Talking Simpsons - A Streetcar Named Marge With Jake Rockatansky

trasparenti

as a longtime QAA listener, surreal (in a good way) to hear Jake on this ep but perfect fit. It's nice to hear him let loose about a less depressing subject than usual

Clark

This is perhaps my favorite Simpsons episode. I loved seeing Marge standing up for herself, in the form of rage and frustration. Rewatching this episode as an adult really made me realize how under appreciated Marge is, and to an extent my own mother. The status-quo reset at the end of this episode always makes me sad for Marge.

Rob MacBride

I saw Deep Impact in cinemas, because it strategically released about 18 months ahead of Armageddon. I would have been interested in seeing Armageddon in cinemas too, but that 18 months was completely saturated with promo. Every time I turned the tv on 'Dont Want To Miss A Thing' music video would be playing. By the time the film released I'd had a gut full. I did see it later on vhs and it was fine, but excruciatingly long. When they eventually blew up France in the film's climax, it was sort of lost on me, by then my mind had wandered. Tia! she was born in Hawaii but her real surname is Janairo, and she is by and large a Filipina, I think she may be Ilocano. When you're a famous Filo, you tend to be eternally famous in the Peens, she's enjoying quite the comeback recently too, working with Jokoy and RuPaul.

FamiCommie

Please bring back Jake ASAP ❤️

To Boldy Joe... Moore

Great episode! 😁 I've always wanted to see a full production of "Stop The Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off" but after listening to this I wonder if I'd choose "Oh, Streetcar" instead. Keep up the awesome work. 🙂

Lockerus

Furthering the Maggie/Ayn Rand connection, there is a 20th season episode where they do a take on The Fountainhead where Maggie stands in for Howard Roark (voiced by Jodie Foster).

DrKarate

I wonder how much this episode influenced other fox animation shows. Would we have the annoying but, I'll admit funny at the time family guy star wars stuff without using this episode as an example? Or the more similar Bob's burgers episode where the kids make a musical that's a combination of Die Hard and Working Girl? They both feel like pitches that may not have gone into production without episodes like this.

littleterr0r

Polish husbands unite.

Joe Hodgson

I find it amusing that this was the last Klasky-Csupo episode of The Simpsons and it features a segment based on The Great Escape. They go onto do Rugrats, and in what Nickelodeon calls the second season, they essentially do the same thing with Tommy in a Day Care ("The Big House") just minus the Ayn Rand stuff. They're so similar I even get some of the shots mixed-up between the two shows. The Great Escape really was everywhere in the 90s.

Shaxbert

I just learned what Jestermaxxing is thanks to the latest QAA, which is another thing I was probably happier not knowing, but what good is a podcast that DOESN'T smarten you up? Anyway, this episode should make for a nice chaser

Talking Simpsons

You should probably check Jake's bio, since his podcast does some of the most thorough reporting on the QAnon conspiracy, and regularly does serious investigations into other conspiracy theories and right-wing hate groups. - Bob

Not be my favorite guest TBH. Kind of a know-it-all. When he started rewriting the episode in the later half I was about to turn it off.

AlsoNamedB0rt

The guest said he was initially fascinated by Q Anon because he thought it might be true...😒

burro

Rockatansky is the perfect guest for this pod. Let's goooooo

Frank Grimes

lol, lots of those biopics straight up make up stuff...like in the Tetris one, the whole KGB being after them. Or in Straight Outta Compton, making Cube/Dre these great guys, and Eazy-E crying over dre billboards.

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

In English class in my senior year of high school (late 2013/early 2014 depending on when in the term), we read the original play, so of course I had to bring up this episode od the Simpsons. My teacher *had* seen the episode and got me to bring in my season 4 DVD so the class could watch it after we finished reading it. Like many other things, finally getting to the source material the show was referencing/using (including watching the Brando movie) only made me appreciate the episode more, and I'm proud of myself for getting a class to watch Simpsons in grade 12.