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Talking Simpsons - Dancin' Homer (Revisited) With Mike Carlson (Patreon)

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2021-03-24 04:00:00
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2021-05-26 17:57:23
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We head out to the ball game with our returning guest, Podcast: The Ride's Mike Carlson! Mike helps us understand the magic of baseball, the history of small-town mascots, and more in this week's classic episode of Homer becoming a Minor League star. All that plus we try to deconstruct the weird editing of this episode's framing device, all in one nutty coo-coo super king of a podcast!

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Frank Grimes

This is probably one of my least favorite episodes of the golden years. Your discussion may spark interest, though.

Lockerus

“Take your mind off contaminates for a night and have a hot dog” got a good chuckle out of me during the “Simps” clip. That’s a great subtle joke.

Thad Komorowski

An intriguingly directed dud, and yes, the comments from Matt Groening are truly disrespectful.

Joe Hodgson

I think the Capital City crowd is just meant to parody the crowds at Yankee Stadium. There's always been a bit of arrogance associated with the club and George Steinbrenner had a disdain for mascots. The Yankees though did not have a mascot character in the 90s so the Capital City Goof doesn't fit. It's definitely not articulated very well. As someone who grew up on baseball and still likes when The Simpsons do something on baseball, I do not like this episode. It's just not that great. I like the first act, and maybe it should have just gone from there with Homer having to deal with the fallout of angering his boss at a company outing, though that doesn't really interest me that much either. Definitely a lesser Season 2 entry.

Andrew Grieve

Great revisit, this episode was one of my favorites as a kid, but over the past few decades and especially having recently rewatched it on D+...it’s far from my favorite of season 2. It’s probably because I played baseball as a kid, now it just seems like the story paces then accelerates dramatically right at the end. And I totally thought that the Capital City scenes were at the halfway point of the episode too, not right at the end. It just felt rushed or half baked, especially the wraparounds at Moe’s, seeing all that on a 4KTV now really highlights how rushed together that was. The song played at Moe’s in the beginning of this episode is “Walk On By”, originally by Dionne Warwick, but it’s had tons of covers and has been heavily sampled over the years. The version playing in the scene could be Warwick’s version but if it is, it sounds pitched up, more than likely it’s just a cover. And I thought there was a Tony Bennett Unplugged episode, although I could be conflating that with the times Mel Torme crashed the MTV Beach House. There really was a big resurgence of lounge music in the mid-90s, it’s not my thing but I have a lot of respect for Bennett to still keep at it and collaborate with modern artists to this day. And I highly recommend that you both watch The Natural, I have an endless backlog of classic and modern movies to watch but I have caught that film before, for all the times it’s been referenced in media and especially The Simpsons, it’s worth checking out.

mavrick

henry is correct, baseball is the sport for nerds. did you know former player Ed Porray was born in the Atlantic Ocean? On the Play Index, he comes up as the only player in history who was born “At Sea.”

Erin Hardy

That Star Spangled Banner gag is maybe my second favorite Simpsons gag ever ("Stop the Planet of the Apes" being the first.)

Dennis Kanenwisher

As a rule I don't mention where I work online, but my current employer has had a "Family Day" at a Arizona Diamondbacks Game before. We got $10 per person of "Diamondback Bucks" for food which was accepted by maybe half of the vendors, and the seats we had were in the highest section, furthest into the outfield, with the sun shining directly into our eyes for half the game.

Angel Young

When Henry said that Gritty is like the Philly Phanatic with a chopped off nose I actually jokingly got offended (sorry that is the Philadelphian Spirit in me.) I do want to share that I met the team who came up with Gritty about 3 years ago at an event. If I am not mistaken, Gritty is one of the first mascots to take full advantage of social media and meme culture. His phrase It Me comes from a photoshopped Time magazine cover of him that a member of the marketing team created. The phrase is just TI swapped to IT and ME. There is also a mystery surrounding his color changing belly button and also who plays Gritty. While the mystery of his belly button still remains unsolved, there is an unproven theory over who plays gritty. Gritty has two guards and the theory is that the guards get switched off to play him. I also met Gritty at that same event. I will post the photo on Discord when I find it. He is a great hugger. I could go on for hours about Gritty lore since it caught me from the moment people outside of Philly made fun of him and us Philadelphians defended him.

littleterr0r

I didn't see street crime, but the first time I stopped at a stop light in San Francisco someone came over and wiped my window.

Robert Flaxman

The last time I was in Washington DC, I decided to go find 4th Street and D, which I figured had to exist in a grid system with numbered and lettered streets. Turns out there are three of them! (And there should be four, but in one of the quadrants the spot where the intersection would be is broken up by Indiana Avenue crossing.) Oh, and the Bengals are the NFL team from Cincinnati, not Detroit (that’s the Lions).

