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S5E8&9 - Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood & The Last Temptation of Homer
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Jon, Michael, and Matt watch The Simpsons episodes 'Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood' & 'The Last Temptation of Homer', and discuss what they say about society.
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Transcript
Introduction and Humorous Banter
00:00:00
Speaker
Hello, this is Mole Man in the Morning. Good Mole Man to you. Hello, welcome to Mole Man in the Morning. Good morning, good Mole Man. We've talked the whole night through. Good Mole Man, good Mole Man to you. bigger since Michael said it, and there is a musical bit in the show. Yeah, a really weird.
00:00:22
Speaker
We'll get there. we'll get Again, to the audience, I do not think of these ahead of time if that was not painfully obvious. We can pretend were tying it into the non sequitur musical bit.
00:00:33
Speaker
Absolutely. that's That's what it was. It's a reference to a sequitur musical. 100%. I'm so witty. Yep. We are more man in the morning. We are a podcast about how The Simpsons has a lot to say about society. Sometimes we've been saying it hasn't had a lot to say lately, but... I don't know. I feel like we've eked out a couple good ah thoughts in the last few episodes, despite the episodes themselves not being quite as prescient as we'd maybe hoped.
00:01:02
Speaker
I'm hoping we can tease something out today at the very least. I think we will. We usually do. ah But before we get there, we should probably introduce ourselves. i am your host, John, and I am joined, as ever, by my two charming and musical co-hosts, Matt.
00:01:17
Speaker
Hello. And Michael. I'd like to hope our castery knows. Thank you both for indulging me on that one. I would watch the hell out of a Ned Flanders musical.
00:01:30
Speaker
Oh, it'd be tremendous. It would be called Hydeley Ho, right? That would be the name of Yeah, yeah, that what else you could call it. ah um How is there not like a ah Book of Mormon style Ned Flanders play? That'd be great.
00:01:46
Speaker
The Book of Flanders. The Book of Flanders. I'd watch it. I'd go see it. We give these ideas away for free, Matt Groening. Yeah,
The Simpsons' Commentary on Society
00:01:55
Speaker
Simpsons is so huge. like I mean, we did we have talked with Josh about Simpsons stage play, but it's not like the Simpsons stage play. Yes, there was a stage play that kind of like refer is like very referential of the Simpsons, but it's not really... It's not like, yeah, Matt Grenning and team sat down and were like, let's make a Simpsons stage play.
00:02:15
Speaker
And I don't even know how that would work, but just fascinating to contemplate. They could even hire the um the death metal band called... Oh, what's it called? The one that where they all dress like Flanders.
00:02:27
Speaker
What? The death metal band where they all dress like Flanders? you died That needs some explanation. It's real. ah Metal band dress like Flanders.
00:02:39
Speaker
ah did to did that They're called Oakley Dockley. o Of course they are. and Was an American metalcore band from Phoenix, Arizona... They ceased being active in 2022. Oh, what happened?
00:02:56
Speaker
I don't think John wants me to go down a rabbit hole this week. I think he wants... I think they want a quick episode today. Hang on. So, yeah shall I do some housekeeping?
00:03:07
Speaker
Sorry, can I just say one thing? One of the members and Bledned. The end. Right, we're done. Move on.
00:03:20
Speaker
Okay, cool. We did it. Nedned. That was the headned. Ooh. Okay, so housekeeping. So I would have thanked Al Zaraf for covering for me last week.
00:03:32
Speaker
I was ah at attending a wedding abroad, not being fan by the natives as ah some people incorrectly said at the start. This is all lie. So to my co-hosts, a couple of questions.
00:03:43
Speaker
One. Seven. No. How the hell did you do a three hour podcast? No ah no comment. You know how! You know how! It's always It's always me! it's always me So, John, why did you let Matt drink dragon soup again have the last time? I don't physically have the power to restrain him. He's in a different country. You could have sternly said no.
00:04:11
Speaker
I think I was harmless. right How dare you desecrate the memory of Andrew the Giant by implying he could have only drunk 50 beers at one time. According to Wikipedia, the record is 100. Oh, my. cal And for, and this is the most pressing thing, you're in your rush to end the podcast on the second episode of Barton the Child. Go back in YouTube if you want to see that.
00:04:38
Speaker
You didn't give the episode an out of Omer. Did we not? Did we not? did not. i don't even have mine anymore. I delete my notes every time I write new ones.
00:04:51
Speaker
You have disgraced the good name of Mallman in the morning. I'm sure we did, though. I'm sure we did. I gave it tremampoline out of Homer because it had a lot of ups and downs. I think you made a very similar gag. Yeah.
00:05:01
Speaker
Oh. Did you just not edit it in?
00:05:05
Speaker
Am I wrong about this? I don't remember explicitly editing it out. I mean, I did have to sit for three hours, and maybe my mind wumbled. Maybe your mind wumbled. Just absolutely just blanked on I was so sick of the noise of us droning in the background for three hours.
00:05:20
Speaker
I've just never seen a very possible i've never seen an episode summary done so quickly at the end. You did it in like two minutes. You didn't even talk about the McGonagall episode.
00:05:31
Speaker
Oh, no, I did. You sprinted through it. You did not give it the... Yeah, because we were at the three-hour mark. We sprinted through it because we were at the three-hour mark. It was cinema.
00:05:41
Speaker
Pure cinema and you ruined it. Absolute cinema. It's secondary to McBain. Well, not... It's never going to live up to McBain. McBain. Well, that's fair. Yeah.
00:05:53
Speaker
I've got to argue at this point. Yeah. I've done my ranting. I've wasted six minutes. Go on. There we go. Yeah. Today we are going looking at season five, episode eight and nine, Boy Scouts in the Hood and the Last Temptation of Homer.
00:06:09
Speaker
But before we talk about them, what are we all drinking today? i totally planned my drink and I am drinking a Shipyard Portland, Maine USA American IPA. There you go, it's open, sipping.
00:06:32
Speaker
Yep, that's an IPA. Sweet. Not really. Quite bitter actually. Yeah, they they quite famously.
Podcast Reflections and Humor
00:06:40
Speaker
Michael? So, from the Bad News Beer Company, I am drinking Tropical Unicorn.
00:06:47
Speaker
I feel like this it's been a while since you've drank on the podcast. It has. We do these on a weekday and I do an office job, so I try to stay sober, but I'm having a hell of a week, so fuck it.
00:06:59
Speaker
But Tropical Unicorn, according to the blurb, is... fluffy clouds of pillowy oats. Then we sip down the magical rainbow of berries, apricot, passion fruit, grapefruit, bright orange, tangerine, mango, and coconut.
00:07:13
Speaker
This sounds like an energy drink i would drink. It doesn't sound like a beer. There's a lot going on here. Sounds like a beer I would drink to annoy Matt. Yeah. Added bonus.
00:07:25
Speaker
Added bonus. Fuck my co-host. Yeah, it's quite pleasant, actually. Is it actually fruity or is It is iss actually quite fruity, yeah. What are you drinking, Jon?
00:07:37
Speaker
To bring balance back to the force, I'm drinking Osset Brewery's King Rat Hazy IPA. King Rat? King Rat, yeah.
00:07:47
Speaker
What a stupid name. Um, I think they've... Osset Brewery to have like an old experimental brewery that they called Rat Brewery. all All of their beers were like something ratty.
00:07:59
Speaker
um I remember they did a mint chocolate stout at one point that they called After Rat Mint, which was bloody delicious. After Rat Mint. That's a name. I'll look out that if I'm going to get back.
00:08:12
Speaker
But yeah, this is this does just say Osset, so I don't know if they've like stopped the experimental brewery and just wound it into the main thing or whatever, but yeah, it's a it's a rat beer.
00:08:23
Speaker
And there's nothing wrong with that.
00:08:27
Speaker
It is a beer-flavoured beer. What an endorsement. I mean, i like a beer-flavoured beer. It's a good flavour for a beer to be. If you would like us to put actual effort into our endorsements, make sure that you sub subscribe gri and smash that like button so that we can get sponsored by MeUndies, and I will give it a ringing endorsement every single episode.
00:08:45
Speaker
For clarity, ah from me and from many brewers, beer-flavoured beer actually is a compliment, because like for anybody who's been making it long enough and is sick of novelty gimmick flavours, like, oh shit, it's a beer-flavoured beer. Fucking sweet. Excuse me. Ex-fucking-scuse me.
00:09:00
Speaker
it it If there is one person on this planet that is not fucking tired of novelty shit beers, it is you, sir I only bought them to annoy you, and since you denied me that pleasure by not getting annoyed anymore, this is why I bought normal beers.
00:09:17
Speaker
Bullshit. Bullshit. Bullshit. I think you're annoyed even more about- don't get enough anymore for me to justify spending money on them. This is true. You need to buy weirder. Escalate.
00:09:29
Speaker
You've been buying pretty, like, average shit. I think the last one I really got annoyed at was, like, the coconut beer one. I can really taste the coconut in this.
00:09:41
Speaker
Anyway, Boy Scouts and the Hood. Aired on November 18th, 1993. Oh, I have as November 19th. Oh! Wikipedia says 18th, Simpsons Wiki says 19th. Not sure who's correct on that one.
00:09:55
Speaker
Which day was the Thursday? Then you'll know which one it was. ah yeah Yeah, Thursday was the 18th. So we'll have aired on the 18th. and Okay, good thing you said that, because I was looking up the wrong day. Yeah. Same sort of thing. 27 people died on both days.
00:10:10
Speaker
Just different circumstances. ah different circumstances Why is it the same number? so Actually, it is. That's crazy. So for context, on the 18th, 27 people were killed in a prison Morazan, El Salvador.
00:10:25
Speaker
And on the 19th, Algerian Muslim Fondalistist uprising. Same number. That's so weird. The two events may be completely unseparate. Well, one's in Algeria, one's in el El Salvador. I would imagine they're unconnected.
00:10:41
Speaker
hope they're unconnected.
00:10:45
Speaker
So we get the, on this day, we also have the famous Nirvana MTV Unplugged performance. A few people remember that. I do not know what that is, but okay. i I have a vague inkling, my brother was the Nirvana guy.
00:10:59
Speaker
Yes, Nirvana did a MTV Unplugged where it was mostly acoustic. It's well-regarded. but Nirvana being well-regarded? Ridiculous. Nah, no one likes them.
00:11:11
Speaker
Vince McMahon was charged with steroid distribution. Vince McMahon? I mean, no, that makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense, actually. Yeah, that totally checks out, yes. Pearl Jam's lead singer, Eddie Vedder, was arrested for public drunkenness.
00:11:24
Speaker
Also makes sense. yeah Yeah, also checks out, to be fair. Black and white leaders in South Africa approve a new democratic constitution. Great. Lovely.
00:11:35
Speaker
I think. North American Free Trade Agreement passes the US House of Representatives. So, do you know, i I feel pressured to say something witty to these, so and and sometimes you get something so dry that you're just like, I mean, yeah, good.
00:11:49
Speaker
but I mean, I'm aware NAFTA was an important bit of, like, global trade agreement legislation, but also, like, ah yes, it's very this is very dry shit. How about the North Siberia record cold for November?
00:12:05
Speaker
Minus 55 degrees. Michael, you have to read everything that's on that website. You really don't. Please, just the highlight reel. Just for that, I'm now reading out famous deaths. Fritz Spiel, German actor, he died. Give us meatloaf. We need meatloaf. Oh, no, you've spoiled it now.
00:12:22
Speaker
So, meatloaf is still the US and spoil meatloaf. It's got too many preservatives in it.
00:12:29
Speaker
I didn't try meatloaf while was in America. I probably will while I'm up there in in September. That's a slanderous accusation against meatloaf. Both for the cigarette and the food substance.
00:12:40
Speaker
Oh yeah, he was an anti-vaxxer. He wouldn't put preservatives in him. Oh, fuck that dude. Do you know I'm sure we've talked about that before. I remember nothing you people say to me.
00:12:51
Speaker
Died of COVID, didn't yeah he died Yeah, he genuinely refused the vaccine and then died of COVID. Oh, yes. i I now remember reading about this online and people being very kind of shitty about it.
00:13:05
Speaker
It's like, yeah, cool yeah great. it It teaches people to use the vaccine, but the same time, let's not applaud someone's death, guys. Reddit is a hellhole. I think he was one of our many, many separate art from artist conversations.
00:13:19
Speaker
Yeah.
'Boy Scouts in the Hood' Episode Critique
00:13:21
Speaker
He's not unproblematic like Ernest Morgan. I think I brought it back. Cool. Shall we get on with it? Let's do it. Boy Scouts in the Herd. What is what wouldn't it there's no There's no chalkboard gag. We still... like um i'm um I'm getting real worried for the well-being of our chalkboard gag writer today, folks. No worries. Back in the next episode.
00:13:42
Speaker
Spoilers. You spoiled meatloaf for me.
00:13:47
Speaker
So the couch garg, the family renowned, they don't have their eyes, but they leap up and get their eyes back into the head. got a to They're just floating in the air until they're inserted. i love the the like aggressiveness with which they slam their heads into the back of their own eyes.
00:14:04
Speaker
You've got to make sure they're in there. Get some good eyeball pop and foley as well. We start off the episode into the video game arcade and we start with a reference that I have. The video game arcade. Michael, are you 75 years old?
00:14:19
Speaker
Yes, I am. I am in the spirit of a very old man. The video game arcade. I don't know why that tickled me. It is what it is.
00:14:31
Speaker
it It is what it is. I cannot like i cannot tell a lie. We start with a reference that I don't get. Can someone help me with this? It's... Oh, the dinner with Ernest. did Dinner with Andre.
00:14:44
Speaker
Andre, that's your man. It's not Andre the Giant, unfortunately. No. Now, apparently this is a ah surprisingly well-received movie from 1981 that have never heard of before in my life, but yeah they're riffing on that by making a video game adaptation of a film that is as much as I can skim make out.
00:15:06
Speaker
Pretty much that is two guys having having dinner and chatting. I absolutely love it. Tell me more. i mean I mean, I said my note immediately on this is like, this this very much has the energy of a 2020s indie game.
