Latest / Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast) / Homer's Paternity Coot (S17E10)

Transcript

Homer's Paternity Coot (S17E10) · Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

• 0:00
  I think you're my puppy. I found this letter you wrote to my mom
• 0:05
  Mona Simpson. Dear God, I always dreamed this day would come, and
• 0:11
  now that it's here, there are so many feelings. I oh possible,
• 0:17
  Daddy. I'm sorry, I got a little carried away there perfectly. All
• 0:24
  right, here's your comeback four finger discount due. Welcome to fourthinger Discount,
• 0:47
  the podcast where we always fire our guns into the fireplace. This week where
• 0:51
  here's a review episode h ab F zero three. It is Homer's paternity coot.
• 0:56
  I am Danda and I am that suave new stranger guy doing today,
• 1:00
  mister dandel all right, doing very good, fresh off our excursion to Melvin
• 1:03
  yesterday. That's true. We brave the wilds of super Over. Yeah,
• 1:08
  ventured among the nerds, the dorks, the geeks and the dorky nerdy geeks,
• 1:14
  and we blended right in, didn't we. We certainly they said welcome
• 1:18
  when a this have some juice or some shocking heads. But it was great
• 1:25
  year. We went to super and over visited our friends up there, and
• 1:26
  we had a very special meeting with someone that we won't discussed just too much
• 1:30
  detail just yet, but we're very very very big announce we're coming here soon
• 1:34
  on the four finger Discount network that we're incredibly excited for, So stay tuned
• 1:37
  for that one. I know you'll definitely know what I'm talking about when we
• 1:40
  announced it. It's a pretty big deal. Things are a bruin at four
• 1:44
  Fingered Discount HQ. Yes, so we're talking a lot about Simpsons HQ.
• 1:47
  I think we'll be able to start talking about four Fingered Discount HQ in the
• 1:49
  same breath. Exactly right. Yes, so that's going to be coming up.
• 1:53
  Yes, I enjoyed my excursion. So basically we have to go up
• 1:55
  to super over to discuss something of somebody guys like, oh drive, I'm
• 1:57
  like cool, saves me the hassle. Get up there. We have a
• 2:00
  good time, and then we went how was the donuts? Because we made
• 2:02
  a bit of a detra on the way home because guy he had found this
• 2:06
  cafe, plugged the cafe, why nut go for what was it called peck
• 2:07
  deck or something? It's called pecks Is it pecks road cheap meals something like
• 2:14
  that. I'm not sure as pecks. It was a bit of a detO
• 2:16
  on the way home. But like guy had his heart set on these donuts
• 2:19
  and they looked delicious. It was very home mares got me to make a
• 2:23
  half hour detour into the wilds of the Melbourne suburbs. Out of Suburbs because
• 2:29
  I had a Facebook post that had come up saying, look at these donuts
• 2:31
  and I'm like, those donuts that were real good. I'm gonna go gets
• 2:35
  up. They weren't too bad. The strawberry Crawler I had last night was
• 2:38
  really very nice, oh yesterday afternoon. The Apple Fretter I had this morning
• 2:44
  not too bad, a little too sugary, and I've still got one more
• 2:46
  to go. Yeah, because he's like this has been my morning tea for
• 2:49
  the next week or today. It's like I'm going to spread these out over
• 2:54
  the week and I bought three and two have already gone. Stame on you
• 3:01
  for making such great donuts. But the funniest part of it the trip home,
• 3:06
  was we pull out of this Supermark honestly Ope with cafe, like the
• 3:07
  little car park area. We turn left and it's a round about right there,
• 3:10
  and I knew we had to go right to get out, but it's
• 3:13
  one way. It a bit to turn left. I'm like, I'm assuming
• 3:15
  we just checking you were here, and then go's like, now Google Map
• 3:16
  says a bit the straights, where I'm like, that's the opposite direction where
• 3:20
  we have to go. But oh, I'll just go with it whatever.
• 3:23
  We drive about two hundred friends at the road, we get to another round
• 3:24
  about, do a hue, and we get back to the round about.
• 3:28
  So we could have just hue at the moment. Fuck you, Google Maps.
• 3:31
  I am. I am very much a twenty first century boy now in
• 3:35
  that I cannot make up my own mind when it comes to directions or anything.
• 3:38
  I have to follow what the map. Well, Google Map says,
• 3:42
  what Google does, what Google says, goes. Yeah, I know Google
• 3:45
  says, got up there. But common sense sharp avail and say we should
• 3:47
  just go that way straight away. Look, you gotta listen to common sense.
• 3:53
  But we're here to review Homeless Paternity Coop. Before we do that,
• 3:55
  though, I just want to let you guys know that, first of all,
• 3:58
  thank you for chinning to the show. We do appreciate all of your
• 4:00
  support. We do want some more mail bag questions, so if you do
• 4:02
  have a question for us or just it's just a nice message just for us
• 4:04
  to right out in the show. It's Simpsons Mailbag at gmail dot com.
• 4:08
  We'd love for you guys to find some time this week to send us some
• 4:11
  messages. Also, if you're listening to us on Spotify, please pick your
• 4:14
  phone up right now and check us five stars. It's very simple, five
• 4:16
  stars, bang done. We want to try and get our five hundred,
• 4:20
  five hundred reviews on our Spotify page as well, So try and make that
• 4:24
  happen this week. I know you guys can make that happen, but so
• 4:27
  homis paternity. I really enjoyed this episode. I think seven season seventeen is
• 4:30
  on a bit of a roll at the moment. They're on a winning streak
• 4:32
  at the moment that we've had a few good episodes in a row. Fingers
• 4:36
  cross, they keep the street running this Yeah, I really enjoyed this episode
• 4:42
  felt I know we say this a lot when we are pleasantly surprised by the
• 4:46
  quality of an episode in a later season, but it felt kind of vintage.
• 4:48
  It felt like it wouldn't be out of place in the earlier dare we
• 4:53
  say, better seasons, But then no way. I had a great time
• 4:56
  with this one. A fantastic guest star performance and a couple of really just
• 5:00
  neat cameos that were just well, well chosen and well performed, but and
• 5:06
  a solid story all the way through. Yeah, it wasn't too It wasn't
• 5:11
  not whacky because I final lately they've sort of had a story about Marge or
• 5:14
  by whatever, and Home is doing something just completely whacky on the side,
• 5:16
  because you know, hey, we would have Home doing something this one.
• 5:19
  Whilst it is kind of whack in the sense that oh I might not Grandpa
• 5:23
  might not be home as real father, I thought they felt that they kept
• 5:26
  it quite grounded still, which I really enjoyed. But I just thought Michael
• 5:29
  York as Mason Fairbanks was fantastic. And he was part of the audio commentary
• 5:33
  for the episode, and he can just tell by the way he talks about
• 5:35
  it that he really just appreciated the opportunity to be on the show. He
• 5:41
  holds the Simpsons in such high regard, which says something you know, for
• 5:44
  the Simpsons, But he says that he was just incredibly nervous going into the
• 5:46
  show. He just didn't want to fuck it up, basically, and he
• 5:49
  didn't. I thought he was really good as Mason Fairbanks. He really didn't
• 5:53
  know. I mean, Michael York's one of those guys who has sort of
• 5:55
  been around forever for guys of my vintage. Well, I think it wasn't
• 6:00
  too long ago, whether it was on four Finger Discount or one of the
• 6:02
  many other shows on the four Finger Discount network that I was talking about one
• 6:05
  of my favorite sci fi movies of the seventies, Logans Run. He was
• 6:10
  the eponymous logan in that one. Yeah, but younger viewers people of Dando's
• 6:15
  Ilk might know him as Basil Exposition from the Austin Powers movies. Yeah,
• 6:19
  but he's a He's a guy who has just worked forever. He just from
• 6:25
  his name, to his look, to his voice, everything about him just
• 6:29
  says I'm English. And he said that he was tossing up which accent to
• 6:33
  use. Does he get Cockney and does get Northern? But he just went,
• 6:36
  I just kind of went my voice just tweet that slightly. He's like,
• 6:40
  let's not have a complication. Yeah, let's just say that went a
• 6:42
  British accent. My accent sounds pretty British, like pretty lighty d kind of
• 6:46
  cliche British. So let's just run with it. You know. I think
• 6:49
  he added maybe just a little extra plum to it. It's a it's a
• 6:53
  little bit more plummy than usual, but it really works for this scenario,
• 6:58
  for this particular character and the situation that that Homer finds himself in with this
• 7:02
  new father figure in his life. I mean, Homer is, shall we
• 7:06
  say, the opposite I've sophisticated. So to have perhaps the most sophisticated voice
• 7:12
  self, most sophisticated voice ever heard coming out of this man who's maybe Homer's
• 7:18
  father, is just just great comic setup. Yeah, and I like the
• 7:24
  way that, you know, in a nor situation, you'd go, why
• 7:26
  would this rich guy want to bring Homer? But it's like, this guy's
• 7:29
  been so lonely his whole life, he's always wanted to meet Homer. So
• 7:31
  regardless of how you know the opposite Homer is to what he is and his
• 7:34
  lifestyle, it's like, well, he's my son. I'm just going to
• 7:36
  cling onto this gig because I've I've always wanted to meet him, you know,
• 7:40
  I've in my mind he's always been my son. I know he's my
• 7:43
  son. Turns out he was wrong, but um, but yeah, I
• 7:46
  just love the way that you know, he just he's willing to just take
• 7:47
  Homer in the family because he's like, hey, he's my kid. It
• 7:50
  was kind of a sweet gesture as well, or a quite a kind of
• 7:54
  a sweet term because I think we've seen a lot of episodes in the past
• 7:57
  where there have been family reunions or long lost relations or offspring sort of showing
• 8:03
  him on the scene and generally being embarrassing or someone is embarrassed by at one
• 8:09
  at one or both sides of the equation. For example, the Manatees episode
• 8:13
  where Homer goes to see his random cousins that live on the farm or whatever.
• 8:18
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, the one that we didn't quite get the
• 8:22
  episode. We were like, what what's the deal here? But yeah,
• 8:24
  Mason Fairbanks was a very sweet gentleman. Was He was clearly kind of taken
• 8:28
  aback by some of Homer's more vulgar qualities, but you know, he didn't
• 8:33
  judge him on him or anything like that. It was just more like,
• 8:35
  no, he was very accepting and just a gentleman all around. Yeah,
• 8:39
  a nice character and a very nice performance by mister York. He did have
• 8:43
  a good job with the design of Mason as well. I think in the
• 8:46
  sense that he looked not like Homer, but enough where you go it could
• 8:52
  be he's dad. You know, it's not. If you look at it
• 8:54
  now knowing that he's not his dad, it's like, oh, it doesn't
• 8:56
  really look like him. But there was enough to design just particul the mouth
• 9:00
  where it's like I can buy this. Maybe also also in the body shape,
• 9:03
  I mean, yeah, yeah, I mean, homes clearly goes let
• 9:07
  himself go or just you know, doesn't say no to seconds or anything like
• 9:09
  that. Mason Fairbanks as an older man who's sort of kept himself in relative
• 9:15
  shape, but it's like, well, you've got that kind of body that,
• 9:16
  as you get older, is going to get a little more barrel shaped.
• 9:18
  And yeah, I mean, I think we're so used to seeing Homer
• 9:22
  an Abe next to one another, and you know, their designs are so
• 9:26
  similar. It's like, of course they're father and son. But yeah,
• 9:28
  you're right, there's just enough wiggle room in the design of Mason Fairbanks that
• 9:33
  you're gonna get maybe it's a possibility. Yeah, it's great. They they
• 9:39
  thought a lot of stuff out this episode, not just in terms of the
• 9:43
  main story, but yeah, and in terms of other things as well.
• 9:48
  Now that. Only one of the bigger negatives I can have of the episode
• 9:50
  is that I kind of felt at times Homer was very dismissive of Grandpa after
• 9:54
  he thought that Mason was his father. You know, he says, Grandpa's
• 9:58
  raised him my whole life, and it says he tries the thing. I
• 10:00
  know, they had the moment where he's like, all the things you've done
• 10:01
  for me, and he tries to think of something. You can't think of
• 10:03
  anything. It's like, oh, well, you've done nothing for me.
• 10:05
  I'm going to go lunch onto this guy who's rich he's my real father.
• 10:09
  But the thing is, I thought by the end of it though, the
• 10:11
  way he had the flashback and things like that, Yeah, I'm always a
• 10:13
  sucker for those emotional flashbacks. The one that reminded me of was Lisa an
• 10:18
  Ice, where but and Lisa had the flashbacks to them looking after each other
• 10:20
  when they were kids. So why are we fighting? I thought the flashback
• 10:24
  here and it's one of my favorite moments. I'll spoil it now. I
• 10:26
  just thought it was just it was lovely. It was really sweet, wasn't
• 10:30
  it. And I think the thing of it is, with real life,
• 10:33
  you don't necessarily you can't necessarily call up the most important memories of your life
• 10:39
  or the most significant ones when it comes to the ones who who love you,
• 10:43
  who you've loved, who raised you, all that kind of stuff.
• 10:45
  Yeah, they'll just sort of they'll come to you unbidden, although will you
• 10:48
  know something will trigger them. It's like, oh, my god, hadn't
• 10:50
  thought about that in ten years, twenty years, thirty years, whatever,
• 10:54
  But all of a sudden it comes back, and it comes back incredibly vividly.
• 10:56
  I wholly bought what you're talking about here. How you know, And
• 11:03
  at a moment when you least expect it, or maybe even when you most
• 11:05
  need it, it's going to come back like, oh oh yeah that happened.
• 11:09
  Oh and suddenly your heart, your heart just expands. Well, they
• 11:13
  say that when your life slashing before your eyes, when you think you're going
• 11:16
  to die, that all the key moments from like the important moments of your
• 11:18
  life to somehow just come back to you. And I thought it was just
• 11:20
  very nice that in that moment he thought of Grandpa. It was just Abe.
• 11:24
  Yeah, it was just Abe. And I mean, well, I
• 11:28
  guess it's because he saw that he was he thought his dad was coming to
• 11:30
  save me. He's like dad, Dad, Dad's and Dad was on his
• 11:31
  mind when he when he passed out there. But also I think the episode
• 11:35
  did a really good job of finally giving Grandpa the character so much needed respect
• 11:39
  that the character has been lacking for a good couple of seasons now. He's
• 11:43
  just been a real pathetic, unwanted, unloved old man. That's big.
