Speaker 1: Mister, you are grounded and no TV can take you
Speaker 1: all the exciting colors out of your crayons. When you're
Speaker 1: out of my sight, you must constantly twitter me exactly
Speaker 1: what you're up to, even though I don't know what
Speaker 1: Twitter is and have no desire to find out.
Speaker 2: You guys are the meanest appearents ever.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Four Finger Discount dude.
Speaker 3: Welcome to four Finger Discount. With this week, we're gonna
Speaker 3: be sending some podcasts, some podcasts from the Wedge.
Speaker 1: Are we in the Wedge?
Speaker 3: Where are we anyway? I'm Danda.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's some fun wordplay there. Yeah, I am guy.
Speaker 1: By the way, Yes, Postcards from the Wedge?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's that a play on? I didn't do any
Speaker 3: research on the title of this episode, did you know what?
Speaker 3: I thought? That's gonna be your new bit. You can
Speaker 3: tell us what the title is? A spin on podcast
Speaker 3: from the Wedge? What's that I spin on?
Speaker 1: Well? This this requires me to do homework. How funny
Speaker 1: that this episode is about that, and I would like that.
Speaker 1: I would rather not do one much. But Postcards from
Speaker 1: the Edge is the first book by Carrie Fisher. Oh really, yeah.
Speaker 3: She's on the edge of insanity. Most she entered Hollywood.
Speaker 1: Right pretty much. Well, yeah, she was born into a
Speaker 1: show his family, and I started acting from a fairly
Speaker 1: young age. Even before she was Friendcess Lage. She'd been
Speaker 1: in a few movies and things like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it wasn't Hamble the only real unknown
Speaker 3: going into the main cast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think even Hamill was sort of on the
Speaker 1: on the rise as well. I mean, Harrison Ford wasn't
Speaker 1: even that well known. He'd been in a few movies
Speaker 1: and he'd been an American graffiti for George Luke. That's
Speaker 1: the one, I mean, really a star parent that was
Speaker 1: Alec Guinness. Yeah, I mean that's that's the one that
Speaker 1: gave star was a bit of credibility, but no. Postcards
Speaker 1: from the Edge was Carrie Fisher's first novel, as very
Speaker 1: sort of thinly veiled story of her life and her
Speaker 1: sort of career in show because it's about a young
Speaker 1: young actress in Hollywood sort of navigating her professonal professional life.
Speaker 1: She's sort of in and out of rehab. She's flirting
Speaker 1: with flirting with drugs, heavy petting with a drug show,
Speaker 1: we say, but yeah, it gave a lot of people
Speaker 1: in indications like, oh, we thought she were just Princess Leia,
Speaker 1: But you know Carrie Fisher, as I think we've alluded
Speaker 1: to on we might have talked about this with Lennond
Speaker 1: Moulton on the Movie Guide with Malton Davis how she
Speaker 1: was a really successful script doctor for Ages and then
Speaker 1: she wrote her own scripts. But she also if a
Speaker 1: production needed like this could use four funnier lines, or
Speaker 1: this character is a little undeveloped, they'd go to Carrie Fisher.
Speaker 1: And she was a really good writer to be able
Speaker 1: to punch it up. So she published a few more books,
Speaker 1: but Postcards from the Edge was her first one, just
Speaker 1: before or after Star Wars. It was after Star Wars.
Speaker 1: I think it was the late eighties early nineties. I
Speaker 1: remember having a copy back in the day and look,
Speaker 1: there's pretty good.
Speaker 3: Look it up. So what does that title have to
Speaker 3: do with this episode? What does because usually the title
Speaker 3: is a spit on something that can relate what was
Speaker 3: they talk about the wedge issue in this though, Ah,
Speaker 3: the wedge of the parents. There you go, well done, sir,
Speaker 3: there we go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And Postcast the Edge was actually made into a
Speaker 1: movie with Meryl Streep, Shili McLain I've seen that post
Speaker 1: and now you're talking about yeahs quades and there Gene Hackman,
Speaker 1: Richard Dreyfus, and the benning is Dreyfus.
Speaker 3: I've always said Dryfus could.
Speaker 1: Be either could be potato potato. Wait a minute, no one.
Speaker 3: Says potato except who the songwriters who are trying to
Speaker 3: rhyme the word or through.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Postcards from the Edge is yeah, Kerry Fisher
Speaker 1: Joint Posts from the Widge. Is this episode of The Simpsons, Yeah,
Speaker 1: which I enjoyed more.
Speaker 3: Than last week. Really, I didn't like cal Yoh at all.
Speaker 3: I know you did not. Yeah, I enjoyed this one
Speaker 3: a lot more. I think it's because I am going
Speaker 3: through what not going through what they're going through. Because
Speaker 3: my kids don't go out of their way to manipulate,
Speaker 3: but they're at that point now where they getting old
Speaker 3: enough my kids where if they get announced that they
Speaker 3: don't like, they'll just go to the other parent and
Speaker 3: not go, well Dad said this. They'll just go and say,
Speaker 3: I'll just see what the other one says. And because
Speaker 3: if one of them says okay, then we're good. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but they won't say Dad said no, But what do
Speaker 3: you reckon, it's just okay, well dad said no, Let's
Speaker 3: see what mom says, and Nichola says, okay, Nick supposed
Speaker 3: about me out because I didn't know you'd already said no,
Speaker 3: And they're like, well, what is it, guys?
Speaker 1: This is something I wanted to talk about with you, because, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're coming live from the trenches of parenthood.
Speaker 3: Which is why I think I relate a lot more
Speaker 3: to this.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, But hey, I'm wondering if you and Nichola have
Speaker 1: to sort of sit there before, even before you had kids,
Speaker 1: sort of had to go right, what's our game plan here?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know you have to approach everything on
Speaker 1: a case by case basis. That's life, that's parenthood. But yeah,
Speaker 1: if there are certain big issues that come up, or
Speaker 1: certain big issues that knew were going to happen when
Speaker 1: you had kids, when you had Elliot, when you had
Speaker 1: only it's like, okay, look, we have to be a
Speaker 1: united front on this issue. This is the way we're
Speaker 1: going to take it, even if it may sort of
Speaker 1: run counter to the way you would normally think about something.
Speaker 1: It's like, Nicola may have a strong stance on homework,
Speaker 1: for instance, using this and you mean I'm like, look,
Speaker 1: it's overrated. I don't know what you mean. It's like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we have to have a united brun and this has
Speaker 1: to be our position. Yeah, I'm wondering if that's the case.
Speaker 1: I don't know how other couples do it. But we
Speaker 1: never really sat down and had a discussion about things
Speaker 1: like that. But before kids, it was just a lot
Speaker 1: of parents don't before.
Speaker 3: You had kids. This is us in general. Before we
Speaker 3: had kids, you just you got along because you just
Speaker 3: you got along. There's a reason you were married because
Speaker 3: you were friends. And that's what having kids. We've had
Speaker 3: a conversation since even much just like six months ago,
Speaker 3: is you need to remember why you're married together in
Speaker 3: the first place, because it's almost like to become work
Speaker 3: colleagues as opposed to best friends because you're working at
Speaker 3: it's like you watch the kids, why exercising, it's always
Speaker 3: like you're chopping each other out. And then my parents
Speaker 3: God Blessing took the kids for their first little mini
Speaker 3: holiday away this week just to their their house. They
Speaker 3: took the kids for four I think it was four nights,
Speaker 3: three three days, four nights, whatever it was, and we
Speaker 3: didn't know what to do with that. It got to
Speaker 3: like Saturday in the morning and we went, what are
Speaker 3: we going to do? Are the kids on here?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Oh, this is what it was like when we could
Speaker 3: just and like we said, we said to each other,
Speaker 3: it's not that we don't want them here, but it
Speaker 3: was just nice to be able to just do something
Speaker 3: without having to worry about, of course what they're doing,
Speaker 3: you know, and it was just having time and we
Speaker 3: sort of remembered, oh, this is why we're married in
Speaker 3: the first time.
Speaker 1: Went back to the old normal as opposed to the
Speaker 1: new norm. Yeah. There's a great line in the movie
Speaker 1: Before Sunset, you know those ones with Ethan Hawk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: where I think Ethan Hawk is going through a separation
Speaker 1: from his wife with whom he has kids, and he
Speaker 1: and kind of in the weeds about it, and he says, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like running a daycare center with someone who used
Speaker 1: to date.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it gets that way. Sometimes you get better at it.
Speaker 3: When it was when we struggled for a bit, when
Speaker 3: Holly was starting to talk a lot more and just
Speaker 3: sort of batchat she was more rebellious than Alliott. I
Speaker 3: wouldn't call my kids naughty, but they just you know,
Speaker 3: if they didn't get what they wanted, they would react
Speaker 3: in a way that most kids would just react to,
Speaker 3: what do you mean? I want to get what I want?
Speaker 3: They didn't go oh, like Bart does this episode, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna plant these seeds and manipulate and things. That's just
Speaker 3: why am I not getting what I want? And then
Speaker 3: you get angry and I find myself sometimes I ask myself,
Speaker 3: am I being a good father? Am I being a
Speaker 3: good person? I feel like that sometimes their behavior brings
Speaker 3: out the worst in me. Oh, I understand, and that's
Speaker 3: why I watching this seeing Homer going, you go do
Speaker 3: your homework, and then Marge's like, you know you do this?
Speaker 3: You feel sorry. Sometimes I find Nikola and I Nichola
Speaker 3: will be struggling to get them to do it. They're todd,
Speaker 3: get your pjs on, do this, and they're just taking
Speaker 3: the piss, taking the piss, and Nicholas just come on now,
Speaker 3: and I just go put your fucking pjs on, like
Speaker 3: where the bosses, and Nicola goes, Dad didn't mean to
Speaker 3: get I'm like, don't, no, no, no, And that's where
Speaker 3: the frustration for us will start stemming from us, like
Speaker 3: you weren't getting they weren't listening to you. I laid
Speaker 3: the I put my foot down. Yeah, we've got an object.
Speaker 3: And then it was I almost felt like, don't make
Speaker 3: them feel bad because they got youlled at it. They
Speaker 3: weren't doing what they were told, which is what I
Speaker 3: watched Homer in this episode. A lot of the cases
Speaker 3: like do your homework, and for the first time home
Speaker 3: is actually trying to be a good parents. You told
Speaker 3: you have to do your homework, you might just like
Speaker 3: just do a little bit, just do a little bit.
Speaker 3: I was like, I'll be there.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay. Look that brings a lot of stuff into
Speaker 1: focus for me, or clarifies a lot, because you look,
Speaker 1: I just start a parent, don't have kids, haven't had
Speaker 1: to sort of go through an of this stuff. I
Speaker 1: was watching a lot of this episode. This should be
Speaker 1: a lot easier than it is, but no, it can
Speaker 1: be quite difficult when you've got two people with two
Speaker 1: different personalities, two different approaches, not necessarily different approaches everything,
Speaker 1: but certainly to one issue, this wedge issue. Yeah, in
Speaker 1: this case, it can cause a bit of a bit
Speaker 1: of a divide.
