Homer The Smithers (with Daniel Connell)

<v Speaker 1>Sad Jesus business birds.
<v Speaker 2>I just called to say I don't love you.
<v Speaker 3>You are right bad John my he impersonates my mother.
<v Speaker 3>Will you and you Smithers, you must have put him
<v Speaker 3>up to it.
<v Speaker 1>I'm glad I fired you.
<v Speaker 2>You really blew it this time, Smithers.
<v Speaker 1>Four Finger Discounted.
<v Speaker 3>Welcome to four Finger discount. With this week, we're going
<v Speaker 3>back to season seven to review Homo the Smithers. I'm
<v Speaker 3>Dano and I am Guy and we are not alone, Amy,
<v Speaker 3>We are certainly not.
<v Speaker 1>We are joined by a comedian described on his own
<v Speaker 1>website as affable, lovable, and hilarious. Two out of three
<v Speaker 1>is not bad. It's Daniel Corral.
<v Speaker 3>He is all three in this podcast.
<v Speaker 1>He is actually all three in this podcast. He's he
<v Speaker 1>got across the board. What can I do?
<v Speaker 3>But he's, yeah, an absolute legend. I find myself with
<v Speaker 3>very similar age. You've got kids. I just found everything.
<v Speaker 3>He was saying, I'm like pressure to the choir brother.
<v Speaker 1>Meanwhile, I sort of turned up my hearing aid did
<v Speaker 1>what these young men were saying. It's like, yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>sort of vaguely remember that from decades earlier.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, but yes, So Daniel joined us on today's show
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<v Speaker 3>But for now, let's get in today's chat with Daniel
<v Speaker 3>Connell as we review Homer the Smithers. So we're here
<v Speaker 3>with Daniel. How are you doing, Dan?
<v Speaker 2>Hey? Good, Thanks guys. How are you guys?
<v Speaker 3>Oh fantastic, Thank you for joining us. So we're obviously
<v Speaker 3>here to talk about the Simpsons. But before we talk
<v Speaker 3>about the Simpsons, you've got a lot of stuff going
<v Speaker 3>on them. We just released a special recently, let's talk
<v Speaker 3>about that.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, just probably about well a month ago, I think
<v Speaker 4>it was, I released my third special called Little Lossie Batler,
<v Speaker 4>which is a show I toured all through twenty twenty
<v Speaker 4>four and then filmed it at the end of twenty
<v Speaker 4>four and then yeah, I listed about a month ago. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>it's kind of the way of the world now with
<v Speaker 4>social media and needing to keep up with clips. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>filming your special every year now is kind of the
<v Speaker 4>norm so used to not be, but I've released maybe
<v Speaker 4>three in four years now, So yeah, just keeping up
<v Speaker 4>with the younger generation and social media.
<v Speaker 1>You're like Smithers, You've got the grind set mate, You're
<v Speaker 1>just working twenty four to seven.
<v Speaker 2>That's it.
<v Speaker 3>I must admit.
<v Speaker 1>When I was doing my research about you on the internet,
<v Speaker 1>found your LinkedIn profile, which is something I haven't seen
<v Speaker 1>a lot of sort of comedians have. Actually, I'm wondering
<v Speaker 1>how sort of vital that is in today's entertainment industry
<v Speaker 1>to be not just across across the socials, but across well,
<v Speaker 1>apparently increasingly the social or the business.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, it's becoming definitely more and more. The LinkedIn one,
<v Speaker 4>thankfully is run by my manager, so I don't know
<v Speaker 4>anything about it.
<v Speaker 2>All have to do anything with that one.
<v Speaker 4>I control Instagram, Facebook and TikTok, and that's that's enough
<v Speaker 4>for me, But yeah.
<v Speaker 3>The important stuff.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, there's so much now you need to do if
<v Speaker 4>you want it, basically, if you want to stay relevant.
<v Speaker 4>And it's pretty tricky because everybody. Now if I go
<v Speaker 4>to a open mic on a Tuesday night, everybody's got
<v Speaker 4>their camera set up the back, everybody's filming everything, and
<v Speaker 4>that's just never ending.
<v Speaker 3>I suppose it makes it easier to get discovered, right
<v Speaker 3>if you're recording your stuff off time, because if you
<v Speaker 3>didn't have a need back in the day, now that
<v Speaker 3>you've got the need to do it, it's sort of
<v Speaker 3>you don't have to be flogging DVD's all the time.
<v Speaker 3>It's just just go to my YouTube channel and you
<v Speaker 3>can check out my stuff exactly.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, it's it's a fine line. I see some
<v Speaker 4>people filming that are quite new, and you I wouldn't
<v Speaker 4>want to be putting stuff up that when I'm that new,
<v Speaker 4>because if something does go viral and you then have
<v Speaker 4>to back it up with a live show, you haven't
<v Speaker 4>got the chops as of yet. So it's that fine
<v Speaker 4>balance of knowing when to start posting and releasing stuff.
<v Speaker 4>But yeah, everybody sort of figures it out on the run.
<v Speaker 4>It's also new, you know, it's filming everything. It's only
<v Speaker 4>come in the last sort of since Covid, I've really
<v Speaker 4>noticed a big uptick in people filming their sets, so
<v Speaker 4>everybody's kind of figuring it out.
<v Speaker 2>On the run.
<v Speaker 3>I saw you've given up on your podcast pre covid.
<v Speaker 3>Is that ever going to return?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I don't know, as you would be full aware
<v Speaker 4>running a podcast is it takes you know, it's not
<v Speaker 4>just one day of recording. You're doing days in the
<v Speaker 4>lead up, and it was taking a little bit of
<v Speaker 4>time away from the stand up, which is where I
<v Speaker 4>was making money. So yeah, it was it was a
<v Speaker 4>tricky balance. I'm sure if I kept it going, i'd
<v Speaker 4>probably be up to, you know, a few hundred episodes now,
<v Speaker 4>maybe be making some money off it. But yeah, I
<v Speaker 4>just got to fifty. I thought that's a nice that's
<v Speaker 4>a nice number to finish on.
<v Speaker 3>How important has it been being on shows like have
<v Speaker 3>you been paying attention in recent years?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>That that definitely is a huge help with ticket sales
<v Speaker 4>and just getting your name.
<v Speaker 2>Out there a bit more for sure. Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>You know, social media is especially TikTok and Instagram are
<v Speaker 4>probably the way a lot of people are blowing up
<v Speaker 4>now and getting their fans. Like, there's people on there
<v Speaker 4>that have you know, five hundred thousand followers and don't
<v Speaker 4>get any TV in Australia but can sell out theaters
<v Speaker 4>and really big rooms. But yeah, have you been paying attention?
<v Speaker 4>Especially it's probably one of the last places you can
<v Speaker 4>really show your comedy chops on Ossie TV. But when
<v Speaker 4>I was a teenager, there was loads. They used to
<v Speaker 4>have stand up on the Footage show and hey hey,
<v Speaker 4>and even some of the morning shows used to have
<v Speaker 4>a stand up spot. There was lots of opportunities when
<v Speaker 4>now it's kind of not really any chances to do
<v Speaker 4>stand up apart from the Gala on TV.
<v Speaker 2>So have you been paying attention?
<v Speaker 4>Is a really important one for comedians just to be
<v Speaker 4>able to show that they can be funny. And then yeah,
<v Speaker 4>you do notice a little uptick in ticket sales from that.
<v Speaker 1>Well, I'm wondering how important things like the Melbourne Comedy
<v Speaker 1>Festival are still. I mean, because they when I was
<v Speaker 1>growing up, and you know, it was pretty much a
<v Speaker 1>pivotal event and everyone was talking about who was who
<v Speaker 1>was coming out or who had new shows premiering, and
<v Speaker 1>things like that I'm wondering if that's still something that
<v Speaker 1>you can I don't know us as a selling point
<v Speaker 1>because you're an award winner from this year's Comedy Festival, right,
<v Speaker 1>the Piece of Wood award, I understand, which sounds incredibly prestigious.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, the festival is still still pretty good. I think
<v Speaker 4>a lot of rest of us that had comedy in them.
<v Speaker 4>You know, it's a bit tricky. It cost so much
<v Speaker 4>to run festivals now and the competition is so fierce,
<v Speaker 4>Like pretty much every American comedian, UK comedian, Indian comedians
<v Speaker 4>are coming in now and all year around now they're
<v Speaker 4>selling out rod Labor and palais and especially this is
<v Speaker 4>it just in Melbourne where I think ten years ago
<v Speaker 4>maybe four or five big names would come out and
<v Speaker 4>to it. So the festival was a huge draw card
<v Speaker 4>and everyone would use that month to see their comedy
<v Speaker 4>for the year. That was when you went and saw comedy.
<v Speaker 4>But people are seeing it every day of the week now.
<v Speaker 4>I did a gig at the palais not too long
<v Speaker 4>ago and they had about you know, they were just
<v Speaker 4>full of just shows and people podcasters and people I'd
<v Speaker 4>never heard of before that were selling three thousand tickets there.
<v Speaker 4>So yeah, the festival is still great for us to
<v Speaker 4>be able to showcase it, but it is it's got
<v Speaker 4>a lot of competition now compared to what it did
<v Speaker 4>even five years ago. I feel like crowds are still
<v Speaker 4>coming out and Melbourne, you know, people have that in there,
<v Speaker 4>especially Melbourne. People have it in there there and ad
<v Speaker 4>to go on sera show at the Comedy Festival. Absolutely,
<v Speaker 4>but with the cost of living and all those things,
<v Speaker 4>if you're going to see two of your favorite UK
<v Speaker 4>or American comedians throughout the year for probably two hundred
<v Speaker 4>and fifty bucks for two tickets, maybe you're not seeing
<v Speaker 4>those ten or twenty shows you used to see at
<v Speaker 4>the Comedy Festival in Melbourne. You maybe just seeing one
<v Speaker 4>or two or none. So it's yeah, it's just that
<v Speaker 4>fine fine balance of how much the crowds are seeing
<v Speaker 4>and what they're taking in what they're spending their money on.
<v Speaker 4>But before the point of view, it's still it's still awesome.
<v Speaker 4>This year was really fun. They're still bringing out some
<v Speaker 4>pretty good, solid international acts and the Gala still a
<v Speaker 4>great sort of something you really aim for. You love
<v Speaker 4>to be on the Gara every year, which is nice.
<v Speaker 3>Because Just for Last was canceled for a while, right, it.
<v Speaker 2>Was, Yeah, yeah, it's I think it's just come back
<v Speaker 2>this year.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Nina was saying that. Yeah, yeah, but she was
<v Speaker 3>saying that she did really well in her set and
<v Speaker 3>then they canceled it and just deleted her set. So
<v Speaker 3>now she can't find it and now they've brought Just
<v Speaker 3>the Last back again.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, right's your hands on this?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but yeah, with the Simpsons, so obviously we're here
<v Speaker 3>talking about Home at the Smiths today, but what are
<v Speaker 3>your your earliest memories of the Simpsons, Like when were
<v Speaker 3>you growing up? Was it during the nineties, like what
<v Speaker 3>what was peak Simpsons for you?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, definitely early nineties.
<v Speaker 4>I remember I have two older sisters, and I remember
<v Speaker 4>my big sister wanting to watch it a lot and
<v Speaker 4>we would just yeah, sit there. And then I just
<v Speaker 4>obviously became a big fan. And I don't think it's
<v Speaker 4>because it was like it was one of the few
<v Speaker 4>things that was before your bedtime. I think that was
<v Speaker 4>the key to it, Like you're seeing something that was
<v Speaker 4>very funny and often now I watched it and things
<v Speaker 4>that went over my head when I was a kid,
<v Speaker 4>they're so much more funny now, Like I rewatched that
<v Speaker 4>episode we're talking about today and laughed out loud a
<v Speaker 4>couple of times that things that I just didn't remember
<v Speaker 4>from that episode. Yeah, I just remember early nineties. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I just remember wood Fight. I have really good memories
<v Speaker 4>of childhood wood Fire, going after dinner, sitting down with
<v Speaker 4>my sisters, and we'd be allowed to watch The Simpsons.
<v Speaker 3>A lot of people associate their earliest memories of the
<v Speaker 3>Simpsons with watching it with family members, Like for me,
<v Speaker 3>it's what with my dad. My dad and I didn't
<v Speaker 3>really have much in common, but we always watched the
<v Speaker 3>Simpsons together. And also I'm watching my sister's it's always this,
<v Speaker 3>you know, the Simpsons. Plus it meant that my dad
<v Speaker 3>couldn't watch the six PM news, could channel tend back
<v Speaker 3>the Simpsons on.
<v Speaker 4>You know what going through When you asked me to
<v Speaker 4>do that, I went obviously went back and looked at
<v Speaker 4>some old seasons and just looking at the list of
<v Speaker 4>the episodes, and obviously there's what is a nine hundred
<v Speaker 4>odd episodes or whatever.
<v Speaker 3>Nearly eight hundred. Now I think, yes, I'm like, yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, I I just knew everyone. I was like, oh
<v Speaker 5>my god, I've seen every single episode. I knew every plot,
<v Speaker 5>and I just gout, Yeah, you just watched it, and
<v Speaker 5>it just was It's just in our brains now forever.
<v Speaker 1>Having said that, Daniel, I mean, watching it at that
<v Speaker 1>young age, I'm wondering if it's sort of helped form
<v Speaker 1>your comedic style, if it just sort of seeped into
<v Speaker 1>your bones and into your DNA in some ways, like oh,
<v Speaker 1>this is how you do comedy, or this is how
<v Speaker 1>I learned comic timing, or that this is how I
<v Speaker 1>can shape a joke or this is how I can deliver.
<v Speaker 2>Oh.
<v Speaker 4>Absolutely, absolutely, I think it definitely is like you say,
<v Speaker 4>it just seeps in.
<v Speaker 2>I remember.
