First thing first. THANK YOU EA for listening to my suggestion to make Springfield Heights building facades changeable once you upgrade them completely to Level 5!!! In a post a while ago, I suggested this and when Part Deux of this madness dropped, I was so stoked to see EA hooked us up. Weird Paris Hilton character I didn’t really care if I got or not… here the Fuzzball comes!
Getting to the point of this post, while I know it’s not really Simpsons News or TSTO-related per say… I recently got the chance to do something really cool. I know a few readers liked when Alissa, Bunny and I did the question and answer videos for our blogiversaries and ever since, I’ve had this itch that I couldn’t quite scratch. Well now I know what it was… I like to talk about the Simpsons and geek culture in general. C0urtesy of the uber-talented folks I work with at the House of Mouse… one of my good buddies gave me the opportunity to do a podcast about none other than the silly little cartoon that I write about here. Seeing as some of you seem to like me/put up with me, I thought I’d share the link to the podcast if you were inclined to hear me ramble about The Simpsons, etc.
Well thanks for clicking more friends! So… my friend Kevin O’Leary has a podcast that he started about shows on television. Somehow he was crazy enough to decide he wanted me on the show and two hours later, we had recorded an episode about The Simpsons and other assorted topics. Since it’s a rollercoaster of Simpsons and other stuff, we titled it “The Simpsons Episode?”. Suffice to say I am a random person who may or may not have mild ADD. Regardless of the wild tangents, I think it’s really an interesting listen and thought I’d share it with my favorite readers.
The podcast can be found on http://www.anchorjacket.com/remotely-serious/ and is the sixth episode. This show is part of a whole slew of different podcasts produced by another friend of mine, Shaun Lewis. He does a fun show about movies and there’s like three other shows if podcast listening is your thing (music/sports/random discussions). I love listening to podcasts and recently gave up listening to the radio to instead just stream discussions by people I find interesting. The shows on Anchor Jacket Productions (http://www.anchorjacket.com/) are mostly done by people I know who I think are entertaining.
Kevin and I had a blast recording this on Remotely Serious and I hope one or two (or tons) of you listen and enjoy it. While it is a two hour journey, close to half of it is about my favorite cartoon. I basically gave Kevin a list of ten episodes to watch as a new viewer of The Simpsons and we discuss them. We also talked about other assorted Simpsons stuff including comparisons with other cartoons, voice talent, and this site. I always like to give a shout out to the Addicts! Here’s my list of 10:
Radio Bart (S3:E13)
Homer at Bat (S3:E17)
Marge vs. the Monorail (S4:E12)
Last Exit to Springfield (S4:E17)
Deep Space Homer (S5:E15)
A Fish Called Selma (S7:E19)
You Only Move Twice (S8:E2)
Homer’s Phobia (S8:E15)
Brick Like Me (S25:E20)
Halloween of Horror (S27:E4)
While this is not my Top 10 (it’s close), I like the list. Funny to me, Kevin initially asked for 5 episodes, I got him to agree to ten and then I prepared a list of 55 as a joke. I posted the complete list at the end of this post.
You can listen to the episode on the website I provided above or you can also get it through iTunes or on an Android podcast app (a lot of people I know use Podcast Addict… funny name considering all of us on this site). The podcast is named Remotely Serious. Any social media links to it and other shows on Anchor Jacket are in the episodes so I won’t bombard you with all that.
Anywho… that’s all the shameless plugs I wanted to get out there. Apologies for my absence as of late but this semester of school, work, and family have kept me exceptionally busy. I plan on being back much more over the next couple months. Let me know what you think if you do listen. I’m actually considering doing my own podcast about all things geek to include comics/Star Wars/Simpsons/etc. with another friend of mine. We shall see and I’ll certainly let you know if that happens. Special thanks to the Lady Addicts for letting me post this info. I hope you are all having a great time with your games. Much love and all that good stuff tappereenos.
TTFN… Wookiee out!
Wookiee’s Top 55 of 581 episodes
Life on the Fast Lane (S1:E9)
Simpson and Delilah (S2:E2)
Bart the Daredevil (S2:E8)
Homer vs. Lisa. and the Eighth Commandment (S2:E13)
Flaming Moe’s (S3:E10)
Radio Bart (S3:E13)
Bart the Lover (S3:E16)
Homer at Bat (S3:E17)
Colonel Homer (S3:E20)
Camp Krusty (S4:E1)
Mr. Plow (S4:E9)
Lisa’s First Word (S4:E10)
Marge vs. the Monorail (S4:E12)
I Love Lisa (S4:E15)
Duffless (S4:E16)
Last Exit to Springfield (S4:E17)
Krusty Gets Cancelled (S4:E22)
Cape Feare (S5:E2)
Rosebud (S5:E4)
Boy-Scoutz ‘n the Hood (S5:E8)
The Last Temptation of Homer (S5:E9)
Deep Space Homer (S5:E15)
Bart of Darkness (S6:E1)
Itchy & Scratchy Land (S6:E4)
Treehouse of Horror V (S6:E6)
Homer Badman (S6:E9)
‘Round Springfield (S6:E22)
Lemon of Troy (S6:E24)
Who Shot Mr. Burns Part 1 (S6:E25) & Part 2 (S7:E1)
Radioactive Man (S7:E2)
Lisa the Vegetarian (S7:E5)
A Fish Called Selma (S7:E19)
22 Short Films About Springfield (S7:E21)
You Only Move Twice (S8:E2)
Hurricane Neddy (S8:E8)
The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show (S8:E14)
Homer’s Phobia (S8:E15)
Homer’s Enemy (S8:E23)
The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson (S9:E1)
Alone Again, Natura Diddly (S11:E14)
How I Spent My Strummer Vacation (S14:E2)
The Regina Monologues (S15:E4)
Catch ‘Em If You Can” (S15:E18)
Springfield Up (S18:E13)
24 Minutes (S18:E21)
The deBarted (S19:E13)
Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind (S19:E9)
Gone Maggie Gone (S20:E13)
500 Keys (S22:E21)
Holidays of Future Passed (S23:E9)
Steal This Episode (S25:E9)
Brick Like Me (S25:E20)
Bart’s New Friend (S26:E11)
Walking Big & Tall (S26:E13)
Halloween of Horror (S27:E4)