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Simpsons Christmas Stories (S17E09) · Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

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Dana. One thing still bugging me? Why didn't you ever come back to
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pick me up? I kept putting it off, and then I was just
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too embarrassed. Sorry, I never called him. I was too busy with
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my fifteen Native wives. Fifteen that sounds like a lot of sex, I
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said, wives, not girlfriends. Four Finger Discounted. Welcome to Fourfinger Discount,
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the podcast where we certainly do not have an annual tradition to commit suicide
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at Christmas time. This week we hit the review episode jb F zero one.
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It is Simpson's Christmas Stories. I am Dando and I am Guy and
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speak for yourself, Dan, No, No, that's not true. Life
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is worth living, especially when you've got a really good episode of The Simpsons
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to talk about. Because I enjoyed this immensely. This was a very very
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very early Christmas gift in April. I was so surprised because I went into
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this going it's another one of those trilogies where they just take off old stories
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that no one gives a shit about. I mean that not only gives a
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shit about Jesus. That's I didn't know what stories are going to be,
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but I thought they're gonna be you know how we had those stories where it's
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though on that train with the with the hobo and it was always oldest Oh
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my, no one cares about that, the non cannon or whatever. But
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this just felt to me like a Simpsons Christmas variety hour. You had a
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good mix of everything. You had the retelling of of the Jesus Birth,
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you had the random like you original story with Santa and Burns and grand but
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then you just had like to take on the Nutcracker at the end like a
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little musical. It was such a good blend of just variety. I thought
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it was really fun. I was really impressed with this episod. I was
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really surprised by this episode because I think I went in exactly the same way
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as you, thinking yawn. I think that was the word that was bringing
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my life. I'm gonna have to treasure there is and it's going to be,
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you know, really run of the mill Christmas Eve kind of stuff.
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But no, they showed a fair bit of imagination, a fair bit of
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ingenuity. Yeah, everyone seemed to get folded in in really interesting ways.
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Yeah. I know, I had a really good time with this one,
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so I didn't realize each segrement also had its own title. So the first
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one was the First Doel, the second was I Saw Grandpa cussing Sandy Clause,
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and the third one was the Nutcracker Sweet as opposed to sweet, which
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comes across more like a South part title of he asked me. But yeah,
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I just enjoyed the really, like you said, original, It was
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not that its went and got right, here's the tale. Let's just replace
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the carriages with Simpsons, with Simpson's characters. No, like this, they
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had the original story in the middle of the end was it was a take
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on the Nutcracker, but it was also Simpson. I the point where it
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was like very What I liked about the most of it, because the final
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sevement was my favorite. Where I like the most about that was it just
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really captured Christmas, even Springfield, and I really like that. I get
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where you're coming from, certainly because well everyone knows that Dando and the Christmas
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season go hand in hand, frolicking down the lane. I haven't named my
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daughter Holly. Was that the reason for Christmas? It wasn't. We just
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liked the name Holy. Yeah, just like a lovely name, and he's
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a lovely little girl, so they fit together nicely. I'm very impressed with
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what you said about like a variety hour, because that's what it felt like
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that in a good way. I mean shows like say The Brady Bunch,
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or things that had like a cast of your frenzy like you, I'd like
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to hang out with all the family that's better than yours that you like to
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watch on TV would do things like that. I feel like seventies TV Special,
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didn't it. That's yeah, that's exactly what I mean by that,
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And especially with the first segment, the whole retelling of the Birth of Jesus,
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That's exactly what it felt like to me. And I love the way
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how they sort of they really seamlessly and cleverly folded in all your favorite characters
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and in ways that made sense as well. Yeah, I mean, whether
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it's Burns being King Herod or Chief Wigham being sort of the head of the
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Roman soldiers who were doing his dirty work, everything seemed to work quite nicely.
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And no, it's just very very It gave me a warm little blow.
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My favorite segment, however, was the middle one. I enjoyed that
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a lot. That was also very I just like the fact that it was
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an original story now part of the Aller. Jean says that he wishes at
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the end of that segment they didn't have the bit with Santa fe back into
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the real world like and present day. He would just ended with the with
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the watch because it would have been more sentimental. But yeah, the end
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of that was one of my favorite moments. I'd love the wives bit that
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I just thought, just your classic you know, you know there must be
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a lot of sex, I said, wives, not girlfriends. We did
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an episode of Speaking of the Hill recently where Hank and the guy in the
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music shot we're talking about making jokes about the wife. I never do it,
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but it's just, you know, it's just your classic husband gag,
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the whole ball and changing. I can't recall ever having done it him.
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No neither, no no reason too. We have no reason to do.
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We We have lovely ladies at home. I think we're just SAPs. We
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are. But thank you all guys for chutting to the show this week.
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my favorite. But what were your favorite moments from from Simpsons Christmas Stories?
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Mister Davis, Well, if we're talking about the first segment, now,
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forgive me, I'm the first duel. First of all. Yes,
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I'm trying to get my memory sharpened. Yes, I'm pretty sure that you
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remember the first segment. Say it probably they please the first all right?
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I was initially like because there was a pretty dopey slash lazy gag about I'm
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trying to watch the Orange Bowl and he's watching the Bowl of Oranges. I'm
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like, that's not that great. Then almost immediately after that, Homer realizes
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that baby Jesus slash Bart is into a bit of the old physical comedy,
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and we go into a bit of a three Stooges riff, and I just
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laughed a hell of a lot more than maybe I should have had. Oh
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wise man ee. And then they go to the Stooges sort of antics,
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which I thought was great. I just like, oh wise man eye.
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But not too long after that, they're talking about well people use it as
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a an exclamation or not, maybe not a curse. But you know,
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when you're something you're first about Jesus, Mary and Joseph to fold it into
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the line of like, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, what a great family
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unit. I just liked it. It felt great. It felt like just
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a you could you could feel the good will in the writer's room. When
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that, when that was sort of jotted down, I was like, you
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did well there, Yeah, yeah, it didn't feel forced. It all
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organic. Yeah. Yeah. Now I'm trying to think what I am enjoyed
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in the next one. I'm sorry, I saw Santa cussing. I saw
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clause I think I mean it is I saw grabbed by cussing Santa Claus is
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what it's called me. Yes, Listeners of our various programs will know that
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one thing that brings joy to Guy's cold black heart, that makes it increase
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three sizes, and not just via cholesterol, is fight his vice. Love.
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It can't get enough of hearing fight his vis and just about any context
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that's that's great. So when when Grandpa's brother Cyrus, who you know we
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have not heard from and we will never hear from again after this story,
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Cannon, just when he popped up and his like time to go fat in
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the Pacific, Yeah, just give me a little bit more that that's great.
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Um. Yeah, so I enjoy that very much. And um,
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I don't know, I guess we can blow the ending. I'm sure that
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anyone who watched who's listening to this podcast will have watched this episode, but
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just the very listen to this podcast and you don't, and you aren't aware
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that we spoiled the episodes. By this point you might want to rethink your
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priority. Yeah, but just the very end of the what was it?