<v Speaker 4>I definitely would have gone to school and you know,
<v Speaker 4>talked about the episode the next day. That was something
<v Speaker 4>we did amongst our friendship group. We'd always go in
<v Speaker 4>and say the funny lines and try and do the voices.
<v Speaker 4>And I think that when you're really young, you're not
<v Speaker 4>really looking at formula and how they're putting the show
<v Speaker 4>together and how they write. But definitely, once I got
<v Speaker 4>into my teens and you know, fifteen I was watching,
<v Speaker 4>I was like, oh wow, because stand up it was
<v Speaker 4>sort of in my mind then and I was watching
<v Speaker 4>a lot of stand up on TV and obviously full
<v Speaker 4>frontal and fast forward those TV shows in the nineties
<v Speaker 4>with Man. Yeah, there were things that we really you know,
<v Speaker 4>I personally loved them, and yeah, from about fifteen or sixteen,
<v Speaker 4>I wanted to give stand up ago. So then when
<v Speaker 4>I watched I watched The Simpsons, I just loved, you know,
<v Speaker 4>the callbacks and the more adult content and the real
<v Speaker 4>cheeky stuff that they go away with really appealed to me.
<v Speaker 4>So I think without a doubt all those you know,
<v Speaker 4>really funny things we watched growing up but definitely helped
<v Speaker 4>me understand comedy and how it works.
<v Speaker 3>I was going to ask you any of the shows
<v Speaker 3>growing up that you maybe didn't really appreciate that once
<v Speaker 3>you realize you wanted to become a comedian, that you
<v Speaker 3>went back and went, oh, this is this is what
<v Speaker 3>I need to be getting influenced by inspiration from.
<v Speaker 4>The one that comes to mind that the writing is
<v Speaker 4>exceptional now that I watch it because my wife loves it,
<v Speaker 4>and when I was a kid, I just had no
<v Speaker 4>is Frasier.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah it is. It is up there.
<v Speaker 4>Like obviously, we watched Seinfeld and I love Seinfeld and
<v Speaker 4>I always knew it was great, but Fraser's definitely gone
<v Speaker 4>up way so much in my book in the last
<v Speaker 4>decade of watching it. I just think the writing on
<v Speaker 4>that show was Obviously the acting is great, but the
<v Speaker 4>writing as well was just exceptional.
<v Speaker 2>If you go back and watch it now, it still
<v Speaker 2>holds up.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's got that classic sort of combination. It's got
<v Speaker 1>really strong sort of sitcom bones in terms of it's
<v Speaker 1>set up and dynamic and all of that. Then it's
<v Speaker 1>got this sort of lovely frosting layer on top of
<v Speaker 1>just this sophisticated human that makes it be a little
<v Speaker 1>bit more classy by watching it. Then the lands are
<v Speaker 1>cut that with Martin sort of you know, cutting him
<v Speaker 1>down the side just by telling it how it. Isser
<v Speaker 1>is fantastic in that ring at.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, all those things you said, it's that Now that
<v Speaker 4>i'm you know, you get a few more gags and
<v Speaker 4>you understand when you're older and how things work. I
<v Speaker 4>just think the casting on that show and Seinfeld and
<v Speaker 4>you look back at it the car they just absolutely
<v Speaker 4>nailed their casting for each role on those shows.
<v Speaker 2>They must look back.
<v Speaker 4>People who did that must look back now with such
<v Speaker 4>you know Pride because they absolutely nailed the casting for
<v Speaker 4>that one.
<v Speaker 3>I remember not liking Fraser as a kid because I
<v Speaker 3>didn't get it.
<v Speaker 2>Well that's probably Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>When I was a teenager, I find the jokes. I
<v Speaker 3>was like, I feel so smart now and almost like
<v Speaker 3>it was the benchmark if you understand Fraser, You're growing up,
<v Speaker 3>you know. But yeah, you usually pitched today, we weren't
<v Speaker 3>going to do hor with the Smith as you asked
<v Speaker 3>for it. I think it was like a season seventeen
<v Speaker 3>episode which flowed me.
<v Speaker 1>It was.
<v Speaker 3>I think it was Bart has two Mummies. I was
<v Speaker 3>really I could not believe it because every guest we've
<v Speaker 3>had just always going straight to the golden ear, and
<v Speaker 3>that's what usually what we do. Why why Bart has
<v Speaker 3>two mummies? What was it that drew you to that one?
<v Speaker 3>That's the one where Bart is that he become that
<v Speaker 3>the monkey in the cage at the grilla in the cage.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, it was it was just reading back through
<v Speaker 2>them all.
<v Speaker 4>I remember that one, yeah, being because from I haven't
<v Speaker 4>watched it back, but I vaguely remember that Marge she
<v Speaker 4>gets she gets a job in that one, I believe,
<v Speaker 4>and that's why she's not.
<v Speaker 3>She's not around for something not around.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, and the yeah, the chimp takes I actually can't remember.
<v Speaker 3>Get I'll get the plot up. But yeah, but I
<v Speaker 3>was just like I was like season seventeen. Wow, normally
<v Speaker 3>most comedians are gone. We stopped watching out the season ten.
<v Speaker 1>I was really impressed, and we would have talked about
<v Speaker 1>it not long ago on the show, but we did. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>hard to remember much about it at all.
<v Speaker 3>It's just I remember you didn't like it. I liked it,
<v Speaker 3>you didn't like it.
<v Speaker 1>It's stricken from the record.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, But so you were still watching the show
<v Speaker 3>around season seventeen or is it just one that you
<v Speaker 3>may have just caught on TV?
<v Speaker 6>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>I think I was.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I'd say more likely that I caught it on TV.
<v Speaker 4>You know, if I'm home and got nothing on and
<v Speaker 4>that's on, I'll often just watch it. So what what
<v Speaker 4>years do you think that would have come out?
<v Speaker 3>Season seventeen since that episode aired nineteenth of March two
<v Speaker 3>thousand and six. So I was just finishing high school then.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I would have been just finished, and yeah, working
<v Speaker 4>in kitchens and would have had nights off.
<v Speaker 3>And working in kitchens. Okay, So what were you were
<v Speaker 3>a chef. What were you doing water?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, after school I did a commercial cookery and was
<v Speaker 4>did that through about five years. Hated it but yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I didn't enjoy it, but.
<v Speaker 1>Met some great comedy.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, so that one here says at an animal
<v Speaker 3>retirement home, so it's not a Z's animal retirement Homer
<v Speaker 3>monkey holds Bart hostage in her cage. Marge learns of
<v Speaker 3>the kidnapping on the news and must figure out a
<v Speaker 3>way to get her son back. Yes, yeah, yeah, I
<v Speaker 3>don't want Bart has two mmies. I was like, is
<v Speaker 3>he is he ritten me? Is he joking? Yeah? Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>but we went with we went at the Home of
<v Speaker 3>the Smith. I gave you a few selections. You wanted
<v Speaker 3>a Homer episode. So as Homer a character, you find
<v Speaker 3>that you relate to a lot more of the older
<v Speaker 3>you get because I as a kid was you know,
<v Speaker 3>very much Bart, and I found hom of funny. But
<v Speaker 3>the older I get now I'll just go, well, I've
<v Speaker 3>become Homer.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I always thought Home was the funniest. I always thought
<v Speaker 4>his lines were yeah, you know everything all the so
<v Speaker 4>many of the punchlines are from him, So I think
<v Speaker 4>he always appealed to me. Yeah, And obviously Bart when
<v Speaker 4>you're little, Bart is the rat bag and you see
<v Speaker 4>yourself in him at times. But yeah, I would say
<v Speaker 4>Homer was always my favorite.
<v Speaker 3>Did you ever like the Least of episode? Because I
<v Speaker 3>didn't as a kid. But again, as I get older,
<v Speaker 3>I appreciate that I have a lot more in common
<v Speaker 3>with Lisa than I realized when I was younger.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I like that Bleeding Gums Murphy one. And you
<v Speaker 4>know those ones. When I think of Lisa episodes, they're
<v Speaker 4>the ones that pop in my mind, and they're.
<v Speaker 1>Great appropriately enough that they always feel like thevery eat
<v Speaker 1>your vegetables episides, like these are the ones that are
<v Speaker 1>going to be good for you or teach you something
<v Speaker 1>as sid appropriately and I've given Lisa's vegetarianism. But yeah,
<v Speaker 1>as you get a bit older as well, you realize
<v Speaker 1>sometimes you need some vegetables in your diet.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yes, I tell you what I never I never
<v Speaker 4>warmed too. This might be controversial. I never warm to
<v Speaker 4>the like the House of Horrors ones.
<v Speaker 3>The trios of Horror really Yeah, okay, see, I like
<v Speaker 3>them because they're just sort of.
<v Speaker 2>Because each season would have one, wouldn't they They would.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>They started in season two and they're still doing to
<v Speaker 3>this day, and arguably they're the ones that people get
<v Speaker 3>the most hypedful now because they're you know, the horror,
<v Speaker 3>and that they're different because I think a lot of
<v Speaker 3>people aren't really watching the show as much as they
<v Speaker 3>used to, but that that triosop horor seems to always
<v Speaker 3>be a standout and a bit of fun because they
<v Speaker 3>can sort of let loose a bit. But I always
<v Speaker 3>enjoyed the trios of horror. Do you think you didn't
<v Speaker 3>like about it? He is not a horror fan in general.
<v Speaker 1>Or scorching hot take on your partner.
<v Speaker 2>Well, it's not the horror. It was.
<v Speaker 4>It was just that, I I, this is gonna sound
<v Speaker 4>weird considering I'm watching a cartoon that's completely crept from nothing.
<v Speaker 4>I didn't like that it was them not being themselves.
<v Speaker 4>They weren't being their they were being something it was.
<v Speaker 4>If it started it was a House of Horrors episode,
<v Speaker 4>I'll be like, oh.
<v Speaker 2>Turn it off.
<v Speaker 3>I feel like you're the first person in the world
<v Speaker 3>I've ever spoken to us.
<v Speaker 4>I just liked the traditional, you know, each of them
<v Speaker 4>being themselves a proper storyline. I didn't like the whackingness
<v Speaker 4>of it.
<v Speaker 2>I was like, no, man, well.
<v Speaker 3>It's it's actually really interesting you say that because this
<v Speaker 3>episode aired Home of the Smithers during season seven, and
<v Speaker 3>that's when two guys, Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein took
<v Speaker 3>over the show as the showrunners. They've been writers of
<v Speaker 3>the show and they got that gig just by being
<v Speaker 3>fans of the show, and they got into the writer's
<v Speaker 3>room and then they'll give them the job of being showrunners.
<v Speaker 3>And when they took over here, they felt the show
<v Speaker 3>had become too wacky and they wanted to make it
<v Speaker 3>take it back to being more grounded. They want to
<v Speaker 3>have fifteen episodes, because there's twenty two episodes in the season.
<v Speaker 3>They want fifteen episodes based around the family, and then
<v Speaker 3>have your annual one, so you have your one Trouse
<v Speaker 3>of horror, you have you Itchy and Scratchy episode, your
<v Speaker 3>Sideshow Bob episode, that kind of thing. But they wanted
<v Speaker 3>to really focus on the emotional side of stories and
<v Speaker 3>just make it feel more realistic again. So I've always
<v Speaker 3>felt season seven and eight are my favorites when they're
<v Speaker 3>in charge of the show, and maybe you're you as well.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I would tend to agree.
<v Speaker 4>I didn't know those facts about writers and the changing,
<v Speaker 4>but yeah, I agree around that six, seven, eight, nine,
<v Speaker 4>ten is probably the most episodes I've rewatched.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, because Marge versus the Monorail, they say, is
<v Speaker 3>sort of like a turning point where they realized, oh,
<v Speaker 3>we can just do anything now and get away with it.
<v Speaker 3>And that was written by Conan O'Bryan and great episode.
<v Speaker 3>People love it. But the thing is, Matt Granning wasn't
<v Speaker 3>the biggest fan. He always wanted to keep the Simpsons
<v Speaker 3>feeling like a real family, and it sort of swayed
<v Speaker 3>away from that to an extent, and then when Josh
<v Speaker 3>and Bilt it go over, they went, let's bring it back,
<v Speaker 3>and you get episodes like this Home and the Smithers,
<v Speaker 3>an episode which they've said it was pitched by the
<v Speaker 3>next show round of Mike Scully at the time, and
<v Speaker 3>they couldn't believe that it hadn't already been done. It
<v Speaker 3>just feels like such a basic, simple premise Homer becomes
<v Speaker 3>Burns's assistant, and it hadn't been done. But I'm glad
<v Speaker 3>they waited this long because that had done this in
<v Speaker 3>like season three or four. I don't think the relationship
<v Speaker 3>of Smithers and Burns would have been as flesh as
<v Speaker 3>what it was. And I think seeing them for so
<v Speaker 3>many years just sort of Smithers's love for Burns and
<v Speaker 3>him relying on Burns just for a reason to live,
<v Speaker 3>and Burns relying on him to live. I think the
<v Speaker 3>eventual separation of this episode meant more as a result.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, and I love that it sets up little things
<v Speaker 4>like the way he feeds him and brushes his teeth
<v Speaker 4>and things that you think, well, he's been doing that
<v Speaker 4>for the last you know, he's been doing that's in
<v Speaker 4>today one, all those times, all those other episodes we've watched,
<v Speaker 4>that's what's happened every morning.
<v Speaker 2>You know this has been going on.
<v Speaker 1>Love it, and it's got that great commodation again as
<v Speaker 1>I said before, of like it's very heightened kind of
<v Speaker 1>comedy in terms of like today I'm wearing the things
<v Speaker 1>that kinds up or even just brushing someone's teeth. But
<v Speaker 1>also I think everyone can relate to the situation of
<v Speaker 1>being put into a job that's probably above your pay grade,
<v Speaker 1>and you don't know what the fuck you're doing, and
<v Speaker 1>you're sort of bumbling through and you want to get
<v Speaker 1>it right. You want to do it right for various reasons,
<v Speaker 1>but also as like I've got no idea what's going on?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, and even the burnout for as a you know,
<v Speaker 4>older now. I watched it again yesterday, and just the
<v Speaker 4>burnout for Smith's like he's a real stress that people
<v Speaker 4>get and as a kid or even a teenager watching that,
<v Speaker 4>you're not thinking about that element of it at all.
