Today we're reviewing the classic Simpsons episode, "Deep Space Homer" from Season 5, episode 15 with guest Nick Mestad. We talk about our favorite astronaut movies, ticker tape parades, and if we think this episode is too wacky to be a Simpsons episode.

Please follow Nick on Instagram & TikTok: @nick-mestad

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Nick Recommends The Right Stuff (book and movie)

Eli Recommends Deep Space Nine

Harrison Recommends Capricorn One Packing for Mars by Mary Roach

A Marionette at the Club NickandEliComedy

Today we've got a great episode with an even better guest; we are reviewing Season 9 Episode 8 of The Simpsons, "Lisa the Skeptic"; this is the episode where Lisa finds an angel skeleton!

We're joined by film critic and author Adam Nayman (The Ringer). We discuss the episode's views on science vs. religion, Operation F.I.S.T., and if this episode is VERY Lisa-esque, or completely non-Lisa.

Follow Adam on Twitter @brofromanother and follow this show @bartannicapod on Instagram.

Adam Recommends John Carpenter's Cigarette Burns Eli Recommends It's a Wonderful Life

Harrison Recommends The Coen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together by Adam Nayman!

This week we're reviewing Season 2 Episode 19 of The Simpsons, "Lisa's Substitute" with guest Tim Latterner (The Bowery Review). We talk about James L. Brooks' influence on the episode, our favorite sci-fi authors, and Dustin Hoffman.

You can follow Tim @timlatterner and @theboweryreview

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Tim Recommends Broadcast News

Eli Recommends Whistlestop Podcast

Harrison Recommends Charlotte's Web

This week we're reviewing Episode 17 of Season 3 of The Simpsons, "Homer at the Bat" with guest Rick Katschke (Catered Quiz, Pop Culture Jeopardy). We discuss his appearance on Jeopardy, his own trivia podcast, and our varying levels of baseball fandom.

Follow Rick at TheCateredQuiz on Instagram, Hostandguest on Twitter.

You can follow this show at bartannicapod on Instagram.

Rick Recommends Battered Bastards of Baseball Catcher in the Wry

Eli Recommends Baseball by Ken Burns

Harrison Recommends The Bash Brothers by The Lonely Island

To celebrate our podcast's 1 year anniversary we have a great episode with not 1 but 2 amazing guests. Jay Katsir and Ariel Dumas are the former head writers for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. They are both lifelong Simpsons freaks and we talk about their love of the show while reviewing Season 5 Episode 8 "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood". We discuss the final week of The Late Show, ancient maritime poetry and Ariel's time as a wild child in Girl Scouts.

Follow our guests at @arieldumasarieldumas & @akatsir on IG and @arieldumas on twitter.

You can follow this show @bartannicapod on Instagram.

Ariel and Jay Recommend On the Town

Harrison Recommends Modern Manhood and the Boy Scouts of America: Citizenship, Race, and the Environment by Benjamin Jordan The River Wild

Eli Recommends Banjoist Pete Seeger

Today we're reviewing Season 6 Episode 1 of The Simpsons "Bart of Darkness". This is the one where Bart breaks his leg and descends into Rear Window-esque paranoia.

We're joined by Australian comedian and actor Ben Russell. He discusses the joys of having a pool growing up, breaking his wrist, and we all reminisce about our time doing comedy in Chicago.

You can follow Ben at imbenrussell on Instagram. You can follow this show at bartannicapod as well.

Ben Recommends Star Trek TOS Rear Window

Eli Recommends Star Trek: TNG

Harrison Recommends Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America by Jeff Wiltse Going Swimming Dames by Busby Berkeley

We're reviewing Episode 21 of Season 2 of the Simpsons, "Three Men and a Comic Book"; Bart raises money to buy a comic, then eventually splits the cost with Martin and Milhouse.

Our guest is artist David Cooper. David is currently on a mission to draw every Simpsons character ever. We discuss his work, why the Simpsons succeeds as a satire of other sitcoms, and how a Humphrey Bogart movie completely changed the way we see the episode's 3rd act.

Follow David at davidbcooper on Instagram. You can follow this show at bartannicapod on Instagram as well.

David Recommends The Radioactive Man comic books by Bongo

Eli Recommends Going to a comic book convention

Harrison Recommends Treasures of the Sierra Madre

We're discussing a classic episode with a true Simpsons fanatic, Mads Horwath (New Yorker, Guardian). They tell an insane story about tricking their classmates into a Simpsons-related prank, we discuss the weird feeling of visiting other peoples' homes and why the stakes are so high in this episode- it threatens the very nature of the Simpsons' being!

We are reviewing Season 7 Episode 3 Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily from October 1995- this is the one where Bart, Lisa and Maggie are taken to the Flanders for foster care as Marge and Homer fight to regain custody. Stupid Babies Need the Most Attention, America Loves Ted Kennedy, and we love this episode!

Follow Mads @madelinehorwath to see their cartoons and also to order a pet portrait with all proceeds going to help people in need in Gaza.

Follow this show at bartannicapod on Instagram and WATCH THE FULL EP ON YT starting next week! Exciting! Mads recommends: Detectorists

Harrison Recommends: Chucky 2

Eli Recommends: Paco