WFMU: Nazario Scenario: Playlist from December 17, 2014

Listener comments!
	11:28am listener james from westwood: OMFG the Flanderseses GIF.
	11:53am Amanda: Right???
	11:55am Stevel: I keep watching the gif, wanting more. Perhaps if I make a special Christmas wish?
	12:00pm listener james from westwood: We hear ya!
	12:00pm GeesyCreesy: loud and clear
	12:00pm Dominick: Fudge and marzipan here
	12:00pm Artie Haywire: Launched!
	12:01pm listener james from westwood: I should rewatch that first ep, to see how much of the wit, style, and heart of the classic show was already present therein.
	12:01pm Danne D: Yay Amnazz :)
	12:04pm Dan B From Upstate: Yvan Eht Nioj!!
	12:05pm listener james from westwood: YVAN EHT NIOJ!
	12:05pm Amanda: @James -- it really was surprisingly intact, considering! Hey, welcome everybody listening live or archived!!! :-)
	12:05pm listener james from westwood: (Otto runs off to recruiting station)
	12:06pm listener james from westwood: So I've had Homer Simpson and Leslie Knope sing that song. My day is made.
	12:07pm nah: great gif
	12:08pm GeesyCreesy: I love this song, and this episode "Look at you, standing there on your hind legs like a couple of Rory Calhouns"
	12:08pm listener james from westwood: So long, dental plan!
	12:09pm listener james from westwood: OMMFG this mix.
	12:10pm listener james from westwood: Yoink!
	12:10pm Amanda: #SimpsonsSelfie from "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" during #EverySimpsonsEver
	12:11pm Joe D.: GET ALL THE WAY OUT OF HERE WITH THIS OMG
	12:12pm listener james from westwood: That is one happy viewer/Simpsons fan in that pic. The Every Simpsons Ever was the first time in years I wish I had cable.
	12:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Any other Harry Shearer 'Le Show' fans among us ? : feeds.soundcloud.com...
	12:13pm Roberto: Lisa is a nut. She has a rubber butt,
	12:13pm Roberto: every time she turns around it goes putt-putt.
	12:13pm Greg from Bloomfield: God it feels like this song came out yesterday...
	12:14pm Amanda: @Joe D. I completely know... it floored me as well... @RevRabbit -- I have listened to it a couple of times, yes! Very surreal to me to hear Skinner talk social commentary (which is I'm sure not what Shearer would want to hear, but still!) @Greg -- I know, but such a time capsule too. "Nintendo for cash" arghhh
	12:15pm Roberto: Yes, I was a follower of Le Show on KCRW in years prior to the advent of Les Simpsons.
	12:16pm Amanda: Lisa, da-da-da-disa She is my sistah Her birthday I missed-ah.
	12:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Cheers! - I think Harry is pretty special...
	12:21pm sugarwolf: Harry Shearer came into my store once. I was the only one who recognized him.
	12:21pm Greg from Bloomfield: I prefer "The Simpsons Go Calypso."
	12:21pm P-90: Hi Amanda, RevRabbit, Simpsonians, and Shearerites! I go way back to the early days of Le Show; I used to live not far from the KCRW station, in fact.
	12:22pm Amanda: "Man smart" "But de woman is... smarter!"
	12:23pm Amanda: Cool P-90! And super cool that you met/saw him in person sugarwolf! Derek Smalls would always be recognizable to me
	12:27pm listener james from westwood: Dial "S" for Psycho!
	12:28pm listener james from westwood: I was excited to follow my Twitter folks watching the Simpsonsfest. To know that so many people were doing the same thing.
	12:28pm Greg from Bloomfield: "Smoke Yourself Thin, and Get Confident, Stupid!"
	12:28pm Amanda: Want to add that in addition to Oakley and Weinstein, others whose tweets were really fun to read were Jon Vitti, Matt Selman, and Al Jean.
	12:28pm Amanda: Alice Doesn't Live Anymore
	12:28pm P-90: @RevRabbit: If you were a prior Shearer fan, his other stuff doesn't sound like Skinner doing comedy; instead Skinner (and Smithers, Burns, Lovejoy, George H.W. Bush, and Flanders) all sound like Harry Shearer doing his thing...
	12:29pm Greg from Bloomfield: "Dial 'M' for 'Murderesness'"
	12:33pm listener james from westwood: Lead Paint: Delicious but Deadly! Amanda: That sort of setup for the TV and the Simpsons marathon would have had me washing myself with a rag on a stick.
