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Bart On The Road (S07E20) · Four Finger Discount (Simpsons Podcast)

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  Speaker 1: Bart, can we stop for ice cream?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Bart, can we weigh the car at that weigh station? Yeah. Bart,
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: can we pick up that hitchhiker?
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  Speaker 3: I don't see why not.
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  Speaker 4: Bart, can we stop for ice cream?
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I didn't think I was rehabilitated, but I guess
• 0:21
  Speaker 4: they needed the extra bed.
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: Four-finger discount, dude.
• 0:40
  Speaker 4: Welcome to Four Finger Discount. This week we are here
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  Speaker 4: to review Bart on the Road.
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  Speaker 1: I am Dando. I am Mitch.
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  Speaker 4: How you doing, man?
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  Speaker 1: Very good, mate.
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  Speaker 5: How are you?
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  Speaker 4: I am always good. You going out for dinner tonight
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  Speaker 4: for some Thai? Looking forward to that?
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  Speaker 5: I am.
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  Speaker 1: That's a really uninteresting way to start the podcast. Is
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  Speaker 1: that what we've come to after nearly three years?
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  Speaker 4: You know what I did on the weekend? I went
• 0:57
  Speaker 4: to birthing classes.
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  Speaker 1: Now, see, that's a more interesting topic. How did you go?
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  Speaker 1: Did you feel your vulva opening like a flower?
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  Speaker 4: It was not fun. So I had to wear these suits.
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  Speaker 4: So they make you feel like you're pregnant. So they
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  Speaker 4: put a... What?
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So I'm going to stop on that straight away.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you need to feel like you're pregnant? Out
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  Speaker 1: of curiosity.
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  Speaker 4: So you know what your wife's going through.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you need to know what your wife's going through?
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  Speaker 4: You know it hurts. I know it hurts.
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  Speaker 1: Do you really need more than that?
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  Speaker 4: It's more than, not so much the pain, it's how
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  Speaker 4: uncomfortable it is. It's just things like getting out of
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  Speaker 4: a chair. I understood it was uncomfortable, but I now
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  Speaker 4: really understand what she's going through and I can appreciate
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  Speaker 4: just how annoying, as much as you love having a
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  Speaker 4: child there, how annoying it must be to have to
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  Speaker 4: carry it around for nine months.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So it's empathy class, basically.
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  Speaker 4: Basically, yeah. But no, it was more learning about what
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  Speaker 4: to do once the child's home, what you should and
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  Speaker 4: shouldn't do. Learning about postnatal depression, things like that. That's important.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: I had to watch a lot of birthing videos. That's not...
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  Speaker 4: That's an experience.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I hadn't watched one of them since the year eight
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  Speaker 4: health class.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. A couple of years ago, I caught an episode
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  Speaker 1: of One Born Every Minute and it never stops being terrifying.
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  Speaker 4: What is that? By the seventh video, I was fine.
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  Speaker 4: I was desensitized to it.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen one of those ones where they have
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  Speaker 1: to get the suction cups in? Yes. Have you seen
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  Speaker 1: one where the suction cup slips off the baby's head
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  Speaker 1: and comes flying out? No. Yeah. See? Terrifying. That was...
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  Speaker 1: That was the episode that I happen to catch of
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  Speaker 1: One Born every minute.
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  Speaker 4: Because Nicola's considering a water birth, so we had to
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  Speaker 4: watch some water birth videos, and there was one where
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  Speaker 4: the baby's head was out, but the baby didn't realize
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  Speaker 4: it had been born yet, so the head was just
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  Speaker 4: chilling out. And the dad's just looking at the baby,
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  Speaker 4: and it's reacting like it's still in the womb. That
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  Speaker 4: was something to behold. So the baby doesn't actually know
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  Speaker 4: it's out of the womb until you take it out
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  Speaker 4: of the water.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So a baby can come out and just chill in
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  Speaker 4: the water for a couple of minutes if you let it.
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  Speaker 1: For how long? Could we create an entire race of
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  Speaker 1: water babies?
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  Speaker 4: We can try.
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  Speaker 1: A super race. How long could you keep it underwater for?
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  Speaker 4: That's the opening scene of Aquaman.
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  Speaker 1: If it's attached to that, yeah, as long as it's
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  Speaker 1: attached to the umbilical cord, you could have a fully
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  Speaker 1: grown man that just finally comes out of the water
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  Speaker 1: for the first time.
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  Speaker 4: So you just have all these women connected to babies underwater,
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  Speaker 4: men underwater. Just dragging their mothers along with them. Theoretically,
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  Speaker 4: I feel like that could happen. I don't think it could.
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  Speaker 4: And this is why you don't have a child.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like there's so many human experiments that have
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  Speaker 1: not been run about births. And that's one of them
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  Speaker 1: that I would like to see. The other one that
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  Speaker 1: I would like to see is you take 20 volunteers
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  Speaker 1: to live in the water. So they've all got to
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  Speaker 1: be pregnant women and then they give birth in the
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  Speaker 1: water and spend 90% of their day in the water.
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  Speaker 1: Temperature controlled water, so it's not uncomfortable. They're not going
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  Speaker 1: to get sick or anything like that. But then... eventually
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  Speaker 1: their kids grow up, they meet other water kids, and
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  Speaker 1: then they have a kid. And then same deal. They've
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  Speaker 1: got to spend all that life. And this would be
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  Speaker 1: like a 400-year experiment. But in 400 years' time, you
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  Speaker 1: take these water people and see what sort of physical
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  Speaker 1: attributes they have developed that land people have not. I
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  Speaker 1: can't see that ever happening. You could enforce.
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  Speaker 4: Evolution and prove evolution in that With that experiment. What
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  Speaker 4: I'm envisioning is Ash is giving a water birth and
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  Speaker 4: you'll stand in the back. Doctor's about to take it out.
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  Speaker 4: You go, leave it there. Leave him down. Leave him there.
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  Speaker 1: He'll be fine. He knows what he's doing. I say
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  Speaker 1: prove evolution. Of course, it has been. But you could
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  Speaker 1: demonstrate and be like the first time, the first instance
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  Speaker 1: of man-made evolution.
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  Speaker 4: I fear for Ash for when she gives birth. Do
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  Speaker 4: you think you'll ever have a child?
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  Speaker 1: I've already unsold the rights. No.
• 4:28
  Speaker 4: Let's get into Barton the Road anyway. What did you
• 4:29
  Speaker 4: think of the episode?
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  Speaker 1: I really, really loved this episode, actually.
• 4:32
  Speaker 4: I forgot how great it was, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: For reasons that I had forgotten all about. Because, frankly,
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  Speaker 1: it's not the funniest episode going around.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of one-liners.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and a lot of them, for me, did not
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: hit the mark. Like, there weren't many moments of the
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  Speaker 1: one-liners that made me laugh out loud. But the character-driven
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  Speaker 1: comedy is really, really good to compensate. And the overall...
• 4:54
  Speaker 1: character dynamics that you get throughout of this. And really
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: Homer and Lisa are the heart of the episode. Yeah.
• 5:00
  Speaker 1: It's a really well told overall story. I was reading
• 5:04
  Speaker 1: about how the writers back in the day were really
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  Speaker 1: excited to do a road movie in general. Road episode, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was, sorry, road episode. I think it was,
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  Speaker 1: might've been Elle, but someone was saying that not only
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  Speaker 1: Were they excited for this? But just in general, that
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  Speaker 1: road stories, road trip stories are something that writers always
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  Speaker 1: gravitate towards. I think Bill may have said that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It was Bill, actually, now that you've said that. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You get a natural sense of forward momentum within the
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  Speaker 1: story just by the fact that they're in a car.
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: They're going from one place to another place. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of the work is already done for you as a writer. Yeah. Somehow,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I've always been a sucker for road
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  Speaker 1: movies for that very reason. Even though I know that
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: that's what the reason is, it's not necessarily that they've
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  Speaker 1: put more work into it. It just seems like the
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: stakes have been raised because they've got to get from
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  Speaker 1: A to B and then go on. The best road
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  Speaker 1: movies tend to be combined with some sort of personal
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  Speaker 1: journey that mimics the section of the road trip that
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  Speaker 1: they happen to be on. Unless it's a rat race.
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  Speaker 1: It's just to get money. Rat Race is purely to
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  Speaker 1: get money, yeah. But that's not one of the best
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  Speaker 1: road movies.
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  Speaker 4: It is funny, though. But this has a very, like,
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  Speaker 4: a lemon of Troy feel to it.
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  Speaker 1: In what way?
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  Speaker 4: See, for example, Nelson, right, doesn't normally hang out with Bart,
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  Speaker 4: so you get that dynamic of Martin and Nelson again,
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  Speaker 4: but they're in, they're away from Springfield. It's not very
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  Speaker 4: often you see the kids away from Springfield when they're
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  Speaker 4: not with their family.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, true. And Homer and Lisa, who don't spend a
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  Speaker 1: lot of time together, but you also, very rarely do
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  Speaker 1: you see Marge alone.
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  Speaker 4: That's it, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Apart from... That's the sad part of this episode.
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  Speaker 4: It sort of highlights the loneliness that adulthood can bring,
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  Speaker 4: especially if you're a parent and your spouse has to
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  Speaker 4: work night shift.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You have nobody.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And, yeah, both kids are away, your other kid's
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  Speaker 1: a baby, and, you know, she's off in the water,
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  Speaker 1: and you've got nothing left to do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like, there have been times... Where that gets referenced, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: You Only Move Twice is an example and Rancho Relaxo.
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  Speaker 4: It hasn't happened yet, though. You Only Move Twice. I know.
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  Speaker 1: I just mean in general in the history. But it's
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  Speaker 1: very rare that you see Marge just on her own.
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  Speaker 1: And it does provide a bittersweet, not bittersweet, even just
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  Speaker 1: a more downcast....
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  Speaker 4: This is her life.
