Talking Simpsons - SF Sketchfest 2020 Live Show - 30 Years of Season One with Jordan Morris!

Episode Date: January 29, 2020

This week we present the live podcast we did on January 14, 2020, the exact thirtieth anniversary of the first regular episode of The Simpsons! And we were joined for the occasion by the amazing live guest Jordan Morris from the podcast Jordan, Jesse, Go! We look back on everything that's changed, some of the best and worst animation in the show, some forgotten trivia, and so much more! And we close with an amazing tribute to lost characters that you should watch for yourself here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/33349733 Support this podcast and get dozens of bonus episodes by visiting Patreon.com/TalkingSimpsons and becoming a patron! And please follow the new official Twitter, @TalkSimpsonsPod!

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That is patreon.com slash TalkingSimpsons. Now, please enjoy the rest of this podcast. I heartily endorse this event or product ahoy everybody and welcome to our special presentation of our 2020 san francisco sketch fest live show i am one of your hosts for this one the mambo king bob mackie who is here with me today uh gelatin dessert eater henry gilbert hi and yes welcome in case you didn't know on on January 14th, 2020, we were at San Francisco Sketch Fest at the Piano Fight Bar and you missed it. You did. We were waiting for you and you didn't show up and we were just so heartbroken, but we decided to be nice and put our entire Sketch Fest show online for you to listen to. That's right. Now, there were a couple cuts. If you were there live, you might notice like,

we cut out a couple things. It was mainly just our very visual moments of just looking at a screen that no one can see. So you're going to just have to enjoy it then in your mind's eye. And if you were part of the full house of folks there, like we had, I think every seat was filled there at the main stage of Pianofight. So thank you very much to everybody who came out to that too. That was our first time on the main stage. So it was a very nice honor to be there in the biggest stage of Piano Fight.

Yeah, and the folks who worked at Piano Fight, such great friends, like really helpful. They let us set up the poster sales there too. So cool. What a bunch of great folks there. And the folks who were running it on the Sketch Fest side, also great folks. We really enjoyed working with them as we always do when we do sf sketch fest yes and

i think we say it every year but it's such an honor to be part of it because like we are on the same program on the same page as people that we love and respect and have listened to for like over a decade and it's so great to just see like oh we're like on the same page as them when we picked up our badges we walked by the banya from seinfeld and no one went it's gold uh but also oh my gosh be remiss if we're thanking people a huge thank you to our guest jordan morris yes uh from jordan jesse go most famously but also many other projects follow him on twitter do all that cool stuff we didn't get to do the normal promotion at the end of this for jordan so you know check out all this cool stuff he's got a really cool cartoon coming

out that we uh that he wrote for we paul rug is part of he got to meet freakazoid himself i believe it's a puppety style show oh can't wait can't wait and he's he's written for a lot of great things he's a great podcast guest and i was so honored that he reached out to us like unpropted to be our guest like what what a great guy yeah and i guess thanks to julia prescott from uh now it's called round springfield that podcast for helping set all this up the uh the guest part of it it was our sketch fest 2019 guest helping us get our 2020 guest it's it's very nice so uh i guess that's um so yeah there are some visual things that were cut and at the end of this there is a visual component that we will actually have a link to in the description for this episode yes uh if you just listen to the podcast all you hear is

audio and people laughing and uh the end of the show if you go to the link in the description of this episode you'll find that video on our patreon uh toasted for free you can just watch it to see what everyone else was watching uh for the finale of our sketch fest show i'll just say bob did a really really great job thank you it was a stupid idea but it worked so without further ado let's fade in now to january 14th 2020 as we celebrated 30 years of season one. Hoi hoi, everybody, and welcome to the Talking Simpsons live show. And this is where we all vaguely sound like Walter Matthau. I'm one of your hosts, the frosty chocolate milkshake enjoyer, Bob Mackie.

And this is our chronological exploration of The Simpsons, who is here with me today. Henry Gilbert, and I'm more of a Jell-O mold kind of guy. And today's live show topic is 30 years of Simpsons Season 1. I was merely trying to fend off the desecration of the school building. Eat my short, pardon? So before we start, we have a special guest for this live show. So our special guest today, from Jordan Jesse Goh, writer of Unikitty and the upcoming Earth to Ned,

is Jordan Morris. Woo! Hi, everybody. Yeah, I'm Jordan Morris, foreman at the Fireworks Factory. Which is mentioned in season one. Mentioned in season one. Yeah, and today is the 30th anniversary of the first real episode of season one. Like, Simpsons roasting, technically the premiere of the series. But Bart the Genius was the series premiere, and that was this night in 1990.

90, just 90. 1990. After a very historic episode of Herman's Head. Oh. I think we were in the Drexels class zone. Yeah, it was probably at Drexels. America wasn't ready. And Married with Children followed it right after, I think.

It was his co-mate of it. But yeah, the season one, I think it's a bad rap. Including by us, previously on our podcast. Yes, we're currently redoing it to make up for our past sins. Against the Klasky Chupo Corporation. Yeah, especially we were mean

to the Klasky Chupo folks. But Jordan, yes, welcome. Yeah, it's good to be here. Boy, we sure are three men recording a Simpsons podcast. We're either three men recording a Simpsons podcast or one-eighth of a ska band. We really fit that description. And this is all about our... I call trombone.

Oh, Jesus Christ, no. I'm just the guy who dances. And it's weird that we all have to recognize now that we have 30-year-old memories, which is very tragic for all of us. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, me and Bob were there on night one of the premiere. Who is a season one, day one viewer of Simpsons here?

Just clap. Let's have a look. Yeah. All right. Whose jewel is blinking in their hands? I can see them. Well, Jordan, you were a night one viewer of Simpsons, right?

Yeah, I definitely remember Sunday nights tuning in every week. There were some houses in the neighborhood where there was a Simpsons band because of all the back talk that Bart did.

Back talk was very bad. But yeah, but I had an unusually sophisticated house when we watched The Simpsons and feuded a satire. And yeah, it was great. And yeah, and it definitely was a big part of my life. And then in high school, it's just how I related to people. I quoted The Simpsons at them. And if they could finish the quote or they knew what I was talking about,

you know, we were connected. And, you know, that and, you know, between that and, of course, all the sex I was having in high school was so busy, just really busy between quoting The Simpsons verbatim and then all the just the wild. I guess 30 years ago we didn't know there'd be no job market. So we didn't know we'd be doing this. Yes, yeah. Instead of working.

