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Talking Simpsons - Bart Gets Hit By A Car With Matt Christman (Patreon)

Published:
2021-06-23 04:00:00
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2021-06-23 04:09:35
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2026-06
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We welcome back our pal Matt Christman from Chapo Trap House for our return to a landmark episode of The Simpsons! As the title suggests, Bart is injured, he goes to Hell, and then returns to sue Mr. Burns. All of this with the help of the debuting Lionel Hutz and Nick Riviera, making this a very important episode. Listen now before Burns crushes you like a paper cup!

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Cake Nap

I don't remember the car being totaled

Angel Young

I might have resumed my Disney+ subscription after you announced that this was going to be the episode at the end of last weeks episode. 😅

Joe Hodgson

I think Marge definitely was so forthcoming on the stand because she takes that oath on the Bible very seriously. And I do think at this stage in the show Marge was the character they wanted us to think was sort of an idealized Mom, a good, Christian, woman just trying to manage a somewhat unruly family which is why she was so nonchalantly forthcoming on the stand, to the detriment of their case. My head canon for the scene is also that she hated what the pursuit of this money was doing to her husband, as evidenced by his behavior at Burns', and she sabotaged the case because she knew adding a million dollars to this dynamic would poison the family. I don't think she necessarily took the stand with the intent in her mind to derail this thing, but more that she wanted to lay it all out there and hoped the court would see what she was seeing in regards to shifty lawyers and phony doctors. That's my head canon, but I think the writers just found the easiest way out of giving the Simpsons too much money. I think if this story were tackled in the later seasons, maybe they do win and the final act isn't this smarmy, makeup, junk with Homer and Marge and instead we see how quickly Homer manages to piss it all away in an amusing manner. This ending instead feels very Season Oneish and almost ruins the episode. This is one I always enjoy right up until this last act. I guess we need to see Homer deal with the real feelings he'd have over his wife costing him a million bucks, since he isn't written stupid enough at this point to get over it easily with a big sandwich or case of beer, if they had just shown Homer being angry and left it at that it would have probably been fine.

Chris Tar

Also Phil Hartman was Captain Carl in the first Pee Wee live special and the first season of Pee Wee's playhouse

DeeGeez

Hi all, love the show! Real life lawyer here - you had a lot of questions speculating about legal doctrine in this episode, but the key one was how could Hutz object to Marge being called to testify regarding her opinion of Dr. Nick. Ultimately it would depend on what the governing rules of civil procedure are in Springfield District Court, but off the top of my head, I think Hutz could object on competency grounds - is Marge qualified to opine on the quality of Dr. Nick’s knowledge/testimony/opinion? I would argue no, she’s a layperson, what does she know about medicine? Burns could call his own medical expert to impugn Nick’s testimony, but I’m not convinced Marge’s comments about Nick’s character get at the quality of his statements/opinion. Now, could her testimony be used to impugn Nick’s credibility? Not sure, courts don’t like it when parties cal character witnesses to say “he gives off an untrustworthy vibe,” that just opens the door to a lot of he-said-she-said bickering, but maybe this would hold up. In sum, as we knew from the outset, Hutz is a bad lawyer, he probably could’ve made some colorable argument that Marge’s testimony be stricken/ignored.

Sarah

I love it whenever Bob says “Dinna Dawg” in the blue-haired lawyer’s voice

Ric Mahurin

Christman didn’t bring much to this episode, which is a bummer because he’s often really good.

To Boldly Joe... Moore

Thanks for the podcast, guys. Enjoyed your analysis, as always. One part of this episode that confuses me slightly is when Burns is about to offer Homer a "princely sum" of money but then scores it out to offer a "handsome sum" instead. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the paper *appears* to have $800,000 as the initial settlement offer but then Burns has re-written it to $500,000. I get that Burns had some last-second thoughts about the amount, but were his lawyers really suggesting something that was so close to the full million? Why would they do this? Maybe this is tied to a story change or maybe I'm just overthinking, as usual. ^_^ Anyway, keep up the awesome work.

Toushin

This episode will always be a never live it down moment for Marge. In fact the first two seasons instead of giving her the more down to earth argument they also try to make her the victim. Not only do those two concepts cancel each other out, marge ends up coming out looking like the bad guy. Bart almost died and Burns never showed the slightest bit of remorse and for her to go well its worth about $5.00 is not a good look. The sad thing is they quickly fixed this aspect of her character only to go back to it in the later seasons to the point it’s become her main character trait.

Christmas Ape

What's funny to me is that some of the flaws you notice in this episode—confused/arbitrary character motivation and unearned sentimentality—are also what keeps coming up in season 12. Yet, this one is early enough in the show's run and introduces so many important characters that I find it easier to overlook that stuff in this case than when they do the same things ten years later. I also feel like any point they're trying to make with this episode is derailed by their need to include some extreme, attention-getting imagery. If you want to do a story about a frivolous lawsuit, you can't have Bart actually get hit by a car and have a near-death experience—but those early scenes are just too much fun for them to leave out. “Itchy & Scratchy & Marge” has similar problems, but it is something that they eventually iron out in later seasons.

Chris Dobson

I have to admit my bias as an attorney probably makes me like it more, but this episode has a few great bits, even if the ending is not good. The "think of the headlines" bit is so great. I also think of the "you see that smudge there that looks like my finger? That's trauma!" in my job all the time when reviewing MRIs from medical providers with their offices in mini-malls.

Alex Forsyth

You'd think Burns' lawyers would have proposed medical bills plus $100. Also, how come Mr. Burns car insurance isn't involved in any way?