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  Speaker 1: What's the word? It's kind of the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the coin of all of the antics and frivolity that's
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  Speaker 1: going on in the rest of the episode. And then
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: you've just got Marge. on her own, desperate for some
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  Speaker 1: attention and not getting any of it. And it's sad,
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: but they mine it very well for funny. It never
• 7:32
  Speaker 1: crosses over into like feeling pity. Yeah. Because they keep
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: it pretty funny and light the whole way through. Even
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: the phone calls. Oh, you want to speak to Lisa? Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That was a good callback. And I think one of
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  Speaker 1: my favorite examples of it is the very end during
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  Speaker 1: the end credits when She's getting all the phone calls
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  Speaker 1: and all of this craziness that she has no idea about.
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  Speaker 1: And Homer just gradually hiding more and more under the doona.
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  Speaker 1: And he's little... How relatable is he in that moment? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like it's, I know something you don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And I like that Homer goes from rage and he's
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  Speaker 1: now finally seeing the funny side of it all. It's
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  Speaker 1: a really cool way to have ended the episode.
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  Speaker 4: That's one of my favourite moments. The other favourite moment
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  Speaker 4: for me was Marge poking Maggie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Just a tap. Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Boom. Bang.
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  Speaker 4: And the cry for Maggie.
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  Speaker 1: Right in the ribs. Yeah. I also really like the...
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  Speaker 1: Just the kids are very relatable in this episode. I
• 8:28
  Speaker 1: feel like they're written... They're kids. Really, really well as kids.
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  Speaker 1: Possibly not 10-year-old kids, but it took me back to being...
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: I think Lisa is, but not so much because he's
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: out driving a car and everything. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: It took me back to being 15, 16. It reminds
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  Speaker 4: me of your first sense of freedom.
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Times where I might have been 16. In Queensland,
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: people got their license a bit younger. They may still do.
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  Speaker 1: So as a 16-year-old, if I had a 17-year-old friend,
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: we'd go on a road trip somewhere. And yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: was still... You're very much aware of the fact that
• 9:00
  Speaker 1: we're not adults and it still felt... Not naughty. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it was legal, but it felt like... That adventure of,
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  Speaker 1: I can do whatever I want.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Like, if we want to go into this store right here,
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  Speaker 1: we can. If we don't want to, we don't have to.
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  Speaker 1: If I want to just suddenly go, let's go to Dreamworld,
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: we can go to Dreamworld. Like, we can do absolutely
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: anything or nothing. And it's a really cool sense of
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: freedom that you get. And I like the way that
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: these kids deal with that in their different ways. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I like that Bart just embraces everything.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: It's very important, though. that they had the kids at
• 9:37
  Speaker 4: the end of the day but he needed his parents
• 9:39
  Speaker 4: to get back to where he was because it's quite
• 9:42
  Speaker 4: often that you think you can look after yourself when
• 9:45
  Speaker 4: you're a teenager but at the end of the day
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  Speaker 4: you realize i still need my parents yeah i'm not
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  Speaker 4: quite responsible enough yet.
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah there's well really everywhere along the way that's reinforced
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: even yeah you know they they try to go to
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: see an r-rated movie and they pick very much the
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: wrong one We'll deal with that. I don't know if
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: you know much about the movie Naked Lunch. I don't, no.
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  Speaker 1: We'll deal with that when we get to that scene. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And when they wander into the bar, they're like, let's
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: grab a drink, how exciting this is going to be.
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: And then one of the really most hard-hitting times that
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: the show confronts problem alcohol addiction, when they just look
• 10:17
  Speaker 1: into the future and all go, ooh, no, and in silence,
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: just back away from the beers. There's countless times. Every time, basically,
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: they try to do something, it goes wrong for them.
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: And apart from picking up the hitchhiker, that happened to
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: work out for them, luckily.
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: Do you know he's based on the Hitchhiker and Texas
• 10:33
  Speaker 4: Chainsaw Massacre?
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I read that. I haven't seen that movie in full. Ever? No. Okay.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: I kind of felt like I'd seen the best bits
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: just from Eclipse.
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: That bit where he's trying to hit her on the
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: head with a hammer?
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  Speaker 1: No, I hadn't seen that, actually.
• 10:47
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: But I was like, you know, dude, chainsaw, swings it
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: over his head, based on Ed Gein. I can, like,
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: I've got... Ed Gein? Depends on how you want to, well, G-E-I-N.
• 10:57
  Speaker 4: Tomato, tomato?
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: Either way.
• 10:59
  Speaker 1: Tamaco. We were having this conversation at work the other day, sorry,
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: this is just way off topic, but If there's one
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: thing that I don't like about the Australian accent, it's
• 11:09
  Speaker 1: that no one in Australia says either tomatoes or potatoes.
• 11:13
  Speaker 4: Yet we use it as a phrase.
• 11:15
  Speaker 1: No, we don't even do that. Like, as in... No,
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: not potato, potato. But I mean, would you like some potatoes?
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: Everyone in Australia would say potato. Would you like some potatoes? Yeah.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: It never gets shortened to potatoes or tomatoes. And I
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: really wish it did, because, you know, what are you having?
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: Potatoes.
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: It's something about that. Something about middle America that is
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: so quaint. We would say taters. We would shorten it
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: even more. No, we wouldn't even go to taters.
• 11:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we'd love to shorten things.
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: No one's ever called a potato a tater.
• 11:44
  Speaker 4: We can start the trend.
• 11:46
  Speaker 1: I don't think we can. I don't think we have
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: that power. We can try. Well, we could try, but
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: it's not going to work.
• 11:49
  Speaker 4: Last week you tried to say that fucking Chris Pratt
• 11:51
  Speaker 4: was a sex fiend.
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: And that didn't take off, did it? I have no power.
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: I didn't even get a fucking cease and desist. I
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: was waiting for one. That's how little I am.
• 12:00
  Speaker 4: I was sitting on the edit button.
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: I was like, do I delete? Do I delete? You
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: could have beeped to save me.
• 12:06
  Speaker 4: Well, I didn't.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: Feel free to beep out next time I say something
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  Speaker 1: like that. Like the next time I talk about *
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: * * * and how she was busy taking a
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  Speaker 1: donkey * * * * right up the * *
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  Speaker 1: * * while her sister * * * * was
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  Speaker 1: filming and * * * * it into a *
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  Speaker 1: * * *. Next time I say anything like that,
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: please beep it out. Oh my.
• 12:26
  Speaker 4: We'll get back to the episode anyway. So the Simpsons,
• 12:29
  Speaker 4: they're stuck in a vacuum. They never get older. What
• 12:31
  Speaker 4: I like about this is you kind of see, besides
• 12:33
  Speaker 4: the episodes where they time jump into the future, it's
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: set in real time, present time in the Simpsons universe.
• 12:39
  Speaker 4: But how Bart would behave when he was a teenager,
• 12:41
  Speaker 4: this is something that teenagers do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, definitely.
• 12:43
  Speaker 4: We would never ever get this opportunity again.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's something that I think, again, is relatable in
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: that you... I don't know how many, but I know...
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: There would be enough people that everyone would probably know
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: someone that has taken a car for a drive before
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: they had their license.
• 12:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: I put my hand up.
• 13:00
  Speaker 4: I did it once.
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: Not far. I went about six kilometers across town, mounted
• 13:05
  Speaker 1: a curb, popped a tire in front of a police station. You? Yeah.
• 13:08
  Speaker 4: I went, oh, dear.
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: I need to get this bad boy back into the garage.
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: My wife is going to kill me. Shout out to my, oh, God,
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: I can't remember his name. Had a very helpful neighbor
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: help me change the tire. Whose tire was it? It
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: was my car.
• 13:22
  Speaker 4: Oh, it was your car.
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't steal the car or anything. I just
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: didn't have a licence. I was on my learners, so
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: that's why I had the car and I ducked around
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: to pick someone else up who couldn't, you know. But
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: of all the places... You're such a criminal. Of all
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: the places to mount the curb, in front of the
• 13:36
  Speaker 1: police station was not the best one.
• 13:37
  Speaker 4: I think you've explained each week for the last, say,
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: two months, of you breaking the law at least once
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: per episode.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: A lot of statute of limitations stuff is starting to
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: fall by the wayside, so I can start to uncover
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: some truths.
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: Do you think it was sort of disappointing that Bart
• 13:50
  Speaker 4: didn't learn his lesson? in this episode? Because Lisa just
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: saved the day for him, Lisa and Homer, and by
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: the end of it, he felt like he'd gotten away
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: with it without having to suffer the consequences?
• 13:59
  Speaker 1: No, I think he did learn his lesson, to be fair.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: As much as he didn't cop punishment for it, there
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: was an unspoken acknowledgement of the fact that he had
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: only got there through the help of Lisa. And even
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: if he didn't know it, I reckon there might have
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: been some small degree of knowing Homer was involved. Because
• 14:21
  Speaker 1: when that package rocked up at the power plant, surely
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: you're going to put two and two together. At least
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: I would, even if there's not, I would prefer to
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: think of it that way. It would be kind of
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: cool that he's there, he's telling that story just for Marge.
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: Even though Homer is furious in that moment, the look
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: on his face at the dinner table is hilarious. But yeah,
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: I think there's enough there that Bart knows, I fucked
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: that up and thank God for Lisa or I'd be
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: still stuck in Tennessee.
• 14:49
  Speaker 4: Yep, yep, yep. Now, can you explain to me, why
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: was Nelson hanging out with Milhouse and Bart? Because obviously
• 14:55
  Speaker 4: it helps the story. Any other reason?
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: Let's assume they both happened to be at the Quickie
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: Mart at the same time. So the first time they
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: all come together, Bart's got his fake ID. So it's
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: not beyond reason that on Spring Bake.
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: He overhears Milhouse talking about it?
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: Well, they've just both gone to buy a squishy or something,
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: and Bart's gone, hey, come check this out. That could
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: very easily have been what led to that scene.
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: That could. Now, explain my favourite moment. What was your
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: favourite moment from this episode?
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: It's one of those ones where I'm torn between two.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Don't say the back to Winnipeg. No, no, no. I
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: really liked... The one that made me laugh out loud
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: the most, because I was really not expecting it, was
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: the hitchhiker's line.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: At the bed?
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that... Well, I don't think I was fully rehabilitated,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: but I guess they just needed the bed.
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: Do you know, I never could understand what he was saying.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: I had to actually, I still couldn't understand it. I
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: had to actually frinky-ack it. Oh, okay. Great line.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: It's really funny. And great line reading. It's very well delivered.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: And if not that, it's Homer putting on the helmet
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: to scream in anger.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: And I reckon, if you listen to it, the last
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: two things he says is, fucking ass.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right. Okay. Possible.
