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[#197] SUS SIMPSons: The Secret Origins of America’s Bad Boy & The Neoliberal Triumph of the ‘Toon
🕑 Added 2024-06-17 17:40:21 +0000 UTCDimitri and Khalid record what is probably the last SJ episode before their assassinations by apoplectic Simpsons reply guys lashing out in the throes of total ego death.
Topics include: the dominance of “Gen X irony” in 1990s pop culture, the rise of contextual/information-based toy culture, Pynchon’s cameos, reflections on Bartmania, the modern tendency to view the Simpsons as both profound and deeply left-wing, “the purpose of a Simpsons is what it does”, the Trump trial self-immolator’s anti-Simpsons manifesto, DSA Lisa teaching us to perpetuate official LIES…
The Simpsons as reflection “of the cynicism at the heart of the neoliberal economy”, FOX’s deliberate “selling” of Gen X, Douglas Coupland’s generation-defining book, the inversion of words like “stupid” and “bad”, the centrality of the hot couch and “ironic consumption”, “the Simpsons is to Fox what Bart Simpson is to Principal Skinner”, similarities with the fourth wall-breaking WWF Attitude Era, the 1993 paper “Homer Simpson’s Eyes and the Culture of Late Nostalgia”, Time vs. “Megatrends”, Bill Cosby’s “ontological run-in with Bart” and his defeat by the “superior intelligence of the ‘toon”…
The secret etymology of the “Bad Boy” and precursors to the Bart Simpson archetype in Gilded Age America - specifically the creepy neotenous “Yellow Kid” comic strip, as well as the wildly successful “Peck’s Bad Boy” series by Wisconsin Governor George Wilbur Peck…
Bart failing to embody the Nietzschean übermensch while inoculating you to the nihilism of the neoliberal 90s, The Simpsons as information conversion spectacle, Matt Groening’s revolting foot massage on the Lolita Express, the inexplicable number of Harvard mathematics Ph.Ds on the Simpsons writing staff, and why all “floating timeline” adult-oriented ‘toons are structurally conservative and inexorably sus.
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Comments
Kay
Wait I want to hear more about how Robert Evans works with the feds 👀 great episode even though I grew up loving the Simpsons
Tammy
LMFAO very excited for this and loving the intro ✌️ I’ve been sus’d out by the simpsons effect on culture and my own young mind because I was a big fan when I was a kid, my parents were evangelicals and didn’t allow me to watch it(lol still did ofc) so it seemed like something a true bad boy would do, Aye Carumba!
Kelly Green
I can't think about Matt G. without thinking about his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Can't wait to listen to this. But first the Contra Series! ❤️
Keith Allen Dennis
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Subliminal Jihad
It may have died down but certain types of people were aggressively projecting a heckin’ leftist gloss onto the Simpsons circa 2017-19, as evidenced here https://youtu.be/l_zS03imQ-g?si=q7BnuWUe_Lakf_tL
Evan
Not mad at mispronouncing Matt "Gray"ning but no one really thinks it's leftist that watches it. You have to watch series like any other show, from beginning to end.
Subliminal Jihad
Holy shit, we had no idea Helen Canfield Peck married Frank Marshall Davis! Allegedly she was a CPUSA member and used her trust fund to pay for her and Frank’s fateful move to Hawaii…
Lunarhalo
Loved the Yellow Kid/Peck’s Bad Boy threads. I tried to find out who you were talking about as far as Peck’s great grandchildren, but the only person I could find was Frank Marshall Davis’ second wife who probably divorced him around the time Obama’s grandfather started dropping Barry off to hang out or whatever. Was that who you meant or was there someone else?
Worldpeace
Ninja turtles were actually a pretty deep comic book by Eastman and laird well before the cartoons came out.
Brian Marx
Should have listened all the way through, since it comes up…
Brian Marx
There is an episode where Bart bolsters the power of Principal Skinner. It’s incredibly sus. Season 9, episode 2 - The Principal and the pauper.
Patrick Burke
As an alcoholic 36-yo, I think this podcast has gone too far!! I mean attacking the show I watched on my parents tiny television from ages 12-17 after the nightly news
William Brame
Why does that Bart Simpson rap sound so good?