• 11:46
  That's sort of big. That's sort of who he's become. I know that
• 11:50
  was the gag throughout the entire round of the show, but it's become more
• 11:52
  harsh in recent years, I thought. And they did a good job last
• 11:56
  week with the Simpson's Christmas stories with Abe, with his war story with Burns,
• 12:00
  this one in particular, this one being a cannon one. I thought
• 12:01
  they did a good job of finally given him some respect again. Yeah you
• 12:05
  have to. You know, remember that this was a young guy, so
• 12:09
  this was a man. Oh it still is, but you know what I
• 12:11
  mean, They've lived a whole life and it's not always going to be I'm
• 12:15
  shooting by the bins. I can talk to people or something like that,
• 12:18
  and there's going to be more stories and a little respect should be given,
• 12:22
  but of course, you know, you can balance that with the ridiculousness that
• 12:26
  Abe sometimes shows. Hey, my favorite all right, what were your favorite
• 12:31
  moments from the episode, mister Davis. There are a lot, actually,
• 12:35
  and they were sort of started all the way through just you know, no,
• 12:37
  it had a really solid story, but they were but, as is
• 12:41
  the case with a lot of my favorite Sens episodes, just little bits thrown
• 12:43
  in here and there that don't necessarily add another brick to the to the overall
• 12:48
  structure. But you know, just I don't know, I don't knowice a
• 12:50
  bit of decoration. I really got to kick it out of when Marge is
• 12:54
  approaching the toll booth for the first time, because you know, she's normally
• 12:58
  taken the old Cheat Cheek skate trail, which is not normally It's just that
• 13:03
  she normally takes that road that doesn't have the toll. Yes, that's correct,
• 13:07
  Sorry, my mistake. That's good advice to people. Always take the
• 13:11
  old Chief skate trail. That's where that's one guy does UM. But you're
• 13:15
  approaching the toll booth and I don't know if it was a direct shout out
• 13:18
  to Um, to Psycho, to the original Psycho, the Alfred Hitchcock movie,
• 13:22
  but there's a whole do do do. It reminded me very much of
• 13:26
  a scene in Psycho where Janet Lee is she stole a bunch of money and
• 13:30
  she's driving and she's sort of like worried about everything. I think she gets
• 13:33
  pulled over by a cop. But it's got the same sort of visual schematic
• 13:37
  and the same definitely the same sort of music. I mean, going over
• 13:41
  the tire, Yeah, she's going over them what do they call the spy?
• 13:46
  Yeah. I thought it was really good directing by It might be Anderson
• 13:48
  and that one. Yeah, there really was. Yeah, the music as
• 13:50
  well. You're right, it does feel like a Hitchcock ass scene. Yeah.
• 13:54
  Yeah, they're sort of ramping up the tensions. Oh, I thought
• 13:56
  that was great. Um, the whole you know, inciting incidents go.
• 14:01
  You know, we talk a lot about incarting into the first five to ten
• 14:03
  minutes of the episode where it's like all this sets the story in motion for
• 14:07
  you know, all this to happen. I mean, this felt. I
• 14:11
  think there have been occasions will be like this is a bit convoluted to get
• 14:15
  to, you know, to the meat of the story. But yeah,
• 14:18
  Okay, there's a toll booth. Okay, there's tire spies been set up.
• 14:22
  Okay, Marge refuses to pay, actually backs up. Everybody blows a
• 14:26
  tire. The tire fire just gets bigger than ever ever has before. It
• 14:31
  melts the ice on spring on Mount Springfield, and he's a frozen postman and
• 14:35
  here's a letter. So that was a lot of work, but it didn't
• 14:37
  feel like a lot of one and didn't it didn't feel like a waste of
• 14:41
  time either, did it. No, No, I mean that that whole
• 14:45
  Yeah, first, a few minutes I have over the minutes of the episode
• 14:48
  just would have zipped by pretty nicely. And yeah, by the end,
• 14:52
  it was like he's a frozen postman with a bag of letters from the sixties,
• 14:56
  Like okay, cool, yeah, lett let's get it on. And
• 14:58
  that's a the story that they started with though, like because a native had
• 15:03
  been recently unfrozen and from like a long, long, long long time ago,
• 15:07
  and they found the body in ice in Sino Man and they're like,
• 15:11
  all right, so this would be a cool story. Male man gets discovered
• 15:13
  he's got letters for the people of spring for the one. That's a fun
• 15:15
  concept, how to be getting really right. Yeah, I just thought the
• 15:18
  way they got to it, it actually kind of ties into the story.
• 15:20
  If you want to pull out some straws, is that it emphasizes that the
• 15:24
  Simpsons don't really have that much money, which is by March doesn't want to
• 15:26
  pay the seventy five cents, and then they meet and then all of a
• 15:30
  sudden, Home has got a rich father. I don't know, if you
• 15:31
  want to find it try and work it all together, but I just think
• 15:33
  it was just a fun way to get to the main story. Anyway,
• 15:35
  speaking of new rich relative or something, I really dug about this episode.
• 15:41
  One of my favorite moments was there when they're on the boat. On Mason's
• 15:43
  boat was called the sun I never handled, Yes, son, I never
• 15:48
  knew I hid or something. Yeah. Yeah, and yes, everyone is
• 15:52
  basically wearing sailor hats. I've got to give a shout out to the Lovely
• 15:56
  Luis. Not long ago, we were watching a documentary. This may sound
• 16:00
  like a very tenuous link, but stay with me, folks, say,
• 16:04
  Lovely Louis and I were watching a documentary on yacht rock, that wonderful genre
• 16:11
  of music. We'll kind of take it with the story of Captain and Tnil,
• 16:15
  the seventies duo who sang love will keep Us Together. You mentioned this
• 16:18
  because we did that episode of The Simpsons where they sing the song at the
• 16:22
  end. Margin Homer, you've mentioned that, Yeah, that's and we both
• 16:26
  enjoyed the episode so much, and particularly Captain Sneil that when Lou went away
• 16:30
  on a girl's weekend to a seaside town, she came back with a lovely
• 16:34
  gift for me, which was this, Oh, no ship sailor's hate,
• 16:40
  I'm wearing us. I'm not. I'm putting it on awkwardly end only only
• 16:47
  listening to this episode. Yes, I've got a captain's captain's hat on.
• 16:51
  I will be chuck. I will be chucking a photo of that up on
• 16:52
  the social media for those of you that art subscribe to some pageant to see
• 16:56
  this. I'll take a proper picture and send it to Dan. But you're
• 17:00
  can all see what I look like in my cool hat. He needs your
• 17:02
  glasses too, Love can keep us together. But honestly, terribly sad story
• 17:07
  about the Captain to Neil, because you know they saying love will keep us
• 17:10
  together, and yeah, everyone thought, wow, these two are sort of
• 17:12
  made for each other. I'm not I'm trying to phrase this the right way,
• 17:17
  but I think the captain might have been kind of emotionally constipated. He
• 17:22
  couldn't really I mean they were married captains Neil, but the captain couldn't really
• 17:27
  sort of. He wasn't a very expressive person. He wasn't very demonstrative when
• 17:32
  it came to affection or anything like that. Tanil was like, I love
• 17:34
  you so much, and he's like, yeah, I love you, I
• 17:37
  know pretty much. So and watching this dark One was like, oh,
• 17:42
  it's really sad Tanil obviously, just you know, I really wanted to give
• 17:45
  a heart to this guy. And he was like, yeah, okay,
• 17:48
  great. Yeah. There's there's some like musical duos where like even though they
• 17:51
  not in a relationship, like for example, like outon John definitely not in
• 17:52
  a relationship with KII, but it's like, don't go break in my heart,
• 17:56
  Like these guys are made for each other or John devoted living in John
• 17:59
  at the end of Greece. It's like, how are these guys not going
• 18:00
  to be married forever? Obviously they're best friends for well, yeah, I
• 18:04
  mean Trolta was clearly sad when the Olivia passed away. Yeah, yeah,
• 18:10
  but enough about that. More about favorite things. I've got more if you
• 18:12
  don't need to keep talking to but wait, but wait, there's more.
• 18:17
  I think one of my favorite visual gags was when home is having that fantasy
• 18:21
  about though this dad, you know, I don't know who my real dad
• 18:23
  is, has this childhood flashback where he's throwing them the baseball with the questions
• 18:29
  the window and an exclamation come back. That's pretty neat. That's clever.
• 18:34
  That was. That was Mike Rees apparently pitched that one. Yeah, that's
• 18:38
  a really plus. Again the Simpsons guys showing their deepockets. It's like,
• 18:44
  hey, let's, uh, you know, get the rights to Cindy Lauper's
• 18:47
  Time after time not going cheap, I imagine, and use it for maybe
• 18:51
  five seconds and ring a fire. That's true. Yeah. I also got
• 18:53
  some Johnny Cash in there. Oh my god, look too. Dialogue shout
• 19:00
  outs. One that is clearly Michael York. I just loved his whoa yeah,
• 19:04
  taken off of Homers. Yep, that's fantastic. But then I'm guessing
• 19:08
  it's Dan c doing Michael York Homer please do that in the loop. That
• 19:15
  is my favorite moment, omma, please do that in the loop. It's
• 19:19
  like, what was he doing? What was he doing? Firstly and where
• 19:23
  was he doing? It? All just funny. The mental image you get
• 19:30
  is funny. Um, the voice that Dan is doing is very, very
• 19:34
  funny. But then you just think about the Amazon fairback says like just a
• 19:40
  mench so it sounds like a good dude, like, don't shoot at my
• 19:41
  floor, please please please do that in the loop. Yeah, so what
• 19:48
  a lord? Yeah, so much good stuff in this episode. Yeah,
• 19:52
  I really like Oportunity Coup. But enough about my favorite moments. What were
• 19:56
  yours, Dando, Well, you've pitched a couple of mine, and I've
• 19:59
  already mentioned the flashback. Of the flashback was lovely, But the other one
• 20:02
  that I really enjoyed was I infer from all your knicknacks that you're some kind
• 20:06
  of fruitcake. Sometimes you go to someone's house and it's like there's a bunch
• 20:11
  of crazy crap on the walls. I do like it when Home was like
• 20:17
  that as well. I mean, you know, I don't judging, you
• 20:21
  know, Yeah, I think we've gotten so used to and being kind of
• 20:25
  a dumb ass. Yeah, just an idiot. That when he does a
• 20:27
  moment that's kind of our BUNDI is like this, you know where he's got.
• 20:32
  He's clearly got a little bit of comments or I mean, or maybe
• 20:34
  it's just thoughtless nose. I don't know, but it sounds like, Okay,
• 20:37
  you got this really nice house and a lot of stuff on the wall.
• 20:40
  You're not really better than me. I think you might be kind of
• 20:41
  a weirdo. So I feel your gut some kind of a fruitcake that was.
• 20:47
  Yeah, that's great, that's a great luck. But yeah, we
• 20:49
  won't go into too much. I have more, but I feel it's gonna
• 20:52
  go through the whole episode of keeps out favorite moment. This whole episode is
• 20:55
  like favorite moment. It's not lovely to have a season seventeen episode, but
• 20:56
  we're just so happy about any more brain busters. It's the blockbuster brainbuster for
• 21:07
  Homer's paternity coot. The air date was January eighth, two thousand and six.
• 21:11
  Now mister Davids's got the similar one still in the in the top three,
• 21:15
  so number one is still the Chronicles of Narnia line, of which in
• 21:17
  the wardrobe. Number two is King Kong. But I am going to get
• 21:21
  you try and guests number three, number three, the clue is penis.
• 21:26
  M hang on you you might be talking about a slang term for a penis
• 21:32
  though, right, so it's not it's not Willy Wonka, and it's not
• 21:37
  and it's not prick up. It's not prick up your ears, which came
• 21:40
  out like twenty years earlier. He's another clue masturbating. Well. I mean,
• 21:49
  there are certain things you can do with your dick, and one of
• 21:52
  them one of them is have fun. And you know, if you're a
• 21:56
  fan of maybe you say Jane Fonder, you can usually be thinking about Jane
• 22:00
  Fonder while you're having fun with your dick' I think it might be fun with
• 22:03
  Dick and Jane starring Jim Carrey and m one of guys Hall Pass ladies,
• 22:10
  Taylione. She was one of those women who I never knew her name when
• 22:12
  I was a kid, but I had the biggest crush on her as an
• 22:15
  actress. I was like, this woman is gorgeous. It is one of
• 22:18
  the abiding mysteries of the late nineties through to whenever. It's like, why
• 22:26
  did Taylor It become a biggest star? Yeah, I still remember when I
• 22:32
  was a kid and the movie it was The Family Man, I think,
• 22:33
  starring Nicholas Cage. There's a scene where he walks in her in the shower
• 22:37
  and I was just like, she is incredible. Yeah, she's singing along
• 22:41
  to something. She's just playing a house mum and it's just like, oh
• 22:45
  my god. She say sexy. Oh yeah, I know was creepy,
• 22:49
  but I was just she was like, besides Drew Barrenmore, she was my
• 22:52
  crush when I was a kid. I thought she was just amazing. Yes,
• 22:56
  we're a team Tayer here at four Finger Discount. We have very pro
• 23:00
  Taleoni. I remember that movie being a lot of fun. Actually when I
• 23:03
  went to the movies. I've not seen it since I first watched it the
• 23:04
  movies. Might have been on a date with one of my girlfriends at the
• 23:07
  time, but I just remember thinking this, maybe it's fun. I mean,
• 23:10
  I like, yeah, I like Jim Carrey. Yeah, well this
• 23:12
  is a yeah, but perfectly fun. I don't know if you call it
• 23:18
  even an action comedy, more a comedy, but remake of a seventies movie.
• 23:21
  But Dick and Jane, you know, sort of upper middle class types
• 23:26
  who have been hit hard by the by inflation by the rising cost of living,
• 23:30
  can't afford their swanky laughstyle anymore, and decide to I think rob banks,
• 23:37
  or at least rob their their dodgy former employers that like getting you know,
• 23:41
  multinationals or whatever. So taking a stand against it's the one percent taking
• 23:45
  a stand against the point zero zero one percent to get some of their money.
• 23:49
  Um yeah, perfectly, perfectly good fun. And of course it's got
• 23:53
  some Talione in it. So oh yeah, by the way, I actually
• 23:57
  big mistake here. I've just realized that it was uber three last week.
