Talking Simpsons - Talking Simpsons - Mr. Plow

Episode Date: November 2, 2016

Is this week’s episode the best Simpsons ever? We zip up our jackets, put it in H, and dissect Mr. Plow! Not only that, but we’ve got personal stories of meeting Adam West!!!

this week's talking simpsons is brought to you by audible and talking simpsons listeners can go to audibletrial.com slash laser time to get a free audiobook and a free 30-day trial i heartily endorse this event or product. Ahoy, ahoy, everybody, and welcome to Talking Simpsons. That name again is Talking Simpsons, and this is the Laser Time Podcast Network's chronological exploration of the Simpsons who is here with me today. I'm Henry Gilbert, you lousy season. I'm Johnny Joe

Driveway, Chris Antista. Also would have gone with Chris, constantly stuck in H-gear, Antista. Both are in H. And I am your host, Bob Hornpipe Fever Mackie. Sound effect, Chris? I thought you had one.

No, not this time. Okay. Oh, not again. We did it again. And this episode is Mr. Plow, the Immortal Mr. Plow, which aired on November 19th, 1992. Chris will tell us what happened on this mythical day in real life history. Oh, my God. Oh, boy, Bobbyby what an exciting time uh superman dies for the first time in the pages of dc comics sony launches its first mini disc mariah carey's mtv unplugged the recording

playback unit starts at just 750 1992 dollars pre-ordering and even though fox can barely keep a show on the air it can get a song to the top of the pop charts with how do you talk to an angel from the television show the heights how do you talk to an angel sign language i still hear this me too how do you talk to an angel it's like some kind of uh nelson meatloaf son yeah yeah a lot of me nelson it's it's weird it's weird that like i still hear that song and i whenever it plays like does no one know about the heights the heights they're not teaching the kids about the heights like a show i think lasted like less than a one season yeah maybe a season it's like were they like a melrose placey kind of band but they were a band yeah they were uh an angsty little dramedy on fox but they were a band

called the heights and that was their song are we in full melrose place town now in terms of history no i don't think so actually i think think because 90210 begat Melrose Place, which begat Models Inc., which is a season six joke. Another one season wonder. Maybe 90210 is the end. We can't forget how huge Melrose Place was. And the Death of Superman stuff,

that was blamed for killing the comic boom because everybody bought the issue thinking, oh, this is the real death of Superman, not knowing that every comic book death is always undone. And so everybody felt burned by his return to life. Wait a minute, this is all part of capitalism? Yes. I protest.

A great Max Landis video? Yeah, it actually did. Yeah, but I was going to say a great SNL sketch about the memorial for Superman. And I got to actually quiz Tim Meadows at New York Comic Con over which character he played. He could not remember. Which one was it? The African-American Green Lantern, Jon Stewart. Jon Stewart. Okay, not the comedy host.

J-O-N Stewart. Got it. Not J-O-H-N. But anywho. Mr. Plow! We have gotten to Mr. Plow. One of the immortal episodes. I watched this episode going in like,

and I've watched it several times in the last couple years, and I'm like, ah, such a fucking hipster douchebag. There, I said it. Everybody loves this episode, so I'm like, I'm ready to not love this episode or find some flaw in it. And it's impossible. It is fucking on fire every single second

there's something funny happens. I'd be very selective with what I captured. Well, Chris, you were asking why people remember this one so well. It's very funny, number one. But number two, that change in season makes episodes more memorable. Like, Homer the Heretic, I think, is more memorable because of the winteriness of it. And this is like, we don't see The Simpsons in winter

outside of a Christmas episode, usually. I feel that adds a lot to new situations, situations new jokes things like that that don't normally happen and i think this episode is a complete story it's an a story all the way there's no b story like dragging it down just think about the things that people hate about the simpsons homer getting a new job exactly uh like and if i were just if i were to tell you what's the best episode of Beverly Hills 90210, the one where Brandon gets a job driving a snowplow. That is the best episode of that show. That's obviously the one where Brandon's friend kills himself playing with a gun.

This, I mean, speaking sentimentally and from my perspective, this spoke to me as a kid. You guys are all good Southern boys. I grew up in Northeast Ohio where snow as a kid was like this magical force that would close schools and let you play with these fun like snowmen and you can make your own luges in the backyard and it seems beautiful it's like this was like this magical force from heaven and it was an entire show about this like we would get maybe two weeks a year off for snow days where i live two weeks off a year for hurricanes okay well i did yeah the one year we had like two hurricanes

that canceled school and that they to make up for, they made like the rest of the days 15 minutes longer at school, which was just like, dude, come on. You can't actually make up for that amount of learning. That time was wasted. I just hit my 10-year anniversary in San Francisco, where we're recording this right now. I'm from Tallahassee, Florida, where we got hit. Not hit direct. We hadn't been hit directly by hurricanes since 1985

when I was a little kid. But every hurricane that comes through either pushes shitty weather over us or like we get a little bit of it and like, so, I shouldn't have a college degree because I probably missed, through hurricanes alone,

at least two months of college. Wow. At least because the right, like right, oh God, college is starting again. Sweet power outage. Everything's flooded. We don't have to go to school. They would never close our college for snow, but people would just wouldn't show up. And unlike elementary school, we didn't have to make it up at the end of the fucking year.

They were just dead days. Your degree is meaningless, Chris. Have three. Totally. Look what I'm doing. So, yeah, I came into this asking myself, is this the best episode ever? And for me personally, I think I can think of

a handful off the top of my head I like more. I like Margeris the Monorail more. I like Homer Goes to College more. I like Bart's Comet more. And also Burns' Bear. I forget the official name of that one. Burns' Air. Oh forget the official name of that one.

Burns' Heir. Oh, yeah. Or Rosebud. No, Rosebud. Actually, Burns' Heir is up there too. But definitely all those ones I really love. But this one is that great mix of like, this is A-plus animation and A-plus writing. Yes, like great Jim Reardon, super fat, super great Homers.

Everybody is so round. Not just Homer. Every character is extra rounded, extra cartoonish, doing the things Matt Groening hates. It's just beautiful. Every single second of this is perfect. And the movie parodies are subtle and awesome and all work. I think they're all great. And they're pretty obscure, some of them. Some of them are pretty obscure.

