Talking Simpsons - The Great Money Caper With Stephen Sajdak

The Pablo Picasso TV Funhouse bit was adapting work by Michael Kupperman. If you liked it check out more of his work (and his patreon)

Micah

It was a bit surreal watching Judas and the Black Messiah establish the main informant right at the beginning of the movie as a guy stealing another dudes car by pretending to be FBI and conning the dude, and then seeing the exact same thing happen in this episode a few days later.

Adam Esat

Hey Bob and Henry! The joke that Homer makes about "stealing from people they know, just like The Seasons" could possibly be a reference to the hotel chain of the same name. A bit of a stretch but so is this episode. Cheers!

Albany Ham Scam: In the pre-COVID days, I was a regular attendee of a wonderful monthly LA-based Simpsons trivia show (hosted by wonderful past-guest Julia Prescott, et. al.) and there was a regular winningest team who used the team name “Albany Ham Scam” one time. Until this moment/Talking Simpsons episode I’d assumed it was just a very clever “steamed hams” reference. Now that I realize it was a reference to “The Great Money Caper,” I’m honestly 1,000 times more impressed with that team and 1,000 times more disappointed in myself.

Kat Heagberg

Snowball II/V is also the subject of the B story in the season 16 episode The Seven-Beer Snitch. Bart and Lisa discover that Snowball has a secret other family that she visits who know her as Smokey.

Brian Hortin

The pablo picasso short Henry mentions was by Michael Kupperman, whose comics are worth checking out

rubber cat

Funny the comments about Ed Norton. Him and Naomi Watts did the Painted Veil, a Somerset Maugham novel, that I was super excited for but I thought was awful because they completely changed the ending and made it, IMO, far worse. There was a making of video where Ed Norton talked about his writing process for it and at one point he was like, “yeah this part was a downer so we improved it.” I was like, did you? More like ruined it. Sounds like he has a tendency to “improve” things and that’s why no one likes working with him.

Mikey Cox

Late to the party, I had to stop the podcast when you mentioned Wonder Man from TV Funhouse so I could watch it. I still quote the guy saying "Wonder Man!" in the intro to this day. 😂

Angel

Does it play the Heart song of the same name?

Ron Sterling

The best parody of it is in Big City Greens ("Barry Cuda")

nina matsumoto

I have the Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker original dvd and can confirm for Bob that it is indeed a cardboard snapper case

Thanks for the Billy the Big Mouth Bass flashback, I worked at Toys R Us when that was a thing, and our genius management put it right by the entrance so it would turn on every time a customer came into the store. As a cashier I wasn't allowed to walk very far from my register, and so I was forced to listen to it for my entire shift every work day for months.

Dennis K

I remember the space station thing was not very intelligible Russian to me

Dan Z

Office odor issues sure feel like a thing of the past after a year+ of quarantine. We had some people who routinely heated up seafood in the microwave and it was pretty pungent, but the kitchen area was also walled-in with a door so it was hardly a huge issue. Still, someone eventually put up a passive-aggressive note requesting people not heat up "smelly food" in the microwave. Apparently, the people who were routinely doing this were all Korean and saw this as a racist attack and alerted HR leading to yet another passive-aggressive notice about how no one gets to police what others have for lunch. The moral of the story being, passive-aggressive people are the worst. I have sworn off microwave popcorn. It sucks and the scent never leaves the microwave. I have a stove-top popper and it's great! Just a little vegetable oil and some kernels and you have popcorn in less than 5 minutes. It's one of the best investments I've made as my kids are popcorn fiends. This is definitely a "Simpsons go to wacky land" episode and I think they hold up better as revisits than they did in the moment. If I want sentimental Simpsons more in the style of a traditional sitcom then I have ready access to all of that stuff, and if I want something that's a bit dumb, but punchy, then I have access to stuff like this. It's okay, and the show at least never went as far as Family Guy would go by making everyone virtually unlikable.

Joe Hodgson