Bill Morrison is the writer and artist behind so many pieces of Simpsons and Futurama art you've seen. From early covers to Simpsons video games or the art for calendars, to the first time the Simpsons appeared in comic book form in the magazine Simpsons Illustrated or the very first Bongo Comics. Bill Morrison was also an early designer and art director helping define Futurama's look before the series even began. Bil...
2018-10-12 07:04:59 +0000 UTC
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It's time for one of the most insider-y episodes of The Simpsons ever, so we had to get some MAJOR guests to help us deconstruct all of it! To help us analyze the kung fu hippie from gansta city, we're joined live in Los Angeles by Rebecca Sugar, the creator of Steven Universe, 2018-10-10 03:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Hidely-ho, Paterinos! Henry here with a quick update on some minor changes happening on the Talking Simpsons Patreon this week:
1. Two New Choose-A-Topic Slots Are Open At the $50 Tier!
The "King-Sized Homer" level has been one of our most popular tiers since we began, as it lets a high level supporter choose the subject for a future What A Cartoon! podcast! So we figured we'd add a couple more spots in the tier in case there is anyone else interested!
2. N...
2018-10-09 17:04:48 +0000 UTC
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This week we dive into the unique and incredible world of JoJo and we have a great guest to help us, Woolie from Super Best Friends! We go into the long history of one of Japan's most popular mangas ever, and then chat about the anime adaptation, as well as what makes both so special! It's a treat for JoJo experts and noobs alike, so puff up that hair and get re...
2018-10-08 05:00:02 +0000 UTC
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This week we've got Will Sloan, co-host of the Michael And Us podcast, digs deep into Disneyana with us for Shary Bobbins' only appearance ever in The Simpsons! We go through all the great song of the episode, the many references to pop culture sprinkled throughout, and discuss how much this Jean & Reis-run episode stands out in this more hard...
2018-10-03 05:00:00 +0000 UTC
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Ha ha! Classic cartoon podcast... This week Bob and Henry are joined by a special Patreon supporter as we go through the Adult Swim original Harvey Birdman. The series' second episode takes hot coffee and shrink rays, turning it into comedy gold. Plus we go over Harvey's long history right ahead of the series getting a comeback special to roast our current presidential insanity! Listen along if you really want to feel him!
2018-10-01 05:00:02 +0000 UTC
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It's been another big month for Talking Simpsons and we can't wait to tell you about it! Three new live shows! A new t-shirt! And so much more! And, as always, we respond to your questions and comments from the last month of Talking Simpsons episodes. Thanks again for your support—we've got some great stuff on the ...
2018-09-28 07:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Bob and Henry are back again for another premium video. This time we go back to September 17, 1995 and The Simpsons' lost clip show. Aired directly before Who Shot Mr. Burns Part 2, we explore this parody of America's Most Wanted which is a lovely time capsule for this point in time! Plus, some Simpsons secrets will be revealed!
2018-09-27 22:04:44 +0000 UTC
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October is just around the corner, and fortunately for you the only thing scary about this month is just how many great podcasts we have in store for you! (Unless you're afraid of Garfield for some reason.) Our What A Cartoon! schedule for October runs the gamut from fighting anime to Disney fare to treasured '80s classics to weirdo MTV stuff, and we can't wait for you to hear it! And just remember, you can...
2018-09-27 22:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Good news, folks! Our 5:00pm show at Kelly's Olympian in Portland, OR on Saturday, October 20th sold so many tickets in one day, they offered us a second live show! This show will be happening at 2:00pm that same day, so if you somehow miss out on getting tickets to the 5:00pm show (2018-09-27 19:01:00 +0000 UTC
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We're going hiking this week and we're joined by Luke Savage, cohost of the great podcast Michael And Us! We reminisce about our own corporate retreat nightmares, our fears of cabin fever, learning about WHO prevents forest fires, and the continual budget cuts to our national parks! Now put on your heaviest jackets, grab your map (you haven't been ...
2018-09-26 05:57:16 +0000 UTC
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We're back to anime this week as we tackle the mega-hit from Japan that failed to catch on in America, Case Closed. Known as Detective Conan in its home country, this long, long, long-running series about a teenage master detective trapped in a boy's body hit Adult Swim in the summer of 2004, but its mix of kiddie antics and extremely dark subject matter mostly confused an American audience tuning in for the network's typical stoner humor. But some recent attention from Conan O'Brien ju...
2018-09-24 07:00:01 +0000 UTC
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[Update! We added a second show at 2:00pm at the Portland venue on 10/20! Scroll down for more details or click here to buy tickets for that show!]
Great news for all of you Talking Simpsons fans who love our live shows: we'r...
2018-09-23 21:24:33 +0000 UTC
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Another Simpsons podcast? It's true! And in case you missed our guest spot on Everything's Coming Up Simpsons, we're hardly the Plow King to their Mr. Plow. In fact, we're united in our love of both The Simpsons and
2018-09-19 19:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Here come the pretzels! This week GameSpot's Kallie Plagge is here for Marge's adventure in business/organized crime. We learn about coupons, the Glengarry leads, boaking accidents, checking for millipedes, and so much more. So get pretzel fever (not the kind that attacked our intestinal lining some years back) and listen now!
2018-09-19 05:34:59 +0000 UTC
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We hope you merry mutants are ready to get X-treme this week, because we're talking about X-Men with Matt McMuscles (check him out at Super Best Friends and his personal YouTube channel). No superheroes in the early 1990s were more popular than the X-Men, and the...
2018-09-17 05:00:01 +0000 UTC
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In our quest to interview every Simpsons showrunner, we were lucky enough to get a solid hour with the one and only Josh Weinstein! You might know him from his work on The Simpsons with his former writing partner Bill Oakley, as well as Mission Hill, Gravity Falls, and various other great projects, but this interview is devoted solely to his newest series as a showrunner, Disenchantment. (Though we obviously touch on The Simpsons here and there.)
