The Simpsons Reference That Unlocked Buddy Hackett's Best Joke | The Simpsons Taught Me Everything

The Cracked Podcast

Literally Media

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4.6 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On episode two of the Simpsons Taught Me Everything Podcast, Michael Swaim is joined by fellow comedy writer, Danielle Radford (Honest Trailers), to continue to delve into more Music Man references from the Conan O'Brien written episode, Marge vs. The Monorail. They also dissect Buddy Hackett's famous duck joke that he told on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, the tantalizing romantic fiction of Elinor Glyn, Simpsons Logic Problems and so much more.

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0:00.0	Are you pigs out there listening and immediately unfollowing this feed now?
0:05.1	Hearing me call, you pigs?
0:06.4	I don't care.
0:08.1	A cab includes listeners of the show.
0:13.7	This is Simpsons taught me everything with your host Michael Swam.
0:18.6	Two weeks in.
0:20.2	And Fox has not sent us a cease and desist yet.
0:22.9	I think because Cracked has no corporate address anymore, I don't know.
0:27.0	Unlike last time, we're C-N-to-the-C.
0:30.1	And that's very different than C-N-2-T, which is cutting through the treacle from last time.
0:35.3	We're cutting to the chase.
0:37.1	I didn't do it now in this sentence, but I'm doing it now in this one.
0:42.0	Welcome my guest today.
0:44.1	Daniel Redford, everyone.
0:46.0	Hi, hello.
0:46.8	Thank you so much for having me.
0:48.1	I am very excited.
0:49.2	When you sent me all the deets about doing this, this is like the perfect, because I feel
0:53.4	like so much of the kind of cultural
0:56.0	osmosis that we all get of there comes from the Simpsons.
0:59.7	I can't believe someone hasn't already done this.
1:02.2	And I'm very glad the person too has done this is you.
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