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Four Finger Discount, dude, welcome to fourth Finger Discount of the podcast that
are certainly adequate, and we're here to review episode j b F zero five.
It is My fair Laddie. I am Dando, and I am guys
sitting here comfortably on my complex heinie. All our Hine's somewhat complex. There
is individual as your fingerprints. I mean, I like to think that I
could pick your Hinnie out of the lineup, Dando. I but certainly stared
out long enough. I was a bit nervous going into this episode. I'm
not gonna lie because you know it's Willy and we all know that you don't
like the Willie, and you know, I look at this and I was
like, it's the one that's all about the Willie, and I realized I
didn't realize I was a kid. I'd revisited this one since I was a
child, and I didn't realize it was my fair Lady takeoff, and I
rewatched it. I was like, oh, it's a musical one. He's
all right, And I actually really enjoyed the song, so I thought it
was actually a bit of fun. Well look, I mean I don't want
to be um damn it with faint praise, but nor overpraising. And so
I will say that the the central song of this episode summed up the episode
quite perfectly. Wouldn't it be adequate? This is a very adequate episode.
I mean, it did not disappoint, but nor did it nor did it
appall? You know, I was, yeah, I was fairly happy with
it. I mean, yes, I've been. I've gone on the record
about Yeah, I'm not the hugest fan of grand Keeper Willie. I think
it can be a bit one note and they're not not necessarily to my palette,
but I've found his journey in this touching, interesting, compelling. I
was rooting for the guy, and because I'm always rooting for Willie, and
you put four in between those two ways, right, that is correct?
I hope you are hope you all heard that. I hope it's on the
record that I am in fact rooting for Willie and not anything else, not
that there's anything wrong with that. American listeners are probably going, the hell
are they talking about it? It's cheering for Yeah, not many people will
remember the Mel Gibson nineteen ninety nine action thriller Payback, but the American post
has got the tagline get ready to root for the bad guy. And when
the Australian distributors saw that post that are like, we're going to change that
because routing here means something entirely different. I mean, we know we do
say root for the root for this route for that, but has has several
meanings here in the show. It does it does? I think, you
know, I don't think we'd say go on, get down and get in
your park and root for Geelong. It's more like, why don't you come
down and barry for the home team. Yeah, it's funny. It reminds
me of one of my favorite Simpsons memes. It's the cho Cho Choose you
Valentine's card for someone put makes it a knt rue and says, i'd ru
ru rucha Australia classy, classy players. As I was saying earlier though,
that you know you don't like Willy, and I thought this is going to
be as a horrific twenty two minutes for guy. But I'm watching this thinking,
surely he's enjoying this to some extent because this is this isn't the Willy
that we're used to. Obviously, this is um, you know, he's
a change man. My fair lady take off. And I thought Willie was
pretty much when you think of all the springfield, probably the perfect subject when
you're taking off, my fair lady, what are your thoughts? I would
think, so, yeah, yeah, because I mean, he is It's
either him or Mo, isn't it. And we've sort of had Mo made
over, haven't we? Well maybe maybe clearis Clearis is more like a hill
Willy though is a bit different, isn't it? That's true? Yeah,
yeah, And I don't know, I think we've had a little more exposure
to Willie. Oh my god, there's gonna be so many Willie jokes whatever.
I didn't even mean that one. That just that just came out,
if you know what I mean. But I think we know a bit more
about Willie than we do about Cleetus. I mean, if Willie is one
note, Cletus is a quarter of one note. Yeah. So I mean
I think you can definitely have a little room to move in, a little
room to explore with groundskeeper Willie, whereas of Cletus. I mean you'd have
a bit of a heavy lifting to do, filling in his backstory and fleshing
out his personality before you then even changed it. I think a lot of
the time too. Obviously, I think he has been gradskiper will He's been
in the show longer than Cleetus has, but a lot from all of Cletus's
scenes, it's always been a case of us laughing at him. Whilst that
is the case for Willie as well, I think a lot of the time
we still have a a chance to laugh with Willie as opposed to just laughing
at him, because he gets jokes in there sometimes as well, you know
that greased me up woman, things like that, And I just think we've
had long time viewers have had more of a chance to be more sympathetic towards
grand Skipper Willie than they have Cletus. So I think having him as a
subject, and this one was a far better choice than say Cletus, because
it clears for me, whilst I've laughed at him, it's I would be
happy, even by season twelve thirteen to not see Cletus anymore. I just
don't need it that the joke's been run into the ground. Now, I
don't need any more clear dis gags. You're one hundred percent right. I
don't think he doesn't really add anything to the show other than just the occasional
bump punchline at the expense of you know, some toothless hick. I don't
think it's necessary. I don't think it adds anything. Oh yeah, he
could very easily fade into the distance and we'd beat him a not even a
fond where well, just see you by so long? Do you have many
memories of My Fair Lady? Have you? You've seen the film? Yeah,
I mean I guess it's a speaking of someone who sort of grew up
in the seventies and eighties. It's one of those movies like Wizard of Oz
or Sound of Music. Felt like a bit of an event when it was
on. Yeah, it was kind of a big deal. And I think
it's a longish movie as well as it was one of those ones that have
to start it a little early in the traditional time, the traditional sort of
eight thirty movie start. I mean, it's like we're gonna put this on
a bit earlier so the kids can stay up and watch all of My Fair
lady, even though any average child is going to go, what what is
the point? Why why am I watching? Because I do remember it being
it sounds like a bit of an exaggeration, but it felt almost felt like
a bit of an event whenever they put Wizard of Oz on a because it
started a bit earlier, and just because it went for so long, it
was like, you know, in for a marathon to this movie, throwing
the movies long, throwing the commercials as well. It drags it out to
like three four hours. Absolutely it did. Yeah, yeah, But this
is also one of those musicals, my fair Lady, where some of the
songs and some of the lines from and just the general story gets repeated so
much and so often that it sort of you enters into your DNA eventually,
so you know, you'd find yourself humming, mmm, wouldn't it be lovely?
All that kind of stuff. So yeah, I mean, it's not
necessarily a an all time classic or anything like that, but it's certainly one
that I imagine a lot of people would have fond memories of, certainly of
my generation. Even if you're not going to count as one of your all
time favorites, I'm pretty sure wasn't it one of the longest running show stage
shows. It's certainly with stage shows, yeah, I mean it's I think
it's one that gets revived every now and again. You know. I think
Aliza do Little the central character who gets transformed from this very cockney flower girl
to you know, a lovely lead it m Yeah, it's a real sort
of meaty role for an actress to really think their teeth into and make the
most off. It's sexual politics and all that and class politics are very very
retrograde, I think. I mean, you'd have to give it a bit
of a onceber I think if you will bring you back in twenty twenty three,
or you would have to be sort of doing it with a bit of
a wink. You know. It's like, we don't really think like this
any more, do we. You know. It's like it's perfectly all right
for Eliza to you know, speak a bit night act. You know,
it's probably a bit more. It's probably a bit cooler in all honestly than
being push or shows like Jordie Shawl certainly helped that exactly right. Another reason
to justify Willie being the choice for this episode obviously, because whilst he's not
Cockney. He's got that Scottish accent, so he's from that that side of
the world, so sort of it falls into place. But yeah, but
definitely, But yeah, I just thought the Adequate Song in particular, because
the songs were called Adequate, not on my Clothes, Indoors all Night,
and Longing for the Shack, they were the force simponized versions of the song
names. I thought the Adequate Song in particular reminded me of the Sharry Bobbins
episode. Oh yeah, yeah, I just thought I just had that upbeat
adequate. Everyone's sort of like happy, they're all I like when the Simpsons
family or singing the song and getting along together at the same time. It's
as always, it's always a lot of fun that way. It is nice,
even if you have to see Homer sitting on the toilet. It's like
it takes exactly what you need. But you know, as long as everyone's
part of the fun. Yeah, Look, the My Fair Lady soundtrack is
of course one of the most popular in you know, sort of Broadway history
or musical theater history. So yeah, it's only a natural that the Simpsons
crew, who seemed to be musical theater aficionados would really relish the opportunity to
put their own stamp on it. Yeah, and they did. Yeah,
these these were Look, I was taking the mickey a little bit before when
I said, yea perfectly adequate because these are a little bit above adiquated Shaw,
we say it's it's I don't think you're disappointed all that. Often when
the Simpsons decided to throw a few songs into the mix, they usually do
a pretty darn good job of it, and I think they did so this
time around. Well, the writer Michael Price, he says he really loved
to be able to Sicky's teething because he's one of them. He's like the
aficionado when it comes to stage shows on the Simpsons writing team. So he
loved writing the songs. But obviously, he said, by the time he
got to the to the screen, they'd all contributed and rewritten the songs here
and there. But um, but yeah, I thought he did a really
good job. I thought Dan in particular, did a good job of Willie's
voice, making him sound Lardi Da but not sounding too much like Site because
he does side show mel as well. It could have very easily driven to
that sort of area, but no, he was um, he kept it.
