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Can't you morons do anything right? Four Finger Discount Dude, Welcome to
fourth Finger Discount of the podcast where us morons never get anything right. This
week we're going back all the way to an episode four f zero seven.
It is Hurricane that Nettie, I am Dando and I am Guy enjoying a
Jerry Jerry camp full of squishy That would be delicious. It's also delicious our
guest that we have on today's show. Here's the man who chose this episode
episode specifically because he has a really really amazing piece of Simizons memorabilia. In
fact, he has probably, I say it's the best Simpson's collection ever.
He called it the worst. It's mister Michael waving. How you're doing good?
Sir? Oh, I'm good? Thanks a lot for having me.
Yeah, so you chose Hurricane Neddie to art to review on the show here
today, tell us why why I specifically did you choose this episode? What
do you have in your possession that all our Simptons fans are gonna be very
jealous of. Well. Apart from being just an absolute banger of an episode
in its own right, the centerpiece of my collection is I've actually got two
animation cells from the Flanders mental breakdown scene as well as a like a storyboard
page from that as well. It's like you can see all the little pencil
eraser marks and stage directions and stuff, and those are both signed by David
Silverman. So one of the directors, which yeah, David Silman is just
like one of He's like he's one of the bosses of the Simptons man like,
he's like he's been there from the beginning. I think he like didn't
he like draw like the opening intro? Yeah, something to do with the
opening intro. Basically, he's been there from the beginning of the Favorites.
He's the biggest of whigs. Yeah, yeah, the og of ogs.
So how did you how did you come into possession with that? Was that
just like at an auction? Did you bite off another fan? How did
that happen? Um? There was a there was a gallery in Armadale here
called silver k They do a lot about used to see the adulely late at
night in that old guy that runs the place. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Colin, he was great. Yeah, he's the one who helps me
with it. Oh yeah, he seems like the nicest guy. Yeah,
he really knows his stuff. And they often do like comic book stuff,
Disney art, like classic Looney Tunes, all sorts of animation, and they've
had a few Simpsons exhibitions there. So I went along to one once and
yeah, I picked up a couple of bits. Then what did it cost
you? If you don't want us ask him? The cell on its own
was eight hundred, and the selling storyboard was I think fourteen hundred. So
okay, so you dropped wow, we Well, one of them was actually
a gift. I bought the gift. Yeah, I bought the cell store
board combo myself and my partner at the time actually brought me the cell separately.
So I'm assuming she then file for bankruptcy. And that's where no one
gonna get I mean, I was just gonna say that, because you've got
a lovely lady in your life right now, the amount of Simpsons stuff that
you got in your place, you're very lucky that she puts up with it.
Obviously she's a Simpsons fan. As well. But I mean, I've
got my lovely wife Nicoli here, and guy's got his lovely Louise. I
am starting to do a bit of a clean out because obviously got two small
kids running around as well. But I'd love to have what you have in
your house, but I just don't think my wife would allow it. It's
tough. Cool. Thankfully the collection was here first, so I think that's
part of it. But no, it helps that she's a massive fan herself.
Okay, cool? Or did she become one after meeting you? Like?
Was she a fan and then she had becomes a hat to become a
super fan after meeting you just seeped in the minute you walk in the house.
It's like I got no choice. No, there was definitely. Yeah.
She gets all the quotes, she quotes back. She's better than me
at remembering some of this stuff, which is which is great. This is
the difference. Nicola. Tonight, we'll get we're getting dinner ready and she's
like, which one are you doing tonight? I said Hurricane Nettie, where
Flanner's house falls down during the hurricane, and she's like, yeah, I
think I've seen that one. I was like, well, man, my
wife's barely sending into Simpton's episodes, but gotta love it. I don't even
tell Lou it's like you're doing the sentsence tonight. Yeah, but yes,
your your Simpsons collection is one of the most famous collections in the world.
Now it's been all over the news, but we will get into that in
a little bit more detail later on in the episode. But here today to
talk about, as you said, Hurricane Nettie, what do you love so
much about this episode? Michael? I know you've got the selling things like
that, so you've got that sort of connection with it. But what particularly
do you love about this episode? Because I think it gives a really great
insight into Flanders that we never saw beforehand, except maybe in home alas Sland
is where he sort of let's slip that he can let loose at times.
Yeah, that's a good point, I think. Yeah, it's definitely a
bit like what was this seven seasons in, so they're finally starting to do
a bit more in depth character explorations on these people who have been kind of
a one one note joke for the entire series so far. So getting like
an understanding of why he's just so relentlessly nice kind is kind of fun and
something that, yeah, the show can start to do after a while,
because we're up to season seventeen right now doing the show, and sometimes they
explore characters and you think, ah, coming Book guys a good example.
They explored his character a lot, and it's like, I'd prefer just be
a one note. But I think the way they handled it, the way
Bill and Josh handled this one, because they were the show runners at the
time, the way they handled this one was just a perfection. Really yeah.
And I mean even besides that, like just individual gags. It it's
so dense with individual jokes that are just gold and even yeah, I don't
know, like I have a bit of a story nerd myself, and so
I love how specifically it follows that, like the three act structure and they've
got Okay, so the first act hurricane act jam, all of the hurricane
jokes in that you can get. Second one, Flanders has a crisis of
faith, which is an interesting exploration in itself. Third and then that scene
where he's like going through the house that they've built and just like the shoddy
worksmanship, that's just that's an all Teimer and then that whole second act an
all timer. Yeah, and then yeah, the third actor, You've got
the whole the backstory why he's like that. It's just yeah, which and
they're all funny for all different reasons. But yeah, I just think like
that that rant from Flanders in particular is just like peak Flanders. But I
was going to say to you, guy, I was watching this thinking there
was more funny moments in that little ninety second rant from Flanders then what I
reckon has been in like the entire season seventeen so far, every line was
just hitting its mark. It was so good. Oh you're not wrong.
Yeah, I mean it's it's like since Ned was was flandering, like Flandering,
Let's try that again, shall we. It's like Flanders was channeling Don
Rickles or one. You know, It's like it was like the best insult
comic in the world and just you know, just a sharp shoot of just
nailing target after target after target, hitting the most vulnerable spots just perfectly.
Yeah. I mean I am an absolute sucker for a good Worm turns moment.
And I mean one doesn't like to see anything bad happen to Ned.
I mean, he's so pure. I think we're all a bit Homer every
once in a while, ago like, oh my god, this guy is
so pious and annoying, but he's so pure of heart that I'm like,
oh man, it kind of sucks when things go south for him, and
yeah, but for him to for the devil to make him do it essentially
in this scene, it's just so wonderful. I think it was perfect choice
too, where they selected Marge to be the first person for him to attack.
It's like, with all the people in Springfield, who's the one who
probably deserves at the least, it's Marge. He goes for the jokular straight
away. It's just like, oh, shit's getting real. But what I
really loved after that is that, you know, Bart sort of step standing
up like oh you know, oh well, yeah that's cool. We know,
we really respect that. But for him just turn around and say used
to you know, here's a catchphrase, Hey man, got a quarter?
Oh yeah, that's right, I have shocked and all that's that Bart's reaction.
There's one of those lines that I say all the time but always forget
that it's even a Simpsons quote, Like it's so applicable. Yeah, this
is one of the great things about going back and doing episodes. From the
quote unquote golden years, I mean, I think it's been a long it's
certainly been a long time since I watched Hurricane Nettie. But later in the
later in the episode, in the third act, where they're at Calmwood,
Calmwood, Yeah, yeah, yeah, and doctor Foster is welcoming the Simpsons
in and telling the rest of the family to go and have a brows around
the fields or whatever. That whole line about one of my pasions accountable trying
to guess which one I think would be pleasantly surprised. I'm like, oh,
that sort of lived in my head, for goodness, Downes a long
but I've forgotten exactly where it from, where it was from, and the
exact context of it. But that whole I think it'll be pleasantly surprised.
