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Talking Simpsons - Bart Gets An "F" (Revisited) With KC Green (Patreon)

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2021-01-13 05:00:03
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Professional cartoonist KC Green (check out his newest book, He Is A Good Boy!) returns as we begin our renewed exploration of season two! It's the highest rated episode of Simpsons EVER, so we discuss the battle with The Cosby Show, the move to Thursday, and the first ep that reacted to Bartmania. We dig deep into this very lovely episode this week on the podcast!

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Robert Flaxman

*yelling “Marge Gets a Job!” out loud into thin air during the discussion of “Gets” titles*

Justen Brown

*nerd voice* Martin Prince says forecastle phonetically but it’s actually pronounced folk-sull. I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

Thad Komorowski

Got to agree with Bob's earlier reasoning that a deeper revisit to these gentler James L. Brooksy days is much needed in today's climate. This was a welcome change of pace to the madness going on in Washington D.C. BUT. I will say that having re-listened to the earlier Talking Simpsons recently, I hope you don't revisit anything third season onward – they are solid podcasts and should stand on their own. As for this episode, I always felt like I was watching something like Growing Pains when it would turn up in syndication. Very awkward middle ground in the writing and tone, sincerity that gets totally undercut with that final scene at the fridge. Dan's sincere, stupid "WE'RE PROUD OF YA, BOY" is one of my favorite reads of his ever, and thanking God for Bart's pathetic underachievement smells like they're making fun of the religious-minded pathos of "sincere" TV families. And man, does that commentary sure show Matt Groening's pure bad taste and lack of respect for Dave Silverman's achievements or what?

Joe Hodgson

You guys nailed it with your observation that this was the right episode for Season 2 to premiere with. I remember being really excited for this episode when it premiered, and being a kid, getting a Bart episode right off the bat was exactly what I wanted. It's a very kid-centric episode as a lot of what Bart was going through was really relatable, even for a kid like me who had an easy time with school. Faking illness, day-dreaming, procrastinating, and even snow days all made it into this one making it feel like a little slice of 90s juvenile existence. That game over screen in Bart's Nightmare drove me nuts every time I saw it because the goal should have been to get a D, but here I am as Bart with Homer mad at me for a perfectly cromulent C grade. And I don't know if it was a throw-away line by Bob, but I found it interesting he referenced a blizzard of 93 in the talk about snow days. I'm a June baby and the only year of my life where we were still in school for my birthday came a year later, 1994, as a series of snow storms pushed the last day of school back by weeks that year. Recently, there's a lot of talk from bad faith parents and adults who are dead set against remote learning in schools as it will lead to the end of snow days. It's only January, and my kid has already had one snow day this year. They're not going any where since a huge component of snow days is the power outages that can result from them, so my town doesn't make them automatic remote-learning days.

Guybrush

Marge and Homer treated Bart for a seemingly serious diagnosis received from the school nurse without any apparent follow up with Hibbert.

Kiefer Fulsom

I love this episode to death, it's my number one favorite episode of all time for 2 reasons, the first is while I never saw this episode on in syndication, I did get the season 2 dvd set for my birthday summer of 2003. That summer is one I still remember and love for Nostalgic reasons. The second being that I relate to Bart SO FUCKING HARD in this episode. Growing up I was never a child to start a fight, talk balk, etc, so when I kept getting in trouble at school, our counselor recommended sending me to a child psychologist and I was diagnosed with ADHD while also having my IQ determined. ( I was a "gifted" child. And put into the Gifted And Talented Students program which, because our school was literally in small town nowhere Oklahoma, usually meant field trips to places). And while I enjoyed going to school all throughout middle & high school, I always struggled with my grades usually teetering on B- D average, including repeating one math class, also those field trips would take with the gifted program? You could go if your grades were above failing, so naturally I missed out on half of them. The scene of Bart crying and just barely squeezing happened to me SO OFTEN, in fact my senior year my final grade is my math class was a 59.98 and he rounded up. So yeah, that's why I love this episode and why it mean so much to me.

Dan Z

totally resonate with Henry's "I can slack and get a B so why bother". I think that attitude has made me a lot less high strung about work than I could have been.

crystalhearts

This was really good - it's always really great when KC is on. Looking forward to the rest of the season 2 rewatch!

Paul

That Bart crying scene was so real! Sounds just like my kid when he gets super frustrated at not being able to do something. But eventually we did get those can of beans open.

SomeBloke

As a research mathematician I feel obligated to push back slightly on Bob's comment that proofs are useless - they're very useful as a form of argument when mathematical ideas aren't obvious and we need to convince ourselves and our colleagues that they're sound. The version presented in high school geometry totally loses this context, probably because it's a streamlined version of material that is thousands of years old and serious objections these days are to the rules themselves rather than the arguments. Admittedly, I'm a little biased, because I hated high school geometry - which just goes to show how much any of that matters in the long run.

Manic Rainbow

As a person with learning disabilities I relate to Bart so much in this episode. I can’t help but cry every time I see Bart break down at the end... it’s a situation I’ve been in so many times where no matter how hard I try to study I can’t get it right, and the blame would always be put on me. The amount of stress put on children with learning difficulties still gives me anxiety nightmares. I had to deal with many faculty members exactly like James Loren Pryor. The way he talks down about Bart directly in front of him.... it’s like he is ripped straight from my life. It feels like he had to come from Matt’s personal experience. Not a great character for comedy, but a type of jerk I recognized right away. This is an episode taught me that just because I have a different way of learning doesn’t mean I’m “stupid”. Thank you both for revisiting this episode.

Kris

Growing up in Central California we had to read all of the Steinbeck... Ive probably read of mice and men on assignment like three times