It still sounded like Willie, but just more lard. I thought he
did a really good job of particularly the singing voice as well, because yeah,
yeah, no, a refined version of of Graund's gable Willie, just
taking the rough sort of burr edge off it and yeah, but maintaining a
nice little it's like a very nice single malt goes down smooth. Yeah,
and as well discussing with our chat with Jeff but Jeff Bosh, the composer
of Bluey. Congratulations by the way, Jeff job sorry on new Yeah on
the release of your Blue Volume two, which came out a couple of weeks
ago to a huge success. It's the vinyl that he was discussing on the
on the podcast is worth like four or five hundred dollars now and eBay,
it's hot property. I managed to get my hands on once. I'm very
happy about that on the on the Zoo type Blue Volume two vinyl. But
as he was discussing in that ALF class and he's he's dealings with Alf and
he's the classes he went to. So what they did was they wrote the
songs. He sent them to Alph and then he rewrote the score for this
episode because this episode has its own unique score, which I think just think
it was really fantastic the way he sort of all pieced it altogether, because
he actually on the Simpson I think it's Simpson's Testified, which is like the
third Simpsons album of music. You can get the medley on there, and
he also plays the the medley at the end of the credit. It's just
all the songs blended into each other, but it's just the music, and
you just think it's really lovely music. We've said it before, but I
think we should say it again because it bears repeating. I don't think alf
Clawson actually gets enough love every though we give him asure of love on this
show. I mean, he's not a household name, like a John Williams,
you know what I mean, Like my mum would not not even a
Danny Elphan exactly. Yeah. Yeah, And I mean, of course Danny
deserves his flowers for Graham. The Simpsons theme it's iconic, which it's funnily
enough, so many people don't know that he did that for his movie scores,
but it's like, no, he you wrote the Simpsons them in about
fifty minutes on the way home. Oh my god. So when you say
that to people, it's like he's actually got that going for him as well,
which is nice. But yeah, Alf sort of ties it all together.
It seems like he's got a lot more degree of difficulty going on here,
Alf Clausen, but he just did continually, continuously marvelous work there.
Yeah, this episode is a really good example of that. I know,
when we talked to Jim Cummings will saying that, you know, so many
people say that he's the voice of their childhood, you would argue that,
no, for a generation of viewers, Alf Clausen created the music of our
childhood. Like all that background music, it was always there. But you're
concentrating on the characters and the dialogue, but that music is always there.
You know, There's something to be said for composers who really leave their mark
on things. I mean, you mentioned John Williams, of course, Danny
Elfman. There are many many others, James Horner, there are many others.
So yeah, it looks so many. Yeah, those are those are
composers like oh yeah, that's that guy, or that's that composer, and
I really like their work and there are guys who just sort of do quiet
work in the background, like I said, stitch it all together. And
yeah, you may not necessarily know their name, or even if I said
to you, oh, I'm suddenly by Alf Clawson right now, man,
of course you'd be able to stop down because you dando guy would probably go,
I'll get back to you one there, can I can I impress you
with you like a silly voice instead? Um, but I would say that,
yeah, the work they do is a lot more difficult and a lot
more unsung one hundred percent like the Simpsons, for example, Alf as an
example, he just his music keeps the show going, keeps the show flowing.
Where like you know, for example, John Williams, it's like,
hey, we need music that's gonna make everyone think they want to go on
an adventure. John Williams is saying, welcome to the world. Here it
is. Yeah, And of course I'm saying, here's the world. I'm
decorating it for you. Hey, my favorite So what were your favorite moments
from my fair Laddy? I'm hoping you had some. I had one or
two, yes, by which I'm into give me what I found The Talking
Billboard, money Check outside most kind of hot. I'm watching it. This
just sounds so ridiculous, but I'm just like, I'm watching it. I'm
like that saying extreme push up bra, and it reminded me for some reason.
I remember that. I think I've told this story before, so I
won't. I won't tell the whole story. But I remember saying to Nikola
it was her birthday. It was our birthday dinner. Sorry, I think
it might have been our thirty if I thirty first, whatever was close,
but to that, and I jokingly said to her, she doesn't going out
to buy a new dress? Wa should I get? And I said,
I'll get a booby dress just as a joke, right, And she comes
back. She went shopping with a friend. She come back and she's all
dressed up, ready to go if for dinner. She comes home in the
booby dress, boobies pushed up to a bloody chin, not really losing that
I planned a surprise part. Everyone's like damn, everyone's like surprise, Like
the surprise was meant to be for nickel where but I said that the dand
I was just drowned in high fives all night but no, but um,
but yeah, So I enjoyed that as well. I also really enjoyed them.
I just enjoyed the end. No, just Willy be Willy. Where
she do you think it's a sweet moment. I need a moment she leaves.
I liked it the way it was. What about you? What else
did you like? One of my other favorite ones was just the whole dessert
trade thing, just really going to the town and beating up Crusty. Yeah
it's good from that angle, but it's also good that Crusty is like,
no, he's not sort of taking his lups, but he's like, oh,
this is a good bit. He recognizes good material anywhere you can get
it from desert, willing to steal it whether you say yes or not.
That's true, taking ownership on it. I thought that was a thought that
was great fun. Anything else you enjoyed? I like the calendar gag,
so that's where all my soup wet. That's true. I don't thought they
did a good job because I too, maybe because I did the show with
you. Now you sort of maybe dislike Willie, but I mean it's it's
completely granted your justification for one, we don't like him, But I thought
it did a good job of building sympathy for him. In the first like
five ten minutes of this episode, for example, just that in that seen
in particular where Marge is in the car waiting with but it starts waiting and
you think, this poor guy's lost his shack. But it's just like by
the way, you got norm nails. I'm going by and it's like,
this guy's got absolutely nobody's just sitting there just accepting life. You know,
well, this is life on the city of the calendar over my head.
In the rain, I was like, well, God Jesus, it is
one of the great shorthands to create sympathy for someone being caught in the rain.
Yeah, I think. I mean, while we carry on a bit
being stuck in the rain, I don't know, because it's just water.
We love jumping into a pool, but if it rains, we're like,
get the funk out of here, right, don't can we close wet?
It's like, why can't your clothes get wet? You put him in the
washing machine anyway, it's like going to ruin. Well, yeah, but
if you've got no to go, I mean, I'm stuck at the rain.
I'm thinking, particularly if it's pissing down. Oh yeah, I mean
I remember one night I was in Melbourne, Yeah, sort of. It
was around this time of year as well, where things it's starting to get
cold, and it was a bit of a rainy night, and yeah,
the streets were crowded. I passed maybe three or four people who were doing
it rough out on the streets, and you know, you're I don't want
to sound completely heartless, but often you'll sort of passed by these people and
go tough break for you, pale, but yeah, on an on this
night particular, I was like, mate, this would just fucking blow yeah
to bad. I mean I was, I was digging into my pockets and
pulling out any change I hadn't just distributing that night. I was like,
there's an't much made, but God, go get yourself a you know,
a junior Burger somewhere. So yeah, you're absolutely right. I mean,
this was good shorthand I'm like, oh my god, his shack's just you
know, gone, he's got no way of rebuilding it out in the rain.
Even the pots are colander, Oh terrible. Yeah, And it also
reminds me when we told of that story about you making the love of the
wheeze walk in the rain and Barley, I think it was. And it
didn't go down Well, well, yeah, that's the thing. It wasn't
so much get out and walk in the rain. It was more like I
wasn't seeing it as a fun, romantic moment. It's like, oh,
let's just run. It was partly that it was like, oh, look,
it's not that bad and it's not that far back to our room.
And then I realized, oh shit, it is this bad, and it's
a lot further back to our room than I imagined. I mean, Lou
and I pride ourselves. I mean, we we're both very easy going people
and very non confrontational people, and plus you know, we're very much on
the same page. So we've we've never really fought all that much. I
mean, we sort of of of course, disagreed about things, but we've
never really got in each other's faces or started yelling or raising our voices to
express it. Though. But you know, yeah, I came close to
dump in your house that night, She says it with a smile, and
I hope she didn't really want to dump in the night, but I mean,
yeah, I think that was a moment where she's like this can occasionally
do something of a dickhead. We've all been there. The other thing I
enjoyed before we get into our into our trivia was the surprise reader. We're
moderately surprised. It's a nice little it had a nice play often, Yeah
I did at the end, Yes, yeah, any more brain busters?
