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I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.

We're listening to a very special edition of the show this week taped in front of a live

audience in Portland, Oregon.

Up now Bill Oakley.

He's a veteran comedy writer for television, maybe you've seen his work on Port Landia,

or Futurama, or the Cleveland show, or disenchantment.

But you've definitely seen his writer on The Simpsons.

He wrote for the show between 1992 and 1998, the Golden Years.

And together with his partner Josh Weinstein, with whom he ran the show for two years,

he'll made some stone-cold Simpsons classics.

Ruin Malibu Stacey got a new hat.

Well, the time the Simpsons went to Australia, or when Baby Maggie shot Mr. Burns, all of

those episodes were co-written by our next cast.

And of course, there is also steamed hams.

A bit from a 1996 Simpsons episode that lately has been shared and remixed on the internet

so many times that it has become perhaps the number one Simpsons meme in the world.

If you haven't seen it, here's the premise.

Principal Skinner has invited Superintendent Chalmers for dinner.

He's making steamed clams.

But Skinner ruined it.

The clams are burnt.

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