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Remembering The Simpsons Movie (with Chris Stanley) · Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

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  Speaker 1: In 2007, leaping his way onto the silver screen, the
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  Speaker 1: greatest hero in American history. I forgot what I was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to say.
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  Speaker 2: The Simpsons movie, opening worldwide, July 27th, 2007.
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  Speaker 1: Uh-oh, we better get started. Four-finger discount, dude.
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  Speaker 2: Hey guys, welcome to Four Finger Discount, a very special
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  Speaker 2: episode of Four Finger Discount where this week we're going
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  Speaker 2: to be touching on our favourite memories of the Simpsons
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  Speaker 2: movie and I'm joined right now by Chris Stanley, how
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  Speaker 2: are you sir?
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  Speaker 1: Dando, thank you very much for having me mate, always
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  Speaker 1: a pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Always a pleasure to have you on the show. So
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  Speaker 2: another Simpsons movie is coming out 20 years in between.
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  Speaker 2: Can you believe it?
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  Speaker 1: No, and I'm not okay with it. It was my,
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  Speaker 1: what year did you graduate high school?
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  Speaker 2: It was 2006. So it was the year after I
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  Speaker 2: graduated that it came out.
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  Speaker 1: But you're the same as me. I'm a 06 graduate.
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  Speaker 1: So it was a big deal, like huge deal. And
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  Speaker 1: it took them long enough. But now we're at like
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  Speaker 1: 20 years and obviously D23s just happened. We got a
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  Speaker 1: bit to talk about. We do.
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  Speaker 2: I remember when it first came out, it felt like
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  Speaker 2: a big deal to me. but not really to my
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  Speaker 2: friends because my friends had sort of stopped watching The Simpsons,
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  Speaker 2: but I was still known as like The Simpsons guy
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  Speaker 2: in my friendship group. But I feel like it was
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  Speaker 2: close enough to like peak Simpsons era where people still
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  Speaker 2: cared enough about The Simpsons. This one here, I was
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  Speaker 2: a bit concerned about. Even like three or four years
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  Speaker 2: ago when they announced there's a new Simpsons movie coming out,
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking, who's going to care? I mean, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to care, but are people really going to care? And
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  Speaker 2: I thought more and more about it. And I think
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  Speaker 2: right now is almost the perfect time because... You and I,
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  Speaker 2: we grew up in the 90s watching The Simpsons. It
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  Speaker 2: was just what everybody did. It was the show, right?
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  Speaker 2: We're now old enough to have grown up and had
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  Speaker 2: our own kids. And now our kids are being introduced
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  Speaker 2: to the show by us. So now they're essentially two
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  Speaker 2: generations of Simpsons fans. Where when we were growing up,
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  Speaker 2: adults watched The Simpsons, but it wasn't a show for adults.
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  Speaker 2: It was basically the kids' generation show. Now we've got
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  Speaker 2: the adults who grew up watching the show and our
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  Speaker 2: kids watching the show. So there's two generations of fans...
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  Speaker 2: The kids are going to want to go see it
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to want to go watch it with them. So,
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  Speaker 2: I think now is a really perfect time to release
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  Speaker 2: another Simpsons movie.
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  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, you're spot on. And I think when
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  Speaker 1: the first one came out, obviously, it did very, very well.
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  Speaker 1: And I think, personally, that's the best Simpsons movie we
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  Speaker 1: could have got at the time.
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  Speaker 2: You reckon?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't the hugest fan of it. I just remember
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  Speaker 2: feeling like walking out going, I enjoyed it because it
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  Speaker 2: was The Simpsons. But I think my expectations- I think
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  Speaker 2: it's my own fault. You're probably right. You probably are
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  Speaker 2: actually right. But me, myself, you know when you're a
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  Speaker 2: massive- like a Star Wars nerd or a Simpsons nerd
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, and you go into these movies of what
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  Speaker 2: you think the movie should be, and it's not that.
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  Speaker 2: And automatically, you think, well, it's not good. It's like, no,
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  Speaker 2: it's not that it's not good. It's just not what
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  Speaker 2: you wanted. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But when you care so much about a franchise, movies, characters, whatever, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: it just means you just care so much and you
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  Speaker 1: just want it to do good. But I think as well,
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  Speaker 1: I think my mates and I, because opposite of you,
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  Speaker 1: like me and my mates were still obsessed with The Simpsons.
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  Speaker 1: And when it came out, it was like, this was
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  Speaker 1: huge for us. This was massive. So I think we
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  Speaker 1: went in tapering our expectations because we felt so much
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  Speaker 1: time had passed since they announced it. I remember Cheese TV,
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  Speaker 1: the fellows on Cheese TV were like, yep, new Simpsons
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  Speaker 1: movie in development. I remember reading Disney Adventures in the
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  Speaker 1: 90s and they go, Simpsons movie in development. So it
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  Speaker 1: took that long. And I feel like I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you, like the incubation of when the seed was planted,
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  Speaker 1: when they first started planning the movie, like was it
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  Speaker 1: the early 90s?
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  Speaker 2: So it was 2001 when they, I think it was
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  Speaker 2: when they were having disagreements with the voice cast and
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  Speaker 2: they were threatening to leave because they wanted more pay
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  Speaker 2: or something like that. And eventually they settled that. And
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  Speaker 2: once they settled that, they eventually, part of that negotiation
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  Speaker 2: was a movie. So I think it was about 2001
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  Speaker 2: when they finally settled it. So Cheese TV ended about 2003.
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  Speaker 2: So you're right in that wheelhouse. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think as well, like we walked out
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  Speaker 1: of the film and I was like, it wasn't perfect,
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  Speaker 1: but I didn't hate it at all. I really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, it could have been a train wreck, like
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  Speaker 1: an absolute train wreck. I think because Schwarzwalder came back
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  Speaker 1: and Schwarzwalder did come back for that one, didn't he?
