The PTA Disbands (Bonus Patreon Exclusive)

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on our Patreon says here the finger thing means the taxes. So many classic
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actually in this one. On top of the review, we discussed fish finger
commercials, Chinese whispers, as well as whether or not it's good to be
paddled. And I'm written a comment here from one of our patrons who says,
oh, I love Elliott cameos. So the fact that this was recorded
in April or twenty twenty two, that means he was three turning four?
Is that right? Three? Yeah, it was three turning four when this
is recorded. I've gone back and be listened to it. I'm assuming Elliot
must make a cameo in this episode. I'm not sure we're actually speaking words
yet, but we shall soon find out when you listen to the show.
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four Fingered Discount Revisited Classic. What a long title this podcast has. It's
We've gone back all the way to season six. I was actually surprised that
this was all the way back in season six. I always saw this wasecond
season seven eight episode, But nope, it's the twenty first episode of the
sixth season. Simpsons episode two f nineteen with Pta dispands, I'm Dando,
I'm guy. How are you so? Just to be here? Did doing
all right? We're recording this a little late in the evening on a Thursday
night, but happy to do so because this is an episode I'm happy to
talk about. Yes, I'm just giving you guys a heads up right now.
All your patron's out there. I can hear Shenanigan's going out in that
whole way out there with Elliott and Nikola. It's Elliott's bed time, but
it's past his bedtime, which means he's passed the point of no, a
term which means he doesn't want to go to bed. He needs to go
to be because he's fucking tired. So I'm expecting either to be called into
that next room to rob his back to go to sleep, or he's going
to come in here and have a cuddle. And he come in here for
a cuddle, you can say hello to him. We can get some Guy
and Guy Ellier time once again here on the Patreon exclusive. So if you
can need some scream in the background, I do apologize. But first of
all, thank you so much. Guys. If you are hearing this,
obviously you're an eight dollars plus patron and we love you for doing so and
supporting the show. But yes, the PTA dispands a really good episode.
Hey, mister Davis, A very good episode. And before we begin that,
why do you never come over to my place when I'm tired and I
want a backgroun? Oh? I can if you want to. Actually,
no, we bet that would be pushing the boundaries. I'm a good episode,
a fun episode, a very meme heavy episode. Yeah, definitely.
This was an episode that I tended to not avoid as a kid, but
just never really appreciate it as much as I should have. And the older
I got them more, I went, oh, now I understand what taxes
are the taxes? Yeah, that's segment spoiler. That's my favorite bit.
It's fucking amazing that the crowd, the crowd banter as they're discussing it.
Oh so great, that's that's about the money. But the tax the taxes.
The finger thing means the taxes. So that was very good. But
you're right, it's a very I mean, there's a lot of kids stuff
in it, but it feels like a very It feels like a more grown
up episode, even though definitely we don't we don't have a lot of Homer
and margin no, no. But what I like about it is, and
I tend to like these episodes and gravitate towards them, is the ones I've
mentioned this before where they include the entire Springfield community and we get a good
mixture of characters here that you don't normally see in random episode in every day
episodes. So you're getting jasper with that. That's a paddlin and I for
some reason, I thought this was the one where really does the bonjour you
chee it in Surrender Monkeys, But no it's not. But yeah, it's
just skinner and crabapple. This is one of the first episodes that we really
got a spotlight Besides, I think like Butt the Lover, there's only a
couple episodes before this where we've got a spotlight on missus K. I thought
this was a great missus K episode. It really was, wasn't it.
Yeah. I mean I like the dynamic between the two of these, Between
between Skinner and Kububble. I think they just they play off each other so
well. They're a lot more alike than not that neither would care to admit,
but circumstances tend to put them at either, you know, other opposite
sides of a conflict. Where they finally do hookup work so well because it's
because kind of like they know it's been here the whole time, it's right
in front of our eyes. Come. So yeah, I very much enjoyed
just the dynamic of that. I like that you've got to see both sides
of their argument. I mean, it's not like Skinner's just a penny pincher
or easy pocketing dough for himself. He maybe who knows, but you know,
he's like, no, I've got I'm doing the best I came with
what I've got to work with. Here and Edna's like, that's not good
enough. So yeah, I can see both sides of this argument. Yeah,
he actually if he had more money, he would use it properly,
but he has no fun. But I also like how we got to see
the results of having no teachers in Springfiel, where the kids are constantly on
holiday just being at the arcade, and just eventually they realize, wait a
minute, we need school. Yeah, we need that structure, we need
to be learning stuff other you know, you end up with you know,
the rist of an eighty year old, or you know, hooked on soaps,
yeah, or fine kites in the middle of the night. It's one
of those things where you don't realize until you finish school how much you need
school and how great it is to just have that every day. I know
you don't you're going to want to go, but every day you get to
see your friends. You know, you have to learn and things like that.