Hey, this is work. It's true, it's true. Okay, actually, by applause, who wasn't alive when The Simpsons premiered? Anybody? Hey, okay. That's it. You're welcome here, too.

It's okay. Wait, wait, who here is not alive right now? Yeah, no. I've told this story a million times. I was there day one because my parents were the lenient kind who would just let me watch Simpsons. Also, at the very least, my mom loved The Simpsons.

I think my dad was tolerant of it until they made fun of Republicans a little too much. They crossed the line. But yeah, we were day one viewers and tapers of it. But yeah, season one, I think it's overlooked, like in the DVDs and stuff, too, I think. That's true. I think

now that everyone has Disney+, as we all are mandated to have by the government, a lot of us are watching it for the first time in almost 20 years, I'm guessing. So it's fun to go back and see. I mean, it's not all good. We're going to highlight some of the bad moments, some things they fixed,

but there's a lot of good stuff in there too. Yeah, it is really like, it is at once, and I rewatched it for the purpose of this podcast and because I was, I would have been doing other stuff anyway. I was really struck by how it is two things. It is at once the revolutionary TV show that would change pop culture

and just an embarrassing 90s artifact, an embarrassing Urkel-level 90s artifact. If it ended after season one, we would laugh at it in the same way we laugh at, like, got any cheese? Or the elf craze. Several writers on season one came from elf. That's true, yeah.

I think they, like, we asked Mike Reese, one of the season one writers, like, he figured it would just be, if it was popular at all it'd be the elf craze of just like two two years of a bunch of bullshit merchandise and then it's gone and no one remembers i mean what is bart if not a yellow elf yeah and urkel too he's like him and urkel were just contemporaries of pop culture there yeah but i think season one you look back on it and it's just a lot of like perfect, like, there's the promise of the show that it will be,

and there's even some really funny stuff in it. But I also think it's just a lot of lucky breaks that really established it at just the right time. Like, including just when it premiered, the culture at the time going into 1990, and also, like, the episode order even, I even I think like really sold people on Bart mania, like how Bart was central to it. And the magic of a,

of a new network, a fourth net, right? Yeah. That it was, it only existed because Fox was like, we need more shows like this, this cartoon on Tracy Ullman's good.

Let's make the first animated program for, uh, for primetime since the Flintstones. Obviously, we're not counting Wait Till Your Father Gets Home. That doesn't get through. That's our other podcast. Wait Till Your Father Gets Podcast? It's 21 and up only.

I remember when his daughter said she was going to do a nude painting and it was quite an uproar in the town. No one else remembers Wait Till till your father gets home. Tom Bosley? Yeah, Tom Bosley. Homer briefly thought he was Tom Bosley in one episode. That's right. Yeah, but so here,

why don't we play one of our first clips? Let's remember how different things were with the season one opening, and you'll notice just if you haven't watched in a while, and also I didn't get these from Disney+. These are the correct aspect ratio.

Yes, thank you. God bless you. Finally, feels good to be in a room full of people who care about aspect ratio. People are holding up 4x3 signs. 4x3 or bust. Okay, here let's take a look at the season one opening. Yeah, that was the first time a couch gag existed beyond the couch realm.

Yeah, carried over the TV. That chalkboard gag was pretty good. It was, I will not waste chalk. Pretty funny. There are some bad chalkboard gags in this season. Yeah, I think one of Miley's favorites was like, I will not skateboard down the hall, which at least is followed by him skateboarding out

the door. So I guess the joke is he then skateboarded out of the hall. But that's a little weak. A lot of them are just like, what are a list of rude pranks? Yes, yeah. Well, because Bart's a bad boy. Sure. The one is, I will not burp in class.

He burped in class. I went through a lot of archival graining interviews recently. And he was really into the idea of making Bart burp and offending polite society with it. It made the president mad. He talked about how he wanted to have a Jell-O commercial with the Simpsons and it would end with J-A-L-L burp. And the Jell-O

he says the Jell-O people were very offended by that. So they hired Bill Cosby to represent the crowd. Different time. He stood for family values in the face of Bart Simpson's nastiness. Also, he wanted the first Bart doll to belch, too, but they wouldn't let him do it. Also, that opening, there's a joke in there

that I never knew was a joke until last year, which is when the Simpsons come in, and those clouds are bad in the first season clouds for the Simpsons come in, and those clouds are bad in the first season clouds for the Simpsons title, but it goes the Simps, and then ONS comes in, and the joke is supposed to be, you're supposed to think they named the show

The Simps, as in these stupid people, and then you go, oh, the Simpsons, but they're, like, there's a lot of too subtle gags in this season, I think. Jordan, as a writer, how was Simpsons influential to you? Yeah, well, I think as far as going into TV writing, I think the first time I kind of realized that TV writing was a thing

was listening to the commentaries. That was a big one for me. I'm like, oh, okay, there's a room full of people, and they get together and they write these that now all I have to do is go to Harvard. That's the hard part. I'm still looking to do that. If anybody knows how to get in, it'd be great for my career. So yeah, that was a big one to me. And yeah, like, and, you know, and definitely like The Simpsons kind of also did some, you know, they were early to doing kind of meta stuff, you know, so like, yeah, so like learning, you know, like The Front was a good episode where they kind of show a TV writer's room.

So, yeah, as far as like some getting into the business, like, The Simpsons kind of pulled back the curtain in a way that other shows didn't. And yeah, this opening too, there's so many shots. There are more shots than I remembered that did survive, like the Maggie getting scanned and the classroom, despite how

insane every student looks in it, that stayed the same. It preserved the classic Lisa Largo antagonism, which persisted in many seasons. But Cherry and Terry have gigantism in that clip there. But I'm so sad they lost that Lisa, the

Lisa bike thing with the books going up. That's just a cool shot, but it got replaced by the pan over all the characters of Springfield, which I get why they, that's a fair trade. And you don't even hear Homer scream in that first shot. That's true, yeah. It's a little unnerving, him opening his mouth and nothing coming out.

Like everybody's nightmare, I'm trying to scream and I can't. Season one is basically a story of them learning how to sound mix a show. Oof, boy. A lot of noisy shoes, a lot of them learning how to sound mix a show. Oof, boy. A lot of noisy shoes, a lot of licensed music in the background. All of the guest stars recorded their lines face down in a bathtub. Get Albert Brooks in here to lay down in this bathtub. Yeah, everyone sounds so weird. I love they let Albert Brooks just go to town.