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Sorry? The nutcaker of the nutwork is sweet. Yes, um, I
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think both you and I in recent episodes when we're talking about season seventeen and
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maybe a little earlier of The Simpsons, like, oh, it's such a
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dick, You're always getting it wrong. You don't deserve Marge all this kind
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of stuff. And when it comes to the very end where oh my,
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I haven't got Marge to Christmas present, and he sort of runs around.
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He now, he's doing his best. He's a fine one for yeah,
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but it's just not working out, and he finally has to come home a
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bit ashamed. Luckily, Marge knows her husband well enough that he probably would
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forget to get her a present, so his so Marge's gift to Homer is
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a gift for Homer to gift to Marge. And just the picture of it,
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you know, the picture in the box of Homer in a Santa Claus
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outfit and Marre just looking stoked to be sitting on his laps like this is
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apex Homer and Marges. You know, this is how the relationship should be.
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It's how any relationship should be. Everyone should have. You know,
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if you've got someone in your life, hopefully you've got a photo of the
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two of you where you look at you're looking at and go, oh,
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yeah, that's that's us. That's that's how we should be. And I
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don't know. I just I had a smile on face and I won't denied
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a slight tear in my eye. Yes, I hundred percent agree. And
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it was It was interesting because normally, if Homer forgets a present for Marge,
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right, we'd be like, oh, what a shitty husband. But
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the difference here was I feel like in other episodes he would have just gone,
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oh, well next time, but he was. He was ashamed.
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He raced out, he tried to find the present, and when he got
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home he was embarrassed and he thought, oh god, I can't believe I've
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done this to her. And then she gives him the present and it's just
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like it was just so wholesome, and it's like, ah, I know
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there will be some attractors out and say, oh, he was a shit
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husband for getting in the first place. The way it all played out,
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I really liked it. I think the message you take away from it is
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you'd be fortunate if you if you have a partner who knows you better than
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you know yourself. Yes, yes, they're a good team, and it's
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like, oh, yeah, they are a good team. I wish we
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had more good team margin Homer, but not the Homer that we've been getting.
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It goes to show they can still do it. So why are you
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doing this? But what did you enjoy? What were your favorite? Just
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one more thing that that final segment, the Nutcracker segment that felt like Golden
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ear a Simpsons Don't You Reckon? I honestly felt it felt like every gag
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worked, everyone was there for a reason. It was just it was the
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best of season seventeen so far. I reckon this this episode. I would
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have to agree with you on that. I mean, like I said,
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your favorite segment was the last one. My favorite was the second one.
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But the second one also felt I mean, and so did the first one.
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It really felt like this wouldn't be out of place in season eight nine
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ten. Yeah, it really, but I enjoyed so that no one will
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ever speak or right of this. Again, that's like it's the obvious gag,
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But sometimes the obvious gags are the ones that worked the best. Cirrus
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with his wives at the end, I said, wives, not girlfriends,
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and I really enjoyed for I know you don't like really, but I loved
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the dream sequence where you know, he's carving a turkey with the family pans
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out. He's actually asleep in his shack pans out. He isn't drunken together.
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That was okay, that's good use of Willie. Yeah, and they're
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so frequent, you know, often there's bad use of Willie, usually in
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my place. Anymore brain busters? All right, it's time for the blockbuster
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brainbuster, mister Davis. Okay, original this episode was December eighteenth, two
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thousand and five. What do you think so number one? I believe I've
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already had mentioned this last week Number one King Kong that was on the top
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three last week. Chronicles Narnia is still in number two, number three,
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that was a new one. And the clue for you is Keaton. Keaton
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at the end of two thousand and five. Okay, then I'm trying to
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Yeah, I'm casting my mind back to two thousand and five. And naturally,
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if we're thinking of Keaton, we tend to think of Michael Keaton,
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don't we Yes, But I don't think I don't think he had anything high
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profile out around this time, So we must go to another Keaton, the
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second most famed Keating, although who opinion is very unless something to do with
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Diane Keaton. I'm sure now I was thinking, is it? I was
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trying to think when did the romantic comedy Something's Got to Give come out with
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her and Jack Nicholson. I'm not too sure that I think it might have
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been before two thousand and five. But what's what's what I'm thinking of?
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That has Um that he won the Oscar for that's as good as it's get.
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That's because they gets. That's what I'm thinking of. Yeah, and
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that was Nactually that was like ninety seven on ninety eight or something. Um.
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Also it also started Sarah Jessica Parker. I think I know what you're
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talking about. I think I know what you're talking about. This is one
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of those movies that's been reclaimed recently. As you know, you tend to
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do when you're twenty years down the line, you know what's really good that
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movie, and people who were there at the time go, it's not not
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that good and you were four when it came out, or you know.
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In this case, I think imagine, I imagine that a few people were
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like teenagers or something like that and going, oh, well, it's a
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it's a startlish, grown up romantic comedy, and I can really relate to
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this character. This movie is called The Family Stone. It is indeed,
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yes, am I right? You are? Indeed, so you don't recognize
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that good I remember seeing it and hating it. Hating it. Yeah,
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I think it's meant to be a kind of not anti romantic comedy. But
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it's like all these characters are complicated and flawed, and it's like, now
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these characters are annoying. Okay, I don't like being around any of them.
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But it is one of those movies where occasionally you'll see people on Twitter
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or social media going Christmas time, Time for the Family Stone. It's like,
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well, no, it's time for a lump of and you're stocking.
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What's a good movie? Like Elf? Next question? You there eating the
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How fun was that, mister Davis. That was pretty red in Ye
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I knew bff Jeff Loveness. Loveness love more and something we should say.
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Yeah, that was great chat. We was so so thrilled to get the
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the episode Bark gets hit by a car. We died pretty deep into it
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and mind a few diamonds and gold nuggets, I reckon. Yeah, what's
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interesting about that if you haven't listened to the interview yet, was that that
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was a nice episode. It was indeed, Yeah, I really captured the
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Christmas Because we've had a couple of Christmas episodes in the last few seasons.
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I felt like this one truly captured the Christmas vibe, didn't it? What
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you? Yeah, I mean, what's the aspirational Christmas? Zybe? I
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mean, of course we're you know, damn under here in Australia, we
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have warm Christmas. I think growing up, you know, popular cultures to
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teach you you know what's nice from Christmas? Cuddling up warm sweater's, a
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chest that's roasting on an open fire, all that kind of stuff, And
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I don't know, this gave you that warm and cuddly vibe. Well,
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it really, like you were saying earlier about the seventies variety shows, it
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felt like the kind of show you would have sat down with the family in
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nineteen seventy seven and watched this, you know, season's Christmas special and just
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for a little time, just for a half an hour or so, you
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can stop being at each other's throats exactly. Yeah, yeah, just enjoy
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the Christmas feeling together? All right, what's your first question for me?
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When the Roman soldiers are charging in on the major What gospel is being written?
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Who was writing a gospel at that stage? Ah? Was it Michael?
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It was Matthew, Matthew Matthew. See, I'm not a religious person.
19:48
I just I've never read I'm assuming you've read the Bible. I've never
19:51
read the Bible, not from cover to cover. No, some people read
19:55
it all the time. They can just quote pages. I'm just like,
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hey, that's what you want to do, go for a I just I've
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never done it. Yeah, I've always I've always thought that I am an
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idiot for not doing I've always thought of thought, surely everyone, at some
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point, every mature adult has at least flipped through the Bible. No,
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I'm not. I'm not laughing. It's got I would just love that.
