Rosebud (with Dave Thornton)

<v Speaker 1>Well, Maggie, I've given this a lot of fighter. I'm
<v Speaker 1>sure we can come to some sort of agreement. George
<v Speaker 1>beaten by an infant. What could be more humiliating? Hi,
<v Speaker 1>Scoop four Finger Discounted.
<v Speaker 2>Hey, everybody, welcome to four Finger discount where today we
<v Speaker 2>are joined by the most local of all comedians here
<v Speaker 2>in geelongas Day Thornton. How are you doing, sir?
<v Speaker 3>You guys, I can't believe so all three of us
<v Speaker 3>are from Geelong? Is that right? Is this the Simpsons effect?
<v Speaker 3>That the entire city is enamored with the Simpsons?
<v Speaker 4>Pretty much the case. We are the Springfield of Australia.
<v Speaker 4>So yeah, listeners of this particular episode should brace themselves
<v Speaker 4>for a whole bunch of local references. Going to be
<v Speaker 4>talking about Paco to be uh, gonna be name dropping
<v Speaker 4>the lyric and the Eureka and bemoaning the loss of
<v Speaker 4>Texas Burgers and Speaky Serf Shop.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and I'm so sorry Balert you just found out
<v Speaker 3>your Shelby Bill. I am so sorry.
<v Speaker 2>By the way, fun Fat, you're a Geelong Cats fan, right?
<v Speaker 3>This is true as well?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, his dad is the Bobby Davis.
<v Speaker 4>Embarrassing not embarrassing fact because it's good.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, how cool is that? It's not bad?
<v Speaker 4>Unfortunately I'm not wearing my Bobby's son T shirt today. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>it's in the wash. Well, all three of them are
<v Speaker 4>in the wash. Bob Davis, Yes, was indeed my father.
<v Speaker 3>Oh I had good that mate. You wouldn't have had
<v Speaker 3>to pay for a meal at Smorgy's. That he's really impressive.
<v Speaker 4>Well I didn't because I was dined and dashed.
<v Speaker 2>But trying to explain the idea of Smorgy's to anyone
<v Speaker 2>who didn't live in Gelon, I think they happened in
<v Speaker 2>Melbourne maybe, but I don't think they had the Seal.
<v Speaker 2>We had Salted the Seal and King Neptune, these animatronic
<v Speaker 2>things that would sing songs every half an hour. They
<v Speaker 2>had a video package of ariblet scene You're playing football.
<v Speaker 2>It's madness.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah for anyone listening. And I know that your podcast
<v Speaker 3>goes international. Small geese isn't all you can eat, but
<v Speaker 3>kind of like a sizzler. But it was at the
<v Speaker 3>end of a peer because Geelong's on a bay, so
<v Speaker 3>it had this unbelievable view just with Bay Marese full
<v Speaker 3>of fried food and shit. Food combined with, as you said,
<v Speaker 3>an animatronic seal that would do songs about our Australian
<v Speaker 3>rules footballer favorite player in Geelong, Gary Ablett. So it
<v Speaker 3>was really a melting pot of regrettable decisions.
<v Speaker 2>Really, my sister works at this place because her place
<v Speaker 2>of business her business. But the guy that owned it,
<v Speaker 2>he found the actual salt of the seal. They found
<v Speaker 2>it in this shed and he had it in like
<v Speaker 2>in the office as a display and people were coming
<v Speaker 2>from all over Geelan to get a photo of the
<v Speaker 2>salted the seal. Its hilarious.
<v Speaker 3>Is he still got it?
<v Speaker 2>No? So the guy that owned it, this guy found
<v Speaker 2>it in a shed at like there used to be
<v Speaker 2>the zoo and bow and heads here and again local
<v Speaker 2>reference and they were like holding it hostage in the shed.
<v Speaker 2>He bought it off them. So now he owned salted
<v Speaker 2>the seal and he rents it out to businesses. So
<v Speaker 2>my sisters when my sister works, doesn't have it anymore.
<v Speaker 2>But you can actually rent assaulting. Now rent salty the seal.
<v Speaker 2>Haven't met your work party.
<v Speaker 3>That's the gift that keeps on giving. That is incredible.
<v Speaker 3>I now know what's going to happen in my next birthday.
<v Speaker 4>I just love that Discovery sounds like Bobo.
<v Speaker 2>You mentioned things that keep on giving this episode Rose Bud.
<v Speaker 2>I revisited again last night for this review. Holy shit,
<v Speaker 2>I forgot how many pivotal moments, like classic moments from
<v Speaker 2>The Simpsons were in this one. You've got happy birthday,
<v Speaker 2>mister Smithers. You've got the ramones, You've got sixty four
<v Speaker 2>slices of American cheese, You've got two plus twos four,
<v Speaker 2>You've got that Yes sitcom. So many moments in one episode.
<v Speaker 2>It's incredible. People always call this one arguably the greatest
<v Speaker 2>of all time, and it's hard to argue that it's
<v Speaker 2>got to be at least top three.
<v Speaker 3>It's also funny that it was only when I got
<v Speaker 3>older but I realized it was a Citizen Kane rip
<v Speaker 3>off that was the parody, and I'm yet to see
<v Speaker 3>Citizen Kine. I was like, Oh, you're right, and then like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>I kind of got the gist of it.
<v Speaker 2>I get it how many of us growing up watching
<v Speaker 2>The Simpsons and know no parenting Things like the shitting
<v Speaker 2>is one I always fall back on. You feel like
<v Speaker 2>I don't need to see the real thing I've seen
<v Speaker 2>the Simpsons version. I get the gist, as you said, absolutely.
<v Speaker 3>I mean I was bred on Warner Brothers cartoons and
<v Speaker 3>they would have references from the thirties and forties, and
<v Speaker 3>I never went, ah, like I kind of then made
<v Speaker 3>the connection. But it's not like I went back and thought,
<v Speaker 3>all right, they've mentioned Hitler, I might as well just
<v Speaker 3>see what.
<v Speaker 2>All the World War.
<v Speaker 3>I was, Yeah, it's fine, and I love that about
<v Speaker 3>the Simpsons. There were so many references I didn't quite
<v Speaker 3>understand when I was young, but it's still funny.
<v Speaker 4>Those A lot of the people are going to watch
<v Speaker 4>Citizen Kaanes sort of widely regarded as you know, the
<v Speaker 4>apex of cinematic achievement, and there's go eh, Rosebud was better.
<v Speaker 4>The Simpsons actually nailed at piss off Auson Wells.
<v Speaker 2>Because so the thing is, because guy is the movie
<v Speaker 2>buff here, he knows all about movies, and he'll explain
<v Speaker 2>to us how it's a parody. But in the film
<v Speaker 2>he was just explained to me before we hit record
<v Speaker 2>that in Citizen Kane, it's not a bad bobo, it's
<v Speaker 2>a sled. Correct. It is na named Rosebud, which is
<v Speaker 2>did you ever know that much, Dave.
<v Speaker 3>I did know it was the sled in a very
<v Speaker 3>I'm not gen z, but this feels like a very
<v Speaker 3>gen Z thing to say, which is, I saw a
<v Speaker 3>YouTube group about Citizen Kane, so it's about the ten
<v Speaker 3>minute synopsis of the movie, and I'm like that old
<v Speaker 3>though you.
<v Speaker 4>Got the spark notes. It's funny. I'll put my nerd
<v Speaker 4>hat on for a second though, because I mean I
<v Speaker 4>rewatches and came not long ago, and you think, oh god,
<v Speaker 4>it's going to be fucking dusty homework from the thirties
<v Speaker 4>or whenever, and you look it's like this is like
<v Speaker 4>avant garde or something. Yeah, it's really entertaining. It's really
<v Speaker 4>sort of it feels very very modern, you know, when
<v Speaker 4>it's something like you know, all these prestigious sort of
<v Speaker 4>film buffs and film publications say, oh my goodness, absolute
<v Speaker 4>to you know, a cinematic pinnacle or something like that.
<v Speaker 4>Oh god, this is going to be some three hour
<v Speaker 4>Vietnamese tone poem you see at the Melbourne Film Festival
<v Speaker 4>and you want to like, oh shit, there's really funny,
<v Speaker 4>and you know this is really innovative in this Okay,
<v Speaker 4>that's nerd hat removed.
<v Speaker 3>That's good to know, guy, But I do want to
<v Speaker 3>know was there a George Burns reference throughout? It was
<v Speaker 3>Bunny Chance was an inn some short shorts at about
<v Speaker 3>eight years old. I get the feeling.
<v Speaker 4>Even in nineteen ninety three though, was sort of pushing it.
<v Speaker 4>You know, I don't know if the target when is
<v Speaker 4>actually going to get this all the match gave himselves
<v Speaker 4>a little bit of an escape patch when they was saying,
<v Speaker 4>don't worry, this is going to be hilarious when I'm
<v Speaker 4>an old man.
<v Speaker 2>But I don't think the rid of his episode John
<v Speaker 2>swartzwe one of his best episodes. I don't think he
<v Speaker 2>cared either if you got it or not, and sometimes
<v Speaker 2>he just put gags in that made him laugh.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Luke, I mean, I do love that it's Monty
<v Speaker 3>Burns's younger brother, like at the time and older brother.
<v Speaker 2>Do you remember watching Rosebud for the first time and
<v Speaker 2>seeing things like the George Burns and having absolutely no
<v Speaker 2>fucking idea what was going on, and you just you
<v Speaker 2>just sort of went with it, didn't you. It was like, oh, well,
<v Speaker 2>it's just a bit that I understand. I'm sure I'll
<v Speaker 2>get it one day.
<v Speaker 3>I did get George Burns, I mean, I was. My
<v Speaker 3>upbringing in Geelong was very much he just watched TV
<v Speaker 3>on a weekend. My parents went off and just got
<v Speaker 3>drunk with their friends, I think, and so I back
<v Speaker 3>then in Australia in the nineties on a weekend you
<v Speaker 3>would get a lot of old films. I mean, now
<v Speaker 3>it's probably been demoted to those off Broadway channels, you know,
<v Speaker 3>the Channel Go and seven Flicks and all these other
<v Speaker 3>nine gem Yeah, exactly, but back in the day you
<v Speaker 3>would routinely get I mean Abbot and Castallo films. You
<v Speaker 3>would get films from the fifties, and so George Burns
<v Speaker 3>was kind of around. I kind of understood that I
<v Speaker 3>don't understand the share of Lobo reference, and I still
<v Speaker 3>don't in my mid forties, but I'm happy to go
<v Speaker 3>with it.
<v Speaker 2>Do you want to explain to what it is?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, Sheriff Lobo was a pivotal supporting character on the
<v Speaker 4>Dukes of Hazard, so beloved in fact that he did
<v Speaker 4>get his own spin off.
<v Speaker 2>Ah.
<v Speaker 4>I think last approximately three episodes. We like Lobo and
<v Speaker 4>small doses. We don't win a half hour bites.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's like Stair of Lobo.
<v Speaker 2>I had no.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I did watch the Dukes of Hazzard, but
<v Speaker 3>that was jezus, what is that early eighties? It would
<v Speaker 3>be seventies, I.
<v Speaker 4>Reckon late seventies, early eighties.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it was a better time.
<v Speaker 2>Day.
<v Speaker 4>You could drive around with the Union Confederate flag on
<v Speaker 4>the I'm on the top of your car and not
<v Speaker 4>get canceled.
<v Speaker 3>Man. You could leave the windows open and just slide
<v Speaker 3>in and out without opening the doors.
<v Speaker 2>That was the great booling.
<v Speaker 3>Never got stolen despite the fact the windows were opened
<v Speaker 3>the whole time.
<v Speaker 2>Did you have to even wear seat belts in those days? Please?
<v Speaker 3>What are you talking about?
<v Speaker 4>Luke Duke and Bo Duke did not.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that was a sign of weakness. You'd rather go
<v Speaker 3>through the front wind chill with those namby panby seatbelts.
<v Speaker 2>It's like that trou McClue video Alice through the Windshiel.
<v Speaker 2>But we're here. Let's plug your your coming to us. So,
<v Speaker 2>Dave Thoughton, localmedian, you've got your to a more or
<v Speaker 2>less let's talk about it. I think it starts early March,
<v Speaker 2>correct in Adelaide.
<v Speaker 3>That is right, guys, I'm just about to recording of this. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>in a couple of weeks. I'll be starting in Adelaide
<v Speaker 3>and then going to all the major cities. We've got
<v Speaker 3>Melbourne here for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, I got Sydney, Brisbane,
<v Speaker 3>per I'm also a Newcastle and Gold Coast so yeah,
<v Speaker 3>the tour all kicks off and brand new show so
<v Speaker 3>if people want to come down, that'd be great. And
<v Speaker 3>the last show that I did, actually it's on YouTube
<v Speaker 3>right now. I did film it. It kind of ties
<v Speaker 3>into what we're talking about because the last show was
<v Speaker 3>called Nothing's Unpossible, which is an end of the cat
<v Speaker 3>to Ralph Wigham when he gets caught up on stage
<v Speaker 3>by Principal Skinner. He said his faith and he goes,
<v Speaker 3>me fail English, that's unpassable. So that's how much the
<v Speaker 3>Simpsons are Imbauedy in my life.
<v Speaker 4>And we keep referring to Dave as a local commedian
<v Speaker 4>because you know, we're very proud of you know, Geelong.
<v Speaker 2>If anyone makes it from Geelong, you're proud of it.
<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, stuck with it. But David is a national
<v Speaker 4>and international game.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, oh thanks.
<v Speaker 4>The stage is all over the world, yes too.
<v Speaker 3>I mean not as much now, my little handbroke children
<v Speaker 3>for they said to stop the international touring, but now
<v Speaker 3>touring all throughout Australia. And well, I actually live in
<v Speaker 3>Melbourne now, I live up a bit, but I still
<v Speaker 3>head down at too long all the time. And as
<v Speaker 3>we said, go for the cats.
<v Speaker 2>So you named your special unpossible. Does the Simpsons still
<v Speaker 2>have an impact on the comedy scene now on comedians
<v Speaker 2>of today?
<v Speaker 3>I think it's really an age thing. I mean I
<v Speaker 3>still use the odd Simpsons reference. I mean I did
<v Speaker 3>it to my kids on me recently. Actually, this is
<v Speaker 3>why I love that we're doing this podcast, because I
<v Speaker 3>strangely about October last year, started playing Simpsons reruns to
<v Speaker 3>my kids, just because I think I said to one
<v Speaker 3>of them, look, I was born a snake handler. I'm
<v Speaker 3>going to die a snake handler. And my kids went
<v Speaker 3>story what and that's my cis lack And they're like,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know what you're talking about. And then we
<v Speaker 3>started watching the Simpsons. So it's really strange that now
<v Speaker 3>a couple of months later, when I haven't really been
<v Speaker 3>watching the Simpsons for years, I got really back into
<v Speaker 3>it and I got the eery feeling with Simpsons references
<v Speaker 3>to answer your question, Dano, I probably people of my age.
<v Speaker 3>You know, you can be in a green room and
<v Speaker 3>stand up and drop a reference like evidence coming up Millbouse,
<v Speaker 3>and then watch a couple of guys lighting up. But
<v Speaker 3>anyone for I'm trying to think maybe under thirty, it's
<v Speaker 3>kind of lost, like family guy in South Park got them, but.
<v Speaker 2>You're making me feel old under thirty.
<v Speaker 4>But it really is that kind of secret handshake though.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, if you are dropping certain lines, I mean
<v Speaker 4>not even for comic effect, but it just becomes part
<v Speaker 4>of your everyday vocab. I mean, I don't know how
<v Speaker 4>many times we've talked about how, yeah you've got yours.
<v Speaker 2>I've got mine.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, I'll go to the supermarket or whatever, and
<v Speaker 4>you check if you're actually in the right parking spot. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>you look at I'm in the lines. You don't like it,
<v Speaker 4>go tell your mama.
<v Speaker 2>You know, or you see a variant of a thing limited, No, exactly.
<v Speaker 3>It's even these obscure references. Like we've got a lot
<v Speaker 3>of people in stand up and I can understand it's
<v Speaker 3>a broad church and we were just having this conversation
<v Speaker 3>about like ADHD, which is a big thing now and
<v Speaker 3>it's great that people are getting diagnosed, but of course, mates,
<v Speaker 3>they have to take some times whatever medicine that they're on.
<v Speaker 3>And a reference that thing from the episode where they
<v Speaker 3>go into the well. The fortune Teller goes into the
<v Speaker 3>future and tells a Lita what her first almost marriage
<v Speaker 3>was like. And when she goes and visits the in
<v Speaker 3>laws over in England, they've got that uncle in the
<v Speaker 3>corner and he goes, get me brain medicine for the
<v Speaker 3>National health.
<v Speaker 2>You're going to go with, give her this, then this
<v Speaker 2>and then these. I'm thanks doctor. Oh I'm not a doctor.
<v Speaker 3>See this is all great.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, but it seems to me that, yeah, people our
<v Speaker 4>of a certain generation, shall we say, because I mean
<v Speaker 4>looking at Dave.
<v Speaker 2>Here, I mean you look, he's younger than me. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>he's got the he's got the you.
<v Speaker 4>Know, fresh faced looks of a thirty five year old,
<v Speaker 4>even though he's sort of he's close to guy Davis age,
<v Speaker 4>which makes him damn fossil. Watching the Symptons on the
<v Speaker 4>regulars as a young person, I mean it kind of
<v Speaker 4>forms your comic sensibility away, or at least teaches you
<v Speaker 4>the fundamentals of comedy and certain in terms of in
<v Speaker 4>terms of comic delivering, in terms of timing all that
<v Speaker 4>kind of stuff. Am I at all correct in thinking
<v Speaker 4>that no.
<v Speaker 3>Guy spot on it's knowing that I was coming on
<v Speaker 3>this podcast. This made me reflect upon the Simpsons in
<v Speaker 3>my life, and I almost couldn't be more on the
<v Speaker 3>crosshairs in that you guys would know better than me.
