Talking Simpsons - Talking Simpsons - Homer's Barbershop Quartet

Episode Date: February 15, 2017

Season 5 is upon us (kinda) and we hope you like The Beatles! The season 5 broadcast premiere sees Homer form a barbershop quartet with no previous experience, become famous for a few weeks, and then lose it all, just like The Beatles (kinda). Listen up! It’s better than winning a Grammy…

this episode of talking simpsons is brought to you by quip simple elegant electronic toothbrushes and you listeners can go to tryquip.com slash laser time and save 10 bucks i heartily endorse this event or product product. Ahoy, hoy, everybody, and welcome to Talking Simpsons, otherwise known as Handsome Bob Mackey Plus Two. I'm your host, Handsome Bob Mackey, and this is the Lazer Time Podcast Network's chronological exploration of the Simpsons. Who else is here with me today as usual? Henry.

And wait, this has religion. Learning. Let's get out of here. Chris Antista of Arimathea. How many conversions, Chris? And today's episode is Homer's Barbershop Quartet. Number eight. Number eight.

Number eight. Numberartet. Number 8. Uh. Number 8. Uh. Number 8. Uh. Number 8. Uh. Number 8. I could let that play forever. This show's actually like number 88 or something. This episode aired on September 30th, 1993, the season 5 premiere.

We're still in season 4 production though. I, yeah, I think we made a bigger distinction in previous seasons about this is the season 5 premiere, we're in season five. But the changeover from production four to production five is so big. It's huge, yes. That I feel like we should really only be celebrating when production five begins. Exactly. But Chris, what happened on 9-30-93 in history? Oh!

Oh my God! My word, Bobby. The program, Best Better Movies at the box office such as things people actually remember like true romance and dazed and confused and america loves mariah carey's dream lover as well as reading the bridges of madison county that's right crap man that that let a whole generation of moms dream about leaving their husbands for For Clint Eastwood? But then choosing not to. Yes. Which is just lame.

It's really... I feel like you write that book 10 years later, she'd just have the balls to be like, yeah, fuck this. I'm going to have a brief affair. And we started having a lot of jokes about the bridges of Madison County in sitcoms. The Simpsons would do it.

I think Homer throws it in the fire at the beginning of the next bad clip show. Oh, boy. There's an entire... Again, I have to mention this. There's an entire episode of Duckman that is a beat-for-beat parody of the Bridges of Madison County about how he met his wife. Holy shit. I'm serious. This really happened in history.

Do you get to see her nude like I did Meryl Streep? Maybe. It was a racy animated show. Opens her robe to the wind and, like, Meryl Streep is good at everything. I just remember there was a joke on Dr. Katz about it where they said, her husband is like, who's he waiting for? He's waiting for her. Welcome to season five, people. And I hope you like the Beatles because, boy, this is some Beatles-like shit. I got to say, I just watched half of Eight Days a Week,

the Hulu Ron Howard Beatles documentary, and it really does prep you for so many scenes and backgrounds and settings. I should see that. I haven't seen that. It's great. I've seen a couple of Beatles documentaries, but it still has stuff I've never seen or heard before.

I do think this got me into the Beatles, this episode, because it's just mystifying if you don't know anything about the Beatles if you're a 10-year-old watching it. I really don't. Actually, everything I learned about the Beatles, I learned from the Beatles rock band about eight years ago.

One of the best intros in video games. It's really good. I'll tell you why. I feel like our parents' generation, they were fans of things and then they kind of cooled off on it. So my mom was a big Beatlehead, a Beatlemania head, if you will. But when I i was a kid she wasn't like here's the white album here

are the liner notes here's the books you need to read i feel like parents our age are like okay when you're four you're watching episode five and then you're ready for episode four when you're seven and then i'm not gonna i'm not gonna tell you about the prequels you'll learn about those on your it's like they plan out people's fandoms way in advance but our parents were not like that yeah yeah because my dad is a fan. But I think we thought he was a fan because he just re-bought the reissued CDs. Yeah. I don't ever recall him listening to them.

But I listened to his CDs. And that's how I listened to the Beatles. So I watched this episode. And I think I had to turn to my mom for answers on all of them. On all the references. Which I will try to detail as best I can. I tried as hard as I could to look at this as like, this isn't just a Beatles parody, is it?

But it really is. But I turned to my mom for those things, and I think it also reawakened in her. She didn't own those albums. She didn't listen to them regularly, but she said, yeah, I remember listening to the White Album, and then we got it, and she was like, Rocky Raccoon, that was one of my favorite songs.

And just rediscovering the Beatles through that, and also Yellow Submarine. I think I probably watched this and then Yellow Submarine, and then started listening to the albums. And I think it helped that in, what was it, 96 when they put out Free as a Bird? Yes. The reunion thing. I remember buying that for my dad and i think i listened to it more than he i just assume my dad like the beatles he was alive was that the same year the and big anthology came out the beatles anthology that was a huge deal there

were three volumes yeah and then a little after that was number ones which was a huge hit too but so this is full of references to it i liked on the commentary they bring up that they at first i think azaria is on the commentary and he he remembered this as being a Dave Merkin show, because Merkin, the season five and six showrunner, is also a huge Beatles fan who would also put a ton of references into it. And like, no, this was the season four team were also huge, huge Beatles fans. Oakley and Weinstein would be the first showrunners that were not super into the Beatles. Yeah, I think David S. Cohen wrote Lisa the Vegetarian. And it is a tailor-made David Merkin episode because it's about vegetarianism and the Beatles, which are two of his pet projects or pet interests. This is the third of the Jeff Martin flashback trilogy.

They all fit in together. So he did this one we at least his first word and then uh i married march i married march he did all three of those this one has sequel jokes all over the place at it does not start with a flashback it starts at a swap meet but i love this yeah because i i don't know we all kind of grew up near the i love swaps i went to a swap meets that look like flea markets there were sometimes like shitty circuses. There'd be animals there and a whole lot of racist paraphernalia.

Totally, yes. You knew there was a guy you could just wink to like he'd sell me a swastika. I bet he's got a gold swastika. Automatic swastika. I'm in the market for a KKK belt buckle. That's basically who Herman is at the convention. We'll get to that. He really is.

Human roaches feeding off each other's garbage. The only thing you can't buy here is dignity. Welcome, Swappers, to the Springfield Swap Meet. Ich bin ein Springfield Swap Meet patron. I need a drink and a shower. Filthy Places, I'm a guy who loves buying back his childhood, and we live in a bigger city now, and it's like you never experience fines.

Fines. Here's the thing I've been looking for. It never happens here, or people are aware of the value of it. So like the nickel boxes in the old comics that I used to dig through. Yeah, I feel like you couldn't i could go there's there's a flea market in oakland every every month i think it is but i did i did i picked up the jungle book by roger kipling and it was like not the original pressing but there's it's just the first page is just a giant swastika but like not tilted nazi style it's the original manji symbol the buddhist symbol right yeah it was like that old a book that's my but i was also used to going there to buy like nes toys and old toys and comic

books and just and then also just buying like why i was not a fan of boiled peanuts but just buying maybe this was just a southern thing but at southern flea markets you'd go there and buy a giant like sleeve of boiled peanuts and just eat them all the way through there i'm now dying to go to one because it's where people also hawk like unique wares and i really didn't dig into the reference here but i love mo mo doing lucille ball oyster shells hand-painted to resemble lucille ball you'll love oyster lucy oh mroney, I just gotta meet Bob Cummings. Boo! That's a great, I mean, they... He's really good at an imitation there, Mo is. They tend to reference Lucy's 60s and 70s stuff more than I Love Lucy.

That's the Lucy show. Yes. With Mr. Mooney is like her harried bank owner boss. Sort of like a Mr. Drysdale character. Yeah, she needed that type of foil because she divorced her husband in between the series. And I didn't want to do a ton of research, but I looked up Bob Cummings.

Not only in the Bob Cummings show, but a show called Bob. Love that Bob. Love that Bob. Love that Bob. And he would totally be a Lucy show guest. I watched a lot of Lucy show when it was on Nick and Nate.

I feel like Oyster, I've never seen an Oyster Lucy or Oysters, but I didn't grow up in New England where Oysters were. But you have been to the fucking L.A. airport where they stick googly eyes in a spring on a turtle and write out Los Angeles on the side. Oh, yeah, no, I've seen all those things. That's the great stuff. It's something I loved in both the comic and the game,

Sam and Max Hit the Road. Just that salute to crappy Americanism. American tchotchkes you'll find on the road in real America. I do love that. You don't have a clip of it, but Skinner with his helmet. It's great. First off, it's

24601, which is that was Jean Valjean's number in Les Miserables. Previously Sideshow Bob's number, and I think Black Widower. They really love that number, but it is the only prisoner number. It's the famous prisoner number, thanks more so to the musical of the 80s. I'm going to have to look for that article, but I remember the Simpsons writers doing a printed interview where they talk about what they referred to as VCR jokes.