But the social aspect, as soon as school's over, you go,
oh, wait a minute, Now I've got a plan to meet up with
my friends. What Yeah, oh wait a minute, I'm going to be
thrust into a whole new environment where I've got to interact with people and I
don't know, find out about who they are and you know, whether I
like them, how to make them like me. Yeah, that ended that
part of the end of the school year where you were stressing out making sure
that your friends were going to be in your class the following year, and
in that feeling of seeing them on the list, you're like, yeah,
we're doing the same class. Its gonna be the best year ever. And
that it's just you know form two, Yes, exactly right, Yes,
but yeah, all around, this was just, as you said, very
meme heavy. There are a lot of moments, and I forgot that my
quote most quoted Simpson's quote line of my teenage years was purple Monkey dishwasher and
my first ever email was purple Monkey dishwasher underscore eighty nine at hotmail dot com
do a un. I was very annoyed that eighty eight people beat me to
that email. Yeah, proper monkey dishwasher. I loved it. That just
strikes me as quintessentially young Dan do At and particularly the dawn of the Internet,
as well as like, did anyone actually use the real name for an
email address like this? It was gonna be like CB radio. I might
as well just call myself rubber ducky as as we as we said, we've
got we've got ali in a studio to come and say hello, uncle guy,
come over here, then come over come sit on daddy's lap. I'm
gonna look like a ghost here, hang weird lights on o O Elliot,
Elliott, Hello, Bud? How you doing? Hm? Hm? Oh
that was very nice, very nice to hear from you. Hello, Bud?
Are you very sleepy? Are you very tired? I think I want
to go to bed now? Time to go to bed. Time to no
nice b e d go to bed. Isn't he see you? Buddy?
Uncle guy silly? Isn't he? Elliott? Why is he silly? Because
he is? Isn't he? Can he look at him? Look at him?
Silly? Are you getting no nice now? Good boy? See you
buddy uncle guy silly? He says he ain't wrong. Alright, Bye bye
Mommy, Bye bye Elliott. Okay, so we've got our little Alliott cameo
here on the page why they pay the big Bucks Get the Alley exclusives here
on the four Finger Discount podcast. So, yeah, as you were discussing
what were but also you know why white guy is not a parent. That's
his bed bedtimes tragic, e go to bed. What were we discussing before
Elliott really interrupted us very rudely about how school is a instructured educational environment but
also we social environment and how you learn to make friends or be a friendly
person unless you're an absolute Nordlinger. But yeah, so I think once you
get out of school, I mean a lot. You've got a lot of
people saying, don't tell me school's abusius, my love clearly your door.
It's not that that's not necessarily as a learning side. The social site,
Yeah, the social sites can be pretty fun. They also touched on a
similar story to what we got in Whacking Day with bart but Millhouse because he
got too he actually was learning stuff. He was actually advancing his knowledge with
things, and it's like, oh wait a minute. So when you actually
get taught things by a proper tutor, you actually learn. When you're surrounded
by the other kids who are distracting you, you actually learn. Ah,
Yes, otherwise you wind up like Barton going. They're actually very or even
they're very pro homeschooling on the Simpsons, aren't they They are a bit aren't
They're not fans of the public school system. But enough about that. My
favorite what was your favorite moment from the pt de spands? You love saying
it that way, don't you. Umm? Well, we talked about how
this is meme heavy, and of course everyone knows it's a paddling. Yeah,
that's a paddling as well they should. But I'm always a fan of
Hello, Missus Palmer Horst like to get down. I'd like to get down
now. I love that. It's just so adorable. Hold children? Have
we had many episodes about Missus Hoover or miss Hoover later on we do?
Yeah? Not. It strikes me. She strikes me as a fun character.
I'm gonna have to get to know more about her. We got we
got when she had lime disease that time, but we haven't you've got lime
disease, yes, but we haven't. We haven't really had like a Miss
Hoover story. Yeah. I like that. It's a wonderful life tribute or
shout out that. No, it's in fradgi. What's my money doing in
your house? Here? Bo? What that we do with my money?
Fred? It's and a very good Jimmy Stewart impersonation. I'm assuming by Harry
Dan. I was a Dan always Dan. Yeah, yeah, what was
good? He does it well, he does well. But I think one
of my favorite bits and just a little throwaway gag, was when Bart is
making mischief on the construction site and he says to the guy and he in
the crane, you spin around real fast, and the guy who's driving or
operating the grane a little struggler. Yeah sounds like fun, that doesn't but
just that little struggler. That's again. Yeah, a bunch of fun stuff
in this, but they're the bits that I enjoyed the most. I liked
the the egging on of the of missus k Skinner where they both about to
walk off the cock, but just being a little shithead. But I like
Bart's mischief in this. The chief was very fun. It was very nostalgic.
Wasn't because we didn't really get that in season fifteen anymore? That kind
of mischief. No, no, I mean the various voices that he's pulled.
I mean it was funny on the construction side when the former turns out
that Bart's voice, But the whole bit in the bank, it's like,
what do you mean? No money? I just love all that stuff.
I thought that was very enjoyable. You only got money for free world customers.
I also liked when he was taking them back to their room, but
back to my office. Well that's highly regular. But of course the taxes
after raise taxes, oh, raise the taxes. But there was there's one
voice you can hear amongst the crowd, who's just saying the funniest shit.