This episode starts with another reference lost to time, like last week's studs. Straight to Phil Hartman. Live from Hawaii's beautiful Molokai Island, we're not just for lepers anymore. It's Carnival of the Stars. I'm your host, Troy McClure. You may remember me from such films as

The Erotic Adventures of Hercules and Dial M for Murderousness. Tonight, we'll see Angela Lansbury walk on hot coals. Excitement, she wrote. But first, a man whose inspiring battle with Percodan addiction is soon to be a movie of the week. Krusty the Clown. I'll be played by Jimmy Smith! Now he faces his toughest audience. Three Siberian

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Oh, wow. I've never seen one of these. And I mean, if you watch the O.J. Simpson documentary made in America, you will see him on Circus of the Stars being introduced by Betty White for him doing... Is he throwing knives? Sorry, not Betty White. It was B. Arthur. B. Arthur introduces him, and he's doing magic tricks. He's not throwing knives.

He's losing gloves. Oh, yeah. He made those gloves disappear. He held that knife tight in his hand. He didn't throw it. But, yeah, Circus of the Stars when people make fun of reality shows today, like Circus of the Stars is no better.

It's also junk television about celebrities. It was real world somebody's had a glass of whiskey. Real World Road Rules Challenge. Rural challenge? It's rural it's very hard to say. It's better than a regular reality show. It's a battle.

And it's with stars. You're making stars do stuff, which is... You can't just watch a Bronson Pinchot any night. I mean, he's got to be a perfect Strangers. And also, there's some interesting continuity in all that clip, too. One, he mentions the erotic adventures of Hercules which we will see again in when Homer eats that sandwich yeah Selma's Choice in Selma's Choice and then the

Percodan addiction actually comes back again to Krusty in Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire Homer sorry not in that one Marge fuck Marge be not proud no no wait I got it wrong whatever Drift of the Magi?

It's the one where Krusty is like, and now I mean my new court-ordered sidekick missed no means no. And then Bart says he's just going to blame this on his Percodan edition. Wasn't my fault. It was Percodan. Now our new sponsor, Percodan.

Oh, man, I totally forgot about that. Krusty loves his Percodan. And here's a good example of like, Percodan! Oh, man, I totally forgot about that. Krusty loves his Percodan. And here's a good example of, like, this is a meaningless, needless throwaway joke. They're basically establishing snow is coming to Springfield, and just the chatter on KBBL. Take it easy, folks. It's snow picnic out there. I snow what you mean.

You're dead weight, Marty. I love that. I love the bickering between them. Yeah, like this shitty pun was so superior to Bill's. Oh, and I did mention too, Homer drinking the brine, I never, I thought that was a gross thing nobody would actually do until I lived with a roommate who loved

brine, like she would drink pickle brine. Yeah, like pickle, I don't like this, but pickle brine is a chaser for some drinks. Like, people will take up shot of pickle brine as a chaser. It's really weird. I don't get it. If you do it, let me know. I don't do pickles. Too phallic.

But, see, like, I think what confuses people, here's an example of why it's one of the best episodes ever. All of these are, like, just disparate scenes when you realize they're all the patchwork that makes up this whole episode yeah you can see a coat in homer but i see these clips all the time and i never remember they're from mr plow oh my god after homer wrecks his car with his own car now before i give you the check one more question uh this place mose you left just before the accident this is a business of some kind don't tell him you're at a bar. But what else is open at night? It's a pornography store. I was buying

pornography. I would have never thought of that. Back when you had to buy porn. Pornography store. I was buying pornography. Homer's face when he says that is so beautiful. The dumbest look. There's so many great blank Homer faces face when he says that is so beautiful. Yeah, the dumbest look. There's so many great blank Homer faces.

Like when he answers the phone at Moe's, like he's just slack-jawed staring at television. They're great posts in this episode. It's beautiful. And, oh my God. Also, the Perkin end line is from Round Springfield, The Death of Bloody Gums Murphy. Blood and Guts Murphy episode.

Blood and Guts Murphy. And I'm just going to give this my line of the show. Homer goes shopping for new cars. This makes me guffaw every time I accidentally see it. That's the joke. She'll go 300 hectares on a single tank of kerosene. What country is this car from? It no longer exists, but take her for a test drive,

and you'll agree. That's not real. Put it in H! That was the immortal crazy Valklav who would never show up again? Yeah, but unless you're on a bunch of Simpsons shitpost memes where he is invaded big time. Really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I just noticed this time watching it

that it's like the hood ornament is a giant dead bug. It's a dead bug. And it's also on the steering wheel, too. Hectares? Is that a real measurement of anything? Yeah, hectares. On a full tank of kerosene, this country no longer... That's joke after joke after joke.

It's so good. But you said... Did you look that up those are not real words he's saying yeah it just says the captain just says slots Slavic language and I like to look it up and there were not real words I are let me know just was on a podcast 30 2010 championing

Borat as one of the best comedies this this culture has to offer and everybody seems to hate it because the dick in your office won't stop doing impressions of it but it's nice it's not nice I this culture has to offer and everybody seems to hate it because the dick in your office won't stop doing impressions of him. But it's really good. It's nice. I fucked my CS.

It's funny. I swear I'm not doing it justice. And I'll take that over. That's what she said. Also, when they go to the, so then they go to the auto show to look for cars. There were a lot of,

that's when I first really noticed there are a few pause the image and say a line over it that it's mostly done by homer and that's the first one in this scene yeah well this is one of the most memorable lines from that do you come with the car oh you do you come with the car oh you perfect i've unfortunately been to a lot of trade shows and I always think of this line when I see the poor women, well, at least they're getting paid. Do you come with a Nyko charger? I used to think like

the men are delusional, but then I started to believe like, no, it's like, aha, she has to touch me. Haha, I can get a picture of this. One of our friends, his sister in law is a E3 booth babe. Has done it, but she's a professional model and

actress in general. And the dirty secret she told us is like smell my shoulder. Oh, because the armpits go on the shoulder. 1,300 hot nerds placing their stinky sweaty armpit on her shoulder a day creates a horrible smell on her shoulder. Let's call them moist nerds placing their stinky sweaty armpit on her shoulder a day creates a horrible

smell on her shoulder. Let's call them moist nerds. I would never put my armor on a stranger who is paid to be forced to be nice to me. I'm saying that while being overweight, sweating my ass off and looking at my George Carlin Rufus action figure. I have no room to talk but I also don't pose in pictures with fucking booth

I'm going to slide in next to a woman who's clearly repulsed by me. Therefore I'm better than you and then also the fourth right joke was a pretty great like so dark like you're watching people die on screen we had a comment on our one episode they're like why do you Americans always bring up the Nazis when Germans are involved the Simpsons

are I'm surprised when they have the when they have the patience and the self-control to not make a Nazi joke and this is the one time it gets slips through I don't think MacRain is probably happy. For forthright motors. Notice, right before they meet one of the greatest celebrity guest appearances of all time. Oh, yeah.

