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S3E22&23 - The Otto Show & Bart's Friend Falls in Love
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Jon, Michael and Matt watch The Simpsons episodes 'The Otto Show' & 'Bart's Friend Falls in Love', and discuss what they say about society.
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Transcript
Introduction & Host Dynamics
00:00:00
Speaker
Hello, this is Moleman in the morning. Good Moleman to you. Hello, welcome to Moleman in the morning. I don't have a Moleman, but I didn't think of one, so hello. Oh no. It's alright, I always follow this by actually playing a clip of Mo-Man, so someone will say good Mo-Man to you. You've been replaced by a machine. Well, no, the problem is whenever I do the Mo-Man voice now, you guys are like, oh, what Mo-Man was this today? I didn't realise I was just supposed to do the Mo-Man voice. I can just do the fucking Mo-Man voice, but every time you're like, oh, well, what what's happening to Mo-Man today? And I'm like, uh, Mo-Man is So we're like, we're like furry podcasting. I'm not editing you out it's just to be clear. There are two mole men at the start. One of them is the official one and one is the fruity flavor of mole man. When do you think we'll get to a season when we don't have a confrontation at the beginning of an episode? I never think it's the podcast signature feature at this point. It's part of our unique genre. I would be a little worried if it didn't happen.
00:01:10
Speaker
What I really like about Moleman in the Morning is the fact that all the co-hosts fucking hate each other. Yeah, we're drama. We're all actually friends. Like, amazingly. You wouldn't know it from listening to the podcast. I don't want to break the illusion or anything, but we're all friends. We are Moleman in the Morning. We are a podcast about how The Simpsons says a lot about society. And we are allegedly friends. We may or may not be friends, depending on whether you're buying into the cafe or not. We'll get Lionel to come in and handle the legal proceedings.
The Simpsons' Cultural Impact
00:01:44
Speaker
I am your host, John. I am joined by two co-hosts, Matt. Hello! And Michael. I play ho, but guess there you know. See, that's my bit. Anyway, so- I need a catchphrase. Yeah, um yeah it's back.
00:02:00
Speaker
I waited. I waited. I waited till I started speaking. Got me. So what are we talking about today? We are talking about... Uh, Simpsons. I've heard about it. Yeah, it's talking about Simpsons. just Just in a very general sense. Okay. It's it's a TV show. It's been around a while. Controversial opinion, guys. Simpsons. Pretty popular. Oh. I'm just learning this today. And it's wild. I thought it was quite a niche interest, honestly. yeah but but but stock hill know I continue with every passing day to be astonished that this thing still exists.
00:02:38
Speaker
What, The Simpsons or our show? Both. Both. One or both, yeah. um Mostly I had the grave misfortune of watching a YouTube clip last week which was a much later bit of The Simpsons and it was the Elon Musk bit. Oh god. It is not funny. No, I can't imagine it is. i I genuinely can't imagine any of the, like because I keep hearing that there are like good episodes of Simpsons in Modern Simpsons, and I believe it. I don't think any of them are celebrity ones. No, I think that's a pretty safe bet.
00:03:17
Speaker
I don't think there's a single one these days that features a ah celebrity that is good. Unfortunately, fucking hell. Hello Mr. Simpson. like youber say the last The last Simpsons episode that I liked with a celebrity had J.K. Rowling in it. ah Yeah, that's the last, that's the last, the most recent Modern Simpsons episode I watched that had a celebrity appearance, and it was the one where J.K. Rowling was in it. Because I actually quite liked the joke, because Lisa meets J.K. Rowling and says, you know, what's gonna happen in the next Harry Potter book? And she says, let me guess, you want me to tell you that Harry marries you when they book and lives happily ever after? And Lisa goes, yes.
00:03:59
Speaker
I thought that was really funny. I thought that was genuinely really funny because that's how I felt at the time with my peers. And it also tells you how long ago it was because the last Harry Potter book hadn't fucking come out yet. Good Lord.
Drinks, Humor & Cultural Commentary
00:04:13
Speaker
Jesus. I feel like we really are just diverting into talking about Simpsons generally. That was meant to be a joke. We are going to talk about two episodes. To be clear, there are two episodes coming down the pipeline here. But i but this is a tangent. What little I have seen of the new Simpsons, I kind of feel like, <unk>t don't they basically all have a celebrity cameo in at this point? Because the show is just so big and it's one of those things that people want to go, I was on The Simpsons. that like They just have one for every episode, I feel like.
00:04:41
Speaker
ah the two that I watched one yes yes and no because the one of them I watched was a tennis one and it had Serena Williams in it and one other female tennis player the other one that would be Venus Williams yeah probably I think yeah it was but it was it was both of them ah Actually, I think it had like just loads of tennis players in it. but then you I know which one you mean. Yeah, the other one was the one about Christie's daughter. And I don't think that had a cameo in it. Well, who played Christie's daughter? ah Exactly. that's what Yeah, I don't know. I think to clarify your ah initial point, I think it's OK to have a celebrity voice in it. It's ah when a celebrity plays themselves in the context of the episode where it becomes not good.
00:05:26
Speaker
Speaking of celebrities playing themselves in the context of the episode, ooh wait ah we hug we we have two episodes and our first one is the Otto show, which is a du spinal tap heavy episode. yeah this is This is an episode I remember like really, I thought I remembered really clearly and then didn't realize that it takes 15 minutes for the plot to happen.
00:05:54
Speaker
The first 15 minutes is just a tribute to the film Spinal Tap. Yeah, it's a, it's a bold, it's a bold choice. I am led to understand that Spinal Tap had an actual album out around the time this episode was produced, so it is basically a shameless promo. love It's a plug, yeah. And if you weren't aware, because I wasn't aware, Harry Shearer is literally one of the members of Spinal Tap. So he just got his two mates from the other thing that he did to star on his show and they promoted their album together is basically how that all came together. That's sad. That's self promotion. What are we drinking today, guys? Do you remember on the last podcast where I said I'd given up drinking for a thought short time after my holiday? So that time has ended. i am Oh, of course. Yes. yeah so Fantastic. I am back on the Bulldogs.
00:06:48
Speaker
What flavor? What flavor? Oh, uh, just the hazy gin. Dog flavor. Dog flavor. Delicious stuff. Made from real Hoss. Speaking of real horse, what are you drinking, ma'am? Mr. Geblin. Fucking rude. I thought you were going to ask me because I thought the expectation there was I would drink some horse flavoured. No, I have to leave you to last because your beer choice will annoy the hell out of Geblin and that's now a bit. Yeah, fair enough. Well, actually, I'm drinking something from John's old haunt. I'm drinking a Kentish ale. Ooh, okay. I'm drinking Shepherd Name Spitfire Amber Ale.
00:07:28
Speaker
Solid, dependable. Yeah, I've never had it before. You know, I buy all of mine from my local corner shop, so it's never gonna be like super variety shit. It's just gonna be serviceable, and I will sample it now. Ooh, that's lovely. That's actually really nice. That's really just nice bog-standard amber ale. Can't go wrong. Can't go wrong with an amber ale. There you go. You can't! Do you know what you might go wrong with? Oh god. Oh god. Unfortunately, ah now that I don't work for a brewery anymore, I have to buy my own beer. Scandal. I did deliberately buy this because it looked insane. ah Northern Monk have produced a beer called Fruit Twist IPA. ah The branding is very, very, very heavily evoking. Twister lollipops. Oh, so not Fanta? No, no. The company that has a drink called Fruit Twist.
00:08:22
Speaker
No, this is, yeah, strawberry, pineapple, and lime. It smells exactly like a Twister, to be honest. Okay, so and so so straw strawberry, panda, and lime, okay. No, pineapple, not panda. The the the kind of question is, what actually is it? So, of course, those are pretty normal flavors. What is it you said you were drinking? Like, what type of alcohol? An IPA, Fruit Twist IPA, is what they branded as. No, why? What? what what Why ruin an IPA with that? Oh, okay. I thought you meant, why buy it? It was like, because it sounds ridiculous, that's why. Like, if you were saying, yeah, cool, I bought a fucking rum with that, I'd be like, sick, that sounds delicious. You don't ruin an... I hate you. Well, just view it like you're sticking a twister into a, uh, pankton and you'll be happier. Yeah, it smells it smells better than it tastes. It's... You smell better than you... What? I don't know. I'm going down a line.
00:09:22
Speaker
Hey, Simpsons. Should I say was what happened on this day? What happened on this day? What was this day? Oh, it's significant. Oh oh yes, that was the day. April 23rd, 1992 was the day the auto show aired. and on this day, this historic day, McDonald's opened its first fast food restaurant in China. Should have. I was gonna say, when you said opened its first fast food restaurant, I was like, no way was it 92.2 that McDonald's came around. In China, that still surprises me. I suppose it's Western. That late or? It isn't going into.
Nostalgic Simpsons Gags
00:09:58
Speaker
Did you want to be there sooner or? Yeah, I'd have thought. I think because we grew up,
00:10:05
Speaker
with McDonald's already kinda being the super mega giant that it is. So the idea that McDonald's, you know, started out as anything other than a super mega giant, you know, it's it's like the joke about Little Chef, you know, that they were created long ago and the roads actually just came and connected them up. Right, yeah. That's a joke for you millennial British people out there. God, um' I miss Little Chef, but anyway. You know who probably went to Little Chef? Princess Anne, this was the day she filed for the divorce for my husband. Good? Good riddance to bad rubbish? out and I'm always happy to hear a woman get divorced. More for me.
00:10:45
Speaker
The UK, number one. Deeply Dippy by Wright Z. Fred. I was not aware they had a second song. No, no. Yeah, man. I was like, is this the first repeat, but with a different song, like different same band, different song? I think it would quite well be. Yeah. Yeah. Of all the bands in the world to show up, Wright Z. Fred. Yep. Yep. Well, it's true being made on this podcast. The US number one was Jump by Chris Scott. As in jumping. for my love. That's really old isn't it? No, that's... There is that one. It's not crisscross. I think crisscross is the jump, jump, jump. Get up and jump.
00:11:28
Speaker
That's also really old. Am I just really old? I mean, if we're at a point in The Simpsons when you hadn't been born yet, this song is, I guess, older than you. Yeah, I know. I don't know. Too many songs get named jump. Apparently so. Yeah. Too many songs. That's it. I am old. There's just too much music. Back in my day, we didn't have as many songs. Let's just not pack it in. you know I think we've peaked. Back in my day, I was watching The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. We peaked with Glow by Alien Ant Farm. We don't need to make any more songs. We peaked with Whichever Song was number one on 9-11.
00:12:04
Speaker
by me Alright, let's go to the chalkboard gag, I guess. Yep. Well, I will not spin the turtle. Heh. Sure. Alright, moving on. Couch gag. They fell through the wall, wasn't it? No, that's the evil one. No, the dog growling. Yeah, the dog was, they tried to get to the couch, the dog was growling, everyone was terrified suitably. This is a repeat. This was first seen in Burns of a Calvin de Kraftwerk. Yeah, there you go. So we began, and Bart is in a heavy metal t-shirt of the Spinal Tap Wolto. Now that I know that this episode is a shameless plug, all my questions about why Spinal Tap makes sense. Shameless plug number one, you get your Spinal Tap Wolto t-shirt, I'm
Spinal Tap & Concert Chaos
00:12:48
Speaker
assuming one right and must have already existed. Are those the actual dates? like Could people have, in theory, used The Simpsons as a guide for bucking Spinal Tap?
00:12:59
Speaker
I haven't gone that meta, I'm afraid. I'm not aware of it, but I'm not dug that deeply. Wow, this is the fast- this is the fastest Google. Right, let's- you guys carry on, I'll find out. All I know is that they were playing in London, Munich. Amsterdam, I think, and Springfield. That's a little tour, folks. Yep. And we see that Homer comes down in his old concert jacket, which has a lot of fringe, which obviously is a 70s thing. And Homer is shocked to find out he's got a billy beer in the pocket. I assume there's some significance to i don I don't even know what that is. Marge comments that she hopes Spinal Tap don't play too loud and Homer kind of says that he's been to dozens of heavy metal concerts and it never affected him. We don't cut to Homer's point of view when he's got to notice he's not hearing a word Marge is saying.
