Pods in the Key of Springfield: A Simpsons Podcast

5: The Telltale Head/Life on the Fast Lane

It's episode 5, and I've finally fixed the sound quality so there's no irritating hum! Wonderful.

Look, The Simpsons is great, but The Telltale Head is a bonkers episode. We discuss space mutants, the films of Sam Raimi/Chicken Ramen, Nick's Simpsons hair idol, and, uh, the whole thing where Bart cuts the head off a statue and the town collectively decides to kill him.

Meanwhile, Life on the Fast Lane has one of our favourite weird line readings of the whole series. There's a lot of other stuff to dig into here (and dig we do), but we probably could have devoted a whole episode to Jacques' onion ring order.

Pods in the Key of Springfield: "we're statue fuckers, born and raised".

4: Moaning Lisa/The Call of the Simpsons

Season one keeps on rolling, and thus so do we. In this episode, we tackle season highpoint ‘Moaning Lisa’, in which Lisa's 'sadness' is treated with surprising (by season one standards) respect and nuance by the writers, and 'The Call of the Simpsons', in which Homer gets mistaken for a Bigfoot for some reason? The Simpsons is weird.

As always, there's a lot to dig into. There's a plagiarizing Jazzman, a neglectful school, a bunch of bears that may or may not eat a baby, a bunch of nudity, and some weird insights into the lives of your two hosts.

3: There's No Disgrace Like Home/Bart the General

As James and Nick continue their deep dive into the first season of The Simpsons, more and more questions start to arise. Are Marvin Monroe's methods scientifically sound? Is getting a boy slightly damp a valid form of revenge? Are we as qualified to talk about the current global political climate, and how it relates to old episodes of The Simpsons? Does Nick's theory of an omlette-shaped Simpsons universe make any sense? Join us as we talk about what these two episodes, with all their inconsistent characterisations and confused tones, mean to us.

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2: Bart the Genius/Homer's Odyssey

James and Nick continue to work through the first season, and find themselves mystified by some of its weirder elements. Do the writers of The Simpsons not understand palindromes? Why does Homer not battle a Cyclops in the show's rendition of The Odyssey? Is Bart, in fact, Wario, and has he invented a Super Goo during Bart the Genius? Turns out there's a lot to dig into here. 

1: Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire

Finally, a podcast about The Simpsons! In this one James and Nick tackle the show's pilot, trying to figure out who Norm is, unpacking the incredible work of that one mall tattoo artist, and blather on about a bunch of other stuff.