All right, it's the brainbuster, Blotbuster, Brainbuster here for my fair Laddy.
Original release date of this episode was Febrary twenty six, two thousand and
six. The clues for the top three films of the US box office at
the time. In number one, we have Dangerous Grandma. In number two,
we have Dogs, and a number three, we have Dirtam Dirtam,
Oh, Dangerous Grandma. Did you say, yeah, this is a film
I've never heard of. I'm not gonna lie. Well, it's not.
We already did Big Mama's House. Didn't were a Big Mama's House too.
It's not that. No, it's because it's going to do with drag is
it? Is it a a yeah? Themes that way, well or maybe
not. Movie just looks like a dragman but on the cover, but it's
got reunion in the title. Okay, because once again a black man dressed
as a woman. Um, let me look, don't it looks more like
the post looks like Andy Warhole art. So I can't really tell. Oh
my god, it's it's got it's about a family reunion. Dangerous, hang
on, I think this might be the This might be the work of one
Tyler Perry, who is, yeah, a bit of a not the godfather
of black cinema, but certainly a titan of m yeah, twenty first century
black cinema. And one of his main characters is Medea, Yes, the
sassy grandma who won't take any backchat or anything like that. So I think
this might be Badez family reunion. You were correct. Yes, I'm just
looking at the actual pictures now, and yes, it is exactly what you're
saying. Yeah, Tyler Perry's cause done other things outside of a dress.
He was in Gone Girl, and I think he was in Star Trek.
I think it was in like the first jj A Ram Star Trek. Yeah.
Sorry, the second one was Dogs Dogs, Yes, does this one?
How many dogs? I'll give away the movies if I say that.
I think this might be eight Belows starting a late Paul Walker and eight Dogs
this was a really nice movie. Actually, okay, there's nothing like Dogs
because that was shitouse No, No, Snow Dogs was absolutely gob no.
But this was this was quite forgotten the exact plot, but I think Paul
Walker went he had like a team of sled dogs. He was an explorer
in the Antarctic or something like that, and either his dogs rescued him or
he to rescue at least one of his missing dogs. And oh, it's
really nice. And Walker, who was not the greatest actor, but in
certain roles he was really quite good and really quite effective. He had a
really good relationship with those dogs. Yeah, I just didn't remember enjoying that
a lot. Rest in peace ball Walker. And the third one was So
if this is two thousand and six, I can't tell you because if it's
either it's either The Pink Panther the reboot of The Pink Panther serrying Steve Martin
as Inspector Cluso, or it's The Pink Panther two because they did make a
sequel to it. Which one do you reckon that is due six? Well,
flipping a coin, I'm just gonna say Pink Panther one, yes,
so Bubbling Inspector Cluzo must solve the murder of a famous soccer coach and find
out who stole the infamous pink panther diamond. I think Beyonce might be in
that as well. Oh okay, I never saw this one. I didn't
even know this what existed. I'm gonna lie, that's like, like we
said last week, there's that here between like two thousand. Maybe she doesn't
fight twenty fifteen, but I just like, I'm gonna start doing a podcast
on this, I think, either on the four Finger discot network or is
a Guy David solo project just about because I'm not sure. I don't think
everyone feels this way because but I think maybe people of a certain age dues
like there's a period when you know, you and pop culture you're just sort
of out of step with one another. Yeah, you were talking about this
last week. Yeah, yeah, And it's like and the two thousands are
like there for me. But I'm sure there are good movies out there,
but there are others that just like slip right under the right out of here,
out of your head. Yeah, exactly, And I think the Pink
Pants was certainly one of those. Next question, you there eating the past.
Okay, donkey, mister Davis, this time for some trivia here from
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But my first question for you, mister Davis, is how many laps had
got home paid? Homer paid for? I said, guy pa for he
paid for fifty laps? He did? Yes? Yeah. A response question
to you, which lab was he on when he had a go cut malfunction
for some reason? Number fourteens in my head? Is it anywhere near it?
You've got that number in your head, but it wasn't the number that
was on screen. He was on the third lap, the third lap.
Okay, okay, he was going to forty seven more laps when they've fled
Fred Flintstone car. But if I'd paid for something like fifty laps and I
was three laps, and I'm like, I'm gonna at least get some of
my money's worth, right, pain or no pain? My next question for
you is during the song adequate they the kids hold up tests. What was
Bart score on his test? Is that your next one? He smile?
Bart score was a D minus. Again. Response question, what was Lisa
scool A plus or a There was a something? No much? You've got
a B plus no shit B plus, which is surprising you know, because
that's adequate for Lisa. I guess yeah, I guess yeah. I mean
there's an old saying about, you know, the gentleman sees sees get de
grease, He's get grees man. I haven't heard that one since high school.
Okay, And my final question for you is when Home has got the
advertising all over him in the bed reelect two fourth Circuit judge cha, yes,
is that your last question? It was a question. I got one
more question for you if you want it hit me? What are you?
What date is the school science Fair? Oh? I have no idea.
What was it? It is January at twenty nine. January twenty nine,
show the calendar its own stage in the very end of the week. But
then you see thirty and thirty one, it's like, yes, well,
I speaking of that. By the way of Home's advertising. What do you
think of the Hommer b plot in this? I thought it was actually feasible
in the believable Homer storyline. One that doesn't take he could have done this
at work. I just wish we had a scene of him, whether it
be like the most I know you need the mob billboard gag. That's why
they did that at most but him being at work and still doing this on
the side. So that's where that's in the Golden Year, Homer. We'll
be doing side hustles on the side of his job. Now they've never bothered
to sort of show his job. It's just he's doing these side hustles.
It's like, I just wish we got a scene of him just to remind
us. Now he still doesn't work at the power plant. You know,
he still doesn't work there. Yeah, as much as they're making jokes about
do you have a job? Yeah, I think that would have been a
good thing, But no, I like the other side hustle b blood in
this what I mean, we've all sort of thought about how can we use
not not all of us, right, but when you're off a teenager or
whatever, it's like, should I get a tattoo of like pep see or
something I shot like a brand or some guy on meek and that I remember
there. I had a friend who what did he get? It's like a
local business. Can't remember what it was, but it was like the local
tattoo parlor and you got the tattooed on his neck so that he got free
tattoos for life. And I'm like, yeah, that's there forever and they
go out of business. What's the points job was like, yeah, that
was war I at my first tattoo. But I mean you always have well
you're not always, but you will occasionally have someone saying if you if you're
wearing a T shirt that says like Levis or something or Abercrobbie and Fitch or
Country Road or some label or whatever, it's like, why are you giving
these guys free advertising? You know? Things like that? Um, that
was actually taking of a real story. I forgot to write the name there,
but Algan was saying during the commentary that there was a guy who I
think it was a five year deal he had advertising and he got he got
paid seven hundred bucks a year. Like why would you do that? When
you said seven hundred bucks, I was like a month, so I mean
a week, yeah, a month a year? No, it sucks.
Apparently whatever the company was, they got eight hundred new clients in the first
year from him doing it. So I'm like, this guy's understold himself terribly.
Absolutely. Do you remember this is a while back, but there was
a player at the Gelong Football Club Whiskers. Yeah, Gary Hawking, who
renamed himself for at least one day or one week a week Whiskers, the
Catfrey brand Whiskers. The commentary had to say Whiskers has the ball. Now
it was a charity thing. He wasn't doing it for himself. His real
nickname was Buddha Budda Hocking. He was every nineties kids favorite Gelong player.
Everyone loved Buddahocking. He really was. He was tough as they come,
as they come, weird looking rock and mullet that was just he was holding
onto the mullet even though it was out of style, and as a curly
mullet, not just a mullet, as a curly mullet. Yeah, it
was a bo in the fighting mouth. Yeah, it was awesome. And
he was just a lovely guy. Because this is back before Australian DAWs football
has got paid enough to actually justify a wage, so they'd all have second
jobs and decided to help cover everything because they didn't get paid enough. And
I remember Buddahocking. He used to work for the youmth of the council and
he was a garbageman, was he? Well, he was working for the
council because that was one of his giah because Paul Couch was was was our
garbo Paul Couch number seven foot long at the time, he was my garbageman.
