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S5E4&5 - Rosebud & Treehouse of Horror IV
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Jon, Michael, and Matt watch The Simpsons episodes 'Rosebud' & 'Treehouse of Horror IV', and discuss what they say about society.
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Introduction & Spooky Beginnings
00:00:00
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Hello, this is Mole Man in the morning. Good Mole Man to you. Hello, welcome to Mole Man in the morning. Mole Man. Spooky. Ooh. Ah.
00:00:12
Speaker
Oh, I don't like that.
00:00:16
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Oh, I don't like that. You sound like my fucking nana or something. Is it too spooky for you? Don't like that, Matthew. Oh, no. It's just I'm accustomed to our traditional mole man in the morning opening and any change in the formula scares me.
00:00:31
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this is This is true. Yeah, change is scary.
Podcasting & Apologies
00:00:34
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But we can get through it together through the medium of podcasting. Podcasting? What's one of those? I haven't heard one of those. haven't seen a podcast in a long time.
00:00:43
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Bite me!
00:00:46
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That wasn't directed at Arnie as a project. I don't believe you. I don't believe I was directed the fact it's been nearly a month since we recorded this thing, I think, at this point, isn't it? Yeah, we apologize, folks.
00:00:59
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Real life's gone in the way. I don't.
Halloween Special Announcement
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I genuinely have had stuff, and i was like, okay, I'll wait till the stuff is finished, and then stuff kept happening, and ah things are dying down. have a less of a life again. It's okay. You can you can have me podcasting now.
00:01:13
Speaker
we're never letting you leave. Well, let's talk about some Simpsons because we are podcasts about how the Simpsons has a lot to say about society.
The Simpsons Season Five Discussion
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i am your host, John. i am joined as ever by my two spooky hosts, Matt.
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Hello. So spooky. And Michael. Hello, podcasterinos. There we go, that was the energy we're bringing to this Halloween special. Yep. In April. Yeah, this is actually April. Mole Man in the Morning celebrates Halloween whenever whenever it happens, you know?
00:01:53
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It could be any time. The spookiest month. I'm waiting for it to line up with Christmas, it'll be great. Actually, it is tax season for Americans, so it is the spookiest month.
00:02:05
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Oh, I hope you filed your 138. The doctor was...
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doctors
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We are looking at episodes four and five of season five. That's going to Rosebud. And if you could not tell, a yet another Treehouse of Horror. Treehouse Horror for four.
00:02:30
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Yeah, it's always, like... ah It's fun and interesting and weird and whatever you want to make of it that like you just deduct the number from the season. Like the only season they ever never did one was one and somehow they just kept that shit going for like 34 years since then. Yeah.
00:02:48
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It's remarkably impressive. I think I mentioned I saw last year's Treehouse of Horrors. It was okay. Oh, like as in twenty twenty four so I think so. It was treehouse of horrors and it was, it looked very new.
00:03:02
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ah You know, that was about, you know, the the gist of it. I mean, ah as, as we observed last year, I, I got bored of these after like one. So, o boy, get ready for this one. Because you have no soul.
00:03:19
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No, I traded it for a donut. Sue me. Sean hates fun. I would trade it for a donut. I love donuts. Also interesting that a Rosebud is named after a possible misinterpretation of Citizen Kane.
00:03:33
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Is it? ah Yeah, because some people interpret Rosebud to be um something that was meaningful to the guy as a child, whereas others um deliberately think it's it's meant to be unknowable and ineffable and that people's last words are ultimately meaningless. Yeah.
00:03:53
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um because you just a lot of people just say the first thing that comes to their head, um or that we will never truly understand what they meant in that moment, because in that moment, they are dying, and we can't ask them because they're dead.
Beverage Banter & World Events
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So that's interesting.
00:04:04
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And that is the most interesting part of this episode. Let's back it in then. Alright, bye everybody. See you next time.
00:04:15
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Oh, come We've got to fill up an hour at the very least. Oh, go on then. It's like YouTube quota. Before we start, we have to trade our souls for something that we're drinking. So, what have we got today?
00:04:28
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I found out my local shop sells my favorite Japanese dry beer because I am a hipster. Asahi. I don't drink any actual ah unique Japanese beers. I just drink the one they sell.
00:04:41
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I actually quite like Asahi. It's really nice. Cool. i enough drinking a I am drinking a Fanta Zero Sugar Twist because that's how good my life is going right now. Oh boy. Okay.
00:04:53
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What are you drinking? I've got, I dug out a bottle that was left over from birthday present from last year, actually, which is a English Heritage branded chili mead.
00:05:03
Speaker
Ooh, those two things sound like they shouldn't go together. Why? really nice. I like that. That's good. I don't believe you. Is it actually hot?
00:05:15
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I mean, I'm an idiot chili fiend, so frankly very few things are particularly hot to me. i would never have pegged that as you. Oh, I'd like never have expected you to be a spice person.
00:05:28
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I, I, in- insane spice head, like, I- I have munched on Carolina Reapers just for funsies before. Regreted it horribly. Do you like tasting things? like Yeah, you've choked bacon. don't taste a lot after that, I'm gonna be honest.
00:05:44
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Yeah, it, uh, it was a regrettable experience, but it was just, just like, you know, curiosity. You gotta try it, right? No! Yeah, you do.
00:05:56
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going get you the hot ones at some point. that'll Get your voice and the bombing to some IPAs to see how it goes. um Well, I mean... ok right. Derail me. Fine. Do it. um Just before I left Brew York, we made a jalapeno IPA. It was fucking delicious. It was incredible. It was so good. That sounds foul.
00:06:18
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It was really nice. you You would be surprised. Like, everybody goes, like, oh what the fuck? No, I wouldn't. But no, it was really good. never been surprised ever. It doesn't happen. It's impossible to surprise me. Next time I see you, I'm gonna rock up with a four pack of IPAs and a jar of pickled jalapenos and you are drinking them.
00:06:37
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Alright, it's summer happening, right? I have money, I'm coming over for a weekend, we're gonna go hang out. We'll record a Simpsons where we're both in the same fucking room and i can slap you for drinking the shit you drink. Drinking jalapeno IPAs.
00:06:51
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Over a thousand views on this video, they'll record it.
00:06:57
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Right, well, it might be a while off yet. Simpsons! Right, Simpsons. Let's talk about Rosebird. What happened in this episode? What happened on this day? I've completely forgot we've got a bit, haven't we? We've got a bit about it.
00:07:10
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A format! It's been a month! Like, the format's... The whole thing has fallen apart! Like, we've had a few sleeps since then, and a few drinks, and a few chillies.
00:07:21
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What date of after? 21st, 1993. What happened on this day? Now, I have to chuckle about this, because the source where I get this information has listed the off events of importance in this order.
00:07:37
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Twilight of the Gods opens at Bufita, New York City, for 29 performances. And that's the most important thing that happened. Yeah, but the thing underneath, okay failed military coup in Burai led by ex-president Jean-Baptiste Bagatta, 525,000 Houthis flee and the president, Melikor Nidai, is assassinated.
00:07:57
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so Yeah, but that that didn't happen in America, so who cares? No, it didn't open in Booth's Vita. President Nadei, no one cares. I'm sorry about your death. Oh, you... Gotta be honest, a lot of Indians didn't find out that their country is at war until they read it on Reddit. So, but the world has always been fucked.
00:08:15
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That's myth, isn't it? In terms of war. oh yeah. Would you like to know the number ones? Give us number ones. All right, so the US number one is Still Dream Lover by Mariah Carey.
00:08:28
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Has anyone actually gone and listened to it since we all said we're fairly certain we've heard it but have no idea? i i think I did go and listen to it and it was not the song I thought it was it was not a song I've heard before.
00:08:40
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Right. You'll have heard of the UK, number one. Oh, fuck yeah. And it is. I'd do anything for love. I won't do that.
00:08:51
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ah the big meatloaf. Absolute banger. But I won't watch Simpsons, and I won't release another episode of All for Arnold.
00:09:03
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Shame he turned out to be an absolutely insane anti-vaxxer type at the end, and that was what got him, but banger. i can't I can't deny banger. know it's...
00:09:13
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Separate the man from the artist. Absolutely. That's pretty what it is. Alright, John, go watch a Mel Gibson film. No. the crisises are particular Exactly!
00:09:29
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everyone Everyone says separate the artist from the art. No one actually practices that shit. but We'd separated Michael Jackson from his appearance in Stark, The Raving Dad.
00:09:43
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No, we didn't. We talked about it. We vaguely said that, but we didn't judge our episode. and We didn't go, oh, we can't give this a homer because Michael Jackson, wasn't it? Yeah, that's fair. i Yeah, yeah. I'll follow admit I'm wrong.
00:09:55
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We're padding out, folks, because there's no chalkboard gag this week. Yeah, let's skip that again. that's That's twice now. For now, joke. First thing to go every time. Conan's just phoning it in now.
00:10:07
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ah This was written by John Schwartzwalder, so can't blame Conan
Animation & Writing of The Simpsons
00:10:11
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for this one. Yeah. You never blame Conan. He'll come after you. Conan did some of the Treehouse of Horror, but not this.
00:10:18
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Conan the Barbarian wrote Treehouse of Horror? o Excellent. and Suddenly more interesting. I think he wrote the couch gag, which was the duplicate family.
00:10:29
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I got a mild chuckle. It was alright. Yeah, they looked at each other bamboozled. Also, actually, yeah, so it's speaking of like, just because I'm going to dive straight into my thoughts, I suppose. Did anyone else feel like this episode was like worse animated?
00:10:43
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There's a couple of moments where the moving. it it was It was just like the quality of the, of I don't know if it was just the print that Disney has, because I watched it on Disney Plus, you know, or like there's no better print of it, but it just didn't look great to me. Like it was very fuzzy.
00:11:05
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There was lots of spots on particular frames. andtro It was just odd. It was just odd to me. And I just thought this looks really low quality compared to the other episodes we've watched.
00:11:16
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Hmm, okay. Like, he did it didn't look clean, I guess with is what I would say. So I don't think it was a quality of the animation, I think it was a quality of the of the print, or... Yeah, because it'll have been VHS, so the quality of the print.
00:11:28
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Yeah, I mean, there were a couple of bits that, to me, felt like maybe slightly filler, lower quality, like that scene with Abe Simpson before that we observed was just like, this just doesn't look like the rest of the episode. It did line like, by and large, I didn't notice anything particularly.
00:11:44
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There's also a bit when Smithers talks that was clearly recorded a different time to his previous line in the show um because the quality is like completely different.
00:11:56
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And i always find that really interesting. um I'm always very curious about that. It's like, did they think we needed another line to like link these two scenes or did they just lose that line and they needed to record, re-record it?
00:12:09
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You know, there's there's myriad reasons why, but there is definitely a line There's your homework for today, listeners. Go find the line in Rosebud that is very clearly recorded in a different location to the rest of the ah ah Smithers dialogue.
00:12:24
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It's really odd, but i I'm always very fascinated by stuff like that. Yeah. So we're outside of the bird's mansion, and it has some sinister signs of the dogs will attack, stay out, and three kittens inquire with him.
00:12:39
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that got a bit of a laugh off from me, but did that it this bit dragged on. Which I can you can say a lot. I feel like you can say that for this whole episode. Considering they cut out the intro in order to fit all of this episode, a lot of this episode felt needless. there is It's it's a little bit bloated, isn't it? yeah It's a long episode.
00:12:59
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but We then get the scene outside Mr. Burns' window and we've got the armed guard going... Which I didn't pick up on the reference, but I guess that was Wizard of Oz?
00:13:13
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Yeah, it's Wizard of Oz. Spirit sticks his head out and tells him to shut up. chiman And they immediately start doing their chant much quieter. Yeah, I like the stance they adopt as well.
00:13:24
Speaker
It's quiet stance. Yeah, exactly like The Yeah, that got a chuckle. We then see that Mr. Burns is in his bed and he's tossing and turning and we get to go inside his mind and see that he's remembering his childhood where he's got his stuffed bear, Bobo, and he declares himself the happiest boy there is.
00:13:43
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At that moment, limo pulls up and he's called over by his parents who we learn that Mr. Burns is actually called Happy. Yeah, and they address him as Happy. that's Okay, sure. Happy is asked if he would like to live with his loving natural parents. I'll go live with this twisted billionaire.
00:13:58
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He immediately drops the bear, puts on a pair of sunglasses and says, let's roll. and The little takes off and the dad picks up the bear and says he's forgotten the symbol of his youth and innocence.
00:14:09
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But he immediately drops the bear and resigns himself to the fact that they still have George Burns. And case you haven't got the gag, this is young George Burns, the famous American comedian. have not heard George Oh, he's actually, that guy's called Burns. Okay, I did not get this joke.
00:14:23
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No, that that was completely lost on me. um Yeah, it's it's one of those jokes that, like, is for... It's not for everyone, clearly. i am curious, yeah, how, like, ubiquitous that joke would have been at the time, in 1993.