	12:33pm steve: [polite appause]
	12:35pm listener james from westwood: That synced-up Oh, Yeah was great.
	12:35pm Amanda: I set up a piece of cake as my re-ward.
	12:36pm listener james from westwood: Oh, Diabetty.
	12:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - yes - for me Harry is a line into Simpson'sTime - which I love tho' I haven't followed Simpsons (...despite being born in Springfield, VT!)...
	12:37pm Amanda: I have noticed that a lot of people born in Springfield are not as into the Simpsons as others, fittingly enough. You're not the first one I've heard of! Also people whose last name is Simpson.
	12:40pm listener james from westwood: I liked the S. 15 robot-battle episode.
	12:41pm Dan B From Upstate: Someone wouldn't like having the name Homer Simpson? Uh-oh! Spaghetti-Os!
	12:42pm listener james from westwood: The radioactive-ape joke nearly fucking killed me at the time. "That wasn;t Dad's fault, that ape tricked him!"
	12:42pm Amanda: Of course, we all probably know that Homer Simpson was originally a character in The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West.
	12:42pm northguineahills: I picked the wrong day to need a mid-afternoon nap.
	12:42pm Greg from Bloomfield: John Waters uber alles
	12:43pm Amanda: The main diff I think is that Swartzwelder has longer hair than Crosby.
	12:43pm listener james from westwood: "Does anyone wanna change seats?"
	12:44pm listener james from westwood: Ron Howard showed up 2x.
	12:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Homer re AdamWest:...'back away slowly, keep children behind you, don't make eye contact'...
	12:48pm listener james from westwood: IIRC Don Rickles was sought but declined.
	12:49pm JakeGould: What about when Jasper Johns was stealing light bulbs? Or Thonas Pynchon showed up?
	12:50pm JakeGould: Also, Jack Lemmon!
	12:50pm Amanda: Rickles did reject them, but then they got him later!
	12:50pm Greg from Bloomfield: Catfish?
	12:50pm listener james from westwood: Pynchon was also a 2 timer!
	12:51pm listener james from westwood: I wonder if Tierney scared the shit out of the Simpsons folks as he did the cast of Seinfeld?
	12:52pm listener james from westwood: Glenn Close as Homer's mom?
	12:52pm Amanda: One of my biggest laughs in the whole series is Don Brodka breaking the Handi-Snacks cracker and muttering "Lousy stinkin' piece of crap"
	12:54pm listener james from westwood: The McBain saga!
	12:56pm P-90: I go so far back, I remember when Harry Shearer was in a "Firesign Theater"-style comedy group (along with Lenny and Squiggy!) called The Credibility Gap, which put out a couple of records in the seventies. And Shearer had a long-running bit on KCRW about George H. W. Bush dictating notes for his memoirs. "Two Bad Neighbors," when the Bushes move in next door, was partially created to capitalize on Shearer's long-term experience doing that "character." Also, in L.A., the local free weekly paper carried "Life in Hell", the Groening comic which directly begat The Simpsons. Overnight, this local underground comic dude was suddenly on the Tracy Ullman show with animated sketches, then BOOM! the Big Time.
	12:56pm northguineahills: This is so awesome, how it was spread out. I was so stoked when someone put it all together on YouTube years ago.
	12:58pm Amanda: @P-90 I was a Life in Hell fan from age 10 or so, because of the Village Voice.
	12:59pm P-90: Ha! And there's Bongo and his TV counterpart, Bart...
	12:59pm listener james from westwood: I could punch myself for disposing of the Apple Computer-commissioned Groening/LiH comic book.
	1:00pm Amanda: Wow, I have never even heard of that.
	1:00pm P-90: @Listener James: about what year was that?
	1:01pm Roberto: Amazing how the dancing Flanders gif seems to sync with every one of these tunes.
	1:02pm listener james from westwood: @P-90: Late 80s, got it at the Boston College on-campus Apple store.
	1:02pm listener james from westwood: The full book: vintagezen.com...
	1:03pm listener james from westwood: The end of this episode. The jet engine goes, FMOOOOMPH.
	1:04pm Ken From Hyde Park: I am so S-M-R-T! I aced the Simpsons Quote Quiz - www.pbs.org...
	1:04pm P-90: @James: Wow, thanks
	1:04pm Amanda: Shary Bobbins voiced by Maggie Roswell, also voice of Maud Flanders, who eventually left the series over a contract dispute.
