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The Cracked Podcast

How One Simpsons Joke Made Bill Oakley Famous 30 years Later | Simpsons Taught Me Everything

The Cracked Podcast

Literally Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.63.5K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This episode of STME features the one and only Bill Oakley, legendary Simpsons writer, co-creator of Mission Hill, and originator of the Simpsons "Steamed Hams" joke which spiraled into an internet phenomenon and later the namesake of his newfound food influencer career. We talk Simpsons, Mission Hill, The Mullets, and of course, burgers.

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0:00.0

Oh my goodness, everyone.

0:01.5

Welcome back to an incredibly special stunt cast,

0:06.6

perhaps even episode of Simpsons Tommy everything.

0:11.2

I know that I promised you last time that we'd be doing a deep dive

0:15.5

into groundskeeper Willie.

0:18.6

And I have dived deep into the plasma pool of Kilt, as it were,

0:23.6

and let me just tell you to quote Edna K, I don't even want to tell you what that guy's into,

0:28.8

but I still will in a Fortnite. You can expect that episode, but a very special opportunity

0:35.4

came along, and I, your host, Michael Swain, would be a fool if I didn't capitalize on it.

0:41.0

So we're going to take a quick off-ramp to talk with, frankly, honestly, a hero of mine, a reason that I myself and am comedy writing.

0:49.4

Today's guest, a Simpsons writer and executive producer, co-creator of Mission Hill,

0:55.1

infamous Weinstein Fender, sunglasses, magnate, and graduate of Harvard, the most expensive

1:01.6

and therefore best school there is.

1:05.5

Congratulations, you've just graduated from the most expensive and therefore best school there is.

1:10.6

Mr. Bill Oakley, welcome, Bill. Thank you. Thank you. I, by the way, I don't think Harvard is most expensive school. I think it's the one my daughter goes to. I've had just about enough of your faster-passing young lady. But Harvard is up there and however, when I went, it only cost $14,000 a year. That tells you how long ago that was.

1:28.8

Well, congrats.

1:30.1

Thank you.

1:30.5

I'm getting her where she wants to be.

1:32.8

But you're right where I want you, which is frankly surreal on the previous iteration of this feeds cast, the cracked podcast.

1:41.9

I was lucky enough to talk with Mike Reese and Jeff Martin.

1:45.1

Love to continue expanding my little collection here. And I'll kick things off by

1:51.5

sort of bringing the dessert first. And I say that because if people don't know, you have

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