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Talking Simpsons - Old Money With Libby Watson (Patreon)

Published:
2021-11-17 05:00:00
Imported:
2023-01

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This week we're joined for the first time by awesome journalist Libby Watson from the fantastic Sick Note newsletter, and we're diving into an ep all about elder care. As Abe gets a date with an angel, she's gone far too soon, which he primarily blames Homer for. But then he forgives him pretty easily so the third act can all be about wanting to help people with money. All that plus the show's first trip to a casino in this week's sentimental podcast!

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Andrew Bouvier

My grandpa ("pop", my dad's father) also smelled like pipe tobacco. He smoked "Velvet" brand in a maroon pouch out of a corncob pipe, in his right hand, which was a hook. Like Abe, he was a WWII vet, a B-17 pilot who was shot down over Germany and was a POW for the last year of the war...but that's not how he lost his hand! He was the fire chief of our small town, and was supervising the July 4th fireworks in the 70's, and went to go douse a "dud" firework with water and sand but it was not a dud, and blew up right before he was able to douse it. Took his hand, and for approx. 20 years until he passed he had a hook that could open and close and was controlled by a cable that ran up to his shoulder.

Alistair Shand

I still have my teenage mutant “hero” turtles 🐢 mug

Anonymous

Really only talked about in the first few minutes but nunchucks are vastly overrated as martial art weapons. They’re only really good for fancy moves, for actually hitting people they suck. Wow a stick on a rope. Just use a stick! Please subscribe to my anti-nunchuck newsletter for more facts.

withasilentG

The worst thing about my grandpa moving into a retirement home is finding out how much "D" he's slinging and how many girlfriends he has outlived or have been moved to memory wards.

To Boldy Joe... Moore
>>71981761

It's funny how little nostalgia I have for the "Ninja" Turtles cartoon theme compared to the almost identical "Hero" Turtles version. ^_^

To Boldy Joe... Moore

Thanks for the great podcast, guys. I get the criticism of the ending but, given that a nice old lady died, I don't mind the more sincere tone. Having written themselves into that corner, I just don't see how else you resolve things without it coming across as overly cruel. Maybe that's why I have a soft spot for early Simpsons where the writers are more experimental. Thanks again.

nina matsumoto
>>71981761

They say I'm cuttin' it close so in the UK I'm published as "Hero Matsumoto"

Alex Forsyth

The local discount lion safari here is called African Lion Safari. My parents took us every year. I got bored of it to be honest. I'd have rather gone to an amusement park like Canada's Wonderland. Seeing the monkeys destroy expensive cars was fun though.

Joe Hodgson

This is the start of what was quite the snooze-fest for all of us Bart-maniacs in 1991. I think this episode is genuinely mediocre, while Lisa's Substitute is quite good, but was definitely not a favorite of 7 year old me back in 91. It's a pretty long wait until Three Men and a Comic Book. I just see it as evidence that the show really wanted to appeal to both adults and kids, and then would eventually stray more towards their true audience though without ever truly alienating the adult viewers of the day.

Micah

An interesting aspect of the Jazz Singer (original) is the reason its "blackface" is because at the time audiences wouldn't accept a jewish performer being openly Jewish. But they would accept a performer in blackface playing music to them. The irony is that its one unaccepted minority pretending to be white by pretending to be an (awful stereotype of) another unaccepted minority. And that is not lost on the creators of the original film even if blackface was well, more accepted in general. Its an interesting story about identity etc. The problem is of course that the reprehensibleness of blackface overshadows anything else about the movie etc. Which also makes a 1980 remake bizare as hell

Anonymous

The Simpsons was always on TV ever since I was born so I don’t really know which was the first I saw (although bye bye nerdie did air on my birthday)… The show left the BBC networks before I was really conscious so I only ever caught it on channel 4 and Sky One. Anyway the interesting part of this is that whilst the episodes don’t get cut down for syndication here, channel 4 do broadcast shortened and censored versions of the episodes. They used to air the censored ones before watershed and the original cuts later at night, but once they accidentally aired an uncensored episode earlier (I don’t know which one), and received complaints. As such, they locked away the original cuts and don’t broadcast them at all anymore. I never noticed these at the time but occasionally articles will be written about how THIS JOKE WAS CUT WHAAA?! Oh, and my first encounter with the us syndication edits also was through internet vhs rips too! Small world.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

First and foremost I wanna say that I loved hearing Libby on this episode and she was a wonderful and funny presence! -- In terms of the episode itself, this one really does NOT hold up as well as most of season 2 does. Y'all are absolutely right that Abe has already VERY recently been painted as an asshole who doesn't really deserve our sympathy, he's WAY too cognizant and aware for the senile old croon we know, and the ending is as saccharine as James L. Brooks can get, but without feeling somewhat earned as it does elsewhere. Lady Bouvier's Lover is a much better Abe-in-love episode.