• 24:00
  I'm looking at the last week because there wasn't an episode of The Simpsons last
• 24:03
  week, right, so that was actually number four for this week and number
• 24:06
  one. So Chronicles Nue is two, King Kong's number three. Number one's
• 24:08
  actually a newbie so much just trying to give a clue. Think of So
• 24:12
  the scene that I remember the most from this involves and Achilles heel. Oh,
• 24:18
  well, yeah, I do know this because there are three things.
• 24:26
  Three parts of the body where I cannot hack trauma, one of his fingernails.
• 24:30
  There's a third which is probably related to what we were just talking about,
• 24:33
  fun with you know what. But yeah, Achilles tendon is Oh yeah,
• 24:41
  I mean we all remember evil little Gauge from pet Semetry going buck wild
• 24:47
  with a scalpel on that old dude's achilles tendon. But in a more recent
• 24:52
  version of it, it happened in Eli Roth's Hostel. Yeah, horrifying,
• 24:56
  horrifying, Narlieass movie. I've been just torch upon. Essentially, it's it's
• 25:03
  kind of what kickstarted the whole. I think this is the movie that a
• 25:07
  critic coined the phrase torch upon to describe now as. Yeah, it's it's
• 25:12
  very nasty, but at the same time it is pretty well made nasty.
• 25:17
  I mean, if you'd like horror movies and you like particularly graphic horror movies,
• 25:21
  this is kind of a good example of it. I mean, because
• 25:23
  it's somewhat believable that this could actually happen. It's it's a it's a fantastic
• 25:29
  setup essentially that dopey American tourists go to Europe thing. It's America number one.
• 25:36
  We're going to run wild in Europe and you know these guys, you
• 25:38
  know, they take drugs and have sex with the druver have, but we're
• 25:41
  going to do it American style and there is. Yeah, guess what we're
• 25:45
  going to rope you into, um a dreadful situation whereby tourists can turn you
• 25:52
  into human pinatas or pincushions or you know, just have dreadful, dreadful fund
• 25:57
  with your exposed Achilles tendon. Ye, not great, not great, but
• 26:02
  that was number one box office when this episode. Add Our American friends know
• 26:07
  what they like. They just like torture porn. Yes, torture porn or
• 26:10
  fun with Dick, both go hand in hand. Next question, you're there
• 26:15
  eating the beast. All right, mister Davis, it is time for some
• 26:18
  trivia for homos Paternity Cooper. Before we do that, we of course need
• 26:22
  to read out some names of those who support us here at the four Finger
• 26:25
  Discount Network. Then we're gonna start, of course with our man Alliott J.
• 26:29
  O'Neil from the Simpsons Index Podcast. He's going to be coming on the
• 26:30
  show in a couple of weeks to review Bart the Finks. Looking forward to
• 26:33
  that one. But the Simpsons Index Podcast here is our one hundred dollars supporter
• 26:37
  once again, and we're thinking so much for it. And also a big
• 26:38
  happy birthday to our man alt J. O'Neil this week. Thank you so
• 26:41
  much for your sport and a big happy birthday. Also our man Andrew Zur
• 26:45
  for his fifty dollars support always there. Thank you so much, mate,
• 26:48
  and Katieg with her seventy dollar support. Absolute legend. Now we also have
• 26:52
  a newest member or members, I should say to the twenty dollars supporter tier,
• 26:57
  and it would be one and Pickle, And we have to throw a
• 27:02
  big happy thirteenth birthday to our man Pickle. Piccola's obviously her son and he's
• 27:06
  now an adult and scary times in her household. I just can't imagine my
• 27:10
  kids being teenagers. It's like, no, no, young adults, no,
• 27:12
  no, thank you. You're gonna be my kids forever. Welcome to
• 27:15
  the wonder years. Pickle. Yes, make sure you look after your mum
• 27:19
  and be nice to ear and don't be a shitty teenager. It's gonna happen.
• 27:22
  You're gonna be a shitty teenager, but yeah, try to mitigate it
• 27:26
  a little bit. Beatless. Yes, a happy birthday, buddy, and
• 27:27
  he's a big support. He really enjoys the show, so thank you so
• 27:30
  much. Furthersting to the show mate and hope you have a great birthday.
• 27:33
  So yes, Ginger and Pikolo newest members to the twenty dollar tier. We
• 27:36
  also have also have Jordan Mullman, Richie Christopher Darby, Jonathan Rossie, Zach
• 27:40
  Prullett, Timothy Belson, George McManamy, Stephen Roberts, Shawn Davy, Pete
• 27:44
  Anderson, Andrew Davis, Ryan dun Labet, Jared Howard, Kevin Denzel,
• 27:48
  Planned Flood, Joel your Land, Daniel Kotnick, Shannon Hoofer, Reese Roberts,
• 27:51
  Bellow, winder Bank, Mike Boston, Burgess, Jack McFadden, Heath
• 27:55
  Appleby, Adrick McLeod Lewis Kavanaugh, and Mark Trellieve and remember, guys,
• 28:00
  dolls and more, we'll get your name read out on the podcast, or
• 28:02
  if you're on the twenty dollars tier, you're your name gets rid of on
• 28:03
  every single podcast we do here at the four Finger Discount Network. We also
• 28:07
  need to read out the following members who've just joined up on the five dollars
• 28:10
  plus tis or maybe eight dollars or five dollars, whatever they are. It
• 28:12
  is Ben Weatherburn, Katherine Larson, Skullbeard and James Shephard. Thank you so
• 28:18
  much for joining the family. Hope you enjoy all the exclusive early ad free
• 28:21
  access to all the podcasts and the Facebook groups and the discords and everything else
• 28:23
  that you get for being a part of the four finger Discount Patreon family.
• 28:27
  We love them noe with mister Davis, We do indeed, Welcome to the
• 28:30
  clan, and thank you for the de Niro exactly right, all right,
• 28:34
  Hit me with your first question for Homer's paternity court. What have we got?
• 28:38
  The grandfather clock from the firesale shop goes for How much are two dollars?
• 28:45
  Always get out? There're I loved that opening, by the way.
• 28:49
  That was pretty. Boxes and boxes of you figure it out action, figure
• 28:56
  a poddle what we think was a microway. My first question for you is
• 29:02
  who will Marge be married to in twenty eleven? This is a couch gag
• 29:07
  question. Oh um, that went really quickly. It was Lenny or no
• 29:12
  Lenny, and then he wasn't twenty eleven. It was Lenny, then Lenny,
• 29:17
  then it was Jimbo. Jimbo what one? Yeah, that's right.
• 29:22
  My next question to you, you can smell the Springfield tie fire in how
• 29:26
  many states? Forty six four six? Correct? What is Homer's fake radio
• 29:33
  station. But he's on what one? He is a nine eighty FM.
• 29:38
  His viewers are very happy about that nine eighty on the AM dial. I
• 29:41
  said AM, didn't it? He said FM just then? But maybe it
• 29:45
  was just the zoom fucking up. I meant AM nine eighty AM. Yes,
• 29:48
  yes, And his viewers are very happy about that. Exactly right,
• 29:52
  all right? And my final quote, actually, your next question, I'll
• 29:56
  give you one. Yes, how do you do that? What is may
• 30:00
  Yon's hat size? Six? Six more than average? And my final question
• 30:04
  is William H. Macy, who had a really good appearance here. Actually
• 30:07
  a little story about William H. Macy. We'll get to it when it's
• 30:10
  at one time of the episode. But so he's going to be working with
• 30:12
  who? Well, he does say, he says, do you know Nev
• 30:15
  Campbell? So I'm assuming he's gonna be doing something with Nev Campbell. Yeah,
• 30:19
  we can talk about that when we get to that. But he was
• 30:22
  actually in a movie with Nev Campbell. What movie was that? It was
• 30:25
  a low budget but really really really good movie, a little low budget one
• 30:29
  that I tend to champion a lot called Panic. It actually came out in
• 30:32
  two thousand. Okay, so it was before this episode, all right,
• 30:34
  Yeah, but you know, he may well have done something else with her,
• 30:38
  and he was actually talking up independent films in that scene as well.
• 30:41
  He did yeah, what I liked, let's do it now, rather than
• 30:45
  yeah, let's do it what I liked that. He was really good casting
• 30:51
  to be what was it called the Bullies Circle or Bullies second bait. Don't
• 30:53
  know how yeah, the Bullies Show or the Bullies Circle whatever, But do
• 30:56
  you want to hear how it all came to be? So apparently five years
• 30:57
  prior at the Golden Globes, they really wanted to Williams Masy to be on
• 31:02
  the shows. Like four different members across of the Simpsons staff across the night
• 31:04
  went up to him and say, hey, you should really be on the
• 31:07
  Simpsons, and he apparently by the last one he was like, yes,
• 31:08
  I know, I heard you the first time. Just contact my agent,
• 31:11
  will make it happen. And then they didn't do it for like five years,
• 31:12
  and then he came on the show and he was just willing to say
• 31:15
  whatever, And I just thought it was just perfect riding and casting. But
• 31:18
  yeah, that's how it all came about. So yeah, continue, I
• 31:21
  just think it's really good casting because, yeah, Wis Macy, I was
• 31:23
  a nominated actor, a quote unquote star. Yeah, everyone knows everyone knows
• 31:29
  him. Yeah. Yeah. He also kind of looks like a dork.
• 31:33
  Yeah, I mean I think is it Boogie Nights where he's a cuck always
• 31:37
  wife's yeah, Yeah, Yeah, he's very he's very cucked. He's super
• 31:41
  cucked. Yeah. He kind of looked like the guy who would get bullied.
• 31:47
  Yea. But also, even though he's reportedly kind of buff and also
• 31:52
  a guy who you just like, you feel like if you're fucked with him,
• 31:55
  he could probably fuck you up in ways he don't expect. He has
• 32:00
  one of my greatest lines of tough guy dialogue and it's and it's great because
• 32:05
  he don't expect to come from William Ates Macy. He was. He worked
• 32:07
  with David Mammitt, a loot, one of my favorite creators, the great
• 32:12
  playwright, filmmaker, all that kind of stuff. And he's in a movie
• 32:15
  called Homicide with our our man, Joe Montenna, and you know, they're
• 32:21
  cop partners, and someone says something to insult Joe Montanna, and you know,
• 32:25
  Macy sort of stands up for him, and this guy says, you
• 32:30
  want to step outside, and may you want to fucking step outside for a
• 32:32
  killer ass right here. So it's like he doesn't he doesn't look like the
• 32:39
  kind of guy who'd fuck you up like that. But I mean, you
• 32:42
  look at him in the eyes. God shit, he'll fucking do it.
• 32:49
  I he's probably really tough. You look at some of black professional fighters,
• 32:55
  they're not like huge, huge guys. It's all about the technique, absolutely,
• 33:00
  yeah. I mean that's the thing. I think if you're sort of
• 33:01
  bumped into, like Conor McGregor at a bar or something, you're trying to
• 33:07
  funk with your little leprechorn, the next thing you know, yeah, you're
• 33:10
  dead. Tony Saparo, Yeah, stop, all right. I think that's
• 33:21
  it for Trivia. The four Figure Discount Network is brought to you by our
• 33:24
  incredible supporters. I'm Patreon. Each month, we provide close to twenty hours
• 33:29
  of listening content, with our supporters gaining early ad free access to every podcast,
• 33:34
  access to our Facebook community prize draws, zoom calls, as well as
• 33:37
  our Patreon exclusive podcast Tales of Futurama, The Movie Guys, and four figure
• 33:43
  Discount two point zero with myself and Mitch, continuing where we left off back
• 33:46
  in season eleven. So if you enjoy everything we do here at four fingure
• 33:50
  discount, you two can join the family for just as little as one dollar
• 33:52
  per month and help this podcast dream continue to thrive by heading to patreon dot
• 33:58
  com slash four fingure discount link is in the description of this podcast. The
• 34:04
  visional air date of Homer's Paternity Coot was January eighth, two thousand and six.
• 34:07
  Written by Joel H. Cohen, directed by our man Mike B Anderson,
• 34:09
  chalkboard gag and I want to discussed the intro in the chalkboll gagie.
• 34:13
  So I thought the chopboard gag was one that I was surprised has never been
• 34:15
  used before. And I thought it just felt like a very early season Simpsons
• 34:20
  chalk gag. It's just simply, I am not smarter than the president.
• 34:23
  But that's just it just felt like a very early nineties bart. You know,
• 34:27
  I will not waste chalk that kind of thing. You know, I
• 34:29
  am not smart than the president. Yeah, it felt quite simple. I
• 34:31
  thought, it's a surprise it took him seventeen seasons to get that one out.
• 34:35
  There. But also the Cotch gag was one we discussed earlier with the
• 34:37
  photographs, and it says the year at the top, and it goes through
• 34:39
  all the different years up to twenty and thirteen March. She's married to to
• 34:43
  Lenny and then she becomes kyl and then she becomes married to Jimbo and then
• 34:46
  she thinks she's married to a robot Homer or something like that. But yeah,
• 34:51
  and also in the intro, the thing I wanted to bring up was
• 34:53
  that they did a really weird edit that I can't record. They've done before,
• 34:57
  so we're so used to it now, where they just the Simpsons and
• 35:00
  it cuts the straight into the driveway but home is about to be run over
• 35:04
  with someone kind of plays not the full length of the of the intro,
• 35:07
  but it goes from where it would normally cut to Bart riding his skateboard in
• 35:12
  front of all those people and then Marge. It just completely edits out the
• 35:15
  Bart part and just cuts straight to Lisa and then straight to I think it
• 35:20
  cuts out Homer, then it cuts out Bart and goes straight to Marge driving
• 35:22
  with Maggie, and it was just a really weird at it. I was
• 35:23
  like Oh, you've included like an extra five seconds of the intro that you
• 35:27
  normally wouldn't. For what reason, I don't know. It just felt weird.
• 35:30
  If anyone that Simpsons HQ has a reason for this, you know,
• 35:35
  justify your actions. They were sent back the gift of nerd. By the
• 35:42
  way, the T shirt I am wearing does say genius at work. But
• 35:46
  the episode kicks off with I think it's just Marge and Lisa actually just watching
• 35:50
  the ad for the smoke damage outlet store and you know, boxes and boxes
• 35:54
  if you figure it out, and smoking Joe Fraziers well who playing himself,
• 35:58
  He was actually smoking Joe. That's what I'm in another great they who only
• 36:02
  got me here because my name has smoking in it. No, that's not
• 36:05
  true, smokeing Joe. I can send people to your house, bad people,
• 36:10
  bad people. I wish I had that power, just you know,
• 36:15
  with a note, push a few buttons, I can send someone to someone's
• 36:16
  house to fuck you up. I think we all like to threaten that at
• 36:21
  some point. I think we've all at one point there lives gone. You
• 36:22
  know, I've got powers who can fuck you up? It's like, how
• 36:24
  bet you just do it? Yourself. It's like I can't, but I've
• 36:27
  got powers. Who can. I think the idea of having a connection of
• 36:31
  some kind, I think it would be nice because I've never had this at
• 36:36
  all, never will, but to have someone say about you behind your back,
• 36:42
  oh, you know, just to have a guy's not the guy to
• 36:44
  fuck with? Yeah, a John Wick moment. Yes, you get this
• 36:49
  car out of here. You're fuck with guy. Jesus Christ. What an
• 36:52
  idiot? And I don't never happen because no one ever fuck with you.
