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It is Simpson's Christmas Stories. I am Dando and I am Guy and
speak for yourself, Dan, No, No, that's not true. Life
is worth living, especially when you've got a really good episode of The Simpsons
to talk about. Because I enjoyed this immensely. This was a very very
very early Christmas gift in April. I was so surprised because I went into
this going it's another one of those trilogies where they just take off old stories
that no one gives a shit about. I mean that not only gives a
shit about Jesus. That's I didn't know what stories are going to be,
but I thought they're gonna be you know how we had those stories where it's
though on that train with the with the hobo and it was always oldest Oh
my, no one cares about that, the non cannon or whatever. But
this just felt to me like a Simpsons Christmas variety hour. You had a
good mix of everything. You had the retelling of of the Jesus Birth,
you had the random like you original story with Santa and Burns and grand but
then you just had like to take on the Nutcracker at the end like a
little musical. It was such a good blend of just variety. I thought
it was really fun. I was really impressed with this episod. I was
really surprised by this episode because I think I went in exactly the same way
as you, thinking yawn. I think that was the word that was bringing
my life. I'm gonna have to treasure there is and it's going to be,
you know, really run of the mill Christmas Eve kind of stuff.
But no, they showed a fair bit of imagination, a fair bit of
ingenuity. Yeah, everyone seemed to get folded in in really interesting ways.
Yeah. I know, I had a really good time with this one,
so I didn't realize each segrement also had its own title. So the first
one was the First Doel, the second was I Saw Grandpa cussing Sandy Clause,
and the third one was the Nutcracker Sweet as opposed to sweet, which
comes across more like a South part title of he asked me. But yeah,
I just enjoyed the really, like you said, original, It was
not that its went and got right, here's the tale. Let's just replace
the carriages with Simpsons, with Simpson's characters. No, like this, they
had the original story in the middle of the end was it was a take
on the Nutcracker, but it was also Simpson. I the point where it
was like very What I liked about the most of it, because the final
sevement was my favorite. Where I like the most about that was it just
really captured Christmas, even Springfield, and I really like that. I get
where you're coming from, certainly because well everyone knows that Dando and the Christmas
season go hand in hand, frolicking down the lane. I haven't named my
daughter Holly. Was that the reason for Christmas? It wasn't. We just
liked the name Holy. Yeah, just like a lovely name, and he's
a lovely little girl, so they fit together nicely. I'm very impressed with
what you said about like a variety hour, because that's what it felt like
that in a good way. I mean shows like say The Brady Bunch,
or things that had like a cast of your frenzy like you, I'd like
to hang out with all the family that's better than yours that you like to
watch on TV would do things like that. I feel like seventies TV Special,
didn't it. That's yeah, that's exactly what I mean by that,
And especially with the first segment, the whole retelling of the Birth of Jesus,
That's exactly what it felt like to me. And I love the way
how they sort of they really seamlessly and cleverly folded in all your favorite characters
and in ways that made sense as well. Yeah, I mean, whether
it's Burns being King Herod or Chief Wigham being sort of the head of the
Roman soldiers who were doing his dirty work, everything seemed to work quite nicely.
And no, it's just very very It gave me a warm little blow.
My favorite segment, however, was the middle one. I enjoyed that
a lot. That was also very I just like the fact that it was
an original story now part of the Aller. Jean says that he wishes at
the end of that segment they didn't have the bit with Santa fe back into
the real world like and present day. He would just ended with the with
the watch because it would have been more sentimental. But yeah, the end
of that was one of my favorite moments. I'd love the wives bit that
I just thought, just your classic you know, you know there must be
a lot of sex, I said, wives, not girlfriends. We did
an episode of Speaking of the Hill recently where Hank and the guy in the
music shot we're talking about making jokes about the wife. I never do it,
but it's just, you know, it's just your classic husband gag,
the whole ball and changing. I can't recall ever having done it him.
No neither, no no reason too. We have no reason to do.
We We have lovely ladies at home. I think we're just SAPs. We
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my favorite. But what were your favorite moments from from Simpsons Christmas Stories?
Mister Davis, Well, if we're talking about the first segment, now,
forgive me, I'm the first duel. First of all. Yes,
I'm trying to get my memory sharpened. Yes, I'm pretty sure that you
remember the first segment. Say it probably they please the first all right?
I was initially like because there was a pretty dopey slash lazy gag about I'm
trying to watch the Orange Bowl and he's watching the Bowl of Oranges. I'm
like, that's not that great. Then almost immediately after that, Homer realizes
that baby Jesus slash Bart is into a bit of the old physical comedy,
and we go into a bit of a three Stooges riff, and I just
laughed a hell of a lot more than maybe I should have had. Oh
wise man ee. And then they go to the Stooges sort of antics,
which I thought was great. I just like, oh wise man eye.
But not too long after that, they're talking about well people use it as
a an exclamation or not, maybe not a curse. But you know,
when you're something you're first about Jesus, Mary and Joseph to fold it into
the line of like, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, what a great family
unit. I just liked it. It felt great. It felt like just
a you could you could feel the good will in the writer's room. When
that, when that was sort of jotted down, I was like, you
did well there, Yeah, yeah, it didn't feel forced. It all
organic. Yeah. Yeah. Now I'm trying to think what I am enjoyed
in the next one. I'm sorry, I saw Santa cussing. I saw
clause I think I mean it is I saw grabbed by cussing Santa Claus is
what it's called me. Yes, Listeners of our various programs will know that
one thing that brings joy to Guy's cold black heart, that makes it increase
three sizes, and not just via cholesterol, is fight his vice. Love.
It can't get enough of hearing fight his vis and just about any context
that's that's great. So when when Grandpa's brother Cyrus, who you know we
have not heard from and we will never hear from again after this story,
Cannon, just when he popped up and his like time to go fat in
the Pacific, Yeah, just give me a little bit more that that's great.
Um. Yeah, so I enjoy that very much. And um,
I don't know, I guess we can blow the ending. I'm sure that
anyone who watched who's listening to this podcast will have watched this episode, but
just the very listen to this podcast and you don't, and you aren't aware
that we spoiled the episodes. By this point you might want to rethink your
priority. Yeah, but just the very end of the what was it?
