Talking Simpsons - A Tale of Two Springfields With Dave Schilling

I maintain that "The Seeker" should've been one of the CSI themes.

Bennett Billard

Continuity Alert! Mr. Burns's number was already revealed in s08e07 "Lisa's Date with Density" and it's the first number that the auto-dialer calls! 555-0001 Are we to assume the richest man in Springfield has multiple phone numbers? Probably. Would he actually be willing to pay for multiple lines though? Unlikely. I'm leaning towards blunder on this one. https://frinkiac.com/caption/S08E07/341507

Andrew O.

Even with a couple of iffy spots, this episode is really fucking good and I'm kind of shocked I'm saying that about a damn season 12 episode

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

Another thing to add for Talking Cardinals comments: while the Cardinals were based in St Louis from the 60s-80s, before that they called Chicago home. The team got their name not from the cardinal bird but from the cardinal color. In 1901 the team owner at the time, Chris O'Brien, purchased used maroon-colored uniforms from the University of Chicago and described the color as "Cardinal Red", thus changing the team name to the Cardinals. Bonus fact: The Cardinals are the oldest continually-running NFL franchise, being founded in 1898 in Chicago as the Morgan Athletic Club.

Gavi Raab

(Edit: I meant season 12 DVDs) Irish listener here and I've definitely seen the badger ripping open Homer's stomach before? I don't think I would have seen it anywhere other than Sky One either as I never got these season 11 DVDs. If the badger scenes are cut out they may have been from later airings of the show.

Mangoappreciator

Y’all getting worked up over Homer’s disembowelment when the bottom half of Isaac Newton is brought to the present to kick Frink in the ass lol

Justen Brown

Key Bank hasn't been around in years though has it?

John Harrison

Uu

Hello, I'm a British Person. The "auto ring-up" gag never made any sense, because growing up we always called it "speed dial" too. It's certainly how the feature is listed on landline phones you can buy today. If someone were to say "auto ring-up" to me, I would expect they meant Automatic Ring-Back (or often just Ringback in the UK), the feature where you call someone, their line is engaged, so you key in a short number sequence and your line will dial them again as soon as they're free. It really feels like a line where Mike Scully presumed that the name would be different, asked The Who what they'd call speed-dial and they had a quick Who Huddle to try and work out what Scully was talking about. "What do we use to call people on the phone until they're not busy?" "Neil? He does that sort of thing." "Yes but we can't just say 'Neil', nobody will know who he is." "We could use his full name. Does anyone know his full name?" "I'm pretty sure it's Neil Autoringup."

Taskbaarchitect

I guess I’m one of few people that became a fan of The Simpsons thru the movie (I was 12 when it came out and the show was “past it’s prime” by then), but I agree using established characters would help the movie. I saw The Avengers without watching the other Marvel movies and I still enjoyed it, even excited to go back and watch what led to it. Hank Scorpio wouldn’t make a difference to me but I’d be happy for fans like you

Tricia

In Seattle we just got hands down the worst rename last year, when "Key arena" was changed to "Amazon climate pledge arena" https://www.cbs8.com/amp/article/news/local/seattle/amazon-to-rename-keyarena-the-climate-pledge-arena-after-securing-naming-rights/281-e5381d4a-c150-4919-8b01-ee632e95cc61

DrKarate

Got to the part about stadiums and wanted to throw in that Philadelphia's subway stations have also fallen victim to corporate naming conventions. In the past decade, the last stop of the subway that leads to the sports complex has been called AT&T Station and NRG (pronounced energy) Station. You would think that Philadelphian born corporate overlord Comcast would rename a train station but that hasn't happened yet. Instead, we got Xfinity Live which is where concerts and stuff are held. Commuter rail stations are renamed for hospitals that happen to be named for famous Philadelphians and that happen to be attached to colleges. Penn Medicine Station (named for University of Pennsylvania's Penn Medicine) use to be University City Station. This was very shorty before COVID-19 shutdown so people are still processing this. Winning the award for that probably make sense in hindsight and people didn't mind this change as much, Jefferson Station (named for Thomas Jefferson Health Systems attached to Jefferson University) use to be Market East Station.

Angel

We got a new area code where I live in 2006. However here they did the overlap method. Basically everyone gets to keep their number and all new numbers get the new area code. The overall boundaries of both area codes are identical. Also, even with the population decline, Youngstown probably has more phone numbers then when its population was at its highest. Cellphones caused a change from one number per household to one number per person. Plus VoIP allowing businesses to cheaply have more phone numbers.

Alex Forsyth