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It's the smell of impending victory? Did you just vomin in that suit?
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Little? Have you cleaned that suit once since you've got it? Nobody swam
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in it. I gotta wash that thing. It's hard to know where the
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Now, that's weird. Started off as an egg four finger discount.
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Dude, Welcome to four finger Discount of the podcast where we always bathe in
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our costumes. This week, we're here to review episode six of season seventeen
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of The Simpsons. It's episode gab F two one. It's See Homer Run.
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I am Dando, I am Guy and yes, welcome to the podcast
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that is tough on nerds, even tougher on doors, which is bad news
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for me. But see Homer Run. Should we see Guy Run? You've
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been asked you've been committing to your to your running schedule every day on Facebook,
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the new updates, what on, so lot on. Oh, thank
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you very much. Yeah. I mean, look, there's a couple of
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a couple off days there, but I am told by people who run on
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the regular it's like, no, you've got to give it a rest every
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once in a while. But I am semi committed to dragging these old bones
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around the block at least a few times a week to you know, try
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and get rid of the spare tie and the spare spare tie. So yeah,
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today we're here to discuss see Homer run an episode that I don't really think
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knew what it was. It was like, it was a Homer and Lisa
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story. You know, we've had them before. You know, it's somewhat
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of a different spin here. And then about two thirds of the way through
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it, they're like, hey, politics. I was like, okay,
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cool to bath him. And I was like, for me, when when
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The Simpsons does a political story, I feel like, to ensure you don't
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look well, come across like you're sitting on one side of the fence more
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than the other, you need to dedicate the whole episode to it, not
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just cramming into the final act of the episode. I think the other thing
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when you're doing a political episode on The Simpsons is you've got to be kind
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of wishy washy. Yeah, you're right. This had a lot of splenders
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on his bump. For by sitting on the fence, I mean basically saying
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I don't know, politics is bad. It becomes a bit of a circus.
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You know, people are going to be distracted by bells and whistles or
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in this case, a salamander costume. I'm not really saying anything all that
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incisive or insightful about the political process. Um Dan I put it out here.
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He didn't know. He thought this was an episode that didn't know what
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it was. I knew what this episode was. It was twenty two minutes
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of a sucky character that sucks. That's what it was. Getting more and
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more infuriated and disenchanted with Homer as the years go by, as the weeks
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go by, as the episodes go by, I've got to say, I
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mean this was just kind of infuriating, kind of upsetting, kind of just
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like, why, what's the points of this guy? Yeah? The thing
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is that, and I know the people who run the show now say every
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episode's in its own vacum. You're not supposed to compare it to the Golden
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Near. Blah blah blah, that decide. It's hard to do that when
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you're grown up on the show, right, it's the same show. You
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can't just all of a sudden go, okay, we've got to forget that
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everything that's come beforehand for the sake of comedy. Even if we do do
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that, they've just made home of this character where in this episode he is
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They tried to make it like he was ignorant in the way he was being
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mean to Lisa, But how dumb you have to be to realize that your
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daughter is so sad that you didn't like her thing. And then like moments
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later, once he's had time to think about it, he still says,
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why is she upset? It's my day? I'm like, really, that's
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how you followed up the moment with getting sad about the photo, Like that's
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just it's just douchebag, man. It's just it's like, even if he's
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not mean to be a douchebag, he's a douchebag. Don't it really is?
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It really is the case? And I know, look, they've racked
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up hundreds of episodes by this time, and yeah, it's difficult to I
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don't know, find that freshness still. But at the same time, I
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mean, I think there are ways to explore the fact that you know,
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as a parent, you may have inadvertently or or just through ignorance or shi
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pigheadedness or whatever, hurt your child's feelings or disregard them or whatever. I
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think there are all ways to do that that don't necessarily beat you over the
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head by with how yeah, how much of a douchebag your your main character
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is? I mean, I think it's detrimental to the show in the long
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run. I think this is, you know, a prime example of why
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people were starting to say, there's the Simpsons sort of passed its prime,
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you know at this stage. I think it would have been a nice direction
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for this episode, considering they brought the politics into it, right, And
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I'm not sure whether they were hinting at this at the moment, but when
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Lisa says, you know, you should go for Mayor because then good people
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like me could tell you what to do, I think it would have been
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an interesting spin to say, Lisa, she doesn't necessarily respect Homer now,
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but she can see his popularity as the salamander, right, and she thinks,
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Okay, how can I manipulate the system so that I'm essentially the mayor
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of Springfield. I think it would get a really good idea you get started
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earlier, started that segment, like the beginning of Act two with the politics
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right, then Lisa essentially becomes the mayor of Springfield through Homer. That would
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have been a more fun story, I think, yeah, And I mean
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it'd be interesting if you know, I mean, Lisa's smart, of course,
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but she's still a child, still immature in a lot of ways,
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gets corrupted by power and Homer, who's essentially good at heart, even though
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you know they're doing their damners to make sure that we don't see that helps
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her see the error of her ways by you know, I mean, Homer,
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for all his faults, is fairly innocent to naive. Yeah, and
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then then then you would get an ending where the emotional oh, we love
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you love each other would have felt earned because they've both done something wrong and
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they've both loved each other. But I mean, yeah, when Homers was
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saying, well, I'm gonna win back my child's love by any means necessary,
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it's like, does this ever work in any realm of the multiverse where
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the rats you know? Geelong in twenty twenty three or Springfield in whenever in
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the fictional realm never, and we've already had that I'm gonna win back it
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in the what was the first episode of The Manities, I'm gonna win back
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my wife's love. And I'm like, how many times you have to win
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back your family's love? Yeah, before they just say no deal, Yeah,
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before they start, you know, doing the big X no dace.
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Yeah. So um, But yeah, I just think it would have been
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really interesting to see Lisa become the mayor of Springfield through Homer and everyone angry
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at Homer, but then him coping the hop cop in the heat for Lisa.
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Well, let's it'd be a nice sort of reversal on the on the
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American Idol episode where Homely begames like the Colonel Tom Parker character and manipulating Lisa
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and all that kind of business. And yeah, they'd be kind of a
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nice callback, kind of a nice echo. I mean thematically, I think
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it could kind of work. Yeah, but no, they did not do
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that. Now I'm sorry. I mean it looks easy for us in our
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lavish recording studios and beautiful down down Gelong as Count Basie licks his balls in
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the background to be thrown down potshots at Simpson's HQ thing. You know,
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they've got enough on their plate, and you know, hindsight is of course
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twenty twenty. But yeah, looking at this episode was like, there are
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so many ways, big and small, this could have been done a bit
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better. I mean, one note I've taken here. I mean this is
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only slightly related to what I'm talking about. But you know, there's a
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bit with Lisa's Janey's dad takes her, takes her to the zoo every week,
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and I was like, I want good at the zoo anymore, and
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Lesa go, yeah, that's right. Not to be all classic Simpsons would
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have done it this way, but classic Simpsons would have done it this way.
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You know, they would have thrown a nice little sort of flashback or
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throwaway gag of like Homer doing something ridiculous, like a three second bit,
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and you probably wouldn't that's notice. Oh that's a about that, And then
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Simpsons fans forevermore would have been re enacting that moment at the actual zoo when
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they go visit the zoo. Yeah, yeah, but that's not what we
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got. No, that's not what we got. No, so it wasn't
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a bad episode. It was just an episode where I sort of went,
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ah, don't really just a little bit more thought went into this, and
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it's as he said, it's easier to sit back in our chairs twenty years
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later. And you know, we weren't paid to write this, so you
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know, all credits then they were paid to write this episode. But who
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did write this? Let's have a quick look. By the way, I
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believe it was a woman who wrote this one. Yeah, Stephanie Gillis and
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Nancy Cruz directed it. So all female cast, ye, all female,
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not cast, but you know, all female people behind the scenes. So
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I think it's important that you do probably have a female sort of head behind
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a mind behind the When it's a Lisa based episode, I think it's more
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important. But yeah, it just didn't really didn't quite hit the mark for
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me. Yeah, I mean, all the stuff about Lisa flipping out in
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the playground. You know, she's clearly reached reached a boiling point and she's
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taking out of frustrations on all one Sundry. Everything she's saying is valid.
