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A Star Is Burns · Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

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  Speaker 1: Hey everybody. Dano here and welcome to the show. This
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  Speaker 1: week we're going to be giving you one of our
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  Speaker 1: And since the Oscar nominations have just been announced, I've
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  Speaker 1: gone ahead and chosen A Star as Burns, an episode
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  Speaker 1: that we were reviewed a couple of years ago, and
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  Speaker 1: with Guy being a film reviewer for thirty plus years,
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  Speaker 1: this was right up. He's ali. There are so many
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  Speaker 1: classic moments in this episode, and it's actually one that
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  Speaker 1: has one of the more interesting backstories as well from
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  Speaker 1: a production perspective. So we get into all of that
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  Speaker 1: and more, but just quickly, before we get into the review,
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  Speaker 1: now though, thanks again for tuning in and enjoy our
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  Speaker 1: review of A Star as Burns.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Coming Attractions. I'm your host, Jay Sherman.
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  Speaker 3: Thank Gil.
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  Speaker 2: Tonight we review an aging Charles Bronson in Death Wish
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  Speaker 2: nine Wish I was dead. Hey, but first we have
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  Speaker 2: a special guest, Rainier Wolfcastle, star of the reprehensible McBain
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  Speaker 2: movie Day.
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  Speaker 4: My new film is a mix of action and comedy.
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  Speaker 4: It's called mcpain. Let's get silly. Did you ever notice
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  Speaker 4: how man always leave the toilet seat up? That's the joke.
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  Speaker 2: You suck, McMain.
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  Speaker 4: Now my woody Alian impression. I'm a Eurotic nerd who
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  Speaker 4: likes to sleep with little girls.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, never really sucked.
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  Speaker 4: The film is just me in front of a break
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  Speaker 4: world for an hour and a half. It cost eighty
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  Speaker 4: million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: How do you sleep at night on top of a.
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  Speaker 4: Pile of money with many beautiful ladies?
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  Speaker 2: Just ask him?
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  Speaker 3: Yesh?
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  Speaker 1: Do do do? Never gets thick of that music doing,
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  Speaker 1: mister Davis.
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  Speaker 5: We absolutely do not, mister Dando.
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  Speaker 1: That's just I had of my notes. If every episode
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  Speaker 1: of the Simpson started with the Iron Springfield theme, I'll
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  Speaker 1: be fine with that. It just when it plays, it
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  Speaker 1: just puts you in a really positive mindset. It's great.
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  Speaker 1: And that sushi being dropped in the hot tub is
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  Speaker 1: one of my favorite visuals and the history of Simpsons,
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  Speaker 1: just Brockman's realizing the dropped in and then do just
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  Speaker 1: the sheer joy and laughter afterwards, the greatest.
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  Speaker 5: It's the perfect representation or recapture of just wonderful, tacky
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  Speaker 5: eighties lifestyle programs in fourtainment infoertainment.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, so.
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  Speaker 5: Always happy when we see Iron Springfield and always happy
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  Speaker 5: to be doing Guy on Springfield.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, going back and revisiting the classics. And this month
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  Speaker 1: the patrons have selected episode two F three to one
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  Speaker 1: as star is Burns, arguably one of the most controversial
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  Speaker 1: episodes of all time, particularly at Simpson's HQ. This created
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  Speaker 1: a lot of bad blood. They were not Oh, the
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  Speaker 1: majority were a fan. The majority didn't mind. But there
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  Speaker 1: was one person in particular, the headhn show, the top dog,
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  Speaker 1: the top billing, mister mac graney. He was not a
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  Speaker 1: fan of this. He hated this one. He still hates it.
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  Speaker 1: It's the episode that he tried to have stopped. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to go to air. He went to the
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  Speaker 1: press before it went to air and publicly acknowledged how
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  Speaker 1: much he hated and didn't want to go to air,
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  Speaker 1: and how he thought it was a bad idea and
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  Speaker 1: he thought it was just product placement or just promotion
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  Speaker 1: for a show that he had nothing to do with,
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  Speaker 1: because The Critic was created by Al Geen and Mike Reese,
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  Speaker 1: one of the I think they did the first season.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they were that were the producers for
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  Speaker 1: the first four seasons, and they left after that to
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  Speaker 1: pursue their own show, which is The Critic on another station.
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  Speaker 1: And mac graney was not a fan of them returning
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  Speaker 1: to promote their show because what happened was the show
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  Speaker 1: didn't do very well well in its initial run. I
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  Speaker 1: can't remember what station it was on. I apologize, guys
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  Speaker 1: that the Critic I'm talking about. And the show was
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  Speaker 1: also produced by James L. Brooks, who also does The Simpsons.
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  Speaker 1: James L. Brooks made a deal for it to come
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  Speaker 1: over to Fox, and as a way to promote the
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  Speaker 1: new launch of The Critic on Fox, they thought they'd
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  Speaker 1: do a ti in episode, and this was the first
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  Speaker 1: time The Simpsons had ever done something like that, a
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  Speaker 1: tie in with something else, and Granning just did not
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  Speaker 1: want to do this at all, and I thought, I
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  Speaker 1: can can understand why, But when you think about how
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  Speaker 1: much dedication these two men and Brooks aside ol Gene
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  Speaker 1: and Mike g Reecee how much they dedicated their lives
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  Speaker 1: to giving you the best possible product, ensuring the Simpsons
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  Speaker 1: became the success that it did. You know that the
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  Speaker 1: sixteen hour day is just seven days a week, just bam, babe.
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  Speaker 1: It was their life ensuring that this became the best
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  Speaker 1: show of all time, And they just wanted a little
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  Speaker 1: bit in return. And Matt Granning's like, not not fuckys
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  Speaker 1: not bad idea, went to the press and given upon reflection,
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  Speaker 1: it's okay, if you did like it, that's fine. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's his opinion. But to go to the press steady
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  Speaker 1: making it, making it all public, that just seems ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: and childish in my opinion.
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  Speaker 5: Kind of dickish is the first word that springs to
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  Speaker 5: mind when I when I'd read a little bit about
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  Speaker 5: the story. But yeah, hearing it to this degree, it's like, oh, Matt,
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  Speaker 5: come on, man, you know, be a bit of a
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  Speaker 5: team player.
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  Speaker 1: And it's.
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  Speaker 5: To the Simpsons, credit to the credits. Credit that everyone
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  Speaker 5: involves credit except maybe Matt Groening's I mean they acknowledge,
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  Speaker 5: oh you know, they poke fun at the fact. Look,
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  Speaker 5: this is a bit opportunistic and you know they have it.
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  Speaker 5: They crack jokes about it during the episode. How how
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  Speaker 5: much of a bit of a tie in and a
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  Speaker 5: cash in it is? So you know, they they approached
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  Speaker 5: it in the in the true Simpsons fashion. So I
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  Speaker 5: cannot Yeah, like you, I can understand why he'd have
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  Speaker 5: an issue with it.
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  Speaker 1: I think you know, the first probably the first.
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  Speaker 5: Name you think of when you think of the simpence
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  Speaker 5: is Matt Groening.
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  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, when you think of who created the Simpsons,
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  Speaker 1: it's Matt Graning.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So you're gonna be a bit possessive
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  Speaker 5: of your baby, but still, man, come on, by this stage,
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  Speaker 5: by season six, it's not outgrown you, but it has
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  Speaker 5: become very much its own beast.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is the thing. I understand. You created the characters,
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  Speaker 1: but you didn't really create the show. You created the characters.
