Speaker 1: She's such a beautiful shade of blue. I'm gonna call
Speaker 1: you blue Well at the whale.
Speaker 2: Check it out world's biggest, aren't it far? You just
Speaker 2: made above wading four finger discount dude.
Speaker 1: Welcome to four figure discoup where this week we're going
Speaker 1: to be squirting a whale Hondano. I didn't realize we're
Speaker 1: going to be doing that this episode. Okay, but I'm
Speaker 1: ill prepared. But I'm guy, yes quite in the whale.
Speaker 1: We I've already actually reviewed this one with Mitch many
Speaker 1: moons ago. Someone paid one hundred dollars for us to
Speaker 1: specifically review this one, really, and I remember liking it
Speaker 1: a lot more when we did it back to then
Speaker 1: this one here, I want to review it now. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's because we've been doing a lot more season twenty
Speaker 1: one episod. I'm seeing more trends of things that I
Speaker 1: don't like, in particular characters and sort of plot points
Speaker 1: and beats and whatnot. I saw a lot of that
Speaker 1: in here as well. There was a lot to enjoy
Speaker 1: in this story, but also a lot of it when
Speaker 1: I just went why are we doing this? As well?
Speaker 1: Just sort of pick a lane and say in it, well, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean this does feel like, oh, we had two
Speaker 1: ideas for episodes, but we couldn't quite flesh them both out.
Speaker 1: So let's take let's go so far with one and
Speaker 1: then let's move on to the other one with the
Speaker 1: two stories for you then, so it's like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: energy costs too much, let's get off grid. How can
Speaker 1: we do that. Let's get a wind turbine comic Shenannigans
Speaker 1: ensue there's too much wind. Ah, Okay. Then it does
Speaker 1: happen a lot in the Simpsons, though, where they have
Speaker 1: just a bunch of shit happens in the first act
Speaker 1: that leads to the main story. But you really didn't
Speaker 1: really feel like an inciting incident. It felt more like
Speaker 1: an It felt four than and insight. I don't like
Speaker 1: it when they waste too much time on that setup career.
Speaker 1: Go ah, so that's not the that's what this is
Speaker 1: going to be about. Okay, Yeah, that's what you That's
Speaker 1: what you got the feeling the episode was going to
Speaker 1: be about. It's like, yeah, an energy centered episode. I
Speaker 1: always lost a living kind of stif I go back
Speaker 1: to the Tremopoline episode where you know, a good the
Speaker 1: first third of the episode is home of getting this
Speaker 1: trampoline and turn into a theme park and kids get
Speaker 1: injured and blah blah blah, and that all leads to
Speaker 1: the self help guru voiced by other books coming to
Speaker 1: spring But it's like, ah, so all that has nothing
Speaker 1: to really do in the episode. Yeah, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to revisit that episode, which is one of my favorites.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the whole trampoline bit with felt like really
Speaker 1: two or three scene, No, it goes it's the entire
Speaker 1: first act. Really, Yeah, that's theeropoline and yeah, and then
Speaker 1: he gets it and people get injured and all that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff that feels like, yeah, it's like maybe
Speaker 1: five minutes of the episode or something like that. I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe they have been the act of seven minutes. Okay,
Speaker 1: time has no meaning anymore. Yeah, but then there's a storm,
Speaker 1: Whaler's beached itself and yeah, the rest of the episode
Speaker 1: is just that and Least's reaction to it, and I
Speaker 1: guess the community is reaction to it as well. The
Speaker 1: Springfield community is reaction to it. Yeah, I felt odd.
Speaker 1: I feel like this could have been almost like a
Speaker 1: mini movie plot just if handled correctly. If it was
Speaker 1: just focusing on the whale because to feel like there's
Speaker 1: a lot of things I needed to explore there that
Speaker 1: they didn't have real time too, because I don't think
Speaker 1: we really had enough time to be emotionally connected to
Speaker 1: this whale. No, And that's the thing I mean thinking
Speaker 1: about this episode and thinking about this particular sort of
Speaker 1: plot line about the whale beaching itself, and it seems
Speaker 1: like the community comes together in some way. The first
Speaker 1: tenet of reviewing is review what it is, not what
Speaker 1: it's not. But I was looking at going, well, here's
Speaker 1: how I would have done it, or here's how this
Speaker 1: could have been better. You have it about Oh this
Speaker 1: terrible thing. Here's a whale, one of God's wonderful creatures.
Speaker 1: It beats itself. This is really sad phenomenon. Oh you know,
Speaker 1: we're all all the community rallies behind it. Got to
Speaker 1: get it back in the ocean, all this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But then once it's like no one seems to care.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but it's this is kind of a lost cause.
Speaker 1: And then everyone's like, Okay, well back to our normal lives.
Speaker 1: And Liasa is the one who can't let it go
Speaker 1: because Lisa is very sensitive. It's like, I think you
Speaker 1: could do a whole episode around this. I think it
Speaker 1: would be not a very special episode in quote marks,
Speaker 1: but it would be like one that has more heart
Speaker 1: than laughs. And it's an opportunity for again for Lisa
Speaker 1: and Homer to kind of bond because you know, he
Speaker 1: doesn't always get it right, but he recognizes how important
Speaker 1: this is to her and how much how deeply it's
Speaker 1: affecting her, and he wants to help in any way
Speaker 1: he can, but his time, so he fucks up. They
Speaker 1: sort of do that, but they don't really do it
Speaker 1: all that well if you ask me, because we've reached
Speaker 1: the stage of the game we're in season twenty one.
Speaker 1: Homer's not being sort of a well meaning clot He's
Speaker 1: just being a fucking dummy. Yeah, and that same with
Speaker 1: a Bart character as well, well yeah, yeah, and yeah,
Speaker 1: and Bart's being just not a brat but a capital
Speaker 1: Letter's brats and kind of yeah, a little psycho and
Speaker 1: all this kind of stuff. And I think, as I'm saying,
Speaker 1: I think I like this more because we will in
Speaker 1: midst like season nine or ten or whatever. When we
Speaker 1: were reviewing this one originally, I think because I'm seeing
Speaker 1: Bart so often lately and homos so often lately being
Speaker 1: this dummy, and Bart feeling like he's pointless, and see
Speaker 1: me in here, I'm like this shit again, where it
Speaker 1: wouldn't have felt as wrong when I only saw it
Speaker 1: just once. It's like, oh, I'm not being beaten over
Speaker 1: the head with it. Yeah, And I mean I think
Speaker 1: there's the potential in there for a harsh but valuable
Speaker 1: lesson in that this was tragic, but life kind of
Speaker 1: has to go on, you know, and some people just
Speaker 1: can't let it go and that really sort of lingers
Speaker 1: with them in this case with Lisa, and what do
Speaker 1: they call it blueller the way, Well, yeah, I was
Speaker 1: annoyed that no one really besides Homer like comforted Lisa
Speaker 1: in the loss of the whale, like bar should have gone, ah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I made fun of Lisa. I probably should say sorry.
Speaker 1: And I know there's not really much humor in there,
Speaker 1: but you can find humans in it, oh absolutely, But
Speaker 1: it just felt like there wasn't they expected us to
Speaker 1: feel this emotional connection to this whale. Now this I
Speaker 1: actually really liked when she died and you can't hear
Speaker 1: Lisa cross, She's just you can see that she's sobbing,
Speaker 1: and it's the pan wide shot, right, But then it
Speaker 1: just cuts them just we're gonna blow her up and
Speaker 1: we're gonna turn her into corsets. And it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: but this all right? Now apparently the blowing up the
Speaker 1: whale is based on a real incident. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. It's terrible being sort of a
Speaker 1: Monday morning quarterback here. It's like, but there must have
Speaker 1: been better ways to fold all this into into the story.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just going from that principle of like, yes,
Speaker 1: here's a tragedy that affects the whole community, but one
Speaker 1: person feels it deeper than everybody else. And yeah, and
Speaker 1: it gives father and daughter an opportunity to sort of bond.