Sorry? The nutcaker of the nutwork is sweet. Yes, um, I
think both you and I in recent episodes when we're talking about season seventeen and
maybe a little earlier of The Simpsons, like, oh, it's such a
dick, You're always getting it wrong. You don't deserve Marge all this kind
of stuff. And when it comes to the very end where oh my,
I haven't got Marge to Christmas present, and he sort of runs around.
He now, he's doing his best. He's a fine one for yeah,
but it's just not working out, and he finally has to come home a
bit ashamed. Luckily, Marge knows her husband well enough that he probably would
forget to get her a present, so his so Marge's gift to Homer is
a gift for Homer to gift to Marge. And just the picture of it,
you know, the picture in the box of Homer in a Santa Claus
outfit and Marre just looking stoked to be sitting on his laps like this is
apex Homer and Marges. You know, this is how the relationship should be.
It's how any relationship should be. Everyone should have. You know,
if you've got someone in your life, hopefully you've got a photo of the
two of you where you look at you're looking at and go, oh,
yeah, that's that's us. That's that's how we should be. And I
don't know. I just I had a smile on face and I won't denied
a slight tear in my eye. Yes, I hundred percent agree. And
it was It was interesting because normally, if Homer forgets a present for Marge,
right, we'd be like, oh, what a shitty husband. But
the difference here was I feel like in other episodes he would have just gone,
oh, well next time, but he was. He was ashamed.
He raced out, he tried to find the present, and when he got
home he was embarrassed and he thought, oh god, I can't believe I've
done this to her. And then she gives him the present and it's just
like it was just so wholesome, and it's like, ah, I know
there will be some attractors out and say, oh, he was a shit
husband for getting in the first place. The way it all played out,
I really liked it. I think the message you take away from it is
you'd be fortunate if you if you have a partner who knows you better than
you know yourself. Yes, yes, they're a good team, and it's
like, oh, yeah, they are a good team. I wish we
had more good team margin Homer, but not the Homer that we've been getting.
It goes to show they can still do it. So why are you
doing this? But what did you enjoy? What were your favorite? Just
one more thing that that final segment, the Nutcracker segment that felt like Golden
ear a Simpsons Don't You Reckon? I honestly felt it felt like every gag
worked, everyone was there for a reason. It was just it was the
best of season seventeen so far. I reckon this this episode. I would
have to agree with you on that. I mean, like I said,
your favorite segment was the last one. My favorite was the second one.
But the second one also felt I mean, and so did the first one.
It really felt like this wouldn't be out of place in season eight nine
ten. Yeah, it really, but I enjoyed so that no one will
ever speak or right of this. Again, that's like it's the obvious gag,
But sometimes the obvious gags are the ones that worked the best. Cirrus
with his wives at the end, I said, wives, not girlfriends,
and I really enjoyed for I know you don't like really, but I loved
the dream sequence where you know, he's carving a turkey with the family pans
out. He's actually asleep in his shack pans out. He isn't drunken together.
That was okay, that's good use of Willie. Yeah, and they're
so frequent, you know, often there's bad use of Willie, usually in
my place. Anymore brain busters? All right, it's time for the blockbuster
brainbuster, mister Davis. Okay, original this episode was December eighteenth, two
thousand and five. What do you think so number one? I believe I've
already had mentioned this last week Number one King Kong that was on the top
three last week. Chronicles Narnia is still in number two, number three,
that was a new one. And the clue for you is Keaton. Keaton
at the end of two thousand and five. Okay, then I'm trying to
Yeah, I'm casting my mind back to two thousand and five. And naturally,
if we're thinking of Keaton, we tend to think of Michael Keaton,
don't we Yes, But I don't think I don't think he had anything high
profile out around this time, So we must go to another Keaton, the
second most famed Keating, although who opinion is very unless something to do with
Diane Keaton. I'm sure now I was thinking, is it? I was
trying to think when did the romantic comedy Something's Got to Give come out with
her and Jack Nicholson. I'm not too sure that I think it might have
been before two thousand and five. But what's what's what I'm thinking of?
That has Um that he won the Oscar for that's as good as it's get.
That's because they gets. That's what I'm thinking of. Yeah, and
that was Nactually that was like ninety seven on ninety eight or something. Um.
Also it also started Sarah Jessica Parker. I think I know what you're
talking about. I think I know what you're talking about. This is one
of those movies that's been reclaimed recently. As you know, you tend to
do when you're twenty years down the line, you know what's really good that
movie, and people who were there at the time go, it's not not
that good and you were four when it came out, or you know.
In this case, I think imagine, I imagine that a few people were
like teenagers or something like that and going, oh, well, it's a
it's a startlish, grown up romantic comedy, and I can really relate to
this character. This movie is called The Family Stone. It is indeed,
yes, am I right? You are? Indeed, so you don't recognize
that good I remember seeing it and hating it. Hating it. Yeah,
I think it's meant to be a kind of not anti romantic comedy. But
it's like all these characters are complicated and flawed, and it's like, now
these characters are annoying. Okay, I don't like being around any of them.
But it is one of those movies where occasionally you'll see people on Twitter
or social media going Christmas time, Time for the Family Stone. It's like,
well, no, it's time for a lump of and you're stocking.
What's a good movie? Like Elf? Next question? You there eating the
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cozy, then that little ugly sweaters. I know, like this is adorable,
hanging stuff off the off the line. Yeah, it's nice. This
was a nice episode. It was indeed, Yeah, I really captured the
Christmas Because we've had a couple of Christmas episodes in the last few seasons.
I felt like this one truly captured the Christmas vibe, didn't it? What
you? Yeah, I mean, what's the aspirational Christmas? Zybe? I
mean, of course we're you know, damn under here in Australia, we
have warm Christmas. I think growing up, you know, popular cultures to
teach you you know what's nice from Christmas? Cuddling up warm sweater's, a
chest that's roasting on an open fire, all that kind of stuff, And
I don't know, this gave you that warm and cuddly vibe. Well,
it really, like you were saying earlier about the seventies variety shows, it
felt like the kind of show you would have sat down with the family in
nineteen seventy seven and watched this, you know, season's Christmas special and just
for a little time, just for a half an hour or so, you
can stop being at each other's throats exactly. Yeah, yeah, just enjoy
the Christmas feeling together? All right, what's your first question for me?
When the Roman soldiers are charging in on the major What gospel is being written?
