Thursdays With Abie (S21E09)

<v Speaker 1>Oh dead, I got you some scotch, one of those
<v Speaker 1>fancy ones to check out.
<v Speaker 2>Lady had to unlock the cabinet to get well. Well, well,
<v Speaker 2>look who decided to visit me twice in one year.
<v Speaker 2>This man's more of a sudden to me than you've
<v Speaker 2>ever been. What well, he's more of a father to
<v Speaker 2>me than you've ever been. I don't think that's true.
<v Speaker 1>Stay understand, I know.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, four Finger Discounted.
<v Speaker 3>Welcome to four Finger discount where this week we're having
<v Speaker 3>spending our Thursdays, even though it's Wednesday with Aby I'm dead.
<v Speaker 2>And I am guy. Oh God, don't reveal too much
<v Speaker 2>about Hell's dumb. Then Tuesdays Wednesdays we record, there we go,
<v Speaker 2>it's revealle Oh now now.
<v Speaker 3>Is the reason I bring up Wednesday is listen, thank
<v Speaker 3>you to everyone who's tuned in to the show this week.
<v Speaker 3>We appreciate what your support. We're supposed to be doing
<v Speaker 3>something this week. We thought we were going to be
<v Speaker 3>doing something this week.
<v Speaker 2>It's only very special.
<v Speaker 3>So it feels like you know your gimmick is. I
<v Speaker 3>come into this believing it will be no math. But
<v Speaker 3>whatever it is that you say, yes, my gimmick is
<v Speaker 3>now saying I've been scammed this week. So that's your
<v Speaker 3>new bit, my new bit. So I got scammed recently
<v Speaker 3>with that record. PayPal disordered out.
<v Speaker 2>For me because they kept saying, don't worry, this is
<v Speaker 2>not paper, this is the company. Don't worry your product.
<v Speaker 2>Your product is on the way.
<v Speaker 3>Even though the tracking order tracking code doesn't work, it
<v Speaker 3>will fix up eventually. And I was like, I don't care.
<v Speaker 3>It's been a week, it's been sent a week ago.
<v Speaker 3>It should be working. So paypalers just canceled it. Yeah, nother,
<v Speaker 3>I' get back to my email. So it was just
<v Speaker 3>a scam. The new scam was a couple of weeks ago.
<v Speaker 3>We got an email Greg Taylor. His name was it's
<v Speaker 3>name and shame yes, and he said that it obviously
<v Speaker 3>not his real name. If that is your real name, Greg,
<v Speaker 3>And he sent us an email saying that Hey, I
<v Speaker 3>work for the Chelsea Handler podcast. Dear Chelsea, would you
<v Speaker 3>like to come on? She's like to have you on
<v Speaker 3>the show. Yahd yadiyada. She loves the Simpsons, were gonna
<v Speaker 3>talk about simp since comedy and I were like, random cool.
<v Speaker 3>I've always liked Chelsea Handler like a show when I
<v Speaker 3>was younger. I'm really seeing it and even newer stuff.
<v Speaker 3>She's a big, big deal.
<v Speaker 2>He's a big deal. Yeah. Absolutely.
<v Speaker 3>I thought this would be cool to have be on
<v Speaker 3>her show. And I was just want to come on
<v Speaker 3>our show and yeadi yadia. And he's like, look, we're
<v Speaker 3>going to set up a pre podcast meeting over zoom
<v Speaker 3>just so we can sort of work out make sure
<v Speaker 3>it's going to go live properly on your page. I
<v Speaker 3>get the technical stuff, the technical stuff, right, he sent
<v Speaker 3>through show notes. I sent them through to you. They
<v Speaker 3>all looked a legit YadA, YadA, YadA. So I do
<v Speaker 3>this meeting and he's trying to help me set up
<v Speaker 3>there how to do live streams in the page.
<v Speaker 2>And I was like, oh, we just click live.
<v Speaker 3>He's like, no, no, you need to do this and do
<v Speaker 3>that and because we're going to be doing it streaming
<v Speaker 3>via your page and via her socials and yahdiada YadA.
<v Speaker 3>And I was like, oh, it sounds like you know
<v Speaker 3>what you're talking about.
<v Speaker 2>So we're doing all that.
<v Speaker 3>And about ten minutes after we finished this meeting last
<v Speaker 3>Saturday morning, I get a code a notification on my
<v Speaker 3>phone saying your Facebook account has been compromised. We have
<v Speaker 3>shut it down and you need to log back in
<v Speaker 3>to confirm your identity blah blah blah blah blah. And
<v Speaker 3>I was like, oh, oh boy, this again, this old trick.
<v Speaker 2>Hey.
<v Speaker 3>So I went in there, clipped on that, fixed up all,
<v Speaker 3>logged back and changed my past word, changed my email
<v Speaker 3>for my account.
<v Speaker 2>Just to cover all bases.
<v Speaker 3>And yes, it turns out that they were trying to
<v Speaker 3>hack our Facebook page.
<v Speaker 2>Apparently.
<v Speaker 3>I spoke to a Facebook person that sent me the
<v Speaker 3>log of what happened. They had logged into my account,
<v Speaker 3>logged into the page, removed myself as an admin, and
<v Speaker 3>had created their ad them themselves an admin, and they
<v Speaker 3>were trying to change the name of the page. And
<v Speaker 3>that's when Facebook went this doesn't seem right, shut it down,
<v Speaker 3>and thankfully Facebook worked.
<v Speaker 2>In our favorite They were trying to scoop up our
<v Speaker 2>sweet sweet followers and all their sweet sweet data.
<v Speaker 3>But stupid me, I look back now, I go, of
<v Speaker 3>course this was fake.
<v Speaker 2>Well here's the thing, I too, am aware of Chelsea Handl.
<v Speaker 2>I wouldn't say I was a bigger fan, but and
<v Speaker 2>I wasn't. I knew of dear Chelsea but I hadn't
<v Speaker 2>really watched a whole lot of it or listened to
<v Speaker 2>a whole bunch of it. So on Friday night, I
<v Speaker 2>go over to Lose Places. By the way, I mentioned
<v Speaker 2>this to Louse looking out, Wow, chelseams the big deals. Look
<v Speaker 2>at me like, that's right, honey man, it's in the
<v Speaker 2>big dam. It's funny for you told me this.
<v Speaker 3>And then when I thought I'm not going up to
<v Speaker 3>break it to him and it's going to be so shadowy,
<v Speaker 3>hell aloise this.
<v Speaker 2>But I went over to see lou on Friday night
<v Speaker 2>and yeah, she was so this happening. And then we're
<v Speaker 2>next week if you watch any of the show, and like,
<v Speaker 2>you know what, I was planning to do it this weekend,
<v Speaker 2>Let's do it now. We put on a couple of
<v Speaker 2>episodes on YouTube and we're looking at the thumb that
<v Speaker 2>was like Chelsea talks to Tony Collette aimed Australian actress
<v Speaker 2>started the sixth Sense and Yours Wedding, talks to Kevin Hart,
<v Speaker 2>talks to mel Robbins, who's got like one of the
<v Speaker 2>most popular podcasts in the world. All these familiar faces,
<v Speaker 2>not even familiar face, it's famous faces, big names. I'm
<v Speaker 2>not trying to downgrade us at all when I say this,
<v Speaker 2>but it's like being a realist. Why then would she
<v Speaker 2>have two schmucks from Geelong? Why ass yeah, it at either.
<v Speaker 2>And I was saying, okay, well, look she's on the
<v Speaker 2>iHeartRadio platform. We're on Spooker, which is iHeartRadio. Jason Speaker
<v Speaker 2>is own my iHeart. Okay, so look they're maybe doing
<v Speaker 2>some kind of collaboration or something like that. Apparently that's
<v Speaker 2>what the kids are into these days. But I messaged
<v Speaker 2>you and said, it's weird, right are we on? This?
<v Speaker 2>Is this on the up and up?
<v Speaker 3>And my theory was I'll just do this pre show
<v Speaker 3>meeting and get a feel for things and if it's
<v Speaker 3>not legit, then I'll know by then. Little did I
<v Speaker 3>know that the Zoom that I clicked on was this
<v Speaker 3>carbon copy of Zoom. That's not the real Zoom. It
<v Speaker 3>is a program that gives them access to your computer.
<v Speaker 2>But this gentleman, and he's no team of Romanian hacker
<v Speaker 2>buddies or whatever, went all out. I mean, everything looked
<v Speaker 2>and sounded pretty legit.
<v Speaker 3>Well what got me was I thought, well, it's a
<v Speaker 3>Gmail account, it doesn't seem very riggi ditch. And we've
<v Speaker 3>since done research and she's put out a thing on
<v Speaker 3>Instagram like a year ago saying, hey, you get a
<v Speaker 3>thing from Gmail. You know it's fake for this Gmail.
<v Speaker 3>And I'm like, but did Chelsea Chelsea please your Facebook page?
<v Speaker 3>So your podcast page on Apple says the contact is
<v Speaker 3>did Chelsea at gmail dot com.
<v Speaker 2>So you can understand why.
<v Speaker 3>I saw that and went, oh, well with her main
<v Speaker 3>shows Gmail dot com. And I thought, you think they'd
<v Speaker 3>contact me from the Dear Chelsea anyway, because it was
<v Speaker 3>they content contacted me from Dear Chelsea Management pod management
<v Speaker 3>at GM addict come. I thought maybe it's just the
<v Speaker 3>one they used just to organize guests.
<v Speaker 2>Possibly I fell for it, and absolute it's understood that okay,
<v Speaker 2>because we've got to have page. So thank you Matter,
<v Speaker 2>Thank you Matter. You actually did your job on your
<v Speaker 2>you saved our page. Thanks buddy man. That would have
<v Speaker 2>been devastating. Oh absolutely, But yeah, we were also, I think
<v Speaker 2>on the Saturday morning, after suspicion started to be raised
<v Speaker 2>a little bit of Google, it's like, great, Taylor Chelsea Handler,
<v Speaker 2>nothing's coming up, he's got yeah, he's got nothing on
<v Speaker 2>his there's no LinkedIn page, nothing like that, which you
<v Speaker 2>would assume. I went into Instagram and shoot top t
<v Speaker 2>Chelsea scam. Well, that's true. We should have done that.
<v Speaker 3>We should done that first, and once you did that,
<v Speaker 3>you go ah.
<v Speaker 2>But I went into Instagram and sent a DM to
<v Speaker 2>this Wymond Catherine, who is the producer and co host.
<v Speaker 2>No responses because inundata with all this stuff, it was
<v Speaker 2>like another couple of suckers. But a lesson learned and
<v Speaker 2>we will never be speaking to anyone ever again except ourselves.
<v Speaker 3>It could work out well though, because if she's a
<v Speaker 3>fan of the Simpsons, this co host, maybe that we've
<v Speaker 3>actually opened a door there where she goes.
