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The Best Simpsons Vacation Episodes Pt. 2 (with The Simpsons Index) · Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

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  Speaker 1: Four Finger Discounted.
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  Speaker 2: It's part two of the Best Simpsons Vacation Episodes here
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  Speaker 2: on the four Finger Discount network. I am Brendan Dano,
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  Speaker 2: joined right now by my other bearded friend, as I
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  Speaker 2: referred to him in the first episode here of the
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  Speaker 2: best Vacation episodes. It is Elliot j O'Neill from The
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  Speaker 2: Simpsons Index slash. What's your new shows? Call you, mister Davis,
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  Speaker 2: mister j O'Neil Muscle Memory.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, share a lot of similarities physically with guy Davis,
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  Speaker 1: but yes, a few points of differences, one of them
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  Speaker 1: being that my movie podcast isn't with legendary Leonard Moulton,
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  Speaker 1: It's with BT Galloway. And we are reviewing the movies
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  Speaker 1: that star the cast of the Simpsons. Yes, it's starring
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  Speaker 1: Springfield and yeah, it's been a wild time. I was
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  Speaker 1: just trying to think, if we're done any good vacation
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  Speaker 1: movies on that, I'll have to bring up the list.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you should do vacation like National Lampoons.
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  Speaker 2: Is there a Simpsons cast member in there somewhere?
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  Speaker 1: Man? They pop up in the weirdest of places, And
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  Speaker 1: fortunately for us, our definition of starring is quite broad.
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  Speaker 1: We take bit parts, uncredited cameos and all all the rest.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, speaking of Leonnon Moulton podcast movie Guy with Guy
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  Speaker 2: Davis and Leonard Moulten, we just had Lee. We're now
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  Speaker 2: director of Wolfman, which is now in cinema, so you
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  Speaker 2: can check that out as well. Have you ever seen Saw?
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  Speaker 1: Of course?
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  Speaker 2: Lee is the dude in the tub Ah. He wrote Saw.
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  Speaker 2: He is the writer of Saw. He created Saw, and was.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I want to be in this movie, but I
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  Speaker 1: want to be in a tub.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I want to be in a tub with my
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  Speaker 2: kidney missing. Eventually, I'd love for the Saw films. Guys,
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  Speaker 2: not a huge fan. I love the Saw films. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we had Lee whel On yesterday and yeah, I love
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  Speaker 2: the guy. I love the Atattooh and his film wolf
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  Speaker 2: Man is out now, but we hear they to do
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  Speaker 2: part two of our Simpsons Best Vacation Episodes. We covered
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  Speaker 2: numerous episodes in the last one we Come and Call
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  Speaker 2: the Simpsons. We did an episode you explained to me
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  Speaker 2: a totally fun thing that but will never do again.
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  Speaker 2: Bart on the Road, City of New York's Homer Simpson.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't do have a plus. We did how I
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  Speaker 2: spent my stronger vacation and Itchy and Scratchy Land. Now
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  Speaker 2: I want to start this one with a bang, right,
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  Speaker 2: So let's start this one with Summer of four foot two,
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  Speaker 2: which I think is probably the best Simpsons vacation episode
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  Speaker 2: of all time. Would you agree?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, one hundred percent. It's up there in contention with
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  Speaker 1: the best Simpsons episodes. Quite frankly, there is just all
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  Speaker 1: the family members are firing all cylinders. It's a rare,
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  Speaker 1: leaser focused episode and it just sticks the landing in
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  Speaker 1: so so many ways and does so many wonderful things
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  Speaker 1: while also being extremely funny and quotable.
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  Speaker 2: It has one of my favorite adult quotes that I
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  Speaker 2: never realized until I was older. Yeah, Simpsons have those
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  Speaker 2: gags whereas you're a kid, you don't realize what's going on,
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  Speaker 2: and then you realize when you're watching it with your
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  Speaker 2: kids when you don't have kids, but Mike and they go, oh,
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  Speaker 2: now I know what it means. It's Marge going through
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  Speaker 2: the shopping going Homer and where you have a planet tonight.
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  Speaker 2: But count me out. That is an old timer. That
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  Speaker 2: is an absolute all timer. I love that line. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're right. I was never a huge fan of Lisa episodes.
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  Speaker 2: I've never made that no secret here on the podcast.
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  Speaker 2: When I was a kid, I've learned to love them.
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  Speaker 2: As I get older, I realized that. I Yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: think the older we get, the more we realize we
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  Speaker 2: are Lisa, because Lisa was the character they used, all
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  Speaker 2: the writers used to live vicariously through with their grievances
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  Speaker 2: with being older. But I think when I was younger,
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was this annoying, snooty she thinks she's
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  Speaker 2: too good for everybody child. But this episode here, it's
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  Speaker 2: a real coming of age tale, don't you think it's
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  Speaker 2: really it's a Lisa discovering herself episode, but also Bart
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  Speaker 2: discovering himself as well, where Bart realizes that, oh, I
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  Speaker 2: may be the cool kid back home, but here I'm
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  Speaker 2: just another kid and that's fine as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and seeing the kids evolving moreph in these ways,
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  Speaker 1: and as Lisa's you know, trying on a new hat
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  Speaker 1: and it's just trying to be someone who she isn't
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  Speaker 1: but at the core of it, she can't deny herself
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  Speaker 1: and have parts of herself coming out. And the other
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  Speaker 1: kids who befriend a recognized that it's just like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you were already already being yourself. It's just yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: were wearing different clothes for once you.
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  Speaker 2: Are Lisa Simpson.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for real And yeah with the seashells on the
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  Speaker 1: car at the end, such a sweet gesture that ill
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  Speaker 1: thought out. But I think it's funny this one as well,
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  Speaker 1: subverting the whole Bart is cool angle of it all that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all the previous seasons and everything is just, yeah, Bart's
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  Speaker 1: a cool kid. But then the show kind of having
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  Speaker 1: the courage to make him look like a dweeb in
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  Speaker 1: this one.
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  Speaker 2: The thing is they play up here. The joke there
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  Speaker 2: for me has always been that what made Bart cool
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  Speaker 2: when the chauf first started isn't cool anymore. So, she
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  Speaker 2: points out, So I think it's Aaron who's played by Christina?
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  Speaker 2: Is it Richie or Ricky.
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  Speaker 1: Richie Christina Ricchie?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah sounds right, Casper girl, She points out, who's you
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  Speaker 2: think he is? Of that sling shot in his backpocket?
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  Speaker 2: Dennis the Menace? Well, the slingshot was, you know, cool.
