Hello, and welcome to success. It's Marge Simpson. I need you to
coach like I've never coached before. Marge. Please, I'm with a client
now. You listen here. Bob, we paid you off as savings we
had in the world. You can at least tell my husband something encouraging.
All right, Homer, what is it you're attempting to do? Went over
a difficult client. I'm trying to land a plane with no experience, Homer.
I gotta tell you I'm not very good. I went to the Harvard
of the South. Duke that's good, not Duke Vanderbilt a little further south.
Don't make me say it, forefinger disgunt, dude. Maybe wondering whou
the audio a little bit shit at start there? I wasn't it in record
again. It's because I'm so used to pushing just record there. But you
know what, I don't care. I'm gonna fuck. I'm just gonna use
these for the cameras. Dando has reached Season nineteen podcast. It doesn't give
a fuck anymore. It's understandable. We are having a good chat. We
are checking ourselves out in the camera looking good. Yeah, we won't get
to the end and go, let's just redo it. We'd better redo that.
Yeah, but you know, season nineteen did not kick off with a
bang. You know what the biggest disappointment for me for season nineteen was it
was the fact that, besides the opening intro, they didn't incorporate any elements
from the movie, almost as if the movie just didn't exist. They sort
of acknowledged it in the intro with the skateboarding through the characters and all kind
of stuff, and they don't and all that kind of stuff like that,
but then it was just forgotten about. They didn't get Spider Pig after the
couch game. That's true. I think they just thought, okay, well,
well this, we'll do our due diligence, will acknowledge that there was
a movie events happened in it. But it's just status quo. I get
start a movie. It's not canon apparently. But when you have a movie,
right, you think, surely you're going to do something that is going
to play on forever, even if it's just having Spider Pig in sitting in
the kitchen, having every once in a while to have it trot through the
frame. Yeah, it just it didn't bother me. But I just thought,
what a wasted opportunity there. You've just done this movie and I get
that you acknowledged it at the start, but it should play into canon somehow.
And I know canon is a dirty word, but Spider Pek was huge
at the time. Remember Spider Pick. Spider Pick was very well. They
based the whole all the trailers around spot exactly right. People were singing spider
Pig, spider Pick. So why was Spider Pick not in the show?
Now? I don't know the world had spider Pig fever. They did,
indeed, but yeah, he loves to fly and he does. So we
had the guest stars from Lanovichie, which was just a shameless cameo, it
wasn't and we had Stephen Colbert, so Stephen Colbert as Colby Krause another what
have you called a fresh face? It's like, yeah, it's just a
shoehorning in, is it? Though? Yeah? I think what disappointed me
about this episode? And sorry I'm talking of due diligence. I really should
have done mine and gone back and then that how many times Homer has had
either a legitimate life coach or just a role model or someone in his corner
saying change your life by doing this. Well, the problem is they blew
their load with Carl and season two. That's very much. There's no going
back from that. It's like you've had Carl. It's only down from there.
Yeah, now, forgive me. Is Carl and Max Power? Is
that the same episode? Carl season two, Max Power season ten? Okay?
Then Max Power was just home and getting his shit together himself because he's
the character on TV and he got a new scarf. That's right. Yeah,
but Carl was Harvey have you one? No, it was not Harvey
Fire. Yes, Hard must be sitting aging common mister Hard must be sitting
there going my god. I didn't. But he was so good as Carl.
He was great, and that was a I thought that was a great
storyline as well, despite the fact that I clearly conflated too and couldn't remember
an individual one es. Also, one of the quotes are using every day,
every day life, whenever we go shopping, let's go shopping. The
thing I remember most from that episode is when he gets the tailor's seas you
conceal it or something like that. It's so good, it's fantasy. If
I ever get in the tailor enemies you conceal this. He was the best
life coach home he's ever had, very much, and when you get Cobbe
Krause, this just feels lame. Our friends in other parts of the world,
we probably talked about this in the past, But there's a chain of
supermarket see called n QR stands for not quite right. These items that have
been discontinued are approaching their best by date, or even they're used by date.
I discovered there's a difference. You never heard that ever. It says
used by it, don't touch. It's like this is a recommendation. Shuck
the fish, unt touch to dyes, and Kobe Krause felt very much like
the n QR version of In America, you might say the dime Store,
the nineteen nineties of chains. Understand the Franklin's Fresh. He's not even the
Aldi. No no, I won't have Aldi. No no, That's what
I mean. Like but Adi, I told you about the Tariza and Haluomi
burgers of this Oh so delightful. I get that, But it's Aldi will
forever be seen as Oh, it's that other supermarket. It's not the big
Dots, tims a tough kitchen. Aldi chocolate this. But but during COVID
they were great for getting past it. They always had a ship leader pasta.
You go to Coles was like you can have one packet now He's like,
take what you want. Boys, it's a friend zre. So yeah,
Colby was very much that that kind of thing. I'm wondering where Colbert.
Do we still call him Stephen Colbert? I mean there's actually a pronounce
his name, because I was of a mind that when he had his show
where he was the sort of the right wing talk show, it's like a
bit of a spin off from the Daily Right was he Well, that's the
thing. It was a bit of a pisstake. He was like a I
think he was like a mock Fox Newsy kind of host, and the Colbert
was kind of a bit of a weird flourished they put it. I don't
know it's at Colbert or anything like that. If his real name is actually
Colbert, my apology Stephen, I've always said Colbert. I'm wondering where he
was placed at this time, if we're still doing that show, or if
he'd become a one of the late night talk show hosts in the in the
Jimmy Vein, let's go Stephen Colbert two thousand and seven. That's when this
air The Colbert Report two thousand and sevens Colbert. Okay, so he's doing
Colbert Report. Yea, so he was a name. And this just feels
like we had a bit of a bitch before we started recording today, right
how podcasts just feel like we'll bitch about TV show rewatch podcasts and how the
co stars go. We're going to rewatch the show with you guys now because
we're not feeling it anymore. But podcasts in general just feels like it's a
bunch of celebrities now going who can get the next guest celebrity. It's almost
like talk shows have become podcasts. It was very much there's anybody but Mad
Groening. You're stealing our bets. Yeah, And now it feels like The
Simpsons season nineteen is almost feeling like, hey, look who've got this week?
And let's base an episode around that. And it's like, ah,
the story is not strong enough. Yeah, And there's life march higher than
my life? Why why I've got in my notes, I've written WTF every
time I just went what's going on here? And there was several of those
here. It just doesn't This just felt such a weak premise for a season
premiere. It did. I mean, I like the idea, not just
on in fiction and The Simpsons, but in general about having occasionally a life
coach or an outside source to take a look at what's going on in your
life. But it was like, wasn't it like last season or just before
when Homer and Marge were life coaches for the married couple. Remember that's right,
got marriage. I'm thinking, how many stories it's just the same story
rehashed. I don't know. And if you're going to do that, at
least find a different Anglo or get someone else to have a life coach.
Well, my theory was, this is a season premiere, right, and
I'm the Simpsons. I mind the Simpsons. I want the first scene of
season premier, not the intro of the movie stuff. The first scene needs
to be something that hooks you, right, and it needs to go,
Wow, this is awesome. Mister Burn's just walking through a wall and getting
sucked into a water fountain. That was like the first five minutes, I'm
thinking, wow, this They really have thrown in the towel here this just
feel this feels like what I expected was Season eighteen. People were saying,
whilst I'm making the movie, we're kind of distracted, but maybe it near
enough is good enough? Maybe season nineteen because Season nineteen edge straight after.
Maybe they were making Season nineteen at the same time as Simpson movie. I'm
not too sure because simpce this movie came out in what two thousand and seven,
and this edge in September two thousand and seven, so this came out,
so they probably were making this at the same time as well. This
just screamed like we just don't care. I thought, at least you didn't
try. No, they just I don't know. I was really disappointed for
a season premiere because last season, remember we had the Moot, the Chef
the Fact, which was a fantastic use of guest stars. Absolutely, whilst
yeah, it felt like a very original story perspective that we hadn't seen before,
still made use of central Simptoms characters, by which I mean the Simpsons.
But but least I had nothing to do with this episode. No,
but just had to and that's it. Yeah, that was his highlight.
Otherwise he's just been a little brat, which is I don't know, kind
of his Raisin debtrop but at the same time saying this feels played out.
Yeah, my favorite What were your favorite moments in the episode? Case,
I'm looking at mine and I've written nothing. I've written the store names.