Speaker 1: It just feels like you kind of fumble. You're so close,
Speaker 1: but you find kind of fumbling in a lot of way.
Speaker 1: They're trying to go for that real emotional endyway. She's like,
Speaker 1: thanks for not letting me give up, Dad, And I
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, this really wasn't earned, no, b Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've got a wave just conventos up. I've got a
Speaker 1: boat that I've borrowed from the boat shop. Hey, let's
Speaker 1: go stop these sharks. Oh shit, I've fallen in the water.
Speaker 1: Now hey fuck those hippies. I don't know, but just
Speaker 1: the whole. So it cust to Lisa and she's and
Speaker 1: she is sitting in what would have been where the
Speaker 1: whale was sitting right, just the whole there in the end,
Speaker 1: I'm like, where's the whale gun? They didn't blow the
Speaker 1: whole corpse up. They blow a chunk of it off well,
Speaker 1: so they were able to move the corps where but
Speaker 1: they couldn't move it away when it was alive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe you've got to break it down into Pattie Wheat
Speaker 1: and elvint one pace of a time maybe, But yeah,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on the design of the whale?
Speaker 1: It didn't look like a Simpsons character. It looked No,
Speaker 1: it looks pretty sort of not photorealistic, but different animation,
Speaker 1: didn't it. The Simpsons characters look like Simpsons characters. They
Speaker 1: don't necessarily look like people. Yeah, whereas this whale was like,
Speaker 1: go like a whale. I just think the whole opening
Speaker 1: act it should have been an episode in itself. Right,
Speaker 1: talking about very alternative energy, I think they referred to
Speaker 1: it right. I mean, this is kind of the episode
Speaker 1: where you get al Gore in or something to provide
Speaker 1: the message. Yeah, but you know, generally is like we're
Speaker 1: trying Sola, We're trying wind. You know, mister Burns is
Speaker 1: trying to sabotage everyone. He makes a little cameo appearance
Speaker 1: at the but I want to touch on that, and
Speaker 1: that annoyed me. It annoyed me. But that story, so
Speaker 1: the whole point it was it gets that. It was
Speaker 1: to get to the fact that there's a storm and
Speaker 1: a whale is beach as a result. Right, you didn't
Speaker 1: need any of anything that came beforehand. It was just
Speaker 1: wasn't not just Bart saying hey God, oh Homer, I'll
Speaker 1: make a deal with your order one of the kids.
Speaker 1: I think it was Bart because he's on top of
Speaker 1: the windmills, I make a deal with you or whatever,
Speaker 1: and God creates a storm and I'm like, wait, what non,
Speaker 1: Why did we have to go through all this to
Speaker 1: get to that? I think the episode should have started
Speaker 1: with them like, you know, a packed beach. It's a
Speaker 1: summer day and everyone's like having a great time, and
Speaker 1: then something happens is like, oh, irony massive storm. Now
Speaker 1: ruined there somebody. Everyone run runs away and they come
Speaker 1: back the next day. Oh, it's nice mother again. Let's
Speaker 1: go back to the beach and there's a whale there.
Speaker 1: That's it. Yeah, And you have some people are like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, this is terrible and something, Ah, you're
Speaker 1: ruined my good beach day or something like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I have people saying and then listening, No, this
Speaker 1: is not the whale's fault. It's the storm's fault. We
Speaker 1: had to help this scene. They're like oh. And then
Speaker 1: that's when the towns people work together and they realize
Speaker 1: or we can't. We're trying, we're trying, we're trying. And
Speaker 1: then he has like Professor Frank or someone who's intelligent, go,
Speaker 1: you do realize that the chances of this things are
Speaker 1: very grim. And everyone's like, oh well, boys, let's go
Speaker 1: back to mos and a list you can't give up.
Speaker 1: And Homer's like torns, like come on home. It's kind
Speaker 1: of mos. He's like sees Lisa and he's like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna stay with my little girl. There's your story. It's
Speaker 1: all there. It's all there. But the mister Burns sing,
Speaker 1: why annoy me? Right? Why'd annoy it? So if this
Speaker 1: was season we can't compare it. It's not season five,
Speaker 1: seasons six, Simpsons season twenty one. But why would Burns
Speaker 1: be at this convention? The mister Burns that we grew
Speaker 1: up with be at this convention doing a silent, peaceful
Speaker 1: protest by himself. There's being a lot of protest being
Speaker 1: and kind of ineffectual, making no difference for the sake
Speaker 1: of a sign. Gag, Right, It just this screams to
Speaker 1: me like a writer's room, knowing no one in the
Speaker 1: room either saying, haven't thet gus to say? But why
Speaker 1: would Burns be there? Or maybe it's just the case
Speaker 1: of who cares? Who cares? Because mister Burns, the character
Speaker 1: who know on love would be either you know, trying
Speaker 1: to using his power and he's money to shut this
Speaker 1: thing down the whole not sitting there walking buses with
Speaker 1: the little sign. It's like, that's not mister Burns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not what mister Burns would do. Yeah, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna have whipping Smither's holding it or something, that's what
Speaker 1: I was, or have him like on a big screen
Speaker 1: or something. You know, he's like a board all the
Speaker 1: airtime to say keep poisoning the earth, make me money
Speaker 1: something like that, but just walk him. I was like,
Speaker 1: just the sign sign, No, it should have been the
Speaker 1: sign herself was funny, but mister Burns doing this stupid Yeah,
Speaker 1: it should have been Smither's yeah. And the other thing
Speaker 1: that kind of was it was the writer. It's almost
Speaker 1: acknowledging that they've ruined this character. Season twenty one, the
Speaker 1: Ned Flannder's character is ruined, ruined in my opinion. Howso
Speaker 1: well they have him pull out the power the fans
Speaker 1: right from the Simpsons. They say your fan pair club
Speaker 1: has been shut down, and I was like, you can't
Speaker 1: do that, and then he's like, you used to be nicer.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, he did used to be nice. And
Speaker 1: that was the whole point of the car Do you
Speaker 1: felt sympathetic towards because you were a jerk? And Flanders
Speaker 1: always would give in and go okay. He used to
Speaker 1: come out and say, how would he really to use
Speaker 1: all those fans, shut up flanners, whatever, and that was
Speaker 1: the joke. Now Flanders sticks up for himself and it's
Speaker 1: like it's not funny anymore. It's kind of like when
Speaker 1: a fat comedian loses all their weight. You're not funny anymore.
Speaker 1: You were funny because you were fat, you know, like
Speaker 1: you were funny because you were a simpy. You're funny.
Speaker 1: You were funny because you were not pathetic, but you
Speaker 1: were just so nice to people. And I get their
Speaker 1: characters need to evolve, but they don't actually evolve, many
Speaker 1: of the characters and the simps, because they are stereotypes
Speaker 1: and they are there for a specific reason. Well that's
Speaker 1: the thing. I mean, we all enjoyed when Smithers, you know,
Speaker 1: when Smithers failed, you know, and he oh no, when
Speaker 1: they when they built him his house and it was
Speaker 1: ship that was Hurricane Eddy. Yeah, Smither's flanners, yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: and he has the tirade. Yeah, sorry, didn't say Smithers.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, and he goes right, I can't
Speaker 1: Levin got in tangents. But yeah, why is the episodes
Speaker 1: so great because it runs counter to h to what
Speaker 1: Flanders used to be yet or he normally was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you make you a really good point about these characters.
Speaker 1: You're betraying what they used to be, what they brought
Speaker 1: to the table, they brought to the show. I put
Speaker 1: the death of the Flanders character. You can pinpoint the
Speaker 1: second when it happens was the death of mord Flanders. Okay,
Speaker 1: it was good for a I'm sure publicity stunt. It
Speaker 1: was their way of getting back at Maggie Roswell because
Speaker 1: she didn't she wanted to pay increase, or she wanted
Speaker 1: to be able to voice from home, or there was
Speaker 1: some specific reason a contract dispute, and they're like, well,
Speaker 1: she's not coming back, let's kill off one of her characters.