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Yeah, I don't know anyone who's read the laugh. Yeah. I know.
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You were raised quite religiously, though, aren't you. Oh No,
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not really. We went to church every Sunday. But I mean it's not
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like we were saying grace at every meal or anything like that. It was
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just like it's Sunday, We're going to church. Otherwise we're going to hell.
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Yeah, okay. My first question is what was the type of battery
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in them? In a special that was the Energizer Ultra It was indeed,
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yes, oh so cold. What's your next one? You may have been
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watching with the subtitles on this all you have to be in a ficionado of
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nineties, not in thirties big band music. But what is the tune that
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plays when Saris opens his watch. That's a American tale, Five of the
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that's five of the Jewish Mouse. No, that's it's actually American patrol patrol
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and it was it was American something. It was American woman. Yes,
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who was who was it by Glenn Miller? Glenn Miller? That's right.
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Yes. My next question is which to reindeer go missing? Is it Donna
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in Blitzen? No, well he I think he yells those ones at the
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start, but it's the one that's a star. And yeah, when I
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was looking through my notes before we were doing this, I'm like, there
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were the other two reindeer, and one of them is Rudolph I never much,
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and I've forgotten the other one. It's not Donna a Blitzen because that's
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what we just mentioned, not comment Prancer. Of course, Prance is gonna
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go missing that guy's flighty. What is the name of Burns's gal back home,
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Adette? That is Bernardette. Yeah. I thought that segment just worked
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in a sense that it almost like it was just a callback to you know,
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the Healthish episode, wasn't it? Burn Yeah? Yeah, I really
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like that. My next question for you is what was on the tie that
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Bart was going to buy for Homer one of your questions. You're looking at
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your smiling bets. It's wide load. Yeah, I like that. Yeah,
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we have one more in each in I've got one more, pretty easy
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one. But you know, do you have any more? Fore before?
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I got one more for me. If you want me, let me throw
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it at you. And it's actually that who was throwing snowballs at at Krusty's
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crotch? Oh shit, I just assumed it was kids in the audience.
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Who was it? It was Martin Luther King Junior and astronaut John Glenn,
22:45
so they laugh. Were they throwing the snowballs or were they just guests?
22:48
I thought that I was just guests. I thought that was ah okay.
22:52
Well, as they say on game shows what Wow, I failed completely But
22:59
anyway, but really maybe maybe they were. Maybe I'm wrong, because that
23:02
would be hilarious if the other one there's a shipload of snowballs. It wasn't
23:07
deep And yeah, I wouldn't put it past one of the great civil rights
23:10
leaders at our time and you know, one of the pioneering astronauts. But
23:12
maybe not. And my final question is what does it say on Mo's little
23:18
chest plate? He writes a note tag? Is it? I was about
23:22
to say no organs for you, but I think it's no one gets my
23:23
organs. Yes, so, wasn't it. There's no reason to live but
23:29
reasonly but no one gets his organs though, So look, it runs a
23:33
very close second beyond the all time you know um of of Mo's suicide notes.
23:40
No funeral, no funerals. That's the greatest, isn't it. That's
23:44
such, that's that's just a meme before memes were even a thing. Just
23:49
the other no funeral, brilliant. That's always pique moly Because I'm like,
23:59
I'm usually down on like, you know, gags about committing suicide things like
24:02
that, but sometimes I just work they really do. And I mean,
24:06
this is a. This reminded me of an earlier time, a time when
24:12
I'm gonna t I'm gonna phrase this incorrectly or inelegantly, but when people were
24:17
less hung up on suicide or there were more gags about it. But essentially
24:21
those gags always had the resolution like life, life is actually worth living.
24:26
Yeah, you know, they sort of made fun of or made line of
24:29
the factor like most we'll just you know, have a noose or walk into
24:33
traffic or something like that. People still say it, but sometimes some people
24:37
say it now he's just like my lettle life of that. Yeah, here
24:41
sort of doomers all the times ago kill me, I want to do well.
24:45
We we had, we had the show just shoot Me. I think,
24:47
as we mentioned where we discussed it in the past, Yeah, precisely.
24:49
I mean, yeah, this was a prime time sitcomy. You would
24:52
just he was so fed up with your life. He wanted to someone to
24:55
just shoot you. But but what was your point going to be? Don't
24:57
tuck your point? Did you get you? Did you get you? Oh
24:59
no, no, I think I got it out that the not very well.
25:03
Clearly, the resolution of such gags was always oh no, no,
25:11
no, Life's actually worth living. What I liked about this too was that
25:17
Christmas isn't necessarily always a happy time for everybody, you know, so there
25:21
is the element of people who feel alone and sad and down during the holidays
25:25
when they set everybody else so happy and with their families. So it made
25:27
sense to include that as well, you know, like, yeah, it
25:30
was morbid, but it's also what happens at Christmas time. Unfortunately, they're
25:33
right, but there is a segment of the people of the community out there
25:37
that don't like Christmas for those reasons. To those folks, we say,
25:41
give it a week or so, the whole New year is going to kick
25:44
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25:47
fine. Well ye oh yeah, that's implied. Interestingly, this is the
25:52
three hundred and sixty fifth episode of The Simpsons, right, which means that
25:55
now you have an episode of four Finger Discount for every single day the year,
26:00
so you can listen to an entire year's worth, one per day.
26:03
I mean, we've got other episodes when we skipped forward and things like that,
26:04
but if you if you go in chronological order, we've got from if
26:07
you start on day one, Simpsons Christmas Special, you know all the way
26:11
through. It's not funny. It starts with the Simpsons Christmas Special and end
26:15
at the end of the year with the Simpsons Christmas Stories. You'd think they'd
26:18
have that in mind. It's almost like it was planned. Yeah, it's
26:22
odd had that happened, But I thought it was quite an interesting anyway.
26:25
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27:15
into a review of Simpson's Christmas Stories. The original air date was December eighteenth,
27:18
two thousand and five. It was written by Don Payne and Don Payne
27:22
I believe was nominated for an Emmy for this, but he lost to the
27:26
Italian Bob. Another fun episode of The Simpsons had a couple of games back
27:30
to back. They're on the way up season seventeen. They're on an upswing
27:34
the Yeah, they've found a little updraft and there, and they're taking advantage
27:37
of it. If I had to choose, if I was on the Emmy
27:41
voting, committeds one this one. Yeah, precisely. This one has far
27:45
more rewatch value than I feel the last one. This one I feel like
27:48
you can put on. I would watch this happily at Christmas time. Now,
27:52
this is one I've forgotten Christmas episode for me. Yeah, I think
27:55
everyone's got their little grab bag of Christmas entertainment. Yes, Christmas go to
28:00
that you have to watch every year because it just makes you feel all warm
28:03
and fuzzy inside. Yeah, I would happily put this on the bench.
28:07
Ye, it felt like that variety of that. I like to watch a
28:10
Christmas time. It's funny, what what is? What is it for you?