Yeah, it's so great. Next question, you there eating the beast.
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I haven't said yes. My first question is what is Shelbyville Elementary's motto?
Oh, veritas it ciencia m h. Do you know what that stands for?
What that means? It's truth in science, isn't it? Truth and
knowledge? Truth and knowledge? Yeah, complaining, Well, while we're talking
about Springfield Elementary, what is the name of its principal shall we Vill or
Springfield she shallby Ville? It was a principal valiant, that is correct.
My next question is what vitamin does milk have? It's called vitamin H correct,
sure does. What was the name of the Springfield brigade that absolutely killed
all those Shelbyville the Long Bearded Brigade. There's a number and some facial hair
in there, have no idea. It is the ninth Bearded Infantry. Ninth
bearded Infantry. Yes, and they slaughtered the people even though they're waving white
flags. What what food was in Lisa's school kit that she'd prepared for herself?
Apologies, guys have been here. The share in the background, Nicola
just exercise in the shell good. I don't know it was cafeteria style fish
sticks. Oh, fish fingers were a big hit in the downder Houseold when
I was a kid, and then I got older, I went eating this
ship. Do you remember that? Not even once in a while. Nah,
I'm not huge on fish. But remember the Bird's Eye commercial birds eye
fish fingers. That's pretty much it is. That how it went though singers
a song, the song of the sea birds. That's it. That's the
one. I couldn't think of it. Yes, you nailed it. I
don't. I'm happy to hell. I actually, uh, I didn't have
fish fingers. I maybe had the grown up version of fish fingers, which
is like sticks of whiting in batter from your friends at Bird's Eye whatever,
whack them in the air fry. Did I tell you that the Lovely Lays
brought me an air fryer. No, but how I see, I can't
work out how to use out properly. You just wax it in there and
close it. But like I tried to cook chips with just like I chopped
the potatoes, chuck them in, not chips from the packet, like poppered
potatoes. Chop them up. Cha, they came out fucking horrendous. Really
did you oil them? I mean I did put oil in it, yeah,
but I must have done something wrong because they just come out really just
shrive it up and not cooked properly. It's weird. Okay, Well I
must admit I'm not getting chip chips like fish and chip chop chips. Yeah,
but I mean I'm I'm chopping up spuds and put them in a bowl
with some oil, bit of garlic. They taste, so you put oil.
So you soak them in oil first, Yeah, not soaked, but
sort of you know, sprinkle a bit on their toss it so they all
they're a bit oily, and then you whack them in the in the airfry
for about fifteen minutes, maybe longer, probably longer even I mean mine always
come out a little bit. They never come out super crispy, but I
like, I'm a little bit soft. Super crispy and chicken salt. That's
the best way. Okay, well, but I cooked up some homemade chips,
some handcut chips, and also some of those bird's eye whiting sticks in
battery. Sounds good, tasty, tasty adults anyway, the adults, the
grown up. Your next question. My next question, what is the name
and number of the piano tuners union that is going to strike in solidarity no
idea with the teachers Local four one two Local four one two as opposed to
the four one one. My final question, besides the regular Springfieldians, what
famous teacher that but eliminate as a substitute. He eliminated Gabe Kaplan Welcome the
best themes of all time. I love that theme so just makes me so
happy. Now let's I'm going to test your knowledge of this one. What
time were Skinner and Krabapple locked in the office? Yes, he saw the
clock. It was originally at I want to say quarter to eleven or quarter
to twelve. I think it was actually eleven o'clock. Damn, damn.
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was eleven o'clock and then
it went. They were there for like three or four hour few hours,
yeah, several hours? Yeah? Okay, yeah, there you go.
And you got any more questions before we head into our review, I could
give you one more one more to do it? Why not? Okay?
Then chapters what through what were Millhouse's recess assigned. I'm gonna say three through
six. You're very close. It's three through seven, three through seven.
It was three through something. Okay, well done, well played you in
Sivia for this Patreon exclusive reviewer, the PTA di Spans. All right,
it's now trying to get into our review because there's no ads here on this
on this review. So the original edit of the PTA to Spans was April
sixteenth, nineteen ninety five. There wasn't no there was a chopboard. Gay
actually yeah, I do not have power of attorney over first graders. And
the cash gig was the one with the living room is modeled after the Relativity
and the family you're running through the very different staircases. Ah right, all
right, So the episode was directed by Swinton O. Scott. The third
Wow, I was on a pompous when you're the second or the third,
I don't like the second. I mean, I think if you're a second,
then you're junior. What's worse, though, second? Or Esquire?
Well, Esquire? Can you Esquire? You've got to be a lawyer.
