Talking Simpsons - Talking Simpsons - Bart vs. Australia With Tom Walker

Episode Date: September 23, 2026

"In America, we stopped using corporal punishment and things have never been better. The streets are safe, old people strut confidently through the darkest alleys, and the weak and nerdy are admired for their computer programming abilities!" - Homer Simpson When a science experiment misfires, Bart finds himself on an all-expenses-paid trip Down Under to apologize to the Australian people. But when the government reveals he's in for the booting of a lifetime, the Simpson family realizes diplomacy is no simple game of knifey-spoony. Our guest: Comedian Tom Walker Support this podcast and get over 200 ad-free bonus episodes by visiting Patreon.com/TalkingSimpsons and becoming a patron! And please follow the official Twitter, @TalkSimpsonsPod, not to mention Bluesky and Instagram!

This podcast is brought to you by patreon.com slash Talking Simpsons. Head there to check out exclusive podcasts like Talking Futurama, Talk King of the Hill, the What a Cartoon Movie podcast, and tons more. Hoi, hoi, everybody, and welcome to Talking Simpsons number one in Disputed Zone. I'm one of your host, the Boot Disparager Bob Mackie, and this is our chronological exploration of the Simpsons. Who else is here with me today, as always? Hosting my own Yahoo Sirius Festival. It's Henry Gilbert. And who is our special guest on the line?

Oh, hello, it's me, of course. I am wrist-deep in kangaroo goo. It's Tom Walker. Hello. And this week's episode is Bart versus Australia. Who you picked the wrong guy to tango with here, mate? I don't think so. You're all the way in Australia.

Hey, I think I hear a dingo eating your baby. Yeah, well, oh. This week's episode originally aired on February 19, 1995, and as always, Henry will tell us what. happen on this mythical day in real world history. The Brady Bunch movie tops the box office. The Power Puff Girls debut as part of World Premiere Tune on Cartoon Network. And at the top of the Billboard charts is Madonna's Take a Bow.

Brady Bunch movie, excellent film, although it does posit that the 90s are the best time to be alive. As the decades have gone on, I think it's right. They called it. 70s bad, 90s good. Yeah. Also, what's bad is that. that the Brady Bunch was musty and old at 25 years old when this film came out. And this episode of TV we're talking about is 31 years old.

So, yeah. Yeah, the passage of time continues to embarrass us all, huh fellas? I don't know if anyone else has noticed that my stupid dog growling. Sorry, I'm on a bed with my dog like a true freak. Biggie, come on, dog. Secret fourth guest on the show. Secret fourth guest on the show, the most rescue staffy pit bull you could ever imagine in your life, this absolute deformed freak.

Hello. I think I have said this before about the Brady Bunch film, but it just shows you how times have changed where we are not getting ironic remakes of things. We are just getting remakes. Highly respectful. Highly respectful ones. I would never say they're old or stupid.

We did not get the cheesy, full house ironic movie. We got Fuller House. Yeah, you're not getting a... If the Brady Bunch movie was made today, it would have a minor key version of the theme the way that Ghostbusters did. And it would be a... heartening reflection on just how much the family has needed each other over the years.

Like, it's really strange to see the mordland needs of today's film going public. Well, you'd have a ghost of the original actor who played Mike Brady, right? Who was dead when the film came out, I think, wasn't he? Yeah, with that eerie CGI glow over him. Yes, but hey, I mean, Shelley Long, she left Cheers. It was what some consider a bad move for her career, but I think this justified at all. this in the very Brady sequel. The Powerpuff Girls, this is the short that then became a hit show on Cartoon Network in 1998,

but the World Premiere Tune was a special broadcast across all three Turner networks of TBS, TNT, and Cartoon Network, hosted by Space Ghost, where they also like introduce people to Johnny Bravo and Dexter's Lab, all these other shows. But the PowerPuff Girls won. We did a whole lot of cartoon podcast on PowerPuff Girls and it's history. but Tom, you any love for the Powerpuff Girls? I mean, the Power Puff Girls' enduring cultural legacy to me is the constant thing of what an Australian sounds like

saying Mojo Jojo, which is good stuff. But Power Puff Girls, I think it's like one of those cartoons that's aged, oh, it's a fine wine. You know, that just Power Puff Girls still hits somehow. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the remake came and went. We don't have to talk about it anymore. I'm sorry for bringing it up, but yeah,

the original show remains supreme. And Madonna's Take a Bow, I had kind of forgot that song, even though it was a hit, but the second single off of Bedtime Stories, which it was in her fandom was seen as her moving backwards from the erotica album, at least in like, The Sexes Turned Down a little bit. It's more of an easily listening song. It's the one like, why, oh, why, the show is over, say goodbye. Or if you remember the music video with The Bullfighter, that's the song. Yes, I recall the sad Matador video.

I mean, it sounds good as hell. I can't bring it to mind. I don't think I've ever voluntarily listened to a Madonna song. Nothing against her. But, you know, just finding out that song exists feels like turning a corner and seeing a shop that I've never seen there before. You know, when you find out a number one hit song that was ostensibly during your lifetime that you have no recollection of, it feels like you weren't in the world for a week or two. Yeah, maybe it just didn't, she couldn't get Kylie Minogue off the church there, perhaps, or some other. I was reaching, I was like, Australian singer, don't just say Kylie Minogue.

I can do better than, but I really don't worry. You really don't need to do better than Kylie Minogue. God knows we can't. Like, still, we're trying and we can't do any better than Kylie. You know, I assume this was Madonna kind of sliding her way into adult contemporary, but then a few years later, she went back to the pop charts with her song about Austin Powers, Beautiful Stranger. He was the Beautiful Stranger.

That's right. One of those wonderful music videos where he appears in character as Austin Powers and they're dancing, and they're having a great time. He's just getting molested by Madonna as he's driving the Shagmobile, whatever his car is. I forget what it's called. But anyway, that's all the stuff that happened when this classic episode of The Simpsons first aired in the United States at least. I can't speak to its first Australian air date. And joining us this week is comedian Tom Walker.

And I should point out that this show is currently in his 12th year. Tom, you're the first Australian to be a guest on our podcast. What a perfect episode to talk about. Wow. Thank you very much for getting me on to talk. about the one episode I am certainly an authority on. It's an honor to be here to use my palatial knowledge of my country. Of course I know and love. Who isn't a patriot in this day and age? We all love to represent our countries and feel so much pride in them.

Certainly, certainly. You know, I think it's taken so long time because we were afraid. We've heard about the convict origins of your country, but we are all recording remotely. Our cameras are locked up. We're all safe. Yeah, no. My ransomware is accessing your guys' networks as we speak. Yeah, I think I think like the reason to not have an Australian on your podcast, one thing, we don't have much to say. You know, like, and also we sound funny. You know, your listeners are going to need some time to adjust. They're like, is that guy sick?

Or is like there's something up with my headphones? Why the vowels so long? Am I listening at 0.25X speed? I think there's very rarely an Australian you want on unless they're discussing something specific. So you are forgiven by the country of Australia for avoiding my people. And in fact, you're congratulated on it. And Tom, we appreciate you that you're basically doing what Bart does in the episode, except it's not a prank and we're talking to each other despite time zones from North America

to you in Australia. And we will ask you to flush your toilet before we're off the line here. But that's something we ask of everyone. Absolutely. Look, I left something in there just to get ready for this so it wasn't waste of water. So don't you worry? Tom, like, were you growing up a Simpsons viewer and also what kind of footprint did the Simpsons have in Australia in the 90s? Huge. I think that it was, I mean, it's the same experience. It's one of the things that unites you with weird kids across the world, I feel like, is the experience of at the age that I am growing up and using Simpsons quotes as kind of the foundations building blocks of personality to be like, okay, this is funny. I'm just going to go ahead and repeat this as many times as I can to kind of, you know, feel the flavor of it in my mouth and try and replicate it myself. The Simpsons was all encompassing.

to me, certainly, and to my friend group. Now, was it all encompassing to everybody? Not necessarily, but we all knew it. Everybody watched it. It was like primetime 6 p.m. every day. Simpsons was on TV. It was all I was about as a kid. You know, I had the episode guide books.

I had the, you know, Bart Simpson's Guide to Life. I was, I had the comics. I was deep in. Dang, wow, that's a committed guy. Yeah, and this episode was written in part because the writers knew the Simpsons was very popular in Australia and they assume that they wouldn't mind being razzed a little. For the most part, it feels like Australia does love this episode. Yeah, I think we do now certainly. I know when it

came out or when I certainly first saw it, I was so offended as a soft young boy. I remember like, we had like a family friend who was American staying with us and he was like, oh, you're really like The Simpsons art? And I was like, yeah, except for that one episode where they went to Australia. That was so disrespectful. And he said, why? You know, didn't like that one. I was like, yeah, well, imagine if they made fun of America. And he was like, they do every week. What are you talking about?

And I was like, well, never mind. You know, I was like 12. Yeah, it was, I think it's definitely been incorporated into our larger culture now. The boot is looked upon fondly. We do sound stupid. We are kind of a little backwards society that everyone's surprised still exists. Whenever they come out here, you know. We just don't have much going on.

We're cuties down here, except for all the bad shit. When I met an Australian Games Press member for the first time when I was covering a video game in Japan, I said to him like, oh, you know, all I know about Australia is from the Simpsons episode. I joked. And he's like, oh, all I know about America is from the Simpsons too. So it's okay. Yeah.

I mean, like, yeah, the experience of you guys finding out about Australia through the Simpsons is my experience of finding out about America through like the, New Orleans. Finding out that street car named desire was an actual play and

not a musical when I was like 21 was quite discombobulating. Yeah, it's definitely a universal experience. Oh,

and the writers of the episode Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, on the commentary that's now 21 years old, they said they remember that like,

seemingly there were a lot of negative reactions immediately, like from school age children like yourself. Yeah. They said they got like letters from kids

sent in complaining about it. Yeah, well, you're just not old enough to understand that it's okay for someone to make fun of you. You just want to see people make fun of each other. You know, it feels bad. But, you know, yeah. Basically, children are stupid.

That is true, but I guess the letters from kids were, I guess, why they were written was kind of like a school project. The teacher was mad, so she had all the kids write in, and I guess it was a way also trying to write a letter. Yeah, you can seek your dogs on something, you know? Yeah. I was curious to if you remember, we've only seen these on DVDs that came out here,

that there were Simpsons like advertised a potato chip brand in Australia. You remember their ads for C.C's chips? Oh, man. I don't actually. But that's fun that they were doing like the celebrity going to Japan and advertising a snack brand thing over in our little market. That's neat. They did from 98 to 2001, at least according to the DVD notes on it. But yeah, they look like season nine clips of the same.

Simpsons, if you look them up. Are CC chips a good brand? Are the Simpsons endorsing a quality brand of chip or are they a lesser chip? I'd say that the CC, at least in the current snack landscape, is far outclassed by other offerings. My favorite, of course, in the Australian space is the Red Rock Deli. Of course, that's a more upmarket snack. That's more of, you know, an event chip if you're not incredibly bougie. But I believe that the CC is, of course, a corn chip, hence the name. my personal opinion, I would take the Dorito nine times out of 10, unless it was a pure novelty factor. So I think that it makes sense that they make the play for the big celebrity endorsement because they can't get there on towns alone, but I wish them all the best with

the continuing support from that three-year association with the yellow family we all know and love. Sorry, I kept talking there because I was like, I kind of like talking like a coach at the end of a game. You're being an informal consultant for CC Chips here. Yeah. You guys need that star power because you don't have it yourself, okay? We want to get you close to something, see what rubs off. Yeah, Bob, this is ripped from the headlines this episode, but not about Australia.

