Talking Simpsons - Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood With Patrick Cotnoir
Added 2025-01-15 05:00:03 +0000 UTCRecover from your own Squishee hangover with our guest Patrick Cotnoir (George Lucas Talk Show, Hey, That's Me: A Commentary Podcast). In a story not affiliated with The Boy Scouts of America, Bart joins the Junior Campers and learns to love rubber knives & animal traps. Somehow that strands Bart in the ocean with Homer and a pair of Flanderses in another adventure full of memorable moments, be they sugar-related or that Borgnine guy. So don't do what Donny Don't does—listen to this podcast!
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Also could be a reference to the act of Shanghaing people.
Robert Bills
2025-02-25 22:44:48 +0000 UTCI think Ned was just naming them in the order you usually name the books and using it as sort of an eni, meeny, mighty, Moe way of picking which route to take.
Robert Bills
2025-02-25 22:42:29 +0000 UTCJack in the Box has thick milkshakes. It did become a pain for me, and I ended up switching to a spoon.
Rhomega
2025-01-23 15:53:26 +0000 UTCAm I the only one who thinks the ending is a cougar attack? Why would they keep Patti mentioning it being “cougar season” if not for the final pay off?
DL MacDonald
2025-01-19 17:44:43 +0000 UTCThe densest collection of military and border patrol recruiters I’ve seen has been at obstacle course races.
Shawn Frieler
2025-01-19 02:27:40 +0000 UTCThe intro to going crazy Broadway style is burned into my brain because I listened to the Songs in The Key of Springfield cd countless times in my youth. For the past few years the Marines had a big presence at Anime NYC. And in 2023 there was a booth for the FBI.
Galileo908
2025-01-19 01:45:10 +0000 UTCIn Colonel Homer, he drives into Spittle County and there is a banjo player a la Deliverance, when he crosses the county line. a hot parody at the time
mavrick
2025-01-18 20:46:39 +0000 UTCI can't believe I just noticed it, but in the header image, is Henry (Henerey) depicted in a Hawaiian shirt because of the line from Homer's Phobia about gay guys vs party animals? Good reference. I gather that real life Henry is a lot slimmer than that image of him so they/Nina might want to redo it lol.
Jay in Madison
2025-01-18 00:31:58 +0000 UTCI always think of this episode whenever jerkass Homer discourse starts up. He is SO ridiculous. "Egghead likes his booky wook", losing the map, stealing the pocket knife, throwing away Rod's walkman, washing his socks, shoveling all their food into his mouth, and always thinking he knows better than everyone. The Mirkin era is in full effect.
PurpleComet
2025-01-17 23:33:40 +0000 UTC@1:03:00 I carry a small Swiss Army knife on my keys. I use it almost every day. Definitely used it today and yesterday. I lose so many of them at shows/sports/airports but it benefit outweighs the cost. I probably lose, on avg. 1.2 a year.
Darbley
2025-01-17 05:34:01 +0000 UTCSo a handful of answers to questions you brought up in this episode: -There are still arcades, a major one is "Round 1" which is a national chain. The one I've been to in Peoria, AZ is two floors, with the top floor being a family friendly gym type experience you have to pay to enter, and the bottom floor being the arcade. The majority of their games are claw machines, however. When I was there last it was mostly Spy Family themed prizes, although I've heard they've had Hololive English prizes in the past year. -The Bronx IS up and the Battery IS down. -I know up until the pandemic shut it down in 2021, there was a military recruitment center at Metrocenter Mall in central Phoenix. -Cell Phones are absolutely plot points in current murder mystery shows. Sometimes they completely give the person away. Sometimes nothing incriminating is found. A lot of times burner phones are used.
Dennis K
2025-01-17 02:04:27 +0000 UTCIf you want to see the closest thing, watch My Breakfast With Blassie, where Andy Kaufman has breakfast with pro wrestling manager Freddie Blassie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWCJM8wvcg8&themeRefresh=1 - Henry
Talking Simpsons
2025-01-16 20:33:50 +0000 UTCHell yeah shout out to Jupiter pinball bar, love that place.
Aidan fleming
2025-01-16 20:04:07 +0000 UTCI am HORRIBLY embarrassed to admit that this podcast is how I found out “My Dinner with Andre” is NOT about Wallace Shawn hanging out with Andre the Giant
Andrew Ouellette
2025-01-16 17:24:44 +0000 UTCIn regard to Barney and the ship. I believe this is a reference to the practice of Impressment. Where UK naval recruiters would often go to bars and dupe drunk men into serving in the Royal Navy and in many cases simply kidnap them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressment?wprov=sfti1#
Nicholas Friederich
2025-01-16 11:23:02 +0000 UTCSecond best episode of all time for me. Every moment is permanently engraved in my brain. At least once a month, apropos of nothing, I will stop and think to myself, "It seems like everywhere I look, people are enjoying knives." Only Simpsons freaks could possibly understand. Other lines that have become part of my life's vocabulary: "Godspeed, little doodle." "I stole it from that Borgnine guy." "Egghead likes his booky wook!" "Uggghhh, we're takin' a bath on this." "If you survive, please come again!" 22 minutes of solid television gold. First-ballot hall of fame episode.