What is Esquire? I'm pretty sure, I mean, I'm pretty sure it's
a lawyer, is it? Yeah? You so and so Esquire? But
hang on, let's uh, let's go away. Bill and Ted though he's
Bill as pressed An Esquire nam Ted Theodore Logan. So he's Esquire, but
he's not a lawyer. Oh hang on, hmm. British a polite title
appended to a man's name when no other title is used, typically in the
address of a letter or other documents. J. C. Pearson Esquire historical
a young nobleman who, in training for knighthood, served as an attendant to
a knight. But that's a squire. That's not squire. Okay, well
maybe it's just yeah, maybe you call yourself that and just to be PONCEI
yeah, maybe. Anyway, I always thought it was like a not a
legal qualification. But you know, you know how you know your doctor do
yeem houser? Yeah, MD. And if he'd gone to law school he'd
be do ye howser esquire. Yes, that's what I thought. But maybe
I'm completely wrong and you shouldn't listen to me. Possibly possibly, so I
was just looking here. As written by Jennifer Clintendon, and her only episode
before this that she had written was and Maggie Makes Three, which is the
one that's do it for her, So Jennifer knows what she's doing. Jennifer
hits him out of the park sometimes. And the next episode she wrote was
Scenes of Class Struggle where Marge gets the Channel dress and Hope does the golf
of mister Burns. Another fucking great episode. And then she contributed to twenty
two short films about spoon Field, my favorite episode, and then she the
Pretzel episode Gen's killing It. And then she went all the way over to
Seinfeld and she wrote some classic episodes there like the Package, the Little Jerry,
the Millennium, the Apology, the Burning, the Puerto Rican Day,
and then she wrote some Raymond episodes and yeah, Jennifer's got it going on.
Nice Jen, I know, right, Jen, the crit We're in
good, good company here anyway. So the episode kicks off with the kids
on their way on an excursion on the bus and the bus has certainly seen
better days, but save for them the old bus, isn't it because when
a leap hits the old one boom yes, and Skinner then says, look,
we're on a budget. You know, I can't do much about this
because missus cases you should try and fix it because we at the whole the
whole kit get bigger and the seatfelt through and he says due to budget budget
cuts a kind of and fix it the fumes that are in the back and
it's resulting in low test scores. Of course, we get the Ralphs and
the whatnock down the back. Then they begin the breaking procedure, which I
thought was quite funny, and we get the woman who's at there is off
Fort Springfield or something? Is that where they're going to something like that,
Yeah, I think for spring anyway, and she's explaining the cannons here.
You know these they're very very sensitive, gonna be very careful because it's pointed
shirt that watchtower. Very very sensitive. Bus comes in bang of course for
safety reasons. We don't get learned. It's just common sense, good bait
and switched by gen. They're very good. Otto was then given great.
I love this otto was given the credit card, and I mint for afterwards,
and I'm mint for afterwards. And unfortunately, though they realize here that
it's five dollars a child. Last time it was free, but when Disney
Disney takes over, unfortunately it's now five dollars chop because hey, there's a
profit to be had, isn't there. Indeed, Disney, that's good prophecy.
Then shallby Ville arrives, No school can afford that, and shall we
Ville Elementary arrive with principal valiant. He even gives the woman behind the canno
fuctual dollars to make sure they learn a bit more than they need to,
or then they would normally. Then they try to watch the war re enactment,
and Bash is sitting on missus K's shoulders, just trying to get a
bit of Lookxie, you gonna to see the fat one. I'm going to
make get the fat ones. Hey, they're trying to learn for free.
Get them use your phony guns as clubs. Then unfortunately he's eaten the mint
first. It's never a good thing. Have you ever brushed your teeth after
eating a mint? Or actually no, no, sorry, have you ever
brush your teeth and then eating food straight after, or try to drink something
straight after. It's horrific. The worst thing you can do. Clean your
teeth and then have orange juice, orange juice or softdrk Oh, my goodness,
gracious, that's so bad. It is so bad. The kids there,
they all hop on the bus. They're making a break for it.
The end of Outer again, it's a really terrific edit. That is one
of the fucking greatest cuts in the history of the Simpsons that because it's clear
they just to beat that little they leave it just looking off for their about
to kill him. It's like it's one of the I think actually too if
you listen to the audio commentary, I remember it being one of my favorite
audio commentary members because they do exactly what they said they said, watch this
and they all like pause, wait for that cut, and they order these
gray menors break out in hysterical That's terrific. It's so so great. Over
being one of my favorite moments ever is Simpson's commentaries. But as E says,
thank God for permission, slips Butt and Lisa a then getting their lunch,
or that they got the wrong lunches, because I think Bart says,
I'm so proud of you. Please be good. For the love of God,
please be good. From Marge Cimar that teachers are fed up. You
have to start putting money back into the school. You cut back on everything,
salary, supplies, the food. I don't care what you say.
