"Get Confident, Stupid"

About this episode

In the first episode of Eat The Pudding, hosts Michael and Ian introduce their podcast and discuss the first series of The Simpsons.

Eat The Pudding: A Simpsons Podcast   Episode 1: “Get Confident, Stupid!”   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 first episode: “Get Confident, Stupid!”.  In this opening episode, we talk about what we plan to unleash on an unsuspecting world in our new podcast venture and about the regular and occasional features that will be included in our twice-monthly episodes.  To kick things off, we pay a long-due revisit to the first series, complete with its wonky animation, quaint storylines and Homer sounding like Walter Matthau on sedatives. And this month’s Spotlight On Springfield shines a light on Troy McLure, who you may know from obvious jokes that we already made in the preview …  If you would like to send us a voice message to include in the show, we have set up a special page on SpeakPipe: https://www.speakpipe.com/EatThePudding . All you have to do is click on the link, record your message and press send.  You can also contact us:  By mail at eatthepudding@gmx.com   On Instagram at @eat_the_pudding_podcast  Or at our…

People in this episode

Hosts: Michael Smith, Ian Winick

Topics covered

• The Simpsons
• Podcast Introduction
• Animation
• Character Spotlight
• Fan Interaction

Keywords

• Simpsons
• podcast
• Troy McLure
• animation
• Homer
• fan podcast
• comedy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Eat The Pudding, SpeakPipe, Instagram, Bluesky

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