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S4E6&7 - Itchy & Scratchy The Movie & Marge Gets a Job
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Jon, Michael and Matt watch The Simpsons episodes 'Itchy & Scratchy the Movie' & 'Marge Gets a Job', and discuss what they say about society.
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Transcript
00:00:00
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Hello, this is mole man in the morning good mole man to you Well, welcome to mole man in the morning. Oh man Okay, that was a low effort mole man to go with that conversation we had earlier that the audience won't get but I find it horribly amusing Yeah, we also can't afford the rest of the site of the sentence these days Yeah, that's how low effort it was
00:00:30
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Halfway through this podcast, we're just going to start like talking in in very, very short sentences, just like, nah, I don't really care anymore. We are a podcast where Heather Simpson has a lot to say about society. I am your host, John. I am joined by two co-hosts, Matt. Yo, what's up? And Michael.
00:00:48
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at the whole podcast caster youo We have got two episodes of The Simpsons for you today, as we always do. We are winding our way through season four currently. We are up to episodes six and seven. We're going to be looking at Itchy and Scratchy, the movie, which I'm desperately trying not to call Itchy and Scratchy in March, because I wrote that down in my notes. And when I was searching for it before we opened tabs for the podcast, I nearly typed in again. I keep confusing the two.
00:01:15
Speaker
Weirdly enough, every time there's like an 18 Scratchy episode for me, I go, haven't we done this before? Not half, man. And then we've got Marge Gets a Job, which is an episode I didn't remember, but I've been pleasantly surprised by. I'll be honest, I was pleasantly surprised by both of these episodes because I wasn't really looking forward to them. Okay.
00:01:38
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Yeah, didn't i these are, I've got to be honest, I don't think I've ever seen these episodes. So these were entirely new for me, ah as the Simpsons newbie. I 100% have seen the first one. I statistically have to assume I have seen the second one, but like justamic click I don't remember. remember a thing about it. By law, I have seen it. I'm sure this will break the certain guest star in the second episode's heart. I remember where Cameo was. My local boyo.
00:02:08
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you local now yeah local now anyway uh before we start we have some business to discuss what we're drinking yo i as always when i say as always i'm working through my brewery art collection still i'm on hop sessions 009 but but I have no idea what it tastes like. It smells great though. i I don't normally comment on the smell of my alcohol, but i I opened it and you know like when cans you get the little spritz, like a little spray can? um Yeah, so I did that and I was like, hot damn, this smells great. It smells like apples. Okay, interesting. ah Yeah, the Hop Sessions 9 I guess was probably brewed after I left the company, because we're only up to 8 when I left, but they've always been pretty good.
00:02:53
Speaker
It tastes okay, you know? Okay. It is the least like offensive beer I've ever tasted that has a unique taste. Okay. Because it's just kind of like, yep, that's beer kind of vibe. What an endorsement this is. It's all right, it's fine, you know, it's hoppy, and that's about it. Cool. Get that out of the can. I mean, it's Hop Sessions, it's in the name.
00:03:21
Speaker
Yeah, it says it has like, you know, your like Brew York has like the flavor profile on the back. Oh, yeah, yeah. It says it has a lot of fruit. And obviously, yeah, I did get that smell of apples, but there's no mention of apples in the brew. And it doesn't taste any way of apples. It just had that kind of, I guess it had more like a tree smell. There is definitely no fruit in it. It's not a silly beer. it's it is ah It is a beer-flavored beer, but it's ah it may in such a way that you get the fruity aromas out of the hops.
00:03:50
Speaker
Yeah. It's all right. Like, you know, yeah, exactly. I'm probably, it's not, it's not annoyed me. That's all we can hope for really. That's all the grace I can get. It has annoyed you. All right, Michael. I have two drinks on the go. Ooh. I have a hot lemon tea. You hurt your voice again. No, no, it's just, uh, I'm cold and this is the best beer I've got. And that doesn't have caffeine in it. Ah, fair enough.
00:04:19
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And on the other hand, I have a shot of Jamesons with them looking through. And that's also because you're cold. Yeah, ah solving the same problem with very different solutions. Yeah. All right, John, come on, lay it on me.
00:04:33
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uh i think this is the last silly beer i've got in my fridge from when i picked up lots of silly beers from working in a brewery that isn't completely insane and too insane to drink on a podcast it's the turning point bruco collab with hive mind meadery based in south wales now local boys called hexagon architect it's a rhubarb and honey pail Yo, that sounds fucking sick just because I love rhubarb. I bet it tastes like ass, but I love rhubarb, so I'm down.
00:05:05
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I've been trying to see what this tastes like in a pail. I'm not getting either of those things. This does not taste like rhubarb or honey. Well that is incredibly disappointing. Thoroughly. Like the beer itself is not remarkable either. It is just like this is, yep that was, that's some liquid that's got some alcohol in it. Sure that exists. It smells good though. What does it smell like? Beer.
00:05:29
Speaker
beer. Aight. Fun thing I saw on Blue Sky and I shared it with John. I think I shared it on this Discord. Shout out to one of my longest followers throughout all of my like YouTube and Twitch and everything a staboost who bought John's beer.
00:05:50
Speaker
hi he bought a can and he said he loved it and he shared it on blue sky and i thought that's so cool he's a big fan of the Arnold podcast so hey we were supposed to have a guest for the next episode of our name michael do you want to come watch commando with us depends when but whenever whenever we can make it work you know yeah uh so because yeah because i want to watch i want to get back on with that because yeah annie's fun as well but yeah just just really cool you know one of those cool moments i didn't think we'd have it as one of our small little podcasts or whatever but yeah
00:06:21
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Joe, I gave him a shelter. What was his name? Staboost. S-T-E-B-O-O-S-T. Yeah, bought Michael's beer. I thought that was super cool. Michael bought John's beer. Yeah, he just went and stole Michael's beer. He buys my beer. He's going to Joe. He came in the night, and he's like, this is mine now. Oh, yeah. I don't want to know what's in those cans in the back of the fridge. That's cool. Thanks for drinking. Glad you enjoyed it.
00:06:46
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Yeah, but yeah, I just thought it was really cool. I i thought I'd been to that. That was really awesome. See me on these wee cans of products. Exactly. Exactly. Me undies. Yeah. Sponsor us. Sponsor us. Give us our greasy little piglet pants and I married a lesbian Bigfoot. If we can sell two cans of beer, we can sell underwear. It's fine. Absolutely. Absolutely. All righty. We're ready to look at it. She can scratch you the movie.
00:07:13
Speaker
Yeah, I think this is the quickest intro we've done. It might be. You want to tell me what happened on this day? You sound excited, so I'm guessing nothing. No, something actually happened. No, something actually happened. Oh, this is a big shit. Yeah. November 3rd, 1992. To be fair, they moved the episode to air on a different day to usual to coincide it with a major historic event because they thought it would improve ratings. And of course, that historical major event is Dolly Parton released the cover of Whitney Houston's I Will Always Love You. And Rage Against the Machine released their debut album.
00:07:42
Speaker
Yeah, nothing happened in American politics. There's some minor fun out there, I don't know if it's very relevant. Yeah, some Carol Moseley Braun becomes the first African American woman in the US Senate. That's probably not a big deal. Nah, stuff like that, you know, it doesn't matter. does it it I mean, it doesn't matter now, so why would it matter then?
00:08:03
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And Diana Feinstein was elected to the U.S. Senate to become the longest-serving female there. Oh yeah, but again, not irrelevant. Also some bum became president, um a Bill Clinton. um Never heard of him. I think it's pronounced Kline-tone.
00:08:18
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, I think you're right. I think he has a wife. It's actually Beale. Beale Clyntown. Beale Clyntown? That sounds like someone's D and&D name, man. Like, can they? Also some very sad news of Dean Dackeladis, who they've put down here is that Belgian Chocolate Factory dies at age 70.
00:08:39
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I think I meant... I think I meant to put a think I meant... I think I meant... I think they might have missed... I think they might have missed out the word owner there. But if he was a genuine chocolate factory, alright, be.
00:08:55
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It's always sad when we lose another Chocolate Factory, man. You know, so I always say... I don't know, Chocolate Factory's a good deal. Oh, it does right. Ray's really worrying questions about where chocolate comes from. Oh, no. We know where lemonade comes from. Well, would you like to know about the number one that was in the US and the UK? Go on, then. Go on. It begins with a B. Backstreet Boys?
00:09:21
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No, folks, it's still Boys to Men. he end the road and This is the soundtrack to the film Boomerang, which, because I was stunned that this was still on the board, I actually looked up Boomerang. Don't know Boomerang. What is Boomerang? So it's a 1992 American romantic comedy film. It stars Eddie Murphy, a hotshot advertising it can see executive who also happens to be an insatiable womanizer and male chauvinist.
00:09:48
Speaker
This sounds like every film from the 90s back. This is is such a 90s film. When he meets his new boss, Jacqueline, Marcus, Eddie Murphy's character, discovers that he is essentially a female version of himself, and he realizes that he is receiving the same treatment that he delivers to others. Do you know what it's realized? It seems to be a thing in the 90s and 80s to do films what of like like comedy films of but ah of executives or like people that worked in offices in like positions of power getting into wacky scenarios, either being the foil or the hero or whatever, because we had Scrooge, ah Boomerang, ah Liar Liar, those kind of films. We don't really have those anymore. And I'm very curious why. Because people can't become executives anymore.
00:10:36
Speaker
this is very true there's probably it yeah but i'm wondering if it's the ethos of like and no one works in the office anymore that's what that's what we thought success was back then move around 2023 Eddie Murphy works on home it's just interesting it's just it's just a weird thing that i've just suddenly noticed there are films still set of like in the office and stuff i think we've got boss baby we're up to what for now or something like that true and a cartoon I guess a hell of a cast, by the way. Halle Berry, Martin Lawrence, Grace Jones, Eartha King, Chris Row. Has Halle Berry been in a good film? She was in Die Another Day. Has Halle Berry been in a good film? I am the only person on the planet who liked Die Another Day. Is that one of the Pierce Brosnan ones? Yeah, it's the last Pierce Brosnan one. Arm down, then mind, yeah, sick. I love Pierce Brosnan as Bond. Are you forgetting Catwoman?
00:11:27
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Has Halle Berry been in a good film? Actually, I tell her like she's in that new, she's in a new like sort of horror film that I want to see. i I want to see it less than now that I know she's in it. But it does look really interesting. It's like this kind of post apocalypse kind of you have to stay tied to the house or things will get you. So that sounds fun. But anyway, Simpsons had his usual derailment.
00:11:51
Speaker
I was gonna say, are we making a particularly concerted effort this week to not talk about it or what? No, no, no, no i was just I was just curious as to how this song was still number one after so long. Yeah, I don't think it's on number one for too much longer. I did lock it up a few weeks ago. We are we are going to get something else soon, I promise. but I can't remember when, so look forward to that.
00:12:12
Speaker
I mean, it only matters if you're like some psychopath that's listening to each episode and also listening to the song that was number one at the time. It's not the highlights of the episode, let's be honest. No, exactly. But that it I mean, I said this was they moved it to the date of the American election because they're like, oh, this will get us good ratings. We can be on election night. And it did not. like got I got worse ratings. The usual focused on, you know, the massive major political event.
00:12:38
Speaker
Yeah, they're normally like 13th, 14th in ratings overall for the week, I think, if you sort of look at numbers on an episode by episode basis, which what sort of nerd would fucking do that? Who knows? ah They were 25th this week. Yeah, I'm not surprised. Well, that gamble didn't fail. This is probably why we get the Blackboard gag of, I will not bury the new kid. Did you know this actually got me? I don't know why. I read it and was like, yeah, that's good. Couch gag. The couch deflates.
00:13:07
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Yeah, mildly amusing. They're okay this season so far. They're chuckle worthy. They're more creative than they have been, I think. They elicit a sensible chuckle, and that's all you can ask for. Couch gags are great when you think back on them nostalgically, but when you're actually like sort of reviewing them every every other other other week, they lose a lot of their charm. I'm going to be honest. Yeah. It was fine. I chuckled. Speaking of losing its charm. yeah The episode begins with a parody of Star Trek, and we see that we cut to very old Captain Kirk. But as he's doing his Starlock, he's basically just going through all his aeomants. He's not having a good time, is there, Paul Kirk? I loved, um... I absolutely loved the... I complained that the ship was cold and drafty, but nobody listens. That got me, that was so good.
