Talk to the Audience?!? - November 2022
Added 2022-11-30 05:00:05 +0000 UTCHope everyone had a happy Turkey Day, as we catch up with a whole month worth of news for both our podcast and The Simpsons. We reflect on the most recent episodes and other news, announce some upcoming podcasts (with teases of our upcoming live show!), and talk about the many cool games/films/TV we engaged with in our free time. And, as always, we respond to some of our favorite comments from the most recent podcasts. So grab your body paint and get ready to listen!
Comments
I love that scene from Third Rock
Alex Forsyth
2022-12-04 15:03:58 +0000 UTC"Fan Perv-ice"?
To Boldy Joe... Moore
2022-12-04 11:04:33 +0000 UTCI was a little unsure about Lower Decks when it started but it found its feet pretty quickly and now I love it. It's definitely made for Star Trek fans who grew up on TNG, awash with references and guest voices, but the writing and acting is done in a way that helps the show appeal to a wider audience as well. Love your guys' work. LLAP ^_^
To Boldy Joe... Moore
2022-12-03 10:00:26 +0000 UTCRe: brain and memory - i can’t recall where I read this, but walking is supposed to be great for certain types of mental activities. Something about the movement of the body in relation to where the brain is activated. It’s hard to nailed down the specifics of how it benefits certain people/problems/activities, etc, b/c it’s all self-reporting. Is it the walking or just taking a break? Anecdotally, I can look at a hat or a sweater I’ve knitted and remember what I was watching, even years later! Also, we learned early on in my son’s school years that movement helps him process thoughts and problem solve better. He’s autistic and had his fair share of challenges in the classroom. There was (and still is, as a sixth grader!) always a logical explanation to his “expressions” (outburst or meltdown sound so demeaning, lol) but the challenge was him articulating what he logic is - once we could help him reconcile his perceptions with our own observation of reality, the issues solved themselves! Whenever the spec ed teacher would ask us for input on a sticky challenge, he and I would take to the stairwell of our apartment and climb while we chatted about it. It could be the distraction from direct conversation (which feels a lot like confrontation to a kiddo!) instead of the actual walking, but it never failed us. Now it’s so internalized that he either takes breaks to walk in the hallway when he’s upset or he just talks it out. The brain is an amazing machine!
Jessica S
2022-12-02 20:15:39 +0000 UTCMy other half and I have been watching the new Zombie Simpsons this season (after several decades of me barely paying attention), and the general observations have been: Julie Kavner’s continued role is elder abuse; a lot of these ideas feel like ones Bob’s Burgers and even Family Guy did better (FG’s cutaway ad on Ellen employees in the style of victimized animals was way more biting and to the point than the Simpsons’ whole half hour about it); the Harry Met Sally spoof was sub-fan fiction and physically painful. All of this as a fresh memory was made even worse by a completely random sighting of “Mr. Plow” on live TV… a half-hour where everything clicked. Honestly, beyond the employees and stockholders, who is left that could possibly care about the new episodes? It’s just objectively bad TV. Is Dave Silverman 65 yet so he can just retire and stop justifying Mandalorian Maggie? Sorry to hear it.
Thad Komorowski
2022-12-02 14:37:03 +0000 UTCTV Tropes has "pandering to the base", but that sounds a little clunky to me.
Harry Thornton
2022-12-02 06:13:51 +0000 UTCWe do 40 episodes of TS a year, and we're currently (as of this posting) on episode 284. If we stopped doing season revisits immediately, we'd still have around 470 episodes to cover, which would take 12 years. So we'll cross that bridge when we get to it... in the year 2035 or later.
Bob Mackey
2022-12-01 21:49:52 +0000 UTCI think we need to redefine fan service and come up with a new term. Rainbow Road in the new Mario movie: fan service Boob window: perv service
Alex Forsyth
2022-12-01 19:06:54 +0000 UTCCommenter of the month! Look at me now, dad! And yeah the call centre was hell. It’s actually surprising how few rights we have in Canada as workers as that call centre stripped away as much as they could get away with. With a bit of perspective, I definitely do empathize with the people who had to navigate the maze of late 00s telecom mergers, but man were a lot of them just waiting on the chance to absolutely lose their marbles at a disembodied voice.