I liked the background gags there, so the shoe in. I liked the
costmo things like that. But overall, there wasn't really much to enjoy,
I thought in this episode, which is a real shame. You're right,
You're right. I mean I've already sort of alluded to. I liked the
idea of Homer having a life coach, but I think that's more please someone
get the sort out my life at the moment. I liked the idea of
Homer being one person at the bowling Alley where he's in his element. Bring
that version of yourself to the real world exactly. That's the story there,
but it just didn't really evolve from that. I just thought, like montage
of him wearing the shoes having sex with Marge and Stuffy, and he stopped
wearing the shoes at some sages. I thought the story the story should have
been, he wears those shoes everywhere and then he loses the shoes and now
he's gotta he's gonna find his mojo. Yeah, it was in you the
whole time. That's the That's what I thought they were going. And it's
like, no, he's just he was wearing the shoes for about a montage
went for about fifteen seconds, and he's wearing the shoes. Look, I
thought the Itching Scratchy episode Come Flay with Me actually did a pretty good job
of talking basiness. I swear they've done that title before, Itchy and Scratchy,
Come Flay with Me. I'm sure you know some skin has been removed
at some stages during one of those cartoons, so we can hear. Come
Flay with Me is an episode of The Itchy and Scratchy Show from I'll Tell
You Find this episode. Oh, I was wrong. I could have sworn
we had that title before. But anyway, Dan, or at least you
try. I'm watching it. I'm watching it though, going yeah, I
don't think I'd be comfortable with Holly and Elliott watching this. And that's what
the whole basis for the season two episode of The Itchy, Itchy, Scratchy
and March Show whatever it is. When Marge is annoyed by the vance that
Itching and Scratchy sort of shows on TV and the kids copy it, and
I'm watching this going I don't think Elliott and Holly should be seeing this.
Okay, so should they be watching The Simpsons yet? That's maybe just not
the chin scratchy ones. I don't know. So is that on you or
is that on the show or it's a bit of both. Yeah, The
Simpsons is designed to be for kids and adults. But I just think Elliott
and Holly would be mortified by It's not that I think they would copy it,
but I think they would be startled by seeing what you see in the
Geen Scratchy. Don't you think a three year old seeing a masking has had
a cat head cut off? Oh? Yeah, that's too much. Yeah,
I mean it's always It's always been the joke about itching and scratchy,
like, oh my god, there's violin cartoon and kids think it's hilarious.
Yeah, but they can't quite my kids yet. Elliott maybe's nearly six,
but Holly can't differentiate the difference between what's really what's not. I would say
a three year old there is way too little to be watching that kind of
thing. Yeah, middle. As I always say, not a parent,
but I can't understand why my mom didn't be watching the Simpsons. Now I've
become by mum. Kat's in the cradle spoon what else? Don Joy thought?
I didn't mind the song with Lionel Richie. I didn't mind that.
I thought Lionel gave one hundred percent yea the time. Yeah, yeah,
he committed to the bit and he was in on the joke and did it
and did a good job with it. As we were just talking about Aldi
and NQR, I love that you're picking up labels like Miser's Delight no sorry,
Miser's Choice and Dale Delight. It's like I would probably buy these.
Speaking of NQR, you may have said on our Facebook page and I recently
put a picture of Simpson's pasta right, which was from from Italy and you
can't find it anywhere. I bought thirty bags of it right now selling for
now, selling on eBay for fifty dollars a bag. I bought them for
two dollars a bag, and you're selling them money fish, haven't he been
bought? Yes, I've sold six bags at forty eight dollars each. My
mummy so I've turned what I rack no, right crazy right, look at
it, don Carley. I've put up there forbidding the first one, and
the first one went for nearly sixty dollars, and I was like, well,
I'll just Laura a little bit and put it back now and just leave
him up there and yep, tickling through. No, it's one. Yeah,
always got your eyes on the price. And to wrap up the things
that I enjoyed about this episode, it is a good motivator when someone says,
I heard some guy you say, couldn't do that? Okay? Yeah,
well yes, what's the skinny thing to get a crappy dishquestion? Did
you have any favorite moments? Not really w F moments, just the just
the sho shot titles and lone of it. I thought was good in what
he was. I thought he was better than Stephen Colbert, I think,
so it was well, it was just funnier. Yeah, overall I didn't
mind. Is it savettnah? Yes? Next question? You there eating the
paste? All right, so it's time now for some trivia. What's your
first question? Well, speaking of the mall and the way we open up,
can you you name all or at least Dodgers was the last one?
Okay, all or at least three? The items question is what's the last
one of them? Okay, well it was Brooklyn Dodgers, but the others
were Laudanum, cotton, gin, spats and a cell phone. What's spats?
Spats are a type of shoe. Okay, you'll find they are often
two tone. Now she might be button up as well. I forgot to
mention in our previous segment Favorite Moments, how do I forget Crazy ET's phone
home? I was like, that's actually very clever. Plus you were contractually
obliged anytime Et appears on any screen to mention it. Yes, but because
it's your favorite movie. There was that element of for a while with Markey,
it's crazy Eddie or it's crazy. What was the one for the phones?
Here in Australia there was a crazy something and he sold phones. Oh
that's right, Do you remember? I only remember Ken Bruce has gone man,
Kemprus has gone mad. Bruce Shoulder dressed up as his system of Donna.
What a crazy time for having Ken Bruce? What a legend? What
was that? Frank Wiker im national Tar you have? Who was the fact
that I sell on the log of detergents. Oh, big keV, Big
keV. Yeah he's excited. Yeah, I'm excited. That's right, very
excited. Remember when Mike Munro used to rocking people's doors and nappy s hand
Mike mud respected journalist formost sixty minute staff for Mike Munroe with rock up,
and I can't believe it's getting rid of the baby steats? What is going
on? The weirdest big keV moment though, was he'd come along and he'd
bring along his his laundry relictatory stain remover or whatever. Yeah, and Krazy
John's was the fame cover Crazy John, and he would Big Kevi would invite
people to give it a try and then come back a bit later. But
he sort of he lurched out from behind the like Penny Wise, but he
sort of slipped I'm back. Yeah, that's exactly how he said. Big
keV. God bless him. Probably a very nice fellow. And he also
looked kind of intimidating. He looked like he could be like a bouncer.
But he got a state funeral. I remember when he passed away. I
always remember when because he's a massive, massive Beatles fan. For some reason.
I remember when he passed away, they played when he was casket was
getting walked down, All you Need is Love by the Beatles. So now
whenever I hear that song, I think of Big Kev's funeral. Oh wow,
how was that? Because I was like, hey, you like the
Beatles too, I remember watching that news story. But Big keV, Yeah,
I'm excited. He's excited. Big cav So Crazy John's they went out
of business in twenty fourteen. That's a shame that were Australia's largest independent phone
retailer. There's no room for the independent these days, whether it's in crazy
phone sales or podcasting. Started by a Turkish Australian businessman, John Ihan,
Ah, yeah, had six hundred retail stores. That's a legitimate business.
I hope Crazy John cashed out. Yeah, and now he's on a beach
earning twenty percent I hope. So. In January twenty thirteen, voter Fane
announced that it was the close up to forty of their Crazy John's co branded
stores. What so, voterafone must have bought them out. Huh, that's
great. He started in Brunsway, Victoria in nineteen ninety one. And by
nineteen ninety eight, there were fifteen stores in Victoria and the retailers rate in
the top ten of Teustra's mobile dealers. As of January twenty thirteen, they
had sixty one stores. And then it just exploded. You know now pretty
much everything there is to know about Crazy Days why you're tuning in. But
anyway, let's get into our stoven cutders. Oh. I thought we were
in the middle of trivia, but we're going to do Oh do we have
more trivia questions? Well? I just asked one? Okay, what is
bodly average? Oh? Gosh? Uh? Two? Ten? Nearly?
Sorry, I had a drink? Or what are there to fifteen? Nearly
to seventeen? Yes, the penny in the wishing well that mister burnsineteen eighty
nine, nineteen eighty nine. Oh, it's like one mind incredible. How
much are iPhone is apparently now worth? The one time with the Simpsons predicted?
Wrong? Oh? Uh? Oh like twenty twenty cents? Yeah,
that's that joke, did not age? Well? No, and final question
Sam sung galaxy. Yes, that's what I've got as well sounds what's your
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Keep cutting those stones, all right. So the original air date of He
Loves to Fly and Doze, before we go a little further into it,
made a little explanation about that title. I looked at the tone. I
was like, what's this a play on? I was prepared to do an
incredible deep dive anything there to find out. I did my deep dive and
I crashed my head on Wikipedia because that's where they explained it. It is
apparently a play on we love to fly, and it chose which is a
tagline from Delta Airlines. Oh okay, they still exist, Delta. I
think they're still around. I don't know if they're that well regarded an airline,
okay, but they're the jet Star of America. I think they're the
Tiger. I remember Tiger or the Bombser they went out, didn't they Tiger?
I believe, so, yeah. Avlon was like, oh no,
we have a local airport, the Avalon Airport. That used to always just
be jest Star and Tiger. It was all it was, yes, and
that's what it was. Now it's just Jet Star, all right. So
the original air day was Timber twenty three, two thousand and seven, written
by Joel H. Cohen and directed by our man Mark Kirkland, the Chopball
Gig. I will not wait twenty years to make another movie. It looks
like they're going to, because this was two thousand and seven, where what
three is away from that now? And there's no sign of any movie being
announced or in preparation, So maybe he is one coming. Who knows.