There has to be a cut joke with Krusty in a Wienermobile. Yeah, or there's no reason they'd be standing in front of that Wienermobile. There is a Wienermobile and Krusty the Clown. There has to have been a joke. There's like a lack of sign jokes in this car show. It's weird. There's like a joke like water-powered

car, but it's not really a joke. And I double-checked it. A good resource on these things, beyond the commentaries for behind-the-scenes stuff, is to... You kind of have to know Simpsons writers and then go back through their Twitter during the late August 2014 Every Simpsons Ever marathon. Do back through their Twitter during the August, late August,

2014, every Simpsons ever marathon. Do not accuse us of not doing research, especially me. So I went to the one for writer John Viti and he didn't have much to say about this episode. Other than, uh, he said I had the best director.

I give, I could have picked any director would have been this one. They said that this was the last week Jake Hogan and Wally Wally Larsky worked on the show, and they have a photo of everybody with them to give you a snapshot of the team that week of the writing of the episode. And then lastly, he said he had two dreams for this episode, to have him in a plow and meet Adam West.

So, so good. Here we go. Adam West. So, so good. Here we go. Adam West! Hey, kids, Batman! Dad, that's not the real Batman. Of course I'm Batman. See, here's a picture of me with Robin. Who the hell's Robin?

Oh, I guess you're only familiar with the new Batman movies. Michelle Pfeiffer? The only true Catwoman is Julie Newmar, newmar lee merryweather or eartha kitt and i didn't need molded plastic to improve my physique pure west and how come batman doesn't dance anymore remember the bat to see that is so many pent so much pent-up batman fandom from the writers and including the camera going askew like it is on the batman tv it is the dutch angle that all the villains are filmed on a batman yeah and and that show is an endless source of joy there's a million great things like john vd is like a lot of right comedy writers his age loved the batman 66 series of adam west started

my introduction to batman and he and it taught him comedy and he wrote just straight uh bits about batman for this and to get adam west and they talk about on the commentary that the nerds on this writing staff have never been more excited than when Adam West came to the No attractive woman could bring them to the booth. Certainly not. So I have to do something. I have to throw Family Guy in comedy prison for life. Yes.

For basically saying, I like what you did there, Mr. Plow. Let's do that for several episodes. So Adam West is a character on Family Guy. And in The Simpsons, in this episode, he's realistically unhinged. You can tell he's a little bitter. He's a little, like, loopy. On Family Guy, he's this fucking monkey cheese character that just says random non sequiturs and it's just really embarrassing like i feel like adam west to say anything yeah say it but

it's like why did you need adam west and google batusi because you just need to remember that exists it's a real dance it's a real dance it just to remind you it was from the 60s they really want to drive it home it's in one of the first episodes of the show. I watched that episode recently, and it's where Batman orders milk at the bar, but it gets poisoned by Catwoman's lackeys, or no, the Riddler's lackeys, and then that's when he's kind of freaking out,

like saying, oh, I know how to dance, and then he does the Bat-toosie, and then passes out. Wait, another Batman observation. Technically, as of this recording, the most recent Batman anything stars Adam West. The straight-to-video return.

The return of the Caped Crusaders. The return of the Caped Crusaders. Him, Burt Ward, and Julie Newmar redoing their voices. All the living people. You're familiar with the new Batman movies. There's been how many Batman? At least six, seven? Five, I think. seven since then if you count batman versus superman well and batman and robin would

appear in the next batman so kids would know robin that was a great little animation thing of like him crumpling that like yeah he should love this photo but when the kids are like oh who's robin then he's so angry he crumples his own photo up like oh there's a great. There's also a Simpsons connection because Adam West was in the pilot called Look Well. Written by Conan O'Brien. It's great. Look it up. Watch it. It could have been a great show.

I love Adam West on Batman, but the greatest thing he's ever done is look well. Just like him picking up his badge. He carries around his badge. It's so funny. It's all on YouTube. No, I want to bring Family Guy Maybe put them in a work release program Good behavior

It took The Simpsons to realize Adam West is a comedic force I don't think the rest of the world was prepared for that And I think he was owning it He was hosting MST3K Turkey Days around this time Oh god But also speaking of MST3K I just have to bring that up When Joel quit the show

Mystery Science Theater 3000 Joel Hod. When Joel quit the show, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Joel Hodson, the creator, quit the show, he's like, I don't want, I guess now we know why he really did quit, but he kept saying in public, I don't want to be dressed as this character at boat and car shows like Adam West, because that's what Adam West was doing. And then he realized that's all people want from him, so he did. Yeah, it's so funny that over 20 years later, he's like, yeah, right. I don't blame him. No, he's good at that.

He should accept it. He's good at it. I remember being a 15-year-old like, yeah, Joel, don't do that. And I almost begged to go to an anime convention if someone was going to pay my flight. That seems like an awesome life. Please fly me to every car in Bocho. People will just come up to me for days on end telling me how great i am oh i love that yeah and i i did this to adam west just uh this month oh my god at new york city comic con i was there and we were i was doing

all these interviews sometimes with people i'd never heard of but the best one was that i they were promoting batman return the cape crusader i got to interview the director of the film the animators who i did know of them because they worked on they've been on dc animation since batman the animated series some of them and i was super stoked to meet them that's awesome but i didn't care because first i got to interview adam west and he was so friendly like he so friendly. Like, he's 20 years older than he is in this. Henry, it's great to meet you. Beforehand, he asked me, like, what's your name?