00:13:47
Speaker
Oh yeah, this bit actually probably wouldn't have been worth remarking on, but for the fact that literally last year, somebody went through and like did the audio cleanup on that to pick out what Marge actually said. Oh, right. Do you want to have it here for me? Uh, bear with me just one second. I had it a moment ago. Come where they got so many things here. Just for example, Spinal Tap were not touring during... um ninety they did They did do shows during 1992, just they weren't world touring. Fair enough. So during during the tinnitus bit, Marge says, well alright, but make sure Barton and Lisa don't pick up any of the band's attitudes towards liquor, religion, politics, really anything. Oh, okay.
00:14:36
Speaker
but Yeah, she had like a half decent line and they like, in in the name of the bit, just completely bleeped it out, which is now kind of wild. So Homer and Bartley, even Paddy and Selma were there for reasons. She's coming that Homer is away with his bald skin hat. Yeah, just like David Crockett in that jacket. Just to be Patty and Selma. Their jokes weren't funny, but they were present. They're here, they're in this episode, they're making themselves known, yes. They'll feature much later. They do. So we see Homer and Bart in the car and we see that Mayor Quimby has named a highway after the group's final tap and a... I just realized that, sorry, there is a reason they're in the beginning of the episode because you've got to consider every episode of Simpsons as if it's the first time someone watches. So they need to establish early on that Patti and Selma don't like Homer for reasons later on in the episode. Yeah, there is a reason. I take that my earlier criticism. I don't. We then see that the radio commentators make a really stupid point about tapping into the spines of the young.
00:15:39
Speaker
Yeah, I did appreciate the awkward silence between them, like both just kinda like, heh heh, heh, heh. Don't give me a segue. Yeah, this is just radio DJs trying to fill air and be mildly amusing, like they're some sort of podcaster or something, and trying to make something work, and they're like, yeah, yeah, great, cool. As much as I'm a fan of um British radio and the like nice chill vibes we usually bring, i there is something to be said about, Hey, welcome to RockyVim brought to you by Barry Roxman and Barry Roxman number two. We need to bring more of that to England, I think.
00:16:20
Speaker
We need to bring that shit back. I love that kind of radio host. You know what? I think we should all do. I think we should all buy jackets like the one Milhouse had. Nice jacket. He was looking fly. And it cost him five, 50,000 bazooka Joe comic. What the hell is a bazooka Joe comic? Yeah, that also feels like something that like either either is culturally unknown to the British or a culturally unknown in 2024. So not sure. joe It sounds really familiar, but I thought I was just thinking of um bazooka gel but no bazooka jo is an actual comic strip okay it used to be part it used to be like wrapped around pieces of bazooka bubblegum yeah so it was like it was like the kids equivalent of newspaper comics
00:17:04
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, I've got one here, ah quickly looking up on Wikipedia, the example I have there, it literally has an advert in the corner, it says, get a thing! If you send 200 comics to us and 40 cents, we'll send you a doobie. Yeah, okay. So I guess that was a thing, like each comic probably had some promotional, but if you bought my a shitload of them. Tonight is at the top. You could get a real camera with one of them. Ooh, how many did you need for a camera? How many? Take 16 photos to each roll. 127 Filforips can be enlarged with the instructions. Year-round funds. Send 250 bazooka comics all or 50 cents and 10 comics. So if you sent 250, you get the camera. If you sent 50 cents and 10 comics, you got the camera. That's a pretty good deal. That must have been a shit camera.
00:18:00
Speaker
Oh yeah, it must have disintegrated the moment you grabbed all of it. Sorry, I'm trying to make a segue here and it's not going to work so I'm a bailing out right now. Okay. Segue aborted, what happens? Umm, Uma drops the boys off at the concert and they ask if he's going to be bored waiting for them. And Homer reports that he's had the best times of his life in the backseat of a car and we get to Homer's flashback of him just eating food, making very sensual noises. The most obvious bit ever! He's parked at make-out point, the car's rocking back and forth, and yeah, it's just Homer just really enjoying hot dogs and whatnot. And we're saying, oh baby, because he's eating that pizza. Also, why isn't Homer just going to see Spinal Tap with them? Because the kids don't want a dad with them in a concert. Tough shit! They're ten! No, I said they've been tired. Nothing bad happened.
00:18:56
Speaker
We did see the boys go we're passing the t-shirt salesman, and we see that one of the t-shirts is worth $31. And Comic Book Guy is trying to sell them stuff, but he's lost a lot of weight and changed his face. Yeah, it's ah early Comic Book Guy before the obesity took hold. We've seen Comic Book Guy at this point. I think we have, at least once. Yeah, we have. Definitely. It's Comic Book Guy's cousin, Concert Book Guy. Nice. That did not work in the run. Anyway, the t-shirt he's holding up is Colonel Gaddafi being kicked in the arse by a spinal tap. Take that, Gaddafi, I guess. Yep. Alright. We then cut to Bill and Marty, who we heard on the radio earlier, and they're now doing an interview with the group, and they ask how the washed up band suddenly became popular again, and basically it's down to the Bill and Mark falling down. The end of communism. We're very big in Bulgaria, and what's his name? The other Gary. Hungarian.
00:19:52
Speaker
It's not musing out loud about that, but no one's benefited from the fall of communism more than them and then and until someone else points out that actually the people being oppressed by communism might have benefited from the fall of communism. It's a very British humour. It's not particularly funny, but it's very British. You could see it taking place in a Ricky Gervais sitcom, couldn't you? Yeah, I could see it in 40 Towers. I confess, I've never seen Spinal Tap. Like, this is Spinal Tap, the movie. Like, it's one of those things that I- No, I've not seen it either, if I'm honest. For some reason, I've never sat down to watch it. It's definitely on the list of things I've been told a million times I should watch and I still, to this day, have not. oh i can All I can assume from watching this is, this seems like the sort of humor I think is in Spinal Tap based on the memes and clips and bits of it I've absorbed over the years. Is this my obligatory you never watch movies anyway bit? Yeah, I sure do. You never watch movies anyway? I know. Guilty as charged.
00:20:49
Speaker
Although we did watch a movie recently and we'll talk about it at the end of the episode when we plug things. wit There and will be no shameless plugs here at this section of the... That's a better joke for anyone that was paying attention. anyway So the end of communism. Yeah communist communism has fallen and so has Bart Frisbee as it hits the gentleman in the face next to him, but he seems somewhat impaired enough not to have noticed. Yeah, just, you know, weird hazy concert goer clearly like meant to be a joke about stoners or droops or whatever.
00:21:23
Speaker
It kind of lands, I guess. Bill and Marty are trying to get, uh, Spinals have to do promos for them and, uh, they ask them to do one where they say, ask them to do one where they say no one rocks as
Family & Character Dynamics
00:21:34
Speaker
much as them. But Spinals have to not do it because they don't know that and they don't want to look stupid. What if someone rocks harder than you? So in the spirit of not looking stupid, they're asked to do instead, cockadoodle do, you're listening to Bill and Marty and they're perfectly fine with that one. I did like, yeah, that Bill and Marty were, when they said, what if someone rocks hard on you? They're just like, yeah, that's completely acceptable. I i understand that. I liked that. That really completed the bit. And I think, again, that's like the mix. It's a fun mix of British and American kind of style of humor writing. And I thought that's, it's clever. Like, Simpson's manages to do that sometimes, the mixing of different cultural styles of comedy. And yeah, it's is it is impressive sometimes.
00:22:17
Speaker
As the band are about to go on stage in the card type, that the band know is that the stage is covered in water and it turns out this used to be a hockey rink. No, what is it? 12 days of the month? This is a hockey rink or something this year? Six days a week. Six days? old Yeah, six days a week, this is a hockey rink. We see the agitated response of, this isn't the splish splash show. This is spinal tap, not the splish splash show. The show begins to start and we see that it is bought to you by alcohol and cigarettes. Yeah, ah the it's it's it's the brat it's Duff and the brand of cigarettes that we keep hearing. Laramie, yes. Laramie.
00:22:53
Speaker
So it begins and we see that it's like a spotlight entrance with each other band going on and there's a ton of feedback going on and the third guy misses his cue. And it yeah it's slightly out off the out of the the spotlight or whatever. Yeah it's all just going a little bit wrong which is I guess Spinal Tap? Yeah you remember the film about the rock stars where things go wrong. Guys Spinal Tap am I right? So everything begins, the pyro guy blows himself up. The pyro guy who has an eye patch and is missing an arm already, he's very good at his job. Evidently. We see the wind machine begin and it blows the guy's hair back to reveal that he's balding quite badly. And don't ah don't miss guys, they they're playing Spinal Tap's new single Break Like the Wind that's out in 1992. Spinal Tap, right guys?
00:23:43
Speaker
Yeah. You see all sorts of things happening. There's a large woman on top of a small man's neck. Yep. but Just his neck. That's the best way I can phrase it. And then we see that the devil begins to lower, but unfortunately it's not being filled up properly and the drummer has to contort himself into a smaller and smaller ball as this devil controls on him. The band are visibly annoyed. Michael clearly fucking loved this bit apparently. yeah I liked his contortion, it made me laugh. I just i just loved you slowly losing composure while describing this bit. I'm just i'm just remembering the guy as he went into a smaller and smaller role. Yeah, i it's very amusing. I just really like that the audience is still fine and on board with it. There's like, oh, we salute you, our half-inflated Dark Lord, and everyone everyone's like, yeah, okay, yeah, cool. I like how they do a very clear explanation about it before this was clearly we' going to be an inflated devil. When it's fully bowed, it's very impressive. Mm-hmm.
00:24:38
Speaker
It's very impressive and regal. We did also get a bit that I think I missed out before the devil came down where they were talking about uh they do all the shameless plugs uh banders where they say they were on route for but excited because that's four miles four miles away from my house and they say everyone wants to rock in Shelbyville but no one rocks like looks at guitar springs Springfield Springfield I love that, that gag never gets tired for me. It's really annoying. You get it every single concert. I've seen Ed Byrne twice, three times now live, and he's done that gag every time and it's so funny. Don't stop being funny, I don't know why. We then cut to the next scene and they're about, they're trying to announce that there is a new, there is a sixth member of the band that they miss the like you. So they naturally go straight into the lasers and the lead singer gets blinded. Question. Question. Am I missing something?
00:25:29
Speaker
there are very visibly four people on the stage yeah that's i think that's the gag okay and there was a keyboard player oh it wasn't the gag there are five people on outside no there were five people on the stage at one point i don't know if they're animated meant that people might have disappeared at one point but there were five people at one stage okay oh yes there is yes in an earlier shot i do see it now yes there were five that particular shot where they're like oh there's five of us there are literally only four on the stage when he says that after the After the blinding incident of the band, pack it in and tell Sheldon that there will be no one cause. Melhouse is suitably annoyed because they were only on for 20 minutes, and Otto and Snake between them decide to go trash the stage in a full-on riot begins. I want to trash the stage. But don't cut to Homer and his own happy little world in the car scene. I love this so much.
00:26:24
Speaker
Eating his chips while a full-on riot squat team was going on behind him. Excuse me, Michael. He was eating his what? Chips. He was eating his what? Ah, I see what your objection is, but I am standing by Chips. He was eating his what? Because it's an American show. What would Homer call them? Chips. Crisps. Because Homer is an intellectual with a verbose vocabulary. Not yet he's not. yeah ah Spanish Flea as a song, apparently they almost didn't get the rights to it, but apparently one of the writers is related to a member of the band. So that's how they got the rights to Spanish Flea.
00:27:02
Speaker
Sorry, carry on. I do that whenever like my, ah my parents like leave the room or someone, when I go visit them and my dad's like, just hang on for a minute, son. Um, or he just goes at the kitchen. I will just sit there and start going.
