Speaker 1: Sad Jesus business birds.
Speaker 2: I just called to say I don't love you.
Speaker 3: You are right bad John my he impersonates my mother.
Speaker 3: Will you and you Smithers, you must have put him
Speaker 3: up to it.
Speaker 1: I'm glad I fired you.
Speaker 2: You really blew it this time, Smithers.
Speaker 1: Four Finger Discounted.
Speaker 3: Welcome to four Finger discount. With this week, we're going
Speaker 3: back to season seven to review Homo the Smithers. I'm
Speaker 3: Dano and I am Guy and we are not alone, Amy,
Speaker 3: We are certainly not.
Speaker 1: We are joined by a comedian described on his own
Speaker 1: website as affable, lovable, and hilarious. Two out of three
Speaker 1: is not bad. It's Daniel Corral.
Speaker 3: He is all three in this podcast.
Speaker 1: He is actually all three in this podcast. He's he
Speaker 1: got across the board. What can I do?
Speaker 3: But he's, yeah, an absolute legend. I find myself with
Speaker 3: very similar age. You've got kids. I just found everything.
Speaker 3: He was saying, I'm like pressure to the choir brother.
Speaker 1: Meanwhile, I sort of turned up my hearing aid did
Speaker 1: what these young men were saying. It's like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: sort of vaguely remember that from decades earlier.
Speaker 3: Yes, but yes, So Daniel joined us on today's show
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Speaker 3: But for now, let's get in today's chat with Daniel
Speaker 3: Connell as we review Homer the Smithers. So we're here
Speaker 3: with Daniel. How are you doing, Dan?
Speaker 2: Hey? Good, Thanks guys. How are you guys?
Speaker 3: Oh fantastic, Thank you for joining us. So we're obviously
Speaker 3: here to talk about the Simpsons. But before we talk
Speaker 3: about the Simpsons, you've got a lot of stuff going
Speaker 3: on them. We just released a special recently, let's talk
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just probably about well a month ago, I think
Speaker 4: it was, I released my third special called Little Lossie Batler,
Speaker 4: which is a show I toured all through twenty twenty
Speaker 4: four and then filmed it at the end of twenty
Speaker 4: four and then yeah, I listed about a month ago. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's kind of the way of the world now with
Speaker 4: social media and needing to keep up with clips. Yeah,
Speaker 4: filming your special every year now is kind of the
Speaker 4: norm so used to not be, but I've released maybe
Speaker 4: three in four years now, So yeah, just keeping up
Speaker 4: with the younger generation and social media.
Speaker 1: You're like Smithers, You've got the grind set mate, You're
Speaker 1: just working twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: I must admit.
Speaker 1: When I was doing my research about you on the internet,
Speaker 1: found your LinkedIn profile, which is something I haven't seen
Speaker 1: a lot of sort of comedians have. Actually, I'm wondering
Speaker 1: how sort of vital that is in today's entertainment industry
Speaker 1: to be not just across across the socials, but across well,
Speaker 1: apparently increasingly the social or the business.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's becoming definitely more and more. The LinkedIn one,
Speaker 4: thankfully is run by my manager, so I don't know
Speaker 4: anything about it.
Speaker 2: All have to do anything with that one.
Speaker 4: I control Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, and that's that's enough
Speaker 4: for me, But yeah.
Speaker 3: The important stuff.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's so much now you need to do if
Speaker 4: you want it, basically, if you want to stay relevant.
Speaker 4: And it's pretty tricky because everybody. Now if I go
Speaker 4: to a open mic on a Tuesday night, everybody's got
Speaker 4: their camera set up the back, everybody's filming everything, and
Speaker 4: that's just never ending.
Speaker 3: I suppose it makes it easier to get discovered, right
Speaker 3: if you're recording your stuff off time, because if you
Speaker 3: didn't have a need back in the day, now that
Speaker 3: you've got the need to do it, it's sort of
Speaker 3: you don't have to be flogging DVD's all the time.
Speaker 3: It's just just go to my YouTube channel and you
Speaker 3: can check out my stuff exactly.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's it's a fine line. I see some
Speaker 4: people filming that are quite new, and you I wouldn't
Speaker 4: want to be putting stuff up that when I'm that new,
Speaker 4: because if something does go viral and you then have
Speaker 4: to back it up with a live show, you haven't
Speaker 4: got the chops as of yet. So it's that fine
Speaker 4: balance of knowing when to start posting and releasing stuff.
Speaker 4: But yeah, everybody sort of figures it out on the run.
Speaker 4: It's also new, you know, it's filming everything. It's only
Speaker 4: come in the last sort of since Covid, I've really
Speaker 4: noticed a big uptick in people filming their sets, so
Speaker 4: everybody's kind of figuring it out.
Speaker 2: On the run.
Speaker 3: I saw you've given up on your podcast pre covid.
Speaker 3: Is that ever going to return?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know, as you would be full aware
Speaker 4: running a podcast is it takes you know, it's not
Speaker 4: just one day of recording. You're doing days in the
Speaker 4: lead up, and it was taking a little bit of
Speaker 4: time away from the stand up, which is where I
Speaker 4: was making money. So yeah, it was it was a
Speaker 4: tricky balance. I'm sure if I kept it going, i'd
Speaker 4: probably be up to, you know, a few hundred episodes now,
Speaker 4: maybe be making some money off it. But yeah, I
Speaker 4: just got to fifty. I thought that's a nice that's
Speaker 4: a nice number to finish on.
Speaker 3: How important has it been being on shows like have
Speaker 3: you been paying attention in recent years?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: That that definitely is a huge help with ticket sales
Speaker 4: and just getting your name.
Speaker 2: Out there a bit more for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 4: You know, social media is especially TikTok and Instagram are
Speaker 4: probably the way a lot of people are blowing up
Speaker 4: now and getting their fans. Like, there's people on there
Speaker 4: that have you know, five hundred thousand followers and don't
Speaker 4: get any TV in Australia but can sell out theaters
Speaker 4: and really big rooms. But yeah, have you been paying attention?
Speaker 4: Especially it's probably one of the last places you can
Speaker 4: really show your comedy chops on Ossie TV. But when
Speaker 4: I was a teenager, there was loads. They used to
Speaker 4: have stand up on the Footage show and hey hey,
Speaker 4: and even some of the morning shows used to have
Speaker 4: a stand up spot. There was lots of opportunities when
Speaker 4: now it's kind of not really any chances to do
Speaker 4: stand up apart from the Gala on TV.
Speaker 2: So have you been paying attention?
Speaker 4: Is a really important one for comedians just to be
Speaker 4: able to show that they can be funny. And then yeah,
Speaker 4: you do notice a little uptick in ticket sales from that.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm wondering how important things like the Melbourne Comedy
Speaker 1: Festival are still. I mean, because they when I was
Speaker 1: growing up, and you know, it was pretty much a
Speaker 1: pivotal event and everyone was talking about who was who
Speaker 1: was coming out or who had new shows premiering, and
Speaker 1: things like that I'm wondering if that's still something that
Speaker 1: you can I don't know us as a selling point
Speaker 1: because you're an award winner from this year's Comedy Festival, right,
Speaker 1: the Piece of Wood award, I understand, which sounds incredibly prestigious.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the festival is still still pretty good. I think
Speaker 4: a lot of rest of us that had comedy in them.
Speaker 4: You know, it's a bit tricky. It cost so much
Speaker 4: to run festivals now and the competition is so fierce,
Speaker 4: Like pretty much every American comedian, UK comedian, Indian comedians
Speaker 4: are coming in now and all year around now they're
Speaker 4: selling out rod Labor and palais and especially this is
Speaker 4: it just in Melbourne where I think ten years ago
Speaker 4: maybe four or five big names would come out and
Speaker 4: to it. So the festival was a huge draw card
Speaker 4: and everyone would use that month to see their comedy
Speaker 4: for the year. That was when you went and saw comedy.
Speaker 4: But people are seeing it every day of the week now.
Speaker 4: I did a gig at the palais not too long
Speaker 4: ago and they had about you know, they were just
Speaker 4: full of just shows and people podcasters and people I'd
Speaker 4: never heard of before that were selling three thousand tickets there.
Speaker 4: So yeah, the festival is still great for us to
Speaker 4: be able to showcase it, but it is it's got
Speaker 4: a lot of competition now compared to what it did
Speaker 4: even five years ago. I feel like crowds are still
Speaker 4: coming out and Melbourne, you know, people have that in there,
Speaker 4: especially Melbourne. People have it in there there and ad
Speaker 4: to go on sera show at the Comedy Festival. Absolutely,
Speaker 4: but with the cost of living and all those things,
Speaker 4: if you're going to see two of your favorite UK
Speaker 4: or American comedians throughout the year for probably two hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty bucks for two tickets, maybe you're not seeing
Speaker 4: those ten or twenty shows you used to see at
Speaker 4: the Comedy Festival in Melbourne. You maybe just seeing one
Speaker 4: or two or none. So it's yeah, it's just that
Speaker 4: fine fine balance of how much the crowds are seeing
Speaker 4: and what they're taking in what they're spending their money on.
Speaker 4: But before the point of view, it's still it's still awesome.
Speaker 4: This year was really fun. They're still bringing out some
Speaker 4: pretty good, solid international acts and the Gala still a
Speaker 4: great sort of something you really aim for. You love
Speaker 4: to be on the Gara every year, which is nice.
Speaker 3: Because Just for Last was canceled for a while, right, it.
Speaker 2: Was, Yeah, yeah, it's I think it's just come back
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Nina was saying that. Yeah, yeah, but she was
Speaker 3: saying that she did really well in her set and
Speaker 3: then they canceled it and just deleted her set. So
Speaker 3: now she can't find it and now they've brought Just
Speaker 3: the Last back again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right's your hands on this?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, with the Simpsons, so obviously we're here
Speaker 3: talking about Home at the Smiths today, but what are
Speaker 3: your your earliest memories of the Simpsons, Like when were
Speaker 3: you growing up? Was it during the nineties, like what
Speaker 3: what was peak Simpsons for you?
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely early nineties.
Speaker 4: I remember I have two older sisters, and I remember
Speaker 4: my big sister wanting to watch it a lot and
Speaker 4: we would just yeah, sit there. And then I just
Speaker 4: obviously became a big fan. And I don't think it's
Speaker 4: because it was like it was one of the few
Speaker 4: things that was before your bedtime. I think that was
Speaker 4: the key to it, Like you're seeing something that was
Speaker 4: very funny and often now I watched it and things
Speaker 4: that went over my head when I was a kid,
Speaker 4: they're so much more funny now, Like I rewatched that
Speaker 4: episode we're talking about today and laughed out loud a
Speaker 4: couple of times that things that I just didn't remember
Speaker 4: from that episode. Yeah, I just remember early nineties. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I just remember wood Fight. I have really good memories
Speaker 4: of childhood wood Fire, going after dinner, sitting down with
Speaker 4: my sisters, and we'd be allowed to watch The Simpsons.
Speaker 3: A lot of people associate their earliest memories of the
Speaker 3: Simpsons with watching it with family members, Like for me,
Speaker 3: it's what with my dad. My dad and I didn't
Speaker 3: really have much in common, but we always watched the
Speaker 3: Simpsons together. And also I'm watching my sister's it's always this,
Speaker 3: you know, the Simpsons. Plus it meant that my dad
Speaker 3: couldn't watch the six PM news, could channel tend back
Speaker 3: the Simpsons on.
Speaker 4: You know what going through When you asked me to
Speaker 4: do that, I went obviously went back and looked at
Speaker 4: some old seasons and just looking at the list of
Speaker 4: the episodes, and obviously there's what is a nine hundred
Speaker 4: odd episodes or whatever.
Speaker 3: Nearly eight hundred. Now I think, yes, I'm like, yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I I just knew everyone. I was like, oh
Speaker 5: my god, I've seen every single episode. I knew every plot,
Speaker 5: and I just gout, Yeah, you just watched it, and
Speaker 5: it just was It's just in our brains now forever.
Speaker 1: Having said that, Daniel, I mean, watching it at that
Speaker 1: young age, I'm wondering if it's sort of helped form
Speaker 1: your comedic style, if it just sort of seeped into
Speaker 1: your bones and into your DNA in some ways, like oh,
Speaker 1: this is how you do comedy, or this is how
Speaker 1: I learned comic timing, or that this is how I
Speaker 1: can shape a joke or this is how I can deliver.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely, I think it definitely is like you say,
Speaker 4: it just seeps in.
Speaker 2: I remember.
Speaker 4: I definitely would have gone to school and you know,
Speaker 4: talked about the episode the next day. That was something
Speaker 4: we did amongst our friendship group. We'd always go in
Speaker 4: and say the funny lines and try and do the voices.
