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Talking Simpsons - Simpsons Safari With Ian Jones-Quartey (Patreon)

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2021-11-10 05:00:03
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It's a big Simpsons travel episode, and we're welcoming the awesome returning guest Ian Jones-Quartey, creator of OK KO and Executive Producer on Steven Universe. After a string of jokes about unionized labor, the family goes to Africa for a bunch of very generalized ideas of the continent of Africa. There are hippos, poachers, diamonds, and so much more in this week's podcast, so grab your mosquito nets!

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Bennett Billard

I love the "casual" get together bit. For a very "dumb" episode, that's a standout moment. Well, that and "Pepsi Presents New Zanzibar."

Andrew Bryson

Maybe it's biased by the context I'm hearing it in, but the sax break in the Burke's Law theme (~43:00) sounds like it could segue perfectly into Maggie + Marge in the car!

Matty

I think a better ending would have been having Bushwell arrested and taking the chimps back to Springfield to solve the bag boy strike.

TR

I'm not 100% sure why, but this is the episode that made me finally give up on the simpsons. I didn't completely stop watching but I no longer went out of my way to watch new episodes. I think I accepted that the show would not ever be back to the way it was in the past.

Guy Incognito

Attorney here. Contest rules on an old box of cookies could certainly still be legally binding on the company, depending on the terms of the contest, such as the inclusion (or lack) of a defined end date. Another great opportunity for courtroom gags lost in a Phil Hartman-less world.

Joe Hodgson

That rather lame joke about African countries changing their names frequently is definitely rooted in that sense of American arrogance looking down on those "silly countries" that warrant attention, though I have to believe part of it is also driven by public education in the US. I graduated from high school in 2002 and I don't think I ever set foot in a classroom that didn't have the USSR on it. Growing up with outdated maps in school feels like a shared experience so those name changes stick out more than they should. I have no idea if private schools fared any better, but I'd assume it's not really a thing anymore as do classrooms even bother with those large, pull-down, maps? I just assume the modern classroom is just some super slick all digital experience, but since education is criminally underfunded, it's probably just as outdated as I remember.

Blargh

In Bart vs Australia, Homer mentions Burkina Faso when he gets his phone bill. That was a newly named nation at the time led by Thomas Sankara (RIP)

ty howell de winkle

Thank you so much for the in-depth grocery bagging conversation. This is the kind of content I've been waiting for all these years! I have probably the most passion for the correct way to bag groceries. When I worked at Target I would bag things the way Bob described - household cleaners away from food, raw meat away from packaged foods, cold items together, etc. Shopping now, I always like to bag my own for the reason of putting like items together or items together that go to the same place in the house (cat products and bathroom products that may go upstairs, for example). It's become such an overblown strong opinion on the "correct" way to bag, that my husband has come home with groceries and sheepishly apologized in advance for not bagging them correctly. In that moment, I felt like a tyrant.

KaiserBeamz

Time for me to be a little music nerd. While the "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" joke is an obvious reference to the Paul Simon/Ladysmith Black Mambazo song of the same name, it also can be a wider reference to the album the song is off of Graceland. Released in 1986, Graceland is considered a landmark record in rock history for how it helped bring Zulu music to a more global audience by combining it with pop and rock music. It still remains critically beloved to this day, but it was controversial on its release because Paul Simon had to break the cultural boycott of South Africa because of its policy of apartheid in order to record the album. In fact, when Nelson Mandela invited Simon to perform in post-apartheid South Africa five years later, there were threats of violence from more radical anti-apartheid groups who felt that Simon betrayed their cause. Still, Graceland is up there with Lion King and National Geographic for Gen X white guy's references to African culture and I would imagine that a reference to it in 2001 is one of the more subtle corny jokes this underwhelming episode has.

Outlulz

I remember the Los Angeles grocery strike that inspired act one of this episode. My family didn’t want to cross the picket line so we shopped primarily at Vons during it and it was the first time we ventured to Trader Joe’s. My mom is a fussy shopper when it comes to bagging and I learned from her how to unload my cart in my preferred order so the baggers don’t have to worry about it. Nowadays because of the pandemic baggers will not touch reusable bags but since you have to pay extra to get paper bags, I’m mostly bagging myself.

Bjorn

I was working as a cashier and bagger at a grocery store up until about a month ago. Grocery stores have one of the last strong unions, and the one I was part of in Seattle gave up it's right to strike as a bargaining tool lol. I'm still glad I was in one tho. Ian's story about a co worker throwing an item down and quitting was something I fantasized about everyday. Just a reminder that grocery store work is miserable

Nick Mould

This episode is one of the few that a long-time Simpsons staff member has openly admitted is rotten, that being Mike Reiss back in 2007.

Christmas Ape

Always good to hear stories from my fellow grocery store employees. I was lucky that my time as a bagger/courtesy clerk was at a unionized store, so it certainly wasn't as bad as it could have been. I know I watched this episode when it originally aired, but I had completely forgotten almost everything that happened in it aside from the diamond stuff at the end. I've been surprised how much of season 12 has stuck with me for twenty years, but this is one of the ones that didn't have much of an impact. Not so surprising after listening to you talk about it.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

It's not AS racist as Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, but boy does this episode sure remind me of that movie

Jeremy F

Actually I am one of those odd Angelique Kidjo and Simpsons fans -- in the early 90's my hippie aunt gave us a bunch of audio tapes of "world" music including her and Enya for example, and we used to listen to them a lot -- so when my brother and I watched this episode, we immediately recognized the song (which is a pretty good one). Although she is from Benin, she's pretty popular and has collaborated with such folk as U2.

Frank Grimes

you guys got a lot to talk about for talk to the audience this month...between the D+ short and now Smithers "officially" coming out with the new landmark episode next week...and the pretty neat 2 parter from last week/this week.

Andrew O.

Cargos are practical! No pant-shaming!

Tom Buck

The grocery strike talk brought back a lot of memories. It happened in November 2003 in Southern California and lasted for 5 months. I was 17 and got hired at our local Ralphs as a “scab” (except I didn’t know anything about the politics- I just knew they were paying $12/hr to bag groceries and minimum wage was $6.75). The weird part was that this particular Ralphs location opened literally days before the strike started, so most of the workers who were striking had never actually worked in the building. When the strike ended, the managers wanted to hire me “for real” but told me not to let anyone know I worked during the strike and to pretend I was new (again, I was 17 and just wanted a job- I wouldn’t cross a picket line now). But this meant I had to act like I didn’t know where everything was in a store where I had oddly enough spent more time working than the proper union employees. 🤷🏻‍♂️ As an adult I worked in public education for 11 years and absolutely loved having a union to help protect us, especially during the early pandemic.

Diamond Feit

so my only real memory of this episode was the very dark joke about a "bloodless coup" being "all smotherings" so I am shocked it did not pique anyone's attention during this recording otherwise, rewatching this episode was underwhelming, as the generic "Africa" jokes were not very strong