See Homer Run (S17E06)

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of The Simpsons. It's episode gab F two one. It's See Homer Run.
I am Dando, I am Guy and yes, welcome to the podcast
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a couple off days there, but I am told by people who run on
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once in a while. But I am semi committed to dragging these old bones
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today we're here to discuss see Homer run an episode that I don't really think
knew what it was. It was like, it was a Homer and Lisa
story. You know, we've had them before. You know, it's somewhat
of a different spin here. And then about two thirds of the way through
it, they're like, hey, politics. I was like, okay,
cool to bath him. And I was like, for me, when when
The Simpsons does a political story, I feel like, to ensure you don't
look well, come across like you're sitting on one side of the fence more
than the other, you need to dedicate the whole episode to it, not
just cramming into the final act of the episode. I think the other thing
when you're doing a political episode on The Simpsons is you've got to be kind
of wishy washy. Yeah, you're right. This had a lot of splenders
on his bump. For by sitting on the fence, I mean basically saying
I don't know, politics is bad. It becomes a bit of a circus.
You know, people are going to be distracted by bells and whistles or
in this case, a salamander costume. I'm not really saying anything all that
incisive or insightful about the political process. Um Dan I put it out here.
He didn't know. He thought this was an episode that didn't know what
it was. I knew what this episode was. It was twenty two minutes
of a sucky character that sucks. That's what it was. Getting more and
more infuriated and disenchanted with Homer as the years go by, as the weeks
go by, as the episodes go by, I've got to say, I
mean this was just kind of infuriating, kind of upsetting, kind of just
like, why, what's the points of this guy? Yeah? The thing
is that, and I know the people who run the show now say every
episode's in its own vacum. You're not supposed to compare it to the Golden
Near. Blah blah blah, that decide. It's hard to do that when
you're grown up on the show, right, it's the same show. You
can't just all of a sudden go, okay, we've got to forget that
everything that's come beforehand for the sake of comedy. Even if we do do
that, they've just made home of this character where in this episode he is
They tried to make it like he was ignorant in the way he was being
mean to Lisa, But how dumb you have to be to realize that your
daughter is so sad that you didn't like her thing. And then like moments
later, once he's had time to think about it, he still says,
why is she upset? It's my day? I'm like, really, that's
how you followed up the moment with getting sad about the photo, Like that's
just it's just douchebag, man. It's just it's like, even if he's
not mean to be a douchebag, he's a douchebag. Don't it really is?
It really is the case? And I know, look, they've racked
up hundreds of episodes by this time, and yeah, it's difficult to I
don't know, find that freshness still. But at the same time, I
mean, I think there are ways to explore the fact that you know,
as a parent, you may have inadvertently or or just through ignorance or shi
pigheadedness or whatever, hurt your child's feelings or disregard them or whatever. I
think there are all ways to do that that don't necessarily beat you over the
head by with how yeah, how much of a douchebag your your main character
is? I mean, I think it's detrimental to the show in the long
run. I think this is, you know, a prime example of why
people were starting to say, there's the Simpsons sort of passed its prime,
you know at this stage. I think it would have been a nice direction
for this episode, considering they brought the politics into it, right, And
I'm not sure whether they were hinting at this at the moment, but when
Lisa says, you know, you should go for Mayor because then good people
like me could tell you what to do, I think it would have been
an interesting spin to say, Lisa, she doesn't necessarily respect Homer now,
but she can see his popularity as the salamander, right, and she thinks,
Okay, how can I manipulate the system so that I'm essentially the mayor
of Springfield. I think it would get a really good idea you get started
earlier, started that segment, like the beginning of Act two with the politics
right, then Lisa essentially becomes the mayor of Springfield through Homer. That would
have been a more fun story, I think, yeah, And I mean
it'd be interesting if you know, I mean, Lisa's smart, of course,
but she's still a child, still immature in a lot of ways,
gets corrupted by power and Homer, who's essentially good at heart, even though
you know they're doing their damners to make sure that we don't see that helps
her see the error of her ways by you know, I mean, Homer,
for all his faults, is fairly innocent to naive. Yeah, and
then then then you would get an ending where the emotional oh, we love
you love each other would have felt earned because they've both done something wrong and
they've both loved each other. But I mean, yeah, when Homers was
saying, well, I'm gonna win back my child's love by any means necessary,
it's like, does this ever work in any realm of the multiverse where
the rats you know? Geelong in twenty twenty three or Springfield in whenever in
the fictional realm never, and we've already had that I'm gonna win back it
in the what was the first episode of The Manities, I'm gonna win back
my wife's love. And I'm like, how many times you have to win
back your family's love? Yeah, before they just say no deal, Yeah,
before they start, you know, doing the big X no dace.
Yeah. So um, But yeah, I just think it would have been
really interesting to see Lisa become the mayor of Springfield through Homer and everyone angry
at Homer, but then him coping the hop cop in the heat for Lisa.
Well, let's it'd be a nice sort of reversal on the on the
American Idol episode where Homely begames like the Colonel Tom Parker character and manipulating Lisa
and all that kind of business. And yeah, they'd be kind of a
nice callback, kind of a nice echo. I mean thematically, I think
it could kind of work. Yeah, but no, they did not do
that. Now I'm sorry. I mean it looks easy for us in our
lavish recording studios and beautiful down down Gelong as Count Basie licks his balls in
the background to be thrown down potshots at Simpson's HQ thing. You know,
they've got enough on their plate, and you know, hindsight is of course
twenty twenty. But yeah, looking at this episode was like, there are
so many ways, big and small, this could have been done a bit
better. I mean, one note I've taken here. I mean this is
only slightly related to what I'm talking about. But you know, there's a
bit with Lisa's Janey's dad takes her, takes her to the zoo every week,
and I was like, I want good at the zoo anymore, and
Lesa go, yeah, that's right. Not to be all classic Simpsons would
have done it this way, but classic Simpsons would have done it this way.
You know, they would have thrown a nice little sort of flashback or
throwaway gag of like Homer doing something ridiculous, like a three second bit,
and you probably wouldn't that's notice. Oh that's a about that, And then
Simpsons fans forevermore would have been re enacting that moment at the actual zoo when
they go visit the zoo. Yeah, yeah, but that's not what we
got. No, that's not what we got. No, so it wasn't
a bad episode. It was just an episode where I sort of went,
ah, don't really just a little bit more thought went into this, and
it's as he said, it's easier to sit back in our chairs twenty years
later. And you know, we weren't paid to write this, so you
know, all credits then they were paid to write this episode. But who
did write this? Let's have a quick look. By the way, I
believe it was a woman who wrote this one. Yeah, Stephanie Gillis and
Nancy Cruz directed it. So all female cast, ye, all female,
not cast, but you know, all female people behind the scenes. So
I think it's important that you do probably have a female sort of head behind
a mind behind the When it's a Lisa based episode, I think it's more
important. But yeah, it just didn't really didn't quite hit the mark for
me. Yeah, I mean, all the stuff about Lisa flipping out in
the playground. You know, she's clearly reached reached a boiling point and she's
taking out of frustrations on all one Sundry. Everything she's saying is valid.