00:15:21
Speaker
Yeah, i I would fully expect to see a review of it on your channel. ah So Bart is playing a slightly more violent game, and...
00:15:33
Speaker
It seems to be some form of Colombian drug lord King Kong combination. I didn't get this. Panamanian strongman is what it was called. i Yeah, I don't know what they're doing with this. It feels faintly racist. Yeah, I was... Because the thing was, is like, he's...
00:15:53
Speaker
very dark skinned in the game. So you your brain immediately goes to the comparison that it shouldn't go to where you think, oh no, this is really racist.
00:16:03
Speaker
And then he said stuff in Spanish and I was like, yeah oh, okay. so So where is the, what is what is the joke? and what it you I don't want to make a comment on it in in that regard because it's like, I don't understand the joke so I can't dictate whether the joke had ill intent or not.
00:16:23
Speaker
I'm not sure anyone can really weigh in on that other than the writers themselves. Ends with the character being shot down and George Bush comes and kicks the corpse and tells us not to use drugs. Once again, they still want those ex-presidents. George Bush will know for his drug message, guess. it was George Bush because he said winners don't do drugs. Isn't that a Reagan thing?
00:16:44
Speaker
No, that's clearly George Bush. It's Bush Senior. Okay, right. okay George H. W. Bush. Right, okay, right. Fair enough, fair enough. We know this because he does make a cameo sort of in later Simpsons.
00:16:57
Speaker
yeah he looks Yeah, he looks like the the George Bush analogue. It was just like I said, the winners don't use drugs. I thought that was a Reagan... I know there was... Well, there was just saying no to drugs, which were that was Nancy Reagan.
00:17:12
Speaker
Did George... Was George H. W. Bush like... ah Did he campaign against drugs? I don't even remember. I know. I say don't remember. I wasn't alive. Bush's presidency. We chose the wrong episode as well.
00:17:27
Speaker
He could have answered this. He's older and American. He could tell us these things. Basically Bart is out of money and Milhouse tells him not to say that. We then cut to the monitor of the security screens and the Caucasian males are out of money according to the security thing.
00:17:42
Speaker
They don't have to... sort Code red. The alarms start blaring. The smoke starts blaring as the ominous fear comes out and it's the squeaky voiced Dean. I'm sorry, but you'll have to leave.
00:17:53
Speaker
ah like when he's trying to be aggressive.
00:17:57
Speaker
We then see that Barton Milhouse and our board outside wondering how they're going to kill time for the rest of the afternoon. A bum then comes along and tells them they shouldn't kill time, but cherish it. Then he asks for some change so we can get loaded.
00:18:09
Speaker
Yep. Cherishes time while loaded. It's fine. We can do that. Yeah, we're off to a hot start here, folks. There's no hypocrisy, then. Don't be down. We see Homer's at home and he's delighted to have some quiet time to catch up on his reading.
00:18:22
Speaker
And we then look, he ignores the books on the table and starts reading the peanut jar. Again, this always... I'm going to repeat myself, just like I did last time. Why are the books there? Parentheses for the purpose of the gag.
00:18:34
Speaker
But why are the books there? don't know. Lisa was reading them earlier. She left them on the table. This is possible, yeah. Why do I care about these things? Why were the books there? Omar's reading is interrupted by Marge for asking what he wants for dinner.
00:18:47
Speaker
Omar asks for steak and Marge says, eh, money's too tight for steak. Omar asks for steak again and Marge hesitantly goes, okay. like I like eighty grand a year again the vibe the fibe of, you can't tell if Marge is acquiescing and is going to get steak or is just saying, yeah, sure, I'll get steak.
00:19:06
Speaker
Wink. Yeah, I think it's that. I think she knows he won't remember what he's asked for anyway, so she's gonna get whatever. He will eat food. He's Homer. Yeah. Homer, speak of eating food, Homer finds the last peanut, which he says is overflowing with oil and salt of its departed drubbers.
00:19:21
Speaker
the The peanuts at the bottom of the jar usually are. And we get another bit that's yet again one of oh my god, this is from this episode bits. Homer tries to eat the peanut, but misses his mouth and goes into panic. Something's off here.
00:19:34
Speaker
You see him go into the sofa and after finding several things that are pointy and slimy and even moving Homer's disappointed to find a 20 Money really is tight in this house $20 can buy many peanuts Explain how, money can be exchanged for goods and services Homer's brain goes through that transaction room Homer's excited and he trips on the peanut that he ironically dropped And that $20 flies out of the window I fucking
Junior Campers' Antics and Humor
00:20:00
Speaker
love Homer's genius brain It will never not be funny As Flight of the Bumblebees plays in the background, we see the money floats. the intro to My Name is Earl.
00:20:10
Speaker
That's very strange. The bar mail house and Milhouse are now just punching each other in the arm and then the money floats in front of them. Bar thinks the plane might have exploded. Yeah, what? Why? That's one way to think about it. Where else would money come from this guy?
00:20:24
Speaker
This is true. That is where money comes from. Yeah, that's how you make more money. You have to explode a plane. You have to wait for a plane to explode and then you go collect it. Duh. The boys are happy to have the money on their prayers answered, so they go straight to the Cookie Mart and they decide that they're going to order a super squishy entirely made out of syrup.
00:20:44
Speaker
This stalls and horrifies everyone in the Cookie Mart, including Snake, who's robbing Appu's cousin, Sanja. And Apu is very pessimistic about this because it's never been done. And Bart declares, just make it happen.
00:20:56
Speaker
We then cut to Apu at the squishy machine and we see the machine is booking and after Apu has to sell it experimental. say Again, I'm just going to point out, for the purpose of the gag, but that's not how slushy machines work.
00:21:11
Speaker
I don't believe you. I think that's exactly how they work. I don't think they also shake incredibly violently as Apu is ah panicking. One guy runs out the store in horror as Apu says, she's breaking up. She can't take it. He then shakes it a couple more times.
00:21:24
Speaker
Yeah, he just shakes up slightly then immediately just finishes it. And then tells Bart if he survived, please come again. We go to the boys outside and the squishy is too fit for a straw. and Why did they get one straw?
00:21:36
Speaker
Because they're idiots. Yeah. Melhouse's glasses go flying as he fails to suck through the straw and gives the squishy to Bart. this figure off He fucking deep throats the straw as well. That thing goes like down his throat. It's awful.
00:21:50
Speaker
so Then see Bart to take a sip and declare, it that's good squishy. He then goes on to a psychiatric trip of seeing three millhouses before him and... Psychedelic, I think you mean. Yeah, that's what I meant.
00:22:00
Speaker
And he starts speaking in tongues and millhouse takes a sip and he starts making some interesting tweaks and noises. I'm sure that's a reference of something, but remember what it think it might be three stooges.
00:22:14
Speaker
If Bart's references are frequently three stooges, it could well be. Yeah. Bart then declares that they're now young, rich and full of sugar. And what should they do? And Milhouse goes, so let's go crazy Broadway style.
00:22:26
Speaker
We go into a random musical. but I just want to point ask someone who has bought what a Squishy is, because it's a big gulp. or ah Or essentially, it's this it's the same the same thing as a big gulp. I don't know if big gulps existed back then.
00:22:41
Speaker
I'm trying to think what the most similar thing would be over here. I assumed it was just i always assumed it was just slushie, right? Yeah, I know, but I'm saying it's a deliberate... In my opinion, it's a deliberate reference to things like Big Gulps in 7-Eleven.
00:22:57
Speaker
Are Big Gulps slushies there? always thought they were just drinks. so There's a big drink. ah you keep There's big drinks and then there's the slushie ones. um I think... don't remember. Leave me alone. that That would have eaten into about a quarter, if not more, of their $20. I just want to point that out.
00:23:16
Speaker
Yeah, no, don't worry about it. It's 1993 money. Everything was cheap. Don't worry about it. Yeah, don't worry about that. Because... The 20, even in 1993, goes a long way. That 20 stretches. It really does. that The musical starts and we see them start singing Springfield, Springfield. A sailor comes out and says, New York, New York, and Bart asks the director in the right way.
00:23:36
Speaker
New York is that-a-way. Thanks, kid. We then see the Bart and Milhouser go on their bender and they've got their own private booth at the video arcade game place.
00:23:48
Speaker
They go shopping for fancy skateboards and one detail I clocked in the background there is that I guess one of the high-end skateboards has got ten wheels. now i don't know if that makes skateboards better, I've got to be honest with you. No, that would make them significantly worse.
00:24:02
Speaker
They go see cats, which is incredibly dull. So Bart livens it up by ah shooting a spitboard at the stage and we see that the cat fight begins. Yeah, and Milhouse wasn't paying attention, so then... He's off his tits on sugar. It's a very lingering shot of Milhouse trying to figure out what was going on.
00:24:21
Speaker
And yeah there's there's one word for this episode. Padding. It is, and it didn't need to be. Bring back the chalkboard gag guy, I swear to God. Don't worry, we can fill the time because they get more sugar with Toothless Joe's gum.
00:24:37
Speaker
And they blow up the big bubble and it covers them and Homer just passes them, samples them and everything goes, hmm, free goo. Free goo. They go to the 24 hour rub-on tattoo parlour and they're covered in all sorts of glamorous tattoos.
00:24:50
Speaker
They start going down the street drinking their squishy. Barney is there again, as he tends to happen to crop up in these scenes for no real reason. Barney's everywhere. He gets around. Barney steals the drink and tells him he doesn't know where those pixies came from, but, you know, sure likes this drink.
00:25:06
Speaker
I mean, Barney is the town, one of the many town drunks, and this is an allegory for a bender, so of course Barney shows up. We then see Apu's disembodied laughing head floating around as the comedown begins.
00:25:20
Speaker
We then see that Bart is ah in his bed, full hangover mode, and lisa is Lisa's there just to taunt him, as calling him a sugar junkie. God, if i if i if I'd have grown up with Lisa, she would have not made it to 12.
00:25:35
Speaker
My note here says, shut up, Lisa. Ha ha!
00:25:40
Speaker
Bart doesn't remember anything and then Lisa pulls off his covers to reveal that he's joined the junior campers, Bart in full uniform. Okay, so can I observe, now that we have been introduced to the Junior Campers, super fucking weird that, like, we're doing, ah it's Boy Scouts, but with the serial number filed off.
00:25:58
Speaker
um And they even lampshade this later by doing a joke that's, like, not affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America, and yet it's in the name of the episode. They put Boy Scouts in the title.
00:26:09
Speaker
Yeah, but they're making a reference to Boys in the Hood with the title. Yeah, okay. And there's no rapidness whatsoever. Boy Scouts, and I'm trying to pretend it's not the Boy Scouts. It's weird. I think I don't... Because I think it's not a... They're not making those jokes for, like, copyright reasons. They're making those jokes because they think they're funny.
00:26:27
Speaker
If there weren't any copyright reasons, why wouldn't they just have had Bart say, I joined the Boy Scouts? Because this is funnier. Is it? Funnier to call them the junior campers? No, but that's what I'm i'm explaining why.
00:26:40
Speaker
I would quite confidently say that that that that it was not because of copy, right? It's because they thought this was funnier. Calling the George Junior Campers is silly. I think this is purely for legal reasons.
00:26:50
Speaker
I think so. no Particularly the bits about them messing around with knives and bathing the elderly. I think maybe they just wanted to make sure they were covered in case you someone complained.
00:27:01
Speaker
Maybe, yeah, especially. No, I think Boy Scouts is far too ah generic a term. to be for that for them to worry about copyright. I also don't think Boy Scouts has a copyright.
00:27:16
Speaker
They've been around for a long time as like an established organisation I would have thought they would. um Copyright. Lisa refers to the junior campus as the few, the proud and the geeky and laughs hysterically.
00:27:31
Speaker
Bart then theorizes that a boy of a squishy bed that can do some crazy things. We then cut to Barney who's up in a sailor suit and a load of baccala on some other boat. not again. Turns out this isn't the first time this has happened to Bart Barney. No, Boy Scouts is not trademarked.
00:27:45
Speaker
ah Boy Scouts of America is trademarked. Boy Scout registered trademark, but Boy Scouts, plural, is not. say If they'd used a Z, they would have been fine.
00:27:56
Speaker
They did use a Z. Oh, maybe maybe that maybe that is literally why they used the Zed, then. No, they used the Zed because it's a reference to Boys in the Hood. Okay, also that, yeah. No, that's that's that's the one, yeah.
00:28:11
Speaker
But then Kutsu, the next scene, and Bart is lamenting with Milhouse that he's made a terrible mistake. and Oh, wait, no, sorry. this is He's at the kitchen table, and he's trying to work out how to weasel his way out of it. And Marge is trying to tell Bart that and think they might seem uncool, but they do neat things like sing-alongs and flag ceremonies.
00:28:29
Speaker
Ah yes, the quintessential cool. Almost sells Marge not to discourage Bart, because weaseling away out of things is an important thing to learn. It's what separates them from the animals, except the weasels.
00:28:41
Speaker
Except the weasel. He says that so conspiratorially, like they're listening. You then see that Bart is lamenting to Millhouse, and Millhouse reveals that...
00:28:52
Speaker
In his own bender, he got a dirty word, shaved it to the back of his head. Bits Muskin sees it at that exact moment and says, what's your kid's obsession with that word? We never see said word. So yeah speculate what it will be to your heart's content.
00:29:05
Speaker
All we know is that Milhouse gets taken away to be shaved bald. His hair is not a length. It's privilege. Why did his parents should not let him... Why did his parents not stop him from going to school with that it's shaved into his head? Why did he wear a hat?
00:29:17
Speaker
Put a hat on my dude, yeah, absolutely. but Nelson steals the bag that contains Bart's uniform and the first two is campers pampers. The bullies start playing keep away but Bart does not give a shit.
