Pods in the Key of Springfield: A Simpsons Podcast

We've finally bagged us a Homer this week with two absolute bangers. I'm very tired and I don't think anyone reads the descriptions on these episodes, because it's all right there in the title, right? We cover those two episodes of The Simpsons this time. They're really good! You know they're good! Please check out this podcast that we worked hard on. Email: podsinthekeyofspringfield@gmail.comTwitter: @KeySpringfieldFB: It's probably easiest just to search us by name, you know? 

In this week's episode of Pods in the Key of Springfield - a podcast that mostly focuses on The Simpsons - we watch and discuss the 2009 Eric Bana documentary Love the Beast. Don't overthink it. We'll go back to The Simpsons next week.Email: podsinthekeyofspringfield@gmail.com

Did you ever have to take a career aptitude test in school? What did it tell you it would be? Did you live up to your full potential, or are you wallowing now as a freelance journalist, a fool who fondly remembers that time he had a letter published in an old Simpsons comic and decided to base his life on that warm feeling it gave him? In Separate Vocations, Bart becomes a good little boy, and we unpack the anti-authority streak at the heart of this good episode. In Dog (Daaaawg) of Death, the dog (Santos L Halper) nearly dies, and, uh, we get silly. Pods in the Keyu of Springfield! The episode specific cover art you're going to see on some sites/podcatchers will make...some sense if you listen to the episode.  Twitter: @KeySpringfieldFB: facebook.com/podsinthekeyofspringfieldInsta: podsinthekeyofspringfieldEmail: podsinthekeyofspringfield@gmail.com

The baseball stars of Homer at the Bat lived full lives outside of their episode of The Simpsons, as it turns out, and we've got all the hot goss! This week your little podboys are joined by Elliot Jay O'Neill (from The Simpsons Index) to discuss the sordid lives of the nine ringers (well...seven of them were kind of sordid, at least). It's like one of those episodes of The Dollop you liked so much! Come join us as James and Elliot react incredulously to Nick's various saucy revelations.facebook.com/podsinthekeyofspringfield@KeySpringfieldpodsinthekeyofspringfield@gmail.com

We're talkin' podcast / James and Nick watch the Simpsons / We're talkin' podcast / A show on television / Bart the Lover's expansion of the lore / Steve Sax, and his run in with the law.... etc etc. Hello! This week we've got two absolute belters to discuss - Bart the Lover, the stealth highlight of the season so far, and Homer at the Bat, in which there's an outside chance of seven misfortunes, but nine misfortunes are unlikely (it's the softball ep that everyone loves). Your two podfriends discuss the yo-yo crazes of their youth, come up with some new Tinder banter, and consider the possibility that Colossus is in league with Shellbyville. We even sing! Something for everyone.Twitter: @KeySpringfieldFB: facebook.com/podsinthekeyofspringfieldInsta: podsinthekeyofspringfieldEmail: podsinthekeyofspringfield@gmail.com

This week on the Simpsons podcast that you've chosen to download (and thank you, by the way) - Lisa the Greek, which is pretty good! Homer Alone, which is not as good (why do Patty and Selma take Bart and Lisa while Marge is away?). This week we unveil James' new secret podcast-within-a-podcast, unpack the difference between betting and gambling, discuss the classic films of Macaulay Culkin, and delve deep (as always) into the world of The Simpsons.Pods in the Key of Springfield! We are like the dreamer, who dreams, and then lives inside the dream. Twitter: @KeySpringfieldFB: facebook.com/podsinthekeyofspringfieldInsta: podsinthekeyofspringfieldEmail: podsinthekeyofspringfield@gmail.com

You light up my daysAnd fill my nightsWithSongIt can't be wrongWhen it feels so rightBecause youYou light up my lifeAlso, Radio Bart, which is also good. The Simpsons is good. Facebook: facebook.com/podsinthekeyofspringfieldTwitter: @KeySpringfieldInsta: podsinthekeyofspringfieldContact: podsinthekeyofspringfield@gmail.com

This week, we're back on the videogames The Simpsons have starred in! We dig deep into the House of Weirdness, a weird, House-of-Leaves inspired (probably) space of horror and disorientation. We look at Bart vs. The World and say 'huh, little racist, huh?'. And we dig into Bartman vs Radioactive Man, which...look, I have a very good idea for a Radioactive Man game. I dig into it, and if any of the license owners for The Simpsons are listening, yes, I am available to script it. Let's talk.Facebook: facebook.com/podsinthekeyofspringfieldTwitter: @KeySpringfieldInsta: podsinthekeyofspringfield

