WFMU: Nazario Scenario: Playlist from August 13, 2014

Listener comments!
	12:00pm Amanda: Hey everyone!
	12:01pm northguineahills: hallos!
	12:02pm Dan B From Upstate: nods Amanda. Paul. Pat. Nate.
	12:02pm listener james from westwood: I'm proofing an American History book and have had the Mediocre Presidents song running through my head for the past month. Outstanding choice!!
	12:03pm Rich in Washington: HI Everybodee! <channels Dr. Nick>
	12:03pm KP: Hello, Amanda
	12:03pm listener james from westwood: "It's DIGNITY!"
	12:04pm Rich in Washington: the Kirk Van Houton shows Homer his tape scene was one of my all time favorite Simpsons moment.
	12:04pm Doug Schulkind: Important question: For this Simpsons roundtable discussion, Amanda, was the table really round?
	12:05pm Amanda: Tots talked about that episode, "A Milhouse Divided," on last week's show! It is one of my all-time favorites, probably top 5. @Doug, well, there was no table at all. But our eyeballs were perfectly round, so does that count for something?
	12:07pm northguineahills: I have the Yellow Album, it's pretty horrible.
	12:07pm JakeGould: Hello. I am listening to this show live from work. That is how much I know it will be good.
	12:08pm conkrete_dawg: mm, floor pie
	12:08pm Stevel: Musical Simpso-phonic time travel!!
	12:10pm northguineahills: Didn't the Bartman actually chart?
	12:10pm Doug Schulkind: Perfect. A notable discussion!
	12:10pm listener james from westwood: Simpsons samples were a wonderful find in the early home-accessible Internet age. When I realized you could set them as AOL sounds, I plotzed.
	12:10pm Dan B From Upstate: I had this casette as a kid. Other kids made fun of me. I don't care. I loved this tape.
	12:11pm Amanda: Wow, Dan B, the kids in your school were cooler than the kids in my school. (Nobody made fun of each other for having it; rather, they pressured each other to buy it.)
	12:12pm Dan B From Upstate: No idea how it holds up, though.
	12:12pm listener james from westwood: Is it Milhouse or Ralph who lays the dis down on Bart when he calls back to the Bartman later in the series?
	12:13pm Jeff Golick: @ljfw: I remember, fondly, watching someone's Simpson's screensaver for what seemed like a very long time. This was...early 1990s? Mr Burns would come in periodically and say things like "lollygagger!...layabout!....get back to work!"
	12:14pm Doug Schulkind: Get it? No table!
	12:15pm JakeGould: Amanda, I used to have the promo CD for this that had a pile of remixes. Gave it a way to someone on Shelbyville.
	12:16pm listener james from westwood: @Jeff: IIRC there was an early Mac app that put Homer's talking head on your desktop. Similarly mesmerizing.
	12:17pm Jeff Golick: I'm thinking of a new startup that sells screensavers, in a nostalgia vein.
	12:18pm listener james from westwood: Maggie is good w a gun. Took down those Sopranos stunad's in a later ep.
	12:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...being a fan of Harry Shearer's 'LeShow' - but not following TheSimpsons (to my regret) - surprising & good to hear his Voice & be reminded of the connection...
	12:20pm JakeGould: You people 10 years younger than me really had this stuff soak your comedy brain.
	12:20pm Paulie B: Hey peeps! I hope I make sense!
	12:22pm listener james from westwood: Never saw the clips on the Tracey Ullman show, but my first exposure was in like Feb 90, when I was on vacation down in NC visiting friends at Duke. We went to an off-campus party, and someone put a tape of like 6 1st-season episodes on. So I mainlined a shitload of them in 1 sitting. Saul of Tarsus did not return home with a greater sense of mission.
	12:22pm Dan B From Upstate: You're not far off, Jake. There was a time, prolly in the early 2000s, where I could relate any topic of conversation to something that happened on the simpsons. It was such a huge part of my formation in the 90s. That and Mystery Science Theater, but that's another conversation.
	12:22pm listener james from westwood: In Living Color and The Simpsons were same night, Sun IIRC.
	12:23pm Amanda: @Listener James and @Jeff G: I HAD that app, and I WOULD buy screensavers from you. Hi Paulie B! You made more sense than I did, which I guess is good?
	12:23pm listener james from westwood: In my head, all the panelists are wearing vintage bootleg Simpson T-shirts.
	12:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...were Simpsons before Beavis&Butthead as an Edgy Cartoon ? (Pardon the comparison otherwise.) ...I fell hard for Ren&Stimpy, then InvaderZim - & AdventureTime is still a legend to me...
	12:25pm Jeff Golick: My 10- and 13-year-old watch the Simpsons regularly (w/ us), though the show these days sadly pales next to Bob's Burgers, which comes on after.
	12:26pm Jeff Golick: (imho)
	12:26pm northguineahills: Man, I was really into Ren & Stimpy in the early 90s. I agree Jeff.
	12:27pm listener james from westwood: Cultural refs in the classic Simpsons showed the writers' love of 50s-70s TV and movies. Krusty is a major nexus of that sort of writers' nostalgia. Def. embiggened my 20-something's trove of classic-TV trivia.
	12:27pm Amanda: They certainly were edgy in the very beginning, even though the Tracey Ullmann Show was on primetime. I recall seeing them in animation festivals like Spike & Mike etc. alongside much more underground material
	12:27pm Jeff Golick: I do worry about kids today and their lack of Monty Python awareness.
	12:28pm listener james from westwood: I went the reverse: Saw the show, then binge-bought the LiH anthos in NYC (Forbidden Planet!).
	12:28pm JakeGould: FWIW, I used to like Ren
	12:29pm JakeGould: I used to like Ren and Stimpy. But it doesn't age well. Too 1990s.
	12:29pm northguineahills: I would read Life in Hell in bookstores when I was rather young, and watched the Tracey Ullman show.
	12:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh yeah ! 'Life in Hell' in the local weely...geez...
	12:30pm northguineahills: The Ren & Stimpy reboot was awful.