	1:04pm Josh: MCBAIN ORGY!!!
	1:06pm listener james from westwood: OMG, it's time for a Monorail-related singalong, I think.
	1:07pm listener james from westwood: @Ken: 100% Woo-hoo!!
	1:12pm Amanda: Congrats Ken!!!
	1:13pm listener james from westwood: FMOOOOMPH
	1:15pm Ken From Hyde Park: Next season, The Simpsons can take a trip to Cuba.
	1:16pm Amanda: Bump for Alf Clausen
	1:17pm listener james from westwood: Heck, Homer's already met Fidel!
	1:19pm Ken From Hyde Park: In the episode, Homer can try the trillion dollar bill back.
	1:20pm Amanda: I was mainly here for that small pocket of Nate's Phish hatred. Goodbye now, everyone!
	1:20pm listener james from westwood: What's wrong with Fish? He was always good on "Barney Miller." Wish he hadn't left.
	1:21pm Joe B: just when I thought I couldn't dislike Phish any more ...
	1:22pm Greg from Bloomfield: IS IT MORE ICED TEA YE BE NEEDIN?
	1:22pm listener james from westwood: "D'ar, I'm no good at this!"
	1:22pm Ken From Hyde Park: <3D Homer> - Mmmm...unprocessed fish sticks.
	1:23pm Amanda: LOLOL Nice one Greg! And well anticipated James!
	1:23pm listener james from westwood: THAT's the line!
	1:24pm P-90: lol!@"Apu-centric"
	1:24pm listener james from westwood: His voice traces its lineage to the Robert Newton "Treasure Island" Long John Silver, as do most pirates'.
	1:24pm Polyus: I saw whoever plays keyboards for Deep Purple now work the Simpsons theme into his rather lengthy solo. And the audience was mildly amused.
	1:25pm listener james from westwood: "D'arrrr, I'm just not attractive."
	1:26pm Roberto: Works on contingency? No, money down!
	1:27pm Amanda: My compulsive jumping in to name each episode title is not getting irritating at all
	1:28pm Josh: ‘tis no man – tis a remorseless eating machine!
	1:28pm Rich in Washington: all those crank calls to Moe's were inspired by the infamous Red's Tube Bar tapes.
	1:29pm P-90: Also, there was a chain of "Long John Silver's" greasy fast-seafood restaurants in the suburbs (which had dopey "all-you-can eat' promotions). The restaurants were like outlandishly-nautical-themed McDonalds, and I always thought this was the inspiration for the salty old sea-captain/fry-cook character.
	1:31pm sugarwolf: I wish I wasn't at work right now! The archives it will be for me.
	1:31pm P-90: "D'oh!-o-rama"
	1:32pm northguineahills: @P-90s: Captain D's?
	1:32pm sugarwolf: In college my friend and I used to eat dinner as soon as the dining hall opened so we could get back in time to watch the 5 o'clock Simpsons reruns.
	1:33pm Amanda: @P-90, I think that's right on the money -- Long John Silver's, Red Lobster, Arthur Treacher's, etc. @sugarwolf the archives will be here to receive you anytime.
	1:35pm Joe B: a third Fonzarelli!
	1:36pm Rich in Washington: I loved the Poochy thing. They totally nailed how the 70s cartoon complex destroyed our childhoods
	1:36pm listener james from westwood: I feel we should Rasta-fy him by about 10 percent or so.
	1:37pm northguineahills: I just saw Mountain of Madness last night.
	1:37pm Amanda: Nice on the ID, @northguineahills :-)
	1:38pm listener james from westwood: I have powers ... political powers!!
	1:39pm Amanda: @Joe B always like how Poochie hikes up the shoulders of his jacket and does the "ayyy" motion when he says that.
	1:39pm northguineahills: I saw it!
	1:43pm Amanda: I saw it, that is to say I seen it.
	1:43pm P-90: Yes, i remember Captain D's too. But Long John Silver's had the weird fish nets, fiberglass ship's steering wheels, Triton pitchforks, starfish embedded in the acrylic tabletops, light fixtures that looked like old nautical oil-lamps, all that kitschy deco. I believe they also had TV commercials for years with an actor doing the whole pirate bit: "Aaargh, two-for-one seafood platters all weekend long, avast ye mateys!" He was basically a less-bitter Capt. McAllister, their "Ronald McDonald"-like figurehead.
