Bart Has Two Mommies (S17E14)

Hurry, let's climb down. Okay, but don't let her hands touch It's
gay. What's gay mean? Um? It means you used to be afraid,
but now you're not. I'm gay, Daddy, I'm gay. Missus
Simpson made me gay. I believe he's saying he's okay. Four finger discount,
dude, welcome two four figure discount. Where this week we are here
to review episode h A B F zero seven from season seventeen of the Simpsons.
It is Bart has two mummies. I am Endos and I am Guy,
and we're all traveling this time around feeling okay. They're dando. Yeah,
I'm doing well. We gave our Holly Hoo big girl bed finally,
so she's wort two and a half an hour. And as it's been made
well aware on this podcast, Holly is not a good sleeper. You know,
she had silent reflex for a good couple of years there, and still
you know, I was working up four or five times a night, and
poor Nicholas, she was just getting tired and tired and tired. And we
got Holly this big girl bed and maybe we worked out. Maybe it was
just because she didn't want to feel trapped in that bed. Because now we
say, hey Holly, last night, legitimately seven o'clock, Hey Holly,
it's bedtime. She just got the couch, went into a bedroom, climbed
into bed, put the blanket over and said nine eyes. I went to
bed and stayed asleep for the entire night. I have never related to Holly
Moore. I was just like, I was like, you're sure. She's
like, daddy go, Daddy go. I'm like okay, then sort of
walked. I was like, it's this happening. She was like no,
nos closed the door, didn't hear from her all night. That is brilliant
and a big load of everyone's shoulders of the dean. Yeah, it's fantastic.
So it's just nice knowing that we're going to get some peaceful nights again
more Nicolo, because you know Nicola does the grunt worked when it comes to
nighttime. But yeah, so we having a great, great weekend here.
I heard you had a big weekend. Did you got a Wu Tang Clan?
Is that where you went to? Because I saw that playing in Melbourne.
I'm like, Guy said, you went out and this looks like someone
who Guy would go and see Guy had a big weekend with the lovely Louise
did double shot of socializing. One of Lou's good friends had the fiftieth on
Saturday night at this at this bar in Richmond up in Melbourne, so we
made the trip up the highway from Geelong. We've got a very nice AIRB
and b not far from from Bridge Road. Fantastic, the cozy little place.
I was like, oh this is still It was one of those things
where I felt like Bilbo Baggins. I was like, oh, this is
so cozy and nice and I've got a comfortable chair. Oh my god,
Raiders has just started on TV, Like do we have to go to this
party? But we then went to I've never seen this before, I swear,
oh the other thing, and I mentioned that hobbit. It was also
very small and it had like a tiny bathroom door that you had to crouch
down to get through it. Well I had to crouch down to get through,
and lou was sort of sauntering through its saying I'm not bothered. But
of course I cracked my head on the frame and just laid out this almighty
fuck. But now we went to this party and it was fantastic because It
was a very Generation X crowd. It was a costume part well, the
invite said a bit of British Lou and I are like, well, I
had costume parties. I'm not a fan, and I think Lou was too
keen on finding. We sort of talked about a Harry and Meghan thing going
on, but then the end it was just like, well, I'm wearing
my rebox because it's got a good got a Union jack on and said I
got a pair of socks that I got a fox on it. That's that's
fox houndy and they're British raising green. I'm wearing those. We get there
at least three Princess Diana's a whole bunch of dudes in Peaky Blinders costumes because
well that's low maintenance and looked pretty cool. Loose friend Dave was dressed as
any Lennox. He had the he had his haircut short and died orange and
he's wearing a suit. Um but yeah, old generation next crowd. And
the DJ was a guy I used to work with back in my street press
days and he was just spinning banger after banger. It was set Mikey Kle
Yeah aka Joey light Bomb. If you need a DJ, get in touch
with this guy. He is fucking rad, good guy and great taste.
And the drinks kept flowing and uh yeah, hit the dance Floorum we were
out to like three am. So that was fantastic. That was that night,
and then we're up in Malin as well because we were going to a
concert the following night at the Forum. It was like a five band lineup
and the headline act was a regurgitator who I'm I'm not a huge fan of,
but lou loves their album Unit, and we went there with Loose son
Isaac, who's you know, I'm no, he's jem Z, but he's
very into ninety stuff as jem Z kids are regogitators more might year I think.
Yeah, so yeah they did. They played Unit pretty much an entire
in a bunch of their other songs as well. Polyester Girl. They played
Polyester Girl. They played a couple of songs whose titles I should probably not
say on this podcast because what's the one that goes what's in the end?
What's it they? I think that's called black Bugs. That's Loose. Yeah,
I played that definitely. That was It was a really good set.
I mean, I wasn't a huge on Regurgitator back in the day, and
I'm like, these guys are kind of like a mashup of red On Chili
Peppers and Beastie Boys and almost like they clashed in some ways, you know
what I liked about them. My memories of our Regogitator are finding black Bug
was the song that I found on like one of those one percent hits,
the Volume twenty five or whatever. I'm like, I don't know this,
you know, it's not It's not Clup seven or Spice Girls. You know,
I was still cop gear. Remember hearing that song, going this is
a cool song. I really liked this song. So I loved when you
bought those CDs and you found Gems. They never would have bothered hearing,
but Regogitator they were in a thing called I think it was called Band in
a Bubble and I want to say late nineties, maybe like two thousand era,
where they recorded an album in a bubble in I think it was Melbourn
or maybe Sydney. It's like a clear bubble that that people could just walk
past and seeing it was in public and people were just watching them like animals
in the Zoo recording this album. It was the first sort of like live
reality experiment that was I was on tem like back when Channel V was sh
Yeah, it sounds like something real good said it would do in all honesty.
Yeah, they seemed like sort of smart as art school punks. Yeah,
definitely, that's a fun memory. I remember like staying up late like
watching because it was like constantly like a live stream. I remember what Big
Brother up late where you'd lay in bed watching other people going to bandy.
It was very Truman show, wasn't it. Yeah it was, yeah,
but we watched it. It was really fresh. Yeah. Yeah, so
there was goods. There was a band I'd heard of but never really heard
called Dzy death Rays. It was sort of a metal they. Yeah,
they went right the fuck off. That were fantastic, and Custer was playing.
And Custer was of course fronted by Dave McCormick, who is the Blew
his dad bendit. But yes, we're here today that to talk about Bart
has two Mummies. Now, this is an episode that had two stories.
Right, one day I thought was just pretty much whatever. The other one
actually found very relatable from a dad being a father of a young kid the
Flanders story. So seeing things from Flander's perspective where he's like always over protective
and making sure his kids don't get hurt, I find myself at times being
this way. You know, I'll go to the playground and letter's pretty high.
Just let me make sure I put my hand behind you in case you
fall or things like that. Nicolas like, ah, he'd be fine.
I'm like, he won't be fine, because what will happen is I'll say
he'll be fine, and he'll fall and you'll hurt himself, and then I'll
be annoyed, and then the day will be ruined. And quite often,
quite often I'll go there and I'll say, like three times, maybe maybe
two times out of five, what I thought was going to happen in regards
to potentially hurting themselves would have happened if I wasn't there to stop him or
hurt Holly as well. So there is a need to do it. But
I can also see Marge's perspective. Margin is Nicola in this equation where She's
like, they've got to learn, and I'm like, yeah, but can
we not teach him without them getting hurt? But so I've sort of mellowed
in my way, so I've sort of the way Flanders learns in this.
I've had to sort of just learn to sort of let the kids hurt themselves
and learn that way as well. But I found that story very, very
relatable. Also, the aspect of trusting people to babysit your kids, we
still haven't got to that point yet. We've only That's probably why Nichola and
I don't go out all that often. It's because nicholas family aunt here obviously,
so we've got my parents to babysit the kids and they know the routine
and things like that. We don't really have any friends that we sort of
trust with kids because they haven't got kids themselves, or other friends who have
kids had their own kids at bedtime, so they can't be here babysitting our
kids at bedtime. And God love it, but I just don't trust my
sister to keep my kids alive. So it was like trusting people to babysit
my kids as something that we haven't quite worked out yet. So I can
sort of I can rarely relate to it, to that Flanders story in particular,
but I just thought the b plot was kind of random. I did
hear in the commentary that they wanted to be plot. I think it was
written by Dana Gould. This episode was it was a Dana Gould who it
was, who's normally kind of liable. I think maybe he didn't miss no,
no, he wrote the episode that I hated with the bart in the
backyard that will the really long backyard. Okay, Well in that case,
I don't think Dana Gould's going to be on our Christmas card list anytime soon.
