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Talking Simpsons - Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington (Patreon)

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2024-02-14 05:00:04
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We are nearing the end of John Swartzwelder's time writing for the show, and he's turned in a quality script as the show gets political again in 2003. Krusty is a celebrity running for public office (can you believe it) and has the support of The Simpsons and Republicans. But is it possible to make a difference without Walter Mondale's help? We explain that, references to Joe Millionaire, Ronald Reagan, and more in this week's podcast!

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Andrew Giachetti

What a coincidence, an episode I love and a reference to a movie I’ve seen hundreds of times in one episode. First off, bringing down the house is a very underrated bad movie, and Eugene levy’s performance is very funny. My fiancé and I constantly say “tell her she’s got me all mixed up in the game” to each other. As for the episode itself, Homers drunken outburst has given me two of my most used Simpsons quotes ever, as a frequent complainer of the government. “You call this a bicameral legislature (spit on ground)!” And “(drunkenly) I don’t wanna fight no unions” are absolutely banger jokes and feel very Swartzwelder. I definitely think this one of the best middle ish era Simpson episodes.

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2026-09-07 10:00 Henry mentioned David Silverman being back because they're starting to ramp up for the movie. Something I'd love to hear you guys discuss in depth maybe on a Talk to the Audience is at what point the Simpsons transitioned from being a sitcom with an uncertain future, where the writers room always thinks it must be the last season, to a "legacy show" or a cultural institution that made a movie inevitable and its cancelation seemingly unthinkable for decades at a time.
2024-02-14 17:41

Joe Hodgson

If I had seen this episode when it first aired it would have felt eerie. At that time, the Manchester, NH airport was expanding and adding new runways which meant way more air traffic over my childhood home. I was in college at the time so I only experienced it during the times I was home, but it would be so bad sometimes that when a plane was flying over you could see the next one on the horizon coming towards you. I think there was some program where you could actually get soundproof windows installed on your house subsidized by the state, but I don't know anyone who actually got them. Airplanes still fly over my parents' house, and often quite low, but it's nothing like it was 20 years ago. On the plus side, that airport is now pretty great if you can get a direct flight out of it. I will gladly pay more money to fly out of it than I would Boston.

Danny Duplex

Great episode guys. I was only two years old when this episode aired, so I always enjoy you guys recapping Bush era politics. Re: republican outreach to Hispanic/Latino people, I know there are some tensions between some populations in the U.S and new immigrants. Many are actually Indigenous people from central America, and there is some inter-ethnic racism and xenophobia between communities. For instance, in New Mexico some people who consider themselves Spanish-decended hold celebrations where they dress up as conquistadors and they defend statues of these figures. This has put some hispanic community leaders on the opposite side of these debates with other local Latino and Indigenous groups. Also, re: jokes about the social credit system in China, it's actually funny that it doesn't really exist, and clickbait has made people think its real. If you look up articles about it by even critical China Scholars, often times these "social credit" systems run by either private tech companies or provincial governments track companies and not people through these systems. This is partly because the mass privatization and marketization of the Chinese economy in the past few decades has caused corruption scandals. "Social credit" doesn't really refer to everyday citizens in China and that concept is different from the real censorship that goes on in the PRC.

Bradford A Barker

I guess it's timely because of the recently successful Rally to Restore Jon Stewart to the Daily Show, but he had my favorite "intrusive crawler" bit, from maybe 2003. The crawler was accompanied by an O'Reilly Factor style side panel graphic, and then another guy in the frame reading other news stories, in frame while Jon is ostensibly talking, too.