• 36:58
  Well, that's true. It's like I'm just unlockable that no one's going to
• 37:01
  do it anyway. Yes, oh my god. Everything we own is in
• 37:07
  that house. How often have you driven by a fire and thought how can
• 37:10
  this benefit me? Well, think no more and drive on down to the
• 37:14
  smoke damage outlet store. Where there's smoke, there's bargains. We've got fire
• 37:17
  damage furniture, smoke damage smoke detector's action figure, puddle, something we think
• 37:22
  was an air conditioner, and boxes and boxes of you figure it out.
• 37:27
  Come in today and meet smoking Joe Frazier. I'm only yeah because my name
• 37:31
  has smoke, and oh, come on, that has nothing to do with
• 37:35
  its smoking, Joe, I can send people to your house. Bad people
• 37:42
  come in. We're going to that store before the next commercial makes me do
• 37:45
  something else, buy the suit off my back only nine five stop dropping?
• 37:51
  See And then she's driving nam and I noticed that it's a toll fee as
• 38:00
  a toll sign. What the hell is she never noticed this before? And
• 38:01
  she's a good nurdicer. Indeed, Sorry, can we just worry one for
• 38:05
  one second? Because I love the spokesman for the or the sprooker for the
• 38:09
  for the shops that stop dropping, say, he's really just trying to put
• 38:14
  himself out more and more death. But that was great, And there are
• 38:19
  some gags, and this just went on. They felt like they could have
• 38:22
  gone on a little bit long, but actually the timing on them was just
• 38:23
  right, or the timing on them was actually kind of exquisite. I thought
• 38:27
  that was one. This one was like on the verge of being too long.
• 38:30
  That's just like, oh, nope, you ended it good. Yeah
• 38:31
  you did a j It was like, oh, you almost at stage,
• 38:35
  you're welcome, but you didn't ye later on with the fan and all that
• 38:37
  kind of like, oh, you've got some very deliberate pacing here that he'll
• 38:39
  be like, I don't know about this, but it was like, no,
• 38:42
  actually that works, nice work, Mike b Anderson. And she says,
• 38:45
  what's next to Spatula attacks? And then she finds the old cheapskate trail
• 38:50
  so she goes down there and Lenny and Carl follow her as well. Why
• 38:52
  a Lenny and Car not like each other now, Like it's like their friends,
• 38:55
  but Car doesn't want to be his friends. I hope they get rid
• 38:59
  of this vibe soon because I'm not a fan of it. Yeah, it's
• 39:00
  starting to get a little Oh they're codependent or you know, Lenny so needy?
• 39:07
  Yeah, yeah, Cars, Like it was almost like Car doesn't want
• 39:09
  him around anymore. I'm like, no, no, no, letting Carl
• 39:12
  the best buds. That is true. I mean, it's nice to have
• 39:15
  the odd gag like that, but you need to sprinkle it in every once
• 39:20
  in a while. It's like, oh, I hope everything's okay with letting
• 39:22
  a Carl, But yeah, if you do it all the time, it's
• 39:23
  like, well, why are they even still laying it out? Yeah?
• 39:25
  Exactly. But then they quimby notices here like no one's using the toll booth,
• 39:31
  sees the guy a sleepwriding playbooth. I thought it was very funny.
• 39:35
  And he says they need the money to d python the town fountain, so
• 39:37
  he tells Wickham to go go sort of out. I got it. No,
• 39:44
  that turned like those two words mean shit's about to go down. Oh
• 39:47
  yeah, if someone said to you go do this, no survivors. But
• 39:52
  I don't think I'm the man for the job. I just don't think I
• 39:54
  could take a wife. I'm I'm kind of pro survival. Yeah, yeah,
• 40:01
  I'm saving ants out of the sync. I don't think I'm the man
• 40:04
  for the job. Yeah, I'm the man who's, you know, coming
• 40:06
  up with elaborate traps for spiders and setting them back into the antside vice.
• 40:13
  He's going into the fireplace and it's the next day he Marge's realized that she's
• 40:16
  been boxed in. This is how it feels driving to Melbourne at the moment
• 40:20
  from Geelong. You know, you've got all the roadworks and it's just big
• 40:22
  cement walls just all over the place. It's like, oh man, I'm
• 40:24
  going to drive straight. But he pays so much attention to it's like it
• 40:28
  feels like you veered slightly to the right, he's gonna scrash the side of
• 40:30
  your carl on this concrete slab. I hope you felt suitably confident in the
• 40:34
  passenger seat yesterday. Yeah. Well, we didn't go that way. Better
• 40:37
  gone the other way. It would have been scared. You know, we
• 40:39
  had big trucks next to us at some stage, and you know, I
• 40:42
  was blearing John Carpenter, you know tunes. There was one point you had
• 40:45
  your phone up in the air at this trying to read Google Maps and dry
• 40:49
  at the same time, and you're viewing into the left land. I'm like,
• 40:51
  you know badly we keep going this way? Absolutely not? But yeah,
• 40:59
  so basically Marge's boxed in and she got the tire spikes. And I
• 41:01
  would hate this. I hate it when you've you've gone somewhere and then you've
• 41:06
  realized you've gone a little bit too far and you can't go back. It's
• 41:07
  like, ah fuck. They do it with the boozebusters. Obviously I never
• 41:10
  drink and drive, but it's like they're going to a corner and it's like
• 41:14
  imagine being a drunk going around. They're like there's nobody go oh no,
• 41:16
  what am I gonna do? Exactly? They should be doing obviously, So
• 41:21
  this is you know, Reverend love Joy and Helen loved Joy realized they're boxing
• 41:23
  as well, but don't wrote this one's on Jesus. Jesus toy. I've
• 41:27
  never had a little toy like that in my car, at the little bubble
• 41:29
  head things when I feel like it's been a major distraction for me something.
• 41:32
  I never had it in my car, but when I was growing up and
• 41:37
  when I you know, in my teens or something. I know, yeah,
• 41:39
  I've seen on the show before. I'm not a big believer in the
• 41:43
  Man upstairs or is one Begotten song. But I've found in our house a
• 41:49
  little green glow in the dark Jesus statue, not very tall, probably you
• 41:54
  know about I know, four or five inches tall. And I had this
• 41:59
  sort of sickly green glow in the dark thing. And I mean I was
• 42:01
  too old for a nightlight. I was not scared of the dark or anything
• 42:05
  like that, but I still like, this looks kind of cool to have
• 42:09
  in the dark next to my bed. So I had it there for I
• 42:13
  think it in the car. No, no, no, I I wasn't
• 42:15
  in the car. I've never had it in the car, but it was
• 42:17
  next to my bed for like four or five years. Wow, and how
• 42:22
  are you? That was probably like thirteen or fourteen. I was there.
• 42:24
  It was there till I was about seventeen or so. And not because like
• 42:29
  you see me Jesus from the Dirk or anything like that. It was more
• 42:31
  like, at least it was cool. I like a little green glow in
• 42:35
  the in the night. Yeah, aboue. For me, my nightlight was
• 42:38
  listening to Simpson's audio commentaries and just old reruns of Simpsons episodes. Just the
• 42:43
  television was my nightlight. I just went I was one of those kids that
• 42:45
  went to bed with the TV on every night. Well likewise likewise, and
• 42:50
  were you when you got a TV in your room for the first time.
• 42:52
  I'm at that moment now we're with Ali. I'm like, how old do
• 42:54
  I have to wait until it's a TV? You know? Oh? No,
• 42:57
  I was in my I was in double figures. I was like six,
• 43:00
  right, memories of playing NHL ninety four in my bedroom, So that
• 43:05
  would have come out like ninety ninety five. I would have been six or
• 43:07
  seven. Yeah, yeah, I would have been maybe twelve or thirteen.
• 43:10
  And you know, I found like this there was an old black and white
• 43:15
  TV that was either we found somewhere or whatever, like, oh, I'm
• 43:20
  getting this. And you know, I didn't have like an aerial thing in
• 43:22
  the room or anything like that, so I'd had the really showing how old
• 43:27
  I am. I had a little bunny air antennas like the Simpsons. Yeah.
• 43:30
  Yeah, and even to the point where I was putting aluminium on the
• 43:36
  very tips. It's like, oh, this will help me pick up cattle
• 43:38
  nine no whatever. That was the modern day booster, it really was.
• 43:45
  But yeah, I was having to do a lot of you know, fine
• 43:46
  tune. He was like static, Oh I've got Channel seven. Oh,
• 43:51
  time to watch you know the eighteen. What was that reviewer that used to
• 43:54
  like when you were younger, the Aussie movie guy Ivan Hutchinson. What what
• 44:01
  was he on Channel seven? He was seven? He was a seven guy.
• 44:05
  Yeah, I don't think Channel nine had a movie guy. Channel ten
• 44:07
  had a guy named Bill Collins, and he's sort of like, yes,
• 44:10
  he was well known. Yeah, he was a very kind of welcome to
• 44:14
  the old and yeah he was a big old dorg but smart and also just
• 44:21
  you know for film neards of my of my vintage. He was like well,
• 44:23
  tonight we're watching a couple of old classics. I'm like, some of
• 44:27
  these looks shit, but oh, actually Bill's talking this one up. Maybe
• 44:30
  I'll give it a well And I know I've got so many good titles from
• 44:34
  watching that. But Ivan Hutchinson was on seven slightly more sophisticated, a bit
• 44:37
  more bit more urbane. I was like, my Bill guy or an Ivan
• 44:42
  guy. I'm an Ivan guy. Yeah, I told you I think I
• 44:45
  write. I'd wrote him a letter. Did you know I was a kid?
• 44:47
  Yeah? Yeah, because I was like Avon Hutchinson, just show the
• 44:52
  impass Jake's back and here's my review. It was really good. But hey,
• 44:54
  don't don't let anyone to you this Burley. He's like, why are
• 44:59
  you talking about that? I'm like home at the end of this episode,
• 45:01
  Daddy, I knew you that was one of my favorite games. You're eighteen
• 45:05
  when you wrote this letter. But he wrote back, he said, thank
• 45:12
  you for your review. That sounds like a great movie. I can't wait
• 45:15
  to see it. He'd already seen it. Like what a good guy.
• 45:20
  So yeah, shout out to Ivan Hutchinson. If you want to get on
• 45:23
  YouTube, you're type in his name. You might be able to find some
• 45:27
  of his um some of the stuff he did for Tea there. Well,
• 45:29
  our patrons would be well aware of his intro theme music because we music for
• 45:30
  the movie Guy podcast. Correct. Yeah, yeah, I thought that was
• 45:35
  one little little callback to guys our vintage, very vintage. But getting back
• 45:43
  to my mobileo mobile, getting back to the episodes, Yeah, somehow I
• 45:45
  got from Reverend using Jesus money to that. Don't know we got that,
• 45:52
  Yeah that's right, Yeah, little little glowing Jesus night like equals TV blah
• 45:55
  blah blah, but I did like revn loved Joyce Jesus like, I'm very
• 46:00
  disappointed you're taking my money to pay this toll. I'll be cool for once.
• 46:05
  And then we get the really good moment that we're discussing earlier with Marge
• 46:07
  driving over the spikes. Yeah yeah, it's just really, really, really
• 46:10
  well directed, and you know today seventy five cents in five years eighty electoral
• 46:16
  outcomepending. And then they get she says not going to pay it, so
• 46:22
  she reverses and she pops everyone's ties. I'm like, we never actually see
• 46:25
  Marge get reprimanded for this. Surely she has to cop the fine right absolute
• 46:30
  mayhem. And the thing too is Spifford only has one road to get out
• 46:37
  to places like why is everyone driving down this road? Now that's a really
• 46:40
  good point. Maybe they really want to go to the outlet fire. True,
• 46:45
  it's it's it's one. I choose not to explore too much because you
• 46:47
  pull it that thread everything unravels. Yes, but yes, so she pops
• 46:52
  everyone's tires and we get Ring of Fire before then, though, can't be
• 46:55
  a season seventeen episod without some side show. Now we'll get at mister Davis.
• 46:59
  Unfortunately, no, but the prophecy is fulfilled, as he points out,
• 47:02
  and then Agnes. I think Agnes gets two moments in this episode,
• 47:05
  doesn't she Yeah, she does a good one a bit later on. What
• 47:08
  does she say here? Say you have four of anything? But I thought
• 47:12
  the next one, the next one was really good luck later in the episode
• 47:15
  with the radio, but this is where they played Ring of Fire and they
• 47:17
  change all the tires. Has had the tires on the tire fire and all
• 47:21
  the extra smoke causes the ice to melt, and we discover a mailman from
• 47:24
  the sixties, Ken Brockman. Here a top mount Springfield, where the melting
• 47:30
  ice cap has revealed a discovery so gruesome, we'll give you a moment to
• 47:32
  get the children out of the room. That's long enough. Here it is
• 47:36
  a frozen mailman, somehow buried in ice several decades ago. For further analysis,
• 47:42
  here's the one scientist who is always home when we call Professor John Frank.
• 47:45
  Based on the ice core samples and the size of the mailman's bell bottoms
• 47:52
  left measure that there, we had determined he was frozen. Sometime in the
• 47:55
  nineteen sixties swinging for Alex For me, I was making Nay Farm to drop
• 48:02
  on to nine. The post officers promised to deliver every letter in this forty
• 48:07
  year old mail bag. Sorry, I'm just you've just can I throw in
• 48:12
  another anecdote? Sorry, just reminded of my sub editing days at the paper
• 48:19
  down here in sunny Geelong, The Gelong Advertiser. I believe listeners to the
• 48:22
  show you're all clean living types, you don't exactly know what a nang is,
• 48:25
  or maybe our international listeners a going what's a nang? It's like I
• 48:29
  didn't know what a name is. Oh, it's a little tube of compressed
• 48:34
  something like nitrous or something. But you know, yeah, sucking you get
• 48:38
  high. Yeah, but it's called a nang apparently that's a street name for
• 48:44
  it. And it's a bit like it's a bit like cheapass vaping. And
• 48:49
  of course there were you know, in Geelong we have a place called Market
• 48:52
  Square or the Market Square Mall that is supposedly the you know, the center
• 48:57
  town. The foreign that's whether you link me to get together really knows.
