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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Search complete. 7 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof".

Oct 13, 2026

Adam SchoalesHOST
75:52
And it's funny, too, because the other thing is when we sat down to watch this.
Adam SchoalesHOST
75:56
I was convinced what we were sitting down to watch was, I knew we were watching A Streetcar Named Desire, but I thought A Streetcar Named Desire was actually Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the other Jason movie, which they do parody on The Simpsons with Smithers, but that's what I thought this movie was.
Adam SchoalesHOST
76:12
But no,
Nate StorringHOST
76:13
no, no, they don't just parody it with Smithers, they mash up both of the movies in that Smithers parody.
Adam SchoalesHOST
76:48
So I was just like, my brain was completely broken when I was like, okay, I've got this movie completely mixed
Nate StorringHOST
76:53
up.
Nate StorringHOST
76:54
Even in this episode, when they're sitting around the table practicing their accents, Lisa calls Homer Big Daddy, which is actually from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, not from this movie.
Nate StorringHOST
77:05
So, yeah, I mean, I think...
Luke SimpsonHOST
16:28
I think it's from Tennessee Williams' play.
Luke SimpsonHOST
16:31
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof? Or what's the other one?
Indigo JacksonHOST
16:34
Stella.
Luke SimpsonHOST
16:35
N- what's the other one that's not Cat on a Hot Tin Roof?
Indigo JacksonHOST
16:38
I have no idea.
Luke SimpsonHOST
16:38
Anyway, I think it's from a film version of a Tennessee Williams play.
Angela SarabiaGUEST
2:45
I remember, um, being in Fame, that very first production I ever did as a 16-year-old.
Angela SarabiaGUEST
2:51
They let me just play a little part where I'm auditioning for a second, and then they, uh, usher me off the stage and go, "Next." And they told me to memorize a monologue, and my mom took me and, and helped me find Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which is one of-
Rachel Feeny-WilliamsHOST
3:04
Mm
Angela SarabiaGUEST
3:04
...
Steven LentonGUEST
6:21
Yeah, I was just always very self-conscious.
Steven LentonGUEST
6:25
But I remember there was a really funny thing because we were acting out Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Steven LentonGUEST
6:30
And we were all doing just our voices.
Steven LentonGUEST
6:33
But my friend, Kate Hampson, who Kate brought hers now, she won't mind me saying this.
Al SjoerdsmaHOST
61:42
But he returned to acting after that, and his first screen appearance was a small role in On the Waterfront, directed by Ilya Kazan, who was one of the co-founders of the Actors Studio.
Al SjoerdsmaHOST
61:55
Now, Pat also performed in 35 plays over the next few years, his big break coming in 1955, courtesy of Ilya Kazan, who cast him as Gooper in the Tennessee Williams play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Al SjoerdsmaHOST
62:09
Two years later, Kazan cast him in William Inge's The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, which earned Pat a Tony Award
speaker_2UNKNOWN
62:17
nomination.

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