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The Top 10 Simpsons Season 17 Episodes · Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

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Four finger Discount. Dude, welcome to this very special episode of four figure
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Discount, where if you listen to the show, you'll be well aware that
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we have reviewed every single episode of the season, which means it is now
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time for a season seventeen wrap up here on four figure Discount. I'm very,
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very excited. I'm intrigued to see what might transfer in the next forty
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five minutes to an hour. I'm Dando and I am guy. We made
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it, Dando. We were a little worried. We're like that fat guy
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in a marathon who's like struggling towards the finish line, but we finally got
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through. We've got We might have an unseemly stain on the back of our
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pants, we might have injuries that will just you know, last us for
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the rest of our lives, but we're here. Were made at the very
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I'm gonna say, we're a little concerned walking into season seventeen with like we're
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entering the quote unquote bad patch. Are we entering the bad lands? But
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I think more often not, perhaps more often than not, or more often
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than we expected. We were kind of pleasantly surprised by the quality of the
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episodes or the enjoyment that we derived from Now, whether that's because are expectations
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were rock bottom, were bedrock low, or the show still has the capacity
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to surprise and delight, who knows. That's fair. I think it's a
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bit of both. I think it's expectations were very, very low going into
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this season because numerous people who had been rewatching this season recently went, oh,
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you're not gonna like this one, or I can't wait to hear we
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have to say about these episodes. And they were working on the movie whilst
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they were making this season. So though in like the post production of the
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movie, when they were making this and they didn't hire extra people. They
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just took on the extra workload themselves, which means that they're sort of like,
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you know, burning the candle at both ends. And I think it
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showed a bit in this season in the sense that, as you're saying before,
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we're pleasantly surprised by this season. It wasn't terrible. There were a
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couple of episodes a handful where you were just like, what is going on
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here? But I think in this season, more than any we've done previously,
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I feel like there was more meth episodes than any others where it felt
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like they kind of checked out, or you know, there's a few jokes
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there where if they just dedicated a little bit of extra time, they probably
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could have come up with something a bit funnier, or the endings felt a
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bit rushed because they just sort of gave up or they didn't have time to
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sort of think of a solid ending. I thought that happened more in this
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season and anything previously. I think this may have been better than season sixteen.
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I have to go back through season sixteen, but I feel like,
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oh, I'm saying that it probably was the worst season we've reviewed to date,
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But it doesn't mean it was a bad season, if you know what
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I mean. Yeah, I think you've got to do the aggregator where you
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sort of look at the season as a whole, and you know, way
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up your pros and cons and things like that. Something else we noticed was
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that sometimes episodes felt like they didn't have enough in them. So you know,
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you'd get the full opening credits, or you'll get extended couch gags or
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yeah, other things that felt a little bit like philler or padding or drawn
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out gags, kind of like the the Peter Griffin. Ah ah, well
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it sort of drags out now and now now, and we've said time and
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time again on the podcast out felt like fet more Family Guy Brandon humor was
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sort of creeping its way into the symptons because Family Guy was sort of hitting
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its hitting its peak at this point. Maybe maybe it'd already impassed this peep,
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but Family Guy was sort of like the cool shit at that point in
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time. You know, they're getting the Star Wars movies, and like Stuart
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Griffin was so like getting quoted all the time. You don't necessarily hear anyone
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really talking about Family Guy anymore. It's still I'm still doing really really well.
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I'm mashinming, but I personally don't know anyone really watch his Family Guy
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anymore. But at that time it certainly was. And I can understand why
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that kind of eve crept into the sisens. You kind of wish they didn't,
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but he can understand why, because well, if everyone's enjoying that,
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maybe we'll try and find it a good blend of that. But wow,
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no, Yeah, I think it's something that happens to any program that runs
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a long time, or any artist who sort of works for a long time.
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There's that constant balancing act that you have to walk of, Like I
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want to be faithful to my own voice, to my own tone, to
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my own style, but at the same time, I also want to remain
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relevant and part of the zartgeist, and you know, I don't want to
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be stuck in a rut. I'd like to think that I'm evolving, but
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there are times when that can turn into I'm just aping what's cool at the
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moment. I mean, and it's a it's not always a recipe for disaster,
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but it generally regards in some pretty terrible meals. It's kind of like,
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you know, in Krusty gets canceled when Gabbo comes around and everyone starts
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watching Gabbo instead. Family Guy was kind of like the Gabbo at this point,
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like I'm a bad with a boy. Like they were like saying,
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the stuck Simpsons. We'll never say, right, but you know, by
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the end of that episode, Krusty reigned supreme, and I kind of feel
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like, whilst Family Guy is still on TV, the Simpsons they stuck it
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out, and I feel like they've they've outlasted Family Guy and their their legacy
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purely because of the Golden Ear, of course in the nineties, but The
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Simpsons is still talked about where family Guy necessarily isn't and I feel like they
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sort of they said, they said to weight it out. Basically, that's
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very much the case. I mean, I think you and I and a
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lot of other people have spoken in the past about how ye dropping a Simpsons
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quote into conversation or as a bit of an icebreaker can be Yeah, an
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icebreaker, we're speaking, Yeah, we're speaking the same language. Or even
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if you don't, oh, I've autom it's not you may not have automatically
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made a new best friend, but it's like we've got something in or you
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know, this is a bit of a shared language. Now, admittedly that's
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sort of in the Golden Age. I mean, I don't know if there
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are too many quotes from more recent seasons where people are sort of using that
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as a shared shared dialect. A couple of moments here and their threat the
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laiter, like the mid teen seasons where you go, oh shit, I
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didn't realize that came so late in the show's run, but it's most season
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one to nine. But there there've definitely been moments in even this season where
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I've gone, So that's where that's from. That comes from that, Yeah,
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absolutely right. I don't recall I mean, I'm not a huge family
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guy guy, but I don't recall too many people sort of using family guy
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quotes or bits as the one thing thing I know now I remember now that
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people still tend to use is that oh now, now, now, now,
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now when Cleveland falls out of the in the bathroom, when he falls
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out of the end of the house. But you don't really hear people are
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saying that all that often. It might be when you're falling over or whatever
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like that, but it's not like you're just quoting that willy nilly. I
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think the only family guy quote I might use, and it's not even a
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family guy quote, it's a South Park rip off of family Guys. You
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you think there's bad, you meant at the time you remember they're turning to
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Day Invaded Gary Coleman for Tea with the Queen something. We have to do
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that as a bonus, like skip ahead review for going down a South Park
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on Patreon. It's such a great episode. I mean, it's like a
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it's a it's a fucking prison yard shanking it was like, ah, oh,
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you guys think you guys are the cookies? All right, sit back
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and watch this. Yeah, let me get all funds on that airs.