• 49:00
  It was once it's a crack, then it's where you don't go m And
• 49:07
  as befitting a place like that, there were little nang canisters left all over
• 49:12
  the place. Some people done when people were done getting high. And of
• 49:15
  course city hall decided to go up against this and you know, maybe take
• 49:19
  action against it. And the headliner wrote for it was called Battle of de
• 49:22
  Nang. That's actually pretty good. It was good. I don't think we
• 49:27
  use it. At the end. I'm like, oh, man, come
• 49:29
  on, that's gold, Come on, man, be cool. For once.
• 49:32
  It's like getting on the phone to Rippert Murdoch. Come on man.
• 49:37
  But yeah, again, of the various towns, people are getting some of
• 49:39
  their letters. So Largo would have got to Juilliard and he shattered about that,
• 49:44
  and we get mo he finds out he's not alleged to Poland. So
• 49:45
  he goes and plays with some kids in the park and some skipping. Then
• 49:49
  this here does. That's the one gag that goes a little too long.
• 49:52
  It does, yeah, because it doesn't really go anywhere, just slightly.
• 49:54
  Yeah. I thought. I thought, if he's gonna trip up all something
• 49:58
  and then blame the kids for it. But no, it's just him dancings
• 50:00
  like yeah, but he says the rhyme. It's just like that's six words
• 50:05
  too long. Yeah, definitely. This next bit here didn't quite make sense
• 50:07
  to me either. So Mason sent a letter to Mona, but he sent
• 50:12
  it to the Simpsons address. Why would he send it to seven four two
• 50:15
  Evergreen Terraces in the sixties? Valid point again, don't pull it too many
• 50:19
  threads. I'm assuming that someone was diligent in the post off and said,
• 50:22
  well Mona, not anymore. But okay, the next of next of Kim,
• 50:27
  he's going to be at this address. Drops it off. Yeah,
• 50:31
  they know it's for Simpsons anyway anyway. But that's why is guy's delivering the
• 50:36
  mail. I love that, Yeah, ye is Yeah, ran away from
• 50:37
  all this. Yeah, yeah, what a fool, My dearest Mona.
• 50:44
  You've just left my arms to return to your husband Abe, and already I
• 50:47
  ache for you. Mona cheated on me. I don't know how she found
• 50:52
  the chime with her late night pottery classes and supermarket trips that took all weekend.
• 50:59
  Lisa, I'm sure that letter is age appropriate reading. What can the
• 51:02
  government edit our mail like other countries. Oh? I know I'm just a
• 51:08
  lifeguard, but I want you to run away with me. If you don't
• 51:13
  reply to this letter, I'll know that you've chosen to stay with Abe.
• 51:16
  But I know in my heart that the baby you're carrying is mine. Oh
• 51:22
  love always am. That's ridiculous that with my baby in her belly, look
• 51:28
  go happy we were what whoa? God reminds me of that mame in the
• 51:36
  main where it's like, oh yeah, look back at another girl and the
• 51:38
  guy's like, oh, there's a home. Did I ever show you the
• 51:44
  Homer version of that? Yes, yeah, there's any one, which of
• 51:49
  course I loved. Yes. Then Homer says that you know, Grandpa raising
• 51:53
  he doesn't care what anyone says. Single handled racing. But then he can't
• 51:57
  think of any nice things he actually did for him. So Lifeguard, huh.
• 52:00
  We come back from commercial and Hommer trying to think of M. M.
• 52:05
  Moleman, M Night Sharman, and I think what came out and around
• 52:12
  two thousand and five that would have caught M. Knight Shamlan so from so
• 52:16
  much flak. I think was it was it the sequel to Unbreakable? No,
• 52:22
  no, oh god, that was ten or fifteen years later. This
• 52:24
  might have been either The Village or Lady in the Water. I thought it
• 52:28
  was. I thought it was three in there was there was glass, not
• 52:31
  glass, it was the other one. There's unbreakable glass and split split.
• 52:36
  Of course it was later, yes, okay, yeah, yeah, but
• 52:37
  they're all a bit later on. But yeah, because he did six Cents,
• 52:40
  Unbreakable and Signs and they were all huge, huge hits, and it
• 52:43
  was like, oh my god, this guy's unstoppable. But then it feels
• 52:45
  like if you do a twist at the end of every movie, it's just
• 52:47
  like everyone's just sitting there waiting for the twist then you know. Yeah,
• 52:51
  and the Village, which I think was around this time. I never saw
• 52:53
  the waters, never saw it. Yeah, it's getting reappraised of it is
• 53:00
  years later because twenty years have gone by and now everything, everything crap is
• 53:05
  gold again. Yeah, but actually it is really good. So but I
• 53:09
  get the feeling that was probably like, I don't know if this guy is
• 53:13
  really as good as we thirt he was. No. The thing is about
• 53:15
  signs is that to me, it was always one of those early early days
• 53:20
  of the Internet memes where it's like the footage of the alien walking past,
• 53:22
  get the shit out of everybody. I'm like, god, damn, So
• 53:30
  I love science. It's one of my it's about to say one of my
• 53:34
  favorite movies, but it's definitely one's best. Would have been so good.
• 53:38
  I never would have pitched you for for one of his to beat one of
• 53:42
  his fans. I would have thought you would have thought his twists were silly.
• 53:45
  No, No, I mean, you know, twists, if they're
• 53:49
  done badly suck. If they've done well, they rule, because they they
• 53:52
  say Mickey had of him in the audio comment chair of this episode, like
• 53:55
  because because Michael York's like, did he ever file suit for you? Making
• 53:59
  fun of him here? And he's like they're like, oh well, we
• 54:00
  can't a suit it. By watching his movies. Ow, yeah, I
• 54:07
  remember that the big one was always the sixth Sense. There wasn't it,
• 54:10
  and besides was a big deal. I remember when it came out. Yeah,
• 54:14
  I think, yeah, I think Signs wasn't even bigger hit than sixth
• 54:15
  Cents. It was when we all still liked Mel Gibson. Who But anyway,
• 54:23
  well we up to oh yes, So basically you're trying to think of
• 54:27
  names. Yeah, shame on, and Grandpa says, no, no,
• 54:29
  no, you're my son, looking mush up your face and looks exactly the
• 54:30
  same, and it does, but also does the same thing with the dogs.
• 54:34
  But then Lisa suggests they do a DNA test and Grandpa says, there's
• 54:37
  no need. You know, I am his father. I did all the
• 54:40
  raison. I wake for my apology by the old man bench at them all
• 54:44
  where it sits by the trash gan and I was like, there's probably people
• 54:46
  that just do this, and which it's really sad, but you can imagine
• 54:50
  that there's people that just sit by a pipe bench. No one's gonna be
• 54:52
  people walking by, so they can hopefully start up A conversation used to happen
• 54:55
  when I worked in the dally at Cole's. You just get those old customers.
• 55:00
  It's like, you know, they've got no one to go home too,
• 55:01
  So if they want to chat for a couple of minutes, I'm just
• 55:02
  gonna chat for comments. You give you that desperate for your slice chicken,
• 55:06
  You'll just have to wait for it because this old guy needs someone to talk
• 55:08
  to you, and I'm going to give them two minutes of my time.
• 55:10
  I've forgotten exactly where they do it, but I'm I'm guessing there's one of
• 55:15
  those progressive Scandinavian nations. Yeah, apparently they have like a special aisle in
• 55:20
  the supermarket whereby it's like, really, this is this is older people who
• 55:25
  maybe don't have as many people in their lives. You won't have a chat.
• 55:29
  Be aware that this aisle is going to be slow because you know this
• 55:32
  the person behind the behind the canter is going to take their time scan very
• 55:37
  slowly. So are you doing today? You get some male little worst.
• 55:39
  Okay, that's not bad for you. You might want to go easy on
• 55:42
  that though, with your heart and all that kind of shit. I thought
• 55:45
  that's a lovely idea. That's a lovely idea. I mean, Australia has
• 55:49
  the something different but not dissimilar in terms of love. I'll have hours when
• 55:53
  you know, the lights will be a little lower and the music will be
• 55:55
  a little softer for people who are saying you're a their virgent and it's a
• 55:59
  little different be in a very hectic environment. Like well, it's funny because
• 56:02
  I saw a video recently. They're talking about supermarket and it's like it's like
• 56:07
  walking to a billboard. Now it's like so bright and the music's playing and
• 56:09
  it's just colors and flushes and sales, and it's just like whoa, it's
• 56:13
  like walking into an advertisement. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah.
• 56:15
  They apparently have either an hour a day or a certain time a week when
• 56:20
  it's like we're gonna chill out a little bit, guys. So you know,
• 56:22
  if you're if you're feeling overstimulated by your normal supermarket environment coming during these
• 56:28
  hours, yeah, like good on you, good good for thinking. But
• 56:30
  anyway, Homer, can't you can't sleep as much as you got tummy egg
• 56:34
  fro those pork chops, No, the onny tummy eggs in my head.
• 56:37
  And we get the visual of the discussing the question mark throwing the baseball,
• 56:40
  and then the little question mark throws the ball it's a home or at the
• 56:44
  question mark, it's home. Homer throws the ball through the window and exclamation
• 56:47
  might comes out checking his fist. I was like, that's just so genius,
• 56:51
  that's clever, that's clever. And now at home is at the library,
• 56:53
  and it's this is such like a cheat way to get to it.
• 56:58
  But I'm like, whatever, I'm buying it. He goes to the library
• 57:00
  and finds a book for twentieth century life guards and spriefield. It feels very
• 57:04
  Simpsons, then, yeah, that just feels like a classic kind of Simpsons
• 57:07
  gag. Just absurd. But do you want us to spend two minutes coming
• 57:09
  out of a realistic, good idea or just move the fucking story a lot.
• 57:14
  He comes up with the only am is Mason Fairbanks, and he's what
• 57:16
  are these three things that he likes to do? Mister Davis. I love
• 57:20
  this. I love this so much. He's always a philandering writing letters and
• 57:23
  make it up for last time. Very good, very well written, this
• 57:31
  episode, very well written. Yeah, it's I was about as Joel H.
• 57:37
  Cohen. Yeah, yeah, I think he's got his name on a
• 57:39
  few good ones. Doesn't he yeah so far. Yes, Yeah, I'm
• 57:43
  big thumbs up with Joel H. Cohen. And is he the brother of
• 57:46
  David X. Cohen. Let's have a look. I'm assuming he probably is.
• 57:51
  I should already know this. I know Simpsons fans. I apologize.
• 57:53
  He's not Joel Cohen as in the Cohen Brothers who made you know um No
• 57:59
  Country, Old Man and Fargo and all that stuff. He is different Joel
• 58:02
  Cohen. Yes, he is the younger brother of one time Simpsons write a
• 58:07
  Robert Cohen, who penned the season three episode Flaming Mose and He. In
• 58:13
  addition to his work on The Simpsons, he's also the author of the nonfiction
• 58:15
  book How to Lose a Marathon, a retelling of his training for and running
• 58:19
  the New York Marathon. It was released in twenty seventeen, as well as
• 58:22
  an audiobook on Audible. But he has written. He wrote Trius of Horror
• 58:25
  ten twelve, Sorry, he wrote The Hecks in the City, Brawl on
• 58:29
  the Family, Fatten, The Fairiest Today, I Am a Clown, Fat
• 58:31
  Man, and little Boy, and Home's written slot episodes up to this point,
• 58:37
  some of which some not some of your favorites, but this one Definitely
• 58:40
  he's on the right track. He wrote. He wrote last of the Red
• 58:43
  hat Mumms as well a couple of weeks ago. Nice work, Joel.
• 58:45
  So, now were at Mason's house and home as approached and he's like,
• 58:47
  just to stay cool and stick to your cover story until we find out whether
• 58:51
  it's cool or not. He says he's a reporter at the local paper and
• 58:53
  he wants to do a story on people who wear sweaters. I believe that
• 58:57
  as he sat his color story and you know, he's written, Daddy smelled
• 59:00
  good too soon to hug So I infer from all the knickknacks. You're some
• 59:07
  sort of fruitcake. No, actually, I salvage valuables from sunken ships.
• 59:13
  Some call me a treasure hunter. Oh, it is so cool. Shrunken
• 59:19
  heads. Those are raisins. So you don't have any shrunken heads. What
• 59:23
  a job. Let's just never happen to work. Just being a treasure hunter
• 59:25
  your whole life, it'd be awesome. I'm trying to years ago for work.
• 59:30
  I was very fortunately I went to Africa. You have mentioned this story.
• 59:37
  You're to Africa. Yeah, and we we're adding Kenya on the Massimara
• 59:44
  and this couple showing us around Derek and I believe Beverly Joubet, who were
• 59:49
  sort of like they were basically adventurers, and he hit a business card that
• 59:52
  basically said adventurer. I'm like, motherfucker, yeah, what a life.
• 59:59
  I don't think, I actually said to his face. Every day is literally
• 1:00:01
  an adventure for this man. Yeah, but you may imagine someone mature sort
• 1:00:07
  of had public accountant, which is a valid job, and you know,
• 1:00:12
  one that keeps bread on the table and keeps the lights. That's great,
• 1:00:15
  but at the same time, imagine you're in a cocked up But he's like,
• 1:00:17
  here's my card, CPA. He hands back on the adventure. It's
• 1:00:21
  like, UK, you win. It's like someone says, what do you
• 1:00:23
  do for a living? I'm like, I'm a podcast? Like no,
• 1:00:25
  no, no, really, though, what do you do? Well?
• 1:00:29
  Then you said I'm an adventure and you pull out this guy's cart. But
• 1:00:34
  you know, Homeer thinks the other raisins are shrunken heads, and he's like,
• 1:00:37
  oh, I do have a SI six head. Homer screamed a small
• 1:00:40
  right, small than average screams and runs away. Then we got the boat.
• 1:00:45
  He's shown in the boat and you know this is the girl of my
• 1:00:47
  life or whatever. You know, it's a boat, right, and it
• 1:00:51
  says on the side of the Sun. I never knew that's the name of
• 1:00:52
  the boat. And let's let's talk about this. Where'd that name come from.