Speaker 1: We'll get we'll get, we'll get a rating out of it, right,
Speaker 1: And it made for an interesting story for the Flanders
Speaker 1: character at that time. You know, oh, he's going to
Speaker 1: be single now, blah blah blah. But it feels like
Speaker 1: going forward, they just didn't know what to do with
Speaker 1: the Flanners character anymo, because he couldn't go back to
Speaker 1: being the Flanners he was anymore because he's had such
Speaker 1: a such a terrible incident in his life and it
Speaker 1: quick questioned his faith and all this other, all these
Speaker 1: other things. It was a fun episode to dove into
Speaker 1: who he is his faith in the way he questioned
Speaker 1: it in that episode, But going forward, he's not. He
Speaker 1: sticks up for himself now, and that's good. Right, it's
Speaker 1: good he sticks up for himself. But from a comedy perspective,
Speaker 1: it kind of sucks. How is any of this funny? Well,
Speaker 1: this is the accentainly wasn't the fan club blame was?
Speaker 1: But so when Homer says, used to be nice, and
Speaker 1: I was like, that was the point of the character,
Speaker 1: and you've stripped that away? Yeah, I didn't see when
Speaker 1: that line was uttered. I'm like, this is all you're
Speaker 1: coming up with. That's not it's just you acknowledging as
Speaker 1: a writer. I am this character used to be better,
Speaker 1: used to be better. The Flanners character is done. There's
Speaker 1: no point to him. Now what is the point of
Speaker 1: the Flanders character? Now we'll keep we'll keep an eye
Speaker 1: open and see what happens in future episodes. But yeah,
Speaker 1: based on this episode, it's like, I can't recall the
Speaker 1: last one had a good Flander story, nor do I.
Speaker 1: And it takes me back to when we spoke to
Speaker 1: Harry Shier and he says, I realized Simpsons wasn't the
Speaker 1: Simpsons anymore. I can't remember what it was specifically, but
Speaker 1: it was a Flanders line and he goes, I said,
Speaker 1: they gained me the script and I'm reading the script,
Speaker 1: and Harry said. I said to him, Flanners wouldn't say this,
Speaker 1: and they said, it doesn't matter, it's just just read it,
Speaker 1: and he goes. I realized they were no longer writing
Speaker 1: jokes for the characters. They were writing jokes and just
Speaker 1: assigning into a character. Even that's when I was like,
Speaker 1: this isn't the Simpsons anymore. Sucks to hear that, but
Speaker 1: it's true though, when you've gone through, when you go
Speaker 1: through chronological order and you start seeing the deterioration of
Speaker 1: these characters. Harry was he not to right in the head.
Speaker 1: These jokes don't aren't written for specific characters anymore. It's
Speaker 1: just let's just write jokes and go, oh, you haven't
Speaker 1: had Flanders for a while, throwing him in there doing it.
Speaker 1: There's not a bit in here that annoyed me as well.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Okay, So they're having a debate, we
Speaker 1: need to find the town's smartest men, right, and they're
Speaker 1: doing the tug of war with their heads, and Lisa says,
Speaker 1: I'm not really sure any of these people down there
Speaker 1: can be considered smart. My doctor Hibbitt's there, Who is there?
Speaker 1: Principal Skinner is there? What are we doing these ones?
Speaker 1: These were ones the boss, the most intelligent people in Springfield,
Speaker 1: and they're they're fucking They're demoted the point of their
Speaker 1: having tuger war with the likes of Lenny and Carl
Speaker 1: and Homer with their heads. We're sacrificing, you know, character
Speaker 1: integrity for the sake of a shitty one side gag,
Speaker 1: side gag and Lisa's I don't think what do you?
Speaker 1: Lisa is no longer thinks are poop smart? And the
Speaker 1: only thinks doctor doctor Hibbert is not? So he's doctor Nick?
Speaker 1: Now is he? Just? Why couldn't Why could that not
Speaker 1: have been doctor Nick? Well? Why not say? This doesn't
Speaker 1: strike me as very smart as opposed to Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the situations at the end of your d could be
Speaker 1: sid as smart. It's like Poo's probably the smartest guy
Speaker 1: on Springfield. You would think so, right, A lot wrong
Speaker 1: with this episode. It's just little things that shouldn't mean
Speaker 1: so much. But as a lifelong Simpsons van, you watch
Speaker 1: this and you go, why have all in this rega? Yeah,
Speaker 1: because this episode could have been could have been so
Speaker 1: much more heart When you're critiquing it, get there's a
Speaker 1: difference between just watching something and being entertained and critiquing it.
Speaker 1: And if you want to critique this man, there was
Speaker 1: a lot to have about it. I just have to
Speaker 1: get off my chest. I was just annoyed by it.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you did. You did my favorite. Do you
Speaker 1: have any favorite moments in the episode. I would probably
Speaker 1: watch Tic Tac toe X the O Okay, yeah, I
Speaker 1: would probably pay money for it. No, All my time
Speaker 1: is Mexican prison movie idea has some good points. It
Speaker 1: feels it feels like a nineteen ninety seven action for
Speaker 1: cool and flu. You'd have them what's the dude, Danny? Yeah,
Speaker 1: in there, get the villaing of throw a few bucks
Speaker 1: down his way. He'd be just at it, just about anything.
Speaker 1: I like how I get a bit of you'd appreciate
Speaker 1: this at least watching House. Yes, yes, I have now
Speaker 1: the house formula. Did you see the tweet? Yeah, Hugh,
Speaker 1: Laura is getting getting a bit stucky. He admittedly had
Speaker 1: a couple of lies. Yeah when he wrote that, but
Speaker 1: it was just we tried getting it right the first time.
Speaker 1: In the MBN said we didn't like it. As it
Speaker 1: was finishing sixth minutes and I'm like, I get that,
Speaker 1: but like more people need to understand. What I quickly
Speaker 1: gathered was this show is not a bin show. It's
Speaker 1: a you watch it once a week, you carry on
Speaker 1: with your life, you come back to it, your you
Speaker 1: like this formula. But watching his formula back to back
Speaker 1: to back becomes my numbing Oh god. Yeah, I've said
Speaker 1: this more than months in this podcast that my relationship
Speaker 1: is a very MUCHO sentence. My relationship to Gilmore girls
Speaker 1: change forever. When I watched a whole bunch of episodes
Speaker 1: back to back, it's like, oh my goodness. Oh it
Speaker 1: sucks when you can see the formula like you see
Speaker 1: also but boom, Yeah it's our rhythm and pacing is
Speaker 1: this way, this way, this way, or you know. I
Speaker 1: had a weekend was like, you know, it's good those
Speaker 1: Borne moves, Jason Bourne. I'm gonna watch the like, oh
Speaker 1: these are all the same movie. Yeah, it's just fine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they go back to back to back. You're like, ah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like I'm born out. Yeah a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: damn shame. I Nicol and I now have a game.
Speaker 1: We watched Lauren Order and we're watching like there it's
Speaker 1: called Laura Order twenty one. I don't real had a
Speaker 1: ten year holiday. You know this? This so Lauren Order. Right.
Speaker 1: The original Law and Order started in nineteen ninety, but
Speaker 1: then it was like they started doing the whole Digwolf universe,
Speaker 1: so it was like Laura SVU. We watched it and
Speaker 1: I was like, previously on Laura Order. I'm like, what
Speaker 1: what do you mean. It's like you have to watch
Speaker 1: this Law and Order specific episode to know it was going.