Yeah. Yeah, VCR jokes yeah yeah jokes that people wouldn't get on their vcrs and they they i thought they labeled season five or they just called out a lot of specific examples that they made specifically for season five that you couldn't see unless you re-round paused all that stuff and well speaking of like pausing and looking closer this was the time i i'd never dawned on me as a kid it just was like background stuff and even re-watching it until now herman's like the joke is herman is selling just a ton of guns at yeah at the swap which you will see at swap meets and of course he has the confederate

flag behind but there is no loophole like yeah it's uh and and then homer meanwhile has the dream of everyone at a swap meet or or we totally and i had to look all this up junk junk the airplanes upside down strata who he is so i just happen to even hear it break when he throws it just so you know like he broke and you couldn't hear the first two I just happen to watch the Norman Lear documentary just another version of you beautiful documentary about the guy created all in the family the Jeffersons all that but uh he is actually one of the people who bought the constitution yep oh yeah it's the constitution one of several copies they made right they made apparently they made 36 copies and distributed to people and whatever territories we had and some were kept and some weren't so there's more

than one constitution floating around but he bought one for $8 million. Back then, Xerox machines were monks, basically. So first there was a Constitution. Yes. Then he's got Action Comics number one. First appearance of who, Henry? Lois Lane. It was the first appearance of Lois Lane.

That red car. Also, but also Superman. Yes. Who was the first appearance of Lois Lane. That red car. Also, but also Superman. Yes. Who was the first superhero. And that is another one that's just like, you could say it's worth a million dollars or two million dollars, but honestly, it's priceless. It goes, as soon as one goes on the market, then the price goes up because it's just whatever somebody pays for. for there was a story just a few years ago of somebody discovering like in an attic in just a secreted away in an attic that their their grandfather their grandfather had saved it in a way nobody saved anything back then in plastic it was a near mint copy and people were just like

a near mint action comics exist and it's why like people like me and i just want to talk to people like me who save things, because we're idiots. Comics were worth money because it was people like me trying to recapture their childhood, but comics were printed on a paper that was supposed to disintegrate. Newsprint. It's meant to be destroyed. If you see one attack, that's why it's worth money. My boxed amiibos aren't worth dog shit.

Won't be worth dog shit. Does Nick Cage have a copy of this? He was stolen from him. He had too many. He had too much stuff and just noticed it was gone one day and no end. So I found the one that was sold for the highest, Action Comics number one, is $3.2 million. Wow. I'm putting Homer over $10 million here in just the five cent gun.

But I also looked on eBay and I didn't spend too much time on it, but they claimed that's what it was. Right now, $79,000. And eBay did ruin the comics market. It did. You couldn't just read in the Overstreet Buyer's Guide how much it was worth. It's like, no, you know how much it's worth because it's sold for it on eBay.

Yeah, I mean, Wizard Magazine was built on lies. I remember having a comics collection and looking at Wizard like, wow, I'm a millionaire. Well, it was worth a lot to them to spread that lie. Okay, so then the airplane's upside down. The inverted genie. The inverted genie was a misprint. I think there were about 100 of them.

But I remember hearing it and watching Dennis the Menace. People used to collect stamps. So this is a very rare stamp. One of them was sold for $1 million. Wow. Homer found a sheet, a mint condition sheet. So you remember it was it was a plot point of brewster's millions those stamps he if you don't haven't seen the film brewster's

millions don't watch it look it's fine it's fine uh but it's you got to have a substitute richard pryor movie then come on blue collar blue collar not the toy he's been in a lot he's been in a lot worse movies brewster's millions but so. He's told he has to spend $20 million to get $200 million. But he has all these rules of you can't invest in anything, you've got to be left with nothing. One of his loopholes he finds is he

buys one of those stamps and then just uses it on a letter thus rendering it worthless and so he has spent $1 million. Wow, that's a huge plot point actually. I forgot about that. Do we have Stradivarius?

I didn't look that up. Stradivarius. So Homer's up to like 35 million. Yeah, there was a Stradivarius signed viola that sold for 3.6 million in 2010. It set a record for like I think an instrument sold on auction. So Homer's

discarding, I think, $20 million. I think Robert Downey Jr.'s last Marvel movie salary. He just tossed it. And it's all just sitting in Mrs. Glick's

warehouse. And I do, I'd never noticed until this viewing that Marge's Ringo picture is on sale. Yeah, that's right. I feel so bad for her.

Like she, they seemingly routinely go there for Marge to sell her art and it's right so bad for like she's she they seemingly routinely go there for march to sell her arts and it's just not getting sold it's sad reclining homer naked on the couch yeah she's selling that too that and uh and just stamp the ticket guy makes fun of her i love that line i doubt my son or daughter is that stupid yeah and the last flea market story before we get into all the Beatles stuff. Bart Nelson and Milhouse accidentally stumble into something religious there. Free trading cards. Now, did you ever get religiously propositioned at a flea market?

Because I have. Yes, everywhere. I'm from the fucking south. I went to a church Bible camp because it had all the Nintendo. Well, it's the job of Baptists specifically, but i'm not labeling all these christians but for some sex sects of christians it's not just about them worshiping it is about getting people to join your thing kind of like a cult but it's not pyramid scheme pyramid yeah let's say they've been around too long to be a cult and so so then they'll so then they'll approach you with just

like hey you want to join my church or they'll? They'll come to you in a fucking parking lot at the movie theater and say, well, do you think you'd go to heaven if you died right now? Like, fuck off. You think you'd go to heaven if you died right now? I guess you do. A better heaven than you. Get that Jack Chick comic off of my windshield. So the one for me was at a flea market. This guy was just like, here, look at this.

He'd had this optical illusion of how a white piece of paper looked bigger than a red piece of paper. If they were in one position, they'd move them around, and it'd look different. We're like, me and my brother were just like, wow, this is an interesting optical illusion. Chewbacca defense. And then he said, and that's just like how it looks like the devil's bigger than God, but really the God's bigger than the devil. And then he just like steamrolls us, and it's like, so will you pray with me right now? Who thought the devil's bigger than God, but really the God's bigger than the devil. And then he just steamrolls us, and it's like, so will you pray with me right now? Who thought the devil was bigger than God?

Nobody does. Physically taller? It can look that way from a certain perspective. And so then he just forced us to pray with him out of like... Ah, creepy. And we're just like, yeah, cool guy. I feel like he saved us. We're going to walk away now and jerk off tonight.

So that was when I was with him. That was the memorable time I was with him. I probably shouldn't even play this one. What the hell is this? Melvin and this world. Part of the rodent invasion of the early 60s. Suck a feather in his cap and call it rice-irony. Melvin!

Melvin! Yeah, Hank is there doing his best Ross Bagnazzarian. Kevin called it rice-a-roni. Velvet! Velvet! Yeah. Hank is there doing his best Ross Bagdasarian. The joke is it's not funny. Yeah. It's a very cheap gimmick. It's not funny, but I say that about the chipmunks now. Every generation has their chipmunks. They've always done the same thing.

They steal other people's music and sing it at a higher pitch, and everybody seems to love them, and no other generation likes the other generation's chipmunks. I will say a great Ross Bagdasarian cameo. He's the creator of the chipmunks, and generation likes the other generation's chipmunks. And I will say, great Ross Bagdasarian cameo. He's the creator of the chipmunks, and I believe the voice of the chipmunks. The voice of Dave. And at least some of the chipmunks. He was the original chipmunks.

It was his voice sped up on Witch Doctor. He is the musician in Rear Window who is trying to write a song throughout the course of the movie. And at the end, he completes the song. And it's really great. Yeah, he plays that musician. I hate your new CG Chipmunks movie. Chipmunk Adventure, I'm going to bid on the poster as soon as we're off here. I love that fucking movie.

Diamond Dolls, baby. I learned that Ross Bagdazarian fact from the Bart of Darkness commentary track in Season 6. But we'll get to that later. I do think the comic book guy is perfectly cast as a guy who sells used records like squeaky rodent craze yeah which wasn't really invasion rose rodent invasion because i kept looking for this to be something other than a beatles parody and yeah it is not so then comes like the magic thing which i could see how they pitch the episode is they're at some place and they the kids find an album with Homer on it,

and they're like, what the hell is this? And a story unfolds. Bart, look! It's Dad! Dad, when did you record an album? I'm surprised you don't remember, son. It was only eight years ago. Dad, thanks to television,

I can't remember what happened eight minutes ago. No, really, I can't remember what happened eight minutes ago. No, really, I can't. It's a serious problem. What are we all laughing about? Who cares? Who cares? Anyway, it all happened during that magical summer of 1985.

A maturing Joe Piscopo left Saturday Night Live to conquer Hollywood. People Express introduced a generation of hicks to plane travel. And I was in a barbershop quartet. A lot there. That was the update on Joe Piscopo. As Marge said in Lisa's first word, Joe Piscopo taught us how to laugh. So this is now showing where Joe Piscopo taught us how to laugh. So this is now showing where Joe Piscopo is at a year later.

Johnny Dangerously, the first movie Weird Al would have a song in. This is the life. Yeah, it's a great song. People Express was an airline and a very cheap airline that I had never heard of. Closed in 1987. Merged with Continental Airlines which merged with United in

2012. It was a low-cost airline. Yeah, we keep talking about Spirit because that's a new thing, a low-cost airline. It says tickets start at $149. In 1980, I've had cheaper flights than that. People's Express. But what's beautiful about it is the nature of capitalism, I guess,

that it is a low-cost airline that was successful and then purchased by another airline and made unsuccessful and charging normal prices and created its own first-class cabin and then just doesn't exist anymore. That's how it works.