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The way she's sang it feels kind of a bit clunky and a bit sort
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of obvious, although you know this one was twenty years ago, and I'm
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sorry, it's half of me to concentrate, by the way, when you've
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got a cat just having the time of his life in the background, that
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it's awesome. I just like watching the cat. She's prancing around, licking
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his balls, scrashing around. I don't know if we're going to keep this.
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The thing of it is, yeah. Listeners of the show may have
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heard the story that the Lovely Louise, the Wonderful Louise recently got a new
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couch. I inherited her wonderful couch, got rid of my couch. Now
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I put my old couch on Geelong Marketplace on Facebook twenty five bucks for a
10:56
freedom. Couch has been ripped a ship by a cat. But know you're
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in stains, come get it. Some guys not playing me. But he's
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like, oh you'm interested in then, I'm like, you're gonna come and
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get this? Oh yeah, we're I'm here. I haven't heard himhim since.
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Eventually I'm gonna have to put this thing out on the ad on the
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Nature strip. But right now it is in pieces around the house and count
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Basie the cat is like cool things for me to climb and scratch part of
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it in the recording studio. And he's up there right now, as Dan
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I said, having the time of his life. I'm not sure if you
11:33
can pick up the fact that you can hear his claws that are ripping in
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the fabric um. The value of this count just going down down, down
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by by the second. So yeah, eventually come by Hernhill and you may
11:45
find a couch on the on the nature strip could well be yours if you've
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got the means to take it away. Hey, my favorite. All right,
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what did you enjoy from this episode? Mister Davis? As we all
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know, I'm a I'm a Quimby man. I vote one Quimby, So
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anytime that he's on and any time that he is just contemptuous of his electorate,
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I'm all for it. So I was happy to see him and essentially
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say, okay, so I snakduf doubler on that's great. I'm also great
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to see you know his I guess, mistress, you know what I'm sure
12:24
we've seen, miss Quimby. You mean he's actual, I mean he's he's
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dumb wife or dumb girlf an. I mean, what do you mean,
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yeah, we have left up her name before we continue. I'll find it
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again, but yeah, continue. I'm always happy to see her. And
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you know an acknowledgement that her voice is kind of silk. Well, I
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think she doesn't have a problem with her speaking voice. She does have a
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problem with her singing voice because people think it's dumb. I don't know.
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I enjoy her, so I was happy to see her make an appearance.
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But I can't find no anytime Quimby is just launding his power and lauding it
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over the people of Springville. It puts a smile on my dad. So
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it's very happy to see Quimby when Quimby. Here's the thing, right,
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the episode couldn't even give us a Quimby victory speech of any kind. It's
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just like, oh, yeah, and he got in, he got re
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left it in. I'm like, he didn't even show him. He could
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have been sort of say fuck you guys, I'm back in or something,
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you know, like didn't what he had, like the sign above him when
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you could see it in the background, when Ken Brockman was, you know,
13:28
reporting that he was back in power or something. I forgot I should
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have written it down because there's something something like God, nope, change is
13:35
bad, something along those lines to look no, that's not untrue. I
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didn't enjoy it as much as Hummer was a dick in this. I did
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enjoy because this is something that wasn't necessarily Humble's fault. It wasn't. It
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wasn't because we all somehow you know, have bad memories from times the time.
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But lousy magnet and turn out to be heavy birthday from Lisa. I
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was, oh, that's a funny video, like nothing's going right. Also
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enjoyed. Really is quick thinking when he breaks the window, just tries to
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wipe nothing. I watched it. I'm like, so this is even a
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WILLI maybe the guy I could enjoy. I'm not one anti willyum okay,
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feel going to take that out of contact, especially when you car pooling.
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But yeah, you're right, that was it. That was a good money.
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It's a very it's a very sharp thinking on not on Willy's part.
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Yes, making sure that window looked, yes, sparkly clean, but it's
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not even there. And I'm always a sucker for an every man for himself
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moment, right, I just love that every man for himself. But to
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back it up with trampel. If you must any more brain busters, it
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is time for this week's blockbuster. Brainbuster, mister Davis in this episode November
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twentieth and two thousand and five, What do you think was number one at
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the US box office? November twenty, two thousand and five, still though,
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and number third position? We had it on the last episode. Chicken
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Little still up down the top three, number three, Chicken Little number one
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and number two. What do you reckon it is? I'm gonna need just
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a little hint, just a tiny hint. It's based on a novel that
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was released in the year two thousand. That's that's no hint at all.
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Well, it's an adaptation of the film book released. Hang on, we're
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talking end of the year in the early two thousands and books. M hm,
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Now I take it back. You know, it's like, oh,
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there are a lot of books releasing. There was really only one name that
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you were thinking of. It was Harry Pottery, which one? But but
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which one? So let's see. The third was in the fourth or the
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fifth. So it's not Chamber of Secrets, not as caban, is it
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Goblet of Fire? Correct? What on Goblet of fire. Oh there we
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go. We took the took the scenic rand to get there. And the
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second one has had a comedy spoof film release since then. That stars your
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man John c Riley. Oh um, it's a hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
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And this is Walked Alone, Walk the Line. Let's Walked the Line,
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which was massive when it first came out. I remember, like Waking
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in Phoenix, wasn't it. He was like it was why the posted boy
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of Hollywood. When that movie came out, everyone loved it. Yeah.
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Yeah, it's a pretty good movie. Walk the Line. I mean,
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it's I love walk Hard the one that the one that sort of takes the
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piss out of it and you know Ray about Ray Charles and it takes bess
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out of all the music buyer picks. But it seemingly really took the took
16:34
the mickey out a Walk the Line, which is the same. It sort
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of has diminished Walk the Line's impact since then, but it's a really solid,
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really solid biography of a really of a really interesting dude. As well.
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It's a great performance by Waking, a pretty good one by Reese Witherspoon
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as well as June Carter Cash. I mean I can see why people take
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the mickey out of though, because it actually does have people sort of like
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saying the lines of songs in like actual conversations, like you know, you've
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got Reese with a spoon saying to Johnny Cave you can't walk no lane.
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What does they even mean? It's a hot SLAMI man, I got a
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ring of fire. Next question, you there eating the past, mister Davis.
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18:56
film Princess rock Star. That's Eugene Levy is the key. By the way,
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why at the cinema? My first question knew how much less is it
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for babies to get in fifty cents? Fifty cents less? What was really
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cooking when skinners set it's time to fix the or get the rats out of
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the lights? Oh? His raman noodles, correct, raman noodles, m
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h um. The pipe cleaner that Lisa I think bought in the end,
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it came from where I do you have my notes? I won't check.