00:14:39
Speaker
George Burns was quite big in his later advanced years and this was around this time, so it probably would have landed with most American audiences. landed outside of America, though, is the other thing. i know that's I know the Simpsons writers probably don't write for anyone but Americans.
00:14:55
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i know in like ah Not in like an exclusatory way, I'm not trying to accuse them of anything. I'm just saying, they probably stick to their core demographic of Americans, you know, because it's an American sitcom. I think we've observed before they don't write for anyone but themselves. This is very true.
00:15:09
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I don't think this would have hit but anybody outside of America. But George Burns assures us that he this will be funny when he's an old man, and I assume it was. For what it's worth, George Burns' Wikipedia article notes him as being active from 1902 to 1996, saying he was active right up until his death, in ah aged 100 1996. Jesus.
00:15:33
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Not a bad innings, that judge. So he was, he could have been Mr. Burns' brother. Yeah. That was just quite impressive. Oh shit, that's genuinely probably part of it. I hadn't even considered that.
00:15:45
Speaker
We're down cut seeing that Burns knocks over his snow globe of Never Break brand. And we see Smithers walk into the room and see he's done this multiple times. So is is that the whole gag for the the snow globes thing? That they're Never Break, and that's why but they keep breaking and that's why he has a fucking crate of them.
00:16:02
Speaker
Yep. guess so. Is that the whole gag? I assume so. I'd love to, again, listeners, because since we do like YouTube now, post in the comments if you if you think there's more to that gag, because what?
00:16:14
Speaker
Like, was that but I think it's a subsidiary of Seldom Break. Right, fair enough. Don't know. So, we did see that Burns is muttering his sleep about Bobo, and Smivers wakes him up. Bobo.
00:16:28
Speaker
And Smivers asks, who is Bobo? And Burns tries to pass off as Sheriff Lobo, and the TV show should not have been cancelled. Second time they've referenced Sheriff Lobo. They're weirdly like weird into Sheriff Lobo.
00:16:40
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They must really be upset about Sheriff Lobo being cancelled. Which I think is that then adds further weight to the argument that they're just waiting for them. like Whoever was in the writing team there just really liked Sheriff Lobo and was throwing references in there.
00:16:53
Speaker
An audience of one. the the simpsons writers are very lucky in the sense that for one they get to do that and two they just happen to be funny you know a lot of the a lot of the jokes when they write so many jokes adjust for them some of them aren't gonna land like the the lobo thank maybe someone found that funny whatever, that's fine. I'm not like judging someone for finding it funny.
00:17:16
Speaker
But Simpsons is a show that is very, very clearly written for the writers and yet has been incredibly popular. And early Simpsons is such a great example or or should be a great example of how to write media in general write for yourself you know because then it will at the very least it will come across as earnest you know which is why most modern films these days aren't that interesting this i have nothing to say about this episode so where i'm going occasionally go on little rants and you can't stop me that's absolutely fine please do
00:17:51
Speaker
the so the modern the modern The modern film industry, a lot of films all feel the same, feel homogenous. You go in and you watch it and go, that was fine, but you have no strong feelings about it because the people writing it, the people producing it don't care.
00:18:06
Speaker
They're not writing it because they want to tell this particular story. You know, they... It's like, okay, what if we wrote a Simpsons episode that's based around ah film that no one's fucking seen and call it Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington?
00:18:21
Speaker
I mean, something something I saw in Blue Sky in this past week, ah as regards Simpsons and writing, which is potentially relevant here, is that the Simpsons writers at this time were writing about...
00:18:33
Speaker
the the sort the cultural works that they grew up immersed in, like, in their lives. um The people writing The Simpsons now, probably being about the same age, sort of maybe in their 30s, 40s, something like that, what did they grow up with? Well, they grew up watching The Simpsons.
00:18:51
Speaker
yeah So they're referencing Simpsons in a sort of weird Ouroboros kind of thing. yeah it's like it's like when you feed AI content into the AI and it just goes weird. Yeah. Yeah, no, I think that's totally fair. And I think um it's almost gotten worse outside of The Simpsons to some extent with most modern films now are referencing modern films now. that that Everything is based on what was popular three years ago, you know, however long it took to make another film rather than, again, these being earnest films written by people
00:19:28
Speaker
that have a story to tell say what you want about Zack Snyder at least he does what he wants I think it's all shit but at least he does what he wants and the people that like it clearly fucking love it you know i mean like yeah it's not for me but I respect the people that like it my brother loves the Snyder Cut and I'm happy for him Because, you know, again, it's produced by someone...
00:19:54
Speaker
um It's produced by a person that genuinely wants to write the stories he writes. I don't agree with his decisions, but he he writes what he wants, and that's awesome. And that's why there won't be diehard fans for any of the most recent Marvel films like there is for the Snyder Cut. You know what mean?
00:20:13
Speaker
yeah No one's going to die on the hill of ah Captain America Brave New World. which I've heard was like fine, but that's the best you can say about it. It was fine.
00:20:25
Speaker
And I find that so fascinating. Again, the Simpsons jokes don't always land, but they're written by people that wanted to write the joke, not just get a paycheck. So whatever.
00:20:35
Speaker
Moving on. We then learn that it is ah Burns' his birthday and Burns laments that he's not going to get what he wants and Smithers' trial, he says, no one does. We then go into Mr. Smithers' mind and it's ah Mr. Burns coming out of a cake in his ah ah hey sash saying, Happy birthday, Mr. Smithers. Smithers. That's the way he says it, man.
00:20:58
Speaker
got least one group chat that definitely that gets shared around on everyone's birthday every time. Yep, and Smithers orgasms. Yep, yep, pretty much. Pretty much. That's the way I can describe it But I go to the Simpsons' bed and Homer is having a nightmare of his own, this time about Sheriff Lobo.
00:21:16
Speaker
Yep. Homer wakes up and he's terrified as he... realizes that it is indeed Burns' his birthday, and Marge asks what the problem with that is, and Homer says he's going to get a terrible job. We then cut to Homer's memory of last year, and Homer was holding the piรฑata, which Burns kept missing and hitting him, except the one time he did hit it, and Homer said, ah, missed me, then got hit again.
00:21:37
Speaker
We then see that Marge has fallen back asleep, so Homer's not very happy about that. We then cut to to work, and Homer is holding in court with a load of people laughing at merely because there's a coat hanger in the back of his shirt, and he can't get it out.
00:21:50
Speaker
Has anyone ever actually done that? ah dave I feel like that would be hard to do. You would notice. I'm curious if it's like the banana peel kind of thing. It's like no one's ever actually slipped on a banana peel, but it it became like a ubiquitous thing in comedy.
00:22:06
Speaker
Fun fact, in animated films, the reason they used a banana peel is it's a a synonym. Or not synonym. I don't know what you... Like a replacement for shit. Yeah. They couldn't put shit in a film, so they had a banana peel.
00:22:20
Speaker
Okay, interesting. Makes sense. Yep. They also learned that has managed to get one into his arse crap too, because it was in his pants. and like Yeah. I can't tell where... I and and suppose, left as an exercise to the viewer, like, whether Homer didn't take the hanger out of his pants before putting it on and went to work with that, or whether the guys have somehow managed to get a hanger into his pants without him noticing.
00:22:43
Speaker
Well, he put he put the one with his shirt... He put his shirt on first, right? So then that restricted his arm movements, and then he put his pants on, so then he couldn't reach to get the one in his pants, nor the one in his
Social Commentary & Entertainment Industry
00:22:55
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shirt.
00:22:55
Speaker
So ah it became a whole debacle. Yeah, it's physics. It's physics. It's physics, John. We can see that Burns is watching this on the camera, and he decides that Homer Simpson is described as a carbon blob from 6 to 7G. Okay. Carbon blobs, man.
00:23:12
Speaker
yeah That's so harsh. Is this the first time we've started getting those gags? Or has he said that that kind of thing before? Because i know that's a running gag of describing him as various things. I think he has used it before. Yeah, because he doesn't say he doesn't say just about Homer. He says one of the carbon blobs.
00:23:29
Speaker
Which is just a rent you know it's just another way of saying like menial worker or whatever. you know Smithers has done that before, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. um But like I can't... I don't know. I'm sure struggling to place that gag having been used specifically. I know it will come up a bunch. who will cover Oh, that's Homer Simpson, one of the chair warmers from Sector 7G or whatever. Yeah, he's done those jokes before.
00:23:47
Speaker
Yeah. yeah So Burns makes the fatal mistake of assuming that ah Homer is some kind of comic genius and says he wants his fractured take on modern life. And Smith says he'll get him some snappy Sinbad material.
00:23:58
Speaker
Okay, someone's a big fan of Sinbad. Not familiar with Sinbad's material, gotta be honest. Maybe I'll lie, but why not? Presumably something which appeals to Burns, I don't know.
00:24:10
Speaker
That one guy that got really annoyed on one of the YouTube videos that we didn't get a specific reference. yeah hiss's fucking fury He's We have to get all of the references or else...
00:24:24
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, that's the thing is like and to this particular guy on YouTube, have you seen how much effort John and Michael, not me, John and Michael put into getting the references for this show by looking at Frinkiac and shit?
00:24:37
Speaker
Fucking appreciate that. I mean, yeah, cool. Be mad at me. i don't fucking care. I don't care. So be mad at me. No, John and Michael put actual effort into making sure they understand where the references come from.
00:24:49
Speaker
I know who Sinbad is. I've never watched one of his comedy shows, so I don't know what the act is. Yes, basically. I know all of Sinbad. That's about it. And now, apparently, looking at his page, apparently he's in Jingle All The Way. So get ready for that. Oh, yes. I remember him in that.
00:25:07
Speaker
Yes. Okay, no, but now understand Sinbad's fractured take on modern life. Subscribe to an entirely different podcast for that eventually. Yay. About five years.
00:25:19
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How? Yeah, yeah. We then cut to Homer writing his comedy routine, and is and he says he's doing a delicious send-up of Mr. Burns, which includes his poo-poo one word or two, which leads to Rota's laughter. ah Only from Bart, but yeah.
00:25:35
Speaker
High fives from Bart. Marge says she doesn't think it's a good idea for him to humiliate his boss, and but Lisa disagrees, thinking that a Homer could... could earn a special place in Mr. Burns' heart with his act.
00:25:47
Speaker
Homer then reveals that his grand finale is that he's going to do an impression of Mr. Burns by pulling down his pants and drawing a frowny face on his arse, which leads to a double frown. Murmur from the Marge of Lisa.
00:25:59
Speaker
In a desperate attempt to tease out ah modern relevance to things, like the idea of tweaking of an extremely rich guy's foibles is ah how we ended up with America in 2025.
00:26:12
Speaker
little bit. Yeah, the check out ah Obama's ah comedy roast of Trump if you want to know how we got here. um so speaking Speaking of pathetic little gremlins, um did anyone watch or see clips of, or at least screenshots of, the livestream playing path ah Path of Exile 2 that Elon Musk did on his private fucking jet?
00:26:34
Speaker
And it was just people spamming his private messages in the game. Oh, that one, yeah. Saying the best shit. It was so fucking funny. I do not believe in bullying unless it's Elon Musk.
00:26:48
Speaker
Fuck that cunt. I heard the world's best Path of Exile player ah failed at the tutorial. Yes, he did. He died at the tutorial and it ended his stream because he was getting relentlessly bullied and reminded that no one fucking likes him.
00:27:02
Speaker
Oh, dear. Moving on. oh We then see that Homer's now doing his best ah Bob Hope impression. He's got the golf club and everything. And ah the joke is now that Mr. Burns is incontinent and Lisa says, do you know what incontinent means? And Homer doesn't want his fun spoiled.
00:27:19
Speaker
It does spoil our fun. I like that Homer in this as well as god has such has like combed his two hairs so they've got a little ah little curl to them. Oh yes, yeah, yeah. oh That was very cute.
00:27:30
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He then calls Marge stupid and Marge tells him to stop insulting everyone and almost says that the comedy roast is an American tradition, yet what gives us the freedom to criticise our social betters. He then demonstrates this by going outside and telling Flanders he smells like manure.
00:27:44
Speaker
Flanders takes him seriously and cancels the dinner party. Oh, Flanders. Literally literal Flanders is the best. Thanks for the nose news, neighbour. Nose news.
00:27:55
Speaker
Don't cut to the party taking place and there's a very slow depressing march to get inside the building. see but Yeah, I thought they were going to be like humming, so like, you know, all moaning in a way that like made a song.
00:28:07
Speaker
But no, they are just moaning. And I thought that's a that's a missed opportunity to have a bit there. Actually, they could have had them moaning the ooooh wee, but like not literally doing that, it just happens to sound like that would have been a fun bit.
00:28:21
Speaker
but no na But no, instead we've got to get the bit in with Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon going into the past the guards. No one termers. But Bush, God, can't get him. And he's next to poor old or good old friend Jimmy Carter, who was apparently not very well liked in The Simpsons.