Yeah. And then Buddhohocking he might have been the goveragement from at the
point, but he was working for the cancel at this point, and I
was fixing the road on our street and then we'd go up and kicked the
footy with Buddhohocking and kick the footy with us and stuff. He had signed
on this stuff, and I remember I gave um because Gary Ablett sen he
was my favorite player. It was everyone's, everyone's. He was like god
to which a long fans right, and and only gave him a post and
I said, could you please get Gary able to sign this for me?
And motherfucker Buddohocking took that poster and he went away and he came back and
he was like, I'm really sorry, he's no ledder sign it because he's
got the AFL logo on it, and he's not later signed anything that has
the AFL logan on it because they're going to get resold. But he got
he printed out this sheet of paper with a with Gay Ablett's photo of it
and said two Brandon Best, which is like he actually got him, he
made the effort to get and that another picture didn't have the logo, and
going to side, I'm like, this is you went to the effort for
it to get a signature of some other player for a kid, I'm like,
what an absolute legend, one hundred percent champion. Yeah, because you
know, it's memories, memories, not just that stick forever. You know,
absolutely, it's not just how you perform on the field, it's how
you perform off the field. You gotta be an ambassador for your club.
Yeah, and we did. We did. My dad was so happy of
what he did for me that my dad with fishing and not caught like a
ship let of I don't know why. I remember specifically it was flounder,
right because and we went up there and we gave him some flounder to eat,
like some some fresh flander. He was like, oh, beautiful,
like flanders my favorite fishing obviously wasn't but like he took it. Next day
he had flounder sandwiches and I was like, what a legend. Buddhohoking was
just fucking working on our street for the week. We just hanging out of
Buddha all week. What a good time that was. So yeah, the
upshot of this is buddhocking top Like, yeah, I mean I was six
or seven at the time, but he may be a gelong fan for life
for doing that. And yeah, so that's a good way of going about
it, Homer. Maybe not the good way of going about it, although
watching this, I was like, Wow, he's the original influencer. Yes,
but it's called headvertising. By the way, there's actually termed for headvertising.
I know they mentioned the show and I'm like, oh, that's a
neat phrase at the sentence writer's coin but no, actually real. Yeah.
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is in the description of this podcast. So the original airdate of My Fair
Laddy was February twenty six, two thousand and six. It was written by
Michael Price, directed by Bob Annison. The wash no chor gab, but
the couch gag was the one that we've already seen before where it's filmed in
claymation and all six balls roll up as well as gumby. Apparently these guys
did all the claimation work on The Simpsons now when we had that that religious
video that time was a take off of the Yes, Yeah, definitely,
so they did all that stuff and then in claimation the same company did all
this. But the episode kicks off with Skinner introducing Missus Pommelhurst for the last
time because when she returned, she won't be Missus pommel Hurst. Well she
she will indeed be mister Pummelhorst, the new shop teacher, and I don't
know, a nice very mid two thousand's mix of sensitivity and a bit of
a sneaker. Yeah. I um, I was like, I don't think
they would include this joke anymore, but anyone, I don't believe they would
know moving a wrong swiftly though, But our coach Krupp has arrived and I
listened to the commentary. They were raving about, you know when when the
movie Dodgeball come out. By the way, let's see this, this had
to have been a takeoff because they talked about stories from when there were kids
and they had they used to play Bombarbo, which apparently wasn't Dodgeball, but
they told me what the rules when I was like, pretty much Dodgeball,
but you know, They're like, it just was too much. I was
like, this is just really annoying that bombarbent Bob Barb and I'm like it
was funny a couple of times, but you just kept going with it,
and they thought it was really funny. And I guess Dodgeball would have been
hot at the time because that came out, what two thousand and four,
What is say Dodgeball. I'm wondering when Dodgeball actually came out, Like sture,
we look it up. I'm looking it up right now. Dodgeball came
out in two thousand and four. Yeah, true, Underdog Stone. There's
a sequel coming out. I read somewhere or did I dream that. I
read that the other day as well. Yeah, that Vince Vaughan's back.
Vince Vaughan's coming back. I don't know if they're going to get Ben Stiller
back, but well I saw a picture of them looking older and bolder and
fatter, and Ben Stiller was in the photo with him in his gear.
So whether they've been in a film recently dressed as that, I don't.
I'm not too sure. But anyway, that was a big film. It
was a huge film in two days before, so I guess, you know,
it's about a year later. I guess I was sort of riding the
waves of that. So yeah, but this wasn't funny to me. Yeah,
if you're going to ride the dodgeball wave, just have dodgeball rather than
bombardment. I mean, like you said, they're essentially the same thing.
But mats time. I actually had an interesting story during the end of the
commentary where it's in the eighties and I'll playing Bombardment and he's laying on the
floor and the teacher walked up and the scene where he walks up and smashed
his bart. He did the same thing to him, but he said he
put his hand up to defend himself and the teacher broke his tongue. And
he's like, man, imagine it has happened. Now he goes, there'd
be lawsuits and there'd be money in my pockets. I'll be getting free education
for life. But he goes, nothing happened. Teachers got away with it.
It's the eighties, brother, Well, that was the days of quote
our quote Latin in the local parentus where the yeah the teacher was essentially your
dad. Yeah, yeah, just dad, the gourd. I can't comprehend
the idea of being hit by the teacher, obviously, my dad said,
you when he was at school, he's get smacked on the hand or the
ruler and things like that. And I was like, can you imagine.
I just I just I can't fathom. It's kind of like how Aliot would
never be able to fathom my world without the Internet. You know. It's
just I can't believe that that was still a thing when my dad was a
kid. No, I kept a spanking from a from a teacher, from
a teacher, you as well, yeah, yeah, yeah, back in
the day, back in the seventies. Absolutely, I was a kid,
and of course i'd acted up, I'd i'd misbehave, But man, come
on me being institutionalized. I'm like, I had it. Commen, what
did Bobby saying about that? Was he just was it just expected? You
had a comment? Well? It just an accepted thing, was it?
Yeah? Very much. I can't believe that. That's crazy. When did
they outlaw it, like in the eighties. I think it was sometime in
the eighties or nineties, I'd have to I never got smacked. I was
a nineties kid, so it must have been the eighties. But I just
can't imagine kids being spanked by teachers. I mean, you look at some
kids now and it's like they probably does. I mean, being a teacher
now, it's probably harder than ever because there's no camp with the fear of
guide into kids anymore. You know. Oh yeah, my sister used to
be a teacher. Well she still is, but she's not as full time
as she was. And she was like, oh no, I wouldn't.
I wouldn't recommend anyone go into it now. If I can't beat the shit
out of kids ain't doing it that correct, but yeah, so um so
yeah, this whole scene is just about bombarb and Bart's worried at breakfast,
and March says, tell you regularly, regular bully. He won't like it
one bit. Let me get the introduction to the Homer story as well.
So Hommer's ruined his last pair of pants and the only ones that understood his
complex. Heinie, and he explains how he did it. He was go
karting and he's bump dragged on the floor, on the on the the ashphalt
and and ruined his pants. And I liked the montage. Didn't ruin his
ass And maybe he's squirting. Yeah, and I like the montage. She
has the signs so no pants, rainbow of pants, no blue blue pants
cafe. We do not sell blue pants. This is so weird because I
tend to think the blue is like the fault pants color. What's jeans,
yeah, I guess yeah. But even with slacks yeah, or Chino's blues.
You see. I think you see blue pants more often than just about
any color. I think it's more. I think I think what's when it's
like nice, nice pants? I think people were more claimed to go like
a brown or a beige. Now maybe I think it's blue, black and
gray. I say that I'm wearing blue, blue pants. I got blue
jeans, blue shirt, blue pants. I am. I am all blue,
right? I am? I am blue from the color of my of
my shirt, my lovely pullover, blue jeans, blue socks. I haven't
checked my underpants. Should I check my underpants? Yeah? Check them.
I've misplaced my underpants. I did not believe that this show was going to
go a little blue, but it certainly hats I can't a friend those listeners.
The guy is very blue. Dubber d Dubber Day. I remember hating
that song back in the day. Now it's just it comes on and it's
just I think it's just reminds you of being the nineties again. So you
just have that sort of attraction time, care free time. At the time,
it was everywhere. I mean, I liked it. I liked it
as a kid, but after a while I was like, yeah, there's
enough now moving on. Yeah, but just you're starting with that whole you
know, Yeah, listen, here's a story and then the kids, um
blue dah kick it in. But it has it has a really good start
though, like you were saying, um, big butts, the song goes
doom. It's got that start where I have for sixty five song goes here,
it is there, it comes yo, listen, I've got time to
put my drink down. So we're back at school now. And one thing
I liked about this though, when they were lining the kids up from bombarb
and I'm making them line up to throw the ball at them, was it
had the mats against the wall protecting the wall from the balls, but not
the kids. Their bart finds the teacher's diary and what was on Christmas?