Speaker 4: And I think that when you're really young, you're not
Speaker 4: really looking at formula and how they're putting the show
Speaker 4: together and how they write. But definitely, once I got
Speaker 4: into my teens and you know, fifteen I was watching,
Speaker 4: I was like, oh wow, because stand up it was
Speaker 4: sort of in my mind then and I was watching
Speaker 4: a lot of stand up on TV and obviously full
Speaker 4: frontal and fast forward those TV shows in the nineties
Speaker 4: with Man. Yeah, there were things that we really you know,
Speaker 4: I personally loved them, and yeah, from about fifteen or sixteen,
Speaker 4: I wanted to give stand up ago. So then when
Speaker 4: I watched I watched The Simpsons, I just loved, you know,
Speaker 4: the callbacks and the more adult content and the real
Speaker 4: cheeky stuff that they go away with really appealed to me.
Speaker 4: So I think without a doubt all those you know,
Speaker 4: really funny things we watched growing up but definitely helped
Speaker 4: me understand comedy and how it works.
Speaker 3: I was going to ask you any of the shows
Speaker 3: growing up that you maybe didn't really appreciate that once
Speaker 3: you realize you wanted to become a comedian, that you
Speaker 3: went back and went, oh, this is this is what
Speaker 3: I need to be getting influenced by inspiration from.
Speaker 4: The one that comes to mind that the writing is
Speaker 4: exceptional now that I watch it because my wife loves it,
Speaker 4: and when I was a kid, I just had no
Speaker 4: is Frasier.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah it is. It is up there.
Speaker 4: Like obviously, we watched Seinfeld and I love Seinfeld and
Speaker 4: I always knew it was great, but Fraser's definitely gone
Speaker 4: up way so much in my book in the last
Speaker 4: decade of watching it. I just think the writing on
Speaker 4: that show was Obviously the acting is great, but the
Speaker 4: writing as well was just exceptional.
Speaker 2: If you go back and watch it now, it still
Speaker 2: holds up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got that classic sort of combination. It's got
Speaker 1: really strong sort of sitcom bones in terms of it's
Speaker 1: set up and dynamic and all of that. Then it's
Speaker 1: got this sort of lovely frosting layer on top of
Speaker 1: just this sophisticated human that makes it be a little
Speaker 1: bit more classy by watching it. Then the lands are
Speaker 1: cut that with Martin sort of you know, cutting him
Speaker 1: down the side just by telling it how it. Isser
Speaker 1: is fantastic in that ring at.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all those things you said, it's that Now that
Speaker 4: i'm you know, you get a few more gags and
Speaker 4: you understand when you're older and how things work. I
Speaker 4: just think the casting on that show and Seinfeld and
Speaker 4: you look back at it the car they just absolutely
Speaker 4: nailed their casting for each role on those shows.
Speaker 2: They must look back.
Speaker 4: People who did that must look back now with such
Speaker 4: you know Pride because they absolutely nailed the casting for
Speaker 4: that one.
Speaker 3: I remember not liking Fraser as a kid because I
Speaker 3: didn't get it.
Speaker 2: Well that's probably Yeah.
Speaker 3: When I was a teenager, I find the jokes. I
Speaker 3: was like, I feel so smart now and almost like
Speaker 3: it was the benchmark if you understand Fraser, You're growing up,
Speaker 3: you know. But yeah, you usually pitched today, we weren't
Speaker 3: going to do hor with the Smith as you asked
Speaker 3: for it. I think it was like a season seventeen
Speaker 3: episode which flowed me.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: I think it was Bart has two Mummies. I was
Speaker 3: really I could not believe it because every guest we've
Speaker 3: had just always going straight to the golden ear, and
Speaker 3: that's what usually what we do. Why why Bart has
Speaker 3: two mummies? What was it that drew you to that one?
Speaker 3: That's the one where Bart is that he become that
Speaker 3: the monkey in the cage at the grilla in the cage.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was it was just reading back through
Speaker 2: them all.
Speaker 4: I remember that one, yeah, being because from I haven't
Speaker 4: watched it back, but I vaguely remember that Marge she
Speaker 4: gets she gets a job in that one, I believe,
Speaker 4: and that's why she's not.
Speaker 3: She's not around for something not around.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the yeah, the chimp takes I actually can't remember.
Speaker 3: Get I'll get the plot up. But yeah, but I
Speaker 3: was just like I was like season seventeen. Wow, normally
Speaker 3: most comedians are gone. We stopped watching out the season ten.
Speaker 1: I was really impressed, and we would have talked about
Speaker 1: it not long ago on the show, but we did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hard to remember much about it at all.
Speaker 3: It's just I remember you didn't like it. I liked it,
Speaker 3: you didn't like it.
Speaker 1: It's stricken from the record.
Speaker 3: But yeah, But so you were still watching the show
Speaker 3: around season seventeen or is it just one that you
Speaker 3: may have just caught on TV?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think I was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'd say more likely that I caught it on TV.
Speaker 4: You know, if I'm home and got nothing on and
Speaker 4: that's on, I'll often just watch it. So what what
Speaker 4: years do you think that would have come out?
Speaker 3: Season seventeen since that episode aired nineteenth of March two
Speaker 3: thousand and six. So I was just finishing high school then.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would have been just finished, and yeah, working
Speaker 4: in kitchens and would have had nights off.
Speaker 3: And working in kitchens. Okay, So what were you were
Speaker 3: a chef. What were you doing water?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, after school I did a commercial cookery and was
Speaker 4: did that through about five years. Hated it but yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I didn't enjoy it, but.
Speaker 1: Met some great comedy.
Speaker 3: But yeah, so that one here says at an animal
Speaker 3: retirement home, so it's not a Z's animal retirement Homer
Speaker 3: monkey holds Bart hostage in her cage. Marge learns of
Speaker 3: the kidnapping on the news and must figure out a
Speaker 3: way to get her son back. Yes, yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 3: don't want Bart has two mmies. I was like, is
Speaker 3: he is he ritten me? Is he joking? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 3: but we went with we went at the Home of
Speaker 3: the Smith. I gave you a few selections. You wanted
Speaker 3: a Homer episode. So as Homer a character, you find
Speaker 3: that you relate to a lot more of the older
Speaker 3: you get because I as a kid was you know,
Speaker 3: very much Bart, and I found hom of funny. But
Speaker 3: the older I get now I'll just go, well, I've
Speaker 3: become Homer.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I always thought Home was the funniest. I always thought
Speaker 4: his lines were yeah, you know everything all the so
Speaker 4: many of the punchlines are from him, So I think
Speaker 4: he always appealed to me. Yeah, And obviously Bart when
Speaker 4: you're little, Bart is the rat bag and you see
Speaker 4: yourself in him at times. But yeah, I would say
Speaker 4: Homer was always my favorite.
Speaker 3: Did you ever like the Least of episode? Because I
Speaker 3: didn't as a kid. But again, as I get older,
Speaker 3: I appreciate that I have a lot more in common
Speaker 3: with Lisa than I realized when I was younger.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like that Bleeding Gums Murphy one. And you
Speaker 4: know those ones. When I think of Lisa episodes, they're
Speaker 4: the ones that pop in my mind, and they're.
Speaker 1: Great appropriately enough that they always feel like thevery eat
Speaker 1: your vegetables episides, like these are the ones that are
Speaker 1: going to be good for you or teach you something
Speaker 1: as sid appropriately and I've given Lisa's vegetarianism. But yeah,
Speaker 1: as you get a bit older as well, you realize
Speaker 1: sometimes you need some vegetables in your diet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, I tell you what I never I never
Speaker 4: warmed too. This might be controversial. I never warm to
Speaker 4: the like the House of Horrors ones.
Speaker 3: The trios of Horror really Yeah, okay, see, I like
Speaker 3: them because they're just sort of.
Speaker 2: Because each season would have one, wouldn't they They would.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They started in season two and they're still doing to
Speaker 3: this day, and arguably they're the ones that people get
Speaker 3: the most hypedful now because they're you know, the horror,
Speaker 3: and that they're different because I think a lot of
Speaker 3: people aren't really watching the show as much as they
Speaker 3: used to, but that that triosop horor seems to always
Speaker 3: be a standout and a bit of fun because they
Speaker 3: can sort of let loose a bit. But I always
Speaker 3: enjoyed the trios of horror. Do you think you didn't
Speaker 3: like about it? He is not a horror fan in general.
Speaker 1: Or scorching hot take on your partner.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not the horror. It was.
Speaker 4: It was just that, I I, this is gonna sound
Speaker 4: weird considering I'm watching a cartoon that's completely crept from nothing.
Speaker 4: I didn't like that it was them not being themselves.
Speaker 4: They weren't being their they were being something it was.
Speaker 4: If it started it was a House of Horrors episode,
Speaker 4: I'll be like, oh.
Speaker 2: Turn it off.
Speaker 3: I feel like you're the first person in the world
Speaker 3: I've ever spoken to us.
Speaker 4: I just liked the traditional, you know, each of them
Speaker 4: being themselves a proper storyline. I didn't like the whackingness
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 2: I was like, no, man, well.
Speaker 3: It's it's actually really interesting you say that because this
Speaker 3: episode aired Home of the Smithers during season seven, and
Speaker 3: that's when two guys, Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein took
Speaker 3: over the show as the showrunners. They've been writers of
Speaker 3: the show and they got that gig just by being
Speaker 3: fans of the show, and they got into the writer's
Speaker 3: room and then they'll give them the job of being showrunners.
Speaker 3: And when they took over here, they felt the show
Speaker 3: had become too wacky and they wanted to make it
Speaker 3: take it back to being more grounded. They want to
Speaker 3: have fifteen episodes, because there's twenty two episodes in the season.
Speaker 3: They want fifteen episodes based around the family, and then
Speaker 3: have your annual one, so you have your one Trouse
Speaker 3: of horror, you have you Itchy and Scratchy episode, your
Speaker 3: Sideshow Bob episode, that kind of thing. But they wanted
Speaker 3: to really focus on the emotional side of stories and
Speaker 3: just make it feel more realistic again. So I've always
Speaker 3: felt season seven and eight are my favorites when they're
Speaker 3: in charge of the show, and maybe you're you as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would tend to agree.
Speaker 4: I didn't know those facts about writers and the changing,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I agree around that six, seven, eight, nine,
Speaker 4: ten is probably the most episodes I've rewatched.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because Marge versus the Monorail, they say, is
Speaker 3: sort of like a turning point where they realized, oh,
Speaker 3: we can just do anything now and get away with it.
Speaker 3: And that was written by Conan O'Bryan and great episode.
Speaker 3: People love it. But the thing is, Matt Granning wasn't
Speaker 3: the biggest fan. He always wanted to keep the Simpsons
Speaker 3: feeling like a real family, and it sort of swayed
Speaker 3: away from that to an extent, and then when Josh
Speaker 3: and Bilt it go over, they went, let's bring it back,
Speaker 3: and you get episodes like this Home and the Smithers,
Speaker 3: an episode which they've said it was pitched by the
Speaker 3: next show round of Mike Scully at the time, and
Speaker 3: they couldn't believe that it hadn't already been done. It
Speaker 3: just feels like such a basic, simple premise Homer becomes
Speaker 3: Burns's assistant, and it hadn't been done. But I'm glad
Speaker 3: they waited this long because that had done this in
Speaker 3: like season three or four. I don't think the relationship
Speaker 3: of Smithers and Burns would have been as flesh as
Speaker 3: what it was. And I think seeing them for so
Speaker 3: many years just sort of Smithers's love for Burns and
Speaker 3: him relying on Burns just for a reason to live,
Speaker 3: and Burns relying on him to live. I think the
Speaker 3: eventual separation of this episode meant more as a result.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I love that it sets up little things
Speaker 4: like the way he feeds him and brushes his teeth
Speaker 4: and things that you think, well, he's been doing that
Speaker 4: for the last you know, he's been doing that's in
Speaker 4: today one, all those times, all those other episodes we've watched,
Speaker 4: that's what's happened every morning.
Speaker 2: You know this has been going on.
Speaker 1: Love it, and it's got that great commodation again as
Speaker 1: I said before, of like it's very heightened kind of
Speaker 1: comedy in terms of like today I'm wearing the things
Speaker 1: that kinds up or even just brushing someone's teeth. But
Speaker 1: also I think everyone can relate to the situation of
Speaker 1: being put into a job that's probably above your pay grade,
Speaker 1: and you don't know what the fuck you're doing, and
Speaker 1: you're sort of bumbling through and you want to get
Speaker 1: it right. You want to do it right for various reasons,
Speaker 1: but also as like I've got no idea what's going on?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and even the burnout for as a you know,
Speaker 4: older now. I watched it again yesterday, and just the
Speaker 4: burnout for Smith's like he's a real stress that people
Speaker 4: get and as a kid or even a teenager watching that,
Speaker 4: you're not thinking about that element of it at all.
