Eat The Pudding: A Simpsons Podcast

Episode 15: “Skinnerrrr!!!”

Welcome to the Eat The Pudding fan podcast, where Michael and Ian explore the Simpsons universe in all its colourful and cromulent forms. This is the fourteenth episode: “Skinnerrrr!!!”.

Continuing our Season Eight highlights, we look at Homer’s Phobia, an Emmy-winning episode that was years ahead of its time in its treatment of casual homophobia. Here, we cast an eye over the filmmaking career of guest star John Waters and zone in on all the little details that help make this one of the most fun Simpsons episodes ever. Zzzappp!

This week’s Spotlight On Springfield features Superintendent Chalmers – a man known to his mother as Gary and to Ralf Wiggum as Super Nintendo Chalmers. We look at his tense, uneasy relationship with Principal Skinner and explore the theory that, like the hapless Frank Grimes, Chalmers has one foot in the real world and one foot in the chaos that is Springfield.

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Podcast credits:

Compiled and presented by Ian Winick and Michael J. Smith

Intro music: Hear My Pod

Music by Alf Clausen (originally “See My Vest” with lyrics by Michael Scully)

New lyrics by Ian and Michael

Performed by Randy Woods (with Kevin Brown as “Smithers”)

https://www.youtube.com/@RandyWoodsBand

Outro music: We Put The Spring In Springfield

Music by Alf Clausen (originally with lyrics by Ken Keeler)

Performed by Liam Smith

https://linktr.ee/whale_productions?utm_source=linktree_profile_share

Piano interludes courtesy of Pank: You will find his podcast “Bang! 101 (More) Songs About Nuclear War from the 1980s” at @bangpodcast.bsky.social

Cover art drawing by Pierre Breton (fpma.breton@wanadoo.fr).

Check out his Little Darwin comic here: https://www.instagram.com/littledarwin1816/

Big thanks to all of the above and to Ciarán Moffatt and Captain Spreadsheet for technical (and moral) support.

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