Did you see that? Double bombar? Double bombardment? My only question about
this is, since when do they have pe every day? True? Why
are they at school on Christmas Day? Yeah? It's um, I don't
know, it's unless he's subjecting his family double bombardment, which I wouldn't put
it past this guy. Yeah, I would basically know. He seemed like
a very you know, carrying a husband and father and provider when he was
at the restaurant. Yeah, like he has to stay for the world besides
his family, but pro family he's there of course. Yeah yeah, well
who does not exactly. But then fills the water balloon and freezes it.
And he finds Lisa's sacks in the freezer, and I've got here, this
must be one big fucking freezer, putting a saxophone in that freeze. I
want, I want to freeze this big because our freezer is always full.
Whenever we have to put something new into the freezer. It's like playing Tetris,
pulling things out, rearranging, opening things up precisely, our precisely.
It's like, I really should get some of these dishes that I didn't with
my batch cooking and thinking, oh, I've got meals for the next you
know, however long, it's like you never eat them. That's been in
there for six months. I'm not gonna get that soup. It's like I've
got three sausages here from like two summers ago. Why they're still in here?
Then help year, sir, My Dadger says, no more. Brombardment,
Well, here's the second opinion, monster, your worst I'm drunk.
Well, welcome to a a Always attack him, Simpson, Simpson, Bart's
got a nice ball. What is your major mouthfunction? Simpson? You will
defrost train and surrender that ball, and then I will use it to bombard
you bombardment can't tell her, so he throws it at him, smashes the
window and somehow destroys a shack with it. I'm like, i know why
the shack exploded, but whatever, I'm astonished at upper upper body strength and
he was able to field and it really picks it up and throws it at
the attracting that gold to smash is just a visual guy. But then they're
helping Willie rebuild his shack and Bart suggests, you know, rather than do
this, got a revine with the rusted out car and says, don't be
getting my hopes up. Finally get my heart broken, and Marge ryo was
time to go home, and he says, you know, I've finished the
nail board over by the way, you added nails, and I'm like,
nails. So sorry for the guy here. He's been no house, no
one gives a shit, no love from anybody. Now he's sitting there in
the rain with a colndar over his head, and yeah, I thought it
did a really good job of building that sympathy, because up to this point
of the last day, three or four seasons, he's had no redeeming qualities.
Really, Willie, he's just been annoying. He's been mean, he's
been vicious. Yeah, he's always been horrible to the kids. But here
they made you steal feel somewhat sympathy for him. Oh, absolutely do,
Yeah, even I did. Who's you know? Hard? When it comes
to groundscable Willie is cold, black and shriveled. M He's now in the
Simpsons house having a sleep on the couch, or he's getting ready for a
bet on the couch like these Jammie jams quite nice, and he offers Marge
in return for his um for the place to stay. He's a sculpture made
of lost retainers, but she pretends to like and it looks I like this
and the way it goes, and she destroys it in the in the sink
what they called the dad this disposal. Yes, or whenever I see those,
I just think of Gramlins digit I just think of like that was a
gruesome death for that grandmin by the way it really was. I don't know.
I don't know if I've got like a death wish or something, or
just like a morbid sense of curiosity is like I may if I put my
hand in there what would happen. It would be destroyed and it would be
very pain will be but obviously we will never know unless we actually lose a
limb. But I know there's stories from people who lose limbs. They're just
like they say, you can still feel it there even when it's not there
because you're so used to having it there. Phantom pain or phantom limb syndrome.
Absolutely, yeah, it must. It would be a lot to get
used to. I was just always watching that Gremlins and I'm like, you
know, they're horrible or things, but I'm like, this thing got like
chopped up from the feet up. I'm like, the thing's like going the
whole body's getting like he's going through the writhing in pain all the way up
until it gets to like the vital organs that you required to live. Then
he starts dying. But like she went head first, it's like it's done.
You're over quick death. But this thing's from the feet up. But
you know, he's so willing, just can't believe it. You know that
the citizens offered him his house. You know, he's say thankful, and
Lisa says, what do you set off for Squalor? And he says,
you know, I'm just used to it. My family's been doing this for
years, and now my grandfather was setting to the minds to check to see
if it was safe for the canaries and things like that. So any of
course things are. Wouldn't it be adequate to take off of which song from
my fair lady, mister Davis? Would it be lovely? All I want
is a place somewhere, and that's it. Maybe you could aim a little
higher. Well, let's see, Oh to have me shock rebuilt? Gets
my dentyeth old drills something on underneath michils. Oh, oh, dan it
be adequate, matching shoes for both me feet gaining on unchanted meat? Oh,
toilet, what still has its head? Oh? It be adequate,
adequate, adequate, Who dandy be adequate? I love it. All I
want is a place somewhere where. That's it. Exactly quite funny. It's
like Willie that he doesn't want for much, He just wants. He wants
the band necessities in life. Well, just as Home was the original influencer
um groundscaper, Willie is the original minimalist. Exactly right at Lana Mean have
to sing any song, Willie realizes that he would like a life. It's
somewhat more normal than what he's got. Now, at least it gets the
idea to turn him into a proper gentleman for the Science Fair, because even
deep down anyone can be civilized. He knocks himself out with the hammer.
Now, was this where they make the bet? Yes? So I think
ye, because Bart says I don't reckon you could. Yeah, because yeah,
that's part of the original um My Fair Lady story as well. That
Henry Higgins who's the elocution coach who says I can turn a liesa do a
little into a lady. I think he's got his motor says, well,
but you can't. And yeah, they you love doing that accident. You
always pull a funny your face when you do it. You can't. I
didn't think it was a funny face funny, but you have like your cockney
face, which is basically a squint when it's all looked like a cockney part
and shake my head a bit as well when I anyway, Um, I
don't think it was a missed opportunity on the part of the episode, because
I think what they do they do pretty well all this time around. But
I think it could have been interesting if because they've made this bet Bark could
be kind of trip could be trying to trip up Willie and yeah mess mess
with Lisa's efforts to to gentrify him. Yeah, I think it might just
it might have just added an unnecessary wrinkle to the episode. But I think
it could have been fun as I think it works perfectly well as it is.
If you can't do it though, Yeah, it makes more sense as
I do it properly because you could have easily cut the Homo b plot out
of this episode. It doesn't have any bearing on the actual story, does
it actually really? I know, No, I just think that I think,
yeah, yeah, I think the writers were probably in love with that
whole a bit about just the terrible advertising campaign for the Blue Pants. I
think they want more than anything else, they wanted that gag. Yes at
the world Wide Pants who got their name be four Letterman. I remember in
the nineties watching Letterman when they finally started showing it on Australian TV and the
yeah, the production its production companies, Worldwide Pants, Oh Letterman, oh
you scamp. I remember like a lot of shows like the little production company
things at the end, like you have vivid memories of these, like the
shows, but you also when you hear the theme song, you hit that
a little bit at the end that goes with the themes, like the outro,
Like there was one it was like, you stinker. What show was
that? I'm pretty sure that was David E. Kelly, who did like
a whole bunch of legal shows like Boston Legal and GAILI McBeal and things like
that, you stinker, you stinker. When I was married at the time
and now I used to always used to say that to my wife, and
she'd say to me because I was very flatulent. But I think the one
I remember most is just after the end of Family Times. It was a
sit ubu sit good good boy. Yes, but at least he's trying to
teach poise, pronunciation and posture. She asking to stand up straight and he
feels like he's too far off the ground and he falls over. Then we
get home or arriving at well by pants and then I said, they've got
no blue pants yet. You know the sales pummeted after their Super Bowl ad.
When you no longer feel when you're knowing a keV you're attracted to women
I'm going to draw a really long bow. Is Eli Stern the fourth Do
they basically just use the Hank Scorpio teamplate. He looks a lot like Hank
Scorpio to me, I can't recall. Let me have a look. I
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Oh my gosh, but just be careful with your type four finger on
the internet. God only knows where he could lead blue pants nah nah,
I mean, if you if you want it to be, maybe Fred to
cut that bit out. It's um nah ah right. But the other thing,
and I think I'm probably a little more secure about this because I read
it on Wikipedia, was that the disastrous Super Bowl ad for Blue Pants was
a takeoff of some Calvin Klein ads from the from the mid nineties that were
a bit of a bit controversial back in the day because they basically looked like
they were amateur porn filmed in someone's in someone's basement. You know. It
was a whole bunch of like, really, you know whatever kids shout out
to our summer of five feet? Was it Summer of four feet two?
