Home
Creators
Search Recent Random
Posts
Search DMs Popular Hash Lookup Tags Random
Importer
Import FAQ
Register Favorites Keys Review DMs Logout
Community
Telegram ThePornDude
Home Creators Posts Import Register Favorites Logout

Talking Simpsons - The Telltale Head (Revisited) With Matthew Jay (Patreon)

Published:
2020-03-18 03:00:00
Edited:
2020-03-18 03:05:05
Imported:
2026-06
Tags:

Downloads

Content

Our journey through season one hits a critical episode and our pal Matthew Jay (The Deep End, Cartoons 101) is back to help us explore it! Bart beheads a statue in a quest for popularity and we get a tour of the whole town as it falls into a murderous rage! We talk about that and the first appearances of Apu, Lovejoy, Kearney, Sideshow Bob, AND MORE in this week's podcast!

Files

Comments

littleterr0r

I just watched it to prepare for this and it holds up so well.

Alistair Shand aka Bongo

Quick question from the U.K. - if homer was watching NFL on a Sunday morning does that mean Springfield is on the west coast or do they have am kick offs ?

Thad Komorowski

"No Disgrace Like Home" has a scene that cuts to Burns and Smithers sans family. "Way of the Do-Do" and all.

Joe Hodgson

My read of the cave men don't go to Heaven joke is just a rejection that such could have even existed since it's not covered by the Bible. I'm guessing this teacher is a hardcore creationist that probably wouldn't believe in dinosaurs as well. And in case anyone is curious, in 1990 NFL teams attempted 235 field goals that were between 40 and 49 yards and were successful on 146 of those which is good for 62.13%. Now, in the game Homer was listening to, they said it was a 49 yard field goal which is the end point in that data so it's possible the next data group is more appropriate. In that same season, teams attempted 78 field goals that the NFL lists as being greater than 50 yards and converted just 28 of those, or 35.9%. It's probably safe to assume the kicker has a less than 50% shot of making that one so Homer was indeed right to be overjoyed, even if the setting was inappropriate. In the modern game, kicking has become far more accurate with NFL kickers now converting on 57.93% of all attempts over 50 yards. I question the story around the edited ending. I had a Henry moment when I got the Season One DVD because I recalled the "far far far..." line and those hideous bells at the end of this episode, only I didn't record any episodes as a kid. I did see the original airing of this one, but I was 5 and I can't imagine that one viewing stuck with me over the years. I watched a lot of syndicated Simpsons and Season One was aired often in my market for years and I wonder if some syndicated packages had this ending and some received the edited one. Our local New Hampshire channel also seemed to air Season One more often than the Boston channels and it could have been that tiny station that aired this one more often.

Pumpkinbob

You can tell how weird things are right now because of the fact that Matthew Jay saying he would go see Onward in the theaters soon stood out like a sore thumb. Disney+ seems way more likely in the next month or two.

Daran

Bizarrely enough, the Lloyd Center Mall in Portland still has a Suncoast! It is pretty much just an FYE with the original Suncoast signage though. I love the game Matthew plays for watching newer Simpsons episodes! My wife and I still keep to date with all the recent ones, and basically watch them as a case study and live-script doctor. Pretty fun! Although, she went and tried to randomly watch some mid to late series episodes on Disney+ and tapped out pretty quickly. I am also adamantly a Sheetz fan. It's funny that you mention the son of Howard's Flowers appearing because that episode was 11 YEARS AGO now! Season 20's "Wedding for Disaster", a real odd episode not just for Howard's Flowers. The plot revolves around Homer and Marge's re-wedding in Season 8's "A Milhouse Divided" not having been official, acting as if the episode had been several months earlier iirc. Also, it's the first appearance of the Parson, the Ving Crosby-esque superior to Lovejoy.... And features a 'joke' about the Parson outing Helen Lovejoy as trans. Oh, then 3rd act is a dated-for-then Saw parody. .. The whole episode is a big ball of weird.

ChemyChems

With Homer winning the fifth bucks, my head cannon is he bet 50 and won 100 total. Then argues with Marge that they now have 50 more than when he started so he should be able to spend that extra on whatever he wants.

Andrew Bouvier

In regards to Matt's comment about towo pride, my hometown of Bristol, Vermont definitely has that in spades. In addition to just a general feeling of pride, there's even a yearly festival in the summer called Pocock Rocks; Pocock being the original name of the town. We don't have any statue of a town founder, but I guess the closest thing is an old-timey horse-drawn buggy that is dragged out and pulled by horses during parades and such. And, when not in use, is kept in a large glass display case of sorts on the town square. I suppose if some kid stole a wheel from it, the townsfolk would be quite upset. I still live nearby in Burlington (literally a mile away from Bernie, feel free to be jealous) and visit family they're frequently.

Calum Conn

New-ish patron, first time commenter and long time fan. Re: Matt Groening having a writer's credit on this episode: This might just be a coincidence, but a lot of the kids' Sunday school questions are lifted from a Life in Hell comic. I'm pretty sure some of them, including Bart's question about the gangrenous leg are repeated verbatim. I'll dig out my book when I get in and update this comment with which ones are from there.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

Awesome having Matt back as a guest, as always -- I gotta say, even with this episode's issues (and SUPER INTERESTING ending stuff, great research there) I really enjoyed revisiting it. I particularly love the whole sequence of Ninja Bart sneaking out and going to cut the statue's head off. Something about it just feels so smooth and cool that it reminds me of why cartoons are great, as corny as that may sound for an episode like this.

littleterr0r

When I was a kid I had no idea what "cloud talk" was or even that he said the word "cloud." I also didn't know what the head of a beer was so those two things left me confused.

littleterr0r

Also, I realized after watching this again where I get my "It's beautiful, man!" catchphrase from.

Sam Heagney

I'm from the UK and had this episode on VHS as a kid, as a double feature with the following episode. Not only was "Life on the Fast Lane" featured under its original name ("Bjorn to Be Wild"), but "Telltale Head" featured its original ending! I watched both of these episodes religiously as a kid (it was the only on-demand Simpsons media we had in the house) and was shocked to discover the existence of an alternate ending on the DVD many years later. Thanks for revisiting this season with such a critical eye towards the production side; it makes this well-worn episode feel as fresh as the very first time I watched it.