<v Speaker 1>I think that ties into what you were talking about earlier. Though.
<v Speaker 1>How about you know, with your comedy career, I think
<v Speaker 1>a lot of people, you know, from the outside in
<v Speaker 1>would probably go, Daniel's got it made. Gets to stand
<v Speaker 1>up on stage and just tell jokes. Fantastic, What a
<v Speaker 1>life it's like. You know, he's got to be his
<v Speaker 1>own marketing department, his own PR department, his own av club,
<v Speaker 1>all this stuff, you know. I mean, I think it's
<v Speaker 1>very much the way of the world in the in
<v Speaker 1>the tw twenties, Like we're all working extremely hard and
<v Speaker 1>you know, edging edging, edging towards burnout all the time.
<v Speaker 2>That's right.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, It's never ending, is a good way to put it.
<v Speaker 4>Especially in the stand up world, you kind of feel
<v Speaker 4>like you need to have your foot down the whole time,
<v Speaker 4>because if you take it off, you just sort of
<v Speaker 4>fall back in the pack. That's the I don't think
<v Speaker 4>that's true, but that's the feeling.
<v Speaker 1>What it feels.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, in an industry where it's you know, there's not
<v Speaker 4>a lot of opportunity for you know, there's probably there's
<v Speaker 4>fifty spots for a thousand people sort of thing is
<v Speaker 4>how you're led to believe. But I think having a
<v Speaker 4>little break every now and again is really good. I
<v Speaker 4>used to never do it, but now I make sure
<v Speaker 4>I have a week in the middle of the year
<v Speaker 4>and then two around Christmas and news where I just
<v Speaker 4>don't even look at an email or joke.
<v Speaker 3>Just get away, I was going to say, because like,
<v Speaker 3>I'm married with kids, who've got a seven year old
<v Speaker 3>just turned seven year old and a nearly five year old,
<v Speaker 3>and I found I would have been about six months ago.
<v Speaker 3>I was having real burnout, much like Simiths here, because
<v Speaker 3>I just was and given myself any time. I almost
<v Speaker 3>felt like I didn't deserve the time, which is kind
<v Speaker 3>of like Smith's in this episode. I don't know why
<v Speaker 3>I felt that way, but whenever I would take time
<v Speaker 3>for myself, I would feel guilty. I would think I
<v Speaker 3>should be mowing the lawns, I should be folding the washing,
<v Speaker 3>I should be doing.
<v Speaker 1>This house chaw.
<v Speaker 3>And I couldn't relax. Even when I was having down time,
<v Speaker 3>I couldn't relax. But now I sort of go, no,
<v Speaker 3>you know, one day a week, just or even for
<v Speaker 3>a morning a week, just go do something, Go for
<v Speaker 3>a walk, go play a game of golf, go do something.
<v Speaker 3>And yeah, so much better for it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we're in the era of optimization. Yeah, where if
<v Speaker 1>you're not making the most of every second, you've just
<v Speaker 1>you've wasted it.
<v Speaker 4>So yeah, and then you see you have a scroll
<v Speaker 4>on Instagram there's some guy absolutely ripped. He's like, I
<v Speaker 4>was up at four point thirty this morning, I've had
<v Speaker 4>a workout, two workouts already, and avocado on toast and
<v Speaker 4>I'm gonna.
<v Speaker 3>Why can't you do this?
<v Speaker 6>Man?
<v Speaker 1>Probably because I'm not making ten k a month hustling
<v Speaker 1>the hustle broke lifestyle jumps.
<v Speaker 3>Do you find it easy to switch off from comedy
<v Speaker 3>or is it just always there, always thinking of gags?
<v Speaker 3>Are able to sort of just turn it off.
<v Speaker 4>Much better now, it's good. Yeah, that's come with time,
<v Speaker 4>for sure. I used to not at all. Used to
<v Speaker 4>always be I'd wake up and put a note in
<v Speaker 4>my phone at you know, two am, just stuff like that.
<v Speaker 4>And yeah, just as I said, it just got too much,
<v Speaker 4>so much better now where I'll just leave the phone
<v Speaker 4>and laptop in the bedroom and just you know, get away,
<v Speaker 4>get away from it. Sundays generally, because there's not really
<v Speaker 4>many comedy clubs on a Sunday night. Sundays generally is
<v Speaker 4>a day where you clear, okay, yeah, just switch off
<v Speaker 4>and and you don't have to think about it, look
<v Speaker 4>at emails or anything.
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<v Speaker 3>What do you like with when you're writing a new gag?
<v Speaker 3>How much do you try and perfect it before you
<v Speaker 3>start testing it with people?
<v Speaker 2>Ah?
<v Speaker 4>You kind I kind of write it a couple of times,
<v Speaker 4>just pat in a pen, and I'll generally just go
<v Speaker 4>straight to stage with it as so long as it's
<v Speaker 4>got something in there that you can see that's a
<v Speaker 4>beginning middle in a punchline, I'll go straight to and
<v Speaker 4>open mic, you know, in front of twelve people on
<v Speaker 4>a Monday night, and and just give it a run,
<v Speaker 4>because the more you say it out loud, the better
<v Speaker 4>it it forms. And then you kind of rewrite it again,
<v Speaker 4>maybe after five tries, and it's you think of your
<v Speaker 4>little tags, and so some people like to write and
<v Speaker 4>write and write till it's pretty much ready, but I
<v Speaker 4>like to just maybe write it out as it comes
<v Speaker 4>out and then start trying it, and you do it
<v Speaker 4>that way, and then by the side of the tenth
<v Speaker 4>go and the maybe the fourth rewrite, it's pretty much
<v Speaker 4>locked in you get at it.
<v Speaker 3>That's probably a much better approach as well, because if
<v Speaker 3>you think you've perfected a gag and then you test
<v Speaker 3>it and it bombs, it would probably hit your ego
<v Speaker 3>a bit, right, Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, got to get it up on its feet
<v Speaker 1>and let it breathe a bit.
<v Speaker 3>Do do you find many egos in comedy? You kind
<v Speaker 3>of have to have an ego. But do you find
<v Speaker 3>many in the Australian scene naming names? But do you
<v Speaker 3>find you come across some ego sometimes but you want
<v Speaker 3>a few.
<v Speaker 4>There's a few, for sure, but it wouldn't be It
<v Speaker 4>wouldn't be as many as you think.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think it's Yeah, okay.
<v Speaker 4>It's generally like a pretty even though it's cut throat
<v Speaker 4>and everyone's gunning for similar things, it's pretty. It's a
<v Speaker 4>pretty nice industry. There's not too many massive egos, you know.
<v Speaker 4>I feel like the time of the ego, especially in
<v Speaker 4>I've noticed it in music and comedy. Those days are
<v Speaker 4>a bit numbered for people with the big egos. Now
<v Speaker 4>you kind of just sort of have to be a
<v Speaker 4>decent you know, and.
<v Speaker 3>It just person Yeah, yeah, I just feel like the.
<v Speaker 4>Days of the divas and the idiots are a on.
<v Speaker 4>Like if you if you met you know, say you
<v Speaker 4>wrote down the five biggest names in Australian comedy and
<v Speaker 4>you met them, that you would find them all quite nice.
<v Speaker 4>I think you'd find It's not really an industry where
<v Speaker 4>you can have a big a go and be a
<v Speaker 4>prick because you get weeded out, you lose work because
<v Speaker 4>of it. Because there's someone as good as as there's
<v Speaker 4>someone that can you know, do your job right, there
<v Speaker 4>probably five people that can do that.
<v Speaker 2>Job for you.
<v Speaker 4>You can't really afford to be a prick and lose it,
<v Speaker 4>so most people kind of Yeah, I think there's be
<v Speaker 4>people that come into the scene with an ego and
<v Speaker 4>can be a bit of a jerk and they find
<v Speaker 4>out soon that you just can't survive that way.
<v Speaker 1>Well, you mentioned balancing act before, and I think that's
<v Speaker 1>probably going to be vital because I mean, you're going
<v Speaker 1>to have to have some degree of ego in terms
<v Speaker 1>of backing yourself and having confidence in yourself to be
<v Speaker 1>able to get up on stage to day I'm going
<v Speaker 1>to make you laugh. Motherfucker, we don't say motherfucker, but
<v Speaker 1>or unless it Bernie mac. But at the same time,
<v Speaker 1>you can't let it sort of become your whole personality.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, turn it on and turn it off. There's yeah,
<v Speaker 4>there's definitely a different when you're on stage. You can
<v Speaker 4>create a confident persona and sometimes even like an ego
<v Speaker 4>or be a prick on stage and that's what works
<v Speaker 4>for you. But the people you see on stage that
<v Speaker 4>you think do you say like harsh, or you probably
<v Speaker 4>chatter them off stage and they're just quite normal and nice.
<v Speaker 3>How important is using language during comedy for having an
<v Speaker 3>effective punchline or whatnot? I know, because sometimes you know,
<v Speaker 3>some communists just don't want to swear at all, but
<v Speaker 3>some do. Like do you find it helps you with punchlines?
<v Speaker 1>Sometimes I don't.
<v Speaker 4>I don't specifically right like you know, F bombs or
<v Speaker 4>you know, I never really say so, Bob, I. I
<v Speaker 4>don't actually write them down on paper. They just personally,
<v Speaker 4>they just come with how I'm feeling. If I'm a
<v Speaker 4>bit ranty or angry at something, that probably they come
<v Speaker 4>out a bit more. If I'm just sort of setting
<v Speaker 4>up a punchline that's just about spiders or you know,
<v Speaker 4>they don't come. It's just it's interesting. I think if
<v Speaker 4>you force it and you write them down and you
<v Speaker 4>put them in there thinking that that's going to get
<v Speaker 4>you a laugh, maybe it doesn't work as well. That's
<v Speaker 4>definitely for me. Yeah, I've definitely noticed. There's been times
<v Speaker 4>where early days, if you're a bit nervous, you say
<v Speaker 4>if this and if that, but after about five minutes,
<v Speaker 4>like God in your head, you're like God, I'm saying
<v Speaker 4>that a lot. I need to stop saying.
<v Speaker 3>It of yourself aware you're obviously saying it a lot.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, but over time you just kind of get Now,
<v Speaker 4>I know when to say it, and I don't really
<v Speaker 4>think I'm saying it. I planned, sorry that I planned
<v Speaker 4>to say it. It just sort of comes out in
<v Speaker 4>the moment. And I think if I did so you
<v Speaker 4>recorded the same ten minutes set three nights in a row,
<v Speaker 4>I think that'd be F bombs at different times, and yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>it wouldn't be the same sort of timings on the
<v Speaker 4>F bombs.
<v Speaker 3>You've got kids, right, one, Yeah, a little boy.
<v Speaker 1>One kid.
<v Speaker 3>So do you find now you've got to train yourself
<v Speaker 3>not to swear. So maybe when you're doing your comedy
<v Speaker 3>that's just sort of your way of just getting it
<v Speaker 3>all out, because I find I swear a lot, but
<v Speaker 3>when the kids around, I'm going to try and control
<v Speaker 3>myself and hold it in, And then when the kids
<v Speaker 3>arend around, I'm just like, you know, I just sort
<v Speaker 3>of it just comes out naturally without even realized.
<v Speaker 2>To be honest, I think I swear the same around
<v Speaker 2>my son. To be honest, I did.
<v Speaker 3>I didn't till my wife slapped me across the back
<v Speaker 3>of the head, and I learned I had to try
<v Speaker 3>and stop that.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and you'll be like if it was very organic.
<v Speaker 1>I mean not to spoil anything from a little Ossie that,
<v Speaker 1>but when you're sort of talking about Cody from foot Locker, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and what you wish for him in the future, it's
<v Speaker 1>like that feels like it's only the game completely off.
<v Speaker 1>The cut off the cup felt completely natural. Yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>loved it.
<v Speaker 2>Sometimes you just yeah, you're feeling it. My favorite.
<v Speaker 3>All right, did we have any favorite moments from this episode?
<v Speaker 3>I know you did, guy, Yeah, absolutely, shall I got
<v Speaker 3>go first.
<v Speaker 1>I think we're all very much relaying to Homer in
<v Speaker 1>this and as I mentioned before about you know, thrust
<v Speaker 1>into a position of responsibility that you had just unsuited
<v Speaker 1>for the bit where he says to Burns, can you
<v Speaker 1>repeat the part of the stuff where you talked about
<v Speaker 1>all the things. It's like, that's me at so many jobs?
<v Speaker 3>Was the thing. I hope it wasn't stupid. In this episode,
<v Speaker 3>he was very actually very relatable. He was trying. It's
<v Speaker 3>just sometimes you just can't do the job.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, that's around when he sticks his head
<v Speaker 4>out the window and as Smithers is leaving and yeah,
<v Speaker 4>well yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, what are I do in case of five?
<v Speaker 1>That's it, And you get a great callback later on
<v Speaker 1>with that when he's actually making breakfast and everything's on
<v Speaker 1>the past. By the way, you see that his dedication
<v Speaker 1>to duty. When he actually shows up to make breakfast
<v Speaker 1>that first day. I think that's the first time I've
<v Speaker 1>ever seen Homer in long sleeves. Yeah, maybe in a
<v Speaker 1>long sleeve shirt, because normally he's got the unless he's
<v Speaker 1>at church or whatnot. Yeah, but you normally got the Sipowitz.