Yeah, he's so funny in this season. And also in the sound design, they had Maggie suck her pacifier through dialogue. People would talk, and you would be hearing her sucking on her pacifier. It's crazy. It's grosser this season, right? The sucking is as gross as it's ever been. Yeah, it's not like one sampled suck.

It's just like mac Groening in a booth really going to town on a pacifier. I hate the phrase sample suck, by the way. When you said it, I got mad. The final results are a lot less repulsive. Right. I guess, yeah, that opening, you know, there were many things Groening didn't like about that.

The opening was designed by David Silverman, who's like, I think the, I guess Matt Groining should go first but i think after mac graining david silverman had the most influence on the look and animation of the simpsons like he he really defined it in ways i don't think a lot of people truly understand or appreciate you know uh but after season one i think it helped that the show was such a big hit that they were able to get enough money to just redo the opening because they felt like it. But, you know, though, there was a time when they thought the Simpsons,

they wouldn't even air it. Did you know that? Yeah, yeah. I mean, so in case you didn't know this, the classic Babysitter Bandit episode was the last one to air in season one, but it was supposed to be the first episode to air in the fall of 89. This is Simpsons lore. And the

reason it was held until last, it was because of many mistakes. The final results aren't great. It's a really bizarre looking episode, but we have some of the thrown out footage that existed for like 20 years on DVDs, but it's still really fascinating to see. Yeah, if no one's ever seen it before,

if you remember the Babysitter Bandit episode, it's really got up and down animation of some scenes that look like they could be from season two in quality, or at least following the rules of Simpsons. And then the very next moment will be something that looks like out of the short, still crazy.

And that's that's because they only reanimated about half of it but uh yes they the the well here why don't we show you guys the original animation if you remember some enchanted evening it's it's very different in the the first two minutes here You know, Maggie, this is my favorite time of the day. Just you and me making a hearty breakfast for the rest of the family, stoking their little furnaces for the busy day ahead. And you know what else I like about the wee hours of the morn? This is our time to be together. I dread the day when you realize you're a separate human being.

Oh, listen, Maggie. I think I hear those sleepyheads now. With the possibility of showers later tonight, and now to our... Hey, where's the frosty, crusty flakes? In the KBBL traffic copter. So come on in, Bill. Bad news, drivers! But there's hearty oatmeal, and fresh squished orchard, and whole wheat toast. There's a lot of rubbernecking and melon wrestling going on, so expect to lay us up to three hours. for a squished auge and whole wheat toast. Hey, Donald! Bart, there's one left and it's mine.

Bart! Bart! Whoops. Don't want to go to work in my shorts. Uh-oh. Good, boss. Hey't want to go to work in my shorts. Uh-oh, good bus. Hey, clear jets, man. We're coming. Still three hours. Meanwhile, over on the southbound main street.

You forgot the special lunches I made. That's okay, Mom. We got money. Now just a door. Everyone's head is ten different sizes. Over the course of that clip, everyone has ten different sized heads. And in the end, she walks into a Super Mario 64 level.

Yeah! The clip on the DVD goes a bit longer, but I just love... I want it to end on Marge's sullen walk there. They even... I'm really glad they retook that because they fuckedook that because they fucked up that joke. It's

Bill Pye with pie in the sky. No, the joke is he's Arnie Pye and he says Arnie in the sky. Come on. At least that retake let them redo correctly or in a better way Arnie Pye, the classic

character. And it was a different direction to make Marge a frog woman, some sort of frog creature. And Homer just is Fred Flintstone in that. He's just fully Fred Flintstone. But he is drinking coffee out of that dainty little teacup, though. Yes, yeah. It undercuts the

frantic kind of grossness of that scene. It's like, oh, I'm going to sip from a dainty cup. Oh, and also, like, the kiss mark that stays on the door is so cartoony. Yeah, it's so Looney Tunes. Yeah, there's some extreme, there's some real extreme choices in there, for sure. Yeah, I guess, I mean, technically there is, like,

good animation in lots of that scene, but it doesn't fit the world. It's sort of nightmarish. There's a sense of reality in the show that was carried on when they fixed all this that's not present in this clip. In that clip. As the story goes, it's funny on the comment, the commentary

over it is the first time James L. Brooks had seen it in 10 years at the time. And he leaves, he's so pissed off seeing it, and he leaves the commentary booth. He's like, I can't stand to look at this. Because the fear was, this came back this bad,

and they're like, we have to redo as much of this show as possible. Delay this to January. I know. The people listening at home don't know this, but half of the people walked out of the audience while you were talking about it. We still keep their money. Yeah, they paid up front. That's the important part.

Yeah. So the reasoning behind that apparently was that, like, it was just a bunch of miscommunication on that. It was, like, which really plagued them in the first season, that they went to the Klaski Chupo Company, which, like, two years later would start Rugrats and was their biggest hit, but they'd never done a half hour show before. And so here they get into the script by

people who had never written for animation before, and you just lose stuff in between. And I don't think it's anybody's fault. Definitely James L. Brooks on that commentary, I feel, blames Klaski Chupo very heavily for that. Though it's also the original director, I think, too, Kent Butterworth. He would not be returning for season two. No, he was not hired back. But he went on to work on the amazing Adventures of Sonic cartoon, the lesser Sonic cartoon of the 90s, if you remember that. At least in my opinion. I like that we're in an audience of people that probably has an opinion as to what the best Sonic cartoon is.

This is where you want to be. Sad AM, right? Yeah. They're both bad. It's about degrees. You got to pick the lesser of two evils in this case. Which one is a crazy Frenchman on the cast? That's sad okay that's worse uh no uh kent butterworth who we heard about he said his saying on sonic was if you can recognize the character it's not off model and that is totally

true in that footage there like it's like well i recognize marge also is wearing her dress for like one shot of that instead of this green. I mean, she looks like a frog. Homer looks like Fred Flintstone. It's just, it's all over the place. So you can see why changes were made. But I think, honestly, if they premiered with Some Enchanted Evening, that's like a Homer and Marge episode.

I think starting with Bart the Genius in a Bart episode was the right move anyway. And the Christmas one is also very Bart focused too. I mean, you know, you get to feel the set. That is so weird that they're overall in season one, how often they want you to feel bad for Homer.

Like he's like, you're used to him just being this indestructible clown. But in like, in Roasting on an Open Fire, they're like Homer can't afford gifts for his family. Single tear rolls down his face. The show really started out as being about being lower middle class, I feel like. And then it changed and it's like,

eh, Homer can take off work to go join the space program for a couple weeks. But I feel like the original vision for the show is what is it like to be a family who can't afford the shit that the other families around you can. And it's so weird, because I noticed the Jacques episode. What's the title of it?