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: Fucking ass. It sounds like fucking ass. I'm telling you,
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: that's got to be it. And obviously, Dan Castaneda would
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: have sworn his head off and he'd just muffled it.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: That'd be a good game.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Try and guess how many swears Castellanada said in that
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: one scene. Yeah, I'd have to go back through and listen. Yeah,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: get some of Grissom's headphones and play it backwards. Because
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: they exist. Gus Grissom has his own headphones where you
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: can forensically listen to audio. Yes.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: Now, we posted in the Four Finger Discount exclusive Patreon group.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: We did.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: We asked for new names.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: And we had a lot come through.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Too many.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: Do you have one?
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm. Yeah, National Lampoon's Illegitimate Vacation.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: I like it.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: I've got Wiggin' Out of Springfield. See, I knew wigs
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: were going to be in there. I'm not saying that
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: it's a cheap and obvious choice, but... It's not cheap
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: and obvious. Oh, I tried to avoid it. Joseph O'Hara,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Knoxville Nights, The Ballad of Barty Bobby is not too
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: bad of a suggestion. Sally Haywood has got a few
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: likes with Journey to the Centre of the Sun's Fear.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: That's pretty great. Joel Simpson simply quoted an episode. Bart
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: ran out of car with a funny driver's license and
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: drove Milhouse Martin and Nelson a week out to a
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: week out in Knoxville. And this is really difficult to
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: read because it goes over several lines and it's all
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: one word. And got their car crushed and they're out
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: of money and they can't get home and Bart's working
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: as a courier and just came back from Hong Kong.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: Joel Simpson, by the way, the man who drew our
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: cover photo.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Oh, really? Yes. Oh, thank you, Joel.
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: The man who designed your new Photolab Geelong logo.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Yes. I appreciated all of that work. Thank you for
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: not making the Photolab Geelong Labrador look smug.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Getting wiggy with it.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: David Hamish Abbott-Smith had that one.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Jake Taylor, I don't mind. Around the World's Fair in
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: 80 Days.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Sam Fairbanks, Grandma Rodeo Active.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can accept that. And that'll do it with
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: the new names. But thank you for all of the submissions.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: We're not going to... I mean, we can't read them
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: all out because I don't want this to be a
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: 45-minute podcast of alternate names.
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: But.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: they all, like, it's so much better when we get
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: that many coming through. If you want to be involved
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: in that kind of stuff, $ 2 plus patron. So if
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: you do patreon.com slash four-finger discount. Now, Mitch, trivia, what
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: do you got for me this week? I have got
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: three questions for you, Dando.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: I'll start, thanks. I have much more than three.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Well, okay. I think you need to stop that, but
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: that's fine.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: I have five.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: You keep trying to show me up. I feel like
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: three is a wholesome number. So is five.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Five is my favorite number. Okay. Don't take it away
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: from me.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Well, you can keep doing five. I'll keep doing three.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: But ten trivia questions in total is a bit much.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: What is Bart's birthday according to the ID?
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Ah, I didn't see it. Okay.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: It was February 11th, 1970.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Okay. Now, I should point out that I lost my
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: notes for this episode, so I've had to re-watch it hastily.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: Oh. You lost your notes? I'm wondering why you didn't
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: have anything in front of you. Yeah.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: No, I'm free-balling. Is that what they call it? Free-basing. Freestyling.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Whatever.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: With the rocker microphone. Anyway, sorry. This is what happens
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: when I don't have notes. Bombfunk MC gets in my head.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: You just become all Jimmy Fallon without a teleprompter. I
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: can't think properly. No, I will never be as bad
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: as Jimmy Fallon without a teleprompter. Anyway, the point is,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: so I couldn't go back and freeze frame everything because
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I had to rush through. I've just realized something.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: So this episode would have been created in, this aired
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: in 96, it would have been created in 95, aired
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: in March 96. Yes. They say Bart was 25 years old.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: 25 years old.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: When this episode aired, according to the ID, he would
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: have been 26.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Oh dear. Yeah.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Oh, my.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Well, this plot's just fallen in a big hole, hasn't it?
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: I don't want to do the podcast anymore. Shit episode.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: What dates were spring break? Oh, don't know. It was, well,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: at the very least, when it was written. See, what
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: concerns me about this is in the calendar, there were
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: then three more days that were crossed off but not
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: written on there. Okay.
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: So.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: I do like that they had spring break written across
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: the whole week.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say, I'm going to include the cross-off bit.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: It was the 4th to the 23rd of April. Okay.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: I knew it was April. I didn't know the dates.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: It was the 3rd one.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Technically, the 4th was a Sunday. So, I guess you
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: would say it was the 5th?
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: From the 4th to the... I thought, yeah, spring break
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: written across one line.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, hang on.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: 15th.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Sorry, 15th. It's written across one line, but then there are,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: as I said, there are hash marks. Yep. Oh, no.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: You know what they've done? What have you done?
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Okay. So... Technical dates of spring break. Oh, this calendar's
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: all over the place.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: This whole trivia's all over the place.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Is the 15th through to the 19th, because the 20th
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: is a Saturday. Have a look at this calendar. They
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: have gone to the effort of putting in the split
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: boxes in the bottom, so you could have 27th, 28th, 29th,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and 30th. That's an amazing level of attention to detail
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: that I hadn't even noticed until I went back to
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: double-check that answer.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: That's a Futurama level of attention. Attention to detail.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Well, look, they're not solving maths quiz. They're drawing calendars.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: That is true. Next question from me. What's the slogan
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: on the Tennessee billboard, the welcome billboard?
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Tennessean is tenable even.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: That is correct.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Which I was a big fan of. That's like, you know,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: my favorite pun. You know, I can't think of a
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: country one off the top of my head, but Reese
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: with a spoon, Reese without a spoon. Daniel Radcliffe, Daniel Normalcliffe.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: Normalcliffe, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: My second question, what area of the Cracker Factory is where, like,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: what was the name of the room where the Crackers
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: were salted? I don't know, but I know there was
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: a Husky driving on there, or riding, running around in there.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: What was it, Cracker's Ho?
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: It was, believe it or not, Dando, the salting room.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: The salting room, okay.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: What is the name of the store that the boys
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: take Milhouse's glasses to and he smashes all the bottles?
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Good pun.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Good pun. Porn Again Christians.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: That would have been good. This one's Hawksville, Tennessee.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Is that a pun?
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Because you're hawking stuff.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Knoxville, Tennessee.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, Knoxville. Thank you.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Knoxville, Knoxville.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: My final question is what brand slash model, depending on
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: how you want to take it, was the license printing machine?
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: It was Minit License.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Minit License.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: M-I-N-I-T.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: What's the name of the equipment that Homer has to
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: reorder because he has his jingle over it?
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: It was T-457? 437? 437. Oh my God, you robbery
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: without a T-457. I mean, my God.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Safety command console is what it is. And finally for me,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: where did Martin go on a shopping spree?
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Where did... Wii World.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Wii World, yes.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Yes. Correct. Not where he bought the Al Gore-Dolph. Hello,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: you are hearing me talk.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Now, Big Roddy's Rip and Rip Shake. Let's see if
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: you can say that, Mitch. One, two, three.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Now, Big Robby's... God damn it.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: You just can't get it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: This is starting to become too much of a joke.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I need a cue card. Now, Big Roddy's Rip and Rig. Fuck.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: You're getting that wrong.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Big Roddy's.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: See, Mitch, I don't know whether Mitch deliberately made it
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: up wrong the first time, but he fucked it up
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: by accident that time.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Big Roddy's... Is that not what it's called? No.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: Sorry, that must be... You can't do... You can't say that.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: There are sponsors.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Is that the side business that they were running? Let's
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: move along. It's the Gold Coast. Who knows what they're... Well,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: it's not even that. It's Brisbane. That's the one that
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: they have on the Gold Coast. Big Roddy's Rip and
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Rib Shack.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: You got it. You got it. They are big supporters
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: of the show and big supporters of The Simpsons. I
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: love The Simpsons. Simpsons references throughout the whole store. And Henry,
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: our man from Big Roddy's Ribs, he shared my parents
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: to a round of drinks that are up there this
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: weekend in Brisbane.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much for that, Henry.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Henry.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, I had no bearing on these, but thanks anyway.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Hit the bigroddysribs.com to check out their menu. It is delicious,
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: delicious food.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Mention, code word, it's a secret for 10% off, but...
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: You know, if not even that, just say, I listen
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: to the show.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: We mentioned the hungry horn last week, by the way.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Guess what? You get to blow a horn if you
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: eat it all.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: You do get to blow a horn. Is that not
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: what I suggested?
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Like that I need to be thinking that happened?
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: It's already there.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: It's already there? Yes. That's so great.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Can you do the horn sound again? Because it
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: came through great last week.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Is that about right? Yeah. I would pay just to
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: see you do that. Just a big fog horn. It
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: would be amazing. Can I just pay the price of
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the meal just so I can blow the horn? And
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: it'd actually be like the way it would happen in.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: In the Simpsons world, I've just finished, I blow the horn.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: And then it cuts to the captain off the coast going,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: we're near the cliffs.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: Turn to the left.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: And then just bang, into an iceberg.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: Iceberg, why not? Off the coast of Brisbane. So head
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: to bigrunniesrooms.com to check out their menu. So the original
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: air date was March 31st, 1996. The couch gag was
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: the Simpsons are set like bowling pins. One of the
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: more memorable couch gags for me. This episode for me,
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: reminds me, I feel this must have been aired quite
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: a few times on like Super Simpsons weekends and things
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: like that because it always reminds me of watching it
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: on a Saturday morning. It must have aired time and
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: time again.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I suppose, yeah.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Maybe this is the era of The Simpsons.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it was this era of The Simpsons
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: was those marathons tended to focus on the same five
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: seasons over and over again. And then every now and
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: then there'd be a smattering of something from earlier, but
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: it was mostly, you know, four to eight was what
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: you would get. And then a little bit later, a
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: little bit earlier, but they were, yeah, They were the
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: wheelhouse of what they were going to show on a Saturday.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: I can actually distinctly remember my dad laughing his head
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: off at Homer cursing in the suit. Yeah, right. I
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: can visualize it. It's just one of those moments I
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: can remember.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Clean off. Yeah. I can visualize it falling to the floor.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: It was a sad, awful day for the family. Your
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: poor mum comes in, sees that you've apparently killed your dad.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: It's that show again on TV. I knew I shouldn't
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: have let him watch again. Why did I do it?
