WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:02.160 Well, they have no right to do this to you. 2 00:00:02.279 --> 00:00:04.759 They just want to use you. Maybe I want to 3 00:00:04.879 --> 00:00:09.039 use them. Maybe you won't use them to make this 4 00:00:09.160 --> 00:00:12.800 country great again. When we're mad, we'll just use our words. 5 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:15.640 Then the rest of the world will play nice with us, 6 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:18.239 and the only boom booms will be in our pants. 7 00:00:18.760 --> 00:00:21.359 Maybe you wouldn't be such a bad president, and you 8 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:24.480 can be my first ladle. I like the sound of. 9 00:00:24.519 --> 00:00:48.880 That fourfinger discount, dude, welcome. 10 00:00:43.399 --> 00:00:45.159 To four figure discount. With this week we hit to 11 00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:47.439 review a pretty shitty episode of The Simpsons. It is 12 00:00:47.520 --> 00:00:49.520 a pluribus Wigham, I'm Dando. 13 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:53.000 And I am guy. Yes, we're facing some interesting times 14 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:54.560 in American politics at the moment time. 15 00:00:55.399 --> 00:00:55.719 I don't know. 16 00:00:55.759 --> 00:00:59.520 We've addressed the fact that someone took a pot shot 17 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:03.039 at former president and maybe even future President Donald J. 18 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:03.640 Trump. 19 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.560 Yeah, we haven't addressed the fact that Diamond Joe Biden 20 00:01:06.640 --> 00:01:08.680 has decided to call it a day. Well, no, he's 21 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:11.719 still president, but he won't be running for president again. 22 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:15.000 And Kamala Harris is going to be the front runner 23 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.040 for the Democrats. This is all very very interesting stuff. 24 00:01:17.040 --> 00:01:21.000 It's all very well. It's turbulent times in American politics. 25 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:23.079 And you know what it is, it's interesting. And that's 26 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.879 the complete opposite the pluribus e pluribus wigam. I was 27 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:28.920 about to say, e pluribus unham, which is what this 28 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:31.680 episode takes its title from. 29 00:01:31.760 --> 00:01:33.760 I did find it interesting that all this shit's going 30 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:35.439 down in American politics the one week we have to 31 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:37.840 do the American politics episode of the Citizens, it's. 32 00:01:37.719 --> 00:01:42.239 The unified theory or four fingers this out. Yeah, we 33 00:01:42.719 --> 00:01:46.280 just get lucky, I guess it again. We get lucky 34 00:01:46.280 --> 00:01:48.280 in some ways in that, you know, it gives us 35 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:50.519 stuff to talk about, but it makes us very very 36 00:01:50.599 --> 00:01:51.640 unlucky in that we had to. 37 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:55.280 Watch this episode. Yeah, before we get into the episode. 38 00:01:54.560 --> 00:01:57.040 You've got other things to talk We've got real life 39 00:01:57.159 --> 00:01:59.400 to talk about, much more interesting, much more fun. 40 00:01:59.519 --> 00:02:02.319 So. Last week we mentioned on the show that I 41 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:05.120 purchased that it was the Dilemma of the Goalpost for 42 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:06.040 Elliott's birthday. 43 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:06.640 Correct. 44 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:09.639 I ordered it for those of you previously on four 45 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:13.439 voko discount. I ordered Elliott. He's nanny and Pop from 46 00:02:13.439 --> 00:02:16.719 England got him some afl Ossie rules football goalposts mini 47 00:02:16.719 --> 00:02:19.080 goalposts to set up in the backyard or everyone's set 48 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:21.800 them up at the oval taking packtice is kicking for goals. 