Just the doors. I was so so happy to see that here. I
always hate me God have Messiano say my favorite. But enough about his quote
in the episode. Let's get into a sort of our favorite moment. So
for me in particular, I just love the Homer's reaction to the house falling
down to the shoot, like shit, and there's that there's that shot of
Flounder's about to sort of like Rand. He's sort of like fixing his glasses
and Home was just in the background scratching his head like how did that happen?
It was just beautifully done. But what about you guy? Um?
Like I said, I like, I love a good worm turns of.
That whole scene when Ned was fantastic. Yeah, that's yeah. Seeing young
Ned and what a little HELLI and he was was fantastic. I mean,
just that movie of like, I'm crazy. Take that prune vase now I'm
prune tracing. That'd be fair. I never actually picked up until kind of
recently, where that implying that he's going to go next? Do you know
what I mean? Yeah, as a kid, you have no idea what's
going on? Yeah? I never understood that. I mean it was funny
just visually because of what was happening. I never got it till I was
older. Yeah. Yeah. And the whole freaky beat next thing after that
is nothing idea. That's the other The other thing I love about it is
have you guys heard of Dankmus? He does, like yeah, yeah,
and so he's got all out of Ideas is one of his remixes, which
is an absolute banger, as all of them are dank, the some I
want to say he stole my bed for ages when when I was young girl,
I always wanted to um take that line of Lisa's saying we got beats
and put a beat behind it. And then when I found Dan was gone,
I can't. I can't be angry. This so good. It is
catchier than it has any rights one. Going back and reviewing this episode because
it'd been a while since I've revisited this one, there was actually several lines
that I just completely missed as a kid growing up in particularly in that scene
where he's going crazy and that his parents are there where he's like coveral of
those books, some of them haven't been discredited yet. I've never heard that
line. I just never picked up on it. It was so good.
But some of my favorite moments also were the well cause if you need anything,
just leading plan it's in the rubble. Any more brain busters? All
right now, Michael, we have to have a little segment here on our
four finger discount where it's called the blockbuster Brainbuster, And what we do is
we go back to when this episode originally aired that that week, and we
try and guess the top three films at the US box office for that week.
Right now, the original edit of this episode was December twenty ninth of
nineteen ninety six, so this episode originally aired the very end of ninety six.
What do you think were the top three films at the US bucks office?
I'll give you us some clues. I'll say the clues. Michael,
you can have a quick think, and then Guy I can try and Charming
as well, because Guy is the movie Guy. So first one is Angel.
He's an easy clue for number two, show me the clue, all
right, that was number two. Number three is black and white. And
there's four and five or so four and five at that time where Beavis and
butt head to America and scream so good four and five. But to the
top three, number one, Angel is the clue, Two is show me
the clue, and three is black and white. What do you reckon those
films might be? Michael Man, all right, yeah, that's a tough
one movie a bad an Angel, a movie about someone showing somebody something,
and a movie that had something that was black and white in it, something
that was black and white. All right, so the first one, I
mean, what even movies about angels are there. I'm probably going this is
too deep a cut. But that Michael one with yeah, would be about
to say the next clue is irving. I remember that was that John Travolta
and it was good? Was that a good movie? Guy? I can't
remember? Was a bad movie? Bad? It was the first movie I
saw it with my ex wife when we when we first started seeing each other.
Maybe this had the bad memories of it then because of that. No,
didn't start out I didn't start out of my wife. But it reminds
you of times that have once been Anyway, Yes, Michael's number one,
number two. Obviously you're gonna guess this one, right, show me the
clue. That's gotta be Jerry McGuire. It is. Jerry McGuire was number
two. So John Devolza tipped him out with the Angel movie number three.
A film that has a lot of black and white things in it? Would
it have more than a hundred? Has just a little bit more than a
hundred of all right? All right, I was gonna like Shindler's List,
that'd be one hundred one Elmaians. Yeah, the live action one. Was
it clean? Close? Wasn't it as Cruella? Yeah that sounds right.
Yeah, I remember being marketed heavily like when I was a kid, like
all of the McDonald's happy Meals and things like that. Yeah, it was
a big deal. But yeah, so Michael Jerry McGuire one hundred mind Damasians
were the top three films, and then Babs and Buddy'd do America and Scream
coming in for four and five. So a good five films, solid solid
outing that week. Nineties a better time certainly. Indeed, I completely forgot
that Michael was even a movie Like that's just got no cultural impact in this
day at all. Scream is five, and that still feels real, Like,
yeah, did they reboot Scream or Scream five sort of like a reboot
legacy sequel? I think yeah, where it's got some of the old characters
but mainly new ones. Got quite a reboot. Next question, you're there
eating the beast. Okay, I've got a couple of trivia questions for you,
gentlemen. My first question, mister Davis, is who does Reverend love
Joy offer a book of too Flanders. He's got a book of him in
his office. I think of Garth Uncle, Well, hang on, it's
art Linger. Oh yeah. Oh. I was like, I'm drawing to
draw a connection there. It was like, oh, okay, all right,
what's your first question? Guy? My first question to you is when
to the Hall of Records blow away? Well? Do you know this?
Michael? Oh? Was it nineteen seventy four? Eight? I think it
was. Wasn't it a little later? Nineteen seventy eight? Homer and Marge
in the class of nineteen seventy four. Oh, maybe That's where I'm getting
it from. So though, in the class of seventy four, shouldn't that
mean they would have known they'd already been a hurricane and Springfield and known White
mysteriously disappeared. Well, they would have been the early twenties in and just
you know, only having eyes for each other. Okay, then wouldn't have
trust Homer's memory on anything anyway? Really, yes, it's probably drunk.
My other question is what room number was Flanders in? He was in room
one O seven one O seven correct? Was I thought it was going to
be one of those ones that's like it's the production of a code. Yeah,
they always slipped those in. There was like four four seven, so
one oh seven kinder yeah, seven in there. It kind of works.
Yeah, yeah, all right, And you guys asked this one more question,
we'll move on. Who sponsored the medical movie? Oh one, this
one? Do you know, Michael, Oh, hang on, it's Swanson
something. No, I don't remember at all. Swanson's Angry Man's Dinners,
which was a takeoff. Apparently there was a thing about Swanson's Hungry Man's Dinners.
Hungry Man Dinners like TV dinners. Yeah, slightly bigger. You know,
when you go to the frozen food section, they've got like meals for
a man. It's like maybe twenty percent bigger pub size. It's like,
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this podcast. The original air day of Hurricane Nettie was to SCE between ninth,
nineteen ninety six. As we just said earlier, written by Steve Young
and directed by Bob Anderson, it guests our John Lovets, says Jay Sherman
in the Combard Mental Hospital, and yeah, we do love John Lovets.
You'll soon find that out, Michael, we do love John loves In the
show, and the cotch gaggle was the couch is replaced with a coin slot.
In the words vendor couch appear on the wall. At the Homer inserts
a coin, nothing happens. He hits on the wall and it comes down
and hits him on the head. So the episode kicks off with Homer just
relaxing on a hammock. And I'm going to be honest, I've actually never
had to sleep in a hammock before. If you guys have had a sleep
in a hammock. Oh yeah, I never have at my old house.
I used to have one, okay, and a on a not necessarily summer
day, but on a spring day. That's better there, right? Nice?