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: You fooled me! So, the episode kicks off with Skinner
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: planning his spring break holiday. I love that he's doing
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: it during work time.
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: It's like the only time Springer has... Springer. Jerry Springer. Springer...
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Has Springer ever been on the show? Yeah, on the show.
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it happened later. Yep, or nine.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Anyway, it's the only time that Skinner has ever properly
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: abandoned his post. But he still comes up with a
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: reason to an extent. It's not like, He doesn't just
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: send everyone home early. He still gives them the excursion
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: to go on.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: Did these things actually happen? I couldn't remember.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently it did.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: In America, but I can't remember ever doing one, going
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: to my parents. I remember going to my dad's work,
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: but not for school.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: No. I mean, the only times I ever went to
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: dad's work when I was a kid was if I
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: was sick. And, you know, two working parents. You didn't
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: go home when you were a kid. I would sit
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: in the office at, you know, at dad's place of business.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: And Solitaire, mate. Free sale. MS-DOS. I didn't have Solitaire
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: back then. If I was lucky, my grandfather had a
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: DOS-based golf game. If I ever got to go to
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: the dry cleaners when I was, you know, unwell, that
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: was what I... And Aldo's Adventures.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: I don't remember that.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Aldo was an... Is this on a Macintosh or...? Oh, shit.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even be able to tell you. I think
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: it was PC. But Aldo was like this little not
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Mario character in a sort of... He just wasn't super...
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: He was just Mario. It wasn't even side-scrolling, but it
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: was platform adventure. You had to work your way up
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the screen.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Kind of like Donkey Kong? Donkey Kong was down.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Don't you dare. Don't you dare say it has any
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: similarities to Donkey Kong. The good people at Aldo's Adventures
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: will not have it.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: The game I remember playing a lot as a kid
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: was Where in the World Has Come San Diego on
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: the Macintosh.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: On the Mac. That was always in school on the computer.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Jack and the Beanstalk was another big one. Yeah, and
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: that 3D tank game.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what about the one where it was a skier?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah. Um, and like the bottom wall snowman
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: would always eat you and you couldn't get away from
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: him no matter how good you were. Yeah. That was
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: just randomly generated to say, it's time for you to stop.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: So getting back, uh, Skinner, what's he doing? He's organizing
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: a trip to Hong Kong.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah. For whatever reason.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Bizarre.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Um, you, you wouldn't have thought, why.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Would you want to go back to that place of
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: the world after Vietnam?
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: I was going to say, you wouldn't have thought like
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: a man who suffers from post-traumatic stress.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: Would head back to Asia, but maybe he just wants
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: authentic sushi.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah. Someone that can get the spices right.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: Yes. What was it?
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Stew? It was a stew. Yes.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Um, but they've got all the times wrong. Now this,
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: actually this whole episode, it's kind of dated, but that's
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: the charm of it for me. Or do you reckon
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: that's dated? That joke? No, no, no, no, no. What's
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: coming up. So the, the plane tickets.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I mean. That happens all the time,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: but it.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Wouldn't be $ 7, 000 now.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: No, but the joke still stands. I had this happen
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: with Jetstar. Um, Sorry, beep that. I've had this happen where, yeah,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: you try to make a last-minute booking. A few years back,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: I was in Bali, wanted to bring a flight forward
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: because it was a three-week holiday, and after two and
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: a half weeks, I was like, I've had enough of this,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: and there was a cricket semifinal to go and dominate in.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: So I tried to bring a flight forward, and it
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: cost me more than what the original return price was
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: to book one flight back because I was changing the bookings.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: So $ 7, 000 is an exaggeration, obviously, to make the joke work.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: But that budget airline... GM Chrysler. GM Chrysler is a
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: very good.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: Exclamation.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: But yeah, budget airlines screw you over all the time
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: for making the slightest change. Jetstar, sorry, another one with Jetstar. Like, oh,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: you booked your flight, that's fine. Oh, you want to
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: add luggage to that flight? Sucker, it's going to cost you....
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: Well, when I say dated, I mean the fact that
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: they're reading books and roadmaps when they're driving around. These days,
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: the kids would just pull out their Google Maps. and
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: Bart would just be able to text someone, find his
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: way back, order an Uber, and have a pay when
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: he arrived.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, technology has sucked the life out of storytelling a
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: little bit in that regard. Because there's always a convenient
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: answer to any problem now.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: But the thing about this, it reminds me of going
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: on road trips with your friends or with my parents
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: and getting lost. And if you had an outdated mailways,
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: you're fucked. Yeah.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Or if it was, you know, in the case of
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: my father, any trip to the MCG as a boy.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: I can see your dad having some serious road rage
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: as well.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, mate, it was terrifying. You didn't make a noise.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: You did not want to speak in the car.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: You didn't want to exist. Martin Malloy might be on
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: in the background, but don't you dare laugh. My earliest
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: memory is my dad... calling a guy a fucking dickhead
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: as road rage.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: That's brilliant.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: That's my earliest memory.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Earliest memory in life.
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: On the way to daycare.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: Your earliest memory is that my earliest memory ever is
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: of nearly drowning at the beach. That's a pretty fucked
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: up childhood to look at.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: My dad yelling at you, you're a fucking dickhead whilst
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: you're drowning.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. Can you swim now? I'm a terrible swimmer.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: No, I'm really bad in the water.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: I hate water. Anyway, getting back to the episode. So
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: what is Skinner do to counteract the fact that he
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: doesn't want to have to pay all this money?
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Sends everyone on... The excursion over to, well, it was
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: just visit your parents.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: Go to work with your parents.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: And even the kids are confused.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: What?
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: This isn't a real thing. So then Bart is staying
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: at home. Bart is a genius. It's like the ultimate loophole.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: The problem was he should have read the note, realized
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: that it actually said you can't be a housewife.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: And not show Marge.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Yes. That was where it all went wrong. But I
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: really love, like Bart is living it up on that couch,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: pouring milk straight into the cereal box. Yes. Amazing. I
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: want to try that at least once. Just looking around
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Marge for the TV is also brilliant.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Lisa is very annoyed by this because she doesn't want
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: to have to go to the power plant because she
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: doesn't like the power plant.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: No, of course. She's been campaigning against them for years.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: And Marge is just like, well, there you go.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Bring them down from the inside.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: Now, what I love most about this is Nancy's delivery
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: of Bart's shock when Lisa suggests the DMV. Yeah. It's
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: not so much that it's the animation of just Bart
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: looking at Garth.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: The face.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: And the cereal.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: The cereal says it all.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Falling out of the box. It's like the jaw dropping
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: to the floor, but just the cereal. Or Roger Myers'
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: cigarette bout.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: Yes. Hitting the ashtray. Exactly like that, yeah. So we're
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: at the DMV.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Sorry, also is Lisa's really smug, self-satisfied face at that
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: same moment.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: Just, yeah. She's smart a lot lately, Lisa.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and as she should be. She's smarter than everyone else,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: and that entitles you.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: At the DMV, and Bart is really, really bored. I
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: love that Paddy and Salma brag about some days we
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: don't let the line move at all.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: It's still a problem. Someone that referred to Vic Rhodes
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: as the RTA.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: Made that.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: This is a thing that for 40 years, if not longer,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: for as long as this place in whatever country you're from...
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: The road authorities, like where you have to go. DMV
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: in America, RTA is Road Transit Authority, but VicRoads or
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: wherever it is.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: We get your license.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: If you're going in for your license, you know you're
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: waiting two to three hours. And it's always been that way.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: You see them sitting there just playing with themselves, basically
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: doing nothing. That's exactly what they do. Yes. That's why
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: the counters are so high.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: So then Bart says, well, at least I'm not at
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: the cracker factory like Milhouse, because you would think that
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: would be boring.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: But no, it's like a theme park. Well, for Milhouse
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: it is. I don't know that it would be the
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: most exciting place in the world for me.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: It's got a batpole, man.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: The batpole's pretty awesome, actually. The batpole music is pretty great.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: The thing is, though, it's kind of sad seeing this
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: scene when you know what's coming in the next season
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: with Kirk and the Cracker Factory.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, true. But it's a fun... I like that they
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: kept that occupation. And the fact that they do show
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: you the happiness helps sell how sad his life becomes.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it. But you never actually see Milhouse and
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: his parents having fun together. I think this is one
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: of the only moments. I can't recall any other time.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no. Definitely not. And telling that he's away from
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: his wife when they are having a good time.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: So then we get to the power plant and Lisa
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: is certainly not having a good time at the power plant.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: It's very boring. Not much to do there.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Just watching Homer eat donuts. Donut?
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: No thanks. Do you have any fruit? It says purple
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: stuff inside. Purple is a fruit.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: Purple is a fruit. I forgot it was from this scene. Yeah.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: I thought it was from when he gains the weight.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: But no, it's just not.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, you know something that I
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: really liked in this scene, and this is a great
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: example of why I really enjoy this episode, and it's
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: the fact that the storytelling in the episode.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: The set up for the lights?
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah. The fact that you introduce this map, and it's
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: just a funny joke, and then it gets re- sort
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: of seeded in your head about halfway through the episode,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: and then it gets used in Lisa actually... Like, the
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: map is used to help save the day and help
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: formulate how they're going to get Bart back home.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Like, the obvious joke that I was, in my head,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: thinking it was going to go to is that when he's, like,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: unscrewing one of those lights, it's like.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: Diablo Canyon 2? Why can't it be Diablo Canyon 1?
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought it was going to be a case of, like,
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: just change the light for one that works. And then
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: cut to see Diablo Canyon 2 just up in flames
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: or something like that. But it was very cool, the
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: fact that this thing that gets introduced then comes back.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: It's like proper 360 storytelling that you don't always get
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: in a 22-minute sitcom.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: Just very subtly saying, it's still there.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Just remember, it's there.