<v Speaker 2>You know, it's actually a pretty good idea. Possibly, but
<v Speaker 2>she took it. I mean they're gonna have something, did Chelsea.
<v Speaker 2>But it could open some sort of door for it. No,
<v Speaker 2>but we could be ony. They still have those low
<v Speaker 2>rent like chat shows like Ricky Lake or Maury or
<v Speaker 2>something like that. I hope so great, you are not
<v Speaker 2>going to be on Did Chelsea start throwing chairs?
<v Speaker 3>But anyway, so that's what happened. That's what happened to
<v Speaker 3>us this week. It's been an eventful a couple of
<v Speaker 3>weeks here at Fourth Finger Discount, but this week we
<v Speaker 3>are talking about Thursdays with Abe from the season twenty one.
<v Speaker 3>So this is one of those episodes for me right
<v Speaker 3>where I'm watching it and I'm not quite getting what's
<v Speaker 3>going on here, because they tend to do this more
<v Speaker 3>in modern Simpsons than classic Simpsons, and where they will
<v Speaker 3>do a parody of something, but they won't just do
<v Speaker 3>a specific scene or like a parody throughout the story.
<v Speaker 3>The entire episode story is Yeah, and if you and
<v Speaker 3>for me as a viewer i'm watching it, I don't
<v Speaker 3>stand out as much as to me when I say
<v Speaker 3>I watched a classic episode of the Simpsons and then
<v Speaker 3>something feels a little bit often you go, that's something
<v Speaker 3>I'm going to look up what they're doing. When the
<v Speaker 3>whole episode is that, I don't feel as inclined to go,
<v Speaker 3>this must be something I just watched this going this
<v Speaker 3>just feels like a random Simpson story because I didn't
<v Speaker 3>know the guest star who came into the guy who
<v Speaker 3>actually wrote what was the.
<v Speaker 2>Actual Okay, the book is called Tuesday Tuesday with Murray.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, now, once I looked up the source material, actually,
<v Speaker 3>you know what they actually did a pretty good job
<v Speaker 3>parroting this story, right, Yeah, is it as big a Well?
<v Speaker 3>Apparently the TV film was a huge success. It was
<v Speaker 3>on the Oprah Winfrey Hour or opraenh Woinfrey Network or
<v Speaker 3>something like that, and it starred Hanka Zarre who played
<v Speaker 3>who voiced the Marshall guy on this. Yeah, so he's
<v Speaker 3>sort of reprising his role in that regard. So I
<v Speaker 3>didn't mind all that, but still I don't think that
<v Speaker 3>as a view you are if you don't know that
<v Speaker 3>the source and Chilly exists, You're going, what the hell
<v Speaker 3>is going on?
<v Speaker 2>You're also going, what's the fucking point? Yeah? Well I
<v Speaker 2>guess it was sort of like because Hankazari was on it. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>well that's the thing. I mean, this either works as
<v Speaker 2>a terrific again using the word meta, but it works
<v Speaker 2>as a meta gag. But you can you can be
<v Speaker 2>a little too meta, and that's what that was in
<v Speaker 2>this case. I found this incredibly frustrating.
<v Speaker 3>I found certain elements of a frustrating I watched this
<v Speaker 3>thinking I'll finished in the second, but I thought a
<v Speaker 3>lot of it was very family guy esk in and delivery.
<v Speaker 3>But I'll explain why A minute you continue.
<v Speaker 2>We often talk on the show about, you know, balancing
<v Speaker 2>emotion and humor or the foundation. You've got to have
<v Speaker 2>a strong story or even a theme as a foundation
<v Speaker 2>for an episode. Otherwise it's just a bunch of stuff
<v Speaker 2>that happens. And sometimes a bunch of stuff that happens
<v Speaker 2>is fine if the gags are good. The gags and
<v Speaker 2>this are not good, and most of them are kind
<v Speaker 2>of piss poor. But what's really the problem here is
<v Speaker 2>that there there is no sort of strong foundation. You
<v Speaker 2>have built a house of straw with this episode. I mean, yeah, oh,
<v Speaker 2>we're taking the Mickey out of house, out of Tuesdays
<v Speaker 2>with Maury, which is a you know, quite the phenomenon
<v Speaker 2>back in the it's more of a back in the
<v Speaker 2>late nineties. It was more than a decade old by
<v Speaker 2>this point. That's the other thing. Yeah, I mean, it
<v Speaker 2>came out in nineteen ninety seven, and addedly it was
<v Speaker 2>on the on the bestseller list for a while. It
<v Speaker 2>was a talking point for quite some time.
<v Speaker 3>But still, I know they parody old stuff in early
<v Speaker 3>Simpsons as well, from like the seventies and whatnot, but
<v Speaker 3>I it feels like the stuff they're parodying was like,
<v Speaker 3>you know, cornerstones and pop culture.
<v Speaker 2>That stuff had had a long time to seep into
<v Speaker 2>the culture and become Indiana Jones.
<v Speaker 3>I always go to home, rolling down the staircase, like
<v Speaker 3>those kind of visuals. You go, that's Indiana Joe.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I don't want to call Tuesdays with Maria flash
<v Speaker 2>in the pan. But yeah, it hadn't happened. It hadn't happened.
<v Speaker 2>I've never heard of it. Yeah. So, but the thing
<v Speaker 2>of it is, there's the kernel of a really solid
<v Speaker 2>idea in here. And this is what I was thinking about,
<v Speaker 2>because I was like, how would I how would I
<v Speaker 2>fix this episode? And the thing of it is, it's
<v Speaker 2>about the value of stories. Sometimes they have sentimental value,
<v Speaker 2>emotional value, philosophical value, stuff that actually means something that
<v Speaker 2>you can actually derive something from. And sometimes they have
<v Speaker 2>financial value. And so this is this would be a
<v Speaker 2>really interesting sort of clash of those two. Homer is
<v Speaker 2>so sick of hearing and the rest of the Simpsons
<v Speaker 2>family are so sick of hearing Grandpa's stories. Without realizing
<v Speaker 2>there's little bits of gold all throughout. You've got to
<v Speaker 2>sift through a lot of dirt. You're like a fucking
<v Speaker 2>miner in the Yukon back in the eighting. I just like,
<v Speaker 2>oh my god, all is dirt, Yeah, gold nugget occasionally that's.
<v Speaker 3>Where Dan to a sovereign hill and Balarat trying to
<v Speaker 3>find a little bit of gold.
<v Speaker 2>Very much the case and there. But you will go
<v Speaker 2>through metric tons of dirt to get a little bit
<v Speaker 2>of goal. But that goal is priceless. Also, there was
<v Speaker 2>the scheme of him trying to kill him in the end.
<v Speaker 2>Well there's that. The webside of that.
<v Speaker 3>I don't explain what the story of Tuesdays with Lauria.
<v Speaker 3>So it's a guy who actually knew he was going
<v Speaker 3>to be passing away, is getting his stories out before
<v Speaker 3>he passed away.
<v Speaker 2>You've got it. You've got a reporter who studied under
<v Speaker 2>this professor college sort of his mentor, but someone he
<v Speaker 2>respected and admired. And when he went to revisit this professor,
<v Speaker 2>I think later in life, the professor had a debilitating disease.
<v Speaker 2>Als I believe it was knew was his days were numbered,
<v Speaker 2>and these guys just sort of sat back talked to
<v Speaker 2>one another. But yeah, Maury a professor, now, yeah, was
<v Speaker 2>essentially sort of sharing the wisdom of his life with
<v Speaker 2>this guy, and this guy realized, this guy's got a
<v Speaker 2>lot to say. I should really be listening. I should
<v Speaker 2>really take this on board. And hey, I should also
<v Speaker 2>really write it down and turn it into a book
<v Speaker 2>that will become a best sell. So did the book
<v Speaker 2>come out after Maury passed away? That's a very good question. Well,
<v Speaker 2>let me give you the synopsis. As per Wikipedia, author
<v Speaker 2>Mitch Album is a successful sports columnist. In nineteen ninety five,
<v Speaker 2>he contacts his former sociology pressor, professor Maury Schwartz after
<v Speaker 2>seeing him on nightline, afflicted with als.
<v Speaker 3>When did the book come out? Because he passed away
<v Speaker 3>in November fourth, ninety five. Maurray Schwartz did well.
<v Speaker 2>The publication date was nineteen ninety seven. Okay, so he
<v Speaker 2>pass away before the come out.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Album has prompted to visit Schworts in Massachusetts. Work and
<v Speaker 2>whincidental newspaper strike allows him to visit every Tuesday. The
<v Speaker 2>book is divided into fourteen days, each one containing one
<v Speaker 2>of Album's visits to Schwartz. Each visit includes lectures from
<v Speaker 2>Mariy on life experiences, with flashbacks and references to current events.
<v Speaker 2>Schwartz's final Days. Ultimately, I spent giving album his final
<v Speaker 2>lesson of life. So you know, it's one of those
<v Speaker 2>books where it's like Chicken Soup of the Soul or
<v Speaker 2>you know, everybody should know this kind of stuff, but
<v Speaker 2>it's if you're hearing it from someone who has lived
<v Speaker 2>a full life and who realizes that at the end
<v Speaker 2>of it's like, this is stuff that has meant something
<v Speaker 2>to me. It could mean something to you as well.
<v Speaker 2>I'd like to share it with you and hopefully you
<v Speaker 2>can take this lesson moving forward. I think that's really important.
<v Speaker 2>I think it's really really valuable. And with that, which
<v Speaker 2>sounds syning cool, yeah, you can monetize that as well.
<v Speaker 2>So what you've got in this episode is the clash
<v Speaker 2>of someone who is willing to listen to these stories
<v Speaker 2>that are valuable, that have meaning, and is just being
<v Speaker 2>wholly cynical that it is like, yeah, there's gold in
<v Speaker 2>them nails, there's sentimental gold is bad. There's emotional goal
<v Speaker 2>that Homer could use, that the family could use, and
<v Speaker 2>there's just financial goal that what's his name is it,
<v Speaker 2>Mitch Marshall Marshall, sorry not Mitch is deriving it from
<v Speaker 2>I think that's a really good idea for a story.
<v Speaker 2>You know, this guy, this guy Marshall is providing Abe
<v Speaker 2>with the he's providing Grandpa with the attention, yeah, purpose
<v Speaker 2>and the attention that he craves. But also it's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>these stories might be dull and rambling or whatever, but
<v Speaker 2>there could be something in them that's worth something to you.
<v Speaker 2>But he's just going to run down the page and like,
<v Speaker 2>now we've got a book deal. So I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>I just thought that's a that's a solid idea, and
<v Speaker 2>you can it would I think would give the story
<v Speaker 2>real heart. Now I think they might be trying to
<v Speaker 2>do that in this, but I don't think they do
<v Speaker 2>it all that well. Then also, you just get a
<v Speaker 2>lot of not very good gags as well.