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  Speaker 5: James L.
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  Speaker 1: Brooks created the Simpsons the TV show.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: If it wasn't for James L. Brooks, you wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: living in your mansion. Matt Granning, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: He gave you that chance. So they just want one
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  Speaker 1: little chance to help co promote their show. And it's
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  Speaker 1: not like as you're saying, it's not like they just
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  Speaker 1: completely took over the show. They tied it in quite well,
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  Speaker 1: and they poked fun at themselves. And Matt Granning's like, nah,
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  Speaker 1: and today I just thought, after reading that he went
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  Speaker 1: public with it, I thought, that's it's pretty pathetic. Really,
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 5: Pathetic, but you know it's not pathetic this episode.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's funny because this episode just got panned.
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  Speaker 1: People did not like this episode. They thought it was
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  Speaker 1: really outside of the normal what the Simpsons was. They
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  Speaker 1: thought it felt too as we were just saying, it didn't.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't feel like a tie in to the point
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  Speaker 1: where it was just over the top. Everyone thought, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this was just an excuse to promote a show that
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  Speaker 1: had nothing to do with The Simpsons, But I thought so.
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  Speaker 1: I remember as a kid not really understanding exactly what
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  Speaker 1: the hell was going on and why so much of
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  Speaker 1: the episode was dedicated to this character that I had
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  Speaker 1: no idea who he was. And then I remember always thinking,
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  Speaker 1: this guy doesn't seem like a very nice person, seems
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  Speaker 1: like a bit of a dick, and in never returned,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, whatever had I known? Had I
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  Speaker 1: been a bit older and understood the whole point of
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  Speaker 1: the episode. It makes it that much more enjoyable. You
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  Speaker 1: understand the jokes like a cheap TV crossover at the end.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you ever want to visit my show,
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  Speaker 1: ah no, we're never going to be doing that. Jokes
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  Speaker 1: like that straight out of my head. When I was
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  Speaker 1: a little kid, I had no idea what the critic was,
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  Speaker 1: and you know I would have I would dare say
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  Speaker 1: even people who were a bit older. The critic was
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  Speaker 1: that even a show in Australia, it would have been
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  Speaker 1: lost on international viewers as well, would it not? In
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  Speaker 1: the night? I think so?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, to the best of mine, the best of my recollection. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I never read on free.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember ever being on TV no. So it
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  Speaker 1: was just it was a bit confusing, but it didn't
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  Speaker 1: make the episode less enjoyable. Really, this episode, if we're
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  Speaker 1: being honest, is probably the most ah not quote worthy,
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  Speaker 1: but it's the most mean worthy episode of all time.
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  Speaker 1: You've got that's the joke. Give that man the ten
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Just hook it to my veins. You are
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  Speaker 1: the King of Kings. All these screenshots, they're like all
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  Speaker 1: the fucking memes you can think of. You know, like
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  Speaker 1: this episode is so it lives on so much now
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  Speaker 1: in social media now. I think people at the time
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  Speaker 1: just had no idea how ahead of the time it
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  Speaker 1: kind of kind.
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  Speaker 5: Of was absolutely the news outlet that I work for
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  Speaker 5: in my day job. I can't tell you how many
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  Speaker 5: times we've used the phrase, ah.
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  Speaker 1: They said the quiet part loud and the loud part
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  Speaker 1: quite another bit exactly. Yeah, there's so many quotes in
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  Speaker 1: this episode that just are so applicable to everyday life.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's why it lives on now. And
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  Speaker 1: I know Mike and Al they left at the end
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  Speaker 1: of season four, came back to produce this one episode
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  Speaker 1: because you know, the critic was their baby, and it
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  Speaker 1: just screams classic Simpsons as a result, doesn't it that
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  Speaker 1: the story itself, Yeah, whatever, but just the moments throughout
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  Speaker 1: just screams Season four Simpsons.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, it's got a terrific sense of humor. But I'm
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  Speaker 5: going to disagree with this lightly in terms of the story.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we've been watching so many episodes lately where
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  Speaker 5: it feels like that's a really dumb trick you're pulling
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  Speaker 5: to get the to get the your inciting incident, to
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  Speaker 5: get the story going to get the main thing happening
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  Speaker 5: is really kind of weak. Watching this one is like,
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  Speaker 5: oh no, you just ear in and out. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Ken Brockwin does a news broadcast about guess well,
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  Speaker 5: nobody likes Springfield. Sorry, everyone sounds like John Love's to me.
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  Speaker 5: But it's like, oh, well, how are we going to
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  Speaker 5: fix that?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 5: And you know you've got your main ideas sorted out
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  Speaker 5: in about the space of two or three minutes. It's great.
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  Speaker 5: And from there, you know, you can have all manner
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  Speaker 5: of all manner of fun with all manner of different characters.
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  Speaker 5: It's I think it's a really clever episode on one
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  Speaker 5: that really takes advantage of the variety of characters throughout Springfield.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll give you that. And I also remember feeling
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  Speaker 1: very much like an event episode as well, because it
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  Speaker 1: felt so different, And it didn't feel different because it
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  Speaker 1: was bad. It just felt different because I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: everyone's got their own short film. It wasn't really necessarily
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  Speaker 1: like the Last Act isn't necessarily a story. It's just
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  Speaker 1: sort of a bunch of short films and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: But they're all really really funny and really well done,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just I'm just I was so surprised to
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  Speaker 1: go back and read so many not overly negative reviews,
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  Speaker 1: but people going, eh, you know, it's got its moments,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not that great. And I was like, really,
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  Speaker 1: I got a lot of laughs out of this episode.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was really good. I really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I think the main sort of quote
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  Speaker 5: unquote dramatic cook of the episode that you know, Homer
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  Speaker 5: thinks Marge thinks he's dumb, and there's some sort of
• 10:53
  Speaker 5: rivalry between Homer and Jason. That's that doesn't really play
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  Speaker 5: at all that much. It's not there's not a lot
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  Speaker 5: to that.
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  Speaker 1: I would haven't really called that the major story. They
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  Speaker 1: tried to sort of tap into that, but there's just
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  Speaker 1: not much there is there.
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  Speaker 5: No, Yeah, that's it. I don't think it's major at all.
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  Speaker 5: But I think that that's like we're trying to add
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  Speaker 5: a little bit of conflict in there, just to you know,
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  Speaker 5: because stories new conflict. Yeah, but it does it doesn't
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  Speaker 5: really add much to it. What did you think as
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  Speaker 5: a crossover? Do you think they did a good job
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  Speaker 5: of promoting the critic I don't think they did because
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  Speaker 5: I was getting back to what I said before, where
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  Speaker 5: I remember as a kid going, I don't like this character.
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  Speaker 1: Seemed like an asshole. I don't know whether they didn't
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  Speaker 1: give him any positive qualities Ja Sherman. In my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: I've honestly, I've never watched the critic, so I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure what he's like on that show. But you've got
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  Speaker 1: to give the character some sort of liability to make
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  Speaker 1: people go, I want to see more of that guy.
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  Speaker 1: By the end of it, I was like, I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to see this guy on my screen anymore. He
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  Speaker 1: just seems like a dick.
