Eat The Pudding: A Simpsons Podcast

Eat The Pudding: A Simpsons Podcast Bonus Episode: “The Simpsons Movie” 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 a bonus episode: “The Simpsons Movie”. This week, we are changing things up a little with a bonus episode on The Simpsons Movie, which came out in the summer of 2007. And we are joined by our very own Sideshow Mel, Melissa C from Montreal – a Simpsons superfan with a divinely dusty Italian accent. Together with our special guest, we look at the background to the movie, recall other popular shows that translated well – or less well – to the silver screen and revisit our favourite moments in the movie. 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. Sick of social media trolls? Come and join our private chat group on Discord instead: https://discord.gg/76g4eT4n All our contact information can be found at our Linktree link: https://linktr.ee/eatthepudding You can also contact us: By mail at eatthepudding@gmx.com On Instagram at @eat_the_pudding_podcast Or at our private Bluesky accounts: @ianwinick.bsky.social @mocca1976.bsky.social All the shows on the Boneless Podcasting Network, including our Blackadder podcast, Lord Of Adders Black, can be found here: https://thebpn.lovable.app/shows °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° 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 https://linktr.ee/whale_productions?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=05350da0-6c64-404b-886a-86a756f62799 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.

Eat The Pudding: A Simpsons Podcast Episode 16: “Guilty As Charged” 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 sixteenth episode: “Guilty As Charged”. This week’s Spotlight On Springfield is on a man with big shoes to fill: Sideshow Bob, arguably the most cultivated person in Springfield and, with the possible exception of Maggie Simpson, the most psychopathic. We trace the velvet-voiced villain’s evolution in a series of evergreen Bob-centric episodes and ask ourselves why the authorities insist on letting him out of prison every season. As part of our Late Bloomers segment, we dip a tentative toe into the murky waters of late-period Simpsons with a Season 24 episode called To Cur With Love. As well as this, we pay tribute to recently departed country music queen Dolly Parton and discuss the lacklustre episode she guest-starred in and what we would have done better. But, as ever, no one bothered to ask us our opinion and now it’s too late.  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. Sick of social media trolls? Come and join our private chat group on Discord instead: https://discord.gg/76g4eT4n All our contact information can be found at our Linktree link: https://linktr.ee/eatthepudding  You can also contact us: By mail at eatthepudding@gmx.com On Instagram at @eat_the_pudding_podcast Or at our private Bluesky accounts: @ianwinick.bsky.social @mocca1976.bsky.social All the shows on the Boneless Podcasting Network, including our Blackadder podcast, Lord Of Adders Black, can be found here: https://thebpn.lovable.app/shows   °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° 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 https://linktr.ee/whale_productions?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=05350da0-6c64-404b-886a-86a756f62799  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.

Eat The Pudding: A Simpsons Podcast Episode 15: “Skinnerrrr!!!” 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 fourteenth episode: “Skinnerrrr!!!”. Continuing our Season Eight highlights, we look at Homer’s Phobia, an Emmy-winning episode that was years ahead of its time in its treatment of casual homophobia. Here, we cast an eye over the filmmaking career of guest star John Waters and zone in on all the little details that help make this one of the most fun Simpsons episodes ever. Zzzappp! This week’s Spotlight On Springfield features Superintendent Chalmers – a man known to his mother as Gary and to Ralf Wiggum as Super Nintendo Chalmers. We look at his tense, uneasy relationship with Principal Skinner and explore the theory that, like the hapless Frank Grimes, Chalmers has one foot in the real world and one foot in the chaos that is Springfield.   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. Sick of social media trolls? Come and join our private chat group on Discord instead: https://discord.gg/76g4eT4n All our contact information can be found at our Linktree link: https://linktr.ee/eatthepudding  You can also contact us: By mail at eatthepudding@gmx.com On Instagram at @eat_the_pudding_podcast Or at our private Bluesky accounts: @ianwinick.bsky.social @mocca1976.bsky.social All the shows on the Boneless Podcasting Network, including our Blackadder podcast, Lord Of Adders Black, can be found here: https://thebpn.lovable.app/shows   °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° 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 https://linktr.ee/whale_productions?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=05350da0-6c64-404b-886a-86a756f62799  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. 