<v Speaker 3>On top of now, I just thought a lot of
<v Speaker 3>it was just very When I was mentioning before the
<v Speaker 3>family guy is delivery, so there was a lot of
<v Speaker 3>very short scenes. So not necessarily The Simpsons doesn'tcessarily have
<v Speaker 3>longer scenes all the time, but it felt like you
<v Speaker 3>can get more depth to the story in the motion
<v Speaker 3>if the scene's more drawn out. This one just felt like, hey,
<v Speaker 3>it's Homer doing something silly for thirty seconds. Now it's
<v Speaker 3>Millhouse and Bart doing something silly for top twelve seconds.
<v Speaker 3>It was just like short, sharp and there's a lot
<v Speaker 3>of cutaway gags. You think that's bad, you think that's bad.
<v Speaker 3>It's kind of felt like that kind of moment throughout this.
<v Speaker 2>I should probably watch some more Family Goes because I
<v Speaker 2>don't know if they've ever done you think that's bad
<v Speaker 2>on there. We've really just taken that from South Park.
<v Speaker 2>They say, I'm pretty sure that.
<v Speaker 3>It's like news happened, and then it cuts away that
<v Speaker 3>it felt like there was a lot of cutaways in
<v Speaker 3>this one here.
<v Speaker 2>Sure. So the b plot here is that they've got
<v Speaker 2>Larry the.
<v Speaker 3>Lamb, which is the classroom doll real thing, right, So
<v Speaker 3>obviously you've never had a kid at school. I never
<v Speaker 3>experienced this myself. I don't think. I think I remember
<v Speaker 3>taking a baby home, but like a doll home maybe once.
<v Speaker 3>But the thing is Elliott in prep two years ago.
<v Speaker 3>I can't remember what kind of stuff animal it was.
<v Speaker 3>It was like a bunny, I think. But they have
<v Speaker 3>a book and each kid takes their turn each week,
<v Speaker 3>take it home for a week and ago have experiences,
<v Speaker 3>take photos with the doll, and it's quite funny in
<v Speaker 3>the sense that I'm watching this going it's true the well,
<v Speaker 3>but Ali didn't take bat stance on it, but it
<v Speaker 3>was the kids really had this emotional connection to this,
<v Speaker 3>to this toy, and as apparent you' watching it going,
<v Speaker 3>I'm going to make sure my kids experiences with this
<v Speaker 3>fucking stuff animal are going to be better than what's
<v Speaker 3>come previous. In this book, it's like you're trying to
<v Speaker 3>one up the previous parents. It's so bizarre, but it
<v Speaker 3>is weird.
<v Speaker 2>But then, like you know, some kids, like I took
<v Speaker 2>mine to Luna Park and it's like a photo of
<v Speaker 2>the doll on the roller coaster and stuff like that.
<v Speaker 2>You like, it's weird, but like I can kind of
<v Speaker 2>see them given this sense of responsibility as well. I
<v Speaker 2>get the idea responsibility by the way unified a theory
<v Speaker 2>of forefinger discount kicks in because we were actually going
<v Speaker 2>to record this today as Wednesday is Dan I mentioned
<v Speaker 2>we were going to record this episode yesterday, Tuesday, whatever
<v Speaker 2>episode we were recording that day. Follow that Egg from
<v Speaker 2>South Park, which is all about taking home an egg
<v Speaker 2>and recaring for it for a week. Responsibility the same thing.
<v Speaker 2>It is literally the same thing sentence did it but
<v Speaker 2>maybe sound parked I did it first? Yeah, yeah that.
<v Speaker 2>I like the idea of, you know, sort of fostering
<v Speaker 2>a sense of responsibility in children and doing a relatively
<v Speaker 2>safe way with stuffed animal. Maybe lift so on egg
<v Speaker 2>because that's going to get everywhere when you break it.
<v Speaker 2>It also sounds to me it could create a bit
<v Speaker 2>of an unhealthy dynamic. Ands like I'm going to show
<v Speaker 2>this stuff land the best time. It's like, well, you're
<v Speaker 2>creating a one upping kind of environment. What happens? Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>which could be could set a bad present for the future.
<v Speaker 2>I took my kids to you know, Italy for the summer.
<v Speaker 2>When we went down to the coast.
<v Speaker 3>Well, I remember I spoke to the teacher about it
<v Speaker 3>and I said, so, what's what's the end game? What's
<v Speaker 3>the end game? She goes, well, the a positive that
<v Speaker 3>comes from it is that kids who wouldn't whose parents
<v Speaker 3>might not normally take them out to do things, would
<v Speaker 3>actually take them out to do things. And I said,
<v Speaker 3>but what happens if the parents are still so fucking
<v Speaker 3>lazy they don't do something, The kid feels like terrible
<v Speaker 3>because they don't have experiences, just like because.
<v Speaker 2>Their chapter, their chapter in the Larry Book of Shit. Aus. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>She's like, well that does happen too, I might, so
<v Speaker 2>should we be doing this? Good point? Yeah, But what
<v Speaker 2>I didn't like.
<v Speaker 3>Though, there was a particular line in this episode here
<v Speaker 3>where so Bart was playing tuger war with Larry of
<v Speaker 3>the lamb with the dog, and Lisa takes it away,
<v Speaker 3>say don't do that, and he says, why don't you
<v Speaker 3>do this when I'm tormenting real animals?
<v Speaker 2>Right?
<v Speaker 3>I hated that line because Bart isn't a monster. Bart
<v Speaker 3>wouldn't torment real animals, you know what I mean. The
<v Speaker 3>Bart of old was ashievas. You know, he was an
<v Speaker 3>underachiever and proud of it, but he wasn't a monster.
<v Speaker 3>And there's an episode Bart the Mother where Nelson gets
<v Speaker 3>a B B gun and Bart was gonna have a
<v Speaker 3>shot with it, and Nelson says, shoot that bird, and
<v Speaker 3>instead of shooting the bird, he points the gun away,
<v Speaker 3>shoots it, but actually kills the bird because he's got
<v Speaker 3>a crooked sight, right, And Bart feels horrible. He tries
<v Speaker 3>to look after the eggs of the bird. YadA, YadA, YadA.
<v Speaker 3>Bart is not a bad person. No, he just does
<v Speaker 3>naughty things as a way of like a I don't know,
<v Speaker 3>a mask for his inability to learn at school, and
<v Speaker 3>he struggles at school. Things like this where bart Is
<v Speaker 3>now become a kid who's just willing to torment real animals.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't like it at all. I get where you're
<v Speaker 2>coming from.
<v Speaker 3>You know, it's just a cartoon, but that's that's not
<v Speaker 3>who Bart is.
<v Speaker 2>I took that lie with the grains of when you're
<v Speaker 2>saying tormenting, I don't think he's torturing or anything like that.
<v Speaker 2>I think he's probably just teasing an animal, which you
<v Speaker 2>know sometimes that can involve, like you know, dangling your
<v Speaker 2>keys in front of the dog.
<v Speaker 3>I think it's because Larry's lamb was being ripped tormented.
<v Speaker 3>It felt like the loarder of the lamb. Why don't
<v Speaker 3>you do this when I'm doing this to real animals.
<v Speaker 2>It's like, yeah, I get, that's just it does feel
<v Speaker 2>like a cheap one. But that old Larry the Lamb
<v Speaker 2>sort of subplot as well b plot, it was just garbage. Well,
<v Speaker 2>it just felt very pointless, pointless. It had no time
<v Speaker 2>to the a plot at all. Yeah, it was just
<v Speaker 2>again a bunch of stuff that happened. And also, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>it just had pisspore character sort of development or whatever,
<v Speaker 2>because I didn't really many a payoff at all either.
<v Speaker 2>I guess it was Bart learning to appreciate. But it's like,
<v Speaker 2>what did he did? He? Even?
<v Speaker 3>I think he used Larry the lamb as a way
<v Speaker 3>to escape the cats in the sewer. And then you
<v Speaker 3>had Agnes to kick coming back saying yeah, give him
<v Speaker 3>my number, I'll show him a thing or two.
<v Speaker 2>And what is with these Agnes jokes? Is what I
<v Speaker 2>was asking. Yeah, but I think there was one bit yeah,
<v Speaker 2>where I've written down him. Don't make Lisa all grown
<v Speaker 2>up in her attitudes and then have her pushing a
<v Speaker 2>toy lamb in a pram exact same thing.
<v Speaker 3>My note, I'm like, can you please work out is
<v Speaker 3>Lisa an eight year old girl or an intelligent eight
<v Speaker 3>year old who's above this? You can't have her being
<v Speaker 3>all political and caring about global warming then have her
<v Speaker 3>pushing a stuffed animal in a pram down the street.
<v Speaker 3>And she also, why push a put to the jazz hole?
<v Speaker 3>What kind of subgenre of jazz do you like? I'm
<v Speaker 3>like you is she eight year old? Pushing a doll
<v Speaker 3>around in a pram? Or she an eight year old
<v Speaker 3>that appreciates subgenre of jazz, And.
<v Speaker 2>Is she pushing a doll in a pram solely so
<v Speaker 2>of the pram can go out of control and run
<v Speaker 2>into traffic. I want to no, I do want to
<v Speaker 2>diss this episode. This was lazy hours writing. I didn't
<v Speaker 2>I didn't like this episode at all. In fact, the
<v Speaker 2>only episode I just like more than one. I'm going
<v Speaker 2>to be talking about next time, next episode Once upon
<v Speaker 2>a Time in Springfield. You didn't like that? Fucking hated it? Why? Terrible? Really? Yes,
<v Speaker 2>I'm still trying to work out why. But I was like,
<v Speaker 2>what is the whole what's the point of this nonsense?
<v Speaker 1>Really?
<v Speaker 3>You are probably the only Simpsons fan in the world
<v Speaker 3>that doesn't like that episode.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, we it's considered like the better like modern day episode.
<v Speaker 2>It's fine. I got this this headline from an old
<v Speaker 2>newspaper that I think has been parted through the Davis
<v Speaker 2>family because a few of them had us on our fridge.
<v Speaker 2>It's like it's Davis against the world, or it's Davis
<v Speaker 2>versus the world. I think it was like sports thing,
<v Speaker 2>and I'm like, you better have some reasons why you
<v Speaker 2>didn't like You can't just say I don't know why,
<v Speaker 2>I just didn't like it. Well, we'll call it other
<v Speaker 2>episodes and then I'll think about it. But no, I just.
<v Speaker 3>When did you watch it this morning? Is it because
<v Speaker 3>you finished from the gym and you're rushed and you're
<v Speaker 3>in a bit of a.