I may know something, but I'm not gonna reveal on this podcast because I'm
not allowed to. I don't know anything the couch gag, so we had
so basically the intro here was all various elements from the movie, so he
had our shards of the dome there, and when Bart rides his skateboard through
the street, it's all characters from the movie. Who was that the Irish
kid he's not Bono's son. Oh yeah, that guy who Lisa was in
love with, who never appears again. The lady that gave home the the
medicine, remember when he had the eit me? I know all there's what's
called the piphany. Brave fart that dad brain of me. That's not the
word epiphany. Hopefully Daniel will show this bit, but he's doing the stand
of come on, give it to me, you know I'm trying to do.
I'm asleep. And the Native American woman here and and who all of
them never appear again. We got the guy Russ cargill O belive his name
is. He should have been Hanks Coorpio. The villain ship be Hang Scorpio.
You had Albert Brooks there. What are you doing? Albert Brooks is
in the studio. Unless Albert Brooks says, I specifically don't want to be
Hang Scorpio. You just have Hanks Scorpio be the villain the movie, right,
you would think, so, yeah, everyone loves Hak Scorpio. That's
the that's the waste opportunity in my opinion, for the Simpsons movie. And
we have Mohi with his cone on his head, just various elements from the
movie. And they get to the Kison chortz. Yes, that's right.
Yeah, And we get to the cash Gaga and Popper is there at the
pig and he calls him my summer love. And that's the end of Popper.
Okay, that's the we are memory holding the Simpsons movie apparently. Yeah,
I just weird, right, You think you would have incorporated into the
first episode, or at least some Well, I think this is them doing
that. I think it's like, yeah, we had the Simpsons movie,
you liked it. There's bits and pieces from it, but it's probably gonna
be too complicated for us to fold aspects of that movie into this ongoing story.
Now, well, that's why they get paid the big bucks to not
do it. Yes, that's the dream. Lots of money do not work.
Yes, kicks off with Burns and Smithers shopping for a new phone.
They've got a crazy ets phone home. We get the message over the speaker.
iPhones in that twenty cents very rare. The Simpsons are so far off
when it comes to predictions, and this was off. Yeah, yeah,
I mean the hip miss ratio is usually pretty good. Yeah. The mini
cell phone that Smithers gave him was eating because you thought it was a lemon
drop. So Smithers think goes to get the number D listed, but then
later on the episode copy calls the number he clearly does not. Yes,
so weird dropping the ball, sees the nineteen eighty nine penny in the fountain,
decides he's going to region and grab it, falls in and then gets
sucked through the pipes, and I'm thinking, okay, so we're doing this
with burnstill cool? We owned a plus I don't know You've got a cameo
by Ralph Wighaan licking in non existent ice cream. There were some words mentioned
in this episode that I went, oh, I don't think you should be
saying these on television anymore. The tea word and the S word. You
know what we're talking about, the freak fry it makes you what die by
s oh? Yes? Yeah? And then commercial planes are only for losers
and tease. It's a terrorists. Oh that's right, Like wow, we're
making terrorist gags on planes. In two thousand and seven, I must admitted
they think, oh, well, enough time has passed, since I don't
think enough time will ever transpire. You don't make jokes about terrorists on planes.
Thank you for spelling it out to me, because I when I was
watching going, yeah, I don't think you're watching enough YouTube these days.
And if so many words get sort of blurred out or omitted, or they
use euphemisms or whatever, like oh boy, that this work day made me
want to unlive myself or something like that, like you can't say the S
word or even the kay myself words. Yeah. So yeah, for your
contact creators out there, never use the words kill, murder, or suicide
in titles. Just don't do it, Just do not do it. But
the thing is, we also got that here's your boyfriend, you know,
my boyfriend? Like, wow, two thousand and seven, what a time,
a less progressive time. Oh we weren't, were not. I don't
think it was. I just think the Simpsons was just the writer's room was
just stuck in nineteen ninety seven, don't you like I don't. I don't
think by two thousand and seven we were far past this shit. Maybe look
I'm trying to be Maybe I'm being far too charitable and thinking, Oh,
the whole he's not my boyfriend thing is not really a not so much a
gay joke, is more like a reversalon. That's a gay joke. Okay,
well, okay, that's why would you say he's your boyfriend? Don't
you ever say have you ever said that to like your little sister or something,
particularly when you were kids. Yes, but that's that's this was implied
here, that Homer is fruity. That was as the Simpsons would put it.
That's what they're implying here. Okay, Like I said, I was
being charitable and probably wrongly. So it's just because in recent history with the
Simpsons, with season seventeen eighteen, it's been full of these kind of games,
that's correct. Yes, all right, I'm not gonna play Devil's for
the Simpsons anymore. It just doesn't make me sad. But I just sort
of go, I'm a little bit disappointed, Simpsons. I feel like you're
better than this. That was the show for me, The Simpsons. You
had homophobia in like nineteen ninety six and one. That should have been the
beginning and ending. That should have been your you guys going we acknowledge.
We've been saying, shit, we shouldn't have. But you know, Homer
is our main character by this point. He's learned from this. He's not
going to be this way anymore. And then they just fucking threw out the
window. What was the point? What makes homosphobia feel pointless? Doesn't it?
It does because if that felt progressive at the time, and it's just
they've just throw out the window. John Waters was probably watching this guy.
You let me down? Yeah, yeah, anyway, But so yeah,
birds A get sut through the fountain. Homer decides to save him. You
obviously dinner with him. For me, that's you. And then he goes
back in for the Now this last ten seconds here, this is what I've
got as my first WTF moment. So he goes and I'm going to pinch
you back as well whatever. He goes back in for the penny falls in
and Homer's looking at him and he goes, I've got it, and he
goes mm hmm and just walks off, and I'm thinking, what was that?
Yeah? What was that? It is the vague semblance outline of a
joke. Ish, where is the joke there? I don't know that home
has gone to all this effort, not even all this effort to save him.
But wouldn't it be funnier though, if he'd fallen in it reaches it,
pulls h out and he's like thank you or something like that is to
say, oh, you had to save him again. But here, so
he falls in and layser and goes, I've got it. Yeah, pull
him out and say, right for that, I'm taking him out for dinner
again. I reckon. The original scene here didn't have him saying I've got
it, and Homer just went mm hmm and leaving him in the fountain and
walked off. And then they added in they've got it later on, because
he doesn't hold up the corner or anything. He's just like you just hear
the audio. I reckon. They went, it doesn't really make sense for
having it and leave him in the water the second time, so let's throw
it. I've got it. It also struck me as one of those things,
you know, there are so many jokes when someone just goes through some
terrible physical punishment. Yeah, and you hear, then you hear obviously an
ad outline. I'm okay, why why are we doing this? Doing it?
That's my first WTF moment. More to come dinner with mister Burns.
What a waste of my precious, precious Saturday night. I fun with your
boyfriend. She is not my boy friend. He goes outside, He takes
him on the private plane. There was a really weird moment here, right
when he first sees the private plane. Okay, now, did you watch
this on Disney Right? So I watched on Disney Plus on the TV last
night, right, and you must have saw what I saw because he says
private plane, private jet, but it says but it says gigig golf stream.
I watched it on my laptop this morning. Again, as he says,
gig gig golf stream. Oh, what the hell? I washed it
on my TV. The subtitle says gigig golf stream, but he says private
plane on my laptop. He says gig golf stream. Okay, now I'm
confused. That is so weird, right, that is odd. It's just
I could not wrap my head. What the hell happened? I thought?
Did I dream that last night? I was like, what the hell?
The only notion that I can come up with is that golf stream is like
a private label. Or something. The golf stream is a plane. It's
not a plane, right, But why would if I'm watching Disney Plus in
the same house I save internet watching on my TV him say put up a
private plane. Oh here it says golf stream. Oh no, I'm very
confused. That's what I'm confused about. No, No, that's I'm equally
confused about that. I was trying to make sense the first of all,
the first thing where you know, there was the disparity, but yeah,
that whole it being one thing on the TV and one thing on your laptop.
That is confusing when the subtitles are still the same on I just it
was so bizarre. If you can let us know and listeners out there,
Simpsons mail bag at gmail dot com, why does the subtitle say golf stream
but he says put up a private plane? Or Mark Kirkland let us know.
Yeah, when you're watching on Disney Plus on the TV, but then
watch it on your laptop and he Homer says, put up a private plane.