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I can't mean by the looking it's something like do it yourself, your lazy
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ass or something. Oh, it came from that shop. Pipe cleaner itself
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And my final question is who paid for Jimbo's campaign ad bullies of people bullied
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It's just like holding him upside down and just getting all the money out
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Divisional air date obviously, Hammer Run was November twenty yet, two thousand and
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five. Written by Stephanie Gillis and directed by Nancy Cruz, the cash Gables
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Simpsons are all sitting on the couch as normal than it pans out and it's
21:42
like they're in a zoo on the alien planet Rajel seven. That's where they're
21:47
before. I believe Rachel seven, where King and Kotos are from. So
21:51
the episode kicks off with Father's Day Eve, and I will say Lisa was
21:55
a bit of a party poopy here. I'm like, motherfuck, we want
21:56
to celebrate Father's Day, even let us celebrate my Father's Day, sort of
22:00
real thing in your world. You're not a father. I can understand you
22:03
feeling like this, dandy, I mean hopefully you know every day is treated
22:07
as a Daddy's day. It's at the Dando household. You imagine it would.
22:11
I mean, I've I've dropped around to your place and seeing how the
22:14
kids just worship you. So yeah, i'd be I'd be surprised if they
22:18
don't. Guys coming around. Make sure you're appreciating me. I appreciate Uncle.
22:25
God no, don't let him in. But but yeah, so I
22:30
hope it's just having a having a nice time celebrating Father's Day, which is
22:33
going to be tomorrow. Marches are going to the mall and can I come
22:37
with it? I know I can't. There is something exciting, you know,
22:40
it's tanging cheek, you know, Nicholas close to Christmas, close to
22:41
the birthday, Nicholas like, I think got to the shop. I'm like,
22:44
okay, you can't come. I have to get something wink. So
22:47
it's always a big fan you have with you, with your partner or whatever.
22:49
But but one's money to buy a gift. This was an epic burn.
22:52
By the way, You've got to give bart this. That's true.
22:57
Hey, mom, can I have some money to buy dad at present?
23:00
If I give your money, how is the gift really from you? Where
23:03
do you get your money? Here's a ten make your own card. So
23:08
we're now at the mall and the sign that the front says asking about our
23:11
stepdad discounts. So you you're not technically a stepdad, but you are,
23:15
Like do you see yourself as a stepdad or do you see yourself as just
23:18
the guy that your mom seeing. I'm definitely my mom's boyfriend. Yeah,
23:25
I'm Russell. For a South Park reference there, it was Russell, right,
23:30
that was Russell whom ye stuff? But you're not You're not, you
23:33
know, telling the kids are go out and chop Wood are No I am
23:38
I am reaching the stage or I have Rechel sage. It's like, man,
23:41
don't talk to him. I'm like that how do they how do they
23:45
respond to that? When you were you telling them what to do? You're
23:48
not my real dad. Have you had that yet? I haven't had that.
23:51
Okay, they're probably too old for that, maybe think so. Yeah,
23:55
And if they did, I'd be Oh, it's like you can see
23:59
his heartbreak in real time. Uh No, I have not. But no,
24:04
they haven't been like that yet. Ralph, he's turned Wigham's five into
24:10
a fifty and then he puts one hundred because his kids paying out. I
24:12
thought that this guy didn't work though, because the joke was that he stuck
24:18
his hand in his throat and pulled the fifty back out, and he puts
24:19
the hundred in and waits for Ralph to spit up the next man. I
24:22
was like, but shouldn't he be what? Huh? We know we have
24:29
dumb characters on The Simpsons, but often they're dumb for other reasons than being
24:36
dumb, if you know what I mean. They're sort of blinded by like
24:40
like greed or a sense of their own importance or something like that. I
24:45
mean, we've said this before, even you know Ralph back in the day,
24:49
you know, before he became like an absolute simpleton. He was more
24:53
sort of naive and stupid, and that was kind of funny. Naive was
24:57
naive, yeah, yeah, yeah, And but now they're just kind of
25:02
it's like there's no one with a every every character in Springfield has got to
25:07
double the JEDIKEA. Well, yeah, that's true. There's too many.
25:10
Yeah, because he was not the he was the like the dumb character,
25:12
as you put it right, the nice one, like the dumb character.
25:15
But now everyone's just got the IQ of Ralph. It's like, but if
25:18
they if they need them too for the sake of a joke, you know,
25:22
yeah, exactly. Yeah. Bart then sees the Leather Buddy and Lisa
25:26
has the Shrek shirt and I was like, I totally want that Shrek shirt.
25:30
It would fit right in with the with the Dando line. Yes,
25:33
I'll always sing the praise of Shrek. I love Shrek, and the kids
25:36
love Shrek. But Shrek, like Shrek one and two, Shrek three,
25:38
it's just kind of like, yeah, I'm sure, really sure you're going
25:41
for here Shrek four. I'm like, what is this? I think I
25:42
think I kind of lost track of what they would do. I mean after
25:47
Shrek two, Yeah, I mean Shrek two is the one with puts some
25:48
boots, right, that's where the first was introduced. Yeah, Shrek two
25:52
is where he the fairy Godmother and things like that. Yeah, that's right.
25:55
Yeah, but I don't really remember. It's Shrek three, the one
25:56
with Prince Charming with timber Lakers, Prince Sharman, Shrek Forever after. No.
26:02
I think Shrek three is where, yeah you get them the Prince Charming.
26:04
Yeah. Okay, have you have you seen the new Puss in boots?
26:07
No? I haven't. Apparently it's really good. Okay, yeah,
26:11
he surprised me. Was a good character, and it's Antonio Vanderis. Oh
26:15
yeah, that was That was the main thing I liked about the Shrek Rancher
26:19
Puss in body that then he got his own movie, and I remember everyone
26:25
just loving the sad eyes moment. I was like, yeah, the Big
26:27
Kittie AE like that. Yeah, apparently the yeah, the Last Wish or
26:36
whatever it's called. It's like, no, it's like a really good store
26:38
and the animation is fantastic, and the villain is actually like villainous. Oh
26:42
sweet. There's rumors of there's rumors of a Shrek five coming out, which
26:45
you know, I will go and see. I wouldn't be surprised. I
26:48
mean, I wouldn't put it past them. And in all honesty, I
26:52
look, I think enough time has passed. Start going, Hey, Shrek
26:59
like Shrek track. A couple of movies weren't that great, but track track.
27:03
I think if you just sort of somehow it changed the timeline, so
27:07
it just sort of it's like a follow off to number two and just pretend
27:08
to number three and before never really happened. I think you can sort of
27:11
work a way around that. That'd be cool and sort of go back to
27:15
go back to the swamp and just go back to what everyone enjoyed, pretting
27:17
fare quard back true. Yes, anyway, all these people are still alive,
27:22
by the way, exactly, Yeah, capitalize on that. I completely
27:25
agree. But Uma Lisa says she's not going to get this shirt. She's
27:27
gonna make him something, you know, something with heart, making him a
27:30
present, which I thought was quite nice. And she goes with the shove
27:33
go do it yourself, your lazy ass, and she gets the what does
27:36
she get again? The it's a pipe cleaner. Pipe cleaner, that's right,
27:38
Yes, from Zanzibar home is now getting breakfast in bed. I don't
27:44
really, I'm not a fan of breakfast in bed because I just want crumbs
27:47
in my blankets. I can dig it. Yeah, I'm not. I'm
27:49
not a fan of Like here's a tree with some pancakes and a glass range.
27:53
Like. No, if I'm having breakfast in bed, oh, usually
27:57
his two slices of toast and a cup coffee, I'm gonna put him on
28:00
on the bedside table. Occasionally I'll grab a but yeah, take a bit
28:06
of toast. But then you gotta shake out your doner and all that shit.
28:08
No, I mean eating a whole meal in bit. I'm just no,
28:11
I'm not for it. It's like, don't shit where you sleep,
28:12
and don't eat we you sleep. This is news to me. I don't
28:18
eat your ship. I gotta go change my sheets, and don't shop where
28:21
you eat. Um. But so how it gets the leather butty and he's
28:25
a big fan of it. He has the vision of him stopping pirates and
28:26
whatnot. A Lisa gives him the Unicorn book just kind of hot as the
28:30
pirate winch. Yes, she has the bosoms all pushed up and all.