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  Speaker 2: Think so i know they got a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: original cast i'll just look it up i think that's.
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  Speaker 1: Why because they got a lot of the original writers back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah and david silverman directed it and yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah they they just knew how to do the jokes
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  Speaker 1: and the jokes just always landed on if it had
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  Speaker 1: been like the more modern day writers and it's not
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  Speaker 1: to say that see i haven't really caught up with
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  Speaker 1: brand new simpsons at the moment but it's had this
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  Speaker 1: renaissance where like you know i'll listen to you and
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  Speaker 1: guy and i'm like maybe i really should just give
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  Speaker 1: these new ones a crack because you guys especially like
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  Speaker 1: you you say. They're good. They're not as terrible as
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  Speaker 1: people say they are.
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  Speaker 2: But if something's not good, we'll also say that as well. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Because people won't trust you if you just say, no,
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  Speaker 2: you guys know what you're talking about. It's all good. No,
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  Speaker 2: that's not all good. There is good in there. There's
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  Speaker 2: also shit in there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And I think as well, for me,
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  Speaker 1: the good outweighed the bad with the first film. And
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  Speaker 1: I still love going back and watching it. A few
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  Speaker 1: months ago, clothes like Let's watch it. And I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I haven't watched it in ages. And I was like
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  Speaker 1: laughing out loud. I'm like, this is so silly. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just glad it turned out the way it did. Like,
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  Speaker 1: it's a warts and all thing.
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  Speaker 2: I remember it was about, I don't know, three weeks ago,
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  Speaker 2: maybe a month ago. My kids wanted to watch it
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  Speaker 2: because it popped up on Disney Plus because you know
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  Speaker 2: how the algorithm works. They're like, you want to watch this.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, I'm not sure if you really.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, okay, sure. And they watched The
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  Speaker 2: Simpsons movie before they'd seen any of the show. I
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  Speaker 2: had not shown them the show until about a month ago.
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  Speaker 2: And they loved The Simpsons movie. Is there another one?
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, no, there's not another movie, but there's 800
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  Speaker 2: episodes of the TV show you might like. And they're like, what?
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  Speaker 2: And because I sort of, I showed them The Simpsons
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  Speaker 2: about two years ago. So, my daughter would have been
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  Speaker 2: maybe just turned four and Elliot would have been about six.
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  Speaker 2: And the first thing that came on was like an
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  Speaker 2: itchy and scratchy cartoon. And Nicola looked at me and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, you're right. Probably a little bit
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  Speaker 2: too violent. But I'm like, that's only a small part
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  Speaker 2: of the show though. But still, I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they're not quite ready for that. But now, all
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  Speaker 2: my kids watch is The Simpsons. All they want to
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  Speaker 2: watch is The Simpsons. And I'm loving revisiting the show
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  Speaker 2: with them. But when I re-watched that Simpsons movie, you're right,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I'd watched it in maybe 15 years.
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  Speaker 2: And I felt the same way when I was sitting
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  Speaker 2: in that cinema for the first time. I'd forgotten about
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the jokes. And I was like, this
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  Speaker 2: is actually really funny. I will say though, and I've
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  Speaker 2: always stood by this, I feel like when they leave
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  Speaker 2: the dome- The movie, I wouldn't say it falls off
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  Speaker 2: a cliff, but it really just stagnates for me.
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  Speaker 1: It feels like another film.
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  Speaker 2: It was. And I felt like it didn't feel like
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  Speaker 2: a Simpsons movie anymore. Because for me, I wanted it
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  Speaker 2: to be in Springfield. I wanted to feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a big grand event in Springfield. And once they escaped
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  Speaker 2: that dome, it became just another Marge and Homer marriage
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  Speaker 2: in crisis story, which I'd seen a million times before. Granted,
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  Speaker 2: that scene where she taped over the wedding tape. That
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  Speaker 2: was almost like one of the biggest tearjerker moments I've
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  Speaker 2: ever seen in a movie. So, I remember everyone in
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  Speaker 2: the cinema going, whoa, why am I crying at a
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  Speaker 2: Simpsons movie? But besides that though, when Homer has his
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  Speaker 2: epiphany moment and things like that, I was just like,
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  Speaker 2: this is just dragging. It just feels like, what is
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  Speaker 2: the point? This feels like first draft stuff to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, especially when there's the whole existential thing with Boob Lady.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about when he has his epiphany, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. I feel like, was it Homer's Odyssey where
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  Speaker 1: he has the coyote?
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  Speaker 2: No, no, that's Mysterious Voyage of Homer. Mysterious Voyage of Homer.
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  Speaker 2: The third episode where he wants to commit suicide.
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  Speaker 1: So, that was another question. Have you shown Elliot and
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  Speaker 1: Holly season one?
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  Speaker 2: I have shown them one episode. I've seen all of
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  Speaker 2: season two. I've shown them The Call of the Simpsons.
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  Speaker 2: I felt The Call of the Simpsons is the most
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  Speaker 2: wackiest of the first season.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 2: You can still enjoy it despite what it looks like, right?
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  Speaker 1: Not when Homer ties a rock around his feet and
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  Speaker 1: goes to.
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  Speaker 2: To a bridge yeah dude that first season is dark
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  Speaker 2: man it is it is.