49 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:24.800 We got them home, they were snapped. The little poles 50 00:02:24.879 --> 00:02:27.159 pins that held them together were snapped. Took them back 51 00:02:27.159 --> 00:02:29.159 to Rebel Sport. Oh great, they said, yep, no worries, 52 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:32.960 just grab another one, grabbed another one snapped. I feuman 53 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:36.639 Elliott's double human. He just wasn't play footy. So then 54 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:38.560 we basically we go back again and they say we've 55 00:02:38.560 --> 00:02:40.000 got no more. We can send a new one to 56 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:42.479 your house and if that one's no good, then you 57 00:02:42.479 --> 00:02:45.199 can get a refund. During last week's show, just prior 58 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:48.240 to last week's show, recording, it arrived and I ta 59 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:50.360 saying I was going to let you know what happened. 60 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:55.439 They worked, no snaps, No snaps. I reckon. Now. I 61 00:02:55.479 --> 00:02:57.680 mentioned last week how I read the reviews as I 62 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:00.960 was leaving the second time, and I said a set 63 00:03:01.199 --> 00:03:04.479 pins were snapped, pick it back, second step pins were snapped, 64 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:06.400 and I thought, shit, I've just formed for the same thing. 65 00:03:07.039 --> 00:03:09.960 I got this new box, and I realized that this 66 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:13.520 box was sealed properly. Those last two words, I reckon, 67 00:03:13.560 --> 00:03:16.319 I've got that fucking person's snapped pins boxes. 68 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:18.800 Oh okay, you think you've got shoddy workmanship or someone's 69 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:20.479 sort of asleep at the weird. 70 00:03:20.280 --> 00:03:22.360 Just put it back on the the return. Just put 71 00:03:22.360 --> 00:03:24.039 it back on the shelf rather than put it back 72 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:26.120 into damages or whatever. Who would ever do this sort 73 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:28.400 of weird house. I have no idea, Dan, and I 74 00:03:28.439 --> 00:03:32.639 have no experience of anything like. But I just thought, okay, well, 75 00:03:32.639 --> 00:03:34.919 it's great. You know, the gol blas a huge success. 76 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:36.520 He loves it. He's going down there. But not the 77 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:37.199 cool thing is. 78 00:03:37.360 --> 00:03:39.400 That earlier is going to be the next Tom Hawks. 79 00:03:39.400 --> 00:03:40.479 One cent is going to be that? 80 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:40.800 Yeah. 81 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:44.800 Yeah, So by the way, Tom Hawkins, do you googling folks? 82 00:03:45.039 --> 00:03:49.879 Tom Hawkins local geelong great John Cast footballer hasn't announced 83 00:03:49.879 --> 00:03:54.400 his retirement yet. But just release a memoir. Everyone's like, okay, 84 00:03:54.400 --> 00:03:56.680 so you've just released your own books. It's called Tomahawk, 85 00:03:56.719 --> 00:03:58.479 isn't it. That's called Tom Hawkins. I think it's just 86 00:03:58.520 --> 00:04:00.960 called Tom Hawks. Maybe the story of Tom Hawks was 87 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:02.240 announced yesterday to. 88 00:04:02.199 --> 00:04:03.879 Be we want to be called dom K, which is 89 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:04.439 a zick name, but. 90 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:07.080 Maybe it is. And it was announced yesterday, And I'm thinking, 91 00:04:07.599 --> 00:04:09.879 why would you write a memoir or a book if 92 00:04:09.919 --> 00:04:14.360 your career wasn't finished yet. Hmmm, because wouldn't you want 93 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:15.800 to if you're gonna play one more game, wouldn't you 94 00:04:15.800 --> 00:04:17.839 want to include that in your memoir. 95 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:22.079 To quote seeing see music factory, things that make you 96 00:04:22.160 --> 00:04:23.439 go hmm. Yeah. 97 00:04:23.480 --> 00:04:25.639 Anyway, so we went down to the local park here 98 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:29.439 set up the gold posts, and it took about I know, 99 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:33.720 five minutes, and kids started noticing what's it over there? 100 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:37.160 Goal posts, gold posts. These two brothers rocked over? Can 101 00:04:37.199 --> 00:04:39.920 I play? Sure thing? They joined in as well, Allix 102 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:41.120 having a great time playing. Right. 