Eat The Pudding: A Simpsons Podcast
Episode 17: “Haw-Haw!”
Welcome to the Eat The Pudding fan podcast, where Michael and Ian explore the Simpsons universe in all its colourful and cromulent forms. This is the seventeenth episode: “Haw-Haw!”.
In the first regular episode since our Simpsons Movie extravaganza, we dive into our mailbag to share listener feedback, answer questions and crowbar in more Queen references that might be considered seemly by an unbiased observer. We also revisit Michael’s second pick from Season 8, Mountain Of Madness, which boasts more Mr Burns per minute than almost any other episode we can think of.
This episode’s Spotlight On Springfield examines the complex character that is Nelson Muntz: school bully, unwilling lover, avant-garde moralist and Andy Williams fanboy. Drawing on a handful of cherry-picked episodes, we look at his character development, his relationship with Lisa Simpson and peek ahead at what the future might hold for him.
The Queen clip we mentioned
https://youtu.be/WDRIPqKsUjc?si=bCg-eba2ce2RWseE
If you would like to send us a voice message to include in the show, we have set up a special page on SpeakPipe: https://www.speakpipe.com/EatThePudding. No need to sign up – all you have to do is click on the link, record your message and press send.
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Podcast credits:
Compiled and presented by Ian Winick and Michael J. Smith
Intro music: Hear My Pod
Music by Alf Clausen (originally “See My Vest” with lyrics by Michael Scully)
New lyrics by Ian and Michael
Performed by Randy Woods (with Kevin Brown as “Smithers”)
https://www.youtube.com/@RandyWoodsBand
Outro music: We Put The Spring In Springfield
Music by Alf Clausen (originally with lyrics by Ken Keeler)
Performed by Liam Smith
Piano interludes courtesy of Pank: You will find his podcast “Bang! 101 (More) Songs About Nuclear War from the 1980s” at @bangpodcast.bsky.social
Cover art drawing by Pierre Breton (fpma.breton@wanadoo.fr).
Check out his Little Darwin comic here: https://www.instagram.com/littledarwin1816/
Big thanks to all of the above and to Ciarán Moffatt and Captain Spreadsheet for technical (and moral) support.
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