The way she's sang it feels kind of a bit clunky and a bit sort
of obvious, although you know this one was twenty years ago, and I'm
sorry, it's half of me to concentrate, by the way, when you've
got a cat just having the time of his life in the background, that
it's awesome. I just like watching the cat. She's prancing around, licking
his balls, scrashing around. I don't know if we're going to keep this.
The thing of it is, yeah. Listeners of the show may have
heard the story that the Lovely Louise, the Wonderful Louise recently got a new
couch. I inherited her wonderful couch, got rid of my couch. Now
I put my old couch on Geelong Marketplace on Facebook twenty five bucks for a
freedom. Couch has been ripped a ship by a cat. But know you're
in stains, come get it. Some guys not playing me. But he's
like, oh you'm interested in then, I'm like, you're gonna come and
get this? Oh yeah, we're I'm here. I haven't heard himhim since.
Eventually I'm gonna have to put this thing out on the ad on the
Nature strip. But right now it is in pieces around the house and count
Basie the cat is like cool things for me to climb and scratch part of
it in the recording studio. And he's up there right now, as Dan
I said, having the time of his life. I'm not sure if you
can pick up the fact that you can hear his claws that are ripping in
the fabric um. The value of this count just going down down, down
by by the second. So yeah, eventually come by Hernhill and you may
find a couch on the on the nature strip could well be yours if you've
got the means to take it away. Hey, my favorite. All right,
what did you enjoy from this episode? Mister Davis? As we all
know, I'm a I'm a Quimby man. I vote one Quimby, So
anytime that he's on and any time that he is just contemptuous of his electorate,
I'm all for it. So I was happy to see him and essentially
say, okay, so I snakduf doubler on that's great. I'm also great
to see you know his I guess, mistress, you know what I'm sure
we've seen, miss Quimby. You mean he's actual, I mean he's he's
dumb wife or dumb girlf an. I mean, what do you mean,
yeah, we have left up her name before we continue. I'll find it
again, but yeah, continue. I'm always happy to see her. And
you know an acknowledgement that her voice is kind of silk. Well, I
think she doesn't have a problem with her speaking voice. She does have a
problem with her singing voice because people think it's dumb. I don't know.
I enjoy her, so I was happy to see her make an appearance.
But I can't find no anytime Quimby is just launding his power and lauding it
over the people of Springville. It puts a smile on my dad. So
it's very happy to see Quimby when Quimby. Here's the thing, right,
the episode couldn't even give us a Quimby victory speech of any kind. It's
just like, oh, yeah, and he got in, he got re
left it in. I'm like, he didn't even show him. He could
have been sort of say fuck you guys, I'm back in or something,
you know, like didn't what he had, like the sign above him when
you could see it in the background, when Ken Brockman was, you know,
reporting that he was back in power or something. I forgot I should
have written it down because there's something something like God, nope, change is
bad, something along those lines to look no, that's not untrue. I
didn't enjoy it as much as Hummer was a dick in this. I did
enjoy because this is something that wasn't necessarily Humble's fault. It wasn't. It
wasn't because we all somehow you know, have bad memories from times the time.
But lousy magnet and turn out to be heavy birthday from Lisa. I
was, oh, that's a funny video, like nothing's going right. Also
enjoyed. Really is quick thinking when he breaks the window, just tries to
wipe nothing. I watched it. I'm like, so this is even a
WILLI maybe the guy I could enjoy. I'm not one anti willyum okay,
feel going to take that out of contact, especially when you car pooling.
But yeah, you're right, that was it. That was a good money.
It's a very it's a very sharp thinking on not on Willy's part.
Yes, making sure that window looked, yes, sparkly clean, but it's
not even there. And I'm always a sucker for an every man for himself
moment, right, I just love that every man for himself. But to
back it up with trampel. If you must any more brain busters, it
is time for this week's blockbuster. Brainbuster, mister Davis in this episode November
twentieth and two thousand and five, What do you think was number one at
the US box office? November twenty, two thousand and five, still though,
and number third position? We had it on the last episode. Chicken
Little still up down the top three, number three, Chicken Little number one
and number two. What do you reckon it is? I'm gonna need just
a little hint, just a tiny hint. It's based on a novel that
was released in the year two thousand. That's that's no hint at all.
Well, it's an adaptation of the film book released. Hang on, we're
talking end of the year in the early two thousands and books. M hm,
Now I take it back. You know, it's like, oh,
there are a lot of books releasing. There was really only one name that
you were thinking of. It was Harry Pottery, which one? But but
which one? So let's see. The third was in the fourth or the
fifth. So it's not Chamber of Secrets, not as caban, is it
Goblet of Fire? Correct? What on Goblet of fire. Oh there we
go. We took the took the scenic rand to get there. And the
second one has had a comedy spoof film release since then. That stars your
man John c Riley. Oh um, it's a hello, I'm Johnny Cash.
And this is Walked Alone, Walk the Line. Let's Walked the Line,
which was massive when it first came out. I remember, like Waking
in Phoenix, wasn't it. He was like it was why the posted boy
of Hollywood. When that movie came out, everyone loved it. Yeah.
Yeah, it's a pretty good movie. Walk the Line. I mean,
it's I love walk Hard the one that the one that sort of takes the
piss out of it and you know Ray about Ray Charles and it takes bess
out of all the music buyer picks. But it seemingly really took the took
the mickey out a Walk the Line, which is the same. It sort
of has diminished Walk the Line's impact since then, but it's a really solid,
really solid biography of a really of a really interesting dude. As well.
It's a great performance by Waking, a pretty good one by Reese Witherspoon
as well as June Carter Cash. I mean I can see why people take
the mickey out of though, because it actually does have people sort of like
saying the lines of songs in like actual conversations, like you know, you've
got Reese with a spoon saying to Johnny Cave you can't walk no lane.
What does they even mean? It's a hot SLAMI man, I got a
ring of fire. Next question, you there eating the past, mister Davis.
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h um. The pipe cleaner that Lisa I think bought in the end,
it came from where I do you have my notes? I won't check.
