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Husbands And Knives (S19E07) · Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

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Marge. Now that you're rich, you really should get rid of that bag.
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Really, I'm so used to my old one, old one. They're
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convincing Marge to dump me. Oh it's easy. I get a new one
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every two years from Italy. You would love a big black one four finger
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discount dude, welcome to four figure discount. With this week we hit to
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review episode seven of season nineteen of The Simpsons. It is Husbands and Knives.
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I'm Danno and I am guy, and I charged this episode with an
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egregious waste of Jack Black. I posted in the four finger discount Patreon group
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last night, and I think on a discord as well that I've got a
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rant coming. Right. I saw this and I was like, so wait,
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as not necessarily anything that happens in the episode that bothered me with this
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one? Right, Yes, this is it. You just mentioned Jack Black,
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one of my favorite actors of all time. At this point of this
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episode, When to add two thousand and seven one of the biggest stars into
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what's still one of the biggest stars in the world. Right, who among
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us does not like the Jabels? And he feels like the kind of guy
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who I don't want to hear that we only had it for a certain amount
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of time. He feels like the kind of guy who if you said we
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want to have you on the Simson, he go where when? How long
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did need before? Sometimes when you say a little something goes a long way,
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it can be a backhanded confidence, like this person's a bit much,
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yes, but a little little Jack Black goes a long way. He's concentrated
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chaos and mayhem in the best possible way. Yea. Yet in this episode,
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I feel like we got there's not a lot of jabels I mean,
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or not not properly utilized, not exploit it to the best of his abilities.
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So what bothered me with this right was I was so excited at the
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start because I when, what's what's the character's name that he plays running Coolsville.
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I'll find it in the second anyway, the character finds in Carsville,
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right, let's find it. His name is Milo Mylo. That's right,
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Mylo, the owner of Callsville, the new comic book store here in Springfield
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that is now hipper and cooler and more with it. It's you know,
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it's finally happened to comic book guy. It'll happen to you it's happen to
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combook Guy. Right, it's the two thousand and seven equivalent of what people
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thought a comic book store should be. Everyone loved it. Right he came
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out, he started speaking. I thought that's somebody. I listened. I
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thought, oh, wait a minute, it's jap Back. I never knew
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Japbacker was on The Simpsons. I was super excited. Right, I couldn't
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believe it. I thought, this is going to be great, a whole
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episode around Milo versus Comic book Guy. Yes, nay, no, it
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was not that we had an entire first act that I really enjoy with the
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comic book stores and comic book Guy getting his ar com uppins for being a
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joke all these years, and his store closes down right, which leads Marsh
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to opening up her own gym where the Androids Dungeon used to be right correct.
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What shipped me about this was that after that first act, there is
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no reference to the comic book stores anymore. There is mylett Jack Blacks don't
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have been referenced anymore. So the comic book store is closed down, gone
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right. Apparently Marge has turned it into a gym. She's now incredibly successful.
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Now, I preface this by saying, Matt, someone I know you
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wrote this episode, and I love you. We went for dinner, we
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shared a drink, pals, right, But the thing is that what it
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takes, is that all it takes. But the thing is Okay, Matt,
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So you wrote this plot point where we have a new comic book store
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on Springfield, a really fun, interesting development, right, And I'm sitting
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here thinking as a fan, holy shit, is Jack going to be a
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recurring character as this new comic book store, Because by the end of the
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episode, there's no explanation about getting back to the status quo. It is
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assumed he must be still there. Yes, indeed, now do you want
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to continue? Because yes, I'm okay, I'm nearly done, right,
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so I'm gonna I'm not gonna stop it, so I can't stop it.
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So it got to the end of the episode, and you don't have to
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get back to the status quo every time, right, but least explain something,
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right, you have to see it go full back to the statusquad but
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explain something. You can't introduce Coolsville as a comic book store. Comic book
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Guy goes out of business, March opens up shapes in return in its place
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and never reference it again for the whole episode, because as a viewer in
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two thousand and seven, I would have been sitting there going, okay,
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cool. Next episode is going to be now Coolsville's giving the new comic book
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Store. They never referenced Coolsville again. Ever, why did I have the
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ball? No? No, I'm going to do two things. Yeah.
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First of all, I'm going to suggest that the writers of the show Matt's
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elman at all in the writer's room, maybe gave themselves a bit of an
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escape hatch. Then secondly, I'm going to do Matt and his pals are
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solid by fixing your episode. Fuck this guy, But isn't that guy who
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for what how many fingers? Just that one to me? Sorry, I
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love you, you didn't you didn't buy me dinner? We invited you?
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And is the bet I invited guy to that dinner and he's like, no,
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no, no, not by the And then at the end, I
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was like, oh, we went for dinner with Phil Rosenfall and Matt and
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he was like, well, don't to me, I would it come?
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And I'm like, because it was just me, that's correct. Okay,
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I will say that in the very early stage of this episode where they're talking
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about, you know, the the various comic book imprints and how yeah,
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this happened, but you know it wasn't continuity all that kind of stuff.
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They're sort of planning a seed for, like what happens in this episode doesn't
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really happen. It's not canon. It's just it's just a bunch of stuff
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that happens. It's not a great escape patch, but it's it's sort of
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plausible deniability on their part. Perhaps perhaps I'm not saying this is actual fact,
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but it's one way that I read it. I don't say that I
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approve of it, but I'm saying that it's happened. Second thing is,
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here's where I fixed the episode, because okay, you've got two competing businesses
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in that you've got the Androids Dungeon and now you've got Coolsville. The way
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I would set it up is comic book guy is annoying, and you know,
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he overcharges and he's rude to the customers, all this kind of stuff,
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but he's legit. He legitimately loves comic books, he loves the law,
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everything about it, and you know he'll he's like you need to throw
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in the scene where he actually sort of steers someone in the right direction,
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goes, well, if you actually like that coming book, you would probably
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enjoy this win very that. I just couldn't believe they didn't go back.
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This would have been a great b plot to go back to throughout the episode.
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Yeah, and that's the thing. You make him legit. But then
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Colesville sets up Milo looks like a great guy, talks the talk, doesn't
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necessarily walk the walk in what way, but they already established it. He
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knows a lot about superheroes and he brings Yeah, I think you need to
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make him like a real opportunity, Like there's money and then their comic book
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stores and he's done his reading. But he's a pretender, he's a poser,
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and you know, it's sort of makes a super fan with money.
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Yeah, he's who brought the monorail. What's what's the Lanley? Yeah,
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he's a Lyle Lanley comic to that extent. But no, no, no,
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but yeah, he's a bit of a he's a bit of a charlatan,
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you know. And at the end, you know, like, uh,
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well the money's falling out of the comic book thing. I'm going to
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go open a something other store. I'm going to go open a frozen yogurt
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store because that's where the money is. Now. Yeah, true, I
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think that. I think the way they could have done it was maybe he
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wasn't a fan of radioactive Man or something, and that's Springfield's go to heroes
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and a radioactive man. Yeah, or yeah, he gets busted, sort
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of saying to Strawberry, his girlfriend, these kids are so amazing hanging out
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with his comic book nerds. Everyone inteslbs, Yeah, making a gabbo.