00:14:00
Speaker
So we're on Star Trek 12, so very tired. And we go to the deck again and we see Mr Sulu with his walking stick revealing that the Klingons are back. He's playing with the Klingons. Kirk has Scotty for more power, but unfortunately we see that Scotty cannot reach the controls. I think the act of doing Mr Scott was done slightly dirty there, even though he did gain a fair amount of weights to be fair.
00:14:27
Speaker
Uh, yeah, apparently this whole bit was ah apparently riffing on the later Star Trek movies where the original cast were apparently showing their age a bit. Yes. And, uh, I think Kirk and Sulu are still going, I believe. um me Still maybe they're alive. I think everyone else is dead.
00:14:46
Speaker
uh yeah uh george takai is still alive william shatner is still alive yeah all the all the rest of all of them are dead everyone that ever has thought of star trek is dead we're all dead this is this is purgatory they're dead jim including me they're dead jim if you if you think of william shatner he will kill you i'm a doctor not a podcaster if you're a trekkie that's a great joke Yeah, back to Simpson. Grandpa is not impressed with the movie, and he's talking about how he's going to walk out of it before he immediately falls asleep. Abe Simpson reminds me so much of my dad in this episode. My dad will do that. He'll be like, I don't even want to watch this. He'll stay on the couch and then just fall asleep. Yeah, my stepdad is guilty of the same thing.
00:15:35
Speaker
Marge and Homer are going out to the kids' parent-teacher count conference, and Homer reveals that they'll be bringing dinner back. But I asked what that would be, and Homer- If you've done good, pizza. If you've done bad, mmm, poison. As part of that asks what happens if someone did good and someone did bad. Er, er, Lisa asks that.
00:15:55
Speaker
Oh, Lisa asked that thing. Bart's response is poison pizza. Don't respond to this as he's not making two toots. I'm not making two stops. I don't know why it's really good. I just really admired that. I was just like, yeah, just stick to your guns, man. You've done this.
00:16:08
Speaker
We then see Homer and Marge in the car, and Homer's trying to pull Bart off onto Marge while he gets Lisa, and Marge wants to change this up, and Homer, to make it first, asks Marge to think of a... does that tell him what number he's thinking of between 1 and 50? Marge immediately gets rid of him. Seems fair. 37. Homer desperately pleads, and his whining eventually wins, and Marge...
00:16:30
Speaker
concedes and Homer starts blaring out USA in the car. This is so weird though because for one when I went to parents evening usually with my parents it would be a parent so that the other one could stay home and look after the other child or just you know they didn't want to go I don't know it was usually just one parent but then I'd go see my individual teachers one by one I wouldn't it just seems weird that it's all happening at the exact same time I suppose hey this is ah elementary school so you're only being taught by one teacher. It's also in the American school system they might just handle things a bit differently over there. Yeah that's what I'm curious about yeah is is if if this is like typical of American schooling in
00:17:11
Speaker
elementary school we then see the simpson's rock up and we see the sign outside that says parent each night let's share the blame let's share the blame that's good man as simpson's walking goes people will he's very unhappy about this it's smithers not smithers skinners and they're both kind of go ah something like that willie is in full scott's regalia he's got kilton like sparring and so tartan everything like he's dressed up for this any excuse man
00:17:40
Speaker
Well he's never done it before or since that I'm aware of, so not that much of an excuse. Any excuse. How about as he gets into the classroom with his Lisa's slightly narrow desk and has to suck in his gut to an impressive degree to get into the seat. The fucking creaking man that got me. He's like so pleased with himself and the creaking is done in a way that is so sets it up for the desk exploding gag but it doesn't so you just kind of like it gives it it like gives you this weird unfinished joke vibe and then they come back to it later and it just hits so well I mean also a little bit relatable because if you've ever been to anything that's in a school you're like oh these tables are made for small people these are not human sized chairs oh sitting on the chairs and you're just like I'm gonna break this I'm gonna break this I'm gonna break this I'm gonna break this this has to fit an adult now this is not okay
00:18:31
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Yeah, and um i'm not a bit I'm not a big dude, I'm quite a scrawny dude, but when I've sat on, like, kids' chairs for, yeah, like, taking a nephew to school or whatever, and you sit down on it, and the plastic ones, you're like, the legs are bending outward, and I'm like, I do not know how anyone larger than me dares to sit in these chairs.
00:18:52
Speaker
ah the key may be reverting back to childhood which um um my so it does is mrs hoover is the writing um um the chatboard he proceeds to make fat noises under his armpit and su turns around shocked his home plays innocent while everyone is staring at I always like how in media people seem to be able to do the armpit fart over their clothes.
00:19:11
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We don't come to Marge with Mrs. Kraboppel and Mrs. Kraboppel is graopli showing Marge Bart's Arsenary, which includes a switchblade hidden in a Christie doll. i want I would like to note she refers to ah Bart as being guilty of the following atrocities. We don't learn that these atrocities include ah making a laxative from peas and carrots and placing birth control with tic-tacs.
00:19:37
Speaker
yeah sorry can we can we go back to synthesizing a laxative like bar is incredibly smart like i always forget that that that is kind of the whole point of bar is that he is actually quite clever he's just not being engaged in the right way and it's kind of like a very obvious allegory for adhd yeah you know i think we've talked about this before that i think homer and homer and bar very clearly have like adhd to like the extreme but yeah if you if can synthesize a laxative from vegetables i think he's smarter than lisa
00:20:10
Speaker
Yeah, and just ah just a tad. Yeah, and also him bringing in all these weapons. Bar is not a violent person. So it's like he's just bringing in these weapons to show that he can, which I just find very interesting. You know, it's like he just wants to bring a weapon to show his friends. It's like, hey, look, I brought a weapon into school because they're cool. Yeah, we've never seen Bar ever like deliberately physically attack someone yet.
00:20:39
Speaker
So, you know, like, for fun. I think he's done it so far in the show. But, you you know, he's he's not the school bully. So it's just really wild that he's just bringing these weapons into school. And i I don't know. Yes, it's I don't know if it's the joke falls flat for me because of that, because I'm like, yeah, but Bart doesn't use them. So it's just demonstrating, oh, Bart's brought in weapons to school. OK, I guess. I don't know. Maybe I'm being super panickety about a cartoon made in the 90s.
00:21:07
Speaker
I think, yeah, I think there's ah maybe an element of tension between how bad they want to portray Bart as being for narrative purposes and how how bad they're actually prepared to portray Bart as literally being on TV, on a show for kids. Yeah. Yeah, cause that's the thing as well, is that you can't just for the one millionth time say that Bart doesn't Because this whole episode is about Bart misbehaving, not just, you know, not doing his schoolwork. So all of Bart's, like, annoying negative properties are amped up to the 11th in this episode. So, yeah, there there is that definite vibe of, like, okay, well, Bart's not actually that worse than a typical kid, so we need to think of how we're gonna do that, and then this is what they've decided to do.
00:21:51
Speaker
I raise you a scene of Marge apologising for Bart's behaviour and saying that Bart doesn't mean to be bad. Then Bart going to Bart saying... Now it's a chance to be bad. sad Get to that in a second. We then cut to Homer being praised by Miss Hoover asking... But Miss Hoover saying, did you read to Lisa as a child? And Homer reveals that he did. It turns out in the flashback that he's just reading TV Guide, which I think he describes the plot through every single episode of Happy Days and which is ones he may have been losing his cool.
00:22:20
Speaker
ah yeah I like the gag that it's just fun it's just happy days on all the time. Nothing else is on on daytime television. Sorry, I just want to point out, like this is maybe like for one, I thought Lisa constantly like jiggling and wiggling was very cute, I thought that was very like, the animators didn't need to bother with that, I thought that was cute.
00:22:41
Speaker
and also She's a baby. Doesn't matter what you read to her. There's kind of that. I did think that crossed my mind. I was like, that sage is like, I think isn't it just more important, not that I have a kid and know these things, but isn't it not more important that you just read it really doesn't matter. The TV Guide would actually be fine, right?
00:22:57
Speaker
Yeah, and that's the other thing, it's like Homer wouldn't normally bother, so well done, Homer. Yeah. Yes, Homer deserves his plaudits from the classes. ah He gives out his free Rs, which are reading TV Guide, writing to TV Guide, and renewing TV Guide. No, just having less of a good time as a child is brought in to show on the door where bots took the firecracker. We don't actually see where it is, but we can make a pretty good guess. Yeah, they cut away for Dramatic Effect, which is ah quite effective to be fair.
00:23:24
Speaker
like did the so just just as a random question did they show show me on the doll where he touched you thing occur before this i assume sorry because i imagine that's what they're parodying because that's a really off color joke oh it really is absolutely i've got to be honest i mean i don't know if it's just me being overly sensitive but Hey, let's make a subtle reference to child sexual assault? That is what that joke is, yep. Weird thing to do, Simpsons, weird thing to do. jet jen there's There's another joke, I think it's in the next episode, that again was just kind of really weirdly uncomfortable, but we'll we'll see. okay We can't cut to the lighter-hearted scene of Bart pretty much taking Grandpa's teeth out of his mouth. And then immediately sticking them into his own.
00:24:17
Speaker
yep I agree with Lisa's EU at that moment, but she's quickly won over by Bart's girding face. Maggie, not so much as Maggie, please. We don't cut back to the school and Homer is being given the, my child is on the honor roll at Springfield Elementary. Homer is, Homer's quite tearful about this as he thinks ah it's finally got a bumper sticker to replace his where's the beef before he amuses himself with the where's the beef line. Yeah, giggling at where's the beef. This is something that completely passes over English coach because we never had where's the beef.
00:24:46
Speaker
Yeah, yeah it was a summerwa writer was yeah and think yeah was bigger what yeah. It was just like literally the beef board or whatever, whoever controls beef, decided to advertise beef and it was quite a famous beef advertising campaign, I think, right? What? So it's on the same level of got milk?
00:25:04
Speaker
yes literally that yeah amazing that is my understanding anyway i believe it may have been used in like a political sense of somebody when they were having like a political debate asked somebody but i was trying like yeah wasn't it reagan didn't we have this conversation oh i've just googled it no it was it was an advert for wendy's um oh yeah where's the beef because they were saying like we're using 100 beef or something like that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Yes, yeah, they were dunking on McDonald's and Burger King. And then I think it was, again, I think it was Reagan that used it as like a, yeah, like, no he's a good, basically saying he's a good politician kind of thing. I think it was Reagan, might not have been. Apparently it has become an all purpose phrase questioning the substance of an idea, event, or product. Good to know. Hold on, we're doing our first Google. some They did in fact make where's the beef bumper stickers though. That was the thing that existed.
00:25:58
Speaker
ah Walter Mondale. Oh, okay. Walter Mondale used this slogan to ridicule his rival for the Democratic Party's presidential election candidate. See, nothing ever changes.
00:26:11
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As ah Homer's about to walk away with his new honour roll sticker, it's soon for Stopsim to sell him that ah beneath the yeah yeah they Yeah, there's the payoff. I thought it was great. At home, we see that some classical music has been put onto the stereo, and we're playing the sabre dance for classical music.
00:26:29
Speaker
Yeah, it's classic. We don't see Bart is now using Grandpa Steve to hang off the ah extractor fan up at the top of the ah ah ceiling. Just the ceiling fan, yeah. Bart doesn't have the jaw grip for this, unfortunately. Yeah, the noise, man. That proper slopping noise. and Eventually he falls off. We go back to Marge, and Marge is being forced to write lines of, I will try to raise a better child. As Marge questions how this benefits Bart, Mr. Bopple tells him to just keep on doing it.
00:26:59
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yep And we see that Homer comes in and he's very happy about how his evenings go. And but as Marge tries to bring Homer the severity of the problem, Homer is not having any slander against Lisa until he's told it's about Bart. And Homer's response to this is just, oh, Bat Guy.
