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the podcast where we always have ourselves at time, and this week we are
certainly going to be doing just that because we are going to be revisiting one
of the more popular and talked about episodes from South Park's earlier years. It
is Gnomes. I am Dando and I'm hope you're enjoying this podcast. Couzill
job. I love that. What was it that they get warmer as they
get older or something? The sweat? Now this episode here right, What
I remember about it is I actually remember watching this for the first time when
I was a kid. So this you know, ninety eight, I would
have been ten or eleven ish right. I remember really not liking this episode.
I remember when I got to the end, I was like, what
was that? I didn't I didn't get them, missed the tweaks, you
know, the the commercial he was talking about his coffee. I hate.
No, I was a kid. I didn't give a shit about coffee.
I didn't get the gnomes and the business plan. How that's that's spawned the
meme and things like that. I could get it now. I remember as
the kid though watching this, going this is this? I remember it's not
enjoying it at all. I remember thinking Tweak was so annoying. I did
not like Tweak at all when I was a kid. I remember this one
of the This might have been one of the episodes that maybe put me off
South Park. It's funny that because I watched it now, I thought it
was hilarious. Yeah. Yeah, well Tweak is very much always saying one
note, very polarizing Tweak. I still am gonna be out. I'm gonna
throw it out that I didn't like Tweak. I thought he was annoying.
I can I can live without him. I mean, as with a lot
of as with certain characters, a little bit goes a long way. I
don't think you'd want to make him a regular, I'm pretty sure, but
don't. Don't they do that? Replace Kenny a Tweak though? Do they
do that at some stage? Or Butters? Oh, Butters, Yes,
I think. God, I hope it is Butters because if it's fun Tweak,
I'll be I'm done. Yeah, because I think they might have been
road testing various characters and saying, Okay, who's who's one that we can
have around, or who's one that has a bit of sort of comic mileage?
How do I get that confused? Sorry? Sorry listeners, it is
but they're both weird, little blond dudes. It's understandable. Yeah, but
yeah, Butters sort of gives you a bit more to work with and tweet
than Tweak does. Tweak is very is very one note and repetitive and get
fine in certain situations. I will be pro Tweak because he'd brought us mister
Tweak, who I enjoy very much. But you're right. I mean,
I'm trying to recall when I first watched this episode and probably when't first came
out, and yeah, the Gnomes thing was like, there's a little bit
weird but you could. You could see almost instantly. It's like old people
will be using that whole first step to this second step, what third step
profit? You know, it's kind it's a pretty neat gag. And even
before you could, meme was a midset of viewers back then, before memes
were a thing like was was the idea of, oh, this is going
to become a thing that because to me, I felt like in the nineties
growing up like catch phrases, yes, but the idea of a meme was
that would that enter the forefront of your mind. I mean you could probably
do screenshots or something like that, and then I mean it was a whole
different process. I mean, I'm not exactly it's your way you'd go about
it, but I think certainly. I mean I remember in articles that i'd
write or just joking bits that i'd write for various places, I'd you know,
occasionally create a gag like step two question mark, step three profit,
and you know, people would know what you're on about, you know,
because and became shorthand for like, I got no idea what I'm doing,
but I hope it goes well. Yeah, so that yeah, I mean,
they're ahead of the curve in that regard. And I'm pretty sure that
the minute that people started making memes, this was one of the first things
they grab because you know, it's, yeah, something you can turn into
a joke with that necessarily having to make a joke, which is what memes
are. I wonder if Tray Matt realized that it would still live on twenty
five years later. That's you can only hope, Yeah, you can only
hope there's something you care out will have some kind of shelf life, whether
it sort of lives and dies on its own merits or it gets repurposed into
something else. I mean, in all honesty, this was the when I
saw that we were doing Nomes this episode. That was the first and to
be honest, only thing that spring to mind. It's like, oh,
yeah, this isn't the names of the underpands names, right, They steer
the underpands and then they've got no idea, but they're going to make a
profit. That's all I remembered. I didn't remember anything about Tweak, Mister
Tweak, the Coffee Shop Wars, anything like that which goes part past with
the Gnomes story. Yeah, absolutely, and the stuff about you know,
basically exploiting the kids for your own to for your own message, you know,
to get your own get your own point across a bit more potently by
It's like you've got to do it for the children. You don't hate children.
It's like so many, so many had so many marketing campaigns for so
many things. You know, do something that's like you want to be on
the right side, right, I mean you're not four, It's whatever.
Yeah. I just love the way they they took a look at the big
corporations entering small towns and ruining the small businesses because they're so much bigger.
But they didn't just take one side. They took both sides. They had
missed a tweak. He was the one that was doing manipulating. And it's
like, did you even think that stop and taste Harbucks coffee now, Like,
it's just that it showed the pros and cons of both sides of the
argument. It's something that I really dug and it's telling that I really appreciate
about about Parker and Stone and something that some people hold against them in all
one sting, so they will occasionally take the un popular view. It's like,
you realize these companies that are really big. Are really big because they've
given people what they want and they're doing it pretty well. They're really good
at business model. They've got a really good business model. You know they
didn't. It's like they do what they do better than what the small businesses
do. So yeah, I mean I'm allowed to bring up the Golden Arches
and I bring up Macca's pretty much every episode. It's because you haven't had
it for three months now, you haven't with with draws, man, I'm
like tweak, but you say what you like. That's just delicious and it's
funny, though I think it's the worst of the fast food franchises. I
just Macas just taste like cardboard. To be a buddy, I don't like
it to wag their own yeah okay, well, but you know that's most
that they are the most successful. When you think of takeaways, the Golden
Arches is what you think of yeah yeah, or you know, you think
of furniture, you think of freedom or like okay, yeah or something like
that. It's like, I'm sure that cost goes into a reason why so
many people are buying this stuff, But I mean they wouldn't be buying if
it was but ugly or anything like that. So you know, there's oftentimes
these people been working at their formula, working at their product for a while,
and it's a lot like this podcast. And I'm all about supporting local
business if I can all do it. You know, things are getting more
and more expensive now, right, and sometimes you take into punt when you
go to their small places where you're making your handbergs and things like that,
and it's costs. Sometimes in costs you have fifteen sixteen dollars for one burger.
I'm thinking I'm going to kaf seeing it three burgers and i know I'm
going to like them. So no, it's it's a it's a weird thing.
It's a weird situation right now where the cost of living has gone so
high. It's but the idea of supporting local business is what you want to
do. But I also want money in my pocket at the end of the
day. And you want to be you want to be a satisfied customer.
Yeah, the day as well. It's like, yeah, I mean we
spent we went we went up for Indian the other night, right, we
ordered it up. Used to be if you picked it up you've got ten
percent off, right, they've got rid of that, right, And I
didn't think to even used to be for every curry you ordered, it was
fifteen dollars, right, that's what it was. That last time we did
that was late last year, so maybe like maybe six months tops, right,
was last time we got India from this place. He's to be yet
three different curries, large rice, and some garlic nine or whatever. Right,
used to cost us. Remember fifty bucks the three curries and fifty sixty
bucks. And I said, ild pick up for Brandon. She's had been
ninety four dollars, thank you. I went, no, no, no,
no, no, it's just the three corries. She goes, yeah,
yeah, three curries, nine bread and a large rice. And I
was like, give it. How what I said, that's like forty dollars
more than usually. As she goes other prices have gone up due to the
cost of the out of the ingredients. And I said, what is it
now? She each our curry is now twenty six dollars. I'm like,
twenties. How has it got up? Eleven dollars a curry? What was
happening here? I'm like what? Like? And then I got home and
I was like the whole time, I'm just thinking, this doesn't taste like
this is not ninety four dollars with a satisfaction. You know what I meant
to say, you're electro volta and popping. That's a five dollars milk check,
five dollars a TV. I mean, we just record um an episode
of Speaking of the Hill in which I talked about the local chicken shop that
I really enjoyed. And here's the other thing. With the cost of living
going up. I mean, you know, I'd go and get my regular
and it costs about eleven bucks. You know, I get chicken chips and
a drink that's a good feet for leven bucks. That's pretty good for eleven
bucks. I went down there under new management and was like, oh,
that'll be sixteen bucks. I'm like, I ordered a quarter of chicken chips
and here's this drink. Where's the five five ball bucks? What the fuck?