Because I was not a fan of this episode at all. I understand
that you relate to it. I mean I relate to it because I was
kidnapped by a monkey when I was a kid, but that's a story for
another time. I was watching it, I mean looking over my notes in
this and knowing that's not bad. That's that's not a bad joke. But
for the most part, I came away from this going there's a lot of
stuff in here that just doesn't land, that sort of feels like a joke.
But the timing's all off or some of the phrasing is wrong, and
it's hard to explain exactly why it doesn't work, but you just feel it
in your bones, particularly a funny bone, because it's just not being tickled
at all. Um. And some of it was just playing sad I mean,
or I mean, look, I'm a sucker for our four legged ms,
as any listener of the show knows, and I don't know, sort
of walking walking down the hallway of some animal retirement zoo whenever it's like really
getting into this. I'm not feeling this at all. Isn't it funny?
How you know things happened to kids in the show and I'm like, oh,
I just know from my father's perspective, like I just don't like this
makes me sad, and you're like, oh, I fight it funny kids.
And then you're like you're like, oh, but I liked to animals,
and I'm like, oh, I love animals too, But you know
whatever, Funny we have different perspectives on things. But well, yeah,
I agree that was a sad city. I thought. The moment because it
didn't have a payoff, it was just there just to be cruel. Was
when Marge says that she was just patronizing Bart essentially, you know, humoring
Bart, which he said he didn't fail at soccer, cuts to him crying
and I'm like, what is the need to have that when there's no that
doesn't have any bearing on the story. It's just a sad, mean moment.
Yeah, see here is the big difference between town or I think I've
got That was one of my favorite moment really. See that just further proves
my point, Like, you know, when it comes to like you're got
at the port Adam wasn't the cages. Meanwhile, fuck, but he's terrible
at his sports. You're like, that's hilarious. It wasn't so my team
crying. I mean, I'm not an absolute monster. I'm just a regular
monster. But I just got a big kick out of March saying and how
how he sucks. Think you're very I think you're on a very similar wavelength
with the writing team of The Simpsons at this point. I think there must
have been like, obviously there are a similar age, there are a similar
age to you. There are a similar age to you. But I feel
like a lot of the stuff that growing up I didn't find funny. I
find funny in nows I get older, but you are at that age when
it first came. So I feel like you guys are on the same wavelength.
But I go back to when we were interviewed Matt Salmon and you guys
are like change like fifteen minutes before we even started the show, and I'm
like, do I speak here? You guys just get along like a house
on fire. But yeah, yeah, so I had that as I've literally
got my notes. What the fuck? What was the point of that moment?
And you've gotten my favorites. That's fair, Okay, it's it's not
actually been hit with the green pen, but it was. Remember I do
remember chuckling at that though, just the big and how Yeah, I didn't
like him. I thought Homer for a lot of this was dumb good moments
of Homer and Hit in this But like I thought, I thought there was
a lot of a lot more physical comedy with Homer in this episode. Where
I thought the old mill bit went a little bit too long. I was
like, well, this isn't really funny. It's just Homer getting hurt.
It just feels like time filler. Yeah. I liked the for example,
Homer breaking into Flander's house and you pretending to be the high school kid.
I like out of that. I liked the news report where he had the
tranquilds a gun, then he takes it. It's like Homer was revived by
a stun gun later on things like that. But when he's just like,
I'm big podcast, you have a mental problem, I was like, this
isn't funny to me. No, that was a gag that was just stretched
just maybe five ten seconds too far. Yeah, and there's been a lot
of that lately, and in this episode there was a couple of those moments
for sure. Yeah. But I did enjoy the Flanders story. I liked
the fact that we got a Marge story that didn't revolve around Marge being mistreated
or a margin at home, a breakup story. Looking at the mechanics of
this or looking at the structure of it, yeah, look, it certainly
makes sense. I think the idea of Flanders having to trust someone else with
his kids, particularly you know, putting another female presence in their life after
the death of his wife, exactly, that's the thing. He doesn't have
anyone there to sort of say Flanders or Ned stand back for a second,
because you feel like Maud would have been that person. She would you know,
she would have gone along with Flanders, but at times she would have
gone she seemed like the strong one in the relationship. She would have gone,
ned, they're fine, let them be there. Yeah. But and
also he has that fear because of what happened to Maud as well. Exactly
right. So having that story or having that idea for a story, I
think, I think it's fantastic. And having Marge as the person who has
to sort of help him out in that regard works a treat. That's right
now. As he said at the start, they need never B plot and
the B plot about the monkey kidnapping Bart, and you know, this is
a monkey Mother's lost, a monkey children. Thematically, it ties in,
I guess, but it just felt so shoddily executed or it didn't gel with
the other one even though it felt like it should. So Dana said in
the commentary that his kids really liked the two thousand and five King Kong,
so he wanted to work that into a story. Then they go, and
he goes, even though we've a you know, we've already done that on
the show in the Halloween, but you know, I wanted to do one
with Barth. I thought Bart would have been a good character to use to
the King Kong story. I'm like, I like the way that it did
intertwine a sense that Rod climbed the steeple and he'd been doing that at the
play center, So there's that's the way connected. But I know I'm watching
this going. So Bart's been kidnapped to buy this monkey inside this cage and
one female worker this entire place going, Oh, I don't know what to
do. There's apparently there's a news report about it, but no one else
is there helping. Why does no one just tranquilize it? Yeah, you
can't think to call animal control this, Yeah, but it's just there by
himself all night, And I'm like, this is too convenient for the story
for me, like this, why is no one else going to help?
Yeah? And what you were saying earlier, Sorry, just to go back
a bit of talking about some of Homer's jokes that went on a little bit
long or weren't even funny. They sort of like this is a joke in
name only. Yeah, there's one of the very start with. I think
Lenny and Carl they're talking about, oh, religion. Yeah, yeah,
there's like they're they're playing the Halo game where they're trying to put the Halo
on the on the Saints or whatever thought Saints had such fat heads, and
you know they're talking about how, oh is this game a scam? No,
just religion in general, and they're sort of playing it like a punchline,
which it clearly is not. No. I'm just like, that's I
know you think you're being I don't know what's controversial there, Like, oh,
I can't believe it all said that, but I don't know, that's
just making making a bold statement about religions, like not really do snay because
it didn't. It's not funny or anything. I don't know. So there
was sometimes and they emit this in the commentary that you know sometimes they blame
budgets and I'm like, no, you can't blame the budget because you had
a lesser budget in the early nighties and like this didn't happen. It was
just a case of I think you guys just got a bit lazier. I
think that may well be the case. I hate to break it to you
guys, but yes, just straight up laziness. Take it down. Someone
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is watch it on The Simpsons exactly. This is shoddy research on my part,
but please refresh me refresh my memory of the name of the baseballer who
makes the cameo, Landy Johnson. Randy Johnson. Yeah, I was for
some reason, I was thinking Ross Johnson. That's not right, but but
Randy is always right. Apparently he was doing his stretches in between takes in
the studios, the only person who was doing stretches because he was apparently during
during his rehabilitation from an injury, so he had to keep his stretches going
that's a very wise move. You should stretch down. No one should stretching,
as I forgot because I used to stretch all the time playing football.
Obviously i'n't playing football for ten years. And the other day went for a
run and I didn't stretch. First, I was like, ah shit,
it's like I'm so painful, but doing the stretches before I run. The
other day I was like, I feel it so much more loose. I'm
ready to go. I'm repped up. I'm reading. Yes, stretch every
morning and night. I highly recommend it, even if it's just for like
five minutes. Do it. Yes, your pals damn the one I tell
you, do stretch morning and night exact. But but I liked I like
Brandy just being very specific about what bears can do and can't do. A
bear can't be a malt, it can't be at all. No. But
was that a play on beanie babies? I guess, I guess so.
But because beanie babies word bears, right, I never got into beanie babies.