<v Speaker 3>I think it aired in ninety one, is that's right
<v Speaker 3>in Australia? And then yeah, yeah, and I was eleven
<v Speaker 3>years old, and so it focused on Bart and then
<v Speaker 3>that got me in. I remember those early seasons they're
<v Speaker 3>selling merch and they're really angling it towards kids, and
<v Speaker 3>you know, all those t shirts are Bart saying don't
<v Speaker 3>have a cow man or whatever it was. And so
<v Speaker 3>it got me in. But then it matured as I matured.
<v Speaker 3>So by the time we're getting to season four, season five,
<v Speaker 3>which is where Rosebud's on, I'm fifteen sixteen, and so
<v Speaker 3>you just locked in as a young man, like it's
<v Speaker 3>just you're watching it. I was that kidlucking at school
<v Speaker 3>all week that's quoting it as the arts teachers, like
<v Speaker 3>you just need to shut up right.
<v Speaker 4>Now and you just need to take your brain medication.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah ha hack.
<v Speaker 3>She goes, No, that's that's enough. That is enough, and
<v Speaker 3>so rewatching it now as an adult, especially after becoming
<v Speaker 3>a comic, You're right that it is just riding one
<v Speaker 3>oh one, Like it's so punchy, it comes out of
<v Speaker 3>the gates punchy. There are times when they're constantly undercutting
<v Speaker 3>a trope and making and just even the subtlety of
<v Speaker 3>the jokes. I mean in this Rosebud, which happens to
<v Speaker 3>a lot of episodes, that storyline of just Smithers being
<v Speaker 3>smitten with Monty Burns. And when I was even in
<v Speaker 3>my mid teens and it could maybe speak to my naivety,
<v Speaker 3>I was like, oh, yeah, Smith's just really loves his boss.
<v Speaker 3>And it's like when I'm now in my mid forties,
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, oh, right, like.
<v Speaker 2>This he loves his boss.
<v Speaker 4>But they didn't.
<v Speaker 2>But but most of the time they didn't do it
<v Speaker 2>in a way that where he was a punchline. As
<v Speaker 2>a result, it was just you know, you watch this
<v Speaker 2>very easily double as a kid and go you just
<v Speaker 2>like mister Burns a lot, Yeah, I.
<v Speaker 3>Mean, and then it made me laugh in this episode
<v Speaker 3>is you talked about sixty four slices of American cheese,
<v Speaker 3>you know, when they first tried to get into the house. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and they slide down the rope and meet in the
<v Speaker 3>middle because there's just not it doesn't go downhill, so
<v Speaker 3>they just hanging there when Burns hit Smither's here and
<v Speaker 3>go oh, it's beautiful. Norms of a man who's like, oh, well,
<v Speaker 3>he could work out the plan worked out.
<v Speaker 2>It's always like Smither's planned it to happen this way.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, yeah, Harry Shirts is having an affluent field day.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, the line reads in this episode, by the way,
<v Speaker 4>I mean just yeah. The spin he puts on some
<v Speaker 4>of this stuff was like tug on my furrow, leave
<v Speaker 4>the costume.
<v Speaker 3>A little bit at the end, and leave the costume.
<v Speaker 4>Oh maybe laugh.
<v Speaker 2>Well, So, what are your earliest memories of The Simpsons.
<v Speaker 2>You're saying you're eleven? Bar of Mania? Was it running
<v Speaker 2>wild and show? It was huge in the States, But
<v Speaker 2>I feel like by the time Australia got the Simpsons,
<v Speaker 2>the whole barta Mania fat had kind of already died
<v Speaker 2>down in the US.
<v Speaker 3>It really did for well for when well, I was
<v Speaker 3>growing up, like at the age that I was, all
<v Speaker 3>the kids this is grade six, grade five, grade six
<v Speaker 3>in primary school, and all the kids are obsessed with it.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, if you think I spoke about Warner Brothers
<v Speaker 3>cartoons earlier, that was the only adult ish cartoon I've
<v Speaker 3>ever seen in my life. Like some of the jokes
<v Speaker 3>were kind of skewed to adults, but that's it. Everything
<v Speaker 3>else was children's cartoons. And my dad, I do remember
<v Speaker 3>when I first watched The Simpsons was like, what's this.
<v Speaker 3>It's badly drawn cartoons. It's shit. I don't want to
<v Speaker 3>know about it. And then, I mean, my father was
<v Speaker 3>also a kind of he was a bald, kind of
<v Speaker 3>heavy set guy, and I think after all.
<v Speaker 2>The strain in the eighties.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and Homer Simpson sounds like an absolute legend he was,
<v Speaker 3>and I guy, yeah, and so to no, I'm surprised
<v Speaker 3>Homer Simpson and George Castanza came is the pinup for it,
<v Speaker 3>And then yeah, it morphed into that. So I mean
<v Speaker 3>it was pretty big, I think. And again, like when
<v Speaker 3>it was early, it was targeted squarely at a kid
<v Speaker 3>my age, and then it was fascinating to watch this
<v Speaker 3>thing turn into adult entertainment.
<v Speaker 2>Did you watch it once it went beyond being like
<v Speaker 2>the show to watch for kids, because I remember I
<v Speaker 2>was born in eighty eight, so I was about six
<v Speaker 2>or seven when I was really at its peak. And
<v Speaker 2>then sort of South Park came around, and that was
<v Speaker 2>sort of the more risky comedy animator show, and my
<v Speaker 2>friends sort of gravitated towards that and Family Guy, but
<v Speaker 2>I still stuck with The Simpsons for the most part,
<v Speaker 2>where I feel like I was sort of the only
<v Speaker 2>one left of my friends watching the Simpsons. Did you
<v Speaker 2>ever get to that point on did you jump ship
<v Speaker 2>to south Park? And those likes as well?
<v Speaker 3>South Park was great and it still is great. I
<v Speaker 3>think south Park funnily enough, I talked about The Simpsons
<v Speaker 3>maturing into I think very clever comedy. I think South
<v Speaker 3>Park has kind of done the same, but over a
<v Speaker 3>longer period. Like when it first started, it was pretty
<v Speaker 3>black force comedy, like it was kids being pretty crook,
<v Speaker 3>and therein lies the juxtaposition of these kids who were
<v Speaker 3>just foul mouthed and you know, Eric Cartman was just
<v Speaker 3>causing trouble all the time, and it was it was funny,
<v Speaker 3>but it was it was a feeling blund force instrument.
<v Speaker 3>When I thought Simpsons at the same time was a
<v Speaker 3>much more nuanced comedy. And I mean, I know we're
<v Speaker 3>getting into the weeds here, but I do think South
<v Speaker 3>Park of late has become political commentary, and because of
<v Speaker 3>its quick turnaround, is able to lampoon things that are
<v Speaker 3>happening in the press and the zeitgeist. I think that's
<v Speaker 3>its real strength. But at the time it was when
<v Speaker 3>it first came out, it was funny, but it was
<v Speaker 3>like because of its almost it's shock, that's what made
<v Speaker 3>it funny. When I stuck with the Simps, I liked
<v Speaker 3>them both, but I just always thought with the Simpsons,
<v Speaker 3>it's like this master class in writing. I couldn't have
<v Speaker 3>I don't think I would have consciously told you this
<v Speaker 3>when I was sixteen, but I just was. I just
<v Speaker 3>found it so like we just talked about Rose, but
<v Speaker 3>I didn't know it was a parody of Citizen Kane,
<v Speaker 3>but you kind of knew there was all these layers happening.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, they're hitting different parts of the funny bone, Reckon
<v Speaker 4>and me. And you can't imagine South Back, for all
<v Speaker 4>its virtues, going deep on a Citizen Kane homage.
<v Speaker 2>Let's rip off. Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>So I mean, yeah, they're just they're approaching it in
<v Speaker 4>different ways.
<v Speaker 2>Next time you join us, you have to come onto
<v Speaker 2>our South Park podcast. We're currently in season nine of
<v Speaker 2>the show. We just did Trapped in the Closet with
<v Speaker 2>Tom Cruise and John Devolta. That's awesome.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, it's funny how I said, like, maybe, hi, Brow,
<v Speaker 3>I'm not sure if that's the right way to describe.
<v Speaker 3>But when in the same episode where the parodied Citizen Kane,
<v Speaker 3>there's also that brilliant scene when the when Bobo gets
<v Speaker 3>caught in the ice and then they make it to
<v Speaker 3>a Poo's quickie mart and the guys are like, you
<v Speaker 3>got a fun better way to make eyes on this
<v Speaker 3>last expedition, got better better way of making eyes and
<v Speaker 3>you just go, that's a really funny, dumb joke.
<v Speaker 2>Are you a big so why did you choose Rose
<v Speaker 2>Budy You're a big fan of the mister Burns character.
<v Speaker 2>Was just the fact that there's so much crammed into
<v Speaker 2>this Well, what was it that made you want to
<v Speaker 2>review rosebud today? Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Both, I think it's a really well written show. That episode,
<v Speaker 3>I should say, And then yes, I find Monty Burns
<v Speaker 3>hilarious because there's old jokes don't stop getting funny, and
<v Speaker 3>I mean Grandpa Simpson can wheel those out a lot.
<v Speaker 3>But there's also this, and I think it's almost precient
<v Speaker 3>now watching it, because we've seen the rise of all
<v Speaker 3>these tech billionaires and all these people who are just
<v Speaker 3>monstrously rich, especially in America, and it's this overriding capitalism
<v Speaker 3>of people that just want to be rich and do
<v Speaker 3>not care about anything else but getting richer. And Monty
<v Speaker 3>Burn's whole storyline is always him. But there's that beautiful
<v Speaker 3>part when he doesn't want to pay home at all
<v Speaker 3>for the boy, and the roof just rips open and
<v Speaker 3>all that gold and things just drop on his head.
<v Speaker 3>He says, as you can see this police is falling
<v Speaker 3>them off, and it's like it just makes you laugh
<v Speaker 3>because like, this guy is so and so rich and
<v Speaker 3>has no conscience whatsoever, but you're.
<v Speaker 2>Saying to me off the air. That sort of the
<v Speaker 2>theme of this episode is kind of like money happy.
<v Speaker 2>Money can't buy happiness, isn't it, really?
<v Speaker 4>Well, essentially, yeah, I mean, he's got all the money
<v Speaker 4>in the world, but he's longing for this just bedraggled
<v Speaker 4>old bear that he just you know, can't get a
<v Speaker 4>hold well he can't get out of his head. But
<v Speaker 4>also I can't get a hold of He's.
<v Speaker 2>Also keeping a secret as well, which I thought was interesting.
<v Speaker 4>Well yeah, yeah, I mean, well he does want to
<v Speaker 4>show any weakness, yeah, particularly even well particularly the Smithers
<v Speaker 4>I don't think.
<v Speaker 2>But as the Simpsons evolved, the mister Burns character did
<v Speaker 2>show weakness a lot more. But in these earlier seasons
<v Speaker 2>he was the scary billionaire tyrant.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, and then just made like rich people decisions, which
<v Speaker 3>is fun, you know, like you just couldn't give a shit.
<v Speaker 3>I mean I still say it now. At any time
<v Speaker 3>someone who makes a lot of money, I'm like, oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>they have to buy another Ivory backscratcher, which is just.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>But at the very end, I mean everyone's sort of
<v Speaker 4>angling for a payday. Well, certainly the Simpsons family is
<v Speaker 4>angling for a payday. Think, oh, you know we can
<v Speaker 4>get a bit of cash out of by handing over
<v Speaker 4>this bed.
<v Speaker 2>It would, right, And then if you found this old
<v Speaker 2>billionaires teddy bear, you'd try and milk it for all
<v Speaker 2>you could, right, I mean fuck being honest and good
<v Speaker 2>if he wouldn't be the other way around, So get
<v Speaker 2>what you can out of him. I think they should
<v Speaker 2>have tried to rip him off for money.
<v Speaker 4>Well yeah, but I mean the fact that they don't
<v Speaker 4>get anything at the very end is yeah, it's sort
<v Speaker 4>of the underlines the theme of the episode, which is
<v Speaker 4>the other. If they'd got money for it, it would
<v Speaker 4>have sort of negated that.
<v Speaker 3>I think it could have just been a thing. And
<v Speaker 3>I know they're so good at using trokes and then
<v Speaker 3>going in the other direction. I mean, it would be
<v Speaker 3>so saccharin sweet or like if everyone he got his bed,
<v Speaker 3>they got their money and they're like and it's all fine.
<v Speaker 3>And I like it at the end, like is this
<v Speaker 3>a good ending or a bad ending? It's an ending
<v Speaker 3>that'll do my favorite.
<v Speaker 2>Did you have any favorite moments from the episode?
<v Speaker 3>I did like the nice thing, as I mentioned before,
<v Speaker 3>just made me chuckle. And just when he goes yeah,
<v Speaker 3>if you if you know a better way to get
<v Speaker 3>some assle like to hear it, and I like it
<v Speaker 3>how I just go back to each other like, no,
<v Speaker 3>he's got to say it.
<v Speaker 2>They just.
<v Speaker 3>I do love and it's again when you watch it,
<v Speaker 3>and rewatch it. All these little asides Popper that just
<v Speaker 3>make you laugh. Where Sminners is interrogating mister Burns after
<v Speaker 3>the party and going, I don't understand. Look at everything
<v Speaker 3>that you've got, and he says, you've got Arthur's Excalibur,
<v Speaker 3>you've got the only nude photo of Mark Twain, and
<v Speaker 3>you've got the first draft of the Constitution with the
<v Speaker 3>word suckers in it.
<v Speaker 4>That's one of my favorites as well. That just strikes
<v Speaker 4>me as a real sort of Generation X joke. I'm
<v Speaker 4>I'm trying to figure out exactly why that feels so
<v Speaker 4>nineteen ninety three, but it really does.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it really does. And I guess again, I mean
<v Speaker 3>maybe with Trump and everything and how much how crazy
<v Speaker 3>America's going, it was like, yeah, that's quite funny. Now
<v Speaker 3>people in dude would ride suckers in a Constitution and
<v Speaker 3>Bilm we got away with it.
<v Speaker 2>For me, I've always loved Homer's reaction to the sitcom.
<v Speaker 2>So you've got the what already? Yes right, everyone remembers there, yes, right?
<v Speaker 2>But I love more Home Were Going because Lisa says,
<v Speaker 2>is it just me or TV getting worse or something
<v Speaker 2>on those lines, and you nothing's still the same. Watch
<v Speaker 2>Out Smithers and.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, I love this show, which is funny in that
<v Speaker 3>it's a TV show that had no regard for TV's
<v Speaker 3>constantly saying this is a you know, like Homer just
<v Speaker 3>sits in front of it, and it's like this, you know,
<v Speaker 3>it just makes him docile. He just sits there. He
<v Speaker 3>wastes his life away, which kind of has parallels now.
<v Speaker 3>When I'm watching it, I'm like, oh, this is if
<v Speaker 3>it was made now, it'd be phones. Like we're just
<v Speaker 3>sitting in front of a phone, We're scrolling, we're doing
<v Speaker 3>all those things. And I just loved it that it
<v Speaker 3>wasn't like other TV shows would never pope fund of
<v Speaker 3>TV because they're on it. Executives would say this isn't happening.
<v Speaker 3>But I just really like that. You're right that home
<v Speaker 3>is just whoever is there being Smithers on Monty Burns.
<v Speaker 3>He's like that, still watch out Smithers.
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<v Speaker 4>I just love that though, from beginning, when it's Chocolate
<v Speaker 4>Block with all kinds of humor. I mean, you've got
<v Speaker 4>high rail hum, you've got low brow hum, you've got
<v Speaker 4>perfect use of a guest artist, throw away non sequity gags,
<v Speaker 4>I mean, not necessarily non secud I mean that got
<v Speaker 4>that shot of the millk Curtons going past. You know,
<v Speaker 4>I always found it very weird that they would have
<v Speaker 4>pictures of missing children on milk cut but that's.
<v Speaker 2>America for you.
<v Speaker 4>But the poor old millhouse was clearly missing. It's just
<v Speaker 4>bobo bo bo bobo slap nap stickers when poor old
<v Speaker 4>Millhouse is just you know, thrown to the side.
<v Speaker 2>All Homer saying that Flanders smells like manure, Kathleen party
<v Speaker 2>things like that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but even sometimes the darker Joe, like you know
<v Speaker 3>when he said, what do you think you was mister
<v Speaker 3>Burns saying, oh, maybe you're trying to enjoy beer. Well,
<v Speaker 3>you will have stopped every beer truck from coming into Springfield.
<v Speaker 3>And then Barney entswers the door with a cocked pistol
<v Speaker 3>and says, SCRAMs the door on him, and you hear
<v Speaker 3>the gun go off and a woman's shrill scream please.
<v Speaker 2>The thing is though, that was cut out of TV.
<v Speaker 2>So when I used to watch it as a kid,
<v Speaker 2>this episode, that scene and the scene with Homer in
<v Speaker 2>the box like the empty cardboard box. Those two scenes
<v Speaker 2>of the boxes were edited for time. I feel like
<v Speaker 2>the Barney with the gun was edited because of maybe
<v Speaker 2>because of the violence, but also what they edited out was,
<v Speaker 2>you know, at the end of the birthday party when
<v Speaker 2>a riot breaks out and beat everybody up, that was
<v Speaker 2>cut out as well. So I remember watching for the
<v Speaker 2>first time on foxtail because Fox told I mean pay
<v Speaker 2>TV in Australia when he used to air The Simpsons
<v Speaker 2>back in the nineties, they would play the full versions
<v Speaker 2>and we remember seeing it for the first time. It
<v Speaker 2>was like at the caprio moment of that's new, you know.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, Dan, that's quite funny as well. He said
<v Speaker 3>this party is over, and then they've got like what
<v Speaker 3>do you call them like not squat the ride police, right,
<v Speaker 3>just he just forces them upon the guests quarter way
<v Speaker 3>to finish. I mean that little bit after the Ramones play.
<v Speaker 3>It's so funny with Monty goes and the Rolling Stones killed,
<v Speaker 3>and then this says, but but do it do.
<v Speaker 2>As I say? There's I want to touch on the
<v Speaker 2>Ramones because I think that's arguably the greatest guest cameo,
<v Speaker 2>not guest appears, but guest cameo of all time. You've
<v Speaker 2>got that, just the fact that it's the Ramones, You've
<v Speaker 2>got the great direction of the directing of the real
<v Speaker 2>cool panshot as the song's beginning where it passes past Joey.
