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Speaker 2: Well, if you never forget anything, tell me this what
Speaker 2: colored tie am I wearing? You are wearing a red
Speaker 2: and white striped club tie in a half winter or not?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I am am? I is that what you think? Well,
Speaker 2: if that is what you think, I have something to
Speaker 2: tell you, something that may shock and discredit you. And
Speaker 2: that thing is as follows. I'm not wearing a tie
Speaker 2: at all.
Speaker 3: That was pretty good, Pretty good.
Speaker 1: I wasn't trying too hardy or sore throat. This is
Speaker 1: Guy on Springfield, a review of margin chains here on
Speaker 1: four Finger Discount.
Speaker 3: I'm Dan O, he is, I'm Guy on Springfield, and yes,
Speaker 3: welcome to the podcast. That is wesp quiet. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: hope that worked hurt my ears quite a lot. I
Speaker 3: didn't clip the audio too bad. Welcome to Margin Chains
Speaker 3: and Guy on Springfield. Yeah, what do you think of
Speaker 3: this episode? Just quickly, I didn't like this one as
Speaker 3: much as I've liked previous Guy on Springfield's right, there's
Speaker 3: a lot to love about the episode. There's also as
Speaker 3: a parent, now there's a lot you can relate to,
Speaker 3: particularly in that opening act. But for me, March episodes,
Speaker 3: especially when I was younger, there were never ones that
Speaker 3: I gravitated towards. There were never ones that I went oh,
Speaker 3: oh bye a March episode, right. Same with Lisa. As
Speaker 3: I get older, I've said that I, you know, find
Speaker 3: that I'm more lucky Lisa than I realized when I
Speaker 3: was younger, And that's because the writers use her as
Speaker 3: their voice, and I think I'm just getting older and
Speaker 3: becoming a middle aged man. But the other thing with
Speaker 3: March episodes is that I always found them quite boring. Now,
Speaker 3: being a someone who's lived.
Speaker 1: The stay at home dad podcast a lifestyle for the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, I can really relate to someone
Speaker 1: in Marge's position and situation and see the simplicity of
Speaker 1: her character, and I can really relate to those kind
Speaker 1: of elements that I when I was younger I thought
Speaker 1: were really boring.
Speaker 3: But now I go, hey, that's it's just like me. Okay.
Speaker 3: So essentially what you're saying is you've grown out of
Speaker 3: your hatred of and contempt for women.
Speaker 1: Not quite great out of it, Okay, getting there.
Speaker 3: Good. It's good that you're a work in progress. The
Speaker 3: reason I asked that is, I mean, I was, you know,
Speaker 3: cruising around the internet, as you know, I was cruising
Speaker 3: the I was surfing the net as the kids like
Speaker 3: to say, and found that there was a bit of
Speaker 3: disdain for this episode, certainly from a particular sort of
Speaker 3: forum and that talks about the Simpsons a lot.
Speaker 1: There was like when was this forum? Was this a
Speaker 1: recent forum? Was this one from the nineties? I don't
Speaker 1: think it was from the nineties. Okay, because there are
Speaker 1: some ones on like Simpson's Archive and things like that,
Speaker 1: we can actually go on and see what people thought
Speaker 1: of the episode when it first came out, which are
Speaker 1: really interesting to go back and read.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I'm not going to name names or throw any
Speaker 3: particular side, but they were not.
Speaker 1: They throw the review out there, then we can name
Speaker 1: names who didn't like it.
Speaker 3: It was no Homers, No.
Speaker 1: Homes's not y Yeah. Friends of the pod.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah. There was a lot of yeah
Speaker 3: talk on there about it. I didn't like this episode
Speaker 3: at all. Yeah, and for what reason? They had various reasons.
Speaker 3: I think they One of the main issues that people
Speaker 3: had was they thought that it was quite actually misogynistic,
Speaker 3: and I think they was specifically focusing on the seeming
Speaker 3: glee that our Poo and s took in taking their
Speaker 3: march with one line in particular, we can talk about
Speaker 3: a little bit later, putting the bitch on ice, the
Speaker 3: bitch on ice.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I don't see it as misogynistic because if I'm watching
Speaker 1: this and I've got a whole bit about this, I
Speaker 1: see a Pooh and Sanjay as the real vielains of
Speaker 1: this episode. They're the ones you're not supposed to like,
Speaker 1: I don't think because I think it. Poo's despicable throughout
Speaker 1: this and it's just completely ridiculous length. He's willing to
Speaker 1: take this for someone who he knows much, right, he
Speaker 1: knows so well, is one of his best customers. They
Speaker 1: granted they do have snakes steel his store, right, that's karma.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's enough calm and to justify
Speaker 1: us to not forgive approve for us to go, oh, well,
Speaker 1: at least he got what was coming to him. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's enough because you know in the next
Speaker 1: episode he's getting his store back.
Speaker 3: That's true. Now, Having said that, they do allude to
Speaker 3: the fact that the QUICKI Mart does have a pair
Speaker 3: and Company. I hope I'm not stepping on one of
Speaker 3: my trivia questions. I don't know. To counteract this claim
Speaker 3: and misogyny, I would maybe have that pair and company,
Speaker 3: like going down hard on our poo and sign Jay
Speaker 3: saying no, no prosecute, we don't negotiate with terrorists kind
Speaker 3: of deal. You need to show that, you do need
Speaker 3: to show.
Speaker 1: I know they did throw it in there because this
Speaker 1: was the first episode ever written by Bill Oakley and
Speaker 1: Josh Weinstein.
Speaker 3: That's correct.
Speaker 1: Probably my favorite showrunners in the history of The Simpsons.
Speaker 1: My peaky of the Simpsons for me personally is season
Speaker 1: seven and eight, and that's when they were in charge
Speaker 1: of the show. I just think that's when the show
Speaker 1: was at its best. This is the first one they wrote. Apparently,
Speaker 1: They're Ripped was very different to what we got in
Speaker 1: the end, which I'm going to delve in a little
Speaker 1: bit further now, Bill and Josh they did throw that
Speaker 1: they're sticklers for details, and they threw in that line
Speaker 1: about the parent company, probably for that reason to go
Speaker 1: it's not just a pooh yeah, But there wasn't enough
Speaker 1: to sort of he was going along with it weight
Speaker 1: he seemed to be enjoying it.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, No, that's what was annoying me. Way too
Speaker 3: much satisfaction in the Downfall of March. Yeah, everybody was.
Speaker 1: Everyone just jumped off the bam bag and threw under
Speaker 1: a bus, and it's like, yes, yes, she accidentally had
Speaker 1: a bottle of bourbon in her pocket.
Speaker 3: That's for me.
Speaker 1: What this is My negative of the episode was it
Speaker 1: felt a bit far fetched the lengths in which this
Speaker 1: town and the people were going to to hammer down
Speaker 1: Marge for accidentally having a bottle of bourbon in her pocket.
Speaker 1: To the point where I'm going in the in reality, right,
Speaker 1: I know, this isn't reality, it's the Simpsons, it's Springfield.
Speaker 1: But are we supposed to believe that a she would
Speaker 1: be even be found guilty, there would even be a
Speaker 1: court case? Really for this one, there's no prize, and
Speaker 1: like someone like Judge Schneider would actually send this mother
Speaker 1: of three children to prison for it. It just it
Speaker 1: just seems silly.
Speaker 3: This kind of ties into suding I want to talk about,
Speaker 3: because yeah, there's been a lot of to do about
Speaker 3: the Simpsons predicted this and the Simpsons predicted that, and
Speaker 3: this is regarded a very pressioned episode in terms of like, oh,
Speaker 3: well the ohsaka blue equals COVID nineteen or tweet twenty.
Speaker 1: This episode went viral because that people were replacing asaca
Speaker 1: flu with coronavirus. Actually, yeah, people, we've mentioned it recently
Speaker 1: a lot. People don't fact check anymore. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: news websites in particular, but just fans, you know, even
Speaker 1: just people in general, they go, oh, the Simpsons predicted it.
Speaker 1: I had so many people sending me my personal friends
Speaker 1: who don't really follow the Simpsons. They're Simpsons fans, they
Speaker 1: watch the show when they're kids, but they're not diehard
Speaker 1: Simpsons fans. They go, did you see the Simpsons predicta
Speaker 1: the coldplay thing? And I go, do I have to
Speaker 1: explain to everybody? I'm like, by the end, I was
Speaker 1: just doing the laugh react you know, I couldn't. Of course,
Speaker 1: I couldn't be bothered explaining it, And I don't want
Speaker 1: to be that guy. Go, well, actually it's actually not real.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be comic book comic book guy.
Speaker 3: No, exactly.
Speaker 1: So this one went viral because people were thinking they
Speaker 1: actually predicted coronavirus, not just a flu like actual coronavirus.
Speaker 1: Ifn it wasn't like a term in ninety three, right?
Speaker 1: But then also, what was the other thing that the
Speaker 1: killer bees as well?
Speaker 3: Was another one? Yeah, killer Bee's equal murder hornets, and
Speaker 3: the riot.
Speaker 1: At the end equals I guess the Black Lives Matter,
Speaker 1: any any uprising in the US.
Speaker 3: Yeah. What I'm thinking is the whole town turning against
Speaker 3: Marge is kind of emblematic of a town that's on
Speaker 3: the edge. It's having its nerves frayed by Oh, there's
Speaker 3: this virus going around. Everybody's sick, nobody's feeling good. Everybody's
Speaker 3: kind of on the razor's edge, you know, about to
Speaker 3: sort of snap, and the town needs escapegoat. You see it,
Speaker 3: When all these people are outside, doctor hippensaf are saying, well,
Speaker 3: you want a cure, We want to cure it's like flu,
Speaker 3: you just need bed rest. No, no, give us bos
Speaker 3: anything to be a placebo. Where can we get this
Speaker 3: with ebos? Yeah, everybody is just really tightly wound, and
Speaker 3: so when something say element to it, Look, that's maybe
Speaker 3: a stretch on my part, but that's maybe how I
Speaker 3: choose to read it. But yeah, when something goes wrong
Speaker 3: and everyone has an opportunity to go not necessarily, Oh
Speaker 3: she's the cause of other problem. Oh here's something we
Speaker 3: can focus our anger on. Here's something we can maybe
Speaker 3: all agree on, even if it's the most tenuous of reasons.
Speaker 3: So that's one way of looking at it.
Speaker 1: Certainly, I'm watching this going by the end of it.
Speaker 1: I asked myself the question, what was the point of
Speaker 1: this episode? What were they going for? Because the episode
Speaker 1: is called Margin Chains, and I feel that this episode
Speaker 1: would have been pitched as Marge goes to prison, Josh
Speaker 1: Bill go write that. Yeah, and apparently they did a
Speaker 1: lot of research.
Speaker 3: They did a lot of women in prison research. I'm
Speaker 3: wondering what that might have actually entailed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but a lot of realism to it. And maybe
Speaker 1: that explains why for an episode that's called Margin Chains
Speaker 1: and marketed as the one where Marge goes to jail.
Speaker 3: She's not in jail all that much.
Speaker 1: She doesn't get to jail till like the final six
Speaker 1: or so minutes, and even then there's barely any scenes
Speaker 1: in the prison that much. And we get introduced to
Speaker 1: characters like Phillips and Annie, but not enough substance there
Speaker 1: for us to develop any form of connection to these characters.
Speaker 1: They're just sort of there and very forgettable, to the
Speaker 1: point where I was going, should she had just even
Speaker 1: gone to prison at all in the end?
Speaker 3: Anyway? I mean, look, I'm not saying this is how
Speaker 3: you could have done it. It could have been interesting
Speaker 3: that everybody in all these women in prison are basically
Speaker 3: in prison because they've just been pushed to the edge
Speaker 3: by either having to do with dead bee dudes or
Speaker 3: life pressures or something like that.
Speaker 1: I mean, Phillips alludes to that, you know, she's got
Speaker 1: a shitty husband and that she's stared with the Phillips
Speaker 1: head screwdriver.
Speaker 3: But yeah, you're right. I mean, for the episode being
Speaker 3: titled margin chains, not a lot of chains.
Speaker 1: It's the one where Marge goes to jail. That's what
Speaker 1: it's marketed, That's what it's known for. It's the one
Speaker 1: where Marge goes to prison, but she we don't even
Speaker 1: really see her response and her having to learn to
Speaker 1: live the prison life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not it's not exactly an episode of Orange
Speaker 3: is the New Black. I mean, for all of it
Speaker 3: being called margin chains. I really view this as a
Speaker 3: line of Lart episode. Yeah, or just attribute to Phil
Speaker 3: Harmon episode because he's just got this forgrific one two
Speaker 3: punch of some great Troy McClure stuff and some really
Speaker 3: great Lionel Hut stuff. Yeah, it's not really a Marge
Speaker 3: centric episode at all. She's kind of the I guess,
Speaker 3: the catalyst for some events, but she's almost like a yeah,
Speaker 3: second or third string player.
Speaker 1: I was watching this feeling like this is actually very
Speaker 1: similar to our last guy On spoof for The Boy
Speaker 1: Who Knew Too Much. A lot of it is court
Speaker 1: case based.
Speaker 3: There we go, something.