<v Speaker 2>No, Well maybe that's it. I need get to go
<v Speaker 2>to the gym this morning because I had to watch
<v Speaker 2>that episode watched yesterday because I had a bunch of
<v Speaker 2>stuff to do. You watched Maths that was in the evening.
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<v Speaker 2>And there one or two let's see. I like the
<v Speaker 2>moas continually looking for love or connection anywhere you can
<v Speaker 2>find it. Slime move, do you get my letters? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>That one's all right. I'm a talking about neglected Grandpa
<v Speaker 2>for ages and then he heeds me with super neglect.
<v Speaker 2>Thought that was pretty funny, and I guess the rambling
<v Speaker 2>Homer's rambling story over the closing credits is again that's
<v Speaker 2>the joke. But it did have a very nice payoff
<v Speaker 2>at the end when it goes all the way through
<v Speaker 2>the credits and go, hey, did I about the time
<v Speaker 2>I created Greasy Films Shusha show.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that was pretty good. I didn't mind the ramble
<v Speaker 3>at the end. Yeah, it just did also feel like, hey,
<v Speaker 3>Dan killed two minutes of time.
<v Speaker 2>Well yeah, Riff, Dan Riff.
<v Speaker 3>I didn't mind Homer's recycled bin in his head moment, silly,
<v Speaker 3>but didn't mind it. The idea of the recycled bin sound,
<v Speaker 3>I think that still exists anymore. I don't think when
<v Speaker 3>you're to the recycle bin that you know the sound
<v Speaker 3>when you empty the recycle bin.
<v Speaker 2>I don't think I've got a recycle bin in that again?
<v Speaker 2>What do you mean on your computer?
<v Speaker 1>All that?
<v Speaker 2>Sorry? Oh yeah, yeah, I don't think i've got it anymore,
<v Speaker 2>or I don't think i'm here. It used to be
<v Speaker 2>the sound of cleansing. Yeah. Oh yeah, you're crunching up papers.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah yeah.
<v Speaker 3>And I didn't mind the homer the bait and switch off.
<v Speaker 3>You think he's about job on the train, but he
<v Speaker 3>jumps into the cafe. That's the kavikabooz.
<v Speaker 2>Next question, you there eating the paste?
<v Speaker 3>All right, it's trivia time. My first question for you
<v Speaker 3>is when they are at the Wet and Wacky World.
<v Speaker 3>When they're first walking in, there's two street signs.
<v Speaker 2>What are they? Oh god damn, because one is like
<v Speaker 2>celepopod or something or street yeah yeah, and simple when
<v Speaker 2>one's another like a fish or something like rust Dolphin
<v Speaker 2>drive Dolphin drive. Yeah. Speaking of the very start, Marge
<v Speaker 2>takes a lot of pictures. One is I think one
<v Speaker 2>is of a Miami license plate. What is that license
<v Speaker 2>plate number? Ah?
<v Speaker 3>So I didn't even bother looking through this. I was
<v Speaker 3>like I was going to put in the clipper.
<v Speaker 2>And here's why. What's the answer, Well, well, no, the
<v Speaker 2>answer is m A B F O two. But this
<v Speaker 2>is like an early example of second screen syndrome, which
<v Speaker 2>you're aware. I'm sure you know. Shows are being written
<v Speaker 2>and devised like we're never going to have anyone's full
<v Speaker 2>attention anymore, so you've got to repeat the gags out
<v Speaker 2>loud and keep reiterating the plot. Why does Marge so
<v Speaker 2>I was, Oh, I took all these photos. Here's I'm
<v Speaker 2>explaining this photo, this photo that just shows the photos.
<v Speaker 2>Just show me the photos. You don't have to have,
<v Speaker 2>Julie Capin is saying, because we're not looking at the screen.
<v Speaker 2>Here's one of my feet, here's one of so on something.
<v Speaker 2>It's like, it'll be a lot funny if I just
<v Speaker 2>looked at him, but I'm not looking.
<v Speaker 3>It's kind of like old episodes though, when they're going
<v Speaker 3>through slides and Patty and some will show their slides
<v Speaker 3>and this is us when we're in here, and this
<v Speaker 3>is us what we're doing now.
<v Speaker 2>I think, Yeah, but that's the gag, is that these
<v Speaker 2>pictures are so yeah, I know what you mean.
<v Speaker 3>I do see what you're saying though, too. And then
<v Speaker 3>the whole deleting them at the end. I guess it's
<v Speaker 3>a kind of a data thing because she says her
<v Speaker 3>cards forward, it's very rare that we have run out
<v Speaker 3>of space now for taking photos we get re run
<v Speaker 3>out of space and also deleting them all by accident.
<v Speaker 3>It's like, it's very rare. They're like a delete all
<v Speaker 3>button now it's easily accessible. My next question is the
<v Speaker 3>Tinseltown sty liner would have stopped every Monday at what time?
<v Speaker 2>At one seventeen pm? Yeah, that was one of my questions. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>so I'll give you my third and final question. Right,
<v Speaker 2>who is filling in for Jane at yoga?
<v Speaker 3>Jane at yoga? It was Tracy Tricia, Trisha And is
<v Speaker 3>this the gay panic joke you're talking about? Yes, that's
<v Speaker 3>not a dude, as long as there's not to do.
<v Speaker 3>It's come on, guys, who cares.
<v Speaker 2>If it's a dude you're doing yoga. I final question
<v Speaker 2>for you is what were the initial three folders in
<v Speaker 2>Homer's brain? Another one is Marge's boobs.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's food, I like, but but in hell and
<v Speaker 3>then Marge's boobs And I was like accurate home result
<v Speaker 3>of this, it is time for the Stone cut of
<v Speaker 3>Shirtout's here four hour of view of Thursdays with ab
<v Speaker 3>starting with the incredible Katie g with her one hundred support.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you so much, Katie, you are certainly keeping the
<v Speaker 3>lights on here at the Fourth Finger Discount Network. Of course,
<v Speaker 3>we also have Glenn Gomez, Justin Parker, Zach Brewitt, Daney Mamacher, Ellier,
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<v Speaker 3>Pete Anderson, Timothy Belson, Andrew Davis, Kevin Dental, Planned Flood,
<v Speaker 3>Bella Wind Debate, Jack McFadden, Heath Appleby, Adrick McLeod, March
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<v Speaker 3>and the newbie to the Stonecutter team is Inspector Realta.
<v Speaker 3>Thank you so much, guys for all of your support.
<v Speaker 3>He at four Finger disc Gap. But mister Davis, let's
<v Speaker 3>now get into our review of Thursdays with Aby. The
<v Speaker 3>original air day of this episode was January third, twenty ten.
<v Speaker 3>The top three films at the US box office Number
<v Speaker 3>three Alvin and the Chipmunks. The Squeakle is still a
<v Speaker 3>number third from last week. Number two is still a
<v Speaker 3>number two Sherlock Holmes and the new number one is Avatar.
<v Speaker 2>Ah keeps on. That's the gift that keeps on. Given, yes,
<v Speaker 2>you're watching the other Avatar movies.
<v Speaker 3>No, So my mom's like, we're gonna se Avatar tonight
<v Speaker 3>on Saturday. I was like, we've seen number two. She goes,
<v Speaker 3>there was a number two. I went, yeah, look last
<v Speaker 3>year she went, She was, oh, yeah, there's another one,
<v Speaker 3>wasn't there. I went, I've seen that one as well.
<v Speaker 2>I think.
<v Speaker 3>I'm like people just these movies are so successful. People
<v Speaker 3>just go into it because it's Avatar. I think they
<v Speaker 3>must be because I have no interest, no interest, And
<v Speaker 3>I know I saw it come up the second one
<v Speaker 3>on Disney Plus I think it was Disney Plus or
<v Speaker 3>one of their streaming services, and I went, should I
<v Speaker 3>watch this? London said it a terrible and Leond multons, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I didn't. I've never re watched the first one. And
<v Speaker 3>had even thought about the first one since I watched
<v Speaker 3>the first one, and I think I only went to
<v Speaker 3>that first one because I wanted to experience everyone's talking
<v Speaker 3>about the three D It looks fantastic. So this next,
<v Speaker 3>these next two apparently have been released in three D.
<v Speaker 3>I didn't know we still did three D films. Apparently
<v Speaker 3>you can watch it in three D. Still, yeah, I
<v Speaker 3>think so. But if it's not what you're not watching
<v Speaker 3>it in three D? Is it any good?
<v Speaker 2>I probably? Look I should know better than a bet
<v Speaker 2>against James Cameron, who apparently keeps hitting them out of
<v Speaker 2>the park. But I have no interest in the Navy, Pandora,
<v Speaker 2>any of these other planets, or any of these other
<v Speaker 2>species or races. I don't care.
<v Speaker 3>It feels like the Matrix three. It's like, was there
<v Speaker 3>a need for a Matrix three? You know?
<v Speaker 2>There wasn't. I don't think there was.
<v Speaker 3>But anyway, they were the top three films at the
<v Speaker 3>box office when this ad It guest starred Mitch Album
<v Speaker 3>as himself who comes to the Old Folks Home and
<v Speaker 3>if he is with the stories and whatnot, and was
<v Speaker 3>written by Mitch Glazer and Don Payne and directed by
<v Speaker 3>Mike Frank Polsino. So the episode kicks off with the
<v Speaker 3>family arriving to Wet and Wacky World formerly JFK Naval Museum.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, by the way, we should just say not really.
<v Speaker 2>I don't think there was a board gag in this one.
<v Speaker 2>There were sort of like an opening. There was a
<v Speaker 2>Wizard of shout, yeah, but it was sort of truncated credits,
<v Speaker 2>and the couch gag was like it was called couchgag
<v Speaker 2>chaos and it was one.
<v Speaker 3>I was like, I'm surprised until twenty one years to
<v Speaker 3>do a pinbom machine, but I didn't remind it. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>big pinball fan here. But Homer is a fan of
<v Speaker 3>this place because you get good parking. Despite the fact
<v Speaker 3>that there's worst rise here than actual theme parks, less
<v Speaker 3>fish and actional aquarium, you get good.
<v Speaker 2>Parks at this place.
<v Speaker 3>Megan gets put in a clamshow stroller sealed for her
<v Speaker 3>safety and Marje's we've already explained this filled up her
<v Speaker 3>camera with photos already by walking into the park, so
<v Speaker 3>she goes through them all, Oh, there's so.
<v Speaker 1>Many photo oops, but they already filled up my camera.
<v Speaker 1>And the parking lot parking lots Sea sign the tram,
<v Speaker 1>a license plate from Canada. A bird eating potato chips,
<v Speaker 1>my feet walking that boy you got sick on the tram.
<v Speaker 1>Grandpa talking to a mermaid hedge, the park rules in Spanish.
<v Speaker 1>A fat baby grandpa telling a story to a trailer hedge. Oops,
<v Speaker 1>I erased them all.