28:11
For me? And I've watched it every year without fail since I was
28:15
a kid. I've sw at the VHS tape. It's just that the tape,
28:18
it's silly and he goes for about thirty five minutes or so, but
28:22
it's the Hannah Barbara Christmas sing Along video. But it's just evide. It
28:26
turns on it's Hannah Barbara. It's Hannah and Barbara. What are their names?
28:30
I can't what their actual names are, like something, Hey, Hannah
28:33
Barbara, Hannah and Hannah Barbara. That's exactly right, yes, But they're
28:37
sitting there kind of like Trey Parker and Matt Stone in the in the South
28:41
Park Introy videos. It's like kids, hey, going but they buy the
28:45
Christmas tree, like welcome to the Hannah Barbara Christmas Special and it's just it's
28:48
so wholesome. But you can now find it on YouTube, so I was
28:52
watching it via YouTube these days, but I'm still at the VHS tape.
28:55
But that that's my go to every year I have to watch that. Do
28:56
you have like a go to every year that you have to watch? There
29:00
were there were a few I actually got, well, not Christmas Christmas,
29:06
but last Christmas. I did a back to back of your die Hard.
29:10
But it had been a while since I watched die Hard. I felt it
29:12
was going to be die Hard. Well yeah, I mean, but I'm
29:15
well, I think we've almost reached that event a horizon where you know,
29:19
for a while it was like, oh, die Hard's your favorite Christmas movie?
29:22
Here, Edgy good one, and now we've sort of gone even beyond
29:26
that where if you say that, people go, no, it's Christmas.
29:32
So I watched that and yeah, of course it's die Out. It's for
29:34
life, it's not just for Christmas. But then I double featured that with
29:37
The First Lethal Weapon, which is also a Christmas movie. I was like,
29:42
this is great late eighties, you know, gun play, people smoking
29:48
indoors. Yeah, so that was great. But a regular that I have
29:55
is a UK telemovie called Bernard and the Genie. Okay, I think it
30:00
was written by Richard Curtis, you know, the King of UK rom coms,
30:04
the Man behind Four Weddings, in a funeral does yeah said he does
30:10
not in Hill Yeah Yeah, yeah yeah, And it stars Alan Cumming as
30:15
a young man named Bernard who works as like a a personal assistant to this
30:22
rich tycoon played by Rowan Atkinson, who's just an absolute prick and a total
30:26
scrooge of a dude who you know, takes pleasure in. It's very much
30:29
a Burns and Smithers kind of relationship. And Bernard, you know, he's
30:33
a bit of a sad sack, but he finds he finds this magic lamp.
30:37
He gives it a rub and pops his genie. Played by the great
30:40
stand up comedian and actor Lenny Henry Um. He's been in the in the
30:45
in the Lamp for something like two thousand years. He used to hang out
30:48
with Jesus back in the day. And he's a bit of a character and
30:51
he makes life better for Bernard in ways that are both fun and troublesome.
30:57
It's it's great and it's it's all someone usually but I believe he can find
31:00
So it goes for about an hour or so. It's very very funny and
31:03
it's very very sweet. It's a Christmas special. It is indeed, Wow,
31:08
No No, it's it's Christmas Eve. Okay, I've never ever heard
31:11
of that. That sounds and it's like an all star cast. It's really
31:15
great. Yeah. I think it's early two thousands or late nineties. Okay,
31:18
yeah, I'm surprised. I've never heard of that. I'm going to
31:21
be looking it up. You said it's on YouTube, right, I believe
31:23
si. Let's you keep talking. I'm just going to look on my phone
31:26
for a sure. Where were we up to do? We even we'll talk
31:30
about Don Payne. Were just about the start directed by Stephen Dean Moore as
31:33
well the couch gag. There's no chalk Gate, but the couch gag was
31:36
out in the Springfield shopper comes up and says, cotch gag thrills the nation.
31:40
I was surprised I didn't have a Christmas couch gag. I think it
31:41
just would have made sense. True. Yeah, yeah, But anyway,
31:45
So the episode kicks off at the church and it's a Christmas service and he
31:49
says, jeezus two thousand and five years young and love. George's running late.
31:53
No one knows where he is home. He is jealous of the who
31:56
are the Episcopalians because compellions a. Yeah, they've got a nice flaky Eucharist,
32:01
and yeah, mam would really love to dip his hands into their fond
32:06
some nice saucy gags in this one, some rye ball You love your rye
32:09
baard gags, don't you? Yes, doesn't everyone indeed, So he calls
32:14
up Flanders. He calls Flanders on the phone. First you know, Christ
32:15
is born, who who's on the horn? And then you realized that the
32:19
trash the train has crashed. He loves his model trains. We ain't see
32:22
enough of love Joy's train models. I don't reckon because it's like a it's
32:24
a passion of here is that I've always got a kick out of. You
32:28
think they could just have it in the background every one, so just you
32:30
know, just to refresh our memories like this. Dude likes trains. Yeah,
32:32
and it's funny when people have things like this. It's they it's they
32:36
get away, so you never bother them when they're doing things like this.
32:38
But yes, the trains have crashed, so many ruined Christmases or whatever.
32:42
He says. Yeah, I don't know if it's sorry little sidetracking. Yeah,
32:46
it's one of the funniest things I've and sweetest things that I've seen.
32:51
Um, the singer Rod Stewart. Don't make people know who Rod Steward is,
32:54
but you know if you grew up in my areas, like Rod Steward's
32:58
that guy who likes to know bone all those models. Yeah, I live
33:00
the high life and all that kind of stuff. Then you're seeing them.
33:02
He's like, check out my model train care. He's got this massive one
33:07
that he's spent like twenty years building. And you're like, he's this globetrotting
33:10
rock star who's head, you know, more sex than a hundred other people.
33:15
Combine with glamorous ladies and it's like, love, I'm just going to
33:19
go down to the Why am I giving him a Cockney accent? He's Scottish.
33:23
You'd been doing a groundskeeper willing. He's like, I'm going to go
33:27
down to the down to the cellar and play with my trains at It sounds
33:30
like a great time to me. Yeah, And people are so passionate about
33:35
too, because when I was mons on morns of wild Man just to help
33:37
make ends meet when we first launched out the four figure Descent network, Yeah
33:42
I am there was a guy who subscribe, Yes, said a guy.
33:44
I had a train model thing in the background, right in the back garage,
33:47
and I made the mistake of asking him. He was like, you
33:50
want to see it? And I was like, oh yeah, sure,
33:52
I should never have said that, Honestly, guy, I just couldn't get
33:54
out of me. Hours later, Holy shit, he's gone through all these
33:59
trains and I'm like, it's cool, but I'm like, I've got shit
34:01
to do. Bate, but like, it's just this old guy, and
34:05
you know, he really lived by himself. I'm like, I'm going to
34:07
humor hi because he's clearly passionate about this. He doesn't get to show it
34:09
off enough. Go for it, mate, you know, and it made
34:13
his day. But that's that's very nice of you, man. But he
34:17
he asked ned to do the service, and depically he's not going to make
34:21
it. So he feels like he feels like he's born again again. And
34:23
he gets up papercut, faints the blood and then we get I've got here.
34:28
Though. The only annoying thing was this was like, it shows the
34:30
crowd again, Barney, Lenny, Carl whatever, there's a group shot.