So one thing I want to point out, and I just kind of thought about it while watching this, and I'm fine with it. This makes no sense. And they cop to it in the episode. So Homer has these previously existing relationships

with Skinner, with Apu, with Wiggum that have never been commented on before ever ever like you think when going to skinner to talk about bart they would talk about hey remember the b sharps when we were on fucking tv so the only excuse together is that they experienced the beatles entire 15 20 year run in over a summer yes and let's say six weeks yeah six weeks and again the show points it out but it is kind of funny how like homer and apu were in a band together that johnny carson made jokes about yeah and that they just sell it out completely and i think that's the writers just saying like yeah we don't care like we don't it's not getting to the end i mean yeah but it is

selling out homer's character again too like at the start of season three if they said oh homer had this had all this talent and was in a huge band they'd have all the questions bart asks bart and lisa ask at the end would have been asked by james o brooks and then prevented them from making it yeah i do wonder like i've had i think so several marginally successful podcasts and a couple modestly successful youtube videos i don't think it's possible my children will find them no one will discover anything i've ever done well that's the internet this is a music industry in the 80s i feel like which i think that's what this is a that's that's why we need this i don't really

care about the justification yeah a parody of the uh i of the AMU. I'm okay with it. It did give me the belief that Barbershop was a big thing ever, because they take it so seriously. And the music is amazing. Also, as this podcast proves, TV didn't ruin our memories. Like, we remember all this stuff. What is this podcast about again? Who cares?

Duck Man. Right. More references. Hello, my ragtime, ragtime gal. Every afternoon at Moe's, Chief Wiggum, Principal Skinner, Apu, and I would get together and sing,

and the crowds went wild. If you refuse me, if you refuse me, then you'll be left alone. Barbershop? That ain't been popular since ought six, dagnabbit. Bart, what did I tell you?

No talking like a grizzled 1890s prospector. Concern it. Anyway, rock and roll had become stagnant. Achy Breaky Heart was seven years away. Something had to fill the void. And that something was barbershop. That Barney Yoo-Hoo joke was also in I Love Lisa with Barney waving a handkerchief at Moe. Yeah.

It's also weird. I only remembered it because you guys mentioned a Barney being gay reference. It's weird that they put this one in here when Barney is a major character in the episode. They could have done anybody other than Barney. So it's extra weird that Barney is hitting on them in the group he'll be in in like three minutes. And well, so the Beatles references begin right here. Exactly, yeah.

Moe's Cavern, it says. It's not Moe's Cavern, it's Moe's Cavern. It is a reference to the Cavern Club, which is where the Beatles in their early incarnations played at in the Cavern Club. So that's right where it begins. And one of the coolest things about that eight days a week documentary, something I just never think about at the Beatles,

is that they were in a shitty town in shitty clubs playing for years. So the reason why they didn't implode by becoming that famous is because they'd been doing it for a long time. From what I understood, Liverpool was a very depressed working class town. Yeah, and they have footage of it. It looks gross,

like the places they're playing. That was the class difference that was meaningless to Americans who just heard a British voice, but that was the class difference between the Beatles

and the Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones were proper, and the Liverpoolians took like this. Yeah, very different. That was a very accurate song in like in some of the footage you can just see

like the ravages of World War 2 like so like are still evident when the Beatles are becoming popular sorry go ahead yeah so when they're singing that is kind of a mix of their you can

hear their regular voices in there but I knew you were gonna be able to solve this because I'm like I hear their voices but there's one pro in here. Well, so they got pros. They got ringers from Disneyland.

That's the story. As Jeff Martin tells it, he reached out to the Dapper Dans who in Anaheim were the – it's one of the coolest things about Disney Parks is you'll just see like street performers who have just been hired just to perform on the street. Who perform in ancient dead art immaculately. Yeah. Like when I was in Epcot, they had just street performers in England who were just like, we're going to put on an old timey London story. And so they did that. But the Dapper Dans do classic straw boater, pinstripe suit outfit, the whole magilla of I will also say, I saw somebody, I think, have a heart attack in Disneyland. And a stretcher was run out.

Everybody carrying the stretcher and all the other medical stuff was dressed like a barbershop quartet so they can make it look pleasant. They're also surgeons, Chris, so they can assist with any medical trauma. So when I found a video of current day Dapper Dance, I don't think it's the same guys. And Jeff Martin tells a story that the Dapper Dance, you can ask them to sing the baby on board at Disneyland, and then they will laugh and say,

no, we will not sing. Yeah, they can't sing it. Because they can't. They can't just sing any old song. They have to license the songs they're singing I believe. But this is them at a street performance from a couple years ago. This is the

Disneyland medley. Let's hear a little bit of them. When you wish upon a star makes no difference who you are. Anything your heart desires I'm wishing for the water to find me. Goosebumps. I want to watch this forever.

God damn you Pleasant Disneyland They mix in They mix in Zippity do da And then into the Star Wars theme Yeah It's interesting

Like so that tells you When they did that as well Though actually I'm putting Filing this away Because we just talked about On 302010 It was the 20th anniversary

Of the Oh my god I forgot the name of the episode But the John Waters episode Homer's phobia Homer's phobia And just I love bringing up The resonance of Simpsons episodes, where John Waters, who has made some of the fucking coolest movies ever,

but not in 10 years, like, he claims he gets asked more about the Simpsons. Steve Sachs doesn't get asked about his baseball career. He gets asked about the Simpsons. No, why would you? Dapper Dan's, they don't get asked about shit except fucking Baby on Board and The Simpsons. Well, Chris, you mentioned that you hear some of The Simpsons' voices in the mix,

and I feel like they either have Harry doing Skinner or Hank doing Wiggum to add that extra flavor, like Skinner's baritone and Wiggum's whiny voice. You can hear that on top of the Dapper Dan's when they're singing. That's right, because Quimby was the original member. Homer, I'm a theatrical agent and I want to represent your group.

Really? You've got it! All except that police officer. Two village people. You'll have to replace him. Principal Seymour Skinner. Apu, never fit on a marquee, but from now on your name is Apu de Bomarche

It is a great dishonor To my ancestors and my god But okay I don't care about your name There's a lot of Beatles history to unlock there I love Quimby being sent to the woods Wiggum His howl

That was one of those scenes that tells you Homer is smarter than Wiggum that's the scene you can always point to like this is how much smarter homer is than wiggum and that he can outsmart him like that so first off wiggum being kicked out of the band is like pete best exactly kicked out of the i know that at least if feet nigel their uh their agent is is Brian Epstein, their gay manager. Then Apu de Beaumarchais is how they change Richard Starkey into Ringo Starr. All right, so that's it for now. But this is something like no character is consistent of the four.

They don't assign Barney. This is what I mean. Barney joins the group late like Ringo joins the group late but then later Barney is John Lennon yeah but then then they

but then the changing of the name that makes Apu Ringo and then Homer sometimes is in the George Harrison position other times

he's in the Paul McCartney position isn't it great that the Beatles name is one of the stupidest in music history yes it's awful

it is awful we never talk about it yeah like I took me a while to realize it was a pun yeah then you're like oh shit and every album titles upon oh my god it all sucks yeah why are these revolvers get out of here rubber soul I hate you damn it you're right yeah the Beatles are terrible The Simpsons will be right back.

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No, no. Brett and I went to work at the food bank with Chuck. They can't have their own damn vegetables. Yeah, last week with Grim and Charlie. Yeah. Went to a food bank and packed frozen corn into bags for three hours. We did. And then they're like, who do you think all this food goes to?

Of course, I don't fucking answer because I know he's setting me up for a wrong answer. You guys should have been able to tell in this week's Laser Time. But actually, 15% of our food goes to the homeless. I'm like, what? All right, please fill us in on where it goes. The rest goes to people who have too many homes. Not enough corn to put in all those homes.

It was sort of eye-opening. I forgot about Meals on Wheels, the kind of thing like get food to people who can't leave their homes, and then do you know anybody in the city who works, pays their rent, pays their bills, and has zero money left for food, that's also who we deliver food to.

Wow. Which heartened me. Classic freeloading. Wait, can I get on that? Exactly, right? But morning, I may have sneezed in your corn. Okay. Yeah, if you want one bag of frozen corn.

Oh, cool. Get bonus time, Laser Time's weekly, full-length, uncensored, and ad-free Patreon-exclusive podcast, as well as weekly full-length movie commentaries wrestling and cartoon video commentaries physical rewards the first season of talking simpson and more at patreon.com slash laser time starting at just five bucks you'll help us live and we'll do our best to help you never be bored again But the songs they sing in this episode are all public domain because they're not credited. In most cases, yes. The 1924 barbershop standard Goodbye My Coney Island Baby. Yeah.

That's not, I mean, it's an original song but not original for The Simpsons. Okay. Is only Baby on Board? Baby on Board is original. Sweet Adeline is a 1903 barbershop standard. I do believe Theme from a Summer Place is a license, is a real song. Well, I love the audition. Auditioning Wiggum's Replacement, everybody gets a chance to sing a song.

And I tried... Oh, here we go. Oh, McDonald had a farm. E-I-E-I-O. And on this farm he had a chick. Swinging his chick on low. With a wiggle wiggle here and a wiggle wiggle there. Get off the stage.

