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This week Conor Lastowka from Rifftrax and the 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back podcast returns for a podcast all about loveably dumb dogs! As Santa's Little Helper destroys everything he possibly can, he's in danger of being given away unless Bart can get through to him. All that, plus the uncomfortable timing for a guest appearance of Tracey Ullman all in this week's big cookie of a podcast!

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nina matsumoto

Correction: I didn't say Cesar Millan (the dog whisperer) uses choke chains. I said he follows out-dated theories like "alpha dog" "pack leader" stuff (they're based on one bad study and have been debunked decades ago) and uses old school methods like rolling the dogs on their backs (which you SHOULD NOT do unless you want your dog to fear you). I don't think he uses choke chains, though upon googling I see he designed something called an "Illusion Collar" which I don't know anything about. Back when I raised a shiba (the Dark Souls of dogs), I watched a lot of "It's Me or the Dog" hosted by Victoria Stilwell, a female British dog trainer who's very different from this lady because she's all about positive reinforcement, not punishment.

notsmohqe

conor is probably my favorite guest. the whole pet the cat/don’t pet the cat/stop kissing that cat segment had me cracking up. but seriously Henry, pet the damn cat

Chris Dobson

Ironic to talk about how she's unsung and then get her name wrong, but it's "Polly Platt," no relation to Chris Pratt, who spells and pronounces his name differently.

Joe Hodgson

I definitely lean towards the idea that chocolate is bad for your dog, but in order for your dog to die it probably has to consume either a lot of chocolate or something more potent than milk chocolate. When I was a kid I was left alone with my grandpa's dog for maybe a half hour. She was an old yellow lab or golden retriever, it was honestly hard to tell because she was nearing 20 and was mostly white. Petting her felt like petting a broom. Being a kid left alone meant I had unsupervised access to the chocolate chip cookies, and since old Snifty was looking at me with those begging eyes, I happily shared my bounty with her which she seemed grateful for. I don't know how many cookies I gave her, I only know it was more than one and they didn't kill her. A car would have that honor a year or so later. It's certainly possible though my grandfather had an unpleasant ride home with an old dog full of chocolate chip cookies though.

Lockerus

Lisa’s insistence on going to school despite a severe illness shows that she is already acclimatized to a future in the American workforce.

Frank Grimes

The giant cookie at the mall has got to be Mrs. Fields. We had that at our malls too

Guybrush

Conor is right about the other worldly feeling you’d get watching a daytime soap opera. And it takes on new modern significance through the so-called soap opera effect of motion interpolation on HD televisions. I’m not too particular about any buzzwords surroundings modern TVs, but seeing that eerily too real motion effect does haunt me in a way I can’t fully explain. I proudly offered to correct my Mom’s settings when I visited. “You’re gonna love it,” I told her. Of course she couldn’t tell any difference afterwards. But at least I could look on the screen in peace.

Colton

Family Guy had an episode in 2009 where Meg got the mumps at a Star Trek convention (which was the first thing I thought of for some reason).

Andrew Bouvier

Always love to hear Connor on the podcast, but one minor correction regarding the photo "The Falling Soldier" that was used for one of the patches on the Bouvier Family Quilt: It was from the Spanish Civil War, not the Spanish American War as Henry thought, and on top of that there is controversy surrounding it that not only does it not portray the subject and battle the photographer claimed it did, but also that it was 100% fake/staged. Things like the supposed subject having been killed somewhere else, the geography of the photo and others in its series not matching the claimed battle location, etc... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Falling_Soldier

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

While the history of Blackface and other stuff is gross as hell, Tracey Ullman still absolutely got screwed out of money that was rightfully hers just so that the (inarguably evil) Fox people could get richer and richer. It absolutely doesn't matter at all whether she hated the Simpsons shorts and/or wanted them off of her show, the contact said she'd get a cut of spin-offs and she damn well should have. That jury is full of corporation-simping morons as far as I'm concerned. Siding with the billion-dollar company over someone getting any level of money out of them always just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

Alex Atchley

I wonder if they parodied The Oscar because this is a "boy and his dog story". "Why DO you wonder that, Alex?" You're definitely asking. Because the screenplay to The Oscar (1966) was written, at least in part, by author Harlan Ellison. Ellison is most famous for the teleplay to "City on the Edge of Forever" from Star Trek, the short story, "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream," and also the short story "A Boy And His Dog", which had it's own screen adaptation in 1975. Since you had a writing-room full of boomer uber-nerds, there is NO WAY that at least one of those fools weren't huge fans of Ellison. But, the connection might be coincidental. Maybe I'm thinking too deeply on it. Harlan eventually did play himself on the Simpsons in "Married to the Blob," from season 25.