00:27:16
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We don't see Mrs. Krabappel give her a theory that Bart's lack of discipline is the cause of his behavioural problems, and ah March but basically confirms this by saying Bart has a way of tricking them into thinking they've already punched him. Homer's response is that he's the boy you love to hate. But Mrs. Krabappel continues her thing and advises that if Bart does get the proper discipline, he can come on to be anything he wants, including the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
00:27:39
Speaker
This is weird, like, they they make a lot of hay out of this across the episode. They keep coming back to, oh, you can be Chief Justice, Chief Justice, Chief. I don't know why they're so big on the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Like, this is a weird hang up there. That's how it starts naming off Chief Justices, including Warren Burger. Yeah. I thought the joke was that it was the those were the people on the wall behind him and he was just reading off them. But no, then they just go with a weird burger joke.
00:28:08
Speaker
Yeah, I think I saw somewhere, like apparently somebody at least thought there's maybe an attempt at humour in that Homer is just weirdly well-versed in Chief Justices. oh Maybe. i don't i I didn't particularly pick up on that myself, but okay. Yeah, he just latched onto it.
00:28:25
Speaker
As Marge asks her, what happened if they don't disappear? She's left the force to imagine the utility, which is Borther's just a male stripper. Not a very good one. Marge's fantasy is being ridiculed for being fat, but Bang Bang Borther's sponsors there's just a bit more for him to win. Just more we love, baby. Until he gets hit by the whiskey bottle in his own regret. Marge's response to this is, oh my poor baby.
00:28:46
Speaker
We then come back to Bart and Bart is taking bikes out of vinyl records for reasons. Yeah man, like I said they really upped the whole Bart being a piece of shit this episode. Bart hears the car coming in and Bart in shock spits out the teeth and breaks them. He's unfortunately Bart but fortunately but industrious enough to get out some sellotape and tell tape the teeth back together before throwing them into grandpa's mouth just in time.
00:29:12
Speaker
Yeah, and also has like apparently pneumatic jaws that he can launch fecking dentures that far. As Grandpa is ah struggling with the tape and tap in his mouth, Homer informs him that they'll put him into a home if he doesn't start making sense. You already put me in a home. Homer's response to that is that they'll put him in the crooked home they saw in 60 minutes, and this is enough to get Grandpa to go, I'll be good. Yeah, poor Grandpa Simpson, man.
00:29:40
Speaker
Yeah, we also i had Bart reading the Bible when they came and he was like, boy, a time really flies when you're reading the Bible. which i I quite like it because he was holding it upside down, which is exactly the same way Donald Trump reads the Bible. I don't think Donald Trump even reads the Bible. There was a famous photo a few years back where he was posing with a picture of Bible, but he was holding it upside down.
00:30:00
Speaker
That's fucking epic, man. Genuinely, the fact that... Nah, I'm not gonna get into it. You didn't see Grandpa in the kitchen ah complaining about Bob working his teeth, and Homer writes this up as one of Grandpa's crazy stories, including he thinks the nurses are stealing his money, and that thing on his neck is getting bigger. Oh, God, yeah, Homer should be so dismissive. Just, um... Oh, what's the face, buddy? He says, like, the nurses are stealing from me. This thing on my neck is getting bigger. I'm like, Jesus, man, that's your dad.
00:30:30
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As we see Marge encouraging Homer to punish him but Homer doesn't want to because Bart is looking so downcast. Yeah he's clearly learnt his lesson. yeah Eventually Marge applauds Homer to punish him because she doesn't want to be the bad guy and Homer finally agrees. The solution of punishment suggestion is that Grandpa gets to break Bart's feet. Oh this is gonna be good! Grandpa was very into the fourth of it before Marge put a stop to it. Abe Simpson's a fucking psycho.
00:30:57
Speaker
But the point the actual punishment is that Bart is going to be sent upstairs without his dinner, and Bart is quite cocky about the whole thing, believing he'll be eating that pizza in five minutes. How often did you guys get? Like, was that ah was that a punishment when you were young? Because it was for me. Yeah, I got sent up with, like, no dinner, not just no pudding, but yeah, if I'd been really bad, they'd be like, no dinner, just go upstairs. I'm like, Jesus. And then I'd feel, yeah, I'd be hungry.
00:31:20
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I don't recall that ever happening to me. No? I recall not getting dessert a couple of times, but I don't recall never being stored in tightly of food. What, you got to eat the next day? Just... I don't know. Bart falls apart very quickly without his food as he set up a whole table and dining banquet thing as he's calling for his pizza. This is enough to convince Homer to run up the stairs while quite screaming at him. I'm coming, boy. Before he's summoned back down.
00:31:48
Speaker
Well, quickly goes insane with Artie's pizza and the starts to imagine the dog as food. But so the dog manages to get away from it. It seems that the punishment has worked and Bart is on his bed looking quite forlorn saying he's going to straighten his act out. Unfortunately, at that very moment, Homer comes in with pizza and gives it to Bart after getting him to promise that he'll be good. As Homer leaves, Bart calls him a sucker.
00:32:11
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also get a lovely little a scene of uh grandpa trying to steal jasper's teeth before jasper pulls a gun on him and sarcastically comments is you know if it isn't the tooth fairy like a like a 10 second top scene that just felt a little bit shoehorned in but it's just like somebody wrote a gag and we're like we have to get this in here yeah gotta get jasper in here but well if it isn't the tooth fairy We then cut back to an advert on the television at Itchy and Scratchy the Movie, which is basically just Scratchy being tortured, which includes getting a flamethrower through the ears and the top of his head shaved and poked in the eyes.
00:32:48
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yeah the other detail it's in scratch makes more comfortable guys I've gotta to be honest I think it's even even the thought of this kind of thing being okay a show its children now as as I get older im just a bit like
00:33:04
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Yeah, we'll get into the movie later when they actually show the movie, but I gather quite a lot of Itchy and Scratchy was cut from this, because your favourite writer and mine, John Schwartzwelder, apparently wrote a lot of incredibly fucked up shit for this, and they were like, no, wait we can't use this. Yeah, I bet, man. Like, the fact that any Itchy and Scratchy makes it into The Simpsons in 1992 and 3 and beyond is wild to me. Well, getting to the scenes later, but I do recall when I first watched this on Sky, a lot of this being edited out. It wasn't on Disney Plus, that's where I watch it, so you'd think there'd be edited versions on there. We'll get there, we'll get there. Meanwhile, he's melting a James Bond figure in the microwave. He's he's having a good time before he's summoned back in for the announcement for Itchy and Scratchy. He's stroking Snowball like a villain as well, which is cute.
00:34:02
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yeah things are starting to cook. Very clever. Well, just a ah nod to the animators here as well. It was clever that the best way they they had to show James Bond melting was to remove line work. You'll notice there was no thin black lines between any like separate features. So all the colors blend together. so And it's really clever how that works to immediately give you the sense of this thing is melting.
00:34:33
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Yeah, yeah. Nice. Good detail. Yeah. Alma comes into the room and asks Bart if he's taking out the garbage and Bart declares that he has. Alma then goes into the kitchen and sees that there's mountain goats eating all the trash. What? ah Again, I think it's a gag that someone wanted to put in there. Alma comes back into the room to punish Bart, but Bart uses his first psychology on him to say that he could punish him, but he'd have to think of a punishment and then enforce it.
00:34:58
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and but and Homer is quite distraught at this possibility until Bart suggested said he goes and plays with Millhouse at home and just watches Mexican soap operas and we our example of this is just bumblebee man having a stomach ache this is the first time we see it this is the first appearance of Pedro Chesperito aka bumblebee man wait here's a name he does it's pest Pedro Chesperito and and he is his quote on fucking though simpson's fandom wiki is aa
00:35:32
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it's kind of a fra i think is's like one of the only things he says basically other lines but not many yeah there's a whole episode where it becomes brutal Uh, but he is, if you want to wear a parody or caricature of an actual thing, there's L. James Colorado, the red grasshopper, which is a character on mixing television. And if you look that up on Wikipedia, you, out it's it's astonishing how similar he is. It really is. I think it's a direct ripoff.
00:36:04
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And we're back to the episode and we see that a billboard has been put up by Itchy and Scratchy, which is basically Itchy and Scratchy with an axe, complete with its own little blood splatter, which ah unfortunately falls into a just-married newlywed scar. That is a high-effort billboard! Yeah, man. There it works, because they're quite charming of it, despite the fact they're being covered in fake blood.
00:36:24
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I don't think we ever really got like crazy billboards over in the UK. Nothing's moving in parts like that now. Yeah, like the american Americans seem to go a ham with billboards. And now billboards are all really boring because they're all the bloody, um there is all just massive fucking TV screens. Yeah. Which, you know, I don't mean to be like a fucking ah boring socialist here, but that can't be good for the environment.
00:36:51
Speaker
It's probably not great. What a waste of fucking electricity. Do you know? I'll tell you what, say what is a waste? no Mustard being smashed on the carpet. Before you go on, I'm going to get on my little fucking soapbox here. Because I want to bring this up because I learnt this and it's fucked up. Okay, so fast food places are spending more on their budget on advertising than anything else at this point. the got um One guy, one celebrity ah rapper,
00:37:17
Speaker
that was in and is it was in an ad campaign for McDonald's got paid more money than the CEO of McDonald's gets paid in a year. He got paid for one ad. That is a huge waste of fucking money. I do not care who advertises KFC. I care that it's KFC.
00:37:40
Speaker
Would you care if it was KFC whether it had a rapper? Yeah, I know. I notoriously dislike rap, so... But there are other people who do not and will be like, hey, that's the guy I like, and now they're thinking about KFC. Yeah, but if you're swayed, if you're swayed at what fast food restaurant to eat, not by the fucking taste!
00:38:01
Speaker
I don't think anybody is swayed by any fast food restaurant explicitly. I think it's just, it's one of those things where they just make sure that you're thinking about them multiple times a day by making themselves omnipresent and always know it's like, hey, don't forget, we're here. Hey, McDonald's, we're here. Look, look, McDonald's, are you thinking about McDonald's yet? If you weren't thinking about McDonald's, think about McDonald's again. Just don't forget about it. I'm on just D right now, thank you very much. And just speaking of which, don't forget to think about me andies.
00:38:30
Speaker
me on days, yes, me on days, me on days, money on days. I'm a greasy little piglet. But loads of like low cost restaurants are now seeing massive surges in profit because of how much more fast food costs. So people are just like, we might as well just go to a fucking restaurant. Anyway, Simpsons. And what you can get at that restaurant is mustard.
00:38:53
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There we go. I'm getting my segue. Nailed it. Speaking of nailed bodies, is that hammer to destroy those mustard packages on the ground? Was that a double segue?
00:39:05
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So Ma asks what he's doing, but his response is just I don't know. yeah ah ah it's not falling for the reverse psychology trick this time but unfortunately the ice cream van has shown up and how about goes to native american ice cream formerly why which was which just fond called big crazy chiefs ice cream i think it was something right So, okay, someone's got some political correctness joke in there. It's, a a again, it's again, it's fucking Schwartzwelder, so he's having a jab at political correctness gone mad. Which is also highlighted in the next scene as Homer asks about what they were talking about, them but fobs Homer off by saying he was telling about the time he got out of jury duty. Homer's response to this is that the trick is to be a prejudic against all
00:39:51
Speaker
I do know again. Yeah, I love those little bits of random ass political humor very sort of the really subtle ones not the ones like yeah, the fecking crazy cheaps Ice cream that's stupid. But yeah Homer just being like our clever way to get out of jewelry I got called up to do jury duty in the middle of the height of the pandemic, and I got out of it. My excuse for getting out of it was I started questioning whether their COVID precautions were stringent enough, and they were just like, yeah, we don't want you. Get that out loud. Because this was a point where I was like, I'm not just going to walk into a room with a bunch of random strangers and hang around with them for, like, days on end. Like, there's a pandemic, guys. And they're like, it's OK, we'll get someone else.
00:40:36
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They'll remember that next time they're going up. We then see that Bart is ripping up the carpet as Homer's just sitting there. As Marge comes and asks Bart what he's doing and no one can offer a great response. Homer tries to send Bart to his room and Bart just walks out the front door. And there's another talk about ah discipline and Homer finally eventually declares that he will actually punish Bart next time he does something wrong. This is the whole point of the episode coming up. Incoming, the plot.
00:41:05
Speaker
12 minutes in, yes. Well, I mean, the plot has been, you know... It's a slow burn. I feel like where it is but feel like we're in the plot, we're just not in the, um what would you call it, the inciting incident. Yeah, there's been a hell of a sentence. Yeah, I think it sort of really kicks off in the third act, but yeah, it's taken a while to get here. We're back out to i on of Springfield and the feature article is a man that's been hiccuping for 45 years, so he's cut to this poor bastard and he's just killed me.
