Eat The Pudding: A Simpsons Podcast
Episode 18: “I Move For A Bad Court Thingy”
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 eighteenth episode: “I Move For A Bad Court Thingy”.
The featured character in this episode’s Spotlight On Springfield is Lionel Hutz: lawyer, conman and part-time purveyor of expert shoe repairs. Featured in no fewer than 50 episodes, Hutz’s unique brand of brash haplessness was sorely missed when, with the death of voice artist Phil Hartman in 1998, the character was retired from speaking roles. We also examine the question that has been puzzling Simpsons fans ever since the “law talking guy” first made an appearance in Season Two: How does Lionel Hutz keep getting work?
As well as dipping into our listener postbag, we explore Ian’s second pick from Season 8, that celebration of alcohol and freedom that is Homer v. the Eighteenth Amendment. In this evergreen episode, Homer and his brain actually pull together for what may be the first and last time – to overcome the newly enforced Prohibition laws in Springfield and get back to killing his brain cells with beer.
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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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