Who was writing a gospel at that stage? Ah? Was it Michael?
It was Matthew, Matthew Matthew. See, I'm not a religious person.
I just I've never read I'm assuming you've read the Bible. I've never
read the Bible, not from cover to cover. No, some people read
it all the time. They can just quote pages. I'm just like,
hey, that's what you want to do, go for a I just I've
never done it. Yeah, I've always I've always thought that I am an
idiot for not doing I've always thought of thought, surely everyone, at some
point, every mature adult has at least flipped through the Bible. No,
I'm not. I'm not laughing. It's got I would just love that.
Yeah, I don't know anyone who's read the laugh. Yeah. I know.
You were raised quite religiously, though, aren't you. Oh No,
not really. We went to church every Sunday. But I mean it's not
like we were saying grace at every meal or anything like that. It was
just like it's Sunday, We're going to church. Otherwise we're going to hell.
Yeah, okay. My first question is what was the type of battery
in them? In a special that was the Energizer Ultra It was indeed,
yes, oh so cold. What's your next one? You may have been
watching with the subtitles on this all you have to be in a ficionado of
nineties, not in thirties big band music. But what is the tune that
plays when Saris opens his watch. That's a American tale, Five of the
that's five of the Jewish Mouse. No, that's it's actually American patrol patrol
and it was it was American something. It was American woman. Yes,
who was who was it by Glenn Miller? Glenn Miller? That's right.
Yes. My next question is which to reindeer go missing? Is it Donna
in Blitzen? No, well he I think he yells those ones at the
start, but it's the one that's a star. And yeah, when I
was looking through my notes before we were doing this, I'm like, there
were the other two reindeer, and one of them is Rudolph I never much,
and I've forgotten the other one. It's not Donna a Blitzen because that's
what we just mentioned, not comment Prancer. Of course, Prance is gonna
go missing that guy's flighty. What is the name of Burns's gal back home,
Adette? That is Bernardette. Yeah. I thought that segment just worked
in a sense that it almost like it was just a callback to you know,
the Healthish episode, wasn't it? Burn Yeah? Yeah, I really
like that. My next question for you is what was on the tie that
Bart was going to buy for Homer one of your questions. You're looking at
your smiling bets. It's wide load. Yeah, I like that. Yeah,
we have one more in each in I've got one more, pretty easy
one. But you know, do you have any more? Fore before?
I got one more for me. If you want me, let me throw
it at you. And it's actually that who was throwing snowballs at at Krusty's
crotch? Oh shit, I just assumed it was kids in the audience.
Who was it? It was Martin Luther King Junior and astronaut John Glenn,
so they laugh. Were they throwing the snowballs or were they just guests?
I thought that I was just guests. I thought that was ah okay.
Well, as they say on game shows what Wow, I failed completely But
anyway, but really maybe maybe they were. Maybe I'm wrong, because that
would be hilarious if the other one there's a shipload of snowballs. It wasn't
deep And yeah, I wouldn't put it past one of the great civil rights
leaders at our time and you know, one of the pioneering astronauts. But
maybe not. And my final question is what does it say on Mo's little
chest plate? He writes a note tag? Is it? I was about
to say no organs for you, but I think it's no one gets my
organs. Yes, so, wasn't it. There's no reason to live but
reasonly but no one gets his organs though, So look, it runs a
very close second beyond the all time you know um of of Mo's suicide notes.
No funeral, no funerals. That's the greatest, isn't it. That's
such, that's that's just a meme before memes were even a thing. Just
the other no funeral, brilliant. That's always pique moly Because I'm like,
I'm usually down on like, you know, gags about committing suicide things like
that, but sometimes I just work they really do. And I mean,
this is a. This reminded me of an earlier time, a time when
I'm gonna t I'm gonna phrase this incorrectly or inelegantly, but when people were
less hung up on suicide or there were more gags about it. But essentially
those gags always had the resolution like life, life is actually worth living.
Yeah, you know, they sort of made fun of or made line of
the factor like most we'll just you know, have a noose or walk into
traffic or something like that. People still say it, but sometimes some people
say it now he's just like my lettle life of that. Yeah, here
sort of doomers all the times ago kill me, I want to do well.
We we had, we had the show just shoot Me. I think,
as we mentioned where we discussed it in the past, Yeah, precisely.
I mean, yeah, this was a prime time sitcomy. You would
just he was so fed up with your life. He wanted to someone to
just shoot you. But but what was your point going to be? Don't
tuck your point? Did you get you? Did you get you? Oh
no, no, I think I got it out that the not very well.
Clearly, the resolution of such gags was always oh no, no,
no, Life's actually worth living. What I liked about this too was that
Christmas isn't necessarily always a happy time for everybody, you know, so there
is the element of people who feel alone and sad and down during the holidays
when they set everybody else so happy and with their families. So it made
sense to include that as well, you know, like, yeah, it
was morbid, but it's also what happens at Christmas time. Unfortunately, they're
right, but there is a segment of the people of the community out there
that don't like Christmas for those reasons. To those folks, we say,
give it a week or so, the whole New year is going to kick
in, hit that reset button and subscribe to four Finger Discount. You'll be
fine. Well ye oh yeah, that's implied. Interestingly, this is the
three hundred and sixty fifth episode of The Simpsons, right, which means that
now you have an episode of four Finger Discount for every single day the year,
so you can listen to an entire year's worth, one per day.
I mean, we've got other episodes when we skipped forward and things like that,
but if you if you go in chronological order, we've got from if
you start on day one, Simpsons Christmas Special, you know all the way
through. It's not funny. It starts with the Simpsons Christmas Special and end
at the end of the year with the Simpsons Christmas Stories. You'd think they'd
have that in mind. It's almost like it was planned. Yeah, it's
odd had that happened, But I thought it was quite an interesting anyway.
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into a review of Simpson's Christmas Stories. The original air date was December eighteenth,
two thousand and five. It was written by Don Payne and Don Payne
I believe was nominated for an Emmy for this, but he lost to the
Italian Bob. Another fun episode of The Simpsons had a couple of games back
to back. They're on the way up season seventeen. They're on an upswing
the Yeah, they've found a little updraft and there, and they're taking advantage
of it. If I had to choose, if I was on the Emmy
voting, committeds one this one. Yeah, precisely. This one has far
more rewatch value than I feel the last one. This one I feel like
you can put on. I would watch this happily at Christmas time. Now,
this is one I've forgotten Christmas episode for me. Yeah, I think
everyone's got their little grab bag of Christmas entertainment. Yes, Christmas go to
that you have to watch every year because it just makes you feel all warm
and fuzzy inside. Yeah, I would happily put this on the bench.
