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Talking Simpsons - The Mansion Family With Toby Jones (Patreon)

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2020-09-16 04:00:01
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2026-06
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This week we're living it up with returning guest/animation producer Toby Jones! After a lengthy chat about the life of Britney Spears, we discuss class as the family moves into Burns' mansion. Learn about Three Stooges diseases and rules of international waters, all in one box social of a podcast!

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Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

This episode did have me thinking about the show considering the weight of continuity thanks in part to Burns' Mansion having Marge's portrait of him among the halls when Bart is looking for the safe. It's one of those things that makes me think the animators care a little more about the show's history than the writers, since they had to draw the whole damn thing. -- As a bit of a side note since it came up among the awards talk, I have very complicated feelings about Boys Don't Cry. As part of my Masters Degree I spent a lot of time watching, reading & thinking about trans representations in film & TV, and this one is a great example of why stuff like representation is complicated, it's often not something you can explain away with just saying "good" or "bad." Ostensibly, the film follows a lot of dumb tropes: cis actor playing a trans person of a different gender, anti-trans violence, and an emphasis on equating genitals with gender identity. But, unlike so many things (especially 20 years ago), it doesn't hate the trans character, and it wants the audience to sympathize with them, and points out that discrimination and systemic bigotry contributed to his death. Of course, it does also leave out Phillip DeVine's entire presence in Brandon's life and the fact that he was murdered too, cause Hollywood loves to whitewash things. So, a problematic movie for sure, and not one I'm comfortable with, but not just straight up awful in its treatment of the subject matter.

Diamond Feit

The only reason I know PDQ Bach is because Howard Stern would rant everytime that guy won a Grammy instead of the comedians who Howard enjoyed. He might have even interviewed the guy to ask him “why is this funny? Why do you win these awards?” because Howard didn’t get it at all (nor did I if I recall, because Howard would definitely play PDQ Bach out of disbelief)

Frank Grimes

Rogue One is the best Star Wars movie disney has made

crystalhearts

PDQ Bach falls strictly in the category of "midcentury american things I know exist but will never learn about" alongside, like, Ben-Hur

RVG

You guys are off your nut: Cantaloupe is by FAR the superior melon!

Joe Hodgson

I'm glad I'm not the only one laughing at the Moe suicide jokes while also feeling a touch uncomfortable with myself for doing so. I think part of what makes them work, or at least the joke featured in this episode, is Moe seems to be rather bad at taking his own life to the point where he never considered one of the most popular methods known to man. It's definitely not as dark as the "No Funeral" joke from a few weeks ago. It certainly is an odd theme to attach to a character and I'm curious to see, as you go through these seasons I'm less familiar with, when/if the show pulls back on it. I know we have another one coming in a few weeks when Moe attempts a "death by Flanders" and I can remember a joke from Treehouse of Horror XIV of Moe in a noose ("That's why I'm up here,") so maybe it's something that has stuck with the character well past its shelf life.

eddiegiantman

Homer's breakdown during the credits always gets me but yeah, this is one of the most memed episodes in the shows history now that I think of it. This, A Star is Burns and Milhouse Divided, I'm trying to remember the other most memed episodes from the history of the show. Also, sadly, the Britney Spears situation got worse since then. It was sadly timely as her breakdown happened as gossip and tabloid media grew such as the rise of TMZ and even as she stabilized, they still wanted her to fall back down again. I wonder if you guys will dig just as deep once the N Sync episode comes because that onion has so many layers as well.

Brian Hortin

Living in Kentucky I encountered many versions of the blue laws. Where I grew up there was no alcohol sales on Sundays, where I went to college was a dry campus in a moist county (moist means alcohol can only be sold by the drink as in you can buy a drink at a restaurant or bar but you cannot buy a bottle of beer or liquor from a store), I lived in Lexington where alcohol could not be sold until 1 PM on Sundays, some of the bourbon distilleries are in completely dry counties, and until recently there was no alcohol sales on Election Day in the state. Blue laws are weird.

SilkiePJ

To answer Henry's question about Tuborg, it would be a basic Euro Lager on the same level as Heineken, Harp, Stella, Peroni, and Grolsch. It is one of the national beers of Denmark, the other would be Carlsberg. They used to be fierce competitors until Carlsberg bought them out but they still sell Tuborg for name recognition/shelf space, a rather common practice in the beer industry. Like most Euro Lagers, they are probably good fresh but do not travel well overseas because the green bottles make them incredibly vulnerable to sunlight that makes them taste skunky. I imagine Moe would keep a stash to upsell to rubes like Homer for a pretty penny despite possibly having those beers for years.