Speaker 1: Happens in the start, we get a whole act about
Speaker 1: a court case, and then in the end it's just
Speaker 1: kind of like, eh, but other stuff happens. It's like, oh, Marge,
Speaker 1: I've cooked it. I was like, it's like the sixteen
Speaker 1: minute market. Now Marge is only fine to go into prison,
Speaker 1: and even there she doesn't seem all that bothered by it.
Speaker 1: The family's like, oh, we'll miss you. It's just I
Speaker 1: know that a kind of somewhat emotional moment in the
Speaker 1: court room, but I don't know, it just felt like
Speaker 1: it wasn't that big of a dealer, mar just being
Speaker 1: taken away for thirty days.
Speaker 3: It's not so much her going to jail as the
Speaker 3: smear on her reputation as well. I mean, yeah, the
Speaker 3: way that particularly hell and love Helen loved you, agg.
Speaker 1: I mean she is also to me, I've always seen
Speaker 1: her as a villainesque character. Oh yeah, I've never She's
Speaker 1: never had any positive traits for me, Helen love Joyce.
Speaker 1: She's not the busybody thinks she's high and mighty when
Speaker 1: really she's not at all and just gossips about everybody. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: she's not a good person, Helen love joy.
Speaker 3: No, and no sort of comic retribution for her either. No.
Speaker 1: But at the end though, when they have the statue
Speaker 1: from Margin, like the town's just like, hey, Margin is
Speaker 1: a big town, welcome back, And I'm.
Speaker 3: Like, what do you mean? I know what the hell
Speaker 3: is going on? And here's the thing. Look, I know
Speaker 3: that they've played this up for comic effect. Yea, for
Speaker 3: the whole you know, we're fifteen dollars short. Look, that
Speaker 3: gag works when it's like, oh, we're short for cinder blocks,
Speaker 3: we can't build a children's hospital. That's funny, and that
Speaker 3: works when it's we're fifteen dollars short exactly what Marge's
Speaker 3: squares would be. Like everyone's shipping a dollar, everyone head dollar.
Speaker 3: There you go your sword. I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say this episode fell off the
Speaker 1: rails when Marge went to prison, because there are some
Speaker 1: funny scenes.
Speaker 3: But I don't know. The first two thirds are really good. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the final third is like a bunch of stuff that happens.
Speaker 1: And as I read on wiki, as we're saying, they
Speaker 1: did a lot of research Bill and Josh about women
Speaker 1: in prison, but much of it was later replaced. So
Speaker 1: I'm thinking maybe this final act was their episode and
Speaker 1: it was just the rescue stretched out and they tried
Speaker 1: to cram in the good bits of what they could
Speaker 1: into that final act. But there was not enough there,
Speaker 1: There was enough. It just wasn't memorable. The final third,
Speaker 1: Oh absolutely not. It just it just felt like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is just you just trying to fill time, cramming
Speaker 1: it in. Yeah, Phillips is just not that interesting a character.
Speaker 1: Tatoo Anni is a one gag bit, like what it's
Speaker 1: just they're tough women? Is that it essentially who fall
Speaker 1: for easy lies from people at Barney There.
Speaker 3: Was clearly you've never watched a little show called Love
Speaker 3: after Locker or even Judge Judy. We saw my car
Speaker 3: in the block.
Speaker 1: But I just don't, I just don't think this episode
Speaker 1: felt a story of two halves. It felt like the
Speaker 1: court case and then it felt like quick cram in
Speaker 1: margin prison at the very end there well, not even
Speaker 1: two hards, like three thirds, because because not even the
Speaker 1: whole final act is her in prison, because you've you've
Speaker 1: got her coming back home, the kids trying to clean
Speaker 1: up the house. There's all these like she disn't in
Speaker 1: prison for like three minutes of the episode. But certainly
Speaker 1: the first third episode, maybe the first act even is
Speaker 1: just Springfield is infected with osaka flu and the town
Speaker 1: kind of starts to fall apart as a result. For mine, Actually, no,
Speaker 1: not the funniest the court case of the funniest, mainly
Speaker 1: because of the whole line of hut stuff.
Speaker 3: But I reckon that first third is that's the best part.
Speaker 1: That's pretty damn But for me, the first act feels
Speaker 1: like Golden euro Simpsons. The second act is good, it's enjoyable,
Speaker 1: but it's just not a great deal happening. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of hut stuff, right, but not a great deal happening.
Speaker 1: The final bit is just whatever it is. You know,
Speaker 1: let's wrap this up. But you can't stay in prison. No,
Speaker 1: of course that's the thing. You watch this going when
Speaker 1: she's going to get out thirty days anyway, that's what's
Speaker 1: the point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But like I was saying, I mean, yeah, it's
Speaker 3: not so much the prison sent as the tarnished reputation,
Speaker 3: and that reputation needs to be restored. By the end,
Speaker 3: it doesn't really feel like it is. It's just more like, oh,
Speaker 3: we realized, you know what a pivotal part of the community.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's not like, oh, we've cleared your record.
Speaker 3: Oh we know that you didn't steal it or something
Speaker 3: like that. I mean, you didn't necessarily need Oh look,
Speaker 3: here's some security camera footage that shows oh she was
Speaker 3: flussled or something like that, or you know. Arph says
Speaker 3: oh gosh, I think we made a mistake with that
Speaker 3: one or something like that. No, it's just she gets
Speaker 3: out of prison, like we missed you, Marge. Here's a statue,
Speaker 3: eh eh.
Speaker 1: But it needed to get Marge on the stand and
Speaker 1: have Marge explain herself, and I think that it could
Speaker 1: have been a really emotional, nice moment of her just
Speaker 1: saying I'm sorry, yeah, not hired.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not even that. Have everybody else saying, yeah, it's
Speaker 3: not necessarily amissible in court. But it's like we pushed
Speaker 3: her too hard. She was Yeah, she was the foundation.
Speaker 3: She was the rock that we were all sort of
Speaker 3: relying on.
Speaker 1: Because it feels like that's the point of this episode.
Speaker 1: The point is them trying to say, how great is March. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll break down with the systems, break breaks down without her,
Speaker 1: not even just have her family do it. Have other
Speaker 1: members of the community saying, or other female members, Marge
Speaker 1: can't go to prison because of this. She you know,
Speaker 1: her bakes, her marshmallow squares are what keep this bake
Speaker 1: sale going. Just this seems trivial, but all the little
Speaker 1: things add up, and I just think it should have
Speaker 1: been a everyone in town showing her appreciation not sending
Speaker 1: her to prison and going, oh shit, we probably shouldn't
Speaker 1: have done that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and for purely selfish reasons, because it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: well we didn't make our fifteen bucks and the ether
Speaker 3: we've fallen a bit short. No, she needed character witnesses.
Speaker 3: Yeah anyway, Yeah, but hey, look that's aspect of the episode.
Speaker 3: We weren't exactly fond of it. But I think there
Speaker 3: was plenty of that to be very very fond of them,
Speaker 3: all right.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, particularly the hut stuff in general. But I
Speaker 1: was I just don't want to touch on I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: but the relatability and being a stay at home dad
Speaker 1: and me being able to sort of relate to March
Speaker 1: more that scene where she is I'm not going to
Speaker 1: say the word breakdown having a break She's not having
Speaker 1: a breakdown in the quickie mart. But I guess it's
Speaker 1: just a case of it's the overstimulation of.
Speaker 3: Everything put it right to the edge.
Speaker 1: She is just there is so much going on at
Speaker 1: home and Springfield where everyone sick except for her, so
Speaker 1: it's up to her. It's all on her shoulders to
Speaker 1: keep the thing afloat right. And that's pretty much life here,
Speaker 1: not Nikola. She obviously helps out great deals. It's a
Speaker 1: team here. But just even as even when there's two
Speaker 1: adults in the house when the kids are sick, there
Speaker 1: is so much going on and kids want this, kids
Speaker 1: want that. The cats are hungry to the point sometimes
Speaker 1: I just sit there and go, I just need a second.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And it's so easy to understand how much
Speaker 1: she didn't steal the moment. She just she forgot that
Speaker 1: it was in her pocket. So easy to do.
Speaker 3: You've only got so much bandwidth, Yeah, I say.
Speaker 1: I compare parent life sometimes to managing a restaurant where
Speaker 1: the customers are never satisfied and you don't get paid.
Speaker 1: It's just there's always something that they complain that, they're
Speaker 1: never happy that.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: The kids are just being kids, right. They don't understand
Speaker 1: the trivial aspect of their life and how the slightest
Speaker 1: thing is like the greatest, the biggest thing in their world.
Speaker 1: But sometimes I'm just getting dinner ready in Alliot It's
Speaker 1: like I want this, and Holly's like, but he's in
Speaker 1: that and this is happening. I'm just like stimulated. So
Speaker 1: when I see marginal supermaker here, I'm like.
Speaker 3: I feel your sister. Sure, it's it's it's it's hard sometimes.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and I just thought they really really capture
Speaker 1: the the emotional stress of being a parent sometimes in
Speaker 1: that scene. Yeah, I love in the Golden Ere they
Speaker 1: do a really good job of these these visions or
Speaker 1: dream sequence. This wasn't a dream, but just just the
Speaker 1: animation and seeing all the faces everywhere, it's like the overstimulation.
Speaker 3: That's it to a t. Well, it's a very relatable
Speaker 3: show in that round. I think that's you know, part
Speaker 3: of its secret source, isn't it the fact that it's like, Okay,
Speaker 3: these are cartoon characters, but hey, they're also just like
Speaker 3: me and the simps that is worked best walks that
Speaker 3: very fine line of like I can relate to this,
Speaker 3: but it's also kind of heightened my favorite.
Speaker 1: What were your favorite moments from the episode?
Speaker 3: This episode actually has a few of my all time
Speaker 3: favorite moment just little gay You thought.
Speaker 1: One of us in this one was in the previous episode,
Speaker 1: which one was that it was something the bluehaird Lawyer says.
Speaker 3: That's correct, but it isn't this one. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: because the flute Heavilay wasn't even in the last one,
Speaker 3: but he's so confident this time around that he can
Speaker 3: waste the jury's time by rating the super Hunks. I'm
Speaker 3: sorry that that line tickled me when I first saw
Speaker 3: this episode. That tickles me to this day. I'm just
Speaker 3: holding up what is it? Magazine covers were like, who
Speaker 3: do you think is my handsome Tom Cruise or Mel Gibson.
Speaker 1: It's like, where are you going with what a nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety three statement?
Speaker 3: That one. I'm still looking pretty good for gentlemen of
Speaker 3: their age. But yeah, rating the Super Hunks is just
Speaker 3: it's just a phrase. It's entered my personal vocabulary. But
Speaker 3: another one of those. And this is also Mike Reese's
Speaker 3: favorite joke apparently, or favorite joke to date. He might
Speaker 3: have other one.
Speaker 1: Since I read that, and I was like, you guys
Speaker 1: in the audio commentaries say this so often it's lost.
Speaker 1: I was one of my favorite lines. Yeah, this is fact,
Speaker 1: And ten minutes later I was one of my favorite lines.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you guys just throw it out there like
Speaker 1: it means nothing. Fuck it, I'm sticking to my guns.
Speaker 3: This is great. Yeah, but it's Troy mcclaw saying you
Speaker 3: might remember me from such films as P is for Psycho.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry, that's fantastic. Explain why what you love so
Speaker 3: much about that? Well, it's, first of all, it's just
Speaker 3: a It's the kind of movie you can imagine someone
Speaker 3: like Troy McClure appearing in. It's like some nineteen sixty
Speaker 3: five B movie. It's like something that Rick Dalton from
Speaker 3: Once Upon a Piment Hollywood might have appeared in. But
Speaker 3: also just a great sort of P. Isn't it a word? No? No, yeah,
Speaker 3: you say psycho? It lines U where's the P in that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but P is also just the deliverer peas
Speaker 1: for a psycho, like President's neck is missing.
Speaker 3: Also not a bad gig, but peas a Psycho is
Speaker 3: just affection. Also two psycho shout outs in this episode. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: because when Marge's going to the I guess the love
Speaker 3: Joy's bathroom. That's Flanders's, sorry, the Flannders bathroom. Yeah. That
Speaker 3: whole Stands with the People is a direct lift from
Speaker 3: Alfred Hitchcock Psycho. It's beautiful. I love it.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite movies comes just before that bit
Speaker 1: there when she says I'll keep an eye on it
Speaker 1: and Flanners is like wiping his mouth. He doesn't saying
Speaker 1: this goes just not It's just a subtle knot of
Speaker 1: that's right. You fucking watch her. Flanners give me such
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Speaker 3: There's a lot that I enjoyed in this episode, so
Speaker 3: I hope I might have This takes a little while,
Speaker 3: but when the Osaka flu hits Springfield and people are
Speaker 3: getting very infected by opening boxes or whatever, I've got
Speaker 3: two that I really enjoyed, just Patting and Selma giving
Speaker 3: each other a juice loose. But when they both at
Speaker 3: just the act that was fantastic. But Wigham shooting at it, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's brilliant. And the pov of you being there. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: it just did coming out for a movie style. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 3: what was the other psycha reference? Sorry? Was that the piece?