Speaker 1: I think that ties into what you were talking about earlier. Though.
Speaker 1: How about you know, with your comedy career, I think
Speaker 1: a lot of people, you know, from the outside in
Speaker 1: would probably go, Daniel's got it made. Gets to stand
Speaker 1: up on stage and just tell jokes. Fantastic, What a
Speaker 1: life it's like. You know, he's got to be his
Speaker 1: own marketing department, his own PR department, his own av club,
Speaker 1: all this stuff, you know. I mean, I think it's
Speaker 1: very much the way of the world in the in
Speaker 1: the tw twenties, Like we're all working extremely hard and
Speaker 1: you know, edging edging, edging towards burnout all the time.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, It's never ending, is a good way to put it.
Speaker 4: Especially in the stand up world, you kind of feel
Speaker 4: like you need to have your foot down the whole time,
Speaker 4: because if you take it off, you just sort of
Speaker 4: fall back in the pack. That's the I don't think
Speaker 4: that's true, but that's the feeling.
Speaker 1: What it feels.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in an industry where it's you know, there's not
Speaker 4: a lot of opportunity for you know, there's probably there's
Speaker 4: fifty spots for a thousand people sort of thing is
Speaker 4: how you're led to believe. But I think having a
Speaker 4: little break every now and again is really good. I
Speaker 4: used to never do it, but now I make sure
Speaker 4: I have a week in the middle of the year
Speaker 4: and then two around Christmas and news where I just
Speaker 4: don't even look at an email or joke.
Speaker 3: Just get away, I was going to say, because like,
Speaker 3: I'm married with kids, who've got a seven year old
Speaker 3: just turned seven year old and a nearly five year old,
Speaker 3: and I found I would have been about six months ago.
Speaker 3: I was having real burnout, much like Simiths here, because
Speaker 3: I just was and given myself any time. I almost
Speaker 3: felt like I didn't deserve the time, which is kind
Speaker 3: of like Smith's in this episode. I don't know why
Speaker 3: I felt that way, but whenever I would take time
Speaker 3: for myself, I would feel guilty. I would think I
Speaker 3: should be mowing the lawns, I should be folding the washing,
Speaker 3: I should be doing.
Speaker 1: This house chaw.
Speaker 3: And I couldn't relax. Even when I was having down time,
Speaker 3: I couldn't relax. But now I sort of go, no,
Speaker 3: you know, one day a week, just or even for
Speaker 3: a morning a week, just go do something, Go for
Speaker 3: a walk, go play a game of golf, go do something.
Speaker 3: And yeah, so much better for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're in the era of optimization. Yeah, where if
Speaker 1: you're not making the most of every second, you've just
Speaker 1: you've wasted it.
Speaker 4: So yeah, and then you see you have a scroll
Speaker 4: on Instagram there's some guy absolutely ripped. He's like, I
Speaker 4: was up at four point thirty this morning, I've had
Speaker 4: a workout, two workouts already, and avocado on toast and
Speaker 4: I'm gonna.
Speaker 3: Why can't you do this?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 1: Probably because I'm not making ten k a month hustling
Speaker 1: the hustle broke lifestyle jumps.
Speaker 3: Do you find it easy to switch off from comedy
Speaker 3: or is it just always there, always thinking of gags?
Speaker 3: Are able to sort of just turn it off.
Speaker 4: Much better now, it's good. Yeah, that's come with time,
Speaker 4: for sure. I used to not at all. Used to
Speaker 4: always be I'd wake up and put a note in
Speaker 4: my phone at you know, two am, just stuff like that.
Speaker 4: And yeah, just as I said, it just got too much,
Speaker 4: so much better now where I'll just leave the phone
Speaker 4: and laptop in the bedroom and just you know, get away,
Speaker 4: get away from it. Sundays generally, because there's not really
Speaker 4: many comedy clubs on a Sunday night. Sundays generally is
Speaker 4: a day where you clear, okay, yeah, just switch off
Speaker 4: and and you don't have to think about it, look
Speaker 4: at emails or anything.
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Speaker 3: What do you like with when you're writing a new gag?
Speaker 3: How much do you try and perfect it before you
Speaker 3: start testing it with people?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 4: You kind I kind of write it a couple of times,
Speaker 4: just pat in a pen, and I'll generally just go
Speaker 4: straight to stage with it as so long as it's
Speaker 4: got something in there that you can see that's a
Speaker 4: beginning middle in a punchline, I'll go straight to and
Speaker 4: open mic, you know, in front of twelve people on
Speaker 4: a Monday night, and and just give it a run,
Speaker 4: because the more you say it out loud, the better
Speaker 4: it it forms. And then you kind of rewrite it again,
Speaker 4: maybe after five tries, and it's you think of your
Speaker 4: little tags, and so some people like to write and
Speaker 4: write and write till it's pretty much ready, but I
Speaker 4: like to just maybe write it out as it comes
Speaker 4: out and then start trying it, and you do it
Speaker 4: that way, and then by the side of the tenth
Speaker 4: go and the maybe the fourth rewrite, it's pretty much
Speaker 4: locked in you get at it.
Speaker 3: That's probably a much better approach as well, because if
Speaker 3: you think you've perfected a gag and then you test
Speaker 3: it and it bombs, it would probably hit your ego
Speaker 3: a bit, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, got to get it up on its feet
Speaker 1: and let it breathe a bit.
Speaker 3: Do do you find many egos in comedy? You kind
Speaker 3: of have to have an ego. But do you find
Speaker 3: many in the Australian scene naming names? But do you
Speaker 3: find you come across some ego sometimes but you want
Speaker 3: a few.
Speaker 4: There's a few, for sure, but it wouldn't be It
Speaker 4: wouldn't be as many as you think.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4: It's generally like a pretty even though it's cut throat
Speaker 4: and everyone's gunning for similar things, it's pretty. It's a
Speaker 4: pretty nice industry. There's not too many massive egos, you know.
Speaker 4: I feel like the time of the ego, especially in
Speaker 4: I've noticed it in music and comedy. Those days are
Speaker 4: a bit numbered for people with the big egos. Now
Speaker 4: you kind of just sort of have to be a
Speaker 4: decent you know, and.
Speaker 3: It just person Yeah, yeah, I just feel like the.
Speaker 4: Days of the divas and the idiots are a on.
Speaker 4: Like if you if you met you know, say you
Speaker 4: wrote down the five biggest names in Australian comedy and
Speaker 4: you met them, that you would find them all quite nice.
Speaker 4: I think you'd find It's not really an industry where
Speaker 4: you can have a big a go and be a
Speaker 4: prick because you get weeded out, you lose work because
Speaker 4: of it. Because there's someone as good as as there's
Speaker 4: someone that can you know, do your job right, there
Speaker 4: probably five people that can do that.
Speaker 2: Job for you.
Speaker 4: You can't really afford to be a prick and lose it,
Speaker 4: so most people kind of Yeah, I think there's be
Speaker 4: people that come into the scene with an ego and
Speaker 4: can be a bit of a jerk and they find
Speaker 4: out soon that you just can't survive that way.
Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned balancing act before, and I think that's
Speaker 1: probably going to be vital because I mean, you're going
Speaker 1: to have to have some degree of ego in terms
Speaker 1: of backing yourself and having confidence in yourself to be
Speaker 1: able to get up on stage to day I'm going
Speaker 1: to make you laugh. Motherfucker, we don't say motherfucker, but
Speaker 1: or unless it Bernie mac. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: you can't let it sort of become your whole personality.
Speaker 4: Yes, turn it on and turn it off. There's yeah,
Speaker 4: there's definitely a different when you're on stage. You can
Speaker 4: create a confident persona and sometimes even like an ego
Speaker 4: or be a prick on stage and that's what works
Speaker 4: for you. But the people you see on stage that
Speaker 4: you think do you say like harsh, or you probably
Speaker 4: chatter them off stage and they're just quite normal and nice.
Speaker 3: How important is using language during comedy for having an
Speaker 3: effective punchline or whatnot? I know, because sometimes you know,
Speaker 3: some communists just don't want to swear at all, but
Speaker 3: some do. Like do you find it helps you with punchlines?
Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't specifically right like you know, F bombs or
Speaker 4: you know, I never really say so, Bob, I. I
Speaker 4: don't actually write them down on paper. They just personally,
Speaker 4: they just come with how I'm feeling. If I'm a
Speaker 4: bit ranty or angry at something, that probably they come
Speaker 4: out a bit more. If I'm just sort of setting
Speaker 4: up a punchline that's just about spiders or you know,
Speaker 4: they don't come. It's just it's interesting. I think if
Speaker 4: you force it and you write them down and you
Speaker 4: put them in there thinking that that's going to get
Speaker 4: you a laugh, maybe it doesn't work as well. That's
Speaker 4: definitely for me. Yeah, I've definitely noticed. There's been times
Speaker 4: where early days, if you're a bit nervous, you say
Speaker 4: if this and if that, but after about five minutes,
Speaker 4: like God in your head, you're like God, I'm saying
Speaker 4: that a lot. I need to stop saying.
Speaker 3: It of yourself aware you're obviously saying it a lot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, but over time you just kind of get Now,
Speaker 4: I know when to say it, and I don't really
Speaker 4: think I'm saying it. I planned, sorry that I planned
Speaker 4: to say it. It just sort of comes out in
Speaker 4: the moment. And I think if I did so you
Speaker 4: recorded the same ten minutes set three nights in a row,
Speaker 4: I think that'd be F bombs at different times, and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: it wouldn't be the same sort of timings on the
Speaker 4: F bombs.
Speaker 3: You've got kids, right, one, Yeah, a little boy.
Speaker 1: One kid.
Speaker 3: So do you find now you've got to train yourself
Speaker 3: not to swear. So maybe when you're doing your comedy
Speaker 3: that's just sort of your way of just getting it
Speaker 3: all out, because I find I swear a lot, but
Speaker 3: when the kids around, I'm going to try and control
Speaker 3: myself and hold it in, And then when the kids
Speaker 3: arend around, I'm just like, you know, I just sort
Speaker 3: of it just comes out naturally without even realized.
Speaker 2: To be honest, I think I swear the same around
Speaker 2: my son. To be honest, I did.
Speaker 3: I didn't till my wife slapped me across the back
Speaker 3: of the head, and I learned I had to try
Speaker 3: and stop that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you'll be like if it was very organic.
Speaker 1: I mean not to spoil anything from a little Ossie that,
Speaker 1: but when you're sort of talking about Cody from foot Locker, yeah,
Speaker 1: and what you wish for him in the future, it's
Speaker 1: like that feels like it's only the game completely off.
Speaker 1: The cut off the cup felt completely natural. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: loved it.
Speaker 2: Sometimes you just yeah, you're feeling it. My favorite.
Speaker 3: All right, did we have any favorite moments from this episode?
Speaker 3: I know you did, guy, Yeah, absolutely, shall I got
Speaker 3: go first.
Speaker 1: I think we're all very much relaying to Homer in
Speaker 1: this and as I mentioned before about you know, thrust
Speaker 1: into a position of responsibility that you had just unsuited
Speaker 1: for the bit where he says to Burns, can you
Speaker 1: repeat the part of the stuff where you talked about
Speaker 1: all the things. It's like, that's me at so many jobs?
Speaker 3: Was the thing. I hope it wasn't stupid. In this episode,
Speaker 3: he was very actually very relatable. He was trying. It's
Speaker 3: just sometimes you just can't do the job.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, that's around when he sticks his head
Speaker 4: out the window and as Smithers is leaving and yeah,
Speaker 4: well yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what are I do in case of five?
Speaker 1: That's it, And you get a great callback later on
Speaker 1: with that when he's actually making breakfast and everything's on
Speaker 1: the past. By the way, you see that his dedication
Speaker 1: to duty. When he actually shows up to make breakfast
Speaker 1: that first day. I think that's the first time I've
Speaker 1: ever seen Homer in long sleeves. Yeah, maybe in a
Speaker 1: long sleeve shirt, because normally he's got the unless he's
Speaker 1: at church or whatnot. Yeah, but you normally got the Sipowitz.
Speaker 1: He's got the got the short short seat shirt. But
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, he's gone up in the world. He's
Speaker 1: gone pro Look a lot of my stuff is home. Really,
Speaker 1: it's all these great lines that would feel perfectly suited
Speaker 1: to any classic sitcom. I mean they're almost sort of
Speaker 1: like vaudeville gags or just you know, classic old time
Speaker 1: stand up gags. And then the bit where it's like
Speaker 1: reading the paper and you know how my stock's doing
Speaker 1: they or one or what are your options? What about
Speaker 1: my options? We can either get up or go and
Speaker 1: make you slept. Oh my god, that you used to
Speaker 1: hear the rim shot in your head. But yeah, it's fantastic.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Dana's going to want to talk about the cube.
Speaker 3: We've got together.