	12:30pm Dan B From Upstate: I love the episode where bart walks into the mad magazine office and is disappointed.
	12:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...*'weeKly'...
	12:30pm listener james from westwood: Also re: Groening's experience: the clear-eyed view of the fallibility of schoolteachers and education. Everything from the absurd filmstrips (the Resistance Is Useless Series) to the cringing Skinner does around Chalmers.
	12:31pm Jeff Golick: Can I just plug my current comedy thrill here? It's a podcast by two UCB folks: Ronna and Beverly. If you have any experience with Jewish ladies from the North Shore of Massachusetts, it will likely hit your funny bone very hard. (I was raised by one, so...)
	12:32pm Amanda: Yeah, the teacher in Groening's diary was drawn a lot like Skinner...
	12:33pm listener james from westwood: "Hey egghead, sing 'Fair Harvard'!"
	12:35pm Amanda: My gif for this part of the show will be making more sense in a minute.
	12:36pm Jeff: I have a confession / observation to make: I was obsessed with The Simpsons as good comedy and as a smart cultural mirror and touchstone from their start as misshapen scratchy drawings on the Tracy Ullman Show through their evolution in later years... but when South Park came out, it seemed as if the world had changed. The torch had been passed, and I pretty much forgot The Simpsons were still on. Maybe the Simpsons writers were still doing great, smart work - but it just stopped occurring to me to look and see what they were up to. Did anyone else have this experience?
	12:38pm listener james from westwood: I stopped watching the Simpsons after there was a reference to "crumping." I knew at that point it had passed me by. South Park exists in more of an eternal now with contempt for all sides as it reacts to current events, so it may stay fresher?
	12:39pm listener james from westwood: "The Simpsons are going to Antarctica!!"
	12:39pm Amanda: @Jeff, I think a lot of people had this experience. Some jumped ship during South Park's ascendance, others during Family Guy's. Speaking as a 30something I can remember the buzz surrounding SP among college kids. In 1996 we all piled into someone's dorm room to watch Simpsons together each Sunday but by 1998 we didn't anymore.
	12:41pm Dan B From Upstate: oh yeah. ahoy. i just started an IM with my manager with ahoy. i totally got that from mr burns. i don't even realize i do it anymore. it just happens.
	12:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...SouthPark is like between Beavis&B & Simpsons...like - let's deliberately go further than Simpsons & the others; they say they make fun of everyone, but they're Crypto-Conservatives...still - SouthPark is funny - & I'm forever grateful for what they did to XMAS !!...
	12:42pm JakeGould: Is this pre-recorded?
	12:42pm northguineahills: Didn't Edison want 'hoy hoy' become the standard telephone greeting?
	12:43pm northguineahills: yes, it's pre-recorded.
	12:43pm listener james from westwood: Simpsons:Family Guy :: Ren & Stimpy:The Brothers Grunt
	12:43pm Jeff: Interesting. My reaction to Family Guy (although I admit I haven't watched a ton of them) has always been that while there's plenty of cultural-reference cleverness there, it doesn't feel as if there's much if any there there.
	12:43pm listener james from westwood: @NGH: I believe so.
	12:44pm JakeGould: I still respect pre-recorded shows.
	12:45pm listener james from westwood: OMG the quick cut to Bart reading a Playbill w/ Bob's face is PERFECT.
	12:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: AmericanDad's SchoolhouseRock-stylee exposition of IranContra is sterling.
	12:45pm northguineahills: Even after college, my friends and I would stop together to watch the Simpsons, but we were riding on momentum, and by 2000, it just lacked the quality, so we stopped.
	12:47pm northguineahills: any "Apocalypse, Wow!" ?
	12:48pm listener james from westwood: "Down in front!!"
	12:50pm Dan B From Upstate: I love that episode titles also contain [annoyed grunt] when it could clearly say d'oh. Like E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)
	12:52pm northguineahills: Watching the Simpsons is so confusing w/ the voices, but it helped me learn Espanol when in Mexico.
	12:52pm listener james from westwood: Is this the one with the life growing on the tooth?
	12:52pm JakeGould: I've met people who respond, "Family Guy is soooo funny! You should watch it." When I say I like the Simpsons. They are really annoying... And stupid.
	12:52pm listener james from westwood: "I've created Lutherans!"
	12:52pm Amanda: Good job, Listener James!!!
	12:53pm northguineahills: yep, james.
	12:53pm Amanda: @JakeGould - yeah, not a Family Guy fan either.
	12:55pm Mike East: my friends got stone cutters tattoos many years ago...I opted out and now I don't get to go to the secret meetings.
	12:57pm listener james from westwood: Mike, you can always reenact the Civil War with monkeys.
	12:59pm Amanda: Ha, Mike East! I have seen (mostly on the internet) tattoos such as: Kirk Van Houten's "dignity" on the arm, "Lenny=white/Carl=black" on the palm of the hand, and "Milpool" on the lower leg.
	1:00pm listener james from westwood: Glad they didn't get Tom Cruise for that role. No comparison.
	1:01pm Mike East: Flying Hellfish would be a good one.
	1:02pm Nate K: Joining in late here!
	1:02pm listener james from westwood: Gil also slotted into the role, but it is an ill fit.
	1:02pm Nate K: You read my mind James.
	1:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...that's a classic story of a Mom getting a story/info only partly right...
	1:03pm listener james from westwood: Today we Kill, Tomorrow We Die! Get Confidence, Stupid! Dig Your Own Grave and Save!
	1:04pm Amanda: Hi Nate! Can you believe you really SOUND like that?
	1:04pm Nate K: I incidentally was listening to the comments of a season 7 episode and one of the writers confirmed that Phil Hartman wanted to do a Troy McClure movie.
	1:04pm northguineahills: ...and of course Yo La Tengo did a song about "Let's Save Tony Orlando's House".
	1:05pm Nate K: @Amanda No! I prefer to listen to Cheap Trick on WFMU.
	1:06pm Amanda: I want to add to my past self's comments about seasons 8-10: I think what I love about them most is the then-new exploitation of minor characters like Cletus, the Van Houtens, Chalmers, et al.