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  Speaker 2: It was like, oh, he's such a rebel, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he's uses a slink shot at school. He's such a
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  Speaker 2: such a cool kid. By season eight or seven, where
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  Speaker 2: I think it might be the end of season seventies
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  Speaker 2: episode that wasn't cool anymore. It was like, who is
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  Speaker 2: this guy? Like he's a dorg. Time itself has evolved
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  Speaker 2: past the character of Bart Simpson being cool now, and
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  Speaker 2: that's what they pointed out, which, as he said, quite
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  Speaker 2: a ballsy move by the show to sort of because
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  Speaker 2: will they still persist with Bart being the cool kid
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  Speaker 2: at school in later seasons and whatnot? But he's not
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  Speaker 2: a cool kid when you really think about it. He's
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  Speaker 2: cool in Springfield, but in the real world he wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: Be cool at all. No, not at all, And the
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  Speaker 1: show had sort of moved the focus from him well
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  Speaker 1: and truly by this point, and it was more about
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  Speaker 1: the Homer Show and these sort of earnest more earnest
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  Speaker 1: episodes and the least of focused ones tend to be
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  Speaker 1: were a bit fewer and far between. And yeah, as
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  Speaker 1: a kid, I can imagine, Yeah, there's getting in the
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  Speaker 1: way of the good time, Like where's the Homer antics?
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  Speaker 1: You know, where's the Bard antics? And they're still in
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  Speaker 1: this episode.
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  Speaker 2: But we do get antics, we do, like Homer with
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  Speaker 2: the dynamite in the dish washer and whatnot. So there
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  Speaker 2: is funny moments there, but it's a very centralized episode
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  Speaker 2: of very centralized on Lisa.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that one as well, coming back to that
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  Speaker 1: episode years later and having it pointed out, Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Marge is cleaning up from the dynamite in this other scene,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't pull focus on it. It's just happening
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  Speaker 1: in the back there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: But there's so many iconic moments though, as you were
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  Speaker 2: pointing out earlier, So we've got the dud is in
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  Speaker 2: this one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh there's an interesting starring Springfield connection. Sorry, okay. So
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  Speaker 1: there's this obscure nineties movie called This Is My Life
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  Speaker 1: where Julie Kavner is starring as a single mother of
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  Speaker 1: two and she decides to quit her job and become
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  Speaker 1: a stand up comedian and as a result, she's having
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  Speaker 1: other stand as her career is taking off, she's having
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  Speaker 1: other stand up comics like babysit her kids. They are
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  Speaker 1: playing mystery date in one of the scenes, and in
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  Speaker 1: one of the scenes, Julie Kavna's kid gets the dud Wow.
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  Speaker 2: How amazing And when did that film come out?
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  Speaker 1: Ninety three I think. But also one of the kids
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  Speaker 1: has a Bart Simpson like basketball hoop on a door
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  Speaker 1: as well. I'll just double check the date. Yeah, ninety two.
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  Speaker 2: Two okay, and this would have been I think ninety
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  Speaker 2: six ninety seven.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were wondering, was yeah Simpson's making a subtle
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  Speaker 1: reference to this or was it just a board game
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  Speaker 1: that was in pop culture? So of course it was
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  Speaker 1: going to get referenced.
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  Speaker 2: And I never played the board game Mystery Day. I've
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  Speaker 2: never seen one in real life. I always thought Mystery
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  Speaker 2: Date was just a TV show, you know, the Blind
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  Speaker 2: Date shows. I never knew you could actually get a
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  Speaker 2: board game Mystery Date. I thought this was something I
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  Speaker 2: still did this day. I didn't realize it was a
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  Speaker 2: real thing. I thought it was something that Simpsons just
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  Speaker 2: made up. I didn't realize it was a real game.
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  Speaker 2: Is there actually a board game called Mystery Date?
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  Speaker 1: I assume so. Well, they had a physical board game
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  Speaker 1: in the movie, so I can only say this is like.
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  Speaker 2: A weird game to play with kids, Mystery Date.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, it comes along with a lot of
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  Speaker 1: these things that we didn't have in Australia that it
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  Speaker 1: seemed so whole. What as America got over there, They've
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  Speaker 1: got so many things that we don't have.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for me, it was always subway sandwiches whenever watch
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  Speaker 2: because we never had sub here and gil apparently it
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  Speaker 2: was in Australia, but we never had it in Geelong
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  Speaker 2: anyway till a lot later. But I always went, what
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  Speaker 2: the hell is subway?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Now, there was one in Paramatta for years and
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  Speaker 1: it was like the only one as like a suburb
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  Speaker 1: in like western Sydney. And they used to cut the
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  Speaker 1: bread with like a v a notch out of the
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  Speaker 1: top of the bread rather than you know, slicing it
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  Speaker 1: in half. It was a much better presentation and they
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  Speaker 1: weren't as stingy with the meats as they are now.
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  Speaker 2: How stingy are they with the meat now?
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  Speaker 1: They used to have my favorite sandwich, the sub Club,
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  Speaker 1: and they've gotten bred of it. It was roast beef,
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  Speaker 1: turkey and ham and it was the most beautiful combination.
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  Speaker 1: Bring back the subclub, bring back the V notch out
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  Speaker 1: of the bread. It was probably a pain in the
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  Speaker 1: ass for the sandwich artists to make, but hey, you
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  Speaker 1: call yourself a sandwich artist.
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  Speaker 2: My life hack for subway sandwiches is I always order
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  Speaker 2: a chicken meal, a chicken sandwich, but I always make
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  Speaker 2: sure I order it. I look at the I like
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  Speaker 2: chicken strips or chicken terry ARCHI right, but sometimes they
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  Speaker 2: have it portioned right, the chicken strips in little packets.
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  Speaker 2: The chicken terry they tend to have in a big tub. Right,
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  Speaker 2: they scoop it out. What you do is you walk
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  Speaker 2: up to your sandwich artist and you'd be really polite,
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  Speaker 2: maybe even compliment them, be really friendly with them. Then
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  Speaker 2: ask for a chicken tariaky sandwich, and I'll always give
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  Speaker 2: you a bigger scoop than a sanded scoop. Just be polite,
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  Speaker 2: be polite to you, treat your sandwich artist with respect,
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  Speaker 2: and they will respect you with extra meat.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. They will give you that. They will bring
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  Speaker 1: you the high quality.
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  Speaker 2: Art exactly right. So yeah, A twenty two short twenty
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  Speaker 2: short films summerre of four foot two. I've I think
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying, twenty short films at Springfields, some are four
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  Speaker 2: foot two. Yeah. Just an incredible episode, one that I
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  Speaker 2: never really appreciated enough until I was older. But as
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  Speaker 2: so other iconic moments, iconic quote from me, this is
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  Speaker 2: one of my favorite bart Millhouse interactions. Bart is horrible here,
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  Speaker 2: but he's being horrible because he's just so embarrassed, doesn't
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  Speaker 2: know how to handle this new found, oh I'm not
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  Speaker 2: cool situation. So when Millhouse is are we in, it
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  Speaker 2: says no, they must have seen you. Millhouse is a
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  Speaker 2: little I'm a I've always loved that interaction, as horrible
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  Speaker 2: as it is. But yeah, so many What are some
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  Speaker 2: of the moments that stand out for you from this
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  Speaker 2: Folkes of me, it's the Marge line, and it's the
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  Speaker 2: it's Bart there as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, just bark his dirty tactics to try and
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  Speaker 1: get on side because he's still so sure that he
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  Speaker 1: can win these kids over. I think it's less of
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  Speaker 1: a well, it is quite a selfish thing. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a from a deep insecure place as well, and
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  Speaker 1: that you know he resorts to bullying at the end
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  Speaker 1: and to go, oh, Lisa's actually a nerd look at
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  Speaker 1: this and shows the retrospectacus again all time a joke,
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  Speaker 1: which is such a simpler thing when they're opening the
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  Speaker 1: books in the first one slash just wonderful little joke.