Learn everything you ever wanted to know ...
2018-09-14 23:42:42 +0000 UTC
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We realize not everyone can afford to give us five dollars a month for bonus podcasts, and we definitely appreciate those one-dollar subscribers who pitch in just a little bit as a way of saying "thanks." Which is why we've decided to unlock all past and future episodes of our monthly community podcast, Talk to the Audience?!? for everyone at the one-dollar "Let's Bee Friends" level. (Of course, everyone wh...
2018-09-12 19:26:23 +0000 UTC
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Citations Needed is one of the best politics podcasts out there and the show's cohost, Nima Shirazi, is lending us his Simpsons expertise to dive into this crossover classic episode! Homer sees an alien that may also be Santa Claus, and everyone from Leonard Nimoy to Scully and Mulder wants to see if the truth is out there in Springfield. Plus we explain a to...
2018-09-12 06:25:51 +0000 UTC
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Straight from Retronauts and Retronauts Video Works, Jeremy Parish is here to help us with his deep love and knowledge of G.I. Joe as we watch our first ever '80s cartoon. Sure, G.I. Joe was conceived as a toy commercial, but the folks creating the series could still write subvers...
2018-09-10 04:45:15 +0000 UTC
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IGN's Zachary Ryan joins us as we trip out on the series' most psychedelic episode. After maintaining his status as Pope of Chili Town, Homer goes on a bad trip through his subconscious featuring some of the most lovely art in Simpsons history. A space coyote has us all questioning who is our soulmate, but in the end we all know it's either Marge or short-shorts. Now listen to this podcast, which was carved down from a bigger...
2018-09-05 04:48:53 +0000 UTC
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Let's get dangerous! It's time to take a trip back to The Disney Afternoon by digging deep into one of its most important (and entertaining) shows, Darkwing Duck! Disney's duck superhero broke new ground for their TV animation department by choosing to go a more Warner Brothers-y route with plenty of slapstick, wild takes, and utter destruction of the fourth wall. The result is a fun little series that aged incredibly well and influenced Disney to be even more experimental in the '90s and beyond...
2018-09-03 07:00:01 +0000 UTC
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One man has directed more episodes of The Simpsons than anyone else, and that's Mark Kirkland! From Dancin' Homer in season 2 all the way up to an 84th episode he's currently working on, Mark has been there for so much Simpsons history, and we only scratch the surface with him! We talk to Mark about getting his start on classic Hanna-Barbera cartoons, how he joined the show at the height of Simpsons-mania, how classics...
2018-08-31 14:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Labor Day is just around the corner and What A Cartoon! is podcasting this fall up RIGHT! What's to come in September? Our first taste of Disney Afternoon, our first episode about an '80s action figure classic, more Marvel '90s comic toons, an anime murder mystery, and another Adult Swim original!! What a wild month of animation, so here's the schedule in case you want to prepare your viewing ahead of time!!!
Darkwing Duck - Life, The Negaverse, And Everything Else [Patreon Date: 9/3/1...
2018-08-30 14:00:02 +0000 UTC
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We're joined this week by musician/writer/podcaster/developer Liz Ryerson (check out her Patreon) and together we delve into the psyche of Ned Flanders. After getting some wadded beef, we suffer through a hurricane as Ned is tested like never before. Then we try nothing and are all out of ideas as we learn secrets about Flanders' past! Listen now to the po...
2018-08-29 05:56:46 +0000 UTC
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This week we visit our friendly neighborhood web-swinger and we have our podcast buddy Gary Butterfield of Duckfeed to help us out! While Batman was getting all the accolades, Spider-Man got his own animated series in 1994, and while it may not have aged as well, Spidey still has great writing and voice acting when the animation budget is lacking. We check out the seaso...
2018-08-27 05:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Bob and Henry are back for another Patreon-exclusive chat with the community! We read our favorite comments from Talking Simpsons AND What A Cartoon! We chat about the news in the world of Simpsons - A real life Kwik-E-Mart? A Simpsons Movie sequel? And there's much more, including us teasing some upcoming interviews and other big plans! Listen and enjoy!
2018-08-25 00:57:19 +0000 UTC
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Matt Burnett is co-creator of Cartoon Network's fantastic Craig of the Creek, as well as one of the first writers for Steven Universe, and he joins Bob and Henry for Lisa's first crush. Much to Milhouse's dismay, Lisa has a thing for Nelson Muntz, and it leads to painful consequences for everyone. All while Homer annoys the town with auto-dialing happiness! Unpack the gauze from your ears and listen to this week's podcast...
2018-08-22 05:00:00 +0000 UTC
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In one of our freshest podcasts ever, Bob and Henry dig into the third episode of Matt Groening's brand new Netflix series, Disenchantment! We go in-depth into the show's third episode, seeing how Lucy will save Bean, how Elfo properly makes daisy chains, how good Bean is at drunk driving, and we explore all three of the sciences, even smoke! Listen along and learn about how the series came to be and how much we're enjoying this new series from many of the folks who worked on Futurama and The Si...
2018-08-20 05:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Ian Jones-Quartey and Toby Jones are executive producers on Cartoon Network's OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, and they're joining us LIVE in-person to discuss one of the most momentous Simpsons episodes of all time! We all borrow a feeling as Milhouse's parents get divorced, and we struggle with dignity, sweet Fannie Addams, dry crackers, and smashing chairs over your father's back! (Plus Ian and Toby will share with us some behind-the-scenes secrets of OK K.O., Steven Universe, Regular Show, and MORE...
2018-08-15 05:00:00 +0000 UTC
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