	1:07pm listener james from westwood: Seasons 3-7 are prob. my sweet spot. Hit in my postcollegiate years. If I had a preference, I'd go w/ Seasons 1-11 for reruns.
	1:08pm Nate K: Indeed, 8-10 is when Kirk goes from being a divorced single dad, to practically seedy.
	1:08pm Dan B From Upstate: to this day, I still havent see the episode where lisa dates nelson.
	1:09pm Amanda: "Lisa's Date with Density." Still a never-been-discussed one here on Nazario Scenario!
	1:11pm listener james from westwood: Excellent thesis, right here.
	1:11pm listener james from westwood: DENTAL PLAN!
	1:12pm Jeff Golick: @Amanda: we called our then-in-utero first child "Cletus, the slack-jawed fetus."
	1:12pm Amanda: Ha!
	1:13pm northguineahills: I agree.
	1:13pm Mike East: lol, james. That's one of my favorite quotes...I still hear Lenny echoing in my head
	1:13pm Jeff Golick: The Treehouse of Horrors were really good then, too.
	1:13pm listener james from westwood: @Amanda, that Lord of the Flies ending's also an example of 4th-wall breaking, which I believe you've mentioned disliking (as do I).
	1:14pm northguineahills: The Treehouse of Horrors were the only watchable episodes during the fallow periods.
	1:16pm Danne D: Hi AmNazz, Paulie B, Patty B, and Natey K :) Hi Everyone :)
	1:16pm Amanda: Yep, good point LJFW. And how I need that 4th wall to be up! Hi Danne!
	1:17pm Dan B From Upstate: that critic crossover is the only episode matt groening didnt join on the commentary track.
	1:19pm listener james from westwood: The Bronson, MO snippet was a great late-stage gag. Movie committed the cardinal sin of not having Alf Clausen at the baton.
	1:19pm northguineahills: The last 3 season have had a few ok episodes, (not many) but better then the 5 seasons before that. (Of course, now it's just a celebrity vehicle).
	1:19pm Danne D: Under the Dome is a total Simpsons Movie Rip-off
	1:20pm northguineahills: I'm surprised I didn't hear anyone mention that when it came out, Danne.
	1:20pm Danne D: As long as it keeps another Seth MacFarlane vehicle from getting added to the Fox schedule I'm happy if they make new Simpons episodes forever.
	1:20pm Amanda: @Dan B, I seem to remember a lot more episodes that don't feature him on the commentary, especially in later seasons. But I am not totally sure.
	1:20pm Danne D: @ngh - I'm sure folks did :)
	1:21pm listener james from westwood: "They call'em fingers, but I've never seen 'em fing!"
	1:21pm Dan B From Upstate: A (video game) writer I like to read referred to the movie as just like the show. the first half (first ten seasons) was great, and the second half (seasons 10-20) was mediocre.
	1:22pm Mike East: is this show available as a podcast? Work keeps distracting me...think I'll have to listen again later.
	1:22pm Amanda: I am the OW in the word WOW.
	1:23pm listener james from westwood: And yet his fiancee said Otto didn't do any needle drugs. "Boy, I sure hope someone got fired over that blunder." /nerd
	1:23pm Amanda: Aw, thanks for the request Mike E! Archive should be up later this afternoon.
	1:24pm Mike East: speaking of podcasts, I dug your story on sAndy's podcast last week!
	1:24pm listener james from westwood: For what I got from the show in its 1st 10 years, it owes me nothing. I am different for it, as with Woody Allen's early comedies, Monty Python, WB cartoons, or The Young Ones.
	1:26pm Dan B From Upstate: The replacement Lisa in this bit is one of my all time favorite simson gags.
	1:26pm listener james from westwood: They did their homework on insipid 70s variety shows for this segment. Down to the polyester outfits.
	1:27pm jay c: i feel like i have learnt so much simpsons facts in the last hour and a half, real entertaining show! Happy Wednesday!
	1:27pm Amanda: And to you jay c!!!
	1:27pm listener james from westwood: "Crack that whip! Licorice whip!"
	1:27pm Jeff Golick: Streetcar!!!
	1:29pm Dan B From Upstate: www.tederick.com...
	1:29pm northguineahills: That Jasper gag still cracks me up.
	1:29pm listener james from westwood: Between this and Smithers dancing on the sub to the Village People in "Simpsons Tide," it's a giftacular opportunity.
	1:30pm r i s k y: Oh man PLEASE KEEP THIS GOING!
	1:31pm listener james from westwood: So .... is it Krusty they're whacking out this season?
	1:32pm listener james from westwood: Last Exit to Springfield = top 10 ep.
	1:33pm r i s k y: Oh man this is friggin stupendous.
	1:33pm listener james from westwood: YO DAWG I HEARD YOU LIKE THE SIMPSONS SO WE PUT A SIMPSONS TIME IN YOUR SIMPSONS TIME
	1:34pm northguineahills: lultz, james....
	1:34pm Doug Schulkind: I thought this show was going to be discussing the senate career of Alan K. Simpson. What gives?!
	1:35pm JakeGould: The goggles! They do nothing!
	1:35pm Amanda: Mad that I am unable to click-star James's comment above
	1:36pm listener james from westwood: THE BIG BOOK OF BRITISH SMILES
	1:36pm Amanda: AND shall I add (sorry I forgot it back then): Mr. Burns doing the Grinch. Genius and beautifully done.
	1:37pm Dan B From Upstate: Look. Liser, in the sky. No diamonds, though. Look out for the campy drawring of queen victoria! we're drowning! save us! help us....
	1:37pm listener james from westwood: The birth of the phrase "as was the style of the time."
	1:38pm listener james from westwood: @Amanda: Thanks! And I did the "holds hand to ear" Grinch pose Burnsy did during the song earlier.
	1:40pm Mike East: "It was the best of times..." quote also reminds me of "We the purple?!" - that's one of those lines that pops into my head randomly...often when I'm looking at my daughter's schoolwork.