Speaker 1: We'll all talk about the cube, because that's just that's
Speaker 1: gold standard joke telling.
Speaker 3: As far as the fact that Burns when the phone rings,
Speaker 3: is it about my cube? Like you believe it. He's
Speaker 3: accepted as fate and just a great visual.
Speaker 1: Gag in this as well. When yeah, Smithers had been
Speaker 1: fired and like, well, any any big corporation is going
Speaker 1: to be happy to get a guy like Smithers. I
Speaker 1: think he's going to go work for At and t No,
Speaker 1: he's going to work for Neat and Tody Piano movies.
Speaker 1: That's just a really spot on visual gag as far
Speaker 1: as I'm concerned. So, yeah, he's my favorites, but there's
Speaker 1: going to be more to talk about as we go through.
Speaker 1: I'm sure.
Speaker 3: Did you have any particular favorites, Daniel, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Just to touch on the when Homer gets up to
Speaker 4: go to cook the breakfast for Burns and he gets
Speaker 4: up at four thirty and march es it's four thirty.
Speaker 4: Little Rascals doesn't start till six.
Speaker 3: It's beautiful I'm so glad you said that, because I
Speaker 3: love that as well. It just reminds me of getting
Speaker 3: up earlier to watch you know that the start of
Speaker 3: Cheese TV or as Aerobics or whatever.
Speaker 4: Watch Little Rascals is just brilliantly. I really like the start,
Speaker 4: the start at the drag the drag race. Burns plays
Speaker 4: for them all the staff to have a day out
Speaker 4: at the drag races at the speedway. And yeah, he's
Speaker 4: drinking beer from a tea span. A smith is feeding
Speaker 4: Burns beer from a tea spoon, and he's he's given
Speaker 4: me no bars, nothing's happening. Better grab the tables.
Speaker 1: Not feeling younger or funky.
Speaker 4: And he gets the car and he gets the cars
Speaker 4: to slow down as well, because that you can't he
Speaker 4: can't see them.
Speaker 3: And I just love Homer for no reason. It's not
Speaker 3: of an acknowledge. He's just got a big giant novelty
Speaker 3: hat on. All right, let's get into some trivia, shall we.
Speaker 3: Why did you have any more favorite moments than you.
Speaker 2: There would be there was?
Speaker 4: I really I really liked when Homer knocks out mister Burns.
Speaker 3: So believable, isn't it just like you would you would
Speaker 3: want to.
Speaker 4: Do that from being so frustrated being bossed around. And
Speaker 4: he runs home and then it cuts to Smithers. He's
Speaker 4: driving a speedboat and he can sensors that something's not right.
Speaker 1: It's like ob one and Luke Yeah yeah, and the.
Speaker 4: Speedboat and then you see the pyramid of dude, pyramid
Speaker 4: of cars in swimsuits high up behind him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's brilliant.
Speaker 3: I really liked on Hope we got home. He just
Speaker 3: slams the door and just cowers in the corner. Marg's like, you, okay,
Speaker 3: something wrong? Except except that was a really sweet moment
Speaker 3: as well. I mean it's great when your partner or
Speaker 3: your wife or it were just sort of well, it's
Speaker 3: clearly there's something wrong, but.
Speaker 1: Just gradually teasing and was like, except, yeah, it's sort
Speaker 1: of been fantiizing, but at the same times, like sometimes
Speaker 1: you don't need that from your partner. Yeah, exactly. Next question,
Speaker 1: you there eating the paste?
Speaker 3: Okay, trivia time. My first question for you all is
Speaker 3: why is dared Devil Lance Murdock in the hospital. The
Speaker 3: Speedways a fundraiser for him. He's got something wrong with him.
Speaker 3: Oh good, it's cirrhosis of the Liver Liver and Homers.
Speaker 2: Who when they announced it over there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's one of my favorites as well, just the
Speaker 1: the announcer of the speedway, just putting everything everything every there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it three times, three times, three times.
Speaker 3: Smithers cutting it down later on. That's already he hustling.
Speaker 3: Your first question, my first question. We're back at the speedway.
Speaker 3: There's a brand of malt liquor advertised on the side
Speaker 3: of one of the hot rods. What brand of malt
Speaker 3: liquor is it?
Speaker 1: I've got no.
Speaker 2: Idea, me neither. I remember seeing the logo.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's Kingpin King molt Lecker. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: good advertising. I think you saw Laramie cigarettes on the
Speaker 1: side of one of them. Yeah, there was king Ping
Speaker 1: malt liquor.
Speaker 3: Alright, how old is mister Burns's mother?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, one hundred and twenty four.
Speaker 3: Oh close on hundred and twenty two. Good guess twenty two. Yeah,
Speaker 3: she's one hundred and twenty two. Try and sound more desecrated.
Speaker 2: They say he's one hundred and four in that episode.
Speaker 3: One hundred and four. Yeah, he's They're very fluid with
Speaker 3: his age, like it's always changing. But One of the
Speaker 3: things about this episode was that gave Bill and Josh,
Speaker 3: because they're big fans of old Timey Burns, he gave
Speaker 3: them a chance to really showcase just you know, a
Speaker 3: hoy hoy answer the phone. Just things like that showcase
Speaker 3: and the fact that she had the affair with President
Speaker 3: hate to believe it was. Who was a president from
Speaker 3: nineteen o nine to thirteen, Yeah, that.
Speaker 1: Was president that old. My next question to you is
Speaker 1: how many times did the phone ring before for it
Speaker 1: picked up?
Speaker 2: Oh, I know, I know, I think forty eight, wasn't it?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Forty eight is correct? Right, all right.
Speaker 3: My final question is how many names appeared on the
Speaker 3: list when Smithers was doing the search engine trying to
Speaker 3: find a replacement.
Speaker 2: It's like five or six? Was it?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Seven hundred and fourteen.
Speaker 1: Because what he initially okay, typing incompetent seven hundred fourteen,
Speaker 1: anybody adds all the others lean with obs Yeah, seven
Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen.
Speaker 3: I thought that was a really clever way of just
Speaker 3: because of course Home is going to be the one
Speaker 3: getting chosen. It's just like, oh the hell with this,
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna go Homer Simpsons. It's just an easy crutch,
Speaker 3: but it works well.
Speaker 4: I love when Homer gets the job and it cuts
Speaker 4: to him sitting at the dinner table.
Speaker 2: He says.
Speaker 4: Everyone has to work. Everybody says they have to work
Speaker 4: harder when I'm around.
Speaker 2: That's why I got.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's one of the old time of old timing quotes.
Speaker 3: That one is there, for sure. It's not one of
Speaker 3: the ones of the inspirational post is yet on the
Speaker 3: Simpsons know that's one of the top tier Homer quotes.
Speaker 3: But all right, So this episode originally aired February twenty fifth,
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety sixty top three films at the US box
Speaker 3: office when this episode aired. Number three was Muppet Treasure Island. Now,
Speaker 3: I'm a obsessed, die hard Muppet fan, love the Muppets
Speaker 3: as a kid. I've never seen MupE Treasure Island one.
Speaker 1: It's got Tim Curry. Tim Curry has long John Silver
Speaker 1: or something. I don't know why I.
Speaker 3: Missed it, but I just never and I've never gone
Speaker 3: back to revisit it. It's always it's in my Disney
Speaker 3: Plus watch list. I just haven't watched it yet. But yeah,
Speaker 3: my pet Treasure Island was number three. Number two was
Speaker 3: Broken Arrow with Travolta and Christian Slave Christian Slator, which
Speaker 3: is a fine nineteen nineties action flick. It was a
Speaker 3: bit bit wacky, but ill do I mean? And number
Speaker 3: one was Rumble in the Bronx, which I had no
Speaker 3: idea what it was. But this guy here, he knows
Speaker 3: everything about movies. So tell us Rumble in the Bronx.
Speaker 3: It's Jackie Chair. Yeah, I looked it up. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: his first break it's his breakthrough film, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he tried to break into the US market after
Speaker 1: being just a huge star in Hong Kong for so
Speaker 1: many years. And they you know, he was in the
Speaker 1: Cannonball Run with Burt Reynolds and Roger Moore back in
Speaker 1: the early eighties, and he was in some other some
Speaker 1: other action movie set in New York, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they were. The nineties was a real push to
Speaker 1: sort of bring Asian action cinema into the US. And yeah,
Speaker 1: so they gave Jackie another another shot. This is pre
Speaker 1: Rush Hour that it was done with that with Chris Tucker.
Speaker 2: So what year was it again?
Speaker 3: It was ninety six, twenty fifth, ninety six.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But the funny thing is called Rumbling the Bronx.
Speaker 1: And it is clearly Vancouver Canton. It looks nothing like
Speaker 1: the Bronze.
Speaker 3: So is it a dubbed film?
Speaker 1: No, like it's so it's made in America. And yeah
Speaker 1: Jackie he had a decent enough for a grasp of English.
Speaker 3: Yeah it wasn't English dubbed.
Speaker 1: No no, no, no, it's yeah a US maybe North American movie.
Speaker 1: But with Jackie channels to the start off.
Speaker 3: Okay, so everyone's speaking English, they are, okay, Yeah, becuse apparently.
Speaker 1: It was a huge success.
Speaker 4: Yeah, right, I can't believe that ninety period, that nineties
Speaker 4: period had so many of the greatest films of all time.
Speaker 4: And when I haven't heard of or seen any of
Speaker 4: those three films.
Speaker 3: I hadn't seen brokesit. This man here, he is the
Speaker 3: movie guy, right, he knows everything about movies. He's just
Speaker 3: that he reviewed movies for a living for what twenty
Speaker 3: five years?
Speaker 1: That right?
Speaker 3: So he said, he always says, no, he knows. I
Speaker 3: love nineties action flicks, you know, like Connair's and face
Speaker 3: offs and that kind of stuff. Right, That's why I
Speaker 3: always say that the Aussie nineties, Australian summer double Headed
Speaker 3: was always face off in Connair every summer. You got
Speaker 3: it on Channel seven. But I had no idea about
Speaker 3: films like Broken Arrow and whatnot, and he always recommends
Speaker 3: him and I had never heard of it either. But yeah,
Speaker 3: it's if you like Conna Air and Face Off, you're
Speaker 3: gonna love Broken Arrow. It's just that kind of that
Speaker 3: kind of genre.
Speaker 2: Right, what year was last Boy Scout?
Speaker 1: That's ninety one.
Speaker 3: I believe that feels like mid nineties to me, but
Speaker 3: it was a lot earlier. But what's your favorite genre
Speaker 3: of film, Daniel? Is it?
Speaker 5: Like?
Speaker 3: Is it that kind of nineties action fleet?
Speaker 1: I did what's your called that?
Speaker 2: When? Yeah? Back then.
Speaker 4: If I go to a film now, I really like
Speaker 4: things that are true stories made into films like drama. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I really like the I just recently watched the Jordan
Speaker 4: the Nike film.
Speaker 2: Yeah, movie movies.
Speaker 4: Like that, the true stories adapted into what was the
Speaker 4: other one?
Speaker 1: The always Moneyball?
Speaker 4: Moneyball is great, I always I always forget the name,
Speaker 4: but the one with Richard Jewel, I really like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, movies, it's called Richard Jewels.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yes, there's one coming out that you might like.
Speaker 3: It's got I think Chane Tatum is the start, right,
Speaker 3: the guy that broke out of prison in hides and
Speaker 3: a Toys r Us store or something roof.
Speaker 1: Many Rob McDonald's franchises.
Speaker 3: Used to used to hide out in the toilets in
Speaker 3: McDonald's and then when they opened up the store, he'd
Speaker 3: come out and rob them. But he was really nice
Speaker 3: about it. He just put them in there in the
Speaker 3: cool room and said just stay here, you'll be fine.
Speaker 3: It's going to take some money, and he'd leave and
Speaker 3: he became like the McDonald's feet. And then he broke
Speaker 3: out of prison and hit in a roof of a
Speaker 3: Toys r Us for like how long?
Speaker 1: Oh, a long time. Yeah, But he's always like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put you in the in the cool room.
Speaker 1: Layer up. Okay, he didn't bring a jacket. Okay, you
Speaker 1: can add by jacket.
Speaker 3: But yeah, that movie is coming out, and that's the
Speaker 3: kind of film you probably like, ye man, Yeah, check
Speaker 3: that out alrighty. This episode was written by John Swatswild
Speaker 3: and one of the most iconic Simpsons writers of all time.
Speaker 3: Directed by Steven Dean Moore as well. No chalk gag,
Speaker 3: but this one has the couch gag, with the Simpsons
Speaker 3: are driving to the couch in their little mini cars
Speaker 3: and they're wearing fezzsa. Do you know about these guys,
Speaker 3: I mean about fezzs?
