Bart's Dog Gets An "F"

<v Speaker 1>Who could have missed you? Boy, I thought we were
<v Speaker 1>gonna be house forever, but we're gonna have to say
<v Speaker 1>goodbye because you don't understand the single word I say.
<v Speaker 2>If you just knew how important it was to learn
<v Speaker 2>blood lots, Wait a minute, you did it?
<v Speaker 1>Lead you down? Shake hands, stay.
<v Speaker 3>Speak all right, good boy?
<v Speaker 4>Four finger Discount dude.
<v Speaker 5>Welcome to four figure discand where this week we had
<v Speaker 5>gone all the way back to season two to review
<v Speaker 5>an episode that I were discussing off the air is
<v Speaker 5>more emotion driven than humor, but as an episode to
<v Speaker 5>pay tribute to my lovable dog Jet, who lost a
<v Speaker 5>couple of weeks ago. He was a mascot here at
<v Speaker 5>four thing a discount, we are, of course reviewing Bart's
<v Speaker 5>Dog gets an a F.
<v Speaker 3>Fine bando, and I am guy. You may have seen
<v Speaker 3>me on the cover of Steam Steam magazine.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, lots of teen magazines. Yeah, it took me back
<v Speaker 5>to reading magazines. But we'll get into that though. But
<v Speaker 5>Bars Dog gets an F Your first thoughts on this episode,
<v Speaker 5>because for me, I'm watching this going I wouldn't really
<v Speaker 5>call this a funny episode. It's got its funny moments,
<v Speaker 5>but I don't think it really needed to be. I
<v Speaker 5>think I don't think it really wanted to be a
<v Speaker 5>funny episode, this one. I think it was more about
<v Speaker 5>the emotional story of a boy and his.
<v Speaker 3>Dog, don't you know. I think some well a family
<v Speaker 3>and their dog. Absolutely yeah, true, yeah, yeah, yeah, not
<v Speaker 3>really a joke delivery system. This particular episode a nice
<v Speaker 3>vein of humor running through, a humor born of frustration,
<v Speaker 3>I think, and I think anyone who's ever had a
<v Speaker 3>pet can can relate to that frustration, because you know,
<v Speaker 3>we all love our four legged friends, or our friends
<v Speaker 3>who have wings or gills. You know, we're not just
<v Speaker 3>talking about cats and dogs here, but particularly like a
<v Speaker 3>cat or dog, we all have wonderful one. You have
<v Speaker 3>so many great memories of Jet, I'm sure. Yeah, I'm sure.
<v Speaker 3>There were occasions when it's like, that's not where you
<v Speaker 3>take a piss pal.
<v Speaker 5>Or well it was always houseburn, but sometimes you hid
<v Speaker 5>fart all the time, which again wasn't his problem. He
<v Speaker 5>sure would He couldn't help that, but yeah, he would fight.
<v Speaker 5>That was that was the worst thing he did.
<v Speaker 3>He never chewed anything, He never went to the toilet inside. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>but you can have a pet and you can love
<v Speaker 3>a pet with all your heart and soul and still
<v Speaker 3>want to be like, I am this close to taken
<v Speaker 3>you out to, you know, a deserted place on the
<v Speaker 3>highway and tying you up and just leaving you on
<v Speaker 3>the side of the road because oh, you have made
<v Speaker 3>such a mess, or oh you ate my dinner or
<v Speaker 3>something along those lines. So yeah, I think everyone can
<v Speaker 3>relate to that. But no matter how frustrated you get
<v Speaker 3>with your pets, sometimes there is always that feeling, well,
<v Speaker 3>this is love and this is part of the family.
<v Speaker 3>I cannot and will not hear anything against you.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, we've because they do become an extension of the family.
<v Speaker 5>You forget that they're not people, they're they're they're animals. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>and so sometimes they don't quite understand I think they really.
<v Speaker 5>When we came to the directing of this episode, showing
<v Speaker 5>it from the dog's perspective was very important because this
<v Speaker 5>dog wasn't being disobedient by choice. It just had to
<v Speaker 5>be rescued. First and foremost. You never had the privilege
<v Speaker 5>of being taught anything. The Simpsons family aren't exactly the
<v Speaker 5>greatest teachers in the world. There are an erratic wild bunch,
<v Speaker 5>so he's living in chaos, so he's going to be
<v Speaker 5>a chaotic dog. And I just think that he didn't understand.
<v Speaker 5>He was just being himself and seeing it from the
<v Speaker 5>dog's perspective. Seeing that he didn't understand what was going on.
<v Speaker 5>Great payoff at the end when he actually understands the
<v Speaker 5>word sit. But I think it was very important to
<v Speaker 5>show this dog isn't being naughty because he wants to
<v Speaker 5>be naughty. He just doesn't get it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you can't blame a dog for being a dog, no,
<v Speaker 3>And yeah, I think that's something the episode to really
<v Speaker 3>put forward. Of course, you can have obedience training and
<v Speaker 3>all that kind of stuff. I think it's often quite
<v Speaker 3>necessary to do that kind of thing. I mean, but
<v Speaker 3>if you don't want your animal sort of running while
<v Speaker 3>if also if you don't want it to be a
<v Speaker 3>danger to itself and others, but also be careful how
<v Speaker 3>you train, because you know this is a member of
<v Speaker 3>your family. Treat it with the love and respect, but also, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and a little bit of discipline as well. Yeah, let's
<v Speaker 3>maybe not go to the extent that I'm sorry.
<v Speaker 5>What's it, Emily Willthrop.
<v Speaker 3>I was confused because you've got Emily Wilthrop and Winthrop
<v Speaker 3>and Sylvia.
<v Speaker 5>Winfield Sorry it's Winthrop, yeah, and Winfield. So Susie Winfield
<v Speaker 5>is the neighbor next door saying get your dog out
<v Speaker 5>of my pool.
<v Speaker 3>Before I realized, let's talk about some Tracy Ullman stuff.
<v Speaker 3>Tracy Ellmand voices both of these characters. There's a whole
<v Speaker 3>lot of Tracy Ellmand stuff that we're going to go
<v Speaker 3>into in this episode. But when I first heard that character, Sylvia,
<v Speaker 3>the snooty neighbor, I'm like, why didn't this person become
<v Speaker 3>a recurring character. Why don't we get more of this person?
<v Speaker 3>Why don't we get the missus deegal of a Springfield
<v Speaker 3>that's a gremlin's reference if in case you didn't get it,
<v Speaker 3>you know, the snooty next door neighbor's like, I just
<v Speaker 3>like your dog. It's ripping up my pras as AliOS
<v Speaker 3>or something along those lines. I think that'd be a
<v Speaker 3>great adversary for someone like Home or any any member
<v Speaker 3>of the Springfield community. And then discover oh, she's voiced
<v Speaker 3>by the special guest.
<v Speaker 5>And who wasn't invited back. But I think as we'll
<v Speaker 5>get into in a few moments, it'll all makes sense
<v Speaker 5>as to why she didn't come back.
<v Speaker 3>That's correct to quote a song. Money changes every day,
<v Speaker 3>but I thought Tracy Onmand did a fantastic job voicing
<v Speaker 3>both of these characters had a real ball with it.
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<v Speaker 5>yes so, but you'll get something in return back you've
<v Speaker 5>got a lot in return, so I've got to hear
<v Speaker 5>my note. So why bars dog gets in there? And
<v Speaker 5>as I mentioned earlier, we recently lost Jet and I
<v Speaker 5>felt like this was the episode their best pay tribute
<v Speaker 5>to Pumba as we called him, because I think this
<v Speaker 5>is the story that's driven more by the raw of
<v Speaker 5>motion than the gags, as I was saying, and I
<v Speaker 5>think it's important for TV comedies to occasionally have these episodes,
<v Speaker 5>particularly sitcoms. This shows the sitcoms simply be animated or not,
<v Speaker 5>and you have to have these episodes that we used
<v Speaker 5>always refer to the most very special episodes. I wouldn't
<v Speaker 5>call this a very special episode, but it's an episode
<v Speaker 5>that relies more on the emotion behind the characters, and
<v Speaker 5>it just adds layers to these character because in sitcoms,
<v Speaker 5>you're going to want to believe in these characters, gonna
<v Speaker 5>want to relate to these characters, and these are the
<v Speaker 5>episodes that help you relate to the more. I think
<v Speaker 5>by this point, but we're still seen as a little
<v Speaker 5>Brady kid, but you can't help as a dog lover
<v Speaker 5>or just a human being in general watching this episode
<v Speaker 5>and not be just taken aback by the emotional ending
<v Speaker 5>just before the sadest Little Helper actually does follow the orders.
<v Speaker 5>When Bart thinks he's going to lose his best friend,
<v Speaker 5>you tear up every time.
<v Speaker 3>Well, it's one of the most primal things is missing someone.
<v Speaker 3>For him to say, I'm going to miss you, it's like,
<v Speaker 3>holy moly, Yeah, they're not going to be in your
<v Speaker 3>life anymore. Yeah, that's very, very saddening and very emotional. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>you're right, and you're correct on what you're saying about. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>a show, particularly yeah, or especially like a sitcom needs
<v Speaker 3>episodes like this to sort of deepen your emotional connection
<v Speaker 3>to the characters. I mean, of course, with a situation comedy,
<v Speaker 3>you're going to get him in the door with the gags.
<v Speaker 3>This is a family. It's oh, it's dysfunctional. Oh, it's chaotic. Ah,
<v Speaker 3>there are in each other's throats just like us. And
<v Speaker 3>once you've sort of broken the ice with the audience
<v Speaker 3>by creating that bond of like, oh, we're laughing at
<v Speaker 3>them and with them, that's when you can pull a
<v Speaker 3>little bit of an emotional sucker punch and go, well,
<v Speaker 3>guess what, you know, you're laughing at these folks. But
<v Speaker 3>you know a lot of a lot of the shit
<v Speaker 3>they're going through, you've probably gone through it as well,
<v Speaker 3>or you will go through it. You walk away from
<v Speaker 3>an episode like bats against and f going yeah, as
<v Speaker 3>we said, we laugh about it, but yeah, they're just
<v Speaker 3>like me. And you enjoyed the show more as a result,
<v Speaker 3>and I think you enjoyed the humor a bit more
<v Speaker 3>as a result as well.
<v Speaker 5>You mentioned the line before, I'm going to miss your boy.
<v Speaker 5>I thought we'd be friends forever. So I'm watching this
<v Speaker 5>last night. Kids are at my parents' places on a Tuesday,
<v Speaker 5>Nicholas in bed. She's going a bit early. She starts
<v Speaker 5>work early in Melbourne, so I'm sitting there by myself.
<v Speaker 5>Normally that's where Jet would be with me. And it
<v Speaker 5>was that scene, I think in particular, where I'm going
<v Speaker 5>to like it just like it hit me and I
<v Speaker 5>start like Sally crying. It was almost like this episode helped.
<v Speaker 5>It's like, it's weird how we come to terms with
<v Speaker 5>my grief of losing Jet. It's try trying to cry it.
<v Speaker 3>Oh man, fuck all right, Bud. It was hard. It
<v Speaker 3>is hard, man. I mean, yeah, you pour a lot
<v Speaker 3>of your heart and your soul into your pets. Man.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, and they're there for you. I mean they
<v Speaker 3>give you unconditional love, which is a rare and wonderful
<v Speaker 3>thing to have in this life. There are many many
<v Speaker 3>times in my I mean, I'm not a dog guy,
<v Speaker 3>as you know, I'm a cat man. I've been very
<v Speaker 3>fortunate in my adult life over the last couple of
<v Speaker 3>decades to have the wonderful Jackson the cat. He was fantastic,
<v Speaker 3>the beautiful Charlie girl. And now I've got Basie, the
<v Speaker 3>black cat. Basie, God love him, friendly dude, a lot
<v Speaker 3>of personality, dumb as a fucking stump. Where where'd you
<v Speaker 3>get him from? My lovely friends Mark and Nats. When
<v Speaker 3>Charlie passed away and I was singleer these days like go,
<v Speaker 3>I need someone in the house. They I cannot be
<v Speaker 3>in that house by himself. Things will fall apart. They
<v Speaker 3>had a friend with a farm. The farm had a cat.
<v Speaker 3>The cat had kittens, and yeah, one day they rocked
<v Speaker 3>her and they well, first of all, they gaged by
<v Speaker 3>andres said we to be interested in another cat. I said,
<v Speaker 3>of course, I love cats. I came over with this little, tiny,
<v Speaker 3>little black furry number popped him in my lap, and
<v Speaker 3>he's been there for the last seven or eight years. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>but as I said, complete dummy. And there are times
<v Speaker 3>when I will get incredibly frustrated him and sort of
<v Speaker 3>don't be under my feet. It's not that hard. Say
<v Speaker 3>thank you for your food. Don't jump up on the
<v Speaker 3>bench and eat that chicken that I turned my back
<v Speaker 3>by five seconds and you're ready the chicken that I've
<v Speaker 3>gotta got instantly, Instantly, it will be like, oh man,
<v Speaker 3>you're a cat dad, don't don't be yelling at your
<v Speaker 3>furry son. And yeah. An internet friend of mine recently
<v Speaker 3>wrote a lovely tribute to he had a tough run.
<v Speaker 3>He had two cats pass away in like the space
<v Speaker 3>of Fortnite. They've got a few cats in the house.
<v Speaker 3>He wrote a lovely tribute to it. But one of
<v Speaker 3>the lines that really stuck out me is like, I
<v Speaker 3>hope we did right by you. And that's it's incredible
<v Speaker 3>responsibility you take on. I mean, we talk about pen
<v Speaker 3>ownership like it's you've got a dog, you got a cat, whatever.
<v Speaker 3>It's a big responsibility and it does a lot of
<v Speaker 3>things for you and your family. So you know, it's
<v Speaker 3>not just thrown out a handful of kibble and you know,
<v Speaker 3>trying to shit on the rug like, I don't know, man,
<v Speaker 3>It's it's a tough one for Jet.
<v Speaker 5>He was so unwell for the last like twelve months.
<v Speaker 5>I felt like my whole life evolved around keeping him
<v Speaker 5>alive almost and I live with just his anxiety. If
<v Speaker 5>every time i'd leave the house, I'd almost I'd have
<v Speaker 5>this fear of opening the front door and hit because
<v Speaker 5>you have seizure sometimes, and luckily I was around most
<v Speaker 5>of the time to prevent them from happening. But I
<v Speaker 5>had this fear of coming home to him being dead.
<v Speaker 5>Esficially right, so it was the right time he was
<v Speaker 5>just he'd had enough. But I almost feel it's guilt
<v Speaker 5>because now I feel somewhat free, and it feels weird
<v Speaker 5>because I miss him, but it's good for me emotionally.
<v Speaker 3>That he's not here. No, No, that makes a lot
<v Speaker 3>of sense, it really does. I mean, of course you're
<v Speaker 3>going to feel some degree of guilt or feeling like
<v Speaker 3>a sense of relief. It doesn't diminish the life that
<v Speaker 3>your had for him, of course it doesn't. But yeah,
<v Speaker 3>you just have to learn how to sort of reframe
<v Speaker 3>that and they're like, well, yeah, now they're at rest.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, because I just try and be strong for the kids,
<v Speaker 5>particularly Alien. It's hit him, mab, so you're just watching
<v Speaker 5>this that of sort of just tear it up. And
<v Speaker 5>I just went, ah, I think it's time that I
<v Speaker 5>can now agrieve.
<v Speaker 3>Sure, yeah, absolutely, have you thought about getting another animal?
<v Speaker 5>Well sometimes patrons asked about this and not like the
<v Speaker 5>idea is it came straight into my mind, But I went,
<v Speaker 5>I don't think it's the right time yet. I don't
<v Speaker 5>want to make a I don't want to jump into
<v Speaker 5>it and go, oh, now I've got responsibility again. I
<v Speaker 5>think I'm just gonna have to enjoy being able to
<v Speaker 5>just I said to Nicola. We drove and picked up Jet.
<v Speaker 5>Hey got cremated here with us on the table, still
<v Speaker 5>in his box, but we got him. We picked up
<v Speaker 5>from Bendy Go. So well, for the first time, we're
<v Speaker 5>able to get in the car and say where do
<v Speaker 5>you want to go? Kids, And we'll come back whenever
<v Speaker 5>we feel like it. Yeah, because we always had to
<v Speaker 5>come back for Jet because we couldn't. He used to
<v Speaker 5>fret if we would leave for too long. He fret
<v Speaker 5>with the kids weren't here, so we got be able
<v Speaker 5>to do anything. So I think I said to Nicola.
<v Speaker 5>Kids keep saying we get a kit and can we
<v Speaker 5>get another dog? And I'm like, we will eventually. Right now,
<v Speaker 5>Mom and Dad just need to enjoy being able to
<v Speaker 5>just go in and create memories and adventures of course.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, well, I think the other important thing to recognize
<v Speaker 3>don't think anyone who has had a pet will understand
<v Speaker 3>this is and particularly you know, if you've got a family,
<v Speaker 3>if you've got kids, introducing a pet in the family,
<v Speaker 3>it's a great sort of lesson about responsibility and a
<v Speaker 3>great lesson about life and death as well. Yeah, I mean,
<v Speaker 3>it's of course it's sad for Elliott and Holly that
<v Speaker 3>their beloved dog is gone, but it's also an understanding.
<v Speaker 3>It's like, well, life's a finite thing, man, you know,
<v Speaker 3>And this is not to diminish the love that everyone
<v Speaker 3>had for Jet or any pet that anyone has, but
<v Speaker 3>they also provide a lesson in that regard as like
<v Speaker 3>it's almost like a test run for when someone human
<v Speaker 3>life passes away, if you know what I mean.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I'm glad Elliott was old enough and Holly was
<v Speaker 5>old enough as well, just but she didn't quite know
<v Speaker 5>what was going on, because I think once he was gone,
<v Speaker 5>I don't think she quite realized, oh, he's not coming
<v Speaker 5>back where Alliott?
<v Speaker 3>It hit him hard. Yes, yeah, but I'm glad.
<v Speaker 5>It's old enough to sort of understand it, because we
<v Speaker 5>could explain it to him, we could prepare him for it,
<v Speaker 5>because I think being younger and all of a sudden
<v Speaker 5>your dog's gone, you're not really understanding why that would
<v Speaker 5>be harder to well.
<v Speaker 3>Sure. Growing up, when I was a kid, we had
<v Speaker 3>a couple of beagles, and I think one got to
<v Speaker 3>a very ripe old age. But also you know, by
<v Speaker 3>the end, as you said with Jed, you've lost a
<v Speaker 3>few steps, and you know it's hard for you to
<v Speaker 3>do everything like that. I remember just spending like an
<v Speaker 3>afternoon after school in the garage with Bonnie the beagle,
<v Speaker 3>lying in her box, finally hard to breathe, and I
<v Speaker 3>don't know, it was a real bracing sort of lesson
<v Speaker 3>in it's coming, Oh it's coming. Yeah, And I felt
<v Speaker 3>this incredible complex surge of emotions, which it was tough
<v Speaker 3>to deal with at the time, but I think was
<v Speaker 3>a valuable in a lot of ways. So yeah, look,
<v Speaker 3>it's a cliche when someone has gone. It is like,
<v Speaker 3>you know, don't be said that they're gone. To be
<v Speaker 3>happy that they lived. They taught you a lot and
<v Speaker 3>they gave you a lot. Yeah, and it's okay to
<v Speaker 3>be sad. Oh yeah, of course it is.
<v Speaker 5>I kept saying to Aliot, if you want to cry, cry,
<v Speaker 5>it's not gonna be embarrassed by crying, Like, it's okay, and.
<v Speaker 3>You've got a burkely good reason to do so bad. Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>And when he was at school, apparently he got upset
<v Speaker 5>and his friends were like, no, it's okay because you've
<v Speaker 5>got like embarrassed. He was crying from of his friends,
<v Speaker 5>but his friends, but no, no, no, it's okay.
<v Speaker 3>That's good.
<v Speaker 5>That's great that his friends were supportive like that.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>But yeah, as a dog out to particularly someone who
<v Speaker 5>just lost their dog, I thought this this episode particular,
<v Speaker 5>was a real emotional rollercoaster. He went from its like
<v Speaker 5>there was anger with the Emily Winthrop episode character, there
<v Speaker 5>was sadness, there was happiness, there was so much to
<v Speaker 5>go through, just a real role coaster. On thoughts episode,
<v Speaker 5>I thought John Vidde did a fantastic job of really
<v Speaker 5>intertwining the two stories as well, because I'm both emotion driven.