00:27:17
Speaker
but And then when they come back in abruptly stop. I don't know if for copyright purposes we can allow you to continue. but we Surely it's out of copyright at this point. I mean if it was in copyright in 1992 copyright terms are reasonably long, probably not. Ah yeah, it did take a while for Winnie the Poodle. got a copyright so that we could get the the majesty that is blood and honey not familiar with blood and honey because they assume yeah it's a horror movie as soon as soon as Winnie the Pooh went into public domain that a company announced that they were making a horror movie and I as a horror fan have not bothered
00:27:55
Speaker
Because I don't fucking care. And I also love Winnie the Pooh. Like, I have a very strong childhood connection to the Winnie the Pooh. I don't wanna see it, like... It's not gonna ruin it, obviously, but at the same time, I'm like, nah, I'm not interested. you don't want see when of the po bury an act into someone's head about pickled vaes and Yeah, apparently it's really bad, so I'm good. I didn't know about the rape thing, so yeah, I'm even more good with no watching. I genuinely don't know whether or not that happened or not. Oh, okay. I thought you'd read a synopsis or something. I've never seen the film, so I'm just making shit up. That might happen, I don't know. I apologize to any pickle up fans.
00:28:31
Speaker
but Moving swiftly on, we get a news report from Kent Brockman, all covering the carnage that's happening. Marge hopes that Bart is okay, and Lisa points him out on the screen, swinging from a curtain as he falls down. Kent Brockman comes to the conclusion that all music should be banned. So what's the answer? Band or music? In this reporter's opinion, the answer, sir sadly, is yes. We don't see Byron come home and he immediately wants to become a rock star. Large kind of puts him off then asks, home of Millhouse is okay. Yeah, I'll be right back. He's dropped home to run out of the house and we've seen Millhouse emerge from a big pile of chairs.
00:29:04
Speaker
Yeah, I think but so. But because it's the next scene and they're tucking in the baby and Marge thinks they should get well to guitar. Homer argues that they already have a guitar. but Wind up children's toy. Yeah, so much homerness I love that you can see Maggie's little hands trying to grab it. Yeah, a very cute detail. I liked it. I liked how Homer and his attempts to prove that the guitar was okay started hitting himself in the head. Well, no, he was proving that it's a real guitar, as in Homer was making a needlessly pedantic joke of, no, this guitar, this is real. This is a physical corporeal object. Yeah. Am I just like, oh, i you should get him a real guitar. This is real. Just starts hitting things with it. What bellend. We then go to the next thing, and Bart has his guitar, and Homer tells Bart if he doesn't get good at it quickly, Homer's going to control. Pow! Mike scolds him, but Homer says he's just trying to encourage Bart.
00:29:56
Speaker
I like that Homer says, I thought you told me to encourage him. And it's like, that is the only encouragement Homer knows threats violence that is That is very indicative of Abe Simpson, I think. Bart then has a bit of a daydream about being a rockstar in which he insults his fans by saying that his new single is My Fans Are Stupid Pigs. And has a British accent. Yeah, don't know where that came from.
Otto's Struggles & Humor
00:30:21
Speaker
We don't see that boy's now washed up a rockstar in his own dream and including throwing bottles at a knollhouse while telling him to slag off with a giant belly. I think we've all had that dream.
00:30:31
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dream i lived it that was actually me in the show ah was it yeah i started my acting career early before i was born how did you get your job disordered uh surprise didn't dead fair enough i appreciate being in the dance i appreciate the follow through with the noise you know hitting or hitting yourself in the head with a guitar i actually a little impressed the thud came through discord i have a very good microphone But do you have a very good sister that plays the saxophone while you're trying to learn the guitar? And people wonder why I hate Lisa. Honestly, if this was me and my brother at that age, I genuinely would have hit him with my guitar.
00:31:15
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Things don't get much better for Bart as he's trying to learn... what the hell is this on called again? Polywolly doodle? That's the one. Which Nelson comments is polywolly crappy. And makes sure that ain't burned just in case you didn't get the... notion of what was happening there. Bart tells Otto that he thinks the guitar is broken and Otto just picks it up and starts shredding. That's by the fact that it's not plugged into an amp at all. No, it's it has a built-in amp on it. You can see the, you can see the like speaker on the guitar. Oh, the golden apology. I don't think that's how guitars function, or at least the amp would not be nearly that quality, but that is the excuse that they're going with. Yeah, I can't recall ever having seen one, but I sort of imagine like ah like a cheap and cheerful kid learn to play the guitar. Guitar yeah might have something of the sort in.
00:32:10
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Yeah, probably. Well it is shot till an Otto can play the guitar, and Otto mentions that this is all he did in high school, as his parents told him he did map to nothing doing it. He awkwardly laughs, then kind of trails away when he sort of realises they were right. Yeah, poor Otto. Otto decides to do an unannounced concert and starts doing Freebird. Just replace the entirety of Freebird holding up traffic the entire time. I love it so much. So there's a big traffic queue and a kids kids have got lighters going on as Otto's getting fully into this. Martin ruins the fun by revealing that there are 10 minutes late for school, which is the wedgie. I may receive a wedgie for this statement. That was Bicky Mouse-like. Why can't I do a fucking Martin, all right?
00:32:53
Speaker
I'm an impersonator, I'm not a fucking god. I will practice my, what is it called, Martin? Martin Prince. Martin Prince. I will practice my Martin Prince, okay? I promise. Otto, realizing that the light tells the kids to pass in their seatbelts, the kids counter that they're on their seatbelts, or Otto just tells them to go limp. He's just trying to go limp. We don't see Otto's crazy driving, which includes taking a shortcut through the tyre yard factory. Not the Tyre Yard! The Tyre Yard factory! It's gone through so many tribulations! I don't know what to call it. It's just the Tyre Yard! Yes, Springfield Tyre Yard. You know, everyone do what I mean.
00:33:32
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Yeah, but we wanted to mock you. Yeah, okay, fair enough. Otto crashes the policeman's picnic as Chief Wigam asks if anybody got the license plate number, and nobody did. There's a lot of numbled excuses. Oh, I forgot. It never occurred to me. You also see that Spinal Tap are in their bus driving, and they're actually pleased with how the gig went. Yeah, I did like that bit just there of, like, ooh, a pretty good concert last night. Yeah, it all went. Otto drives it off the road and kills them. Yes, Battle Tap of fucking Spinal Dead! Yep, no more Spinal Tap. Tour's over, guys. Otto Venn crashes into the, uh, Jebidiah Springfield statue, and the bumper flies off, which has got a phone number to report on his driving, which several members of the public go and actually do. Has anyone ever done that? You sometimes see those, and I'm like, has anyone ever used one of those things?
00:34:19
Speaker
My grandma did. Yeah. But my grandma was that kind of person. I the kids jumping out of the the bus cheering. yeah just And now the plot begins. I don't know. Barely. We don't see that Otto is ah always his reform that no one was hurt and Otto's counted that he's had 15 crashes and no fatalities. so And no fatalities. Otto is then asked to produce his driving license, but he doesn't have one. I also- but he says he can ID himself who is underwear, then realizes he's not wearing the right pair. Ooh, these aren't mine. This is the last straw for the beginner who tells him and that until he gets his license and wears his own underpants, he's suspended without pay. I would tell you where your own underpants went.
00:35:01
Speaker
Also, interesting that this decision is like in Skinner's hands and not like the fact that he should be arrested for dangerous driving without a license. like This shouldn't even be like falling to Skinner to like take him out of the equation here. no He shouldn't have even been brought to the school. He shouldn't have gone to jail. Yeah, yeah. That also inquires who will drive the bus. Skinner reveals they used to drive one in NAMM, so here we will take the responsibilities. They're really laying the NAMM bits on heavy this season. It feels like the the quantity of NAMM references has really ramped up, and then there's more next episode again.
00:35:40
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we've We've talked about this a lot for this season, and I think it really is the season of we're deciding the characters. You know, we're deciding, like obviously we did, they've done way more characterization with the Mayor, Chief Wiggum, even Appu, you know, all of these characters are getting fleshed out way, way more. And that's what this season really is. So yeah, ah they're they're really establishing the, hey guys, Skinner was in Naam, and we're gonna do stuff with that.
00:36:12
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then go to her next scene and the kids got on the bus to see ah skinner and the skinner reveals that one will be hearing from otto for a while which shocked but the kids are i assume hyd that skis the bus driver because they stop apparently yeah yeah and the tails of the bus but st driverver and skinner start lefully joining him Yeah, i would this song felt really creepy until they started saying like negative things about the bus driver. Yeah. Because, you know, that's the joke of the song. But it just at first I was like, wow, Skinner's a real authoritarian about driving the bus, man. Sing about me, children.
00:36:48
Speaker
We don't get to, Skinner gets to a crossroad and he's trying to cut in, but he can't find an opening and as Lisa tells him he's gotta be more aggressive, Skinner remains optimistic that someone's gonna wave him in. Bear this in mind. I like that Skinner has two modes, you know? get to We'll get to the second mode. Yeah, kindly, kindly, kindly teacher man with weird positive ideals and then the real Seymour Skinner. We have a quick detour to the DMV and Patty and Summer reminiscing about the time Homer got his nose stuck in a toaster. She's very specific. We don't see that Otto is at the window to take his driving test and Patty produces two pens, one red, one green, and asks him if he's got any questions. Otto's immediate question is to ask Patty if she used to be a man, and this prompts Patty to throw away the green pen. You can tell me I'm open-minded.
00:37:42
Speaker
that does not save it no no definitely doesn't but yeah i did i did like uh salma's well i won't be needing this she just throws away the green pen so we get to the actual driving test and otter has run over every single cone which we learned that he was deliberately doing yeah as otter asks how he's done salma points out that he uh misspelled bus on his application Who hasn't misspelled bus at least once in their time? We then cut back to Skinner, and Skinner has grown a full beard waiting for him trying to get into the sub junction. He's beginning to slowly unravel as he's honking the horn, and Ralph makes the mistake of trying to continue the bus driver song, at which point from Skinner to tell Ralph to shut up.
00:38:25
Speaker
And he does a full-on new shooter. We all wish we could tell Ralph to shut up. Or at least the Ralph in our lives. And I think that's the last we see of that bit. That's it done. like that That plot diversion is like two two scenes, that's all you get. That is the end of Skinner's bus driving career. We are three quarters of the way through the episode, so like there isn't much room to do anything with it, I suppose. That is the c closest we get to a B-plot, this episode. Yeah. We then see that Otto who gets to his apartment and He mentions to the landlord that the blocks have been changed and eviction notice on the door. Some clown changed my locks. Some idiot has changed my locks and put an eviction notice on the door. After the landlord confirms it was him because Otto hasn't paid his rent, Otto asks if he can collect his stuff, which we learn is just mustard and some FICO magazines. Whoa, I have mustard!
00:39:18
Speaker
a surprise to Otto. We go to the next scene and Bart is at the cookie mart to have a squishy, and Appu manages to sell him one of his chutney squishies. He pulls it before Bart even agrees. Bart had no choice in this matter, he was having that chutney squishy. And I think Bart really could taste the chutney because Bart's response to this is to throw it away. Yeah, I like chutney. I don't want a slushy chutney. I'm i'm good. We see that Otto is in said dumpster, and as Bart mentions that he is living in a dumpster. Otto is upset to learn that he's not. He's in a trashcoat based disposal unit.
00:39:53
Speaker
I googled this. Dumpster is a brand. I know, right? I'm surprised to learn this as well. It has been owned by three companies over over the years. Like with ah like Jacuzzis and Kleenexes and Hoovers, it is also a brand that is, like at this point, genericized. like All Jacuzzis are hot tubs. Not all hot tubs are Jacuzzis. Yeah, exactly. and And in the same vein, not all bins are dumpsters, but all dumpsters are bins. yeah So yeah, like this is yeah weirdly a thing, but it did not expect to be a thing. But yeah, there you go. Also made by the Dempster company, which I quite like. It's Dempster Dumpsters. Dempster Dumpsters. Martin writes Otto to come live with them in the garage, and Otto is psyched that he's going to live in the garage as the top of the trashcoat hits in them ahead. We cut to the next scene, and family are welcome to the sound of a guitar. Maggie's crib literally vibrates past the parents' room.
