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The Top 10 Simpsons Episodes Of Season 18 · Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

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Four Finger Discount. Yes, welcome to four Finger Discount. It is the
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season eighteen finale of the show. I'm very excited to get into this.
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We're going to be talking about our top five episodes, but for now,
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I'm Dan and I am guy. Yes, it's top five times. We
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have wrapped up the entire season. Eight full seasons you've done? No,
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you started, Yes, So eight full seasons you've done on the show.
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Now that's correct. You've reviewed eight seasons of The Simpsons. Can you believe
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it? I cannot believe it. I can, I can like yeah,
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And look, I think we were pleasantly surprised a lot of the time.
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I've got here in my note, Season eighteen a mixed bag that had some
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absolute stinkers, some really disappointing episodes, but also a lot of my favorite
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post Golden era episodes were in this season as well, and there was some
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that I completely forgotten about and maybe never even seen. It really tweeted by
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surprise, and I really enjoyed as well. So we're gonna get into our
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top five. But there were certainly signs of burnout in this season, I
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thought, with many episodes similarly running out of steam by the end of the
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episode, as well as just dragging ones out with filler. Yes, episodes
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that felt cobbled together out of bits and pieces that are lying around the writer's
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room. Certainly say the line guy, A bunch of stuff happening, A
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bunch of stuff, Just a bunch of stuff. When'd you say say?
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The line Guy's like, no, I've got maybe five go to that would
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be your go to set lines. Uh, take something existing and put a
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clock in it. Yeah, the future is now old man, future is
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now old man. Something to do with sawny yep, the one we just
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said. And I don't know, I think Zach sit na say, But
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I mean, I'm figure about what happened the other day. I love to
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use the phrase two grade taste that tastes great together. And I can't use
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that anymore because I can brockman myself. Yes, of course. But anyway,
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So what we're gonna do today is gonna run through our top ten episodes.
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So you're gonna pick your five. I'm gonna pick my five. But
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before we do that, you're gonna try and guess my five, and I'm
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gonna try and guess your five. So you say what you think my five
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are going to be I won't look at you. I'll look at my screen
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and then I will say the same to you. I don't want you to
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I want to try and give it away. So are you going to turn
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your headphones off them or listen? I'll just I'll just be straight faced.
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I won't I do want to give anything. Oh you're gonna pokeer face me?
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Yes? Yeah, that came out all wrong. My list of Dando's
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top five number one, the Boys of Bummer No especially on my list.
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Oh no, Okay, Dando's Top five The Whole whod Couple, Springfield up
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twenty four minutes, Local chords, Entree of Horror, Tres Horror is our
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do we not count? That's one of those it's like a default when we
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put to the side because it's it's not that it's non cannon, because there's
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other non cannon ones in here, but it's just it's its own thing.
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Okay, let's put put in Boys Obama. Then I might take one out
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of Mite. Well, I've put a bit of crossover because I had to
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think that you and me have similar tastes, although history has often proven that
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wrong. Hmm, let's say the mook, the chef, the wife and
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her Homer. Okay, now I think your top five that one easy just
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said the moot, the chef, and the wife and a Homer. I
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thought, with your love of jazz, you throw in Jazzy and the pussy
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Cats. You can't always say what you want. I enjoying that one.
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I also thought you'd like Yocal Cords, and I was tossing it. I
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couldn't quite pick one more, and I've thrown in Homer. RAZI all right,
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so hit me with your number five again. I have failed to put
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numbers on these, so okay, but oh start from the top, and
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in my top five is Moe and a Lisa. You've got. I was
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thinking about that because I know you liked mo. But I went back and
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looked at my notes and I remember there we weren't completely sold on the story
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by the end, so I thought that might have sort of taken it out
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of your top five. But yeah, what was it that got Mow and
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a Lisa over the line? For you? Two words? Shabo friend zone
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as a lip bro. Yes, I've tended to do that in the but
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no, I think because I am a I am the radio, because I'm
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a writer and a bookworm. I tend to like anything that had sort of
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a literary bent. I like the way that it's skewered the pretensions of that
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whole I don't know, circle or community or whatever. And I liked I
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like the relationship between Lisa and Mo. I like it when you take elements
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that don't necessarily belong together and try to create something new, try to add
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a dash of new flavor. And I thought it worked pretty well, honestly,
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So yeah, that's I think that's the main reason that I was happy
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with it. I was being facetious when I said the whole shade bone friends,
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but I do find that extremely funny. What else did I enjoy that?
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I mean, yeah, any any of my episode is pretty good.
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I mean I liked his poetry, and I liked how I don't think mods
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especially an especially deep character or anything like that. I don't think they've written
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him all that deeply, but I do like the ways that they explore his
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self loathing and I don't know general malecontent attitude. I think the older we
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get in with today's society and just sort of the idea of social media and
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how can really plan your mental health. I think mental health being a much
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hot more of a hot topic these days, we can relate to my a
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lot more because it seems like he is going through a lot of the mental
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health issues. Had a lot of us tend to go through it from time
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to time, I would say so, absolutely least to sort of when I
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was a kid, I just laughed at how angry and silly he was.
