Talking Simpsons - Simple Simpson with Matt McMuscles
Added 2025-08-20 04:00:03 +0000 UTC"No trap can hold Homer Simpson—uh, but I'm not Homer Simpson! I'm the Pie Man! Homer Simpson, away! I mean, the Pie Man!" - Homer Simpson (The Pie Man)
When Lisa is publicly humiliated, Homer transforms his love of pastries and violence into a new alter ego: Pie Man. But when Burns discovers this hero's secret identity, Homer becomes a tool for evil and a potential Dalai Lama assaulter. Come for the slight nod to Raimi's Spider-Man, stay for as many '60s Batman references a post 9/11 audience can stomach.
Our guest: Matt McMuscles
Comments
Matt nailed the Quebec accent when he reacted to Chrétien’s pieing. That’s exactly how we talk
André Da-Silva-Pereira
2025-08-31 12:20:31 +0000 UTCPersonally I'm generally of the opposite opinion when it comes to this episode and the previous one, Catch 'em if you Can. I liked Catch much more than this one. As a parent I even enjoyed Marge's frustration and resentment of the kids--as long as it was a temporary thing confined to that one episode. Otherwise, yes, such venom from Marge is plain wrong. Simple Simpson on the other hand, while it had some good jokes, I found the episode itself to be at best underwhelming, even though I am a comic fan in general and loved Batman 66. The seeming rehash of Homer Vs Dignity in Act 3 was annoying in of itself and felt like a desperate late night solution to wrap up the story. The worst part for me however was the whole county fair bit. It's rare when I watch an episode that I actually fast forward through anything but I find the whole scene too painful to watch, especially that fucking stupid song. It's only with the thought bubble joke that I think it picks up again. And the bit with Lisa and Homer eating the pies together in the Pie Cave is so adorable it melts my cynical Gen X heart.
Stephen C. Nedell
2025-08-24 16:25:52 +0000 UTCActually Bob you’re wrong about that character ranking. Spider-Man is bigger than Jesus and Monkey D. Luffy. I know, because that was the name of his second album.
Tyler Rampley
2025-08-24 00:49:30 +0000 UTCY'all are absolutely right about how this is more of a pastiche of Batman 66 than Spider-Man 2002 other than the few bits of direct moment creations (helped by great animation), but I do have to say I really loved this episode when it first aired (and I was 9 days away from turning 8 lol) in part because of how much I loved the Spidey movie. I obviously did not care about the fact that this parody was (one day shy of) being 2 years late to the punch, but that is a bit ridiculous, even by the length of time it takes to produce Simpson episodes. That being said, it's still definitely one of the best episode of season 15, and while maybe not something I'd remark as highly on as stuff from the first 10 seasons, it was super enjoyable to revisit this one, and I'm glad it held up pretty well.
Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag
2025-08-23 15:20:51 +0000 UTChttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Simpson The country singer at the fair resembles real-life country star Alan Jackson, while the song "America (I Love this Country)" is a parody of Lee Greenwood's song "God Bless the USA" and the Dalai Lama's entrance music is "See See Rider", just like Elvis Presley.[3]
Andrew Giachetti
2025-08-23 14:44:09 +0000 UTCNot that it matters cuz there were so so many of these people, but your missing Alan Jackson among the country parodies. South Park is literally calling him out in that episode and from what I remember of the character design for the guy on the Simpsons they also draw Alan Jackson. Even if you Google Alan Jackson Simpsons the pieman episode comes up.
Andrew Giachetti
2025-08-23 14:41:14 +0000 UTC