<v Speaker 3>Seeing Marjor of this camera here kind of did take
<v Speaker 3>me back to when my Nan first got her digital
<v Speaker 3>camera and she would just take photos of everything and
<v Speaker 3>just go, oh, I can't waste it on this. I'm like, Nan,
<v Speaker 3>there's no such thing as wasting when it's digital camera. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>so Nan, well, then just take photos of everything, fill
<v Speaker 3>up her camera and then she would accidently delete photos.
<v Speaker 2>Good. I know it's great.
<v Speaker 3>Is when Nan passed away, we went through a stuff
<v Speaker 3>and I found her digital camera and I just found
<v Speaker 3>all these photos that Nan had taken that I've never
<v Speaker 3>seen before, and I was like looking at life through
<v Speaker 3>her special because it's like, these are photos that Nan
<v Speaker 3>thought this is worth a photo. And imagine getting their
<v Speaker 3>carente mostly of her pets because their pets were her life,
<v Speaker 3>and it's just nice sing.
<v Speaker 2>It was like she was here again. Absolutely yeah.
<v Speaker 3>But and Lisa go, well, Lisa says, let's go to
<v Speaker 3>the Ultimate Sea Life Aquarium, but it quickly changes to
<v Speaker 3>the Ultimate Sea Life Buffet, which I didn't know that's
<v Speaker 3>a sign gag. But then takes clothes from the Lost
<v Speaker 3>and Found because he does, because he's because he's a
<v Speaker 3>wild and crazy kid. It just doesn't give her a toss.
<v Speaker 2>Grandpa is winging.
<v Speaker 3>Then they have an announcement over the over the speaker
<v Speaker 3>saying it's time for the rock a Quatic Roll Rolacia
<v Speaker 3>whatever it is, and just a show that features slime
<v Speaker 3>move the notho. This is an octopus. I haven't wants
<v Speaker 3>to get there. He wants to get in the splash
<v Speaker 3>because he's put on his bathing suit.
<v Speaker 2>He's ready for this.
<v Speaker 3>Then they introduced slime mood the octopus, and I thought
<v Speaker 3>this was done well in the sense of it does
<v Speaker 3>put a spotlight on man we treat these animals like ship,
<v Speaker 3>particularly in these water parks. It shows you can't do kill.
<v Speaker 3>You can to kill a whale shows now because I
<v Speaker 3>thought you could. I thought they stopped it. After that
<v Speaker 3>that movie came out. What was the movie that came
<v Speaker 3>out that was a Blackpool? Yeah, about the way they
<v Speaker 3>killed the fish, killed the trainer or whatish blackfish.
<v Speaker 2>I think maybe it is that one.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, but it was like a real spotlight on we
<v Speaker 3>need to not have these animals in captivity anymore.
<v Speaker 2>Well that's the I mean, the one that I've heard
<v Speaker 2>about is that they will have dolphins in enclosed bases
<v Speaker 2>and dolphins sort of unicated byala, which is you know,
<v Speaker 2>they're sending it sounds and the sounds reburped the reab
<v Speaker 2>of a wall going to come back to them. It's
<v Speaker 2>basically gonna drive them insane. Yeah, so water park's not
<v Speaker 2>a fan. I've never been a huge fan of water parks.
<v Speaker 2>They as SeaWorld.
<v Speaker 3>In Australia we have sea World, but it's not nobody
<v Speaker 3>to level of see what they have in America like
<v Speaker 3>in San Diego and whatnot. But we the most we
<v Speaker 3>have is all we have a dolphin show, don't we
<v Speaker 3>see the dolphin shows. It's different than the pool is
<v Speaker 3>different to the one at like Seawad and stuff like
<v Speaker 3>in America. It's more like open where it's I feel
<v Speaker 3>like if the dolphins are sending out their signals, it
<v Speaker 3>wouldn't be bounced to because it's kind of shallow. It
<v Speaker 3>might steal I'm not too sure, but we don't have
<v Speaker 3>kill a whale shows.
<v Speaker 2>Like a good aquarium. Yeah, aquarium. I can't see how.
<v Speaker 3>Fish wouldn't like to live in an aquarium. You're pretty
<v Speaker 3>much safe from you're getting fed whenever you want, and
<v Speaker 3>you haven't you got a kick ass thing part to
<v Speaker 3>live in. Essentially correct. But at the show, and as
<v Speaker 3>you're saying, was a big fan of the of the
<v Speaker 3>slim move, I thought it was kind of a real
<v Speaker 3>sad quarterback little bit later when they've just clearly just
<v Speaker 3>got over Slimy and just dumped him in the drain.
<v Speaker 3>Later on, but here you see the people tie his
<v Speaker 3>legs down, so he's stuck there and he can't do anything.
<v Speaker 3>He's cleaning the.
<v Speaker 2>He's cleaning the windows, and he's also you know, like
<v Speaker 2>delivering the State of the Union as the president or
<v Speaker 2>something like that.
<v Speaker 3>Just don't ink they and stuff like that, Yeah, Grandpa.
<v Speaker 3>Then overhears and he said for not to push that
<v Speaker 3>they won for an old man complaining. Then a guy
<v Speaker 3>who turns out to be Marshall Goldman comes to sit
<v Speaker 3>next to him.
<v Speaker 2>Really weird line here.
<v Speaker 3>He says, is this seat available? And he goes of
<v Speaker 3>courses for a pretty girl like you, And I was like,
<v Speaker 3>Grandpa's not a It's not an idiot. This guy doesn't
<v Speaker 3>look like a girl. Why what is the point of
<v Speaker 3>that line. It's just so bizarre. But he's shocked that
<v Speaker 3>Marshall wants to hear his story.
<v Speaker 2>Tell me more more.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, So they're sitting on a chair, a themed chair
<v Speaker 3>that's shaped like a shark. So he tells a story
<v Speaker 3>about when he sat on a real shark, and he
<v Speaker 3>was talking about how he's in the navy and they
<v Speaker 3>were attacked by a heat seeking missile fired the day
<v Speaker 3>before by then, which I thought was funny. Then they're
<v Speaker 3>playing the guys's play possum, but sharks love possum, and
<v Speaker 3>they realized that they just sit on the sharks. They
<v Speaker 3>can't do nothing about it. They eventually train the sharks.
<v Speaker 3>They have a message in their water. You think it's
<v Speaker 3>s o West, but it's so sorry to bother you.
<v Speaker 3>We'd really like to be rescued.
<v Speaker 2>Marshall.
<v Speaker 3>Godwin introduced himself as a human interest reporter and he says, what.
<v Speaker 2>It a newspaper that sounds going to die before I do?
<v Speaker 3>Awd good that one. Yeah, you were't human interest, but
<v Speaker 3>you know, just journalists in general. You were you got
<v Speaker 3>yourself a journalist or a what.
<v Speaker 2>Was what was it is yours? Tarshal? I was mostly
<v Speaker 2>generalis I would call myself a feature writer. Feature writer, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>because a movie review was not a journalist? Are they?
<v Speaker 2>But did you really? But you didn't go and interview people?
<v Speaker 1>Right?
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, that I guess that's journalism. Yeah it is, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>just a sub form of what so is?
<v Speaker 1>There?
<v Speaker 3>Is it news journalism? But was there like a hierarchy
<v Speaker 3>of like when you were working at the ADDY, was
<v Speaker 3>it like the news journalists were up here? Then the
<v Speaker 3>movie journalists will like here.
<v Speaker 2>I don't think there'snyone movie journalists.
<v Speaker 3>Really or entertainment entertainment journalis Yeah, yeah, yeah, well they
<v Speaker 3>they did. The news journalists look not look.
<v Speaker 2>Down on you. But did you get that? I never
<v Speaker 2>regarded myself as like, I mean, when I was working
<v Speaker 2>as a news journalist, what you did do for a
<v Speaker 2>few years? But you told me that yeah, genuine news stories? Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>yeah for the ADDY I did. Yeah, I didn't really,
<v Speaker 2>I mean not that I didn't have an attitude for it,
<v Speaker 2>but I think you've got to have a very specific
<v Speaker 2>personality and mindset to do that kind of thing. And
<v Speaker 2>I was sit there and watch movies. Can I just
<v Speaker 2>do that? Please? Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>No?
<v Speaker 2>And I was happy talking to people, but it's like
<v Speaker 2>going out and breaking stars and all that kind of stuff.
<v Speaker 2>I was like, E half of this is dull and
<v Speaker 2>half of this is invasive.
<v Speaker 3>You guys, I've spent the first twenty five years of
<v Speaker 3>my life just consuming Hollywood that use that talent.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>But missus Kay then gives out Larry the lamb to
<v Speaker 3>reveal it's Bart. They're drawing him out of the hat
<v Speaker 3>and the only things I'll bring home are notes to
<v Speaker 3>The only thing I bring home in notes to parents,
<v Speaker 3>And they don't arrive the way that they left, and
<v Speaker 3>we get Marjorie and the letter says Bart is in
<v Speaker 3>danger of failing nothing on none of his courses. Please
<v Speaker 3>call me Bart's biggest fan, Edwkar Bubble. Missus Kay then
<v Speaker 3>forces him to take the lamb, and Nelson's got a
<v Speaker 3>rule infatuation with the Nelson's become a real punchline, now,
<v Speaker 3>hasn't he. He's gone down the same avenue as mister Burns,
<v Speaker 3>where no one's been defanged. Yeah, no one fears him anymore. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and he's very emotional and yeah, so he says, which.
<v Speaker 2>Is funny in some ways. But when you just suit
<v Speaker 2>a particular story, Yeah, when you keep hitting that button
<v Speaker 2>over and over and over again, it's going to like, well, no,
<v Speaker 2>there's no point to this. He's become a woofs now.
<v Speaker 2>It's weird. Yeah, it almost become a bigger version of Millhouse. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>You nine times out of ten he needs to be
<v Speaker 2>the threatening bully. Then that one episode out of ten
<v Speaker 2>when he's really attached to that lamb.
<v Speaker 3>He was like, I remember a couple of weeks ago
<v Speaker 3>he took the pills and he was emotional like a
<v Speaker 3>woman with that one.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So, now Homer is cooking some bacon. He's drinking out
<v Speaker 3>of the Flanders family reunion mug. He's drinking grease out
<v Speaker 3>of the family. He's cooking bacon grease. Yes for the grease.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Look.
<v Speaker 3>Call back to the grease episode and Flanders tells him
<v Speaker 3>about Grandpa's article. He says he only gets his news
<v Speaker 3>from the internet, and he says, oh my god, you
<v Speaker 3>read it, Gather. It's funny, it's poignant, it actually happened.
<v Speaker 3>It reminds me of the Seidfeld. It's refreshing.
<v Speaker 2>That's the rule of three. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>The Junior Mint episode available right now on our Patreon.