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  Speaker 5: Look, I haven't watched the critic either. In all honesty,
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  Speaker 5: I've seen you know, I was seeing little bits and
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  Speaker 5: pieces here and there, but never a full episode, So
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I be I'm not wholly across the tone
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  Speaker 5: of the show. I think it's probably a bit more
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  Speaker 5: grown up adult.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, people who are watching The Simpsons. I just don't
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  Speaker 1: think the Critic was ever going to work as a crossover
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  Speaker 1: because as an eight year old watching The Simpsons, I
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  Speaker 1: was like, who is this guy? And why do I care?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I hate when I use the term sophisticated about
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  Speaker 5: the critic I'm not saying them that The Simpsons is
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  Speaker 5: just dumb, but I think the critic sort of relies
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  Speaker 5: on a few more references that might go over a
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  Speaker 5: lot of people's heads, or based on what I've seen
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  Speaker 5: of it, I feel.
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  Speaker 1: Like the critic. To me, this seems like the Critic
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  Speaker 1: would be a show that applies to the comic book
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: Guys of the World. Yeah, you're sort of you, you're snarky.
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  Speaker 1: But saying that though, I like Seinfeld because I like
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  Speaker 1: how they say what I think without things I would
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  Speaker 1: never actually say, but things that I think, you know
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: that the negative aspect of life and what you think
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  Speaker 1: of other people. But I just I don't know. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like watching his first episode when I was a kid,
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: I didn't like it, didn't like him. I watch it
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  Speaker 1: now and at the end of us sort of went
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  Speaker 1: I think Jay Sherman is someone that I can relate
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  Speaker 1: to now, and I think I would want to see
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  Speaker 1: more of him now. I think if they gave us
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: more of what he did on his show, because he
• 13:09
  Speaker 1: didn't see enough of him on his show, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think to sort of make you want to see more
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  Speaker 1: of that artist. I don't know, but do you think
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  Speaker 1: that makes sense. Do you think they blended him into
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  Speaker 1: the Simpsons universe? Well, what do you think overall? Would
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  Speaker 1: you when you first watched this, would you have watched
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  Speaker 1: the critic if they said starting next week the critic
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  Speaker 1: on Channel ten? Would you have tuned into the critic
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  Speaker 1: as a result? And at that stage of.
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  Speaker 5: My love, absolutely, I'd be like, Oh, it seems like
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  Speaker 5: a witty comedy in the Simpsons vein about something that
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  Speaker 5: I'm interested in, but also with a bit more of
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  Speaker 5: a little more acid to it, a little more bite
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  Speaker 5: to it. Yeah, and the Simpsons has plenty of that.
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  Speaker 5: The Simpsons isn't isn't done by any stretch or or
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  Speaker 5: unsophisticated by any stretch.
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  Speaker 1: But that's just feels it's not to appeal to children
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  Speaker 1: at all. That's what the that's what that's the vibe
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  Speaker 1: I get for the critic anyway.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's more for twenty somethings. Yeah, I think the
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: the audience starts at late precocious teens and but really
• 14:11
  Speaker 5: is for twenty and thirty somethings.
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  Speaker 1: As a critic, did you like this episode? Oh?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought it was hilarious.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I was just so surprised when when
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  Speaker 1: I've read so much just just sort of I guess
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  Speaker 1: the word to describe. The reviews of this episode were
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  Speaker 1: all just like, eh, like, no one's see to have
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  Speaker 1: many positive things to say about it, And I thought,
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe I'm going to be out of
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  Speaker 1: the norm here because I wrote down a lot that
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: I liked about this episode.
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  Speaker 5: No, I thought, I thought it was really really funny.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, my favorite. So what were your favorite moments from
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  Speaker 1: Staris Bands?
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  Speaker 5: Oh gosh, broke out the green high lighter and there's
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  Speaker 5: a fair bit on the page here. I mean, I
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  Speaker 5: just love it when little supporting characters or side characters
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  Speaker 5: or cameo characters that I did just show up, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the reporter who's like, what a story?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what's good?
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  Speaker 5: And even the guy at the town meeting, you know
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: when Marge first stands up and says, oh much simp
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: and I have an idea. This guy just says, I
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: is going to see something like that. That was really good.
• 15:17
  Speaker 5: I thought there was a great payoff to the joke
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: when Jay's walking through New York and Radio Wolf because
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: you were making fun of me, you know, he pulls
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: the no, no, but j hey, your shoes aren tied.
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: The whole bit with a I would go in for
• 15:34
  Speaker 5: closer look and then you got that pause, got their
• 15:37
  Speaker 5: paws close inspection. He's a lost.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Just a great, a great button on that gag. I'm
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: just asking.
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: And just and also how Jay introduced himself when you
• 15:50
  Speaker 5: first see his show, and I am Jay Sherman.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: How much of yourself do you see in j Sherman?
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Is that like your stereotype what people think film critics arelike?
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: What do you see in the character of Ja Shoman
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: from what you saw?
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: I think that's the stereotype of what people think it's like,
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: and maybe it is for I think if you're going
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: to be a TV critic a film you know, a
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: movie critic on TV, like your your Roger Eberts or
• 16:19
  Speaker 5: your Gene Shallott's in the US. I mean we had
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: David Margaret here in Australia and they were a bit different.
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: I mean, they were very well, they were very Australian.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: I mean they weren't sort of like the movie critics
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: on TV in the States, based on my exposure to them,
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: are usually kind of showman types, are larger than life
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: personality types, so they had to have a bit of
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: a either Oh that wacky person with their wacky opinions
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: or oh wow, and wonder how they're going to sledge
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: them this week or something along those lines. I mean
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: you're not really getting in depth film analysis and criticism.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: You're getting like a two minute a three minute SoundBite,
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: you know, during a section of the Today Show or
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: something like that.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: And as opposed as opposed to who was your hero
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: from the from the seventies and eighties? Did the Midday Show? Oh?
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Ivan Hutchinson? Yeah, yeah, I mean he was very low key.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah. I mean there were two guys in Australia who
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: were doing who were you know movie presenters on TV?
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: Ivan Hutchinson, who was, yeah, just a really sort of
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: low key dude, and Bill Collins, who was also he
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: was a bit more of the Even even doing this,
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: I'm over hyping him, but he was the golden years
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: of Hollywood. I mean he was more like, oh, yeah,
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: he's that eccentric uncle who knows a shit tone about
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: movies and will always tell you about them. And he
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: wasn't even he wasn't over the top. He was just
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: kind of really loved movies and it came through.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed the the sound effect used for the
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: football hitting the groin, I thought was just perfection.
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: Just that.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: He can't sort of you can't say it, just you
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: can't make that sound like the sound that they use.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: It's just so good. But Homer is absolute glee. After
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: watching for the first time and saying, give that many
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars that laugh from Dan, it just gets
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: me every time.
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: I think it's amazing. I love how you know you
• 18:10
  Speaker 5: can see the people around him. I think there's a
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: guy on the right hand side of the screen, some
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: redhead guy with the mustaches sort of doing the side
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: out of homes, like, oh god, this baffoon.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's just so good. And another quote that
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: we forgot to mention earlier that gets used a lot
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: in real life now is I was saying buns of course. Yeah,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: this episode had so much to that's just lived on
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: and you know, at the time maybe people didn't like it,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: but man, tell me, in episodes that's had more moments
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: that get used every day on social media than more
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: than this one. I can't I don't think there is one.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: I can't think of any off the top of my head.
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: But yeah, there's just there are so many that are
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: either lifted out in meme form or have just entered
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: the everyday vocabulary.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Next question, you there eating the beast. All right, mister Davis,
• 18:53
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  Speaker 1: to us. Right mister Davis, it's trivia. You hit me
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: with your first question, what do you got for me?
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: I will? Indeed, how much is Bart charging for a
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: Maps to the Stars homes?