00:40:49
Speaker
I didn't notice that, that was great. yeah Otto is playing the guitar in the yeah garage with Bart and we see that the parents are unimpressed as it is, they ask what's going on. Bart reveals that he's recorded the conversation he had with Marge earlier in the day in which it's Bart asking if Otto can stay with them as long as he wants and it's clearly Bart imitating Marge's voice. I liked the very weirdly robotic way that Bart said, you know, mum, I know that you'll youre you're often forgetful. So I recorded the conversation because it's it's that whole clear idea of a kid practicing what they're going to say to their parents to like get out of trouble kind of thing. And I thought that was cute.
00:41:30
Speaker
Homer is horrified enough to acknowledge why she's watching. Marge, what were you thinking? As well just much protest, that's not her. Homer says that. Everyone says when they hear their own voice. just do but yeah guys that is up We then see them in the kitchen as Marge requires by Otto got to stay with his parents and Otto says he doesn't get along with the admiral. In a later episode it is revealed that he is actually an admiral. So instead of a joke. And we see that Otto says that he's got nowhere way to go and Homer says that line did not work for his dad and it's not going to work for Otto. But eventually talks her way into it and Homer
00:42:08
Speaker
And Helmut says that he's going to mistreat Otto and treat him like garbage, and Otto's response to this is, what's the catch? There's also a weirdly Flanders coded bit there that I, at least I thought was very Flanders-y as a scene where Marge is like, but doesn't the Bible say that you should do this? okay so the quote um Yeah, the thing from Marge is, whatever you do to the least of my brothers that you do unto me, and Helmut's response is this, thou shalt not take much mooches into thy hut. Yeah. yeah i It is something that that has probably died in later seasons, but yeah, Marge was always coded as a very religious person, and that did most, most of her decisions were based on religion. Like, she remember, like, when whenever she had, like, problems, she called Reverend Lovejoy. um She based, like, a lot of us stage her decisions on being a good Christian and things like that, and it it just kind of, it's of the time.
00:43:02
Speaker
Yeah, and the day the Simpsons are still supposed to be like a reasonably typical American family and the majority of American families would be Christian and go to church and be religious. So yeah, like it's it's people are supposed to see their own lives reflected in this to some extent. Yeah. Excellent report.
00:43:28
Speaker
I was waiting to see if anyone else was going to jump in on that. No. I mean, I could mock you a bit. I don't know. I don't have anything else to say. Your voice is weird. All right, move on. Otto is on the sofa watching TV and Marge tries to prompt him to do something else. Otto decides he's going to read and he's looking for wares of all those books. Why don't they have any wares-wally books, man? Well, it's a shock that they don't have anything from the vampires' point of view. You know, that's just downright rude. And the story's about people sending in pictures of their naked chicks. Good God. There's the culture. Just downright not Christian. Marge advises Otto to just go try for to go get a job. Otto's response to this is he was good at his job. ah And the only thing he was good at was driving the bus. And he can't do that without his piece of paper, as Marge tells him to go get his piece of paper. Otto despairs the fact that he tried. I tried. I tried, man.
00:44:22
Speaker
I think that's an interesting conversation because like we have seen in this episode that Otto is extremely good at playing the guitar. So the fact that he's got this self-image of the only thing I can do is drive a bus. You clearly do have other talents. but you're not recognizing them. It's interesting. I think, yeah, you could get really nerdy about a lot of kind of stuff with Otto in general about how the American education system is specifically designed to pump out working drones and any passion is killed. Even if you're good at that passion, you are then trained to believe that that passion is not profitable. Yes, yeah. I'd say American education, fucking education systems. Here he is. Yeah. Go look at Japan if you really want an example of that.
00:45:08
Speaker
Yeah, you look at, like, the disdain with which people, like, talk about, quote-unquote, liberal arts degrees, as though, like, they're of no value to the world, and they're like, okay, well, enjoy having no culture. Capitalism needs work as for Starbucks. It's as simple as that. Oh, god, don't get me stat. There is a... Do either of you have to watch the film Our Day Out in school? No. It's based on a book. okay so yeah bells it's basically a huge commentary on the education systems and this is it's a very like cheap kind of crap film but there's this really beautiful moment and where the teacher that is really nice to the kids and loves them and you know lets them do whatever they want and they because they're all troubled kids you know they'll you know so she just kind of lets them have mischief and then there's the the the principal skinner the one that's you know always being demanding of them and then these two teachers get into an argument and the mr skinners the principal skinners is like yeah but they
00:46:04
Speaker
they need to have an education, they need to learn, they need to have a they need to have a culture so that they stand a chance. And then the the teacher, the one the one that's really nice is the one that then goes on the rant saying, well, someone needs to work the factories. And it was this really amazing moment of like, oh, she's the bad guy. not because she's like deliberately you know mistreating these kids or whatever but she's the one that's given up she's the one that doesn't have faith in these children she's the one you know it's a great it has nothing to do with this episode of Simpsons but it's a really amazing moment and genuinely a reason to watch this very old British sort of educational film just go watch our day out it's great okay
00:46:47
Speaker
But yeah, that's when um so much of my like opinions about the education system were birthed was from that film because it is very weirdly moving. Speaking of dreams being crushed, we then see that Homer tells Arthur to shoot up so he can get his forth about peanuts in. I can't hear myself think I want some peanuts. Homer asks Bart why he's not playing the cat guitar and Bart's response to this is he wasn't good straight away so he quit and Homer puts Bart on his knee and says it's okay if something is hard to do you should just quit it immediately.
00:47:18
Speaker
they and I don't know if it's if it's just my mood today but this and a couple other things I saw today genuinely really inspired me to be better about dropping passions. So random random side note, I'm getting a drawing tablet because I used to be really good at drawing and I'm gonna do that and I'm gonna do like videos and streams to like encourage me to do it and obviously dropping that amount of money on something is gonna encourage me to fucking use it. because I used to i have a genuine talent for drawing much like Otto has a genuine talent for guitar I used to have a genuine talent for drawing and art and I miss doing that and I miss having that passion so I'm actually thank you Simpsons in part because like I do genuinely want to get good at drawing again because I miss doing it so there you go. but you Will you be taking up your passion for unicycling? like so No but I am gonna draw so much smut!
00:48:09
Speaker
yeah and I will go and I like Homer will go watch TV and it doesn't matter what I'm gonna send Michael all the smoke I did wonder if this whole exchange between the two was another kind of nod even if they didn't necessarily realize it yet to like we we touched on the subject of ADHD before and it I feel like ties into that of like starting something and getting distracted and being like yeah find something else do our TV TV is good Well yeah, Homer is... ah ADHD is hereditary and Homer and Bart both do the same thing. Yeah. We're then cut to the next scene and Otto is hogging the bathroom. As he comes out, he compares Homer to Bob and Gretchen and starts poking his stomach. I feel like the amount of bathrooms in The Simpsons house changes as well. Because I'm sure that the the parents have an en suite. Yes, it was their en suite that he was in.
00:49:01
Speaker
What a fucking prick. Yeah, he walks through the door right up to, like, the bed is visible in the short light, and yeah, he's in the Simpson parent's bedroom at that point. I guess the closest thing I could, because you wouldn't need to have a scene that establishes this, but if I was to excuse it, I wouldn't feel comfortable with a fully grown adult using the bathroom that my children use. Yeah, okay, yeah. If I was to come up with a reason for it, the problem that i created there is that there's there's the reason that yeah they probably said look use our bathroom because we don't want our children walking in on you wait waving your tackle around well homo regrets this decision as he has to turn the faucet off and uh finds a big pile of hair in the sink yes i've done that to myself i have such long hair now so yeah it happens to be all the time and i hate it
00:49:54
Speaker
We then see that Homer wants to kick Otto out of the house, and Marge's defense is that he's good with the kids, and we immediately cut to Otto telling a scary story to Lisa upstairs, in which yeah basically a woman is being pursued and is killed by an axe-wielding maniac, and the big reveal is that Otto... How do I know? Because I was that maniac. This leads to one hell of a scream by Lisa. Yep. And, uh, Marge tries to appeal for some compassion. Homer says that Otto is not the Fond, so Otto immediately walks into the room doing the Fond's good to- You're 80! Homer then tells Otto basically that he's a low-life mooching sponge and he wants him out of his house. And we cut to the next scene where Bart asks Otto what he's going to do and Otto says- Bart tells Bart not to worry because he knows how to fake his own death. There's a lot of money out there for a guy willing to fake his own death.
00:50:44
Speaker
Well she talks Otto out of this by saying he should go for his license again and Otto's response to this was last time he got a zero and now he's just hungover. Yeah. And this leads to Bart saying he believes in Otto because he's the coolest adult he's ever seen and Otto's response to this is he's never been called an adult before. I've been tried as one. So Otto is motivated to try and we see him going through the guidebook and he reads these factual statements that alcohol helps improve your ability to drive and realises that's false. Yep. And we see Otto outside the DMV, mentioning at Homer is right, he is a bum. And Bob points out that Homer did not actually call him a bum. He called him a sponge. And then Otto nearly eradicates the brick wall. Yeah, Otto is enraged by this. And he is very motivated now, as he kicks the door of the DMV down. And the Selma wonders why he's going back for his driving test. He feels that that he wants to staple it to Homer's bald head. At which point Selma is completely won over.
Episode Wrap-Up & Analysis
00:51:40
Speaker
and uh starts to give him not only the answers to the uh driving test but just ignore his yeah poor performance and they're laughing over the fact Omar had a chicken wing stuck in his face Otto not only hits uh the stands of the people he gets bought margaritas in the end which is very lovely Yep. And there's your establishment of why, of why it needed to be established, that Patty and Selma here at Homer. Mm-hmm. Go to the next scene and the school bus mows down the stop sign and... You see that the Otto is back behind the wheel, on his very probation heavy and And as Otto drives away, ignoring all the stop signs, the kid starts thinking hail to the bus driver. bus driver but Also get Otto's surname on his driver's license there, so we finally get to learn that Otto is called Otto Man. Otto Man, wow. Yes, hail to the bus driver. Bus driver man. And that is a Skinner at the window watching the bus go away.
00:52:40
Speaker
yep And that's the episode. I wrote so a few fucking notes for this episode. This episode was perfectly adequate. I quite enjoyed it. Okay, thank you. I find it a very disjointed episode. it didn't It just didn't have any particularly significant bits. If I'd have seen this live and sat through adverts for it, I'd have gone, yep, that was an episode of Simpsons and moved on with my life. I wouldn't have been annoyed. you know a it did it it suck I'm not annoyed by it, it's just I think Otto is a very one note character. i mean yeah it's The joke with him is
00:53:21
Speaker
He's a stoner butcher. Yeah, Otto is a good gag character. He's not an episode character. That's a very good way to put it. I mean, it's not like- Well, arguably there wasn't much of the episode anyway, so they didn't get much of an episode out of the character either. It was just 20 minutes of stuff that happened that had some gags in it. Yeah, that's why disjointed episode, I agree with Michael. That first half of it was just Spinal Tap. It was a 10 minute advert for Spinal Tap, yes. there is a plot Here's a plot of the symptoms that we've had to cram into 10 minutes. Yeah, yeah. Why didn't they just make an episode about Spinal Tap?
00:54:01
Speaker
because maybe they want to be that obvious, I guess. but i Yeah, I don't know. um Even if even if like it was lacking in the plot, I don't think it was lacking in the laughs. I i thought it was hilarious. There were some great moments in it. I will film it. The Spinal Tap stuff, it is funny. um Yeah, no, not the Spinal Tap stuff. And Skinner snapping up the drive, but not being able to get into that junction is very funny. The Spanish Flea bit was the best bit for me, and the episode was pretty much like downhill from there. I mean, said it many times of before, but yeah, Homer bits are best bits, generally speaking. like I want some peanuts was also very good. Yeah, yeah no, I agree. Yeah, that was a good bit. Out of Homer's, guys!