28:34
And Lisa gives home of the Unicorn book that she drew herself. Would you
28:38
got Lisa? Hell, it's the unicorns? Are you and me? Dad?
28:45
I do it myself? What do you think? Huh huh? Pretty
28:52
high found huh huh oh, which heart felt hers No escaping dead? Thank
29:00
you didn't like it? Did you? No? No, No, it's
29:03
great. I'm done with it now. Her saying you know, pretty half,
29:08
pretty half felt like she's she's nervous that he's not going to like it.
29:12
We've all had that moment where you give somebody a present which you put
29:15
a lot of thought into and you just hope that they understand and appreciate that,
29:19
and when they don't, it's just like, no, Yeah, you're
29:25
both you're both disappointed in them for not seeing how much it meant, but
29:30
you're also disappointed yourself. A thing, Oh I missed the mark on this
29:33
one. Yeah, And he's sort of like somewhat embarrassed and Lisa can't believe
29:37
it here because he sort of just tosses it aside. And I was like,
29:38
this is just like, arguably the meanness he's been as a dad,
29:42
Homer, He's done cruel things, you know, He's choked his kids,
29:45
and he's been he said rude things. But I guess just as a father,
29:49
now look at this, and I was like, man, you imagine
29:52
put yourself back and you've eight year old shoes and you've made something for your
29:55
dad for Father's Day and he just tosses it aside. I'm done with it
29:56
now, fuck you man. Yeah that kind of sucks. Man, That's
30:00
what I've written down. Yeah, not good at all. And mar she
30:03
just they put it on the fridge and this wasn't his fault where it goes
30:07
into the water and gets all turned into paper mache essentially because the magnet doesn't
30:11
work. But still I'm just like, yeah, not not great. Lisa
30:15
sat on the swing a little bit later, and Homer still says here like,
30:18
as I said, he doesn't get it. You know, it's my
30:19
day. Why is she sad? It's like, man, don't stop sucking.
30:26
It's just leave it at the at the at the fridge moment. You
30:27
don't have to reinforce that this guy is not a nice person anymore. That's
30:30
a difference between not understanding Lisa's at Lisa's efforts and just being a dickhead and
30:36
saying, oh, it's my day. Why how dares she feels sad about
30:40
what happened, but you know he and then he says, yeah, I
30:41
know how to win movement back because I lost your wedding album. I mean,
30:45
seeing Moe put photos of himself in the wedding album. That's fine,
30:48
it's it works for the most character it's in keeping. Yeah, yeah,
30:52
but I don't know, it just makes homement sound seem more dickhead. Anyway,
30:56
when you get Bart and he finds the Bart Boulevards sign, this doesn't
31:00
go anywhere. Oh no, actually I told it causes the accident, cause
31:04
of the accident, but that after that moment, like I thought maybe Bart
31:08
was going to become a Clapte or something. Also Bart Boulevards, I don't
31:12
know. I mean, I would have liked some explanation as to why they
31:15
was called bart Boulevard or maybe it was called like Barton Boulevard in his home
31:21
and yeah, close enough and takes it from there. But it's just been
31:25
called Bart Bull. Sorry, that's just that's a really tiny knit. But
31:30
I'm searching really close and kind of picked. I mean, I pitched,
31:33
I've pitched the sign, I stole Dando Road. I've still got that sign.
31:36
Yeah, because you know the where the Avalon air show is here and
31:38
here in Jolie an avalond that we we my family used to own the land.
31:42
That sign. That's why you turned down Dando Road to get there where
31:48
the airport is. Well, I would, but there's no sign that just
31:51
laws, always paths and nighway all the time. That's why. That's why
31:56
those that crash the ash the bullies tell the bullies tell Bart too, I'm
31:59
just still sign is able to if it says so in the sixth moment,
32:01
they can't do anything about it. And then because they realize they're good at
32:04
pressure, don't they caused Millhouse to be hit by a train and I was
32:07
assooming dead because he hit by No, he just breaks an arm apparently,
32:14
and then dolphins off to Hebrew School. Homer is now taking listen to see
32:17
a movie. We took the kids to see a film on the on Saturday
32:22
at the kids Cinema Vie Junior. We took They were just putting Frozen on
32:24
right. It was a John Wick chapter four. No, it was Forevermore.
32:30
But we went to the to the screening of Frozen. And normally we
32:34
go to these things and you know, it's quite quiet, not not quiet,
32:37
but you know, there aren't many kids in there. You know,
32:37
it's sort of just like, you know, maybe twenty kids. This was
32:40
fucking packed. We rocked up all these kids, these girls and frozen dresses,
32:45
and I'm like, oh no, and it gets no ship like plfing
32:50
down to the movie and every parent in there. Nicola was livid, right,
32:54
I was furious. Basically parents had taken their kids there. I'm all
32:58
for kids having a good time, right and just you know, you know,
33:00
it might might be go down the front and have a bit of a
33:02
dance or whatever the songs, or you know, muck around. There's a
33:05
slide there from to play on and some drawings and things like that. But
33:08
they take a break halfway through, at the halfway mark, for twenty minutes
33:12
for kids to have a play, right, to get their energy out and
33:15
go back, sit down and shut the fuck up washing the movie again.
33:16
I don't care if kids are talking or whatever, but these parents just sat
33:19
there on their phones legitimately on like Facebook and stuff, whilst their kids are
33:22
running up and down the aisles and they're hitting the screen and they're climbed over
33:27
the barricade they're climbing up and down the slide, not in the slide,
33:29
up on top of the slide, jumping up and down on things, throwing
33:32
food around, and the parents are doing nothing, like nothing that's like them.
33:37
It's like, if you just want to go somewhere where you kids can
33:39
suck around and go to a cafe, and I'm playing the playground, don't
33:42
bring onto a fucking move where people are paid money to watch the movie.
33:45
And God bless them, Alliott and Holly sat there the whole time, didn't
33:49
say fucking boo. I mean, the handcuffs helped, but they didn't move
33:52
at all. Right, But I was really proud of them. But there's
33:54
one point where I said there there was a woman behind me. I knew
33:57
it was her sons that were climbing up and down the slide, and I
33:59
was like, it's Nicola. That's the I'm getting the workers because there's no
34:01
workers in there. I'm like, what's going on here? Like how can
34:04
they have no staff? And the kids cinema? So I get out there
34:07
and the ticket guys in. I said to him, can we have a
34:08
member of staff? And here he goes, yeah, there should be three
34:10
girls and now. I was like, there's no one in the mate and
34:13
kids are climbing up and down the slides, and it's this chaos. Against
34:15
said, you can have a lawsuit in the hand soon if someone falls off
34:16
and hurt themselves and he runs off and he comes back and there's six workers
34:20
walked in with torches. It was just like the FBI. Down, down,
34:23
down down. But then the woman behind me just sits there and goes
34:28
Jesus, they're just trying to have fun. I was like, oh,
34:31
I hate you as a parent. I hate parents like this. Just if
34:36
your kids can't sit still for fucking five minutes, don't bring him to the
34:38
movies. You know what I mean, Go to a play center and let
34:40
them run wild. Don't bring them to the movies if they can't sit still
34:44
for ten minutes. I hope you. Or Nicolas saying let us go,
34:47
let us go. At one point of the Nicola do want we shouldn't have
34:52
come here and there at all? Well, I said, nickeodoas go time,
34:53
don't She's like, no, we've paid nobod because it cost us like
34:55
fifteen dollars a ticket. I'm like, we'll drop sixty bucks on this and
35:00
I'm thinking the chick behind us, his son's ropping down. She had six
35:02
kids with her. I'm like, so you've dropped like ninety bucks and you're
35:06
just letting her. I don't want to think about it. Fucking kids,
35:10
man. Oh Jesus Christ, where were we up to? What made me
35:14
think about that? Other movies? Movies? Yes, Home has taken her
35:16
to see Princess rock Star, but she leaves because he tries to make her
35:22
potential. She's a two year old or whatever. She's embarrassed by this Barton
35:24
showing off the sign to the bullies and they say, well, well one
35:28
up you and will show you the screen. Then Lisa here, she takes
35:30
her anger ahead on Martin's. Apparently she now hates all males, she hates
35:34
men. She's become a feminist essentially. I'm not a feminist, but she
35:37
know she just doesn't have any faith in the in the men. Stupid dad
35:42
didn't care about my feelings. Oh, Lisa, Yeah, I borrow one
35:45
of your colored pencils. Sure, that's all your men do is take and
35:49
take and take without regard to feelings or unicorn here take my link too,
35:57
don't take my whole back back which of you boys hur old Lisa Simpson's backpack
36:04
through my window? Oh it had to be a boy, did it give
36:08
a girl? Can't flip that? Well, you're wrong, my flexy cast,
36:23
Lisa, I hold in my hand a sticker with a frowny face on
36:28
it. Don't make me affix it to your file. Don't make me affix
36:31
it to your file. I'm peeling off the back. Don't make me do
36:38
this. May God forgive me the whole thing with a friend. It's drawn
36:45
out too much as well. I'm I'm feeling it off. Don't make me
36:50
do it. It makes sense to me in a sense that the skinny character
36:53
like Lisa's, like he stopped student, he doesn't want because once it's on
36:55
the record, it's on the record forever. He can't take stickers off.