Sum four fo yes, summer episode, Yeah, you know whatever. But
it was a bunch of kids like that sort of wearing various Calvin Klein outfits,
and but they also looked like like, hey, do you want to
those pants look like they might be chaffing and do you want to take them
off? Issue that caused a great deal of controversy and also sold a ship
down to Calform clown Pants. In fact, there was like underaged kids or
something. Yeah, it looks I don't know if we're allowed to say the
words child pornography on this show without getting demonetized. But it basically looked like
amateur porn starring people who shouldn't be an amateur porn. Okay, then it
doesn't sound very which gave it the sweet tang of forbidden fruit. Remember when
you could just have ads, it was like full blown sexy and I just
get away, Like for example, where the chick with the the ant eater
or the kids or whatever. Oh yeah, sick Rex six. I'm like,
holy Chris, you could never do that. Now they wearing those line
on the line on the on the bed and a nicky sexy underpants with ants
growling over and just Rex goes to town on him and well, but I
mean back in back in my day, they see that I'm pulling that face
again and I'm not even doing the cockney accent. Back in my day when
I was a kid, actually had a brand of any hose called sexy Legs.
Okay, Yeah, and you know the TV air was like, oh
sexy Legs, and you know, basically I wouldn't be walking the street and
you know with a nice legs and her nice sixty legs pantyhose and all these
dudes just like that app Basically it was sexual harassment in brime time, oh,
the nineties, the eighties, the seventies. But anyway, getting back
to the episode, Yeah, so they're talking about the add and yeah,
thought, yeah, was quite funny. Just that when you don't care if
you're attracted to women. I'm like, I feel like I'm almost there.
I'm just like, yeah, I'm happy I've got Nicola. You know what,
what are you fuckingone thinks? I mean, I'm still I'm trying to
stay in shape form Nicola. But it's not the case I'm letting my stuff
go. It's just a case of there comes a point where you don't care
what anyone else thinks about you. It's just as long as you're your spouse
care, you know. But precisely yes, he asked mister Stern, if
he can build up public interest, will they remake the blue pants? He
goes, yeah, sure. Lisa was now reading Genteel's Ben Guide to Etiquette,
and you know she gives up because it's just not working at all with
Willie. And we get the flashback here of his dad yelling at him when
he was born, before he even cut the cut the cord. I was
like, I really, guy, Yeah, yeah, no, he's just
fa b this kid. Yeah, let h cut it for himself last than
his last time they really talked. Then the bullets. Now in the commentary
they said they thought, well, they're already doing a parody of one musical
wise or do another. That's why they got the around the World in eighty
days? Gay here, okay, then is that why they did that?
Yeah, it seems a little uh necessary but random? Yeah, and the
whole around the world in eighty days? Now does he feels so stupid now
because like I literally go around the world like thirty hours now if you want,
or two in a plane. But well you try. No, but
guy, this isn't the sixties, the eighteen sixties. Yeah, but I
imagine Harmon now in bed and she finds the blue pants headvertising glows in the
dark. It's not supposed to. And then Lisa's final test he as she
goes, well this doesn't work, then whatever, that's not just going to
give up? Now me get the whole. What flows from the nose does
not to go on my clothes. I thought Dan did a really good job
with the delivery. He didn't date Yeah, yeah again, I take off
of the rain in Spain falls mainly on the plane. Yes, so that's
you know when, oh my god, I think she's got it. What
flows from the nose does not go on my clothes. I think he's got
it. Oh yes, he's got it. What flows from the nose does
not go on my clothes. We're talking mirror. Where is that ghastly flow
the nose, the nose? Oh bac blue pants? Blue pants? Dad,
get your own song. Fine, I'm getting blue pants in the morning.
Ding dong bus gonna shine. The songs really fun In this episode of
I Thought, and you get the talking mirror and Homer walks in blue pants,
blue pants, and then Homer is now at Mos and the ads working
on all the bathlies like Lenny and Carly and go buy some blue pants as
well. It's funny how advertising just works sometimes. Can you remember the last
time where you have been influenced by advertising without realizing and then the dawn on
you, like, wait a minute, I just got manipulated. My brain
has got manipulated by that sign or that ad or whatever. I think that
it usually works. It's usually food for me, Like a KFC add a
coming, I'm like, I really want KFC now? Oh yeah, well,
I mean I think you and I spoke about the our pals are hungry,
Jack's we're doing them. Oh check out these boneless chi can thigh Pride
numbers. They go God damn, that looks nice. I'm going hungry Jaxon,
you basically said to me, don't do it. Yeah, don't do
it, man, don't fall for it like your cousin had had it or
something. And I was like, my unclear the picture and I was like,
goodness, gracious, that looks terrible. But yeah, I think I
did say the podcast Elliott, did somebody say KFC, Like Alliot literally quotes
the ad. I'm like, I don't know whether I'm a bad parent or
not, but KFC, you've done a great job. And I feel like
every fast food restaurant has their one song that they really just used to perfection
like that. I don't I don't don't care. That's that's KFC's one,
right, Do remember Hungry Jackson used to have the hungry everyone seductively eating the
hamburgers. Well, look at you, I can't. That was a good
one. What was Maca's song? They're Jingle? I didn't know, I'm
loving it. They had like timber Lake doing that for a while, didn't
they all? Did? They? Really? Okay, so maybe I don't
even do that anymore. Just sucked at some stage, you know, that
didn't mean sort of moonheaded creature. Yeah, okay, yeah I don't remember
that one, but I just not McDonald's have just sucked the fun out of
every aspect of their business. Now you're walking down and just feels like this
is what people in the sixties vision the future would be. Like, this
is it. You go in there, you're looking at a computer screen,
You're not getting any human contact. It's just so it's so nothing. And
plus they all look like, you know, they were designed by Ikey.
Now, yeah, they're also boring. Yeah, I mean, look,
I am for figure discounts residence. Remember when guy? But yeah, occasionally
you see memes of like remember when McDonald's just looked like this and it was
this sort of red and yellow plastic extravaganza and there's just a Ronald McDonald statue
on the on the seat you get photo next to him, and that that's
just a very tasteful sort of blonde wood and a nice booth kind of things.
So I don't want this from my fast free. I want my daycore
to be as cheap and tacky as the food I'm putting in my mouth.
Yeah, if you watch, if you play SIMS and you go, you're
building a fast food restaurant and just click default. That's what mac Donald's is.
Now, it's just like default everything, it's just yeah. But while
we're talking fast food, which we very mully ended up a two week episode,
four figured this count case's done with the great one of the done,
one of the great back flips of recent times. And I don't think they've
even really advertised all that much. But for a while in the name it
was gear Kentucky Fried Chicken. For goodness knows how long. It was like,
we'd better not call it fried. That's good, that's you know,
not healthy. So we went to KFC. Everyone knew would have meant but
you know, everyone loves a good acronym. But now you know, you
pick up your thirty nuggets for ten bucks or whatever it is, the box
is Kentucky Fried Chicken. I'm like, yeah, it's back. Baby.
Can't keep the colonels down for long because you can see the court and everything
now said the other day did last week. Colonel would just flipping you the
bird, like, but this is the thing because every fast food restaurants trying
to go healthy and KFC are just like, what do people want? Oh,
that's right, junk food food Pole wants saturated fats and plenty of them.
I gave um hey KFC last last week and I said, you're a
Kentucky and he goes, I want KFC. I said, yeah, do
you want your Kentucky? And you know, he's only four, but he's
always known it as KFC. I have to explain it to him now and
now on the way to daycare someone, he goes, can we have Kentucky
fried chicken for dinner? He's like, see, I remeber. I was
like, well, I'm remembering, but no. Also no, but yeah,
it was just like can we have Kentucky fried chicken? But just as
silly as it sounds, maybe smile. I'm like, oh, it's Kentucky
fried chicken again, just waiting for him to say, can I have dirty
bird for dinner? The dirty Bird? Yeah. So the billboard at the
funder moses not working very well. Then we get another was that the science
Fair? Now it's very distinguished science Fair. Don't you think everyone's in suit?
