Talking Simpsons - Jaws Wired Shut With TheRealJims
Added 2022-07-20 04:00:00 +0000 UTCThis week's episode delves deep into what defines Homer's rage, so we are joined by a luminary of Simpsons history, TheRealJims from the awesome YouTube channel of the same name! After Homer breaks his jaw following an angry day at the movies, he learns to listen and love his family. Somehow that leads him to a parody of The View followed by Marge trying to replace Homer's insanity. We're talkin' downtown on this week's podcast!
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As a longtime Jims subscriber, so glad to hear him on the show. Hope he returns in due time
trasparenti
2022-07-29 13:06:06 +0000 UTCI wasn't lucky enough to see it while it was still in circulation, but my favorite of those "please don't talk during the movie" shorts is the one with Beavis and Butt-Head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlXSLn5mFds
Dayken
2022-07-24 13:19:38 +0000 UTCAs someone who's been to many pride parades, "Get Ready For This" is such an odd choice for Springfield's parade. Most people associate that song with halftime at sporting events, not LGBT people. In real life a disco song would be playing, most likely something from Donna Summer, Cher, or Gloria Gaynor.
PurpleComet
2022-07-24 05:07:31 +0000 UTCgreat guest!
mavrick
2022-07-22 20:39:49 +0000 UTCIt was really awesome you guys got TheRealJims on the show! I fell in love with both of y'all's content at the same time, so this was a real meeting of The Simposons minds for me!
Andrew Mowbray
2022-07-22 05:11:28 +0000 UTCYou know, I'm not entirely proud of how funny my younger self thought “I'm talkin' DOWNTOWN!” was. On the other hand, I still enjoy inserting “Shenanigoats” into sentences whenever possible.
Christmas Ape
2022-07-21 16:44:18 +0000 UTCgreat episode dudes, with regards to modern movie trailer parody discussion, id think that 'spoooooky version of old rock song' would be done in an updated 2022 joke. they even did it for the recent season of stranger things with 'seperate ways' by journey
Sean Riley
2022-07-21 14:29:25 +0000 UTCTheRealJims is a perfect guest for this podcast
nina matsumoto
2022-07-21 06:17:02 +0000 UTCThe podcast that gets me through the workday meets the YouTube channel that I watch to wind-down AFTER said workday? What a dream collaboration! As for the episode itself, while the braces experiences does seem quite different from having your jaws wired shut (something I have not experienced and hope to never experience), when this episode aired originally, I was a young teen whose baby teeth were not falling out, which my orthodontist diagnosed as "face too small" (but in orthodontist speak). He told me that I had "the same jaw condition as Jay Leno," which spooked young me in a similar way that the computer aging thing spooked Lisa in "Last Exit to Springfield." He might as well have told me a tooth was going to bust through my skull. I was then given a choice between jaw surgery and a second round of braces with an expander, and I went with the latter because I didn't want to miss a dance rehearsal due to surgery (priorities!) And let me tell you—that expander coupled with a fuck-ton of rubber bands not only made for the most cringey school photos ever, but they really really hurt and made it hard to talk and impossible to eat solid foods. I totally survived on nothing but fast-food milkshakes for months, because they were the only way I could get enough calories without having to chew. So basically, when Homer was ready to die by suicide after learning what awaited him, I just thought he was being a huge baby, but I also felt just a little bit "seen" when one of my favorite characters couldn't chew either. Also, I always assumed the brunch = gay connection was related to drag brunches. But maybe that wasn't as much a thing in 2002?
Kat Heagberg
2022-07-21 00:48:35 +0000 UTCThis was a strangely memorable episode for me back in the days when I recorded new episodes of this era on audio cassette tape, so it was like listening to radio. As a 14 year old when it first aired, I was struck a nerve and counted that I laughed a whopping 75 times during the episode. I was laughing so much it was like I was the medical description of “high as a kite”. Some highlight crazy laughs I had were at the Soccer Mummy boner joke, hearing who I thought was Selma during the pride parade, the Popeye ending with Marge as Olive Oil, and the oddly inappropriate greeting to Duffman of “Newsweek said you died of liver failure!”, which I read as a callback to his first appearance in season 9 (Hey it’s Duffman! The guy in a costume that creates awareness of Duff). I still have the tape, I just need to know how to transfer it to digital.
Alex Irish
2022-07-20 18:41:46 +0000 UTCI’m not gonna lie, I laughed like an 8 year old when I heard that boner line 😹
Eli Hernandez
2022-07-20 17:33:02 +0000 UTCThis one isn't a particularly fun episode for me to revisit as not long after it aired a good friend of mine was a victim of a random act of violence outside a record store that left his jaw broken. He had to get wired-up like Homer and carried around a notepad for writing communications. It was just sad all around and made more so because he was a vocalist in a band and obviously couldn't sing with his jaw wired shut. The punks who jumped him too even broke the CD he had just purchased to add further insult to injury. He's fine now, or I think he is since he moved to the complete opposite side of the country so I rarely hear from him, but yeah, I always think of that incident when I watch this episode.
Joe Hodgson
2022-07-20 16:50:37 +0000 UTC