Speaker 1: You're talking about the more recent ones like laur and
Speaker 1: Order Organized Crime. I no, no, no, no, So they do
Speaker 1: do that with organized crime, but this one specifically was
Speaker 1: a Lauren Order episode, right, Yeah, And what happened was
Speaker 1: in like twenty eleven, Law and Order stopped the original
Speaker 1: show and it returned in twenty twenty one as Law
Speaker 1: and Order twenty one. Wow, it's so bizarre. That's because yeah,
Speaker 1: the original stop, but SBU kept going. Yeah, so season
Speaker 1: twenty stopped in like twenty ten or whatever. So then
Speaker 1: when it was twenty twenty one, they called it Laura
Speaker 1: Order twenty one, but it was actually season twenty one. Wow.
Speaker 1: It was so but we're watching it there. We have
Speaker 1: a game that we watch it and in the first
Speaker 1: five or six minutes, we'll watch it and it's the
Speaker 1: first one you can go it was that guy because
Speaker 1: you can always tell they sort of they introduced into
Speaker 1: the episode. They have like a little throwaway line. You're like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to see you later. It's going to be
Speaker 1: you somehow, and it's the same formula week to week,
Speaker 1: and it's just like, ah, you know what. That strikes
Speaker 1: me as especially heinous. Nobody can watch SPU without saying that, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you watch Law in Order though, And because we
Speaker 1: watched so much SPU, the Law and Order opening bit
Speaker 1: is different and it just frozer, where's the heinous we need?
Speaker 1: We need to the gag I liked, Yes, at least
Speaker 1: watching house was my second bit. I also liked the
Speaker 1: mentioning the at the expo and he says that you
Speaker 1: get tax curdit for this and you haven't paid off
Speaker 1: in like twelve to eighteen weeks. Halftimes, we have the
Speaker 1: solar panels on the roof and they're almost paid off.
Speaker 1: It took us like I think six or seven years.
Speaker 1: And now it's like if you get a battery, you
Speaker 1: don't just send it back to them. You saw the
Speaker 1: power here and you just use that. I'm like, let's
Speaker 1: do it. Oh absolutely, yea, and actually where he's out
Speaker 1: better for us now we're actually saving money. Yeah. Oh yeah, No,
Speaker 1: soul is great. Yeah. We if we if we do
Speaker 1: stuff between eleven AM and three pm, it's basically free.
Speaker 1: So we do the washing, we do the dishes, we
Speaker 1: do anything that's between eleven and dish washer I mean,
Speaker 1: is between eleven and three it's free. I do the dishes,
Speaker 1: and you know it's free because I don't use the
Speaker 1: dish washing and you don't get paid in calmer points
Speaker 1: maybe anything you enjoy. I like the Boston Legal shout
Speaker 1: out sort of the whole I like, yes, that wasn't legal. Yes,
Speaker 1: I never watch Boston Legal good stuff. Yeah. We started
Speaker 1: watching it and then it got taken off the streaming
Speaker 1: service we were watching it. We're like, oh, no, is
Speaker 1: it not on Disney Plane. It must be on It
Speaker 1: wasn't Disney Plus when we first watched it. I think
Speaker 1: we're watching it. I think it was on Netflix at
Speaker 1: the time or something. Okay, next question you there eating
Speaker 1: the paste trivia time. My first question for you, mister
Speaker 1: Davis is what did mister Burns is infamous science saying, oh,
Speaker 1: it's something like justice for Earth poisoners and fair to
Speaker 1: Earth poisonous. I'll give you that one. Okay. Then my
Speaker 1: first question, you Homer wants a churo that you can eat?
Speaker 1: Where the shower? The shower? My next question is the
Speaker 1: tic tac toe xpa. Who are the two characters in
Speaker 1: the movie, Romeo and Julie X Yes, whales on the
Speaker 1: T shirt is an acronym for what. Oh no, I
Speaker 1: didn't actually pay attention to. What was that? We helped
Speaker 1: air leave. We we helped airlift Lisa's enormous soulmate. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's the members of Operation Desert Ocean. I actually thought
Speaker 1: that was quite a good twist. It was. Yes. I
Speaker 1: initially thought, oh, okay, then they rally behind, but then
Speaker 1: I realized that there's a bit more to go on
Speaker 1: this episode. Where did they go from here? And my
Speaker 1: final question for you is how many sharks were killed
Speaker 1: for shark fin soup the year before? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: uh something some like weird extreme million was forty. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say something like six hundred million, which is
Speaker 1: probably true. Good day, Yeah, they've had shark fin soup. No,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of flake It's it's devastating to think
Speaker 1: what we do two creatures, isn't it. Oh yeah, they
Speaker 1: they just catch ugs, cut the things off and throwing
Speaker 1: back into water. Oh yeah, yeah. We deserve everything we can.
Speaker 1: Oh no, we're ship We're terrible to the planet. Having
Speaker 1: said that, I'm probably gonna have some flake a at Lata.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I've fled for a long time. My final question to
Speaker 1: you is what is the name of the female sea hugger?
Speaker 1: The female sea hugger, you know, the also like the hippies, hippies, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the hippies. No, was it? It was Linda, Linda. It
Speaker 1: was a shout out to Linda McCartney in anyway, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say so. I don't think so. I want to
Speaker 1: throw it out there. Time for some stonecutter shares, mister
Speaker 1: Davis absolutely starting with the lovely kadg with her one
Speaker 1: hundred dollar support. Was it got, mister David Stewart, Glenn Gomez,
Speaker 1: Justin Parker's that Prouet, Schney Macker, Elliott j O'Neil, Isabella Murphy,
Speaker 1: Roach Beasley, Stephen Roberts, Sean DV. Pete Anderson, Timothy Bels
Speaker 1: and Andrew Davis, Kevin Dental, planned Flood Apple be Jackmie Fadden,
Speaker 1: Baler winder Back, Adrick McLeod, Mark Trelevin, Preston, Murray t
Speaker 1: Lei and Enriquez, Declan Phoenix, Brian McCoy, Logan b James Ship,
Speaker 1: but Joe Ridden and Say Dave, Prencess McNally, Gavin named Demi, Milo, Charlie, Joe,
Speaker 1: Abigail b Sharpkater Craig Alti, Smash Gloucester and Ginger and
Speaker 1: Pickle Ginger Pickle. By the way, I'm uh, you're not
Speaker 1: making that misake again. David Stewart is now upfront. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was paying for a couple of months. He's like,
Speaker 1: I just like my name once in a while, just once. Yes,
Speaker 1: It's like now you'll get it all the time, now, buddy,
Speaker 1: all the time. All right. So the original air day
Speaker 1: of this episode, The Squirt and the Whale was April
Speaker 1: twenty fifth, twenty ten. This was ANZAC Day in twenty ten,
Speaker 1: Oh Than Give Your Service, and the top three films
Speaker 1: at the US box office were number three, Date Night,
Speaker 1: number two The Backup Plan, and number one was How
Speaker 1: to Train Your Dragon. Well, we know about Date Night,
Speaker 1: which is Tina Fean and Stead Carrell. The Backup Plan
Speaker 1: is a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez and Australia's own
Speaker 1: Alex O'Loughlin. Okay, that's where she has she has the
Speaker 1: artificial information, so yeah, and she's like, wait a minute now, man,
Speaker 1: a guy that I want a root and with correct
Speaker 1: and number one was had a training dragon moved its
Speaker 1: weight for number two two number one. Indeed, the episode
Speaker 1: was written by Matt Wadberson, directed by Mark Kirkland. The
Speaker 1: chopboat gag was a reference to South Park, So this
Speaker 1: ad when the two oh one two hundred. Initially yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: they were like we'd stand with you, we went scared
Speaker 1: or something along. When I watched it on Disney Plus
Speaker 1: the other night, it actually had like Bart running something
Speaker 1: in French which says I am not French, or something
Speaker 1: along those lines. I wish they just left the South
Speaker 1: Pike went in, you think so? Cashcake couch gag was
Speaker 1: also the couches sort of running through a newspaper showing
Speaker 1: up in various things showing up and the one has
Speaker 1: a nice reunion at the end. You also had other
Speaker 1: little bits and pieces they had the billboard which was
Speaker 1: text me your lunch money. There was a sign for
Speaker 1: e bully dot com and I think you had like
Speaker 1: the it like a Fox Network flying machine at the
Speaker 1: very start, something like kneon doing the cane and codos
Speaker 1: or the you know what that thing is at the
Speaker 1: very start what they called side gag, you know in
Speaker 1: the opening the opening credits, Yes, assume sounds and you
Speaker 1: know they'll have something go over it. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: like a little flying machine. Yes, okay. And what was
Speaker 1: the billboard text me? You'll know the text ed yes already.