• 1:00:54
  Let's let's let's get more into in touch with that. And he says
• 1:00:59
  that you know, um. But basically this behome gets caught out in the
• 1:01:00
  lie because you know, he told me about how he was a reporter,
• 1:01:02
  then here was a radio DJ and he's a TV host or whatever, and
• 1:01:06
  it's just, oh, you're you're possibly my daddy and then m and they
• 1:01:09
  give Hi a big kiss and he gives him back his gum. Now the
• 1:01:13
  family all watching The Bully Corner. It's called the Bully Corner. Bully Corner.
• 1:01:15
  That's right with William H. Macy, which obviously they badged him.
• 1:01:22
  They said, we want to get you on the show. They're big fans
• 1:01:22
  of William H. Macy. They didn't really come up with a whole episode
• 1:01:27
  for him, but like, let's just get him on. This had nothing
• 1:01:29
  to do with the story, but it was just they used to do this.
• 1:01:30
  They've done this the entire run of the Simpsons just get a guest done
• 1:01:34
  for a random little bit, doesn't ever stay. It's welcome and it fits
• 1:01:36
  doesn't like he said, it fits the character of Justly May as a person.
• 1:01:39
  Yeah, yeah, and shows a weird h macy was a good sport
• 1:01:44
  as well. So yeah, I'll come on and get beaten up by the
• 1:01:45
  rest and bullies who are probably just teenagers or whatever. Yeah, yeah,
• 1:01:51
  teenage kids. I mean. Homer is now very excited. He gets he
• 1:01:53
  gets home and says, oh my god, I met Mason. Is going
• 1:01:55
  great brother. He's got a knife and it's just for cheese and home.
• 1:02:00
  Marge says to him, don't get too excited, Hommer, don't get too
• 1:02:01
  emotionally invested. You've just met him. And he's like, okay, won't.
• 1:02:05
  But we're going Daddy's boat tomorrow. And then they're walking around. I
• 1:02:07
  love it when they get different outfits, like you said, they're all and
• 1:02:09
  they're like sailor's outfits and things like that, and barays, well, Grandma
• 1:02:13
  bet on the wrong horse here, and he says, we don't worry.
• 1:02:15
  The most valuable treasures in here points to his chest, not in his heart.
• 1:02:17
  It's in this map. The treasure map for the for the famed Emeralds
• 1:02:21
  of piezo'mhardo. Apparently, I think Piezomhardo means like wet ground or something in
• 1:02:27
  a language. Oh really, yeah, wet wet floor, maybe wet floor.
• 1:02:30
  Then he tells a story of how the Emeralds got lost because they were
• 1:02:34
  nestled in the bosom of a Spanish galleon, and basically, one guy there's
• 1:02:38
  a big thunderstorm. Of these pirates on this ship, there would big thunderstorm,
• 1:02:40
  and they're all praying for their lives. One guy wasn't praying because he's
• 1:02:44
  thinking of a joke he wanted to say, and thus lightning strikes the boat,
• 1:02:46
  causes the boat to sink, and the Emeralds fought to the bottom of
• 1:02:49
  the ocean. Before that, though, there's just a really marge line there
• 1:02:53
  where he brings up emeralds. She's like, if I was born three months
• 1:02:55
  later, my birdstone would have been emerald. It's like that means nothing,
• 1:03:00
  but it's exactly what Marge would think. Yeah, yeah, what did you
• 1:03:02
  say, Like, well, life's funny like that? Yeah, what is
• 1:03:06
  the line? Did write? Feet has a strange sense of human Then Homer
• 1:03:12
  invites Mason to dinner at their places, like I once dined with the Prince
• 1:03:15
  of Wales and killer whales, if only the latter knew how to chew without
• 1:03:20
  humming, and like they thought, apparently that was just like killer Apparently they're
• 1:03:24
  just laughing for so long. By the way, a lot of tire changing
• 1:03:27
  this episode. Here's the next. There's another tire change in the in the
• 1:03:30
  middle of that, when they're when they're still laughing, you know, they
• 1:03:34
  go from Mason's place back to the Yeah, and they're laughing in these various
• 1:03:37
  um situations, and one of them is homes pulled over to change the time.
• 1:03:40
  Oh did you ever notice that? Yeah? Okay, and yeah said.
• 1:03:44
  They laugh all the way home and grandpa's there and he's annoyed. He
• 1:03:45
  thinks that first you stole my wife, and now you're still in my family.
• 1:03:50
  And then I wouldn't have to And Mason gets some sassin here, I
• 1:03:52
  wouldn't have to if you've given them what they needed. I'm like burn.
• 1:03:58
  But the way that York played the role though, it's like he's saying these
• 1:04:02
  harsh lines, but not to the point where you dislike the character. No,
• 1:04:06
  you know, I mean it's just sort of one something as well.
• 1:04:09
  He's been you know, sort of cheated out of cheated out of a son,
• 1:04:15
  out of his expanding that bloodline exactly. And Marche says, look,
• 1:04:19
  you know, look at she's look at Grandpa. You make him feel really,
• 1:04:21
  really sad. And he says, I'll take the test. I'll take
• 1:04:25
  any kind of tests, and he starts listening are listing various tests. I
• 1:04:28
  did enjoy, Lisa saying enough, Grandpa, no, never, this kid's
• 1:04:31
  listing various tests though. It was quite funny. And then he but does
• 1:04:35
  the test, and we've got one jas says suave news stranger. Another one
• 1:04:41
  says, same old grandpa, and he's got a T shirt for Homer just
• 1:04:44
  in case for whatever the results are. One side says number one son.
• 1:04:45
  The other says, well, it's biggest bastard. Then they're about to get
• 1:04:48
  the results and Mason says to Grandpa, I hope we could be civil.
• 1:04:51
  I'll put in your fist. Well, at least I can meet bad.
• 1:04:57
  He's going up with some singers. Yeah, Mason, but not in like
• 1:05:00
  a really derogatory way. It's just pointing out the others. Yeah, And
• 1:05:04
  it's revealed that Mason, apparently at this point in time, is the father.
• 1:05:10
  I have the results. Oh God, whatever happens, abe, I
• 1:05:14
  hope we can be civil. Poop in your fist. At least I can
• 1:05:17
  make both. Oh Omer's biological father is Mason Fairbanks? Who's Mason Fairbanks?
• 1:05:29
  This guy family in now visiting Grandpa. This was so depressing but so funny
• 1:05:33
  at the same time, because you just feel like, if this was a
• 1:05:36
  real situation, this is how actually transpired, this is probably how it would
• 1:05:40
  go down. Oh yeah, I mean it's like you're just going to pretend
• 1:05:43
  that they don't exists anymore. It's it's like then when you visit them,
• 1:05:45
  it's like, oh yeah, but we don't. We're not really related anymore.
• 1:05:48
  It's like it's weird, like like we still love you, but we're
• 1:05:54
  not biologically required to well, as I say, no biological obligation. Yeah,
• 1:05:59
  yeah, it's and then you said it three times. Do do you
• 1:06:01
  think of something else to say? It's just that's just it's really sad.
• 1:06:05
  But you were, as you were discussing earlier, the directing, just that
• 1:06:09
  the pauses between each line there was really well done. Just enough, wasn't
• 1:06:14
  it. Yeah, very very good timing on the part of the director Mike
• 1:06:16
  b. Anderson might be directing, is what you might say. Yeah,
• 1:06:21
  and Mason and Homer are now going on a treasure hunt in their Titanic as
• 1:06:27
  ships that James Cameron designed. Yeah, that's something I was going to look
• 1:06:30
  up and maybe I'll do it now. You keep talking. But I think
• 1:06:33
  Cameron had like some documentary called Ghosts of the Abyss or something that came out
• 1:06:39
  post Titanic rous like I'm going to go to the bottom of the sea and
• 1:06:42
  conguer that because I get everything above what they discussed that in the commentary,
• 1:06:46
  like these are the designs are based on those that are designed by the James
• 1:06:49
  Cameron and they're like, oh okay. And the boss moment about that whole
• 1:06:53
  thing is that James Cameron wasn't like I've built these things, go find it
• 1:06:57
  for me. It's like I'm doing it. Oh fuck yeah. Honestly,
• 1:07:02
  I mean, I think I wrote something about Cameron a while ago and said,
• 1:07:08
  I am basically terrified of James Cameron the way I'm terrible. I fear
• 1:07:14
  and loathe James Cameron the way I fear and loath anyone who has this much
• 1:07:16
  confidence and capability, because it's like I think anyone who's working with him says,
• 1:07:21
  you know, he's demanding, but that's because he can do your job
• 1:07:25
  even better than you can. And it's like you're a hate guys like that.
• 1:07:29
  But at the same time, I would, of course I would follow
• 1:07:30
  them into battle. Yeah, it's probably like everyone who's ever been on a
• 1:07:33
  team with Michael Jordan pretty much it's like, we know we're just like that
• 1:07:39
  that we're no, we're just on his shoulders. But I want to be
• 1:07:41
  on his shoulders. I want to be on this ride with him. So
• 1:07:43
  just fucking do what he says. How many times Michael Jordan just said,
• 1:07:45
  just give me the fucking ball. It's like, yeah, yeah, but
• 1:07:48
  I'm a complainant. I don't fucking care how good you are, just giving
• 1:07:51
  me the ball. But I mean, I remember growing up and I'm col
• 1:07:57
  People know their names Jacques Cousteau, but I mean it was like, well,
• 1:08:00
  he was the go to guy for underwater explorations, and so it would
• 1:08:04
  be a shorthand like, oh, I think a bit of a Jack Cousto,
• 1:08:08
  do you or as now it's like, you know, you think of
• 1:08:11
  undersea stuff. When you think of James Cameron's like, oh yeah, and
• 1:08:13
  he also makes like every time he makes a movie, it becomes automatically the
• 1:08:16
  top grossing movie of all time. Yeah, like, what the fuck?
• 1:08:21
  Stop being good at shit? Um, I don't think Sorry, very sweary
• 1:08:29
  this episode. I don't mean to be. They find the treasure and Homo
• 1:08:31
  immediately called Lenny and Carl and their ham Radio. This is where we get
• 1:08:34
  the skinner act this moment. I particularly like that, how do you make
• 1:08:38
  the same time loses. I thought they're going to get a Steamed Hams reference
• 1:08:43
  in here, because he goes I'm communicating with my fellow Hams, and I
• 1:08:46
  thought they're gonna I'm like, oh, there's gonna be a Steamed Hams reference.
• 1:08:49
  And there's like, ah, I guess how would you kind of work
• 1:08:51
  it in? Who knows steamed Hams even? I mean, it was it
• 1:08:55
  was the meme thing. It probably wasn't a twenty two thousand and six You're
• 1:08:58
  right, Yeah, it wasn't it at all. It feels yeah like steamed
• 1:09:01
  ham has only become a thing in the past maybe five or six years.
• 1:09:08
  Maybe maybe a little more, Yeah, maybe a bit more but I'm going
• 1:09:11
  to be honest, like twenty two Short Films about Springfield is probably still my
• 1:09:15
  favorite Simpsons episode just before. It's pure absurdity and novelty. But I'm not
• 1:09:19
  huge on the steamed Hams bit. That may sound silly, but like I
• 1:09:24
  find it funny, but it's like, I don't understand the level of love
• 1:09:28
  that scene gets. I think it's just that Simpsons fans seemed to have clung
• 1:09:31
  onto a scene and gone, this is our this is our moment, and
• 1:09:34
  this is the one we're going to overanalyze. And this is because for some
• 1:09:39
  reason it seems to be the one everyone references now to the point where it
• 1:09:42
  became not funny. Maybe it's just because it was so over used in the
• 1:09:45
  mean groups. I just got sick of it. I don't know. I
• 1:09:47
  think that, look, this is me putting an old man hat on.
• 1:09:50
  Hang on sec old man hate. You know, there's a certain millennial slash
• 1:09:57
  gem Z type of humor that's, you know, really steers into the absurd.
• 1:10:00
  And you see all the all the stuff they've done with steam Hams,
• 1:10:03
  all the reboots and remixes. I mean, I think my favorite of all
• 1:10:06
  time is the one where it's um, what's the gorilla song? Is it
• 1:10:13
  Clinicswood? I think that's clinicwood steam hands, I mean, and it's auto
• 1:10:19
  tuned with all the all the dialogue turning into the lyrics. Apparently it's the
• 1:10:24
  funniest thing in the world. And I find it really funny. But at
• 1:10:27
  the same time it's like, yeah, but this is also operating on a
• 1:10:29
  frequency that I don't quite get. I find it funny, but at the
• 1:10:31
  same time, it's not. It'll happen to you, that's true. It's
• 1:10:39
  when you you know, you look at say, here's an example, oh
• 1:10:44
  man shakes fish to cloud um lose kids? Uh? Watching the TV series
• 1:10:50
  the TV comedy TV game show Taskmaster. Do you know that one? No,
• 1:10:56
  there's a UK version and now there's in the strain one. And you
• 1:10:59
  know the Taskmaster who's hosting in Australia's Tom Gleeson. I'm not huge. No,
• 1:11:04
  he sucks, sorry guys, but he's no good. No, he
• 1:11:09
  sucks the whole bit where he's like doing the awkward questions. I'm like,
• 1:11:13
  I don't find it funny anyway, but Luke kids are hooked on it.
• 1:11:19
  They've got a whole bunch of episodes on the one. Yeah, recorded and
• 1:11:24
  just watching episode after episode. Lou and I were, you know, sort
• 1:11:27
  of in the background, can't you hurry this up so we could watch Nadi
• 1:11:29
  de Fiance some real television and they were like, we're watching this hilarious look
• 1:11:34
  at that and they're laughing and we're like not getting it at all. Yeah.
• 1:11:41
  When I realized that I was so out of touch with the music scene,
• 1:11:44
  I was like, yeah, I'm getting old. I just when I've
• 1:11:46
  put the radio on, I'm like, it all sounds the same to me.
• 1:11:49
  I don't get white people like this. I'm clearly old. You had
• 1:11:54
  you had the stand Marsh moment. Yeah, yeah, I just didn't the
• 1:11:57
  stand Marsh landslide moment. Yeah, not at all. But but anyway,
• 1:12:00
  so Home is at the bottom of the ocean. They find the treasure and
• 1:12:01
  calls up I'm lending and Kyl. Then he gets lost, and I was
• 1:12:03
  just like this, the idea of being lost, whether it be out in
• 1:12:08
  the ocean or the water or squash scuba diving or whatever, it's just probably
• 1:12:12
  the most terrifying thought I could possibly have being I have a few of water,
• 1:12:15
  so being lost anywhere involving water. Oh my god, I think being
• 1:12:18
  scuba diving and then not knowing where I am. It just it'd be horrific.
