The results are in: the winner of our poll for the first miniseries of 2021 is TalKing of the Hill Season 2 Part 1! That means Talking Simpsons Network patrons at the $5 level and above will get to hear eleven new episodes weekly starting on March 26, 2021. We realize this is a few months down the road, but thanks to the continued COVID-19 lockdown giving us an excess of podcasting t...
2021-01-10 23:47:30 +0000 UTC View Post
As we finish a much deserved holiday break, we're taking a week off from Simpsons to give you listeners a special treat: Four HOURS of Iron Giant chat! In case you didn't know, each month we do a premium podcast for our $10 Patreon subscribers, and now we're going to share one of our extra-long eps with you. Why this one? Because Iron Giant is the film that Brad Bird quit The Simpsons to direct, so follow his care...
2021-01-06 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, we're exploring the DuckTales reboot made especially for us, as chosen by our premium Patreon subscriber Royce! We explore how this relaunch of the Disney Afternoon universe came to be, plus how it's expertly aimed at Millenials and their kids. Then we cover the early season 2 episode (don't worry, no big spoilers) where Donald meets some old friends south of the border. Listen now while wearing a snappy serape!
2021-01-04 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe just concluded our most recent miniseries of Futurama's second season, and we can't wait to start preparing our next round of Patreon-exclusive podcasts! If you're a new subscriber here, you should know that your Talking Simpsons Network subscription offers you so much, including TWO Patreon-exclusive podcast miniseries each year! And we want to start recording our next miniseries for our $5+ subscribers ASAP!
So, with Futurama in our rearview (though with more possible in 2021*), we...
2021-01-03 07:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostHAPPY NEW YEAR from us at the Talking Simpsons Network! We're all hoping 2021 will be a better one for all of us, and as the holidays come to an end, we're looking forward to our next podcasts. Specifically, the subject of our $10 premium podcast for February, which we need your help to decide.
Currently, we're so far ahead in podcast recordings that we've already recorded the next What A Cartoon Movie! (Dexter's Lab: Ego Trip), meaning that in January we have time to record our Februar...
2021-01-01 08:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy holidays to all you listeners from the Talking Simpsons Network! We hope you have as happy a New Year's Eve/Day as possible right now, as we celebrate socially distanced as well. And as we enter 2021 with hope in our hearts for the future, we look into our near-future for the schedule of January 2021 podcasts! We'll be tackling three listener-selected subjects that we've been waiting to cover f...
2020-12-31 07:59:01 +0000 UTC View PostVideo Password: wedgie7
We're ending 2020 with a bang as we go through all the deleted scenes from season 11! And it's a huge collection, with over 7 minutes of hidden ones from the DVDs that we culled together and edited into airing order. See lost nudity, unaired endings, and lost of weird stuff that could've been part of our collective memories of season 11. So watch along and enjoy our insightful commentary into these lost scenes!
2020-12-31 03:10:27 +0000 UTC View Post
We're ending 2020 with a bang as we go through all the deleted scenes from season 11! And it's a huge collection, with over 7 minutes of hidden ones from the DVDs that we culled together and edited into airing order. See lost nudity, unaired endings, and lost of weird stuff that could've been part of our collective memories of season 11. So listen along and enjoy our insightful commentary into these lost scenes! (And consider heading up to the $10 level to watch along with the deleted scenes!...
2020-12-31 03:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Our community podcast is here once again as we reach the end of 2020! We chat about Simpsons news and some of the recent episodes, we preview some of the podcasts coming in January, discuss what we've been playing/watching over the holidays, AND we react to some of our favorite Patreon comments from December! So listen now for the swing of New Orleans!
2020-12-30 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We've reached the end of 2020 on the Talking Simpsons Network, meaning it's time for us to discuss one of the most controversial films in Japanese animation! This time around, our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 1997's The End of Evangelion! Listen now to this free extended preview, and then subscribe at the $10 level (or up your current pledge to $10) to hear the whole thing and all of our prev...