I want to, but I can't. It's like a placeholder joke, but... There's a number of those in here. There are. But I've tried to look up... Did Grandpa write that? Did the Simpsons write that? And every link will take you back to a Simpsons Reddit board, a message board, a Simpsons quote.

I think it's a very, well, not vaudeville, but it is a very lounge singer type thing. Of just taking a song like that and making it about swinging cats. Well, actually, it almost seems too young for Abe. He would have been in his 40s or 50s, maybe. Who knows? The Jasper scene we mentioned, he's singing the theme from The Summer Place, which has no lyrics. He just makes them up.

Oh, does it? It doesn't have lyrics. I'm going to have to explain that joke to him. Yeah. Theme from The Summer Place. Explain that joke to me. Yeah. From a summer place. From a summer place. The theme. From a summer place. It's the theme.

So that joke was cut out of the syndicated episode version, which is the one I've seen the most. So whenever I see it on the DVD, I'm like, oh my God, I forgot about this. Yeah, I love that joke. And yeah, it was one my mom had to explain because she knew, she actually loves the theme from Summer Place. It was a radio hit when it came out. Yeah, that's what I couldn't believe looking it up.

It's a song written for a 1959 movie called, guess what? Summer Place? You all win. But it's written by Max Steiner who wrote the theme to King Kong. Interesting. And then moved on to write the theme to Casablanca and gone with the, like, was there one guy

working on all this or is he just that great? What versatility. But he wrote this song and it was popularized by Percy Faith. I think you see this when people like fall into comas or get knocked out and have a vision It's very nice It's in the Freakazoid Relax-O-Vision episode That's right! Relax-O-Vision

Not the scream episode Yeah, that's Summer Place Has no lyrics and last but not least I just like spelling it Willie's Dune Tune Dune Tune When you're alone and life is getting you lonely you can always go ah dune tune they really play up his accent i feel like they had

to pay for that one so do i that's that's a straight up verse and with the music in the background i know there's some well either it's a rule I assume is real because it was a joke on The Simpsons, but of like, if you sing more than these number of words, then you got to pay for it. Remember, Krusty had, I'm a nice guy. I'm a hell of a guy. All right, stop, stop, stop. We'll have to pay for it if we don't sing it. I remember, I think I said on this show, I was watching the commentary on the Blair Witch Project,

and it's a bunch of people with no script and improvising, and there's a scene where one of the three people just starts singing the Gilligan's Island theme song and the director's like, write that right there. That is the most expensive part of this movie. More than the entire budget, yeah. It was more the entire budget of the film, the equipment. We had to license that song from Gilligan's Island. I'm sure they had to pay for the Wiggum Doolittle song, right?

Yeah, yeah. Did I get that? Oh, of course I got it. Yeah, I can watch. If I could walk with the animals, talk with the animals, grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals.

Good Lord. Dr. Doolittle is Chief Wiggum. This bird's gonna fly. Ha ha. So he's also Burgess Meredith as the penguin. That's the saying. And Rex Harrison at the same time.

And I feel like good lord is a very Simpsons of this era expression. Just a reaction to something. Good lord. My grandmother was highly Christian and very English and never once said good lord as an exclamation. Never, never, never, never. But of course, I love discovering Barney. Such a voice. Who is that?

Me mother sang this song to me in town. So soft and... Barney! Yay! So this is probably one of the oldest jokes they stole. And it's so old, I could not find a good YouTube clip of it. So this version of Barney is based on the character Crazy Guggenheim from the Jackie Gleason show. He was the comical drunk, which Barney is very much based on, who also would lapse into this beautiful singing voice. And you can see some clips of him on YouTube, but none of them are of him being drunk and then singing.

So that's a very Jackie Gleason show reference. But it's something, it just became a comedy tradition of this slob or this low person will, like, say, Gomer Pyle will have a beautiful song. Barney looking for a toothpick on the floor of Moe's bar's bathroom. The most easily replaceable thing in the history of humanity. And apparently he's Irish. Yeah, I guess Barney G humanity. And apparently he's Irish. Yeah, I guess Barney Gumbel is Irish. He's so Irish. Tora, lora, lora.

Tora, lora, lora. You know how much I like Dan Castaneda. Man, nice pipes, Dan Castaneda. I love it every time. It's so beautiful. It can bring tears to the eyes of an Irishman. The leprechaun-like Irishman. Even though Wiggum packed the cavern,

Moe's Cavern, with all these people cheering for him, and then immediately they just turn on him. Wiggum forever, Barney never is a weird quote that I tend to work in unbelievably into things. And then they turn it into Barney forever, Wiggum never. Poor Wiggum. But they do come up with their name. Only one question remains, gentlemen.

What do we call ourselves? How about Handsome Homer Simpson plus three? I like it! We need a name that's witty at first, but that seems less funny each time you hear it. How about the B-sharps? Perfect. The B-sharps. The B-sharps.

The B-sharps. The B-sharps. Why, you can't blame a guy for trying oh you're all under arrest wanted to make sure i got my point out about the beatles punny name gets less funny every time you hear it bob we grew up i would say two decades not knowing beatles was a pun yeah that's how unfunny it Yeah. That's how unfunny it was the more you heard it. It just became normal that you didn't notice it was spelled differently than beetle. Unless you're writing the word beetle a lot,

you probably wouldn't even notice. Yeah. I know in my life I have used, when somebody makes a bad suggestion, I'll go like, I like it. I definitely have said that. Man, that's good. I'm going to throw that at Dave and Brett.

It's a great passive-aggressive thing to do. Wow. As long as people know what The Simpsons is. This is dumb, and I think we should prepare people for this being a long episode, especially if I play half the clips I have. But this is special to me because I didn't even recognize it when it happened. No way. It's the first bong I've ever seen on television.

I did not get it until i re-watched this on dvd yeah the first people i ever saw get high was the connors on rosanne and even then they have a bag with joints in it and they don't they don't touch them they don't light them they don't show the process yes because kids would know yes kids would know but i was like it just that's like years later after i discovered marijuana i'm like that they've shared a bong in The Simpsons? Of all the things everybody complained about. I stand by my bong. What'd you kids get? I bought this cool pencil holder.

Far out, man. I haven't seen a bong in years. No one bought a wishbone necklace. Well, one of us made some money. I sold a guy our spare tire. And then Marge has to walk 12 miles through the desert. That's one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

Marge is immediately the first one. I remember the whole family laughed so hard at that. It's a joke, though, that works on SD televisions. It's so great. I know because we were squinting at our giant 30-inch TV. Just like, is that Marge? And then the pullback to show it is Homer sitting there. So far on the horizon.

It's so beautiful they made her walk that far. But who sells their spare tire? I want to know how that possibly came up, Ethan. Though Homer's math movements on I Haven't Se seen a bong in years are so off i do wonder what the original line was yeah see you getting in trouble for almost any response you have to a bong i haven't seen a bong in years i guess i mean it's already been set up homer smoked weed in college or in high school with barney and he's cool with barges having a bong yeah he doesn't care. Just to clarify with

you guys you're cool with us going long on these flashback episodes we have to do not only references to 1993 but whatever they're flashing back to. Yes.

And so. Gloriously on one of the first episodes of 302010 I got to look into this and watch the whole special. Baby on boards. There was nothing in

Al Capone's vault but it wasn't Geraldo's fault. Look what I got. Now people will stop intentionally ramming our car. Hmm. Baby on board. Baby on board. Something, something. Burt Ward.

That's Robin. That is. That's Robin that is there's a lot to talk about here definitely needed that explained to me the Geraldo but the immortal Weird Al movie went to UHF went into Al Capone's glove compartment roadmaps

that was the same one where they made fun of how in that same bit, it was like how Geraldo got attacked by KKK members. I think it was a mix of Geraldo and Morton Downey. Oh, Morton Downey. Yeah. And I will just say, these don't, God, those little triangular yellow signs do not exist

anymore that you suction cup to your window to tell someone behind you something. Now you have the stick finger family of like adults and children. Yeah, I don't even think that's what it might be for. Careful there's kids in the car. I thought it was people bragging about their fertility. I've bred. I like Marge's point of just like don't intentionally ram our car now because there's

a baby on here. I'm just like why would you do that? I haven't seen one of those signs in years except every time I walk into the corner store down there it's one of those corner stores that hasn't removed anything that's not sold and you can just see like 86 super bowl champions and it's a little suction cup triangular thing what's the story of herald actually i i sent you a clip chris i don't know if you have that yes we do it was to open the vault on live international television i'm heraldo rivera and you're about to witness a live television event

a massive concrete vault has been discovered some think it belonged to none other than the notorious al capone well tonight for the first time that vault is going to be open live well what happened that night 20 years ago made pop cultural history and really did really or did there's more of the clip there's more but it's just like They found a stop sign in there And nothing else Empty bottles of beer I mean it was fascinating But it's just like

It's him filling time Somebody had to learn that lesson on television Yeah Had it gone the other way We would have seen a billion other one of these But this is one of the highest rated syndicated things of all time We talked about it I think you were on 302010 back when we did it

Yeah yeah yeah But it was in 86 And they discovered What they thought was a secret compartment underneath a building that was being sold or raised. That could have been where Al Capone did all his business. Even in this clip though, it's kind of cagey. Like allegedly this is Al Capone's vault. It could be. It could belong to him possibly.