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  Speaker 2: A little in joke.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but the way that turns on Bart and
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  Speaker 1: then he does end up feeling guilty about that. I
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  Speaker 1: think the episode just does such a nice job and
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  Speaker 1: like especially when Lisa lays it out for him and
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  Speaker 1: grabs his coloring a mean little sneak. That is just
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  Speaker 1: such an excellent line read by Yardley Smith. There and
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  Speaker 1: then when Marge comes in the room quickly snaps back
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  Speaker 1: into place, and that the revealed that Milhouse was there
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  Speaker 1: the whole time. Whole time. Oh bye, I Cantival so good.
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  Speaker 2: He's just so unimportant that they don't even care. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that episode is just fantastical. Let's move on now to
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  Speaker 2: one and a later season one that I still haven't watched.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't had time to watch all all these ones.
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  Speaker 2: But the saga of Carl now is this way Karl
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  Speaker 2: meets his parents.
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, this has been a while since I've watched
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  Speaker 1: this one. I debated putting it on my list because, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's quite a vacation episode. But
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the Homer goes to Iceland, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, he finds out his Iceland heritage. So basically,
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  Speaker 2: this is the brief synopsis own Google. It says friendships
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  Speaker 2: are tested when Carl skips down with two hundred thousand
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  Speaker 2: dollars winning from a lottery ticket he bought with Homer, Moe,
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  Speaker 2: and Lenny. I do remember watching this one and it
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  Speaker 2: annoyed me because it retconned his heritage.
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  Speaker 1: I remember.
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  Speaker 2: I can't remember why it didn't make sense, but I
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  Speaker 2: remember it not making sense.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a bit loosey goosey with the story, but
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  Speaker 1: it also does something interesting in the Yeah, Carl makes
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  Speaker 1: off with the money and then he just does a runner. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it just does a runner, but also like plays down
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  Speaker 1: the friendship between him and the other ba flies and
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  Speaker 1: also that it kind of doesn't make sense because like
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  Speaker 1: he's also co workers with Homer and Lenny, but he
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  Speaker 1: diminishes their friendship and it's so heartbreaking. But one of them,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure it's Lenny, just like he's still our Carl.
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  Speaker 1: They fight for him and it ends up really sticking
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  Speaker 1: the landing that episode, I thought, even though it took
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: a bit of a bumpy road to get in there.
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  Speaker 1: But I think it features Sigur Ross as well, so
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  Speaker 1: that's wonderful to see.
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  Speaker 2: One a classic I threw on my list as well
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  Speaker 2: because Marge is the one taking a vacation here much
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  Speaker 2: deserved vacation Homer alone, another episode much like Summer of
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  Speaker 2: four foot two, an episode that I didn't appreciate until
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  Speaker 2: I was much older, maybe because Nikola has taken a
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: couple of business ships for work in the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of years, and I've now found myself going, oh, I'm
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  Speaker 2: home here. But my favorite, I think my favorite line
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  Speaker 2: the whole one, whole episode, not my favorite one always
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  Speaker 2: stands out to me is you know and related to
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  Speaker 2: me because Marge's leaving much like Nikola. She's like, don't worry,
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  Speaker 2: I've got this plan and she explains it, make sure
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  Speaker 2: you do this, makes you do that, And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: don't worry, I've got to run it hom agoing Cat
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  Speaker 2: in the furnace.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We like to think that we've got this. I had
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  Speaker 2: it all under control. But it's just home mo. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: sure you cat in the furnace so good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. It is a great way to just like reassure
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  Speaker 1: that everything's going to be okay with something very unreassure.
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  Speaker 1: It's yeah, a quote that posits in my mind as well.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just such a great story as well, great
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  Speaker 2: setup in that, and it doesn't have to necessarily be
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  Speaker 2: a wife. Now it could be just a parent. Parenthood
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  Speaker 2: is hard and a lot of little stresses that all
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  Speaker 2: build up. So you know, they they want their sandwiches
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  Speaker 2: made a certain way for school, and you know, got
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  Speaker 2: to pick up their shoes after when they walk in
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  Speaker 2: the house. You're gonna vacuum every day. All these grievances
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  Speaker 2: that aren't big deals, but when you get a whole
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  Speaker 2: bunch of them bottled up inside, it can just come
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  Speaker 2: out and explode. And Marge likes to think herself as
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  Speaker 2: a strong woman, which she is. She can get through
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  Speaker 2: these things, but sometimes it just all comes out. We've
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  Speaker 2: all had a moment our life where we're just gone.
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: I just need to vent. I don't necessarily mean half
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: the shit that I'm venting about, but I need to
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  Speaker 2: get this out of my system. Can you just I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to hear a response. I just want you
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  Speaker 2: to sit there and listen to me vent out here
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  Speaker 2: and Marge in the car, which she's just sitting there.
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't really really know why, but I love the
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  Speaker 2: guy walks up to the mirror, look leader, this better
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  Speaker 2: be good.