What about really nice? Yeah, we used to have one in the
backyard of when my brother and I lived together. I spent many in the
evening out there, and yeah, good. I don't think I've ever fallen
asleep though, hm hm, pressure dropping, humidity rising over eight percent,
increasing wind. Here we are chapter two, so your pressure is dropping drop.
I think I arrigated coming. Oh, Lisa, there's no record of
a hurricane ever hitting Springfield. Yes, but the records only go back to
nineteen seventy eight when the Hall of Records was mysteriously blown away. What is
your point, earth quake, Hippi hurricane? How the animals are always the
first to know. I always feel so sad. I always think of the
animals when there's a disaster or natural disaster or some kind. The first thing
I think of his animals. I don't know about you guys, but I'm
like, oh, there's poor dogs and cats Like I don't understand. It's
every man for himself in no situations, but man, it's just so sad.
Well, yeah, I mean it was a big visual gag in Twister.
You know when the cow sort of flying through the eye. Yeah,
poor cows. You're like the guy at the when Home is doing a stand
up the poor cow. Then we get the Brockman news report, which I
think was amazing. I'm Supplices didn't make your favorite moments. If you think
the sexist naming after a woman you've never seen the girls at a clearance.
But he shouldn't say it, Harry, Harry shere is always an MVP in
my eyes, but honestly he has just kicking goal after goal in this episode.
I mean, I wanted to go through this in some of my favorite
bits, but I mean some of his some of the lines from like I'm
skipping ahead, I'm sorry when the left or rim has been been losing,
try to look it in the mat, try to go back brilliant. The
whole Reverend Loved Joe thing is like short answer yes, but with an long
answer yes, with a no with the butt, no with the but it's
like, that's great. I'd love that writing and I love that delivery.
And of course everything he does with ned is of course, yeah, this
This was really a showcase for Harry Share. It wasn't it this episode?
It really was. If he didn't get I would hope he would be nominated
for Emmy's or any other award. You certainly hope no Peace Prize. But
they're just that that it's true, but he shouldn't say it. It's just
like the best way to respond. There's something that everyone knows is true,
but she's just like that hasn't Yeah, I'm surprised that hasn't become a meme,
Like it hasn't. Kind you see it comment threads sometimes, you know.
Yeah, there's the Falcon and winter Soldier thing with I was like,
he's out of line, but he's right. It's like, well, that's
exactly the same thing us March. So they're got to pick up some supplies
at the quickie mark. He's taking his seventy people at a time, and
I immediately thought of people rushing to get tilet paper during the pandemic. Yeah,
it's funny how this episode takes on a whole new meeting because we've never
lived through a disasse, like a hurricane of things like that, thankfully,
but the pandemic. You watch this now and just like, oh shit,
this is what it was like. You know when we used to have to
line up, do you go into the supermarket? Yeah, only letting two
people into the time or something like that. It was crazy like and the
fact that like it just doesn't even get talked about it anymore. It was
just what we literally lost two years of our life. It was just it
was amazing. It was great, feel like a weird fever dream of a
thing. Yeah, but it must be like I don't go back into our
podcast after I finished editing and putting them out there. But people often say
that it's interesting just listening to us do the podcast during the pandemic. They're
like, so many people say that you just gave us a little of that
little beam of entertainment to threat the pandemic, where you know, you guys
were just chugging along. It just made me realize that I just need to
just chug along as well. But Kirki tries to be a big man and
say, let's just beat him up. No, no, no, do
not listen to this man. Remain calm. You'll all have a chance to
be gouched. That's another line that I missed as a kid. And everyone
enters obviously goes crazy. Coach just gets left beaten and disheveled and then just
shops just taking advantage. So catch Ow is now Hurricane Chowken. He's still
in the squishy as you were mentioning earlier, mister Davis. And they find
creamed eels and corn noog and waded beef, and I'd probably try what a
beef of those three things. I don't think I'd go anywhere near creamed eels
if I had to eat cornogor would, But what are beef is certainly where
I'm going for. Yes, indeed, eels are revolting. I've eaten them
exactly. Once went to a Japanese restaurant and it's like I'm going to be
adventurous and try eel, And then I was adventurous and try to eel and
regretted it to this day. Or maybe if they were creamed, Yeah,
were they creamed eals or they just eel? I don't know how they prepared
them. I honestly they just went down this was it was a Japanese restaurant
sort of on the water. It was down in Rippleside Park. Yeah,
they went down to the water and just plugged the eels out and put them
in pla. I don't think they cooked them at all. If you didn't
know it was eel, though, do you think it would have changed your
person option of what you were tasting? No, I was eager. I
was like, oh, eel fantastic. I'm adding this to my culinary vocabulary,
you know, because I mean I've tried various animals eating them that is,
and yeah, and often been. I think it would be pleasantly surprised.
But I mean, you know, I tried buffalo and goat and all
that kind of things, like buffalo will I mean, how do you buy
buffalo? We obviously in another country? This was yeah, this was years
ago, okay, um, and was like you can have buffalo, but
where though where? I've forgotten it? Actually, I think it was even
in Melbourne, but it was like decades ago. I think my favorite weird
animal I've eaten was crocodile. You just feel really smug eating something that could
actually eat me first time. I mean technically a dog probably eat it.
If it one or two, you'd have to really imply itself. Way do
you eat his dog regularly? What I've eating dog? But people do eat
dogs on yourself. What do you think of crocodile because I've tried it as
well and I found it extremely bland. Yeah, it's a bit. It's
like salty chicken. Really, I wasn't a fan. It was more just
being able to say I've eaten it, really, but I love salt and
I love chicken. Was it like salty salt or chicken salt though, because
guys on the fan of chicken salt, I'm big on chicken salt. Oh,
yeah it was. I wouldn't say it was chicken salty. It's chicken
and salt together, isn't it not making a combination of chicken salt? WHOA?
Well, apparently there's no actual chicken in chicken. It's just Australians like
to eat the most that chicken. Let's called chicken salt. The last pineapple
and plenty right too. But I'm not fruit on my head. That's what
the pumpkins said. Hi, Lisa, we're going to be in a pie,
Sir. For your own safety, we do advise you to evacuate.
I ain't cleaving. I was born in the snurching home and up die in
the snurching home. Oh is there any chance if you're changing your mind,
sure, let's go. The Simpsons are now preparing. Homer is hammering a
door to the window and Ned invites them in here. He's like, he
politely says, I'll be a third wheel. Oh no, I would make
it my business to be a third wheel. Okay, the Flanders. You
think he's going to be safe and sound, he's all got his ship together.
He walks off, so they do the standard Grandpa drill. They all
head into the basement, and then hurricane. I always love it when they
do a takeoff of the intro. They do it in with the Thompsons And
what was the one we did recently? Guy with the fat Bart? Um,
what I'm going to say? What did I say? Though? Damn
it's three weeks later? Three weeks later? Yeah yeah, yeah that's right.
Yeah, but it's the opening intro. But Bart's really fat. I
really liked that episode. I thought it was really really good. I like
that one. Um. But yeah, so the hurricane started, we get
the classic Simpsons gag. This is like like a Swatz Wilder gag with the
prisoner hitting the electric wires. I think my favorite gag in that and it's
probably the next one is that where like blows into the harmonicas store like.
But before that, though, marcays, we should distract ourselves or something.