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You just seem like an old grump, but yoder you get, you become
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an old grump. And he realized, you know what, most he's on
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point. Sometimes, Oh yeah, he certainly has his moments where he's not
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on point, but you know, okay, So my number five, I've
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gone with ice cream of Margie with the light blue hair. I was wondering
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about this one. It was it had a little asterix on. It was
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like, this could be one that dand likes, but why do you like
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it? Well, it's just it's always been one of those episodes where I
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can buy I like when home is good at something that's right and I'm a
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big thing of that, and when you can actually believe that he would be
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successful at this, and it's one of those jobs I've always ponder about going
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how they left it. How had he not been the ice cream man up
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to this point season eighteen. It's one of those stories, but I know
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I tend to get annoyed when they don't explain that he's not working at the
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power plant, But this one actually gave an explanation at the start. Yes,
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and yeah, it's not all that far fettered Homer would be successful as
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an ice cream man. The only reason I put it at number five was
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that it had to cram in the Homer and Muge relationship in peril story at
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the end, which didn't need to really be there. Yeah, I think
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that would be the reason why I left it off. I think it's something
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that we've talked about a fair bit in that in the best episodes of The
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Simpsons, or in the best seasons of The Simpsons, you've seen that Homer
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and Marge's relationship they can get frustrated with one another, particularly Marge getting frustrated
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with Homer. But in these later seasons it's kind of reached a sage where
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it's like, why are you with him? Yeah? I mean, but
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the thing is, in this episode, I don't think it was justified her
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anger because I think she wanted him to get home in time for her show
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or something. He was driving her really really fast, and he crashed into
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all the sculptures in the popsicle sticks. He was genuinely trying. It was
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an accident. It wasn't him going I'm not going to get their own time.
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He was trying to be there for much and made a mistake and she
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got really really angry. And I thought, of all the things, I'm
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on homer side here, So I think that's why I pushed it to the
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five, but just the overall story of Homer being the ice cream man.
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Then Marge turned that into an occupation for herself building the popsicle stands. I
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thought it was a really fun, fun episode, and it had the very
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early two thousands nostylesia kick of the Ali G Show, Oh hit my ride
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and all and get your freak on playing and things like that. Yeah,
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now I think we're probably gonna share this next one. I mean, I
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said it's one of yours, but I certainly liked it very much. And
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that's the local course. I've got number three. Okay, what did you
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enjoy I've got here? You know those episodes where you're expecting absolutely not shit.
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But you're going too going, oh, it's going to be a Clearest
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episode. I'm not going to look forward to this right, And it just
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blew me away. I just remember thinking, how have I never How have
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I got no recollection of this episode? I don't think I remember seeing it?
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But how is no one talking about this? Because I thought this was
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so great. I love that they didn't focus on the shick aspect of it.
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It wasn't Clearius as a Hill, but Clearus was like the speaking of
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Quite on set. This actually sort of hits a little bit harder now,
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just sort of the I guess in Quite on set the parents were not happy
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most of the time with what was going on here, but clear this is
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just that manager taking advantage of his kids, pushed him into the spotlight,
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everyone making money off them, and they it's like, we're not really happy
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with this, but we're going to do it anyway. Yes, we should
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clarify unless than actually recorded all this and it's the episode because we spoke Quite
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on set recently on a podcast. Yes, and we also spoke for a
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fair bit of it before we hit record off today's podcast, at which point
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I said I was hashtag Team Snyder and I said, no such thing.
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Ah, yeah, but we we have been talking about that a bit,
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and yeah, it does certainly relate to this. I'm glad that what clears
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wasn't sidelined. He was not front and center for this. Yeah, and
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he was included. He wasn't. This is what happened. This is what
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happened. If Clet has got money, he would blow it all. Yeah.
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And I like that they brought Brandan back at the end because it was
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a sign of a good episode where I hadn't actually thought throughout it. Where's
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Brandean in all of this? And she was over in the in the army.
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I believe she was deployed and she snaps clear us out of it.
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But also we get the b plot of Dark Stanley, which was so great.
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I really loved that Bart going to therapy but just making up the idea
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of a legend, a school legend that the bloody Mary Candy Man, that
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kind of thing and being scared by he gets sent to therapy and we get
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Meg Ryan as doctor Swanson. That's I think one of the reasons why it
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was included in my top five, because he has Team Ryan for life as
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a as an eighties and nineties boy, yeah mc well eighties boy, nineties
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man, she made you a man, she certainly did. Yeah, no,
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yeah, that whole therapy b plot was really really entertaining. I thought
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Meg Ryan did a wonderful job. I mean, as we've said in the
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past, you know, you get certain actors on and you're very aware it's
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like it's so and so guest where occasionally get some actors on it's like,
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I'm treating this like a performance. I'm treating this like a character and play
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it that way. And that was the case with Meg Ryan. I think
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was not until the end credits, or at least until the final scene that
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she was in, was like, who is this? They're doing a really
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good job or I'm really enjoying their work, Meg Ryan, Meg Ryan.