Speaker 3: It was funny for me last night watching these reviews
Speaker 3: to do these reviews that we're doing today because we
Speaker 3: actually recording the next episode as well, back to back
Speaker 3: here next week one, which is stealing first base. It is,
Speaker 3: but I'm watching this going I don't think I would
Speaker 3: have liked these episodes ten years ago, and I compared
Speaker 3: it to I've been watching the Beatles Anthology mentioned it
Speaker 3: recently on her podcast, and I love the Beatles growing up,
Speaker 3: and then I loved Lennon's I loved his solo stuff.
Speaker 3: But there are a lot of songs where I was
Speaker 3: just like, they're good songs. And the older I got,
Speaker 3: he got married, starting having kids, songs like just like
Speaker 3: starting over, Yeah, beautiful Boy, all those songs, I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I get them now. I like to the Maladies, but
Speaker 3: now I understand the songs. And I was like, I
Speaker 3: think about a point in my life now where Lennon was,
Speaker 3: and that point in his life where he's writing things
Speaker 3: that related to him as a late thirty year old,
Speaker 3: and now I'm in my late thirties, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: I get these songs. These episodes here, I feel like
Speaker 3: I'm going through what the writers might have been going
Speaker 3: through as they were writing these episodes, which is why
Speaker 3: I think I relate to them a lot more than
Speaker 3: maybe what you do.
Speaker 1: At this point. Well, I'm glad you're hear that, yeah,
Speaker 1: because you probably got more to say about this particular
Speaker 1: episode than I did, which I thought was eh, okay.
Speaker 1: I mean I think I was approaching it more from
Speaker 1: a just entertaining Is this an entertaining episode? And it
Speaker 1: is in some ways, but in other ways it is.
Speaker 1: I think that was Actually I think I've written down
Speaker 1: fucking down an episode. Man. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3: There was a subplot here that I feel like could
Speaker 3: have been its own episode, probably should have been its
Speaker 3: own episode, the Springfield Subway. There is so much to
Speaker 3: do with that, and it became just sort of this
Speaker 3: mini subplot of how Bark caused an earthquake. But I
Speaker 3: was like, there's a Springfield Subway. That's a whole new
Speaker 3: world to base episodes around, Like have the episode. I
Speaker 3: know you've had mar Dresses the monorail, but I think Springfield,
Speaker 3: for whatever reason, they needed to having to reopen the
Speaker 3: Springfield Subway and it just remaining open. I think would
Speaker 3: be a fun new show, adventure and world for them
Speaker 3: to base episodes. Just for example, I'm thinking playing Simpsons
Speaker 3: Hit and Run. I know why my brain went there
Speaker 3: when I was watching this episode in Simpsons Hit and Run.
Speaker 3: I think it would have been so cool to jump
Speaker 3: on the Springfield Subway and drive around like I just
Speaker 3: think there's so many things you could have done based
Speaker 3: in the Springfield Subway, could have become a new beloved location.
Speaker 3: But it's just sort of fobbed off.
Speaker 1: I'm wagering when they never gonna hear from it again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly right, And that's a shame, I think. I
Speaker 3: think it's I think it's a really interesting location.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you're not wrong, You're not wrong. I mean,
Speaker 1: sorry to jump ahead to favorite moments were. One of
Speaker 1: the things that I really liked about this episode was
Speaker 1: that opening animation, that whole Springfield or Tomorrow thing, and
Speaker 1: you know, showing that Springfield was indeed a city on
Speaker 1: the grow at some stage, and it's like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: like the idea of it being, yeah, a city that's
Speaker 1: got this whole kind of infrastructure and we're in Geelong,
Speaker 1: the Springfield of Australia. It's like, I remember we used
Speaker 1: to have DRAMs and stuff like that, oh way way
Speaker 1: way back in the day. And I think when you
Speaker 1: have your hometown. You sort of look at it and go,
Speaker 1: there's so much potential here. Why are we following through
Speaker 1: on that march versus the monorail.
Speaker 3: To me, the difference would be that the monorael felt
Speaker 3: unnecessary and it was clearly a scam from the get go. Right,
Speaker 3: the Springfield monrorael and a subway must have worked at
Speaker 3: some point, sure, and then as decided we didn't need
Speaker 3: to Yeah, man, but had it going quickly?
Speaker 1: Exactly? What do I always say? We used to build
Speaker 1: things in this kind of It looked really beautiful. Yes,
Speaker 1: even Bard comments look at that iron work.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying, Like this location would have been
Speaker 3: so beautiful to see up and running you maybe, hey,
Speaker 3: Al Jean Matt Salmon, Simpsons movie, bring Back the Springfield Subway?
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, we spoke recently. Come on, you're clearly listening
Speaker 1: to it. I want to get your thoughts on homework. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do the kids have homework? Not yet?
Speaker 3: The only homework they have at the moment is, you know,
Speaker 3: do some reading, not do an assignment on this?
Speaker 1: Not yet?
Speaker 3: Is any grade grade too? I think grade three is
Speaker 3: when it really starts kicking into gain.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was just thinking about diorramas. I think I
Speaker 1: never had to make a diorhama for a homework or
Speaker 1: anything like that. But I remember back in like grade six,
Speaker 1: we had some project was basically like make a plaster
Speaker 1: of Paris map of Australia or something.
Speaker 3: Okay, we have got make volcanoes and things like that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Machet like, it's.
Speaker 1: The point of this, honestly, And I mean the one
Speaker 1: that I made with a lot of help from Mum
Speaker 1: turned out to be kind of but ugly and geographically inaccurate.
Speaker 3: We did it, but you got a good memory about it.
Speaker 3: You got a good memory, but making it right?
Speaker 1: No, not really really.
Speaker 3: Making dioramas and things with my parents. Yeah, that's sort
Speaker 3: of a key chig memory from that.
Speaker 1: I think both Mum and kind of like, what's the point.
Speaker 1: What are we doing here, guys? And then this was
Speaker 1: not like a year long project or something, but it
Speaker 1: was semi major. He actually had to do it during
Speaker 1: school holidays as well. I remember coming back from school
Speaker 1: holidays and someone had made something that looked absolutely beautiful,
Speaker 1: like one legit professional.
Speaker 3: They didn't make it, that's the thing.
Speaker 1: Maybe they didn't.
Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. I feel like I'm gonna be
Speaker 3: that parent that wants Elliott's to look good, nice sort
Speaker 3: of take over. Oh no, that's not what we do,
Speaker 3: so do we do it this way?
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I was thinking about homework, and
Speaker 1: you hear a lot of sort of parents saying or
Speaker 1: even you know, wow, God, what's the point of that?
Speaker 1: Why can't we Why can't our kids learn what they
Speaker 1: have to learn within school hours and then after hours?
Speaker 1: You know, that's when they can either extracurriculus or they
Speaker 1: just get a chance to be kids, just get a
Speaker 1: chance to relax. Well, yeah, maybe the work the homework
Speaker 1: is not about the work or not about the task
Speaker 1: it's been set. It's more about do you have persistence,
Speaker 1: do you have organization? Do you have good time management? Not?
Speaker 1: Do you have these things naturally, but we're trying to
Speaker 1: maybe instill these into you. I think, Okay, well that's valid.
Speaker 1: That makes a bunch of sense.
Speaker 3: It's for me, My core thing, and I've mentioned this
Speaker 3: in a podcast, is stressing to my kids. It doesn't
Speaker 3: matter if you don't get a great score, as long
Speaker 3: as you're having an effort. As long as you're putting
Speaker 3: in the effort, that's what I want the most And
Speaker 3: obviously you want your kids to do succeed and do
Speaker 3: well in school. But you don't have to succeed in
Speaker 3: school to succeed in life. No, it's just as long
Speaker 3: as you are doing what you want to do, you're happy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's happy. Yeah, But I mean the structure.
Speaker 3: Of learning and this pertains the homework as well as Yeah,
Speaker 3: can you do it outside of the structure of school. Yeah,
Speaker 3: while we're not sort of looming over you, so you know,
Speaker 3: and there are going to be times when you're not
Speaker 3: being monitored. Yeah, and that's the time when you have
Speaker 3: to sort of sit down and go, Okay, well I
Speaker 3: need to can do ABC and D. Do I have
Speaker 3: it in me to sit down and do all these things?
Speaker 3: And what's the most efficient and effective way to do it?
Speaker 3: I think the older you get, I know, when I
Speaker 3: was in year twelve anyway, what we call VCE you
Speaker 3: do less classes so you have more study time at school.
Speaker 3: So when it starts getting to the nitty gritty, the
Speaker 3: serious side of things, we've got to get a good
Speaker 3: score to get into university and things like that. It's
Speaker 3: all right. Instead of doing you know, ten sessions of classroom.
Speaker 3: You might do seven and you got five through it,
Speaker 3: and you can pick when you have your study sessions. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and you're studying at school. Some kids obviously go the
Speaker 3: extra mile and study outside of school and they get
Speaker 3: better scores, but they give you at least that time
Speaker 3: at school to go. We know that you're probably not
Speaker 3: going to want to do stuff outside of school, so
Speaker 3: you can have some study time at school. But yeah,
Speaker 3: Ali's at that point. He's doing homework yet, but he
Speaker 3: wants to. He says, I want to do some homework.
Speaker 3: He'll say, can you give me ten words to write?
Speaker 3: Or And Ali's he's just a smart kid.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: I know you buyas for your own kids, but he's
Speaker 3: just smart.
Speaker 1: That's good. Yeah, he's motivated.
Speaker 3: I guess you could say, well, it's well, it's good
Speaker 3: to have the both, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well I took him roller skating for the first time
Speaker 3: the roll skating rink here in Geelong, and he'd never
Speaker 3: roll scatered or rollerblade whites in his life. And the
Speaker 3: first fifteen twenty minutes he was struggling and he was
Speaker 3: falling over and I said, look, I'm gonna go get
Speaker 3: it there and help him because he's just kept falling over.
Speaker 3: I could see he was getting I wouldn't say he
Speaker 3: was getting frustrated. He was getting embarrassed because you've seen
Speaker 3: other kids sort of scat and he was like, I
Speaker 3: don't want to look like I can't do this and
Speaker 3: other kids are falling over, but he doesn't. That's not
Speaker 3: what he's focusing on. He's just focusing I can't do it,
Speaker 3: so it. Then I helped him and I got in between.
Speaker 3: He was holding onto the wall, so I held it.
Speaker 3: I'm your wall, you hold onto my hand and said
Speaker 3: I said, you want to have a break, and he goes, no,
Speaker 3: I'm going to get this. I'm going to get this.