<v Speaker 5>But the use of in particular of the prop of
<v Speaker 5>the quilt. I thought he the quilt played a key
<v Speaker 5>role in both stories, but in an organic way that
<v Speaker 5>felt natural. Took him back, because Seinfeld, there's no for
<v Speaker 5>trying to intertwine all the stories. It seems it does
<v Speaker 5>it as well most sitcoms do it, but I thought
<v Speaker 5>it just felt so natural in this one here.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's a better example of that kind of thing,
<v Speaker 3>because it seems like from the beginning that it's open
<v Speaker 3>season on just about anything in the Simpson household. Nothing
<v Speaker 3>is safe. You know, you get a little frustrated, like, ah, man,
<v Speaker 3>I wanted to read the paper and now it's got
<v Speaker 3>dog's lobber all over it all. You know half what
<v Speaker 3>does he say? I think the first lightest, not the
<v Speaker 3>sports section. Yeah, you get frustrated. Oh yeah, your breakfast
<v Speaker 3>gets eaten off the off the kitchen table or whatever.
<v Speaker 3>It's like, ah, god, damn it. But you know, you
<v Speaker 3>can just easily pick up an egg McMuffin on the
<v Speaker 3>way to work. But I loved how they sort of
<v Speaker 3>ramped it up over the course of the episode. Home
<v Speaker 3>has forked out a lot of money for these assassins,
<v Speaker 3>and they immediately get chewed to bits. But yeah, the
<v Speaker 3>whole thing with the with the quilt, Yeah, and how
<v Speaker 3>much it's a part of Marge's family history and how
<v Speaker 3>she hopes it's going to be a tradition moving forward
<v Speaker 3>on that. It's like, oh no, this is a Chekhov's quilt.
<v Speaker 3>You're introducing the first Dad is going to get fucked
<v Speaker 3>up in the third, maybe even in the second act.
<v Speaker 3>But I must admit when when it happened, I mean,
<v Speaker 3>it's like, ah, God, damn it, sanders all out. But
<v Speaker 3>because you know, we pour so much of ourselves into stuff,
<v Speaker 3>don't we, And yeah, physical objects, but I don't just
<v Speaker 3>mean like stuff like that. I'm also mean our animals
<v Speaker 3>as well. I mean, of course they they love us, man,
<v Speaker 3>because we feed them. But you have to have something
<v Speaker 3>that you've poured so much of your emotion into to
<v Speaker 3>have it torn apart. It really does set up a
<v Speaker 3>bit of dramatic tension, doesn't it. Okay, yeah, look a
<v Speaker 3>dog as a member of the family, but it's also
<v Speaker 3>a dog. And if it's going to be just doing
<v Speaker 3>this all the time, what kind of bleed on effect
<v Speaker 3>is that going to have? Is this going to create
<v Speaker 3>tension in the household? Is it? You know we're going
<v Speaker 3>to be snapping in each other because of you know? Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, it's a funny episode in a lot of ways.
<v Speaker 3>As we said, not really joke driven everything like that.
<v Speaker 3>The humor emerges more from the situations and the frustration
<v Speaker 3>they're feeling. It's also got a lot of emotions, also
<v Speaker 3>kind of got genuine dramatic stakes in a lot of ways.
<v Speaker 5>Well, I wanted to touch on that because when you
<v Speaker 5>watch this as a kid, you kind of get annoyed
<v Speaker 5>that Homer and Marge are willing to give sat this
<v Speaker 5>a little helpful away.
<v Speaker 3>You think, how can you do? This is your dog?
<v Speaker 5>But as you're mentioning, they're the emotional connection and the
<v Speaker 5>history of this quilt. I think it's fully justified that
<v Speaker 5>at this point margin Homer, this dog clearly needs a
<v Speaker 5>different house. It can't be here anymore. It's obviously bored,
<v Speaker 5>it's not happy, it's why is it doing these things?
<v Speaker 3>Right?
<v Speaker 5>He obviously loves Bart, but he can't have this shit
<v Speaker 5>constantly getting destroyed. So I think having the quilk get
<v Speaker 5>destroyed was the a perfect explanation of justification for Marjin
<v Speaker 5>h it wanted to get rid of it. Also, it
<v Speaker 5>raises the stakes of the episode as a viewer, because
<v Speaker 5>you're watching this going as a normal Simpsons episode.
<v Speaker 3>If they didn't put.
<v Speaker 5>The ad in the paper and have the potential new
<v Speaker 5>bio or new owner come and see him, then as
<v Speaker 5>a viewer you're probably going they're not really going to
<v Speaker 5>give him away. But as Homer says, we've got to commit.
<v Speaker 5>So having that guy come and Homer saying you picked
<v Speaker 5>up tomorrow, as a view you're going, oh fuck, oh,
<v Speaker 5>they're actually going through. Oh no, they're going to actually
<v Speaker 5>do this. What's art going to do here? Of course
<v Speaker 5>we get them Regulus miracle at the end, which is
<v Speaker 5>kind of whatever, but it was a very a very
<v Speaker 5>nice moment of anything. But I just think having adding
<v Speaker 5>that extra layer of having the owner, the new owner
<v Speaker 5>come and into the into the picture. As a view
<v Speaker 5>you're watching his going oh no, this is serious. They're
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<v Speaker 3>a villain, but someone who's not going to be like,
<v Speaker 3>oh you lovely new dog. I'm going to be pampering
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<v Speaker 3>a fucking plows. Yeah, it's like, oh damn, not exactly
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<v Speaker 5>And I think watching this episode as a kid and
<v Speaker 5>watching it as an adult, particularly as a parent of
<v Speaker 5>a child who has a dog, well had a dog,
<v Speaker 5>you should say you watched it for a two different perspective.
<v Speaker 5>So as I was saying, I always really got annoyed
<v Speaker 5>when Marginhommer did what they were doing, But you're watching
<v Speaker 5>this going it's fully justified, and I don't think I'm
<v Speaker 5>rewatching now. You never get the sense that Marge and
<v Speaker 5>Homer want to get rid of him. Oh no, they
<v Speaker 5>don't want to do it, but they feel like it
<v Speaker 5>just has to be done, like they're gonna have to
<v Speaker 5>be the bad guys because this can't continue. Even Homer
<v Speaker 5>when he says pick him up tomorrow, it doesn't sound
<v Speaker 5>like he wants to do it. Yeah, because at the
<v Speaker 5>end of the day, he's the family dog. He's not
<v Speaker 5>just Bart's dog. And even Lisa has her moments here
<v Speaker 5>where she defends him at the end, and she has
<v Speaker 5>the big spiel and which we'll touch on as well,
<v Speaker 5>But I don't feel like Lisa did that spiel to
<v Speaker 5>prevent them from getting rid of centers to help straight
<v Speaker 5>away and give him the chance to pass school first,
<v Speaker 5>because she necessarily wanted a kicking for her She could
<v Speaker 5>see how much it meant to Bart. Yeah, absolutely, and
<v Speaker 5>she knew that Bart wasn't going to be able to
<v Speaker 5>say in a way that was going to get through
<v Speaker 5>to Homer and Marge to convince them. He wasn't gonna
<v Speaker 5>be convincing enough, so she used her intellect, I guess
<v Speaker 5>you could say, to say, look, this is why we
<v Speaker 5>need to keep and just give him one more chance.
<v Speaker 5>And she won margin Homer over Bart as well, which
<v Speaker 5>I think was a really nice mo because even at
<v Speaker 5>the end she says she go play with him, go
<v Speaker 5>fuck with him, don't do whatever. She throws the ball,
<v Speaker 5>he doesn't do chase it. She sort of mumbles and
<v Speaker 5>walks off us like she loves the dog. But this
<v Speaker 5>is this is Bart's best friend.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely, And I think something else to point out is
<v Speaker 3>that I get the feeling that the family would probably
<v Speaker 3>tolerate Sanders Leelper's kind of indiscretions and misdemeanors if they
<v Speaker 3>were relatively low steaks or low scale sitting on the
<v Speaker 3>floor or something, oh, ripping up the paper or occasionally
<v Speaker 3>pinching a sausage off off your breakfast plate or whatever.
<v Speaker 3>It's like, dog's gonna dog.
<v Speaker 5>But I do think he was particularly more dog than
<v Speaker 5>normal in this one. He just think he got I
<v Speaker 5>understand that they needed for the story, but it felt like, Oh,
<v Speaker 5>he's all of a sudden a really naughty dog.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, he's really misbehaved.
<v Speaker 5>He's never really been he's been an idiot dog. He's
<v Speaker 5>never really been a mischievous dogh man.
<v Speaker 3>That's what. Yeah, for the second, the story that it
<v Speaker 3>worked occasionally got to tweak a few knobs for the sake. Yeah, story.
<v Speaker 3>But let's touch on.
<v Speaker 5>We were mentioning earlier Tracy ol when she plays this
<v Speaker 5>Windfield as well as Emily Winthrop. So, Emily Willinthrop, I've
<v Speaker 5>just got here.
<v Speaker 3>She is a terrible human being. Well, yeah, this is
<v Speaker 3>gonna hit close to the bone for you. I think
<v Speaker 3>this particular stage of the proceedings. Yeah, I mean, you're
<v Speaker 3>missing your pal, and anyone in mistreats a dog is
<v Speaker 3>going to be.
<v Speaker 5>Like, especially someone who's supposed to be helping. But it's
<v Speaker 5>just that cruel to be kind mentality, which I compared
<v Speaker 5>it to. We didn't have for Holly but for Elliott
<v Speaker 5>because we were just new parents. We didn't really know
<v Speaker 5>what we're doing. Nikola wanted to hire a sleep nanny, right,
<v Speaker 5>and a sleep nanny was the He was in the
<v Speaker 5>cotton now room and she goes, let him cry, stand
<v Speaker 5>outside the door, let him cry for three minutes, and
<v Speaker 5>then go in, just tap him on the back so
<v Speaker 5>he stops crying, and then walk out again and wait
<v Speaker 5>for another three minutes. And I remember I tried that.
<v Speaker 5>I'm sitting there and he's crying. He's crying, and I'm going,
<v Speaker 5>you know what, this probably does work, but it's not how.
<v Speaker 3>I wanted to do. It doesn't work for you.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, so I'm saying, you probably get results with this,
<v Speaker 5>but I'm not a robot, and I can't just stand
<v Speaker 5>here because this is having like I see, it was
<v Speaker 5>bothering Nick And I said, this is going to leave
<v Speaker 5>emotional scarring on me that I feel guilt for. And
<v Speaker 5>I don't like this. And we found something that worked
<v Speaker 5>for us. So what she's doing here with the choke chain. Whatever,
<v Speaker 5>I despise it, I don't agree with it. It probably
<v Speaker 5>gets results, but there are other ways.
<v Speaker 3>Sure, yeah, absolutely.
<v Speaker 5>But if you just want to get you know, if
<v Speaker 5>you I'm not saying that you're a bad dog owner
<v Speaker 5>or you know you're a bad parent, but if you
<v Speaker 5>are able to switch off and put emotions aside, then
<v Speaker 5>you can get results quicker. But sometimes the emotional scar
<v Speaker 5>that they can leave not for not necessarily everybody gets
<v Speaker 5>emotionally scar work. But I knew, I knew me personally,
<v Speaker 5>I would live with guilt forever if I'd have sat
<v Speaker 5>there listening to him cry it out.
<v Speaker 3>Of course, No that we horses for courses, man, I
<v Speaker 3>mean everyone's got their own way of doing things. And yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I think there's certainly the tide is turning when it
<v Speaker 3>comes to dog training or animal training. I think you
<v Speaker 3>used to have a lot of like I'll slap some
<v Speaker 3>sense of them, or you know, use the choke chain
<v Speaker 3>or anything like that. Sure, there are some people who
<v Speaker 3>probably still do that, and as you said, it probably
<v Speaker 3>does get results. It speeds up the process a little
<v Speaker 3>bit more. But yeah, I think you have more people
<v Speaker 3>are coming around to your way of thinking in terms
<v Speaker 3>of like, is it really worth it for how I'm
<v Speaker 3>gonna feel, how the animal's gonna feel. We'll just we'll
<v Speaker 3>take the scenic route to get there.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, a bit of an adventure.
<v Speaker 3>A bit, it's an adventure, it certainly is.
<v Speaker 5>Before we dove fully into Emily Winthrop's let's discuss as
<v Speaker 5>Tracy Olman's connection to the show in general. So we've
<v Speaker 5>all heard the Tracy Almond shorts. That's where the Simpsons started.
<v Speaker 5>There were little shorts that appeared on the Tracy Olman Show,
<v Speaker 5>a sketch comedy.
<v Speaker 3>Show, sketch comedy show in the late.
<v Speaker 5>Eighty seven, I believes on the Simpsons debut on the
<v Speaker 5>show anyway.
<v Speaker 3>Produced by James L. Brooks. Was it really yeah? Yeah?
<v Speaker 5>Oh I did not realize that. So that was the
<v Speaker 5>connection to the Simpsons. Okay, I believe, So let me
<v Speaker 5>just triple check that.
<v Speaker 3>Sorry, man, I know.
<v Speaker 5>That we're Tracy Ulman Show. But so yeah, but all
<v Speaker 5>those shorts, they've never been officially released. I'm sure me
<v Speaker 5>there's some sort of copyright there, but they do appear
<v Speaker 5>on YouTube, and one day you're not gonna sit down
<v Speaker 5>and we're going to review those for our Patriot, Okay,
<v Speaker 5>because I've actually ever sat down watched them all either.
<v Speaker 5>I've seen maybe League five, and I think there's about
<v Speaker 5>fifty of them. So we'll sit down and we'll review
<v Speaker 5>those one day. Sure, happy to do so because they
<v Speaker 5>look horrific. But you know, you gotta. But that's just
<v Speaker 5>you know, they that's the start of the Simpsons. It's
<v Speaker 5>part of history.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, very much. So, yeah, I mean, yeah, Tracy Ollman's
<v Speaker 3>an interesting kind of phenomenon. Really. I mean, I remember,
<v Speaker 3>I have no memories of her at all. We spent
<v Speaker 3>a bit of time in England when I was growing up,
<v Speaker 3>particularly around the eighties. My sister was living over there.
<v Speaker 3>We would go over and visit her occasionally. And Tracy
<v Speaker 3>Ollmen was very very big in sketch comedy on British TV.
<v Speaker 3>One show in particularly was called Three of a Kind.
<v Speaker 3>It was her, the comedian Lenny Henry and someone else.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, it was clear that Tracy Olmen was kind
<v Speaker 3>of like the breakout star of that, someone who was
<v Speaker 3>very very versatile, had great charm. You're familiar with Saturday Live,
<v Speaker 3>of course, and Gilda Radner didn't. Yeah, yeah, very much
<v Speaker 3>like an English version of Gilda Radner had sort of
<v Speaker 3>an impish charm, instant likability and also just multi talented.
<v Speaker 3>So and people clearly recognize this. On the other side
<v Speaker 3>of the pond, James or Brooks recognized this and basically
<v Speaker 3>fashioned this show around her on the up and coming
<v Speaker 3>or just recently introduced Fox Network. So and you know,
<v Speaker 3>she was acting alongside the likes of Meryl Streep as well.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, people just recognized, oh, this is someone who's
<v Speaker 3>incredibly talented and not necessarily can do just about anything,
<v Speaker 3>but it's up for it just about anything and adds
<v Speaker 3>something to everything. So and yeah, but I think they realized, oh,
<v Speaker 3>we've got to add things to the Tracy Ormand show.
<v Speaker 3>It's you know, she'll do her thing, She'll do her
<v Speaker 3>thing with her cast. Dan See was a member of
<v Speaker 3>the cast, Julie and Julie Canner. Yeah. Yeah, so Brooks
<v Speaker 3>has clearly got his sort of talent pool. But they're like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>we need things to break it up a little bit.
<v Speaker 3>And that's where the Simpson shorts come in, which was
<v Speaker 3>a pretty out there concept really when you think about it. Well, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>but it seemed like Fox was kind of throwing everything
<v Speaker 3>at the wall. See what works. Yeah, I mean ABC,
<v Speaker 3>NBC and CBS. The three existing networks had their own
<v Speaker 3>voices and their own tones of the kind of shows
<v Speaker 3>that they made, but they were all doing pretty much
<v Speaker 3>their own thing. And I think Fox recognized we're gonna
<v Speaker 3>have to shake things up a little bit and try
<v Speaker 3>a few different things and see what works. Not everything did,
<v Speaker 3>but a lot of things did. And toilet humor no
<v Speaker 3>big what we're still talking about it this day. Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, one show that I have to revisit because I
<v Speaker 5>was not allowed to watch it as a kid.
<v Speaker 3>Married with children.
<v Speaker 5>When I saw it as a teenager, I went, this
<v Speaker 5>is fun. But I kind of see it as almost
<v Speaker 5>like the live action version of like a Family Guy,
<v Speaker 5>where I can probably enjoy it in small dat. I
<v Speaker 5>don't think you can binge married with children.
<v Speaker 3>No, I don't think so.
<v Speaker 5>It seems like you're weekly dose of just crude toilet
<v Speaker 5>jokes from the crowd, just your dose of but also
<v Speaker 5>put together with some skill with fantastic with very talented
<v Speaker 5>people like Caesh.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely. Yeah. So.
<v Speaker 5>According to Ken Eston, the co creator of the Tracy
<v Speaker 5>Ullman Show, Tracy was not fond of any of the
<v Speaker 5>bumpers because of the Simpson shots because she didn't think
<v Speaker 5>that there were any quality or the quality for her show.
<v Speaker 5>They think why they looked they didn't look good enough
<v Speaker 5>in nineteen ninety one. I'm assuming after this episode aired,
<v Speaker 5>because they would have recorded this in nineteen nineteen, would
<v Speaker 5>air in March of ninety one. But in ninety one,
<v Speaker 5>she filed a lawsuit against twentieth Century Fox, claiming that
<v Speaker 5>she was owed some of the profits from Simpsons merchandise,
<v Speaker 5>which her lawyers valued at about two point five million dollars,
<v Speaker 5>which inflation is abound five point seven million today.
<v Speaker 3>Tiny sum.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, quite a bit of money. Yeah, I'm like, look,
<v Speaker 5>that's a lot. But in the grand scheme of things,
<v Speaker 5>the money that Simpsons would have been making twentieth Century Fox,
<v Speaker 5>I don't think it was that much money.
<v Speaker 3>Oh no, I think it's kind of chump change.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it sounds like a lot. But her case was
<v Speaker 5>based on the fact that she did actually sign a
<v Speaker 5>contract reportedly mere hours before she recorded the first episode
<v Speaker 5>of The Tracy Ulman Show that entitled her to five
<v Speaker 5>to ten percent of the net receipts of the merchandising
<v Speaker 5>and other profits from products or programs based on spin
<v Speaker 5>off characters, including animated characters, even if those characters were
<v Speaker 5>originated by others. So you read that contract and to go, well,
<v Speaker 5>how does she not win? She is one entitled to
<v Speaker 5>some money?
<v Speaker 3>Right?
<v Speaker 5>How does this not work? And my only explanation could
<v Speaker 5>be that maybe Fox just could have for better lawyers.
<v Speaker 3>Quite possibly, Yeah, I mean, you do have Murdoch money
<v Speaker 3>behind you, and they tend to have their sharks.
<v Speaker 5>So yeah, because if I had a contract and it
<v Speaker 5>said those words, I would go, I think I'm in
<v Speaker 5>the right here.
<v Speaker 3>How could I not get money here?
<v Speaker 5>I think even if she doesn't get five million, she's
<v Speaker 5>entitled to something, you would think.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, I mean the Simpsons became the Simpsons because
<v Speaker 3>of the Simpsons. Not necessary, I mean, but it had
<v Speaker 3>its launch pad on the Tracy Ullman Show.
<v Speaker 5>And she wasn't the only person that decided that, but
<v Speaker 5>she I'm pretty sure in her position she could have
<v Speaker 5>gone no, I would haven't bumpers if she wanted to,
<v Speaker 5>really wanted to put her foot down because it's her
<v Speaker 5>name on the shee. You can't have the Tracy Aulber
<v Speaker 5>Show without Tracy Oulmen correct. Yeah, So I think she
<v Speaker 5>deserved something and they invited you for this for this episode,
<v Speaker 5>and it's a show that the lawsuit happened and she
<v Speaker 5>lost and whatnot, Because it would have been nice to
<v Speaker 5>get more miss win firstess. And I think the would
<v Speaker 5>have been a fun dynamic there, even though it would
<v Speaker 5>have kind of felt kind of cliche. But The Simpsons
<v Speaker 5>is just based on stereotypes and cliches.