Oh, Life in the Fast Lane. Yeah. He is such a funny character in that he's this Lothario, but he's also a lower middle class Lothario. Like, he takes Marge to a diner, and he lives in this very sad apartment. So I don't know.

It is a funny thing that kind of the show Lost was like, oh, what is it like to be just barely middle class? Yeah, he ordered four onion rings at a time. Yeah, right. But he's at least libertine enough to know what brunch is which is the concept march can't uh yeah you know you really you get a lot of the family budget in season one too like not only by losing out on the christmas bonus and like 200 there's no christmas presents or yeah to go to marvin monroe to get 250 They need to pawn their television.

They just don't have $250. Yeah, there was like real financial stakes in the first season. It's like, will they make it? Though as time went on, I think they got tired. I heard them say on commentaries, they're like, this is the fourth time we've had the family budget saying, if we cut out this, then we can do that. I think that's why. They just got so tired of that they they just decided homer's wallet can

just have 900 if they needed to which uh well that's i mean in season one you get to see them really straining against like this directive of family sitcom but then you have all these harvard writers or guys from snl who want to do crazy stuff that just is genre defining. And so they're all stressing against the makeup of this regular family sitcom. Yeah. Though, you know, I liked how like the budget stuff, it reminds me like of Roseanne too, like at the time, the show Roseanne, which was a good show.

Let's pretend the real Roseanne died at the end of the show, too, at the time. The show Roseanne, which was a good show. Let's pretend the real Roseanne died at the end of the show just like she did. It was pushing back against Cosby, who was considered wholesome and also full house and all the huggy, touchy, feely we have unlimited money sitcoms of that era.

Yeah, no, it was interesting how controversial this stuff was. It is so cute now. It is so adorable. But yeah, it was, I know, it was interesting how controversial this stuff was. It is so cute now. Like, it is so adorable. But, yeah, it was weird how it was like a, yeah, there were a lot of kids I grew up with who couldn't watch it. And they had to, like, sneak it. Yeah, we've, you know, we've heard from people who didn't have cool parents who wouldn't let them watch The Simpsons.

They had to, like to secretly watch it. One of our best guests, Ian Jones-Courty, he told the story about he eventually had to, in his teens, come out to his parents of like, no, I've watched The Simpsons. It is The Simpsons. I'm not hiding it anymore. It was the era where politicians would name-check TV shows like this

and Murphy Brown. We just had debates right before our live show. I don't think anyone called out This Is Us as filth, ruining America. Well, there's not like a monoculture anymore. That's true. I feel like it died with Game of Thrones. Right, yeah.

That was the last time people could count on like, well, we all know what this is, right? Right, if a politician is like, I don't want our country turning into Russian doll, and people are like, I've been meaning to watch it. I hear it's good. My friend says it's good.

There's so much, right? I want Bernie to cancel Minions. Is that part of his plan? It has to be deep on the webpage, but it's got to be there. Nationalize Minions. I hear Buttigieg wants to be deep on the web page, but it's got to be there. Nationalized minions. I hear Buttigieg wants to befriend the minions.

Actually, our president has at least one photo with minions. I think he's the only politician. As a friend of the universal NBC family, he's got many pictures with the minions. He thinks they're real. Anyway, enough politics. But I guess our next set of clips here, season one had a lot of stuff that would not continue into season two, like these character traits that they just dropped.

Yeah, we're going to see a lot of characters who didn't make it at the end of the show, but when they're planning on the show, they don't realize where these characters will take them, and a lot of these traits that they developed and a lot of the side bits they developed would never follow beyond season one. So do you want to start with this reel? Yeah. So I mean, they would revisit this from time to time, but season one and a lot of merch and the board games, like it established Homer loves bowling. That's his number one thing he loves the most.

And I don't think they return to it again until like season seven after this. Yeah, the pin pals was it, but he wasn't even that good of a bowler. I mean, he's all right. And then in season 11, he pin pals was it, but he wasn't even that good of a bowler. I mean, he's alright. And then in season 11, he'll bowl a 300. But yes, at this time, quite the bowling

fan. Wow, look at these bowling balls, Maggie. Can you think of a better way for Daddy to spend his hard 150 bucks? Now I've seen everything. Black, marbleized with a liquid center. The stealth bowler.

The pins don't know what hit him. Dad, can I talk to you about something? Sure, boy. What's on your mind? Well, I was wondering, how important is it to be popular? I'm glad you asked, son. Being popular is the most important thing in the world. So, like, sometimes you can do stuff that you think is pretty bad so other kids will like you better?

You're not talking about killing anyone, are you? No. Are you? No. Then run along, you little scamp. A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center. Oh, actually, that's a good one. Oh, yeah.

That was clip one of her bowling reel. Bowling ball for you, not for me. What? No. The holes were drilled for your fingers. Well, I wanted to surprise you. I couldn't very well chop your hand off and bring it to the store, could I? You never intended for me to use that ball.

Well, if that's how you feel, take it back. You can't take it back. You had your name engraved on it. So you'd know it's from me. Homer, I'm keeping the ball for myself what but you don't know how to ball whoops i'm keeping it and i'm going to use it thank you for the present homer well you're welcome so yeah barney's bullorama was also a season one location. But I think the original story was they thought Barney the drunk would be the proprietor. But then in season seven, it ends up being his uncle, Al, right?

Yeah, yeah. I guess he named it after his nephew. I bet he thought he didn't let him inherit it one day, but his drinking was too bad. He was like, no, I can't. Too much of an alcoholic um yeah you know it's so interesting because i mean i think something that you know simpsons fans do a lot is like you know use the stuff from the show in everyday life it's how we relate emotionally to the world like you know if if there's someone or something that you know is trouble, but you can't stay away.

Ah, stupid sexy Flanders. But there's, God, it's a bowling ball that says Homer on it. It's such a perfect way to describe a selfish gift. There's no, you can just say, oh, that gift is a real bowling ball that says Homer on it. And if a person is worth their salt, they'll know what you're talking about. I mean, the multilayered cruelness of it, that it's like not, it has his name on it, and it's his finger size, because obviously he wouldn't know Marge's finger size.