103 00:04:41.600 --> 00:04:43.639 All of a sudden you said, two brothers rocked over 104 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:46.639 and you of course are wearing your step brothers jump That. 105 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:49.879 Became best friends. So what happened was these two kids started, 106 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:52.279 these two boys right. Then all of a sudden, these 107 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:54.120 two girls and a boy will go into the park 108 00:04:54.160 --> 00:04:56.920 and then note there's gold posts there. Can we join in? 109 00:04:57.160 --> 00:04:59.439 Within about half an hour, I had my own local 110 00:04:59.439 --> 00:05:02.199 footy team, the Dandos. We're gonna be taking on any 111 00:05:02.240 --> 00:05:05.759 local footy league and in Geelong we had like eleven 112 00:05:05.839 --> 00:05:07.120 kids kick of a goal. 113 00:05:07.240 --> 00:05:08.800 Look at Gordon Bombay. 114 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:11.519 We have a team of misfits and we're going to 115 00:05:11.560 --> 00:05:17.720 take them all on the bad News cats. So I 116 00:05:17.560 --> 00:05:20.399 was pretty I'm like, I've just created this little local league. 117 00:05:20.480 --> 00:05:21.000 This is great. 118 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:24.600 Football is the great unifiers. Sport is yeah, the sport is, 119 00:05:24.639 --> 00:05:26.639 of course, yes, but the strain rules football, I like 120 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:28.240 to think, is very very unifying. 121 00:05:28.399 --> 00:05:29.800 It felt like I felt like I was just created 122 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:32.920 my own like Sandlot kids, but in football formed. 123 00:05:33.040 --> 00:05:37.079 One might even say out of many one yes. 124 00:05:37.319 --> 00:05:40.600 And then the kids. So we're walking down the streets 125 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:43.879 wink wink, not did this episode Just in case you didn't. 126 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:46.000 We were walking down the street yesterday taking for a bike, 127 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:48.879 and the two boys saw we're waiting for yesterday. You 128 00:05:48.920 --> 00:05:51.000 didn't come back because we said, I said we'll come 129 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:52.800 back tomorrow. And I was like, yea, yeah, sure, no worries, 130 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:54.680 and I just we just forgot we didn't go yesterday 131 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:57.120 or the monday. It was, and like we are wait 132 00:05:57.240 --> 00:06:01.040 for you. You weren't there. And when he said he 133 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:02.879 was coming back, he said he didn't know. 134 00:06:05.240 --> 00:06:06.600 This is good, this is warming stuf. 135 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:08.120 Yeah, it's cool though, wasn't it that I just up 136 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:09.600 these gold posts all of a sudden, just kids They 137 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:12.800 started appearing, just like what's that over there? Jumping fences 138 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:13.759 and John ren Corners. 139 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:16.800 My kids have got a little innate radar. Fun is 140 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:20.480 happening somewhere, or activity is happening somewhere in the vicinity. 141 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:23.360 I was literally sitting there contemplating, can I coach these 142 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:27.199 rag tag group of misfits? Can I take on the 143 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:30.079 kids from you know, the bad news bears from snooty 144 00:06:30.120 --> 00:06:34.000 academy and give my give my little gym Robot House, 145 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:37.519 the Robert House with the rad tag. Who was the 146 00:06:37.519 --> 00:06:39.480 other one in that I can't remember. It was just 147 00:06:39.600 --> 00:06:42.600 Mars University because Robot House was was the frat that 148 00:06:42.680 --> 00:06:45.720 was always in futurrama anyway, But I thought it was 149 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:47.920 really cool. That was indeed cool. 150 00:06:47.959 --> 00:06:51.360 Yeah, well, first of one, I'm glad your goalposter finally, Yeah, 151 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:52.639 upstanding and operational. 