I'm just I was just like, I actually said, what the fuck
they said? The first bride with the Indian, I was just thinking the
food can't have gone up this much. I just didn't understand. I might
just sound like an old man winging yelling at the cloud, right now.
But that's back to my point of I knew now if I spend nicol and
I can spend twenty five bucks at KFC and get a shitload of food and
enjoy it. And unfortunately, like you're saying, as Trey says in this
episode, as he writes in the episode, sometime times, you know,
big business is better, and there's a reason that better. They provide you
with food that you know you're going to enjoy at a price that you can
afford. And that's why I think big corporations are now. That's why you're
seeing a lot of small businesses failing now because they're just the big business is
able to have that stronghold over the cost of everything like that everything is so
cheap. For example, chips now there's a shortage of potatoes in Australia,
so everywhere you get a fish and chip shop, minimum chips used to be
like two dollars. Now it's like five dollars and you can't get that much
chips. You get a KFC, you can get two chips, two large
ships for six bucks because they had their own supply of potatoes. I'm like,
they're winning everywhere, man. Yeah, And you know you know,
you're going to get lettuce in your boot, although occasionally you might get some
cabbage in your burger as well. That's all right, yeah yeah, but
yeah, So I just really enjoyed how they showed that they betrayed mister Tweak
as a villain to a hero and a villain, they both had their positives.
We're not absolute monsters. I'm pretty sure that we'd all like to support.
Yeah, the enterprising young business person who's opened their own shop. Some
places you can just tell though, it's like what step two about this place?
Where's the step too? Yeah, you're you're going to be closed in
three months. But I mean there's a place not far from me that's open
to a little joint and it's like it's like in Sifeld. It's one of
those cursed locations, you know. It's like, ah, this has been
so many things over the course of his life and this is probably gonna last
food. Yeah, my good man. But they've turned this into like it's
like a gourmet smoothie place or something like that. And I could see them
decking it out, you know, this young couple are in there. They
were painting it. It looks nice and every time. I think I should
really go in there and try one of their gourmet's moothies, and it's probably
gonna be fantastic, and I would maybe go down like once a fortnight and
get one. But I've never been. I haven't been in yet, and
I'm pretty sure if I go down there sometime, the next month's going to
be like thanks guys, we try. Yeah, it's like fuckingp So it
was steel so sad. When I see those posts saying don't want to have
to write this. I didn't think it ever gonna happen. You're like,
oh, I don't like where this is going. It's the it's the second,
Yeah, the second saddest thing. The first thing is seeing like a
missing pet notice has been up for god knows how long. It was like
that animals dead, Yeah, smart smart en coming back. But yeah,
the worst is like thanks to our friends and patron. Yeah, but yeah
it looks like getting you know, Dan's gonna go have her to get a
desk job, and I don't know, I guess maybe we'll start a family.
Now I don't know. Fucking we're gonna sell a cat to slavery.
Yeah, we couldn't. We couldn't afford defeats much that we threw him out,
but we had to put that the notes so he didn't look like creatures.
Did you find the under gnomes annoying or funny in this? I remember
the kid, I found them very annoying, But now I found them funny
because I knew what they were going for. But as a kid, I
found him so annoy because that song time to go to work, work on
no search. Yeah, It's like, yeah, they didn't neither here nor
there. Really, I didn't find them that and so annoying to be like
annoying, But I didn't find them all that memorable either. I mean,
they said they served a purpose. They served the purpose because of the meme
that's that's been spawned, I think so. I mean, I think the
only thing that works about the names is the fact they've got a shitty business
plan. I did love that you never actually saw them make a profit.
That's true, because I think that would have ruined the gag if you saw
them actually succeed. I think the funniest thing is probably you know when they
finally the kids finally see them and Carmen's first I just hit this week.
Look at him that I had that my favorite moment, just yeah, pussy,
you'll you'll hate this. But thecause like a viral tweet that went around.
It's like, do your song. If I was a teenager we found
ET, we would have killed that little fucker with a hammer. I've always
just sort of gone. And it's because of ET. I've always just gone.
If I found another being, I think now I'll look at I'm probably
like I would just probably just leave it the fuck alone, like I would
as a kid. I was like, I would want to help it.
That's why I am the way I am. Like, you know, I
see a fucking a struggling ant in the sink and I'll help it out.
I'm like, it's just an ant. Yeah, why do I do that?
I don't know, but it's the kind of person I am. I
help. If I see something struggling, I have to help it, regardless
of what it is. I had this the other night. I was over
at Loose and the dog kept coming in and out of the sliding door and
then it was sort of sniffling at something and Loud looked and said, oh
shit, it's like a big Huntsman and spider. For those of yeah,
huntsman spider, sorry, folks, not not Chris Hemsworth from the snow waters
um And it was in like an odd position, and she was like,
is it alive? And I'm I'm giving a little bit of a poke with
like with something, and yeah it is. But then it went into like
an awkuposition, So can you get it out of there? And I'm like,
I'm going to try, and you know, do the glass and the
paper and get it out and put it in the garden somewhere, because you
know, spiders aren't not that bad. Then help the leat mosquitoes. But
in the end, it was in such an awkward spot that I couldn't get
it out without actually like putting my hands on it and pulling it out,
which I wasn't going to do it. Yeah, so I'm like, give
me a paper towel, up with a paper towel and just squashed. Okay,
Yeah, whatever's misery, We'll put it out of our misery essentially,
because you know, Lou and I'll be sitting there watching watching TV and he's
like, Internet spade is still there. I'm like, no, I'm gonna
get it. Only I just killed it. Get him back to the episode.
That's a Paul Cantor, who was as off Wiki literary critic an economic
theorist, he says, he who has taught college courses revolving around this episode
gnomes. He has described it as the most fully developed defense of capitalism that
the show has ever produced. Do you agree? Yeah, that makes a
whole bunch of sense. I mean something I wrote down the end here is
in my notes when yeah, it makes a really convincing pro capitalism argument.
Yeah, Like you can get to the end and you're like, yeah,
maybe maybe going to KFC isn't that big of a deal, but it's kind
of survive of the fittest. I mean, and you know, you can
also vote with your dollar. I mean if you if you think KFC is
bad for you don't need it. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And this
is the thing whatever because we live in Geelong here in Australia, guys close
to a surf the surf Coast, Torquay in Ocean Grove and the Twelve Apostles
like kind of thing right, And whenever I think a big corporation is coming
too small towns, I think of like McDonald's and KFC go into those towns
like stay out of here. We've got our local shops, we know what
McDonald's here. And then McDonald's comes and it just thrives because everyone's like,
we want McDonalds big. Plus it's fucking rich of Turkie to say that ship.
When you look down, it's like rip cool, Yeah, Quicksilver's brand.
Man. I don't think speakers would fucking last five minutes. No,
No, not at all. Speakers by the way that I think it's I
think it's gone now speaks, isn't. I think it went out of business.
I think that's the point. They originally had a very nice and long
running establishment in and the Geelong CBD, which unfortunately the Chlong CBD turn into
a cracked inn. And so we'd moved into moved in the Market Square shopping
center. Did I'm pretty sure I thought I thought that's gone as well?