How would he ever ask her? But he acts like he'd have to cut off her hand to get it. Also, that Marge turns 35 in that episode, which I don't like that. Well, actually, I think it's 34. Oh, 34. It's even scarier. Boo. They can't be younger than me.

I don't like it. No, that liquid center thing. Well, also, I forgot that stealth bowler line that really puts it in 1992 because the stealth bomber was all the rage then. Right. Some cutting Gulf War commentary there. Look out, General Norman Schwarzkopf. We were gearing up for Desert Storm.

But yeah, that stealth bowler, the liquid center, I feel like that was in a ton of jokes on merchandise. And the deluxe Simpsons Guide to life game i feel like had multiple liquid center jokes in it uh and also like homer's bowling was so extreme like it was like two different level well it was like his super move in the arcade game and his big dream boss battle was against a giant bowling ball in that dream uh world yeah that's true yeah but i guess that's just like old dad stuff. Yeah, 60s dad stuff.

They kind of like, yeah, they kind of like leaned away from bowling in later seasons and more toward him being an alcoholic. Better jokes. I mean, Homer regularly bowling implies a level of outgoingness that I don't think he has. It's kind of wholesome too. It's kind of a wholesome activity, maybe not quite right for where the character went. Maybe the retconning of this, we can

say, is that when he lost his job as a pin monkey, he then couldn't stand to go back to the bowling alley. I'll buy it. I like it. But that's not the only thing that changed. One thing that The Simpsons is good at, it's continuity.

Explanations for everything. But that's not the only thing that changed. One thing that The Simpsons is good at, it's continuity. It all stitches together perfectly. Approving that tonight. So the next bit they had was The Happy Little Elves. So The Simpsons hated the Smurfs initially, very much so, but they didn't realize their first episode would air the same month the last Smurfs would ever air. So immediately they were outdated with this parody. So a very little amount of Happy Little little elves made it into the first season,

but eventually itchy and scratchy would be the show within a show they watched. So we have a few bits of the remnants of happy little elves here. Master, we gotta save Bubbles. Oh, man, I can't take it anymore. But I wanna see what happens. You know what happens. They find Captain Cook's treasure. All the elves dance around like little green idiots. I puke the end.

Bart, you're just like Chili, the elf who cannot love. I know. I think Santa will be able to find Elf County under all this snow. I doubt it, Bubbles. We'll be sad little elves this Christmas. Oh, no. Oh, brother. Thank you.

Good riddance. Yay! Unadulterated pup. So, yeah, I guess they thought that would be the cartoon Lisa watched, but it took them a while to figure out Lisa would not watch Happy Little Elves. Yeah. She would really hate it. I know the joke of the Happy Little Elves is like

bad kids TV. In that way, it works because I fucking hate them. Every time. They come out three times in the series and I clench when they come on screen. I hate them. Even the parody is hard to watch.

It's such a one-note joke. Hey, the Smurfs is bad and animated poorly. And that's it. And yeah, I think in that scene right after Grandpa says unadulterated pap, that's when Lisa has her long speech about how Homer is the only male role model in her life and that they need to respect. They're like this profound speech. I feel like they only had the happy little elves there to show both sides of Lisa then, that she's the little girl, but also the deep thinker. But I guess the happy little elves live on in disenchantment. Yes.

There's a world of happy little elves. They all are the happy little elves, yeah. Shaco, Levo, Elfo. Returno. Returno, Gaspa. No, that is Shaco. That was Shaka. Also, last note about the happy little elves. In the first clip

there, they even got June Foray to do a shitty elf voice. Which is basically just a voice she always did in those old cartoons. Yeah, very Rocket, J. Squirrel voice for that elf. Yeah. It wasn't hard for her to go there. I love that if Some Enchanted Even evening has been the first one,

it would have let her be in the first episode to then have like almost kind of a continuity or like a, a passing of the torch from Rocky and Bullwinkle to the Simpsons, which I guess, you know, thematically it's still there with her being in the season. She, uh, her main role in that episode is playing the,

the woman on the world's largest telephone. The rubber baby buggy bumper babysitting service. You gotta work hard for that. It's not good. I think they realize sign gags are funnier if you read them rather than

say them out loud. Was that ever a kind of business? Just a babysitting business where you call them and there's three babysitters sitting on a bench in a room and they send one of them, but they haven't background checked anyone? I've heard of a babysitter's club. Right, yeah. That seems

real to me. I've heard of a boxcar child. That's more of an orphan, I think. Oh, okay. Were the babysitter's club orphans? No, they were just a bunch of friends who started it. Who had parents. Yes, yeah, they all had parents. They despised orphans.

The Babysitter's Club is really about running a small business. It's just having a treasury, counting money together. Taking minutes. All the fun. One of the girls has diabetes too. I remember that. Meanwhile, the boxcar children in the first...

They're orphans in the first book and get adopted at the end of the first book. They only live in a rich guy's house with a boxcar in the backyard. It is a real lie of the boxcar children. Wow. What a scandal.

You have opened up old information in my brain. You have a lot of opinions. Best Sonic cartoon. Why the boxcar children is bullshit. This is fascinating. I mean, I was more of an encyclopedia brown kid. That was my go-to one. But yes, the Happy Little Elves,

it was them taking a swing at the Smurfs, and I think after season one, they're like, why are we attacking? We're bigger than the Smurfs. We don't need to bother with this. Yeah, it seems like punching down. And they are so unpleasant to look at, the Happy Little Elves. I hate them.

I don't know if I've mentioned that yet. You know, the last thing I have on the Happy Little Elves, too, is that they don't know if I've mentioned that yet. You know, the last thing I have on Happy Little Elves, too, is that they want to joke about how bad limited animation is, but it's like it's in an episode that they thought wasn't well animated, so it's like it's a real Glass Houses kind of moment. Those elves are stones in their Glass House. Oh, yeah, so up next we have, again, the Simpsons were created to be like anachronistic, like the 60s

family, but living in the late 80s, early 90s, drawn from the lives of the writers. And Homer apparently was way into Mambo. Very much right. The very first episode meant to air had a lot of Homer being into Mambo, telling Bart the key to a woman's heart

is Mambo and things like that. We have the Mambo reel. Yes, all our mambo reel. Yes, all our mambo moments. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. Ba-ba-ba. Ba-ba. Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.

