Talk To The Audience?!? - September 2024
Added 2024-09-25 04:00:07 +0000 UTCAs autumn begins, we have a whole month of Simpsons events to look back on, while also looking forward to our October 2nd Portland live show with Bill Oakley (get your tickets HERE before it sells out). Then, we've got a trip report from Orlando, lots of chat about newly released video games, and replies to some of our favorite Patreon comments. Prepare for Halloween/Treehouse season with the newest community podcast!
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The Simpsons "series finale" — I'm sure you've watched it by now — and it's been so comical to listen to you two both try to guess "What are all these guest starts going to do?" Personally, I think "Bart's Birthday" has probably been the most out-of-the-box plotwise since "A Serious Flanders" and gives me enthusiasm for what the writers can still do with a 36-year-old premise! ("Even in 1989, audiences agreed... the show was not as good as it used to be!" LOL)
Robert Sanders
2024-10-03 22:11:38 +0000 UTCit's 100% a profit center for them, so I can't see it being anything but them losing the license Obviously that's me outside the industry, so I could be totally wrong
Byron Lagrone
2024-09-29 19:42:47 +0000 UTCWe did our Gravity Falls episode in 2019: https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-cartoon-30860944 - Bob
Talking Simpsons
2024-09-27 15:51:21 +0000 UTCCan you do a what cartoon on gravityfalls
Teddy Dodds
2024-09-27 01:50:56 +0000 UTCtapped out will die in Jan 2025. I wonder if this means EA maybe lost the license
Frank Grimes
2024-09-26 17:26:14 +0000 UTCI respect the passion about topics like this! - Bob
Talking Simpsons
2024-09-26 16:19:38 +0000 UTCI'm not saying the Kotaku article doesn't have a point but the writer was being overly dramatic.
PurpleComet
2024-09-26 05:41:46 +0000 UTCHearing you discuss the quality of Transformers movies, I feel the need to share a rec for the Transformers More Than Meets The Eye/Lost Light comic series from IDW. It's one of my favourite comic runs of this century, including smart writing, incredible humour, "human" and distinct characters, great sci-fi stories, and gay and trans representation. By a writer (James Roberts) who surprisingly hasn't done anything else, but wrote the hell out of this. It's relevant, also, to Transformers: One in that one of Robert's first TF stories "Chaos Theory" showed Optimus' and Megatron's early relationship, when the latter was a poet, miner, and pacifist who wrote political treaties against a government that forced robots into jobs that match their alt modes. He was arrested while protesting, and beaten in prison under Optimus' unknowing watch by a fellow guard. It's a tremendous character study, and a moment Robert's returns to in his series a few times as the focal point of a dramatic change in their world, but also one where many different characters intersect. I highly recommend it if you haven't read it already, and I hear there may be a new collection coming soon (it may not include that "Chaos Theory" story, though I'm hopeful it has the supplemental work).
J. Tenter
2024-09-26 02:06:39 +0000 UTCThe Ernest and Celestine films are also very good.
Robert Denby
2024-09-25 23:21:51 +0000 UTCBTW - on the subject of nude comedians from the Golden Age of Hollywood, it'd be remiss to not mention those of Harpo Marx, which were professionally done. You can look them up if you don't believe me. With Dean and jerry they were at least attractive men (Henry, you are not the first to note the homoeroticism of Artists & Models), but my god, this one does beg the question: WHY!? (I wish there was a way to replace that infamous horrible dig "nude photos of Whoopi Goldberg" with Harpo...)
Thad Komorowski
2024-09-25 21:59:41 +0000 UTCBatman's no-kill rule actually came very early on in 1940's Batman #4, less than two years after his debut. That issue features a story by Batman co-creators Bill Finger and Bob Kane where Batman reminds Robin that "we never kill with weapons of any kind."
Guy Incognito
2024-09-25 20:29:17 +0000 UTCIt was always interesting how the first episode of Rocko got way with elevator to hell
Frank Grimes
2024-09-25 17:46:05 +0000 UTCDefinitely a lot of fun stuff coming up on the horizon. Personally, I don't think Hotel Transylvania is as good as lots of animation fans praise it to be; it's more graded on the curve of likeable Adam Sandler projects. Genndy's influence and animation is very much there, but there's a lot of Happy Madison/Smigel work going on. Even if you guys don't like it, I imagine it'll make for a fun podcast. I'm also all for more Rocko coverage, that show deserves so much more love.
SilkiePJ
2024-09-25 17:09:26 +0000 UTCI'd love if they could do My Life as a Zucchini. Persepolis would also rule. There's a whole world there if Bob and Henry wanna do French animated films
SilkiePJ
2024-09-25 17:03:59 +0000 UTCI don't think anyone even semi-reasonable can disagree with the Kotaku/Astro Bot article. I want a new Ape Escape so bad, and it's never going to happen.
Jammy Cooks
2024-09-25 15:39:47 +0000 UTClistening to this episode as i make final preparations for my first trip to japan (i leave next weekend!) also, i met hank azaria on monday! as i have alluded to in previous comments, i work at a public radio station in philadelphia, and hank was in town doing some press for his upcoming bruce springsteen tribute tour. he was interviewed by our news director and their chat will air later in october, ahead of the tour's stop in philly. after the interview wrapped i was invited to record some station liners with hank, which he graciously read both as himself and in various character voices. he did a few as chief wiggum, one as moe, and one as comic book guy. when he got to the liner for my show i asked if i could make a request for professor frink and he obliged. got a picture with him, too!
Eric Schuman
2024-09-25 14:59:56 +0000 UTCOn the subject of The Boy and the Heron, I saw it in theaters with my son and now that its on streaming and Blu Ray he wanted to watch it again. We always do a movie night once a week in my house and so for his most recent turn he picked it. I left that theater after the initial viewing mostly with a thought of, "Well, that was a thing." I liked the animation, but was so-so on the narrative. I will say, I found the second viewing more enjoyable. Maybe because I wasn't trying to guess where the movie was going and I could just take it in. I'm skeptical it's Miyazaki's last film too, though I'll say it works thematically as a last one. Still not my favorite of his films, but a little better than I thought. Rock n' Roller Coaster is maybe the most deceptive roller coaster I've ever been on. It sounds intense based on the loops, quick start, and the fact that it's pretty dark, but I find it's less intense than a lot. I'm not a big roller coaster guy, but I've been on that ride several times and it's just so smooth that it's comfortable. I am far more uncomfortable on something like Big Thunder Mountain or Space Mountain because they jerk you around so much and I can just feel my spine sliding across the hard seatbacks. I usually skip those ones, but I'll go on Rock n' Roller Coaster anytime. The Guardians Ride is similar, though I've only been on that once and after waiting an hour in-line I was just so happy to be able to sit down that I probably wouldn't have noticed if it was a rough experience.
Joe Hodgson
2024-09-25 14:42:48 +0000 UTCBoth sides of government right now are after your money
Cossover
2024-09-25 12:25:26 +0000 UTCWe already pay for the lunches with federal, state and local taxes and as a parent of 3, I pay again using a horrible app that charges a % transaction fee. It has Jokerfied me.
Steve D
2024-09-25 12:20:09 +0000 UTCThe school thing is also keep the everyone middle class and lower dumb
Cossover
2024-09-25 12:03:12 +0000 UTCTriplets of Belleville's also great, I actually got to see that in theatres as a very young kid and I've loved it ever since.
Harry Thornton
2024-09-25 09:17:14 +0000 UTCFrench animation features I recommend are The Rabbi’s Cat and Little Vampire (2020)
yethen
2024-09-25 04:41:10 +0000 UTC