<v Speaker 2>The song itself is fantastic, but again the button at
<v Speaker 2>the end of have the Rolling Stones Killed? Do as
<v Speaker 2>I say? But also when they say go to hell
<v Speaker 2>you are beastard, and the look on Burns's face as
<v Speaker 2>the curtain is closing on him. It's just there is
<v Speaker 2>so much packed into like fifteen seconds. It's unbelievable.
<v Speaker 4>And each Ramone gets gets the moment to shine. I
<v Speaker 4>get Eats, get a line. It's like, hey, I think
<v Speaker 4>they really liked us.
<v Speaker 2>Also, speaking of songs, my other favorite bit was and
<v Speaker 2>it's something that wouldn't really work now because no one
<v Speaker 2>does it anymore, but it's the big Max song that
<v Speaker 2>Homer sings in the recording studio. Like that is that
<v Speaker 2>was such a pivotal part of what my child was.
<v Speaker 2>Can you do the big Max song? But no one
<v Speaker 2>does it anymore? You know, it's just that that's all
<v Speaker 2>people nam mc donald's for now. It's not the big
<v Speaker 2>Max song. But I think that's such a great side gag.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And then he gets to the end in Homer
<v Speaker 3>you're drawing on the mic again.
<v Speaker 4>Well, yeah, it's it's hats on hats on hats because
<v Speaker 4>it's like Homer saying, oh, I can get what I
<v Speaker 4>always won of my own recording here. It's like, okay,
<v Speaker 4>it's a gag in itself. And then you're seeing what
<v Speaker 4>the McDonald's themes are and he's drawing on the mic.
<v Speaker 4>It's like, oh, it's the gift that keeps on giving.
<v Speaker 2>Next question, you there eating the Beast. Let's answer some
<v Speaker 2>trivia questions. I asked you a question here, Dave. Let's
<v Speaker 2>see if you can answer it for us. Okay, what
<v Speaker 2>did Marge get mister Burns for his birthday?
<v Speaker 3>Dustbuster? Yes, look on her face of oh I thought
<v Speaker 3>I've nailed it, and you.
<v Speaker 2>Can you can imagine Marge thought that would be a
<v Speaker 2>great gift. There's obviously something that she would use all
<v Speaker 2>the time. It's very practical. As a kid though, you
<v Speaker 2>always had those relatives that brought you practical gifts. And
<v Speaker 2>it's like I didn't fucking want pencils. I wanted a
<v Speaker 2>street shark's toy. Look what are you doing?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? But Dando, this is the thing other be in
<v Speaker 3>Brunswick and for anyone oversees who's listening, this is very
<v Speaker 3>much there with the very left of center. It's the
<v Speaker 3>very you know, I think Portland's like this in Americas,
<v Speaker 3>the hipster central. Yeah, exactly. So the parents at parties
<v Speaker 3>very much do this. They're like, oh, I've bought your
<v Speaker 3>child a book that they may enjoy. And it's always
<v Speaker 3>you look on the kids' faces like are you shit me?
<v Speaker 3>And the parents are like, wonderful, you're improving their education.
<v Speaker 3>Will never touched that book.
<v Speaker 4>You might as well have got on socks. It's like, no,
<v Speaker 4>I'm unleashing your child's creativity.
<v Speaker 2>But you may as well be like, does your kid
<v Speaker 2>watch Bluey at all? Yes? You know how Lucky his
<v Speaker 2>dad's like the cool dad at parties. Need to be
<v Speaker 2>Lucky's dad. You need to be the guy that just
<v Speaker 2>gives the cool fucking toy press. Everyone's like they will
<v Speaker 2>always invite your kids to party because they know they're
<v Speaker 2>going to get a good present.
<v Speaker 3>Guys, here's some heaps. Normal, it's not an alcoholic beer,
<v Speaker 3>but so it's fine. Don't worry you right, girl, can
<v Speaker 3>have it, don't worry about it. As a side note,
<v Speaker 3>with that dust bustard, I did like it. Where's the
<v Speaker 3>pans across? There's a unicorn just on some food.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, Australia even gets a reference in that scene there.
<v Speaker 2>We're all holding up candles in the name of mister Burn.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, well done us.
<v Speaker 2>Just have to turn your head to see it. Oh,
<v Speaker 2>no time, I shall ask you tributes.
<v Speaker 4>According to the newspaper, mister Burn's credits his long life
<v Speaker 4>to Satan. He's handing over a check to the Prince
<v Speaker 4>of Darkness. But how much?
<v Speaker 3>Oh I didn't because I didn't notice. I clocked the
<v Speaker 3>headline which made me laugh. There are five and at
<v Speaker 3>five million.
<v Speaker 2>Doctor Evil says this as part of one of his
<v Speaker 2>famous quotes. Oh really, I think it's Doctor Evil.
<v Speaker 5>A billion dollars, a billion dollars initiallys a million dollar,
<v Speaker 5>one billion dollars by the way, just great animation, just
<v Speaker 5>great look on Satan's face there is like he's so happy.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. My next question for you is how many channels
<v Speaker 2>does Springfield have?
<v Speaker 3>Seventy eight? What?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Wow, I remember that stood out because you've been watching
<v Speaker 3>it again. We never got to that point in Australia
<v Speaker 3>did we We now have streaming services and things, but
<v Speaker 3>it never got to that point where you, like friends
<v Speaker 3>will go to America and be like they've got so
<v Speaker 3>many channels and we still had five.
<v Speaker 2>We had Foxtael. Basically that's what you want to get
<v Speaker 2>more chance yet Fox, did you have Foxtail as a kid.
<v Speaker 3>No, My parents were never fought me out for Foxtel
<v Speaker 3>and yeah, and so it was always that it was
<v Speaker 3>just yeah, you went through you were lucky to get
<v Speaker 3>SPS to be.
<v Speaker 2>Honest, yeah, channel thirty one.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, but it's only we always talk about when we
<v Speaker 4>were talking with guests. Usually it's that having that limited
<v Speaker 4>amount of options meant that you had to watch all
<v Speaker 4>that stuff that you were talking about earlier day. You'd
<v Speaker 4>be watching George Burns movies or Ab and Costello stuff,
<v Speaker 4>and as a result, you got this widely curated sort
<v Speaker 4>of diet of entertainment and culture. And yeah, your your
<v Speaker 4>sensibility has got shaped as a result of that. I mean, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>you watched a lot of good stuff, you also watched
<v Speaker 4>a lot of crap, and you were able to discern
<v Speaker 4>the good stuff from the bad.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Guy, it's a really interesting point too, and we
<v Speaker 3>all had the same Touchstanns like, yeah, it's funny now
<v Speaker 3>my kids because you can skip an intro to anything
<v Speaker 3>online and streaming. And when we watch we watch a
<v Speaker 3>Wizard of Oz with him, and of course those old movies.
<v Speaker 3>The credits are at the start. It's three minutes of
<v Speaker 3>just acknowledging the people who put this amazing motion picture together,
<v Speaker 3>and they're like, they're looking at me, like what the
<v Speaker 3>fuck is pushed the middle button. And then it was
<v Speaker 3>only last night actually that I was singing the eighties
<v Speaker 3>sitcom tunes and then watching my wife as I'm like
<v Speaker 3>because I remember them all, And then I'd start and
<v Speaker 3>she'd go, oh yeah, and then she'd jump in as
<v Speaker 3>we all start singing the Family Ties theme song or
<v Speaker 3>whatever the hell it was, and you just don't have
<v Speaker 3>that anymore. Like there are certain things that pierced through,
<v Speaker 3>but not necessarily.
<v Speaker 4>I say to my shame that some forty years on,
<v Speaker 4>I can still sing the theme to Growing Pains. Show
<v Speaker 4>me that smile again.
<v Speaker 2>I put Space Gm on for my sunny. Had a
<v Speaker 2>couple of mates over on on Saturday night, and it
<v Speaker 2>was interesting because we're talking about the skip intro right,
<v Speaker 2>and my son loves Space Jam, one of his favorite movies.
<v Speaker 2>And during the opening credits of Space Jam, there's fucking
<v Speaker 2>shots of MJ Do and slam Dune Space Jam. The
<v Speaker 2>song's playing, it's great, and one kid's just like, when's
<v Speaker 2>a movie star? When's a movie star? I'm like, kid,
<v Speaker 2>are you fucking your eyes working? Why would you want
<v Speaker 2>to skip this? But it's like it's just that mentality
<v Speaker 2>of now, oh the credits that means we need to
<v Speaker 2>skip this part. It's just it's just sort of second
<v Speaker 2>nature to so many kids. Now you see those credits
<v Speaker 2>and it means quick, skip, skip, skip. This isn't this
<v Speaker 2>isn't anything we have to watch.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And I've now gotten to the point where I'm
<v Speaker 3>sure I'm not on the level of you guys, but
<v Speaker 3>I now get into movies and things and quite often
<v Speaker 3>and even when I'm watching now, especially Australian content, because
<v Speaker 3>I might know some of the people who are involved.
<v Speaker 3>Where now I want to watch the end credits and
<v Speaker 3>the streaming service is like, right, we'll move on. No,
<v Speaker 3>no know my mates and grip over in our a.
<v Speaker 3>I just want to see us involves in this film.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it's like you're playing PlayStations, don't trying to find
<v Speaker 4>the right but to get to that little box up
<v Speaker 4>in the right hand corner.
<v Speaker 2>It's like, I want to watch the credits. By the way, Sorry, I'm.
<v Speaker 4>Just I wasn't laughing at Dana, but I was laughing
<v Speaker 4>the fact that the kid who wanted to you know,
<v Speaker 4>skipad basically sounds like a teamster from New York. Why
<v Speaker 4>are we watching this?
<v Speaker 2>He was so angry, He's like, why are we Will
<v Speaker 2>you skip this?
<v Speaker 3>Please?
<v Speaker 5>When's the gate?
<v Speaker 2>When's the movie start? I'm like, this is the movie
<v Speaker 2>kid who's running this show. But we just were talking
<v Speaker 2>to you off air, just Before we recorded this, we
<v Speaker 2>spoke to Matt someone from the Simpsons, and this year
<v Speaker 2>they have cut out couch gags. The couchhags just don't
<v Speaker 2>exist anymore, so they can cram in more and the
<v Speaker 2>opening interest, so they can cram in more storytelling, say,
<v Speaker 2>But also there's a mentality of how many people actually
<v Speaker 2>watch the intro anymore, Like when you when you pick
<v Speaker 2>up Disney Plus, we just go skip intro, and when
<v Speaker 2>you click skip intro on The Simpsons, it skips the
<v Speaker 2>couch gag. So it's like, is there a point even
<v Speaker 2>having couch gags anymore?
<v Speaker 3>Isn't that funny? Because I mean, the Cat's was seminal
<v Speaker 3>because it was part of the show. Because the intro
<v Speaker 3>had never been changed before. You would just give into
<v Speaker 3>the fact that you're like, yeah, growing Pains is going right,
<v Speaker 3>We'll just sit through the song. This is fine, this
<v Speaker 3>is what happens, and then we'll start and then to
<v Speaker 3>have something different happen, you're like, Wow, they're cramming entertainment
<v Speaker 3>in everywhere.
<v Speaker 2>I feel like a bit of old. I knew I
<v Speaker 2>was getting old. My son started watching Fresh Prince at
<v Speaker 2>Ballet because I love that show. When I was a kid,
<v Speaker 2>and I was getting dinner ready and he skipped the
<v Speaker 2>intro and I grabbed the romte from his hand and
<v Speaker 2>I rewound it, and he goes, what are you doing?
<v Speaker 2>I said, you will listen to this theme song because
<v Speaker 2>there's part of the show. And ever since then it's
<v Speaker 2>almost like he's afraid to skip intros.
<v Speaker 4>And then and said, keep that song at your fucking man,
<v Speaker 4>I have a.
<v Speaker 2>Trivia question for my question, we'll get into our review.
<v Speaker 4>When Burns and Smithers are attempting to burgle the Simpson house,
<v Speaker 4>they say, how long in and out?
<v Speaker 3>Eighteen seconds?
<v Speaker 4>Holy shit, Dave Hanton.
<v Speaker 2>But I didn't get that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, because again I watched it and it made me
<v Speaker 3>laugh when he says because firstly Flanner's pokes his head
<v Speaker 3>up from the roof. It's a very Flanders. I can't
<v Speaker 3>remember what he says for, something like what can I
<v Speaker 3>do you for? Like that these men are dressed in
<v Speaker 3>all black in the middle of the night, and he's like, oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>just some friends. And then when he says in and
<v Speaker 3>out and out and seconds And as I mentioned earlier
<v Speaker 3>that Smith is enjoying their bodies snatching together.
<v Speaker 2>Also love too. His great sound editing that part because
<v Speaker 2>they didn't just have flanners go thud. It's thought he's
<v Speaker 2>falling down a ladder. It's not a good fall for
<v Speaker 2>Flanders there. But let's get into our review, shall we
<v Speaker 2>of Rosebud. So the visual airday of this episode was
<v Speaker 2>October twenty first, nineteen ninety three. Now we do a
<v Speaker 2>bit here on the show where we talk about the
<v Speaker 2>top three films of the US box office when this
<v Speaker 2>episode aired. So number three was Cool Runnings. Number two
<v Speaker 2>was Beverly Hillbillies, remember that TV adaptation, and number one
<v Speaker 2>was one of your favorites, demolition.
<v Speaker 4>Man, moly Stallone and Snipes together at last.
<v Speaker 3>Please, Well, that was that was very seminal in the
<v Speaker 3>nineties because it was Wesley Snipes's haircut that led to
<v Speaker 3>Dennis Rodman bleaching his hair blonde. He saw Wesley Snipes
<v Speaker 3>doing it. Really yeah, he was like, this is cool,
<v Speaker 3>and that's why this is the most nineties conversation I've
<v Speaker 3>had in a very long time. It's good, right to
<v Speaker 3>be honest.
<v Speaker 2>Guy always brings up there's a bit in Demolition Man
<v Speaker 2>that would never fly today. Have do you know the
<v Speaker 2>bit we're talking about where he we wait to say
<v Speaker 2>what he says, but he sees an Asian guy.
<v Speaker 3>Have you seen I haven't seen demolition Man in a
<v Speaker 3>long time?
<v Speaker 4>In the In the yeah, farth long future of Demolition Man,
<v Speaker 4>people are basically there's a very Asian influence in the
<v Speaker 4>way people are dressing. People sort of walking around in
<v Speaker 4>kimonos a lot, and look, okay, fine, I'll pull the
<v Speaker 4>rip cold on this one. Yeah, Wesley Snipes walks past them. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>some people are dressings who may actually be Asian, basically
<v Speaker 4>says the Ching Chong Qing Chong so.
<v Speaker 2>And he just says that, Wesley, what Apparently that wasn't
<v Speaker 2>that improvised? I think so, it wasn't in the script
<v Speaker 2>and they left it in the movie. Were have you said?
<v Speaker 2>Let Wesley stops is the villain of Demolition. Do not
<v Speaker 2>do this at home, kids, it helps. The one thing
<v Speaker 2>we always say in our south Park podcast is people
<v Speaker 2>always say, people who don't like south Park say it's
<v Speaker 2>just crude. It's this out and the other day I
<v Speaker 2>can't believe they're doing this, they're doing that, But it's
<v Speaker 2>it's look at which characters are doing this and which
<v Speaker 2>characters are saying this. They are the bad guys. The
<v Speaker 2>whole point is it is bad to be doing these things.
<v Speaker 2>It is bad to be saying these things. That's the
<v Speaker 2>whole point exactly.
<v Speaker 3>I mean you get a lot of this in stand
<v Speaker 3>up where people go they said something on stage, it's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>they're not happy with it. Like, you still do have
<v Speaker 3>to point out, like if someone's yelled, you know, a
<v Speaker 3>homophobic slur at you, and you said, this person yelled
<v Speaker 3>at me, like I can't believe they've said that word,
<v Speaker 3>it's like, yeah, because they're not cool with it. That's
<v Speaker 3>just pointing out that they they weren't okay. And you
<v Speaker 3>can't lampoon something without addressing it correct. How often do
<v Speaker 3>you write jokes and go, it's a good joke, but
<v Speaker 3>I just know I can't do it. Can I lend
<v Speaker 3>the plane on this one?
<v Speaker 2>The negative is far away the positives here.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean there's always ones that you kind of
<v Speaker 3>laugh and I hate to say it, but usually your
<v Speaker 3>shelter of the comics and they laugh and they go dead.
<v Speaker 3>I wouldn't do that one.
<v Speaker 4>Just because it's so it could be so easily misconstrued.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, you're going in with the best of intentions.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, can be misconstrued. I mean there is that thing
<v Speaker 3>if people do go, look that you're mentioning a topic
<v Speaker 3>that can make people tighten up a bit.
<v Speaker 4>What's that saying Depiction does not equal endorsement, as they say.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And I mean it is a it is a
<v Speaker 3>strange area of that one because also there's that the
<v Speaker 3>situation of irony where sometimes you're saying something out of irony,
<v Speaker 3>but it's the people that you're lampooning who then use
<v Speaker 3>it to be like, oh, this is a good thing.
<v Speaker 3>Like the best example I can think of is what
<v Speaker 3>was the movie with Gordon Gecko? What was it Wall Street? Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and that last speech of him with greet is good,
<v Speaker 3>Like that's lamb hoooning the whole idea of stockbrokers and
<v Speaker 3>the fact that all they care about is money and
<v Speaker 3>they have no morals. But yet all the stock brokers
<v Speaker 3>in New York like this is amazing, and could quote
<v Speaker 3>that thing end to end. So it's not really then
<v Speaker 3>lampouning it anymore, and it's not ironic. They're actually enjoying
<v Speaker 3>what's being said.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, all people who.
<v Speaker 4>Had a lot of people coming up with the director
<v Speaker 4>of the movie of American psycho saying, you know he's
<v Speaker 4>got a great morning routine. Is that Patrick Bateman?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so sometimes you can call yourself and you know
<v Speaker 3>that's the trap you can also fall into. But I
<v Speaker 3>mean it happens a lot with comedy writers. I think
<v Speaker 3>what people what finally makes the editor? I think in
<v Speaker 3>and I haven't been in too many writer rooms like
<v Speaker 3>the Simpsons, but I'm saying with stand ups, and I
<v Speaker 3>know a lot of my mates are writers, the writer's
<v Speaker 3>room is just bare knuckle brawling. We bring it back
<v Speaker 3>to a palatable level by the time something has to
<v Speaker 3>go to where or has to go to the stage.