• 1:12:23
  I just I just couldn't do it. It reminds me of that film
• 1:12:26
  Open Water, you know. Oh yeah, but holly fuck. Can you
• 1:12:30
  imagine that being left behind whilst it gets to the surface and they're gone,
• 1:12:34
  oh mate, holy shit, no way, no thank you. Like just
• 1:12:38
  yeah, being being lost or stuck somewhere involving water not not my cap telly
• 1:12:43
  at all. You know, you're damn right. It says it's not what
• 1:12:45
  you want. It sounds terrible. Yeah, but yeah, but home,
• 1:12:48
  it gets stuck here and I mean, he needs help. What do I
• 1:12:51
  do? What do I do? And he gets the claw and scratches the
• 1:12:54
  front like he's scratching his head, like what do I do? I thought
• 1:12:56
  it was good, funny, funny visual. Then the oxygen here and we
• 1:12:58
  get the urge to kill from the shinning gag. Ocyen's going down's going down,
• 1:13:02
  oxygen slightly higher, oxygen gone, and he starts passing out and he
• 1:13:09
  said, Daddy, Daddy saved me. And he's sort of fading away,
• 1:13:12
  and we get the flashback here of Grandpa saying, get grab daddy's keys.
• 1:13:15
  He grabs it, starts driving the car. I like the idea of one
• 1:13:18
  baby home or not baby, but Todd the Homer or have got in the
• 1:13:21
  car, fixes the mirror up before he reverses out, and Homer and joined
• 1:13:27
  his picture for you. And he's a teenager. That's what a what a
• 1:13:30
  great was that? What's a quarter? A pan out? I guess you
• 1:13:31
  could say, I guess, so yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 1:13:34
  A great A great little gag there, and then Grandpa, this one's it's
• 1:13:39
  funny, but it's also more than the emotional side of things. So he
• 1:13:41
  gives Grappa's giving Homer a march on their wedding date, every last dollar that
• 1:13:44
  he has. You know, it's not but it's all It's all he's got.
• 1:13:46
  It's not much, but it's all I've got. And then I think,
• 1:13:47
  like a hawk or something takes it away. They're saying the commentary,
• 1:13:50
  they've got that gag. Obviously it's been his before, but the gag reminded
• 1:13:54
  me, reminded them sorry of a recent winner of the Funny Stone videos where
• 1:13:58
  a kid was given like a hamster, I'll put him on top of his
• 1:14:00
  cage or something, and hawks comes down and takes the kid's hamster away.
• 1:14:04
  No. I was like, oh, but wonderful. Yeah, I don't
• 1:14:09
  want to watch the video. I saw a video recently of a of an
• 1:14:11
  hour. I think it may have been a hawk pinched someone's dog and just
• 1:14:14
  like flew away with it, like a little white dog, a little one,
• 1:14:16
  and they found the dogs. I was like, okay, I may
• 1:14:18
  shut the dogs a vibe before I washed it. But then it's like,
• 1:14:21
  just grabs this dog and they're trying to reach for it, just flies away.
• 1:14:24
  They've just seen a bird fly away with your dog. That given the
• 1:14:30
  loun now has this little pappy on puppy that's never going to be that big,
• 1:14:32
  it's like, oh, yes, you could be prey of some you
• 1:14:35
  know, wedge day legal or something like that. Exactly. Yeah. Oh.
• 1:14:39
  I found myself watching some pet rescue video the other day, and I'm
• 1:14:44
  such an easy mark for those things. I was going to say, if
• 1:14:46
  you want to get me just anything involving animals being rescued, you've got me.
• 1:14:50
  Yeah. It's like, look at that little baby elephant in the pit.
• 1:14:53
  Oh, but here all the elephants come to save it. And this
• 1:14:56
  one was like a kitten in some pit or something like that. It was
• 1:15:00
  like, look, this monkey's come to rescue the come to rescue the kitten.
• 1:15:05
  It was like, normally will be like animal Kingdom working in unison,
• 1:15:11
  hooray, Hakuna matana, you know, na quenia circular life. Then I
• 1:15:15
  was like, someone's filming this, why don't you just fucking reach and get
• 1:15:17
  the cat. Yeah, that's why we wait for that monkey. Like,
• 1:15:20
  I don't mind if someone filming somebody saving an animal, but when it's just
• 1:15:24
  like you're filming an animal getting rescued by other animals, like you probably could
• 1:15:27
  have done this yourself. Yeah, because they're filming the cat, they're going,
• 1:15:30
  oh really, you know kind of terrified in this muddy pit, could
• 1:15:34
  drown, Like you could have alleviated that animal suffering any second. Yes,
• 1:15:40
  yeah, you just to film it. They fall back on that. I
• 1:15:43
  it was just you know, it's just nature. It's like, fuck off,
• 1:15:46
  should be in your human agent, human nature to save that thing.
• 1:15:49
  Correct. It reminds me of people filming ship one Last little anim day.
• 1:15:54
  I'll they're a bit off topic of you guys, but hey, what are
• 1:15:55
  you gonna do. It's our show. The listened to another shot. There's
• 1:16:01
  no other Symptons podcast. I'm worry about it that it was a giant the
• 1:16:05
  Maleficent Dragon at Disneyland. It's part of like a stage show they do at
• 1:16:10
  Disneyland every night or every couple of nights whatever, And it's like Fantasia,
• 1:16:13
  like someone dressed up as Mickey from Fantasia, and that the dragon's supposed to
• 1:16:16
  breathe fire out and this giant, fucking huge, one of a kind,
• 1:16:19
  like ten million dollar animatronic dragon. Right, we'll caught fire at the show
• 1:16:24
  like yesterday and I fucking exploded, like it literally explodes to a ball of
• 1:16:28
  fire. Right, And everyone's like, holy shit, this person's filming and
• 1:16:30
  this girl's filming it right, and the new story's got this girl's footage and
• 1:16:32
  threat the whole video. She's like, oh my god, this is going
• 1:16:35
  straight on my Insta. And the girl her girlfriend's like, you're gonna get
• 1:16:39
  so many followers, and I'm like, oh my fucking god, that's where
• 1:16:42
  we are in a society. Oh my god, this is going straight on
• 1:16:45
  my Insta. Just run. I'd love it if they didn't attribute this was
• 1:16:56
  wilmed by someone somewhere we don't know where from, but yeah, it's yeah,
• 1:17:01
  it's actually it looks terrified. It just goes It's like a fireball and
• 1:17:04
  all of a sudden just goes boom. It just explodes. And I was
• 1:17:08
  like, okay, everyone, I'm doing I'm just picturing, Like though,
• 1:17:13
  that scene from Fellowship of the Ring. I've watched the lot. That's the
• 1:17:16
  first one, isn't it. It is the case, right, I've seen
• 1:17:18
  that one, you know. Yeah, it's bill Way Beggin's birthday party and
• 1:17:23
  Gandal was broad his dope. Fireworks. Oh yes, the fireworks. Yeah,
• 1:17:27
  and Mary and Pippen get the dragon one. It's like ship up and
• 1:17:30
  they let it off and everyone's like it's a dragon. Then it explodes and
• 1:17:32
  everyone's like I can just imagine that people going with them livers and dragons,
• 1:17:40
  like, oh my god, what a tragedy. Oh it exploded. Yeah.
• 1:17:42
  The funny thing is it's just like everyone's like, this is not supposed
• 1:17:45
  to happen. This is not supposed to happen. And I'm filming it and
• 1:17:47
  he's here to guy with the thing going everyone please leave the area immediately.
• 1:17:51
  This is not part of the show and everyone's like, nah, fuck,
• 1:17:54
  you're it going anywhere? Man, We're going anywhere, and then boom whenever.
• 1:17:58
  I's like, okay, let's go. But getting back to the episode
• 1:18:03
  once again, followed these guys, so we had ye the flashback of the
• 1:18:06
  hawk and the hawk or whatever bird taken away the money. Granpausaid, you
• 1:18:11
  know, I gave you everything and it still wasn't enough. As what he
• 1:18:13
  says, and this is where he wakes to see the shadow of approaching sorry,
• 1:18:15
  the shadows approaching him as he's sort of fading out, and he wakes
• 1:18:17
  up into bed. He's been in coma for three days. He's in hospital.
• 1:18:20
  He's been fed through a tube. What you think of the tube?
• 1:18:23
  Gag. I was like, yeah, that's fine. This episode has been
• 1:18:27
  good enough. I'm willing to roll with this. Yeah. I thought it
• 1:18:30
  was a neat I mean, they didn't overplay it. No, they didn't
• 1:18:32
  know yeah, which I thought was good. But the fact that it was
• 1:18:36
  he didn't fed through an intervenenced he's a turkey. Just chicken comes out.
• 1:18:40
  I liked it. Wellmer, now that you're alive again, I'll leave you
• 1:18:44
  with your real family. Great, can we have a moment in private.
• 1:18:47
  Of course, it's early dying on the ocean floor. I remembered everything you've
• 1:18:54
  done for me. Hell without stupid DNA test, and it's ninety nine point
• 1:18:59
  nine nine nine seven percent accuracy. You're my dad, and I love you.
• 1:19:02
  I love you two Homer. Oh, now there's something I've got to
• 1:19:08
  tell you. I really am your father. Oh but how after seeing how
• 1:19:16
  happy you were with Horatio home wrecker, I made a decision. I switched
• 1:19:21
  the names on the DNA samples. Then I put my name first on the
• 1:19:27
  list for a new heart. My old one's fine, but you never know.
• 1:19:32
  Only a true father would lead his son to believe he belonged to someone
• 1:19:38
  else. Oh, now, why don't you stay for dinner? It would
• 1:19:44
  be my pleasure, son. Send up two hams. This one's cold.
• 1:19:55
  This was actually going to bring to something the start. I thought this was
• 1:19:57
  the best part of the whole episode in the sense that what they did here
• 1:20:00
  it was have Homer say that he wants Grandpa to be his real dad before
• 1:20:03
  he finds out. So this is the This is like one of the nicest
• 1:20:08
  moments we've had from Homer and I reckon seasons where he says, you know
• 1:20:12
  you raised me. You know when I was when I thought I was going
• 1:20:15
  to be dying, all I thought about was you. I love you.
• 1:20:16
  You're my dad regards what that stupid DNA test says, and I was like,
• 1:20:20
  this is just lovely. But I thought as a really really well earned
• 1:20:25
  emotional ending, it was indeed, and they, of course I had a
• 1:20:30
  lot of heart, which we really appreciate and which makes the Simpsons or symptoms.
• 1:20:32
  But yeah, they also undercut up with a few just neat little gags
• 1:20:36
  in there, just yea, so it's not overwhelmingly sweet. It's just like,
• 1:20:41
  yeah, here's a little bit of a laugh, just to you know,
• 1:20:44
  cut it. So, yeah, I know it was great. It
• 1:20:46
  got the balance just right. Then they got back to one of those little
• 1:20:49
  credit scenes again and it's Mason Fairbanks teaching Homer how to the stove is hot?
• 1:20:55
  Can you teach me at the stover's hot? And it goes exactly how
• 1:20:58
  you expected to go, And I think that was nice as well. I
• 1:21:01
  mean, I'm not always a fan of those post credit or those credit end
• 1:21:05
  credit sequences. You don't we say, but I thought it was nice to
• 1:21:09
  sort of throw Mason back in just a little bit. I mean, no,
• 1:21:13
  no, just to remind you, was like, oh, this guy
• 1:21:15
  wasn't all bad. No, you know, it's not that it's not like
• 1:21:18
  this is a winner and loser situation. It's more like a he made the
• 1:21:23
  right choice situation. But you know, it's not like Mason was a villain
• 1:21:27
  or anything like that. I thought that was I thought it was a nice
• 1:21:29
  touch. I think the best way to have ended this episode, it's just
• 1:21:32
  my humble opinion. I thought would have been too because Mason Fairback was a
• 1:21:36
  good character. I thought, right would be rather than just pretend that he
• 1:21:41
  doesn't exist anymore, because you know, at this point in time when Homer,
• 1:21:45
  when Granpa reveals to home with about the DNA samples, Mason still thinks
• 1:21:47
  that is his dad, right. I thought the perfect way to end it
• 1:21:49
  would have been Mason finding out that Grandpa did the swap, being sad,
• 1:21:54
  and then Homer, Grandpa and Mason sharing dinner via the tube at the end
• 1:21:58
  as a as a trio, as a peace offering. Yes, I thought,
• 1:22:01
  welcome to the family gesture. Yes, And it's like, you know,
• 1:22:03
  because he's now going to go back to having nobody again, but it's
• 1:22:05
  like, no, we'll still be We'll treat you how we were treating Grabath
• 1:22:10
  throughout the episode when we thought he wasn't real dead, So we'll still come
• 1:22:12
  visit. You still do cool ship with you. So I thought it would
• 1:22:14
  be nice to sort of have them together in the one shot together as one
• 1:22:17
  unit, like like you were saying, yeah, Dando, your opinion maybe
• 1:22:20
  a humble one, but it's also the correct one. What do we learn,
• 1:22:24
  Palmer? So what do you learn from the episode, mister Davis that
• 1:22:28
  I really should do that in the loop, Yes, you really should do
• 1:22:30
  that. Yes, And what I learned was that never give people the old
• 1:22:35
  cheapskate trail and they'll always take it, especially myself. Roby. All Right,
• 1:22:44
  mister Davis, there's time for the new Name Championship here on a four
• 1:22:48
  figure discount to the Guy Davis New In Championship for season seventeen. The current
• 1:22:51
  leader board stands at this in first position of Luke McKay on nine points,
• 1:22:56
  in second position Heath Applebe on seven points, and in third position we have
• 1:23:00
  a tie between Nora Coca and Fergus Jeff's both on five points. Okay,
• 1:23:04
  what do we got this week. Okay, one point goes too. Oh
• 1:23:10
  father, here art thou is David Mott, while I'm David. You get
• 1:23:15
  the one point four this week that puts you into I won't read it where
• 1:23:18
  everyone is. We'll wait to be up to the end because it could be
• 1:23:20
  a bit of a jumble, I said, David Mott. One point.