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: It's a very good question. I've never really paid attention,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: but I'm going to say something on the lines of
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: five dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Five dollars it is?
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• 20:29
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• 20:31
  Speaker 1: just like it's five dollars before you know this. My
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: first question is what is the name of Jay Shemon's
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: show that he hosts?
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: Oh? Is it at the movies with Jahmon?
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: No? Coming attractions? Coming attractions?
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Your next question, which Death Wish movie?
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: Are we up to? Oh four? We're up to the ninth?
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: The ninth?
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: Wow?
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I did like the way he's like the what does
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: he call them? That? The film reprehensible mixin movies. My
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: next question is profits have dropped by how much?
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: That's on of mine thirty?
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I thought you would have loved the spill bet spilbear
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: going it's Bilberg non union Mexican equivalent. That's one that's
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: dropped a lot as well.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: That you have a bit? Uh, what is Jay's not
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: quite nickname for Wolfcastle? Well, what does j Corrany and Wolfcastle?
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: When Wolfcastle approaches him on the street?
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Ah, nudnick?
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: Nudnick?
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Now, what's that?
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: I know?
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Obviously a plan on spudnik, But what's the no. I
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: think it's I think it's like a Jewish term of endearment.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: But let's have a look, sh.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: Okay, let's say let's look that up. Because I was
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: going to looking up I forgot it is not actually
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: a term of endearment. Nudnick is a pestering, nagging, or
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: irritating person.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: A bore I see. I like the fact that Jay
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Sherman is so much of a prick even when his
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: big guy's coming towards him, he's such a smart ass.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: He's still just hang shit on it because he's like,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: he knows that this big march a guy has no
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: idea that he's actually hanging shit on him. He's like,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I just realized you were insulting me, and then he
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: insults him straight away, and Wolfcastle doesn't realize that he's
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: being insult I thought it was very, very funny. I
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: knew it must have been something bad. My next question
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: is how much did that film cost where he's just
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: standing in front of the brick wall.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: For nineteen mine eighty million dollars?
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Yes, eighty million dollars correct.
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: My last question for you is who does Marge cross
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: off the list to make way for.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Homer Martin Scorsese, Oh, Marty Yeap. And finally, who plays
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Smithers in US Burns for All Seasons?
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: It's Tommy June Tommy noted Flamboy and Broadway Musical Theater star.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: All right, that is true viafore A Star as Burns.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Let's get into our review, shall we, Mister Davis, no
• 22:57
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  Speaker 1: beloved patrons. All right. So the original aired eight four
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: A Star as Burns was March fifth, nineteen ninety five.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: It was written by Ken Keeler, Ken's first writing credit
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: on the show. Well, that's actually another thing should mention.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Matt Granning was so annoyed by this episode that he
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: had his name taken from the credits. I did see that. Yeah, yeah, wow,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: it's extreme. It didn't even appear on the audio commentary
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: either for the episode on the DVD's. It's just like
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Matt Man.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: Come on, let bygones be going bygones. Let bigones be guygones.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Surely people look back on this now so fondly that
• 23:31
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• 23:34
  Speaker 1: wrong to be He's wrong, regardless of how he acted
• 23:37
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• 23:39
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• 23:42
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  Speaker 1: kicks off with, as we said earlier, Ion Springfield.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: Do.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: That's so makes you so happy, It's so great.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: It was just so techy. I mean of the opening
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: credits of Ion Springfield is just chicks and bikini.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is just dancing the Jebedi sprint Field outfit
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: and stuff. But I love it when it first airs,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: whenever it add on The Simpsons for the first time
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: and just ends up home and going wow in full
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: team and that's just the best. Whenever we used to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: do a Simpsons trivia and I up in Melbourne. I
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: used to always try and incorporate a question that had
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the Iron Springfield music playing, because I found whenever you
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: play that it just made people up and about that
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: were just start us so happy. Spring Field's answer to
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the Benedictine Monks. Who are they Benedictine Monks? I think
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: there was a bit of a period where you had
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: these Benedictine monks who were just doing charting and people
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: were just like, that's really calming and relaxing. I might
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: play it on CD, just a chill out at the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: end of a rough day. So they were a thing.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: They were like a group, the Blue Man Group, but monks,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: I believe.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: So, I mean, yeah, not really a group. They were
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: just a you know, a choir of monks from Belgium
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: or somewhere like that, and you know, they recorded an album.
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: Some cool person started saying, well, this is really relaxing,
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: and everyone I sort of jumped on the bandwagon for
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: a little while.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Well, we had the rapid Rabbis here in Springfield doing
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: their own rendition of can't touch this, not even can't
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: touch this. I was like that. Homer asked if they're Jewish,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: they're not so he starts eating a pig on a platter.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Then Survey says that the Springfield is the Springfield at
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: least popular city in the US in Science Dead Last.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: I just like that.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I guess what we stink? Hey, And then they cut
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: to Skinner being burned at the at the stake, I
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: told you the earth revolves at around the sun. And
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: then the guy takes a photo. You've stolen my soul,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: as Grandpa says. Then Culture Dead Last, Crusty performing the
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: stage show in the wheelchair, gets out of the chair speakreveled.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Then the family I actually had to hear my notes.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: So this episode, this story was taken straight off almost
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: bit for bit from the episode we reviewed a couple
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: of weeks ago and fourthing a discount. There's something about
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: marrying tourism goes down. Oh yeah, and they have a
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: town hall meeting asking how they can fix tourism. That
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: is exactly what happens in that episode. Ten seasons later,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: why did you ever hold another film festival? Yeah? I
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: died to make that an annual event. Yeah, it's just crazy.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: They literally just rehashed this story. But fine, whatever it worked.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I didn't pick up on it at the time. But yeah,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: it just it was so blatant. When I revisited this one, I.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: Think it'd be hilarious. I mean, you know they do
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: a Treehouse of Horror every year. I mean you do
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: one of these every four or five years or something. Fun.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: Guess what we're holding another film festival. We don't have
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: to bring Jay Sherman back. But actually you get some
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: other don't really they don't know if they have film
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: critics on TV anymore, but or some YouTube guy.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: The closest thing now is just I don't know that
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: movies to have like e yeah, what was it? The
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the thing for that I've sitt on the podcast before it.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: Is to love it entertainment tonight.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I wonder if I on Springfield was based on that,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: you'd have to think so right.
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: I think there was just all manner of like local yeah,
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: you know today in La or something like that.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I just can't happen to do air guitar whenever I
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: on Springfield's playing. This makes me so happy.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but you do a Springfield Film Festival episode every
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: you know, five or six seasons or something, and different
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: characters making their own, different little movies and things like that.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: It's an interesting way to shake it up.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, getting back to them, there's something about marrying. They
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: even have the exact same joke. So when Lisa, Lisa
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: is the one who says, oh no, too is going
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: to go down in there's something about marrying home and goes,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: oh no, what about my what about my maps two
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: stars homes? But here what about my maps to stars homes?
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is the exact same joke. They literally
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: copied this episode. Bart's here He's got maps to movie
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: stars homes, and it's He's got Moe's houses. Drew Barrymore,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Are you Drew Barrymore? What? I'm hungover?
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: Hungover?
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: They didn't have the town hall meeting?
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: Are there any suggestions for how to attract more tourism?
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: The easiest way to be popular is to leach off
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: the popularity of others, So we proposed changing our name
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: from Springfield to Seinfeld.
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: I may be just a boy, but I have an idea.
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: If I may, I'd like to show you a few slides.