<v Speaker 3>So sometimes when you just ran comics, yeah, it can
<v Speaker 3>be a big crook with comedy.
<v Speaker 2>Do you sort of stick around? Are your best mates
<v Speaker 2>in comedy the ones that you started out with or
<v Speaker 2>do you find and make new friends along the way
<v Speaker 2>or do you find you just sort of stick with
<v Speaker 2>your crew?
<v Speaker 3>Good question, And it's the friends we make along the way. No,
<v Speaker 3>it's it all of the above. You know, there's mates
<v Speaker 3>that you start with and then you stay friends with them,
<v Speaker 3>and then there's also yeah, comics that you yeah, you
<v Speaker 3>just find And I mean we're a bit of like
<v Speaker 3>a traveling circus, because there's also a thing of you
<v Speaker 3>sometimes see your mates less and less the more that
<v Speaker 3>you gig because you used to gig together on lineups.
<v Speaker 3>But then as we all get our own work and
<v Speaker 3>maybe become headliners and tour.
<v Speaker 2>On your own own families.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that you don't do shows together as much because
<v Speaker 3>they're doing their show and you're doing your show, so
<v Speaker 3>you maybe don't see them as much. But then when
<v Speaker 3>you do get to hang out, you so far.
<v Speaker 4>I've got to say something like the Melbourne International Comedy
<v Speaker 4>Festival must be a blast in that regard is oh,
<v Speaker 4>you know we're all here under the same under the
<v Speaker 4>same tent.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it is heaps of fun. I mean Adelaide Fringe
<v Speaker 3>I always find is the one where it's a fringe festival,
<v Speaker 3>which is which means for a lot of us we
<v Speaker 3>can say, oh yeah, if a joke doesn't work, like yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I mean it was up, it was, it doesn't matter.
<v Speaker 3>And then we're also a lot of us are away
<v Speaker 3>from home and now we've got families. You can kind
<v Speaker 3>of hang out and be like, yeah, I'm free during
<v Speaker 3>the day, what do you want to do? Like you
<v Speaker 3>gets to hang out with your mates. Finally, because when
<v Speaker 3>it is back in Melbourne I live, you've still got
<v Speaker 3>kid drop off, kid pick up, You've got you know,
<v Speaker 3>just things that you got to do in everyday life.
<v Speaker 3>But when you're away like that, it's fun.
<v Speaker 2>I was telling guy, because I've got a kid, two kids,
<v Speaker 2>one's five, don't forget the other one. Two children. It
<v Speaker 2>one's seven, one's five and five. I was just out
<v Speaker 2>of school, but I was saying, when you're a parent
<v Speaker 2>of young kids, no matter when you think you've got
<v Speaker 2>your life in check, there's always fucking something that happens
<v Speaker 2>to throw you off track again. You know, you can
<v Speaker 2>get you can be as organized as you want, but
<v Speaker 2>then something will happen. You know, you're just like why why,
<v Speaker 2>but you know, but you wouldn't have it any other way.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's a good reminder. So you know, man makes
<v Speaker 3>plans and God laughs, like you just go, yeah, they're
<v Speaker 3>always going to and they also it's good for me too,
<v Speaker 3>the things that they'd throw at you. Like it was
<v Speaker 3>a couple of weeks ago, I was actually shooting this
<v Speaker 3>scripted comedy that's I think going to be coming out
<v Speaker 3>midyear for the ABC here in Australia and we had
<v Speaker 3>some friends over it. But I said, I've got to
<v Speaker 3>learn these lines because we're shooting tomorrow. And the friend
<v Speaker 3>who was over, she had her sons over and they're
<v Speaker 3>the same age as my daughter's, or primary school age,
<v Speaker 3>and she was talking to her son, going, yeah, because
<v Speaker 3>Dave learns those words because he's going to be shooting
<v Speaker 3>these things for TV. And she was nice enough to say,
<v Speaker 3>she goes, because Dave's famous. And my youngest was sitting
<v Speaker 3>on my lap and he goes, no, he's not. He
<v Speaker 3>hasn't been on TV in the ages, like he hasn't
<v Speaker 3>done anything. And I'm like, oh cool, thanks mate, I
<v Speaker 3>really appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>I saw you did the p's and v's bit about
<v Speaker 2>your kids as well.
<v Speaker 3>Yes there's all that stuff. I mean, kids just do
<v Speaker 3>tend to serve up all crazy things. But if you
<v Speaker 3>haven't seen it, this is all a true story. Which
<v Speaker 3>is a daycare and this is very Brunswick. On one
<v Speaker 3>day they taught all the kids or their entire body,
<v Speaker 3>including the special areas, which I can't speak for you guy,
<v Speaker 3>but we never had that growing up. You know, no
<v Speaker 3>one spoke about it. You got given where did I
<v Speaker 3>come from the book and she comes home and for
<v Speaker 3>the next six weeks, all she's talking about is penises
<v Speaker 3>and vaginas because that's what they spoke about in the class.
<v Speaker 3>Did for six weeks, and I finally said to her, Hey,
<v Speaker 3>it's fine that you know those words, but just stop.
<v Speaker 3>Don't do it outside of the house, okay. And then
<v Speaker 3>I go to pick her up the next night from
<v Speaker 3>daycare and she just across the room just goes, Daddy,
<v Speaker 3>you're a penis, like straight across the room to everyone.
<v Speaker 3>And then this is all true, And I say it
<v Speaker 3>in a bit. I was never quick on my feet,
<v Speaker 3>but I raised my voice to act like I had
<v Speaker 3>some authority in the daycare. And then I said to her, hey,
<v Speaker 3>you can only talk about dad's penis when we get
<v Speaker 3>hard and oh no, what am I doing? And that
<v Speaker 3>is all word for word true. So that's the great
<v Speaker 3>thing with kids. They also serve up those stories.
<v Speaker 2>Do you feel like your comedy has now you're talking
<v Speaker 2>about the simszens evolved and do you think that your
<v Speaker 2>comedy's evolved now they're becoming a parent in things? Do
<v Speaker 2>you feel like your brand of humor has shifted in
<v Speaker 2>some way?
<v Speaker 3>I mean dando, you could say devolved. I mean, I
<v Speaker 3>know something. There's always a slide on comedians where they go,
<v Speaker 3>what are you going to talk about your kids now
<v Speaker 3>that you've become a father.
<v Speaker 5>It's like, yeah, because there's nothing, what else am I doing?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean yeah, it's it's certainly changed. I mean
<v Speaker 3>my family laughs because they said it's just moved downhill.
<v Speaker 3>Like I used to talk about when I started my
<v Speaker 3>mom on stage, and then it went to my wife,
<v Speaker 3>and now it's down to my kids. So my mum
<v Speaker 3>and my wife are now like, oh great, we dodged
<v Speaker 3>a bullet. Now we don't get spoken about.
<v Speaker 2>You get some cats soon you're talking about the cats.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, exactly, exactly. But actually there was a nice thing
<v Speaker 3>about Rosebud because of that through line of Homer doing
<v Speaker 3>the roast on Monty Burns. It was as a stand
<v Speaker 3>up and this wasn't my intention why I picked the episode,
<v Speaker 3>But when I'm watching it again, I was like, oh god,
<v Speaker 3>I've been in that situation where you've just been thrown
<v Speaker 3>under the bus on an intro. Then you've got to
<v Speaker 3>bring the comedy.
<v Speaker 2>Oh man, that's one of my favorite visits. The Poor
<v Speaker 2>Dog quietly awful, man.
<v Speaker 3>I've done it before. When you go to a fundraising
<v Speaker 3>and you're like, yeah, certainly it'd be great to like,
<v Speaker 3>I'll help you guys out, and then beforehand they will
<v Speaker 3>talk about whatever tragic thing they're raising funds for. It's
<v Speaker 3>for a very good cause, but they pull at the
<v Speaker 3>heartstrings and there's some like video footage sometimes of animals
<v Speaker 3>who have just been mistreated, and then they're like, well,
<v Speaker 3>we all need to laugh now, and you're like, oh.
<v Speaker 4>There are some of the comedy stylings of Dave Thorne exactly.
<v Speaker 3>You know who told me a story recently, because it's
<v Speaker 3>always corporate gigs, like some calldor from comedians you do
<v Speaker 3>corporate gigs is they pay quite well, you've got a mortgage,
<v Speaker 3>You go, yeah, sure, I'll turn up to this thing.
<v Speaker 3>And Claire Hooper, who's a great comic, who was telling
<v Speaker 3>me recently as he was doing a corporate gig, and
<v Speaker 3>she said it was for more of a blue collar business.
<v Speaker 3>I can't really remember what it was. But as they
<v Speaker 3>always do, the CEO MD whatever gets up and says
<v Speaker 3>he goes, all right, guys, you know you always get
<v Speaker 3>a stand up comedian at these things, and you know
<v Speaker 3>this year they said we had to have a woman,
<v Speaker 3>so here she is deep. That was the introduction for
<v Speaker 3>Claire Whopy. You're like, what what what made you think
<v Speaker 3>this was gonna be good?
<v Speaker 2>I'm sure she nailed it though, right, oh it.
<v Speaker 3>Made Yeah, Claire's a great act, but it was it's like, god,
<v Speaker 3>what's yeah. People think they just don't think it doesn't
<v Speaker 3>make a difference. They're almost like, well, you all funny,
<v Speaker 3>you'd be able to work through it, and you're like,
<v Speaker 3>not really, that's the equivalent of someone just tripping you
<v Speaker 3>up at the starter's block of one hundred meters and
<v Speaker 3>then going what, you're fast, you can work it out.
<v Speaker 2>How pivotal to the bit is the intro by the
<v Speaker 2>by the host, like is a pivotal part of the act,
<v Speaker 2>right yeah?
<v Speaker 3>I mean especially in those environments because people don't maybe
<v Speaker 3>have a touchdown it who you are, and so you
<v Speaker 3>kind of go, yeah, it does help. I mean I
<v Speaker 3>did a thing for I don't want to throw the
<v Speaker 3>person under the bus, but it was for It was
<v Speaker 3>a room full of people from media, and so there
<v Speaker 3>was a bit of like and there's sometimes not a
<v Speaker 3>great audience because I always have respect for anyone who
<v Speaker 3>hosts an awards not or anything that's got to do
<v Speaker 3>with TV or like music or cinema. But there always
<v Speaker 3>the people that are like, yeah, whatever I can do,
<v Speaker 3>I could have done that better.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>And I was doing one of those gigs and I
<v Speaker 3>just said to the host, because they were a bit chatty,
<v Speaker 3>I said, if you could just get them to be quiet,
<v Speaker 3>it will be amazing. Just I don't need a big intro.
<v Speaker 3>If you can just get them to settle and do everything,
<v Speaker 3>and then it's fine. Because it's a comic. You need
<v Speaker 3>people to listen. It's not like music. You can't listen
<v Speaker 3>to it in the background. You need to catch it.
<v Speaker 3>The host then went, oh, gay, guys, this next act
<v Speaker 3>bit of a prima Donna need you guys to shut up.
<v Speaker 3>And you're like, not exactly the greatest way to couch
<v Speaker 3>it could not high maintenance and the fact that I
<v Speaker 3>just want people to listen.
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<v Speaker 2>but as well again with rosebud here. So yeah. Written
<v Speaker 2>by Swartzworld, one of the most iconic Simpsons writers of
<v Speaker 2>all time, He's just this feels like a very Swartzwater
<v Speaker 2>episode and directed by Wes Archer the cash Gagles. The
<v Speaker 2>family find identical versions of themselves on the couch and
<v Speaker 2>are confused, but the episode kicks off here with a
<v Speaker 2>direct shot from Citizen Kane. Now we're touching on early
<v Speaker 2>how it's a Citizen Kane parody. I still don't know
<v Speaker 2>how much of it is a parody. You want to
<v Speaker 2>just give us a quick little recap of how much
<v Speaker 2>of it is actually a parody of Citizen Kane.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, certainly that opening scene is a shop the shop,
<v Speaker 4>but of course they throw a little gag in there.
<v Speaker 4>With the odds. This is clearly the most forbidding place
<v Speaker 4>in town. You know, either got the hands and got
<v Speaker 4>the electrified fans, but you've also got free kittens in
<v Speaker 4>choir within.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, the way that shot is.
<v Speaker 4>Done with the zoom, well, the pan up over the
<v Speaker 4>fence and going in the window this palatial estate. That's
<v Speaker 4>very much Citizen Kane.
<v Speaker 2>The story of Kine is a kid joins family with
<v Speaker 2>a billionaire or something.
<v Speaker 4>Well yeah, I mean yeah, the driving well, sort of
<v Speaker 4>the inciting incident of Citizen Kane is this, this young
<v Speaker 4>boy is basically taken away from his poor but loving
<v Speaker 4>family and place in the care of the beginning, he
<v Speaker 4>has given everything he wants but love essentially, So that's yeah.
<v Speaker 4>They replay that with a bit of a twist on that,
<v Speaker 4>I think in Citizen Kane. Not that he goes away reluctantly,
<v Speaker 4>but he's kind of like, I mean, sort of two
<v Speaker 4>minds about this. But his parents are saying, this wealthy
<v Speaker 4>old man can give you a much better life. I
<v Speaker 4>don't know, can I get to miss my parents? Mister
<v Speaker 4>Burn's like, let's roll. He's got his eyes on the
<v Speaker 4>prize from the get go, and then you cut mister
<v Speaker 4>Burn's waking up or no, he's holding the globe that
<v Speaker 4>rolls down and never never break, never break it. I
<v Speaker 4>think I think I've forgotten about this gag that Smithers
<v Speaker 4>comes in and they're just broken globes all over the place.
<v Speaker 4>But yeah, that's that's certainly a shot from Citizen Kan
<v Speaker 4>that I think Wells was a bit full of himself
<v Speaker 4>doing a fancy camera angle through the broken glass and
<v Speaker 4>all that.
<v Speaker 2>I really liked the transition to there where Bobo's in
<v Speaker 2>the snow. Then it pans out from the globe like
<v Speaker 2>he was inside the snow globe. Yeah, yes, this is
<v Speaker 2>where Smithers walks in. Because again, as I was touching earlier,
<v Speaker 2>he hasn't told Smither's about this Boba. This is a
<v Speaker 2>secret that he holds dear to himself. Do you think
<v Speaker 2>that's a case of he's trying to forget about it,
<v Speaker 2>so just don't bring up with anybody, always embarrassed by it.
<v Speaker 4>I think it's more like a yeah, he'd used it
<v Speaker 4>as a sign of weakness. Yeah, yeah, that he would
<v Speaker 4>be reliant on anything, reliant on anything for anything.
<v Speaker 3>You know.
<v Speaker 4>It's like, no, I've got no emotional needs whatsoever. I'm
<v Speaker 4>just about the accumulation of filthy Luca.
<v Speaker 2>I just love the disdain he has for Smithers, though
<v Speaker 2>the Smith's dedicates his entire life to helping him. He
<v Speaker 2>walks in, Oh, it's you bedpans under the pillow. Great, disgusting.
<v Speaker 3>My pillow under the.
<v Speaker 2>Under the pillow. Yeah, but spiders asked who Bobo Bobo
<v Speaker 2>is and he brings up he says, no, it's Shareff
<v Speaker 2>flow boy. She never should have canceled that show. Then
<v Speaker 2>they addressed the plans for his birthday have begun, and
<v Speaker 2>we get one of the most iconic visuals of all time.
<v Speaker 1>And another topic, the preparations for your birthday have begun.
<v Speaker 1>They won't get what they really want. No one does, people,
<v Speaker 1>mister Smithers.
<v Speaker 2>Mister Burn's coming out of the cake was always one
<v Speaker 2>of the more surreal moments for me when I was
<v Speaker 2>watching this as a kid. But I've always just loved
<v Speaker 2>how into it Burns was in Spinther's dream, like he
<v Speaker 2>wants to be bursting out of that cake. This is
<v Speaker 2>this is a present he's giving to him. Well you
<v Speaker 2>know what this is a shout out to as well. Well,
<v Speaker 2>it's there Marilyn Happy birthday to JFK.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, imagine imagine being Jackie on Nassus watching that ship.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, Jackie watching Marilyn monroj just come up and
<v Speaker 4>do the fucking sexiest rendition, had your birthday to your
<v Speaker 4>husband the president.
<v Speaker 3>There's also a Marilyn Monroe reference later on when they
<v Speaker 3>have the slideshow of what Monty's Yeah a seven year
<v Speaker 3>rich tress.
<v Speaker 4>Blowing up here.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, but it's hilarious stuff and just yeah, and
<v Speaker 2>again though, I think the ice is going to cake
<v Speaker 2>for me for that whole bit is as you're saying earlier,
<v Speaker 2>Smithers when he gets bumped behind my burns, it's Smithers satisfying,
<v Speaker 2>grown of this dream so great. But I just love
<v Speaker 2>how again, how heavy they leaned into Smith's sexuality back then,
<v Speaker 2>and they never they did At times, it was very
<v Speaker 2>rarely used as the punchline. It was just, you know,
<v Speaker 2>he loves his boss.
<v Speaker 4>And if they were gay gags, I mean they weren't
<v Speaker 4>necessarily Yeah, yeah, they weren't poking fun at Smithers.
<v Speaker 2>You're right.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, for me, the the apex of that is women.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, women. Would you think.
<v Speaker 3>I was thinking exactly the same thing. And I think
<v Speaker 3>the great thing is that it also makes everything that
<v Speaker 3>Smithers does plausible because you would go, who would put
<v Speaker 3>up with this?
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely? Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>Only only a man in love?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, exactly. There was always a bit in Malibu Stacey
<v Speaker 2>as well, where it's like, hell, Loo, Smith, this, you're
<v Speaker 2>quite good at turning me on. And he says he
<v Speaker 2>turns to Lisa, who's baffled by what she's just saying.
<v Speaker 2>He goes, you probably should ignore that. I think it's
<v Speaker 2>a keep watching Symtos. You're like, yeah, I think I
<v Speaker 2>might just ignore that too. Right now, what's going on?