00:29:28
Speaker
Why was his outfit all in one piece? That is very weird. Yeah. Maybe the shorts are sewn onto the shirt. yeah Maybe there's braces, I don't
00:29:38
Speaker
Jimbo has to threaten Bart that has to pretend he wants the uniform back and we just see Bart very un-enthusiastically giving me my, my uniform back. my precious uniform. We don't go to the classroom and Mr. Papaw says, what time is it? And Martin says, there is it time for a surprise quiz?
00:29:53
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That's not what Mr. Papaw was going to say, but that's what we're going with. And we then see one of the other boys, who's called Warren,
Camping Trip and Cultural References
00:30:00
Speaker
who's in the junior campers' outfits, trying to awkwardly ask permission to go, and Mrs. Krabopple gives it.
00:30:06
Speaker
We then see Bart struggling to put the uniform on. Just getting dressed in class. nelson Nelson mocks him, and then Bart just tells him to enjoy his test, and Nelson starts this trademark, ha-ha, before he realises, damn it. ah We then get the ah joke about not being affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America side.
00:30:24
Speaker
And Bart says, this is the alternative to testing. He opens the thing and we then see that Ned Flanders and the boys are around the sponge bath the old folks day. And we see that Jasper is in a tub completely. both these off Stay above the equator. you know Also, I just want to point out, again, i think saying not affiliated with the Boy Scouts of America implies cheap, low funding, all of those things.
00:30:48
Speaker
as well again it all sets up the joke of the fact that this is a shitter version of boy scouts well it tries to flee but his uh neck scarf gets caught in the door and we just see him slides down thank good bad bar has come too but he's been given the kiss of life even though he's clearly conscious i i was blown away when i found out how fucking few times the how how few occasions there actually are to use the kiss of life like all of the time basically all of the times you've seen it happen in movies are bullshit which is very strange it's just one of those things that you like you just think ah yes give them the kiss of life and most of the times no that would just kill them
00:31:34
Speaker
chest compressions only perform the kiss of life if you're sure someone isn't breathing because you're probably keeping the brain alive with oxygen even chest compressions you shouldn't do unless for one you're really well trained or very specific scenarios because most likely just going to break ribs it's weird movies lie I'll phrase it like this as a train first aid if someone has gone down with a cardiac arrest they're dead perform the chest compressions but Moving on, Bart is not in need of ah the kiss of life as he's struggling. We see Jasper in the background still butt ass naked.
00:32:09
Speaker
got towel. he's got a towel around. yeah yeah know he't have a toel i don't see him but but we don't see everything below thequators covered up We don't see under the I can't say that for sure.
00:32:21
Speaker
No, no, yeah, I can see in the background of shot. He's definitely wearing a towel. It's fine. Do not worry. No Jasper Dong for you. No. Bart pushes the kid off and the kid asks, should I keep doing it, even Bart is going to be unconscious? It's dumb.
00:32:34
Speaker
We don't see that. Ned is teaching the kids about making makeshift bird feeders by smearing peanut butter onto pine cones. Bart has finally had enough of this, but everyone's about to pull out the pocket knives. And Bart gets very excited as he... You get to play with knives?
00:32:48
Speaker
Bart then nicks one and goes, what a spork. Bart is told that he can't. It's a Neddy no-no, and he's got to pass a safety knife test with the 10 do's and don'ts of knife safety, and Bart says, 10 do's and 500 don'ts. Yeah, I was thinking, exactly. Oh, right, sorry, I said that wrong.
00:33:06
Speaker
it's It's a little high. Yeah, they kind of put Ned's hand over the 500, so it's not a super visual, visible gag. It's a glum toothpaste. It kind of... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bart's not willing to do it, and walked away saying, eh, now it's boring.
00:33:18
Speaker
We didn't see ah but our favourite man, Hans Moorman, being thrown out of Mo. Hey, our and Standing up and cheering and applauding for Hans Moorman. I just love how Sirius Mo takes Coaster's Yeah, Moe is holding a big big-ass knife saying, he's got to put his beer on a coaster.
00:33:34
Speaker
Moe Man scoffs and says, call that a knife? He then pulls a giant-ass knife out of his circane and says, this is a knife. Then we get the slow motion thing. Oh, down I go. I have absolutely used that audio clip at least once when we had technical difficulties in the Down I go.
00:33:54
Speaker
It's very funny. We then cut to Martin, unable to open his cookies because he can't remove the ribbon. Jimbo comes by and slices it through with his knife. And Martin says, let's share the cookies.
00:34:06
Speaker
He ends up being shoved into the ditch and cookie's stolen. We then cut to a man next to the doctor. am adamant that the writers of Simpsons went to school with a kid called Martin and fucking hated him.
00:34:18
Speaker
Quite possibly. Martin is suffering for his heart in this episode. We don't see that the man is having issues with his appendix next to Dr. Hibbert and Dr. Hibbert performed surgery with his trusty pocket knife.
00:34:30
Speaker
He then throws that appendix away wearing a splode. Fucking explodes. It's a comedy explosion. Love it. But I have a question. Yeah?
00:34:41
Speaker
Why is there no blood? And this isn't like a for a gag thing. This is a genuine question. Because later on, we have horrific cartoon violence. We have in an earlier episode west where to a couple gets literally drenched in blood by an itchy and scratchy movie billboard.
00:35:00
Speaker
We have Halloween horror episodes, Treehouse of Horror episodes, where there is incredible amounts of blood. Why in this one scene is there no blood? It's just odd to me.
00:35:12
Speaker
I think it was to make the joke later on when he gets up and just puts his shirt on, like nothing has absolutely happened to him. And he fangs up to him, but I think that would have been harder to that. Yeah, but there's no blood on the knife. He wipes it on a cloth. No, watch the scene.
00:35:24
Speaker
He cuts it. You see him raise the knife away after the surgery, and there's no blood. I'm not complaining. I'm just genuinely curious if it was just a we couldn't be arsed, which is fine.
00:35:38
Speaker
i just find it very interesting. Because in ah first when I first saw it, before 18 Scratchy, I thought, oh, were they only allowed to use blood in that context in a treehouse of horror?
00:35:50
Speaker
But no, they they they have the cartoon violence. So i just thought it was really weird. Maybe they couldn't be asked to animate detail just didn't think about. Maybe they assumed no one was going to be looking at that knife going, hang on.
00:36:02
Speaker
Umpteen years later. Yeah, the man is absolutely fine. He buttons his shirt back up and fanks Dr. Tifford, and Dr. Tifford says, fank the knife. Thank the knife. This motivates Bart saying, oh, everybody, everywhere i go, people are enjoying knives.
00:36:17
Speaker
Then cut back to Bart in his bedroom reading the book and Bart says, don't do what Donnie don't does. And sighs that could have been made clearer. And we see several things not to do, which you include don't use the knife as a toothbrush.
00:36:28
Speaker
Don't put your knife into it into a slingshot and don't sneak up on the cat with the knife. Bart laments that they won't let you do anything fun. umma mark Presumably there are 500 pages of these full page illustrations of Donnie Don't. Well, no, there'd be 510 because there's 10 illustrations of what you can do with a knife.
00:36:47
Speaker
Okay, yeah, 500 of Donny Doan, but 2 and 10 of Donny Do. This could have been clearer. It really could have been clearer. Homer comes into the room and just acts like a giant dick.
00:37:00
Speaker
That's the best way I can describe this. He calls Bart the leader of the Wiener Patrol, phoning up on his nerd lessons. Marge scolds him and Homer says, you're doing good work, boy.
00:37:10
Speaker
Second Marge is away, Homer goes, egghead likes his bookie book. And Helmer tries to excuse us he's tucking him in. but We go and come back to the scouts and Bart is getting his rubber knife and he's earned the rank of pussy willow.
00:37:25
Speaker
Bart's about to walk out again. There you are. see.
00:37:31
Speaker
I'm a fucking child. Bob's about to walk out again, and but Ned's about to teach them how to trap wild animals, and he says this should only be used in life or death situations. guess what Guess what? These fucking got me. i was I'm amazed that these never ended up on the clip Twitter I used to follow of Homer it with the fucking bear traps.
00:37:51
Speaker
Well, not bear traps. I've forgotten what they're called. Rope trap. There's a specific name for the one that gets you by your ankle and hangs you upside down. There there is a name for it. I've just forgotten. But yeah, it's so funny.
00:38:02
Speaker
So we go to Homer and he sees the cherry pie on the floor and goes, ooh, a floor pie. As he walks towards it, his ankle gets snared in the thing and we just see these swinging shots of Homer trying to reach the pie while he's hanging upside down.
00:38:14
Speaker
the dog Just did a different exclamation each time he swings past, to getting more and more disappointed as it gets eaten. it' just like Homer noises are great. Dan Castanelli, or however you say his fucking last name, is one of the best screamers is in in voice acting.
00:38:31
Speaker
Second only to Goku. You know? Like, anyone in Dragon Ball Z beats everyone in screaming. But he's so good at it. He's so good at comedic screaming, and you would not think that's a sentence that would ever be uttered.
00:38:47
Speaker
The dog wumbles in and eats the pie, and you just see Homer's sad face and expressions of... bites. Homer's sad face and... Oh. Oh. Oh.
00:38:58
Speaker
We then cut back to Barton, he's ah sewing on his patches, including his patch forgery patch. Do you guys know how sew? Yeah. yeah I got trained in it a very long time ago. Trained in it? I've been through the trenches, man. was running Cub Scouts for about two weeks.
00:39:14
Speaker
He's going to beavers. Home economics lesson. Home economics? Who the fuck are you? It's part of food technology. Yeah, we didn't call it home economics, we just called it off we just called it food tech, and then occasionally we did home stuff.
00:39:27
Speaker
Fucking fancy boy! don't remember calling home stuff. We did we just did we did food tech, but like there wasn't any sewing involved in it. ah The girls did the sewing at my high school. It was a sexist high school.
00:39:41
Speaker
Homer comes home and sees that there's a pie on by next to his car. He then steps on the trap and falls for the hole. How did Bart dig through fucking concrete? Just yelling Bart as he goes, Bart! Then he goes into the hole and feeds the pot.
00:39:56
Speaker
you know You would, though! You've got no choice
Lost at Sea and Comedic Absurdity
00:40:00
Speaker
at that point, have You're in a hole with an apple pie! You're not going to say no! I would definitely have eaten it. You've probably also got like a broken leg, at least. Yeah!
00:40:10
Speaker
When else would you want pie? that just Apple pie is a comfort food. If I ever break my leg, I expect at least one of you to bring me an apple pie.
00:40:20
Speaker
Yeah, you can have your pie when you're hospital, not when you're at the bottom the hole. Don't give me an immediately. If you ever fall in a hole, I'll just throw a pie in after you. yeah It depends on the circumstance. I mean, if you get hit by a car, you're your own.
00:40:33
Speaker
If you fall down a hole, yeah, I'll throw a pie. Absolutely. mean, it's a scenario thing. If I get hit by a car, it's chupa chups. You all get nothing, sir. Oh, fuck.
00:40:45
Speaker
So we cut to Itchy and Scratchy and we see that, conveniently enough, they're out camping. It starts raining. Itchy turns Scratchy into a tent. It gets struck by lightning. This was horrifying.
00:40:55
Speaker
The sound effects, man, the Foley work, since ah John learnt that word recently and has been using it ad nauseum, is haunting, truly haunting. that like How do you get the sound of hammering through a tongue?
00:41:10
Speaker
Just hammer through a large piece of ham, I guess. hey I imagine some other so it's the same thing It's like the beheading where they use the cabbage They put a cleaver through a cabbage and then drop it in a bucket So we then see that Bart starts pointing out that these guys don't know what they're on about because they're using the wrong sort of knots Lisa says, oh, cartoons don't have to be 100% realistic as Homer walks by the window even though he's sat on the top so i liked that yeah I liked that, that was good Very simple joke Bart turns up to the next meeting and he's now greeting Flanders in Flanders talk of you know know it, Neddy.
00:41:46
Speaker
Ned Flanders is the best. Then on that the father-son drafting trip is now taking place and Bart thinks in horror about going with Homer, in which Homer's wearing a pay-for-sale hat and going, I'm the captain, I'm the vice on his part.
00:41:59
Speaker
As he then splashes everybody in the thing and everybody becomes British. Everyone's British! just I thought when when with the next thing that's coming up, I thought this was going to be another, um the you know, the brother charity thing. I thought that's where this episode was going.
00:42:15
Speaker
It is not, obviously, but that as soon as I thought, I was like, oh, okay, we're doing this again. The kid from earlier, Warren, is crying because his dad's in prison, but don't worry, he's got a celebrity dad.
00:42:26
Speaker
His old brother can do it, but Ned Flanders is like, nope, fuck that, I've got Ernest Borg-Nine. we've already paid for a celebrity voice actor for this episode. Ernest Borg-Nine just happens to be in the bathroom, and he's was so Sergeant Fatso Judson in Here to Eternity.
00:42:40
Speaker
Is that a real thing? Uh... It might be? I'm gonna be completely honest with you, I'm not very familiar familiar with the work of Ernest Borno. He was in From Here to Eternity. i do I'm not familiar with From Here to Eternity, and I've not looked it up, so... He did a great job of capturing his likeness. Oh yeah, no, no he genuinely was, that was his character. James R. Fatso Judson.
00:43:00
Speaker
He really looks... that that is that that Simpsons nailed it. That is him. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah, they gave him a big part in this. there He comes back repeatedly. like know They get the money's worth.
00:43:11
Speaker
Yeah, compared to some celebrities where there's like one line, this guy's throughout i mean a lot this. I think people just like being in Simpsons, though. They just have fun with it, you know? Okay, so the Ernest Borgnine trivia is that he had a... Everyone loved having him there. He seemed to have a fucking great time with it, and you can tell.
00:43:30
Speaker
But also, like he'd never seen The Simpsons. He came because his grandchildren were fans of The Simpsons, and he felt obliged to do it for them. he got five Navy medals. Just want to point that out.
00:43:41
Speaker
He got the Navy Good Conduct Medal twice, the American Defense Service Medal, the American Campaign Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal. Hank Azaria said of him that he had no idea what the hell he was doing. He's a good actor, he read his lines just fine, but he had no idea what the show was and no idea what we were doing.
