Talking Simpsons - Homer's Night Out (Revisited) With Kallie Plagge

I am so happy you are revisiting the first season. It may be my UK perspective - we were fed lots of the first season on repeat - but the first season is why i love the Simpsons. Season One is the heart. It is the time you spend forming emotional bonds with the residents of Springfield. A bond that lasts a lifetime. One that will keep you watching well beyond the glory years. Season one is why the Simpsons is your/my happy place. I am already exited to introduce ny son to the show...a few years yet but it asks the question. Where to begin? I may only have one chance to impress. What should his first episode be?

Where’s my spy camera? Where’s my spy camera!?! WHERE’S MY SPY CAMERA!?!

Cody C.

A stag is something different in Canada. Lots of couples have a Stag and Doe here. It's basically a party where you charge your friends to attend and the profit goes towards wedding/honeymoon costs. You charge for tickets to it, do a 50/50, Silent auctions(with the prizes often donated by say employers), The bar ups the prices and gives the bride and groom a cut and other ways to turn a profit on the event. We're socially obligated to give couples money twice up here!

Alex Forsyth

Same here. I forget whatever the cause was (maybe Trump's original campaign? idk) but when all these Liberal celebrities (including people like Joss Whedon) were tweeting out variations of that and others were celebrating their "feminism" it made me want to scream

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

Kallie made a great guest yet again! -- I completely agree that despite good intentions this episode kind of falls flat since Homer never lied to Marge and was just dancing with Princess Kashmir when prompted given that it's her job. If anything, this ends up just feeling dated over how "scandalous" the situation becomes through Homer basically just interacting with a sex worker in a very tame way where he just treated her like a human essentially. Still a fun enough episode, though.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I give kudos to the writers for trying to deliver some kind of feminist message, but Homer's speech at the end is one of my pet peeves -- the insinuation that you should respect women because they are wives, mothers, daughters, whatever (also it weirds me out whenever a guy says something along the lines of "I didn't care about feminism until I became a father to a little girl"). You should respect women because women are people! They don't have to be anything to you.

nina matsumoto

You guys noticed that Marge appeared to be eating steak at the Rusty Barnacle - perhaps it's because of her fish allergy, which we learned about in the All-you-can-eat episode

LiamShitter

Oh No - I'm about to go way off topic. The William Costello record for "Barnacle Bill" doesn't actually come from the cartoon - in fact, in "Beware of Barnacle Bill", Bluto plays the titular role, and while Popeye does sing verses, they vary greatly from the record. What's interesting about the record is that after Costello was fired for being insufferable to work with, he went to the UK and made a load of novelty records without explicitly calling the voice Popeye, skirting the law, and exploiting the role he was ousted from. To be fair, he did the voice long before the Popeye cartoons as part of his vaudeville act, and as Gus Gorilla on the (lost) Betty Boop radio program. Most of note, on one of these he sings "The Merry Go Round Broke Down", or the theme to "Looney Tunes".

Wakakozake. I've also heard good things about it (haven't checked it out yet)

nina matsumoto

I always associated junk ads more with Boys' Life Magazine than with comic books, where I was much more interested in Mile High ads.

Zachary Adams

I have trouble visualizing the spelling of words when spoke audibly but what was the name of that anime Kallie mentioned? The one with the office lady who compares beer and beer snacks as a hobby? That sounds super cozy, an anime about life after work and eating snacks.

This may be the worst of S1, and one of the worst of classic era Simpsons in general. The whole forced "positive attitude about women" stinks so badly of sitcom hack tropes; no subversion whatsoever. The "you'll need these, I know I will" layout is permanently stuck in my brain as the nadir of "non-Simpsons Simpsons". Christ. I'm sorry, but what a shitty episode.

Thad Komorowski

"snack treats" - a bit redundant but it makes an appearance two other times (sorry for the caps im copy/pasting from frinkiac) - is this an east or west coast thing? as a midwesterner it just seems odd to phrase it that way krusty gets busted - TAKING THAT COWARDLY DIVE INTO THAT DISPLAY OF HEAVILY-SALTED SNACK TREATS? homers triple bypass - POOR MR. HOMER. COULD IT BE THAT MY SNACK TREATS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIS WRETCHED HEALTH?

mavrick

I ordered some stuff from the back of a comic section on one occasion when I was a kid. This was probably around 1993 and each one was probably 50 cents. It was all junk, and I don't recall anything working. The only good part about it was it put me on a mailing list for a catalog just full of useless, but interesting, shit. I actually looked forward to receiving that catalog even though a lot of the stuff in it didn't change much from month to month. I don't think I ever ordered anything from it though. I used to hate it when this episode came on in syndication. Part of it is that the plot device of Marge getting so upset at Homer that she tosses him out is something done in subsequent seasons, and done better, so it feels like retread even though it was first. And also, the problem just felt so small potatoes, even to me as a kid, it didn't seem like the type of thing Marge should be this upset about. She is certainly entitled to feel however she wants, and Homer did lie to her about the nature of this party, but he is so flawed in so many ways that it seems it would be more productive to get on his case in those areas. At any rate, this episode is so clunky that it definitely feels like no woman was near the writing room.

Joe Hodgson