Speaker 1: So the episode kicks off with the kids watching the
Speaker 1: promo for tic Tac toe x VO. By the way,
Speaker 1: we should just give a quick shout out there is
Speaker 1: an opportunity to put my film buff hat on. The
Speaker 1: Squirt and the Whale is a reference to a movie
Speaker 1: called The Squid and the Whale. It was written directed
Speaker 1: by a fellow named Noah Baumbach, who is sort of
Speaker 1: like he's what I like call mainstream independent. He's made
Speaker 1: a lot of movies with a lot of movie stars.
Speaker 1: Jeff Daniels Nney. I love Laura Lnney. She's great from
Speaker 1: trimok and early role for Jesse Eisenberg and yeah, kind
Speaker 1: of a unpleasant to watch family drama about a bunch
Speaker 1: of egotistical and deluded people. It's a looking dream Bert
Speaker 1: Noah bumbag's doing well for himself, married Greg Girwick co Barbie.
Speaker 1: He's probably lighting cubans of gars with one hundred dollar bills.
Speaker 1: Good for him. Yeah, props to that guy. But squirt
Speaker 1: in the while based on that. But the kids are
Speaker 1: watching the promo for XBO starting Romeo and Julie x
Speaker 1: Tic tach New. By the way, I'm sorry you've got
Speaker 1: Laura Linne's page up. Is Laura Linny's whole name? Laura
Speaker 1: Leggett Lenny It is? Yeah, good Leggot's name, just name,
Speaker 1: isn't it? Nice? Picture? Laura can have whatever name she wants. Marry.
Speaker 1: I remember when I watched Love Actually for the first time,
Speaker 1: and I think she had a chef and it changed
Speaker 1: my life forever. Oh that's right, And then she had
Speaker 1: to go look after a brother or something. Yeah, couldn't
Speaker 1: hook up with that hot Spannah guy. Yeah, he just
Speaker 1: feels so sorry for her. Damn. Yeah. Nothing gets him
Speaker 1: more in that movie than what's his name? Alan cheating
Speaker 1: on Thompson. Thompson, You're like, what are you doing? Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? A? Yeah? That German Chick's bad news,
Speaker 1: see his bad news indeed. But Homer he unplugs everything
Speaker 1: because he's sick of the power bills. Like this, this
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like it fits the Homer character. He wouldn't
Speaker 1: care about the power. Like this should be the Marge
Speaker 1: doing this again. It's so Yeah, a lot of weird
Speaker 1: stuff in this character wise, and also just little bits
Speaker 1: and people. Yeah, but this whole thing and it must
Speaker 1: have met. It did have one good side gag where
Speaker 1: the projectors how long has there been on? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: was just like, what's the point of that? But yeah, fine,
Speaker 1: I thought that was kind of yeah, yeah, it's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But they just feels like that should be the Margine.
Speaker 1: We're wasting home. I should be watching it with them.
Speaker 1: We're wasting power. We don't need power, Marge. Yeah, correct,
Speaker 1: it's electricity. It's always there, Like he should be done
Speaker 1: like the kids, you know, what do you mean to
Speaker 1: pay for the power? It should be you wake at
Speaker 1: a power plant. Yes, we initially we just did an
Speaker 1: episode of Speaking the Hill where Bobby has no idea
Speaker 1: of the value of money. Homer should be like that.
Speaker 1: It's like drizzly there, you got to pay your power bill.
Speaker 1: But you know, one of those magical animals kind of
Speaker 1: correct correct correct, correct. But then they decide, well, oh
Speaker 1: well no, Lisa points out, oh, there's an energy XPO
Speaker 1: one or something like it. But changed changes to your
Speaker 1: lifestyle can be difficult. Yea, indeed, but like okay, well
Speaker 1: let's go do this thing which is apparently on at night,
Speaker 1: and let's get in the car and leave. Yeah. Again,
Speaker 1: opportunity for another opportunity for a side gag, which I
Speaker 1: think is we better make sure that everyone knows we're home,
Speaker 1: turn on the Christmas lights. But there's a little bit
Speaker 1: where they're all getting in the car and you just
Speaker 1: hear mar saying, come on, get in the car. Got
Speaker 1: to this this? Why put a line there or just
Speaker 1: cut this out? Yeah? Why is she just sort of
Speaker 1: saying stuff to fill dead air? And if she is
Speaker 1: saying stuff to fill there there, make it a joke.
Speaker 1: Or you haven't run to the car and have Bart
Speaker 1: say why the Christmas lights stup? It's July and say
Speaker 1: oh something stupid exactly right, But then it cuts the
Speaker 1: snake saying, Oh, I can't wait to poop on their carpet.
Speaker 1: I'm like, who wrote that? What are we even doing?
Speaker 1: As we like to say these days, what are we
Speaker 1: even doing? What do you mean to put their carpet? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think even kids would find that funny. It's
Speaker 1: what what do you mean? What? What since? What a
Speaker 1: sneak pool called carpets? Why is he again? This joke
Speaker 1: is not a snake line. No, I'm gonna lost. Let's
Speaker 1: move on, Let's get to the XPO. Is there with
Speaker 1: his one sign having a silent protest. Even once we
Speaker 1: get to the expole, it's kind of like, what's the
Speaker 1: point of some of these gags? The whole Burnt Power
Speaker 1: thing I thought was just lame, the bist fight between
Speaker 1: the two guys, Wigham's kid power. I'm sorry, we have
Speaker 1: to go back to Guy's favorite episode of all time,
Speaker 1: Last Temptation of Homer. I was gonna be that exact thing.
Speaker 1: So this thing really works out? Sure it does. Good
Speaker 1: luck the tire use us and no one gets hurt. Sorry,
Speaker 1: that's fucking hilarious. But also, you know Homer and Mindy,
Speaker 1: you know, pushing nuclear and everyone's walking bar just having
Speaker 1: goes out him gead bad no got out what Homer
Speaker 1: throws knocks it out, and then he just got this
Speaker 1: big smote good about himself. There, let's talk about last
Speaker 1: intention of Homer. I suppose this shit. I see that
Speaker 1: that was a means to an end. So this happens
Speaker 1: for no real I know, it sets up them getting
Speaker 1: the wind milk. But the storm doesn't happen because they've
Speaker 1: got a wind milk. That's the problem. So this it's not,
Speaker 1: it's not, this happens, and therefore this happens like tray
Speaker 1: Matt will do. It's this happens, and then this happens,
Speaker 1: and then there's a storm and then the wagons like
Speaker 1: so what was the point of anything that came before it? Right?
Speaker 1: Just remember, folks, therefore and but there are two words.
Speaker 1: You want the storage and in the latentation of Homer,
Speaker 1: they are at the expo. The whole point of that
Speaker 1: is because now Homer is away with Mindy. Correct, that
Speaker 1: was the reason for them to be alone. There's a
Speaker 1: reason for the expo. Correct. Correct. But he's the guy
Speaker 1: says solar panel. It's a bright idea. Yes, still was
Speaker 1: getting a real job and I'm like, man, I've fallen
Speaker 1: a long way. We've fallen a long way from lastentation
Speaker 1: of Homer. Lisa has then found what he's looking for.
Speaker 1: Sure that I can eat in the shower. Have you
Speaker 1: ever eaten in the shower? I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: eaten in the shower. No, I have drunk beers in
Speaker 1: the shower. It's fucking amazing. Oh yeah, oh god, there's
Speaker 1: nothing better cold be a hot shower, yeah, warm shower,
Speaker 1: cold beer, a hot day, yeah yeah yeah. But they're
Speaker 1: not eating in the shower. What would be the best
Speaker 1: thing to eat if you have to eat in the shower?