Let's try this Rubik's cube. And I've never understood how to solve a Rubis
cube. I just don't get it. I was about to say, I've
never solved one in my life. I've got frustrated with several of them,
just left them half done. I just can't do it. But there's a
video online. Obviously there's plenty of videos of people doing this, but it
was a child, like on a plane or something. They hand him this
Rubik's cube. He just goes and he just does it, and then they
sort of mix it all up and they handed to him. He sort of
assesses it, he turns it around, he looks at it, and then
like three seconds it's it's done. It's like, I don't know how he
does it. It's incredible. Oh man, I was a teenager and song
in the middle of the original Rubik's Cube craze. Yeah. Yeah, And
they came up with all these other variations on, like the Rubic Snake,
but there was also like the Rubic pyramid, okay, and I saw that
and I thought, oh my god, that's the shit Christmas and I've got
one. And that was the one variation on ruby that I was ever able
to, not even able to well, I solved it, but I was
also I became one of those winkers, like, look at this cool pattern
that I make when I turned this, this, and this, and everyone's
looking at him. Good. This has been one of the defining traits of
mygsins. I love variations on things, like you know, anytime there's Carlton
Nita Brewery are bringing out a new beer and like, I'm trying that,
but you are meg on treats like desserts or potato chips. It's vetie mate
flavor, it's meatpie phoebes, like yeah, please, then you try to
like there is cheese and onion, yeah, but they put a bit of
chicken sold on. I just like the way that, like when you were
younger, you're still clever enough to think of an out for the reason you
couldn't solve it, Like I can't solve it, but look at the patterns.
Well, no, I did solve it, but then I was so
good at it. I was able to make patterns as well. But why
haven't got a Ruby's up? Wa get this? Can pyramid idiots with you?
There is of course a Simpson's Rubik's Cube here somewhere shaped like Homer's head,
so it's like a three model of his head. I yeah, I've
been too afraid to mix it up because I don't think I'll ever get back
in the right spot. You know what. I pride myself on knowing that
I've got some stuff that you don't have. Ah, it tears me up
inside, not for long. Is that thing I said your ages to go?
The handheld game? Oh? Yeah, that was that? The cupcake
one? No, it's a cupcake. It's just like you know the little
handheld games used to have, like Laddin and Buying Key and things like that.
I don't think it's cupcakes in it, but it's just that there was
one that's game and watch things. Yeah, can hang on once. I'll
get it down and top of your hang on might be that? Is it
like a Bartzilla one or something? Put the headphones back on one moment.
It's this thing here. So you guys are at home can't see this obviously
unless you're watching this somehow. But do you see that? Wow? Yeah,
we can turn it on and everything. I'm not sure which yeah,
but yeah, it's I finished the game in about three seconds. It's made
by I have no idea, but yeah, and it's Tigers Tiger Electronics.
One Tiger Electronics, that's what they're called. Oh yeah, yeah, there
was a few early nineties. That one looks probably late nineties because the game
can you how can you tell by looking at something? Because I know,
what, when do they stop doing the like the pink and green? Yeah,
so I think that was probably ninety one or two, and then they
switched to just green, like a green base for a lot of stuff,
um for a few years, and then they went like a route about two
thousands or must be earlier because that thing there they went to like a red
and yellow, red, yellow blue scheme. Yeah, it was red and
blue a little bit later because when I were doing those little figurines at coals
and stuff, I feel like the boxes were like Lewin red and yellow.
Yeah, that's right. That was was that two thousand and seven or eight?
So that late was it? Well? Okay, yeah, I was
working at the times. It must have been about two thousand and six at
least. Yeah, yeah, all right, maybe what's that early? Yeah,
I can't remember, but who knows? But um, what a time
to be a life. Anyway, where are we up to? What we
finished? Guy's Ruby's Cube story? Everyone please finish the ruby It's done,
It's done. Um but yeah, so anyways, shit's going down the Rubi's
Cube, Marge, you know, she cracks it again, she throws it
away, and this is where what happens after I'll be this week at your
your favorite moment the Harmonica store. Yes, and then Homer goes out,
you know it's look at you really calm it is, and sees the bottle
of rama flying in the background, realizes that, um, that it's still
happening. They almost just stuck to I remember as the kid this moment here
going oh shit, I thought was a guy but no, he gets in
margin does her prey and I'll recommend you to all my friends. And then
when it gets better, he fell for it and there's no damage at all.
Now obviously it's just because of the way they've done that shot from But
when I was a kid, I always thought that the house, their roof
had come down like a few feet, because it's actually covering half the windows.
But what it is. It's just the overhang covering the top of the
top half of the windows. But when I get always thought their house had
like shrunk. But then we cut to Flanders and it's all gone deadly on.
So we come back from commercial and Maud she comes out from the rubble.
She thought she was on her way to the eternal, eternal bliss of
paradise or whatever, and pour rods in a tree. He's got a headache.
I said that quite a lot. When I say at a headache,
I say it just like like rod there, And Flanders says, you know,
I'm just grateful that we're all still alive. I'm gonna gets your stuff
back, And then they talk about how Ned doesn't have insurance. I love
the reasoning the former death. I guess another one as a kid that I
didn't really understand that now as an adult you really like, ah, do
I need that? I probably should, Yeah, But then the tombstones are
still there. Well calls if you need anything. And when out the church
and did you see the sign at the front. Oh, God welcomes his
victim, God welcomes his systems. And we get the I'm stupid shirt and
what I liked about this moment here is normally Flanders would be bothered by this,
but he's so beaten down and tired it doesn't even have the strength to
sort of say no, don't say that, don't be so silly kind of
thing with the I'm so stupid shirts. The other great thing is that I
think it's Todd who's wearing the butthole so they can't show, but has got
to be. But it's for low'd what's better? The answer is not much,
But there's nothing. There's nothing worse than seeing your dad or the main
authority figure in life just beaten. Yeah, like crying, I'm okay with
you, being angry with you, be angry with least you know, but
the life's just sort of kicked the shit out, saying way to go,
oh no no, Because when you're a child, usually like one of your
parents is like the strongest person in your life in most cases, so when
you see them giving up, it's just like shit, well they can't handle
what's going on. The handle was going on, so he more sort of
brings up the sorry, brings up the left toorrium and emmy unfortunate at the
news report, I mean fortunately for us because it's so funny. But unfortunately
for Ned, there's a right going on down here at Springfield Mall. A
storm add old crowd appears to have turned its rage on the left torrium.
Surprisingly, people are grabbing things with both hands, suggesting it's not just South
Paws and its rampaging mob. Oh my god, try looking at the back.
Meantime, Springfield bars will be happy to hear that the Bowl Arama is
back in business and it's new location. Teetering over the Carter Dickson Tunnel.
Graver and love Joy, what's all it's happened us today? Yeah? I
kind of feel like job well or aren't you being a tad melodramatic? Ned?
Also, I believe job was right handed. But Reverend, I need
to know is God punishing me? Who short answer yes with an f long
answer no with a butt if you need additional solos. By the way,
I've got a copy of something or other bi oric link lutter in my office.
We're still at that point here where love Joy, I don't don't.
I don't think he's that much older than Flanders, which we learned in like
the um to Listen Lady episode, But like he he still speaks to love
Joy like he's an authoritarian, like reverend like like he still talks to him
like he's a leader, his boss, if that makes any sense. You
know, he still sees me as like a higher figure than than he.
He's the middle manager between the big man. That's true. Yeah, Yeah,
he's just looking for some comfort though in Reverend love Joy. And he's
even reverend, he's not very unhelpful. You know, you're being over dramatic.
Look, his house is gone. Yeah, this is it's the clasic
you had one job. Yeah, it's like provide a bit of you know,
souls flock there, reverend. And I guess this is is this before
the Mister Sparkle episode. That's the Listening Lady, the episode I was talking
about. Yeah, yeah, so that's where he's sort of you learn why
he's so given up non scaring. But yeah, but is that I can't
remember if that was before after this one. I'm pretty sure that was after
this one other. Look shall we so that what was the episode called It's
um marge in Marjorie Trust in Marjorie Trust that's it. I knew it was
in there somewhere. Yeah, And that was the twenty second episode of the
eighth season, So that was after this earlier in the ad season. Yeah,
but it is. You know, you are right though, I think
it was important that we eventually did learn why Reverend just doesn't seem to give
a shit about wanting to help his flock as God put them. But but
another aspect of this episode that we didn't really touch on yet was I just
love how Flanders this is looking for an answer from God, like why me?