It must be the different audio versions. I don't know. I don't
know what's going on, but you know what, it annoys me. That
means it must be must be multiple multiple audio tracks, which means add the
fucking coentaries. You have the ability to do this. At the commentaries,
You've got him angry. There's absolutely no reason for streaming services not to have
the commentaries for movies on their streaming services. Right if you're offering us German,
French and all these other ones, give us the audio commentaries, yes
or yeah. If you're not going to do that, Major media companies get
a little more robust with your physical media. You know, actually release more,
cancel it, don't cancel it, don't wear house it, put it
in shops, put commentary tracks and behind the scenes documentaries and all that kind
of stuff. Make it something that we want to buy, like our pals
at Umbrella. I'm telling you, Disney Plus, if you put the Simpsons
commentaries on your streaming service, it would be a game changer. You would
get so many more subscribers. People would lose their minds. They'd be so
happy because people keep the David sets because they want the commentaries and things like
that. Put the commentaries on Disney Plus. Please make it happen. And
then when you do it, I can say I was the reason that you
did it. This is the only reason the glory, but he gets offered
soon she on the plane. You can't believe it from Svetlana. He'll do
anything. Yeah, call me, by the way. What are yours on
deep dish pizza Chicago style? I've never had the Chicago style Deep dish was
like a pie. I prefer thick base. I know you're a thin based
guy. No, no, no, I mean I'd like a thick based
one because I mean, we're here in Geelong. I think we've name checked
these guys in the past, Pizzas with Attitude and two thousands in name.
It's sort of poocha, even the logo. But it's like when you've committed
your logo for like twenty five years. Everyone knows that logo. You can't
sort of change it. No, no, it sort of goes full circles.
If they change the pizza of a Erguy logo, I'd be so sad.
I think so it's part of the charm is for a while ago.
That's a bit cringe, And I can't believe we've got a lot of pizzas
with attitude. It's weird. They right, because if they change the logo,
your brave would automakely think that the pizzas probably tastes different as well.
Yeah, because it's always going to look the same. That's why when you
go to a milk barney, it's going to have the same fucking Peter's ice
cream thing signs out the front from like nineteen eighty four. It's like there's
something about the taste from this place that's right. But pizza without it you
do a fairly thick crust piece. I'm assuming it is a kin to the
Chicago deep dish pie. I know Chicago's like pie like this thing, like
super thick, like super thick of a slice of like with a knife.
Okay, so I a cake. I'm thinking I could be wrong. That's
what I've been told. It's like eating a cake pie. Oh wow,
yeah, Chicago style. Let's have a look Chicago style deep dish because I've
always wanted to try, because you know, I love me some pizza.
Get look at this so I can't really turn this. No, no,
I'm gonna get google Chicago Style deep Dish and go to images. It literally
looks like a keiche. Yeah you're too young to remember this, I'm sure,
but there was a book yeah called Real Men Dont Keese. Did you
do know this was in the eighties. It was like, it sounds like
Simpsons and seven. Have you looked it up? Goo? A deep dish
pizza? God, damn have you not looked it up yet? That's that's
a thick pad. Yes, that is actually a pie. You know what
I mean. It's not just thick crust. It's just a genuine keish really
hungry now I was, I'm like, I really want to eat this.
Well, okay, a pizza with attitude. Pizza is maybe half the thickness
of that. Yeah, maybe a little bit less than that maybe. But
what we in a show called Fixed Slights of Pizza is what pizza of a
They just get it and they throw the toppings on. It's thick, it's
it's delicious, it's delightful. Pieces of Attitude. Friends of the Pot should
be come on board. We want free pizza. They used to be when
we first started. The local one here was Friends of the Pod. We
should get the original because the original Pieces of Attitude in Gelong and there's one
in Heightened now as well. Oh yeah, they did the Crazy John they
expanded, Yes, much much like My Belly Pizza's Pieces of attitude, support
the show. We're excited. I'm going to throw this to them. Okay,
so what were we talking about? Chicago pizza. Yes, they ripe
in chicar But yeah, they're on the they're on the flights that Lana's offering
sushi. Homie just being I don't know, I'm aroused and confused. Oh
no, but the whole thing, we're on a plane stupid. Yeah,
it's such lame, right, isn't it. It kind of we just have
to start calling this now that is just shit writing. Yeah, it's just
it's Homer is such a jerk. Yeah, and Homer's not so dumb that
he's going to insult his boss in the space, particularly when they're on a
private plane that you know, mister Burns is paying for. Homer's supposed to
be scared of mister Burns. Yeah, he's the boss. Right when you
got Homer called mister Burns stupid and mister Burn's does nothing about it. That's
what's wrong with the with the right, it's diffusing all the character interaction and
then and then episode six of the season, you probably have mister Burns being
this tyrant and everyone's scared of him again and you're thinking, where's the consistency
here? How did Homer get away with calling him an idiot to his face?
Yes? And why did Burns not care? That's what pissed me up
the most. If in season one or two, if Homer called him stupid,
he'd get, you know, dropped down the little shoot in his office
or something. Yeah, Homer should be afraid to the point where but a
plane or something like that, you know, maybe not quite that dumb,
but not just amuly being a jerk. Yeah. And then when he's with
his family or at Moe's or something like lousy bus or geese stupid. Yeah,
all that kind of stuff. That's when that's when you grasp the bosses
is what I do? The lovely Louise bloody damn did we change in recording
schedule. We're in the House of unwellness today. Yeah. I just had
a big coughing and I'll probably not as well. You know, I don't
speak. I'm going to cough. And guys like, hey, this so
Dad, it is Dad. He is cuffed. More work of za put
put put a clip in there, Dad. Guy Zacha edited a message me
and he was like, can you please leave that incau. It's hilarious that
guys trying to teach you how to edit the podcast. That's how I left
it in so you can hear the confusion on your face through your voices.
I could visualize your face in that moment, going did he just do that?
What the hell? I wasn't bothered, but I was just like,
I know it just me or three mind after five years doing the show in
the moment, it's not. I was talking some of our podcast have you
listened to this thing? And when it was that happening? So I was
like, probably could be there. And then when I say, you're like
it was the first off had the gust to say something. But yeah,
let us talking. Sife the Virgin episode is available right now on our Patreon
if you want to hear a guy get totally embarrassed to this show every week.
But yeah, so on the plane, sot Lina's there, then they
watching scratchy line of Richie rocks up and he says, say, you say,
maybe he replaces me with beer. I believe it was fine. Yeah,
that's what it was. I didn't mind. Now I forgot the lyrics,
you know, but it just felt like, hey, Linel Richie's around.
Let's just shoehorn him into the episode, and you know they would have
had Linel Ritchie this week on The Simpsons. Hey, by the way,
also Stephen Colbert on The Simpsons. No, why don't you listen to the
musical standings of mister Lionel Richie? Oh my god, Lionel Richie? Can
you sing? Say you say me? But make it about beer? Sure?
I guess, Hey you bear me, bear me for always. That's
the way it should be. Hey, you beer me beer us together naturally.
No, make every word beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer beer
beer. Wait, I forget the words. Ah, they landed Chicago home.
Doesn't want to get the plan because he would have felt like a regular
person. Mister trivia question, what's that? What was the plane's call sign?
Something five to three or something? Yeah, November five, four to
three, Charlie four three, Charlie. What do you think of Lana saying
love you as he gets off the plane? No point to it, Yeah,
no point to it, and her mouse didn't move, so it's obviously
something' added in later They're gone, we need to throw something in here.
Love you? What that? Why? Yeah? I don't know. I
think the extracted to get him off the plane. Then it's just them going
through Chicago. Different signs yet the fairest Bueller, frest Bueller's Day of Beauty.
Yes, and then they go to the Ferres and Cameron. Yes,
they go to the Improv which is dead Castlenetta and Stephen Colbert apparently both got
their start at Second City, did they? Ah? Okay? Well,
deck Asen it was the actual person here. Ah, he was the one
hosting. Yeah, that was down there, a drunk of billionaire Starbucks in
Siberia. I thought I liked the piss take of improv in Siberia. But
Homer, actually I should have put this one of my favorite bits because he
really did speak for all of us, and personally, I have respect that
I respect for certain things when they've done well. Improv is one of them.
It's often not done well. And I came here to relax. You
think of it? Why are you pointing? We wrote it. We wrote
that that's great. I thought that was very, very runny. But Second
City is apparently well. It's ramtation speaks for itself. But I imagine that
for every Dan Sea or Stephen Sea that has come out of Second City,
one hundred ninety nine baristas in Siberia. Yes, do you say barista?
I say barista, I say barrister, but only when I'm in court.
Yes, while, uh so, while that while you were here, we
felt like New York. They structed. Then drops her off from home.
He smells like Chicago. That was actually kind of funny, because, yeah,
the Chicago, well, hence the name Second City. Yes, Homer,
you smell like Chicago. Did you fly there in a commercial airline?
No way commercial. It's for loosers and terrorists. I flew on a private
plane. Wow. Is it much different from a normal plane. Please tell
me you're joking. It's the difference between champagne and carbonated Peaie, what's wrong?