I think beanie babies were all manner of or were they be they beanie
bears? There's beanie babies. I remember they used to be like these little
bears like full of beads or whatever, and people used to go ape shit
for them, and they got replaced by funko pops. Yeah yeah, I
remember whenever I would go to the zoo with the lady in my life,
we invariably pick up a little um stuffed animal. We had a few of
them by the end, like one of these things will be for kids,
and then we didn't have kids. Um so enough about that. But I
think I don't have kids because then all you do is try and make him
cry all the time. That's it's like your tears make me laugh? What
else that I enjoy? I'm I'm a sucker for a word players, you
know. So Ned being a bit of a music efficient this time around was
kind of fun. I mean, what he's talking about is one of my
kids are brazen cantos A shout out to the Led Zepplin song Dazed and Confused.
I thought that wasn't too bad, and then I'm amazed that Ned knew
the lyrics to Welcome to the Jungle and then was able to fashion them into
Welcome to the Jungle gym. Yes, well, I feel like Flanders does
his research, so he researches all the Devil's music just so he can preach
why you shouldn't be listening to it. So he's done his research so he
knows all the well what I was listening to Working to the Jungle yesterday because
shout out by the way to muppet Mayhem, Muppets Mayhem, Muppet Mayhem.
Yes, I think it's called on Disney Plus the new series. Great show,
really good show, recommended for anyone of all ages. But it has
a lot of old school music in there, so they're covering a lot of
old songs. And one of the songs is rock and Roller all Night,
So we're putting it on Rock and Roll all Night. So it's like it's
introducing kids and my kids to like old school rock and roll music. And
they were put on Spotify and then the next song started playing automatically played back
into the Jungle. And I'll say to Nikola, is there a better light
track one on a rock album? Then fucking Welcome to the Jungle, Like
what other track one on a rock album goes, this is what You're gonna
go? Gets you in the mood for a fucking heavy rock time. Welcome
to the Jungle's gonna be up there, though maybe maybe he smells like teen
Spirit on never mind. O think if I think about those as like track
ones on which one like, those two are going to be right at the
top for best track one on an album of all time? Right, absolutely?
I mean I'm as much as I love Navana, I might have to
give Gunners the edge here. Yeah, I think, yeah, Welcome to
the Jungle is just yeah, it's a real announcement. It's like, well,
exactly right. And I think the thing is, as much as I
love Nirvana, my mum will still listen to Welcome to the Jungle, where
she won't listen to smells like Teen Spirit. I feel like there's they're similar,
but they're different in the sense that I feel like Welcome to the Jungle
has so much more commercial appeal than what smells like Teen Spirit does, if
that makes sense. Like, smells like teen spirits the perfect song for when
you're angst and yeah fu the you know, fuck the world and that kind
of thing. But Welcome to the Jungle is just you can just put it
on at any party and everyone's like fucking yeah, yeah, it smells like
teens the World, But Welcome to the Jungle is fun the world. Yeah.
Yeah, and and particularly because it was their first album as well,
just announcing yourself with authority as you said, Yeah, it's yeah, smells
like Teen Spirit is a shrug of fun the world. Man. It's like,
if you're listening to girls, you're gonna go fuck the world. I'm
just I'm just gonna make sure that never mind. Actually, I'm pretty sure
smell with Teen Spirit was track one. If I'm like, I'm gonna look
like knitted if it wasn't, because for some reason my mind it was one.
I was looking through here. I Walking to the Jungle definitely was number
one. I'm scrolling down to tra yes was like Teen Spirits number one.
Yeah, of course, I'm like, I know I'm right, but I
just want to make sure. But you're right, though, But I enjoyed,
so I enjoyed home going to see margin old Man Flanders. I just
love old Man Old Man whoever like Old Man Davis won't throw the frisbee back.
But I there's a moment in this episode that I'm not even gonna lie.
I actually teared up for a second there, right, and they followed
up with a gag whatever. But when I said. I was like,
oh, fuck, that's like beautiful. When he says and guy, can
you please tell on me to come to daddy in his dreams and tell him
how to cut her sandwiches? I was like, fuck, man, like
that is so fucking sad. It's just like so nice. At the same
time, I know, it just makes me if I'm talking about it,
like tear up. And you imagine, like these kids don't have their mother
anymore, and you can imagine some kids will just be like like just little
things like cutting your sandwich is the right way now we love Daddy doesn't quite
do it the way mummy did it. And I'm like, yeah, that's
just I thought that was a brilliant line. Yeah, next question you there
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get into it. Hit me with your first question. I've had a very
many, but I'll certainly hit with one. At the animal retirement place,
where is the bathroom located or by the rhino cage? Indeed, next to
the rhino cage. It makes me sad that the rhinos are in a cage
and not an enclosure. That's yeah, that is see are you making me
so? I know? My first question is what color was Flanders rubber duck?
No idea, I'm gonna say red. It was purple. Okay,
Then when's the race at the very end there? Yes, um, where
did the secular humanist go to college? What? What when they're playing Christian
clue? Oh shit? Okay, yeah, now I wasn't paying attention.
What was it? He has the boorish manners of a Yale That's right,
yes, all right. My next one is what does Rod climb at the
Fun Center? It's Mount Verty Cools Mount VERTI cool. I thought it was
a good name. Yeah, I liked that. I thought that was really
Yeah, that was pretty nice and I like that, you know, subtly
plays into the ending as well. By the way, we're talking about that
place. What is the name of the fund Center? It's that's fun Zone.
No, it's got Fund Zone. At the end it's something rough and
it's like rough and tumbles or something. It is awesome. For some reason
in my head, I was like, rumble stillskin, that's that's not right.
And my final question is what is mister Tenney's real name? It's Lewis's
Lewis, yeah, yeah, or Louis because I know some people spelled Lewis
Louis. We had a kid at primary school who's spelled Lewis but was pronounced
Louis so annoying, so it was his l o U I s yeah,
but his name was Louis but not pronunciation. Yes, so it's Louis.
Yeah. Any final, anymore questions for me? Where was Nelson going to
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of Bart Has Two Mummies was March nineteen. It's two thousand and six.
It was written by Dana Goold and directed by Michael Mark Cantel. Guest start
Antonio Fargus as Huggy Bear, Susan Surrandon as herself as the male on the
computer, Randy Johnson as himself, and Dave Thomas as Bob Hope. The
episode kicks off with the church fundraiser, which does not count as church.
I've just got to hear a really stupid gag from Carl and Lenny about religion
being a big scam. It's just, I don't know, it's one of
a joke, just a statement. You know, it's one of those it's
one of those moments where you know when you're growing up, and it's that
one person at a party when you're a teenagers was like, yeah, everything's
a scam and so everything and they make ship at outlanded statements like this,
and he's like, you're just you're no fun, Like we also know,
but we don't fucking care. This person is clearly longing for you know,
spirited, robust political debate and no, no thanks, and get the mirror
that shows you what you look like. And how Lisa runs off scare but
burns as a king. And then Reverend love Joy here says they're raising funds
to have a bigger steeple than the Episcopal Church, which is a little callback
to the episode a few episodes ago where it was the Simpsons Christmas Stories.
Was it not, yeah, we're talking about the Episcopalian Church or something.
Yes. Yeah, So it's a little bit of a payoff here, and
they want to he wants a bigger stepel because it's to compensate for his um,
you know, his own sense of smallness. And then we get the
rubber duck race and the winner of the robber Duck race will get a home
computer. I've never done a race like this because to me, this isn't
a race, this is put your thing in the water and just hope that
you win. It's yeah, winn't raised by any form of skill. It's
just you let your thing go on the water and see where the water goes.
Yeah. It's why I have a problem with some games of chance.
I mean, I'm not much of a gambler anyway, but if I want
to gamble, I think i'd want to do something that had some degree of
skill, like poker or twenty one or you know, even that's still chance.
You know, that is still chance as well. But I mean you're
also playing the person against him, but like something like rules, it's like
that's pure as yeah, yeah, or even dice, you know. But
we're like, oh, I'm feeling lucky. To know It's like you'd better
feel lucky because you know, you know, you know who's taken the wheel
here Physics the first doctor gross the finish line wins this home computer. That's
the new Phoenick, the computer design just for women. You've got male voice
is Susan Serandon. You've got mail, unlike the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay get
informed. Don't worry, March Me and Terrible too here are gonna win that
computer for you. How can you be sure he wants it? The race
begins and Homer says he's going to begin operations Slot Edge, So he starts
shooting some of the ducks out of the water, but unfortunately his duck goes
into the old mill. Little cheat, he goes into the old mill.