00:41:33
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i agree with that sentiment there are there are people like that at least a guy that i'm aware of which like you gotta you gotta imagine that kind of probably is how you feel by that point yeah there are multiple people in the world that cannot stop orgasming oh okay well that's that's a different okay there was an interview you need plenty of me on these for that yeah they said there's documentary about like strange conditions and one of them is about this guy and they interview him and he says look it sounds great but i cannot do anything because he can't go out in public yeah
00:42:13
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He can't go to the shop, so his life is just awful. He can't have a job. His house must smell very salty. no As alarming for us to learn. Possibly. As regards the hiccup thing, I did see some discussion of it on Twitter, so make of this however accurate it might be, but i the discussion noted that like the human brain like has to effectively kind of make an effort to stop hiccuping like the default state of the human existence is hiccuping and the brain has to stop it and like the way you get this is through a brain injury and you break the bit of your brain that stops you hiccuping so you just hiccuping forever. That's bananas.
00:43:01
Speaker
that's the human body is ridiculous i don't like what you've just told me i know it's well now you yeah well i have to curse you with the burden of knowledge i know it so someone else has to but now i'm thinking of my brain not stopping me from hiccuping which means i'm probably gonna start hiccuping in about 10 seconds enjoy the rest of the episode folks oh i feel repressed i feel repressed like a korean animator which is where kebron is you This was a, this was a thing like, they use a Korean animation studio, why would they do this? So apparently we don't have the sense that this is made at gunpoint? Yeah, like, I mean, I gather the Korean animation studio who had to animate a Korean animation studio being run at gunpoint, we're not happy about having to animate a Korean animation studio being held at gunpoint. Somehow it did happen anyway, but they they did not care for it.
00:43:55
Speaker
Yeah, I'm not surprised, man. It's a weird joke. I did laugh. It's a funny joke. But yeah, when you... I didn't know that part. You know, I genuinely thought Simpsons was animated in the West. so Yeah, the director at Rough Draft Korea felt insulted and nearly sent the scene back.
00:44:13
Speaker
Yeah, I fucking would've, man. That's... I think most American animation is animated and guru, I believe. It was quite a bit. Well, one of the shows that really popularized doing it was ah the animated series of Batman. It was the first American, like, kids cartoon that was animated in Japan, like, as an anime. So it really popularized that idea. Because just how much, you know, higher quality is than cartoons of the time, like, fucking Scooby-Doo.
00:44:41
Speaker
you leave scooby do alone hey i love scoobyooo i love ha i love all hannahbarbera shows i don't think they're animated well you telling me that the hole and glotro this isn't that ah peak of animation well it it might be if they had more than two frames an hour Yeah, that's fair. Well, I'll tell you what is the peak of animation, as Ken Gopman goes into the history of Itchy and Scratchy. The first cartoon featuring Scratchy, which is just Scratchy walking down the street, like, jovial. Yeah, so is Itchy and Scratchy Scratchy just a bit? Just an allegory for all cartoons, not just Tom and Jerry. Because like I said, I don't think I'd ever seen this one, so I'd never seen Itchy and Scratchy being used to make ah very obvious Disney jokes.
00:45:23
Speaker
I think this is the first point where they've thought about it at all. I mean, I guess up to now has been kind of a send up specifically of Tom and Jerry, but trying to give it some lore now. I mean, Steamboat each year was basically just Steamboat Willy. Literally, yeah, just Steamboat Willy. Oh, it is. Yeah, like the animators referred to it as Steamboat Lawsuit. Yes, I don't think Steamboat Willy had the main characters, and he'd have shot up with a Tom either before.
00:45:50
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david so so David Silverman explained that he did not know why they weren't sued because there's a shot straight out of Steamboat Willie in the episode. Yeah, it literally is. Barring kneecaps and whatnot. i do recall sky did not show the bit when the head went into the oven i do recall the bacteria though yeah And interestingly, it's now public domain. You can do this and it's legal to do this if you want.
00:46:12
Speaker
Yeah, that's why there's the the one of the new horror films came out, you know, cuz there's already like three being made And so yeah, i've I've seen like multiple reviewers just but like this is genuinely offensive as a film enjoyer which about Yeah, that makes sense. I Was I was like marginally interested in the Winnie the Pooh one until I found out there is just a pointless rape scene in it I thought yeah, this isn't the kind of horror film I'm into I We're then cut to a wartime itching scratchy which is just them beating the hell out of Hitler until everyone gets their head chopped up and FDR ends up kicking everyone in the arse. Which I guess is kind of like a Disney and also a Looney Tunes joke because both Disney and Looney Tunes did those kind of gags. Oh some of the Disney war propaganda films are.
00:46:59
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Yeah, the art style used for this particular animation, though, is more Tom and Jerry in nature, so they are, like, quite more... Yeah, the visuals, yeah. ...a bit more directly, yeah, visually riffing on Tom and Jerry at this point. I know there's a Red Baron kind of episode of Tom and Jerry, but it's just them in planes, and obviously Tom is in a, like, Red Baron kind of plane. I don't reme... Because I've watched a lot of Tom and Jerry. Um... I don't recall in the original episodes of them ever doing anything...
00:47:28
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proper gandary i think it was a bit late for that it's more mickey mouse and um little duck yeah because those things were around for ages because tom and jerry and jerry it was uh 50 52 i mean i know that's still past world war two so it's only we're fine pretty it's only recently post-war though yeah yeah so yeah like yeah so the the red baron joke would would still land But yeah, that blows my mind. quote um The original work, Puss Gets the Boot, was 1940. Holy, oh yeah, I remember this episode because it has such a unique art style compared to the rest of the show. Anyway.
00:48:14
Speaker
But guys, can we all just say like Tom and Jerry was sick? Yeah, it was great. Tom and Jerry is like one of my favourite classic cartoons. I love that show. I don't think it actually is. Oh no, it is Hanna-Babara. Yeah, there it is. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbara. There you go. Simpsons!
00:48:30
Speaker
Emma comes into the room and asks Bart if he's watching, Maggie has he asked, and Bart turns out to realise that Maggie is gone. Yeah, cos really subtly during the scene, Maggie leaves, like they don't make a big deal out of it, she just leaves, and you just kind of think, yeah, Maggie's disturbed by what's on TV, so she leaves, you think that's the gag?
00:48:48
Speaker
I don't even spot that happen. Now Maggie's off to do some Grand Theft Auto and is driving down the street in this car. We then get some great scenes of Maggie driving past the march as much, just horrified. She also drives past Chief Wiggum who ah notes that a baby's driving a car and a baby's also driving a car. And he's driving a bus. He just thinks it's cute, isn't that cute? A baby driving a car. That dude's delivery man is just perfect.
00:49:17
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You've also seen Maggie cut off another driver and they start making threatening gestures to each other. Yeah, Maggie's doing the, um it's like the Italian one, because it's a specific, I don't think it's Italian sign language, but it is like an Italian insult, isn't it? and that The neck thing, like the hand to the neck.
00:49:33
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I don't know what the gesture is, but yeah. I mean,
00:49:41
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as all the business walk out declaring they're going to be on a crime spoon oh it yes time for a crime spree ah surprisingly lightly fortified prison like there's no there one layer of bricks between prisoners and the world and that is it i mean it is America.
00:49:59
Speaker
didn' Um, also, I just want to point out, no matter how religious you are and how, like, put together you are, there is no way even Marge Simpson wouldn't see her own baby daughter driving a car by her and not just say holy fucking shit.
00:50:14
Speaker
cuz what do you think about it she's oh my lord yeah watch as even they turn the car around to fall yeah i don't even think of that I was too busy thinking about the fact that she doesn't just say holy fucking balls that's my baby driving okay how does Maggie press the pedals though Good question. the yeah Fine question, yeah. Maggie, like Marge is actually a mutant and has stupidly long legs. Like Marge has the bunny ears. Maggie actually has like spider legs. Well, Homer's car was actually built by Elon Musk and the accelerator pedal jams on the moment you press it. You don't know. I would like...
00:50:55
Speaker
to request John to always find a way to jab Elon Musk during him. Oh well, I'll do it, I'll do it. I know, that's why I want it. This is the end of our Twitter presence. What a pointless individual.
00:51:11
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I'm back to a simpsony the punishment scene, and Homer is finally headed up a bot's hijinks. And Homer's declaration of punishment is that bot can never see the Itchy and Scratchy movie. Ever. He emphasizes this by tearing up the ticket that bot has. At the same time, we see a Snake running past the window with a VCO in his arm before he realizes it's a beta max. Oh, no. Beta.
00:51:36
Speaker
My dad had a BHX, just random facts, he was really proud of it. And he was also very annoyed when VHS won, the the the video know video was. Well DVD won in the long run. so Because BHX was better. but That's the weird thing that blows my mind. I've i've never really like looked into the specifics but of why VHS won, but BHX just was better. It's so strange to me.
00:52:01
Speaker
Probably something to do with affordability, is my guess. Affordability in advertising, probably, but yeah, Betamax had higher storage and was smaller. It's just weird. Yeah, history is... strange. History is strange. Sure is. But, instead of being punished with not watching an issue-scratching movie, he pulls down his pants and has to be spanked, and that Homer is ah not having this. I don't like how you worded that, Michael.
00:52:28
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i i think he He presents it as an alternate punishment, he doesn't just go spank me daddy. I've never said what does that. You've got crazy viewers again!
00:52:42
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i've Lisa tries to come towards the fence and tells her how he would have felt if he'd missed the moon landing. We then get the flashback to that moment and we see grandpa is in tears watching it while homie is just listening to to yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tongue.
00:52:54
Speaker
Do we have a moon landing moment as our generation as millennials? Uh, 9-11. That's not a moon landing moment, but I knew you were gonna say that. It's a defining generational thing though, right? Yeah. No, I get you. Yeah, you knew where you were when you found out about it. That kind of deal. Yeah. Anyway, Simpsons. The thing is nothing good has happened in our lifetimes. This is the point. Yeah, this is kind of true.
00:53:20
Speaker
We don't see that Homer is not going to change his mind on the punishment and opening day comes and the line is literally around the block. literally It's around the town. And it's over a what? Like ah what they called like the drawbridge. Drawbridge, yeah. Oh yeah. I regret nothing.
00:53:39
Speaker
Line 3, which stops outside the Simpsons house just to torture Bart. And we see that Homer says that Bart will thank him for but this one day, and Bart's response to this is not bloody likely. And then we see that Homer starts going up to a story about how he wanted to catch his mitt as lad and grandpa wouldn't bite for him, so Homer held his breath until he passed out and banged his head off the table. And suffered brain damage. Bart wonders where this story is going, Homer just says he likes this story.
00:54:08
Speaker
this does drag on surprisingly long for a mild chuckle at the end that definitely gets reused in a clip show later as well i like stories it's not that's not a mild chuckle man that got me that got me to i like stories I almost suggest Bart can just watch TV and Bart, because the TV sucks and Homerover aggressively tells him that he's going to let that slide because he knows Bart's upset. We see Bart struggling to get into the TV, but he decides that he doesn't need to leave. Yo, I wanna- You buried the lead. He's watching how they make mailboxes. Yo, I wanna watch how a professional wood carver makes mailboxes. That sounds dope. Yeah, you're kidding. Yeah. Am I just 30? Is that it? I've just become- I became 31 recently and now all I wanna do is watch fucking carving videos.
00:54:54
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Yep. yeah but well Welcome to middle age. Yep. I hate it. I occasionally watch vlogs being cleaned. I don't know why. I love restoration videos. Yeah. There's people just fixing up shirt that's great. It's dope in it though. It's so cool. They like take it apart and they wash the individual pieces in like all the different solutions. And they're like, yeah well, I have to hand clean this because it's too delicate. And you're like, Oh my God, what if he messes it up? And you're like, well, he want to publish it if he was messing it up.
00:55:22
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And then there's a bit that's damaged beyond repair, so he has to craft a new one from scratch. Yeah, and you're just like, holy crap, I didn't think he was going to craft anything. And he pulls out his entire toolkit and you're just like, wow, this looks better than the original.
