Talking Simpsons - Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk With Nina Matsumoto

Ryan Kertai

I believe the English term for tachiyomi would be "window shopping". It's a bit more abstract since it applies to more than just books, but that's how it was taught to me, since I would get caught doing it with comics as a kid.

trasparenti

Ever since I was reminded of the "Simpson, eh?" runner I have to admit that I'm disappointed whenever we don't get one in an episode where Burns is reintroduced to Homer - it always makes me laugh. At least we got a "Desperate, eh?"

To Boldy Joe... Moore

Hi, guys. You mentioned SLH looking mean at the family in the opening couch gag. I believe this is because there's another one in this season where Homer accidentally sits on him, so maybe him being angry is supposed to be a sequel to that? Just a random thought. Love the podcast! 😁

nina matsumoto

I always spent my loonies on bouncy balls

Alex Forsyth

Nah man, slap bracelets are where it's at!

nina matsumoto

You still need them for capsule toy machines, which is what I brought up in this ep. I would in fact love it if I could pay for those with a card because I rarely carry cash, and sometimes I want a cheap dumb sticker or Pokemon toy. Gacha technology needs to catch up

Alex Forsyth

Who needs loonies and toonies when machines will let you pay with credit cards. Locally here at the University of Waterloo students could pay for snacks at a vending machine with their WAT card(basically a student card with debit card functionality for their food account balance) as far back as the late 90's.

Frank Grimes

Unrelated to this episode but a podcast I've started to listen to shouted/promoted you guys (WAC). VGMporium mentioned your black cauldron episode

Thad Komorowski

One of the best episodes of the series, for precisely the reason you mentioned: it has one through line and is all about the single story, with two main character arcs dependent on each other. Only the S5 Treehouse got better in terms of Dave Silverman's animation. Hans und Fritz are most certainly ripped from the Katzenjammer Kids, which all of the writers and artists would've grown up seeing. Re: Hogan's Heroes, let's say this for its "longevity" - imagine if instead of just a handful of Warner or Popeye cartoons or Three Stooges shorts where our heroes battle the Nazis they spent the entirety of their WWII filmography doing it. Yes, that's Hogan's Heroes, which stupefyingly still runs for a full hour on MeTV nightly. (In one of the groups I manage, someone implored MeTV to replace it with an hour of Warner cartoons.) Annnd, to bring this back, yes, it was a very good thing they decided not to go with the Japanese angle in this episode, doing the "gotcha, it's this WWII enemy instead!" trick.

littleterr0r

I believe that Henry K. Duff Private Reserve is a reference to Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve, a beer from Portland that is considered Oregon's first craft ale, later bought by Molson Coors and subsequently discontinued: https://www.oregonlive.com/beer/2021/08/henry-weinhards-private-reserve-hailed-as-oregons-original-craft-beer-to-be-discontinued.html

mavrick

I did miss that, thank you nina! :3

nina matsumoto

A German listener was first to comment here (in case you missed it 'cause you gotta load earliest comments) confirming "the name of the company is 'Zwei Reiche Typen' which means 'Two rich guys'", which makes way more sense ETA: oh and the commentor below me says this too!

Wow so that thing from season 15 where the squeaky voiced teen jumps off a cliff because they cancelled Futurama is a reference to the Battlestar Galactica thing?

Aaron Alcott

Sorry. Had to. Love y'all.

Aaron Alcott

Tell Me Something Good wasn't Motown.

Great episode guys! A few thoughts from a German who grew up with this episode in a dubbed version: The two businessmen speak with heavy accents, the skinny one with a Berlin-accent, the other one Bavarian. So in the scene at the bar where Burns speaks German he tries to imitate the Berlin accent, as does Smithers when he repeats the German phrases on tape. - Overall it was weird for us as kids to see this, as it was about the only time our home country was referenced this heavily in American media. We loved it, though we felt a bit insulted as well. - Oh and "Zwei reiche Typen" means "two rich guys"! :)

mavrick

I asked my german friend about the company name and she said: well I could imagine it playing at the meme that Germans always walk in a row of two people Like starts in kindergarten when you have to grab a friend and walk side by side when there was a school trip And that we tend to do such stuff. Like neat and orderly. Since Zwei Reihe Typen, translates to two people in a row. But there is also the saying of being only in second row. I think you guys got that too. So always being left behind and never the winner

SilkiePJ

As the son of a stockbroker, the term "financial advisor" is a more accurate term to describe what the job pertains. Nina is correct that stockbroker's job keep an eye on a person's financial portfolio when it comes to how a person wants to invest or what to buy/sell. The main thing is that you have to be licensed in order to initiate any kind of trade/transferring of funds. Bob & Henry are sort of correct that modern technology allows anyone to keep track of their stocks and portfolio at any time, but those who daytrade aka those who obsessive buy/sell stocks as a form of "gambling" are a different breed of stockbroker in general. That's specific towards brokers who want to make a ton of money, have clients who are obsessive over their accounts, or the super rich who can invest a lot. These days, most people do work with stockbrokers but primarily as a way to invest their money in the form of IRAs. An IRA is basically just another kind of bank account that lets you to save for money for retirement without getting as harmed by taxes. Even people who make under $25k a year can benefit from putting money into an IRA into long term goals barely affected by the market so taxes are easier on them. Personally, I think Homer got scammed by this particular stockbroker who really wanted to make a sale by reminding people they have stock. Brokers make money through the commission of buying/selling/trading and Homer was the only one dumb enough to be willing to put his trust in some guy he never knew. PS: This was a lovely episode, it's always great listening to Nina on the mic, and thanks for shouting out the Bingo Card!