00:43:57
Speaker
Oh, fair enough, then I'm i'm wrong. You just kept coming back, I guess. You just liked getting paid. i mean i imagine it was somewhat of a big deal for these writers that they're classical. It's kind of surprising how many like actors as well from that period were in... um that served.
00:44:15
Speaker
Because um the the actor for Scotty in Star Trek got shot six times in the military before being in fucking Star Trek.
00:44:26
Speaker
Well, they liked drafting semi-famous people into the military because it boosted morale. That's true, yeah. that's That's kind of how Elvis ended up in Vietnam. Fair enough. There's precedent for it, I'm assuming. No, I i but i agree. Yeah, definitely.
00:44:42
Speaker
He's just crazy. We come back to this infant's living room and Homer is still being a jerk. And he says, did they teach you how to sing in trees and build crappy furniture out of wooden logs? Homer's chair then immediately collapses into... Curse you, poetic irony!
00:44:56
Speaker
Bart then says, they were planning this Barbasone river rafting trip and Homer goes, hey, you don't have son. You don't have a son!
00:45:03
Speaker
We don't see Bart and Homer in their respective rooms and Bart doesn't want Homer to go so he just says, I'll ask him and I'll say no and it'll be his fault. Homer is talking to his own brain and saying he doesn't want to go so but if he does ask, I'm going to say yes.
00:45:15
Speaker
And Homer's brain says, are you sure that's how that works? And Homer tells his brain he'll stab it with a Q-tip if it argues back. Yeah, guys, don't use ear-cleaning things, just use water.
00:45:27
Speaker
They both aggressively march out the room and Bart aggressively asks Homer to go on the rafting trip. Homer aggressively says he'd be delighted to. They both stop and leave. That's what they've just done. Then see that it's the day of the rafting trip and Warren is not getting along with Ernest Borgnein.
00:45:43
Speaker
I mean, he sheepishly laughs, but tails off. Then see that Captain MacArthur is here for some reason because he's trying to sell Homer a raft. Because boats are involved, so of course he's there.
00:45:54
Speaker
I don't know what I'm doing. tells Homer it's the best sea pairing vehicle he has. Homer takes it. He calls it Yarist River going Moat Thereby. They immediately put in the water. it immediately sinks and Macalester goes, I don't know what I'm doing.
00:46:09
Speaker
We frequently see Macalester less and less around boats. that's what makes it slightly funnier. It's true. Yeah, no, I agree. It is what makes it funnier. the The more and more he's indulged as a shit captain, it makes it funnier.
00:46:22
Speaker
ah We see that everybody's now going to find a partner and all the dads start shaking hands before immediately turning and shaking hands with the other dad. So, multiple partners are going on, I guess. Homer is begging not be paired with Flanders and Ned comes straight up into his eyeline and says, oh, guess we'll partners. Again, why wouldn't you want to be paired with Flanders? That's a great way to just succeed at whatever you're doing.
00:46:42
Speaker
But Homer hates Flanders. Well, he's a numpty. Well, yeah, it's... Flanders is delightful. It doesn't change the patterns. then see that they are rapping and Ned makes a joke that he tees why they're called Rapids.
00:46:54
Speaker
Sorry, I just wanted to question. Yeah, yeah, go. um Because Flanders comes by and says, looks like we're partnered, shall I zinc your sniffer or whatever he says? Yep, those are the words. Is there zinc in Suncream?
00:47:08
Speaker
Yes, I believe there is. this Is it? There's zinc in rotary telephones, handguns. We had a whole documentary about this. Oh, my apologies. I do i fell a asleep. I cannot hear the word zinc without just the phrase comeback zinc through my head. Thank God for a world with zinc.
00:47:25
Speaker
Zinc in sun cream. The 18 best zinc oxide sunscreens in 2024. So yeah, they're still putting in there. i guess so. is Well, I mean, we eat a lot. Isn't zinc in a lot of our food? and um good Probably. That's a common element element. I'm going in a fucking spiral. There's a documentary. We can't live without zinc.
00:47:48
Speaker
Imagine a world without zinc. I can't. I don't want to. Yeah, well, probably... River raps are probably made out of zinc and... Maybe. and We're all made of zinc.
00:47:58
Speaker
Ed makes the joke that he sees why they're called rapids and not slopids. Bart laughs and Homer immediately disowns him. You're not my son. Ned wonders where the map has gone and we see that Bart's fantasy has come true. without Homer is now wearing the map but map as a hat which blows off.
00:48:15
Speaker
but Yeah, it took me a hot moment to realise that Homer literally does exactly what Bart would do. Like, perfectly, yeah. But don't worry, Homer has a k Christy Burger fun map and is surprised to learn there's a New Mexico.
00:48:27
Speaker
There's a new Mexico! It's the way he says it in it, it's just like, the new Mexico. that they've reached a fork in the river and Ned asks Homer frantically for directions but Homer is too engrossed by the number of Krusty Perker locations.
00:48:40
Speaker
And Ned reads out Bible passages and goes right. Ernest Borgheim wonders where the sissy and the bald guy are going. Can I ask a ah ah hypothetical? Yes. just since Since Michael seems to adamant to speedrun today.
00:48:54
Speaker
Hey, don't you talk to me about speedrunning. He doesn't want to take three hours. We're at the 50 minute mark. Please carry on. If Krusty Burger existed now, right now, and where do you think it would be on the pantheon of... No, I mean it's an actual franchise.
00:49:08
Speaker
it On the pantheon of, like, quality. Like, if McDonald's is, like, lower than mid-range, because if you like McDonald's, I'm sorry, you like trash. But it's like, you know, it's it's fine. It's not great.
00:49:22
Speaker
is it Do you think Krusty Burger would be above or below McDonald's? I never got the impression Christy was all that committed to quality as part of his thing. So, like, i he doesn't strike me as the kind of person who would serve a good burger. So it's like Popeyes.
00:49:36
Speaker
Yeah, my gut kind of still thinks sort of mid-tier-ish, I guess. Like, it's not utter shit, but it's like... Yeah. Yeah. I see it at a level like a Burger King. It's like, it's not, it seems fancier to go to them and don't, but the quality is bully isn't that much better. i I have tried to give Burger King so many chances because my parents love Burger King.
00:49:55
Speaker
Burger King is dog shit. It is fucking disgusting.
Final Thoughts on Episode's Humor
00:50:00
Speaker
i would I would rather go to McDonald's. I fucking hate Burger King. It is foul.
00:50:06
Speaker
Their bread is shit. Their patties are shit. Their chicken is shit. Everything about Burger King, dog shit. I hate it. Thanks for killing our Burger King sponsorship. ten Like reputationally as a brand, I feel like Krusty Burger is almost like equivalent to Wimpy Burger, but know what I'm basing on in any way, shape or form. No, I get though. I don't know how to explain it either.
00:50:30
Speaker
I get you though. 100% on board of Krusty being Wimpy. Simpsons. Anyway, carry on. now Now what a Wimpy Burger has been, one of those in 20 years. I miss Little Chef.
00:50:42
Speaker
Oh, Little Chef. Fucking great. Do you know Little Chefs actually existed before the roads? We actually just connected them all together. That's because we used to be clever in this country.
00:50:54
Speaker
that's went up look We're not clever because we're very much the same as ah Homer and Ned and the raft. Homer decides that they shouldn't row against the ah current. Instead, they should just let the current take them off and it'll take them back to land.
00:51:06
Speaker
We can't get the pan shot them just going further and further out of sea. And we just hear Homer's little quiet. so Yeah, like i I really like when they when they alternate the does. 90% of the time Homer does the big loud you know classic do.
00:51:22
Speaker
But then when they when they do the little, just like they change up the formula, either having it echo a bunch of times or whatever, but it's Again, it's all about subversion of expectations, which we've talked about a lot on Simpsons.
00:51:33
Speaker
Simpsons is subversion of expectations. That's its whole thing. But everything you know has patterns. So when Simpsons subverts the expectations of Simpsons, somehow comedic genius.
00:51:46
Speaker
We then cut to the next scene when Homer is now dancing with animated ice cream cones and lollipops. i I quickly cottoned on to what was going on. But at first I was like, wait.
00:51:57
Speaker
What is this episode? What the hell has happened? We don't see that the ice creams melt and Homer comes back into reality. You are my candy. He sings the song along with it he's slowing down, as the music slows.
00:52:12
Speaker
We don't see that Homer was listening to Todd's Walkman and then throws it into the sea when it stops working, which seems a bit hard. I got that for my birthday! He's way more squeakier than I remember. Yeah. Homer starts using the drinking water to wash his socks and ignores the Flanders' argument that they need to ration the water. He says, what are we surrounded by?
00:52:31
Speaker
starts drinking the seawater and has to be physically straight. Oh, no. Just imagine in your head right now drinking seawater. Just bleh. Oh, hate it. It's not great. It's just fucking foul.
00:52:41
Speaker
Also, a great poem that he references. Miss Groot. Hang Yeah. He misquotes Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner says, water, water everywhere, so let's all have a drink. it Water, water everywhere, and all the ships did sink. Water, water everywhere, and nary a drop to drink.
00:52:54
Speaker
If I recall. Nor any drop to drink, I believe, is the original line. Okay, no, i i yeah, I don't know. I thought it was nary, but no, you're probably right. and the The commonly quoted one is and not a drop go. Yes, I know. that i wrong Because that was the thing is my dad really likes that poem and he quoted that one when I was young.
00:53:12
Speaker
So I remember when I like heard the proper poem for the first time, I was like, dads can be wrong. yeah He makes this joke twice. hope you wrong seagulls alwaysin your land they only come see to dyke these silver beles and a kamakazi di street to the water an elmatons planned this is this ah i was right we are doomed in your face he makes this joke twice And Far asks Homer what but he's doing to help, and Homer says, Fine, I'll take charge of the rationing.
00:53:44
Speaker
And then Homer says, The secret is little bites, and he starts doing delicate little nibbles before he goes into full-on the food. And eventually he has be restrained again. And then Homer that why be with smart having the time life.
00:54:06
Speaker
little giggling in the background is so creepy. Yeah. In case you're wondering why nobody is looking for them, we now explain what's going on back home. Yep. Chief Wiggum says they can't search for them until they've been missing for a week because they're too busy.
00:54:20
Speaker
We then see Wiggum get the phone and he's playing checkers with a dog. King me. and And Marge is with Patty and Selma and Patty and Selma try to be reassuring by saying it is cougar season and those things don't mess around.
00:54:33
Speaker
We cut back to the rescue and... We see that there's a rescue plane and Landis is about to fire the flare gun, but Homer takes off and tells him it's not one of his church picnic flare gun firings. This is the real thing. What does that even mean, Homer?
00:54:46
Speaker
Homer fires and immediately destroys the plane, but Homer reassures them that when they come to rescue the pilot, they'll get saved too. That's so good! That's the parking parachute, lands in the other plane and fucks off! Which just takes it off!
00:55:02
Speaker
We then see that three dolphins from the raft, and Flanders says, dolphins always help humans lost at sea. The dolphins, in their dolphin language, told the humans they're all going to die. They're all going to die. That seems right. I think that's how dolphins... Dolphins are psychopaths.
00:55:17
Speaker
Yeah. They're not friendly. Flanders begins to lose his mind as he says that they're all dilly-dilly doomed and done for. Homer forcibly slaps him and tells him to snap out of it. Flanders thanks him, and Homer keeps on slapping him.
00:55:30
Speaker
It's better to be safe than sorry. between slaps, it's better, slap, to be, slap, save, slap, and so on. Diddly. Diddly.
00:55:41
Speaker
We then see that Wiggum is finally about ready to conduct the search, but the purges, unfortunately, are the beer and cold cuts, and they're not going to cast off without them. How long would they have been in there if they Well, they said they wouldn't start searching for a week, so the fact that the police are in the boat means it must have been a week. No, I know i meant the beer and cold cuts.
00:56:02
Speaker
Oh, okay. Well, B.O. keeps. don't know who's powering the fridge, though. We then see that Toma's using the last cheese doogle as bait for the fish, and we didn't see Flanders' very feeble godspeed little doodle as Toma does this.
00:56:15
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The fish takes it straight away, but it immediately comes off the reel.
00:56:21
Speaker
it's It's already like great, but then Homer confidently saying he'll be back. It's so fucking good.
00:56:32
Speaker
We pan tonight and we then see Homer going, yeah, fishy, fishy, fishy. We're waiting. We then see that the air is thick with fog and Homer says, because we're not going to live, he's going to give Bart his present now.
00:56:44
Speaker
And it's a real Swiss army knife. Homer says he stole it from Ernest Borgnine. We then cut to Ernest Borgnine, who's been confronted by a bear. The other dads appear to have been taken off by the creepy laughing hillbillies, I'm guessing.
00:56:57
Speaker
Borgnine says he's going to take care of it with his trusty and then realizes he doesn't have his knife you see him kind of give up. I suddenly realized, we mentioned the reference to Rime of the Ancient Mariner, but like so it suddenly occurs to me that the whole Stranded at Sea, the way it all plays out with like the weather and everything, it feels very Rime of the Ancient Mariner as well. Yeah, that makes sense.
00:57:19
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I don't if that was intentional or just like a fascinating for me. It is probably intentional. Bart apologises for the way he's been around Homer and says if he could lift his arms he'd give him a hug. Homer tries to give him the knife and then we see the knife fall off his hand and just bounce multiple times onto the raft. Just the repeating...
00:57:37
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It's great. It comes to rest and everyone's relieved but unfortunately the magnifying glass plates on someone's face which puts a hole in the raft. Bart says Homer's expression is not filling him with optimism even though they do a far away shot so you have to really struggle to see Homer's actual expression. and Almost as the foul stench of death is among them and then sniffs in the air and you can smell hamburgers.
00:57:58
Speaker
And everybody else can smell hamburgers, but then realize it's Burger King and give up hope again. Nope, sorry, that's the Matt revision. know I would rather drown at sea. Well, but they can smell Krusty Burger, and Homer pulls out the map and realises that there's a Krusty Burger from an oil rig.