36:58
My stickers. Don't peel off, That is true. It's prevent a record.
37:02
We come back and Willie is replacing the window, but then unfortunately breaks
37:06
it again himself by accident, and Homer and Marger and Skinner's officer having a
37:09
meeting, and we get the return of doctor Pryor, who did make a
37:13
slight appearance in the flashback episode. Lisa Sacks, but this is the first
37:16
prominent role he's had on the show since season one with Barte. Come back,
37:20
Jay, Lauren Pryor, you have been missed. Yes. I like
37:22
the way they had him hiding in the shadows as well, waiting for his
37:25
turn to come out, because he's just been gone. And I like the
37:29
character. I thought they should have had more of him. It's a wonder
37:30
why he took sixteen years to return, like he was clearly going to be
37:35
a major character. You would think he was quite He was in a couple
37:37
of season one episodes, but then he just gone. It was weird.
37:40
Beats me. Yeah, well, maybe I might even be in season two,
37:45
but gets an Now, I don't even he was in the earlier seasons.
37:47
Anyway, everyone knows the doctor Pryor is if you're a long time since
37:50
Hiss fan. But he points out to to margin Homer that Lisa needs a
37:52
positive male role model in her life or she could end up hating men for
37:57
the rest of her life. And I thought, oh Jesus, it's a
37:58
bit heavy. So, you know, then suggest that Homer becomes the safety
38:01
salamander so that Lisa would respect him again. I'm like, okay, because
38:07
anyone ever respected the person in the in the safety mascot costume. Yeah,
38:13
I'm not too sure, but just to me that I watched it and I
38:15
went, we've kind of done Homer on the safety thing with the Remember the
38:21
episode was it like episode three? Was home? Was it? What was
38:23
it called? Wasn't Home as Odyssey? Was it? Yeah? What was
38:25
Home as Odyssey? That Episodehere he tries to kill himself and then you get
38:28
the safety inspector. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's how he
38:30
becomes the safety inspector. He actually puts all signs around the springfield and stuff.
38:34
Yeah, but yeah, but this is certainly not the first time we've
38:36
seen Homer in some position of quasi authority and I don't know, entering it
38:42
with the best of intentions, but usually buggering it up. But his motive
38:45
for doing so was like, people will respect me and love me as a
38:47
result of this, I think this episode totally should have just started right with.
38:52
No. Not Homer doesn't do anything as bad as he does in this
38:55
episode, but it does something to upset Lisa. That's something like school,
38:58
family embarrasses her or something. I Dad, you so embarrassing? And then
39:00
Skinner says, you know, you know, whin the chance to be the
39:05
safety Salamander or something like that, whin the costume or whatever, and then
39:07
Homemade becomes that at the start of the episode, and then start the politics
39:10
side of thing early on and have Lisa go, how can I use this?
39:15
Well, yeah, he's sort of he's reluctantly drawn into it, Like
39:19
you get to be safety Salamander for a day, it's like a great due.
39:22
But then something like the accident that happens here happens. He becomes an
39:28
indivertent hero and yeah, parlays that into into a higher public profile or a
39:32
be little position. Yeah, I just felt it was such a drawn out
39:36
way to get to where they got to in the end. But anyway,
39:38
so he shows off the suit to Lisa. Essentially, he's just not very
39:40
good at the job. He's causing a destruction online on the way to school,
39:45
knocking things off with his tail and things like that. And then he's
39:47
on the school bus and he tells Otto to slam the brakes because there's no
39:51
seat belts and causes the kids to or chip their teeth, a gag which
39:53
you've already had on the undertooth chipper when we're at there at the fair safety
39:59
chip, No, do you know always double bolt your like huh? Questions
40:06
comments are you a girl? Because I don't see a salad wiener? I
40:13
here? Where are the fireworks? Got here? Darts? There's one way
40:28
to get kid's attention. It's just it's fireworks on a light show. Great
40:31
adults. What is that fascination with sparklers and things like that? I don't
40:36
know, Like even if a birthday cake you put a sparkler on, it's
40:37
like, oh, sparklers, this occasion just got specialized. Problem is,
40:49
though, I would never put sparklers on my kids birthday cakes though, because
40:53
you can't. You can't blow them out and be they they take longer than
40:57
to fizzle out, and they want takes to see to have your birthday song.
40:59
So you see the read this song and they's still going. Everyone's like,
41:01
do we clap? Do we have to wait? What do we do?
41:04
Do we have to do six hip hip rays this episode? Do we
41:08
have to do that that dumb ass thing where you know, whoever all day
41:13
are you sort of go clap clap, clap, clap clap. You know
41:16
what's the clap clap thing. What's that? Have you ever been to?
41:20
You know, like, there'll be a kid's birthday party. It's like they're
41:22
twelve years old, so you go one, two, three, four,
41:24
five, six seven. I've never in my life ever ever ever done that.
41:30
It's a relatively new thing to me as well. But I saw it
41:31
at a birthday party not long ago for a child, and I'm like,
41:36
this is new and kind of stupid. It just seems are approve. No,
41:40
just just blow you James over the cake and get on with it,
41:44
can't you. There were that many candles on the cake. We know how
41:46
old you want? Well, what's a birthday party? A couple of weeks
41:50
ago? And the mother we're not invited to birthday. The mother cut up
41:53
the cake right and she sort of grabbed it and one of the husband was
41:58
like, don't pick the pieces up with your hands, and I'm like,
41:59
mate, the kid just blew his bookers and it's not stop, but he's
42:01
he's spit all over the cake. I don't think anyone cares. COVID is
42:06
still real, dude, Yeah, and their kids it's cake. You could
42:09
wipe dog shit and they'll still eat it. It's cake. But yes,
42:15
so Homer's um, yes, he's not not doing too while he sets the
42:17
fireworks off and causes a massive fire and everyone everyone from himself trampol review mustart.