Speaker 3: And within an hour he was having me time him
Speaker 3: doing laps because he just he's like, I can do this.
Speaker 3: I know I can do this. I've just got to practice.
Speaker 3: And it's just trying to instill in him it's okay
Speaker 3: because I reckon. A year ago, he would have cracked it,
Speaker 3: and he's now thankfully learnt that it's okay not to
Speaker 3: be good at something from the get go.
Speaker 1: That's a valuable less list.
Speaker 3: Persist, you know, just try and it doesn't matter if
Speaker 3: you don't pick it up. But just try not everything's
Speaker 3: for everyone.
Speaker 1: Well that's the only I've quoted this interview that I
Speaker 1: did on ago, and it's probably less valid these days
Speaker 1: because this guy's going to persona nograda, not persona no grada.
Speaker 1: But I did this interview with Will Smith back in
Speaker 1: the early two thousands because he played Muhammad Ali in
Speaker 1: l A and he referred to himself as a clumsy geek.
Speaker 1: And he said, but he's the thing. I'm a math guy,
Speaker 1: and he is. I mean, he got to head a
Speaker 1: scholarship to MIT to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Smart guy.
Speaker 1: You know, I believe in math. Like if I do
Speaker 1: this today and I keep doing this, this, this, and
Speaker 1: if I keep doing it, it will compound. You know.
Speaker 1: I was you know, I wasn't able to box like
Speaker 1: Muhammad Ali. But if I kept training, you know, if
Speaker 1: I set myself a curriculum and I did it day
Speaker 1: after day after day after day, I would get muscle
Speaker 1: memory and eventually I'd be I wasn't able to box
Speaker 1: like Muhammad Ali, but I was certainly convincing enough to
Speaker 1: make you think that I could. That makes it. That
Speaker 1: made a whole bunch of sense to him. It was
Speaker 1: like Will Smith the smart guy. Yeah, shouldn't have slaped
Speaker 1: First Rock the.
Speaker 3: Way he did it was Ricky Gervais. I was watching
Speaker 3: an interview recently, just a clip of it on social
Speaker 3: media where he goes, I don't think we'll want to
Speaker 3: do the slap. I think he watch him. You watch
Speaker 3: his face and he gets up, and he can tell
Speaker 3: before he even gets to Chris Rock he's regretted what
Speaker 3: he's done, but he's gone so far to do something.
Speaker 3: He's reached the point of because he goes he could
Speaker 3: go up there and just not Chris Rock's block off,
Speaker 3: but he goes. You watch him when he slashed him,
Speaker 3: he sort of like leans back on it. It still
Speaker 3: hits him hard, but he can just tell in his
Speaker 3: face he was just he went, oh, I've stood up.
Speaker 3: Now I've got to do something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and confused enough at the moment is like, oh,
Speaker 1: I could probably turn this into a bit. You know,
Speaker 1: I could get up and sort of like put him in.
Speaker 3: A headlock or something, just like yeah, it's headlog is
Speaker 3: like wind by the lights man. Yeah, man, So anyway,
Speaker 3: but don't slap people.
Speaker 1: Before all that happened, Will Smith at least had one
Speaker 1: valuable thing to say as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 3: But I really liked the ending of this. So the
Speaker 3: whole story is that Bart for those of you that
Speaker 3: haven't watched the episode, because there are some listeners out there,
Speaker 3: just don't bother watching the episodes in WHI let's listen
Speaker 3: to our reviews. So the main story is that Bart
Speaker 3: is causing a riff in between Homer and Marge because
Speaker 3: he's just being his normal naughty self and he wants
Speaker 3: and he he's using them both against each other to
Speaker 3: get what he wants. Yes, and then they realize, you
Speaker 3: know what, our marriage is more important. I think Homoss
Speaker 3: is something along the lines of, we can't let him
Speaker 3: break our marriage up. We got the reason we got
Speaker 3: mad in the first place was because of him. Yes,
Speaker 3: So it's like they didn't focus on themselves and they
Speaker 3: it was just nice seeing them getting along again, like
Speaker 3: just and this is what it was like for us
Speaker 3: in the weekend. It's like, oh, we're just going out
Speaker 3: and went to the restaurant for a restaurant, had dinner
Speaker 3: and it wasn't put that down. Sit still, sit on
Speaker 3: your bum, sit on your bum, don't watch bring the
Speaker 3: glass away from the edge of the It's always the
Speaker 3: same routine. Glass away from the edge of the table.
Speaker 3: Stop talking with your mouth full, sit on your bum.
Speaker 3: Don't know you want to go to toilet? Okay, no worries,
Speaker 3: get to the tour at the other one. I need
Speaker 3: to go to the toilet now, Okay, you're gonna go. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go. Chop out. It's just it's just nice
Speaker 3: being able to just relax and seeing margin Homer, just
Speaker 3: enjoying each other's company and just going, you know what,
Speaker 3: we don't give a shit, you know. But then they
Speaker 3: realize that's not how it can work. You need to
Speaker 3: find a balance of being a good parent and or
Speaker 3: just being your parent, yes, and working out what works
Speaker 3: for you guys as well. And then you think that
Speaker 3: Lisa has overheard a conversation of Bart saying I'm going
Speaker 3: to cause an earthquake in Springfield and destroy the school
Speaker 3: by running the subway. But no, he's actually used Lisa's
Speaker 3: whatever stationary to write a letter too muge, saying as
Speaker 3: he's Lisa dobbin on Bart, they catch him. He gets caught,
Speaker 3: He gets in trouble, back to normal, back to the
Speaker 3: status quo, and is revealed at the end that Lisa's like,
Speaker 3: I didn't write that note, but tried to get himself
Speaker 3: caught so that he could go back to the status quo,
Speaker 3: and Lisa says, I'm not going to say anything. I thought,
Speaker 3: at least it's a nice moment between brother and sister,
Speaker 3: because I'm so sick of them being mean to each
Speaker 3: other all the time. I get the I get bickering
Speaker 3: brother and sister bickering, but I don't feel like they're
Speaker 3: bickering anymore. I feel like they genuinely with the recent episodes,
Speaker 3: they just don't like each other anymore.
Speaker 1: No. No, I mean, look, I don't want to sort
Speaker 1: of sledge the riders too much, but yeah, it felt
Speaker 1: like they kind of lost the knack of just writing
Speaker 1: the kind of banter that a bickering brother and sister
Speaker 1: would have as a Yeah, I mean, this is just
Speaker 1: snark as opposed to just yeah, little bits.
Speaker 3: Of niggling it one another genuine disdain for each other, yeah,
Speaker 3: which is not entertaining fun. No, the only thing I
Speaker 3: would have liked for this episode is one final scene
Speaker 3: of margin Homer just acknowledging that they're going to be
Speaker 3: fine going forward. But also still going to be parenting,
Speaker 3: because you have. I think the last thing we see
Speaker 3: from them is them yelling at Bart for what he
Speaker 3: did with the subway and causing the earthquake and whatnot,
Speaker 3: and then he hugs him and says, thanks for being
Speaker 3: mean parent, guys, I love you. And that's the end
Speaker 3: of it. And you think I wanted to see margin
Speaker 3: Homer go, well, going forward, we're still going to be
Speaker 3: best friends. We just gotta work on this together.
Speaker 1: I think we can make that assumption. Yeah, but it
Speaker 1: takes ten seconds.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there was some sort of filler gag in
Speaker 3: this episode he could cut out to add that little
Speaker 3: extra scene and.
Speaker 1: Just another filler gags in the next episode, which is
Speaker 1: the next one, stealing those bays. It wasn't too bad.
Speaker 1: It was not good. Okay my favorite.
Speaker 3: Were your favorite moments from this one?
Speaker 1: As I mentioned, I really like the Actually I love
Speaker 1: the Springfield Tomorrow animation. I like that. I just liked
Speaker 1: the animation style.
Speaker 3: It was weird for me because I like the style
Speaker 3: of it. I went, what is this?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I was trying to sort of picture
Speaker 1: exactly what it's from. I mean, it feels just very
Speaker 1: sort of nineteen fifties. The future is now. So I
Speaker 1: mentioned the subway in that they do it, yeah, because
Speaker 1: they talk about is it subway sam.
Speaker 3: Ah, because you've got so planting of sets of the subway.
Speaker 1: You got the guys they go on a bus or something.
Speaker 1: You got a bus, then you to stop the guy
Speaker 1: m yeah, modic Carmel, Yeah, that's right. Yeah, but I
Speaker 1: just like I love the local Jetsons. Yeah, it felt
Speaker 1: a little Jetsony also not peanuts like, but certainly that
Speaker 1: kind of nineteen fifties, nineteen sixty star Yeah, definitely style. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it felt very I don't want to go up
Speaker 1: on a tangent here, but something we've lost as a
Speaker 1: society in the twenty twenties is the ability to get optimic,
Speaker 1: to make people optimistic about the future. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of doomer has been going on right now, and look,
Speaker 1: maybe someone's warranted. When were we ever optimistic about the
Speaker 1: future up until the turn of the century, we were.
Speaker 3: Looking back to the future. Look at Terminator, Look at
Speaker 3: all these pop culture icons. None of them are positive
Speaker 3: in the future. Brad Blade Runner, fifth Element.
Speaker 1: I think no, I think even in the in the nineties,
Speaker 1: I mean, there was always a sense that's like, no,
Speaker 1: things are going to be good.
Speaker 3: I don't know that really got flying cars? What does
Speaker 3: that mean things are going to be good? Or is
Speaker 3: that a better technology?
Speaker 1: No? I think there was always always a mind that like,
Speaker 1: not necessarily the technology was going to make things better,
Speaker 1: but we are going to keep inventing things and things
Speaker 1: that are going to benefit humanity. I don't know when
Speaker 1: when the tide turn was kind of like, well, now
Speaker 1: the planet is farked, yeah, and now the economy is
Speaker 1: stuffed and you're not really going to have a job anymore.
Speaker 1: Computers to do that. You've got some people who were saying,
Speaker 1: I know the future is actually going to be amazing
Speaker 1: thanks to AI and things like that. But I don't know.
Speaker 1: We used to be able to be sold things a
Speaker 1: bit better and that you se put your head in
Speaker 1: the sand, not not necessarily that a good story about
Speaker 1: what might happen would possibly create a bit of optimism
Speaker 1: and create a bit of sort of forward momentum in
Speaker 1: that regards like, no, it actually is going to be good.
Speaker 1: I think I think pessimism creates pessimism. I think optimism
Speaker 1: creates optimism.
Speaker 3: Well, I think social media started the trend of pessimism
Speaker 3: that could well be Twitter in particularly you're on Twitter
Speaker 3: and it is just doom and gloom. And I found
Speaker 3: myself not always, I found myself spending too much time
Speaker 3: on Twitter and just being convinced that this is what
Speaker 3: reality was, and reality. Social media isn't reality, No, it's
Speaker 3: not at all. It's where everyone goes to vet their frustrations.