00:58:15
Speaker
And Ned laments the fact that they can't see because of the fog, but Homer goes into full bloodhound mode, and he leads them on their way. They don't cut to said oil rig, and Krusty is looking very depressed as he's informed that this is an unmanned oil rig, so no one's ever going to come. Is that a thing?
00:58:31
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Are there unmanned oil rigs? I imagine more so these days. can do technological stuff. I mean, yeah, um i I wouldn't be surprised. I just kind of think it's like, it's a lot of precious, like, important material in a very precarious situation to just leave unmanned, you know?
00:58:54
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They do have them. A normally unmanned installation, or NUI, is a type of automated offshore oil or gas platform designed to be primarily operated remotely. I wonder how often they get visited, then.
00:59:06
Speaker
depends how many people need Krusty Burger? This is true. This is true. This is true. Krustys are finally about to shut the oil rig down. I'm a fire just with a donut. Give me 700 Krusty Burgers. He's then asked if he wants fries with that.
00:59:19
Speaker
How many, um, how many McDonald's cheeseburgers do you think you could eat? Oh, god that's a question. Uh, I think I could... I think I could confidently eat five.
00:59:30
Speaker
ah They're very small. Five's a good number, but I'd go with five. Yeah, I think I could eat five. have a crack at it. My eyes might be bigger than my body but my belly, but I'd have a crack at it. Alright, well when I come visit in summer we'll try and eat five. I am a vegetarian, so... like You're a vegetarian?!
00:59:46
Speaker
But if you put five Krusty Burgers in front of me, I'd have a go at it. I didn't know you were a vegetarian. I don't think you understand what the word vegetarian means. I'm a terrible friend. My rules are I'm a vegetarian unless I'm drunk, hungover, or if someone puts meat actively in front of me.
01:00:05
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Excellent. I'm on my way. that good enough for you, Peter?
01:00:12
Speaker
Fuck. Thanks Homer and says he's proud to be his son. Homer tells him to go away because he's eating. They're dark eating. They don't cut back and you know this Bog9 and the remaining children have found an abandoned campsite.
01:00:24
Speaker
This is Camp Krusty, right? It looked a bit like it. Oh, Christ, yeah, i never even made the connection. Yeah, yeah, maybe. starts doing a rendition of Bingo Is His Name, oh but we see that there's something lurking in the bushes. These guys are terribly out of sync.
01:00:39
Speaker
That's why the the creature in the woods attacked, is because they were singing it so badly. We then see the kids look horrified and Ernest Borgnine turns around to be surely killed. Fun fact, Ernest Borgnine is a real guitar player, so he did bring his own guitar, but he was not a good singer and apologized for that, but they kept it because they thought it was very much kept to to the authenticity of it of his character.
01:01:01
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, the character in Simpsons did seem like a guy that would bring his guitar everywhere. And have a crack at singing even he can't sing. Absolutely. so What did everyone think? Fun episode.
01:01:12
Speaker
You know, it's funny. you know um i i feel like I've said it too many times, so I'm not going to say a standard episode of Simpsons because I honestly don't think it was. I think it was very weird and very silly and much more of a I think when a lot of people think of Simpsons, they do think of these kind of episodes, these kind of like very out of the...
01:01:32
Speaker
out-of-the-box weird kind of movie parody kind of vibes. You it's a fun episode, you know. A lot laughs. No major... No complaints. I mean, I'm going to fall back on one of our old classics of I had more fun talking about it than I did watching it.
01:01:48
Speaker
Frankly, the all the boat stuff, the last the full last quarter of the episode just dragged a bit. It was just like, they didn't really do anything with it. It was just doing an endless barrage of bits.
01:02:00
Speaker
And most of them involved Homer being, what I saw someone somewhere described as aggressively stupid. And yeah, it's it's a bit much even for Homer sometimes. Uh...
01:02:12
Speaker
i I would only disagree in the sense of I feel like the next episode, without spoil like major spoilers or anything, is the opposite of this in that sense.
01:02:27
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And ah it's it's it's like a... I'm trying to think of how to word it. it's it's The next episode is a great example of how trying to have a plot... And also have bits can go wrong.
01:02:39
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So sometimes just being dumb bits can be quite refreshing. Okay. I liked this episode and I definitely enjoyed it as much as I did talking about it, is what I will say. So I think I'm i'm on the much i'm on a much more positive than you are, clearly.
01:02:58
Speaker
i think I think if they'd sort of done more with the third act, like, we see bits with the police that just go absolutely nowhere. ah The Ernest Borgnine stuff is just throwaway nonsense for background filler. I strongly disagree about the police bits.
01:03:14
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Strongly disagree. I think... i think um For one, we've said it before, Chief Wiggum is always hilarious, but Chief Wiggum standing proudly on the boat and then saying, i'm not we're not we're not casting off until we go to the store.
01:03:25
Speaker
Oh yeah, but they don't do anything. with The police aren't involved in the rescue in any way, shape or form. They're just there. It's just a Chief Wiggum bit. One of my favourite Chief Wiggum bits has nothing to do with the rest of the episode, and that's wrong number, this is 912.
01:03:37
Speaker
yeah Nothing to do with the episode, but my favourite bit of the episode... other I don't know, like it just felt a full five minutes of like nothing happens, nothing happens, nothing happens, nothing happens, nothing happens, you know? I definitely, it's one the, I totally see where you're coming from. I'm not disagreeing with you.
01:03:57
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I just enjoyed it. That's all it is. Yeah, no, no. youre um i'm not I'm not saying you can't enjoy it. I'm just saying I but i did not enjoy it as much as you did. Michael? Yeah, I just think it was a very solid episode. It was a lot better than I remember it being.
01:04:12
Speaker
Ha! Fuck you, Sean. I'm kidding. No, I do see your point. There are bits in it where it's just not needed. And I would have far gone into the Patty and Selma scene and had a chalkboard gag, if I'm honest. definitely It a kind of hodgepodge of random bits and ideas.
01:04:33
Speaker
It's not Simpsons writing at its best. It's, in my opinion, good Simpsons comedy, not good Simpsons writing. If that makes sense. Yeah.
01:04:44
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That makes perfect sense. Any scores out of Homer, shall we? I will quite happily give it I'm still thinking about that mecha game I played earlier today and I'm too stupid to come up with an out of Homer. Out of Homer.
01:04:57
Speaker
Fair play. it That was a low effort one, I've got to be honest, but okay. I'm going to give it a super squishy out of Homer. call that low effort? You hear how long it was?
01:05:09
Speaker
Yeah, and they were just the words that came into your head immediately at that moment. Yeah, that's fair. ah hi The highs are grand, but the lows are a hell of a crush. Fair enough. I give it a slowly sinking dinghy out of homo.
01:05:22
Speaker
started out pretty good, but it wasn't great at the end. You don't know what you're doing. I don't agree, though. i I think this episode was pretty consistent throughout.
01:05:34
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like I enjoyed the first two acts as soon as we just got to boat shenanigans around the 15 minute mark. That's what like doing in this show, though, is we all have very different opinions. Like, you you so you really like the B-sharps.
01:05:48
Speaker
Everyone likes the B-sharps except for you. You're weird. I don't know what to tell you. I am. I'm not disagreeing that I'm weird. I just thought it was boring. Cool. You are wrong, but cool.
01:06:00
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Objectively. Objectively.
01:06:05
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Okay, did this have anything to say about society? I, well, again, here is here is Matt's classic getting blood from a stone for this segment. Because I like to keep the segment alive to make my friend John happy.
01:06:19
Speaker
Good. Surprisingly, most of the jokes weren't at the scouts' expense. They were at the people making fun of them. Usually in these scenarios, it's making fun of the scouts.
01:06:31
Speaker
Homer makes fun of the scouts, but then he's always proven to be a dick or wrong or poetic
Sitcom Humor and Cultural Analysis
01:06:37
Speaker
irony. or poetic justice comes in all of these things so I thought that was interesting I don't think it's saying anything about society I think it is again just Simpsons classic subversion of expectations but I do genuinely think that's interesting because think of every sitcom even modern sitcoms make fun of boys that were in the Boy Scouts modern sitcoms make really disgusting jokes older sitcoms make gay jokes you know so it
01:07:07
Speaker
it's It's just interesting to see a show not, and you know, and this isn't me being like, oh, I like the Boy Scouts. it's I just thought it was interesting. I just thought it was interesting. I mean, I think i think cracks at the Boy Scouts are not entirely unwarranted. They've got... They have a complicated history.
01:07:24
Speaker
But also... um But, but, but, just, just, sorry. that I don't feel like sitcoms were making jokes about... ah Sitcoms were making jokes about the Boy Scouts, as in the Boy Scouts of America.
01:07:36
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They were making jokes at people that are in the Boy Scouts. In my opinion. I haven't heard every Boy Scout joke, but, yeah, I i get where you're coming from, though.
01:07:47
Speaker
But... Yeah, no, I mean um mean, it is interesting, as you say, like, to see yeah almost a different angle. Like, even Bart, who starts out, like, strongly opposed and, like, regretting his life choices, kind of comes around on it in the end. Like, and it's... I don't know, it's odd and, like, even... Maybe not has over as overt as...
01:08:09
Speaker
it could be because i'm like i was like oh wait shit bart's getting into it took me a moment to realize oh wait actually ah the whole trap bit where he starts trapping homer with the like the rope traps and things like that that's actually where he's kind of turned around on the boy scouts a bit but like i didn't initially get it but like after he's learned to like dig holes in the yard and trap homer with pie like he's like then going in being like hi dilly ho netty how's it going and stuff and he's like he's on board I think that's, yeah, they've they've done this joke a couple times now where Bart gets, you know, it's the thing about teaching, you know, it's like the best way to teach is to engage someone in a way that they find interesting.
01:08:48
Speaker
A student can't come to you. You have to come to the student. And I think that's not necessarily what's happening there, but Bart finds a way to engage in the the Boy Scouts in a destructive way and then learns all of, just sort of slowly becomes a more responsible person. Obviously, it's reset to zero because next episode Bart will continue to be a piece of shit.
01:09:12
Speaker
but i So I think, yeah, there's maybe that to say about society. don't remember what Bart does in the next episode. i don't think he does anything, really. But the you know there is that comment there that most troubled kids just need a outlet for their energy, which is which is what my parents did with me. is you know They found outlets, um and it worked. you know I'm a totally normal and polite and very lovely person to be around now.
01:09:41
Speaker
It's all thanks to the Boy Scouts of America. all thanks to the Boy Scouts of America. Registered trademark. Sponsored by... Meanwhile, I was in the Junior Campers and I'm a piece of shit.
01:09:53
Speaker
but I was in Beavers and Cubs. And I loved it. loved going camping. Camping is so fun. I'm going camping with Blaney soon. Love camping. It's so fun. I like camping, but I didn't get camping impressed upon me by school at all.
01:10:09
Speaker
I wasn't school. at My mum was a Cub Scout leader. Random personal facts about Matt. I joined the Cubs. i so I mentioned earlier, like I was in it for like two weeks. I joined like almost right before I was like slightly too old to join. i immediately would have been like, okay, now you have to join and the Scout Scouts.
01:10:27
Speaker
At which point, like I was older than all the, I joined the Cubs because my friends were in the Cubs and they were all younger than me. So suddenly it was like, oh, now you have to join this other organization where none of your friends are. So was like, ah, fuck that. So I just did not carry on.
01:10:42
Speaker
Anyway, Michael's slowly seething. So should we carry on? We are running late, so let's crack I'm slowly saving. I just left.
01:10:51
Speaker
that's just the heat It just disconnects from the call. Right,
Surprise UK Chart Hit and Cultural Differences
01:10:54
Speaker
bye guys. This episode will be fast. Last Temptation of Homer, December 9th, 1993. The Ivory Coast Premier Utares resigns.
01:11:04
Speaker
Cool. Cool. My Fair Lady was revived for 165 performances at the Virginia Theatre in New York City. Damn, I've never seen My Fair Lady. All right, there's my next challenge.
01:11:15
Speaker
John, have you seen My Fair Lady? Absolutely not. All right, we're watching My Fair Lady. Bye next Sunday, because it's halfway through the week. Meatloaf has been dethroned on both sides of the Atlantic.
01:11:26
Speaker
The US, s he's been toppled by Janet Jackson again. oh my god, I've just seen the UK one. Oh my god, I'm ashamed of our country. You know it's real now. Mr. Blobby's the UK number one! Mr. Blobby! Fuck me! Something that's completely culturally inscrutable to anybody outside of this scepter-dial.
01:11:52
Speaker
Yes, most Americans do have the thing of Mr. Blobby thinking, what the fuck? Guys, should I show Jill misses Mr. Blobby and see if she dumps me? She'll be like, I don't want to date someone from this tainted country.
01:12:07
Speaker
You've got live a little penis with yellow spots in. It's not real, though. That was a perfect impression. but Yeah, pretty on the money. Even as a kid, I found Mr. Blobby terrifying.
01:12:21
Speaker
I'll tell you. He's a national icon. Absolutely terrifying. Freaked me the fuck out as a kid. it as With the mental health problems I've discovered I have. Makes sense.
01:12:32
Speaker
But hated him. Hated him. Who could crash through a wall and molest Noel Edmonds like that?
01:12:40
Speaker
That's a sentence you don't hear every day.
01:12:45
Speaker
Simpsons. Alright, give us a chalkboard back gag because our guy's either been rehired, someone else has replaced him, or he's got better, I'm not sure which. They've just stopped trying to pad out the fucking episodes. It's fine, we've got all work and no play makes bother, oh boy.
01:12:59
Speaker
Well we brought him back. But they changed the format so he's writing it like the the guy from The Shining. The couch gag, they're on the David Letterman show. Yeah, it was cute. I thought it funny.
01:13:12
Speaker
Because we'd all like to be on the David Letterman show.
Bart's Prank and School Chaos
01:13:14
Speaker
I'd hang out with David Letterman. But then cut to the opening of the Wait, did he have controversies? Did I say something stupid? I have no idea. I do not know enough about David Leatherman to weigh in on that.