<v Speaker 3>Isn't it.
<v Speaker 5>Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah, good missus Degle.
<v Speaker 3>That could have worked. Oh yeah, just the snooty person
<v Speaker 3>in the neighborhood. I mean, I'm sure the Simpsons has that,
<v Speaker 3>but yeah, like I love.
<v Speaker 5>Joy is kind of snooty, but she's not this kind
<v Speaker 5>of neighbor missus Degal snoody.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, you need someone who's just an upper echelone of
<v Speaker 3>wealth and just wants to lord it over you. Thinks
<v Speaker 3>it makes them a better person as the result.
<v Speaker 5>Stop riding your skateboard on the sidewalk, Yes, and get
<v Speaker 5>off my property kind of thing.
<v Speaker 3>Very much. I get off my lown kind of person. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>let's not too bad for Tracy Uelman. According to Wikipedia,
<v Speaker 3>which as we know, never lies, Tracy woman, Tracy Oulman
<v Speaker 3>has a net worth of something like eighty million pound. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>she's Okay, she's just all right, she's doing okay for herself. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>And I did read some things where it says she's
<v Speaker 3>not bitter anymore, and I thought, oh, that's good for her.
<v Speaker 3>Then you told me that, and I went, oh, into
<v Speaker 3>what if I had that amount of money, I would
<v Speaker 3>not be bitter, I'd be sweet.
<v Speaker 5>And I was watching some special study recently and it
<v Speaker 5>was one where she was doing like a flashback to
<v Speaker 5>the Tracy Ulman Show. And you've got the Tracy or
<v Speaker 5>you have the Tracy Ulman Show wiki page open there.
<v Speaker 5>I'm a huge fan of the logo. Just scroll down,
<v Speaker 5>see if you can see it. Oh yeah, Tracy yemen
<v Speaker 5>Show logo. It just epitomizes nineteen late nine eighties, early
<v Speaker 5>nineteen nineties.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, that logo.
<v Speaker 5>It's just an awesome logo.
<v Speaker 3>It's really good. Folks. If you want like thirty seconds
<v Speaker 3>of just boost, go to YouTube look up opening credits
<v Speaker 3>of Tracy Yulman Show. Because okay, it's got a great
<v Speaker 3>theme song as well, has it really? Oh yeah, put
<v Speaker 3>it on now. Yeah, I'll put it on right now.
<v Speaker 3>But again very late and late eighties energy. But it
<v Speaker 3>also feels like the pro to a Network's like, we're here,
<v Speaker 3>pay attention to us, but not in a in a
<v Speaker 3>kind of they're kind of way. It's more like, hey,
<v Speaker 3>this is funky and fun That's what the Simpsons was.
<v Speaker 3>Funky fresh.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, funky, and the Simpsons was certainly fresh, particularly with
<v Speaker 5>the colors and whatnot, which is why Matt made them yellow.
<v Speaker 5>So when you're flicking through, well that's different. Yeah, that's
<v Speaker 5>you're right, yes, But hers Emily Winthrop, I thought the
<v Speaker 5>perfect villain this episode needed, and a great villain.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think it's.
<v Speaker 5>Talked about enough on The Simpsons because she is so unlikable.
<v Speaker 3>She's all cold, results driven process. Yeah, and reminded me
<v Speaker 3>of the Sleep Netty. She was very just to the
<v Speaker 3>point matter of fact that I went, how are you?
<v Speaker 3>Are you a robot? That person will probably say my
<v Speaker 3>results speak for themselves exactly right, and may were justify
<v Speaker 3>by saying I've got a lot of parents who were
<v Speaker 3>sleeping through the night. You know because of this, I've
<v Speaker 3>probably saved a lot of marriages. Yeah, and you know, uh,
<v Speaker 3>this Emily character probably feels the same way. It's like,
<v Speaker 3>you're going to have a bit of discomfort here, You're
<v Speaker 3>going to have some hurt feelings or whatever, but your
<v Speaker 3>dog is going to behave and you.
<v Speaker 5>As soon as he said that.
<v Speaker 3>You and everyone are going to be happier as a result.
<v Speaker 5>As soon as you said that, I just thought, I
<v Speaker 5>got hurt feelings whatever, some of those hurt feelings that
<v Speaker 5>doesn't comes straight right into my head every time. Do
<v Speaker 5>you have those moments where someone says a line and
<v Speaker 5>you instantly think of like a film quote or a
<v Speaker 5>song or something.
<v Speaker 3>The thing that always strikes me when I allude to
<v Speaker 3>hurt feelings, it's a terrific Robert Denara actually movie called Ronan.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know if you've ever heard of it, but
<v Speaker 3>I don't know of it. Yeah. Yeah, he's part of
<v Speaker 3>this criminal team that's pulling a heist. The one of
<v Speaker 3>the other members of the team says, oh, did you
<v Speaker 3>ever kill anybody? And DeNiro says, no, I hurt somebody's
<v Speaker 3>feelings once in twenty twenty five. That makes him history's
<v Speaker 3>greatest monster, that he's hurting someone's feelings. But it's a
<v Speaker 3>line that I was like, it's just a great badass.
<v Speaker 3>Lind was like, that's somebody's feelings once.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, for me, sometimes Nicolall say what do you think
<v Speaker 5>about that? And I always go, now you know how?
<v Speaker 5>But yeah, Emily fantastic here and her delivery Tracey's of
<v Speaker 5>pull the bloody chain boy that haunts nineties kids, because
<v Speaker 5>watching that as a kid, you felt so bad, not
<v Speaker 5>just for the dog, but for Bart, because Bart was
<v Speaker 5>a child in a situation he had to follow instructions.
<v Speaker 5>He didn't want to be hurting his dogs. As soon
<v Speaker 5>as he chokes him, he apologizing you just you feel
<v Speaker 5>so sad.
<v Speaker 3>Sanders will help her, going, Wait a minute, why is
<v Speaker 3>why is my own Why is my friend hurting me? Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Why is my friend hurting me?
<v Speaker 5>Because he doesn't get it. I'm gonna say he's not
<v Speaker 5>being naughty. He just doesn't understand why he's a dog.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, he is a dog. He is a dog indeed.
<v Speaker 5>But yeah, and just yeah, I thought missus midfas we
<v Speaker 5>said we would be a great cater, but she's just
<v Speaker 5>so despicable who seemed to thrive on the misery. But
<v Speaker 5>as we're saying, she is results driven and she is
<v Speaker 5>successful for a reason.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I think I'm sure You've had other characters in
<v Speaker 3>the Simpsons or in animated shows, all shows in general,
<v Speaker 3>who they're really stealing steer into the heel turn with
<v Speaker 3>this kind of thing. They'll be someone who's like, you
<v Speaker 3>know what, I'm training this animal to be obedient, but
<v Speaker 3>I'm also really enjoying inflicting pain or inflicting discipline on them.
<v Speaker 3>There's no miniacal laugh or anything. No, no, no, she's
<v Speaker 3>just like, you know, cold clinical British. Donat does this
<v Speaker 3>remager anyone apparently quite inspired by she was a TV
<v Speaker 3>trainer so much, but a woman named Barbara Woodhouse.
<v Speaker 5>And also apparently the mannerisms of Margaret Thatcher.
<v Speaker 3>Oh my god, Oh yeah, I can see a bit
<v Speaker 3>of Maggie in there as well. But Barbara Woodhouse had
<v Speaker 3>a catchphrase, walkers when you were taking Yeah, I can
<v Speaker 3>imagine heavily saying that. Yeah. She became a bit of
<v Speaker 3>a cult figure because of that. You know, when it
<v Speaker 3>was ready to take the dog for a walk, walkers.
<v Speaker 3>You're people of a certain generation who, whenever they're taking
<v Speaker 3>out the dog for a walk, will say that. It
<v Speaker 3>was very ingrained into the end of the collective consciousness.
<v Speaker 5>Although I was kind of confused at the end when
<v Speaker 5>he successfully does it and she says, son of a bitch,
<v Speaker 5>I want to talk about it for a couple of reasons.
<v Speaker 5>The first reason being why she disappointed that he's successful.
<v Speaker 3>It was like she was She's not, She's not at all. Well,
<v Speaker 3>first of all, is the obvious thing about you know,
<v Speaker 3>a dog is a son of a bitch? Obviously, Yes,
<v Speaker 3>But how many times in how many sort of action
<v Speaker 3>movies or any movies have you had someone sort of
<v Speaker 3>happily calls him son of a bitch?
<v Speaker 5>See, I've always taken it the complete opposite way, is
<v Speaker 5>it to say, well, you son of a bitch?
<v Speaker 2>No?
<v Speaker 3>No, Often there's a bit of sort of grudging like
<v Speaker 3>it's like, oh, you're magnificent bastard. I mean, now I
<v Speaker 3>know what you're saying completely. Yeah, I've never taken it
<v Speaker 3>in that way because I've always disliked her. I just
<v Speaker 3>assumed the worst. Yeah, but it strikes me as Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>you'll often hear it's like or say, someone's got one
<v Speaker 3>over on you, but they've done it in such a
<v Speaker 3>smart way that you're kind of like, sort of a bitch.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, it's a Dutch and Dylan don't hate each other.
<v Speaker 3>They're just kind of like bros who are also kind
<v Speaker 3>of rivals.
<v Speaker 5>Well, it's like in the Jordan documentary Hum and Larry Bird.
<v Speaker 5>So when someone's like like I hate you or something, Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>oh you you've pulled off.
<v Speaker 3>This magnificent coln. You've taken a bunch of money that, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I can probably afford to lose. But still I don't
<v Speaker 3>like losing. Still I go to a Mary Effort son
<v Speaker 3>of a Bitch? Yeah, okay, what changes? That changes the
<v Speaker 3>tone at the end. They've always just been confused, why
<v Speaker 3>does she Why was she disappointed? But no, no, it's
<v Speaker 3>she's amazing. But it's a little bit of a rud
<v Speaker 3>pull as well as like, oh you think she's disappointed?
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, But like many great jokes, works on multiple levels,
<v Speaker 3>gives these guys a bit of an escape patch to say,
<v Speaker 3>son of a bitch on an animated family comedy.
<v Speaker 5>Which that's the other aspect of what to talk about.
<v Speaker 3>I remember this.
<v Speaker 5>I think it's the first time we hear the word
<v Speaker 5>bitch because I think where's the out splash more episode?
<v Speaker 5>Because he because.
<v Speaker 3>When Butt's going down after this, isn't it? Well?
<v Speaker 5>Season two is because when Butt's going maybe it's before
<v Speaker 5>this thing. Because when Marge paints mister Burns because it's
<v Speaker 5>when he's going down to Slagh says bitch and oh,
<v Speaker 5>but I think son of a bitch is it comes
<v Speaker 5>across harsh. Oh that's more of a bitch and is
<v Speaker 5>always like, oh, he's just a kid being a kid.
<v Speaker 5>But son of a bitch is like, oh, some of a.
<v Speaker 3>Bitch is designed primarily is an insult the bitch.
<v Speaker 5>Like I think most nineties kids have a memory of
<v Speaker 5>at least one of the adults in their life being
<v Speaker 5>bothered by hearing this woman say son of a bitch,
<v Speaker 5>because you just don't expect to hear it on the Simpsons. Well, yeah,
<v Speaker 5>but then that's when you pull the bar and you say,
<v Speaker 5>but a bitch is female dog mom, So is that
<v Speaker 5>is that technically there out? Then I guess that's their out,
<v Speaker 5>that's their escape patch. Yeah, she's a dog trainer and
<v Speaker 5>she's using a term about dog because bitch is one
<v Speaker 5>of those words where it's only a curse word depending
<v Speaker 5>on how it's used.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, absolutely, Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>So the kids are watching sound Lock Kids at the moment,
<v Speaker 5>and he says bitch a couple of times, and like
<v Speaker 5>he said, they all call f words. He's net work right,
<v Speaker 5>And he also they say shit a couple of times,
<v Speaker 5>and Elliot every time that's look at me, hey to say,
<v Speaker 5>and he's like, let's listen to it. It's almost like
<v Speaker 5>it's a it's okay. It's when you get to high
<v Speaker 5>school and your teacher uses the word shit or something
<v Speaker 5>and you go, oh.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, we can use these but growing up, no, that's
<v Speaker 3>just some insecure teacher. How do I relate? How do
<v Speaker 3>I be cool kids? How do I reach these kids?
<v Speaker 3>They drop a sword. I've spoken many times about watching
<v Speaker 3>movies with Bob and Margaret, and I'm just them being
<v Speaker 3>we don't care his kids, Let's just fill this kid's
<v Speaker 3>brain with whatever. But you know, it's like when you're
<v Speaker 3>watching a movie with your parents and all of a sudden,
<v Speaker 3>like an unexpected sex scene comes on or something like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>this is unpleasant for everybody. There was a Booby's look.
<v Speaker 3>I remember one time though, I was I'm pretty sure
<v Speaker 3>Bob and Margaret were not paying attention, but I was
<v Speaker 3>watching Commando. Okay, that's the anold schwartzon in the movie.
<v Speaker 3>And yeah, I don't think we were so much upset
<v Speaker 3>by the violence. But there's a bit where one of
<v Speaker 3>the henchmen is trying to come on to the female
<v Speaker 3>lead and she's not having any of it, and he
<v Speaker 3>sort of looks at her and said, forgive the foul
<v Speaker 3>language here folks writing a movie. He looks and said,
<v Speaker 3>you fucking whore, and then just sort of walks off.
<v Speaker 3>And I was kind of like, oh, my ears a
<v Speaker 3>bread because I'm the one who rented this and said
<v Speaker 3>watch command. And you know, meanwhile they're dropping some pretty
<v Speaker 3>harsh turns. And here Dad didn't look up from the
<v Speaker 3>racing guide. Mom's like witch down, got a wine. Mum's
<v Speaker 3>like she's pulling the bobby and saying I had no son.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, that's that can be a little of pudding
<v Speaker 3>when you have that occasion when you when do you
<v Speaker 3>watch it with your parents in the room? Yeah? Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>absolutely yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Now we mentioned earlier, but the Lisa and Marge story,
<v Speaker 5>I just think it was al sort just a nice
<v Speaker 5>bonding story for them too as well. Like we had,
<v Speaker 5>the quill was a well used prop in this story
<v Speaker 5>for both stories, as we mentioned, But I just see
<v Speaker 5>it was nice seeing Lisa and Marge bond over being
<v Speaker 5>female Simpsons bvier. I guess yeah, because we don't really
<v Speaker 5>see Marge's BVS side, it's always March Simpson, so seeing
<v Speaker 5>her get to celebrate her family's history I thought was nice.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah. And also that thing, I mean, you have
<v Speaker 3>it every once in a while when someone just pulls,
<v Speaker 3>like a a cool thing that shows their talented or
<v Speaker 3>skilled in an area. I mean for March's to nonchalantly
<v Speaker 3>just flip up the needle threaded in mid air, it's
<v Speaker 3>kind of like, oh, you know, I'm good at this.
<v Speaker 3>I'm good at this. Yeah. It's an instant kind.
<v Speaker 5>Of believe me sewing and being able to so it
<v Speaker 5>is a talent that I wish I could have made.
<v Speaker 5>Oh yeah, absolutely, i'snbelievable. Yeah yeah, look at Pi's a
<v Speaker 5>button off my button for one Nichols, I'll fix the foy.
<v Speaker 5>I'm like, that's God's work.
<v Speaker 3>I should be able to do. Yeah. Oh yeah. There
<v Speaker 3>are so many things that I would tell young guy
<v Speaker 3>if I could turn back the clock, say four decades,
<v Speaker 3>go back and say fifteen year old guy. First of all,
<v Speaker 3>by applestock. But yeah, also learn how to sew. It's
<v Speaker 3>not that hard. Just put in the just put in
<v Speaker 3>the hours, you know, while you're watching TV, get a
<v Speaker 3>piece of cloth, get a needle and thread and just
<v Speaker 3>learn how to do it. Learn how to do it,
<v Speaker 3>learn how to do it, get some muscle memory. But yeah,
<v Speaker 3>something like that. Absolutely. But yeah, it's just a nice
<v Speaker 3>real shorthand gesture of because Lisa, you know, who was
<v Speaker 3>very sort of book smart and progressive in a lot
<v Speaker 3>of ways. She might think she doesn't do it in
<v Speaker 3>this episode, but you might think, oh, well, I've got
<v Speaker 3>a quil so this can seem kind of lame themard
<v Speaker 3>to be able to do it with flair and with
<v Speaker 3>style that makes you go, oh, okay, well, no, this
<v Speaker 3>is something we're paying attention to, and the person who
<v Speaker 3>does it is someone worth respecting. Yeah, I like the
<v Speaker 3>whole subplot or narrative thread, so to speak of the
<v Speaker 3>whole quilt thing.
<v Speaker 5>I mean the play Yeah, thanks man, it was gonna
<v Speaker 5>be a drive.
<v Speaker 3>I'm like knowledge that. Yeah, the role that it played
<v Speaker 3>absolutely Yeah. But the way it brought these two people
<v Speaker 3>together the inside, it gave you into the into the
<v Speaker 3>movie family. I mean, not a whole lot, but you know,
<v Speaker 3>it just adds something to the overall yeah, greaterst scheme
<v Speaker 3>of things. And I don't want to jump on favorite
<v Speaker 3>moments here, but in a few moments we'll get to it. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>but it certainly culminates in one of my favorite moments
<v Speaker 3>in the episode, and maybe, look, I'll be hard press
<v Speaker 3>to say one of my favorites of the series, but
<v Speaker 3>I think it's a really really good lesson and summed
<v Speaker 3>up in a really interesting.
<v Speaker 5>Ending to I wanted to touch on it anyway, so
<v Speaker 5>I wanted to discuss It's almost like a a strength
<v Speaker 5>through adversity ending, isn't it.
<v Speaker 3>It's making lemons out of lemonade? Yeah? Sorry, yeah, elements walker,
<v Speaker 3>excuse me flip that reverse? Yes?
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<v Speaker 5>was going to say that, you know, you can't get
<v Speaker 5>the quilt back. Some things you can't fix, but we
<v Speaker 5>can sit here and we can mope about it, or
<v Speaker 5>we can power through. And she starts her own quilt.
<v Speaker 5>It would have maybe been nice for her to offer
<v Speaker 5>Marshal chance to add a patch to it as well.
<v Speaker 5>They both sort of start the quilt together.
<v Speaker 3>Would have been and look that may well happen. It
<v Speaker 3>could have been happening five minutes after the end of
<v Speaker 3>this episode. Yeah, but honestly, this feels like the kind
<v Speaker 3>of thing you'd put as your I don't know if
<v Speaker 3>we'd really do it in Australia, but so they certainly
<v Speaker 3>do in the States with ther high school yearbook and
<v Speaker 3>you put a quote in under your photo.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, for Lisa, they do in the States because Millhouse
<v Speaker 5>wrights see you in the car. Well, of course, yeah,
<v Speaker 5>well that's why I say you're doing in Australia. Sorry, apologize,
<v Speaker 5>we do. Well, we did it when I was in
<v Speaker 5>high school.
<v Speaker 3>We did do it.
<v Speaker 5>It was they called their end of year flotsam. It
<v Speaker 5>was called it caught a flotsam. What the hell Australia's
<v Speaker 5>weird word sometimes anyway.
<v Speaker 3>But honestly, what Lisa says. It's one thing to be
<v Speaker 3>a link in the chain, it's another to start your own.
<v Speaker 3>That's a great quote, right, that's a great quote, honestly,
<v Speaker 3>words to live by. So if you're a young person
<v Speaker 3>and you listen to the show, take that one on board.
<v Speaker 3>Tell them guys centure.
<v Speaker 5>I've just googled the word flotsam and it says, according
<v Speaker 5>to the Dictionary, the wreckage of a ship or it's
<v Speaker 5>cargo found floating or washed upon the sea. So yeah,
<v Speaker 5>flotsam and jetsam. So why would we call it a flotsam?
<v Speaker 5>We called a flotsam end of your flotsam?
<v Speaker 3>How biz that?
