A deep-dive into The Simpsons by two guys whose lives have been defined by the show.
Episodes
Tuesday Mar 06, 2018
Tuesday Mar 06, 2018
This week on the Simpsons podcast that you've chosen to download (and thank you, by the way) - Lisa the Greek, which is pretty good! Homer Alone, which is not as good (why do Patty and Selma take Bart and Lisa while Marge is away?). This week we unveil James' new secret podcast-within-a-podcast, unpack the difference between betting and gambling, discuss the classic films of Macaulay Culkin, and delve deep (as always) into the world of The Simpsons.
Pods in the Key of Springfield! We are like the dreamer, who dreams, and then lives inside the dream.
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Tuesday Feb 27, 2018
Tuesday Feb 27, 2018
You light up my days
And fill my nights
With
Song
It can't be wrong
When it feels so right
Because you
You light up my life
Also, Radio Bart, which is also good. The Simpsons is good.
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Tuesday Feb 20, 2018
Tuesday Feb 20, 2018
This week, we're back on the videogames The Simpsons have starred in! We dig deep into the House of Weirdness, a weird, House-of-Leaves inspired (probably) space of horror and disorientation. We look at Bart vs. The World and say 'huh, little racist, huh?'. And we dig into Bartman vs Radioactive Man, which...look, I have a very good idea for a Radioactive Man game. I dig into it, and if any of the license owners for The Simpsons are listening, yes, I am available to script it. Let's talk.
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Tuesday Feb 13, 2018
Tuesday Feb 13, 2018
James and Nick have finally made it to the Land of Chocolate. Having arrived ten minutes ago, as of this recording, James and Nick spend a long time talking about alcohol (because the first episode was about Moe!) and try to unpack some of the current-day murkiness of what The Simpsons looks like now that we're old and jaded about the world that has left us behind. These are solid eps. Come join us!
Pods in the Key of Springfield! Our English is, how you say...inelegant?
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Tuesday Feb 06, 2018
Tuesday Feb 06, 2018
This week on Pods in the Key of Springfield - Lisa gets a pony! Bart gets a cart! Homer plies both of his children with modes of transportation, one made of flesh and blood and bone, the other of wood and nails and glue. Come and join us to find out which is which, in this, the fourth episode we recorded on New Year's Day.
We dig deep on our feelings on ice-cream, the show's...now very awkward reference to a certain 90s comedian, and the possibility that we witnessed the on-screen death of Martin Prince. We're real...real tired in this one. Please enjoy.
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Tuesday Jan 30, 2018
Tuesday Jan 30, 2018
Welcome to Pods in the Key of SPOOKY Springfield! It's January (or probably February by the time you get around to downloading this), the scariest month, so we're all over Treehouse of Horror II. Listen as we plan out our own monkey paw wishes, compare these vignettes to the short stories they were based on (that egghead James has read some of 'em) and, uhhh, avoid talking about who we would kill if we had Bart's power from that second bit.
Come join us for Pods in the Key of...*checks notes* Bonerland!
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Tuesday Jan 23, 2018
Tuesday Jan 23, 2018
In 1922, Otto Schnering was a man with a simple dream - to invent a chocolate bar with enough sugar in it to send anyone who ate it into a spiral of loathing. From 1988 until 2001, The Simpsons were shilling hard for the bar, with Bart, in particular, putting away more of them than The Simpsons family doctor recommended. Here in Australia, the Butterfinger is harder to find - for this review episode, James had to go to a candy store that specialises in imports and drop down a whopping $6 for the two bars. What follows is a deep dive into the bar's history, the nature of art, and an examination of the bar through the theoretical framework of Marshall McLuhan.
Also we eat the Butterfingers and talk about it, and I edited out most of the gross chewing noises. We sound genuinely unwell by the end. Come endure our suffering!
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Tuesday Jan 16, 2018
Tuesday Jan 16, 2018
This week we define Homer, and we look at the various ways in which a clown...is like a father. We delve into Bart's relationship with Milhouse (who is, in many ways, the ninth Simpson), dig into how the Simpsons has shaped our concept of flavours having colours, pick apart James' grandfather's odd speech patterns, and, uh, get surprisingly worked up about how bad Krusty's dad is. If you want to hear two guys have an epiphany about the imperfections of the third season of The Simpsons, this is the place for it.
There's also some vague promise of a competition in this one, I'll have to check if Nick was being serious about that or not. Feel free to email us (podsinthekeyofspringfield at gmail) and demand terms and conditions.
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Tuesday Jan 09, 2018
Tuesday Jan 09, 2018
We've got a pair of belters this week, friends - When Flanders Failed, which rules, and Bart the Murderer, which rules even harder. These are very good episodes of The Simpsons, and we, the podcast hosts you're listening to, have plenty to say about them. We talk about the difficulties of being left handed like Flanders (one of us is left handed, but you'll have to listen to find out, if that's, uh, incentive), make the dumbest damn Black Eyed Peas joke possible, and just heap praise on Bart the Murderer. Podcasting is really fun! Come have fun with us by listening!
Pods in the Key of Springfield - 'you are our children, our dear children, and we will love you until the day we die.'
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Tuesday Jan 02, 2018
Tuesday Jan 02, 2018
James and Nick are back for season 3 of The Simpsons! This week we've got Stark Raving Dad, in which Michael Jackson deals with fragile early 90s masculinity, and Mr Lisa Goes To Washington, in which Mr Lisa (a character we've never seen prior and never see again), uh, goes to Washington.
If you've been listening to this podcast thinking 'this is good, but what I really want is a lengthy description of the time James won $1500 from Reader's Digest through ethically questionable means', then this is the episode for you. We also talk about The Simpsons quite a bit! This one's pretty good fun!
Hey, does anyone read show notes? I'm very unclear on what the advantages are of detailed show notes.
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