Speaker 3: And that was the other one? Yeah? Yeah, yeah. I've
Speaker 3: always loved the image of the Osaka Floon being represented
Speaker 3: by Godzilla with just the poor good the sick crowd
Speaker 3: attacking the truck that they think has got blacebos and
Speaker 3: it turns out to be full of killer bees. One
Speaker 3: guy eats a killer but I'm curing, I mean out, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not sure how this plays thirty something years down
Speaker 3: the line. But the whole Crying Game bit.
Speaker 1: I wanted to touch on that when it came to it,
Speaker 1: But you'll do it now. That film came out in
Speaker 1: like May of ninety two, right, Yeah, it's been out
Speaker 1: for like less.
Speaker 3: Than a year.
Speaker 1: That's a big spoiler, throw in a TV.
Speaker 3: Kind of it, massive spoiler. But the Crying Game was
Speaker 3: a very big hit. Yeah, I know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if I would have been talking about imagine Yeah,
Speaker 1: And was that spoilers went really a thing back then?
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't think they were actually selling it
Speaker 3: on the don't reveal the secret of the Crying Game,
Speaker 3: but I think it would regard it as poor forms made.
Speaker 3: I saw the Crying Game. I'm going to say anything.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say anything. Just go see if you're just
Speaker 3: wait till the end. Yeah, but I've been generally everyone's
Speaker 3: sort of like that checks a dude, right, dude, So
Speaker 3: quit me to go. I mean, man, is that a
Speaker 3: good movie. But just what a great escape hatch.
Speaker 1: But the fact that he's blabbing at his rally, at
Speaker 1: his rally, I know that's fair.
Speaker 3: He just can't keep quiet about anything. But my last
Speaker 3: is at the end when when the statue of Jimmy
Speaker 3: Carter is revealed and everyone just up in arms like
Speaker 3: his history's greatest monster, which I think is a fantastic life.
Speaker 3: But why do they say that?
Speaker 1: Though al Jina said that he doesn't like him Carter, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but like, why goes to that?
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if we were in the Jimmy Carter
Speaker 3: Reclamation project yet, I think he was still regarded as
Speaker 3: a bit of a lame duck president. He had one term.
Speaker 3: Everyone goes, oh, this guy is kind of weak. He
Speaker 3: didn't really help us out with the erase hostage is
Speaker 3: a fan kind of yeah, Yeah, I mean I think
Speaker 3: they made fun of him again with George H. W.
Speaker 1: Bush That, Yeah, it was another episode where they just
Speaker 1: he's just building houses and stuff, right.
Speaker 3: Which he did. I mean, you know, he ended his
Speaker 3: presidency and he started doing stuff the Habitat for Humanity
Speaker 3: an absolute fantastic humanitarian and now was regarded as one
Speaker 3: of the you know, a really great president. Because we're
Speaker 3: coming off of all America is coming off watergates. You know,
Speaker 3: there's no faith in politicians at all. This is a
Speaker 3: pre the Reagan era, sort of the cult of personality,
Speaker 3: celebrity politician era begins with him in Earnest Carlor is
Speaker 3: kind of a placeholder, but he's also he's making the
Speaker 3: best of a really shitty situation, a terrible economy, and
Speaker 3: he's trying to sort of restore faith. But he's also
Speaker 3: he's not sugarcoating it for the Americans. He's basically saying,
Speaker 3: we're facing a Christ as a constant confidence here people.
Speaker 3: You know, you know, America is not in a good
Speaker 3: state and this is not what America wanted to hear,
Speaker 3: not what the world wanted to hear. So when Reagan
Speaker 3: comes along and says we're going to make America great again,
Speaker 3: he actually did say that. Yeah, they're all like, yeah,
Speaker 3: give us hell, Regan, Whereas you know, Carla's going like,
Speaker 3: this guy's telling us the truth and it's a bit
Speaker 3: of pill to swallow. Yeah, when he died recently, did
Speaker 3: he make it to a hundred, Jimmy Carter, I'm not
Speaker 3: sure if he did. I can look it up while
Speaker 3: you continue. I don't think you heard a bad word
Speaker 3: about him from people who mattered age one hundred. Yeahah,
Speaker 3: I think we're wow. This guy, you know, served his
Speaker 3: country both in the military and as a civil servant,
Speaker 3: as a politician, Christian, married to his married to his
Speaker 3: childhood sweetheart, or is a teenage sweetheart? Is his entire
Speaker 3: life solid? Dude? What's his speech now that? Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: not really it's on the statue. The statue says Malays forever.
Speaker 3: I think he refers to Malays at least once. But
Speaker 3: in the I think it's in that speech that I
Speaker 3: referred to.
Speaker 1: Speech apparently says known as that that's we have a.
Speaker 3: Crisis of confidence. I think that's what he's talking about.
Speaker 3: I think Malays might be in there, or at least
Speaker 3: sort of alluded to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, as a kid going who the hell is that.
Speaker 3: So, I guess you know again, as our pal Rainio
Speaker 3: wolf Castle says, that's the joke. But someone's so inoffensive
Speaker 3: is history. It's greatest monster. It's just entered my personal
Speaker 3: yeah vocabulary again, it's like history as great as Manster. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I loved so it's a prison sequence and I've touched
Speaker 1: on it in previous episodes. How I love the relationship
Speaker 1: between Homer and Marge. It's just and their sex life.
Speaker 1: Homer is saying, you know, don't want to push you
Speaker 1: into anything, you know, and Marge just pounces on you. Marge,
Speaker 1: you know, she's ready to get down.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: And there's no secret to that. Marge is always ready
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 3: And I love that they sort of lay a little
Speaker 3: bread crumb before that, you know, when Marge is a
Speaker 3: boud to go to prison and home, I'm going to
Speaker 3: miss you. And it's not just the sex. There's also
Speaker 3: the food preparation. Yeah you think stains all kinds, he's
Speaker 3: going to be the horny one. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Instead it's Yeah, that's an empowering women moment as well,
Speaker 1: because for even when I was growing up, it felt
Speaker 1: like women and sex was like, you know, only men
Speaker 1: are allowed to be down and dirty.
Speaker 3: Like it's oh, it's something that men want and women.
Speaker 1: Women are allowed to be just as loving for sex
Speaker 1: as men now, and that's that's that's that's fine.
Speaker 3: Right, that's acceptable. This is used to me.
Speaker 1: But women like seeing someone like Marge just like I
Speaker 1: want twos on you now as sure.
Speaker 3: That's great. Oh yeah, for the conjugal visit to get conjugal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, next question you there eating the.
Speaker 1: Beast trivia time. My first question for you is where
Speaker 1: does Arnie Pie in the Sky vomited onto? It's the
Speaker 1: twelfth and main, Yes, who does he vomit onto?
Speaker 3: Man al Am? My first question here because I had
Speaker 3: the twelfth and main question as well. Okay, what are
Speaker 3: Wigams demands of Marge as she exits the quickie mart.
Speaker 3: He wants.
Speaker 1: A capricorn freshener something with coconut on it? Yes, two,
Speaker 1: two cinnamon something. It's two coffees, two coffees. Okay, So
Speaker 1: my next question for you is Grandpa can't have liquids
Speaker 1: after what time? It's after three three pm?
Speaker 3: And lit it up.
Speaker 1: Apparently that's a thing where if you are known for
Speaker 1: having to go to the toilet a lot throughout the night.
Speaker 1: They say, don'tdrink liquids after three pm. Something A long
Speaker 1: time ago without water?
Speaker 3: Right, it really does.
Speaker 1: Maybe if it's like a five thirty bad time off
Speaker 1: the wheel of fortune or something.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe I'm not looking forward to my old years
Speaker 3: that that's the case. How they going, by the way,
Speaker 3: how are they going my old years? Oh? They're fine?
Speaker 3: Right again, I alluded to this earlier. What is Quickie
Speaker 3: Mart's parent company name? I've got my notes. I'm not
Speaker 3: going to check. What is it? Nord Iron Defense Dynamics.
Speaker 1: My next question for you is Lionel Huts's law firm
Speaker 1: is in between what?
Speaker 3: No bankruptcy hearings? It's between stores, I know, but I
Speaker 3: don't remember. That's the life for me, yogurt nook and
Speaker 3: gum for less, gum for less. What's his store called?
Speaker 3: What's his firm called. I can't believe it's not a
Speaker 3: law firm. I can't believe it's law.
Speaker 1: Which is the same gag they've just said. I can't
Speaker 1: believe it. Yeah, the same gag twice. But I mean
Speaker 1: obviously his story name came first.
Speaker 3: Correct. Yes, I have one more question, speaking of Lionel
Speaker 3: Huts after the case against Marge, there is a case
Speaker 3: against Lionel Huts. It is being brought by who the
Speaker 3: nash All Cancel of Churches. That's right, all right.
Speaker 1: My final question for you is how far is it
Speaker 1: to Mexico City from Springfield? Because when he is taking off,
Speaker 1: you see the sign there's Ogdeville's another one of them,
Speaker 1: maybe north Haver Books another one. I'm not too sure,
Speaker 1: but I didn't pay attention. It is six hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy eight miles.
Speaker 3: One good probably surmise where Springfield is in the United States.
Speaker 3: From that.
Speaker 1: Someone did do that on IMDb. Let's try and find
Speaker 1: that person at the time on their hands. People take
Speaker 1: that shit seriously, man, Yes, this is from doesn't say
Speaker 1: the user's name, but the wide ranging debate discussion about
Speaker 1: where in the United States the simpsons hometown of Springfield
Speaker 1: is located may have another clue. In this episode, as
Speaker 1: jail Birds Snake is towing the entire Quickie Mite building,
Speaker 1: he comments that he's taking the thing to Mexico. As
Speaker 1: he disappears down the road, a sign on the road
Speaker 1: says the distance is six hundred and seventy eight miles,
Speaker 1: roughly the distance from Brownsville at the southern tip of
Speaker 1: the Texas to the Mexican capital. Driving from anywhere else
Speaker 1: in the US would be a longer trip. So Springfield
Speaker 1: is now Brownsville. Interesting, Brownsville is a very Simpson's name.
Speaker 1: It is Brownsville. Anything else on the IMDb we didn't
Speaker 1: talk about the inmate number, of course, two four six
Speaker 1: oh one my name is. It's been on various since
Speaker 1: the episodes. Remember someone that's got a prison or whatever.
Speaker 1: That's that was Marge's inmate number. Actually, there's there's a
Speaker 1: few things here as well, but we'll touch on it
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Speaker 1: this video slash podcast. All right, mister Davis, So the
Speaker 1: original air date of Marche in Chains was May sixth,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three. Let's do the box office quickly, ninety
Speaker 1: ninety three. The crying game is ninety two. What was
Speaker 1: ninety three? May ninety three? One quick guess, that's that's
Speaker 1: your your time it is, but it was also a
Speaker 1: long time ago. Is the fugitive in there? Let's have
Speaker 1: a look, may not. If you've got that, that's a
Speaker 1: pretty good guess. May six of ninety three. So we've
Speaker 1: got indecent proposal number one, Sidekicks is number two with
Speaker 1: Chuck Norris went from number eighteen to number two. That's
Speaker 1: a big climb, right.
Speaker 3: That's the power of Chuck.
Speaker 1: It is indeed, number three is Indian Summer.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it's a very nice sort of ensemble tale
Speaker 3: of kids who went to camp together and cut and reunite.
Speaker 3: Has grown Up's got the late Bill Paxton in their
Speaker 3: Spider Man director Sam Raimi in an acting role, not
Speaker 3: a band of the movie. It's fine. There we go
Speaker 3: the top. I'm amazed that made it as high as
Speaker 3: number three in the box office.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at the US box office. In on May six,
Speaker 1: ninety three. The production code nine F two zero, written
Speaker 1: by Bill Oakley Josh Weinstein, directed by Jim Reared in
Speaker 1: the chopboor Gag, I do not have diplomatic community and
Speaker 1: the couch gaz of miniature family climbs onto a normal
Speaker 1: sized couch. So the episode kicks.
Speaker 3: Off with what I can't believe they invented it.
Speaker 1: I can't believe they invented it. Products you could only
Speaker 1: imagine before. We've got the ss microwave make creaks to them,
Speaker 1: guy laying in the pool, the doggy doorman, Good evening,
Speaker 1: Rex and the mobile. Ea, the chandelier for the car.
Speaker 3: That's pretty good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Then we get to Troy McClure, the man himself. This
Speaker 1: is a very Phil Hartman spotlight episode, this one, wasn't there? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and stars of such film as he is.
Speaker 3: For Psycho and the President's nack is missing.
Speaker 1: Now here to tell you all but the remarkable new inventions,
Speaker 1: including this one here the juice listener, which was the
Speaker 1: only way to get juice from an orange was using
Speaker 1: your eye.
Speaker 3: I mean there's another way? You love that? You mean
Speaker 3: that's the cutter home. Yeah, exactly the same thing. It's
Speaker 3: so you mean, there's a better way.
Speaker 1: So good, And then Homer can't believe it, as we said.
Speaker 1: Then he introduces doctor Nick, who is the inventor of
Speaker 1: the juice loosener toy.
Speaker 2: Would you like a glass of orange juice?
Speaker 3: I sure would?
Speaker 2: But won't we have to pay those outrageous grocery store
Speaker 2: prices for something the farmer probably spit in?
Speaker 3: Not anymore.
Speaker 1: It's such such a great infroversial Yeah, it's incredibly loud,
Speaker 1: the juice looten.