Speaker 1: I'm not fine, and that's the case. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't spend well, maybe I do spend
Speaker 1: a bit of time on Twitter, but I mean I'm
Speaker 1: you curate your feed, you sort of you curate the
Speaker 1: people who you're going to listen to, and mentally that
Speaker 1: can cause a bit of a feedback loop. But I
Speaker 1: haven't necessarily found a whole lot of like, oh this
Speaker 1: is fine. I mean, of course occasionally is going to
Speaker 1: be some, but it depends on Also, I mean, Twitter's
Speaker 1: got that thing it's.
Speaker 3: Like for you, and so I always have the for
Speaker 3: you so to follow.
Speaker 1: I know, Yeah, that's a big, big mistake. Something else
Speaker 1: I enjoyed. There weren't too many in all, honestly, but
Speaker 1: I did think this gag was pretty funny. When Homer
Speaker 1: and Marge is sort of finding things to be angry
Speaker 1: about with one another, something like, it's fine to pee
Speaker 1: in the shower as long as you're in the shower.
Speaker 3: I'll pay that it. What's your stands on peeing in
Speaker 3: the shower?
Speaker 1: I for what if you're in the shower, Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: no problem there. It's all going down the drain.
Speaker 3: What if someone's in there with you?
Speaker 1: Oh? What if it gets to the night.
Speaker 3: I liked in this episode the Itchy is Scratching House MD,
Speaker 3: Mouse MD, because I thought it was just a very
Speaker 3: accurate depiction of what House is. We started watching House
Speaker 3: and I just got to the end of it. It
Speaker 3: got to a point where I was like, so every
Speaker 3: episode is just he fucks up, he sucks up, he
Speaker 3: fucks up, he sucks up, and then has a light
Speaker 3: bulb moment and cures the person.
Speaker 1: That's pretty much House.
Speaker 3: It was just the music player. I yeah, and we
Speaker 3: did obviously took my notes for stealing in first Space.
Speaker 3: It feels like they're going back to itching scratching cartoons again.
Speaker 3: It's like the writers have realized, Hey, you can pad
Speaker 3: these episodes out with these things.
Speaker 1: You really can.
Speaker 3: The other one was just like still going right?
Speaker 1: Still, when made a sandwich, when took a leak? Yeah,
Speaker 1: at a shower, Luis's gone to the toilet and you
Speaker 1: might step them to the side.
Speaker 3: Would you might leave in the house. I just could
Speaker 3: get a loud I home. His justification is why he
Speaker 3: liked crouching tiger hidden. Yeah, it's no line and close
Speaker 3: to the toilet.
Speaker 1: Sometimes that's what you want from from an eatery. Yeah,
Speaker 1: next question you there eating the paste?
Speaker 3: Trivia time hit me with your first question.
Speaker 1: Sure, how long did bart I have to do his
Speaker 1: homework project? Three months? Three months?
Speaker 3: You sat thirty seconds ago? Yeah, what's your thoughts on that?
Speaker 3: I that was my childhood, that was my schooling. I'm
Speaker 3: doing a last minute Yeah. Yeah, I tend to do
Speaker 3: that more often than if I had a two thousand
Speaker 3: word essay. You on a Monday. I didn't start to
Speaker 3: all maybe Friday night, but Sunday morning, I'm like, right,
Speaker 3: you have to day.
Speaker 1: You can do this, And I always did. Well, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I think the thing is it called Parkinson's law that
Speaker 1: I don't know. Look, a task will take as long
Speaker 1: as you have as the time you devote.
Speaker 3: To it is one of the two observations made by
Speaker 3: the naval historian Parkinson and fifty five essay Work expands
Speaker 3: so as to fill the time available for its completion. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the number of workers within public administration tends to grow
Speaker 3: regards of the amount of work to be done.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So I mean it's like I've got five hours
Speaker 1: to do. It's, oh, then it'll take five hours. The
Speaker 1: task may actually take five minutes, but it's like I've
Speaker 1: set as five hours of this. You will inevitably take
Speaker 1: the five hours. It's like you get it done quickly. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, that's that's the end of that is though, that
Speaker 3: is the built in mentality of being an office worker,
Speaker 3: because you'll have eight hours worth of work to do,
Speaker 3: and you get paid just as much as if you
Speaker 3: did it in two hours if you didn't eight So
Speaker 3: if you finished it in two hours week for six hours,
Speaker 3: if you do that, right, you learn, well, I do
Speaker 3: all this eight hours worth of work in two hours,
Speaker 3: they don't have to do more work. They'll give me
Speaker 3: more works. I'll drag this out for the full work day.
Speaker 3: And that's where you just slowly it chipped away and
Speaker 3: chipped away and chipped away.
Speaker 1: One of the great documents of our time is the
Speaker 1: movie Big you remember where Yeah, Tom Hanks has got
Speaker 1: his first job and he's going to work at the
Speaker 1: toy company and he's like going, It's like, oh okay,
Speaker 1: I've got to do this, this and this like it's
Speaker 1: love it's John Lovets's coworkers like slow down. I literally
Speaker 1: had this experience.
Speaker 3: I've talked about it before where my first day at Ford,
Speaker 3: I guess set with these old guys to do this job.
Speaker 3: You can just help these guys out for the day.
Speaker 3: They'll show the ropes and I'm working and the supervisors
Speaker 3: like you doing a great job. Keep it up, keep
Speaker 3: it up. And the supervisor walks off and the guy's
Speaker 3: just like slow down. I'm like, what is slow down?
Speaker 1: Over time?
Speaker 3: Don't finish it now, drag it out over time.
Speaker 1: The lord like that, like you know, seventy year old
Speaker 1: Yugoslavin guy've been there for forty years. He's like, I
Speaker 1: like that. The you do the money.
Speaker 3: It didn't actually say slowly, he just did this and
Speaker 3: it's all about hand gestures in fomus you couldn't hear.
Speaker 3: So they had like that set smoke on and things
Speaker 3: like that. He's doing and want what do you mean
Speaker 3: he goes slow down over time?
Speaker 1: I like that, like the finger things to taxes that
Speaker 1: needs to come back, have cash anymore? I know, yeah,
Speaker 1: just slow down over time, tap good man. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Did you ask me? Yeah, you asked me. What was
Speaker 3: the what did I have to build the assignment? What
Speaker 3: was it the first assignment?
Speaker 1: Oh? It was like a Hoope Indian settlement or somethinglo
Speaker 1: yeah where blo? Yes, you mentioned the Itching Scratchy House
Speaker 1: cartoon before. In it there's a blackboard with some instructions,
Speaker 1: medical instructions. One of them is replace heart with what.
Speaker 3: I don't know what was it? It was a spider
Speaker 3: spider all right. My next question for you is what
Speaker 3: was the temperature of bart to get out of school?
Speaker 3: It was in one of three three yeah, and it
Speaker 3: was thirty nine degrees our temperature celsius. But I did
Speaker 3: like the bit about go do it at the butt
Speaker 3: un Lisa said something like, you know, you close you
Speaker 3: eyes to think of millhouse and then he somehows the
Speaker 3: temperature up is?
Speaker 1: But how did you do it?
Speaker 3: You don't want to know it's funny.
Speaker 1: I don't think that. I thought that was unfunny really,
Speaker 1: just that whole closer. I don't even know what that means.
Speaker 3: Closuise, think of Millhouse? You know what that means?
Speaker 1: No, I don't. Because she was shoving off his backside. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he's getting sucked by Millhouse.
Speaker 3: She was obviously making a joke in.
Speaker 1: England when someone's getting penetrated. Yeah, that's the joke. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't get what the joke means.
Speaker 3: She was just being smug saying close, think of Millhouse,
Speaker 3: just because she knows he's faking it.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know why he should think of Millhouse?
Speaker 1: Is he thinking because hill House is putting that inside me?
Speaker 1: Is because he will in the Millhouse?
Speaker 3: Because he wouldn't want to think of That's the joke,
Speaker 3: is that he wouldn't want to think of Millhouse in
Speaker 3: that moment.
Speaker 1: So it's just she's just.
Speaker 3: Being a smart ass.
Speaker 1: I still don't get it. Okay, that's fun. My next
Speaker 1: and possibly last question you is what are the two
Speaker 1: squishy flavors at the quickie radical redes? It's something blueberry.
Speaker 1: I'mo can look at my notes. What is it? Blue
Speaker 1: blueberry blasts? Blueberry blast? I do like the old literation,
Speaker 1: and we got slurpies here don't we we do. I
Speaker 1: drove past seven eleven the other day and.
Speaker 3: I thought, I said sloppies every summer it used to
Speaker 3: be one dollar slurpies and you'd have the you could
Speaker 3: fill it up yourself. And the key I mentioned on
Speaker 3: the podcast, I will say it again in case anyone
Speaker 3: missed it. The key to filling up a good slurpye
Speaker 3: or only thing where you're filling up your own drink,
Speaker 3: right like a frozen ice drink. Yes, don't fill up
Speaker 3: the cup and then put the lid on. Put the
Speaker 3: lid on first, the dome on top, shove the thing
Speaker 3: inside and fill the dome. Don't fill the cup, fill
Speaker 3: the dome.
Speaker 1: It's in valuable life lessons from Nando. If you get
Speaker 1: like an extra inches of slurpy, you eat a dome fall. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's way better. You gonna sound very ignorant. We still
Speaker 1: have seven elevens. I mean I know the one.
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Speaker 3: and it said one dollar, the one on the corner
Speaker 3: out there. I was like, one doors, let's still do
Speaker 3: one dollor slurpies. Oh, go get one in this economy?
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Speaker 3: All Right, So, the original edit of this episode Postcards
Speaker 3: from the wedge was March fourteenth, twenty ten. It's not
Speaker 3: three films at US box office when this episode aired
Speaker 3: in number three we have She's out of My League?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fine. Are you aware of this one? And
Speaker 1: you know Jay Barroshell, he's the voice of Pickup in
Speaker 1: the How To Train and Dragon animated movies. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: and he's sort of like, not necessarily a nerdy, weedy guy,
Speaker 1: but he's sort of, oh, I know the guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's sort of squeintz when he talks a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for some reason, I got the post on my head.
Speaker 3: We sort of like, he's like.
Speaker 1: What because, yeah, for something, he's working with this woman
Speaker 1: I think at the airport. She's an actress named Alice Eve,
Speaker 1: and she is hot, damn good goalie, and for some
Speaker 1: reason she's got an interest in him, and he's like what.
Speaker 1: He's also like, she's out of my league. It's very
Speaker 1: much one of those like the hop Yeah you don't
Speaker 1: need to see the movie. Poster is the movie? Like
Speaker 1: what she's like? But you're you're so cute. It's like, okay.
