Talking Simpsons - I'm Goin' to Praiseland With Bryan Quinby
Added 2021-12-15 05:00:00 +0000 UTCThis week we welcome the great Bryan Quinby from Street Fight Radio and The P.O.D.cast to discuss this sequel episode to Maude's death! Ned is having trouble moving on with his life, and that somehow leads him to build an amusement park in an episode that went through a major rewrite. Learn all about that, ice cream socials, disco heavens, gas leaks, and more in this week's saintly podcast!
Comments
That Ned phone conversation is pretty much a Bob Newhart routine—maybe that's why it works so well.
Christmas Ape
2021-12-19 04:46:59 +0000 UTCI cleaned up plenty of puke during my time as an usher at a National Amusements theatre and I am happy to report that, yes, they gave us sawdust for that stuff.
brian bonelli
2021-12-18 19:08:42 +0000 UTCFor some reason I just don't like the taste of pure chocolate ice cream. I usually go with vanilla, and sometimes chocolate syrup or chocolate toppings. And I agree with Bryan, Ned opening up a hair salon would have been a more interesting place to take this episode.
ToonJay723
2021-12-18 03:00:20 +0000 UTCThis is one of the latest ones I recorded on VHS.
Erin Hardy
2021-12-17 03:19:21 +0000 UTCAh, Kings Island. I lost a flip-flop there back during the Reagan Administration.
Erin Hardy
2021-12-17 03:16:43 +0000 UTCThis episode of The Simpsons commits the ultimate sin of not only being bad, but entirely forgettable. I literally forgot this one existed until FXX picked up the syndication rights and I started a long re-watch as they aired "Every Simpsons ever!" It should have been memorable since it's an episode that addresses one of the few deaths to ever happen in the show, but it's just bad without anything being memorably bad or at least memorably funny. They should have just let Ned wind up with the sexy Christian rock star as a makeup for killing Maude, not that I ever really cared about Maude or want her brought back, but just to end Ned's limbo. That's really the only legacy Maude's death has for me is the lack of true closure in Ned moving on. I know they did eventually pair him with Edna and that unfortunately didn't work out for real world reasons, but I feel like they missed an opportunity to turn the Flanders into an odd couple situation.
Joe Hodgson
2021-12-16 19:59:51 +0000 UTCThis was a good (podcast) episode about a (bad) Simpsons episode, though the delivery of Harry Shearer's "wow" on the phone call with the gas company was so good it almost makes up for everything. Now let's talk magazines. They exist, but are are indeed almost impossible to find (also, as a former magazine editor can confirm that all of the old favorites are still on the newsstand, but they're mostly just "special editions" which are "best-of" collections put together by outside companies trying to make a buck. Which, whatever, I'll read that essay from 2004 on a plane; why not). I recently learned a book I wrote was featured in the latest issue of a faily mainstream magazine, and I couldn't find a single place in Santa Monica, where I live, to buy magazines, aside from like sewing magazines in the checkout aisle at Target or tabloids at my local bodega. I had to travel to an entirely different part of LA that had a Barnes and Noble in order to buy a magazine. Like truly it was nuts. Also really enjoyed Bryan, and would love to hear an episode with his P.O.D. Kast co-host John Cullen someday too (I think I recall he's a Simpsons fan as well!)
Kat Heagberg
2021-12-16 18:52:54 +0000 UTCAnyone who wants more background on Heritage USA should check out The Eyes of Tammy Faye (the documentary from 2000). It's about Jim and Tammy Faye Baker's rise and fall, televangelists being hucksters and backstabbing assholes, and Tammy Faye's surprisingly good relationship with the gay community (the doc is narrated by RuPaul).
Echo Cimarron
2021-12-16 13:14:25 +0000 UTCThanks but you don’t need to file a letter of resignation when you stop listening to the podcast
Bob Mackey
2021-12-15 21:28:48 +0000 UTCThis episode marks a bit of a milestone in my personal consumption of The Simpsons. Praiseland marked the first time I recorded the live broadcast on audio cassette tape. So divorced of the visuals, revisits until the DVDs was like listening to a radio show and left more to my imagination to fill in the animation imagery. How it came about was due to a concurrent seventh grade oral project where I recorded some audio for a project of sorts. I did this with new and some season 12 reruns until the season 13 episode where Grampa gets his drivers license. After that, I'd record episodes on proper VHS tapes until season 17 ended. So yes, I am part of that aforementioned generation of Simpsons viewers who came after the golden age.
Alex Irish
2021-12-15 21:19:37 +0000 UTCI’m sad to say that it’s time for me to unsubscribe from this show. Was born in ‘94 so this era of the Simpsons is among my “golden years.” I realize it’s not as good as seasons 3-9, but I can’t keep listening to a podcast that makes me like the Simpsons and individual Simpsons episodes less and less. Maybe you folks could start booking slightly younger guests who might have more positive things to say for the later seasons. Thanks for the good times, Bob + Henry! I’m sure I’ll return when you get to “Radio Bart.”
Jared Hemming
2021-12-15 21:12:19 +0000 UTCIt's hard to tell in S12 when they're deliberately calling back to old jokes or just completely recycling joke premises the Simpsons had already done years earlier.
Chris Dobson
2021-12-15 21:10:17 +0000 UTCThis never stood out as a particularly bad episode - probably because it lacks anything especially jarring and awful like jockey elves or panda rape - but it really is one of the poorest of the Scully era. The only highlight is Disco Stu's and Comic Book Guy's visions of heaven, but it just leaves you wishing they had done more with the concept for other characters. Another reason for why they may have cut the original ending was because Chief Wiggum lighting a cigar and causing a gas explosion had already been done in Black Widower.
Nick Mould
2021-12-15 19:55:59 +0000 UTC
