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S6E10&11 - Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy & Fear of Flying
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Jon, Michael and Matt watch The Simpsons episodes 'Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy' & 'Fear of Flying', and discuss what they say about society.
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Introduction and Opening Jokes
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Hello, this is Mole Man in the Morning. Good Mole Man to you. Hello and welcome to Mole Man in the Morning! i didn't think of one, I'm sorry.
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Oh no. I got my other thing done, but then I did i forgot to do a good moment. I could do the traditional one. Good moment to you. There you Cool. That'll do. That felt my phone didn't. John got me with his fucking meme bullshit.
Analyzing The Simpsons' Reflection of Society
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Hello welcome to Mold Man in the Morning. We are a podcast about how The Simpsons has a lot to say about society. I am your host John and I am here as ever with my two high-flying co-hosts, Michael.
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And anne ma Step right up, folks, and witness the magnificent medicinal mor miracle of Simpson and Sons' patented revitalizing tonic. Put some ardor in your ladder with our energizing, moisturizing, tantalizing, romanticizing, surprising, hair-pricing, revitalizing tonic.
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Nice. Well done. You see, if you'd have done that at the point of the actual episode when we're doing this review, that would have been very impressive. Yeah, I am i am like remark remarking at the contrast there in the how unprepared you are at the Moorman line, but how prepared you were for that line.
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i Well, yeah, because I usually write those down. Oh, i don't like i I usually come up with the more man on the spot because always forget about it. Right, fair enough. Okay.
Reviewing The Simpsons Season 6, Episodes 10 and 11
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We are here today to look at Season 6, Episodes 10 11, Grandpa vs. Sexual Inadequacy and Fear of Flying. This is episode that came up on one of the one of the Simpsons box set videos that was like...
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allegedly it was too hot for tv which supposed like censored or banned episodes and i don't think this don't think grandpa versus sexual inadequacy was banned no recollection of anything i don't know if i don't know if he got censored somewhat i didn't actually got censored there's i feel like there's enough marge side boob to uh to censor how dare i need my marge side boob Did we we discover that Marge has her own article on WikiFeet, right?
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Yeah, we've discussed this many I think yeah so, yes. Jesus Christ. Yeah, you will be surprised an episode called Grandpa vs. Sexual Inadequacy has some sexual bits in it.
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Really? I didn't notice. Heaven for fend. You saw the usual censored version. Was that why it was only 10 minutes long? Yeah, you only saw the back half where it became snake oil salesman. You missed the entire setup.
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He thought they were all just being reverse vampires. Yes, yeah. There's an episode about reverse vampires. The title was really weird. It's very confusing. And I still haven't found anyone to cook my dinner for me.
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But before we get into either of those, let's take a look, as we ever do, at what we've all got in our fridges and or are drinking generally.
Beverages and Beer Flavor Critiques
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I am drinking McEwan's Champion.
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I've never tried it before. it is a premium Scottish beer, apparently. I bought it in Tesco, so how premium can it be? ah But yeah, it looks good. It's a dark beer, which I wasn't expecting.
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um So I have my nice glass right here. So let's give it a, let's give it an old sippy sip. Oh, that's fucking Scottish. It wasn't. Oh, it's very bitter.
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It's nice. okay I like it. It's nice. Very nice. definitely Definitely understand why it was next to Guinness on the shelf. It's very nice.
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Okay, good. that That's good. Michael? I've gone the other way, so I'm visiting Ireland. o I am drinking Jameson's. Ah, yes, the opposite of Scotland. Ireland. The opposite of beer, whiskey.
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I'm not wrong on either count, am I? No, you're not. Carry on. yeah but I'm just drinking whiskey neat, because it's full of nuts. Oh, damn, Michael! Well, we're in a grandpa kind of mood, I guess.
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Yeah. And as we have established, only grandpas drink whiskey. Or stout. I'm more or less there. and Well, if you want a stout, yeah, want a stout, I've got Vocation Brewery's Naughty and Nice White Chocolate and Raspberry Stout.
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sure Why? Surely white chocolate cannot work in our stout. Yeah, white chocolate. It is not abundantly clear from the label. It has only become ah apparent upon pouring it that it is, in fact, a white stout.
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I've never had a white stout. Is it legitimately white? it's It's a pale beer. It's light light in colour. It's a yellowy sort of shade. ah was about to say, if it was white, that would have been achievement under you. I think they just sold you water, mate.
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That is a... Oh, that is a strange combination. Jesus. Yeah, I... Fucking hell. Looking at that colour, any of the... i I think I might have had white stouts before. Like, looking at the colour in the head on a white stout...
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Yeah, they're very much not my ah not my jam. So to yeah do the beer nerd thing, your white stouts are not a common thing that many people make, but generally you make a pale beer and you put coffee in it to make it taste roasty like a stout.
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And then usually a lot of people will fuck with it in other interesting ways, like say, I don't know, white chocolate and raspberry. I think beer is a great example of how companies feel this needless urge to innovate Yeah, yeah.
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Beer has been basically perfect since monks started brewing it as a pastime. ah Beer has been mostly perfect since they found hops, I would suggest, but yeah.
00:05:52
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Yeah, no. um m Yeah, this is very much emblematic of late-stage capitalism, unfortunately. What we need to do... An error has been made.
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What we need to do is if we ever do get successful enough to have a Patreon is have a Patreon goal that is just go on an adventure to find a foofy beer that Matt enjoys. Because, yeah, I mostly drink the most boring bog stand. The most exotic thing I drink is just because it's from Japan.
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And that's about it. But eatten John, I respect your desire to drink. Crap. yeah
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i mean What a ringing endorsement of friendship that is.
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I mean, I may mostly only seek it out for podcasting entertainment po purposes. Like, I probably would never have bought this if I wasn't like, yeah I need something that sounds interesting to drink on a podcast.
00:06:52
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My latest round of beer acquisitions does have a lot more normal beers in it, so I will run out of stupid stuff shortly and start drinking like things that actually have hops in them for once. Ooh. Daring, are we?
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Gotta build up. Alrighty, let's let's so let's dive on into a couple
Notable Events and Chalkboard Gags
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episodes. so Grandpa vs. Sexual Inadequacy aired on December 4th, 1994.
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Have we got any news from this day? i am still alive. Well done. Good. Thank you. expect this to continue, honestly. Nah, there's going to be a weird part around 2020.
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Okay, so the historical events of the day. The 83rd Davis Cup, Sweden beat Russia. Well done. The Kennedy Center honours Kirk Douglas, Aretha Franklin, Morton Gold, Harold Prince and Pete Seeger.
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That's a lot of people to honour all at once. I have no idea how many they typically honour in any given batch, so good for them. Cool. don't know if that's a lot or not. ah Yeah.
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Yeah. Stuff is happening. The world world continues. That's a lot. Music! Yes, sir the US number one, Unbended Knee. Boys to Men is still your number one. Still going. Unbended Knee. but the end isn' in so and The end is in sight, folks.
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Spoilers. it And guess what the UK number one is? I've already liked it, so I'm not going guess. yeah so i I don't know the bit, so I'm not sure. It's a phenomenal Christmas classic.
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Stay Another Day by East 17. i I'm sure I've probably heard it, but I don't remember it off the top of my head. How does that one go? Baby, you got to go away. Yes, of course. Yeah, that still gets played now. Well, I say now, but at Christmas time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that still it. Stay another day. Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah My favourite thing about that band is ah one of them somehow managed to get himself run over by his own car.
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oh that's impressive. Haven't we all? My mum's favourite Christmas song is um I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas. If you've heard that, that's a very song. have not heard that one, no. That's a very old one.
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Surely the classic Christmas number one is still Mr. Blobby. she likes She also likes... What's he called? The Christmas Donkey? Jiggy-dee-jig. Eee-aw, eee-aw. Yeah.
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Can't remember what the donkey's called now, but... Yeah, is it like Ollie? I'm now just thinking of the duck oval, which has nothing to do with anything. My favourite's Wish I Was At Home For Christmas. Dominic. Dominic. Dominic. Domin
00:09:39
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anyway anyways potential episode cool there's not more can say about this this zemb four is boring what happened in the simpsons on this day wow the cho ball guygg goes a bit ambitious my homework was not stolen by a one-armed man is this like a one- armmed bandit reference i guess um I mean, that's a gambling, like, it's like, that's a fruit machine. So I don't know if it would be, but that's the the first thing that comes to mind.
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I just thought Bart had been robbed by Herman. So, a i thought so yeah A, I thought I'd heard this one before, and indeed I have, because that actually apparently is a repeat from Bart Gets Famous for some reason. For some reason they recycled the chalkboard gag. Don't know why. And also that one, if you click on the episode link, the citation for that one sends you to The Fugitive.
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Apparently it's a reference to The Fugitive. Somebody somewhere reckons for some reason. I have not seen The Fugitive, so That will be it. So, yeah, don't know. I get i guess that might be what that is.
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The couch gag is the family keep running. They get some very sinister looks on their faces. They just keep running past this over again and again. Yep, got a chuckle. Yep. Bit of a laugh.
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The episode begins with Homer and Marge in bed and Homer is watching the $1,000 movie. Once again, on tv just randomly the TV just randomly being in the bedroom for no reason.
00:11:04
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Because they want to watch TV in bed. yeah Yeah, but that means he has to carry it all the way upstairs, man. I fully believe The Simpsons would own more than one TV. If I wanted to watch Good Time Slim, Uncle Doobie and the Great Frisco Freakout, I would bring my TV upstairs too. Because well because normally normally in that position that is Madge's vanity, right?
00:11:26
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Not the concept, the actual furniture item. Yeah, I realise this. The concept of Marge's vanity lays upon the foot of the bed. I think I just need the need for the set-up of the episode. Of course, it is, as always, for the bit. but yeah still it's yeah It's fluid.
00:11:44
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So we see this this movie actually stars Troy McClure. It's a Storsky-nuch kind of thing. And the man next to Troy is panicking because they've got a bag of stolen diamonds and not the stash.
00:11:54
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There's more than one way to get high. Baby. Baby. and Was um Troy McClure in the last episode? Because I don't remember seeing him in the next episode and he normally comes in batches.
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Oh, it's been a while. I can't remember. Home of Badman was the last episode so i don't remember Troy McClure or Lionel Hutz being in Home Badman No no i be But it's usually like together in the episode They usually have like for some reason actor and lawyer show up in the same episode They may not have had him record episodes in sequence or they might have just changed things around Because he definitely does appear again exactly Just because they've got him in doesn't necessarily mean he has to be both characters in each episode you know No, like I said, normally
Marital Issues in 'Grandpa vs. Sexual Inadequacy'
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like we'll get two episodes in a row with either Lionel Hux or Troy McClure. Yeah, maybe they just wanted Phil Hartman to just do this one line. Maybe, yeah, absolutely.
00:12:46
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So we see that Helmer's very engrossed in the movie as Marge is trying to... get something going on. There'll lot of that this episode. And, uh, Homer says that, uh, Homer tries to show off because how often does he get to see a movie of this caliber?
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He's only seen it twice before. On, on late night TV. yeah Not just that he has to see it, but that it's on late night TV. How often did you get a thousand dollar movie this late on TV?
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So Marge asks Homer if something's wrong and Homer's response is, he's only seen this movie twice and he's seen Marge every night for the last 11 years before he captured himself. Yeah, bloody fucking Elmer. That's digging and all.
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Elmer gets himself out of the hole by saying, well, we'll snuggle tomorrow. So we cut to a month later and Homer has gained some weight. Mostly because he'd been eating enchiladas. Enchiladas, I'd say. Yeah, you've got Marge laid on the bed and wearing a sexy thing. And Homer's like, oh, enchiladas. love that his button pops. That was one of the best things there.
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So we cut later that year. Homer Marge are finally in bed. It's sexy time. We get some side boob and... Tasteful side boob, Michael. Tasteful side boob. Unfortunately, Bart runs into the room, panicked, and Marge and Homer have to say, don't turn off the light, don't turn off the light.
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Don't turn on the So Bart thinks there's a UFO outside his window, and pinpoints this by saying, seriously. We then go to Bart's room and see that actually a golf umbrella, which swoops in and hits the window. But asks if he can sleep in their room. like how it's making the the UFO noise as well, though. like you can If you hear it, you can hear it doing that like... It's making an unnatural noise. Yeah.
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But asks if he can sleep in their room and Marge firmly says no. No. but as But then asks if he can sit on the roof of a baseball bat in case UFO does come. Marge responds to, yep, yep, that's fine. Yeah, yeah, sure, whatever. Yeah, just fucking go away.