<v Speaker 2>I don't really want to know, But he says he's
<v Speaker 2>going to planning his birthday party. Homer meanwhile, was having
<v Speaker 2>a genuine nightmare about the cancelation of Sheriff Lobo, which
<v Speaker 2>I thought was a great callback lovely segue. Yeah. It
<v Speaker 2>wakes up to find out it's mister Burns's birthday, which
<v Speaker 2>means all these employees have to do a terrible job
<v Speaker 2>at his party. He always gets the bad jobs. He's
<v Speaker 2>the pinada at a previous party, holding the holding pinyard.
<v Speaker 2>Then we're at work and Burns and Smith as they
<v Speaker 2>see everyone laughing at the cave and blobber Smithers calls
<v Speaker 2>him Homer because he's got the coat hanger still in
<v Speaker 2>his clothes. They're stabbing him really, and Burns wanting to
<v Speaker 2>perform comedy at his party to harness his fractured take
<v Speaker 2>on modern life, and Smith says, yeah, I'm going to
<v Speaker 2>get him prepared for some symbadasque material. What's your thoughts
<v Speaker 2>on Sinbad the comedian? I remember hear from Jingle All
<v Speaker 2>the Way.
<v Speaker 3>That's a very early nineties reference Sinbad. And I don't
<v Speaker 3>know what the American point of view, because they were
<v Speaker 3>all they were all comedians or thereabouts in the writers.
<v Speaker 3>Whether that was like a you know, having a little
<v Speaker 3>big at Sinbad in Dad, I don't.
<v Speaker 2>Know, but I think I think it's meant to be.
<v Speaker 2>Have you ever heard of them? Maybe you didn't live
<v Speaker 2>through this. There's the mandala effect, right. Kids in the
<v Speaker 2>nineties have this memory. And I have like vivid memories
<v Speaker 2>of seeing the cover and the ad that never existed
<v Speaker 2>of a Sinbad movie of him as a genie, but
<v Speaker 2>it was played by Simbad. I have so many memories
<v Speaker 2>of this. It never happened. There's a movie called Shazam
<v Speaker 2>with Shaquille O'Neil, and apparently for some reason, everyone kids
<v Speaker 2>kid just crossed. They heard the words the name Simbad
<v Speaker 2>and just assumed it was him. It's so bizarre. It's
<v Speaker 2>like there's his entire it's like thesis written on this
<v Speaker 2>thing that kids of the nineties think that Sinbad was
<v Speaker 2>in a film where he was a genie from a
<v Speaker 2>magic lamp. Never happened.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, was it? What is it that Sinbad? We would
<v Speaker 3>have known in Australia? What did he do?
<v Speaker 2>Or jingle all the jingle all the way for me
<v Speaker 2>as a kid.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, if you asked me
<v Speaker 4>to do a Sindbad bit, let's look of Simbad film? Yeah, well,
<v Speaker 4>he was in a film with a film Hartman called
<v Speaker 4>House Guest.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I don't know that one. Do you know that
<v Speaker 2>one day?
<v Speaker 3>No, I'm trying to think. I swear it was a
<v Speaker 3>TV thing that Simbad was in in the nineties, but
<v Speaker 3>I don't was it just.
<v Speaker 4>Called the Sinbad Show?
<v Speaker 2>Apparently it was a voice of character in the movie Planes.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, he did have the hoopy ear rings though,
<v Speaker 3>I remember that Shaquille O'Neil had in his first few years
<v Speaker 3>were the same thing, the big gold earrings and you're right,
<v Speaker 3>like a best Yeah, that's It's a funny Dano that
<v Speaker 3>you said that, because I do agree that I felt
<v Speaker 3>like I'd seen him as a genie and I could
<v Speaker 3>not tell you why it never happened.
<v Speaker 2>It's so weird. Yeah. Did you have any comedians that
<v Speaker 2>you did enjoy growing up before you decided to comedy?
<v Speaker 2>Is my thing? Who were the comedians that you enjoyed
<v Speaker 2>as a kid.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I do hope to say this in it
<v Speaker 3>has mat as well with Bill Cosby. I mean it.
<v Speaker 2>Was he was. He was huge star.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, himself is an amazing piece of I mean, this
<v Speaker 3>is that argument of the artist and the art, but
<v Speaker 3>oh yeah, absolutely himself is an incredible stand up show.
<v Speaker 3>That was I think one of the first I've ever seen.
<v Speaker 3>Billy Conley was a huge influence here in Australia. I
<v Speaker 3>mean he was the first person I've ever seen that swore.
<v Speaker 3>My parents are like, nah, that's pretty good.
<v Speaker 2>He was really big, wasn't he in Australia? Connolly?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, because remember he would also do a lot
<v Speaker 3>of those he'd travel around Australia. He'd be on a
<v Speaker 3>giant trike, like this motorcycle with two wheels at the back,
<v Speaker 3>and then he would just travel to all these little
<v Speaker 3>players in Australia. It was the first one to do
<v Speaker 3>it in Australia in the eighties and nineties. That was huge.
<v Speaker 3>We never got people from overseas. I mean, people have
<v Speaker 3>to understand. When we have our TV awards, the logis
<v Speaker 3>it would be, you know, the eighth cast member from
<v Speaker 3>a really shit show that would come over and do
<v Speaker 3>a guest appearance and we'd all be losing our minds.
<v Speaker 4>But even before that, though, Dave, I mean, going back
<v Speaker 4>to the seventies, the logans attracted some huge names.
<v Speaker 2>It was wild.
<v Speaker 4>I mean it was I think there was a stage
<v Speaker 4>where John Wayne came over. It was like presenting the
<v Speaker 4>big award at the end. I mean, and this is
<v Speaker 4>when you know John Wayne was still John Wayne.
<v Speaker 2>We've got one star and we put all the budget
<v Speaker 2>into that, absolutely all.
<v Speaker 4>Muhammad Ali came over only to get you know, inavertently
<v Speaker 4>racially assaulted by Burton. Yes, rest in peace, Burton.
<v Speaker 2>But it's funny how there's because we grew up on
<v Speaker 2>those classic moments from Australian television shows like Top twenty
<v Speaker 2>and stuff like that, and I feel like we always
<v Speaker 2>have like the Burton Newton and Muhammed Ali moment. There's
<v Speaker 2>always key moments like the Graham Kennedy saying fuck on
<v Speaker 2>TV and that kind of thing that we all remember
<v Speaker 2>because they just repeated those. We've got like twenty classic
<v Speaker 2>moments of Australian taligent over like thirty years.
<v Speaker 4>But you're also right, David that, yeah, as the eighties progressed,
<v Speaker 4>certainly end of the night is like, yeah, we're we're
<v Speaker 4>not getting Jennifer Anderson, We'll get Matt LeBlanc. He can
<v Speaker 4>come over and present the Gold LOGI some would argue better.
<v Speaker 3>I think I remembered Matt LeBlanc being on the logis
<v Speaker 3>and kind of giving this look of like, what what's happened?
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna have to follow?
<v Speaker 2>Where am I?
<v Speaker 4>By the end, no one's really been briefed about you know,
<v Speaker 4>this is Australian Televisions night, and I was like, what
<v Speaker 4>the fuck am I doing here?
<v Speaker 2>And it's never really changed, has it. Legies are still
<v Speaker 2>the logies like it's just.
<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, but I mean, who's the international person they
<v Speaker 4>bring out these.
<v Speaker 2>They like to think it's prestigious. I guess at least
<v Speaker 2>we have some pretty big names coming from a shot
<v Speaker 2>that the Hemsworths and who else we got from Australia. Oh,
<v Speaker 2>Margaret Robbie, she's another star.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Do you attend Day? Did you attend the Logans in
<v Speaker 4>in stage?
<v Speaker 3>I haven't. Actually, it's been the one thing. And mind
<v Speaker 3>you again, having done some corporates now, different awards in
<v Speaker 3>different sectors, I'm like, oh, I think I'm good because
<v Speaker 3>it is all the ward nights. I find it just
<v Speaker 3>drag on and it's I've been strangely to some LOGI
<v Speaker 3>after parties because I never went to the Logis. But
<v Speaker 3>then when it was in Melbourne, people be like, just
<v Speaker 3>come the after party. I was like, yeah, okay, they'd
<v Speaker 3>be sick. So there's a bit of that, and I
<v Speaker 3>mean I think also now, I mean, Danny, you just
<v Speaker 3>pointed out how we've got a lot of Australians over
<v Speaker 3>in America and they're making a fair dint. It's it's
<v Speaker 3>so much further away back then, like even you're talking
<v Speaker 3>about the Simpsons in ninety three, like America felt like
<v Speaker 3>it was it was a world away, like it's not
<v Speaker 3>too It wouldn't be unusual for, you know, one of
<v Speaker 3>my kids mates to go over to America and come
<v Speaker 3>back on holiday just randomly. When back then you're like
<v Speaker 3>if anyone hit it over, like are you kidding me?
<v Speaker 3>Walls at like like it would must have been mass a.
<v Speaker 2>Friends of mine would go to America like on school
<v Speaker 2>holidays and I go, I saw the New Details movie
<v Speaker 2>six months before it. Then we come out here and
<v Speaker 2>you're like, fuck, wow, how is this happening?
<v Speaker 3>Well that was exactly right, wasn't it was? You would
<v Speaker 3>get things. I mean, you talk about these Simpsons series,
<v Speaker 3>I'm sure they would have aired two years after they
<v Speaker 3>Woh yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Well I think by the end we were about six
<v Speaker 2>to eight months behind. I remember when the who Shot
<v Speaker 2>Mister Burns thing? I always remember this a guy in
<v Speaker 2>Australian radio. I can't I don't know who his name was,
<v Speaker 2>but he got fired because what he did was he
<v Speaker 2>found out who shot mister Burns because it was delayed
<v Speaker 2>here in Australia and I were about to air the
<v Speaker 2>premiere of season seven, which is part two of Who
<v Speaker 2>Shot Mister Burns? Where it was like who done? Can
<v Speaker 2>you believe it. And this is before the Internet, so
<v Speaker 2>you know, most people didn't know, right, and we spent
<v Speaker 2>all summer, work in winter or whatever was trying to
<v Speaker 2>work out who did it. And it's sort of like
<v Speaker 2>this Lackey guy on the radio was like it was
<v Speaker 2>a baby and you can just and it's like everyone's like,
<v Speaker 2>what the fuck did you just do? Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, because you could did it because it wasn't any Internet.
<v Speaker 3>The only experience I've ever had of that was Master
<v Speaker 3>Sheef Australia, and I don't it still the case, but
<v Speaker 3>it's pretty big in South Africa. And I did gigs
<v Speaker 3>in like twenty ten in South Africa and they were
<v Speaker 3>up to about season three of Master Chef like it was,
<v Speaker 3>they were like six years behind. I'd never seen it before, and.
<v Speaker 2>So Master Chef Australia is big over there.
<v Speaker 3>It's big over there. And then I'm doing these gigs
<v Speaker 3>and it was weird because I did a show and
<v Speaker 3>again there's a lineup gigs and I was on with
<v Speaker 3>some pretty heaby it is, to be honest in hindsight,
<v Speaker 3>I was on gigs with like Trevor Noah and Theo
<v Speaker 3>Vaughn and these. It was crazy and we're doing this
<v Speaker 3>gig and Australia had just played South Africa in a
<v Speaker 3>rugby union international, which, as we know from Geelong, we
<v Speaker 3>don't care about rugby, but South Amparica's love rugby, and
<v Speaker 3>Australia did beat South Africa. And then there's a gig
<v Speaker 3>on that night and when I walked on stage, everyone
<v Speaker 3>started barring because you know the jokes that people say
<v Speaker 3>about New Zealanders like the fuck she well, they have
<v Speaker 3>the same jokes about us, like it just seems to
<v Speaker 3>pass around the southern hemispy.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>And so I'm on stage they also barring like sheep,
<v Speaker 3>and I'm like, what's going on? And then I actually
<v Speaker 3>talk to the audience and they go, yeah, you know,
<v Speaker 3>you guys are sleeping with sheep and I was like okay,
<v Speaker 3>right yah. And then they're like, I'm like, are you
<v Speaker 3>annoyed about the rugby gaming?
<v Speaker 2>Like yeah, whatever?
<v Speaker 3>Was like I said, I don't even follow it, I
<v Speaker 3>don't even care, and they were all like boom boo,
<v Speaker 3>and I said, RIGHTO, I'm going to let you all
<v Speaker 3>know who won Season three of Marster Chef and then.
<v Speaker 2>We'll be good. We had Reyo Leary on the show
<v Speaker 2>a few weeks back, and he were saying that when
<v Speaker 2>he goes to Scotland he has to kind of sort
<v Speaker 2>of just completely change his routine to an extent, because
<v Speaker 2>a lot of his jokes land in Australia, but over
<v Speaker 2>there they've got no idea what he's talking about. Do
<v Speaker 2>you find that when you go do gigs overseas you
<v Speaker 2>got to sort of change You might say a similar joke,
<v Speaker 2>but you sort of tweak the pun flying to an extent.
<v Speaker 3>I didn't. I didn't really found it too bad. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>I again, I haven't been internationally for a while now.
<v Speaker 3>I don't find it it was too much of a trouble.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, obviously you take references out. There's no point
<v Speaker 3>in pointing out you know, it was crossing the Yarra
<v Speaker 3>River and they're like, well, yeah, I don't know what
<v Speaker 3>that means. But I fainly. The funny thing is I
<v Speaker 3>find posting clips online is funny because it's so many
<v Speaker 3>times it is Americans, and I now Americans listen to
<v Speaker 3>these podcasts where there's things like you'll do the British
<v Speaker 3>spelling of something and people go, that's not real, and
<v Speaker 3>you're like it is. It's another way of spelling it,
<v Speaker 3>like it's just and there might be a turn of
<v Speaker 3>phrase that people go, I even know what he's trying
<v Speaker 3>to say, and you're like, I don't know, just look
<v Speaker 3>it up. It's okay. Like English language does change slightly
<v Speaker 3>in other places.
<v Speaker 2>It's like how they say caramel instead of caramel, Like,
<v Speaker 2>what are we doing?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, aluminum illumine.
<v Speaker 4>What I always say about Americans is they took the
<v Speaker 4>A out of caramel and they put it in paraplegic,
<v Speaker 4>because it's like, I don't know how many Americans I've
<v Speaker 4>heard use the term paraplegic, so even doing it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, sorry, what yeah, yeah, I just do find it
<v Speaker 3>quite just funny. I'm like, yeah, guys, like things have
<v Speaker 3>things can be different overseas. It's okay.
<v Speaker 2>But speaking speaking of writing comedy there, so Hom's right
<v Speaker 2>in the roast here, Marge's isn't sure about whether this
<v Speaker 2>is a good idea, and Lisa that I could work
<v Speaker 2>if you treat this roast properly, and Homer brings up
<v Speaker 2>the fact that he's got a killer send off an
<v Speaker 2>impression of mister Burns where he draws his face in
<v Speaker 2>his ars and turns around, drops his pants. Now, I'm
<v Speaker 2>not too sure about this. The newspaper here burns his birthday,
<v Speaker 2>his birthday has arrived, credits Long Life to Satan from
<v Speaker 2>a billion dollars, and then Homer is greating. I love here.
<v Speaker 2>So Home is getting ready. He's right into this. He's
<v Speaker 2>taken it. He's taken a whole new moniker. He's got
<v Speaker 2>the wet hair, he's holding a golf club, he's got
<v Speaker 2>the jacket on. He's ready to go, and I love it.
<v Speaker 2>So he mentions incontinent, and Lisa's like, do you even
<v Speaker 2>know what it means? Lisa, don't spoil my fun Like
<v Speaker 2>the joke. The joke works, but he has no idea
<v Speaker 2>why it's funny. I just love the idea that, in
<v Speaker 2>a scene that they've probably deleted, Home is watching old
<v Speaker 2>roasts and just getting key buzzwords to say during his routine.
<v Speaker 4>Well, that's the thing. I mean, I'm guessing that the
<v Speaker 4>sports jacket and the golf club is probably a shatter
<v Speaker 4>to someone like Bob Hope.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Bobs, yeah, And I mean.
<v Speaker 4>There are so many sort of quote unquote boom of
<v Speaker 4>references throughout this episode that yeah, yeah, even I'm going
<v Speaker 4>to count you in this day. But as young men,
<v Speaker 4>you and I were watching this going not one hundred
<v Speaker 4>percent sure I get exactly what they mean here, but yeah,
<v Speaker 4>if you're in the waiver, in the groove, you'll probably
<v Speaker 4>will find some way to look it up or I mean,
<v Speaker 4>one thing I've always said about the sense is if
<v Speaker 4>you're watching it with someone who knows a little bit
<v Speaker 4>more than you do, they kind of turned into comic
<v Speaker 4>book guy or a good version of comic book guys,
<v Speaker 4>like you know what, you know what that actually means?
<v Speaker 4>You know, you knew what they were referring to there.
<v Speaker 2>That's me and watching the film with my wife, I
<v Speaker 2>feel like I have to stop it. She's after watch
<v Speaker 2>she goes, I know you know what it means. I
<v Speaker 2>don't care, Yeah exactly.
<v Speaker 3>I mean I do love in that scene where bad
<v Speaker 3>when he goes in Kartna too rich.
<v Speaker 4>Well, that's great as well that the Simpsons men that
<v Speaker 4>just have this terrible low brows sense of humor just
<v Speaker 4>tickled by this shit ever and the women is going,
<v Speaker 4>oh god, but.
<v Speaker 3>Also too rich is like something you would say in
<v Speaker 3>the fifties, like like.
<v Speaker 4>Too rich, well, I want to I actually want to
<v Speaker 4>We'll get to it when we get to it. But yeah,
<v Speaker 4>there's a phrase that Bart uses a little later on.
<v Speaker 4>I'm like, what is this? What is it? Why do this?
<v Speaker 4>Or we'll get to it.
<v Speaker 2>We'll get to it. Okay, Yeah, marchas Key's stay tuned.