34:37
Now they're the same. He got those three together and then has to chime
34:40
into something bring up the file. Yeah, I didn't enjoy Homer sayne,
34:45
does anyone need a hero? What if someone order a hero? He gets
34:49
up there, takes him. He does a good job. He doesn't fuck
34:51
it up. He really does, you know. Despite initial disruption from Squeaky
34:55
Boys team, Yeah, yeah, Homer's got a point. Bring back the
35:00
Horrible who was basically the Viking version of Homer. He tells the story of
35:02
the First Christmas. So Homer is, Joseph marches Mary and she's pregnant.
35:07
So who's the angel that least is playing? Is she just an angel?
35:10
Or does this angel have a name? I think just an angel. I'm
35:14
trying to recall who the angel that sort of delivered the good word, all
35:17
the all the bad news to uh Mary and Joseph was I want to say,
35:22
Gabriel. Okay, but I could be completely wrong. Mary, it's
35:29
not all She's full of quiet you Mary. You carry in your womb the
35:32
son of God who will grow up to become King of the Jews. Not
35:37
a doctor. Well, he will be able to heal the sick, but
35:40
nothing to hand the war and the Three Wise Men then arrived with gifts for
35:45
the for the king, but not this king for the newborn child. And
35:50
who's burns playing again with his name King Herod. King Herod yes, and
35:53
he's not impressive with this. He's very upset, and he says kings don't
35:57
hurt babies, but giant pointy swords will. Oh my, by the way,
36:00
it's time to ask an answer once again. We all know what gold
36:04
is, but what is frankinsense and mr Apparently if you combine those two elements
36:07
together you get a very nice sort of healing ointment. Someone's been on Wikipedia.
36:14
There you go. Well, thanks for the heads up with Now the
36:16
Bethlehem in which is run by moh, don't you worry. I got plenty
36:24
of rooms of my inn oh with brand new carpeting. I want to just
36:29
broke. You can have the barn and I feel free to come by the
36:32
main house for breakfast. There won't be any doctor Nick arrive Shalam everybody or
36:37
the animals say hello Toots Nick back to him. I've got to kick out
36:39
of the the Caesar gag here as well. Caesar just amended the Cesarean as
36:44
a sorry, get here in the fuck out of here. Then bart is
36:47
born, baby Jesus is born, I should say, and he's got the
36:51
Messiah's nose, not you the other one. And then Homer attempts to drink
36:54
some wine and bart fucks it up, doesn't he He does in day the
37:00
seeds of the eternal conflict planted right there. But look props to home.
37:06
Whereas Joseph, I mean Joseph's you know, he's the embodiment of that T
37:08
shirt that says I'm not the step dad, I'm the dad that's stepped up.
37:12
M Yes, he says he's gonna be a great family unit. As
37:15
she says, you know. First of all, though he starts choking him,
37:19
so you can't do that. List So you can't do that, because
37:20
he's going to be wait till he's thirty three, I believe, and he's
37:22
gonna be crucified for Jesus age. Yes. And then but he's crying or
37:28
a night, Jesus crying all night, and Joseph says, you know,
37:30
you can't help. He's watching the Orange Bowl. Then he realizes that that
37:34
pain a physical comedy makes him laugh. Reminder me, have you ever seen
37:37
Monsters inc? Of course, yes, there's a scene in Monsters inc where
37:40
he realizes that making When Mikey does play by Billy Crystal does physical comedy,
37:45
it makes her laugh, which generates more power obviously, but it reminded me
37:47
of that moment. It's very very similar. It's like, oh, this
37:51
is how this is how you laugh? You want you know, physical comedy
37:52
A and they do the three students routine that you mentioned earlier, and he
37:55
falls asleep, and this is where they're like, you know what, we're
37:58
going to be a nice family unit. Now is all going to work?
38:00
And then King Herod arrives Manger danger major danger and lose a little bit,
38:06
lose a little bit concerned. Are be sure you want to be like killing
38:07
a baby? You could look bad for us. I don't know I'll ever
38:09
speak or right of this again. And they follow the glow, but the
38:13
glow is unfortunately a duck put the halo on the duck and to stop the
38:17
army, Joseph cuts a tree and it rolls down and it knocks everyone over.
38:22
They get stuck to it and because of the flames and there's a duck
38:24
stern still on top of the halo, it appears like a Christmas tree.
38:29
Oh it worked for me. I liked it. Yeah, not a Haneker
38:31
bush, but a Christmas tree. Christmas tree, yes, not a Honeker
38:34
bush. Some people look at this and think that's pretty corny and obvious,
38:37
but I liked it. It made sense. But you like Christmas? Yeah?
38:40
I did like Christmas, Yes, but I did like the way there's
38:44
all wrapped up with Homer at the lecter and I'm saying, and that baby
38:47
Jeers grew up to be Jesus. WHOA, Yes, I don't know why.
38:55
I'm a suck of that line every every time it happens in the census,
38:59
you know, when they do the um like the old time radio thing,
39:01
Where was I and that little boy grew up to be Joe McCarthy whoa
39:10
Yeah, it makes me laugh every time. The second segment, which was
39:14
I Saw Grandpa cussing Santa, starts off with Barton Lisa watching the Crusty Christmas
39:19
Special. I'm mashooming and I think it was actually the Energizer Bunny Christmas Special.
39:23
Trusty was later in the in act three. Yes, watching the Energizer
39:28
Bunny Christmas Special ats right, and yeah, just ran a Christmas ship and
39:31
then Grandpa falls out of the Chimney sitting up a trap for Santa, and
39:36
he's like, well, what are you doing? What? Whyould you wanna
39:37
do that? And Barton regrets that follow up question because he goes on to
39:40
tell the story of how he is in World War two with his brother Cyrus,
39:44
who will never be mentioned again, and how Santa screwed him over.
39:47
I just, like I said, original story, and it worked to fit
39:51
the characters. Nothing seemed silly. It was very fun. It was indeed,
39:54
dandis having a model train flashbags at this moment, like a no,
40:00
don't ask him yes, don't ask for a story, don't make this old
40:02
man's day, make him feel lonely. I was a Navy pilot in the
40:07
Pacific alone with my big brother Cyrus. Cyrus, he never mentioned him before,
40:13
and I'll never mention him again, but I loved him all the same.
40:17
Okay, Hey, let's win this walk quick so we can go home
40:21
and slowly give black folks more rights. And then the chemic cars has arrived.
40:24
This is very similar to the bus that couldn't slow down. Gay,
40:28
Hey, it's those planes that crashed into the boat. What are they called
40:30
it? So Cyrus says, you know he's got his good luck charms,
40:35
so he'll be fine. He's good luck charm is the pocket watch and it
40:37
plays which songs to Davis plays American Patrol Blay the Glenn Miller Band. Yes,
40:43
unfortunately they get shut out of his hand. But good thing he sold
40:45
too off the dead soldiers. Burns is the lieutenant, so he's in the
40:50
back of the of the plane with Grandpa, and Grandpas does tell Cyrus and
40:52
he's got people tailing him and he's trying to look after himself. But Burns
40:57
is too busy talking to his old He's girl back home, Bernard. I
41:00
mean, if you're in the war and you finally get ahold of your girlfriend
41:01
back in America, you're gonna be talking to her, That's true. You
41:06
are going to be hogging the two way and you get a chance to speak
41:07
to your bear's gal. Do tell him radio my brother and tell him to
41:13
watch his tail. Quiet you, I'm talking to my best girl. I
41:16
miss you too, burning Into you hang up first, No, you hang
41:21
up first, No, you hang up first, No, you hang up
41:27
first. Russ, You'll pay for that, you high coop spouting savages.