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  Speaker 1: Very very dark but um yeah going back to like
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  Speaker 1: that the middle of the movie it definitely feels like
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  Speaker 1: a whole another movie and the whole spiritual awakening all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff but when Marge tapes over the wedding tape
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  Speaker 1: that is up there with do it for her it
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  Speaker 1: is um like you guys were talking about the other
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  Speaker 1: day with the sports episodes like lisa and bart you
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  Speaker 1: know lisa on ice at the end where you know
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  Speaker 1: they they realize you know they're brother and sister but
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  Speaker 1: they love each other like unconditionally stuff like that i
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  Speaker 1: think that's up there it's that little pocket in Another
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  Speaker 1: pocket where you're like, ah, this feels like such a
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  Speaker 1: detour from- Because you're right. They've left Springfield. I just
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  Speaker 1: wish it could have been all contained in Springfield. Because
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  Speaker 1: to me, that's- Even though it's familiar and nostalgia, that's
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  Speaker 1: what gives me most comfort is because they've built this
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  Speaker 1: beautiful world in Springfield. And you leave that world, you're like, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: it's jarring.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Because I wanted to see my favorite characters on
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  Speaker 2: the big screen for the first time. And I got
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  Speaker 2: them for about half an hour- And then I didn't. Occasionally,
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  Speaker 2: we'd cut back to, meanwhile, in Springfield for like 20 seconds.
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  Speaker 2: And then it's back to Homer out in the wilderness
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  Speaker 2: or out in Alaska or wherever it was they were.
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  Speaker 2: And I was just like, I know they had to
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  Speaker 2: try and tell an emotional story with the movie as well.
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  Speaker 2: But I feel like this new one doesn't need it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need another Marge and Homer's marriage in crisis story.
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  Speaker 2: We do not need that anymore in 2026. We don't
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  Speaker 2: need a real- I know you're going to have some
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  Speaker 2: sort of emotional level to it, but do that by
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  Speaker 2: incorporating the entire town in some way. If you can't
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  Speaker 2: incorporate the town, just don't do it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Right and that's the thing how are they going to
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  Speaker 1: approach this now and because it's is it next year
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  Speaker 1: or the year after it's coming.
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  Speaker 2: Out it's next year on my birthday 12 so it
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  Speaker 2: comes out september 3 in the states but that's september
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  Speaker 2: 4 here which is my birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh very happy birthday in that case um That's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Are they going to make fun of things that are
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  Speaker 1: relevant today, things that are a problem today? Again, going
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  Speaker 1: back to what you said, I don't need to see
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  Speaker 1: a rehashing of Marge and Homer, Trouble in Paradise. We've
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  Speaker 1: been there, done that with them. It's like the title
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  Speaker 1: as well when they announced it, the new Simpsons movie.
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  Speaker 1: I was kind of like, Okay, that's kind of on
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  Speaker 1: brand with the humor, but I said in a video
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  Speaker 1: I did about Doomsday, and I covered a little bit
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  Speaker 1: about the new Simpsons movie. I'm like, it would have
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  Speaker 1: been great if it was like the Simpsons movie, but
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  Speaker 1: she has a new hat, or like the Simpsons movie,
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  Speaker 1: the box... I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Just... I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: The news, but I like how they put it as new. Like,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a flashy action figure.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's like the Malibu Stacy. Yeah, the new hat. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but I... With the name, when I first heard it
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  Speaker 2: or saw it and read it, I thought, really? All
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  Speaker 2: the people in that writer's room, that's what he came
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  Speaker 2: up with? And then Nicola's like, what's the new one called?
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, it's called The New Simpsons Movie.
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  Speaker 2: She's like, wait, so it's just called The New Simpsons Movie?
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah. I'm like, wait a minute though. You
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  Speaker 2: just asked me what's The New Simpsons Movie called? I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: that's pretty much what everyone's going to call it. Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's The New Simpsons Movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is when they release a third Simpsons movie,
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  Speaker 2: what's that going to be called? The third Simpsons movie?
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  Speaker 2: The newest Simpsons movie?
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  Speaker 1: The newest.
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  Speaker 2: So, I don't mind the name, the new Simpsons movie.
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  Speaker 2: It does feel on brand with Simpsons humor. You're right.
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  Speaker 2: But I think like the- I like that you're saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: with a new hat, that kind of thing. I think
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  Speaker 2: Simpsons fans would get it, but you've got to have
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  Speaker 2: a title that non-fans would understand as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see the animatic that they released?
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  Speaker 1: No, because it hasn't been officially released. It's all bootleg
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  Speaker 1: stuff at the moment, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty clear though.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. No, I haven't. I've read a description. They're at
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  Speaker 1: a ball game. Is that correct?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So we did like a reaction on our channel.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not sure why, but it's basically at the
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  Speaker 2: baseball game and whoever can catch the baseball wins some
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  Speaker 2: sort of money. I don't think they actually reveal which
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  Speaker 2: amount it is. It's just you win money. And it
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  Speaker 2: reminds me of the Bart skateboarding through Springfield sequence where
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  Speaker 2: what happens is the ball gets hit. Homer tries to
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  Speaker 2: catch it. It hits like, or Mole Man tries to
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  Speaker 2: catch it. Homer tries to knock it out of his
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  Speaker 2: hand and then it bounces around through the stadium. He's
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  Speaker 2: getting knocked around. They're chasing after him. Then it ends
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  Speaker 2: up going through the bowl of armour and through Duff Gardens.
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  Speaker 2: It's going all over Springfield, basically just giving you a
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  Speaker 2: reason to go visit everyone in Springfield trying to chase
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  Speaker 2: this ball. It ends up back at the stadium again.
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  Speaker 2: I won't reveal who it ends up with, but it's
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  Speaker 2: sort of just like a chasing a ball sequence. It
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  Speaker 2: goes for about two and a half minutes. I enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It felt very much like a, hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's all your favourite friends. They're back on the big
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  Speaker 2: screen again. I hope, though, that That's not their way
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  Speaker 2: of saying, well, you've seen everybody. Now we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get to leaving Springfield and have another Simpsons family story.