Like, I'm Henry. And so he'd answer these questions like, well, Henry, you know, they really did get the jokes right. Like, they got the tone so right. I would probably die if Adam West said my name. It was so, like, shaking his hand. And I told him, him like this is such an honored interview thank you so much if you fall if you go to my twitter you got to go back a few weeks but you'll see me my pictures with him like it was while i'm very jealous awesome and and it was so hard not to ask him about look well like i really just want to say and look well is the funniest thing ever but just he was super friendly just like your best

grandpa I loved it we did a laser time a long time ago about unaired TV pilots that are amazing and that was definitely one of them in the line we took from his like did you get my did you get my moose at the store they said they stopped making that 10 years ago it was fools

just him eating a popsicle too and watching his old show and i thank my followers on twitter for when i shared pictures of adam west they mentioned batman or look well they didn't or even this episode no one mentioned family guy thank you well i i still as someone who likes family guy and sees it on adult swim on occasion, and do think the show is great and funny, they don't lean into that character anymore. Oh, really? Okay.

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I can't afford it. Belly, this doesn't cost money. It makes money. You make the payments by plowing driveways on the side. Well, I really should discuss this with my wife. Your wife? What, do you think I'm going to buy a $20,000 truck just because you make that noise? I'll take it.

Try. I cannot believe how old this episode is. we're not in the market for a new car but if you were try and find one for twenty thousand dollars yes yeah it is not possible i don't know what cars cost i do i look i got i got a new job a few years back and like i guess i should look into having a car and this is like a billion miles away oh they all start at thirty to forty thousand dollars yeah the 90s were a magic time. I remember the last time I was shopping for a car was like 12 years ago.

New cars, I mean. A new car. I was looking like a Honda Fit just because it was like the cheap one, $16,000. Because it's a hatchback car. My dad basically called me not a man for wanting a hatchback. It's a car for Don't laugh, it's a car from Japan. Not to pile on with your father. Why the fuck would you want a hatchback. It's a car for... Don't laugh. It's a car from Japan.

Not to pile on with your father. Why the fuck would you want a hatchback? Storage, man. It's awesome. Like, come on. Why were you carting around? It's like a double trunk. But it was a sexy Honda hatchback.

Like, I don't know. I always hate the way hatchbacks look. You're watching a lot of Initial D at the time. Yeah. And did you guys notice what the plow who manufactured that plow? Yeah, I did. Komatsu Motors. The company that purchased Powell Motors. Yeah, so Homer's kind of twisted a knife a little bit.

Yeah, exactly. And also, the little cutaway to HW in the dream sequence, he was already a lame duck president when this episode aired. He lost the election, and he was a a lazy one-termer as i wrote down no one termers as he'll be in the fantasy sequence the protest signs around the white house were forget the alamo and pay me not to work yeah i dislike i homer is like a really conservative fantasy like she's like plowing over protesters i think of that as like schwarzwelder's yeah like ay libertarian, like you kids, go back to work.

Though we'll still see H.W. Bush in a few seasons, like sporadically after this. Two bad neighbors. But again, this is another great scene that you might not, you could easily not associate with the Plow episode. We talk about Family Guy. This is a Family Guy act break opening if I ever heard one. Oh, yeah. I can't believe you bought that plow. We can't afford it.

If you're going to get mad at me every time I do something stupid, then I guess I'll just have to stop doing stupid things. Good. Fine. I'll never, ever do another stupid thing. Good night. Right in front of the door. Didn't that hurt?

No. I love that so's just perfect and you're right perfect in a cartoon sense that matt grinning doesn't seem to like yeah homer's face gets scrunched that doesn't really well what i mean the family guy thing is it's like as pointed out on the south park destruction of family guy was that they constantly have Lois say, I can't believe you plot moment that just happened. It's an easy, it's not that Family Guy is the only show that's ever done that. It's an easy way to be like, well, we're back for commercial. We got to remind people what happened. That was like every act break on sitcoms for 50 years.

And it's what nagging wives were for. They were to say, you did this silly thing. I can't believe it. Okay. So I want to get honest here with playing. Again, I keep calling Barney the MVP of these early seasons. Barney is, Jesus, down on his luck more so than normal? Even more.

20% off at Lullabies. Just tell them Big Baby sent you. I know you can hear me. I'm talking to you. You sicken me. I guess guys like us just can't get a break. Well, at least I can't sink any lower. Come back, diaper.

Come back. Oh, boy. Hi, ma. So a rare appearance of just stamp the ticket guy saying, you sicken me. You sicken me. And this was the first time I noticed that Lullabyes is called Lullaby U-Y-S. It's a really clever name of

a store. Like we once hear. But Homer wants to get more work as a plow person. Did you see me being sensitive? That is very humiliating to Barney. His greatest humiliation. And I think of that scene more for like hardcore nudity.

Oh, yeah. But oh, man, the fucking commercial period is Captain McAllister. This is such a one off. They already are loving him so much. Like, just have him just cut into Captain McAllister. He's already not. He's not a guy who runs the frying Dutchman anymore. He's the host of a commercial.

It's like a pitch man for a compilation. I'm surprised he said CDs. Oh, I'm going to lose my plow. Dad, have you considered buying cheap commercial time on Channel 92? Check it out. Arr, 90 sea shanties on three compact discs. Row the man down, babies.

Row the man down. Row, row, row your boat. In the Navy. Come on and join your fellow man. This is still one of the things I know I'm going to have a hard time explaining to my kids. Because these commercials were all over the place. I miss these commercials. But they're literally selling you mixed CDs. For four times the price of the CD.

Some of these commercials are so itching to my brain, I don't know full songs. I know a phrase from one song and then the phrase from the next one that's in the commercial. Totally understand what you're talking about. I remember the one that's etched into my brain. Hey, remember the 80s? The one I remember is it was a commercial for Christmas songs they did on

Nickelodeon. And I just remember that they must have taken the footage of kids playing at Christmas and opening toys from Europe because the kids would open Smurf toys. And I just remember as a kid being like, I want those Smurf toys. Where do they sell them? They must have been from Europe. But it was just like, who would just buy a bunch of tapes of Christmas songs?

And also the list of songs with one in yellow. And it's a great way for jokes because you can stick in jokes between the highlighted ones the one i was thinking of it i think it aired when i was a teenager it was a new metal compilation probably one of the last ones so it was like crawling in my skin in the end it doesn't even matter those are the only i only know that part of those songs i remember the hair metal stuff like it looked like commercial hey remember the 80s? Pour some sugar on me. And then talk to me. Over.

The song is over. That's all I know about it. That's all you really need to know about that song. But they're mixed CDs. They're arranged songs. And these used to cost like $40 for two discs. We're going to sell you a playlist. It's so crazy.