2020-12-28 05:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Fittingly we've reached the end of the year of What A Cartoon Movies as we discuss the final film of Evangelion (not counting the four that came after) for a full FIVE HOURS. How did this controversial movie get made? How does it hold up more than 23 years after release? And is the newest English localization an improvement from that of our youths? We answer all of that in our massive final WAC podcast of 2020!
2020-12-28 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Carolyn Omine has been working on The Simpsons since season 10, and has been working on the series for the last 20 years! We chat with her about moments like Stupid Sexy Flanders, Monkey Knife Fights, working as the only woman in the writers' room at the time, and even her work on the final seasons of Full House! We learned a ton from one of the nicest Simpsons producers we've ever chatted with, so listen now! And if you...
2020-12-24 21:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Xmas, everyone! We've reached the end of Talking Futurama Season 2 Part 2! (Has it really been nine weeks?) But we're ending this miniseries with a whopper of an episode featuring the legendary comedic talents of Sarah Silverman and Pauly Shore combined. Listen in and witness the return of the once-important career chips, learn whether or not time is cyclical or a straight line, and realize how much the cilantro-obsessed city of Los Angeles looks like the post-apocalypse! Thank...
2020-12-24 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We reach the end of season 11 (and 2020), so we're joined by the returning Matt McMuscles -- check out his YouTube channel and his Patreon! This extended parody of a lost-to-time VH1 series worked great 20 years ago, and allow us to explain the many references lost to time. Listen along to find...
2020-12-23 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We're finally goin' on down to South Park for a look at the series that put Trey Parker and Matt Stone on the map, and has remained a Comedy Central mainstay for nearly 25 years! And since the series started its life as a Christmas-related short, it's only fair that we tackle a Christmas episode of South Park that celebrates the origins of the series well before the creators knew they'd be making episodes for 20 more years.
Listen in and learn about the surprisingly prolific careers of...
This week, we're covering the rare Halloween episode of Futurama—just in time for five days after Halloween! (In the year, 2000 anyway) Yes, it's the premiere of broadcast season three, which spins a wild tale of were-car horror almost as terrifying as how Fox would treat Futurama over the next few years. Listen in and learn how to properly bury your robots, the distinct noise of the golden marmoset, and the shocking origins of David Duchovny. Now sit back and get ready for some mu...
2020-12-18 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Gamespot Reviews Editor Kallie Plagge returns for the most harrowing week in Marge's life. After a failed wedding, Becky moves in and Marge is certain she's a usurper. Were all the scary dramas of the '90s right in terrifying Marge of a young au pair? Or is Marge just certifiable? Find out in this week's exciting podcast!!
2020-12-16 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for the first of two holiday cartoons for the end of 2020! After covering Garfield's Halloween toon in 2018, we return again to the Monday-hater's second holiday special. Garfield hates heading to the farm for Christmas, until he sees that he can eat a bunch of stuff and hang out with a rockin' Grandma Arbuckle. All that plus a mix of sad stories and confusing Odi...
2020-12-14 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This week, war were declared and the Planet Express crew finds themselves fighting in a send-up of what was then our most unpopular and disastrous war! Yes, this pre-9/11 look at American military intervention may leave you feeling a little uncomfortable, but at least the jokes about M*A*S*H go down easy. Listen in and learn all about the gum that pinkens your teeth while you chew, meet the enigmatic new character, Lee Lemon, and witness the destructive power of the word "daffodil." Now sit b...
2020-12-11 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we're joined by fantastic artist and friend Nina Matsumoto, for a very special occasion worthy of breaking our chronological format! Back in November 2019, we all attended a Simpsons table read for this very episode of season 32, and now that it's finally aired a year later we're ready to reflect on it and see how it compares to the original script! Listen along for this Skinner and Chalmers adventure!