<v Speaker 5>But you're right, though, that quote is something to live by,
<v Speaker 5>and we're touching on it before we hit record. Lisa
<v Speaker 5>can be very annoying at times. Right, she usually has
<v Speaker 5>a good message, but usually the way she communicates said
<v Speaker 5>message comes across as obnoxious and well beyond her years,
<v Speaker 5>to the point where it's like you're a kid trying
<v Speaker 5>to be an adult. This just felt like a child
<v Speaker 5>who was beyond her years. But she still felt like
<v Speaker 5>a kid saying it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Well, it felt like she had a lot a
<v Speaker 3>great deal of emotional intelligence as well as you know,
<v Speaker 3>book smarts. Yeah, I think this is the way that
<v Speaker 3>Lisa was initially sort of designed and depicted in the
<v Speaker 3>show as, if not necessarily the moral center of the
<v Speaker 3>Simpson family, then someone who is a bit of a
<v Speaker 3>grounding influence despite being a little girl. The characters and
<v Speaker 3>their best and worst traits have been sort of elevated
<v Speaker 3>and heightened alone the years, you know, to the point
<v Speaker 3>now where we're talking about season twenty and it's kind
<v Speaker 3>of like there's no sort of emotion there really anymore.
<v Speaker 3>It's just's what's funny, there's not really any emotional underpending
<v Speaker 3>to it. It's like home Home is a dumb ass.
<v Speaker 3>Where is he in this? You see? I mean he
<v Speaker 3>does silly, impulsive things like he well, he's oh my god,
<v Speaker 3>those shoes. I've got to have those shoes. We can
<v Speaker 3>mean that we can all relate to that shit. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I mean, and he's just not necessarily the brightest thing.
<v Speaker 3>But you know, it's still something that he does.
<v Speaker 5>A bit of a spoiler in my notes for that
<v Speaker 5>particular scene, I think I've got something on the lines of, oh,
<v Speaker 5>this is what you call selfish Homer just buying a
<v Speaker 5>pair of shoes.
<v Speaker 3>Wait to get to season eighteen. H that's right, yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>or Bart's a bratt.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, but as we said at the end of this episode,
<v Speaker 5>he's a kid. Of course he was going to lose
<v Speaker 5>his best friend, and that particularly as I said, that
<v Speaker 5>moment where he says, I'm going to miss your boy.
<v Speaker 5>I thought we'd be friends forever.
<v Speaker 3>It's like, oh man, yeah, yeah, but yeah in this episode,
<v Speaker 3>and I think in the early seasons of the show,
<v Speaker 3>these are very very relatable people, very relatable characters. With
<v Speaker 3>the dial turned up to maybe about three or four,
<v Speaker 3>it's like, you're a little bit exaggerated, but oh shit,
<v Speaker 3>we've all been there, right, And then you get to
<v Speaker 3>layer episodes. Let's crank that doll. Let's crank that doll.
<v Speaker 3>Let's crank that dial until you know there's no dial anymore.
<v Speaker 3>You're in a spinal tapping the jet buttons. Please go
<v Speaker 3>to eleven. Yes.
<v Speaker 5>I always want to touch on the parodies as well,
<v Speaker 5>So we get an et parody here with the fingers.
<v Speaker 3>We get predator. Yeah. I wasn't. I read someone was like, hey,
<v Speaker 3>they're taking a predator And.
<v Speaker 5>This was Friday in the thirteenth. The music was getting
<v Speaker 5>me thrown it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, he's like, yeah, but apparently you know when it
<v Speaker 3>switches to dog vision or animal vision, what do you
<v Speaker 3>hear this sort of yeah, which is and whenever you
<v Speaker 3>get predator vision in the Predator movies, it just wasn't
<v Speaker 3>was that fat? Yeah, it wasn't really that sidebar. I
<v Speaker 3>don't know if we're allowed to do this on them,
<v Speaker 3>the new and new and improved Full Finger dis Gun.
<v Speaker 3>There was a trailer at this morning. Apparently there are
<v Speaker 3>two new Predator movies coming out this year. Well, okay,
<v Speaker 3>the last one was Prayed, wasn't it Yeah, which I enjoyed. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and these two a review of Prey on our Patreon Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>these two new ones are directed by the same guy
<v Speaker 3>I did Pray. There's one coming out called Predator Badlands.
<v Speaker 3>But this one is called Predator Killer of Killers, and
<v Speaker 3>it's anime and as bloody as hell. The trailers on
<v Speaker 3>YouTube now check it out. Check that out.
<v Speaker 5>All right, So before we get into our review, there's
<v Speaker 5>a couple of things I want to touch on. Assassins
<v Speaker 5>right now. Assassins to me, everyone remembers the Assassins, they
<v Speaker 5>can't quite remember which episode it's from. They just remember
<v Speaker 5>that they get eaten by the dogs. So maybe you
<v Speaker 5>can put two and two together. But the assassins, for
<v Speaker 5>some reason, they don't play a huge role in the episode.
<v Speaker 5>They gone once they get eaten. It's like, oh, for
<v Speaker 5>some reason, in my mind, they were the reason he
<v Speaker 5>gets home once to get rid of him.
<v Speaker 3>But it wasn't.
<v Speaker 5>It was the giant cooking. But so he eats his assassins,
<v Speaker 5>and the assassins is almost like the first nail in
<v Speaker 5>a coffin, right, But they seem so unnecessary, but would
<v Speaker 5>absolutely dominate in twenty twenty five because I see people
<v Speaker 5>just we have no money, but for some reason, young
<v Speaker 5>people still have money to spend on useless shit. And
<v Speaker 5>I think the assassins just seem so unnecessarily useless. When
<v Speaker 5>it comes to shoes all the extras, you think, why
<v Speaker 5>do we need all this stuff? But I'd want to
<v Speaker 5>because it's just I want to be part of the club.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, and it's also a real yolo thing, that
<v Speaker 3>thing you were talking about. About. You know, no one's
<v Speaker 3>got any money. It's like, well, look, I want to
<v Speaker 3>be able to afford to retire, I might as well
<v Speaker 3>dress well now, yeah, and I might as well go
<v Speaker 3>on holiday. Now.
<v Speaker 5>I was a big fan of the join the Conspiracy
<v Speaker 5>tagline because it just makes you, it's mystique. You're in
<v Speaker 5>with the in crowd. You're in with the in crowds.
<v Speaker 5>You want, oh, you want to be part of the
<v Speaker 5>in crowd? Join the conspiracy, mate?
<v Speaker 3>Sure? Absolutely. Yeah. The kind of shoes that have just
<v Speaker 3>got everything built into them. What is it like a
<v Speaker 3>pedometer and so.
<v Speaker 5>It's it's Valco straps, water pump in the tongue, built
<v Speaker 5>in reflective sidewalls, and a little vanity license plates.
<v Speaker 3>A little short had a pedometer, Maybe it did.
<v Speaker 5>Maybe I missed that one. Yeah, but the little.
<v Speaker 3>Vanity plates. That's hilarious, so good. There's all a lot
<v Speaker 3>bit ned who you know, you tend to think of, like, well,
<v Speaker 3>shouldn't he be giving this money to the church. He's
<v Speaker 3>going to treat himself a little bit as well. It's
<v Speaker 3>like everyone's in on assassin.
<v Speaker 5>Sometimes you have to treat yourself. It's just sometimes I'll
<v Speaker 5>talk about that when we get to that metical. I've
<v Speaker 5>got some notes on that as well. But apparently these
<v Speaker 5>assassins have become a thing of legend in the sneaker
<v Speaker 5>collector world, many comparing the design of them to an
<v Speaker 5>actual pair of sneakers from the early nineties, the Nike
<v Speaker 5>Air Trainer Sports Classic or something. But yeah, the Nike
<v Speaker 5>Airtrainer shoes which were released just prior to this episode.
<v Speaker 5>So maybe they based the design on that.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, I was getting a very Nike feel off them.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I'm not sure if it's around their course
<v Speaker 3>a Jordan time, do you think, well, yeah, that's what
<v Speaker 3>they are. They're Nicare Air Jordan's.
<v Speaker 5>Okay, so they're Jordan's. Yeah, but the maybe not. I'm
<v Speaker 5>not too sure. But all I know is that shoes, man,
<v Speaker 5>they collect the world. It's a big deal. Oh yeah,
<v Speaker 5>if you're in that world.
<v Speaker 3>I was about to say, oh, it's a bit of
<v Speaker 3>a subculture. No, it's a culture and a gentlemine thing. Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>We've got friends that are willing to drop like a
<v Speaker 5>thousand dollars in a pair of shoes and they don't
<v Speaker 5>even open them. They just leave them when they leave
<v Speaker 5>while they open them, they leave them on a shelf
<v Speaker 5>with the tag. And I'm thinking, okay, Wonder Rock and
<v Speaker 5>wonder Stock. Yeah, if you've got the money to do it.
<v Speaker 5>It's almost like a waving your dick around and kind
<v Speaker 5>of thing for me, Like, it's you've got to have
<v Speaker 5>money to be able to collect these things, unless you're
<v Speaker 5>using all of your money to collect these things.
<v Speaker 3>That's true.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yeah, it's a very doggy dog words you'd find
<v Speaker 5>like Pokemon. Pokemon cards are a big thing at the moment.
<v Speaker 5>Have you seen all these videos of people trying to
<v Speaker 5>empty at the Pokemon card machines at supermarkets and whatnot.
<v Speaker 3>I have not seen this video. Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>So people are like lining up and they have machines
<v Speaker 5>that they restock at night, and you buy the Pokemon
<v Speaker 5>cards from them. It's almost like a vending machine, right,
<v Speaker 5>And people are going there and dropping you know, five
<v Speaker 5>grand and on nothing but Pokemon cards so that they
<v Speaker 5>can own all the cards. And people are having all
<v Speaker 5>out wars for these cards because they can flip them
<v Speaker 5>and make their money back.
<v Speaker 3>One of the best advertising or marketing slogans that was
<v Speaker 3>ever done is got to catch them all. Oh, unbelievable, unbelievable.
<v Speaker 3>I mean we were talking about Nike and Nike's got
<v Speaker 3>just do it, which I think is a really good slogan.
<v Speaker 3>Nike does some fantasy, but got to catch them all.
<v Speaker 5>That's the mecha mate. It's catchy, but it's also telling
<v Speaker 5>me I've got to catch them all. What have I do?
<v Speaker 3>We want to? We want to, We want a slogan
<v Speaker 3>that's catchy. Can we use the word catch.
<v Speaker 5>But Judy Wright I was talking to her last night.
<v Speaker 5>She does custom shoes.
<v Speaker 3>Say who's Judy right? Judy Right?
<v Speaker 5>She is the owner of sq Customs, an Instagram page.
<v Speaker 5>She has made genuine, screen accurate replicas of assassins and
<v Speaker 5>she's now got them available for pre order and for
<v Speaker 5>the first one hundred people who pre order them, she's
<v Speaker 5>doing for one hundred and twenty five dollars. Moly, so
<v Speaker 5>get in early if you want to be you're going
<v Speaker 5>to be follow her channel and order for one hundred
<v Speaker 5>and twenty five dollars, which is pretty cheap.
<v Speaker 3>Do we use our promo code four finger discount?
<v Speaker 5>No.
<v Speaker 3>I just saw it and I was like, that's cool.
<v Speaker 5>And we're going to be getting her on our community
<v Speaker 5>podcast in the month to talk about them, and she's
<v Speaker 5>gonna be sending us a pair of assassins, so, oh
<v Speaker 5>my god, we're gonna feel special in our assassins for
<v Speaker 5>like one h or Yeah. No, we're either left foot
<v Speaker 5>genuinely one each well they have family played saying Dando
<v Speaker 5>and guard.
<v Speaker 3>Oh that'd be cooldn't it. Judy, do your thing, Do
<v Speaker 3>your thing, Judy. So yeah, Well I'm looking forward to
<v Speaker 3>talking to Judy Man so.
<v Speaker 5>Follow her on Instagram. It's sq Underscore Customs. You can
<v Speaker 5>find a link for that description of this podcast. But
<v Speaker 5>it's now time for favorite moments. My favorite your first.
<v Speaker 3>Moment when we were talking about Sylvia Winfield earlier, not
<v Speaker 3>to Emily win Robert, Sylvia win Field, Homer refers to
<v Speaker 3>as an old battle axe.
<v Speaker 5>That's a great one of my favorite bits that that
<v Speaker 5>Neil Ever did on Conan, Because my wife what a
<v Speaker 5>battle axe?
<v Speaker 3>Not Norm?
<v Speaker 5>So Norm what I think of Neil Norm Norman Donald.
<v Speaker 5>It's like, my wife, what a battle axe? And Conda
<v Speaker 5>just like battle axe?
<v Speaker 4>This his battle axe.
<v Speaker 3>It's just a it's a great insult.
<v Speaker 5>Particularly Yeah, it's like it's not a swear word, but
<v Speaker 5>it's just what a what a battle axe? Look, no
<v Speaker 5>one's called their wife. That's is nineteen fifty two, I
<v Speaker 5>think says it's a great term battle axe.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I've just written down Tracy Ormond exclamation point yeah,
<v Speaker 3>what a lady. Yeah, yeah, it just does great work,
<v Speaker 3>just really commits to the bits. I enjoyed her voice
<v Speaker 3>work very very much. I've written out, oh my god,
<v Speaker 3>look at that magazine stand two Dallas, please take me
<v Speaker 3>back to nineteen ninety four. So yeah, just love that.
<v Speaker 3>But also just the follow one from that, when Homer
<v Speaker 3>is taken the team Maga scenes to the to the gun. Now,
<v Speaker 3>this is interesting because you know, okay, you want to
<v Speaker 3>tin scream and tin steam and all that kind of stuff. Therefore,
<v Speaker 3>my daughter, yeah, shere pal as home was leaving. What
<v Speaker 3>does he say? He said, the wise guy wise Guy?
<v Speaker 3>Is this the birth of wise Guy?
<v Speaker 5>Well he's not the wise Guy visually, but it certainly
<v Speaker 5>sounds like his voice sounds like and yeah, sure thing.
<v Speaker 3>So it's not quite the wise Guy boys, but it's close,
<v Speaker 3>and it's the kind of thing that I would say absolutely.
<v Speaker 5>I really liked Lisa calling Homer at work and say
<v Speaker 5>she has the mumps and he says the kissing disease.
<v Speaker 5>A little girls growing up, that was such.
<v Speaker 3>A sweet, lovely everything felt relatable and real, felt grounded
<v Speaker 3>and real. That's the word real was the word. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>very much. No, I love that. I thought that was
<v Speaker 3>I thought that was fantastic. And Lenny comes in and
<v Speaker 3>takes over. I love the soap that they were watching together.
<v Speaker 3>That yeah stuff talking about that as well.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, just great memories of being at NaNs on school holidays,
<v Speaker 5>young and the restless.
<v Speaker 3>Well that's that was the great thing about being sick
<v Speaker 3>and being away from school. It's like there's this whole
<v Speaker 3>world of daytime television. Ah well mate, yeah, and it's like, well,
<v Speaker 3>this is in design for me. There's design for grown ups. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>this is what growns are into. These soap operas and
<v Speaker 3>these game shows, all these like Beauty and the b
<v Speaker 3>shows or it's like, you know, you've got one dude
<v Speaker 3>surrounded by a bunch of what he would call old
<v Speaker 3>battle Is that is that what you women think? Oh
<v Speaker 3>go to hell stand?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, that kind of business. But that, yeah, that's so cool.
<v Speaker 5>The kids shows and at nine o'clock after that start
<v Speaker 5>to get at three. Nine to three is Nanny's time.
<v Speaker 5>But yeah, just that dreadful guy and saying, well you
<v Speaker 5>trim me like garbage.
<v Speaker 3>That's because you love it. Beabie, I thought you were dead.
<v Speaker 5>I was.
<v Speaker 3>I like Bart saying my dead man, know how often
<v Speaker 3>I get asked that. I think That's what I've got
<v Speaker 3>for favorite moments, and one for me was Lisa's speech
<v Speaker 3>to save Santas Little Helper and ensure that Marge and
<v Speaker 3>Homer give them give him one more chance to finish
<v Speaker 3>his session these classes, Lisa, They're never gonna put the
<v Speaker 3>plug on me. What you may next question? You there
<v Speaker 3>eating the paste?
<v Speaker 5>All right, let's get into some trivia questions. My first
<v Speaker 5>question for you is what time does Marge book in
<v Speaker 5>Lisa to see doctor Hibbert.
<v Speaker 3>It's two pm? Two pm? What don't but says that
<v Speaker 3>Lisa wasted one disease? Please don't waste the mumps? What
<v Speaker 3>disease did she wastes? Chicken pox? Chicken pox? Chicken pox? Yes?
<v Speaker 5>How much does sad As Little Helpers never break colonna?
<v Speaker 3>Eighty nine cent? Yes, according to doctor Hibbert, a swelling
<v Speaker 3>of the what indicse you've got mumps?
<v Speaker 5>I did write it in my notes. It was it
<v Speaker 5>was a swelling of the It wasn't the gums was
<v Speaker 5>It's no.
<v Speaker 3>She's got a discolouration of again. She's got a swell
<v Speaker 3>selling toys, paratoid toys, yes, or parrotids yes, is because
<v Speaker 3>it's spelled paratoys. But I swear to paratids.
<v Speaker 2>Oh.
<v Speaker 3>When I was watching it on Friendly Pod Disney Plus,
<v Speaker 3>they spelled it to paratids.
<v Speaker 5>Oh maybe I just read it wrong. It happens sometimes.
<v Speaker 5>And my final question for you is, according to the
<v Speaker 5>Journal of Canine Obedience, which Emily is reading, what is
<v Speaker 5>the dog of the nineties, it's the air one as well,
<v Speaker 5>just googling what isn't Airdale? Look, oh, it's one of
<v Speaker 5>those dogs I always call like Scottish terriers, bigger versions
<v Speaker 5>of them, right, yes, a small dogs.
<v Speaker 3>That's I know the dog. You know. They look sweet.
<v Speaker 3>They look very nice, don't they They look friendly, kind
<v Speaker 3>of dumb, but friendly, and and airedales all over the
<v Speaker 3>world while we're gone, fuck you man. The thing is
<v Speaker 3>that these dogs have hairy mouths in that right is.
<v Speaker 5>Whenever I see them, particularly the white ones, their hair
<v Speaker 5>in the mouse always fucking filthy. Oh yeah, because they
<v Speaker 5>eat their food gets caught in there. I go, I
<v Speaker 5>just don't want that dog. This looks messy.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, this airedale that we're looking out in particularly,
<v Speaker 3>it looks like he's grown a mustache. It does indeed, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>well she it looks like someone from Tombstone. That's correct, Yes,
<v Speaker 3>a movie we should be covering. We'll get to that
<v Speaker 3>one of these days. We'll be done with trivia because
<v Speaker 3>it'd give one more question. Why not sure? How many
<v Speaker 3>Coreris are they? According to Lisa.
<v Speaker 5>Eight and I think this is the first mention of
<v Speaker 5>the Corries because it's Bart's friend falls in Love, which
<v Speaker 5>I think it's season three where she goes to the
<v Speaker 5>Corey Hogh. I think it's that episode. Yes, but Corey
<v Speaker 5>was a big thing in the early nineties, Corey Fellman.
<v Speaker 3>Corey Well, there are only really two Coreys who Corey is, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>Cory Hay, Corey Felman. Yeah, late eighties, early nineties.
<v Speaker 5>His music career mate. It's it's a it's a spectacle.
<v Speaker 3>I want to give Corey Felman the benefit of the
<v Speaker 3>doubt in a lot of ways. But he recently went
<v Speaker 3>on was it I don't think it was Mark Maron's podcast,
<v Speaker 3>and might have been right on Rosenbaumbs, but he was
<v Speaker 3>talking about bumbs.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yeah, he was on Gym's recently.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, he was talking about Oh yeah, I had the
<v Speaker 3>role in What's Eating Gilbert Grape that Leonardo DiCaprio eventually
<v Speaker 3>got but I actually had that role. But then Johnny
<v Speaker 3>Depp said, I'm not walking to Corey Feldman his drug addict,
<v Speaker 3>So so he got booted from that. Somehow doubt this.
<v Speaker 3>I doubt the veracity of your story, Corey Filman. He
<v Speaker 3>said he said something else that he was kind of
<v Speaker 3>attached to that was some big oh that he auditioned
<v Speaker 3>for Titanic as in Leo's as in Leo's maybe just
<v Speaker 3>doesn't like Leo. I get the feeling he's kind of
<v Speaker 3>looking at Leo going could have been me, should have
<v Speaker 3>been me? It's like they could have been me. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>it's like, Corey, we all enjoy your run as a
<v Speaker 3>as a child actor. Even as a young adult actor.
<v Speaker 3>You will find in Licensed Drive and The Lost Boys,
<v Speaker 3>in Gremlins and Gremlins and and finally the Final Chapter
<v Speaker 3>and The Great Stand by Me. I think once you
<v Speaker 3>hit sort of adulthood, it's like a time you get
<v Speaker 3>a desk job. Buddy. Anyway, that's it. But the core
<v Speaker 3>I think, and that's my two cents.