Speaker 1: So I said to you your ideal shower meal? What
Speaker 1: is it? What's the medal you need? Maybe a chocolate
Speaker 1: bar because like can of chips, I'll go soggy. An
Speaker 1: apple ship they can get possibly, yeah, okay, maybe an apple,
Speaker 1: but that would preclude me. I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I'm
Speaker 1: being practical. I know, yeah, I appreciate that. I can't
Speaker 1: think of anything. No, you don't. Nothing tastes better when
Speaker 1: it's been food wise, when it's been wet. But then
Speaker 1: the guy brings up he's trying to sell solid panel
Speaker 1: to Homer, get tax credits. You write itself off from
Speaker 1: twelve to eighteen lifetimes and you won't regret it. I'm
Speaker 1: starting to already too bad. Lass has already got the
Speaker 1: twine out. Then Homer says, I got it pretty good.
Speaker 1: I want my ward for audiobook narration whatever whatever we
Speaker 1: mentioned our guys, that's all couples and strays. Yeah, were
Speaker 1: we just stupider twenty years ago? Like it just feels like,
Speaker 1: you know, we just did South Park where they mocked
Speaker 1: out Gore, and I feel the Simpsons never really mocked
Speaker 1: out uninformed perhaps uninformed. Yeah, it was just easy. It
Speaker 1: feels like we're more stupid now, it does. Yes, But
Speaker 1: then we see this, So they've set up the whatever
Speaker 1: it is need to be set out the soul panels
Speaker 1: and whatnot, and Marge points out the energy meter is
Speaker 1: going backwards something things, he's going back in time, the
Speaker 1: wind turbine. But it turns out they're just providing power
Speaker 1: to the electricity company. So he calls them and rants
Speaker 1: at them. Lenny's working out apparently, Why Leny's working there?
Speaker 1: He wasn't a power plant again? Why is Lenny there?
Speaker 1: Why are these write a line assign it to a character. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just to have wise guy there. Wise, guys going, the
Speaker 1: guy who's meant to be working everywhere. Why the fuck
Speaker 1: is Lenny working there? Give us a reason? Why a
Speaker 1: job about the power plant? You see him later associated
Speaker 1: with the power plant? Why is he? What? What? I
Speaker 1: don't like? Man, God, it's just stupid, stupid. So he
Speaker 1: councels the account. The Simpsons are off the grid. So
Speaker 1: far it's going great, and it's time for the big
Speaker 1: game and the color over there to watch the game.
Speaker 1: And then there's no windowside, so the windmill stops and
Speaker 1: the parent the TV powers down? Who turned off the wind?
Speaker 3: Dad?
Speaker 1: If we're really off the grid, then we won't get
Speaker 1: power when the air is still well.
Speaker 3: I'm not crawling back to big electricity from now on.
Speaker 3: The symptoms are living intermittently.
Speaker 1: I've written it. I'm wondering if this is how sustainable
Speaker 1: energy actually really works, because this feels like a really
Speaker 1: bad faith argument. It should be storing energy, as you
Speaker 1: know how you're here. Sometimes people, it's the really dumb
Speaker 1: argument against solar or wind that's sunder and shown all
Speaker 1: the time. Sometimes it's not winding storing. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: that you know when it's working. Its story energy. It's
Speaker 1: not just it's not like an actual windmill, because that
Speaker 1: winmill was going right. It didn't stop when the TV
Speaker 1: was off. It was generating power when the TV was off.
Speaker 1: For you, when you want to turn the TV on,
Speaker 1: you start eating into the power that you've stored. Correct,
Speaker 1: just doesn't make sense. It always was like this was
Speaker 1: done by some anti green energy kind of it. I
Speaker 1: suspect the big energy is behind this again, who cares?
Speaker 1: That's that's the man who cares. So the jumping case
Speaker 1: goes up and down, we have them playing the z
Speaker 1: they fight over it. Then the garage doors going up
Speaker 1: and down. Marge can't do a makeuprop because the light's
Speaker 1: going off. I'm a falling asleep with the buzz saw, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: what was even doing? Why was even working on something
Speaker 1: like these? I will buy into these when he's there
Speaker 1: for a reason, how much just randomly there wouldn't be
Speaker 1: funny if a bus or cuts into his head. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm sorry that. Yeah that really seeing him seeing
Speaker 1: it cut into his head, that was wrong. I just
Speaker 1: have it stopped just short or something, I mean, but
Speaker 1: having it actually cut into his head. Yeah, and laterally, look,
Speaker 1: this is really nitpicky, but having it actually cut into
Speaker 1: his head you don't see anything. I mean to be
Speaker 1: gross if he did. But later on, you know, you've
Speaker 1: got gets hit in the head by a can, gets
Speaker 1: blood coming out. Yeah, which gin's up the shark? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I shouldn't be too upset
Speaker 1: about this, but why no blood in this one? Blood
Speaker 1: in that one? I just don't have the problem is
Speaker 1: showing the sword going into his head, right, It's like
Speaker 1: there was no one ever to save him, so this
Speaker 1: thing would have just killed him. Stupid. Yeah, it's stupid.
Speaker 1: It doesn't make sense. It's agree that it cuts into
Speaker 1: it even if it stopped again, it's like it's in
Speaker 1: his head, that's in his brain. Yes, and it has
Speaker 1: a transition to the lumpy smoothie and home is my
Speaker 1: brain stopped working? And it stops working mid sentence you're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was your payoff for all? Is that the result
Speaker 1: of that? Or is that just home and being I
Speaker 1: don't know, let's move on home and then powers the
Speaker 1: windmill with actual fans is using plug into Flanders side
Speaker 1: and this week, at the Flanners moment, that I was
Speaker 1: ranted about earlier, and he says, the meeting of the
Speaker 1: fan club has been adjourned. We haven't had our monthly
Speaker 1: meeting or whatever, and then Yeah, pulls them all out.
Speaker 1: Used to be a lot nicer and that's the end
Speaker 1: of Flanders. And I was like, man, you guys just
Speaker 1: don't like you just don't know what to do with
Speaker 1: the characters anymore. You just don't. I think also to
Speaker 1: it feels like it doesn't really feel there's a writer's
Speaker 1: room at the Simpsons at this point. I feel like
Speaker 1: every episode sort of written by different people, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like there's a writer's room like it feels
Speaker 1: like in the mid nineties that was there was a
Speaker 1: writer's room. Yes, and they all worked and they bounce
Speaker 1: ideas of each other and they said, no, we can't
Speaker 1: do that because of this, and they all work together.
Speaker 1: This just feels like a bunch of people assigned to
Speaker 1: do Simpsons episodes. You do you you It's like you
Speaker 1: know the new Star Wars movies, JJ, you do that one, Ryan,
Speaker 1: you do that one, and we'll just you know, we'll
Speaker 1: see how they go together. That went w that worked out? Uh,
Speaker 1: then we have but spinning it himself. He's up on
Speaker 1: the top of trying to make the windmill move. Un least,
Speaker 1: he's trying to hear doctor House's third incorrect diagnosis before
Speaker 1: the correct one. Then he makes a deal with God.
Speaker 1: I know how the deal was. But God causes a
Speaker 1: storm and lots of power and it destroys the town
Speaker 1: as a result, and then bartless to go to investigate
Speaker 1: the town. There's a wind chime store, which I thought
Speaker 1: was quite funny. Then the world's largest dandylion, and then
Speaker 1: they go to the beach and there's washed up goggles
Speaker 1: and medical waste on the beach. But then they find
Speaker 1: the whale, and Lisa can't be believing something so mighty
Speaker 1: can be read. It's so powerless. And then but okay,
Speaker 1: my birthday on here falls into the blowhole, gets blown
Speaker 1: back out, and Lisa says, I'll call you Blowala the whale,
Speaker 1: and bart says, oh you met the world be his
Speaker 1: armpit funt and it goes down and blows him a
Speaker 1: way apparently, and he's like, you just made a powerful enemy.