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  Speaker 2: Because that's what the first movie did. They had the
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  Speaker 2: barb driving around Springfield nude. You had the mob come
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  Speaker 2: to the house just as an excuse to get as
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  Speaker 2: many characters on the screen as you can. And then
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  Speaker 2: they left and you didn't see them anymore. So I
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  Speaker 2: hope we don't do that again.
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  Speaker 1: No, yeah. I don't want to see like Simpsons in space.
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  Speaker 1: But also, yeah, I hope they're not like blowing their
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  Speaker 1: wad all at once where these are all the characters
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  Speaker 1: and this is the last time you're going to see them.
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  Speaker 1: We just want to acknowledge that they're there and then
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  Speaker 1: that's it to kind of entice you. I think as well,
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  Speaker 1: like with the first movie, one of the most tasteful
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  Speaker 1: things and one of the most clever things they did
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  Speaker 1: was the 20th Century Fox logo on Ralph coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the zero or the O and doing that da-da-da-da.
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  Speaker 2: That's hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: That just set the tone. I remember everyone just roaring
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  Speaker 1: in the cinema at my local Westfield. One of my
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  Speaker 1: best mates, Luke, who came with us, he worked at
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  Speaker 1: Greater Union there and he had to cut the film there.
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  Speaker 1: They had to specially cut it when Frank- comes on
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  Speaker 1: and the thing widens and it coincides with the film
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  Speaker 1: and they had to specially cut it because that then
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  Speaker 1: sends the cue to the curtain to open so luke
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: had to do all that and he's like man he
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: goes we got a preview screening uh because the staff
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: all had to do preview screenings and he's like yeah
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: it's pretty good it's pretty good but i think just
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: seeing ralph come out and do that you kind of
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: like oh okay it gave me that warm fuzzy like
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: okay we're in for a good show like Go into
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: it open-minded. And like I said, I was, for the
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: most part, the good outweighed the bad. But again, I
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: just want to see things happen in Springfield. And I
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: don't think that's asking too much.
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: No, not at all. Did you know going into it
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: then that it was going to do the stretch out moment?
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: Or did your friend tell you about that after the fact?
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: After.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I remember being in the cinema
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: and it came up as 4-3 and anyone in the
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: cinema panicked. They're like, wait a minute. It's not widescreen?
• 14:58
  Speaker 2: What's going on here? Because it had the itchy and
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: scratchy cartoon originally. And then it stretches out and everyone
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: was all like, oh, thank goodness. It was almost like
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: a sigh of relief. But I do also remember at
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: the end, as the first and only time I've ever
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: experienced this, people... I didn't do it because I thought
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: it was kind of corny, but more than half the
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: cinema gave the film an applause, like a standing ovation. Yeah, right.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: Have you ever experienced that before in a local cinema?
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: You know, like... It's funny because I've got a lot
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: of friends in the States, obviously with what I do,
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: and you and Guy are probably the same. You make
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of friends overseas over a common interest, me, horror,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: you guys, Simpsons. And have you ever been to the
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: movies in the States? Once.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: I saw Rogue One in New York.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: So- Americans get very invested, vocal, loud, and they're interacting
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: with the film. Whereas here, we're as quiet as church mouses.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Stop eating chips.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Stop living. Just stop breathing.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: I find I'm becoming old man Dano now. I'm in
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: the cinema and people are talking during the trailers, and
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: I'm just thinking in my head, you motherfuckers. better shut
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: up when the movie.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Starts dude especially horror movies i don't know if it's
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: the same down um down out your way um horror
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: movies as well like teenagers i'll see a bunch of
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: them walk in and i'm like oh no don't ruin
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: it and i'm and i'm like i'm older than them
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: i could take them all out but i'm also like
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: i don't like the looks of those teenagers yeah.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: It's cold out here. Let's go back inside. But the
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: thing is, I went and saw Disclosure Day with Nicola, right?
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: And these two girls were doing handstands, making TikTok videos
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: up the back. And I'm like, I was like, because
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: they wouldn't shut up the whole time. And one point
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: I turned, I was like, guys, seriously, we're trying to
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: watch Disclosure Day. Okay, please shut up. It's a Spielberg film.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Shut up. Yeah. And they looked like they were about,
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know, 15. I'm thinking, you must have walked
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: into the wrong cinema because there's no way at 2.30
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: on a Saturday afternoon that you 15-year-old girls are going,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: let's go see that Spielberg film. That's just not happening, right?
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: But I think they did it so they're thinking that
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: the film would be empty and they could film TikTok
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: videos in a cinema. So, they're at the back and
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: they're talking, blah, blah, blah. And I'm saying, guys, can
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: you please just be quiet? I was just like, you know, please,
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: as polite as possible. And then they thought, well, if
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: we move from the middle at the back to the
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: back corner, well, they won't hear us then. So, they
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: went to the back corner and they kept talking. And
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: then one other guy was just like, guys, shut up.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: And then I heard something again, like a boom, boom.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: I turn around and one girl's doing a handstand with
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: her feet up against the back wall. Another girl's filming
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: it with her phone. And I said to Nicola, that's it.
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: I stood up. I've never done it before. I stood
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: up and I was like, if you guys aren't going
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: to watch this film, get the fuck out. And they
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: got the fuck out. How did that?