Speaker 1: No, well, what they're doing here? This is a This
Speaker 1: is a group called the Shriners. Okay, yeah, it's sort
Speaker 1: of like a bit like an offshoot of the Freemasons. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but because I saw and I'm like, this looks familiar
Speaker 1: to me for some reason. I mean, it's not just
Speaker 1: sort of like a circus kind of thing, but yeah,
Speaker 1: circus vibes. Yeah. But Shriner's International describes itself this is
Speaker 1: from Wikipedia, which is we all know one hundredercent accurate,
Speaker 1: describes itself as a global fraternity. Quote based on fun,
Speaker 1: fellowship and the Masonic principles of broadly love, relief and truth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but apparently they will have you know when parades were
Speaker 1: a thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I miss parades.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't really happen as much as these, but
Speaker 1: the Shriners would get be there and they've been in
Speaker 1: these little cars and to be wearing their fazzes. So yeah,
Speaker 1: so this is a shout out to the Shriners. Whether
Speaker 1: Schwartzwelder was actually a member of the brotherhood or who knows,
Speaker 1: or just a fun visual gag.
Speaker 3: Why don't we have parades anymore? Just people just don't
Speaker 3: want to go outside and wait and watch things. Or
Speaker 3: what is.
Speaker 2: It probably to do with costs?
Speaker 1: Surely, yeah, it's always be costs money, yes, and that's
Speaker 1: what where's the optimization in a you could be you know,
Speaker 1: you know, he could be doing some push ups.
Speaker 3: But Burns welcomes all the employers to the drag racing
Speaker 3: event that he is fully paid for. That's one of
Speaker 3: the downfalls the guests of not working for somebody now,
Speaker 3: like doing podcasting full time, is the Christmas parties. He's
Speaker 3: getting all expenses paid for stuff. Yeah, but even Smithers,
Speaker 3: you know, he has to want the crowd by using
Speaker 3: the microphone, and he has to read from que cards
Speaker 3: even waiting for his name. My name is Anti burn
Speaker 3: So it's basically he's just just setting up here that
Speaker 3: he's ubsterutly hopeless. He needs Smithers for absolutely everything. Homers
Speaker 3: sitting there with his novelty hat. Marge is just really
Speaker 3: excited to be there. She did it out of the house,
Speaker 3: but she she misses the race completely because she's too
Speaker 3: busy talking about being a hot mamma.
Speaker 1: But a hot rod Mom, Mama. Yeah, it's always very
Speaker 1: sweet when Marge is trying to, you know, use the
Speaker 1: kid's lingo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it never works. But Smithers is giving Burns as
Speaker 3: you're saying earlier, Daniel, he's duff beer by the tea spoon.
Speaker 3: He doesn't feel in the younger funky, so he pumps
Speaker 3: it up to the tablespoon. Now it's time for the
Speaker 3: power plant Championship, so he gets Smithers to get his bioculars. Now,
Speaker 3: what are bioculars compared to binoculars? Is it just the wit?
Speaker 3: He says, get my bioculars.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing just an early version of binoculars. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they struck me as that kind of thing that rich
Speaker 1: old ladies would use it the opera.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's little things like that. Yeah yeah, but Burns
Speaker 3: demands that go slower so he can keep up. And yeah,
Speaker 3: they go really slow. The what do they call that?
Speaker 3: The parish parachute. Parachute doesn't even go off. Now everyone's leaving.
Speaker 3: Burns has his novelty foam hand, but he's not a
Speaker 3: fan of the size of it, so he demands Shiller's
Speaker 3: go get a smaller one.
Speaker 1: It's a bit ostentatious.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Spillers goes together, and this is where we
Speaker 3: get a really iconic Lenny moment. Lenny's one of my
Speaker 3: favorite sub characters. But he rocks up and he just
Speaker 3: wants to He sn't do anything wrong. He wants to
Speaker 3: thank Burns had a great time. Granted, his breath smells
Speaker 3: of beer, bread, but he just wants to say thank you.
Speaker 3: Give him a big thumbs up, you know, Race Smolshindy,
Speaker 3: thank you very much. And he's just terrified of him,
Speaker 3: isn't he.
Speaker 1: Well that's a great thing about Christmas parties as well, though,
Speaker 1: I mean, well, the great and terrible thing about Christmas
Speaker 1: part is everybody he gets a few drinks in. It's
Speaker 1: the great disinhibitor and democratize. It's like, you may be anyway,
Speaker 1: yeah one hundred times when I'm earning.
Speaker 3: But yeah, just a guy meet.
Speaker 1: And then you've got no job. But I've seen this
Speaker 1: happen more than once. You know, at Christmas parties, whenever
Speaker 1: you get a few drinks in, you get a little
Speaker 1: merry and you realize, yeah, just.
Speaker 2: A guy, I'm just a guy.
Speaker 3: And you get to work the next day and do
Speaker 3: you have any Christmas party stories, Daniel.
Speaker 4: I remember being I had a job in health insurance
Speaker 4: when I moved to Melbourne to chase comedy, and I was, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I was working in call centers and things, and we
Speaker 4: had a Christmas party where the boss by the end
Speaker 4: of the night had his shirt off and was whipping
Speaker 4: around his like a button up shirt all his full
Speaker 4: chest exposed, dancing and stuff.
Speaker 1: Was was he a brother or was he was he
Speaker 1: an offer?
Speaker 2: It was uncharacteristic, Yeah, it was definitely. It was definitely
Speaker 2: alcohol that did the job.
Speaker 4: But yeah, everybody liked him enough that it wasn't It
Speaker 4: wasn't a big deal. I'm sure he would have I'm
Speaker 4: sure he would have got some you know talking to
Speaker 4: the next day from the higher ups. But we all, yeah,
Speaker 4: it was always you know, the running not an HR violation.
Speaker 4: Today probably be a bit more frown upon. That's going
Speaker 4: back twelve or thirteen years, but it got referenced a
Speaker 4: lot after that.
Speaker 3: Working in a call center is as mundane mundane as
Speaker 3: it seems.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, especially in health insurance too, where people are
Speaker 4: calling with serious you know, it's some of the things
Speaker 4: you have to talk about. Sad it wasn't the most
Speaker 4: enjoyable job.
Speaker 1: Not a great inspiration for your comedy routine.
Speaker 2: Then no, no, I didn't get a lot of gags
Speaker 2: out of it.
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Speaker 3: so he's terrified by Lenny. Here, Lenny's doing ebolite, nothing wrong,
Speaker 3: Smithers arrives, Oh my god, and he will get the
Speaker 3: big Lenny thumbs up. I'm not sure if you're very
Speaker 3: much over the Simpsons meme groups, but the Lenny thumbs
Speaker 3: up is a gift and a screenshirt that gets used
Speaker 3: all the time.
Speaker 1: Hey, Brodie, this was some swell.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't they thank.
Speaker 1: You very much?
Speaker 3: Smither is what's happening on right time?
Speaker 2: I just want to share your han.
Speaker 6: Smithers doesn't seem as funny to men?
Speaker 1: What way now Smithers?
Speaker 6: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: I just love Lenny. Who do you think is one
Speaker 3: of some of your favorite side characters? Daniel like Lenny?
Speaker 3: For me just seems like if anyone asked me, who
Speaker 3: do you think you would be friends with? It just
Speaker 3: feels like Lenny's the go to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Lenny and Carl.
Speaker 4: You want to know there, You want to know how
Speaker 4: they live and what's going on behind the scenes. I
Speaker 4: can't remember any specific. Was there many Lenny centric episodes
Speaker 4: where it's where he's.
Speaker 3: Not Lenny centric episodes? There was sort of you know
Speaker 3: that in the opening act. They sometimes have many plots
Speaker 3: that set up the main plot. Sometimes you got ones
Speaker 3: like that. But the recurring gig for Lenny now or
Speaker 3: was during the post Golden ear, was that I can't
Speaker 3: get things in his eye, so you get things that
Speaker 3: always be getting in his eye. And then we had
Speaker 3: the big please don't tell people how I live, which
Speaker 3: is when he's just squatting in the house at March
Speaker 3: trying to say stuff like that. But he never really
Speaker 3: had a Lenny episode up until like on What season
Speaker 3: twenty one. Now we still haven't really had a Lenny episode,
Speaker 3: have we?
Speaker 1: Not really? I mean part of the story, but not
Speaker 1: a Lenny episode. I think there was the one I
Speaker 1: remember where it was he was sort of responsible for
Speaker 1: the inciting incident where I think everyone came over to
Speaker 1: new TV, have a new TV, which was a big
Speaker 1: step up from you know, I don't tell anyone how
Speaker 1: I live now. The guy's got a flat screen plasma.
Speaker 1: Nice work, Lenny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I would say, yeah, Lenny, probably a Snake.
Speaker 2: I would say it would be a favor.
Speaker 1: Really Yeah.
Speaker 4: I really like Snake. And I also really liked Oh
Speaker 4: the Girl. You know he's oh, you.
Speaker 2: Know another one that I loved.
Speaker 4: He I don't think he's in many episodes, but you'll
Speaker 4: know him for sure, Yes.
Speaker 2: That guy, Yes, Ma, And then I think Spanish. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I always love that guy when he popped up because
Speaker 2: he's just still.
Speaker 3: Like one of those characters that because that's Dan, the
Speaker 3: voice of Homer Dan castleing, it s feels like one
Speaker 3: of those things that he just improvising one day that's gone, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that is so good by turning that into a character.
Speaker 2: He looks like such a dodgy guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Oh, there was a I think it was Jack Benny,
Speaker 1: who was like a fairly famous American comedian who actually
Speaker 1: used that as a bit of a catch RaSE. You
Speaker 1: that's great.
Speaker 3: I love it, yes, But but Burns is terrified on
Speaker 3: the way home. He should have sard the murderous look
Speaker 3: in his eyes. Breath smelled of a ricked of beer
Speaker 3: and pretzel bread, and Smithers blamed himself because I should
Speaker 3: never have left you alone. But Burns, I don't love that.
Speaker 3: Burn just has a mace ready to go, just read
Speaker 3: it to hit somebody. He says, I'll never forgive myself.
Speaker 3: And he says never never, never, bangs his head. Burns
Speaker 3: has had enough, puts the little mirror wall thing up
Speaker 3: in the middle of the of the limo, and he
Speaker 3: calls me up from the phone, keeps continue saying never, never, never.
Speaker 3: So we're just sort of they're setting up here that.
Speaker 3: I don't think Burns truly appreciates everything Smithers does for him.
Speaker 3: That's the thing, Like he just it's just Smithers just
Speaker 3: does it. It's just expected, like it's just not really acknowledged.
Speaker 3: It's just this is all done for me. And that's
Speaker 3: just part of life, but it's not really how it
Speaker 3: should be. But then Smithers is trying to grovel. The
Speaker 3: following morning, He's alphabetized his breakfast. You can start with
Speaker 3: the waffles and work your way up to the swipe back. Now,
Speaker 3: what is a swie back? I looked it up and
Speaker 3: it just looks like some form of bread thing.
Speaker 1: It's like a biscottie. It's like a It's a very
Speaker 1: over kind of biscuit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right then, yeah, I just love that alphabetizer
Speaker 3: from W t Z. He's also leminaded the newspaper, but
Speaker 3: unfortunately Burns can't do the junior jumble now. So Smithers
Speaker 3: has had enough. He says I'm not worth living anymore,
Speaker 3: attempts to drown himself in the water tank, and Burns
Speaker 3: is just light your drama. Queen empties it out. He
Speaker 3: says Smithers needs a vacation, but he says, no, without you,
Speaker 3: I'll wither and die. And he says, what's risk I'm
Speaker 3: willing to take. You must take a vacation as soon
Speaker 3: as you find a replacement for me.
Speaker 1: I love Smithers just saying I can't even grobble properly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but this is where Smithers looking at replacements once
Speaker 3: who went out shine him. He looks up incompetent seven
Speaker 3: hundred and fourteen names. You can narrow it down to lousy, clumsy,
Speaker 3: dim witted, monstrously ugly. He'll get seven hundred and fourteen names.
Speaker 3: So he says this, I'll just go get Homer Simpson.
Speaker 2: I think Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills.
Speaker 6: Everyone always says they have to work a lot harder
Speaker 6: when I'm around.
Speaker 7: You know, Dad, is this thing, mister Burns could give
Speaker 7: your career a real shut in the arm.
Speaker 1: You know, Homer assisting mister Burns could give you a.
Speaker 7: Career real shut in the arm. Just said that, say,
Speaker 7: next time, get.
Speaker 1: Your own dome Harsh to Margins episode I've never really
Speaker 1: got that joke.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't really go anywhere, does it. It just
Speaker 3: sort of mean for the sake of mean. But Homer's
Speaker 3: not paying any attention to Smithers when he is running
Speaker 3: through all of the various jobs, the twenty one hundred
Speaker 3: various jobs that he has to do, So he says,
Speaker 3: you you're gonna be answering the phone preparing his tax
Speaker 3: return moistening his eyeballs, sitting with his chewing and swallowing,
Speaker 3: lying to Congress, and some light typing, and I just
Speaker 3: love it. But when he's going through all these tasks,
Speaker 3: he fixes one of the frames, like straights up. It's like,
Speaker 3: even when he's going through all these things, he's always on.
