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Talking Simpsons - Last Exit to Springfield With Eva Anderson
🕑 Added 2024-05-08 04:00:03 +0000 UTCFirst-time guest, the brilliant TV writer Eva Anderson, is here to help us deconstruct one of the most celebrated eps in Simpsons history! Often ranked high on "best Simpsons ever" lists, we deconstruct how it got that reputation and if the highly quotable scenes hold up. Plus Eva helps us with the show's WGA strike history (which was the style at the time), we explain the multiple guest stars cut from the early scripts, and debunk British smiles. Listen now for the best of times and the blurst of times in this exciting podcast!
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Galileo908
I think this is ranked so highly because it’s a good episode to show people that aren’t familiar with the Simpsons (yes, they exist, as weird as that is). You have a good Homer/Lisa story, a clear antagonist in Mr. Burns, everyone in the family gets some good bits in, you have great, pop culture references, and a song! All it needed was an appearance by Phil Hartman to complete the bingo card. This also has my favorite piece of animation in the whole series. It’s during the montage where Burns and Smithers are running the plant, and it’s the bit where they’re skipping in the hallway. I have no idea why it’s there, but I just love it so much.
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
This episode is an absolute all-timer, and I looooooved the Batman 89 reference as a kid, it's something my older sister and I would reference all the time (both the actual scene from Batman, and the callback to it in this episode). Honestly thank god that OJ did not end up in this episode so we didn't have to have any stupid Discourse about it, or even just having to think about a murderer being present in what is otherwise a pretty perfect episode.
