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Talking Simpsons - The Otto Show With Found Footage Fest (Patreon)

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2023-04-19 04:00:04
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Nobody rocks like Springfield in an extra-long ep with special guests Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher of Found Footage Festival and VCR Party Live! (Check out the new documentary about them, Chop & Steele!) We go over the real history of fake band Spinal Tap, then follow the rollicking tale of Bart learning to play guitar and Otto learning to drive--neither of which actually happens. Learn that and tons of great tangents in this week's rockin' podcast!

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Ennui On Me

Kent Brockman's reference to "riots at the premiere of Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'" is most likely referring to the riot at the premiere of the Igor Stravinsky ballet "The Rite of Spring" in 1913. The popular narrative is that the avant-garde style of the composition was so shocking that people in the audience exploded in rage at it, but this has likely been exaggerated by history. It's a line that always confuses me because it's such a specific thing to get wrong, and I have to assume that Kent naming the wrong classical piece here is just a joke that doesn't really land.

Camille Walters

This was my favourite early episode to rewatch as a kid. Sad that they never really did much with Otto but he's a bit of a one note character so not surprising.

Frank Grimes

It's interesting how as kids pre internet we were able to find out things. I don't even remember how I even heard about it, but the tootsie pop story about wrappers and getting a free bag, I heard that rumor as well. I could never muster enough wrappers with the native American to try and redeem it but hearing about it brings back memories lol

Sean Riley

great episode, great guests. i will mention another Better Call Saul connection in the guy they talked about being a yoyo master, Mark Proksch, is a very funny recurring character as an oblivious nerd who hires mike to help him Do Crimes

Kat Heagberg

The discussion about Otto being a dated character made me realize that I have a lot of friends (including my husband) who were born around 1989 and have very Otto-like parents who are only like 20 years older than they are. It definitely seems odd now to see all of that (what I perceive as) “dad energy” attached to a character who’s been a young adult for almost 35 years, but also Otto being canonically on the old end of young adult at 29 doesn’t seem that off. Related: The other day my friend and I were looking up a list of the best movies to watch on 4/20, and the top hit was from Parade magazine.

Blake R.

I was also a victim of the 'shooting star Tootsie Pop wrapper' myth. Though the version that was passed down to me was 'take it in and get a free Tootsie Pop' which lead the similar question of 'take it into WHERE?'. I never found out as ultimately the risk/reward of a single free sucker didn't appeal to me and i'd just toss the wrappers or offer them to a friend as a show of childhood philanthropy.

Bradley Barger

Having Otto's last name as Mann makes his full name Ottoman. This might be an extra layer to that joke.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

All the talk of seeing R-Rated movies as a kid inspired me to post about what that was like growing up later than everyone on the episode (I was born in '96). I'm the youngest of 4 kids so my parents had already done the content rodeo of figuring out what may or may not be appropriate a lot already, and my dad even played video games fairly often in the NES through PS2 eras, so there wasn't really a lot of fear mongering or huge concern on stuff. Generally, they knew that some violence/cussing wouldn't turn me into a monster, and often for some stuff like when the Matrix sequels were coming out or a GTA game, they knew enough to say the Matrix was probably fine for me, but GTA not so much, and my older siblings would also be like "yeah, this Punisher game has the word 'fuck' about a dozen times in the opening cutscene" so the line might be drawn there until I was a little older. -- That being said, the R rating is pretty damn uncommon in Canada, as our film ratings board is more lenient and a little less puritanical - typically a movie that is rated R in the States would be 14a (14 or older get in, or you need an adult) or MAYBE 18a (if you're under 17, you NEED an adult as well). For instance, I did see Tropic Thunder in theatres as a 12 year old (14A) and likewise Your Highness (shit movie, but one of the few 18As I can remember, because Danny McBride wears a centaur penis around his neck for a lot of the film, and there's a big orgy scene) without issue because I went with my older brother. It felt a LITTLE strange for me when Tropic Thunder started with the "Alpa Chino's Booty Sweat" faux ad, buuuuuuut people in middle school (myself included) were already swearing like sailors at that point, and I *had* discovered (or been introduced to?) internet pornography by then, so it wasn't anything new to me necessarily. I think these lower ratings generally make sense for the most part since seeing a bare boob isn't going to somehow ruin your life, and I'm glad my parents understood what I still think is a pretty good threshold for content, where I could watch T2 around the time I was 10 or so, but really didn't touch GTA at all until I was probably 16.