<v Speaker 1>He's got the got the short short seat shirt. But
<v Speaker 1>it's like, oh, he's gone up in the world. He's
<v Speaker 1>gone pro Look a lot of my stuff is home. Really,
<v Speaker 1>it's all these great lines that would feel perfectly suited
<v Speaker 1>to any classic sitcom. I mean they're almost sort of
<v Speaker 1>like vaudeville gags or just you know, classic old time
<v Speaker 1>stand up gags. And then the bit where it's like
<v Speaker 1>reading the paper and you know how my stock's doing
<v Speaker 1>they or one or what are your options? What about
<v Speaker 1>my options? We can either get up or go and
<v Speaker 1>make you slept. Oh my god, that you used to
<v Speaker 1>hear the rim shot in your head. But yeah, it's fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure Dana's going to want to talk about the cube.
<v Speaker 3>We've got together.
<v Speaker 1>We'll all talk about the cube, because that's just that's
<v Speaker 1>gold standard joke telling.
<v Speaker 3>As far as the fact that Burns when the phone rings,
<v Speaker 3>is it about my cube? Like you believe it. He's
<v Speaker 3>accepted as fate and just a great visual.
<v Speaker 1>Gag in this as well. When yeah, Smithers had been
<v Speaker 1>fired and like, well, any any big corporation is going
<v Speaker 1>to be happy to get a guy like Smithers. I
<v Speaker 1>think he's going to go work for At and t No,
<v Speaker 1>he's going to work for Neat and Tody Piano movies.
<v Speaker 1>That's just a really spot on visual gag as far
<v Speaker 1>as I'm concerned. So, yeah, he's my favorites, but there's
<v Speaker 1>going to be more to talk about as we go through.
<v Speaker 1>I'm sure.
<v Speaker 3>Did you have any particular favorites, Daniel, Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Just to touch on the when Homer gets up to
<v Speaker 4>go to cook the breakfast for Burns and he gets
<v Speaker 4>up at four thirty and march es it's four thirty.
<v Speaker 4>Little Rascals doesn't start till six.
<v Speaker 3>It's beautiful I'm so glad you said that, because I
<v Speaker 3>love that as well. It just reminds me of getting
<v Speaker 3>up earlier to watch you know that the start of
<v Speaker 3>Cheese TV or as Aerobics or whatever.
<v Speaker 4>Watch Little Rascals is just brilliantly. I really like the start,
<v Speaker 4>the start at the drag the drag race. Burns plays
<v Speaker 4>for them all the staff to have a day out
<v Speaker 4>at the drag races at the speedway. And yeah, he's
<v Speaker 4>drinking beer from a tea span. A smith is feeding
<v Speaker 4>Burns beer from a tea spoon, and he's he's given
<v Speaker 4>me no bars, nothing's happening. Better grab the tables.
<v Speaker 1>Not feeling younger or funky.
<v Speaker 4>And he gets the car and he gets the cars
<v Speaker 4>to slow down as well, because that you can't he
<v Speaker 4>can't see them.
<v Speaker 3>And I just love Homer for no reason. It's not
<v Speaker 3>of an acknowledge. He's just got a big giant novelty
<v Speaker 3>hat on. All right, let's get into some trivia, shall we.
<v Speaker 3>Why did you have any more favorite moments than you.
<v Speaker 2>There would be there was?
<v Speaker 4>I really I really liked when Homer knocks out mister Burns.
<v Speaker 3>So believable, isn't it just like you would you would
<v Speaker 3>want to.
<v Speaker 4>Do that from being so frustrated being bossed around. And
<v Speaker 4>he runs home and then it cuts to Smithers. He's
<v Speaker 4>driving a speedboat and he can sensors that something's not right.
<v Speaker 1>It's like ob one and Luke Yeah yeah, and the.
<v Speaker 4>Speedboat and then you see the pyramid of dude, pyramid
<v Speaker 4>of cars in swimsuits high up behind him.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's brilliant.
<v Speaker 3>I really liked on Hope we got home. He just
<v Speaker 3>slams the door and just cowers in the corner. Marg's like, you, okay,
<v Speaker 3>something wrong? Except except that was a really sweet moment
<v Speaker 3>as well. I mean it's great when your partner or
<v Speaker 3>your wife or it were just sort of well, it's
<v Speaker 3>clearly there's something wrong, but.
<v Speaker 1>Just gradually teasing and was like, except, yeah, it's sort
<v Speaker 1>of been fantiizing, but at the same times, like sometimes
<v Speaker 1>you don't need that from your partner. Yeah, exactly. Next question,
<v Speaker 1>you there eating the paste?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, trivia time. My first question for you all is
<v Speaker 3>why is dared Devil Lance Murdock in the hospital. The
<v Speaker 3>Speedways a fundraiser for him. He's got something wrong with him.
<v Speaker 3>Oh good, it's cirrhosis of the Liver Liver and Homers.
<v Speaker 2>Who when they announced it over there.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's one of my favorites as well, just the
<v Speaker 1>the announcer of the speedway, just putting everything everything every there. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>it three times, three times, three times.
<v Speaker 3>Smithers cutting it down later on. That's already he hustling.
<v Speaker 3>Your first question, my first question. We're back at the speedway.
<v Speaker 3>There's a brand of malt liquor advertised on the side
<v Speaker 3>of one of the hot rods. What brand of malt
<v Speaker 3>liquor is it?
<v Speaker 1>I've got no.
<v Speaker 2>Idea, me neither. I remember seeing the logo.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's Kingpin King molt Lecker. There's a lot of
<v Speaker 1>good advertising. I think you saw Laramie cigarettes on the
<v Speaker 1>side of one of them. Yeah, there was king Ping
<v Speaker 1>malt liquor.
<v Speaker 3>Alright, how old is mister Burns's mother?
<v Speaker 4>Oh yeah, one hundred and twenty four.
<v Speaker 3>Oh close on hundred and twenty two. Good guess twenty two. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>she's one hundred and twenty two. Try and sound more desecrated.
<v Speaker 2>They say he's one hundred and four in that episode.
<v Speaker 3>One hundred and four. Yeah, he's They're very fluid with
<v Speaker 3>his age, like it's always changing. But One of the
<v Speaker 3>things about this episode was that gave Bill and Josh,
<v Speaker 3>because they're big fans of old Timey Burns, he gave
<v Speaker 3>them a chance to really showcase just you know, a
<v Speaker 3>hoy hoy answer the phone. Just things like that showcase
<v Speaker 3>and the fact that she had the affair with President
<v Speaker 3>hate to believe it was. Who was a president from
<v Speaker 3>nineteen o nine to thirteen, Yeah, that.
<v Speaker 1>Was president that old. My next question to you is
<v Speaker 1>how many times did the phone ring before for it
<v Speaker 1>picked up?
<v Speaker 2>Oh, I know, I know, I think forty eight, wasn't it?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah? Forty eight is correct? Right, all right.
<v Speaker 3>My final question is how many names appeared on the
<v Speaker 3>list when Smithers was doing the search engine trying to
<v Speaker 3>find a replacement.
<v Speaker 2>It's like five or six? Was it?
<v Speaker 1>No?
<v Speaker 3>Seven hundred and fourteen.
<v Speaker 1>Because what he initially okay, typing incompetent seven hundred fourteen,
<v Speaker 1>anybody adds all the others lean with obs Yeah, seven
<v Speaker 1>hundred and fourteen.
<v Speaker 3>I thought that was a really clever way of just
<v Speaker 3>because of course Home is going to be the one
<v Speaker 3>getting chosen. It's just like, oh the hell with this,
<v Speaker 3>I'm just gonna go Homer Simpsons. It's just an easy crutch,
<v Speaker 3>but it works well.
<v Speaker 4>I love when Homer gets the job and it cuts
<v Speaker 4>to him sitting at the dinner table.
<v Speaker 2>He says.
<v Speaker 4>Everyone has to work. Everybody says they have to work
<v Speaker 4>harder when I'm around.
<v Speaker 2>That's why I got.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, that's one of the old time of old timing quotes.
<v Speaker 3>That one is there, for sure. It's not one of
<v Speaker 3>the ones of the inspirational post is yet on the
<v Speaker 3>Simpsons know that's one of the top tier Homer quotes.
<v Speaker 3>But all right, So this episode originally aired February twenty fifth,
<v Speaker 3>nineteen ninety sixty top three films at the US box
<v Speaker 3>office when this episode aired. Number three was Muppet Treasure Island. Now,
<v Speaker 3>I'm a obsessed, die hard Muppet fan, love the Muppets
<v Speaker 3>as a kid. I've never seen MupE Treasure Island one.
<v Speaker 1>It's got Tim Curry. Tim Curry has long John Silver
<v Speaker 1>or something. I don't know why I.
<v Speaker 3>Missed it, but I just never and I've never gone
<v Speaker 3>back to revisit it. It's always it's in my Disney
<v Speaker 3>Plus watch list. I just haven't watched it yet. But yeah,
<v Speaker 3>my pet Treasure Island was number three. Number two was
<v Speaker 3>Broken Arrow with Travolta and Christian Slave Christian Slator, which
<v Speaker 3>is a fine nineteen nineties action flick. It was a
<v Speaker 3>bit bit wacky, but ill do I mean? And number
<v Speaker 3>one was Rumble in the Bronx, which I had no
<v Speaker 3>idea what it was. But this guy here, he knows
<v Speaker 3>everything about movies. So tell us Rumble in the Bronx.
<v Speaker 3>It's Jackie Chair. Yeah, I looked it up. Yeah, it's
<v Speaker 3>his first break it's his breakthrough film, right.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, he tried to break into the US market after
<v Speaker 1>being just a huge star in Hong Kong for so
<v Speaker 1>many years. And they you know, he was in the
<v Speaker 1>Cannonball Run with Burt Reynolds and Roger Moore back in
<v Speaker 1>the early eighties, and he was in some other some
<v Speaker 1>other action movie set in New York, but yeah, I
<v Speaker 1>think they were. The nineties was a real push to
<v Speaker 1>sort of bring Asian action cinema into the US. And yeah,
<v Speaker 1>so they gave Jackie another another shot. This is pre
<v Speaker 1>Rush Hour that it was done with that with Chris Tucker.
<v Speaker 2>So what year was it again?
<v Speaker 3>It was ninety six, twenty fifth, ninety six.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, But the funny thing is called Rumbling the Bronx.
<v Speaker 1>And it is clearly Vancouver Canton. It looks nothing like
<v Speaker 1>the Bronze.
<v Speaker 3>So is it a dubbed film?
<v Speaker 1>No, like it's so it's made in America. And yeah
<v Speaker 1>Jackie he had a decent enough for a grasp of English.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah it wasn't English dubbed.
<v Speaker 1>No no, no, no, it's yeah a US maybe North American movie.
<v Speaker 1>But with Jackie channels to the start off.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, so everyone's speaking English, they are, okay, Yeah, becuse apparently.
<v Speaker 1>It was a huge success.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, right, I can't believe that ninety period, that nineties
<v Speaker 4>period had so many of the greatest films of all time.
<v Speaker 4>And when I haven't heard of or seen any of
<v Speaker 4>those three films.
<v Speaker 3>I hadn't seen brokesit. This man here, he is the
<v Speaker 3>movie guy, right, he knows everything about movies. He's just
<v Speaker 3>that he reviewed movies for a living for what twenty
<v Speaker 3>five years?
<v Speaker 1>That right?
<v Speaker 3>So he said, he always says, no, he knows. I
<v Speaker 3>love nineties action flicks, you know, like Connair's and face
<v Speaker 3>offs and that kind of stuff. Right, That's why I
<v Speaker 3>always say that the Aussie nineties, Australian summer double Headed
<v Speaker 3>was always face off in Connair every summer. You got
<v Speaker 3>it on Channel seven. But I had no idea about
<v Speaker 3>films like Broken Arrow and whatnot, and he always recommends
<v Speaker 3>him and I had never heard of it either. But yeah,
<v Speaker 3>it's if you like Conna Air and Face Off, you're
<v Speaker 3>gonna love Broken Arrow. It's just that kind of that
<v Speaker 3>kind of genre.
<v Speaker 2>Right, what year was last Boy Scout?
<v Speaker 1>That's ninety one.
<v Speaker 3>I believe that feels like mid nineties to me, but
<v Speaker 3>it was a lot earlier. But what's your favorite genre
<v Speaker 3>of film, Daniel? Is it?
<v Speaker 5>Like?
<v Speaker 3>Is it that kind of nineties action fleet?
<v Speaker 1>I did what's your called that?
<v Speaker 2>When? Yeah? Back then.
<v Speaker 4>If I go to a film now, I really like
<v Speaker 4>things that are true stories made into films like drama. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I really like the I just recently watched the Jordan
<v Speaker 4>the Nike film.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, movie movies.
<v Speaker 4>Like that, the true stories adapted into what was the
<v Speaker 4>other one?
<v Speaker 1>The always Moneyball?
<v Speaker 4>Moneyball is great, I always I always forget the name,
<v Speaker 4>but the one with Richard Jewel, I really like that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, movies, it's called Richard Jewels.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Yes, there's one coming out that you might like.
<v Speaker 3>It's got I think Chane Tatum is the start, right,
<v Speaker 3>the guy that broke out of prison in hides and
<v Speaker 3>a Toys r Us store or something roof.
<v Speaker 1>Many Rob McDonald's franchises.
<v Speaker 3>Used to used to hide out in the toilets in
<v Speaker 3>McDonald's and then when they opened up the store, he'd
<v Speaker 3>come out and rob them. But he was really nice
<v Speaker 3>about it. He just put them in there in the
<v Speaker 3>cool room and said just stay here, you'll be fine.
<v Speaker 3>It's going to take some money, and he'd leave and
<v Speaker 3>he became like the McDonald's feet. And then he broke
<v Speaker 3>out of prison and hit in a roof of a
<v Speaker 3>Toys r Us for like how long?
<v Speaker 1>Oh, a long time. Yeah, But he's always like, okay,
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna put you in the in the cool room.
<v Speaker 1>Layer up. Okay, he didn't bring a jacket. Okay, you
<v Speaker 1>can add by jacket.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, that movie is coming out, and that's the
<v Speaker 3>kind of film you probably like, ye man, Yeah, check
<v Speaker 3>that out alrighty. This episode was written by John Swatswild
<v Speaker 3>and one of the most iconic Simpsons writers of all time.
