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We welcome back the fantastic artist Nina Matsumoto to help us chart out season 12's most ambitious episode! It's Simpsons meets Go and Run, Lola, Run in a complex adventure covering the family's difficult day. We've got severed thumbs, pedantic robots, fireworks exploding, and so much more. So listen now before we get started on the Blue Man Group!

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Christmas Ape

This episode really stood out to me back when it first aired, and I remember quite a few lines from it being quoted regularly. What's interesting to me is that it's this good while still feeling more like a season 12 episode than like an episode from an earlier season—maybe they were just trying harder here than they had been elsewhere?

Kat Heagberg

Also: Did anyone else immediately go buy a bagel guillotine after listening? You all may have saved my fingers/thumbs.

nina matsumoto

It's such a handy device and fun to use! Especially helpful when I'm pre-slicing a dozen bagels before putting them in the freezer for storage.

Anonymous

Great listen. Bob’s talk of his fingerless logic professor reminded me of my outdoor Ed and gym teacher from Junior high. Both of them lost all their digits from frostbite after getting stuck on a mountain-climb in the Canadian Rockies during a freak spring blizzard. They admitted afterwards post recovery that wearing fingerless mittens wasn’t the best idea but they were happy just to be alive.

Stephen C. Nedell

I read something recently about the inflammable vs flammable issue. As I understand it, both words come from Latin, but when it was first brought into English, the Latin prefix of "in" which means "to cause to" was added. In present day English however, "in" usually means negation. Later, a different translator also brought the Latin word into English but without the prefix. To be truly pedantic, "flammable" means it can catch fire if exposed to an outside force (like paper when exposed to a flame), while "infammable" means a substance is volatile and could catch fire on its own without an actual flame present. All of this is based on my memory of an article I read months ago that I am too lazy to bother looking up again, so I'll add the standard "citation needed" disclaimer. By the way, whenever I have to make test database entries at work, I'll use 123 Fake St. as the address and "Anita Bath" as the name.

Anonymous

Background on Rainier! The beer is named after the mountain/region in Washington state. In turn that mountain is named after Rear Admiral Peter Ranier because he was a friend of George Vancouver

Anonymous

Since you mentioned it, Totally Trans is one of my fave podcasts (they do media analysis from a trans perspective) and you should absolutely have Henry Giardina or one of the other hosts on. Get that double Henry energy going.

Anonymous

also- the majority of guys on jackass were hot which didn't hurt

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

While there's some competition (in my mind at least) from a couple of Schwartzwelder episodes, an argument can for sure be made that this is the best episode of the Scully era, excluding those run by other showrunners. It's just a genuinely well-crafted story, and has legitimately funny jokes, and on top of that, doesn't really break anything in terms of continuity or characterization (except maybe that Hibbert is the truly awful doctor of this era, but oh well). I remembered liking it as a kid, but I REALLY liked it upon revisiting it this time, and so far I've also checked out Run Lola Run since I hadn't before (it's also very good!). -- Nina was a fun guest as always, and I appreciated her calling Henry out on his nearly back to back moments of "smoking in media doesn't influence us" to "watching Sopranos sure makes me wanna drinking more liquor" lmao

John Harrison

I remember seeing this episode in high school, and having hope that the Simpsons still had something in them. After the slew of episodes that seemed to have a little more contempt for me each week, this one felt really fun to watch. This was the episode that finally 'explained' Legs' name for me, him being a mob surgeon fit perfectly in my mind.

bearwitness

Love this episode! "Linguo...IS...dead..." is one of my favorite Simpsons lines of all time. This might be the latest episode of the series I actually remember watching during it's original run.