Eat The Pudding: A Simpsons Podcast Episode 14: “And I, For One, Welcome Our New Insect Overlords” 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 fourteenth episode: “And I, For One, Welcome Our New Insect Overlords”. “Pompous, blow-dried college boy” Kent Brockman is the focus of this episode’s Spotlight On Springfield. We cast a world-weary eye on the real-life anchormen on whom the character was based and revisit our favourite Brockman moments throughout the classic years of the series. We also kick off our Season Eight highlights with Michael’s first pick, You Only Move Twice, in which the Simpsons leave Springfield for the idyllic surroundings of Cypress Creek so that Homer can take a step up on his dusty career ladder. Unfortunately, his magnanimous new boss has a dark side that includes designs on world domination …   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. Sick of social media trolls? Come and join our private chat group on Discord instead: https://discord.gg/76g4eT4n All our contact information can be found at our Linktree link: https://linktr.ee/eatthepudding  You can also contact us: By mail at eatthepudding@gmx.com On Instagram at @eat_the_pudding_podcast Or at our private Bluesky accounts: @ianwinick.bsky.social @mocca1976.bsky.social All the shows on the Boneless Podcasting Network, including our Blackadder podcast, Lord Of Adders Black, can be found here: https://thebpn.lovable.app/shows   °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° 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 https://linktr.ee/whale_productions?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=05350da0-6c64-404b-886a-86a756f62799  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. 

Eat The Pudding: A Simpsons Podcast Episode 13: “Did It Just Get Fatter In Here?” 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 thirteenth episode: “Did It Just Get Fatter In Here?”. This episode’s Spotlight On Springfield is on Patty and Selma, Marge’s chain-smoking, gravel-voiced elder sisters. We discuss the subtle differences between the twin Gorgons and trace the history of their failed romantic attachments and their successful hate-hate relationship with brother-in-law Homer. Meanwhile, the semi-regular Songs Of Springfield segment sees us donning our skimpiest outfits in honour of the barnstorming number at the end of the Season 8 moral conundrum that is Bart After Dark. Like the Monorail Song before it, this jaunty tune makes excellent use of a whole stable of different Simpsons characters, all of whom have gathered in the grounds of the scurrilous Maison Derriere. Oh, won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children?!   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. Sick of social media trolls? Come and join our private chat group on Discord instead: https://discord.gg/76g4eT4n All our contact information can be found at our Linktree link: https://linktr.ee/eatthepudding  You can also contact us: By mail at eatthepudding@gmx.com On Instagram at @eat_the_pudding_podcast Or at our private Bluesky accounts: @ianwinick.bsky.social @mocca1976.bsky.social All the shows on the Boneless Podcasting Network, including our Blackadder podcast, Lord Of Adders Black, can be found here: https://thebpn.lovable.app/shows   °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° 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 https://linktr.ee/whale_productions?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=05350da0-6c64-404b-886a-86a756f62799  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. 

Eat The Pudding: A Simpsons Podcast Episode 12: “You Badmouthed MacGyver, Didn’t You?” 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 twelfth episode: “You Badmouthed MacGyver, Didn’t You?”. A longer episode than usual this time as we are joined by two special guests, Kevin Brown and Randy Woods – the longstanding hosts of Seaside Pod Review, one of our favourite Saskatoon-based Queen podcasts. During this tricontinental meeting of minds, Kev and Randy chew the fat with us about The Simpsons in general and Season Four in particular, sharing favourite lines and characters and nerding out about pop cultural references.  (You can also see us talk to Kev and Randy about the seminal Queen album A Night At The Opera on this Seaside Pod Review special here: https://youtu.be/voIub3Y5jqQ?si=TsO9JvVVtxMUNQYe)  In our Spotlight On Springfield segment, we also take a look at the character of Jay Sherman, who – as we discover – is actually from another series created by seasoned Simpsons contributors Al Jean and Mike Reiss. As well as giving our first impressions of this series, we revisit the classic Simpsons episode A Star Is Burns, which introduces Jay Sherman and showcases the film-making talents of some of Springfield’s least likely suspects.   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. Sick of social media trolls? Come and join our private chat group on Discord instead: https://discord.gg/76g4eT4n All our contact information can be found at our Linktree link: https://linktr.ee/eatthepudding  You can also contact us: By mail at eatthepudding@gmx.com On Instagram at @eat_the_pudding_podcast Or at our private Bluesky accounts: @ianwinick.bsky.social @mocca1976.bsky.social All the shows on the Boneless Podcasting Network, including our Blackadder podcast, Lord Of Adders Black, can be found here: https://thebpn.lovable.app/shows   °°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° 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 https://linktr.ee/whale_productions?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=05350da0-6c64-404b-886a-86a756f62799  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.