152 00:06:52.680 --> 00:06:57.319 That's good news. And I'm very glad that Elliotts is 153 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:00.720 going to be the captain of this Conway of this 154 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:04.279 team Mighty Duck's reference. You said, God in Bay. I'll 155 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:05.839 assumed you knew what Charlie Comway would be. 156 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:07.839 I'm aware of the Mighty Ducks, and I'm aware that 157 00:07:07.879 --> 00:07:10.759 Emilia Estevez's character is named Gordon Bombay. Beyond that, I 158 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:12.439 don't really know much about the Mighty Ducks. 159 00:07:13.199 --> 00:07:17.279 Pacy was in them, Pacey. Who's Paisy Joshua Jackson? Oh? Yes, yes? 160 00:07:17.360 --> 00:07:18.879 Or is that he's character from Dawson's Creek? Is it? 161 00:07:18.839 --> 00:07:20.639 That's kinda wat Dawston's Creek? But yes he is. Charlie. 162 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:21.560 Here's Charlie Comway. 163 00:07:21.959 --> 00:07:25.399 Never go, I never watched Mardy Ducks, but we're learning. 164 00:07:25.519 --> 00:07:28.800 Yes, he's named Charlie Conway, Mighty Ducks's named Passy and 165 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:32.240 Dawson's Creek we learned things. Yeah, we're exchanging ideas. Yes, 166 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:33.839 what are you going an antidote forest before we get 167 00:07:33.839 --> 00:07:34.560 into this shiit show? 168 00:07:34.639 --> 00:07:35.319 I got fuck all. 169 00:07:36.040 --> 00:07:38.000 I just realized I'd written favorite Moments or trivia or 170 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:40.759 anything I've got trua. I was so, actually I do 171 00:07:40.839 --> 00:07:42.839 I do? I don't favorite moments, I've got trivia. I 172 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:45.399 just want to say, okay, e Pluribrius Wigham, right, or 173 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:47.199 do you have an eight day first or not? I 174 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:50.439 have no anecdote? Okay. So, first of all, it was 175 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:53.079 three minutes before anything of substance of sub substance happened 176 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:55.079 in this episode, right, So you had a two minute 177 00:07:55.120 --> 00:07:57.879 couch gag and opening intro and in a minute of 178 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:00.519 Burns being distract or trying to get Owns away from 179 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:02.600 work so they can leave work early, homerte Lenear and Carl. 180 00:08:02.800 --> 00:08:05.160 So I've got three minutes and nothing's happened, right, I 181 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:06.399 don't even leave work early. 182 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:08.199 But they've got that thing where oh, we can't leave 183 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:10.639 until the boss leaves, which has never really come up 184 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:11.079 the fall. 185 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:14.040 I assumed they were leaving work early, That's why I 186 00:08:14.040 --> 00:08:15.279 had to wait for him to leave. But why was 187 00:08:15.279 --> 00:08:17.360 the boss? And it didn't make sense. None of them 188 00:08:17.399 --> 00:08:21.199 made sense anyway. My big issue with this was that 189 00:08:21.759 --> 00:08:24.959 you wasted three minutes of our time, three minutes of 190 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:28.639 TV time on absolutely nothing, a couch gag and a 191 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:30.480 gag that made no sense. It went nowhere right and 192 00:08:30.759 --> 00:08:33.440 added nothing to the episode. And then you couldn't even 193 00:08:33.440 --> 00:08:35.919 give us an ending, So you got three minutes of nothing, 194 00:08:36.240 --> 00:08:38.799 nineteen minutes of a story, and at the end there 195 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:43.279 was no ending this. Why are they now deciding episodes 196 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:45.559 don't need endings. There was a point in time where 197 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:47.320 they went, oh, let's just wrap this up quickly, and 198 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:49.480 it was almost like a gag that we didn't even 199 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:51.240 get that here. It was just and that's the end. 200 00:08:51.559 --> 00:08:54.120 Williams going for now, he's really smart, He's going for 201 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:56.639 a president. Here's his commercial end of the episode, and 202 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:00.639 I went, what what what's happened with happens next? 203 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:04.320 My final note about this episode? Okay, so what was 204 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:07.120 the point? Yeah, because this was the point of this episode. 