00:55:35
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Anyway, he seems. Bart decides that so he doesn't need the movie. He can just imagine a better episode of Itchy and Scratchy. We then go to the four bubble inside the head of Itchy and Scratchy, just literally standing there waiting for some direction before they both get through.
00:55:50
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yep I didn't see Lisa coming and asking how the movie was, and Lisa tries to downplay it, but eventually Lisa does declare that it's the best movie she's ever seen. Then goes on to mention the cameos of Dustin Hoffman and Michael Jackson, and they didn't say it was them, but you could tell. This is Lisa not but not yet knowing that there's celebrity impersonators out there.
00:56:12
Speaker
I- I noted that this was a joke that was completely lost on kids and also probably anyone who's not making a Simpsons podcast. Yeah? I got it. Dustin Hoffman, Michael Jackson, who didn't use their real names. oh Get it? Get it guys! Yeah, I- yeah. That went over my head because I have a memory of a fucking slice of jelly.
00:56:34
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but Then cut to about reading the itchy and scratchy, the the movie, the novel. Yep. But this is quite the same stuff, but up droplets of the bit and it completely crushes the trash. I haven't got why they do that. Why the people make novelizations of movies a bit weird. Yes. However, I gather there just to completely derail things at the past one hour mark, which Michael's hating. um There's a novelization of Back to the Future, which is based on an incredibly early script and it's nothing like the movie and it's great.
00:57:04
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I understand that. Yeah, the original fuel for um the DeLorean was Coca-Cola. Or Pepsi, one of the two, genuinely. I think there was a sponsorship issue there. The reason why Marty McFly is friends with Doc Brown is because Doc Brown needed someone to sell um bootleg VHSs in order to fund building a time machine. But that never made it into the film. It's very specific.
00:57:37
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it's all true anyway simpsons millhouse that plays he's seen the film 13 times and nelson has seen it 17 bar says they must be sick of the movie and they declare that anyone that's not seen the film only someone that hasn't seen the film would say that so bar gets chated down let's get him but then cut to homer he's still watching the he's watching the tv as marg and lisa tried to interrupt him and hope I've declared that watching TV puts them in a bind so he can't listen to them. Marge and Lisa tried to plead Bart's case, but Lisa's exact words are he has the demented melancholy of a Tennessee Williams heroine, and Bart's response to this is don't you think I know that.
00:58:17
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My note was, oh, you mean like Blanche Dubois from the episode four episodes ago? Four episodes ago. streak Streetcar named Desire. It was Tennessee Williams. Oh, Streetcar named Marge, if you remember the episode. All right, guys, you both win. You both love Simpsons. It's okay. It's okay. I don't like it when Mommy and Daddy fight. We're not fighting. We're just having a discussion of words. Oh, no. That was too good.
00:58:47
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Anyway, we are go back to the now slightly quieter cinema where Bart tries to sneak in, but to his pitch is unfortunately on the wall, and the cinema ticket guy pretty much declares that they promised there's doubt that they wouldn't have Bart walks away for long into the distance. That kid's like a teenager, and there's no way he gives a shit. He's just to like, yeah, right, cool, cool. I also does at least explain why Bart didn't just go back and buy another ticket at some point at least. Yeah. yeah Well, you say that eight months has passed, and the ancient scratching billboard has now been changing to the Springfield Barber College. Eight months? Did films last at the cinema for eight months straight? No. No. I wrote down, no film is in the cinema for two months, and then immediately they make the gag about eight months, and I was like, holy shit.
00:59:32
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He also won nine Academy Awards. According to Ken Brockman, Ken Brockman then declares that the new movie featuring Mickey Rourke and Liza Minnelli will come out the same day. Well, let's do better than each and scratchy. My guess is probably no. Yeah, considering you stood in a completely empty theatre. But Bart then declares that Homer has won, but Homer says that Bart has actually won because he's put him down on um the path to something that he's not expecting. I think I phrased that horrendously.
01:00:00
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on the road to somewhere very special is the word. You missed a joke that I wanted to comment on because it was I was making us a series of jokes. At one point when Homer is defending his decision to keep the punishment, he says that the only thing Bart is going to be able to judge if he goes to see the film is a Mr. Type Buns competition. And then I was going to say, yo, I want to judge a Mr. Type Buns competition. Because yeah, like, come on, John, do you want to be a judge at a Mr. Type Buns competition?
01:00:28
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I'll do that. Michael, do you want to be a judge at a Mr. Tight Bones competition? Oh, why not? Yeah, exactly. See, everyone wants to be a judge at a Mr. Tight Bones competition. If I could do that, I'd rather do that than be fucking, what is it, super supreme court, judge man McGee? That sounds pretty good. Probably doesn't pay as well. Sounds like a lot of work, though.
01:00:46
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Yeah, but you're getting pretty pastries at the moment. Nah, I feel the Supreme Court. You can just do crimes and get away with it, and nobody stops you. This is true. Nice, nice political humor. I'm gonna drink now. When I got to 40 years later in the future, and we've got the classic 90s thing of there's hovercores everywhere. Guys, 40 years later is eight years from now. I know. Don't say that. Don't worry, because Blade Runner was like, what, seven years ago?
01:01:15
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Where's my hovercar? Well yeah, Back to the Future promises hovercars by 2015. And hover skateboards. Yep. Well we do have hoverboards, they're just a little more burny than the ones in Back to the Future. and But is now the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and we see that classic movies are being played, and we see that the E.J. Scratchy movie is showing.
01:01:36
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I think it's really clear that Bart is voiced by a woman whenever Bart is depicted as an adult because it just sounds like a child doing an adult's voice. Good background gag in this scene as well that like I think a lot of people might easily have missed is the poster of Bart in the box office is still there. I didn't notice that, that's good.
01:01:59
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Uma declares that Bart has probably learned his lesson so he can now go see the movie and Uma offers to pay for it but it's six hundred and fifteen dollars. do least think of that At least they got that part away. We then see that ah for fans of Futurama we see that someone is trying to order Soylent Green and Uma was excited about this. The fans of Soylent... Futurama didn't exist at this point. Do you not mean the fucking Soylent Green? Do you mean the film Soylent Green?
01:02:27
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Now, Future Armor, Soil and Green is a very prominent food. Yeah, but it's based on the film. There is a film called Soil and Green. Future Armor is riffing on the same thing. Yeah. So it's an- I'm not backing down on this. Fine. Matt Grenning invented silent greed. I guess Michael's saying from a modern context if you're a fan of Futurama and that particular gag, it's a similar gag. Fine. Agreed. You can then see the Itchy and Scratchy movie in all its glory, which is basically Itchy's journey to becoming a train engineer.
01:03:04
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I do appreciate that he took the time to put his diploma on before going to get the job done. Yeah, generally some good gags. Like, I was i was actually surprised that it was a good there were good gags in it rather than just violence. We didn't see that itchy's head was scratchy, and we see that one of the animation shots is just scratchy's bones.
01:03:21
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Yep. Yeah, that this this feels like a bit that got cut, because we see Scratchy tied up on the railway railway tracks trying to untie himself. Cut to the train, cut back to Scratchy. Now there's just dis ah dismembered limbs floating in the air, trying to untie itself, and these bodies going. It's like something happened to this cat in the in-betweening frames, and I'm guessing it was too- Oh, I just took it as great. I just took it as that, that like the rest of his body's been splattered against the front of the train, and his arms and legs are still working.
01:03:52
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Oh, was that- did I- did I misread it? I thought he hadn't even been hit by the train at that point. No, he had- yeah, he'd been hit by he was hit by the train, and then- I think- I like someone made an editing of the impact. Yeah, see, the the the the impact didn't really come through. The train goes- I just read that as the train is still approaching, it's like building suspense, the train is really escape in time, and then the next scene is he's still trying to untie himself, but for some reason his body is gone. I think it's a very blink and you miss it impact, but it does happen.
01:04:19
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Okay, like the train goes by and then his legs hands and legs are still there I am going through this frame by frame in Frankie act and I Swear to God you cannot tell I must have just filled in the blanks man. Maybe maybe i listen Just yeah, maybe they just like and yeah if we make it look about right people will just sort of yeah fill in the blanks. Oh of The Simpsons, I am on the intellectual level of The Simpsons. It's actually really smart if you have a degree in thermodynamics.
01:04:52
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um but ummer then asks which one is itchy and part confirms it's the mouse but home but defends it with cheese is a jerk This was actually a really sweet ending. I thought it was going to be, you know, like, that Bart quits his job and becomes an air dwell and that was the whole like, haha, home has been proven right kind of thing or something. But no, it is just a genuinely cute, sweet ending of a father and a son enjoying a film. I like that. Yeah. What was everyone's overall thoughts on the episodes?
01:05:24
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I thought it was a fun episode, right you know, pretty regular gags. I think I've said it a couple times this season, but you really can feel that The Simpsons formula has been solidified now, you know, of just, we have a plot, and gag gag gag gag gag, but we're somehow gonna manage to weave in the plot as it goes. You know, which is quite clever. See, for me it just felt a bit, uh, personal dream.
01:05:50
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Yeah, it was fine. like I didn't dislike it per se, but it didn't really like stand out to me. No, exactly. That's what I mean. i think I think it was slow to get to really get moving. Like I said, I don't think it really like took off till the third act. And it a lot of the gags that were just like, oh, somebody wrote this gag and they had to shoehorn it in somewhere, it felt a bit all over the place. It felt inconsistent, I guess is the word I'd use. It didn't feel like one episode. Do you think this episode could have benefited from a B-plot then?
01:06:20
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Maybe? If it would sort of streamline and focus the A-plot a bit more, then potentially. Yeah. Michael? Except it was a lot better than I remember it being. At least that's the way I felt. with Yeah, I enjoyed it. i mean The moments that I found funny, I found very funny.
01:06:37
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ah I mean, it's not best complete overall episode I've ever seen, but I still got a lot of enjoyment out of it. Yeah, it's not going to mean anyone's top 10. But it's, you know, it's it is a and I think there's going to be a lot of those episodes coming up, you know, of just this was a an episode of Simpsons and, you know, it was enjoyable, you know, because I think for a while now, we're going to have that majority of episodes of Simpsons are going to be like a six out of 10 kind of vibe.
01:07:05
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and then i think I think it's going to be higher than that personally, but we'll see when we get there. Yeah. Out of homos! I'm going to give it a dog drawing a bus out of Homer. Just kind of cute. It's a cute episode, it's quite a good but image, but there's a couple of hiccups that maybe we need to think about. You know, a few hiccups like a dead child, Jon.
01:07:27
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I gave it 53% new footage out of Homer, which... I did like that, yeah, that was a good guy. Yeah, they described the movie as that. We skipped over that, but yeah, in the trailer they described the movie as 53% new footage, because it just felt, yeah, it felt a bit sort of patchwork. It just felt like pieced together out of other bits, and I was like, okay, well, there's something here, but it doesn't feel like a complete hole, you know? Yeah. I gave it a janitor at the Supreme Court out of Homer. You're glad it's there, but golly if you don't remember them much. Okay.
01:07:57
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ah Did anyone have any things about society? It's definitely musing on the subject of child discipline and movie hype. I don't know if it really like commits to saying anything specifically.
01:08:10
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No, I think it's a very, yeah, I think it's a very like bog standard. Disciplining a child is hard. ah Parents these days, you know, don't discipline their kids enough and how hard being the bad guy is. And then there's also the look at how disturbing cartoons can be and what they get away with just because they're a cartoon. And then obviously the first appearance of a slightly casually racist character who is still in the show today just with a different now Mexican voice actor.
01:08:38
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Yeah, I mean, there's also the ice cream truck as well, which felt distasteful, and it's add only, as I say, with us talking about it, I didn't really make the connection watching it, it was only now that we talked about it, it was like, oh, this is a political correctness gone mad joke, and it makes sense because it's John Schwartzwelder, the libertarian. Yeah, and then the the casual um reference to child sexual assault is really fucking weird. Oh, yeah, that's pretty grim. So Scottie could have thought to lose some weight.
01:09:06
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now scott is beautiful how he is man there's more of him to love baby no no we'll have no body shame here but what if he can't reach the controls then they all die we can get him a poking stick now it's uh shall we move on oh nate myers gave it three and a half out of five now we're done with it Yeah, that's fine. I can accept that. I- I will- I will go scrambled. This- this- this seems reasonable, yeah. Oh, sorry, yeah, this was something I completely forgot to mention. Hasn't Homer, like, physically disciplined Ma- Ba, like, throughout his whole life? Why has Homer suddenly got the fucking hump about disciplining his child?