00:54:48
Speaker
I'm going to give it an inflated devil out of Homer. If it had been fully blown up, I think it would have been big, scary, and impressive, but because it wasn't fully inflated, it felt lacking in some parts. Yeah, nice. It's a good one. What do you see what my next one is? I went with a Bart's new hobby out of Homer. It's fun while you're interested, and then you forget about it. Fair enough. I got free bird out of Homer because I thought it was a banger. You thought this was a banger? Again, there were a lot of good laughs in it. I thought it was great. I enjoyed watching this. Man. You David B. Grelk. Speaking of David B. Grelk, Nate Myers gave it five out of five. Five five? Why? are Are you shitting me? Again, he's limited by inferior numbers. Was he wearing his spinal tap tissue when he was talking about him?
00:55:42
Speaker
You have the lead singer of Spinal Tap's cock in his mouth. Jesus. What an absolute wazook. I was on the fence about John calling it a banger. Giving this episode a Homer is a fucking war crime. Nate Myers said the writing is at full throttle here cramming tons of jokes into the episode. Full throttle! 20 minute run time with stunning success, which I kind of agree with. It was just, I mean, yeah, no plot, but it was just 20 minutes of jokes, and you know what, I laughed a lot. No, it wasn't! It was great! It wasn't 20 minutes of jokes. It was! It was not. More than the next one. Yeah. Yeah, I don't fucking rate the next one positively either, spoiler alert. Fair enough. Did it say anything about society?
00:56:29
Speaker
OC Spinal Tap. It definitely told you to buy Spinal Tap's new album, Break Like The Wind, out this year, 1992. Admittedly, I did enjoy the Spinal Tap. The that music was good. Also, wearing your own under underwear is overrated. Absolutely. Wear someone else's underwear so you can't be identified by the police. That's the only way they have to identify you, is you're under work. Yep. be more ah Be more aggressive when trying to cut into lanes. The only thing it really said about society, and this is vaguely, is that most systems are corrupt and can easily be got around if you know the right person's sister-in-law. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I know this is a group. Fair enough. John, this is where you speak.
00:57:17
Speaker
So, moving on, we've got- No! What did it say about society in your opinion, you bellend? I don't think it fucking said anything. It was an advert for Spinal Tap. Alright, there you go. Thank you for stating that. Move on. I agreed with Michael when he said that. That was- No! But you have to share your part of the segment! That's like getting up for your segment of the debate and going, I agree with my previous teammate, and then just fucking off! It's not a debate, it's a podcast. I hate you. I appreciate you agreeing with me, Morocco. I needed that for my ego. Bart's Friend Falls in Love is our next episode, the 23rd episode of the third season of The Simpsons. It aired on May 7th, 1992. Well, on this day, the 27th Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified. Seems like a pretty big deal, probably, maybe. They don't amend that very much, so... Bart's increases to congressional pay from taking effect until after an intervening election.
00:58:15
Speaker
Yeah, it seems like a minor amendment, but... I didn't understand any of that, so I'm sure it's very important. What I understand it from onthisday.com, I think they're not allowed to vote for pay rises for themselves until after an election. Yeah, I think that's what I took it as. Here's a thing. Politicians shouldn't be fucking paid. They should be all fucking stoned. I don't know. It should be tied to minimum wage. They shouldn't just be able to give themselves pay rises. Yeah, make, give all, make politicians payment all fucking minimum wage. Just make their payment minimum wage. But how will Rishi Sunak ever be able to afford sky name? I don't know, man. Through hedge funds. Hey. Also in news, five New York cops got arrested for selling cocaine. Wait a sec, are you, are you saying that the police are not always to be trusted?
00:59:11
Speaker
um couldn't possiblyby happen how day I'm saying if they tell you to jump, you jump like crisscross because that's still US s number one.
00:59:21
Speaker
one hit that That was the best segue ever! The UK number one is Please Don't Go, slash Game Boy by KWS. I had a Game Boy. I don't know if that has anything to do with Game Boys, but... Probably not. I have no idea what that song is, I'll be honest. Never heard of it. I'll try to do the chalkboard gag. Go on then. I will not snap bras. I snapped bras in high school like a lot of boys. I was an asshole.
00:59:52
Speaker
Did you snap bras in primary school, because bearing in mind that Bart is eight? Or ten? Ten. Um... Probably once, yeah. Yeah, totally no one is wearing a bra. Not totally no one is wearing a bra in that school. That's why I thought it was like, these kids seem like a little young for that to be a thing. Unless he was snapping Mrs. Kruebble's bra. Maybe. Girls can go through puberty as early as like ten years old. I guess, yeah. So, the and and training bras, I guess. I don't fucking know. Is that what the Alabama marriage law says? Maybe Bart was doing it to Mrs. Gruboffel. Yeah. I said that. Mike already said that, yeah. Oh, I don't ah don't listen to Michael. What's the couch gag? Yeah, you see, well, the ablims, the things I mean, I'll tell you what it is, which was the couch tips over backwards and they all fall through the wall.
01:00:41
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So the couch gag was when they ran into the couch and they they fell backwards through the wall. yeah Yes.
01:00:53
Speaker
I was waiting for a follow-up, never mind. No, I'm waiting to see who kills who here. The sparks are flying, someone's going to die. You're right, this is tense. You know, it's almost as tense as Bart. sneaking into his parents bedroom. almost but almost changed I could have sworn we'd seen this already. but very it's ah It's a very played moment in Simpson's compilation. so
01:01:27
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know why I could have sworn this had been in an episode already but if it tied into the like it it went into the next scene kind of thing so I was I was really like blown away when I was watching like wait we've seen this surely no no you're right The part swipes the change jar and, well and behold, he hears a rumbling and it's Homer. And we go full Indiana Jones on this. Yeah, they play the theme song. We recreate the entire Raiders of the Lost Ark bits. So to put it into a summary, we see that Homer tripped on a baseball glove and started rolling down the stairs like the boulder. Yeah. why Why was Maggie this early in the morning um in the kitchen on her own? Because someone had to fire the dog. and This is true. Yes.
01:02:14
Speaker
We then see that ah Bart makes a run for the garage door and Homer closes it. Bart slides under and has to reach back for his hat. Homer in what may be one of his most underrated pain tolerance moments from Spaceman through the garage door. Just his belly sticking out was great. I don't think I appreciated this guy this whole bit as much as it seems like most of society did but like homo just his stomach going through the garage door got a good laugh out of me yeah it's good no it's a it's classic yeah
01:02:45
Speaker
You see Bart waving his hat as he's on the bus and Homer's gone full savage with the rake in stunt. Yeah, they got him babbling incoherently like he's some sort of native. Lovely British ah colonialism, racist interpretation of tribal people, but... Yep. Gotta love it. Yep, well, it's still the 90s, we can get away with this. I mean, it's funny! Like, I'm not gonna be that dickhead and be like, oh, well, it's not funny, is it? It's offensive. I'm like, no, it's still fucking funny, I'm not gonna lie. We don't see that Bartzies Millhouseen, who went to the Circus of Value store, has a novelty oversized Magic 8-Ball.
01:03:21
Speaker
And we see Bart try it out to see if he's going to fail his English test. And they would get outlook not so good. Wow, this thing is good. We see Maelhaus gives it a shot of, will I be beat up today? And the ball says all signs point to yes. And Nelson comments that that ball is magic as he hits Bart. Yeah, that ball knows everything. Wack. And he hits Maelhaus over the head. Bart then starts to ask it if They're going to be friends when they're old people and the ball it applies in the negative and we see that Bart then ask if they're going to be, if they'll still be friends when their high school drop out living up Uncle Sucker. You get a small chuckle out of me but again it's in the negative. Bart in desperation asks will they be friends about the end of the day?
01:04:02
Speaker
It's a no, and Bart wonders aloud what could come between two best friends, and we see it's a dun-dun-dun, little girl. Is Bart in that question implying that both Millhouse and Bart are gonna join the army? No, he's implying that they're both gonna drop out of school and live off state benefit. But Uncle Sucker, so Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam's the military, isn't he? Uncle Sam's another word that they use for scribing Americans. It's just the government, isn't it? What the fuck? I've been living a lie!
01:04:33
Speaker
Uncle Sam is represented by a very army-ish theme, but it's a general term. Yeah, I genuinely thought it meant specifically the army. I knew it was like part of the British. I mean, America is still just Britain, really, isn't it? I mean, it's part of the American government. But yeah, I really specifically thought it was like you were referring to the military when you said Uncle Sam. No, because I mean, yeah, obviously it's a character invoked heavily in military recruitment. Uncle yeah Sam wants you. Uncle Sam wants you. Your country wants you. We want you to serve your country. We want you to serve Uncle Sam, right? God, I'm a fucking idiot, guys. Well, if you're going to die for someone, moon you might as well die for a man called Sam. This is true. I'd die for a man named Samwise Gamgee. I'd die for him. Yeah, he's going to be on the posters next year. I can't carry you! But I can carry you! I feel like you've got that quote up.
01:05:27
Speaker
No, that's it. Nailed it. Okay. and So we go back to the... Another Sam. Another Sam. And there's Skinner reveals that he doesn't trust transfer students because he thinks other schools use it to unload problem students. Lord knows he does. Which he hasn't done with Bart somehow. He sent him to... it sound somewhere yeah He He sent him to fucking France. Nevermind. Yeah, totally. And the spam for protection is a good student. the Skinner goes into his first known flashback.
01:06:03
Speaker
Yeah, I don't know why these bits got me so much. They're so funny. I think they just come out of nowhere. Yeah. It's like the whole lighting change, the tone change, the music change. Instead, they sped on me. It is just that abrupt change of tone. Yeah. And they even did the like, you know, the slats, the lighting, the light through the slats of the blinds. It was so good. Also, I think people did spit on non-vets, didn't they, I think, when they got back? Yeah, I believe that was a thing. So Skinner goes back to the record and it's revealed that she's got good attendance, no detentions, and he mentions her bed-wetting problem, because that's probably in there. That's it, man! And he said he tells her not to worry, because people forget, just like they forgot him, as he goes. Yeah! Just like they forgot me in that tiger cage for six months. And every night he wakes up screaming.
01:06:57
Speaker
Naam Skinner is genuinely one of my favorite bits in all of Simpsons. We then go back to the classroom and Bart proves that the magic eight ball was correct about his F grade. So now for his brought into the class and Edna dryly comments that Skinner was just cramming students in and the Skinner politely tells her, don't worry, we'll talk about it later. Yeah, is this a weird like we're secretly in a relationship bit? The way they the way they're talking? I think it's meant to be like a criticism of the American education system. it's got yeah includes I feel like it's just more Edna's being like, the fucking schools suck. You're just like overcrowding them. And this is just a shitty system. And he's like, this is not the time to be talking about how bad this system is. Yeah, because we yeah you've got to remember as well that Edna Craboppel has a fucking master's degree. I've forgotten in what? I think it was social politics or something? But she know she is a very qualified teacher. It's going to introduce a Samantha Stinky, and the class get a good laugh after that until she cracks him. It's going to make comments that that's pretty embarrassing for her, then she's immediately making them. Yeah, her name's Stanky! It's no better!
01:08:06
Speaker
Yeah, I think the kids would still have laughed at Stanky. I'm pretty sure kids at my school would have laughed at someone called Stanky. Emma tries to reassure Samantha that's not to be nervous, but she's about to get Samantha to tell everybody everything about her while she grades.
01:08:22
Speaker
Grading you on grammar and... Posture, I think it was. Posture, yeah. So Samantha goes through and explains that Dad runs a security system and they move to Springfield because of the high crime rate. And terrible cops. And lackluster police force, yeah. She mentions that the town has a weird smell that she's not used to. And ending a couple of little prizes there, it'll take about six weeks. It'll take six weeks, dear! Oh, it's so good! We don't see that Bart is, oops, up to Millhouse on the playground, Basquip if he wants to wet Willy. Millhouse agrees and and he gets the classic wetting finger in the ear.