Speaker 3: Out of this discussion with Nicola the other day about
Speaker 3: the movie posters and I was just like there was
Speaker 3: this post a pitch going trending on Twitter of like
Speaker 3: a video store, and it's like, yeah, streaming really ruined everything,
Speaker 3: didn't it? Can we go back right? And it's like, no,
Speaker 3: you need to find that balance. Well, it is convenient.
Speaker 3: But the thing is movie posters now suffer because they
Speaker 3: don't bother that need to make an effort anymore. No, No,
Speaker 3: they're just tile yeah that scrolling through and they can
Speaker 3: change and whenever they feel like it was like when
Speaker 3: the poster came out, that was the movie's poster. There
Speaker 3: were there were, there were alternatives, but it's like there's
Speaker 3: one big post that everyone knows the movie for absolutely.
Speaker 1: Like I said about I'm about marketing for we've lost
Speaker 1: our ability to sort of market the future. We've certainly
Speaker 1: lost our ability to market movies. Gosh, when I was
Speaker 1: a lad, you have your post of that French movie
Speaker 1: Betty Blue or pulp fiction or train Spotting or something
Speaker 1: like that, and that would be all over sort of
Speaker 1: like high schooler and University Daumentary Wars. He's going to
Speaker 1: have a fucking Avengers end post. But I mean it's
Speaker 1: it gets the job, kid does I'm sure, But It
Speaker 1: gets the job done, but it's not exactly art. For
Speaker 1: want of a better term, and a good poster and
Speaker 1: a good marketing avan will really sort of get you
Speaker 1: get your blood pumping. Nowadays, if you want posters, usually
Speaker 1: you know it's companies like Mondo who will do it
Speaker 1: after the fact. Yeah, number two, Yeah, but you're right
Speaker 1: that she's out of my leg post. Okay, Well, I
Speaker 1: don't need to see the movie now. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: they're going to end up together. It'll be like, guess
Speaker 1: what I learned to you will lessen about self esteem
Speaker 1: and all these mates will go like, yeah, we learn
Speaker 1: a lesson about not judging books by their covers. And
Speaker 1: then Rodney Danger for Pups and says, hey, everybody, we're
Speaker 1: all gonna get late you want.
Speaker 3: And yeah.
Speaker 1: So number two was Green's own. Oh yeah, a very
Speaker 1: different film, very but see if you look at the
Speaker 1: post of that, I think that she has Matt Damon
Speaker 1: sort of looking to turn with the guns with a gun, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it's black Hawk Down, very similar. It is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's sort of a yeah set in the war in Iraq.
Speaker 1: I think they're yeah, or in Afghanistan or something like that.
Speaker 1: But it's it. I think it's by the guy who
Speaker 1: did the Born, the second, second, third Born movies as well.
Speaker 1: So it's like it's like a Born movie but real
Speaker 1: it's like it's also boring. And number one was still
Speaker 1: Alice Wonderland a parably. That movie does really well, like
Speaker 1: like four or five straight weeks. Number one it made
Speaker 1: sound like a billion dollars. That's crazy to be it
Speaker 1: is and it's I've never watched war crime of a movie.
Speaker 1: Is it is no good? I mean that was one
Speaker 1: of the I think I walked down to me. I
Speaker 1: think I hate Tim Burton. Now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's where people started going, oh, can we get
Speaker 3: we're done with Depp and Burton?
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I think maybe Charlie that I'm done.
Speaker 3: I'm fucking done. Yeah, what are you guys doing?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you stop being.
Speaker 3: Quirky for the sake of quirky. Even people who are
Speaker 3: quirk you think this is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, but a lot of people liked Alison Wonderland
Speaker 1: and our girl Anne Hathaway, and it did it? Really
Speaker 1: his girl? She was the queen, wasn't she. She was
Speaker 1: one of the queens, one.
Speaker 3: Of the queens. I thought there was only one Queen
Speaker 3: of Hearts?
Speaker 1: Was she the queen of hearts? I thought Helen the
Speaker 1: bottom carter was the question?
Speaker 3: I thought, is there more queens in? Maybe it's been
Speaker 3: a long it was. I watched that and I watched
Speaker 3: it made movie maybe once when I was a kid.
Speaker 1: It was never my jam.
Speaker 3: Alice in Wonderland.
Speaker 1: It's for girls? Is it for everybody?
Speaker 3: So? The original edit, as we said, March fourteen, twenty ten,
Speaker 3: production code M A B F zero four, written by
Speaker 3: Brian Kelly and directed by our man Mark Kirkland. The
Speaker 3: couch gag is the repeat of the catch gig from
Speaker 3: Going Make It Gone? Can you remember what it was?
Speaker 1: I cannot?
Speaker 3: Was this the flower plant one were they're like a vegetable?
Speaker 3: I was at the next one, the Catches of Pinada,
Speaker 3: and a blind fighter rough hits it and the family
Speaker 3: falls out. Yes, so that is the end of that one,
Speaker 3: the repeat and couch gags. I don't scratches in I
Speaker 3: did this.
Speaker 1: I think I accidentally hit skip intro on that one.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, accidentally, I don't skip intros, dude,
Speaker 1: ed I it's very important not to.
Speaker 3: It's just in a stage. I think I might have
Speaker 3: I think it doesn't matter in the grand skinny things,
Speaker 3: but it's like a personal thing to me, going, I
Speaker 3: know I didn't.
Speaker 1: But in this particular instance, I might have skipped intro.
Speaker 1: And my apologies to everyone everyone in the world.
Speaker 3: But we have Springfield of tomorrow. The videos we're already
Speaker 3: discussed Springfields and it sort of have a little button
Speaker 3: at the end where it's Springfield still great in the future.
Speaker 3: At the end, missus k though she doesn't know what
Speaker 3: the point of that was, and I was going, yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know the point that was either at least
Speaker 3: the spring at least the Springfield city on the grow
Speaker 3: played into our Springfield shit. Now like I had a transition.
Speaker 3: This is just watching something at school. Okay, well, this
Speaker 3: will give you an indication that we have a subway.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's it.
Speaker 3: But I didn't come out of that thinking that though,
Speaker 3: And when I got to the subway, I didn't remember that.
Speaker 3: It wasn't like, oh, that's right, because I mentioned the
Speaker 3: subway and the intro.
Speaker 1: I say the seed, but the sprout was not exactly flourishing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm just not a fan of when an
Speaker 1: episode or any comedy will have like I don't know
Speaker 1: what the point of that.
Speaker 3: Was, and it's like, you made us watch it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, if there's no point, why did you make it?
Speaker 1: This didn't exist before you created it. You could have
Speaker 1: gone any number of ways with this.
Speaker 3: It's like a comedian getting on stage thing that was
Speaker 3: a bad joke. So don't tell us, we know, just
Speaker 3: move on. But she asked here for the for the homework,
Speaker 3: the hope, I hope the Indian pueblow he said blow.
Speaker 3: Martin shows off his presentation, talking about how there was
Speaker 3: an injustice once but at least he gets an A
Speaker 3: on his report card. That's all that matters. In the end,
Speaker 3: it felt like everything felt like there was a lot
Speaker 3: of padding. Yeah, there was a lot of padding. Yeah,
Speaker 3: thats just what was Bart seing the Twister? So was
Speaker 3: he hoping that Twister was going to ruin the school? Yeah,
Speaker 3: knock down the school, okay? Or just be like, oh
Speaker 3: no twister alert everyone, Everyone leave the classroom. And then
Speaker 3: it disappears, saved for another day. But then missus Kay
Speaker 3: is disappointed by Bart's efforts. He's basically, she explains, here,
Speaker 3: you've broken me down. You know, I used to have
Speaker 3: a passion for teaching, and now I don't because of you,
Speaker 3: because you just don't care. She mentions how she watched
Speaker 3: to Serve with Love as a little girl. Nelson mox
Speaker 3: her for being old. She says she watched it on
Speaker 3: VHS in the eighties. He says that's an outdated medium,
Speaker 3: and I was like, isn't it funny though, how things
Speaker 3: are starting to be released on VHS again?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and it'll never be it's a nostalgia thing, right,
Speaker 3: and it's obviously it's a novelty.
Speaker 1: But I like, I just laugh. How the world when
Speaker 1: it comes to physical media, we're going full circle again?
Speaker 1: Oh god?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: How many times have I said recently? It's like, I mean,
Speaker 1: I can't believe we're selling vinyl again and we're selling
Speaker 1: it yeah, I mean not actually not selling it for
Speaker 1: the cost again, but I mean at this insane these
Speaker 1: insane prices and.
Speaker 3: It's selling Oh yeah, absolutely, Because I think people are
Speaker 3: starting to realize there was more to a video store
Speaker 3: than convenience or necessity. It was the experience. Yeah, a
Speaker 3: routine original going to a movie is an experience. It's
Speaker 3: not just I want to watch it on the big screens, Like, no,
Speaker 3: you go to the movies. You're with your spouse or
Speaker 3: you're with your kids. You're buying the popcorn. You have
Speaker 3: the smell, trust the process. Yeah, it's that's and that's
Speaker 3: what we're buying the violel It's like, oh, it's the
Speaker 3: process of it's the experience of going to a store,
Speaker 3: picking up the cover and going I like this, taking
Speaker 3: it out of the cover, putting it in the play.
Speaker 3: The kids love putting blue rays in down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. You look on the bank like, wow,
Speaker 1: I'm learning a bit about this. Wow.
Speaker 3: His audio commentary, Yeah, he's a bit of a blur
Speaker 3: by Guy.
Speaker 1: Davis from Legelong Advertiser. That actually happened.
Speaker 3: That's the That's the thing that hits me the most
Speaker 3: is the special features. Right, And I know I sound old,
Speaker 3: but Nicholas's cousin I won't say a name, but she
Speaker 3: was like twenty two. I was talking about, Oh, I
Speaker 3: like this has a commentary a special feature, and she
Speaker 3: was just like.
Speaker 1: It wasn't ever so much what that was, Like, why
Speaker 1: would you care about that? It's like they've trained the younger,
Speaker 1: like why do you care about.
Speaker 3: How the movie's made? It's like to settle because there's
Speaker 3: yeah like that, And I was like, but don't you
Speaker 3: want to know you She's like, I don't care how
Speaker 3: they made the movie. It's like that the young generation
Speaker 3: don't give a fuck. It's like they don't care that
Speaker 3: I want special features because they've never had them.
Speaker 1: You know, when it's time to ask for time for
Speaker 1: us to re educate them.
Speaker 3: Because so many filmmakers, for example, Spielberg and in the seventies,
Speaker 3: what they would have loved to have had commentaries of
Speaker 3: films that they love this kids and things like oh sure, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: The whole reason I'm podcasting now is because I listened
Speaker 3: to the Simpsons commentaries when I was a kid. That's
Speaker 3: the reason. Of course, special feet just man bring him back.
