Talking Simpsons - Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays With Chris Kohler
Added 2025-01-22 05:00:10 +0000 UTCFor an episode about families vs the child-free, we're joined by our podcasting parental pal, Chris Kohler from Digital Eclipse. As Marge battles Lindsay Naegle over kids in public spaces, we judge how well that has aged (in addition to references to Steve Irwin, Raffi, and Rudy Giuliani). In an episode full of funny dialogue, what does this 2004 political commentary have to tell us two decades later? Grab a kid's menu puzzle and listen now!
Comments
When Bob made that reference to laser pointers, it reminded me of when my film teacher in high school pointed a laser pointer at the screen and told us what a mise en scene was. Ah, memories.
Angel
2025-02-04 13:53:37 +0000 UTCI can confirm that TheRealJims enjoyed this episode.
Giovanni
2025-02-01 05:56:20 +0000 UTCSeeing as how the past week I resemble Milhouse's frown, thank you to Talking Simpsons for creating an oasis. I'm in a small minority in saying that Season 15 is my favorite season. Why? I grew up in Utah and most households had "The Simpsons" off limits. And I didn't discover the show until I went to college. And Season 15 was what was on air. Moreover, even though I was just as entrenched in post-9/11 politics as anybody else at the time, I always found the reverence for Rudy Giuliani to be a bit creepy. And Homer's joke was a real breath of fresh air. Younger fans who didn't live through it will never quite know just how universal it was. And how jarring the juxtaposition is to see him literally melt in front of our eyes.
Robert Sanders
2025-01-29 00:26:59 +0000 UTCWe thankfully avoided the Roofie style claptrap while raising The Boy. From early on we played the Simpsons CDs in the car, along with Ramones, Rocky Horror and Aurello Voltaire, a goth musician with a great twisted sense of humor. For fans of Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, he wrote and performed Land of the Dead and Brains. So in our case we'd get demands to replay We Put the Spring in Springfield, Teenage Lobotomy, The Time Warp and Bomb New Jersey. Voltaire even released an album of kids music called Spooky Songs for Creepy Kids. Now that The Boy is in college he's followed in his parents footsteps and joined the campus radio station.
Stephen C. Nedell
2025-01-27 13:52:18 +0000 UTCThe Vancouver Aquarium only got rid of its whale display in 2014, it was controversial as the only whales and dolphins that the Aquarium kept where ones that could not be released into the wild from its rehabilitation program. Source I saw Kavna there as a kid
St. Leibowitz
2025-01-24 22:36:56 +0000 UTCone of the longest-running programs at the radio station i work for is kids corner, an hourlong call-in show for kids. it's been on the air long enough that i was in the target demographic when it launched, and i eventually became the show's engineer and occasional on-air guest decades later. thanks to kids corner, i've learned more than i ever expected to know about contemporary independent music for kids (or "kindie" as it has come to be known). while there are plenty of folks who exclusively make music for kids, more common are the '80s and '90s alternative rockers who, since having kids of their own, have pivoted to making kindie music. you might already know about they might be giants' and lisa loeb's kindie albums, but did you know that the singers from bands like the presidents of the united states of america ("lump") and velocity girl ("sorry again") also make kindie records under seperate aliases?
Eric Schuman
2025-01-23 17:18:24 +0000 UTCAustralia had only just recovered from the entire world assuming we all carry a giant knife and live in a billabong, then Steve Irwin came along and convinced the entire world we all cut about in khakis, jamming our fingers into animal buttholes and shouting 'FWOAR!' .... Sea Captain on a same sex date? I suppose he read through all the issues of Jugs gifted from Apu and resorted back to homosexuality?
Rob MacBride
2025-01-23 00:59:17 +0000 UTCNothing cringes me more than when I see someone call another person a 'breeder'. Can we please avoid another fricking culture war!
Camille Walters
2025-01-22 21:34:32 +0000 UTCThe episode's social commentary has aged pretty well honestly, given recent comments by people like Elon about how those without children shouldn't be allowed to vote, and continued nonsense about how BIRTHRATES ARE DOWN without any consideration for why people are choosing to have kids less frequently (or the policies against immigration that allow countries to have negative population growth). That being said, I was pretty "meh" on the episode overall, especially the Woodstock parody stuff in the first act (having babies get 'high' on milk and what not is so lame), the datedness of their parodies for 2004, and the glut of licensed music, but that Millhouse frown is a beautiful image, and there ARE some pretty good jokes.
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2025-01-22 18:43:34 +0000 UTCI saw and met Raffi at a concert when I was 5. Jealous? You're Jealous. I told him a wheelchair was a chair with wheels on it. (I'm a wheelchair user) I guess I was nervous. lol I don't remember saying anything else beyond maybe I love your music, But Baby Beluga and Banana Phone were the OG bops in my house. Sorry Mom and Dad!
Adam Azzalino
2025-01-22 18:37:55 +0000 UTCI don't read much of anything into the King of the Hill joke. For something that was completely non-visual, I think they just wanted to make an easy, audible, reference to another show and slipping in propane and narrow urethra gets the job done. It's funnier than just having a Hank voice say "Bobby!" I saw Henry share an image of that glorious Spider-Man he was gifted for Christmas and share his enthusiasm for it. I have one on order, but I just got in Venom last week from the same line and he's big and beautiful and totally impractical. And I don't care. Parents can too have disposable income to spend on absurd toys, Lindsey Naegle!
Joe Hodgson
2025-01-22 17:36:45 +0000 UTCSideshow mel one hundred percent has an open relationship https://x.com/TheSimpsons/status/1457564373619290112/
Langdon Alger
2025-01-22 07:50:15 +0000 UTC