00:14:35
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So we'll see Marge come back into the room was in the background. We can see Marge climbing the drain pipe. Again, if you think about where, again, for the bit, understand it, whatever. But if you think about where the Simpsons bedroom, the parents' bedroom in the Simpsons house, where is that drain pipe?
00:14:56
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Yeah, the house doesn't like have any angles in it, like they're not looking at another bit of the house, yeah, there's nothing for Bart to climb there. Also, it's impressive Bart does this one-handed because he is holding a baseball bat. Also that.
00:15:08
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Hey, the fear the fear of a UFO is going to drive you forward. To climb one-handed through thin air, yes. Absolutely. He also watches a lot of Arnie films that inspire him.
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Marge comes back and hopes that the homey fires are still burning. They're not. Homer has fallen asleep. The homey fires! So Marge has to wake him up and Marge says, they need to discuss the marital difficulties they're having.
00:15:32
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Homer laments that there's too much pressure with his job, kids, traffic snarls, political strife home and abroad. The promise is Marge that all those things are settled. They'll have sex. Marge cannot wait that long. yeah Yeah, I love her response of just, well, I can't wait that long. It's like fair. Marge suggests he gets some help and says, how about a book? Homer gets very excited about that. So Marge points out they're going get a tasteful book.
00:15:54
Speaker
See, this is this is one of the weird the weird things for me is like, Homer loves sex. So it just like the setup doesn't make sense when you've watched all of Simpsons. You're just like, no, Homer loves sex. Homer's always up for sex.
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But also, within this specific, the context of this specific evening, Homer was up for sex like 10 minutes ago. Yeah. oh then what could happen A lot could happen in 10 minutes. And then he wasn't up for it because he was E.P. Because he fell asleep. And then just the mere mention of an erotic book was enough to get the fires burning again.
00:16:32
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You don't know what happened in that 10 minutes. don't what happened in that 10 minutes. Omar could have had an enchilada. He could have watched the last 10 minutes of the Doobie movie. He may have had a sneaky wank. A sneaky he he wank.
00:16:43
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I believe the enchilada one. That one rings true. Yeah, the side... What are those? Side table. Side table enchilada. He keeps in that little drawer where the Bible's supposed to go. He keeps an enchilada just in case. It's been there two months, but it's good enough. It's like the sandwich. Yeah.
00:17:02
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Omar agrees to get the tasteful book and as they turn off the light we see the bat fall to the floor then Bart falls past and then we hear that we just hear Bart get up and ring the doorbell so you will oh ding dong got me ding dong let me in let me in The family go to the bookstore, which is books, books, and additional books.
00:17:22
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What was the... What did the sign say? i didn't catch it in time. I didn't understand the reference. Well, the daily special is Mitch... Mitchner for £1.99 a pound. I'm guessing just kind of like... I'm guessing it's an author....shit author kind of thing.
00:17:37
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Yeah, I don't know that one. Mitchner, where's Mitchner? I love hearing John's keyboard go... James Albert Michener was an American writer. He more than wrote more than 40 books, most of which were long fictional family sagas covering the lives of many generations.
00:17:53
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like I like how even the person writing the Wikipedia article couldn't care enough to find out how many books he wrote.
00:18:02
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I'm sure somebody somewhere has a hand on that. Also, like, more than 40 books. And, like, there are more prolific authors than that. 40 books is plenty of books. That's a good career. But, like, there are definitely more prolific authors than that. That's a lot of books, yeah.
00:18:18
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No one's gonna argue. But I guess if they're all, like, really long books and that's his thing, like, it's kind of funny that, like, they would sell his books by weight. They're all actually just in the same series.
00:18:28
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That's why people don't read it it's because you have to buy book one. look I saw the I don't want to see, I don't want to be seen in this section joke coming a mile away.
00:18:45
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I thought that was going to be the crux of the episode, to be honest, was them. yeah But then I kind of realized, oh wait, they already did that episode. Which one is that? Where Homer becomes a teacher. Oh right, yeah. Yeah, and starts telling everyone their problems.
00:18:57
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So we've got some of book titles which include How to Seduce Your late Lousy Lazy Husband and Kosher Erotic and Cakes.
00:19:06
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Homer picks up a copy of the Karma Sutra and points out to Marge that the guy in it looks like a poop. Right, so... Is that okay? Although not. talked We've talked about, you know, we we talked about the whole Apu thing in the Apu episode and we kind of landed on ultimately Apu is harmless, but in the grand scheme of things, you know, we we had that kind of like, it's ah it's a very mixed bag thing.
00:19:31
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I mean... But this is very close to the knuckle. It's not... great but almost i don't know i feel like there's a reading of that way you can say it's more just homer's yeah it's homer's yeah like it's it's not it's not take the homer being intentionally racist like it is yeah but it is a hindi text right and yeah it's hindu so this is like homer just but like hey that's there's a familiar thing that i don't know anything about It's is's actually one of the things I've been thinking about a lot recently is the difference between a character's racism. I know we've said that Homer's not being racist here, but a character's racism and the writer's racism. Because like we've talked about prolific authors.
00:20:13
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I'm reading Stephen King right now. And a lot of the characters and thus the narration in those sections is quite racist. But Stephen King, as far as I'm aware, Stephen King isn't racist.
00:20:24
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He is just very accurately encapsulating certain characters that are racist and then when he's writing characters that aren't racist none of that stuff exists oh yeah absolutely whereas like you go to like Lovecraft for example and there's just an entire paragraph comparing a black man to a gorilla you're like yeah that has nothing to do with the character that is just you being racist yeah I mean as ever if you want to know how racist Lovecraft was look at what he called his cat yep yep It's all about context, folks. But yeah, like, it's not especially not racist to write a racist character, you know? No. But i but yeah, anyway, with the... Homer's ignorance here, I think. Yeah, it's just Homer being kind of Homer.
00:21:06
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young Marge doesn't want anyone to see them looking at the books, but which by bar Lisa woke up and asked what they're looking at. Marge says she's reading up on artillery because she reads the tanks of the third Reich. We know someone who for a fact would love that book. Not because he loves Nazis, but just because he loves military shit. And that is our i yeah that is our Ugandan correspondent and fighter jet expert.
00:21:36
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In fact, I would find that interesting. I'd find it pretty interesting, yeah. But Harbour pursuing his interest Mapplethorpe, which I'm guessing is male anatomy. because I had to look this up. Mapplethorpe, Robert Mapplethorpe, I think is was the name, is, yeah, or is, was, I can't remember how...
00:21:56
Speaker
I don't remember much details about the guy, but his work certainly was a lot of, like, very controversial and often nude slash erotic photography. So this is one of his photo books that Homer's inadvertently picked He is dead. Sorry, just since that was what he was... He died at 42.
00:22:16
Speaker
Oh, right, yes, no, I do remember reading that detail. Yeah, he died of AIDS, actually, I think, yeah. Oh, right, yeah. Because he was in the gay scene, so that's, unfortunately, the fate of a lot of gay men in the 80s, yeah.
00:22:27
Speaker
Mm-hmm. What shame. Yeah, but, um like you know, the the joke is lol gay, basically. Yeah, basically, that's what we're going for. But, again, actually, bringing up the the wider discussion of it, is it lol, is the joke lol gay, or is it lol homo's uncomfortable?
00:22:45
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The thing is i don't I don't think Mapplethorpe necessarily was doing explicitly only gay stuff. It was just a lot of controversial and nude stuff. I think there were women in there as well. like His photography was just like you know very raunchy, very not something you would be reading in public, say, in library. In front of children. Yeah, absolutely. So i don't I don't necessarily think the joke here is necessarily gay. It's just, this is not a book Homer should be stud reading in the middle of a library. Yeah, that's fair.
00:23:12
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So we then see them go to the books on tape section and Marge finds a the Mr. and Mrs. Erotic American tape, which apparently is narrated by Paul Harvey, who is a pleasant version of Grandpa.
00:23:24
Speaker
Oh yeah, she said that. What the fuck? What weird thing to say. right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. It's like, I'm buying a book that is narrated by someone and this book is supposed to help us with our sex life. Oh, doesn't this guy sound like your dad?
00:23:38
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I mean, also, like, interesting contrast with the fact that Homer's dad does, in fact, help them with their sex life later on in the story. This is true, yeah.
00:23:49
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The kids come up with their books, and Lisa's got the ah new Al Gore book, which is Sane Planning and a Tensible Tomorrow. Seems vo dreams right for Al Gore. yeah And Lisa Phelps, it's ah as exciting as this other book, which is Rational Thinking, Reasonable Future.
00:24:03
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and Bart is getting his ah UFO book and Bart says there's a huge government conspiracy to cover up to him Lisa dismisses it as paranoid fantasy we don't see the books go through the scanner and we see that one book seems to get a signal going through to overhead wires and satellite like dishes all the way to the pentagon yeah also Bart brandishing that book was the moment was around oh that wasn't just an intro gag was it that's the big plot now yeah yeah We see the government official run to the Pentagon office and reveals to the vice president, who is of course Algor, a copy of his book is sold.
00:24:36
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I love that because it's such a great subversion. Is you're like, oh, okay. So it is a government. Nope. Algor just likes to be told when someone buys his book. Well, of course, because Algor...
00:24:52
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calls for a celebration which he just puts cool and the gang on and it's just soft yeah it's like celebrate good times i will he does not move or change facial expression while his song is playing it's amazing so we don't see that uh marge and uh homer are now listening to the paul harvey cassette holding hands on the bed yep and paul harvey is telling us that every good american at heart is an erotic american This is sure that kind of accurate, I suppose. And he gives out the sex advice of Dwight and Mammy Eisenhower, which is, it'll be a pleasure with a bath together. Of course, this leads to Homer and Marge trying to get into the bath, of which they don't fit. Their bath is not suited for two people. Yeah, as I'm sure many people know, that bath scenes in movies are a lie.
00:25:41
Speaker
Because most baths do not fit two people, and they're not comfortable, they're not sexy. It's rare that it works. I barely fit into my bath so someone else isn't getting into it. Would strongly advise, if this is a thing you wish to do, make sure you buy a bath that is big enough for two people. Yeah. but you know, use a hot tub or they'll just don't. I'll just get a walk-in shower.
00:26:02
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Yeah, walk-in shower. Easy. What are they called? Rain rooms? Rain rooms are fucking sick. Wet rooms. Wet room, thank you. Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Unfortunately, Homer does not have a wet room and has a faucet jammed into his spine.
00:26:14
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And Marge and Homer realise they're both stuck. Homer gets himself loose, but dislodges the faucet, which sprays the water into Marge's face. Which Marge inadvertently knocks out the candle. We just see them in the dark with their eyes and the... it The old eyes in the dark gag. Love it.
00:26:30
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We then see Homer and Marge driving away, and Paul Harvey offers the advice that ah a romantic vacation can provide titillation, and recommends America's finest A-AAA-approved motor
Romantic Escapades and Tonic Introduction
00:26:42
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lodges. Yeah, um but it's like, go on vacation to a motel.
00:26:46
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A sexy motel. Ah. it's say it's Basically, it's a love hotel they go to, let's be real. so yeah the They go to the Aphrodite Inn, and this has many themed sex rooms, and...
00:26:57
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And it's my favourite guy. Should have made a red of reservation. We only have one more one room left. Oh, we're Marge looking through and the Arabian night's room looked nice and the Pharaoh's chamber had a vibrating sarcophagus. I imagine that would have been great. But as Matt has said, unfortunately, and Ethel should have booked made a reservation because there's only one room left.
00:27:20
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What is he referencing with Fred and Ethel? They put themselves under pseudonyms so that no one knew it was them. Oh, okay, right, okay. Well, they're interrupted by Mayor Quimby and his loincloth saying that the there's a toilet block in the caveman room.
00:27:34
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Bit an oxymoron there, really, isn't it? We then see Homer and Marge walking past the Safari room and the Camelot room, and they end up in the, ooh, the utility room. Utility room. We then see that it's not very erotic according to Marge, because it is just a utility room, and Homer tries to make it a romantic fantasy by saying he's the janitor, and Marge is the janitor's wife that has to live with him in the utility room. It's like Homer started bold as brass, ready to be like, I'm the janitor and you're the janitor's wife. Trying to come up with his own little bodice ripper and just failing.
00:28:11
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Absolutely trying to make this plot up as he goes along. Oh yeah, the janitor's wife would have to live with the janitor in the utility room. Homer should not be a writer. So they just both lie down on separate beds while the manager comes in to take away the vacuum. Yeah, they're all fucking army cots as well. Don't mind me, folks. Just get in the wet drive, Eck.