I hit it all for one night. Now for the rest of my
life, I'll know what I'm missing, and all I have to remember it
by is that my ears haven't popped. Well, I'll make sure that I
never yawn. I guess, hey, Homer. Homer arrives, and he
lets the cast smash through the house because he's depressed and sad. And then
a fresh face arrives and apparently marches high Kobe Krauss to get his life on
track, and I've gone, wtf as Marche done this? What a pointless
this? This is such lazy writing. How can we get him into his
life? Marge is just gonna help him home and get his life back on
track. His life wasn't off the track. He just needs to get out,
wake up to himself. Just a bit glum anyway, but makes a
joke about his body double being Uncle Fester, so he hits him because the
cameras aren't on yet. How do you feel about actual slaps on the back
of the head versus the traditional choking, because I was kind of like,
I mean, that's not necessarily a w TWEF moment or a you'll die by
suicide moment, but it's I just think hits in general just past it now
as well. But the choking just felt so cartoonish that it wasn't a fence
but say send him, hit him. It just felt like, oh,
you're just assulting him now. But they you know, he says, do
what you normally do, and he doesn't know what to do, so he
just shows him relish trade for insurance purposes, doesn't I didn't get that I
needed to die, I'm sure there's a reason doesn't want to put the socks
on though, because he's gonna have to take him off in a week.
Yeah. So we're reaching the stage where jokes, well not even reaching where
things like that are being recycled, I mean homes homes and said, what's
the point of going out? We're only going to come back home? Yeah,
which is really the perfect better than that, the perfect version of that
jokes everyone can relate to. Yeah, you feel like they were sitting in
the writer's room, you know, he had these very very smart people gong.
Okay, what's the perfect distillation of that feeling when it's like why clean
the windows? They're only going to get dirty again. We need to find
the exact right way to phrase it, and like, why go out when
we're only going to go home again? That nailed it. That's the best
way it really is. And it's just home is a slub white with socks
on. And he says, remember the NDC's never don't concentrate and what was
this? So Bart then kicks him in the ass and he says, do
you want to get a better shot of that? And he says, I
want to get some background noise and It's like four seconds of just nothing.
I was just WTF. I've got my notes? Yeah, what is going
on here? He's putting stables into his own head? Yeah? What does
this have to do with being sad about? She asked? What is the
point of this episode? What is the actual point? I imagine the Simpsons
movie was quite successful, and they've got eighteen years of a successful show behind
them, so hey, let's go for the nineteen. Anyway, was now
at the Bowling Alley and he realizes here that this is where he thrives.
Yes, he's very much Fred Flintstone twickle toes. Yeah he was. He
was in his element at the bowling Alley. What is now the equivalent of
the bowling Alley now because that was the internet? Yeah, well where a
guy goes to sort of be this element. It's not the pub, really
is It's not the bullying is there because we have bowling alleys new But people
don't really go that's hanging out with the boys anymore, you know. No,
No, I mean there's an article in the I forgot which paper,
but talking about the necessity for the third space, which we don't really have
anymore. So, I mean people work home and somewhere people go home,
they go to work, and you've got to have that place where you hang
out, where you do nothing your mos. Yeah, and you know there
are places like that, like coffee shops in that, but they've also been
by barristers, people sitting at the laptops like you, why are you working
in my coffee shop? I meant a sipo lato do funk all yeah,
and I'm gonna be noisy. How do you expect to write the wrote Australian
novel here? Or you know, balance is spreadshipt? Your balance of spreadshirt?
I don't know. I've got no idea spread them? What was that
is there? An Adam said? Spread notes? It's get them Rex,
isn't it? What's the what was that one? Skidding? Rex? It
wasundies yes, and it was ants and the answer crawling all over shall I
say mound? Yeah, answer crawl all over this woman's areas. And then
she had a little land eat called Rex sick and Rex and then Rex just
went to work and she smiled and it's like, oh, hey, you
know, you knew you become a man when you understood that commercial. And
then you meet a girl who said Rex I'm gonta marry that guy. But
this is where Homer, he know, he's just he is in his element.
Now. Actually we've got a WT moment to mentioned here. So this
is where he says, you need to get bowling Ali Homer to every Day
Homer, right, bullying Ali Homer to every Day Hammer. And Lenny will
and he goes just like my aunt who is now an uncle. No one
says anything, and his walks off, and I'm thinking, what happened to
Lenny? You've fucked Lenny. Lenny used to be the character that everyone felt
in the Golden Ear. I'm probably more like Lennon and anyone else. He
just feels like the guy that's just like the pal. You know, he
seems like a good guy. You know, he's probably a bit of a
bit of an easy beat, but you know, he just seems lovable.
He's always there for you. Now he's just his widow. There's this weird
relationship with Carl and he's cruel to the kids, and it's just what's going
on? What the fuck happened with Lenny? It's just you ruined. You
knew the Simpsons had gone downhill when you fucked up Lenny. Lenny was unfuckable
and you fucked him. Fuck that up. I don't know. I was
just this moment here, just let me go on what has happened to Lenny?
No Lenny that we get the montage and Homer wearing his bowling shoes,
and then I went, wait a minute, it's not a montage. It's
just stapling correctly and having sex with March. It goes second, Yeah,
it's and that's it. And I wonder, yeah, I wonder how many
scenes it takes to constitute a montage. I think reny seconds, because this
was what two or three It was two clips that go for about less than
ten seconds in total. Okay, so it was a stapling and the second
that's it. Yeah, that's it. The shoes needed to play a bigger
part in the in the story you're right on with. He wears the shoes,
feels confident, loses the shoes, loses self confidence, realize she would
have realized that the shoes were in him all along. Yeah, it's like
this Michael Special stuff in space jam Oh in like Mike Oh spiralte space.
You know when they give them that you probably forgot. We did it for
the movie guys. But they bugs band against the water bottle and it's Michael
special stuff and they think, yeah, I'm a good basketball player. There's
like it was just water. It was in you all along. Just watch
Space Jam and make this it was there. I love Dano doing his It
sounded like Williams. It was in you on the lone. That would have
been a casting choice William Shatner instead of it could have been Wayne Knight's character.
Wouldn't have worked, but it would have been a choice. It's such
a random mishmash that cast Wayne Knight, Billorry, Michael Jordan, good movie.
Home of Those Splace Jam a new legacy. He just randomly. Now
I've got how and why are all these companies now wanting to hire Homer?
What? How? Why? What has he done? Here's the thing though,
again sort of a WTF moments? What's his name? Kobe Kraus.
Yes, I've found all that. I've found all these places that want to
hire you. You assume that he's done the work, but not these places
are not. These people are coming to Colby and saying, we hear good
things about this homeless Simpson. We'd like to give him a job. Kolby's
clearly done some work here and later on I'm not very good at this,
It's like, but you actually are not bad at it? All the fuck
is going on? I don't know man to bring me in here today,
man, but handyman's choice. He picks them because they've got the plane.
The publicly apparently the whole story of this is he wants to about what he's
hooked on private planes. But it's just so shit. But that's not actually
the story. Yeah, I mean, that's not the story. Again,
I'm going to ding play Devil's advocate. I like the idea of I've flown
on a private I've flown on a private plane. Everything else is going to
seem kind of lackluster as a result. Now you've got to keep it in
the background as like, oh, I wouldn't be gratify I could fly in
a private plane all the time and maybe happen as a little bit of motif
throughout the episode, you know, he's constantly looking up in the air,
or he's sort of he's he's seen how the other half lives. Yeah,
I mean, I think that's an I think that's a concept that everyone can
relate to. But eventually it's it's not a matter of sort of like settling
for what you've got, but being satisfied, knowing love the world you're with,
Yeah, lovely, knowing what you're can achieve, finding satisfaction and fulfillment
in the life that you have, being realistic and being realistic as well.
Set goals, go for them by all means, but don't base your whole
life around that. I mean that, I think that's the lesson that you
should have maybe picked up by the end. Did he but think learns lessons?
In season nineteen, I think we're passed Homer learning lessons. I think
it's just being how to cannibal. But then Colby calls Burns to say he's
gonna be working for him anymore, and it's like, okay, so the
phone's still inside him, except how did he send it to voicemail? He's
sort of pointing, putting a stick down his throat, So do we know
if he's actually quit or not or the fuck knows? Man? So he
apparently you think he gets the job, but I like a little bait and
switch there where you think he's got the job but he hasn't, So we
get the others you tried there because they thought he was going to fail,
and he didn't. And timas first day and he drives past the place and
he goes to Krusty Beer and you're like, oh, I see he didn't
get the job. I thought the joke was just going to be he couldn't
write his name. Ah, so if you can write your name and I
can read it, you've got the job. And then he did hold it
in such a terrible word. It's like him yes, But so I thought
that that could have been just a joke in itself. It's like he didn't
he couldn't even do that. And here's the point, or here's the thing.
He's become so confident this stage, that becomes overconfident, and that's when
he calls someone an authority an idiot as opposed to being on the plane.
You can't read Homer's terrible handwriting, it's Homer, you idiot, and doesn't
get the job. As a result, maybe this this podcast can now be
us fixing the episodes, making them watchable. I didn't think. I didn't.