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Everything is improved by making them a gabbo. Now that's your your b plot.
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And you have that sort of you have nice double helix going on where
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Marge is opening an authentic gym. Is she still successful? Don't know that
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everyone that everyone's into, But she gets overrun by like the fake post gym,
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like La body Works or whatever. They do some weird thing to basically
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screw her out of her business. It restores the sautus quo, and you've
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got two storylines that sort of intersecting and sort of interconnected. But one shows
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that yeah, authenticity wins out and the other one goes no where suckers and
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we'll fall for We'll fall for a ruse if it's done, and if it's
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wrapped up in a nice packaging to little package and they will package. Look
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this, this needs work on my part, but I think that would be
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I think that's something you could do in the course of you know, minutes,
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twenty two minutes. I was just fiber gas. They didn't go back
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to it. I thought, you you got Jack Black. Hell are you
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not using Jack Black in the time that he's there. It feels like Jack
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Black is giving one hundred and fifty percent. Yeah, yet he's not given
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a whole lot. He's he was given fifty percent worth of material and he
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gave one hundred and fifty percent in effort. I don't know. It just
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didn't feel like if you told me this was a really good Jack Black impersonator,
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I would maybe think that, or you wrote we wrote we wrote this
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for someone who wouldn't be great if we got Jack Black to do this like
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Jack Black and then be full Jack Black, and then you actually got Jack
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Black to do it. It's just fun to say Jack Black. It's a
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great name. But I just it seems like a great guy he would have
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been. He would have been willing to stick around for the full twenty two
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minutes. You could have got a twenty two minute story out of just that
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plot. I reckon probably would have been better if it's just been a B
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pluck. You would have kept the best bits just Jack Black, just spliced
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throughout the episode. But he's also I think we all of him because we
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think he's a lovely, big bear of a dude in just general coolness.
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I want to see him turn heel. I'm sure he can do a heel
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turn. Hills Bowser exactly does a heel turn. So he does a heel
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turn, and they're like, ah, these kids, fuck them. Exact
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words, exact words, Matt Selman. They're not going to be winners.
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No, all of guys ideas. But anyway, that's what that's what I
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thought could have been done in this episode. And as a critic, I
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kind of respect recently said about a movie that everyone thought was going to be
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popular turn out not to be that popular when you're thinking about the better version
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of a movie while you're watching the actual movie that shows that movie does not
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work. Yeah, I said that comment on that YouTube video on the Mac
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and Me soundtrack, saying I want to see the movie that Allen especially thought
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he was scoring. Absolutely, but I'll just got here in my notes.
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Are we now entering the era where status quo is just assumed rather than explained?
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Because that's going to bother me. I think that is The Simpsons has
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established itself as a show that they always get back to the status quo,
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but they give us a reason or explanation as to how and why. It
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can't just be that my dog's bike. It would be the Postman. I
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reckon dropping off my DVD's umbrellant detainment movie The Legitimate Friends. But if you
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barging, it's Jet, the lovable Jet. We love him here for thinking
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discount. I don't think anyone's going to complain if they hear willfully here's the
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going buddy. Yeah man, But the thing is so the status quo,
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right, they always explained how and why. I don't want to get to
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an end of an episode as a viewer, right, So, say two
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thousand and seven, I was watching this, you would ended this episode and
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think, oh, Marge's now go a successful franchise and they're rich, and
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Comic book Guy is no longer in business, and Cools is a new store,
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and Jack Black's going to be a recurring character as the owner of the
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store. No next episode. It's literally just nothing happened. Comic book stores
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opened again, no shapes, and Coolsville's non existent. How does that happen?
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I don't know. That's as I said, Matt, I love you,
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but that has taken the viewers for granted. I think, because you've
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got to explain something. We are willing to accept status quo. Whatever absurd
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explanation to give us will take it up. By this point, right,
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major development, but don't just go it doesn't matter. They'll just forget about
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the week after. That's not what Simpson's fans do. And that's I think
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why a lot of people, if this is a recurring thing, maybe that's
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why people jumped off the show for a while or now. Still, that
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makes a lot of sense to me, because if I'm watching a show that
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I dedicated so long for and I've watched for so long, I love it,
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and then all of a sudden they just started having storylines that don't have
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endings, and then the next episode is just like, Oh, that doesn't
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happen, that never happened, that doesn't exist. That would bother me to
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the point where, gay, well you don't, you don't respect me as
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a viewer anymore. Well, something where it's this pivotal, it's huge.
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It really guys out of business. The Simpsons are now rich and rich,
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successful with a gym franchise, and it's just not existent in the following episode.
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So you have actually had the surgery in March has to spend all of
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their fortune to get home and back to normal. Something stupid like that,
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right, Actually, yeah, that works, just something silly. I don't
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just give us something, give me something. I don't think. I think
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we would probably be griping about if March Blue of fortune on restoring home at
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a home. But still, yeah, you would feel like, oh,
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well, at least they've made the effort to revert us back to factory settings.
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Yeah, just I wanted something and just really annoyed me. That was
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my rant that you established all these changes. And we know Matt doesn't he
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doesn't care about Cannon and all that kind of thing. Right, that's fine,
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but he always falls back on that each episode lives in his own bubble.
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But you got to this is too pivotal. Yeah, like Comic book
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Guy's been there. From the season two, the Androids Dungeons are a big
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part of the show. The Simpsons are now rich, Marge is hugely successful
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with a gym franchise. You have to take that away from her. Yeah,
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of course I'm gonna like my idea. But I do like my idea.
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Yeah, Milo the comic book guy being yeah, just a fly by
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night operator who's like, well, well, there's no money in comic books
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anymore, so like, look, I'm gonna go do something else. All
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the kids are like, but we trusted. He's like that, that's your
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bad luck, mate, where's comic book guy? He can't do anything else?
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You know, he could have done, He could have had maybe kind
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of like cartman Land right recently, where I actually just can't know someone to
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that at all. But you know, gone down the South check it out
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if you haven't already. So comic book guy goes out of business. Coolsville's
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going well, and then after a while the guy Milo realizes, oh shit,
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like there's no money in this, like I'm losing a ton of money.