01:09:00
Speaker
I think this is where I learned about Wet Willy's. Looking back, as a child, because I used to do this. It feels like such a weird bit, like, I don't know, like, is that a thing kids would agree to? If someone comes up to you and says, do you want to Wet Willy, would you go, yeah, all right, not knowing what it was? Yeah, because you just assumed it was like a chocolate bar or something. but I mean, maybe. It doesn't sound like a great chocolate bar, even to a kid. It does have a slightly sinister overtone, doesn't it? You were born with a pipe in your mouth.
Playful Banter & Character Humor
01:09:31
Speaker
The distaste for people on your front garden. I don't think you ever spoke of your pipe or home. Well, I wouldn't smoke with commoners.
01:09:41
Speaker
oh oh Get fucked, Michael! Yeah, I'm wounded. Oh, I don't know if I can continue. Oh, Matt, we'll be right back after these messages. I feel like they'll escape by the dodgeball. I've just but gone face-versus to the ground. Yep. Mailhouse does recover, much like I am forcing myself to at this very moment, and as he picks up his glasses and promises to tear whoever did that to tear them a new A, he sees Samantha in front of him looking like a vision of loveliness. Woah! And we get the falling in love music. Oh right, we're getting into love next.
01:10:19
Speaker
Oh, this was good. So we got to Edna Kropo, who introduces the next segment as, well, all the kids hormones will soon make them an easy target for every smooth talking lophoria with his own current tight jeans. Lovely specific Edna. Edna's bitterness, man. I did not remember it being this much of a prominent thing in Simpsons, but I am here for it. but just The gist of it is that Endo is going to show a sex education film and Ezekiel and Ishmael we've never seen in this class before. They can go outside and pray for our souls. They were there during the introduction of Samantha. They were there in the front rows. That's fine. Can I ask?
01:10:58
Speaker
Are they supposed to be Amish? Is that what this is? I think that's what the joke would be. Yeah, well, yeah, like Ezekiel. Yeah. Because I think, and like, it was a bit, there's like, I think I get the joke, but I'm not sure if I get the joke and I quite like it if it is the joke, but like it almost implied, oh, because of your religion, you don't have to watch sex ed, but then it's like, ah, but they're Amish. They don't have to watch the videotape because it's technology. Yeah. I think it's just a joke about have like very religious, like, yeah affair with them Because there's some fucking Christians in America now that are like complaining about teaching kids sex or sex education. Yeah, I don't think I was as big a thing, but I kind of see I don't know like the the Amish Oh the Amish kids don't have to watch the videotape where all the other kids do kind of tickles me in a specific kind of way Yeah, we then get to 70s Troy McCall
01:11:50
Speaker
And we might remember him, so almost as lead paint, delicious but deadly. Delicious but deadly. Oh yeah, this film was copyright in 1971 at the start of it. And here comes the metric system. Here comes the metric system. And he's here to present the facts of sex tours and a straightforward and frank manner, and we immediately cooked to Fuzzy Bunny's guy to you-know-what. So he's not doing that. We don't get a nice thing of a fuzzy bunny, and we get to several facts about him that's included that his voice changed, he's got acne, and he's got more fur like he didn't have fur before. He's a rabbit. Yeah, it's better, apparently he became a more hairy rabbit.
01:12:31
Speaker
I've forgotten what the female bunny was called. ah Fluffy bunny. Fluffy bunny. That's part of the Closet Boring and Millhouse and Samantha Cher sweet looks. We don't see that they're doing wholesome activities which include shooting. Has anyone noticed that any character in Simpsons that is supposed to be like quote-unquote attractive has an actual nose instead of a circular nose? but helps Yeah, no i absolutely, but I just think it's interesting yeah that the first thing they do To be like no this character supposed to be attractive is give them an actual fucking aqua line nose I think it's also a less of a dramatic overbite compared to most of the characters probably Yeah, I mean, what was it bloody? I've already forgotten her name, but the last from last episode. Yeah. Yeah, learning lumpkin learning lumpkin. Yeah
01:13:18
Speaker
That's Troy McClure mentions that they don't even have not given in to their throbbing biological urges. in the way he says It's so good, man. We then go to the next scene and Fuzzy and Fluffy have got married and now it's time for the honeymoon. The kids are suitably horrified by this. Yeah, I love ites that the sudden change in facial expression on all of the children, man. It's so good. As porno music is playing in the background, and Mrs. Grabofko comments that she's faking it. She's faking it. Very good for the two bunnies in the bed, and instead of cigarettes, they're chewing on carrots. Oh, I'd miss that detail. Nice little visual gag. And then we cut to the next scene, and 14 bunnies have been born, but only eight have survived.
01:14:03
Speaker
And the Stromach Law says that now that we know the facts, don't do it. That is about the shape of American sex ed, yeah. So Mrs. Cropople takes some questions and Nelson asks what happened to Mr. Cropople. And Mrs. Cropople's answer is he chased something furry down the rabbit hole. What does that mean? It's a euphemism, but I can't work out what it means. Yeah, exactly. I was like, yeah but what what is it a use of euphemism for? I'm going to say anal. Yeah, let's go with that. Somehow for us, how could they know if they fall in love, and Mrs. Cropopel's answer to that is that most people will not fall in love, and they'll just die, and they'll just marry to not die alone. Ugh, that's too real, guys. Bart's question is how did he create a half man, half monkey creature? And Mrs. Cropopel's answer to that is... That would be playing God. but I appreciate that she took the time to answer that question seriously. Yeah, every single question she just, she gives a real Ernest Frank answer, and I love it.
01:15:01
Speaker
I'm sorry, that will be playing God. I'm puzzled as to this is God Schmodo. I want my monkey man. We don't see that Milhouse comes up to Samantha after the school and compliments her dress and she immediately says that she hates it and but... Well I hate it too! He agrees to let Milhouse walk her home as Bart is trying to get Otto to hold the bus up so Milhouse can get on it but Otto's got to get himself down to that airport top plus Bart to see his girlfriend. but Yeah, my girlfriend is stripping from, uh, 17 to 420. Yeah, yeah. but It's a firemate strip. I've never, I've never gone to see a stripper, but I would not want to see one in the afternoon. Yeah, afternoon at the airport bar is an interesting place for a topless show. That sounds like truly rock bottom. Yeah. They don't knock you through your throat. All right, Michael, we're off. You still live around here. We're going.
01:15:55
Speaker
Good, I look forward to it. I'll pencil him again. Meanwhile, Barty's treehouse and Milch House arrives, but he's Barty's a man for women, and Barty's not happy about this. who brought the yeah who what's with the skirt Barty's upstairs because he can't walk around nude anymore. He laments and says Mark can stay and read comics. as He offers the radioactive man where she fights some sort of swamp monster woman. Radioactive man fight against this swamp witch. Now for some more traditional female comics. Bonnie Crane, Girl Attorney, Pumpkin and Duncan, or the Twinkle Twins, or Little Knee Socks. Bart does none of those, but he promises that Lisa has a wide selection of crappy comics. We cut to Bart returning and looking at the cover of a comic, which is doomed romances, and Bart says it's disgusting. You guys want to see something gross?
01:16:50
Speaker
but he looks up to see that Millhouse is now kissing Samantha. I really hate how Simpsons characters kiss. It's a very awkward pucker, isn't it? Yeah. We go to the B-plot that begins now, and it's a small line, and it's, I'm OK, but you're too fat. I admit, I wrote, my immediate note was, oh no, a B-plot. But like in retrospect, the B-plot's the saving grace of this episode. Yeah. It really is. this episode is so uncomfortable
01:17:21
Speaker
want to point that out i just felt uncomfortable throughout most of this episode yeah bobman is beginning his news departmenting that thirty four million americans are obese and he mentions the fact that they're using to measure this is that ah All Americans blubber would fill up two for the fifths of the Grand Canyon. That may not sound a lot, but and keep in mind, it's a very big canyon. Omar doesn't want to particularly watch the show, but he can't reach the remote, so he decides to give it a chance. He doesn't even call it the remote, does he? He calls it the channel changer or something. Where's that channel changer? We don't see Kent Bockman list off a list of America's beloved fat celebrities ending on Santa, but then we heard your dramatization of Santa and the realisation of the handful of medical conditions his obesity would cause as the reindeers are keeping a tearful... vigil as he dies. Why, not well like you mentioned Alfred Hitchcock, why not just mention the fact that he actually died of heart disease?
01:18:12
Speaker
and Because it's funnier to watch the two reindeer mourn over Santa Claus. I guess so. Yeah. Do you know what? Yes. Yes. This begins to worry Lisa as she looks at Homer's ample stomach.
Homer's Indulgences & Family Concerns
01:18:21
Speaker
And him, like, raspingly breathing. Yeah, it's a flashback to Homer's funeral, which doesn't have the day of his death, but has the... Did you mean flashback? It wasn't a flashback, no. much yeah yes yeah you know what Back in season one, where Homer died, ah He almost died his season two, so leave me alone. This is true. least Lisa has a daydream, are we happy with that? Yes. Of Homer's funeral, and instead of Homer's dates of death, it has his weight that he was born and the way he died at, which was over 100 pounds. Yeah, but was he born at 9 pounds? Is that a lot for a baby?
01:18:56
Speaker
I have no idea how much babies were. I think anything over six is considered large. I was a big baby. I was a i was a huge baby. It is amazing that I've grown into the scrawny freak that I am now. But I was a huge baby. There is a great picture of me as a wee baba, like you know like a proper photo shooty thing. And my baby face, I am looking at that camera like in all of my head. I'm thinking, I'm going to fucking eat that cameraman.
01:19:27
Speaker
I was a fat baby. It was really cute. My dad's nickname for me was chunky. He still calls me chunky to this day. What's your favorite food fried cheese? It was. I loved it. I mean fried cheese is great. As the marginal meant the creation of it. Curse the day they invented fried cheese. We see that Homer is not in a coffin, he's in a segue piano box. Yeah, just had to find a bigger box to put him in. As the grave diggers realise, they've got to make the hole wider, but the chain unfortunately is doing well. And the chain squishes and everybody dies. Yay! This is Daydream is broken by the sandal. What a flashback, eh? Yeah, a great flashback. I remember when that happened. Same. Yeah. Well, a second ago.
01:20:12
Speaker
and Michael sounds like he's gonna cry. We've been bullying Michael this episode. We love you, Michael. I'm emotionally distraught. Apparently. You're gonna drive me to a second bureau. I finished mine already for once. Normally I nurse it throughou throughout the whole show. Homer is distracted by the beginning of an M and&S advert. Yeah, yeah, it kind of is, huh? So we get a pretty bunch of breakfast sandwich. We can cover those aughts of creamy butter. I wish I knew about eggs and burgers sooner. like i I usually get an egg in my burger now. I'm gonna talk about food, fuck you. Yeah, I love getting an egg in my burger. i get I order from a place around me called Bunchie's, and they put eggs in their burgers, like proper fried eggs, and it's so fucking good. And every time time I take a bite out of it, I'm like, I know this is bad for me, and I deserve it.
01:21:05
Speaker
Enjoy heart disease, I guess. I will, if it if that if that's what leads me to it, I will. I will not be putting on a reindeer suit and standing over your bedside. I thought we agreed on this. I, unlike Lisa, do not resolve to help you.
01:21:22
Speaker
Meanwhile, Millhouse and Samantha are still kissing. I assume this was happening the entire time that... the Made me so uncomfortable. Some out of her comments that she needs to leave as Barty's trading Hitler's baseball cards in Millhouse's collection, which it also ends with ah so but be a picture of Homer being involved in one of the trades. Did anyone do the maths to find out how much these baseball cards would have been worth? Oh god no. Did you? No. That's the end of that segment. Not that dedicated. What were the cards? I'll find out while we talk about this.