Ye, it felt like that variety of that. I like to watch a
Christmas time. It's funny, what what is? What is it for you?
For me? And I've watched it every year without fail since I was
a kid. I've sw at the VHS tape. It's just that the tape,
it's silly and he goes for about thirty five minutes or so, but
it's the Hannah Barbara Christmas sing Along video. But it's just evide. It
turns on it's Hannah Barbara. It's Hannah and Barbara. What are their names?
I can't what their actual names are, like something, Hey, Hannah
Barbara, Hannah and Hannah Barbara. That's exactly right, yes, But they're
sitting there kind of like Trey Parker and Matt Stone in the in the South
Park Introy videos. It's like kids, hey, going but they buy the
Christmas tree, like welcome to the Hannah Barbara Christmas Special and it's just it's
so wholesome. But you can now find it on YouTube, so I was
watching it via YouTube these days, but I'm still at the VHS tape.
But that that's my go to every year I have to watch that. Do
you have like a go to every year that you have to watch? There
were there were a few I actually got, well, not Christmas Christmas,
but last Christmas. I did a back to back of your die Hard.
But it had been a while since I watched die Hard. I felt it
was going to be die Hard. Well yeah, I mean, but I'm
well, I think we've almost reached that event a horizon where you know,
for a while it was like, oh, die Hard's your favorite Christmas movie?
Here, Edgy good one, and now we've sort of gone even beyond
that where if you say that, people go, no, it's Christmas.
So I watched that and yeah, of course it's die Out. It's for
life, it's not just for Christmas. But then I double featured that with
The First Lethal Weapon, which is also a Christmas movie. I was like,
this is great late eighties, you know, gun play, people smoking
indoors. Yeah, so that was great. But a regular that I have
is a UK telemovie called Bernard and the Genie. Okay, I think it
was written by Richard Curtis, you know, the King of UK rom coms,
the Man behind Four Weddings, in a funeral does yeah said he does
not in Hill Yeah Yeah, yeah yeah, And it stars Alan Cumming as
a young man named Bernard who works as like a a personal assistant to this
rich tycoon played by Rowan Atkinson, who's just an absolute prick and a total
scrooge of a dude who you know, takes pleasure in. It's very much
a Burns and Smithers kind of relationship. And Bernard, you know, he's
a bit of a sad sack, but he finds he finds this magic lamp.
He gives it a rub and pops his genie. Played by the great
stand up comedian and actor Lenny Henry Um. He's been in the in the
in the Lamp for something like two thousand years. He used to hang out
with Jesus back in the day. And he's a bit of a character and
he makes life better for Bernard in ways that are both fun and troublesome.
It's it's great and it's it's all someone usually but I believe he can find
So it goes for about an hour or so. It's very very funny and
it's very very sweet. It's a Christmas special. It is indeed, Wow,
No No, it's it's Christmas Eve. Okay, I've never ever heard
of that. That sounds and it's like an all star cast. It's really
great. Yeah. I think it's early two thousands or late nineties. Okay,
yeah, I'm surprised. I've never heard of that. I'm going to
be looking it up. You said it's on YouTube, right, I believe
si. Let's you keep talking. I'm just going to look on my phone
for a sure. Where were we up to do? We even we'll talk
about Don Payne. Were just about the start directed by Stephen Dean Moore as
well the couch gag. There's no chalk Gate, but the couch gag was
out in the Springfield shopper comes up and says, cotch gag thrills the nation.
I was surprised I didn't have a Christmas couch gag. I think it
just would have made sense. True. Yeah, yeah, But anyway,
So the episode kicks off at the church and it's a Christmas service and he
says, jeezus two thousand and five years young and love. George's running late.
No one knows where he is home. He is jealous of the who
are the Episcopalians because compellions a. Yeah, they've got a nice flaky Eucharist,
and yeah, mam would really love to dip his hands into their fond
some nice saucy gags in this one, some rye ball You love your rye
baard gags, don't you? Yes, doesn't everyone indeed, So he calls
up Flanders. He calls Flanders on the phone. First you know, Christ
is born, who who's on the horn? And then you realized that the
trash the train has crashed. He loves his model trains. We ain't see
enough of love Joy's train models. I don't reckon because it's like a it's
a passion of here is that I've always got a kick out of. You
think they could just have it in the background every one, so just you
know, just to refresh our memories like this. Dude likes trains. Yeah,
and it's funny when people have things like this. It's they it's they
get away, so you never bother them when they're doing things like this.
But yes, the trains have crashed, so many ruined Christmases or whatever.
He says. Yeah, I don't know if it's sorry little sidetracking. Yeah,
it's one of the funniest things I've and sweetest things that I've seen.
Um, the singer Rod Stewart. Don't make people know who Rod Steward is,
but you know if you grew up in my areas, like Rod Steward's
that guy who likes to know bone all those models. Yeah, I live
the high life and all that kind of stuff. Then you're seeing them.
He's like, check out my model train care. He's got this massive one
that he's spent like twenty years building. And you're like, he's this globetrotting
rock star who's head, you know, more sex than a hundred other people.
Combine with glamorous ladies and it's like, love, I'm just going to
go down to the Why am I giving him a Cockney accent? He's Scottish.
You'd been doing a groundskeeper willing. He's like, I'm going to go
down to the down to the cellar and play with my trains at It sounds
like a great time to me. Yeah, And people are so passionate about
too, because when I was mons on morns of wild Man just to help
make ends meet when we first launched out the four figure Descent network, Yeah
I am there was a guy who subscribe, Yes, said a guy.