Yeah, the origins are nowhere near Australia. But I guess maybe kind of near Australia because it's all about Singapore and a hot item in the news because I knew about this because I was watching a lot of SNL, a lot of late-night monologues, a lot of jokes about this. But this is all about the story of Michael Faye. So he was an American student in Singapore who pled guilty to stealing road signs and vandalizing 18 cars over a 10-day period in September of 1993. So on March 3rd, 1994, he was sentenced to four months in jail, a fine of 3,500 Singaporean dollars and six strokes of the cane. So important to note, though, that Faye claims this was a false confession, which happens more often than you'd think, and he only stole some road signs.

which might have still gotten him a caning, but he confessed to more crimes. So thanks to our president, Slick Willie himself, he got the sentence reduced to four strokes of the cane, and that's what Michael Faye ended up getting in the end. I don't know if he'd served the jail time or had to pay the fee, but it was talked down to four strokes. And this story was famously covered in the 1994 Weird Al Single headline news,

which also covered Lorena Bobbitt and Tanya Harding. So he was covering all of the hot item 90s, monologue topics of the time. So Bill and Josh thought, well, let's do like Bart, he gets that punishment. But instead of talking about, you know, the corporal punishment of Singapore, let's just make up that Australia would do it. And we'll make it about like the fun and friendly land of Australia that will take this with good humor was what they expected.

Unfortunately, they were partially right. We are a land that loves to project itself as a land of laricans, of people who don't take themselves too seriously. the most serious, non-sense of humour having motherfuckers about anyone making fun of us. We are not at all laricans. We are so very uptight about that stuff. We do not. Basically, the Australian sense of humour, ideally, is poking your mate in the tummy and saying,

oh, looks like you've had a few too many pies. And then if he ever does that to you, you go really quiet, sit with your beer for a minute, and then stand up and go like, I'm off. You know, like that's the national vibe. We love to project the fact of being like a nation of mischief makers. But we're just cops, man. It's cops all the way down, unfortunately. Boy, we have to find out if Bill Oakley or Josh Weinstein were ever turned away at the border.

It sounds like they would be. They end up going to New Zealand instead. This new story, though, it was also referenced a few episodes ago in Bart's comment because Skinner tells Barty's in trouble and it won't be a simple caning this time. So they were already thinking about this hot item in the news. And I'm not sure. Were you aware of this, Tom, at all? The Singaporean caning of an American boy.

No, I was fully unaware of this. The Singapore cane only reached my ears during like the ECW era, where I understood that it was something to be used on people at all. But this was news to me. Hey, I'm glad you brought that up. I didn't bring up wrestling first. I'm so sorry. I apologize to the listeners.

Now my soul is going to leave my body and the conversation is over. I understand. Eyes are all back in the head. Well, it's funny, in Extreme Championship Wrestling, the ECW mentioned, like, they did make the Singapore cane a popular weapon because they did a themed match. I want to say in 95 or 96 of, if you lose, I get to cane you. And it was reenacting this story. And then it made, so the Singapore cane being a standard of hardcore professional wrestling

is thanks to the Michael Faye vandalism charges. Who would have thought that headline news could so affect two drunkards slashing at each other with whatever they found out back? Good for them. And you know what? Looking at Singapore now, I guess they are still a notorious police state, but I mean, we're Americans. We can't really talk about that. Though caning is still on the menu as punishment. Boy, they didn't learn to let their children are wild and free. Ed, you know what?

With all the Simpsons Australia talk too, like, just think that Australia would turn on this or be upset by this when we wouldn't even have this. Simpsons, if it wasn't for one wonderful Australian on the holding the purse strings on the production, the beloved billionaire Ruper Murdoch. We all love him. He's still alive at the time. Like, he's going to make it to a hundred of that guy. I cannot believe it. We are so grateful to him for everything he does. Thank you so much for bringing so much light into the world, Mr. Murdoch. You know, this goes live in almost two months. I hope we're wrong. Wow, that had been, oh. This is the one case I hope someone is dead before. this episode goes live.

You heard it here. Oh, picturing a Christmas. Pictureing an extra special Christmas or an extra spooky Halloween with that lifted off of us. Man. Oh, that'd be nice. This episode also has the original or a first draft is out there on Internet Archive. And Josh Weinstein, one of the writers, has also shared some pages from a different draft. So there are a couple of big changes in here I'll mention as we get to them.

But to let you know how long production works and how much. soon they wrote this after the March 1994 headlines Bob was talking about, the table draft is dated July 28, 1994. So they did it very quickly. The episode, though, after a quick chalkboard gag and then a replay of the underwater scuba couch gag, we get to the opening with Bart and Lisa playing a game of a race down the drain in the sink. We actually, we go to the kids' bathroom for a change. We never, it's rarely they set scenes in the kids' bathroom.

Only if there's a race. A bathroom product's race. It's toothpaste versus shampoo. Here was my first favorite joke in the script, which they kept in. They were going to show on Krusty's toothpaste that it, quote, must be sold as candy in multiple states. Like it's that legally in California, Vermont, it can't be sold as toothpaste. It counts as candy in those states. Lisa explains how Bark got the inside track, which is with the choreography.

effect, which I'm sure none of us would have ever heard of, if not for this cartoon. No, definitely learn false information about it here because I guess it does not affect small bodies of water. It's more about weather patterns, giant sources of water, not like little pools. Yeah, they say on the commentary, and I've seen it bored out in online research that a toilet or a sink pretty much is too small for it to drain that particular way, that it should in either hemisphere. though, I mean, Tom, have you ever put this to the test? I have not recently. I just went ahead and trusted him. And every time I've flushed the toilet,

I've just been grateful that whatever I did in there is gone. My gratitude has just been extended to the open mouth and ready swallow of my friend the toilet. I haven't checked in on its working, unfortunately. Yeah, I guess we're clockwise toilet boys up here, but I didn't check before. I mean, I used the bathroom before this recording, but I should have checked. I still trust Lisa. I don't care what the internet says.

That it's like, oh, no, it doesn't. It's too small body of water to check. No, I believe it. It spins that way. 100%. Yeah, I'm not going to go out and do independent research on this. Simpin told me. Simpin. Bart is very frustrated to be so corrected by Lisa. And credit to Wes Archer and his animation team, the director of the episode that he talks about on a commentary. They did very good observational work on how, like, sinks and toilets, like they'll gurgle, the sounds.

Like, the toilet is very accurate toilets to me, at least of a toilet in 1995. They really, I guess they haven't changed all that much. Oh, all right. All right. Tell me the condition of your bathroom without telling me the condition of your bathroom. This guy hasn't got the heated toilet seat. He's not got the bidet. Okay, okay.

Oh, no, see, we're clockwise boys, but we're also bidet boys. I have a starter bidet that I do use. Yes, it's true. It's like, the joke in this, not to get ahead. The joke is an episode is like, the Australian has a bidet and he's worried about it. We did not have them in 95. And, of course, the starter bidet only sprays one hole. So.

Yeah, I was wondering about that. Henry said right as if I'm correct about this. Yeah, the starter bidet immediately, I was like, is that like a bird from the Flintstones? Like, is that, and it's a living situation? Or is a starter bidet like just the installed on the side? It's a garden hose that snaked in through the window. Okay, yeah. Asking your neighbor to turn it on, but not too hard.

I get you. I get you. It's close to just a garden hose attached. It's a $40 thing you screw on to the pipe. and it's not heated, it's just intensity and direction you can play with. I understand. Though don't tell my landlord I have this now because we got an email three months ago. I was like, you know, you're not just a reminder to everybody, you're not allowed to install a bidet.

That's not in your warranty, like, or whatever. Oh, my God. So we also see Homer. We get another observational joke that Homer's being tortured by the changing water pressure, scalding and freezing him in different turns. I love that he's singing in the showers just. I'm singing in the shower. That's not a song.

You're not wandering into any licensed song territory that way. And a nice gross joke that Marge is telling Bart to use the plunger because she thinks he is scooping shit out of a clogged toilet. To be really disgusting. That's what Marge is saying. So after all of this, Bart still can't stand it. And Lisa has to explain hemispheres to all the young boys and girls in the audience in our first clip. Bart, water will only go the other way in the Southern Hemisphere.

What the hell is the southern hemisphere? Have you ever looked at your globe? See, the southern hemisphere is made up of everything below the equator. This line. So down there in, say, Argentina or Rand McNally, all their water runs backwards? Uh-huh. In fact, in Rand McNally, they wear hats on their feet and hamburgers eat people. Cool.

Oh, that Ray McNally jokes. One of the best. I love that joke. It hits so hard. I think one of my favorite things about The Simpsons, and this is something you only get to do when you have, like, you know, decades of, you know, not at this point decades, but, you know, you have so many years of built up character knowledge, little things like Homer's Half Moon Reading Glasses or just the backstory of at some point someone,

God bless him, thought, you know, I'll get Bart a Globe. Just, like, beautiful little character. touches like that. The globe with the wrapping still on, never touched. It just is so good. It's so immediately evocative of getting the crappy gift at your birthday. Yeah, I find globes are really less accessible these days. I just remember, I mean, we're all old, so maybe this is relatable, but there's nothing on TV. I played all my video games. I'm going to go look at the globe. And I have the same experience Homer does, where, oh, look at the, oh, there's a new country I haven't heard of. And the same thing, there was an atlas in the house.

too. Like, okay, I'll go look at the Atlas. Yeah, opening the encyclopedia and being like, I guess I'm going to find out what a bird is. This sucks. God, I can't wait until phone is invented. Is this relatable to you, Henry? Or were new Spider-Man toys arriving before you get bored? I had old Spider-Man toys

to play with. There are an old comic book to page through. I hadn't memorized yet. We were a globalist family. I loved feeling a globe at the school. Sure, and especially the ones that had the embossed mountains and stuff on it, but you're not home globe owners. I will also cop to not owning a home globe, although I've coveted one over the years.

To me, like, a true mark of distinction is the drinks cabinet inside a globe and the globe of course. Like, for some reason, we all picture it. I guess it's just been part of, like, the Hollywood set dresser, like visual dictionary for long enough that we all know exactly what I'm talking about. But, yeah, the various decanters inside the globe that can be easily moved back to reveal the drinks within. That to me is a mark of true lander gentry. That's like a Skymole product, I think. Yes, and you can tell there how stupid I am. Or you can imagine like Don Draper's boss has that, right?

In Mad Men, something like that. Also, the bit that Rand McNally, I don't know if Rand McNally still makes the globes with a big logo on it, but to think that the logo is on it and Bart thinks it's a place and the place looks like a Rand McNally logo, not a land, but just a logo that says Rand McNally. You know what? I went to their webpage and they still offer globes and it says, explore our vast collection of globes. And a good globe, it's $100. So, I mean, they figured it out.

They've cornered the market on globes and there's many different kinds. So this is not an ad. But use the offer code Talking Simpsons when shopping at Rand McNally for globes. So Bart then decides he's going to call people, which again, this is like the joke is that the phone takes so long. This is back when people use long distance to call people and it wasn't just whatever the internet costs to say call another podcaster all the way in Australia. Yeah. I never called Australia back then.

Did you ever, did your family like call America then? How expensive could that be? No, we didn't really have too much reason to. But it was, I remember it being like a thing where you needed to. It was like, you know, drilled into you, do not phone long distance. it is exorbitant. It is like, you know, finance ruiningly expensive to get that. But also I feel like, and maybe this is something that's fallen out of fashion,

this is also in like the golden age of, you know, the Corey Hotline style. One minute is $5 like the Nintendo helpline type stuff, where you could accidentally spend a huge amount of money on a phone. And of course, nowadays that's completely gone and you can only spend macro transactions on that thing. But yeah, the amount of like fear of hemorrhaging money on the phone was definitely there as somewhere that was very far away from everywhere. And so I know using the big pipe to get someone's voice all the way from America to

Australia seemed like an incredibly callous thing to do to your family's finances. Yeah, it was $6 an hour to call your grandma or get Zelda two tips. So you had to weigh your options. Yeah, I mean, if grandma doesn't know how to get through the dungeon, unfortunately, we're going to be leaving her to rot. I don't know what to tell you. I love my grandma, but I got to find the boss key, so I just hope she hangs in there. Did you remember there was some article where the people who worked in the U.S. Nintendo Helpline talked about how they would often get lonely people too who were... Okay, yes.