I can't mean by the looking it's something like do it yourself, your lazy
ass or something. Oh, it came from that shop. Pipe cleaner itself
came from No, I don't know what was. It came from Zemzibar.
And my final question is who paid for Jimbo's campaign ad bullies of people bullied
by Jimbo, the victor, the victims of jim bar that's that's that's funny.
It's just like holding him upside down and just getting all the money out
of their pocket. Yeah, my last question to you if you want there's
a sign on the door of Cleius's truck. What does it read? What's
it saying? No idea? What does it say? Said sour Mesh Enterprises.
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Divisional air date obviously, Hammer Run was November twenty yet, two thousand and
five. Written by Stephanie Gillis and directed by Nancy Cruz, the cash Gables
Simpsons are all sitting on the couch as normal than it pans out and it's
like they're in a zoo on the alien planet Rajel seven. That's where they're
before. I believe Rachel seven, where King and Kotos are from. So
the episode kicks off with Father's Day Eve, and I will say Lisa was
a bit of a party poopy here. I'm like, motherfuck, we want
to celebrate Father's Day, even let us celebrate my Father's Day, sort of
real thing in your world. You're not a father. I can understand you
feeling like this, dandy, I mean hopefully you know every day is treated
as a Daddy's day. It's at the Dando household. You imagine it would.
I mean, I've I've dropped around to your place and seeing how the
kids just worship you. So yeah, i'd be I'd be surprised if they
don't. Guys coming around. Make sure you're appreciating me. I appreciate Uncle.
God no, don't let him in. But but yeah, so I
hope it's just having a having a nice time celebrating Father's Day, which is
going to be tomorrow. Marches are going to the mall and can I come
with it? I know I can't. There is something exciting, you know,
it's tanging cheek, you know, Nicholas close to Christmas, close to
the birthday, Nicholas like, I think got to the shop. I'm like,
okay, you can't come. I have to get something wink. So
it's always a big fan you have with you, with your partner or whatever.
But but one's money to buy a gift. This was an epic burn.
By the way, You've got to give bart this. That's true.
Hey, mom, can I have some money to buy dad at present?
If I give your money, how is the gift really from you? Where
do you get your money? Here's a ten make your own card. So
we're now at the mall and the sign that the front says asking about our
stepdad discounts. So you you're not technically a stepdad, but you are,
Like do you see yourself as a stepdad or do you see yourself as just
the guy that your mom seeing. I'm definitely my mom's boyfriend. Yeah,
I'm Russell. For a South Park reference there, it was Russell, right,
that was Russell whom ye stuff? But you're not You're not, you
know, telling the kids are go out and chop Wood are No I am
I am reaching the stage or I have Rechel sage. It's like, man,
don't talk to him. I'm like that how do they how do they
respond to that? When you were you telling them what to do? You're
not my real dad. Have you had that yet? I haven't had that.
Okay, they're probably too old for that, maybe think so. Yeah,
And if they did, I'd be Oh, it's like you can see
his heartbreak in real time. Uh No, I have not. But no,
they haven't been like that yet. Ralph, he's turned Wigham's five into
a fifty and then he puts one hundred because his kids paying out. I
thought that this guy didn't work though, because the joke was that he stuck
his hand in his throat and pulled the fifty back out, and he puts
the hundred in and waits for Ralph to spit up the next man. I
was like, but shouldn't he be what? Huh? We know we have
dumb characters on The Simpsons, but often they're dumb for other reasons than being
dumb, if you know what I mean. They're sort of blinded by like
like greed or a sense of their own importance or something like that. I
mean, we've said this before, even you know Ralph back in the day,
you know, before he became like an absolute simpleton. He was more
sort of naive and stupid, and that was kind of funny. Naive was
naive, yeah, yeah, yeah, And but now they're just kind of
it's like there's no one with a every every character in Springfield has got to
double the JEDIKEA. Well, yeah, that's true. There's too many.
Yeah, because he was not the he was the like the dumb character,
as you put it right, the nice one, like the dumb character.
But now everyone's just got the IQ of Ralph. It's like, but if
they if they need them too for the sake of a joke, you know,
yeah, exactly. Yeah. Bart then sees the Leather Buddy and Lisa
has the Shrek shirt and I was like, I totally want that Shrek shirt.
It would fit right in with the with the Dando line. Yes,
I'll always sing the praise of Shrek. I love Shrek, and the kids
love Shrek. But Shrek, like Shrek one and two, Shrek three,
it's just kind of like, yeah, I'm sure, really sure you're going
for here Shrek four. I'm like, what is this? I think I
think I kind of lost track of what they would do. I mean after
Shrek two, Yeah, I mean Shrek two is the one with puts some
boots, right, that's where the first was introduced. Yeah, Shrek two
is where he the fairy Godmother and things like that. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah, but I don't really remember. It's Shrek three, the one
with Prince Charming with timber Lakers, Prince Sharman, Shrek Forever after. No.
I think Shrek three is where, yeah you get them the Prince Charming.
Yeah. Okay, have you have you seen the new Puss in boots?
No? I haven't. Apparently it's really good. Okay, yeah,
he surprised me. Was a good character, and it's Antonio Vanderis. Oh
yeah, that was That was the main thing I liked about the Shrek Rancher
Puss in body that then he got his own movie, and I remember everyone
just loving the sad eyes moment. I was like, yeah, the Big
Kittie AE like that. Yeah, apparently the yeah, the Last Wish or
whatever it's called. It's like, no, it's like a really good store
and the animation is fantastic, and the villain is actually like villainous. Oh
sweet. There's rumors of there's rumors of a Shrek five coming out, which
you know, I will go and see. I wouldn't be surprised. I
mean, I wouldn't put it past them. And in all honesty, I
look, I think enough time has passed. Start going, Hey, Shrek
like Shrek track. A couple of movies weren't that great, but track track.
I think if you just sort of somehow it changed the timeline, so
it just sort of it's like a follow off to number two and just pretend
to number three and before never really happened. I think you can sort of
work a way around that. That'd be cool and sort of go back to
go back to the swamp and just go back to what everyone enjoyed, pretting
fare quard back true. Yes, anyway, all these people are still alive,
by the way, exactly, Yeah, capitalize on that. I completely
agree. But Uma Lisa says she's not going to get this shirt. She's
gonna make him something, you know, something with heart, making him a
present, which I thought was quite nice. And she goes with the shove
go do it yourself, your lazy ass, and she gets the what does
she get again? The it's a pipe cleaner. Pipe cleaner, that's right,
Yes, from Zanzibar home is now getting breakfast in bed. I don't
really, I'm not a fan of breakfast in bed because I just want crumbs
in my blankets. I can dig it. Yeah, I'm not. I'm
not a fan of Like here's a tree with some pancakes and a glass range.