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: That's so good. Because usually they'll pick up a stink
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: as well. Because we've got the little biker gangs now,
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: the e-bike biker gangs now. And they're the new Comancheros.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: They're like little turds. Like I said, you could easily
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: take them out, but you're kind of just like, I'm
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: cold and frightened.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: They're going to film me and put it on TikTok
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: and make fun of me. Yeah, exactly.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: But like, turds, yeah. 230 at a Spielberg film, they
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: are not there to watch the movie. Again, they just
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: wanted a space where they could do TikToks, but also,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: what is wrong with you?
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Why are you doing this in a cinema? Yeah. Anyway,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: but yeah, cinema etiquette aside- So, you're excited for the
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: new Simpsons movie? Of course. I'm more excited now that
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: my kids are into it, I think. I think my
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: kids enjoying The Simpsons and being able to go back
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: and revisit these classics with my kids has rejuvenated my
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: love for the show, which sounds silly because my entire
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: living is based around The Simpsons and doing a Simpsons podcast,
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: but it's just really rejuvenated my excitement for the show.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And like we were talking before we-
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: we went live. You know, my son's just over a
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: week old, so I've still got a little bit of
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: time before I can introduce him to it, but I'm excited.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: And like, I want to curate how to introduce him
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: to certain episodes, you know, leave out the ones that
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: we need to wait a little bit longer just in
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: terms of certain jokes and stuff like that. But, you know,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I want him to be a cultured Simpson connoisseur. Like,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: you know, he has to experience the finer things in
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: life and you know, that's the thing. Do you start
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: with the movie? Do you start with certain episodes? Then
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: be like, all right, mate, they made a movie. But
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: by the time, you know, we get to the movie,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: it will have the new Simpsons movie as well. It
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: was like, mate, we've got two and there's a third
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: one on the way, probably like, yeah. So I'm, I'm
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: excited for that as well. And I can only imagine
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: how exciting it would have been, you know, for you
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: introducing Elliot and Holly to it.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: See, I introduced them to the show and I was
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: sort of cherry picking episodes that I knew would be
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: good ones to watch with them. And then one day
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, let's watch this one. They're like, no,
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: we've watched it. I was like, I was like, oh,
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: that's right. These kids live in the era of binge watching. So,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: they get up in the morning and Elliot just whacks
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: the TV on. And I'm like, wait a minute, you've
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: watched all of season three, four, five, six, seven, eight already? What?
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: They've binged the entire lot. I'm like, I mean, it's good.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I want to watch it with you. But the one
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: thing is, I said to them, You are not allowed
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: to watch Who Shot Mr. Burns. I am watching that
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: with you. And what I'm going to do with them
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: is we're going to do a reaction video. So, we're
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: going to sit there. We're going to watch it, right?
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Part one. And we're going to stop. And we're going
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: to work. They're going to guess who they think it is.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: They're going to go through the clues. We're going to
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: make a real thing of it. And then watch part
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: two and watch their faces be confused and disappointed to
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: find out that it was Maggie.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: And then they found out it was the baby.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Because I remember at the time being like, the fuck
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: is this shit? Yeah.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't guess it either. I was convinced, obviously,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: because we were young. And it was just the good
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: writing as well. We're like, oh, it was Smithers. Smithers
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: did it 100%. Yeah, or Homer, yeah.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, or Homer, yeah. The picture on the thumbnail is
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Homer with a gun to Burns' head. So Elliot's always like,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: I know who did it anyway. I've already seen it.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: I've seen the picture. It's Homer. I don't care. I'm like, boy,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: are you in for some disappointment, kid?
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you remember as well the episode
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: where Marge and Homer do the nudie run through Springfield
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: from the putt-putt golf and the ads leading up to that?
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: It was the biggest thing ever.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: So much so, mum and dad were like, you're not
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: watching that one. I'm like, oh, come on.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I remember. It was 9.30 on a Monday night. It
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: was edited. Adults only time. Adults only Simpsons. And I
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: would have been, I think, coming out like 97, 98. So,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: it would have been like 10. A little horny little, well,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: not horny. I guess I was 10. But, you know,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: a little downer thing and I see boobies here or something,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: you know? And then you put it on and it's like, ah,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: so that's all it is. That was all a big
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: publicity stunt. Damn it.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: My parents were more like walking conundrums. Like they'd remember
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the show sex life.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: No, I don't.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: It was like an, it was, they just let me
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: watch that. And like, but then also I was banned
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: from watching Batman returns and hook. Why Hook? I don't know.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I think it was just all the parents at the
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: time were like, no, Hook's pretty full on. So, mum
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: and dad were like, okay, well, we can't. But I
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: was allowed to watch The Simpsons and South Park.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: See, I wasn't allowed to watch The Simpsons. I was
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: not allowed to watch The Simpsons until I was seven
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: or until I was six, I think. Yeah, six or seven. Well,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: the first new episode that aired when I was allowed
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: to start watching it was Treehouse of Horror 6. So,
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: whenever that aired in Australia for the first time, that's
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: when I was allowed to start watching The Simpsons. I've
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: still got my VHS of when I was- used to
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: record the shows off TV. And I've still got the
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: first one I ever recorded. And it was the new
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: kid on the block where Laura Powers moves in next
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: door was like the old one. And then up next,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: all new Simpsons. And it was the Treehouse of Horror 6.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: That's my first ever real-time Simpsons experience. Which is why
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I think I have such a nostalgia for that Treehouse
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: of Horror episode. But yeah, I wasn't allowed to watch Simpsons.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: South Park, I used to sneak into my bedroom and,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: you know, put SBS on at like 9.30 on a
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Monday night and watch it quietly. I think like mum
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: knew I watched it. She wasn't happy about it. And
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: then when she found out there was an episode called, no, no,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: We were going to the beach one night, Monday night.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: That was when season two had just started. And it
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: was the cliffhanger for Cartman's mum's a dirty slut. And
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: you're going to find out who Cartman's. And I remember
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: being so annoyed because we were running behind. I'm like,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: we've got to be back. Because it was Daylight Savings.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: It was a bit lame. We're going to be back
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: in time for the South Park episode. And dad's like,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: what is it? And I was like, it's the follow-up
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: to Cartman's mum's a dirty slut. And mum's like- Well,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: guess what? You're not watching, Brendan, when you get home.