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And if you enjoy south Park, check out out going down to south Park
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Podcasts. You can find only for that in description of this as well.
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But yeah, I am with south Park, right, I'm watched this.
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We've been watching season three now, South Park season three. Yeah, and
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man, I just forgot how great that show was. And it's whilst it's
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been going for like what twenty three years, I want to say now started
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ninety seven, twenty six years. During the pandemic stuff, they only had
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like a couple of episodes, so they're not pubbling them out like the Simpsons
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do. But you know, the south Park remained quality, but they weren't
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pumping out as much as the Simpsons. The Simpsons are closing in like eight
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hundred episodes. So like the fact that they've been able to sort of just
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keep going. And you watch some of those new episodes now and they're like
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decent, you know what I mean, They're actually enjoyable, they're pretty they're
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pretty good. I haven't watched many of the season twenty two to three to
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like twenty seven era, but like the last couple of seasons, I've been
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watching a lot and it's just it's it's amazing when you really think about it,
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how they've managed to just pull out like eight hundred episodes of a television
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show that are still enjoyable to watch. Oh absolutely, yeah, yeah.
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I mean you've got to pay respect to the king. I mean they'll always
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be thinking, you know, south Park will always be has. It has
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its own thing, and it's it's funny for its own reasons. But as
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like a show that you can sit down and watch with your family, Simpsons,
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no one will ever beat it. I don't think animan and it's a
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it's akin to Saturday and Art Live, I think in that regard. I
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mean it also it works as its own thing, but it also works as
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an incubator for good talent as well. And I think a lot of people
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it still has that rep of I want to write comedy or I want to
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write a situation comedy for TV. This is the thing. This is you
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know somewhere I will go to to learn my chops, to show off my
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stuff, and you know, maybe become skilled enough to go off and do
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my own thing. Yeah, having the Simpsons on your resume is definitely a
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massive tick. Absolutely. But we're here today to go through our top ten
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episodes of season seventeen, and if you listen to our previous our season wrap
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ups, what we do is I give my top five and Guy gives his
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top five. But the fun little game we'd like to play is that I'll
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predict what guys five favorites of beat in no particular order, just he's five
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favorites, and he'll try and do the same for me, and we'll see
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at the end how much we actually know each other. So what I'm going
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to do is I'm going to mute you. You give me the thumbs up
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right when you have finished telling the listeners what you think my top five are
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going to be, right, I'm gonna give you the three two one countdown
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and you're gonna be muted. I won't be able to hear you, I'll
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be able to see you, And once you give me that thumbs up,
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I'm going to mutate you. Ready, three two one, you're muted?
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How about they're DANDU Oh my goard, they get six. He knew he
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knew that I was going to do something like that. I'm sure I can.
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Anyway, here's what I think Dando's top five, and I'm gonna throw
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away a bit of a wild card humorous one just to you know, get
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his goat. I think I've done that in the past as well. Anyway.
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Top five, in no particular order, Homer's Paternity, Coot, My
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Fair Laddy Tree, House of Horrors, sixteen, The Monkey Suit, and
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Homer Simpson, This is your Wife? Okay. That's Dando's top five according
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to a guy. I'm going to give him the thumbs up and get unmuted.
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All right. He's giving me the thumbs up. That means he's you
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finished. I'm assuming you finished. I am indeed. Alrighty. Now,
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what's going to happen is I'm going to give you the three two one countdown.
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You're going to push mute on my channel, which means on that little
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road cast I thing you've got in front of the USB one, just hit
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that little red button down the bottom there and you'll see the mute. So
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I'll say three two one mute, and then I'll say it and I'll give
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you the thumbs up when it's time for you to un mute me. Are
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you ready, mister Davis? Can you handle this? It's too much technical
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stuff that I'm trumba bey two one, mute me, okay, so you
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can't hear me, he can't hear me, okay. Cool. So basically
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this is this is a guy's top five in my opinion. I think he's
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gonna have the Italian Bob. He really really enjoys Side show Bob and what
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doesn't really like Kate Fear, which is odd. But he really liked the
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Italian Bob. I remember him enjoying that one. And Homer's Paternity Coot,
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which is the one that you know, I was getting a lot of attention
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recently with the whole submarine that that imploded, unfortunately, but Mike Reesel was
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on there, and Homer's paternity Cooper. Homer has the new Father, the
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man he thinks he is his father. I think you like that one.
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I think he'll also have because I've got in mine. I actually almost spoiled
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that. I have the seemingly never ending story that's gonna be in my top
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five. I think Guy Devils I had that as well, so I think
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it's a great, a great episode. He also he doesn't like Willie,
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but I think he was a big fan of My Fair Laddie, and I
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think you'll have that in his top five. And finally a recent one,
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the Monkey Suit, because he was a fan of the court Case and The
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Man Father. I believe he's from Kentucky wherever. He was just the the
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lawyer of the of the prosecutor. I think he'll have the monkey Suit in
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there as well. All right, so guy Davis thumbs up and meet me,
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sir. You are unmuted, all right, I'm not making fun of
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my genitalia. Oh I did I new this occasion, I learned something new
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about the roadcast, and that's great. I can mute you, So I
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might just do I might do that on going's like, oh my god,
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he's still going on. Okay, So you kick off with your number five
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four season seventeen. My number five was Treehouse of Horror sixteen. Oh see,
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I always leave those ones out because they're like, oh, it doesn't
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matter. Yeah, that's fine. Trees you throw it in there, okay,
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cool, yep. What did you like about it? I'd never look
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into it. What would you tree house? To borrow? What was the
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stories for this one? There was artificial Intelligence. Yes, Uh, Survival
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of the Fattest which was kind of like the most game one and I've grown
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a costume on your face or someone the costume one. I really like that.
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Yeah. Yeah, So, I mean I thought this was a not
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a top tier Treehouse of Horror, but I thought a pretty good episode.
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I like Artificial Intelligence myself, but I thought they were all pretty good.