<v Speaker 3>Directed by Steven Dean Moore as well. No chalk gag,
<v Speaker 3>but this one has the couch gag, with the Simpsons
<v Speaker 3>are driving to the couch in their little mini cars
<v Speaker 3>and they're wearing fezzsa. Do you know about these guys,
<v Speaker 3>I mean about fezzs?
<v Speaker 1>No, well, what they're doing here? This is a This
<v Speaker 1>is a group called the Shriners. Okay, yeah, it's sort
<v Speaker 1>of like a bit like an offshoot of the Freemasons. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>but because I saw and I'm like, this looks familiar
<v Speaker 1>to me for some reason. I mean, it's not just
<v Speaker 1>sort of like a circus kind of thing, but yeah,
<v Speaker 1>circus vibes. Yeah. But Shriner's International describes itself this is
<v Speaker 1>from Wikipedia, which is we all know one hundredercent accurate,
<v Speaker 1>describes itself as a global fraternity. Quote based on fun,
<v Speaker 1>fellowship and the Masonic principles of broadly love, relief and truth. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>but apparently they will have you know when parades were
<v Speaker 1>a thing.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I miss parades.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, we don't really happen as much as these, but
<v Speaker 1>the Shriners would get be there and they've been in
<v Speaker 1>these little cars and to be wearing their fazzes. So yeah,
<v Speaker 1>so this is a shout out to the Shriners. Whether
<v Speaker 1>Schwartzwelder was actually a member of the brotherhood or who knows,
<v Speaker 1>or just a fun visual gag.
<v Speaker 3>Why don't we have parades anymore? Just people just don't
<v Speaker 3>want to go outside and wait and watch things. Or
<v Speaker 3>what is.
<v Speaker 2>It probably to do with costs?
<v Speaker 1>Surely, yeah, it's always be costs money, yes, and that's
<v Speaker 1>what where's the optimization in a you could be you know,
<v Speaker 1>you know, he could be doing some push ups.
<v Speaker 3>But Burns welcomes all the employers to the drag racing
<v Speaker 3>event that he is fully paid for. That's one of
<v Speaker 3>the downfalls the guests of not working for somebody now,
<v Speaker 3>like doing podcasting full time, is the Christmas parties. He's
<v Speaker 3>getting all expenses paid for stuff. Yeah, but even Smithers,
<v Speaker 3>you know, he has to want the crowd by using
<v Speaker 3>the microphone, and he has to read from que cards
<v Speaker 3>even waiting for his name. My name is Anti burn
<v Speaker 3>So it's basically he's just just setting up here that
<v Speaker 3>he's ubsterutly hopeless. He needs Smithers for absolutely everything. Homers
<v Speaker 3>sitting there with his novelty hat. Marge is just really
<v Speaker 3>excited to be there. She did it out of the house,
<v Speaker 3>but she she misses the race completely because she's too
<v Speaker 3>busy talking about being a hot mamma.
<v Speaker 1>But a hot rod Mom, Mama. Yeah, it's always very
<v Speaker 1>sweet when Marge is trying to, you know, use the
<v Speaker 1>kid's lingo.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it never works. But Smithers is giving Burns as
<v Speaker 3>you're saying earlier, Daniel, he's duff beer by the tea spoon.
<v Speaker 3>He doesn't feel in the younger funky, so he pumps
<v Speaker 3>it up to the tablespoon. Now it's time for the
<v Speaker 3>power plant Championship, so he gets Smithers to get his bioculars. Now,
<v Speaker 3>what are bioculars compared to binoculars? Is it just the wit?
<v Speaker 3>He says, get my bioculars.
<v Speaker 1>I'm guessing just an early version of binoculars. Yeah. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>they struck me as that kind of thing that rich
<v Speaker 1>old ladies would use it the opera.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, there's little things like that. Yeah yeah, but Burns
<v Speaker 3>demands that go slower so he can keep up. And yeah,
<v Speaker 3>they go really slow. The what do they call that?
<v Speaker 3>The parish parachute. Parachute doesn't even go off. Now everyone's leaving.
<v Speaker 3>Burns has his novelty foam hand, but he's not a
<v Speaker 3>fan of the size of it, so he demands Shiller's
<v Speaker 3>go get a smaller one.
<v Speaker 1>It's a bit ostentatious.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so Spillers goes together, and this is where we
<v Speaker 3>get a really iconic Lenny moment. Lenny's one of my
<v Speaker 3>favorite sub characters. But he rocks up and he just
<v Speaker 3>wants to He sn't do anything wrong. He wants to
<v Speaker 3>thank Burns had a great time. Granted, his breath smells
<v Speaker 3>of beer, bread, but he just wants to say thank you.
<v Speaker 3>Give him a big thumbs up, you know, Race Smolshindy,
<v Speaker 3>thank you very much. And he's just terrified of him,
<v Speaker 3>isn't he.
<v Speaker 1>Well that's a great thing about Christmas parties as well, though,
<v Speaker 1>I mean, well, the great and terrible thing about Christmas
<v Speaker 1>part is everybody he gets a few drinks in. It's
<v Speaker 1>the great disinhibitor and democratize. It's like, you may be anyway,
<v Speaker 1>yeah one hundred times when I'm earning.
<v Speaker 3>But yeah, just a guy meet.
<v Speaker 1>And then you've got no job. But I've seen this
<v Speaker 1>happen more than once. You know, at Christmas parties, whenever
<v Speaker 1>you get a few drinks in, you get a little
<v Speaker 1>merry and you realize, yeah, just.
<v Speaker 2>A guy, I'm just a guy.
<v Speaker 3>And you get to work the next day and do
<v Speaker 3>you have any Christmas party stories, Daniel.
<v Speaker 4>I remember being I had a job in health insurance
<v Speaker 4>when I moved to Melbourne to chase comedy, and I was, Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>I was working in call centers and things, and we
<v Speaker 4>had a Christmas party where the boss by the end
<v Speaker 4>of the night had his shirt off and was whipping
<v Speaker 4>around his like a button up shirt all his full
<v Speaker 4>chest exposed, dancing and stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Was was he a brother or was he was he
<v Speaker 1>an offer?
<v Speaker 2>It was uncharacteristic, Yeah, it was definitely. It was definitely
<v Speaker 2>alcohol that did the job.
<v Speaker 4>But yeah, everybody liked him enough that it wasn't It
<v Speaker 4>wasn't a big deal. I'm sure he would have I'm
<v Speaker 4>sure he would have got some you know talking to
<v Speaker 4>the next day from the higher ups. But we all, yeah,
<v Speaker 4>it was always you know, the running not an HR violation.
<v Speaker 4>Today probably be a bit more frown upon. That's going
<v Speaker 4>back twelve or thirteen years, but it got referenced a
<v Speaker 4>lot after that.
<v Speaker 3>Working in a call center is as mundane mundane as
<v Speaker 3>it seems.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yes, especially in health insurance too, where people are
<v Speaker 4>calling with serious you know, it's some of the things
<v Speaker 4>you have to talk about. Sad it wasn't the most
<v Speaker 4>enjoyable job.
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<v Speaker 2>Then no, no, I didn't get a lot of gags
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<v Speaker 3>so he's terrified by Lenny. Here, Lenny's doing ebolite, nothing wrong,
<v Speaker 3>Smithers arrives, Oh my god, and he will get the
<v Speaker 3>big Lenny thumbs up. I'm not sure if you're very
<v Speaker 3>much over the Simpsons meme groups, but the Lenny thumbs
<v Speaker 3>up is a gift and a screenshirt that gets used
<v Speaker 3>all the time.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, Brodie, this was some swell.
<v Speaker 2>Shouldn't they thank.
<v Speaker 1>You very much?
<v Speaker 3>Smither is what's happening on right time?
<v Speaker 2>I just want to share your han.
<v Speaker 6>Smithers doesn't seem as funny to men?
<v Speaker 1>What way now Smithers?
<v Speaker 6>Oh my god.
<v Speaker 3>I just love Lenny. Who do you think is one
<v Speaker 3>of some of your favorite side characters? Daniel like Lenny?
<v Speaker 3>For me just seems like if anyone asked me, who
<v Speaker 3>do you think you would be friends with? It just
<v Speaker 3>feels like Lenny's the go to.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, Lenny and Carl.
<v Speaker 4>You want to know there, You want to know how
<v Speaker 4>they live and what's going on behind the scenes. I
<v Speaker 4>can't remember any specific. Was there many Lenny centric episodes
<v Speaker 4>where it's where he's.
<v Speaker 3>Not Lenny centric episodes? There was sort of you know
<v Speaker 3>that in the opening act. They sometimes have many plots
<v Speaker 3>that set up the main plot. Sometimes you got ones
<v Speaker 3>like that. But the recurring gig for Lenny now or
<v Speaker 3>was during the post Golden ear, was that I can't
<v Speaker 3>get things in his eye, so you get things that
<v Speaker 3>always be getting in his eye. And then we had
<v Speaker 3>the big please don't tell people how I live, which
<v Speaker 3>is when he's just squatting in the house at March
<v Speaker 3>trying to say stuff like that. But he never really
<v Speaker 3>had a Lenny episode up until like on What season
<v Speaker 3>twenty one. Now we still haven't really had a Lenny episode,
<v Speaker 3>have we?
<v Speaker 1>Not really? I mean part of the story, but not
<v Speaker 1>a Lenny episode. I think there was the one I
<v Speaker 1>remember where it was he was sort of responsible for
<v Speaker 1>the inciting incident where I think everyone came over to
<v Speaker 1>new TV, have a new TV, which was a big
<v Speaker 1>step up from you know, I don't tell anyone how
<v Speaker 1>I live now. The guy's got a flat screen plasma.
<v Speaker 1>Nice work, Lenny.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but I would say, yeah, Lenny, probably a Snake.
<v Speaker 2>I would say it would be a favor.
<v Speaker 1>Really Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I really like Snake. And I also really liked Oh
<v Speaker 4>the Girl. You know he's oh, you.
<v Speaker 2>Know another one that I loved.
<v Speaker 4>He I don't think he's in many episodes, but you'll
<v Speaker 4>know him for sure, Yes.
<v Speaker 2>That guy, Yes, Ma, And then I think Spanish. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I always love that guy when he popped up because
<v Speaker 2>he's just still.
<v Speaker 3>Like one of those characters that because that's Dan, the
<v Speaker 3>voice of Homer Dan castleing, it s feels like one
<v Speaker 3>of those things that he just improvising one day that's gone, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>that is so good by turning that into a character.
<v Speaker 2>He looks like such a dodgy guy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Oh, there was a I think it was Jack Benny,
<v Speaker 1>who was like a fairly famous American comedian who actually
<v Speaker 1>used that as a bit of a catch RaSE. You
<v Speaker 1>that's great.
<v Speaker 3>I love it, yes, But but Burns is terrified on
<v Speaker 3>the way home. He should have sard the murderous look
<v Speaker 3>in his eyes. Breath smelled of a ricked of beer
<v Speaker 3>and pretzel bread, and Smithers blamed himself because I should
<v Speaker 3>never have left you alone. But Burns, I don't love that.
<v Speaker 3>Burn just has a mace ready to go, just read
<v Speaker 3>it to hit somebody. He says, I'll never forgive myself.
<v Speaker 3>And he says never never, never, bangs his head. Burns
<v Speaker 3>has had enough, puts the little mirror wall thing up
<v Speaker 3>in the middle of the of the limo, and he
<v Speaker 3>calls me up from the phone, keeps continue saying never, never, never.
<v Speaker 3>So we're just sort of they're setting up here that.
<v Speaker 3>I don't think Burns truly appreciates everything Smithers does for him.
<v Speaker 3>That's the thing, Like he just it's just Smithers just
<v Speaker 3>does it. It's just expected, like it's just not really acknowledged.
<v Speaker 3>It's just this is all done for me. And that's
<v Speaker 3>just part of life, but it's not really how it
<v Speaker 3>should be. But then Smithers is trying to grovel. The
<v Speaker 3>following morning, He's alphabetized his breakfast. You can start with
<v Speaker 3>the waffles and work your way up to the swipe back. Now,
<v Speaker 3>what is a swie back? I looked it up and
<v Speaker 3>it just looks like some form of bread thing.
<v Speaker 1>It's like a biscottie. It's like a It's a very
<v Speaker 1>over kind of biscuit.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, all right then, yeah, I just love that alphabetizer
<v Speaker 3>from W t Z. He's also leminaded the newspaper, but
<v Speaker 3>unfortunately Burns can't do the junior jumble now. So Smithers
<v Speaker 3>has had enough. He says I'm not worth living anymore,
<v Speaker 3>attempts to drown himself in the water tank, and Burns
<v Speaker 3>is just light your drama. Queen empties it out. He
<v Speaker 3>says Smithers needs a vacation, but he says, no, without you,
<v Speaker 3>I'll wither and die. And he says, what's risk I'm
<v Speaker 3>willing to take. You must take a vacation as soon
<v Speaker 3>as you find a replacement for me.
<v Speaker 1>I love Smithers just saying I can't even grobble properly.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but this is where Smithers looking at replacements once
<v Speaker 3>who went out shine him. He looks up incompetent seven
<v Speaker 3>hundred and fourteen names. You can narrow it down to lousy, clumsy,
<v Speaker 3>dim witted, monstrously ugly. He'll get seven hundred and fourteen names.
<v Speaker 3>So he says this, I'll just go get Homer Simpson.
<v Speaker 2>I think Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills.
<v Speaker 6>Everyone always says they have to work a lot harder
<v Speaker 6>when I'm around.
<v Speaker 7>You know, Dad, is this thing, mister Burns could give
<v Speaker 7>your career a real shut in the arm.
<v Speaker 1>You know, Homer assisting mister Burns could give you a.
<v Speaker 7>Career real shut in the arm. Just said that, say,
<v Speaker 7>next time, get.