If you're a lonely child, the trick was to dial the toll-free number, which is for customer service. And they really entertained me as a lonely seven-year-old. old. So God bless you Nintendo employees. Again, looking at the globe, looking at the Atlas, calling Nintendo. Yeah, you had, oh, God. Undersimulated child. Yeah, desperate, desperate to do something. You're at the point where the elephant starts swaying back and forth in the enclosure. This is stuff that's lost when kids just have a screen in front of them all the time. I mean, this is a artifact of 1995, but it is nice how Bart has to first look up how to dial internationally. there's a page in the phone book that tells you,

here are the codes you dial for calling different countries. And before Bart calls Australia, find multiple jokes to do with places below the equator. We get the South Pole where the toilet is frozen. We get an unnamed South American country where they seem to be speaking accurate Spanish in it. I'm going to say, I can't speak Spanish, but I didn't recognize a couple verbs there.

And then we get a Hitler joke, which Tommy should know, Mac Rating always would tell them don't do Hitler jokes. I hate Hitler jokes. But they would always, I think it inspired, them to do more Hitler jokes. Yeah, definitely. I feel like that's, that definitely comes through in the style of the riotous. And Hitler was alive in 106 years old, and I guess at least one other Nazi from his Reich was hanging out in the area in Argentina. It's not to say like, Argentina

didn't have its fair share of Nazis who hit out there, sure, but, you know, did Hitler fake his death and make it into his hundreds? I don't think so. I do love him just saying like, Es aina nuisance phone is like what he says. Yeah. And the meriness of the man as he bikes along saying, Buenos Dias, mine a furor, is very sweet. Dark jokes back to back because Bart calls Hitler and then he gets a man killed via lava immediately afterwards. Sorry, Tom.

Paparized in lava. It is. As a soft boy, whenever I saw this, I was sad about the man dissolving immediately in the lava. It's on him for try to answer the phone of that. But, you know, he's not thinking clear. was already doomed, let's say. I mean, there's no way out of that situation, I guess. Yeah, the Eagles weren't coming for him. You're right. He didn't have much chance. I just watched my husband and never seen the Hobbit movies before, and he didn't want to read the book.

And I told it, when the Eagles show up in that, I was like, yep, he did the Eagles all the time in this book, too. It wasn't just in Lord of the Rings. Those Eagles kept showing up. The Hobbit movies are one of, we have like a rotating cast of movies that me and my wife put on any time of day. And they are the Twilight movies, the Lord of the Rings movies. and the Hobbit movies. And of those, I think it's fair to say that the Hobbit ones are the least good. And they are truly so...

Like, the all-time... Jesse Ferrar always says, like, you know, the immediate dumb guy thing you can say about movies is, well, just weird pacing. Because it doesn't really mean anything. You can get away with it. But the Hobbit movies are so weirdly paced in the first one ending

with a big flaming pine cone fight after them doing like another goddamn like roller coaster escape sequence and then being rescued by birds. Oh, really odd. Henry, I think you said that you saw a fan edit of all the movies and that is still four hours long and I was talking about this with my wife and I told her I'd rather just go to sleep for four hours. And maybe the dream, the Hobbit dream would make more sense.

The four hour version was better. And I say as I watched all three. I never watched the extendids of a. any of them, but I watched the three in theaters. I at least got to see like, okay, this stays focused on Bilbo the whole time, because it's his story. That's the worst

thing. It's not so bad in the first one. But in two and three, Bilbo is just lost in his own movie. You forget Martin Freeman's in the movie at certain points. It's mainly about the hot dwarf and the elf and also yeah, the Thorne stuff. Some truly baffling movies. Some movies

that make it look hard to make a movie and I do appreciate that. I I also, I remember I accidentally spoiled the movie for a friend when they were coming out. I thought everybody had read The Hobbit or knew the stuff and I felt bad. I said, like, how can they end the second movie with a tease of like Smog's going to kill Lake Town? He's going to die in like five minutes. And then he's like, hey, don't tell me. Oh, my Lord.

Like, hey, spoilers for you listeners too, if you haven't. I'm sorry. Yeah. I think it's the only movie where it takes less time to read the book. It really, yes. It's so much more rewarding to read the book. And it means you won't have to. you're Stephen Frye literally eating, I believe, testicles on camera.

Like he eats cooked testicles and you have to watch it. It's a baffling exercise in filmmaking. Anyway, The Simpsons. I'm sorry for getting us distracted. The testicle eating is not in that four-hour cut I saw. Or almost any of the scenes with that New Zealand comedian who's his like sidekick who dresses as a woman to hide from stuff. Bafflingly featured.

A truly horrific amount of time spent on that gentleman. Yeah. Well, we do know New Zealand is a different place, though. Yes. It is. Yes. Thank you. More importantly.

I was embarrassed. I used to work with an Australian woman, and I feel like I, like four different times, accidentally said a New Zealand, a Kiwi celebrity was an Australian. And she's like, she like cleared her throat. And I was like, oh, shit. Lucy Lawless is from New Zealand. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Yeah. I mean, we claim a lot of them. And Australians are not as quick to correct you on if you think one of the good ones is Australian. We're just more than happy to grab that and keep going. Now you do tell us that Mel Gibson is American, right? That's what Yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys won him unfortunately.

And congratulations, and you'll be keeping him. Thank you so much. The Simpsons head down under. But when Bart insults the locals, he'll get a taste of Aussie justice. Show him what American butts are made of done. On the Simpsons. A brand.

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This is the International Operator. Will you accept a collect call from... Uh, yes. This is Dr. Bart Simpson of the International Drainage Commission. It's an emergency. If it's an emergency, then... We understand some drains in your area have been malfunctioning, sucking in people and whatnot.

Really? Because. That's awful. Indeed. We need you to check your sinks and toilets and tell us which way the water is going. And please, stand clear. She's, it all draining cook, why he said. Oh, she was right, stupid Lisa's science queen. Well, why don't you just check your neighbor's drinks?

Oh, ho. The bakery caught fire and all downtown smells like cookies. Want to go smell? Yes. Yes, I do. Okay, we need to check in with Tom about these accents. Some will be better, some will be worse. How do you feel about starting us off here in Australia with Little Tobias?

I think that doing a child's voice is hard and doing an accent and a child, child's voice is harder, and I think this aptly demonstrates the difficulty of both. I don't know. But that said, I think that if you looked all over Australia, you would be able to find someone who sounds exactly like this. Like, that's the thing about an Australian accent is usually you're able to find someone who sounds that stupid because we're a wide and sunburnt country, and if you leave stuff out in the sun, then it starts to go off.

You know what I mean? Like, it's basically a curdled English accent. accent that's just gone a little bit wrong for too long. Tobias is a rough one to start with. I'll say that. I think that we're yet to get to what I think is the best Aussie accent in the episode. But yeah, I think it's a rough one. Fair to say. I've heard before that they think they say it on the commentary. Some Australians felt it sounded more like a South African accent. Does that ring true to you? Yeah, I mean like it's all just that little bit of accent that's chopped and screwed. I think to me, as someone who knows the

episode so well. I know that they're trying to do Australian and so to me it just sounds like an American doing an Australian accent because you just kind of pitch it up and go up at the end of the sentence. Like, I don't know, it's a bit New Zealand, bit Aussie. You know, it's someone, you know what it sounds like to me more than anything is someone trying their best. And God bless them for it. Also, this seems to be in a very remote part of Australia, not one of the big cities where part is calling. No, yeah, this is a very remote part of Australia known as Australia. This is the part of Australia that, you know, you go out to and you don't need addresses, you just go down the road until you hit the house, which is a fair amount of this

country. With wild koalas, do you see a lot of koalas in the wild climbing the bone falls? Man, I wish. The closest I get is like, I keep thinking to myself that Australia doesn't have that crazy wildlife, but then like our friends, Luke and Katie, came over from America and we will like, you know, kind of like, oh, just get ready. You won't see like, you know, koalas in the trees. They're, you know, out in the bush and they're hard to spot also. You won't see that many crazy things. Then we like went and saw Avatar were thoroughly underwhelmed by fire and ash and then came outside and what was in the air, but pink galas and fruit bats at the same time, like both eating peacefully from the same tree. And it was like, oh, okay, yeah, no, this is

spellbinding and beautiful. I'd forgotten that we do kind of. go all out when it comes to fauna sometimes. But I haven't seen a koala on a telephone pole myself, although I would love to. Gorgeous little creatures. I'm really more worried about the extremely buff kangaroos, which I feel like have only been getting stronger and stronger over the past decade.

They're so fucking buff, dude. It's messed up. They're straight up, like, on trend. I don't know what to tell you. They are walking around with a pump at all times. A big red kangaroo is scary. We've all seen the very. video of the guy, you know, having a tee off on the kangaroo for choking his dog.

And like, I mean, imagine squaring off with someone who was able to, like, rear back and kick with both legs at the same time, eating a pro wrestling drop kick from a completely stable base. It's scary, man. Yeah, I mean, cartoons taught us kangaroos can box. They can kick, they can hop. But I feel like I didn't know that they can have gigantic nearly human physiques. Yeah.

Yeah. Male ones can get as, like, big as, like, like almost seven feet tall, like standing tall, and 200 pounds of almost like pure muscle as well, which we were always thinking about their legs. I did not think about their like just even their traps are just gigantic as big as their thighs. Incredible pecks on those guys too. Drop the routine for sure. Yeah, we got to get the meal plan going because I swear to God, if it comes out that that's what they're eating, we're going to get a grass shortage, man. I'm going to start hoovering that stuff up for myself. They look great. What are their macros? Yeah, come on.

There's no protein in that diet. No. They're probably supplementing out back, man. You know how it is with these influences. There's also this bit of want to go smell. That's another of my favorite. I love want to go smell. I'm so glad you shouted that out.

Want to go smell is such perfect Simpsons construction. It's so good. Want to go play, want to go smell. And Bart's reply of, yes. Yes, I do. He's very sure of himself. And so after Tobias runs off on his little. tricycle. I feel bad for Tobias

in this because when he gets on his tricycle, that's where it's I think it feels like, oh, he's like six. Like Bart's taking advantage of a younger kid, too. Yeah, and I mean, this episode only has to be funny, but I've always noticed the very careful plotting where Bart calls all these numbers long distance. Lisa tells him

that costs a lot of money, so he only calls Australia collect. And then Homer looks at the bill and you think Bart is out of trouble because Homer's brain releases endorphins to make him forget about the foam bill. But then the collect call is still the lingering threat out there. But it's all very carefully laid out in this first act.

You know, if Lisa hadn't warned him about how expensive phone calls are, they wouldn't have even gotten in this mess. He just made another expensive phone call. But I also love that Homer just goes like, he talks himself out of asking Marge while talking to himself. Like, no, why embarrass both of us? His brain is worried. He's just going to look stupid.

And also his enjoyment of those released endorphins. He's having a good time. They seemed really good. It really made me want endorphins as a child, which I've realized was maybe the only reasonable desire I had at the time. Andorphins fucking hit, man. I don't know if you guys have had any of those recently, but damn, they're pretty good. Yeah, they don't hit as often in the 40s, but they're still pretty good. I feel you. I feel you. All right. Then we cut back to Australia, which you always know when we go to Australia because they play a little bit of waltzing Matilda each time. Let's us know. But, Well, on accent, watch with Tom here, let's give a listen to Bruno Drungridge. Dundridge. Dundridge. There you go. $900 a dues.

Tobias! Did you accept a six-hour collette call from the state? It was an emergency call for the International Drainage Commission in Springfield. Oh, my God. There's nothing wrong with a bidet, is there? Hello? Right. I'm calling it all the way from Squatters Crog, Australia, and I want to speak to, uh, Dundridge.

to Bart Simpson right now. Uh, hold, please. Alright, but I did... Hey, Robert Stanton speaking. Oye, I said Bart Simpson. What kind of a company is this? Bob Simpson's office? Thank the great good lord. Look, I was just so...

One mom in place! They think I am. Some stupid Aussie Drongo? Pleading yanks. I order. This is Bart Simpson. Can I help you, ma'am? Yeah, eh! My name is Bruno Drundridge, right?

