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Talking Simpsons - Simpsons Safari With Ian Jones-Quartey (Patreon)

Published:
2021-11-10 05:00:03
Imported:
2023-01

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It's a big Simpsons travel episode, and we're welcoming the awesome returning guest Ian Jones-Quartey, creator of OK KO and Executive Producer on Steven Universe. After a string of jokes about unionized labor, the family goes to Africa for a bunch of very generalized ideas of the continent of Africa. There are hippos, poachers, diamonds, and so much more in this week's podcast, so grab your mosquito nets!

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Anonymous

I remember the Los Angeles grocery strike that inspired act one of this episode. My family didn’t want to cross the picket line so we shopped primarily at Vons during it and it was the first time we ventured to Trader Joe’s. My mom is a fussy shopper when it comes to bagging and I learned from her how to unload my cart in my preferred order so the baggers don’t have to worry about it. Nowadays because of the pandemic baggers will not touch reusable bags but since you have to pay extra to get paper bags, I’m mostly bagging myself.

Bjorn

I was working as a cashier and bagger at a grocery store up until about a month ago. Grocery stores have one of the last strong unions, and the one I was part of in Seattle gave up it's right to strike as a bargaining tool lol. I'm still glad I was in one tho. Ian's story about a co worker throwing an item down and quitting was something I fantasized about everyday. Just a reminder that grocery store work is miserable

Anonymous

This episode is one of the few that a long-time Simpsons staff member has openly admitted is rotten, that being Mike Reiss back in 2007.

Christmas Ape

Always good to hear stories from my fellow grocery store employees. I was lucky that my time as a bagger/courtesy clerk was at a unionized store, so it certainly wasn't as bad as it could have been. I know I watched this episode when it originally aired, but I had completely forgotten almost everything that happened in it aside from the diamond stuff at the end. I've been surprised how much of season 12 has stuck with me for twenty years, but this is one of the ones that didn't have much of an impact. Not so surprising after listening to you talk about it.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

It's not AS racist as Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, but boy does this episode sure remind me of that movie

Anonymous

Actually I am one of those odd Angelique Kidjo and Simpsons fans -- in the early 90's my hippie aunt gave us a bunch of audio tapes of "world" music including her and Enya for example, and we used to listen to them a lot -- so when my brother and I watched this episode, we immediately recognized the song (which is a pretty good one). Although she is from Benin, she's pretty popular and has collaborated with such folk as U2.

Frank Grimes

you guys got a lot to talk about for talk to the audience this month...between the D+ short and now Smithers "officially" coming out with the new landmark episode next week...and the pretty neat 2 parter from last week/this week.

Andrew O.

Cargos are practical! No pant-shaming!

Tom Buck

The grocery strike talk brought back a lot of memories. It happened in November 2003 in Southern California and lasted for 5 months. I was 17 and got hired at our local Ralphs as a “scab” (except I didn’t know anything about the politics- I just knew they were paying $12/hr to bag groceries and minimum wage was $6.75). The weird part was that this particular Ralphs location opened literally days before the strike started, so most of the workers who were striking had never actually worked in the building. When the strike ended, the managers wanted to hire me “for real” but told me not to let anyone know I worked during the strike and to pretend I was new (again, I was 17 and just wanted a job- I wouldn’t cross a picket line now). But this meant I had to act like I didn’t know where everything was in a store where I had oddly enough spent more time working than the proper union employees. 🤷🏻‍♂️ As an adult I worked in public education for 11 years and absolutely loved having a union to help protect us, especially during the early pandemic.

Diamond Feit

so my only real memory of this episode was the very dark joke about a "bloodless coup" being "all smotherings" so I am shocked it did not pique anyone's attention during this recording otherwise, rewatching this episode was underwhelming, as the generic "Africa" jokes were not very strong