Speaker 3: He can't switch off. He's always fixing something, making sure
Speaker 3: it's perfect for Burns. Then the phone rings and it
Speaker 3: is mister Burns's mum and home. He can't believe she's loved.
Speaker 1: What do it means?
Speaker 3: Must be a hundred million years old. She has limited capacities.
Speaker 3: All she can do is dial and yell. So he
Speaker 3: says that Monty is an important meeting, he can't be disturbed,
Speaker 3: But he's actually just asleep in his office. He just
Speaker 3: can't talk to her ever since he shed that affair
Speaker 3: with President Taft. And yeah, you old dog, yes, as
Speaker 3: I was saying earlier nineteen nineteen, nineteen thirteen, just showcasing
Speaker 3: how old Burns is.
Speaker 2: It's great that I love that scene there where he
Speaker 2: can't speak. He's in a meeting.
Speaker 4: That shows him at his desk and he's falling asleep, yes,
Speaker 4: and then waking himself up. But when he wakes up,
Speaker 4: he gets he's angry, he goes back, he goes back
Speaker 4: to factory setting, and then falls asleep again, then wakes
Speaker 4: up angry, wakes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're little details that when you're a kid watching,
Speaker 3: they're just, you know, straight you're not paying attention to that.
Speaker 3: I think it's just I think when you keep watching
Speaker 3: episodes like this, it's just Homer silly.
Speaker 1: That's that's the gag. But the older you get, you
Speaker 1: just really.
Speaker 3: Appreciate everything that's going into the writing of this show.
Speaker 3: It's fantastic Burns.
Speaker 1: And you almost pick up on him subliminately. Like I
Speaker 1: was saying before, you know, if you're watching this as
Speaker 1: a kid, you know, and you're seeing it on repeat
Speaker 1: as well, because ten will often sort of recycle these ever.
Speaker 3: Six pm week nights.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd just be like just sort of catching it
Speaker 1: out of the corner of your eye or something, and
Speaker 1: the next thing you know, it's your favorite gag. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And as you're saying, the older you get, your
Speaker 3: watch episodes and there's jokes that you have probab watched
Speaker 3: a thousand times but you've never actually realized. And then
Speaker 3: it's It's almost like the penny finally drops and you go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's been there as well. I love that you can
Speaker 3: watch The Simpsons thirty years later and still find jokes
Speaker 3: that you never realized all this time. But Smithers is
Speaker 3: now leaving for the airport. Homer doesn't know twenty seven
Speaker 3: hundred of the new duties. Out of the twenty hundred,
Speaker 3: so which one is giving you the most trouble?
Speaker 1: What do I do?
Speaker 3: In case of fire? Smithers can't hear? He leaves, turns around,
Speaker 3: Burns his office is just on fire. That's just and
Speaker 3: that's the kind of gag you can only really do
Speaker 3: in an animated series.
Speaker 1: It's so good.
Speaker 3: But I do love that when we come back from commercial,
Speaker 3: Over is putting out the fire, Burns and says, oh, Smithers,
Speaker 3: you look atrocious. He's already forgotten that that Homer is
Speaker 3: his is his replacement, and he orders his lunch. He
Speaker 3: wants a single pillow of shredded wheat, steam toast, and
Speaker 3: a Dodo egg. Tries to explain to Burns that is extinct.
Speaker 3: I love that even Homer is smart enough to know
Speaker 3: that the Dodo doesn't exist anymore, you know, It's almost
Speaker 3: like Burns just everything that's happened posts like nineteen twenty
Speaker 3: just never doesn't exist in his mind.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of thing that happens. If you get
Speaker 1: a few more miles, you get a bit of a
Speaker 1: shut off point where it's like, Okay, this is where
Speaker 1: music peaked. Anything me on, this is guard They don't
Speaker 1: care about Sabrina Carpon or Grazie Abrams. They don't exist.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he Burns is of an age where it's like, well,
Speaker 1: when you know, when I was a young man and viral,
Speaker 1: you know, Dodo Eggs were all the go. So clearly
Speaker 1: there's still a big thing.
Speaker 3: What age Daniel were you were you realized you weren't
Speaker 3: with it anymore? Ah, in terms of like it happened
Speaker 3: to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the last couple of years, I reckon.
Speaker 3: Yeah for me as well. Yeah, I just turned thirty seven,
Speaker 3: and my kids are sort of like, can we watch
Speaker 3: keepop in the Demon Hunters? And I'm like, I have
Speaker 3: no idea what you're talking about. Yeah, but yeah, I'm
Speaker 3: just I'm I'm out of touch.
Speaker 1: It's called ke pop Demon Hunters or whatever.
Speaker 4: I've written a couple of new gags recently about losing
Speaker 4: touch and having conversation with my niece and she's twenty
Speaker 4: two and she's yeah, she said, stop capping your crash
Speaker 4: out if you don't slurp on the uptake or something
Speaker 4: like that, and I was just like, she's had a stroke.
Speaker 2: What's happened there?
Speaker 3: This does not compute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so I just can't.
Speaker 3: I just what does that mean?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was scared to ask.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Daniel, you've got your old man hat on.
Speaker 1: And I put my old man hat on for a
Speaker 1: moment because I've got no problem with the kids having
Speaker 1: the slang try to speak, but I do not like
Speaker 1: when existing terms are repurposed to mean something completely different.
Speaker 2: Though.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're crashing out, you having a nap exactly,
Speaker 1: or you're like, I'm exhausted, I'm going to crash out.
Speaker 1: When the kids using it's kind of like, oh I'm
Speaker 1: fired up, I'm angry about something.
Speaker 2: Losing it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's yeah, it doesn't make sense. Yeah, I'm sure
Speaker 3: our parents were saying the same thing when we were
Speaker 3: growing up in the ninety zero.
Speaker 2: A legend or has always been a legend, though, you.
Speaker 3: Know how often though, do you find songs from your
Speaker 3: childhood that you love? And then because I now hate
Speaker 3: it when new songs repurpose songs from my childhood, right, No,
Speaker 3: I know the original, but I used to love songs
Speaker 3: when I was a kid that was repurpose from when
Speaker 3: my mum and dad were kids as well. That's what
Speaker 3: I really Oh, I'm just becoming my mum and dad.
Speaker 3: Now I've just been getting old.
Speaker 1: I'll show my aage when it's is it the kid
Speaker 1: rock song? And it starts off with the riff from
Speaker 1: Sweet Home Alaba? Yeah, and you think, oh, man, I'm
Speaker 1: getting some skinnered fantastic film. A sudden kid Rock kicks
Speaker 1: its love with the fuck.
Speaker 3: But Homer wakes here. He wakes up at four point
Speaker 3: thirty and you can't put his pants on. He's just
Speaker 3: too tired. March says, yeah, Little Rustle doesn't start.
Speaker 1: Till sixty yet.
Speaker 3: What were the shows that you used to get up
Speaker 3: early for? You were excited if you wake up early
Speaker 3: and you're like, oh, yes, I'm going to be able
Speaker 3: to watch this. For some reason, I don't know what
Speaker 3: it was, but when I was a kid, I would
Speaker 3: wake up I knew it was really early, if like
Speaker 3: Thunderbirds were still on TV. Like Thunderbirds just seemed.
Speaker 1: To be the show that always got repeated really early
Speaker 1: in the.
Speaker 2: Morning, super early. And he Man. I loved he Man
Speaker 2: in the Morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah cool.
Speaker 4: And you know on Saturday mornings before I used to
Speaker 4: play footy and you get up, it's still dark and
Speaker 4: I'd watch the replay of It's a Knockout from the
Speaker 4: night before.
Speaker 2: Oh really, It's a.
Speaker 4: Knockout would be on it. Yeah, six o'clock, six or
Speaker 4: seven o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I have a good memory from when I
Speaker 3: was a kid. You never agros Cardo connection the show, Yeah,
Speaker 3: of course. Yeah, So I loved that when I was
Speaker 3: a kid. But there was a Bill and Ted animated series.
Speaker 3: I only had one season, but I loved it when
Speaker 3: I was a kid. But it was always the first
Speaker 3: cart too who and they would put on it like
Speaker 3: six am or whatever, and it was just too early
Speaker 3: for me when I was a little kid. So my
Speaker 3: dad used to before you go for recorded for me.
Speaker 3: So one of my favorite memories of a kid as
Speaker 3: a kid was getting up and seeing him pushing stop
Speaker 3: and then rewinding back to the start and watching the
Speaker 3: show that my dad had taped for me on It
Speaker 3: was almost like a little thing we had before he
Speaker 3: went to work, used to pick record and made sure
Speaker 3: that I got to see my bill in takes.
Speaker 1: It was too early for me. That's his love language.
Speaker 3: Ah yeah, but yeah. So Homer attempts to make breakfast
Speaker 3: here and everything catches on fire.
Speaker 1: I just loved that.
Speaker 3: The first two makes sense. You know, the stove, you know.
Speaker 3: Then he splashes the microwave on fire, corn flakes.
Speaker 1: Fire.
Speaker 2: Just combust as well, No.
Speaker 3: Exactly, yes, but it gives up. So he enters with lard,
Speaker 3: lad doughnuts and burns here. I don't like ethnic food,
Speaker 3: he asked. This is where he asked how he's stock
Speaker 3: did and yeah, you're touching his earlier fantastic is what
Speaker 3: are my options? So great? Isn't it?
Speaker 1: You can get up, we can go back to slip
Speaker 1: just a little livery of it. That's just uh, absolute
Speaker 1: gold metal stuff from Dan say.
Speaker 3: He has to scrub the layer of dead skin off
Speaker 3: and then he puts the fangs in. I love the
Speaker 3: burnd just sits there and waits for the waits for
Speaker 3: the mouth to be closed. It's everything done for him.
Speaker 1: The bit I love though, is when he yeah, you
Speaker 1: hear Burns saying yep, get that layer of dead skin off.
Speaker 1: Just hear the ho yes, just so grossed out. So
Speaker 1: he calls Simpson from his office, you know, Simpson Simpson
Speaker 1: Homss just doesn't hear it or he's just obliviou.
Speaker 3: So he realized he has to get up and go
Speaker 3: talk to him, and he asked if he got the
Speaker 3: report from the accounting department, and he gives just basically
Speaker 3: gives him the out office message.
Speaker 1: Doesn't he.
Speaker 3: Clearly called him outside of work hours. So scrunches that
Speaker 3: up and puts it into the bin. Then we get
Speaker 3: the which I think for me is like the moment
Speaker 3: of the episode is the cube moment. Oh yeah, you
Speaker 3: have thirty minutes move your car. Your car's being empowdered.
Speaker 3: Your car's been crashing into a cube. You have thirty
Speaker 3: minutes to move your cube. Phone rings? Is it about
Speaker 3: my cube? Again? Like Home is trying at least right, Oh,
Speaker 3: Like he's dumb, but he's trying. That's what you gotta
Speaker 3: love about it. You know. I always said to my
Speaker 3: kids at school, I'm like, I don't care if you
Speaker 3: don't do well. As long as you're trying. If you're
Speaker 3: trying and failing, fail, right, But don't go to school
Speaker 3: and not try. I know how old is your son? Yeah,
Speaker 3: so you'd be at school. Now what grade one?
Speaker 2: I know he's next year, I know, big prep right, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's in one year ago.
Speaker 3: I'm still in kinderes. You haven't got the school part yet. Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is he reading and writing yet?
Speaker 1: Maybe?
Speaker 3: Just learning to read and write.
Speaker 2: Writing is pretty good. Readings getting there?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Man, everything changes when they can read and they
Speaker 3: can spell. So you know, you know how you sometimes
Speaker 3: you want to say stuff that kids that I don't
Speaker 3: know to know, so you spell it out. Once that's
Speaker 3: out the window, it's like now we've got no more,
Speaker 3: we've got no Morse code. We can't talk anymore. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the kids now are taking advantage of home. Or before that, though,
Speaker 3: we get Smithers calling, is this, we get the forty
Speaker 3: eight rings?
Speaker 1: No, that's a bit later.
Speaker 3: I know he's just that's coming up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: First of all this cause I did love the first
Speaker 3: visual is that Smithers still can't switch off. He's there
Speaker 3: with his suitcase, in his suit in his worksuit on
Speaker 3: this island resort.
Speaker 2: That's right, yeah, volleyball, yeah exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 3: He's like, do you want to FedEx your mail to me?