00:28:36
Speaker
i mean, we observed a few episodes back that, like, they really, really, really wanted to get a former president on. And, like, they've been, they've had, and but they obviously haven't got the president on themselves, but they've been using them in episodes like,
00:28:54
Speaker
wildfire since then. A president turns up in every damn episode lately. I think it, maybe it's that kind of tactic of like, right, well, we'll keep using them and slightly misrepresenting them until they think, right, well, I'm going to come in and set the record straight.
00:29:08
Speaker
and Yeah, maybe. And it's like, there is no way you're going to get a president to come on and say any of the lines you want them to. You're going see Jimmy Carr going on saying he knows a good yogurt place and ah George Bush calling him a loser.
00:29:21
Speaker
Not really, no. I haven't actually delved into the subject, and maybe I should have done, but now I am actually genuinely fascinated if they ever have got an actual present on to do anything. I could see Obama doing it. Obama seems like the kind of present who would it go on The Simpsons.
00:29:36
Speaker
Warcrime McGee. Yeah. Well, Tony Blair did an episode of The Simpsons, so... Oh, shit, really? Who gives fuck about what that spanner did? I'm just saying, political figures have done it.
00:29:47
Speaker
This is fair, this fair. So we then get to see Smithers begin the festivities by showing a yeah Monty Burns-alive presentation, and we see that it's ah images of Mr Burns that may or may not have been doctored, which include him taking the place of Muhammad Ali and Marilyn Monroe.
00:30:06
Speaker
very very Very Kim Jong-il coded. Yeah. We then see the final shot is of Mr. Burns as a child with Bobo, and Burns sighs wistfully as Smithers looks concerned. Why would Smithers put that in if he knew it was... What?
00:30:21
Speaker
Eh... that would now get the music act, and it's the Ramones who are being played by themselves. Oh, these guys fucking rule. I love this better.
00:30:32
Speaker
Burns misguidily says that these minstrels will soothe his jangled nerves. The Ramones begin by saying the gig sucks and tells everyone up your Springfield. They then play a fairly rocky version of Happy Burns. Happy Birthday. After birthday. Yeah, that's great.
00:30:46
Speaker
Addressing Burns as Burnsy before ending the song by calling telling him to go to hell the old bastard. Hey, I think they liked us. The icing on the cake of this is Burns at the end saying, have the Rolling Stones killed. Have the Rolling Stones killed.
00:31:01
Speaker
Oh, those are do as I say. yeah Then see Burns opening all his presents and he's piled with loads of jewels and gold and fancy things. If the Rolling Stones have never appeared in The Simpsons, we now know why. It's because canonically in The Simpsons verse, they're dead.
00:31:17
Speaker
Oh, they show up. They came back to life. but then like Maybe they use Marge's Dustbuster to take away the dust from digging themselves out of their graves.
00:31:28
Speaker
Burns is not a crust. That was tried. Leave me alone.
00:31:34
Speaker
We then see that Smivers has arranged for the people Australia to join hands and spell out his name with candles. All has to do is turn his head to look at it. How rich is Mr Burns, man? How rich is Mr Burns? All he has to do is turn his head to the monitor and Burns goes, eh, no time.
00:31:49
Speaker
No time. We then cut to Smivers back at the f front and he announces that a small puppy, not unlike Lassie, has been run over in parking lot. The audience are horrified and he chooses that as the appropriate moment to Homer Simpson. Time the comedy stylings of Homer Simpson.
00:32:01
Speaker
Homer comes on stage declaring, are you ready to laugh? And one man just goes, oh, that poor dog. Oh, my poor dog. And then a woman tells him he's an awful man after he repeats it. Be quiet, you awful man.
00:32:14
Speaker
Alma starts his thing and starts his comedy routine by calling Mr. Burns Cheap and Burns is not happy. He then tries to change tracks by going, Burns is old and Burns is very angry. Alma declares it's a tough crowd and then brings out the big guns, which is dropping his pants and revealing his arse, which has a pretty terrible smiley face as he does his Mr. Burns impression, which isn't the best, I'll be honest.
00:32:36
Speaker
We just can get some extreme close-ups of Burns' enraged face. Before he declares that Homer needs
Maggie's Attachment to Bobo
00:32:42
Speaker
to be destroyed and the security guards go and knock Homer out and Burns declares the end of the party and his robot-armed riot squad collapsed. Everyone gets fucked up because of Homer's gags.
00:32:55
Speaker
We didn't see Homer at home with the bump on his head, lamenting where he went wrong. Homer says, declares, he'll never wiggle his bare butt again. And Lisa, in a very sombre voice, goes, I'd like to believe that this time. I really want. I mean, an obvious joke, but fair enough. It's chuckle worthy.
00:33:11
Speaker
Bart says that Homer. yeah I chuckled, so yes. all be I did. I was taken aback by the seriousness of Lisa's. Bart then tells Homer that he knows he's discouraged, but shouldn't deny the world of his fat can.
00:33:25
Speaker
But Homer declares it's alright, he'll be ready for Aunt Selma's birthday, and Lisa very despondently goes, I knew it. We then see ah but fuck burley so back at the Burns mansion, and Spirits points out all the wonderful things ah Burns has, including the Sword of Excalibur, the nude photo of Mark Twain.
00:33:44
Speaker
The only nude photo of Mark Twain. And a copy of the Constitution with the word suckers in it. This is not an enough for Burns and Rivers then says, oh, you want Bobo back. Burns is livid and tries to beat the hell out of her.
00:33:58
Speaker
You've been the crushing of a lifetime. yeahy yeah it really Resistance is futile. Burns then declares that it is true he wants his bear back, but he's gone and he'd give anything to know what happened to him.
00:34:11
Speaker
We then learn what happened to Bobo and Bobo eventually finds his way into a stream before being picked up by, of all people, Charles Lindbergh, who then goes on the Spirit of St. Louis on his the famous air journey and throws him into the crowds in Paris where he's picked up by Adolf Hitler.
00:34:28
Speaker
A guy with a weird moustache. We then get to the bunker of 1945 and A dog guy with a weird moustache. And the guy with the weird moustache mysteriously blames Bobo for the situation he's found himself in. This situation that we have no idea what it is.
00:34:47
Speaker
He somehow manages to throw where Bobo out of a bunker into the wilderness. Yep. I don't know how physics worked. but Winds up in the and into the Antarctic? is One of the arctics, I guess. is um So, Bobo going to the Antarctic.
00:35:01
Speaker
Is this... a reference to the conspiracy that the ah particularly angry group of Germans ah fled to the Antarctic ah when the undisclosed event ah went pear-shaped for them, do you think?
00:35:19
Speaker
Because i mean that is a genuine conspiracy theorist that they all fled to bunkers in the North Pole. because there is act because And it all started, again, I have nothing to say about this episode, so slight tangent,
00:35:30
Speaker
There are actual documents saying that there were a bunch of German ships that were going to the North Pole. But we have no other documents. We have no idea what this was about, what it's in reference to. So obviously, conspiracy theorists said the guy with the weird mustache is now living ah in the North Pole in a secret bunker.
00:35:47
Speaker
Oh, fair enough. I mean, like I've not heard that. I mean, mostly, I guess, not even a conspiracy theory. most As far as I'm aware, most of them just ended up in South America. Yeah, most them tended to go to South America. i mean, there was about... Yes, I know, but i'm i'm I'm not asking, it do you think it's a reference to the real thing that happened?
00:36:05
Speaker
I was saying, do you think it's a reference, a convenient reference, to the very common conspiracy theory? i I could not speculate. I have not heard that conspiracy theory. It's possible. I mean, it might just be the thing we need to put the bear in a funny place.
00:36:18
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, that's the thing is, yeah, the bear ends up in ice conveniently, but... there's This scene was also cut for length as well. ah they had this This was longer. It was involved in the JFK assassination at one point as well. Oh, loud that's a shame.
00:36:35
Speaker
ah the end that When we get the ending bit as well, that is that was also cut for length, because when we see what happens to Bobo in the future, there's more there. Oh yeah, we just get one scene. man Bobo essentially ends up in the Arctic and he's ah picked up on an ice collecting exhibition, which ah is for the Kwik-E-Mart.
00:36:53
Speaker
The guy in charge of the expedition tells Apu he needs to start charging more money for his ice, and Apu's response to this is, if you know a better way to get ice, please let me know. Did he say he charges a dollar for a bag of He does.
00:37:06
Speaker
That's insanely good value. Yeah. Apo is well known for his high prices on everything but ice. Apparently. But then, fine, comes across their Bobo in the bag and points out there's a head in the bag.
00:37:18
Speaker
Apo's response to this is, oh, it's filled with heady goodness. Fucking hilarious. It made me smile. What you want? Yeah, it's fun to see Apu just upselling garbage. Yeah. I don't know.
00:37:31
Speaker
Bart opens the bag and finds Bobo and declares, oh, it's probably diseased before giving it to Maggie. We then see Maggie is ah quite enamored with the bear and we get the extreme zoom in on the 100% cotton label before the camera corrects itself and goes all over the bear till it finds the Bobo label.
00:37:46
Speaker
Dun dun dun. As if we hadn't already guessed, like... You don't even have to guess. it literally tells you that it's already Bobo. Yeah. Just in case you've forgotten there was one minute of... I might have fallen and asleep during this episode, so it's possible.
00:38:03
Speaker
Well, this'll wake you up. Burns is pining for the bear and don't worry, Smivers has got a plan. He's now dressed as Bobo No, I didn't like this at all.
00:38:15
Speaker
This is so rank, man. He invites Burns to hug him and squeeze him and tug at his fur. but Burns declares it a grotesque charade. He then tells Smivers to go find his teddy bear.
00:38:27
Speaker
He leaves the costume. What Burns wanted that costume for is ah quite something... I don't know... Don't think too much about that. I'm always fascinated by the people that find the creepy perverts in sitcoms funny.
00:38:39
Speaker
Like they're the people that enjoy... Like most sitcoms where I think of of where like a creepy pervert is in it, I just kind of become very uncomfortable and either skip those episodes in future if I enjoyed the show or just quietly seethe because i don't get why why do people find creepy sexual harassers funny and i don't know it's american culture i mean burns isn't doing creepy sexual harassment here no smith isn't it wasn't sexual well it's not intended to be sexual bullshit
00:39:18
Speaker
Nah, I call bullshit. Citation fucking needed. Smithers, that's my citation. I know he's bone sexual, fine. i i mean It's nothing to do with, like, gayness or sexuality. It's just Smithers being a weird little fucking freak this episode.
00:39:33
Speaker
He's being a weird little fucking freak, but I don't think he's be- I don't think that it it's it's intended as sexual. John, if I came to your house in a bear costume and sat on your lap and said, tug on my fur in that way, and you said, this is in nowhere sexual, you're idiot. Well, if did it, obviously, but like, Smithers is too innocent.
00:39:53
Speaker
Smithers is not innocent. There is no one less innocent than Smithers.
00:39:59
Speaker
We then see Smurz more wholesomely in the milk processing plant putting Bobo's picture over the photos of Milhouse. I want to know the context of that. Where'd Milhouse go? At some point, Milhouse has just gone missing, notably enough to have, like, a regional, maybe national, uh, missing persons campaign?
00:40:18
Speaker
Statewide, I guess. Yeah, maybe. We then see that Homer's watching the television with Kent Brockman as Maggie's playing with the bear, and Kent Brockman starts spelling it out that the bear is the most valuable bear in the world, and it could be in your house.
00:40:30
Speaker
You could be looking at it. This went so long. You could be right in front your face, being wiggling back and forth, held up by a loved one. But Homer being oblivious is is is very entertaining. I do like Homer just, like, missing everything.
00:40:43
Speaker
Maybe I'm just in a bad mood today. Maybe you are. Elmer asks Maggie to put the mouldy old bear down and then goes, mouldy? Old? Like he's come to a great realisation says, I've got to get something to eat!
00:40:56
Speaker
yeah But I'd cut to Burns and Smithers with Professor Frink, and Professor Frink has found a solution in that he's built a giant electronic bear. Unfortunately, the bear isn't very cooperative and starts mauling Mr Burns as Sprink laments the fact that it should be doing a dance.
00:41:11
Speaker
Sprink is breaking a chair over its head at the same time. Where did he the chair from? They were outside. it's just <unk>s had one on deck the bear then sends them flying and declares that no bear won't live before it starts moaning and walking through all the walls of mr lenz's mansion we then cut to another scene of uh maggie putting the bear behind the fish tank and uh Eventually Bart inadvertently knocks over the lamp while realization meditation music is going over to illuminate it.
00:41:43
Speaker
We then see Homer fall down the stairs until he lands on the top of his head. I did like that he like he holds air for a very long time before he actually hits the floor. but He bounces twice on his head. He doesn't like you fall. He just bobs up and down, bouncing on his head repeatedly. great We then see Homer st staring at the fish tank and he has another moment of realization of how long we've had this video.
