Worst Episode Ever (A Simpsons Podcast)

The Simpsons do competitive eating!.... Kind of? We're broadcasting live from and in the fourth person from WEE's French-Canadian death camp studio to talk about Season 25's "Luca$," which doesn't have all that much to do with the character named Luca$, nor the Robert Wuhl series Arli$$. But it does have Zach Galifianakis! Will we be blindsided by incohesion and puns within puns? Do the writers th...

​Deleted scenes & outtakes from Episode 38: Extra Beat Alarm including discussions about Sober Barney, Jim-Jam Bonks, and the Oktoberfest scene. Also, Jack & Dan quote half of 1989's Batman, because as our plastic surgeon always says "If you gotta go... go with a smile."

In this WEE episode with too many beats, Dan & Jack cover a Simpsons episode with too many beats—season 15’s Co-Dependent’s Day. This much-reviled storyline features Homer framing Marge for his DUI and an entire act devoted to Cosmic Wars. WEE were this close to naming this week’s episode “A Crappy Nail in a Shitty Piece of Wood,” so you know it’s going to be a good one. Is this Homer’s lowest poi...

Deleted scenes & outtakes from Episode 37: Tweaks & Twists, including discussions about the evolution of Simpsons voices and the over-explainy angry whisper. Also, Jack's 90's Movie Minute, cat mailmen, and is Dan actually Edward Snowden? www.weepodcast.com

The Simpsons go to Africa this week while Jack & Dan stay put in WEE Studios with returning special guest Nick Noga. Season 12’s Simpson Safari, one of our most requested episodes (even Mike Reiss hates it) has a bag-boy strike (they happen!) twist and tweak itself into monkey and diamond-related hijinks with many of Africa’s famous landmarks and tragic quagmires used for comic fodder. Will Nick p...

Deleted Scenes & Outtakes from Episode 36: DiCaprioes including discussions about the couch gag, the Westminster Abbey scene, Homer's habit of forgetting Maggie and, of course, more DiCaprioes. 

Happy Father's Day to all our WEE Dads who may or may not have ever had sex. In their honor, WEE watch Season 20's Father Knows Worst, a story about helicopter dads, brokeback jugglers and weirdly intricate scene transitions. When Homer tries to become a better father it backfires, which describes a number of better episodes as well. How many different plot threads can they cram into a first act?...

Deleted scenes & outtakes from Episode 35: WEE After Dark, including discussions about Willie, Hot Pepsi, Graystache and Halloween. Also, Bilk Buds Dan & Jack try and fail to write their own birthday song and rattle off possible titles for the Nelson Prequel while Dan Hedalek stops by with 17 new characters, including Hugh Stretch. www.weepodcast.com

It's Jack's birthday! It's Dan's birthday! It's Nelson Muntz's birthday! Yes, our birthdays are within two days of each other's, and to celebrate, we watch Season 18's The Haw-Hawed Couple, where Nelson has a birthday, nobody comes, and then he and Bart become best friends (and beat up Doctor Octopus). AND the origin of The Book Job's Angelica Button! What a jam-packed episode! Is this the best Ho...

Deleted scenes & outtakes from episode 34: MacGayver, including discussions about Lenny & Carl, Marge's mom, and a Cornelius Vanderbilt update. Also, it's very hot in WEE Studios, and Jack & Dan talk about Billy Joel, Road Dogg and South Park: The Stick of Truth video game. 

This week, from a very hot WEE Studios, Dan & Jack celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month with Season 16's jumpy-aroundy episode "There's Something About Marrying," the episode where Springfield legalizes gay marriage and Patty comes out of the closet. Do the writers come out in favor or against gay marriage? How does this episode stack up against Homer's Phobia? And when will the famous publishing house Mar...

Deleted scenes & outtakes from episode 33, South Park Did It including a discussion about the couch gag, the lame "jewels" joke, and the banner ads Marge encounters.  Also, the true origin of Laugh Command and some regret about a recent episode ranking, all while Dan perfects his John Travolta and Jack gets distracted by fireworks. www.weepodcast.com

It's a slippity-sloppity, flippity-floppity Worst Episode Ever, where Dan and Jack watch Season 18's Marge Gamer, which is coincidentally about Marge Simpson of "The Simpsons." Marge gets addicted to a World of Warcraft-like video game while Homer has his own wacky adventure coaching Lisa's soccer team. Since when does Lisa like soccer? Is Ronaldo the worst guest star voice on "The Simpsons" or a...