00:28:30
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Me and Quinn be fucked up that toilet, didn't he? Yeah. In the wet drive, Eck. Oh, I didn't even think about how that was connected to the toilet. Oh, God. Yeah. So, I'm going to try having back in bo and both of them look a less as impressed as Paul Harvey's saying that they should now be flinging woo like nobody's business. I love how pissed off they both look. And Mr. and Mrs. is Erotic American, he bids good day. This prompts Homer to throw the tape out of the car and run it over repeatedly. they go over it several times. He backs off and drives over it like three or four times.
00:29:00
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honestly like just just again giving away my my thoughts on this episode a little i think this plot line could have been the whole episode of just homer and marge doing all kinds of like stereotypical romantic things to revitalize their sex life and then it just ends with them realizing yo we could just bang we don't need to do all this crazy shit Well, without spoiling too much for you, that is actually an episode of The Simpsons many series seasons down the line. Oh, shit! I think I know the one you're talking about. But yeah, no, this is The Simpsons. So we have spent six minutes doing the fake out at the start before the main plot. So let's yeah swerve to the right and go into the main plot now.
00:29:45
Speaker
Marginhover returned home and they're greeted by Ava, who reveals that while they were away, he broke two lamps and lost all their mail. then us Also, at this point, I stand up and cheer because Abe's here and we know it's an Abe episode now. Yay, Abe!
00:29:58
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Abe asks what's wrong with Marge and Hummus says, you wouldn't understand. so Abe starts asking, Blue? Protein deficiency? Hummus says no to all this and does anyone want have a crack at what he says next? don't fucking know.
00:30:09
Speaker
Pneumono ultramicroscopic silicovolcano coniosis. Well, it's not that either. Which is, for context, a It is an affliction, an ailment, a a fictional affliction invented by, like, some puzzling society, presumably, to create the longest word or something stupid. It's the idea that it's like, oh, it's the damage done to your lungs by inhaling microscopic particles from volcanic rock. But that's also not a thing that anybody gets because nobody's inhaling particles of volcanic rock. So you just tend to die.
00:30:46
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Well, well, I mean, nobody's just going out and just like drilling volcanic rock and then would like inhale the particles. But like, you know, if you if you inhale a lot of dust, you can get, um, ummonoconiosis, but not ultramicroscopic silico-volcano-coniosis.
00:31:07
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Wow, this podcast teaches the kids everything. You are learning things today. Yearning. He finally does guess it, the unsatisfying sex life, and Homer says, stop saying that word. And Grandma goes, what? Sex! Why don't you want your old man to talk about sex? I had sex!
00:31:28
Speaker
This leads to Homer shuddering. Homer takes Grandpa home, and Grandpa says, Homer says, ah you've done I've done my duty. See you next time we need your signature. God, that's so bleak, man.
00:31:39
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Abe's not impressed and says, you don't want spend any time with me, but I'm going to help you with your loving because I've got the remedy that's going put those zowsers back in your trousers, which is a great expression. Want that on some me undies.
00:31:50
Speaker
Yeah. Grandpa starts mixing stuff in his cabinet and says that his great grandpa piece stumbled upon this recipe when he was trying to invent a cheap substitute for holy water. I do not think there is a cheaper alternative to holy water than holy water.
00:32:04
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Holy water is literally free. where just need to hire a priest to bless it. You don't have to hire them. You can just go into a church and ask them to bless it. Then it's holy water. It's not that hard.
00:32:15
Speaker
Again, I know it's for the bit, but Abe, what the fuck? Grandpa comes out and Homer has left the room already. it supposed Yeah, he's already in the car. Grandpa then shouts out the window, think of me when you're having the best sex of your life. Just for context on the background gags of what's in Grandpa's cabinet that ends up getting mixed into this. There's a lot of things that are very unreadable. Honestly, like trying to decipher them now look like it was AI generation because I'm I cannot read that. Yeah, this ain't no glum toothpaste.
00:32:47
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But there is in there a box of asbestos pills and box of dewormer, which also weirdly rings weirdly after Covid and the fucking horse dewormer debacle. Oh, not glyphosate. Oh, yeah.
00:33:01
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What shit, what's it called? I keep wanting to say glyphosate now, but that's the thing that was in PlantKiller, but yeah. No, I can't remember what the fuck it was, but like all the right-wing dipshits were like insisting they could cure themselves with horse dewormer for a while. Yeah, and it actually didn't just cause people that overdosed on it to die, it caused people that needed it to die because it is actually really good at killing a specific parasite.
00:33:25
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So if you're an anti-vaxxer, please go fucking drown.
00:33:31
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Homer drinks the whole bottle and, uh, and what do you know? it does the trick. He drives a home like a maniac plugs the gives the kids 50 bucks and says, to the movies, take a cab to your aunt's house and they'll come back.
00:33:43
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He then sweeps Marge up romantically and Marge wonders what's going on and Homer says, I'll explain to you afterwards.
Imagery and Symbolism in The Episode
00:33:48
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I thought he said, I'll complain to you afterwards. I was very confused by that. so They go into the bedroom and some very subtle messaging of what might be happening in the beginning. this. This is great. This is good gag. Is this... Because I know this gag is used in, like, Austin Powers, I think. And a couple other, like... It's used in a couple other, like, comedy movies and stuff, so... I mean, it's an old sort of, like, metaphor that's been used in cinema for fucking ages. Like, using a train going through a tunnel as, like, a nudge-nudge-wink-wink for sex. I'm curious where the first instance of it...
00:34:24
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came from, you know? That's that's what I'm curious about. I think there is a documented first instance, but I'm not looking at it right. the First instance of sexual innuendo. okay The train goes into the tunnel.
00:34:37
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Also, the sausage-making machine was quite funny. It was so, so unpleasant. I don't know why. we're going to have sex. Train goes through tunnel. Rocket takes off. Sausage is on conveyor line. Yep. And they're not even going into anything. They're just going straight off the line. What does that imply about Marge, do you think? She likes sausage, I guess But apparently all of this is because the kids are watching The Stock Footage Festival Which I also got a chuckle at Lisa, somebody asks what you think mum and dad are doing And Bart just goes I love Maggie there with the cup That's as big as her
00:35:18
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So we go to the after the deed and Homer is shaving and Marge goes up to him and goes, he's Rex, Harrison and Paul, Anka rolled into one. And she kisses him on the cheek as his stubble immediately comes back. I never get tired of it. I never get tired of seeing Homer's stubble just back into existence.
00:35:37
Speaker
So Marge suggests that Homer should go into business with Grandpa to sell the tonic. And Homer's response is this, you want me to spend more time with my dad? What about my New Year's resolution? Marge's response to this is, you could make a lot of money and Homer goes, oh yeah, where's my pants? Marge says, you threw them out the window in a fit of fashion so you wouldn't need them again.
00:35:54
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Implying that Homer only has one pair of trousers. We then cut to next door and Flanders is trying to get the pants out of the tree. the man goes, oh, they're awful.
00:36:05
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Just be ready with that garbage bag. We then see at the retirement castle, Grandpa and Homer are mixing the tonic in his bath. Homer has acquired some pants from somewhere. So Homer's happy because it's after years of get-rich-quick schemes, he's going get rich with this scheme. Quick.
00:36:19
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And quick. Then see them in the mall and Homer's trying his selling technique which is going up to a man and saying you look like you need help satisfying your wife. He surprisingly gets punched. Punch.
00:36:31
Speaker
And Grandpa decides he's gonna have a go at it. Homer thinks they've got a moral objection to the sex drug. Which is great. But Grandpa has a go at it and if you heard Matt's spiel at the start that's exactly what Abe says. Would you like me to read it again for the audience's sake so I'll read it slowly? No, I want them to go back.
00:36:51
Speaker
Step right up, folks, and witness the magnificent medicinal miracle of Simpson and Sons' patented revitalising tonic. Put some ardour in your larder with our energising, moisturising, tantalising, romanticising, surprising, her-prizing, revitalising tonic.
00:37:06
Speaker
Woo, yeah. This so obviously excites the crowd as ah Grandpa tells loads of them. This feels are very like um similar to the monorail. It feels very similar to You've Got Trouble, which is what the monorail song was referencing. It gives me that same vibe.
00:37:24
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it's kind of just smooth-talking snake oil salesman is the energy of most of the episode. Abe dipping into a musical number for this would have improved this episode immensely.
00:37:35
Speaker
ah Most things in life would be improved by a musical number. I agree, I agree. no i I apologize for stating such an obvious truism. We see that a Professor Frink has bought a bottle and he doubts that the elixir can boast so many fantastic properties.
00:37:49
Speaker
He don't drink some and turns into, like, James Dean. He is the only person to be physically altered by this as well. Keep that in mind. So, on Wikipedia it reckoned this was a reference to the Nutty Professor, to which I went, wait, what?
00:38:03
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yeah not that Because you're thinking of the Eddie Murphy one. of Because I didn't know the Eddie Murphy version was a remake of an older one. but yeah the original old was Jerry Lewis did one in like the 60s and this was riffing on, again, a 30-year-old movie at this point. But he'd also have a wild wing thing in the cycle, John.
00:38:23
Speaker
I'm not quite sure what that is We then see that Milhouse's dad has bought one and they're going to push the twin beds together tonight and he's bought Milhouse a pup tent and Milhouse goes, I can sleep outside. He goes, yep, every single night.
00:38:36
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um I like that this implies as well that the Milhouses, I don't know what they're called. Van Houtens. The Milhouses. houses The Milhouses. The Milvernbronts were having marital struggles basically since their inception.
00:38:52
Speaker
I mean, this, yeah, obviously does get explored in later episodes for sure, but yeah, no, no kidding. It really does explain, like, the Van Houtens. They're like, this was a thing since they began, I guess, yeah. Because I think this is like their what?
00:39:06
Speaker
Fourth physical appearance or something? Like, they they they don't appear that often. I think Kirk showed up a few times. I don't think Luanne's been seen much at all yet. Yeah, because Kirk probably was in it... Kirk was in it the the other episode, wasn't it with ah he? went During the Planet of the Apes reference, he's the one that catches Milhouse in the net. Yeah, but yeah even then, they're very rarely characters...
00:39:30
Speaker
You know, they're just plot devices. Not even plot devices. They're background. so this is The background there for the gags, yeah. It's interesting that, yeah, from so early on they were. But, do you know, actually, I think that they kind of, they probably thought of Milhouse as a child of divorce before they even created his parents. Because if you think about how Milhouse acts, you know i mean? Like, there's nothing specific.
00:39:54
Speaker
But if you told, if, like, the first time you showed me Milhouse and then said his parents are divorced, I'd be like, that checks out. Yeah, yeah, i see it. Yeah, I see I get where you're coming from. Well, they're not divorced yet as they're banging in the background while Milholt's tent is facing him away. Yeah, and he's just sitting there a great time.
00:40:10
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Yeah, he's camping in the garden every night. They don't go to Dr. Hibbert and Dr. Hibbert says he's discovered that the rejuvenating effect is actually a mild form of poisoning due to the unsolitary conditions of Grandpa's bathtub. But he still drinks it and does his trademark chuckle.
00:40:26
Speaker
The thing is now is like, we've talked about it before, the whole like separating art from artists or references and stuff like that. The fact that we now know who Dr. Hibbert is meant to be a reference to, his his general presence makes me uncomfortable.
00:40:42
Speaker
Does anyone else get that? Because like now that I know it's Bill Cosby, I'm just like, I just kind of hate you by proxy. It's weird, especially when he's doing anything sexual. I'm just like, nah, I'm uncomfortable now. I mean, I get it. Other than those early references where they show him, like, around the family table and stuff, and it's kind of very much portrayed a bit Cosby. I don't really feel like his character most of the time is very Bill Cosby, so I don't really think of him the same way. It's not like he's doing a direct Bill Cosby. of course it's not. But the fact that he is a reference...
00:41:18
Speaker
You know, the fact that he was like sort of built around being a reference to Bill Cosby is enough for me to be like, to get the ick, as the kids would say. Yeah, i guess I guess I don't think about that that much. And also it's kind of having grown up watching The Simpsons and seeing Dr. Hibbert and not known that it was a Bill Cosby reference or anything about bill Cosby anyway. It's just like, no, it's just Dr. Hibbert.
00:41:42
Speaker
No, yeah no i totally get it. Wait till Bill Cosby actually appears in The Simpsons. Yeah. That's a- that's a- coming. Oh, there are some interesting characters coming in over the years, yeah. Oh, I can't wait to just constantly laugh at Elon Musk. Because he paid- he paid- he paid to be on it! He paid!