Speaker 1: What is happening? I don't know, but something I wrote
Speaker 1: here good like getting laughs out of a beached whale.
Speaker 1: It is. It is really one of the saddest spectacles because,
Speaker 1: oh mate, it's true. Something so mighty is so powerless. Absolutely, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I watched the trailer and up for a movie called
Speaker 1: Whale Fall. Have you heard about this? Whale Fall? Yes?
Speaker 1: Have you seen this? Have you heard about this? It's
Speaker 1: actually pretty some whaleful. It's a pretty wild concept, which
Speaker 1: is apparently not I don't know if it's based on
Speaker 1: true story, but I think the guy who wrote it
Speaker 1: did his research is the guy scuba diving. There's big whale.
Speaker 1: The whale is like trying to eat an octopal or something,
Speaker 1: and the dude gets tangled up in the octopus, so
Speaker 1: he ends up inside the whale. The whale is so
Speaker 1: big that you know he's not the CGI are real. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a live action movie. It's a live
Speaker 1: actually I imagine a lot of c G Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's like animated. Yeah, but he's got like
Speaker 1: an hour to figure out how do I get out
Speaker 1: of this way before my oxygen runs out. I'm like,
Speaker 1: it's pretty neat concepts. An escape room pretty much exact.
Speaker 1: The room is a whale. I can't believe they haven't
Speaker 1: just made like an escape room franchise already? Well, they's
Speaker 1: made they made two of them, they escape room movies. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a movie called Escape Room, and there's another one
Speaker 1: called Escape Room two something, Escape Room the sequel, Yeah,
Speaker 1: escape again. Yeah. I think they're like PG thirteen horror movies.
Speaker 1: I have not seen them. Okay, I still want to do.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'd love to make an escape room,
Speaker 1: like just make one. Buy a shitty property, do it
Speaker 1: up a little bit, and it just hosts are Jigsaw?
Speaker 1: Are you confessing to me that your Jigsaw? Right a
Speaker 1: little bit? Okay, I think cool a little bit. I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit of a serial you'd like to pleat
Speaker 1: agree interesting to be a lot of fun, but then
Speaker 1: murdering people? Yeah? Sure, so creating my note He says,
Speaker 1: so is Bart now Millhouse and that he's just stupid
Speaker 1: to get him into super situations or is he just
Speaker 1: a mini Homer? Either way, I can't see how kids
Speaker 1: will relate to this version of Butt, or maybe they
Speaker 1: think he's funny because it just shit keeps happening to him.
Speaker 1: Like what is the point of this version of Bart?
Speaker 1: I have no idea. No, I just found he's an idiot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's just irritating. He's just irritating. He's an idiot, he's
Speaker 1: mean spirited, he's an idiot, he's just he's literally Minnie Homer.
Speaker 1: Lisa then begs the bullies to help her with the
Speaker 1: whale and whereas the well when my mum moved out?
Speaker 1: And then she says they're sensitive intelligent and they call
Speaker 1: it a nerd at least and then cust to them
Speaker 1: at least helping. But this is where I thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: the towns people are going to start getting involved here
Speaker 1: and start trying to help out. Then Kenney asks Millhouse
Speaker 1: if you want to learn more about whaling any whales
Speaker 1: on amails on him. He says, don't woman, knock it
Speaker 1: off because I was too afraid to answer. Never tell
Speaker 1: a bully you're afraid, So he hits him again. Then
Speaker 1: Marge's annoyed that her wedding china has ruined, and Hammer says,
Speaker 1: we able to eat our Thanksgiving dinner off regular place
Speaker 1: like animals. Lisa for their help. Homer gets the tool
Speaker 1: bells out doesn't fit him anymore. Go nowhere? What is
Speaker 1: made for French supermodels goes nowhere that's not even a
Speaker 1: funny line. Marge then asked to talk to Homer for
Speaker 1: a minute without Lisa, and he tells Lisa to bring
Speaker 1: the car around. Haven't you learned from watching mart Drive?
Speaker 1: Then Marge says the whales likely will die soon. It
Speaker 1: just feels like, why would Margin know this? This feels
Speaker 1: like something that like, you know, it should be Professor
Speaker 1: Frink or doctor Hibbittt or so who's smart or you know,
Speaker 1: Marge not smart, but guests playing a marine biologist get
Speaker 1: Richard Drapers in to play Hooper from Jaws. That would
Speaker 1: be cool, that would be very cool. But just it
Speaker 1: just feels like Margin. Of all the people, Marge's the
Speaker 1: one that sot all have. Marge say, I watched this
Speaker 1: on TV one time, you and I think she actually
Speaker 1: says it usually doesn't end Well yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: what I think my theory is if Marge though knows this,
Speaker 1: then I feel like Lisa would know it. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Well that's when you use your writer's ingenuity to sort
Speaker 1: of say, look, Lisa is smart, but Lisa is also
Speaker 1: a child, and she has a child's emotional register, you know,
Speaker 1: and she's gonna like, oh, this whale is beautiful. We
Speaker 1: must we must be able to save it. You know,
Speaker 1: she can't quite wrap her emotional gears around that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we can't let Lisa get her hopes.
Speaker 2: Up your heart?
Speaker 1: Can it be?
Speaker 3: We're just rolling it into the ocean from the beach.
Speaker 3: It's not like it's stuck in the bottom of a
Speaker 3: well or in a Mexican prison. But there would make
Speaker 3: a great movie, cool hand fluke.
Speaker 1: Lisa is very sensitive if something she loves dies.
Speaker 2: In front of her.
Speaker 3: That well, it's not gonna die. We're busting them out
Speaker 3: of prison, no matter what you say, Eskabar, God distinct
Speaker 3: rights itself coming.
Speaker 1: Then the town's strongest men are trying to roll it
Speaker 1: into the water. It doesn't work. We've got a better
Speaker 1: idea of find the town's smartest man. And that's where
Speaker 1: wouldn't about earlier hard to believe anyone in that contest
Speaker 1: could be considered smart. And I'm like, no, No, they're
Speaker 1: smart people there, but they're doing dumb stuff. And it's
Speaker 1: not a fold of the characters. It's the fault of
Speaker 1: the people creating the characters. Yep. Then they try pulling
Speaker 1: it with the boats, but they all break and sink
Speaker 1: and Margin asked Lisa to come home for tea, but
Speaker 1: she's not ready yet. She wants to read some poetry
Speaker 1: at night to Bluella, and it's Leaves of Grass by
Speaker 1: Walt Whitman. Then Lisa, we think, wakes up to Operation
Speaker 1: Desert Ocean, dragging blueler back out into the ocean or
Speaker 1: carrying it and dropping her out there. She jumps for joy.
Speaker 1: Lisa is happy. Then she jumps into the stars. You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: and things are getting a little fanciful. And then Lisa
Speaker 1: wakes up and turns out she's dead. I thought that
Speaker 1: moment there was handled really well. Yes, but it's just
Speaker 1: a shame that everything around it. It's just like there
Speaker 1: wasn't enough time for us to emotionally invest in Bluella.
Speaker 1: We need to find Bluella. In the first I reckon
Speaker 1: three minutes of the episode and have a good portion
Speaker 1: of the first act. Lisa's relationship with this whale. Yeah,
Speaker 1: or do you know I have this Simpsons are going
Speaker 1: to the sea side or something like that. Oh wow, whales,
Speaker 1: we never see those in this part of the world.
Speaker 1: Lisa openems about how beautiful they are, et cetera, cetera. Cetera.
Speaker 1: The kids at school all saying, my new hero is
Speaker 1: Blueller the Whale, And then like people are wearing like
Speaker 1: Blueller shirts and things like that, and they're, hey, bring
Speaker 1: us bring a sea captain in there. Maybe you can
Speaker 1: have this bit of a dark sort of b plot.