Like what did I do? Like I've done everything you wanted me to
do and it still wasn't good enough, Like what what have I possibly done
wrong? And I thought that they could have taken this episode in a direction
of him not losing his faith, but really questioning his faith. But I
thought they might have made the episode a little bit too dark, maybe a
little bit too controversial as well. I don't know what do you think?
Yeah, it does seem like it could almost be its own episode, and
then like the mental breakdown stuff could almost be a separate one. Yeah,
could they try to take tackle that in the episode where Moore dies the last
moment or so, it's just like, yeah, I'm going to church,
and then they quickly just wrap that up. Yeah, but that's an episode
that needs it needs more depth to it than what they did in that episode.
For sure. I love the direction there as well, just the pull
away. Yeah, they pull up a hund of a percent. I'm not
a religious person, but like that moment still gets here. Oh you're still
you're still like really feel for him, man. Yeah, that's the difference
between as I was saying, Season seventeen Simpsons and this one is like every
characters feel so raw and real. Where there, you don't get this kind
of passion and meaning in the characters anymore. And they pull off a really
neat, honesting act of taking what these characters take seriously seriously while also poking
fun out. It's hard to it's hard to do that, but they actually
do it really well here. I mean, I don't think you ever doubt
Ned's faith, even while Ned is doubting his faith, if you know what
I mean. Yeah, while they also sort of poke a little bit of
fun at it, mainly through home or poking fun at Ned. But yeah,
I think it's such a such really clever writing and really clever storytelling.
So the very next day, Marge, she says, you've gotta come check
out this what's happened. It's it's a miracle what the rubble burned down?
And it turns out they've rebuilt the house. And I'm like, you guys
built the house very quickly overnight. That's for shadowing what I liked about those.
It brings up the best of Springfield. You know. It's just there
are a town that you know, they have their odds of each other,
but at the core, they're one big family. And that's what I liked
about this moment here. But it also reveals that there is full of lazy,
inadequate people. Yeah, there's a good, good balance there, but
they love a good bandwagon and jumping on it, you know, like the
radio. But it's an old fashioned hold again. So then they had all
their different tools, a smet mixer full of hope and some cement, and
you know, if you need a favor for the happiest man in Springfield,
this guy never shows up again. I was does feel like that could have
been a recurring character. I guess he's only a one note joke, but
so are a lot of them. But I think it probably would have gotten
old after a while, But it definitely could have had a few more appearances.
I think this guy was great. He's got one and done. I
think just one and done as perfect land As then walks into the door.
The door doesn't open up properly. There's a loose nail. He one out
of twenty five eight toilet in the kitchen because Wigan was too late to take
it up the stairs, a low bearing post of crusty in the kid's rooms.
Then we got a room full of electricity, but there's too much litricity,
so we might want to wear a hat. And then classic Moe,
we ran out of floorboats. We painted the dot pretty claim and then the
whole streaks much like really want from the chocolate factory. But Barney still somehow
in the master bedroom, Oh my nose. He slams the door and Homer
leans on the door. You know the house that love built or whatever,
and it all just love falls down. What do you think of the house
that love built and it all just falls down? Shoot, It's like it's
almost like you kind of expected it. He's like, oh shit, And
planned is a little moment there were he's trying to clean his glasses and they're
cracking. It's like that's what makes him crack? Yeah, it's like,
oh that sound is him cracking as well. I was like, he's had
enough, so he absolutely lose it. And you can't do this rant justice.
It's just every single line is an absolute banger. It's so good,
Mad, we like well and everyone here tried their best. Well, my
family and I can't lave in good intentions. Marge. Oh, your family
has had a control, but we can't blame you because you have good intentions.
Hey, back off, Okay, dude, I wouldn't want you to
have cow man. Here's the catch freeze. You better learn for your adult
years. Hey, buddy, got a quarter. I am shocked and appalled,
mister Flanders with all due respect, but I didn't do anything. Do
I hear the sound a butting in? It's gotta be a little Lisa Simpson
Springfield's answered. Do I question? Now? I've asked? What do we
have here? The long flammy arm in the law? The last case you
got to the bottom of. What was that case? I'm malamars malamars ah,
that's going in the act. Oh yeah, the clown the only one
of you with phones who doesn't make me laugh, And it's for you.
I don't know you, but I'm sure you're a jerk. Hey, I've
only been here a few minutes. What's going on? You ugly? Hate
Field man? Hey, Hey, I may be ugly in hate Field,
but i'm What was the third thing you said, Harmer, you are the
worst human being I have ever met? He I got a pretty easy oh
man, you could just imagine. It's almost fourth wall breaking in a way
where he's like pointing out all the flaws of these characters, obviously and just
that. Yeah, that must have had so much fun in the writer's room
coming up with what you can make fun of all of these regular characters.
My favorite one wasn't even like the punchline. It was just his disdain of
the clown. Yeah, the clown. I think my favorite is gonna be
good intended the hands going, I don't know, mos is pretty good.
Yeah, may be ugly and hate Field. But what was that third thing
he said? I won't have been here Field minutes. What's going on then?
But that's that's the one that I've got in the in the cell.
So the cell, first one of the cells is it's like Flanners doing this
with Lisa in the background. Is she interrupting. That is he's like,
yeah, and the other cell is like Flanders storming past Mo after that,
and the storyboard is from the crusty scene over to where he turns around to
Lenny and he's like, and ask for you. I don't know you,
but I'm sure you're a jef. I just had to get that on the
storyboard, Homers, And then I love the directing and just the animation.
When Flanders approaches Homer, he just has that sense of nervousness like, oh
shit, what have I got coming? And just the worst human being I've
ever met? What God? I feasy? I was okay, I got
that, And he leaves and checks himself into Calmwood Mental Hospital. And what
was the song he was singing there? It sounds like the Yeah, it's
like that tropical yea yeah. But they come out from commercial now and he's
committed himself. He wants to go and kicking the kicking and screaming please.
Is anyone ever curious about what a padded cell feels like? It? Is
it the floor as well? And I just guess it would have to be,
would I think it must be? It's I get the feeling, it's
been like a bouncy castles. Bouncy castle, yeah, just not as bouncy
though a lot firmer I think, yeah, yeah, but imagine, just
imagine it was bouncy. I want I'd check myself in all the time.
I think. I've been to like tours of old asylums and they're just they're
depressingly just concrete. It's real, real shame. I don't know if the
padded thing was ever real or just a cartoon invention, but the dream the
nursing comes along as you see Flan has written the paper with his feet and
she calls doctor Foster and no one. I was a kid, I used
to always, for some reason, used to think he was saying, may
God have mercy on a song? Because the way he says kind of mercy
on us all it sounds like if you listen to it, it's like me,
God a mercy on a song. I'm like, what the hell does
that mean? For us? So long when I was the kid, I
was like, I don't get this. What's going on? The shoes are
in the den and then he goes to see Ned and he obviously another strait
jacket to give him warm and Flann as he thinks, you know, oh,
I was a good little boy. He's completely just you know, hidden
all the memories. He's put it pushed into the back of his mind that
he was actually a little shit head. So he just convenently has the footage.
They're ready to go. I brought to you by Swanson's Angry Man's Dinners.