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I love when you don't know who it is, like you're saying when yeah,
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that's a sign of a good a good role. When they're not trying
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to when it's their voice but it's a slight twang their voice and they're creating
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this character. Yeah, when did this happen? Recently? It might not
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have been on The Simpsons, but it might have been on a King of
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the Hill. Or something. There was Jim Cummings with Pops. Was that
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man got a Thousand Boys? I think it was the Clay what's his name,
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Klay Greeneberg or whatever. It was Green Day of course as a band.
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Yeah, and it wasn't even Billy Joe Armstrong as it was very cool.
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Yeah, they're very good stuff. I remember going to the end of
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that go oh great day. Yeah. So God's was both in our yeah,
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my number three, but we got the fun twist at the end of
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that one as well where she ends up going to therapy because she was replacing
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her son who was killed by Dark Stanley with Bart Yeah, I mean a
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great what was the music from too as well? It was that dude,
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Dude, it was taken from something or sampled. Oh, I don't know.
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I don't think it was that, but the way you just did it
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because oh talk about unified theory. Yeah. I was on Twitter just earlier
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and there an account that I'm enjoying following called music Brownlow okay, where they
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look at the Australian music charts of each particular year and like, okay,
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give us three two ones on these, and they did nineteen ninety nine.
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I was sort of looking through the list game, well what was that?
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So it was just Australian songs or the ARIA charts. It was the ARIA
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chart, so you had local and international artists. But one song that was
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in there, I'd completely forgotten about it. I hated it then and now
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I hated it even more now because it's stuck in my head again. It's
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a song called two Times. Didn't you know? It's by a woman named
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Ann Lee. It's sort of a it's a club song but it's but and
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I had that in the brown Low Yeah. Yeah, Well, I mean
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the list is all the songs and it's like you pick out your three two
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ones, but it's got this Do Do Do? Two times? Yeah?
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That song? Yeah? I fuck it. I hate it. I fucking
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hate it. And you just did this. No. I hadn't thought about
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this in two decades and then I heard it again this morning and now Dando's
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doing it. What's going on? I'm just trying to find here on the
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on the on the wiki page about what the music the music was. Let's
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let's look here. That played during Darkstown the music from twelve Monkeys, Yeah,
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twelve Monkeys, knew Yeah, and it was from something. Yeah,
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it's not two times. So my number four So that was your number four,
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right? Yes? Yeah, okay my number four. I have gone
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with either meet the chef, the wife and her homer. Oh you really
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did, Yes, yes you got that one right. Yes, I've got
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your courts right as well. Yes, your cold courts for me. You're
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on fire so far. I thought this was a really fun guest star heavy
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episode, but it wasn't the guest stars as themselves. It was then playing
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Godfather esque characters and Sopranos as characters because they had the essentially the cast of
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the Sopranos on there, except for the main men himself of course. No,
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no, mister Gandeltheni nationally. But you do have Michael Imperiali and Joe
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and Joey. Yeah yeah, John Montoni was never in the Sopranos. Did
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not play like a guest part. Don't believe so soon. No, I
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can double check that right now, Joe Montanna Sopranos, have a look,
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Yeah, Sopranos. You feel like it would have been a fun sort of
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like, okay, you come on our show and then Joe will going on
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your show. Wouldn't It wasn't the Sopranos. Joe Montagna was in The Sopranos.
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I was watching The Sopranos for the seventh time, and in a Mercedes
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commercial featuring featured in season three episode, I thought I heard a familiar voice.
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Yes, it was David Rossi himself. I googled it to verify.
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The first result was a clip of them that he played David Rossi in Criminal
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Minds. Oh so he Oh sorry, I thought David ross must have been
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another actor. I didn't realize if I've never watched Criminal Minds. So David
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Rossi. So Joe Montani was the voice of the guy in that commercial.