205 00:09:07.159 --> 00:09:09.120 Kids aren't going to enjoy. Kids are not going to 206 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:09.960 enjoy this episode. 207 00:09:10.480 --> 00:09:12.919 I don't think adults are going to want adults. It's 208 00:09:12.960 --> 00:09:17.039 a very niche target audience. It's incredibly me because if 209 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:19.879 you don't understand American politics, and I think Americans just 210 00:09:19.879 --> 00:09:22.000 seemed to think that we all understand American politics and 211 00:09:22.000 --> 00:09:24.919 we're all interested in it. Maybe when you got wackos 212 00:09:25.039 --> 00:09:27.200 like Trump, yes, maybe, but the ins and outs and 213 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:29.639 all the different politicians, Yeah, the majority of people outside 214 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:30.519 the States don't give a shit. 215 00:09:30.720 --> 00:09:33.879 Yeah, when it becomes a side show, yeah, or when 216 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:36.840 it becomes a circus, as it often does around election time. 217 00:09:36.879 --> 00:09:38.639 But when you're getting down to the nitty gritty and 218 00:09:38.679 --> 00:09:41.960 the minutia of electoral colleges and primaries and all that 219 00:09:42.039 --> 00:09:44.799 kind of stuff, yeah, I think, first of well, we're 220 00:09:44.799 --> 00:09:47.759 gonna have a lot of Americans going I'm not really 221 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:50.240 quite grasping this, they're just you know why a lot 222 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:53.600 of Americans don't go to the polls, then people outside 223 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:56.240 of America are going to go. I can't make it 224 00:09:56.399 --> 00:09:59.120 or tail of this shit. What you had with this episode, 225 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:01.559 to my mind at least, was a combination, a really 226 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:08.759 toxic combination of incredibly dense and unbearably smug. This I've 227 00:10:09.200 --> 00:10:11.799 that was my key word from this episode was the 228 00:10:11.840 --> 00:10:14.879 Simpsons has become smug for a number of reasons, the 229 00:10:14.960 --> 00:10:18.440 politics aside. Right, there was a gag in here where 230 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:23.000 Homer gets out cigars called jerkass Homer right, courtesy of 231 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:24.960 our friend Al Jean. Apparently this gag. 232 00:10:25.519 --> 00:10:30.279 I have issue with this because that says to me 233 00:10:30.759 --> 00:10:32.960 that you're listening, or you at least acknowledging that you 234 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:36.120 are aware of the gripes that your audience has with 235 00:10:36.200 --> 00:10:38.840 the direction of your show. Now right back in two 236 00:10:38.879 --> 00:10:42.320 thousand and eight one in this ad, the problem is 237 00:10:43.240 --> 00:10:45.480 acknowledging it and then doubling down on it, and we're 238 00:10:45.480 --> 00:10:47.440 basically saying to the audience, we know you don't like it, 239 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:48.879 but fuck it, we're going to do it anyway. 240 00:10:48.960 --> 00:10:51.200 Yeah, there's acknowledging it, and then there's revering in it. 241 00:10:51.080 --> 00:10:53.000 Looks like we're doing here. Like it or don't, We 242 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:54.679 don't give a shit, we're going to be doing it. 243 00:10:54.759 --> 00:10:58.039 I thought, that's the only result you're going to get 244 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:00.240 from doing that is not get laughs, is going to 245 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:02.559 alienate your audience. And you know what happens at this 246 00:11:02.559 --> 00:11:05.039 point in time, the Simpsons, they alienated their audience. It 247 00:11:05.080 --> 00:11:08.279 wasn't just because you started to alienate it by making 248 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:10.720 Homer a joke, Cass, but then by acknowledging if I 249 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:12.799 was watching this, Okay, I'd given up on The Simpsons 250 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:14.840 by this point, watching it at week to week to week. 251 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:16.279 But if I was watching it week to week to 252 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:19.159 week and I saw that gag, I'll watched this episode. 