<v Speaker 1>Your own dome Harsh to Margins episode I've never really
<v Speaker 1>got that joke.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it doesn't really go anywhere, does it. It just
<v Speaker 3>sort of mean for the sake of mean. But Homer's
<v Speaker 3>not paying any attention to Smithers when he is running
<v Speaker 3>through all of the various jobs, the twenty one hundred
<v Speaker 3>various jobs that he has to do, So he says,
<v Speaker 3>you you're gonna be answering the phone preparing his tax
<v Speaker 3>return moistening his eyeballs, sitting with his chewing and swallowing,
<v Speaker 3>lying to Congress, and some light typing, and I just
<v Speaker 3>love it. But when he's going through all these tasks,
<v Speaker 3>he fixes one of the frames, like straights up. It's like,
<v Speaker 3>even when he's going through all these things, he's always on.
<v Speaker 3>He can't switch off. He's always fixing something, making sure
<v Speaker 3>it's perfect for Burns. Then the phone rings and it
<v Speaker 3>is mister Burns's mum and home. He can't believe she's loved.
<v Speaker 1>What do it means?
<v Speaker 3>Must be a hundred million years old. She has limited capacities.
<v Speaker 3>All she can do is dial and yell. So he
<v Speaker 3>says that Monty is an important meeting, he can't be disturbed,
<v Speaker 3>But he's actually just asleep in his office. He just
<v Speaker 3>can't talk to her ever since he shed that affair
<v Speaker 3>with President Taft. And yeah, you old dog, yes, as
<v Speaker 3>I was saying earlier nineteen nineteen, nineteen thirteen, just showcasing
<v Speaker 3>how old Burns is.
<v Speaker 2>It's great that I love that scene there where he
<v Speaker 2>can't speak. He's in a meeting.
<v Speaker 4>That shows him at his desk and he's falling asleep, yes,
<v Speaker 4>and then waking himself up. But when he wakes up,
<v Speaker 4>he gets he's angry, he goes back, he goes back
<v Speaker 4>to factory setting, and then falls asleep again, then wakes
<v Speaker 4>up angry, wakes.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they're little details that when you're a kid watching,
<v Speaker 3>they're just, you know, straight you're not paying attention to that.
<v Speaker 3>I think it's just I think when you keep watching
<v Speaker 3>episodes like this, it's just Homer silly.
<v Speaker 1>That's that's the gag. But the older you get, you
<v Speaker 1>just really.
<v Speaker 3>Appreciate everything that's going into the writing of this show.
<v Speaker 3>It's fantastic Burns.
<v Speaker 1>And you almost pick up on him subliminately. Like I
<v Speaker 1>was saying before, you know, if you're watching this as
<v Speaker 1>a kid, you know, and you're seeing it on repeat
<v Speaker 1>as well, because ten will often sort of recycle these ever.
<v Speaker 3>Six pm week nights.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, you'd just be like just sort of catching it
<v Speaker 1>out of the corner of your eye or something, and
<v Speaker 1>the next thing you know, it's your favorite gag. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, And as you're saying, the older you get, your
<v Speaker 3>watch episodes and there's jokes that you have probab watched
<v Speaker 3>a thousand times but you've never actually realized. And then
<v Speaker 3>it's It's almost like the penny finally drops and you go, oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>that's been there as well. I love that you can
<v Speaker 3>watch The Simpsons thirty years later and still find jokes
<v Speaker 3>that you never realized all this time. But Smithers is
<v Speaker 3>now leaving for the airport. Homer doesn't know twenty seven
<v Speaker 3>hundred of the new duties. Out of the twenty hundred,
<v Speaker 3>so which one is giving you the most trouble?
<v Speaker 1>What do I do?
<v Speaker 3>In case of fire? Smithers can't hear? He leaves, turns around,
<v Speaker 3>Burns his office is just on fire. That's just and
<v Speaker 3>that's the kind of gag you can only really do
<v Speaker 3>in an animated series.
<v Speaker 1>It's so good.
<v Speaker 3>But I do love that when we come back from commercial,
<v Speaker 3>Over is putting out the fire, Burns and says, oh, Smithers,
<v Speaker 3>you look atrocious. He's already forgotten that that Homer is
<v Speaker 3>his is his replacement, and he orders his lunch. He
<v Speaker 3>wants a single pillow of shredded wheat, steam toast, and
<v Speaker 3>a Dodo egg. Tries to explain to Burns that is extinct.
<v Speaker 3>I love that even Homer is smart enough to know
<v Speaker 3>that the Dodo doesn't exist anymore, you know, It's almost
<v Speaker 3>like Burns just everything that's happened posts like nineteen twenty
<v Speaker 3>just never doesn't exist in his mind.
<v Speaker 1>That's the kind of thing that happens. If you get
<v Speaker 1>a few more miles, you get a bit of a
<v Speaker 1>shut off point where it's like, Okay, this is where
<v Speaker 1>music peaked. Anything me on, this is guard They don't
<v Speaker 1>care about Sabrina Carpon or Grazie Abrams. They don't exist.
<v Speaker 1>But yeah, he Burns is of an age where it's like, well,
<v Speaker 1>when you know, when I was a young man and viral,
<v Speaker 1>you know, Dodo Eggs were all the go. So clearly
<v Speaker 1>there's still a big thing.
<v Speaker 3>What age Daniel were you were you realized you weren't
<v Speaker 3>with it anymore? Ah, in terms of like it happened
<v Speaker 3>to you.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, in the last couple of years, I reckon.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah for me as well. Yeah, I just turned thirty seven,
<v Speaker 3>and my kids are sort of like, can we watch
<v Speaker 3>keepop in the Demon Hunters? And I'm like, I have
<v Speaker 3>no idea what you're talking about. Yeah, but yeah, I'm
<v Speaker 3>just I'm I'm out of touch.
<v Speaker 1>It's called ke pop Demon Hunters or whatever.
<v Speaker 4>I've written a couple of new gags recently about losing
<v Speaker 4>touch and having conversation with my niece and she's twenty
<v Speaker 4>two and she's yeah, she said, stop capping your crash
<v Speaker 4>out if you don't slurp on the uptake or something
<v Speaker 4>like that, and I was just like, she's had a stroke.
<v Speaker 2>What's happened there?
<v Speaker 3>This does not compute.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, so I just can't.
<v Speaker 3>I just what does that mean?
<v Speaker 2>I don't know, I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I was scared to ask.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, Daniel, you've got your old man hat on.
<v Speaker 1>And I put my old man hat on for a
<v Speaker 1>moment because I've got no problem with the kids having
<v Speaker 1>the slang try to speak, but I do not like
<v Speaker 1>when existing terms are repurposed to mean something completely different.
<v Speaker 2>Though.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, if you're crashing out, you having a nap exactly,
<v Speaker 1>or you're like, I'm exhausted, I'm going to crash out.
<v Speaker 1>When the kids using it's kind of like, oh I'm
<v Speaker 1>fired up, I'm angry about something.
<v Speaker 2>Losing it.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's yeah, it doesn't make sense. Yeah, I'm sure
<v Speaker 3>our parents were saying the same thing when we were
<v Speaker 3>growing up in the ninety zero.
<v Speaker 2>A legend or has always been a legend, though, you.
<v Speaker 3>Know how often though, do you find songs from your
<v Speaker 3>childhood that you love? And then because I now hate
<v Speaker 3>it when new songs repurpose songs from my childhood, right, No,
<v Speaker 3>I know the original, but I used to love songs
<v Speaker 3>when I was a kid that was repurpose from when
<v Speaker 3>my mum and dad were kids as well. That's what
<v Speaker 3>I really Oh, I'm just becoming my mum and dad.
<v Speaker 3>Now I've just been getting old.
<v Speaker 1>I'll show my aage when it's is it the kid
<v Speaker 1>rock song? And it starts off with the riff from
<v Speaker 1>Sweet Home Alaba? Yeah, and you think, oh, man, I'm
<v Speaker 1>getting some skinnered fantastic film. A sudden kid Rock kicks
<v Speaker 1>its love with the fuck.
<v Speaker 3>But Homer wakes here. He wakes up at four point
<v Speaker 3>thirty and you can't put his pants on. He's just
<v Speaker 3>too tired. March says, yeah, Little Rustle doesn't start.
<v Speaker 1>Till sixty yet.
<v Speaker 3>What were the shows that you used to get up
<v Speaker 3>early for? You were excited if you wake up early
<v Speaker 3>and you're like, oh, yes, I'm going to be able
<v Speaker 3>to watch this. For some reason, I don't know what
<v Speaker 3>it was, but when I was a kid, I would
<v Speaker 3>wake up I knew it was really early, if like
<v Speaker 3>Thunderbirds were still on TV. Like Thunderbirds just seemed.
<v Speaker 1>To be the show that always got repeated really early
<v Speaker 1>in the.
<v Speaker 2>Morning, super early. And he Man. I loved he Man
<v Speaker 2>in the Morning.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah cool.
<v Speaker 4>And you know on Saturday mornings before I used to
<v Speaker 4>play footy and you get up, it's still dark and
<v Speaker 4>I'd watch the replay of It's a Knockout from the
<v Speaker 4>night before.
<v Speaker 2>Oh really, It's a.
<v Speaker 4>Knockout would be on it. Yeah, six o'clock, six or
<v Speaker 4>seven o'clock in the morning.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, okay, I have a good memory from when I
<v Speaker 3>was a kid. You never agros Cardo connection the show, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>of course. Yeah, So I loved that when I was
<v Speaker 3>a kid. But there was a Bill and Ted animated series.
<v Speaker 3>I only had one season, but I loved it when
<v Speaker 3>I was a kid. But it was always the first
<v Speaker 3>cart too who and they would put on it like
<v Speaker 3>six am or whatever, and it was just too early
<v Speaker 3>for me when I was a little kid. So my
<v Speaker 3>dad used to before you go for recorded for me.
<v Speaker 3>So one of my favorite memories of a kid as
<v Speaker 3>a kid was getting up and seeing him pushing stop
<v Speaker 3>and then rewinding back to the start and watching the
<v Speaker 3>show that my dad had taped for me on It
<v Speaker 3>was almost like a little thing we had before he
<v Speaker 3>went to work, used to pick record and made sure
<v Speaker 3>that I got to see my bill in takes.
<v Speaker 1>It was too early for me. That's his love language.
<v Speaker 3>Ah yeah, but yeah. So Homer attempts to make breakfast
<v Speaker 3>here and everything catches on fire.
<v Speaker 1>I just loved that.
<v Speaker 3>The first two makes sense. You know, the stove, you know.
<v Speaker 3>Then he splashes the microwave on fire, corn flakes.
<v Speaker 1>Fire.
<v Speaker 2>Just combust as well, No.
<v Speaker 3>Exactly, yes, but it gives up. So he enters with lard,
<v Speaker 3>lad doughnuts and burns here. I don't like ethnic food,
<v Speaker 3>he asked. This is where he asked how he's stock
<v Speaker 3>did and yeah, you're touching his earlier fantastic is what
<v Speaker 3>are my options? So great? Isn't it?
<v Speaker 1>You can get up, we can go back to slip
<v Speaker 1>just a little livery of it. That's just uh, absolute
<v Speaker 1>gold metal stuff from Dan say.
<v Speaker 3>He has to scrub the layer of dead skin off
<v Speaker 3>and then he puts the fangs in. I love the
<v Speaker 3>burnd just sits there and waits for the waits for
<v Speaker 3>the mouth to be closed. It's everything done for him.
<v Speaker 1>The bit I love though, is when he yeah, you
<v Speaker 1>hear Burns saying yep, get that layer of dead skin off.
<v Speaker 1>Just hear the ho yes, just so grossed out. So
<v Speaker 1>he calls Simpson from his office, you know, Simpson Simpson
<v Speaker 1>Homss just doesn't hear it or he's just obliviou.
<v Speaker 3>So he realized he has to get up and go
<v Speaker 3>talk to him, and he asked if he got the
<v Speaker 3>report from the accounting department, and he gives just basically
<v Speaker 3>gives him the out office message.
<v Speaker 1>Doesn't he.
<v Speaker 3>Clearly called him outside of work hours. So scrunches that
<v Speaker 3>up and puts it into the bin. Then we get
<v Speaker 3>the which I think for me is like the moment
<v Speaker 3>of the episode is the cube moment. Oh yeah, you
<v Speaker 3>have thirty minutes move your car. Your car's being empowdered.
<v Speaker 3>Your car's been crashing into a cube. You have thirty
<v Speaker 3>minutes to move your cube. Phone rings? Is it about
<v Speaker 3>my cube? Again? Like Home is trying at least right, Oh,
<v Speaker 3>Like he's dumb, but he's trying. That's what you gotta
<v Speaker 3>love about it. You know. I always said to my
<v Speaker 3>kids at school, I'm like, I don't care if you
<v Speaker 3>don't do well. As long as you're trying. If you're
<v Speaker 3>trying and failing, fail, right, But don't go to school
<v Speaker 3>and not try. I know how old is your son? Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>so you'd be at school. Now what grade one?
<v Speaker 2>I know he's next year, I know, big prep right, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>he's in one year ago.
<v Speaker 3>I'm still in kinderes. You haven't got the school part yet. Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>Is he reading and writing yet?
<v Speaker 1>Maybe?
<v Speaker 3>Just learning to read and write.
<v Speaker 2>Writing is pretty good. Readings getting there?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah? Man, everything changes when they can read and they
<v Speaker 3>can spell. So you know, you know how you sometimes
<v Speaker 3>you want to say stuff that kids that I don't
<v Speaker 3>know to know, so you spell it out. Once that's
<v Speaker 3>out the window, it's like now we've got no more,
<v Speaker 3>we've got no Morse code. We can't talk anymore. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>the kids now are taking advantage of home. Or before that, though,
<v Speaker 3>we get Smithers calling, is this, we get the forty
<v Speaker 3>eight rings?
<v Speaker 1>No, that's a bit later.