42:22
I'd kick out of that, trampol Liview must shout at least, and
42:25
then suggests that you know why game does be you know a father like Janey's
42:30
dad, just take me to the zoo once a month. You don't have
42:30
to go over over the top like this. She's like somewhat embarrassed by Homer
42:34
here. And then we get the massive accident that's caused by no barts On
42:38
at the clearest moment but her giving birth, none of the kid whatever.
42:43
Um, but yeah, massive car accidents occurred. Even the police helicopter has
42:45
fallen down and crash. And then we get the news report. It's live
42:50
broadcast with the news report by Brockman. Here Springfield needs a hero, and
42:53
of course Homers a dad trying to win back his daughter's love. So he
42:57
goes or and he says everyone including Drederick Tatum going Smithers, were sneaking a
43:00
bit of a gay joke here with them only car pulling. And then Nelson,
43:05
which I thought felt this felt if you fit the Nelson character. My
43:07
mom's still in there, which is a perfect joke to make. But I
43:10
can buy Nelson making it just for the haha pranking in the middle of like
43:15
a twelve car pile up. Yeah, and then Homer wants six cheers instead
43:20
of the three cheers, and then he gets given the key card to the
43:22
city by me Quimby. As a result, at least he gets me the
43:24
thumbs up. She's proud of him now. But then, but then episode
43:29
becomes a political story. Now any new business, mister mayor, Your administration
43:34
has been one fiasco after another. Oh the hell are you your press secretary?
43:37
I knew I should have hired my nephew. I am your nephew.
43:40
Okay, so I stink tough toblerone read the charter, people, I cannot
43:46
be removed from office except by a simple recall election. And disregard that last
43:54
part. I was really let down by the appearance of Freddy Quimby here.
44:04
Oh yeah, we love the pompous Freddy Quimby. That's what we loved about
44:07
him. You know, you know chowder, I said, chatter, sad
44:10
French air, sad chadder. That's what makes that character so great the obnoxiousness
44:14
of it. Right, I don't want Freddy Quimby to be a goody two
44:17
shoes straightening up and flying right. No, no, you just love Quby
44:22
brand. Yeah, I just I don't know, I know not trying here
44:27
for me. It didn't work. I'm like, I don't want this Freddy
44:29
Quimby. I wan Freddy Quimby to be the prick. That's what's so great
44:31
about him. That correct, I just somebody just spiked the punch. But
44:37
Quimby, he says, he can't be removed except if if you recall election
44:43
and forget about what would have said. And now if one did, we
44:45
get the recall, recall if one wants to recall. So if a news
44:47
report, I love the subheading, knowe that old gray mare ain't what he
44:52
used to be. And actually this would have made one of my favorite moments
44:55
because it's so ridiculous. But it just felt so on point for Quimby.
45:00
Even the fact that he tried to hijack a seven four seven Take Me Anywhere,
45:02
Girls Are Going Wild Wild it felt very two thousand and five because Girls
45:08
Gone Wild was like the pay per view thing it was, yes, but
45:12
before you know, before the Internet was a wash with pawn. Well actually
45:17
in it was a wash with porn from day one. But that's quality pawn.
45:22
That's correct. If you want to get if you were a yes,
45:27
a dude who wanted to get his kicks, so to speak. Back in
45:29
two thousand and five, you had to get a Girl's Gone Wild DVD or
45:34
log onto this side and just wait their forage as Wild went or Hijacker seven
45:37
four seven, Oh Hijacking seven four seven, the quindy start. We now
45:42
have two hundred candidates filing for the recall, including Luigi Wolfcastle, who was
45:45
just bluntantly taken off Arnosutzeggi here vaulte for me a steroid abut think pat smoking
45:52
women grouping son of a Nazi washtop has been movie star oh Old, So
46:00
I believe we should keep an open mind towards stem cell research. That was
46:06
so tough on wolf Castle. And it's funny too, because I love how
46:09
Arnold has just reinvented himself now that he's in his mid seventies, like motivational
46:15
speaking. Now he really is, I signed up for it. He's got
46:19
this thing called yeah the pump up or whatever. It is like this newsletter
46:22
that he sends out. My good buddy Ali sent me a link saying you
46:25
should check this out. It's actually really good. And we're nineties guys.
46:30
I was a little older than the Nighties, but you may remember that Arnold
46:34
was like I'm Arnold and your punye do try and take an Arnold. I
46:38
lived through the Terminator era. Yeah, yes, so you know he was
46:43
just this. It was pretty much everything they're saying here. It's funny how
46:46
kids like Elliot's age. We're just know him as like this old guy that
46:51
did motivational speakers features and it's like, yeah, no, he was.
46:53
He was. He was impresative, man, he really was. But yeah,
47:00
but he did this lovely. We may have talked about it before,
47:02
but he gave this lovely twelve minute sort of speech on YouTube and something media.
47:08
Yeah, yeah, talking about you know, some people are following Neon
47:12
Nazis, you should not do it. I mean he was actually he was
47:15
actually very softly spoken, very measured, very rational and just saying I don't
47:21
know why you're following losers. I don't want you to be a loser.
47:23
I want you to be a winner. It's like oh, he's like your
47:28
kindly uncle. It's like, I noticed, guy that you were smoking cigarettes.
47:32
It's not good for you. Maybe you should not do it. He's
47:36
become a school cancelor. He really had, but the best kind of school
47:39
games are like what do you know about it? All? Man Schwartz and
47:43
again, and then he just like arm wrestles, he on flips you into
47:45
the next state. Basically, he's saying to all these people, I'm not
47:47
judging you for doing this right, but maybe think about doing something else.
47:51
It's like he's not telling us what to do, and he's suggesting an alternative
47:54
might be better. Let's do it, and and he's using examples from his
48:00
own life. It all works. So, yes, I look at Middlely.
48:06
This was two thousand and five. Worn was probably like on the down.
48:09
Yeah, I think I think his movie career was kind of like,
48:12
it's not what it used to be, all that kind of stuff. He
48:14
was a governor at this point. Oh that's true. Yeah, but yeah,
48:16
so that we get here as well, yeahs Jimbo as well. His
48:19
campaign pay for by his victims, and Lisa suggests a homer that he should
48:22
do it because then only good people like her can tell him what to do.
48:24
And I was like, oh, okay, this is going to be
48:27
interesting. And it goes nowhere. Like Lisa says she's a campaign manager,
48:32
but you don't see her campaign at all. No. Yeah, like I
48:36
said, have her corrupted by power and her Homers say, you're a little
48:40
girl and the best little girl. You know, there's better ways to do
48:44
this or you know, admittedly we've seen that before as well, but I
48:46
don't know, it's nice to be reminded that every once in a while,
48:50
as opposed to Homers a dummy or an evil dummy, especially when he's drinking
48:54
alcohol saying expand my brain learning juice, Homers. And at the press conference
49:00
and the Lesser of twenty five Evils and marshays, you should take off the
49:04
costume. And I think you know, people would appreciate if you're talking to
49:06
a man's like, no, no, no, if people love the costume,
49:07
just like George Washington and Dame Edner. And he takes some questions and
49:12
let me asks what his special powers are as a salamander, and he gets
49:15
big lasses, big lass of tennis balls, and I was like, this
49:17
is the kind of show that guy would have seen him BALI you gotta sleep,
49:23
honey, I'm just gonna go out and check out some of the Balinese
49:25
nightlife. Yes. Brockman then brings up the choking photo because you know he's
49:30
he's running against Homer. I said, well, he says he was,
49:34
and then yeah, they never really make too much of Brockman being in the
49:37
race. Then he was hosting the debate, and I was like, beasn
49:39
he running, Like that's conflict of interest? Yeah, it's but I mean
49:44
he brings up the checking photo, and Homers like, why should we let
49:45
this, you know, this be influenced by photo taken hours ago? And
49:49
I'm like, yeah, you really just really just trying to point out how
49:52
silly politics can be at times, and how people are very easily influenced with
49:54
things. And I was now drinking at Mos and We've got the ad on
49:58
the TV from the power plant. Smith is talking about how I'm thinking,
50:00
sis, he saved you from the plank from the car crash. Why Smith's
50:05
sayings doesn't make sense? But he says they love this suit like they love
50:12
their stupid American flag. I'm like, okay, so Homer is not a
50:15
good person. Okay, we get it home is now drinking, now drinking
50:17
at night before bed, marshes what's that smell? And he vomits in his
50:22
suit and she wants to clean the suit because he's been vomiting in it and
50:24
things like that, and then she rips off the tail and a chicken runs
50:27
out and he says, that's funny because it started off as an egg.
