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This week's episode about nerds vs bullies is joined by the returning Kat Bailey, our friend and the co-host of the Axe of the Blood God podcast! In this Lisa-centric ep she has her own bully, all while Homer cares about baby-proofing (and gets maimed). What's the secret that causes bullying? Learn on this podcast, and be careful dialing up poison deliveries!

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Paul

I love any show that takes the piss out of bully tropes like "They actually are just lonely" or "you just gotta stand up to them" that are so often the moral lesson on sitcoms or kids shows.

Joe Hodgson

I don't know if it was intentional or not, but I always saw Willy's surveillance room as an escalation of his prior voyeuristic behavior as seen in Homer Badman. I can't recall if the show ever brought it up again in between that episode and this one, and I definitely don't know if it ever came back since we're nearing where I fell off. The Columbine thing makes more sense though as how could Willy, a man who literally lives in a tool shed, afford all of that equipment? Unless he's just horribly irresponsible with his meager earnings and just sinks everything into his dirty, little, secret. JC Penny is still around, though probably not thriving. You just need to go to a state like New Hampshire to find healthy malls. No sales tax, so border state individuals do their shopping in New Hampshire malls. I live in Massachusetts, but my parents are in New Hampshire and I was at their house a couple months back working on some video editing and I realized I was missing a piece of equipment. Best Buy had what I needed so I ran over to the nearest one which was at a mall and I was somewhat surprised to find the place mobbed with people. Maybe people just want to shop in person right now after a year+ of online only, or maybe NH malls just continue to thrive for that sales tax reason? I don't know, but if you miss malls, I guess NH is the place to be.

Lockerus

I’m sure there’s more violent I&S shorts, but to me the most disturbing one is the parody where Scratchy is frozen in time or whatever and comes out as an old frail cat and the giant brained Itchies first groom him and make him feel safe then torture him in a giant arena. Always wigged me out. Edit: also the animation of the babyproofing salesperson trying to open the baby formula always reminded me of Mission Hill’s animation style so that connection totally makes sense.

dum surfer

Bob, thank you. The Lisa Projector meme is objectively terrible

Daran

Beautifully directed episode! I know it’s for staging purposes, but Maggie falling out of a random window above the front door drove me crazy. Same with when Homer dumps trash on Ned in “Trash of the Titans”.

Alex Forsyth

There was some baby proofing back then, but it just consisted of plastic covers for outlets not in use, plastic covers for coffee table corners if you kid was a head banger and maybe lowering the max temp of your water heater so if you kids didn't listen to Tweety Bird, they still wouldn't burn themselves. Also eyebrow scar team represent!

Andrew Giachetti

Hey you guys didn’t get Cheney or Kissinger but there’s less yellow cake uranium about to be discovered so in a way the “curse” apparently finds a way. Political macabre aside, it’s really uncanny.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

Kat is totally right that this episode really has some Golden Era energy, and it's really fun, even if the awkward covering of its bullying subject matter has only gotten worse in the 20 years since this aired. Lauren MacMullan really did a great job with this one, to the point that I would NEVER have remembered that came in the latter half of season *12* with some of the big stinkers that we've had in it.

Francisco Jauregui

What's the episode of Talking Futurama with Bob's bullying story?

Manic Rainbow

This was one of the few episodes I had on tape, and I watched it all the time, so this brings back a lot of memories. I forgot just how much the Scully years really brought me into e Simpsons as a child. This episode is so funny, tho with a few problematic moments. The Homer baby proofing plot line is classic to me. Also I’m SICK of you boys talking smack on NRBQ, I feel like the songs they use are very fitting. Great episode as always boys

Dan Hughes

Millhouse was sick on the bounce house, not wendall 😉

Bradford A Barker

"Pi is exactly three!" is such a gem. Season 12 has had more of those sorts of moments than I'd remembered.

Stephen C. Nedell

This was one of the first episodes that I watched the premier and reacted like Nelson to Pouchie--that sucked! TV has traditionally done a terrible job addressing bullying to the point that some sitcoms from the 80s victim blamed the targets and pretty much said they deserved it for the crime of not acting in the right way or liking "weird" things. And let's not forget how garbage people like Sarah Palin were concerned that anti bullying initiatives in schools would infringe on the god given right of white Christians to torture other children especially ones they lable "queer". Having listened to this podcast I'll give the episode another watch so I can appreciate the positive things you brought up. Circling back to Database, I haven't heard anyone bring up a point that I figured would have been obvious--I always figured Database appearance and voice was inspired by Pat from Saturday Night Live to the point I wondered back then if Julia Sweeny was playing him.

Blandon

The fact that the commercial was solely about the Hommer B plot really tells a lot about how the show feels about Lisa and Lisa stories.

Stew Shearer

I too was a victim of sharp 80s table corners. Bashed my head off of one when I was 3 or 4. It left that a scar that’s given me a permanent divot on my right temple.

nalem

Regarding Springfield Confidential: that was Milhouse who puked in the bounce house, not Wendell. SORRY FELLAS