41:46
Is there anything more annoying than no, you hang up, No, you
41:50
hang up. That's like I've never done that. I always hang up show
41:54
his boss. But the thing is, I remember being yeah, you know
42:00
it teenage you with the text messages, and I remember it was just like
42:02
good night and then others and say good night. It's like, is that
42:05
end of the conversation, whip? I supposed to say something back that's cute,
42:07
like what do I what do I do? What do I do?
42:10
This still happens to this day with me. I mean, you know,
42:14
there will be occasions when I will text the lovely Louise good night and she
42:17
will text back, and I want to leave it them. I'm going to
42:21
send one little love hearts on that, which would be saying I thought you
42:23
were going to sleep, Yes, stop bothering me, it's late, um.
42:29
And then then you delete your number new phone. Can you please do
42:35
that one time to Louise. I'd love to see the result. The point
42:42
Dando brings back Mitch because guys too clinically depressed. It's a podcast new hosts
42:47
who dis new host is Mitch, but then they unfortunately also get shot down.
42:55
They end up washed up on an island. Of course, you heard
42:59
what Grandpa's as he plumdered to I wish I tried refa. Was it correct?
43:04
Yes? I am. I like Grandpa taking charge here. It's good
43:07
seeing young Grandpa when he's not just this, you know, feeble old man.
43:10
He's virile. Yeah yeah, and Birds is trying to take control because
43:14
this, this and this fit the band's character. What lalah gagan and built
43:16
up fire. I don't have to listen to you and this island. Military
43:21
rank means nothing. We're in a state of nature where the strong of will
43:23
control the week. How dear you drown the king of New Burns Island.
43:32
How do you like to be the archduke jurge of Coconuts? So he says,
43:43
the Grandpa's taking charge, He's running the show here. Day's turned to
43:45
weeks, turned to months, turned back to days, back to this,
43:47
Yes, and then envisions Grandpa. I envisions bits of birds as a woman
43:52
eyes up here, soldier, that's um. That's by the way, World
43:55
War two era movie star and a blonde bombs Betty Grabel said she was OK.
44:01
Yeah, well that's she's meant to be. Sort of an iconic image
44:05
of Betty Grabel, who's renowned for her legs more than anything else. True,
44:13
there's a sort of an iconic image of her in a bathing suit and
44:15
she's gone her back to the back to the camera, but sort of looking
44:19
back over a shot. I shouldn't have done that while I'm recorded. She's
44:22
got looking back over her shoulder. Yeah, quite coquettishly. And I think
44:27
that helped these a lot of lonely nights for a lot of lonely guys during
44:30
w W I I I think the Simpsons have taken off that image quite a
44:35
bit. I think so. Yeah, you can tell the generation of of
44:40
early Simpsons writers. At least, I think there were probably a few a
44:44
few boomers in the writer's room. So their hopes of being rescued have faded.
44:47
Now it's Christmas Eve and they're just setting up the little They've got a
44:51
nice set up, now, haven't they. That's sort of the sort of
44:53
work they've conceded. Oh this might be it for us, So let's just
44:57
let's just make this work. And Burns gives him a he's offering, and
45:00
it's shaving cream, but which is made out of seagull brains and snail goo.
45:04
But at least this is mate given him something, you know, may
45:07
do it what they can. And then they hear something to hear something over
45:09
in the sky. What is it, mister Burns, I don't care,
45:12
it's Christmas. I want to shoot something, and he shoots it down.
45:14
They realized that Santa slay. This was I really like this. So he
45:16
yells out for the reindeer. Oh he's German. That's good eating. Well,
45:22
if you heard someone say Donner and blitz and you've been like, oh,
45:24
okay, yeah, that's definitely Germans, exactly, Yeah, it makes
45:27
sense. And this is where they promised to get the slave back up and
45:30
running for him or my name is not young grandpass shipson, and we get
45:34
the montages and fixing it up. Did you see the name of the sleigh,
45:37
the new name? They called it naughty or naughty or nice? Yes,
45:39
And then the reindeer is unfortunately, Rudolph has been eaten by a snake
45:44
and Pranter is missing as well, assumed also eaten by a snake. So
45:46
it Burns. Santa's about to leave and Burns backstabs him. I'm like,
45:51
ah, classy, Burns, He'll turn How did I see this coming?
45:54
I didn't see it coming. I was like, Oh, of course,
45:57
of course this is what's going to happen. The face turn would be more
46:00
sort of yeah, it's like what the hill turns, just natural. Burns
46:05
just waiting it out until he's right to the right moment, and bam,
46:07
the old cooking out in the head. He flies off with the sleigh and
46:13
Grandpa's human even let him spoon me, and then he jumps on the all
46:16
the reindeer tries to resascitate Santa first, but then he jumps on top of
46:20
him and flies. I like this action sequence. I've Grandpa riding the raindegain.
46:23
Yeah. So this apparently the action sequences in this episode were difficult to
46:28
animate, so the animated the background as one one first, and then they
46:31
did the foreground second. So Grandpa and the reindeer and mister Burns was animated
46:36
by itself and then put over the top of the background animated separately because it
46:39
was too hard. There's too many moving things in the background to go to
46:43
animated altogether, particularly the scene with the planes, because somebody planes flying in
46:46
the background. So they animated all the background planes and then animated the foreground
46:50
and blended them together. I think we can all agree that they came together
46:53
quite nicely. They did, indeed, yes, But so he shoots the
46:58
reindeer, but it doesn't have as much impact because it's not bleeding anything.
47:01
It's it's treating it like at the plants. It's like it's like it doesn't
47:06
really sort of go. You don't go, oh, poor reindeer, because
47:09
Grandpa eventually jumps off the reindeer, lands on burns and beats the shit out
47:13
of him with a tricycle. I want to say, tricycle with a trisycle.
47:15
Yes, And this is where they've the rescued, the rescue Santa now,
47:20
and Santa says that you know, I'll take you. Um, I'll
47:22
take you. I'll go finish my ship, I'll go do my job,
47:24
and then I'll come back to take you home. And if it gets to
47:29
do so, he never does, does does? I waited and waited,
47:34
but Santa never came back. If I hadn't invented a jet scheme, made
47:37
a coconut, I'd have never gotten home. And then when I did,
47:40
the war was over and the nurses were all kissed out. That's quite a
47:45
tale, Grandpa, What did you little? It's true? I cheld you.
47:51
It's Santa. I got an old scart a settle God God, and
47:57
I missed him again. My brother's lucky watch sounds I must have laughed at.
48:08
I wish I miss you every day. A very sweet moment, wasn't
48:14
it? That was nice? Yeah? And was sorry. It was a
48:16
Don Paine who said that Jean dum Paine wrote the episode of Largogene. Yeah.