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Oh, okay, okay. I really loved the way they work the Sopranos
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story into this. It was because The Sopranos was one of the biggest shows,
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even not the biggest show on TV at the time when yeah, right,
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and know it was coming close to the finale. I just think having
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the one was a huge get and the way they used them. You discussed
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earlier how sometimes I get guest stars on it like, hey, look,
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it's Prime Minister Tony Blair. They have to actually tell you who it is,
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and they just make this really obnoxious cameover. It just sort of saying
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one line and they're going to have no bearing on the story. It's just,
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hey, this person's on the show, so we can use them in
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the trailer for the episode on the commercial Society people to watch. But I
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thought this one here really felt organic and they felt like they belonged in the
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Simpsons universe. It was a great combination of yea paying tribute to not just
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the Sopranos, but yeah, basically the whole mob scene gangster movie genre,
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right down to the closing scene, which is you know this beautiful mo'm arshaally
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Godfather, but also yeah, all the stuff about I'm sorry, is he
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what's the kid's named Mia, Michael, Yeah, wanting to sort of go
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his own way. Well, I mean that that whole thing is very much
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a Godfather tribute as well, because I mean, Michael Corleyoni doesn't necessarily want
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to be part of the family business until he had to join the family business
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and finds and he's a natural at it. But the whole thing about you
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know, I want to be a chef and all this kind of stuff,
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it's a good story about this isn't getting close to home at all about you
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know, you may be different from your old man. You want to walk
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a different path, or you just don't have it in YouTube walk the same
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paths as your old man did, all your parents did. Yeah, I
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added a whole new layder to Fat Tony's character. I thought it really did.
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Yeah, Yeah, a good episode. I liked a lot. I'm
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glad it was on both our lists. And Homer and Bart taking over seem
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to be obvious, unrealistic, but I also really enjoyed the scenes when they
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were running the show. Well, they're definitely father and son, aren't they
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in terms of if you let them indulge their worst instincts, they're going to
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do that. But they're actually kind of good at it as well. They're
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a good team when they're doing stuff that's not necessarily good for anybody else.
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Itmight of me of, you know, getting the grease or the the beer
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baron that, but was that the one where it goes which is the episode
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where they I know that was the grease one? Was like, we're in
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the racket business too. Speaking of our shot to our man Tom with Patoure,
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he recently had a scare on the field. Did you see that he
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collapsed so you got a really hard bum. Then about five minutes later he's
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just sort of in the middle of the field and just collapsed to the ground.
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Oh good, And one of the position players was like, are you
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okay, sort of helped him up again, and apparently he's done all these
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tests or two straight days of tests, no concussion issues at all, but
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he just collapsed. So have you doing well, Tom Liver? I hope
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you're doing all right, mate. He was our guest star on our revisit
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of the Grease episode talking about Grease. Yes, yes, if you haven't
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checked that episode, make sure you do so funny man. All right,
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I'm going to go you give me enough one of yours or you have to
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mix the chef as well, did you I did, indeed, So let's
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cut that one out instead. We'll go with twenty four minutes. Okay,
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I've got that as my number one. Yeah. This is just top five
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for me since Golden Ere. It's the best format bending episode we've had since
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Trilogy of Error with Linguo and all that kind of stuff that which is a
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play on is it run all the Run? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
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yeah yeah. I am a huge fan of the format bending episodes. Not
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huge on the trilogy ones where it's like three short stories, they can be
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very hit and miss. I like the ones where it's an entire episode,
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sort of taking a new format. This again one of the biggest shows at
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the time, twenty four. I thought they just absolutely nailed the aspect of
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being a parody. It was just so spot on. Again, they hit
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just that sweet spot of like, this is very very faithful to twenty four,
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very faithful to it. It's look, it's feel, its tone,
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but it's still unmistakably Simpsons. Of course it's the Simpsons. But it can
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be occasionally difficult to Oh, you know, we really enjoy show a we
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want to pay tribute to it. And sorry to try out one of my
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overused catchphrase, but some great taste don't taste great together. This was a
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situation where it actually did. I mean you could tell that either they really
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really really done their research on twenty four or they were just huge fans of
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the show and wanted to do it just right and merge it into the into
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the Springfield and Fox will like crossover. Yes, please, Billionaire turn is
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up there, go. I like the idea, go ahead with that.
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Yeah, but it's just funny, well written, so on point, the
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transitions, the split screens, the countdown clock, everything, why the commercial
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breaks it all. It felt like a twenty four episode, because yeah,
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what twenty four episode you for the best of my recollection was often oh,
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I don't know if I can trust this. Oh, wait a minute,
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betrayal, all this kind of stuff and this said he'll turned by Martin Prince.
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But it was like it was a hill time, but there was a
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reason there was always a reason why. There was always a reason why.
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Yeah. I mean, if it's a character that you really like, it's
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either going to be oh, you've let me down the garden path all this
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time, or it's like they're going to have a reason. Oh they do
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have a reason. Oh, I'm invested in making sure this all works out.
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They're giving himself the wedge at the end, shame and having the you
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know, the bullies as the villains and yeah, all that kind of stuff.
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It just felt golden here. I thought it really did. Yeah,
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it was a spot on and plus having Jack and Chloe in the episode as
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well, but not as the main characters. That was then as a brief
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cameo. That's where a cameo worked. I think this might have been one
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of the episodes where they truly realized, you know what, eighteen seasons in,
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it's gonna be hard with original ideas. Maybe we can start doing more
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and more of these. And they're doing more and more of these in like
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season three, okay four, they did about six or seven of them,
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and most of them are really really good. All right. I think those
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episodes like this that made them realize, you know what, we can just
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sort of take a step back and not have to think of an original idea
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and just sort of have fun with this. Now we're at the point where
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we don't need to have a story set in Springfield. We've still have plenty
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of those, but occasionally throw one of these ones out there because they're fun.
