Kwik-E-Pod

Here we go with Kwik-E-Pod 025: Bart Gets Hit By A Car. Special guest LeRoid David is here to profess his love for The Simpsons and we have a sugar-fueled conversation that starts and ends with Silence of The Lambs. In between we get to chat about Capoeira, Industrial Arts, M.A.S.K., COPS, growing up with The Simpsons, sketchy artists, Phil Hartman, damn Yankees, character assassination, the big maudlin conclusion, family values, Sam and Cat, Science Court TV, Fat Albert, the seven deadly sins, Butterfinger, Lumpia, and Sarah McLachlan.

We're back with Episode 024: Itchy & Scratchy & Marge. Dig our new intro music and then listen to us prattle on about growing up with tv violence, Looney Tunes, Ren and Stimpy, RIP Marcia Wallace, the censorship craze of the '90s, Itchy & Scratchy palooza, da bears, The LA Riots, The Stanford Robber Barons, The UCSC Icky Banana Slugs, The SFSU Gators, A Psycho homage, does TV cause violence?, Home Alone, Joe Pesci, Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers, Evil Dead, What an axehole, Comedy Bang Bang, Complaint Department, Cereal Mascots, Alex Rocco, Smartline, Fantasia, Ender's Game, Nudity, and Stupid Protestors.

In this off-week we present some extra/outtake material from two previous sessions. First is an outtake from Episode 009 where we got onto a tangent about Wreck-It-Ralph and video games for about 16 minutes. Next is a conversation that was recorded from Episode 013 in which Chris and Nikki discuss sketch comedy and other topics for an extended period of time in advance of the episode proper.

Gorges beware, it's Bart The Daredevil! Today we converse about monster truck rallies, Maker Faire, wrestling, G.L.O.W., student recitals, The White Stripes' deodorant pitch, school plays and high school musicals, the 1812 Overture, an underwater lion, Free Willy, secret ninja powers, Julius or Julia?, Dr. Hibbert, The Three Stooges ward, Captain Lance Murdock, Springfield Gorge, everybody Do The Bartman!, Michael Jackson, the Taco Bell quota, FIRE, the moral of the story, and the I AM A GHOST San Francisco Castro screening on October 29th.

This week we discuss Bart vs. Thanksgiving. Chris and Nikki swap Thanksgiving tales starting with the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, the stress of hosting and wine coolers, Nikki's fancy bf enjoys green tea, Chris saves Thanksgiving, the significant other issue, define "vacation," a most immemorable movie, traditions, the fine China, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. first impressions, Half-Time in America, Jacqueline Bouvier, release the hounds, Skid Row, turkey overload, and the moral of the story.

In this episode of Kwik-E-Pod we go green with Dead Putting Society. Chris and Nikki try and get things out of their heads, "potatoe," Keeping up with the Flanders', Nikki's brother's rival, Jim Carrey, Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman, the last days of mini-golf, why are we talking about The Voice, how to win, Todd Flanders, Chris won a trophy but doesn't know how horse racing works, jodhpurs, Care Bears and magicinans, Really Rosie, the prayer paradox, Jodorowsky, After Dark, Frats, Bob Hoskins University, and the moral of the story.

OK baseball fans it's time for Kwik-E-Pod 019: Dancin' Homer. Hear us pathetically talk about sports as Chris wonders if writer Ken Levine is the Bioshock Ken Levine, clown ethics, OJ Simpson, Nikki's first impression of Keeping The Faith followed by Chris' bad Tom Waits impersonation, Shelbyville, the Simpsons Did It of baseball cartoons, the national pasttime, little league, the National Anthem, Cyndi Lauper, The Goonies R Good Enough, Captain Lou Albano, Nikki does not think she can dance, Capital City, what it takes to be a mascot, back to Batman, JLA, couch gags, Banksy, Nikki's sports achievement story and Chris' sports fail story.

Things get political when we discuss, "Two Cars In Every Garage And Three Eyes On Every Fish." The ol' fission hole that is the LA river, Nikki's further conspiracy theories of the Springfield bubble of reality, Hitler 2.0, the accidental inception, electioneering, Veeps and Geeks, Chris' high school dreams, Citizen Burns, Pet Sounds, media circus, saving grace, Taylor Swift = Hitler, attack of the fanboys, a The Dark Knight Rises tangent, election night, The Wire, and the moral of the story.

The spooktacular debut of Treehouse of Horror is upon us and we brought in Paul Layland to help us dissect this classic. We get a brief look at Nikki and Paul's confusing past, Paul's parking lot story, we discuss the painful birth of Treehouse of Horror and the precedent of Kang & Kodos, the horrible Simpson family, breaking down Bad Dream House, A Time To Kill, Air Bud, Paul hates character development, a Morse Code story from Nikki, Caveman, Paul's Star Trek TNG fantasies, T-U-R-T-L-E Power, the '90s ninja craze, Hungry Are the Damned, weights and measures, it's not TV, great moments in The Simpsons history, Finding Swartzwelder, the great raven debate of 2013, the elements of horror, and finally The Kwik-E-Pod Players' dramatic recitation of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven.

It's episode 016, Simpson and Delilah, and we struggle to talk about this great episode. Your hosts jaw on about the Stitcher Network and our favorite podcasts, TV dinner, Chris is a closeted military buff, Packing For Mars and Earthbound again, indescribable games, Demoxinil, bald vs. gray, Nikki's mutant power, the Asian male dilemma, the importance of being really really really really good looking, Karl with a K, Tom Jones is not human, fish sticks for all, the executive washroom, the magic black man movie genre, the beatnik fantasy, the marine biologist fantasy, hair everywhere, and the moral of the story.