I feel like they're the final version of that was now that's what i call music and now that it's just you you do you hear music at starbucks i'll buy it yeah though nobody buys music at all anymore so who cares but that was the end of it but i miss that genre of things this makes me just want to go to youtube i bet there must be like a two hour long compilation i can only think of the state sketch where tom lennon just sings sit sitting on the dock of the state sketch where Tom Lennon just sings Sitting on the Dock of the Bay over and over again. It's the only song in the album.

Or the Mr. Show sketch where he's like, yes, give me that song. I like that one too. And of course, sorry, we've been making you wait a long time for this. The Mr. Plow commercial. Do we have a drum roll? We do not. Dave has my computer. It may be on a lousy channel, but the Simpsons are on TV. Take that.

Our driveway snowed in. Old man winter. That's right. I fill your driveways with ice and snow. What are you going to do about it? Nothing. That's what. Stop. Mr. Plow. Get out, you lousy season. All right, I'm going. My head hurts. I have to lie down for a while. Yay. Hello. Hi,

Mr. Plow. Are you tired of having your hands cut off by snow blowers? And the inevitable heart attacks that come with shoveling snow? Uh-huh. Then call Kleindark 5-3-2-2-6. Call now and receive a free t-shirt. He could still surprise you. But I'm a real tightwad. Can I afford this remarkable system? Absolutely.

My prices are so low, you'll think I've suffered brain damage. You are fully bonded and licensed by the city, aren't you, Mr. Plow? Shut up, boy. Ah! So remember... Plumber could not afford an ambulance. Oh, Mr. Plow, that's my name. That name again is Mr. Plow.

Well, John Q. Driveway has our number. Now we play the waiting game. That's a joke I kind of missed out on. The commercial not only did it air at 3 in the morning, it was the last thing to air on the network. I guess you have to explain test patterns to people. I think I was watching Toy Story with somebody, and there's a test pattern that comes on the dude's TV at some point.

Somebody was like, what is that? Why are they showing an Indian's head? When does it end? It doesn't make sense, but it was literally supposed to let you calibrate the colors on your television. Oh, okay. Yeah, a test pattern. Yeah pattern yeah a test pattern never even thought of that but but you don't know what color it's supposed to be how about black levels doing local station so i found so much more in this and re-watching it that i had forgotten like it's it's obviously hilarious and the song is great but

but there's little touches too that i really want to give like jim reardon is the his direction and this is amazing the animation in this commercial especially is like better than average of this great episode yeah everybody's rounder everybody like their smiles are based on and there's there's just great little bits like the kids are constantly looking in the camera and And like having these four smiles on their faces, too. Yeah. Like being very awkward. Lisa looks at the camera and then looks at Homer and then looks at the camera.

The blocking on this is just to make it look like a shitty commercial and not, Jesus, a modern episode of The Simpsons? It's just one shot. Yeah. Just one shot. Staging and no great camera angles. And Homer kicking Grandpa in the butt is so mean. And throwing his crown of razor blades off his head and going inside.

It was ice cubes. I wasn't sure. Or, well, it looked like icicles or something. It looked like tinsel or something like that. And then the song, about the song that John Vitti just made it up thinking that the lyrics, and he thought that they'd be replaced later by Jeff

Martin who wrote all the good songs but Al Jean and Mike Reese liked it so much they kept it as that song and it was it was so bad and he also but it wasn't all him was it no on the comment there's lots of weird moments in these early commentaries where Mac Green is afraid of getting sued.

So John B. is like, oh, the song is based on Mac Green. He's like, up, up, up. And then John B. is like, it's similar to a local commercial in my area. Mr. Groening, this song is a parody of And You're Fine. Yes, exactly. You should have said that. But it's also, it's actually a parody of the Roto-Rooter theme or part of it. Yes.

Go ahead and play it, Chris, or at least the part that Mr. Plot. Call Roto-Rooter, that's the name. And away go troubles down the drain. Roto-Rooter. Roto-Rooter. Okay, we're good. That song is like a minute and 30 seconds long. So yeah, like, call Roto-Rooter, that's the name, and away go troubles down the drain.

I better call them now. They even keep the, that's the name, like the laziest lyric. That's Roto-Rooter, you just heard what I said. I do miss the fuck out of commercial jingles. Oh, yeah. Like, oh, let's go to the general and save some time. Like, that's all we have left.

When I went home recently to Ohio to visit, I can't believe there are still shitty local commercials. Like, we have not evolved past this yet as a people. I was obsessed with them. And I was really pissed when I got back here. here i'm like you guys have to hear these fucking yeah like i was taking pictures of them with my camera and of course none of these idiots know how to use youtube like they don't exist you can't find them unless you're you're listening to the radio like video toasters for editing what do you expect again like they were the tallahassee chevrolet a pirate themedthemed, don't go away, scurry.

Get yourself a fast over to Tallahassee Chevrolet. It's so good. We had an old man called the Lone Ranger, based on the Lone Ranger. And I believe it even had a man dressed up as an Indian. It was very sensitive towards native peoples, of course. Wow. Do I save money? See, mine was kind of boring i can't think any

because most of the ones i recall were just like jacksonville jaguar players like hey i play on jacksonville jaguars this car this truck i'm standing next to is awesome right yeah now we had a bunch of fsu players as well of course i mean bobby jindal was probably all over you bobby bowden bobby bowden. Not Bobby Bowden. Bobby, Saint Bobby, we call him. Because if you went to Florida State and worked in the arts, odds are you made a sculpture or a stained glass window devoted to the football coach, of which Tallahassee has the second largest stained glass window

in the country devoted to its football coach. He should be worshipped as a false god. He has 13 statues around the stadium, which, by the way, they didn't want to build a film school, so they just built it onto the stadium to make the stadium bigger. That's how much they love their football. He is on so many local commercials because the players

currently playing aren't allowed because that's stupid and shitty. They don't get paid for anything. The NCAA makes billions of dollars, but it would defile college if they were to get into the players. So what you get is this pockmarked 60-year-old beer-gutted, like, can't even pronounce basic words. We would constantly

make fun of him. Of course, I play a lot of football, but I know this season you're in the volleyball. How many syllables did you make bowl into? Did he spit into a cuspidor after that? I just remember there's a scene where he drinks a Coke, and all this needed was one director to say,

his gut looks way too big. He doesn't have to do a profile shot. It literally obscures the logo. We all know the sick shit those football coaches are into in college, so you never know. Yeah, he's a fat white guy who coaches football. It's easy to imagine. Who's the Gators coach?