Let me just get the scene with him going through all the different yeah,
yeah, with hogs and stuff, and which I'm sure they've alluded to in
the past. It mean, it's a bit like that Charlie Chaplin Modern Times
thing where he's sort of going through the gears and that they've done visual sort
of shoutout to that on The Simpsons before. Well. Something I really did
like though, was the music that they use. I would say this is
the music they always used for things, because it's the same music they use
in the Beer Barren episode when Homer Bowl is the bowling ball down. Yeah,
I remember it from old Looney Tunes cartoons, and it wasn't necessarily the
ones with Bugs Bonny or Daffy Duck. It was usually ones where you've got
a gambling addicted cat or dog goes to a casino that's run by this very
shady type who if you can't pay your debts, they do all matter not.
There's nothing, yeah, and but there's always playing that music. I
don't exact music, that's exactly what it is, okay, I said,
okay, yeah, because it's perfect for this kind of scene definitely, where
things are sort of going through like a I don't know, a series of
events, you know, yeah, but I just know it felt like it
when a little bit too long, it really did. Yeah, just sell
a filler. And then Homer is just trying to say the duck from getting
injured, that's why he's going through all these cog It goes into the old
mill, ends up falling from Homer, but a real duck catches it just
before it goes over the finish line. He then tries to steal back from
the duck. The duck attacks Homer, he steals a back, throws it
over the finish line, but it turns out to be a real duck because
he wish too hard and it became real because Flanders then wins, and he
has his favorite kind of smart surprise Mile mild and then we you know,
Marge comforts Homer saying, don't worry. The main thing is that you tried.
And then we get your favorite moment with Bart being sad. Oh no,
I'm evil. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, but to me,
I can I can see you know you enjoyed it. But for me,
though, I was just like, I don't mind moments like this if
it plays a role, a weight on the episode, but just being cruel
and mean for the sake of being cruel and me And I'm just like,
but they've done this so often. Yeah, I don't like it anytime there's
a great line. I mean, it's a gentleman thief episode, you know.
And even still my stamp collection, everyone stamp collection. Everyone's pointing at
him my life, and Les said the Barts paint is Barts paint is funny,
but mine is actual, genuine I'm like, yeah, I d percent
agree with you, Lisa. Maybe it's the I think I've obviously I think
I've changed since becoming a dad, But when you see your kid, you're
like your your own child actually like genuinely sad. It really like for mean
mate, boils my blood. It would be heartbreaking and gear grinding. And
when I see like another kid do something that makes my kid feel this way,
I just want to punch that kid in the head. This is wholly
understandable. Even even you know, a blackhearted monster like myself understands that.
Yeah. Yeah, so I think I think I just sort of whenever I
see things like this now, I think of like Elliott being sad, and
I'm like you monster. Flanders gives the Simpsons the computer because he has no
use for it because you know, there's no female in the house and I
don't know. So he doesn't like the idea of people googling one another.
That makes you strangers. Yeah, googling makeing skin crow, as he said.
And then he asked Marge because he's got to go to the left the
left the convention. So she says, there is there anything I can do
for you know, you give me this computer, and he says, can
you babysit my kids? Why go to the convention? They use their little
dictionaries to understand one another? Yeah, yeah, this is the thing.
That computer seems like an elaborate set up to get Marge the babysit the kids.
When like that computer bears No has no burying on the episode as well,
another that's always all it Like, you could not just have Flanders knock
on the front door and say hey, m Joe, I reckon your babysit
the kids to night. Like there's like five minutes of this fucking, stupid,
fucking church festival thing with a rubber duck race that made no sense,
that there's no point, no point. It certainly did not. No,
I'm all about just like get into the story. You need to have a
little bit of time at the start to sort of set things up. But
this went on for so long and that's so point the pointless, that's the
thing. Yeah, And then Marge arrives to babysit and he says, the
last time we had a babysitter she let the kids watch Comedy Central. So
no Ruddner, no Rita Rudder. Is she a bad bad influence? She's
not at all. In fact, Yeah, I mean I think it's part
of the jokers that her comedy is actually very vanilla and she's got a very
sort of unthreatening presence. Um, I don't know if you would have seen
her on Australian TV at all. Down and she came out to Australia a
fair bit's a regular on heyyed Saturday. Yeah, just not looking at it,
Yeah yeah, yeah. And she's got that kind of He's got a
very sort of sweet voice like this, and you know she'll talk about things
that happen in relationships, and you know she'll make quite piercing comments, but
they'll be in this very very sweet voice like this. So um yeah,
I mean, of course she'd be the kind of person who would threaten the
Flanders family. Yeah, she's very very vanilla. But then he gives Marge
or the emergency numbers and the closest people have other kids blood type, and
Carl being one of them. And then they say, and I feel sorry
for these kids because like they lives. I mean, they're little, they're
little nerds, but like this is all they've known. It's like, let's
have a sitting still contest, hands folded and Marge is sitting there. Even
Marge gets bored. She's like, no, no, because she's Marge is
a good mum in the sense that she lets her kids running while but she
also knows how to rain them in. She's like, no, it's a
tie, you know, were number two, let's go do something different where
we cut to the convention and today's seminar is ambidextrous lefties in denial. And
then he get get Randy Johnson seeing with selling his bears and fans just gets
like it's almost like the mafia, just like you bar these are rain chairs,
boxes of a thousand. Also, they're just disturbing with their big hand
with one big hand. Yeah, what are you going to replace Funko pops?
Because they're on the they're on the downtrend now, No, they're my
retirement plan. That ptruds me. If you've got them, sell sal Cell
because they ain't going up in futting you, my friend. No, their
most superannuation. Yeah hitting, they are hitting the rock bottom at the moment.
But um, but Star Wars we get the margin the kids making Star
Wars mass or just making masks out of paper plates and I'm a Star Wars.
So there's always a screensh that gets shared around on May fourth of Ralph
dressed as Princess Leiah where he says I'm a Star Wars. So I guess
they just copied the same line or that's a fake meme, but it doesn't
actually say that because Marge says the line here, I think I think it's
a fake meme. I think they've taken the picture and they've they've crossed the
line on it. Maybe that's I guess that's what happened, because I can't
remember the episode in which it happens. But yeah, I'm a Star Wars.
So they spook each other with their masks, and I like the I'm
a permission slip so tied. That's permission to have fun. And thank you
God for letting missus Simpson come over. It was the most fun we've had
since Marmie was here. And could you ask Mommy to come to Jeddy in
a dream and tell him and to kind of a sandwiches and please tell Missus
Simpson it's rude to eavesdrop on our prayers, but we forgive her. And
then Flanders says, you know, you can babysit the kids anytime, which
is what about home? I don't want He's watching the kids and they're jousting
and just being menaces. Basically, you see Lisa be a bit reckless as
well. That's true. Yeah, I mean it was so seemingly out of
character. Third, that was awesome, especially when the last episode ended all
like a couple episodes ago ended where she's like, all right, it's just
me and you now, Maggie, and I'm like, I'm so, I'm
sick of seeing Lisa acting like an adult. I want to see sort of
like Lisa again. Yes, it was nice to get this moment, but
we come back from commercial in Virodent totter on their seesaw. What do they
call it in the States. It's not a seesaw, it's a Marge calls
it something else. Oh yeah, that's right, tittle no tita something tita,
tito, totta, I think something anyway. But yeah, they got
the Chuck's underneath and she's like, let's go freestyle and a narstortle moment playing
but Behoven's Ninth Symphony, I think it was. It wasn't ee yeah music
that's just symbolic with frolican freedom sess but and it's also what they used in
the intro to Everybody Loves Raymond for a good while there. Yeah, but
yeah, I thought it was just a nice moment where you know, they've
realized, now, this is what life is like, this is what this
thing is supposed to be, and there now in bed, and Marge is
watching late night TV the bumblebee Man talk Show, which whatever, and Homer
arrives in his varsity jacket. I heard him study all you were babysitting tonight,
Homer, We're not in high school so much. In tomorrow's game,
I'm going to recover a fumble just for you. Oh well, maybe you'll
run it in for a touchdown. Don't press your movie good enough with it
from my good Well, maybe we can take your mind off things by studying
for the sat Snuggles and tickles O Flanders, Hey, Homer, sneak and
kisses from the missus Springfield High football rules. These guys have a good sex
life. I like that margin just sort of you dangerous. Oh yeah,
no, I'm a bit of role play. That's quite marvelous. And then
unfortunately old man Flanders arrives, and even when Flanders sees him, he's like,
uh, sneaking some kisses from the missus. Yeah. I love that
everyone's kind of sex positive in Springfield. And I love that Homer doesn't break
character. No, no Springfield new rules or something spring springfel House goal football
rules. And he jumped the fence aheads himself. Then Barton Lisa asking him
for a lift somewhere, and Lisa suggests the Why does she suggest this place?
