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#236 - The People vs. Mr. Burns (Patreon)

Published:
2021-05-21 15:02:21
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2024-06

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THE SIMPSONS taught a generation to be skeptical of authority. And then, at some point, it stopped. We revisit one of the greatest television show with two of its greatest episodes - "Marge vs. the Monorail" and "Sideshow Bob Roberts" - before venturing into the Season 26 episode "The Musk Who Fell to Earth" with guest star (...sigh...) Elon Musk. PLUS: Netflix's Dirty Money, the shifting discourse on Israel-Palestine, and an airtight theory about what Kramer would be doing today.

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Maouriceltic

I cite this as the worst Simpsons episode

Ty Underwood

I am doing my first full Simp Watch myself, I like your analysis of the Sideshow Bob episode, but I think the monorail one is weirdly political too in a very Matt Groening "let's show nuclear cooling towards releasing fossil fuel pollution" sort of way. Lisa's line about a centralized population not being a good candidate for mass transit always confused me becuase that is the exact use case for mass transit, and 'fixing main street' is far from politically neutral due to how the rise of suburbs made it impossible for cities to pay for road repair. Maybe I'm overthinking it but it intersects with a lot of urbanism justice issues.

Ty Underwood
>>60440451

Of course, a rusty World's Fair monorail clearly based on the one we have here in Seattle isn't what Springfield needs, but it gets conflated with transit as a concept.