Andrew O.

Geez! For $100 it better be a haircut you could set your watch to! Seriously though, I'd sooner cut my own hair (and have) before paying more than $25 (including tip) for a haircut. That's absolutely insane to me.

Adam Esat

A Beef Wellington is Gordon Ramsay’s speciality dish. And it’s notoriously difficult to make, since you gotta bake it so the pastry around it cooks properly but also the beef is usually medium rare. If you’re on Ramsay’s show and was able to cook well enough to impress him, you’d probably win the competition.

Sabrina

I knew there was going to be haircut shaming here. If you have longish hair and you live in an area with a high cost of living, $100 is not unreasonable. It’s standard at a quality salon here in New Jersey. It’s definitely worth it if it makes you look good and feel good! Speaking of looking good, Henry you are doing an awesome job with your weight loss! I saw a picture of you on Twitter a few weeks ago and I couldn’t believe it! You look great and I am so proud of you!

Samwise

Was just watching "Homer to the Max" and I noticed that in a mall scene they had an Assassins "Join the Conspiracy" sign in the background

Stephen C. Nedell

We always had dogs growing up. The first one Dusty did go to obedience school and according to my mom was the class clown. Our second, Jynx only lasted a couple of weeks or months. He liked to dig into the dry wall (my mom said she thought he did that because we might have had mice). He was destructive in other ways and eventually was rehomed on a farm. Flash forward fifteen years later I was telling some friends in college about Jynx. I suddenly stopped midsentence and immediately got up and called my mom and asked her to honestly tell me what happened. She assured me Jynx really went to live on farm and that's where we adopted our third dog Pepper. Potential long delayed family trauma averted. Speaking of Tracey Ullman I totally crushed on her in high school (funny, brunette AND an English accent to boot) which is why I started watching the show and thus saw the Simpsons shorts premier. By the way, how many people caught that some of the footage of Lisa calling Homer from the couch was recycled for Lisa's Pony?

CeLEAstia

I was really surprised you disliked the part with Lisa‘s magazines so much. When I was a (equally nerdy) young girl my dad acted the exact same way and brought home all the teenie magz. You’re allowed to like stupid things when you‘re sick after all! :D Even the „kissing disease“ line sounds like a joke my parents would drop to cheer me up. The whole interaction always made Lisa seem human and relatable in my eyes.

glowstickjuice

My family has had 2 dogs, both were/are poorly trained and had/have behavioural problems. My parents are lower middle class boomers and having a dog and 1-2 cats is just the thing you do. Kinda wish they took the dogs to an obedience school of some kind. It's hard having people over when she jumps on them. Guests insist they're fine, but I'm always embarrassed as hell.

James Babbo

I think you guys are thinking too deeply into Lisa's comment about starting a new quilt. Malice isn't a character trait of Lisa's (at least not this early in the series). Making lemons out of lemonade definitely is what made Lisa tick. So in effect, Lisa is trying to distract Marge from her loss. On the complete opposite end of this scene & one that I believe you did not think was malice is the sequence from "Lisa the Skeptic" where Marge tells Lisa "If you can't take a leap of faith every once in a while, well, then I feel sorry for you." What a horrible thing to tell your 8 yr old child! And yes, by season 9 you could claim that Lisa was written to be older but she's still in 2nd grade. I was shocked to hear Marge say that. It still comes across that way.

Chance Gerk

I always took the dog pov gibberish at the end of act two as a way to get a swear word in the show. I “translated” it to being something something fucking dog.