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Talking Simpsons - Behind The Laughter With Matt McMuscles (Patreon)

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2020-12-23 05:00:00
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We reach the end of season 11 (and 2020), so we're joined by the returning Matt McMuscles -- check out his YouTube channel and his Patreon! This extended parody of a lost-to-time VH1 series worked great 20 years ago, and allow us to explain the many references lost to time. Listen along to find out if those roses are hiding ready-to-sting bees in this week's podcast!

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SomeBloke

I think there's a bit of an added joke with the Taco tribute to Falco in that Taco got his big break in Germany and Falco was Austrian, so there would be an extra layer of imitation to go along with the theme of phony awards. Given how deliberately written so many of the gags are in this episode I feel like that's intentional.

Chris K

(Reading email)

Taylor Shedden

Little does Bob know modern Doom fans worship the ground Hugo Martin walks on.

Sarah

I was in NY when I watched this episode on its first airing in 2000, and I distinctly remember them calling the Simpsons a “northern Kentucky family.” I gasped out loud and really thought this was them definitively revealing the state the Springfield was in (I was a dumb 14 year-old at the time). A little later I found out that different regions and airings said different locations. Funny enough, I now work in northern Kentucky 😁

Frank Grimes

Your 50 cent timeline is off. 2002/2003 is when he started to really bubble and labels sought after him. After he got shot in 2000, he started hitting mixtapes hard and created a buzz for himself and his crew. Around this time he was going to release his debut album (via Sony), but it was shelved (and he was blackballed by the industry). After building unbelievable hype (think Snoop 91-93 levels) in NYC, he signed with Shady/Aftermath, and the rest is history. Those mixtapes he dropped to build his buzz are certified classics and showed his range in redoing classic tracks in his style.

ShyRanger

Me being a 13 Sentinels fan, after hearing Last of Us 2 won Best Narrative, I feel like Ozzie in this Grammy clip.

Dan Z

I think this is my favorite episode of the whole series

Joe Hodgson

This episode is quite possibly the best parody The Simpsons has ever undertaken. That is due to the episode just really devoting itself through and through to being a Behind the Music-styled telling of The Simpsons complete with the rise, climax, fall, and redemption arc that show followed. Everything is so meticulous and that show was so big for VH1 at the time which makes it also feel like one of the more dated episodes in the show's history. Because it's so good at what it's trying to do, I find it almost entirely joyless as a viewing experience. It's just not that fun to see the characters portrayed like this. There are a few jokes that can make me laugh to myself, but for the most part it just doesn't make me feel good and it's an episode I never revisit. I don't think I can say the same about any other episode of the show.

Andrew Giachetti

It was really jarring to hear moe say “spending money like a teenage Arab” and it totally disarmed me for the subsequent “interracial homoeroticism aside” line which hearing in audio (after forgetting about the line entirely) left me shaking in tears of laughter. Holy crap the pacing of this episode is top notch.

Sabrina

I really like this episode! My seven-year-old loves the “My Funny Family” part. He will quote the entire scene at random and we’ve both taken to saying “Mamma mia! Now I’ll have to do it!” when we are doing chores. I do want to comment on the Lisa eating caviar thing. I don’t think that as an ethical vegetarian she would, because I believe that a fish must die in order to harvest the caviar. Seeing her eat it bothers me a tiny bit, but yeah, I get that this episode is outside the normal reality of the show.

ToonJay723

I can see why Honey Nut Cheerios would be the best selling cereal since they advertise it on both children's TV and on Daytime TV during soap operas and talk shows. So they're there marketing to both children and adults while the other cereals only advertise to one or the other. Buzz Bee was removed from the box in 2017 because Cheerios wanted to being awareness to bees being an endangered species. EDIT: Actually Buzz is still on the box, he was just only temporarily removed.

Brian Hortin

There was an actual Teen Wolf 3 planned staring Alyssa Milano, but the much lower financial return of Teen Wolf Too made sure that didn’t happen.

ChemyChems

While odd being so far in, this is one of my favorite episodes of the Simpsons and have always felt it would have been the best finale to the series. Just subverting everything and treating the show as nonsense within it's own universe.

Joe Kafchinski

I'm sorry, but I just can't join you guys in the praise for this episode. I don't have a problem with the premise or anything, I just feel like there isn't a single joke that actually lands. It's so unfunny it's painful. Even twenty years later, this is probably my least favorite episode (and I still watch every week).