Though? Has that one gone as well? Pretty shure? Now? Like
what's the not TYPEO? What's the Figanda? It's owned by Gander, but
it was a cotton cotton owns factory or something, or maybe it's Ganda.
It's one of those I think clans Typo and it'll may be owned something they're
all the same, They're all and see. But yeah, okay, this
is the other the other thing about this though. I mean, yes,
it's also it's survival of the fittest. But you you want to have some
choice in your in your consumption. So you know, if it if it
reaches the point where I want to buy a book, well it looks like
I'm gonna have to go through Amazon, or you know, I want to
Burger. It looks like I'm going to have to have Mick Donalds. You
want to have some competition because also well it's first of all, it's good
for you know, it keeps the competition on its toes. But also you
know, a bit of varieties good for the soul, but the good for
the palet. And I'm good for everything. Do you know Elon Musk actually
referenced this episode. He referenced the plan anywhere the Name's Plans presents the embodiment
of the gnome. Yeah, he with the Twitter Twitter buy Twitter profit question,
but he referenced the underpants Gnomes plan in his presentation on the Mars Conquest
in September twenty sixteen. I feel like Elon right, he's willing to take
the Mickey out of himself because he knows it's just gonna I think he just
loves poking the bear, doesn't he he has that much money. He's just
like, I don't give a fuck what you think about me. I'm gonna
poke those bears. I'm gonna get you all riled up, and I don't
gonna sits back in his last his head off ad at all. Like all
the hate that he gets on Twitter, he doesn't care. He doesn't care.
What would he care? What would he care that? Joe Blow has
twelve follows on Twitter, says that Elan's an idiot. What would he give
a shit? I think you would. It's like, it's like all the
fucking celebrities. I said they're going to leave America when Trump got in,
I'm like, he didn't. You didn't move. He bought another house.
Okay, you know you made he beefed up the security in your gated community.
Yeah, that's pretty much. You didn't go anywhere. You're all talk,
you're all words. That's all it is. But um, yeah,
I thought it was funny. Plus it's also the first appearance not just a
Tweak but also Tolkien as he's now known. But he was originally called Token.
Is he now called Tolkien j as in Jr. Lord of the Rings.
Yeah, oh yes, no I did that. They changed him from
Token to Tolkien. Yeah. A little bit later on, I think they're
like, the GAG's being done. I think we can move on now.
We get it. And it still sounds like token. It's Tolkien, you
know, true? Yeah, I mean that's that sounds like a very Parker
Stone moved like, yeah, we'll change a little bit, but you know
what we mean, you know what we meant. Ye, But yeah,
I don't think it's I mean, it's an andy racist gag that today would
still people would treat it as racist. Yeah, which, yeah, it's
it's kind of odd. That's what I find interesting. The current debate won't
get into it. Maybe we'll save it for the Movie Guy podcast. But
the argument that's Mario the Super Mario film is succeeding because it's anti woke.
I was like, how about because it's probably the most successful video game franchise
of all time? Yeah, they might be it, how is it?
I have not watched it. The argument is that you know, it's it's
anti woke, so all the um, all the woke movies of Disney.
All the woke, all the worke movies of Disney aren't doing well at the
box office. But the anti woke movies from Eliminate, Elimination and all that,
it's elimination is at the company elimination, I think. So. Yeah,
I always gonna say a luminadium like some Luminaradio is illumination. But that's
the different. The Minions one and all that, and I can put some
Boots is doing well. All these anti woke movies that apparently apparently they're anti
work, they're doing great at the box office. But Disney they're doing terribly
because they're so woke. I was like, you're talking about Mario, right,
Super Mario. Pretty sure everyone's gonna go see the Super Mario movie.
Yeah, well, I know a lot of people have gone, and I
personally have zero interest in it. So you didn't grow up with it as
a game. Anyone who was born in from like mid eighties is going to
go watch the Super Mario movie. Yeah, of course. But yeah,
that's what I was interesting, the argument of the whole anti woke versus at
woke. I'm but I've heard arguments that it is woke female protagonist. Yeah,
that was like Princess peatures, a girl boss and all this stuff.
What are you talking about? Yeah, anyway, I mean, but here's
the thing. If we're talking about sort of not my area of expertise,
but I mean an area that I'm interested in, says say, like horror
movies, or for instance, you've got a lot of people say, I'm
not enjoying these modern horror movie because he's just hitting us over the head with
your message. You're being too political. Yeah, at which point you get
some people say horror movies have always been political, given back to the you
know, like Invision the body snatches in the fifties or you know, even
going back to Frankenstein. Was like, it's like, yeah, but yeah,
they were political, but they didn't necessarily lead with the politics they told
you. Sorry, I sound awfully sort of conservant and reactionary when I say
that, But they lived with the story first, and any political social commentary
was subtext. They didn't lead with. It was like, it's there if
you want it, and it's there if you can see it, and often
at oftentimes it's kind of obvious, but not necessarily the first thing that they're
going to tell you about. I mean, John carpen As they live.
It's one of my favorite movies. And that's as social justice warrior is he
gonna get and it's not subtle about it at all. But Carpener also kind
of front loads it with a lot of fights and gunfights, and you know,
there's a sequence where Roddy Potper and Keith David just beat the absolute shit
out of each other. He's all out of guns, he's all out of
bubble Gum just gets Anyway, enough about that, what were your favorite moments
from gnomes Um? Look, it was mainly mister Tweeks's voice. I just
loved every time he came on and stead of just talking about her and good
cup of curvy in the morning, it's just gonna get you right through the
days of a coffee for a simple America. Now that's got that's trade.
It's got to be trade, right, Yeah. But all I love too
is that they even the towns people are like, oh yeah, he's um.
His coffee tastes like shit, but it's all that ever known. It's
like he's a local guy, but that's where we get the coffee on and
that tastes coffee from the big place and they're like, oh, this is
what first taste like. It doesn't have that burnt rual sewerage plate. Yeah,
but yeah, I was fair in love and war and coffee. The
music and the leaning against something, the little the lean and just the little
dude, little sort of acoustic guitar music every time his dad doing fantastic.
Wow. Loved it. But just as good a points was um, yeah,
the guy from a Harbucks coffee, particularly the first time you hear him
he rocks up to Tweaks coffee and he's like, yeah, give me in
and call me back. Was in the briefcase first, how about five hundred
thousand. Sorry, I'll probably clip the audio doing doing my impression of that
guy just then. But I know I really enjoyed that as well. I'm
a simple man. I have simple needs. I just like funny voices.
I really enjoyed umcarpment as we discussed the other hit him of the gnome hitting
the name of the stick so well just look at him. But also the
GNOME's reaction to killing Kenny, and the kids are just like ow it is,
you know, but like, holy shit, we squished your friend.
Was this the first stage where they sort of starting to make a joke of
Kenny dying and just like it happens all the time forget about You. In
the last episode, it was it was Charlie Manson, I believe that says
it. Oh yeah, it's just yeah, it's it's become it's become a
joke. It's I mean, it's always been a joke, but now the
character's almost just like the joke is that they don't care that Kenny's dead anymore.
It used to be like, yeah, oh my god, you can
kill you, bars downs or something, bust whatever, business as usual.
Just the gnomes like look out, holy shit, we squished him. Just
I thought it was very, very good. I actually enjoyed the gnomes,
just like badass gnomes, just a bit of attitude, like you don't expect
it from yeah pussy. But I also really liked the Cartman. I always
get to get a cartment making fun of Kenny, just you know, perfectly
help you living on welfare, right, Kenny, Fuck you you said Kenny.