00:42:01
Speaker
What a pathetic loser. Carry on. Get your applications in now for being a guest on the Elon Musk episode. Man. so Fucking A. But we see that the town is now abandoned as the kids wander around and Nelson wonders where the parents are.
00:42:16
Speaker
Nelson says that with no parents, he runs the city. There's an awkward pause and he just goes, carry on. Yeah, and I feel like they couldn't think of a gag and then they thought, you know what, let's just have him walk away.
00:42:28
Speaker
Which was funny. I'm not saying it wasn't funny. I just think, yeah, they just kind of bailed on the gag a bit. Yeah, I mean, i the the only thing I can think of they were kind of going for is like, the he suddenly had to confront confront the idea that he had the power of being like, functionally mayor of the city. And he like, oh wait, hang on, I have to do things. And he just like got cold feet about bullying because yeah he now has to be mayor or whatever.
00:42:50
Speaker
It's fun when you are going against the system, but when you are the system, it's less fun. m But gets his UFO book out and the feels that individuals behaving in secretive fashion are often associated with UFO phenomena.
00:43:03
Speaker
I just realised, doesn't this whole episode imply that everyone in The Simpsons or in Springfield is in a relationship of some kind? yeah now Every adult yeah is in a sexual relationship of some kind. Doesn't necessarily have to be romantic, but everyone has someone to bang.
00:43:18
Speaker
Other than Moe, Moe's probably just Moe's tavern wondering where everyone is. Yeah, Moe is busy running his tavern. Moe and Barney just hanging out being like, where is everyone? what What about Patty and Selma? Where are Patty and Selma in all this? Drinking the ah drinking the tonic. well with ah so Selma's out fucking her secret girlfriend, and Patty is probably just jilling herself crazy ah to Matlock.
00:43:43
Speaker
look i'm trying to think who else is in. Is Barney seeing anyone? Barney's probably seeing anyone. that's why I said home. ah mo and Barney are just in the bar, just being like, where the fuck is everyone? Lenny's marriage was on the rocks, so who knows? This almost saved it, but not quite. Well, maybe he had some of the tonic.
00:44:00
Speaker
Yeah. Maybe, maybe maybe a Tonic saved him, yeah. For a couple weeks. So Bart gets his paranormal phenomena theory and asks, if it's in a book, it's gotta be true.
00:44:11
Speaker
And then Bart shows the picture of the orphan says, he's the head of the spaceology department. at the Correspondence College of Tampa. I loved that. That was a good bit. That's a very clever bit.
00:44:22
Speaker
Especially if you're like me and you what you you like do legit listen to like UFO podcasts and stuff, it's it's very funny when you realise the absolute bullshit titles they come up with to make themselves sound important. Right.
00:44:37
Speaker
because ah Sorry, just random random side note. I used to watch ah a TV show that had like a an ex-FBI agent on it as like one of the hosts. And you're like, oh, wow, is he really ex-FBI? And he is, but he was fired for being mental and doing coke.
00:44:52
Speaker
Incredible. Incredible. It was great. could have seen that coming? He like published a manifesto and the FBI was like, you can't fucking, fucking what?
00:45:04
Speaker
Are you that stupid? It's so funny. Ralph walks up and says, will you cook my dinner? Cause my parents all around and I can't use the stove. Yeah, he's been randomly walking around in the background of this scene. And one way he was just like staring at a wall. It's an elaborate bit. I don't know, it was like, what the fuck is Ralph doing in this scene? And then finally he actually like makes his presence known. I'm surprised they didn't take it as an opportunity to have Ralph say something.
00:45:28
Speaker
Because they haven't had the, um I saw them making a baby and I saw the baby and it winked at me a bit, have they? That's not happened yet, has it? nothing we've got still No. No. But I'm surprised they haven't used it as an opportunity to make one of those kind of jokes with Ralph. Because Ralph seems like the perfect character to do it with.
00:45:44
Speaker
so But, you know, again, the ultimate joke was kind of funny, but I don't know. Meanwhile, Homer and Abe are preparing for their road trip, and Grandpa starts listing the towns they're going to, which include Frigid Falls, Mount Seldom, and Lake Flacid. Lake Flacid is so good. So, Homer's annoyed he's going to be in the car all weekend with that wheezy windbag, and we see that Abe is cheering because that's immediately preluding like a massive Abe monologue.
Abe and Homer's Road Trip
00:46:13
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that point is ah
00:46:15
Speaker
He's just told Homer what's wrong with Bart's generation, and now it's time for Homer's generation. Now for your generation. you know how far they had to go to get to Lake Placid? I mean, I know it's called Lake Flacid, but... Yeah, it wasn't Lake Placid. Where is Lake Placid? Lake Placid in New York. I wasn't sure if it was just a name of a film series.
00:46:33
Speaker
It's long way from Peru. It's a... Yeah, a hell of a track. They saw all sorts on that journey. So we see them at the yeah next stop and Abe says, for for a dollar you can take a home a bottle of Liquid Lothario or distilled Don Juan or catacly carbonated Casanova.
00:46:52
Speaker
Liquid Lothario is a great rap album. I don't think they carbonated that drink. I don't get the impression that was a carbonated beverage. drink I didn't either. So one man complains because he's had bad luck aphrodisiacs and Abe says, don't worry, he's going to show them an incontrovertible demonstration and he asks for a volunteer, which of course he picks out Homer and they both pretend, well, we've never seen each other.
00:47:13
Speaker
That is correct, I've never seen you. Then one guy goes, well, why is his face on the bottle? So we get to zoom in on the bottle and they're both going, um... So the next scene is them being chased to hillbilling. The fucking chase music is so funny it's it's actually from felma and louise i think the music i think it is yeah yeah think so Abe tells Homer he's the worst shill he's ever seen and he's a disgrace, the medicine business.
00:47:37
Speaker
ah but Sorry, yeah no, Bonnie and Clyde. not is his bodying i was right i would be surprised if that music was in Thelma and Louise. It was one of the duos. Homer gets annoyed that they didn't start chasing some people on the getaway music and he turns it off and everyone just leaves. Yeah, everyone's just like, nah, it's not fun anymore.
00:47:56
Speaker
So we come back to Bart in his treehouse and he's looking for a telescope as ah several men and women are getting it on. Let's get it on.
00:48:07
Speaker
What fuck that? You guys want a room? Do you want me to finish this on my own while you guys, like, you know... i have a body of liquid Dothario. Barney. yeah All I've got is McEwen's champion.
00:48:20
Speaker
I'm just gonna have to sit here and leak for acid. Porcelain Ivermectin into your McEwen's... Ivermectin, that's it. Yeah, I just remembered what it was. They remembered it eventually. Ivermectin.
00:48:31
Speaker
The part comes to the conclusion that ah it's clear that the adults are paving the way for the invasion as a source of the Sorcerer people. Milhouse tells him he's a fool because it's a government conspiracy and then says, have have they gotten to you too?
00:48:44
Speaker
Or have they gotten to you too? They start having a wrestling match to really dramatic music before Lisa cuts in and goes it's have you not heard of O'Com's Razor? The simplest explanation is obvious it's probably the correct one.
00:48:56
Speaker
Bart goes, well, what's the simple explanation? he because Lisa sarcastically goes, oh, maybe they're all reverse vampires and they have to get home before dark. which point the kids panic. They all buy this immediately, yes.
00:49:07
Speaker
So we see Homer Abe still on their road trip, and Abe notices the Amos Pearson's moose farm and tells Homer to make a right. And we then see that ah the Simpsons used to live in a barn, and this is where Homer grew up.
00:49:20
Speaker
Homer goes, let's go find the hot dog tree I planted. Which, I mean, like, they've already established that Homer was born in the city and grew up in the city. So there this is just them being like, nah, fuck it, he grew up on a farm. Yeah. So Abe reveals that they lived here until the bank foreclosed them.
00:49:38
Speaker
And because the milk went sour in the cows and Abe goes, something must have spooked them. And we get the flashbacks. Black and white flashbacks. So the black and white flashback of Homer in the barn, scaring the cows and just chasing them around. Let's park out.
00:49:54
Speaker
Abe comes into the hallway and goes, oh, if this place could talk, as he pulls the light cord and the ceiling collapses and several things fall onto Abe, including a chair, a toaster, and a tricycle. Then the most obvious gag, but still a good, and Homer laughs maniacally until the ceiling falls on him as well. Yeah, so Homer laughs maniacally and then the bath falls on him. So they both walk into the next room, Bruce, and Abe then points out the Radiation King TV and says... some but but with po call the Radiation King. That's so funny. i still tell her that He tells Homer that he'd park himself right there and watch it for hours, and we can see the evidence of that. I love the shadow. Homer's shadow is imprinted onto the wall. He's sat in front of the cell and the radiation has burned his shadow into the wall. They don't make him like they used to. If you think about it, that's a pretty dark joke, actually, isn't it? Because like there's there was actual...
00:50:42
Speaker
those kind of shadows in Hiroshima. And that's kind I know that's, they're not trying to make a direct gag of that. But, you know, it's it's it's only three degrees from it, you what mean? That's a pretty dark joke. I hadn't in't made that connection. just thought it was, like, a fun old-timey name for a TV. No, no, no, I meant specifically the shadow as well. Yeah, I know, but, like, the implication that Radiation King has, like, blasted the room with radiation and left a shadow, yeah. It's dark.
00:51:13
Speaker
So we get a black and white flashback of Homer watching President Kennedy and this prompts Homer to go do his own President Kennedy ah impersonation. i like I did like the Kennedy impression though. I'd like to respond to that with a glib remark.
00:51:24
Speaker
That was funny. That was funny. That was good. So Homer's mother says that maybe Homer could be president and Homer looks at Abe hopefully and Abe tells him that this is the greatest country in the world and we've got a whole system to prevent people like you from becoming president. LOL. Fucking LOL. LOL balls. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's kind of on the money on that one, yeah.
00:51:45
Speaker
It's a quitcher daydreaming melon head and we come back to the present and Abe says the exact same thing. And Homer asks him why he didn't give him more encouragement because Homer could have been something else. Like he could have been a travel agent to a scientist.
00:51:56
Speaker
Or the inventor of a hilarious refrigerator alarm. and ah And Abe's response to this is, you can't complain. I played you lost just want to point out, as always, Homer makes $88,000 year. thousand dollars a year He spends it all on stupid crap.
00:52:11
Speaker
Yeah. Abe says that Homer put him in a home and he gets the same shower safety seat every Christmas. Shower safety seat. Oh, man. He is right, though. the abe it it like Abe has every right now to be mad at Homer. He was a dick, but now now eat now it's fair.
00:52:31
Speaker
The argument continues in the car and Abe says, Homer never said anything nice And Abe says, that's because you're a screw-up. And Homer then tells him, you're a screw-up, which prompts Abe to start choking him like Homer just rebought. Yeah, that was good. I like that. And then Homer says, they're going home because he's had enough of Abe and the stupid tonic. And Abe says, if I hadn't taken that stupid tonic 38 years ago, you wouldn't been born.
00:52:49
Speaker
You were an accident. Homer gasps and stops the car and tells Abe to get out. Abe tries to apologize and Homer tells him, get out. And Abe does go out the car says, I hope you're finding your heart not to drive away. And Homer, of course, drives away.
00:53:01
Speaker
Did I ever tell you guys the story of of of when I was told I was an accident and how funny it is? I think I've told this story before, but I'm not sure. I don't know. ah Basically, i was like to I was young. I was young. was, like, teenager.
00:53:14
Speaker
And I was talking about... you know, my birth with my dad. And he mentioned that, yeah, we didn't actually plan to have you. Like we wanted, we wanted a second kid and then we decided, no, we can't afford it. And then nine months later, you popped out.
00:53:30
Speaker
And I found it fucking funny. I think that's hilarious because that very much sounds like me. And then I came home and told my mum the story because i thought I just thought it was funny. You know, I was like, oh, now we're all in on the joke.
00:53:46
Speaker
And I didn't realize that, like, my dad told me, like, a couple months ago that mum yelled him for telling me that story. Because she was like, you can't tell him he's an accident. And was like, no, I thought it was fucking funny. You know, so it's just, thought it was funny.
00:54:02
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, my mum's told me that both me and my brother were both accidents. And like, it's fine, it's not a big deal. It's like, yeah, it's okay. Okay, yeah, no, that happens. That's the thing that happens in life. Yeah, I mean, as long as they have you and they raise you and they don't, like, throw you into the forest. Yeah, exactly. It's all about how it is. Accidentally having a child without planning, it is not like does not preclude, like, loving a child, you know? Yeah, absolutely.