48:22
Yeah, and I think el Jean had a point. I mean,
48:24
that would have been a really traditional Christmas Christmas e way to end it.
48:30
Yeah, I'm torn. I'm fifty I'm maybe sixty percent. Yeah, leave
48:34
it there. But the the other forty percent is like, no, no,
48:37
it's not too bad the way it ends. Although I looked up poko,
48:40
poko, miku, nnet oh boy a mines some listen now, No,
48:45
no, it actually doesn't come up. You know, um it sounds
48:50
like looky, it sounds it sounds ribald. Yeah. Miku apparently is like
48:55
a Japanese word for beautiful. Okay, so something else as well. Hold
49:01
one second, I might be able to find out. But it does when
49:06
you combine the two. It doesn't necessarily mean anything sexy or romantic. It's
49:10
just an exotic couple of words that sounded more exotic together they do. Indeed,
49:15
Yes, So basically, Grandpa I saw Santa tells Grandpa that Cyrus never
49:19
died, he crashed the head, he never left, and he says,
49:22
you'll take Grandpa there, And then when they get there, Santa's excuse,
49:25
Oh, I kept putting it off, and then I just got too embarrassed.
49:28
We've all been there, right, Oh God, yeah, you're putting
49:31
something off, putting it off. Then You're just like, now, I'm
49:34
just gonna pretend that that person doesn't exist anymore because I'm too embarrassed to acknowledge
49:37
that I've let this go too long. We've all, we've all, we've
49:38
all been there. And then Cyrus says he's been busy with his fifteen Native
49:43
wives. It sounds like a lot of sex. I said, why it's
49:45
not girlfriends? And then the no pokmical for Cyrus. It definitely sounds like
49:50
sex. I won't. I thought it was funny, it really does.
49:52
The final segment is the Nutcracker Sweet and It's Nutcracker Special. End of view
49:58
play at school, perhaps the worst ever since Superintendent charm is a good review.
50:04
No leaving after your kid's part has done as well, so it says
50:06
on the front and I think it's over, but it's just intermission. But
50:09
everyone just leaves anyway, and Lego continues to taunt the children. Then I'm
50:13
assuming time has a lapse because it cuts to the family then walking down the
50:15
street, and Lisa was on stage at that point. But Oblahoma says he
50:19
never wants to hear the nutcrack of music again, and Lisa says, well,
50:21
you're gonna have to because it's in public domain, which means everyone's gonna
50:23
use it. I didn't know that until watch this episode. I didn't realize
50:25
it was probably done. They are the same here. I've started on a
50:29
bate my Christmas pie. I've got to get that a lousy tie. Christmas
50:35
crowds wild hide time left you blue, Christiny to move your ash let me
50:39
Christmas Eve? Wise, the sand does suit so snug? Why should they
50:46
kid? It's soul bog have jucked my place, says up so hie.
50:51
But let's not junk this upsot Christmas Eve. Here these holiday cookies swell my
51:12
catch. Yeah, cat, even though we're not gentile, will get together
51:19
for a while. The Christmas Eve is here. Christmas is a family.
51:28
I don't grumba we'd be awake Christmas. E fine, spend Christmas Eve with
51:37
the raccoons. It got me a gift, D said, Lord, I
51:47
shouldn't have. I love that. I love the Jewish tradition of eating Johnny's
51:52
food on Christmas, which uh, you know, apparently happened because it started
51:57
in New York. App the Jwish community. In the Chinese community, they
52:00
sort of their neighborhoods were closed by that's nice. And the Chinese was one
52:05
of the few communities that wasn't really anti Semitic, and they sort of said,
52:09
yeah, come on in and have a bite to way, We're happy
52:12
to We're happy to feed you. And that's and it became a tradition that
52:15
was just ongoing. Maybe we should all just have Chinese Christmas time. But
52:20
that is a night that is very I didn't know that. That's a very
52:22
nice story. But then they spending sending Grandpa out to spend Christmas Eve raccoons.
52:27
I just loved their little ugly sweaters. Then we get the Krusty Special
52:30
and he plays his most requested clip from the nineteen sixty four It's the snowballs
52:34
in the balls and John Glenn and Martin Luther King of they're laughing at him.
52:37
Then we get Mo's annual tradition attempting suicide to dance of the flutes,
52:42
and yeah, very funny. Montage just slept through the traffic, just his
52:45
face of just like fuck and the gum with the Christmas flag that very Christmas
52:49
on the other side. Then you think, then you think he's he's putting
52:52
his head in the oven, but he's actually serving Barney a nice Christmas roast
52:54
and says he look at ham. Yeah, nice looking. He says,
52:58
can you kill me? He's like, oh what is wall? Oh?
53:00
Maybe next year? And that was I was just very sweet. It is
53:04
nice. Then we get I think the best part of the whole thing.
53:06
Where as we discussed earlier Homer and Marge. This was very It was just
53:08
nice to see Homer and Marge not squabbling, loving each other happy. I
53:15
was like, you can do this, please, can we get more of
53:19
this? So Homer has forgotten his present for Marge. So and this is
53:22
to the tune of I would Trey pack Trapak and he goes to the quickie
53:28
mart and all that's left is turkey made of trout. So then he returns
53:32
and he's all somber and he's sad and embarrassed, and Marge is waiting for
53:36
him and they're just the music and then look on her face and it's like
53:38
she knows that he's forgotten, but she's like, don't worry, I've got
53:42
this, and she gives the gift to him, and it's a gift for
53:45
her. And it's the photo of them, of hom address as Sancho and
53:47
her on his lap, and they're all just having a great time. And
53:50
like you said, it does break a tear to your right, doesn't it.
53:52
It really does. They just looked so happy together, and both in
53:55
the photo and in real life. And yeah, as I said before,
54:00
it's good of a part of who knows you as well as you know yourself,
54:04
if not better. Yeah, it's nice to see Horror and March having
54:07
fun together without the kids around as well. Correct. Yeah, snuggling in
54:10
front of the fire on Christmas Eve. Ye, lovely, It is lovely.
54:14
And it ends with most sliding by a little callback to his little moment
54:16
before with to all and to all, a good night on the banner and
54:20
here an eighteen Wheeler eighteen wheels No Miss Me and that was that. Yeah.
54:24
I just I was so surprised with how much I enjoyed this. It
54:28
was just this was a great Christmas special from the Simpsons. Well done,
54:30
Don Payin, Well done Don Payne and everyone involved. Merry Christmas everyone.
54:36
Yeah, I mean no, just I was going by the title, which
54:39
is as generic as it gets. Yeah, I was like, I was
54:42
like, oh my god, they could even think of an interesting name.
54:44
It's going to be shit. Yeah, I think they're going to be putting
54:46
in twenty five percent effort to this one. You know, this is a
54:50
not quite mid season that. You know, it's like we might we're a
54:53
bit time, we're running on a bit of m d Let's just and no
54:58
brought the a game a they did. Indeed, they're definitely one of the
55:00
better ones we're reviewed in a long time. You bet. What do we
55:04
learn? Bomber? So what did you learn from the episode? Mister Davis?