I can taste the newspapers. Shredded newspapers had much needed rough innge and the
central links. Besides, you didn't notice the old gym mats. There's very
little meat in these gym matts. Our demands are very reasonable. By ignoring
them, you're selling out these children's futures. Oh come on and know we
both know these children have no future. Prove me wrong, dads, prove
me wrong. I like how he tries to justify everything. Doesn't he a
rock in a hard place. There's nothing he can do about it. He's
would to make the best of the situation, as you said, and he's
trying to look on the bridside and talking about You know, you're getting your
essential inks when you eat your shredded newspaper. A great line delivery. Almost
immediately after this though, when they cut to the kitchen. Yeah, there's
very little meat each. I love I love the lunch lady. She's got
a great line to lunch lady Doris. Of course, yeah, but how
good was that? I'll give it a rest, and we both know their
children have no future. Prove me wrong. Lisa is then worried that the
teachers are going to go and strike, and but it's like, what are
you worried about? And he tries to cry his knuckles, but unfortunately his
bones are very brittle from drinking milk. Thought they hung on the milk a
little bit too long. Two little kids that are trying to read it.
Who knows? But Edna points out that they the new equipment. This pointer
is now just a nub. It still points, doesn't it still points?
They've onnly got the banded books. Now do you remember what the band books
were? I know that one was tech war Sexist. I think was in
there by Henry Miller who sat tech War. Yes, Theory of Evolution by
Charles Darwin, forty Years of Playboy by Hugh Hefner. Steal this book,
Abby Hoffman hop on Pop Doctor Seuss and the Satanic Versus Junior illustrated edition that
was their courtesy of Simpsons Archive dot com a great website if you're an obsessive
Simpsons fan for all the little hidden gags, and nothing gets missed on the
episode. There's something to be seen in the episodes. The Simpsons archive is
where you will find it. Or four fingered this game, oh full finger
Thiscain, Well, I'll reiterate what they're doing. Take credit for it.
It's the American way, also the Australian way. It's the dan Do way
and the Guy way, but faster. There's not going to be a strike
bart Or Scanner said, you wouldn't have the one times to go through with
it. Skinner said that, well, I had to clean it up a
little basically. Kru Babo said you'd give the teachers everything they want. She
did. Yeah. She said you'd fold faster than Superman on laundry day.
I will see about that, Simpson. I always thought you were sneaky and
manipulative, but now I see you're really a very sensitive little boy. Thank
you, sir, oh Seymar. You're being totally unfair and the teachers won't
stand for it. Teachers, you don't have the guts, does strike.
You don't have the guts to take us all on. That's it? See
right? How goes the Excuse Me Kids is an emergency broadcast. She takes
over announces it going to be a strike, and Miss Hoover has bailed go
home, children, hear them, but of course followed by you one of
your favorites, missus pommel Horst leaving the key behind. Obviously that's a take
on the gim equipment, the pommel horse, Yes, the pobble horse that
you vault over when you're doing gymnastics. And the band plays the forbidden music?
Which was which song it was? Pop Goes the Whease. I heard
that I did like the done will you play the Forbidden news? Great unexpected
line delivery, and it is a very fun quick way to go to commercials.
And it's like it is yeah, you guys like Pop Goes the Weel.
This episode does a great job of setting up the story in a really
fun way, so it's like the first commercials out of the way. But
sometimes the episodes nowadays where the first act has nothing to do with the story,
but it somehow leads to the story. But this was all relevant to
what was going on. I really appreciated that. But we come back from
commercial and the kids we're all racing out of the school. Great news,
mum, horrible news, but it's got a pleasure overload it. Give the
dog a big kiss. You've for given the cat a big kiss before U
Yeah, I'll give it a kiss on the head. Yeah, not on
the on the lips. Uh No. I will bump noses with the ca
Yeah. I think that's what you do with catchy bump noses. That's the
thing, isn't it. I think dogs I just rough them up a big
kiss on the head. It goes to leave with the crowbar. List is
all prepared, though. She's got a tape recording of the teacher saying what
was it? Eight? What's what's? What's she saying? Repeat? I
can't remember, she says something on repeat. Damn it, I forgot ah,
I forgot anyway. It escapes me. But Milhouse unfortunately has a two
so he's not going anywhay. He's got homeschool list that these parents are quick
onto. That won't they absolutely Kirk finally did some decent parenting. The kids
then all race out to the street and course the traffic jam. But it
is the various him being naughty. So but at the construction site with the
adult with the same the same voice, which is the kind of thing you
can only really do in a in an animated series, but they do it
very well. The arcade is super busy. I love to go security Guard
now shaking the kids down. I thought this was going to be the episode
where you saw the My Dinner with Andre video game More we had Bond Mons
and Trench at Insights. That is actually the episode Springfield Files. Ah okay
with the with the X Files crew, which is one of my favorites as
well. It is a good and top five for me. But it's playing
chess at the park that boys playing three gives the chess at once. It's
a nice shout out to a movie that I don't know it's an actual shout
out, but it's certainly a bit of a reminds me of a movie that
I really did called Searching for Bobby Fisher about a young chess prodigy who goes
to play speed chess in Central Park with all the chests hustlers and usually ends
up winning. This one is just like, oh wow, look at this
kid going no, he sucks. What's that? What's the show about chess
that was written in Netflix? The Queen's Gambit? Any good? Oh?
Yeah, I highly recommend. Okay, yeah, dude, check that shit
out. We will check that shit out once I finished mine. But I
suppose I can betic Core suls any once a week. I can do that.
I can fit it in between. We need something to watch in between.