• 28:56
  Speaker 7: Here's Springfield as it appears from space somewhere in this week.
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: Valley is the lost Dutchman's mind.
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: Young man that appears to be a picture of your
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: rear end song.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: Sutters.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Lot.
• 29:10
  Speaker 7: This is the last time I use an escape plan
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: devised by Millhouse.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: Sorry, bart I'm.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Marge Simpson and I have an idea.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: Oh March is gonna say something now.
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: I know you haven't liked some of my past suggestions,
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: like switching to the metric system.
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: The metric system is the tour of the devil my
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: cargage forty rods to the hots head, and that's the
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: way I liked it. The old persions from March will
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: be stricken from the record who said that.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: But my new idea is different.
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: I think we should hold a film festival and give
• 29:46
  Speaker 8: out prizes.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Could we make our own movies and enter them? Yes,
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: last an excuse to wear makeup.
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: All in favor of Marge Simpson's film festival idea like
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: my idea.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Actually I have several others.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: But then, as you were saying, they got straight into it.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: So as soon as we have this scene, straight into
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Barton filming. He is the eternal struggle relax fit my
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: aunt Fanny. He can't fit into his pants. We've all
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: been there where we've We've got like a favorite pair
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: of pants and they get a little bit tight. And
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: you're like, oh no, some wheat or bay new pants.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I don't want to do that, and Flanders and then
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: filming Todd is Todd, Yeah, Ted his baby Moses in
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the How big must that basket be? By the way,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: and like more is like picking him up, put him
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: in the water. I'm like this, this Todd is not
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: a baby. But he flies off down the river straight away.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I really liked the shot of as soon as Todd
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: takes off, it cuts to Rod and Flanner's just looking
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: at it, and it's just that visual of oh fuck,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: and he flies fround he praised to God. I feel
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: like if this joke was used in a modern day episode,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: people would hang shit on it when he praise to God,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: God say today thanks God, or could do It's so unrealistic,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: but it just, you know, back then it didn't seem
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: to bother us, but now it was bother us though
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: it shouldn't. But Marge is now looking for a critic
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: and it's six hundred critics on TV, which goes to
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: show that the sign of the time six hundred critics
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: on TV, and that probably was true. There probably were
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: a lot of critics on TV. But now as you're
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: saying it'd be hard to find any I guess just
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: the Internet killed that, right, social media killed that. What
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: do you think was the biggest killer of the Internet,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: or just social media in or just the Internet in general.
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: Oh, the Internet in general, because I mean you look
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: on YouTube and there's plenty there's plenty of you know,
• 31:41
  Speaker 5: sort of amateur critics.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Just randoms, just filming themselves. I've never got the whole
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: reaction video thing.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: Oh no, I don't get that at all.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: It's just like it was like someone sent me your
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: links saying you gotta watch this guy watch the Geelong
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Grand Final, And I'm like, do I We're how excited
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: to get to when he kicks the goal? Like, yeah,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: he's a fan of Geelong, he should be excited. I
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: don't get why watching some and it's literally like you
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: can't even see the game when you're watching it. You're
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: just watching a guy looking at his computer screen. I'm like, why,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: why have six hundred thousand people watched this? I don't
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: get it. Clouds, what is this?
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: No, it makes zero sense to me. Yeah. Yeah, but
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: I mean there would have been a stage where, you know,
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: all your regional TV stations or your small town stations
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: probably had you know, now it's time for someone is
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: opening this week, and here's our movie reviewer to talk
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: about it. Probably getting paid peanuts or just getting free
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: movie tickets or something like that. But yeah, a lot
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: of the so many stations have had their own movie guy.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: And Leonard Malton is mentioned here, the best looking on TV,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: who appears in Mega Streisand the second last episode I
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: want to say of south Park season one, which we
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: reviewed on our south Park podcast, Going Down to south Park.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: So if you're a patron and you haven't checked out
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: that podcast yet, check it out. Guarantee you'll enjoy it.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: The more guying down to In your ears, she sees
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Jay Sherman on his show Coming Attractions and his Air
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: with Ray near wolf Castle discussing the reprehensible McBain movies.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: And then they's what's the new movie called again? Number
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: nine of what it's death Wish, Death Wish okay, and
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: it's just him making jokes, doing stand up in front
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: of a brick wall.
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: Oh so no, no, well, yeah there's the death Witch
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: movie with Charles Bronson in the bed.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Oh sorry, yes, I wish, I was like I wish. Yeah,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: no days, and.
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: Then it's McBain, let's let's get silly, let's get silly.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Of course it is, of course it is. What do
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: you think? And dandover it just yeah, that's the joke.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: That is probably the most ued Simpson's meme, right, like
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: that or Homer in the Hedges.
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: I think it's Homer in the Hedges in all honesty,
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: and I think that's but.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: That is quote quote wise though, like that's for the
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: visual something that's just a quote. What do you reckon?
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: I'm always inclined to say, booms you reckon?
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: I reckon. That's the joke is every time somebody misunderstand something,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: and it's I love it when I'm the first person
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: to do it too. I love it when I've got
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: someone I'm like, cool, he's a good chance to use.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: That's the joke. Yeah, burn, it's even better when you
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: go back two minutes later and you realize the deleted
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: their comment. You're like, I still got it. Then he
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: does his Woody Yellen impression during the stand up. And
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: speaking of Woodyellen, he appears in the latter episode of
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Talking Seinfeld. Well, he doesn't appear, but he's he's filming
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: a movie in New York where he gives Cramey the
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: role where he has the speaking line of these petzels
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: are making me thirsty. We've just reviewed that. It's not
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: quite up on the Patreon channel yet, but it's going
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: to be up very very soon. So if you like
• 34:31
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• 34:33
  Speaker 1: yet and you're a patron, what are you doing? Check
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: that out as well. Dano, you are a spooking machine.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Just ties into here in the Forefinger Discount universe. And
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: then Homer thinks that when Lisa says, I think it's
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Lisa who's describing Jay, he thinks it's them describing him.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: My ears are burning.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: No, no, you dad, Oh my ears a burning.
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: Let a cute bond fire and see what was happening
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: in his ear.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Marge then writes the letter to j.
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: Dear mister san On behalf of the people of Springfield.
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: I would like to invite you to judge our film festival.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: You can stay with us and enjoy the sights and
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: sounds of the country.
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: Merge just a pimple or a boil, just a man at.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: Homer, look what you made me?
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: Anyway, we think you'll really enjoy our quiet little town.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: Sincerely, Marge Simpson, Do.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: I really want to leave Manhattan?
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Sermon? I just realized you insulted me. Now you were
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: to die?
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: Eh?
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: Hey not neck?
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Your shoes untied?
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: From here they appear to be tied. But I will
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: go in for a close or look.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Taxi to the airport.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: On Grelosa inspection. These are loafers. We come back from
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: commercial and the graffiti plane arrives, cuts off the one
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: from New York. Hey, I'm landing here. Homer then holds
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: up the Simpson sign. It's just your typical Homer is
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: dumb moment keeps rewriting Simpson and.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: Then again rule threes again.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, the payoff to the piople or a boil.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: It was a gummy bear. So right off the bat
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: here they're trying to establish that Jay. I'm going to say,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I think Jay thinks he's more superior than anybody, but
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: more superior than Homer.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: What do you reckon?
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Not particularly in this moment here, but it's setting up
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: the I don't know that, yeah, same, Maybe it's just
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: maybe it's just John Loved's voice. I don't know, But
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: do you think It's Loved's voice plays a big part
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: in the snewedness of Jay Sherman. It absolutely does.