<v Speaker 3>I know he's just that's coming up.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>First of all this cause I did love the first
<v Speaker 3>visual is that Smithers still can't switch off. He's there
<v Speaker 3>with his suitcase, in his suit in his worksuit on
<v Speaker 3>this island resort.
<v Speaker 2>That's right, yeah, volleyball, yeah exactly. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>He's like, do you want to FedEx your mail to me?
<v Speaker 3>I'll open it and return it to him. And it's
<v Speaker 3>like no, no, it's all right. This is home is
<v Speaker 3>getting dumbed by the minute, and Homer walks off sad.
<v Speaker 3>So it's affecting Homer here.
<v Speaker 1>This isn't when he's in the he's on the payphone
<v Speaker 1>next to the dance floor. No, that's not.
<v Speaker 3>That's when. That's when he's lowered his guard a bit
<v Speaker 3>and he is.
<v Speaker 1>In the congo line.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yep, yeah. So the kids are now taking advantage
<v Speaker 3>of Homer. He's tired. They asked him to do his homework,
<v Speaker 3>take get a right to the library. Marge's like, you
<v Speaker 3>need to relax, but he's not. You know, I can't
<v Speaker 3>do that. So she says Simpson, lie down, so as burns.
<v Speaker 3>So he lays down. Then we hear the giant bell ringing.
<v Speaker 3>Well it sounds like a giant bell, but it's just
<v Speaker 3>a little bell from his bed, and he says, the
<v Speaker 3>phone's ringing. Answer it, and this is where we get
<v Speaker 3>the forty eight rings. Is everything okay?
<v Speaker 1>He says.
<v Speaker 3>The Homer is an absolute buffoon. But he says, you
<v Speaker 3>want lots of picks when you return. And this is
<v Speaker 3>I think it's very important here. I did have this
<v Speaker 3>in my notes at the start, that usually we get
<v Speaker 3>the Smithers is gay for Burns gags, right, and we
<v Speaker 3>didn't get any of that here. We get the Smithers's
<v Speaker 3>gay gags, which is what we get here because he
<v Speaker 3>goes photo taking isn't allowed in this particular resort. But
<v Speaker 3>we don't get.
<v Speaker 1>Also, they're playing Relaxed by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, which
<v Speaker 1>is scientifically proven to be the gayest song ever put.
<v Speaker 3>To, you know, recorded, but we don't get. But we
<v Speaker 3>don't get Smithers is gay for Burns here because that no, no,
<v Speaker 3>they always feel weird those gags to me anyway.
<v Speaker 1>Well, yeah, I mean I think there was a gag
<v Speaker 1>on thirty Rock when one of the writers, Frank was
<v Speaker 1>kind of like there was some delivery guy who used
<v Speaker 1>to come around. He's like, yeah, I think I think
<v Speaker 1>I'm gay for this guy, and he's like, I'm not gay,
<v Speaker 1>I'm just gay for Jamie. Yeah, And that's the thing
<v Speaker 1>I think that, Yeah, for a long time was like Smithers.
<v Speaker 1>I'm not sure if his sexuality. He's just got this
<v Speaker 1>infatuation with mister Burns, is like, no, Smithers likes dudes.
<v Speaker 3>But then Homer arrives the next day, just before he
<v Speaker 3>walks in, his sort of shutters, So it's now clearly
<v Speaker 3>affecting him, and we just get a montage here of
<v Speaker 3>Burns ranting at him. So sixty watts, what do you
<v Speaker 3>think this is a tanning salon? You want a light
<v Speaker 3>stanch on his nightcap?
<v Speaker 1>Posted?
<v Speaker 3>You call this a tax return, you call this a supercomputer,
<v Speaker 3>just sort of throwing everything, throwing things at Homer. Eventually
<v Speaker 3>Homer just loses it and punches him out.
<v Speaker 1>Nice little gag about Burns being old. You mentioned post them, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>which is a brand of caffeine, a powdered caffeine free
<v Speaker 1>roasted grain beverage which sounds delightful. Invented by c to
<v Speaker 1>be posted in eighteen ninety five as a healthier alternative
<v Speaker 1>to coffee. Yeah, no, would have been all the rage.
<v Speaker 1>You know when Monty's coming.
<v Speaker 3>Up, Well, this episode aired ninety six, they're technically saying
<v Speaker 3>that he was born in what eighteen ninety two? Yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 3>so that that don't make sense. All stuff from his child. Well,
<v Speaker 3>that's all only stuff you can remember. But yes, we're Burns.
<v Speaker 3>He's he hits Burns, worries and and runs home.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I'd honestly forgotten about the punch to the face.
<v Speaker 1>I thought it was just like he pushed it. He
<v Speaker 1>would have pushed him over all.
<v Speaker 3>In no, no, he labors him.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's an absolute Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>If you watched it for the first time, you'd be like, shit,
<v Speaker 3>I killed well, especially.
<v Speaker 1>Because yeah, Burns has been presented as so old and frails.
<v Speaker 1>How a good right cross of the face is just
<v Speaker 1>gonna take the way out. Who is there something wrong?
<v Speaker 3>Homey? No?
<v Speaker 2>Accept accept I killed mister Burds.
<v Speaker 1>What happened? Dad?
<v Speaker 2>By Bunch, Burns writ in his one hundred and four
<v Speaker 2>year old face.
<v Speaker 7>Are you sure he's dead?
<v Speaker 1>Maybe he just really really heard it?
<v Speaker 7>Okay, maybe everything's all right. Maybe if you go apologize,
<v Speaker 7>he won't even fire you if he's alive.
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<v Speaker 3>Slash four finger discount. Homer goes back, and I love it,
<v Speaker 3>just it was just the use of sound here. So
<v Speaker 3>he opens the door. You can't see anything, and you
<v Speaker 3>just hear the heavy breathing of Burns, just worried, and
<v Speaker 3>you see him carrying in the corner behind the pop plant.
<v Speaker 3>He says he can't, you know, he can't stand another
<v Speaker 3>another beating. He's like, don't, I'll help you. Let me
<v Speaker 3>put some salt on that eye. So so he calls
<v Speaker 3>he tries to call Smithers. And this is a great
<v Speaker 3>sort of callback to a running gag throughout The Simpsons,
<v Speaker 3>which is the Bart prank calls to Mow. So he
<v Speaker 3>tries to call Smithers by dialing the numbers in this
<v Speaker 3>in the order of Smithers. He calls most taving I
<v Speaker 3>want a mister Smithers first name Whelon, and Moe goes
<v Speaker 3>on his rant. So this is where Burns panics, hangs
<v Speaker 3>up the Phone's like Smithers, where are you? And we
<v Speaker 3>get the you're talking about where he's driving to speed,
<v Speaker 3>but mister Burns needs me, and all the dudes fall
<v Speaker 3>to the boat.
<v Speaker 1>Smithers, by the way, I love Mo's line about yeah,
<v Speaker 1>when he's getting all fired up the bag in this
<v Speaker 1>brank phone call, ripping his eyes out, putting and shoving
<v Speaker 1>him down his pants so he can see me kick
<v Speaker 1>his ass.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, but this is where we we have. Homer Burs
<v Speaker 3>are scared in the office. He doesn't want to leave
<v Speaker 3>in case home's out there. He puts the mirror under
<v Speaker 3>the door. Home is there, and he says, look, you're
<v Speaker 3>going to make your coffee. So no, no, no, the percolations
<v Speaker 3>are eminent. I'm making my own coffee, sees you ingress.
<v Speaker 3>So Homer then walks off. Homan enters and it's just
<v Speaker 3>coffee everywhere. Burn says he stopped the beans himself, and
<v Speaker 3>the offers to drive Burns home, but he says, no, no, no,
<v Speaker 3>I'm going to chaffee myself. He's just he's too scared
<v Speaker 3>of Homer. And this is where Burns realizes, Oh, doing
<v Speaker 3>shit for myself is actually good. I actually can do this.
<v Speaker 3>I don't need Smithers essentially, but Burns gets he's got
<v Speaker 3>a new lease on life. Now I'm actually enjoying this.
<v Speaker 1>Can we give a shout out to Velocitata and the
<v Speaker 1>salet tricks? Oh yeah, accelerator and break. I'm sorry that
<v Speaker 1>we used to make things in this country, as I
<v Speaker 1>like to say, we creative. You could say that was
<v Speaker 1>your cards, Like, all right, put to the floor. You
<v Speaker 1>know I'm really hitting the vocitator.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, so he says he's making an incredible time.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's where he hits nearly hits Wigham.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, yes, nice drive, mister B. That's a nice well,
<v Speaker 3>that's a sort of it is that a callback is
<v Speaker 3>mother Simpson after all before this episode, because we established
<v Speaker 3>in the episode when my Homer's mum comes that Wigham
<v Speaker 3>used to work for Burns. Remember, Oh that's right, that's why,
<v Speaker 3>that's why he refers to as mister B. Mister B.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So the next morning, Burns has already shrewted the environmental
<v Speaker 3>reports and thrown him out the window. He offers Homer
<v Speaker 3>his own cappucino. He knows how to make cappucino. He
<v Speaker 3>has the phone and a hoy hoy. That's one of
<v Speaker 3>my favorite Burns is ever just a hoy, hoy. It's
<v Speaker 3>just apparently that's what they is.
<v Speaker 1>A bell Alexander Graham bell. Yeah, that's how we suggested,
<v Speaker 1>do you answer the phone?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, he's like, he said hello, that's that was the
<v Speaker 3>original hello. That's what the suggestion was. That's and that's
<v Speaker 3>where the gay comes from.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So so that he says, this is five two four six.
<v Speaker 3>He's got the wrong number anyway. So then he says, Homer,
<v Speaker 3>you've done more for me than any other man on
<v Speaker 3>this planet. Your brutal attack forced me to look after myself.
<v Speaker 3>You know, being weighted on hand and foot is fine,
<v Speaker 3>but you average Joe. But it's not for me. And
<v Speaker 3>this is where he thanks him, and Smithers walks in
<v Speaker 3>and sees Burns cuddling Homer saying thank you, and he
<v Speaker 3>thinks everything's wrong. He says, well now he send him
<v Speaker 3>back to his job. He says, you heard the man, Simpson,
<v Speaker 3>and Smithers, you're not in it at all. You're fired.
<v Speaker 3>You shouldn't have gone away on vacation. That is a
<v Speaker 3>setup for a gag later on with the you really
<v Speaker 3>blew it this but Brad dinner and Homer he feels remorseful.
<v Speaker 3>He feels sad that he's the reason that Smithers has
<v Speaker 3>got fired. And we can be kind of a sad
<v Speaker 3>March moment again here, and he's like, imagine Margin if
<v Speaker 3>you got fired from those things that you do. And
<v Speaker 3>but it's like quickman, move up a cake before dad fires. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>there's levels to that gag. It's actually really sad that
<v Speaker 3>all I think margin is worth worth is cooking.
<v Speaker 4>But anyway, there's a couple of great I love the
<v Speaker 4>I think there's two or three moments in this episode
<v Speaker 4>where Smithers does the oh my god, like he he
<v Speaker 4>drops something in panics. He drops his bag and it's
<v Speaker 4>just got four pineapples in it.
<v Speaker 1>But pineapples.
<v Speaker 3>That's what it's just about to say.
<v Speaker 1>What crates on a little visual bit of a bit
<v Speaker 1>of business. I brought to some pineapples.
<v Speaker 3>So but Lisa here says.
<v Speaker 1>That Smith's is a go get. He'll get a new job.
<v Speaker 3>I mean think it's at eighteen t But now as
<v Speaker 3>you're saying it's neat and tidy piano movers, he's gonna
<v Speaker 3>need to steal ride now to where his spine was.
<v Speaker 3>He's never gonna be able to move pianos again, and
<v Speaker 3>now call back to the opening act with the with
<v Speaker 3>the drag racing with the voice of a guy at
<v Speaker 3>Smith as he is trying to do it. Do we
<v Speaker 3>need all these mayhems? We do well? I suppose you
<v Speaker 3>know your businesses, got ready.
<v Speaker 6>For ex signing, corner action at the Springfield dragstrip, get
<v Speaker 6>a motorized mayhem, mayhem, mayhem. We need all those mayhems?
<v Speaker 3>We do all right.
<v Speaker 1>I suppose you know your business.
<v Speaker 6>Get ready for fun, fun fun. People are already here.
<v Speaker 6>We don't need to keep hustling them like this, do we?
<v Speaker 3>He let go of me.
<v Speaker 1>Where are you froming?
<v Speaker 3>Then he asked for the job at Mos, which is
<v Speaker 3>the Barney guarding job, because when they do the midnight delivery,
<v Speaker 3>someone needs to distract Barney. He says, well, I was
<v Speaker 3>way outside until it's time, and Bunnet looks for to
<v Speaker 3>working with him. Then Homer He's like, no, I'm going
<v Speaker 3>to put a stop to this. He says, no. You
<v Speaker 3>can take the Barney guarding job, like many of us
<v Speaker 3>have contemplated in our darkest moments, or you can admit
<v Speaker 3>to yourself that there's only one person makes you happy
<v Speaker 3>and you're gonna do whatever it takes to get them back,
<v Speaker 3>and he agrees to do that. Oh this is where
<v Speaker 3>we get another Oh my god, I love God here.
<v Speaker 3>But when he realizes that Barney is not at his
<v Speaker 3>seat and we don't see anything, we just hear Barney
<v Speaker 3>just wrecking shit outside.
<v Speaker 2>He's so happy.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, he's so so happy.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>But if you watch most most emotions here, like you
<v Speaker 3>just he's going through like seven different motions of you know, sadness,
<v Speaker 3>Terror's terrified, what's going to happen? It's just it's so great.