<v Speaker 3>He says, my god, my family, my dad is interesting,
<v Speaker 3>and then he's got the that must mean that Kathy
<v Speaker 3>is funny.
<v Speaker 2>Who is Kathy are you talking about? Kathy was a
<v Speaker 2>syndicated cartoon in the Funny Pages, created by a cartoonist Kathy.
<v Speaker 2>Guy's what I believe, which was, yeah, I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>Kathy was a modern woman who sort of like, I
<v Speaker 2>hate my appearance and having trouble finding a man. I
<v Speaker 2>think a Trey Munk was kind of like she would.
<v Speaker 2>That was her laugh or something. I remember. Thirty Rock
<v Speaker 2>had a good yag about it. That's pretty much all
<v Speaker 2>I know. Nicol, I had never seen thirty Rock. We've
<v Speaker 2>just started watching it. Yeah, apparently only one episode in.
<v Speaker 2>But yeah, I don't think Tina phe is behind it.
<v Speaker 2>But Robert Carlock is sort of like the co creator
<v Speaker 2>of thirty Rock. He's got a new comedy out called
<v Speaker 2>the It's called The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkett.
<v Speaker 2>Starting tracing Morgan and Daniel Radcliffe as well. Apparently it's
<v Speaker 2>really funny.
<v Speaker 3>How much in tracing Morgan being anything these days just.
<v Speaker 2>Past that point. But apparently it's really funny. It's sort
<v Speaker 2>of in the thirty rock vane because we don't get
<v Speaker 2>really sort of joke dense comedies like that as much
<v Speaker 2>as we used to. Know. No, no, we don't at all.
<v Speaker 3>But it feels very much like a Simpson's live action show,
<v Speaker 3>does it.
<v Speaker 2>It certainly does. Yeah. Look, it's very of its time,
<v Speaker 2>and it feels weird saying that about a comedy from
<v Speaker 2>like two thousand and six or something. But it's like, oh, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>we did things back differently back in the orts. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>But then everyone's reading in Grandpa's stories at the retirement castle,
<v Speaker 3>maybe the best known Abraham in history. Then he tells
<v Speaker 3>the story of being the shoe shiner at the train station.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't like.
<v Speaker 3>I didn't mind hear the gags on the newspaper. So
<v Speaker 3>he's shining someone'shoes. Who's reading the newspaper. The headlines say
<v Speaker 3>curly to shamp you're out and bike wheels now the
<v Speaker 3>same size, And the train arrives. It's the Tinseltown what's
<v Speaker 3>called the tintl Town.
<v Speaker 2>Something, Tintletown star liner. Yeah, which route to Hollywood? I
<v Speaker 2>do like the idea of this is when you're a kid.
<v Speaker 2>When I was a kid, this is what my idea
<v Speaker 2>of Hollywood was, Like all actors hung out together, he
<v Speaker 2>all traveled together, they all lived in the same areas.
<v Speaker 2>That's not what it is not anymore, but certainly in
<v Speaker 2>this era. Yeah, I mean, because stars would be under
<v Speaker 2>contract of various studios. Yeah, and it was basically going
<v Speaker 2>to work every day. You'd go and you'd punch the
<v Speaker 2>time clos so they have to work for specific I
<v Speaker 2>didn't read, yeah, like you would sign a seven picture
<v Speaker 2>deal to Paramount or clumb. Okay, that doesn't happen that
<v Speaker 2>way anymore. Does it still to some degree, but actors
<v Speaker 2>have a bit more sort of free agency. Okay, but yeah,
<v Speaker 2>back in the day, I was like, No, you're essentially
<v Speaker 2>going to work at the factory. You're going to work
<v Speaker 2>at the store. You'd go in and you would have
<v Speaker 2>lunch there at the commentsary and you'd see like pictures
<v Speaker 2>from the thirties and forties or whatever, like sitting down
<v Speaker 2>at some cafeteria table. I mentioned I think the last
<v Speaker 2>time on one of the last shows who did talking
<v Speaker 2>about that documentary on mel Brooks. He was talking about
<v Speaker 2>how they still did this in the seventies even though
<v Speaker 2>you know, the contract system had kind of broken up.
<v Speaker 2>But mel Brooks was like in a head and office
<v Speaker 2>next to Carry Grant, like carry g Cary Grand apparently
<v Speaker 2>took a shine and mel Brooks is like, we're going
<v Speaker 2>to lunch. Came on, Brooks. Everyone in the fifties spoke
<v Speaker 2>like that, we Carry Grant especially, But so here's like
<v Speaker 2>the epitome of Hollywood glamor and style in Melbrooks, this short,
<v Speaker 2>little Jewish guy. It was just apparently charmed by Carry.
<v Speaker 2>Grant was just charmed by him. But they'd go to
<v Speaker 2>lunch at the Commentsary, like I'm having this and you'll
<v Speaker 2>have that. It sounds more like high school. And people
<v Speaker 2>always say, like, you know, Hollywood is just high school,
<v Speaker 2>but with good looking people, it's like that. So I know,
<v Speaker 2>I find that hilarious. But yeah, you're right in terms
<v Speaker 2>of like it used to be that Hollywood stars will
<v Speaker 2>all hang out together because that's what's your job. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Well, and we didn't have access to their lives like
<v Speaker 3>we do now as well, which it was very very
<v Speaker 3>very tailored.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but the.
<v Speaker 3>Trainer arrives at various movie stars. One of them is
<v Speaker 3>Clark Gable, but he's not a star yet is he
<v Speaker 3>not yet? Know?
<v Speaker 2>But he's going to be because Grandpa gives him what
<v Speaker 2>gives him his paper, their copy of Gone with the Wind,
<v Speaker 2>and he tells him to not tell this story for
<v Speaker 2>sixty years. Boring, boring stuff, may line, boring stuff, may lie. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>it's got one good swear.
<v Speaker 3>And Homer then wonders why he never tells these stories
<v Speaker 3>to us, and March is, well, he does. We just
<v Speaker 3>ignore him, We don't pay any attention to him. And
<v Speaker 3>he goes, oh, this is where I store Grandpa's stories
<v Speaker 3>and it we cut to his head and it's like
<v Speaker 3>an old school desktop, old school mac mac. Yeah yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and it's just got recyclabin. He says, Marge's boobs Barton
<v Speaker 3>Hawe like or something. But he throws home grandpa stories
<v Speaker 3>into the recyclabin and then he said, ms, well delete
<v Speaker 3>and some other stuff while I'm here, which is kids,
<v Speaker 3>friends' names, driving, stick shift and history, and then it
<v Speaker 3>says please contactism administrator.
<v Speaker 2>So he's broken down. Lisa stick shift. Yeah, that's it, boy,
<v Speaker 2>go for the nerds.
<v Speaker 1>If you're not going to take care of him, right,
<v Speaker 1>give him to me, how.
<v Speaker 2>Come we don't get mad when I torment real animals?
<v Speaker 2>I do it enrages me.
<v Speaker 1>I thought you Hindhus were supposed to love everybody.
<v Speaker 2>I'm a freaking Buddhast.
<v Speaker 3>The Buddhast, but just came across like a real piece
<v Speaker 3>of shit here, like just mean horrible everyone did.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah that's true.
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<v Speaker 3>Lowry the Lamb for a pram ride, and she says,
<v Speaker 3>don't worry about but he doesn't represent to us he's
<v Speaker 3>the black ship of the family, and then she backtracks
<v Speaker 3>things that's offensive.
<v Speaker 2>You know, not all black ships are bad. I think.
<v Speaker 3>I don't judge sheep by the color of their I
<v Speaker 3>did up their wall whatever, then by instead by how
<v Speaker 3>itchy it is the wall. Then they arrive at the
<v Speaker 3>jazz hole and she asks what's subgenre of jazz? He
<v Speaker 3>likes fusion, neo bop, afro a Cuban, but he rolls
<v Speaker 3>away and ends up down at the drain. By the way,
<v Speaker 3>the correct he answer its fusion, yes, yes, and she
<v Speaker 3>screams his name down the drain, and then Agnes comes
<v Speaker 3>out of nowhere saying, you're coming across desperate running. I
<v Speaker 3>was like, I know what you're trying to do there.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that would have been funny in the writer's room. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I just I don't understand. Yeah, it's an eight year
<v Speaker 2>old girl. Why would an old woman walk up and
<v Speaker 2>say that? Yeah? Just is she ate or she not?
<v Speaker 3>You know, like that It doesn't work when are you
<v Speaker 3>talking to an eight year old?
<v Speaker 2>Anyway? I like the idea behind that joke, and it's
<v Speaker 2>it's a nice little throwaway. I guess it's like, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>coming across needy, But if as an adult woman maybe,
<v Speaker 2>but I do know just to an eight year old
<v Speaker 2>has felt weird. I know what you're saying. It kind
<v Speaker 2>of ties in with the the theme of the episode
<v Speaker 2>of like older people passing on wisdom, you know, it
<v Speaker 2>was more yeah, yeah, I mean, if we're getting real
<v Speaker 2>English class depth deep here, like your cats, I'm having
<v Speaker 2>a big stretch because that's a big stretch, because yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I mean if Agnes was kind of like, oh honey,
<v Speaker 2>take it from an old lady, don't be so desperate
<v Speaker 2>or something, I mean, that's not as funny, but it's
<v Speaker 2>kind of like, oh, but it's connected to what they're doing.
<v Speaker 2>It's not good, No, not great at all.
<v Speaker 3>Then Grandpa's telling the storybot how he got the idea
<v Speaker 3>for the suitcase of wheels and he saw it in
<v Speaker 3>the commercial. That's where I got the idea from. Then
<v Speaker 3>Mitch Album makes his guest appearance, the author of Tuesdays
<v Speaker 3>of Murray, and when I was like, what is Tuesdays
<v Speaker 3>of Murray? That's what I'm gonna went, That's what the
<v Speaker 3>point of this is, I see, and they tell him
<v Speaker 3>to beat it, and then they're getting closer and closer
<v Speaker 3>to him, and then six hours later they've grabbed him
<v Speaker 3>and they' thrown him out of the door. Then he
<v Speaker 3>finds Ralph who says clouds are god sneezes. So he's like,
<v Speaker 3>I can do something with this kid, and he that's
<v Speaker 3>his guest appearance. Yeah, he had to make a cameo
<v Speaker 3>because we're doing a whole episode about him about his book.
<v Speaker 3>And then arrives with Scotch and he says that Marshall
<v Speaker 3>or Grandpa says the Marshal's more of a son to
<v Speaker 3>him than Homer ever was, and he says, well, he
<v Speaker 3>was more of a father than me than you ever wear, Grandpa,
<v Speaker 3>And then Marshall's I think that's true, you say out
<v Speaker 3>of this dad, and he's like, yeah, okay, sure whatever.