You owe me $900, mate. No. Oh, you owe me $900. Oh, you. So we often call Hank Azaria the master of accents. Do you agree, Tom? How is he doing in this role? We've heard him play a poo and many other characters, but Australian accent.

Yeah, it's not great. You know, you can hear the points where he just breaks on it. I think that, as with a lot of Australian accents, when it's at its most aggressive, it's going good. Like, I think the key to doing a good Australian accent is just go full, like, mad max, Fury Road or Ork with it. You want to be like, anyone can do an Australian accent if what you're picturing in your mind is the explosive specialist in like a hero shooter. Like if you're just thinking to yourself, hey, we got to get this bridge down.

Like, or something like that. You can usually channel it. But I think whenever he gets away from the aggression, when he gets quieter, he finds it harder, it feels like. And dollarie dues is quite a fun word for the Australian dollar. There was a petition, started in 2015, to officially change the name of the Australian dollar to dollar-re-dus, but it has not had enough progress. Josh Weinstein won the writers the episode. He had to correct to the people who made it.

They didn't spell dollar-y-dews correctly. They said, he says, if you're going to do it, it is spelled D-O-L-L-A-R-I-D-O-O-S. That's dollar-y-dus, not a why. Unfortunately, I think that scuppers it in terms of the Australian. in public. We want our why, man. Yeah, I think we want our clunky little construction. But it is sad that Canada gets access to the loony as a measure of currency and we don't get access to a equally stupid measure as a fellow Commonwealth country. That does make me feel a bit left out. I don't know. Do you guys have like stupid names for the beautiful American dollar?

Well, I'm living in Vancouver now, so I've got my loonies. I've got my loonies. I love a looney and a toeney. I used my phone to pay for everything, though, so I don't engage with the fun money. Of course. When I visited Vancouver one time, I hope to do so again. I didn't touch physical money my entire time there, so I didn't even get to see, experience a looney or a toeney. God, yeah, we're missing out, man. Look what they've taken from us. When I was a kid and learned that like the Australia, probably reading it in Psycho Beat or something, that the currency is just the Australian dollar. That was, I was like, It's just a dollar like we have.

I did want a fun name like a dollar-y-do, you know. Yeah, it's disappointing. It's like you, I mean, you know, the whole country is this, but it does feel like we ran out of ideas and we're just looking over and copying other people's homework because that's what we were doing, you know? I thank the Lord that we're not dealing with, you know, pounds and shillings,

but it still would be nice to have just that little extra stamp. I think it's just a mark of us struggling to be serious country having a dollar rather than you know two tokens and a shaz-wasa yeah this first act already they really are falling in love with these faux australian terms and names they're coming up with we have the the kula muggeries which is the neighbors of the drundridges and they live in squatters crog squatters crog is great that's very australia sounding for sure how antiquated is drongo i'm learning that is a uh kind of like an older slang term even in the 90s it was an older slang term.

Drongo's like, look, you would be, I would be putting on airs to use it. I would certainly be, you know, it would be similar to buffoon, but also with like, you know, I'm pretending to have rougher hands than I do. You know, it's got that air about it where if you've got a shirt with stains on it and the stains are earned and you call someone a drongo, that's absolutely non-affected or, you know, has a chance of it. But for me, it rarely sees an outing for a lily-livered podcaster like myself. To use it to rough a term for a class.

Oh, I simply would never. I found an Australian website, like tourism website, with a list of funny names of places in Australia that was, though it seems like half of them were in Tasmania. That's like the weirdest names places I was fine. But it's like lovely bottom Tasmania or Piss Pot Creek in Tasmania or Bullshit Hill in Twitwobble Lane. Yeah, you might have. also be dealing with the fact that Tasmania is a very small like island off the bottom of Australia and so it's desperate to get people to go there for its tourism. So you're kind of trying to

hit the tourism crawl of you know, shits point, carmogutter, you know, like just every which one that you can get to. So Tasmania has a bunch of goofy ones for sure. The one that always stands out for me in Sydney is there's a place called Manly Beach, which is named because one of the colonists landed and saw the indigenous people. over at Manly Beach and thought, oh, they look quite manly because he was just impressed at how buff they were.

I see. Yeah. So I would guess probably half of those names I said are just from some colonialist. It's all from some colonialist. As long as it's something. It's a long legacy

of shitherey and genocide, unfortunately. You know? I don't think any giant sloths named a town in Australia. Yeah. I would have liked it. I wonder two of this

So the jokes about the When people referenced in America If they even reference now The Dingo ate my baby Or the Dingo's Got My Baby Like that is probably We would see it as a reference to The Merrill Street film

Called A Cry in the Dark And I learned in Australia It's called Evil Angels But like It was headline news The tragic death that is The film is about that Americans, like Seinfeld had a similar joke too of like,

is this seen as like too dark a joke in Australia? No, I don't think so. I mean, maybe in our current climate where people actually think about this stuff, certainly when it came out, we were like, ha ha, ha, dingo at your baby, ha, ha, ha, ha. Because, I mean, you know, it was the callous 90s. But also, you know, as a child, I was like, I, you know, you don't understand the enormity of such a thing.

When you actually put it in words and, you know, give the sentence its full respect, it's pretty nightmarish. Some would say it's the worst possible thing that could happen. Hell, that goes far to say that myself. It's a weird one. It was the tragic death of Azaria Chamberlain at which the reason it's also a film is that the parents were arrested and it was seen as a bad alibi that they said a dingo ate their baby. Like, and they served a prison time until eventually proof was found that a dingo actually did do it and they were let free and it was a whole. So you get a legal drama too. I mean, in terms of alibis, it is the next level of my dog ate my homework.

Oh, my God. In a way, a baby is homework. You got to work at it. What greater homework is there? Yeah. What greater grade can you receive than a pass on the baby? Yeah. I think it was like that truly went completely unremarked on.

Everyone was doing dingo ate my baby stick. at that time. I think that the only point where people didn't like it was when they said that we wore a boot or some shit. You know, we're just such a stupid culture of cops. Well, so we then hear that Bruno can't take this anymore. He gets hung up on by Bard, and so he's going to take it to his member of parliament, who is a man named Gus, who's slopping up pigs in his backyard. And then we take it to a prime minister named Andy, who is not Paul Keating, who was the prime minister at the time who I know nothing about and Tom I won't put it on you to explain

Paul Keating's entire political career to us but he was not a guy named Andy I won't know that By meeting Andy we've met what I think is the best Australian accent or maybe just my favorite line in the whole episode which is of course hey mates what's a good word as he floats around in his inner tube

I think it's one of my favorite Simpsons jokes so good I guess perhaps Harry Shearer has the best handle on Australian accent Well, also it's just, you know, like, it's short, it's loud. I think that's what you need to get the Australian affect across. Even like, Mr. Prime Minister, Andy! You know, that's just so good.

Oh, great stuff. I love the detail that, like, he is clearly nude in it too. So he's sunbathing nude in an intertube with a big fosters in his hand. Yeah. And it's something even more, like, if he was wearing a bathing suit, it wouldn't be as funny. If he wasn't just like, yeah, I'd casually just sun to myself. while drinking in Fosters. This is before, well, I don't know,

they must have been advertising in America around this time, I would think, but Foster's Australian for Beer ads that we got in America, I remember those after, seeing those on TV after this. Like how, Bob, do you remember your parents ever getting Fosters?

I don't remember them getting Fosters, but I recognize the beer based on having seen commercials for it. Well, okay, I was not paying attention that I only remember seeing Foster's Australian for beer ads like, as after Simpsons, but maybe this episode just made me even think that Australia had beer in it to advertise, and it just never occurred to me as a 12-year-old.

It's weird to think of somebody wanting the Australian delicacy of beer. Foster's, yeah, doesn't have really the presence here that it does in the States. Over here, it's definitely an afterthought. If I were to get a real beer in Australia, it would be like, okay, here's a real Australian beer. What would you suggest to me? Oh, look, for the way. one that has like the most market penetration, probably Victoria Bitter, but for just like a

straight down the line experience, a Toey's New, or I like a grifter pale ale, I think that's a pleasant drink. They have some fun flavors, like they got a watermelon pilsner or what have you, which is nice. I love a fruity beer. It's almost like a seltzer. It's very, very close, yeah. It's like drinking a salsa wrapped in a, you know, half of a loaf of bread. It's just as good. So we see that Bart's been getting letters this whole time trying to collect the $900 re-dus. He ignores them for what seems like weeks, if not months.

And then we also see a stamp from Australia indicates that they've had electricity for 30 years in 1995. Good gag. Good job. Yeah. I love that the time cut, Bart's been throwing his stuff in the trash all time, and then he smashes it down with Lisa's saxophone, just

that he stole it from her to put it in the trash. He knows he shouldn't throw that away, but So this is where Lisa realizes what's happening thanks to Hopping Man Collection Agency and Sins takes it to the parents And that's when we get our first commercial break And when we come back, it seems that even Homer learns about Australia Hmm, there it is, Australia

I'll be damned Look at this country! You are gay Oh my, hello. Hello. I'm Evan Conover with the U.S. State Department. Undersecretary for International Protocol, Brett and Punk the Vision. Unfortunately, Bart, your little escapade could not have come at a worse time.

Americo-Australian relations are at an all-time low. As I'm sure you remember, in the late 1980s, the U.S. experienced a short-lived infatuation with Australian culture. For some bizarre reason, the Aussies thought this would be a permanent thing. Of course, it wasn't. I know those words, but that sign makes no sense. Anyway, the down-under fad fizzled,

and the diplomatic climate turned absolutely frosty. Oops, let's pretend we didn't see that. Oh, man, Phil Harmon is always great in his regular recurring roles, but I love when he plays new characters, too. Yeah, he's great at playing insincere characters, smooth talkers. This is another one. I guess what makes him different than Lionel Hutz is he's kind of fay? That's like an affect he's putting on him.

We just went through Bill Oakley's great audiobook series, The Space, both 1999 and 1972, just came out, listened to it on Audible. But in that, Bill Oakley has characters who are like effeminate, perhaps closeted Mormons who are members of the CIA and FBI and General State Department. I'm wondering if this is commenting on that type of guy that, like, in America's security blob of evil, there's overrepresented Mormons among those evil I have learned. In the script to Evan Conover, they say it should be Phil Hartman. They're calling him out immediately.

They wrote it for Phil Hart. It's a nice space. And Henry and I, of course, we were small children, but we lived through this Australia Fed in America as it was happening. So most of these images are familiar to me outside of Jacko, the giant bodybuilder guy with the battery, the pre-energizer Bunny advertising campaign. He was like a rugby player or something.

Tom, I'm not sure if you were aware of Jacko. All of this is news to me. Very rarely do we know what of ours people like overseas, I feel like. Like finding out that Neighbors is super popular in the UK was crazy. Yeah, no, I was not aware of any of these personally. I was also like four years old at the time of the episode aired. So, you know, I wasn't quite present for it. Yeah, this is Mark Jackson, Jacko, an Australian footballer turned actor slash singer,

famous for his crazy physique. Also, we have Paul Hogan as Crocodile Dundee. This is how twisted America was. This was the number two highest grossing movie of 1986. It almost beat Top Gun. That's how popular Crocodile Dundee was. That is what was going on in America in the latter half of the 80s. Pua La Blue was an Olivia Newton-John founded Herald Store.

And Subway was never selling the footlong Vegemite Subs. But though we did get Yahoo series films in America. Yeah. Oh, that's... Sorry, yes. I have seen Crocodile Dundee, the movie very recently. I don't know if either of you have had the pleasure. It is one of the worst movies ever made.

It is just a series of sketches. Like, it's genuinely like a sketch show about what if an Australian guy was in New York. Wouldn't that be crazy? Well, it certainly would be racist. I tell you what. Like, it's mental, man. Have you seen it? I've only heard a podcast about it recently.

Sorry, Henry. No, no, I'm with you, Bob. I watched it as a kid and did not get the levels on it. But I've seen clips recently that the famous, that's not an I've seen is about, like, there is certainly a racist. tinge to it for sure, I would say. It's an African-American man who is threatening him, and he's like, I'm going to show him a knife. And that's just the start of it, I'd say in that movie, too.