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: It's important. You just don't know it yet. Martin's in
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: at the stock market and he almost makes $ 12 million.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, in the futures market. With soy. On soy. Soy! Soy!
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: All of them just joining in. Yep. It's $ 1 million,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: not $ 12, but anyway. Oh, sorry.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Sorry, it's not $ 12.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All but $ 600. You got greedy, Martin. Yes. 15
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: seconds of his life.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: So he only gets the $ 600. Lisa then suggests, what
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: this room needs, it just needs an imagination. Imagination of
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: a child.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So she sees the two suits. I love that
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Homer doesn't know what they are. Yeah.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Now, this is something I think you could relate to
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: as a kid. Because she says, Apollo Homer.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Playing space.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: Playing space, yeah. Is this something you did as a kid?
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: I can imagine you doing it.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Look.
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Putting a helmet on one of your toys?
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Not in my memory, but it would not surprise me
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: if someone had footage of me doing it.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: If you were role-playing Apollo 13 as a kid, and
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: you did it, just say you did it. One-man play.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I'd have done all the characters.
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: Which character would you have played, do you think?
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Gene. Ed Harris. We've never lost an American in space.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: We're sure as hell not going to lose one on
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: my watch.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: So you've got the three teddies on the couch.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm in the other room. Yes.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, mate, that would be fantastic. Do you want to
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: make my kid do that?
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: It's actually, this goes a long way to show what
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: sort of a kid I was. Some of my favourite
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: scenes of Apollo 13 were Gary Sinise in the simulator
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out the correct sequence to power up
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: the LEM and not go over 12 amps. Just him
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: flicking switches and trying to get it right. I fucking
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: ate that shit up.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Were you a fan of Kristoff? In Truman Show? Ed Harris?
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm a fan of Ed Harris in everything. But
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: particularly Ed Harris behind a console.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: I can see you like walking around Geelong and talking
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: like Ed Harris from the Truman.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: Show as if you were God. If I do ever
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: see some like localised rank.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: Like a supermarket and you're talking like Christoph. Oh man,
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: you with the power of talking over a supermarket would
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: be trouble, I reckon.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: I once got Not in trouble because the manager could
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: not peg who had done it. But I spent a
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: night just doing different voice impressions over the PA system.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: Which place of business?
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Woolworths down Drysdale.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: It was a Woolworths?
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: So you worked there?
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was one of my first jobs in high
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: school as a teenager. So the first one was just
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: jumping on the PA and giving it the, Hi, I'm Chucky.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Wanna play? Just in the middle of nothing.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: That's it?
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was all I said. And then later, it was,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: because you know how they'd always be like, you know,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Brendan Dando, service 22 at the front counter, or Brendan,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: could you please come to the storeroom, blah, blah, blah.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: So after, there were like four or five calls in
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: a row for the same person to go to different areas.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: So then I jumped on the PA and went, let's
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: say it's you, it was Brendan Dando, service 22 at
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: the chopper. We need you to get to the chopper now. Go.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: You just go, get your hands off my penis. And
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: then I could just.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Watch the manager just beelining up and down every aisle
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: trying to find who'd done it. Like, was that you?
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: No, mate.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I was in the cool room. I don't know
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: what happened.
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: Good times. We cut back to the DMV and clean this.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: I love the, how did you get any photos taken?
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: Someone then leaves the, now, she has to actually say,
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: I left the license printing machine on to sort of
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: spell it out to the younger audience, I think.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a little bit. Or possibly even to spell it
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: out to Bart. Would Bart necessarily have had that temptation
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: had she not said the line?
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: So they spelled, but she didn't have to spell it. No,
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: she said, I'll turn the machine off. If she's just
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: saying it to Bart, she wouldn't have to say that.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: The licensed printing machine.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, sorry. The actual words, licensed printing machine.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: No, yes.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: In that instance, yes, I agree.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: But then what does Bart do? Takes full advantage. Yeah.
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: Parts his hair.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Dress as himself older.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Yes. Keeps the same name though.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Silly. You don't have to worry about trying to remember
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: a new name. I've always liked that.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: But if you're going to try and use it around Springfield,
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: like Mo knows who Bart Simpson is.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Well, apparently he forgot.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: That just seems a bit silly to me that he
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: used the same name.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Time flies.
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: Okay. Wasn't it just a couple of episodes ago that
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: Moe was engaging with Bart?
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: Was it?
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: When was Uncle Moe's family feedback?
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: It's all blurred. Yes.
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: It's this season, I think. Anyway. So then he goes
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: and brags to his friends. He shows Milhouse and he
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: shows Nelson and they can't believe it. Spells it out
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: that it's a fake ID.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I love the joke is very funny here that Milhouse
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: goes from like, this is completely fake. Yeah, it's a
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: fake ID.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: A fake ID!
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, the words, fake ID. You ever used a
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: fake ID? I think we've all tried once. I've told
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: you that I have, yeah. I think I've actually said
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: it on this podcast a couple of times. Oh, you
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: may have, yeah. I had two different birth certificates to
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: get into movies. That's right, birth certificates. That's extreme. Faked
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: my birth certificates so I could, photocopies of, but you know,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: so I could either get into an MA movie on
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: my own if I needed to, or I could slip
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: in for the under 15 student discount if I needed to.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: I tried once. The guy did a double take. I
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: panicked and ran. Left the fake ID and everything. So
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: I borrowed an ID from my friend from school. Not
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: only did I not get into the club, but he
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: then lost his ID. Chicken shit.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: At the Geelong Hotel, which is no longer there, I
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: don't think. Dollar Pots used to be.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: I think it's now a hospital, which is probably better
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: for the community.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Slightly.
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: So what happens when they get the ID? They go...
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: around it's all montage different places yeah just travelling around
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: Springfield now Naked Lunch explain so Naked Lunch is a
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: movie about heroin addiction homosexuality and features a lot of
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: it features a lot of nudity but not oh it
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: doesn't feature a lot of nudity maybe it's just sex
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: but certainly not what the boys are looking for and
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: then I do love the subtlety of that punchline from
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: Nelson like I can think of at least two wrong
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: two words wrong in that title just basically it lets
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: anyone that knows of the movie that joke works for
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: them there's no lunch at probably not, and certainly not
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: Naked Lunch.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Yes. But anyone that doesn't, I mean, it's a joke
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: about a movie that's going to be too offensive for kids,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: so they're not spelling it out. Or, if you're like
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: me and you hadn't seen Naked Lunch, it forces you
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: to go and then look it up and go, oh,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: that's what that's about. That's very clever.
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: When you were a 10-year-old.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: With your fake ID. If I had access to the
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: internet when I was 10, I probably would.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: Have looked it up. They then go to Moe's and
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: explain what happens there.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: They highlight alcoholism. Then Milhouse screams, Spring break!
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: When are we going to get rowdy? When are we
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: going to do something about this? So that's when Martin
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: enters the equation with his $ 600 and Bart puts the
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: two together and realizes that they can rent a car
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: and this is where shenanigans begin.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Yes. I really like... Well, the only small thing, how
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: does he still have $ 600 after his shopping spree?
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: That's what I was going to say as well.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That bugged me a tiny bit. I really liked
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: when they've rented the car, turn the corner and then
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Flipsy jumps out the window and... It's the way it's
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: barking just has a really good sense of ominous kind
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: of shit's not going to work out here. Even before
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: it gets run over.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: I would have been happy for it to just continue
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: going with the barking and fade out on that. But
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: I mean the, The metaphors rammed home pretty hard when
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: he actually gets crushed by a car.
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: You know Jet lost his shit when I was watching this?
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: At Flipsy? Yeah. Yeah, right.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: That barking sound. Driving mental.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: You have to convince him it wasn't a real dog.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I did.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: It's okay, Jetty. He's not really run over.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: We come back and Bart has prepared an airtight, utterly
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: plausible alibi to tell their parents. Nelson's delivery is amazing.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: I've been selected to represent the school at the National
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: Grammar Rodeo at the Sheraton Hotel in Canada. I've been
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: selected to represent the school at the National Grammar Rodeo
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: at the Sheraton Hotel in Canada.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: I'm going away for a week. See ya!
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: Lisa is very annoyed, though. She's jealous as well.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: Bart's being picked, but she's trying to... She knows something's
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: not right here. Yeah.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: And even at the end... That's not Latin. Yes. Bart's
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: faking it. I've used Dorcas Malorcas a lot to my sister.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: Didn't like it.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: No?
• 43:13
  Speaker 4: Didn't like it at all.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Was she smart enough to realise it wasn't Latin?
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Did she go around and... Do you know my brother
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: speaks Latin? Yeah.
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: She just knows that it was on The Simpsons and
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: Bart was using it as a payout.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Okay. Yes.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: But the thing is, when Bart comes to tell me
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: of Lisa, she goes.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: I knew it.
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: Because why would we have our national grammar radio in
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: another country or whatever she says? Do you think they
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: had her say that for viewers who didn't pick up
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: on it? Yeah.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, of course. There are always going to be
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: people that don't pay attention. It's like that old joke.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: You show a diagram of like a bird sitting on
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: a roof and it's a pointed roof. And you say,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: rooster lays an egg. Which way does the egg roll?
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: And they say, left. You say, it's a rooster. Roosters
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: don't lay eggs.
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: Ha ha.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: You're the dumbest person that ever existed. Or there was
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: a horrible train crash on the border of Victoria and
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: New South Wales. Where did they bury the survivors? So yes,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: it's one of those things that's going to go over
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: the head of a lot of people. And then they
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: point it out. And a lot of people in, there
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: was this collective sound all across America.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: Did it hurt? A little bit.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: It was quite loud. I wish I was filming that.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: I had to commit to get it on mic. There
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: was an instant sense of regret on your face. I
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: knew it was coming.
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: Do you want to explain what you just did?
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I think people can understand that that was the head
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: slapping sound effect. It just took me back to the
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: time I nearly knocked myself out in a pantomime.
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: Really?
