Hosts Bob Mackey (
@bobservo
) & Henry Gilbert (
@hEnereyG
) chronologically explore every ep of
#TheSimpsons
ever. Plus: What A Cartoon!, a general cartoon podcast
🎙Talking Simpsons explores The Simpsons one ep at a time!
🎙What A Cartoon! spotlights a different cartoon every month!
Join our Patreon for bonus podcasts (Futurama, KotH, WAC Movie), interviews, & more✨
Here are all the Japanese Simpsons episode titles
@spacecoyotl
translated to English for our show. Bonus season 9 episode titles she translated by request in a separate occasion.
@TalkSimpsonsPod
any chance to get a list of those retranslated Japanese Simpsons Episode titles you discussed in the 30 minutes over tokyo episode? I need them for reasons.
"When this movie came out, strangers would tell me 'You look like Napoleon Dynamite!' without specifying that I actually resemble the handsome actor, Jon Heder." -
@bobservo
's Letterboxd
Young Bob vs. Young Jon, for reference
New and old listeners can rejoice -- we've lifted the 100-episode limit on our RSS feeds! Now you can use your favorite podcast app to go way back to the very beginning, when we first covered season 2 in 2015 (our first look at season 1 is a Patreon exclusive).
Many of us listen to podcasts while commuting to work, taking walks, or going to the gym. Here are some good times to listen at home:
-doing chores (dishes especially)
-grinding in video games
-working out
-cooking
Reply with other suggestions for people who have to stay at home!
We appreciate all of you who came to see us and
@cushbomb
dissect Simpsons predictions last night! Special thanks to
@thatbilloakley
for sending us his take on the phenomenon. A recording of our show will be available in our feed soon!
Just announced on today’s Stargate episode, NEXT WEEK
@TalkSimpsonsPod
meets We Hate Movies to talk, The Simpsons Movie!
Get excited with this amazing promo image by
@spacecoyotl
!
Our January 25
@SFSketchFest
live show poster by
@spacecoyotl
! Join us and
@cushbomb
as we examine so-called Simpsons "predictions" that plague social media.
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Thinking about how Spider-Man 2 is about Peter Parker being desperately poor & Aunt May failing to stop the bank from foreclosing on her home, and that MCU is about Peter happily inheriting a billionaire’s fortune & Aunt May became a well-paid philanthropist
No new Talking Simpsons this week! We're taking a little time off to move and set up our Talking Simpsons Seattle and Talking Simpsons Vancouver studios. So hang in there, and we'll see you next week! Thanks as always for your support.
since we're talking about canadian tv, today i mourn cybersix, about a genetically engineered female warrior who escapes her creator and lives in disguise by day as a male english teacher and by night, a leather-clad heroine
As I head to Tokyo for my own Xmas trip, I’m reminded that one of my favorite podcasts we ever did on
@TalkSimpsonsPod
was released a year ago: Our Tokyo Godfathers movie podcast!
We discussed the Satoshi Kon holiday classic for over FIVE HOURS!
This week’s Talking Simpsons podcast is our LIVE Portland show with very special guest
@thatbilloakley
!!! We have fun discussing three Treehouse of Horror classics AND Bill reveals some fun Simpsons secrets even we didn’t know! Listen here!
🎙Talking Simpsons explores the Simpsons one ep at a time!
🎙What A Cartoon! discusses a different cartoon every week!
Join our Patreon for creator interviews, bonus podcasts (Futurama, KotH, movies)+more ✨
To celebrate the anniversary of this fa-laaaming episode, listen to our recap with
@gayestepisode
's
@drewgmackie
from October 2018! Keep reaching for that rainbow!
As the year comes to a close, here are some fun 2019 Talking Simpsons Network stats!
First off, total number of releases: 156
53 Talking Simpsons, 50 What A Cartoon!, 12 WAC Movie!, 13 TalKing of the Hill, 9 Talking Futurama, 12 Talk to the Audience?!?, and 7 miscellaneous
the people have spoken and Batman: The Animated Series will be the topic of our next
@TalkSimpsonsPod
podcast miniseries! more details to come, but look forward to when it goes live on October 29th 🦇
full post here:
We’ll soon be recording our Krusty Gets Busted podcast with
@kcgreenn
, and in the meantime you should read this amazing thread full of art inspired by this screenshot
Honorable mentions: Bitey, the Australian Prime Minister & boot guy, and The H.M.S. Pinafore Bob (all three outfits!). Thanks for having us, Portland Simpsons trivia!