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So look, you're right, it probably is cheating to put Treehouse of Horror
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in a top five, because they're invariably pretty enjoyable, you know, even
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if you've sort of got to judge them by their own stand as opposed to
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the rest of the season, don't you. I'll give you to the end
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of this podcast to think of another one. By the end, you can
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go through your at the end of anyway. Number five while you're doing that
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is regarding Margie. This is the one, if you remember correctly, where
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the episode was really really good and at the very end they screwed it up.
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They had like home and say, oh, you're enabler for my alcoholism
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or something like that, and I was just like, why did you do
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that? Yeah, I had it landed. It the plane had landed.
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Why did you then crash into the build. Why did you turn the engine
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back on and crashing into that building? You know? It was just like
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one of the episodes where I was furious at the end, but the ending
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aside, I thought, we just got the best version of Homer. Heres.
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This is the one for those who can't remember. Where Marge loses her
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memory. She remembers everybody else except for Homer, and it's to try and
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remind her why she why she why she loves him. And I just thought
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that, yeah, in this episode, we it really showed why Homer and
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Marge as a couple work. We didn't get any shitty Homer in this episode.
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It was just all Homer trying his best and giving Marcho space and things
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like that. And I just thought this was just, yeah, a really
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simple story that showed us the best version of Homer. And I'm a big
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fan, as you said, no of Drew Barrymore and she's being canceled at
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the moment apparently for starting a shop again. But that aside, I'm a
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big fan of fifty First Dates and this episode reminded me of fifty First Dates.
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See my You've made a very eloquent case for it and quite an understandable
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one. I mean, I like to think that I know some things about
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the episodes that you enjoy. I do remember, however, that you're disdained
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for them. This episode was so great it almost outweighed every thing else which
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is wired and put it in your in the top fives that I thought for
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you, But I don't know. I mean, you've you've given very very
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good reasons as to why it would be in your top five. I was
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like, twenty one minutes and thirty seconds were good enough except for the final
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thirties. So I'm like, I've gotta give credit with question as we're setting
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the past. If you don't stick the landing, it can really yeah yeah
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the rest. Yeah, So what is your number four? I think my
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number four? Again, I sort of put mine in no particular order,
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but I'm gonna do a little red jigging here. I'm going to say the
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last of the red hat mumments. Okay, then, yeah, I mean,
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we did discuss the highest aspect of this one. We both love a
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good heist. I thought this episode would have been better had it focused on
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the highst But like, what what what got into the top four for you?
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What was it about that you're like, look, two words, primarily
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Lily Tomlin. I mean, I think she just did a really good,
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really gave a good a good guest performance and no fit into the Simpsons in
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the it was pretty well. I mean that something that can happen with performance,
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but especially comedians who have been around forever, you tend to think you
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can almost discount that they're good or you you've you forget about what makes them.
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Refresh my memory. Bob Newhart was in this season, wasn't he showed
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up? No, Bob Newhart was in we reviewed it this season, but
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he was back in season seven when Krusty died. But we did it with
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sorry. But you tend to think that certain people are part of the furniture,
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and it was like, oh, okay, yeah they're good, but
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then you forget why they're good. And I think Lily Tomlin did a really
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good job of reminding us that she's you know, a very inventive, very
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weird comedian. I mean that all not all that came to the four and
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last all the red up mammers, mammas, mummers, but remindless is what
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she's known for. What has she been in? I will Look, she
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was a stand up a comic, and not even so much a stand up
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comic more like a solo sketch performer. Yeah. I did a lot of
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shows like that, Rages, and moved into movies. Was sort of hit
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and miss in terms of the products of the projects that she that she chosen
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she was attached to. But she was part of the original Castle like nine
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to five with Jane Fonder of Dolly Parton, which is really pivotal in the
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early eighties. Look, people mainly know it these days from Grays and Frankie
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again with Jane Fonder. They've just gone on for a few years on Netflix
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and they've proven very, very popular with a you know, a really wider
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range of people. My sister loves it, My wife loves it. I
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was like, what is what my sister's like, Louisa's young son, Yeah,
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who's like twelve, loves it. Yeah, Yeah, I've ever watched
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it, but like so obsessed with it. They really enjoyed it absolutely.
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Yeah, and then you've got sort of like the B plot as well,
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where yeah, Lisa wants to study abroad in Rome and she hides the tutor
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to learn Italian and it's Millhouse and it's Millhouse as a boss. Yeah,
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with the chicken his name. Liza gets angry at it. She has jealousy.
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That was funny. Yeah, yeah, so that was kind of funny.
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I enjoyed both aspects of that. So yeah, that's why the last
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of the Red Hot Mum has made my list. What my number four?
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Kind of cheating similar to like Trios of Horror, but I thrown it in
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anyway, was Simpson's Christmas Stories kind of like a Christmas version of Trios of
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Horror. This to me, I looked at the title of it, this
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has disaster written all over it for me because I've never been a fan of
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the ones like Simpsons Bible Stories and the one where they were like with the
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hoe bowl on the train, Simpsons Tall Tales. I think it was because
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I was like, oh, they just feel like you just and we're the
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stories ever told in this one as well, this feels like you're just checking
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out, you know, like just no good. But the Simpsons Christmas Stories
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I thought was really really fun and really encapsulated the vibe of like a Simpsons
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Christmas special, like the like the seventies and the eighties version of like a
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TV Christmas Special like a variety of our kind of kind of feel. The
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first one was kind of like, yeah, whatever it was about, you
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know Mary and like that. Yeah, yeah. But the second one with
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the Santa Claus with Home with Grandpa and Burns on the Island of Santa I
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thought it was really really fun. But the final segment was the one that
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sold it for me, was the Nutcracker medley where they're all singing the various
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songs and things like that, and it ends with margin Homer giving a present
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to each other. Homer forgot the present, Marge gives her present and the
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present is a present to herself from Homer, which in a self sort of
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sort of showcases at Homer is not a good husband. But also to me,
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it more focuses on how they're just in sync with each other. But
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I just thought just that the last two segments in particular, really felt like
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a classic old school variety of a Christmas special and I really really enjoyed it.
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And it's mine and before that's a great way of putting it as well,
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because yeah, you can really sort of stack up against one another the
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wetter stories ever told and Simpson's Christmas Stories because yeah, wetter stories ever told
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is kind of it's garbage. It's a wet sandwich. Yeah, it's not
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garbage in the sense that it's like it's bad television, but it's just boring.
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It's just numb, a lazy. Yeah, yeah, which is unfortunately,
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get it. We get a little bit of that through season seventeen years.