	1:43pm listener james from westwood: Early-early Skinner voicing is a touch Nixonian, which makes sense coming from Shearer given his recent Nixon project.
	1:45pm Joe B: Great picture. that was a great scene in the Santa classroom. Ho. Ho. Ho.
	1:45pm Yvang: Very interesting long interview with Mimi Pond : www.tcj.com...
	1:45pm Joe B: 'Rosanne' was on before the Simpsons
	1:46pm Amanda: Aw cool Yvang! Thanks for sharing that. I remember her cartoons very well, she is an underrated role model for Sassy magazine-generation people like my peer group...
	1:48pm Amanda: "Roseanne" debuted 1988, after the shorts were on Tracey Ullman but before the Simpsons sitcom.
	1:49pm northguineahills: "Don't Cry for me, for I'm already dead!"
	1:50pm Yvang: Welcome Amanda! excerpt: "It was for a very long time a boys’ club and … it was just not a positive experience."
	1:52pm P-90: @listener james: It's fascinating to see how the voices evolve; often these cartoon voices start with a strong element of an impression of a famous voice, then they become their own thing over time. Homer himself started as much more of a straight Walter Matthau voice. Somewhere there's a clip of the late Phil Hartman discussing this process on a Conan talk show. He had just created a bunch of voices for a syndicated "Dennis the Menace" show.
	1:52pm sugarwolf: @Amanda haha yes to Sassy magazine generation!
	1:56pm listener james from westwood: P-90: Very true re: the Matthau voice. They spoofed this at least once later, when an old-style Homer was among the Homer clones in that one THOH ep. "Let's all go for some frosty chocolate milkshakes!"
	1:57pm Amanda: I meant that Moe steals Homer's idea, of course, obvs, not other way around
	1:58pm P-90: And you can hear that Monty Burns is a cunning fusion of Ronald Reagan and Lionel Barrymore as Mr' Potter from"it's a Wonderful Life", for example
	1:58pm listener james from westwood: THERE'S the Matthau.
	1:59pm northguineahills: Thanks guys, this was oodles of fun!
	2:00pm Danne D: Thanks Amanda and everyone :) Merry Christmas if I don't cross paths with you before then :D
	2:00pm listener james from westwood: Thanks to Amanda and our panelists for another killer conference! Agreed this is a huge amount of fun!
	2:02pm Amanda: Stick around for bonus material. Thank you all so so so sosososos much for listening! Next week: Nazario Scenario xmas show on Christmas Eve...
	2:02pm listener james from westwood: Fine out-theme, too!
	2:03pm Doug Schulkind: Amandatacular!
	2:03pm Rich in Washington: thanks, Amanda! That was a lot of fun!
	2:04pm P-90: Nazariliscious! Thanks!
	10:33am chipmunk john: How'd ya find/get the Milhouse wazzup gif wished for, Aug 6 playlist?

Nazario Scenario: Playlist from December 17, 2014

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Artist	Track	Album	Year	Format	Comments	Approx. start time
Yo La Tengo	Simpsons theme (live)					0:00:00 (Pop-up)
The Party Posse	Drop Da Bomb "Drop Da Bomb" by "The Party Posse"					0:04:14 (Pop-up)
Homer	Homer Face "Homer Face" by "Homer"					0:05:41 (Pop-up)
Burns & Smithers	See My Vest "See My Vest" by "Burns & Smithers"	Songs in the Key of Springfield		CD		0:07:16 (Pop-up)
Homer, Lenny, Carl et al	Dental Plan mashup				YouTube	0:09:00 (Pop-up)
Bart et al	Deep, Deep Trouble "Deep, Deep Trouble" by "Bart et al"	The Simpsons Sing the Blues		CD		0:11:43 (Pop-up)
Amanda, Nate, Pat, Paul	TALKING "TALKING" by "Amanda, Nate, Pat, Paul"					0:17:31 (Pop-up)
Sonic Youth	Simpsons theme "Simpsons theme" by "Sonic Youth"					0:53:10 (Pop-up)
	McBain supercut "McBain supercut"				YouTube	0:54:37 (Pop-up)
Rev. Lovejoy, Bart et al	In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida remix				YT	0:58:30 (Pop-up)
Shary Bobbins, Bart, Lisa, Homer, Marge, Barney, Moe	Supercalifragilisticexpiali(annoyed grunt)cious Medley	Go Simpsonic with the Simpsons		CD		1:01:05 (Pop-up)
