This week marks 28 years since the first episode of The Simpsons aired. To mark the anniversary, we've got an exclusive new interview with Mimi Pond, a graphic novelist and the writer of this landmark...
2017-12-18 21:48:06 +0000 UTC View Post
In this penultimate episode of The Critic, Alice's sister Randa visits The Big Apple and finds out she'll need more than her southern-fried ways to survive the big city. But in her quest for a new hus...
2017-12-15 22:29:28 +0000 UTC View Post
After drinking plenty of Malk, we cover this classic episode, like it or lump it. Skinner and Edna are battling over a teacher's strike (purple monkey dishwasher) and all the kids are set free. We cha...
2017-12-13 08:17:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Surprise! Bob and Henry got a brand new interview, this time with Simpsons legend Mike Scully. Scully started with season 5's Lisa's Rival and worked on staff until becoming the showrunner for seasons...
2017-12-11 16:29:26 +0000 UTC View Post
If you've been following our podcasts over the years, you shouldn't be surprised that we LOVE holiday specials...
2017-12-09 00:54:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Simpsons meets Disney in this iconic episode. Santa's Little Helper misses casual sex, the family ends up with 25 dogs who love Models Inc, and Mr. Burns shows off his wardrobe in this classic. We com...
2017-12-06 05:10:32 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back with yet another Talking Simpsons community podcast! (Sorry for the delay.) Listen in as we field your questions and comments on Homie the Clown, Bart vs. Australia, Homer vs. Patty and Sel...
2017-12-06 00:20:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Originally posted November 11, 2015, Homer gets a new job back when that was a novel thing. Learn to love minor league baseball, organ music, and Tony Bennet in this classic from season two, now with ...
2017-12-05 02:04:17 +0000 UTC View Post
An insane, evil billionaire businessman running for President? Only The Critic could come up with such an outlandish premise! In an episode that in no way reminds us of recent events, Duke Phillips re...
2017-12-01 19:12:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Zounds! We're headed to the far off future of 2010 to see Lisa (and the rest of Springfield) grow up in one of the funniest AND most heartwarming episodes ever. Bart is in construction, Burns got stab...
2017-11-29 03:34:56 +0000 UTC View Post
After 19 episodes, we're finally here: the best possible episode of The Critic! The dearly departed Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert guest star, temporarily break up, and try to recruit Jay Sherman as a po...
2017-11-24 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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Henry and Bob are travelling back to 1987 to chat about Simpsons history that's more than three decades old. What new moments happened in the first 11 sh...
2017-11-23 21:43:25 +0000 UTC View Post
In this very special bonus episode of Talking Simpsons, we take a look at The Problem with Apu, a new documentary by comedian Hari Kondabolu about his relationship with Apu as a South Asian American. ...
2017-11-23 16:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Boo-urns! It's time for the crossover that entertained millions and pissed off Matt Groening. We get into that, as well as some of the most meme-inspiring lines in Simpsons history, including quiet pa...
2017-11-22 08:32:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Originally posted November 4, 2015! Listen to us talk all about Burns' quest to be governor as the writers cram in every Citizen Kane reference they can. This podcast has the momentum of a runaway fre...
2017-11-21 16:46:08 +0000 UTC View Post
The Critic enters its zaniest territory to date as Franklin and Eleanor Sherman find themselves stranded on a desert island thanks to an alcoholic penguin. (We said it was zany.) Back in New York City...
2017-11-17 20:01:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Mark your calendars for January 28, 2018, because Talking Simpsons is going to do a LIVE PODCAST RECORDING!
SF Sketchfest is one of the best comedy festivals in the world, and we've been invited to ...
2017-11-15 19:59:17 +0000 UTC View Post
After blowing all his money on pumpkins, Homer is in desperate need to save his family and dear Rat Boy. So he turns to Patty and Selma for help, which somehow also involves Mel Brooks. Meanwhile, Bar...
2017-11-15 08:03:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Originally posted on October 28, 2015! Straight from the archives and newly ad-free, it's the original Halloween special from The Simpsons. We talk scary houses, aliens cooking for forty humans, and E...
2017-11-13 21:55:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Bust out your vegemite sandwiches for the most Australian episode of The Critic to date! Jeremy's twin sister Olivia comes to New York City, putting Jay's relationship with Alice to the test. Along th...
2017-11-10 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
We head to the land down under for some giant beers, spoon against knives, and mucus-filled marsupials. Learn a ton about Australia in what is probably the best international trip the Simpsons have as...
2017-11-08 09:48:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Originally posted on October 22, 2015, here's another newly ad-free classic episode of Talking Simpsons which (through no fault of our own) has stopped appearing on the free podcast feed! And this one...
2017-11-07 07:50:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Jay and Marty get yet another makeover in this very familiar episode of The Critic. Marty's new look (and size) causes him to face the horrors of being popular and attractive, while Jay deals with a m...
2017-11-03 20:22:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm seeing double here - FOUR podcasts! We're doing one of the funniest Simpsons episodes ever, with Seattle, speed holes, Italian stereotypes, and (of course) gigantic asses. Listen and laugh along w...
2017-11-01 05:43:49 +0000 UTC View Post
As classic episodes of our podcast leave the free feeds, we're adding them here for posterity, eventually putting all our old episodes on Patreon with the ads removed! And we're starting with the firs...
2017-10-31 17:11:38 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a brand-new Talking Simpsons community podcast, just in time for Halloween! (Note: this episode has very little to do with Halloween.) Listen in as we discuss our respective travels to the Portla...
2017-10-30 04:15:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Jay's sister Margo takes the spotlight in this episode as she falls for Johnny Wrath, lead singer of the very Nirvana-esque grunge band, Nuns in a Blender. Meanwhile, Alice's new status as a working m...
2017-10-27 15:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Que sera, sera, it's time for us to do what some argue is the greatest episode of The Simpsons ever. We've got Butzilla, perverted arts, the Super Friends, barnyard guessing games and SO MUCH MORE in ...
2017-10-25 05:52:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Ian Jones-Quartey is yakking it up on the old yak box with Bob and Henry this week! Ian is the creator of the new Cartoon Network series OK KO, and he graciously chatted with us about the show, such a...
2017-10-24 17:34:02 +0000 UTC View Post
It's The Critic's first (and only) flashback episode! Jay takes us back to the magical year of 1991, when he became an unwitting news correspondent—and later a POW—during the first Iraq War. This ...
2017-10-20 19:16:07 +0000 UTC View Post