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Corm book go goes, well, well, well I can take it
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over for you, and he takes over and he becomes a new owner of
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Coolsville just turns it back into the dungeon. Yeah, you're lasting to see,
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is the cools who design can be down and like or just a a
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really makeshift siut of like Androids Dungeon. Yeah, because the Androids Dungeon has
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been completely gutted and turned into the Shapes. Yeah what you or you get
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a fancied up big Androids dungeon in the cool Ville. At least have Marge
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sell the franchise of Shapes to somebody, right, maybe maybe comp guy,
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I don't know it anyway, and it's Rich Texan Or was it Lindsay Nagel
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who was at La body Works that looked or that kind of it wasn't it
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was them swooping. Yeah, it's like, Marge, we really like your
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body positively, gym. We think that's really the way that it's fleet to
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Peter against the Petzel Wagon. Yeah, and then they buy it and they
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just turn into La body Works or whatever it is, and that's it,
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and then you just have take over calls Villain turn it back into the Androids.
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As I said, I really liked that idea of authenticity wins on one
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hand, and corporate cynicism wins. On the other hand, that strikes me
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as classic Simpsons, It really does. You could end the episode with him
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getting all those quirky comics that weren't normally availble in Springs FLD and going no,
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thank you, put them in the bin or something, and then you
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have Alan Moore up top coat that fucking guy. Yeah, yeah, being
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classic Alan Moore grump. Yeah. Just that's it. That's what we had
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to do. That's all you had to do, man, that's all you
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have to do. Mat We worked it out in twenty minutes. My favorite
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What were your favorite moments of the episode if you did have any, though
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I don't know my revised version. I didn't mind the I'm going to the
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successful Ladies room with the dollar sign on the lady as a gay look,
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despite what we were saying about cools will cause we're a little pretty neat by
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the way, I enjoyed this episode. Just that structure bothered me, but
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overall the episode I actually enjoyed. This is one of those episodes where I
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liked the idea, I like the foundation, and I just don't think it
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was executed all that well. Okay, yeah, in what way? Oh,
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they didn't have an ending. Yeah, there's that. Yeah, the
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whole as you were saying about this feels like canon. Now. It was
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weird, wasn't it. And then when it got to the end, you
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went, oh, because how do you write an episode? I have a
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beginning, middle, and end. It's like they've got to the two thirds
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into the episode and went and that's the end of the episode. But where's
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the end? What? It honestly felt like a first draft of an episode
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as opposed to an episode or a bunch of ideas that we had for an
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episode, and it neithered one or two more passes of like, Okay,
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how do we make this work? How do we fold this into this?
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At least home it's not being a jerk in recent episodes, but in this
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one here this isn't having being a jerk. He's sort of living the high
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life. But then he realizes, oh shit, I need to up my
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game here she's going to replace me. So he's constantly trying to find a
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way to please Marche. It's not him just I feel like last season even
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they would have had Homer just being an absolute dick and spending all the March's
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money all the time on useless shit. He wasn't doing it if she just
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sitting by a pool, enjoying, enjoying life, enjoying the extra money.
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And in the rest of the episode, he was spent trying to work out
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how to keep Marge, which I thought was nice. Yeah, no,
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I think I agree with you on that point. And I'd go over the
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top, which you and I would do if we thought were losing the love
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of the weazon on they we'd go over the top and get tea ducks and
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antipoles and whatnot. Look the reason I started to zero out a bit of
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sugar from my diet and you know, get my steps and everything. I
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was like, I better keep myself in shave with the lovely Louise. Things
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I enjoyed about this episode. I enjoyed Caulsville. I mean it reminded me
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of maybe the first time that I set foot in a That's what I thought,
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in a comic book store, like going to a place like Minataur in
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Melbourne and Geelong had its own Minotaur for a while. When you find that
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place that has obscure shit, you're like, I've always wanted to see this,
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all my favorite books in one place. You were talking about Premiere the
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magazine when you went first availed in Australia, the movie magazine, when you
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discover something that you thought, oh my god. That there was a news
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agency in Norlay and here in Gelan's where I grew up right and they were
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the only place locally that stocked the Simpson's comics. And there was another news
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agency about, I don't know, ten minute drive away. They didn't have
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it. But I went to this other particularly when they had the Simpsons comics,
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and I'm like, thank you, because you're the only source of this.
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That's what cool feels like. You know, we're finding that place,
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that store that stock something that you couldn't find anywhere else. Absolutely. Yeah,
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so you really feel like, oh my home, my people. Yes,
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yeah, I mentioned Alan Moore before. I love that they just played
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up his reputation as a notorious grump. He hated Viva Vendetta or something.
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He did want his name in the credits Watchmen as well. I think they
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made the Watchman movie when Zack Snyder made it, it was like, not
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really my Watchmen, even though you know, it's pretty faithful adaptation in a
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lot of ways. Yeah. Yeah, but I liked how they were just
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sort of playing him up and then occasionally what was he singing about it?
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Little Lulu or he was reading that one? Yeah, singing the song.
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I thought that was quite funny. Also, I don't know if it's been
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memed a whole lot, but I certainly have it in my image just folder
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no no house, holding up Watchman Baby's Viva Vacation. I don't know that
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was But what what mean do you use that for? Okay, it's not
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really a memes just yeah, someone had screenshot at once. That's pretty funny.
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I'm probably can use it as a rejoint as a witty bit of banter.
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This is another example, by the way of an episode post season ten
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has a classic mean moment, Homer with the back fat. So it's like
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when you're trying to explain someone's hiding something to have coming from the front and
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you coat home from behind, and that gets used so often. I'm putting
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a list together, guys, of classic moments that get meaned every single day
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in The Simpsons. Groups that don't come in the first what you call the
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Golden era. So all you people with a bitch that The Simpsons is no
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good. Post season ten what you using screencaps post season ten? That's my
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question. Sounds a little hypocritical, little bit a little bit. I thought
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they're sneaking some pretty risquee lines into the Simpsons recently. Tell me, well,
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we had the Tress of horoweels love. I love watching you do other
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men? Right, Yes, this one here, they say, you like
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a really big black one. You also saw the hands, Yeah, yeah,
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And I was like, I was like, oh my, what else
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did you enjoy? I this isn't a line, This isn't a visual gag.
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I just like the shot of Homer and Marge walking handed handed the end
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through the park where Jebedi Springfield statue is right on the bench, is a
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poor man duel, just sitting there enjoying each other's company. And the background
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you see Flanders throwing the frisbee. I think it's Todd, right, is
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the oldest one throwing the frisbee of Rod. It was just a nice little
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moment of just Springfield in the field community. I was like, we don't
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get much of this anymore, and I'm seeing just them throwing the frisbee is
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like they didn't need to put those there in the background. It just added
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that sense of community. I liked it. Yeah, I mean I think
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something that appealed to a lot of Simpsons fans in the early days. And
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as you say, they quite unquite golden era. Is that balance of as
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I mentioned before, ah, sweetness and cynicism or authenticity and cynicism. I
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mean it's gonna the show was gonna say, look, the world kind of
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suck sometimes and occasionally the bad guys will win. But you know, if
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you've got a good support network of family, people, we love friends,
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all that kind of business can't help see you through. And the show will
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balance those two elements very very well at its best. Radio Bart's a perfect
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example where everyone wanted to help little Timmy and they found it Bart was screwing
21:03
them over, like ah, fuck back yod. It's a old, good,
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old fashion hold. And when and when the balance is off, you
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When did this air? This is one thousand and seven, two thousands.