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<v Speaker 5>you've tried to save money, right, So it's called the
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<v Speaker 5>so let's get into our review of Bart's Dog gets
<v Speaker 5>an f s. Well, but still we'll be revealed for
<v Speaker 5>an hour. But our run through we should say, let's
<v Speaker 5>call this the run through. So the original air edit
<v Speaker 5>was March seventh, nineteen ninety one, And start playing that
<v Speaker 5>game again. What do you think We're the top three
<v Speaker 5>films at the US box office in the week of
<v Speaker 5>March seventh, nineteen ninety one. Ah, this one you could
<v Speaker 5>probably get because it was arguably the most successful film
<v Speaker 5>of the year from a Acclaim perspective. Well, I think
<v Speaker 5>it was released to the year before, though, I know
<v Speaker 5>it could have been Visity before. Maybe you're still carried over.
<v Speaker 5>I'm not too sure.
<v Speaker 1>It was.
<v Speaker 3>Sounds of the Lambs was number one. That was nineteen
<v Speaker 3>ninety No, no, that's ninety nine one because I was
<v Speaker 3>released on Valentine's naw ninety one.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, so it was number one for like four straight weeks.
<v Speaker 5>So yeah, Side of the Lambs. Number two was The Doors,
<v Speaker 5>which we discussed recently on the movie Guy with Maltin
<v Speaker 5>and Davis Kimo.
<v Speaker 3>Tragically lost to his life. Rest in peace. Voal Kilma
<v Speaker 3>and Sleeping with the Enemy was number three, starring Julia Robertson. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I've never seen it. I've never heard of it. Have
<v Speaker 3>you never heard of it? It's all right, right, it's
<v Speaker 3>kind of like that you can put on the situbraina
<v Speaker 3>for a while a little bit. Yeah, it's like the
<v Speaker 3>Julia Robarts version of the soap that they catch in
<v Speaker 3>this episode, because yeah, it's basically Julia Robins married a
<v Speaker 3>rich dude. He turned out to be pricked. She made
<v Speaker 3>an escape and but guess what he followed her? What
<v Speaker 3>a prick?
<v Speaker 5>Okay, cool, Well, I may or may not check it out.
<v Speaker 5>It's it's fine, yes, but this episode was written by
<v Speaker 5>John Viddi, directed by Jim ridd And, who both appear
<v Speaker 5>in the audio commentary with Matt Groening and l Gene
<v Speaker 5>the chalkboard gig I Will Not Sell School Property, which
<v Speaker 5>is a re used short gag from but gets Hit
<v Speaker 5>by a Car, which we reviewed a couple of years
<v Speaker 5>ago with our man who wrote the original draft of
<v Speaker 5>the New Avengers film, which I believe has now been
<v Speaker 5>changed because Kang is no longer in that film.
<v Speaker 3>That's right, Jeff, Yeah a man, Jeff, yeah yeah. Share
<v Speaker 3>to Jeff.
<v Speaker 5>And cash gag the family sits on the couch with Sat,
<v Speaker 5>a little helper and a slawball too, which I think
<v Speaker 5>was a pretty fitting cash gag.
<v Speaker 3>Very apt.
<v Speaker 5>Yes, So the episode kicks off and I'm just looking
<v Speaker 5>at my notes from the audio commentary. We've got to
<v Speaker 5>mention Frank Welker. Frank Welker absolute icon in the voice
<v Speaker 5>acting world. He is the voice of Megatron, He's the
<v Speaker 5>voice of Fred from Scooby Doo visional voice of Fred,
<v Speaker 5>but he basically does any animal voices animal animated animals.
<v Speaker 5>As Frank Welker, the guy we've tried to get him
<v Speaker 5>on Chincoming's podcast. It's never going to happen. He's just
<v Speaker 5>he's very he likes to keep to himself, very private,
<v Speaker 5>which is more power to him. He swats wide to ask.
<v Speaker 5>I guess you could say. But he does sound as
<v Speaker 5>a little helper and snowball to the animal sounds in
<v Speaker 5>this episode, and I thought, he it's amazing. I was
<v Speaker 5>saying the commentary that you say to a dog, and
<v Speaker 5>all of a sudden he's becomes a dog. And it's
<v Speaker 5>to have that kind of talent must be unbelievable.
<v Speaker 3>Oh absolutely, And yeah, it may sound like an odd
<v Speaker 3>thing to specialize in, or you know, oh, how much
<v Speaker 3>can this guy actually bring to the table. He's just going, actually,
<v Speaker 3>he's not doing.
<v Speaker 5>My hand like a piece of chicken. Do's a shout
<v Speaker 5>out to our review of Cassabita.
<v Speaker 3>Indeed it is. I'm going down to South Park check
<v Speaker 3>that one out. But I don't think you get the
<v Speaker 3>connection that you have with Sanders little helper, with the
<v Speaker 3>particular in this episode, without what he brings to the table.
<v Speaker 3>I think I think it adds something.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, especially the sound of the choke chain like that
<v Speaker 5>sounded like a genuine dog being choked. Absolutely, yeah, good stuff.
<v Speaker 5>But the episode kicks off early morning paper boys delivering
<v Speaker 5>in the morning paper. No, I had a paper on
<v Speaker 5>when I was younger.
<v Speaker 3>Did you have a paper on? I think I may
<v Speaker 3>have briefly sort of walked around the neighborhood dropping off
<v Speaker 3>what do you call them broches? Yeah, for the supermarkets
<v Speaker 3>and the like. Okay, now I never had an actual
<v Speaker 3>paper route.
<v Speaker 5>Whenever I visit my parents, I drive around and I
<v Speaker 5>always just get flashbacks. I'm like, oh, it's rosted to
<v Speaker 5>live all the papers here.
<v Speaker 3>I got paid.
<v Speaker 5>They pay you nothing. I think I can pay the
<v Speaker 5>maybe like fourteen dollars to live hundreds of papers. It's
<v Speaker 5>just it's slave flavor, mate.
<v Speaker 3>It really is. It's still got any jabs.
<v Speaker 5>But I really love this, and I've got here one
<v Speaker 5>notes any episode that begins at sunrise with the Simpsons
<v Speaker 5>house exterior with that music. Of course, it's music in
<v Speaker 5>the morning. It just always makes me smile. I really
<v Speaker 5>really like it. But the dog here, Hope he picks
<v Speaker 5>up the newspaper, his back cracks, his knees cracking, and
<v Speaker 5>I feel you, buddy, it said a little help, but
<v Speaker 5>grabs the paper and ruins the sports section. But now
<v Speaker 5>it's breakfast time and Homer's paper has a giant hole
<v Speaker 5>in it. He can only sports section a very nineties thing.
<v Speaker 5>We would never have this issue anymore because who buys
<v Speaker 5>a newspaper anymore?
<v Speaker 3>Tell me about it. Yeah, but I think it also
<v Speaker 3>indicates that there's an old thing about the dog brings
<v Speaker 3>in the paper for you. I don't think I've ever
<v Speaker 3>seen this happen, nah, but I think it indicates, oh,
<v Speaker 3>this dog means well, you know, he's like, oh, I'm
<v Speaker 3>here to help, I'm bringing the paper for you. No,
<v Speaker 3>no much, I don't want you to do it. Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, So the sounds little helper here is eyeing off
<v Speaker 5>homeless food. And this is the first point of view
<v Speaker 5>shot that we gap, And I think it's just good
<v Speaker 5>establishing to us the viewer that he's just he's hearing gibberish.
<v Speaker 5>As owners of dogs and cats, we speak to them
<v Speaker 5>and we think they understand this, but no, they are
<v Speaker 5>just trying to work out, well that gibberish means this.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they don't know what we're saying. Oh yeah, they
<v Speaker 3>don't understand the actual words of that. It really is
<v Speaker 3>more about the tone or the volume in which you're
<v Speaker 3>saying it.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, and this, this point of view shot just justifies
<v Speaker 5>why he struggles to follow Waters. He's not doing it
<v Speaker 5>by choice, he just doesn't get it. You might as
<v Speaker 5>well be speaking French to him.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>So Margin goes to get Lisa ready for school.
<v Speaker 3>She's clearly unwell.
<v Speaker 5>And I was saying in the commentary, they're thinking, how
<v Speaker 5>do we draw mumps, and like all we could think
<v Speaker 5>of was the cheeks, And I'm like, no, it worked,
<v Speaker 5>it does.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I mean, well, the minute that you see a
<v Speaker 3>little bit the bolts like, oh yeah, that's mumps. I
<v Speaker 3>went to school with a kid who had like the
<v Speaker 3>worst case of the mumps. He is honestly bulging out.
<v Speaker 3>His nickname became Monp for the next two years. Really,
<v Speaker 3>oh yeah, he just looked absolutely shocking.
<v Speaker 5>I've never seen anyone with mumps. I don't think I
<v Speaker 5>had it when I was a kid. Is okay, maybe
<v Speaker 5>I did. Nikola gets in her glans sort of flat
<v Speaker 5>up sometimes and her neck sort of sticks out a
<v Speaker 5>little bit. But yeah, I know, just yeah, that's a
<v Speaker 5>saying the commentary they just just give a bigger cheeks,
<v Speaker 5>that'll do. And Homer is calling out saying, man, your
<v Speaker 5>Doug is hungry, I like much, Well, then feed him,
<v Speaker 5>then do it?
<v Speaker 3>You know what do you want me from me?
<v Speaker 5>But unfortunately he's left his play at attended and the
<v Speaker 5>dog has eaten his food. Annoying dogs should be on
<v Speaker 5>the table eating the food.
<v Speaker 3>I do get that.
<v Speaker 5>I mean there weren't my street. That was a well,
<v Speaker 5>well what do you expect? But still a dog should
<v Speaker 5>be still fit off.
<v Speaker 3>The p oh no, no, no, no, I mean yeah,
<v Speaker 3>when that kind of thing happens. And I mean I've had,
<v Speaker 3>as I mentioned so many times, basically will jump up
<v Speaker 3>on the counter. It's like, let this alone for one minute.
<v Speaker 3>I turned my back.
<v Speaker 5>My one sagon Jack never stole food. Well, very lucky
<v Speaker 5>in that regard. Yeah, I had my previous dog, though
<v Speaker 5>you left anything out gone.
<v Speaker 3>Pardon me was like, well I should have known better,
<v Speaker 3>And pardon me is like I shouldn't have to know better.
<v Speaker 5>My name Marlene once had a dog, Molly, Miss Molly
<v Speaker 5>and Michael Darren took over and once my name passed
<v Speaker 5>and looked after her until she was until she passed away.
<v Speaker 5>She once she was a shocker, but she was a rescue.
<v Speaker 5>My name rescued her from someone. It was like a
<v Speaker 5>puppy farm, and she was just constantly just because she
<v Speaker 5>was like the mother in the puppy farm. She was
<v Speaker 5>just bread and bread and bread. It wasn't treated well.
<v Speaker 5>It's almost like she had to She obviously had to
<v Speaker 5>fend for her food because whenever there was food, it
<v Speaker 5>was just all of it's mine, I'm eating it really
<v Speaker 5>really fast. Right. But one time my name came home
<v Speaker 5>and she had got into the freezer and eaten and
<v Speaker 5>the fridge and eaten an entire loaf of frozen fucking bread,
<v Speaker 5>frozen bread, eating it and a dozen eggs, just shells
<v Speaker 5>at all.
<v Speaker 3>Shared to that dog and protein made a tasty say,
<v Speaker 3>it's clearly clearly loading up. But yeah, NaN's like it
<v Speaker 3>was just a leaf of it was frozen shells and
<v Speaker 3>all shells and all. Yeah, crazy stuff.
<v Speaker 5>But this is where sat As little helper is now
<v Speaker 5>tied to a stake outside and he's ruined the grass.
<v Speaker 5>And that's what happens when you have dogs at it.
<v Speaker 5>Seay run around the backyard, ruined the grass. Alliot's ruined
<v Speaker 5>the back corner of our backyard and the other back
<v Speaker 5>corner from when he's bowling the cricket ball and when
<v Speaker 5>he's batting, so it's just wherever he's constantly standing.
<v Speaker 3>So it just just dirt there, no grass. But that's
<v Speaker 3>what's happened here. And he's now digging up various toys
<v Speaker 3>and I'm sorry. He's just reminded me of something. Whenever
<v Speaker 3>I'll go over to Lose, I'll park in one particular spot, yea,
<v Speaker 3>on the grass on the road, on the on the grass. Well,
<v Speaker 3>sometimes I'll be in the driveway, but sometimes be on
<v Speaker 3>the nature ruined the grass well, and I haven't ruined
<v Speaker 3>it a flat a little bit. But then I parked
<v Speaker 3>on a different aspect of it, and she said, you're
<v Speaker 3>going to create another flat spot.
<v Speaker 5>On it's the passive aggressive Are you going to do that?
<v Speaker 5>And You're like, I know you're joking, but I don't
<v Speaker 5>think you are joking. I'll go back to my other spot. Sorry, sweetheart,
<v Speaker 5>I came over here to mow the lawn.
<v Speaker 3>Anyway.
<v Speaker 5>But he's dug up the talking crusty here. You're my
<v Speaker 5>best friend, blah blah blah, ruins it their Marge calls
<v Speaker 5>doctor Hibbitt at his home. Marge, what are you doing?
<v Speaker 5>First and foremost, I can't work out the timeline of
<v Speaker 5>this episode because home picks up the morning paper.
<v Speaker 3>He's not going to work. He's sitting there having his
<v Speaker 3>breakfast at the table.
<v Speaker 5>Right, that's fine. Maybe he gets up really early, but
<v Speaker 5>then Lisa can't go to school. Why are the Hibbitts
<v Speaker 5>already the dinner table when she calls.
<v Speaker 3>Oh, well, maybe it's their breakfast table.
<v Speaker 5>Well, they're having breakfasts where they maybe, but they would
<v Speaker 5>have seem made possibly. Something I enjoyed about that their
<v Speaker 5>rumors didn't feel like a breakfast vibe. I've certainly had
<v Speaker 5>a Cosby vibe. We're in our carsbisweater.
<v Speaker 3>But something I enjoyed about that bid was like, first
<v Speaker 3>of all, I'm very curious as to how you got
<v Speaker 3>my home phone number. You don't hear what what she said?
<v Speaker 3>Very ingenious along those sometimes it were better. That's classic comedy.
<v Speaker 3>Writers use your user imas like, oh, that's very clever,
<v Speaker 3>because it's very clever, and these writers seem clever by extension, and.
<v Speaker 5>Hibbert here isn't quite the jovial Hibbit that we come
<v Speaker 5>to expect.
<v Speaker 3>Yet you get a lot of different voices in this well,
<v Speaker 3>because I mean, this was the original hip, but it's
<v Speaker 3>they haven't quite worked out the voices yet. True, but
<v Speaker 3>even home is a little bit different still, but you
<v Speaker 3>get to well, Martin Prince has a dog at the
<v Speaker 3>at the at the dog training place. Doesn't sayd like
<v Speaker 3>Martin Prince. Does he talk? Does he he does? What
<v Speaker 3>does he ask?
<v Speaker 5>I've forgotten exactly but I can't remember. But he's there,
<v Speaker 5>and he says something as high pitch as it because
<v Speaker 5>his voice.
<v Speaker 3>Was more certainly a modern Prince voice.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, it's not that his voice wasn't as high.
<v Speaker 3>It was certainly lower lower. Yeah, yeah, but hibbit's not
<v Speaker 3>as we get a slight little but you're not getting Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>you're not getting that.
<v Speaker 5>He's more yeah, the serious doctor here. But he tells
<v Speaker 5>her well, basically he says, I think she's got the mumps.
<v Speaker 5>He's like, well, I'm the professional. I think I'll diagnose
<v Speaker 5>the child. Do you have a Google doctor?
<v Speaker 3>I've tried. I try not to now I think I
<v Speaker 3>had one too many.
<v Speaker 5>Always get worst case scenarios.
<v Speaker 3>You worry about it. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Remember once I had a lump like on my parts
<v Speaker 5>pieces and I was like, I'm going to die, you know.
<v Speaker 5>I googled it like this means you have cancer two
<v Speaker 5>days to live. And I went there and I just like, no,
<v Speaker 5>it's fine. You know, just had adult just sounding like
<v Speaker 5>you'll be fine. It's just a fat deposit. And I
<v Speaker 5>was like, oh, okay, then, so I'm not going to
<v Speaker 5>die to myrow.
<v Speaker 3>I got your fat deposit right here. Yeah, thought about it.
<v Speaker 5>I thought about saying that, and I went, you know what,
<v Speaker 5>I'm not going to say this. My parts around my ankles,
<v Speaker 5>my junk's in your hand.
<v Speaker 6>No way, she's faking.
<v Speaker 2>Please stays home. I stay home. If fight stays home,
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to school. Fine, then wait a minute, Plica
<v Speaker 2>go to school. Then I go to school, but then
<v Speaker 2>Lisa stays home, so I stay home. So Wesa goes
<v Speaker 2>to school.
<v Speaker 6>Lisa, don't confuse your brother like that. Have a nice
<v Speaker 6>day at school.
<v Speaker 2>Bar get my homework from missus Hoover hook Lisa, you
<v Speaker 2>waste the chicken picks. Don't waste the months.
<v Speaker 5>Apparently, Miss Hoover Grating says in the commentary, was his
<v Speaker 5>first grade teacher. Okay, that's where the name comes from
<v Speaker 5>from Miss Hoover and him. Here good advice from Barb.
<v Speaker 5>You wasted chicken pox. Don't waste the mump. Use this
<v Speaker 5>to your advantage. And I've got in my notes. There
<v Speaker 5>was a little sense of excitement for me when you
<v Speaker 5>woke up as a child on a school day and
<v Speaker 5>you felt like you were slightly off. You weren't sick,
<v Speaker 5>be like, I can emphasize this, and I can somehow
<v Speaker 5>get out of school.
<v Speaker 3>I can do the first buller and kind of lick
<v Speaker 3>my palms.
<v Speaker 5>I saw Tommy, I gotta pooh, I gotta pooh, and
<v Speaker 5>you just you have a cough. I was able to cough,
<v Speaker 5>like a really bad cough on command, so that usually
<v Speaker 5>got me out of school. But waking up and going, oh,
<v Speaker 5>I can use this.
<v Speaker 3>I had that one. Fortunately it was before school, was
<v Speaker 3>like maybe a week or so before school returned for
<v Speaker 3>the year. It was like early January or something, and
<v Speaker 3>I wor, oh, oh, I got a pain in myselthing.
<v Speaker 3>Oh and oh damn, I could have used this sure,
<v Speaker 3>And it wasn't getting better. It was getting worse and
<v Speaker 3>getting worse, and it was like, oh, actually I'm in
<v Speaker 3>real pain. Ah, I don't And I turned out how
<v Speaker 3>to pend pedasitist. Yeah, I remember mate having that. I
<v Speaker 3>remember going I'm an excruciating pad. I'm like, oh fuck,
<v Speaker 3>I hope I never get this pedasiitist.
<v Speaker 5>It's really bad. He was like, he's a kid that
<v Speaker 5>never complained. He was like, I don't remember. I'm an
<v Speaker 5>excusiating pain.
<v Speaker 3>I was like, oh fuck. Oh yeah.
<v Speaker 5>And every time I get like a slight stitch, I go, please,
<v Speaker 5>not a pedasitist.
<v Speaker 3>Please. These days, I think it's relatively easily taken care
<v Speaker 3>of it. But the pain still there. Oh yeah, the
<v Speaker 3>pains there absolutely. I think mine was very, very close
<v Speaker 3>to bursting before they rushed into.
<v Speaker 5>Organs that we don't need as well, Why is it
<v Speaker 5>there as long? As like I was left in there
<v Speaker 5>by mistake when they designed the human body.
<v Speaker 3>It was God's mistake. Yes.
<v Speaker 5>But I've got a friend. I saw him on the weekend.
<v Speaker 5>I won't say his name because he likes to keep
<v Speaker 5>this private, but he recently had brain surgery, pretty crazy
<v Speaker 5>brain surgery to kind of had a piece of his
<v Speaker 5>skull to give his brain more space to so it's
<v Speaker 5>not a hole in his skull, but I had to
<v Speaker 5>like cave out the inside of his skull so his
<v Speaker 5>brain would have more room. But pretty intense stuff, right,
<v Speaker 5>I said to him, so like if you use it
<v Speaker 5>to just get out of work and stuff, and he goes,
<v Speaker 5>I haven't really told anybody. I'm like, mate, if I
<v Speaker 5>had brain surgery, I'd be using a brain surgery card
<v Speaker 5>every day for like five years. I'd be sitting up
<v Speaker 5>a gofund me if someone said to me, can you
<v Speaker 5>get me a drink? I got brain brain surgery. He
<v Speaker 5>passed that brain surgery. It's the kind of thing I
<v Speaker 5>would be dropping that card every chance I got. And
<v Speaker 5>he's like, no, I don't worry want to know about it.