Conan O'Brien, Hank Azaria et al	Monorail Song live	Simpsons live at the Hollywood Bowl			YT, Sept. 2014	1:07:01 (Pop-up)
Shary Bobbins, Bart, Lisa, Homer, Marge	We're Happy With Things The Way They Are	Go Simpsonic with the Simpsons		CD		1:11:14 (Pop-up)
Paul, Pat, Nate, Amanda	OMG SO MUCH TALKING					1:13:24 (Pop-up)
Los Lobos	Simpsons theme "Simpsons theme" by "Los Lobos"					1:29:41 (Pop-up)
	The Many D'oh!s of Homer "The Many D'oh!s of Homer"				A supercut of every time Homer says "D'oh!" in seasons 1-20	1:31:02 (Pop-up)
Homer, Itchy, Scratchy	Poochie rap					1:34:56 (Pop-up)
Alf Clausen	Who Shot Mr. Burns? Simpsons theme					1:35:40 (Pop-up)
Simpsons Time!	ep 1: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire (writer: Mimi Pond)					1:36:53 (Pop-up)
Bart, Homer	Simpsons Xmas "Simpsons Xmas" by "Bart, Homer"		1988		Tracey Ullman short	1:57:41 (Pop-up)

The Be Sharps	Baby On Board "Baby On Board" by "The Be Sharps"					2:02:21 (Pop-up)

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Listener comments!
	11:28am listener james from westwood: OMFG the Flanderseses GIF.
	11:53am Amanda: Right???
	11:55am Stevel: I keep watching the gif, wanting more. Perhaps if I make a special Christmas wish?
	12:00pm listener james from westwood: We hear ya!
	12:00pm GeesyCreesy: loud and clear
	12:00pm Dominick: Fudge and marzipan here
	12:00pm Artie Haywire: Launched!
	12:01pm listener james from westwood: I should rewatch that first ep, to see how much of the wit, style, and heart of the classic show was already present therein.
	12:01pm Danne D: Yay Amnazz :)
	12:04pm Dan B From Upstate: Yvan Eht Nioj!!
	12:05pm listener james from westwood: YVAN EHT NIOJ!
	12:05pm Amanda: @James -- it really was surprisingly intact, considering! Hey, welcome everybody listening live or archived!!! :-)
	12:05pm listener james from westwood: (Otto runs off to recruiting station)
	12:06pm listener james from westwood: So I've had Homer Simpson and Leslie Knope sing that song. My day is made.
	12:07pm nah: great gif
	12:08pm GeesyCreesy: I love this song, and this episode "Look at you, standing there on your hind legs like a couple of Rory Calhouns"
	12:08pm listener james from westwood: So long, dental plan!
	12:09pm listener james from westwood: OMMFG this mix.
	12:10pm listener james from westwood: Yoink!
	12:10pm Amanda: #SimpsonsSelfie from "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds" during #EverySimpsonsEver
	12:11pm Joe D.: GET ALL THE WAY OUT OF HERE WITH THIS OMG
	12:12pm listener james from westwood: That is one happy viewer/Simpsons fan in that pic. The Every Simpsons Ever was the first time in years I wish I had cable.
	12:12pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Any other Harry Shearer 'Le Show' fans among us ? : feeds.soundcloud.com...
	12:13pm Roberto: Lisa is a nut. She has a rubber butt,
	12:13pm Roberto: every time she turns around it goes putt-putt.
	12:13pm Greg from Bloomfield: God it feels like this song came out yesterday...
	12:14pm Amanda: @Joe D. I completely know... it floored me as well... @RevRabbit -- I have listened to it a couple of times, yes! Very surreal to me to hear Skinner talk social commentary (which is I'm sure not what Shearer would want to hear, but still!) @Greg -- I know, but such a time capsule too. "Nintendo for cash" arghhh
	12:15pm Roberto: Yes, I was a follower of Le Show on KCRW in years prior to the advent of Les Simpsons.
	12:16pm Amanda: Lisa, da-da-da-disa She is my sistah Her birthday I missed-ah.
	12:18pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Cheers! - I think Harry is pretty special...
	12:21pm sugarwolf: Harry Shearer came into my store once. I was the only one who recognized him.
	12:21pm Greg from Bloomfield: I prefer "The Simpsons Go Calypso."