And yeah, that's seeing the prune Tracy. It's so awesome, Queene,
that prune face, no pun face. Take that, Tracy. No,
I'm prune Tracy. Take that. Stop it it, stop it.
I can't believe I was such a terror. Well, neither could your parents.
That's why they brought you to me. Well, I'm afraid young Ned
is unusually aggressive, but I can't seem to find a cause for it.
Hey, hey, get down from that bookshelf. Please, most of those
books haven't been discredited yet. Would you please tell your son to stop?
We get and do it me. And that's discipline. That's like telling Jene
group but not to go boom boom boom boom boom boom. Lack of discipline.
I'm beginning to see the problem. We don't believe in rules, like
we gave them up when we started living like freaky beatnoks. You don't believe
in rules yet you want to control Ned's anger. Yeah, you've got to
help us, Doc. We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas.
I've tried nothing in them, all out of ideas. Is a shot
that can mean that gets use all the time. Absolutely, but yea yeah,
I mean just the slight variation of the Harry puts on the Flanders voice
to do that, to do that, yeah, when we were freaky beat
um. But then they try the spankological protocol which goes to eight months.
Just I love the various changes in the seasons. Santa Claus volleyball, just
avoid the window. But then it works two and now he's he represses,
he can't be angry at all, repressed. Everything he strings nonsensical jabbering.
And then which also explains the way why he talks the way he does these
slanderisms, and you know he's there any particular person that can make you this
angry. Cut to Homer on the phone, Landers, I don't know any
need Flanders stop. Oh yeah him, they arrive and just the putting the
same stickers on that is just classic simself. But it's a callback to when
Homer gets Um released from the mental hospital in isn't it the Stamp? So
he gets a stamp on his hand, his hand, yes, yes,
right, yeah, Well that episode doesn't exist anymore, so I don't know
what we're talking about. Um and one patience a cannibal. As we're touching
on earlier. Now, there's three people that we know in these cells.
Do you know any of them? Guys? Well, because it's but also
the long haired chap is John Schwartz was indeed, yeah, and the first
woman was Mike. Well that you say. That was miss Bots. The
Babysitter Bandit, which was supposed to be the very first episode of the Simpsons,
but the animation was so terrible they pushed it back to the season finale.
Miss Bots, Yeah, the Babysitter Bandit. But yeah, they need
to find someone so irritating that he can't suppress his rage. He says to
can you be that man? Bubble gum on the face, just get into
booth and home. It starts running at all the cards. I just don't
want to get to the last one. I engage an intercourse with your spousal
significant other. Now that's psychiatry. That whole scene again is another like line
for line corker. Oh just so good, thanks for dropping back maximum hostility
factor. I engaged an intercourse with your suppose or a significant other. No,
that's psychiatry. H h oh, very funny, wise guy, Oh
that's you just can't in solve this guy. You call him a moro,
run and he just sits there gritting mora. Hi, neighbor, you know
what your problem is, Flanders. You're afraid to be human? No,
no, why would I be afraid of that? Because humans are obnoxious.
Sometimes humans hate things, well, maybe a few of them do. Back
East, I can't find what home is saying. Did you write that?
Um? Did you like it? Come on on, Flanders, there's gonna
be something you hate. What about mosquito bites? Mmmmm sure are fun to
scratch? M satisfying. What about your fluorescent lights? O? They hum
like angels. You're never lonely if you got a fluorescent light, see you
like everything? No, that's not true. I don't like the service at
the post office. You know, it's all rush, rush, get you
in, get you out. Then they've got those machines in the lobby.
They're even faster no help there. You might even say I hate the post
office that and my parents. Has he beatnings? Well, I'm is trying
to just up with stuff that literally everybody hates, Like, yeah, I'm
not a bad misscater, but hm, sound as back give up. This
guy can't. But yeah, he has a breakthrough, he's cured. Everyone's
ready to greet him as they leave. And there's three signs here besides the
welcome back. One says we love Flanders, one says flandy as dandy,
and then there's a free John schwatz Bolder, the very last one there,
which when you're watching his back on TV back in the day, you would
never have seen it. It's right at the last second. You have to
really freeze frame it. But yeah, it's there. I noticed it's also
on the on the wiki page as well. I thought I was being very
clever trying to find that one that realizes on the wiki page. But then
he says, you know, if you if you annoy me, a gonna
really hear about it, and if you tip me off, I'll run you
down with my car, And then we get the Flanders You're so crazy at
the end of the episode. So yeah, it's a it's amazing. We've
had some Flanders episodes up to this point, but this just seems like the
Flanders episode. But everyone thinks of White episodes were about Flanders, this is
the one you go to, I think, Yeah, even more so than
like the one where they go camping. That one seems like a pretty obviously
Flander's heavy episode. Yeah, this one's got a lot more yeah, character
depth to it. Yeah, Well, we don't learn why he is the
way he Isn't that one, you know, he just homer pisces him off
to the point where like even the nicest guy in Springfield has to sort of
vent. But we don't learn why he is the way he is. And
that's what this episode. This episode is the real exploration of the head Flanders
character, and they just did it so well. Yeah, I think some
of it ends up being undercut a bit by like later episodes, like you
know, the Vegas episode where they reveal that he's sixty and then all of
a sudden, Yeah, I don't know if you really call it cannon or
if it's all it's all kind of flexible, but yeah, if he's sixty,
then how old is doctor Foster or a true. You know, it's
kind of messes with it a bit, but I would say more than a
bit. Yeah, absolutely, that's warping space. And yeah, something that
was croius about just that that closing line neared you so crazy. I'm wondering
if it's a catchphrase belonging to w anybody. Martin Lawrence had a stand up
specially in nineteen ninety four called you so Crazy, and I wonder if that
was kind of his catchphrase on the eponymous sitcom Martin Um, you know,
also name checked on the show Plenty of Dames, because you know it was
Martin was feeling kind of race. I've never heard of that sit on before.
Yeah, I didn't know he had one. Maybe I did not know.
Think remember the show called the Hugelys Yeah, d l H. Yeah,
like that show is just completely guying. Ever, like that was like
like late nineties, there was like all these sitcoms that just like we're pretty
big at the time, but they've just gone. If it's vanished. Damer
and Gregg's another one like Dammer and Gregg's is gone. Two guys ago at
a pizza place, Remember that one Ryan Reynolds that was gone. I feel
bad for the other guy like Ryan Reynolds, most rich and famous person in
the world, and this guy won't say he's living in a cardboard box.
But still I think it was on one of those sort of like seasie type
shows. For a while. I would hope, I should hope, So
I hope. And what was the girl's name in the show, But she
went on to become a Sharon Sharon, she went on to play she was
in Monk. I think it was was a Monk, I think so,
yeah, yeah, yeah, so she went on to do something as well.
But yeah, somebody late ninety sitcom. But the hugely is just I'm
just like, that was a show I haven't thought of like fifteen years.
That just came to my head. And he said, Martin, and yes,
it was another one. Yeah. They're always on Fox Day in between
like Simpsons and King of the Hill, and they went for like eight seasons.
Yeah. Now there's something. There's one called Rules of Engagement. Yeah,
I know the one David Spade might have Spade, wasn't it, Yeah,
and had Putty from from Sinfowder. Yeah, yeah, I remember it
existed, but I couldn't. I think I might have watched about eight minutes
total. But like you watched the commercials now like Channel ten commercial from ninety
yet you're like, ah, simpler time. I never watched the show,
but we did do a show just on like sitcoms that just have vanished.
