Talking Simpsons - Homer vs Lisa & The 8th Commandment With Lindsay Katai

Covey M.

I didn't realize that the adulterer in the opening was supposed to be jacques. As a kid I always thought he was supposed to be Lovejoy because of the big nose and I was always very confused by it

Sabrina

Same!! That’s all i could think of when they mentioned him, don’t know anything else about the guy.

Thank you for the shout out to the C-SPAN archives. I worked there in my college years and we digitize a lot physical media, not just what is aired on the C-SPAN channels. I really enjoyed getting to revisit this episode, and thank you again for visiting our archive!

Thad Komorowski

Almost had the same beat for beat thoughts as you folks on this one. The subversion you want never comes, but you really don’t mind. The grapes bit is line of the episode, no contest.

This is a very funny episode, but I do wish it had a different resolution. It would be super interesting to have Lisa overcoming her fear of hell, and learning to not shame others so extremely. It wouldn’t take much, just a few lines would do it. Just funny to see the Simpsons with such a tight moral compass so early on. Otherwise a great episode where the surreal gags are rising to the top.

littleterr0r

I didn't even know that.

SomeBloke

I think the older I get and the more I hear about Comcast/Xfinity/Whoever’s terrible policies and market monopolies the more I dislike this episode. HOMER WAS RIGHT.

Shaxbert

There totally was a last-channel button on the remote in 1991, and it saved my bacon several times. The folks knew the boobies were on channel 53 after 10PM, so if they walked in and saw CSPAN on channel 54 or home shopping on 52, they'd know something was up immediately.

Kat Heagberg

Just realized that all this time I thought I knew who Troy Donahue was, but I actually only knew the lyric “As for you, Troy Donahue; I know what you wanna do” from “Grease.” And that’s it. That’s the extent of my knowledge. Anyone else?

Frank Grimes

I think you can "upgrade" the RSS feed to the acast option - this gives a personalized/private RSS that I think only the person who has it, has access too since it asks for your patreon login.

Alex Forsyth

I don't remember a time without cable. We never had the top tier package that gave us everything but we always had it. Cable was never a "only rich people have this" in my memory. Paying extra for the Family channel? Well then you're rich. I do remember my step dads friend having an illegal box that gave you every channel free and we would go over to watch boxing and WWD PPVs from time to time.

Scott Scallion

That shot of Lisa staring at Homer through the window is one of my all time favorites for the show.

Camille Walters

One of my favourite things to do is look up Mr. Show sketches they mention on these podcasts. Superpan was legit horrifying. 😂

littleterr0r

I'm like Bob in that I had never seen Neverending Story until a girlfriend tried to get me to watch it in college but I fell asleep.