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Talking Simpsons - Faith Off With Eric Szyszka (Patreon)

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2020-09-09 03:59:59
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It's football meets Jesus as we welcome back returning favorite Eric Szyszka from the We Hate Movies podcast! Homer returns to his college and is trapped in a bucket until Bart saves him with the Lord! And somehow that all lead to the big game being saved with a severed leg! Listen along to find out how that all connects in this faith-full podcast! 

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Frank Grimes

Never can go wrong w/ a WHM guest!

Sabrina McVeigh

There’s an album called Bury Me At Makeout Creek, by Mitski. It’s very good! So I guess we can consider that part of the legacy of this episode, even if the ep itself is middling.

RVG

I'll never get over the way Henry says "crayon". I've got used to the folks who pronounce it "crown", but when you start saying "cran" it always takes me a minute to figure out it's not a berry.

Brian Hortin

That crusty old dean Bobby Peterson had his hip replaced with some flimsy metal after his previous run in with Homer. It was Smithers that had his spine replaced with a steel rod by Dr. Hibbert in Homer the Smithers. Easy mixup to make; I still think you guys remembered more about the character than the writers of the episode.

Chris Dobson

Lubchenko was probably based on the Gramatica brothers, who were regulars on Sportscenter in the 90's and 00's (both were tiny Argentinians and had excessive celebrations), and by Pete Gogolak, who was the first "soccer" style kicker in the 60's and 70's. Also I know how many people use this as a place for answers to their legal questions, so yes, Lubchenko has a case against Homer- unfortunately California minimum coverage is only $15,000.00 per person, so hopefully he followed Marge's advice and self-insured. Even if Lubchenko is not a citizen, venue is always proper where the injury occurred or where the defendant lives, so there's nothing to worry about on that front.

Justen Brown

I wonder if this was the episode that inspired South Park’s “SIMPSONS DID IT.” This came out January 2000 and South Park’s two-parter “Do the Handicapped Go To Hell” where Cartman starts a faith healing church aired in July 2000. While South Park has a fast turnaround, the episode was meant to be a follow up to the movie which came to home video that summer so I imagine it was planned before hand. Also I’m sure the Blanks family makes most of their money through consultation, the true smart person’s way to make easy money. I’m glad all his videos are basically on YouTube, they’re strenuous full body exercises and helped a lot in early quarantine days when Ring Fit was worth its weight in gold.

Kat Heagberg

Both Michigan and Ohio (the states) are indeed awful (I hate to start yet another comment with “Bob is right,” but Bob is indeed very right.) Also my mom went to Michigan State and didn’t care at all about football, but wouldn’t let me get a University of Michigan cheerleading uniform as a Halloween costume when I was six because “they’re snobby. They called Michigan State a ‘cow college.’” Aside from that, this episode was the first time I’d heard that expression, proving that my mom (or those snobby U of M students!) didn’t just make it up.

Angel Young

First college I thought of as a 'cow college' is Penn State University. Not to be confused with Donald Trump's alma mater University of Pennsylvania which is an Ivy League college. I will spare the talk about how more problematic Penn State being a cow college is given the major news story surrounding Penn State several years back but you will be unhappy to know that they were in session during COVID-19 and there were parties.

Frank Grimes

Who could've predicted in June that September would give us apocalypse weather here in California

littleterr0r

I had no idea who Don Cheadle was but a simple Google search confirmed that he's not Don Cheto.

DrKarate

What's a cran?

Bob Mackey

I'd like to put an end to #CrayonGate by saying I'm pretty sure I say "cran" as well

Kat Heagberg

I say “cran” too, even though I kind of hate myself for it. I also pronounce “mirror” “meer” (as in meerkat), and pronounce mayonnaise “man-aize.” I think it’s the curse of growing up in the Easternish half of the US. Also everyone on the West coast says I pronounce “towel” strangely, but I genuinely cannot hear the difference and don’t understand the correct way to say “towel.” And also, also, Henry is the only person besides me who I’ve ever heard say the phrase “I like it okay,” (which my fiancé constantly makes fun of me for) and I will never not be grateful.

crystalhearts

Bart singing about mutilating a cat is pretty emblematic of this season!

nina matsumoto

I had no idea where #CrayonGate came from because I don't remember hearing the word "crayon" in this episode, until I realized I was hearing it without realizing it because of the weird pronunciation. I had to go back and re-listen. The way I pronounce it I can say this: "It's on like crayon!" You know, that thing I say all the time