I feel like Kenny and Cartman had this relationship that I never realized as
a kid. They've they've got a bond there where they're both smartasses. Kenny,
Kenny's a much nicer person. But they have this little bond where,
like they just say, they have a little what's the word, where it's
like an agreement that like we don't we out like each other necessarily like each
other, but we're willing to sort of take the piece out of each other
and we sort of love hate sort of free me because I mean, it's
hard to feel sorry for Kenny in this regard, because you get feeling Kenny
because can really take care of himself. You know, it's not like he's
he's not a rough wi him. No, Yeah, he's like, fuck
you man. Any more brain Busters. It is time for the blockbuster brainbuster
for Gnomes. This episode, mister Davis originally add December sixteenth, nineteen ninety
eight. Now we still have two movies that we're in the top three.
Last week you got A Bug's Life in at number two, and Any of
the State is still number three. So I'm going to ask you to tell
me the number one, number four, number five, so number one at
the US box office in December sixteenth, nineteen ninety eight. That week,
the clue is when can the clue b um Space Okay, the clue for
number four will be snow, and the clue for number five will be football.
Go okay, space ninety eight All the way he said space just then
makes it sound like the fun Frontier it does. Yes, Okay, so
we're talking a Star Trek movie. Um, it's not Generations and it's not
first content either. I don't think we're in the new generation era when they
are making movies, and they only did like three or four, so I
wasn't first contact because that was in ninety six. So it must be the
next one, which is insurrection. Is gonna say Trump as a clue?
Yeah, it's a fan of Frontier. I'm gonna go canna go Frontier?
It God, that was a dreadful trump. Um, what was it?
Snow? Snow? It's not something to do with like a sasquatch or something
like that. Is something to do with a mystical creatures. It's a mystical
bean in that you would not normally come to life. I think the Frost
and the snow, mam. But it's not him, it's instead it's it's
Jack. Oh, it's Jack Frost, Jack Frost. The oh. Yeah,
Because there was a terrib horror movie called Jack Frost the Mutant Killer snow
Man. Not that much. No, this one's got Michael Keayton in it.
I think as as the titular Jack Frost who comes. I don't really
call much about it except I think he dies and comes back to life as
a snow man. Says it says, Dad dies and he comes back as
a snowman to make make good with his son or something, to make good
with his wife and his son, and he sort of has lots of winter
wonderland fun with his son or something. I'm saying. I don't know,
maw. This was I sorry it was the last closed football football. It's
not any given Sunday. I think of the opposite of any given Sunday when
it comes to style and tone. On ninety eight that I think it might
be Bobby Bouchet, It might be the water Boy. It is the water
Boy, Yes, maybe that. I love the kid. I really enjoyed
the week, so yes, Start Star Trek Insurrection number one, A Bug's
Life number two, Enemy of the State number three, Jack Frost at four,
and The water Boy at number five. I remember really enjoying The water
Boy. I mean it the Fonds is the coach and you know you can
do it Misery. Oh, I think it's the first one with you can
do it, you can do it, you can do it. Oh night
low. I remember seeing the trailer for it because yeah, of course going
to the movies light in the late nighties, and the trailer for it had
like um, fat boy Slim's going out of my head as the as the
theme music when Bobby just crashing and everybody was like, this looks like the
dopest movie it was. That was a great thing about the late nineties.
They had a lot of really great electronica and techno as backing music for movie
trailers. They had Firestarter for the for like some van Damn movie. I'm
like, oh my god, there's gonna be the best fucking movie of all
time. It's usually a lot of rage in there as well. Oh yeah,
it's only beat by the early nineties doing let the Bodies at the Floor
to an action that was that was early two thousands, right, that was
early two thousands. Yeah, So did I say early nine Yeah, sorry,
early two thousands. No Parties at the Floor. I did it for
Rambo and it's like I've got to say it, but yeah, the water
boy. They also spawned the meme of m want me to kill them when
he's doing That's right, Ferusa Balk Yeah, yeah, crushed on her when
I was a kid. She was like, you were incredibly hot but terrifying.
Yeah. All right, so that is the blockbuster rainbuster. Okay,
now let's try to get an answer from someone who's not a complete retard.
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Indeed, all right, hit me with your first question for names.
Oh at tweaks, how much is a small coffee? Oh shit, okay,
what three dollars? I don't know. This was the nineties. We're
talking about sixty nine cents for a small coffee. Holy shit, I don't
I never liked coffee. I've never drunk coffee. Coff Nicolas huge on coffee.
But coffee culture wasn't really called the cafe culture wasn't really big in the
nineties. And stay yet was it It's big now? Not really? No,
I mean certainly not. It really took off in the two thousands.
I mean, if you wanted, if you want a good coffee, you'd
go into like lig On Street or somewhere like that. You know, we're
our Italian friends would be whipping up lates and marchiatos and all kind of business.
I mean I remember when I was first at UNI in the early nineties
and thinking, oh, this is incredibly sophisticated me to go to the cafe
and get a cappuccino and then smoke a cigarette, well and having my coffee.
What year would that have been? This was like ninety okay, so
it was before Friends, and I feel like Friends really introduced the world to
the coffee culture. That's true. Yeah, I mean well, of course
Seattle was huge in the early nineties due to grunge and everything like that.
And the course Seattle is the home of Starbucks, is it really? I
did not know that, Okay, correct. I don't think like Starbucks and
Kirk Combain really go hand in hand though, No, you don't think so.
But but did you ask me a question? I did, and it
was the price of My first question is what is the name of the worker
at Harbucks who complains when when they say shut it down? Oh? I
think of dirty, dirty, dirty Harry Sanchez, dirty, Oh Sanchez.
That's right. Oh gosh, I was just on that dirty. My next
question to you, the what number item? Is the missing underpants on the
Mayor's and the Mayor's meeting. That's my next question. Thirty seven D,
Issue thirty seven D exactly. My final question then, because he's want to
pitch on, I try and find another one. Is what is the name
of the boy who's trying to win over with the camel suit? Oh damn
it, it's it's the usual name. Because the mother says, come along
so and so. Think of who does who does Troy McClure usually have any
videos? Is Bobby, Billy? Billy? Come along Billy? Because because
again, say Timmy for a secondly, maybe it is Timmy and the Simpsons.
Maybe it is Timmy, Timmy and Billy like Billy. It's the name
of innocence, Timmy and Billy's tiny tim double me mistaken. He'd kill you
and everyone you care about it. Yes, I'm pretty sure it is Billy
and the Simpsons. I'm pretty sure. I putting on a bit my left
testings, Billy. What's your next question? Well, I don't want your
left testical, so we're not gonna get um. That's pretty much all the
questions I have unless you know what is the name of the Harbucks coffee representative
arts John something and John? Is it post him or something? It's post
him? Yeah, yes, I tell you what. If you're looking for
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of Gnomes was December sixteenth, nineteen ninety eight, almost Christmas time. It
was written by Pam Brady, Trey Parker, and Matt Stone and directed by
you Guessed at Trey Parker. The episode kicks off with all the kids at
school and mister Gavirison explains that the border considering firing him because they don't think
he's doing a very good job of teaching them current events. I believe from
the kids they don't care at all. And mister Garison is not impressed with
this. I don't know you will get yeah, that's okay with us,
Yes exactly, And I think that's just that's the mentality of a four year
old. The word teachers at primary school in regards of what school you went
to there was always those teachers that you really enjoyed and you wanted to be
in their class because I remember at the end of year. I know how
they do it anywhere else but now, But when I was a kid at
primary school, when it got to the end of the year, they used
to go get all the kids up, you know from that you level,
and say, all right, we're gonna read at your name. If you
if you read at your name, this is going to be your teacher,
go to your new classroom and spend the next last two days of the year
in that room. And there was always there was this I'm going to name
her, you know, because you know, God love her now, but
she's probably be gone, she'd be older. Her name was Missus Burrows.