To Boldly Joe... Moore

Hi, guys! Enjoyed the episode. Matt is always a fun guest. I think it's interesting that you brought up the 138th Episode Spectacular. If you think about it, the Spin-Off Showcase episode is like a bridge between that and Behind The Laughter. Both 138th and Spin-Off are fourth-wall breaking shows "hosted" by Troy McClure and there is an idea that the Simpsons are a real family of performers. The part where Lisa refuses to partake in the Smile Time Variety Hour has traces of the behind-the-scenes strife that is featured in Behind The Laughter. Anyway, just something I thought was worth mentioning. Hope you all have a happy and safe time over the holidays. ^_^

Thad Komorowski

When the best joke is with Huck Hound, something is wrong. This episode really crystalizes this season's self-loathing and REALLY could've been a Family Guy episode. I'm surprised you guys were so gung-ho for this mean-spirited, but admittedly intriguing, dud. Oh, and the "Principal and the Pauper" joke is also great, mellow out, man.

Daniel Rackley

When Henry said that at first the episode felt like it might be the series finale to him, it kind of struck a chord with me. This was the last episode I recall watching as appointment viewing. I watched this episode and then two days later left for basic training in the navy. I didn't watch the series on a regular basis after that, so I can definitely identify with the immediate thought of "oh shit, this is the last one isn't it, because in my little corner of the word it kind of was".

Harry Thornton

I’m so glad you guys finally got to this episode, Behind the Laughter is still, in my mind, one of the best post-classic era episodes. Me and my family STILL quote it to this day. I actually DO remember the director for the first three Assassin’s Creed games, Patrice Desilets. He left the series after creative differences, and then Ubisoft itself which resulted in a few lawsuits. He’s now made his own indie games, a human evolution simulator called Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. That gross Yoshi’s Island ad was such a blatant Mr Creosote ripoff I’m shocked they never got into legal trouble. That might sound weird, but Eric Idle did get annoyed at the third Shrek movie (which he was in as Merlin) for “stealing” the iconic coconut shell gag from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, though no actual legal action happened despite him threatening to do so. I’m a “zoomer”, so I never watched Behind the Music when it was current, but thanks to this episode and cultural osmosis from commentators and my parents I did understand the show’s infamously constant “rise, fall, rise again” narrative. Appropriately, the one episode of of the show I’ve seen in full was for “Weird Al” Yankovic, both the late-90s original and the updated 2012 version. Weird Al himself mentioned the show in his “Trapped in the Drive Thru” song, where the main character of the song might be watching a Lynrd Skynryd episode of Behind the Music, though even he’s not sure. Funny you should mention how the ending almost makes it seem like a series finale, I know some who see it as such, the end of the “classic” era so to speak. I also know at least one person on twitter who likes this episode’s universe where Springfield is real but The Simpsons is a show. At the very least, I think all us fans can take solace in Home Improvement getting so forgotten in more recent years. There’s a great AV Club article called “Why Has Time Foresaken Home Improvement?” about why the show doesn’t have a following like it once did, where less successful shows from that era like Fresh Prince of Bel-Air etc. hold more cultural weight today. The line “Penniless Peckinpah” stuck out to me amongst all the wild metaphors, it’s such a funny way to call someone an amateur filmmaker. Hell, here’s some more of those: “Destitute DePalma”, “Broke Bogdonavich”, and “Needy Nolan”. The weird thing about the Beatles parody is that it reveals the “mental ward” twist so quickly I never quite had the time to process what was going on as a kid. The “MC Hammer house” jokes made no sense to me as a kid until I knew what Hammer did. The bit about Bart being too tired to do a stunt so they changed the script almost feels like a nod to a famous bit of trivia about Raiders of the Lost Ark: Because Harrison Ford was sick on the day they were shooting an elaborate sword fight scene, they scrapped all that and just had Indy shoot the sword guy. I had that same “massive cast of characters” poster as a kid! It’s like a requirement for any simpson fan, and it was weird seeing it in the actual show. I’m surprised you guys didn’t mention the old “Casper is the ghost of Richie Rich” gag from Three Men and a Comic Book when Richie Rich showed up here. In this universe where Richie is just a real actor, I wonder how he would’ve taken that joke. The episode was ALSO where I first heard of Rent, though I wouldn’t know what it was for a long time after. To clarify the “fake colourized” footage for those who might not understand: That was a process done during the silent era, just about every film back then was tinted. It wasn’t until sound came along that tinting felt out of fashion, and engineers had to figure out new colour techniques that wouldn’t mess with the new soundtrack on the film itself.