Speaker 1: But they're trying to monetize Blueller rather than help at her.
Speaker 1: Than monetizing her, come see Blueller the Whale and have
Speaker 1: Quimby cashing in, have everyone cashing Everyone's wearing a Blueller
Speaker 1: shirt and yeah, just something you invest have us invest
Speaker 1: in this, in this whale, you know. But instead it's
Speaker 1: just she's in there for maybe two or three scenes,
Speaker 1: and I feel like they need to build up to
Speaker 1: make this feel even more emotional. I feel as a
Speaker 1: viewer we need to believe, oh, she probably will make
Speaker 1: it and then the reality of no, they don't usually
Speaker 1: make it. Like, have us the viewer be like Lisa
Speaker 1: and go, oh she is going to make it. Oh
Speaker 1: fuck she died? Oh shit, it would hit harder. Then
Speaker 1: homer Is says, she don't worry Lisa, She's lying on
Speaker 1: God's beach. Oh God, I hate this bit as well.
Speaker 1: Lisa says, you're wrong, You know she doesn't like laying
Speaker 1: a beach. She wants to be in the water. Homer
Speaker 1: says that, you know, I'm just it's hard to learn.
Speaker 1: I'm not perfect. It hard to learn your father's not perfect.
Speaker 1: But says something on the lines of you you got
Speaker 1: that right, dad, and he says, I'm trying to be
Speaker 1: a sensitive father. You unwanted it more on. There's it's
Speaker 1: between cruel, which that line is, and it's off put
Speaker 1: humorously exasperated. It's off putting. Yeah, oh yeah, very much.
Speaker 1: So you unwanted more on uncalled for. Lisa asks to
Speaker 1: be alone. Homer leaves and he walks out and says
Speaker 1: to the cat, it kills me to see her like that.
Speaker 1: And there's one thing I can't stand. It's being killed
Speaker 1: because Home is an idiot. But Milhouse then go to
Speaker 1: poke the cops with a stick, and the police are
Speaker 1: there and they blow up or a bit of a
Speaker 1: She sort of like rolls to the side like you
Speaker 1: don't actually see a chunk of her, and all a sudden,
Speaker 1: chunks just start falling from everywhere, and I was like,
Speaker 1: what landing on people and whatnot? And they utilize her
Speaker 1: corpse that make perfect out of it blowhole Republic makes
Speaker 1: whalebone corsets, which gets the William shatnegay, which I thought
Speaker 1: it was quite funny. And Homo has got Lisa a
Speaker 1: pet that can't die and a visible dog leash, and
Speaker 1: he said, I know the dog's doing business on the rug.
Speaker 1: Then Lisa thinks she hears blueler because she's walking around town,
Speaker 1: but it's Moe cleaning. He's fixing his door. Just every
Speaker 1: sound she hears is, yeah, reminds me of Martin getting
Speaker 1: his wedgie, the mine with the blue all like this.
Speaker 1: So the mind makes the balloon of the whale and
Speaker 1: it blows up. I thought that's a nice little And
Speaker 1: then he makes the violin play a sad song for it,
Speaker 1: and she hears the sound again and turns out it
Speaker 1: is Blueeller's children. A quick assumption by Lisa. Yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: these world are unrelated. Yes, And then she sees them
Speaker 1: just convening for the story all of a sudden. That's
Speaker 1: when the shark starts surrounding them as Lisa arrives. Then
Speaker 1: she concedes after commercial its Nature's way and Homos's mother
Speaker 1: nature is a toothless hag, and he's got a boat
Speaker 1: he's rending it from not ready, he's just borrowing it,
Speaker 1: testing it out from the boat store. He tries to
Speaker 1: harpoon the sharks. But yeah, see, now this is an
Speaker 1: opportunity for Homer actually sort of step up do the
Speaker 1: right thing, as I mean, you have him say no,
Speaker 1: I'm here to help, as opposed to oh, it's just
Speaker 1: a coincidents. I'm here, I'm testing this boat, you know,
Speaker 1: step up with your order. Yeah, just he should be
Speaker 1: there because he wants to be there. She leaves, maybe
Speaker 1: he says something that upsets her, and she I've never
Speaker 1: seen this before, but she runs out of home crying,
Speaker 1: and Lisa's walking around sad, and it's saying, Lisa, I
Speaker 1: didn't mean it, Lisa, and then he he also hears
Speaker 1: bueller and they both run to the beach together and
Speaker 1: like hey, hey, hey, honey. He's like, it's the way
Speaker 1: he wears. What can we do. Let's work as a
Speaker 1: team and try and save them. Ye, watch up on
Speaker 1: his book, because I knew you were going to be here.
Speaker 1: And if you need to be if you need home
Speaker 1: and to be a dumbers then or you know, a
Speaker 1: sort of semi belligerent jerk moleman is fishing in a
Speaker 1: little boat. Homer goes, grabs him by the scuff of
Speaker 1: the neck, throws it out, steals his boat. You could
Speaker 1: have him say you can use my boat, little girl,
Speaker 1: and I was like, go the way, oh man, he
Speaker 1: throws him in the water and steals it. Yeah, but dad,
Speaker 1: he's gonna give us the boat. Yes, something like that exactly.
Speaker 1: The sea huggers then arrive to protect the sharks. You know,
Speaker 1: forty million sharks are killed each year for fins. I mean,
Speaker 1: I believe this sharks should be protected as well.
Speaker 3: Sure, typical eco jerks using words to chuck.
Speaker 1: They're right, it's the only way to save the whales
Speaker 1: used to kill another innocent creature.
Speaker 3: I can't let you do it, sharks innocent.
Speaker 1: Please.
Speaker 3: Every year they kill a couple of people who do
Speaker 3: a series of stupid things.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily stupid things, but I think you know, you buy,
Speaker 1: you buy your ticket, You take the right a lot
Speaker 1: a lot of the time. You read them though it's
Speaker 1: like they shouldn't have been swimming there, or it's like
Speaker 1: known for to be infested with sharks, and you're like anyway,
Speaker 1: in horrible people get taped by sharks not saying that,
Speaker 1: but yeah, but they give him the bucket to either
Speaker 1: make the sharks go away, although eating quicker hits him
Speaker 1: in the head he bleeds. Then the father whales ran
Speaker 1: Waldess ran, where's he been? Yeah, by the way, they'd
Speaker 1: be dead, rocks up and saves the day, saves Homer,
Speaker 1: and Lisa thanks him for not letting her. Thinks I'm
Speaker 1: letting her give up, and so I would do anything
Speaker 1: for a sweet intelligent mammal, which is what I'm by
Speaker 1: which I'm referring to you, And Homer says He'll be fine. Now,
Speaker 1: I'll be moving in with a sexy octopus in no time.
Speaker 1: I have a whale puss on the way, and Marches
Speaker 1: will draw those pictures of what he just said, which
Speaker 1: is really just an excuse to have pictures over the
Speaker 1: closing credits. Which didn't mind the photos of the credits.
Speaker 1: I like the fiftieth Adiverse. I was like, Oh, that's
Speaker 1: that's a honorable I found new love and they lasted forever.
Speaker 1: That's kind of nice. It's like, yeah, Donkey and Dragon, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they stuck with that. Like that shit just worked. I
Speaker 1: liked it. In number two, he was like oh, she
Speaker 1: was bringing me down. Man, she's emotional and this, that
Speaker 1: and the other, because basically they for the sake of
Speaker 1: the story, they couldn't have the dragon in Shrek too,
Speaker 1: so it wouldn't she wouldn't work in this far, far
Speaker 1: away land. But then at the end he realized she's
Speaker 1: pregnant with little me. Donkey's like, oh shit, flying donkeys
Speaker 1: now it's a real flying donkey. And yeah, but that's
Speaker 1: the end of the episode to say. Actually, although if
Speaker 1: you wait around to the end of the great what
Speaker 1: I didn't do during the last King of the Hill,
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