253 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:21.759 This would be the episode e Pluripus Wigan where I 254 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:24.360 would go tows thrown in. I'm done because you've basically 255 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:26.120 said to me, you don't give a shit about what 256 00:11:26.159 --> 00:11:28.559 I think anymore. Just enjoy what we're doing, and I 257 00:11:28.600 --> 00:11:31.240 don't enjoy it. How could you possibly enjoy the joke, Cass? Homer. 258 00:11:31.360 --> 00:11:34.240 You've proven last week eternal moonshot of the Simpsons mind 259 00:11:34.519 --> 00:11:37.039 we can get lovely Homer. You still know how to 260 00:11:37.080 --> 00:11:39.559 do it. So, why in God's name would you still 261 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:41.360 do this kind of stuff and acknowledge to your audience. 262 00:11:41.440 --> 00:11:42.919 We know you have an issue with joke carss Homer, 263 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:44.440 but we're going to do it anyway, So sit down, 264 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:45.679 shut up, and just enjoy it. Yeah. 265 00:11:45.799 --> 00:11:48.879 I don't think anyone has as it's ridiculous. I think 266 00:11:48.919 --> 00:11:51.000 people have a problem with jerk as Homer, absolutely. I 267 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:53.120 think I don't think they have a problem with Homer 268 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:55.759 being a jerk, as long as it's something that he 269 00:11:57.399 --> 00:12:00.559 either learns from or is actually kind of funny. Yeah, 270 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:02.200 and hope hopefully a combination. 271 00:12:01.879 --> 00:12:04.840 Of the two doesn't get any repercussions for his actions here. Right, 272 00:12:05.200 --> 00:12:07.440 And it made sense to me because the right Michael 273 00:12:07.440 --> 00:12:10.679 Price Right. So Price and his son came up with 274 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:14.039 the episode's opening set piece is off Wikipedia struck. During 275 00:12:14.120 --> 00:12:16.840 a drive in California, they stopped at a Burger king. 276 00:12:17.159 --> 00:12:19.639 They had a long scoop on its trash can for 277 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:22.840 customers to throw away trash from their car. His son commented, 278 00:12:22.879 --> 00:12:25.559 Homer would love that he's so lazy. This led to 279 00:12:25.639 --> 00:12:28.279 the creation of the fast Food Boulevard, with Price's son 280 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:31.240 suggesting the name of the fast food I seeing that 281 00:12:31.320 --> 00:12:33.159 the episode going, you couldn't think of a creative name. 282 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:34.440 He just went fast food Boulevard. 283 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:37.840 I think Price's son actually suggested Vesuvius Pizza. I think 284 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:39.600 that's the thing that he suggested as opposed to fast 285 00:12:39.600 --> 00:12:40.159 food Boulevard. 286 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:42.879 Or maybe he did both. No, When in the episode 287 00:12:42.919 --> 00:12:45.960 when Homer destroys Fast Food Boulevard, a restaurant, okay, maybe 288 00:12:46.000 --> 00:12:49.159 you're right there, name Yeah Pizza is shown exploding with 289 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:51.080 pizza sauce coming out of its top like lava. The 290 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:53.799 joke was pitched by Price's son, who had been learning 291 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:56.240 about volcanoes in school and in all no no, no, 292 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:59.679 no creation the fast food Boulevard, with Price's son suggesting 293 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:02.759 the name. So he suggested the joke as well as 294 00:13:02.759 --> 00:13:04.679 the name of fast Food Boulevard, both things. So this 295 00:13:04.720 --> 00:13:07.440 whole scene was written by a child, and it felt 296 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:09.720 that way. It kind of in the nicest possible way 297 00:13:09.759 --> 00:13:11.679 for the child. I get it, he's a child, but 298 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:13.200 I'll give. 299 00:13:13.080 --> 00:13:15.080 Him due respect for Vesuvius Pizza with thought, which I 300 00:13:15.080 --> 00:13:16.960 thought was actually kind of funny, and honestly, I would 301 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:21.840 eat that fast Food Boulevard. However, you that that's very placeholder, 302 00:13:21.879 --> 00:13:22.320 isn't it. 303 00:13:22.320 --> 00:13:23.679 It just felt like it became a. 304 00:13:23.639 --> 00:13:25.440 Boulevard with a lot of fast foods. 