And you look back now and she we didn't like her. She was a
hard woman, but you look back now anything she was what we needed out
those rascals in nor Shall Primary, right, But you're always like, oh,
please don't miss Borrows, Please don't miss Borros, Please don't miss Borrows.
There was always that Patty. I remember I was actually in her class.
But there was also the fear of having your name read out, but
none of your friends being read out in the same class that was the bear,
wasn't it? Oh? Absolutely? I mean I remember when I was
in grade five and there were two classes. There was five D and five
W. Okay, because that was the last that was the last name of
the teacher, right, that was the first letter of their last name.
Yeah. Yeah, And my best friend was in five W, and I
feel what you call the cool the kids, shall we say? And then
there was five DAY, which I was in. There were a couple of
cool kids in there, and you were the welfare baker. That's true,
better than five W. Yeah. And you know there are a few people
in five day who became, you know, very very good friends of mine.
Yeah, as a result of being in five day. But oh yeah,
I was like, oh, my love would be something better. I
was in five W instill of being stuck with mister Davies, who was a
right pricker, didn't like me at all. Sometimes you're sneaking to the other
classroom and just hope that they didn't notice he followed me home? Can he
stay for dinner? This will be a group project, So I'm gonna place
you all into groups of five. Let's see Wendy Babe Clyde, Pip and
Token. You'll be group one and group two will be stand Kyle, Eric,
Kenny, and and tweak on that tweak. We don't want to be
in a group with tweak. There's nothing wrong with tweak. I made do
a great job in your group. Actually take that trend of pressure. No,
Sweet Jesus pleading, dude, we can't work with this kid. Yeah.
There was also another anxious moment at school when you got put into groups
and you didn't get to decide who was in the group. I think actually
it might be more stressful when the kids did decide, because it's like,
yeah, the teacher decides, and you're not in a group with the cool
kids or in a group with your friends, then it's like, well they
decided, But if your friends don't want you in the group, it's like,
oh man again. This happened to me in Gray Vibe when we went
on an excursion and I was like, oh, I'm going to be sharing
a room with my best buddy. My best buddy was like, no,
I'm sharing room with this guy. We were we were best and yeah,
I remember this other guy. Who the fuck is wrong with this kid?
Also, he's sharing a room with me buddies not that bad. It's funny
how you just have these moments from primer school there to stick with us.
Oh god you yeah, and usually just like a second yeah, not even
beaten, and they meant nothing to anybody else, but you are just like
just impacted your life in the big Well you talked about this in the past.
I mean this was more of a big deal. But the girl who
wanted to she'd go to the dead ball and she wanted you to. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, and you know you said, oh look I can't
do it. I don't want to do it. I felt horrible. Ever
felt horrible. Yeah. And then years later when and said like, I'm
really sorry about there's been weighing on move so much. Yeah I wanted with
someone else. Yeah. I was like, oh, yeah, okay,
Now I feel like now I feel worse. I told you I hate him.
I wish I had to apologize. I felt like a big deal,
like and almost like, oh I feel bad for being too important for her.
Now I feel if I'm worse. We're apologizing to you. But you
get put into a group with tweak and I'll just go here. Oh I'm
not sure how much longer I can put up with this Garret day. As
you said, very one note, I'm sure there's many listeners out there that
love tweak apologize listeners you know, you find to enjoy him. I just
thought I got over it very fast. But then mister Caprison mentioned is about
medical center or something in the show, Chad Everett, do you know the
show? It's it's an old seventies or sixties version of the h Really okay,
yep, but he basically threatens the kids here. You know, if
you make him look bad, mister Hat's going to smack you bitches up.
Then we got John Postum. He arrives to twets coffee shop. Is I
actually have a name? Twet coffee shops are just tweaks. I think he's
just tweets coffee, twists coffee. Okay, yeah, I might just double
check that actually, because you can make sure that you don't just assume these
things, because there's listeners out there that, dude love them some south Park
and I'm if I was listening to a Simpson's podcast and I was like,
what's up? What's that town next to the preview? Cause it is it
shumpy Field? Yeah? That sounds right, I'd be like, no,
no, no, it's Shabbyville. Well, given that Going Down South Park
is indeed the most popular shows on the Fourth Finger discoun network, it is
indeed, and it's one of the top rated TV and film podcasts in South
Korea and in so we were in the top ten of the UK last week
for TV film after watch shows. And I was like, cool, nice,
But Nicola called her buddy and give givem a listen. It is called
Tweak Brothers Tweet Brothers Coffee House. Okay, we stand corrected. There we
go. Richard Tweak tweaks at Richard Tweak. We'll just call it mister Tweak.
But Richard Tweak owns Tweak Brothers Coffee House. There we go. It's
all settled. We got it all settled. But Um he arrives and he
wants to buy the store, and he offers him a Cramsonite briefcase. Now
this year, I've got a note. So John Postum offers mister Tweak a
Cramsonite briefcase. This is a parody of Samsonite, a company that makes durable
luggage and briefcases. It is a Colorado but it is a Colorado based company.
That has been in business since nineteen ten. I believe I own a
Samsonite suitcase and the lovely Louise and family. And I went to Bali last
December. I was like, a Duffel is not going to Actually no,
I knew I needed a suitcase with a lock because the last time we went
to Barley, I took over a Duffel bag and they said, you can't
leave the country with that. God knows only knows what you might be smuggling
to, like wrap it up in wrap it up in glad rapp or whatever.
I'm like, this is really annoying. I think I'm just gonna split,
splash out and get the suitcase. Imagine if you just went to Bali
and he never came back. It's just like Louise, this guy ready to
a podcast this week, I'm firing squad. Oh shit, okay, new
co host time oh Man like like weed a little too much and killed him
in Bali. Can I just ask a question, You in their right mind
thinks I'm gonna go to Bali with a Duffel bag. After all, the
ship that went down with Chappelle Corby and it was a boogie board case or
whatever. But a Duffel bag. It's the same kind of ship, like,
why would you risk that? Man? What would you risk it?
No? No, honestly don't know. But anyway, so, yes,
it all worked out. While you got your stampson up brief Yes, said
it was good quality. It's it's a very good suitcase. It's very happy
with it. Sounded very trumped and it's good good suitcase. Yes, when
the bits suitcases contains on my clothing, other items, some contraband. Hello
there, customer, hullo are you today? Great? What can I get
for you? Large coffee? Small coffee? I'm actually interested in something else.
I'm John Poster from the Harbucks Coffee Corporation. Oh you're that corporate guy
who's been calling that's right. How come you don't call me big? All
we want to do is buy out your coffee shop here, Oh forget it.
My store is not for sale. My company's prepared to make you a
very generous offer. This is a Crimsonite briefcase, all leathered, has four
compartments from the Killer's look interesting. Oh I don't think so. My coffee
shop is worth a lot to me? All right, how about five hundred
thousand dollars. The answer is still no, mister Postum. You see,
when my father opened this store thirty years ago, he cared about only one
thing, making a great cup of coffee. Sure, we may take a
little longer to brew a cup, and we may not call it fancy,
as I guess, we just care a little more. And that's why Tweet
coffee is still homebrewed from the finest beans we can mustard. Yes, tweet
coffee is a simpler coffee or a simpler America. Well, that's too weird.