<v Speaker 2>March just stopped being rude. Hama says, the roasts and
<v Speaker 2>American tradition, what gives us the freedom to criticize our
<v Speaker 2>social betters. And then he goes outside and says, Flanner
<v Speaker 2>smells up and you are. Then everyone's entering Burns's party.
<v Speaker 2>We've got Mayor quimby Reagan Nixon. Bush tries to enter,
<v Speaker 2>but no one term is so he gets sent to
<v Speaker 2>the wolves with Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter, Yes,
<v Speaker 2>who does not? Bush does not want to be friends
<v Speaker 2>with It's a good yogurt place.
<v Speaker 3>Do you want to tell me for a good yoga place?
<v Speaker 3>Get it leave for me your loser.
<v Speaker 2>Yes. Then he introduces this is the other bit about
<v Speaker 2>the remote bit that I love the fact that Smithers
<v Speaker 2>has booked them but has no idea who they are.
<v Speaker 2>Several fine young men who I'm sure are going to
<v Speaker 2>go far and just blow the roof off the joint.
<v Speaker 2>It's actually a fucking great rendition of Happy Birthday? Am
<v Speaker 2>I right?
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, well it's I mean that is the Ramones.
<v Speaker 3>What's their famous song? Yeah, it is great. It is
<v Speaker 3>that tune, Yeah, blisskip pop? Is that the one screen pop?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's it's very I mean many of the remote
<v Speaker 2>songs sound the same. They sound very similar. But yeah,
<v Speaker 2>just that that intro.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, but anytime they kick one two three bolt, I'm
<v Speaker 4>sorry that love it, love it.
<v Speaker 2>Just got your best, even kick before the.
<v Speaker 4>One two three, I just like to say the gig sucks.
<v Speaker 4>I'm showing my pop ignorance here.
<v Speaker 2>By the way, I.
<v Speaker 4>Tend to have blind spots. For a very long time,
<v Speaker 4>I didn't really as the Ramones were actually not brothers.
<v Speaker 2>I was like, oh, well, it's like the one of
<v Speaker 2>the odds.
<v Speaker 4>The Ramone family got together and you know, they formed
<v Speaker 4>a rock and roll band. Good for them, and they
<v Speaker 4>were oh wait no, they're all taken on stage.
<v Speaker 3>Then it's just a punk version of the Partridges, like
<v Speaker 3>the Parents. The jacket, you'll wear it and you'll like.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, just the sensational from beginning to end and
<v Speaker 2>Ben's heating on all of these presents. We mentioned the
<v Speaker 2>Australia with the candles before. I have some sad news
<v Speaker 2>to report.
<v Speaker 1>A small poppy, not unlike Lassie, was just run over
<v Speaker 1>in the parking lot. And now it's time for the
<v Speaker 1>comedy stylings of Homer Simpson. Are you ready to laugh?
<v Speaker 4>The poor dog?
<v Speaker 1>I said, why are you ready to laugh?
<v Speaker 3>Why?
<v Speaker 2>At you awful man? I think Homer started with are
<v Speaker 2>you ready to laugh? Is just like.
<v Speaker 4>Something I really did though, was just when Smith this
<v Speaker 4>is talking comedy, He's really using some of the cliches.
<v Speaker 4>I think we're probably big throughout the eighties and nineties,
<v Speaker 4>but fracture takes on modern life is wonderful. But then, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>please enjoy the comedy stylings of Yeah, of momus. It's
<v Speaker 4>like imagining introduced with like the day the comedy stylings
<v Speaker 4>of Dave Thornton.
<v Speaker 2>Everybody, are there are there things that comedians just should
<v Speaker 2>not start a gig with? For example, are you ready
<v Speaker 2>to laugh? Yes?
<v Speaker 3>Are you ready to laugh? I mean that is a
<v Speaker 3>very old trope. I think that they're also being up,
<v Speaker 3>but yeah, are you ready to laugh? Like like the
<v Speaker 3>expectation because We always say expectation is the worst for
<v Speaker 3>stand up comedy. Don't ever say, you know, this is
<v Speaker 3>the greatest stand up comedian you've ever seen. No doubt
<v Speaker 3>this guy. Like it's like, no, nah, don't set that expectations.
<v Speaker 3>People go okay, radio, So this is the best comedian,
<v Speaker 3>is it. Let's see how this goes and we'll see
<v Speaker 3>here in Australia and so.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, are you reading the tap poppy central of the world?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, yeah, What does that woman say in the crowd?
<v Speaker 3>You guys quiet?
<v Speaker 2>You man.
<v Speaker 4>At Homer desperately trying to think on his feet, just
<v Speaker 4>how can I save the set?
<v Speaker 2>But speaking of hack comedians, we're talking about South Park earlier. Jimmy,
<v Speaker 2>what a wonderful audience.
<v Speaker 4>I was got a name check earlier because I thought
<v Speaker 4>I was trying I was trying to do a comic
<v Speaker 4>book impersonation. It sounds a lot more like Jimmy. You
<v Speaker 4>know what it actually mean when they see this.
<v Speaker 2>Are you a fan of South Park? Dave?
<v Speaker 3>I do. I'm not avid, Like I don't watch it consistently,
<v Speaker 3>but yeah, yeah, it's great.
<v Speaker 2>If you're going to go back and watch anybody, it's Jimmy.
<v Speaker 2>Watch Jimmy, Oh yeah, you guys are really agree, you're
<v Speaker 2>really a great what agreed?
<v Speaker 4>We were sitting their invitation for you to be on
<v Speaker 4>our south Back podcast, by the way.
<v Speaker 2>But Homer's, as he said here, you know, it's a
<v Speaker 2>tough audience. So he goes to the Big Guns where
<v Speaker 2>he just drops his pants and am mister Burns, Dam damn.
<v Speaker 2>Mister Ben's not a fan, so he says, destroy him.
<v Speaker 2>Party is I We get the shot of them just
<v Speaker 2>beating the shit out of everybody who's at the party.
<v Speaker 2>Homer has a bump where did I lose him? And
<v Speaker 2>then he promises to never wiggle his ass in public again,
<v Speaker 2>But Bart says, don't worry, please, don't deny the world.
<v Speaker 2>I fact can and it will be ready for someone's
<v Speaker 2>birthday party. Then Bart is going through. Burns is going
<v Speaker 2>through his collection here, and despite having as you were
<v Speaker 2>saying earlier, Arthur's Excalibar, the only existing NEWD photo of
<v Speaker 2>Mark Twain and the initial early draft of the Constitution
<v Speaker 2>with the word suckers, he just wants his bear Bobo.
<v Speaker 2>He tries to deny it, but then this is where
<v Speaker 2>we get the first sort of real open you don't
<v Speaker 2>really get emotional burns all that often in the earlier seasons,
<v Speaker 2>But I loved Harry Sheer is acting here of just
<v Speaker 2>oh God, how I want my bear? He just really
<v Speaker 2>just wants this stuff Teddy, because this episode, for all
<v Speaker 2>the laughs, does have a genuine emotional.
<v Speaker 4>Story through it, an emotional underpinning.
<v Speaker 2>We get Bobo's journey here, so he arrived in New
<v Speaker 2>York nine twenty seven, Lindy takes on the spirit of
<v Speaker 2>Saint Louis, goes to Paris, throws the bear.
<v Speaker 4>To Hitler and get some griet and he got to
<v Speaker 4>Linda at the.
<v Speaker 2>End of the World War. He blames the the end
<v Speaker 2>of the war on Bobo, so he throws and away
<v Speaker 2>ends back up at the North Pole nineteen to fifty seven.
<v Speaker 2>He gets frozen and then collected for ice for the
<v Speaker 2>QUICKI March, which we've already touched on, which is just hilarious.
<v Speaker 2>How when he meant that they lose four three lost
<v Speaker 2>four four good men, Yeah you got chose more than
<v Speaker 2>a dollar a bag. But then arrives to get some
<v Speaker 2>ice here and he says it's ahead in this one.
<v Speaker 2>It's chock full of heady goodness. I'm always a big
<v Speaker 2>fan of a poo when he tries to improvise on
<v Speaker 2>his feet, you know, when he's selling a dodgy product.
<v Speaker 2>You know, this one's chock full of heady goodness. What's
<v Speaker 2>your thoughts on the whole of Pooh situation A poo
<v Speaker 2>no longer being on the Simpsons.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's funny, isn't it, Because you spoke earlier just
<v Speaker 3>about you know, chokes that don't work anymore, like in
<v Speaker 3>Demolition Man. Yeah, And it was funny when I started
<v Speaker 3>playing the episodes to the kids, and it was a
<v Speaker 3>scene from Home of the Heretic where he a Poo,
<v Speaker 3>has to go help out with a fire and he
<v Speaker 3>says to the Jimbo and the boys he goes, don't
<v Speaker 3>steal anything, and they're like, oh, we won't. And then
<v Speaker 3>he grabs this child from behind the counter and says
<v Speaker 3>a little jump stop if you can look after the
<v Speaker 3>store when I'm gone, And the kids have something waiting
<v Speaker 3>for this moment, and Cox a double loaded rifle and
<v Speaker 3>the guys are shocked, and I to my kids did
<v Speaker 3>the Appoo thing, you know, going and quoting them, and
<v Speaker 3>they lost their minds. They're like, this is the greatest
<v Speaker 3>and wanting me to do it, and then we were
<v Speaker 3>out at a cafe and they're like.
<v Speaker 2>Do it, Dad? Do the boys? Dad?
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely not? And I then stupidly like, then I had
<v Speaker 3>to explain the situation of why not?
<v Speaker 2>And it is.
<v Speaker 3>It's a tough one, isn't it, because I can understand
<v Speaker 3>where people coming from. But I know you've had some
<v Speaker 3>of the people involved in the show before about it,
<v Speaker 3>but they said it wasn't us lampooning him necessarily, it
<v Speaker 3>was you know, Pooh is a nice character. We did
<v Speaker 3>it with love, but I guess it was Hanka's area.
<v Speaker 3>Is that right who voiced Yeah? And so I don't know,
<v Speaker 3>as a straight white dude, I don't think I've got
<v Speaker 3>to solve this bubble?
<v Speaker 4>What's that learn from that South poat? We're staying out
<v Speaker 4>of this one.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, gotta touch this one of a ten foot pole.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, so Bart finds it, thinks it's disease, so
<v Speaker 2>he gives it to Maggie and this is where Maggie
<v Speaker 2>gets her hands on Bobo the bear. We get the
<v Speaker 2>cool shot of goes to the tag first of all
<v Speaker 2>SS one hundred percent cotton. Then it's bobo name written
<v Speaker 2>on the.
<v Speaker 4>Tag, but instantly imprints I just love at first sight.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Smithers then enters as a furry dressed as Bobo
<v Speaker 2>the Bear tells him to tug at my fur, and
<v Speaker 2>Burns is not having none of it. He tells Smithers
<v Speaker 2>to go find his teddy. He says, leave the costume.
<v Speaker 2>The Smithers is putting the face and all the milk
<v Speaker 2>cartons we touched on earlier as well, and Homer's watching
<v Speaker 2>the news report here about Bobo the Bear. I think
<v Speaker 2>this scene was just purely there to explain why can't
<v Speaker 2>Homer just see that the bear is the Actually he's
<v Speaker 2>such an oblivious idiot, like the Brockman saying might be
<v Speaker 2>held up, I love one right in front of your
<v Speaker 2>face right now, and he's like, moldy old, I'm gonna
<v Speaker 2>get something to eat. Then we have Frank with the
<v Speaker 2>robot bear, who just ends up attacking Burns. Doesn't go well.
<v Speaker 2>Then the scene where Homer finally realizes that they have Bobo.
<v Speaker 2>Now is this music? Is this from a movie? This?
<v Speaker 2>This feels like a movie parody with the music playing
<v Speaker 2>and the old shot.
<v Speaker 4>And I was always curious about this, and my curiosity
<v Speaker 4>was not satisfied. Rewatching it for this episode, I was like, Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>it's this.
<v Speaker 2>You through the fish tank and the music's playing and the.
<v Speaker 4>Music feels like Enya or something like that.
<v Speaker 2>It feels like it feels like it's meant to be something.
<v Speaker 4>It's such a cinematic type of sequence. Yeah that you think, oh,
<v Speaker 4>they've got to be referencing something here, but goodness only
<v Speaker 4>knows what now.
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<v Speaker 2>the four Finger Discamp family on Patreon. But Homer, he
<v Speaker 2>realizes they've got the bed to have a family meeting.
<v Speaker 3>Well, Burns isn't getting this back? Cheep. I can tell
<v Speaker 3>you that he's gonna have to give me my own
<v Speaker 3>recording studio, Petty cheez because Je Burn, you're drilling out
<v Speaker 3>the making out.
<v Speaker 2>Can you do the big maxon? Did you ever used
<v Speaker 2>to do it when you were a kid. My mom
<v Speaker 2>says to me that, I know, maybe it was when
<v Speaker 2>you were younger. If you used to go to mc
<v Speaker 2>donald's and you could say it under like three seconds
<v Speaker 2>or something, they'd give you a free big Mac. Is
<v Speaker 2>that true?
<v Speaker 4>Ah, that was a legend. Absolutely, yeah, Yeah, that was
<v Speaker 4>it too well.
<v Speaker 3>Beat patty special sauce that it's us became super.
<v Speaker 2>It sounds so stupid and trying to explain this to
<v Speaker 2>anyone under the age of like twenty five, like, what
<v Speaker 2>the fuck are you talking about?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but again, we all had the same touchdown, so
<v Speaker 3>we all did it.
<v Speaker 2>But don't you feel like McDonald's in particular, that really
<v Speaker 2>just suck the fun out of the fast food franchises.
<v Speaker 2>I was a kid going to McDonald's feel like you're
<v Speaker 2>going to a fucking play center. The seats were shaped
<v Speaker 2>like cheeseburgers. You had run on McDonald runn around the joint,
<v Speaker 2>you had birthday parties, now you go to McDonalds and
<v Speaker 2>it feels like you're fucking entering an Ikea store.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, there was one in Belmont that really used to
<v Speaker 3>be It was funny because it had it's not a
<v Speaker 3>merry go round, but it's one of those. It was
<v Speaker 3>weird because you would one of those I don't know
<v Speaker 3>what you would call them. You sit in it and
<v Speaker 3>then you toil it. You have a wheel in the
<v Speaker 3>middle and you would just start toirling yourselves and it
<v Speaker 3>was like a little canister you sat inside this thing.
<v Speaker 3>But it was funny. After you bea at a birthday party,
<v Speaker 3>you would have had all this fried food and then
<v Speaker 3>ice cream cake and then everyone's like, let's go on that.
<v Speaker 3>And the amount of kids that yacked out the side
<v Speaker 3>of that it was crazy.
<v Speaker 2>Do you remember when the birthday parties to at macas
<v Speaker 2>when they'd take the kids on a tour of the
<v Speaker 2>kitchen and you just you get like ten kids just
<v Speaker 2>walking around the kitchen while these teenagers are making cheeseburgers.
<v Speaker 2>Did you ever have a McDonald's birthday party?
<v Speaker 3>No, I did have a McDonald's party. You don't remember
<v Speaker 3>the tours? I think, yeah, I don't remember any of that.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, you're right, it's not the journey it used
<v Speaker 3>to be. And I guess maybe it was built as
<v Speaker 3>a bit of a special treat where now it's probably
<v Speaker 3>just for hungover people.
<v Speaker 2>Now McDonald's is cheaping and going to the supermarket and
<v Speaker 2>buying your own food. So yeah, that is it.
<v Speaker 4>I don't know you go in there, I mean, if
<v Speaker 4>you if you're not doing the drive through, I mean,
<v Speaker 4>if you actually go in. It sounds like it sounds
<v Speaker 4>like the end scene from Terminator where she goes into
<v Speaker 4>that goes into that factory and you know they turn
<v Speaker 4>all the machines on because you can just hear it
<v Speaker 4>from the back ground. I don't want this quarterbanda anymore.
<v Speaker 2>I know you'll have to auder your food at a screen,
<v Speaker 2>even though there's people there. I was like, he's like, no, no,
<v Speaker 2>we don't take our orders here, we just give you
<v Speaker 2>the food. I'm like, what do you mean I want
<v Speaker 2>to I want to tell you what I want.
<v Speaker 4>How else am I going to let you know that
<v Speaker 4>I don't want pickles in this burger?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? I remember I had that at Subway recently, where
<v Speaker 3>I did that and saying, think you just do it
<v Speaker 3>on the screen I'm like, you're sitting in front of
<v Speaker 3>the food, and I'll point out it's actually easier than
<v Speaker 3>looking it up on the screen.
<v Speaker 2>It's right there. You're a human being. I can't talk
<v Speaker 2>to them old men shaving their fist. That clouds Yeah, exactly,
<v Speaker 2>but basically here so least it says we should just
<v Speaker 2>give it to him. The boys all laugh at them,
<v Speaker 2>because as you would. And then Marsia just we should
<v Speaker 2>say the eyeback on. But but has the idea or
<v Speaker 2>send it to him because you'll offer more. He thinks
<v Speaker 2>the bear's in trouble. And then Marge says, no, I'm
<v Speaker 2>sure he'll make a fair off it that will make
<v Speaker 2>him double it. I always love it when Marge gets
<v Speaker 2>a little moments of greed and things like that. Very
<v Speaker 2>unlike Marge. Then Homer shows mister Burns that he has Bobo.
<v Speaker 2>He goes to his house and the moment you're touching
<v Speaker 2>on earlier and he says, I can't really give you
<v Speaker 2>much of a rewards. I'm strapped for cash, and the
<v Speaker 2>place falls down and Homer then turns turns down the drink.
<v Speaker 2>He turns down his first offer and leaves, and mister
<v Speaker 2>burn says it won't take him long to crack, cuts
<v Speaker 2>to mister Homer's neck actually cracking, tries to call him back,
<v Speaker 2>maybe I can still get that drink, and you found
<v Speaker 2>me have to stop him from calling back. Then burns
<v Speaker 2>and smithers. They arrive at the home and Homer asks
<v Speaker 2>for a million dollars and three Hawaiian islands, the good ones,
<v Speaker 2>not the leper one. And unfortunately it's stuck. It's because
<v Speaker 2>Maggie doesn't want to let it go. Now we've both
<v Speaker 2>touched on how we're parents here right young kids. We
<v Speaker 2>love our kids to death. Do anything for him. I'm sorry,
<v Speaker 2>but if this bear is the difference between me being
<v Speaker 2>a millionaire and not being a millionaire, I'm snatching that
<v Speaker 2>bear to that kid's hand. I'm giving it to the
<v Speaker 2>billionaire billionaire. What about you?