Can we go to the Showbiz for Retirement home for the animals? I'm
like why. I'm guessing that she might think that it's, you know,
a place where you know, the horse that played National Velvet runs free and
you know you've got various sort of various lassies just you know, enjoying their
golden news soaking up the sun. I guess because she didn't know it was
going to be at how Hold, did she? Yeah, she didn't know
it was going to be like something had a planet of the apes. Also,
this also nearly made my favorite moments as well. I should have put
it in there. Yeah, just once I finished watching my show and a
DVD fucking screen. I used to love it when there was like pong y,
Yeah, watching it. Oh, there it goes, and you always
think, is it gonna hit the corner? Just missed the corner? Yeah,
I'm just about to say, it's like, is it on that trajectory
just hit right in the corner? No, bugger, Like what what?
I'm happy to have had it hit just the right in the corner there.
Yeah. Yeah, it's just where Bart refers to them as nim Rod and
nim Todd. That was pretty funny. Yeah yeah, and when he walked
in, Yeah, and then um say his little help he here over hears,
so he gets a bit panicky. The thing is that joke doesn't work
though, because he's not a showbiz dog. He's a showbised dog in a
sense that he's on the Simpsons, but in their universe he's just their pet
dogs. So why is he doing this? I don't know, but I
like met a joke on the part of the Simpsons runs like, oh,
he's a showbiz dog, even though he's not really showed his dog. Homer
hoping the gremlins are there, I'm going to get them so wet, that's
okay. They arrive at the at the pet home and there's cemetery full of
lasses. They see Huggy Bear from a Starsky and Hutch heard I'm not a
real bear voiced by the actual Antony or Fargus. Yes, yeah, he
was played by Snoop Dog I believe in the film, wasn't he he was?
Indeed? Yeah, that was very very good casting. I mean I
can sort of take a leave Snoop dog in a lot of situations. I
don't think I've ever heard a Snoop Dogg's song. I've heard him like feature
in a couple of songs, and I think I've ever listened to any of
his music. I just know it's purely from from his pop culture appearances.
But like, and he's men you log ads he has Yeah, yeah,
true, but he has just lived his best life, hasn't he, Snoop
dog He really has. I was like pushing it's like pushing sixties. He's
over sixty hour. I think like he's he's getting there in age and he's
just kicking on fucking. He was at wrestle Many this year. He's just
living his best life. Man. Oh okay, speaking of wrestle man,
Yeah, did you start a podcast without me? Yeah? Well, do
you want to talk about wrestling? No? I mean I could, but
it'd be like I would occasionally drop terms like kfabe in a in a vein
effort to express that I knew what I was talking about when I really don't.
I bet we'd better leave it to Elliot j O'Neill, Dando's co host
on, Am I getting this right? Good day? Ew Yeah, so's
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do an wrestling podcast called good AW, I'm like, well, I can't
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Aw. Just it just works. It certainly does. So if you're a
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WWE right kind of stuff. But you'll start small and work our way out
because I've already got plenty of other ship we're gonna be doing here, including
a new show that we're going to be launching very very soon asterday. It
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have to say. We're so busy, we are so busy, but so
we arrived there. Huggy bears there and he says, cover the seat with
tissue, the toilet paper. Do you do that? I do that when
I go to a public toilet, I cover the seat with toilet paper.
I do not. I do because I'm just like, I just know people
pistol over this all the time. It's just how often do they really get
cleaned? Let's be honest. Yeah, that's true. I'll look at it.
If it looks especially revolting, of course, I'll give it a quick
once over. But I figured my ass has got about as many germs as
the as the sea will have. I think it's it's a fight of equals.
You know what's more disgusting. I will never forget because you know,
when you get to a nightclub and the torts just rank right, let's piss
everywhere, and they're full, and things like I'll never forget when this chick
walked in to the boys toilets barefoot, holding her heels, walking through the
mail toilet and went and took a piss in the toilet, and I was
like, you're a disgusting like not because you're a chick pin in the gust,
just like bare Foot in these the four must have been just oh,
I don't want to think about it. I was just like, I'm going
to marry that gal. I overstand that you're not looking back and going that
is the grossest thing I've ever seen in my life. But it's probably as
I'm due with a foot fetish. They're going so hot, so wet,
that's so grainy. But they see Toot Toot, who's really really sad.
She used to be Tum Tum in Teen Tarzan's Eco Adventures, which sounds like
a show. It does, doesn't it. Yeah, Yeah, she's all
sad and she's crying and she misses her kids because they're also in show business.
We don't find out that one of them missed a teen until later in
the episode. But but uh, his ice cream. But she takes him
instead. But son's been ap napped. No, the prefix applies to the
victim is still kidnapped, and she starts grooming him and the work of his
panics and says there's nothing we can do so to distract her, and she
shows him Flipper, who was also unfortunately passed away. I'm just like,
though, there's no one else here that can help. Homer manages to get
there with a tranquilizer in a pipe, like he's worked this shit out.
What what's going on here? Who? Who was visiting this place? Were
you? I know? But surely the word would have got out up the
first person showed up, kid, get on the help and say, do
not go there. Can we fix this please? Yeah, that's the thing,
Like for the rest of the episode. Surely Lisa's should have had a
great with his place, right, I'm just about to say, yeah,
this sort of runs counter to everything that Lisa stands for. Yeah, I
don't think girl. I think Danta knows how to write Lisa because he had
her acting like I mean as I lied to. He had her acting very
unleasa ish in that in that jazzing scene. And now she goes to this
place that she suggested. It's terrible. It's the opposite of what she thought
was going to be. It's against everything she believes in. And she's like,
yeah, whatever, ye carry on. But then Flanders. He finds
a band aid rapper on the floor, and he finds out that I believe
it was Todd cut himself on the knife and Christian clue. So he sends
him to bed and makes them crawl up the steps. And I was like,
I'm not sure I like this version of Flanders, but I understand clans
would be like this because he's just so overprotective. Now, I know you'll
like to worry, but these boys are never going to get self confidence unless
you let them try things for themselves. I just can't. They're all I've
got. It's that same day when Maud found eternal happiness. I thought they
might enjoy it if I took them here. Everything's covered in fun and it's
onn by a corporation, so you know it's safe. Well, your mascot
is a kneepad wearing a helmet. Why not? So we're now having dinner.
Marge asked where Bart is, and this is where Homes goes into his
patronizing, sarcastic rant about revealing the whole thing, but doing it in a
sarcastic way. I don't know. It didn't wait for me. This,
it's just, yeah, it feels like a drug that's been done before,
yeah, but this time stretched out to unfeasibly weird dimensions. I mean,
have him used the sarcastic voways with Marge and then her just sort of brush
it off and then realize that he can't switch it off, maybe say two
lines to Lisa, I can't stop talking like that, and then sort of
cut it off. As far as I'm concerned, I mean, it still
wouldn't be a quote unquote a comedy classic. I have serious mental problems.
I was just like I just felt unnecessary to me. But Bart tries to
leave, like, look, it's been great, but I miss my indoor
plumbing. But she takes him back, and obviously in Banana, and the
sad thing is that, like Tutt's not a villain here, she just misses
the kids. That's what She's trying her best to make Bart feel loved and
welcome. She's just trying to replace that emptiness that she feels when not having
a kids around with Bart. And Bart's like like Bart gets it too,
but it's like no one's helping. This is sad. What's going on here?
She's a really good mum. Yeah, she's she's cleaning, she's feeding.
You know, she's big with the cuddling, playing swing all night?
