2024 Oscar Special

With the 96th annual Academy Awards complete, Adam and Nate review the night’s festivities and finally get a chance to talk about recent movies for a change. 

Also in this episode:

• Highlights from the show, from its “perfectly cromulent” host* to Al Pacino’s big moment—hoo-ah!

• Adam and Nate’s (very different) lists of top 10 movies of 2023

• A trivia game about Best Picture Winners parodied on The Simpsons, fresh from the Simpsons Movie Reference Database 

Next time, we return to our regularly scheduled programming with The Natural (1984) and The Simpsons’ ode to baseball “Homer at the Bat” (S3E17).

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Further Reading & Viewing

• Original Springfield Googolplex Dataset: Every Reference to Best Picture Winners in the first 13 seasons of The Simpsons.

• Thread: BauerBourneBond, “I edited the Stunt Performers Tribute for last nights Oscar's...“ r/editors, Reddit, March 11, 2024.

• Watch: Swan Song docu-series streaming free on CBC Gem (Canada only)

• Watch: Blackberry Mini-series version streaming free on CBC Gem (Canada only)

*Description of Jimmy Kimmel courtesy of Contra Zoom Pod’s Dakota Arsenault.

watch this, Lis, you can pinpoint the exact second she realizes she beat Lily Gladstone for Best Actress pic.twitter.com/NSsVJwSzkQ

— the thicc husband & father (@lukeisamazing) March 11, 2024

The Simpsons as the 2023 Best Picture #Oscar nominees

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1. American Fiction pic.twitter.com/0K7dQkSfZ5

— Michael Kamens (@TheMBrand) March 10, 2024

Al Pacino presenting at The Oscars pic.twitter.com/3YA9w2f2vB

— Simpsons References (@SimpsonsOnX) March 12, 2024