<v Speaker 5>I'm like, mate, don't waste brain service. Of all the
<v Speaker 5>things that way, don't waste brain surgery.
<v Speaker 3>Can you help me out with this?
<v Speaker 6>Oh?
<v Speaker 3>I don't know. I mean, have you recently had a
<v Speaker 3>bit of your skull cut out?
<v Speaker 5>I'm not laughing at his surgery. No, No, terrified friend
<v Speaker 5>sounds like quite the lord. Yeah he is, indeed, but
<v Speaker 5>sets a little helper here is still burying items in
<v Speaker 5>the yard. This time it's a pop plant. He's clearly
<v Speaker 5>just bored and just needs to get his energy out
<v Speaker 5>very much.
<v Speaker 3>Just a kid.
<v Speaker 5>Who they are is ADHD's add It's like, you know
<v Speaker 5>what if you just maybe spent some eh of time
<v Speaker 5>with a kid and kept him busy. Yes, he might
<v Speaker 5>have as might have a case of it, but you're
<v Speaker 5>not helping the case by giving him a night battlet
<v Speaker 5>him sit there playing games, go do stuff with him.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, it feels a bit reductive to sort of compare,
<v Speaker 3>you know, dogs to children or something like that. There's similarities.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, but some podcasts I was listening, he was
<v Speaker 3>talking about, you know, the crisis with young males. Everyone's
<v Speaker 3>jumping on this bandwagon after watching Adolescents on Netflix. But
<v Speaker 3>this guy basically said, yeah, it's like a dog, and
<v Speaker 3>a tired dog is a happy dog. A restless dog
<v Speaker 3>is an unhappy dog. So you know, it's like with kids.
<v Speaker 3>Take him to the park, let him run around, kick
<v Speaker 3>a footy or whatever, but you know, exhaust them.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, Ali, after school, he says, can we the footy?
<v Speaker 5>I've got nothing to do in the afternoon. Yeah, sure, mate,
<v Speaker 5>Let's go kick the footy for an hour and when
<v Speaker 5>we get home he's got it out of his system.
<v Speaker 5>You know, it's it's not climbing the walls.
<v Speaker 3>I'm sure.
<v Speaker 5>If I said to Alict and we're gonna go home,
<v Speaker 5>he'd sit there, he'd fidget. You can tell when Elliott
<v Speaker 5>hasn't got his energy yet, he can't sit still.
<v Speaker 3>Sure, kids are kids, and particularly young boys are nuclear
<v Speaker 3>reactors of energy. Oh yeah mate, Yeah, and if they sorry,
<v Speaker 3>I'm putting on my doctor spock at here. But you know,
<v Speaker 3>if they're spending their downtime watching scrange or something like that, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>where's that energy gonna go. It's gonna sort of burn
<v Speaker 3>up and you're gonna get fall out.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, not good at all. Yeah, we could get There's
<v Speaker 5>a whole conversation there which I won't get into. But
<v Speaker 5>this is where say this little helper sees Bart get
<v Speaker 5>onto the school bus. He breaks free from his chain,
<v Speaker 5>but tells him to go back home, but of course
<v Speaker 5>he doesn't, and he said, goes on a little adventure,
<v Speaker 5>eating some bugs and stealing some beef jerky from the
<v Speaker 5>quickie marts, Mum and pop store. Who says, here, and
<v Speaker 5>then he chases some ducks at the pond, just having
<v Speaker 5>a grand old day. Let me see Sylvia Winfield played
<v Speaker 5>by Tracy Ollen. She's calling Homer Yo.
<v Speaker 7>Sim said, there's a Sylvia Winfield that canaine of yours
<v Speaker 7>is in my pool.
<v Speaker 5>Again.
<v Speaker 3>I'm calling a dog warden right now? Oh are you well?
<v Speaker 8>You go ahead and call your precious dog warden your
<v Speaker 8>battle axe, because my dog is tied up in the backyard.
<v Speaker 6>There's only one.
<v Speaker 2>Family on this block, no on earth inconsiderate enough to
<v Speaker 2>let a monster like that wrong.
<v Speaker 3>Free.
<v Speaker 8>Are you losing your hearing or are you just stupid?
<v Speaker 8>I Am going to explain this to you one more
<v Speaker 8>time and then I'm going to hang up on you.
<v Speaker 3>It is not my dog. I tied my dog outside
<v Speaker 3>my shop. I am looking at him, right dog.
<v Speaker 5>I just loved Homer here. He was so adamant, well,
<v Speaker 5>so cope and I love that like my dog is
<v Speaker 5>in my Yeah. Are you out of hearing or just stupid?
<v Speaker 3>I missed the battle ax. I love that you are
<v Speaker 3>battle ass.
<v Speaker 5>But he thinks he's tied up of looking at him, right, dope,
<v Speaker 5>man looks at the window and clearly he hasn't been
<v Speaker 5>He's broken.
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<v Speaker 5>four figure discount. So as he's walking the dog home,
<v Speaker 5>he sees Flanders on his walk and Flannders is kind
<v Speaker 5>of weird in season two, is not. I feel like
<v Speaker 5>the Flanders in like season eight nine wouldn't be buying
<v Speaker 5>assassins and things like that. I wouldn't be treating himself.
<v Speaker 5>It'd be don't spend money on things that's blasphemous, you know.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Well, as I said, I mean, they really sort
<v Speaker 3>of ramp up particular traits and particular addresses of the
<v Speaker 3>character's personalities as the show goes along. Here is kind
<v Speaker 3>of Yeah. He's not even kind of you know, churchy
<v Speaker 3>ned or anything like that. It's more so like a
<v Speaker 3>pressy next door neighbor who's like, I've got nothing in
<v Speaker 3>common with this guy, but you know, because we share
<v Speaker 3>a fence occasionally, we're gonna have to talk.
<v Speaker 5>I get almost like Phil Hartman neighbor vibes early from
<v Speaker 5>Early Slanders, where it's almost like he's rubbing it in
<v Speaker 5>Homer's face what I have, and it was it's not
<v Speaker 5>the Christmas episode, the first episode where they've got better
<v Speaker 5>lights and they got better presence in the Simpsons, it's
<v Speaker 5>almost I don't think he's deliberately doing it. Oh no,
<v Speaker 5>he's not doing it to rub it in anyone's face,
<v Speaker 5>but but it comes across that way to someone who
<v Speaker 5>doesn't have what he has.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, and because they're not being you know, sort
<v Speaker 3>of flamboyant or ossentation abouts like oh yeah, I've got
<v Speaker 3>new sneak because I got to treat yourself for anyone's Ah,
<v Speaker 3>I've got nice Christmas lights, you know, so like check
<v Speaker 3>out my Christmas lights. How I'm yeah, that was my
<v Speaker 3>Phil Hartman. That was my worst fill up. I promise it.
<v Speaker 3>I do have a better one.
<v Speaker 5>But he says here he loves a dog, and he's like, oh,
<v Speaker 5>he's just a good dog, isn't he. And home's mocking
<v Speaker 5>his walking attire is where he mocks the pedometer. I
<v Speaker 5>think maybe because he's got the gloves and the weight, he's.
<v Speaker 3>Got ankle weights and like he's holding little handweights.
<v Speaker 5>Little handworks and stuff. Yeah, but then he sees the
<v Speaker 5>assassins and he asks the price and doesn't tell on
<v Speaker 5>the price. And let's just say they're not giving them away.
<v Speaker 5>But sometimes you're going to treat yourself. And his heart
<v Speaker 5>rate's dropping, so he walks off, And I totally buy
<v Speaker 5>Flannder's mentality here of you've just got to spoil yourself.
<v Speaker 5>Sometimes sometimes you just have to write. I find them
<v Speaker 5>in the year twenty twenty five that I'm buying things
<v Speaker 5>just purely for comfort at the moment, Like I just
<v Speaker 5>feel like I need a bit of comfort, so I'm
<v Speaker 5>spending money on shit that I don't need. I think
<v Speaker 5>I need to change my buying habits in a sense
<v Speaker 5>that I still treat myself. But it's almost like I
<v Speaker 5>go many buying someth it's worth fifteen dollars or ten dollars,
<v Speaker 5>but I'm buying too much of those things. Wait it
<v Speaker 5>out and buy one big thing, because otherwise you just
<v Speaker 5>end up with a house full of shit that isn't
<v Speaker 5>that good as opposed to one really good thing.
<v Speaker 3>I get where you're coming from. Yeah, I mean, I
<v Speaker 3>sort of made a semi conscious decision not to buy
<v Speaker 3>too much this year in terms of like what I'd
<v Speaker 3>usually get, like a big blu ray set or you know,
<v Speaker 3>a good book or something like or or clothes even
<v Speaker 3>it's like I really do have enough clothes.
<v Speaker 5>But it's hard to describe the feeling of opening up
<v Speaker 5>for the first time, like that new blue a box
<v Speaker 5>set or something that the I always compare it to
<v Speaker 5>a board game. I always say board games. The best
<v Speaker 5>player of ball game is opening it up for the
<v Speaker 5>first time, or just the.
<v Speaker 3>Kick of you know, mister Amazon arriving.
<v Speaker 5>It's like I got a package for somebody's coming to
<v Speaker 5>my house. Somee's like that social interaction it's coming.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's brilliant. And what you're saying about buying little things,
<v Speaker 3>I mean if I would be buying little things that
<v Speaker 3>wouldn't be stuff that would necessarily be like something to
<v Speaker 3>put on the wall or on the shelf or what not,
<v Speaker 3>like not like nacks. Yeah, yeah, I would be like,
<v Speaker 3>you know what, get the good coffee or this new
<v Speaker 3>variant of tim Tam is not on special this week,
<v Speaker 3>but I really feel like the strawberries and cream vary its.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, or sometimes there's one point where the supermarket Nicholas
<v Speaker 5>like set of PEPs, my, can you just try the alla?
<v Speaker 3>I saw one.
<v Speaker 5>It was a bit cheap, and I was like, nah no,
<v Speaker 5>there's some just some things you just gotta you like
<v Speaker 5>and just just like it might cost an extra three
<v Speaker 5>or four dollars, but you know what, that's not that
<v Speaker 5>much money for the happiness that that brings me to
<v Speaker 5>have the better version of something.
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, absolutely the case. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, there
<v Speaker 3>are some things here, You're right that you just don't
<v Speaker 3>cut corners on.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, but this is where we have Lisa at Hibbitt's office.
<v Speaker 5>She's getting checked over. And I mentioned in the commentary
<v Speaker 5>here they really love doing things like the point of
<v Speaker 5>view from inside the mouth and that kind of thing.
<v Speaker 5>But she's got discolorization of the saliva glands and swelling
<v Speaker 5>of the parotids parotids, and she definitely has the mumps.
<v Speaker 5>So she's gonna miss a week of school and she
<v Speaker 5>worries that she's going to get behind her kids in class,
<v Speaker 5>and not in Hibbits, he's impressed with her responsibility.
<v Speaker 3>He's like, why are you bothered by this?
<v Speaker 5>You're just a child, and yeah, So what her favorite subject?
<v Speaker 5>Is and shouldn't say math. She says arithmetic, arithmetic, and
<v Speaker 5>he says, don't worry, you'd be back in no time
<v Speaker 5>doing all your various He says, all the different quadrants
<v Speaker 5>quaver or something along. But he says, right now, I
<v Speaker 5>have some rest and enjoy a wally pup. So kind
<v Speaker 5>of passing here. But I think Hibot's message was you're
<v Speaker 5>a kid, for the love of God, just enjoy yourself
<v Speaker 5>and relax, you know, just enjoy it. But the walipop
<v Speaker 5>actually pays off in a few moments, So homes any
<v Speaker 5>donates at work and Lisa was calling in to say
<v Speaker 5>giving him her order for magazines, and he mocks her
<v Speaker 5>for the kissing disease, and she tells him to quit it.
<v Speaker 3>And I'd say it at all.
<v Speaker 5>She wants teen Dream, teen Scream, teen Steam magazine. He
<v Speaker 5>asked Lenny to cover for him.
<v Speaker 3>I was got.
<v Speaker 5>Those were the days holding a magazine in your hand.
<v Speaker 5>You read those things from beginning to end multiple times
<v Speaker 5>in case you missed something. You know, like every bit
<v Speaker 5>of text in that magazine. You'd read it, ads, everying,
<v Speaker 5>the fine print. And as a teen, I think my
<v Speaker 5>go to magazine was was Empire. I lived for that shit.
<v Speaker 5>I loved Empire as well. I got all my movie news.
<v Speaker 5>What was your teen mag?
<v Speaker 3>Oh, my teen mag? Oh gosh?
<v Speaker 5>For my kid mag was Disney Adventures. That was a
<v Speaker 5>big one for me.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, well, let's see. And then when it came to movies,
<v Speaker 3>I was very big on Premiere and Movie Line. There
<v Speaker 3>were a couple out of the UK. One was called
<v Speaker 3>Neon that I really enjoyed. Was really that into Empire
<v Speaker 3>for some reason? Yeah, yeah, I mean I think I
<v Speaker 3>respected it, but I was like, I'm getting my information
<v Speaker 3>from other sources in that regard when it came to
<v Speaker 3>I think I was trying to be sort of more
<v Speaker 3>grown up than that I was. There's a men's magazine.
<v Speaker 3>When I say men's magazine, I don't mean like Playboy.
<v Speaker 3>I mean more about you know, falling profiles of Ryan
<v Speaker 3>Gosling and pictures of belts, things like new Waallets. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>GQ magazine and Esquire. Still I'm still subscribed to West
<v Speaker 3>Cone Magazine. Still get a physical copy of it. They
<v Speaker 3>don't bring it out make it yeah, yeah, they don't
<v Speaker 3>bring it out once a month anymore. I think they
<v Speaker 3>do like maybe six issues a year and honestly, I've
<v Speaker 3>still got I've got a few issues that it's like
<v Speaker 3>still in the plastic because everything is everything is online.
<v Speaker 3>Also the articles are online.
<v Speaker 5>Like the idea of knowing one day you'll get to
<v Speaker 5>it or is it sure?
<v Speaker 3>There will be times and it was like, you know,
<v Speaker 3>when I'm going out for lunch or whatever, just I'm
<v Speaker 3>going out for a bit of a solo lunch or whatever,
<v Speaker 3>and I want to have something to read. I'll take
<v Speaker 3>this with me, get a burger or something and just
<v Speaker 3>have that going on. But yeah, oh, another way, I've
<v Speaker 3>got those big plastic containers. I've got about six or
<v Speaker 3>seven of those full of magazines from going back to
<v Speaker 3>the nineties. Something I just decided to keep. It's like
<v Speaker 3>you've opened them, I just haven't. Oh yeah, yeah about yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I've told you. I threughout my massive box of Oh
<v Speaker 3>what was the movie magazine from the UK? Wasn't Empire
<v Speaker 3>Total Film. Maybe it was Empire Magazine. It was something else,
<v Speaker 3>I'm pretty sure because Empire was from the UK. We
<v Speaker 3>had an Australian version for a while. Maybe it was Empire.
<v Speaker 5>Anyway, it was just like from nineteen ninety three it
<v Speaker 5>was every issue from nineteenninety three through to nineteen ninety eight.
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, why did I throw these out? Well, there
<v Speaker 3>was one other mag called called Details, which is kind
<v Speaker 3>of like the gen X version of GQ or Esquire,
<v Speaker 3>and I had you know, fashion spread and celebrity profiles
<v Speaker 3>and all that kind of stuff. I haven't checked them
<v Speaker 3>out in years, but I remember maybe back around twenty
<v Speaker 3>ten or so, I had one afternoon of just like
<v Speaker 3>flicking through them and it was just, honestly like an
<v Speaker 3>acid flashback or jumping into a time machine. How good
<v Speaker 3>of like the ads and stuff? Oh yeah, and these
<v Speaker 3>were all they were all really thick because you know,
<v Speaker 3>they had a shit ton of advertising and subsequently they
<v Speaker 3>had a lot of money to pay journalists. I thought
<v Speaker 3>that guy that was getting half a million or whatever,
<v Speaker 3>Oh goodness, Yeah, yeah, I think I put some I
<v Speaker 3>put it any thing up on Facebook recently about some
<v Speaker 3>guy who used to work for Vanity Fan magazine who
<v Speaker 3>he said he wrote something like three long articles per year,
<v Speaker 3>like ten thousand word articles, but he got paid something
<v Speaker 3>like close to half a mil.
<v Speaker 5>What's the biggest paycheck you ever got for one piece?
<v Speaker 3>For one piece? Oh gosh? Or you more paid by
<v Speaker 3>the month. I think I was more paid by yeah,
<v Speaker 3>by the shift or by the word yeap. Yeah. Then
<v Speaker 3>I never really sort of got paid for individual pieces
<v Speaker 3>like that.
<v Speaker 5>But marj reveal to Lisa the family the Bouvier family quilt,
<v Speaker 5>and Lisa's smells historic. This for me, it's trading cards.
<v Speaker 5>I love to smell something new that that that smell.
<v Speaker 5>It smells I think it smells my favorite sense.
<v Speaker 3>It's like a really memories. Yeah, absolutely it is.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, five generations of boo Vier women have each added
<v Speaker 5>their own square to it.
<v Speaker 3>Now.
<v Speaker 5>One was the guy falling back being shot?
<v Speaker 3>What is that a take? What is that a Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>That's a reference to a photograph called the Falling Soldiers
<v Speaker 3>by a guy called Robert Kappa. He's apparently a very
<v Speaker 3>very well war photographer.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, and it was just, yeah, the ear of the time.
<v Speaker 5>And as we find out later on, Marges was keep
<v Speaker 5>on tracking. Don't understand what I meant there. I don't
<v Speaker 5>understand what it means now. But so she's just she
<v Speaker 5>showed the quote, and I like the idea that Marge
<v Speaker 5>has held on to this and it's something that she's
<v Speaker 5>been wanting to show Lisa for a long time and
<v Speaker 5>now feels like the right moment. Yeah, a real bonding
<v Speaker 5>moment between the two of them there, which I thought
<v Speaker 5>was really really nice. But she says here that you
<v Speaker 5>know you can't because Lisa's I can't do I can't sew.
<v Speaker 5>I can't do it, and she's you do. You got
<v Speaker 5>the memory of a million drop stitches flowing through your veins.
<v Speaker 5>You just need to develop a callous. And she brags
<v Speaker 5>about her sewing finger, whichmight at least initially thinks is
<v Speaker 5>a bit gross, but she learns to go that's a
<v Speaker 5>pretty cool talent.
<v Speaker 3>The whole threatening thing is very cool. Yeah, I must
<v Speaker 3>have been. I thought it was a little gross too,
<v Speaker 3>just the pricking of that.
<v Speaker 5>Oh you've got to count I used to have that
<v Speaker 5>when I play guitar.
<v Speaker 3>You couldn't. I thought my fingers were all hard from
<v Speaker 3>the strings. I think it's the one thing that it's
<v Speaker 3>the one thing that's stopping me from playing guitar, other
<v Speaker 3>than my lack of told me back and my LA commitment.
<v Speaker 3>It's like it's gonna hurt my fingers to keep strimming
<v Speaker 3>like this.
<v Speaker 5>I've had the idea for a while, not a family quilt,
<v Speaker 5>but a family recipe book where members of the family,
<v Speaker 5>everyone's got their specialty dish, right, but have them write
<v Speaker 5>it out on a piece of paper and like scan
<v Speaker 5>it in and creates this book where each generation you
<v Speaker 5>add a new page to it.
<v Speaker 3>It's a very good idea. I've heard you mentioned this
<v Speaker 3>in the past. It was a good idea then, and
<v Speaker 3>I think it's still not bad.
<v Speaker 5>Homer's buying this is magazines, and the other ones include
<v Speaker 5>non threatening boys says in Oh yes, brag, it's just
<v Speaker 5>say no teen scheme punk his back. Apparently we get
<v Speaker 5>Corey on the covered Martin Sheen's teen scene, ha teen Spleen.
<v Speaker 5>It's various other magazines. Howe is annoy the two dollar price?
<v Speaker 3>Haang. I was like, buddy, oh man, what a time
<v Speaker 3>to be alive. Two dollars for a magazine. Eat that
<v Speaker 3>shit up.