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  Speaker 1: And then just her raw like I am a fan
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: of death, metal view death metal music, and she could
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  Speaker 1: give some of those vocalis a run for their money
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  Speaker 1: in that moment, and that is just brilliantly animated as well,
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: the little flex of spit hitting the window and that
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: just going oh yeah, I mean he recognized that. Oh yeah,
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: she's having a bad day. She's been asked to do
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: a million things and none of them are going right.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: It's just yeah, she's having a bad day, and she
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: justified when she snapped.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: So this is where she goes to Rancho Relaxo and
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: we get a great Phil Heartman appearance here as Troum McClure.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: Oh Gregory is it Gregory? Yeah? On my life, Yes,
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Rancho Relaxo. I think we've we all need a week
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: and a way Rancho Relaxo. It just seems like a
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: great place. I've always particularly loved the animation of when
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: Marge is in the bath and she just sort of
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: sinks into the water and comes back out and her
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: hair is gone down. I feel like it just can't
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: help but just feel relaxed watching that. It's so satisfying,
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: like she just looks so chilled, and it's just nice
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: seeing Marge a character who gets not using abuse, but
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: taking for granted a lot Marge. Just to seeing her
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: relaxed and just not a care in the world. It's lovely.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, it's an interesting thing as well that she's
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: mostly following the suggestions of the Phil Hartman Hotel pre
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: organized plans that you can take advantage of when you're
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: at the resort. And then he's just like, do what
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: you want to do at the end, and that she does.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: And she knows exactly what she wants. She wants the
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: hot fudge Sunday, a bottle of tequila and Thelma and
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Louise and a bath. And it's wonderful, yeah, because she
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: knows what she wants. But she always feels guilty. She
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: feels guilty looking after herself as I've gonn look after
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: everybody else. Marge reminds me, I'm sure reminds me of
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: a lot of people, but she reminds me of my mum.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: My Mum is one of those people who is just
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: always thinking about everybody else but themselves. When we're having
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: dinner with the family, she's always still in the kitchen
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: getting things and like, Mom, sit down and peak, I'll
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: be there in a minute. I think Mom enjoys doing it.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: But my mum is very much Marge in the sense
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: that she feels guilty if she ever buys.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Something for a self or does something for herself. And
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: it's just you sort of say to it, Mum, treat
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: yourself to something. It's okay. But Marge is very much
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: like that. And here that's where she goes. When Tron
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: mccluire says treat yourself, she goes, you know what, I'm
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: gunna exactly what I want and no one's gonna stop me.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: And it's just actually said it's a great moment, yeah.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: And really selling the metaphor there when she sinks into
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: the bath and her hair actually gets let down.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: She's been I haven't even I didn't even put that together.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: I just love the visual of it. But you're right,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: she's letting her hair down. Yeah, it's great.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I mean because yeah, she's obviously had fun
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: doing all the hall of skirt making and cigar making
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: and just all the other things they had to offer.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: But yeah, that moment was so nice in direct contrast
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: to the horrible time that Homers losing Maggie.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Maggie, she ends up going looking for Marge because that's
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: actually a nice Maggie stories well, because we realized Maggie
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: has a connection with Marge, just one of the sort
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: of the unbreakable connections that the between two characters that
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: the show has. But I love when she's driving the
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: car and she gives the guy there. Yeah, and at
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: the end when Wiggan returns the baby, I mean, let's
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: be honest, in the real world, horrifying home is a
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: terrible parent. He should have been looking after the baby.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: The fact that the baby could get out and do
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: this terrible. But when he just he's just so thankful
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: that you return the baby. Wigan even just went just
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: don't do it again.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Again, much like the guy at the beginning is like, ah,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: you've had a bad day.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: It's yeah, okay, come on, next one here, let's go
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: for another newer one. Dude, Where's My Ratch? We've reviewed
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: this one as well. What was it about, dude, Wear's
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: my rash? That you particularly enjoyed.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know if this is an episode that a
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: lot of people love, but for me personally, this is
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: just one that I one of the early teens episodes
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: that I still happen to record on a VHS because
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I was still doing that in the year two thousand
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and two or something when this came out.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Recording episodes up until season seventeen I've worked out, or
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: maybe the season eighteen Yeah.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, because I do remember the last episode I
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: recorded on VHS was Smart and Smarter from season fifteen,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: the Maggie Smart episode. Yeah, but yeah, this one. So
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: this was one that I ended up watching a lot.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: And it's a very goofy episode. It's got that first act,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: fuck you, which makes it also a Christmas episode technically,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: but the focus is more on the family going to
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: a dude ranch for the week, and Lisa's got this
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: crush on this teenage boy, and Homer and Bart are
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: fighting beavers and everyone's got kind of their own little adventure,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: and in that way, it's just a very goofy, almost
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: like sketch humor based episode. But I do have a
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: terrible amount of fun with it, and it does have
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: plot points where it needs to in terms of the
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: fascical misunderstanding of Lisa thinks her CRUSH's girlfriend is coming
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: into town turns out to be her sister, and sister
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: yeah yeah, accidentally puts her in the rock on the
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: middle of a rapid lake and all that sort of stuff.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: But it's just a goofy little adventure and yeah, I
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: have a lot of fun with this one.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: This is the one that has David Burn and Talking
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Head singing the song about Flanners at Homerkret.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Actually I was rewatching and I was just saying
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: to my girlfriend, like, it's one of these things where
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: as a kid it bothered me. But then I realized later, Oh,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: that's the joke is that during that Flanders song, they
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I have spelled Flanders right once and they spell it
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: different every time. That okay, Yeah, one of them's f
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: l A and rds, which would make it Flanner does.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, as long as the syllables fit the song though
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: what they were seeing at that point in time.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: That's it. And like there's even one way they get
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a crowdcham going fl ad r and you wrote you
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: wrote Flater pick up on That.
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  Speaker 2: and I want to hear your thoughts because you've reviewed
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: all these episodes of teen seasons, right, there seems to
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: be a point in time in the last maybe two
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: or three season. We're season twenty now, just started season twenty,
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: but I feel like, remember about season seventeen eighteen ish,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: They've written Lisa differently. Lisa feels like she is more
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: inclined to do horrible things for selfish reasons than she
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: used to. She had moments in the past, but for
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: the most part, she was always the one saying, you
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: can't be doing this, it's not the right thing to do.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: But you know, she had the Lisa's rival where she
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: changes the telltale heart, that kind of thing, right, So
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: she has those moments here, but she it's more Bart
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: sort of saying no, this is what you need to do,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: and She's like, oh yeah, okay. She surely goes along
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: with Bart's scheme in those days where now it feels
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: like she's just doing stuff because she has selfish reasons.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure whether that's the direction of the character
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: that I liked, because there was an episode we just
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: did recently where Marge's mother came in. It's the one
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: where she passes away, Yeah, and Lisa stole jewels off
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: her necklace, off her bedside table and stuff, and I'm thinking, Lisa,
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: isn't this character. It just seems weird how the Lisa
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: character has shifted to be more selfish just for pure
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: selfish reasons.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Now, yeah, it's really against the archetype, isn't it. I
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: think they get away in this one here because she's
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: just a bit love stupid. But it's then other episodes
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: like Little Big Mum where she pretends that her family
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: is from a Native American tribe, and it's just that
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: one's a big whipp for me because it just doesn't
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: feel on on brand for Lisa. In the slight stat
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: is that a little is.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: He shows a little Big Mother, Little Big Mom's on
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: where where Marge breaks her legs, isn't isn't it?