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It reminded me, this one reminds me of twenty two short films about
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Springfield very much. So. Yeah, and like I said, it's great
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when you've got guest stars who come to play as well. Keep the subtle
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and is a fan or maybe just hanging around the Fox a lot, come
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on in and keep it. But because he's doubling up, he did g
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I Annoyd Grunt, which an episode I remember we did not like I believe,
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so when I was looking at the listom going, did we like this
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one as one where home is sort of the army invade Springfield and that's ridiculous?
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Yeah? It was a really absurd it it becomes civil war essentially.
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Yes, all right, Well, do you have any more that you haven't
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discussed? I've got one more? Was with my number two? Uh you
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did mention jazz and the Pusscats. Yes, that is I'm like, I
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knew you love a jazz You really enjoyed this one? I did, indeed.
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Great. Guess the cameo from White Stripes as well, that's right.
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Yeah, well this is the one with the need which you think the tribute
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to the video You think this is the episode that has the White Stripes in
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it, but they're only in it for about thirty seconds, and of course,
21:22
you know Fox being Fox and the Simpsons being the Simpsons, tune in
21:25
for the white stripe. That's what it was, really because they were hot
21:27
shit at the time. Yeah, still out to some degree. Yes,
21:30
what did you like the most about this one? Though? This is where
21:33
Bart joins the jazz band and Lisa, I believe what was her side story
21:37
here, well, because Bart turns out to be a bit of a natural
21:41
jazz or embraced by the jazz community is what Lisa's wanted all her life.
21:45
She has to find something new, or she has to find some way to
21:48
the animals. Kids adopting animals, and she goes to the shelter. I
21:52
think she was initially going to get one and injury addicted. Yeah, it
21:56
gets addicted to saving them. Yeah. What did I enjoying about it?
22:00
Well? I think just the whole It's a nice sort of button Lisa story
22:03
by the end where he realized, you know, you're the one of the
22:06
talent. Yes, yeah, I mean what's the name of the ice hockey
22:10
one, Lisa? Lisa? And yeah, I mean the old one?
22:14
Yeah, h listen, Yeah, yeah, I tend to enjoy episodes like
22:17
that where sentimental. Yeah, I mean you ever, sister. I'm sure
22:22
there are times when you're like I can't stand this fucking person and other times
22:25
like, yeah, you rescue them from a weird pervert at the pub that
22:29
we should revisit Lisa on ice. I don't think you and I have done
22:30
it as a guy on Springfield. After check it out, we may have,
22:34
But I love that one because that episode, perfectly orchestrat uh sort of
22:37
demonstrates that sorry, where odds with your sister. But then there's the flashback
22:44
where he remembers all the things, and they remember all things like the hurting
22:45
her leg and putting the band it on and the ice cream, and it's
22:48
just like, ah, fuck, you know, we hate each other,
22:52
but it's like we've always been there for each other as well. Absolutely yeah,
22:55
I love Lisa and Nice one of my favorite episodes of all time.
22:56
If we haven't revisited it, we will do it. We'll do it again,
23:00
doing it again. I think that's certainly one of the reasons why I
23:07
enjoyed Jazzy and the Pussycadman. It's not quite Lisa and I was level,
23:11
But when you've got a good storyline, or you know, just an idea
23:15
that resonates and makes sense no matter what context you put it in there,
23:18
you use it again. I had as my number two. I've gone with
23:22
an episode that gave me the most golden ear vibes more than any episode I
23:26
can remember in recent history, and it was Homerazi. I remember watching this
23:32
and just being blown away by how much. I thought if you told me
23:34
this was season eight, I'd buy into it. I just really really loved
23:37
the idea of Homes as the paparazzi. It's again a job that you can
23:41
really believe that he would be successful at. And I thought he just he
23:45
wasn't a douchebag. But when he was a douchebag, he was just being
23:48
a paparazz and that's what they are. Yeah, he's in a douchey line
23:53
of work. So it was funny to see him being a douchebag because it's
23:56
almost like they were taking the mickey out of it. Paparazzo is the singular,
24:00
right, Yeah, taking the fun out at the paparazzo. Paparazzi,
24:07
how would you say, making fun of making fun of the paparazzi, making
24:10
fun of the paparaz Basically, because he was making fun of the paparazzi,
24:11
you were able to laugh at him being a douche bay where normally would go,
24:15
oh god, he is such a way gun. Oh this is more
24:17
jerk as Homer behavior. But it fit this role. It really really did.