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: But I think you know the thing about Jay Sherman
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: is he's also probably fairly insecure to the point of
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: rock bottomed self esteem.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Balding, middle aged, fat white man short.
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, he's you know, he's commenting on stuff rather
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: than actually creating stuff for all that kind of business.
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: You know, Rainian Wolfcastle doesn't call him out, But how
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: do you slip in that? On a bed of on
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: a big bottle of Money's arounded by beautiful ladies who
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: who wouldn't rather have that? So I think if Jay
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: finds the opportunity is like, oh here's someone I'm legitimately
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: better than, you know, he's really gonna sort of loud
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: it over coming.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Up next, The Flintstones meet the Jetsons.
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: Uh oh, I smell another cheap cartoon crossover.
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: Bright Tip didn't meet Jay Sherman the critic.
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: Hello, hey man, I really love your show. I think
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: our kids should watch it. I suddenly feel so dirty.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: It's important. I think when you're doing a crossover that
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: you acknowledge it in some way and take the mickey
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: out of yourself at the same time.
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: I reckon, So I think you have to, don't you.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: You have to because you don't want to want the
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: viewers to feel like you're just shoving it down their throats.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Burns is now in his office and we get Vadas
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: theme playing over the top of the Imperial March, and
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: they're discussing how the profits have dropped by thirty seven
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: percent because the image of the of the power plant
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: and mister Burns's is just not great at the moment,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: so Smith suggests a film biography as part of the
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: film festival to improve their image. Get me, Steven Spielberg.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: He is not available, sir, Get me he's non Union
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: mass An equivalent. It's just it's so awesome, isn't.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: It, Senior spill Senior spielbergo.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Yes, I want you to do what Spilberg did for
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Oscar Shindler. She lets, I didn't appreciate this, and that's
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: what I always gotta allow.
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: Like Shindlers, I.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Never appreciated Spielberg or whatever. It is enough when I
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: was younger. For sure, it's very very good. And what
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: what's his hat say? Did I say? Spielberg? Spielbergo, Oh,
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I mean was just always renowned
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: for isn't a cap, isn't it? He's like, that doesn't
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: look like a drastic park we have we can up
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: hanging one second. I'm just just giggling him. Now, hang
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: on one second. What's his hat? Was just a red
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: hat and it was just lucky red hat. But yes,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: that's as you were saying. He's known Spillbear for wearing
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: his hat's blue hat though.
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: Right, I think he's for a very very long time.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: He was just mister baseball cap, the beard in the baseball.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Cap, the beard in the baseball gap. Yeah. So he's
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: got the non Mexican non union SORR Mexican equivalent to
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: help him film his film Homer and Jay and then
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: fighting over who gets the last pork chop and we
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: get their bellies fighting.
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: What I like about this though, was this It also
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: shows that Jay he's got the gift of the game
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: when it comes to his mouth. So he's a big talker,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: but physically no home is always going to win. He's
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: a chicken. But Marches, now you've got to you've got
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: to let the guests have the last pork chop, and
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: even just that like sticks his tongue out. I'm like,
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: this guy not a nice person at Jay is not
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: a nice person at all. He shows off all his awards,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: so he's really cocky. And then Homer brags about how
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: you know, he won the belching contest at work, and
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: then Jay out does him in that as well. It's like,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: piss off, mate, just have something now. I want to
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: mention here a little bit later in the episode, so
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: he mentions here that the end people that can beouch louder,
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: he and you door are wealthy. Right when we hear
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: her burp later in the episode, for some reason, and
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: I cannot explain to you why used to be muted
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: on free to air TV. When they would err on Foxdale,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: we could hear it. But when Channel ten would air
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: that scene where she where she burps and Crusty's hair moves,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: you couldn't. You couldn't hear it. His hair just moved
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: and there was no sound. It was the strangest thing.
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: That's very weird. Any any reason why they do that.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: You've never been able to find out why that is.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: It's just the strangest thing that that one little bit
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: was always the initial burp by Jay not muted out.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: But when Krusty says, We've got a date with your
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: door a wealthy and she burps, you couldn't hear it.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: You just see the hair moving. It was the strangest thing.
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: Maybe it's just out of respect for the pulling surprise
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: winning author be.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't know. Yeah, it's just it's it's bizarre.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: But then we hear the doorbell rings, smartest sisters or
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: sisters screams, and then he says that what do you
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: think of this next bit? I thought you'd appreciate this,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: the woody Allen bit. I look came and ca can
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: do but sat smart, Jimmy and Skippy do can and
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: do do? I never feel I never felt worse for
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: Homer than.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: I did that.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty, it's pretty bad and tumbre weed coming through.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: I love that.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They then asked, who is gay? No Harvey firesting,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: No way the camp has gone Hollywood. I love Harvey.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: He's so funny. Oh my god.
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: Well co star of Missus Doubtfire, which was recently covered
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: by Dan Do on Guy Okay The Movie.
• 41:38
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• 41:42
  Speaker 1: all tad to get apologies. Listens, if you just heard
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: a scream, Holly is now awoken, and this house is
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: going to be a rocket.
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: Now, alright, Well, we can't really race to the end
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: because we're not. We're about plenty of time.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: We're fine. I believe my lovely wife Nikola is going
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: to be taking Holly for a walk to the park
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: to get it out the house. But before then, we
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: have them discussing Hugh's gay and Homer suggests whispers something
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: in his ear. Mcguiver is gay, and we're both not
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: happy about that at all. They're not, and I don't
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: know how. It's kind of like there's two ways looking
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: at it. It's they're using homosexuality as the punchline here,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: like it's a bad things that he's gay. It's like, no,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Patty and Sam are annoy because they obviously like him
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: and they don't want him to be gay. But now
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: that we've reviewed, as we're saying earlier, there's something about marrying.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Did Patty not know what she was at this point?
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: I thought she always knew according to that episode.
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: Oh good point.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Continuity doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: I think you can just as dudes can have man
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: crushes like I'm you know, It's true. Both dan Or
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: and I have on Joel Sellwood, the captain of the
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: Delongquat's football team, who has now decided to call it
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: to day on his illustrious career. Patty probably you know,
• 42:51
  Speaker 5: had a non sexual crush on mcgiver, or a sexual
• 42:56
  Speaker 5: crush but not sexual, if you know what I mean. No,
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: I don't, nor do I. I'm working that out.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: But it comes to Jay hanging from his undies. He's
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: obviously been beaten up by Patty and Sammer. Margin's then
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: riding out the jury list for the festival in bed
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: with Homer, and Homer asked her, you respect my intelligence
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: of a pause? Yes? Why was it such a long pause?
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: No reason? You humor me? Yes? Wait a minute, that's bad,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: And he's like, I know, I know he's a good critic,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: but can he sing the Oscar the Oscar my Awena song?
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: And then he proceeds to do just that.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, I wish I were an Oscar myre weener.
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: That's true. They like to be because if I were
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: an Oscar and Iroween, everyone would be in love with me.
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: That's it. March he knows the whole Hot Talk song.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, sleep with him.
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: I'll just take a look of your hair to remember you.
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: Boy.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: It's just you and me.
