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