	1:40pm Amanda: @Doug, stay tuned for 2 add'l hours of the show, containing the music of Jessica Simpson.
	1:42pm Amanda: Aw, thanks r i s k y for the nice wordz. Unbelievably, even though I'm not DJing live I find it so hard to keep up with everyone's comments! Thank you all so much for commenting!
	1:43pm listener james from westwood: They eventually came up w a 5-note "trite sitcom ending" flourish that they'd end an ep with to accentuate the absurdity, a sort of Laverne & Shirley-esque "da-da-dada-DA!" I know this communicates well over the net. :D
	1:44pm listener james from westwood: Think of it: To get that Classical Gas joke on the air, it presumably cost money for the rights. That's how dedicated they were to it.
	1:45pm Doug Schulkind: Four cheers to Amanda for hanging with the playlist when she could be out vacation frolicking!
	1:45pm Amanda: Classical Gas: Mason Williams 1968 (just for the record) Hey, Doug, no biggie as it is a rainy day today!
	1:46pm listener james from westwood: But he doesn't like Starland Vocal Band!
	1:47pm Andrew Waterloo: I love Spider Pig!
	1:48pm listener james from westwood: Also the RV salesman way, way back.
	1:49pm Jeff Golick: It's like a Simpsons supercut for my ears!!
	1:50pm listener james from westwood: The "what now" one kills me. Homer with the sugar: "Bees are doing what now?"
	1:50pm Jeff Golick: What does the sign at the retirement home say?
	1:51pm Amanda: "Thank You for Not Discussing the Outside World."
	1:52pm Jeff Golick: Riiiiiiiiiiight. Thx!
	1:52pm listener james from westwood: I use so many lines from the show I can't even isolate one!
	1:53pm listener james from westwood: Grampa on his pills, to Homer: "The green ones keep you from screaming!"
	1:53pm listener james from westwood: YES TO THE TAQUITOS!!!
	1:54pm Mike East: it must have been that bean I ate for dinner
	1:55pm Rich in Washington: my other favorite simpson's moment is when they watch the Mr. Sparkle commercial and Bart, without missing a beat, calls homer 'Fish-bulb'.
	1:57pm Jeff Golick: Is this a two or three hour show? I really have to pee...
	1:58pm Danne D: @Jeff 9
	1:58pm Amanda: Only two Jeff G! Well, in truth more like 2:05.
	1:58pm listener james from westwood: An explanation of mine in the hurricane episode made it into an alt.tv.simpsons archive. "That's the joke."
	1:58pm Danne D: No it's just two :( Should be 9 :)
	1:58pm Jeff Golick: ....
	1:59pm Danne D: :) Great episode as always Amanda :) Have a great day everyone :)
	1:59pm JakeGould: Three cheers for Amanda, Doug
	1:59pm listener james from westwood: Team Discovery Channel!
	2:00pm JakeGould: Also: Disco Stu!
	2:00pm listener james from westwood: I use Krudler as an epithet quite often.
	2:00pm northguineahills: This was awesome. Totally starred this episode! I still play the 2002 edition of Simpsons trivia.
	2:01pm Dan B From Upstate: Our local station used to do two episodes between 5-6 every night in the 90s and early 2000s. We're close enough to canada that the local cbc affiliate also did an episode from 5-5:30 every night. Three episodes a night. It was a great time. Then the CBC station lost their rights, and at the same time, our local affiliate moved the reruns to 12:30-1 AM. I haven't gotten to watch the show regularly since about 2003. I still watch on Sunday nights. I don't care. I still love it, but I really miss the old ones.
	2:02pm listener james from westwood: Supernintendo Chalmers.
	2:02pm JakeGould: Also, I feel I can share this: I never graduated Bartending school. I am a sham.
	2:02pm northguineahills: Thanks everyone!
	2:02pm Jeff Golick: FLAYGEL! Thanks to all!
	2:03pm listener james from westwood: This was an incredible gathering. Thanks to everyone for joining in and for Amanda for the masterful moderation!
	2:03pm Doug Schulkind: GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT... Be sure to tune in this evening at 7pm here on the Drummer Stream for Gary Sullivan's Bodega Pop Live. Gary's special guest will be Peter Doolan, blogger extraordinaire behind the amazing Thai music site Monrakplengthai: wfmu.org...
	2:03pm Dan B From Upstate: This was great. I was smiling the entire two hours. Great job, guys.
	2:04pm Amanda: Yaaaaayyyyy! Thanks everybody!!! As Paul said, if I may quote him, about 1 second after I turned the mics off: it's not goodbye, it's smell ya later.