Speaker 3: Oh no, we're all for him, Yeah, we are for him, indeed,
Speaker 3: But this is where but he tries to make his
Speaker 3: last second and yeah, missus K's just like, yeah, you've
Speaker 3: breaken me down. And then she writes a note to
Speaker 3: his parents and she goes to send it, but it's
Speaker 3: like I can do it. She said, Nope, I'm not
Speaker 3: going to do that. Not that silly. I wasn't born yesterday.
Speaker 3: And Nelson's like, hey, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: So I was like, everyone's mean to each other. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm finding that a lot.
Speaker 3: And it feels like Skinner and missus Kay in particular,
Speaker 3: the authority figures in Springfield have always been dumb down, right,
Speaker 3: But Skinner and missus k always had the authority of
Speaker 3: what the kids knew, that they were the boss. They
Speaker 3: might pull pranks on skin, but when it came to
Speaker 3: missus Kay, they didn't backchat.
Speaker 1: Her like this.
Speaker 3: And now it's just so blase a I'm backchatting you
Speaker 3: and she just cops it.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. I mean, there's a difference between sort
Speaker 1: of the traditional cheekiness between the class clown or the
Speaker 1: class tear away or whatever and the authority figure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you'd get a little bit of backchat, but I mean
Speaker 1: this is more like we're all co workers in the
Speaker 1: same office. Like no, you're not no, you are not
Speaker 1: no at all. What you're going to attention, you're getting suspended,
Speaker 1: you're getting expelled.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're getting spanking or you're getting spanking. But their
Speaker 3: bart sets off the firearm so that Martin can't get
Speaker 3: to put the mail in the apparently he's a mail
Speaker 3: delivery service.
Speaker 1: I have no idea, what the fuck is this? What? What?
Speaker 1: What are we even doing here?
Speaker 3: But he eventually gets sixth gradst distracted?
Speaker 1: But what even are we doing here? The sixth gradest stuff?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't know if you watched this with
Speaker 1: the captain, you could probably hear what they're saying. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, sixth graders, and of course they're all
Speaker 1: a little bit older, so they're saying they're taller, grown
Speaker 1: up stuff. But you know, you hear one of them say, oh,
Speaker 1: I haven't then wanted boner. It's like, how did he
Speaker 1: say that? Yeah, oh yeah, that's ship. It's like, I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to say, oh, that's inappropriate, but it's just
Speaker 1: not even quest to Nate. Yeah, the only time unmod
Speaker 1: Bonus are bunny is when it's in the pans of
Speaker 1: Jimmy Molmer because Nate.
Speaker 3: But eventually he gets to the delivers the mail. Then
Speaker 3: Bart like go thinks he's going to the mail shoot
Speaker 3: but it's actually old ice cream wrappers and really takes
Speaker 3: the mail away Bizare. Next day, Lisa sees Bart trying
Speaker 3: to fake his illness to stay home becase he's gonna
Speaker 3: wait for the letter to be delivered. I'm like, that's
Speaker 3: a quick delivery service. Yeah, what has this ever happened?
Speaker 3: Do they ever deliver mail in the mail? Will they
Speaker 3: just send it home? I trust a kitty at home.
Speaker 1: But it's like we're talking about twenty ten here, right.
Speaker 3: They would never post a letter to your parents in
Speaker 3: the mail, right, I know.
Speaker 1: I just we're talking about you twenty ten. We all
Speaker 1: had email addresses. Yeah, why is she writing a letter?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know anyway, because the story
Speaker 1: required it.
Speaker 3: So Bart's faking an illness so he can stay home
Speaker 3: and collect the mail.
Speaker 1: One hundred and three. No school today. Then again, there's
Speaker 1: only one way to get a truly accurate reading, Bart dance.
Speaker 1: Just close your eyes and think of mailhouse. Yep, one
Speaker 1: O three. You're staying home. How did you?
Speaker 2: I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 3: And it just gets home. Just reads the mail because
Speaker 3: it was because Bart's was the thing. Bart gets distracted.
Speaker 3: He's like, I'm going to focus on the letter box,
Speaker 3: waiting for it to get delivered, so I can make
Speaker 3: sure on the first one that gets it gets distracted
Speaker 3: by video games and TV and everything, and you know
Speaker 3: I can relate, you know, this is me when I'm
Speaker 3: trying to I'm trying to edit, and I'm like, I
Speaker 3: want to see what's happening on Twitter, and it's like, no,
Speaker 3: put let me just watch one YouTube vide just for
Speaker 3: three hours. Yes, then this is where Homer finds the
Speaker 3: letter up and it just it was old in this
Speaker 3: episode that Homer seemed to be the one that wanted
Speaker 3: to put his foot down in March.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3: Again, well that's Bart manipulating March. I guess, I guess.
Speaker 1: But it's also, you know, maybe just the writers trying
Speaker 1: to shake things up. Oh, you didn't expect that Home
Speaker 1: will be the one who'd want to you know why?
Speaker 1: I didn't expect because it doesn't suit his character. There
Speaker 1: is that, But we have had this episode. We have
Speaker 1: had this story though in the episode when did She
Speaker 1: Scratch a Movie? When Barn is naughty and Homer puts
Speaker 1: his foot down and won't let him watch the movie,
Speaker 1: I think even March or some points like he's sure
Speaker 1: you should like, no, you asked me to stick to
Speaker 1: my guns. I'm sticking to my guns. But where he
Speaker 1: gets caught to the school, I did like that. But
Speaker 1: but when he finds his letter, and Bart says, look,
Speaker 1: I tried really hard to make sure you didn't read it.
Speaker 1: Does that count for anything? A little?
Speaker 3: Then Skinner is showing them all the homework that he's
Speaker 3: been late for this month, and this is where Marshall goes,
Speaker 3: that's a lot of homework. It's true, but it's never
Speaker 3: it's never at this level, especially what is grade four
Speaker 3: that it seems like the second company. Yeah, March He
Speaker 3: is just like, oh, it seems like you give my
Speaker 3: son a lot of work. I feel like what you're
Speaker 3: doing is you're causing him to not like school because
Speaker 3: he's got so much homework to do in home. It's like,
Speaker 3: now I give him more wanted to be Korean? When
Speaker 3: he's done, then Homer over the dishwasher here. Obviously you
Speaker 3: live alone, but I've had numerous times I've going to put.
Speaker 1: Something the dish washer and I'm like, oh, it's a
Speaker 1: cleaner there. What do I do? Yeah? You know what
Speaker 1: you're doing? That goes you cleaned up one plate and
Speaker 1: put it in the dish in there what you're washing
Speaker 1: the sink and yeah, so put that in the cupboard,
Speaker 1: leave the dishwasher to be emptied by somebody else. The
Speaker 1: Lovely always has a dishwasher, and I will frequently empty it.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I don't like to pack
Speaker 1: it because something I've discovered is that people get very
Speaker 1: specific about how you pack the dishwasher. They do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I'm like, I'm sure you have your way of
Speaker 1: doing this. Anything else I can do to help let
Speaker 1: me know. I mean, I'll go over and you know,
Speaker 1: if she's been generous enough to cook me a delightful meal,
Speaker 1: I'll do the dishes. But I'll generally do it in
Speaker 1: my hand. No, no, it's flash away. It might be
Speaker 1: a Davis thing. We find it all very therapy. You've
Speaker 1: said this before, yeah, Margaret, Mary, God bless he's still
Speaker 1: doing the dishes by hand at the ripe old age
Speaker 1: of ninety five.
Speaker 3: I remember Nicholas Stepdad's like that. We had like a
Speaker 3: lunch and there's like maybe like four plates, not not much,
Speaker 3: you know, and he fills the secat with his hot
Speaker 3: watered bubbles and stuff, and I was like a dish washer.
Speaker 3: He's like, no, I want to clean them. I'm like, yeah, man,
Speaker 3: it's like two glasses of four plates, like a waste
Speaker 3: of water.
Speaker 1: Fuck man. He used a whole lot of well maybe
Speaker 1: his years.
Speaker 3: But the set was like fill out of hot water
Speaker 3: and bubbles, and I was like, this seems excessive for
Speaker 3: four plays.
Speaker 1: Well how much? How much the water do you imagine
Speaker 1: the dishwasher?
Speaker 3: Is he using but washing an entire load? At that point,
Speaker 3: It's like, would you chuck two shirts two shirts into
Speaker 3: a washing machine and run do a full run?
Speaker 1: Sure? No, no, I agree to wash them. I han't
Speaker 1: wash my clothes. I just run around the rain, will
Speaker 1: the walk away, don't stirring spoon. No, I'm very conscientious
Speaker 1: when it comes to the washing machine, the clothes washer, like,
Speaker 1: that's far too few clothes, that's not enough clothing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: then I'll just roller it and the just to make
Speaker 1: the dirty throw. I was like, uh, I've already used
Speaker 1: these tails work twice. Okay, yeah, time for washing.
Speaker 3: What Homer does here, though, is he realizes the dishwasher
Speaker 3: is clean, so he dirties up everything in the dishwasher
Speaker 3: again and then turns it on.
Speaker 1: I think I've written down here, man.
Speaker 3: Fuck, really, it was just funny and Marge's and she
Speaker 3: comes up, and Marge is worried that Bart will be
Speaker 3: turned off school forever. As a result of all this homework,
Speaker 3: and Homo sarcastically calls Hollywood about why is he called Hollywood?
Speaker 3: Oh oh, it's something about oh boy who doesn't want
Speaker 3: to do homework?
Speaker 1: How original? How original? Let's turn this into a movie. Oh,
Speaker 1: I got to write the movie. I think I've written. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know about this mixed messaging about blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: And then realize, oh, okay, that's the plot point. It's
Speaker 1: the idea of this episode that yeah, they still have
Speaker 1: been drivening it. And then Lisa very thoughtfully explains it, doesn't.
Speaker 3: She She does, yes before the bar, it's watching Pokemon
Speaker 3: instead of studying and then homaged.
Speaker 1: And they say, I do not know Pokemon. Some kids
Speaker 1: are asking me about this the other day because I
Speaker 1: was working in something Pokemon related. So do you know
Speaker 1: anything about Pokemon? I said, Oh, the picachoos and that
Speaker 1: one right with the Poka and chairs are in there
Speaker 1: snoll acts turn so I got that snoll axe, like I.
Speaker 3: Just had to watch through blood and bone.
Speaker 1: But don't they say? This was like because I actually
Speaker 1: say the word digitmon in this. Yeah, but even I'm
Speaker 1: sort of cluely enough, he goes, I said digitmon, but
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that's Pikatu from Pokemon.