Steve Spurrier. Why do I know this? Get it out of my head. He was your guy. He was your parents' guy. My parents went to the rival school of the city they decided to live in. 13 Saturdays out of the year, we're a nightmare. I have never watched an entire college football game,

but it is omnipresent in Florida, the rivalry between the Gators and the Knolls. No Gators. No Gators. I can't keep talking about this. I'm so sorry. Mr. Plow, that's my name. Here, an elderly freedom joke.

We're not prisoners anymore. We're free. We can go anywhere we want. I'm cold and frightened. Sounds like a Conan old person joke. It's been a few episodes, but we've got another Godfather reference. And a pretty heavy one. A pretty great one.

Yeah, Bart getting pelted with the snowballs. And it's actually funny on the commentary, because they're in production on the season of the episode where James Caan will be on the show, who he won't stop hanging out in Bart's free house, I think. Something like that. And they just recreate that again, that scene with James Caan being shot. The death of Sonny Corleone.

Yeah, who gets shot so much at that New Jersey turnpike. He does. But that's, to me, the perfect thing about a good Simpsons film parody, because this is a direct parody, not exactly shot for shot, but if you haven't seen The Godfather and don't get it, it's still funny. I didn't get it until much later in life. Most everybody won't get one later

that's from an amazing film because it's so subtle and short. But it's funny just to see Bart get hit so hard by all these snowballs. Because everybody in school hates him because his dad is plowing driveways, allowing the school bus to arrive at school, canceling snow days, essentially, what Bob talked about earlier.

Oh, snow days are glorious. Well, kids hate Mr. Plow, but Marge loves Mr. Plow. I do. I called this sound file, Marge Gets Plowed. Oh, my God. I was wrong about you buying that truck. I'm very proud of you, Mr. Plow.

This might sound silly, but just for a change, would you mind cutting my nails, brushing my teeth? No, no. Could you wear the Mr. Plow jacket? Just, uh, for fun.

Oh. Oh. Oh, Mr. Plow, that's my name. That name again is Mr. Plow. God. I like the thing he still puts it on. It's for special occasions. Yeah.

I don't know. Do you guys feel like she's turned on because Homer is competent and successful at something? Like, he's actually asserting himself in the world instead of just being a dipshit? I can only imagine as a housewife who finally feels like the other half of their equation is pulling their weight. Yeah, exactly. And creating some security for the family. Yeah. Though, that is one major plot hole in this episode. This is the first time they don't explain

why Homer isn't at the power plant. It's a slippery slope from here. They had one scene baked in. He either calls work or he stops by work and lets them know. There's no excuse. And I feel like Mr. Burns should be in this episode somewhere. We're missing out on some kind of Burns anger. It's all so weird about it that Burns isn't there to say anything.

Or he plows his... I'm on my driveway and don't scratch the obscure thing his driveway is made out of. Who was the man who scratched my Model T? There you go. See, I can write for the show. It's not easy. I love this. He's with Barney.

Barney's down on his luck. And he gives advice to Barney. And the advice Barney... Well, here you go. Mr. Plow, for making it possible for people to get where they're going without resorting to public transportation or carpooling, I give you the key to the city. Here you go, Mr. Plow. A beer on the house.

Wow, Moe, you didn't even give a beer to those freed Iranian hostages. Ah, they shouldn't have been there in the first place. But Homer is a real hero. I wish I was a hero. Well, wishing won't make it so. You gotta pull up your diaper, get out there, and be the best damn party you can be. Here I come, world! Sorry, I had to do it.

I had to get the sound effects thing. In the can. I get a lot of questions about podcasting and Patreon, and I help everybody, and there's always that little side of me I can't create my own Plow King pot competition like what am I doing yeah it's true I'll of course I'll

always help with everything I just thought of why Burns is not in this episode actually uh the first draft Lenny was the Plow King not Barney and what a weird episode that would be

really yeah I feel like why Lenny Jesus I don't know I just feel like he was like another character that could conceivably be he cannot exist without carl they cannot be they're filling little yeah and it's it barney has a deeper hole to climb out of too it's better for him and it doesn't when he shows up his big baby even though it is laying the groundwork for him becoming plow king it just feels like a funny joke like it doesn't feel like obvious obvious foreshadowing yeah you know and so him becoming plow king i do have some

you know technical questions on it where did barney get the money to buy that good question the same way uh idiots get money to buy anything the bank yeah I guess the bank just gave it to him. And also, how can he even drive? I do love his cruelty of shooting Homer's tires out. Say hello to the plow king. That's so mean. Barney gets mean. Hiya, Homer!

Say hello to the plow king! Barney, you stole my idea. Don't worry, Homer. There's nothing wrong with a little healthy competition. This scene and the scene where Barney is attacking the Homer standee with a baseball bat has to be pulled away. I think Barney is working through his resentment for Homer ruining his life.

I think he's coming to terms with that. That's the one time you can like, oh, okay. I get why this is. It's okay for him to do that because you ruined his life by giving him his first beer. Yeah, Homer turns Barney onto beer. He was going to be like a Harvard?

Yeah, of course it's Harvard. Here I come. I mean, it's a bunch of Harvard nerdos, man. That's who writes the show. So here's that Plow King commercial because I do love it so. Well, well, if it isn't Mr. Plow. Ah! Ah!

Ah! Plow King, save some for me. Wow, Linda Ronstadt. Linda Ronstadt? How'd you get her? We've been looking for a project to do together for a while. When the snow starts a-falling, there's a man you should be calling. That's Cal 54796. Let it ring.

Mr. Plow is a loser, and I think he is a boozer. So you better make that call to the Plow King. Can I get deep? Deep. That belt's in her face. Yeah. Please get deep, Chris. I don't know what the Linda Ronstadt joke,

it might be a callback to something else or a reference to something else I don't remember. I've been doing podcasts for a long time, a lot of time with a boy named Brett Elston, who you've heard plenty of times in later time, occasionally on this show, host of 302010. He made that joke, Linda Ronstadt, and I'm like, oh, Simpsons, and it turns out it was from something else. heard plenty of time in later time occasionally on this show uh host of 30 2010 uh he he made

that joke linda ronstadt and like oh simpsons and it turns out it was from something else and uh there's a there's an album called kermit unpigged a parody of eric clapton unplugged is that before he shot himself with a shotgun uh who kermit yeah it's a nirvana unplugged reference oh that was her last album right uh technically unfortunately who's in here linda ronstadt kermit oh boy so is like linda ronstadt showing up on it's like the same delivery well this is a callback to she was on an episode of the muppet show and it's she actually she sings this amazing song in it i actually like, like, cry thinking about it. Because of Toys R Us, Brett heard that song every day. Yeah, poor Brett.