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Artist	Track	Album	Label	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Springfield Elementary kids	A Tribute to Our Lesser-Known Presidents	Songs in the Key of Springfield			CD		0:00:00 (Pop-up)
DJ Duff/Kirk Van Houten	Can I Borrow a Feeling?					YouTube	0:08:54 (Pop-up)
Tito Puente & His Latin Jazz Ensemble	Señor Burns (Long Version)	Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons	Rhino/WEA	1999	CD		0:10:57 (Pop-up)
vilt500	The D'oh! Song "The D'oh! Song" by "vilt500"					YouTube	0:13:00 (Pop-up)
Bart Simpson	Do the Bartman "Do the Bartman" by "Bart Simpson"	The Simpsons Sing the Blues	Geffen	1990	CD		0:17:20 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Prolonged Discussion Time! "Prolonged Discussion Time!"						0:51:39 (Pop-up)
Sideshow Bob	Cape Feare: Any Last Requests?	Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons	Rhino/WEA	1999	CD		0:21:34 (Pop-up)
Troy McClure & Company	Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Wanna Get Off	Songs in the Key of Springfield	Rhino/WEA	1997	CD		0:52:48 (Pop-up)
Dan Castellaneta	(Annoyed Grunt) "(Annoyed Grunt)" by "Dan Castellaneta"					YouTube	0:55:54 (Pop-up)
The Ramones	Happy Birthday Mr. Burns						0:57:43 (Pop-up)
	La Casita del Terror VII "La Casita del Terror VII"						0:59:00 (Pop-up)
Stonecutters	We Do (Stonecutters' Theme)	Songs in the Key of Springfield	Rhino/WEA	1997	CD		1:01:24 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	Discussion Time (encore) "Discussion Time (encore)"						1:02:32 (Pop-up)
Simpsons et al	The Simpsons Family Smile-Time Variety Hour	Songs in the Key of Springfield	Rhino	1997	CD		1:32:57 (Pop-up)
	Spider Pig "Spider Pig"	Simpsons Movie (sndtrk)					1:36:37 (Pop-up)
Homer	Very Good Beer (from "Duffless")						1:37:36 (Pop-up)
Krusty & Sideshow Mel	Send in the Clowns	Songs in the Key of Springfield	Rhino	1997	CD		1:38:09 (Pop-up)
Lisa	They Have the Plant, but We Have the Power						1:39:25 (Pop-up)
Simpsons Time!	ep 76: Last Exit to Springfield (writers: Jay Kogen & Wallace Wolodarsky)	season 4					1:40:16 (Pop-up)
Music behind DJ:	SO MUCH DISCUSSION "SO MUCH DISCUSSION"					(segueing out of Simpsons Time into regular non-concentrated discussion)	1:50:20 (Pop-up)
Alf Clausen	Simpsons theme "Simpsons theme" by "Alf Clausen"	Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons	Rhino/WEA	1999	CD		2:10:13 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	12:00pm Amanda: Hey everyone!
	12:01pm northguineahills: hallos!
	12:02pm Dan B From Upstate: nods Amanda. Paul. Pat. Nate.
	12:02pm listener james from westwood: I'm proofing an American History book and have had the Mediocre Presidents song running through my head for the past month. Outstanding choice!!
	12:03pm Rich in Washington: HI Everybodee! <channels Dr. Nick>
	12:03pm KP: Hello, Amanda
	12:03pm listener james from westwood: "It's DIGNITY!"
	12:04pm Rich in Washington: the Kirk Van Houton shows Homer his tape scene was one of my all time favorite Simpsons moment.
	12:04pm Doug Schulkind: Important question: For this Simpsons roundtable discussion, Amanda, was the table really round?
	12:05pm Amanda: Tots talked about that episode, "A Milhouse Divided," on last week's show! It is one of my all-time favorites, probably top 5. @Doug, well, there was no table at all. But our eyeballs were perfectly round, so does that count for something?
	12:07pm northguineahills: I have the Yellow Album, it's pretty horrible.
	12:07pm JakeGould: Hello. I am listening to this show live from work. That is how much I know it will be good.
	12:08pm conkrete_dawg: mm, floor pie
	12:08pm Stevel: Musical Simpso-phonic time travel!!
	12:10pm northguineahills: Didn't the Bartman actually chart?
	12:10pm Doug Schulkind: Perfect. A notable discussion!
	12:10pm listener james from westwood: Simpsons samples were a wonderful find in the early home-accessible Internet age. When I realized you could set them as AOL sounds, I plotzed.
	12:10pm Dan B From Upstate: I had this casette as a kid. Other kids made fun of me. I don't care. I loved this tape.
	12:11pm Amanda: Wow, Dan B, the kids in your school were cooler than the kids in my school. (Nobody made fun of each other for having it; rather, they pressured each other to buy it.)
	12:12pm Dan B From Upstate: No idea how it holds up, though.
	12:12pm listener james from westwood: Is it Milhouse or Ralph who lays the dis down on Bart when he calls back to the Bartman later in the series?
	12:13pm Jeff Golick: @ljfw: I remember, fondly, watching someone's Simpson's screensaver for what seemed like a very long time. This was...early 1990s? Mr Burns would come in periodically and say things like "lollygagger!...layabout!....get back to work!"
	12:14pm Doug Schulkind: Get it? No table!
	12:15pm JakeGould: Amanda, I used to have the promo CD for this that had a pile of remixes. Gave it a way to someone on Shelbyville.
	12:16pm listener james from westwood: @Jeff: IIRC there was an early Mac app that put Homer's talking head on your desktop. Similarly mesmerizing.
	12:17pm Jeff Golick: I'm thinking of a new startup that sells screensavers, in a nostalgia vein.
	12:18pm listener james from westwood: Maggie is good w a gun. Took down those Sopranos stunad's in a later ep.
	12:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...being a fan of Harry Shearer's 'LeShow' - but not following TheSimpsons (to my regret) - surprising & good to hear his Voice & be reminded of the connection...
	12:20pm JakeGould: You people 10 years younger than me really had this stuff soak your comedy brain.
	12:20pm Paulie B: Hey peeps! I hope I make sense!
	12:22pm listener james from westwood: Never saw the clips on the Tracey Ullman show, but my first exposure was in like Feb 90, when I was on vacation down in NC visiting friends at Duke. We went to an off-campus party, and someone put a tape of like 6 1st-season episodes on. So I mainlined a shitload of them in 1 sitting. Saul of Tarsus did not return home with a greater sense of mission.
	12:22pm Dan B From Upstate: You're not far off, Jake. There was a time, prolly in the early 2000s, where I could relate any topic of conversation to something that happened on the simpsons. It was such a huge part of my formation in the 90s. That and Mystery Science Theater, but that's another conversation.
	12:22pm listener james from westwood: In Living Color and The Simpsons were same night, Sun IIRC.
	12:23pm Amanda: @Listener James and @Jeff G: I HAD that app, and I WOULD buy screensavers from you. Hi Paulie B! You made more sense than I did, which I guess is good?
	12:23pm listener james from westwood: In my head, all the panelists are wearing vintage bootleg Simpson T-shirts.
	12:25pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...were Simpsons before Beavis&Butthead as an Edgy Cartoon ? (Pardon the comparison otherwise.) ...I fell hard for Ren&Stimpy, then InvaderZim - & AdventureTime is still a legend to me...
	12:25pm Jeff Golick: My 10- and 13-year-old watch the Simpsons regularly (w/ us), though the show these days sadly pales next to Bob's Burgers, which comes on after.