Yeah, what more do you want from my mother? Exactly? They wake
up the next morning. I did like the transition of she's been playing swing
all night, Bart's tied. She's just like, let's just keep going.
And then he Homer wakes up and eats the peach full of anti freeze that
he's going to give her. I don't know. We're out at the play
center, rob Rob Rod, I should say, is climbing Mountain Vertical.
There's where Flanner sneaks into to oversee and watching spy on Marge and he sees
Rod, right, you're gonna get hurt. I was like, I know,
I can totally relate to this like I have when I say Lisa,
I don't finely say Holy or Elliott climbing things, I instantly panic and I
need to stop so much. I see a lot of myself in Flanders here.
Did you when Nicola was pregnant with Elias? And I imagine even before
then, I imagine you were sort of thinking, this is the kind of
dad I'm going to be. These are the kind of guidelines and rules,
and I'm going to set for myself and you know that I want to pass
on to my kid, and you know this is how I want to do
it essentially. I mean, did that all that go out the window in
the minute you're like, oh my god, it's a little guy. It's
still that all goes out the window. Definitely with the first one, you
are more protective when they're first born in the sense that like you try and
tell like, yeah, your mum and dad or people who have had kids
before, make sure you hold his neck. It's like they fucking know,
and it's like they're look at your Mum's like, gets me the look is
it to say, I raised you, I know what to done. I
didn't forget how to keep a baby alive, like, but like you just
can't help but be over protective. So I was definitely like that. Nicola
was the same, but with the second one, I wasn't so much so.
But I definitely thought I was going to let the kids run more wild.
But I'm definitely more creative in the sense of trying to stop them from
injuring themselves more so than I thought I was going to be. But it's
like sometimes the other day says to Nicola, I'm like, is there fucking
lot in life just to try and hurt themselves and find new ways to I'm
like, I told you the story of the podcast a few weeks ago where
Holly spilt food on herself and jammed a finger in a drawn and fell off
the back of a chair in a space of like five minutes, and I'm
like, far out, man, it sound like a Chris Farley guy.
It's just like, what has happening here? But sometimes sometimes you have those
moments. But the other times where I'm like, you know, Aliot's climbing
this ladder and Aliet, let me get behind you. Sometimes I won't realize
he's climbing ladder. He gets to the top and he's like, look what
I did, And I'm like, oh, you did that and you didn't
fall and hurt yourself. Maybe I'll just stand back and what you do you
think? And then I stand back and let him do his thing and he
proceeds to forethnote himself. But yeah, it's you. Definitely you have an
idea of what you're going to be and you do keep that to an extent,
but things do go out the window, like you said, because whom
it's all you're just learning on the fly. That's all parenthood is. No
one really knows how to be apparent. You just wing it as you go,
making shit up as you go. But this is where Rod he panics
because he was fired until Flanders made him feeling secure, and he falls and
he chips his tooth on the on the wall. He chipped that tooth?
How will he bite wheat thens? How? I'm sorry, man, I
never thought this would happen. I don't want you watching my boys ever again.
She must be an unfit mother. I don't know. If I saw
a guy say this in a play center, I would be siding with her.
I think just I wouldn't go, oh, she must be an unfit
mother. I think I've got moving my response. If they're watching everything that's
led up to that particular moment, or which maybe they haven't, but I
mean, then's being loud enough that you think people would start paying attention.
Yeah, yeah, I'm with you. I'd be definitely starting on chapter two
that was probably gonna come out anyway. It's fine, it's fine, baby
teeth, that's fine. Yes, But then we at the news report.
She says, I am not an unfit mother. Cut to the TV news
report and but as being had he's being kidnapped by a monkey, which has
improved his high gena and posture, and his realm mother couldn't be found for
comment. And then we get Homer eating the trunkildes a dart and he had
to be revived by a police done gun. We come a from commotional planners
and now setting up a safe play area to the tune of Welcome to the
Jungle. I thought it was a good song. I liked it. It's
not too bad, Welcome to the Jungle Gym. He he's got a bit
of a future as a Wiggles esque entertainment, which is where the real money
is. Welcome to the Jungle Gym. I'll make it safe again and playtime.
He's a safe time. Everybody wins now laid down some after teris sold
day. Don't scrape there, no, no, no, no, no,
no in the knees. But then he says to the kids, you
know we're gonna do. They say, what are you gonna do? Today?
What all boys your age to look at bread? And I'm like,
that might be the most fucking boring things Flanders has ever suggested. Look at
bread, eat bread, just look at it, and they say the N
word. No, they want Marge back because she makes him feel happy,
not church happy, for real happy, and is where Flanders starts to go.
Well, maybe she should be part of their wife again. Lisa then
says Bart, you know, he's helping to cope because her and Homer are
out the cage. Still no one around to help. It's just them there
by themselves. I'm like, are there any other Are there any other visitors
to this place? Are there any other workers or is it just that one
worker there was? Clearly there was a news report there because there was a
cameraman filming it. Why didn't know one happ the cops, the cops,
the cops of them, but no one's out, like it's just it's a
it's stupid really when you think about it, it's a really silly story.
But you know, Homer says, no, monkeys don't have feelings. No,
that would make my all my experiments cruel. Then Marge arrives out of
the blue and she sees two kiss Bart's boo boo, as you said,
good mother. She's looking after Bart, making him feel safe and helping him
when he hurts his unt, hurts his knee, I think it was,
or it hurts his hand. And Marge shows to talk to her mother,
to mother, but when she does this, to simply escapes and takes but
with her. Then we get another news report and it starts off with them
mentioning that the hamburger was survived by his long time companion maybe cheese. We
actually took the kids to McDonald's right on the weekend. It's for breakfast,
right. It is such a sterile doctor's clinic vibe in that place. Now,
I hate it it is, we said the other day it has gone,
my friend, it's all computer screens and Ikea furnishings. Literally. And
when Nicola wanted a piece of banana bread from the McCafe right, there's two
people standing in McCafe doing nothing. I said, can I get a piece
of banna bread please? And she goes, I go to order on the
screen. I went, no, no, that's just there. I say,
kind of give you some catch. She goes, no, we don't
take cash in here, SHOs you neither? Go order over at the canter
over there and I'll bring me the slip and I'll bring it to your table.
Or order on the screen. Fuck it's there. She's like, I
was gonna go to the system and I'm like, why do I have to
walk over there to the computer screen when the bread right there? I hate
this place. I hate those pos. Oh no, just making me so,
I said Nicole Evan degree. She gets when I come back to McDonald's
anymore, like it's done. It's just not fun. It sounds like I'm
not missing anything. It's as I approach six months. Yeah, well schedulations.
Yeah, do you feel like do you want it anymore? Or you
just passed that point where you're like, nah, I don't want it as
much as I used to. Let's say, yeah, I'm I imagine if
I had someone I would just like, I would absolutely scarf it. I've
never been I used to be likings a lot when I was younger, But
I feel like you just once you out of your twenties, Like, what
are you doing eating McDonald's. No, that just might feel like McDonald's fee
when you're drunken, when a cheeseburger after a night out, But grow up.
Thanks Dannard, that's good advice. I'm like, what's like, I
always find the best chips because you think you love fries, don't you?
So you love me Donald's chips. If you don't eat that shit straight away,
it tastes like fucking cardboard. Oh it absolutely does. It's yeah horrible.
Ye but but but you get him hot and oh yeah, you can't
even tast any potato with him though. Man, it's just like eating batter.
Yeah, that's exactly right. You get the tallow on the salt.
Yeah, the actual physical chip is a delivery system for the fat and the
salt. But where are we up to? Yea, so Marge, she's
a long time companion cheese that. Yeah. So basically this is where Brockman
says that Twotot has taken Bart to the top of the steeple, and it's
like, oh, okay, so I see you going for a King Kong
reference here. Yeah, it's because in the commentary at the start day and
the day is like, I really want to get a King Kong story into
this, and I'm like, we went through all that just to have a
climbing a fucking steeple, Like one shot Cheese is christ but love Joy says
before the pipe prepared and says, yeah, Bart sims a memorial steeple or
whatever. Marge is really sad and upset. Lisa then randomly arrived miss A
Tenny in the bag. How she got him in a bag? I don't
know that is true, that's miss don't ask questions. Miss Tenny is like
pretty big, right for a monkey, Like he's not like a baby monkey.
