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Talking Simpsons - Homer vs Lisa & The 8th Commandment With Lindsay Katai (Patreon)

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2021-08-18 04:00:02
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This week we welcome back Lindsay Katai, writer for Infinity Train and cohost of the podcast Teen Creeps! She helps us navigate the scary worlds of childhood religious beliefs AND early cable television in this landmark episode of Lisa's battle against Homer's cable addiction. Not only that, but we get the first appearances of Troy McClure and Drederick Tatum, so listen now, it'll only cost you your soul!

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Tyler M.

Bob mentioning Armstrong cable reminded me that it still exists. Also, in another eastern Ohio tidbit, so many family members of mine bought illegal scrambler boxes at Rogers Sale in Ohio. For those unfamiliar, these boxes basically unlocked every channel out there (pay per view ones included) and to a wrestling obsessed 90s kid were about the greatest things ever.

Joe Hodgson

While watching this episode for the first time is when I learned that my family did not pay for cable. We weren't really stealing it though either. We moved into our house in February of 1987 and either as a welcome to the neighborhood kind of deal that went on too long or a simple "oops," we had free cable. For the younger crowd, back then cable was literally just a cable and there was no box or anything so if you screwed it onto your TV and it worked you were good to go. The local cable company didn't catch on until 1992, and at that point we were actually in the process of moving so we didn't bother to sign up, but man was that a shock to the system going from having access to cable to just broadcast over night. I still have cable, though I don't use it for much, mainly sports and Cartoon Network. I do sometimes peek at other channels and the MTV family is just ridiculous at this point. Regular MTV is quite literally ridiculous for, as Bob noted, that channel just seems to show Ridiculousness 24/7. And on MTV2 is Tosh.0 all day. They're really trying to monopolize the "guy stands in front of green screen of YouTube videos" genre.

littleterr0r

Whoa, I *just* finished listening to Lindsay on the Ace Attorney episode of How Did This Get Played?

littleterr0r

I'm like Bob in that I had never seen Neverending Story until a girlfriend tried to get me to watch it in college but I fell asleep.

Camille Walters

One of my favourite things to do is look up Mr. Show sketches they mention on these podcasts. Superpan was legit horrifying. 😂

Guybrush

That shot of Lisa staring at Homer through the window is one of my all time favorites for the show.

Alex Forsyth

I don't remember a time without cable. We never had the top tier package that gave us everything but we always had it. Cable was never a "only rich people have this" in my memory. Paying extra for the Family channel? Well then you're rich. I do remember my step dads friend having an illegal box that gave you every channel free and we would go over to watch boxing and WWD PPVs from time to time.

Frank Grimes

I think you can "upgrade" the RSS feed to the acast option - this gives a personalized/private RSS that I think only the person who has it, has access too since it asks for your patreon login.

Kat Heagberg

Just realized that all this time I thought I knew who Troy Donahue was, but I actually only knew the lyric “As for you, Troy Donahue; I know what you wanna do” from “Grease.” And that’s it. That’s the extent of my knowledge. Anyone else?

Shaxbert

There totally was a last-channel button on the remote in 1991, and it saved my bacon several times. The folks knew the boobies were on channel 53 after 10PM, so if they walked in and saw CSPAN on channel 54 or home shopping on 52, they'd know something was up immediately.

SomeBloke

I think the older I get and the more I hear about Comcast/Xfinity/Whoever’s terrible policies and market monopolies the more I dislike this episode. HOMER WAS RIGHT.

Manic Rainbow

This is a very funny episode, but I do wish it had a different resolution. It would be super interesting to have Lisa overcoming her fear of hell, and learning to not shame others so extremely. It wouldn’t take much, just a few lines would do it. Just funny to see the Simpsons with such a tight moral compass so early on. Otherwise a great episode where the surreal gags are rising to the top.

Thad Komorowski

Almost had the same beat for beat thoughts as you folks on this one. The subversion you want never comes, but you really don’t mind. The grapes bit is line of the episode, no contest.

KB Brown

Thank you for the shout out to the C-SPAN archives. I worked there in my college years and we digitize a lot physical media, not just what is aired on the C-SPAN channels. I really enjoyed getting to revisit this episode, and thank you again for visiting our archive!

Deadlockoriginalfilms

I didn't realize that the adulterer in the opening was supposed to be jacques. As a kid I always thought he was supposed to be Lovejoy because of the big nose and I was always very confused by it