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Talking Simpsons Network - The May 2023 Schedule
We hope everyone enjoyed our April Fool's month of live action because now that spring has sprung, it's time for toons to return in a big way! This month we've got a listener request for us to reexamine a very recent season of American Dad, a pair of heartfelt episodes of Futurama and King of the Hill, the ...
Talk to the Audience?!? - April 2023
We've reached the end of the month, which means it's once again time for another installment of our community podcast! Join us as we discuss the mystery of 31-year-old jokes, new Simpsons shoes and toys, Hank Azaria's predictions, and Fox's plans to use jokes in their Dominion lawsuit. And, as always, w...
A Preview of What A Cartoon Movie for Little Shop of Horrors
Our most recent live-action April Fools reaches its end on the Talking Simpsons Network, which means we've got an awesome podcast about another non-animated feature film! This month, our $10+ Patreon subscribers will hear us talk about 1986's Little Shop of Horrors (The Director's Cut)! Listen now to this f...
What A Cartoon Movie! - Little Shop of Horrors
Another April Fool's month closes for What A Cartoon Movie, and this time we're covering one of our favorite musicals ever, Little Shops of Horrors! After first covering the history of how a 1960 film that led to a1982 off-off Broadway musical that then led to a big budget musical, we then discuss all our favor...
Talking Simpsons - The Otto Show With Found Footage Fest
Nobody rocks like Springfield in an extra-long ep with special guests Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher of Found Footage Festival and VCR Party Live! (Check out the new documentary about them, Chop & Steele!) We go over the real history of fake band Spinal Tap, then follow the rollicking tale of Bart learning to play guitar...
TalKing of the Hill - Peggy's Pageant Fever
This month, we've got an episode that's Peak Peggy as the Hill matriarch throws her hat in the ring for the Mrs. Heimlich County beauty pageant. But will Peggy's already healthy self-esteem take a wallop when she's put in direct competition with younger and more accomplished contestants? Listen in to he...
Talking Simpsons - The Frying Game With Eric Szyszka
We welcome returning great Eric Szyszka from the We Hate Movies podcast for arguably the worst episode of season 13! This incredibly scattershot story begins with a screaming bug, an arrest, and a skeleton all in the first act, then it turns into a murder mystery before a too-long parody of Green Mile. But surely it...
Talking Futurama - Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV
It's time for the further adventures of Cubert and Dwight, the Futurama characters so popular that Fox decided to air this episode second-to-last! As this beloved series is about to slip off the airwaves—but don't worry, we still have a bunch of Fox episodes to cover—Bender finds himself the new star of All...
Talking Simpsons - Black Widower With Stephen Sajdak
It's Sideshow Bob's triumphant return, and it's also the triumphant return of the awesome Stephen Sajdak, cohost of the great We Hate Movies podcast! Bob Terwilliger is back and seemingly is happy to marry Bart's Aunt Selma, but could he possibly have sinister intentions? We dig into the creation of thi...
What A Cartoon! - Mr. Show with Bob and David "The Story of Everest"
April has arrived, spring has sprung, and it's once again time to cover a live-action subject on the What A Cartoon podcast. And this time around, we're digging into the oft-referenced but never-fully-discussed sketch series, Mr. Show with Bob and David. Bob Odenkirk and David Cross might be renowned comic (and...
Talking Simpsons Network - The April 2023 Schedule
Welcome to yet another April on the Talking Simpsons Network, where you are the fool! Well, you're at least slightly foolish if you don't remember this is the time when we traditionally veer away from cartoons and temporarily dive into live-action stuff with cartoonish qualities. That's why we're kickin...
Talk to the Audience?!? - March 2023
Somehow a fourth of the year is over, and we've got a ton to reflect on in our monthly community podcast. First, we look back on the four most recent Simpsons episodes from season 34, along with some other Simpsons-related news, then we give a preview of our April fools' month of live-action podcasts, plus we t...
A Preview of What A Cartoon Movie for Chicken Run
Another month has passed at the Talking Simpsons Network, and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month, our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 2000's Chicken Run! Listen now to this free extended preview, and then subscribe at the $10 level (or up y...
What A Cartoon Movie! - Chicken Run
After winning a handful of Oscars, the British stop-motion studio Aardman decided to enter a new frontier: the world of feature-length motion pictures. And thankfully, those plucky upstarts over at DreamWorks—including a little guy named Jeffrey Katzenberg—were more than willing to help these creative folks meet th...
Blabbin 'Bout Batman: The Animated Series - The Man Who Killed Batman
Patrons, Batman's dead! ...That's right, dead serious about getting drugs off the streets of Gotham! In the thrilling return of Blabbin 'Bout Batman: The Animated Series, join us as we explore the story of a meek little man getting caught up in the web of organized crime and seemingly killing The Caped Crus...