<v Speaker 3>Then he gives back his commitment r this is weird,
<v Speaker 3>gives back his commitment ring that he never told him
<v Speaker 3>about a father's son commitment ring, and then runs off
<v Speaker 3>and cry and just sort of sitting there looking awkwardly,
<v Speaker 3>and he's.
<v Speaker 2>Like, but I'm telling you now.
<v Speaker 3>I was like, I don't, I don't get this. It's
<v Speaker 3>just weird, silly, not in a good way. We come
<v Speaker 3>back and Bart is now asking for the lambback it's
<v Speaker 3>time for him to take it back to school, and
<v Speaker 3>Lisa's tried to cover up for it by having some
<v Speaker 3>toilet rolls with some cotton balls attached to it. And
<v Speaker 3>Nelson and they say, what's gonna What am I supposed
<v Speaker 3>to do here? Like people are attached to this.
<v Speaker 2>What if I don't show up with Larry?
<v Speaker 3>Nelson walks past and says, hey, I can't wait to
<v Speaker 3>see Larry this week. And this is what would happen
<v Speaker 3>if someone lost him, and he says, you'll see a
<v Speaker 3>dark side of him that.
<v Speaker 2>You don't want to know about. That's it for Nelson.
<v Speaker 3>So like, I feel like Nelson needed to find instead
<v Speaker 3>of having Bart running away from rats and cats, I
<v Speaker 3>need to have Bart being chased by Nelson for ruining idea.
<v Speaker 2>Actually, yeah, because what's the point in setting this all up?
<v Speaker 2>And then they're not having a payoff for the Nelson
<v Speaker 2>I know, because they want to have a payoff with
<v Speaker 2>the slow move moment, because you don't even get to
<v Speaker 2>see Nelson with Larry. They look maybe like he rescues
<v Speaker 2>him and then Larry and then Nelson gets Larry next
<v Speaker 2>and it's all happy. Look, there's no payoff to the
<v Speaker 2>Larry story. You know, it's just weird. Yeah, Bud gives
<v Speaker 2>back Larry, but he's all sort of beaten up and
<v Speaker 2>sort of weirdly stitched together. It looks like Frankenstein's Monster
<v Speaker 2>or whatever. Nelson's like, I still love you or something
<v Speaker 2>like that, something like that. Yeah, because it's not a
<v Speaker 2>good joke. You see him at the end, he just
<v Speaker 2>looks perfectly fine, even though he was ripped apart to
<v Speaker 2>pieces arts pieces home and then calls Grandpa Marshall is
<v Speaker 2>part of his now voicemail message and he says, this
<v Speaker 2>is home. You're too late for my love.
<v Speaker 3>Homer says, I tried to end the cycle of neglect,
<v Speaker 3>and he hits me with super neglect as you were
<v Speaker 3>saying earlier. And Mars says, you know what, maybe you're
<v Speaker 3>not mad at Grandpa. Maybe you're just mad at yourself.
<v Speaker 3>So I can't be mad at myself. He goes even
<v Speaker 3>when to look at myself in the mirror, looks himself
<v Speaker 3>in the mirror, and he's like, tries to be angry,
<v Speaker 3>then loves himself.
<v Speaker 2>Loves himself, hates himself, loves himself, breaks.
<v Speaker 3>In the mirror, and then gets angry at himself. And
<v Speaker 3>Marsha sits there rolling her eyes, which I've wrote here
<v Speaker 3>march rolling her eyes is pretty much the audience is
<v Speaker 3>all of us. And he says, I'm going to find
<v Speaker 3>another surroyged father to to share some life lessons. So
<v Speaker 3>of course we go to the MANSI paid of mister
<v Speaker 3>Burns and he goes there, and the advice he gives
<v Speaker 3>him is that the Yanksty River I think he calls
<v Speaker 3>it the Yxstay river swallows all secrets. So he writes
<v Speaker 3>that down he goes he has something like Hayes makes waste.
<v Speaker 3>He says, that's something that I can make neither of
<v Speaker 3>these days. And then he says, because I've enjoyed this afternoon,
<v Speaker 3>I'm going to only release a hound, not the hounds.
<v Speaker 3>And then how Ma get shakes away by the hound,
<v Speaker 3>And that was the end of that chapter.
<v Speaker 2>And that's the rest of that story.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, how big Homer get in there Wilewoard Burns given
<v Speaker 3>the time of day, just so many characters doing things anymore.
<v Speaker 2>Again rule of three's kind of thing. There were surely
<v Speaker 2>there are other older people as well. Have Homer going
<v Speaker 2>to all of them because there are other gags in
<v Speaker 2>here that can easily be cut out.
<v Speaker 3>I mean, I think there's a good scene you could
<v Speaker 3>have where he goes to the retirement castle and listens
<v Speaker 3>to Jasper or the old Jewish going right, and Grandpa
<v Speaker 3>sees this, and then Grandpa and the new and the
<v Speaker 3>news Jasper whatever have almost like a jealousy standoff, and
<v Speaker 3>who can tell them that the best store yes, and
<v Speaker 3>then Marshall and Homer trying to write them down, and
<v Speaker 3>that kind of there we go, not just him randomly
<v Speaker 3>going to mister Burns's mansion and never seen again.
<v Speaker 2>Once again, peals dan On guy fixed it.
<v Speaker 3>He's apparently now written a book, but we'll get to that.
<v Speaker 3>But Bart is now climbing down the drain with the
<v Speaker 3>rope he stole from gym class. And this is why
<v Speaker 3>I was talking about the family Guys skags where it's like,
<v Speaker 3>where'd you get what do you mean? Jim class and
<v Speaker 3>the custom millhouse trying to climb the rope.
<v Speaker 2>There is no rope. We'll get to the ceiling somehow, sure,
<v Speaker 2>So you could have easily cut that out and put
<v Speaker 2>in another gag where Homer is trying to find an
<v Speaker 2>old man who listen to stories because he realizes the
<v Speaker 2>error of his ways.
<v Speaker 3>But Lisa Loser's grip. He tells her to put it
<v Speaker 3>in her teeth because that will shut her up.
<v Speaker 2>Come on, man, these jokes are unworthy of It's not
<v Speaker 2>in keeping with the why would Bart want to shut
<v Speaker 2>her up? She's helping It's just why why is being
<v Speaker 2>mean for she's helping him?
<v Speaker 3>It's just stupid, alady. But he thinks he's picking up
<v Speaker 3>Larry the lamb, but it's actually a rat. And then
<v Speaker 3>again we get Lisa here asking Wigan for help and
<v Speaker 3>he says, I'm an above ground police officer. You need
<v Speaker 3>to ask the sewer cops. And she's like, well, how
<v Speaker 3>do I contact them? I'm gonna be honest with these
<v Speaker 3>there are no sewer cops, so no one's gonna help
<v Speaker 3>the child that's down in the drain and stuff. That
<v Speaker 3>is that lot sort of like your way of writing
<v Speaker 3>out the fact that he has to try and get
<v Speaker 3>himself out as opposed to the cops.
<v Speaker 2>Even just the tale of the payoff of like there
<v Speaker 2>are no just have just have Wigan running off going
<v Speaker 2>on like that to be even better or have like
<v Speaker 2>oh no, she's followed up with this on this obvious
<v Speaker 2>lie all this.
<v Speaker 3>It could say, Bart, stay where you are, I'll go
<v Speaker 3>get mum and dad and they will come and help you. Sure,
<v Speaker 3>there are literally other ways to do this, And he says,
<v Speaker 3>She says, how are going to help Bart? And he says,
<v Speaker 3>to yell into a toilet? Why would she just yell
<v Speaker 3>into the drain?
<v Speaker 2>That's where he is.
<v Speaker 3>Homer goes to the Springfield Shopper to pitch his story.
<v Speaker 3>Mondays with Monty and she takes it to the editor,
<v Speaker 3>which is just the shudder. And meanwhile, while she's away
<v Speaker 3>in the shedding room, he discovers Marshall's office. He goes
<v Speaker 3>in there and he sees the Pulse Surprise application form
<v Speaker 3>and discovers here that he plans to kill Grandpa when
<v Speaker 3>they take a ride on the Tinseltown Star Line. It
<v Speaker 3>at three o'clock Monday, and it's now one o'clock Monday.
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to Having said that, there's a couple
<v Speaker 2>of games we could have cut out, a couple of
<v Speaker 2>we just mentioned. I would have liked a bit more
<v Speaker 2>story development in terms of, like you see Marshall, like
<v Speaker 2>these stories are getting old, or they're getting repetitive, or
<v Speaker 2>even he's getting tired of hearing them. He's like, well,
<v Speaker 2>I can wrap this up by bumping off this guy
<v Speaker 2>and I'll write a best seller about Oh and then
<v Speaker 2>you know, he told me the stories and then he died.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, but we don't get that. We just get
<v Speaker 2>all of a sudden, this thing out of the blue.
<v Speaker 2>I get it sort of works, but I don't think
<v Speaker 2>it a little bit more.
<v Speaker 3>Maybe if they built up to it, though, it would
<v Speaker 3>take away these shock value. Yeah, but I see what
<v Speaker 3>you saying. They need to have this more scenes dedicated
<v Speaker 3>to their relationship to Marshall and yeah, yeah, just him
<v Speaker 3>telling stories, but Grandpa annoying him. But he's still sticking
<v Speaker 3>about for the sake of the story, that's right. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>so he's not necessarily sick of hearing the stories. But
<v Speaker 3>he's like, God, this fucking guy.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you know all the stuff I have to do
<v Speaker 2>to get the stories out of God, I need three
<v Speaker 2>more of these stories, and I've got a book. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I'll never have to talk to this guy again. And
<v Speaker 2>they said that they're worth more to me if he's dead. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>but he finds the book is out of the Mouth
<v Speaker 2>of Abe, written by Marshall and our Grandpa Simpson and
<v Speaker 2>we see the poster for the movie Hank and out
<v Speaker 2>of the Math of Ape Grandpa created by the Henson
<v Speaker 2>Creature Workshop. Did you see that?
<v Speaker 3>We come back for commercial. Grandpa is about to get
<v Speaker 3>onto the train so I could die happy man. This
<v Speaker 3>is where we get the first indication that Marshall's like
<v Speaker 3>smirking and whatnot. Homer misses the train because we think
<v Speaker 3>he's chasing after it, but he's actually chasing after a cafe.
<v Speaker 3>The cafe Caboose marshallon offers Grandpa some wine. I assumed
<v Speaker 3>here he was poisoning him, but that's not what he's
<v Speaker 3>doing at all.
<v Speaker 1>Drink upybe live each moment as if someone's about to
<v Speaker 1>kill you, I mean, if it's your last.
<v Speaker 2>Sorry my hearing age on the fridge, the only word
<v Speaker 2>I heard was.