Like. No, if I'm having breakfast in bed, oh, usually
his two slices of toast and a cup coffee, I'm gonna put him on
on the bedside table. Occasionally I'll grab a but yeah, take a bit
of toast. But then you gotta shake out your doner and all that shit.
No, I mean eating a whole meal in bit. I'm just no,
I'm not for it. It's like, don't shit where you sleep,
and don't eat we you sleep. This is news to me. I don't
eat your ship. I gotta go change my sheets, and don't shop where
you eat. Um. But so how it gets the leather butty and he's
a big fan of it. He has the vision of him stopping pirates and
whatnot. A Lisa gives him the Unicorn book just kind of hot as the
pirate winch. Yes, she has the bosoms all pushed up and all.
And Lisa gives home of the Unicorn book that she drew herself. Would you
got Lisa? Hell, it's the unicorns? Are you and me? Dad?
I do it myself? What do you think? Huh huh? Pretty
high found huh huh oh, which heart felt hers No escaping dead? Thank
you didn't like it? Did you? No? No, No, it's
great. I'm done with it now. Her saying you know, pretty half,
pretty half felt like she's she's nervous that he's not going to like it.
We've all had that moment where you give somebody a present which you put
a lot of thought into and you just hope that they understand and appreciate that,
and when they don't, it's just like, no, Yeah, you're
both you're both disappointed in them for not seeing how much it meant, but
you're also disappointed yourself. A thing, Oh I missed the mark on this
one. Yeah, And he's sort of like somewhat embarrassed and Lisa can't believe
it here because he sort of just tosses it aside. And I was like,
this is just like, arguably the meanness he's been as a dad,
Homer, He's done cruel things, you know, He's choked his kids,
and he's been he said rude things. But I guess just as a father,
now look at this, and I was like, man, you imagine
put yourself back and you've eight year old shoes and you've made something for your
dad for Father's Day and he just tosses it aside. I'm done with it
now, fuck you man. Yeah that kind of sucks. Man, That's
what I've written down. Yeah, not good at all. And mar she
just they put it on the fridge and this wasn't his fault where it goes
into the water and gets all turned into paper mache essentially because the magnet doesn't
work. But still I'm just like, yeah, not not great. Lisa
sat on the swing a little bit later, and Homer still says here like,
as I said, he doesn't get it. You know, it's my
day. Why is she sad? It's like, man, don't stop sucking.
It's just leave it at the at the at the fridge moment. You
don't have to reinforce that this guy is not a nice person anymore. That's
a difference between not understanding Lisa's at Lisa's efforts and just being a dickhead and
saying, oh, it's my day. Why how dares she feels sad about
what happened, but you know he and then he says, yeah, I
know how to win movement back because I lost your wedding album. I mean,
seeing Moe put photos of himself in the wedding album. That's fine,
it's it works for the most character it's in keeping. Yeah, yeah,
but I don't know, it just makes homement sound seem more dickhead. Anyway,
when you get Bart and he finds the Bart Boulevards sign, this doesn't
go anywhere. Oh no, actually I told it causes the accident, cause
of the accident, but that after that moment, like I thought maybe Bart
was going to become a Clapte or something. Also Bart Boulevards, I don't
know. I mean, I would have liked some explanation as to why they
was called bart Boulevard or maybe it was called like Barton Boulevard in his home
and yeah, close enough and takes it from there. But it's just been
called Bart Bull. Sorry, that's just that's a really tiny knit. But
I'm searching really close and kind of picked. I mean, I pitched,
I've pitched the sign, I stole Dando Road. I've still got that sign.
Yeah, because you know the where the Avalon air show is here and
here in Jolie an avalond that we we my family used to own the land.
That sign. That's why you turned down Dando Road to get there where
the airport is. Well, I would, but there's no sign that just
laws, always paths and nighway all the time. That's why. That's why
those that crash the ash the bullies tell the bullies tell Bart too, I'm
just still sign is able to if it says so in the sixth moment,
they can't do anything about it. And then because they realize they're good at
pressure, don't they caused Millhouse to be hit by a train and I was
assooming dead because he hit by No, he just breaks an arm apparently,
and then dolphins off to Hebrew School. Homer is now taking listen to see
a movie. We took the kids to see a film on the on Saturday
at the kids Cinema Vie Junior. We took They were just putting Frozen on
right. It was a John Wick chapter four. No, it was Forevermore.
But we went to the to the screening of Frozen. And normally we
go to these things and you know, it's quite quiet, not not quiet,
but you know, there aren't many kids in there. You know,
it's sort of just like, you know, maybe twenty kids. This was
fucking packed. We rocked up all these kids, these girls and frozen dresses,
and I'm like, oh no, and it gets no ship like plfing
down to the movie and every parent in there. Nicola was livid, right,
I was furious. Basically parents had taken their kids there. I'm all
for kids having a good time, right and just you know, you know,
it might might be go down the front and have a bit of a
dance or whatever the songs, or you know, muck around. There's a
slide there from to play on and some drawings and things like that. But
they take a break halfway through, at the halfway mark, for twenty minutes
for kids to have a play, right, to get their energy out and
go back, sit down and shut the fuck up washing the movie again.
I don't care if kids are talking or whatever, but these parents just sat
there on their phones legitimately on like Facebook and stuff, whilst their kids are
running up and down the aisles and they're hitting the screen and they're climbed over
the barricade they're climbing up and down the slide, not in the slide,
up on top of the slide, jumping up and down on things, throwing
food around, and the parents are doing nothing, like nothing that's like them.
It's like, if you just want to go somewhere where you kids can
suck around and go to a cafe, and I'm playing the playground, don't
bring onto a fucking move where people are paid money to watch the movie.