We're just gonna have to open our Harbucks right next door to you,
but that could put me out of business. Hey, this is a capitalist
country power key, you st to it. And then we get a really
weird moment with Barbarady coming for his usual and it's a slap in the face
of a caffee. I did not get this at all. Yeah, Occasionally
wacky humor just god name doesn't cut it, or it's just like okay,
you're being wacky just for the sake of it, or maybe missing something if
you if you know out there listeners that we're missing something here, let us
know. Southpark Mailbag at gmail dot com. We'd love to hear why we
are wrong. But the kids now they're trying to come up with ideas at
the school, can't suggests Raymond because you know everybody lets ram in and Tweak
mentions the gnomes that come and still his underpants every night at three thirty am
because you know everyone else is asleep, but not him because he's filled up
with coffee. Do you kind of feel bad for a Tweak that the reason
is this way is because his parents pump him up full of coffee, Like
it's another way of making his parents the villains in this episode. I guess,
oh yeah, they both look like the most rational, easy going,
even tempered kind of people. But no, seriously, there's some nasty stuff
going underneath the hood. Although Missus Tweak turns out to be actually she does,
yeah, she sees something cool by the end, skid clean. So
mister and Missus Tweek that discussing our selling, having to sell the business.
That was another thing we got in this episode that, you know, really
get my balls in the ice group? Does it reminded me of that ain't
touching up with a ten foot pole? This is that kind of gay?
Everything was really get my balls in a in a sealer shooter. There's always
something different. They give the kids some coffee. Oh hello, son,
how is your day? That's good? Who are your little friends? What
do you mean? Where is all report? Buddies? Yeah, we have
to stay up all night to write it. We'll have some coffee, boys.
I grew up another part for later. Coffee. I don't think I
like coffee. Who you like this coffee? It's fresh country, fresh,
like the morning after a rainstorm. Okay. And he just never stops selling
to anyone. No, well, that's the small business mentality, I guess,
isn't it. I guess so. I mean, yeah, constantly hustling.
Mister Tweak. Here he suggests that the end of the corporate machine is
ruined in America. He's like, that's that's that should be your report here.
You know, don't worry about the gnomes or whatever it is that our
sun Tweak is talking about. You know, let's talk about how corporate America
is ruining the small town businesses. And he says, you know, I've
got an idea here, lovely wife, I'm going to use these kids to
my advantage. And I did feel sorry as well for Tweet because the parents
just don't believe your story. That is not having any of it, even
if they know it's really just like now, it's not true, but it's
a tough one to swallow though snomes yes it is. Yeah, you guess
they're right. The kids are now drinking their coffee, they're not enjoying it,
and tweaks worried, you know, and comes, don't worry, mate,
you know, Kenny's perfectly happy living on welfare. And then you know
a little bit later, at ten eight, they're bouncing off the walls.
This is like the nineties equivalent. Oh, this is ninety eight. But
you know when when I was a kid used to play, don't if the
kids red cordial, Yeah, it's still a thing. Red cordial is that
they moved on to something else. Now, don't let them vac I think
he had done them. Don't let him do the fruity flavored vape. I
think red cordial is still like a code word for you know, I don't
give him short yeah, don't give him any stimulants. And it's like we'll
have my parents over for dinner, right and be like, you know,
half day before bedtime, and allot's like sitting on my Dad's lap and just
let him drink some pepsi macs and I'm like, it's full of caffee.
He's like, no sugar, and I'm like it's caffeine. It's worse.
He won't go to bed. But Cartman, he's just circling around. He's
just you know, he's in his own world. He's just absolutely loving life.
And then they start eating the grounds basically like junkies now. And then
five hours later, three twenty six, they're coming down. They're all feeling
sick, you know, they're tired, and they've got sore stomachs and there's
no gnomes around. So even Tweet questions himself. He's like, maybe I
am just going crazy. And it's when mister Tweak walks in and says that
he's written the report for them. He's like, I'm going to take advantage
of these kids. They just no way they would have written their report yet,
I'll write the report for them and they'll use this and then I'll be
able to get my message across. And as he's explaining how to how to
do the speech, had to how to explain his theory. This is where
the gnomes arrived, singing their little song in the backgrounds and Tweak can see
them, but nobody else can see them. No one's playing the attention.
They took him again, sands good my pleasure night boys. Wow, Tweak
you dad rocks. Why are they dugging me like this? Why can't they
leave me alone? Damn it? What the hell is wrong with you?
Tweak? They chalk my underpants again? She'll not want my blood fun.
Yeah, they're now giving their report. Mister Garrison's not buying it at all,
but the board love it. You know. I don't want to sound
like a decole, but I told you so, so they believe that mister
Garison is a good teacher. Now the board say that they want to join
in the fight as well against Harbucks, and we cut two Harbucks. They're
building, um, they're building the building. You've really got my balls and
a juicemaker. And this is where he says to Tweak, you know you
may have saved my business, son, because gave the speech to have it
and explains everyone wants to get on board, and they say, perhaps you
shouldn't give Tweak any more coffee, Like, I don't know, he just
he has add and I'm like, I love that because that, to me,
that is exactly what every kid was just diagnosed with the nineties. I
add, any kid any form of energy are that you know, it's just
like do you actually want to do some tests first or just you just want
to pop some pills into their mouth. It's nice that they're actually using the
medical diagnosis of add as opposed to just saying, oh, hyperactive, yes,
yeah, any kids even got adults sort of going on about well getting
late in life diagnoses of ADHD or ADD or whatever. I sometimes think that
I might get a hold of some of that action. But the board now
arrives and they say they are committed to helping as well, to make sure
we take down Hardbucks and don't ruin this glorious coffee shop that produces sewage like
coffee. And they say that they want to take their case to the mayor.
They want the kids to take the case of the mayor. And they're
starting to paint like, oh, we can't do this, and the mayor
just when when they're pitching it, she can't believe it. It's something that
with the puppet his class, they've actually done something that's going to contribute to
society. So she says, we'll create proposition ten Prop ten, and she
says, if it gets voted in, then we'll ban is it, They'll
ban Harbucks, big big corporations. Is that what the end result would be?
I believe so, yes, okay, And this is as she's discussing
the campaign for them. This is where the names come in and take the
underpants from your your pals, her little associates. That's right. And then
one of them says, you know, time for issue thirty to seven D
the missing underpants bit cold in here. So now Garrison is says, you
know, he takes the kids aside and say, I know you didn't write
this, but you know now that it's worked, you better stick with it
because if you don't, mister hat is going to do horrible, horrible things
to you. And it has with the hat whispering his year not that horrible.
I love Garrison this episode. He's such a mean, such a dick
but even more dickers than you do. Not just love it before we say
I don't want to sound like a dick hole, but I told yourself you
should watch the last episode of the new season of South Park with Garrison.
He goes back to being President Garrison. Oh gosh, it's very funny.
It's very very funny. But South Park it's now a town meeting and it's
live on the on the local station. The starry eyed kids and the fat,
smelly Copporate guy from New York. I really enjoyed the crowd hissing at
him when he's trying to talk. I'm neither fat nor slab. What's going
on. When's the last time you hissed at count Base if you're doing something
naughty? Oh, I don't know if they ever hissed account Base the cat.
I certainly hissed at the late Great Charlie the Cat, because yeah,
I think I lived. Charlie was marking a territory all over the shop and
weed on a pile of blue rays and DVD. I know, And I
think I was so angry they actually just got right in a basement, just
you know, I'm gonna this is the language you want to stand bitch.
And then and then like an hour lady went back and apologized. I didn't
mean it, I really did. I acted in the moment. I'd do
that all the time whenever I yell at any animal, but particularly my cats.
Yeah, I'm like, man, I'm sorry. I always feel like
I'm a bad cat. Dads, like, next time I let her at
for a piss, she may never come back. True another family that won't
ust to her when she pisces on their please raise. But then it's time
for the boys to give their their principal argument. They kind of come of
anything, they say Garrison threatened them. So just save the day with this
guy. Sucks ass. What is the future of America? Is it the
money we make, the quest we conquer? No, it's children. So
what do children have to say about Prop? Ten? I don't like big
corporations. I like small businesses. I believe in their family on at you
pay, It's time to stop large corporations. Prop ten is about children.
Vote yes on Prop ten or else you hate children? You don't hate children?
