Talking Simpsons - The Otto Show With Found Footage Fest

Really great episode and fantastic guests. More midwesterners please. I am still a bit amazed about the ‘dumpster’ revelation. I had no notion it was a brand, I love it when that happens, like how Hotchkiss (the old paper fastener manufacturer) is still the word for stapler in Japan and Korea (though less in Korea due to decolonization efforts)

John Harrison

That was done as a nice surprise for us by friend of the show Erik Nagel. We didn't ask for it but we definitely appreciated the favor!

Bob Mackey

The trick to the F chord is using your thumb for the E string, Bob

Nick Grayson

During the talk on the "nobody rocks as hard as Springfield" joke one of you off handedly jokes you should get guests to do something like that for the podcast and something occurred to me, during the lasertime days didn't you use to play a clip of Hank Azaria being surprised to hear that a Simpsons podcast exists?

Marcy Coral

this episode has so many things relevant to my interests and industry, i'll try to keep this focused! first, i LOVE having guests read liners for my radio show. they're like little autographs. i usually joke that it's the part of a station visit that musicians look forward to the most. everyone thinks they're the first to read the script literally as "hi, this is BLANK from BLANK..." the only good encore i ever witnessed was when the band EELS played at the concert venue that shares a building with the radio station where i work. after a full set and a one- or two-song encore, they leave the stage and the house lights/music come up. the show was pretty clearly over. i go to grab my jacket from the office and as i'm about to leave, i can clearly hear live music being performed again! the entire band and the two openers (including future 'america's got talent' star puddles pity party) all came back onstage to play for the few stragglers who stuck around for 15+ minutes. quite a surprise.

Eric Schuman

Vancouver is pretty prolific for riots, as far as Canadian cities go. The G&R one is referenced in the ep, and there is also the one from 2011 where the Canucks lost the Stanley Cup final to the Bruins. Hockey arenas and senseless violence, a tragic combo.

Lockerus

As a Bill & Ted fan, I wanted to say that Ted's dad is a police officer, as you can see when they break out the historical dudes in the climax. He is friends with Colonel Oates, who runs the Alaskan military school.

Rhomega

This was done by a Talking Simpsons listener in response to Bob and Henry's request in this episode. The video was first posted in the Talking Simpsons Discord edit: Whoops, didn't see Henry saying the same thing

nina matsumoto

Thanks to everyone sharing this, but look at the original tweet. It's literally from one of our best listeners answering the question we asked in this episode about this very joke. It's a reaction to this episode you just listened to! - Henry

Talking Simpsons

https://www.cracked.com/amp/article_37708_long-buried-simpsons-joke-dug-up-by-intrepid-audio-engineer.html?fbclid=IwAR3S_NkgKvNz6csXLJn9SAikm_D833cJXf5bQyoehpNBpXDjAeLeBIBUg2M

Cracked just posted an article where an audio engineer uncovered what marge says under the homers tintinitus joke. I hope some one gets fired for missing this : https://www.cracked.com/amp/article_37708_long-buried-simpsons-joke-dug-up-by-intrepid-audio-engineer.html?fbclid=IwAR3S_NkgKvNz6csXLJn9SAikm_D833cJXf5bQyoehpNBpXDjAeLeBIBUg2M

As a big Donald Duck fan, I've been waiting for this episode to see if you noted the similarity between Otto's song and the Quack Pack theme. It's such a generic rock song that I'm not surprised Martin would reuse it, but I was always a little surprised he kept the opening words almost the same, especially with how often Season 3 of The Simpsons was featured in syndication packages during that era. It mattered little though as Quack Pack is not very good and rightly forgotten as one of the last gasps of the Disney Afternoon. As much as I love me some Donald, I can safely say you don't need to dedicate a What A Cartoon podcast to an episode of Quack Pack. And I can totally relate to the brainless cartoon watching discussion from childhood. I'm always hunting down Christmas episodes of old cartoons and it's almost shocking how little specifics I remember of some of the shows that journey leads me to. I can list off a bunch of names from The Smurfs and I know I watched that cartoon all of the time, but aside from a Christmas episode I've revisited in recent years, I could not describe one plot from that show to save my life. All of those hours of images being broadcast into my brain with almost no retention. It's like we all collectively got black-out drunk on TV as children.