It didn't quite fit with the episode. But it was a nicely sort
of put together moment where he's like, give me a coffee and all those
mazes and he sort of does the same. And the music they used was
like, oh, this is actually a bit touching. It's from something that
music I'm sure. Well I can't remember the exact music, but it's yeah,
one it's not clear to learn as no, I don't know anyway,
So it was embarrassed and we've all I mean, there have been so many
stories about people who have either been laid off, laid off or didn't get
the job that they thought they were going to get, but they're too ashamed
to tell their partner, and so they go somewhere all day and just do
nothing or apply for other jobs in the meantime. And it makes him more
relatable here because he writes something. He's like, look happy, you know,
So there's there's there's a story. We always say there's a story here
somewhere, but you just obviously didn't have enough time resources. I don't know.
But he lies to them, tells and he's had a great day.
Babah blah. I did my job and way consistent with what I already told
you. Well that was not a bad line. Yeah, but you go
to Krusty Bergger the next day and all the schoolkids are there because they got
kicked out of the pettings or something because I don't rode the total naked or
something whatever. Then they get the freak fry freak fry look out different you
you die of suicide. I don't know if I'm happy with this being a
joke in a Simpson's episode with kids. I don't know. Maybe I'm just
being becoming a Karen. But I'm just watching this going You're becoming a Darren.
Yeah, I'm becoming a Darren. But the thing is I'm looking at
through twenty twenty four eyes. True, that's the thing, but still it
rubbed me the wrong way hearing the words suicide. I get where you're coming
from. I didn't think it was necessarily a funny joke. That doesn't think
if it's funny, I can go with it. But it wasn't even funny.
I wasn't annoyed by. I just thought, really that's what you went
with. Go with something more funny, but yeah, less inflammatory. Yeah,
I thought, just did the Wishblane thing where just like make a wish
and have now some punishment to go with the go with the classics. He
explains to Barty that he didn't get the job, and busses, we need
to tell it because you've been buying brand name groceries and things like that,
and also the eye poking whatever. Yeah. Yeah, I'm trying to determine
if these jokes are no good by themselves or they're perfectly okay gags that would
work in an episode that was generally better. I watched this episode twice because
the first time I watched it, I went, that was not good.
I watched it again the second time, and I went, it wasn't much
better than what I thought that the first time around. Okay, Yeah,
sometimes I watch it late at night and I think maybe I was just tired.
I watched it again this morning, and he was still tired. I
was still tired, you know, be cause my dad. But still I
just thought this episode just wasn't wasn't up to scratch for a season premiere,
let's put it that way. But he explains why he got fired because he
was just why did he get fired? Again? He was, yeah,
he didn't know anything about do you know anything about copee you? Yeah,
just give me the joke, yes, and just doesn't go to plan.
Yeah, and he sort of man handles the rich Texan. So he calls
Marge to tell her the truth. This may be sad, I should never
get my hopes of because nothing ever works out for us. Something don't remind
us. Yeah, because that's the truth. It makes her life feel miserable.
I don't want to feel miserable for Marge. No, we know that
things don't necessarily go right for her, but for her to acknowledge it like
so outly you went, man, Her life isn't great, is it.
No, she's just like a broken, beaten down Yeah, just been given
up, downtrodden by life. Not good anchor of a human being that she's
aligned herself. Yeah. So she lies, and Homo lies and says that
the company wants them to take the private plane to New York. And he
pays this guy to take margage to the air and says, semper fudge,
which is from what well the Marines logo was simplified, Yeah, which I
believe means always faithful. And they've said super fudge on The Simpsons before.
I'm like, oh, you're going with that gig again, super fudge.
The last thing I want to do is get the wrath of any Marines out
there, So I'm going to find out what sympathy actually means. Frank yak
and type fudge. It means always faithful. I was right, Yeah,
yes, it doesn't happen here. The then just my motto should be semper
fudge. At that point he told me to relax. It was Larry Burns
h When they get they have them sort of like, you know, mister
Bens brings in the people to say, what can you do with him?
So they've used the separate fudge joke before, again rehashing jokes, just not
in a good way. Not in a good way. No, So he
takes them to the air. The pilot has a heroin overdose. I'm like,
what is happening? Yeah, I don't think it was flying today,
So now I took some heroin? Was that ever funny? In the writer's
room, how was that funny? I think they're probably like, I don't
care about over I'm not offended. Again, that's not funny. I imagine
their reminders like, oh you hear about pilots being drunk. That I imagine
if one was high on heroin? What not funny? Homer takes over.
I did like the what's the ocean doing in the sky and he takes over
calls. Kobe reveals here that he's not very a good life coach. He's
got a microwave dinner, and then he almost crashed into the blimp, successfully
lands the plane and then drives into the water because he has the taxi to
the term all. Then he says he's going to beg Burns for his job
back and I thought, oh, this is like the first time forever they've
actually knows he's going to go back to Burns for his job. Marj being
a real doormat. Yeah, and Lisa is saying, maybe we can put
some of the extra money aside, and he's like, no, you'd think
so, but no, not gonna happen. I smirk slightly. You'd think
so, but no. I mean it's a real escape hatch line. And
Lionel Richie is weighing them down because he's holding on to his American Music Awards.
And that's the end of the episode and season premiere. Not great.
This is what season nineteen is gonna give us. I'm not looking forward to
it. I'm looking forward to a bit of that. There's gonna be good
ones in there. I know they can't. This wasn't a terrible episode.
It was just I'm going it was already blah. I just felt like,
you've got his premise here, Why are you doing more with it? Yes?
And I don't know when you start a race, Yes, you want
to start on the right foot. This was not what do we learn,
Bomber? I learned that American music awards are quite heavy, especially you have
a few of them. But us did I learn? I learned Chicago diep
dish piece. There's like a keish, but real men don't ekecies. That's
what I like all that. Lionel Richie is very open to rewriting his lyrics.
Yes for the fans. I also one of the Crazy Johns had six
hundred stores at one point in Australia. Vota Phone stepped in. Yes,
stam Vodaphone, d forward, your name will be all right. It is
time for the first edition of the New Name Championship for season nineteen, the
Guy Davis New Name Championship. Of course, as always, I sent through
the list to Guy. He picks his best ones. And what happened is
something happened a bit more often now, Guy, So we're going to change
the rules a little bit here for the Guy Davis New Name Championship, because
otherwise it was becoming in it was it possible it was going to become the
Philip J. Horbens. That's what happens. This is what happened. The
guy sent me through the three one two three, and they're all from the
same person. So I went, look, we can't have that, all
right, so pick the highest one. So basically what the rule is going
to be now is pick two. You can now send in two entries,
because otherwise they're going to get eight entries from one person and one person from
one from another and doesn't seem fair to do it that way. I know
you're putting in the effort, but pick your two best ones a maximum of
two, maximum of two, because otherwise we just get guy picking the same
person over and over again. This week. It wasn't actually Philip JA Hawgan's
getting the same one over and over again. It's actually somebody else. So
sending your two best entries and hopefully one of those gets selected for the New
Dame Championship and saying that, mister Davis, what were your three to two
one four? This week? Uh? One point goes to Private Fly That
would be first time ever in the New Name Championship. Matt Collins, well
done, Hello, Matt Collins, enjoy your point. I've got Mac Collings
in here. That's Matt Collins. See I'm looking on on Facebook. It's
Mac Collins, not Collings. I'll change it now in my New Name leader
board, Matt Collins, well done. So well you got a point,
but you also get insolved by Dando again, which is worth a point in
itself. Number two number two, two points goes to Ready gets it.
That is Philip j. Hawkins. Oh he's back. Yes, so two
points for Philip Jay Hawkins there, which means it's a new number three this
week. Oh my gosh. Kick off the season with a bang. Who's
number three? Three points goes to saving Private Flying. Now this guy here
a bit of a dark horse last season, he was coming home with a
bang. It's Adam Woolhouse. I feel like Philip Jay's got some competition this
season. Oh you're gonna get woolhoused. Yes, so girl, Old Woolhouse.
Adam Wolhouse on three, Philip Jay Hawkens on two, Matt Collins on
one. Don't forget guys going forward sending two entries. Pick you two best
ones and hopefully they get selected by guy. And remember he doesn't see the
names before he selects the actual title. So pick your two best ones and
hopefully he picks one of them. Damn, it won't show me. No
bail is here. Okay, mister Davis, it is time for the mail
bag. Let's open it up. First question comes from our man, Andrew
JP, still with US season nineteen. Well, I did name check him
in the actual Oh did you? That would be? What? So?
Most favorite and least favorite talk show hosts for him? Most favorite is a
tie between Conan and Craig Ferguson, which is what I agree with. Least
favorite James Corden, which is what I agree with. Andrew JP is speaking
our language here. Yeah, I don't think many of us are fans of
Cordon. I haven't seen a whole lot of his actual talk show. I've
seen a bit of carpool Carriok. That's his right, That's just that's what
it is. It's all yeah, sticks, it's the same of Falon Now.
It's all just fake laughing and skits. Yeah, he did song miming
or something, wasn't it like mimming rap or something, yeah, which I
didn't mind. It had some really fallon, got some good ones on that.
Yeah. But then it gets to a pot me and go, oh
this is all it is. Now, it's just celebrity stunt. This is
all you do. Okay, So you you're just your pals with This is
the thing. The best talk show hosts are best friends with the guests.
