Talking Simpsons - Homie The Clown

nothing gross with gigantic asses tho

Hampus Bystrom

Regarding Eight Crazy Nights, I have a funny little personal story: one of the professors I had for most of my college classes was a producer for the movie (he's not listed on IMDB though) and showed us animatics in my history of animation class. Sadly it wasn't the product placement sequence but it was interesting knowing that one of my instructors had involvement with such a ridiculous movie.

Zeether

I love how Hank Azaria says "Gigantic asses." It's so visceral and gross. Love it!

Jessica Lovejoy

I really wish the Lego mini figure of Krusty that came out a few years ago was paired with a little tile piece of Gigantic Asses magazine. Damn you Lego and your insistence on maintaining a wholesome image!

Joe Hodgson

In regards to silly infomercial products solving problems seemingly no-one would have: a large number of those products were apparently intended for use by physically-disabled people, who otherwise would have problems cracking eggs, or tidying power cords, etc. They're niche products, and the only way for the companies selling them to ensure they'll make a profit is to market them to the physically-able as labour-saving devices. Since learning this, I've reserved my infomercial mockery for the truly terrible home decor ones.

Talbert J.

Also, the cheetos comic Chris mentioned was the inspiration for Behind the GIFs, which may be the funniest subreddit and two of the greatest BTG artist/writers went on to do their own BTG comics on WebToon.

Brian Rude

Yes! I forgot about that!

Anita

Poopdeck Pappy was the name of Popeye’s father, so that clown didn’t even come up with an original name.

Brian Rude

His body/face is identical to Homer's in terms of design, just like Krusty. - Bob

Talking Simpsons

How is Radioactive Man a clone of Homer?

JR Ralls

Great show guys. I especially loved at the very end Bob announcing that Bart vs. Australia is the next episode and hearing Henry and Chris react in the background. Somewhere in my mother's attic there's a VHS recording of me as a kid in the audience one of those local TV shows that hosted old Hanna-Barbara cartoons. It was hosted by the guy who succeeded the aforementioned Rusty Nails, a guy named Ramblin' Rod. It's kind of sad that that kind of local color isn't around anymore.

Michael Hashizume

This is one of my favorite episodes if not THE favorite. Fun fact: Joe Montegna went to the same high school as me in the Chicagoland area. When he visited roughly 10 years ago (he made an anecdote regarded a bald female singer, so there's your clue), the whole theater department got to say hello and ask him questions. I got him to sign my arm, and a friend one up'd me and got his hairy chest signed. On the clown side of this episode, there's just so much to gleen. I have an absolute love for clowns so Krusty is probably my favorite clown. In fact, any Krusty episode until his daughter shows up is great. Oh and if you didn't notice, I'm from Chicago and Bozo showing up on WGN is something I remembered, at least re-runs of it in the 90s. One more random tidbit: WGN is short for World's Greatest News.

As far as I know I'm completely "normal," but with the internet and everything you hear about these sorts of issues that people don't even realize aren't the way that most other people experience their lives, you wonder what might be going on in your own head that is a little unusual. I can't imagine how seeing double would be livable, but it's very interesting.

Scott Sutton

Completely unrelated note... I work mainly in residential construction and have had various jobs with regard to it. For a good while I worked the Warranty desk at a builder and this one time, a homeowner came in with pictures of an opening in the brickwork mortar over-top of the windows and doors. The homeowner thought this was a mistake. Since I come from a family of bricklayers, I know these to be weep holes for draining moisture from behind the brick wall, but what I WANTED to say was "These are speed holes. They make the house go faster!" It was so hard to resist... in fact last Thursday my job WAS to install these speed holes! Yup that's me... making these townhouses go faster!

Mark Kalzer

Two things on this... Yes I've made the "Four Krusty's" joke before, but with me it's legit! I have a permanent form of double vision that isn't brain injury as far as I can tell. It's something I've always had, my mom has, and is probably the reason I can cross my eyes easily and decry-pt Magic Eye puzzles in a second. It's something I have completely control over but I have to focus on either foreground or background. If I choose a foreground object like my iPhone, the background becomes double. If I'm say driving, I easily swap and the steering wheel becomes double. To be clear, it wasn't until a few years ago that I even learned that everyone doesn't see this way! It doesn't impair anything about my life function other than 3D movies. It also means that when I say "I'm seeing double. FOUR Chris's!" I'm actually telling the truth!

Mark Kalzer

One of my personal favourite billboards was when I flew from Canada to Huntsville Alabama for Space Camp in September of last year. On the shuttle car from the airport I saw a clear billboard offering to help with moving to Canada... cause I guess there was a sense of urgency even then!

Mark Kalzer

Great episode, guys! Sorry for the long comment, but I found it interesting that Chris, Bob, and Henry (mostly Chris,) talked about billboards for a bit, and sort of being a little excited like Homer when new ones came to town. I never experienced anything like this as a kid, because I grew up (and still live in) Vermont. Thanks to a law passed in the 1960s, Vermont has no billboards. Not just billboards, but overly large or tall signs for businesses are prohibited, as well. I remember the first time I was REALLY exposed to them was a road trip we took to Disney World when I was 9 or 10. Driving down I-95 on the east coast gives a kid a lifetime exposure's worth in just a couple days, but I do remember legitimately getting excited for some of the things I saw on them, most notably a truly MASSIVE amount for an amusement park/restaurant/tacky gift shop in South Carolina called "South of the Border" (because it's over the border from North Carolina) which came complete with a Mexican Bandito mascot which is just as racist as you imagine it is. Even as a kid, I could appreciate how nice it is to drive somewhere and not have to deal with the eyesores, and as an added bonus, there's nothing for a cop to hide behind to catch you speeding. Keep up the great work, guys.

Andrew Bouvier

I love this episode, one of my most quoted in general. Excellent pod as usual guys! If you want to see some infomercial shitposts, check out reddit.com/r/wheredidthesodago . Clips from those crappy infomercials with funny/no context titles.

Matt P

In the area where I'm from (Hampton Roads, VA) our local clown back back in the day was named .... Poopdeck Pappy. Because the local station is in a Navy town. Poopdeck.

Anita