SlothIsLegend
2025-01-16 08:17:05 +0000 UTCObligatory “Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder” comment.
Jeff Allred
2025-01-16 00:21:07 +0000 UTCJust a note for everyone: The Dan McGrath segment was originally left out of the initial post, but we've uploaded the corrected mp3 file. This segment starts around 12 minutes in. - Bob
Talking Simpsons
2025-01-15 23:04:46 +0000 UTCI did Cub Scouts for 3 or 4 years and, sort of like Bart, I was close to quitting until I found out there was a fast track to getting a pocket knife. In those 3 or 4 years, going for that badge is really the only thing I remember actually doing with any enthusiasm. And I did indeed get that knife, and then I quit. My grandfather also used to carry a small pocket knife with him everywhere. It was actually pretty convenient to be able to turn to him in a situation and ask "Hey Papa, you have your knife?" and every time he did. I want to say he carried it with him until the day he died, but I don't know that for sure nor do I know what happened to that little knife when he did. I'd never think to carry one now as I'm sure it would get confiscated somewhere and thrown away on me. If you want to be a knife guy these days you basically have to be comfortable with buying multiple pocket knives in a given year or just not go anywhere of significance.
Joe Hodgson
2025-01-15 19:33:44 +0000 UTCit was, but it's now been fixed!
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2025-01-15 19:26:57 +0000 UTCMartin would LOVE Seaman for the Dreamcast
wildlandblazer
2025-01-15 18:09:05 +0000 UTCAm I going crazy or is the writers segment about Dan McGrath missing?
Alex Irish
2025-01-15 17:17:26 +0000 UTCI tried to join scouts for all of one year in grade school and hated it. For me, time outside of school was for tv. I often argued with my mom that everything we learned at our den meetings wasn't anything I couldn't learn about on an episode of Zoom after school. Thankfully my time was cut short when they moved the den meetings to Friday nights and my single working mother decided that giving up her Friday evenings was simply too much to ask for the both of us.
Blake R.
2025-01-15 16:33:35 +0000 UTCSpeaking of playable games based on games depicted in The Simpsons, a speedrun of the real game based on the Waterworld game from the show was part of the recently concluded Awesome Games Done Quick 2025. It even includes a twist ending not shown in the film! There are a lot of lines in the show tend to make their way into people's personal lexicons, for our household, recently Milhouse's "It's so thiiiiick" has become an analogue to calling things thicc.
F Shackleford
2025-01-15 16:30:07 +0000 UTCBonus features are the property of the studio whose release they were produced for. Not to be a downer, but porting over all commentaries for everything to streaming is so unrealistic. It'd have to be someone's full-time job clearing everything for the service. (When they were ported over on Simpsons World it was probably easier as it was one series and a service launched BY the series, able to clear with everyone on staff.)
Thad Komorowski
2025-01-15 15:45:51 +0000 UTCI think kids don’t rewatch things most of them just too much aim at them
Cossover
2025-01-15 14:43:09 +0000 UTCThis is one of those episodes that's such a goddamn joy to revisit because nearly every 30 seconds of it contains something that's been absolutely BURNED INTO MY BRAIN because of how iconic and funny it is. It's not the funniest moment in the show to me now, but I remember watching this episode with a friend when the DVD was new, and rewinding Bart's squishee reaction over and over because we couldn't stop laughing at it. -- And much like Patrick, I had Songs in the Key of Simpsons on my first iPod and listened to them almost ad nauseam on bus rides in like 5th grade (yes, I am 14 years younger than the hosts).
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2025-01-15 14:18:26 +0000 UTCI might be your only patron that ever worked on an oil rig so I can say yes there is a lot of turnover on rig staff - some positions more than others - because even the good ones kinda suck. Also, on an off-shore rig like that, he might be working 2 or 3 week stints where he gets a few weeks at home between, so it is possible he just has 2 jobs.
16_oz_mouse
2025-01-15 13:39:29 +0000 UTCGosh darn the ending of this one 😅. I hope I’m not the only one that was traumatized by this ending
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2025-01-15 07:26:28 +0000 UTC