Speaker 3: Digitmon was just a rip off of Pokemon. Oh okay
Speaker 3: then ye, digitmon means no, it's a digital mongoloid in
Speaker 3: the what's in the thing, but you would know that
Speaker 3: it's a digimon digital monsters. It's digital digital, digital mongoloid.
Speaker 1: That's me.
Speaker 3: It's in the title.
Speaker 1: It's what it says on the rare bit digital monsters.
Speaker 1: I've had, like my justification, it says it an intro,
Speaker 1: like you would know the intro for digital Dude, I'm
Speaker 1: the guy who will sing the growing Pink Pain's theme
Speaker 1: at the top of that. I'm not gonna know the
Speaker 1: digitmon thing. Yeah, but Pokemon's just Pokemon's gotta catch them more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Pokemon's capitalism out. It's fine.
Speaker 3: They're not digital monsters. They're genuine creatures in Pokemon, but
Speaker 3: digit one they're digital. Okay, the same thing, but they
Speaker 3: put a cluck in it. I remember the kid that
Speaker 3: was like, you're either digitmon kid or a Pokemon kid. Okay,
Speaker 3: my beetles or rolling stone. Let's move on, bar. It's
Speaker 3: distracted by a Pokemon and but Ham's annoyed by this,
Speaker 3: so He tries to move the TV, can't, so he
Speaker 3: draws over the front of it, and Marge says, comes
Speaker 3: back and whispers, just do a little bit and you
Speaker 3: can come out some cookies. I was like, Marge, this
Speaker 3: is not a productive way to do this.
Speaker 1: Why are you doing this? Yes? Exactly.
Speaker 3: Then Lisa is reading the Atlantic Kids Edition, and but
Speaker 3: why are the parents saying two different things like I
Speaker 3: don't get it. I'm just saying it's okay, Dad saying
Speaker 3: it's not. Lisa says, it's like a wedge issue in politics,
Speaker 3: things like immigration and gay marriage, where they really they
Speaker 3: might agree on some things, but there's some things particularly
Speaker 3: the just will never agree on the opposite's on. But
Speaker 3: things well, I can play them against each to prevent
Speaker 3: having to do the homework. And he says I would
Speaker 3: all life on this planet to prevent doing fractions.
Speaker 1: And I was like whatever.
Speaker 3: Then we come out from commercial on bart Sea's Marge.
Speaker 3: He races back to his room. Oh so much homework,
Speaker 3: my childhood slipping away. She feels so sorry from She'll
Speaker 3: just go outside and play. Millhouse is already out there
Speaker 3: waiting for him with his grapeisoda shaken not stirred so
Speaker 3: you can open.
Speaker 1: Up and shake it and explode it all over him.
Speaker 3: I found a new joy, you know, having cats. There
Speaker 3: are so few things in this world. You know, having
Speaker 3: cats is a burden at the best of times, sometimes right,
Speaker 3: but sometimes funds that just sort of spook them, just
Speaker 3: not terrify them.
Speaker 1: Just two things.
Speaker 3: So I've found that you open up a bottle of
Speaker 3: like PEPSI is it? I walking to the cussionary and
Speaker 3: its like and just cats scatter.
Speaker 1: To go a line from later in this episode, you're
Speaker 1: officially associate. I'm glad that the Dando household endorses animal cruelty. No,
Speaker 1: it does, but I'm not doing anything wrong. Cat's just hilarious. Man,
Speaker 1: They're smart. There also incredibly stupid, one might say, like
Speaker 1: human beings. Yes, we're now at the church, which offers
Speaker 1: free WiFi. During the sermon, Marge and Homer are both
Speaker 1: trying to pray about you know, God will make the
Speaker 1: other person see the light yadiad YadA, and they discuss
Speaker 1: prayer blocks.
Speaker 3: You can't block me. Then we get the itching, scratchy
Speaker 3: cartoon house mouse m D I.
Speaker 1: Should say, got the massive attack music. The Yes it's
Speaker 1: tear drop. I believe, is it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very accurate of how an episode of House goes.
Speaker 3: So I haven't walked in and said, you've gotta stop
Speaker 3: watching cartoons. You're supposed to be doing your homework. And
Speaker 3: Marge anyway, Marge is annoyed that he's trying to contradict
Speaker 3: her over the top, and they're just they're fighting as
Speaker 3: a result of Bart he's not doing its he's told
Speaker 3: and they just make angry noise to each other. Then
Speaker 3: they go to the mall. March suggests that we should
Speaker 3: eat at the Crouching Tiger Hidden egg roll. Homer agrees
Speaker 3: with her, and Bart poise good good. We mom lying
Speaker 3: like like that to make sure that what if you
Speaker 3: wanted to go there, because there's no be out the
Speaker 3: end place, it serves no be out.
Speaker 1: Looking at this, it's kind of like, and I've said
Speaker 1: this many times about many recent episodes, it's a good idea.
Speaker 1: It's a germ of a good idea. It's like, my
Speaker 1: parents disagree about this one thing, and I can play
Speaker 1: them against one another.
Speaker 3: That's why I was disappointed. I didn't need the subway aspect.
Speaker 3: Can bar do something else?
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's like, yeah, that's the idea. Then you work
Speaker 1: outwards from that, it just feels like it's got so
Speaker 1: many other little bits and pieces that don't add anything
Speaker 1: to it, or just feel like I feel like filler. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a shame.
Speaker 3: But this is where Homer says, you want to go
Speaker 3: to Moe Express and they fight again. At least it
Speaker 3: calls him asociopath, and I don't know. At least I'm
Speaker 3: on a path and they're still fighting before bed.
Speaker 1: I don't mind if you're be in the shower, but
Speaker 1: only if you're taking a shower. No freedom, I have
Speaker 1: no freedom around his house. After sex, I'm not talking
Speaker 1: to you.
Speaker 3: Well, then there won't be any sex.
Speaker 2: You can't sex fire me.
Speaker 1: I sex quit.
Speaker 3: Next morning, they're brushing their teeth, still angry with each other,
Speaker 3: and they're basically you know when you've had a scubb
Speaker 3: with someone. It's like, I'm just gonna wait it out.
Speaker 3: She's gonna apologize to me. I hate apologizing. Then Margine
Speaker 3: goes to chat to Ned. I've never had this, I
Speaker 3: was apologiz, provides in Ned, and Ned brings up how
Speaker 3: he had a fight with more just before she passed
Speaker 3: away about the towels, and she was perhaps this isn't
Speaker 3: worth it, you know, it's just not worth all the trouble,
Speaker 3: and then has a dream about running over March was
Speaker 3: is at work once again. Sleeping at worker saved my marriage.
Speaker 3: So we cut to back home and Marge's there with
Speaker 3: Patty and some were talking about what's going on at
Speaker 3: the moment. They say, stick to her guns, because if
Speaker 3: you compromise, it won't work, and you never compromise. Eventually
Speaker 3: you'll be free and happy like us. And they're eating
Speaker 3: chocolate and smoking cigarettes and clearly just coping coping mechanisms.
Speaker 3: Yet then they go to see each other. Marge races
Speaker 3: out of the house, they see each other in the cars.
Speaker 3: They kiss and makeup, and they explain how we can't
Speaker 3: let Bart drive us apart because he's the reason we
Speaker 3: got married in the first place. The Wigan arrives and
Speaker 3: hugs them.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, so what what what are we even doing?
Speaker 3: We come back and Marge's cooked breakfast in bed for
Speaker 3: for Homer. Here your breakfast and bed guy, No me neither.
Speaker 3: Actually sometimes Nicola.
Speaker 1: Likes toast and bed. But yeah, I've never been a
Speaker 1: breakfast and make guy, like I mean, you see the
Speaker 1: traditional kind of like, hey, moment's mother's that you don't
Speaker 1: really see father's get breakfast in bed all that oftens.
Speaker 1: Usually it feels like very much a mother's day thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, Mum, we're surprised you with breakfast in bed,
Speaker 1: because in traditional gender roles, mum is usually one making breakfast.
Speaker 1: You're getting a treat.
Speaker 3: If you know what that date gets. It gets mum
Speaker 3: takes the kids out away and he slips in.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think I might be like Nicola in
Speaker 1: terms of I won't like get a tray with bacon
Speaker 1: and eggs. It's like watching your stories with a slice
Speaker 1: of toast and coffee in bed. That's me. I'll put
Speaker 1: a bit of music, have some toast and a cup
Speaker 1: of coffee.
Speaker 3: So do you go out and make breakfast and go
Speaker 3: back to bed? Well, yeah, I've never understood that concept.
Speaker 3: I understand people making you breakfast in bed, but I
Speaker 3: would never get out of bed, make some breakfast and
Speaker 3: then go. Are you one of these people is like
Speaker 3: I'm up now, Yeah, I'm up. I'd rather sit on
Speaker 3: the couch in peace. You know, I just don't like
Speaker 3: the idea going back to bed.
Speaker 1: Now. Any opportunity to lie down, I'll take it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: fair enough, I feel you. You certainly are stop it.
Speaker 3: But this, as we said, Marge's made have a breakfast
Speaker 3: of a Homer in bed much better than breakfast in
Speaker 3: a chair. She then goes to paste his face back
Speaker 3: into all the family photos. She's apparently cut them all out,
Speaker 3: but it attempts to annoy him by walking in second.
Speaker 1: I've got all these.
Speaker 3: Fireworks and and be mischievous, and Homer says, you're on
Speaker 3: your only a kid, We're not going to bother anymore.
Speaker 3: He's like, what do you mean you don't carry anymore?
Speaker 3: So he goes to leave. He's a bit confused, and
Speaker 3: Marge walks in looking bang it hot rose in the cleavage.
Speaker 1: Which Home mistakes for yeah, I got a little Schmitts
Speaker 1: in there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yes. Skinner is now relaxing in his yard
Speaker 3: with some hummingbirds, and Barton Millhouse shoots some sugar water
Speaker 3: at him.
Speaker 1: No attacks during outside of school hours. I don't endorse this.
Speaker 3: No, I mean they've been doing it since the beginning
Speaker 3: of the Simpsons, but I don't endorse it. It's not
Speaker 3: it's not fair as it. No, he says, legally, I
Speaker 3: can spank you your bare bottoms here. I'm not at school.
Speaker 3: I like that because at school I can't do anything
Speaker 3: outside of school. I can do something.
Speaker 1: The other way around here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's the joe. Yeah, so they hide this
Speaker 3: is some a very patient man. I once waited an
Speaker 3: hour and a half for a haircut. What's the longest
Speaker 3: you've waited for something? I think we've asked this question before.
Speaker 3: For me, it was besides the Force Awakens, where I
Speaker 3: waited like seven hours in line, it would have been
Speaker 3: we waited four hours for a ride at Universal Studios. Yeah,
Speaker 3: not worth it.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. Maybe our American friends are because there's
Speaker 1: more of more of them. Yeah, yeah, they're very patient
Speaker 1: when it comes to queues. I found that when I've
Speaker 1: gone to theme parks in the US. It's like, wow,
Speaker 1: the waiting really is the hardest part, right because he'd
Speaker 1: be standing there for I think if it did anything
Speaker 1: like four hours, and that was probably like two to
Speaker 1: and a bit.