00:42:05
Speaker
don't think so. then finally, the penny finally drops out that is indeed Mr. Burns' bear. And we then see the family looking over the bear and Homer then declares Burns isn't getting the bear cheap and what he wants is a recording studio.
00:42:19
Speaker
We then see Homer's fantasy about how he's singing about various foods in his recording studio. the McDonald's song. Ah, okay. but I only recognised this from some exchange, like, I can't remember the context at all of, but your debt when when he sang that I was like, I had some conversation that involved Matt about that jingle at some point.
00:42:38
Speaker
I learnt it from Mitch Hedberg. that's That's where I learnt it. was ah That it was a McDonald's song. Yeah, and ah someone sang it. This does the to Homer being told off by the recording studio engineers that he's drooling on the mic again.
00:42:51
Speaker
Again. Again. Lisa then says that they should just give the bear back and Homer and Bart just laugh hilariously at this. Yeah, I would. That's fucking stupid, Lisa. Fuck you.
00:43:02
Speaker
I hate you. Marge says they should throw the eye back on, but Bart wants to send it to Burns as a form of blackmail, to make him think the bear's in trouble, and Homer, in a trance, goes, yeah, let's do that.
00:43:15
Speaker
Why was he in a trance? Yeah, the line delivery's weird on that one, yeah. Marge says that she's sure Burns will offer a fair award, and then immediately goes, then we'll make him double it. The family has shocked him, Marge, but why I be greedy once in a while?
00:43:27
Speaker
Homer does take Bobo to Mr. Burns, and Mr. Burns is quite... emotional as he declares that he'll never leave him again. And as Homer coughs politely to get his reward, Burns' response to this is he can't pay him much because he's strapped for cash.
00:43:42
Speaker
At this point, the ceiling caves in and Burns is completely surrounded by big pile of trash. Absolute dragon horde falls from the ceiling. It's the crown landing perfectly on his head. Burns then declares, as you can see, the place is falling apart.
00:43:57
Speaker
Homer in his own mind goes, we check the first offer and Burns offers him a drink and Homer takes the bear and walks off. Burns isn't discouraged because he thinks Homer's going to crack. We don't see Homer at home and then we hear the cracking noise.
00:44:10
Speaker
Yep. Yeah, that was so strange. Yeah. We don't see Homer on the phone desperately trying to call Burns because he thinks he could still get that drink. But then explains that the man longer Burns has to wait the more money they'll get and Homer agrees before he immediately... Sorry, just to go back to the drink thing. Admittedly, if someone as rich as so Mr. Burns offered you a drink, that's probably going to vote be the best drink you've ever drank, ever.
00:44:31
Speaker
Do you think he would give Homer the good stuff, though? No, but even even even Mr. Burns' plonk would be better than anything you or I have ever drank. Yeah, I suppose you know in order to give people shit stuff, he would have to buy shit stuff, and he probably doesn't do that. Yeah, fair enough. Exactly. it would He would find it an insult to himself to even have that in his house.
00:44:50
Speaker
So, if Mr. Burns offers you a drink, even if he's about to fucking kill you, you'd like, alright. I think Burns would send Smithers out to get a Dr. Pepper or something. but Hell yeah!
00:45:03
Speaker
Hand-delivered Dr Pepper. Sold. Take the bear. Homer ignores Bart's advice and tries to call as the entire family jumps on him to stop him. We then see Burns knock on the door and the Homer answers it with the family still clinging on to him. knew you'd come crawling back.
00:45:18
Speaker
Homer names his price as one million dollars and three islands, but no leper ones. And not leper one. Three Hawaiian islands. so Yeah, once again, that reference to the Hawaiian leper islands, but yeah.
00:45:29
Speaker
Burns agrees and Homer declares that he's rich. Rich, that tells you. And he tries to get the bear, but Maggie is now clinging onto it and we see Homer gets into an animated fight with Maggie to get the bear while Marge looks horrified.
00:45:42
Speaker
Fuck the baby. The baby, can bike you can buy the child 15,000 bears. child fifteen thousand bears Homer does manage to get the bear free, but as he's about to hand it to Burns, we then see that Maggie is upset, with little tear rolling down her eyes.
00:45:54
Speaker
Burns is angrily de demanding the bear, and Swithers is going, the bear, the bear. I'm fairly certain Homer would, like, destroy the planet if it would make Maggie happy. Yeah, this is true.
00:46:06
Speaker
Mama does the right thing and gives the bear back to Maggie and declares the deal's off. Burns declares he's making a mistake and Smothers just makes an angry... yeah um no he's No, no, the right thing to do was to use the million dollars or whatever to buy another bear.
00:46:22
Speaker
Yes, that could have been resolved. Mama says, we don't need his money. Then we see Grandpa Simpson drive through the wall and declare that he's hit three people on the way over and he's got no insurance. There he goes So how's you? How's my you?
00:46:37
Speaker
It's just such a random bit We then cut to the next scene and Spirits and Mr. Burns are dressed like ninjas on Flamander's roof They have an arrow carpoon gun and they make themselves the zip wire.
00:46:51
Speaker
Flanders sticks his head up out of the attic window to ask what's going on and he gets sprayed with knockout gas and presumably dies falling down the stairs. I always love the sound of Flanders getting knocked out because it happens a strangely large large amount of times. Flanders getting like sprayed and falling asleep. you see yeah Every time.
00:47:10
Speaker
It's very funny. Burns ambitiously tells Smithers they'll be out to within 18 seconds. Instead, we just see that they get stuck on the zipline with Burns bumping into Smithers and Smithers making another noise. ah Just in case you didn't get the first joke.
00:47:27
Speaker
We then see they had to be rescued by the emergency services and Marge is giving Mr. Burns cocoa.
00:47:33
Speaker
Then cut to the next scene and they're now using sucker attempts to climb on the roof and unfortunately, that moment Homer comes down because he's decided this is the perfect moment. The single best bit in all of Simpsons is in this fucking episode.
00:47:49
Speaker
I think Matt Grenning said something similar about this bit actually. It is the single best joke in all of Simpsons. Homer pulls 64 slices of American cheese out of it and decides he's going to eat it right now.
00:48:04
Speaker
We don't just see Homer counting the cheese off as he starts eating it. We don't get a flash forward to the daybreak and Homer is on the verge of death as he finishes this cheese off. Homer, you been up all night eating cheese?
00:48:16
Speaker
i to ghost die i I cannot stress, the first time, like before we started doing this podcast, I sent this to to John because I found the Simpsons Clips Twitter account.
00:48:32
Speaker
And I, the first time I saw that bit in probably 10 years, I genuinely had an asthma attack. Laughing so fucking hard at home. I just going, think I'm blind.
00:48:46
Speaker
I do not know why it's funny. I could not break it down. i couldn't, no one can break down why that's funny. It just fucking is. And it's hilarious. After Homer declares his blindness, we do that. Smithers and Burns finally fall off the roof.
00:49:01
Speaker
Good day to you. but Then immediately leave. Don't see Homer now at work, and he's surrounded by fellow workers saying they want to see the geek who value the happiness of his children more than money.
00:49:11
Speaker
And Homer declares it's him and another man goes, oh, you said his head was the size of a baseball. Homer then says his life can't get any worse. Then Smith announces over the Tannoy he's about to report for worse duty. Homer is pushing ah some sort of medieval wheel while he's being whipped.
00:49:26
Speaker
He ambitiously asks if he can whip him after lunch and the the guy says no. Homer was purely... The sole purpose of that was to turn the cake stand. And Lenny and Carl briefly wonder between them how that's turning.
00:49:39
Speaker
Who cares? We then see that Homer is back with Maggie and Homer tries to reason with Maggie by getting her to play with a box. Homer tries to show the joys of the box but unfortunately gets enamored by his own box.
00:49:51
Speaker
but include I love Homer's laughter. This does show that Maggie would have been very easily bought out with a different toy and they could totally have given the bear to Burns. Yeah. yeah likey Maggie tries to go for the box, but Homer declares it's his box and goes into the corner.
00:50:06
Speaker
And then we see that Homer's in bed with Marge and Homer says Marge must think he's the worst person in the world, but Marge says she's proud of him for standing up for his daughter. Homer says he'll need more than that to cheer him up, at which point he puts the box back on his head and...
00:50:21
Speaker
but She says you know came through for your daughter when she needed you the most. Which seems like a bit much for to describe the situation. yeah mean Yeah, but it's Marge. Yeah, okay. We don't go to Homer watching Barney the Dinosaur and did you know that 2 plus 2 is 4?
00:50:36
Speaker
No. I need a song about it to understand Well, this is why this is so popular. At that moment, the screen cuts off and Burns appears and tells Homer to give him the bear. Homer tries changing the channels, which includes going on to the sole mass transit system, which I did laugh out loud.
00:50:53
Speaker
I loved the idea that... Burns physically had to get to... Yeah, Mr. Burns clearly ran. And also, someone really enjoyed animating those tits going up and down in the background. That was the whole animation budget. Go watch...
00:51:07
Speaker
ah that bit again there is no smoother animation in all of simpsons not even the simpsons movie has as many frames as those boobies bouncing holy shit there is a pervert in the animation department and godspeed to you sir Probably Bumblebee Man and his old grande yo-yo that took up the rest of it.
00:51:27
Speaker
But he gets booted in the arse and Burns declares that he's taken over all the channels until Homer gives him he wants. Why does Springfield have 70 plus TV networks and then access to none outside the state that Homer could then watch? Don't worry about it.
00:51:41
Speaker
Okay. That is literally my last note on this episode. We then see that Burns says, oh, it's that. You say you can you live without TV as long as you have beer. And Homer says, that's right. And Burns' reply is wrong.
00:51:54
Speaker
Interesting how that conversation may have worked. But Burns declares that all these beer trucks have been diverted and the town will be dry as a bone. And then he tells everybody else, if you've got a problem with this, go talk to Homer Simpson.
00:52:07
Speaker
Barney immediately at the fucking door with a gun. He left Seably, the doorbell rings, and we do see that Barney's there with a gun telling Homer to give the man what he wants. Homer tells Barney nonchalantly to leave him alone.
00:52:17
Speaker
Shuts the door his face. No one Barney seriously. We do see that Barney falls over, and we see ah we hear off-screen that the gun has gone off. There's a scream and a police siren, and Barney going, uh-oh. We then cut to the school the next day and we see that Bart is now getting grief as a Nelson explains that his old man can't get a beer because his old man won't give it a bear to another old man.
00:52:38
Speaker
Let's get him. Jimbo can't quite work out that logic and Martin comes by talking about the first Snapdragon and they just decide to go get him. We then see that Burns hasn't just taken over the TV channels. He's decided to produce his own network television which includes a sitcom which is delivered to a very fake laugh track of I'm Home.
00:52:57
Speaker
already. He's gotten into that. He's surprisingly enthusiastic. He's like, well, I've i've taken over all the networks. What do do with it? I might as well make my own TV. Might as well, you know, make the most of it. Yeah. Since I don't have my bear.
00:53:10
Speaker
Lisa says, is it just her or is TV getting worse? And Homer declares it's exactly the same. He then tells Smiris to not break the vase and we just hear the vase break in the background and Homer declares he loves this show. We then see in the next scene that an angry mob has formed outside and Homer's first response is to assume that they've come to apologize. Yeah.
00:53:28
Speaker
The mob break into the house and eventually Mo wrestles the bear away from Maggie But as the mob are leaving they see how upset Maggie is and the heart strings a tongue with Dr. Hippard declaring they've given the word mob a bad name They give the bear back and the mob cheerfully leave the house before going off to sing at the hospital I guess we were paying time I the bit was going to be that he said why not we go sing at the hospital and then Skinner was going to start singing on his own and walk off everyone was just going walk away But no, they all join in and start singing together.
00:53:59
Speaker
Very wholesome. Just a weird bit. mob Mobs are very weird in Springfield. but then cuts to the next day and Burns declares to Homer, look what you've reduced me to. Then snaps his fingers and Smither comes in and desperately bleeds for Homer to get the bear over. Please.
00:54:14
Speaker
Elmer then finally explains that the bear isn't his to give away, it's the Maggie. And this prompts Burns to go outside and sit with Maggie in the sandbox. This ephemeral sandbox that sometimes is in the Simpsons' back garden and other times not.
00:54:29
Speaker
Yeah. It's not always there. I just wanted to point that out. it not always there. Burns tries to break the ice bag declaring good sand today and Maggie offers him a suck on the pacifier. Genuinely thought he was going to throw sand in Maggie's face. Genuinely thought that.
00:54:43
Speaker
Nope, instead, Burns sucks on Maggie's pacifier and at that moment, a photographer takes a photo of him and Burns says, Damn you, paparazzi. a bastard. Burns declares that he's so given this a lot of thought and he's sure they can come to an agreement and starts trying to pull the bear away from Maggie, but Maggie holds onto it one-armed.
00:55:00
Speaker
Yep. beaten bear child. What could be more humiliating, he then gets his photo taken again. Oh, let's go! Burns finally concedes defeat and tells Maggie to hold on to the bear and don't let it go like he did.
