Worst Episode Ever #4: Alf's Back... In Pod Form

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Worst Episode Ever #4: Alf's Back... In Pod Form

S15E21 – Bart-Mangled Banner

Jack and Dan look out the window at the old cemetery, then watch “Bart-Mangled Banner,” a season 15 episode that skewers post-9/11 patriotism in George W. Bush’s America. Surely mid-series “Simpsons” does political satire with deftness and subtlety, right? We discuss the show’s reliance on episode-ending musical numbers, how dark is too dark for a Moe joke, and start writing an episode called “Bart Goes Deaf at the Talent Show.” Why did we not cut out a lot of crazy nonsense about “ALF” from this episode? Does anyone else measure American history by the Harold and Kumar films? And was suspending civil liberties in a charged post-9/11 world a necessary evil to protect the American citizenship? (Why would they put a real one in with the joke ones?) Enjoy our latest “Worst Episode Ever” and see if you agree with our assessment of “Bart-Mangled Banner.”

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Worst Episode Ever #3: The Reverse-Future

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Worst Episode Ever #3: The Reverse-Future

S19E11 – That 90’s Show

Load up on guns and bring your friends to “That 90’s Show” in the third installment of “Worst Episode Ever.” Yes, Dan and Jack watch the infamous season 19 episode that changes the romantic history of Marge and Homer by adding in a bunch of 90s references. We discuss our shared love of lazer tag, wax poetic about when Semisonic was a thing, and debate the universal timelessness of “Weird Al” Yankovic. Take a startling look into the “reverse-future” of The Simpsons, without a single horse plot unlike previous episodes of “W.E.E.” Why was this a Christmas episode, kind of? Did Pauly Shore get mentioned in an episode about the 90s? Do you want us to record podcasts about “Saved by the Bell” and “A Pup Named Scooby Doo?” Check it out, and see if you think “That 90’s Show” should unseat “Saddlesore Galactica” on our master list of the worst Simpsons episodes ever.

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Worst Episode Ever #2: Gay Horses and Podern Family

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Worst Episode Ever #2: Gay Horses and Podern Family

S25E19 – What to Expect When Bart’s Expecting

We’re back for our second installment of “Worst Episode Ever” where we randomly decide to watch “What to Expect When Bart’s Expecting,” a season 25 episode billed to us as “Bart gets a teacher pregnant.” You know, like ten year old boys tend to do. We discuss how our first two episodes each coincidentally had major plot points about horses, Les Miserables parody musical numbers, and how much we love that “Modern Family” theme song.  Is it worse than “Saddlesore Galactica?” Is anything? Have we lost all of our listeners by episode 2? Check it out!

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Worst Episode Ever #1: First Episode Ever

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Worst Episode Ever #1: First Episode Ever

S11E13 - Saddlesore Galactica

It’s the inaugural episode of “Worst Episode Ever,” a podcast where we try to find which episode of “The Simpsons” is the actual worst episode ever. Listen as we struggle to make it through “Saddlesore Galactica,” a tipping point between the classic “The Simpsons” of yesteryear and the pale imitation the show became. Did we make it through our first episode without breaking into song? Do we uncover a magical conspiracy of elven jockeys? Will Duncan the Horse ever be seen again? The answers to none of these questions await in our first episode ever!

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