<v Speaker 3>Kill Meanwhile, wilst that's all happening, Homer's outside the window
<v Speaker 3>trying to get his attention, but he can't distract him,
<v Speaker 3>can't get his attention, but is now running away from
<v Speaker 3>the rats. He sees Slime Mood with a cameo there
<v Speaker 3>from Slime Move. He's been thrown down the train because
<v Speaker 3>people don't care about him, and the rats suddenly stop
<v Speaker 3>and they're scared. And it turns out there's sewer cats
<v Speaker 3>down there, and the cats start chasing after Bart. I'm
<v Speaker 3>not sure what do cats attack people, So Ali evil
<v Speaker 3>ones to evil stew cats. And he sees Larry, who's
<v Speaker 3>somehow on a pole up the top. I don't know
<v Speaker 3>how he's there, but he's on a pole at the top.
<v Speaker 3>So grab Bart grabs onto Larry's the lamb and slides
<v Speaker 3>down the pile to escape from the cats because he
<v Speaker 3>couldn't just run away. Wouldn't running away be faster? You
<v Speaker 3>would think so, you would think so. But again he
<v Speaker 3>apologizes for ripping him apart. And this is he's coming
<v Speaker 3>out of the pipe near the beach and Agnes is
<v Speaker 3>just randomly there and she says this, everyone seems to
<v Speaker 3>love this guy. I give him my number. I can
<v Speaker 3>teach him a few things. Things he can use, like
<v Speaker 3>it's a stuffed animal. Yes, so I think gag just
<v Speaker 3>went on like one sentence too long. Yeah, anyway, I'll
<v Speaker 3>teach him things things he can.
<v Speaker 2>Use, like I don't get it or I don't like
<v Speaker 2>it at Grandpa has now fallen asleep on the train
<v Speaker 2>and Marshall, you think it's attempting to smother him with
<v Speaker 2>a pillow. Lenny and Carl now randomly helping Homer and
<v Speaker 2>they lower him on. They're on the roof of the train,
<v Speaker 2>and they how they get on the train. They weren't there,
<v Speaker 2>Homer wasn't having to get in the train in the
<v Speaker 2>first place. Howd they kids up the train get into it? Listeners,
<v Speaker 2>can you sense our exhaustion? Yeah, this episode is not
<v Speaker 2>that long. It's not and we're just kind of like,
<v Speaker 2>none of this makes sense something. What's happened now?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, Lenny and Carl lower Homer into the train and
<v Speaker 3>he's like, oh my god, you got the pillow. He's like,
<v Speaker 3>it gets worse, pulls a gun out of the pillow. Now,
<v Speaker 3>I noticed, by the way, when Lenny and Carl were
<v Speaker 3>dropping Homer in, the animators for got to draw the
<v Speaker 3>five o'clock shadow on Lenny. It was just yellow and
<v Speaker 3>I've never seen Lenny like that before. Yeah, I just
<v Speaker 3>made a mistake from animation.
<v Speaker 2>There where Also they're making the joke about yoga.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so Carl gets caught on a pole, so he
<v Speaker 3>gets stuck as a train's getting taken away. Lenny said,
<v Speaker 3>I'll see tomorrow at yoga. Karl says, Jane is sick,
<v Speaker 3>so Trisha is filling in, and Lenny says, I'm fine
<v Speaker 3>as long as it's.
<v Speaker 2>Not a dude. Good good for you guys. Yeah. Then
<v Speaker 2>this is where.
<v Speaker 3>Marshall says, I'm the toughest, one of the toughest beings.
<v Speaker 3>There is a bi weekly human interest columnist, and Grandpa
<v Speaker 3>is going to make him a fortune. But it turns
<v Speaker 3>out that Grandpa was good at playing possum. A little
<v Speaker 3>call back to play possum with the sw the sharks,
<v Speaker 3>and he smashes the bottle over his head, but that
<v Speaker 3>doesn't work apparently, so then he just pulls the east
<v Speaker 3>up on the train falls over and a bunch of
<v Speaker 3>boxes filled with hats fall on him, and that is
<v Speaker 3>the end of Marshall Anddio's Marshall. Yes, and Grandpa says,
<v Speaker 3>you know what, he may have been rid over all
<v Speaker 3>these years, but at least he didn't try to kill me.
<v Speaker 2>That's where we're at now. I love you. At least
<v Speaker 2>you didn't try to kill me. Only with the different
<v Speaker 2>low expectations, where would my dating life be without them?
<v Speaker 3>Then the ghost of Clark Gable gives Grandpa a ghost
<v Speaker 3>coin and says you'll be able to spend it soon
<v Speaker 3>because he's going to die soon. And the episode ends
<v Speaker 3>with Grandpa he thinks about a tell a rambling story,
<v Speaker 3>but no, he says it's time for Homer to have
<v Speaker 3>his time, passes the torch as time for Homer's first ramble,
<v Speaker 3>and he rambles over the closing credits.
<v Speaker 2>And there you go. It does over the closes to
<v Speaker 2>the very end, to the Gracie film's logo, Yeah, don't
<v Speaker 2>shush me, shush yourself. Oh, shush yourself.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, And that is the end of Thursdays with Aby
<v Speaker 3>an episode that especially if you don't know the source material,
<v Speaker 3>you're just like, what on earth is going on? I
<v Speaker 3>can at least give it some leeway. Cut us somewhere
<v Speaker 3>when I'm like, okay, now, then I understand what you
<v Speaker 3>going for here. Yeah, I can see why you're doing this,
<v Speaker 3>but I still don't think you did it very well.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. That's the thing. It's not strong enough without the
<v Speaker 2>Tuesdays with Maury connection. I mean, if you establish the
<v Speaker 2>world and the story and the characters enough and the theme,
<v Speaker 2>as I said earlier, then having Mitch album and it's like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>it's Tuesdays with Maury. But yeah, you have to you
<v Speaker 2>have to make the assumption that the audience doesn't know
<v Speaker 2>what you're talking about. Yeah, you have to start each
<v Speaker 2>story with a clean slate.
<v Speaker 3>And they didn't always do that, But as we were
<v Speaker 3>saying at the start of this, they were very, very
<v Speaker 3>picky with what they selected when it came to references
<v Speaker 3>from pop culture. Sure, and or they do it in
<v Speaker 3>a way where it wasn't the episode didn't succumb to it.
<v Speaker 3>It was just something that happened and it was so
<v Speaker 3>off kill to that you went, Okate, I don't know
<v Speaker 3>what that was, but it's obviously something.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the references tend to be like lovely little sprinkles
<v Speaker 2>on top of a beautiful ice cream Sunday, And sometimes
<v Speaker 2>you'd get like, when I meant these sprinkles are third flavored,
<v Speaker 2>like at the end of the Mystery X episode where
<v Speaker 2>they reference the prisoner, Like, I imagine a lot of people,
<v Speaker 2>as we talked about in our interview, I think with Bill,
<v Speaker 2>what's this? I think that might have been the start
<v Speaker 2>of not the rot, but so like, you need to
<v Speaker 2>be a bit more careful with your choices.
<v Speaker 3>Well, it's just episodes of so many characters doing things
<v Speaker 3>that don't fit their characters anymore. As I said, jokes
<v Speaker 3>assigned the characters, opposed to characters assigned to jokes instead
<v Speaker 3>of jokes assigned to characters.
<v Speaker 2>What do we learn? What did you learn from the episode?
<v Speaker 2>As of Davis and I can't believe anyone would choose
<v Speaker 2>Neo Bob over Afro Cuban Jazz. Come on, man, what
<v Speaker 2>are we even doing it? I thought Fusion was your favorite.
<v Speaker 3>Fusion is my favorite, yes, but Neo Bob Come on man.
<v Speaker 3>I learned to never trust anyone who shows an interest
<v Speaker 3>in you.
<v Speaker 2>In more ways than one. Looking at you, Greg Taylor,
<v Speaker 2>we trusted you from forward. Your name will be.
<v Speaker 3>It is time for the Guy Davis new Nan Championship
<v Speaker 3>for Thursdays with ab. The current leader board stands at
<v Speaker 3>this in first position we have Philip J. Hawkins on
<v Speaker 3>twelve points, In second position Kyl Muldoon, I'm nine, and
<v Speaker 3>in third we have Adam Moorehouse on seven.
<v Speaker 2>Take it away. It feels like ages as we've heard
<v Speaker 2>those names. Oh, I bet they all been sort of
<v Speaker 2>way oh am, I gonna pull ahead this time. Let's
<v Speaker 2>find out. I'll find out if you can catch up
<v Speaker 2>to Philip J. Indeed, one point goes to a murder
<v Speaker 2>on the boring a gent express that.
<v Speaker 3>Is Mike Salted with the one point there puts him
<v Speaker 3>on six world on Mike.
<v Speaker 2>Nice work, salty two points for old news. What's Philip J? Got?
<v Speaker 3>The two pointer of there puts him back on fourteen.
<v Speaker 3>Can clever Kyle get the three pointer and clawback at
<v Speaker 3>that one point?
<v Speaker 2>Let's see, Well who gave us story board with B
<v Speaker 2>O E D. That's a Norm McDonald style joke there
<v Speaker 2>that said.
<v Speaker 3>Pretty clever title, I must say so, a very very
<v Speaker 3>clever title. Indeed, it is Jet Gurdham.
<v Speaker 2>You look what you did this?
<v Speaker 3>Yes, Jack Gerda with his first points of the season,
<v Speaker 3>I believe three points one on Jet Jet woo. That
<v Speaker 3>was so funny that came on the car radio. Just
<v Speaker 3>I'm looking around to play this the other day and
<v Speaker 3>Ali it's like, did he made this song for Jet?
<v Speaker 3>And I'm like, yes, yes he did. I'm like, you're seven,
<v Speaker 3>you can just believe this shit. And now it's like
<v Speaker 3>it's a song for Jet and that they love it. Now,
<v Speaker 3>Really that's good Jet, that's good parenting. So that means
<v Speaker 3>that the current leader board has not changed. It is
<v Speaker 3>still Philip J. Hawkins in first position, now five points
<v Speaker 3>ahead of second on fourteen points. Wow, Clever Kyle's on
<v Speaker 3>nine and Adam Wolhouse in third on seven points. Thank
<v Speaker 3>you guys for all of your new names there. Remember
<v Speaker 3>before to be part of the Guy Davis New Name Championship,
<v Speaker 3>got to be supported of ours. On Patreon you find
<v Speaker 3>link Fallett in the description of this podcast. The next
<v Speaker 3>season twenty one episode shall be Once upon a Time
<v Speaker 3>in Springfield, which we all are well aware I enjoyed
<v Speaker 3>and Guy did not or did I tune in? Tune
<v Speaker 3>into find out. Plenty more classic reviews coming up as
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<v Speaker 3>for those incredible listeners out there.
<v Speaker 2>Hey yourself