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Something I was going to say earlier was, you know, it felt
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like I had a lot of placeholder gags in there, or they put in
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the line that was like not insert gang here, but this will do until
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we get up with a better gag. You know, this is this is
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where the laughs are, and they never sort of got back to it or
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couldn't come up with reallymore. My number three is I'm going to say kiss
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Kiss Bang Bangalore. That's one number three as well. Hey, we do
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know each other a little bit. Yeah, so you well I didn't have
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it in your top five days. That's all right. I think I'm zero
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for zero right now. I think I am as well. But so kiss
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Kiss Bang Bangalore. What did you like about it? Because I've got something
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to say as well. Look, I'm a bit of a socker for this
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is going to sound very very wet gay. But I'm in a bit sort
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of exoticism. But I'm I like Indian culture. And I thought this episode,
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even though you know, The Simpsons has sort of run into a bit
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of slack war, it's misrepresentation of culture on occasion, no, no,
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I thought this was a funny set up for an episode and a good reason
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to explore a new culture or explore a foreign culture, which you know,
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the Simpsons does a fair bit of and sometimes it's more successful than others in
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doing that. I don't know. I just had a lot of a lot
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of fun with Homer in this new environment, the way he adapted to it,
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didn't adapt to it, reveled in it, all that kind of stuff.
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Yeah, I just had a bit of fun with it. Yeah.
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Of all the Simpsons go to stories, the best ones and this one is
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a perfect example, are the ones where they focus more on the story as
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opposed to just doing parodies and taking the piss out of the stereotypes of said
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country, like barbased Australia. The main story like there are you know,
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piss takes of Australia in there, but the story is but is you know,
21:55
has to apologize to the plate to the country of Australia, so it's
21:57
focusing on the story as opposed to just psyche gag. Psycho gag. Now,
22:02
example of the worst version of it is like when they go to England,
22:04
I feel it's just Simpsons go to this place and insert celebrity cameo and
22:08
Simpsons this case concert celebrity cameo. The Simpsons go to the airport and all
22:11
of a sudden, the Prime ministers there for no apparent reason at or with
22:15
a with a jet pack. It's like, it's just it's all a bit
22:17
silly to me, a bit sort of nothing. Where this one here,
22:19
I thought it was good because the focus on the story. It does still
22:22
have the cliches, but it used them sparingly and it did them really really
22:26
well, Like had the telemarketed gag where he's using the different accents of the
22:29
voices and things like that. You know, he's trying to find a guy
22:33
with black hair and whatever, and he finds him straight away. I really
22:37
really enjoyed that. But I also liked the Indiana Jones Temple of Doom references
22:41
that we've got at the end as well. Whilst it didn't really make a
22:44
lot of sense. They don't really explain how this all came about. I
22:45
still just appreciated it anyway. It just it just seemed to fit because that
22:49
that story, that movie has always had an Indian vibe to it for some
22:53
reason, because it's not set in India, is it. It's not set
22:56
in India. Temple of Doom? Is it? I believe it is?
22:59
Isn't it is? Is it? Because I've always just assumed it feels Indian?
23:03
Maybe it is, but I don't know whether the like Temple of Doom.
23:07
Let's have a look. Let's do a little Google. I'm pretty sure
23:11
looking it up here, so I'm opening up the wiki page this story.
23:15
The plot and an archaeologist advised a murder tep from Shanghai crime hawd to achieve
23:18
the remains of Nerky Indie flies from the city in the company of the young
23:22
orphan. I wonder where British him layers? Okay, yeah, yeah,
23:27
yeah, right, yeah, okay, so it isn't India, Okay,
23:29
but yeah, I just thought I really appreciate it, the sort of just
23:32
the home of the way he looks like the you remember his name with it?
23:34
Who's the bad guy? And temple? I believe. Yeah, Yeah,
23:38
scary man, scary scary man. I think it's doing a bit of
23:41
a combo of Temple of Doom and Apocalypse Now at the end, which is
23:45
yes, Pocalypse Now is another one of course, yeah, where they're floating
23:47
on the water and stuff like that. But I also enjoyed the end where
23:51
it all gets wrapped up because of the workers rights, because it's like they
23:55
snuck in sort of like a political statement but did in a really funny way.
23:57
It's something we need right now. The writers dragon a pro union.
24:03
There's something else, of course, I dug was I mean, it's good
24:07
when you know you've got good A and B plots and the whole thing with
24:11
Richard Dean Anderson Akay mcguiver. Of course, yes, yeah, I could
24:15
believe. Forgot about that as well. Man. That would have been higher
24:17
on my list, I think, because that was that Actually this probably should
24:18
have been my number two because that B plot was unbelievable, so the perfect
24:23
use of a of a guest star. It was really Yeah, I mean
24:26
it's great work by by Julie Kavner doing Patty in Summer, but also yeah,
24:32
just a very very game Richard Dean Anderson becoming everything that he always hated.
24:40
Yeah, but paying tribute to and poking fun at his career and yeah,
24:45
and and and his fan base as well. So yeah, yeah,
24:48
there's no secret that he has a disdain or at the time he had a
24:51
disdain for mcguiver. He wanted to get away from being mcguiver. I didn't
24:55
like it. But for him to sort of just go full mcguiver and this
24:56
and become mcguiver, I thought it was just Yeah, it was perfec and
25:00
honestly could have been an episode in itself. It was. Maybe that's why
25:03
it was so good, because it didn't overstate it's welcome. I don't know,
25:06
but it felt odd that any negative of that episode and It's had a
25:10
real negative. But the odd thing was that the two stories had absolutely nothing
25:14
to do with each other, which is why it felt like, where's the
25:18
link here? Usually there's a link of some kind, but there wasn't.
