Itchy & Scratchy & Marge with Mike Mayfield

23rd May 2016

On this week’s episode, concerned citizen Mike Mayfield (Mr. Pickles, @mikelmayfield) joins us to discuss the senseless violence and mayhem of season 2’s classic “Itchy & Scratchy & Marge.” We talk about writer/animator tension, outrage culture, and whether or not it’s really easier to draw a pie than an ice cream cone. Plus: HAS ALLIE BEEN A PARENT ALL ALONG?!?!?!?!?

Episode notes

On this week’s episode, concerned citizen Mike Mayfield (Mr. Pickles, @mikelmayfield) joins us to discuss the senseless violence and mayhem of season 2’s classic “Itchy & Scratchy & Marge.” We talk about writer/animator tension, outrage culture, and whether or not it’s really easier to draw a pie than an ice cream cone. Plus: HAS ALLIE BEEN A PARENT ALL ALONG?!?!?!?!?

This episode was produced before “Everything’s Coming Up Simpsons” was on the Max Fun Network.

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Guests

  • Mike Mayfield

About the show

Round Springfield is a Simpsons-adjacent podcast hosted by Allie Goertz and Julia Prescott where they interview writers, directors, showrunners, and voice-actors from the Simpsons-verse on their various paths to Springfield, failed pilots, other projects, and beyond. In this 20-episode limited series, you’ll hear David X. Cohen talk Futurama, Josh Weinstein talk Mission Hill, and Yeardley Smith dig deep into her diverse path of becoming Lisa Simpson.

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