Work that body, Homer. You know, one day you'll learn to move like your old man. Not if I can help it. Son, there's not a woman alive who can resist a man who knows how to mumbo. You don't have a clue, do you, Dad? Out, boy. Ouch! What a grump. Smooth as a baby's behind

they haven't changed a bit have they the famous mambo family I think Homer even like mambos in the arcade game it's like an idol animation fingers in the air game it's like an idol animation yeah I mean it's like fingers in the air

that's right yeah Homer danced a lot more back then just like Batman in the 66 I think there's also I forget which episode

but or maybe it was cut there was like mombo in the morning the mombo channel like they'd be listening to that too like

they couldn't have predicted that Lubega would bring back the Mambo channel. They'd be listening to that too. They couldn't have predicted that Lubega would bring back the Mambo so strongly. Right, right. The fifth and final Mambo. When he unlocked the fifth Mambo, the world ended. Legend tells of a sixth Mambo.

We're not ready. That was also, I mean, that's a fun scene though too with homer shaving his beard line just them addressing that like what if homer were to shave his beard line well it would pop back instantly that's what would happen that i mean that sound effect when his beard popped back that would never happen on the show yeah the sound effect is so wacky and uh also that song that homer is singing that was like the old real sex theme, if anybody remembers the HBO series Real Sex.

No. Okay, no one admits to staying up late to watch Real Sex. This is a sting, Henry. Bye. I didn't either. I was asking if you guys... More of a Red Shoe Diaries crowd, I see. An older boy told me that's what the theme was.

I also like that Bart is not buying one second of it. He's like, God, no, I hope I never am a mambo dancing old man. But that dancing of their stilted dancing was funny and how weird it was. But the dancing in the original footage that got canned, very different. You know, Marge, this is just like when we were dating. Except for one thing.

No chaperone. Oh. So no lie, that was a Disney guy, right? Yeah. Quite possibly. I think so. But sorry, Jordan. No chaperone?

What does that mean? I mean, they're going to score. That's their say. In high school, they had chaperones, so they couldn't stay out late. But, I mean, Homer's like, like, that's just Fred. That's Fred Flintstone.

And kind of Yogi Bear, too. Yeah. Hey, boo-boo, I'm going to have sex with Marge. And his mouth, they called it the trumpet mouth. Like, that's, again, a thing they'd never do after season one. And the dancing there is, like, it the trumpet mouth. That's again a thing they'd never do after season one. The dancing there is like it's too good. It's not that

they screwed it up by animating it poorly. They dance too well. That's why they wanted it changed. The rhythm in this season is so strange. There are these spaces after a joke happens. Was there ever a time when it had a laugh track?

Was it ever supposed to have one? Because it seems like they are leaving room for one. I think they didn't realize how many jokes they could actually write until things started coming back. And I think in the beginning, the shows weren't scored until they were told like, oh, this will have music, right? And they were like, oh, yeah, music. We're writing it now.

Yeah, well, I mean, in the season one, music also is so weird because they got Richard Gibbs. Alf Clausen didn't do season one. He came on in season two. So the composer was Richard Gibbs, who I think was doing it on the side of doing Tracy Ullman. And he'd never scored a cartoon before. So there's some just really wild sounds like or like there's even some like Ren and Stimpy style like scratch recordings of just like pulled out the library sounds.

Yeah, that you can, I'm not surprised they went with a different composer after season one. But yeah, there's another standout from this one. So another drop runner is Marge being initially a mom from the 60s, made disgusting gelatin desserts, which also featured a lot on her early merchandise. They didn't know what to do with merch of Marge, which I don't think people were really asking for,

but she would often be holding a plate of gelatin dessert that looked like her hair, and the caption would say, I made it myself. So that was the joke about Marge. So in this next clip, we have the little runner of her bad cooking, bad 60s-style cooking. Mmm, marshmallow.

Oh, that's yours, yeah. Trying to get at least some of the unfortunate noises out of my system while I can, Marge. I don't want to embarrass myself with a company picnic. Are you sure that's enough? You know how the boss loves your delicious gelatin desserts. Oh, Homer, Mr. Burns just said he liked it once. Marge, that's the only time he's ever spoken to me without using the word bonehead. Oh, boss, look what we brought. Gelatin dessert. Oh, for the love of Peter.

That's all anybody brought. Some damn fool went around telling everyone I love that slimy goop. Well, toss it in the pile over there. And make yourselves at home. Hear that, Dad? You can lie around in your underwear and scratch yourself. A rare season one white smithers in that clip. Oh, yes. Oh, yeah. We'll get to it.

But I don't think I knew what those were as an eight-year-old watching this. My mom never, I mean, it was Jiggler's time in our era. The age of Jiggler's was upon us. The Jiggler's foretell of a sixth mambo.

Oh, wow. They are the symbols. But they have to call them gelatin desserts because they were so afraid of using a copywritten term like jello. It's like hearing someone say cola casually. Yes, yeah. It's always jarring. It's like, why did you say cola?

Where's this branded term? Yeah, I had to explain this to british people i worked with when they use like the term like plaster for band-aid or like tissue for kleenex i'm like no in america we use branded terms because everybody owns everything like you you you talk about what a brand is not a descriptor and the same with jello you just call i i could you even make a gelatin dessert that isn't a Jell-O branded one? It's made from hooves.

I wouldn't. Wouldn't trust it. Yeah, the gelatin desserts in there, I guess all the moms made it for the writers of the show. I guess so, yeah. I think on Darkwing Duck they even did a bit of talking about gelatin, but they just didn't say jello.

They called it pudding, correct? Yeah, Gosling called it pudding. Those lazy writers. Those lazy writers. What's your favorite Disney afternoon show? Definitely Darkwing. Definitely Darkwing. Not even close.

Got to go with Bonkers. The Dark Horse. You're a Bonkers man. Or Bobcat of the Disney Afternoon. Come on, bonk man. We have one more notable thing that got changed. Jordan already touched on it a little bit here. Yeah, so there was not just one instance of a wrong race character,

but two. One is lesser known, but I think we lead with the first one. Lesser known one. Now, let's have even more fun. And over here is our thermal regulator. To your right, if you look through this window, you'll see where our water rejoins the rest of nature's biosphere. The first Blinky!

