Talking Simpsons - When Flanders Failed With José

Jason Lew

Thank you for the sidebar about Bloodsport, also a guilty pleasure of mine. In the credits, one of Frank Dux "world records" was that he had 56 consecutive KOs in a single tournament. Dux says it was a single elimination tournament, but what he didn't consider in his tall tale is that each time you want to add a round to a bracket, you must double the number of fighters participating. If you have 6 rounds, you'd have 64 fighters. 7 rounds, 128 fighters. And so on. For Dux to achieve 56 consecutive KOs in a single tournament, he'd have to fight at least 56 rounds. Which means there were over 74 quadrillion participants in the kumite that year.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I always love hearing a fellow Canadian on the podcast

somefeatures

Homer’s line deliveries in this episode have a real “80s Garfield TV special” quality to them

Pete Johns

“Butterfinger ice cream nuggets” - I can’t even.

I have to wonder if the karate stuff was at all inspired by Tae Kwon Leap/Boot to the Head, the comedy skit by the Frantics that was a regular on Dr. Demento. I immediately think of, “but I wanna beat people up right now!” when watching Bart’s karate class.

Jordan Peters

I’m a patron of Jose as well so it’s great to have this crossover happening.

The craziest one I think Cheers age-wise. When Kelsey Grammer is introduced in season 3, he's twenty-nine.

Lockerus

Totally uninteresting comment, but I’m right handed except for golf, hockey and baseball where I swing left handed. No idea why, just feels more natural. I’ve tried, I can’t do anything else left handed with the same deftness as those three specific sports.

Alistair Shand

I drive a manual in the U.K. I find it harder to use the gearstick with my right hand when I’m driving in mainland Europe (right handed btw )

I love Jose's channel. This cross over is quite the cromulent surprise!

Erin Hardy

I remember this commentary as the one where Jim Reardon makes a really racist joke about the Korean animators making so many animation mistakes because they had just recently evolved thumbs.

Declan Kennedy

For the record, I learned to drive in the US and now drive in Australia and it's really not a big deal. It's probably an issue if you drive a manual, but hardly anyone does outside Europe these days anyway.

Kat Heagberg

Parking validation included, there are so many Simpsons jokes I didn't understand until I moved to LA four years ago. I was honestly pretty excited the first time I encountered parking validation, like "wow! Just like the Leftorium!" No one is Flanderized enough here to do it for free, though, so that one wore off quickly. Also, Henry, I'm super jealous that you got to try an actual Karate class! My sister and I both wanted to so much, but the only ones affordable enough for my family were the ones taught by our local rec department, and they were always on the same night as our Catholic CCD classes that my mom made us take. To make up for it my sister and I would put on white shirts and tights, tie black tights around our waist, and repeatedly kick each other in the stomach until our Karate obsession wore off in favor of a generic Power Rangers obsession . . . where we instead put on pink and yellow clothing and kicked each other in the stomach.