I had a train model thing in the background, right in the back garage,
and I made the mistake of asking him. He was like, you
want to see it? And I was like, oh yeah, sure,
I should never have said that, Honestly, guy, I just couldn't get
out of me. Hours later, Holy shit, he's gone through all these
trains and I'm like, it's cool, but I'm like, I've got shit
to do. Bate, but like, it's just this old guy, and
you know, he really lived by himself. I'm like, I'm going to
humor hi because he's clearly passionate about this. He doesn't get to show it
off enough. Go for it, mate, you know, and it made
his day. But that's that's very nice of you, man. But he
he asked ned to do the service, and depically he's not going to make
it. So he feels like he feels like he's born again again. And
he gets up papercut, faints the blood and then we get I've got here.
Though. The only annoying thing was this was like, it shows the
crowd again, Barney, Lenny, Carl whatever, there's a group shot.
Now they're the same. He got those three together and then has to chime
into something bring up the file. Yeah, I didn't enjoy Homer sayne,
does anyone need a hero? What if someone order a hero? He gets
up there, takes him. He does a good job. He doesn't fuck
it up. He really does, you know. Despite initial disruption from Squeaky
Boys team, Yeah, yeah, Homer's got a point. Bring back the
Horrible who was basically the Viking version of Homer. He tells the story of
the First Christmas. So Homer is, Joseph marches Mary and she's pregnant.
So who's the angel that least is playing? Is she just an angel?
Or does this angel have a name? I think just an angel. I'm
trying to recall who the angel that sort of delivered the good word, all
the all the bad news to uh Mary and Joseph was I want to say,
Gabriel. Okay, but I could be completely wrong. Mary, it's
not all She's full of quiet you Mary. You carry in your womb the
son of God who will grow up to become King of the Jews. Not
a doctor. Well, he will be able to heal the sick, but
nothing to hand the war and the Three Wise Men then arrived with gifts for
the for the king, but not this king for the newborn child. And
who's burns playing again with his name King Herod. King Herod yes, and
he's not impressive with this. He's very upset, and he says kings don't
hurt babies, but giant pointy swords will. Oh my, by the way,
it's time to ask an answer once again. We all know what gold
is, but what is frankinsense and mr Apparently if you combine those two elements
together you get a very nice sort of healing ointment. Someone's been on Wikipedia.
There you go. Well, thanks for the heads up with Now the
Bethlehem in which is run by moh, don't you worry. I got plenty
of rooms of my inn oh with brand new carpeting. I want to just
broke. You can have the barn and I feel free to come by the
main house for breakfast. There won't be any doctor Nick arrive Shalam everybody or
the animals say hello Toots Nick back to him. I've got to kick out
of the the Caesar gag here as well. Caesar just amended the Cesarean as
a sorry, get here in the fuck out of here. Then bart is
born, baby Jesus is born, I should say, and he's got the
Messiah's nose, not you the other one. And then Homer attempts to drink
some wine and bart fucks it up, doesn't he He does in day the
seeds of the eternal conflict planted right there. But look props to home.
Whereas Joseph, I mean Joseph's you know, he's the embodiment of that T
shirt that says I'm not the step dad, I'm the dad that's stepped up.
M Yes, he says he's gonna be a great family unit. As
she says, you know. First of all, though he starts choking him,
so you can't do that. List So you can't do that, because
he's going to be wait till he's thirty three, I believe, and he's
gonna be crucified for Jesus age. Yes. And then but he's crying or
a night, Jesus crying all night, and Joseph says, you know,
you can't help. He's watching the Orange Bowl. Then he realizes that that
pain a physical comedy makes him laugh. Reminder me, have you ever seen
Monsters inc? Of course, yes, there's a scene in Monsters inc where
he realizes that making When Mikey does play by Billy Crystal does physical comedy,
it makes her laugh, which generates more power obviously, but it reminded me
of that moment. It's very very similar. It's like, oh, this
is how this is how you laugh? You want you know, physical comedy
A and they do the three students routine that you mentioned earlier, and he
falls asleep, and this is where they're like, you know what, we're
going to be a nice family unit. Now is all going to work?
And then King Herod arrives Manger danger major danger and lose a little bit,
lose a little bit concerned. Are be sure you want to be like killing
a baby? You could look bad for us. I don't know I'll ever
speak or right of this again. And they follow the glow, but the
glow is unfortunately a duck put the halo on the duck and to stop the
army, Joseph cuts a tree and it rolls down and it knocks everyone over.
They get stuck to it and because of the flames and there's a duck
stern still on top of the halo, it appears like a Christmas tree.
Oh it worked for me. I liked it. Yeah, not a Haneker
bush, but a Christmas tree. Christmas tree, yes, not a Honeker
bush. Some people look at this and think that's pretty corny and obvious,
but I liked it. It made sense. But you like Christmas? Yeah?
I did like Christmas, Yes, but I did like the way there's
all wrapped up with Homer at the lecter and I'm saying, and that baby
Jeers grew up to be Jesus. WHOA, Yes, I don't know why.
I'm a suck of that line every every time it happens in the census,
you know, when they do the um like the old time radio thing,
Where was I and that little boy grew up to be Joe McCarthy whoa
Yeah, it makes me laugh every time. The second segment, which was
I Saw Grandpa cussing Santa, starts off with Barton Lisa watching the Crusty Christmas
Special. I'm mashooming and I think it was actually the Energizer Bunny Christmas Special.
Trusty was later in the in act three. Yes, watching the Energizer
Bunny Christmas Special ats right, and yeah, just ran a Christmas ship and
then Grandpa falls out of the Chimney sitting up a trap for Santa, and
he's like, well, what are you doing? What? Whyould you wanna
do that? And Barton regrets that follow up question because he goes on to
tell the story of how he is in World War two with his brother Cyrus,
who will never be mentioned again, and how Santa screwed him over.
I just, like I said, original story, and it worked to fit
the characters. Nothing seemed silly. It was very fun. It was indeed,
dandis having a model train flashbags at this moment, like a no,
don't ask him yes, don't ask for a story, don't make this old
man's day, make him feel lonely. I was a Navy pilot in the
Pacific alone with my big brother Cyrus. Cyrus, he never mentioned him before,
and I'll never mention him again, but I loved him all the same.
Okay, Hey, let's win this walk quick so we can go home
and slowly give black folks more rights. And then the chemic cars has arrived.