I'm going to be a fun thing to do. But yes, that has
been our discussion here of hurricane. Now do you think you've slept in that
one, Michael, to discuss But now we are here to discuss you,
sir. So you are on TikTok. TikTok's a big one, right,
that's where most of your views come from. TikTok. Yeah, that's the
one that I feel like I'm too old for that, so I kind of
I was a bit anxious about trying it out. But it's the one that's
really blown up. Yeah, Simmons, one word, it's you're using the
terms blown up. Michael. I don't think you're too old for TikTok.
I've learned it, picked it up from your kids. So on there,
it's like fifty six thousand. Facebook's like dead in the water. I know
you guys have a pretty like face in people are still using Facebook. So
we're nearly on ten hundred thousand followers now, but we're going, okay,
everyone, I want to leave. You know what it is too, It's
saying like Twitter as well. It's like people are saying I wouldn't do Facebook
anymore. But of all the things, Facebook just seems to be the constant
that just keeps chugging along. It's like, yeah, people say that it
used anymore, but when we put something out there and fucking goes off,
So people must still be using Facebook now. I think if you're starting from
now, like it's TikTok and Instagram, possible to get a Facebook. Yeah,
like the ball rolling there. Instagram's not too bad, but I've only
got Yeah. Twitter was the second most useful one until recently when yeah,
Elon Musk is kind of tanked the whole platform. So your Twitter not going
any good anymore because as was going really well and then it sort of just
like stagnated. Yeah, it's a bit that way. I think I've topped
out at about four thousand followers on there, and it grew really fast and
then slowed down. Yeah. Um, but we need to st or TikTok
doing it just because everyone else is doing it. We need to get on
that bandwagon. But I think like Twitter was really good originally for getting in
front of the people from the show. So yeah, I ended up having
a bunch of writers like Josh Weinsteine follows me on there, and some of
the animators locally probably follows you, I think so. Actually, yeah,
Villa and Josh are like the two they see about the two ones that are
genuine fans and still keep up the date with the fandom. Yeah, yeah,
that's it. And then I think Instagram a lot of the muse as
well. I think Maggie Graining, So Matt Greening's sister followed me on Instagram
that day. I was like, whoa, I know that name. To
play it cool, So on your TikTok, we'll just we'll focus on the
TikTok. Then basically it's just you show videos of your collection. But let's
talk about your collection. So, I know I've read somewhere that you started
collecting in high school. That's where it's sort of spawned from. But what
like your earliest memories of Simpson's merch, Like, what are the ones that
you had when you were a kid that you might have anymore? But what
sort of is your best memories of Simpson's collection Simpson Collectibles as a kid,
I don't remember like a lot of the very early figures and stuff. For
me, it was the tazos and things like that. Yeah, I was
going to say that was the bit. I think that might have been the
birth of the collecting bog footy cards and tarzos. That's where it started for
me collecting for sure. Yeah, like just I don't know. There was
so much fun with that. And you get a bag of chips which Show
and he loved, and then you have like this little prize inside and then
it was swapping those and putting them all in the in the album and became
like currency in the school. Yeah I didn't they Yeah, I forgot my
lunch. I was sorry. I got six Simpsons tarsos in my bag.
I swap for a sandwich. And they always had games that you could play
with them. But yeah, I remember trying to, like you tried to
with like the Marbles type games. They just never really had the slam as
we got to slam them on the top of the tarzos and things like.
Yeah. Yeah, I had for members of the Space Jam ones and my
son loved Space Jam and there was a space The game for Spaceham was the
best tarzo game. So basically what it was was like a fold out basketball
court which came with a little net and it gave you little stands with the
characters from the movie on it. You put your tars on top, and
you've got to flick the tarzo off and go through the basketball and then that's
how you get your points. So like further the further back you were,
the more points yet for for flicking it in. So that like that's a
genuine game that was actually pretty fun. But the other time it was just
like stake up some tarzos and slam it on top and whatever one's land on
the right side up whoever does the slam I guess to keep those ones.
And I'm like, I'm not sure I'm reading to give away my tarsos like
this, but um but yeah, so yeah, so tarzos for you that
that was definitely a big thing. But yeah, we didn't really have many
action figures. The earliest ones for me, I remember that the tarzos.
I remember the KFC must have had a deal with the Simpsons because they had
the cups. Those cups had on the toppers that they're a big one these
ones up there where are Yeah, that's the ones top of the studio as
well. Yeah, I like right, that look great? Yeah, um
yeah. And they had a lot of um yeah, like sets, little
figures and stuff. They had a couple of beach themed ones. Yeah,
that was that Burger king hung Jacks that's yeah, because Hungry Jacks up.
Hungry Jacks had some cool shit as well. But so what was the what
was the thing that started the collection? Then the high school one? What
was the big one? I mean, I can't even remember. I think
it might have been by that time the Tarzo pickers rolled around, Yeah,
which were like the ones with the l Crew back. I recomemberies of that
because I clecton them with my nan, who's now no longer with us,
but like I used to go to my NaN's after school and she's like,
oh, I've got a few new Simpsons things for you. I'm like,
yeah, go on, Marlene. I don't know whether those things kind of
things would work anymore. I don't think they're allowed to because it's promoting eating
fast food. But surely if you drop fucking tazas or something in some sort
of like food like potato chips, or something like even if it's healthy,
people are going to be all over that. I reckon. I reckon,
like things like trading cards and that I think they're going to make it come
back eventually. Like I've got the whole wall of trading cards here. People
say, are the worth nothing? I'm like, I reckon there will be
a resurgence and trading cards. Oh yeah, some of them are worth ridiculous
amounts. There's a few super rare sets that I'm missing here. There was
like especially the ones that you have to send away for You get like a
redemption card in your packets and you have to send that away. Those things
are worth like literally thousands of dollars because you can't send away anymore. Yeah.
Yeah, so you have to just hope that. Yeah, those people
who went to that effort. If you went to that effort, then you're
going to hang onto it. You're not going to just throw it. Yeah.
Yeah, Michael, is there some kind of holy grail item that you've
got your eyes on or heard about and like, I've got to I've got
to have it. There are there's two that highly sought after, and I
think there's only a couple of them in the world at all. So one
of them is it's called the Save Blinky Bart. So it's a little regular
old Mattel Bart figure. Again, you had to send away for it,
you had to buy. Um he was only like, yeah, like five
centimeters tall, like a fairly small one, like a pop final here,
probably smaller than that even, um, kind of like the Springfield figures.
These ones. Yeah, so the Bart size of that, yeah, i'd
say. And yeah, they had the whole family and like Nelson and stuff,
originally five centimeters are five inches centimeters. That is small. That's tiny.
Yeah, they're the ones on the white couch. Okay, we've got
mini ones like five cinemas sitting all sitting on a white couch. It's really
bizarre. But you continue, Yeah, those tiny ones. Yeah I do
know which ones you mean. Yeah, yeah, um no, so it's
bigger than that one. But yeah, they you had to buy all of
the family and then clip off the barcodes and send those away, and you
would get this guy. And rumor has it there's only like three known in
the world. Um, this Mexican collector that I mate with, Alex Ortega,
he's got one, yeah, I think, yeah, yeah, that's
him. He's great, and there's another guy in the UK who apparently has
one, and that's I don't know where any of the others are. So
I'm always hoping against hope that one day you just walk into a garage sale
and find this thing sitting there for five bucks and no one knows what it
is. I can just get Alex on the show and we'll tell you when
he's going to be on the show. You fly to Mexico and whilst he's
just talking to us, you're just going down and you've got to tell you
I'm going to leave, Yeah, leave a card courtesy of like the cat
burglay. But is there a community collector sort of looking at for one another.
It's like, you know, yeah, I came across this, I've
already got it, or I've got something similar. It's not what I need
or not what I want, but I know someone So in the UK or
someone so in Poland wants. Yeah. Well that's the great thing. I've
Yeah, through all the social media stuff, I've gotten into that community.