<v Speaker 5>But the worker mocks him, and yeah, was wise, guys
<v Speaker 5>what he says to him here. But then he sees
<v Speaker 5>the assassins in the window. But there aree hundred and
<v Speaker 5>twenty five dollar which I believe is about three hundred
<v Speaker 5>bucks US. Now, okay, yeah, it's got quite a bit
<v Speaker 5>a lot of money for shoes. Oh yeah, maybe even more. Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>suppose it's good for good shoes.
<v Speaker 3>Are these good shoes or that is flamboyant shoes? I
<v Speaker 3>think they're just Yeah, they're flamboyant shoes.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, the shoes that everyone's got them, so I want
<v Speaker 5>one as well. But hears Flanders in his head saying,
<v Speaker 5>I know you should take that, you should buy them.
<v Speaker 5>Treat yourself, treat yourself. I'm ordering you to order these shoes.
<v Speaker 5>And it's almost like it's a self justification for himself
<v Speaker 5>to blame Flanders. Oh sure, I Flanner's told me. Whatever
<v Speaker 5>you say, Flanders. But Margin shows Lisa her keep on
<v Speaker 5>truck and patch because saying she didn't know what it
<v Speaker 5>meant then it means now, but drops off the homework
<v Speaker 5>for her funn functions vocabulary remedia or reading nice tried
<v Speaker 5>by Barton, try to sit that one under the radar,
<v Speaker 5>try to give her his own homework. And then Homer
<v Speaker 5>arrives wearing the assassins and bart let's the price slip.
<v Speaker 6>Thanks who assassin read him? And weel it's a very
<v Speaker 6>elaborate sneaker.
<v Speaker 2>A jetter be for one hundred and twenty five big one.
<v Speaker 6>Day twenty five dollars. Homer, I thought we agreed to
<v Speaker 6>consult each other before any major purchases.
<v Speaker 8>Well, you bought all of smoke of Arms and we
<v Speaker 8>haven't had a single fire.
<v Speaker 5>That just feels like classic Simpsons.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, that's that feels like I like the outer edge
<v Speaker 3>of not jerk Homer, but the kind of selfishification.
<v Speaker 5>Yes, selfishness, but it's not hurting anybody really, it's just silliness.
<v Speaker 5>If anything, it's a dumb ass argument to me. You
<v Speaker 5>don't you don't actually think that he believes it. But
<v Speaker 5>this is what So this is what that defines irresponsible
<v Speaker 5>behavior from Homer A season two I was mentioning earlier
<v Speaker 5>him buying shoes. It's a far cry from the season
<v Speaker 5>ten to fifteen episodes where he just does out landy shit.
<v Speaker 5>But it's also for me watching Homie here and seeing
<v Speaker 5>the way marjorieted it. For me, it's the dangers of
<v Speaker 5>after pay, because for me, after pay it was one
<v Speaker 5>of those things where because Nicholas checks the bank statement,
<v Speaker 5>so I'm like, I want to buy something that's worth
<v Speaker 5>like like a DVD's well at thirty five forty bucks,
<v Speaker 5>I'm like, I'll put it on after pay because then
<v Speaker 5>she went, see that I've got the JBI high fire.
<v Speaker 5>It's the dangerous road to go down my front door.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I am almost on zero after pay at the moment.
<v Speaker 3>That's good.
<v Speaker 5>Keep it there, I said to Nicola. Once we've got
<v Speaker 5>down to zero, I'm understalling it.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, that's one I'm keeping on because I don't have
<v Speaker 3>credit cards for anything, and neither do we. Yeah, I've
<v Speaker 3>never had them. They won't let me. Well, that's true.
<v Speaker 3>There is also that, but yeah, Margaret Mary the other
<v Speaker 3>day was saying how things going financially.
<v Speaker 5>And as always, Mum say, it was always yes, since
<v Speaker 5>you're asking, But you know, I sort of had to
<v Speaker 5>she says, this because you're going through a purse at
<v Speaker 5>the time.
<v Speaker 3>It's correct, but I sort I had to break it down.
<v Speaker 3>So look, I've never had credit cards, you know, I don't.
<v Speaker 3>I even in stronger financial times like oh, I just
<v Speaker 3>don't want to have that.
<v Speaker 5>It's pressure, isn't it?
<v Speaker 4>That?
<v Speaker 5>That pressure and the freedom It seems like freedom to
<v Speaker 5>purchase things, but it's not.
<v Speaker 3>And after pay seems at the track work. Yeah, but
<v Speaker 3>I won't uninstalled. I'm I'm kind of I'm a fan
<v Speaker 3>of after pay. I can control it. It doesn't control me.
<v Speaker 3>It's just a fun way to say after pay. Well sure,
<v Speaker 3>except now they've got something called before pay, which I
<v Speaker 3>don't I think is a different company. I don't think
<v Speaker 3>it's from the same people. It's silly, but it sounds
<v Speaker 3>like payday loans before pay. Yeah, hey, goods.
<v Speaker 5>The sounds a little Helpers flicking through different stations here
<v Speaker 5>where we discover it setus or help. We're just going
<v Speaker 5>through different channels. We have the news report of the
<v Speaker 5>Babysitter bandit from the final episode of Someone Chanted Evening,
<v Speaker 5>who was originally going to be It was the first
<v Speaker 5>episode that returned. I think it was going to be
<v Speaker 5>the usual pilot of the Simpsons. But it looks so
<v Speaker 5>terrible that they had to replace the director with David
<v Speaker 5>Silman and saved the episode. But Someone Chanted, even Lucille
<v Speaker 5>or BUTTSGAUSI the babysit a band that me see. Krusty
<v Speaker 5>is on a talk show.
<v Speaker 3>Joe. What's the guy's name, Joe Franklin.
<v Speaker 5>I believe is it Joe Franklin they mentioned on the commentary, Actually, yeah,
<v Speaker 5>we believe it's Joe Franklin.
<v Speaker 3>Who is Joe Franklin, a talk show host in the
<v Speaker 3>United States. So you know, I just know the name. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I want to say those guys were a dime a dozen,
<v Speaker 3>but there were plenty of them.
<v Speaker 5>Joe Franklin, American hosts and television actor. Okay, so yeah,
<v Speaker 5>what did you show finish?
<v Speaker 2>Well?
<v Speaker 3>You know, like we're talking about things that would be
<v Speaker 3>on in the afternoon, like talk shows and chat shows. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I guess the name that we might know in Australia,
<v Speaker 3>although it's very sort of old fashion, Nerve Griffin is
<v Speaker 3>one of them. Of course, you had your late night
<v Speaker 3>guys like Carson and all that. I think, you know,
<v Speaker 3>if you're operating during the day, it meant you were
<v Speaker 3>kind of like in the reserves or the B team,
<v Speaker 3>unless you were really really sort of good at it,
<v Speaker 3>like Donaghue or whatever or Oprah. Oprah was the daytime
<v Speaker 3>he late tried, Everyone tried. I mean, well, Ellen was
<v Speaker 3>there forever. Now it's Drew Drew. Yeah, I can't watch Drew.
<v Speaker 3>It makes me cringe.
<v Speaker 5>Cringey, isn't it. It's like they say something in motion
<v Speaker 5>and that just gives him a cuddle and I'm like,
<v Speaker 5>what are we doing here?
<v Speaker 3>Well, I'll tell you what Drew is doing.
<v Speaker 5>They can bank. Yeah, this is Joe Franklin. You're right, Yeah,
<v Speaker 5>so Crusty's on Joe Franklin show. I think he said
<v Speaker 5>something of yours the only show that I will do.
<v Speaker 5>And then we go duft beer commercial re use footage
<v Speaker 5>of Troy Mclaw from They Can't Believe they invented it
<v Speaker 5>and it was actually done by Dan.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. I was about to say that, Yeah, it was bizarre.
<v Speaker 3>Do they actually have a little sign on the back
<v Speaker 3>saying Troy Mclaw or does the person say that the
<v Speaker 3>drum mclauk But it's but he wasn't the established Troum
<v Speaker 3>mcclaw character yet. Yeah, it was like, I'm try McClure. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>so that was a better fill. Hum.
<v Speaker 5>Yes, And then he notices the assassins in the wardrobe.
<v Speaker 5>And I really appreciated here in this scene where they're
<v Speaker 5>flicking through the little details of the volume just randomly
<v Speaker 5>going up because it's obviously his teeth touched on the
<v Speaker 5>volume button, the vogue button goes after. It's little things
<v Speaker 5>like that.
<v Speaker 3>Hobe.
<v Speaker 5>He comes downstairs and finds the massacre, screams no, and
<v Speaker 5>all the neighborhood dogs back as well, Like I can
<v Speaker 5>see how it is frustrated here because he genuinely he
<v Speaker 5>made the effort to keep them away from the dog
<v Speaker 5>by putting them in the in the top shelf of
<v Speaker 5>the wardrobe.
<v Speaker 3>So and alot. I think he took it pretty well. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>you would take it. You would take it personally, like
<v Speaker 3>Michael Jordan, when when you've made the effort to put
<v Speaker 3>a lid on the food or put the shoes on
<v Speaker 3>the top shelf or whatever, and it still happened, still
<v Speaker 3>happens like this shit on purpose. There's a dog behavior,
<v Speaker 3>there's a there's I've got you've got a.
<v Speaker 5>Grudge against him taking this personal indeed, Yes, But I
<v Speaker 5>don't think though, because I think it took it quite well.
<v Speaker 5>I don't think Homer yelling at the dog is really
<v Speaker 5>what this episode needed, because as you were saying, yes,
<v Speaker 5>there cost a lot of money, but that's his fault
<v Speaker 5>for spending money on their shoes and then they're just shoes,
<v Speaker 5>and I don't think we wanted to see sales. Little
<v Speaker 5>help it getting be rated for shoes. The quilt was
<v Speaker 5>something different, You're right, quilt meant something to everybody home
<v Speaker 5>and then chains upsetenters will help with a bigger lock,
<v Speaker 5>and marcha just obedient school. That's always your answer for everything.
<v Speaker 5>It's part, says the various classes we have east Side
<v Speaker 5>rough Form School, Professor Von Bows's Sanitarium for Dogs. We
<v Speaker 5>taught a dog to drive it, says doctor Marvin Monroe's
<v Speaker 5>Canine Therapy Institute. Your dog isn't the problem, you are.
<v Speaker 5>And then she settles on Emily Winthrop's Canine College. And
<v Speaker 5>I just think that the I love that the dog
<v Speaker 5>in the ad for the sanitarium one was literally wearing
<v Speaker 5>a straight jacket as a great job here of showcasing
<v Speaker 5>the different approaches to training a dog, saying you're the problem,
<v Speaker 5>or others are saying that we need to be really
<v Speaker 5>strict with them.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, some tough love, some gentle parent, Yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Moving the blame, shifting the blame and whatnot. But we're
<v Speaker 5>now at the college and Emily blows this silent whistle
<v Speaker 5>that no one can hear but the dogs in here,
<v Speaker 5>shuts all the dogs up, and Martin and Jacques are
<v Speaker 5>there bowling structor missed also as Sam from the Barflives.
<v Speaker 5>He's there as well as one of the characters. So
<v Speaker 5>she gives them all toffees, and she refers to sat
<v Speaker 5>as little help, her Satan's little help. And you think
<v Speaker 5>that's just planting the seeds of where this is going
<v Speaker 5>to be going.
<v Speaker 7>Ladies and gentlemen, most of you already know like, with
<v Speaker 7>a little love and confession in your poppy will grow
<v Speaker 7>up to be God, a little bundle of joy, stone
<v Speaker 7>and nonsense, taught by Charlatan's and learned by bloody twits.
<v Speaker 7>Let me tell you the two most important words you
<v Speaker 7>will ever hear in your life.
<v Speaker 6>Choke chain.
<v Speaker 7>You'll raise the dog the same way you would raise
<v Speaker 7>a child, with simple or pricitive commands. You don't followed
<v Speaker 7>by immediate correction.
<v Speaker 2>Well, how can we tell if we're doing this maneuver effectively?
<v Speaker 7>The dog's eyes will cross and his tongue will protrude
<v Speaker 7>and change color ever so slightly.
<v Speaker 2>Is my dog dead name?
<v Speaker 3>You don't know how often I've asked it.
<v Speaker 7>Chook chain is a misnoma.
<v Speaker 3>Trust me. They are always breathing.
<v Speaker 5>But it's kind of kind of confused. He He's like, well,
<v Speaker 5>I've been told I have to come in. This must
<v Speaker 5>be the right thing to do. But he doesn't like it.
<v Speaker 3>It's well, the thing is this woman's an authority figure. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and also British. Yes, trust him.
<v Speaker 5>Marge and Lisa are watching the stories and it's pretty
<v Speaker 5>it's pretty full on right that it seems somewhat unrealistic
<v Speaker 5>that Marge would let Lisa watched his. But in nineteen
<v Speaker 5>ninety one we didn't have replays, we didn't have streaming.
<v Speaker 5>If you missed your stories, missed your story. So she's like, well,
<v Speaker 5>Lisa's home, I have to look after her. Fuck it,
<v Speaker 5>she's gonna have to watch it goes. I'm not missing
<v Speaker 5>this story. I really need to see what is it that?
<v Speaker 5>Because Brandy's coming out of her coma and she knows
<v Speaker 5>that the Phony Prince's body is hidden in the boathouse,
<v Speaker 5>I need to know what happens with this. Meanwhile, the
<v Speaker 5>dog chases Snowball two into the room, sees Lisa's lollipop,
<v Speaker 5>con visit it for a chicken, steals it runs off
<v Speaker 5>with it that Lisa asks, what are we gonna do
<v Speaker 5>mum if he doesn't learn anything in Marge is like,
<v Speaker 5>I don't know, and as again playing the Seeds of Marche.
<v Speaker 5>She doesn't want to get rid of the dog. But
<v Speaker 5>she's like, I don't know what we're going to do.
<v Speaker 5>I don't know what else we can possibly do here.
<v Speaker 5>This dog is just ruining everything, Father McGrath, He returns
<v Speaker 5>McGrath gra anyway returns down that you were, Dad, I was,
<v Speaker 5>And then we get the montage of but failing to
<v Speaker 5>get Sand's little helper to learn anything at the college,
<v Speaker 5>whilst all the other dogs are just excelling at everything.
<v Speaker 5>She's had something the unity on the floor you entered
<v Speaker 5>like a hose that a fire. She's literally now as
<v Speaker 5>punishing bart though too, which in turn, I feel like
<v Speaker 5>this approach creates resentment between owner and pet. Oh, yeah, absolutely,
<v Speaker 5>because you're not learning. I'm now being punished.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I'm catching the heat for this. Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Over attempts to return the shoes. You're gonna give it
<v Speaker 5>a crack, right. The worst I can say is no,
<v Speaker 5>But he says, my faithful dog was bringing the shoes,
<v Speaker 5>but they fell apart in his mouth.
<v Speaker 3>I had this recent well not quite this, but I
<v Speaker 3>returned a shirt to a high end country road.
<v Speaker 5>No, no, no, no.
<v Speaker 3>I went up to David Jones in Melbourne with tag,
<v Speaker 3>without tag, with tag, but I'd thrown out the tag.
<v Speaker 3>See what can you throw it at? I bought this okay,
<v Speaker 3>I bought this shirt. You mean throw at the receipt?
<v Speaker 3>You mean no, No, I'd thrown at the tag. I
<v Speaker 3>bought the shirt, but it wasn't the size that I. Well,
<v Speaker 3>I thought it was the size I needed, so I'd
<v Speaker 3>cut off the tag, thrown the tag away, and I'd
<v Speaker 3>try on the shirt. It's like, oh, man, no, this
<v Speaker 3>is this is the size too small. If I if
<v Speaker 3>I crashed out, I can fit into it whatever so
<v Speaker 3>and but then I found out, oh no, I can
<v Speaker 3>get a size larger from this other place. But then
<v Speaker 3>the tag was in the in the rubbish, and plus
<v Speaker 3>other rubbish got on top of it and it was gross.
<v Speaker 3>I had like coffee stained on it or something. So
<v Speaker 3>I did get it out blow. I took the shirt
<v Speaker 3>and my two cents. And I don't think i'd actually
<v Speaker 3>bought the shirt from David Jones. I bought it from
<v Speaker 3>somewhere else, but David Jones was the place that had
<v Speaker 3>it in a high yeah, so I took it after
<v Speaker 3>I said, oh, yeah, this shirt's not quite right? Is everything?
<v Speaker 2>Oh?
<v Speaker 3>I don't have the receipt. Sorry, but here's the tag
<v Speaker 3>and everything like that. Can I exchange it for seven?
<v Speaker 3>She's looking at me like, let's do it this tag.
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, so I got it. She'd let you do it.
<v Speaker 3>She let him shirt? Good man, I did all right.
<v Speaker 5>So the tag was separated from the shirt. The tag
<v Speaker 5>was definitely separated from the shirt.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Yeah, she's probably thinking, I'm.
<v Speaker 5>Just gonna say whatever I can get. Gut had in
<v Speaker 5>my store. I was no one's this fucked up.
<v Speaker 3>I was doing the one hundred, the same guy, Davis
<v Speaker 3>charm of fansive. It's like, what a day? How's things
<v Speaker 3>going here? Anyway? Weather? How about those cats? Anyway? But
<v Speaker 3>I got the shirt and there But anyway.
<v Speaker 5>The upshot was I got my shirt. That's that's the
<v Speaker 5>That's what we all wanted to hear.
<v Speaker 3>And then I was in David Jones maybe like three
<v Speaker 3>weeks later and going through that same section, and I
<v Speaker 3>saw that shirt on the on the rack, and I
<v Speaker 3>saw the tag on it, and still it all those
<v Speaker 3>same stains reattached to it. They read.
<v Speaker 5>Someone's out there with a David Jones shirt. That's been
<v Speaker 5>Oh that's crazy, But have you ever worn the shirt?
<v Speaker 5>I think i'd put it on, so you wore the shirt,
<v Speaker 5>but then I'll do the tag out and then return
<v Speaker 5>that motherfucker.
<v Speaker 3>That's true, the perfect cray that I'm now confessing to
<v Speaker 3>on the podcast. That's awesome.
<v Speaker 5>I've gotten no receipt, but boy, what a day before
<v Speaker 5>you stepped in to go all right, it's time for
<v Speaker 5>the old Davis ch It's go time, bingo.
<v Speaker 3>That's the thing. I walked away and she was looking
<v Speaker 3>at this singer, son of a bitch.
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<v Speaker 5>he says, so he's tryed to turn the shoes, but
<v Speaker 5>the unfortunately the warranty doesn't cover fire, theft or acts
<v Speaker 5>of dog. But he sees the glosses cookie and Narcy
<v Speaker 5>caut right here, apparently doing her almost natural voice the
<v Speaker 5>Alha girl, and she says, we're going to try a sample,
<v Speaker 5>and he eats a bunch of samples and says, you
<v Speaker 5>can buy some more soft for a dollar, so that's
<v Speaker 5>your plan, gets it dipped and then jack up the prize.
<v Speaker 3>Do you go wild with the samples?
<v Speaker 5>I haven't seen samples in the store for a long time.
<v Speaker 5>Do they still do that? Did they stop it because
<v Speaker 5>it's the health and safety thing?
<v Speaker 3>Maybe, but the fantastic Saquita Butcher not far from here,
<v Speaker 3>they will always Well they have for a while had
<v Speaker 3>like a little plate up on top of the counter
<v Speaker 3>with like try out sharizo, try our German sausage or whatever.
<v Speaker 3>Did they cook it first? No, No, it's like it's
<v Speaker 3>the stuff. It's the deli stuff stuff. Oh yeah, there,
<v Speaker 3>iniably like, no, please, we have other customers tell me back. No,
<v Speaker 3>I will go wild for samples.
<v Speaker 5>I'm pretty sure every time we go to the ice
<v Speaker 5>cream store, Nicola tries the sam I want, Nikola, you
<v Speaker 5>you set up for.
<v Speaker 3>This last time?
<v Speaker 5>Well?
<v Speaker 3>Giving out? Or is she asked? She's asking can I
<v Speaker 3>taste this one? Can I taste something like? Nik, you
<v Speaker 3>know exactly what that caramel ascream? Yeah. I always feel
<v Speaker 3>a bit dubious about doing that, but sometimes like yeah,
<v Speaker 3>or or the del He's like, oh can I I'd
<v Speaker 3>like maybe try that honey dam Can I try a
<v Speaker 3>bit of it? Yeah?
<v Speaker 6>Right?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, It's like, oh no, I don't want that.