More adults they thank children. How did it become the social event of
the season exactly? I don't know, but it suits the story, I
guess. And Martin's got his device there measuring surprise, which I thought was
as useless as this is. I appreciated it, surprised. And then Lisa
introduces G. K. Willington esquire, yes, and Agnes thinks he's very
hot, mummy like, and I know, I just I can never get
on board for Agnes being sexually active. No, I'm all over it.
Yeah, I know you would be missus k though I can be for sure,
and you can get me anytime you want, handsome boink slut. I
don't tell everyone like that again with the slut, yeah, Willie. Then
sings are the tune which is to the to the of the Tales of the
Vienna or something, the Vienna Woods or something on those lines, I believe.
So yeah, it's not one of my most well known tunes from My
Fair Lady, but it's it's it's in there, it is what it is.
You're a smash. It feels so sublime. I feel like I could
be indoors all night, could use a fall and knife and never soil my
soul. I could be so polite, start another seele fight and still not
feel like a fruit. A very nice that there's no lies in my hand
and my toenails. I don't bite. Now that I reach the stage where
I'm not full of rage, I could be indoors. Indoors an Skinner is
about to announce the winner. I would have liked here because he says,
we went to announce the winner. I'm really surprised that Lisa didn't enter one.
And then Lisa says, yeah, I haven't know he's in playing sight
blah blah blah. What does he say he's an announced the winner or just
say was he just say attention to everybody? I think he says he's going
to announce the winner, because it would be nice if he was about to,
or what it to Martin? And then G. K. Willington steals
it from Martin, like rips it off Martin's clothes or something. I don't
know, but um, everyone's stunned. They can't believe it, and we'll
get the game there. So it moves the stunned, the the surprise surprise
measure, and then it's revealed to be Willie and you see monocle ladies sound
in there next to him. Yeah, she's just sat in there and Agnes,
he says. Skinner says to Agnes, athing Clai you didn't get into
it with him? Who says I didn't. We come back from commercial now
and Lisa has one first prize. She's got no room on her academic wall,
so she puts it on the sports wall. We wished I had an
ice hockey reference there in some ways? Oh yeah, yeah, because what
was she She was a participant in what was it? Soccer? I this
one here is just a bowling party. I think it's a birthday bowing bowling
center. It wasn't even like a sport. It's like a party, I
think. But now you have a friend. And Willie arrives for more lessons
and he says, what's today? He's going to be how to smoke a
pipe while summoning a falcon? And then he sends feather by home, and
I'm like, so where is he living now? If it's not at the
Simpsons home and he hasn't got a shack, I imagine he's just flitting from
Springfield lady to Springfield lady. He's doing the couch to. He noting the
couch to. Why wouldn't you? That sounds like a hell of your time
to me? Yeah, be the easy rider. Yeah, this gag here,
I liked, But then I thought about the logic of it, and
makes no sense, particularly from a visual perspective. So Largo being stuck on
the roof, how did I get up here on the tractor? Right,
it's a funny game. It's gone. But then you look at the ways
designed. The tractor goes from the front of the roof and obviously it's the
back of the roof, And I'm like, so the school's now only as
deep as a tractor or it's one giant for contractor geography? Is your nitpick,
isn't it? Yeah, well it's just look at the tractor. It's
the size of the school. Who wouldn't notice that? But he got the
job. Now that guilded truffle and crusty your rise with charity titters. I
don't need your charity titters. By the way, he's my friend Charity titters
And she goes to flash them. But then Hommer Marge now in bed.
I thought Marge's ninety here was quite sexy. I think she We have often
talked about, yes, Homer in Marge's bedroom action, and now it's pretty
darn hot. We discussed it in our review of Summer four for two with
one Will Washington from a w and we're discussing the whole. I don't know,
we'll get plan for to night. Hommert account me out. It's like
they obviously have a somewhat kinky sex life, but even like that, she
was like, I'm not too sure about this, Like I'm down for something,
but this not it a vigorous and rigorous sex life. Count me out.
But um, yeah, that's one aspect of the of the Simpsons that
I've always appreciated as an adult is just their flourishing sex life. You know,
he's a fat, useless man, but you know, under clearly a
demon in the sack. Yeah, demon in the sack, and Marge is
all for it. But Homer has now got buzz Cola tastes great eat made
potatoes. Apparently the cast and crew got a heap of free potatoes made potatoes
as a result of this. Yeah, and it worked as well when they
did kettle Chips the season before, so they said, any potato products they're
in And then, um, and you wonder why Dan and I keep mentioning
kfcing dolls on the show to keep just like retweeting it. Are you listening?
They go, I don't care. But um, you know he's earning
a hundred dollars a week and but the Maye Potatoes aren't paying him anything.
He just wants a reminder to eat potatoes every week. Coach Crapt is now
at the Guild of Truffle with his friend. I was with his family,
I should say, and he yells at Willie tells him to go get um.
You know, his wife had iced coffee or something. Did you see
as he's walking off singing the song and where the weird lungs for the shack
that where he lived, you see the bread still hitting him in the back
of the head. I did Coach get throwing his bread at him? And
then Largo in his vision, you know, he's singing the song as well.
He's in the shack. He says, if I had your voice,
i'd talk sing everything. It's funny how they've just they've just picked like four
characters that never barely ever got lines and then just give them like so much
now, Like Largo's one, the other who just there was. There's a
couple. Cleardis gets more now than I think he used to. Yeah,
absolutely is definitely the they've just lashed onto these characters for some God, no,
I have no idea why they've done it, but they've done it.
And Willie now, but he's miserable. You know, he misses his old
life. He wants the old life back, and he says he's bloody miserable.
He misses his miss I missed me crapshack as he puts it, and
crusty. Then and he wants that table, and you know, Willy has
a perfectly acceptable response here, there are plenty of other tables in this venue,
so I want that one. And it's like, you just know that
people have come across people like this. I want that booth just because you're
in it. I want it. I want to exact my power. You
must now move. This is now mine. But he doesn't want to pedal.
He doesn't want to just for the power. He wants to be able
to check out the yoga studio across the room. And he goes ah as
guy said earlier about the sexy pants ads and then really says, you know
there's a child present and crush. He doesn't care. So Willie reverts to
old Willy and beat a share to Krusty. I was like, good for
Willy yeah, sometimes he's gonna let the dog off the chain. It's nice
to see him stand up for himself for a change, doesn't end for m
and Volisa and for status quo. Well, but I mean, yeah,
I mean I think he's partly doing that too, because he feels more comfortable
as grands keeper Willy as opposed to J. K. Willington esquire. But
also you know he's he's been refined to some degree. I mean, he's
not gonna sit still. Why some leering clown besmirches a small child in the
in the vicinity skinner them welcomes Willy back, and as soon as it's all
the celebrations finished, you start cleaning up. Now I'm really's happy singing this
song. Please express yourself through mopping. So gives me the keys through this
new shack and they go to the new shack. Leasa's as she says,
you know, it's exactly as it was, just a little at a difference.
And he walks in, sees the home, sweet home, little thing
on the wall, pretends he sad tells her to get out. You know,
I just to myself like the way it was, He smashes it.
This was nowhere near the crap shack that I thought it was going to be
for you this episode. And guess what, I have to agree with you
on that point. So yeah, I mean yeah, I can't deny.
I was a little bit nervous going in. I had a little bit of
trepidation and oh my god, this is more Willy than guy can handle.
But boom, but it turned out to be just the right a man of
Willie. But what do we learn, Palmer? What'd you learn from the
episode? Mister Davis? Willie ain't all that bad? That a little bit
of Willie isn't so bad if you're going to whip them out, wait till
you're in the booth exactly right. I learned that Geelong needs more talking billboards.
Do we have any I want talking to billboards? No? No,
I mean, of course, how fucking loud must these things be? Like,
I've never I don't think I've ever actually seen a talking billboard in my
life. Have you? I don't think I've ever seen one. I mean
I think I've seen one that has moving parts where it's like, yeah,
yeah, oh it's waving at me. I'm definitely going to buy off that.
I'm not at all terrified of it. But I don't think I've ever
heard a talking one. I mean now now, of course Geelong is and
everyone else is in the future, and you've got ads that are basically like
big TV screens, like, Hey, wasn't that a billboard for such and
such a minute ago? Now it's a billboard for something else. But whether
they actually have volume, I don't know. I don't I've never heard it.
From knee forward, your name shall be all right? It is time
for the Guy David's New Name Championship. Here for Seas seventeen. The current
leaderboard stands at this in first position, we have Luke McKay on nine points.