Certainly. And Yahoo Sirius, of course. He arrived in America with the film Young Einstein. I wanted to check in on Yahoo! Sirius he's up to lately, and I have this news report here. In March of 2025, Sirius was accused of refusing to leave the home of an elderly man who had found him homeless and sleeping in his car. Here's a thing, though, Yahoo Sirius also elderly, so I think it's fair game. Another elderly man can yell at him.

He's like 73. Wow, man. Credit to Yahoo for hanging in there, I suppose. But boy, so he is living in his car, huh? That's a meaner joke, were that not reality? That's a meaner joke than the joke in this episode that no one would have heard of him. I have not seen young Einstein either. Henry, have you?

I saw it in theaters as a kid. Oh, wow. Okay. You were ready for the Australian invasion. That's even funnier because then this joke was in the episode and it made no sense to me. I had completely forgotten, I believe in the movie, if I remember it at all. It's Young Einstein Invents Beer, I think, or a new way of making beer. I think that's part of the plot, yes.

And the only other Paul Hogan film I saw was Lightning Jack's, his cowboy movie with Cuba Gooding Jr. in it as well. Another disgraced man. But in that movie, he's like, it's just what if their only way to refresh the Crocodile Dundy idea was, well, okay, what if you went to the Old West? and America. So it's multiple levels. Hell yeah. That's Australian excellence, baby. Paul Hogan was like a star in Australia first before these movies, right? Like, he's known there. He wasn't just a guy who showed up in America, right? Yeah, I think so. I think like he's still a star over here.

Like some friends of mine wrote on the like the roast of Paul Hogan when it was on in like, I don't know, fucking last year or some shit. Pardon my language. As I speak about the roast. of Paul Hogan, my respect levels grow dangerously low, and so my language grows high to reflect that. Yeah, I think he was like a famo over here for some reason. I don't know. That's for Yanks. I don't know what's up with him. Isn't it surprising there hasn't been a legacy sequel of Crocodile Dundee? I have to assume because he owns the rights to the character and it's up to him to decide if Chris Hemsworth can play Crocodile Dundee Jr. in some movie. Oh, wow. Yeah, thank you very much for speaking that into existence. That's simply wonderful.

I think Henry made this movie exist because it did come out in the year 2020. It's called the very excellent Mr. Dundee. What? There was really a sequel? I had no idea. I knew there were commercials that the joke was, what if Danny McBride got cast in it? But I didn't remember. Like, those were a series of car commercials. I didn't know there was an actual newish Dundee film.

It is the final Olivia Newton-John film. Oh, boy, that's even sadder. Geez. Dang. Yeah, you know what? It seems unfair that she's gone from this world, and Yahoo Sirius is still, well, around, I guess. Yeah, I say let's reevaluate Xanadoo.

You watched there recently, didn't you? Yeah, it stinks, but it's fun to watch. Okay. That's my defense. Yeah, I mean, I'd watch the shit out of that. That sounds good. We're watching the Hobbit movies all day every day. I'll watch Zanado again.

You know, another part of the Australianian craze was, like, even Disney got into it, well, everybody got into it, but, like, Disney, the rescue. Your viewers down under was, well, not a hit film, actually. It was kind of a flop for Disney. At the time when everything was really hitting for them, actually. But hey, was it down under?

It sure was. With all the crazy animals, you could see. Pick up. Really just one Australian person played by a non-Australian man. Right. Yeah, Dennis Hopper is like he... No, it was George C. Scott. Oh, it's George C. Scott. You're right. Sorry.

Just doing his George C. Scott voice. Right. I got my angry guys mixed up. Hey, we did a whole lot of cartoon on that. Yeah, on the Patreon. look for it. Okay. So they cut one joke that I really liked in the script that Conover says another thing that messed up Australian U.S. relations was,

I'll quote him here, things got a bit accurate during Desert Storm when one of our guided missiles mistook Ayers Rock for downtown Baghdad. And I know it's Uluru. I'm reading it directly from the script. Well done, well done. Yep, dodged, dodged. Yes. But then it shows that there's a giant crater in the ground where Ulauru, used to be that it was blown up by America. And then the final slide shows

the smiling Bill Clinton with tie undone and lipstick in face. And it's implied that he had also had an affair with the prime minister's daughter as well. Yes. Some dirtier jokes cut there. Also, when he shows that slide of Clinton with lipstick on his face, Conover says, hmm, I think that slide is from the Palestinian summit,

but you get the idea. A good joke. That's fun. Homer with some labor laughter says, well, what do you want to? Oh, you know what? Also, that plan B never worked. Vidal Castro, a conover, and the rest could not complete their fight there and their plan B there. But so after Homer's labored laughter, they ask what can be done. And they say they want to send him to jail for five years, which Homer just goes, tough but fair, leave with a man. Homer's just like, all right, done with it.

You're out of here, Bart. Just giving him up. He gets a break from him. Sounds good. Yeah. It's adorable how Marge grabs him to her chest of like, no. You'll have to find some other country to have relations with. And also I love that like he's sipping tea in the way Conover's like, okay, I'm not hearing a lot on the prison thing. So, okay, like he has played very, but you can see that he is already thinking of his secondary plan,

which is to lie and not mention the boot or lie by omission of the booting that is planned here. So they agree to it, and they're going to get a free, trip to Australia, which Bart also proves that he's great at faking an apology. And so they hop on the trans-hemispheric airlines to head on down to Australia. Seemingly, their flight takes at least four days, I think, based on what Lisa says, right? It must have been about a lot of layovers. I know famously it does, anytime like a podcaster goes to Australia, I always hear about the 21-hour flight. Yeah. 18 to 21-hour flight. And it's such a, you know, as an Australian,

and you just kind of view that as the price of going somewhere. And then if you're in England and you realize that you can be in France in less than a day, it drives you completely up the wall, the fact that people don't do it all the time. Because, yeah, we're very far away from everywhere. You can fly for like six hours and still be in Australia, you know? And it's still the same shitty fucking city. I think according to Lisa's math, it took them nine days to get to Australia. You're right.

It's Monday to next. Wednesday, yes. Time well spent. Time well spent. Every part of it earned. We also have one of their better, like one of their best cut through the floorboards type jokes that they go the entire way through the planet and to the other side. Yes. To Australia that we see like, I think the dinosaurs buried in coffins is one of my favorites. An entire idea we did not know about that. Or the skeleton dragging that dug his way downward in the wrong direction out of his caskets. pretty good too. And more importantly, Hinduism is the one true religion. It's true. Sheba is the one we should be looking to. Love that. Love that little slice of, and love the desperate

of the god as it wipes its brow. Very sweet. That's great. The Cheva is making sure everything runs on time, but it's not easy. Like, it's not, it's hard work and it looks like it, you know, I appreciate that. And also rip from the head, well, not rip from the headlines. It was like over 20 years old. They're close to 20 years old at that point. But the Skylab, reference is a real thing. Only if you're like a NASA historian, do you know what Skylab is now, I suppose? But it was the America's first space station when they launched it. In 73, there were like faulty solar panels and just it had problems from its launch. Very slowly, its orbit decayed. And there was some worries that it was going to fall into populated areas. But it

went into its atmosphere, fiery ablaze, spreading debris across the Indian Ocean and Western Australia with pieces of it found across Australia into the 80s even. So that bit there of Skylab being in the ground, that's actually a thing that happened. I appreciate knowing that I could go out and find some. Thank you. Boy, it'd have to be imburied for a good while now to have been found it. But I wish you good luck with that time. There's never been a better time to flip a Skylab piece online.

Yeah, yeah. I know what I've got. No low balls. And I do think of this joke about like just their wilted hair and just like these, when I have gotten off a plane in a very different time zone, I have felt to the, I think we've all felt this way. This captures jet lag very well, I think.

You know that aforementioned Australian games journalists I met while in Tokyo, I was very jealous of him because I was feeling incredibly jet lagged. And his time difference was like under three hours, I think. I forget where in Australia came from. I don't want to just say probably Sydney, but it was a small difference. It would probably be East Coast. So Sydney, Melbourne is like the same time zone. And yeah, it's an easy trip over to Japan for us.

Have you been? How long of a flight is that? Been recently, I think it was like, oh God, I can't remember like eight hours or something. I really am so bad at remembering stuff. That could be potentially the wrongest anyone's ever gotten it. But it's a hearteningly short trip for, you know, someone used to flying to the UK, which is like the longest flight you can do from beautiful Australia. Henry, I'm seeing that direct flights from Australia to Japan are 7 to 11,000. 11 hours. And whenever I fly there, it's like 10 hours. So it doesn't seem to be that different.

But you're not messing up your time though. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, the time difference is, yeah, flight time. Yeah, nine hour flight time from Sydney to Tokyo. I have never taken a flight like four hours tops is the amount of time I've flown just straight down in the same time zone. Like usually I am losing time in all that. So I was jealous too. The last time I was in Tokyo, I was just noticing like, I, I'm used to going places as a xenophobic American. If I see other white people in Tokyo, I think like, oh, they must be American like me. And then they have Australian accents or French accents.

I'm like, hey, what's the deal? There is a crushing preponderance of Australians overseas. And every one of us thinks we're going to be the only one. Like, for some reason, you go overseas thinking no one else here will be Australian. And everyone will be happy to see me because I'm Australian. And then forgetting that we are a country that is constantly. constantly shedding its horrible little spores all over the world. Like every other traveler has this stupid voice and is walking around thinking they're unique for wanting a flat white.

It's a, which is a coffee. I'm sorry, I should immediately clarify. You must be for a sec there. Oh, yeah. It's a coffee with milk. Beer. Well, and this is also Lisa tells us about time zones and the flipped weather. So, like, that I wasn't as, Tom.

Is it winter there with summer for us here? What is it there? is correct. You've got me dead to rights. I'm currently enjoying a balmy Australian winter. I'm looking at the window at some, you know, branches without leaves to cover them. Some with leaves still hanging on. But yeah, no, you've cracked the case, my friend. I wish Tom would have said no. Everything you know is wrong. It's actually a blistering summer here. Yeah, no, we actually switched that around. We got sick of not copying you guys. You guys can't enjoy summer all alone anymore. That's good to know that the TV hasn't lied to me.

Same with flora and fauna being spelled weirdly. Well, that also did confuse me as a youngster. Are we still using the ash in Australia, the weird AE mashup? No, not for flora and fauna. I think we're just going to go ahead and throw that one of the dogs. F-L-O-R-A is how I'm dealing with it. But maybe that's just me being an uncultured buffoon, a drongo, if you will. My college debt was around $100,000, but because of that, I know what an ash is.

And I can use that knowledge on this podcast. Yeah. I was very impressed. I was very impressed when you dusted that off and brought it out for the first time in a while. I liked it. And so when Bart learns this, he has to take out the bullfrog. He brought the entire way with him, like Homer in his sled, and leaves him to wait for him. He'll be back, though.

Bart's never seen that bullfrog again. And again, this is also taken from real life with the cane toad that spread through Australia. Apparently to eat cane beetles. The Simpsons did another one, the one where the lizards are eating birds, where Bart births a baby lizard that eats birds, and then they're going to keep getting new things to kill it. That was ripped from the headlines apparently, similarly, about cane toad. We got ourselves into the classic woman who swallowed a fly situation

where we introduced an animal, and wouldn't you know it? Oops. Now we have a humongously gross animal infesting all of Queensland. If you ever meet someone from Queensland, they will talk about cane toads with a casual violence that will astound you. And they'll be perfectly normal people. I know people who are like, you know, very artsy, creative people who are just like, oh yeah, you go out looking for them with a golf club. And I'm like, ah, it's confounding. It's just, you know, something you have to do up there because they're introduced pests and you're fighting back a plague.

I think in general they're doing a good job with just dusting off the five or six things people knew about Australia in 1990. Like the reverse seasons, the time it takes to get there. Paul Hogan, the cane toad thing, boomerangs. They just are drawing from like their own ignorance. Like what do we know about Australia? And I guess they were only working from two tourism guides. They didn't actually go to Australia for any research or anything like that. Yeah.