It is a live syndicated one hour special and they open it and there's nothing. Yeah. Wasted everybody's time just thinking about that ever happened again but if it had been the other way around everybody would this would be happening still to this day I'm thinking about that what other syndicated programs were live

that's amazing to think about the coordination that was involved for that amazing they may they'd get caught lying about it I suppose but it'd be so hard to prove it wasn't yeah if you see that clip if you see that clip of them, like dejectedly walking around. Yeah. The nothingness as, as with millions watching.

Unbelievable. I think he just ends it abruptly. Yeah. He's just like, we're all though survived and went on to become hot grandpa of Fox. And I really go between like, I fucking hate you. You're pretty cool. I've seen them extremely nude on Twitter. Oh yeah.

Really? Does he just post those? He's one of those old guys who's just like, my six-pack's better than yours, buddy. I bet it is. He's the original dirty grandpa. Mine's currently resting over my pants and hurting me right now. Yeah, I mean, Scott Adams is becoming the new Geraldo in that respect. Oh, so then

comes in some more references to the Beatles. Well, I would prefer we kept your marriage a secret. You see, a lot of women are going to want to have sex with you, and we want them to think they can. Well, if I explain it to Marge that way, I'm sure she'll understand. Why are you crying? It's too realistic.

In a good way. Come on honey It'll only be till we finish our tour of Sweden That hurts to listen to I forgot I have to mention it somewhere Because I forgot to do it on laser time One of our recent laser times was

How out of touch are you Is the title of the episode We consider ourselves pop culture experts But like this show we're constantly being corrected, yelled at, told we're stupid. So I wanted to see how out of touch are we with the most popular things in the universe. And what I did to prepare for that

is I downloaded Snapchat. And I was on the couch with my girlfriend, and I'm like, what did I call myself? Ah, Leisure Time's not available. Leisure Time 69. I am on Snapchat now. And she's like, what? You're getting Snapchat?

I'm like, yeah, we're doing an episode about how we're out of touch. And I was going to use a Snapchat promotion. I thought it'd be funny and promote our fucking Snapchat. I will use this one week if you want to talk temporary. And I'll delete it forever. And she got this mad at me. Because, like, we're too old. We don't really know what Snapchat is.

But we do know it deletes things and is good for nudes. I know you can click on a picture of a ghost and talk to a celebrity. Is that how it works? I don't know. I don't know. And I didn't know then. But her thought, she just wouldn't believe me that it wasn't for nefarious needs. Why would I consult you on the name sitting next to you?

I'm this stupid. I wouldn't do that. Yeah. Good half hour. Marge mad at me. Not crying. So Homer, faking hiding his marriage,

is also what John Lennon was told to do. He was secretly married to the mother of Jude, the Hey Jude song. And then he would divorce her during the thing. But they even had, there was a clip I remember seeing of early interview with the Beatles of them saying like,

oh, well, he's married, but we're not supposed to say it. And just like he, it was very clear for that reason. Women were going crazy. Girls were going crazy for them. They will go slightly less crazy for you if you're married. And so that's what they, it was their reasoning for it. Another reason never to get married. Women were, you see the videos of the women into in

beetles hysteria doesn't make sense and i most women were when i'm watching something with a woman like what is that instinct to scream until your voice is gone when you see somebody you like i i really love bruce campbell but i'm not going to just yell at the top of my lungs when i see him in public i think being a teenager helps with that it does i've heard great explanations that like there's an expression you need to give. What are you supposed to do as a woman? Go up there and fuck somebody? We saw a version of that in our use with Total Request Live.

The format of Total Request Live was, I really love this Blink-182 video. It's so great. Ah! You have to end with ah on TRL. That was how it went. That's right, yeah. I love that.

It's like signing off. Yeah, that feels like ahhh on TRL. That was how it went. That's right, yeah. I love that. It's like signing off. Yeah, that feels like a million years ago now. There's a beautiful sequence in the Beatles rock band opening where there's just a woman screaming until tears run down her face. Yeah. I love it. Love that opening. So then they have their one-hit wonder with Baby on board.

It's a big hit. So there's a clip of Paul Harvey. Let's talk about Paul Harvey. That's my boy homer singing and that little boy whom nobody liked grew up to be roy cone smack me with a handle now you know the rest of the story uh roy cone notorious shithead mentor to Donald Trump. Lead star of Angels in America.

Angels in America, Al Pacino's closeted, gay, awful lawyer character. Ronald Reagan's lawyer, like, dying of, and a horrible, horrible man, which makes that very funny. He'd only be outed in death from AIDS. So Paul Harvey,

he was a radio broadcaster for like seven years. Died in 2009. And that's the only reason his show got canceled. Exactly. The rest of the story, I think it was originally part of a World War II broadcast and kind of a magazine style radio

broadcast eventually became its own show in the 70s. Yeah, and I would listen to him because I absorb so many jokes about Paul Harvey throughout the 70s yeah and uh i would listen to him because i absorb so many jokes about paul harvey throughout the 90s there's a great freakazoid episode where he basically takes over the episode to narrate it but he was very famous for being old and kind of doddering on the air and saying like when he goes to the next page like page two and then he goes on and then he will like lapse lapse into commercials without you realizing. And this letter comes from somebody.

It says, Dear Paul, I've been using this mattress for 15 years, and I've never slept better in my life. That's right. Use certified mattresses, and you'll never go without sleep again. Thank you very much, Paul. I've always wanted to find something solid in my life. It wasn't necessary with Cracker Barrel's peach cobbler. Cobblerious cob. But it is such like, it's your grandpa on the radio telling you stuff,

and old people like Abe and Jasper would love listening to him. So you don't have any personal experience with Paul Herber? Not really, no. I did read on Wikipedia just now that he apparently popularized the term Reaganomics and guesstimate. But this, I want to get this clip of him.

This is him saying the rest of the story. Well, let's, let's hear the real deal though. The design of the American flag. And now you know the rest of the story. That recording, he sounds so old there. You missed the end where he always goes, good day? No, it's not on there,

but they missed it. But that was one of his trademarks, good day. And I mean, that was the trick of it, especially for a radio broadcaster who's trying to keep people tuned in and listening

the whole time. They don't tell you what you're talking about. You tell a story the whole time and then you're going to get such a twist at the end, like, and I was telling the story of

Abraham Lincoln we make that reference constantly in that little boy that nobody liked turned out to be so many 90s sitcoms had Paul Harvey references in them The Simpsons would have several going on he wrote The Erotic American or Mr. and Mrs. Erotic American

double your pleasure with a bath together the rest of the story is a catchphrase from the 40s that existed to 09. I don't know of any other media-based institutions that existed that long. And I do have fond memories of Paul Harvey. Obviously, I wasn't a kid tuned to the radio, unless you were spanking a girl with spaghetti. Put the radio next to your boobs. What I do remember is living in Florida

and going to our grandparents' houses both north and south, and you just end up, I remember just driving through towns like Waycross and Jessup, Georgia. And of course, the radio signals are fading, and no one can agree on a station, me, my sister, my mom, and my dad,

except when you hear paul harvey because everybody knew what you could expect and instantly recognized his voice so as we once every month or two when we went to the grandparents house it was like a quest to find paul harvey on the radio because they weren't like 30 minute broadcasts they used they were like in between her kind of they were they were sort of like filler content yeah and they were but they that they broadcast for over 50 years and we would, I've never found one on purpose but I've listened to it what I feel like

is a hundred times. Yeah. I would, the closest thing to that I had if I was like on a road trip or in a new state, I would find the Diane Rehm show.

I was just like, ah, there's Diane Rehm. The Diane Rehm show. My favorite trivia bit about Diane Rehm that you're going to hate me for. She's the hottest NPR correspondent

that exists. Really? Yeah, she to hate me for. She's the hottest NPR correspondent that exists. Really? She is a silver babe. She's great. I must reiterate, please watch the Candle Jack episode of Freakazoid with Paul Harvey. It has my favorite quote, smack me with a handle. Just when I think of driving through fucking places of farming pig fat and desperately looking for a Hardy so we can eat. I think of Paul Harvey. And that man's name was Bob Evans.

I swear. Those are closing out too. You're old. Also, during the B-Sharp song segment, we see Sea Captain fighting an octopus, which is actually interesting. I only got it this time. It's another sequel joke in the the jeff martin trilogy that's right because he's showing them the houseboat and then i in lisa's first word and then he's attacked by a giant octopus weird and so now it's him fighting him again in chronological time

a year later i only know the quote from the writer specifically that he's a sea captain we need him to be and he's pathetic when he's not yeah you when you need him to be, and he's pathetic when he's not, when you don't need him to be. But in the past, he does seem to be in the past a legit sea captain, and only in the present is a restaurateur. Well, other times he does have a boat where he's needing to get pornography. McAllister's history is very loose. I apologize for all the listeners, and both of you, because two of us are under the weather, but we're not even...

And the one moment of non-Beatles referencing in here comes in this sequence too where Homer buys Abe a pink Cadillac which that's what Elvis did for people. When Elvis got rich

he bought people Cadillacs. The Beatles didn't buy people Cadillacs. Don't see how that would be possible in Liverpool in the 50s. Here's a more direct Beatles reference. I love it. I have a question for Apu Debo Marche. Isn't it true that would be possible in Liverpool in the 50s. Here's a more direct Beatles reference. I love it. I have a question for Apu Debo Marche.

