Talking Simpsons - Talking Simpsons - New Kid On The Block

Episode Date: October 26, 2016

Bart has his first crush on a special guest star, while Homer tries to have all he could eat while meeting a certain sea captain. All that and Conan memories on this week’s podcast…

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Who else is here with me today? I'm Henry. I'd sooner eat a bilge rat. Gilbert. I'm Don Quixote. Chris Anteiston. And today's episode is New Kid on the Block, which aired on November 12, 1992. What happened on this mythical day in Simpsons history, Chris? You wouldn't believe it if it wasn't reported. Riddick Bowe defeats Evander Holyfield.

Jerry and George pitch a show about nothing on the show Seinfeld. And you can now watch video on your computer. Apple has just unveiled QuickTime and Microsoft debuts its eternally popular Microsoft video for Windows. Rolls off the tongue, don't it? I don't know which I'd rather have. I was a real player kid. That was me. I still think I'm asked to update QuickTime on my computer.

I just click no. Every seven seconds. No, no, yeah. I watched so many anime openings. You couldn't download all of the anime, but you could download anime openings and watch them through your quick time. It would take roughly six hours to download them. Yeah, but man, it was a beautiful six hours. Meanwhile, yeah, that Riddick Bowe thing, he didn't

have a great career after that, but he got lucky on Evander. You should make a documentary about him called Throwing Bows! Chasing Tyson is an amazing documentary. It'll give you a brand new appreciation for Evander Holyfield

and just how long America has lusted after irredeemable assholes Evander Holyfield was indisputably better than Mike Tyson and everyone hated him for not being enigmatic for being a mama's boy for being nice boring and nice person

so he deserved to have his ear bitten off it makes it all the more tragic and Tyson is in that documentary Boring and nice. Boring, yeah. Boring and nice person. So he deserved to have his ear bitten off. That's what we're saying. It makes it all the more tragic, and then Tyson is in that documentary like, yeah, I just wanted to hurt him to get him away. Everything about it is sad. Tyson is sad. I wanted to mutilate this man.

Yeah, well, he didn't say mutilate. I was just embarrassed, and I couldn't. He wasn't doing good. He was losing, so he threw the fight. And I ruined the fight, and he made the whole thing about himself, and he regrets it, but whatever. Tyson, fascinating figure. So many ROM hacks threw the fight. I didn't know what else to do. And I ruined the fight. And he made the whole thing about himself, and he regrets it, but like, whatever.

So many ROM hacks after that fight. But today's episode is a landmark episode, because it is the first credited Conan O'Brien episode. I want to say, first off, that means nothing. If you're credited with an episode, it might not even be your idea. I don't think this was. This is probably, I think this was James L. Brooks' idea. Like, a mother

moves into the town with her daughter. Well, meanwhile, Conan came to the pitch, the famous first pitch meeting he went to. He pitched Marge Gets a Job, which was then given to Oakley and Weinstein. So I don't, again, don't know exactly how a writer room works, let alone an animation. But when you're the credited writer of the episode, all the writers vomit everything on the table. And then they get to leave. And it's like, now you clean this up and organize this into a script because you're the credited writer on this episode. Well, I'm pretty sure for The Simpsons, all of the episode ideas come from writers' retreats that they have every year.

Like, what is the season going to be? And then they assign episodes to writers. Maybe it could be your idea that you get to write. Well, they do it in a hotel room, I think they would say. They hit a gong if you got the if you sold the pitch and uh yeah i like the i like imagining what those were like but conan i want to be a fly on the wall in 1992 uh simpsons writers retreat god conan's biography to that point was that he you know he had been the i believe the editor-in-chief of the harvard lampoon yes he was a a background character in some SNL skits sometimes.

He's holding a turtle. That's Bob Odenkirk. And he was a head writer in that season, I believe. I don't think a head writer, no. Was he not? Okay, but he was also, I think he was also on that nudist talk show sketch. I remember hearing that. Yes, the penis song.

And if you look at the first ever sketch of the Five Timers Club, which they've done several times, Conan is the concierge, the butler in that sketch. I think I have seen that. Because of how upper crust and white he looks. And he worked with oh god, his name escapes me now, the co-creator of King of the Hill and Greg Daniels. I believe the mug you see on Conan's

desk to this day was given to him by a King of the Hill creator. And Greg Daniels would follow Conan onto The Simpsons in season five right when Conan left. That's right. Just one year. He had left SNL, left New York, moves

to LA, gets hired on The Simpsons. He is like the next generation hires. They joke about how at the end of season four they said, oh, the only people who are going to be here are going to be Oakley and Weinstein and Conan, while the rest of us are leaving for big fancy deals.

I've watched that show, actually. And then Conan just leaves five episodes into season five. But for what? For what? For his own talk show! How does that even happen? How does that even happen? By the way, our new writer hire has an NBC late night talk show. He that even happen how does that even happen uh by the way our new writer hire uh it has a nbc late night talk show he has to leave sorry yeah and he actually owed them scripts it's

really interesting too this commentary is slightly frustrating because you hear nothing about the episode but conan is on it he's on the commentary calls in he's not watching he does but i i've listened to the other ones and like there is no talk of the episode i think he is watching it because he references things that are being shown on the screen. But they're all Conan questions and memories. That's all you get from those commentaries. But it's great because... Oh, sorry.

Go ahead. No, his commentaries are love letters to Conan from the other writers. Like, we loved working with you, Conan. Thank you. Like, you... This was... Remember you did this that time, Conan? That was so funny.