	12:21pm P-90: Hi Amanda, RevRabbit, Simpsonians, and Shearerites! I go way back to the early days of Le Show; I used to live not far from the KCRW station, in fact.
	12:22pm Amanda: "Man smart" "But de woman is... smarter!"
	12:23pm Amanda: Cool P-90! And super cool that you met/saw him in person sugarwolf! Derek Smalls would always be recognizable to me
	12:27pm listener james from westwood: Dial "S" for Psycho!
	12:28pm listener james from westwood: I was excited to follow my Twitter folks watching the Simpsonsfest. To know that so many people were doing the same thing.
	12:28pm Greg from Bloomfield: "Smoke Yourself Thin, and Get Confident, Stupid!"
	12:28pm Amanda: Want to add that in addition to Oakley and Weinstein, others whose tweets were really fun to read were Jon Vitti, Matt Selman, and Al Jean.
	12:28pm Amanda: Alice Doesn't Live Anymore
	12:28pm P-90: @RevRabbit: If you were a prior Shearer fan, his other stuff doesn't sound like Skinner doing comedy; instead Skinner (and Smithers, Burns, Lovejoy, George H.W. Bush, and Flanders) all sound like Harry Shearer doing his thing...
	12:29pm Greg from Bloomfield: "Dial 'M' for 'Murderesness'"
	12:33pm listener james from westwood: Lead Paint: Delicious but Deadly! Amanda: That sort of setup for the TV and the Simpsons marathon would have had me washing myself with a rag on a stick.
	12:33pm steve: [polite appause]
	12:35pm listener james from westwood: That synced-up Oh, Yeah was great.
	12:35pm Amanda: I set up a piece of cake as my re-ward.
	12:36pm listener james from westwood: Oh, Diabetty.
	12:36pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: - yes - for me Harry is a line into Simpson'sTime - which I love tho' I haven't followed Simpsons (...despite being born in Springfield, VT!)...
	12:37pm Amanda: I have noticed that a lot of people born in Springfield are not as into the Simpsons as others, fittingly enough. You're not the first one I've heard of! Also people whose last name is Simpson.
	12:40pm listener james from westwood: I liked the S. 15 robot-battle episode.
	12:41pm Dan B From Upstate: Someone wouldn't like having the name Homer Simpson? Uh-oh! Spaghetti-Os!
	12:42pm listener james from westwood: The radioactive-ape joke nearly fucking killed me at the time. "That wasn;t Dad's fault, that ape tricked him!"
	12:42pm Amanda: Of course, we all probably know that Homer Simpson was originally a character in The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West.
	12:42pm northguineahills: I picked the wrong day to need a mid-afternoon nap.
	12:42pm Greg from Bloomfield: John Waters uber alles
	12:43pm Amanda: The main diff I think is that Swartzwelder has longer hair than Crosby.
	12:43pm listener james from westwood: "Does anyone wanna change seats?"
	12:44pm listener james from westwood: Ron Howard showed up 2x.
	12:45pm Revolution Rabbit Nov63: Homer re AdamWest:...'back away slowly, keep children behind you, don't make eye contact'...
	12:48pm listener james from westwood: IIRC Don Rickles was sought but declined.
	12:49pm JakeGould: What about when Jasper Johns was stealing light bulbs? Or Thonas Pynchon showed up?
	12:50pm JakeGould: Also, Jack Lemmon!
	12:50pm Amanda: Rickles did reject them, but then they got him later!
	12:50pm Greg from Bloomfield: Catfish?
	12:50pm listener james from westwood: Pynchon was also a 2 timer!
	12:51pm listener james from westwood: I wonder if Tierney scared the shit out of the Simpsons folks as he did the cast of Seinfeld?
	12:52pm listener james from westwood: Glenn Close as Homer's mom?
	12:52pm Amanda: One of my biggest laughs in the whole series is Don Brodka breaking the Handi-Snacks cracker and muttering "Lousy stinkin' piece of crap"
	12:54pm listener james from westwood: The McBain saga!
	12:56pm P-90: I go so far back, I remember when Harry Shearer was in a "Firesign Theater"-style comedy group (along with Lenny and Squiggy!) called The Credibility Gap, which put out a couple of records in the seventies. And Shearer had a long-running bit on KCRW about George H. W. Bush dictating notes for his memoirs. "Two Bad Neighbors," when the Bushes move in next door, was partially created to capitalize on Shearer's long-term experience doing that "character." Also, in L.A., the local free weekly paper carried "Life in Hell", the Groening comic which directly begat The Simpsons. Overnight, this local underground comic dude was suddenly on the Tracy Ullman show with animated sketches, then BOOM! the Big Time.