Isn't it true that you're really an Indian? By the many arms of Vishnu, I swear it is a lie. Buddy, how did you join the group? They found me on the men's room floor. Principal Skinner, you've been referred to as the funny one. Is that reputation justified? Yes. Yes, it is.

Yes. For the record, Ringo was the funny one. Yeah. They were all funny, by the way. And shot for shot, their arrival at the airport was the Beatles' arrival in America. Is that the, are you a modder, are you a rocker? It's like, I'm a mocha. Oh, yes, that's right.

I don't need to talk about that. I just, I forget that the Beatles, like, they're dressed like people of the 50s, but their music is pretty punk and out there, considering what they were up against. Oh, yeah, they were revolutionary music with, like, their harder guitars. I'm not going to compliment

the Beatles articulately but just watching that documentary let me believe like oh yeah they were dressed like the last generation of musicians but doing a different kind of music

well I play Beatles rock band sir and I can tell you that their first albums in America seemed to be just like rock and roll written by black people

that they would cover to sort of kind of get them into America and most of them is like total screamo like top of their lungs just belting shit out.

In a land of like people holding their bass guitar up to their neck and moving back and forth. And at best you get like beach rock. They all sounded the same, mostly because they were written by Brian Wilson. But yeah, even the backgrounds are from that first Beatles landing in America.

I just never got that as a kid. And not even as a teenager. So then they get a nice little shot of Reagan and the Statue of Liberty. Mommy. Damn ceremonies. This is time I could be working, Mommy. We'd like to dedicate this next number to a very special woman. She's 100 years old, and she weighs over 200 tons.

This enormous woman will devour us all! I meant the statue. Never say statue of liberty. That's a reversal of things for Homer. Homer in other times has been like, oh, I'm so scared, this thing. That guy I think would later grow up to be the guy who jumped out the window when the PTA disbanded.

The PTA disbanded! The PTA disbanded. The PTA disbanded. I never understood what Reagan was saying until liberal pissbags like me pointed out that Mike Pence, who is clearly not gay, despite being obsessed with sexuality. Absolutely not. If you Google a picture of a gay old man, it'll look like Mike Pence. Yep. A lot more leather, though.

Calls his wife mother. Yes. Is maybe a tribute to Ronald Reagan? I mean, Reagan did call her mommy like nancy mommy like yeah well it's also that his his brain was getting a bunch of holes in it at that point yeah he was fortunately we have nothing to worry about with old presidents losing their minds no i remember like an npr interview with uh one of his closest assistants or whatever and it was uh he was saying well you know by 1983 he didn't really know where he was and I think Terry Gross was like oh you

mean like he didn't know where he was as a president as a as a leader no no he didn't know where he was he had Alzheimer's and he didn't know where he was most of the time it's a controversy we don't talk about yeah it's like he was out of his mind for most of his presidency yeah and I never knew why that but whenever you see SNL clip packages there's like he was out of his mind for most of his presidency. Yeah. And I never knew why that, whenever you see SNL clip packages, there's like this, that period of like 81 to 85 where they don't show much. And Harry Scherer did play Reagan briefly. He did. Yeah.

And there's one clip, one clip in every SNL clip package of Phil Hartman playing Reagan. And my dad cracks the fuck up at it because it's about like, oh, you're a Girl Scout, huh? That does sound exciting. All right, Farrah. Back to work! Oh, yeah. That was so great. I love that one.

And I remember my dad cracking up. And I don't remember Reagan. And just because like, no, that was a doddering fuck. Like no one could ever imagine him working. That was so great. Yeah. So the real Freedom Week weekend concert that actually did happen was july 4th 1986 so it would fit this time i say the bicentennial it was the bicentennial of

the statue it was the centennial or the only 100 years yeah the centennial of got it the statue of liberty and that was july 4th 1986 there were multiple concerts over Freedom Weekend, but the one that Homer and them would have performed at would have been on Friday, and that included John Denver, Melissa Manchester, Clamma Dale with Simon Est, of course, Joel Gray,

Whitney Houston, Johnny Cash, James Whitmore, and Barry Manilow. I was going to do Barry White, but I was wrong. I think we even talked about Freedom Weekend on 302010 as well. Go to the July 4th episode of that. And I know what I said because I'm going to say it again and waste everybody's time. Growing up, when I first saw pictures of the Statue of Liberty in books,

but in the newspaper it was covered in scaffolding. That's right, around this time. Like right when I was born. What it felt like for fucking years to fix it up for this event. That was before the Ghostbusters steered it with an NES advantage controller. But,

it was concurrent with the Fred Ward movie, Remo Williams, The Adventures Begins. Oh. Presumptuous, that movie is fucking so watchable.

Magic dogs, men dressed like Asians. Joel Grey playing a Korean, yeah. A giant fight sequence on the scaffolding of fixing up the Statue of Liberty. Yeah, yeah. I love that movie. And a giant fight sequence on the scaffolding of fixing up the Statue of Liberty

for him. I love that movie. And then right after he was just on the show they're making fun of Johnny Carson

though I guess it's not that mean to him it's mean to Wiggum. Or mean to Joan Rivers. Ah! Can we talk about Chief Wiggum?

Ah! Ah! Ah! So I just realized I do that as my Joan Rivers impression all the time. Ah, ah, ah. It wasn't even that great. It's not. It's Dan Castellaneta kind of doing it.

Simpsons reference. Was she like having her own show at this point? In the flashback, it's hard to say. In 86, she did not have her own show. Yeah, or 85 is what it is. No, this is 86. I know from the Immortal Weird Al song, Where's Johnny? It is a joke

about how Johnny Carson never hosts his own show. And Joan Rivers was one of the many guest hosts that would come in. Yeah, but they wouldn't be back-to-back. She would have been, she got the Fox show, but later in the 80s. It was the first and only Fox show in 86, if I'm not mistaken. It was the first original Fox show.

I'm going off of a lot of I just wrote an article about Super Bowl commercials and the David Letterman Leno team-up commercial which is astounding the first time they talk in 18 years is Jay Leno atoning for being television's greatest villain pretty bad this episode is not as

pinned down to one year I mean it's sort of like within a three-year span of references but it's not as tied down to 84 as that last one was. Okay, think about this. Wiggum is shooting his gun in the house, which is a great joke that he thinks that's the remote.

But if Lisa is a baby, Ralph is a baby now, too. So he's doing that with a baby in the house. Possibly on the wall. Yes! Which would explain a lot about Ralph. That tells you a lot about Ralph, yeah. And then we get another, a return of David

Crosby real quickly for the more obvious joke that you do with David Crosby. And the Grammy for Outstanding Soul Spoken Word or Barbershop Album of the Year goes to The B-Sharks! Congratulations. David Crosby, you're my hero!

Oh, you like my music? You're a musician? That is the stock Barney joke, though. It's like, Barney, here's the situation. This is what's happening? That's really the stock Barney joke. Gene and Reese love those Barney jokes. If I may pull a Henry.

What's whacking day? We do 30, 20, 10. Six plays in the summer. The Emmys typically take place beginning of the fall. No, it's the Grammys. Oh, Grammys. When do the Emmys take place? I think they're at the start of the year, actually.

Yeah, I think they might be in the summer. They're definitely not in the summer. There's not many awards in the summer. This is a lot of shots at the Grammys, which I double-check. The Simpsons have never won one or, as far as I can tell, been nominated. Sings the Blues never won a Grammy? As far as I can tell, I did so much research by going to the first album Chris bought. I went to the Wikipedia page, awards the Simpsons has won, and it was not on there.

But much like a lot of award shows but way more so with the Grammys you will look back on it and laugh at everything that won it doesn't make any sense it makes no

sense ever every new artist is like that's the new artist but I don't envy people having to try and decide what's gonna what's gonna stay in the

test of time that's a great joke too about how they just combine unpopular things into what when you hear like the spoken word and comedy and whatever it's how jethro tull beat metallica out for a grammy yeah it was so uh i also love the little shots to the other people who are part of it and there's one

other barbershop quartet and then so they win it so homer has won an award on television like he'd homer has an imdb page just for this he does like so and then they get their big beatly so who's bigger a bigger hit him or ringo is this uh i'd say ringo at the time yeah like what other american shows did he appear on what animated shows he didn't appear in his own animated movie well ringo works hard to be more of a star than george george harrison wanted to be a musician i think he made albums and great albums yeah yeah i think i think if we're if we have to talk beatles shit george harrison has the best solo work and it's very what do you want john it's very unfortunate for george that he just got to be like overshadowed by the two most prolific songwriters of their generation. He joined too late,

didn't speak up. In the commentary they talk about how he was very sad and how all the writers wanted to be in the room. He's like, you just want to be in here with me, don't you? He just knew. He was just tired of being famous. He was tired of being George Harrison. You can see that in his eyes, man. Martin Scorsese documentary about him. What's that called?