Linda Ronstadt. So I do want to bring up the... Kermit's inflection, like, is Barney-esque, actually. But I just want to say, you don't have to watch the whole episode of The Muppet Show with Linda Ronstadt. Sounds excruciating. But look up her singing, When I Grow Too Old to Dream. It is beautiful. It moves me to tears.

It's that cheap Hanson sentimentality I love so much. The fuzziness of it all. I have some interesting phone trivia for everybody. You know how they say KL5 and Klondike 5? Klondike 5, yeah. That is essentially 555. I guess before area codes, you would do that as a mnemonic device. Like, I'm something, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

I've never heard any other variation on that. Yeah, I mean, it was a thing that people did a long time ago when there were only seven numbers. Because you can't remember seven numbers, but you can remember a word and five numbers. So go for it. That's crazy. Yeah.

I didn't know that was why they said Klondike 5. I knew K and L are like, they're on the five button. Yeah. So that's why I thought of it. If you're using T9 to find this podcast. And both of them are Klondike 5, but Homer's 3-2-2-6, and the Plow King is... Oh, my goodness. Oh, shoot.

4-7-9-6. Yeah. It's part of the song, so I remember it. 4-7-9-6. Let it ring. Linda Ronstadt, she is a San Franciscoisco dweller a lot of time that's where they he came up here to record it john beattie did the writer and he said as he said in his tweets the most beautiful moment in his career the simpsons was hearing linda ronstadt sing

the spanish version of the plow kings it's very pretty. Oh, I did not get that. What about Homer's rap? That's pretty good, too. Bro, leave it to Beaver. Yeah, they were gay. Oh, what am I going to do? I think you should do a new ad, one that's fresh and original. I know.

I'll do a rap. Boom-ch-ch-boom-ch-ch-boom-ch-boom. I'm Mr. Plow, and I'm here to say I'm the plowingest guy in the U.S.A. I got a big plow, and I move a lot of things like your car if you have one please stop it right now promise I'll never do that again

a lot of that feels like improv and I like it Tony Dow was a character on Leave It To Be they were gay he didn't say who was gay he says they were gay that's what protects them from libel. But I swear I had said to my parents, my mom at one time, when she was embarrassing me,

stop it right now in the bar way. It's just so weird. Like, yeah, my parents, that's such a my mom thing to do. Yeah. Well, my mom sang all the time. Like, she wouldn't do raps. She would just, like, sing a song I never heard of. And then I eventually became my mother homer's taking desperate marketing

measures oh yeah he goes to mcmahon and tate which is the name of the advertising firm darren works at and on bewitched i had no idea really wow mr simpson i guarantee you will come up with a commercial that can save your business you know those radio ads where two people with annoying voices yammer back and forth? I invented those. Happens all the time. That's great. I mean, this is okay. I have no problem with those ads, by the way.

I think they're great. I leave the radio on for my bird. I don't listen to it. I leave it on for him. Give him something to listen to. And so when I leave, I hear those commercials and I think of that line every time because they are awful, like uniformly awful. Well, this time of the year, you're getting tons of like conservative political ads. Like I heard about this proposition that would take away candy.

I know I don't get this. I think the FM station is like we're going to make the workday fly by. No politics. Just Huey Lewis and the news and some other shit. See, all I can think of with that kind of commercial is that fucking Verizon turncoat who's now doing Sprint commercials.

Can you hear me now, guy? Yeah. That should have been in his contract that he could never do ads for another... Brilliant move. But every time one of those commercials comes on, it comes in mid-conversation where people are talking about their data plans,

and I'm like, you are the worst friend. Can we please stop talking about our phone our carrier for just one second the where's the beef lady got fired for going to ragu or something like that really yeah or prego or something so how much money did homer spend on that ad that koala squatsy was was it like a parody of calvin klein ads yeah it was artsy fartsy yeah artsy fartsy? Yeah, artsy fartsy ads, but also for perfume in the early 90s. I don't think of the actual commercial. I think of the SNL commercial. Yeah, I was going to say SNL had made a lot of hay at these charities.

The Obsession one that Jane, not Jan Hooks. No, it was Jan Hooks. She was so good in the Obsession one. She just kept cleaning everywhere. R.I.P. She's dancing in heaven with Phil Hartman now, man. Also two Dead Simpsons cast. That crushes me.

Semi-cast members. Yeah, but anyway, that ad, it was so expensive. It must have cost Homer like $100,000. I like his reaction. Like, I don't know. I don't know. And it is a real indignity for Homer to have to give back the key to the city in public at a

presentation. At a ceremony. Yeah, it's weird. It was never wrapped in foil. I don't blame him for trying to kill Barney. Or, well, his plan wasn't to kill Barney, it was just to get him away. It was. For me, when I was watching this with an analytical

mind taking notes, I'm like, I think this is the first time it's like Homer is getting Barney out of the picture by murdering him. He watches Arnie Pye die on the TV and that gives him the idea. He's like, I could kill Barney. You think so? Yeah. I was just like, well, this will distract him for the whole day, but that's not really going to help tomorrow.

It seems a little extreme after watching a man die and then sending a man back. Hello, Plow King. I was wondering if you could plow my driveway on top of Forbidding Widow's Peak. I don't know. I'd be up there all day. I wouldn't be able to plow any other driveways. There's a $10,000 bill in it for you.

Oh, yeah? Which president's on it? All of them. They're having a party. Jimmy Carter's passed out on the couch. Wow, I'll be right there. Barney, I'd like to put a Spanish version of your jingle on my next album. Señor Plano es macho, es solamente un borracho.

Yeah, you do that. Wow, it's weird to hear Barney be patronizing in some way. Yeah, I love that. that yeah you do that yeah her singing a beautiful song while they're in the hot tub together so she's what he's saying he's not a man he's a donkey was that what she's singing uh yeah i think so yeah like yeah he's not he's not i took two years of high school spanish like chris should know spanish more than me yeah it went to took a semester of spanish but in in Costa Rica, which makes me one bad hombre. Oh, boy.