01:21:54
Speaker
Oh, Christ, I can't pronounce it. Karl Jostrzemski? I will have to Google this, man. Karl- Uhh, Jostrz mesmeski? Yeah, that's the guy. It actually comes up if you start typing YS. Okay. Uh, Jostrzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwzwz Okay, and he wanted to trade it for... Oh, fucking hell. Oh, I don't care what his is worth, we can assume that his is shit. Omar Vielensky. Omar V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V-V
01:22:42
Speaker
and he trades a a card of mickey mantle nineteen fifty eight for a pitcher of homer on the couch mickey mantle ah Six hundred and ninety two dollars. Whoo. I'll clean up. Yeah man sure do This is now obviously Made like a hundred books though or at least around Bart's time a hundred and fifty four dollars Yeah, yeah, this is this is Clearly the writers being once again. Hey, look how much we know about baseball. Yep, pretty much. Absolutely We need to get things are on
01:23:14
Speaker
We If you want to feel more uncomfortable, Melhouse then compares Samantha to an Eskimo pie. you call that melton but says She doesn't melt, and but Melhouse responds as, oh, yes, she does. The thing that really makes this worse is that this scene is then in immediately followed by an overly sexual food advert.
01:23:46
Speaker
and again i'm not gonna make any like i'm not i genuinely don't think there's anything skeevy going on with this episode all the writers i just don't think the writers thought for a second how this episode feels and it feels just gross Although, and Michael talking about M&S food adverts, this is that again. It's like, it is sexy food. I appreciate that. ah It's a chocolate bar this time, and as you go and describe it, and it just gets covered in rich cream and butter again. Why butter? Chocolate coated in honey, coated in four kinds of sugar, coated in butter.
01:24:23
Speaker
Well, I've got, admittedly, because I am an absolute fucking savage and will dip anything in anything, I have some extra cream bobbins with me right now, and I am gonna dip them in my lemon curd, uh, when I eat them. Are you gonna dip them in butter? Dip it in melted butter, when I'm- Dip it in rich, creamery butter. I feel like dipping it in sugary lemon curd is way worse for you than dipping it in butter. but but board I don't fucking own any butter! everyone has a but in that fridge
01:24:55
Speaker
I don't! And you're a savage. I said that! You're a super savage. i've i've seen I've heard that song. you You should have been on the lawn instead of Homer. So, Lisa comes up to Homer and says that he could lose weight without dieting or lifting a finger. Homer's response to that is to call her a lying scumbag. Why, sweetie?
01:25:19
Speaker
Lisa explains that there's some subconscious subliminal tapes that are, I think I've described that as correctly as it can be, but they're going to be transported to Homer's thing to suppress his appetite. And as Helma asks Marge what she thinks, Marge says, oh my, like you're the way you are, then secretly ask Lisa for the tape. The phone number for the tape. I don't know why they get so much mileage out of this magazine of Lisa's, because she's reading Eternity magazine while she's seen this, and this comes up like twice more in the episode, like according to Eternity magazine, blah blah blah blah blah. Because they couldn't think of another name for a magazine? Yeah, I think it to some extent is also a little bit, hey don't forget Lisa's still here. There is not a lot of thought in this episode, period.
01:26:00
Speaker
no think it's sponsorship yeah absolutely sponsored by attorney magazine just like we should be sponsored by me on days bringing that bit back you can even put our name tags in the underwear so we don't accidentally wear someone else's and it should say right on the ass dip me in butter I had a whole bit for me undies and I completely forgot ah the opening scene to this this this whole episode has Homer and his undies and there was a Canadian TV show that rated it the i I need the exact quote for this because it was rather good it was rated the number one in the top five male underwear moments of all time which I think it should be topped by us getting sponsored by me undies
01:26:43
Speaker
hey There you go. What? There we go. Segway. There we go. Greasy little pig. Got it in there. Dip me in butter. I'm married to lesbian Bigfoot. Let's fucking go. Yeah, dip your meat on these the rich creamy butter.
01:26:58
Speaker
yeah him on that lesbian big going back to Marge on the phone with the receptionist trying to order this tape. One of the options that Marge can select is a hostage negotiation and Marge has her own separate flashback. What is this daydream man? What is this flashback? It's so weird and pointless. Marge giving a surprisingly thorough and earnest consideration to Homer becoming a hostage negotiator. We see in this daydream that Homer's negotiations have not gone well, and he's not giving in to any of them. He just gets machine-gunned. Marge quickly says that Homer should just give him the weight loss tape. We don't go to the factory of these tapes being put into the packaging, and we see that they've run out, so they just give Homer a vocabulary one instead. yeah ye And the B plot is now picked up.
01:27:45
Speaker
How effective are hypnosis tapes, I wonder, because I know they were a huge fad. My dad and mum both tried to use them for quitting smoking. I guess they wouldn't have been a fad if they worked. I don't know. Yeah, true. True. True. True. We don't see Homer in the background. He's patting his stomach as he, uh, tells these guys. Goodbye, stomach we've had some good memories. These are flashbacks, if we're happy with that. ah These are flashbacks. These are daydreams.
01:28:14
Speaker
butger yeah We say that Homer is eating fries off his stomach, and he's bouncing Maggie off his stomach. He uses his stomach as a character in some sort of form. What the hell? He paints a face on his belly, puts a massive top hat on, and I guess he's like... It's like a fun run, I think. A belly-raham Lincoln or something, I don't know. So the tape begins and it's not weight loss, it's improving your vocabulary with Dr Marvin Monroe. Dr Marvin Monroe, this is the voice you want to hear as you're trying to go to sleep. I think that's the joke. Absolutely.
01:28:53
Speaker
And we see, when we learn that an abattoir is a slaughterhouse, and because of the next morning in Homer, he's shoveling bacon down like there's no tomorrow, and there's Marge asks if ah he has to press his appetite. I don't know how I'm gonna butcher what I'm about to say. Would you like me to give you all of the Homer lines? Because they are all excellent. Oh, please do. Marge asks, has the lower weight loss type reduced your appetite? He says, lamentably no. My gastronomic rapacity knows no so say sat taty so satiety. Satiety? Satiety, yeah. I don't think it's pronounced so tight, I think satiety, but whatever. i That's what I thought it was. It's one of those words that nobody ever uses, so nobody knows how to pronounce. We then go to Bart looking for a lawn at Millhouse and Samantha kissing, as Marge asks why Bart isn't playing with him. Bart reveals that all they do is kiss and Marge says, oh that's cute. They don't look at their mouths, do they? yep And Bart says nope, and we go back to that being cute.
01:29:48
Speaker
Then see on the bus, uh, Samantha is now sitting next to the mealhouse, so Bart has to sit next to Martin. Ah, poor Bart. Which is a shot to Martin, because no one sat next to him since he had the school day extended by 20 minutes. Bart reveals that, uh, he needs a friend that doesn't, uh, won't leave him for a girl, and Martin's response to this is to reveal that he's popular with the ladies' disease with the fellas. The chaps, I think he calls them. The chaps, yeah, he says chaps. Just like the word twat, Americans should not say chaps. Martin agrees to hang out with Martin after school, which prompts Martin to declare that he and Bart are now friends. We see the brief friendship moment of which is Martin deciding... Would you like to decide see me hear me play the lute? Martin plays the lute and we just see Bart running away in the background, which is the correct response of what to do. Do you know what? That's the thing. I bet us, like a teenager or young adult, Martin throws a fire D and&D game.
01:30:47
Speaker
Oh for sure, yeah no doubt. We then see Marge and Homer in bed, and Marge can quiet for a moment while he had free desserts that night. And Homer's response is, it's not for here in the Boudoir that Gorman metamorphosizes into the volumtuary voluptuary. I love it. Marge's response is, what the hell are you talking about? After ripping her head cap off with... Where is the tea? Kisses her soul. Yeah, a whole bit of Marge bang. Yeah! Wha-hey, go have some of that, Marge Wiki, you freaks!
01:31:27
Speaker
And we could do Itchy in Scratchy, where Itchy as the minister cuts off Scratchy's wife's head, and then does the same to Scratchy before tying him to the car to drive off, but is suitably tickled by this as the Samantha and Millhouse still look impressed. And the happy couple less so, yeah. Millhouse laughter dies down before immediately picking straight back up. Hey, fun fun relationship advice. We haven't had Matt's relationship advice in a long time and see since ah I told people to offer gravy. um If you at any point change your personality or sense of humor to suit your partners, that's a bad relationship. Thank you for tuning in to Matt's Relationship Advice.
01:32:08
Speaker
You want us to produce a jingle for you? No, you don't have to. I mean, you could. Get into a point where we might need to. and I mean, it's a second time. Relationship-hip advice. ah All right. We'll workshop that. We'll workshop it. I'll try and do more relationship advice, I guess. OK. All right. We're going for it. We then see them at the cinema watching another space-muted film. And again, there's a lot of sex in this episode. The hammy dialogue is so good, though. as they've just banged in bed and the man could go for a snack after all that sex, but a modular space agent mutants. This terrifies both Millhouse as an alpha, but they immediately start kissing, which... This is so uncomfortable!
01:32:48
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Out of the cinema Bart suggests to go do something else but he's gently told that ah they're spending too much time with him and Bart, suitably upset by this bomb bozer saying he doesn't need them but we see him crying in the alleyway. A specific observation on the space alien mutant thing is like I hadn't really picked up on it until now. ah But I think because we saw one so recently I think they legitimately Increment the number of that film every time they use it as a bit for something because we're up to seven now And I'm pretty sure it was six last time we saw it. Yeah, probably and it makes sense
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I appreciate the just that minor effort towards
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continuity. Yeah, it's just a gag on the fact that these kind of things come out so quickly. You know, the the sequels get just pumped out, especially at that period at that time period. Our house runs back to us, Bart, if they can continue to use this treehouse. Oh, fuck off, you twat. Chai is initially resistant to this until Milhauf scalelessly mentions that Tsimampo father finds out about their relationship in Hill Killer. Bart evilly agrees that they can continue to use the tree house as he walks away cackling his little round up that ah they're about to lose their privacy. Yeah. oh Ho ho ho ho ho. Then we get more Homer lines and it's great. With Seabart begin to
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make the phone call but i tried to hide the phone from over but who obviously spotted him and uh and describes him as having a macchiavellian countenance well i think it's a sextet of ale that's a sextet of ale i love that such a good way to describe it i want i don't buy sextets of ale enough but now i want to buy them so that i can call them sextets of ale Well, if you get someone that's as light as Dove beer, then you could. Like, just get the proper drivel, and then you can have a sextet available. But I have to buy stupid fruit twists from Northern Monk, and I can't get that in a sextet. That is a great tragedy of Arthur.
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We then cut to, as after Bart has grasped them up, we cut back to the treehouse at Samantha notes that Millhouse has even been a blur, just in case you weren't feeling comfortable enough. Oh god. But you know, as a comfortable as Samantha's brother, who shows up at that exact moment, and we get a but classic call to, no! He pulls Samantha out of the treehouse and gives her a chance to explain what happened, and as she begins to explain, he immediately overreacts it. Me and Millhouse? That's it! I've heard enough! and declared that he's sending you to an old girl's school. We see them tearfully call out after each other, and Bart, who... Millhouse failed to notice, was in the windows till this entire time, wanting to smog his health. Yeah, I don't know when Bart was chilling there while... It's his treehouse. Millhouse and some other mate out. But, Bart tries to move them back onto to normal things, but Millhouse comments that this was like Romeo and Juliet, but it ended in traffic.
01:35:36
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Nice little line there. We then go back to the B plot and we see that Lisa wakes up home and asks him what day it is. I forgot what. It's the vernal equin hooks. Now but it's two weeks since he got the tape so Lisa wants to weigh him and we see that home has gained 13 pounds. He calls them disingenuous mountain banks with a subliminal chicanery. A pox on them. As he destroys the tape. This is tremendous. And we then cut to Milhouse on the Jungle Gym looking incredibly full on as ah apparently this other character's called Chuck, I do not know of that. That's just fucking nobody but a fine. It's recess everywhere but in his heart. Which is the most unrouthed line of all time. What? I was gonna say fucking... um The time he was Nelson. The horse line. Yeah. But what man can tame her? Oh yeah, oh yeah, I forgot.