Oh, yeah. But George Harrison is so amazing. He did a million things great after The Beatles. On top of his solo albums, the reason the life of Brian exists is because George Harrison financed it because he just wanted to see a Monty Python film. And then it was successful enough that he ended up just having a production company. He's like, handmade film. No, not handmade film. so he was involved in that he had he did so many great songs concert for bangladesh

is amazing i guess reference that was my favorite uh there was oh yeah who has the concert against bangladesh album in a later episode right i would put on a concert for bangladesh a million times at my job because they had a rule like you can't put on TV shows. We're a movie store. Like, what an asshole boss I had. But so I was like, fine, we'll put on concert albums. And put on that one. And it's so great.

It starts with like 15 minutes of sitar playing by Robbie Shankar, which was basically George Harrison punishing you. Like, you wanted to hear all this rock music but this but we're going to celebrate that people were doing this your musical vegetables first and then once that was over then he's like all right now it's time for the rock and he played one of my my favorite george harrison's solo song is called wawa or it's him talking shit about the other beatles it's like it's him saying i need your wah-wah. You've been crying. He's getting mad at them for complaining.

It's about the Let It Be recording, which you'll see later in this episode. And it's him complaining about them. And it's the song he opens Concert for Bangladesh with. And Ringo is one of three drummers playing at the same time.

And so you get to see him next to other drummers. You're like, you are a good drummer, Ringo. You're not bad. was paul's fault who get he gave the press quote like uh is ringo the best drummer in the world ringo's not even the best drummer in the beatles that's an apocryphal quote is it my damn it no it's it's a funny one but i've heard people say like they never really said that it's how where would but they're always together it is true he paul did drumming on albums and ringo that ringo didn't do like he was just like i but i i don't know when graining decided i read that

like graining wanted to his goal was to have all the surviving beatles on the show and it took him a long time because there's like years in between i think without vegetarianism they wouldn't have no they had to literally change lisa forever to get paul mccartney on the show uh but well i guess we got to hear the death jingle before this oh god damn it death stalks you at every turn there it is death oh what year was it 2005 i'll look at that okay but here's who we're talking about. Then came the greatest thrill of my life. Hello, Homer. I'm George Harrison.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God! Where did you get that brownie? Over there. There's a big pile of them. That's a lot of brownies. Oh, man. Wow, what a nice fella.

I hung it on the wall. It was actually only 2001. Oh, wow. November 29, 2001. That was after his stabbing. Someone broke into his house and stabbed him. Really? Yeah, there's actually a very tasteless family guy joke about this.

Did he die because of a stab? No, no, he survived that and then it was cancer. When you really care about someone, you shout it from the mountaintops. So on behalf of Desjardins Insurance, I'm standing 20,000 feet above sea level to tell our clients that we really care about you. We care about you. We care about you. Home and auto insurance personalized to your needs. Weird.

I don't remember saying that part. Visit Desjardins.com slash care and get insurance that's really big on care. Did I mention that we care? Christ. I didn't realize that. That happened in the 90s, and like Peter Griffin said,

this is the easiest job since I was a security guard at George Harrison's place. And then cut to a guy with a knife breaking at George Harrison's place. And then cut to a guy with a knife breaking into George Harrison's place. But if you don't think you know a George Harrison song, say the words, I got my mind set on you 4,000 times. There's this big hit around this period. Another great Weird Al parody.

The song is just six words long. Wow, man, you know all the album parodies. I know. You're the real geek here. I wanted to point something out. We don't have clips of it. So Homer is gone. There's a sort of through line that Homer misses his family.

The family misses Homer. Marge creates a fake Homer with a recording from him. It explodes. And we see a scene right after that of Santa's little helper burying the Homer guy. Guess what, guys? Santa's little helper would not be adopted for six more years. Bart is 10 when they adopt him. So, yep, not six more years. Another flub. No wonder Jeff Martin didn't work for the show again. That is a when they adopted yeah so yep six more years another

flub no wonder jeff martin that is a great show again that is a great visual scene it is yeah i will tell you what my retcon for that is they dug up the head while looking at his old stuff and then that was a cut to current day it doesn't make i don't buy it but it was just it was just continuity the homer dummy exploding is very much like Alphonse disintegrating in the last episode. Very similar joke. Krusty gets cancelled. Yeah. And so the Dexys Midnight... The glove landing on

fucking Bart's head. Yeah. Dexys Midnight Runners was the words that meant nothing to me as a child watching this episode. Growing up immediately after the 80s they were one of the first punchlines that I saw. When you wanted to find one hit wonder.

They had strong opinions about Eileen. Lisa, did you see the Grammys? You beat Dexy's Midnight Runners. Well, you haven't heard the last of them. I miss you, Daddy. Aw. I mean, I'm going to say, come on, Eileen is a great song.

It's an amazing song. It's one of the best 80s songs. It's one of the best one hit wonder songs.'s one of the best one-hit wonder songs. It's a very fun karaoke song, too. Yeah. So, Dexys Midnight Runners broke up in the 80s, but would then reform in 2003 for money. For money. They made it.

Hey, they needed that money, man. And I do, like, just, I love this because it puts such a fucking time stamp on how long The Simpsons has been on and how- Oh, my God, yes. The weird transition in my age of like the classic Hollywood stars who were alive when I was little and I just watched popped off and didn't really respond to

this clip can't believe you're not still popular what'd you do screw up like the Beatles and say you were bigger than Jesus all the time it was the title of our second album great visual but we were about to learn an iron law of show business what goes up must come down Great visual. Dead.

Dead. Dead. Shut up! Shut up! All those examples, except for Tom Jonesones are so fucking dead yeah so and they would have died like within a couple of dean martin was like dead he was in two years i didn't but i didn't know i lived through the death of dean martin yeah if you google dean martin and try and find a clip of him without like a fucking tall drink of bourbon in his hand he looks like he's smoking his face off in 1980 yeah i should have so or should have. So, bigger than Jesus.

Yeah. I do have a clip for this one, but the background of it real quick is that in an interview, John Lennon said, in a written interview, so there's no clip of him saying it. This was in a magazine interview, though, where he said, we're more popular than Jesus. That was the quote. Was it Jesus Christ? We're more popular than Jesus Christ. And so, as hard

as it is to believe that people could be reactionary before Twitter and the internet, when this got around, middle America, especially in 1960s, really didn't like it at all. I also remember they're referring to the Beatles as

the British invasion. It has the word invasion in it. Especially conservative parents who already don't like their girls telling them to shake it yeah so these men with their long hair so now they've got this never served in the war this british person saying they're bigger than jesus i hate this because it's john lennon eating fuck yeah like just 10 years later would have told everybody in the world to go fuck themselves so this is the this is news stories from the time explaining what happened. Well, I think the Beatles are a real talented group, but I think that they need to watch what they say

because they're in such a position that a lot of teenagers really think of them as something really big. And when they say things like that, some teenagers are going to just believe anything they say. I'm not saying that we're better or greater or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. You know, I just said what I said and it was wrong

or was taken wrong and now it's all this. See, they're all so bored and unhappy. I hung it on me cross. All of you can suck my dick. We've seen this a million times. You paused on Paul McCartney with his hand up against his face like, God, when will this end? This shows you how much things don't change

in 50 years. This is the same thing you've seen of celebrities a million times. Yeah, I said it. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. Sorry I took it the wrong way. It's such an innocent joke. They were like burning beatles albums there was earlier in that clip i didn't want to make this like a 10 minute long thing but

there's bible dudes in the beginning saying bible dudes bible dudes bible dudes in the beginning saying if you disagree with this too bring all your beatles stuff here and burn it which is what reverend lovejoy does about crusty in public andusty Gets Busted. My mom was a casual Beatles fan. This is just a dumb anecdote. My grandparents were involved in a senior citizen scavenger hunt. And one of the things on there is like, Mo, if you can, find a Beatles album in your house. It's like 2001.

And they're like, oh, we found one. I'm like, oh, Marsha, we found your Beatles album. My dad looks at it like, this is an original issue, Meet the Beatles. Whoa. An immaculate condition that my mother bought. So it's like in a frame at my house now. I have an original Paul McCartney action figure in my room that my mom got in the 60s.

I don't know what line it's from, but it's kind of like a super deformed nendoroid Paul McCartney. So them trying to record their... Customizable face. Them unhappy trying to record their... Customizable face. Them unhappy trying to record their new song is... It's Let It Be. It is the Let It Be recordings where they all just hate each other.

They all have different haircuts by this point. Yeah, and this is when Barney becomes John Lennon, and this is not a very pro-Yoko show. Gold Surgeon General C. Everett Coop. Coop, Coop, Coop. Guys. This is worse than your song

about Mr. T. I pity the fool who doesn't like he. And where's Barney? Oh, he's with his new girlfriend, the Japanese conceptual artist. Barbershop is in danger of growing stale. I'm taking it to strange new places. Number eight.

Number eight. We're too long for me to play that again, but just know that I want to. All right. Grandmother's a major Christian, hated Yoko Ono with a huge passion. The first thing I learned about Yoko Ono is that she wrote a book with poems about being on LSD while touching her vagina.

Oh my God. That's what my mother told me about Yoko fucking Ono. Your grandmother. My grandmother. Was the fact that she was a Japanese lady have anything to do with it?

I can't imagine it. I mean, all of it is scary. Everything Yoko Ono stands for is scary to my grandmother. It's a foreigner to touch a pussy. I'll'll never say she's not racist she did tell me to never date a black woman who didn't and yoko does weird art and then people blame her for ruining the beatles but that's just not fair because like they were self-destructing right they didn't need her there to make them hate each other and not want to work together anymore. But she does. She's left plenty of evidence of doing horrendous things on tape around the Beatles.