Taskbaarchitect

When you guys started talking about "whether or not you like Barney" determining what kind of a Millenial you are, I spent a good couple of minutes assuming you were talking about the Simpsons' Barney and wondering what cultural event could possibly have made a lonely alcoholic so despicable to anyone under a certain age.

Kat Heagberg

That Barney realization was mind-blowing. Like Henry's brother, I was born in '85 and initially appreciated the Barney videos (though it might have been that I just really liked Sandy Duncan), but quickly joined the "I hate you, you hate me, let's team up and kill Barn-ey" train once the television show aired. My little sister was born in 1987 and brought a Barney nap mat to preschool, had a Barney-themed fifth birthday part, and slept with a Barney plush. So I'd say a spot-on distinction. Was that episode of Podcast the Ride a Patreon-exclusive? (Someone may have said so and I'm blanking)? (Also, great episode and great guest!)

Kyle Orland

Your discussion of baseball mascots that had nothing to do with their team names reminded me of the long-gone Washington Bullets (now the Wizards) and their long-gone mascot, Hoops. Instead of using a gun or an ammunition magazine or something as their mascot, the Bullets came up with the most generic basketball mascot imaginable; a mutant with a hoop for a torso and a basketball for a head. I didn't care that much about the actual basketball being played when my dad dragged me to Bullets games as a kid, but I was obsessed with this mascot and his capering, both on the court and on jumbotron animations. Finding proof that Hoops actually existed (and wasn't imagined by my seven-year-old brain) is surprisingly tough, but this pin captures the look: http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/lw8AAOSwYVFdR5qO/s-l500.jpg And here's some video evidence of him being ejected from a game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X21Hlg9V2OQ I also found this 1993 Washington Post article about how Hoops's four-year tenure ended with a beating by fans of the other team. Dancing Homer got off easy... https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1993/04/02/former-bullets-mascot-says-he-was-victimized-by-fans/3bcbbc63-4087-4642-b404-0d12aab6d3d8/

Chris Dobson

Bob says Burns is too old to remember Connie Mack, but although Connie Mack retired as a player in the 1890's, he spent the next 50 years as the manager of the Philadelphia A's, at Shibe Park (also named by Burns) well into the 1940's. So it does fit into the Burns is in his 80's timeline. That said, I consider Season 2 as part of the Golden Age, but you have to basically throw this episode in the trash with the worst of Season 1. A dull, unfunny episode that the Softball episode makes completely obsolete one year later.

James Babbo

re: Why he didn't go back to the Isotopes? Henry's comment: "After you get the big Lou Gehrig sendoff, how do you return two months later?" Ask Jay Leno how he did it. :D

y2kpodcst

Something that the Simpsons may have inspired may have not is the story of dancing gab a local man in the winnipeg manitoba area that is known for dancing during the nhl and cfl games. He was diagnosed with autism as a kid and had been attending sports games since the early 80’s. During the 1990 91 season for the Winnipeg Jets he was given a custom jersey with the name dancing gab on it. (it was also a way for some good news to come out of a pretty lousy season for the jets) and to this day will still be at games dancing when people are allowed back in the stadiums. Weather the name was taking from the simpsons episode or not i have no clue but i thought it was a pretty neat quinncidence.

PurpleComet

While Tony Bennett is still with us as of when this episode was posted, his family recently revealed he's suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Nick

This episode always reminds me of my employer. I work for a local convenience store chain and the owner bought a luxury suite at our local Minor League Baseball team, the Greenville Drive. He allows the employees to buy tickets for only $10 apiece and I have purchased the entire suite more than once and treated my family and friends to a fun night at the ballpark. Once you've sat in your own private box feeling like a benevolent dictator addressing his citizens it's hard to go back. Fun fact: prior to 2005, our local team played in Columbia, SC and were known as the Capital City Bombers.

Roger

Not sure if this is too late, but I think the joke about the 72oz tubs of beer, being extremely cheap, is a reference to the 10 cent beer night fiasco. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Cent_Beer_Night) - Basically what happened is that the beer was 1/6th too cheap, and you could buy 6 at a time (for 72oz!) and there was effectively no limit to how many times you could go back for more. Long story short, people got drunk and it turned into a riot. The game was forfeited to the visiting team. I took a crack at the inflation between 1974 and 91/92, and its in the same ballpark - with a .60 cent beer from 1974 being about 1.66 in 91 according to https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/ - for all your inflation needs.