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, maybe a little Big Girl or something. I don't
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: know the one you.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Mean where she but yeah, she can flat out just
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: lies and pretends that she's Native American. And I remember
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: guy and I going, what the hell? Yeah, this is
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: not what Lisa would do. Oh yeah, it is called
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Little Big Girl.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Sorry. Yeah, yeah, there's so many episodes with so many
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: similar titles. You know, you're talking about Mona Simpson before
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the amount of Mona Lisa puns in a Simpsons title,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: And yeah, pretty ridiculous at the moment, but yeah, a
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: little big And that's also the one where Bart starts
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: dating a pregnant girl.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, that's right. Yeah, man, the Simpson's got wacky.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: It still has one of my favorite jokes in it
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: from that one. That is still one that I quote
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: to this day, despite an episode being one that I
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: don't want to return to. Because Bart gets his driver's license,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: then almost a throwback to Bart on the road and
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Lisa's criticizing his driving. Your hands are meant to be
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: at ten and two not four and nothing.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Yes that I do remember that. It's a great line. Yeah,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: because that's how I drive. And yeah, I often think
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: of it. Let's get into one that's more from the
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: Golden era. It is one that I was tossed up
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: whether put it on the list or not. We've gone
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: with it because hey, why not. It's a great episode
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: of like talking about it. It's not necessarily a vacation
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: it's more a Homer gets a job episode. It's Homo polooser. Yes, yeah,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: there's not really a vacation here. Homi goes on a
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: road trip with the groupies because he gets a new job.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Would call it a vacation, but again, Homer Poalooser one
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: of the better guests episodes of all time. I sort
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: of put it on there with you know, Homer at
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: the Bat where they get a whole bunch of baseball players.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: This one he wlod bunch of musicians. We talked about
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: in part one of this of this podcast, how I
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: spent much strong a vacation, A whole bunch of rock
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: stars from that year all at the camp together. So
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: I feel like you're gonna get a whole bunch of musicians.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: This was a really good way to handle it. Yeah,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: one hundred percent. And you know, one of I'm sure
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: your favorite musicians are at least wrestling promoters in Billy
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Corgan in this episode, delivering one of the all time lines. Yeah,
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Billy Corgan, Smashing Pumpkins, Homer Simpson, smiling, polite, Well, let's
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: be honest, Dan delivered the singer.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that's right. Billy Corgan was just there. Yes,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: and he still gets it to this day as well.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: A little part of me likes to think that that
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: there was just improved by Dan. He's a brilliant improv artist.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I reckon it fits though, because you know,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: it's the summer festival, and yeah, it brings me back
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: to going to the big day outs and sound waves
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: and hope fully more good things festivals are happening in
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: the future. I had fun at the recent one of those.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: But yeah, and it's just such a fun lineup of
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: bands as well. And in Yes, Smashing Pumpkins, Cypress Hill
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: and Sonic Youth and Peter Frampton. This one actually just
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: became like a listening list for me because I think
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I knew half of them but not the other half.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Certainly didn't know Sonic Youth at the time. And then yeah,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: their wild version of the Simpsons theme to take out
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: the takeout the episode is just yeah, what a great band.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I think I'm a pal loser as one of the
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: perfect episodes to help you realize that you're older because
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: you watch it now, and some one of those ones
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: where you realize, Oh, when I watched this for the
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: first time, I were the kids making fun of my dad.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: I am now the dad. Yeah, even though you're not
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: a father, you are still in homer shoes, going Hey,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: what do you mean all these shows, all these songs
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: and musicians that are liked in oldies. What do you mean, Oh,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: it's twenty five years ago? Oh?
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Oh shit, No, I mean I felt that at the
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: festival where I'm like, why isn't there enough places to sit?
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Why aren't there enough shady areas? Why aren't they playing
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: more of the bands that I liked from twenty five
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: years ago?
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: I met, I met. I met a twenty three year
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: old yesterday who had never watched The Simpsons.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Wow, she just went she has arms, never really washed them,
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: but it was always on TV. She goes, was it
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I'm thinking, Ah, by the time you were old enough
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: to sort of start watching TV would been six twenty
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: nine ten YouTube streaming. Oh shit, Oh no.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, wasn't it great that, even though we grew
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: up with such limited options that we still had the Simpsons. Objectively,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I think one of the greatest jos of all time.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I I feel like we're the last generation to have
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: attention spands as well.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my riddle and prescription would say otherwise.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: But just I've always this is just me going full
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: home and home for loser. Can we do away with
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: the skip the credits, right, Yeah, especially if it's a
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: show that has like a ten second intro, because they
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: don't even make intros anymore because they show just go
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: what's the point of making an intro? Everyone just skips
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: it anyway, right? But I feel for me, I've always
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: said on the podcast, the intro is what gets you
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: into gets you into the mindset of the show. How
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: many shows do you remember from you when you were
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: a kid? I love that show. You actually remember anything
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: abut the show? You just remember the theme song. It's
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: the theme song. You know. There's so good theme songs
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: anymore because I don't fucking make them because we have
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: skip credits. Now do away the skip credits and bring
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: back theme songs, I say, yeah.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: The one that bugs me the most is the end
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: credits minimization, and I wish that was just a setting
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I could change, because the worst one is Bob's Burgers
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: because they're so good with having guest stars, and the
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: second that gets to the part of the credit screen
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: that has the guest stars, they shrink it. And also
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Bob's Burgers put in effort in the credits as well
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: and generally come up with this original song for it,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and they've got like, yeah, cute little animation things, and
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: then it just minimizes it to say next episode, and
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: it's like, no, just I'll get there, trust me.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: The best example of that fucking something up I've seen
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: was the end of Psycho, where it's just him staring
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: at the camera, right, and it's so unsettling because he's
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: staring at the camera. You're like, oh, this guy's crazy, right,
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: But no, it minimizes so he's just in the bottom
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: left corner and it's like showing you what else is
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: on Netflix or whatever, and you go, you've just ruined
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: the fucking alf for Hitchco movie.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: What are you doing. I'm not finished this candy bar yet.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I will open another one when I'm ready.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly right, Yeah, and yeah.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: And I like to sit in credits as well, just
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: for a little while, like I'm not actually going, oh,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: they were the grip on this movie, you know, But
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I do like to sit with the final score that
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: they're putting out and just sort of use that as
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: my moment to reflect in the thing I just watched
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: in the credits and yeah, maybe catch a couple of
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: names here and there. Yeah, it's it's annoying. It should
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: just be a setting.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: Because all I was saying, I want to get into
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: an episode that I still have not seen. You obviously
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: you have, You've included in the list I wanted to include.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: I thought you were writing this first, but it's not
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: at all. So I want to include Viva ned Flanders
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: because it's kind of like a similar to mar Coming
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: and get Away to mention Blax. So Homer takes Lenard
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: to takes Flanders to Las Vegas. But this one here
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: you've got is living Lapura Vida. Yeah, what is this episode?
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: So this is the Simpsons go to Costa Rica. So
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Kirk van the van Houghton's rather have a regular group
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: getaway to Costa Rica, and they it's like an exclusive
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: little club like they regularly invite the Hibberts and Chalmers
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: and his daughter Shana are on this holiday as well,
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and yeah, the Simpsons managed to secure and invite this year,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: and it becomes like this sort of little mystery of
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: how the everyone's able to afford this sort of thing,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: and like there's this interesting thing where like Lisa learns earlier, oh,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: marg and Homer are really going to have to struggle
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: to pay for this one, and then she gets anxiety
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: the whole time about spending too much money. And Kirk's
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: doing this thing because he's leading the group vacation. He's
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: just like, we'll just put it on the bill and
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: you know, I'll fix it up now, but everyone you
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: know will fix it up, fix me up at the end,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: and Lisa's just got this anxiety and it's like, how's
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: anyone relaxing right now? And meanwhile, Patty and her new
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: girlfriend Evelyn also got invited on this trip, and it
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: turns out Evelyn and Homer are just two peas in
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: a pod. She's this Southern fried girl that loves beer
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: and the sport of corn holing much like Homer does.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: As we know, it's one of his passions that so
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the episode says anyway, but yeah, they bond and they
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: be badag shit on. Just to clarify for anyone who
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: doesn't know. It's like you throw a bean bag in
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: like this little box thing. It's an actual sport. Go
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: look it up.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Is that the one has the holes?