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was playing... uh we were playing up like
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: a wake up jeff kind of aspect because little kids
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: pantomime for little kids they're great fun yeah and so
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: it was jack and the beanstalk so it was wake
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: up jack and i felt i did it day one
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: and the kids didn't laugh as much as i would
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: have liked so day two i was like i'm really
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: gonna smash my head on this i was in like
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: a little windowsill so i was like yeah kids love
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: pain i'm really gonna go hard into this windowsill here
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: and then Very nearly gave myself a concussion. Like, I
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: was that dizzy for the next 10 minutes of the play.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Managed to remember my lines, so, you know, I was
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: at least a little bit okay. But, yeah, anything for
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: those little bastards. Did they laugh this time? Yeah, they
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: loved it.
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: I thought it was worth it. Like a wrestler. Like
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: Mickey Rourke from the wrestling. It's all about the.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: It's about the crotch, yeah. They didn't like it as
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: much when I pulled the blade out and slashed my
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: forehead open. That went a bit too far. I learned
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: a valuable lesson that day. There's a fine line between
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: comedy and tragedy.
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: Then the boys are driving away. This is one of
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: the more memorable scenes from the episode with it. Been
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: driving all night, my hands went on the wheels.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: It's a sweet intro.
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: It's awesome visual as well. They had to actually use
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: computer animation for this. One of the first times in
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: The Simpsons since The Treehouse of Horror.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: Of the aerial shot.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: Driving around the car. I just love the shot of
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: their hair blowing in the breeze.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that moment for me as a
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: teen was listening to Boys of Summer. Same thing. Driving
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: in my mate Paul's... Ooh, I want to say Nissen
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Pulsar Hatch. windows down, and Boys of Summer blasting as
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: we were driving up to Noosa. And it never felt
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: more alive in my life.
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: For me, it was Banger Gone by T-Rex. Yeah, okay.
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: Love that song.
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So Milhouse is then adjusting the radio. Another dated thing,
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: because we don't have radios like this anymore, but remember
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: when you used to have to have the dial on
• 46:15
  Speaker 4: the exact spot? Yeah. You knock it a fraction. You'd
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: turn it, think you'd turn the volume up, but you
• 46:19
  Speaker 4: actually turn it into the tuner.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: You're like, God damn it. But then Nelson gets annoyed
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: with Milhouse doing it, smacks him in the back.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Of the head. He sure did.
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: He sure did.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: What a fuss. Best moments. Then we get the cup holder.
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: We've got to stop and get a cup. Barn is
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: then using cruise control.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: Not a wise option.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: I like the way the car is drawn so big
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: that he can walk around on the stairs. Yeah, yeah. Like,
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: it just, again, it underscores the fact that.
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: Is he walking, though?
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Actually walking. He actually walks between Nelson and Martin.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: Or Milton.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: But, like, it's really cool that... Sorry, it's a really
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: nice touch of animation. Where it, again, just shows that
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: these are little boys in a man's world.
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true. Like you said earlier, though, it's just
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: I love how Bart's embraced everything. He's just so easygoing now.
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: He's just up for whatever. He's free.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. They drive through the great cornfields of Canada. Yes.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: We haven't quite got to that scene yet, though. Well,
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: they hit the cornfield. Yes, they hit the cornfield. They
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: all scream.
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: We cut to Homer changing the bulbs where they're reminding you,
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: just pay attention. It's going to pay off later. He
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: then calls home because he wants Lisa to be there
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: because he's bored.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Marge is so happy here, too. Yeah. This is one
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: thing that... You do feel sorry for her in this one.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: I can't remember the last time you called me from work.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: A little, but it helps.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: It's funny, but... The fact.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: That she cares so much really helps set up the
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: comedy later on. Had she not cared, it wouldn't have
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: been very funny.
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: You've still got to feel for her, though. Pathos and
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: a bit of schadenfreude. You're taking joy in the fact
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: that someone else is not. But it's... it's really really
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: well written this whole thing well constructed to pay off
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: not only now but when Bart calls later on.
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah he invites Lisa to work with him because he's
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: bored by himself he.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Needs Lisa there he misses her yeah which is what
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: I again this is one of the things that I
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: really loved it's like Daddy Daughter Day back in Lisa
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: the Greek that Homer even though there it was about
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: ill begotten gains but Homer so often neglects Lisa but
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: is realising here how much he loves his little.
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: Girl this is really a Lisa Homer season Lisa the Vegetarian,
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: Lisa the Oconoclast.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: A lot of episodes. Bart then reveals that they're not
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: going to the grammar radio. So they've just come through
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: the cornfields of Canada. The vast cornfields of Canada.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Which is something that is a very funny sentence coming
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: from Martin because he should know a lot better.
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: You know what I love about this? As a throwback
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: to Nelson not telling his mum the truth. Because he's like,
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: we're going to a grammar radio?
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: He didn't read the note. He didn't know what the
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: L by was. I just love that.
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: So great.
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: Martin then questions, where are we going? Yeah.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: They then pull out the travel books, as you were
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: talking before, and maps and all that sort of thing.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: It's a weird thing here, the Macon, Georgia reference. I
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: don't get why... Not as in I don't get, but
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know the best of my looking couldn't uncover
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: if there was anything else to this.
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: Andy Williams apparently has a connection to Macon, Georgia.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Okay, that'll do then.
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: There's a reason Nelson would want to go to Georgia,
• 49:11
  Speaker 4: because he likes Andy Williams.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Because he likes Andy Williams.
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: I don't know what the connection is, I just read
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: that somewhere.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, alright, that'll work. But they end up deciding from
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Milhouse to go to the county fair.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: The 1982 world's fair.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah um I'm trying to have a quick scan through
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: Frinkiac to see if we know that it's 1982 yet.
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: When in that book yeah it says 1982 on the
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: front it does on the book.
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: In that scene yes it does indeed good because I
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: didn't notice it until the end I went oh I
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: hope they haven't retrofitted that for the reveal but no um.
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: That should be the first hint to older viewers. This
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: isn't going to be what the kids think it is.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 49:43
  Speaker 4: This whole episode sort of highlights that adult life isn't
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: as exciting as kids think it is.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: No, that's very true. Because there's responsibilities and consequences. Freedom
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: is not as exciting as it is.
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: So it's a choice between Disney and Knoxville.
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: So, it's a choice between Disney World and Knoxville.
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: Knoxville!
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: Knoxville!
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: Knoxville!
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: I concur.
• 50:01
  Speaker 4: Homer and Lisa then steal the candy. This is a
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: nice touch.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: It is. Where Smithers comes along, about to get grumpy.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: but then takes the candy. Good work, Simpsons. Apparently, the
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: Jolly Ranchers has something.
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: To do with... It's a gay joke.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, I assumed that, because the word jolly is
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: in it, and it's Smithers. Okay, so what it is,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: it's not... I've gone to our good friends at Urban Dictionary,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: so it's not that it's a gay thing in and
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: of itself, but a Jolly Rancher is a term used
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: for a guy who can stay so hard that girls
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: can blah, blah, blah. Can we get that beep again? Yes. Um... So, basically,
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: I guess the catchphrase for the Jolly Rancher is that
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: it's going to stay hard a long time. It's like
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: a gobstopper type thing. Okay.
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure the writers were going there.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: No, I think they would have been. You reckon?
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: I also like Homer's theory. Isn't it something if it's
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: been in there for over a year, it's free?
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: Or more than a month or something? Yeah.
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: If it's been in there for a year, it's up
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: for grabs.
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: Yes, it's up for grabs.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: Have you been able to get stuff for free out
• 51:02
  Speaker 4: of a vending machine? At Ford, there used to be
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: a vending machine.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Every now and then, you'd get a bonus
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Coke can or something.
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: At the Ford vending machine in the smoking oasis where
• 51:09
  Speaker 4: I used to work, if you picked number 56, the
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: Coke Zero.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: You got a free Falcon. Always.
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: I wish. Always free. It always gives you your money back.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Sweet. I've never been lucky enough to have an ATM
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: go astray. I've heard tales.
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: I've had one eat my card, which is the opposite.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: Well, your card was probably expired. Or you put it
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: in the wrong pin. Or you left it there too long.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: They're one of the three reasons. A little bit of
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: bank facts for you there, guys. Yes. Have some knowledge.
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Homer mentions the night shift. Yeah, and yeah, organizes the
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: slumber party. I like that Homer sort of gets more
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: excited here as he's giggling.
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: So he's got a friend.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It is like he's got a friend, but it's
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: also like he's regressed to being an eight-year-old girl.
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: Yes, that is true, yeah. Road rage.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so we get Winnipeg. Everyone knows Winnipeg.
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: It's brilliant.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: You kids can't keep your heads to yourself. I'm going
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: to turn this car around and there'll be no Cape
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: Canaveral for anybody.
• 52:08
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: Back to Winnipeg.
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: I love Nelson.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: It's just perfect Nelson. Nothing else is said. It's just
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: a short five-second clip. It's a great sound effect.
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: Yes, it is.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: But the threat he gives the kids is exactly what
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: our parents used to give us. Yeah, right. If you
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: don't shut up, you're not getting this. And it's just
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: the look of, okay, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, like
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: you're driving from Victoria to Queensland. You're at Byron Bay.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: If you don't shut up, I'm turning this car around.
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: You believe him.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, 18 hours into a 22-hour trip.
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: He'll do it. He will do it.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: We then get, as I mentioned before, Bart just embracing everything. So,
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: can we stop for ice cream? Yes. Hitchhiker? Yes. Bart,
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: can we stop for ice cream? Yes.
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: Throwback to something that happened like five seconds ago.
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: So good. But I love the other things. Can we
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: weigh that car at the weigh station?
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: Why would you want to do that? Then we get
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: Lisa leaving Marge.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Yep. And Marge is home alone. We don't quite get
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: the Maggie moment here yet, though, do we?
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: No, that comes a bit later. She's just depressed. I
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: wouldn't say depressed. She's just disappointed she's going to be
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: by herself. Then they arrive at Branson, Missouri, which is
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: like Vegas if it was run by Ned Flanders. And
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: so unlike Nelson, but he wants to go to Andy Williams.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, did you say on the Andy Williams venue
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: there's a sign?
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: He's still got it or something?
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: He's still got it from Look magazine, which had gone
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: out of business some 20 years before this episode aired.
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: I did not know that. That's a nice touch. Yeah.