Big hombre, man. And so, a bigly hombre. Anyway, there's a parody of JFK's death. Kit Brockman taking off his glasses is Walter Cronkite taking off his glasses to say the president has been shot and killed. Yeah. And there's some interesting lore with this episode. Barney is covered in snow. He's going to say goodbye, say hi to all the loved ones that died.

He mentions the plane never watered his dad. In the Flying Hellfish episode, it's revealed his dad did die in a parade float accident in 1979 with like four other Hellfish members. Wow, that's right. So canonically, he's dead and they established it in this episode. I may say there's a very subtle film parody in here of the movie Sorcerer. Yes. Which is

just, there's no, it is astonishing. I love the original movie Wages of Fear. Will you freaking remade it in the 70s with Roy Scheider. It is a story of men who have to cart volatile dynamite through Jesus, where are they in the second? I don't know. I don't know.

But they're in South America somewhere. But basically, you can't go over so much as a speed bump. And they're doing this on places that don't have paved roads. Trees are down. And any slight shake will make them all explode. It's a very subtle parody of basically the poster of the film.

And the music is a parody of the Tangerine Dream soundtrack. Yes, yes, yes. Good call. I vastly prefer The Wages of Fear. I'm sorry. No, no. William Friedkin vastly prefers Wages of Fear. Actually, I didn't like Sorcerer. No, I loved it. I don't know why, but it's stupid. Just because you heard that WTF

interview, like, I didn't give a shit back then. I just tried to get the coolest shot I could find. And that movie is filled with dangerous cool. Whereas Wages of Fear is not. It's a very static kind of movie. It's tense. It works. I do love it.

But this movie is so beautiful. I'll have to go back and watch it again. So good. Wages of Fear is great, though. And right before Homer goes to save him on Forbidding Widow's Peak. Also, I love the way homer like his mouth moves he's like this is like when he's doing the call to barney his his mouth movement is just like great and subtle they made a different mouth chart for the animators for that prank call it's so

specific also they kiss my asphalt line and him wanting the kids to laugh with him and they're not and and then on top of that i'd say the only bad part the only actual bad part of this episode homer has to say this is my fault i've got to save him but it's like they had two frames of animation that they just shook around like oh this is all my fault i gotta save him it just felt like they they needed that bridge to the next scene of why Homer would be risking his life for Barney. So they created it, but it looks so cheap. It's not a joke. It's just, we have two seconds. Just say it.

Get to the next scene. Information. But that falling mountain goat. Oof, love that joke. That's animation you never even see in The Simpsons. So we do see that the Simpsons universe has a vengeful god who wants to destroy Barney and Homer's future as plowmen. Homer, you saved my

life and I'm not gonna forget it. From now on, we'll be partners. Barney, that's great. When two best friends work together, not even God himself can stop them. Oh no. Oh no.

Snow's melting. The snow's melted. We can go outside again. I don't like the looks of those teenagers. I agree with Grandpa. Teenagers are frightening. I had to walk through a crowd of them recently. I was like, oh, my those teenagers. I agree with Grandpa. Teenagers are frightening. I had to walk through a crowd of them recently. I was like, oh my God, I'm going to die.

I didn't realize there was going to be a really small portion of my life where I wasn't afraid of teenagers. Up until I was 10, totally afraid. After I turned 28, totally afraid of teenagers. They can make fun of me. We didn't even talk about it. It's a very visual joke, but the moving of the radio dial to center the plow is so great. I love it.

I love that bit. But yeah, also the jokes about global warming, less funny now as global warming is heating up. It's hot in here. I saw a map. People keep sharing all these maps. Each month was the hottest month it's ever been. Everywhere. Yeah, everywhere.

Except here. Yeah. I'm not sure if you believe science, Henry. They've got an agenda. This July was the hottest July in recorded history. This August was the hottest August. Why is science always picking on those poor factory owners? I know.

They're trying to make a living. Give us a break, scientists. I'm going to get a tweet. So we got one more clip, Chris? Yeah, what's the end here? Yeah, hello? Hello, this is the Repo Depot. I'm just calling to distract you while I repossess your plow.

Oh, yeah? How dumb do you think I... Oh. Oh, now, homie, you have your health. You have your best friend back. And you do have that certain special something. You mean... Mm-hmm.

Mr. Plow, that's my name. That name again is Mr. Plow. Our forecast calls for flurries of passion followed by extended periods of getting it on. It's really funny and I think of another show when I see this scene. Back in, I don't know, 15 years ago, I watched

The Cosby Show a lot because it was just on Nick at Night. I would just, oh, watch The Cosby Show again. So many episodes of The Cosby Show end with them about to fuck. It's crazy for a family show. It's just like, okay, once this show is over, they're fucking. He takes on the form of Cliff Huxtable. Yeah, Cliff Huxtable. Who is the most fuckable Huxtable?

Let's find out. Not my joke. Not my joke. No, that's a John Daly joke. Oh, I love it. But yeah, the bit, I mean, they ended so many like that, and now it takes on an odd negative pall thanks to Bill Cosby's life.

Look for a glass next to Felicia Rashad's nightstand. What did I do? But anywho, that is Mr. Plow. We did it, folks. We got in under an hour. No, we didn't. It's going to be almost an hour. After plugs, who knows? Thanks for listening. This season's going to get so great and

it's already almost hit its peak here with Mr. plow but i've been bidding widow's peak oh yes forbidding windows peak i've been your host bob mac you can find me on twitter as bob servo i also write for something awful and fandom uh.com and you can check out my other podcast retronauts every monday at retronauts.com every monday it's a new classic gaming topic we go super in depth on things like fester's quest dear Dear God, Why? Somebody has to do it. Henry, please tell us where we can find you. I'm H-E-N-E-R-E-Y-G on Twitter

and you can follow all my work there or on Fandom.com powered by Wikia and where I am Senior Games Editor and you can find all my work there. Though also you should be following the things I do with all my buddies on Lasertime Podcast dot com, which is brought to

you by Patreon dot com slash Lasertime which helped pay for this show and where you will find the first season of Talking Simpsons along with the exclusive season two and season three wrap up shows with tons of deep cuts from the Simpsons. We got about 12, Jesus, at least

10 hours of goodness waiting for you there. Go and find it. It's worth it. Just $5 a month, baby. That's it for me. That's it for you. We'll be back next week with more Simpsons lore in Lisa's first word. See you then. Wow. Infotainment.