25:19
Yeah, you've smushed these two together. But at the same time, I
25:22
think, and I think it's something we talked about when we recorded our episode
25:25
on Kids Kids bang Bangalore. Was neither of these plots feel quite strong enough
25:32
to hold up an entire episode by themselves. Yeah, maybe, so they're
25:37
just enough together to make an enjoyable episode. I mean to the point where
25:42
as you said, I mean you forgot that this was the Richard Dean Anderson
25:47
episode. I mean, the title alone indicates that that's going to be about
25:51
Bangalore rather than rather than the guy. Ever, so it's almost easier to
25:56
get that he is in there. But it's a really good, a really
25:57
good B plot. I think it's because because I had nothing to do with
26:02
the what we call the A plot with the Indian story, maybe that's why
26:04
I didn't associate with it. If there was some sort of link there,
26:07
I would have gone, oh, yes, the one with mcgiver because mcgiver
26:08
does something in India with Homer All or something like that. But I think
26:11
the Simpsons Go to Aspect really benefited though, from having the B plot in
26:15
there as well, even though I had nothing to do with it. It
26:17
meant they didn't have to focus more time on just home it goes to some
26:19
sort of Indian monument and does something silly. Home it goes here and does
26:22
something silly. So it was just a couple of a couple of quick gags
26:26
bas stereotypes but they focus on why Homer is there and the meanwhile we have
26:30
this b plot A spars So I think the two they benefited from being in
26:33
the same episode. But I also would have liked to have seen more mcgiver,
26:37
I think. But you know, what we got was still really really
26:38
good. I actually would I wouldn't want to slap this to my number two
26:41
because my number two IM looking at it now and I'm like, I enjoy
26:42
KISSI Bangalore a lot more. Well, speaking of that, when you when
26:47
did you tell us what you've got next? Oh, you tell me your
26:49
number two because that was my number three as well. You tell me your
26:52
number two. Oh okay, no worry, My number two is the Italian
26:57
Bob. I go one, Hey, I was just like guy it whilst
27:04
he doesn't really like Kate fear like Sysho Bob, but he just really enjoyed
27:07
this episode. So you take it away, why did you like this one
27:10
so much? Well? Again, you know, I mean it's not by
27:12
this stage, you're sort of it's Homer and marginal that again, the core
27:19
cast is continue to do good work, and you know, for the most
27:22
part, you still enjoy being around the main characters. But guest stars are
27:26
a little bit of secret source, a little bit of you know, limit
27:30
edition for this week only. Check out your new Kelsey Grammar editions like oh,
27:34
Kelsey's coming back, you know, and it's hard to be disappointed when
27:37
Kelsey Grammar shows up and just about anything. Bob's not really a cameout at
27:41
this point. He's more of like a tradition, isn't he very much?
27:45
So Yeah, I mean it's almost to the point where it's like, Okay,
27:48
it's been you know, a year or two years or whatever, you
27:52
know, let's get let's get Kelsey back and see if he wants to work,
27:56
wants to you know, kind of hang around the studio for all.
28:00
Well again, I mean not wanting to sound like I'm staking gelong and I
28:04
wish I could go somewhere else on a holiday, but no, you just
28:07
got back from California. What are you winging about? It's a very good
28:15
point, but no, No, it's twenty five minute visit to Italy and
28:21
spending time in what's the what's the village that they go to Imber It's actually
28:26
called Salicia, which is which is tailing for sausage. Yeah's the man.
28:33
He's got a new family there, So it's a whole new holy version of
28:36
Bobby gar here, isn't He's not a bad guy at all. Yeah,
28:41
this this almost sounds like the plot of Equalizer three, which is in this
28:45
right now, because Denzel Washington ends up in this small town in Italy and
28:48
everyone's like, Denzel Washing, then we love you. Wait a minute,
28:52
is the marketing goes, I'll take care of him. It's a little bit
28:56
of a flipping reverse there, but yeah, just great, great work by
29:03
ca. I mean, look, the inciting incident that that gets the Simpsons
29:06
of Italy is you know, a bit of a bod one in terms of
29:10
like mister Burns is the Homer is the only person that mister Burns trusts to
29:14
pick up his new expensive Italian sports car. Similar to the episode regarding Marjie,
29:18
though, because everything that comes after it was so enjoyable, kind of
29:22
give it us a bit of a pass, don't you like that? I
29:23
know, the end of regarding Maje was terrible. For everything letting up to
29:26
it, I really really enjoy so I was willing to give it a pass.
29:27
I think it's the same. The same could be said for the Italian
29:30
Bobby. The beginning for the first like two minutes is kind of like they're
29:33
going to They're going to Italy? Why and the family you going with him?
29:36
Why? And if you get about that. But by the time you
29:38
see Sacho Bob be like, Okay, it's a Sacho Bob episode. Who
29:41
cares? Yeah? Yeah, Look the ending isn't all that top not either
29:48
and quite family. You could do without Sacho Bob's and Gino who gets all
29:52
very stabby and murder murder and Vendetta vendetta. But in the middle you've got,
29:57
I think, just a lot of good fun and hopefully I'm not going
30:00
to mispronounce the actress's name too badly. But Maria Grazzia Good Good, You're
30:06
not as as his wife Bond Girls or something. She was a Bond girl,
30:10
I believe. I think she was in either. I think she might
30:12
have been in the World is Not Enough or Tomorrow Now does one of those?
30:17
Yeah, but yeah, good gives yeah, throws herself into the performance
30:22
as well. Yeah. I just had a bit of fun with the Italian
30:25
Bob. I really enjoy it. This is one number two. I think
30:27
I'll probably have Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore as my number two. Never can swap
30:30
them. But Marge's son poisoning is what I've got there. Okay, So
30:34
this is the episode where Marge and home. Marge and Bart spent some mother
30:37
and sometime they go and they find a little village has the tea, the
30:41
tea place and things like that. They go on that bike rides out a
30:42
tandem bike. I related to this in a sense that now that I'm a
30:47
dad, you know you want your kids to always be your friends. But
30:49
you know there's gonna be a point when you know you're they're too cool to
30:52
hang out with you for a while there. They usually you go through it
30:55
when you're like, you know, ten through fifteen, sixteen or whatever,
30:57
you're too cool to hang out with your parents. Eventually, in most cases
31:00
they come around. Teachers of school. When you're a kid, teaches at
31:03
your enemy. By time you get to like year twelve, teachers are your
31:06
best friends without helping you actually get somewhere if you want to, if you
31:08
want, if you got your head screwed on. But I just thought that
31:11
the episode here. We've had episodes where Bart's done something horrible to Marge.
31:15
I think it was the one where he pretended he had been kidnapped, and
31:18
he went that one step too far. He never really got ripromanded for it,
31:21
right, But this one here, I like that, you know,
31:22
because Bart says to Marge, I only hang out with you because, you
31:26
know, because you seemed lonely or whatever. Stupid bike blah blah, because
31:30
the bullies were making fun of it for being a mama's boy. Because Bart
31:32
was enjoying spending time with Marge, but he immediately regretted it and felt terrible
31:36
about it and tried to fix it. So they do the karaoke contest together.