We've got Moonnight on Wednesdays and Betty corre Stall on Tuesdays. We need
something you have to watch. Well, there you go, that's one.
We're now at dinner. I love homer justification here. I think as a
parent, I now appreciate it more. Lousy teachers trying to palm our kids
off on us, very very funny. And Lisa tries to reason with with
Homeland. What do you mean like they want to be able to be more
productive? Lisa, if you don't like your job, you don't strike.
You just go in every day and do it really half fast. That's the
American way. He's more he's more like us than we have a kid with.
Yes, it's not the American way, it's just the adult way.
It's the way. Yes, Lisa can't relax. You know she's losing her
perspect pacity. Yeah, well it's always in the last place you look.
Look the teachers now are on strike at the front with their picket signs.
I appreciated the sign that said, just give me, gimme, gimme,
give me, give me. There's something about that line, give me,
gimme, gimmey. It's just it's great. Can you give me, gim
me, give me, give me? And then Lisa tries to approach Miss
Hoover for some for some learning, get away from me, from me.
The other two tunas as you said earlier before one two also on strike,
and then we get one of the greatest moments I've ever of all time.
Now for operations strike me no longer. You know. I heard Skinner say
the teachers will crack any minute. Skinner said, the teachers will crack any
minute. Purple monkey dishwasher, Well, we'll show him, especially for that
purple monkey dishwasher remarks. It's true though Chinese whispers, it always ends in
a shamble, doesn't it. It does. Indeed, did you ever play
that game at school where you had to try and get the message across And
were you that one kid that deliberately fucked it up for everybody? I would
never I'm sure I played it, but I always trying to make sure that
the message got through uncensored, and you know correct. It's like what I
used to try and be the good kids, so it get to me.
It'd be like who stole the cookie from the cookies? Who stole the cookie
from the cookie? Just ship Bag And I'm like, I'm pretty sure ship
Bag wasn't any original light. I'm going to not include it in the next
one. I was a goodie, goodie charmers, you know things. All
the cars are honking at the teachers in support, but no, honk,
give your white cookies. I mean I would honk. Would you not honk
who doesn't like cookies? Exactly? Right? Millhouse thing gets his recess.
Also honk if your horny exactly. I mean I'm always honking. Bill House
then gets so funny. We have to do that episode. It's so great.
Millhouse gets his recess and rather than go and look at a hive of
killer bees, he's like, I'm actually gonna study here, I'm gonna I'm
gonna learn. But it's like, what what you actually learning? Jim Boat,
I like it when you see the softer side of the bully said,
Jimbo's watching soap with his mum. It's so great. Believe Storic would do
that. It reminded me of being on school holidays because we'd always be said
to NaN's house because nan I wasn't working, so mom and dad were working
with to stay there for the during the day, and they would always watch
her soap. She had a it was twelve o'clock and one o'clock. You
had Days of Our Lives and Young and the Restless, Young and the Wrestlers.
And I can still hear that theme song, how does this kick off?
Well, I know the days of it, like sad, three of
our Lives, Dude, Young of the Wrestlers. I can't remember the theme,
although I've seen those credits so many times with the purple Yeah, yeah,
I think it's finished now, Young and the Restless, is it not?
I believe it might. All those soaps just seem to have just disappeared.
But man Nan loved her soaps, and man I got so into it.
This would be a guy and Young and the Restless. I think it
was. It was the other one had really pointy eyebrows and it was like
always the villain. I didn't like that guy. I didn't like that guy
at all. The bullies are then sick of ArKade games. We were playing
them for too long. I never thought I could scar playing this. And
I've got the doctor says, I've got rist of an eighty year old,
So I better stop. What do you mean the breakers out of money in
suv it You only have enough jash for the next three customers. Why do
I drive Josh second? Here? No? No, I don't have your
money here Trohn Burl's house, fragigh, Hey, what the hell you're doing
my money in your house? Fred? And it's always that instigates the fight.
He's the one that always overreacts to everything. Here, trigger boy,
trigger man. That, yeah, it's a Bill's house. Lisa begs to
be graded. She's just taken to the extreme. I just like very concerned.
She's like, this is not right. They're laying in bed and she's
saying, you know, Lisa's become very obsessive. She's trying to dusset her
raincoat. Yeah, chicken, this perpetual motion machine. Build what the hell?
And stop? Bart needs Bart needs boundaries and structure. Hello, mother,
dear. Very creepy, very very creepy. He's not He tends to
go to the dark side pretty quickly. Back to his own devices. I've
got here though, reminded me of being during during lockdown last year, Being
on lockdown where we couldn't go to work and you just get in this rut
where you couldn't do anything, and it's just you had no concept of what
day it was anymore, what time it was. Just you're up all night,
you're sleeping in it was just no you'd wake up and you'd say clocking
on. Now, guys, I wouldn't really do that, but that's what
that's what you're not. That's what you'd want to do. But yeah,
you just you just lost track of all structure during lockdown, didn't we It
was what a time it was, and it's just been forgotten about now it's
just like, did that really happen? It really had? And I mean
I know we we didn't talk a lot about COVID while it was happening,
and it's still happening and it is still happening, but it's just like whatever,
Yeah, your wife you live was, got COVID, doesn't matter,
got to work, it's what what the what? Yeah? In fact,
it seems like more people are getting it now. Yeah, but when we're
actually looking I mean obviously because we're not lockdown. That's yeah, that makes
sense now that I say that. Those guys I was like, why are
we even in lockdown because there's more people getting it down in the never.
