Talking Simpsons - Lookwell Pilot With Gayest Episode Ever
Talking Simpsons
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🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 138 minutes
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Summary
Once more we're breaking format with Drew Mackie and Glen Lakin from the great podcast Gayest Episode Ever Podcast, this time to talk about what Conan O'Brien worked on right before Simpsons! Yes, the "brilliant but canceled" pilot for Lookwell is the cult classic brainchild of Conan and Robert Smigel, where the late Adam West played an aging actor annoying the police. Learn how this pilot came to be and its influence on The Simpsons' fourth season in this beguiling podcast!
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by patreon.com slash talking simpsons. |
| 0:05.1 | Head there to check out exclusive podcasts like Talking Futurama, Talking of the Hill, |
| 0:09.7 | The Water Cartoon Movie Podcast, and tons more. |
| 0:30.0 | Ahoyhoy everybody and welcome to Talking Simpsons where our head of goblers are quite |
| 0:35.6 | beautiful. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm your host the thinking actor Bob Mackie and this is our chronological exploration |
| 0:40.4 | of something other than the Simpsons. |
| 0:42.4 | Who else is here with me today as always? |
| 0:44.2 | I used to play detective on TV, Henry Gilbert, say, and who are our special guests on the line. |
| 0:52.4 | I've got a forest temper quality, Drew Mackie. |
| 0:55.2 | Why do I have to be in the car when Lincoln? |
| 0:57.6 | And this week we're looking at the look well pilots. |
| 1:04.5 | This pilot originally aired on July 28, 1991 and as always, Henry will tell us what happened |
| 1:09.8 | on this mythical day in real world history. |
| 1:13.4 | Oh my god. |
| 1:16.4 | Oh boy Bobby, everything I do I do it for you by Brian Adams tops the charts. |
| 1:21.3 | A month in and Terminator 2 is still ruling the box office and Final Fantasy 4 is released |
| 1:28.5 | in Japan as all aka 2 in the United States a year later. |
| 1:33.3 | It was a summer of feaving princes and killer robots and I remember it well. |
| 1:37.7 | Yeah, Terminator 2 I watched a million times Robin Hood only once on VHS but I heard that |
| 1:44.6 | Brian Adams song all of the time. |
| 1:47.0 | Now I wanted to know this up our guest too because we're all similar ages. |
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