24:21
And I just thought, yeah, that the this would have been an
24:22
episode you could have crammed a lot of guest celebrity cameos into but they didn't,
24:26
And I think I liked that because it made it feel more Springfield universe.
24:30
Yeah, it wasn't we're grabbing the celebrities from the It was like,
24:33
no, these are the Springfield celebrities. Yeah. And at the end,
24:37
when they're all in their little club, yeah, human stem cells leaves it
24:42
plat what are the compromising photos of Sacho Mele eating the American flag? Yes,
24:52
what's it? Paris text and making out with mill that's right, Tatum
24:56
snorting the acts of Secretariat and me Gwimby and Kent Brockman eye that bondage from
25:02
doing role play. So you could have believed this would have been a story
25:07
they may have tackled after Princess Diana's death. It may have been too close
25:10
to yeah, too hard. Well, it's a bit of an evergreen topic,
25:14
how just Yeah, crappy paparazzi in general. Yeah, at the same
25:18
time, yeah, we're all complicit because like, ooh, check out those
25:22
photos. I think at that time too, Team Z was really starting to
25:25
take off and it was becoming paparazzi was becoming a thing. Well, yeah,
25:29
it always been there, but the introduction of social media and the Internet
25:32
and Team Z becoming a real established brand of Dave represent that we like the
25:36
w WE of Paparazzi went very much. So, Yeah, it's amazing how
25:38
you can sort of look upon old things with the stalagy. You look at
25:42
the very early days of paparazzi. Will say that even up to the even
25:48
up to anything in the twenty percent, even sorry, you can look at
25:52
anything in the twentieth century like the paparazzi there it's like, oh, you
25:55
know, it's gross, but it's also kind of hey, come over here.
25:57
I don't think. Let me take a pure Robin Williams and job hanging
26:00
out in a night class well as opposed to you look at it now.
26:04
But I don't know if TMZ is solely this people just wanting to walk down
26:10
the street, yeah, or you know, go out for dinner, hanging
26:12
out at airports and it's like so and so a seth Rogan. How does
26:15
it feel to be back in the Yeah, you just landed. How are
26:18
you feeling's gone? For playing funk off? I mean, I think and
26:22
they don't have anything to publicize. I like that has sort of come around
26:26
where I think we now as a society and now accepting that leave these people
26:32
alone. We get that they you know, the celebrities, and they should
26:33
expect some sort of form of attention, But if they just sucking out the
26:37
airport, like you said, leave them alone, I think we've turned on
26:40
TMZ now. I think. But while well, I never enjoyed teams,
26:42
but it was sort of seen as like, oh what they got for us
26:45
this week. Now it's like funk off teams. Give him a break.
26:49
It's a lot of people now with the wrestling community. It's people who bother
26:53
them at the airports to get him to sign things, and they hold up
26:56
like ten pictures sign sign. It's like, you're not a fan, and
27:00
you're clearly going to go you're a flipper. Yeah, And now wrestlers have
27:03
created this thing where they don't sign things at airports anymore, and the people
27:07
are saying, oh, those preaks want well, you know, it's part
27:08
of the job. It's like, well's actually not part of the job,
27:11
no at all. No fuck based people. But yeah, so that is
27:15
the top five. So I've gone with my top five running through they're all
27:18
out of order because of you said them as well, because I was lazy
27:22
and I didn't put numbers, but I've gone with My number five was ice
27:26
cream of margin with the light blue hair. My number four the Moot,
27:29
the Chef, the wife and her Homer, number three, Yokal Cords,
27:33
number two, Homaratzi and number one being twenty four minutes. So what were
27:37
your five? If you had to put them in an order? What would
27:38
be your number one? Do you think? I think my number one would
27:41
probably be twenty four minutes. There's an album of it's still fresh in their
27:47
minds, I think. But also it was just a great episode, that's
27:48
true. Yeah, it really was. In order, I would go twenty
27:52
four minutes, Yocal Cords, Mona, Lisa, No sorry, twenty four
27:56
minutes, Yoka Cards, Mook, Chef, wife, Homer, I want
28:00
to Lisa, Jazzy and the Pussycats. So I got how many of yours
28:02
got? Muke? Do you have Muke? And yours? I did?
28:06
Yep, Jazzy into pussy Cats. You didn't have. If you can't always,
28:08
I'm surprised if you can't. Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
28:11
Maybe it was just a bit too close, and I think like, oh,
28:14
am I choosing this because it was the last one we talked about in
28:17
Trusperation. In my mind, I did like a lot of it, that's
28:18
true. I thought you may have had stop on my dog will shoot.
28:22
I think there were good parts of it, and there are also parts that
28:23
was like, I don't know about this or I don't think it was bad.
