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Talking Simpsons - Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner? With Mike Carlson (Patreon)

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2020-06-17 04:00:00
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2023-01

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As we get ready to review a review of food, we're again joined by Podcast: The Ride's Mike Carlson! He helps us suss out how Homer could ever be hired as a professional writer, the battle of Ann Landers versus Dear Abby, the power of eclairs, and the fun of negative reviews! All that and J. Jonah Jameson references in this week's tasty podcast!

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mavrick

Ed Asner guest stared in this episode - Ed costared with Gaven Macleod on The Mary Tyler Moore show. Gaven costared with Bob Mackie (guest star actually) on Love Boat. Bob Mackie is the host of this show. LIFE IS A CIRCLE!

mavrick
>>38806128

I know I know, different spelling. But you have to give me credit for the connection

Anonymous

I first came across Ed Asner in KOTOR, of all places

Alex Irish

For what it’s worth, this might be my favorite episode of season 11

Harry Thornton
>>38817747

He was in that??? For me I knew him first from, of course, the Pixar film Up as Carl Fredricksen.

Harry Thornton

Funny you guys mention the Simpsons and Marvel, because one of their most recent episodes was entirely devoted to an MCU parody with Bart trying to spoil said fictional film, even getting the Russo brothers in as guest stars.

Brian Hortin

For me Beverly Hillbillies was the one show out of the Henning-verse that I didn’t really get into. I watched a lot of Petticoat Junction on Nick at Nite and TV Land mainly because it had a lot of crossover with Green Acres. The general store and associated characters showed up on both and romances between Eb from Green Acres and one of the daughters on Petticoat Junction and between the Douglas dog (Green Acres) and the Bradley dog (Petticoat Junction) were the main crossovers. The one piece of trivia that I always found interesting about Petticoat Junction is that only one of the 3 daughters was never recast during the run of the series. Betty Jo was always played by Linda Henning who also happened to be the daughter of the show’s creator Paul Henning. Paul Henning produced all 3 of the interconnected rural CBS shows.

Anonymous
>>38817747

Yeah! He was Vrook, one of the Jedi masters on Dantooine

Anonymous

Yall do get into the politics too much

Anonymous

I figure this episode is as good as any to share my car-buying experience when my wife and I went to purchase our first ever new car. When we walked onto the lot, we were greeted by a slender, balding salesman wearing razor-type sunglasses with a cord around the back of his neck. He introduced himself, I shit you not, as Gil Champagne. After test-driving the car we talked more with Gil, him being slightly evasive and lobbing some really sweaty sales tactics, we returned home in the early afternoon. I had just gotten done mowing the lawn after smoking some weed and was informed we were going back to the Subaru dealership; my wife had been on the phone with Gil and got a price she wanted, but Gil would only honor the price if we came in that same day. Next thing I know I'm in the financier's office, half-baked mind you, with Gil pacing outside while we get the purchase agreements in order. As we walk out to our new 2014 Crosstrek (immediately christened Robin Sparkles due to the shininess), Gil Champagne tells us that the dealership will be sending us a survey, with a scale of 1-10, in the next few days. He then said "and remember, anything under a 9 is considered a failing grade". It took all of my might to not burst out laughing or even to start tugging at my shirt collar and start a writhing Gil impression. We gave Gil an 8.

SilkiePJ

Just gotta say, Mike Carlson was really the perfect guest to have this episode. All of his tidbits about Chicago, the eateries at theme parks, and his own Simpsons knowledge really felt at home with Bob and Henry. Just a stellar job. This episode was always funny but I always saw it as part of the downslide what with the swearing joke and genuinely how the premise is handled. Primarily because Homer does become a mean critic like the other critics want then the restaurateurs try to kill him, but everyone from the previous acts then want to beat him up. It encompasses a lot of the problems with the random endings that start in this season. I actually started to think who was probably the most popular food critic around this time, but the only one of note I can think of is Jonathan Gold. He recently passed but was very loved in the CA scene especially for highlighting ethnic restaurants. Probably more people know about Anton Ego from Ratatouille as a film critic but the ending of that movie is more about how passion drives us than a reaction against criticism. A worse over the top powerful critic would be in a movie like Birdman

Micah

I completely forgot about "Chewy" and it hit me incredibly hard as well. Some of it has to just be its so unexpected for The Simpsons. That and the timing with Dan's delivery.

Stephen C. Nedell

By the way, Ed Asner (as Jabba) and Yardley Smith (as torture robot EV-9D9) appeared in NPR's radio adaptation of Return of the Jedi. Both of their voices were so heavily distorted you would never have been able to tell that it was them.

Burt Stanton

All the talk of the online games press in this episode coincided nicely with the online discussion surround The Last of Us Part 2. Gaming is probably my favorite form of entertainment and it always bums me out how much negativity seems to exist in the space. It's good that you guys got out and can share some behind the scenes B.S. I like visiting sites that cover games but a lot of the people doing reviews or hosting shows come off as very disingenuous.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

As a younger Simpsons viewer, I still watched a lot of say seasons 10-12/13 in syndication and thus thought I'd have a longer shelf life of still loving the episodes as we go on, but season 11 so far has really aged poorer than I remembered it being. This episode isn't particularly bad and it's still pretty enjoyable for the most part, but a lot of the jokes just didn't land with me like at all. That being said, the podcast is still as fun as it ever has been so I know going through the very dark days to come will be fine thanks to the commentary & guests. Plus, there are still episodes coming up in this very season that in my memory I liked A LOT so I'm hoping those aren't too much of a letdown for me to revisit. -- I'm glad Henry brought up Ed Asner being J Jonah Jameson in the 90s Spider-Man TAS because that really informed how I heard the character in my head as a young child reading his first Spider-Man comics pre-Sam Raimi's movie. Even now Ed Asner still feels like the perfect JJJ to me, but I do LOVE JK Simmons in the role and he has kind of taken over it in my brain for when I read Spidey books, which I guess goes to show how spot on his casting was, and I'm so glad he showed up as a surprise in Far From Home.