Do you remember? Keep American business small or else? Paid for by
citizens for a fair and equal way to get Harbucks coffee kicked out of town
forever? Well, what do you think? Wow, it's great, Yes
it is. We'll put it on the air immediately. What do you think,
honn, what's the matter? I have a big problem with this.
What do you mean we're just using those boys for our benefit. They have
no idea what they're saying. But kids are great to get people on our
side. You don't just throw a child in a political commercial to sell your
beliefs. I won't be a part of this anymore, honey, all's fair
in love and war and coffee. So now we get the protests at the
front of Harbucks and Starbucks isn't a show anymore? Is it? When I
had a business, didn't it? Isn't it ironic? I think a sow
one not long ago old closed, had a lot of stores. Yeah,
I don't know. I get the feeling there are still one or two a
random and bad, but there's not as many as he used to be.
So what took over? I mean as Glory of Jeans still Llegan's still around.
This is from twenty eighteen. Why there are almost no Starbucks left in
Australia. That was twenty eighteen. Starbucks is attempting to slow down expand in
a market where it was once shunned. It's easily to It's easy to find
a Starbucks cafe almost anywhere in the world, but in Australia there aren't any.
Aren't many left at all. That's because in two thousand and eight,
the company closed more than seventy percent of its underperforming locations, leaving only twenty
three Starbucks stores throughout the entire country. That was in twenty eighteen. Okay,
then maybe I was maybe I was mistaken. Maybe that's only ten years,
So ten years after this episode air. So Starbucks obviously tried to get
into the country and just didn't work weird. Yeah, maybe maybe we had
proposition ten. Some local business owners has got his kids? Watch episode I
no step two kids. It's probably Kevin Rudd talking like this. Yes,
anyway, say Starbucks didn't didn't work out well from for the Australian market.
Starbucks. Apparently. I'm not a coffee man, but Nicol always said we
should. We went to Starbucks in the States and she was just like this
coffee is not great. It's just yeah when I was when I was in
the States, I went to Starbucks because everyone went to Starbucks, well pretty
much. But I also like if I just went to a coffee shop,
but to be like, well, there's the coffee pot on the percolator or
whatever, and you know, pull you a couple black coffee, you put
some cream and sugar, and I mean, maybe I should have done a
little more research, but I was like, that's what you get from American
coffee, whereas if you go to a Starbucks, I might actually make you
a Larte it. Also, it was just the feel of the place as
well. It almost felt like Central Perk, didn't it a little bit?
Yeah? Yeah? I mean, and plus they were, you know,
almost everywhere, and they look like people who would appreciate coffee, the ones
making it usually true. Plus I forgot if we talked about this on either
the most recent episode of four Fingered Discount or on the King of the Hill,
so you can get the Hill. Yeah, speaking in the Hill that
we podcast that we just did talking about how you know you'd go to McDonald's
when you're overseas, I think, yeah, we talked about it a biscuit
we did the Italian Bob when they were to Italy. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, you know you know what you're gonna get. It's like,
I don't necessarily feel like taking a risk on that delightful, but I'll go
get it. Got the bound and I'll know what I'm getting, you know,
or it might be just a slightly bit different, which is like how
Adventures of Me in American In America, KFC, you get a biscuit,
Oh my gosh, and you're not talking about like a Tim Tam. You're
talking about like a like a savory biscuit. It's it's like looks like a
skye cornea corn bread or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
And I remember like usually get like a dinner roll, but now it came
with a biscuit. Yeah. It's a little little you know, local changes
there, but like overall though, it still test tastes like KFC, it's
still good. Yeah, yeah, but that was our theory. The theory,
like a guy to say, is like you got overseas. It's like
I want to risk on local cuisine, but I know I'm going to enjoy
this, so I'm going to go to there. Yeah, that's the genius
of the big business. And there was the McDonald's model. Make a system
that was fast efficient, fast food, but make it so that it's easy
to make and no matter where it's made, it always tastes the same but
the same. Yes, So this was a takeoff of Joe Camel Joe Cool
Camel or something. Yeah, there was well camel cigarettes had Joe Camel there
as their logo was, Yeah, basically a cooler than Camel who smoked cigarettes.
Yeah, the Simpsons take the mickey out of that. I think Laramie's
mascot is like a moose or something that like coughs. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. And also, you know that was Spuds McKenzie for Budweiser beer.
Yeah, it's like Chicken, that cool dog who likes the party there with
bud my life changement. I realized Spuds McKenzie was a girl. What excuse
me? What the hell mckensie with This is a controversy along the lines of
Dylan mulvaney's shilling bud Light. I don't know have you heard this story?
Oh God, I put a tweet out aout It's just like, so you'll
appreciate this, So kid Rock shoots the the cans right. First of all,
I'm like, how is no one questioned the fact that this guy just
has a fucking automatic rifle. He's just shooting things in his backyard. That's
not that's not the problem. But someone's got that screenshot of him doing that,
and they got the old guy from Margin the Lamb saying, my precious
antique cans. Yeah, it's um, let's not get into that. It's
just a that's a mine fields. Let's skip rights. So I brought it
up, but we're get to hear that the kiddie chinos, which is still
a thing that like when we go to cafes and that now Nicola get the
kids, um, I think they're called now, which is basically like milk
froth with a with a marshmallow. Yes, that's all it is, yes,
and which is a great which is a great selling point to get parents
to go to coffee shops. Oh my god, it's like you can bring
the kids and and that'll feel like they're in they're involved too, like and
it's also it's also it's also a great way to instill in the child's mind
I like coffee. So you're winning over a new customer base without them realizing
it. So basically kids are going to grow up drinking their little pupaccinos and
eventually, oh, it's like going from the from a from a pencil to
a pen It's like, oh, now I can have a real coffee when
I'm older. Like you watch Marvel shows now and Aliott watches like Spidery and
he's amazing friends, and it's like the kids version of the Spider Spider Man,
the Marvel Heroes. And I'm like, this is just genius. This
is just like DC just don't have their shit together, you know what I
mean, Like this is just oh yeah, genius marketing. They're getting the
kids in early Win League a super Pets though and shit like that. That's
that doesn't work, mate, It's not the same like that they're trying to
like I know they've got Lego Batman, which good movie Lego Batman and things
like that, but no, just it's just not the same. And anyway,
enough about trying to win other kids. We've got the mum here.
She says, you should be ashamed from ashamed for using kids to push your
coffee on children. And then mister Tweek rocks up and mister Tweeks are real
preck here to him, like, I'm just like, mister, I'll go,
here's mister Tweak the bad guy. Here, mister Poster, I'm afraid
you've got a lot to learn about making coffee. Oh and you don't,
you're a coffee j's like three day old mole diarrhea. I'm sorry to inform
you that this town is having a vote tomorrow and if the law passes,
you're going to be thrown out of town. What at five o'clock, the
best caffee wins. Either you're a caffee or a fresh warm cup of Tweaks
Carfee, like an old sweater that keeps getting warmer with the age. You
can count on Tweaks Carfee to start your day. The mayor is planning the
event for the for the voting day? Or should you get a band whip
band Toto like guy likes Toto? Yeah? Absolutely, it's just the show
they didn't play, did it? And each party shall have five five minute
speech. They find a little spiel. Their kids are worried though, because
um, I don't know what's right, and I'll just go here. Should
you just got miss a tweak to write it for you again? Just do
the same thing. It would have made more sense, you'd think. So.
Yeah. Anyway, But as they're thinking of ideas is where the gnomes
arrive again when they're not paying attention, but then finally they see them and
they can't been hitting it with the stick was great, But just the sassa
gives back? Is that? Oh yeah? Gat yea pussy. Yeah,
happy day, little caravan. Don't scare him. Hey there, little guy
bat, come man, why why don't we have to get stuff with a
stick. We'll look at him he's got yeah, look at him without all
your guy purfle Why hey he talked, Yeah, he caught me a pussy.