<v Speaker 3>You know this is it's funny. I've never thought about
<v Speaker 3>this again until now, Which is I found out my
<v Speaker 3>eldest had a bear that she loved, and then my
<v Speaker 3>partner said, yeah, she loves that bear. Is that funny?
<v Speaker 3>My ex gave it to me and I just never
<v Speaker 3>cared for it. And I said, so what she said, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>my ex gave me that bear. I just let it
<v Speaker 3>sit there, but it's good that she's playing with it.
<v Speaker 3>And I'm like, no, no, no, that's your ex.
<v Speaker 2>Why would you tell me this?
<v Speaker 3>And then there was here in Australia. It's a show
<v Speaker 3>called Hugh's If We Have a Problem, hosted by Dave Hughes.
<v Speaker 3>And then the producers are like is there a problem?
<v Speaker 3>Like this is a problem, and they're like what would
<v Speaker 3>you do? Would you bring a bear in? I'm like absolutely,
<v Speaker 3>And I decapitated the bear on the air because I
<v Speaker 3>was like, my child does not need this. I don't
<v Speaker 3>want to know that my ex, that my partner's ex
<v Speaker 3>is giving my child joy. So it's all off. And
<v Speaker 3>so I've done this for no money. I mean I
<v Speaker 3>just did it on air because it was fun television.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, for a million dollars, absolutely, I would rip
<v Speaker 3>that bear out of that child.
<v Speaker 2>Can sorry, kid, you'll thank me one day.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I love my kids, but just someone said
<v Speaker 3>I'll give you a million dollars one I'm I'll be like,
<v Speaker 3>I'm just gonna think about this for a second. Hang
<v Speaker 3>on a second, yink?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah get the Simpsons created that turn yink? I do? Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I did not realize this, did Dan I use your
<v Speaker 2>yo time? Yeah? Yoink is a Simpsons line they made. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>is that.
<v Speaker 3>Because I've seen Dan Cason Aller get interviewed where a
<v Speaker 3>lot of those voice guys are there fans of old
<v Speaker 3>Fordville performers, and they've stolen a lot of those, you know,
<v Speaker 3>because yoink does feel like a nineteen twenties frames, you
<v Speaker 3>know what I mean, Like someone wud be on stage going,
<v Speaker 3>oh hell we ow boys.
<v Speaker 2>How are next thing?
<v Speaker 4>You know, the big cane comes out and graz around
<v Speaker 4>the neck.
<v Speaker 2>Yink totally, or something you've seen like a comic book,
<v Speaker 2>you know, like a batmanlink.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, the old Batman's here. Yeah, that's true.
<v Speaker 2>But this is where they say we don't need your money.
<v Speaker 2>He leaves you made a terrible mistake and then smashes
<v Speaker 2>through the window in his car. He's hit three people
<v Speaker 2>when he's got no assurance. Then Burns and Smith. This
<v Speaker 2>is the moment you're talking on earlier, where they try
<v Speaker 2>sneaking onto the roof. They gas out Flanders and then
<v Speaker 2>they get stuck in between. Margin offers some cocoa with
<v Speaker 2>some cocoa, yes, then we get the suction cups on
<v Speaker 2>the roof. Now your thoughts and the sixty four slices
<v Speaker 2>of American Cheese. This is one of the most iconic
<v Speaker 2>moments in the history of the Simpsons. I can't quite
<v Speaker 2>pinpoint why I found this so funny, but I just
<v Speaker 2>think it's just it's so I think it's just got
<v Speaker 2>so ludicrous. And the fact that Homer it's the one time,
<v Speaker 2>one of the many, one of the few times his
<v Speaker 2>love of food has worked in his favor because he
<v Speaker 2>is preventing them. He's foiling their plan to get the
<v Speaker 2>bear by eating all this cheese all night.
<v Speaker 4>Is he doing this deliberately or is he sleepwalking?
<v Speaker 2>No sleep? He's sleep eating, sleep eating You think, okay?
<v Speaker 3>Just that true? One eating cheese? I think I'm blind.
<v Speaker 4>He's got plenty of sees it all the way through, though,
<v Speaker 4>Well done.
<v Speaker 1>Chexty voice Laces of American Cheese.
<v Speaker 3>Four three.
<v Speaker 1>Have you been up on night eating cheese?
<v Speaker 3>I think I'm blind?
<v Speaker 2>Oh what's your idea of a perfect midnight snack?
<v Speaker 3>Dave? I don't mind cheese, to be honest. So even
<v Speaker 3>when I was a kid, I watched that and thought, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>that does make sense.
<v Speaker 2>Are you Are you like the thick like proper cheese
<v Speaker 2>or you that's like the Kraft singles kind of guy
<v Speaker 2>though as.
<v Speaker 3>A kid singles. But now, I mean you have cheese
<v Speaker 3>platters as an adult to think, oh, yeah, this is
<v Speaker 3>adult food. But it's the same concept, is it not?
<v Speaker 3>You eating cheese downing in with some wine, going what
<v Speaker 3>kind of dreams am I going to have tonight? We'll
<v Speaker 3>see how this sorts itself out. But yeah, that's sixty
<v Speaker 3>four slaves of American cheese. Is just that lives rend
<v Speaker 3>free in my head. I don't know what it is,
<v Speaker 3>and I don't even know if sixty four slides of
<v Speaker 3>American jews was a thing like they came in packets
<v Speaker 3>of sixty four. I don't know, but I found it
<v Speaker 3>funny in the moment, and I still find it funny now.
<v Speaker 3>And even just when burns and spinners dropping near the
<v Speaker 3>suckers good deed.
<v Speaker 2>Good deed, they're still blight about it. Then homers at work,
<v Speaker 2>random workers are asking they want to see the geeky
<v Speaker 2>vote he happens to his children more than money. Then
<v Speaker 2>smither says report for much worse duties, which is him
<v Speaker 2>being whipped whilst he's making the little donut thing spin around.
<v Speaker 2>Homan then offers Maggie a cardboard box. Is one of
<v Speaker 2>the scenes that was edited out of TV. And what
<v Speaker 2>I liked about this here is Maggie seems like she's
<v Speaker 2>keen on the box, so this could potentially could have worked.
<v Speaker 2>But Homer, being the that is, he was more interested
<v Speaker 2>in the box and he took it away from that,
<v Speaker 2>so he followed his own plan here. Then March says
<v Speaker 2>they need a new hair dryer, and he says, I
<v Speaker 2>think he must he must hate me for not taking
<v Speaker 2>that money. She's like, no, I'm proud of you. And
<v Speaker 2>we get that. He pulls out the box once again.
<v Speaker 2>Then Maggie is watching Barney. I don't know why this
<v Speaker 2>sticks with me, but the two two is for That's
<v Speaker 2>just something that's just sometimes I'm just walking around, I'll
<v Speaker 2>just hear that in my head. I'm like, why why
<v Speaker 2>do I hear that in my head? Just that that.
<v Speaker 2>But but Barney was such a big part of my child.
<v Speaker 2>I was young in the nineties, so we watch a
<v Speaker 2>lot of Barney. We rag on marketing people a fair bit.
<v Speaker 2>But honestly, they are evil geniuses. I mean, if they
<v Speaker 2>came up with two ll be Patty special sauce. There's
<v Speaker 2>cheese pickles only in the sesame seed bun, which I
<v Speaker 2>can still recide to this day. Or just the simple
<v Speaker 2>ship that Barney was saying that nonetheless gets stuck in
<v Speaker 2>kids' heads and you know, get some learning arithmetic. It's
<v Speaker 2>still pretty wild.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and I just love that home. It's like no
<v Speaker 3>wonder pul like this.
<v Speaker 2>Love and this is unfortunate where Burns starts taking over.
<v Speaker 2>The TV gets to the Sole mass Transit System aerobic show.
<v Speaker 2>I guess it is the bumblebee Man Sole.
<v Speaker 4>Mass Transitism you know that is No, I don't know
<v Speaker 4>what that is. That's a riff on soul train, you know,
<v Speaker 4>soul trainers, right, no trains like it was like the
<v Speaker 4>American version of count the Black American version of Countdown. Ah,
<v Speaker 4>they have soul music all the time and you would
<v Speaker 4>always have people dancing on it. Okay, I think there's
<v Speaker 4>old footage.
<v Speaker 2>Why would I know this?
<v Speaker 4>Why would you not?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and it's money that the mass transit system would
<v Speaker 3>have been the dig like they can't trademark, they can't
<v Speaker 3>use soul training. Yeah, Soul mass transit system.
<v Speaker 2>There we go.
<v Speaker 4>I want to say, there's like footage, like archival footage
<v Speaker 4>of like Samuel L. Jackson dancing on Soul Train or something.
<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, okay, yeah, I really don't need to google this,
<v Speaker 4>but they're like, yeah, some famous star is on there,
<v Speaker 4>just grooving in the background or something.
<v Speaker 2>But Burns has taken over all seventy eight channels, and
<v Speaker 2>you think he says to Homer, you think they're gonna
<v Speaker 2>be fine because you've got beer. Well, unfortunately I've diverted
<v Speaker 2>all beer trucks from Springfield. Really good music queue here,
<v Speaker 2>and he says that the rest of you beer swelling
<v Speaker 2>two jockeys have a problem. Talk to Homer Simpson. At
<v Speaker 2>the Barney moment, you're touching on who's at the doors
<v Speaker 2>with the gun, which is a lot of confronting visual,
<v Speaker 2>but you're just kind of like, oh shit, because you
<v Speaker 2>know you're gonna shoot Homer. But then he slams a
<v Speaker 2>door on his face. Here's a going to go off.
<v Speaker 2>Obviously shot a woman, and that's the end of that.
<v Speaker 4>It doesn't really play well at six pm on Channel
<v Speaker 4>ten on a week made.
<v Speaker 2>The bullies aren't about to beat up Bart at score
<v Speaker 2>because Nelson's dad can't get a beer. But that Martin
<v Speaker 2>interrupts him with the first snap dragon of the season.
<v Speaker 2>That's one of your favorite characters, right.
<v Speaker 4>What's not to love about it? He is so happy
<v Speaker 4>with the first step rag in the season, little sagean
<v Speaker 4>shoes and you know, well, day your shoes will be
<v Speaker 4>a spicy treat.
<v Speaker 2>Now we get the Smithers Burns sitcom, the classic yes moment.
<v Speaker 1>Smithers I'm home?
<v Speaker 2>What already?
<v Speaker 1>Yes?
<v Speaker 4>Is it my imaginationized TV getting worse?
<v Speaker 5>Oh?
<v Speaker 1>You got.
<v Speaker 2>I love this? What do you think this sitcom was called?
<v Speaker 2>It's like a regular odd couple sitcom, but they seem
<v Speaker 2>like they get along. But what's what's that sitcom called?
<v Speaker 4>Do you think it's called burns?
<v Speaker 2>Notice burns? Notice?
<v Speaker 3>Well, well done that?
<v Speaker 2>Or third degree burns? And it Smither's getting hurt in
<v Speaker 2>every episode?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah a Monty Burns.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>See, there's why Dave Thornon' Dave Thornton.
<v Speaker 3>Workshop got her own little writers through the angry crowd
<v Speaker 3>outside home and thinks Look has come to apologize, but
<v Speaker 3>they're there to steal the bear.
<v Speaker 2>They take it from Maggie and then realize, oh god,
<v Speaker 2>what have we done. Maggie's sad, so they go back
<v Speaker 2>in and they go to sing songs at the hospital.
<v Speaker 4>Give them the word mob a bad name.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Burns and comes to get spidtherstew beg one more time.
<v Speaker 2>He's conceding, look you've won, and Homan then says, look,
<v Speaker 2>it's not up to me. It's it's Maggie's bear. It's
<v Speaker 2>not up to me to go back to you. So
<v Speaker 2>he goes to see Maggie. He approaches the sandpit. Great
<v Speaker 2>shot here of we're seeing it from Maggie's point of view.
<v Speaker 2>She's looking up at Burns. He's towering over her. So
<v Speaker 2>she clings onto the bear and she offers him her dummy,
<v Speaker 2>and we hit the paparazzo. Take the photo of him
<v Speaker 2>trying the dummy. We'll get to the best pup. Riad's
<v Speaker 2>a bit in the second though. He then tries to
<v Speaker 2>tricker and tries to snash the bear. He can't beaten
<v Speaker 2>by an infant. What could be more humiliating?
<v Speaker 3>What a scoop?
<v Speaker 2>What a scoop? Damn you, what a scoop. It's just
<v Speaker 2>one of the funniest things.
<v Speaker 4>I was telling the Dano the start of my writing career.
<v Speaker 4>I've worked at Forte down here un forte yes, and yeah,
<v Speaker 4>we were just sort of, you know, covering local bands
<v Speaker 4>and things like that. But my fellow journals and I
<v Speaker 4>went off and say, what a scoops? Hey, we've got
<v Speaker 4>an interview with Stephen Cummings.
<v Speaker 3>What a school.
<v Speaker 2>Do you have any? Do you have any quotes in
<v Speaker 2>your life? Dave that you say very often that you
<v Speaker 2>sort of you knew that from the Simpsons, but you
<v Speaker 2>might have forgotten they came from the Simpsons, and you go, what, oh,
<v Speaker 2>that's right, it's from that Simpsons episode. Like what a scoop?
<v Speaker 2>For me was a big one. I was like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>it's from the Simpsons. Yes.
<v Speaker 3>And then also when I'm trying to think the movie,
<v Speaker 3>I think it was a Krusty movie or the Ittune
<v Speaker 3>Scratchy movie. And they're all waiting to go to the
<v Speaker 3>cinema and one of the bridges goes up like it
<v Speaker 3>does like London Bridge does when a prison and a
<v Speaker 3>guy goes yeah.
<v Speaker 2>I say that a lot, ah man, But yeah, So
<v Speaker 2>mister Burns gives up and gets a photo taken of
<v Speaker 2>and what a scoop? He says to her, Look, don't
<v Speaker 2>make the same mistakes I did. He's conceided look you
<v Speaker 2>when you can have the bear. And because of this,
<v Speaker 2>because he says, look, you can have the bear, just
<v Speaker 2>look after it, she says, you know what, you can
<v Speaker 2>have your bear back in it for me, Bobo, and
<v Speaker 2>he clings on to it, and he says, I'm actually happy.
<v Speaker 2>Take note, Smithers, I'll only be good and kind to
<v Speaker 2>everyone going forward. I've got no pencil. I'm sure I'll
<v Speaker 2>remember it. And as we get the ending, where Homer says,
<v Speaker 2>I'm not sure it's a happy you're a sad ending.
<v Speaker 2>It's an ending that's enough, and Birds is now in
<v Speaker 2>bed with Bobo. He's having a dream here about the
<v Speaker 2>future with the future holes. For Bobo, it's a million ad.
<v Speaker 2>The monkey's now in charge. Planet of the APPEs reference
<v Speaker 2>home is getting whipped. He's now the horse, I guess
<v Speaker 2>you could say. And then he says, I know I
<v Speaker 2>said this every century, Bobo, but I'll never leave you
<v Speaker 2>behind again, runs off as a robot and Smithers is
<v Speaker 2>a robot dog. And that's the end of Rosebud.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, with a little bit of Planet of the Apes
<v Speaker 4>music over the closing credits.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, just there's so much to one pack there. I
<v Speaker 2>think there's jokes we skimmed over, but it was just
<v Speaker 2>would have taken too long. But yeah, thank you for
<v Speaker 2>choosing Rose by Day. Fantastic episode and it's one that
<v Speaker 2>I for some reason never revisit all that often. And
<v Speaker 2>then I'll put this on I went. I forgot how
<v Speaker 2>incredible this one was because it always gets put into
<v Speaker 2>the same sort of category as like mar Address of
<v Speaker 2>the Monorail and whatnot when it comes to greatest episodes
<v Speaker 2>of all time. But as much as I enjoy Margress
<v Speaker 2>of the Monorail, I feel like it's become sort of
<v Speaker 2>just the easy go to for what's the best episode
<v Speaker 2>of all time? It's funny, but I think this one
<v Speaker 2>is a lot funnier than Margress of the Monorail.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I think it's hilarious. And I also I'm throwing
<v Speaker 3>this to you two guys who know a lot more
<v Speaker 3>about this than me. Do you think that last scene,
<v Speaker 3>I know it's a planet of the apes were referenced,
<v Speaker 3>but the head and the jar? Is that where Futurama
<v Speaker 3>the first idea. That's the first time I'd seen something
<v Speaker 3>like that. I don't feel like a head in a
<v Speaker 3>jar is not planning of the apes. I don't think no,
<v Speaker 3>not at all.
<v Speaker 2>So that was like the gimmick all the celebrities from
<v Speaker 2>the from from now in the year three thousand, we're
<v Speaker 2>all heads in a jar for Futurama. Not too sure.
<v Speaker 2>Maybe they've got that, maybe they like that visual. They
<v Speaker 2>could have been it. I thought that could work. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>put that in because I'm essentially later the show set
<v Speaker 2>in the year three thousand and how are we going
<v Speaker 2>to get current people who are alive now as guest stars.
<v Speaker 2>How can we have them alive in the future besides
<v Speaker 2>just being the whole classic they've been frozen. I think
<v Speaker 2>head in the jar. It's just a funny visual as well.
<v Speaker 2>Correct down I will anyway, that is Rosebud. But yeah,
<v Speaker 2>Dave again, let's talk about your upcoming tour, which starts
<v Speaker 2>in a couple of weeks.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, guys, people go on my Socials, Dave Underscore, Thorno
<v Speaker 3>just on all the platforms. You'll see the links there too.
<v Speaker 3>My brand new hour of stand up comedy that will
<v Speaker 3>be touring through all the major cities around Australia. And
<v Speaker 3>so it all kicks off at the start of March
<v Speaker 3>in Adelaide and then we're going all the way through.
<v Speaker 3>So if you're listening to this and you're in a
<v Speaker 3>major city or near a major city here in Australia, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>grab some tickets and I'll see if I can slip
<v Speaker 3>some Simpsons references in.
