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For an ep all about cocktails, rock music, and comedy writing, we welcome back comedy performer/writer/musician/podcaster Tim Kalpakis from the band/podcast The Sloppy Boys! As we dig into the battle between Sam Simon and Matt Groening behind the scenes, we learn that the fight over the Flaming Homer/Moe has more to it than we thought. Plus, free pickled eggs for Aerosmith in this week's Hugh Jass podcast!

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T

Debra Wilson, Aries Spears, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele were also in mad tv.

Andrew Giachetti

They definitely reuse the spirit of that joke about the gay couple a little later on in the series, in a much better way. In fact you already covered it on the podcast. In days of wine and D'oh'ses when moe says the bar needs to go gay after Barney goes sober. We then pan to the gentleman at the bar exclaiming “you mean its not?! Wrong again gay guide to Springfield” which always got a little chuckle out of me. Also as a side note, you can easily light any rum based drink on fire if you use 151 and layer it on top.

Cossover

kent it probably a fake back

Brian Hortin

I’m not sure about Universal Hollywood, but in Orlando all of the Duff varieties are brewed by the Florida Beer Company for Universal.

Joseph Friedman

Love the Quarry House shoutout! Grew up within a square mile of it.

Joe Hodgson

I was a big Aerosmith fan as a kid so this episode always stood out. I had that VHS "Big Ones You Can Look At" which was just a collection of all of the music videos the band had done during their Geffen days with some behind the scenes stuff sprinkled in, including this episode. I remember my mom being shocked at how young "Moe" looked. You can also tell the pickled eggs must have been added in later as it wasn't part of that behind the scenes segment and sounds a little off. Instead they had some filler phrase, "Stife and Zookle," which I have no idea what that is. Maybe a nonsense word that could sound like a fake brand of liquor hence why it was tossed? Or they just hadn't figured out what would get the sober Aerosmith onstage. I am not much of a fan of the band any longer, for no particular reason other than I guess I just grew out of it, but I do know there has indeed been a lot of drama with drummer Joey Kramer of late. They tried to fire him not that long ago and there was a resulting lawsuit over it that I guess was successful since he's still technically in the band, only now not touring with them. Sounds like maybe there was a handshake agreement as part of the settlement that he wouldn't be fired, but he also wouldn't play with them any more. And it was Tom Hamilton, the bassist, that said "Where's Joey?" Guitarist Brad Whitford received the line of calling Moe onstage.

Andrew O.

I had a CPAP machine for sleep apnea. In all the appointments and testing leading up to it, nobody picked up on my broken septum or my enlarged tonsils. (Which ended up swelling up so bad when I had strep that I almost suffocated.) After surgery to deal with those two problems not only do I not need a CPAP, both my breathing and sense of smell has improved.

PittyParty

Thanks a lot for this episode. First, y'all reminded me that Ten Year Old Tom exists; Life and Times of Tim is one of my all time favorite shows, hilarious writing and voice acting if you can get past the look. Hope Tom lives up to my Tim-level expectations. Also, thanks for helping me discover another joke in this episode despite having seen it dozens of times. Moe charging a nickel for the love tester means he needs it to perform 200,000 'tests' to break even. By my rough math that's like 550 people per day for a year.

littleterr0r

Wait, Henry, so what did the Love Tester tell you?

Aaron Alcott

For what it's worth, your politics are one of the many reasons I stay and even upped my monthly rate

twistedmentat

I always found it odd that no one has ever commented that during the wax drdripping game at the sleepover both items look more like paint brushes than a mop and dustpan, a detail and broad brush to be specific. I expected to hear the commentary mention that they were missing the obvious implications that Lisa's friends future husband was going to be an artist, or maybe a successful minature painting youtube channel? But the fact this was never mentioned made me think I was seeing something that wasn't there.

Norman Benford

Ah, Flaming Moes. I brought everything I needed to make Flaming Moes to a Labor Day party in the mid 90s. My recipe was vodka, Squirt, grape soda, Everclear to light, and of course, delicious purpley Dimetapp cough syrup. Unfortunately, they did not light. Unfortunately, nobody liked them but me. Fortunately, I was happy to drink them all day. Unfortunately the girl I had invited to the party didn't arrive until she got out of work and I had already passed out in a bed upstairs a grape-smelling mess. She never accepted any subsequent party or date invitations. Her loss. Saved me 500,000 bananas.

Erin Hardy

I live in Giant Eagle territory and they just started carrying Cock N Bull's ginger beer again so I am in heaven.

Oscar Cardoza

Homer was making that lean! DJ Screw who????

Robert Flaxman

The episode guide book “The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family” from 1997 lists Catherine O’Hara as the voice of Collette. I’m not sure when they rolled that credit back - maybe a contractual thing that she had to be credited at first even though they had cut the voice? I did always think it was an oddly sedate part for her when I was younger and knew her primarily as the Home Alone mom, which is certainly explained by it not actually being her!

Jeremy Rutz

@Henry - You mentioned you wanted to grab a slice of pizza from the place in Spiderman 2. Well, I was there on that day of shooting! I was able to capture the day in pictures and uploaded them to imgur: https://imgur.com/a/1Vtkjv8 It was Joe's Pizza on Bleeker and Carmine. Cool to see Ben from Evil in that scene as well!

kid presentable

My uncle (who i am also named for weirdly) was the sound guy for the Coconut Teaszer in the 80's and 90's where he became semi-close with Slash from Guns N' Roses and found a good friend in Sabbath guitarist Zakk Wilde (his kid is named Zakk), he was there as the metal/glam trend was fading and Punk was starting to take over. so first it was a BBQ restaurant that expanded into live music, and then renamed after the most famous drink at the bar, the Coconut Teaszer. (my guess is the Simpsons writers had been to there to drink/eat perhaps weren't there to see music at the venue) He was (I Believe) gone at the time Heidi Fleiss started infamously using the club, but he told us a story about an argument he got in with a very intoxicated Courtney Love over sound levels during an early Hole performance, so I'd have to ask him for better dates as to when he actually left. It died out due to not pivoting like a lot of the other clubs did in the 2000s, and became a series of restaurants as well, as well as predictably a shooting location for entourage. He did get to see a very early weezer performance as well which I was always jealous of (he didn't care he's an old school metalhead), but I always thought he was my coolest uncle due to this and the uncle magic of giving me Slashes guitar pic and showing me the home recording of Casey Kasem saying "Fuck" when I was like six.

Stephen C. Nedell

One of my former gigs was as a reference and local history public librarian which entailed a lot of genealogy research for patrons. With full access to Ancestry.com, of course I'm going to eventually look up in US Census data to see if any of Bart's prank names were actually real people. The sole hits I found were for one Anita Bath in the 1910 Census if I remember correctly and for Hugh Jass, only in a 1955 high school year book. I'm thinking it must've been a joke because he was only listed in the group picture of the boys' volleyball team and not anywhere else in the yearbook. I sure hope the yearbook editor got fired for that blunder ;-)

mavrick

I submit that this is the best episode of The Simpsons. One could write an entire dissertation on it.

To Boldly Joe... Moore

Hi, guys. Love the podcast. ^_^ I'm listening to The Rescuers Down Under episode and Henry mentioned the movie Uncle Buck, but that he didn't remember much about it (except for the giant pancakes). There's a scene in the movie where Buck uses an electric screwdriver to open a door and I think that's what's being referenced when Lisa and her friends use one while chasing Bart into his room. https://youtu.be/nggWTNLFifA Well, that's what it reminds me of, anyway. Thanks again for all the great work you do. ^_^