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: Apparently, someone at work was telling me. I didn't have
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: the time to look it up. Lurleen Lumpkin has her
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: own store.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And like Pippin something or other. And there's Alabamania?
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: So it says Alabama, but it's Alabamania? Alabamamania? No, it's
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: just Alabamania.
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: Alabamania.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: I didn't think he was going to do Moon River,
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: but then bam, second encore.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: It's like, you know, when I went to see Bon
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: Jovi a little while ago, and after the main show,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: he hadn't done Living on a Prayer yet. I was like, jeez,
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: I wonder what's coming up next when he's walked off
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: the stage.
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: We went and saw Brian Adams, and he hadn't sung... Oh,
• 54:29
  Speaker 4: I was wondering if he's... Summer of 69? That's Summer
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: of 69, yes. He hadn't sung it yet, right? So
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: the show's over, and you think, all right, well, he's
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: going to do an encore. Lights come on.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Everyone's looking at each other going, he's actually not going
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: to do it. Yeah.
• 54:40
  Speaker 4: Then he walks out on stage and goes, ha ha,
• 54:41
  Speaker 4: I got you.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: Ah, brilliant.
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: People started leaving in disgust. It was so great.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: That's great. Was that at a venue? In Geelong, yeah.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: Was that at Mountaineer State? He waited a good two,
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: three minutes of lights on. That's so funny.
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: It's not happening.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: It's actually not happening.
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: The only reason I came.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: Well done, Brian.
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: Man, it was great. I just sit there with Nicholas.
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: Nicholas is like, should we go? I'm like, he's going
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: to sing it. He's not this silly. Yeah. He knows
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: people have come here for that song. He's a professional.
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: Homer and Lisa are then playing Truth or Dare. Another
• 55:13
  Speaker 4: nice moment.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was.
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: The whole thing with Homer and Lisa is nice.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: First question, who do you love more than getting turned
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: into Dare? Now, I like that Homer has the prank
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: turned back around him.
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: On him.
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's so good.
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: That Mo just confirms the name and then goes nuts
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: at him for it.
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: But I like that that's the thing. First thing that
• 55:32
  Speaker 4: Lisa thinks to tell Homer to do as well.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah. That's like her and Bart's thing. Yeah.
• 55:37
  Speaker 4: That's their naughtiest thing they do.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's invited her in on it. It's very cool. Contrast.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: We also get Lisa's boyfriend. Langdon Algar. Or not boyfriend.
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: Crush.
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Boy that he likes. Crush. Langdon Algar.
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: Boy that he likes.
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: A boy that she likes. It's a boy. Someone likes it.
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: But what I like most about it is Homer's going,
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: I won't tell anyone.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He's very quiet and enjoys puzzles. I like that.
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: That's very Lisa.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Like, later we'll enjoy that.
• 56:03
  Speaker 4: But she almost gets sort of a bit of joy
• 56:05
  Speaker 4: out of telling it. It's like she had to just
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: tell somebody, you know?
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: Contrasted with Marge, who's watching a seminar on hypnotism.
• 56:12
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: And conquering the real estate market. This is where you
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: get the.
• 56:16
  Speaker 4: The Maggie.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: Poking Maggie. Like, again, yeah, you do feel a bit
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: for Marge that she's just gone a bit stir-crazy because
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: her whole life is doting on the family. And when
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: they're off and don't need her, that's pretty much all
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: that she has left. I feel like for a lot
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: of non-working mothers or even only part-time working mothers, like, yeah,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: when your kids leave your house, that's... That's 25 years,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: potentially up to 25 years of how you've identified yourself
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: is gone. Yeah.
• 56:55
  Speaker 4: The only thing is, this is in the middle of
• 56:57
  Speaker 4: the night. Normally, Bart and Lisa will be sleeping anyway.
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: So why does she have to wake me up?
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: No, but an empty house always feels different. I know that,
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: but still, they would normally be asleep anyway. Yeah, I know.
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: But she's had a whole day of them being away.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: She'd be thinking about them. Lisa would be worrying about them.
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: Lisa would be worrying about them.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: And I, no, I buy into it.
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: The boys then arrive at Knoxville, Tennessee to the Wadfer. Uh,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: excuse me. Is this the World's Fair Visitor Center?
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: Used to be.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: Back in 1982. You're 14 years too late.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: But there's another World's Fair coming soon.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: Before Friday? That's the thing, so... They could acknowledge that
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: this was going to air in 96, but they got
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: the age wrong on the ID.
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: Ah, well, little typo.
• 57:49
  Speaker 4: Little typo. It doesn't matter.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: The Sunspear's all dilapidated. Or was the month, though?
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: February.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: I thought about it.
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: The Sunspear's all dilapidated. What's in there? 16,000 boxes of
• 58:02
  Speaker 4: unsold wigs. Now, are you gentlemen going to buy some wigs,
• 58:05
  Speaker 4: or ain't you? And they buy some. Yeah.
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: They've got peer pressure into it. Yeah.
• 58:11
  Speaker 4: One of my other questions is going to be what's
• 58:13
  Speaker 4: the colour of Nelson's afro?
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: Purple.
• 58:16
  Speaker 4: Purple, that is correct. This is the moment where it
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: all falls apart. They realise they've got no money because
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: Martin bought the Al Gore doll. We've got no car,
• 58:21
  Speaker 4: we've got no money and we're stranded. We come back
• 58:24
  Speaker 4: and the boys are trying to think of a plan.
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: They try to hock Milhouse's glasses. We almost get a
• 58:29
  Speaker 4: lot of money for them. Yeah, they must have been
• 58:31
  Speaker 4: made out of solid gold or something. What I would
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: be doing is I'd be going to the next hock
• 58:35
  Speaker 4: store and getting rid of them.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and not break all of the old Coke bottles.
• 58:39
  Speaker 4: Yes, yep, yep, yep. What I like about the next
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: scene where they're trying to get on the train is
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: Nelson's determination to chase after it. They all give up
• 58:45
  Speaker 4: when it speeds off.
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: He keeps going. He keeps going, yeah.
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: He's like, I didn't get this thing.
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: It is very funny though of like a getting from
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: bad to worse.
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: Yes, it is. Lost all their shit now.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: Lost all their luggage now too.
• 58:58
  Speaker 4: They call Lisa now.
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: Well, they call Marge first, but yeah. Again, of course
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: I'll accept. She's like, yeah, collect call from my son.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: Of course. I don't care. I want to talk to him. Oh,
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: you want Lisa? Yes.
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: It's great animation here of, it's just Lisa's reaction. So
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: you know what Bart's saying?
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when she says- Stewardess?
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: And she pulls the phone away.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: You pretend to be a stewardess. And the look on
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: her face. Yeah. Like, you know, Barsch is going, what
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: the fuck's wrong with you? So then we get the,
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: become a courier. Yes. Not a terrier, they're dogs.
• 59:26
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: I like the, well, you don't look 25, but your
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: unlaminated out-of-state driver's license is proof enough for me. Good
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: for me, yes.
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: Delivers human eyes to Hong Kong. This is where Skinner
• 59:35
  Speaker 4: sees him.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Doesn't really go anywhere besides the last gag. Yeah.
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: In my head, for some reason, I thought Skinner did
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: more in this episode.
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: But he doesn't. No, he doesn't really.
• 59:43
  Speaker 4: He's just there.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just eating his dumplings. Yes.
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: Why did he go all the way to Hong Kong
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: just to eat dumplings? He wanted authentic dumplings.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he didn't go there just for the dumplings.
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: He wanted authentic human eyes.
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: He's there, and he ordered dumplings.
• 59:55
  Speaker 4: I don't want to know what those human eyes were for,
• 59:57
  Speaker 4: by the way.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: It looks like a doctor taking them off him, so
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: let's assume... I mean, ironically, it's normally China. They wouldn't
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: be getting the eyes imported from America. They'd just be
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: taking them from there. political prisoners let's be careful I
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: want to get sued by someone.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 4: So then Bart calls Lisa and says can you please
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 4: help I can't get doing this I'm not going all
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: the way to Marlon Brando's island to deliver 500 Big
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 4: Macs so she comes clean with Homer because that's the
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 4: only way she can get Bart out of this she
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 4: has to tell someone she has to get Homer to
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 4: help yep She makes him promise, though, that he won't
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 4: do anything about it. He won't tell Bart that she
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 4: told him.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 5: Bart rented a car with a phony driver's license and
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 5: drove Milhouse, Nelson, and Martin to a wig outlet in Knoxville,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 5: and the car got crushed, and they're out of money,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 5: and they can't get home, and Bart's working as a
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 5: courier and just came back from Hong Kong. Yes, that's
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 5: a real pickle. Would you excuse me for a moment? Oh,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 5: my God!
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 5: I have thought this through. I will send Bart the
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 5: money to fly home. Then I will murder him.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: The look of red on Homer's face before he puts
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: his head in the mask.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 4: The music cue, the shadow.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: It's such an amazing scene.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 4: That is.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: It's really perfection in the way that's done.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 4: But then he gets on with it.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He vents and then he gets on with the job.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: He knows he has to help Bart. Oh, why about
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: the money? And then I'll kill him. Yes.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: And then I will murder him. So he destroys his
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: T-437 and the guy just frantic on the phone. I
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 4: love his reaction. I forgot how funny it was.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 5: Springfield, my computer shows your T-437 is fully operational.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: Oh, God, no.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, this can't be happening. You're operating that on T-437, Springfield? Oh,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: sweet mother of mercy, I mean....
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: He has it sent for Langdon Olga, which is a nice,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: nice throwback.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who Lisa doesn't like anymore.
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: Because he said that he'd forgotten already.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: But it proves that he did remember. He just didn't
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 4: tell anyone.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: Well, Lisa had actually mentioned it only seconds earlier. She
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: says Langdon, like, you know.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: She says, don't use your real name because then Bart
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: will know that I told him. Prior to that. I
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: haven't told a soul about you and your boyfriend. She
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: says Langdon Olga. I don't like him anymore.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 4: That's true, yeah.