28:26
It just felt like was this one of those ones that felt like assembled
28:29
out of various things as well? Some parts of it. Yeah, what
28:32
was the episode where it's like you're taking this long to get to the that
28:36
might have been there you can't Yeah, yeah, the episode? Alright,
28:41
so I got three and you got how many? I think I got three
28:45
as well? You guessed chords and twenty four minutes. Yeah, and also
28:49
well I was gonna give do you get me the book as well, didn't
28:52
you? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, I think I put in Springfield up.
28:55
Yeah. I hated that episode. Oh okay, I didn't hate it.
28:57
You. I thought I was considering putting in for you. It was
29:00
just one of those ones where the decling character doesn't do it for me.
29:03
That's probably the reason why I didn't have it. I think I like the
29:07
rest of it, and I think I put in a wholeharde couple because I
29:11
know you thought about it, you like a Homer and Lisa repisd Yeah,
29:14
I really thought because I love the idea of being a parent. Now,
29:15
when you've read in the book and you game that's a little bit too much,
29:18
I'm going to change it. Just make a little bit happier. There's
29:19
nothing wrong with a little white lie. True. The worst episode ever?
29:25
Now, I've gone with a new segment here we've already done. But what
29:29
was your biggest disappointment for this season. I'm gonna throw mine out first,
29:32
right, I've gone with Kill Gill Volumes one and two. We went into
29:36
that with such high expectations of this is going to be great. It's a
29:38
Gill episode, and it left us disliking Gill, and I don't think that
29:42
would have been the intention very much the case. Yeah, No, I'm
29:45
inclined to say that was probably the biggest disappointment. Absolutely. I mean there
29:48
were episodes that were worse. I've got the Boys of Bummer and Romeold and
29:53
Juliette were two absolute stinkers in my opinion, Romeo and Juliette. Juliette was
29:59
disappointing in the sense that but there is a story there, but my god,
30:02
it you knew not fucking executed properly. Oh absolutely. And the Boys
30:04
of Bumma was just so that's a down up. Yeah, it was just
30:08
so negative all the time. But Killed Gil. I went into that expecting
30:11
so much more and it gave me nothing. I don't know if this was
30:14
a disappointment as such, but I think an episode that really just let me
30:18
down or let me feeling a bit was probably Marge Gamer. Really Okay,
30:22
I didn't mind March going, but you didn't live through the whole BG,
30:25
that's right, Yeah, where I had friends who were really in that scene
30:30
and I so I can sort of relate to it in that sense. I
30:33
never played them all that much, but I had friends who were big on
30:34
World of Warcraft and that kind of thing, so I could sort of understand
30:37
that and I didn't mind it. But anything else that didn't really sort of
30:41
tickle your fancy. I mean, you did Revenge as a best as a
30:45
dish best served three times without me, is that right? Yeah, That's
30:48
why I didn't pick it, because we didn't do it together, which we
30:49
should go back and do it because there was two stories in there that I
30:53
remember really enjoying. There was, and they both felt like almost like treos
30:56
of horror ones where there was they were, but I think it was like
31:00
superheroes, like Bartman was one of them. And then sort of Millhos gets
31:04
his device where you beat up bullies or something, and it was it was
31:07
pretty fun. Okay, well we should do that at some stage. Yes,
31:10
I think it was one of those ones I mentioned earlier that the three
31:14
story episodes that I don't really enjoyed. This one was more of a hit
31:15
than a miss, if I remember correctly. But yeah, but Kill Girls
31:18
Volume one and two. Just remember thinking I don't want to dislike Gil,
31:22
but it's hard not to now. Yeah. And at the end when he
31:26
actually becomes a success and then Marge comes in and ruins it, I was
31:29
like, who, No one comes out on top of here? Who are
31:30
we cheering for? Yeah, everyone's a bad person in this bad behavior all
31:36
round. Yeah, all right, Well, I think it's also in our
31:38
time, since we're at the end of our top ten, that we do
31:41
the wild card draw for season eighteen. Now we need to make an adjustment,
31:47
do we we do? Yeah? Who was it. I found the
31:49
messages after you messaged me because they went to a separate folder. This is
31:52
our man, Jared Hornby. Hello Jared. He slid into my DMS,
31:59
but not in the fun way because he pointed out a mistake that we had
32:01
possibly made. Jared, hope you in my moment. I'm going to read
32:06
this verbatim. Hi, mate, I sent it a message through to Dando,
32:08
but I don't think it's gone to his inbox, but gone to message
32:10
requests. I think I had the brock Bottom new name first for the last
32:15
step. I know it doesn't mean too much, but it does in my
32:16
heart. Have n't been in the running for a long time. That's on
32:20
you, Jared. Change to Philip Jay Hawkins step one. Changed then to
32:28
Philip Jay Hawkins step three, success by step two. But I then forwarded
32:36
this to Dando, who then found it as well. So I've thrown him
32:38
into the world. We have the men. The upshot is that, Jared,
32:42
you're in the Wilkou drawer. Yes, who knows? All right,
32:45
suddenly could happen. It's just magical, Right've added all these names into the
32:49
randomizer. You give me the three second cannon. Click click, says,
32:53
click, click, three, two one again to stop it tell me when
33:00
to stop? Stop? All right, all right? How many times I've
33:05
heard that my life. The winner of the wild card draw for season eighteen
33:15
is let's redraw Hamish Wilson. Hamo, Hamo, Yeah, Hamish Wilson.