Speaker 3: I'll open it and return it to him. And it's
Speaker 3: like no, no, it's all right. This is home is
Speaker 3: getting dumbed by the minute, and Homer walks off sad.
Speaker 3: So it's affecting Homer here.
Speaker 1: This isn't when he's in the he's on the payphone
Speaker 1: next to the dance floor. No, that's not.
Speaker 3: That's when. That's when he's lowered his guard a bit
Speaker 3: and he is.
Speaker 1: In the congo line.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep, yeah. So the kids are now taking advantage
Speaker 3: of Homer. He's tired. They asked him to do his homework,
Speaker 3: take get a right to the library. Marge's like, you
Speaker 3: need to relax, but he's not. You know, I can't
Speaker 3: do that. So she says Simpson, lie down, so as burns.
Speaker 3: So he lays down. Then we hear the giant bell ringing.
Speaker 3: Well it sounds like a giant bell, but it's just
Speaker 3: a little bell from his bed, and he says, the
Speaker 3: phone's ringing. Answer it, and this is where we get
Speaker 3: the forty eight rings. Is everything okay?
Speaker 1: He says.
Speaker 3: The Homer is an absolute buffoon. But he says, you
Speaker 3: want lots of picks when you return. And this is
Speaker 3: I think it's very important here. I did have this
Speaker 3: in my notes at the start, that usually we get
Speaker 3: the Smithers is gay for Burns gags, right, and we
Speaker 3: didn't get any of that here. We get the Smithers's
Speaker 3: gay gags, which is what we get here because he
Speaker 3: goes photo taking isn't allowed in this particular resort. But
Speaker 3: we don't get.
Speaker 1: Also, they're playing Relaxed by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, which
Speaker 1: is scientifically proven to be the gayest song ever put.
Speaker 3: To, you know, recorded, but we don't get. But we
Speaker 3: don't get Smithers is gay for Burns here because that no, no,
Speaker 3: they always feel weird those gags to me anyway.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean I think there was a gag
Speaker 1: on thirty Rock when one of the writers, Frank was
Speaker 1: kind of like there was some delivery guy who used
Speaker 1: to come around. He's like, yeah, I think I think
Speaker 1: I'm gay for this guy, and he's like, I'm not gay,
Speaker 1: I'm just gay for Jamie. Yeah, And that's the thing
Speaker 1: I think that, Yeah, for a long time was like Smithers.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if his sexuality. He's just got this
Speaker 1: infatuation with mister Burns, is like, no, Smithers likes dudes.
Speaker 3: But then Homer arrives the next day, just before he
Speaker 3: walks in, his sort of shutters, So it's now clearly
Speaker 3: affecting him, and we just get a montage here of
Speaker 3: Burns ranting at him. So sixty watts, what do you
Speaker 3: think this is a tanning salon? You want a light
Speaker 3: stanch on his nightcap?
Speaker 1: Posted?
Speaker 3: You call this a tax return, you call this a supercomputer,
Speaker 3: just sort of throwing everything, throwing things at Homer. Eventually
Speaker 3: Homer just loses it and punches him out.
Speaker 1: Nice little gag about Burns being old. You mentioned post them, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which is a brand of caffeine, a powdered caffeine free
Speaker 1: roasted grain beverage which sounds delightful. Invented by c to
Speaker 1: be posted in eighteen ninety five as a healthier alternative
Speaker 1: to coffee. Yeah, no, would have been all the rage.
Speaker 1: You know when Monty's coming.
Speaker 3: Up, Well, this episode aired ninety six, they're technically saying
Speaker 3: that he was born in what eighteen ninety two? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: so that that don't make sense. All stuff from his child. Well,
Speaker 3: that's all only stuff you can remember. But yes, we're Burns.
Speaker 3: He's he hits Burns, worries and and runs home.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd honestly forgotten about the punch to the face.
Speaker 1: I thought it was just like he pushed it. He
Speaker 1: would have pushed him over all.
Speaker 3: In no, no, he labors him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an absolute Yeah.
Speaker 3: If you watched it for the first time, you'd be like, shit,
Speaker 3: I killed well, especially.
Speaker 1: Because yeah, Burns has been presented as so old and frails.
Speaker 1: How a good right cross of the face is just
Speaker 1: gonna take the way out. Who is there something wrong?
Speaker 3: Homey? No?
Speaker 2: Accept accept I killed mister Burds.
Speaker 1: What happened? Dad?
Speaker 2: By Bunch, Burns writ in his one hundred and four
Speaker 2: year old face.
Speaker 7: Are you sure he's dead?
Speaker 1: Maybe he just really really heard it?
Speaker 7: Okay, maybe everything's all right. Maybe if you go apologize,
Speaker 7: he won't even fire you if he's alive.
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Speaker 3: Slash four finger discount. Homer goes back, and I love it,
Speaker 3: just it was just the use of sound here. So
Speaker 3: he opens the door. You can't see anything, and you
Speaker 3: just hear the heavy breathing of Burns, just worried, and
Speaker 3: you see him carrying in the corner behind the pop plant.
Speaker 3: He says he can't, you know, he can't stand another
Speaker 3: another beating. He's like, don't, I'll help you. Let me
Speaker 3: put some salt on that eye. So so he calls
Speaker 3: he tries to call Smithers. And this is a great
Speaker 3: sort of callback to a running gag throughout The Simpsons,
Speaker 3: which is the Bart prank calls to Mow. So he
Speaker 3: tries to call Smithers by dialing the numbers in this
Speaker 3: in the order of Smithers. He calls most taving I
Speaker 3: want a mister Smithers first name Whelon, and Moe goes
Speaker 3: on his rant. So this is where Burns panics, hangs
Speaker 3: up the Phone's like Smithers, where are you? And we
Speaker 3: get the you're talking about where he's driving to speed,
Speaker 3: but mister Burns needs me, and all the dudes fall
Speaker 3: to the boat.
Speaker 1: Smithers, by the way, I love Mo's line about yeah,
Speaker 1: when he's getting all fired up the bag in this
Speaker 1: brank phone call, ripping his eyes out, putting and shoving
Speaker 1: him down his pants so he can see me kick
Speaker 1: his ass.
Speaker 3: Yes, but this is where we we have. Homer Burs
Speaker 3: are scared in the office. He doesn't want to leave
Speaker 3: in case home's out there. He puts the mirror under
Speaker 3: the door. Home is there, and he says, look, you're
Speaker 3: going to make your coffee. So no, no, no, the percolations
Speaker 3: are eminent. I'm making my own coffee, sees you ingress.
Speaker 3: So Homer then walks off. Homan enters and it's just
Speaker 3: coffee everywhere. Burn says he stopped the beans himself, and
Speaker 3: the offers to drive Burns home, but he says, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm going to chaffee myself. He's just he's too scared
Speaker 3: of Homer. And this is where Burns realizes, Oh, doing
Speaker 3: shit for myself is actually good. I actually can do this.
Speaker 3: I don't need Smithers essentially, but Burns gets he's got
Speaker 3: a new lease on life. Now I'm actually enjoying this.
Speaker 1: Can we give a shout out to Velocitata and the
Speaker 1: salet tricks? Oh yeah, accelerator and break. I'm sorry that
Speaker 1: we used to make things in this country, as I
Speaker 1: like to say, we creative. You could say that was
Speaker 1: your cards, Like, all right, put to the floor. You
Speaker 1: know I'm really hitting the vocitator.
Speaker 3: Yes, so he says he's making an incredible time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's where he hits nearly hits Wigham.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, nice drive, mister B. That's a nice well,
Speaker 3: that's a sort of it is that a callback is
Speaker 3: mother Simpson after all before this episode, because we established
Speaker 3: in the episode when my Homer's mum comes that Wigham
Speaker 3: used to work for Burns. Remember, Oh that's right, that's why,
Speaker 3: that's why he refers to as mister B. Mister B.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So the next morning, Burns has already shrewted the environmental
Speaker 3: reports and thrown him out the window. He offers Homer
Speaker 3: his own cappucino. He knows how to make cappucino. He
Speaker 3: has the phone and a hoy hoy. That's one of
Speaker 3: my favorite Burns is ever just a hoy, hoy. It's
Speaker 3: just apparently that's what they is.
Speaker 1: A bell Alexander Graham bell. Yeah, that's how we suggested,
Speaker 1: do you answer the phone?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's like, he said hello, that's that was the
Speaker 3: original hello. That's what the suggestion was. That's and that's
Speaker 3: where the gay comes from.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So so that he says, this is five two four six.
Speaker 3: He's got the wrong number anyway. So then he says, Homer,
Speaker 3: you've done more for me than any other man on
Speaker 3: this planet. Your brutal attack forced me to look after myself.
Speaker 3: You know, being weighted on hand and foot is fine,
Speaker 3: but you average Joe. But it's not for me. And
Speaker 3: this is where he thanks him, and Smithers walks in
Speaker 3: and sees Burns cuddling Homer saying thank you, and he
Speaker 3: thinks everything's wrong. He says, well now he send him
Speaker 3: back to his job. He says, you heard the man, Simpson,
Speaker 3: and Smithers, you're not in it at all. You're fired.
Speaker 3: You shouldn't have gone away on vacation. That is a
Speaker 3: setup for a gag later on with the you really
Speaker 3: blew it this but Brad dinner and Homer he feels remorseful.
Speaker 3: He feels sad that he's the reason that Smithers has
Speaker 3: got fired. And we can be kind of a sad
Speaker 3: March moment again here, and he's like, imagine Margin if
Speaker 3: you got fired from those things that you do. And
Speaker 3: but it's like quickman, move up a cake before dad fires. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there's levels to that gag. It's actually really sad that
Speaker 3: all I think margin is worth worth is cooking.
Speaker 4: But anyway, there's a couple of great I love the
Speaker 4: I think there's two or three moments in this episode
Speaker 4: where Smithers does the oh my god, like he he
Speaker 4: drops something in panics. He drops his bag and it's
Speaker 4: just got four pineapples in it.
Speaker 1: But pineapples.
Speaker 3: That's what it's just about to say.
Speaker 1: What crates on a little visual bit of a bit
Speaker 1: of business. I brought to some pineapples.
Speaker 3: So but Lisa here says.
Speaker 1: That Smith's is a go get. He'll get a new job.
Speaker 3: I mean think it's at eighteen t But now as
Speaker 3: you're saying it's neat and tidy piano movers, he's gonna
Speaker 3: need to steal ride now to where his spine was.
Speaker 3: He's never gonna be able to move pianos again, and
Speaker 3: now call back to the opening act with the with
Speaker 3: the drag racing with the voice of a guy at
Speaker 3: Smith as he is trying to do it. Do we
Speaker 3: need all these mayhems? We do well? I suppose you
Speaker 3: know your businesses, got ready.
Speaker 6: For ex signing, corner action at the Springfield dragstrip, get
Speaker 6: a motorized mayhem, mayhem, mayhem. We need all those mayhems?
Speaker 3: We do all right.
Speaker 1: I suppose you know your business.
Speaker 6: Get ready for fun, fun fun. People are already here.
Speaker 6: We don't need to keep hustling them like this, do we?
Speaker 3: He let go of me.
Speaker 1: Where are you froming?
Speaker 3: Then he asked for the job at Mos, which is
Speaker 3: the Barney guarding job, because when they do the midnight delivery,
Speaker 3: someone needs to distract Barney. He says, well, I was
Speaker 3: way outside until it's time, and Bunnet looks for to
Speaker 3: working with him. Then Homer He's like, no, I'm going
Speaker 3: to put a stop to this. He says, no. You
Speaker 3: can take the Barney guarding job, like many of us
Speaker 3: have contemplated in our darkest moments, or you can admit
Speaker 3: to yourself that there's only one person makes you happy
Speaker 3: and you're gonna do whatever it takes to get them back,
Speaker 3: and he agrees to do that. Oh this is where
Speaker 3: we get another Oh my god, I love God here.
Speaker 3: But when he realizes that Barney is not at his
Speaker 3: seat and we don't see anything, we just hear Barney
Speaker 3: just wrecking shit outside.
Speaker 2: He's so happy.
Speaker 3: Yes, he's so so happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But if you watch most most emotions here, like you
Speaker 3: just he's going through like seven different motions of you know, sadness,
Speaker 3: Terror's terrified, what's going to happen? It's just it's so great.
Speaker 1: My favorite bit in that though, it's like when Homer
Speaker 1: is giving Smithers that pep talk and talks about you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can take the job that so many have contemplated
Speaker 1: in our darkest hours. I bet we've all got that
Speaker 1: sort of rock bottom job. It's kind of like if
Speaker 1: nothing else works out, I'm sure I can go do this,
Speaker 1: but I'll know that like nothing else is panned out
Speaker 1: of my life. But okay, this will you know, keep
Speaker 1: the lights on and you keep the wolf from the door.