50:30
I'm like, okay, yeah, yeah, But she turns out she does
50:34
wash the suit, but we actually see her wash the suit. No,
50:37
no, no, So I think the payoff at the end when because you
50:42
see it sort of ripping as he's flexing in the next bit of the debate
50:45
and things like that. The debate has debate. But I'm like, but
50:47
we didn't see her wash it, so like, why did this fall apart?
50:51
Is? Oh, it's fallen apart because my wife washed it. I'm
50:53
like, okay, yeah, I guess we're meant to assume that. Okay,
50:59
the tailor is the rest of it comes off and it is going to
51:01
be washed. But still it wouldn't be funny. I think to have Madge
51:06
shrink see him Madge shrink it, and then have Homer try to put something
51:08
else together. It looks like salamander maybe I don't, I don't know,
51:12
sort of squeezing his way into it. Yeah, something like that. But
51:15
um, yes, we got the crazy cat lady. We get everyone name
51:17
here by the way it's at. Yes, Um, I don't know.
51:22
It doesn't really add much. She's making making some valid points about corporate accountability
51:28
in small business incentives when she's not talking about cats. Yeah, and then
51:30
putting cats and everyone's pants also a valid campaign platform. Our next question as
51:37
for the safety salamander, sir, how would you restore our city is crumbling
51:44
infrastructure? That's an excellent question, Kent. First of all, the shrunk
51:52
when my wife washed it without his costume. He's not but a man.
51:57
He screwed this. I'm not going to let any human tell me what the
52:00
due. And then sort of has a backup plane. He tries to introduce
52:01
Lisa, his campaign manager, and she says no, and I'm like why,
52:06
well, why why she's not going here to help him? Now?
52:08
What's going on here? So then he says, and here's up his bar
52:12
and then he pushes out Millhouse and I'm like, huh, what's happening?
52:16
So we got we gotta was up call we gotta wise up. But I
52:20
was like wow. And then everyone throws fruit he says, stopped throwing through
52:22
it, so they thought throw cinder blox. And then we get the announcement
52:27
on the news that that says nobody got the five percent. Quimby has been
52:30
re elected back in even though that he didn't want it anyway, your lost
52:34
jackasses, and so he was still running for it. Yes, okay,
52:39
but he's okay maybe yeah says oh, yeah, what you tried to make
52:45
this town a better place, so you're my hero? Yeah, which one
52:50
I said, did he though? Yeah? I'm like he was actually not.
52:53
He was drinking the whole time and not really trying to help the town
52:58
at all. And you didn't try to help him. So if he's your
53:00
hero, why didn't you help him? And then we get an anti Ben
53:07
Afflete joke, which I guess probably worked in two thousand and five, but
53:08
it doesn't really work now, have you asked me? No, great recent
53:14
interview with Affleck online. You can track it down because you've got a new
53:17
movie coming out about Nike trying to sign here Michael Jordan as the face of
53:23
air Jordan and yeah, he freely it's like, oh god, yeah,
53:27
back on the two thousands, Yeah, I stunk on eyes, nobody wanted
53:30
to touch me. Was it Gigglely? Was it the movie he made with
53:32
Lopez? Yeah, around that time. I think it was some of the
53:36
Daredevil era as well. Yeah, you know, Matt Damon was on top
53:39
of the world and Ben Affleck was going like, you stink Affleck. Yeah,
53:43
Matt Damon got Matt Damon and everything, like, even when the people
53:45
taking the piss out of him, it was still made him a movie star
53:47
exactly. Matt Damon has always just come across like the one who if they
53:52
were both in a bar, Matt Damon's one old approach and not be scared
53:54
that he's going to have a go at me. Ben Affleck. I feel
53:58
like he still is slightly unhinged. I think so, I do, and
54:01
I think that's what makes him interesting. I think, you mean, every
54:06
interview I've seen and Revern was like, oh my god, this guy's incredibly
54:08
smart. But he's also you know, sixty three and built like a truck.
54:14
It's like, oh no, It's like I think someone once said,
54:19
it's like Matt Damon played good Will hunting. Ben Affleck is good will hunting.
54:25
It's like, oh shit, yeah, yeah, he's just kind of
54:30
guy like you just don't fuck with him. Like he would never he would
54:32
never forget, never forget. But yeah, so that is our review of
54:36
see Homer run an episode that it was. It was an episode that happened,
54:43
and we talked about it. Yeah. I normally enjoy the Homer release
54:45
of moments, the home release of stories because you know, that's the father
54:49
of a daughter and things like that, and I was like the emotional beat.
54:52
So I just don't think the the end he made any sense. It
54:55
was earned. Here he says you're my hero. I'm like you what I
54:58
just say't get it. I I think at some stage down the line,
55:04
maybe it's a special feature or something like that, we should go back and
55:07
find certain episodes that's like this is a good idea, but it's poorly executed
55:12
and give just to maybe a ten minute rundown or breakdown of like here's what
55:15
we would I mean, we kind of did that this, Okay, forget
55:21
I said it. We're writing season thirty five of The Simpsons as we speak,
55:27
at which point the guys of the Simpsons will say, you know what
55:30
way did that in season seventeen. Yeah, we did it wrong. We're
55:31
doing it right from forward. Your name droll be as time now Miss Davis
55:37
for the Guy Davis New Name Championship. The current leaderboard stands at this in
55:42
first position Luke mckayon eight points, second position Nori Coca on five points,
55:45
and in third position we have a three way tie with Garrod harrow Hill,
55:50
David Bott and Ryan Dan lap Or on the three points. Hit me this
55:53
week? What do we got, mister Davis? Okay, first up,
55:57
one point goes too, going to be very careful how I pronounced this seller
56:02
manned seller manned yep with Mayor in there. Yes, So our man Luke
56:12
McKay's got one point that puts him on nine points. He's getting first two
56:17
points for the safety stance that is Fergus Jeff's Fergus Jeffs. That is puts
56:23
him now equal third with all the other guys on three points while done Fergus
56:28
nice one Ferugus and three points go to the running Manda. Oh I do
56:34
like that one heath that will be so that's three points feat that will be
56:37
all. That also puts him equal third position. So now we've got a
56:40
five way tie for third position. Nice. How do you like those Applebee's?
56:45
Well? Yeah, done, exactly? All right, So first position,
56:47
first position is still Luke McKay on nine. Second Nora Coca that's still
56:51
on five, and in third position Garrowed, Harry Hill, David mart Ryan
56:54
Dunlap, and the newest members of the third division is Heath Appleby and Fergus
56:59
Jeff's all on three points. Don't forget guys, you want to be part
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guys posts. Deil here. All right, it is the first question here
57:17
for this see Homer Run mail bag. This one here comes from Harrison McClure.