Lockerus
2022-12-01 16:38:48 +0000 UTCNot sure if either of you kept up with it, but I finally got around to watching the last episode in that Icons series by Nacelle on The Simpsons last night. I was pleasantly surprised by the series as a lot of the "Nacellisms" seemed to be deemphasized after the first episode. I don't know if they were gone all together, but they were few enough that I stopped noticing them after the second episode. For a 6 episode series on a show as long lasting as The Simpsons, I thought it did an okay job. They at least talked to most of the right people, and even though I'm sure he probably mentioned it on one of your podcasts with him, I was a little surprised to hear Bill Oakley say his favorite episode was the recently covered "Radio Bart."
Joe Hodgson
2022-12-01 15:14:14 +0000 UTCIn this episode you mentioned The Simpsons renewals were coming up. Just wondering, while obviously if the show doesn't get renewed it would be bad for the people working on it but would you like it to happen from the viewpoint that Talking Simpsons would have an endgame (I just mean the flagship show, not the network as a whole). I was thinking that all the other chorological, episode by episode shows I listen to or watch are covering a show that has already completed, apart from wrestling but most of those show just focus on certain periods, like OSW Review or the Attitude Era podcast. It might just be me but covering a show with no end gives me a feeling of existential crisis.
David Thomson
2022-12-01 14:24:25 +0000 UTCI wouldn't be overly confident about the longevity of the bird app. I know it may superficially resemble your experiences with incompetent corporate buyouts, but there's a lot more complex infrastructure underlying Twitter than your avg blog/wiki/content aggregator so losing the ppl who know where the mines are buried will have consequences eventually. If it does fail, however, I don't think it'll simply implode one day. More likely it'll have a major outage that'll cause even more users and advertisers to flee the platform and ultimately cause its bankruptcy. Under its old ownership there was a lot of runway to trundle along losing money while trying to figure things out but not only did Elon grossly overpay for his new toy, he borrowed hefty sums of that money from a government that famously bonesawed a man alive who was out of their favor.
Ron Sterling
2022-12-01 13:59:36 +0000 UTCGreat show! Thought you’re insight on the Musks and Shapiros of the world was spot on, that is how Twitter provides a platform that seemingly gives equal weight (ostensibly) to all users. I know many people may disagree agree with my take, but I say let the crazy mess reign supreme, more nonsense from Musk, more egregious characters like Shapiro, pseudo-intellectuals. Many people think Twitter is/can be a force for good if only [fill in the blank]. First of all, if we wanted to create a force for good, social media would be the very worst product. But more practical, social media is built on an algorithm that intentionally distorts a user’s feed based on a goal to increase engagement. Their own research shows that extreme interaction (doesn’t have to be negative, it could be extreme interest in knitting, baking, highly active groups etc) is the way to meet that goal. Therefore we think we are seeing things as they are (as if there’s no filter or alterations) but it’s completely manufactured. Nothing good can come if it! The best thing about social media platforms is the ability to share ideas without flying halfway around the world. So basically, chat rooms and forums are the way to go, lol. LOOOONG ramble short, I say keep the nonsense coming, Musk, burn it to the ground. Let it become like a dusty blog that gathers spam, no one expects rational content. Isn’t that what it is already? It’s like the Treehouse of Horror where the advertisements come to life: “Just don’t look!” Lol.
Jessica S
2022-11-30 20:58:36 +0000 UTCHi guys, I was wondering, I know you don’t take requests for WAC episodes, so if you ignore this that’s fine, but I kinda wanted to suggest a possible episode, mainly because when I first saw it, I immeidatley thought of Batman TAS and Batman Beyond. It’s called The Magician, I found it while watching cartoon compilations. It was made in France in 97, but it came on Fox in 99. It remined me a lot of a Batman series because of the action, some episodes are a bit noir-styled, but also it had a lot of tech which alos made me think of Batman Beyond despite being made first. However it coming to Fox in 99 made me start wondering if Fox got it to compete with WB now having and running Batman. If you were to watch one episode, I’d recommend Mad Train. The “victim” is a selfish senator, the villain wants revenge on him, and you can probably guess from there. It very much reminded me of a Batman TAS episode because of that.
ShyRanger
2022-11-30 06:35:12 +0000 UTC