And God bless them, Alliott and Holly sat there the whole time, didn't
say fucking boo. I mean, the handcuffs helped, but they didn't move
at all. Right, But I was really proud of them. But there's
one point where I said there there was a woman behind me. I knew
it was her sons that were climbing up and down the slide, and I
was like, it's Nicola. That's the I'm getting the workers because there's no
workers in there. I'm like, what's going on here? Like how can
they have no staff? And the kids cinema? So I get out there
and the ticket guys in. I said to him, can we have a
member of staff? And here he goes, yeah, there should be three
girls and now. I was like, there's no one in the mate and
kids are climbing up and down the slides, and it's this chaos. Against
said, you can have a lawsuit in the hand soon if someone falls off
and hurt themselves and he runs off and he comes back and there's six workers
walked in with torches. It was just like the FBI. Down, down,
down down. But then the woman behind me just sits there and goes
Jesus, they're just trying to have fun. I was like, oh,
I hate you as a parent. I hate parents like this. Just if
your kids can't sit still for fucking five minutes, don't bring him to the
movies. You know what I mean, Go to a play center and let
them run wild. Don't bring them to the movies if they can't sit still
for ten minutes. I hope you. Or Nicolas saying let us go,
let us go. At one point of the Nicola do want we shouldn't have
come here and there at all? Well, I said, nickeodoas go time,
don't She's like, no, we've paid nobod because it cost us like
fifteen dollars a ticket. I'm like, we'll drop sixty bucks on this and
I'm thinking the chick behind us, his son's ropping down. She had six
kids with her. I'm like, so you've dropped like ninety bucks and you're
just letting her. I don't want to think about it. Fucking kids,
man. Oh Jesus Christ, where were we up to? What made me
think about that? Other movies? Movies? Yes, Home has taken her
to see Princess rock Star, but she leaves because he tries to make her
potential. She's a two year old or whatever. She's embarrassed by this Barton
showing off the sign to the bullies and they say, well, well one
up you and will show you the screen. Then Lisa here, she takes
her anger ahead on Martin's. Apparently she now hates all males, she hates
men. She's become a feminist essentially. I'm not a feminist, but she
know she just doesn't have any faith in the in the men. Stupid dad
didn't care about my feelings. Oh, Lisa, Yeah, I borrow one
of your colored pencils. Sure, that's all your men do is take and
take and take without regard to feelings or unicorn here take my link too,
don't take my whole back back which of you boys hur old Lisa Simpson's backpack
through my window? Oh it had to be a boy, did it give
a girl? Can't flip that? Well, you're wrong, my flexy cast,
Lisa, I hold in my hand a sticker with a frowny face on
it. Don't make me affix it to your file. Don't make me affix
it to your file. I'm peeling off the back. Don't make me do
this. May God forgive me the whole thing with a friend. It's drawn
out too much as well. I'm I'm feeling it off. Don't make me
do it. It makes sense to me in a sense that the skinny character
like Lisa's, like he stopped student, he doesn't want because once it's on
the record, it's on the record forever. He can't take stickers off.
My stickers. Don't peel off, That is true. It's prevent a record.
We come back and Willie is replacing the window, but then unfortunately breaks
it again himself by accident, and Homer and Marger and Skinner's officer having a
meeting, and we get the return of doctor Pryor, who did make a
slight appearance in the flashback episode. Lisa Sacks, but this is the first
prominent role he's had on the show since season one with Barte. Come back,
Jay, Lauren Pryor, you have been missed. Yes. I like
the way they had him hiding in the shadows as well, waiting for his
turn to come out, because he's just been gone. And I like the
character. I thought they should have had more of him. It's a wonder
why he took sixteen years to return, like he was clearly going to be
a major character. You would think he was quite He was in a couple
of season one episodes, but then he just gone. It was weird.
Beats me. Yeah, well, maybe I might even be in season two,
but gets an Now, I don't even he was in the earlier seasons.
Anyway, everyone knows the doctor Pryor is if you're a long time since
Hiss fan. But he points out to to margin Homer that Lisa needs a
positive male role model in her life or she could end up hating men for
the rest of her life. And I thought, oh Jesus, it's a
bit heavy. So, you know, then suggest that Homer becomes the safety
salamander so that Lisa would respect him again. I'm like, okay, because
anyone ever respected the person in the in the safety mascot costume. Yeah,
I'm not too sure, but just to me that I watched it and I
went, we've kind of done Homer on the safety thing with the Remember the
episode was it like episode three? Was home? Was it? What was
it called? Wasn't Home as Odyssey? Was it? Yeah? What was
Home as Odyssey? That Episodehere he tries to kill himself and then you get
the safety inspector. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's how he
becomes the safety inspector. He actually puts all signs around the springfield and stuff.
Yeah, but yeah, but this is certainly not the first time we've
seen Homer in some position of quasi authority and I don't know, entering it
with the best of intentions, but usually buggering it up. But his motive
for doing so was like, people will respect me and love me as a
result of this, I think this episode totally should have just started right with.
No. Not Homer doesn't do anything as bad as he does in this
episode, but it does something to upset Lisa. That's something like school,
family embarrasses her or something. I Dad, you so embarrassing? And then
Skinner says, you know, you know, whin the chance to be the
safety Salamander or something like that, whin the costume or whatever, and then
Homemade becomes that at the start of the episode, and then start the politics
side of thing early on and have Lisa go, how can I use this?
Well, yeah, he's sort of he's reluctantly drawn into it, Like
you get to be safety Salamander for a day, it's like a great due.
But then something like the accident that happens here happens. He becomes an
indivertent hero and yeah, parlays that into into a higher public profile or a
be little position. Yeah, I just felt it was such a drawn out
way to get to where they got to in the end. But anyway,
so he shows off the suit to Lisa. Essentially, he's just not very
good at the job. He's causing a destruction online on the way to school,
knocking things off with his tail and things like that. And then he's
on the school bus and he tells Otto to slam the brakes because there's no
seat belts and causes the kids to or chip their teeth, a gag which
you've already had on the undertooth chipper when we're at there at the fair safety
chip, No, do you know always double bolt your like huh? Questions
comments are you a girl? Because I don't see a salad wiener? I
here? Where are the fireworks? Got here? Darts? There's one way
to get kid's attention. It's just it's fireworks on a light show. Great
adults. What is that fascination with sparklers and things like that? I don't
know, Like even if a birthday cake you put a sparkler on, it's
like, oh, sparklers, this occasion just got specialized. Problem is,
though, I would never put sparklers on my kids birthday cakes though, because
you can't. You can't blow them out and be they they take longer than
to fizzle out, and they want takes to see to have your birthday song.
So you see the read this song and they's still going. Everyone's like,
do we clap? Do we have to wait? What do we do?
Do we have to do six hip hip rays this episode? Do we
have to do that that dumb ass thing where you know, whoever all day
are you sort of go clap clap, clap, clap clap. You know
what's the clap clap thing. What's that? Have you ever been to?
You know, like, there'll be a kid's birthday party. It's like they're
twelve years old, so you go one, two, three, four,
five, six seven. I've never in my life ever ever ever done that.