31:40
And this is where Marge comes through for Bart because she sees Skinner and
31:42
Agnes remember, and she goes, okay, I can't let my son got
31:45
to be a mama's boy like that, And this is where he shoots the
31:48
fire ext him. She allows him to be him. But they still also
31:51
now have that extra little bond together as well, so they've sort of got
31:55
that. They've got to think it's a song they sing at the karaoke Sweet
31:57
Home Alabama. I think they'll sing like a version Sweet Hommel Obama or something
32:00
like that, because at the end of a Homer walks in and he starts
32:02
singing the song with her too. But I enjoyed that Marge and Bart now
32:07
have this sort of little dynamic here where Marge is like, all right,
32:09
we're mother and son. We're still friends, but we don't have to be
32:13
best friends. And I like that aspect of it. But I will say
32:15
the Homer story was a little random, and that's the one with us the
32:19
arm wrestling it is. Yeah, it was just it was so bizarre.
32:22
It's just sort of what was that? Yeah, See, that's a that's
32:25
a really good example of as you as we were talking about before with Kids
32:32
Bangalore, about how the mcguiva subplot doesn't feel related at all. This doesn't
32:38
feel related at all either. I mean, they try their very best to
32:40
go and make some tenuous threads between the two of them and tie them together,
32:45
but it doesn't really play on all that well for me. No,
32:49
it's kind of like we need Homer to be doing something and give him something
32:52
to do. Yeah, but the whole, the whole hymn entering a contest
32:54
that costs more than what the first prize was, it was just it was
32:58
a bizarre, bizarre think it was. I think they're trying to sort of
33:00
like have a little bit of a callback to like the Homer Day four where
33:04
more coaches in the boxing career. But it didn't work for this one,
33:07
really, but I enjoyed the margin the margin Bart story for this one.
33:09
But anyway, your number one, please, mister Davis, My number one
33:15
is Homer's paternity coot Ooh okay, I had this in your top five.
33:21
I thought it might have been right up there. So you really really liked
33:23
Michael Yorke as Homer's dad in this, I remember I did. Yeah,
33:28
I mean, I just thought it was a very funny episode in a very
33:30
sweet episode in a lot of ways. Yeah, But I mean generally,
33:37
I think when I'm choosing my top five, I'm thinking about, oh,
33:39
what episodes just really just really made me laugh? And what you know,
33:44
they felt like they had a really sort of strong foundation, solid construction around
33:47
that and then just decorated with a whole lot of really good gags and this,
33:52
yeah, to my mind, for the season seventeen felt like the best
33:54
example of that. What was the one where there's a moment's episode where he's
34:00
like, Olmer, don't do that. Well, He's like, they're putting
34:01
on the accent or somebody going the toilet, wasn't it. Yeah, he's
34:05
like I think Homer's using one of Mason Fairbanks is like many big vases or
34:14
decorative things as a as a toilet. Please Homer do that in the Loop.
34:17
In the Loop, that's Michael. Yeah, and he really was.
34:24
Yeah, you're right about about Michael Yorkan. I mean, because I think
34:28
for the bulk of his career he was kind of regarded as just this very
34:32
good looking, straight lace, kind of upper class Englishman type. And that's
34:37
who you is. He the causton the patch in Austin, Austin Powers,
34:40
that's Robert Wagner. But he's in the He's in the Austin Powers movies.
34:45
His basil exposition, Yes, and he or somebody yes. Yeah. And
34:50
he's just got terrific coming timing in that and just a wonderful presence. And
34:54
yeah, look, I haven't I can't complain. I can't claim to be
34:59
a Michael your completest. I mean, he may well have a bunch of
35:01
comedies on his resume, but I never really sort of regarded him as a
35:05
top notch comic performer. But between the stuff he does in the Austin Powers
35:07
movies and the work he does here, it's just really good. Light comedy
35:12
is very very difficult to do. You know, it sort of gets a
35:15
bad rap because you know, you're not really going for the kind of gags.
35:17
I mean, it's you've got to be sort of delicate. But yeah,
35:21
but I think he's very very good at it. And based on this
35:24
episode alone, there's just so much to enjoy in Homersturnity group. But it's
35:30
got a bit of a and I think, like a lot of the best
35:34
Sentences episodes, it's got a great, big, sort of gooey heart's yea,
35:38
yeah, it's got a nice ending. I remember with Grandpa because Grandpa
35:42
basically says because he thinks or does he fight or does he know that he's
35:45
a real father anyway, I remember the ending being a nice little moment between
35:49
Grandpa and Homer. Here he kind of feel bad for Mason Banks. Was
35:52
it Mason Banks? At his name Mason Fairbanks. Yeah, Mason Fairbanks.
35:54
It feel bad for him by the end because it's like this guy thought he
35:57
had a son, now he doesn't. Now he's lonely again. Poor man.
36:00
Hey. I am currently looking at the Wikipedia page for Homer's paternity coot
36:07
and guess what it says under reception? What's that Brendan Dando when Guy David's
36:13
a popular Simpsons podcast. Four fingered discount, there's a hype pink to that.
36:15
Will check on that. Yeah. Gave the episode a positive review,
36:19
particularly Michael Yorke's performance as Mason Fair. Okay, there you go. Someone
36:24
had added Wikian threw us in there. That's nice. We're Wicki famous.
36:32
I was looking at the fact and there we go, and we just popped
36:35
up. Sorry, I'm dying checking on my own. Not not rage,
36:40
I'm a joy here. But but Michael York Murder on the Orange Express,
36:46
Logan's Run another one. He was in Logan's Run, Man fantastic, Yeah,
36:51
Cabaret, Lost Horizons. He was in a lot of films. But
36:53
yeah, So do you think maybe his appearance in Austin Powers opened people's eyes
36:58
to his comedy? Can be timing? I think it could well, it
37:01
could well have been the case. I mean, I think it opened people's
37:06
eyes to a lot of people's comic talents. I mean, I think something
37:08
that Mike Myers did was very which was very generous, was sort of give
37:12
people who weren't automatically regarded as comic performers or just you know, really thought,
37:19
oh well, kind of really view them in that light, gave them
37:22
opportunity to do things like that. Look, I want to say Elizabeth Hurley
37:27
is a comedic comic genius in the first Doustin Powers, but she's a really
37:31
good straight perform or she knows she really does. She plays off my as
37:35
well, likewise with Robert Wagner and Rob Lowe as they're playing the various the
37:40
two generations of the guy in the Eyepatcher's name I've forgotten. I'm sorry.