00:55:12
Speaker
This is enough to prompt Maggie to hand the bear over to Burns and Burns declares that he's finally happy and he declares that he's going to be good and kind to everyone. No, he says Smithers make a note.
00:55:24
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I'm going to be good and kind to everyone and Smithers doesn't have a fucking notepad. i Don't worry, I'll remember it. Smiris doesn't have his pencil, so Burns will remember it. We don't see the family family were watching and Hopper says, well, we didn't get any money, but Mr. Burns got him what he wanted.
00:55:40
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Is this a happy ending? And Marge says, it's it an ending, that's enough. Then see back at Burns' his mansion and Burns is being tucked into his bed with Bobo and says, you can't wonder what the future will hold.
00:55:52
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We then cut to one million AD and homers have been cloned and brought into slavery while the monkeys have taken over the world. We then see that ah Burns has turned himself into some form of Robocop-esque robot. and Futurama robot.
00:56:06
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I was going to say there's a lot more Futurama about this whole bit than anything. Burns tells Bobo that... He says this every century, but he'll make sure to hold on to him this time. It then starts running off and we see that robot dog Mr. Smithers follows.
00:56:21
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my Wow, wow. This is the bit that was... This was another bit that was supposed to be expanded, like... Yeah, I can imagine that, yeah, they like... that Bobo throughout the years showing the degradation of society kind of thing.
00:56:32
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Yeah. What did we think? I enjoyed it! I mean, Matt's been trying to drag it down for me. What a crap episode. What a crap episode. I've enjoyed talking about a lot less, for some reason. What a crap episode.
00:56:46
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Yeah, way to bring down the mood. What a boring fucking episode. What a boring fucking episode. You should all be as miserable as I am. What boring episode. Don't worry, we'll get there. We've got a Halloween episode to go.
00:57:01
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Yay! See, the roles will be reversed, folks. Will they? don't know. We'll find out. Stay tuned. You have historically liked the Halloween one so much. I've been assuming the roles would be reversed.
00:57:16
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don't know. I thought it was great. Ramones were fantastic. it's It's Burns Heavy, Burns is good. It's Homer Heavy, Homer's good. Like, what's not to like? think it's bold to say it was great.
00:57:27
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Like, it was fine. it was fine. with a capital F the gags I liked I really liked some bits dragged it was fine overall it has the single funniest joke in all of Simpsons and that's it I did like the Ramones why why did you both like you were both like yeah the Ramones this was hilarious what was fucking funny about it this is like one thing and then sang a happy birthday for fuck's sake
00:57:58
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go to hell, you old bastard landed pretty well for me. And then having the delusion of, hey, I think that went well. Yeah, exactly. It's great. So, meh. so I genuinely preferred um the acapella episode to this.
00:58:16
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Well, you should, because that was a fucking Homer out of Homer. it wasn't. It was really, like, subpar. Our YouTube audience have spoken. and I fucking love the fact that I just know the YouTube audience fucking hates me.
00:58:33
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It's like, this dude is just contrarian. Can we give this a homo out spite? Out of spite!
00:58:44
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I gave it a one good bit out of homo. Okay. I gave it 64 slices of American cheese out of homo. Exactly, one good bit. Fair enough. It's the thing that you don't realise you want, but you need in the moment.
00:58:59
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I always need 64 slices of American cheese, bruh. Holy! Mmm. There's so many better cheeses. Yeah, there are, but that's not why you eat it.
00:59:14
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Fine, I give it a Citizen Kane out of Homer. I don't know i so know if that's better or worse than a That's like the most meta out of Homer we've ever given.
00:59:33
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Did it say anything about society? of Eating fairly little. The rich guy gets what he wants and no one but he profits. Yeah.
00:59:44
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That is about it. Hold on to your childhood memories. Some musings on mob moment mentality again, maybe. but Yeah, maybe. You'd have to work to get there. Well, I guess, yeah, you could, like, if you wanted to bring it to more a modern thing, you know, the rich manipulate the masses in order to get what they want kind of thing. This true, You know, there is, there are, like, the thing is, is I don't like trying, like, deliberately trying to stretch the metaphor, you know what mean? We've had that, like, the past few episodes.
01:00:14
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we've been we've struggled to say if it really says anything about society and i think on a couple occasions we've we've said oh well if you look at it this way it could say that but it's like did they intend for it to say that you know so it's it's one of those things where i do i don't like trying to like force a meaning on it but if you know there's little bits there that you could make comments on No, but like meaning is where you
Anticipation for 'Treehouse of Horror'
01:00:40
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find it. Like they don't have to intend it. Like look at all those books that you read in school and they're like, oh, what did the author intend by this? And if you actually take the time to look at what the author intended by this, there's a non-trivial amount of the time where the author was like, it doesn't mean anything.
01:00:55
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there's There's no metaphor. I just was just writing a thing. Yeah, I can't remember what poet it was that was like, they're just red curtains. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes. there It's like a very... unless it's Unless this is me misremembering a quote from a sitcom, I'm fairly certain it's a genuine, actual quote of a poet being like, they're just red curtains. No, rings a bell. I've heard that at some point myself, yeah. It might just be a story that teachers tell, but either way, you know, it is true that sometimes they're just fucking curtains.
01:01:25
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But that doesn't mean that you can't find meaning in it or significance in something. Just just because it wasn't intended doesn't mean like... find significance in it, but you cannot impose that significance on others.
01:01:37
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No, no, no. But we're not imposing anything. We're just talking we're not. No, we're not. I'm talking about Reddit. yeah Oh, Reddit. Reddit is the redit is Reddit. And Reddit should be left to Reddit's own devices.
01:01:50
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This was surprisingly deep. o Moving on. Yeah, let us forge with Treehouse of Horror, which aired on October 28th, 1993.
01:02:04
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Admittedly, like, I have been very positive on the Treehouse of Horror over the years. I am looking back on it and being like, I don't remember any of them. The Raven. i remember the I remember the bit of them having to use two tractor beams to get Homer into the ship.
01:02:18
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I remember them having a monkey's paw. Oh yeah, there's the bit where they're all famous. And that's all I remember. And there's been four of them now. And i've I've forgotten all of it. So they can't be that great.
01:02:32
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that I mean, that they're not mega memorable, no. So a lot a lot of these, like, when I come around to rewatch them, I'm like, yeah, yeah, I remember this. But like yeah if you if you asked me, like, out of context, hey, give me some Treehouse of Horror bits, I'd give you the Raven. That's about it.
01:02:49
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You kind of watch them and go, I acknowledge that that was a joke. So when did this air? ah October 28th, 1993. Uh, the Antilles government of Liberia Peters resigns.
01:03:03
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Good for him. I think. Do we like Liberia Peters? I have no idea. Alright, fuck him, just in case. Cleveland Metroparks lease Bookside Park for Cleveland for 99 years.
01:03:17
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but You would change your name if your name was Metroparks. Metro Parks. Oh, okay. I'm not listening. I thought he said Cleveland Metro Parks.
01:03:31
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As in, that was someone's name. I'm a fucking idiot. Someone in the YouTube comments. Yep. The US number one is still Dream Lover. The UK number one is still I Would Do Anything For Love.
01:03:44
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Lovely. My God, we're sprinting through this. Good. well Let's do this. Okay, so again, because it's a treehouse of horror, there's no chartboard gag, but we do get some funny names on the gravestones, which include Elvis, except it.
01:03:58
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Yeah, I mean, ah i got some chuckles out of this. Like, it aged weirdly because, like, one of them was, like, subtle political satire was dead, which is like, m yeah, I mean, i was not paying a lot of attention to political satire in 1993, I've got to be honest with you.
01:04:17
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But, like, as time has marched on, like, it has definitely gotten harder and harder to satirise politics because ah we're in the weird zone. Politics has become satire. Yeah, yeah. i I think the one I enjoyed the most was A Balanced Budget. I don't know why that just made me chuckle.
01:04:33
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i Maybe because I'm over 30 now, I find those kind of jokes funny. Yeah, it's weird that they are going down that route with this. like as i I definitely saw some critiques saying, oh, they're trying too hard with the with the gravestone jokes. i'm like oh I don't know, I quite like them doing something with it.
01:04:47
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I think in order to do those jokes, you have to try hard. We also get some TV violence, which gets machine gunned. Yeah, TV violence gets machine gunned and the gravestone bleeds, which ah that's an odd observation to me. know Are they saying that TV got less violent in the 90s? Like, was that a thing that was happening?
01:05:07
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No, I think there was definitely a attempt in like the 70s and 80s to lessen TV violence. Like B.A. Barakas of the A-Team was notorious. Like he notoriously disliked the A-Team remake that came out in the later 2000s because he was like, we never killed anyone.
01:05:25
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And there was a genuine try by like politicians and TV networks to lessen TV violence because if you think about it, the 80s was like the big push for horror movies.
01:05:36
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So it was like a massive overreaction. So in the 90s, TV violence kind of came back, you know, so it's like it's more like ah the idea of TV violence being dead is dead.
01:05:48
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Moreover, that's how I read it anyway. See, that the couch gag is the zombies coming out of the ground. Hilarious. We also see the funny names for the writers, which included Matt, Mr. Spooky, groaning.
01:05:59
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Mr. Spooky. They've had to do this four times, and they they they already it they've only got to do it another 30 times. I believe they've used Sam, Sayonara, Simon multiple times.
01:06:15
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There's only so many you can do Spooky We then see that Bart is in a suit and he's in front of a gallery of paintings and Bart declares that paintings take on a life of their own at night and they become portals to hell so scary and terrible but at that moment Marge interrupts him and tells Bart he needs to warn the audience that this episode is frightening and maybe they'd like to listen to the old War of the Worlds broadcast on NPR You should do that, the War of the Worlds original broadcast was hype.
01:06:45
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Yeah, this this whole... rap, I guess they call this bit around the bit, rapping the episode, I suppose, is a riffing on a show called Night Gallery, which kind of yeah did horror stories in this in this format.
01:06:58
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Mm-hmm. don't turn hands over Maggie's, because she's off to the gift shop, implying that they're in some form of art gallery. is It's the Night Gallery, yeah. Gotta go to the gift shop in the Night Gallery.
01:07:10
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I'd go to the gift shop in the night gallery, i got to be honest. so Well, then says they're going to go into the first painting, which features the creature of most foul, most evil. And Maggie, at that point, puts the pacifier in Bart's mouth and he... Then spits out and reveals the devil and... The devil.
01:07:26
Speaker
And we go into our first story, The Devil and Homer Simpson. We then cut to... We cut to the scene and Homer is in the audience of a fashion runway and we see that the fashion model is actually... donut.
01:07:40
Speaker
so not A donut with legs. A vision of raspberry cream and Homer declares it genius. It is a sexy donut. They made the donut sexy. We don't come back to Homer waking up from his dream, with which he was standing upright, sleeping, which is quite impressive.
01:07:55
Speaker
He goes in but realises there's no donuts left. Lenny and Carl reveal that they've eaten them a all like except a couple which they threw at an old man. It's revealed to be grandpa being attacked by ah pigeons declaring to the buzzards that he's not dead yet.
01:08:08
Speaker
Mistaking them for vultures I'm guessing. Well buzzards, he says buzzards. Yeah, there's a lot of buzzards in America and buzzards are a type of vulture right? Oh no, vultures are a type of buzzards.
01:08:20
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Buzzards buzzards. They're like a bird of prey. Yes, and there are different like they're in the same family is what saying. Buzzards and vultures are in the same family. Are you sure? No.
01:08:32
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I will fact check you in the video format if this is incorrect. Do it. I love i love that. like If anybody listening to the audio format is not aware, i have gotten in the habit of frequently fact checking shit in the video version. So there's bonus content for the video viewers.
01:08:48
Speaker
you been fact checking me? Oh, I fucking fact checked the hell out of you. Why? What do I say? That's so wrong. I to watch the episodes. Anytime you say something and I'm like, that doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough to disprove you, I will do it in post.
01:09:04
Speaker
Oh, God. You have to tell me when you do that, because then I learn, you twat. No, I make content. Can you post these clips the loose guy? Yes, please. I can't remember when I've done them, but yeah, maybe. That is wrong, the fucking montage.
01:09:22
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Yeah, we can do it now.
01:09:25
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We then cut back to Homer going back to his workstation saying, remember your training. He then goes into his emergency procedures book, which has a whole cut out for a donut. But the donut is gone. And Homer reads the net, which says, dear Homer, I owe you one emergency donut. Homer calls himself a bastard and declares that he's always one step ahead.
01:09:43
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Oh, OK. OK. Sorry, buzzards. No, no, you're going to do it in post. i don't want to know. Well, i've I've got it now. Alright, good for you. You are correct, so I i can't fact check you. Yeah, fucking eat my nuts.
01:09:57
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ah you You're sort of correct. In parts of the US, s the turkey vulture is colloquially called a buzzard. Right. Good enough. Yep. Means I win.