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's one. Maybe it's multiple,
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: but like.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: You know, the bean bag toss, but sort of on
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: a slam. You gotta yes, yeah, is that it?
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah? That's cornhole.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: My son Elliott, same name, obviously, Elliott loves it. Absolutely
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: loves that game. Loves it.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Oh there you go. He's a little sportsman as well,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: isn't he cricket?
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Football, you name? He just plays it. It's one of
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: those kids that just watches something on TV and goes,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: ye're up, let's say you do it. Okay, let's good,
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: let's just go do it then. Yeah, right, because I
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: picked him up for you as he goes to holiday
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: program Elliott over the school holidays on Mondays and Tuesdays.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: I picked him up yesterday and the guy's playing cricket
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: like this. This is the he's about twenty five. The
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: guy is there like one of the instructors or whatever
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: that helps me over the holiday program at school, and
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: he goes I usually have to underarm the balls to
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: these kids because they can't like swing the bat. And
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Elliott said to me, bowld pace and I sort of
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: like laughed myself and went, okay, sure, mate, whatever, Yeah, sure,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: And I bowled it to him and he has no
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: pace and then so I bowled it as hard as
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: I could and he smacked me for it. And I
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: was like, kid's six. He goes, does he play cricket?
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: And I was like, no, he just plays in the backyard.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: He's like, I've never seen anything like it.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Unreal.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: He goes, and then he's and then he asked me
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: if he can bol pace to me, and he bowl
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: paced and got me out. He goes. I couldn't believe
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: he got hees. I'm twenty five, he's six, and he
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: genuinely got me out.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Already having that moment. Ever, my son has already gotten
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: me out. He's like, you're in charge of the family now, dude. Mate.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: When Elliott bowls me out in the backyard after I'm
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: genuinely trying to smack him for a six, it's an
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: unsettling moment.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: But yeah, this one, well, oh yeah, So Homer and
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Patty's new girlfriend Evelyn are.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: Just played by Assaysio Wikipedia Fortune five stuffing stuff yeah, yeah,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: the comedian.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, she's doing an unreal job as well.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: She's just yeah real, yeah, Southern American girl who's very folks.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: He got lots of quote for everything. And Home is
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: just totally charmed by her, and just not in a
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: like Romani roy Oil. It's just he's found a new
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: best friend and they're getting on so well. And then
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: it becomes a thing of Patty and Marge being like,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: your partner's a bad influence on my partner, No, yours is,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: and also Marge like it's another weird plot point to
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: see the Simpsons doing. But Marge wants to get the
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: perfect Instagram photo to show off because normally her feet
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: is just you know her, here's the housework I did,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and she wants, you know, she wants the nice gram
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: photo of her and Homer in front of the waterfall.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: And yeah, Evelyn just keeps fucking it up and it's
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: just got It's one of these ensemble episodes that I
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: love what the Simpsons do in the new era, where
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: they're trying different character combinations, you know, bringing in Superintendent
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Charmers and Shawna into the fold as well, and Millhouse
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: is here, but he's not attached to Bart. He's trying
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: to impress one of doctor Hibbitt's kids and being a
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: really annoying, yappy little kids. Are you impressed at this?
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I deal like Lego still, what's your favorite college act?
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: You know, just being a really annoying little kid. Well,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Bart and Lister, Yeah, trying to solve the mystery of
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: how the hell Kirk and Luanne managed to get this
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: place and pay for this trip.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to episode out.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: You've sold me on it. Yeah. This was, yeah, an
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: absolute wonderful one. And yeah we reviewed it on our
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: podcast with the Real Gym's who's just an absolute treasure. Yeah,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I love that guy.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he came on, we did. She's Cratchy and Puccy.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: I believe him and I did. Yes, another old timer. Yes,
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: I did see a clip that Simpsons shared. I'm assuming
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: it's this week's episode. Maybe I was sure her showing
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Bart her boobs. Bart falls, Bart falls on the sword
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: for her, so she she gets caught shoplifted and he says, no,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: they're for me, and he gets he takes the rap
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: and she goes, here's your present. And she lifts her
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: shirt up and shows him her boobs.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think that was like a season twenty four episodes.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: Oh I saw the click cut shared. I assumed it
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: was a new one. Yeah, I've never seen it. Okay.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they kiss at some point and like because
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: he's like Jimba wants him to be her sha. Yes, yeah,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: there's something like that. Yeah. I don't remember liking it, so.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: No.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: But I mean that's a weird because I think people
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: are kind of neither here nor they're on Shauna because
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: she's just one of these new weird characters and her
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: catchphrases I'm shut at. But they give her a bit
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: more to do in this episode, and they actually fill
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: her out with actual character traits and it's compelling. And yeah,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: while all these other stories are going off, she's having
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: relationship problems with Jimbo and they use that to like
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: go to act break with these fake shocking revelations which
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: just have nothing to do with the main story. But
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: I'm not selling how actually funny it is. But it's
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: just it's a really good job that they do in
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: this episode. Again, just one of these absolute gems from
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: the New era.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Something that is funny. It's the last episode we're going
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: to talk about today here in part two of the
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: best vacation episodes. I know there's others, but you know,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: we don't want to hit people for too long. It
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: is Barba's Australia. This is the vacation episodes of all
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: vocation episodes, as far as in the Australian Simpsons fan
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: is aware. When I was a kid, I don't think
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: I really enjoyed this one as much as I probably
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: should have got in quite notice or pick up on
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: all the subtle references that this episode had. There's just
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: so much a love about this. When this one gives
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: us Bruno and Tobias.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: It's just taken on a life of their own. Australian
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Simpsons mean culture.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: A hugest fan because I one thing I will I'll
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: never use the sea bomb in anything Forefinger just count related, right,
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: So I'm not a huge fan of Tobias memes, but
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: just the innocence of him the commission, but it gave
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: us the Dollary dues. Now, this is something that has
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: just lived on forever. It's something that I still use
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: to this day and kids are now using it again.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Not because it's a Simpsons reference, but because it's a
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: Bluey reference. Bluey real creators of Bluey are huge Simpsons
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: fan So the Simpsons quotes and tidbits throughout the entire
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Blue series because the guys who make it are huge
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Simpsons fans, right. And the guy who makes the Simpsons music, jeofh. Bush,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: who came on the show to do a review of
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: songs in the Key of Springfield, the album that we
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: all love when we were kids. He was heavily influenced
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: by that CD. And that's that was like his biggest
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: influence for the music of Bluey was the Simpsons music. Right. Interesting,
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: So you watch Blue Now and you go, oh, that's
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: a Simpsons gave. That's a Simpsons line, and they call
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: money dollarydo's, I'm Bluey. So kids are now walking around
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: saying dollary doo's not because they're Simpsons fans, but because
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: they're Bluey fans. But because of the Simpsons, the blue
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: and now do it. So the legend lives on.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: So funny an American thing of this is what an
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Australian would call it has become exactly what an Australian
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: would call it.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: That's what Australia would call it. Yeah. The thing with
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Bluey now is though it kind of feels like they've