37:45
There's there's a fair bit of that in Mindy Sterling as well, and it's
37:49
also introducing a lot of a lot of coming actors. Yeah, I mean,
37:54
of course, I think I've seen Will Ferrell before the first Austin Powers,
37:59
but oh it's that guy, yeah, because he's what does he do
38:05
in Austin Powers. Yeah, his name is like Mustaffa or something, and
38:08
I think he gets eaten by him because I always remember that moment was so
38:13
awesome where it's like you see the side of the villains that you never see
38:15
in the movies. But it's like they're going to celebrate something at there waiting
38:20
for him to get to his party. Just oh no, I think that's
38:24
the guy who gets squashed. Does he get run over? Yeah, he
38:28
gets run over for something. Yeah. Yeah, because you feel sorry for
38:30
the lackeys in in like whenever a villain, you know what I mean.
38:34
But it's like this guy had a family, had friends, Austin Powers.
38:40
I have to go revisit Theselves. I've never seen Austin Powers three. I've
38:43
never seen it. Goldmembers, it's pretty. It's what works best is the
38:47
opening gag okay, which I want to blow for you. You may already
38:52
know it, but no I don't know. Okay, Well, when you're
38:57
done here, yes, worry. Yeah, when we're done here, do
39:00
it after recording. But just go to YouTube and like gold Member opening scene,
39:04
you're gonna I'm pretty sure I will do that. I will do that,
39:07
all right. And my number one, my number one is the seemingly
39:12
never ending story. Did you have this in my five? I did not?
39:15
Oh wow, a story. I loved this episode. I've always been
39:20
a fan of the format bending ones, not the ones that are like the
39:22
trilogies, but just one sort of like Trilogy of Error and things like that,
39:24
and and I just I've always loved how whilst the main story is a
39:29
bit weak with the family trapped in the whole, I've always just liked the
39:31
story of the treasure hunt with with Burns and Moe when he starts dating missus
39:37
k and things like that, and we find out that the birth of Snake
39:40
and that kind of thing. And whilst the it's not really technically cannon or
39:45
anything like that, I've still really really enjoyed the sort of the story,
39:47
the story within a story within a story within the story, and the treasure
39:50
all being in Mo's karaoke machine and things like that. And yeah, I've
39:53
just I've always thought this was a really really fun story that I didn't realize
39:58
came so late in the show's run of always seen this as like a season
40:00
twelve, season thirteen kind of episode, but yeah, there seemingly never any
40:04
story. Yeah, I always been one of my favorites when it comes to
40:06
the format bending ones, and it is now my number one off season seventeen.
40:08
Hear you alway explained it of course makes a lot of sense. I
40:12
think one of the reasons I didn't put in I'd forgotten that this was the
40:15
whole Moe and Missus k ronees, which I mean, if I remember that,
40:22
or if I'd paid a little more intensive that it may have come close
40:24
to cracking my top five, because I thought that was very, very fun.
40:28
Yeah, whilst whilst it doesn't really keep with Cannon, it's still moan
40:31
Missus k You never would have thought it. But they worked, didn't they
40:34
the best? They really did. Yeah. Yeah, I think my problem
40:38
and not with the episode, but more the reason that I didn't include it.
40:43
I was thinking more of the storytelling sort of framework, you know,
40:46
the sort of how they got there and yeah and all that kind of stuff,
40:51
which struck me as not weak, but just like this is a bit
40:54
much. You know, you're trying. Once you get into the meat of
40:58
it, once you get into the core of the story, it's like,
41:00
oh no, there's entertaining. No, I'm into this, but yeah,
41:02
you've got to sort of get past that first bit. So you got yet
41:07
the opening and the end, and I'm like, I'm not too sure about
41:09
those. In the middle, it's all it's all tasty goodness. Yes,
41:13
Michael, So my top five were regarding Margie Simpson's Christmas stories, Kiss Kiss
41:17
Bang Bangalore, Marge's sun Poisoning, and the seemingly never ending story. What
41:22
were yours mine were home ass Pfternity Coot, the Last or the Red Hot
41:24
Red Hat Mummers, the Italian Bob Treehouse of Horror sixteen. Sorry, I've
41:29
got to come up with a new one. Yeah, kissss ban Bangalore.
41:31
Well you want to throw a semily never any story in there, I'll tell
41:37
you what I thought You're five were and see if you'll pick any of these
41:38
ones. All right, So I thought You're five were going to be the
41:39
Italian Bob home ass Paternity Coot. I thought you had a semiingly never ending
41:44
story as well. I also thought, even though you don't like really,
41:46
I thought you would have put my fair Laddy in there, the musical one.
41:50
And I thought you might have a Laddy in for you. Yeah,
41:52
oh okay, yep, I thought you might have put in the monkey suitcase.
41:55
I know you like the whole Leasa versus Guide court case. I think
42:00
I must be quite selfish because I put both me and my fair lady and
42:04
the monkey suit in yours. Someone projecting there, I really good for you.
42:13
I don't think I got anyway. But I also made one that was
42:15
a bit of a joke. One What Did You Pay? Five? I
42:20
put Homers Paternity Coop, My Fair Laddy Tree, House of Horror, the
42:22
Monkey Suit, and Homer Simpson This is Your Wife. I'm sorry. That
42:29
was just me being such high hopes for the episode, which is probably while
42:31
I was so disappointed. But man, that was so it just didn't work
42:36
that one, did it? That was almost an all time low. Yeah,
42:38
it was just you're trying to see, like Ricky Gervais, it's weird.
42:44
He feels like his comedy feels like a real time capsule, you know
42:47
what I mean. It was like a period there where he was like the
42:50
latest craze kind of thing, you know what I mean. And like,
42:52
I guess if you watched the episode at the time, it might have felt
42:55
somewhat cool and relevant, but man, watching it twenty twenty three, you're
42:59
just like, this isn't this isn't happening. This is like, yeah,
43:02
this is not salt and pepper, This is salt and something else. This
43:06
is a sault. Yeah, yeah, because I mean, I mean he's
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clearly kept working and I mean a lot of people are fans of his other
43:15
staff beyond the office. I mean, people like Derek, and they like
43:19
Afterlife, and they like extras a lot, which we don't mind extra something
43:23
extra's pretty good. I mean, I can't say I've been too mad on
43:27
anything else that he's put together. But he's managed to stay in the public
43:31
eye and in the sort of collective consciousness for him a fair whack at times.
