Talking Simpsons - Bart's Inner Child With Nick Prueher
Added 2025-01-01 05:00:14 +0000 UTCWe're joined again by Nick Prueher from Found Footage Festival/VCR Party Live, and we're ringing in the new year with a classic. Written by George Meyer (confirmed viewer of Found Footage Fest), we dig into a timely satire of early '90s therapy. Somehow Marge and Homer resolving conflict maturely leads to the town worshiping Bart. So do what you feel, grab some fortified wine, and listen now for our celebration of Bart's Inner Child!
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In my first few weeks as a K-8 school traveling librarian (meaning I was the sole librarian for 5 school) I was teaching some 2 graders about being responsible users. I started telling them about a student who didn't always remember to bring his books back on time and if the book that he had happened to be one they wanted to borrow, they might feel a little sad. One kid asked what this student's name was and without missing a beat I said "oh, let's call him 'Rudiger'" And a district legend was created that day. I used "Rudiger" as my own personal "Donny-Don't" and created a whole back story for him. He had a little brother named Langdon of course. And since no student in my district was named Rudiger, he proved to be an effective and non-threatening way to talk to students about the mistakes we can all make. Simpsons References, is there anything they can't do?
Stephen C. Nedell
2025-01-19 03:23:55 +0000 UTCDon't forget the urine monkey. Technically, you don't see it... but it's there. 😁
To Boldy Joe... Moore - the Michael Crichton of the comments section
2025-01-11 02:23:47 +0000 UTCOn the topic of Simpson pee, we'll be treated to Homer's (and Otto's) urine sample in season 16's The Seven Beer Snitch. Also Grampa's when the nurse switches his catheter and IV in Barting Over I promise I'm not keeping track of these, I just happened to remember them coincidentally
Interslice
2025-01-10 06:37:48 +0000 UTCThe old mill bit is my favorite Moe moment. And the way th crowd just stops caring and goes to get cider.
Aaron11001
2025-01-10 00:15:23 +0000 UTCGreat question by Nick towards the end about favorite season of The Simpsons. I think I'm a six guy, but five is pretty damn great. I think of this as one of the lesser episodes in the season, but it's still very entertaining and has some great lines. And my basement office full of action figures and other toys says that I have no problem accessing my inner child as well. Maybe some day there will be an inner adult, but I'm fine if he never shows up.
Joe Hodgson
2025-01-07 20:31:46 +0000 UTCImportant note about Bob Anderson: He has not left The Simpsons! Despite no longer being an episode director, he is an animation timer on a several episodes of production season 35 and every episode of production season 36 thus far.
Mike Kachur
2025-01-07 18:23:22 +0000 UTCHappy new year, Talking Simpsons! This is a fantastic episode to start the year, and I think you guys are absolutely right about the Simpsons episode still being great, but just not as great as its sibling episodes in a season of banger after banger. -- Bart's line of "what an odd thing to say" is something I use in my daily life, and it might be my favourite single joke in the episode because its meta nature. -- Being a tail end millennial/start of Gen Z (guides are never clear on this), I had never seen an episode of Martin, so friends and I always found Homer walking in with "What up, Marge?" VERY odd and funny, so it's good to know where it came from.
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2025-01-06 17:18:19 +0000 UTCFrom another fellow red wine plane boy, you made a good choice, Bob. Less bathroom trips, they seem to more frequently top off wine, and when they do, they tend to fill it to the top. Occasionally I have to tell the flight attendants “please stop, I don’t need more!”
Chris Berndt
2025-01-04 17:59:33 +0000 UTCJust returned from Mufasa and I can confirm that the articles are true.
Steve D
2025-01-04 00:30:36 +0000 UTCJoe Rogan was probably doing Hardball at this time. I only know this because im a baseball fan, not a Rogan fan!
mavrick
2025-01-03 22:58:46 +0000 UTCfirst show I’ve heard with nick since I watched their documentary (chop & steele): I can say, with confidence, I now know more about Nick’s dog’s penis than any other talking simpsons guest’s dog’s penis
marathedemon
2025-01-03 02:21:23 +0000 UTCThose stories got me doing the Leonardo DiCaprio thing when a character is needlessly over explaining.
Steve D
2025-01-03 01:23:05 +0000 UTCHNY and I'm back again with a long digression (hopefully shorter this time!) about therapy -- I do think that the 'inner child' part has another component that is used in modern therapy, which is the 'past self/time travel' narrative. In addition to the inner child relating to portions of a person that had to be kept hidden due to their environment, upbringing, etc, there is the past child who would have liked someone to validate them / their existence / those feelings. This stuff is absolutely sob-worthy for a lot of people. For example, there is a big part of me right now that gets to listen to podcasts about the Simpsons, a show I was explicitly forbidden from watching and told was evil! It's fun and bittersweet to imagine a younger me that could see what he would become, give an imaginary fist-bump, etc. Hooray for Simpsons :+1:
Byron Lagrone
2025-01-02 19:42:22 +0000 UTCIf news stories about Netflix productions are anything to go off of, I have a feeling we're about to enter a prominent, unironic, era of characters announcing what they are doing as they do them
Blake R.
2025-01-02 17:24:31 +0000 UTCI met Nick at found footage fest in SF earlier this year-I mentioned hearing the last time he was featured for the Otto episode then gave him some stickers I designed inspired by Barney’s pinky hallucination!!
Melina Alexa Ramirez
2025-01-02 02:09:35 +0000 UTCNow that you guys mention it, it makes a lot of sense that the later half of this episode might've been adapted or at least inspired from the unproduced Prince episode. Hopefully that script makes it out into the wild at some point. If I remember right, the pinball machines were Matt Groening's payment for writing the Simpsons Ice Capades script and he gifted them to the writers. P.S. Yay, a new Talking Simpsons on my day off!
Vance Jericho
2025-01-01 22:43:06 +0000 UTCGreat episode (and Happy New Year, btw)! Just wanted to point out a little blooper in the outro section if you want to edit at 2:15:31 before the general release next week. Take it easy. 🙂
To Boldy Joe... Moore - the Michael Crichton of the comments section
2025-01-01 22:22:11 +0000 UTC