Lisa just has him readily in the bag. Todd just straps into his
back and climbs up a fucking steeple with him on his back, and let's
get to the end quick, quickly. What is happening anyway? So I
think I miss A Tenny in the Bag says that this is one of her
kids, and I know the whole point that was meant to go, oh
that's who. That's like his revelation, but I was just like, that
doesn't make that's stupid to me. Anyway, she says we'll trade trade Teeny
for Bart but it says I'll do it, and he's already climbing up planned
his panic straight away you're gonna fall, and you know he gets I like
the animation of the Vertigo. I thought it was really cool. Yeah that
is good. Yeah, and yeah, look I like the tie in about
you know mound vertical and and Rod climbing this. I mean, it's it's
cheap, but it works. Definitely. Concern Marge says, you know,
you need to they need to believe that they're gonna be okay on their own
if you keep sort of scaring them like this, and they're never going to
believe in themselves. And then he says, I've got on your side.
You can't fail. And I was like, oh, is it fail or
fall? Fall can't fail either way. I don't think that theory either.
No, that's sort of taking agency out of Rod's hands and putting it into
God's hand. Yeah. Yeah, And or that could be seen as flanned
as then handborn in the blame to God and said of himself, well he
falls, it's not my fault, God, God let him do it anyway.
It's all it's all a big scam anyway, isn't it, Mister Davis?
That that's a topic for another time, another past and Tiny have a
big hug. They embraced me. Find out his real name is Lewis and
Christ. He says he now needs a new side cook, side kick.
And if all the time to not have such a mouse say anything this is
what he appears and random scenes. It has all these elaborate fucking bits of
dialogue here nothing nothing. I think Dana Good was trolling us. Yeah,
but then climbs down and he says, don't touch me because it's gay,
and he explains that gay me is that you were scarednere not. And it
ends with Todd Rod saying, hey Dad, I'm gay. Missus Simpson made
me gay and he looks at Marge annoyed. Okay, may as a test
a little bit of a ship. This could be a shout out, or
it could be a tie in. I don't know. But the title of
this episode is but has Two Mummies, which is a reference to a book
that came out in nineteen eighty nine I believe called Hither has Two Mummies,
which is one of the first lgbt qia plus is it, oh okay okay
children's book to sort of explain to kids, like, you know, not
not every family as a mom and a dad. Some families have too.
I just assumed it meant I've never read the story. I just read that
and thought, well, it's from back then. It would not be referencing
that. It would be referencing someone being divorced and having a stepmom in a
real month. That's what I thought it was going to be. Okay,
No, No, it's a book about sometimes families have two moms and this
is that that that case, whether or not. But it's making time of
that though. Yeah, it's painting homosexuality in a negative light through which achieved
Flander's eyes is understandable. But then they have more looking down from heaven saying
Oh, I'm so proud of my son. You could have totally ended this
episode with such a fucking sweet moment and you had to throw in the Bob
Hope and God again given God makes a gay because he says, oh,
her son's more footy than this, And I'm like, and God laughs at
that, and I was like, this is not a loving God. No,
Like to me, I feel like if this was like Classics him it
sounds a hate saying this, he feels like classic Simpsons. But if I'm
writing this right, this is a big development in the relationship between Flander's kids
and Flanner's Right. Yes, I wanted to end on an emotional beat because
you know, it's got a really good, really good story in the sense
that you're trying to tell here, have them embracing Right at the end,
he says, thanks Dad for believing me, and more looks down from heaveness
or something like you know, I'm so proud of my son or whatever,
and just cut back to them just like hugging and Flanders like looking up into
the sky with a big smile as if they say like he knows that Maud's
looking down on them and with something sweet like that. I don't know that
that's how I would have done it, That's how I would have done it.
No, no, no, no, I think I think you're probably
correct in that way, because, yeah, having God and Bob Hope timely
reference for two thousand and six, by the way, having them as sort
of douchebags, yeah, it feels very and I know I say this,
it feels very response to family guy in South Parker being a bit edgy.
Maybe we should try and have a bit of edges. So I was like,
family guys, they've been a fly six to eight years by this point.
It's like, I don't know. It annoyed me the ending. I
was like, ah, yeah, when he saw the water, I was
like, oh, oh okay. It was not a good ending. It
looked as we often do on the on four Fingered discount. I found a
bit more to enjoy in this episode than I did when I was actually watching
it. But this was not that great an episode. As far as I
clearly ld the Flanders story more than the Bee plot. I just thought the
Bee plot was just Dana wanted to write a King Kong reference and crowned it
in somewhere just I don't know. I didn't really enjoy that, But I
liked the Flanders story. It felt more grounded and more real, more like,
yeah, like a classic again, I said, classic seems, but
more of an episode that felt like it was in the realm of the Springfield
universe where monkey shit was just way too wacky for me. It's a silliness.
Yeah, I agree with you. One from day forward. Your name
droll me. It is the guy Davis. New name. Leaderboard Championship for
BART has two mummies. The current leaderboard mister Davis stands at this still in
first position, of course, is Luke McKay on twelve points. In second
position we have Kyle muldoon on nine points, and in third position we have
Heath Appleby and David Mott both on seven points. So who got the one
two three? This week? The first point? The one point. Now,
I don't know if this is quite right in terms of the story,
but it's such a neat play on words that I just had to give it
up. This is don't tell Mom the babysitters need I like that a lot.
Yeah, that's one of those movies where I used to always see them
at the video shop and they always had really cool covers. They had one
of those covers that was like popped out, what's the world, but they
saw bubble bubble covers. Yeah, I forgot like three D kind of where
they saw. They weren't flat, they were they popped out. The horror
movies were awesome back in the day, in the in the later nineties,
they were the best. But that one point goes to oh again, there's
last week Mark Boston Burchess with the one point again this week slowly time and
that leaderboard coming on strong Boston. Yeah, that's why. Now on the
four points, what's number two? Two points for chimpin pain't easy? That's
that's like a wrestling term because there was a wrestler called the Godfather and used
to say pippin ain't easy. You know who also said that? Who also
said that? Pimps where there's a famous pin that said it though. But
yeah, so chipping ain't easy by our man. Adam Woolhouse will done.
Adam who's now on eight points wild one? Adam all right? Three points
Woolhouse, Woolhouse in the house and three points four Smother's day, Smother's day.
Very good indeed, or it's from our man, I reckon this one
would have got sent in from the factory. It's Steve Roberts operating a heavy
machinery. He's hidden sending in heavy wordplay. Nice work, Stevie. Yeah,
so three points there goes to Steve Roberts. Okay, So the current
leaderboard still at first position. We have Luke McKay on twelve Clever Kyle still
in second position on nine points, but Adam Woolhouse is now climb to the
third position outright on the eight points. It is tight up the top of
that leaderboard. Twelve, nine and eight's getting very very tight the way you're
like it, isn't it, mister Davis, I like a tight What can
I tell you? Like a t Indeed, we got ourselves a horse race.
It's fantastic. All right, It's now time for some mail back questions.
Mail bad de Debail is here. Okay. First question comes from our
dear friend a long time listen to, Dave Abbott Smith. I hope you're
doing well, buddy, Dave says, those of you who got kidnapped and
raised by gorillas, what's your relationship? What hang on you who got kidnapped
and raised by gorillas? What's your relationship now? Bobo and I meet up
on our birthdays and exchange Christmas cards. I think he's being silly. I
think our friend Dave is being a bit silly with that one. I think
I think he might be taking the piss so slightly. Andrew J. P
Says what's your favorite zoo animal? Either the cutest or most entertaining. I've
always been drawn to the meacats. I've always loved the meacats. I was
about to say meacats as well, they're so cute. Yeah, I don't
know. Obviously, I love the lion king when I was a kid.
But the meat cats. You're looking and you're like, let's want to squeeze
you. I want to picky. I'm going to take one of you home,
and I love the gorillas and the chimps as well. But I always
get sad by the end because I'm like, these guys are as smart as
meg. Yeah, and they're in and you can see he can see that
they know that they are just locked in the cage. You know. It's
just it's cool at first, and then you just get sad then realize,
oh my god, these guys are in jail. Yeah, and they and
they know it too. Yeah. Yeah, I mean it's great seeing big
animals, yeah, primates, big cats, rhinos and other such if you're
if you're out on an open range. Yeah, but the bigger, the
bigger they are, I think, the more sorry you feel for them.