Speaker 3: No, No, it's whisper quiet. It's whisper quiet. Yeah. Then he
Speaker 3: gets you got all that it's just one drop drop
Speaker 3: of juice, one whole bag of oranges. Yeah, orderly reminded
Speaker 3: me of the Peltzer Pela juicer from Gremlins. He did
Speaker 3: other Yeah, that's right, Yeah, except that's mostly split that pulp. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's been a little more juice. But yeah, I remember
Speaker 3: the toothbrush. Oh yeah, yeah. The bathroom buddy. Yeah, the
Speaker 3: bathroom buddy. That's it. Yeah, bath room buddy. What a
Speaker 3: good movie. So then, uh do you them? Gremlin's three
Speaker 3: is apparently Gather and gain intraction. No, no, no, been
Speaker 3: reports in there in the trades going to be written
Speaker 3: and directed by Chris Columbus, who wrote the original script
Speaker 3: for the first one, will actually happen, they're talking about it.
Speaker 3: As long as the Gremlins are all computer computer generated,
Speaker 3: that'll take away some of the magic from that, I
Speaker 3: think so. But the whole match was that they were
Speaker 3: just puppets, and I think viewers and fans of the
Speaker 3: visuals would prefer if it doesn't look realistic, they sad puppets,
Speaker 3: I think. So that's the charm of it. Right, Let's
Speaker 3: see what happens. But you know, apparently they're waiting on
Speaker 3: the okay from Big Daddy Steve Spielberg to say, no,
Speaker 3: I'm happy to send this out with my name on it.
Speaker 3: Jack Gallaghan apparently said, oh it's will I need this
Speaker 3: quiet you might remember from such movies as ges for Gremlins.
Speaker 1: And Geers Gremlin's too, the New you might remember from
Speaker 1: such film Gremlins and nothing else. Sorry, Zach, but they
Speaker 1: just tear the streads in the commentary. Oh god, having
Speaker 1: Mandel eats him alive and spits him out.
Speaker 3: I think I said when we've done think it might Yeah,
Speaker 3: talked about that, but also how he just seemed really
Speaker 3: kind of thirsty. Yeah, sorry, Zach, what a first trap
Speaker 3: indeed anyway. But yeah, So this is where they've done
Speaker 3: the information for the juice Loosener. If you order it now,
Speaker 3: you get a free thing of sun and run the
Speaker 3: lax that the sun lotion that's also a laxative. Mcclup
Speaker 3: puts it on and runs off. I've got here.
Speaker 1: This whole bit just feels so true to what an
Speaker 1: information is because it just feels off the cuff, even
Speaker 1: though it's scripted and it's animated. The way the energy
Speaker 1: of the room clearly Troy McClure is just riffing here.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 1: And the fact that he didn't do any research onto
Speaker 1: what Sun and Run actually makes you know he is,
Speaker 1: as we said, he's just a former star who's just
Speaker 1: doing what he can to just pay those bills.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, look, hey didn't he didn't write the stuff, man,
Speaker 3: He's just delivering exactly.
Speaker 1: So he's just there, just riff and just being Troy mcclum.
Speaker 1: You can see Rusty doing this quite well as well.
Speaker 3: Oh surely anything Rebuck. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I used to love watching Good Morning Australia with our
Speaker 1: man Bert new and they always have these kind of
Speaker 1: informationals on there and but will just get over there.
Speaker 1: He's just tearing these products to shreds. Oh yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's what they preferred that because well it's giving it
Speaker 1: the tick of a brill.
Speaker 3: B Bert's left the desk, Yeah, like asking you know,
Speaker 3: a cometing to come over to Johnny Carson's. There's like,
Speaker 3: oh I made it, yes.
Speaker 1: Then Homer calls quickly he wants to drink juice loose weight,
Speaker 1: won't get chess pens mention the phone anymore, and it
Speaker 1: gets cuts to us in a sucker. Now where they're
Speaker 1: packing the loosener the juice listeners into the boxes. And
Speaker 1: we've got two guys here who are Unwow, one's got
Speaker 1: shdded palvis for the last three weeks and they both laugh.
Speaker 1: It's all out of sync. Yes, again a very early
Speaker 1: nineties joke. Yeah, they cough into the box, tape it
Speaker 1: up and send it on its weight. They're bad taping,
Speaker 1: by the way, Yes, who's now professional back in the
Speaker 1: old back on the docks.
Speaker 3: Mate, Well, gotta make a little scratch anyway you can. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's bad taping.
Speaker 1: But more patients, guys back in the factory, we need
Speaker 1: more patrons help a brother out, I would say.
Speaker 3: Factories back in the warehouse.
Speaker 1: Which warehouse worker on a day's work for an honest
Speaker 1: day's payment. Yeah, it so, there's but there's many layers
Speaker 1: to this, right, So they're mocking. It's mocking the OHNs
Speaker 1: of what we think it's like in Asaka of Japan,
Speaker 1: even the early nineties. Anyway, Well, the whole salary man thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, that work culture in Japan is like you'll
Speaker 1: have a job for life, but the job will be
Speaker 1: your life. Yeah yeah, but you don't want to see
Speaker 1: the whole That lifestyle is very similar to you wouldn't
Speaker 1: need a sausage if you know what's it's what's in it, right,
Speaker 1: similar to you wouldn't buy that iPhone if you know
Speaker 1: who packed it. Oh, yeah, it's just it's not good. No,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't it came out if you knew who packed
Speaker 1: those anko shoes.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: But on that note, there's also the fact that these
Speaker 1: workers here think that they're getting one over their boss
Speaker 1: by saying, don't tell the boss that I'm sick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, don't.
Speaker 1: I've been working with the show's pubbles for three weeks,
Speaker 1: jokes on him. Their mentality is that you should be
Speaker 1: working through those injuries, but in reality they should be
Speaker 1: at home getting paid to rest up.
Speaker 3: Oh exactly, yeah, the whole play through the pain thing.
Speaker 1: Then there's the parody of the voices being out of sync,
Speaker 1: which he said it was a very offense time thing.
Speaker 1: You don't really say it anymore, but usually generally the
Speaker 1: parody was though in Japan or whatever, would speak so
Speaker 1: many words for it to be like one or two English.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the gag.
Speaker 1: But they double down here by it being the laugh
Speaker 1: and that's the one that gets dragged out, even the
Speaker 1: laughs so longer than when they should be. But then
Speaker 1: six to eight weeks later, the loosener arrives. Homer opens
Speaker 1: the box and the the fog, the virus comes out,
Speaker 1: the virus, your suck of food comes out. Skinner then
Speaker 1: tells Agnes to get one of her extra special hugs
Speaker 1: ready and then gives it, opens the box and he
Speaker 1: gets done by the germs.
Speaker 3: Coming under every orifice in his head.
Speaker 1: When he says that out loud, this feels very much
Speaker 1: man's plaining to the younger audience at home who might
Speaker 1: have quite idea what's going on, because it just seems
Speaker 1: like just the flu going into every orifice in my head,
Speaker 1: making me on well, just explaining that it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: man's plaining. I know, the younger women viewers completely understand
Speaker 1: fun patting someone as we said, what the birthday gifts?
Speaker 1: They both bought each other a juice loosener, and then
Speaker 1: the virus is waiting for the traffic lights goes through
Speaker 1: and Wigham shoots at it after buying some hot dogs,
Speaker 1: and we get the news report.
Speaker 3: See it's why this, Yeah, it's the joy of animation. This.
Speaker 3: I mean you, I mean you're gonna have people getting
Speaker 3: sick in live action sitcoms or live action shows or whatever.
Speaker 3: But yeah, having the virus sort of scoot around town
Speaker 3: stop it to stop, like like a slasher film. Yeah,
Speaker 3: approach wiggam like here like a monster or something like that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, look, you could probably do something like that
Speaker 3: and live action, but you'd have your work cut out
Speaker 3: for you. But it just makes more sense here, and
Speaker 3: it's I know, it's funnier. I just really enjoy it.
Speaker 3: I that it stopped for the red lights. That's correct.
Speaker 1: It will follow some rules, that's true, some not all,
Speaker 1: not all indeed. But then we get the news report
Speaker 1: here and it's about how this sucker flu has now
Speaker 1: got over three hundred cases in Springfield. This felt it
Speaker 1: was always like PTSD. I was like, oh remember when
Speaker 1: every morning you wake up to see how many cases
Speaker 1: of oh yeah.
Speaker 3: The numbers. That was every morning.
Speaker 1: It's like eleven ten am every morning, like how many
Speaker 1: cases are there? Can we get out of the house yet,
Speaker 1: and we're we're still on lockdown?
Speaker 3: Okay? Cool?
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's just forget that. Ever happened right five years ago? Now,
Speaker 1: that's crazy that is crazy. I think we're still feeling
Speaker 1: five zero four when it started. Yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: still we're still feeling the tail end of it, I think.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, COVID is still out there, people still
Speaker 1: get it. But people aren't living the house as much
Speaker 1: as they used to though.
Speaker 3: Well that's true.
Speaker 1: People have worn Oh you know what's better beach being
Speaker 1: home by myself, living indoors.
Speaker 3: That I was talking about this with the lovely Oh.
Speaker 3: I don't, okay, but the people some people are just
Speaker 3: some people are mad, but they got so comfortable being home.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, I just watch I just stream shit
Speaker 1: and just get daw dash or not doors over each
Speaker 1: to my door or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but this is only paying the sky. And he's
Speaker 1: feeling unwell. He's also got the virus. He's over the
Speaker 1: twelfth and main yeah root four oh one, twelve and
Speaker 1: twelfth and main. He vomits out there with no vomits
Speaker 1: onto it Otto who's making on top of the on
Speaker 1: top of the building, whatever building it is, then.
Speaker 3: But he is.
Speaker 1: His temperature is ninety eight point six here, which works
Speaker 1: out to be thirty seven degrees celsius, which slightly about
Speaker 1: and he's slightly above like thirty six. Thirty six is
Speaker 1: supposedly yeah temperature, anything in thirty seven is stuck in
Speaker 1: a little like maybe a little bit unwell.
Speaker 3: So then he makes do.
Speaker 1: It again because she says you're feeling fine, and he
Speaker 1: tries to force himself to feel sick, and they keep
Speaker 1: the inside of his body. You get the German say,
Speaker 1: we keep getting orders to let the virus win, and
Speaker 1: it must be a school day.
Speaker 3: And then lay down and surrender.
Speaker 1: It was a nice touch that the virus had the
Speaker 1: voice of snake. Yeah, but I definitely tried this when
Speaker 1: I was a kid. You know, from time to time
Speaker 1: you'd wake up and you just feel like I just
Speaker 1: don't want to go to school, and I know I'm
Speaker 1: not unwell, and he would always almost like, try and
Speaker 1: give yourself a.
Speaker 3: Headache, right, I'm not unwell enough. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Did you ever be where we try to give yourself
Speaker 1: like a try to make yourself hotter, I'll try to
Speaker 1: give yourself a headache.
Speaker 3: I never did, now some reason. I must have been
Speaker 3: a really goodie goodie. I mean I never sort of
Speaker 3: tried to convince the folks like, oh, I'm too sick
Speaker 3: to go to school. Today.
Speaker 1: I always yeah, I did, I never did, but yeah,
Speaker 1: And there was always that moment of throwing the pitch out,
Speaker 1: waiting for the results. Is she going to buy it?
Speaker 1: And the days when she goes fine, just go to
Speaker 1: n hands. I was like, yes, doon't want pie for lunch,
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Speaker 1: finger Discount. But but is now actually unwell. He's got
Speaker 1: the cold Pack on his head sitting there watching Itching
Speaker 1: and Scratchy the germs of endearment. It's nice when an
Speaker 1: Itching Scratchy cartoon is relevant corresponds with the episode. You
Speaker 1: can almost say that Itchy and Scratchy is the South
Speaker 1: Park of Springfield because they are doing an episode based
Speaker 1: on something that's popular right now, like South Pack, have
Speaker 1: the ability if something happened yesterday, next week's episode of
Speaker 1: South Park could genuinely just be about that. It doesn't
Speaker 1: have as much substance to it, it's just the cat
Speaker 1: and the mouse kill each other, but the ability to
Speaker 1: be able to produce an episode timely in a timely manner,
Speaker 1: very much like South Buck. But then laughs but actually coughs,
Speaker 1: and the episode is interrupted by a message from Quimby,
Speaker 1: who says he's canceled his holiday to the Bahamas, but
Speaker 1: turns out he hasn't. The guy works past, walks past,
Speaker 1: playing the steel drum, still drums that. Okay, yes, clearly
Speaker 1: this is meant to be a take of for a
Speaker 1: lot of politicians who do this.
Speaker 3: Apparently it's happened with Ted Cruz.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, yes, and I remember scom I got in a
Speaker 1: lot of trouble when the shola was like on fire.
Speaker 3: That's look, he didn't really try to deceive anyone that
Speaker 3: I mean, he just wasn't here.
Speaker 1: He wasn't he didn't come back. Let me know what's
Speaker 1: going guys. But he doesn't pick up hoose no no
Speaker 1: Burns and says he's he's not worried that because he's
Speaker 1: come up with this like germ proof hideout. But turns
Speaker 1: out home's already in there eating a sandwich of some sort,
Speaker 1: and use this is the whole My name is mister Burns. Yes,
Speaker 1: goes back to that one. Then the mob of demanding
Speaker 1: a cure from Hibittu standing on top of the clinic.
