"Does love outweigh everything else? I guess it has to, if you’re a sitcom.”

Happy Holidays!

Today we’re discussing Season 14 Episode 17 Three Gays of the Condo: when Marge and Homer have a big fight, Homer moves out of the house and into an apartment in Springfield’s gay neighborhood, with sexy results! It guest stars Scott Thompson and Weird Al.

My guest is Jamie Brew (Clickhole, The Onion); we discuss his AI company, Botnik Studios and his current project, Robot Karaoke. We talk about how he started making comedy with predictive text, using Craigslist to generate song lyrics, and the one thing AI art will never be able to properly reproduce.

We also talk about the ups and downs of Marge and Homer’s relationship, and if the show intentionally keeps it from truly changing, why there will never be another Rip Taylor, and how this episode totally wastes a cameo by Weird Al.

You can follow Jamie @jamieabrew on IG/Twitter & @jbrew on Bluesky.

You can follow this show @bartannicapod on IG.

Robot Karaoke

- Regularly in NYC at Wonderville, Boshi's Place and elsewhere

- Every month at The Elysian Theater in LA

See upcoming shows at: https://theweirdalgorithm.com/

Botnik: Seinfeld Script

Botnik: Harry Potter and The Portrait of What Looked Like A Large Pile of Ash

Botnik: Fake Coachella Names

1040: Yesterday

CCK Philosophy: The Simpsons and the Death of Parody

Jamie Recommends:

The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang.

Harrison Recommends:

These articles & books about gay neighborhoods-

There Goes the Gayborhood by Amin Ghaziani

Who Are the People in Your Gayborhood by Daniel Baldwin Hess and Alex Bitterman

The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods Alex Bitterman

Gay Urban Identity by Paul Ruiz