Bradford A Barker

I remember seeing a video somewhere where Jamie Lee Curtis reveals her Street Fighter series main is Cammy. I liked the guitar talk. Barre chords are annoying, so maybe, if you want to pick it up again, just play along with the power chord chugs of Blue Album Weezer or whatever. You can also remove the bottom two or three strings from your chord voicings. (Also Weezer, think the verse part to "Island in the Sun.") Rock on 😎

Jonathon

Loved the R rated movie talk. My parents were pretty strict about what movies I saw but I remember I went over to a friend's house and their dad had us watch The Shining when were in 7th grade, I think. It was so strange, too, because his parents were considerably more strict than mine were in most things. And on seeing uncomfortable movie scenes with your parents, I saw Borat with my mom and her cousin in the theater and that was really awkward. I was in my 20s, which not sure if that made it better or worse.

Jon Hioki

I'm with you Henry, I've always heard the landlord say "Psycho Magazines."

Robert Bills

If I may umm actually, it wasn’t a Whitesnake tribute band at Otto’s wedding, it was a Poison tribute band, Cyanide.

Thoren Murphy

My Dad brought me to a ton of R-rated movies when I was a kid. Born in 1989, I have vivid memories of my Dad taking me to see: Starship Troopers (where I covered my face in embarrassment during the shower scene), Hollow Man, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, and even Freddy Got Fingered. The man had taste.

Gayest Episode Ever

So unless I am mistaken, the entity most associated with the lyrics to Spanish Flea that Homer sings is The Doodlerown Pipers, which sound made up but are real. And in season eight, they get namedchecked as a band Homer likes. Weird circularity of pop culture reference here.

Sasha Mikhail

I saw Ron Gallo last week at a like 100 person capacity venue and someone yelled Free Bird at the show. The band had people point out who it was and then lightly joked at his expense, they handled it really well without being mean at all

Joe Hodgson

As a big Donald Duck fan, I've been waiting for this episode to see if you noted the similarity between Otto's song and the Quack Pack theme. It's such a generic rock song that I'm not surprised Martin would reuse it, but I was always a little surprised he kept the opening words almost the same, especially with how often Season 3 of The Simpsons was featured in syndication packages during that era. It mattered little though as Quack Pack is not very good and rightly forgotten as one of the last gasps of the Disney Afternoon. As much as I love me some Donald, I can safely say you don't need to dedicate a What A Cartoon podcast to an episode of Quack Pack. And I can totally relate to the brainless cartoon watching discussion from childhood. I'm always hunting down Christmas episodes of old cartoons and it's almost shocking how little specifics I remember of some of the shows that journey leads me to. I can list off a bunch of names from The Smurfs and I know I watched that cartoon all of the time, but aside from a Christmas episode I've revisited in recent years, I could not describe one plot from that show to save my life. All of those hours of images being broadcast into my brain with almost no retention. It's like we all collectively got black-out drunk on TV as children.

Rhomega

As a Bill & Ted fan, I wanted to say that Ted's dad is a police officer, as you can see when they break out the historical dudes in the climax. He is friends with Colonel Oates, who runs the Alaskan military school.

Lockerus

Vancouver is pretty prolific for riots, as far as Canadian cities go. The G&R one is referenced in the ep, and there is also the one from 2011 where the Canucks lost the Stanley Cup final to the Bruins. Hockey arenas and senseless violence, a tragic combo.

Eric Schuman

this episode has so many things relevant to my interests and industry, i'll try to keep this focused! first, i LOVE having guests read liners for my radio show. they're like little autographs. i usually joke that it's the part of a station visit that musicians look forward to the most. everyone thinks they're the first to read the script literally as "hi, this is BLANK from BLANK..." the only good encore i ever witnessed was when the band EELS played at the concert venue that shares a building with the radio station where i work. after a full set and a one- or two-song encore, they leave the stage and the house lights/music come up. the show was pretty clearly over. i go to grab my jacket from the office and as i'm about to leave, i can clearly hear live music being performed again! the entire band and the two openers (including future 'america's got talent' star puddles pity party) all came back onstage to play for the few stragglers who stuck around for 15+ minutes. quite a surprise.

is marcy still burning

During the talk on the "nobody rocks as hard as Springfield" joke one of you off handedly jokes you should get guests to do something like that for the podcast and something occurred to me, during the lasertime days didn't you use to play a clip of Hank Azaria being surprised to hear that a Simpsons podcast exists?

Nick Grayson

The trick to the F chord is using your thumb for the E string, Bob

John Harrison

Really great episode and fantastic guests. More midwesterners please. I am still a bit amazed about the ‘dumpster’ revelation. I had no notion it was a brand, I love it when that happens, like how Hotchkiss (the old paper fastener manufacturer) is still the word for stapler in Japan and Korea (though less in Korea due to decolonization efforts)