I'm not a pussy. You're a pussy. You're a puff puffle.
Hey, dude, why are you taking tweaks underpouns? Yeah? Look what
you're doing to this poor kid's little underpants? Build business? Wait? Do
you know anything about business? Sir? That's what Now, IM's there,
show us, Okay if I don't know, they take them to their village
to explain, and he show him how and why. Then we get the
Hardbucks guy calling it quits, saying, oh that they clearly don't want us.
I'm just like, what do you think I've seen was needed? Because,
like, the voting day was the next day, So why would he
just quit the night of the day before the voting? Why would you not
just wait it out? No? No, I think sometimes you can just
tell it's not even worth the fight. Yeah, I guess so, But
um so why then then why are they having the voting day. Then if
he if he says he's not gonna it doesn't matter. Well, you've got
to pay lip service to democracy. I guess. So we're now at the
at the village. The names explained the phases. What's phase two? Hey,
what's phase two? Phase three is profit? And of course the carp
Yeah, I get it. Yeah. Sometimes it's just how business works,
man. You just you make something, you put it out there and it
just works. It's like the FOURF you can discount podcast. Obviously it's not
big business. But I'm like, we just saw there wasn't many Simpsons podcasts
out there. Started it, put it out there, people enjoyed it.
There was no step two. It was like we made a show. People
enjoyed it. Podcast listeners hatchtag. Now, wasn't the step three profit question?
My question? My question? But yeah, there's where the cart kills
Kenny. I really enjoyed the fact that they couldn't believe it. They were
beside themselves that they killed this Kiper. The boys didn't care at all.
This crash. My god, oh my god, they killed Kenny. You
bastards. Listen. We have to give a huge speech tomorrow about corporate takeovers
Hall of shit. We killed your friend, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Look, we gotta know about corporate takeovers tomorrow. We're screwed, crossed.
We screwsed them like a barn. If do you know anything about corporate takeovers,
well we can explain that for our prowse what Luna underpans. Then we
get Toto just finishing our playing a song or song where they're finishing off.
Was it an actual song that you could tell or I don't think it was.
Okay, even if it's Toto, you're still gonna pay, you know,
you gotta pay for the rights to use Africa or Rosanna or the other
Toto song. The kids that they're giving their speech that the gnomes have explained
to them that big, big, big corporations are actually good, and they
come clean that they didn't write them write the original initial report, and Garrison
goes on, he's Randy has taken away, but mister Tweak, missus Tweak
aplause them, and she reveals, you know, we've been using this whole
time. You didn't you one even bother to taste half Bucks, And all
of a sudden, it's just like big operations. It's very similar ending to
the last one with Charlie Manson. Everyone embraces Charlie Manson. Obviously Charlie Manson
a big corporation, different in what they do, right like, both both
seen as evil in their own right. But um, but yeah, they
wrapped their arms around them here because you know, mister tweek And then they
even miss the Tweeker job. Maybe you can take over this shop for it.
We're gonna need someone to run it. I think I'd rather sell my
son to slavery. Just kidding, sons kidding, And we get the classic,
the classic sitcom eighties family fun ending with the freeze frame kind of thing
and the laughter. But then we get the Nomes silling underpants as well.
Do you notice that? True? But I did notice that. Yes,
I love how it ends up with just cartoons. Yeah, I love you.
Yes, this is one of the more clever episodes of South Park.
I feel I've actually had a lot of listeners tell us a lot of about
patrons as well, saying that Gnomes is one of their least favorite episodes.
I enjoyed the hell out of this. Yeah, I don't know how it's
funny. It's not hilarious. No, it's got a little meat on the
bone, it's got something, it's got something to chew. One. It's
hilarious in its own right, like it's it's it's not your unusual south Park
kind of humor. But if you're watching it through the lens of what they're
trying to take the mickey out of, I think they very rare. Would
you see the little guy being portrayed as the villain? Very rarely? Yeah,
well I think this is, yeah, one of the certainly one of
the first times that, Yeah, south Park really started to twig the ideas
like let's go against the grain a little bit here, I mean, you
know, I mean, let's see you maybe tell you an inconvenient truth or
two, you know, and folded into the story of the underpands gnomes who
were you know, eventually going to make a profit god knows how. Oh,
yeah, for you. All right, it's time for some mail bag
questions. Mister Davis, so Southpark Mailbag at gmail dot com if you do
have some questions for its or just a message, we'd love to hear from
you. This one comes from Scott Baton all the way in Ireland, and
Scott says, what are your thoughts on the south Park video games, particularly
those in the early in the late nineties on the Nintendo sixty four. When
I'm not assuming you, I'm assuming you would never have played the mister Davis
Scott, here's my thoughts. Never played. Yeah, I was not allowed
to own them. I had a couple of friends whose parents didn't give a
shit and let him. I remember playing the south Park video game and just
feeling the thrill of playing. It's almost like playing Bonestorm. It's like what
I mean, like going to Millhouse's house and playing Bonestorm and I really enjoying.
You still have to shoot the turkeys and things like that. It was
always fun. I was allowed to own the game south Park Rally. I
think it was called It's almost like a Mario Kart but south Park characters.
That was very fun. I always loved the racing games that the licensed racing
game is always a big hit in the Dando household. But I never owned
a Nintendo sixty four console when I was a kid, so I never had
I had the PS one. It was almost like my parents go, you
got one console, that's all you get. And some kids were likey to
have whatever consoles they wanted. But I had the PS one, so I
didn't get the unitial South Park, and I know they eventually released it on
PS one, but it was almost like old news by that point I think
I remember correctly. But yeah, see South Park Rally I really enjoyed,
and the initial game I did as well. It just I was like a
first person shooter. You would have enjoyed it, mister Davis. One of
those games where it was very rare that you got a license game that felt
true to the subject matter, and this one just felt very much that,
if I remember correctly, you've sold it on me very eloquently. Yeah,
sounds good, all right. And the final question here comes from just says
Julie and doesn't say where she's from. So Julie alsos dot co dot UK.
So I'm assuming UK, Julie. She could be living somewhere else now,
but I'm oditionally in the UK. But Julie says, when you were
in a fourth for Ukraine, maybe when you were in fourth grade, were
you a wendy or a baby kind of guy. I don't think I was
even looking at girls when I was in fourth grade, to be completely honest,
Probably a wendy kind of guy. I think Baby would have scared the
hell out of me. Baby would have been the girl that every guy was
like, Oh she's cool, but she's kind of scary. But Wendy,
I don't know. Wendy seems kind of controlling. I know. I like
I said, I wasn't interested in in girls in fourth grade. But if
that those personalities were teenagers and I was in high school, I think I
would have been a Wendy because I was very much just liking you know what
you're getting with Wendy to the point head screwed on babe, very unpredictable.
I agree with you one hundred. I mean, I'm trying to remember when
I was in when I was in fourth grade and there was a yeah,
a girl called Polly who I was mostly at a boys school. There weren't
there many girls, but I remember talking to this girl Polly when thinking you're
going cool, what's this I'm feeling? Polly is a cool name as well.
Poly Stein who name was If you're listening poly Stone guy Davis here from
from nineteen seventy nine. Hope, I hope you're going great. Um you
have knock on the door tomorrow. Oh my god, this is your baby
got this grown man with like, what guy? God'd you ever killed me?
Back? Dear? But yeah, I think I'd be a Wendy kind
of That is our mail bag for gnomes. Thank you for sending in those
questions, Julie and Scott was let me go back up, Yeah, Scott,
Scott and it was contending those questions. We've still got a few more
questions in the mail Baby. We'll get to those in the next episode of
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