01:10:08
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I win the episode. Got me. Carry on. Homer declares that he would sell his soul for a donut, and the devil appears to make good on the deal, and Homer is shocked to learn that Flanders is the devil, and It's always the ones you least suspect.
01:10:21
Speaker
Flanders starts going into the legal spiel of people preemptively selling their soul without thinking of the consequences. Homer interrupts him and says, do you have a donut or not? And Flanders offers him a pen to sign away his soul, which yeah is on fire.
01:10:35
Speaker
it's It's a very Flanders-esque Satan to be like, by the way, are you sure you've thought this through? Yeah. We then see that ah Burns is watching the whole transaction on the monitor and goes, who is the goat-legged fellow? I like the cut of his jib.
01:10:50
Speaker
And Smurfs reveals it's the devil and it's his... That is 11 o'clock. We then see demon arriving and has a very shiny donut for Homer. And Flanders says once Homer has finished the donut, he's got his soul.
01:11:06
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Homer works out the loophole here of if he doesn't actually finish the donut, he doesn't have to he doesn't have to give up his soul. Surprisingly fast for Homer. But Homer starts mocking Flanders saying, I'm smarter than the devil.
01:11:18
Speaker
I'm smarter than the devil. Flanders goes into full devil mode to say, you are not smarter You are not smarter than me. Homer puts the little piece in his pocket and says, eh, not likely.
01:11:30
Speaker
Homer then tactically goes somewhat awry in that he wakes up for in the middle of the night for a late night snack. And even though he's got a fine selection of food, he's put the remaining donut on a plate with loads of notes for his family saying, do not eat this. Daddy's soul donut.
01:11:47
Speaker
Homer naturally, of course, eats the donut. and Why did he keep it, though? I know, plot, whatever. but like why we if if it if the so If the bit where you lose your soul is contingent on you eating it, just throw it away! That's what I said. Oh, you know, like, bury in the garden or something.
01:12:04
Speaker
Yeah! I'll get someone else to eat it. mean, not gonna keep forever in the fridge, so you can't just keep it there till you die. Devil Flanders appears and opens a portal to hell and we then see a Homer beginning to get sucked into it.
01:12:19
Speaker
As Marge comes in asks Homer if he did eat the devil donut and Homer says, no. no Homer then gets stuck in the floor and Devil Flanders says, he's wide behind, what save him now?
01:12:30
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which point Lisa says that Homer is entitled to a trial and Flanders says something that's now probably untrue that America has due process in trials. and my My second note of the episode also says aged interestingly.
01:12:45
Speaker
But Flanders declaration that they will have a trial for Homer still but until then He's going to spend the day in hell. We then see Homer goes down into hell and hits all the rocks on the way down like he's going down the gorge before landing on the conveyor belt.
01:13:00
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He then gets chopped up and his mouth and nose are put away for the hot dogs. hot dogs I like how much the the demon that sliced him to bits clearly enjoyed his work. gonna He takes pride in his work.
01:13:13
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We then see that ah Homer is in the ironic punishment section and the the demon in charge says, so you like donuts, huh? Then declares that Homer and I will eat every donut in the world. Of all the donuts in the world! Homer gets like a conveyor belt of forklift, which is putting donuts into his mouth.
01:13:30
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We then cut to a fast forward and Homer is grossly now overweight, still eating all the donuts and having cleared out pretty much the entire stock. feel like he'd be fatter than that for eating all the donuts in the world.
01:13:42
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But Demon doesn't understand it because James Coco went mad in 15 minutes. Take that James Coco, I guess. Who's James Coco? I didn't get this, but i think he was a coke addict, right? He was an American comic in the nineteen eighty s He was long dead by this point, so I don't know why.
01:13:59
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It's one of those right inside jokes. I guess somebody liked mocking dead celebrities, don't know. Yeah, fair enough. Yeah, okay. that's That's the best second off you.
01:14:13
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but don't Midnight finally strikes and we see that a cage of fire opens and Marge asks Homer if he's okay and Homer says no. We then see that Lionel Hutz is his lawyer and Lionel Hutz reassures him that he watched Matlock on the TV last night. The sound wasn't on, but he's got the gist of it.
01:14:29
Speaker
And he's combing his hair with a fork. and We then see that the judge is the deaf himself. Yep, voiced by, I'm not sure if it's quite Otto or Jasper, but like... I was thinking that, couldn't tell. Yeah, voiced in that sort of range.
01:14:44
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Later on when he sentences him, it sounds like it's definitely Jasper. The two lawyers go over for ground rules, which include everybody getting bathroom breaks every half hour and Devil Flanders being able to choose the jury, which I'm not going realise is slightly too late to win up in the best legal plan.
01:15:01
Speaker
We then see that the jury is the jury of the damned, which includes Benedict Arnold, Lizzie Borden, Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon protests because he's not actually dead at this point. I believe he dies pretty soon after this, if I'm honest.
01:15:14
Speaker
I'm not sure off the top of my head but back check possibly yeah but uh nope uh flander says listen you ah i did a favor for you and uh nixon just kind goes with it yes master We then get Blackbeard the Pirate, John Wilkes Booth, John Dillinger, and the starting lineup of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers.
01:15:36
Speaker
Probably a weird devil's advocate here, pun intended. john it Because obviously all the people here are meant to be like sort of evil or, you know, um you know liars and that kind of thing. John Wilkes Booth wasn't necessarily like evil. He was just had very specific bullet he was on the opposite side of a You know, a side that lost, admittedly, and a side that had, like, very very different ideals.
01:15:59
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But, i don't know it was I don't know, that was where my brain went. I'm not saying the South should have won. Like, please don't take my words out of context. I'm not saying that. I'm happy that that Lincoln won. I think we've just learned that Matt's pro-slavery.
01:16:13
Speaker
It was just, well, that's the thing. lincoln wasn't but Lincoln's goal wasn't emancipation. it says that's ah That was a separate issue that was already in process. But anyway... If we're going down this route, I have my own thoughts on Blackbeard the pirate, because ah the the only noteworthy historical account we've got of any pirates was written by a guy who fucking hated pirates.
01:16:34
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So, like, they don't exactly get a fair shake in the history books, you know? Well, yeah, because we all thought... If we're defending all these people, John Dillinger may be... They were all thought to be, like...
01:16:47
Speaker
you know, independent psychopaths, but they were all, like, hired by the different sides to do their job. They were doing a job. They were all privateers. You know, pirates were more just, like, people hired by the British to pretend not to be British and then go rob Spain.
01:17:03
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And then people hired by the Spaniards to pretend not to be Spaniards and then go rob the British. Privateers are pirates, but not all pirates are privateers. No, of course not. You did get independent pirates. The majority of them were just privateers, I would imagine.
01:17:16
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We don't have a time machine, but I would imagine most of them were privateers beyond people that could just independently afford a fucking ship. Well, you take it. You don't dont buy it unless you're Steve Bonnet, which is an interesting note because, like, I failed to observe at the start, this whole thing is based on ah film based on a play, based on a book called The daniel and the Devil and Daniel Webster.
01:17:41
Speaker
You say you take it, though, but do you know how many people it would take to steal and then crew like a galleon? Well, you work your way up. You start with a little one. I mean, yeah, you take sloop.
01:17:52
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Yeah, exactly. No one first day when a pirate goes, right, I'm taking that galleon. I'm taking the pride of the British fleet. Yeah, you start with a little ship. You, you know, convince everyone to mutiny, kill the captain, it. Well, I guess I have to fucking say this now. I don't know that much about pirates, so I'm sorry if I'm wrong. o you have You have embarrassed yourself, sir.
01:18:14
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But also, the ah the the devil and Daniel Webster had this scene effectively in it, and many of these bad guys of history that form the jury are the same characters. Not Richard Nixon, it predates that a bit.
01:18:29
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But ah they had Steed Bonnet instead of Blackbeard the Pirate, which is interesting. Steed Bonnet, ah go watch Our Flag Means Death if you want to know more about Steed Bonnet.
Homer's Soul & Legal Woes
01:18:38
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ah but He was the gentleman pirate, and he did buy his own ship.
01:18:41
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And I guess he's probably just not famous enough to use here because if they said, ah, Steed Bonnet, everyone would be like, who the fuck is Steed Bonnet? Because Simpsons hates making niche jokes.
01:18:53
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I mean, that's too niche. Like, that's for an audience. Steed Bonnet is for an audience of me Didn't we point out that, like, the Lisa Goes to Washington gag is based on a film from, like, 50 years ago ah something? yeah um mr I've heard of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, though. Like, I'm aware of that, you know. you have.
01:19:12
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Fine. Yes. Well, Gibson and the Simpsons is my knowledge of it.
01:19:18
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I just thought you were gonna leave it at just saying Mel Gibson and then moving on. Just dropping a Mel Gibson. Mel Gibson! that's That's Michael's new way of dealing with segways. Mel Gibson! Anyway, Simpsons! Yep, speaking of Mel Gibson, I'm sure he's had to wait to sit in a chair before.
01:19:35
Speaker
And this is the problem as Marge gets to Joe in multiple chairs, including getting Blackbeard the baby chair. Arr, this chair be high, says I. The trial begins and the devil gives his slightly compelling case, which is he made a contract with Homer for giving him a donut, which he delivered, and it was scrummed in the umptious.
01:19:55
Speaker
The jury murmurs approval as Flanders says he simply wants what he wants. Lionel Hutz gets up and he's full of confidence saying, ah that's a very pretty speech, but what is the contract? And he explains that It gives the Webster's literal definition of it as an agreement under the law, which is unbreakable.
01:20:10
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Did anyone else think that the bit was going to be that he tre he wanted to try and rip the contract into pieces? That's where I thought the bit was going, that he was going to ask to see the contract and then be unable to rip it, because it's unbreakable.
01:20:22
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A very brief skimming of the synopsis of the devil and Daniel Webster. and I get it? Webster's Dictionary, Daniel Webster. um I think that's literally what happens in the devil and Daniel Webster. think it just tears up the contract. Risking too much copyright.
01:20:37
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Line up hurts after the jury look at him like he's an idiot. He decides he must use the restroom. An hour passes and Marge eventually knocks on the door and realises he's literally legged it out of the window.
01:20:49
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We then go back to the Judge about to give his sentence that Homer's going to spend eternity in hell. But Marge comes out with a photo album and reveals the wedding photo of Homer having eaten the entire cake before the wedding, which the jury find very amusing.
01:21:04
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Marge reveals what's on the back and Blackbeard thinks it's a treasure map before revealing that he can't read and his pirate ways were to overcompensate for that. My debauchery was my way of compensating.
01:21:17
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Benedict Arnold reads it out and reveals that Homer actually pledged his soul to Marge for eternity. This is enough to convince the jury that the soul does actually belong to Marge and Homer is found not guilty.
01:21:29
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At which point, the devil says, Homer can keep his soul, but that donut will be on his head forever. with We then learn that he actually meant that literally, as in the next scene, Homer has a donut for a head, which he's eating himself, because it is sweet and tasty.
Bart's Nightmare & Gremlin Story
01:21:43
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Homer's about to go to work, and Lisa advises him not to, and we see that the entire Springfield Police Department is outside with coffee, and ah Chief Wiggum declares he's got to come out sometime. The end. And it's the end of segment one.
01:21:55
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Oy. We then cut to a Bart back in the gallery and Bart says, next to our next exhibition will be scary. And he realizes, oh, it's the school bus.
01:22:07
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But he tries to make it work by saying, oh, it's the ghoul bus. Lisa then comes and goes, nope, it says right there, school bus. And Bart goes, well, there's nothing scarier than going to school before he just gives up.
01:22:19
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And we go into the second story, which is terror at five and a half feet. to reference to this whole episode to reference to the Twilight Zone. Yeah. With um twenty yeah thousand feet yes William Shatner. There's something on the wing.
01:22:34
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what the funny thing is? is like I grew up thinking that's how he said it. And I watched it and was like, he says it really normally. There's something on the wing. He says it incredibly normally.
01:22:45
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But because we all grew up with Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, that's how we think he says it. But he doesn't. that's my That's my thing for the day. We go Barton Millhouse on this bus looking at the Christie trading cards and include k Christie visiting his relatives and Christie posing for the trading card photo.
01:23:04
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He's running little low on ideas. and then Bart says, at least you've got the gum and the gum completely shatters in Millhouse's mouth. I know that feeling. I've bought cheap gum like that from like trading cards and it sucked.
01:23:18
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At this point the tire falls off the bus and AutoCart control it and they end up veering into an ongoing truck. mistake This leads to Bar waking up and feeling his back. It's a dam going, oh I hope this is sweat.
01:23:30
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yeah We then see Bart come down the stairs and Lisa asks what's wrong and Bart says in a very monotone way, I've just had a vision of my own horrible fiery demise and Lisa just goes, and?
01:23:42
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And Marge says, don't worry, he's just had a nightmare but the worst is over. At that moment Bart hears an air horn and Omar comes back with stuff he just found lying around in the marina on some guy's boat. He's just sitting in some guy's boat.