43:37
That show, that talk show he had where he got belittled, Oh
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yeah, man, that is awkward television. Get the one with Gary Shandling.
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Yeah yeah. You watch it, You're like, oh man, he
43:47
is breaking this guy. Like there was one point where you can tell he's
43:51
trying to be cool. After he's like you didn't get me one, okay,
43:53
I didn't wantin any way, or something like that, and Gary Shandling's
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like, what would you say? It's like, oh man, that joke
43:58
felt real flat. It's like watching a stand up committee just bomb on stage
44:04
time and time againist you can you can feel the sweat through the screen.
44:09
The dreadful flopshet. We mentioned Jimmy Fallon a bit earlier, and there's a
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there's been a clip going around because these two people have been sort of talked
44:17
about recently Fallon because you know, there are all these reports that are like,
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oh he's a nightmare to work with and oh my show his dream is
44:25
rule because of Jimmy fall and the other one the other guy's Martin Short,
44:30
because there was seen a lot of talk about him, But what's actually happen?
44:35
What's going on? Online magazine Slate to publish this essay called it was
44:39
something like what's the deal with Martin Shawt or whatever? And it was basically
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like two thousand words saying I'm not a fan of Martin Short and here's why.
44:46
And it had a very click baity kind of headline, and the central
44:51
premise was Martin Short any good? Really? And you know, basically everyone
44:57
sort of said, yes, he is a neuro fuck with. There were
45:00
a few people and look, I'll count myself among them. Was sort of
45:04
going into secret messages saying the guy actually had a point, and you know,
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you know, if you read the whole thing, he's sort of like
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he's not saying Martin Short completely sucks. He's like he made a lot of
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cringe products. And and the thing of it is, for a while there,
45:16
I mean, there's a lot of stuff with Martin Short that's kind of
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like ran and in a bit dude, or you're not right for this.
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But he's also done a lot of really great stuff. So that's why people
45:25
were sort of talking about Martin Short. But there's other thing came up of
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footage of Steve Martin and Martin Short on Fallon's Late Night Show, and Martin
45:34
Short's comedy is kind of a bit can be a bit snarky, which is,
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you know, he seems like he's trick because he seems like it's a
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sweet little guy, but I feel like he's he's one of those comedians where's
45:46
his stick is too belittle. It's kind of like seems like he's thing like
45:51
his fake arrogance kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah, well, I mean
45:53
he's got his character Jimminy Glick, who's this celebrity reporter who you know,
45:58
just insults everyone that he into views. But I think you said something like
46:00
the family is like the reason I love coming on your show is like no
46:06
one does phone in us better. You know you you're so phony, but
46:09
you're so good at it and you can't tell. I was like, is
46:13
this really how he feels about Fallon or is he just sort of doing that
46:15
thing where he's like, you suck, but yeah, we're all we're all
46:17
mates here, So anyway, I found that kind of funny but also a
46:23
little cringey in the in the in the in the Shandling Gervais kind of fashion.
46:30
Yeah, the whole thing, apparently is just that Jimmy Fallon not funny
46:34
and a horrible person. I'm just like, you know, so what you're
46:36
all about his interviewing style. I'd never get the whole They ruined my dream
46:40
of working in Cannaby and in this like get fucked, go cry somewhere I
46:49
wrote on Twins like Falon's cruel, right, it sound like, you know,
46:52
ninety percent wieners. They really, I mean a scream a screams.
47:01
I couldn't make it on my own, so I'm gonna try and bring someone
47:05
else down with me that they're the reason I never made it because they're so
47:07
mean to me. Like yeah, it's like, oh my god, imagine
47:10
if these guys have had to work with Johnny Carson or even Letterman or something
47:17
like that. Can you imagine, Like, yeah, thick skin doesn't exist
47:21
anymore. I think it doesn't and I don't want to sound like the kids
47:27
they have got it too solid, but you know, it's just it's just
47:30
now they've got the best frustrations. Where in the in the eighties and the
47:32
nineties, it was just you just shut up and did your job. Where
47:35
now it's like, I'm going to put my phone in my pocket and tell
47:37
the world what's really happening anyway. Nothing, that's actually season seventeen of The
47:44
Simpsons. I am going to give this out of five doughnuts. I'm going
47:49
to give this season passing three, Like I feel like it just sort of
47:57
scrapes into the three for me. Yeah, I think if we run the
48:00
numbers and we do the aggregation, Yeah, three doughnuts out of five sounds
48:04
about right. And maybe a little bite of that fourth, don't Yeah,
48:07
just just like a clean little bit, a few sprinkles, maybe just a
48:09
few little sprinkles here and there. Yeah, I'd love yeah, run run
48:14
your finger over the icing and well delighted. But I'd love to hear what
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you guys think is the top five episodes of season seventeen. So please get
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in touch with us Simpson's mailbag at gmail dot com or if you're anything else
48:25
you want to send us a message about, please do so. We do
48:28
love to hear from each and every one of you. Do rid all the
48:30
email so Simpson's Mailbag at gmail dot com. We'll get answering Nat. Now,
48:34
mister Davis, of course, it is time for us to draw out
48:37
the winner of the Guy David's New End Championship wild Card draw for season seventeen.
48:40
I've thrown all the names into a randomizer. Took me about ten minutes,
48:44
but I finally did it. And right we're gonna click here three I'm
48:46
gonna be three two one. I'm going to click at the winner, right,
48:49
three two one. It's randomizing and stop. Hey, it's our man,
48:54
Mark Boston Burgess. He's won this season. Mark Boston Burgess is the
48:58
winners and yeah, is the winner of the Did he win it last season
49:01
as well? I can't remember now I hope it didn't. We shall find
49:07
out this randomize all that random it's not randomizing much at all, but yeah,
49:13
and you know, maybe it's just his name is really long. Who
49:14
knows, Mark Boston Burgess by you've won again this season, as we say,
49:20
Luke McKay, you've done it again. Mark Boston Burgess. You've done
49:22
it again. All right, mister Davis, this has been our season seventeen
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wrap up. You're about to say something. Is there anything else you want
49:28
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49:35
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49:39
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50:20
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