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25:30
Beast Trivia, hit me with your first question on the cover of Born Again,
25:36
Robin. What is Robin saying? I don't know. Holy Trinity Batman,
25:41
Holy Trinity Batman. My first question for you is when did Superman take
25:45
over Gotham City? What comic Oh World's Finest. Yeah, seventy four.
25:51
I've got ninety four, but you could be No, I think you might
25:52
be right, right, Okay, yeah it was a four, But yeah,
25:55
I think you might be correct. I think I think we're bringing a
25:57
lot of trivia from the comic. My next one is not I don't why
26:02
I got too. I'll find another one, but yeah, I've got plenty.
26:03
We'll actually go four. What's the name of super Girl's horse comment comment,
26:10
Yeah, Sasha teaches which class at all? A body works? You?
26:14
Sasha, No, I don't. It's alliteration. Clue t t it
26:19
is because it's tummy tone, tummy tone. Well, with that in mind,
26:23
you get zen abs with who it's Zach something it's Zach g I was
26:30
gonna say Zach Gene. I thought it's it's a nice combination of Zach pu
26:33
it's too. Yeah, if you two want to get Mayby, that'd be
26:37
nice. All right. My next question for you is, I'll go from
26:41
the comic book st a bit easier. Milo covers comic book guy who's standing
26:45
in the window with a standy of who's the hut? Yes, while we're
26:49
there, Milo's girlfriend Strawberry. Her purse is a lunchbox. Who was on
26:56
that lunch book? Good question? What is it? It's Malibus Stacy Malibu,
26:59
Stacey weird. You wouldn't think Strawberry, the girlfriend of Mila would have
27:03
Meloby Stacey on her unless she's being ironic. Probably, so tell let's get
27:11
into our view of husbands and knives, shall we. So? The visual
27:14
air date November eighteenth, two thousand and seven. Production code j AB F
27:17
one seven, written by the amazing, legendary, stupendous Matt Salmon, Can
27:22
Do No Wrong, Can do No Wrong. I think it's I think it's
27:26
kind of appropriate. I mean, I think there's a lot of JAB production
27:30
codes going to have a JAB. So you've got JAB and you've got jabells
27:36
as the as the guest are coincidence, probably written but I directed by Nancy
27:44
Cruz. So guest starring Jack Black as Milo, and we also get Ye
27:48
Daniel Dan Klaus as himself. Maurice mauris La Marsh was one of the boyfriends,
27:51
one of the trophy husbands. Maurice just rocks up everywhere. Now he's
27:55
the go to guys. He's the man with the golden tonsils. Might not
27:56
make it take advantage, yeah, Alan Moore and speak on the spigger one
28:00
Yes, apparently so sang and Lee is the Korean singer doing the Tom Jones
28:06
songs. Perhaps so. The episode kicks off with They're in the comic book
28:11
store and they're just perusing around and I've just got this was by the way,
28:14
did you mention the cook you've done the trop into the chop? Because
28:17
I had both of them, this one didn't it. Yeah, the pilgrims
28:18
were not illegal aliens. I'm just so used to them skipping it now.
28:22
Yea, and the couch gave two hands with five fingers instead of four.
28:25
Open up a pop up book to reveal the family sitting on the couch.
28:27
Pop up books. They may skip it. That's no excuse for us to
28:30
skip it. No, not at all. Yeah, so kicks off within
28:33
the comic book store, and it just took me back to I'd go to
28:36
town. I'd say, monk, can we go to card Mania, which
28:37
would evolve into pop culture where we both used to work right right by the
28:41
way. If you like records, you see a bunch of records behind me
28:44
here, pop culture records. Check them out. Great comic books are great.
28:47
Record store in Geelong so much. But walking around card Mania, it
28:52
was just a different vibe. It was just kids. It was when the
28:55
boom of Pokemon was on, as well as the kids on stopping their Pokemon
28:56
cars. But they have action figures as well as like this is the only
29:00
place that stucks this stuff. It was just it was my heaven card Mania.
29:03
I loved it. Well yeah, main for me it's it was yeah
29:07
Minotaur in Melbourne, which then opened in Geelong, but there was Minta.
29:08
It was in Geelong where in Marble Street, No ship where this is completely
29:15
local but I don't care, between Rory and Little Mallet where. Well how
29:21
long ago was this? Oh god, this was in the late eighties,
29:22
early night. Oh shit, okay, yeah wow over my first tie went
29:26
to Minnatauri and Melbourne. I was like entering a new world. Oh yeah,
29:30
I just go down those the escalator. Well, they had like three
29:33
different locations of the first one that I went to was in like a little
29:38
arcade near the Hoyts Mid City Cinema. I've never been to a Hoyt cinema
29:41
in my life, haven't you know? The best things in life passed your
29:45
by? You know what they do as a collector, right, I'll collect
29:48
ship as you can see. But Hout Cinema always have really good cinema cups.
29:53
When the films come out, it seems like Hoyt cinemas into the ones
29:56
that get the really cool shit. Oh I was very big on Hoints back
29:59
in the day. It took a left turn into this little arcade that it
30:06
seems to have netting bigamic books. Of course, when it's like wow,
30:10
it's like we say, it's just fantastic one. It's like everything I want
30:14
in one place. And it's like you see some of the stuff they stock
30:17
and you think, surely you don't expect to sell this stuff but the fact
30:19
that you've just got to hear is cool. Oh yeah, absolutely to peruse
30:23
and never going to purchase, yeah, but purchased. But looking through the
30:27
racks especially, that felt the variety. It felt incredibly old school as well.
30:32
I mean, I think a lot of shops these days, a lot
30:33
of comic book shops are they don't have that sort of array of like a
30:38
well, big wooden box or whatever. You just now you're doing the bar
30:42
thing, got it? Got it. That's what I like about old school
30:45
video vinyl stores. It's like they've just got a section where it's like you're
30:48
gonna flick through fantastic not just the classics. Yeah, so but bart's going
30:52
through the comics. You think some of them are lame, then it's either
30:56
a characterize or it's a various robber or a very thereof yes, but he
31:00
finds the Wolverine with the PopOut clause, which cuts Millhouse and were speaking of
31:03
Wolverine. Seen Wolverine everywhere dead put the moment. I'm kind of sick of
31:07
seeing Wolverine. Yeah. Everyone's saying there's gonna be a big hit, gonna
31:11
save the American movie summer. I'm like, you probably will. But Inside
31:15
Out two has already done that. Bad Boys Right or Die already did that.