So you've got yeah Alex in Mexico, You've got there's a couple of guys
in the US in the UK and you kind of just um, yeah,
you help each other out because some of the stuff. We've got a lot
of stuff through Zin lately, which is Australia exclusive and amazing. They've licensed
some cool shit lately. Yeah. So I used to I used to work
at pop Culture and I sort of have to get that off the ground.
So I'm basically the reason we had the stone cut of stones made now those
stones all right, Like that was on me. Oh that's cool. Yeah,
I've got the ring. I've got the stone cutters ring, the mill
Pool stockings, the Christmas stockings. Do you see that. I do have
that. Yeah. Yeah, the pig cufflinks as well, that was another
one. Yeah, but they were it was a headache at the time because
um, Disney didn't own them yet. I don't think there was Maybe it
was during the transition, I'm too sure, but they were really tight on
what you could and couldn't make, couldn't use certain characters. There was a
certain like guideline or things you could have the characters say on the merch well,
so basically they weren't really willing to do things like the stone Cutter's ring
and the steins like that's off brandt. We want just the main family stuff
and we're like, now people are gonna like this. So it was like
pulling teeth out, but we eventually got those through. But I feel like
since Disney have taken over, Disney's like and we've bought this thing that makes
the money. You go make some ship and we'll we'll make some money.
So now you see some like I think the last like two years have been
like peak Simpsons merch for cool, unique Simpsons items in my opinion. Yeah,
well they've like Super seven is another company that's sacking a lot of really
cool stuff. They had like a series of McBain figures and it's like McBain
Mendoza and Scoe the guy who gets like these full of bullet holes. They
had a couple of Troy McClure one. Yeah, it's so good. And
the Ultimates figures which they've just released, Um that's like Poucie. It's got
robot itchy and scratchy and they're massive. They look so cool. Yeah,
I love the I think the Kinge and Cotis ones are coming. The Kinge
and Codis ones are going to be unbelievable. Yeah, Pommies in Australia is
they take forever to get you. Yeah, that's it, But I would
definitely I think my head they're so expensive to Super seven, that's the only
thing. It's like, Oh man, they're like a hundred bucks a pop
for one toy. Yeah, that's it's It hurts, but I can't stop
now. Do you feel like, because it's if possible to own every bit
of Simpsons merch? But do you think you ever will get to a point
where it's like I'm done or do you think you're just gonna be collective for
life? I think there might be a point where I'm, yeah, have
to start spending money on more adult things. Yeah, this might sound silly,
and I'll be honest. Do you sometimes get bored of just getting simps
of stuff? Do you feel is at the point now where you feel like
you almost you have to do it now as opposed to it was a period
of that maybe ten years ago or so when I was I didn't have the
room for it, and I like about like uni years and stuff. I
didn't have anywhere to display it, and I didn't have much money to my
name, so I was buying stuff and then just putting it in boxes at
my parents' house and what was like, what's the point? You know?
Yeah, and then it's it's kind of resurged lately the passion. Well,
you've got a reason too. Now with your social media. Have you found
a way to monetize that yet? Uh? Not yet. I've had.
The closest I've gotten is people have started sending me stuff. I'm gonna say,
at least contacting stores saying send me the ship so I can promote it
for it. You should not have you should not have paid for those Mumu
hoodies, you know what I mean? Yeah, I think Yeah. One
of my followers actually told me about those in advance. She's like, just
off the record, I work at Z. Those are coming out in a
couple of weeks. Who want to get on those? I was like,
oh, okay, yeah, the biggest people, I'm pretty sure zing they've
got a blanket rule though, where they won't sponsor any like creators or things
like that, because they only sponsored the Starlight Foundation, which is a good
cause. So I think it's just a case of we sponsor these guys.
If we do one, we have to do them all, so we raise
money for Starlight. You guys, if you want to buy it, buy
it if you don't, don't you know what I means. I think that's
just their blanket rule. Yeah, that makes sense. I look at those
those Mumu oversized blankets and I was like, it looked pretty awesome. There
was a lot money. I had someone do a duet with that video within
about four hours of me posting it, and it was her ordering one instantly,
So you should get hey zinc see she bought it because of me.
Michael, we're seeing a lot of Simpsons stuff. Do you collect anything else?
Not to this extent? Obviously, it's going to be when he's when
the Simpsons fad finally done. Will come a time when you stop collecting sims
of stuff? What do you can you collect next? I don't know.
I think the other thing that like my second passion, and it's starting to
get a bit of that itch now this year is Jurassic Park stuff, which
love as well. I've got a four year old and I'm like, it's
just rekindled my love of dinosaurs. Man Like, he's, yeah, I
buy all these toys for him, quotation marks. It's just like, I
don't even have that excuse, but Throme out, I'm like t Rex clearance
for twenty dollars, yes please. Yeah, And because it's the thirtieth anniversary
of the original movie this year, doing a huge push of merchandise and every
it's so tempting. B W has the real Field t Rex, the red
one, and I saw it the other day because my son really wants it
because he watches like YouTube videos of people with it, and we're always the
last ones to get the Jurassic Park stuff for whatever reason. And yeah,
there's like a hundred bucks and I'm like, I don't think so, man,
I know eventually this thing will because I usually buy it first for Ali.
I'm like, so he's got it now, you know, he feels
cool, blah blah blah. But then like a month later, tw months
later, they're like, hey, do you want it for half price?
And I'm like, a man, but what he ended He's had it for
an extra two months. He was happy, you know what I mean.
But one hundred bucks for one t Rex toy. He is just a little
bit too much, in my opinion. But yeah, you did so you
paid full price for these Super sevens at the Simpsons, Is that right?
Well? I actually ordered them through pop Culture, so they had I think,
yeah, there was a bundle if you get the fire I put the
bundle. I remember, all right, Um, so yeah, it was
about it was that, which I think ended up being like maybe fifty bucks
or eighty bucks off. There's still yeah, especially when I ordered multiple waves
in one or did you really Yeah? That was nearly a nearly a grand
in one transaction. I did love it is see a Facebook post of a
pop culture promoting and you're like, where's my pre Odors bitches? Hey,
I didn't say it like that. It had been Yeah, they were like
all of a sudden advertising that they were in stock, and I'm like,
where am I might not hear you. How many Symptons items do you think
you own right now? Oh? Geez, I don't even like it would
be like two to three thousand. Do you think it's in thousands or yeah?
I did a rough count and I thought it might have been about three
thousand. Wow, So I had someone asked me that once. Um.
But it's this other thing where apparently collectors get very antsy about specific numbers,
like if you claim this number, you have to really back it up because
it's a pretian and everyone is like, this set is one item. You
can't claim those four figures as as four items. That's one set. That's
one item, and it shows me alreadies are at for some people. It's
yeah, it's weird. So I estimate three thousand individual items. I think
I feel like we can go off forever talking about your collection. We'll have
to get you on again in the near future to just talk about collection in
general. I reckon, but we are running out of time now. I'm
getting the wind up from the lovely wife of mine. But I was been
absolutely joy to have you on, Michael. And by the way, listeners
may have seen me promote as getting a bit of a mention in JB Hi
Fi Stack magazine and Michael was the man behind that article. So I think
you Michael, that happen. That's all right, no problem. Yeah,
but it's been absolute joy. As I said, to have you on,
let's promote your your social media is before we let you go. So yeah,
so I'm on TikTok, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook at collect Simpsons or
worst Simpsons collection ever? Um yeah, just google that. Google Google worst
collection ever. Make sure you put Simpsons there though, because I think it's
get some really weird shit, you get the Jeffrey Dahmer page already. Michael
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