Speaker 3: Now, you were saying, as you know, pull back the curtain,
Speaker 3: Cameron d a new battery. You were saying whilst we're
Speaker 3: doing that that you have to fact check in correctly.
Speaker 3: Do you want to settle the score here about Jack Benny?
Speaker 1: Okay, then yes we should. We should put a little
Speaker 1: respect on the name of one Frank Nelson. Who is that,
Speaker 1: you may ask. He's the gentleman who said yes on
Speaker 1: there on the Jack Benny Show. That's apparently all Frank did.
Speaker 1: Look Frank probably was a really sweet guy who did
Speaker 1: ride by his family in his community. But yeah, he
Speaker 1: is best known for saying.
Speaker 3: You, if you can get a gig like that, though
Speaker 3: your set right?
Speaker 1: Oh god?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Like just yeah catchphrase guy, catchphrase guy. We hit our share.
Speaker 1: We haven't been able to monetize it. We have many
Speaker 1: T shirts.
Speaker 4: I had the yes guy's face as my Facebook profile
Speaker 4: picture for about ten years.
Speaker 2: Why are you talking like that?
Speaker 1: I had a straw.
Speaker 3: I feel like he's also one of those characters to
Speaker 3: where I think maybe memes now is more popular, but
Speaker 3: say like ten years ago, before memes were a big thing.
Speaker 3: He's one of those Simpsons characters where if you know,
Speaker 3: you know, so, it's like, oh, I know the yes guys, like,
Speaker 3: oh yeah, we were on the same wavelengthy young, how.
Speaker 2: Many search you reckon. He's in maybe half a dozen.
Speaker 3: Less I'm up to now, maybe maybe ten all up,
Speaker 3: I'd say, I know, he just he's usually just like
Speaker 3: that the guy that greets you at the door of
Speaker 3: a restaurant or something.
Speaker 1: And a fancy restaurant, you know, he's the dorman at
Speaker 1: Costington's or something like that.
Speaker 3: You were saying before that you like Old Gill as well,
Speaker 3: and a lot of people love Old Gill. Old Gill
Speaker 3: actually came into the show when Phil Hartman was taken
Speaker 3: from us because he voiced Lionel Huts and Troy McClure,
Speaker 3: and it was almost like Old Gill took over from.
Speaker 1: Lionel Hearts because Lonel Huts was sort of like that,
Speaker 1: we need a pathetic punching back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's Old Gil. But what is it about
Speaker 3: Old Gill that you like?
Speaker 4: I just I think every time he comes on, you know,
Speaker 4: he's it's failing. So there's times where there's times where
Speaker 4: whatever scheme he's got going is working, and but you know,
Speaker 4: deep down at the end is near.
Speaker 3: For it's going to screw it up.
Speaker 2: Just how he talked this time, old girl go, then
Speaker 2: it's finally.
Speaker 1: Yeah, have you ever seen a movie called Glen Garry
Speaker 1: Glenn Ross. Have you ever heard of this one?
Speaker 2: I've heard there's a play on it at the moment,
Speaker 2: isn't there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's a really famous play and it was
Speaker 1: turned into a movie and and there's really all star
Speaker 1: cast at Albercino, Alec Baldwin, Hiven Spacey. But but Jack
Speaker 1: Lemon is playing this character who's like this old real
Speaker 1: estate salesman who's a bit pass it but still you know,
Speaker 1: still in their punching. And that's very much what Gill
Speaker 1: is based on. It even down to the look. But
Speaker 1: he's kind of like, you know, can't really make a sale.
Speaker 1: And by the end he's actually thought he's made this
Speaker 1: killer sale and he's sort of walking around all puffed up,
Speaker 1: and it turns out that it's these people just like
Speaker 1: to talk to realists. You haven't sold them ship. And
Speaker 1: he's gone, oh no, yeah, that's what Gill's based on. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's kind of why I like him as well. Just
Speaker 1: can't buy a break, this dude.
Speaker 3: But we're back at the power plant and Smithers is
Speaker 3: they've got a plan. Now. They're going to call mister
Speaker 3: Burns's mum and put him through, and then Smith's gonna
Speaker 3: come in and save the day. But of course Homer
Speaker 3: screws it up, so he calls missus Burns first. I'll
Speaker 3: give him what foruntill he cries brassa facts. I google
Speaker 3: brassa facts, not a thing.
Speaker 1: I think it's just an old time word from the
Speaker 1: mind of Swartzwelder.
Speaker 6: That what. Hello, missus Burns, this is Whalen Smithers. I
Speaker 6: have your son Montgomery on the line.
Speaker 1: That improvident lack witch.
Speaker 7: Oh it's too busy striding about his adam mill to
Speaker 7: call his own mother.
Speaker 1: I'll give him.
Speaker 6: What force till he cries brassa frax perfect When I
Speaker 6: give this signal, you transfer They called them, mister Burns.
Speaker 6: After she tears into him, I'll rush in and save
Speaker 6: the day.
Speaker 2: Got it, I'm transferring a calling to you, mister Burns.
Speaker 1: Lely, Hello, mister Burns, this.
Speaker 3: Is your mother.
Speaker 1: Oh hello meet.
Speaker 2: Sorry about pulling the plug and you and all who
Speaker 2: could have known you'd pull through and live for another
Speaker 2: five decades.
Speaker 3: Quick on his feet, pretends to be Missus Burns. Not
Speaker 3: good at all.
Speaker 1: This is your mother. She doesn't call her some mister book.
Speaker 3: But basically it all goes to ship. Burns walks out,
Speaker 3: catches them and new Smithers, you put him up to it.
Speaker 3: I'm glad I fired you, and you really blew it
Speaker 3: this time, Smithers, and that's where the fight sequence breaks out.
Speaker 3: Apparently they didn't. They thought it was going to be
Speaker 3: too harsh to hear the sound effects of them punching
Speaker 3: each other, so they hit it amongst the groans, so
Speaker 3: you actually hear the punch. You just hear the ow
Speaker 3: ow ow as opposed to the sound of a punch.
Speaker 3: But I do like when Smithers gets his hand stuck
Speaker 3: in home a stomach and hope it just like hits
Speaker 3: him in the head, playing with him. Burns tries to
Speaker 3: stop them with all the poking in the water and whatnot.
Speaker 3: And I just love Psmith's meeting him with the phone,
Speaker 3: but also saying it's very young, yes, yeah, and then
Speaker 3: I'll teach you how to use a phone. And then
Speaker 3: Burns climbs onto the big Polar Bear, which I think
Speaker 3: up to this point it's always been a part of
Speaker 3: Burns's office, but never really acknowledged. And finally he Burns
Speaker 3: is climbing into the Polar Bear. He opens up the
Speaker 3: safe door. Smithers does hits Homer and he falls back
Speaker 3: into the polar bear knocks Burns out the window. Oh my.
Speaker 3: Then we cut to Smither's feeding Burns. Here comes the endangered.
Speaker 1: Condor into the power lines. Egg eats is either an
Speaker 1: extinct or endangered species.
Speaker 3: He's got a monster, He's got bobo hot from the dryer.
Speaker 3: And make sure you know burn burn yourself on his eye? Yes,
Speaker 3: and Burns says, you know what, when you were gone,
Speaker 3: I became completely self reliant, and he gets with like
Speaker 3: a Spanish peanut, yep, take the skin off. Then he says,
Speaker 3: but that guy doesn't say homi. His name is that
Speaker 3: guy that hit me. Make sure he gets what's coming
Speaker 3: to him, And we cut to the family, all enjoying
Speaker 3: a fruit hamper courtesy of Smithers, saying thank you. What
Speaker 3: does you think? What's he thinking you for for pushing Burns.
Speaker 1: Out of her? Was it five story story window? Free
Speaker 1: story window? Did you die?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 3: Am I a doctor?
Speaker 1: And that is up?
Speaker 3: And that's a good way of getting back the status squad?
Speaker 1: Wasn't it very much? Homer's reset the factory setting, But again,
Speaker 1: I know the classic said gone got delivery of like
Speaker 1: what am I doctor?
Speaker 3: And that is the end of Homer the Smithers. Yeah,
Speaker 3: fantastic episode, and was saying early one were surprise wasn't
Speaker 3: done much earlier. I'm glad you chose it, Daniel, thinking
Speaker 3: of choosing it. But what we usually do before we
Speaker 3: wrap up, though, I would like to ask our guests,
Speaker 3: we give them the spiel of it's nineteen ninety eight,
Speaker 3: so you got the first ten seasons of the show
Speaker 3: to work with. Nineteen ninety eight. Channel ten have come
Speaker 3: to you, they said, Daniel, we want you to put
Speaker 3: together a five episode Friday night Simpsons marathon. When marathons
Speaker 3: were a big thing and we love marathons back in
Speaker 3: the day. What five episodes of the Simpsons are you going?
Speaker 2: With no particular order, we go obviously that one Home
Speaker 2: of the Smithers. I'd have that number one. A fish
Speaker 2: called Selma.
Speaker 3: Okay, we've had a few people picking that one recently.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the Troy McClure episode. Troy McClue is another
Speaker 2: character I really enjoy, just his lodginess and he's always
Speaker 2: up to no good.
Speaker 3: And that is the Troy McClure episode too. And I'm
Speaker 3: so glad we got that before Phil Hartmon passed away.
Speaker 2: But of Darkness, the one where yeah, the pool he
Speaker 2: breaks his leg and then starts Flanders is screaming's.
Speaker 3: Right to put a neat little package.
Speaker 4: When Flanders failed. Because I'm a lefty, so I love that.
Speaker 4: One always appealed.
Speaker 3: To me, was what being left handed? Was that ever
Speaker 3: represented much on TV when you were going up?
Speaker 2: I don't, I don't think. I just remember that being like,
Speaker 2: oh that's cool.
Speaker 3: Like was he like the left handed representation on TV
Speaker 3: when you were when young? Yeah, that's being a right handed.
Speaker 3: It never really was a big deal to me. I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, Flanners is left handed. But I think
Speaker 3: if like, imagine if you were left handed, it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: finally a character just like me.
Speaker 4: And Homer's Barbershop Quartet is probably one of my top Yeah,
Speaker 4: definitely one of my favorites.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I just love the Beatles fan the.
Speaker 4: Beatles, Yeah, all those references, it's just a it's just
Speaker 4: a really lovely episode that one. The songs are so
Speaker 4: good in that as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the fantastic Yeah, like maybe on Board seems
Speaker 3: like it's it's it's a joke, but it's actually a
Speaker 3: really catchy song. Maybe on board Yeah yeah. But the
Speaker 3: thing is with that episode too. When I was a kid,
Speaker 3: I really enjoyed it, but it wasn't one of my favorites.
Speaker 3: But I think getting older and becoming a real Beatles
Speaker 3: fan and understanding all the references, it's like, it's it's
Speaker 3: it's it's fantastic for a Beatles fan, it's everything you want. Alrighty, So,
Speaker 3: which which one are you going to start with? Which
Speaker 3: one would you end with? Do you think I reckon?
Speaker 4: I start with I'd finished with the quartet, and I'd
Speaker 4: start with left Hand Left handed reckon.
Speaker 3: You're the first person to not put a treost of
Speaker 3: horror in but it makes them. Yeah, so any of
Speaker 3: horrors that you did, like, you.
Speaker 4: Know, I never I never would have watched one. I
Speaker 4: couldn't tell you anything about any of them. Every time
Speaker 4: they'd start, I'd be like that.
Speaker 3: I put on.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much Daniel again for joining us
Speaker 3: here to review Home in the Smithers. I'm hopefully in
Speaker 3: the future maybe when you got your next tour coming
Speaker 3: up next year, we can get you back on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no worries. Thanks so much for having me. I'm
Speaker 4: definitely gonna start watching. When I went on to watch
Speaker 4: the last couple of days, I like, I can go
Speaker 4: back and start watching some episodes.
Speaker 3: Everyone's saying, and I feel like Disney to start giving
Speaker 3: us some credit, because every time they're like, it's some
Speaker 3: people forget the Simpsons there and they start watching, they go,
Speaker 3: you know what, I like this show, watch more of it.
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Speaker 3: All right, thanks Daniel. Here's I absolutely adore that episode
Speaker 3: Homing the Smith. There's one that I used to enjoy
Speaker 3: a lot as a kid. I hadn't revisited before this
Speaker 3: review for like I reckon ten plus years and man,
Speaker 3: what a joy.
Speaker 1: You can't see it if you're maybe we're not videotaping
Speaker 1: this particular thing, but I am indeed doing the EH thumbs.
Speaker 3: Up wheny thumbs up one of my favorite gifts.
Speaker 1: About this episode and about this episode of Four Finger
Speaker 1: discoun I thought it went very well. I think Daniel
Speaker 1: Connell is a very good addition to it.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I'm not sure this podcast work, Dan, though I
Speaker 1: don't feel any younger or funk you sh