Talking Simpsons - Children of a Lesser Clod With Matt Apodaca

I had an Uncle Homer growing up, so this episode gives me a slit tug on the old ticker strings. By the way, my Life Partner recently spent a couple of nights in the hospital (just tests, nothing serious and she's fine) and I asked her if she ordered any hospital haircuts and porno. She felt the romantic subplot of Dr Screwlittle was tacked on.

Stephen C. Nedell

I forgot "I can't see through metal, Kent!" is from this episode. I've always loved that line, but working in local TV news the past few years, any time an anchor asks a reporter in the field (or especially our helicopter pilot) something they have no way of knowing it always pops back in my head. Another thing from working in news, the bit with Arnie Pye going rogue and throwing his shoe is funny. It's a bit less funny when your helicopter pilot goes rogue and decides live coverage of the George Floyd protests is a great time to go on a weird Facebook uncle rant about antifa.

Echo Cimarron

I remember liking this one perfectly fine back when it first aired, but I am a little shocked how many relatively memorable moments from it, good and bad, became disassociated from the episode itself in my mind. For twenty years, this was the one with “I'll mace you good!” and the Arnie Pye stuff, but I completely forgot that this is also where “Pokeyman” came from, and that's a clip that ended up becoming 10% of all Internet humour around 2005. I can only speculate that this is because so much of Season 12 is a series of random gags without much connective tissue.

Christmas Ape

Can't defend (nor would i want to) the Carl basketball joke, but I think you guys all missed the point of the "but the black man said" joke. My read on it, especially given the time period in which this was released, was that it was a joke on "urban cool" being marketed to suburban kids. Yes, it played into stereo types, with the whole "bust'a cap" business, but my head canon in the moment was that this was a capitalistic scam perpetrated by a husband and wife team to take advantage of the then current marketing trends of monetizing black culture for profit. Am I being to generous? Is that too deep? Was it just a joke in poor taste, or am I on to something?

RyoGeo

Great guest, by the way. I love Matt.

littleterr0r

That exact joke happened in Christian Rock Hard just a year or two later.

Harry Thornton

Ugh that Carl basketball joke is so Southpark. They love the joke construction of Someone mentions a stereotype to a minority Minority denies it Turns out to be true

Loved this! Matt's such a fun guest! ^_^

To Boldy Joe... Moore

I wonder if, in your peach basket basketball research you came across this iconic Canadian PSA: https://youtu.be/xiJJIacdF-E It's one of many such ads retelling famous Canadian historical moments that aired throughout the 90's (I realize that Naismith was living in the US when he invented the game, but when it comes to Canadian history sometime you have to take what you can get!) The Grandpa vs. Burns scene really landed with me and my friends because this PSA was on the air all the time when we were young. I wonder if I would have found this joke much more perplexing otherwise.

Graeme Black Robinson

Someone has posted the commentaries up until season 12. It’s on a tumblr called Criterion Commentaries Simpson Seasons.

SarahSayid

“I bet after thanksgiving there will be another surge and it will be ‘masks back on’”…. Henry! Look what you’ve done!!

Pete Johns

I also wanted to note that in high school, I named my cat Mittens after Ralph's cat, and every day until the day that cat died, someone in my family sang "If you're happy and you know it say a swear . . ." to her, so while that joke could have used a punch up, it will always hold a special place in my heart.

Kat Heagberg

Homer's "Did you say ANTERIOR?" in this episode has always bothered me, because I'm pretty sure that an ACL injury WOULD in most cases be a lot worse/more life-altering than a PCL (posterior cruciate ligament) injury, so that question was perfectly legit I say! Legit!

Kat Heagberg