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I'm like, no, no, I shouldn't have said it. And
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: then we got back and it wasn't even the part two,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: they screwed with us. It was the Terrence and Philip,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: not without my anus.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, I love that. I love that episode. It's so funny.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Completely just screwed with us. Yeah.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's funny. My dad loves Itchy and Scratchy and
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Terrence and Philip. And we'd quote the Terrence and Philip one.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: It's just like, we're looking for treasure. Is that some
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: sort of a metaphor or a sense that can't be described? No,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: we're searching for treasure.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: See, I wouldn't quote it. I just did a vase. Yeah.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Relax, guy.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Relax, guy. But yeah, so when the Simpsons movie
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: came out for you, were your friends excited for it?
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Who did you go see it with?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: So I'm still best friends with my mates from the
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: first week of high school, 2001. So they've been my groomsmen.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: And I was mentioning Luke before. Luke now works in
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: VFX here in Sydney and he got to work on
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: the Odyssey, Masters of the Universe. So again, It's so
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: cool because when Batman Begins came out, it was what, 2005,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: we were in year 11 and Luke and I were
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: like Nolan nerds and now he's worked on one. Now
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: he's got a son as well. So it's this cool evolution.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: But the four of us, it was me, Pete, Luke, Brad,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: and our friend Arif as well. We were raised on
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Simpsons quotes. You asked my wife, we met on Tinder.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: And in my Tinder profile bio, it was, I got
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: most of my education from The Simpsons. And it's true. Like,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: most of my education was from The Simpsons.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: So, it was.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Massive for us. It was huge. And I remember we
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: all took the day off during the week. And it was,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: I think it was, well, you know, the lame quote,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: you know, it's all about the journey, not the destination.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I remember the journey going to Westfield, getting the popcorn,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: the drinks. And then you watch the movie and go
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: through that journey. And it was awesome. And I think
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: that probably helped with digesting the film as well and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: having more of a positive outlook on it.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I'm excited for the tie-in merch and stuff that comes with,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: in the real sort of lead up to when the
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: film actually comes out next year. Because last time, remember
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: they had like the 7-Elevens became Quickie Marts.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: They tried to have Burger King in Australia for a
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: little while. So, we had Burger Kings here and they
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: had all the Simpsons movie toys. And I'm wondering what
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: they're going to do next. I feel like in the last, say,
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: maybe two or three years, they've really upped the game
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: when it comes to Simpsons merchandise. For a long while,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: it was almost like Fox just didn't know what to
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: do with it. It was just the standard, you know,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: don't have a cow, man, t-shirts, that kind of thing.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: But now there's, you know, the toys that we're getting
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: are just like so obscure. And you're like, this is great.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like, I think you posted a couple of them. There's, like,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the evil Krusty doll.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got the King Homer down here, the Flyboy Bart, that,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: you know, the DNA machine. There's now going to be
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: a Stretch Dude- Stretch Armstrong coming out. Yeah.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: See, stuff like that, man. It was very generic and
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: by the books, but yeah, I feel like, like I said,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: that evil Krusty doll, like that whole line as well.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I'm like, that's cool. Like if we had had them
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: back in the day and we were kids, like it
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: would have been like, and you and I spoke about
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: this last time, the red rooster, their happy meal.
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I put it up there.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's right. You've got like mint condition, like the
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: box and all that. That was huge.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Like that.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I remember having them and I'm like this, I've got
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: them all on the couch. This is the coolest thing ever.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Everyone had one, if it was in a box or somewhere,
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: everyone's house had at least a couple of those figurines
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: somewhere laying around. Plus, remember the old Nutella glasses? Yeah.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Every kitchen in Australia had a couple of them. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I remember that. Yeah, that's right. The long Nutella jar,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and you'd wash it out, and you're like, this is it.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I've got this for the rest of my life.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: What a time to be alive. You can't do that.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: They don't do that shit anymore.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: No, it's like the Batman Forever glasses. Like, you know, honey,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: break out the vagina.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're so good, man.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: You go to Macca's now and the kids get like
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: a little booklet in Happy Meal now. I'm like, bring
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: back the Steins. Yeah.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: What is this crap?
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Speaking of things that I don't want in the new
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: film though, also you can't touch on it earlier, like
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: dated references, but I don't want celeb cameos. I feel
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: like the first one had like the green- the Green
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Day theme is cool, right? And Green Day is still
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: kind of relevant in 2026 to.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: A particular- And then Tom Hanks.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Tom Hanks, you know, like I feel like having celeb
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: cameos really dates it and it- See, as soon as
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: this movie, the first one came out, we're now really
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: in that, look who we've got on the show this
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: week era, where it wasn't celebs voicing characters. It was
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: celebrities just coming onto the show. Hey, it's Britney Spears. Hey,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: it's Jon Stewart. Hey, it's Lady Gaga. And it was
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: almost like they were just putting real life people into
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: the show every single week. I don't want them to
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: do that in this one. I want to see if
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: they can just generate a really compelling movie-esque story in
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Springfield with just the characters of Springfield.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. And that's it. they've curated all these wonderful characters,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: like each end of the spectrum. And I love that
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: it creates such good discourse because it's so subjective of
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: like who your favorite character is. And there's just like,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: there's something for everyone in terms of a character that
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: you did not necessarily relate to, but like you find
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: comfort in that makes you laugh. And yeah, I think
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: letting them go by the wayside, like they kind of
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: did in the first film where they're just like a
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: quick cameo here and then you're like, Dr. Nick gets killed.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: And then, you know, Barney and Lenny, Carl, they're there,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: but they're not there. And then, I don't know, they
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: kind of just come and go. Whereas I feel like
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: if the story can be so on point, like flawless, tight,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: where you've got the main bunch of, obviously the Simpsons,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: but also the side characters that have had so much
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: screen time in the past, sometimes where they've had episodes
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: dedicated to them, to not let them just feel like,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: a cheap cameo or just one line and they're gone
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: just so they can be like, see, they're there. Like, no,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: give these characters a purpose because they've had such big
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: purposes in the past.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: What was your thoughts on them bringing Russ Cargill into
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: the movie as the big bad?