<v Speaker 1>My favorite bit in that though, it's like when Homer
<v Speaker 1>is giving Smithers that pep talk and talks about you know, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you can take the job that so many have contemplated
<v Speaker 1>in our darkest hours. I bet we've all got that
<v Speaker 1>sort of rock bottom job. It's kind of like if
<v Speaker 1>nothing else works out, I'm sure I can go do this,
<v Speaker 1>but I'll know that like nothing else is panned out
<v Speaker 1>of my life. But okay, this will you know, keep
<v Speaker 1>the lights on and you keep the wolf from the door.
<v Speaker 3>Now, you were saying, as you know, pull back the curtain,
<v Speaker 3>Cameron d a new battery. You were saying whilst we're
<v Speaker 3>doing that that you have to fact check in correctly.
<v Speaker 3>Do you want to settle the score here about Jack Benny?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, then yes we should. We should put a little
<v Speaker 1>respect on the name of one Frank Nelson. Who is that,
<v Speaker 1>you may ask. He's the gentleman who said yes on
<v Speaker 1>there on the Jack Benny Show. That's apparently all Frank did.
<v Speaker 1>Look Frank probably was a really sweet guy who did
<v Speaker 1>ride by his family in his community. But yeah, he
<v Speaker 1>is best known for saying.
<v Speaker 3>You, if you can get a gig like that, though
<v Speaker 3>your set right?
<v Speaker 1>Oh god?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Like just yeah catchphrase guy, catchphrase guy. We hit our share.
<v Speaker 1>We haven't been able to monetize it. We have many
<v Speaker 1>T shirts.
<v Speaker 4>I had the yes guy's face as my Facebook profile
<v Speaker 4>picture for about ten years.
<v Speaker 2>Why are you talking like that?
<v Speaker 1>I had a straw.
<v Speaker 3>I feel like he's also one of those characters to
<v Speaker 3>where I think maybe memes now is more popular, but
<v Speaker 3>say like ten years ago, before memes were a big thing.
<v Speaker 3>He's one of those Simpsons characters where if you know,
<v Speaker 3>you know, so, it's like, oh, I know the yes guys, like,
<v Speaker 3>oh yeah, we were on the same wavelengthy young, how.
<v Speaker 2>Many search you reckon. He's in maybe half a dozen.
<v Speaker 3>Less I'm up to now, maybe maybe ten all up,
<v Speaker 3>I'd say, I know, he just he's usually just like
<v Speaker 3>that the guy that greets you at the door of
<v Speaker 3>a restaurant or something.
<v Speaker 1>And a fancy restaurant, you know, he's the dorman at
<v Speaker 1>Costington's or something like that.
<v Speaker 3>You were saying before that you like Old Gill as well,
<v Speaker 3>and a lot of people love Old Gill. Old Gill
<v Speaker 3>actually came into the show when Phil Hartman was taken
<v Speaker 3>from us because he voiced Lionel Huts and Troy McClure,
<v Speaker 3>and it was almost like Old Gill took over from.
<v Speaker 1>Lionel Hearts because Lonel Huts was sort of like that,
<v Speaker 1>we need a pathetic punching back.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and that's Old Gil. But what is it about
<v Speaker 3>Old Gill that you like?
<v Speaker 4>I just I think every time he comes on, you know,
<v Speaker 4>he's it's failing. So there's times where there's times where
<v Speaker 4>whatever scheme he's got going is working, and but you know,
<v Speaker 4>deep down at the end is near.
<v Speaker 3>For it's going to screw it up.
<v Speaker 2>Just how he talked this time, old girl go, then
<v Speaker 2>it's finally.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, have you ever seen a movie called Glen Garry
<v Speaker 1>Glenn Ross. Have you ever heard of this one?
<v Speaker 2>I've heard there's a play on it at the moment,
<v Speaker 2>isn't there.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. Yeah, it's a really famous play and it was
<v Speaker 1>turned into a movie and and there's really all star
<v Speaker 1>cast at Albercino, Alec Baldwin, Hiven Spacey. But but Jack
<v Speaker 1>Lemon is playing this character who's like this old real
<v Speaker 1>estate salesman who's a bit pass it but still you know,
<v Speaker 1>still in their punching. And that's very much what Gill
<v Speaker 1>is based on. It even down to the look. But
<v Speaker 1>he's kind of like, you know, can't really make a sale.
<v Speaker 1>And by the end he's actually thought he's made this
<v Speaker 1>killer sale and he's sort of walking around all puffed up,
<v Speaker 1>and it turns out that it's these people just like
<v Speaker 1>to talk to realists. You haven't sold them ship. And
<v Speaker 1>he's gone, oh no, yeah, that's what Gill's based on. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that's kind of why I like him as well. Just
<v Speaker 1>can't buy a break, this dude.
<v Speaker 3>But we're back at the power plant and Smithers is
<v Speaker 3>they've got a plan. Now. They're going to call mister
<v Speaker 3>Burns's mum and put him through, and then Smith's gonna
<v Speaker 3>come in and save the day. But of course Homer
<v Speaker 3>screws it up, so he calls missus Burns first. I'll
<v Speaker 3>give him what foruntill he cries brassa facts. I google
<v Speaker 3>brassa facts, not a thing.
<v Speaker 1>I think it's just an old time word from the
<v Speaker 1>mind of Swartzwelder.
<v Speaker 6>That what. Hello, missus Burns, this is Whalen Smithers. I
<v Speaker 6>have your son Montgomery on the line.
<v Speaker 1>That improvident lack witch.
<v Speaker 7>Oh it's too busy striding about his adam mill to
<v Speaker 7>call his own mother.
<v Speaker 1>I'll give him.
<v Speaker 6>What force till he cries brassa frax perfect When I
<v Speaker 6>give this signal, you transfer They called them, mister Burns.
<v Speaker 6>After she tears into him, I'll rush in and save
<v Speaker 6>the day.
<v Speaker 2>Got it, I'm transferring a calling to you, mister Burns.
<v Speaker 1>Lely, Hello, mister Burns, this.
<v Speaker 3>Is your mother.
<v Speaker 1>Oh hello meet.
<v Speaker 2>Sorry about pulling the plug and you and all who
<v Speaker 2>could have known you'd pull through and live for another
<v Speaker 2>five decades.
<v Speaker 3>Quick on his feet, pretends to be Missus Burns. Not
<v Speaker 3>good at all.
<v Speaker 1>This is your mother. She doesn't call her some mister book.
<v Speaker 3>But basically it all goes to ship. Burns walks out,
<v Speaker 3>catches them and new Smithers, you put him up to it.
<v Speaker 3>I'm glad I fired you, and you really blew it
<v Speaker 3>this time, Smithers, and that's where the fight sequence breaks out.
<v Speaker 3>Apparently they didn't. They thought it was going to be
<v Speaker 3>too harsh to hear the sound effects of them punching
<v Speaker 3>each other, so they hit it amongst the groans, so
<v Speaker 3>you actually hear the punch. You just hear the ow
<v Speaker 3>ow ow as opposed to the sound of a punch.
<v Speaker 3>But I do like when Smithers gets his hand stuck
<v Speaker 3>in home a stomach and hope it just like hits
<v Speaker 3>him in the head, playing with him. Burns tries to
<v Speaker 3>stop them with all the poking in the water and whatnot.
<v Speaker 3>And I just love Psmith's meeting him with the phone,
<v Speaker 3>but also saying it's very young, yes, yeah, and then
<v Speaker 3>I'll teach you how to use a phone. And then
<v Speaker 3>Burns climbs onto the big Polar Bear, which I think
<v Speaker 3>up to this point it's always been a part of
<v Speaker 3>Burns's office, but never really acknowledged. And finally he Burns
<v Speaker 3>is climbing into the Polar Bear. He opens up the
<v Speaker 3>safe door. Smithers does hits Homer and he falls back
<v Speaker 3>into the polar bear knocks Burns out the window. Oh my.
<v Speaker 3>Then we cut to Smither's feeding Burns. Here comes the endangered.
<v Speaker 1>Condor into the power lines. Egg eats is either an
<v Speaker 1>extinct or endangered species.
<v Speaker 3>He's got a monster, He's got bobo hot from the dryer.
<v Speaker 3>And make sure you know burn burn yourself on his eye? Yes,
<v Speaker 3>and Burns says, you know what, when you were gone,
<v Speaker 3>I became completely self reliant, and he gets with like
<v Speaker 3>a Spanish peanut, yep, take the skin off. Then he says,
<v Speaker 3>but that guy doesn't say homi. His name is that
<v Speaker 3>guy that hit me. Make sure he gets what's coming
<v Speaker 3>to him, And we cut to the family, all enjoying
<v Speaker 3>a fruit hamper courtesy of Smithers, saying thank you. What
<v Speaker 3>does you think? What's he thinking you for for pushing Burns.
<v Speaker 1>Out of her? Was it five story story window? Free
<v Speaker 1>story window? Did you die?
<v Speaker 5>What?
<v Speaker 3>Am I a doctor?
<v Speaker 1>And that is up?
<v Speaker 3>And that's a good way of getting back the status squad?
<v Speaker 1>Wasn't it very much? Homer's reset the factory setting, But again,
<v Speaker 1>I know the classic said gone got delivery of like
<v Speaker 1>what am I doctor?
<v Speaker 3>And that is the end of Homer the Smithers. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>fantastic episode, and was saying early one were surprise wasn't
<v Speaker 3>done much earlier. I'm glad you chose it, Daniel, thinking
<v Speaker 3>of choosing it. But what we usually do before we
<v Speaker 3>wrap up, though, I would like to ask our guests,
<v Speaker 3>we give them the spiel of it's nineteen ninety eight,
<v Speaker 3>so you got the first ten seasons of the show
<v Speaker 3>to work with. Nineteen ninety eight. Channel ten have come
<v Speaker 3>to you, they said, Daniel, we want you to put
<v Speaker 3>together a five episode Friday night Simpsons marathon. When marathons
<v Speaker 3>were a big thing and we love marathons back in
<v Speaker 3>the day. What five episodes of the Simpsons are you going?
<v Speaker 2>With no particular order, we go obviously that one Home
<v Speaker 2>of the Smithers. I'd have that number one. A fish
<v Speaker 2>called Selma.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, we've had a few people picking that one recently.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's the Troy McClure episode. Troy McClue is another
<v Speaker 2>character I really enjoy, just his lodginess and he's always
<v Speaker 2>up to no good.
<v Speaker 3>And that is the Troy McClure episode too. And I'm
<v Speaker 3>so glad we got that before Phil Hartmon passed away.
<v Speaker 2>But of Darkness, the one where yeah, the pool he
<v Speaker 2>breaks his leg and then starts Flanders is screaming's.
<v Speaker 3>Right to put a neat little package.
<v Speaker 4>When Flanders failed. Because I'm a lefty, so I love that.
<v Speaker 4>One always appealed.
<v Speaker 3>To me, was what being left handed? Was that ever
<v Speaker 3>represented much on TV when you were going up?
<v Speaker 2>I don't, I don't think. I just remember that being like,
<v Speaker 2>oh that's cool.
<v Speaker 3>Like was he like the left handed representation on TV
<v Speaker 3>when you were when young? Yeah, that's being a right handed.
<v Speaker 3>It never really was a big deal to me. I
<v Speaker 3>was like, oh, Flanners is left handed. But I think
<v Speaker 3>if like, imagine if you were left handed, it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>finally a character just like me.
<v Speaker 4>And Homer's Barbershop Quartet is probably one of my top Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>definitely one of my favorites.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, okay, I just love the Beatles fan the.
<v Speaker 4>Beatles, Yeah, all those references, it's just a it's just
<v Speaker 4>a really lovely episode that one. The songs are so
<v Speaker 4>good in that as well.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, yeah, the fantastic Yeah, like maybe on Board seems
<v Speaker 3>like it's it's it's a joke, but it's actually a
<v Speaker 3>really catchy song. Maybe on board Yeah yeah. But the
<v Speaker 3>thing is with that episode too. When I was a kid,
<v Speaker 3>I really enjoyed it, but it wasn't one of my favorites.
<v Speaker 3>But I think getting older and becoming a real Beatles
<v Speaker 3>fan and understanding all the references, it's like, it's it's
<v Speaker 3>it's it's fantastic for a Beatles fan, it's everything you want. Alrighty, So,
<v Speaker 3>which which one are you going to start with? Which
<v Speaker 3>one would you end with? Do you think I reckon?
<v Speaker 4>I start with I'd finished with the quartet, and I'd
<v Speaker 4>start with left Hand Left handed reckon.
<v Speaker 3>You're the first person to not put a treost of
<v Speaker 3>horror in but it makes them. Yeah, so any of
<v Speaker 3>horrors that you did, like, you.
<v Speaker 4>Know, I never I never would have watched one. I
<v Speaker 4>couldn't tell you anything about any of them. Every time
<v Speaker 4>they'd start, I'd be like that.
<v Speaker 3>I put on.
<v Speaker 1>All right.
<v Speaker 3>Well, thank you so much Daniel again for joining us
<v Speaker 3>here to review Home in the Smithers. I'm hopefully in
<v Speaker 3>the future maybe when you got your next tour coming
<v Speaker 3>up next year, we can get you back on.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, no worries. Thanks so much for having me. I'm
<v Speaker 4>definitely gonna start watching. When I went on to watch
<v Speaker 4>the last couple of days, I like, I can go
<v Speaker 4>back and start watching some episodes.
<v Speaker 3>Everyone's saying, and I feel like Disney to start giving
<v Speaker 3>us some credit, because every time they're like, it's some
<v Speaker 3>people forget the Simpsons there and they start watching, they go,
<v Speaker 3>you know what, I like this show, watch more of it.
<v Speaker 1>The people are speaking Disney plus you know who to sponsor?
<v Speaker 3>All right, thanks Daniel. Here's I absolutely adore that episode
<v Speaker 3>Homing the Smith. There's one that I used to enjoy
<v Speaker 3>a lot as a kid. I hadn't revisited before this
<v Speaker 3>review for like I reckon ten plus years and man,
<v Speaker 3>what a joy.
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<v Speaker 1>this particular thing, but I am indeed doing the EH thumbs.
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<v Speaker 1>don't feel any younger or funk you sh