31:19
By the way, talking about Will Smith coming up soon on Yeah TV
31:23
Launch pot TV Launch probably just did episode three of the Fresh Prince of Ballet
31:26
pilots. Basically, if you haven't heard yet, we go back and review
31:29
the pilot episodes of some of our favorite shows, some shows that we don't
31:32
like as well. You guys have the right in mailbagger forthing your discap dot
31:33
com dot. Are you what show you like us to do the pilot of?
31:36
But we did Bobs Burger's Buffet, The Van by Slayer, and Fresh
31:38
Prince of Ballet, which I adored the pilot indeed, But yeah, Deadpool
31:41
and Wolverine. Look, I'll go see it of course the same time,
31:47
I don't know all the marketing around is just like you cant best. You
31:51
can have your tongue wedge too firmly in your cheek. Whoa the infamous Wolverine
31:56
comic with PopOut Claus? Why was this so kind reversal? Nice? Worked
32:06
up your boo who your tears have smudged Wolverine's iconic sade burns. Hence you
32:10
must buy this comic And the cost of your innocent accident is twenty five dollars.
32:16
Peace if that's the money yeah yah, Sophia gave me for Greek Orthodox
32:21
Easter when they tell me things about themselves. Twenty five dollars for the comic,
32:28
which is equivalent about forty dollars, which is a lot for a kid.
32:30
Absolutely for a comic. But what was the radioctive man numb one?
32:32
I was about a hundred dollars I think for an episode from season two uns
32:35
about Yeah, Bar says you're stop being mean? Why why are you so
32:38
mean? Because he's had a monopoly all this time? Where else you gonna
32:42
go to? You're going to go to the is it the laundry mat or
32:44
are you gonna get the matter store? Whatever? News at eleven by the
32:45
way, good name, Yes, and then he sees Colsville and he can't
32:49
believe it. What's going on here? And they mentioned here it's like when
32:52
Superman took over Gotham City. I think it was. That was a made
32:54
up story Jimmy Olson did when he was kicking head by Supergirl's horse Comet.
32:59
And Bart's like, none of this stuff really happened, and that's a comic
33:00
book guy goes, get out of my store. So I feel like that
33:04
was a good preface. Something could have happened with Milo saying something similar to
33:09
annoy Bart, which makes Bart go back to the Androids dungeon. Yeah,
33:13
and then everybody radio demand. He's like radio demand, he's not the greatest
33:15
hero of all time. And then Bart goes, hang on a minute,
33:17
you're not my comic book guy, you know, So that simple could have
33:22
fixed. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. But he kicks him out
33:24
and then they get introduced to Milo and he's got that the goatee, the
33:28
little little sol patch. Yes, he's got the comic bees. In Australia
33:32
we called it the nole patch. Really, yes, sure, yes,
33:37
what's what little shnon ole patch? But and the Japanese hard candy. Hey,
33:42
what up you guys? How good goes it? My name's Milo and
33:46
this is Coolsville. Now listen before everyone chills with some sweet comic bees,
33:52
everyone gets a free piece of Japanese hard candy. One for you short kidden
33:57
back down, low, go along, I got on, I get myself
34:06
at Dolphin Now. I hope you all like Korean pop covers of Tom Jones
34:12
songs, because they're about to be blasted. I'm I'm young bushy. Whoa
34:22
Wow, I can actually buy into this, This will actually happen. It's
34:29
incredibly pandering. But at the same time, this is also the kind of
34:31
thing that you want from from a from a from a place like this.
34:36
It's like, Hey, maybe try this French comic book, Try this Japanese
34:38
candy. Have you heard this Korean? There's a terrific sandwich shop down in
34:43
Torque called Water Deli. They do fantastic It's really good. Not quite as
34:47
good as Aswak, but no, that's still pretty good. But every time
34:52
I go there, they've got this incredible playlist of like Italian pop songs or
34:55
something like that. Okay, just feel automatically one cooler. You feel like
35:00
you're in Italy. Oh yeah, but also in like the coolest part of
35:02
it, and upset to them, like is this a playlist? Is this
35:07
on Spotify? Something goes Yeah, the boss made it, and I made
35:10
the playlist. Yeah, made the songs. I was like, the boss
35:13
made this playlist, and I'm like, any chance of getting a linked that,
35:15
Oh no, oh no, you can only hear it, but you
35:20
won't give it away our secrets. It's like eleven Hebs and Spices. I
35:24
am angry, but at the same time I respect it. I'd like to
35:29
have this playing all the time at my place so it would feel kind of
35:31
cool. But no, you guard your secrets, you guard your secret source.
35:37
You're on Webon Herbs and Spices. You're right when they first said no,
35:39
did you first think other than they're just joking and then went, oh
35:43
you're serious. Yeah, I mean that they They weren't like, no,
35:46
you don't get none of this. It was he keeps it to himself.
35:51
I'm like, I got to respect the game, but you know, Tom
35:55
Jones keep pop covers the Yeah, sorry, but yeah. Honestly, though,
36:00
if you owned a store like this, wouldn't that be your aim to
36:05
be like this is cool, but hey, you might want to check this
36:07
out. What's what I liked about. We've talked about this, I think
36:09
just recently Empire Records, how they just let people just put whatever records they
36:15
want on in the store. And I was like, I missed that where
36:17
you go to a video store and they'd put on like a movie that they
36:21
recommend you should check out this one, or it was like the workers recommendations.
36:24
They still have that a JB to some degree. They're phasing it out
36:30
though we recommend so, and so it's like like that I like to have
36:32
that Jamie recommends this. I'm like, I trust Jamie, got Steve,
36:37
Jamie Steve. But he covers from were standing in the window sad covers in
36:42
with the Jebb of the heart cup or cut out. He's playing Guitar Hero,
36:45
which was huge at the time. I actually busted Guitar Hero out for
36:46
Elliott about three weeks ago. Loved it, but loved watching me playing because
36:51
it's still a little bit too hard from understanding the whole strumming at the right
36:53
time, but the idea of playing the guitar is starting to sort of appreciate
36:57
it was. It was the perfect game to have it party. Oh yeah,
37:00
we're more like seventeen eighteen. You have to have a guitar who I
37:01
set up somewhere in the room, and there's always at one dickheat though that
37:05
I thought he was really good, and he was really good, but us
37:07
like, it's a video game. Man, it's like karaoke. You don't.
37:10
Yeah, occasionally you want someone who bust out some real good pipes,
37:14
but mostly it's just like we're all just yelling. We're all we're all shit.
37:16
Yeah. But Lisa finds her tinting comics, which are rare in Springfield.