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: No luck of their.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Oscar my a Wiener never had one? Have you ever
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: had one? I have never had an oscar my Wiena. No,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: we're Australians down and we have Huttons, footy Franks. Yeah,
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: that's right. Why I don't eat sausages anymore before so,
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: I've never I've never really liked sausages anyway. Eve when
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I was a kid, I was just like, give me
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: a hamburger. I don't want a sausage. I was never
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: I loved the bunting snag. It was like a Saturday
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: morning ritual. But at a barbecue. I was all about
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: the hamburgers, hamburgers of Coleslaw.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: I get where you're coming from, but oh I love
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: a sausage.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Use that sound bite. But yeah, so all the kids
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: are singing the song with him, and the dog's howling.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming that's how that the that's like a Chicken
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Tonight kind of reference, Like that's the song for the commercials.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming, Yeah, that wasn't it at the movies isn't
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: it like the the commercial is to play before a
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: movie like go to the I know that was Let's
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: all go to.
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: The lobby and have ourselves a snack.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Dude.
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I'm pretty sure the Oscar My Wiener theme
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: song was big on the TV commercials and things like that.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's no a hot dog song. No, it's not.
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: The classic version of the wing the theme song. But
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: Love's reaction to it, he knows the whole hot dog song.
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: Go ahead, sleep with him.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna take a look at your hair. It's
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: just me and you now, luck of hair much as
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: like calm down, you find so, he says, put me
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: on the jury list to prove that you don't think
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: I'm stupid. That she does, she crosses off scores asy
• 45:27
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• 45:57
  Speaker 1: That's now the auditions for mister Burns. We get Annibal Letter,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: we get William Shatner, and we also get Homer. I
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: love the Homer exactly, just caving in the line, right,
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: bumblebee guy, excellente and burnches. Besides that, enough's enough, I'm
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: going to play it myself. It's now the film Festival,
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: and this next gag took me back to my honeymoon.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: So doctor Hibitt rocking up the rocky horror get up.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: I'm like, ah, I've been there, and you know, we
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: get the various films. So we get bright lights, beef
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: jerky from a Pooh, we get Mo better booze from Mo.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Man getting hit by football one of my favorite moments ever.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: It's just so stupid, so funny. It's it's like, man,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: getta hit by football. It is utterly ridiculous. It just
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: seems to have just stuck like it's just what is
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: it about it that makes it so goddamn funny?
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: Is it the sound is I know, I know, Homer
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: says it works on so many levels.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: It doesn't really, it just works on one level. But
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: it's funny. Just I don't know, it's ridiculous and immature,
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: but it's just I think that that moment followed Behmer's
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: laugh is just a perfect combination for me. I just
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: I just I adore it. Then we get puc Huntas
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: from from Barney, which.
• 47:12
  Speaker 5: I really love because I mean it's a wonderful piss
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: take on you know, the sort of gotten who are
• 47:20
  Speaker 5: kind of Yeah, actually it was more like colognets, like
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: Calvin kleinsession.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: They already take pisce out of this mister Plow when
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Homer says he pays a lot of money to have
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: a commercial from mister plowner, and it comes back like
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: a Calvin Klein kind of commercial with all black and
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: white yeaheah yeah yeah.
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: But yeah, those you know, the clouds really moving fast
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: across the guy and it's all in black and white
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: and all that kind of stuff. But they're all correct
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: and saying this is actually really good. I mean it's
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: I love all this stuff in it. I mean, I
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: really love. One of my favorite bits is actually the
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: when Barney quotes a fellow or something like there is
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: a serber Man lately, a clown presently a beast that
• 47:59
  Speaker 5: pretty much covers it.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: I thought that was the funniest thing.
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: But also just the my name is Barney Gomble, I'm forty,
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: I'm single, and I drink. It's like, it's good writing.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Ye, that sums your life up. Yep, don't cry for me,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I'm already dead. Another quote that gets used a lot.
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, very much so yeah, yeah, And.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: I think they picked the perfect character to have this
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: film as well, because you just never expect Barney to
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: be the one to have this. But it's really beautifully made.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: It's really great. But Haama wasn't watching it all then
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: we get a burns for all seasons. And the quote
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: of you truly are King of Kings that gets used
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: all the time when someone does something great on social media.
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: But do you know that was voiced by Phil Hartman.
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: Well, I did see his name in the in the
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: closing credits. I'm like, where where was Phil? But then
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: in retrospects like truly you are the king of king Yeah.
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: I saw some clip on on Twitter the other day.
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: Phil Harton was on like some chat show or something,
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: and he was talking about how he dubbed a line
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: for Jack Nicholson in some film that Nicholson made in
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: the eighties. Yeah, they needed him for adr and Nicholson
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: wasn't available. So Phil Hartman stepped in and said, I
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: really appreciate what you've done for me and my family.
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: And Harbin told met Jack Nicholson and told him this,
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: and Nicholson apparently said, no, wonder that film was my
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: only loser.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: Harbin just cracked up.
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: It was the funniest thing.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: But that was great. I didn't know that he'd ever
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: done that. I'm sad that Nicholson's hiding now because of
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: his apparently he's got is that dementia?
• 49:43
  Speaker 5: Either that or he's just you know, old, Yeah.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: Apparently he's just he's something's not right.
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well he I think he admitted his like, I
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: can't remember lines anymore. I mean, whether that's legitimate dementia
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: or just old age wear and tear. I mean, there's
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: a great line. I think Sean McKellen, who said, like
• 50:01
  Speaker 5: an actor dized twice in the first time is when
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: you can't remember your line, that sucks.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: And it does suck.
• 50:05
  Speaker 5: But I mean, you know, Jack gave us forty fifty
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: years of just being Jack Nicholson, you know, birth on
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: screen and offscreen.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Have you seen the moment where he flirted with Jennifer Lawrence? Yeah, like, oh,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: I'm like that is just even though he's not in
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: movies anymore, he's still Jack Nicholson just the I thought
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: about it.
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: No, So he's more and Donald, he's more than indulgence
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: to you know, sitting sitting around the house in his
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: robe and you know, watch the Lakers.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Good on him. Anyone who has trouble flirting with women
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: just watched that ten seconds like that there he just
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: oozers charisma. Oh yeah, it's just the confidence of the guy.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: And what I love the most is when he goes
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: back to it. You put the glasses on first, what's
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: his glasses? Backing on? Sunglasses and then he goes and talks, Ah,
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: what a man. They broke the mold. They broke the mold.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: He really did. All right, But enough about Jack Nicholson, Nickson,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Phil Hartman of course, yes, he voice King of Kings.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: And then we get the I was saying Billurn's moment.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: These are the boy, ma'am.
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: No, they're saying Burns, Burns, are you seeing Boo Bourns?
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: I was saying balloons.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: We come back, and the jury now voting for a winner.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: We have Marge and Jay choose Pucahuntas and Quimby and
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Krusty have been brought off by Burns and they have
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: voted for a Burns for all seasons and christ He
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: says we're gona get out of he because I've got
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: a date with with you, Dora. And then we hear
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: the burp. I was like, oh, thank god, the Burbs back,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: because I just never understood why they cut it out.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: It must have been out of respect. I'm not too sure.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: Doesn't make any sense. Maybe she complained. I'm not too sure.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: But then we get the moment you quoted earlier. It
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: moved me. Do it back a house, La, that's such
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: a it's such a good It's such a perfect rusty line,
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: isn't it. It's on part for me of like the
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: they bought a dumb truck full of money up to
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: my house. I'm not made of stone. Homer wants football
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: on the growing football in the grind. Jay says, you
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: need to take a break because we're getting nowhere. Margie
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: goes and confronts Homer says, I knew you. I knew
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: it was this would happen if I put you on
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: the jury, you'd vote for the stupidest film. And Jay
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: walks up and he's like, you're going to make fun
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: of me. No, I'm not going to make fun of you.
