bad about her. Kogan had been off the show for years so I guess he was more free to say it.

Joe Hodgson

I think you guys may have missed a joke, albeit a small one akin to "The Simps." When the family returns home from their evening of peeping, Homer slumps against the side of the house and says, "I want to be alone with my thought," as opposed to the plural "thoughts." It's an early "Homer is dumb and simple" joke that obviously would become much more prevalent in later seasons. Like Henry, I like to think Homer has become dumber overtime due to all of the blunt force trauma he's had to endure to his noggin.

To Boldly Joe... Moore

This episode reminds me of when I started my job and somehow found myself on my boss' sports team at the company BBQ. All I'll say is, thank God we won.

Kiefer Fulsom

A few things I'd like to point out, When Marge is watching itchy and scratchy she has a neutral look, maybe one of those parental "I don't know what I'm watching but I guess the kids enjoy it." Looks Homer would later say grace in a similar manner in Bart vs Thanksgiving, There's a blink and you'll miss it moment when homers in therapy and writing on his pad, pause at the right moment and homers eyes will look a bit sinister, I have MANY friends that use this as a meme. Finally don't forget, in the episode Mother Simpson Homer points out his mother's grave saying that Abe would point at it Everytime they drove by, of course we know how the events of that episode went but it's not out of the realm of possibility for Homer to believe his mother's dead in this episode.

Caleb Minnick

I'm still trying to find any footage that actually has Christopher Collins voicing Burns. Allegedly it was aired and then later replaced with Harry Shearer. But I can't find any proof this is actually true, even though I see this "fact" posted all over the place. One video I saw claiming to be Collins voicing him sounds exactly like Shearer, so unless Shearer just did an uncanny copy of Collins' voice I think it's mislabeled.

Kris

There was an old arcade I used to bum around in my early 20 (the oh wow nickel arcade!) it was cheap and had AC and we'd always go when kids where at school. But they had a free section and one of the games was the simpsons arcade game.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

This really is a backwards episode for having HOMER be the embarrassed one while the family is chaotic and impolite. And it takes such a weird path to getting to the Marvin Monroe segment (which I didn't even realize was *this* episode) that it reminds me of later seasons where the first act is so removed from the third that they could be different episodes.

Samuel Roberts

Nick's 'let's define our terms gentlemen' callback is so damn funny.

Bob Hogue

That brief segment of the family members shocking each other is classic! Not just the idea itself, but the animation of the jagged lines of the face and hair of those being shocked. Wonderful.