James and Nick have finally made it to the Land of Chocolate. Having arrived ten minutes ago, as of this recording, James and Nick spend a long time talking about alcohol (because the first episode was about Moe!) and try to unpack some of the current-day murkiness of what The Simpsons looks like now that we're old and jaded about the world that has left us behind. These are solid eps. Come join us!Pods in the Key of Springfield! Our English is, how you say...inelegant? Twitter: @KeySpringfieldFB: facebook.com/podsinthekeyofspringfieldInsta: podsinthekeyofspringfield

This week on Pods in the Key of Springfield - Lisa gets a pony! Bart gets a cart! Homer plies both of his children with modes of transportation, one made of flesh and blood and bone, the other of wood and nails and glue. Come and join us to find out which is which, in this, the fourth episode we recorded on New Year's Day. We dig deep on our feelings on ice-cream, the show's...now very awkward reference to a certain 90s comedian, and the possibility that we witnessed the on-screen death of Martin Prince. We're real...real tired in this one. Please enjoy.Facebook: facebook.com/podsinthekeyofspringfieldTwitter: @KeySpringfieldInsta: podsinthekeyofspringfield

Welcome to Pods in the Key of SPOOKY Springfield! It's January (or probably February by the time you get around to downloading this), the scariest month, so we're all over Treehouse of Horror II. Listen as we plan out our own monkey paw wishes, compare these vignettes to the short stories they were based on (that egghead James has read some of 'em) and, uhhh, avoid talking about who we would kill if we had Bart's power from that second bit.  Come join us for Pods in the Key of...*checks notes* Bonerland! Facebook: facebook.com/podsinthekeyofspringfieldTwitter: @KeySpringfieldInsta: podsinthekeyofspringfieldEmail: podsinthekeyofspringfield@gmail.com

In 1922, Otto Schnering was a man with a simple dream - to invent a chocolate bar with enough sugar in it to send anyone who ate it into a spiral of loathing. From 1988 until 2001, The Simpsons were shilling hard for the bar, with Bart, in particular, putting away more of them than The Simpsons family doctor recommended. Here in Australia, the Butterfinger is harder to find - for this review episode, James had to go to a candy store that specialises in imports and drop down a whopping $6 for the two bars. What follows is a deep dive into the bar's history, the nature of art, and an examination of the bar through the theoretical framework of Marshall McLuhan. Also we eat the Butterfingers and talk about it, and I edited out most of the gross chewing noises. We sound genuinely unwell by the end. Come endure our suffering! Twitter: @KeySpringfieldfacebook.com/podsinthekeyofspringfield

This week we define Homer, and we look at the various ways in which a clown...is like a father. We delve into Bart's relationship with Milhouse (who is, in many ways, the ninth Simpson), dig into how the Simpsons has shaped our concept of flavours having colours, pick apart James' grandfather's odd speech patterns, and, uh, get surprisingly worked up about how bad Krusty's dad is. If you want to hear two guys have an epiphany about the imperfections of the third season of The Simpsons, this is the place for it. There's also some vague promise of a competition in this one, I'll have to check if Nick was being serious about that or not. Feel free to email us (podsinthekeyofspringfield at gmail) and demand terms and conditions. FB: facebook.com/podsinthekeyofspringfieldTwitter: @KeySpringfieldInstagram: podsinthekeyofspringfield

We've got a pair of belters this week, friends - When Flanders Failed, which rules, and Bart the Murderer, which rules even harder. These are very good episodes of The Simpsons, and we, the podcast hosts you're listening to, have plenty to say about them. We talk about the difficulties of being left handed like Flanders (one of us is left handed, but you'll have to listen to find out, if that's, uh, incentive), make the dumbest damn Black Eyed Peas joke possible, and just heap praise on Bart the Murderer. Podcasting is really fun! Come have fun with us by listening!Pods in the Key of Springfield - 'you are our children, our dear children, and we will love you until the day we die.'@KeySpringfieldInsta: podsinthekeyofspringfieldFB: facebook.com/podsinthekeyofspringfield

James and Nick are back for season 3 of The Simpsons! This week we've got Stark Raving Dad, in which Michael Jackson deals with fragile early 90s masculinity, and Mr Lisa Goes To Washington, in which Mr Lisa (a character we've never seen prior and never see again), uh, goes to Washington. If you've been listening to this podcast thinking 'this is good, but what I really want is a lengthy description of the time James won $1500 from Reader's Digest through ethically questionable means', then this is the episode for you. We also talk about The Simpsons quite a bit! This one's pretty good fun!  Hey, does anyone read show notes? I'm very unclear on what the advantages are of detailed show notes.  email: podsinthekeyofspringfield@gmail.comFacebook: facebook.com/podsinthekeyofspringfieldTwitter: @KeySpringfieldInsta: podsinthekeyofspringfield