It's like, shouldn't be an enclosed spaces. Should be out there were running
free, whereas little guys like say you're littler monkeys, Um, maybe you're
smaller big cats and certainly are mere cats. Yeah. Yeah, it's like,
well it's a jungle land there for you guys. Literally, Um,
you might be safer in here. Yeahs did a real boost der ego with
everyone just coming out and look how cute. This is the thing. I
was talking to a friend recently who. You know, he's just got a
new house and you know, looking good and loves his new place, got
all this stuff they set up that he wants. And we're talking about taking
the kids at the zoo and I said, oh, sometimes get sad going
to the zoo because no, it's good to get over in there, needing
there. And I said, yeah, but you know, just imagine we
had COVID again next week and you got locked in this house for the next
two years. Would you like that? No, you'd fucking complain. No.
I know you're everything you want in this house, but you don't want
to be stuck in the same house with the rest of your life, do
you? Ye? Can't about side anyway? Enough about You might have asked
him aout the wrong time because he's you know, he's still got still the
honeymoon phase of the house, like mate, everything, he's got everything.
An Yeah, Andrew Kelly, what great ape would you fight in a hand
to hand combat if you had to, as in, if aliens were putting
you into a battlesphere for their enjoyment and they gave you a choice, Well,
we first got My first choice will be can we please have the music
I've got to have my entry music. Yes, um, I small.
He's talking about like fictional apes or like a particular type of pride. Let's
go with fictional apes. That makes it, That makes it better somehow funnier.
Not King Kong obviously, because we wouldn't survive that. But are there
any apes? Was some what are some fictional apes? Great pape? You
have ever heard thee? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, there the American one.
What about apes are popping? I'm not what's what's apes are popping?
That's in the Simpsons actually goes I've got some of the movies that you're like
And at the end, at the end, he goes away in the cage
just because he's different. Awesome. Sorry I forgot that. Um there's a
gorilla in the movie. Have you seen a Baby's Day Out with your man
Joe Montaignan, I have indeed seen Baby Day Days Out with Baby Bink,
Yes, yes, which is clearly just a guy in a in a suit.
Thank you. I like to fight that one because I like to think
that I've got a chance because essentially it's just another human in a suit.
True. Um, I would probably like to fight Dunston from the motion picture
Dunston checks in. Yeah, even though Dunston seems real cool. But we
would fight for you know, the other room in the hotel. Yes,
and then and then we bond, you know. Then after it would be
bros. And we get in some rooms. Yeah where yeah? Yeah.
What's the chicken? The backwards cap on it on the cover of that is
that doesn't checks in? Thinking or I thinking of Andre, thinking of Andre,
and I thinking of yes, yes, yes, now I know it
doesn't checks him. But I thought there was a chick in that movie as
well, like a young girl. Maybe I'm wrong, you're talking about like
a chick, like a chicken. I thought, like, I've never seen
Dunes and checks in, But I just thought it was like somebody's pet or
something. I don't know. I think I think I saw it maybe just
once. I just remember that it's a I think it's an a ranger.
Chang checks h okay. Then Mark Boston Burgess, were you guys weener kids?
Or did you take risks? I was the one who dared people to
take the risk, and then when ship went down, I ran away and
hid. I'd be like, hey, get that rock and throw it on
that person's roof. That'd be funny. Go knock on that person's door and
run away, that'd be funny. Meanwhile, I'm just hiding in the bush
she's got and they're getting into you're the corruptor. Yeah. Yeah, I
was a straight up ween a kid. Yeah, yeah, I was.
I was a goody two shoes. There was a point in high school,
seeing about this recently, actually the threat primary school, I was, you
know, goody two shoes. I mean, I still have plenty of friends,
still popular school captain, blah blah blah. But I was definitely like
a bookworm, Like I was nerdy, right, and it got to high
school. In the first year of high school, I won like the year
seven award for my best student, like the Lisa Simpson Award. And then
I think it was somebody between a year at and year nine where I sort
of went this shit matters, and then I just sort of realized, yeah,
I want to get a media degree. I need to focus on all
this accounting. You know. I kind of ship and I just sort of
I could have done better at school, but I didn't because I just went,
why don't I don't care. I knew what you're wanting. I knew
what I wanted to do, and yeah, look at me now I knew
and iye podcasting for a different who won? And final question here will choose
one more Kirsty Hodgkinson. Have you guys watched the latest episodes on Disney If
yes, what do you think? We've answered this one recently as well.
I have definitely watched all of the episodes that have been on Disney Plus in
season thirty four. I've thought this season. I was actually discussing this with
their man, Timothy Belson twenty dollars patient of the show last night at Facebook,
talking about how there seems to be a lot more Metish episodes in this
season, and I'm not sure whether that's just Matt Salmon sort of just fucking
with the audience or I just think he just likes matter episodes, where then
non Cannon he's a fan of that, which was fine, But when you
have like six or seven in the one twenty two episode season, it feels
like a lot. I don't know, but you know, thirty four seasons,
you know, because it's hard to come up with fresh ideas that people
aren't going to shitt all over. I did see a lot of people shitting
all over the latest episode with Lizzo, they were actually just there. Just
the mere idea of her being in the show just seemed to piss a lot
of people off. And I don't understand why, like she's done something wrong,
Like what do people have against her? I don't think they enjoy the
fact that she is out and proud about being a big gal. Wait,
so because she's okay with being fat than it? Like that's what the issue
is? Why? Because some people are dicads, Okay, then as long
as we're both clear on that, okay, then sure fine, everyone's like,
oh, it's gonna be like when Lady Gaga was on. I still
have not seen that episode, so I think I think you and I need
to watch it as a Patreon exclusive because it's like a defining moment in the
stue that's instant the episode apparently one already goes by the way, Harrison mcclauda
says, can an oreo ever be ranked? I mean, I've never been
huge on oreos. Call me crazy. I'm just not a but I'm not
a desserts man. Though I'm not a biscuits and a chocolate kind of guy.
I will I will eat it and enjoy it, but I don't crave
it much. Like I know you're a b apple pie man, that's true.
I'm also a cookie dude, and I do like an Oreo. They're
an inexpensive cookie. Um. You know, sometimes they'll be marked down.
It's like, oh, that's that's a pretty good price for that to you
by orios. I think I might go get something, particularly cinnamon button flavor,
which is basically just a sugar rush. I mean that's they're really nice,
but oh just feeling your teeth rotting head as you eat it? Um,
can they ever be ranked? Yes? They can? I mean one
thing about him? So you have to see them right up once you've opened
the open the tube because the air hits him and they start to turn into
like it's like McDonald's fries's fry. For just a little while, I was
like, oh, you've turned into the codeboard that you that contained you.
It's like one machine makes cardboard boxes, the other machine makes the chips.
But the Yeah. The campaign though, like the ad for Oreos, was
fantastic that you can have the rest in my milk. It taught so many
people that chocolate isn't good for dogs and the whole twist and yeah, twist
and something. It reminds me of m making the smalls and sound like kids,
you know, the process of making a dessert even more delicious. I
always love that. Lu and I are watching some TV the other night and
um, someone had made like a little small's kit. But yeah, Lu
didn't really know about smalls and she was looking at that's pretty sort of piss
poor a little you know buffet they put together. It's like, no,
I think they're actually going to make like, um, it's like a sweet
jaffle. That's how I explain yet to look like. Sound's not bad.
That's pretty good. Alright, Well that is the mail bag for but has
two mummies. The next season seventeen episode is going to be which one mister
Davis is the mom of Ricky Gervais? Is it Ricky Gervais? Ricky Gervais?
I think it's Ricky Gervaise. Yeah, Homer Simpson, this is your
wife. An episode that really confused me as a kid, and I don't
think i've ever watched it since. I remember with him on his first AD
and I was like, who is this guy? Why is he speaking weird?
What is happening? Right now, So I'm actually looking forward to going
back and revisiting it seeing him. It's just as confusing as it isn't as
it was then as it is now. Boy, do I have news for
you? Have you've watched it already? Oh no, But that's a story
for another time. It is indeed all right, guys, don't forget the
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