57:22
Harrison says, has anyone ever made you a gift where you felt kind
57:23
of awkward receiving it? I'm not sure what to do with it. Well,
57:29
I feel guilty about admitting this because it was, first of all,
57:34
it was a really thoughtful gift that I didn't appreciate, and one that in
57:38
hinds, I was like, that was probably one of the best gifts I've
57:42
got, and yeah, I just did not really, It's kind of like,
57:45
yeah, thanks for my twenty first Yeah, I've received some very nice
57:51
gifts, some clothes and electronics, all that kind of business. And a
57:54
buddy of mine, who had a very good of eclectic taste in music,
58:02
had bought like a this is way back in the day you could buy boxes
58:07
of audio tapes like six packs or twelve packs or what. He brought a
58:12
twelve pack and he'd made me a shit ton of mixtapes of all this interesting
58:15
music. And look, some of it wasn't to my taste, but the
58:20
but all of it was kind of interesting, and all of it was fairly
58:22
alternative artists. And that's serious effort as well, that is effort. No
58:25
one was kind of like great. I mean I didn't, of course say
58:30
that to him. I was like, mate, this fantastic, thank you
58:31
so much. But at the same time, I think I sort of put
58:36
it off to one side and I never really paid a whole lot attention to
58:37
it. I don't know how much of I listened to, And in hindsight,
58:40
I'm like it was a really thoughtful gift, and you know one that
58:45
you know, a twenty one year old guy who aspired to sort of have
58:51
his broad horizons broadened when it came to art and culture and all that kind
58:53
I should have appreciated a lot more, and I didn't. So to my
58:58
man Tony Smith, I don't know if you're listening. If you are,
59:01
maybe consider being a patron. I didn't appreciate your gift as much as as
59:08
much as I should have back in the day. Thank you very very much
59:12
for it. I do. I appreciate it in hindsight, which of course
59:15
it was all know is the best kind of appreciation. Next question is from
59:17
Andrew JP. What's your favorite parent child combination storylines with storylines into Simpsons is
59:22
a Homer Lisa, Marge Bart Homer Bart or Marge and Lisa or anything involving
59:29
Maggie. I think the older I got it was Homer and Lisa. I
59:34
think when I was a kid it was Marge. But I don't think I
59:37
really appreciated the Homer Lisa moments until I was became a father myself, like
59:42
things like Lisa's wedding, the end of Lisa's wedding words like she she was
59:45
embarrassed by him, and then she has the you know, seeing into the
59:47
future and seeing how upset she made her father and things like that. She
59:52
sort of appreciates her father for who he is at the end, and you
59:54
know, I wrote the teacups and good a little sick, and then I
59:57
wrote him again and they're holding they're walking off hand in hand. I'm that's
1:00:00
just so nice. And then the end of um of Maggie makes three where
1:00:06
we get to do it for her. I watched her about a month ago
1:00:09
and I nearly started crying again, Like that is just fucking like that is
1:00:13
arguably the greatest moment in history the Simpsons that do for her, where it's
1:00:15
like there's no there's no fun. It's a Maggie. I've got them where
1:00:17
I need them the most, I need the most, cheering up and just
1:00:21
cutting that music cue by Alph and it's like, oh god, yeah that
1:00:24
works, that really does does Yeah. I think the home I think the
1:00:28
Homer slash Kids storylines work for me more as I became a father. Well
1:00:32
look, speaking as an absolute mama's boy who is constantly you know, concerned
1:00:37
that he's disappointing his dear mother. Shout out to Margaret Mary. I'm a
1:00:40
big fan of margin bart storylines. They speak to me. They do this
1:00:46
one. Here's from Jet Gerdam. They say, have you ever thrown up
1:00:51
in a costume? I've never thrown up in a costume, but I have
1:00:53
seen someone. This is not a costume room. It's just seeing someone throw
1:00:58
up in a weird place. On the dance floor at Eureka, remember the
1:01:00
old Eureka night club. You're in Gelong with the Davis where you would have
1:01:04
been rocking the dance floors the time the time, and a friend of mine
1:01:07
I won't named names, but we're just like dancing away and he had an
1:01:09
empty pint glass in his hand. It was like a banger song and he
1:01:13
was wasting and then he had to be sick. So rather than go throw
1:01:15
up in the toys, he just vomited into the into the pine, put
1:01:20
it on the floor and then people obviously dancing, ticked it and just vomit
1:01:23
everywhere. Everyone's feet is covering and vomit. No, oh, dear I
1:01:31
Likewise, I never threw up in a costume, but I remember one night
1:01:36
at the Geelong Hotel where I had my first ever. I used my first
1:01:40
ever fake license to get into the Geelong Hotel. Yeah, what a hero.
1:01:45
One night we decided to be we'd go after a little bit, and
1:01:50
we had shots of tequila and I think I'd already had a bit by this
1:01:55
dage, so I took the shot. I was like, that's coming back
1:01:58
up right now. Luckily I was near like a dark corner, so I
1:02:02
could just sort of turn around and went and it just came right back.
1:02:07
Jesus, Just we don't think of the cleaners. You have to find this,
1:02:10
find this stuff the next morning, clean it up, like, oh
1:02:14
my god, can you can you imagine that, like going to like Eureka
1:02:16
and geng hotel things after a Saturday night or Saturday morning. Just seen the
1:02:20
aftermath thinking about it in retrospect now, because when I went out, you
1:02:27
know, it was the smoking. Here is where you're smoked in some gross
1:02:30
Yeah. I mean I can only imagine what I must have smelt like when
1:02:34
I came home after a night of drinking beer and smoking cigarettes in a closed,
1:02:40
sweaty environment. Yeah, the sweat. Nah. It's wondered that any
1:02:45
of us picked up you know, romantic slash stectual partner at one of these
1:02:52
plays. It's it's not conducive to anything like that, because you just reek
1:02:58
of all this stuff finds me of um. My Mum used to always be
1:03:01
my savior when I was going out. She's still living at home. She
1:03:04
used to pick me up, you know, always a pizza ready for me
1:03:06
when I got home. I remember, remember this one time Mum picked me
1:03:09
up. I got the car and all of a sudden the window to start
1:03:13
going down, like Mum had been pushing it down. I was like,
1:03:15
moments call, she goes you stink. I'm like, okay, fair dus
1:03:21
all right. My final question here we got from Adam Woolhouse of the Springfield.
1:03:25
Of the Springfield is running in the in the election, whom would you
1:03:28
have voted for and why hashtag vote Jimbo? I think, well, we
1:03:31
saw three real sort of spears, didn't me. We saw Luigi, we
1:03:36
saw let's not forget crazy cat lady name. You're not Gonnavoe for her.
1:03:39
You're not gonna vote for Homer well Wolfcastle, Yeah, Wolfcastle, Jimbo and
1:03:45
yeah yeah yeah, so you're probably just gonna vote for him, right because
1:03:46
you're scared of him pretty much. You know, he'd he'd rule with an
1:03:50
iron fist. Yes, I think of the three, but I think I
1:03:54
was thinking of the food. Luigi, you could, but the lad you're
1:03:57
gonna put the food out regardless. Let's go, let's go for wolf Castle.
1:04:00
Yeah. I don't like trust Brockman. No, I don't trust Brockman
1:04:03
at all. He'd be my media advisor. I like Freddy Quimby as long
1:04:06
as what works. As long as what works with him works for you,
1:04:09
then he'd be fine. But he's only going to do what works for him.
1:04:11
So yeah, that's correct. Now would I would? I, for
1:04:15
one welcome our Rainy a Wolfcastle overlord. M all right, so that is
1:04:18
the mail bag four see Homer run the next episode of four Finger Discount.
1:04:23
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1:04:27
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1:04:30
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1:04:33
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1:04:45
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1:04:48
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1:04:53
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