01:13:24
Speaker
I don't think David Leatherman has done anything that I'm worried about. We to the opening scene and we see that Bart and Milhouse are playing a prank. They've repainted the parking lot to make the lines even closer to each other. This is evil.
01:13:38
Speaker
Evil. Milhouse's line here is I fear to watch but I cannot turn away. As Bart says, here in lies the game. Let's hear everybody park up and none of the teachers can get out of their car.
01:13:50
Speaker
Including Principal Skinner yelling at Mrs. Kropopel as he tells him to oh go tell your mother. And he goes, don't worry, she'll hear about this. She'll hear about this. Bart starts laughing maniacally. And we then cut to Mrs. Kropopel saying, they can't prove who did it. And they live in a democratic country. And Bart says, God bless the USA.
01:14:07
Speaker
Until Mrs. Kropopel says democracy does not exist in the classroom. And Bart will now answer every question in the classroom. Fun fact, a teacher genuinely did this to me because I was a piece of shit when I was young.
01:14:17
Speaker
And I just said, I don't know. i was just honest. Because she was trying to like teach me a lesson of like, oh, well, he'll be embarrassed because he doesn't know because he's not paying attention in class, blah, blah, blah. I just said, I don't know and just sat there and stared at them.
01:14:29
Speaker
One of my chemistry teachers had a real thing for trying to get everybody in every lesson to answer at least one question and would kind of like, if you didn't... nothing done. If you didn't volunteer an answer to a question, he would eventually pick on you. and like yeah in In a weird way, genuinely fucking worked, and I hate it, but it did work in that it conditioned you to answer the questions you did know the answers to, because you were like, oh, I need to get this out of the way at the start of the lesson.
01:14:53
Speaker
And he's like, okay, which which element is the letter And I'm like, oh, meet me. i ye Hydrant, Hydrant, please. Yeah, there we go. I'm done for the lesson. Just stand up and leave the classroom. Peace. I'm He get up and leave.
01:15:07
Speaker
i answered one question. My work here is done. So Bart has asked his question, which is how to pronounce the word photosynthesis. And Bart can't read it on the fingers. Martin has a nervous breakdown next to him.
01:15:20
Speaker
And Martin eventually does finally in and answer so it. He goes, damn your feeble brain. what kind of home life does Martin have that he's... Drives him to this level.
01:15:32
Speaker
Yeah, because, I mean, we all knew kids like this in high school, maybe even primary school, but mostly high school, that were just that fucking desperate for the teacher's approval. And as a teenager, I didn't give a shit. I just thought they were nerds.
01:15:46
Speaker
But now I look back and I'm like, man, your parents must have, like, had so many high expectations of you that you just desperately needed to meet. So Bart reveals he couldn't read it and Mrs. Kropopper wonders if Bart's behaviour from Paul Graves was due to the fact he can't see.
01:16:02
Speaker
Bart turns into a cockney again and says, it's not my peepers. It's not me noggin' it. It ain't me noggin' it's me peepers. Well, that's just lovely. Is this... and is it is ah Is it the actress making this decision?
01:16:14
Speaker
ah i I don't know. i don't know if we will ever know. Who's making this choice? Because from what I've noticed, from having a lot of American friends, dating Americans, and they just find our accent funny.
01:16:29
Speaker
Like, just just our accent is is just funny to them. And it's, i took ah we really shouldn't have an American on this show more often. Because I see these bits, I'm just like, I don't i don't get it.
01:16:44
Speaker
I don't get it. I just i just find this annoying. This is just dumb. This is just stupid. Because it's not even a like, we don't sound like that bit. That's not funny to me. I just don't get the joke on such an unfathomable level.
01:16:58
Speaker
Maybe they're all just big fans of Dick Van Dyke. basic what Maybe. Maybe. ah we don't cut to the power plant and help us. Takes all his work chums to watch this as he pinches a guy's arse with the robotic arm.
01:17:09
Speaker
The guy drops his plutonium and we see him run to the window and the gas cloud gets him and everyone just says, oh, he's done for. God, Carl is cold as fucking stone right now. There's no way the glass protect us and then we see the gas slowly come through the window. Just seeps through.
01:17:25
Speaker
Lenny says, let's run to his house. We then see, the workers try to leave but he runs straight into the Why did Did he say we can hide at my house?
Power Plant Mishap and Absurd Humor
01:17:33
Speaker
Maybe Lenny has a radioactive proof house.
01:17:36
Speaker
Maybe, yeah. They all run into the wall and realise that the emergency exit has been painted on. Carl panics and realises that they're doomed as the gas takes them and they all faint. I did like my thought process, because you see the door before they run into it, and I did look at that door and go, that looks weird.
01:17:51
Speaker
And then they all ran into it was like, oh, that makes sense. and Then cut to Charlie and Mr. Burns' office and he won't bore him with the details of the miraculous escape. Presumably the writers couldn't arse coming up with one.
01:18:02
Speaker
More like the animators couldn't be paid enough to animate it. yeah Dan says that they need really needed a real emergency exit and Burns sarcastically asks him who wants lead in the radiation shields and urinal cakes. Yes, please. love that these are equivalent things. Yeah, absolutely.
01:18:17
Speaker
You owe the Smithers to throw the notebook at him and Smithers does. He'll throw this at him. Then presses a button on his desk and the Charlie is sucked up by a mysterious tube. And Burns asks where that tube goes and Smithers says, I don't know. It was here when we got here. The idea of that already being there and you just think, I'll use this.
01:18:37
Speaker
We then go to some sort of palace in the Middle East and we then see Charlie land on a table and he's instructed to dance and we see the
01:18:48
Speaker
screaming as he does stuff? Yeah, again, so so not to like go on a like a full soapbox here or anything, and I want ah everyone that you know already knows that watches this show that we're all woke libtards.
01:19:00
Speaker
I just want to say, try to, when i when I watch something and I see something and my immediate thought is, that's racist, I try and stop myself and think, is it? Because that is a problem, is always looking at things and just going, that's racist, or immediately assuming the worst.
01:19:16
Speaker
And I tried to, I was like watching this and thinking, what what is the gag and that's saying and i i still don't really know i think it is just meant to be absurd i don't think it's meant to be making any kind of comment yeah you know more than anything at the end of the day simpsons is very rarely trying to make ah but a direct comment about a culture or people yeah they make social commentary i don't think they make remarks about cultures until they started doing the screaming thing then i was like nah it's kind of racist Yeah, yeah.
Culturally Insensitive Humor in 'The Simpsons'?
01:19:46
Speaker
i Likewise, I do not know exactly quite what to make of this. I don't know what they were doing or going for here. don't quite know which culture they were trying speak. likewise, likewise i don't i I don't want to just need you go, oh, ah The Simpsons has included any person of color, ergo, that is racist.
01:20:03
Speaker
ah Worryingly, is there's a bit of a correlation. At least it feels like there's a correlation. But, like, yeah, you do want to analyze it. And I i did the same. I was like,
01:20:14
Speaker
is this racist? What are they doing here? What what what specifically is racist about this? And I'm like, i just have no fucking clue what they're doing here, but it feels pretty fucking racist. Like to said I said, I, overall, I look at it and think, I don't think it's racist until they do the screaming.
01:20:30
Speaker
The screaming was like... screaming, like, like na knocks it up a notch, yeah. and Because, again, it's like, when you look at it from a modern lens, a lot of things are problematic. Obviously, everyone talks about how Elvis songs are all super rapier. I'm like, well, no, you're looking at it through a modern lens.
01:20:43
Speaker
Because I love Elvis. I think he's a fantastic musician. Whatever about the person. But the... Again, i it's like, was this joke ignorant was it racist was it completely harmless you know you've got to find where it is on that spectrum and it's like again because we don't know what culture they were trying like this is in reference to i think of the worst you can say about most of the joke is just that it was ignorant you know because it's just absurdist humor because you've got to keep in mind that at the end of the day that's what simpsons is absurdist humor and that's it
01:21:21
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Until they do the screaming. of Absurdist humour made by a bunch of white guys in the 90s. Yeah, so again, like the worst you can say really is like that they were ignorant. Yeah. Until they do the screaming.
01:21:33
Speaker
We then see Burns and Smithers talking Burns says, they've got to find someone on the cheap because it's been a linear. They don't have a money fight. Money I want to save up just so I can have a money fight with John.
01:21:47
Speaker
I want to save up my money for that one purpose.
Mr. Burns' Controversial Policies
01:21:51
Speaker
We then see that the new man is Zootroy and Ferns tells him he's doing an excellent showy job and if he works hard, he'll get a shiny penny. We then see somebody burst through the roof and it turns out it's just the Department of Labor.
01:22:02
Speaker
who wants tell Burns that he's an illegal alien, and Burns says that Sue Troy is American as apple pie. He then says a load of... He says words in a foreign language. does Did anyone Google it? Did anyone Google it? What he say? I didn't actually, no. Simpsons Archive did note that the Department of Labor coming through the ceiling was a reference to the Terry Gilliam film, I think? a Brazil, which I have seen, but a very long time ago, and I don't remember what that's a reference specifically to. One of few Terry Gilliam films I don't think I have seen.
01:22:29
Speaker
It's very long. I remember it being way longer than I expected it to be. yeah Burns is criticised for his labour that he's broken, which has included ah kidnapping a Brazilian soccer team to work in yeah a Yaptacore. That plane crashed on my property. Therefore, I can keep them as slaves.
01:22:44
Speaker
that is that's That is Burns' logic. Also, one of those bits that people decided was slightly prescient because some years later there was plane crash that had an a Brazilian soccer team on it.
01:22:57
Speaker
Yeah, I know which one you mean. It's the... I forget the name of the team was, but... Were they then kept as work slaves? No, they mostly died. Oh, well then, you know, I think that's a bit of a reach gang on the internet.
01:23:11
Speaker
No, I just think odd that the reference to plane crash of a Brazilian soccer team and then a plane crash of a Brazilian soccer team actually happened. Yeah, I get it. Just weird. Burns is threatened and told that he's got reverse his sexist employment policies and hire a woman.
01:23:24
Speaker
He hired Marge once. I guess he didn't hire anybody else since. He says that he will hire a woman, but he's standing by his hiring policies. We then see a duck coming past pulling pull a wagon and he tells Stuart to get back to work.
01:23:36
Speaker
If we need a better example of absurdist humour... We then cut to the HMO, which is the HIPAA money making organization. Yeah. He now offers every medical service they'll ever need under one roof and says, you do have insurance, right?
01:23:53
Speaker
And he presses, he's about to press the button that brings out the same tube that took away Charlie, but March just has the insurance so he stops himself. How many buildings in Springfield have one of those tubes? Not enough. I guess it must have been a deal.
01:24:04
Speaker
We then see that Bart gets his glasses for his lazy eye and this steadily builds up to Bart needing several medical procedures, which include scalp rub, specialist shoes, then a voice spray.
01:24:15
Speaker
I couldn't tell for the longest time in this episode which was the A-plot. And then I realised I don't care. The spray turns Bart into Jerry Lewis. For some very strange reason, yeah.
01:24:29
Speaker
I guess they thought it was a funny voice. Yep, that... So much of The Simpsons is is this accent funny? Yes, okay, ship it. You can tell that the writers thought this was hilarious.
01:24:41
Speaker
Hmm. We can't tell any Colin Homer bitching because they're gonna have to work with a woman, which is... They can't spit on the floor or take their pants off when it gets hot. And Homer mentions he can't pee in the drinking fountain, which horrifies everybody.
01:24:52
Speaker
But Homer says, eh, not, you know, not that I ever have done. Do you know there's a Reddit that is dedicated to people that piss in the sink? why Why? is that? I mean, like... I will be taking no questions.
01:25:04
Speaker
Fine, if you do it, whatever. Ugh. But why is there a Reddit dedicated? Like, that's the weird bit. I will be taking no questions. and enough ah yeah Are you aware of this subreddit because you're an active poster on this subreddit? i I am aware of it because I think it came up on an Am I Overreacting? He's a moderator.
01:25:29
Speaker
that Yes, I actually created a girl found out her boyfriend does it, basically. I think was... was Yeah, it was like a screenshot of that because the the guy was like posting on the Reddit and then said, guys, I fucked?
Reddit Community Humor
01:25:48
Speaker
Because it was a screenshot of the girlfriend, like just sending a million texts to him what the fuck is wrong with you? Because, yeah, what the fuck is wrong with you, dude?
01:26:00
Speaker
Maybe you get that angle. I don't know. Do Sink's usually quite high up. i i I didn't say well, P, your feet might not be on the ground. It's like a weird, it must be like a weird rebellion thing. I don't think it's a fetish thing. I think it's a weird, like, social rebellion quirk thing.
01:26:20
Speaker
I don't know, man. There's a whole subreddit if you want to find out, but I don't, so let's move on. No, I'm not tating my, my Reddit's already fucked. Mirrors introduces everybody to Mindy Simmons and says she's got a degree in engineering or something.
01:26:32
Speaker
Some very unenthusiastic greetings and Elmer turns around and he then gets a vision of Mindy. He also turns around the wrong direction to look at her, I wanted to point out. He turns to his right. She is on his left.
01:26:45
Speaker
You Mindy's a vision of a goddess, and we see that violin music's going on, and Lenny and Carl are now Cupid angels, and they ask him, what's the matter? And Lenny says, you've never seen a naked chick riding a clam before?
01:26:58
Speaker
This pumps him to run out. and with i but I strongly believe that in 1993, the Simpsons writers really needed to get laid.
01:27:10
Speaker
Because when there's a woman on the show... Holy balls do they draw that woman. Have we noted at any stage yet that Mindy is Michelle Pfeiffer? I don't believe we have.
01:27:22
Speaker
it's probably match life for all right It's Michelle tell. It's Michelle Pfeiffer. Just in case you wonder why Mindy never turns up again after this episode.
Homer's Infatuation and Awkwardness
01:27:31
Speaker
But yes, Mindy is a drawn generously, shall we say. And Homer thinks he's just hallucinating because he ate a packet of powdered gravy.