Speaker 1: I guess he is, yes, yeah, and he says the
Speaker 1: only cure is bed rest. He says anything he gives
Speaker 1: to them is simply a placebo. It's just on their head.
Speaker 1: A placebo for those who aren't aware. Is just when
Speaker 1: they give you something to make you think you're getting better,
Speaker 1: when really it's just all ahead a little sugar pill.
Speaker 1: This happened recently. Elliott had to get a blood test
Speaker 1: last week for his foot injury in a moonboot. At
Speaker 1: the moment, young Elliott and they told us they have
Speaker 1: numbing cream.
Speaker 3: They're right.
Speaker 1: And we get there and I said, you have the cream,
Speaker 1: clut Tod, don't worry about it has numbing cream. And
Speaker 1: she goes, oh, we don't have any of that. You
Speaker 1: can buy it from my chemist's warehouse. I'm like, oh, okay, cool.
Speaker 1: She goes, but you have to wait an hour before
Speaker 1: it starts working. Okay, so we buy this cream. Blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, either get the blood test dout. He still
Speaker 1: feels it. He realizes now needles aren't anything to be
Speaker 1: scared about it.
Speaker 3: But it didn't work.
Speaker 1: And afterwards she goes, yeah, it doesn't really work. It's
Speaker 1: just so the kids think in their heads that it's
Speaker 1: actually numbing the skin to make him feel like it's
Speaker 1: less painful.
Speaker 3: And I'm like, you could have told me this story
Speaker 3: went to chemists ware I'm like, I went to spend
Speaker 3: twenty bucks on cream. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But she's like, because Aliott was really nervous. But she said,
Speaker 1: I didn't say it. But in reality, if I didn't
Speaker 1: go and do that, Elliot would have panted because he
Speaker 1: thought he was getting numbing cream. Sure, if the idea
Speaker 1: of numbing cream wasn't addressed, in the first place, then
Speaker 1: he wouldn't have been thinking about it. But then when
Speaker 1: he was told I wouldn't have any he immediately went, oh, no,
Speaker 1: I need that cream because I was told it would
Speaker 1: hurt less. So that's when I had to go and
Speaker 1: by maybe it's a scheme they got going on a
Speaker 1: scheme with it. With my chemist way, I was like,
Speaker 1: you can just go down the road and get some cream,
Speaker 1: like and shit. And then afterwards she don't believe in
Speaker 1: conspiracy theories. And then afterwards she's just like it doesn't
Speaker 1: really work. I'm like, fine, say it, don't believe it,
Speaker 1: but you should. But then I said to Aliott, I said,
Speaker 1: see I didn't really wait that well, didn't He goes, noe,
Speaker 1: but did it hurt? And he goes not really like see,
Speaker 1: see it's fine, mate, I said, needles aready because blood
Speaker 1: tests are in for like twenty seconds or so getting blood out.
Speaker 1: He said, needles in and out. And he goes, I'm
Speaker 1: not scared of needles anymore. I'm like, good man, good.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Ali.
Speaker 1: He was very brave, your little sticker that said, I
Speaker 1: was brave, getting brave as a lion getting my blood
Speaker 1: tests and he wore it with pride. She would wouldn't
Speaker 1: be a lying He now puts it. He put it
Speaker 1: on the inside of the door in the car, so
Speaker 1: now whenever gets out of the car, is like, oh,
Speaker 1: I was as brave as a lion when I got
Speaker 1: my blood test. And I'm like, you were, but sure
Speaker 1: you were good. He was very brave though, so shout
Speaker 1: out to him. But as I was saying, he says,
Speaker 1: he's going to give you pisbos. Can we get these pisinbos?
Speaker 1: And they see the truck. In this truck truck, they
Speaker 1: smash it over. Killer bees coming out?
Speaker 3: Is it killer bees? Bees? Just bees? Yes? And he
Speaker 3: eats it.
Speaker 1: I mean, oh, Todd is now speaking in tongues what
Speaker 1: they think he is, But no, he's just delirious from fever.
Speaker 3: What does he say? Long for the day?
Speaker 1: Yeah, And Maud asked God why God has forsaken them
Speaker 1: and then realizes he once laughed at a married with
Speaker 1: children gag him out a limp plant.
Speaker 3: He kept you in bed, you air the pig. I
Speaker 3: love how they do a fairly faithful O'Neal. And Katie's
Speaker 3: gold sort.
Speaker 1: Of looks just like yeah, I guess because it was
Speaker 1: a Fox property. They didn't want to really take the
Speaker 1: mickey out of it anyway, But yeah, as he said
Speaker 1: the slogan, watch Fox and be damn for all eternity.
Speaker 1: Now Marge is trying to keep the house running and
Speaker 1: looking very disheveled. Lisa once moj butt on some flintstone
Speaker 1: chewable morphine or chuble flintstone morphine. Homer says, the boys
Speaker 1: wasting valuable time, come and change the channel and pat
Speaker 1: my head. Is Homer actually sick or is he just
Speaker 1: being a nuisance? I think he's man. Yes, sit, how
Speaker 1: are you when you're sick? I get annoyed because I
Speaker 1: want to be able to do work. Because when I'm sick,
Speaker 1: I can't do my work.
Speaker 3: I tend to be just leave me alone. It's like
Speaker 3: people will be saying, oh, can I bring your sandwich?
Speaker 3: And bring no? No, no, I'll be fine, be fine,
Speaker 3: not gon over in a couple of days. So I
Speaker 3: don't subscribe to the whole Oh I'm so sick, help
Speaker 3: me out or whatever it's like. But yeah, just give
Speaker 3: me a couple of days to sleep it off. Yeah, hip,
Speaker 3: it's right. The only cure is bed rest. Nick Nicholas says.
Speaker 1: She goes, I know when you're actually sick because you
Speaker 1: decort to go to the bedroom and just go to sleep.
Speaker 1: She goes, you, you don't do that because you see
Speaker 1: every I look at you, and you look at every
Speaker 1: possible time you are awake as a time to do
Speaker 1: work for your fucking podcast. So when you are going
Speaker 1: to sleep, I know you must be unwell. Like it's
Speaker 1: just it's annoying. But my brain, this never turns off.
Speaker 1: I'm constantly thinking what can I post next, what could
Speaker 1: I do next? How can we improve? What can I do?
Speaker 3: And it's just it's it's exhausting. Can you bring me more?
Speaker 2: Jay?
Speaker 3: Can you give me some of those Bristow's chewlbral morphine.
Speaker 1: There's no such.
Speaker 2: Thing, Marge, the boys wasting valuable time. Come change the
Speaker 2: channel and pat my head in a minute, Miss flow.
Speaker 3: Ball, and give me a bottle of bourbon. Grandpa. You
Speaker 3: know you can't have liquids after three pm.
Speaker 4: You can stir it into my mush either way.
Speaker 3: Just give me, gimme, gimme.
Speaker 1: Then Marge's at the QUICKI mautas. This is where it
Speaker 1: all goes down. She's hearing all the voices of the
Speaker 1: family whining. You're seeing their faces when she takes away
Speaker 1: stuff off the shelf, and eventually the entire supermoker shehoves
Speaker 1: is filled with their heads complaining. And she gets to
Speaker 1: the check out ask for a bottle of aspirin as
Speaker 1: well for her self. I'm gonna assume it's twenty five dollars.
Speaker 1: He dropped the price because an escape mental patient tempered
Speaker 1: with the bottle. She then goes to leave, but unfortunately
Speaker 1: the alarm goes off, which puzzles her. I think I
Speaker 1: love why they animated her. She's just genuinely for sure.
Speaker 1: Have you even gone through like a k Mart and
Speaker 1: it's gone off and you're just like you immediately think
Speaker 1: what did I steal? You know you haven't stolen some
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. It's like when you see I've mentioned this before,
Speaker 1: when you see a breath o and you go, oh
Speaker 1: what have you? Haven't drun anything? It's three o'clock and
Speaker 1: you just pick the kids up fro school?
Speaker 3: Yeah, or you just see red and blues in there
Speaker 3: in the rare vision mirror. It's like, what's my speed
Speaker 3: come from? Me? Yeah? Yeah, I don't really feel that anymore.
Speaker 3: If I'm walking out of came or any department store
Speaker 3: where you know you know them, we are going up.
Speaker 3: I make you scan it came out. No, I don't
Speaker 3: know that's true. But there's maybe like a microsecond of
Speaker 3: like did I do something wrong?
Speaker 4: Is it me?
Speaker 3: Are they coming for me? And then you realize, look,
Speaker 3: I haven't done anything wrong and easily talk my way
Speaker 3: out of this.
Speaker 1: Even when I've done something wrong, I can easily took
Speaker 1: my way out of the s. Sure, well, when's the
Speaker 1: last time you stole something? You said you still a
Speaker 1: lot when you were kid? Right, I didn't see a
Speaker 1: lot when I was a kid, but I stole someone
Speaker 1: was it was just little books?
Speaker 3: Books? Wow? Was all these books? A couple of bookstores?
Speaker 1: Try to steal a book once court and I never
Speaker 1: did it again.
Speaker 3: Like a busted trying to pin some sunglasses and then wow,
Speaker 3: what did you put them on your head and just
Speaker 3: walk out? That's correct. I'll just put them on my
Speaker 3: face with the tag and down. That's correct? Is actually
Speaker 3: what you did?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: Oh, but I got bustard. And how were you at
Speaker 3: this time? I was probably at seventeen okay, and I
Speaker 3: never did it again. I was scared straight, Yeah, don't
Speaker 3: do what Donnie don't does. Did I leave a message
Speaker 3: on there on the No, No, there was no. I
Speaker 3: was worried that might be the case. Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I think I've really sort of gone off for the
Speaker 3: warning more than anything else. I had to go up
Speaker 3: to the store, deteck, what did you Yes? Yeah, I
Speaker 3: got the Simpson treatment and say yeah, well it's pretty gnarly.
Speaker 3: I was a be worried there.
Speaker 1: There was that time I got accused of shop living
Speaker 1: in a big w in Geelong and one of my
Speaker 1: life and I was like, mate, you're a store fucking
Speaker 1: security guy. I had to give you ship like. He's like,
Speaker 1: I'll call the police. I'm call the police. I've stolen nothing.
Speaker 1: It was because they bought something using my phone after pay.
Speaker 1: I didn't have a receipt. He's like, there's a receipt
Speaker 1: from targeting. It's after pay right there. He's like, no,
Speaker 1: I need a physical receipt. I'm like, way twenty five,
Speaker 1: you're blithering full did making friends all over.
Speaker 3: To this receipts in twenty twenty five? Who uses cards anymore? So?
Speaker 1: Then she yeah, so she's been she gets accused of
Speaker 1: we're not quite accused of shoplifting who tries to play
Speaker 1: it cool. He says, the son Jay happy with their bags,
Speaker 1: but speaks in Hindi to essentially, this is what he says,
Speaker 1: So I looked it up what he actually says. So
Speaker 1: I had a terrible fear in watching this episode. Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: are they actually speaking Hindi or are they?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Are they being very early nineties?
Speaker 1: It sounds very Simpsons nineteen ninety three for them to
Speaker 1: just do that, right, Hey, Hank, just say something, just
Speaker 1: make some stuff up. But no one's watching this outside
Speaker 1: the US or I don't think they're watching this in
Speaker 1: yeah India. Yeah, but the writers Bill and Josh were
Speaker 1: smart enough to go, let's not do that.
Speaker 3: They dotted i's and crossed t's. Yeah, because later on,
Speaker 3: I mean, we talk about pie. And apparently they did
Speaker 3: their research, because what.
Speaker 1: They did was they called the Embassy of India in
Speaker 1: Washington to get them to translate it to make sure
Speaker 1: there was actually all said correctly.
Speaker 3: They didn't they embassy sort of saying okay, fine.
Speaker 1: He says, they said the embassy was not interested or happy,
Speaker 1: but they still did it. I'm not angry, I'm just disappointed,
Speaker 1: just confused. Who are you Why are you calling me?
Speaker 1: But the translation was this is some guy on Reddit.
Speaker 1: He's given it a crack and it says there's very
Speaker 1: something similar. That's some jay on Reddit of some guy
Speaker 1: some guy and read it. Yes, the cream of it
Speaker 1: says her coach in that direction. Look, So it's something
Speaker 1: on the lines of looking her coat around the pocket direction. Yes,
Speaker 1: and he approves by saying something on the lines of yes,
Speaker 1: I'll do that quickly right away, something that implies that Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not nonsense.
Speaker 3: It seems like some jay is more of the smartest.
Speaker 3: He's like, oh.
Speaker 1: That's apparably just something like I'll check right away, but
Speaker 1: yeah pooh said something like just check her coat pocket
Speaker 1: or what something on those lines. But there's any Indian
Speaker 1: viewers or listeners out there who want to completely translate
Speaker 1: it legit for us, we'd love to hear from you
Speaker 1: guys as well.
Speaker 3: We sure would.
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Speaker 1: in the video. So he checks her pocket, finds the
Speaker 1: Colonel Quickie Mark. See Colonel Quickie Mark, Kentucky Bourbon.