Deleted scenes and outtakes from WEE #32 - Groophic and the Ghost, including discussions about (both) Seinfeld finales, Boston Common, and Dan and Jack's immediate reaction to the birth and death of Little Ghost Girl. Also, they ask if Behind the Laughter is a clip show and Dan Frere Jacques the 80s film Flash Gordon. www.weepodcast.com

Groophic and the Ghost Some BODY once told us that Season 11's Behind the Laughter would be a great episode for Worst Episode Ever... so we watched it! Yes this extended parody of VH1's "Behind the Music" first aired 15 years ago (and slightly more than 15 years since Dan & Jack went to go see the Norm MacDonald bomb Screwed). It's basically a mockumentary looking at an alternate reality Simpsons...

Hello? Deleted scenes ready for download. Who are you to resist it, huh? Come on, our last paychecks bounced. Our children need Popeye's! Featuring lengthy discussions about Mystery Men, Prison Break and the DC Multiverse, and Die Hard 2.

A Special WEEdition recorded on our lunch breaks almost immediately after hearing the news that Harry Shearer is (might be? hopefully is not?) leaving The Simpsons. What might the show do if he really leaves? What does the long term future hold for the Simpsons? And how did we cram in a tangent about Superman Returns into such a short episode? (#notmyjorel) All that, plus returning guest Nick Noga...

This week Jack and Dan watch Season 26's Bart's New Friend, based on a spec script written by very famous man Judd Apatow in the early 90s. When Homer is hypnotized into being a ten year old boy, he and Bart become good friends... and that's kind of it. It's a simple plot and it (mostly) works. Who here hates stacked parking? How great is it to see a childlike non-jerk Homer just play with a dog?...

Basically a whole second episode, so if you normally skip these, check it out. It's deleted scenes & outtakes from episode 30, Frere Jacquing, that the Illuminati don't want you to hear--including lengthy conversations about the show's treatment of Homer's alcoholism, the stadium sequence, Burnsification, the opening theme and couch gag, as well as an overview of the first thirty episodes WEE watc...

Our Thirtyversary brings returning guest Brice Canedo-Pullan (the Grover Cleveland of WEE guests) and our very first Season 22 episode, Love is a Many Strangled Thing. When Homer makes Bart pee himself at a football game, he visits Paul Rudd and Kareem Abdul Jabar to rid himself of his desire to strangle Bart. Sure. Why not. What's the deal with this episode's completely insane story structure? Is...

Deleted scenes from episode 29, Mayoween I: Old Dracula Fingers, including discussions on the funniest costumes from the episode, Jack's progress on his Cornelius Vanderbilt biography, Dan's Pokemon fart puns, and of course, more Groophic. www.weepodcast.com

It's the spooooky first annual Mayoween for Worst Episode Ever (in April), where we watch Season 17's Treehouse of Horror XVI, a Halloween episode (which originally aired in November). Makes sense to us. Have the post-classic Treehouses of Horror gotten a lot more gruesome? Why have they transitioned into doing four segments instead of three? And what is Dan going to do with all this mayonnaise? A...

Deleted Scenes & Outtakes from Episode 28: Knape Kills Bumblebore, including discussions on Grumpy Cat, 22-episode vs 13-episode seasons, Far Side references and lots of movies and TV shows that aren't The Simpsons. Also, Dan Hedalek is almost shot to death outside and Jack fails miserably at a Borat impression. www.weepodcast.com

A slight delay, but WEE're back with a brand new episode that may surprise you. Special guest Josh Kurp from uproxx.com makes Jack and Dan watch Season 23's The Book Job, a satirical take on the publishing industry that doubles as Neil Gaiman's comedy debut and an "Ocean's 11" parody. Lisa uncovers a sinister plot behind young adult novels that leads Homer and Bart to write their own. Doesn't soun...

WEE talk about The Great Mouse Detective, Oliver & Co. and Suburban Commando, as well as the late Don Payne and get distracted by the ice cream man​. An episode so good, Jack edited it twice! (We lost it the first time) www.weepodcast.com