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Talking Simpsons - Pray Anything
🕑 Added 2023-11-22 05:00:04 +0000 UTCAs we go deeper into season 14, we are left with this question: What if you wrote Homer The Heretic but without any of the brilliant satire or insight into religion? You'd probably end up with something like Pray Anything, where Homer sorta causes a biblical-level flood that somehow is canonical. Also featured in this episode: All male arks, weird deleted scenes, drunkenly worshipping deer heads, Maggie choking on dust, and much more in this week's podcast!
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Faux Macho
(sorry I'm 10 months late, catching up) I think Gil as the mascot Swish is a reference to Some Like It Hot, where Jack Lemmon dresses up in drag and is pursued by a man who still wants to marry him after Jack reveals he's a man.
Jesse Taylor
As the son of not one, but two Presbyterian ministers, I can sadly confirm communion is a staple of protestantism. There was a special ceramic communion cup filled with grape juice probably made by a member in a pottery shop, that also had a matching plate used to hold the loaf of sourdough bread we used in lieu of communion wafers. Thankfully my dad had the sense to have everyone tear off a piece of bread and dip it in the cup so I didn't have to second hand kiss any old people. I'm also thankful we only did it once a month as it added 20-30 minutes to the weekly service, though my dad would often point out it should occur weekly and the reason it didn't was because it'd cut into the attendance since no one actually wants to do this
Joe Hodgson
My aunt, a very religious person who also happens to be a CPA, agreed to handle the books for her church a few years back for free because that's what churches do: coax their followers into just giving them stuff. I know she was raised Catholic, but the church she attends might not be, but is some form of Christianity. Anyway, she was somewhat disheartened to find that the church just sits on millions of dollars - over 10 million if I'm remembering correctly. If some no-name church in a Massachusetts suburb can have that much cash on-hand, then I'd be willing to bet most could pay Homer's absurd settlement in this episode. I have a secondhand account that Ken Burns is a pretty chill guy. I had a friend in college who worked for his Florentine Films as an editor (there's a pic of the crew somewhere on the internet with her front and center holding an Emmy they were awarded next to Ken) and she only ever had nice things to say about him. She stopped working for him years ago though as being an assistant editor for a documentarian apparently doesn't pay all that well nor is it creatively fulfilling for someone who wanted to make her own documentaries. And she is as a freelancer.