00:54:27
Speaker
Well, Abe is now stranded in the middle of nowhere one goes, well, I'll be fine as long as I can remember my army training. But then transition to nighttime and Abe's just like, ah, damn it. don As the wolf howls in the background.
00:54:39
Speaker
Yep, wolves always after... Wolves always after Abe. They're after Abe, yeah, yeah. We ain't called no wolves after him. We cut to the next scene and Abe is at Homer's door with a bunch of flowers with the I'm sorry sash. Homer slams the door in his face and then we just see Abe put the flowers the door. Pushes it through the letterbox. My favourite bit was when he put his hand through and waved and said hello.
00:55:00
Speaker
but Marge asks Homer if he's going to ignore Grandpa for the rest of his life, and Homer says, no, no, just for the rest of his life. And, uh, Homer complains about him saying he was an accent, and Marge points out, you didn't want to have Bart, and Homer says, you're not supposed to tell the child, and Marge goes, you tell him all the time, you told him this morning. Yeah, but when I do it, it's cute.
Childhood Memories and Adult Theories
00:55:19
Speaker
We go to the kids in the treehouse, and, uh, And Bart says, have we agreed with what's happening? And Milhouse has put together the plan that ah their and comp the Rand Corporation, in conjunction with the Sorcer People, under the supervision of the reverse vampires, are forcing the parents to go to bed early in a fiendish plot to eliminate the meal of deal.
00:55:38
Speaker
At which point, Milhouse goes very sinister with his, we're looking through the glass here, people. We're through the looking glass, people. that's the end of your B-plot. They do not go any further with this. now Yeah, that's it.
00:55:52
Speaker
We cut to the kids in the next scene and, uh, Homer says, your daddy and his daddy were involved in a very sticky, nutty, chewy, chocolatey, and tells Bart to put away his candy bar. And then, uh, says, he's realized something important.
00:56:04
Speaker
Your father should make his kids feel wanted. And the Homer then says, he's going to spend a lot more time with them give the attention they deserve. Fucking sure calls them. Yeah. He's not a very gentle hug. So we cut grandpa who's ah still going on with the tonic business and, uh,
00:56:18
Speaker
Then brings out his own flesh and blood, which is Barney. And the Barney is tells us that he used to be a fat, disgusting slob as he burps. And one of the customers says, that medicine seems to be giving him gas. And Grandpa goes, the belching is because of his unrelated alcohol problem. At which point Barney collapses.
00:56:36
Speaker
And as Barney's on the floor, Abe just walks away and goes, it's not the same without Homer. Mostly because he knew how to drive a car. Yeah, walking on the dirt road. How did Barney get there then? Yeah, that's a good question.
00:56:49
Speaker
So, Hammer is a outside trying to become a good father as he's eating a potato chips while Maggie is strapped to his chest. And she's got little sticker on it that says, I love my kids.
00:57:00
Speaker
Yeah, yeah. So Hammer tells Bart he's going to teach him how to ride a bike, which includes which very clearly is Lisa's bike. Hammer gets on the bike to try to ride it and completely bends it out. Yeah, again, one of the most obvious gags.
00:57:11
Speaker
Bart has to point out to him that he already can ride a bike. He already owns a bike. And that's a girl's bike. And Homer goes, nope, you're not a girl. You're a boy. A good boy. yeah You're going to be president.
00:57:22
Speaker
So we put Bart on the bike and we hear Lisa calling Dad off screen. he goes, I think Lisa wants another push on the tyre swing. Lisa wants to get off the tyre swing because it's absolutely filthy and the steel is poking into her. And it's like over four foot off the ground. It's real high, yeah. So Alma starts pushing Lisa and Lisa's absolutely terrified. And as Lisa just in the background... I hate the sloshing noise. I hate the sloshing noise. It's awful.
00:57:48
Speaker
Bart has to point out to Homer that his half-ass parenting was better than his full-assed parenting. Your half-assed under-parenting was better than your half-assed over-parenting. Homer says he's using his whole ass. she's all that Lisa has to point out that all his love is scary.
00:58:05
Speaker
Homer takes her down and then says, sir someday the kids will thank him for his scary love, but now he's got to go off and do some serious thinking. So he gets in the car drives off and Bart goes, I think he meant to say serious drinking, Lisa Goodfell. That's what I assumed.
00:58:17
Speaker
Dang. Homer goes back to the old house and Homer says, this is where it all started to go wrong. And he says, I was supposed to be a good dad when he didn't have one. He kicks the wall and a book falls out and he finds a photo of it's Homer greeting Santa Claus for Christmas morning, which he laments the fact that Abe wasn't there. When he actually got to meet Santa Claus.
00:58:35
Speaker
Yeah. Then Homer actually looks at the photo and realizes that grandpa was actually dressed as Santa Claus. Did your dad ever dress as Santa? No, they did the whole milk and cookies thing, but... Yeah, definitely did the whole charade of, oh, he's visited in the night. think my grandad dressed as Santa one.
00:58:51
Speaker
But I think it was because he was a pub landlord, so he did it for like a group of kids, it wasn't like specifically for me. But that's still like you know sweet thing to do. It's a nice thing to do. I mean, they're thinking they're just trying to maintain the myth of Santa, you never get to actually meet Santa, but ooh, he's come in the night, but you'll never get to see him. Look, the cookies have gone and somebody's left 30 fingerprints on the plates. I my i am yeah so glad. Yeah, Dad, why are your hands black? I am so glad that I don't want kids, because then I don't have to have the decision of telling my kids Santa's real, because I think it's fucking stupid. Just let them figure it out on their own.
00:59:29
Speaker
To let you know, Homer calls the photo of blessing, but unfortunately he was using a a match to look at it in and he accidentally sets it on fire. Which prompts Homer to fling the photo around as he sets multiple things in the room on fire. Yeah, that is a very um flammable flammable portrait. And then, yeah, a very flammable room.
00:59:47
Speaker
We then do a slow transition through the house and we see that Abe is also in the house and he's lit the fireplace. And he says that the tonic has caused nothing but trouble. But then he throws the tonic into the fire. Yeah, that tonic is filled with mostly perfume. Of course it explodes.
01:00:02
Speaker
Yeah, of course it explodes and sets the room on fire and Grandpa just kind of panics. He full sprints it across the fire though, which... Doesn't he, after the afterday initial explosion though, just say something like, dang it?
01:00:13
Speaker
And it's like, that is an underreaction, sir. Ah, nuts, I think was the one. Yeah, yeah, basically, yeah. What a minor inconvenience. Oh no, I burned down our old house. So, Elmo and Abe both leave the house and run into each other, and Elmo declares he's a screw-up because he burned down the house, and then Abe says, no, I'm a screw-up, I burned down the house, and then Elmo comes to the conclusion that...
01:00:35
Speaker
Well, but we're both screw-ups. and Abe says it doesn't matter because he's realised Homer was right that he never said anything nice about him. Gumball then says, Are you say something nice now? And Abe's response is, I haven't thought that far ahead. I haven't thought that far ahead. So Homer looks at him both for him. Grandpa goes, Okay, i'm not so I'm not sorry I had you. And then he I'm always proud that you weren't a short man.
01:00:55
Speaker
You weren't a short man, yeah, that's good. So they hug as the house collapses on behind Let's roll on the grass. So they're both on fire. yeah So they're both on fire and you have to sit with them. slowly on the crus check what the but Oh dear.
01:01:09
Speaker
Well, that's your episode, folks. That's probably a new record for fewest notes for me. I had a five notes. I think I probably had fewer than that before, but that's not a lot of notes. I had a few notes on that, but yeah.
01:01:24
Speaker
Yeah, that was a good episode. I enjoyed it i it. Sounds like maybe you didn't, I didn't. I thought this was a complete nothing burger. Oh, really? I don't think it was bad. i don't i just don't think it was good either. I just think it was like so incredibly mid.
01:01:38
Speaker
No? i again as As we have said so many times on this show and on All for Arnold, I had so much more fun talking about it. It's a very Abe and Homer episode, a heavy episode. Both of them make good episodes for me. I love the Abe and Homer stuff.
01:01:56
Speaker
And apart from the Al Gore bit, the B plot is pointless. The B plot was nothing. It was it was making up time because like the main plot isn't enough to carry it on its own. Could they have done better with the B plot?
01:02:08
Speaker
For sure. ah Do I care about the B plot? No. Was the A plot good? Yeah. Yeah, it was. I enjoyed the A plot greatly. I agree with you, man. What's your out of Homer?
01:02:19
Speaker
I gave it a half-arsed, over-parenting out of Homer. It's better than nothing.
01:02:26
Speaker
gave a revitalizing tonic out of Homer because it puts the wowsers in your trousers. You stole my dirt. John, you want to tell us something about, right? You tell us something about yourself? just been looking at WikiFeets on Marge's page. What do you want from it? Fine. I'll give it a sausage going off a conveyor belt out of Homer.
01:02:46
Speaker
It looks delicious, but it goes nowhere. but okay That's genius. a Fair enough. What did I have to say about society, folks?
01:02:56
Speaker
Honestly, I think it's hard to say because Homer and Marge do actively try to solve their problems, but then do resort to a quick drug-based solution, pun intended.
01:03:08
Speaker
It really does feel like this is an episode of Simpsons with like the least to say about society. Because again, it's like, we've talked about it before that Simpsons is based on old sitcoms and old sitcoms used to have like very tired jokes of like, oh lol, you don't sexually satisfy me. And that's...
01:03:26
Speaker
They never resolve it. That's just the joke. The joke is bad marriage. But in this, Homer and Marge actively communicate and actively try and solve their problems together.
01:03:38
Speaker
So they're subverting that. But then they do also then just be like, all right, drugs. So it I don't know, it's it's weird. And then beyond that, you know, I guess snake oil salesman is a thing, but it's not snake oil. It literally works.
01:03:52
Speaker
This is true. Yeah, no, it it is shown to functionally do exactly what is supposed to be done. Why they need to go on tour doing the old snake oil salesman routine is unclear because it does actually do the job. This definitely costs more than a dollar to produce as well.
01:04:08
Speaker
Oh yeah, they're selling it so cheap. That is the fifth note that I didn't bring up in the episode. There you go I've brought up all my notes. Fair enough. Yeah, I mean, like I feel like it danced around the subject but never got like as far as touching on the issue of like kids being born as an accident, like having kids accidentally.
01:04:31
Speaker
like they It seemed like they they could have said something but ultimately didn't really like yeah come down on anything actually about it. This episode makes no statements.
01:04:42
Speaker
No, I don't think it really does, honestly, no. and And you've all... Any long-time bit listeners have heard me rant. I'm the one that always tries to really find something, and I couldn't. Yeah.
01:04:56
Speaker
i mean, ultimately, i yeah, that the the whole i so Accidental Kids was kind of like, yeah, yeah, yeah, Accidental Kids is clearly the theme the thing. But then, like, as soon as you analyse it and go, wait, but did the did the episode actually, like, draw any conclusions on that matter? The answer is just, actually, no. No, it didn't. Everything either gets resolved immediately, they...
01:05:15
Speaker
they it comes across as confused, like i said, with the the Homer and then the the sexual problems and then the drinking thing. Yeah, I mean... There's no hard stance.
01:05:26
Speaker
Yeah, if you want observations about the world, the B-plot was Bill Oakley observing that kids tend to go through a a stage in life where they become addicted to information about UFOs and paranormal phenomena.
01:05:40
Speaker
Which, like, yeah, okay, like I absolutely had a phase in my team... I absolutely had a phase in my teens where I was really into like critizoology. Same, same. I genuinely had books. I genuinely had like books with like all that kind of shit in it.
01:05:55
Speaker
Loved it. Still do. I think UFOs are fascinating. Don't think they're visited, but I think it's interesting. I never really did the UFO thing. yeah But yeah, paranormal phenomena is great for like hooking kids into shit. Do want to go ghost hunting sometime?
01:06:10
Speaker
Seriously, I'm going to go ghost hunting when I go to America again. So do you like if I come to Wales, you want to go ghost hunting? um I think I'm too skeptical for it to work on me. Like, I'm not going to go, oh, no, there's ghosts, because I just don't believe in them. Yeah, fair enough. ive i've visited i have visited the most haunted pub in England.
01:06:29
Speaker
didn't get haunted. had a nice pint. Ah, good time. That's what you think. They had some good spirits there, but no good spirits. Ba-dum-tish. All right, next episode. No, let's carry on. I want my ghost puns. want my ghost puns.