Joe Hodgson

I saw Ron Gallo last week at a like 100 person capacity venue and someone yelled Free Bird at the show. The band had people point out who it was and then lightly joked at his expense, they handled it really well without being mean at all

I see someone else tried to link to it, but a fan named @ewzzy on twitter isolated the audio to find Marge's lines during the tinnitus joke: https://twitter.com/ewzzy/status/1648706924425142272

Chris Dobson

My Dad brought me to a ton of R-rated movies when I was a kid. Born in 1989, I have vivid memories of my Dad taking me to see: Starship Troopers (where I covered my face in embarrassment during the shower scene), Hollow Man, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, and even Freddy Got Fingered. The man had taste.

Thoren Murphy

If I may umm actually, it wasn’t a Whitesnake tribute band at Otto’s wedding, it was a Poison tribute band, Cyanide.

Robert Bills

I'm with you Henry, I've always heard the landlord say "Psycho Magazines."

Jon Hioki

Loved the R rated movie talk. My parents were pretty strict about what movies I saw but I remember I went over to a friend's house and their dad had us watch The Shining when were in 7th grade, I think. It was so strange, too, because his parents were considerably more strict than mine were in most things. And on seeing uncomfortable movie scenes with your parents, I saw Borat with my mom and her cousin in the theater and that was really awkward. I was in my 20s, which not sure if that made it better or worse.

Jonathon

I remember seeing a video somewhere where Jamie Lee Curtis reveals her Street Fighter series main is Cammy. I liked the guitar talk. Barre chords are annoying, so maybe, if you want to pick it up again, just play along with the power chord chugs of Blue Album Weezer or whatever. You can also remove the bottom two or three strings from your chord voicings. (Also Weezer, think the verse part to "Island in the Sun.") Rock on 😎

Bradford A Barker

All the talk of seeing R-Rated movies as a kid inspired me to post about what that was like growing up later than everyone on the episode (I was born in '96). I'm the youngest of 4 kids so my parents had already done the content rodeo of figuring out what may or may not be appropriate a lot already, and my dad even played video games fairly often in the NES through PS2 eras, so there wasn't really a lot of fear mongering or huge concern on stuff. Generally, they knew that some violence/cussing wouldn't turn me into a monster, and often for some stuff like when the Matrix sequels were coming out or a GTA game, they knew enough to say the Matrix was probably fine for me, but GTA not so much, and my older siblings would also be like "yeah, this Punisher game has the word 'fuck' about a dozen times in the opening cutscene" so the line might be drawn there until I was a little older. -- That being said, the R rating is pretty damn uncommon in Canada, as our film ratings board is more lenient and a little less puritanical - typically a movie that is rated R in the States would be 14a (14 or older get in, or you need an adult) or MAYBE 18a (if you're under 17, you NEED an adult as well). For instance, I did see Tropic Thunder in theatres as a 12 year old (14A) and likewise Your Highness (shit movie, but one of the few 18As I can remember, because Danny McBride wears a centaur penis around his neck for a lot of the film, and there's a big orgy scene) without issue because I went with my older brother. It felt a LITTLE strange for me when Tropic Thunder started with the "Alpa Chino's Booty Sweat" faux ad, buuuuuuut people in middle school (myself included) were already swearing like sailors at that point, and I *had* discovered (or been introduced to?) internet pornography by then, so it wasn't anything new to me necessarily. I think these lower ratings generally make sense for the most part since seeing a bare boob isn't going to somehow ruin your life, and I'm glad my parents understood what I still think is a pretty good threshold for content, where I could watch T2 around the time I was 10 or so, but really didn't touch GTA at all until I was probably 16.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

Having Otto's last name as Mann makes his full name Ottoman. This might be an extra layer to that joke.

Bradley Barger

Saw this on Reddit today! https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/12rwyfz/using_audio_editing_skills_to_recover_a_buried/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

ryan

It's interesting how as kids pre internet we were able to find out things. I don't even remember how I even heard about it, but the tootsie pop story about wrappers and getting a free bag, I heard that rumor as well. I could never muster enough wrappers with the native American to try and redeem it but hearing about it brings back memories lol

Frank Grimes

This was my favourite early episode to rewatch as a kid. Sad that they never really did much with Otto but he's a bit of a one note character so not surprising.

Camille Walters

Kent Brockman's reference to "riots at the premiere of Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'" is most likely referring to the riot at the premiere of the Igor Stravinsky ballet "The Rite of Spring" in 1913. The popular narrative is that the avant-garde style of the composition was so shocking that people in the audience exploded in rage at it, but this has likely been exaggerated by history. It's a line that always confuses me because it's such a specific thing to get wrong, and I have to assume that Kent naming the wrong classical piece here is just a joke that doesn't really land.

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