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: sold out. It's not the term. But now that Disney
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: have bought it out and it's going to be a Disneyland,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: we kind of go, oh, it's not like it's not
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: ours anymore. Yeah, I get why. I get why you
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: do it because you know, hey, chase the chase the bank,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: chase the money. But the thing is Bluey felt because
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: my kids love Blueing. I think when you're a parent,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: you just Blue just becomes a part of your life
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: because Blue is the biggest show in the world. But
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: you watched it going It's so great that this little
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Aussie show has become the biggest show kids show in
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: the world.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Ah.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: But now now it's at Disneyland. Now it's owned by Disney.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Now they're making episodes exclusive for Disney plus that Australians
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: ain't gonna get access to.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Now, now the ovisional writers aren't working on the show anymore.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: It's now Disney writers and they're working because they're making
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: a Blue movie. So the original creator and writer, he's
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: now working on the movie and they've got other people
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: working on the show now, and I'm like, it's just
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: doesn't feel the same anymore.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a little worrying, you know, because some of
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: the weaker parts of the teens era were during production
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: of the Simpsons movie. Ah.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why, though he's gone, I'm going to focus.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: We're going to focus on the movie and make sure
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: the movie is quality and you guys can work on
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: the show. I feel that the Simpsons, there's two different
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: reasons that it could be it's not gonna work because
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: they're new writers or whatever. I'm not too sure. With
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: the Simpsons movie though, they tried to double handle and
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: that's where the quality did. Yeah, and I feel like
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: the movie and the show suffered as a result.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that season fifteen to eighteen is a particularly weak
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: error of the show. Definitely.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: I never really noticed. I thought the show was fine.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: I feel like season nineteen was probably the one that
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: it stood out the most. That felt like, oh, the
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: quality had dropped because season they were working on season
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: eighteen and nineteen when the film came Like the film
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: came out when those were airing, they were working on
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: those ones at the same time. So season eighteen you
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: can really start to see, Oh, there's a lot of
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: episodes here that just feel like a bunch of stuff
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: that's been slapped together. There's no real what's this episode about.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: It's just as guys likes to stayd the podcast, a
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: bunch of stuff happening. It's just that it was like
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: a bunch of ideas going, yeah, that' the couldn't been
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: a full episode. That could be the start of it. Yeah,
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: that onely cou't before, and that can just be we'll
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: merge that together and that could be like the middle
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: act and then we're just a lot of the episodes
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: in season eighteen nineteen, I felt, I don't know whether
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: you noticed this, It felt like they wrote episodes and
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: I didn't realize they were at the end and went, oh,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: and by the way, now's the end, and there was
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: no ending to the story. Did you notice that as
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: well when you were reviewing them.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: It sort of happens in the twenties as well, like
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: it's just oh, we're at twenty two minutes. That's lunch,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: you know, and.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: The story's going all of a sudden, it's just, oh,
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: that's it. The one that stood out the most of me,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: that really annoyed me was e pluribus Wigham where oh
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Wiggam's now going for president? What what's happening here? And
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: that's yeah, yeah, that.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Is add personified that episode. It was.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: It was terrible. It was a terrible episode. Yeah.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I really hope there is still some quality control
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: with Bluey because that is just such a special show
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: in the It's not going for wacky, outlandish things. This
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: it's all very home stuff, like it's stuff they would
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: happen in the home.
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: And particularly Australian homes.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and yeah, Introducing Dave McCormack and he's bancusted to
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: a wider audience is just I saw them a couple
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: of years ago now and he's just like, all right,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: thanks for everybody for coming and checking out, and thank
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: you for the Bluey fans as well for taking a
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: chance on us. And yeah they're a wonderful band. That Yeah,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: I hope, yeah, more people check out Custard. Yes he's
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: the voice of bandit for those of you playing at home.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, sorry.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: They gave David who.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Well yeah they wouldn't know because they can't sit through
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: and read the credits because they keep fucking triggering them down.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: At stand with my kids. They kept saying, where's remote?
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Whe's remote? I was like, the intro goes for twenty
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: do you feel like the fucking the world was ending?
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Like they gotta skip it. I'm like, just watch it.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: They're like, nah, just fucking watch the intro. Child that's
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: a shame. It's a dope theme song.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: Not the Bluey one. It's the Muppet Babies one. They
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: love muppert Babies as well, right, Ah, that was up.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Babies goes from maybe twenty five. It's a new one.
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: It's actually pretty good. It's a good kid show. Okay,
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: at first it was CGI and I went out CGI.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: Muppet Babies No, and I watched it. I went pretty good.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: It goes about twenty five thirty seconds the intro song
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: right for them Babies, so I can get it. It's longer,
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: but he is I'm bloom over twenty seconds as well,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: but it's like it's twenty seconds. But sometimes Elliott can't
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: find the remote. The closing credits come on and he
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: wants to skip to the next one. God forbid us
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: to sit through the fucking twenty seconds of closing credits.
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: It's like it's the end of the world. But I
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: think that's the queue to cue the closing credits of
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: this podcast. That has been part two. Here we have
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: to discussed part as Australia as a whole. So Barva's Australia, right,
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: So we went off on a tangent dollar Dooo, let's
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: get to Barbara's Australia. So this is the one that
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: a lot a lot of people say, I've read online
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: so many Australians didn't like it. And you talked I've
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: talked about someone numerous times about and he goes, yeah,
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: he was he's hated at the time. Yeah, I know
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: that we did. I think it's a couple of people
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: just wrote to the paper and you guys maybe got
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: caught wind to that and that's it. Like, I know,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: I don't remember anyone hating this episode. My mum watched
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: a couple of times with us. What would be on
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: whilst we're watching, and she'd walk past she go ah,
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: we don't talk like that, and I'm like, that's that's
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: the joke.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: Though again it's very that's the joke.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, But I think a generation of Australians I had
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: to live through the era of everyone's talking like this, mate,
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: whenever there's an aus on A Movies talking on this crocodile. Dundee, mate, Yeah,
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: that doesn't happen anymore. That they're playing, really hammering that stereotype.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: The shrimp on the barbie. That one drives me insane.
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: I go to England now they go, should we put
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: some shrimps on the barbie? I'm like, you mean prawns? Yeah?
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: And no. Yeah, I remember at the time there were
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Joyler's bastards like Alan Jones and Stanza Manic. Who oh
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: this is so but yeah, those are joyless assholes anyway.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: And yeah, that stuff can bother you with the accent
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: work and everything, because they actually kind of sound South
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: African in this episode. But yeah, it knows this and
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: it makes parody of it in the episode, and I
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: feel like it is kind of criticism proof in that weight.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Just from those elements, I agree with what you're saying
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: at the top for the review for this one. But yeah,
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: and that it's just permeated our culture so well and
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: in so many interesting and funny ways. The Australian flag
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: with the boot, you see that at festivals, Now.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: That's now the Australia Australia Day flag.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: You put up Yeah yeah, exactly.