Speaker 3: I think my theory was you go there and you go, right,
Speaker 3: how are we going to be here till we were
Speaker 3: here for like eight hours, nine hours? Do you want
Speaker 3: to be spending sixty percent of that standing in a
Speaker 3: line or do you want to be going pick two
Speaker 3: or three rides that you really want to go on,
Speaker 3: and let's go and just experience the park.
Speaker 1: It's good thinking. Yeah. Then then I did get to
Speaker 1: go on that ride. I was like going to a
Speaker 1: little later and when I went back the bigger.
Speaker 3: But so they've run away from Skinner. They're hiding now
Speaker 3: and Milhouse takes them to the old Springfield subway station
Speaker 3: and they take off in this in a subway or
Speaker 3: somehow get it going and sprint for it. All shakes,
Speaker 3: the lu shann Stare, all the chandeliers break, the slushies
Speaker 3: are going crazy, the radical red and the blueberry blast
Speaker 3: at the quicking mar there's a town meeting here for
Speaker 3: the emergency earthquake response meeting. It shakes and it becomes
Speaker 3: the Emergency quake a Meeting. All the Quakers arrive. So
Speaker 3: Quaker is like a religion, right, yeah, it's like a
Speaker 3: religious sector.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw them and thought that they were Mormons.
Speaker 3: They look like Mormons. No, no, no, no, no, sorry.
Speaker 3: What's the ones the beard and the hats. That's the
Speaker 3: Amish Amish Armish Amish. Yeah, Homer and Marge and now
Speaker 3: knitting together reminds me of watching pictures down there on
Speaker 3: an old modem.
Speaker 1: I liked this as well.
Speaker 3: So im is doing the mocking the modem sound. I
Speaker 3: think we've all done that at least one point in
Speaker 3: our life where we had the nostalgia for the modem
Speaker 3: sound at the end, because it's just it's so crazy
Speaker 3: to think that that's what we did every day to
Speaker 3: get onto the internet. You used to have to get
Speaker 3: onto it. Oh yeah, I'm offline now, I'm yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm living on the rear.
Speaker 3: And it would be nice if we could still be
Speaker 3: that way, and you could by putting your phone down.
Speaker 3: That's true, but it's like we your brain's wired to
Speaker 3: always be on now.
Speaker 1: The term that's coming up a lot these days is friction. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've got to have a little bit of friction, and
Speaker 1: it feels like you've earned something when you've got it.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, the whole that's friction. It takes you
Speaker 1: a little while to it's putting the record on the turntable, yes, exactly,
Speaker 1: as opposed to I don't know exactly why it is,
Speaker 1: but I can fain it on my phone. It's like
Speaker 1: that's a really smooth experience and it smooths out your
Speaker 1: brain as a result.
Speaker 3: Well, your brain no longer thinks to store things anymore
Speaker 3: with this. Yes, it's like, well, I've got the answers
Speaker 3: in my pocket, that's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you've got Google ub right now, I have.
Speaker 3: Indeed, yes, I win this episode of originally aired.
Speaker 1: I'll figure it out.
Speaker 3: And I'll remember it.
Speaker 1: No way whimped it.
Speaker 3: But Marge is glad that having a real conversation here,
Speaker 3: and that's what we're doing. Having dinner the other night,
Speaker 3: it was like, we're just chatting here. It's not about
Speaker 3: the kids, not that we don't like the kids. Explain
Speaker 3: to me, we're just chatting about life, just having a
Speaker 3: conversation with Nick cos Nicholas working from home full time. Now,
Speaker 3: we go for walks at lunchtime, were in their phones here.
Speaker 1: Isn't this lovely? Just we're just hanging out, just chatting
Speaker 1: about whatever.
Speaker 3: Barn's disappointed, though they don't care that the earthquake could
Speaker 3: have potentially been his fault.
Speaker 2: I don't even want to know if I have anything
Speaker 2: to do with this mysterious seismic activity of late.
Speaker 1: I'm saving my yelling for where it gets some good. Lisa,
Speaker 1: you're a wonderful child. But the good work, thanks dad,
Speaker 1: But you're so loud. He's turning my ears. Sorry.
Speaker 3: I just think that gag would have worked better if
Speaker 3: she said maybe, for example, she might have been in
Speaker 3: the room already.
Speaker 1: And he's like, Lisa, you're doing great.
Speaker 3: She goes, Dad, I'm already in the room. But thank you.
Speaker 3: At least some acknowledgment that your dad's praising you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's like your dad's praising you. Yeah, but you're hurting
Speaker 3: my ears, Like, oh god, you're.
Speaker 1: Miserable, miserable, or just yell back thank you.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, just make it funny.
Speaker 1: Make her in the room, yes, looking for like thank you,
Speaker 1: and hey, that's so loud right here, Like just make
Speaker 1: it a joke or do you just do a little
Speaker 1: pan And she's like, she's sitting right next to you.
Speaker 3: It's just everyone's miserable. Then Bart and Nelson are on
Speaker 3: the swings. This doesn't really go anywhere. They're swinging and
Speaker 3: Bart's explaining how he can't understand why he doesn't feel
Speaker 3: a rush anymore. He says something is missing, and Nelson says,
Speaker 3: you haven't really pranked your parents if they don't care,
Speaker 3: you know, No, one's getting If no one's getting mad,
Speaker 3: then are you really being bad? And Lisa overhears this.
Speaker 3: This is why you think that she's the one wo's
Speaker 3: written the note to double Bart, but she hasn't. Then
Speaker 3: Willie points out that the tremors could cause the school
Speaker 3: to come down completely because they've been causing all the
Speaker 3: cracks in the wall, and Skinner puts up a low
Speaker 3: bearing poster hop into a book and Bart overhears this,
Speaker 3: and he thinks, oh, this would be a good excuse
Speaker 3: to really prank my parents, will prank the town and
Speaker 3: get my parents angry. And you think he's got a
Speaker 3: Nelson thought bubble, but it's actually Nelson. Nelson Burdie the
Speaker 3: window and he's burning textbooks, playing textbooks, so he pushes
Speaker 3: the smoke out of the way. Margin then finds the
Speaker 3: letter from what I thought was Lisa, explaining that Bart's
Speaker 3: subway prank, says we'll have to be good parents for
Speaker 3: our son and just worked twice as hard on our marriage.
Speaker 3: We come back from the commercial again, Bart is driving
Speaker 3: the subway, the school's about to fall down, and really
Speaker 3: just wants to QUI quickly finish buffing the floor. Then
Speaker 3: Homer says Homer gets to the subway. He looks in
Speaker 3: the ladies room and as a sofa there is there
Speaker 3: a joke I'm missing. I think it's because they're fans.
Speaker 1: I think public bathrooms used to be a little more
Speaker 1: lushily appointed. I mean, this looks like a very sort
Speaker 1: of it looks nice in twenties, nineteen thirties kind of thing.
Speaker 3: It's not too late to bring back the Springfield subway. Still,
Speaker 3: I'm serious about this. I think it's the location you
Speaker 3: could work with. Sure, But yeah, ladies tours always much
Speaker 3: cleaner than men's toilets. True, he's a little more lushly
Speaker 3: appointed men's toilets.
Speaker 1: Oh disgusting.
Speaker 3: Has a toilet at like three quarter time out of
Speaker 3: a football game?
Speaker 1: Horrific? No, it's seventh circle of all. It's not good. Yep.
Speaker 3: He tries pulling the kill switch.
Speaker 1: You can't.
Speaker 3: Then he envisions Bart's neck being the switch, so he's
Speaker 3: choking him. Works, the school is saved. They unfell the flag,
Speaker 3: It tips over, hits the school, and it all collapses.
Speaker 3: Missus Kane Newson then give a high five. There's no why, yeah,
Speaker 3: why why do they do the high five? But also
Speaker 3: the school get rebuilt. Next episode is back again? Whatever
Speaker 3: margin Homer now young at Bart once again, no TV,
Speaker 3: no this, et cetera. And when you're not insight, you're
Speaker 3: going to constantly twitter me, even though I have no
Speaker 3: idea what Twitter is, and I can learn Bart is
Speaker 3: glad that it's being mean again. Then Bart's doing homework.
Speaker 3: Can I say, you've got something to say?
Speaker 1: I do? Sim is responsible on one of the great
Speaker 1: lines about not just modern life but life in general,
Speaker 1: Like I used to be with it. Now you know
Speaker 1: whatever it is you scares me.
Speaker 3: Mused to be with it, but now they've changed what
Speaker 3: it was. Yes, what it is and what's it's weird
Speaker 3: and scary to me.
Speaker 1: Yes, it will happen to you two. This line, even
Speaker 1: though I don't know what twitter is and don't want
Speaker 1: to let that feels like an exam. The writers are
Speaker 1: surrendering in a way. They've turned into Grandpa's Simpson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and they have Sul'm not quite Grandpa, but they've Yeah.
Speaker 3: They would have been in their thirties twenty years ago,
Speaker 3: I guess, so earn their fifties now, which is why
Speaker 3: I think a lot of the jokes work for you.
Speaker 3: Sometimes I go, I don't get to that, and you're like, no,
Speaker 3: it's this, and I'm like, ah, I see, because it's
Speaker 3: a bit like the no there's working for me. But
Speaker 3: I think the life experience sort of relates more to me.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm going through like the having the kids. Yeah,
Speaker 3: but Bart's doing his homework now. Lisa says she didn't
Speaker 3: write the note you wanted to get caught, and he
Speaker 3: misspelled elementary. That's how she realized it was him. And
Speaker 3: she promises not to say anything, and he says thanks.
Speaker 3: He puts the Book of Chomper poster on her back.
Speaker 3: And at the end of that one, it was a
Speaker 3: nice little ending there and the Family of the Future
Speaker 3: are over the credits and you're just talking about how
Speaker 3: you can flush freeze your kids so little. Yeah, that's
Speaker 3: the end of this one.
Speaker 1: That's the end of Postcards from the Weed.
Speaker 3: I enjoyed this a lot more than the color Yellow,
Speaker 3: because I feel like this one at least had a purpose.
Speaker 1: As I said, I like the central idea of it.
Speaker 1: I don't think they explored it as deeply or as
Speaker 1: cleverly as they could have. Been good gags in there,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but I was a little bit
Speaker 1: let down by what do we learn bomb?
Speaker 3: So what you learn from postcards from the wedge, mister Davis?
Speaker 1: But the but what this episode said, there's really no
Speaker 1: such thing as an unwanted boner.
Speaker 3: I reckon there might be talk to Jimmy about that.
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