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: But before that, though, he says, what does Homer say
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: that makes him go? How many times have I had
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: Rex Read say that? Sleeping with the with the slipping
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: with the What? What is Marge slipping with the chief?
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: The boss of some kind? Yes? Who's Rex Read? I
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: don't know who Rex Read is.
• 52:45
  Speaker 5: Rex Reader is a critic who's still working in New York.
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: I think he's I think he writes for the New
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: York Observer. Yeah, always a bit bitchy. His reviews lately
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: are just ship. He's just got terrible taste. You know.
• 53:00
  Speaker 5: He'll anything that's you know, vaguely interesting and be kind
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: of like, no, don't like it, and anyone anyone any
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: tastes going fuck off?
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Rex?
• 53:11
  Speaker 5: Why are you still around?
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: Is that you don't have taste? And he does.
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: Man, he's got it. Look, here's the thing about film criticism.
• 53:20
  Speaker 5: We're all just arseholes with opinions.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: That's all weird.
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: You can have an informed opinion, you can certainly, you
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: can know your stuff, you can know your film history,
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: and you know, see how stuff relates to everything else
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: and all that kind of thing. But in the end,
• 53:33
  Speaker 5: it's just your opinion. If you can express your opinion
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: well and back up your arguments, that's great. No one's
• 53:38
  Speaker 5: right or wrong. You know, you just got to go
• 53:41
  Speaker 5: with the voice, the voice you can trust.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: So then he says, I'm not going to make fun
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: of you, but there are better things in life than
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: seeing a man get hitting the groin with the football.
• 53:49
  Speaker 5: By the way, shout out for the delivery of groin.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Yep, And the football hits him in the groin, and
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Nelson was obviously the person. He threw it Homers, and
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: he had some serious thinking to do, and he goes
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: and rewatches it. Barney's film had heart football on the Green,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: had a football in the green. And then after finishing
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Barney's film, he says, you know what, I've really learned
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: a lot from this. I'm going to straighten up, fly
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: up whatever beer here, I'll take ten.
• 54:15
  Speaker 5: That's something I've always loved about this. Those all that
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: the beer guys wandering around an empty theater beer here,
• 54:23
  Speaker 5: it was just instant. I'll take ten.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: It's like when the guys selling hot dogs at the funeral.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: You're just following my husband around, lady. He's getting my
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: children through college. She and Scratchy have won the Best
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: Short Film Best Animated Short for four Funerals and a Wedding.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: What I liked about this was it, at least a
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: scratch you got to live a happy life. I was
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: thinking the exact same thing. I'm obviously they exploded at
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: the end, but he looked old and fraid of at
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: this point. They both went out together.
• 54:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, they had a long live together. They had
• 54:56
  Speaker 5: a couple of dynamite kids, and.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: It's fantastic and they both die.
• 55:00
  Speaker 5: And also Scratchy checks out as well.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it is the mouse?
• 55:06
  Speaker 5: Is it you the mouse?
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: But yeah, but Barney wins with Poker Hunters, and Marge
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: is very proud of Homer for voting for the right film.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: You know what he says, it's not tough, or he
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: says not tough yet not tough being a film. Cricket cricket,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: And then Barney says I'm going to be a new
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: Barnard Gumbel, hard working, clean and sober. And he wins
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: a lifetime supplier beer just hook it to my veins. Whatever.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: That gets used a lot whenever, like a new trailer
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: comes out or something very much. So yeah, I see
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: that one so much. Yeah. The family now sending off
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: Jay at the airport. You know, wonder you can visit
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: my show? Yeah, we're not going to be doing that.
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: And Homer is and he tricks himself with some beer
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: nuts whatever, and then they mentioned here, well, faithfully, mister
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: Burns learned that you can't buy off. You can't win
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: an a war by paying people money. And six months
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: later at the Oscars, there's two elements of this. Obviously,
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: you know, he doesn't win. George C. Scott wins with
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: men getting hit by football, right. But what I love
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: is that are they taking the piss out of the
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: Academy and that this short film came out and someone
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: else has just ripped off another film and it's winning
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: Best Film at the Oscars? Or is that just meant to?
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: Is that looking too much into it? I think that's
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: really just a little bit too much ender. Okay, okay,
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: oh my grind.
• 56:21
  Speaker 5: I think that's one say ah my grind and have
• 56:24
  Speaker 5: one of the most intense actors in Hollywood, you know,
• 56:27
  Speaker 5: sort of very renowned, respected actor, just winning, finally winning
• 56:31
  Speaker 5: and asking for my grind. Oh my grind. That's the
• 56:36
  Speaker 5: one thing I've always loved about this episode, George C.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: Scott's It's just such a funny way to end this episode.
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: But did you know that Maurice Lamar is LaMarsh Lamar
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: from Future? Yeah, we also voiced on the critic as well,
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: so he voiced George Scott in this episode. He voiced
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: William Shatner. He voiced the Burps as well, both both Burps.
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: Hey 's nice work, Maurice. Indeed, so that is the
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: end of the episode because mister Burns does not win
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: the oscar and he cracks the shits. Overall this episode,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: I don't understand the not disdain, but just the meh
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: response that it's got many that received. Yeah, that's ridiculous silliness. Yeah,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: I thought this was just one of the most memorable
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: episodes of all time due to all the moments that
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: get rehashed in social media. It's just I just thought
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: this is a standout.
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: Really Oh god, it's clearly taken up space in people's minds.
• 57:33
  Speaker 5: If it's if there's so many bits and pieces of
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: it that are repurposed in other ways.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: It's so wacky that if you told me that and
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: con O'Brian or Swartzport I wrote this episode, I believe
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: you because it just feels like it doesn't it.
• 57:49
  Speaker 5: It does, it does. It's full of zingers and really
• 57:52
  Speaker 5: tightly constructed, I think, because.
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: I think with those two guys there, when I used
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: to write episodes, there were so many funny moments, but
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: they all progressed the story still. It wasn't just like
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: random moments for the sake of random moment. It was
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: zing zing zing, zing zing and zing zinger, but continuous
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: story flow.
• 58:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: I really really enjoyed it. What do we learn bomber,
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: mister Davis? What did you learn from a star? As Burns?
• 58:15
  Speaker 5: The lyrics to the oscar Awa thing?
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: Is that what you truly like to be? Oh? Yeah?
• 58:22
  Speaker 5: Although, as I said, hot dogs, I'm a hot dog.
• 58:26
  Speaker 5: What kind of kid eats I'm a hot dog? What
• 58:29
  Speaker 5: kind of dogs? I just remember when that when they
• 58:36
  Speaker 5: were doing it on that episode, though there was everyone
• 58:38
  Speaker 5: was singing along.
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: Fat kids, sissy kids, even kids with chicken box.
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: Everyone was so into it.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Check out our review of Grade School Confidential. I believe
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: that was last month's I on Springfield, Guy on Springfield,
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: I should say yes. I hope you enjoyed. Our review
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: of Stars Burns. Was fun to go back and revisit
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: this one. I wasn't too sure because I remember as
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: a kid not really liking it, and it was honestly
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: one of the episodes when I was younger that I
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: would sort of go ah, this one, I was sort
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: of when I used to have my tape, so he's
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: always one i'd fast forward it. It was never a
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: favorite of mine, but going back now, I definitely appreciate
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: it more. What did I learned? I learned that The
• 59:13
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• 59:16
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• 59:18
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• 59:19
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• 59:22
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• 59:24
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• 59:42
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