01:09:44
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He frequently chokes him physically. Well, I didn't want to, like, specifically, like, yes, say it, like, say those words out loud. I just wanted to say physically discipline. But yes, doesn't really, like, harm his child and put his child regularly. There's a running gag. Yeah, I think they released a statement this week saying they're going to keep the choking in because it's the soul of the show. The soul of the show. Fuck off. I'm not sure I agree with the soul of the show. I think that's what they said something along his life. It might not be exactly that exact problem.
01:10:14
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No, I mean, look, it I get- I get being precious about your show and stuff, but if if you're- I would- I would've sooner- if they were gonna use that argument, I would sooner say Appu is more important than Homer choking Bart.
01:10:30
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i would agree i mean if I mean, yes, but also like if you object to a poo and how you portray the character, do what you've done with Bumblebee, man, and get like ah someone who's of the correct like ethnicity to portray the character. Which I don't understand why they haven't already done. We've had this discussion. i't I don't think any of us have like a huge problem with a poo. Not really, no. But at the same time, we're all white.
01:10:54
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Yeah, I mean, not that I know enough people who'd be happy to come on my podcast about it, I don't think, but I would be interested to get someone Indian to do it, to come on as a guest for an Apu episode. Hey, are you listening to this podcast? Are you Indian? Do you want to talk about Apu? When we get to an Apu episode, come join us. We need, we need a guest to talk about it. That felt weird. ah Let's talk about Mark as a job real quick.
01:11:18
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but This aired a mere two days later on November 5th 1992 and beats Itchy and Scratchy the movie in the ratings. I think that's fair. So on this day on history, they would like to guess what the revenge match of the 20th century is. Revenge man, okay. Mike Tyson, boxing.
01:11:42
Speaker
Nope, American chess master Bobby Fischer beat Russian Boris Spassky to win an unofficial match in Belgrade. Fucking epic dude. Venge match of the 20th century folks. That's what they're billing it as. Well they can't call it a grudge match because that's like a really typical boxing and wrestling thing.
01:12:02
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Oysterman is still your number one on all fronts. Yay! And Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer who hypothesized the existence of the Oort cloud around the solar system, died aged 92. Oort cloud? Oort cloud. Oort cloud sounds like something you get at a sauna. I'm gonna look at a sexual one. I could go for an Oort cloud right now. I don't know if you all get something all the time.
01:12:27
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that's that's the That's the Swiss name for it. is It's an odd cloud. Anyway, I'm gonna dig myself out of this hole. The inventor of the ELO rating system also died this day. Important people died. The inventor of the what? ELO. Alright, Simpsons. It's used widely in esports, but also chess. ELO rating. Oh! Holy shit, I didn't know that ELO was that old.
01:12:57
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Did he die in shock of bobbyfish's wind? Yeah, maybe, maybe. My god, to together he's done it. did It's like a rocket. We have no time to talk about this episode. I can tie this together. but but but ga I will not teach others to fly. You're gonna fly now.
01:13:17
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ah Yeah, right good. It was a mediocre short gag. um the The gag of the heads, they all sit down on the the couch and they've all got the wrong heads, was mildly amusing. Fucking episode, go! Okay, Marge comes in with the mail, which includes a free sample of a lemon thyme, which Homer immediately starts to drink. ah i so that Because I at first thought it meant he was just drinking lemon juice. And then she's like, that's fucking dish soap! I was like, that's so much worse!
01:13:46
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It doesn't stop over. He just keeps going. It's just good. I don't know you're going to do. We then see that Marge has got an invitation to the nuclear power plant. And Homer, this prompts Homer to think about his own retirement, which is just him lying on the couch, which he's already doing. Yep. That'd be sweet. We then random shot of Ned Flanders smoking a pipe on the wind out of the window. Flanders smokes? What the fuck? Who knew? Yeah, he smokes a pipe.
01:14:12
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How much does it get lost? ah Marge makes the comment he was looking a bit more slangy than usual. This is just just like the start of like an endless barrage of visual gags. This episode is so fucking good for visual gags. Why didn't Ned tell them what was happening there? That seems like something Ned would say. Maybe just assume that they knew. Yeah, that's what I thought. It's like, well, well they must they must know that half their house is falling.
01:14:42
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Well, maybe maybe it's what Homer thought, which is that it's all part of God's great plan. Ah. We do we don't see that the immediately after this revelation, everything stops slanting down the thing, including Maggie towards a fan. Yes, dark joke. Homer saves interesting time, and as ah various things continue to fall off the roof, including a ornamental Santa, which are tickles Nelson,
01:15:04
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who Let's see that Homer has decided to fix the sinking house himself, and we see that he's got the half-assed approach to Foundation repair, which has a so half a donkey on it. Yeah, I like that very simple visual gag.
01:15:16
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yeah We see that the host of this home repair is ah Troy MacLaurin. We may remember him from such structural videos as Mothballing Your Battleship and Dig Your Own Grave and Thief. Wikipedia notes that this is in fact an actual instructional video or in some sort of some sort of instructional guide to foundation repair and all of these lines that he uses are real foundational repair tips. That's amazing.
01:15:41
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We then see that... Do you think someone owned this VHS and then they brought it into work saying, isn't this funny? And then they thought we're using this. I was from a book, yeah, all the jargon used by Trimoclow was taken from a Time Life Foundation repair book and used accurately. Amazing. We learned that it's not quite as simple as we thought, as we see that ah several things including extruded polyvinyl foam insulation, and when Trimoclow asks Homer that he goes, no, he goes, good.
01:16:09
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let
01:16:13
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We just see several things of Homer just being completely bamboozled by the whole thing. including if he doesn't have uh steel vectors he needs like carbon vectors or something and it's it's all jargon and Homer being confused it's like a long barrage of these but it's great yeah yeah we don't see that silly Joe has arrived to have a look and we see him put the leveling tool on the top of the thing did you see the bubble
01:16:42
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So the enjoy the class that's going to cost 18 $8,500 Oh, but he's not willing to pay this and declares that Sully Joe was not the only foundation repair guy in Don't see him looking in yellow pages to reveal that Sully Joe is in fact, indeed, the only... and That's about the company's slogan. Then cut to the news report of the White House on fire and the vice president is apparently in charge. Such a blink of a little miss it joke. just Throw away for like one second. But the president's dead. Yeah. I did do a double take. I was like, what?
01:17:18
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The news report is actually about this lengthy house and we've seen that many tourists, many of them Japanese are out there in front of the house taking photos. Leaning tower of Springfield or whatever. We don't see that Bart has turned into a sort of like freak show attraction and points out the cue ball, the man with no hair. This of course is home to angrily go to the window as the woman shrieks. He's hideous! Oh my, angrily sits back down on the couch and then just immediately slides to the other side. Again, decide this is all great. That's great.
01:17:48
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Marge says that they can't go on like this, and Herman then declares that they only have 500 in the bank, so they need 8,000.
01:17:55
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Look, it'll cost $8,500. We have $500. We need $8,000. Yeah, okay. so Yeah, I mean, you're not wrong, but okay. That's not how words work, Homer. I see the term, I suggest he get a job and then Homer fantasizes again about quitting his and living out his fantasy of living in the woods. I love how he's still got, like, his casual, like, jeans and a and know polo shirt on, but and just no shoes, and he's just like, yeah, ah dear, dear journal, I wish I'd brought a TV.
01:18:24
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Dear God, I wish I had a TV. I miss TV. Is an obscure reference to something, I believe. No, they'd never, of course. It's not until they march on reveals how many stickies jump to. Thank you all.
01:18:39
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We did see that the retirement party is now taking place for Jack and Molly, and it's at the Spruce Caboose. We did get a brief history of the Spruce Caboose, which was apparently too... Yeah, sorry, I just completely fought for that name. The Spruce... What is it? The Spruce Caboose? Yeah. The Spruce Caboose. Spruce Caboose. Which is obviously a play on a really big wooden plane called the Spruce Goose. And I nearly said Spruce Moose, but that is a later Simpsons joke. Yeah, I know which one you would...
01:19:08
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We had the brief history from the, uh, main to the other restaurant. The very French maitady. But most people thought it was too big for the tracks and it turns out they were right. They were right. Large of them who are then led to their table by the headless engineer who crashes into everything as he's taking them. Another just random-ass, elite joke. Because the the joke the jo is there that the the engineer of the train lost his head in the accident.
01:19:37
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i just I just read it as they're playing up the train wreck for, like, entertainment purposes. I didn't think necessarily think it's based on a real character. It's just like, no, no, it's based on a real character. I think it's but it's just not real, but real in the context of this disaster. Right. Yeah, no. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I just read it as they're just making shit up for entertainment purposes. Maybe.
01:19:59
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retirement party isn't the full way and, uh, experience has got a surprise for Jack in that he's got a special song written. It's not going into the full on board. bill song on It turns out it's not for Jack, it's for Mr. Burns. And it's just basically a song, uh, talking about Mr. Burns and, uh, it's based on a song and dance number from Citizen Kane. Yeah.
01:20:21
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It's a very touching song and Jack finally asks if he can say a few words and Mr Burns gets very sarky about it going, oh, it's your retirement party. Jack basically begs them not to make him retire because he never got married. This job is my life. This job is the only thing that keeps me alive. That's the one. I just felt so sad.
01:20:40
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Oh, he he' is tragic mean he's He never married, his dog's dead, but to Burns has the, well he's a jolly good fellow, music played and his bodyguards throw him out of the drain with a nice hearty foot. Burns declares that the position is now open with his retirement and then closes the bar.
01:21:00
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I didn't realise that this was such an obvious joke about how companies will fire people that have been there long enough to gain like enough like you know year annual raises so that then they can reopen the position as an entry level position.
01:21:14
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Yeah, yeah i didn't I didn't even clock that yet. Well, as a class america as a gamer, ah we should all be experiencing this because we know how often it happens at like Activision or Blizzard. That's the same company. Ubisoft did it. ah Blizzard's like the biggest one because they fired like 450 people two years ago. And then they don't usually wait till retirement age, though. No, but then two months afterwards, they put up all of those jobs again. But yeah, 10 percent the pay kind of thing.
01:21:43
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Yeah, games industry's pretty bad for being like, it's the end of a project, we've launched the game, we don't need you anymore. Goodbye. And they're like, oh, we've started a new project, better hire some people. Fucking idiots. But ah yeah, Marley here's worked in Sector 7G as well, so apparently he should have worked alongside Homer. Ooh, alongside his bulb.
01:22:02
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Well, so see, she I feel like we should have seen him before, you know, but he obviously has to be a disposable character. As they arrive on March Muse is that so she might apply for the job and Homer tries to dissuade her of this by saying it would go against the Bible of not interfering with a man's racket. Thou shalt not horn him on thy husband's racket. When the Bible doesn't say racket, it's in there. I forgot how often Homer just like, pretends to quote the Bible.
01:22:29
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So Homer says they don't need the money that badly, we don't see the third one from the chimney, which of course is bought the fort out of the window onto his head, which immediately gets up- What cracks his head on ground, man? I noted somewhere in the midst of all this, the house only slants when they want to like, do a gag, when they have a serious scene, like the next one where Lisa and Marge are writing a resume, like there's no slanting involved in any of this, the house is fine. Wait, yeah, what?
01:22:56
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Only when they want to do a visual gag does it still slant. Yeah, because there's a dinner scene as well. Yep, yep, yep. We, uh, then cut to Marge writing a resume at the kitchen, which she shows to Lisa, and it's just Homemaker, 1980 to present. Mmhmm. So Marge has done nothing for 12 years.
01:23:13
Speaker
And now she's done nothing for, what, forty... four years? No, she worked at the power plant for a bit. Oh, right, fair. Actually, it was a police officer. That's true, but she's had jobs. And she was an astronaut at one point, wasn't she? She was also an astronaut. They've done it with both of them. I don't know that episode. Okay. Or she was a pilot or something. I don't remember. She worked in real estate at some point. She did, because she got her golden jacket, because that's a thing, yeah and I didn't understand that reference.