Chris Burns

PDQ Bach is actually pretty funny. We used to listen to him in college (07-11) and get some yuks. He's kind of a Weird Al for classical music.

Mark Lee Marcheschi

As these latest seasons go on, I'm beginning to feel quite different about the episodes. All the darker meaner Homer elements have never been a thing I didn't like or thought changed the show for the worse. The bodies drowning bit was never a bothersome thing to me. It's interesting talking to my wife who thinks later seasons are fine about what people's complaints about some episodes.

Kevin OReilly

Peter Schickele/PDQ Bach is a funny guy but pretty niche, he did physical/prop comedy in a classical music context. Lots of the musical humor involves quoting famous pieces, so you need some pre-existing knowledge to get it fully. We got to play a concert with him in my small liberal arts school orchestra in 2003-2004 some time, it was a blast! I had no idea at the time that he was a multiple Grammy winner

Lockerus

Looks like I get to be the first Canadian to chime in about beer here. I audibly laughed when Molson was categorized as a “good beer”. Molson is about the same as American beer in my view, and is even brewed by Coors. Like Tim Horton’s, it tries to sell itself as Canadian while being owned by an international conglomerate. Also we have Tuborg up here. It’s OK, I would drink that or Stella before a Heineken.

Alex Forsyth

Homer came up with the THOT Audit 20 years before GamerGate chuds did.

PurpleComet

The "implied oral consent" joke is an all time favorite of mine. I was forced to sit through a lot of NBA games growing up and those rebroadcast PSAs always baffled me. Homer's reverent tone and that distant look in his eyes as he says "Or so the legend goes" elevates the joke even further. Family Guy did a similar joke almost two years later in "A Very Special Family Guy Freakin' Christmas" in which Peter tries to watch an NFL game he taped but the FBI busts in and asks if he has the written consent of ABC or the NFL. Peter only has the consent of ABC, so the FBI shoots his VCR. I've never been bothered by Homer's cavalier attitude towards the people in the bottom of the net. The show had been casual about death before, even when it was caused by Homer's actions. In "Homie the Clown" Homer caused a fiery car crash when he stops to look at the new billboards. Also Homer's line "They're the greatest heroes of all" makes me think of how society pretends to revere veterans and 9/11 first responders while failing to offer them proper healthcare after they've made huge sacrifices.

Jon Peder Grønsveen Opsahl

Since I live in Norway, which neighbor Denmark, Tuborg is very prevalent. I don't know if it was just in my circle of friends, but we treated Tuborg as a "beginner"-beer. I drank it a lot when I first started drinking (around 16), but haven't really touched it since. I usually say I drank Tuborg before I liked beer.

Echo Cimarron

I ended up taking an international law class in college to fill out some elective credit or another, and like half the lectures centered around boats. Not only are there plenty of international treaties governing what happens in "international waters", the laws of wherever the boat is registered generally apply, which due to companies trying to dodge tax or safety laws, often ends up being either Thailand or Norway. Countries also have some degree of jurisdiction when it comes to their citizens, so, hypothetically, if someone was murdered while out at sea, their home country could most likely bring charges. Whether or not there's an extradition agreement between the countries involved or one of those other countries wants to try the suspect first could bog any legal proceedings down for years, but the laws still technically exist.

Stephen C. Nedell

The only time I really saw Turborg was when I was studying in Moscow in the fall of 1995 (sadly, I left before Who Shot Mr Burns Part II so I had to wait until late December to see it finaly). Turborg was like the nectar of the gods since Russian beer generally sucked, any American beer from that time was by definition like sex in a canoe. On occasion I could find Fosters which was okay and the few times I found Guinness it was 10 bucks a pint. My friends and I often went to a jazz club called Krizisnii Zhanr (Crisis Genre) that had a nice mix of foreign students and hipster young Russians and Turborg on tap for 8000 to 10000 roubles ($2 to $2.50) I usually would get a pint (or five) of Tuborg dark (tyomnoe) and sometimes Turborg light (svetnoe) and smoke a pack or two listening to some real nice music, although thanks to the five pints or so I can't really remember *what* the music really was.