Current Events and Cultural References
01:06:47
Speaker
That's my only ghost pun. No, moving on.
01:06:50
Speaker
Fear of Flying, aired on December 1994. Well, the main headlines of this day are that Daryl Strauby pled not guilty on tax evasion charges. What about you? Daryl. Daryl. That's how I imagined the court went.
01:07:07
Speaker
Just the prosecutor going, Daryl. Sorry, you you mentioned the court and the jury. My favorite fact, because we brought up Elon Musk, in his current suit against Sam Altman of OpenAI, i it was supposed to be a trial by jury, but they could not find a jury that didn't think Elon Musk was a cunt.
01:07:26
Speaker
So they just don't have a jury. i think that i saw I think I saw the same post during the rounds. I think it was an old article, but also it is still extremely funny that everybody, everybody hates Elon Musk. Yeah.
01:07:39
Speaker
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01:07:53
Speaker
Inika Mose. have no idea what this is. I don't know any of these. that i know those words, but that sentence makes no sense. ah Stay Another Day is staying as your number one the UK. Stay Another a Day.
01:08:10
Speaker
So, our Chalkboard gag begins with, ah Ralph, morph if you squeeze him hard enough. Yep. Fair enough. I'm not not sure what specifically they're riffing on. i don't know if this is like, this like Power Rangers Animorphs something? squeegee toys you could get when I was a Sprog that if you squeezed them, you know, like the eyes would bulge and the head would like change and things like that, but...
01:08:36
Speaker
Is that what it's referencing? i don't know. it may have but my Actually, now I think about i think the Power Rangers one might be because I think Power Rangers had just come out. Yeah, maybe. yeah Yeah, ah yeah. yeah, because if you put your thumb against some some of the original Power Rangers if you put your thumb against the chest, they would morph.
01:08:54
Speaker
Yeah, they're going to the helmet version. Yeah, their heads would their heads would swap. ah Yeah, Power Rangers launched in 1993. Yeah, could be. Could be. The Couch Gag is our old favourite. The Circus Gaggers book.
01:09:07
Speaker
I guess we had to kill a minute. Yeah, this is when you need to pad the episode. Oh, yeah, yeah, It's like, absolutely, yeah. It's like, our episode... We could not, no matter what we did, make this episode run long enough. How do we shave off some time? Bring back the big intro. Yeah, because I like as well how it then replays the last bit of the intro song to then show the credits on the TV.
01:09:31
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. i didn If you notice, because it's you know it does that, but then like very abruptly cuts to bur but but on the TV.
01:09:41
Speaker
And I just think that's very funny. It's very weird.
Pranks and Bar Adventures
01:09:45
Speaker
So the episode begins at Moe's and Lenny asks for some change for a five and Moe opens the cash register and is immediately attacked by a cobra.
01:09:52
Speaker
Ouch. It's alright, he's a snake handler. Snake in the cash register. So everyone laughs and Moe goes, oh that's a great prank. I'm going to be sick tonight. Jesus.
01:10:02
Speaker
So Barney asks Moe if he wants to smell his fire and Moe is very excited about the prospect this. So Moe goes over and Barney just sets him on fucking fire.
01:10:13
Speaker
And Mo's just like, taking advantage of my alcohol-soaked clothes. Oh, it's funny. It makes you think. What does it make you think about, Mo? What does make you think about? About how unflammable he is. This is very fair. This is very fair.
01:10:26
Speaker
So Mo decides that he's going to blackout, so asks Homer for some sugar for his coffee. And Homer just unscrews the top of the sugar and slides it down, and the sugar comes out, and What a bastard. as and i mean, honestly, beyond the pale, really, this is worse than when Flanders failed.
01:10:43
Speaker
He went too far, though. He went too far. There's sugar all over the bar. And as Barney points out, they were just messing around. This immediately prompts Mo to go from zero to 2,000 by saying, holding a vote of, let's have Homer banned from the bar.
01:10:57
Speaker
Everyone agrees, and Homer goes, come on, this place is like a tavern to me. Yeah, I thought that was funny. This place is like a tavern to me. Mel says, no one should have thought about that before he gave him the old Shugamidoo and then says he's taking his character. Shugamidoo. So he decides that the character's coming down from Mount Lushmore. Mount Lushmore.
01:11:17
Speaker
So the detail these hand drawings in this is quite something. Yeah, they're great drawings. I would love that kind of thing. That'd be so cool. That's what we should we should get. We should get caricatures of us for our own little Mount Lushmore for the podcast logo.
01:11:33
Speaker
I mean, maybe. I think most caricatures are like hideously ugly, though. but Yeah, but we yeah I'm not saying we get caricatures from some twat who failed out of art school. I'm saying get something from online.
01:11:46
Speaker
Get Al to do it. Can't get much worse. We'll pay Al to do it. He'll do it. But Mo also takes Homer's favourite song out of the jukebox, which is... It's raining men! Mo's response is is, yeah, no, no more.
01:11:59
Speaker
Yeets it out of the window. Yeets it like a Frisbee. Mr. Smithers' car. i like how you always... Michael always gives Smithers his respect and calls him Mr. Smithers.
01:12:10
Speaker
Always. Yep, so he gets in the head with it and goes, ow, and then he sees and goes, oh. I like it. He's ow. oh Mmm. It's so weird.
01:12:21
Speaker
So Homer literally gets tossed out of the bar and then goes, her the joke's on them, I'm still I'm still alive. So Bart tries to cheer up Homer and Homer says, you can't do it. And Bart just goes, okay.
01:12:34
Speaker
And Maritess responds, why don't you just pretend that the couch is like a bar? Then you could spend more time with us. Homer just goes, I'm not going to dignify that with an answer. And Lisa tries to do some Chinese philosophy of that the Chinese use the same word for crisis as to do for opportunity. And of course, yes, crisis. Crisis-toonity. Crisis-toonity.
01:12:51
Speaker
This problem is to get up and do an inspirational speech about how he's wasted his life in that dump and he's going to go find a new bar and get drunk as he's ever been in his life. I don't mean to like get us all banned from China, but I think whenever people are like, oh, yeah, China uses the same ah word for this that they do that. I'm like, yeah, they also use the same sentence for I would like to buy some oranges to I would like to fuck your mother.
01:13:13
Speaker
That doesn't mean the language is clever. It means it's fucking stupid. I don't know if it's true, but their language is based on like emphasis and stuff. And you can totally change the meaning of a word just by emphasizing something differently. And I think that's fucking dumb.
01:13:26
Speaker
think it's Dara O'Brien had a line that was like, the Chinese have the same word for crisis opportunity, but they also have the same word for China and Taiwan, and it's China. Well, you for getting me banned by I really appreciate it, guys. I never wanted to go anywhere.
01:13:42
Speaker
Homer then asks Bart where his wallet is and pulls it out of his own pocket and then Hopper goes, thanks. So we then go to the first place and it looks like a very fancy place and Homer remarks that it's classy. Oh, this is so good.
01:13:54
Speaker
The mate's idea comes over to him and goes, good evening, sir. Would you mind leaving without a fuss? Okay. Haven't we seen Homer search for a new bar before? He's been to other bars in Springfield. who knows other bars in Springfield.
01:14:09
Speaker
So, Herman also knows the place that he walks in and this looks suspiciously familiar. I've been here! we Yes, we have. Michael's been with me as well, yes. So, this suspiciously familiar bar somehow also features several TV characters that are also suspiciously familiar. Like, this is... Wait a minute. This is... Cheers! Wait, when did you guys go to America together?
01:14:30
Speaker
2015-16, I think. Something like that, you went to We went to Boston where the Cheers bar is, and we went to the Cheers bar because it's there. It was it was very cold, the snow.
01:14:41
Speaker
Were those the actual actors? I know they didn't get Kelsey Grammer, Yeah, they got all the actual actors except for Kelsey Grammar. That's funny. yeah Kelsey Grammar, who's been on The Simpsons? i know! Of all the ones you would think they would be able to get, no, that Kelsey Grammar was the only one they couldn't get. The fact that they could get Ted Danson's great.
01:15:01
Speaker
I think they just didn't want to share screen time with Woody Harrelson and just... i think that I think it was just scheduling, I think they just couldn't couldn't get a hold of him. I love Ted Danson. I liked Becca. Well, yeah, but, apparently, Sammy was too old to go on a date with twins, and, well, he's supposed to be miring down without Rebecca knowing, and he goes, I'll sell the bar, after his majorly comeback.
01:15:20
Speaker
I don't remember that particular episode of Cheers, but there you go. Woody also gets surprisingly violent, considering his character, he's ah preparing to kill everyone, and he's restrained by Cliff, and says, it's karaoke night, which, this is the point, and Elmer goes, I'm getting the fuck out of here. Yeah.
01:15:34
Speaker
And Norm gets very weeping, just hugs everyone. I love you guys. Yeah, sadly don't get to where everybody knows your name, which would have been great, but there you go.
01:15:46
Speaker
We then see Homer go to a bar that's filled with loads of females and... Sheesh, she lounge. I love this bed so much. Hmm, something's wrong here. Yeah, Tom was now going, something's not right, and then he's... This lesbian bar doesn't have a fire escape. Enjoy your death trap, ladies.
01:16:04
Speaker
And then two women come to the bar go, what's her problem? It's just such great bit. Oh, that's such a good bit. That's so good. back to Moe's and a man locked in. Yeah. They wear his top hat and a moustache. It looks suspiciously like Moe and goes, may I trouble you for a jink? And Moe tells Homer to get out and the guy goes, what are you talking about? My name is Guy Incognito. Guy Incognito. We then hear it some vicious beating sounds as he's thrown out and a downbeaten homo passes him and goes, oh, this man's my exact double.
01:16:31
Speaker
Then realizes there's a double. That dog has fluffy tail! just turns off to chase this episode the start of this episode is just a barrage of really good bits just one after another and i'm sorry to say this won't last but like holy shit it's a strong start to an ab episode So Alma gets to the last bar in Springfield, which is an airport bar, and goes, if they don't let me in... What's called, like, little black box or something?
01:16:58
Speaker
yeah Yeah, the black box, yeah. Alma goes, if you can't drink, you're just going to have to quit drinking. We don't get a shot off Alma's stomach, because his liver goes, Alma tells his liver to shove, then pushes him to the back of my liver.
01:17:11
Speaker
So, Elmo goes in and the bartender tells him he's got to be a pilot if he wants a drink, and Elmo goes, eh, but I am a pilot. goes, well, it's his uniform. And he goes, I've stored it safely in the overhead compartment. He goes, well, that checks out. You talk the talk, here's a loner. That fits him perfectly.
01:17:26
Speaker
Yep. An air traffic controller comes in and says they need a pilot, and says, who wants to go to the Windy City? and Everyone's enthusiastic, as I point out. The conditions are a bit windy. The other one goes, eh, eh. Everyone who was just, like, doubled over the bar, completely wasted, is suddenly very enthusiastic about flying a plane. I didn't even catch that, that's great.
Airport Antics and Marge's Fear of Flying
01:17:45
Speaker
Yeah, that's funny. So, the guy then realises, because Homer's the only guy that sorts that down, he'll do it, and Homer goes, bye, then the guy perfectly calls him out, he's like, know, you're just impersonating a pilot so you can drink here, are you? And Homer goes, yep, that's what I'm doing.
01:17:56
Speaker
And the guy goes, oh, you flyboys crack me up, and then drags him off. I keep telling you I'm not a pilot, and I keep telling that you you flyboys crack me up! Mm-hmm. but The co-pilot introduces himself as Alan and Homer goes, yeah, I'm just going to go let you do everything. yeah I think you're ready for the thing, Alan. It's a good gambit. does not work. I love the and how good the guy playing the co-pilot captures the pilot voice as well.
01:18:20
Speaker
Yeah, I like Alan's face of like, you motherfucker. His pilot voice is great. Hello, I'm Alan. I'll be your co-pilot. It's like, oh, I can already hear you telling me how high we're cruising it and at what speeds and what ocean we're flying over. oh yeah. You know the direction for this character. It's just like, do the pilot voice. Do it. Just fucking nail it.
01:18:39
Speaker
awesome Alan says, I'll get us started. And he goes to the first button. The pilot, Alan has to stop and go, we need that. yeah We need that to live. Then Helper presses another bird and the wheels of the airport retract back in and plane love that they just, like, fucking shoot up.