Two points behind Luke, we have Heath Applebe on seven points, and
a third position we have a three way tie, all on six points.
We have Garrod Harrowhill, Kyle Muldoon and Fergus Jeffs Guy tell Us who have
the points this week? Okay, one point goes to some like at Scott,
some like it Roberts, Steve Roberts sends it through with the one point,
while on Steve that gets him on now four points, while on Steve
could work Steve keep manning that heavy machinery and try to keep all your all
your digits two points for Willie or won't he? Will eat or won't he
Adam Woolhouse think you for sending that one through. That now puts Adam all
equal third third. Might look at the right one. Yeah, equal third,
equal third with our Garrod, Kyle and Fergus all on six points.
So while on Adam has now got a four way tie for third position.
Oh my god, the three way has become a four way. They're getting
closer and closed. Luke, you better start sending those names through. Buddy.
Well, let's see what happens with three points, because this is a
nice bit of a well i'll tell you once we've done. But the three
points goes to Willie's all that, oh take off, she's all that indeed,
which is also a bit of a takeoff of my fair lady. Yes,
it's very very good. That's um ah, it's Luke McKay. We
didn't plan that. Okay, Well, so Luke's just climbed away again.
They're getting closer and closer. Now Luke has got the three points, just
looked and went yeah, yeah, see you later. So Lukes still in
first position on twelve points now five points ahead of second, who is Heat
will be on seven and one point behind the Heat so one point. All
these four people here in the position Garrod harrow Hill, Kyle Muldoon, Fergus
Jeff's and Adam Warhouse. So it's very close there between second or third being
able to try and get a couple of three points to catch up to our
man Luke McKay. He's done it again. Guys, He's got that three
points. So if you want to be a part of this championship, just
be a part of the four figure discount Patreon network. We joined him to
the Facebook group and he can jump on boarding. Guy post his request for
some new names for the episode here. First question for the mail bag,
This one comes from Norah Coker Mister Davis, and she says, what other
musical would you like to see get the Simpsons parody treatment? And what would
it look like? I can a grease one to be fun. That's a
really good idea. Seeing margin homersing you're the one out of one would be
I think it just put a smile on everybody's face. It would make everyone
extremely happy. Yeah, um Chicago, I think would be a good one.
Yeah, who would do the Chicago though? Missus Kay she did do
the What was it with the balloons? What was the something she was popping
him? Um, she's she's naked under the balloons. Fever, she got
fever. She's popping the balloons and everyone's like, please kill me. And
I'm like, missus Kay's naked under those balloons. What are you talking about?
Is Kay? But Chicago missus Kay and Agnes and a few Elthers doing
the cellblock tang. Yeah, it'd be awesome, of course, Yeah,
it'd be great. Next question here, Mark Boston Burgess. Which Simpson's character
would you want on your dodgeball team to unleash some bombardment? What gradskipper Willie?
It's crazy man. That man is just filled with rage, and I
think it's a key component to success in dodgeball slash bombardment. Who else good
for bombardment? Well, Rainy would be a good catcher, would you,
Rayol Castle, Yeah, it would be a good catcher. Do you think
because if you catch the ball they're out as well? You know? Correct?
Someone fearless or or just stupid? It would well maybe masochistic. I
think you also need someone Yeah, Moby good. Actually, yeah, you
need someone who can send out as well as just like a full boy,
like like a decoy. Yeah, full boy. But here we go find
another question, Andrew JP, which side character do you feel has gotten boring?
I'm not a and a comic book guy. He's a tired parody of
elitist, arrogant gate keeping geeks. That's a very good reason not to like
a comic book guy. I don't know. I get the feeling he's been
used relatively sparingly, certainly in the episodes that we've been watching recently, so
I'm not that bummed to see him. Andrew JP, you're clearly a listener
of the show, and you will have guests that when well, I'm certainly
not a fan of Sideshow Mel showing up. I don't think Dando is either,
unless you give him something halfway decent to do. But if he's just
going to sort of pop up and say things like this, then that's the
thing. There's no, there's nothing about Sideshow Mal. There's nothing to the
character. He's just a guy that talks funny yeah, and even the yeah,
even the voice isn't that funny. So look, I'm going to go
with mel and probably clitist because you know I'm a snob an elitist. Clever
Kyle says, did you ever have a favorite piece of clothing that you've worn
out and nothing could ever replace it. I've definitely had a few shirts like
my going out to the nightclub days where I'm like, this is like my
this is my success shirt, like my way this I'm going to be six
successful tonight. And what I like to do is sometimes I've got those old
shirts when I was going out club and I put them on. I'm just
like, these shirts can still fit me. Then I know I haven't let
myself go. If the shirts that I wore out when I was eighteen nineteen
and still fit me, now you're doing all right, Dando, We'll be
putting it that way. Yeah. I mean, I've got a shirt in
my cup in my closet that's like I was wearing this a day I got
lucky with a girl that i'd had a crush on the goodness knows how long.
So I'm like, you'll never going to themies sort of I'd like the
end of Breakback Man. Occasionally I'll take it out and cuddle it. Sometimes
I have shirts where I'm like, this shirt is so awesome and it's like
it's a license shirt, but I'm like, they're never going to make a
shirt with this license again. I need to keep this shot. It might
be like an old school like ninety Star Wars short and I'm like shirt,
and I'm like, they'll never make this shirt again, So I have to
keep this shirt because it's just for the nostalgia factor if anything. Yeah,
I've got one like that. It's I get where I first saw it,
but it was sometime in the eighties and it was like some rock star was
wearing it or some cool dude in some magazine. I'm like, that's a
dope T shirt. It's for a record label called Nervous Records, and I
had like this cartoon character getting scalped by like an LP and they had like
a spike hair cut and it was sort of cutting off the spike their spike
are. Yeah, And I found it in a in a local store one
day, and I think I paid like an insane markup for it, but
it was like, I gotta have it. This T shirt is gonna make
me. And I still have it, but it's got holes in it and
all that ship, and I don't really wear it anymore. But it's like
I'm never throwing you out. I was like, yeah, I'll find it.
I'll find a picture of the of the logo and put it up for
the patrons. But yeah, I don't know whether you've ever actually followed through
ever doing that. I used to be really good about at it, and
now I'm not the first time I did it the first time, and then
I did it at least the first three times, and none of the thirty
three times since I final one to hear Georgie Catherine, what have you changed
about yourself? Or maybe your lady changed for you even for one night,
and thought, oh, now I'm fancy. I have a coat with fake
fur on it, and every time I wear I feel like a wealthy heiress.
I now have it in three different colors usually like you know, a
new haircut usually makes you feel a bit spiffy, doesn't it? Well speak
for yourself. Let's rub it in, brother, I am. I haven't
paid for a haircut since I was about fifteen. My sisters cause my sister
did a hairdressing course and she never became a hairdresser as she ended up doing
your own thing. But she did the hair dressing course, so she does
had a cut hair. So I'm like, I've not paid for a haircut
in nearly twenty years. Good for you. Hair dressing is a wrought.
It is. Back in the nineties when I was going with them, the
woman who became my wife, I still had a bit of hair on top.
I mean I was thinning, but I still had it just a half.
And this is a round the time the fifth Element came out and we
all know that Bruce was in that with his with his blonde hair, and
yeah, and I you know, she knew how much I like Bruce.
Have you ever thought about dying here? And I'm like I have now.
Yeah. I dyed my hair that kind of that kind of blonde and with
my coloring. It didn't really work. I mean it wasn't bad, But
there's always the first the first couple of days of where you're really anxious as
to what happy people are going to respond to it, because you're like,
yeah, I like this, I feel like this is working. But if
no one else likes I'm going to revert straight back to how it was.
It's um, do you know the TV show Freaks and geeks. Yeah,
yeah, of course you do. It's a great episode in that where Sam,
the main geek, he's been sort of conned into buying what's called a
Parisian night suit by this by the the guy the salon at the mall,
and it's basically like a jumpsuit in powder blue. It's like the guy that
sold you the jeans in the States that time. Yeah, I'm kind of
put on eBay because I didn't fit into them then and I certainly don't fit
into them mail. Yeah, if it were just a pair of size what
thirty three? Levi's get in touch. But yeah, Sam, you know,
rocks into school and he's thinking checking out the stylish new look for Sam
and was just like he thought he was such such terrific acting by that kid
that he sort of realized, oh shit, oh fuck, I'm terrible in
this. Everyone's laughing at And it was at that moment that he realized he
sucked up. Yeah, mistake. Yeah, all right, guys, Well,
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