Alex Forsyth

Luvchenko was likely based on Argentine kicker Martin Gramatica who was drafted in 1999 and had a very successful college before that. His younger brother Bill had a famous leg injury about a year after this episode aired. He had a habit of jumping up and down to celebrate field goals he made and during his rookie season in 2001, after jumping up to celebrate a field goal he landed badly and tore his ACL. He was never the same after that. Simpsons predicted the future?(not serious with this)

Thad Komorowski

I always thought the implication was that Fat Tony cut the leg off with the laser ice pick from a distance?

Thad Komorowski

Also, I hope you guys play Monday Morning Story Editor in these more as you did a bit here. Got to admit, I'm a little nervous about "Saddlesore Galactica" because from another recent episode it smelled like you went easy on it, and you really SHOULDN'T. It fucking SUCKS. I'm sorry, this is the end of the line for The Simpsons here, both in its relevance and simply as a good show. That doesn't mean they're not worth examining, if only for the devolution factor, explaining *why* the Scully and Jean years don't hold up, and that there are occasional gems. But if each one of these things is "oh, that had some good laughs in it even if it wasn't great so it's not bad" (and this episode truly is bad, for example), then it's really going to undermine the greatness of the Golden Years of S3-7 (some of which you gave much harsher assessments to!). Just my answer-to-a-question-no one-asked.

Tom Aznable

I highly recommend that Marjoe documentary, it's phenomenal.

Joe Hodgson

This is a comment that few will likely care about because it concerns football! The old days of the offensive lineman being under-served in the NFL are basically gone. With the passing game exploding over the last decade, it's no longer unheard of for a quarterback to make 50 throws in a game. Accordingly, the guys whose job it is to keep the QB upright have benefited in the pay department. QB is still the most lucrative position in the NFL, but the average salary of a Left Tackle (most important player on most team's offensive line) is now the second highest paid position in football. Now that partly owes to position scarcity and that teams only have one LT and one backup, usually. The highest paid individual players in a given year are usually a mix of QBs and the top wide receivers in the league, as well as the top pass rushers.

SilkiePJ

Something that always bothered me with this episode. So Bart stops being a faith healer because Milhouse gets hurt. However when you watch the scene where he gets run over, the drive has an ample amount of time to get out the way or slow down and could see him enter the road. The payoff could work if it were Hans Moleman but the lack of action makes it feel like the driver wanted to kill Milhouse. Bart blaming himself for that action was very poorly executed You guys have kind of nailed it when pointing out how recent episodes have random shifts in plot and focus.

Harry Thornton

Weird thing I noticed: Bart's "do-do-doos" in Lovejoy's church were later reused when he wore MC Hammer's parachute pants in Behind the Laughter.

PurpleComet

"He's kicking it old school" got a big laugh out of me first time I saw this. When I got my first computer in 2000, I found a sound clip and used it for an AIM (AOL Instant Messenger for you young'uns) alert. At the time "older/sophisticated person trying to sound hip" was an easy laugh, especially coming from an underused character like Sideshow Mel

Stephen C. Nedell

This episode is where I can pinpoint the moment where the Simpsons itself had slipped in quality, instead of some individual episodes being "meh". The whole lack of respect for continuity with Dean Peterson really ground my gears. As the first song to appear after the second Simpsons album, Testify didn't feel like an instant classic like so many of the older songs. Overall, I still like the episode and the jokes were funny, but you may have hit the nail on the head that having to compete against South Park and Family Guy hurt the show. Two things about Lubchenko. 1) Communications being a major always puzzled me; I always pictured Uhura opening hailing frequencies. 2) Lubchenko is not really a Russian name, but more likely Ukranian. Russian male surnames usually end with a v or n or ee sound and rarely if ever end in an o sound (which usually denotes a neuter gendered noun)

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

You guys really hit it on the head with this one, it's (at least) 3 different episodes smooshed into one. Some of it is great and funny, some of it is middling, and some of it just makes no sense, but it's certainly not boring because of all the ideas being flung around. Don Cheadle is GREAT in the episode and I wish he had a bigger role so we could hear more of him as that character. -- Side note, I completed my Masters' degree in Communication & Media Studies back in April/May, so oof that joke late in the episode was a gut punch