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We've reached the end of season 2, which calls for returning favorite Stephen Sajdak, cohost of the great We Hate Movies podcast! He helps us with the 90210-related reasoning for when it aired, then we reflect on the wildest ep of the season as Bart gives blood, Burns sends a card, Homer gets fired, and somehow it all pays off with a big ugly head. Listen now to learn all the broadcast history fun!

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Rhys

I'm sure this will be a fabulous podcast. an extravagant podcast. A mad, unthinkable, utterly impossible podcast. A frabulous, grabulous, zip-zoop zabulous podcast.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I think the thing that was MOST shocking to me upon this revisit is that Homer actually knows that the warning sign won't have power if the core explodes. That's definitely TOO competent for him, but of course he wasn't the complete and utter idiot he would later be yet, even though this feels very much like golden age Simpsons (as you rightfully pointed out in the episode)

Kat Heagberg

Regarding children giving blood, I think weight might be one issue. I know you have to weigh at least 110 lbs, because I don't, and that's why I can't give blood. I've asked if it's one of those things, like putting your phone on airplane mode that doesn't really matter, and if I could just lie about it, and they said, no, it kind of does matter because the amount of blood volume lost from a typical donation is greater than I could tolerate compared to my overall mass. I have no idea what children weigh, but according to the very trusted source Livestrong.com, the average weight of a 10-year-old boy is around 70 lbs. I know Bart is supposed to be "chubby," but he's also quite short, so probably wouldn't weigh that much, so blood donation would at the very least be kind of risky for him.

Anonymous

One thing they got wrong-ish about blood types in this episode is kids usually have the same blood type as their mom. So Marge also should have had the same blood type as Bart.

Anonymous

Hi guys, overworked mailman here. Just want to reinforce being nice to us mail people. I've been a city carrier for over 6 years now. I've worked in a small town that's part of the Houston district. My post office has been understaffed since before covid even started. And not just my office, the entire Houston district, every postmaster is constantly asking every other office for help. The post officehave this problem that only got worse whencovid started in which it takes about 2 months (at least) just to get a new hire into orientation. There are a ton of oil plants and other high paying jobs in this area, so expecting someone to wait 2 months for a job that isn't even fully competitively priced for the area means that by that time, most people have already found a different job.. Then once they come in, they immediately get used by all the postmasters to fill in, and are immediately burnt out and either quit or get fired. Every time I hear a podcast talk about corporations that treat their employees badly, I hate the fact that even the post office falls among this criteria. Every carrier I know down here works on overtime, and I specifically haven't gotten my non Sunday off in over 2 years. I'm thankful for the sunday, but come on. Tldr: I know it sucks to use the post office right now, but thank you for being nice to us when we inevitably get something wrong. Also, extra fun note, most people don't know this. The post office gets no funding from taxes, although there is a bill going through the Senate right now I think? That one might help a little bit, but the post office is generally run by profit, even though internet basically killed profits for the last decade or two.

Anonymous

You can tell I'm overworked because I don't think I found a way to make any of that book pertain to the episode and almost anyway 😅

Joe Hodgson

I am a man rapidly approaching the age of 40 and I have no idea what my blood type is. It's not on our driver's license where I live, and every time I'd see this episode as a kid I'd turn to my mom and ask her and she always gave me the "I dunno." Maybe it's because I rarely had bloodwork as a kid? I know some of my friends would get a finger prick at their physical, but I never did. I've had blood drawn as an adult for a physical and what-not, but whenever I got my labs my blood type wasn't listed. Anyway, I've made it this far without knowing, maybe I should just let it remain a mystery? Has it been made official that you're doing Season 3 again now? If not, well it sure sounds like it's coming.

Byron Lagrone

Same question. Season 3 is my favorite and Homer at the Bat remains my all-time favorite episode (because I am a terrible person with bad taste), so if Talking Simpsons gets to continue with interspersion into season 3 I will be ecstatic at the news

Kat Heagberg

I didn't know mine until I had it typed at a health fair. As a sickly sort of child, I had to have my blood taken a lot and I was always mad that they wouldn't tell me my blood type. I'd ask and they were like "No, we don't type it for this." Aside from health fairs and emergencies, most people I know didn't find out their blood type until after they actually gave blood. It's kind of weird that it's not just a standard thing.

Joe Hodgson

I don't think you're a terrible person with bad taste, Byron, "Home at the Bat" is near the top of my all-time list. I sing "Talking Softball" to myself far too often and I loved the faux documentary they did on it a few years back.

Anonymous

This was such a funny episode, your commentaries had me cracking up so hard at work! I love hearing your funny impressions, so great

Amy B

One theory as to why the Simpsons still have that Olmec head: There are very strict rules around the sale of archaeological artifacts, and several dealers, galleries and museums have been caught buying or selling what are in fact stolen goods. And who knows where 'Plunderer' Pete got Xtapalapaquetl. With a nick name like that, I doubt it was legal. So maybe the family might've tried to sell it, only for Lisa to suggest that the authorities would confiscate it anyway and they'd be left with a massive fine/jail time. But Wiggam's so terrible at his job that maybe they could get away with it. Use Fat Tony as a fence even?

PurpleComet

A few days after watching the episode I watched an old episode of American Dad. In it Steve and Hayley start their own business making fake IDs in a van. Steve announces "I have an ID for Mike Rotch. Mike Rotch!". The camera then zooms out to show Bart Simpson laughing. They even got Nancy Cartwright's voice for the gag. What a weird coincidence. Here's a clip (FF to 1:08): https://youtu.be/S02bRUjrg-o?t=68