• 1:23:21
  You've moved up the leaderboard. That's all I'm gonna say. Nice work,
• 1:23:26
  Motsky. Two points four. Homer has got a brand new dad. Oh
• 1:23:30
  boom, that's our man, Adam Woolhouse. That puts him now on four
• 1:23:33
  points while done with a two point mister Woolhouse, Woolhouse in the house,
• 1:23:38
  and three points for it's simple, it's sweet, it's effective. Daddy's Homer.
• 1:23:44
  Well, if there is someone who is usually effective, it's Garrod harrow
• 1:23:47
  Hill with the three points the grode that has shaken things up somewhat because that
• 1:23:51
  has now put Garrode in third position. All right, So who Luke McKay
• 1:23:57
  still in first on nine he would be on seven in second and Grod harrow
• 1:24:00
  Hill now outright in third position, just one point behind second on six points.
• 1:24:04
  All right, God, what a come back they're going to make it
• 1:24:06
  happen. I can see them all the way. Third comes right after second.
• 1:24:10
  Grog just somehow sometimes goes I'm not going to comment a name for about
• 1:24:13
  four weeks, and I'll just drop one in there now and then all three
• 1:24:15
  points in here. Name worries Well, not to pick up in too much,
• 1:24:19
  but he's kind of like the Michael Jordan of don Yes, exactly right,
• 1:24:23
  if you just rock up a gaze swish Philip J. Hawkins, Zander
• 1:24:26
  and grod harrow Hill like the Pip and Jordan combination. Who's the Dennis Rodman?
• 1:24:32
  I don't know. Well, we'll work that outail here. Guys,
• 1:24:38
  don't forget our mail bag questions. You can send them through to Simpsons Mailbag
• 1:24:42
  at gmail dot com. We'd love to hear from each and every single one
• 1:24:45
  of you. This first question, he comes from Georgia. Catherine Georgia says,
• 1:24:48
  if you found out you had a different biological parent or sibling, etc.
• 1:24:53
  Would you want to find slash meet them or would you rather just let
• 1:24:56
  sleeping dogs lie? I think the curiosity would eventually get the better of you,
• 1:25:00
  right, I think it would. I think my initial reaction will be
• 1:25:03
  like nap they don't need to complicate matters any further. But the miniature here,
• 1:25:12
  it is going to be like, oh you got that got a niche,
• 1:25:15
  you need to scratch it. Yeah, and yeah, you would probably
• 1:25:18
  go find this new new relation, find it. We are. You'd be
• 1:25:21
  curious like you like I think you like to think you are. You are
• 1:25:28
  a creation of yourself. You know, it's like, yeah, everything about
• 1:25:30
  me I've sort of built from the ground up, you know. I mean,
• 1:25:32
  you wonder how much of it is nature and how much of it is
• 1:25:35
  nurture and me imagine meeting someone's like, oh my god, it's like looking
• 1:25:39
  in the mirror or oh holy shit, I do that or that's how I
• 1:25:43
  sound sometimes and like oh oh it's all out of my head. But also
• 1:25:45
  the element of you spent your whole life seeing yourself in a parent that's not
• 1:25:49
  actually your parrot as well, make you a question everything about you? Yeah.
• 1:25:53
  Next question he comes from Kyle Muldoon. What smoke damaged item would you
• 1:25:58
  buy from the smoke damage Outlet store? Um? A ham steamed hams smoked
• 1:26:04
  ham a smoked ham from salmon chicken breads? What damaged item? I don't
• 1:26:14
  know what it's gonna be still functional, right, or maybe it's just sort
• 1:26:16
  of it's so burnt it's like a cool art piece you just display on the
• 1:26:19
  shelf. Because smoke damage is pretty fucked, isn't it. That's yeah,
• 1:26:24
  I mean I'm pretty melted to those things are from that shop especially, But
• 1:26:29
  i mean even say, yeah, this this cool jacket, it's not you
• 1:26:33
  know, it's not fire damaged, but it was in the house, that
• 1:26:38
  it was in the burning house for so long that the smoke is just in
• 1:26:41
  it. You know, you can send this to the dry cleaners so many
• 1:26:44
  times, but it skill is still gonna be still smells like a burnt house.
• 1:26:48
  At the rest of sounding like an absolute idiot, I've just realized the
• 1:26:51
  whole point of that first scene anyway. I'll just realized the whole point of
• 1:26:55
  it with the smoke damage outlet, was it? It was the smoke that
• 1:26:59
  melted the fucking ice. Yeah, So I'm just like, oh, I
• 1:27:01
  didn't put the talk together that the smoke damage. Eventually Marge does something that
• 1:27:06
  causes lots of smoke, which which creates the smoke to melt the ice.
• 1:27:11
  Oh. Anyway, next question here, Andrew JP, do you like Abe
• 1:27:17
  was a character anymore. He has some strong storylines early on, but now
• 1:27:20
  he just seems to be a good for a quick gag. We discussed,
• 1:27:24
  we discussed that earlier. It has felt that way, but I thought this
• 1:27:26
  episode and last week, with that middle one in particular, I've done a
• 1:27:30
  good job of sort of reminding viewers. I no, no, he's not
• 1:27:31
  just this decrepit old, unwanted characters. He's got some substance tone. No,
• 1:27:36
  we've we've had a good one two punch with the last couple of episodes
• 1:27:39
  where but it's like, oh yeah, he can't contribute a add something to
• 1:27:43
  the fabric. Absolutely, yeah, I mean he's like any character. I
• 1:27:46
  mean, he's just got to play him right. We'll use him correctly,
• 1:27:50
  and that's not always going to happen. And usually it's like with Grandpa,
• 1:27:54
  the best stories for him are the ones, whether kids or whatever, go
• 1:27:57
  oh yeah, you're not just the useless old man. You were once young,
• 1:28:00
  like you were saying earlier, and you once did shit, yeah,
• 1:28:03
  or or just a reminders like you know, treat the treat the elderly members
• 1:28:09
  of our community with respect and afford them dignity. Exactly. It's my one
• 1:28:13
  of my favorite lines of all time. Coming on, folks, the dignity
• 1:28:15
  is on me. It's one of the best lines the Simpsons ever wrote.
• 1:28:17
  And who says that exactly? That's he, isn't it. It's in Yes,
• 1:28:21
  blood money, but blood not blood money. What's is that blood money
• 1:28:25
  they called blood money? No, that's not it. No, what's Beatrice
• 1:28:28
  Simmons old money, old money, not blood money. Old money. Yes,
• 1:28:30
  that's the one. I knew it was something money. I'm like,
• 1:28:32
  it's not blood. Blood the blood, the blood the one where Homer asked,
• 1:28:36
  um, I think it's called blood feud, isn't it? Is that
• 1:28:39
  the one where Homer bart donates blood and mister burns and he gives them the
• 1:28:42
  big giant head and Homer is furious about it. Remember that one? Yeah,
• 1:28:45
  I think so, yeah, yeah, okay, your old money.
• 1:28:46
  Yeah, that's a that's one of the best endings that you don't hear enough
• 1:28:49
  people talk about that at that ending. It's just one of the it's almost
• 1:28:53
  like peak Grandpa moment. I reckon that one. Oh yeah, and yeah,
• 1:28:56
  as I said, it is one. I'm one of the best lines
• 1:28:58
  that the Simpsons ever delivered. Yeah, where you know the retirement castles just
• 1:29:00
  turned into something really nice and it's got the Beatris Simmons Memorial Memorial Dining Hall.
• 1:29:04
  It's Oh, I'm going to tear up just thinking about it right now.
• 1:29:08
  Yeah, final question here, Harrison McClure. Harrison says, have you
• 1:29:11
  ever been out deep sea exploring or in a boat? I'm not. I
• 1:29:15
  get csick very very fast. I'm not a scuba diver. I just I
• 1:29:19
  was gonna fear of going under the water. I'd like to do it.
• 1:29:23
  I just just don't think I could have actually been myself to do it,
• 1:29:25
  which is a shame, but I just don't don't. I don't like not
• 1:29:27
  being able to see the bottom if unless I'm in a boat. You know,
• 1:29:30
  I'm in a boat, I can't see the bottom. That's fine,
• 1:29:31
  but but yeah, once when I think I've mentioned it in another podcast,
• 1:29:35
  where when on the boat that goes to the Wineglass Bay and you go sort
• 1:29:39
  of out in the out and the you get out in the sea for a
• 1:29:41
  little bit and it was fucking so choppy. I've never felt so sick in
• 1:29:45
  my life. Yeah, that's just not for me being out in the ocean.
• 1:29:46
  What about you? I only feel the bath to out the halfway out.
• 1:29:49
  I don't have a bath ever. I have a few bath it's terrifying.
• 1:29:55
  Well, I see, I just I shower like I don't have baths.
• 1:29:58
  I just I hate the idea of just bathing my own filth. I
• 1:30:01
  love the idea. Yeah, I get ten minutes and I'm just like nicol
• 1:30:05
  and I hopping the bath again. It's like him, Yeah, that's that.
• 1:30:11
  The idea is sexy. The biggest myth, the biggest myth that's ever
• 1:30:14
  been perpetuates like it would be so sexy of a bath together or even a
• 1:30:16
  shower together. It's like, no, this is my cleaning was fine,
• 1:30:19
  getting pretty clean, okay, but after a while, it's very nice to
• 1:30:26
  be in here and also together. But after a while I'm going to be
• 1:30:28
  cleaning the dirty parts of my body. Now, that's it. I've got
• 1:30:35
  to maintain that mistake exactly. Right On that note, let's rape up this
• 1:30:42
  this fantastic There is a fun episode of four figured discaun here reviewing homes Paternity
• 1:30:45
  had a good time. I hope season seventeen continues on this trail because it's
• 1:30:49
  been really good for the last month. I reckon it has been indeed,
• 1:30:53
  we've We've had some good episodes to talk about. Please keep it, please
• 1:30:57
  keep the run going. Yes, the next tide is called We're on the
• 1:30:59
  Road to do Where should I say that again? Where are the Road to
• 1:31:02
  Dowear? Some love that movie that that song is a kid. It was
• 1:31:06
  in one of my favorite movies, which I know is terrible. I haven't
• 1:31:09
  watched this another little kid, and I'm not going to revisit it because I
• 1:31:12
  wanted to stay my memory as the movie that I remembered it was called Little
• 1:31:15
  Monsters starring Fred Savage, Oh and how Howey Mandel as them as the monster.
• 1:31:20
  Loved that movie as a kid, and it's like I've ruined so many
• 1:31:24
  movies from my childhood by revisiting them and going, oh, this was shit.
• 1:31:27
  So I'm just going to leave that one in the memory bank. But
• 1:31:29
  that that movie ends with that song, So whenever I hear road to Nowhere,
• 1:31:31
  it reminds me of that, of that moment. Yeah, it's by
• 1:31:33
  the band Talking Heads. It is indeed. Yes, So have you seen
• 1:31:36
  the concert where they build the stage live during the opening song? Is that
• 1:31:41
  stop making sense? I'm not sure that's what it is, but anyway,
• 1:31:44
  basically this the stage is empty at the start, and then by the end
• 1:31:45
  of like the first song or whatever, like there's like a whole setup built
• 1:31:49
  as they're singing. I imagine that stopped making sense, which is just,
• 1:31:53
  you know, one of the best concert movies of all time. Let's double
• 1:31:57
  check that. Yes, but yeah, but we're on the road to dough
• 1:32:00
  where it is going to be the next episode of four Finger discount when we're
• 1:32:02
  doing a season seventeen episode. Don't forget. We've got some guy on Springfields
• 1:32:06
  coming up in the near future, including Barked the Fink with one Alliott j
• 1:32:10
  O'Neil from The Simpsons Index podcast subscribed to theoy Birthday Boy. This his birthday,
• 1:32:15
  boy, Yes it did. Birthday and also another happy birthday to our
• 1:32:17
  man Pickles and his mum Ginger. Happy thirteenth birthday, our man, Hope
• 1:32:21
  you have a great birthday. What what did you do on your thirteenth birthday?
• 1:32:24
  Can you remember what you did on your thirteenth birthday? Crack cocaine?
• 1:32:28
  Crack cocaine, Yes, I had I remember that. It's been defined by
• 1:32:31
  in my friendship group as Dando's Chicken party, where I think I might mentioned
• 1:32:35
  it before. My parents just basically, what do you want for your birthday?
• 1:32:39
  Do you want pizzas or whatever? I was like, everyone's like KFC,
• 1:32:42
  and they're like, oh whatever. My dad leaves comes back with two
• 1:32:45
  giant cardboard boxes full of just KFC chicken and one box full of just chips,
• 1:32:48
  and it's just like go and everyone's like just chicken and chips and video
• 1:32:57
  games and coke and cocaine. As you were saying, I have coke,
• 1:33:00
  you have cocaine, and yeah, it's just a great time had by all.
• 1:33:02
  But that was my thirteenth birthday. But yes, this has been As
• 1:33:04
  I said, Home's Fraternity Coot. We're on the road to dough Where is
• 1:33:08
  the next season seventeen episode we are going to be reviewing. Don't forget.
• 1:33:11
  Please write into the Show Simpsons mailbag at gmail dot com. We have a
• 1:33:15
  big, big announce we're coming in the coming weeks as well, which I'm
• 1:33:16
  very excited to announce, but we're gonna do it just yet. But it's
• 1:33:19
  going to be huge. I'm talking huge. I'm not talking this up.
• 1:33:21
  This is going to be a huge, huge deal. This announcement we're coming
• 1:33:25
  up in a couple of weeks. Also, if you're enjoying everything you do
• 1:33:28
  here, you can support us on Patreon, where you get early and add
• 1:33:30
  free access to every show we do here on the network, as well as
• 1:33:34
  prize draws, the Facebook community at Discord Community, and so much more.
• 1:33:39
  You can do that. The link for that's in the description of this podcast.
• 1:33:41
  And if you're listen to us on Spotify, we want to hit five
• 1:33:44
  hundred reviews, so please just check us. Five stars literally takes five seconds.
• 1:33:47
  Five seconds for five stars. It's all you're gonna do. Bang bang
• 1:33:49
  bang, push two bunts. It's done. So if you listen to us
• 1:33:51
  on Spotify, which apparently seventy five percent of you currently do, please check
• 1:33:55
  us five stars. Follow us on social media at four finger discount on Facebook
• 1:33:59
  and Pagram, and at four finger Pod on the Twitter. Now, mister
• 1:34:02
  Davis, any final words for those incredible listeners out there. This one was on Jesus