Looking at pictures online of it, I think they did do good job with their research of the, if you look up the U.S. Embassy, which is located in Canberra. Is that good pronunciation of the capital of Canberra? That was great. Don't worry. Any pronunciation of Melbourne is fine. If you want to Melbourne it, go crazy. We don't care. I think that, well, I don't care personally.

As the only Australian, I'm declaring myself responsible for the whole country. It's a monolith, yes. Yeah. Okay, then the U.S. Embassy in Canberra. Thank you so much. This does look a bit like it there. And I definitely knew the capital of Australia before looking it up. I totally knew it.

We have just said Sydney. Well, that's the. thing is Canberra is the capital of Australia and the reason it exists is because Sydney and Melbourne both got in a fight and they basically had to build a city in between them in the newly christened Australian capital territory. So it's very much a we built a third city so you two would fucking knock it off. Yeah. It's kind of cute. Like Springfield, Shelbyville and capital city. Exactly. Yes. Homer steps into the embassy after getting punched in the face by a U.S. Marine,

then this is where we head into the embassy and another great, great joke about American hegemony. Oh, yeah, this is a life. Boy, next summer, can you commit some fraud in Orlando, Florida?

I'm way ahead of you, Dad. Knock, uh, Simpsons, I'd like you to make our ambassador, the Honorable Averal Ward. Hello. Now, everything is all set for Bart's apology. Mr. Conover, we'll meet you at the Parliament House at 3 p.m., any questions?

Yeah, to the toilets go backwards in here? No. To combat homesickness, we've installed a device that makes them swirl the correct American way. Sweet land of liberty, healthy night. Now, Henry, Avril Ward, also a little phase, so I think your theory about the closeted Mormons and the CIA is correct in this case. Okay, yeah, I think so. I think that's where... Avril is a great name of the type of, like, fancy boy who is somebody's friend that gets turned into an ambassador. Like, you look into most ambassadors that they are a friend of somebody, whoever is president right then, is the friend of some asshole. Like, like, I think, but in Biden's term, Rahm Emanuel was, I think the ambassador to Japan, I want to say, is where they hid him that asshole for a while.

Similar things now. It's now of all Trump's asshole friends. Yeah, ambassador is the job that networking gets you. You get like, for being a good enough friend, you get to go somewhere and cut a few ribbons and talk to people. And you get to be the can on the end of the string, I guess. I'm not really across what duties an ambassador has, but I also feel comfortable saying that a lot of the ambassadors aren't either, you know? You get them learning on the job because no one prepares their whole life to be an ambassador, apart from just preparing their whole life to be a crony and a good one of that. It's like retirement plan for cronies is to be an ambassador.

Yeah. This incredibly expensive-looking American toilet to waste all of this to flush the water the right way for no other reason than it's the American way. Like is one of my favorite jokes about America in Simpsons, too. It brings them to tears. It's just like it's military spending for no good reason, just to also make something that if your shit goes down in the other direction in Australia, it doesn't matter. But to them it does if it's not the American way. Yeah. beautiful stuff. It brings Homer to tears. And then he has, hey, we're checking off boxes on things here.

They go to the cultural center. The first prime minister looks exactly like Snake. He's the career criminal of Springfield because prison colony joke for England. It's one of those basic Australian facts, but I believe I learned it by watching the show and it seemed fake until I looked it up. Yeah. It's kind of cool to see what happens when you make a country based on the idea that being sent here is your punishment for doing something wrong. Neat. Yeah. The implication of the joke in the episode is,

watch your stuff because you're surrounded by thieves in Australia. Yeah. The sound that they make as they advance upon the purse is really good also. Just kind of a zombie like, eh. And when they get caught, they're kind of like, eh, then they find their next victim. Yeah, it's so good.

Then we head over. Oh, there was also a good little joke in the original script where while they're in the cultural center, they also, it's a joke about, like, they look at an emu, a wombat, a platypus, and then they see another crazy animal called the Zarblex, which has three legs, spots, antlers, big buck teeth, and is smoking a pipe.

And then Marge's like, boy, certainly have a lot of unusual animals here. Guard comes up. Sorry if this fellow looks a little off, mom. He's been vandalized. But then he just takes the antlers off of it, like, there, all better. Like that, so. Very cute. I wish they kept that in.

That's good. It's a good joke about all the wacky, all those wacky Australian animals. We got a lot of animals over here that looked like they were put together by committee for sure. It's very much a bits in the spruce type ecosystem we're running. It's quite nice. What was that? Bob, you watch it right before me, but we just, for research purposes, just watched Utopia 2 for the first time. I didn't know koalas had two thumbs each on their hands.

That was the joke. Yeah, I didn't know. Oh, yeah. They've got two thumbs and a lot of STDs. Now that I do. That I knew. Do you guys know, this is my favorite Australian animal fact. Do you guys know that the male platypus has an incredibly venomous spur on its left foot? No, I have not heard that.

So the male platypus can sting you with its spur and give you like a truly insane amount of pain. Like people have described it as agonizing and excruciating and it sticks around for days. And it's one of the things that, no, just tends more towards the platypus is something designed for one specific purpose. and the purpose is to bemuse and befuddle anyone who discovers it. I love that animal so much. There's a 50% chance that it can cause you literally days' worth of unworkable pain that has no cure. It's so good. Oh, geez.

It was given every part. Yeah, they just went ahead and threw whatever they had lying around on it. After you make a few things, you know, you get done making New Zealand where it's all birds with no predators. You just have enough stuff lying around that the platypus. gets an all-terrain vehicle with a rocket launcher on it. It's sick. All the nice birds flew away from Australia to just be away from all things like the platypus.

A hundred percent. The Kakapo would not stand a chance over there. Oh, my God. The beautiful Kakapo. Then we head to a bar, which you had to do a, that's not a knife joke. If you're doing an Australian parody, you had to do it. They already did it in Boy Scouts in the hood, but they're doing it again with a Paul Hogan stand-in.

You call that a knife? This is a knife That's not a knife That's a spoon All right, all right, you win I see you've played knifie spoonie before Hey, give me one of those famous giant beers I heard so much about

Something wrong, Yank? No, it's pretty big, I guess I'll just have a cup of coffee Bear it is No, I said coffee Beer Coffee E

C-O-B-A Even if you spelled it to him He hears the letters of beer Even he can't Bay A is so good God, it's a good show I don't know if you guys have noticed that about the Simpsons yet But I'm happy to be the first guest to say it

Probably Really coming around on this show Yeah, you know what, it's a slow burn But after 20 years You can really finally say Oh, it's pretty funny also the homer's reaction of it is a comically large beer it's a joke he doesn't think it's funny enough or it's like i guess it's pretty big like just homer's disappointment instead of him going like whoa that's a big beer he's like pretty big i guess other countries were ahead of the game when it came to delivering giant beers to the customers because there was already a joke about giant beers in the episode where the simpsons went to a sushi bar for the first time but now in america in the west we have like growlers and prowlers and bombers things that go beyond things that go beyond the standard bottle of beer.

And as well as the Blitzballs or Buzzball, not Blitzball. Blitzballs, yes. Final Fantasy's tens, Blitzball. You can now drink out of it. Buzzballs. Buzz balls, I believe they're called it. They are like basketball-sized things. What is the thing that you saw around the Berkeley andry, like the chug-chug?

Yeah, it was the Borg. The Borg, okay. Black Outrage. God, the G stands for something. It's where you, Tom, I don't know if you've heard of the Borg, which was a hot thing with the kids in college a few years back. No, I have not heard of the Borg. I only have Star Trek knowledge of the Borg.

What's the Borg? It is the Blackout Rage Gallon. Rage Gallon. Oh, my God. You buy basically a cheap, ugly plastic jug of water. You pour out enough of it that you can then put an entire, like, regular, like, absolute vodka-sized bottle of vodka into the water. Then you have, like, Kool-Aid or, like, Migo booster, like a flavor boost.

and apparently it's like you will black out from it, but you will also, they say, you won't have a hangover because you drank a whole gallon of water with the vodka, is what the kids say. Yeah, okay. I don't know about that one. I don't know, but that might be a special type of alchemy that works on 20-year-olds. I want to say that that's a kind of chemistry that applies to a younger body. And I think if I assemble those ingredients together, I would simply start getting a headache preemptively.

you know? I think, yeah, if you're over 30 and you drink that, you wake up in prison but fully hydrated. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No one of the good prisons either. You're not getting out. Want to mention in the script, there was another joke they had it.

Australia would be even more insulted. Bart is offered a beer when they go to the bar and the bartender's like, wait, you're over seven, right, implying that seven is the illegal drinking age in Australia. Of course. I know it is not. It is, of course, 18, which again, pales in comparison to the heights of 21 that you guys have to scale. But, yeah, we do have, of course, you know, we're proud to have an epidemic of underage drinking just because what else you're going to do? America, we're keeping up with you in that, too.

There's two deleted scenes on the disc. The first one is a really quick one where after they go to the bar, we see that Homer and Bart are playing cricket together. And seemingly having a good time until somebody walks up to them in this little clip here. Okay, boy, here it come. Get ready. Excuse me, mate. We're trying to have our national championship here.

I'm aware of that. They're playing in the middle of the national championship game. The camera zooms out to reveal. Barney's Australian relative is there. Yes. Yeah. It is Australian Barney. Australian Barney.

Maybe one of the easiest copy and paste characters you could make. I mean, that's straight up. We've got some of them walking around. How beautiful. We head to the, formerly the Austrian Parliament House that they've had to. Such a good gag. Yeah, the sign being Austrian Parliament with the thing up and going A.L. God, it's good.

Well, I looked at pictures. It looks like the Parliament House in Canberra. It's apparently open in 1988. It's a newer Parliament House than I would have expected based on reading up on it. Have you, like, we've taken trips to Washington, D.C. to see our stuff like this. Have you visited these on, like, class trips or anything? Yeah, I saw one at, like, a class trip. I wasn't really checked in, if you know what I mean.

Like, the main thing I remember was going and seeing, like, the Science Museum because they had a big slide you could go down. So they were really struggling with keeping my personal attention. Well, Tom, have you been to the Walamalu Dirt Monuments yet? No, I've not been to the Walambaloo Dirt Monuments yet. No, I've not been to the Walambulambleau. dirt monument. I got to put that on my list. You guys made it out to whatever your local

dirt monument is recently? Now I'm sure there are other dirt monuments, but this one is fictional. Dang. It's a great name of a boring thing that Lisa would want to see. I do like that. Yeah, it's really nice. It fits that Lisa would want to see, but I mean, it sounds like it is probably

an indigenous Australian or an indigenous people's thing that Lisa would want to see, as opposed to a colonial one. It gets Lisa and Marge out of the scene so Homer can hold the Prime Minister at bootpoint. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We need someone to take the responsibility

away from Homer here. This is where Bart is set up, surrounded in Parliament, and ready before everybody, to give his apology. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for what I did to your country. Well, you're free to go, Bart.

Right after your additional punishment. Punishment! Well, amen. Apology would be a bit empty, eh? Let the booting begin. Booting! Ah, we're just a little kick in the bum. Y'oh.

And then we learned, Sparaging the boot is a bootable offense, and we see that the flag is a bare ass that is getting kicked by a boot. It's very important to us the boot is. It's so good to see. This is such a funny bit, man. What a great episode.

The reveal of the giant boot on the guy, and that they put the handcuffs on Bart, like, after you're, punishment but yeah they revealed that meanwhile the Union Jack still in the corner there I was reminded by that that the passing of the late Sam Neal it was brought up again recently the fun trivia that did you guys see this I saw it yeah yeah he's in the film of Enterison and his character is an astronaut from Australia but the flag that is on his uniform he made sure to ask that in this future that it's said in the Union Jack is removed from it and I believe it is an indigenous flag indication it was

his insistence of like, let's get the Union Jack off of that in our imagined future. Yeah, it's nice. Let's go ahead and imagine a world where, you know, something good can happen. At the very least, go to the ass in the boot, at the very least. I have the Union Jack in my flag here in British Columbia, and it's much worse than it is in the Australian flag. Because both flags and our flag have to share equal space. So the Union Jack flag is presented like a different aspect ratio. Oh, no.