Talking Simpsons - Little Girl in the Big Ten With Brendan James
We're once more joined again by great journalist/podcaster Brendan James, cohost of the brilliant Blowback series as we dig into a tale of college and germs! We talk a lot about Lisa finding a new lease on life posing as a college student, while Bart learns to love a normal life inside a bubble. We explain all the ...
TalKing of the Hill - Next of Shin
The short-lived fertility arc continues this month as Hank goes to great lengths to up his sperm count for the sake of having another baby. But insult gets added to injury when Cotton and Didi arrive at the Hill home with a big surprise: Hank's 75-year-old dad is about to become a new father! When the reality of th...
Talking Simpsons - Colonel Homer With Griffin Newman
We welcome back fan-favorite guest Griffin Newman from the excellent podcast Blank Check for a classic country episode! We discuss Matt Groening's only solo writing credit on the series, how it ties into a biopic from 1980, the guest star power of Beverly D'Angelo, and so much more as Homer becomes imitates Col...
Talking Futurama - A Taste of Freedom
This month, we're talking about a topic that's never tedious: freedom of speech. Wait, where are you going? Futurama tackles the always relevant topic of flag respecting when proud immigrant Dr. Zoidberg devours a flag to show his love for the planet Earth. Little does he know, this act will land him in hot wat...
Talking Simpsons - The Sweetest Apu With ToonrificTariq
This week's big first-time guest is the great YouTube video essayist ToonrificTariq, and we welcome him for a season 13 episode about Apu's infidelities! After a quick Civil War reenactment, Homer learns that Apu is cheating on Manjula in a story that is very of its time with the gender politics of infidelity. ...
What A Cartoon! - Invader ZIM - "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy" & "Hamstergeddon"
Chosen by premium patron ToonJay, we're covering one of the most influential toons from the start of the millennium: Invader ZIM! We go into the seemingly impossible circumstances that led a 22-year-old Jhonen Vasquez to make a Nicktoon, how 9/11 and Columbine affected it, and how it got a second life after cancela...
Talk to the Audience?!? - February 2023
We've reached the end of the month, which means it's once again time for another installment of our community podcast! Join us as we discuss The Simpsons getting renewed for seasons 35 and 36, a new wave of Super7 toys, the long-awaited appearance of Lizzo in this year's season finale, and more. And, as alw...
What A Cartoon! - The March 2023 Schedule
2023 is moving fast. It just felt like yesterday we were preparing for our live show, and now March is here! And as we near the start of spring, we've got some really cool podcasts planned to get us out of winter. Not only are we finally covering one of the biggest cult classics of the early '00s, but we're...
A Preview of What A Cartoon Movie for Batman/Superman: The World's Finest
A superheroic month of podcasting comes to a close on the Talking Simpsons Network, and that means we've got an awesome podcast about another animated feature film! This month, our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear us talk about 1997's TV movie Batman/Superman: World's Finest! Listen now to this free ext...
What A Cartoon Movie! - Batman/Superman: The World's Finest
We've covered Batman and Superman a ton on separate podcasts, but what about the pair of them together? Now is the time as we cover the first crossover in the Bruce Timm DC animated universe, as Batman chases Joker to Metropolis, which leads to friction with Superman AND Lex Luthor. Not to mention Lois Lane falls f...
Talking Simpsons - Dog of Death With Andrew Jupin
It's time for season 3's memorable showcase of Santa's Little Helper, and we're joined once again by the fantastic Andrew Jupin from the We Hate Movies podcast! After we chat a ton about the show satirizing the lottery, we then follow the family dog on a journey from near-death to renewed life to murder...
TalKing of the Hill - Pregnant Paws
On this month's installment of TalKing of the Hill we're bringing you a tale of love, puppies, and tubes that desperately need to be loosened. As the clock ticks down on Ladybird's biological clock, Hank pulls out all the stops to get his beloved dog pregnant. But with all of his attention focused on his de...
What A Cartoon! - Superman "The Mechanical Monsters" & "The Arctic Giant"
We're up, up, and away with this pair of Superman classics chosen by premium patron Devin! Yes, we are going all the way back to the golden age of animation to discuss our first Fleischer Studios series on the podcast, so we go deep into the history of those creators as well as the creators of Superman. Then we tak...
Talking Simpsons - I Am Furious (Yellow) With Ian Jones-Quartey
We welcome back our good pal Ian Jones-Quartey, creator of OK KO and Executive Producer on Steven Universe, for an episode all about animation in 2002. Ian tells us how his own life mirrors Bart's comic moving over into Flash animation of the day, plus we've got the history of the real website disaster that ins...
Talking Futurama - Less Than Hero
Head back with us to the mythical year of 2003, when superheroes were a blast from the past and not the default subject of all entertainment! When Fry and Leela seek aid for their aches and pains, they rub on a special cream that unexpectedly gives them super strength and lickety speed. (Also, Bender is there.) Thus, T...