Speaker 3: That's a great name. Isn't it who it is?
Speaker 1: And the police cars arrive. They are two cups of
Speaker 1: coffee auto Freshenet of capricorn and something with coconut. It
Speaker 1: just seems crazy that four cop cars are rocked up
Speaker 1: because Marge has taken some bourbon. But hey, for the
Speaker 1: second of the story, let's just.
Speaker 3: Go with it. That's the thing. I mean, you had,
Speaker 3: as I said before, certain people taking issue where it's like,
Speaker 3: why are there so many cops coming from March. It's like,
Speaker 3: come on, guys, really, it's just a story. This is
Speaker 3: what you're taking issue with.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's now time for them to go see
Speaker 1: Huts at the I can't believe it's a law firm.
Speaker 2: Now, Marge, you've come to the right place by hiring
Speaker 2: me as your lawyer. You also get this smoking monkey.
Speaker 2: Better get down there, smoky mist huts. Look, he's taking
Speaker 2: another puff.
Speaker 1: I love the genuine excitement of he's taking another puff.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you take another look at these thing. It's great, just.
Speaker 1: Great, Phil Line, Phil Line reading for that. Better cut
Speaker 1: down there with Smoky. He's more interested in this than
Speaker 1: actually helping Margin at this point, greatest toever. But Margin's
Speaker 1: not interested in the smoking monkey. She says, it's all
Speaker 1: a misunderstanding. But then this is where he realized, Oh no,
Speaker 1: we've got Judge Schneyder, and why is that an issue?
Speaker 3: Well, he's got its had it in for him ever
Speaker 3: since he ran over his dog. Oh he kind of
Speaker 3: ran over he's kind of ran over his well, yeah,
Speaker 3: and replaced kind of with a repeatedly and replaced dog
Speaker 3: with the son.
Speaker 1: Yes, another great reading harmon. This is what Homer says, Oh,
Speaker 1: look I'll go speak to a pooh. He'll be reasonable,
Speaker 1: and then I'm his best customer. I'm sure he'll let
Speaker 1: you off. Because of them just celebrating. But are they
Speaker 1: celebrating Marge being caught? I've never quite got this.
Speaker 3: Here's the yeah, I mean, why are they celebrating? This
Speaker 3: is in a civil case, they're not about to get damages?
Speaker 1: Yeah, what is that is? It just always just just
Speaker 1: how they hang out. It's just so bizarre they're celebrating
Speaker 1: and hums like, can we not do this? And they said,
Speaker 1: we're putting that bitch on ice to the fully send
Speaker 1: of the law due to our apparent company, norde Iron
Speaker 1: Defense Dynamics. It's just like, okay, sure, it's a. It's
Speaker 1: a cheap line to get a cheap laugh the bitch
Speaker 1: on Arsley. But this is where the reputation of Marge
Speaker 1: just really goes down the toilet. People just really just
Speaker 1: being horrible. So Wigham blabs to Quimby in the sauna
Speaker 1: about don't tell anybody, but then it cuts to him
Speaker 1: at the rally just spoiling to everybody, then spoils the
Speaker 1: crying game as well. Then we're at the card game,
Speaker 1: which I'm ashimming. Is that the love joys Hibbitt and
Speaker 1: Hoover there as well. She at the love Joy's house
Speaker 1: because they're both there, and she says Miss Hoover says
Speaker 1: one time she made gingerbread men but had a hair
Speaker 1: in one. Hibbitt says that Marge has web toes. I
Speaker 1: love the deverish delivery of please from Lovejoy.
Speaker 3: Here's gross.
Speaker 1: Flanners says, don't worry though, because she's having dinner at
Speaker 1: Margin at Flanner's house. You know we've all had our
Speaker 1: runnings or brushes with the law. Is this Ed Flanders? Nope,
Speaker 1: Ma misteak. Then Marge goes to Fresh Enough and just
Speaker 1: the note from Flanner's wiping his mouth I'll go check
Speaker 1: on her.
Speaker 3: Yes, you do that.
Speaker 1: She looks through the wall and Marge tries to fix
Speaker 1: the frame because that's just march, just like washing hand.
Speaker 1: Anyone with OCD would try and fix that frame. Crooked
Speaker 1: frame drives me insane.
Speaker 3: What particularly crooked?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and wash your hands and get out. And she's
Speaker 1: looking through the God Bless you sign as he said,
Speaker 1: it's a psycho reference. Now a friend of mine, friend
Speaker 1: of ours actually Tash from the LPC. She has her
Speaker 1: own store in al And Town called Cate Cult Right,
Speaker 1: check it out. Go to Kate Culton, Geelong for the
Speaker 1: best desserts in Geelong. Our friend Tash cooks them on side.
Speaker 1: But she has a lot of I'll get to the
Speaker 1: point in a second. She has a lot of art
Speaker 1: prints around the place, which are just paintings from op
Speaker 1: shops and whatnot, but she has painted Simpsons characters into them.
Speaker 1: So there's one where it's just the out back trees
Speaker 1: and it's a damn and she's painted the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: Andy and Tobias' dad and what Bruno Drundrig where his
Speaker 1: name is just looking at him Andy to stuff like
Speaker 1: that's great. But my point being that She's also created
Speaker 1: a new device, which is the God Bless You thing
Speaker 1: right that you put on the wall, and it's got
Speaker 1: the eye behind it and the eye moves left and right.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 1: That it's like having your own God Bless Your sign
Speaker 1: with more looking through the wall. She's super smart.
Speaker 3: I haven't heard of a brain working overtime like that
Speaker 3: since Brendan Dan. But she Yeah.
Speaker 1: I will host a link for her store in the
Speaker 1: description of this video and this podcast, and you can
Speaker 1: check out her stuff.
Speaker 3: It is fantastic.
Speaker 1: You can buy those those paintings as prince as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, do it.
Speaker 1: It's great indeed, Yeah, just great cakes at a Mars
Speaker 1: bar slice.
Speaker 3: It was delicious. Okay.
Speaker 1: Then yeah, so they've kicked Marge out of the house
Speaker 1: or told it to get out, then there's time for
Speaker 1: the court case. And the blue headed lawyer he's you're
Speaker 1: a bit, I'll let.
Speaker 3: You take it away. Well you do, Oh no, he's
Speaker 3: just he is so confident in the of Marge Simpsons
Speaker 3: guilt that he can waste the juries time, but waste
Speaker 3: the courts room time. Yes, by rating the super hunk.
Speaker 1: Super hunks, Indeed, who is the biggest hunk? Mel Gibbs,
Speaker 1: ninety three Mel Gibson or ninety three Crews.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say ninety three Gibson.
Speaker 1: I agree, ninety three Gibson for all his faults. Now,
Speaker 1: ninety three Gibson is a far bigger hunk than ninety
Speaker 1: three Crews in my opinion.
Speaker 3: Not an unhandsome man, not an ugly man. Ninety ninety
Speaker 3: three Tom Cruise. But yeah, I think Mel pips him
Speaker 3: at the post. Just feels like he was a bigger
Speaker 3: action star, a tough guy. For me, a hunk is
Speaker 3: a guy that can beat share the people, right, I think,
Speaker 3: what's your definition of a hunk? Oh? I think a
Speaker 3: hunk is many things, to many things. See, when I
Speaker 3: generally think you're thinking of a hulk, I'm thinking a
Speaker 3: hunk is usually like, that's a good looking chunk of man.
Speaker 3: Is what a lady or meat or a gentleman who
Speaker 3: feels that way? What a hunk? Yeah? So, look, it
Speaker 3: might be a combination of all things. But no, I
Speaker 3: think Mel is probably the super hunk of this particular time.
Speaker 3: Yea indeed, But yeah, so it's just no going Marge's way.
Speaker 3: The blue head lawyer is on his game, and Lonald
Speaker 3: Hunts is not is he? Oh no, no, maybe not
Speaker 3: a good lawyer. He's gonna win.
Speaker 1: We have Helen love joined the stand and we need
Speaker 1: to put it out there that Helen Lovejoy was probably
Speaker 1: the worst possible person in Springfield to be in the
Speaker 1: quick amount at the time of this happen.
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely not just looking for the worst in just
Speaker 3: about everyone.
Speaker 1: As the wife of the minist I'm privy to a
Speaker 1: lot of information, and here it is my husband doesn
Speaker 1: doesn't earn much. The family is a mess. And then
Speaker 1: made the drinking drink. That's fantastic. Let it be known
Speaker 1: that drinking drinking emotion.
Speaker 3: As I said, there are some lines in this that
Speaker 3: just enter the collective consciousness. And I'm pretty sure drinking
Speaker 3: drinking I said them a lot in this part of you.
Speaker 3: But it's been used many times by many people. I'm
Speaker 3: sure the drinking drinking, it's just hilarious to say. Frink.
Speaker 1: Then shows the subruta. Subruta is just called the pretty film. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the JFK sassination and March's Hairs behind at the Grassy Knoll,
Speaker 1: basically just JFK. The film probably just come out, was
Speaker 1: that early nineties, Yeah, ninety one one. Yes, it was
Speaker 1: still a thing. Yeah, signe, we're doing parodies of it
Speaker 1: and whatnot. Was almost like the JFK saessination became a thing.
Speaker 3: Again, very much.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, So who's now in the stand just being
Speaker 1: an obnoxious jerk?
Speaker 3: Really?
Speaker 1: So Huts is well, first of all, Huts is hole
Speaker 1: in the bourbon and then he realizes, oh, you want
Speaker 1: me to drink you and then he races off and
Speaker 1: he gets calls his AA sponsor, who is David Crosby
Speaker 1: actually voiced by David Crosby. Correct, Now you know the
Speaker 1: story behind this, yes, yes, So basically he says here
Speaker 1: to him, take them one day at a time, and
Speaker 1: know that I love you. There's two things here. Not
Speaker 1: only is that a reference to the lyrics of their
Speaker 1: song Teach your children, Yes, about they say and I
Speaker 1: love you? But Phil Harmon also designed the logo for Crosby,
Speaker 1: Stills and Nash.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I mean I think one of the writers
Speaker 3: here says oh Phil developed or created an album cover Crosby,
Speaker 3: Stills Nash. That's not the case. He did their logo
Speaker 3: album cover. He did a lot of album covers.
Speaker 1: Over forty well. He was a graphic designer before he
Speaker 1: became a comedian.
Speaker 3: What a man? Oh? Absolutely, but no, that the logo
Speaker 3: for Crosby, Stills and Nash, I say, there's all due
Speaker 3: respect to Phil who we love. And a door not
Speaker 3: the best logo. Yeah, it's pretty plain. It's kind of ugly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, then Huts ask a Pooh if he's ever forgotten something.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, no, it never happens. He goes, I
Speaker 1: can recite Pie to forty thousand places. The last digit
Speaker 1: is one Oakley in one scene, of course, being the
Speaker 1: sticklers for details. Yeah, they prepared for this scene by
Speaker 1: asking David H. Bailey of the National Aeronautics that sounds
Speaker 1: like NASA is is NASA? Yeah, the National I've never
Speaker 1: I've never.
Speaker 3: What you've never wanted? What naturally? That? NASA actually stands, No,
Speaker 3: you did you? What's NASA? Unlike the bad taste joke,
Speaker 3: it doesn't actually mean need another seven astronauts.
Speaker 1: For the number of the forty thousands decimal place of
Speaker 1: Pie and Bailey. Davida's Bailey sent them back a print
Speaker 1: out of the first forty thousand digits.
Speaker 3: And here's the thing. How would they have received this?
Speaker 3: Probably by a fact, it.
Speaker 1: Would have been hundred percent. Oh my god, how many facts,
Speaker 1: how many sheets.
Speaker 3: How many pages are coming through it? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So then, of course the great button to this is
Speaker 1: hom aging.
Speaker 3: Mm pie Hats.
Speaker 1: Then asked what color his tie is, and it's a
Speaker 1: red and white striped tire in a half windson knot
Speaker 1: something that.
Speaker 3: May shuck and discrete. You, I'm not wearing a tie
Speaker 3: at all, but just the vamping while he's getting it round. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm not wearing a tie at all.
Speaker 1: I'm not wearing it. It's so confident and the jury
Speaker 1: believes it. Who then questions himself no further questions as
Speaker 1: the ti tanking out of his sleeve. This sums up
Speaker 1: the sheer stupidity of Springfield, because yes, we have to
Speaker 1: suspend our disbelief. Then he turned and faced to the courtroom,
Speaker 1: arguably the jury as well. All this in front of them,
Speaker 1: so we're supposed to believe that they didn't see that.
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Speaker 1: over dinner Now, Hut says to the kids, I don't
Speaker 1: think your mum's going to be going to prison. They're
Speaker 1: all happy, and Lisa compares him to a modern day
Speaker 1: Clarence Darrow. Is it the black guy from the Mod Squad? No,
Speaker 1: that is who guy.
Speaker 3: That is Clarence Williams, the third, a fine, fine actor,
Speaker 3: no longer with us, but yeah he played link on
Speaker 3: the Mod Squad. Ah, yeah, which we can and that's correct. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean you're aware of the Mod Squad. Now that's
Speaker 3: about the eighteen it's closer to twenty one Jump Street.
Speaker 3: Hard to not watch any of those three shows. Okay,
Speaker 3: this is the height of the counterculture, you know. But
Speaker 3: so you're hippies, you got all that kind of business.