It's like squished a little. it's very inelegant. I've never liked it. Yeah, it's starting to look like first time with the editing software. That's unfortunate. Yeah. Oh, at least your flag is like picture and picture, right? Yeah, it's nice having it small there so you can just kind of focus in on the stars and the

blue and just be like, okay, don't worry about it, just you're putting them out of your mind back into the left. So Bart is cornered. He's about to take his boot. In the original script, he was going to get booted 14 times, they say. That was the plan. Instead, they just won big boots.

Oh, yeah, Bob, we saw on that night where everybody should have won, or there should have been like eight winners at that costume contest we went to. We had somebody there as this guy. Yes, we attended a costume contest slash trivia night in Portland, Simpson's trivia. Bill Oakley was there, one of the co-writers of the episode, and one of the guys was dressed like the Mad Max character with the giant food. Perfect.

Great. I think the person who won, was the person who won the person who correctly recreated all the things, Bart had attached to his leg in Bart of Darkness? Yes, he had the entire, like, it was a stuffed dog, not a real dog, but other than that, yes, it was the waistbasket, the clump of dirt, the hose, the wagon, and the dog. Yes, I think it was all those things in order. God, that's so good. There should have been five winners.

There was also that great woman dressed as the possum, bitey, the possum being covered in little possums. but the Booter costume, he was also in great shape, so he looked good as the shirtless man and wearing his huge. But he was too comfortable to win. It was all about who was the least comfortable in their costume. I see, yeah. That's an important factor.

You can't be rewarding someone who's just looking good and feeling good. I agree with that. I think he also had a recreation of the flag, though, too. It was, God, he was so close. But though I think the secondary winner that was Bill's pick, I support it was from the Maison Dairy Air episode. The two local perverts, Eugene and Rusty. Eugene and Rusty from Bart After Dark.

They were unexpected dark horse costumes. We're not expecting. That is really good. So yes, Bart is about to be booted, but this is where I love how Homer screams, You Sold Us Out, Cod Over is such a great. Just moment. Homer's in an action film when he does that. Like, it's just, oh, you know what?

There's one deleted scene I should mention. This is the second deleted scene, and my favorite of the two. After Bart's insincere apology, he takes a second to add on one more little insult to the Australian people. That's right, apology. Well spoken, young man. I'll be going now. I'm sure you want to get home to your 10-year-old American reruns. Don't tell us who shot J.R.

No. Unfortunately, yeah, you have us dead to rights there. Yeah. No, he's read us to Phil. This episode of The Simpsons probably didn't air in 1995 in Australia, I'm assuming. No, a lot of stuff didn't We got, look, it takes a long time for TV to get on the container ship

You know, I have some information here You guys didn't have to wait as long as they did To hear who shot J.R. Because this episode aired on Australia October 11th, 95, so just I believe seven months. Okay. Wow, that's nice.

Yeah. I'm going to assume it was all Rupert Murdoch's doing again as a great Australian man. We have him to thank for so much. Truly, truly, truly. now things well not totally like launch globally but like Netflix things for instance

yeah like the stranger things the whole season went live at once Australia didn't have to wait any longer than we did for it no yeah the democratization of streaming lets us enjoy sub-part Netflix direct along with everybody else you know it's a beautiful thing

and we just got a Spider-Man movie do you guys have the Spider-Man now there are you guys waiting on Spider-Man damn I think we have the Spider-Man I have to be honest, I've not been waiting with bated breath, but I believe that Spider-Man is available to me right now if I wanted to go see it. You're taking your Spider-Man access for granted.

I know, it could disappear at any time. I'm so crazy about this. If we don't support this thing, it might not make it. This is where Homer then has to take matters into his own hands. Stay back, or I'll boot your prime minister. I'll do it, so help me God, I'll boot him. When will you Australians? learn. In America, we stopped using corporal punishment, and things have never been better.

The streets are safe. Old people strut confidently through the darkest alleys, and the weak and nerdy are admired for their computer programming abilities. So, like us, let your children run wild and free. Because, as the old saying goes, let your children run wild and free. Now, boy, run back to the embassy, back to American soil! I'll stop them. It's coming back this way. That throwing stick stunner yours has boomeranged on a... I think part of growing up in this era, at least in the late 80s, is receiving a boomerang as a gift.

And essentially a boomerang, it's harder to throw than a football, and I can't throw a football. So it's just an afternoon of disappointment as I'm in the backyard trying to get the boomerang to work. I think I only ever had, like, foam boomerangs. I don't think I ever got a full... Oh, it was the Nerf Boomerang that whistled when you threw it. Okay. Right, yeah. Still didn't work.

Are readily available boomerangs in your area, Tom? Yeah, I mean, it's a similar experience, I think, where you understood them as one of the weapon types that people could have in video games. And so you thought to yourself, well, that would obviously be cool to have because I'm not, for some reason I'm not allowed a sword or a bow and arrow.

And so this will function just the exact same. And you find yourself, I mean, there's nothing more dispiriting as a child than the trudge towards your boomerang. Like there's just, you didn't picture this happening. And it's humiliating every single time. It sucks, man. Yeah, I guess it is a solo experience.

There's no one else that can get the boomerang for you. You're on your own with this boomerang plan. Fully alone, yeah. To fully deconstruct a joke until it's not funny, as I love to do on the show. Please. That this officer has in, like, he has a holster for, his boomerang. It is something he is trained with and uses. He throws it, but then everybody is

shocked that it's coming back at that. These people don't, they call the throwing stick, but then use the term boomerang as a reference to like, oh, it's boomeranged back at us, but they won't call it a boomerang. Like, that is so ridiculous. Like, I just, God, there's several layers. Yes, just so good. And also that it clips off some of Bart's hair as well. It nearly took his off. I know on the Japan episode, The Simpsons Go to Japan, they had said that throwing the emperor into the dirty sumo thongs pile was not very well liked by viewers then. But was this attempt to assault the prime minister, I would think, taken with better humor in Australia, perhaps. Yeah, I think Australians have no care for the office of prime minister, you know? The prime minister is some guy, Even if he's liked as he ascends to power, he's almost certainly disliked upon him receiving it. We just straight up don't care, really.

I feel like Australia lacks a certain respect for the office, at least for our own offices. Well, Homer, though, I would still think he's now in more trouble than Bart for threatening to assault the prime minister. I would think that's more than a prank phone call. Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, assault is no joking matter, of course. Trying to sound serious for a second. Yes, yes, yes. that Homer, what is funny is mucus, of course.

Mucous is very funny. Mucous is funny. Goop is funny. Yes, you see kangaroo pouches and cartoons do look adorable, but we learn they're full of mucus because it's a womb, but on the outside, it of course, would be full of mucus. They had to explain, I as a kid, did not know. I hadn't seen lethal weapon too yet,

so I didn't know the political intrigue of, you know, visiting ambassadors and foreign soil in embassies. So they needed Homer to explain like Australia, America, Australia, America. They don't say diplomatic immunity, though. I think that was a tipping point to end America's support for apartheid South Africa, was how evil that guy was in a lethal weapon too. We're like, oh, these are those guys? Yuck. We don't like these guys at all. Yeah, that makes sense.

Needed a violent cop film starring no longer Australian man Mel Gibson. He's yours, yeah. We've divested ourselves of the Mel Gibson stock that we had left. Thank you very much. Barton Homer, keep running. We then cut to Lisa and Marge at a gift shop, a South O'O the Border gift shop, which I didn't even have the, I did not know until we were doing podcasts about it. I did not know that this was a parody of a reel on the American South chain of store. Yeah, this is, I guess the parody is south of the equator, sorry, South O the Equator,

and it's a parody of the South O the Border gift shop, which is on the border of South and North Carolina. and Tom, you don't have to know what that means. Thank you. I dare say unimportant states. Take that, Carolinas. Wow. He did say it. Also, this thing is still open if you want to go to it.

If you somehow find yourself in North Carolina for some reason. All right. Sweet. Thank you. Yeah. As the joke is in the show, what they're making fun of is, on the sign is also like a rather closed-minded caricature of a Mexican man on it with a sombrero, which is the mascot of South O'O the Border in Carolina.

as well. Although there's nothing as inspired as high koala tea. That's very clever. That's a good joke. So yes, this is where Lisa checks off a couple more boxes of Australia references here. Mom, you said I could have one souvenir right? Well, I want a didgeridoo. That seems very noisy and expensive for a souvenir.

Why don't you get this nice cap? It's clever, just like you. Huh? Come on. Get out, get out. Shoot, shoot, get out of here. These bloody things are everywhere. They're in the left, and the lorry,

in the bone wizard and all over them along a gulderchuk. They're like kangaroos. But they're reptiles, they is. We have them in America. They're called bullfrogs. What? That's an odd name. I'd have called them chaz-wazers.

Oh, God. It's making up Australian slang pretty good. Iconic delivery. All good. Yeah, just beautiful stuff. The Bone Wizard and the Malunga Gilder chuck. I wish they were real. What could they be referring to if he's already said the lift in the lorry and then the Malunga Gula chug?

A broom closet, perhaps? Yeah, I mentioned being like some kind of sort of like space within a home or a building. And also to hear, I love the Dan Castle. that a R.A. does squeaky voice team and now does Australian squeaky voice team to have to do like even higher than I just did there.

That's good didgeridoo playing by Lisa. She's very skilled for seemingly doing it for the first time. They said that's not like off recording for the I'm assuming that is from the same person who plays it in the closing credit song that they say they got a real player of it to

play a didgeridoo for him. Wow. Though apparently it's made out of PVC pipe, the guy they saw, had it. A didgeridoo. The slick 90s didgeridoo's. Wow. I tried to find the name of the guy, but he's not on the credits for this or in the songs in the key of Springfield liner note. I'm out of guesses here on who the mysterious didgeridoo player is. But at Poe Buddies Nerfick, a great hat too, because that's a garbage thing. Poe Buddies Nerfick and then just in Australia as opposed to anywhere else, Marge thinks it's a really special hat. So this is where they get pulled away.

as Marge and Lisa, Witness Homer and Bart running through. And this is where they get to shove in a couple more people in the gang chasing after them. We see a Paul Hogan type. We see a Mad Max Road Warrior type. And we also see an indigenous person too, all in the group chasing after them. Everybody in Australia hates the Simpsons. And they're running to the embassy. They barely make it in.

There's another, hey, good joke at America's expense. made in USA, the gates not working. No matter where they go, Americans are the worst in terms of the punching bag of the show. Bill Oakley makes this point. America, Bart, America, we're the bad guys in this. Australia did nothing wrong in this story.

Or I guess corporal punishment's bad. Fine. Okay. That's what they do. You're allowed your bleeding hot liberal take, but you know, come on, man. What else are we supposed to do? It's boring. In Homer's speech,

the wild and free speech it almost as satire it seems to take the side of actually maybe we should beat children in America it seems to take that side. Yeah. But in a comedic sense, they make it inside this is where Marge gives a bit of a dressing down to

American government figures. I can't believe our government would set up bar like that. I must say I'm very angry at the State Department right now. Yes, but Mrs. Simpson, please. We're about to reach a breakthrough with the ATSs. Then it's a Agreed. During the bargaining session, we each get two candy apples. All right, one candy and one caramel.

Oh, for the love of crime, and he, give me that. I know Bart did something wrong, but he's my son, and I'm going to punish him myself. Our countries may have their differences, but as human beings, I think we can all agree there's no substitute for the discipline of a loving parent. He wants to talk to you. Yellow. Mm-hmm. So we're in a good.

agreement. She won't be allowed near the phone again. We did it. We've worked out a compromise that will allow both nations to save face. We've argued them down to a booty. The Prime Minister just wants to kick you once. Through the gate with a regular shoe.

I believe it's a wingtip. This whole season, they have so many good jokes about what if we did a bad ending? What if we did a bad sitcom ending? This is right up there. It's a great mislead with the music and everything. And You think, oh, Marge, finally, Marge, the voice of reason, can talk to these men. But no, they just say, don't let her near the phone.