Yes, and the first and only Blacksmoothers. Yes. He's more of like a scientist. He's like wearing a lab coat, too. Yeah, and I guess this is like hot off the presses trivia of a few years ago, because until maybe 2018, it was cited all the time, even by Matt Groening, as like a coloring mistake. But initially, the writers of that episode, Homer's Odyssey, intended for Smithers to be both gay and black,

but then realizing he would be the servile, like toady Mr. Burns, thought having a black character be that role would be a bad look. So he was quickly rewritten to be a white character with no disgrace like home. Yeah, by the very next episode, he's too white-designed, though he won't... He's still wearing the lab coat. They didn't fully redo Smithers until season two. But yes, there is

a lesser-known mistaken race here. Which seems to me like a coloring error, but it's still kind of interesting. Bobo. I got some wieners in my pocket. It figures. Come on, you stupid dog. Now, Blacksmithers is good party trivia. That will knock people out. Yeah. They got

Lou all wrong. White Lou. Yeah. This is back when Lou and Eddie didn't have Wiggum with them going on calls, too. Like, eventually, they're just like, Wiggum's the funniest. He should be on all these calls. Who cares if he's the chief of police? He needs to investigate everything.

Yeah, and then they, you know, kind of once they fix that, the Simpsons maintains its perfect track record on race. Yep. Never a single problem again. Yeah. There's one season one character I don't have any clips of tonight you know let's not talk about him his name is Jasper

yeah actually we will see Jasper in one shot but yeah Eddie and Lou I also love that they they're like no pretzels while on duty but they will drink that's one of the many like there are good jokes in this season I swear

it's worth watching also in that I forgot to mention We'll drink. That's one of the many, like, there are good jokes in this season. I swear. It's worth watching. Also, in that, I forgot to mention that jello clip. There's another thing in there they would never do after that one, which is Homer wearing a striped shirt. Like, it looked all, it just looked crazy. Like, I don't know why. It was just like two extra red lines on his regular outfit.

But it's just like, it hurt my eyes, honestly. It was too bright, the mix of the yellow and red there. But yes, after... So about season one, actually. This is on to the next bit here. I think people are too mean to season one thinking it's only ugly characters and ugly drawings and all this stuff. I mean, we speak of Klasky Chupo in the terms of...

It's also unpleasant sounds. Yeah, too. I mean, but we usually discuss Klasky Chupo in the terms of the bad things they made much later, but not in the very good work they put in in the first three seasons of the show. And there's some of it in even season one. Yeah, season one has some really, really great animation.

Clearly, like, two, I think like standouts of like, oh, this just is like theatrical level animation in it. So, I wanted to share a quick reel of the best animation in season one. Do you

dare to tears? What the? Those tears. Oh, what the... What up, you're doing, Selma? Bart, go easy on me. I'm your dad. I am going easy on you, but you're just so old and slow and weak and pathetic. No, Bart, no! Old and slow and weak and pathetic. No!

No! No! Mince, I told that boy a billion times to pick up his jug. No! No! No! No! No! No!

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I'm dying. I'm dying. I'm dying. Three kids as equals. They're people too. They're smarter than you think. They were smart enough to get me. Watch whatever the hell we want. I said you're going to watch this tape. And you're going to get me I said you're gonna

watch this tape and you're gonna do what I say or I'm gonna do something to you and I don't know what that is

because everybody has always done what I say that last one there is like I think the best animation in the show ever

in 30 years yeah in 30 years yeah that that In 30 years, yeah. That one bit there with Bot saying, everybody does what I say, that was done by Dan Haskett. He was an animator who was fresh off of animating The Little Mermaid and Belle.

He did Ariel and Belle and then did work on the first two episodes of Simpsons. He had an opening in schedule like that that animation is so good and i'm glad they kept it in the regular episode like that uh so especially in some enchanted evening that it's known as like oh how terrible the animation is like it includes that scene in it that looks so good there are highs and lows in that episode uh well the the heart attack that crusty has uh that is all brad bird that's all done by him the uh uh incredible

zion giant guy he uh he back then at least he had a rule that he wanted to animate one scene everything he directed which he stopped doing once he worked in 3D because he doesn't know how to animate in 3D. But so for this episode, he was like, oh, I love the sound Dan makes having his heart attack so much. I have to draw the perfect drawings for that. So every pose like that, that's all Brad Bird. Yeah, it's kind of neat that in this early phase of the show, you kind of see people putting their stamp on it. Yeah, you kind of can feel the influence. Later on,

it kind of gets harder and harder to tell who wrote something or who directed something because it turns into a machine for better or for worse. But yeah, it's kind of nice to see these individual little talents sneaking in. Yeah, as the series art became more uniform But yeah, it's kind of nice to kind of see these kind of individual little talents sneaking in. Yeah, as the series art became more uniform too, it's also there's less room for animation

like that in the series. Yeah, and Krusty Gets Busted was the one episode he directed himself, which is why the Sideshow Bob stuff we just saw was so great. Yeah, yeah, the whole Sideshow Bob episode is full of amazing animation in that. Yeah, it's the only episode brad bird

fully directed he co-directed uh like father like clown but this was his only one and he i mean he just loved crusty like crusty was uh first drawn in the shorts he was the david silverman like art creation but uh brad bird loved rusty nails from his time growing up in Oregon, their local clown, who was like a Christian clown, the opposite of Krusty. But he loved this old clown show aesthetic of him, and he imbued so much of that into Krusty. That turned Krusty into the lovable guy we all know,

the receptacle of Johnny Carson jokes. I also love homer screaming i think that's when they really figured out like no homer enraged is funny homer not not the single father not single father not the father is like be normal or i'm worried about my job like no he's a screaming monster who has his tongue just jump out of his head when he's screaming. Yeah, him, the couple episodes where, you know, especially the Dr. Marvin Monroe one where he's like, he wants his family

to be more like the other families. It just seems so off for Homer. I mean, obviously they're just figuring the show out. It's the third episode. But yeah, it's like it's so different from what he became, which is this hilarious screamer. And I think Marge is the one who gets's the third episode. But yeah, it's so different from what he became, which is this hilarious screamer. And I think Marge is the one who gets drunk in that episode

and embarrasses him. Marge gets drunk. Everything is wrong. And Homer tells them, hey, stop sitting in the living room eating and watching television. Let's eat together. It's like, no! But it was the fourth episode they wrote. They were still figuring things out. I's like, no! It was the fourth episode they wrote.