This is very similar to the bus that couldn't slow down. Gay,
Hey, it's those planes that crashed into the boat. What are they called
it? So Cyrus says, you know he's got his good luck charms,
so he'll be fine. He's good luck charm is the pocket watch and it
plays which songs to Davis plays American Patrol Blay the Glenn Miller Band. Yes,
unfortunately they get shut out of his hand. But good thing he sold
too off the dead soldiers. Burns is the lieutenant, so he's in the
back of the of the plane with Grandpa, and Grandpas does tell Cyrus and
he's got people tailing him and he's trying to look after himself. But Burns
is too busy talking to his old He's girl back home, Bernard. I
mean, if you're in the war and you finally get ahold of your girlfriend
back in America, you're gonna be talking to her, That's true. You
are going to be hogging the two way and you get a chance to speak
to your bear's gal. Do tell him radio my brother and tell him to
watch his tail. Quiet you, I'm talking to my best girl. I
miss you too, burning Into you hang up first, No, you hang
up first, No, you hang up first, No, you hang up
first. Russ, You'll pay for that, you high coop spouting savages.
Is there anything more annoying than no, you hang up, No, you
hang up. That's like I've never done that. I always hang up show
his boss. But the thing is, I remember being yeah, you know
it teenage you with the text messages, and I remember it was just like
good night and then others and say good night. It's like, is that
end of the conversation, whip? I supposed to say something back that's cute,
like what do I what do I do? What do I do?
This still happens to this day with me. I mean, you know,
there will be occasions when I will text the lovely Louise good night and she
will text back, and I want to leave it them. I'm going to
send one little love hearts on that, which would be saying I thought you
were going to sleep, Yes, stop bothering me, it's late, um.
And then then you delete your number new phone. Can you please do
that one time to Louise. I'd love to see the result. The point
Dando brings back Mitch because guys too clinically depressed. It's a podcast new hosts
who dis new host is Mitch, but then they unfortunately also get shot down.
They end up washed up on an island. Of course, you heard
what Grandpa's as he plumdered to I wish I tried refa. Was it correct?
Yes? I am. I like Grandpa taking charge here. It's good
seeing young Grandpa when he's not just this, you know, feeble old man.
He's virile. Yeah yeah, and Birds is trying to take control because
this, this and this fit the band's character. What lalah gagan and built
up fire. I don't have to listen to you and this island. Military
rank means nothing. We're in a state of nature where the strong of will
control the week. How dear you drown the king of New Burns Island.
How do you like to be the archduke jurge of Coconuts? So he says,
the Grandpa's taking charge, He's running the show here. Day's turned to
weeks, turned to months, turned back to days, back to this,
Yes, and then envisions Grandpa. I envisions bits of birds as a woman
eyes up here, soldier, that's um. That's by the way, World
War two era movie star and a blonde bombs Betty Grabel said she was OK.
Yeah, well that's she's meant to be. Sort of an iconic image
of Betty Grabel, who's renowned for her legs more than anything else. True,
there's a sort of an iconic image of her in a bathing suit and
she's gone her back to the back to the camera, but sort of looking
back over a shot. I shouldn't have done that while I'm recorded. She's
got looking back over her shoulder. Yeah, quite coquettishly. And I think
that helped these a lot of lonely nights for a lot of lonely guys during
w W I I I think the Simpsons have taken off that image quite a
bit. I think so. Yeah, you can tell the generation of of
early Simpsons writers. At least, I think there were probably a few a
few boomers in the writer's room. So their hopes of being rescued have faded.
Now it's Christmas Eve and they're just setting up the little They've got a
nice set up, now, haven't they. That's sort of the sort of
work they've conceded. Oh this might be it for us, So let's just
let's just make this work. And Burns gives him a he's offering, and
it's shaving cream, but which is made out of seagull brains and snail goo.
But at least this is mate given him something, you know, may
do it what they can. And then they hear something to hear something over
in the sky. What is it, mister Burns, I don't care,
it's Christmas. I want to shoot something, and he shoots it down.
They realized that Santa slay. This was I really like this. So he
yells out for the reindeer. Oh he's German. That's good eating. Well,
if you heard someone say Donner and blitz and you've been like, oh,
okay, yeah, that's definitely Germans, exactly, Yeah, it makes
sense. And this is where they promised to get the slave back up and
running for him or my name is not young grandpass shipson, and we get
the montages and fixing it up. Did you see the name of the sleigh,
the new name? They called it naughty or naughty or nice? Yes,
And then the reindeer is unfortunately, Rudolph has been eaten by a snake
and Pranter is missing as well, assumed also eaten by a snake. So
it Burns. Santa's about to leave and Burns backstabs him. I'm like,
ah, classy, Burns, He'll turn How did I see this coming?
I didn't see it coming. I was like, Oh, of course,
of course this is what's going to happen. The face turn would be more
sort of yeah, it's like what the hill turns, just natural. Burns
just waiting it out until he's right to the right moment, and bam,
the old cooking out in the head. He flies off with the sleigh and
Grandpa's human even let him spoon me, and then he jumps on the all
the reindeer tries to resascitate Santa first, but then he jumps on top of
him and flies. I like this action sequence. I've Grandpa riding the raindegain.
Yeah. So this apparently the action sequences in this episode were difficult to
animate, so the animated the background as one one first, and then they
did the foreground second. So Grandpa and the reindeer and mister Burns was animated
by itself and then put over the top of the background animated separately because it
was too hard. There's too many moving things in the background to go to
animated altogether, particularly the scene with the planes, because somebody planes flying in
the background. So they animated all the background planes and then animated the foreground
and blended them together. I think we can all agree that they came together
quite nicely. They did, indeed, yes, But so he shoots the
reindeer, but it doesn't have as much impact because it's not bleeding anything.
It's it's treating it like at the plants. It's like it's like it doesn't
really sort of go. You don't go, oh, poor reindeer, because
Grandpa eventually jumps off the reindeer, lands on burns and beats the shit out
of him with a tricycle. I want to say, tricycle with a trisycle.
Yes, And this is where they've the rescued, the rescue Santa now,
and Santa says that you know, I'll take you. Um, I'll
take you. I'll go finish my ship, I'll go do my job,
and then I'll come back to take you home. And if it gets to
do so, he never does, does does? I waited and waited,
but Santa never came back. If I hadn't invented a jet scheme, made
a coconut, I'd have never gotten home. And then when I did,
the war was over and the nurses were all kissed out. That's quite a
tale, Grandpa, What did you little? It's true? I cheld you.