01:18:55
Speaker
Just, like, whoop, and then slam. So, Homer's down in the ear airline official, and the airline official tells him, before gets out about this, crazy clown airlines will become a laughingstock. He tells Homer that he can have some free tickets, but anyway, in the United States, except Alaska or Hawaii, because they're freak states. Freak states. Homer's excited.
01:19:15
Speaker
Homer tells the family this and says, we can fly anywhere we want. So, of course, the first two things the kids say are Alaska and Hawaii. I want to go to Hawaii one day. Yeah, Hawaii sounds great. Yeah. So, Marge is a bit reluctant because they're in the middle of the busy housekeeping season.
01:19:28
Speaker
And Homer says she deserves a vacation and a chance to clean up half of them in a whole different state. Yeah, that was good. Marge tries to pop it off again by saying it seems like a hassle coupled with a burden. And Homer goes, he wants to shake off the dust of this town and explore the world, watch TV in a different time zone, visit exotic malls.
01:19:45
Speaker
He's sick of eating hoagies. He wants to eat a grinder or a sub or a footlong hero. He wants to live. Why won't Marge let him live? As someone who has watched TV in America, I understand why Homer wants to watch something different.
01:19:58
Speaker
TV in America sucks dick. Does Homer's little diversion into like the types of sandwiches by region of get us back the subject of where where Springfield is? can we Can we define which state it's in by the fact that they serve Hoagies there? Hoagies are like... Is Springfield in Pennsylvania? Yeah, I was going to say Hoagies is like an East Coast thing.
01:20:19
Speaker
I think you're forgetting that hoagies are the national sandwich of Peru. Oh, yeah. like Obviously, I forgot. My apologies. My apologies. i can't believe we made that mistake. Cultural insensitivity. Both me and John will make a hearty donation to the ah Peru Fund.
01:20:35
Speaker
good I don't know what that means. Yeah, don't know. So we then see that ah everyone's on the plane and Marge is freaking out because she hasn't cleaned lint from the basket in the dryer. If someone comes in, someone breaks into the house and does laundry, it might start a fire.
01:20:50
Speaker
We then hear a baby crying and Bart's annoyed that he's had to sit next to a baby, which of course is Maggie. Why isn't Maggie sat with her parents? for this bit. Yeah, for the bit. I mean, there's only three seats in a row. They've got to group them somehow. We then see grandpas looking down thinking, well, everyone looks... We must be really high up because those people look tiny. It's like the inside of a cataract. The inside of a cataract. That's so funny.
01:21:14
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A stewardess announces that they've overselled the flight and the first two people in the front will be upgraded to front class. and Due to their policy of overselling flights. This flight has been overselled. So Lisa climbs between everyone's legs as Bart climbs over their heads and both of them get to the front first and Lisa's excited because they're going to get pampered and Bart goes, huh! And Lisa goes, not literally. Yeah, she said um they're going pamper us and Bart frees I don't get it.
01:21:36
Speaker
What's the joke? like treat them like a baby put nappies on them kind of thing i think oh i really understand that that's what pampering meant i just thought you get like pampers right i think that's what i was going for oh i yeah fair enough we could pick up the first class and bart is drinking milk out of a uh martini glass and uh he's like i'm here for the leg room oh i would fucking kill for more leg room on flights my holy shit And Lisa's roasting a marshmallow in the fire that's in her. Just a full-down fireplace in the front of the seat in front. Yeah, yeah. So the plane's about to take off and Marge begins hyper-insulating and begins to think, she wants to go take a picture of the plane taking off and Robo tries to work out what's with her and Candace settles on Gassy and goes, Gassy? Gassy? It's gas. It's gas, isn't it?
01:22:23
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I also love that mar's hair isn't Marge's hair is too big to fit into the room above the sea. It's like, it's folded back against the ceiling. Yep. much So Marge finally reveals that she's not a good player and that she needs to get off the plane and she's going into a full freak out and Mama says, don't worry, we'll dope or if we dope you up for real good. This just prompts Marge to run up and down the aisle going, let me off, let me off, let me off.
01:22:43
Speaker
I don't think they would let you off for that, but they do let them off. yep the plot We see the plane taking off to Triumphant Music, and the family are actually watching take off, and we and Sean are back going, we don't need to go away, we'll just wait for the killer bees to come to us.
01:22:56
Speaker
What a weird thing to say. That's what Homer was going on holiday for, the killer bees. Isn't that what we all want to go on holiday for? Oh, yeah. So, Tom, we're back at home unpacking, and Bart goes, I think we forgot something, and Abe makes the Kevin McCallister faces he has, and he's told the point.
01:23:11
Speaker
But, of course, I'm sure it's nothing. So Lisa tries to get Marge to talk and Marge is a the voice of the whole thing is a and Homer reveals that she's got a fear of flying, but there's so much so I can't say that least my mother's normal.
01:23:24
Speaker
Marge says, well, I've always got a fear of something and Homer goes, no, everyone. Marge then yells out the word sock puppets and Homer completely freaks out. And Marge still doesn't want to talk and walks away with a very dysfunctional face. Yeah, this was this all seemed like a very extreme reaction to a phobia, especially when you are no longer being exposed to the thing you are phobic on. Yeah, it's like, okay, this happened, but you are home now. yeah and You don't need to keep reacting to the fear. It felt like they they couldn't think of a way to set up the plot.
01:23:57
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So they just kind of decided, okay, Maj went fucking insane. I guess you could say PTSD, I guess. Yeah, I mean, the whole plot felt a bit contrived this time. They they had an idea and they were trying to make it work and I'm not not convinced they pulled it off. But we'll get to all that at the end. I'm a sales leader that the best thing they can do for Marge to let her repress what happened and push it down deep so she'll never annoy them again. This response to this is it could come out in other ways and at which point Marge brings out the dog and the cat. We never had a marriage for the cat and the dog. They've been living in sin.
01:24:31
Speaker
At which point both of the pets go... Do you think they're making that face because they don't want to have a marriage or because they've been caught for living in sin and they're embarrassed? A little from Colum A and a little from Colum B.A. Ah, yes. How wise of you.
01:24:44
Speaker
So we go to the next scene and Marge is making full-on food and she's been cooking all night and Lisa tries to point out to Palmer this isn't healthy and Marge keeps saying, no, no, it's fine and Marge nervous ticker.
01:24:57
Speaker
Don't complain. Be good. Be good. Be nice. I like as well that when Lisa points out, Lola asks, have you been cooking all night? You know, in a sense that she's been pointing out the obvious. Marge then says, judge, jury and executioner, you are. I'm like, holy shit, what?
01:25:13
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That's why I like the fact that Marge made a wedding cake in the oven. Well, what are you going to do with your free time? There's three tiers of that in the oven. Yep. With the icing as well. Rob's response to Marge walking off is, you've heard your mother's ramblings. She's fine, so behave. So behave.
01:25:27
Speaker
So we go to the next time, we hear but banging in the night, and Elber looks out the window and goes, Marge, it's 3am as he's doing roofing. Shouldn't he be baking? Yeah. Marge is now sitting on the couch and the family approach and Lisa goes, can we talk? And Marge goes, nope, I'm giving myself a state of cat-like readiness. Lisa goes, oh, neat.
01:25:45
Speaker
Lisa's just therapy and Marge is like, nope, I don't want therapy. It's not fine. And Hummer goes, it's too expensive and I don't believe in it. Because it breaks up families, turns wives against husbands, children against fathers, neighbours against me.
01:25:58
Speaker
And he says... Homer's got some history of that. Homer's got some issues. So Homer says, we don't need a fancy psychiatrist to get top-notch therapy. It depends on 10 bucks an hour to get top-notch therapy.
01:26:09
Speaker
So he said they call him the KPL radio psychic, and the psychic goes, you will die terrible death. You die horrible, terrible, terrible death. Oops, sorry, that was the last caller. No, wait, I'm getting something. You will die a terrible, terrible death.
01:26:21
Speaker
Thank you for calling Radio Psychic. you have a song request? And yep, it's raining men. Raining men.
01:26:29
Speaker
So, Elmo tries a new thing of Dear Abby's Solution, which is watch some films about air travel and goes, here's some old beat titles, which include Hero, Fearless, and Alive. So we cut to Marge actually watching Alive and we just hear someone go, go for it. This bit was insanely dark. Yeah, so. Holy shit.
01:26:50
Speaker
Yep, so this is an actual film based on an actual real Yes, it's real story. Yeah. Is this an actual line from the film? No. I know i don't i don't remember Ethan Hawke saying this, if I'm honest.
01:27:02
Speaker
But the line of, no thanks to the plane, many of us are still alive. That's technically not true, because I think no one says we're that many. And we then start hearing chewing noise and pass me a hunk of co-pilot. Oh, it's so grim, dude.
01:27:17
Speaker
Just like to plots plot synopsis, yep, they do resort to cannibalism. Yeah, this was a real thing that happened. And yeah, I'm sort of vaguely aware of it as a film about a plane disaster, but like, yeah, okay. In the real world, it's the plane crash in the Andes.
01:27:32
Speaker
Mmm. Yes. Hooray. Yep. Very cheery. So, Lisa points out that, uh, Mom is getting... Marge is getting worse and they have to take it to therapist. So far, tense she is and then she's fine and we look
Therapy and Childhood Exploration
01:27:44
Speaker
at the Marge is physically off the sofa. She's like hovering in the on the floor. Yeah, they've they've staged the entire previous scene from such a camera angle. It looks like she's on the sofa and then you just get a different angle and she's just just hovering. Helper's response to this is just, oh. Oh.
01:28:00
Speaker
So we then see the family have gone to the therapist and Helmer's annoyed with Lisa because she's gone away and he says, she's gonna tell Marge to leave me and they'll break up the family and they have to go live your grandmother and pick beans and Lisa goes, but I like picking beans with grandma. And Helmer goes, well fine.
01:28:14
Speaker
She goes, okay, I will. He goes, yeah, you do that. Fine. You'll be picking many a bean. Hope I do. I do. i I did quite like this interaction. It's so spiteful.
01:28:25
Speaker
yeah We then cut to ah Barton recognising Principal Skinner who tries to cover his appearance with a magazine. Principal's world with his face on it. That's very good. So Bart says he wouldn't think he'd win this season.
01:28:37
Speaker
Skinner tells him, it's nothing to do with you. I have many issues with my beloved smother. I mean, mother! over please And Homer tells Bart to leave that man alone with his pain. So Bart walks away and Homer starts laughing at Skinner.
01:28:48
Speaker
Leave him alone with his pain. Oh, God. Homer asks the therapist how much she charges she goes, I charge the sliding scale and can go as low as 30 an hour and Homer goes, keep sliding.
01:28:59
Speaker
Another guest appearance, a lot of guest appearances on this episode, we've got Anne Bancroft playing the therapist in this. All right, fair enough. Homer asks what her qualifications are, and then she points to the wall behind her and goes, and says I'm not taking a reading test, I want to see some protection.
01:29:11
Speaker
Ard apologises and says, he's just afraid you're going to blame all the problems on him. And she goes, I'm not here to blame And we'd see the know says husband. right of Husband. So the doctor, the therapist starts explaining the intense process of therapy and they're going to delve deeply and to work out what the fear of flying is. And she says, don't worry, it's a private sanctuary. Then we see whole lot of the window and stuff as a window and cleaner. And Marge is like, huh?
01:29:33
Speaker
Guess not. That's just Murray, the window cleaner. Comes at 12. Marge goes, but it's a few seconds before 12. And then Murray actually appears and just knocks out one down. Bombs. Lams down on top of him. Great. Marge comes out of her first therapy session and Homer goes, ever since you started therapy all you do about is talk about yourself and what about me? Marge goes, I just left my first session and I haven't even opened my mouth and Homer goes, you see, i just said my first session and I haven't opened my mouth yet.
01:29:56
Speaker
So we got to Marge's next therapy session and she's talking about a fear of flying and that's what the earliest memory of something bad happening to her is and we see that that's Marge's first day of school of Patty and Summer toying with her and saying they use a fire drill to drill a flaming hole in her head.
01:30:12
Speaker
And they make them go to the bathroom at the same time. In a giant bathroom and giant toilet. Yeah. So going to see Marge get onto the school bus and she gets mocked for a monkey's ah lunchbox. And as she's pointed out, they don't write their own songs or play their own instruments. And that's not even Michael Naismith's real hat. I like how that's the breaking point for Marge.
01:30:33
Speaker
The therapist says kids can be cruel, and but Marge has to point out, well, it's true. true. And then the therapist is like, they weren't about music, they were about rebellion and social people. Marge is like, yeah.