33:25
So he was on three points. He must have got a three pointer.
33:29
I'm assuming at some point maybe a too, maybe or maybe three singles.
33:34
The possibilities are limitless, by which I mean there are three. So congratulation,
33:42
Tames. Time is get We'll work that out. But get in touch
33:45
with us Anders, uh will be the best way. It sends an email,
33:49
actually, Simpsons mail bag at gmail dot com, and we will get
33:52
in touch with you as to what your price shall be. But that is
33:54
the end of season eighteen. You did it. Holy moly, we made
33:58
it. Yeah, we were a little were we a little worried going in.
34:01
We were very worried. We had a lot of people telling you you're
34:04
gonna hate this one. It's gonna be a slog. This is when they
34:06
made the movie. There's a lot of shit episodes. There was only one
34:08
of the episodes where I went, ah, god, this is this is
34:10
death. But even that though I thought overall it was fine that I think
34:16
there were five standouts for me, but I definitely could have thrown a couple
34:19
of others in there potentially. But the five episodes that I picked are five
34:22
great episodes. Yeah, there were some really really strong go to Wyo episodes,
34:25
and there was a lot of stuff in episodes that was like really good.
34:30
I mean, I think we said on more than one occasion that's Golden
34:34
Era and stuff, Well that's Vinted Simpson. You know, if this was
34:37
in seasons six to nine or yeah, we'd go three to nine, three
34:42
nine. That belongs. That absolutely fits. Yeah, the story of this
34:45
season, I think is they were burned out and there's a lot of good
34:49
ideas and rather than sort of focus on these ideas and make them a full
34:52
flight episode, let's just throw shit at the wall. Let's patch these together,
34:55
and you know it'll it'll be Simpson's brand fever. It's going to make
35:00
us a lot of money. Since it's movie, it's got to have energy
35:02
into that. But season nineteen is coming up, and it took a screenshot
35:07
actually on Disney Plus. I've Season nineteen the first four episodes and each screenshot
35:12
has a either Homer or Marge with a clearly a guest star of a new
35:16
cap. I'm like, that's going to be one of those years. But
35:22
boy, low expectations. If you keep your expectations rock bottom or rock bottom,
35:30
then you'll never be disappointed. I'm going to be checking up a pole
35:31
in the Patreon group for you guys to decide before we get into season nineteen,
35:36
a classic episode for us to review. Ah start. Actually, I'm
35:39
not going to do a poll. Let's just fucking pick one. Let's just
35:42
pick one, surprise people, Lisa knows. Let's make sure we'ven done it
35:45
first. Stick. I saw a funny meme the other day. I'm gonna
35:53
say on the air, I'll tell you off the that must be a really
35:57
funny amount. And pursuing the polls though, check out if you are a
36:04
support of ours and Patreon vote for the next movie for the movie guys where
36:07
we pit our team clean comedy, Yes, and decide which film we review
36:13
for the month of April. Last month we did money Ball. Indeed,
36:16
I'm not trying to sway any votes. They would never work anyway, because
36:21
guys, the King of the Big Dad zero. But one of my choices
36:24
was risky business putting on my film Nerd hat here. It's just been added
36:29
to physical media label, the Criterion Collection, so the gold standard thereof it's
36:35
like you're gonna get, you know, the original theatrical cut and the director's
36:37
cut. So Criteria Collection. They're sort of like competitors with Umbrella. Is
36:42
that what they are? Well? Nothing, nothing competes with Umbrella. It's
36:45
just the best there is. Shout out to Umbrella, a friend of the
36:47
pod. Stop stroking me, stap touching me, you're wearies. Criterion sort
36:54
of more. It tends to be sort of art house stuff, but occasionally
37:00
I'll throw in an important film that is nonetheless quite commercial. So I used
37:04
to always hear criteria and commentaries, and I'm assuming they sort of just pay
37:07
people to do commentaries on movies. Oh no, they've got sort of name
37:10
brand stuff. So you know, dogs like me will go. You know,
37:14
it's really good. It is creaton. It's sort of a short cut
37:16
to establish a bona farde is a film dog? All right? Well that
37:21
is our review. I've seasoned eighteen, have you guys? And John thinking
37:22
he was sticking around for all those episodes we sort of it tried a bit
37:25
longer this time because we revisited some classics and we had some guests time.
37:29
It was a hell of a good time. The season nineteen begins in a
37:31
couple of weeks the phenomena Davis Any find the words for those incredible listeners out
37:36
there. See you in season nineteen. S