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Talking Simpsons - Bart The General (Revisited) With Chris Cabin (Patreon)

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2020-02-12 00:59:33
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Bart goes to war in this week's season one exploration with Chris Cabin from the podcast We Hate Movies! We meet Nelson for the first time, as well as Herman, as Bart decides to deal with a bully in every way possible. So grab your water balloons and give a listen to this! Peace, man...

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Angel Young

I feel like this episode was played the most out of the season 1 episodes in syndication when it aired in Philly. Has anyone noticed this when episode got a lot of rotation or was it just me?

Angel Young

I remember those two you mentioned getting played a lot here too. I feel like my area only played those 3 episodes from season 1. I also forgot until you mentioned it that Krusty Gets Busted was a season 1 episode (for some reason I placed it at season 2.) It made sense to put Krusty Gets Busted in rotation since I remember most of the pre season 10 Sideshow Bob episodes getting a lot of play in my area.

Brian Hortin

The weasels moved to Shelbyville at some point. They show up in the season 25 episode The Winter of His Content at a bully rally parodying the gang rally scene from The Warriors. Nelson recognizes his old weasels referring to them as such and asks them how Shelbyville Elementary is. The weasel that speaks in this scene is credited as White Weasel on IMDB for this episode. Here is the scene in a YouTube video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmmPnf11KEst%3D1m&t=1m

Jacob Reed

I think I was fairly lucky as a child, as I never got conventionally bullied. I knew it happened, because I would see it happening around me, but for the most part I was ignored. It’s likely just because I wasn’t the absolute bottom rung in school, so I was able to skirt by without having to deal with a lot of the physical altercations that would happen. Of course, verbal bullying happened constantly. The only time I can recall any physical interactions with a “bully” was during middle school picture day. We were all standing in line to go get our picture taken and some kid behind me called gay because I was wearing a purple polo shirt. Middle schoolers are nothing if not witty. I very stupidly told him to “get bent”, so he grabbed me from behind and threw me into one of the tripods set up for taking pictures, nearly knocking it over. Of course, as is standard in public school, no authority figure saw anything except for the guy taking pictures, and he told me to be careful since the equipment was expensive. Ok guy. As I said, I can’t complain to much as this wasn’t a regular occurrence for me, but I will never forget that happening in a gymnasium filled with other kids watching.

Frank Grimes

mind blown over the T2 factoid

Kris

Milk shakes hurt my stomach, while Frappuccinos do not

crystalhearts

I laughed out loud at the podcast briefly falling down a hole of describing mortal kombat ninjas

Kris

Maharshmellow ghandi

Kris

How many of the MK ninjas are still ninjas?

Joe Hodgson

Has a later season episode of The Simpsons discussed the origins of Bart's tree house? That thing is an engineering marvel. I think they had 10 kids and two adults at one point inside it this episode and it's not even shaking! We've seen Homer be comically inept when it comes to constructing basic and not so basic things (spice rack, football, car) so I have to assume the tree house was there when they bought the house. However, it has been destroyed and rebuilt before so maybe it's just Homer's one talent. The man can barely function as an adult, but he can build a damn good tree house. This may have been the first episode I saw "live" of The Simpsons. It's at least the first I remember clearly and it mostly had to do with that final PSA type scene which made me question what I just watched. Was that really serious and something to think about? It just stuck with me. I don't return to Season One often, like many I assume, but I have seen this one on television numerous times since FXX started re-airing the old episodes. I feel like that fake funeral scene gets cut from syndication because when I watched it before listening to the pod I was surprised to see it. It came back to me as I watched it, but damn those X eyes are creepy on Bart. And just having a kid funeral in a cartoon is unsettling. As someone who has had the unfortunate task of attending a child's funeral which too was open casket, it just made me really want to fast forward even though the scene is fairly harmless considering it's the fantasy of a little boy. Anyway, it was kind of a bummer to revisit, though otherwise this episode is actually quite snappy and humorous despite the juvenile plot.

To Boldly Joe... Moore

Great show, guys. At the tender age of about 9 (I think), "Bart the General" was the first episode of The Simpsons I ever saw. Back then in the UK in 1993, if you couldn't afford Sky TV, the only option you had was to buy or rent the VHS tapes and I remember they were always in high demand. After renting "Bart the General" (which also had "No Disgrace Like Home" on the same tape - wow, two episodes!), our family bought "Call of The Simpsons" and "Moaning Lisa", watching them over and over and over again. As for "Bart the General", I have a very strong memory of watching the anti-war PSA at the end with my dad and him telling me to take the message very seriously... It's weird the stuff that sticks with you, right? Finally, wasn't "Peace, man" another of those heavily-marketed Bart catchphrases? It doesn't seem to get any of the love that "Aye, carumba" gets. Anyway, late night ramble over. Thanks again for the podcast. ^_^

Redmos78

This is one of my personal favorite episodes of the Show. It was one of the first where I understood the references being used having recently seen Patton and The Longest Day not so long before this episode. The slapping scene was based on real life incidents involving Patton and two soldiers in separate incidents during the Sicily Campaign. The soldiers were classified with "Battle Fatigue" which Patton thought was cowardice, slapped them, and ordered back to the front line. Patton was eventually reprimanded by Eisenhower for this and made to apologize. This second go around with Season 1 have been very enjoyable and both of you are doing an amazing job.

Justen Brown

This one made me a little sad. My grandpa was a WWII vet but he never spoke about his service. It wasn't until after he passed that I looked up his service records and found out that he passed as white to join a fighting corp while most black servicemembers were engineers or other non-frontline fighters. He reminded me a lot of Abe in this episode and the Flying Hellfish, the only times Abe was truly competent, and Bart the General was the first episode of the show I remember seeing so it holds a special place in my heart.

Tom Aznable

"Somebody Talked!" or something to that effect seemed to be pretty common in old wartime naval propaganda posters – that phrase paired with some kind of dramatic image of a ship burning or hand sinking beneath the waves. It's a "loose lips sink ships" kind of thing. So showing an exploding earth with that phrase is just an exaggeration of those.

Micah

Isnt this the epsiode where "Marge You're Breaking My Heart" is from?

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

Great episode, as usual! As you guys have pointed out, the first season's focus on cupcakes that look like bran muffins is very bizarre and they struck gold much better when they pivoted to doughnuts (even if they're usually spelled the lazy way). -- All of the bullying stuff in this episode makes me wonder if physical bullying (i.e. being beaten up) really still occurs all that much. Even throughout my middle school & high school years (2008-2014), general & online bullying was certainly still a pretty big issue, but I don't think it ever really went violent. Any time there was a "meet me outside after school" kind of thing, it would be between two people with beef and be dealt with by a vice principal pretty quickly, not just a bully beating up prey. The closest I saw to that kind of thing would be when a jerk-ass in ninth grade gym pulled another guy's shirt over his head and started whacking him with his own shoes, but that kid was also an ass so it was still mutual antagonism (and the teacher walked in on it pretty fast) so maybe that form of bullying has just been replaced with less sinister but more pervasive forms of emotional terrorism.