An old flame enters Hank and Peggy's life when Bobby tries smoking for the first time and has to puff his way through an entire carton as punishment. The Hill parents get a chance to relive their tar-stained youth thanks to cigarettes, but this trip to flavor country soon takes a detour when they find out Bobby has become a n...
2019-05-10 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's the end of the Bill & Josh era, and we're joined by returning guest, screenwriter/artist/comic maker Kate Leth (check out her Patreon right now!) for the special occasion! Lisa...
2019-05-08 04:15:14 +0000 UTC View Post
We're the Planeteers, and you can be one too on this week's eco-friendly podcast! Henry and Bob go back to 1991 when global warning was a less imminent threat, and we deconstruct the super heroics of Captain Planet. We talk about how Ted Turner's pet project grew into a movement of more environmentally conscious kids, as well...
2019-05-06 05:03:28 +0000 UTC View PostWelcome to May on The Talking Simpsons Network! Another month means another chance to vote for the next What A Cartoon Movie! As before, we're doing an exclusive movie podcast for our $10+ subscribers, and we want to open up the polls to all the $5+ patrons as well just so their voices can be heard. You can o...
2019-05-05 22:49:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Peggy finally gets a chance to let her Boggle skills shine as she travels to the crackhead and debutante-riddled city of Dallas for a tournament centered on the famous word-search game. But Hank finds himself drawn towards the siren song of Sweet Lady Landscaping and away from his new role as Peggy's coach when the 9th Annual...
2019-05-03 07:00:59 +0000 UTC View PostWe've heard from a handful of folks in the last week that their RSS feed of Patreon podcasts wasn't updating. For those few we discovered the simple fix is unsubscribing and resubscribing. As we would find out, it's an issue on Patreon's side of things, as they just sent us a quick update on the issue. So if you've been havin...
2019-05-02 21:55:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Our artist friend and fellow Simpsons expert Nina Matsumoto is back to chat with us about love, insurance, and Hank Azaria fansites in this classic episode! Not only will you get some necessa...
2019-05-01 06:07:01 +0000 UTC View Post
April showers have brought May flowers--er, podcasts to all you lovely listeners to our many audio delights! And What A Cartoon! podcast has some real treats that range from the ecological to the international to the traditional. And if you want to start watching the animation now to get ready, here's the next four toons we'l...
2019-05-01 00:07:58 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been another great month here on the Talking Simpsons Network, and we're so glad to have all of you on board! On this month's community podcast, we go over all the details about The Simpsons on Disney's new streaming service, discuss Bart actress Nancy Cartwright's recent episode, and debunk all manner of hoaxes about Th...
2019-04-30 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks to the generous contributions of patron David Whittington, we're heading back to anime country with the newest series we've ever featured on What A Cartoon! Back when it initially started running in the weekly Japanese comic anthology Shonen Jump in 2016, The Promised Neverland quickly became one of the publication's m...
2019-04-29 04:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Every month at Patreon.com/TalkingSimpsons, we release a new, premium podcast for our $10+ subscribers! If you still haven't heard, Bob and Henry do a different podcast each month for a different animated feature film, a...
2019-04-27 06:48:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey... It's a friendly neighborhood podcast for all our wonderful listeners to close out April 2019! Henry and Bob go through the most recent Oscar winner for Best Animated Picture, and discuss just how great the most Spider-Man-iest movie of all time is. We go through the many comic book inspirations for Miles Morales' origi...
2019-04-27 06:10:12 +0000 UTC View Post
We've seen brief glimpses of him earlier in season one, but now Cotton Hill has finally arrived. And this first of what would be many episodes about the character fully establishes everything we could come to love (and hate) about Hank's bad dad: his epic war hero backstory, his much-younger second wife, his sexist leanings, ...