37:20
She rips it. He goes like, don't worry. These are made
37:22
to be enjoyed. And I was like, that's what you want. Where
37:24
it's like, you know when you have just mentioned here that not hoarded and
37:29
sold when divorced, and I thought, you know what, Since having kids,
37:31
I've realized she could just come out of packets, you know. I
37:34
do like nerdaddy videos with the kids and back in the day, be like
37:37
keep in the box, make sure they don't get damage. Now, like
37:38
Ali goes, come open this, I'm like, why not? Oh yeah,
37:42
who cares something read something great that I read the other day, So
37:45
something I'm aiming to live by. Someone said, oh, oh you're getting
37:50
this high end coffee. It must be for special occasions, I said,
37:52
and I drink this all the time. Being alive is as special occasion as
37:55
it gets. Yeah, remember that being alive is a occasion as it gets
38:00
every day. You appreciate it every day. I appreciate it. All right.
38:04
I get it. You're cool, You're not mainstream. You wear a
38:07
pork pie hat. Pork pie. I thought the cutaway here was so family
38:14
guy and bizarre because looking at him there with his port pie hat and just
38:16
cuts to home and go, hmm, poor pie. Yeah, that was
38:20
it was like, what the hell? That was so family guy? That
38:22
was very much so. I was like, wait a minute, so we're
38:25
here now, but we're not going out? Had it home? And I
38:29
don't know, so bizarre, but he questions his superhero what you need?
38:31
Was he here? Sort of like a faint echo of anything, Yeah,
38:37
anything food related? Home is going to pick on on by his magical hunger
38:40
SONA I don't know, questions is superhero knowledge Thungue versus Mulk? Who would
38:45
win? But then he says the butt, who do you think? He's
38:47
like, oh my god, you care what I think? Oh my god,
38:51
Coolsville artists signing now. Marge drops him off. Enjoy your funny books.
38:54
And this is where the March story starts, essentially because she sees the
38:57
Wonder Woman's standy. This is another group of Marge has never changed body shape
39:01
for the entire series. She's always been a milf. She's been sexy.
39:05
Everyone's always gone Marge is sexy right now, she's apparently overweight and needs to
39:09
lose weight. What are we doing here? Yeah? I'm not doing with
39:12
this body shaming. It felt really odd, like Marge is not fat,
39:16
no at all, She's really skinny. Yeah, and you I don't think
39:21
she would start having body image problems based on one standy. No. I
39:28
think there should be messages all throughout Springfield that are sort of giving her an
39:31
impressions like hmm, I don't look like this, because then the boys are
39:36
like calling her fat as well, and I'm like, what do you mean?
39:38
Yeah, that whole thing with the three bullies was just that they don't
39:43
they don't know what to do with these bullies anymore. They don't they've they've
39:45
emasculated them to where the kids aren't really even necessarily scared of them anymore.
39:50
It's more just infighting, goofballs. Now, it's just yeah, Lenny and
39:53
Carl don't tend to know who they are anymore. The three three bullies,
39:58
I don't know what they're doing with them anymore. It's bizarre odd. Yeah,
40:00
And whenever I see them now on the screen, I go, remember
40:04
last the last week, I'm talking about Willie. He'll buy your drinks,
40:06
but you'll make your share. I was like, these guys aren't funny.
40:08
No, I mean, what are you trying to make him like Statler and
40:10
would of something from The Muppet Show? Who were good? They were good.
40:15
I finally finished Jim Henson documentary. Oh yeah, I did not expect
40:17
the chapter to be Jim Jim Henson womanizer, just divorce in his late forties,
40:23
like he didn't want to Loncho a relationship he is like dating. I
40:27
was like, god, Jim, Wow, that's a good Jim was getting
40:31
busy. Yeah, but basically so Marge here, she's now body conscious.
40:37
Kearney mocks her and then Dolph mocks his mum, calls her fat just a
40:39
whole bunch of fat Jamie Man. Marge thinks she still looks over at the
40:43
combook Guy's store, which is going out of business. That's the last we
40:46
see of it. And then lastly he's even mentioned and she envisions shapes where
40:51
she's getting the money for shapes. I'm not too sure. That's a really
40:53
good point. Yeah, Lisa, you can't believe all these artists are here,
40:57
though, she says, I think it's to Dan I identified with ghost
41:00
Well, the girls in ghost World. He's like, I don't care,
41:02
do you know an know what works at Batman? I want to draw Batman.
41:05
And these three appearances felt like as a kid watched this, I wouldn't
41:08
have any clue they are. This was we like these guys, We're going
41:12
to get them onto the show. Yeah, it felt the authors on.
41:15
Yeah, it felt very much like a schedule, and he was like,
41:17
we can finally get all three of them at once. Yeah, so let's
41:22
do it. It also felt like a decade and a half too late for
41:24
because I think the glory days of art BigMan's Mouse. I've forgotten when Ghostworld
41:30
came out, but that felt like late nineties, maybe early two thousands and
41:36
Alan Moore. I mean, Alan was an absolute legend in the comics game,
41:38
and you know his big well, his Big Watchman book was probably late
41:45
eighties as well. I mean, all these names are still recognizable among those
41:49
in the know, if you know, you know. But it also felt
41:52
like, yeah, just a little too little, too late. Yeah,
41:55
but I mean it's a fine guest appear. Oh yeah, they're goo.
41:59
Yeah, they're good appearance. Yeah. But at the same time just yesterday's
42:01
news in some ways. But the thing is, that's it. Basically,
42:05
so coma guy enters attention. Comic book officionados, This man is not one
42:10
of us. He has a girlfriend. My name Strawberry. My purse is
42:16
a lunchbox. Now listen up, my we weird little fanboys. I have
42:22
the most wonderful news. My store now sells ninja weapons. Whoa you would
42:29
sell weapons of the Orient to children? That is weak face of facts has
42:34
been This man is the comic book guy our town deserves pretty will. I
42:37
guess the mature thing to do is you do see a lot of stores selling
42:45
random ship that try and keep up with Yeah, they mock him. So
42:50
he destroys everything and the leagu of extraordinary freelancers activate and how do you like
42:53
this punchline? They beat him up and that's it. That's the end of
42:58
the comic book story in this whole episode. Could not believe my eyes.
43:00
I kept sitting there watching it, going when are we going back to the
43:02
story? Yeah, I thought, I'm like, that's the poster, Like,
43:06
that's the marketing for the episode was Milo Coolsville. That's how it was
43:09
market on TV. That's why are we going to another March Homer story?
43:14
I mean, this Marge story could have been this oame episode. I think,
43:16
so, Yeah, it's what a weird set up for a March opening
43:21
a gym. That's she gets my understanding and goes, oh, I'm fat
43:23
I need to start a gym now. It feels really odd. I mean,
43:29
I hate to keep using the phrase A bunch of ideas that were sort
43:30
of lying around on that. That's why then I go together, because they
43:35
couldn't actually intertwine them. That just went here's one episode and here's the next
43:37
one. It was like two episodes just emagulated together. It was weird.