I'm like, because we were in lockdown. Oh yeah, but yeah.
It was just one of those things where Alice's going to grow up and go,
what was this? What was that? What was this COVID lockdown thing?
I'm like, well, kids, sit down and strap yourselves in.
Boy, do we have a story for you. Yeah, let me tell
you about the good old days of COVID while you know, we're in the
midst of climate change or something like that. Lisa enters the room. Lea's
getting here in this house, we all be the laws of nam. He
then sets up a meeting between missus Kay and Skinner. Actually it's not a
meeting, it's a town hall meeting. Sorry it is, Yes, I
like that. Forget. Here's Edna Boo Skinners so spiteful, and she says,
you know, we need the money Exkinners that I can do, so
we're going have to raise the taxes. Ah, I'm not going to like
do this justice, I'm just going to play the clip because it's just the
police do so great. Our demands are simple, a small cost of living
increase and some better equipment and supplies for your children. Give it to them.
Yeah, in the dream world, we have a very tight budget.
To do what he's asking, we'd have to raise taxes. It's your children's
future. It will cost you taxes. Come on means to taxes. Well,
I guess this is a case where we'll have to agree to disagree.
I don't agree to that. Then, why this is a deli? You
have a pickle? Oh my god, the PTI has disbanded. No,
No, the p t A has not disbanded. How good was the the
god at the window spent? Then back in that he was added in by
I believe it was David Murkin. Let me have a look here, so
production, Yes, so then showrunner. So now Al Jean is a show
runer. David Merkan was a show runner at the time. He thought had
a lot of potential when that she brought up. Jennifer brought up the idea
of the teachers going on strike, and he was the one who added in,
Yeah, the guy jumping out the window. That was his little contribution
to this which every little bit helps, Yes, every little bit helps.
I feel like though I washed it and went if this was a season thirty
two episode and the guy did that, I feel like people would shit on
it. But because because it's so random and crazy, people were like,
oh, that was stupid. But I think just because in a classic episode
fans are more forgiving, you may well be right. Fans just are not
willing to accept anything as funny in modern Simpsons, where I think it's hilarious.
But yeah, So the guy jumps at the window and they they realize
that they've got a plan. So it's not going They're not going to come
to an agreement. You know, I agreed or disagree. I don't agree
to that. So they're officially disbanded and they bring out the plan. Flaners
brings it out. Well, either super intelligent cyborgs and if they're not created
yet, what does these people from neighborhood? So the first one we get
is Jasper. This is the next bit. It was really fun, just
all the different people. I did feel sorry for mother, so Jasper just
being cranky old man by believe that's paddling Frank with the preschoolers. No,
you can't play whether you wouldn't know, we wouldn't appreciate that guy, But
you're right. I mean, this is just a great use of side characters
men much loved or like oh that that one. Yeah, And they all
reacted in a way that you can actually believe. They would absolutely of Jasper
with his paddle. You better believe that to paddle. But then we get
Mo and he's trying and of course, you know, I liked the fact
that they tied in Bart's name gags he had, and that all the kids
laughing at him. But how bad did you feel for me? When he's
like, it's my big ears, Isn't it can help that he runs out?
I was like, oh, man, poor Mo. He's really he
really wanted to help these kids, and they made fun of him, but
they weren't laughing him. But he's just so self conscious. Then you know,
Bart says, yeah, I kind of feel bad, But you know,
remember who else was on the list? So no, who was it?
There was Chief Wigham, Lionel Huts, Barney, a lot of huts.
That's a scene. I hope they actually wrote that one of us deleted
scene on the DV days. That would be hilarious. Trying to dig him
out Gabe Caplan and then he crosses my off the list. Then we get
Leopold, a very scary man. Your little freaks, this is one substitute
you were not screw aweight And as march we come back and Margine introducing yourself,
I like him, brackets Bart's mummy on the board and but as unfortunately
set up the booby traps. First one is just the thumb tack, just
classic. Next one home alone style. Oh yeah, I think I might
have actually put like a tech on a teacher's that's fucking so mean. I
know. I think you go back at some of the ship you did when
you're a kid, and you're like, why did I throw bags of dogs
shit at people's houses? Why did I rock roofs wood so our mates through
dogshit? That he would we would my I had a mate who would like
get the dog shit put into like a hunger jack's bag whatever, like scrunched
up so it like wouldn't come out, and just launched one's front door,
so just go boom, don't open the front door. Just be a bag
of dog shit there. Terrible, Or I just slamming someone's letter box or
rocking a roof or whatever. It's like, why did I find that funny
little punk little shipthead. So I was the instigator. I was the guy
who would just say, I bet you wouldn't throw that rock. Oh really,
wait wait, tell them in the bushes, then do it. But
yeah, so she shot up bibber traps and as Much says, oh,
we've been doing that one since I was a little kid. They get back
home and everyone's had a bad day. It's been shipped for ship for Lisa
and ship for Marge as well. Exhausting. Took the kids of a forty
minutes to locate Canaday, well March. It's hard to find the wagh all
the way down there. Lisa then explains Jasper's day and I thought it was
hilarious. And the beard in the sharp knot, that's so good, grandpa.