01:27:44
Speaker
Don't ever do that, Homer. That's... That's bad. Bart goes to school with his new look and the kids taunt him, including Gulligan's four eyes and Nelson's two feet.
01:27:58
Speaker
And Martin just tells Bart up front that his appearance is comical to him. Bart then looks in Milhouse's glasses and realises he's a nerd and Milhouse looks back and realises he's also nerd. Apparently the first time he's seen himself reflected in anything since he got the glasses.
01:28:11
Speaker
I mean, if you were Milhouse, would you look in a mirror? I meant Bart, but oh yeah, touche, also Milhouse, yeah. Then see that Homer's leaving the fount with another box of stolen pens. Another day, another box of stolen pens. Love it.
01:28:24
Speaker
We don't see Mindy's on a motorcycle and Homer says, eh, I didn't have any fantasies or hallucinations this time. That was just a fluke. He fails to realise that he's actually driving down the highway backwards and crashes into...
01:28:36
Speaker
A trout hatchery, is that what it's called? Yeah, that's the one. And as Homer settles himself after the crash, we then see the trout come up and start singing, Homer loves me, and the angel Cupid called, and Cupid Lennie.
01:28:51
Speaker
Cherubs! yeah Cherubs are kind of angel, I think. No. The cherubs tell Homer that he's elucidating again, and it's not a good sign. Those cherubs just flew through a closed window. Just want to point that out.
01:29:04
Speaker
i mean, it's hallucination. don't think the laws of physics apply in Homer's world. They should.
01:29:10
Speaker
Then we go to the next scene and we see that Homer's trying to gauge what the guys think of Mindy and they don't really want to discuss it, but Homer keeps bringing the conversation back to Mindy. Lenny's worried because Homer usually just takes a box of them, don't it, to the bathroom. And Homer's response to this is just, Mindy rides a motorcycle.
01:29:27
Speaker
so Yeah, this was uncomfortable and weird. Okay, I've found far more things about cherubs than i hoped to learn immediately. There's some biblically accurate cherubs here.
01:29:38
Speaker
need to Google biblically accurate cherub now. Meanwhile, Fox tries to prove you that... Did someone piss in your sink, or did you see an anatomically correct cherub? I saw a biblically accurate cherub, and I don't like it.
01:29:55
Speaker
Moving on. cherub That's a cherub. Why have you posted that in our chat? Oh, I ain't biblically accurate cherubs, guys. Well, I am looking like that. So, Bart tries to prove to everyone he's the same and tries to ride his skateboard, but he comedically almost crashes into a womb and crashes into his locker and a calculus textbook falls on his face.
01:30:18
Speaker
He's learning on his own! He's learning on his own, and but he's seeing Bart get absolutely pummeled. Punch. Punch. We don't go to Moe's tavern and Homer's looking to Moe for advice and he's got this friend called Joey Jojo Jr. Shabadoo.
01:30:32
Speaker
Moe de Clair's that's the worst name he's ever heard. And a guy at the end of the bar just runs out of the bar crying and Barney calls after Joey Jojo. It's such a stupid gag. It's great.
01:30:43
Speaker
It's another one of those clip ones that you just like, oh, it's from this episode. Mmm. um but finally mit say he's a attracted to another woman and barney gives him some great advice of his in infatuation is based on a physical attraction and if he talks to mind ah then may have nothing in common but wonder is how barney came up with that and bonny just this song upon Which is totally like a boo sound giving advice So many shows have stolen this gag Not specifically on a napkin But like stupidly large amounts of text On a small piece of paper After someone says something like really prescient It's just very Again Simpsons was the progenitor
01:31:21
Speaker
Emma goes to talk to Mindy and he's in the break room and she's eating donuts. Can't talk, eating. Emma realizes that she likes his favorite donut, a raspberry swirl double blue glaze, which prompts Mindy to go, mmm, double glaze. It doesn't look much like a raspberry donut. It's got to be sad. it looks quite caramelly.
01:31:37
Speaker
Yeah, looks like an eclair, to be honest. Homer dismissively says that he hates drinking beer and watching TV, but Mindy says that's her idea of heaven, and then Homer weakly admits that so that's actually his.
01:31:47
Speaker
And Mindy tells him that she's off to go sneak in her nap for lunch, and Homer can barely contain himself. And Homer then declares that I bet he thinks that Ziggy's got too preachy. was Did Ziggy become preachy? I don't really get this.
01:31:59
Speaker
I have no idea. have never read Ziggy. I do not know how preachy Ziggy is. I thought I was referring the Ziggy Tops, the singer. ah No, there's there is a there's a newspaper comic that's Ziggy. don't know it's called Ziggy, but there's a character called Ziggy at least.
01:32:13
Speaker
Pull your head out of your ass, Ziggy. That's stupid. Then cuts to Homer. I'm at the plant elevator, and he's pleased that he hasn't seen Mindy all day. Then gets in the elevator, and Mindy's already in there. And ah then gets some awkward thing of them being very close-pressed up together, and Mindy says, I guess we'll be going down together. I mean, getting off together. And Homer says, way, I'll press the button for the stimulator.
01:32:33
Speaker
What, the elevator? Innuendos! Omar then has to start thinking of unsexy thoughts and we see that his unsexy thoughts include Patty and Soma sharing their legs, then Barney in a bikini. yeah Gotta to be honest, Barney's rocking that bikini.
01:32:49
Speaker
Then, unfortunately, he then turns into Mindy and Omar then realises that Mindy's doing the exact same thing. Think of sexy thoughts, think of sexy thoughts. Anna then says, well, this is my stop presses the emergency stop button.
01:33:00
Speaker
Then just slides down the side of the cooling tower. I so many questions about this elevator and the answer to them all is because it's funny. Doesn't this mean they started at the top of the smokestack?
01:33:11
Speaker
This also means they work in a you know in a cooling tower. Why is there an elevator in a cooling tower? Why was the door in the side of the cooling tower? Because it's funny, I know, but also, ah!
01:33:24
Speaker
Welcome to my world. I know. Homer reassures himself that ah he's coming home to his loving family and what more could he want. But then see that Marge is ill and doesn't look very attractive at the moment.
01:33:36
Speaker
We did see that Oma sees Barton and the touches his sap errand, isn't that? Yeah. Lisa has burnt some fish sticks and Grandpa is chasing after Sandra's little helper which he confuses for a raccoon.
01:33:48
Speaker
A raccoon stole my lamb chop. Oma tries to have some quality time with Marge and Marge. Why was Lisa making fish sticks if they had lamb chops? Lisa didn't want lamb chop. Home egg?
01:33:59
Speaker
Yeah. I'm going to try some quality time with Marge and Marge shows him a t-shirt of a distorted face on it. theyo What did she say? She got $5 off or something because her smeared... $2 off. $2 off. Damn.
01:34:12
Speaker
Bargain. I'm going to try to turn the TV back on and we see that I have Springfield is doing a special on cheaters. He then ah changes the channel and the Burmese melon fly has over a but thousand and sex partners.
01:34:23
Speaker
And doesn't feel any guilt. I'm going to turn to the channel and we see that there's an advert of... We've been doing several exercises and revealing outfits saying, just it. Just do it. Homer runs off screaming and they're just saying, the message was actually examine your scalp for ringworm.
01:34:38
Speaker
Why would there be ringworm in your scalp? Isn't ringworm a bum thing? No, I think it manifests on like your, it's just like a a circular mark that appears on like your forehead, I think, isn't it? isn't it Isn't that the symptom of it? I thought it was called ringworm because ring no No, I think because it makes a ring shape on you. Oh, okay.
01:35:00
Speaker
I'm stupid. I think it's one of those things that's like, cool they call it a worm, but it's just like a virus or something, though. Oh, okay. Omar decides to call a marriage counselling hotline and unfortunately he gets picked up by Ned Flanders who realises it's him and then says, well, let's bring Marge into this.
01:35:14
Speaker
Fucking hell. Omar screams and ah knocks himself out in the phone booth and his spirit is brought up by ah Sir Isaac Newton. Omar unfortunately has no idea. Someone that ah he thought he would respect and idolise.
01:35:29
Speaker
Recognise and revere. yeah So instead he turns himself into everyone's favourite Nazi Colonel Klink. Which they also got the original voice actor to do. I know, I was stunned by that because I thought he'd been dead for long time. Also, yeah, fun trivia on on this guy is that it had been over 20 years since he had played that role and he forgot what the character was. So they had to get one of the voice actors to do an impression of the character so that Werner Klemperer could actually do the character properly.
01:36:00
Speaker
Amazing.
Homer's Hallucination and Classic TV Nod
01:36:01
Speaker
So if you want some fun facts about Colonel Klink and Hogan's heroes, we previously discussed that in ah the German episode of The Simpsons. ah Bob Crane's murder still remains unresolved, I'm afraid to say.
01:36:14
Speaker
And Colonel Klink still appeared in Batman. Well, good trivia. Cool. So Homer asks him he's got his letters and he then reveals that I'm not Colonel Klink, I'm just assuming he's form.
01:36:27
Speaker
Homer starts spoiling episodes of Hogan's Heroes and Colonel Klink has to do his trademark, Homer, and sends Homer off to float and see what his life would have been if he'd married Mindy instead of Marge.
01:36:39
Speaker
We don't see that Homer would have been British in a mansion and everyone would have been very happy. I'm winning British! I know, for the bit, but also... We're all happy. Aren't you happy, Jeeves?
01:36:49
Speaker
Yes, sir. Quite. Quite. It takes him to see what how Marge would have been doing, and Marge would have been the president with a great approval rating. Colonel Clink decides that the dream is over, and we see Helmut plummet back to Earth.
01:37:03
Speaker
Helmut plummets back to Earth, and as he comes to, Lionel Hux turns up and goes, Hey, get out my office. Get out of my office. Weird cameo for... they Normally they get Phil Hartman in to do like more than one line. He usually appears as both like Lionel Hurt and Troy McClure in the same episode.
01:37:22
Speaker
Was he the bellhop at the end, or was that someone else? I don't think so. I've no idea who the bellhop was. I i assume it's like it was a throwaway line they were going to use in another Phil Hartman episode, and then they recorded it and just thought, we might as well just use it.
01:37:36
Speaker
The bellhop was Hankazaria. I thought so. I was going to say. it sounds it it felt like a very Hankazaria bit. We don't see back at school the bullies are taunting Bart, including the son of 2 plus Joe, who tells him he's goofy looking.
01:37:50
Speaker
Bart finally manages to escape and is pulled into a locker by Martin. Martin takes him down a labyrinth to the other nerds that have found sanctuary in the middle of the school, or as one puts it, the refuge of the damned.
01:38:02
Speaker
Refuge of the damned. I think that's an Indiana Jones reference. It's a reference to something, I forget what. One of the birds decides to bring a hard-boiled egg and some prune juice, and everyone declares Bart is one of the... and Excelsior! Excelsior!
01:38:18
Speaker
This whole bit, like... yeah It's such a throwaway thing for something that feels like it's almost the setup to, at the very least, an entire B-plot, if like not like an entire plot of its own.
01:38:30
Speaker
This is, again, this is another collection of birds, but not done well in my opinion. Yeah, we set up a whole thing about Excelsior is where that ends, and we will never see this room or these kids again. Yeah, you don't need to see them. Refuge of the Damned was Temple of Doom, yes.
01:38:46
Speaker
Thought so. We cut to Homer singing in his bathroom to the... Barry Manilow classic Mandy but he's singing about Mindy and then starts singing about Andy. About Andy as well, yeah. We then see that Lisa's in the room and asks why he's singing but Homer's brain says tell a lie and Homer's lie is that he's in a Broadway musical.
01:39:04
Speaker
Homer's brain sarcastically starts clapping him for the lights. I don't even think no, don't think saying anything sarcastic though. his brain was genuinely impressed. He was like oh wow, yeah, well done. i write read it as Saki. I read it as Saki.
01:39:17
Speaker
Oh, okay. Bravo. Yeah, slow clap. I thought it was like Homer's brain being like, wow, I would never have thought of
01:39:25
Speaker
So Lisa asks if Homer's hiding something, and Homer says what? And Lisa immediately says that he's infatuated with a woman named Mindy. um man Or a man named Andy. Homer then tries to trick Lisa by looking behind.
01:39:36
Speaker
Lisa doesn't initially fall to it until Homer really lays it on thick of he's being 100% serious, and she's got to turn right around. Lisa finally does, and Homer runs up. Suck We go to the next scene and Homer has written a note on his hand that he and Mindy should stay away from each other.
01:39:52
Speaker
We then see that Lenny has also done the same to apologise to Max. We then see a man saying he's tired of the jokes of his giant hand, but she then lifts up his giant hand to make set point. love the giant hand, man. And he's got massive note on that goes to the point of talking about...
01:40:06
Speaker
you know, the first the first giant hand joke was done in 19-next. 56. um my mean it's maybe but weird sorry Sorry, I just want a one terribly weird and completely irrelevant tangent, which is we used to get some flavorings in at work that came with like a weird cartoon on the side that was supposed to advise you on how to ship it.
01:40:26
Speaker
ah There was like cargo aircraft only or something, but the way they'd illustrated it was with a guy with a giant hand that had cargo aircraft only written on his hand and it just made me think of this every time. Nice.
01:40:40
Speaker
I don't know why, so weird. Robert meets Mindy and unfortunately he's so nervous he's sweating like Robert Ebert. ah I'm not aware that he was known for his sweating. but Okay, go on. It's just another one of those weird Homer clever references things.
01:40:56
Speaker
Yeah. Movie reviews are stressful, I guess. Yeah, I guess so. We then see that Homer smudged the writing, so he starts talking to Murphy about being an elf. And he also has a line in this.
01:41:10
Speaker
His phrasing on his hand devolves into a, what is a Japanese Buddhist chant. Oh, okay. That's weird. Yeah. Again, simson whats right of us Simpsons writers write what they think is funny. The end.