01:23:54
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He then blows the horn again just to make sure Bart was completely traumatised. We then see that it's a rainy day as Bart and Lisa board the school bus and we see that Skinner is on the bus because his mother hid his car keys because he talked to a woman on the phone. It's my favourite bit for the whole fucking episode. She was right to do it. It's so good.
01:24:15
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It's so fucking funny. I love Skinner's bits. says so She was right to do it. Lisa then declares to everyone on the bus that Bart has had a nightmare and everyone should be extra nice to him. Everybody mocks him and Jimbo pulls down his pants to see if he's wearing a diaper. if I was Bart, I would have killed Lisa growing up. Holy shit, I would to pushed her into traffic, man.
01:24:35
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Martin is delighted about this because they're drawing attention away from his Wang Computer shirt. Wang Computer? What is this a reference to? It must be a reference to something. I've not looked up that one. I'll Google it now.
01:24:48
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There must be, like, ah there's something that... but Some computer company that had something vaguely phallic or whatever. Yeah, no, there literally just was a company. There was a company... It was genuinely just called Wang Computers. I'm thinking that one for... Man, I would love to play on a Wang computer.
01:25:04
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ah love Wang. Give me a Wang to play with, guys. Wang, sponsor us. I want free Wang for the rest of my life. I'm not sure they exist anymore. I'll pose next to your Wang. Guys, think all the jokes. He founded by a guy called Wang, I love Wang. He's Chinese.
01:25:21
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We don't see... Best part of my day is Wang.
01:25:25
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Gotta to love playing with you Wang, guys. You'll be wang-ing in a minute. i' done I'm done. done. I'm done. done. No, you're not. I am, I'm done. swear, done. They got acquired by a Dutch company, and they but that's their fate.
01:25:40
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Ah. I miss Wang.
01:25:44
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I bet there must be some Wang Computing merch out there in the world. I would love to get a Wang Computers shirt. That sounds so great. Can we get Wang on a pair of me undies, Benny Jones?
01:25:55
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Yes, put my Wang in your undies.
01:26:01
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We have crossed the line of decency. Oh, they released the Wang 2200 computer. Nice. Oh, damn. Bet that but but that a a hard drive. And four kilobytes of RAM.
01:26:14
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Better than a floppy disk.
01:26:20
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I have no idea how to proceed. Mel Gibson, move on. Well, speaking of Mel Gibson, he may have played a gremlin at some point. Because that's what Bart sees out of the window of the bus. Nice.
01:26:32
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A gremlin destroying the bus. Bart tries to get Milhouse to look, but Milhouse is not looking because he's presumably afraid of being leaving himself open to wedgies, wet willies, and the dreaded rear admiral. The wang definitely appeared there.
01:26:44
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Mm-hmm. Boy. Bart pushes Milhouse the way and tells Otto there's a gremlin on the side of the bus. Otto looks out the window and sees Han Moleman in a gremlin guard so and says, don't worry, worry, I'll take care of this.
01:26:56
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He then rams Moleman off the road and Moleman goes, oh no, this is my last payment. He comes to a perfect stop in front of the tree, but then his car just randomly explodes. i I saw a note that ah on Simpsons... ah Was it Simpsons? No, was the Simpsons Wiki said, oh, it exploded because it's an AMC Gremlin. Right. Which, as far as I can make out, I i am not. I'm not a car person.
01:27:19
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But ah from my cursory research that done, I couldn't find much evidence that the AMC Gremlin was noted for exploding. No, I think it was noted for being a kind of shit, cheap car.
01:27:31
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I think it was quite popular, honestly. Yeah, a lot of people had to think. It was popular in the It was a competitor to the Ford Pinto, which, like, if you wanted to do a car exploding, that would have been the one to pick.
01:27:41
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But also, then you don't get the Gremlin gag, so, you know. All right, you what you clearly watch fucking Top Gear or whatever that shit was called. it looks of the window and sees the Gremlin is still destroying the bus and declares to everyone, there's a monster destroying the bus.
01:27:55
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Everyone goes to look, and including Otto, as Milhouse has to point out to him, who's driving the bus? moon momento, por favor. We then got to our favourite aliens, Kang and Koda, looking over from the sky, saying foolish herflings being scared of something that doesn't exist.
01:28:11
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We then look and then see that a gremlin They're watching space. They should be able to see the fucking gremlin. Well, they do see the gremlin that's destroying their spaceship and we get the customary...
01:28:22
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Bart is ah still worrying and the Skinner eventually comes over and says he's heard that there's a child using his imagination he's got to put a stop this. here to put a stop for it. Skinner is not buying Bart's protests and closes the window slide.
01:28:37
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The only monster on this bus is a lack of proper respect for the rules. Eventually Bart can't help himself and pulls up the shade and is horrified to see groundskeeper Willy. Oh my god, it's horrific.
01:28:47
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A Scotsman! Then see Willy come on and say that his mule couldn't work in the mud, so he puts 17 bullets in it. Oh my god, slightly grim. Bart is becoming a bit more desperate and asks Milhouse if he believes him.
01:29:02
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Milhouse says, i think he's actually creeping him out, so he's going to go sit next to the foreign exchange student. This is our first interaction with Uta, I believe, in The Simpsons. was going say, as like introducing Uta, isn't it? In in a non-canon episode, it's kind of weird, but fair enough.
01:29:16
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Uta offers ah some of his European candy to Milhouse, which includes the Mars and Pan Joy Joys, which apparently have lots of iodine in it. Mit-iodine?
01:29:26
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Marker now hear banging underneath his feet, underneath the wheel cap. And you can see that it's the gremlin. now It's now removing the nuts from the tires and Bart then declares, we're all going to die. which point Skinner steams in and puts him in a headlock and really ties him to but ties him to the seat.
01:29:42
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With his bridle. We then see that Bart has been now befriended Uta, who's decided to sit next him and Bart has a nice lick of his flavour bar. I don't quite really know what the flavour bar is. don't know what that is. I'm not sure if this is a mistranslation. Frinkac's got that down as flavour wax.
01:30:00
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it's just of It's just Americans being like, lol Europe. Yeah, it That's the whole gag. Which, like, is pretty rich coming from the country with the worst fucking chocolates on the planet. Oh, fuck me, man, is it bad.
01:30:13
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American, like, I was so excited to try, like, American Dr. Pepper when I went, because I love Dr. Pepper over here. I know I'm weird, whatever. But I was so excited to try American Pop or whatever. American fizzy drinks give me a fucking headache.
01:30:25
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That's probably because the amount of sugar that's in it. Yeah, well, that, well, yeah, sugar, quote unquote. and A lot of will just be corn syrup. Yeah, exactly. It was like one one can would give me a headache. was wild, man.
01:30:37
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Awful. And their bread genuinely does taste like cake. What the actual thought? Oh, that' does that's a weird one I can't get out of here. Genuinely. Sweet bread. If you took if you took American bread, slapped some jam and cream on it, put another on top of it, told them to close their eyes and take a bite, they'd genuinely think it was a shit Victoria sponge.
01:30:57
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You're not wrong. It is not bread. But that has befriended Utu enough to Utu to frame him and... Bart realises that the only way he can deal with the gremlins to deal with it himself. He then looks for the emergency flares which have been put into Martin's pants.
01:31:11
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Bart takes one out, one falls out, but puts it back into Martin's pants just in case. Yeah, well that's where he found them. Put them back where you found them. Yeah. Bart opens Bart opens the window and we go full air-braplane suction as everyone is almost... Yeah, the bus explosively decompresses. Where's an American bus? You never know.
01:31:31
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Bart is trying to get to the gremlin with the flare, but he's being pulled back by Skinner and Willy. And Skinner implores Willy to pull, and Willy says, he's doing all the pulling, you blouse-wearing poodle walker.
01:31:42
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It's a random gay joke. They eventually pull him back in, but Boar has managed to set the gremlin on fire, and it then gets run over by Flanders. Flanders has no qualms about stopping and realising he's just run over a hideous monster, and finds it quite touching when it tries to rip his eyes out.
01:31:59
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As he would. The gremlin looks quite scared as Flanders hugs him. We then cut to the the end of the storm and the bus at school, and the bus's wheel finally falls off, all scratched up.
01:32:11
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Bart is overjoyed because he finally proves he's right. Vindicated. but Skinner says his behaviour was disruptive, so now he's going to spend the rest of his life in madhouse. Nelson, of course, laughs.
01:32:23
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You may have saved our lives, but you were a nuisance. So, the madhouse with you. Bart is delighted that he's finally going to get some rest, but at that moment there's a knock on the window and we see that the gremlin is back and he's holding up Flanders' head which says, hardlyly ho but And Bart screams.
01:32:38
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um that And that is your second story, folks. can't believe we've capped a an hour and 30 minutes talking about these episodes. I think we smashed through that second one. right Yeah. Let's do some fucking vampires.
01:32:50
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Yeah, let's do the vampires. We then cut to Bart saying that the final painting is the most terrifying thing, and if you look at it, you'll go mad. We then see it's that famous one of the dogs playing poker, and Homer does indeed go mad.
01:33:02
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Does anyone know where that actually is to see it? ah not big I think it is somewhere in America. Yeah, I know it's... i'm Well, yeah, I'm fairly certain it's America, but I don't know if it's, like, part of a private collection now or anything. So I've never... i I've never really looked into it because it's so referenced. You just kind of accept that it exists. I've never, like, read the Wikipedia article on dogs playing poker.
01:33:21
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I am frantically Googling it. and I assume you will be. it It was auctioned in 2015, but it does not say to whom. To whom, yeah. So it's just part of a private collection. ah Quite possibly, yeah That's a shame.
01:33:33
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i i i'd I'd love to go see it. That'd be
Vampire Tale & Twist Ending
01:33:35
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kind of interesting. Because, you know, like said, it's such a, like... ubiquitous part, like I feel like every sitcom, especially every, like loads of cartoons when I was a kid referenced dogs playing poker to kids that wouldn't get the joke, but because it was in so many cartoons and so many shows, eventually we all started to get the joke without actually knowing anything about the painting. i just find that fascinating.
01:33:57
Speaker
Hmm. You learn that there was a story to go along with this, but it was too intense. So they just made something it up about vampires and we get Bart Simpson's Dracula. We got to the family watching Ken Rockman delivering a news report about a local peasant being dead.
01:34:12
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but go Yeah, I like peasant. That was so funny. Of course, he's lost all his blood. There's teeth marks in his throat. There's a black cape with the word Dracula on it. And the police are baffled. We then cut to Wickham saying he thinks it's a supernatural being, but he's kind of gone in the wrong way because he thinks it's a mummy.
01:34:28
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So the police force are now destroying the Egyptian wing of the Springfield Museum. And Eddie gets a nice nice job, Eddie. Lisa then gets a bit frantic about this and says, no wrong.
01:34:40
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The creature they seek is the walking undead. Nosferatu das Vampire. Yeah, mummies are also walking dead, you pretentious moron. You can't see the entire family, including the pets, looking at Lisa very blunt. I feel so good to be back hating Lisa.
01:34:55
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I mean, generally, when people use like this the explicit phrase, the walking dead... They hate zombies. Zombies, usually, yeah. yeah I think it is a reference to the actual Bram Stoker's Dracula, which this episode references heavily. Oh, definitely. Oh, yeah, yeah, obviously, yeah.
01:35:11
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And i think that is I think that is like a line verbatim from the film. Was he described as? I i think. i don't I don't want to say anything and say I'm right because I don't know. How dare I think things?
01:35:26
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but i have not read Dracula because I'm uncultured. so i I keep meaning to. I've read Frankenstein. That was really moving. And also a curious case of Dr. Declan, Mr. Hyde. That was amazing. I really i really enjoyed that.
01:35:41
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Fully recommend reading it. It's an amazing story. Homer dismisses Lisa's theories, saying vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins and eskimos. Oh, my God.
01:35:51
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And then we get the unrelated story of Mr. Burns has bought the Springfield Blood Bank. We then see Burns saying, oh, he's very excited about the deal as he notices that he's got some blood on his face and then immediately eats it and goes, Precious blood.
01:36:03
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Homer's impressed because it's a business deal. Yeah, he's like, hmm, business deal. Ha, ha, ha, ha. We cut to the family driving down the road and Mr. Burns and Homer says, it was really nice for Mr. Burns to invite us to a so his country house in Pennsylvania.
01:36:17
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I love the Scooby-Doo-esque level of contrivance. They're just like, establish a villain, establish the fact that the heroes are interacting with the villain. The end.
01:36:28
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I love it It's great. It doesn't need anything more than that. ah did i dig I dig the Pennsylvania bit. Pennsylvania! Pennsylvania! Lisa fixes something fishy about the setup and Marge tells her to stop being suspicious.
01:36:41
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Then asks, did everybody wash their necks like Mr. Burns asked? And the family confirmed, including Homer holding up his dirty rag to prove it. Yeah, ugh. No. but As the family drive up, we see Mr. Burns appear in the night sky looking down. I must have fucking spaced out. I didn't remember that bit.