01:23:43
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who had a pretzel business too. OK, so she's got a resume we've got that much. We then, know Lisa decides to pad out the resume. As you do. We see that so things include chauffeur and a curator of large animals, which is revealed to just mean home. And Marge is also shocked to learn that Lisa's put that she worked for the Carter administration, which basically means Marge voted for him twice, which Marge seems sufficiently horrified by. Someone might be listening.
01:24:11
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I didn't see that smooth as he's looking at Marge's resume and noting that he bought muddy water from him. Just a nice little joke. You don't congratulate her in Swahili, but Marge has no idea what he's talking about. Nice Swahili sounds good as yours. my He then, then Smithers then sticks his head out the door to tell everyone that the position has been fulfilled and we see several candidates walk away including a pretty dejected Jack Marley. Marley interviewing for his own job back again. Oh poor guy. Just this for Marley. Absolutely. We then cut back to the dinner scene where Elmer says that her husband and wife shouldn't work together and Marley stares at him glaringly. Elmer quickly changes the subject by picking up a newspaper to say Canada to hold a referendum.
01:24:55
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We then cut to Lisa telling Marge how proud she is that they'll be like the Curies working together. As Bart asks who they are, Lisa tells them that they've discovered uranium before dying of uranium poisoning. This was such a random ass BT Dobbs Lisa's intelligent joke.
01:25:10
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it then leads the but but fantasizing about the curies's being gigantic godous side i do i love the added touch of when they're ah they're yelling to run away their lipyncing is off like actual japanese like translated movies i thought that was awesome Two notes on this scene. Can I just hold referendum? They actually did. ah It was actually quite recent at the time the episode aired. ah They tried to implement a new constitution. they did did not that that That failed miserably. It just did not pass whatsoever. um And Pierre Curie did not die of radiation poisoning.
01:25:46
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Pierre Curie, I think it's Simpson's Archive noted, he died of a traffic accident if you consider being hit by a like ah a wooden wheel from a carriage to be a traffic accident. so That's incredibly unfortunate. Yeah, if you consider having your head struck by a wagon wheel, a traffic accident is the note on the Simpson's Archive. As a homeless driving march to work, he advises are that the best way to get around is just to blame everything on the guy that can't speak English and that this is Tibor.
01:26:15
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do we ever see t-boy i feel like we do at some point but like background see i think we've seen rinaldo at some point but rinaldo it's in one of the who shot mr burns episodes and alejandro we see him oh yes the tennis guy i want to meet t-boy I think Maggie is in a trying to indicate to Grandpa who's babysitting that she wants a bottle. Grandpa just assumes that there's something wrong with Maggie and starts reading from his ah book of ailments. Oh, this is someone had so much fun writing. like just they so i I guess maybe some of these are real. but
01:26:49
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like i said um fever is not a real yeah you have dropsy the grip sopular the vapors jungle rod shanty fever poor man's gout harrismaid's knee climactic buber be boom but
01:27:05
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well the time monkeys trying to get out of the to get to a from bo tell you what guys i want a woman with climactic boober if you know what i'm saying can't I suspect dumb dumb fever is not a tell if he did a motor noise i threw up real i didn't i just thing. made a weird noise anyway simpsons I didn't see him out just outside their office and unfortunately T-ball lost the key but Smith was going to open it with a credit card. Marge asks Smith is what she's supposed to do and Smith's response is, you know, the resume said you built this machine. Yeah, according to your resume, you built this machine. Your Marge's resume just gets grander and grander over the course of the episode, it's great. I didn't see Marge just press around the button and then Marge and I are fleeing from fire.
01:27:47
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Which is quite a thing. We've then come back to The Simpsons and it's time for a test at Bart's school. But Bart fakes a stomachache. But Scrubopple not buying it as if Bart has ever read the book, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. And it's time for a bee plot. Yeah, introducing the bee plot.
01:28:04
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Well, it declares that he's halfway through it before he manages to get off to the ah nurses' office. We don't see that Margie's are doing some paperwork at lunch, but Hummer's not going to stand for this, and sends the tube off down some sort of... I don't even know what you would call this, like a passage? It's a pneumatic tube he puts it in, and he's like, let's file it into half, or a riva durchie rolls it up and just shoves it in there. and Yeah, I wonder how often hy hydraulic tubes, pneumatic tubes, sorry, are still used, because they seem cool.
01:28:31
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I think in a few specific, like, in industries, like, they're still, like, commonplace. I've seen... I think as a Tom Scott video showed, like, a cafe that operates on it, like, you have to send your order via pneumatic tube, which sounds fun. That's awesome. Yeah, no I know, right? Do I go there? I didn't see that the tubes actually just go outside to a beaver down there. It's a beaver? What hell? This beaver's making a damn out of all the important documents of the power plant.
01:28:59
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then see the part at home and grandpa is using his home remedies on board, which include ah going to the pharmacy to find some leeches. I found a pharmacy that carries leeches while it was more of a bait shop. yeah But then be close that he's okay, but grandpa's got the thermometer and- All of thermometer in my eye. Think warm thoughts. Yes, for that thermometer went focused. Spoiler, it may have been where the doll went.
01:29:26
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oh
01:29:28
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We're then cut back to the power plant and Mr Burns is surveying his employees on their cameras, which include a cock fight and a chess game happening at the same time. While the Star Wars Imperial March plays in the background. Yeah, that was so weird.
01:29:43
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We're then cut to Mr. Burns finally sees Marge is immediately ah taken by her, declaring that his heart's going a mile a minute. We then get exposed by Mr. Burns' very black heart and... Oh, horrible squelching noise, Marge. Black shriveled heart, yeah. Burns then asks Marge to zoom in on her and get the premise as he can until it actually hits Marge. Too close. Let's see, the next scene of Mr. Burns pays a visit on Marge to give her gifts that he gives to every single employee. I like the subtle gag that just like Homer, Mr Burns forgets Marge every time he sees her up until this point as well. Cause he's met Marge like multiple times to the point where she drew a portrait of him. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yes, this is true. Yeah. I didn't think about that. As Marge takes a gift, he wonders why morale is so low. And we cut to several employees, which includes somebody drinking scotch. Somebody's quietly sobbing and they manage to- This is the other joke that made me uncomfortable. Oh, a guy about to go postal. Just a random mass shooting joke.
01:30:41
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the angel of death i mean i get that they hadn't happened that much in the nighties yet but holy fuck does this joke not really land as funny anymore especially not in an american show yeah ferns is dismissive of him but then pretends that he does care and uh might suggest a several more while boosting things which include funny hat days and healthier snacks and maybe pumping in some tom jones that always cheers her up Yeah. Fair, very mindful later. Foreshadowing, yeah. We then cut to the next scene, and once new Pussycat is now playing over the Tanoi, well, all these people are still doing the same thing. And they're wearing silly hats. Yeah. We then cut to Mr. Burns. The clapping is working while he's wearing his Viking hat. yeah In the cat team, we can see that the ah donuts are being confiscated, and Lenny and his fez tries to be a hero, and it does not work out very well for him.
01:31:38
Speaker
This is bullshit, Homer would go super saiyan for his donuts. Yeah, but the guy's defending it with a chain whip. Yeah, and Homer would just fucking eat the whip. These are his donuts, fam. You ain't taking them.
01:31:52
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I'm going to go to the next scene where Mr Burns is giving Marge a raise in the office, which turned out to be Smithers. See, this is where I thought the episode was going, was that for one, because they make a load of BT Dub Smithers' is gay jokes, and he wants to do the sex with Mr Burns, so I thought it was going to be that Smithers found a way to get Marge fired, but nope, it's just that, you know,
01:32:17
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Mr. Burns is great. Yep. Smoobus is quite happy about his ah new role, which is, uh, scrubbing all the urinals with a toothbrush. Unfortunately, at that moment, Homer comes in and completely through with his life spike. I do love him. I just, I do a love a good no. is It's another fairly visual one. It's like springtime, fresh, winter white. What could be better? Homer's like, Oh, I got it. Yeah, man. I got it.
01:32:42
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Well, he says the next thing I'm gonna say is Cropopo's asking Bard if he feels better, and Bard runs up the wall to demonstrate that he's okay. Yeah, flip it out. This is a flip, man. And, uh, Cropopo says he can do his makeup test, and Bard is immediately taken ill again. Yeah. He says, oh, my own voice. My own face. We don't see that, uh, Bard is being taken home by Grandpa, and Grandpa asks him if he's read The Boy Who Cried Wolf, and, uh... Again, so shattering. Bard kind of gives a half-past. I skimmed it. Yes. He skimmed it, yeah.
01:33:10
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Grandpa then asked the boy if the light's green and the box says it is, and Grandpa says it better because we know it runs over two people. We then come back to the bedtime with the Simpsons, and Homer is upset because he's used to seeing people getting promoted ahead of him, which include friends, co-workers, and Teabor himself. But he never thought it'd be his own wife. Good old Teabor. Marge declares that Homer would get promoted if he worked a bit harder. He did get promoted. He became a safety officer.
01:33:35
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ah you compet They conveniently forgot this. He was also burns his personal assistant for a little while. I won't declare that he's not going to sleep in a bed with somebody that thinks he's lazy. going the So he starts going through the process of going downstairs to roll out the couch and pull out the sleeping bag, then immediately gives up halfway through and goes straight. Good night.
01:33:52
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We don't see that Burns is watching large on the monitors again and he's lying on the floor like a schoolgirl. He then tells Smivers that he had the dream where you're in bed and they fly through the window and we immediately go to Smivers and Smivers has his own fantasy of Mr. Burns flying through the window.
01:34:08
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Yeah. Just in case you had watched Simpsons for four years and not worked out that Smithers might have been gay. I think it's probably way over in the moment. There was what they described as an animation error that caused a bit of an issue with the sensors because the way they draw the bed there is a lump in the bed which I think was... intended to be his knee that is apparently it was not necessarily taken as his knee if you get my drift i mean the orgasm face when we came back to reality to pop it and help yeah
01:34:43
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So, ah Mr Burns then asks Smithers to arrange a party, it and at the moment he also asks them to dig up Al Jolson, and Smithers says that's a bad idea because, well, he's dead. They tried the that before. And we don't get the details of how that evening went.
01:34:59
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Yeah, I like that he specifically uses the phrase, dig up Al Jolson. It was like, wait, the fact that he's like, oh, right, he's dead. Initially, he sort of implies that he knows he's dead because it's like, oh, you have to dig him up. Well, like I don't know. Weird one. But just for another fun, like, Mr. Burns is old kind of thing as well. ah Al Jolson did blackface.
01:35:19
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yeah we we touched on this was it uh it was last week wasn't it because it was the king homo one there's two al julson references in oh right yes yeah and because al julson got arrested yes the king of blackface got arrested what
01:35:39
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We haven't seen the plantage country in Western day. ah Unfortunately, ah Lenny doesn't realize this. It comes as the fawns. Because he probably was 50s greases day. 50s days next Wednesday. I gotta go home and change!
01:35:51
Speaker
We hear the motorcycle in the distance just in case you didn't quite get out of here. Yeah, and everyone is clearly looking. It's weird. It's as if the visual gag is supposed to be that Lenny just had his motorcycle in the plant or something. It's very weird. There's this awkward moment of stillness while Lenny gets on his motorcycle. It's weird.
01:36:10
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We then see that Sully Joe has fixed the house, and he offers to... Oh, camera's hard to give home a 50 cent piece, home with Sully Joe to go out, and then eventually deseculate Sully Joe. Frankly, margin in some scratch at her new job if, like, they fixed the house that easy, if they got the eight grand together, like that. She got married in, like, a week, so... Yeah, hold on, hold on. What was his face? Mr Burns was probably just lavishing her with gifts.
01:36:34
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yeah Yeah, sugar daddy. sugar graco too We cut to Vegas and we see that Smithers tries to ask Tom Jones to do a private gig, but which he's not very keen to do. Sorry mate, I don't do private parties. Smithers then asks him to look in the second briefcase, which turns out to be some sort of knockout guess. That was a flawless impression by the way, you should all be in fucking awe. Perfect Welsh.
01:36:57
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Smithers goes all Bond villainous and, uh... Yeah, again, she the two two really succinct Bond jokes as well. yeah Mr. Jones. We don't go back to Bart, and Bart has finally had to face the issue face the issue of taking his test, even though he's had smallpox, the bends, and Tourette's Syndrome. Rabies. Oh, wait, hang on! Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. wait but Did your episode say Tourette's Syndrome, the one you watched?