It's a relatively new thing to me as well. But I saw it
at a birthday party not long ago for a child, and I'm like,
this is new and kind of stupid. It just seems are approve. No,
just just blow you James over the cake and get on with it,
can't you. There were that many candles on the cake. We know how
old you want? Well, what's a birthday party? A couple of weeks
ago? And the mother we're not invited to birthday. The mother cut up
the cake right and she sort of grabbed it and one of the husband was
like, don't pick the pieces up with your hands, and I'm like,
mate, the kid just blew his bookers and it's not stop, but he's
he's spit all over the cake. I don't think anyone cares. COVID is
still real, dude, Yeah, and their kids it's cake. You could
wipe dog shit and they'll still eat it. It's cake. But yes,
so Homer's um, yes, he's not not doing too while he sets the
fireworks off and causes a massive fire and everyone everyone from himself trampol review mustart.
I'd kick out of that, trampol Liview must shout at least, and
then suggests that you know why game does be you know a father like Janey's
dad, just take me to the zoo once a month. You don't have
to go over over the top like this. She's like somewhat embarrassed by Homer
here. And then we get the massive accident that's caused by no barts On
at the clearest moment but her giving birth, none of the kid whatever.
Um, but yeah, massive car accidents occurred. Even the police helicopter has
fallen down and crash. And then we get the news report. It's live
broadcast with the news report by Brockman. Here Springfield needs a hero, and
of course Homers a dad trying to win back his daughter's love. So he
goes or and he says everyone including Drederick Tatum going Smithers, were sneaking a
bit of a gay joke here with them only car pulling. And then Nelson,
which I thought felt this felt if you fit the Nelson character. My
mom's still in there, which is a perfect joke to make. But I
can buy Nelson making it just for the haha pranking in the middle of like
a twelve car pile up. Yeah, and then Homer wants six cheers instead
of the three cheers, and then he gets given the key card to the
city by me Quimby. As a result, at least he gets me the
thumbs up. She's proud of him now. But then, but then episode
becomes a political story. Now any new business, mister mayor, Your administration
has been one fiasco after another. Oh the hell are you your press secretary?
I knew I should have hired my nephew. I am your nephew.
Okay, so I stink tough toblerone read the charter, people, I cannot
be removed from office except by a simple recall election. And disregard that last
part. I was really let down by the appearance of Freddy Quimby here.
Oh yeah, we love the pompous Freddy Quimby. That's what we loved about
him. You know, you know chowder, I said, chatter, sad
French air, sad chadder. That's what makes that character so great the obnoxiousness
of it. Right, I don't want Freddy Quimby to be a goody two
shoes straightening up and flying right. No, no, you just love Quby
brand. Yeah, I just I don't know, I know not trying here
for me. It didn't work. I'm like, I don't want this Freddy
Quimby. I wan Freddy Quimby to be the prick. That's what's so great
about him. That correct, I just somebody just spiked the punch. But
Quimby, he says, he can't be removed except if if you recall election
and forget about what would have said. And now if one did, we
get the recall, recall if one wants to recall. So if a news
report, I love the subheading, knowe that old gray mare ain't what he
used to be. And actually this would have made one of my favorite moments
because it's so ridiculous. But it just felt so on point for Quimby.
Even the fact that he tried to hijack a seven four seven Take Me Anywhere,
Girls Are Going Wild Wild it felt very two thousand and five because Girls
Gone Wild was like the pay per view thing it was, yes, but
before you know, before the Internet was a wash with pawn. Well actually
in it was a wash with porn from day one. But that's quality pawn.
That's correct. If you want to get if you were a yes,
a dude who wanted to get his kicks, so to speak. Back in
two thousand and five, you had to get a Girl's Gone Wild DVD or
log onto this side and just wait their forage as Wild went or Hijacker seven
four seven, Oh Hijacking seven four seven, the quindy start. We now
have two hundred candidates filing for the recall, including Luigi Wolfcastle, who was
just bluntantly taken off Arnosutzeggi here vaulte for me a steroid abut think pat smoking
women grouping son of a Nazi washtop has been movie star oh Old, So
I believe we should keep an open mind towards stem cell research. That was
so tough on wolf Castle. And it's funny too, because I love how
Arnold has just reinvented himself now that he's in his mid seventies, like motivational
speaking. Now he really is, I signed up for it. He's got
this thing called yeah the pump up or whatever. It is like this newsletter
that he sends out. My good buddy Ali sent me a link saying you
should check this out. It's actually really good. And we're nineties guys.
I was a little older than the Nighties, but you may remember that Arnold
was like I'm Arnold and your punye do try and take an Arnold. I
lived through the Terminator era. Yeah, yes, so you know he was
just this. It was pretty much everything they're saying here. It's funny how
kids like Elliot's age. We're just know him as like this old guy that
did motivational speakers features and it's like, yeah, no, he was.
He was. He was impresative, man, he really was. But yeah,
but he did this lovely. We may have talked about it before,
but he gave this lovely twelve minute sort of speech on YouTube and something media.
Yeah, yeah, talking about you know, some people are following Neon
Nazis, you should not do it. I mean he was actually he was
actually very softly spoken, very measured, very rational and just saying I don't
know why you're following losers. I don't want you to be a loser.
I want you to be a winner. It's like oh, he's like your
kindly uncle. It's like, I noticed, guy that you were smoking cigarettes.
It's not good for you. Maybe you should not do it. He's
become a school cancelor. He really had, but the best kind of school
games are like what do you know about it? All? Man Schwartz and
again, and then he just like arm wrestles, he on flips you into
the next state. Basically, he's saying to all these people, I'm not
judging you for doing this right, but maybe think about doing something else.
It's like he's not telling us what to do, and he's suggesting an alternative
might be better. Let's do it, and and he's using examples from his
own life. It all works. So, yes, I look at Middlely.
This was two thousand and five. Worn was probably like on the down.
Yeah, I think I think his movie career was kind of like,
it's not what it used to be, all that kind of stuff. He
was a governor at this point. Oh that's true. Yeah, but yeah,
so that we get here as well, yeahs Jimbo as well. His
campaign pay for by his victims, and Lisa suggests a homer that he should
do it because then only good people like her can tell him what to do.