01:37:00
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We then see the family use the intercom and Burns invites them in and then we start hearing and going on a rant about, ah, fresh victims for the ever-growing army of the undead. Then Spence has to point out, you've got to let go of the button.
01:37:11
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And Burns goes, ah, son of a bitch. Son of a bitch. I don't know if that was just for comedy or like a censorship reason, they cut him off halfway through the word. No, it's I learned that very early. I think it is sometimes it is funnier to censor the bad word than it is to just say the bad word. And I think that's something that's been lost in modern comedy a lot. I mean, Simpsons has used that word before, so hope you have to assume it was done for the bit. Yeah, I definitely think it's for the gag.
01:37:38
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We then see Burns up appear in the hallway in a puff of smoke as his shadow is extra large. he he says He introduces the Simpsons as his good friends, but then the smirters clearly playing the arranged follower goes, Simpson family master.
01:37:54
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Simpsons, hey! simpson a We then see Burns invite them in, and then you see that his shadow is playing the yo-yo and doing all sorts of things behind him. And Lisa says, there's something a bit strange. And Homer goes, yeah, his hairdo looks queer.
01:38:07
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And Burns turns around he goes, I heard that. And Homer tries to blame the boy. It was the boy. We then cut to the dinner scene, and Homer is delighted that he's getting punched. But Lisa feels, hey, it's blood.
01:38:18
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It's free blood. He takes a big swig, and looks like he's had a giant nosebleed. Lisa then says, oh no, I've accidentally spilled some blood on myself and says she embastically knows. Sorry, just a random, like, I'm going to ruin everyone's dinner.
01:38:31
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Can you imagine taking a sip of that much blood, though? yeah like i mean we're we're all were we're we're all northern english lads we all grew up we've all tasted our own blood when we scraped our knee or some shit um and if you deny it you're lying remember that taste and then imagine a glass of it yeah yeah no thank you i genuinely think i would vomit Bart says he hasn't got any blood in him and Lisa just wipes a handful of blood on his face.
01:39:03
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Yep. As they're walking down the corridor Bart says they're not going to find Bird's secret lair. He then and leans on the thing that reveals the washing machine. I would love my, like, just a random room that is secret, but it's just it's just a room. It's not like a secret. like It's just like an average room. like I just love my kitchen hidden.
01:39:22
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No one knows where my kitchen is. yeah i want a house where no one can find the kitchen. but Only i know the location of where my microwave is. Lisa's about to give up, but then sees the big neon sign that says secret vampire room. No girl garlic. No garlic.
01:39:37
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They then come down the stairs to see the room full of coffins, and Bart says it's no different from the basement in Grandpa's rest home. Oh, grim. Lisa then finds the Mr. Burns biography that says, yes, I'm a vampire, which had the foreword by Steve Allen.
01:39:52
Speaker
He starts reading through the book, and the coffins begin to open. Bart tries to tell Lisa subtly by doing his best three stooges impersonation. Yep. Eventually the wooden vampire rips through the book and the kids start running up the staircase. Unfortunately at that moment Bart also realises there's a big switch. Super fun slide!
01:40:11
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Bart ponders it for a second and realises he's not going to be here again so... When am I ever going to be here again? So he does and he's enjoying himself until he gets to the bottom and the vampires hold him down. Ah it's little...
01:40:22
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boy a Vampire Burns does indeed bite Bart as Lisa runs in to say Mr Burns is a vampire and he has Bart but Burns is there with his big vampire fangs covered in blood saying yeah he's right here and Bart in a very monotone voice goes hello mother and father I missed you during my own eventful absence and Homer tells Lisa off her crazy stories of Bart being a vampire and beer killing belt brain cells and then he starts and says don't go back to that building thingy.
01:40:51
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Well, our bed is. Our bed's on TV. It's TV. We then cut to Lisa tossing and turning and then she hears a tapping on the window and sees that Bart in full vampire mode, having turned several of their friends into vampires. yeah Bart said, says, it'll be cool.
01:41:08
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She gets to stay up all night drinking blood and Milhouse says, you get a free small soda at the movies if you say you're a vampire. That's nice of them. I'm glad they vampire inclusitory. Lisa doesn't want this soda, but Bart doesn't give her a choice.
01:41:21
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He breaks through the window three times and before he's about to bite her, Homer comes into the room and tells Bart not to bite Lisa before he finally realizes Bart is a vampire. Grandpa runs into the room with a stake and hammer saying they have to kill the boy.
01:41:34
Speaker
Marsha goes, how do you know he's a vampire? Grandpa's response to this is, he's a vampire. that They do that bit like endlessly with Abe Simpson. It's never not funny. which point Bart says his old batter flies off.
01:41:48
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Lisa says the only way to get Bart back is to kill the head vampire, Mr. Burns. Almost shocked at first and goes, do I dare to live out the American dream? There's a very cute animation detail when Bart flies out the windows about Maggie waves as he flies off.
01:42:02
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Cute. Yeah. We then see the family walking down to the crypt and Marge laments the fact they couldn't get a babysitter. Yeah, that was like a weird line to be honest, but I don't know if they like felt some obligation to explain why everybody collectively, including Maggie, had to come ah explore the the the vampire mansion. i don't think I don't think it was trying to like explain it. I think it's more the sort of absurdity of in these crisis situations, the reality would be, yeah, you can't you still can't just leave the baby on their own.
01:42:36
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You still have to get a babysitter. But then you can't deal with the crisis if you don't get babysitter. So you'd have to bring the baby along. So it's yeah, it's just absurdity. Homer notices the super fun, happy slide lever, but Lisa tells him he's not having it.
01:42:49
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And Homer just says, oh. guess killing will be fun enough. Homer opens up the coffin and Lisa tells him that he's got to stick it through the heart. Homer declares die evil being and starts hammering. But Lisa points out he's actually hammering into Burns' crotch. We've all hammered on our boss's crotch at least once, right?
01:43:08
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Right? Oh no. Moving swiftly on. Mel Gibson! Mel Gibson. Alma corrects himself and drives the state- Wait, Mel Gibson hammered on his boss's crotch?
01:43:18
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No, I hammered on Mel Gibson's crotch. Wink. Mel Gibson's your boss? Wouldn't you like to know? That's one for the lawyers. yeah
01:43:29
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Mr. Burns gets a stage room to his heart and proceeds to turn to dust, after a very exaggerated death It's like wax.
01:43:38
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Elmo breathes a sigh of relief before Mr. Burns reanimates to tell him he's fired. We come back to the Simpsons kitchen and Lisa says, it's nice everything's back to normal. like Grandpa comes in completely dressed as a vampire, declaring he's come to suck their blood.
01:43:51
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His teeth fall out and then he crashes into the refrigerator. and This cape's giving me a rash. Lisa is horrified until then a vampire, then Bart points out they're all vampires. And the Homer points out they haven't killed the head vampire.
01:44:03
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And Lisa initially thinks it's Homer, but Marge reveals she's the head vampire. Lisa's horrified, but Marge reveals, I've just got a life outside this house, you know. awesome qui That was good. They all swoop in to bite her, but then declare, Happy Halloween!
01:44:17
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And we break into the... Yep, we...
01:44:21
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It was so fucking weird, guys. We break into the Charlie Brown Christmas special ending with ah the Santa's Little Hope doing the Snoopy dance.
01:44:34
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Sorry, you forgot the name of one of the most iconic dogs in ah you know television history. It's fine. It was on the tip of my tongue. Yeah, it's all right. sorry we We believe you. Mel Gibson.
01:44:46
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Mel Gibson and Snoopy. I'd watch that show. And we get the best bit of the entire fucking episode, which is the remixing the Simpsons theme with the Addams Family theme.
01:44:57
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Yeah, that was that was tremendous.
01:45:01
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All
01:45:09
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right, so what did we think? it was It was fun, like, you know, I like i do like the Treehouses of Horror, that you know, they're, like, entertaining. I definitely think this was the weakest one so far.
01:45:22
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But, yeah, they're always, you know, they're fine, you know. They entertain. It sure existed. Yeah.
01:45:31
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Again, I think it was fine. I liked the vampire one. I mean, i don't know, I'm not, I'm genuinely not enthused about any of this whatsoever. You're not enthused about anything.
01:45:43
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I was enthused about Rosebud. No, you weren't. That was a fever dream.
01:45:49
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You're actually asleep right now. You've been hit by a car. You're in an isekai. You're going to wake up and there's going to be like 12 anime titty girls that all want to sleep with you, but you don't want to sleep with any of them for some reason. Fine.
01:46:02
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Can handle that, I guess, if it means i don't have to watch any more bloody Treehouses of Horror. There's no Treehouses of Horror in alternate Japan, where you have to level up your strengths, stat, nothing else.
01:46:15
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Anime. Mel Gibson. Wait, what are we giving out of Homer? I gave it a yup, out of Homer. It's a Treehouse of Horror out of Homer.
01:46:26
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Ooh, ouch. I gave it Dogs Playing Poker out of Homer. Iconic? I don't always understand it, but there's a degree of madness that has to go into it. Fair enough.
01:46:38
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You're the only one who made an effort here, I love it I tried, don't have much to work with.
01:46:45
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That's kind of why I gave it the Treehouse of Horror. What's the fuck to fucking say about it other than it is Treehouse of Horror? It's the fourth time they've done this. They're all the same. Ugh, yeah. That's fair.
01:46:57
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you have anything to say about society? Not really. Did it fuck? They don't try to, they're just the writers letting loose a bit, I guess. Yeah, I mean, all of all all these are just like, what's a thing we've seen before? Can we do Simpsons spin on it? Like, every single one of these was just an ah adaptation of thing that already existed. it's a massive reference to something.
01:47:20
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Yeah, like, none of these were even attempts at being particularly original works, so. No, they're never clever, really. Is that gonna just about do us? I think that does still Still somehow rapidly approaching the two hour mark. don't know how we manage that, man. Well, this is what you get for talking about wangs.
01:47:38
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That did take like two minutes. And Mel Gibson. We derailed this so fucking much.
01:47:46
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Matt, what you got going on? I've started ah streaming again. Twitch.tv slash MrGablin. Right now I'm playing through Rogue Trader every day at 3pm GMT all the way until 7pm GMT. I'm really enjoying it. It's a lot of fun. So I'd love it if some of you came and joined me and told me all of my opinions on The Simpsons are wrong.
01:48:06
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Which is fine. I also do another podcast and i i'll I'll use my usual excuse. i will get the current recorded episode of All for Arnold out before the next episode of Simpsons comes out.
01:48:22
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ah Interesting. that gives me that's That's how I function my deadlines. so I remember how well that worked last time, but also I'm... No, and and and no, no, no, no. I'm heartened. that That usually works. It's only not worked once.
01:48:34
Speaker
Okay, fair enough. the The problem is getting me to record them. Okay. Well, I can prod you about that at least. You can prod me. It worked this time. It worked this time. need to contact the person want as a guest for Predator.
01:48:49
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and Okay, fair enough. Michael, anything? If you want to follow me on the Bluescar, you can do it at Buttered Mash Horse. Otherwise, I will hand it swiftly back to you by co-host John.
01:49:00
Speaker
ah Yeah, follow me on blueskymaroka.bsky.social Follow my other YouTube account, youtube.com forward slash button mash Seconding, listen to All for Arnold. It's very entertaining. It's worth... I think John likes it more than I do, which is quite funny. I fucking love All for Arnold. a great podcast. Oh, thank you.
01:49:21
Speaker
i ill I'll do more of it. It actually did hit 250 downloads recently, which is pretty cool. wo Nice. Well, let's get that number higher. Guys, go listen to it.
01:49:32
Speaker
And if they want to listen to our podcast, where can they find it? Oh, that's a good segue that I probably wouldn't have even thought about talking about. This podcast that you are listening to on and or watching right now, if you're doing both at the same time, good work. Thank you. Skills.
01:49:49
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um If you're listening to it and want to see the video with all of the fact checking and snarky comments from me, that available. Yeah, need to watch these now to find this, because that sounds hilarious.
01:50:01
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I say a lot of shit and most of it's wrong. youtube.com forward slash mole man pod. If you are watching the video and are sick of my snarky comments, uh, and would just like something that you can listen to on the commute or whatever, and then that's available at Spotify and Apple podcasts. Just look for mole man in the morning.
01:50:20
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You'll find it. We're out there. I can't believe we're in season five guys. This is wild. who And it's only just begun. We've got 29 of them to together We will never finish this. We will never finish it.
01:50:38
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But, you know, it's I enjoy doing it. Absolutely. As much as it doesn't seem like I do.
01:50:47
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Alright, let's say goodbye before we actually hit the two hour mark. Bye everyone. Bye Mel Gibson. Bye everybody. Is Mel Gibson here? Yeah.
01:50:58
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Always. In our hearts. Ah, Jesus. Ah, get out of my heart, Mel Gibson! Ah! The end.