Speaker 3: But TV doesn't really want to see too much about that.
Speaker 3: But they do love cop shows, so what they what
Speaker 3: you've got is like, well, yeah, there's all manner of crime,
Speaker 3: you know, with the kids these days. But you know,
Speaker 3: they're not going to accept a square like me with
Speaker 3: my coat and tie. We're gonna have to send in
Speaker 3: some more modern types. We're gonna have to make a
Speaker 3: mod squad. And so you've got a white dude, a
Speaker 3: white girl, and a black dude.
Speaker 1: So the twenty twenty five version of the Mod Squad
Speaker 1: would be guys who meet modifications to PlayStations.
Speaker 3: And your computer needed boost in get the Mod Squad.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, and you actually remade it into a movie
Speaker 3: ba Can like the late nineties with like clear Danes. Really, yeah,
Speaker 3: it is. It called the Mod Squad. It's called the
Speaker 3: Mod Squad. Memory.
Speaker 1: It was like, no, at the beginning of the trend,
Speaker 1: we don't want this Books of Hazard, we got the
Speaker 1: Starsky in Hutch was another one the A team.
Speaker 3: We talked about this on the movie with Marlin Davis.
Speaker 3: I believe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I got TV shows just getting reboots, correct, Yeah,
Speaker 1: none of them.
Speaker 3: Really all that good. No, When I think when we
Speaker 3: talked about Mission Impossible, the fact yeah that during the
Speaker 3: nineties was like, let's get all these TV shows and
Speaker 3: make them to me, and they're exactly two good ones.
Speaker 3: You're a fan of swat, aren't you? No, not really.
Speaker 1: I thought you said you're a fan of SWAT. You
Speaker 1: thought because Colin Farrell was in it. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: you said you were a fan of SWAP. You talked
Speaker 1: about Colin Farrell is a Colin Farrell film that you
Speaker 1: were a fan of, and let it was like it
Speaker 1: was Miami Vice Momy Vice. I apologized, Yes, I knew
Speaker 1: it had Colin Farrell in it. Colin Colin Farrell is
Speaker 1: in both Swatt. Yeah, yes, indeed, because it's not a
Speaker 1: TV show, it's what is a TV show?
Speaker 3: Is T show? It came from the seventies. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: not that great if you want a good laugh. I'm
Speaker 3: not sure if it is the opening credits of SWAT,
Speaker 3: but was something I saw recently when I was doing
Speaker 3: one of my YouTube deep dives. It was like an
Speaker 3: opening credits thing, and all the members of the SWAT
Speaker 3: team are like when they introduce them, they're like jumping
Speaker 3: through windows or doing these really impractical kind of moves
Speaker 3: that just show how cool they are.
Speaker 1: It's like, this just doesn't seem right. Yes, but oh
Speaker 1: he's in SWAT, but he was in Miami Vice. Swat
Speaker 1: not a good movie. Mimy Vice A great movie.
Speaker 3: Not Clarence Darrow either. Not Clarence Darrow. Shall we talk
Speaker 3: a bit about Clarence Darrow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is known, he made He became famous in
Speaker 1: the nineteenth century, I believe. I don't think I've written
Speaker 1: down my notes, but basically he represented a lot of unions.
Speaker 3: Became famous in the nineteenth century for high profile representations
Speaker 3: of trade union causes, but also criminal matters in the
Speaker 3: twentieth century, including representing the Gillers, Leopold, and Lobe. And yeah,
Speaker 3: there's also one called the Scopes monkey trial, which was
Speaker 3: I think it was the state of Tennessee wanted to
Speaker 3: outlaw the teaching of evolution in schools. They're like, no, God,
Speaker 3: create a man, none of this. We were not here otherwise,
Speaker 3: none of this monkey business. Hired those bones, Yes, and yeah,
Speaker 3: I think there was a teacher called Scopes. He was like, no, no,
Speaker 3: we're teaching evolution. That's the real deal here. And Darrow
Speaker 3: very high provolowyer represented him. So yeah, I mean he
Speaker 3: was kind of shorthand for like big gung lawyer.
Speaker 1: But this is where Bart says, too hearts, I want
Speaker 1: to be a lawyer when I'm older, just like you
Speaker 1: and there's one thing America needs, it's more lawyers. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine a word without any lawyers?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: So Beck has used a lot of just a vision
Speaker 1: of world piece.
Speaker 3: Essentially, it's like it's like the well they are they
Speaker 3: actually using the I'd Like to they wanted.
Speaker 1: They wanted to use I'd like to teach the World
Speaker 1: to sing from the Coca Cola commercial, but they couldn't
Speaker 1: get the rights to it, so they did.
Speaker 3: Something that sounds similar.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie I never put two or two together.
Speaker 1: I didn't think of that commercial when I heard this,
Speaker 1: I just saw it as like a world peace harmony song.
Speaker 3: I got the coke thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for those of you who were about spoiling anything,
Speaker 1: fans of mad Him, we know exactly what we're talking about.
Speaker 3: That's exactly right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this next bit was kind of odd to me.
Speaker 1: So it cuts two huts resting the case, but he's
Speaker 1: not wearing any pants, and it comes across me just
Speaker 1: shaking his head, and I was like, okay, So I
Speaker 1: came out of absolutely nowhere. Why is he wearing no pants?
Speaker 1: What is going on here? Because he got so confident
Speaker 1: in his abilities, he well, I can treat myself to
Speaker 1: a drink and he's just taking up, you know, one
Speaker 1: sip too far and now he's showing up in court
Speaker 1: with it doesn't seem drunk. No, No, she's not wearing
Speaker 1: pants anyway.
Speaker 2: I moved for a bad court thing.
Speaker 4: You mean a miss troll.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where you're the judge and I'm the law
Speaker 2: talking guy.
Speaker 3: The lawyer.
Speaker 4: Right, the foreman will pass the verdict to the bail
Speaker 4: of This verdict is written on a cocktail napkin, and
Speaker 4: it still says guilty and guilty is spelled wrong.
Speaker 1: This is the thing is where that's where they said
Speaker 1: that she's guilty. Right, Well, he gives him the napkin.
Speaker 1: It still says guilty and it's guilty spelled wrong. But
Speaker 1: the thing is, so are we meant to believe that
Speaker 1: she didn't get off because of this part? Because I'm
Speaker 1: a little confused, But this is where the starts to
Speaker 1: sort of because last time we saw the court room,
Speaker 1: they was like, oh, oh my god, maybe he is wrong,
Speaker 1: maybe I did get it wrong. And then it's just like, no,
Speaker 1: she's still guilty. But this can't be the chain of
Speaker 1: events that results in her being them turning their opinions.
Speaker 3: This is where it goes.
Speaker 1: I want to say off the rails, but oh well,
Speaker 1: it's it's shaky. Yes, okay, the ride gets a little bit.
Speaker 3: Little shake, shake, shake, share, shaky, let's shake.
Speaker 1: It isn't it that song? It is is Moally Cyrus's brother,
Speaker 1: that guy.
Speaker 3: I believe. So the band is metro Station. Metro Station?
Speaker 3: What a song did they do? Shut up and dance
Speaker 3: with me? Shut up?
Speaker 1: That's a similar kind of vibe. It's not the same. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: metro Station. Wow, I can't believe you remember that?
Speaker 3: And I didn't A big fan of the Cyrus Klan. Yeah, don't, huh.
Speaker 3: But Marge, tune into going down to south Park and
Speaker 3: check out an episode you got f in the a.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just check it going down to south Park. Great show,
Speaker 1: we just did that the Jeffersons. You'd be ignor if
Speaker 1: you be.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Margin gets taken away and Martin Liszt says, you're still
Speaker 1: my hero. Mum Bar says your bus route it just
Speaker 1: needs a cocktail dress and a crowbar. That's the Bartina Bartina. Yes,
Speaker 1: I've got a story here that down I go right,
Speaker 1: I've on't ever heard anyone use this in real life
Speaker 1: once and I was at high school and I knew
Speaker 1: the reference when he said it, and it was a
Speaker 1: guy who was a new kid of school, wasn't not
Speaker 1: necessarily friends with him. He hadn't been there for like
Speaker 1: two or three days, and we're on our way to class.
Speaker 1: We meant to go up and downstairs. It was at
Speaker 1: Gelong High School, the big Win Stanley building, whatever it's called,
Speaker 1: and you had to go three flight of stairs, R
Speaker 1: up the way and he's going up. It was almost
Speaker 1: like yeah, both arms full and he starts sort of
Speaker 1: falling over and it's just like slow motion.
Speaker 3: He goes down.
Speaker 1: I go and it falls down. I was like, is
Speaker 1: that the Simpsons refitly goes Yeah's one of my favorite
Speaker 1: bits from the episode.
Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, we're gonna be best friends.
Speaker 1: Him going down, I go eight shit, books go everywhere. Yeah, Crab,
Speaker 1: James Crabb, do you one of my grooms on at
Speaker 1: my wedding? One of my best friends still to this day.
Speaker 1: And that's where their friendship developed. From down, I go over.
Speaker 1: Then says he's going to miss Marge, not just for
Speaker 1: the sex, but the food prep as well. Skills with
Speaker 1: the stains of all kinds. But he also missed how
Speaker 1: lucky you make him feel every single morning.
Speaker 3: That's nice.
Speaker 1: That's what modern Simpsons is missing now. Oh sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: because you believe it. Oh yeah, yeah, there's gag, gag, gag,
Speaker 1: ridiculous silly Homer. But no, he at the end of
Speaker 1: the day he loves this. Oh yeah, one percent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a lovely expression as well. Just have you lucky,
Speaker 1: lucky you are to wake up? Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But they drag her away essentially, and who says, well
Speaker 1: her behind bars our story of secure like he's showing
Speaker 1: no remorse, no, no, but like the last we saw him,
Speaker 1: his second thoughts at all, last we saw him, he
Speaker 1: realized he was wrong anyway, But Snakes taking Ustore to
Speaker 1: Mexico and that's the end of that chapter. Then it's
Speaker 1: like the final little bit here. So Marge's arriving at
Speaker 1: the Women's prison, a prison for women. She enters her
Speaker 1: cell very much here, introduces herself and she meets Philips,
Speaker 1: a woman who is in there court Phillips because she
Speaker 1: killed her husband with a Phillips and a screwdriver. They're
Speaker 1: eating dinner in March. It's just so nice, not having
Speaker 1: to cook back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so very bright side.
Speaker 1: I think this episode would have benefited from an extra
Speaker 1: five minutes or so of just these kind of bits
Speaker 1: of March adjusting to prison life. You know, we don't
Speaker 1: see any negatives to her being in prison besides the
Speaker 1: fact that she doesn't get to have sex.
Speaker 3: But again, maybe that's the joke in terms of like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, she's been so busy taking care of
Speaker 3: so many people. Now she's in like what you would
Speaker 3: regard it generally the worst situation. I mean, no one
Speaker 3: wants to go to jail, and she's kind of like,
Speaker 3: oh what it was like a holiday, someone's actually good. Yeah,
Speaker 3: She's like she's going to Rancho relaxo. Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean that's what I wanted to touch on the
Speaker 1: start and I didn't get to it was that we
Speaker 1: already got a similar story of Marge leaving the family
Speaker 1: and it going to ship with Homer alone, which is
Speaker 1: the previous season. Yes, so it's almost like they wanted
Speaker 1: to do the same story, but how can we do it.
Speaker 1: She has to go to jail, but she wasn't away
Speaker 1: for long enough justify any of this because it just
Speaker 1: goes to shit.
Speaker 3: So quickly. Absolutely, But for her to be like, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, yeah, someone's making dinner for me, it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: I've got all this time to myself, et cetera, cetera. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, they just don't don't expand on it enough,
Speaker 3: not at all.
Speaker 1: But she also meets, so she did, and dinners get
Speaker 1: Phillip says, well, didn't your your husband ever cooked for you? Well,
Speaker 1: once he's cooking the fish, doesn't yet the lobsters. He's
Speaker 1: trying to put lobsters in the pot. Then we see
Speaker 1: tattoo Annie Mad magazine. God rest it so and still exists.
Speaker 1: I thought mad well, I thought stop, I've got a
Speaker 1: swarm Mad magazine and end have a look.
Speaker 3: Because there's about twenty minutes before we started recording today,
Speaker 3: I saw online, well there was a cover of a
Speaker 3: Mad magazine. Now, whether this was just mocked up by somebody,
Speaker 3: but it was like the poster for the great horror
Speaker 3: movie Reanimator, where you know, it's there's a head in
Speaker 3: the dish and you're a mad scientist behind it, and
Speaker 3: it's Alfred ALFREDY Newman's head in the dish, and it's
Speaker 3: Robert F. Kennedy behind him. But it was a Mad
Speaker 3: Magazine cover.
Speaker 1: It says here, Mad Magazine, this is two years ago.
Speaker 1: I love this magazine as a kid, and was it's
Speaker 1: a reprint only apparently as of two years ago. Okay,
Speaker 1: the magazine effectively folded five years ago. Interesting, So what
Speaker 1: did you found a new one? Yeah, the end of
Speaker 1: satire Mad Magazine to cease regular publication.