<v Speaker 4>A little disappointed you didn't go full Aussie with your
<v Speaker 4>online handles and go Dave O Thorno, Yeah, letting the
<v Speaker 4>side down days.
<v Speaker 3>I know, well, since it is the worldwide aspointed, you know, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>it would be exactly that, Dave yeh na oh Thorno.
<v Speaker 2>Underscore, go cats exactly. Now, guys, I hope you're enjoyed
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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I come back.
<v Speaker 2>Do you still consider Gelong home?
<v Speaker 3>I only did the mat for recently realised I've lived
<v Speaker 3>in Melbourne now for longer in my life, but I
<v Speaker 3>guess I've.
<v Speaker 2>Still How old were you when you moved to Melbourne?
<v Speaker 3>So when I was seas when I was twenty one,
<v Speaker 3>and then came back when I was twenty four, so
<v Speaker 3>it's been yeah about yeah, I think twenty years and.
<v Speaker 2>Life and Geelong was fairly shit twenty years ago. I
<v Speaker 2>can imagine why you'd want to move out of it.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, that's not a great deal better now, but
<v Speaker 2>it's certainly better than what it was twenty years ago.
<v Speaker 3>I used to defend it all the time in Melbourne
<v Speaker 3>because people would That's the thing I.
<v Speaker 2>Was going to ask you, do you have to constantly
<v Speaker 2>feel like do you tell people in Melbourne I'm from
<v Speaker 2>Geelong or it's just easier not to No.
<v Speaker 3>I tell them I'll always be proud about it. And
<v Speaker 3>then well, this is very specific because people and sometimes
<v Speaker 3>in Melbourne when I was first heading out my twenties,
<v Speaker 3>they'd be like what school did you go to, which
<v Speaker 3>is that's an interesting question. But I'd go Belmont High School,
<v Speaker 3>and because I'd say it so quickly, they'd go on
<v Speaker 3>Melbourne High and I'm like, oh, no, I went to
<v Speaker 3>a suburban high school in Geelong. And then they're like, oh, Geelong.
<v Speaker 3>And this was always my thing. When a new story
<v Speaker 3>comes out, it's like, you know, a stabbing happened in Geelong,
<v Speaker 3>and I was like, hang on a second, I know
<v Speaker 3>where it happened in Geelong. There's certain areas where that
<v Speaker 3>absolutely happened. And I said, when you're in a major
<v Speaker 3>city like Melbourne, people would go, oh, there was a
<v Speaker 3>stabbing in whatever suburb and you go yeah, because they
<v Speaker 3>specifically understand that, but they would lump Gelong into one thing,
<v Speaker 3>and I'm like, we've also got trap suburbs, okay, so yeah,
<v Speaker 3>of course, and it did. It has gotten a hell
<v Speaker 3>of a lot better. And I think because we like
<v Speaker 3>heading down the coast down there, so quite off a
<v Speaker 3>head through Geelong and my mum's still down there, my
<v Speaker 3>brother and some really good mates, so yeah, I'm always
<v Speaker 3>heading there.
<v Speaker 2>I always put it's a direct correlation. But when the
<v Speaker 2>cats got good, I feel like Geelong started to lift
<v Speaker 2>its game as a city. It's like the city itself
<v Speaker 2>just became a bit of a happier place to be around.
<v Speaker 2>I think, because it's weird. Sports teams just have that
<v Speaker 2>impact on regional towns and regional cities. When that team's
<v Speaker 2>doing well, the city feels everyone's walking around with the
<v Speaker 2>spring in their step.
<v Speaker 4>Oh absolutely. And I always used to say when I
<v Speaker 4>was working for the Audy, it's like, that's the Gelong
<v Speaker 4>advertised by the way, the local paper of record. It's
<v Speaker 4>like without crime and the cats. You know, we're basically
<v Speaker 4>a pamphlet.
<v Speaker 3>I mean it's kind of true. And I mean through
<v Speaker 3>the nineties it was strange because we would make Grand
<v Speaker 3>finals and lose them, and it was heartbreaking because somehow
<v Speaker 3>becoming constantly second makes you feel somewhat worse, like you
<v Speaker 3>just like see we will all and Sleepy Hollow was
<v Speaker 3>this moniker that people would use and think it was.
<v Speaker 3>But I mean in the eighties and guy, you remember,
<v Speaker 3>this industry was closing down, like four was closing down,
<v Speaker 3>Shell was closing down, Pyramid closed down, and so it
<v Speaker 3>was we did cop it, and we copped it pretty hard.
<v Speaker 2>But Pyramid was a big hit.
<v Speaker 3>It was a big hit, and the and then so
<v Speaker 3>now we've I mean I always saying it, I would
<v Speaker 3>prefer to move to Gelng, that I would to the
<v Speaker 3>outer suburbs of Melbourne. That it's probably going to take
<v Speaker 3>just as long to get into Melbourne anyway. But also
<v Speaker 3>we're near the coasts and it's great. Now, yeah, you're
<v Speaker 3>right there.
<v Speaker 2>It did feel for a while Whenjel would always come
<v Speaker 2>a second it's like, you know, someone we said, the
<v Speaker 2>lesson is never tried, Like what's the fucking point in trying?
<v Speaker 2>You know we're never going to win it, so what's
<v Speaker 2>the point.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I remember doing ninety five. I remember us losing
<v Speaker 3>to Carlton. At halftime, we just went out for kick
<v Speaker 3>to kick with mates and then never went back, like
<v Speaker 3>why would we keep watching the rest of this game.
<v Speaker 2>That's my earliest football memory is Patron of the show
<v Speaker 2>my uncle Darren, right, he's the one that got me
<v Speaker 2>into footy. Right. This memory had a east had remember
<v Speaker 2>half Cat, your mascot of the Cats, and a big
<v Speaker 2>cardboard cutout of this half Cat. And obviously my uncle
<v Speaker 2>hid live through the hard years and it was nine
<v Speaker 2>ninety five. They getting smashed by ten goals by Carlton.
<v Speaker 2>My memory is of Michael d had to stabbing his
<v Speaker 2>cardboard cat to a million pieces like he'd had enough.
<v Speaker 2>That's my earliest football memories. A Geelong fans stabbing the
<v Speaker 2>mascot to death.
<v Speaker 3>Well, it was also a time in the football player
<v Speaker 3>didn't even want to live in Geelong. Like there were
<v Speaker 3>stories of John Barnes who'd go, yeah, we'll come down
<v Speaker 3>my training and then I head back up. Oh why
<v Speaker 3>would I live there? So it was always that and
<v Speaker 3>then you're right, we start winning. I mean when we
<v Speaker 3>lost the Grand Final last year, I was I couldn't
<v Speaker 3>get tickets luckily in hindsight, and I was with watching
<v Speaker 3>it with all friends who are all going for Brisbane
<v Speaker 3>because they just hated our success and then they hated
<v Speaker 3>me even more when at the end of it, I
<v Speaker 3>was like, ah, well, I mean, you know, that's another
<v Speaker 3>Grand Final loss. But I've now seen I think seven
<v Speaker 3>and we've won three or four and they're like, shat up.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah we went in a couple of years ago.
<v Speaker 3>We're fine, I know, and so you're right, you kind
<v Speaker 3>of get up and about so before.
<v Speaker 2>We let you go, though, we do ask everybody this question.
<v Speaker 2>So it's nineteen ninety eight. Channel ten of asked you
<v Speaker 2>to put together a Friday night Simpsons marathon consisting of
<v Speaker 2>five episodes. Which episodes are you choosing and why? And
<v Speaker 2>which one are you beginning with?
<v Speaker 3>Oh, I'm beginning with this might be Recncy bias because
<v Speaker 3>I did watch this with the kids. That the episode
<v Speaker 3>I Love Lisa with Ralph Wigham, and I love it
<v Speaker 3>because there's so many quotes from it that I just
<v Speaker 3>you choose me and all that kind of stuff. But
<v Speaker 3>also it's the one with the Krusty's twenty ninth anniversary special,
<v Speaker 3>and I still quote that thing when he goes, who's
<v Speaker 3>going to remember a sage shell? Rahem? And he's next
<v Speaker 3>to this melot of black panther African American guy and
<v Speaker 3>Krusty in the seventies, and Krusty goes the scripts that
<v Speaker 3>I should hit you over the head with this hammer
<v Speaker 3>and says, oh, wouldn't, Ah, I wouldn't. It cuts back
<v Speaker 3>to him in the audience and he goes angry, angry
<v Speaker 3>young man. That has stuck in my head.
<v Speaker 2>For so long, and I just is that that, Oh God,
<v Speaker 2>this is always dead. Ye My talk to the audience.
<v Speaker 2>Our God, there is always death.
<v Speaker 3>It's always if we can, like Steve, we consist an
<v Speaker 3>idiot through the whole thing, which is but like it
<v Speaker 3>really it was the first time I remember him really
<v Speaker 3>being a feature and being an imbecile. Like they're driving
<v Speaker 3>to the to Krusty show and she goes, how did
<v Speaker 3>you get the tickets? Yours? He goes, he knows how
<v Speaker 3>to play ball. And they're at an actual porno film
<v Speaker 3>sit them up there and he goes and he goes,
<v Speaker 3>oh god, is this a bust? And he goes, oh, yeah, sure,
<v Speaker 3>and he has no idea what's happening?
<v Speaker 2>I think said nothing at Chocolate Out, like Lisa says,
<v Speaker 2>that's not suitable for children really, like my pants are
<v Speaker 2>in this version exactly.
<v Speaker 3>So that's starting with I Love Lisa. I Love Lisa
<v Speaker 3>will be the first one. Then I would go with
<v Speaker 3>Flaming Mo in that I do love the Flaming Mo episode.
<v Speaker 3>It's all about most is lack, which I mean is
<v Speaker 3>most Like I've heard this. He's based off a stand
<v Speaker 3>up comedian. What is his name? He's an American guy
<v Speaker 3>and I've done gigs with him.
<v Speaker 2>Oh wow, mo is Mo.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, because I think, Hanka Zaria, I'm trying to look
<v Speaker 3>it up now. The real life inspiration, Hanka Zaria I
<v Speaker 3>said it was Rich Hall.
<v Speaker 2>So what was the third episode that you would have
<v Speaker 2>put on?
<v Speaker 3>The third would be Homer's Barbershop Quartet.
<v Speaker 2>Are you a Beatles fan?
<v Speaker 3>I'm not a I've actually gotten into them in the
<v Speaker 3>last year. I picked up a book about John and
<v Speaker 3>Paul and then was like, these guys really are good.
<v Speaker 3>And then listening to the more un Spotify and things
<v Speaker 3>like that. I wasn't growing up and then, but I
<v Speaker 3>always like the Barbershop Quartet, just the references, and I
<v Speaker 3>mean Barney having his Yoko ono and I'm murdering her.
<v Speaker 3>It's a new and experimental places number eight. That's something
<v Speaker 3>that lives in my head.
<v Speaker 2>What does your eyes for?
<v Speaker 4>A plum in a pool of perfume served in a
<v Speaker 4>man's hat?
<v Speaker 2>Got yeah, I got it. A single plump floating served
<v Speaker 2>in a man's hat. Yeah, But what's what's the one
<v Speaker 2>where it's a pool? Changes his name? No, no, that's it.
<v Speaker 4>But you're like Homer, never play on a marquete. Your
<v Speaker 4>name is now Homer, your name is now a pooh
<v Speaker 4>de bo Marche so disrespectful to my culture of my god.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, all right, but what's that Homer says that
<v Speaker 2>his name like Homer and the you always say it's
<v Speaker 2>the band name that you love.
<v Speaker 4>Oh no, it's oh no, we're going to be the
<v Speaker 4>is it? The most is like experience featuring Homer. Anytime
<v Speaker 4>you've got anything featuring someone, it's just I think it's
<v Speaker 4>just a great gag. But yeah, the most is like
<v Speaker 4>experience featuring Homer.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah that's correat.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, as a Beatles fan, I mean, I wasn't
<v Speaker 2>a Beatles fan when I was younger I've got I'm
<v Speaker 2>a big Beatles fan now. But the older I got,
<v Speaker 2>the more I appreciated episode because I understood all the
<v Speaker 2>extras gags. But the episode, again, though, you can enjoy
<v Speaker 2>it not being a Beatles fan. That's what's so great
<v Speaker 2>about it. And George Harrison has a fantastic guest appearance
<v Speaker 2>in it.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, exactly.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, what a nice fella it was.
<v Speaker 3>Really it's when it got I mean this in a
<v Speaker 3>nice way, it's when the show got really bonkers, Like
<v Speaker 3>the storylines weren't just about these family things. It was
<v Speaker 3>like when it really got like wow, what are we
<v Speaker 3>doing now? And yeah, I love that episode. I think
<v Speaker 3>the next one would be Deep Space Homer in broad Wedrus. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>that would be incredible.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know that one is so great. You think
<v Speaker 2>the idea of you're talking about the show going wacky
<v Speaker 2>by this point home it's literally going to space. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>but but they still do it in a way that
<v Speaker 2>you just you buy it. When he's on the phone
<v Speaker 2>to Mart and he's like, like the time I want
<v Speaker 2>to go see mister t down of the Mill, Oh
<v Speaker 2>my god.
<v Speaker 3>I got a little longer.
<v Speaker 2>I got a little longer.
<v Speaker 3>And then he said, I won't let that happen. I
<v Speaker 3>can't let that happen. And I won't let that happen.
<v Speaker 2>I learned from that. I'm thinking sometimes there's things and
<v Speaker 2>I go, ah, I do it to my like, you
<v Speaker 2>know what, hom I missed out on seams the tea.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not going to let that happen.
<v Speaker 4>There are two bits I just that I really really
<v Speaker 4>love about it. They probably happily win. My favorite Simpsons
<v Speaker 4>of moments is when he had the press conference. I
<v Speaker 4>don't care where we go as long as I go
<v Speaker 4>to that terrible planet of the apes.
<v Speaker 3>Wait a minute, wait the rest of wait a minute,
<v Speaker 3>he goes, wait a minute, a minute, there was our planets.
<v Speaker 3>It's like in that moment, but we realized that that's us.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and then the guys like this, this is over.
<v Speaker 2>The curtain comes Barney berpsy passes out and drunk.
<v Speaker 4>Wait a minute, just a minute, statue of limity that planet,
<v Speaker 4>but also the James Taylor supporting supporting appearance, so good,
<v Speaker 4>and when Barney, all, do you respect mister Taylor? This
<v Speaker 4>isn't the time of your unique plant?
<v Speaker 2>Brenda?
<v Speaker 3>What is it?
<v Speaker 4>Laid back folk rock?
<v Speaker 3>When Barney obviously trains and he is like unbelievable, he
<v Speaker 3>looks incredible. Let's celebrate. And then as soon as he
<v Speaker 3>drinks the morphing into him, but it's happening again.
<v Speaker 4>I don't understand it.
<v Speaker 3>That was none alcoholic life.
<v Speaker 2>I think my favor bit is the second comes right
<v Speaker 2>after first. Careful they're ruffled, all right? And what would
<v Speaker 2>be your final episode for your marathon?
<v Speaker 3>I'm of the heretic now. I mentioned it before with
<v Speaker 3>the poo quotes that my children want me to say
<v Speaker 3>out in public, but that one, I think it's just
<v Speaker 3>the religious undertones. I think they tackle it so well,
<v Speaker 3>and it's I just find a very funny episode just
<v Speaker 3>with so many quotables in it. I mean, even a
<v Speaker 3>reverend love Joy at the end when he says, see,
<v Speaker 3>all religions can help out, and he points out who's
<v Speaker 3>helped out and he goes, be it Christian, Jew or miscellaneous,
<v Speaker 3>A million of us us love Joe goes, that's silcret,
<v Speaker 3>so condescend me.
<v Speaker 2>But I was just the story of that one too.
<v Speaker 2>When you're married with kids, just the idea of getting
<v Speaker 2>a Sunday morning to yourself at home, to fucking watch
<v Speaker 2>what you want, eat what you want, just chill out.
<v Speaker 2>It sounds like heaven.
<v Speaker 3>Right, yes. And I think also again with my age,
<v Speaker 3>my grandmother was Catholic. She was a lovely lady and
<v Speaker 3>she would go to church somewhat consistently. And then when
<v Speaker 3>she passed away when I was about eleven or twelve, again,
<v Speaker 3>when I started The Simpsons, it was like we're all
<v Speaker 3>kind of like, we're still doing this, and so there
<v Speaker 3>was this thing of like church was a thing, and
<v Speaker 3>even my mum was like, oh, you know, maybe we'll go,
<v Speaker 3>maybe we won't. So it was always you're trying to
<v Speaker 3>weasel out of it. And I completely got where he's
<v Speaker 3>coming from because Sunday mornings now it's the one morning
<v Speaker 3>in our family life where we're like, no, we're not
<v Speaker 3>moving quick, We're not doing stuff. It's going to be fine.
<v Speaker 3>The thought of getting dressed up to go to a
<v Speaker 3>place that is possibly the most boring of your week
<v Speaker 3>is yeah, you do anything to get out of it.
<v Speaker 4>You know, they have services in the afternoon.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you're right, but I just.
<v Speaker 2>Sorry.
<v Speaker 4>I was raised Catholic as well. It's hard to shake
<v Speaker 4>that shit.
<v Speaker 3>It really is, because I mean Australia is fairly secular.
<v Speaker 3>I think in this day and age, I mean people
<v Speaker 3>go to church. That is fine, but I think back
<v Speaker 3>then it really was a thing of like you could
<v Speaker 3>see it all slipping from everyone's fingers, like I wis
<v Speaker 3>oh yeah, absolutely, all right.
<v Speaker 2>Well that just wraps up our chat here reviewing Rose.
<v Speaker 2>But I thank you so much Day for your time.
<v Speaker 2>It's been an absolute pleasure to have you on the show.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you Dad, guys slicker this, I mean, Detroit came together.
<v Speaker 2>For this one. I know, right Seattle on the bar
<v Speaker 2>and represent exactly and thank you all the best for
<v Speaker 2>your tour in twenty twenty six.
<v Speaker 3>Appreciate it. Thanks guys,