	12:56pm northguineahills: This is so awesome, how it was spread out. I was so stoked when someone put it all together on YouTube years ago.
	12:58pm Amanda: @P-90 I was a Life in Hell fan from age 10 or so, because of the Village Voice.
	12:59pm P-90: Ha! And there's Bongo and his TV counterpart, Bart...
	12:59pm listener james from westwood: I could punch myself for disposing of the Apple Computer-commissioned Groening/LiH comic book.
	1:00pm Amanda: Wow, I have never even heard of that.
	1:00pm P-90: @Listener James: about what year was that?
	1:01pm Roberto: Amazing how the dancing Flanders gif seems to sync with every one of these tunes.
	1:02pm listener james from westwood: @P-90: Late 80s, got it at the Boston College on-campus Apple store.
	1:02pm listener james from westwood: The full book: vintagezen.com...
	1:03pm listener james from westwood: The end of this episode. The jet engine goes, FMOOOOMPH.
	1:04pm Ken From Hyde Park: I am so S-M-R-T! I aced the Simpsons Quote Quiz - www.pbs.org...
	1:04pm P-90: @James: Wow, thanks
	1:04pm Amanda: Shary Bobbins voiced by Maggie Roswell, also voice of Maud Flanders, who eventually left the series over a contract dispute.
	1:04pm Josh: MCBAIN ORGY!!!
	1:06pm listener james from westwood: OMG, it's time for a Monorail-related singalong, I think.
	1:07pm listener james from westwood: @Ken: 100% Woo-hoo!!
	1:12pm Amanda: Congrats Ken!!!
	1:13pm listener james from westwood: FMOOOOMPH
	1:15pm Ken From Hyde Park: Next season, The Simpsons can take a trip to Cuba.
	1:16pm Amanda: Bump for Alf Clausen
	1:17pm listener james from westwood: Heck, Homer's already met Fidel!
	1:19pm Ken From Hyde Park: In the episode, Homer can try the trillion dollar bill back.
	1:20pm Amanda: I was mainly here for that small pocket of Nate's Phish hatred. Goodbye now, everyone!
	1:20pm listener james from westwood: What's wrong with Fish? He was always good on "Barney Miller." Wish he hadn't left.
	1:21pm Joe B: just when I thought I couldn't dislike Phish any more ...
	1:22pm Greg from Bloomfield: IS IT MORE ICED TEA YE BE NEEDIN?
	1:22pm listener james from westwood: "D'ar, I'm no good at this!"
	1:22pm Ken From Hyde Park: <3D Homer> - Mmmm...unprocessed fish sticks.
	1:23pm Amanda: LOLOL Nice one Greg! And well anticipated James!
	1:23pm listener james from westwood: THAT's the line!
	1:24pm P-90: lol!@"Apu-centric"
	1:24pm listener james from westwood: His voice traces its lineage to the Robert Newton "Treasure Island" Long John Silver, as do most pirates'.
	1:24pm Polyus: I saw whoever plays keyboards for Deep Purple now work the Simpsons theme into his rather lengthy solo. And the audience was mildly amused.
	1:25pm listener james from westwood: "D'arrrr, I'm just not attractive."
	1:26pm Roberto: Works on contingency? No, money down!
	1:27pm Amanda: My compulsive jumping in to name each episode title is not getting irritating at all
	1:28pm Josh: ‘tis no man – tis a remorseless eating machine!
	1:28pm Rich in Washington: all those crank calls to Moe's were inspired by the infamous Red's Tube Bar tapes.
	1:29pm P-90: Also, there was a chain of "Long John Silver's" greasy fast-seafood restaurants in the suburbs (which had dopey "all-you-can eat' promotions). The restaurants were like outlandishly-nautical-themed McDonalds, and I always thought this was the inspiration for the salty old sea-captain/fry-cook character.
	1:31pm sugarwolf: I wish I wasn't at work right now! The archives it will be for me.
	1:31pm P-90: "D'oh!-o-rama"
	1:32pm northguineahills: @P-90s: Captain D's?
	1:32pm sugarwolf: In college my friend and I used to eat dinner as soon as the dining hall opened so we could get back in time to watch the 5 o'clock Simpsons reruns.