43:40
Not a fan at all. But Marge then arrives at La Bodyworks, so
43:45
she's shown the various classes, including Mummy and Me kickboxing, and then the
43:49
treadmills me getting okay go reference here, which was kind of time because that
43:52
was two thousand and six. My kids love that theme song. I always
43:54
really appreciated that those guys went the extra yard to make a really cool film
43:59
clip. Oh. Absolutely, our clips aren'tally a thing anymore. I don't
44:00
think does anyone watch film clips. I don't think so. No, Because
44:04
when were kids growing up in the nineties, we had video hits and rage,
44:07
and you watched the film clips. That was the only way to sort
44:08
of get access to the song unless you heard on the radio or you purchased
44:12
it, right, I mean now, I guess you would make it for
44:15
TikTok. We still put on YouTube. I'm assuming there's still videos. I
44:19
think imagine you put your artist name the bo thing or whatever, but people
44:24
aren't. It's not put in front of the same eyeballs. Basically, when
44:27
we're growing up, it was here's the top ten, watched the same songs,
44:30
and it's like the following week it's now number three, and it's back
44:32
to number two. That's number seven. But so yeah, so we get
44:36
the okay go then Marge is being washing the shower by side show Mellen.
44:39
Various people. I thought, what's the gag here? Showers aren't public gyms,
44:44
No, But see it's something they didn't really flesh out all that well,
44:47
the fact that a gym like La Body Works is more performative than it
44:52
is actual pumping iron. It's not enough to actually put in the ails and
44:55
do that and sweat up a storm. People have to see you doing it,
44:59
and you have to look lamorous doing it, and that would extend the
45:00
showers as well. It's like, well, you're constantly on show. It's
45:04
like, well I've had a hard workout, now time to clean myself off.
45:07
I might as well do it where people can see it. They didn't
45:08
explain it all that well. I mean, it's not the sign of a
45:13
bad episode, but the sign of an episode that could be better. When
45:15
you're feeling in the blanks for it, or you're it's not making excuses for
45:19
it. That's what I'm doing. I made a mistake. I apologize listeners.
45:22
This is where she looks over the road because she's disappointed by l A
45:24
Body where she feels like she can't go to this gym. That's when she
45:28
envisioned Shapes. Because now comic book guys saw is going out of at a
45:31
business which I thought was really I saw that, I went, oh,
45:34
that's sad. I hope that's not canon. I'm glad the Android Dungeon is
45:37
still around because that's such a core part of the show's identity. Identity.
45:43
Yeah, that's what bart Mill has. That's where the kids hang out,
45:45
that's their thing. And Coolsville seems like a really cool place at first,
45:50
but I'm thinking Android's Dungeon just has that history. Yeah, and I think
45:53
you'll find that it's dirty, it's grimy, that the owners mean, that's
45:55
what a comic book store felt like. Yeah, and there are a lot
45:59
of places like that. The will continually last because you know, they keep
46:01
their rob heads low or they overcharge or whatever, and someone who's trying to
46:05
cash in on the latest trend will invariably over capitalize move on, and it's
46:09
like, ah, no, we can't afford to do this anymore, and
46:13
blah blah blah. Yeah, but the life is staying. The life between
46:15
Vision Shapes here, no men, no cell phones, no mirrors, no
46:19
shame, And Homer questions, why would we want to go to a gym
46:22
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Fourth Finger Discount now been booked out for months. Lisa's like the little secretary
47:01
then at the desk, so she says he's gonn have to open up a
47:04
second store when she does that, Crusty Burger, I can't believe the labor
47:09
board is shutting me down. You lock your workers in at night, it's
47:15
so they can't tell their stories. Mister krusty kent to by village. He
47:20
said he would marry me. No ring, just fill apple pies all day.
47:24
Now Marge's now a huge success. She's on the open show. My
47:29
boyfriend thinks you too. And then she asked about popping the question everyone gets
47:32
cocoo class. That was the thing for a while because Oprah wasn't married or
47:37
something wrong. Well, she had the long term partner in Steadman yes aka
47:42
straight man. Yes, okay, but yeah, the lady swapping her bababy
47:49
finally yes, Now Palm Springfield Resort for the business trip. Homer steals the
47:52
remote because no one's ever trust him with the remote before, but still that's
47:55
why he steals it. Now Homer knows why pimps are so happy though.
47:59
It was a funny line. And the other husbands they now they're introduced into
48:01
the life of wife support and he realizes, here, oh shit, she's
48:06
gonna be trading up soon because they went the first husband's They were the second
48:07
husbands who do find it a little bit later though, that one of them
48:10
is still a first husband. But he just gave himself the personal up fixed
48:14
himself. Yeah, so I like they using car was are you sure I'm
48:17
talking about cars, using a lot of words, card words. Homer says,
48:22
don't worry. I'm the anchor that weighs her down. And you know,
48:25
once she seems like happy and it was interested in talking about a day
48:29
and she seems happy and full of life, that's when you know she's going
48:30
to be moving on. So Homer goes in there, and of course she
48:34
does all those things, all those things, and he starts starts crying and
48:37
still at the same time without the business function, and Homer thinks he thinks
48:40
they're talking about dumping Homer. They're talking about getting a new handbag. That's
48:43
where we mentioned the whole really big black one and the hand gesture. Yeah.
48:47
But she goes to the successful ladies room. There's my Homo six of
48:51
advice from a man who was actually a first husband, not a second husband.
48:54
He explains is how you get into shape, exercise, eat well,
48:58
and dress nice. It's like hmm, stomach stapled homes. Now the plastic
49:05
surgeon where they're correcting Gud's mistakes. That's the little sub pedline there, and
49:08
the doc says, I can do it today. I didn't get the whole
49:10
home, knocking himself out by riding the bill. What was yeah was that
49:15
they were trying to say you thought he was going to be passing it because
49:16
it was so expensive, but it was actually really cheap, and he still
49:19
knocked himself out. It's not a very good joke. No, not really.
49:23
I love that you at the table read that happens and you just sit
49:27
there. It's not a very good joke. I wonder if you were at
49:30
a Simpson's table read whether you would feel the need to have to laugh at
49:35
things you didn't necessarily find all that funny. Do you think you could be
49:37
honest if you went to a Simpsons table read now? Do you think you'd
49:40
be talking about me? Or you and I get invited to a table read
49:45
in six months, right we go there. Do you feel like you would
49:47
be over enthusiastic and feel like, oh, yeah, that was really really
49:50
good? Or do you think you'd be brutally honest? I like to think
49:52
I would be something. I wouldn't be brutally honest, but I'd be like,
49:55
may I suggest this? No you may not. Room. You're a
50:00
guest here, but home is now thinner, says the underwet surgery to please
50:06
Marge, you'd get your hot dog plumped. I thought, oh shit,
50:07
oh yeah, that's like where do I get that? Where do I get
50:12
that? But no, he's getting stomach staple. So he's blending out food.