They were still figuring things out. I do like that animation with Marge's fantasy when she gets drunk. It's kind of this little ballet scene. It kind of looks like it's from Fantasia. Anyway. Yeah, her dance sequence with Jacques

is really great. Oh yeah, sure. That kind of seemed to be a thing of the show that maybe it was part of the original vision was those flashbacks, or those kind of fantasy scenes that go to a different color palette. Anyway. Yeah, they still had a couple of those in season two,

but by season three fantasy sequences, they would just look like when Lisa would imagine people cutting up her giant tomato. They just colored it normally yeah uh but uh but yeah that that's i just want to show all that just so people can see like uh there was still really good animation season one like homer smashing that door uh the first one i show that was all david silverman really figuring out homer like he if you follow him on twitter uh he just tweeted out like his original drawings he did for animating that sequence of homer pounding on the door it's really great yeah these uh last three bits i think are the uh i think the

three most funny things from the season and the people still remember is like great from the simpsons and like uh one of them was like so big that it appeared, this next one, it appeared in Die Hard 2. Like it was the first time the Simpsons appeared in any other media. And it was in the Fox, fellow Fox alum Die Hard 2, which most people didn't see.

But this was playing on an airplane. Electric generator. Everyone comfy? Good. Now, don't touch any of those buttons in front of you for a very important reason, i.e., you are wired into the rest of your family. You have the ability to shock them, and they have the ability to shock you. Ah!

Why you? Oh, not yet. You see, this is what is known as aversion therapy. When someone hurts you emotionally, you will hurt them physically. And gradually, you will learn not to hurt each other at all. And won't that be wonderful, Homer? Oh, yes, Doctor. Whoa!

Bart, how could you shock your little sister? My finger slipped. So did mine. Bard, Lisa, stop that. No, wait a minute. Wait, wait. Folks, folks, if I could... This is not the way to get healthy!

Hey! No! This is not the way to get healthy! No! You don't understand, Simpson! Take my place! Boy, someone's really gobbling up the juice, sir. Excellent. Excellent.

Perhaps this energy conservation fad is as dead as the dodo. No! No! Dr. Monroe, your other patients have fled the building. Stop! Stop! You're damaging the earth! Hey, nice hair, Mom. God, all that electrocution. It just lasts twice as long as I think they probably planned it. Have you, speaking of Die Hard 2,

have you seen that clip of the TV edit of Die Hard 2? Oh, no, no. Oh, what he says at the very end? Yeah, so, you know, when they, there was a trend for a while where instead of... You know, the kind of way they did it back, you know, for a while

was instead of bleeping something or just dropping out a bad word, when a movie went to cable, they would try and replace the dialogue. And Die Hard 2, the greatest one of those ever is instead of yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker, he says yippee-ki-yay, Mr. Falcon. Anyway.

I had forgotten that one. I was wondering in that clip of the electrocutions, like, who zapped Maggie? Who was the person to electrocute Maggie? Someone had to press that button. I would assume Bart. But in an episode where everything is wrong, in retrospect,

that still remains funny. That whole sketch just at the end is very funny. Yeah, I mean, the entire Marvin Monroe section is just, it's a sketch to itself. Like, it can be removed from the episode. Yeah, and it really kind of, you know, is a good example of kind of what the show does great in the golden years is, like, showing a joke and then showing the ramifications of the joke,

like that cut to Burns is great. And that's like, you know, when the show is at its best, it's doing stuff like that. It's like, here's a silly thing and here's what is happening because of that silly thing. It's just great. And I love all their smoking skin at the end too. Oh yeah, sure.

They're dying. This next one is from the John Swartzwelder written episode of the season. It's definitely the craziest episode, but this joke I just love. Starving, man. Ah, food. Good thinking, son.

This young sapling ought to do the trick. What are we going to do? Hang ourselves? No! This is a trap. It's going to do? Hang ourselves? No. This is a trap. It's going to catch us our dinner. Come on, boy. Shh.

Just watch. Ooh. Aha. Got him. They killed that rabbit. If they can find that rabbit, they'll be sitting pretty. That's a long walk to that rabbit. Love the little life and hell design of the rabbit, too.

That's a fun little nod. I always remember the rabbit being flung, but I forget Bart's so hilarious, like, what are we going to do, hang ourselves? So good, yeah. forget Bart's so hilarious like what are we going to do hang ourselves so good yeah and the last clip here I have is from the I think one of the funniest the best episode of season one is Krusty Gets Busted

and a big part of that is you know they did have Albert Brooks before it but I think the best guest star of the season is Kelsey Grammer like he set the tone for all the guest stars that would come after him, and this great star casting of, they're not going like,

wow, Kelsey Grammer. He is a fully formed character. This bit here I just love. This is when they learned how funny it is to just sit back and let a character sing. Bolly of musketry, flamed, thundered, roared. A profound silence followed, broken only by the approaching footsteps

of the third brigade. Next week, chapter 35 of The Man in the Iron Mask, The Death of a Titan. Well, kids, that's our show for today. And now, in the words of Mr. Cold Porter. Every time we say goodbye, I die a little. Every time we say goodbye, I wonder why a little. Every time we say goodbye.

Goodbye. Love that. Beautiful. Yeah. So definitely, yeah, something I like so much about The Simpsons is it has great jokes about how boring something is and how highbrow something is. And I think that's a great example of kind of both of those things. Yeah. And they have the confidence to stick with him just reading a passage or singing a song. There's no real joke on the surface there, but it's all very funny to see

this character doing it. Yeah. Yeah, they trusted that the animation could express it. And also, I love that on the Sideshow Bob show, it is just them showing him sitting in a chair reading The Man in the Iron Mask to you. It's a writing smash.

The kids are sad to see it end and i mean you see him singing that cole porter song like that would just grow and grow and grow until he's singing the full hms pentafore in uh in cape fear it's very true so we interrupt your listening of this uh sf sketch fest presentation with a special announcement. In case you missed the intro, we have the video you're about to hear the audio portion of hosted on our Patreon right now for free. And if you follow the link in the description of this podcast, you will be able to watch that video anytime you want on our Patreon page. I guess that is him saying goodbye, but we're not done just yet.

No, we have one final thing to show you. We've had a lot of fun tonight, but we can't forget about all the Simpsons characters that we lost in season one, many of which had big things planned for them, but now they're all dead. So we have a little in-memoriam reel. Can we put the house lights down just a little bit

to set the mood here? It's very sad. I want to remember these characters as they would wish to be remembered. Let's start the reel. And these are all the real names. It's been a long day without you, my friend. And I'll tell you all about it when I see you again We've come a long way

From where we began When I see you again when I see Why'd you have to leave so soon, yeah Why'd you have to go Why'd you have to leave me When I needed you the most Cause I don't really know how to tell you Without feeling much worse

I know you're in a better place When it's always gonna hurt Carry on Give me all the strength I need To carry on And I'm proud to be an American Where at least I know I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.

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