2019-04-26 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
For this dive into the world of comedy, we're joined by a writer/comedian who has worked for Matt Groening AND Adam Sandler, Ian Boothby! (Check out Sparks and 2019-04-24 03:50:31 +0000 UTC View Post
DuckTales has come up SO often during our discussion of animation history, it's about time we podcasted about it! Disney's televised treatment of one of their B-list characters ended up being an A-list series, and one that forever raised the bar for children's entertainment. On this installment, we (alongside duck expert 2019-04-22 04:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
East meets West (or Anaheim meets Arlen) when the Souphanousinphones move in next door and challenge Hank and the gang's lack of knowledge about life outside Texas. But when a meat mix-up makes the crew think they ate a heaping helping of dog, their uglier instincts take over. On this week's episode, Talking Simpsons artist e...
2019-04-19 07:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Grab your conch, roll your grapefruits, and get ready to lick some slime on this week's podcast about a controversial episode! We welcome back Louis Peitzman (be sure to check out his awesome n...
2019-04-17 04:26:42 +0000 UTC View Post
The wall-crawler makes his return to our podcast, as does Matt McMuscles (check out his YouTube channel and his new Patreon...
2019-04-15 04:17:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It's toilet time for TalKing of the Hill as Mike Judge's Beavis and Butt-Head roots show in an episode entirely devoted to Hank's pooping problems. But thanks to co-creator Greg Daniels, this story about all things scatalogical has a surprising amount of heart to it, and of course a lot of laughs at Hank's increasing levels o...
2019-04-12 19:46:41 +0000 UTC View Post
This week's podcast belongs to the Movementarians, and we're happy to welcome to our cult Conor Lastowka (Rifftrax, The Pole Vault ...
2019-04-10 05:04:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Narf! Out of all the characters spawned by 1993's Animaniacs, one rodent duo rose far above the rest—even higher in stature than the Warner brothers and their sister, Dot. That would be Pinky and the Brain, a pair of diminutive lab mice with spliced genes and big ambitions. So only makes sense that the two would eventually ...
2019-04-08 04:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Luanne finally gets her own story in this surprisingly emotional fifth episode about bad boyfriends and father figures. After Buckley breaks up with her, Luanne is inconsolable until Hank steps in with with his strategy of emotional repression. But will his attempt to set Luanne up with a quick-fix rebound relationship backfi...
2019-04-05 07:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we head to the carnival with Eric Szyszka, cohost of the podcasts We Hate Movies and Hooked on TJ Hook...
2019-04-03 05:11:49 +0000 UTC View PostHelp Choose The April 2019 Podcast Subject!
April showers bring many podcasts to the Talking Simpsons Network, and that also means it's time for you folks to vote on the next What A Cartoon Movie! As before, we're doing an exclusive movie podcast for our $10+ subscribers, and we want to...
2019-04-03 04:27:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Another month has passed at Patreon.com/TalkingSimpsons, and that means we've got another awesome podcast about an animated feature film! This month our $10+ Patreon subscribers get to hear Bob and Henry talk about Don B...
2019-04-01 22:07:15 +0000 UTC View Post
April Fools! We interrupt this week's regularly scheduled animation for a special podcast that breaks the format with some live action!! To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Strangers With Candy, Bob and Henry gab about one of their all-time favorite satires! Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, and Paul Dinello created one hilariou...
2019-04-01 10:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Out of the ashes of a failing Disney rose Don Bluth Productions, an animation studio staffed by artists who strived to recapture their former employer's golden era of animation. Their first work, 1982's The Secret of NIMH, would go on to be a beloved movie, and one remembered much more fondly than the Disney animated features...
2019-04-01 05:42:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Spring has sprung for the Talking Simpsons Network, and with five Mondays in April, we have plenty of podcast fun in store for you with What A Cartoon! (And with all these Mondays, it's a shame we did our Garfield episode back in Oct...
2019-03-31 00:50:22 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time for golfing, guitars, and Willie Nelson in this strangely star-studded early episode of King of the Hill! While trying to find a hero for his son to emulate, Hank preaches the virtues of the red headed stranger to Bobby... who soon meets and nearly concusses his dad's idol. All this, plus malevolent braiding machine...
2019-03-29 07:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Another amazing month on the Patreon comes to a close, and we've got so many great comments from you listeners to reflect on!! Not only that, but we chat about this month's major Simpsons news, including a quick review of the episode written by Megan Amram and the Disney purchase!! And we even tease some upcoming podcasts for...
2019-03-29 03:15:04 +0000 UTC View Post