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: It was a distraction for me at first because I'm like, well,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: that's Hank Scorpio. Like, what's going on here? Because as
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: soon as you heard his voice and I'm like, that's
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Hank Scorpio. What's going on here? I didn't have a
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: problem with it. I think he did a great job.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I also love the bouncing back and forth with President
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Schwarzenegger and stuff like that. That was all great. Him
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: with Cletus as well. I didn't have a problem with it,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: but also at first it was a distraction because it
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: was the same guy that voiced Scorpio.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: Do you think the movie The New One needs a villain?
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Does the story need a villain?
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think it needs a villain, I don't necessarily
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: think it needs a villain villain. Like if anything, the
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: villain can be conflict going on with some of the characters,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: but it doesn't necessarily need to be between Homer and Marge.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Cause again, been there, done that. But I don't think
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: you need, like, I think because it was their first
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: cinematic run, they had to have something that was cinematic
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: and epic and, you know, put the dome over Springfield.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Russ Cargill, all that, Ipa. But then you leave Springfield
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and all that existential stuff happens and they got too cinematic,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: if that makes sense. Whereas I feel you can pull
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: in the reins but still have a really, really well
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: done character-driven story. Have writers been confirmed yet for this one?
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Let's have a look.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Because if they got Schwartz, can you imagine if they
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: got Conan back as well?
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I doubt he'd do it. Yeah, yeah. No, there's
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: no confirmed writers yet on the wiki page anyway. Okay.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming it's going to be a lot of the
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: original ones. Because a lot of the guys who did
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: the original Simpsons movie still work on the show as
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: executive producers or consultants in some way. Yeah. Yeah. But
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Al Jean's just going to be relaunching The Critic with
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Mike Reese soon.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Like John Lovett's The Critic? Yeah.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Really? Yeah. He confirmed it on our podcast. Yeah. Okay.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Is Lovitz going to come back?
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Lovitz is doing it. Wow.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Okay. Actually, I never really got into that. Did you?
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Not at the time. And I've rewatched it now and
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: I've gone, wow, this show was like made for me.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Like the humor was made for me. Do you know
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: the concept of it?
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Well, not really. Cause my introduction was the film festival episode.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: And man, is there a history behind that episode? Have
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: you ever heard the history behind that? That's for another day. Yeah. Right.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. Mac Graney's name is not even on
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: the credits for that episode.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Like he just- doesn't want to be associated with it.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: No, he thought, because James L. Brooks helped produce the critic,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: the original one, and he felt he was, James L.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Brooks was just, and Gene and Reese were just using
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: the Simpsons to promote their own show.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Ah.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: And there was big turmoil. Oh, right.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, no, I didn't, I thought it was just like,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: you know, like a Marvel Cinematic Universe crossover.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: See, I, well, I didn't think it was a crossover.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: At the time, I had no idea who Jay Sherman was.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: I just assumed he was a film critic in the
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: world of Springfield. You know, I didn't, I didn't realize
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: he was a character from another show or anything like that.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: I think the episode works in itself like that. But
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: what was I talking about? Oh, the critic. Yeah, so
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: the way it works is like he is a film critic,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: but it features almost like family guy-esque parodies of movies.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: So like, for example, you know, have the alien where
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: it's getting closer to Ripley and things coming out, but
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: it kisses her on the cheek. Just things like that.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: So it's like him. It's like taking the piss out
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: of um, out of classic movies. It's almost like done
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: in like a 2026 reels era where it's all like snippets,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: you know? Yeah.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Okay. It's like, like family guy cutaway gags.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Just like, well, it's him saying, and here's
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: the latest clip from the latest movie aliens. And it's
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: a parody clip though. It's not an actual clip. It's
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: them taking the piss out of aliens.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Ah, okay. Yeah. I've, I'd see it in passing when
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: it was on, um, Foxtel back in the day, but
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: I'd never really like committed to watching it. It was just,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: it was just a film festival episode. And I'm like, Assumed,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: like you, that he was from Springfield. And because it
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: was Lovitz as well, and he's voiced so many characters,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: like the art teacher as well.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: Another triumph, yeah.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Even a rhombus can create an adorable little bunny rabbit.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: He did the director of the play that Marge was
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: in with Ned Flanders.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's right.