Rob MacBride

Sorry to be that guy explaining a joke, but I don't think 'I will find you' is actually a reference to any external media; it's just a Homer Simpson gag- the two most important things to him (the Television & Refrigerator) are rattled out of the house and homer dramatically vows to rescue them in the same way a normal person might react if you replace these appliances with loved ones. ALSO Henry talking about how politicians attempting to relate to the 'common man' is absurd because they're often from money and have not / will not live a day of their lives in the real world; 💯this, its how I've come to view everyone and anyone in a position of power and is so so so important to remember at all times, especially election time when politicians are focussed on attempting to tell you what they think you want to hear.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

This episode is pretty solid (especially for season 14) and very watchable, but I couldn't help but think about Mr Lisa Goes to Washington every step of the way, and how ultimately it's still fairly toothless in terms of like specific governmental criticisms outside of politicians being out of touch and the stupid ways in which bills are passed or fail to pass. Don't get me wrong, like Bob & Henry, I am very glad we don't have constant awful liberal bullshit jokes about Bush littering the era the way they did with Trump, but it still feels very weird to revisit when thinking about the context of the era. -- I dislike a lot of the videos and essays on why Simpsons got bad or where/when it got bad, since they usually boil it down to one simple reason/episode and usually the episode is still good (Principal and the Pauper, Homer's Enemy, etc.) and ignore the fact that animators left for other projects and budgets get cut. BUT, I do think that the Simpsons just culturally fit the best with the culture and politics of the 90s, and something about them still existing and having to adapt after 'the end of history' to the shitty climate of the 2000s didn't help matters and it's just just a truth that some media fails to adapt and maybe should've stopped with the changes of history (much like how the X-Files just doesn't make sense the way it was after 9/11). This isn't to say I hate all Simpsons episodes after 1999 or wish ill of the people who wanted to still have jobs working on it, but I have to wonder if it ever really stood a chance of being as relevant and poignant as it once was. Maybe with some much fresher blood than the return of Al Jean and being dominated by the same primary writers and producers for the last 20+ years it would fare better, but here we are.

Jim MacPherson

She’s a very silly character and she gets overused a lot in this middle era, but I am incapable of disliking the modern incarnation of Miss Springfield. Hats off to the 300-year-old writers and their desire to write jokes for a 1940’s style daffy dame archetype.

Jonathon

As someone from Stanislaus County, a notoriously conservative county controlled by obscenely wealthy agricultural interests, I had to laugh that a Simpsons joke would mention Modesto. And specifically that anyone there would care if their congressperson misused privileges or funds in any way. They absolutely do not.

Thad Komorowski

The summer after this aired, I quoted French Krusty so much I was threatened with being grounded.

Mike Mariano

To offer some unsolicited, unrealistic advice, what might entice Alf to make an appearance on Talking Simpsons would be to invite Paul Fusco to SF Sketchfest and interview Alf onstage. You can talk about Alf references on the Simpsons, like Alf pogs, the Springfield Files lineup, etc., all while Fusco is crouching underneath the table.

Elliot

I did my undergraduate thesis on Mondale as vice president, a role which he actually completely redefined into the close advisory role it is today, so the political operative stuff does track to an extent. It's funny because to a certain extent he made the white house and executive function far more efficiently, but also sort of laid the ground for Cheney being this overly powerful puppeteering figure in the Bush white house.

rubber cat

I feel like I saw the commercial for <i>Bringing Down the House</i> a hundred times and the "What's a rack? / IT'S A COUNTRY" moment is forever implanted in my brain. Never saw the actual movie.

Daran

I can’t help but bring up “where’s Springfield?” discourse but I like how Krusty’s election is for “Springfield’s 24th district”. I know it’s the writers just short-handing but I like the idea of Springfield’s state simply being named Springfield. It neatly explains away stuff like Springfield State Prison, character’s driver’s licenses and license plates away too. I always thought David Silverman’s coinage of “North Takoma” was fun too, but I digress. Also, even if 24 was all the congresspeople their state had, they’d be the 5th largest state by population at the time.

Miles Galaska

Speaking of how old politicians have become, it blew mind mind to realise that Bill Frist is younger than all of his successors as Senate Majority Leader, a position he last held in 2007

Ben

Catching up on episodes this month after long audiobooks and I’m sure that the final crawl joke was “right wing of chicken healthier”