Speaker 3: That was in twenty nineteen. Okay, hang on one second, but
Speaker 3: then it says, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Mad Magazine is an American human magazine which launched nine
Speaker 1: fifth who is currently published by DC Comics.
Speaker 3: So it must have got rebooted. Yeah, Facebook, Mad Magazine.
Speaker 3: Look what we've reanimated, revived old pieces and all new
Speaker 3: ones make up our Mad sign Its issue on sale Wednesday,
Speaker 3: August thirteen in comic book stores.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it definitely got canceled. It definitely got canceled. I
Speaker 1: did not know it was back. That is good because
Speaker 1: I used to love going to that. I was that
Speaker 1: kid that used to go to them and go try
Speaker 1: and do the folding without bending it to come up.
Speaker 1: What's a bendit? I've got to pay for it.
Speaker 3: Sorry, you can't do that.
Speaker 1: That's not happen when no one's I would not be
Speaker 1: buying a Mad magazine if someone's done the folding, like
Speaker 1: you have to be the one that doesn't. Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: it's it's yours. That's what you're paying the money for.
Speaker 1: You get to do the.
Speaker 3: Fouls at the very end. Yeah, and all the way through.
Speaker 3: And here's your treat. Yeah that is and they were
Speaker 3: a treat. All.
Speaker 1: There's a point in life where you get old enough
Speaker 1: to get the jokes. Oh yeah, the already other this
Speaker 1: one here is what kind of was? What kind of
Speaker 1: slime would I marry? What kind of slot slime? What
Speaker 1: I'm I thinking it is?
Speaker 3: It's not like that? What me worry? Is that?
Speaker 1: Mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Mad Magazine Tato Annie tatoo on her back. Then it's
Speaker 1: the family meeting home is like, all right, margin's in't here.
Speaker 1: This is what's going to be going down. I don't
Speaker 1: want to wash your dishes and washes away, So we're
Speaker 1: gonna straight from the forest or the milk carton and
Speaker 1: we're going to eat while standing over the sink or
Speaker 1: the toilet.
Speaker 3: It's this sounds very practical.
Speaker 1: Then they said, what about magg who's gonna change the diapers?
Speaker 3: Will take its call.
Speaker 1: We let he free the back, yet nature will take
Speaker 1: its course. Lisa the sugests, if we just do all
Speaker 1: our fair share, we'll be fine. I think we'll law
Speaker 1: be gobb to keep this house stable. Ten minutes later,
Speaker 1: minutes later, yeah, house is completely torn to shreds as
Speaker 1: an alligator that goes through. It's you think it's just
Speaker 1: a sight gag. But they paid off in just a
Speaker 1: few moments. Yeah, they're out of clean clothes. And Lisa says,
Speaker 1: I feels like we're wearing the same red dress forever.
Speaker 1: Homer says, go to the attic, the old trunk and
Speaker 1: close up there, and as much as wedding dress, which
Speaker 1: he has ripped. We all like to think we can
Speaker 1: handle these situations, right, husband's men, whatever. But it's pretty
Speaker 1: fairly accurate depiction of what happens when the woman of
Speaker 1: the house gets taken away. Well, Nikola went to England
Speaker 1: for a few weeks earlier in the year, like two
Speaker 1: to three weeks, and I like to think I had
Speaker 1: pretty good grass for everything I had. It was all
Speaker 1: under control. But there were times where you know, little
Speaker 1: things creeping where you go a little later, See these
Speaker 1: dishes do them tomorrow, and then it gets to tomorrow
Speaker 1: You're like, there's only a few there. Oh, the I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be built up. And it gets to the point
Speaker 1: when you're like, Mum's back in an hour, quick fix
Speaker 1: the house.
Speaker 3: Indeed a civilizing influence. Yeah, So either you either you
Speaker 3: live with a woman and yeah, she is kind of like,
Speaker 3: we can't live like this, or you live by yourself
Speaker 3: but you have a woman in your life, it's like, well,
Speaker 3: she's not going to come over at the houses like this.
Speaker 3: You know, it inspires you to be a better person.
Speaker 3: All So, if you said to me, what color is
Speaker 3: Lisa's dress, I'd say orange. I don't think red dress.
Speaker 3: It doesn't scream red to me like Marge's necklace screams red. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I would think more orange than red.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because she goes it feels I've been saying that's
Speaker 1: wearing the same red dress all my life, which is
Speaker 1: the gag, being that they never get changed, You're always
Speaker 1: wearing the same clothes. But I never thought Lisa's wearing red.
Speaker 1: As I was watching go Back and watching reruns, what
Speaker 1: I Okay, well, I know it's a red dress, but
Speaker 1: I remember thinking earlier on red really, this seems orange
Speaker 1: to me, you know it looks I agree with you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's very similar to Bart's orange T shirt. Then Bark
Speaker 1: compares you that school was comparing lunch to Millhouse, Millhouse
Speaker 1: as I believe a baloney and she sandwich and he's
Speaker 1: got a pack of sugar and a peanut butter smear
Speaker 1: on a playing card. Nelson mocks him because his mum's
Speaker 1: in prison, so as yours. Hey, let's play, let's friends
Speaker 1: have something to bond over. Then it's time for prison
Speaker 1: visit day. Home is wearing the Halloween costume. There Satan,
Speaker 1: I am evil Home, but this is a whole It's
Speaker 1: like he clearly wanted to wear this, but the reactions
Speaker 1: he's getting in Puppy, he's like he's unsure if neither
Speaker 1: had a moment where you've worn something. You're going, I
Speaker 1: look great in this, but then when you get outside
Speaker 1: you're like, I'm not too short now, oh yeah, And
Speaker 1: he gets real self conscious. Oh, very much so, because
Speaker 1: it might be a loud shirt or something. You're like,
Speaker 1: I thought, I thought no one said anything to make
Speaker 1: you think you couldn't. But it's like, no one's compliment
Speaker 1: to me either, no, is everyone looking at me and laughing.
Speaker 3: When you take a step outside your fashion comfort zone,
Speaker 3: it you are usually expecting looking good. You need something.
Speaker 3: When you don't get looking good, your brain automatically switches
Speaker 3: to well, I must be looking bad.
Speaker 1: I need to go back and a change to wear
Speaker 1: the same black shirt I where every day.
Speaker 3: It must be time for as the sky blue Oxford
Speaker 3: buttons and shirt and jeans. But I always wear.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you love your north face, don't you?
Speaker 3: I do very much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of people do, apparently everywhere. Now
Speaker 1: I talk about conspiracy theories. I swear they're taken over
Speaker 1: the world. Normal they're following the same black, gray white
Speaker 1: jacket to see everyone wearing.
Speaker 3: I'm too I'm too scared to be individual.
Speaker 1: But says that I mentioned. There's an alligator. We flushed
Speaker 1: down the toilet, got stuck half ways and now we're
Speaker 1: gonna Now we're gonna feed it, and Grandpa accidentally feeds it.
Speaker 1: It's his teeth. Then we get the conjugal visit.
Speaker 3: Honey.
Speaker 4: I don't know what you're feeling right now, so I
Speaker 4: don't want to push anything. We can just hold hands
Speaker 4: or sit and talk.
Speaker 1: There's actually really nice mode for Homer as well as like,
Speaker 1: I want to have sex with you, but I'm willing
Speaker 1: to go No, just hold hands if that's all you're
Speaker 1: comfortable with. She's like, lay down, kno's the whole trailer
Speaker 1: over my pantsy on him. Then we were time for
Speaker 1: at the Beautify our Parks bake sale, and there's this
Speaker 1: very campy man who wants Marge's marshmallow squares.
Speaker 3: Oh darn, darn, oh darn.
Speaker 1: But they're not there, and then the fifty dollars short,
Speaker 1: so they can't buy the Lincoln statue they wanted. They
Speaker 1: have to settle for the thirty ninth President, which is
Speaker 1: history's greatest monster.
Speaker 3: Jimmy Carter.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter. Yes, they knock it over and the town
Speaker 1: goes through hell. There are riots everywhere Williams, at least
Speaker 1: the dogs. They look pretty angry. Yeah, I've been teasing them,
Speaker 1: starving them, singing out a key me me ma'mo. That
Speaker 1: is fucking so funny to me me me mama. And
Speaker 1: they let him to attack him and Maud's this never
Speaker 1: would happened that March Simpson was around. And then Marge
Speaker 1: is ready to go home, is leaning against the car.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 1: Apparently this is a similar shot to a scene in
Speaker 1: Goodfellows in which he gets out of prison and his
Speaker 1: wife is waiting for him by resting against the car
Speaker 1: like this, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sounds about right, Rayley. He gets out of jail, the
Speaker 3: rain Broko was waiting for him.
Speaker 1: Apparently the visual design of it all looks very similar
Speaker 1: to Good Fellows, apparently according to someone IMDb. Nice Phillips
Speaker 1: then says that you know, I don't worry Marjor. I'm
Speaker 1: doing well with meta. Guy is Barney. He says, his
Speaker 1: name is Holmer. He works at the power plant. And
Speaker 1: March here, she's two nice to say anything, otherwise she's
Speaker 1: never getting out. She killed a guy, so let's just
Speaker 1: let's just let her believe it. Let's just let her
Speaker 1: believe it. Butt and Lisa and there cleaning up the
Speaker 1: house because Marge is coming home, gonna sweep it all
Speaker 1: under the rug. Your man, wise guy. He watch it
Speaker 1: and it ends with Marge being greeted with a giant
Speaker 1: welcome home party. Helen Lovejoyce says Sean only use her
Speaker 1: gossip for good now and not evil. Free cheers for March,
Speaker 1: and they show off the statue which is just the
Speaker 1: statue of Kada with a.
Speaker 3: March wig, but also it says March forever as opposed
Speaker 3: to Malaise forever. Yep.
Speaker 1: If it's just got her head on her hair on top,
Speaker 1: as you said. But and Lisa now using the statue
Speaker 1: as a ted the ball station. And that's the end
Speaker 1: of the episode. So a really strong start, an entertaining middle,
Speaker 1: and a rushed ending.
Speaker 3: Rushed that's the best. That's a very polite way of
Speaker 3: putting it, Yes, and a very diplomatic way of putting it.
Speaker 1: You sit down and go, what is the point of
Speaker 1: this episode? Is it just Marge goes to prison or
Speaker 1: is it everyone needs to realize how pivotal Marge is
Speaker 1: now important March is to not just a family, but Springfield,
Speaker 1: and how do we execute that?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think there are two separate episodes. I do.
Speaker 3: I think the town needed to realize we rushed the
Speaker 3: judgment and we let our own worst impulses sort of
Speaker 3: come to the fore. And I think they needed to
Speaker 3: take a good, long, hard look at themselves because of that,
Speaker 3: I think, which it never really does.
Speaker 1: I think you needed for if you want to tell
Speaker 1: both these stories in the one episode, you want to
Speaker 1: be a Margin Prison episode. She really needed to be
Speaker 1: in prison by the end of the first act. That
Speaker 1: needed to be the first commercial Marge going to prison.
Speaker 1: You need to get the court case and the coronavirt
Speaker 1: yoursaka Flu all done out of the way, because that
Speaker 1: sort of goes on a long time.
Speaker 3: It's editing, It goes on a long time. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I think, Well, but you need to play out the
Speaker 1: insanity margins going through as well.
Speaker 3: That's true. Look, we're sort of speculatating stuff that didn't happen.
Speaker 3: It feels like the court case stuff and the osaka
Speaker 3: Flu stuff in the first and second acts feels more
Speaker 3: entertaining than anything anything they could do with Margin Prison,
Speaker 3: if you know what I mean. I mean, look, I'm
Speaker 3: sure if the riders sat down, like, let's come up
Speaker 3: with fun scenarios while Marge's behind bars.
Speaker 1: It's probably why they do that week because I mean, granted,
Speaker 1: the stuff in the prison that we got was entertaining.
Speaker 1: We got the at tattoo and he was a good gag. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we get her pantcy on Homer with a good gag.
Speaker 1: I just think there was a lot too.
Speaker 3: I get the villain that I'll probably spitballing ideas in
Speaker 3: the writer's room for like entertaining, Yeah, what's fun for
Speaker 3: margin prison? And Yeah, they just sort of crunch the
Speaker 3: thumbs and realize we're coming up with more entertaining stuff
Speaker 3: with huts in the court room. Yeah, let's let's drag
Speaker 3: out the courtroom stuff a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I just think if you're going to do that, though
Speaker 1: what she did wrong needs to be worse, it still
Speaker 1: has to be an accident. There's been more than just
Speaker 1: accidentally taking a bottle of bourbon from the Quickie mark Like,
Speaker 1: that doesn't to me justify thirty days prison. How many
Speaker 1: time do we see snake? I suppose State goes to prison,
Speaker 1: but Homer's done so many wrong things he hasn't gone
Speaker 1: to prison. It just seems like, I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: not a bad episode.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no. I got a lot of the
Speaker 3: enjoyment out of this one for me.
Speaker 1: I don't say this very often for Golden Near episodes
Speaker 1: is one where you kind of need to switch the
Speaker 1: brain up and just go with it. Yeah, which I
Speaker 1: don't recall ever feeling this way watching it previously, but
Speaker 1: when you're reviewing it, you're going this doesn't really make
Speaker 1: a lot of sense.
Speaker 3: Foundations are a little flimsy. Yeah.
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