Yes. Yeah, this is a waste of time. And Marge is like, smug, he wants to talk to you. When he, all he was like, can I talk to him? Stop putting her on the phone. That's what the Australian guy said. Marge's smugness of he wants to talk to you. She thinks her big morality speech worked because she's thinking she's in a regular sitcom.

And it being instantly defeated is so great. It's so great. Yeah. It's so nice to see the, also to hear Maj's, no. Yes, yes. Great voice acting. Great little touch. Then she resorts to like, Bart's not perfect, but in our workaday world, who is?

Yes, that's the best. But that's her like second plan, just trying to relate to these guys. The last biggest cut they made from the original script is that in the final act, they actually spend a lot more time in the embassy. The joke is they're like, they compare it in the script to make. Manuel Noriega in 1990 under siege from the American government, but of just that, like, they can't leave, and the Australian government is trying to force him out by cutting off the water

and blaring heavy middle music at them. And also they say, like, oh, we have two weeks of rations. We can make it. But Homer, of course, he eats all the rations. That's Homer for you. That's our classic homo. But we love him, don't we, folks? And so if you're wondering, why were there no shrimp on the Barbie jokes in this movie or episode?

Well, there were in that deleted scene. The food Homer eats his shrimp that he is putting on the Barbie. They tried to get the one other thing on the checklist of things Americans know is said in Australia. Now, one thing we do. We have that going for us. You mainly have a shrimp-based diet, like flamingos. That's right. That's why their flesh is red.

So, yes, Bart then decides to go along with it. He looks at the flag, but what gives him tears in his eyes is looking at the American toilet, too. That's another great keg. The thing he gave him pride in his country is looking at the toilet. Bart agrees to it, but we think he agreed to it, but actually he's planning to embarrass them one last time. As Homer and the rest of the family give him good wishes to get his kick. Thank you, Bart.

I promise I won't make fun of you later for this. Show him what American butts are made of, son. That's it, lad. This. is for the Commonwealth of Australia. And this is for the United States of America. Bart is displaying the slogan on the Gadsden flag, and if you see anybody with that online,

you can safely ignore them. It used to mean something. It meant something at some point, but now it just means I am white and afraid. It means I like drug, sex workers, and I have statistics on black on black crime you should see. Yes, yes. They used to say they did also.

support freedom of choice like in America but now not so much anymore. They stop caring about that as much. Oh, who among us hasn't gone off freedom of choice every now and again, huh? You realize other people can do it and you're like, meh? Because I can't do it. Some of those movies are pretty convincing.

Love movies. Bart's moons them and this sends them over the edge. The Australians break down the embassy seemingly ending America and Australia invades America here, essentially. Like, that's what the headlines could be. And it turns into the last helicopter out of Saigon. Yes. I guess final

trivia here for this episode. Now, we're all 73 years old. We're always talking about our favorite Vietnam photos. Well, there is a misnomer about this famous photo they're referencing. It is not the embassy being evacuated. It is a nearby hotel where CIA staffers were being evacuated. There was some kind of misattribution when this photo was filed. And I think I believe the AP printed this saying it was the embassy being evacuated, but it was not. Wow, okay. And those brave CIA boys made it home. Yay.

Everything worked out for the good guys. Yay. Well, I guess in that way, if you see the Via Kong as the good guys in this, and it didn't look up for them, they got it. I believe I do. So if this comes up in the conversation, you can tell them that was actually the Pittman apartment building and then spit in their face. Done.

That's good. That can join the great list of Bob Corrections for parties. ruining along with Toy Story 2. And then when the party is ruined actively, you can just start pocketing the bottles of wine and leaving. Just have your own party at home. Also, they respectfully eat the flag. The flag, Americans care so much about their flag.

It's stupid. Even for a joke that could desecrate the flag, the two guys have to eat the flag so it does not touch the ground in it or burn it or anything else. They almost meet in the middle, but we cut away before we see them seemingly kiss over eating the flag. and so everybody the simpsons escape this is where we get a dark ending that was not in the script this was a wonderful edition in the script they just fly away laughing at australia we have a stronger ending here in our last clip hey can you get you land in an aircraft here no sir the closest vessel is the USS Walter Mondale it's a laundry ship they'll take you the rest of the way those frogs are reading all their crops

Well, that's what happens when you introduce foreign species into an ecosystem that can handle them. I mean, with sinister didgeridoo. I love the sinister didgeridoo. And I love the zoom into the chilling black eyes of the koala in that ending. So good. Just its flat face, too, of just like, it doesn't, clearly now koalas are going to, I like to imagine that there was like an action film of them trying to make sure the koala stays on the laundry ship they land on and that it can't escape to America.

Yeah, it's jetting around there like the facehugger and alien. They're a constant threat. We like being hugged by koalas as opposed to a face hugger. They're a pleasant beast. Finally, at the end of the episode, we get to an obscure thing about America. I would think a joke at the expensive former Vice President Walter Mondale didn't make much sense to Australian viewers back in 1995. That did not come through to me at all, but through context clues, I can ascertain he was

not a respected figure. Then that's as far as I can get with it, I think. When did Reagan crush him? Was it 80? 84. Oh, 84. No wonder he won Minnesota, I believe, the joke on the sixth and stuff. Yeah, the previous joke, the only state he won was his home state in our twisted electoral

system. And obviously, we expect everybody else in the world to know all about American elections all of the time. So we're disappointed in Utah. You should know. I'm sorry. Yes. If you wonder why a generation of Democrats in the U.S. in the 90s like veered right and were terrified of anybody who was like to the left of Bill Clinton, it was partially because Reagan beat them so bad in 1984.

They thought they could never win again unless they also executed mentally challenged people, for instance. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. Okay, cool. Fun little history lesson around things. out. Just a little burst of optimism. Positive facts about the world. Yeah. Well, I do have one post script to this that for a little video I

shared with both of you guys. Tom, it seemed that you had not heard of it before. It was not really news here until I heard of it for the first time just like in the last decade. The Fox Studios Australia theme park in Sydney that was a bit like in the United

States, there's the Universal Studios tour and Fox at the time, 20th Century Fox was filming a lot of stuff in Australia. And so they created a back lot tour. And the Simpsons were part of it. It was like you got to tour a version of this episode. And even they would be like, you get to be in The Simpsons, which means like, you know, you and your dad stand in front of a green screen and say, that's right, Bart, and it gets cut into the episode.

Sounds fun. So, yeah, I mean, it was apparently only open from 1999. to 2001. So it didn't last long, but you had not heard of the Fox Studios Australia and Sydney, Tom. I mean, I know Fox Studios. It was like one of the things to do while I was growing up, but I had not encountered this missing scene from the episode, which may just be because maybe I did and I'm stupid, always the possibility, literally always. But yeah, this was news to me as far as I'm aware. So I have a little clip of it here from the start of it. So basically, this is an alternate universe version of the episode where after the Simpsons come to Australia, they just go straight to the home of Bruno and Tobias to apologize directly to them.

And you'll hear that somebody told them you should have an Australian actor play Bruno in this seat and not in Cassaria. Yeah, they changed it up a little bit. So let's listen to a little bit of Bruno and Homer meeting in this alternate universe take on the episode. That must be the Simpsons. I'd better have me money. Ah, good eye Good day Ooh, wallaby high curtains How fun Not for the wallaby's mom

Don't you owe us a little something Right, right, the apology But sorry for whatever he did And blah blah blah Now can we get back to our free vacation I don't care about your apology I want me $900 he doos Who are you going to call Priscilla Queen of the Desert?

Listen up, Yank. If you don't pay, we're going to have a Barney. Leave Barney out of this. I should have my dingo eat your baby. So they hit the dingo baby bit again, but Barmy and Wallaby were not in the episode. A timely reference to Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Excuse me, the adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Yes, right.

That is the accurate one. And then Bart and Tobias then adventure a little in the Outback, which they say, we should go to the Outback. It's Outback. And they do the joke about the kangaroo mucas. Then they put some shrimp on the Barbie. And through a series of ridiculous things, Homer blows up their house. Then it blows up the gas line. And then it blows up the entire country of Australia, which, including we see the Sydney Opera House explode.

And then the country is in. pieces and then a whirlpool opens up in the ocean and sucks down the pieces and it's turning the way it should for the Coriolis effect. So they get one last Coriolis effect joke in there too. And this is all on YouTube if you want to see this multiverse version of Bart versus Australia. They actually had like the guy even says gooday in it there. Did he sound like an actual Australian to you, Tom? He did. Yeah. You hate to say it, but unfortunately you can tell. This is just a dyed-in-the-wall Australian guy. I think the thing that stands out to you though

I mean listening to it is the pacing like it's so stilted the pauses are a bit too long you know it's clearly been pieced together by people who didn't have the inclination maybe the time maybe the resources who knows to get the timing right so it sounded like the Simpsons

instead of sounding like you know something that you would see out the back of a pretty lackluster theme park which is what it was we're not sure who wrote it I guess it is like a step down in terms of writing it's really just kind of corny and pun big Yeah. It being a 99, I expected just, I would bet like Al Jean or, sorry, Mike Scully is in charge then. They could have just said, look, pick two writers, write this scene, we'll get them to animate it. And also, nobody sounds like they're acting together. The voice actors are all on going at half speed. I feel like on the actual Simpsons ride, they're trying a little harder than they were on this ride. Technically, I believe it's called the Simpsons Down Under, the name of the ex-executive. Calling it a ride's wrong.

It's an experience. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. But you know what? They guess they did have the Sydney Opera House in this one, one of the few things they, another of like, oh, they didn't show that obvious landmark in this episode. But it's also funny that Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, they had no idea this existed.

They were not, maybe you can tell they weren't hired to write it. Oh, I can. It would have been funnier. They seem vaguely aware of it on the commentary for the episode like 20 plus years ago. But hey, thankfully somebody saved it on. online, so we can all experience this Australian-ean exclusive Simpsons scene here. Yes, thank you so much to that person.

But didn't hearing that clip make you appreciate this episode even more as a classic Simpsons? Absolutely, yeah. In the same way that The Hobbit makes making a film feel seem impossible, this really made it incredible that The Simpsons exists in any form. Is this the best The Simpsons go-to place episode? Off the top of my head, I feel like it could be. I think it makes the best use of them going to a place. Yeah, I guess, like, in terms of going to a real place, I would say yes.

I think Itchy and Scratchy Land is better than this, but, I mean, they're still both amazing episodes. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I mean, I obviously love it. I feel like I, you know, have the bias in me. But yeah, I've got to say that it is, otherwise I'm in trouble. This is... Itchy and Scratyland, I think, eaks this one out for me.

But, I mean, there's so many moments in this that are iconic. Countless lines. And even before they even get to Australia, and they make the best use of being in the place too. And as opposed to like, we just did, The Simpsons Go to Beijing episode from season 16. And it feels like there was less love for the country of China in that one for instance. Certainly, yeah.

Even though this seemingly insulted some portion of the Australian people, including a young Tom Walker, it is a more celebratory episode of a place The Simpsons visit, I think. Yeah. It's nice. I like the episode. In conclusion, thank you, The Simpsons. Yeah.

We all like it a lot and we are no longer afraid of Australians, Tom. Thank you for being on our show. Yay, we did it. We fixed it. Yeah, thank you for coming on, Tom Walker. You are Australia's only comedian. That's what it says on your website. I choose to believe that's accurate.

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One of these days, though. Yeah, you pirate it. You know what? It's so fun to pirate things. Just go ahead and pirate it. What are you good, you know, go nuts. It is funny. Your Twitch is more available to us here than like a major show, like the Great Australian

Break. It's really odd. I don't know how it could be, but they're allergic to people watching the dang thing. You know, when I saw you on the Do Boys reviewing Alpac Stakehouse, I was like, God, we got to get Tom. If we can get Tom for Bart versus Australia and then the dream came true. Wow. It's been great having you. I'm honored to be part of a dream, regardless of whatever dream it is.

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