55:07
Don't have fifteen wives? Settle for maybe like ten girlfriends might get some
55:12
Poko Miku. I learned that they can give us good Homer and March stories,
55:16
so give us more of them. That's it. Forward, Your name
55:22
trill be all right, it's time for the Guy Davis New Name Championship.
55:25
The current leaderboard stands at this in first position, Luke McKay on nine points,
55:30
Heath Apple beyond seven points in second position, and in third position,
55:34
we have a two way tie. Can you do you say two way tie
55:37
or just a tie? It's three way tie when two people yeah, yeah,
55:43
and the three way dies when three people yes. And Norah Coker and
55:46
Fergus Jess both of five points in third position. All right, So what
55:50
have we got this week? Mister Davis? Right, a lot of good
55:52
entries this time around, but I've decided to just go one, two three
55:57
with the points and the first point. The single point goes too. It's
56:04
the wonderful time of the year. That works very well. We've definitely bought
56:08
that. That would have been more interesting title for this episode. That sipsons
56:12
Christmas stories. Great. That's Richard Gayfer for one point. First time Richards
56:16
received points on the leader board. But I'm Richard, long time listener,
56:20
first time point getter. Nice one. Yes, it's a long time listener.
56:23
Maybe he's not two points four and you know, I like my dolls.
56:30
It's the dope trinity. Oh not bad. That is Matthew Polido also
56:35
first time on the leaderboard. Two points by I'm Matthew. Oh my gosh.
56:38
We're making all manner of new buddies at Christmas time. That's great,
56:43
but three points the gold goes to a Christmas trilogy. Oh Christmas trilogy that
56:52
is. Oh it's our man Steve Roberts, who whenever we do our patron
56:54
monthly zoom calls, he's calling us from work in a factory. He's always
57:00
around heavy machine. Whey. We're like Steve lose a finger. But Steve
57:06
Roberts has the first time he's appeared on the leader board. So three movies
57:08
this week. Well done everybody, So the leader board hasn't changed as well.
57:12
It makes my job. It's a Christmas miracle, all right. So
57:14
that means the leaderboard still is Luke McKay in first position, Heather would be
57:16
in second, and Norah Coker and Fergus Jeffs with a two way tie in
57:21
third position. Debail is here. Okay, dokey, mister Davis. We
57:29
have some male bad questions that have come through for us, like a Santa
57:34
sack full of the messengers you might say a sack full of male bad questions.
57:38
Indeed, this one here comes from Harrison McClure. Harrison says, do
57:42
you guys have any personal Christmas Eve slash Day Boxing Day traditions? We've already
57:45
discussed that. I think we've liked the specials that we like to watch.
57:47
And I always watch Christmas Carol on Christmas Day's, usually in the morning when
57:52
because my parents come over and my uncle's come over to watch to open the
57:55
presents and stuff. When they go, I just to Christmas Carol on in
57:59
the background, and it's just it's just I to have it on, not
58:01
necessarily watching it. It's just it's just seeing it that it's there makes it
58:05
feel like hostess to me. Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
58:07
Certainly on a Christmas morning, I will, well, I put on something
58:10
like maybe Scrooged or It's a Wonderful Life if I haven't seen it on Christmas
58:15
Eve, and I'll have that in the background while I am preparing what I'm
58:20
going to bring to the Davis Family Christmas smorgest board. Yeah, and we
58:23
passed a salad back in the day before you could pick and choose, you
58:25
know, I used to really enjoy when they'd always have like the Christmas marathons,
58:29
and it was like all the very sitcoms having their Christmas specials back to
58:31
back to back to back. It was just nice. But my Boxing Day
58:37
tradition for a while there. Um dooty great sandwich out of out of Christmas
58:45
leftovers, you know, mostly salad, but a lot big whack at turkey
58:49
in there. Um. Sorry, I hope the cops aren't listening. Smoke
58:54
a little bit of reef and watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy so you
58:58
can get down of a plane now, won't matter. That's good. I
59:02
wish I tried my reever hero. This one's from Andrew JP. What's your
59:09
favorite Christmas movie? We've discussed this. He's a diehardened Batman Returns, so
59:15
he's amount of taste. Yes, Pat Wright, would you rather Alliott this
59:19
one for me? I guess would you rather Alliott ruined Santa Claus for all
59:22
the kids in kinder or have him ruined it for Holly kids? And kind
59:24
don't give a shit about those kids to quote Michael Jordan, those kids.
59:29
But the thing is, did he actually say that? I don't think he
59:31
did, but it became his mame. You can just teacher Michael Jordan.
59:37
I'm like, it's feasible, it really, And I love how no one
59:45
really sort of begrudges him, the fact that he's like a prick because he's
59:51
Michael Jordan, because he's so good and he backs everything up. He's just
59:53
like, I am better than you, and if you think you better,
59:55
I'm gonna make you realize you're fucking not. But that he was like,
1:00:00
okay, okay, that that doco on Jordan on Netflix is one of the
1:00:04
best docos I can I've ever seen in my life. It's so good.
1:00:07
It's incredible, isn't it. It's actually what's so great about that is that
1:00:09
the last Dance that was just called the Last dast Dance, Yeah, is
1:00:14
that it's all this like HD footage of like peak NBA era that no one
1:00:17
had ever seen before. It was like amazing. It'd be like seeing this
1:00:22
full HD like doco of like Star Wars being made behind the sceneshit that you've
1:00:25
never seen before. What's what's a doco you'd love to see behind the scenes
1:00:30
of a movie of all this HD footage that you've never seen before. If
1:00:32
you could choose like one one era or what one film series or TV series
1:00:37
where it's just you know, three hours of footage or well that was would
1:00:40
be like nine hours of footage, wouldn't it. I'm just like maybe.
1:00:44
I mean, they made this this ten hour dramatized version of the making of
1:00:49
The Godfather called The Offer okay um, which I watched a little bit of
1:00:52
him was like part of this is a good part of this, Most of
1:00:54
this is not, but the way that all came together, all the drama
1:00:59
that's involved with it. I mean, I'd love to see an actual,
1:01:01
really good, in depth documentary which sure probably exists or probably as being made
1:01:07
or been made. But you know, all the people that were looking forward
1:01:10
to play all these various iconomic people and bringing the cast they did get together,
1:01:15
I don't I think that'd be fantastic. I'd love to see behind the
1:01:17
scenes making of that, all right, Whether you have a guys. That
1:01:20
is our review of Simpson's Christmas Stories, Like I said earlier, and absolutely
1:01:23
pleasant surprise, just an absolute joy to review. To be completely on ess
1:01:27
no, I would be Christmas fan, but I just had a great time.
1:01:29
This is just a whole bunch of fun to review, wasn't it,
1:01:30
mister Davis, It certainly has. This was a fun episode. It was
1:01:34
nice to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year a few months early,
1:01:38
eight months early. Let's be honest. I'm never going to pass up an
1:01:40
opportunity to celebrate Christmas time. But I don't forget guys. Continue to rate
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1:02:00
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1:02:05
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1:02:07
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1:02:10
Paternity could hopefully these season seventeen good trend can continue. But this has been
1:02:15
our review of Simpson's Christmas Stories. Mister Davis. Any final words for those
1:02:19
incredible listeners out there, Well, my Christmas wish is more poku miku for
1:02:22
a guy.