305 00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:27.200 Come up with a funny name. That's that's like they 306 00:13:27.240 --> 00:13:30.480 get too angsty about the name of the fast food boulevard. 307 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:33.639 The thing is, though, Homer blows up fast food Boulevard 308 00:13:34.120 --> 00:13:36.320 and then he's one saying we need to rebuild it. 309 00:13:36.320 --> 00:13:40.159 There's no repercussions. It's makes no fucking sense, we need 310 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:42.639 to rebuild it. He doesn't get any repercussions from his 311 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:45.519 stupid actions. He then is the guy that says we 312 00:13:45.559 --> 00:13:46.679 need to put Wigham in charge. 313 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:49.919 Like, yeah, first of all, Homer aware that he's actually 314 00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:53.720 blown up. No, he doesn't know, no, So it's it's 315 00:13:53.759 --> 00:13:58.120 understandable that yeah, yeah, I would think, oh well, if 316 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:00.000 he knew that he blew it up, then maybe him 317 00:14:00.120 --> 00:14:01.639 sort of doing a bit of a shifty cover up. 318 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:05.159 It's jerk ass behavior, but it's also kind of funny. 319 00:14:05.440 --> 00:14:10.200 I like it when Homer is kind of devious that look, 320 00:14:10.200 --> 00:14:13.039 there were so I suppose I was so disjointed in 321 00:14:13.120 --> 00:14:15.399 so many ways that it was just hard to get 322 00:14:15.399 --> 00:14:19.039 a handle on. I mean, you you weren't flowing smoothly 323 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:21.080 through it. One thing did not lead to another, or 324 00:14:21.159 --> 00:14:23.679 if it did, you could really see the joins. The 325 00:14:23.799 --> 00:14:27.559 scenes were not seamless. They were very, very broaden and 326 00:14:27.600 --> 00:14:30.000 odd colored. Threat it's like, oh, well, you're patching together 327 00:14:30.000 --> 00:14:31.879 a bunch of ideas. You've got a Frankenstein's Monster of 328 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:34.360 an episode here. You know you want to cover politics, 329 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:37.200 how do you get to that? Only I don't have 330 00:14:37.279 --> 00:14:40.159 your traditional I don't know, Homer fucking. 331 00:14:40.120 --> 00:14:43.519 It doesn't really Also for me, I don't really I 332 00:14:43.639 --> 00:14:45.720 do not understand the ins and outs of American politics 333 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:48.080 all that much, right, I know, than basics. But Lisa 334 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:50.759 even points out here you have to be thirty five 335 00:14:50.799 --> 00:14:52.759 to be a candidate. Why would you have one of 336 00:14:52.799 --> 00:14:55.399 your characters point out that this story actually doesn't make 337 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:57.759 any sense. Like if you just get to pretend that 338 00:14:58.000 --> 00:14:59.799 thlow the rules out the window and just pretend look, 339 00:14:59.879 --> 00:15:02.200 just in the Simpsons University, this can happen, that's fine. 340 00:15:02.279 --> 00:15:04.440 But to have listen then go, this can't actually happen 341 00:15:04.480 --> 00:15:06.799 because he's not old enough. But then but then you 342 00:15:06.799 --> 00:15:08.960 see his campaign and it's like, but you've just told 343 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:11.480 us it can't happen. And they're like, oh the Patriot Act, 344 00:15:11.519 --> 00:15:14.279 and I'm oh it just did my head in. 345 00:15:14.919 --> 00:15:17.200 But one thing I was thinking while watching this, however, 346 00:15:17.960 --> 00:15:20.039 is okay, you want to do political sato, and you 347 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:22.320 want to do it about American politics and particularly about 348 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:24.000 you know, the convoluted. 349 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:25.360 Way it operates. It's done a lot better in the past. 350 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:26.639 They have done a lot better in the past. But 351 00:15:26.679 --> 00:15:29.200 here's the thing. Okay, the show is called The Simpsons. 