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This week's pod is a clip show, and a famous one at that, so we didn't want to subject a guest to it. Instead, we go deep into the making of this Forrest Gump meets Dean Martin Roast parody, including the behind-the-scenes contract deals that made it possible. Plus we explain references to Austin Powers, Evening Shade, the People's Choice Awards, and so much more! We'll never stop the Simpsons, have no fears, we've got podcasts for years!

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Burt Stanton

I'm a bit disappointed we never got to see Cavil play an enjoyable Superman

Nathanial Miller

I was like 'oooo, new talking simpsons!' [Reads episode description] "eeuuuggggh"..... I think this was the one when i was kid that made me start to drift from watching every episode, a clip show!!? In the 21st century????? I was pissed lol.

Tyler the Destroyer

I will gladly volunteer as your guest for any clip show that may happen in the future lol

Alex Irish

This marks my first and only time seeing a Simpsons clip show live when it was newly aired. Within the first few minutes, I didn’t realize that it was a clip show UNTIL the clip from The Way We Was. I hadn’t yet seen Homer the Heretic and I forgot about the flashback scene in Kidney Trouble, so I didn’t know where the story was going. I also didn’t see Forest Gump until months afterward, despite it being the biggest movie of its year, so Homer’s costume and affectation was sort of lost on me. I loved it at the time, but I guess we’re supposed to hate it now because of its maudlin nature and baby boomer self-love?

Blake R.

very funny to hear the Black Adam/Superman discussion at this time when in such a quick turnaround the new DC leadership completely nixed both franchises. Have enjoyed seeing The Rock get humbled for one of the rare times in his life.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

It's funny how some of the few NEW jokes that landed with me at all in this episode are about people doing tired old jokes, like Moe as Austin Powers, considering this episode is 75% rehash. I always hated when it was a clipshow episode in syndication (unless it was the 138th Spectacular) and I think even as a kid, seeing a Forrest Gump parody in 2002 made me groan. I'm not going to say it's a TERRIBLE film because objectively Robert Zemeckis knows how to craft a film on a technical level (unless it's all mocap), but my GOD I kind of despise the movie and hate how overrated and popular it is as boomer crap that ultimately says all the people who cared about stuff are dumb, and Forrest made it through by not particularly caring about anything.

Thad Komorowski

Yes this is the firm uniting front for all old-time Simpsons fans, I believe... that this is the episode that kept us away from watching every week, DESPITE that Moe as Austin Powers is one fucking funny drawing/pose.

Thad Komorowski

BTW, with all due respect, I greatly enjoyed this being a guest-less episode. You guys have great chemistry that should be allowed to shine without a third wheel all the time, and it was great to see this on the regular Talking Simpsons episodes again.

notsmohqe

Was coming to leave the same comment. Would be great to hear more TS like this, appropriately spaced out. Part of what makes TKotH, Futurama, and the other mini-series eps great to me is that sounds like two friends shooting the shit versus the more “show” feel when a guest is on

Wood Duck

So forgettable that I watched it a second time last month, for the podcast, because I forgot I already watched it a week earlier...

marathedemon

Just want to point out that Season 18 episode 15 is about Abe dating Selma , though there isn't a crazy wedding with Patty involved, I believe this is the absolute low point of the show as predicted by They'll Never Stop The Simpsons.

Frank Grimes

Big butts was never frowned upon in hip-hop...even in the 90s... might have been a nonPOC thing, thus the Kardashian comment...Cause we all loved them and couldn't lie.

Bradford A Barker

The closing song was really funny on a rewatch for the podcast, but I remember feeling unnerved by it during its original broadcast, like I was getting an official OK to move on from the show. The season ends with a self-reference with a gun-slinging Maggie, so the running-out-of-ideas song really did seem like an admission of defeat. Seasons 14 on are going to have some familiar episodes and some unfamiliar ones. Glad the show has some new legs, 20 years on.

Anonymous

I always thought the hibbert-nelson-burns reactions were a meta joke about the characters bluntly using obvious catchphrases since it was already a meta episode which is guess is kinda close to Jean's explanation

Angel

And all the other brothers can’t deny.