	12:26pm Jeff Golick: (imho)
	12:26pm northguineahills: Man, I was really into Ren & Stimpy in the early 90s. I agree Jeff.
	12:27pm listener james from westwood: Cultural refs in the classic Simpsons showed the writers' love of 50s-70s TV and movies. Krusty is a major nexus of that sort of writers' nostalgia. Def. embiggened my 20-something's trove of classic-TV trivia.
	12:27pm Amanda: They certainly were edgy in the very beginning, even though the Tracey Ullmann Show was on primetime. I recall seeing them in animation festivals like Spike & Mike etc. alongside much more underground material
	12:27pm Jeff Golick: I do worry about kids today and their lack of Monty Python awareness.
	12:28pm listener james from westwood: I went the reverse: Saw the show, then binge-bought the LiH anthos in NYC (Forbidden Planet!).
	12:28pm JakeGould: FWIW, I used to like Ren
	12:29pm JakeGould: I used to like Ren and Stimpy. But it doesn't age well. Too 1990s.
	12:29pm northguineahills: I would read Life in Hell in bookstores when I was rather young, and watched the Tracey Ullman show.
	12:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Oh yeah ! 'Life in Hell' in the local weely...geez...
	12:30pm northguineahills: The Ren & Stimpy reboot was awful.
	12:30pm Dan B From Upstate: I love the episode where bart walks into the mad magazine office and is disappointed.
	12:30pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...*'weeKly'...
	12:30pm listener james from westwood: Also re: Groening's experience: the clear-eyed view of the fallibility of schoolteachers and education. Everything from the absurd filmstrips (the Resistance Is Useless Series) to the cringing Skinner does around Chalmers.
	12:31pm Jeff Golick: Can I just plug my current comedy thrill here? It's a podcast by two UCB folks: Ronna and Beverly. If you have any experience with Jewish ladies from the North Shore of Massachusetts, it will likely hit your funny bone very hard. (I was raised by one, so...)
	12:32pm Amanda: Yeah, the teacher in Groening's diary was drawn a lot like Skinner...
	12:33pm listener james from westwood: "Hey egghead, sing 'Fair Harvard'!"
	12:35pm Amanda: My gif for this part of the show will be making more sense in a minute.
	12:36pm Jeff: I have a confession / observation to make: I was obsessed with The Simpsons as good comedy and as a smart cultural mirror and touchstone from their start as misshapen scratchy drawings on the Tracy Ullman Show through their evolution in later years... but when South Park came out, it seemed as if the world had changed. The torch had been passed, and I pretty much forgot The Simpsons were still on. Maybe the Simpsons writers were still doing great, smart work - but it just stopped occurring to me to look and see what they were up to. Did anyone else have this experience?
	12:38pm listener james from westwood: I stopped watching the Simpsons after there was a reference to "crumping." I knew at that point it had passed me by. South Park exists in more of an eternal now with contempt for all sides as it reacts to current events, so it may stay fresher?
	12:39pm listener james from westwood: "The Simpsons are going to Antarctica!!"
	12:39pm Amanda: @Jeff, I think a lot of people had this experience. Some jumped ship during South Park's ascendance, others during Family Guy's. Speaking as a 30something I can remember the buzz surrounding SP among college kids. In 1996 we all piled into someone's dorm room to watch Simpsons together each Sunday but by 1998 we didn't anymore.
	12:41pm Dan B From Upstate: oh yeah. ahoy. i just started an IM with my manager with ahoy. i totally got that from mr burns. i don't even realize i do it anymore. it just happens.
	12:41pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...SouthPark is like between Beavis&B & Simpsons...like - let's deliberately go further than Simpsons & the others; they say they make fun of everyone, but they're Crypto-Conservatives...still - SouthPark is funny - & I'm forever grateful for what they did to XMAS !!...
	12:42pm JakeGould: Is this pre-recorded?
	12:42pm northguineahills: Didn't Edison want 'hoy hoy' become the standard telephone greeting?
	12:43pm northguineahills: yes, it's pre-recorded.
	12:43pm listener james from westwood: Simpsons:Family Guy :: Ren & Stimpy:The Brothers Grunt
	12:43pm Jeff: Interesting. My reaction to Family Guy (although I admit I haven't watched a ton of them) has always been that while there's plenty of cultural-reference cleverness there, it doesn't feel as if there's much if any there there.
	12:43pm listener james from westwood: @NGH: I believe so.
	12:44pm JakeGould: I still respect pre-recorded shows.
	12:45pm listener james from westwood: OMG the quick cut to Bart reading a Playbill w/ Bob's face is PERFECT.
	12:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: AmericanDad's SchoolhouseRock-stylee exposition of IranContra is sterling.
	12:45pm northguineahills: Even after college, my friends and I would stop together to watch the Simpsons, but we were riding on momentum, and by 2000, it just lacked the quality, so we stopped.
	12:47pm northguineahills: any "Apocalypse, Wow!" ?
	12:48pm listener james from westwood: "Down in front!!"
	12:50pm Dan B From Upstate: I love that episode titles also contain [annoyed grunt] when it could clearly say d'oh. Like E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)
	12:52pm northguineahills: Watching the Simpsons is so confusing w/ the voices, but it helped me learn Espanol when in Mexico.
	12:52pm listener james from westwood: Is this the one with the life growing on the tooth?
	12:52pm JakeGould: I've met people who respond, "Family Guy is soooo funny! You should watch it." When I say I like the Simpsons. They are really annoying... And stupid.
	12:52pm listener james from westwood: "I've created Lutherans!"
	12:52pm Amanda: Good job, Listener James!!!
	12:53pm northguineahills: yep, james.
	12:53pm Amanda: @JakeGould - yeah, not a Family Guy fan either.
	12:55pm Mike East: my friends got stone cutters tattoos many years ago...I opted out and now I don't get to go to the secret meetings.
	12:57pm listener james from westwood: Mike, you can always reenact the Civil War with monkeys.