It's Santa. I got an old scart a settle God God, and
I missed him again. My brother's lucky watch sounds I must have laughed at.
I wish I miss you every day. A very sweet moment, wasn't
it? That was nice? Yeah? And was sorry. It was a
Don Paine who said that Jean dum Paine wrote the episode of Largogene. Yeah.
Yeah, and I think el Jean had a point. I mean,
that would have been a really traditional Christmas Christmas e way to end it.
Yeah, I'm torn. I'm fifty I'm maybe sixty percent. Yeah, leave
it there. But the the other forty percent is like, no, no,
it's not too bad the way it ends. Although I looked up poko,
poko, miku, nnet oh boy a mines some listen now, No,
no, it actually doesn't come up. You know, um it sounds
like looky, it sounds it sounds ribald. Yeah. Miku apparently is like
a Japanese word for beautiful. Okay, so something else as well. Hold
one second, I might be able to find out. But it does when
you combine the two. It doesn't necessarily mean anything sexy or romantic. It's
just an exotic couple of words that sounded more exotic together they do. Indeed,
Yes, So basically, Grandpa I saw Santa tells Grandpa that Cyrus never
died, he crashed the head, he never left, and he says,
you'll take Grandpa there, And then when they get there, Santa's excuse,
Oh, I kept putting it off, and then I just got too embarrassed.
We've all been there, right, Oh God, yeah, you're putting
something off, putting it off. Then You're just like, now, I'm
just gonna pretend that that person doesn't exist anymore because I'm too embarrassed to acknowledge
that I've let this go too long. We've all, we've all, we've
all been there. And then Cyrus says he's been busy with his fifteen Native
wives. It sounds like a lot of sex. I said, why it's
not girlfriends? And then the no pokmical for Cyrus. It definitely sounds like
sex. I won't. I thought it was funny, it really does.
The final segment is the Nutcracker Sweet and It's Nutcracker Special. End of view
play at school, perhaps the worst ever since Superintendent charm is a good review.
No leaving after your kid's part has done as well, so it says
on the front and I think it's over, but it's just intermission. But
everyone just leaves anyway, and Lego continues to taunt the children. Then I'm
assuming time has a lapse because it cuts to the family then walking down the
street, and Lisa was on stage at that point. But Oblahoma says he
never wants to hear the nutcrack of music again, and Lisa says, well,
you're gonna have to because it's in public domain, which means everyone's gonna
use it. I didn't know that until watch this episode. I didn't realize
it was probably done. They are the same here. I've started on a
bate my Christmas pie. I've got to get that a lousy tie. Christmas
crowds wild hide time left you blue, Christiny to move your ash let me
Christmas Eve? Wise, the sand does suit so snug? Why should they
kid? It's soul bog have jucked my place, says up so hie.
But let's not junk this upsot Christmas Eve. Here these holiday cookies swell my
catch. Yeah, cat, even though we're not gentile, will get together
for a while. The Christmas Eve is here. Christmas is a family.
I don't grumba we'd be awake Christmas. E fine, spend Christmas Eve with
the raccoons. It got me a gift, D said, Lord, I
shouldn't have. I love that. I love the Jewish tradition of eating Johnny's
food on Christmas, which uh, you know, apparently happened because it started
in New York. App the Jwish community. In the Chinese community, they
sort of their neighborhoods were closed by that's nice. And the Chinese was one
of the few communities that wasn't really anti Semitic, and they sort of said,
yeah, come on in and have a bite to way, We're happy
to We're happy to feed you. And that's and it became a tradition that
was just ongoing. Maybe we should all just have Chinese Christmas time. But
that is a night that is very I didn't know that. That's a very
nice story. But then they spending sending Grandpa out to spend Christmas Eve raccoons.
I just loved their little ugly sweaters. Then we get the Krusty Special
and he plays his most requested clip from the nineteen sixty four It's the snowballs
in the balls and John Glenn and Martin Luther King of they're laughing at him.
Then we get Mo's annual tradition attempting suicide to dance of the flutes,
and yeah, very funny. Montage just slept through the traffic, just his
face of just like fuck and the gum with the Christmas flag that very Christmas
on the other side. Then you think, then you think he's he's putting
his head in the oven, but he's actually serving Barney a nice Christmas roast
and says he look at ham. Yeah, nice looking. He says,
can you kill me? He's like, oh what is wall? Oh?
Maybe next year? And that was I was just very sweet. It is
nice. Then we get I think the best part of the whole thing.
Where as we discussed earlier Homer and Marge. This was very It was just
nice to see Homer and Marge not squabbling, loving each other happy. I
was like, you can do this, please, can we get more of
this? So Homer has forgotten his present for Marge. So and this is
to the tune of I would Trey pack Trapak and he goes to the quickie
mart and all that's left is turkey made of trout. So then he returns
and he's all somber and he's sad and embarrassed, and Marge is waiting for
him and they're just the music and then look on her face and it's like
she knows that he's forgotten, but she's like, don't worry, I've got
this, and she gives the gift to him, and it's a gift for
her. And it's the photo of them, of hom address as Sancho and
her on his lap, and they're all just having a great time. And
like you said, it does break a tear to your right, doesn't it.
It really does. They just looked so happy together, and both in
the photo and in real life. And yeah, as I said before,
it's good of a part of who knows you as well as you know yourself,
if not better. Yeah, it's nice to see Horror and March having
fun together without the kids around as well. Correct. Yeah, snuggling in
front of the fire on Christmas Eve. Ye, lovely, It is lovely.
And it ends with most sliding by a little callback to his little moment
before with to all and to all, a good night on the banner and
here an eighteen Wheeler eighteen wheels No Miss Me and that was that. Yeah.
I just I was so surprised with how much I enjoyed this. It
was just this was a great Christmas special from the Simpsons. Well done,
Don Payin, Well done Don Payne and everyone involved. Merry Christmas everyone.
Yeah, I mean no, just I was going by the title, which
is as generic as it gets. Yeah, I was like, I was
like, oh my god, they could even think of an interesting name.
It's going to be shit. Yeah, I think they're going to be putting
in twenty five percent effort to this one. You know, this is a
not quite mid season that. You know, it's like we might we're a
bit time, we're running on a bit of m d Let's just and no
brought the a game a they did. Indeed, they're definitely one of the
better ones we're reviewed in a long time. You bet. What do we
learn? Bomber? So what did you learn from the episode? Mister Davis?