Let me just do this well away. They did it just the right
amount too, I mean, yeah, three or four, it's three times,
but the last one you're almost not expecting it to happen. So what's
you gonna do? Exactly like, it's just not learning. But Lisa's worried
here. She won't even get into vasa. I've had it up to you
here with your vassa bashing young lady. Marge says, regards what you do,
but what you say, I will not stop teaching. It's not going
to happen. Well, I guess I'll just have to get into the CROs
space again. It's just such a random thing. But it's funny beating on
the wall. When he gets in there and bangs on the wall, it's
classic, classic Simpsons went out at the school in the playground, but says
to Marge, look, I need a dollar because because since you've been a
subty, all the kids are stealing my lunch money. Ah, here you
go, honey, go off with your friends. I thought you would have
been a big fan of Kerney's jig. I like this jig and I love
my just reaction. That's a very nice chig. It's a very nice chicken.
You have that, Katie. But his voice was wrong. I think
it was Jimbo's voice. Yeah, it was weird. But Bart realizes here
after getting beaten up again, Look, Millhouse, we need to get those
teachers back. You know you're right, but but missus Kane's skinning like two
positively charged ions. So it's like Wait a minute, Midhouse, with your
book smarts and my ability to exploit book smarts, we can come up with
a great plan. A surprise party for me in Principal Skinner's office. Well,
I don't know, but all right, go to my office. It's
highly irregular, but all right, and you're not coming out until you're reaching
agreement nor they'll start. Sure, come on, you're going to be very
very sorry. I really enjoyed. I feel like that we've had a good
time. I like to think they acted it together, Marsha and Harry.
You're going to be very very They just they were not impressed being lock in
that room, which is very very good. And again it's similar to the
Beard line where it was like, Okay, they're stopped. No they're going
again. They finally stopped. No they're going again. But yeah, they
finally realized, well, we're gonna have to sort this out. What are
we going to do? It's like prisons in our own school. Wait a
minute, and it cuts to the school basically turned into a prison. Did
you notice Willie in the tower? I did. I'll tell you what that
was a little a little scared. When the murderer ripped the shirt off and
like that would be terrifying. Absolutely just ignore the matter. Then we get
Snake before we get the sleep I've actually got here, I go. This
is off the the Simpsons archive once again. Snake's prisoner number was seven F
two zero, which was the episode code for War of the Simpsons from season
two, and the other prisoner's number was two F two to one. The
episode Marched the Cop, once Marched the Cop. I think it's Springfield connection.
But yeah, so Snake says, hey, kid, get me out
of here. I'll totally make it worth you a while, but I am
listening. A good way to win, a really funny way to end everything
sort of sort of somewhat back to normal. And yeah, it's just as
you said, very meme heavy, but just a very solid story from start
to finish. It didn't need the size story, just really interesting way of
incorporating all of the Springfield residents into one to one episode. I really enjoyed
this. I did as well. Yes, I'd pretty much forgotten all about
this episode until I rewatch it. For this episode, isn't it Cropean that
happens where you go back and you sort of you know the gist of what
happens in the episode, but these classic moments that pop up and you go,
oh, is this one? Yes? And for me though, because
I mean I lived off the Simpsons. The Simpsons is and will forever be
my number one show. I was just every day watching The Simpsons obsessed since
I started this podcast. It's because I've sort of gone away from that.
I don't go back and just watch the episodes for the sake of it.
I only really watch the Simpsons now to review it, and I want to
go back now and just start watching those other episodes again. Like Nicholas,
she watches Friends day and day out. It needs to be me of the
Simpsons. I think I need to go back and to start enjoying the Simpsons
yeat, and not that I'm not enjoying it now, but watching it without
having to review it, just watching it because I'm a fan of the Simpsons.
I miss being just a fan of the Simpsons. So I'm looking forward
to going back and doing it. I'm actually kind of what am I doing
is I wait till Elliott's a bit older and we can watch it together.
I can't wait to introduce the Simpsons to to Alliott and relive the show through
his eyes again. I just can't wait, very exciting for it. It's
very exciting for me as nerdy that sounds. I'm just very excited for that.
What do we learn bomb? But what did you learn from the PTA
dispands? Mister Davis that there aren't many things that won't earn you a paddling
That is apparently true. But is getting a paddle a bad thing? What
if it gets you through the night? Man? It depends your padlent true
or what you've been paddled with. I have learned that you only make fun
of people's ears when they're not listening. Good good life advice a very good
life act. Well ess. But that is our review of the PTA Dispands.
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