	12:59pm Amanda: Ha, Mike East! I have seen (mostly on the internet) tattoos such as: Kirk Van Houten's "dignity" on the arm, "Lenny=white/Carl=black" on the palm of the hand, and "Milpool" on the lower leg.
	1:00pm listener james from westwood: Glad they didn't get Tom Cruise for that role. No comparison.
	1:01pm Mike East: Flying Hellfish would be a good one.
	1:02pm Nate K: Joining in late here!
	1:02pm listener james from westwood: Gil also slotted into the role, but it is an ill fit.
	1:02pm Nate K: You read my mind James.
	1:03pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: ...that's a classic story of a Mom getting a story/info only partly right...
	1:03pm listener james from westwood: Today we Kill, Tomorrow We Die! Get Confidence, Stupid! Dig Your Own Grave and Save!
	1:04pm Amanda: Hi Nate! Can you believe you really SOUND like that?
	1:04pm Nate K: I incidentally was listening to the comments of a season 7 episode and one of the writers confirmed that Phil Hartman wanted to do a Troy McClure movie.
	1:04pm northguineahills: ...and of course Yo La Tengo did a song about "Let's Save Tony Orlando's House".
	1:05pm Nate K: @Amanda No! I prefer to listen to Cheap Trick on WFMU.
	1:06pm Amanda: I want to add to my past self's comments about seasons 8-10: I think what I love about them most is the then-new exploitation of minor characters like Cletus, the Van Houtens, Chalmers, et al.
	1:07pm listener james from westwood: Seasons 3-7 are prob. my sweet spot. Hit in my postcollegiate years. If I had a preference, I'd go w/ Seasons 1-11 for reruns.
	1:08pm Nate K: Indeed, 8-10 is when Kirk goes from being a divorced single dad, to practically seedy.
	1:08pm Dan B From Upstate: to this day, I still havent see the episode where lisa dates nelson.
	1:09pm Amanda: "Lisa's Date with Density." Still a never-been-discussed one here on Nazario Scenario!
	1:11pm listener james from westwood: Excellent thesis, right here.
	1:11pm listener james from westwood: DENTAL PLAN!
	1:12pm Jeff Golick: @Amanda: we called our then-in-utero first child "Cletus, the slack-jawed fetus."
	1:12pm Amanda: Ha!
	1:13pm northguineahills: I agree.
	1:13pm Mike East: lol, james. That's one of my favorite quotes...I still hear Lenny echoing in my head
	1:13pm Jeff Golick: The Treehouse of Horrors were really good then, too.
	1:13pm listener james from westwood: @Amanda, that Lord of the Flies ending's also an example of 4th-wall breaking, which I believe you've mentioned disliking (as do I).
	1:14pm northguineahills: The Treehouse of Horrors were the only watchable episodes during the fallow periods.
	1:16pm Danne D: Hi AmNazz, Paulie B, Patty B, and Natey K :) Hi Everyone :)
	1:16pm Amanda: Yep, good point LJFW. And how I need that 4th wall to be up! Hi Danne!
	1:17pm Dan B From Upstate: that critic crossover is the only episode matt groening didnt join on the commentary track.
	1:19pm listener james from westwood: The Bronson, MO snippet was a great late-stage gag. Movie committed the cardinal sin of not having Alf Clausen at the baton.
	1:19pm northguineahills: The last 3 season have had a few ok episodes, (not many) but better then the 5 seasons before that. (Of course, now it's just a celebrity vehicle).
	1:19pm Danne D: Under the Dome is a total Simpsons Movie Rip-off
	1:20pm northguineahills: I'm surprised I didn't hear anyone mention that when it came out, Danne.
	1:20pm Danne D: As long as it keeps another Seth MacFarlane vehicle from getting added to the Fox schedule I'm happy if they make new Simpons episodes forever.
	1:20pm Amanda: @Dan B, I seem to remember a lot more episodes that don't feature him on the commentary, especially in later seasons. But I am not totally sure.
	1:20pm Danne D: @ngh - I'm sure folks did :)
	1:21pm listener james from westwood: "They call'em fingers, but I've never seen 'em fing!"
	1:21pm Dan B From Upstate: A (video game) writer I like to read referred to the movie as just like the show. the first half (first ten seasons) was great, and the second half (seasons 10-20) was mediocre.
	1:22pm Mike East: is this show available as a podcast? Work keeps distracting me...think I'll have to listen again later.
	1:22pm Amanda: I am the OW in the word WOW.
	1:23pm listener james from westwood: And yet his fiancee said Otto didn't do any needle drugs. "Boy, I sure hope someone got fired over that blunder." /nerd
	1:23pm Amanda: Aw, thanks for the request Mike E! Archive should be up later this afternoon.
	1:24pm Mike East: speaking of podcasts, I dug your story on sAndy's podcast last week!
	1:24pm listener james from westwood: For what I got from the show in its 1st 10 years, it owes me nothing. I am different for it, as with Woody Allen's early comedies, Monty Python, WB cartoons, or The Young Ones.
	1:26pm Dan B From Upstate: The replacement Lisa in this bit is one of my all time favorite simson gags.
	1:26pm listener james from westwood: They did their homework on insipid 70s variety shows for this segment. Down to the polyester outfits.
	1:27pm jay c: i feel like i have learnt so much simpsons facts in the last hour and a half, real entertaining show! Happy Wednesday!
	1:27pm Amanda: And to you jay c!!!
	1:27pm listener james from westwood: "Crack that whip! Licorice whip!"
	1:27pm Jeff Golick: Streetcar!!!
	1:29pm Dan B From Upstate: www.tederick.com...
	1:29pm northguineahills: That Jasper gag still cracks me up.
	1:29pm listener james from westwood: Between this and Smithers dancing on the sub to the Village People in "Simpsons Tide," it's a giftacular opportunity.
	1:30pm r i s k y: Oh man PLEASE KEEP THIS GOING!
	1:31pm listener james from westwood: So .... is it Krusty they're whacking out this season?
	1:32pm listener james from westwood: Last Exit to Springfield = top 10 ep.