Oh, yeah. But real deep avant-garde 60s, 70s artist shit. But it also falls into this just like the girlfriend ruined things like trope, which just sucks. It's just a shitty thing that happens in real lives where guys think well one of my male friends got a girlfriend and now this ruins everything and it's that bitch's fault and i feel like yoko is is uh not a verb is like a verb kind of yoko it's like a pejorative like she's the yoko she's the yoko whereas like john lennon could fuck anything living or dead. Pretty much. If he was that satisfied hanging out with you and writing songs and touring with you, why this woman?

Part of him is on you. John Lennon changed and didn't want to be in the Beatles anymore, even a little bit. I mean, it sucks that he was assassinated, but he was not nice to women. Certainly not. In general. No, he wasn't. He wasn't? I don't know anything about that.

Yeah. He was kind of a... He was a bit of a wife beater John Lennon yeah I love John Lennon I gotta tell you most

most famous people of that generation probably beat or assaulted one woman they were learning how to handle Quaaludes I don't envy them

I'm not trying to get I'm not giving excuses to it but I do think but Yoko still loves him like she's everybody's loving yoko now she showed up for the women's march i love seeing her too i i you only hear from yoko when

she's like donating something awesome to charity well this number eight song confused me so much and my mom had to explain that this was a reference to a a beatle song that nobody liked it was famous as the one of like oh john has really lost it and i do not like this but it's i have a clip of it it's revolution number nine let's listen to all 10 minutes i can't hear that without hearing the simpsons joke i can't either but here's i fast forwarded number nine number nine number nine number nine nine. Number nine. Number nine. Number nine.

Number nine. There's a Windows 95 screensaver happening. No, I don't know. Inside Baseball, Henry, I don't know where you got this clip, but it is sunk to a Japanese exclusive game called LSD. Oh, that game. Yeah, which we streamed on our YouTube channel. Well, search Revolution number nine for the user Ser sir getty sir gretty on youtube and

you can see youtube.com slash laser time lsd yeah i'm and it's like it's like more of an audio collage less of a rocks it's not even a rock song no it's like a sound collage they are experimenting and it's nine minutes long these guys could write hits in their sleep and lastly they're doing a lot of drugs if yoko was did take offense to this, I think she stopped because last year, last year at one of her art shows, she had, among her pieces of art, a single plum floating in perfume in a man's hat. Oh my God. It was at her thing. This is the band breaking up and going back to their lives in a montage.

So bear with this clip. Gentlemen, Us Magazine just came out with its What's Hot or What's Not issue. Are we hot? We are not. We all went our separate ways. Well, William, I'm back. So, how did you spend your summer? I made millions in software and lost it at the track.

It may not be glamorous, but it's good, honest work. How much is this quart of milk? Twelve dollars. Hey, Barney, what'll it be? I'd like a beer, Mo. I'd like a single plum floating in perfume served in a man's hat. Here you go. Love how quick Mo does that.

He has that. I love the needless animated pan out from Apu. Like, there's just a brief second that has more linear perspective than any other animated sequence in the whole episode. Yeah. And I guess none of them made money. I'll just assume that Nigel took it all, perhaps. And here's my joke, not calling out The Simpsons, but has everybody here worked on or adjacent to a magazine? Yeah.

No. This took six weeks. There is... Print lead time... Us Weekly couldn't have done that. Print lead time is like I'm aware of the lead time,

yeah. Well, I don't know. Us Weekly is a little faster than a month. True. If they're already saying Alf is great, when he only just premiered...

He only just premiered in September. Yeah. It's so lucky for us that we know 86 so well since we just relived it through 30 2010 yeah you've got to listen to it guys listen so yeah i think that was i think that was yoko making up with the simpsons though and i told bob about it months ago and i read about it bob was like irony is dead there's more proof of there is no irony

anymore now it's really dead because of certain events. Yes. That we have not referenced yet in this episode. So then they have the reunion on top of Moe's bar. Yeah, they did. And it is If I had to give a line to the show, and I don't know why, it's Bart and Lisa peering over Homer's stomach

after he talks about what happens to his replacement. Hey, Billy, I'm back. Oh, that's great. Your replacement was getting tired. The chicken. That's right. Hey, Queenie, you can go now. I'll give her a good home.

And I did. I'll never forget my five and a half weeks at the top. Man, that's some story. But there are still a few things I don't get. Like, how come we never heard about this until today? Yeah, and what happened to the money you made? Why haven't you hung up your gold record? Since when could you write a song?

There are perfectly good answers to those questions. But they'll have to wait for another night. Now off to bed. Screw you, viewers. Yes, it's a good screw you, viewers. Was this not fun? Was it not worth it to have George Harrison and David Crosby come on? Queenie is no Stewart.

Get back to work, Stewart. No, I like the brick that replaced him. The brick tied to the lever. That's my favorite home replacement. The kids leaning in to look at his stomach as if they were going to reveal more information. Kind of leaning in and wonder. I found it funny when it came out, and I found it funny today. But they do reunite.

It's based on their final concert on top of Apple Records. On top of Apple Records, they finish recording Let It Be, and they sing the songs on top of Apple Records. I promise the last time I'll reference Beatles Rock Band. Knowing a little bit about Beatles history. It's a great level. It's the greatest last level ever. Like when just john lennon is screaming don't let me down on the top of on the top of apple records in a game you're about to complete you had to unlock everything to get here and it's

sad that no one will ever play that game again yeah because of rights legally there's no way to now yeah kind of wish a bottle that dills but, the B-sharps also reunite on the rooftop of Bo's Cavern. I can't remember the last time we were all together. Last year on that stupid Dame Edna special. And a one, and a two, and a three. Boom, boom, boom. Baby on board. We didn't play a lot of the music in this episode,

but I just want to point out how awesome and like the greatest original song for like almost any show yeah and Dave Medina is or was a male drag performer and I watched these specials in the 90s too my girlfriend's parents just saw him her life well isn't she sort of like the British

Linda Richmond from Coffee Talk in a way I feel like that's very much the same vibe I've got a spill kiss in my connective joints. Her dad's British. They just saw her live. Still very much with us. Interesting.

This is another one of my... Brett references this every time he's not getting enough attention. Hello! I love this whole sequence of them playing and the whole like all the springfields stopping what it's doing to listen to b sharps hello human fly here come on i stayed up all night dying my underwear extra extra b sharp sing on rooftop what give me one of those wait a minute there's nothing in here about the B-sharps.

Come back here! You can't pay me time. It's been done. Pretty hood chief. It sure is, Lou. It sure is. Get the tear gas. It's a trip to paradise. It's a catchy song.

And the human fly thing, I tried to find the reference to this. There was a brief late 70s, early 80s fad with human flies. Somebody climbed the World Trade Center in 1978. There's a really disgustingly vomitous video of this happening on YouTube. Didn't it happen somewhat recently? Someone scaled a building in New York? I mean, a guy did that at Trump Tower. Trump Tower, yeah. But I don't know where this reference is coming from but i know

that world trade center was a a big thing just a guy with gear just climbed the whole damn thing not even the man on wire game according to my search a little bit later i think according to my search human fly entertainers like date back it's like a carny act that dates back to the 1900s so really let me get some of that equipment. I want to climb up. As a kid, I loved imagining, like, I could put on a costume and I could be Spider-Man, too. We bought spy suction cups. And they, oh, boy. If you try and ask them to hold your weight, they will tell you no.

They can't hold up a film. It was the only way possible. Though it is pretty cool in Mission Impossible 4 when his own human fly type thing. Yeah. Directed by Brad Bird. That's true. That's right. Ghost Probe, the best Mission Impossible movie when his own human fly type thing. Yeah. Directed by Brad Bird. That's true. That's right. Ghost Probe, the best Mission Impossible movie.

Absolutely. Henry, I don't understand this stinger to the episode at all. I mean, it's just what Paul McCartney said. Paul McCartney ad-libs that thing at the end of their live performance, too. He just says, I hope we pass the audition. I'd like to thank you on behalf of the group, and I hope we pass the audition. I'd like to thank you on behalf of the group, and I hope we pass the audition. I don't get it.

That's what Paul McCartney said during In Between Songs on their Apple Records performance. The Dan Castaneda line, I don't get it, as Barney, I think he was just supposed to laugh, but the I don't get it wasn't ad-lib, but they kept in as the final joke. And it's great to just, I think that's a great

commentary at the end to be like, I missed all the Beatles references. Like, I didn't get this Beatles reference. Yeah, and that's just another one of those things you can carry on with the Simpsons with the retirement or death of any character except for Dan. Yes. Never.

Do not do it. Go away for five years at least. Yeah. Hopefully it won't happen soon. This has been Talking Simpsons, everybody. Thanks for listening to another long episode. What are we at here, Chris? Can you boot up the old timeline for me there?

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and a three. Baby on board How I've adored That sign on my car's window pane Bounce in my stem Loaded with pep Cause I'm driving in the carpool lane Call me a square

Friend, I don't care. That little yellow sign can't be ignored. I'm telling you it's mighty nice. Each trip's a trip to paradise. With my baby on board I'd like to thank you on behalf of the group, and I hope we pass the audition. I don't get it.