01:41:26
Speaker
You see that Mr. Burns and Smithers are watching through the monitor and Mr. Burns thinks that they're inseparable chums and they're the perfect pair for the energy convention and Smithers asks if he's sharp and says no one else has the same spirit of camaraderie.
01:41:39
Speaker
He also says it in a weird way. He says, Camradery. He says it in a very strange way. We then cut to the monitors and several people are fighting, including the duck pecking out some. Yep.
01:41:50
Speaker
I'm sure he deserved it. Spirits tells Mindy and Homer they're off to the capital city and Mindy's very impressed to be going to the Windy Apple. Why is the capital of Springfield not Springfield?
01:42:02
Speaker
Because it's capital city. Think about your question. My apologies. apologies. Homer declares this the worst crisis of his life and that's why Colonel Klink has forsaken him.
01:42:14
Speaker
Colonel Klink comes and Homer again reveals that someone in the television show had a radio in the coffee pot and Colonel Klink is not happy about it. He did! Oh, Colonel Klink, you missed so much. You fool.
01:42:25
Speaker
We don't cut and it's the convention and Homer is taken up to his room and we see that the hotel itself has been disease-free since 1990. Okay.
01:42:36
Speaker
The bellhop introduces Tomy to the room and points out the bed where he can use it for several sexual innuendo noises. Quite a lot of sexual innuendo noises.
01:42:47
Speaker
My personal favourite being Hobba Hobba. Hobba Hobba. Hobba Hobba. Tomy says that he loves his wife and family he's only going to use the bed for sleeping, eating and building a fort. Sad. Maybe building a little fort.
01:43:00
Speaker
Tomy then gets excited by the mouthwash and the shampoo and the shower curtain. freeman Free mouthwash, free shampoo, free shower curtain. We see that Mindy's doing exactly the same thing, and Mindy points out the war wasn't there, be sleeping in the same bed, and Homer says balls are a necessity in today's society.
01:43:15
Speaker
It's true. Mindy then says they should do something wicked that can get them into lot of trouble, and Homer says they should fight temptation, but nope, they're going to call room service.
Mr. Burns' Monkey Mishap
01:43:23
Speaker
And Homer goes, oh. We then see a buzzer going off of Mr. Burns' office saying someone is charging room service to the company, and Burns says, well, we'll see about that.
01:43:31
Speaker
He then goes, oh, Wizard of Ozonus, by introducing his monkeys. Fly, Fly! The monkeys do not fly. They plummet straight to Earth, and we hear the ah noise of the pitting, the cars, and the alarms going up in the background. the The silence before, continue the research.
01:43:48
Speaker
Fucking priceless. It's well just the beginning of the screams. They cut back, and Homer and Mindy are Devouring all the room service they've ordered, including finding out that one of the turkeys has fallen behind the bed.
01:44:01
Speaker
This episode makes me hungry, man. They both start eating a foot-long chili dog and it ends up with their lips touching. How much shirt randomly opens to reveal Marj's image? It's sign. They don't hear that the noise that sounds suspiciously like Marj's image, but it's actually just the floor buffer.
01:44:17
Speaker
Yep. then see that Marge tells Bart that his two weeks are up and he doesn't have to wear his glasses anymore. And Bart is excited. He ditches his glasses and kicks his shoes off. They fly through the window of Flanders' thing. Did any of you pray for giant shoes?
01:44:32
Speaker
I did. Oakley, doakley. Rod did, so Landis is perfectly happy with it. We don't see that Nelson is talking to the bullies and says, the benia they've been working doing a lot of upper body work on Bart, and today they'll pound these kitties.
01:44:44
Speaker
But they see that Bart comes in looking perfectly normal, and Bart says, the nerd that you knew was dead, and said, if you beat me up, you're now beating up on your own. The bullies pause and go, eh, whatever, and then beat him up anyway. Yeah, why would that change anything? They beat you up very regularly, Bart.
01:44:57
Speaker
And your B-plot is over. hope you enjoyed it. events At the National ah Energy Convention, and the sign burns out. And we're seeing several things stalls and see Hans Moorman is back.
01:45:10
Speaker
And he's... Yeah, it's a Woo! And he's channelling solar... Waving a phone finger that just says Hans Moorman.
01:45:18
Speaker
He's channelling solar energy and he assures the salesman that actually works and this gets him a judo chop to the neck. Best of luck! Whack! We then see that the stall is taken over by fossil fuels and the sign of users and nobody gets hurt.
01:45:32
Speaker
Oh, that was that that's a bit too real to know. Yeah, a little bit. I mean, to be fair, they probably knew at least something about it in 1993, but in 2025 it was like, o oof. the planet is dying.
01:45:47
Speaker
We then see the serve Homer and Mindy at their booth and people are heckling them, including poisoning the planet, bastard. And someone says, no more Chernobyls, and Homer throws a book at him.
01:45:57
Speaker
And Homer says, he was a bit worried about going to this convention, but as long as they're not alone together. Unfortunately, at that moment, the that made the king queen of energy and being told they've won romantic dinner alone at Madame Chao's. Homer meekly asks, is there a way to get out of this? And the goes, no. The most romantic Chinese restaurant in Capital City.
01:46:15
Speaker
Now the sexiest. once again, a question I already know the answer to, but why did a trade expo have a romantic dinner as a prize for a booth?
Unrealistic Sitcom Tropes
01:46:23
Speaker
For the bit. ah Yeah, yeah, the answer is for the bit, I know.
01:46:26
Speaker
We go to the romantic dinner and Mindy's happy that the Chinese restaurant made them cheeseburgers. God, I fucking, the amount of jokes that people make about, like, in sitcoms again, like, comedy in general, about someone, if you complain enough, you will get a restaurant to make you anything. I'm just like, if I was a waiter, I would not back down.
01:46:44
Speaker
I would be like, no, you can either order from the menu or fucking leave. Goodbye. Homer opens his fortune cookie and it says he will find happiness of a new love. Homer then declares that even the Chinese are against him and says, can't fight fate, which prompts Mindy's interest.
01:46:59
Speaker
We then go back to the kitchen and one of the waiters realises they're out in a new love cookies, so the old guy tells him to open a stick with your wife cookies. It'll the wife, though. Then see that Homer gets back to his room and says, says tentatively, well, I guess you want to come in to Mindy? And Mindy does.
01:47:14
Speaker
And Homer goes, oh. Mindy declares it was a nice night and Homer starts crying and Mindy then asks him, what's wrong? He says, oh, yeah, like you don't know, we're goingnna have sex. Mindy awkwardly goes, oh, well, we don't have to. You have to. Yes, we do. The cookie told me to.
01:47:29
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Mindy then points out desserts are always right. And Homer just says, But they're so sweet. Mindy then tentatively says, don't have to do anything they don't want. And Homer says, Kind of wants to. But then he talks about Marge and the kids. Then goes on to a bit of a tangent about Bart.
01:47:43
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But Mindy says, You know how I feel. And then tells Homer to look at his heart. And he'll know what he finds. They have an awkward tentative moment. And there's a little brief peck on the lips. Next scene, Homer's on the bed.
01:47:55
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barry matt and Barry White is playing in the background. Barry White, hello. I went for the wrong Barry there. Very different context. But get the slow spin, and it's revealed that it's actually Marge. And Homer has suggested to bring Marge to Capital City.
01:48:10
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Why did he ask Marge to wear the same dress? as mindy I guess Homer took it. For the bit. Did Homer ever tell Marge that he kissed another another woman twice? I don't believe so.
01:48:21
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And then Marge points out a turkey wrong. Also, she feels better. She's not got a cold anymore. Yeah. I don't know. Unclear how much time has passed. that turkey's been there for a whole day.
01:48:33
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might be a different turkey. That's not that weird. It's cooked. It's fine. Probably. a little bit fuzzy. ah The lights go off, we can just see the outline of Homer and Marge's eyes as the Homer starts singing Barry Manilow again.
01:48:47
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Then the bell hop, then the bell hop's eyes show up and he starts doing his sex noises again. This just leads to Homer punching him at the end.
01:48:57
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And that's your episode. Did mention the... Marge line. Marge. Yeah, he was happy. What a mildly uncomfortable episode. This is an episode I've seen way too often because this was on one of the VHS you are compilation videos. So I had this and I've watched this a bunch.
01:49:18
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It's not terrible. It's just weird. It's fine. It's a decent episode. I enjoyed it. But it just didn't really land for me because I'm like, yeah, I've seen this. I've seen this. yeah yeah i know this episode I know this episode so well. I'm just like, this is really not doing much for me today, i' got to be honest. I like ZooTroy and Colonel Clink.
01:49:34
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I do like ZooTroy. And It kind of feels like they came up with a one-line pitch for an episode, realized they had to fill 20 minutes, and then added a weird B-plot. I mean, i I do like Michelle Pfeiffer's character. Like, Mindy Simmons is fun, just like the female Homer is like a fun character to have. i guess.
01:49:54
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It's fine. Okay. There's just nothing to this episode. This episode was meh. I feel like it had more to it than the last one, personally, but... Nah, it's not on the screen. mean, it's not funny episode, but it's... um Yeah, no, it's definitely an episode where they're trying to do too much, yeah you know, sappy stuff to be a laugh riot, you know?
01:50:18
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Just Homer constantly, be like, feeling bad about wanting to cheat, but being so stupid that he thinks that means he's going to cheat. And it it was just weird. It wasn't very Simpsons- They were trying to like do a subversion of ah standards kind of thing.
01:50:35
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And it just did it's it's just weird. It's just weird. You don't expect there to be in an episode of Simpsons Homer crying about the fact that he's going to sleep with a very attractive woman. With Michelle Pfeiffer.
01:50:47
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Yeah. It's weird. It's weird. Out of Homers, guys. I'm going to give it a Joey Jojo Jr. Shabadoo out of Homer. It was the worst episode of Simpsons you've ever seen.
01:51:00
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Nope, it was nope. it's ah think it's not You think that such a thing can't exist, but it actually does. ah Ah. Okay. Makes sense of that. Gave it a turkey behind the bed out of Homer.
01:51:14
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You are going to refuse to give context, aren't you? Yes. I gave it a glasses for lazy eye out of Homer. You only have to experience it once. Okay. I don't think you've fixed lazy eye with glasses for two weeks, do you?
01:51:28
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Probably not, but it's a reference reference to the episode, which is what I try to do. Yeah, I know, I know. Did it say anything about society? Consent is good. The Chinese encourage adultery.
01:51:41
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More relationship trouble would be solved with polyamory.
01:51:47
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Don't mess with the Department of Labor. um he I feel like a lot of sitcoms have done this and a lot of like boomer humor does this of like a lot of stories say the same thing of just because someone's similar to you doesn't mean you're meant to be with them. It's the differences in your relationship that make you a better couple.
01:52:06
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It's bullshit. It's just advice that boomers tell their kids and their grandchildren because they were trapped in loveless marriages with people they have nothing in common to. So we should be too. Fuck that.
01:52:16
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Find someone with your interests or don't find someone. Yeah, absolutely. So what you're saying is Homer should have run off with Mindy. Absolutely. If you have nothing in common with your partner, you shouldn't be with them.
01:52:29
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It's that simple. but But so much of ninety s media specifically told you the opposite thing. And that's why millennials are fucked. Yeah, yeah.
01:52:41
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I mean, like, I kind of threw it through the whole sort of polyamory thing there away as a throwaway, but, like, it did... I did cross my mind as I was watching it, like, so much stuff like this. Almost everything. Almost universally. Like, it's weird.
01:52:56
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If we all just... If we all just fucked and stopped thinking sex was, like, the be-all and end-all of a relationship. Yeah, literally kind of that. Yeah, like, I... i Since...
01:53:07
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since coming out as queer and becoming involved in queer communities, so many more people in my life are poly and just very comfortable and happy about that. And like, it's just cool and whatever. So for like mainstream everything, media, music, whatever, to be all like absolutely hung up and obsessed with this monogamy thing is like...
01:53:27
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Really does feel like propaganda sometimes, you know? Yeah, absolutely. Just fuck people. It's fun. To some extent, it genuinely was propaganda of stay with someone regardless because you need to keep producing children for the sake of going to war.
01:53:40
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Yeah, yeah. Or at least working in Starbucks. What a downer of an ending, guys.
01:53:49
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So poet of we say goodbyes. I think we should. we are at the two hour mark. So let's do it before we cross that threshold. Matt, what you got going on? I stream every day except Thursdays and Fridays on twitch.tv slash MrGablin currently playing through Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous. We're also playing a new game that for some reason I keep forgetting the name of even though I'm
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01:54:11
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enjoying it. Nitrogen Omega. That's why I forget it.
01:54:13
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It's gibberish. It's great. It's a cool mecha game. I'm streaming it. I'll probably stream it on my day off tomorrow. It's great. I really, really enjoy it. And yeah, I'm also on Blue Sky at Map Perspective.
01:54:25
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Michael? Yep, I am on the blue sky at Budermash Horse. Not a great deal for me to feed back, just to gently remind people that so we are on YouTube, Spotify and Apple if you want to check out but past episodes of our podcast.
01:54:41
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We sure are. I keep thinking any day now I should probably go through all of our old non-video episodes and turn them into something that's viewable on YouTube, but watch this base. If someone wants to catalogue all of our out-of-homas because we keep forgetting to and every time we still stop, we we still haven't started cataloging them. If someone wants to do that, feel free.
01:55:03
Speaker
I would love for somebody to do that. That would be really appreciated. If you do that, we will send you a customized pair beyondies. Don't make promises your pants can't keep. I'll send you something signed, I guess, if you really wanted that.
01:55:17
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I'll hang out with you on Discord and call you a Chad. won't say anything That's not doable. That's a very deliverable prize. I think so. Follow me on the blue sky. I'm at Maroka.
01:55:29
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Check out my other YouTube channel. It's Button Mash. That's all I do, really. um Listen to Wolf Arnold. Leave me alone. That's the thing that exists.
01:55:40
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I'm not saying you need to make more episodes. I'm just saying people need go listen to it. Leave me alone. Bye, everyone. Bye. Bye, everybody.