Don't have fifteen wives? Settle for maybe like ten girlfriends might get some
Poko Miku. I learned that they can give us good Homer and March stories,
so give us more of them. That's it. Forward, Your name
trill be all right, it's time for the Guy Davis New Name Championship.
The current leaderboard stands at this in first position, Luke McKay on nine points,
Heath Apple beyond seven points in second position, and in third position,
we have a two way tie. Can you do you say two way tie
or just a tie? It's three way tie when two people yeah, yeah,
and the three way dies when three people yes. And Norah Coker and
Fergus Jess both of five points in third position. All right, So what
have we got this week? Mister Davis? Right, a lot of good
entries this time around, but I've decided to just go one, two three
with the points and the first point. The single point goes too. It's
the wonderful time of the year. That works very well. We've definitely bought
that. That would have been more interesting title for this episode. That sipsons
Christmas stories. Great. That's Richard Gayfer for one point. First time Richards
received points on the leader board. But I'm Richard, long time listener,
first time point getter. Nice one. Yes, it's a long time listener.
Maybe he's not two points four and you know, I like my dolls.
It's the dope trinity. Oh not bad. That is Matthew Polido also
first time on the leaderboard. Two points by I'm Matthew. Oh my gosh.
We're making all manner of new buddies at Christmas time. That's great,
but three points the gold goes to a Christmas trilogy. Oh Christmas trilogy that
is. Oh it's our man Steve Roberts, who whenever we do our patron
monthly zoom calls, he's calling us from work in a factory. He's always
around heavy machine. Whey. We're like Steve lose a finger. But Steve
Roberts has the first time he's appeared on the leader board. So three movies
this week. Well done everybody, So the leader board hasn't changed as well.
It makes my job. It's a Christmas miracle, all right. So
that means the leaderboard still is Luke McKay in first position, Heather would be
in second, and Norah Coker and Fergus Jeffs with a two way tie in
third position. Debail is here. Okay, dokey, mister Davis. We
have some male bad questions that have come through for us, like a Santa
sack full of the messengers you might say a sack full of male bad questions.
Indeed, this one here comes from Harrison McClure. Harrison says, do
you guys have any personal Christmas Eve slash Day Boxing Day traditions? We've already
discussed that. I think we've liked the specials that we like to watch.
And I always watch Christmas Carol on Christmas Day's, usually in the morning when
because my parents come over and my uncle's come over to watch to open the
presents and stuff. When they go, I just to Christmas Carol on in
the background, and it's just it's just I to have it on, not
necessarily watching it. It's just it's just seeing it that it's there makes it
feel like hostess to me. Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
Certainly on a Christmas morning, I will, well, I put on something
like maybe Scrooged or It's a Wonderful Life if I haven't seen it on Christmas
Eve, and I'll have that in the background while I am preparing what I'm
going to bring to the Davis Family Christmas smorgest board. Yeah, and we
passed a salad back in the day before you could pick and choose, you
know, I used to really enjoy when they'd always have like the Christmas marathons,
and it was like all the very sitcoms having their Christmas specials back to
back to back to back. It was just nice. But my Boxing Day
tradition for a while there. Um dooty great sandwich out of out of Christmas
leftovers, you know, mostly salad, but a lot big whack at turkey
in there. Um. Sorry, I hope the cops aren't listening. Smoke
a little bit of reef and watch the Lord of the Rings trilogy so you
can get down of a plane now, won't matter. That's good. I
wish I tried my reever hero. This one's from Andrew JP. What's your
favorite Christmas movie? We've discussed this. He's a diehardened Batman Returns, so
he's amount of taste. Yes, Pat Wright, would you rather Alliott this
one for me? I guess would you rather Alliott ruined Santa Claus for all
the kids in kinder or have him ruined it for Holly kids? And kind
don't give a shit about those kids to quote Michael Jordan, those kids.
But the thing is, did he actually say that? I don't think he
did, but it became his mame. You can just teacher Michael Jordan.
I'm like, it's feasible, it really, And I love how no one
really sort of begrudges him, the fact that he's like a prick because he's
Michael Jordan, because he's so good and he backs everything up. He's just
like, I am better than you, and if you think you better,
I'm gonna make you realize you're fucking not. But that he was like,
okay, okay, that that doco on Jordan on Netflix is one of the
best docos I can I've ever seen in my life. It's so good.
It's incredible, isn't it. It's actually what's so great about that is that
the last Dance that was just called the Last dast Dance, Yeah, is
that it's all this like HD footage of like peak NBA era that no one
had ever seen before. It was like amazing. It'd be like seeing this
full HD like doco of like Star Wars being made behind the sceneshit that you've
never seen before. What's what's a doco you'd love to see behind the scenes
of a movie of all this HD footage that you've never seen before. If
you could choose like one one era or what one film series or TV series
where it's just you know, three hours of footage or well that was would
be like nine hours of footage, wouldn't it. I'm just like maybe.
I mean, they made this this ten hour dramatized version of the making of
The Godfather called The Offer okay um, which I watched a little bit of
him was like part of this is a good part of this, Most of
this is not, but the way that all came together, all the drama
that's involved with it. I mean, I'd love to see an actual,
really good, in depth documentary which sure probably exists or probably as being made
or been made. But you know, all the people that were looking forward
to play all these various iconomic people and bringing the cast they did get together,
I don't I think that'd be fantastic. I'd love to see behind the
scenes making of that, all right, Whether you have a guys. That
is our review of Simpson's Christmas Stories, Like I said earlier, and absolutely
pleasant surprise, just an absolute joy to review. To be completely on ess
no, I would be Christmas fan, but I just had a great time.
This is just a whole bunch of fun to review, wasn't it,
mister Davis, It certainly has. This was a fun episode. It was
nice to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year a few months early,
eight months early. Let's be honest. I'm never going to pass up an
opportunity to celebrate Christmas time. But I don't forget guys. Continue to rate
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Paternity could hopefully these season seventeen good trend can continue. But this has been
our review of Simpson's Christmas Stories. Mister Davis. Any final words for those
incredible listeners out there, Well, my Christmas wish is more poku miku for
a guy.