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• 44:56
  Speaker 2: they didn't go to many different countries in the Golden
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: era at all, Right, and it makes me so good
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: that they came to Australia when the Simpsons were still
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: at their peak, and we just we have it to
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: go back and watch whenever we want to. Right, We've
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: got peak Simpsons taking the mickey out of our country,
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: tongue and cheek in a fun way. We're all in
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: on the joke. Because England had to wait till like
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: season fourteen or whatever. The Simpsons weren't the Simpsons at
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: their peak by that point. You know, we've got a
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: really weird shoehorning guest appearances with this one. Here, it's
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: not shoehorned. There's no Australian celebrities shoehorned into this at all. Yeah,
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: it's just it is focusing on the Simpsons experiencing Australian culture.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: And that's what a Simpsons vacation episode should be, the
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: Simpsons going and experiencing a new culture, not which guest
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: star can we get on this week? Hey it's Prime
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Minister Tony Blair and he's going to rocket at the airport.
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: What was that all about? You know what I mean? Oh,
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: Homer rear ended the Queen. This, that and the other
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: is all based on guest appearances. But versus Australia is
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: the Simpsons coming here, experiencing Australian culture and realizing just
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: how different and similar we both are. And I just
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: love it for it. It's just it's fantastic that we're's
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: Australian fans who I still to this day will say
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: the Australian fans are the most hardcore Simpsons fans in
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: the world. When it comes to nations, I think we
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: are We're the most dedicated. We've got all the think
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: of all the mean pages, a lot of most of
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: them are based around from Australia, and I just think
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: that we're so lucky to have that episode exist.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, because I was on the podcast Worst Episode Ever,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: which exclusively focuses on the less like Simpsons episodes, and
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: they wanted me and BT to come on to review
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Bart versus Australia because well, because there is a controversial
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: take that this is the Simpson a not the jumping
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: the shark, but a jumping the shark moment, in that
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: this would set up some of the worst trends of
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: a vacation episode that would come later on. You know,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: you're talking about the England episode, but also like when
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: they go to Ireland or when they go to Israel.
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: It's just like this sort of checklist of things that
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: they have to hit when they're making references to the
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: place they're going. But yeah, that's the thing we came
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: away from it going, no, this is one of the
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: best episodes of the show.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Yes, they've done weaker versions of this later on. But yeah,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: they just absolutely hit the bullseye on this one. And
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: it is a joyous experience to watch. And yeah, I
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: don't feel like it's just going, oh, now we're at
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: the Opera House. Now we're in the Simpson Desert. Haha,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: we're the Simpsons, you know, and making shitty jokes like that,
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: and then oh what are you doing here? Prime Minister
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: John Howard.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: They don't make any references to celebrities, they don't make
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: any references really to landmarks. The landmarks they they have
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: the statue of snake, you know, because we are convicts.
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: That's what the Modern Day show was based on. That's
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: where you sort of got look at you go, ah,
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: that's not really our heritage. Our heritage is First Nations people.
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: They were here for thousands of years before these people
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: came here and invaded the country. So it's like that
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: element of it feels somewhat dated now. But the thing
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: is they didn't go, oh, the Simpsons are going to
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: the Upper House. I don't agree with that take at all.
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: He said, worst episode ever was the podcast this. Oh.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: They they didn't back that take. They were just saying,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: it's a take that exists Okay, then.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't agree with that at all, because this
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: one does the opposite. This one doesn't have any guest stars,
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: this one doesn't have any landmarks, doesn't do any of that.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I think worst episode ever. Were looking to
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: have a break from watching new Simpsons and they were like, hey,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: we know these Australians. Here's an excuse to watch a
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: good episode. Yeah.
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: I do fine though, because we're an Australian fans, it's
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: always one hey do you want to review bad versus
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: Australia because you're Australian. That seems to be the one
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: all the podcasts go to, like, hey, we're doing but Australia,
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: would you like to talk about it? I'm like, again,
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: I'll take the opportunity again to show them as well.
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: The Simpsons memes, which yeah, depict Tobias as this Bunnings
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: loving ecstasy, taking a potty mouth, the little thing.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: It's just they're like, what has happened to you guys
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: over there? Old?
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: I don't buy into any of those memes.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Nah.
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: Look, look if you have maskt mid Bias, all right, guys,
• 49:04
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• 50:17
  Speaker 1: And starring Springfield. And I just noticed, yes, just this week,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: we've actually got a vacation episode of Sorts to review.
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: We're going to be reviewing rug Rats Go Wild. So
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: this is the two thousand and three movie, the third
• 50:32
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• 50:35
  Speaker 1: and it's a big old crossover movie. And this is
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: also where Nancy Cart right, she's the star of this one,
• 50:42
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• 50:44
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• 50:47
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• 50:51
  Speaker 1: would pass away later, but yeah, yeah, took her from
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Christine Kavana.
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: I believe her name is big, big, big friend of Jim's.
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh is that right? Yeah? Well yeah, And Nancy
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: does like just a one to one job. It's just
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: incredible and unbelief she's still the voice to Chucky for
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: This Day for most of the stuff. So yeah, and
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: it's just this wild thing again. Whenever we do this
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: and like think about the cast of these movies, it's like,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure this is going to be the only
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: movie that has yeah, the voice of Bart Simpson, Bruce
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Willis and Flee from the Red Hot Chili Peppers in it.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a little bit of a fun one,
• 51:27
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• 52:00
  Speaker 2: three season twenty review and so much to do on
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: I don't even know it's well, it did dangerous curzis
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: the last one. Let's such a bad taste in my mouth.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: I haven't touched it since. Let's have a look season
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: twenty of The Simpsons. It will be It was episode
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: five of the season, wasn't it. It's Homer and Lisa
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: exchange crosswords? Is the next one we're doing.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's a cute one. Yeah, that's very cute where
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Lisa becomes a cruciverbalist, which, as the episode teaches me,
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: is someone who likes crosswords. And Yeah, there's an interesting
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: thing with Gil where I'm very interested in your take
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: on Gill in that episode because.
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: Q episode reviewed by que people. What more could you want?
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're getting very close to the show, jumping
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: from four point three to sixteen point nine. How exciting.
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: I'm a little concerned. I just feel like this as
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: soon as that happens, I'll go, ugh, this ain't what
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: it once was, because seeing it in fourth Streets is
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: still someone feels like we're still in the older ear.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: I'm still in the Once this goes, it's going to go. Oh,
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: I meant to strange New World Now. At the time,
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: I was excited. I remember when I first went HG.
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: I was excited for it. I was like, oh wow,
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: this is cool, it's refreshing, it's new, its hip kids again.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: I won't be the anyone watching the Simpsons anymore. My
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: friends are gonna love it again. And then I went,
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: oh no, I'm still there. Still let lose a kid.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: No one likes the Simpsons. What am I doing? Can
• 53:15
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• 53:18
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