	1:33pm Amanda: @P-90, I think that's right on the money -- Long John Silver's, Red Lobster, Arthur Treacher's, etc. @sugarwolf the archives will be here to receive you anytime.
	1:35pm Joe B: a third Fonzarelli!
	1:36pm Rich in Washington: I loved the Poochy thing. They totally nailed how the 70s cartoon complex destroyed our childhoods
	1:36pm listener james from westwood: I feel we should Rasta-fy him by about 10 percent or so.
	1:37pm northguineahills: I just saw Mountain of Madness last night.
	1:37pm Amanda: Nice on the ID, @northguineahills :-)
	1:38pm listener james from westwood: I have powers ... political powers!!
	1:39pm Amanda: @Joe B always like how Poochie hikes up the shoulders of his jacket and does the "ayyy" motion when he says that.
	1:39pm northguineahills: I saw it!
	1:43pm Amanda: I saw it, that is to say I seen it.
	1:43pm P-90: Yes, i remember Captain D's too. But Long John Silver's had the weird fish nets, fiberglass ship's steering wheels, Triton pitchforks, starfish embedded in the acrylic tabletops, light fixtures that looked like old nautical oil-lamps, all that kitschy deco. I believe they also had TV commercials for years with an actor doing the whole pirate bit: "Aaargh, two-for-one seafood platters all weekend long, avast ye mateys!" He was basically a less-bitter Capt. McAllister, their "Ronald McDonald"-like figurehead.
	1:43pm listener james from westwood: Early-early Skinner voicing is a touch Nixonian, which makes sense coming from Shearer given his recent Nixon project.
	1:45pm Joe B: Great picture. that was a great scene in the Santa classroom. Ho. Ho. Ho.
	1:45pm Yvang: Very interesting long interview with Mimi Pond : www.tcj.com...
	1:45pm Joe B: 'Rosanne' was on before the Simpsons
	1:46pm Amanda: Aw cool Yvang! Thanks for sharing that. I remember her cartoons very well, she is an underrated role model for Sassy magazine-generation people like my peer group...
	1:48pm Amanda: "Roseanne" debuted 1988, after the shorts were on Tracey Ullman but before the Simpsons sitcom.
	1:49pm northguineahills: "Don't Cry for me, for I'm already dead!"
	1:50pm Yvang: Welcome Amanda! excerpt: "It was for a very long time a boys’ club and … it was just not a positive experience."
	1:52pm P-90: @listener james: It's fascinating to see how the voices evolve; often these cartoon voices start with a strong element of an impression of a famous voice, then they become their own thing over time. Homer himself started as much more of a straight Walter Matthau voice. Somewhere there's a clip of the late Phil Hartman discussing this process on a Conan talk show. He had just created a bunch of voices for a syndicated "Dennis the Menace" show.
	1:52pm sugarwolf: @Amanda haha yes to Sassy magazine generation!
	1:56pm listener james from westwood: P-90: Very true re: the Matthau voice. They spoofed this at least once later, when an old-style Homer was among the Homer clones in that one THOH ep. "Let's all go for some frosty chocolate milkshakes!"
	1:57pm Amanda: I meant that Moe steals Homer's idea, of course, obvs, not other way around
	1:58pm P-90: And you can hear that Monty Burns is a cunning fusion of Ronald Reagan and Lionel Barrymore as Mr' Potter from"it's a Wonderful Life", for example
	1:58pm listener james from westwood: THERE'S the Matthau.
	1:59pm northguineahills: Thanks guys, this was oodles of fun!
	2:00pm Danne D: Thanks Amanda and everyone :) Merry Christmas if I don't cross paths with you before then :D
	2:00pm listener james from westwood: Thanks to Amanda and our panelists for another killer conference! Agreed this is a huge amount of fun!
	2:02pm Amanda: Stick around for bonus material. Thank you all so so so sosososos much for listening! Next week: Nazario Scenario xmas show on Christmas Eve...
	2:02pm listener james from westwood: Fine out-theme, too!
	2:03pm Doug Schulkind: Amandatacular!
	2:03pm Rich in Washington: thanks, Amanda! That was a lot of fun!
	2:04pm P-90: Nazariliscious! Thanks!
	10:33am chipmunk john: How'd ya find/get the Milhouse wazzup gif wished for, Aug 6 playlist?

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