And I was like, oh, okay, this is going to be
interesting. And it goes nowhere. Like Lisa says she's a campaign manager,
but you don't see her campaign at all. No. Yeah, like I
said, have her corrupted by power and her Homers say, you're a little
girl and the best little girl. You know, there's better ways to do
this or you know, admittedly we've seen that before as well, but I
don't know, it's nice to be reminded that every once in a while,
as opposed to Homers a dummy or an evil dummy, especially when he's drinking
alcohol saying expand my brain learning juice, Homers. And at the press conference
and the Lesser of twenty five Evils and marshays, you should take off the
costume. And I think you know, people would appreciate if you're talking to
a man's like, no, no, no, if people love the costume,
just like George Washington and Dame Edner. And he takes some questions and
let me asks what his special powers are as a salamander, and he gets
big lasses, big lass of tennis balls, and I was like, this
is the kind of show that guy would have seen him BALI you gotta sleep,
honey, I'm just gonna go out and check out some of the Balinese
nightlife. Yes. Brockman then brings up the choking photo because you know he's
he's running against Homer. I said, well, he says he was,
and then yeah, they never really make too much of Brockman being in the
race. Then he was hosting the debate, and I was like, beasn
he running, Like that's conflict of interest? Yeah, it's but I mean
he brings up the checking photo, and Homers like, why should we let
this, you know, this be influenced by photo taken hours ago? And
I'm like, yeah, you really just really just trying to point out how
silly politics can be at times, and how people are very easily influenced with
things. And I was now drinking at Mos and We've got the ad on
the TV from the power plant. Smith is talking about how I'm thinking,
sis, he saved you from the plank from the car crash. Why Smith's
sayings doesn't make sense? But he says they love this suit like they love
their stupid American flag. I'm like, okay, so Homer is not a
good person. Okay, we get it home is now drinking, now drinking
at night before bed, marshes what's that smell? And he vomits in his
suit and she wants to clean the suit because he's been vomiting in it and
things like that, and then she rips off the tail and a chicken runs
out and he says, that's funny because it started off as an egg.
I'm like, okay, yeah, yeah, But she turns out she does
wash the suit, but we actually see her wash the suit. No,
no, no, So I think the payoff at the end when because you
see it sort of ripping as he's flexing in the next bit of the debate
and things like that. The debate has debate. But I'm like, but
we didn't see her wash it, so like, why did this fall apart?
Is? Oh, it's fallen apart because my wife washed it. I'm
like, okay, yeah, I guess we're meant to assume that. Okay,
the tailor is the rest of it comes off and it is going to
be washed. But still it wouldn't be funny. I think to have Madge
shrink see him Madge shrink it, and then have Homer try to put something
else together. It looks like salamander maybe I don't, I don't know,
sort of squeezing his way into it. Yeah, something like that. But
um, yes, we got the crazy cat lady. We get everyone name
here by the way it's at. Yes, Um, I don't know.
It doesn't really add much. She's making making some valid points about corporate accountability
in small business incentives when she's not talking about cats. Yeah, and then
putting cats and everyone's pants also a valid campaign platform. Our next question as
for the safety salamander, sir, how would you restore our city is crumbling
infrastructure? That's an excellent question, Kent. First of all, the shrunk
when my wife washed it without his costume. He's not but a man.
He screwed this. I'm not going to let any human tell me what the
due. And then sort of has a backup plane. He tries to introduce
Lisa, his campaign manager, and she says no, and I'm like why,
well, why why she's not going here to help him? Now?
What's going on here? So then he says, and here's up his bar
and then he pushes out Millhouse and I'm like, huh, what's happening?
So we got we gotta was up call we gotta wise up. But I
was like wow. And then everyone throws fruit he says, stopped throwing through
it, so they thought throw cinder blox. And then we get the announcement
on the news that that says nobody got the five percent. Quimby has been
re elected back in even though that he didn't want it anyway, your lost
jackasses, and so he was still running for it. Yes, okay,
but he's okay maybe yeah says oh, yeah, what you tried to make
this town a better place, so you're my hero? Yeah, which one
I said, did he though? Yeah? I'm like he was actually not.
He was drinking the whole time and not really trying to help the town
at all. And you didn't try to help him. So if he's your
hero, why didn't you help him? And then we get an anti Ben
Afflete joke, which I guess probably worked in two thousand and five, but
it doesn't really work now, have you asked me? No, great recent
interview with Affleck online. You can track it down because you've got a new
movie coming out about Nike trying to sign here Michael Jordan as the face of
air Jordan and yeah, he freely it's like, oh god, yeah,
back on the two thousands, Yeah, I stunk on eyes, nobody wanted
to touch me. Was it Gigglely? Was it the movie he made with
Lopez? Yeah, around that time. I think it was some of the
Daredevil era as well. Yeah, you know, Matt Damon was on top
of the world and Ben Affleck was going like, you stink Affleck. Yeah,
Matt Damon got Matt Damon and everything, like, even when the people
taking the piss out of him, it was still made him a movie star
exactly. Matt Damon has always just come across like the one who if they
were both in a bar, Matt Damon's one old approach and not be scared
that he's going to have a go at me. Ben Affleck. I feel
like he still is slightly unhinged. I think so, I do, and
I think that's what makes him interesting. I think, you mean, every
interview I've seen and Revern was like, oh my god, this guy's incredibly
smart. But he's also you know, sixty three and built like a truck.
It's like, oh no, It's like I think someone once said,
it's like Matt Damon played good Will hunting. Ben Affleck is good will hunting.
It's like, oh shit, yeah, yeah, he's just kind of
guy like you just don't fuck with him. Like he would never he would
never forget, never forget. But yeah, so that is our review of
see Homer run an episode that it was. It was an episode that happened,
and we talked about it. Yeah. I normally enjoy the Homer release
of moments, the home release of stories because you know, that's the father
of a daughter and things like that, and I was like the emotional beat.
So I just don't think the the end he made any sense. It
was earned. Here he says you're my hero. I'm like you what I
just say't get it. I I think at some stage down the line,
maybe it's a special feature or something like that, we should go back and
find certain episodes that's like this is a good idea, but it's poorly executed
and give just to maybe a ten minute rundown or breakdown of like here's what
we would I mean, we kind of did that this, Okay, forget
I said it. We're writing season thirty five of The Simpsons as we speak,
at which point the guys of the Simpsons will say, you know what
way did that in season seventeen. Yeah, we did it wrong. We're
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one point goes too, going to be very careful how I pronounced this seller
manned seller manned yep with Mayor in there. Yes, So our man Luke
McKay's got one point that puts him on nine points. He's getting first two
points for the safety stance that is Fergus Jeff's Fergus Jeffs. That is puts
him now equal third with all the other guys on three points while done Fergus
nice one Ferugus and three points go to the running Manda. Oh I do
like that one heath that will be so that's three points feat that will be
all. That also puts him equal third position. So now we've got a
five way tie for third position. Nice. How do you like those Applebee's?