	1:33pm r i s k y: Oh man this is friggin stupendous.
	1:33pm listener james from westwood: YO DAWG I HEARD YOU LIKE THE SIMPSONS SO WE PUT A SIMPSONS TIME IN YOUR SIMPSONS TIME
	1:34pm northguineahills: lultz, james....
	1:34pm Doug Schulkind: I thought this show was going to be discussing the senate career of Alan K. Simpson. What gives?!
	1:35pm JakeGould: The goggles! They do nothing!
	1:35pm Amanda: Mad that I am unable to click-star James's comment above
	1:36pm listener james from westwood: THE BIG BOOK OF BRITISH SMILES
	1:36pm Amanda: AND shall I add (sorry I forgot it back then): Mr. Burns doing the Grinch. Genius and beautifully done.
	1:37pm Dan B From Upstate: Look. Liser, in the sky. No diamonds, though. Look out for the campy drawring of queen victoria! we're drowning! save us! help us....
	1:37pm listener james from westwood: The birth of the phrase "as was the style of the time."
	1:38pm listener james from westwood: @Amanda: Thanks! And I did the "holds hand to ear" Grinch pose Burnsy did during the song earlier.
	1:40pm Mike East: "It was the best of times..." quote also reminds me of "We the purple?!" - that's one of those lines that pops into my head randomly...often when I'm looking at my daughter's schoolwork.
	1:40pm Amanda: @Doug, stay tuned for 2 add'l hours of the show, containing the music of Jessica Simpson.
	1:42pm Amanda: Aw, thanks r i s k y for the nice wordz. Unbelievably, even though I'm not DJing live I find it so hard to keep up with everyone's comments! Thank you all so much for commenting!
	1:43pm listener james from westwood: They eventually came up w a 5-note "trite sitcom ending" flourish that they'd end an ep with to accentuate the absurdity, a sort of Laverne & Shirley-esque "da-da-dada-DA!" I know this communicates well over the net. :D
	1:44pm listener james from westwood: Think of it: To get that Classical Gas joke on the air, it presumably cost money for the rights. That's how dedicated they were to it.
	1:45pm Doug Schulkind: Four cheers to Amanda for hanging with the playlist when she could be out vacation frolicking!
	1:45pm Amanda: Classical Gas: Mason Williams 1968 (just for the record) Hey, Doug, no biggie as it is a rainy day today!
	1:46pm listener james from westwood: But he doesn't like Starland Vocal Band!
	1:47pm Andrew Waterloo: I love Spider Pig!
	1:48pm listener james from westwood: Also the RV salesman way, way back.
	1:49pm Jeff Golick: It's like a Simpsons supercut for my ears!!
	1:50pm listener james from westwood: The "what now" one kills me. Homer with the sugar: "Bees are doing what now?"
	1:50pm Jeff Golick: What does the sign at the retirement home say?
	1:51pm Amanda: "Thank You for Not Discussing the Outside World."
	1:52pm Jeff Golick: Riiiiiiiiiiight. Thx!
	1:52pm listener james from westwood: I use so many lines from the show I can't even isolate one!
	1:53pm listener james from westwood: Grampa on his pills, to Homer: "The green ones keep you from screaming!"
	1:53pm listener james from westwood: YES TO THE TAQUITOS!!!
	1:54pm Mike East: it must have been that bean I ate for dinner
	1:55pm Rich in Washington: my other favorite simpson's moment is when they watch the Mr. Sparkle commercial and Bart, without missing a beat, calls homer 'Fish-bulb'.
	1:57pm Jeff Golick: Is this a two or three hour show? I really have to pee...
	1:58pm Danne D: @Jeff 9
	1:58pm Amanda: Only two Jeff G! Well, in truth more like 2:05.
	1:58pm listener james from westwood: An explanation of mine in the hurricane episode made it into an alt.tv.simpsons archive. "That's the joke."
	1:58pm Danne D: No it's just two :( Should be 9 :)
	1:58pm Jeff Golick: ....
	1:59pm Danne D: :) Great episode as always Amanda :) Have a great day everyone :)
	1:59pm JakeGould: Three cheers for Amanda, Doug
	1:59pm listener james from westwood: Team Discovery Channel!
	2:00pm JakeGould: Also: Disco Stu!
	2:00pm listener james from westwood: I use Krudler as an epithet quite often.
	2:00pm northguineahills: This was awesome. Totally starred this episode! I still play the 2002 edition of Simpsons trivia.
	2:01pm Dan B From Upstate: Our local station used to do two episodes between 5-6 every night in the 90s and early 2000s. We're close enough to canada that the local cbc affiliate also did an episode from 5-5:30 every night. Three episodes a night. It was a great time. Then the CBC station lost their rights, and at the same time, our local affiliate moved the reruns to 12:30-1 AM. I haven't gotten to watch the show regularly since about 2003. I still watch on Sunday nights. I don't care. I still love it, but I really miss the old ones.
	2:02pm listener james from westwood: Supernintendo Chalmers.
	2:02pm JakeGould: Also, I feel I can share this: I never graduated Bartending school. I am a sham.
	2:02pm northguineahills: Thanks everyone!
	2:02pm Jeff Golick: FLAYGEL! Thanks to all!
	2:03pm listener james from westwood: This was an incredible gathering. Thanks to everyone for joining in and for Amanda for the masterful moderation!
	2:03pm Doug Schulkind: GIVE THE DRUMMER RADIO PROGRAMMING ALERT... Be sure to tune in this evening at 7pm here on the Drummer Stream for Gary Sullivan's Bodega Pop Live. Gary's special guest will be Peter Doolan, blogger extraordinaire behind the amazing Thai music site Monrakplengthai: wfmu.org...
	2:03pm Dan B From Upstate: This was great. I was smiling the entire two hours. Great job, guys.
	2:04pm Amanda: Yaaaaayyyyy! Thanks everybody!!! As Paul said, if I may quote him, about 1 second after I turned the mics off: it's not goodbye, it's smell ya later.

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