01:30:44
Speaker
Yeah, I but feel like they could have done something with turning Marge into a rebel there that would have been fun, but that does not happen. They could have done anything. I guess we just had a moment with the monkeys, I guess.
01:30:54
Speaker
m We then see the family and watching TV and Homer asks if he was mentioned in therapy and Marge says nope. And Homer panically shouts, sorry, that's rude. And then he's like, don't tell her I know it's my voice. And he starts patting everyone on the head. Happy family, happily family.
01:31:06
Speaker
We then get to the next strange second therapy and Marge says she fucks you was the mother in Lost in Space. And we get a Lost in Space reenactment. Yeah, it's like a home they look to like a whole bit.
01:31:18
Speaker
ah Homer is Dr. Smith and he does the Dr. Smith voice about how his godforsaken planet has vanquished his appetite then sits down. Nom nom nom nom nom. Lisa is the robot and what she tells on Dr. Smith not doing his astro chores. Astro chores.
01:31:33
Speaker
And Helbert does his, a oh, the pain the pain of it all in my back. And Lisa's, robot Lisa goes, my arms are flailing. Yeah, it's like, warning, warning, my arms are flailing wildly.
01:31:45
Speaker
Then the rocket takes off and Marge goes, take me with me, daddy. And the therapist goes, are you aware you said please don't leave me to your daddy? And Marge goes, no, I didn't. Yes, you did. And you also have infringed on several copyrights.
01:31:59
Speaker
The therapist wants to talk about Marge's father and Marge goes, oh yeah, you mean Father Christmas and goes on an entire rant about England, of about how we drive on the wrong side of the road and... That's crazy. Yep.
01:32:10
Speaker
And England can't fit in this in the therapist's office. and Yeah, people say England is small, but you couldn't fit it all in this office. So if the therapist makes Marge come back and talk about it, Flav, and Marge goes, you'll make a big deal out this, but he was a pilot. And he goes, that is a big deal.
01:32:25
Speaker
So Marge is about to talk and the therapist goes, your last check bounced. Marge goes, wait, I'm remembering some gifts, but there's still matter of me being paid. But Marge goes, Marge is in full flashback mode now. Can't stop someone in flashback mode. It's it's the law. If you wake someone up out of a flashback, they might attack you.
01:32:40
Speaker
Might even die. Might even die. Marge's dad gets onto a plane and Marge has to wait, he's leaving and Marge's mum points out, he's a pilot and Marge wants to see her dad fly and then goes onto the plane and he's like, no Marge, no. Why are stood on the runway?
01:32:52
Speaker
a convenience, I guess. For the bit, I guess. Because it was the Shrug 60s question mark and you could just like hang around on a runway. True, true, true. I don't know what era this would have been.
01:33:05
Speaker
So Marge gets on the plane and looking around and it's revealed that Marge's father is actually a steward. And as he's serving Fig Newtons, Marge just speaks Don't look at me! Yep, but there's a lot of freaking out.
01:33:17
Speaker
So Marge is upset that Dad was a stewardess, and the therapist points out there's to be ashamed of, that male flight attendants and stewards are common. And she says, yeah, your father was a trailblazer. You could even say was a pioneer. And Marge goes, yeah, he was an American hero. And he goes, let's not go crazy.
01:33:32
Speaker
So the therapist is happy that they've got the point of Marge's exact fearfying, but Marge starts to remember some other stuff, which more just kind back to me which includes Marge being poked in the eyes with the food in the guise of the aeroplane.
01:33:43
Speaker
It's a baby, just for context. Yeah. And the Marge and the Toya airplane which caught his fire end. And the thing that I'm pretty certain probably was the Star of Watch's phobia for flying. Just looking at a cornfield and then a fighter plane came out and started randomly firing on them. Admittedly, that was a nice cornfield.
01:34:04
Speaker
It was. i just asked the therapist, you think that this contributed the therapist? Oh yeah, it's all a rich chemistry. Yeah, he's she's like bored of her now. I'm like, go with. So Marge's like, thank you. You've changed my life. he yours Well, we've only begun to scratch the surface. We need to discuss your husband. Homer comes into the room goes, no, it's okay. Where the did Homer come from?
01:34:23
Speaker
So Marge thanks the doctor and says, ah whenever the wind whistles through the leaves, she'll think Lowenstein. And the therapist points out, my name is Zeig. Lowenstein. Lowenstein. We to the final thing and the family are getting on our plane and Homer reassures Marge he's to help her get through it.
01:34:39
Speaker
And he tells her all the noises, which include the luggage compartment closing and the cross-checking, and tells her to relax. We go to the outside of the plane and Homer's going, that's the engine powering up. Then that's the engine struggling.
01:34:49
Speaker
Then goes straight into a river and Homer goes, that's just the corp going around your ankles. And Marge is annoyed. m And that's your episode, folks. Yeah. yep What an episode. What an episode.
01:35:02
Speaker
Two nothing burgers in a row. Is it my birthday?
Episode Strengths and Weaknesses
01:35:05
Speaker
The first 10 minutes of it were great. Oh, yeah. The opening's brilliant. Right up until they got on a plane.
01:35:15
Speaker
Yeah. We've had that a couple times, though, that the opening the opening gag is like way funnier than the rest of the episode. Yeah, the way they handle it is because they're almost... They're almost completely independent. They might as well be separate episodes. yeah they just like Yeah. It was a good episode and a bad episode, all in one. Yeah, kinda.
01:35:36
Speaker
Do we have our out-of-homers? Taxiing into a river out-of-homer. It started promising, at least. gave it I'm giving it a... Oh, go for it. I'm giving it no-facts-of-the-plane. Some of us are still alive. don't know.
01:35:50
Speaker
I gave it a as forgettable as the source of our fears out of Homer. Mm-hmm. Yes. What did i have to say about society? It's tricky again because, yes, there's a joke about an emasculating career, but then it immediately follows it with how normal that is now.
01:36:07
Speaker
You know, so again, it does the same thing as the as the previous episode. And then there's also kind of the tired joke of a guy being scared of his wife going to therapy because it'll turn her against him, which I guess is noteworthy. But, again, I just don't feel like that was...
01:36:25
Speaker
like an intentional beyond the gag. You know, I just think they were just making the gag. I don't think they were trying to make a statement about, you know, men being uncomfortable with their wives going to therapy. Yeah, I mean, if the therapy thing was saying anything, like, my takeaway from it was that all your issues come from childhood trauma, which, because, like, they just keep drilling down on those. Like, what happened to your childhood? What happened to your childhood? Did this happen? Did this happen? Like, nothing else in your life could ever impact you in any meaningful way. yeah Whatever your fears are, this is because of something that happened to you as a kid, which is just, like, categorically not true. But, like, they they really seem to think that that it is. Yeah. Yeah.
01:37:04
Speaker
I think my biggest takeaway to our society is that lesbian bars don't have fire escapes. That is the biggest statement that they should have they should have really drilled down to. make sure you've got a fire escape in your lesbian bar, yeah. And then have a fire drill.
01:37:17
Speaker
Make sure all those lesbians do you know... Make sure all those lesbians know where to go. m Cheers is a great place for karaoke. Ain't it just.
01:37:28
Speaker
Well, you weren't wrong. this did like This did run shorter than two hours for once. hardly no kidding. so Yeah, Fear of Flying really was nothing of an episode. I yeah i disagree with you on the first one. Grandpa vs. Sexual Inadequacy, I think, had some good shit. Fear of Flying just really just dropped off to become nothing of an yeah episode. If we could have taken the first 10 minutes out of Fear of Flying and put it in place of the B-plot in there that first episode, I think we would have had an out-of-home of it.
01:37:59
Speaker
but Damn. Yeah, it's not even ten minutes, seven... It's a good long Simpsons fake-out intro. It's seven minutes before they suddenly, like, okay, Homer's crashed a plane, let's do some therapy.
01:38:11
Speaker
But, like, to read into the production of this episode, like, the entire premise that they were working from is, what if Marge went to therapy for some reason? And that's kind of all they really seem to be, that fucking like, building on. And it's, like, ah such a weak premise, like...
01:38:29
Speaker
come up with something, guys. mean, I guess they did and it was fear of flying, huh? But, I don't know. It was kind of nothing. Oh well. Agreed.
01:38:42
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Sometimes they happen. Sometimes they're not all bangers and it makes a nice, easy editing job for me. ah aren't you lucky.
01:38:52
Speaker
shall we advertise our shit yeah go on unless anyone really wants to pull some more shit out of their ass for these two nothing man nothing for these for this episode yeah fair enough go tell us what you're up to Matt folks a new episode of all for Arnold is ah should should should be out before this episode airs if it doesn't I will have to submit to a forfeit so uh pray oh there's an incentive for me to edit this yeah there you go there you go so we can spread this out tonight we have we watched red heat was an interesting film john took me through some revelations about how i judge films it was very interesting but yeah interesting film well obviously spoil our thoughts on it but you know
01:39:41
Speaker
Definitely a good episode. I think we had some some good chats. And it was fun to to to meet ah Lawrence Fishburne's little brother. ah You'll understand that where if you go watch the, if you go listen to the show.
01:39:56
Speaker
beyond that i'm still doing my voice acting stuff so please go wishlist spooky tales on steam it's coming out in october i'm very very excited about it i've got a couple other voice acting roles i can't talk about just yet so that's cool in the sense that i'm not allowed to talk about them beyond that i don't am i do i do anything else oh i do this stupid show called more man in the morning there's that as well you should listen to that you should listen to that
01:40:24
Speaker
Michael? You can find me on a button mash horse on Blue Sky if you particularly want to. A gentleman reminder as always that our past catalogue of stuff is available on Spotify and Apple Music if you would like to listen to our previous versions before we went on to YouTube fully. But our YouTube backlog, which I always forget this, is always starts around late season four, is there for your viewing and we do appreciate it. Please feel free to like and comment on our videos. It does help.
01:40:51
Speaker
Yeah, we are we are still on Spotify and Apple, to be to be clear. there There is an audio version. No, I've deleted them all. They're all gone. having oh em Well, that was a very charitable of you, was it?
01:41:03
Speaker
No. I'm a bastard. I've given you i've given you a segue there, Dylan. Oh, yeah. What, for a charity fundraiser that I did yesterday? That's done now, it's gone, it's finished, too late.
01:41:16
Speaker
I take my take my segue. What a line. i probably won't put it in the description because I have now done the thing, but it is a just giving page. They don't really take down just giving pages when the thing's over, unless you like actively make the effort to. I guess it's all there. Go find it on my Blue Sky or in the description of previous videos. But yes, I hiked 19 miles. Through the Black Mountains in order to raise at time of recording, once you include like entry fees and donations and gift date and everything, it was like about £400 for Mountain Rescue. Yeah, but that was a round of applause. That didn't come through discount. I assume you applauded. Thank you for your assumed applause. Yeah, that's fine.
01:42:06
Speaker
So yeah, um maybe I'll do that again next year. Maybe I won't. All things considered, on it I don't think the hike was a very interesting hike. It was it was it was it was a lot of very, very samey terrain.
01:42:17
Speaker
I'm sorry to say. Sorry, Black Mountains. Sorry, Mountain Rescue. Please find more interesting hikes in future. But we did it. We raised money. So that was the important part. Absolutely. Yeah.
01:42:31
Speaker
Uh, yeah, as referenced, I do have BlueSky account. You can find me at maroka.bsky.social. I have an old YouTube account, which is youtube.com forward slash button mash. Once in a blue moon, once in an eon, a new video may yet appear. Who knows?
01:42:51
Speaker
Not sure what the fate of that channel is at this point, but it's still there. There's still old videos. I went back and re-watched my Reckless Disregard for Gravity video because Matt was saying it was good. really video. It was quite good, actually. Yeah, was good video. Yeah, I forgot I made a good video.
01:43:06
Speaker
but I forget I do good things occasionally. Yeah, no, yeah it is easy to do, honestly. Sometimes you go back and like oh, shit, yeah, I was really cooking with that one, huh? Yeah.
01:43:17
Speaker
Like said, I've re-watched that video probably more than I've watched any of your review videos. Amazing. For an obscure video comparing a remake of an obscure indie video game. it's It's good if you're into that kind of thing.
01:43:30
Speaker
Yeah. Cool. All right. That'll probably do us for today, I think. You're welcome, everybody. see you next time. i think we will have guests on for a banger of an episode is my intention next time. yeah But I have yet to approach the guests, so I don't promise anything. But I'm hoping that's going be the case, so maybe look forward to that. Woo!
01:43:52
Speaker
Woo! Woo! All right. Hasta la vista, bebés. Bye, everybody.