No, look at let Himan for example, right, let him was great
because he didn't give a fuck mate, you know if we didn't like it,
let you know. Yeah, and he would be genuinely contemptuous of people
who he thought, why are you won my show? And I think people
respected that, Oh yeah yeah. And to be Fallon you watch half the
time think I don't think they respect Falon at all. No, I don't
know what was k fable not. There's a the company, No, a
great fucking David copany bit is a clip on YouTube where it's Jimmy Fallon every
time he fake laughs, right, and it's one with the company is telling
a story and Falon just goes and hits it. He hits the desk and
Tommy's laughing and the company is just looking at me and going, you can
let me finished. That wasn't the funny bit. You just look at me.
You can see all the cogs in his head going, what the Fuck's
up with this guy? It's just it's great. It's worth checking that out.
I will check that out. There's the bit that I was thinking of
is when he had Steve Martin and Martin short On and Martin short Well,
he seems like a very very nice guy, but also someone who does take
a bit of pleasure and sinking the show. Yeah, he seems a bit
of a bit. And he said something like, so Fallon, Yeah,
he said this, Fallin something like, you're the best on late night talk
talk shows because no one pretends to care as much as well as you do.
It's like, this could go either way. It could be KFA,
but it also could be that they were discussing the backstage Yeah, but they
were also I was actually quite pastoral of the whole lip syncing challenge then.
I mean, everyone seemed to You've got a whole generation of young women who
seem to love Tom Holland doing Rihanna's umbrella because it was a very yeah,
stylized choreograph thing, and he was dressed in drag, and all that kind
of things like, oh they were young hero. It was right time,
right place because it was the new version of a talk show host, where
so the Internet was sort of still growing things like that, and we went
quite with YouTube shorts. That wasn't a thing yet, TikTok wasn't a thing,
but we started realizing, oh, we like people like watching things in
bits. Now They're not going to sit there and watch a six minute interview
with you know, Jimmy Fallon talk, but they watch Jimmy Fallon doing a
skit. YEA. When I think of Fellon though, there's a there was
a bit where he had Nicole Kidman on and Cole Kipman was kind of like,
oh, I had a bit of a crushing it, said Jim,
and Jim's like what. And you compare that with a bit with Kinnon and
O'Brien when they're doing the sucking blow thing. Have you ever seen there's you
know, that game Sucking Blow where you've got a bit of paper and you
you've got to test yeah, and someone will basically kiss you and suck it
off your off your face and it's the modeling actor Rebecca remain a bout the
time that she was in the X Men. The tall statue was blonde,
just gorgeous, and they're doing and she goes to do it with Conan,
and Conan is sort of like really leaning in for a kiss, like he's
really over and he's playing it. He's doing the sort of dopey kind of
it, like why would anyone go for this tall, lanky, redhead goofers,
And then she gives him an actual, like just just a quick kiss
and the slow burn that he has where he's kind of like, oh,
did that just happen? Did that just happen? He's like dumb struck.
And then he's like yeah and picking up a chair and throwing it around and
no one, no one expected. I mean you can tell that she's just
like, oh my god, he's really just going so well. Yeah,
Andrew JP is right, Conan is great. But for someone in my era,
I remember seeing some Carson when I was a kid. Yeah, I
never had a Carson, and led Himan made me fall in love with talk
show hosts. Yeah, Letterman was the one for me. And then I
got older, I thought Conan feels like if I was given my own talk
show. Very much, it felt like just one of the guys who was
just like, you have your own show. That's what it felt like when
it's the great thing, I mean, the great thing about Condan sort of
the current resurgence I think in the wake of the Hot Ones thing as well,
and people go out this clip, check out this clip, and there's
so much imagination in the stuff that he was doing on his on his talk
track that was very much there apparent to let him and it's, yeah,
just a damn shame that he got screwed over the way you did. But
you know, he came out on top. Trust me, he definitely did
my favorite talk show segment in the last ten years. Maybe I might miss
me more. I don't know how long it was, but Robin Williams on
Craig Ferguson show, have you ever seen that? I never have mate,
So basically it's you know, he's got his Q cards there Ferguson and Robin
william comes out and they're his best buddies. In her case, No rips
the Q cars up, throws him away and goes let's just talk, and
it's just like twenty minutes of these two guys just riffing. Oh, it's
unbelievable. Like I'm going to send you a link. It's it's it's classic,
it's it's fucking so good. But yeah, Coonon O'Brian. I remember
when I watched Conan and let them and host to watch them all the time
and late night. That's where I learned to interview because I watched these guys
and I'm going, they're not just talking, they're listening. Oh yeah,
and the guest is speaking, and you can tell they're listening to what they're
saying and they're responding to what they're saying. They've probably got questions in front
of them as a backup, But that's where I learned. Yeah, questions,
your notes a backup. Just converse with people, you know, when
you're interviewing somebody. So many times listen to like radio DJs, cut your
cookie cutter ones and they're just like, oh yeah, cool, and tell
us about this, oh and what about this one. It's like we're actually
listening to what they responded to the last one. Listen to what they're saying
and fucking respond to that. True. Look, there are occasions when you
know you're part of the PR machine and yeah, you've got to all right,
we need to cover this, this, this, and this, and
we've only got a handful of we've only got a short amount of time to
do that. Just do it at the end. But it's often, yeah,
often, I mean ninety nine percent of the time better when yeah,
you're having a legit conversation, and that's often when you'll get really good material.
I love it. I thrive on when you hear. You can tell
when you've asked a question and the person who is being interviewed, who you're
interviewing, has gone. You can tell the gone, that's a good question.
They might not actually say that's a good question. You can tell their
thinking in their head. That's what I love. Yeah, I mean,
and you can tell, I mean if you've done it a few times,
which you haven't and I have as well. I mean, you'll get people
who are not necessarily stalling for time, but they'll say that's a good question.
It's like, yeah, it's not. They don't mean it in the
way like oh, you've asked me a good question, like oh that's a
good question, yeah, good question. Yeah. But you can tell when
they're in pr mod like you said, and when they're just talking to you,
and that moment when you feel like you've I've got them now, and
the interview is always better after that moment. Absolutely, it's like you've won
their respect. That's as an interview. That's just me anyway. I thrive
on that, all right. Next question here, Harrison McClure. Have either
of you guys ever been on a work related trip? If so, what
was the best work related trip? No, I can't say I have.
I've been on a few. Yeah, y, your job, wasn't it?
Yeah? Yeah? I mean but Dante Fasco donte Pasco, yeah,
Rio, yes, yeah, you would tell me yesterday wrote down a limo
would the guy? Was that work related? That was work related? Yeah?
Well what I say, Fasco? What an idiot. It's understanding it
became a fiasco. Maybe it certainly did. But that's a story for another
time. Yeah, in the mid two thousands. Yeah, I've been running
about TV for a little while. Is this the true Blood? Guys?
That was one of them, certainly, because I've got a few trips to
la Yeah, one to Ireland and one to Africa, which was fantastic,
right Africa? Yeah? Yeah, but the first one, I mean,
someone at Disney got in touch and said, oh, you write about TV
and home entertainment. Yeah, yeah, yeah I do. It was like,
oh, well, we're having a junk in LA for the home video
release of The Incredibles, and you know, would you be interested? I'm
like, what something like doing some phone of yours? Oh no, no,
no, We'll fly you to LA and you can sit it on these
things will fly you. Is like three ways you always want to hear,
so, by which I mean I'm selling out. It felt first of all,
it's like wow, retripped to lands, like oh yeah, and then
you start getting more invationial, You're find me business, you're putting me up
and there's a pretty nice hotel. I've actually got a bit of time in
LA as well as you know, the work that I'm doing. That felt
great, but it also felt I'm sorry to be a bit wank here,
but it felt like, oh I might be doing something right here. You've
get some degree of validation. They chose me. Yeah, well they were
only like I think there were only like two Australians that they flew over,
and it's like nice and yeah. Then got a few more of those and
yeah they were fantastic. I mean the African one was probably the highlight.
It was for National Geographic, went to Kenya, went out to the Massa
Marus. Been a few days at this fantastic I guess Safari Lodge. You're
sort of walking here in the background from the bushes and there's guy Davis.
David just got come watch this overish history in the ecosystem by taking this.
When it comes to voice casting, right, I know it's not a voice
casting, but when it comes to just hiring someone to host a show,
he is like the epitome, right, David doing National Geographic. When he
passes, it'll never be the same, never will it never will be the
same. Who's going to get the gig? Who wants to take over from
David? Attenbo no one? It's like a oh god, probably yeah,
because you can't watch those tacos without his voice. Now. It's very much
like the Queen is dead and now King Charles? Where is he? Where's
he been? Only Charles is getting better about it. He was not not
well, but how many's under He's eating a Michael Wave dinner. I'm not
very good at this as king business. Ah man, Yeah, they were
my well, that was the extent of my work. Trips, But yeah,
the first one was you never forget your first But yeah, the African
one was an absolute blast. Andrew Swan in honor of the Chalkboard gay being,
I will not wait twenty years to make another movie. Do you have
hopes for a sequel in twenty twenty seven? And what would you want to
see in it? I can't say much, but what would I want to
see in the Simpsons movie? Jokes? Hello, Humor? Where are you?