<v Speaker 5>I always find if I'm in the supermarket and I'm hungry,
<v Speaker 5>I just walk past a Danni and second, pleast try
<v Speaker 5>some chicken, please, chicken shaved. I can't say no, you
<v Speaker 5>have to let you have to offer free samples was.
<v Speaker 3>Seen at the supermarket. There's certainly one in particular. I
<v Speaker 3>think it's wool As that does it. But you know
<v Speaker 3>you will go in. It's like he does have a
<v Speaker 3>free banana or an apple for the kids. It's like,
<v Speaker 3>I've never seen a grown up do it, but I'd
<v Speaker 3>like to. I would probably be the first I've done it.
<v Speaker 3>Have you be an apple? Yeah? Okay, grab a banana?
<v Speaker 3>Fucking we were gonna do. Pale fans guys like did
<v Speaker 3>he just take an apple? Excuse me? Are you under
<v Speaker 3>the edge of twelve? It's like, oh no, I'll I
<v Speaker 3>was taking his job seriously.
<v Speaker 5>I thought the guy here in the shoe store was
<v Speaker 5>almost like an earlier version we discussed Wise Guy, almost
<v Speaker 5>an early version of Squeaky Voice team.
<v Speaker 3>A little bit too yeah, I mean, also combined with
<v Speaker 3>the archetypal Simpsons slacker voice, you know when they go
<v Speaker 3>to a music festival or another. We don't really cover
<v Speaker 3>the acts of Dog, so it's all not too much
<v Speaker 3>difference between him and Otto. This version of Otto, certainly
<v Speaker 3>in this episode, Yeah, wasn't ye man, It was more
<v Speaker 3>like here he dude. Yeah, it wasn't really steering into
<v Speaker 3>the keep on dragging sores. That mean no one knows.
<v Speaker 5>So to this day, Homer is writing the letter property
<v Speaker 5>of Homer J. Simpson hands off.
<v Speaker 3>This is my cookie.
<v Speaker 5>Of course that doesn't fit into the cookie jar, but
<v Speaker 5>we get the POV the point of view from the
<v Speaker 5>dog and its predator vibes. He sees the cookie and
<v Speaker 5>he of course takes it. Yes, Lisa is now showing
<v Speaker 5>Marge the passion that she has made for the quilt,
<v Speaker 5>and it's the two two biggest musical influences in her life,
<v Speaker 5>Mister Lago and Bleeding Gums Murphy.
<v Speaker 3>She also has a callous as well. We get the
<v Speaker 3>eighteen moment, which I thought was a nice sort of touch.
<v Speaker 3>You would like that.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, the dog is drinking out of the toilet. He's
<v Speaker 5>walking around and he sees the quilt and you go,
<v Speaker 5>oh shit. And March's home and come see what Lisa
<v Speaker 5>has done. And they find the dog just chewing up
<v Speaker 5>the quilt and six generations ruined, and you really feel
<v Speaker 5>so for much. Yeah, oh god, Yeah, this is probably
<v Speaker 5>the most one of the most important things. She hasn't
<v Speaker 5>seen why someone that really wants for much and this,
<v Speaker 5>but this is really important to her for good reason,
<v Speaker 5>and it's now gone.
<v Speaker 3>Do you have any fairly family heirlooms or something that
<v Speaker 3>was like important to your family that you broke or
<v Speaker 3>that you damaged in some.
<v Speaker 5>Way, family elms that are broke, And I have any
<v Speaker 5>knowledge of family earms that are broke. I do have
<v Speaker 5>things that were given to me by like my nan
<v Speaker 5>or my uncle Jock that Elliott has like dropped and
<v Speaker 5>sort of cracked or.
<v Speaker 3>Broken off gone.
<v Speaker 5>I've managed to keep that fine for like thirty years,
<v Speaker 5>Like Jock gave it to me when I was a
<v Speaker 5>little kid, and you had it for like ten seconds
<v Speaker 5>and you fucking dropped it.
<v Speaker 3>Can't be angry at you. You just to keep this,
<v Speaker 3>like god damn it.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, there was a rock that had like opal on
<v Speaker 5>it and it's I don't think they's even worth an it,
<v Speaker 5>but Uncle Joh gave it to me when I was
<v Speaker 5>a kid. He's like, yeah, I found this when I
<v Speaker 5>went to some country like.
<v Speaker 3>Africa or whatever.
<v Speaker 5>And I was like, that's cool. I've just kept this
<v Speaker 5>rock on my shelf from my rooms wherever I move.
<v Speaker 5>I've always had this rock, and now I had it
<v Speaker 5>in the garage. He's like, what's this And as I
<v Speaker 5>put it down, please, and he fucking dropped it and
<v Speaker 5>just shattered, and I was like, don't touch things as
<v Speaker 5>you It's really there the moments that challenge you as
<v Speaker 5>a parent, where you go you've got to go through
<v Speaker 5>all the options in your head really quickly because you've
<v Speaker 5>any got you know, it's got a few seconds, a
<v Speaker 5>few seconds to react, and what you do is gonna
<v Speaker 5>leave a lasting impression is yell, do I explain? And
<v Speaker 5>you want to just fucking erupt, but it's like, keep cool,
<v Speaker 5>explain why. But when they do it again, that's why
<v Speaker 5>I try to say to Elliott, I'll only get angry
<v Speaker 5>if I've told you not to do something you know
<v Speaker 5>you're not supposed to do it, and then you do
<v Speaker 5>it again. Yes, then I don't still don't erupt because
<v Speaker 5>you don't want to be that rah rah. But sometimes
<v Speaker 5>kids need to know that you're the boss. Yeah you've
<v Speaker 5>said this, Yeah, but yeah, so you broke any family
<v Speaker 5>islands not broken. I just broke that broke the tradition
<v Speaker 5>of footballs in the family.
<v Speaker 3>I broke the father son.
<v Speaker 8>Uh.
<v Speaker 3>I think I probably mentioned this on one of our
<v Speaker 3>shows in the past, but we had this beautiful old
<v Speaker 3>sort of like Art Deco style, no, not really out,
<v Speaker 3>like a nineteen fifty style map of the world, like
<v Speaker 3>a big framed one. I think it was from Quantus.
<v Speaker 3>It was like something out of Madman. It was like
<v Speaker 3>something to see in Don Draper's office. And for some reason,
<v Speaker 3>when I was a kid, I had a sticker of
<v Speaker 3>something from Geelong. I think you have mentioned this story,
<v Speaker 3>and I stuck it over, like, oh, here's Geelong, and
<v Speaker 3>I think the second I did, I realized, well, that
<v Speaker 3>fucks everything up, and I tried to peel off and
<v Speaker 3>it was like I was starting to peel off the
<v Speaker 3>fabric or whatever the paper. I was like, well, I
<v Speaker 3>fuck this. I would have done this shit forty five
<v Speaker 3>years ago, a lot long long time. It feels weird
<v Speaker 3>to say it's one of the great regrets of my life.
<v Speaker 3>But I feel like I fucking, you know, threw a
<v Speaker 3>mustache on the moan of Lisa or something. I was
<v Speaker 3>so angry with myself. Yeah, and I don't think I
<v Speaker 3>don't think the folks really minded that much. And when
<v Speaker 3>it was up in my room, you just can't let
<v Speaker 3>it bother you. No, I mean, I don't know where
<v Speaker 3>it is now. I don't think we kept it. We'll
<v Speaker 3>probably throw it out of because well, this thing's fucking wrong. Thanks.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, till this day, i'm kind of like.
<v Speaker 5>It was the point of that. Yeah, but it seemed
<v Speaker 5>like a good idea at the time.
<v Speaker 3>You were just a kid. Yeah, yeah, so angry. I
<v Speaker 3>need to take you to obedience school. That's true anyway.
<v Speaker 5>But it's chewed up at the quilt and yeah, it's
<v Speaker 5>just terrible and homes trying to comfort March. Look, we
<v Speaker 5>all love that quilt. It's fine until he sees the cookie.
<v Speaker 5>And I thought this was selfish ridiculous but also funny.
<v Speaker 3>Again. Yeah, we're pushing the outer limits of his sort
<v Speaker 3>of selfishness, pushing it to slightly ridiculous levels. But yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I think we all been there where it's kind of like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>you know, it's not so bad, it's not so bad,
<v Speaker 3>but you know, the minute it gets personal for you, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>oh wait a minute.
<v Speaker 5>And I think we've all had a moment in our
<v Speaker 5>lives at least once where there is a bit of
<v Speaker 5>food left overs from the night before or something at
<v Speaker 5>home or whatever that you've just been looking forward to.
<v Speaker 5>Oh yeah, certainly, and you come home and someone else
<v Speaker 5>is eating it or drunk it, and you're like, I
<v Speaker 5>know it's just food, but.
<v Speaker 3>I really wanted it.
<v Speaker 5>It's very like sometimes Nicholas say, I love rossotto, which
<v Speaker 5>just say cooking rostta for dinner, and then it'll get
<v Speaker 5>to like tea time. She go, I don't really feel
<v Speaker 5>like cooking it, and I'm like, I'm not going to
<v Speaker 5>make you cook food.
<v Speaker 3>I really wanted it looking for it all day. How
<v Speaker 3>dare you be tired? How dare you? But it's fine?
<v Speaker 5>Then I of course here, Look I love dogs. But
<v Speaker 5>if this happened to me I'd probably reassess my options
<v Speaker 5>as well, because I don't know. I like to think
<v Speaker 5>I wouldn't want to ever get I don't think I
<v Speaker 5>have could bring myself. If I have a pet, I
<v Speaker 5>would never be able to get rid of it and
<v Speaker 5>not have it anymore. But man, I would be pretty
<v Speaker 5>angry if my pet ruled a family, earl them like this.
<v Speaker 5>We can say it's there for for living on the bed,
<v Speaker 5>but it shouldn't. You should be able to leave it
<v Speaker 5>on the bed.
<v Speaker 3>You know, something like that. Absolutely, Yeah, yeah, my food.
<v Speaker 3>You can kind of understand. Shoes, I guess does some
<v Speaker 3>degree feel like something that gets chewed a lot? But yeah,
<v Speaker 3>something like a quill. It's like, no way, man.
<v Speaker 5>But Homer calls for the family meeting, so it's time
<v Speaker 5>to go. Not gonna happen, You gotta go. But even
<v Speaker 5>Lisa says we can't. She can't bear to let him go,
<v Speaker 5>and Marge degrees, Look, she agrees with Homer. You think
<v Speaker 5>Margine can agree with it with List, But I think
<v Speaker 5>that's important when you're a parent, you've got to back
<v Speaker 5>each other up. And I think having the quilt get
<v Speaker 5>destroyed made Marjor realize, Look, we exhausted our options here.
<v Speaker 5>This is like probably what we're gonna have to go down.
<v Speaker 5>This is the route we have to go down. But
<v Speaker 5>please that if he passes the training can be Please
<v Speaker 5>keep him.
<v Speaker 2>No way, you can't give my dog away. I'll sit
<v Speaker 2>by my hair sugar in the gas caboard. I've suffered
<v Speaker 2>as much as anyone at the pause of this dog.
<v Speaker 2>When I look into his vacant brown eyes, I just
<v Speaker 2>can't bear to let him go. I'm sure Mom agrees
<v Speaker 2>with me.
<v Speaker 6>No, I'm afraid I agree with your father.
<v Speaker 3>You do ha ha?
<v Speaker 6>Oh Please, it's not just the quilt. He's a nice dog,
<v Speaker 6>but he chews up everything. He doesn't obey. He's not
<v Speaker 6>even housebroken. And we've spent all this money on an
<v Speaker 6>obedience school and I don't see any improvement.
<v Speaker 2>All right, all right, he sent us Little Hooper studies
<v Speaker 2>real hard and pusses his venoles and becomes a perfect dog.
<v Speaker 2>Can we keeping them?
<v Speaker 6>No, this is our pet.
<v Speaker 2>We can question his integrity and disposition, but we can't
<v Speaker 2>question his heart.
<v Speaker 3>Are you trying to teach.
<v Speaker 2>Us that the way to solve a problem with something
<v Speaker 2>you love is to throw it away?
<v Speaker 3>Oh? Please, if they're ever going to pull the plug
<v Speaker 3>on me.
<v Speaker 8>I want you in my corner, honey.
<v Speaker 6>All right, if he passes obedient score, we can keep.
<v Speaker 3>On yay right.
<v Speaker 5>I thought this was a lovely moment, felt real. Homer
<v Speaker 5>and Marge's anger was justified, understandable from the kids perspective,
<v Speaker 5>it's how can you do this? This is our pres
<v Speaker 5>our best friend. It was nice that Bart was lucky
<v Speaker 5>enough to have Lisa in his corner to protest for him,
<v Speaker 5>because advocate advocate for him, because he wasn't gonna be
<v Speaker 5>able to convince them that she did it for him.
<v Speaker 5>But I thought it was very nice. Bart is trying
<v Speaker 5>to teach that a little helper at the school, just
<v Speaker 5>trying to teach him to roll over, just all no success.
<v Speaker 5>Notice's in the KJO section. Yeah, she gives Bart a toffee,
<v Speaker 5>just mocking him. Really, isn't she a good job?
<v Speaker 3>Have a toffee?
<v Speaker 5>Homer and Marge are writing the ad to give away
<v Speaker 5>Sanders little helper. March just maybe we should wait till
<v Speaker 5>after he's failed, and he's like, no, no, we've got
<v Speaker 5>to commit. And from the writers as well, they've got
<v Speaker 5>to commit. We've got to see that they're committed to this.
<v Speaker 5>Otherwise we won't believe it, because I think I would
<v Speaker 5>have believe they would have given away the dog. So
<v Speaker 5>they write the note free to get home, world's most
<v Speaker 5>brilliant dog, says I love you in command time, just
<v Speaker 5>go with it. We'll we'll fix it on the fly.
<v Speaker 5>But is still struggling at the at the school. We're
<v Speaker 5>getting to follow basic commands. This is not looking good
<v Speaker 5>at all. And as where Homer calls or gets a
<v Speaker 5>phone call I think from a potential buyer, the new owner,
<v Speaker 5>and he fools him you he thinks, pretends that he's
<v Speaker 5>a dog on the phone saying I love you, and
<v Speaker 5>he's excited. Now we're gonna get rid of this dog.
<v Speaker 5>It seems home it's excited to get rid of the dog,
<v Speaker 5>but you know, deep down he's not gonna He doesn't
<v Speaker 5>want to get rid of him. Now they're trying to
<v Speaker 5>teach the boys the dogs sorry, to stay away from
<v Speaker 5>the beef Wellington, and you can hear the pain. I
<v Speaker 5>thought Nancy was great. Here the pain in Bart's voice
<v Speaker 5>trying to say no, stay, stay, please, I love you,
<v Speaker 5>don't do this, and he just does it anyway. Meanwhile,
<v Speaker 5>the new owner comes to check on Santa's Little Helper
<v Speaker 5>and plans to use him to pull carts and not
<v Speaker 5>just for mules, and Homer says, you can pick him
<v Speaker 5>up tomorrow and you can hear the crack and his
<v Speaker 5>voices it to say, well, I guess this is happening.
<v Speaker 5>You know, I guess this is what we're going to
<v Speaker 5>be doing. Then missus Winthrop is reading her magazine and interrupting,
<v Speaker 5>Sands little Helper says, and he sits on his lap.
<v Speaker 5>He's just he's just a dog. Man's of all the dogs,
<v Speaker 5>I probably want sat as little help. But if he
<v Speaker 5>wasn't doing shit, he seems like the most lovable one
<v Speaker 5>of all of them. But it's not working for Bart.
<v Speaker 5>You just can't get the dog to get through, and
<v Speaker 5>he please to her, look, you're getting me paid anyway,
<v Speaker 5>can you just pass him? And I can see it
<v Speaker 5>from Emily's perspective, it's like, yes, I ain't getting paid,
<v Speaker 5>but I also have a reputation too, and it's obviously
<v Speaker 5>succeeding because everyone's going to her school. I did really
<v Speaker 5>enjoy also, the delivery of Heavens to Merca fright.
<v Speaker 3>It's so dramatic.
<v Speaker 5>It's a Snagglepuss saying yes it is. Indeed, Yeah, I
<v Speaker 5>love that guy, you do indeed, yep is he stage
<v Speaker 5>left stage.
<v Speaker 7>The world does not need another college graduate who doesn't
<v Speaker 7>know how to sick.
<v Speaker 1>He'll sit, He'll sit.
<v Speaker 2>Come on, boy, sick sick blah blah.
<v Speaker 3>Pulling huh correct the dog.
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to strangle my dog. Blood it boy, Sorry, boy,
<v Speaker 2>you can't help being dumb.
<v Speaker 5>This is the moment that makes people not want to
<v Speaker 5>watch this episode because they really just don't like this moment.
<v Speaker 5>But I think it needed this moment for the emotional
<v Speaker 5>payoff at the end is Bart has gone through everything.
<v Speaker 5>He is so desperate to want to keep the dog.
<v Speaker 5>He's like, well, will this work? And as soon as
<v Speaker 5>he does it, you just he doesn't regret. He apologizes,
<v Speaker 5>and it's just it's horrible, it's horrifying, and yeah, it's
<v Speaker 5>not good at all. But then Marge finds Lisa making
<v Speaker 5>her own quilt and she says, as you were saying earlier,
<v Speaker 5>it's one thing to be a link in a chain,
<v Speaker 5>it's another to start one of your own. And her
<v Speaker 5>patch commemorates the destruction of the original quilt.
<v Speaker 3>Just the perfect ending. Good for you.
<v Speaker 5>I think it was great. Yeah, fantastic enter that arc.
<v Speaker 5>Then we get barred again in the backyard. It's nighttime
<v Speaker 5>the night before and Bart is trying to teach him
<v Speaker 5>to sit and it's just not getting through, and Lisa
<v Speaker 5>arise and says, look, stop torturing yourself and him. Just
<v Speaker 5>enjoy your last night together. And I think that's why
<v Speaker 5>I was watching it going. I was kind reminds me
<v Speaker 5>of I knew Jet was going the next day, and
<v Speaker 5>I'm like, just enjoy being with him, just enjoy that
<v Speaker 5>he's here. Kept saying to Elliott in the last week,
<v Speaker 5>Aliot say, I want to go do this, So I'm like, mate,
<v Speaker 5>enjoy yet, because once he's gone, he's not he's gone,
<v Speaker 5>you know, enjoy these last few moments here and and
<v Speaker 5>but here. So a really nice little montage. She not
<v Speaker 5>thrown the frisbee and just a kid in his best
<v Speaker 5>friend essentially. Yeah, and she throw at least throws the
<v Speaker 5>ball though, and he doesn't get it.
<v Speaker 3>So clearly.
<v Speaker 5>The moment further emphasizes to me that when she came
<v Speaker 5>to the dog's defense during the fight, she was more
<v Speaker 5>doing it for Bart's sake than her own. Sat as
<v Speaker 5>little helper finally understands the words sit though, and as
<v Speaker 5>silly and as sort of cliche as it is for
<v Speaker 5>me as a fist pump moment.
<v Speaker 3>If you're a dog lover, you're like, yes, finally, yes.
<v Speaker 5>He's getting through, and it's it's I really really liked it.
<v Speaker 5>And as I said, this episode really takes on the
<v Speaker 5>emotional rollercoaster. He shows his talent to Emily.
<v Speaker 3>Then he really does learn very quickly to pick up
<v Speaker 3>on just about everything.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, roll over, yeah, and we get the graduation, so
<v Speaker 5>Emily says, you son up a bitch, and they get
<v Speaker 5>the home is annoyed at first, but then realizes, oh,
<v Speaker 5>I do love this dog and start celebrating, and then
<v Speaker 5>we get the animal house ending. So the various ones
<v Speaker 5>were Sam's dog but he ran away from home, Martin's dog,
<v Speaker 5>Lao Suit, the Chinese philosopher who incorporated the concept of
<v Speaker 5>yin and yang. He what happened to him? I didn't
<v Speaker 5>actually what he did. He ate a poison toad. Oh,
<v Speaker 5>that's no good.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think he died.
<v Speaker 5>That's no good. And Santas will help a bit Bart
<v Speaker 5>but Homer didn't mind.
<v Speaker 3>And that's the end.
<v Speaker 5>That is the end of Bart's Dog Gets an F.
<v Speaker 5>So yeah, by no means the funniest episode. But I
<v Speaker 5>think an important episode an episode that really, when I
<v Speaker 5>say important, I think it's every sick one, as I said,
<v Speaker 5>needs an episode that makes you relate and respect and
<v Speaker 5>love the character. I think this episode does that. It
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