01:37:26
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but my actually No, actually, my mind's a rope piece now, I think about. yeah because I'm just reading this off the archive. yeah yeah this are the like ah Yeah, the first airing of this episode, it said Tourette's Syndrome, and they like they got a lot of complaints from people with Tourette's Syndrome because it was distasteful, and they changed it to rabies for later airings. I did wonder why, but it's like, sworn stuff.
01:37:48
Speaker
Yeah, this is why his immediate response is shove it witch because like the original script said Tourette's syndrome. Yeah. yeah ah That makes more sense because I think people and rabies don't do this. I was thinking like, yeah, Tourette's doesn't make sense because for one, it's not a disease and it's not something you'd get sent home for. that was my That's my only beef with it. i mean i didn't like Look, yeah, it's it's a weird thing to make a joke about, but at the same time, yet I mean, there's worse things. But again, I don't have Tourette's, so... It is a throwaway joke at the expense of a condition which is poorly understood and presented in the mainstream media. Yeah, exactly, so yeah.
01:38:31
Speaker
Meanwhile, we got to the Christie show and Christie has an eagle claws in his head. At the same time, we're introduced to a giant wolf just ah in case you wonder where the B plot was going. It goes to show you that with Simpsons, because I didn't realize this was supposed to be like an episode of.
01:38:50
Speaker
Krusty the Clown show. I thought it was like, we were now just like, and now we go to Krusty talking to this woman about maybe buying a new fucking animal. And I was just like, okay. Because that's Simpsons. I was just like, all right, this is what's happening now.
01:39:05
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Turns out it is the show, and unfortunately in the description of The Wolf, the word loud was used, and that's the word of the day, which leads to several loud noises. Yeah, I think you can just you can just kind of make out the audience in the foreground very slightly, which I think is supposed to tip tip you off that this is the show. yeah The Wolf manages to get free of its chain before it goes on the loop run. Meanwhile, Christie is being attacked by the eagle again because he thinks he's interested in your eggs. I only ate one.
01:39:32
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and then see the wolf on the prowl including walking past the Chief Wigam again who gets another good liner. Nice doggy. Good doggy. He's so good at his job. I love him. Yep. I don't see that the wolf is outside the school while Bart is writing about a Russian farmer and his tool Ivanhoe.
01:39:52
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Bart looks up to see the wolf and we can see Bart literally cry wolf but Mrs. Cropople is not buying it even though it became increasingly more violent including the window being smashed. you're Just wasting valuable test time.
01:40:05
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We got to Mr Burns applying scalpwax to his head and his margin to see what he's causing.
01:40:13
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Actually the scalpwax causes Mr Burns to smash his face. Good visual gag there. He leans on his skit leans on his head and then slides off it. Because he proper clouts it as well.
01:40:26
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Mr. Bernstein invites Marge to his ah private get-together with a very awkwardly smiling Tom Jones, and we see the reason for this, because there's a gun in his back. That's a big smile, everybody's happy. We don't get another gag as this is happening when Marge is declaring her excitement as Tom Jones gets absolutely knocked out.
01:40:48
Speaker
This is the point where Marge reveals that she's married in Homer and Mr. Burns is horrified to learn this as he completely imagines what Homer looks like and it's nothing like what he actually should look like. I thought it was just going to be a buff version of Mr. Burns in his fantasies to be honest. Nope, it's a random blonde Italian man who declares Mr. Burns to be a senile old fool sinalfu as he imagines them mocking him. This prompts Burns to fire Marge and Marge declares that she will sue the pants off Mr Burns. Mr Burns creepily replies to, you don't need to sue me to get my pants off. but You say these but these days. I don't think you could say it then, mate. Probably not now. Michael being like, shit, I may be about to get sued. Well, there's gonna be some awkward discussions tomorrow.
01:41:44
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Meanwhile, we're going back to underneath the claws of the wolf, but fortunately for us, the groundskeeper Willie's here demands that Wolfie drop the order because it's time for the main course. Willie rips off his shirt to reveal those blossoming muscles, and Willie and the wolf do a charging jump at each other as they start to wrestle.
01:42:09
Speaker
We then see that, well, all this is happening. Marge is at the Lionel Hutz office to file for sexual harassment claim and Lionel Hutz is quite excited about this because this will be the case that brings his struggling law firm back. You invite Marge to join him in Scotch, but Marge says it's 9am but it's not slept in days. Yes, but I haven't slept in days.
01:42:28
Speaker
We don't know how to cut back to Barthe pretending to be the classroom in complete tatters, as Mr. Kraboppel demands to know the truth. Barthe just says that he made it the whole thing about the wolf before he passes out. Mr. Kraboppel tells him this is great to feel it's great to tell the truth before realizing that Barthe is actually unconscious and coping with the mistake.
01:42:45
Speaker
oh dear We don't see that Bart has been taken away by Grandpa so he can go on him in advance of the full moon. More oldie timey cures, yep. And then we see that Willy and the Wolf are now hanging out. They're friends now, that's great. I've been a wrestling wolf since you were sucking at your ma's teeth.
01:43:04
Speaker
the wolf gets a couple of licks of whiskey, sir. It's all good. We then see that, uh, Lionel Hutz is at, uh, Mr. Burns' office and declares that they've got a paper trail, witnesses, and all that. And Mr. Burns reveals his ten high-priced lawyers, and, uh, this causes Lionel Hutz to run away in absolute terror before revealing that his briefcase just contains shredded newspaper. Why did it contain anything?
01:43:28
Speaker
To make it look like, to give it some hair, just to make it look like- I guess the sound of giggling paper? Yeah, maybe also sound, yeah. Marge is sadly for long and feels very beaten, but Homer refuses to leave until Mr Burns apologizes to Marge. Marge, if you were wondering if this show had anything to say about society, it delivers the line, people like us can't afford justice. Yep. That is depressingly true.
01:43:52
Speaker
Burns is taken over by the fact that Homer does love Marge, and decides that's good enough, and tells Homer to treat Marge for the night. Homer's response to this is that they're going to get drive-through and do it twice. that But Mr. Burns fights his own solution, which is a private concept on Tom Jones. Homer and Marge are enjoying themselves quite a lot, obviously failing to notice that Tom Jones is actually shackled to the stage. gotta be honest ski but i rather get takeaway and have sex twice I'll go see Tom Jones. I mean, I like Tom Jones, but I really like KFC and sex. Well, I think I could have KFC and sex with Tom Jones. Well, what a story. I mean, he'd be up for it. It's Tom Jones. He'll just ask for help before anything happens from Interpol and begs for help. But we get the nice soothing sounds of it's not unusual as the episode fades out.
01:44:48
Speaker
Yeah, just another weirdly sweet ending. I thought it was very odd that Mr. Burns ended up being kind of the hero in the end, giving Margin Homer a wonderfully wonderful evening together.
01:45:02
Speaker
yeah i think a lot of the critics were a little down on the ending and i can see it i think for me i kind of just like glanced over it it was just a weird and it wasn't bad it was just weird it was just i think it was just a way to wrap things up because they're like oh shit we've written ourselves into a corner uh everything's okay turned to zero yeah yeah the house is repaired the secular aspect but is building us it's the bonus marj is happy with a gig instead of like a lawsuit Yeah. It's all fine. And she doesn't need the job anyway because the house is repaired, so fine. Yeah. She can go back to her boring life until she, uh... gets a... I think the next job she gets is policemen. I'm just really... because I remember really liking that episode, so I'm just hoping it's soon. I remember... ah I don't... I don't remember much about that episode other than Scruff McGruff the Crime Dog. Scruff McGruff! It's danger to inhalants! Whatever that lyric is.
01:45:58
Speaker
So yeah, I thought it's another weird and wacky one. Just good gags all round. Yeah, the visual gags were just on point. um Just constant a constant barrage of visual gags. I really enjoyed it. Yeah, this is a good episode. I enjoyed it too. Yeah. Out of Homer? I'm going to give it a funny hat day out of Homer. Any explanation or you'd start with that? It's just it's a nice visual gag that makes you laugh, but underneath, that might be something that sometimes slightly doesn't quite make sense. That's so good. I like that. John?
01:46:27
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i I... Uh... That's it. I know. Fine Homer. You give it a Homer? Yeah, I really fucking enjoyed this episode. It was really good. I like i was laughing at this constantly and hard. like The visual gags were so good all the way through it. I had such a good time with this episode. I didn't know what it was. I didn't know what to expect. I don't remember this episode in the slightest. And it was a fucking banger. Yeah, it's a great episode. I think that now puts Michael at the fewest Homer's, because I think the only episode he's given a Homer is the ah Michael Jackson, if I recall.
01:47:06
Speaker
i don' give it to I think you might have, but no one's tracking it. I gave it a Tom Jones is actually Welsh out of Homer. Funny and surprising. Cause it's true. You know, you wouldn't expect it unless you know that he's Welsh.
01:47:23
Speaker
I do enjoy myself also. You aren't Welsh! Stop trying to claim it! I i didn't say I was Welsh, but he is he was born just down the road from me. That's cool. There are a couple of episodes coming up that I think might tempt me into getting a Homer. Yeah.
01:47:41
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I share Matt's concerns about potentially giving away too many, which is why I hesitated on this one. I was like, is this a home? Then I stopped and objectively thought about it.
01:47:56
Speaker
Yeah, but this was really good. I enjoyed all of this for me. yeah I did not expect it to be a Homer out of Homer at all, but it was. Well, going too much into season four, there's two definite homos coming from me, but there's a couple that I'm on the fence with, but I might do it.
01:48:14
Speaker
I can think of one that I'm pretty confident will be a Homer out of Homer. I've got a few others that are maybes, yeah. I've got one that I have, like, an absolute moonshot of, I guess, that I'd love to get on, but I don't think it's gonna happen, but we'll see when we get there. Anything else about this saying about society that we haven't already covered?
01:48:31
Speaker
Sexual harassment is not fun, neither is kidnapped. But if you're rich enough, you can get away with it? Yeah, it's just all the stuff we've already talked about. Yeah, yeah there was a good jab at the sort of the ineffective token corporate morale improvement efforts. Yeah, definitely. Like the pizza party thing. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's like, oh, everybody hates their job. ah What if we make them all wear a silly hat one day a week? Will people enjoy their jobs now?
01:48:59
Speaker
Companies do this, and it's exactly as bullshit as The Simpsons makes it out to be. Pretty horrifying. Mm-hmm. All right, we're wrapping up. I think we are. I think that, I don't think, do we have a lot to say about that one? So yeah, Shill's himself. Tell us what you're doing, and what you what you got going on. What do you want to promote? Fuck all. Are you not back on the hill? The hill? Back on the grid. That's the one I want. No, I still haven't bothered with any kind of like social media or anything like that. Please leave me the fuck alone.
01:49:25
Speaker
Hopefully all for Arnold will be coming back soon because yeah, we're just gonna go ahead with the commando episode with us guys So yeah, that'll be coming soon cool. If you haven't already watched it go watch the red Sony episode because We had thoughts on that movie and that's the end of the like Conan Verse that we'll be covering. So yeah, go watch it. Just go listen to the whole fucking show. It's great.
01:49:51
Speaker
It is a very good podcast. Go listen to it. Michael. You can follow me on exits, be my source. It's basically symptom memes and things to make you think.
01:50:02
Speaker
things that make you go. and you can follow me on twitter the everything app at morocca underscore bm go check out my youtube channel youtube dot com slash buttonmash i haven't posted a video since last we convened but i ah watchs that video and arac disregard for gravity the remake i watched it again recently it's good I also rewatched your Exocolonist video. Mm-hmm. I just really like your video on it. I think it's great. Oh, thank you. You're welcome. Do I do anything else? Probably not. I haven't even checked to see if my beer's still available. It might be. It could be. This is out of stock. Beyond the Binary is gone. If you haven't bought it yet, you fucked it. You bastards. So that's never getting brewed again. I'm quite certain. I don't think it did work anywhere.
01:50:51
Speaker
judging how long it took to sell out i don't think it did well enough for them to be interested in re-brewing it so uh sorry well we tried all right thanks for joining us uh we will see you next time with some episodes that i haven't even checked to see what they are but i'm sure they'll be good ones kapish bye bye everybody