2020-12-09 05:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Nothing from the '90s can truly stay dead, so it was only a matter of time before we saw a revival of Warner Bros.' Silver Age of animation with the return of Animaniacs. And while it could have been a cheap, cynical cash-in, the presence of Steven Spielberg assured that someone spent a whole lot of money on this series—which rarely happens in the world of streaming. Sure, the actors sound a bit older, and the new animation takes a bit of time to get used to, but this reboot stays incredibl...
2020-12-07 05:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Good news, everyone! For our first ever Talking Futurama interview, we're talking to the great Eric Rogers, who acted as assistant to the writers for the first two production seasons, wrote of the "Terror at 500 Feet" segment of Anthology of Interest I, and returned for the Comedy Central reboot of Futurama as a regular writer of episodes. Listen in as we talk to Eric about his journey into the world of TV writing, what it was like to be on the Futurama staff from the very beginning, the diff...
2020-12-05 05:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's episode of Talking Futurama tackles a format-breaking episode that seemed like it was going to become a regular occurrence until it didn't: the Anthology of Interest! Futurama's answer to Treehouse of Horror spins three tales slightly wilder than what you'd already see on an outlandish sci-fi series, all brought to you by the magic of the fing-longer. Along the way you'll witness the untimely death of Hanson, learn how to apply for mail-order degrees in murderology AND murderonomy...
2020-12-04 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We made it out of November and we have tons to talk about on our monthly community podcast! We react to some of The Simpsons' newest episodes, we announce what podcasts are coming your way in December, we chat about what we've been up to the last few weeks, AND we react to some of the best Patreon comments from the last month! So listen now before we bring out the rapping granny!
2020-12-02 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe here at the Talking Simpsons Network are as excited about this year ending as you are! And as we enter the the holidays with a tense November in the rearview mirror, it's time once more to vote on the next film we'll be podcasting about. And as was customary for a lot of 2020, the subject of our $10 premium podcast will be decided a few weeks earlier than we've done in previous years.
Currently, we're so far ahead in podcast recordings that we've already finished recording the next W...
2020-12-01 14:35:59 +0000 UTC View Post
The US election season is (mostly) over and the holidays are about to happen as we reach the end of a... rough year for all involved. You guys have helped us make it through this tough time, and we hope we've done the same for you. And so, as we close out 2020, get ready for four brand new episodes of What A Cartoon! The month of podcasts begins with us covering a just-released toon, then we're doing...
2020-11-30 15:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Another month has passed at the Talking Simpsons Network, and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month, our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 2005's Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit! Listen now to this free extended preview, and then subscribe at the $10 level (or up your current pledge to $10) to hear the whole thing and all of our ...
2020-11-30 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Get out your finest wheel of Wensleydale, because it's time for our four-hour tour of Aardman's fantastic 2005 film, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. When the British stop-motion studio finally got into feature films with 2000's Chicken Run, it was only a matter of time before their star characters appeared on the silver screen—and this cracking good movie was definitely worth the wait! Listen in and learn about Aardman's history with Dreamworks—and how they avoided get...
2020-11-30 04:59:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for a Futurama episode about stuffing your face, just as you're probably on the brink of eating Thanksgiving leftovers for the next five days! This week, the Planet Express crew stumbles upon a planet filled to the brim with delicious morsels, which end up being the offspring of our old pals from Omicron Persei 8. Along the way, we learn the difference between taste-sicles and test-sicles, meet the first of many members of the Free Waterfall family, and drink our fill of extreme wal...
2020-11-27 05:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Bill Kopp is the co-creator of Eek! The Cat and The Terrible Thunderlizards, creator of The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show and Mad Jack The Pirate, AND he was one of the first animators on The Simpsons way back in 1987! We chatted with Bill recently about his career, covering a lot of the early days of The Simpsons shorts, some of our favorite Eek! memories, his creation of the Press Your Luck Whammies, and so much more. And if you enjoy this, be sure to check out our MANY previous int...
2020-11-26 05:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post