it's the end of the month, which means another mega-long movie podcast is hitting the
@TalkSimpsonsPod
Patreon tomorrow night! 🤥
sign up for $10 to hear our episode about Pinocchio AND 3+ years of our previous What A Cartoon Movie podcasts:
We're doing
@SFSketchfest
again, and
@Jordan_Morris
is joining us! On Jan 14, in celebration of 30 years of The Simpsons, we're looking back at its 1st season. Get tickets now!:
🎙
🎙
✨
In honor of the WGA strike, we’re talking with
@TalkSimpsonsPod
about the 2007 South Park episode “Canada on Strike”
The show skewers the writers’ guild’s absurd assertion that there could ever be money made on the internet
Whether you're getting ready to watch the Super Bowl or dusting off your Vincent Price Egg Magic kit, today's the day to revisit "Sunday Cruddy Sunday" with our friendly football expert
@The_Katbot
!
We're now on TeePublic, which opens up a world of merch options! You can choose garment type and color, and we have mugs and stickers, too. 30% off for the next 2 days!
🛍️
What's that say? The December edition of Talk to the Audience?!? is coming tomorrow for our patrons! Thank you for your patience as we return to work after the holidays, which you'll hear all about in this release.
We've gotten over 200 new followers since relaunching this Twitter a few days ago, and just broke a total of 700! Let's go for 1000!
Might I add, you all have excellent taste:
The hilarious Xmas short "Duck the Halls" is now streaming on Disney+! Check it out if you couldn't when we discussed it back in 2019, then listen to our episode again (or for the first time)!
Disney+ is here, so it's a good time to listen to all the
@TalkSimpsonsPod
Network of shows! Not only all the Simpsons episodes we discuss weekly on Talking Simpsons ( / ) but ALSO many What A Cartoon! podcasts
Wiggity-wiggity word up! "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" aired 25 years ago today, spawning several evergreen memes about cartoons and their fans. Listen to our fun discussion with animators
@rebeccasugar
,
@ianjq
&
@tobytobyjones
from October 2018:
2021 is coming to an end VERY soon, but starting in 2022 we'll have two Patreon-exclusive episodes every month!
Sign up at the $5 level and get ready for monthly episodes of both Talking Futurama and TalKing of the Hill:
One of our patrons
@FredisonP
made a fantastic chronological list of WAC episodes for listeners to reference! He originally dropped it in the Discord, but we got his blessing to share it with all of you.
We always love having the fantastic
@spacecoyotl
back on
@TalkSimpsonsPod
; we even have fun discussing a strange ep like Dude, Where’s My Ranch!
Learn how one Simpsons can cover Xmas, novelty songs, David Byrne, cowgirls, crushes, beavers, and Pepsi ads!
NEW QUORATORS w/ TALKING SIMPSONS!!
→ Is Marge Simpson Black?
→ If you super glued your penis hole and then masturbated, would the pressure cause your penis to rip open?
→ How do you know you have been phrogged?
CHECK IT OUT
We'll still be here, but the best place to follow us for the latest updates is Patreon @ TalkingSimpsons, and we're also on Instagram @ TalkSimpsonsPod!
Q: Where are early episodes of Talking Simpsons?
A: We started the Patreon mid-season-5 and can't backdate posts so we haven't posted older content there. But everything is still in our free Libsyn feed! Go here and click on "Archives" to go waaay back:
Show's over! Thank you everyone for coming to our season 1 retrospective! If you couldn't make it, don't worry -- the recording is going online this month!
We predict our 10 pm
@SFSketchfest
show will sell out soon 🔮 just as our 8 pm show did. If you're waffling on getting tickets, act now! See our triumphant return to live shows!
🎟️
November is a good time to cover a Pixar film as many of them were released this month, mostly for American Thanksgiving weekend: Toy Story (1995), A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), The Incredibles (2004), The Good Dinosaur (2015), and Coco (2017)
239 episodes in, we finally have enough gay sitcom studies under our belt to tackle Community and Dean Pelton. Lucky for us we've got the best possible person to help us sort through six seasons of hints about the Dean's sexuality:
@hEnereyG
!
This week on the show, we're getting patriotic by celebrating America's fave cat with an ep on the abysmal live-action/animation hybrid, GARFIELD, where we also welcome back our good friends Bob Mackey & Henry Gilbert from TALKING SIMPSONS! Available now wherever you get podz!
It’s our weekly exclusive podcast on the
@TalkSimpsonsPod
Patreon: TalKing of the Hill - Hilloween!
King of the Hill’s 1st Halloween episode has us discussing a spiritual battle of trick-or-treaters vs Christian fundamentalists!
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