Adam and Nate celebrate their 50th episode by breaking down AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies list through the lens of The Simpsons. If we reorder these 100 movies by how many times they were referenced on The Simpsons, can we create a different canon of American film?

Also in this episode:

• What are the canonical films that The Simpsons never parodied in the classic years?

• The time capsule that is the “100 Years… 100 Movies” TV special

• Does The Simpsons parody movies because they’re influential, or are these movies influential because they’re parodied on The Simpsons?

• Trivia and favorite moments from the last three years of the podcast

Plus, check out our show notes for our completely reordered list of AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies based on the number of Simpsons references, and further reading

Next time, film critic Norm Wilner joins the podcast to kick off our spooky season with I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) and “Treehouse of Horror X” (S11E4).

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