352 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:31.279 It's about a town called Springfield. Springfield has got a 353 00:15:31.279 --> 00:15:32.799 lot of people in It's got some very smart people, 354 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:35.200 it's got some very dumb people. Okay, the dumb people 355 00:15:35.360 --> 00:15:38.159 in this case, they're going to say, I don't understand politics. 356 00:15:38.200 --> 00:15:40.960 I don't understand Yeah, what's the primary about it? I 357 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:43.639 mean what you can just nominate anyone, but then any 358 00:15:43.679 --> 00:15:46.679 party can someone sort of claim them. That's when you've 359 00:15:46.679 --> 00:15:49.559 got someone smart, say Lisa come along and say, well, 360 00:15:49.559 --> 00:15:51.480 you know, the way American politics work, or the way 361 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:53.759 the primary works is this, And they explain it to 362 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:57.279 a dumb character who also is us also me, because yeah, 363 00:15:57.600 --> 00:15:59.720 the dumb characters are sorry for me, who understands nothing 364 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:04.080 about American politics. Here they just I don't know. It 365 00:16:04.120 --> 00:16:06.679 felt like you know what we're gonna We're gonna pitch 366 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:08.320 this to the smartest person in the refridge. 367 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:10.360 But they wrote a show for themselves, well they yeah, 368 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:10.960 they really did. 369 00:16:11.000 --> 00:16:13.919 It really felt like in the room they were one 370 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:17.399 uping each other with oh, yeah, I've been watching a 371 00:16:17.440 --> 00:16:18.960 bit of c and then oh, well I've been watching 372 00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:21.080 c SPAN. Yeah, I think I've got to handle on 373 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:24.399 how politics. Oh, by the way, isn't the way the 374 00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:26.960 media handles politics? Doesn't that become kind of a circus. 375 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:29.360 Let's take the piss out of that a bit as well. Yeah, 376 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:32.759 it really felt to go back to the S word, 377 00:16:32.799 --> 00:16:34.120 It just felt unbearably smug. 378 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:37.360 And on the topic of smug, right, I bring up 379 00:16:37.399 --> 00:16:39.519 how I'm sick of the list gags already in season 380 00:16:39.600 --> 00:16:42.320 nineteen there was a point in time where the Simpsons 381 00:16:42.360 --> 00:16:45.480 signed gags where they were just a backdrop. They were 382 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:47.440 if you weren't paying attention, they were there for the 383 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:49.440 smartest person in the room to go, did you see 384 00:16:49.480 --> 00:16:53.200 that joke? Like you didn't? A freeze frames ex easter 385 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:57.440 ex exactly right. But now they have become the look 386 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:01.039 how smart our signs are, and they almost the joke. 387 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:03.600 They aren't just signs they're going past anymore. It's when 388 00:17:03.639 --> 00:17:06.440 home was going down the boulevard. It's sign science science. 389 00:17:06.559 --> 00:17:10.599 It's almost got to a point me to acknowledge us creativity. 390 00:17:10.640 --> 00:17:12.640 They're lingering on it just a little bit too long. 391 00:17:13.480 --> 00:17:15.920 Used to be, you would see it for look, I'm 392 00:17:15.920 --> 00:17:17.599 not sending a stop watch or anything like that, but 393 00:17:17.839 --> 00:17:20.640 you'd see a newspaper headline or a street sign, and. 394 00:17:20.640 --> 00:17:22.839 It'd always be a subheading that was really funny. Yeah. 395 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:25.000 Now they would focus on on the screen for maybe 396 00:17:25.319 --> 00:17:28.799 three seconds whatever, and yeah, if you've got oh hey, hey, 397 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:29.960 that's a nice little. 398 00:17:30.559 --> 00:17:33.519 Addition to that. Hidden gags, hidden gags. 399 00:17:33.519 --> 00:17:36.920 And now they're very much in your face. And look, 400 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:38.400 I don't like things in my face. I've told you 401 00:17:38.440 --> 00:17:40.279