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So we then got to board going to see Lisa for advice. She first of all points out that in a million years humans will have five fingers which horrify his board. Because we need to get Lisa in eternity magazine back in for a bit. Well I mentioned that he went to home with her advice but he couldn't understand... Lisa's response to this is that a mint gel is being created that should alleviate the effects of guilt but... God they really just wanted Lisa in this episode man. What the fuck? Yeah, that's what I mean. All of these magazine bits are just like, we we need some laser lines. Unfortunately, that's not available for sale yet, so Bart is going to have to confess. We don't see Bart at to the Van Houtens and Nellhouse's mum thanks him for coming and he's happy that Nellhouse has a true friend. We see that Nellhouse is crying in the bed and
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points out that they've seen Millhouse crying plenty of times but which includes crying at long division having women left over. Did you spot the Spinal Tap poster over his bed? I did spot the Spinal Tap poster. Just gotta get that one last plug in. Yep, yep. Well it finally does confess to Millhouse that he was the one that ran in and out and Millhouse's response to this is to try to kill Millhouse. We then see ah Millhouse's parents come into the doorway and they're overjoyed by the fact that Millhouse has recovered his energy. They make no attempt to pull the boys off each other, they just close the door and leave them to it. Yeah, just boys roughhousing. What do you say roughhousing? But tries to find some way to get Millhouse off him after passing several slightly deadly weapons which includes a broken bottle and a brick. And a pair of scissors.
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He sails on the eight ball and smashes Niall's foreforce in the face of it. I'm pretty sure hitting someone in the head with a magic eight ball would do some damage as well, but... Especially if you're gonna smash it. Like, he so he snaps that thing. And the best line of the whole fucking episode, which is so eighties movie cheese, I guess the magic eight ball didn't see that coming. But back in the Simpsons kitchen and Homer's vocabulary has taken somewhat of a hit since he stopped using the tape and that he doesn't know what the hell a spoon is. Where's the metal deal he used to dig food? Who does? We then ah cut to the next scene after Homer gets his spoon and chomps down on ice cream that Milhouse has gone to visit Samantha at her new school which is St. Sebastian's School for Wicked Girls.
01:38:52
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Yeah, why were they allowed in? They just walked in. Why would they be allowed in? This is- Yeah, that was a bit weird. No, it's fucking stupid. For plot reasons. But I asked how they're going to find her, and now I says you'll be wearing a playjumper. They're all wearing the same exact thing. Not jumpers though, but fine. No one was wearing a jumper at all in this scene. Milhouse and some other find each other and Milhouse gives her a giant bucket of gummy bears that she nearly tears her arms out of socket. I want a bucket of gummy bears that big. That sounds great. I want a bucket. Just a bucket. I love a bucket. But I apologise for putting Samantha in the school, ah or as he calls it, the Penguin House. Samantha actually quite likes a new school because it's run by French Canadian nuns.
01:39:32
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And we see that their nuns are going around playing guitars and there's lots of penis going on. One nun finally realizes that there's boys in the school and politely tells her that that's a no-no. And she says, Nepade boys, which they're quite like. The bell rings and Melhouse ambitiously goes for a kiss, but she reveals it's 50 Rosemary's if she does that. Rosemary's. Rose, Rosemary's not quite the same thing. You have to watch Rosemary's baby 50 times. Oh, it's a delicious baby. yeah yeah i That sounded out in my head. i know I'm now on the register. Great.
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Samantha essentially just decides to- To hell with it. Hell with it, and kisses Nohouse anyway, and Nohouse asks Bart if she thinks- Well, the French national anthem is now plaguing it. I can't. If, uh, if thinks they'll ever find anyone like her again, and Nohouse and Bart's response to this is they all look the same to him. We then end on a brief slide of Homer explaining vocabulary to us. Yeah. Which I wrote down several things, which included Boudoir, which he said, a place where a French guy does it. so
01:40:42
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I never bothered reading these other than the first one. And McMillie, I forgot how you're saying that. Machiavellian. Machiavellian, which is what I don't know. Yeah, he's got satiety, which is ah belt-popping fullness. Triumvirate is three guys giving orders. And the Gormund is like gourmet only fatter. Yeah. I think more of that is we need all the episodes to end with Homer says increase your wordiness. Yep. I agree. Agree. So thought.
01:41:14
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ah This to me was like another one of those like classic episodes of Simpsons in my head that just did not live up to the hype at all like I remembered this episode being great and it is not it is it doesn't do anything like really wrong as an episode of simpsons but it does nothing right either like it's interesting that you you had envisioned it as a classic because like for me it's not something that i remember like yeah you know because it's like a classic to me because yeah because yeah for some reason this one stuck in my head that baton but i remembered baton millhouse like fighting over her
01:41:52
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But I think I'm conflating different episodes because isn't there the one where Bart like falls in love with his babysitter or something? There is that. so that says I think I'm just conflating a lot of episodes of Simpsons together. I mean, i and I enjoyed all of the Homer Wordy bits. ah The rest of it was forgettable fella for the most part. mean yeah I like i like that the Victoria Maclaur sex education. Okay, yeah yeah no that's fair. The Victoria Maclaur bit was the best bit of the episode, but that's yeah that's pretty common for that actor.
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I liked Homer more, if I'm honest. like Every time homer Homer coming out with really verbose shit, fucking slays me. I don't know, a man. Throbbing biological urges. That fucking floored me, dude. i I really like the B plot. The A plot is just... Uncomfortable. Uncomfortable. I just found it meh. I found it uncomfortable. It's meh and a bit uncomfortable. I don't like stories about kids anyway. I don't want to hear about kids' love lives. Bleh. Ew. No, it's weird. Yeah, kind of, yeah. It's just... No. It don't eat... No, it's weird. Oh. This is a family show, so kids will watch it to be fair. Yeah, it's just true. It's not entirely aimed at us. Out of homers! I am gonna give it a chocolate barcode and creamy rich butter out of Homer. That sounds awesome! Interesting.
01:43:15
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Yeah, that sounds like you've rated that quite positively, if I'm honest. No, let me explain it. Oh, okay. Right, wow. He's got it. He's on it. Okay. The underneath, which is the beef, what? Is delicious. But it's covered in a coating of something that doesn't necessarily go with it. okay okay yeah okay that's that's fair and valid okay okay i respect it i love i love this new michael who is embracing the true out of homers i like it i like it keep it up we briefly talked about it before you joined the chat and michael was like oh i haven't done any wait i've got them both okay you prompted me i appreciate that i usually just pull them out of my arms
01:43:54
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I noticed. I used to pull them out my ass and then I started pre-planning them because, man, it is hard to be witty on the fly. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, this is very true. Out of Homer. I give it a magic eight ball out of Homer, which is, it sometimes hit the mark, but it it often does not. Again, very good. Yeah, kissing a girl with braces out of Homer. Fun in its own way, but leaves a weird taste in your mouth and is kind of uncomfortable when you start to think about it. Okay. I dated a girl with braces, and I had braces in high school. I almost hate Nate Myers more than fucking David B. Grouch. Almost. I wouldn't be fucking surprised!
01:44:44
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Admittedly, looking through just generally skimming critical reception of this, but most people did think it was pretty good. like We seem to be the odd ones out, or maybe it has just aged badly. um I think it's aged badly. I think, yeah. Because again, I remember liking this episode. So a lot of people definitely nodded to the Raiders of the Lost Ark bit, being like, that's one of the best bits The Simpsons has ever done. i like It is a classic. I didn't think it was that good, but it's fine. No, you're just you you don't watch movies, though. You don't appreciate. I've seen you've never smiled. You've never smiled. You've never had a good time. No, no wonder you didn't appreciate this bit. How dare you?
01:45:28
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I don't know why I got so angry then. I don't even like Indiana Jones, it's fine. I agree with Bill Gibran of DVD verdict who thought the plot seemed drawn out that only Homer's eating disorder and subliminal tape attempts at weight loss have lasting appeal. What did it say about... so ...society? Don't pay too much attention to kids kissing. And we should resist our throbbing biological urges. Thank you, thank you. John, can you also give us your best throbbing biological urges? throbbing biological urges. thank you thank you
01:46:02
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it had a brief like comment obviously on the weird hangups about sex education and how romantic partners will always change the dynamic of a friend group but no real home runs in terms of society like yeah skirted on the possibility of maybe saying something and then didn Yeah, in the in in the sort of that space of relationships change friendship dynamics. It's a weird one that like people dance around but never really seems to be a thing like in my life I have
01:46:33
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I've had fairly close friends that I've lost contact with through relationships. So to to that end, like, that kind of hits to me. um yeah But like, as a subject, weirdly, the thing that I think actually most directly addressed that as just a topic, it's actually Red Dwarf and Kryton. Yeah, when anything vaguely romantic starts to happen with Kaczynski, Kryton's like, no, everyone's going to leave me. It's like, yeah, you know what? I know how you feel, bud. This has happened. I know what you mean. Don't worry, John. I've already left you. Excellent. Good. Fine. We were never together. All right. Wrap ups. Yeah. ah It's not my fucking job. I'm just moving it on before we hit the two hour mark. I'm trying to engage brain. Sorry. How can they find you?
01:47:26
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you can find me and on twitter and blue sky at matt perspective m-a-t-t-p-e-r-s-p-e-c-t-i-v-e i love spelling it uh i currently stream again on twitch over at twitch dot.com slash mr gablin i'm currently doing a run of baldersgate 3 And I also do another podcast called the Alfa Arnold Podcast where we recently watched Red Sonja and that episode will be edited before the next episode of this Simpsons podcast goes live. I'm going to keep making that promise because it seems to motivate me to keep producing the ah show in an appropriate manner. So. Oh, that's fascinating. That might mean. I mean, there was a long delay while I moved house, but now that I have
01:48:10
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now that i have free time i might be producing you slightly faster so i hope you hope you're on your toes well it just means that i i have to edit it before the next recording session session so there you go uh yeah i don't do anything else currently those are my project i think jesus christ i hope i haven't forgotten anything but yeah red sonya was really fucking interesting get ready for that episode we uh as we said uh last episode we released the episode on terminator i'm really happy with how it turned out i'm amazed at john's opinions go fucking listen to it and you will also be amazed all right you're perpetually amazed at my opinions about everything though i fucking am i have weird opinions i fucking am
01:48:53
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Alright, Michael, where can the wonderful audience who should go and tell me undies to sponsor us, where can they find you? You've been tweeting more. Yes, you can find me on x at bmashwar, so I've made dead name effort i have made a effort to improve my output. At the moment it is it's just memes and links. but Michael's memes have been fire though, I must say. I am trying folks, I am trying. It's uh, if I get more followers or engagements, I will keep it going. If not, it will die a painful death. So. You got to post through it. Keep posting till, till the site dies. Please love me. I can just find humor.
01:49:36
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ah You can find me on the Twitters at Morocco underscore BM. You can find me on the YouTubes at youtube dot.com forward slash button mash. You can find my new beer, which is out at brewyork.co.uk and buy it from their store. I don't get any money from that. Like I designed that beer before I left the company for pride month. They wanted someone to do a pride beer for them. And I was the only LGBTQ plus person qualified to do that. Yeah, they would they would they just turned to John and went, yo, John, you're gay. Make a gay beer. Yeah, i I was like the only person with any qualification to to do a pride beer. but So I was like, all right, I'll do that. they I will say now, they gave me
01:50:22
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way more creative control than I remotely expected to get making that beer. So like the design on it was not designed by me, but at least directed by me. The text on the back is almost all mine. Like I did not expect them to just roll with everything I said when I was like, I want this on this beer. So I named it, I did the recipe. Like it's very me as a beer. ah So if you want to support Brew York's pride month efforts. Absolutely, it has terrible opinions, which is to say it's... It's called by Beyond the Binary. It is a mix of styles of IPAs, which is... hit It's a non-binary IPA. Yeah, get it, get it. Because pride. I do get it. I get it.
01:51:06
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It pissed off people on Facebook, and that's all I care about. Suck up that one, Transphobes. Well, yeah, but if you didn't piss anyone off, you did not do your job alright, so... Happy Pride Month, Month! Go Transphobe or fuck off. ah butpa
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ah The official theme tune of Pride Month!
01:51:35
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We'll be back next time with the finale season goes out of where Danny DeVito comes back and then we'll be into season four and something new might happen. Who knows what happens in season four. We'll get there. Bye everyone. Bye. Bye everybody.