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: But the big one is Artie Ziff. That's the big
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: one he does.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's right.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Artie Ziff, of course. Tell anybody about my busy hands.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: Except myself.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, look, I'm keen. Like, it's just anything Simpsons,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I'm always going to be excited for. But I'm sounding
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: like a bit of a hypocrite because I haven't played
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Catch-Up with the latest episodes.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: I don't think you have to play Catch-Up. I think
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: you can still be a Simpsons fan and not watch
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: the show anymore now. Yeah.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Like, I just go back and watch the Golden Oldies. Like,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: to me, that's... But it's like what I do with
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Home Improvement and Frasier. Like, it's comfort food for me. Yeah.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: And there's also the... A lot of people have said
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: that we go back and re-watch these shows because we
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: know how they end. Yes. And we don't want to
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: be surprised anymore. We don't want to be shocked anymore.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: It's like, I know how this one ends. I know
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: I'm going to be happy at the end of it.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: I would rather just watch this, please.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: There's enough uncertainty in the world, whereas we know exactly
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: how these go down. And it's like an ADHD thing.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: You're just like, I know exactly how it's going to
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: go down. I can fall asleep to it. I'm not
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: going to miss a thing.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: Yes. Well, I think that I'm just about to do it.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: I know you're going to get back to daddy duties.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: You're a new dad. I can't believe it. I am.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: I am.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: And like we were talking before, like eventually I'm going
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: to be introducing my boy to all this stuff. So,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: it's exciting.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: What's the episode you feel like you're really excited to
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: show your kids? What's the one for you that you
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: have the most nostalgia for?
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Man, probably the Stonecutters.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Stonecutters. Probably Lisa on Ice as well.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: My kids gravitate towards that one. They like it. Yeah. Yeah.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I think as well- That's hard. It's just like, you know,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: naming your favorite movie. It's hard. But there are a few.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Do It For Her.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: My kids love the, they call it the one where
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Homer gets fat.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: The one where Homer gets fat. Also, I love the
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: camping one where they go on the raft.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's a big little doodle. Yeah.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: A fine vessel she be. I'll take it.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: They rewatched, my kids watched the New Kid on the
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Block yesterday, Laura Powers, written by Conan O'Brien. Yeah, right.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: And I completely forgot that Captain McAllister wasn't a real captain.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: He wasn't, that was his first ever appearance. That's right.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: He wasn't intended to be a genuine sea captain. And
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: then he just evolved into a sea captain who's just,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: you know, oh, many stories from back in the day
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: out on the seas. And it's like, no, no, he
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: was just a guy that opened up a fucking all-you-can-eat
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: seafood buffet. That's what he was. He pretended to be
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: a sea captain as a gimmick. But no, they just
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: turned him into a sea captain.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Tis no man. Tis a remorseless eating machine.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Still my favorite Homer B plot of all time. That
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: could be me.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: And I love, that's the same episode as well where
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Lionel Hutz is like, but you are the greatest hero
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: in American history. Yes. Is that also when Skinner comes
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: in and he's like, Orange Julius, and he's like, I've
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: got one, it's half drunk. And he's like, why don't
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I just drink out of a toilet? And he's like,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: he'll be back.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: He'll be back. I think it might be the one,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: I think the one where they're suing him for, Mr.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: Burns for sexual harassment. Oh, yeah. It might be that one.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: But I remember, like, I was in here doing some
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: work and Alec was out there watching New Kid on
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: the Block. And Alec runs in and he goes, Dad,
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: you won't believe it. So, Homer got kicked out of
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: a place that has all you can eat, but he
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: wasn't allowed to eat all you can eat. And it
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: was like all fish and stuff. And when he couldn't
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: eat any more fish, he went fishing.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: See, that's cool. See, that's what I'm looking forward to,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: like certain plot points that mean so much to you
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: and I, seeing your kids' reaction. Like that's going to
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: be like, and you kind of, you're probably the same
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: with Elliot and Holly. You're kind of like, like, waiting, like,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: how are they going to react to certain things? And, yeah,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: I'm excited.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: I'm so glad I was able to capture on video
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Elliot watching the end of Empire Strikes Back for the
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: first time, not knowing what happened.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: Because I realized that The Simpsons spoiled that. I'm so
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: glad I showed him that because he watched the first
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: Star Wars about, you know, six months ago, and we
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: only watched Empire about a month ago. But had he
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: watched The Simpsons before Empire, it would have been spoiled
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: because Homer spoils it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, but things
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: like that, like, you know, the Darth Vader moment and
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: just real sort of twists and turns. It's great being
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: able to sort of experience it with someone who has never...
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Because everyone knows the Vader angle. But your kids don't.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: No.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Why would they? No, exactly. You've got a lot to
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: look forward to being a dad.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Seeing that... Pardon me. Seeing that penny drop
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: with Vader and Luke, that's one for the books.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: It is indeed. But thank you again, man. Plug all
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: your socials in your new YouTube channel and whatnot before
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: you go.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, awesome, man. So, like, last time.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I was on here. I was doing the Cosplay Chris thing.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: But now you've got the Chris Stanley YouTube channel, which
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: is like my main jam. So like movie reviews, entertainment news,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: do a lot of like coverage on screen news props.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: So yesterday was Texas Chainsaw Massacre Day. So I did
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: a video covering some of the screen news props and like,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: where are they now?
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: It has its own day? Yeah.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Texas Chainsaw Massacre Day was yesterday. Everything has a day.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it does, doesn't it? Yeah, it's Avocado Day. Yeah, yeah.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Like, my wife will be like, oh, it's International Chocolate
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Mud Cake Day. I'm like, isn't that every day? Yeah,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: and then on the Instagrams, it's just Chris Stanley Official.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I have an Etsy store, Props by Chris,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: where I do a lot of horror props. Like, Stuff
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: back here is from fellow artist friends. I love collecting
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: their work, but I do a lot of Freddy stuff.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: And that's another thing. I've got to introduce my boy
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: to the horror stuff as well, slowly.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: What's Baby's first horror? Like the Goosebumps TV series?
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, God, yeah. And Are You Afraid of the Dark?
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: My kids love Goosebumps. So, yeah, that's a good one.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Good one to start with.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Amazing.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: It's been a pleasure, man. Talk to you soon.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Dando, thank you so much, mate.