50:16
The gag at the end of this again, it's like I'm waiting for
50:20
a punchline and all you had was more food toastes like baf Now, yes,
50:25
but you didn't find a joke there though that we knew that was going
50:30
to be the result. But that's not a joke. Yeah, I mean
50:32
I would I would have preferred him blending the pizza into a paste or whatever,
50:37
like him pouring into like a fancy wine glass or something. Yeah,
50:40
do it like a sophisticated man, or putting into a tea cup and having
50:44
like the little pinky. Yeah, like, hey you eat all the fizzy
50:47
you like? Now Dad loopholes and then blends it up and drinks it.
50:52
It's like something like that, but just a toste like buf Now what you
50:57
didn't think of anything there? It's nothing margin And is the bedroom? Oh
51:00
you remember I liked romance And he takes he takes off his robe, and
51:05
this is where we get the I say iconic. I think in the Meme
51:07
group. This is a very very very popular screen screen cap of the skin
51:12
folded at the back, and then when she goes to give him a cuddle,
51:14
he's moved around to the front. Yes, she puts you fold that
51:16
old sweaty blanket and put it in the in the closet. Homer returns to
51:21
the doctor. He's like, do you want me to unstaple you with the
51:22
big staple? And he wants every other surgery you can offer so that he
51:29
can look good, but please make sure it's an aortic valve replacement on the
51:32
the film on the assurance, Yes, it tells him to count backwards from
51:37
ten. Fine on drunk, goes to sleep, wakes up. Now we
51:40
don't realize it's all a dream when he rocked up. I'm glad that was
51:44
a dream because if he had to change his body that much would have gone.
51:47
This is a this is really really family guy whacky. Now. Yeah,
51:52
how would you have felt if it would have been made a little more
51:54
obvious that it was a dream? Um? I like the it being the
52:00
dream. It's just we didn't get an ending though. That was the problem,
52:04
because I didn't mind being god because it was more of a relief.
52:07
Because I saw it, I was like, oh this is I was gonna
52:08
start running. This is ridiculous. And then I realized the dream. I
52:10
thought, okay, well that's that's a relief. But still you didn't give
52:15
us an out here. There's no ending. I mean, I would have
52:16
liked it if he's, oh, we're undoing everything. It's like, can
52:20
I keep the hair? Like just like no, and you rip it off
52:22
And that's the I mean, I know that it's not to Dame, right,
52:25
not sometimes saying not your Dame, well to Dame is the thing.
52:28
I think the American College is not to Dame, okay, and the church
52:32
in Paris is Notre Dame, okay, because I've always said the hunchback of
52:37
Notre Dame. That's what I've always said. That's and you're correct to do
52:38
so okay. So I guess they wanted to do the parody of the hunchback
52:43
of Notre Dame, right, But I don't think this episode needed it.
52:45
You could have had Marge just see Homer's like, you know, upcoming surgery
52:51
or something going. What is this? He goes, I'm trying to make
52:52
myself look good, homie. You don't need to do all that stuff.
52:54
You know, you didn't need to have all this random shit because it just
52:59
took up two minutes of up two minutes of the episode where you could have
53:01
explained an ending for us. That's right. I agree with you. Because
53:07
March in the dream, she has rewarded the one hundred dollars gift cup for
53:08
sweatpants, etc. Homer arrives looking horrific. Quimby says, get to pitchforks,
53:13
grab his Marge climbs notture Dame Springfield. He says, don't make me
53:16
cry when my tea ducks are anymore. She says, I'm getting myself a
53:20
new husband. I'm upgrading he and she pushes him off the edge and he
53:22
wakes up. I thought, oh okay. And then Marge says she made
53:25
the doctor return him to normal. The nurse is kissing her cross cause she
53:29
had to give a sponge bath. Lisa says, I hope you learned something
53:30
here, Dad, and Hope says, yes, plastic surgery is mistaken to
53:32
we've perfected it and everybody should get it. And that's sort of it.
53:37
We get Homer and Marge that, and I send them walking away and he
53:40
asks, or what do you find it irresistible about me? She says,
53:44
I still when I look at your still see the same adorable boy that I
53:46
fell in love with originally. And then we get the artists flying around and
53:51
they see the media and they prefer to go to the Benefit for the Undappreciated
53:54
Artists or whatever, and they got to the cash bar rather than put it
53:57
the media. And there's a media coming towards Earth, and I thought this
54:01
landing was not stuck. This is all incredibly random. This was a tailspin.
54:07
How did I just I know I'm repeating myself listeners, but how do
54:10
you not end bring back the status quoe with cools Coolsville was such a fun
54:15
setup. I really enjoyed that first act. It was a lot of fun.
54:17
Plus, if Milo has to sell up or sell out or whatever to
54:22
comic book Guy, I think you've got some pretty fertile material for comic book
54:27
Guy trying to keep Coolsville. Cools will but it gradually, over the course
54:31
of a few episodes just becomes the Android's dungeon again. Yeah, I don
54:35
think it'd be a nice visual gag. I mean, I don't think it'd
54:37
be too complicated. Or expensive to do. I think classic Simpsons they would
54:40
have just somehow turned it back into the Androids dungeon again, but just bigger.
54:44
Maybe. Yeah, I think that's not a bad idea. I was
54:45
just flabbergasted that we didn't get an end to this. But anyway, overall,
54:52
I enjoyed the episode right, there was things you could have fixed,
54:54
but to not have an ending just is a real black cloud for me.
55:00
Yeah, I'm occasionally fine with episodes that you can rework or that while you're
55:02
watching, going well, I would do this. I would do that.
55:05
Sometimes they're fun, they're good thought experiments. I mean, I wasn't watching
55:08
this I feel completely insulted. I kind of did. When I read afterwards
55:13
that Coulsville isn't canon and is never referenced again, I thought, hang on,
55:17
that's all you did with Jack fucking Black, one of the biggest like
55:21
Jack Black, that fucking Jack Black. There. I feel like if you
55:24
said to Jack Black, hey, do you want to be your recurring character
55:27
as Milo, the Caulsville owner, it's a sure absolutely all right? Bothered
55:34
what do we learn? But what do you learn from the episode? Is
55:37
it? Davis? Do not get Alan Moore to sown your copy of Watchman
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55:43
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57:30
I'm pretty sure this is a sig Joe Bob One happy with that, and
57:32
if I remember correctly, I think he has his family, and I think
57:37
he does a face off kind of like parody here reso faces. I think
57:40
it could be a spoiler or that I seem to remember watching this one on
57:44
TV. I don't remember I remember this one being promoted. I don't.
57:47
I'm talking about the webisode just reviewed so the Husbands and Knives. I remember
57:52
the promotion for Coolsville being anything in Jack Black being in the Simpsons. I'd
57:54
forgotten the fact that it wasn't canon anymore, so I can't remember my reaction
57:58
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58:01
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