This week Jack & Dan watch season 18's "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times," a vignette episode that parodies Batman and The Count of Monte Cristo. How will Jack die? How should Dan Castellaneta have fun in the booth? What should the good extra beat alarm be? What will draw in the lookie-loos? All that plus shades of jerkass, Marge-a Wayne, Fritz Goldberg, and It's Back: A We're Back: A Dinosaur's Story Bit.

This week, Dan and Jack watch season 18's "Springfield Up," a mockumentary episode that has Eric Idle checking in on Simpsons characters every eight years. What happens when you die and come back? Is no one stickier than Sticky Crumbs? Will Jack & Dan get doxxed by docks workers? All that plus the platonic ideal of a Wiggum-Lou corner, jokey-jokey gags, the Bourbon Please bourbon police, and the iPhone-Dog Toilet Wars.

S18E12 - Little Big Girl

Grab that gristle and join Jack & Dan for Season 18's Little Big Girl, an episode where Lisa pretends to be Native American for some reason and Bart tries to marry his 15 year old pregnant girlfriend. Somehow this felt like a good episode to watch for Thanksgiving. Why is it important to swindle your loved ones? How many times can Jack wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving? And where's the Batman sex? All that plus the Mary Jane theme, gravy tubes, and what (or who) Groophic eats on Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving, WEE Universe! 

S18E18 - The Boys of Bummer

Home stretch for Summer 2015, so Dan and Jack watch Season 18's The Boys of Bummer, a satire-adjacent episode where Homer becomes a mattress salesman, Bart attempts suicide, and nothing has anything to do with summer. Why does Marge have secret control over the town of Springfield? Why did J.J. Abrams fix the 2004 World Series? And would you see out Boffo Bucks Disney movie? All that, plus Homer's new catchphrase, the WEE Flip Book, and a consortium of mattress-related conspiracy theories.

S18E08 - The Haw-Hawed Couple

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 Homer plot we've seen on this show? Is this the best animated "Goodfellas" parody ever? And how come the Ullman Era voices sounded so much like the Rat Pack? Plus, the secret power source of WEE Studios, mixed up Draculas, and things you can do with a jacuzzi suit. We earn our explicit tag this week, listeners, so keep wee ears away from WEE this week.

S18E17 - Marge Gamer

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 secret best? And how many elephants are in this damn room? All of this, plus our lack of soccer knowledge, our dead-on Sideshow Mel impression, and a general cavalcade of patented WEE nonsense!

S18E09 - Kill Gil, Volumes 1 & 2

Happy Holidays, WEE listeners! Let's ruin them by talking about this episode. Widely regarded as the worst Christmas episode, we're watching Season 18's "Kill Gil, Volumes 1 & 2," an episode that manages to include senseless violence, animal abuse, and tired gay jokes on top of its loose Christmas plot. But it's not all bad! This is also the debut episode of the Grumple. Ok, so it is all bad... We perform a deep psychoanalysis of said Grumple, dig into whether Gil works in large doses, and ponder why this episode was so intent on making jokes about Scottsdale, Arizona. Why does the show insist on beating gags to death, especially with Homer's aggressive whisper? Why can WEE not stop talking about Marge? And why aren't you spending your holiday watching "The Stand" miniseries from 1994? All that, plus, an extensive discussion about Jerry Van Dyke and the 1997 TGIF line-up, our hatred for leprechauns, and another of Dan's delightful and violent Simpsons stories from the late 90s. Enjoy our gift to you, our faithful listeners (and apologies to Al Jean, who apparently created "Teen Angel"...). 

S18E15 – Rome-Old and Juli-Eh

This week on what some have called “the ‘Serial’ of Simpsons podcasts” we expect a horrible trainwreck and instead find a slightly less worse one. Must mean it’s time for Season 18’s “Rome-Old and Juli-Eh,” an infamous episode where Grampa marries Selma, his son’s sister-in-law. Took 18 years, but finally that sexual tension gets addressed. We examine scaling back freeze-frame gags in newer episodes, perform “episode alchemy” to see what older episodes combined to get this one, and talk Jane Kaczmarek with Jack, our resident Kaczmarekspert. Is Gandalf better than all of “Star Wars?” Are you sick of us talking about the over-sexualization of Marge? Do you also create fantasy sound design jokes in your head? All that, plus Popeye’s chicken, dark jokes about senility, and a literal dragon. If you read all of this without listening first, you are very confused. Enjoy!