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: It's still... It's a nice... Not even in joke. It's
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: just a nice shared secret between Homer and Lisa.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 4: One of a couple of secrets they will share in
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 4: this episode. Bart and the boys are there on a
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: courier all the way on some sort of plane. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: Keep it down. They'll know you're in there.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: Empty cargo hold.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: Bart is there lying over dinner, telling lies over dinner,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 4: I should say. And Marge believes him. So it goes
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 4: from angry face, angry face to music cue, very happy.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 4: She believes him.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 1: Which is another nice moment of Homer. Like he can't,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: he doesn't want to ruin Marge's belief either. It's not
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: just about, I don't want to ruin Lisa's secret. It's also,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: I don't want to, I just don't want to bring
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: it down for everyone. So I've got to swallow my rage.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: I don't want the hassle. Yeah. Then we get the
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: three phone calls in bed.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 4: One of the less memorable that I've forgotten about it,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: but funny endings to this episode.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: Hello?
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: Oh, hello, Principal Skinner. No, Bart has never been to
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: Hong Kong.
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 5: Good night. Hello?
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 2: Tennessee State Police? No, my son's car was not crushed
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: in Knoxville. I don't know where to begin telling you
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: what's wrong with that.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: Hello?
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: No, Bart is not available tomorrow to deliver a human
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: kidney to Amsterdam.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: Homer, are you laughing at me?
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: It's just a fun story, just fun overall.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: It is. Plus it has the nice touch of Homer
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: and Lisa as well. Yeah. It's got everything you want
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: in a Simpsons episode. It is. Apart from the fact
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: that some of the jokes, like a lot of the
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: comedy that I loved came from the story and from character,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: some of the jokes that were just one-liners put in
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: there didn't hit quite as hard. That's probably the only
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: thing that stops it from being a perfect episode for me. Yeah.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: As far as plot goes, it's some of the best
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: story writing of any episode that they've ever done. And
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: managing to feel like you're spending enough time with all
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: of the characters, develop that relationship between Homer and Lisa
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: a little bit more, even Lisa from Bart to an extent.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: It's just, and the character examination of who Marge is,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: it's done really, really brilliantly.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: What did we learn, Palmer? What did you learn from
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: the episode, Mitch?
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: I learned that the wig business was not as popular
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: as some might have thought it was going to be
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: back in 1982.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: That is true. I've learned that if you want to
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 4: hear Andy Williams sing Moon River, wait for the encore.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:04:41
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• 1:04:43
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• 1:04:46
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• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: DeVille! DeVille is here! Mailbag time. We're going to... How
• 1:05:46
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• 1:05:47
  Speaker 4: About an hour and ten.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: Hour and ten. We will.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: Let's do a couple of questions.
• 1:05:51
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• 1:05:53
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• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: This comes in from Virgin, apparently. Hello. Richard? No, the
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: guy's name is Simon, but it's like in the mailbox,
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: you know, sender.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 4: Maybe it's connected to Virgin Wi-Fi?
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: The sender comes from Virgin.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: Virgin Wi-Fi.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: Well, either that or it's a confession to the world.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 5: Hello.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: What is your favorite appearance of Simpsons regular voice actor
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: in a film? To make it easier, you can have
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: pre- and post-Simpsons airing. So for his, Harry Shearer as
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: Derek Smalls in This Is Spinal Tap and Hank Azaria
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 1: in Heat as Ellen Marciano.
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  Speaker 4: I was going to say Hank in Heat or Dan.
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  Speaker 1: Great ass!
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  Speaker 4: Or Dan in.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how Hank can be your favourite because
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  Speaker 1: it's not anything that Hank does. It's what Elle does
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  Speaker 1: around him that people like.
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  Speaker 4: In that movie. But if Hank's not in there, Elle
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  Speaker 4: doesn't give us that.
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  Speaker 1: True.
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  Speaker 4: Dan in Space Jam. Barkley's killing us!
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  Speaker 1: Barkley's killing us. I would say that Hank in The Birdcage.
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  Speaker 1: He's hilarious in The Birdcage.
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  Speaker 4: Hank is also very good in Friends, which is in
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  Speaker 4: a movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's not a film. He's very funny in Along
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  Speaker 1: Came Polly. He's one of the only few funny things.
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  Speaker 1: That's got Jennifer Aniston in it too. Yeah, it's a
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: bad movie, but he is very good as a scuba
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  Speaker 1: diving instructor that steals his wife. Comparing himself to it,
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  Speaker 1: like how he can't help it. He's like, It's like hippopotamus.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't know how to be anything other than a hippo.
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  Speaker 1: You ask him why he's a hippopotamus, he does not
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  Speaker 1: know why. He just is. Philip Seymour Hoffman's also good
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  Speaker 1: in it, but that's beside the point. And, oh, Yali
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: Smith is in Maximum Overdrive as well.
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  Speaker 4: Is she really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. With Stephen King as a director who was, by
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: his own admission, quote, coked out of his mind. Possibly
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: need to beep that as well.
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  Speaker 4: Harry Shearer in Wayne's World 2?
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: I believe he's in Wayne's World 2? Yeah, more than likely.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: Harry Shearer in The Right Stuff is very, very good.
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: Is it Joe Mantegna that's in Airheads or was it Harry?
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: I think it's Joe, actually. Might be Joe.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. He's a regular.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's regular enough. Phil Hartman in anything. But if
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: I was going to be more specific, Phil Hartman's cameo
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: in So I Married an Axe Murderer.
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  Speaker 4: Nice little tease for our top 10 Phil Hartman appearances.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 4: It's not just Simpsons related. We're going to be doing
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 4: that for you patrons out there. Yeah, it's just celebrating
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 4: the best of Phil, basically.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: The best of Phil, basically, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Which is going to be coming up on the Four
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  Speaker 4: Finger Discount Patreon page. Now, Mitch, what final question have
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 4: you got for us this week? Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So this comes from Laura Elliott, who's been listening
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  Speaker 1: for the past six months, binging on the back episodes
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  Speaker 1: from season one. Thanks, Laura. For her question, we often
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: discuss the dumbing down of Homer and how his antics
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: get goofier and more and more convenient. Was there a
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  Speaker 1: specific episode, scene, or moment where you thought, eh, that's
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: too convenient, this is just stupid and no longer funny?
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: For her, it was the episode Screaming Yellow Honkers, where
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: Marge gets the canyon arrow and develops road rage. Homer
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: gets picked up by a rhino and is carried through
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  Speaker 1: Springfield by his belt. I have no idea why, but
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  Speaker 1: when I first saw that scene as a teen, it
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: just grated on me. And now being in my mid-30s,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: my distaste for the scene is still alive and well.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: I didn't like when Homer got his head caught in
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: the drawbridge.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: I thought it was a bit stupid.
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  Speaker 4: And there's one episode where he gets the back of
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 4: his head ripped off and he can see his brain pumping.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, dear.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: Something claws the back of his head. Yeah.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 4: And he can see his brain.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: And I'm like... That's not a Treehouse of Horror joke,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: is it?
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 4: It's in a normal episode. I was like, oh, the
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 4: Simpsons have jumped the shark a bit here. Yeah.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, what would be a moment for me? Like, it
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: is a fine line. Like, Homer not knowing that pork,
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: ham and bacon all come from the same animal is very,
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: very funny.
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 4: That's a Homer.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like I really like that.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 4: There's the gif, by the way, of Homer's brain. Yeah,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 4: it's just silly.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: For me, it's hard for me to pinpoint an exact moment.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: It's more just the general mood where the point where
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: Homer goes from not being able to, I tell you what,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: Max Power walking into a cactus or something along those lines.
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  Speaker 4: Like, Which was almost a parody in itself of that style.
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 4: To an extent.
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: But yeah, when Homer goes from... There's a Homer here
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: in this episode who is smart enough to be able
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: to call another power plant and scam the guy to
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: send him the machine that he needs to get Bart home. Now,
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: contrasted with the stupidity and recklessness to destroy that very
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: machine that's keeping the plant safe. So that, for me,
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: I like the fact that he can operate on one
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: level and function on one level, but then not on another.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: That as opposed to just like.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 4: No idea of consequence.
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: Painfully stupid Homer that can't even get a sentence out
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  Speaker 1: is more of an annoyance for me. I'll try to
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: think of a more specific episode or example in the future,
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: but it's really just been a general feel that it
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 1: lost its charm. It seemed to be that they were
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: enjoying too much the stupid aspect of Homer and forgetting
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: to make it a rounded stupidity. It was just like
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: that he's a borderline simpleton. For me, it always struck
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: me as writers who were fans of the show growing
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: up and you get too many of them in the
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 1: same room that always laughed at the stupid Homer moments
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: and not enough of them that laughed at the creative
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: Homer moments. So it's more about, well, our take on
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 1: Homer is that he's really, really stupid.
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 4: No filter.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: That's all they give him to do. No one had
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: to filter out the silliness. So it was more just
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 1: a general feeling around season 11, 12, thereabouts. Fair enough.
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 4: Alrighty, thanks for listening to our review of Bart on
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 4: the Road. Now, next week, Mitch, is 22 short films
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 4: about Springfield. Our patrons will be well aware that we
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 4: have already done our review of this and it's available
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: right now on the Patreon page. So, we won't be
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 4: recording anything new for next week.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: Perhaps a new intro. We might just touch base quickly
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: for a little phone or interview.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 4: In case people don't listen to this one and are
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 4: a bit confused.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: Yep. But, outside of that, that means a week off
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 1: for you, Dando, and I'm off to a golf trip
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: this weekend.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 4: You're going to win?
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: Feeling good.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 4: Have you ever won the golf trip?
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 5: No.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: No? I finished dead last last year. Dead last? Oh my.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: My handicap had come in 10 shots from the year before.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: So it was a, I was in, I'd broken new waters.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 4: What are you paying?
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: $ 1. 90? Oh.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 4: If there was actual odds on you to win.
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 1: If there was odds at me. So I would have,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: Sean would probably be about five to one. Damien would
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: be at about six. You're just name dropping now so
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: you can just. They're both previous winners. Wardy would be
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: about eight. I'd have myself at 13, 14. So there's
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: only four of you. No, there's a bunch of others. Okay.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to name everybody.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 4: You're a top four contender?
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: Yes. Okay.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 4: Thanks for listening, guys. Hope you enjoy next week's review,
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 4: which we've already done. Mitch, any final words for the listeners?
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: Fucking ass.