Less Dome, more Hank? All right? You want a story that
incorporates the entire Springfield because they're the best ones. But I think the Dome
aspect for that movie just felt so like the first half an hour of the
Simpsons movie I thought was pretty good. Once they get out of the dome,
it was just lackluster because it focused more on the family. I thought,
Simpsons movie, don't just give us something just about the family. I
think you need to give us something in Springfield, Yeah, about Springfield more
in general. I don't know. Maybe it's just I remember walking out of
it going, yes, all right, but Simpsons movie sequel, I'll come
back to you next week, Andrew. So I'm gonna spend the next week
thinking of a sequel idea. I'll come back to you next week. The
idea. I'm going to spend the next week thinking about how I'm gonna look
it down and go, yeah, that's good. Good idea. David Mott,
which singer would you like to sing to you whilst on a private jet?
And which of their songs would you change the lyrics to make it about
beer. Let's go the first question first. Who would you love to have
sing to you on a private jet? Alive or dead? If just say
you could have pick any time? Jim Morrison, so be me baby.
Oh it's a beer baby, come on baby lager woman? Yeah, like
a woman. Yeah, woke up this morning and got myself with beer.
You wouldn't even have to change the lyrics. Is that just because you'd like
him as a singer or you like him just as a as a personality.
I think it'd be interesting to sort of hang around with that kind of personality.
Yeah, yeah, okay, I don't think he would want to change
your songs. No, who would be a singer that I would want to
incorporate? The obvious one for me is just like Lennon, But I don't
know. But you're more going about who you'd want to meet as opposed to
who you actually want to hear singing. Yeah, who's your favorite singer?
Do you think not just because of who they are? Who's your favorite voice
or who's the voice that you the most. One thing I've always said,
have you heard of David Gray? Yeah? Yeah, I always said if
I was a singer songwriter, would be David Gray. It was a kid.
I loved Macy Gray's voice. She's so different. Oh, thank the
story. There was a back when I was married. I was working in
I think I was working in this Geelong on Melbourne, but I'd applied for
this other job and was in Sydney and there was a possibility that I would
get at a similar kind of job. Yeah, yeah, yeah, And
my wife was like, she didn't want to move. Yeah, And I
think she she had just found worked out and she was really happy with it
and all that kind of stuff. It's saving friends and family too, there's
all that. Yeah, but it especially in the real sort of honeymoon phase
of being together and all that kind of stuff. And I remember hearing the
Macy Gray song I Dry and the video clip, especially where they're running towards
each other in that moment. Yeah, around that time, it's kind of
like how he all you need is love and it's just some weird moment from
your life. It just reminds you of it. Yeah. Yeah, I
remember, and particularly send the clip with running each Other all happen. I
was like, I'm not leaving. I know. She was like, oh,
you know, you go up weekly and come back on weekends and all
that kind of Oh so she wasn't going to make the movie. I don't
think so. No, Yeah, I'm maybe remembering this inaccurately, but I
was just like, yeah, but Masic Ray basically like, no, this
is encapsulating how I'm feeling. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm sticking around. Yeah,
I love movie. Does that to you? Oh yea, absolutely so.
Whenever you still hear that song, you think of that moment. Oh
yeah, but I haven't had I try in a very long time. Play
Justin Williams Season nineteen and beyond is where I fell off watching The Simpsons.
Understandable, justin we hope that's listening to four Thing a discount however, mostly
because my dad had told me. I remember that he had heard that the
movie was the beginning of the end of the series obviously not true. But
where were there ever times you thought or heard the show was coming to an
end. I don't think I remember thinking that the Simpsons movie was going to
be the end. It feels like for the last like ten years, everyone
sort of says, this could be the end of the Simpsons. I don't
think the Simpsons is going to end. I think there's no reason to end.
It's still one of the most watched things on Disney. Plus people still
watch it on Fox. It's the most marketable brand Fox probably owns. Besides
will be the most marketed brands that Fox owns. Simpsons, well, that
they created because that Disney Now is it? I guess, isn't it?
Yeah? I mean I guess Star Wars to some degree, although yeah,
that was Fox, wasn't it. Yeah? It was Fox initially, although
George Lucas sort of owned the market everything now doesn't he That doesn't it?
Yeah? But The Simpsons is one of those shows where people always complaining I
should have ended years ago, but those people an't watch anymore anyway. It
doesn't matter. Don't worry about those people. It's like speaking at Star Wars.
I mean, you've got old school times like myself, like Original Trilogy
for Life, and then you've go people who are really into the prequels,
and now you've got people who are into the new ones, which boggles my
mind. But you know what, those movies weren't made for me, So
that's true, and maybe these most recent episodes of the sims or the most
recent seasons of The Simpsons are not made for people like you and I while
went and watched Return of the Jedi with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra last week and
it was so funny. At the end, the guy doing the conductor right
goes, so, who's going to come for the Phantom Menace? And everyone's
like boo. It was like, we ain't doing that now. Having said
that, I mean, we're not gonna hopefully this show is still going to
be running when we get to season whatever it is of The Simpsons thirty six.
Now up to thirty six, our past halfway now, we'll be like
Barton Homer seeing the itchin scratch that one's a jet. But yeah, we'll
try to view it objectively and offer our two cents on why it works and
white doesn't and all that kind of business. But you mentioned David Attenborough being
replaced by maybe you know, the likes of I think that's what dancing and
Julie Kavna will be replaced by AI versions of themselves as these characters as opposed
to getting new people in. I had a conversation with our man Matt Salmon.
Oh, yeah, I probably shouldn't say it, but I'll tell you
off the air. It's very interesting. There's a middle ground of there that
we'll discuss. I'll tell you off the air. I cannot say this perfectly.
Is that other question? That is all the questions Simpsons Mailbag at gmail
dot com. We did get some questions actually come through. Some messages come
through this week as well, so I'll get into the mailbag Simpsons Mailbag at
gmail dot com. So it comes from Angela Stockovich. Now she's the lovely
lady who sent us all the X Files references for our review of Springfield File.
So, by the way, guys, so every month, now sure,
Guy and I are going to be going back and revisiting some of the
classic episodes or some guests and whatnot. But each month we're going to be
going back in the return of Guy on Springfield on our Patreon where we go
back and revisit the top tier classic episodes and we let the patrons decide which
episodes that is, and this month it was the Springfield File. So if
you want to hear our review of the Springfield Files, that is available right
now on our Patreon channel. But Angela wrote in today our last week sorry,
She wrote, Guy and Dando, just a short note to say that
my last few days have been a bit mentally tough for me, and as
a reflex, I found myself turning on your podcast to listen to the two
of you banter for over an hour is very good for the soul. Thank
you, keep it up. Oh thank you. That's very lovely to get
a messages like that, doesn't it? It really is. Do you hope
you have pulled out of the tailspin? I guess you may have found yourself
in, but we are happy to be here and will continue to be here
for you, Angela and for everyone else. Exactly right, And it's another
one here comes from Asia Asia Aish Asia, Hi down to Hi Guy.
I firstly love the podcast. It has been a great way to start my
day. And idea popped into my head for a final episode of the Simpsons.
I'm not exactly sure on the specific storyline, but I was thinking it
could be extended version of the opening sequence, essentially a story that means we
see the opening sequence, but in a context, of course, there can
be other scenes that aren't related to the sequence, so it shouldn't feel too
forced. And this would make the final scene the whole family sitting on the
sofa, which I think would be really heartwarming to close out with. It
also should get an appearance from most of the people in Springfield by doing this,
which is a necessity for a proper goodbye. I feel like it has
a potential, but I've also literally just thought of it as of writing this
right now. What do you think? What storyline do you think we could
map out the opening sequence? Excited to hear what you think, Asia,
So that's actually a good idea. It is so it will start off with
sense and it's just twenty two minutes of them getting to the couch. That's
actually a really good idea. Yeah, I like that a lot. Yeah,
I interactions with all the other characters along the way. Yeah, but
yeah, I mean not necessarily a plot heavy episode, more just a hangout
in Springfield episode or you know, a fair Will to Springfield episode. Yeah,
and giving indicasion. Oh yeah, this is a day in life?
Is the day life life, life will go on? That's actually an awesome
idea. I'm going to think about that one again. Like Andrew Swan's question,
I'm going to get back to you next week, Asia, because I've
just just read it. Then. I like that a lot. That's your
TUK for the weeks while trying to It's just a basic storyline. Dan keeps
giving me a homework by keep giving me for the first time ever. But
well, I mean that's twice today. But yeah, that's a good episode
idea. I think I think soon's well, yeah, already you'll think for
that, Asia Simpsons. Mailbaker Gmail dot com if you have any more questions
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Next week we're going to be reviewing The Home of Seville. Is it,
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