Well? Yeah, done, exactly? All right, So first position,
first position is still Luke McKay on nine. Second Nora Coca that's still
on five, and in third position Garrowed, Harry Hill, David mart Ryan
Dunlap, and the newest members of the third division is Heath Appleby and Fergus
Jeff's all on three points. Don't forget guys, you want to be part
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for this see Homer Run mail bag. This one here comes from Harrison McClure.
Harrison says, has anyone ever made you a gift where you felt kind
of awkward receiving it? I'm not sure what to do with it. Well,
I feel guilty about admitting this because it was, first of all,
it was a really thoughtful gift that I didn't appreciate, and one that in
hinds, I was like, that was probably one of the best gifts I've
got, and yeah, I just did not really, It's kind of like,
yeah, thanks for my twenty first Yeah, I've received some very nice
gifts, some clothes and electronics, all that kind of business. And a
buddy of mine, who had a very good of eclectic taste in music,
had bought like a this is way back in the day you could buy boxes
of audio tapes like six packs or twelve packs or what. He brought a
twelve pack and he'd made me a shit ton of mixtapes of all this interesting
music. And look, some of it wasn't to my taste, but the
but all of it was kind of interesting, and all of it was fairly
alternative artists. And that's serious effort as well, that is effort. No
one was kind of like great. I mean I didn't, of course say
that to him. I was like, mate, this fantastic, thank you
so much. But at the same time, I think I sort of put
it off to one side and I never really paid a whole lot attention to
it. I don't know how much of I listened to, And in hindsight,
I'm like it was a really thoughtful gift, and you know one that
you know, a twenty one year old guy who aspired to sort of have
his broad horizons broadened when it came to art and culture and all that kind
I should have appreciated a lot more, and I didn't. So to my
man Tony Smith, I don't know if you're listening. If you are,
maybe consider being a patron. I didn't appreciate your gift as much as as
much as I should have back in the day. Thank you very very much
for it. I do. I appreciate it in hindsight, which of course
it was all know is the best kind of appreciation. Next question is from
Andrew JP. What's your favorite parent child combination storylines with storylines into Simpsons is
a Homer Lisa, Marge Bart Homer Bart or Marge and Lisa or anything involving
Maggie. I think the older I got it was Homer and Lisa. I
think when I was a kid it was Marge. But I don't think I
really appreciated the Homer Lisa moments until I was became a father myself, like
things like Lisa's wedding, the end of Lisa's wedding words like she she was
embarrassed by him, and then she has the you know, seeing into the
future and seeing how upset she made her father and things like that. She
sort of appreciates her father for who he is at the end, and you
know, I wrote the teacups and good a little sick, and then I
wrote him again and they're holding they're walking off hand in hand. I'm that's
just so nice. And then the end of um of Maggie makes three where
we get to do it for her. I watched her about a month ago
and I nearly started crying again, Like that is just fucking like that is
arguably the greatest moment in history the Simpsons that do for her, where it's
like there's no there's no fun. It's a Maggie. I've got them where
I need them the most, I need the most, cheering up and just
cutting that music cue by Alph and it's like, oh god, yeah that
works, that really does does Yeah. I think the home I think the
Homer slash Kids storylines work for me more as I became a father. Well
look, speaking as an absolute mama's boy who is constantly you know, concerned
that he's disappointing his dear mother. Shout out to Margaret Mary. I'm a
big fan of margin bart storylines. They speak to me. They do this
one. Here's from Jet Gerdam. They say, have you ever thrown up
in a costume? I've never thrown up in a costume, but I have
seen someone. This is not a costume room. It's just seeing someone throw
up in a weird place. On the dance floor at Eureka, remember the
old Eureka night club. You're in Gelong with the Davis where you would have
been rocking the dance floors the time the time, and a friend of mine
I won't named names, but we're just like dancing away and he had an
empty pint glass in his hand. It was like a banger song and he
was wasting and then he had to be sick. So rather than go throw
up in the toys, he just vomited into the into the pine, put
it on the floor and then people obviously dancing, ticked it and just vomit
everywhere. Everyone's feet is covering and vomit. No, oh, dear I
Likewise, I never threw up in a costume, but I remember one night
at the Geelong Hotel where I had my first ever. I used my first
ever fake license to get into the Geelong Hotel. Yeah, what a hero.
One night we decided to be we'd go after a little bit, and
we had shots of tequila and I think I'd already had a bit by this
dage, so I took the shot. I was like, that's coming back
up right now. Luckily I was near like a dark corner, so I
could just sort of turn around and went and it just came right back.
Jesus, Just we don't think of the cleaners. You have to find this,
find this stuff the next morning, clean it up, like, oh
my god, can you can you imagine that, like going to like Eureka
and geng hotel things after a Saturday night or Saturday morning. Just seen the
aftermath thinking about it in retrospect now, because when I went out, you
know, it was the smoking. Here is where you're smoked in some gross
Yeah. I mean I can only imagine what I must have smelt like when
I came home after a night of drinking beer and smoking cigarettes in a closed,
sweaty environment. Yeah, the sweat. Nah. It's wondered that any
of us picked up you know, romantic slash stectual partner at one of these
plays. It's it's not conducive to anything like that, because you just reek
of all this stuff finds me of um. My Mum used to always be
my savior when I was going out. She's still living at home. She
used to pick me up, you know, always a pizza ready for me
when I got home. I remember, remember this one time Mum picked me
up. I got the car and all of a sudden the window to start
going down, like Mum had been pushing it down. I was like,
moments call, she goes you stink. I'm like, okay, fair dus
all right. My final question here we got from Adam Woolhouse of the Springfield.
Of the Springfield is running in the in the election, whom would you
have voted for and why hashtag vote Jimbo? I think, well, we
saw three real sort of spears, didn't me. We saw Luigi, we
saw let's not forget crazy cat lady name. You're not Gonnavoe for her.
You're not gonna vote for Homer well Wolfcastle, Yeah, Wolfcastle, Jimbo and
yeah yeah yeah, so you're probably just gonna vote for him, right because
you're scared of him pretty much. You know, he'd he'd rule with an
iron fist. Yes, I think of the three, but I think I
was thinking of the food. Luigi, you could, but the lad you're
gonna put the food out regardless. Let's go, let's go for wolf Castle.
Yeah. I don't like trust Brockman. No, I don't trust Brockman
at all. He'd be my media advisor. I like Freddy Quimby as long
as what works. As long as what works with him works for you,
then he'd be fine. But he's only going to do what works for him.
So yeah, that's correct. Now would I would? I, for
one welcome our Rainy a Wolfcastle overlord. M all right, so that is
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