Remember you did this? It's funny. It's so funny, though, how Conan has risen in stature to be this great tv host but when he was hired there he was just the new guy and he got all the shit jobs they mentioned he wrote the print script that never got picked up yeah he had to rewrite another writer's script which they immediately hush up on the commentary like don't talk about that the guild could sue us like apparently Conan wrote one of the episodes that he's not credited for. I think he wrote Springfield. You think so?

Last Exit to Springfield. Oh, Last Exit. I think he wrote that one. Oh, that does seem very Conan-y. Well, because on that commentary, Kogan and Walidarski joke all the time about how they had left by the time the rewrite had begun on it. You're right. And they say, like, I don't even remember these jokes, so this one is remembered as the best episode, but we laughed. I feel pretty, my conspiracy theory is he rewrote the majority of Last Exit.

That might check out. And he also pitched the famous monorail episode, which I cannot wait to get to that. That is very Conan-y. But this episode, I did want to mention two cut B stories, which were proposed but never actually developed. One was really interesting. One was going to have Don Rickles. The plot was going to be Homer sees Don Rickles. You know, Don Rickles riffs on the

crowd. Homer laughs until he gets riffed on and then he punches Don Rickles out and he goes to court for that. They gave the script to Don Rickles. It had original Don Rickles jokes. They wrote original Don Rickles jokes. He's like, what are you doing stealing my material? Get out of here.

Some of the things, they just original Don Rickles jokes. He's like, what are you doing stealing my material? Get out of here. Well, some of the things they just reused his jokes, and he thought they stole from him. And then Al Jean's response was like, yeah, we stole his jokes, so he'd do them. We wanted him to do his jokes. And Conan even talks about how he met Don Rickles at some function. Oh, that was Groening. Groening, yeah. And Rickles was still thinking about how the Simpsons ripped him off. He grabbed him by the lapels, is what Groening said, and shook him like, ah, the Simpsons.

It's really too bad, because Don Rickles would have been a good get for the show. Yeah, I think so. He's still alive. Oh, wait. We could kill him with this podcast. But if they got Don Rickles, we would never have Captain McAllister. That's true. What was the other cut? Is this the debut of Captain McAllister. That's true. What was the other cut?

Is this the debut of Captain McAllister? It is, yeah. They need him in this episode. But the other B story that they cut, or it didn't work out, was the B story was going to be Homer goes to Barber Night College. Apparently he has a knack for cutting hair and that was going to be a B story. I want to read these scripts because they could have great jokes that we

would be repeating to this day. I've learned easy sitcom writing is to give a character a surprise talent that they didn't know they had, and then they never use it again. That was something I noticed when I re-watched news radio, that they would just be like, oh, in this episode, Andy's character, Matthew, is really good at ventriloquism. Or, no, this time, Dave Foley, he can dance. Phil Hartman has a cane.

Or he's Knife Throw Deanie. Phil Hartman has a cane. News radio is such a good show. But The Simpsons, this episode opens with one of the more parodies lost to time. Did you guys pick up on this? No, it wasn't. This is a parody of the TV show Studs. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. Specifically Studs. You won't, yeah. Specifically Studs. You won't believe this shit. 2.5 seasons, almost 600 episodes. Fuck me. Those will never be seen again. Those are just rotting away. It was essentially exactly what you see on the screen.

Just like, let's describe our fucking in front of an audience. If they were raunchy, I was like, let's be raunchier than the Chuck Wollery show. He looks so sexy, I hope we would have sex. It's a great parody of it. 600 episodes. Yes. That's insane. Every day for 2.5 years, probably.

I watched a lot of it. It was very formative. For teaching me the wrong things. Yeah. Well, I think this episode kind of, it's interesting this episode starts with a dating show because love is kind of the plot of it. They both feel like B+. When I heard Homer talking about making bacon on the beach, this is the first time I heard it.

I was like, was that guy talking about a specific sex act? Like that making bacon on the beach is a specific type of sex or is that it is just how good it was? I think it just means making bacon is a euphemism for sex and they just had sex on the beach. No, it means masturbating furiously without lotion so as to create heat and baconify your own foreskin. I think I need to go to Urban Dictionary for that one, Chris. Fine, but no thanks. There's another wonderfully dated reference

in this portion of the show. I love the neighbor comes over to the house and say that she's moving to Florida. Miss Winfield. Mr. Simpson, please, can you blank? Yeah. Mr. Simpson, my husband and I have decided to move. Going to run out to Clack in Florida, eh?

Yes. Well, there's a few things you could do to help us sell our home. First, whenever you walk in front of your window, could you please wear pants? No. Second, could you please take in your jack-o'-lanterns from past halloweens no and please cover your garbage it's attracting wildlife hey moose you yeah talking to you get off my lawn unbelievable that is i've never seen a second of Northern Exposure.

Oh, it's great. I remember it being great. Yeah, it was one of those weird CBS sitcoms. This is the real Northern Exposure theme song I just transitioned into. It sounds like it's from a machine, but this could be a real... It's from the Seinfeld keyboard. This felt like such a current joke then. I only knew it as ads i hadn't

watched it yeah and i've still never seen it uh good the one i thought it was good yeah it's fine yeah but i think it's like twin peaks inspired but without the horror just like a regular doctor moves to a town in alaska full of weirdos and they all have their own idiosyncrasies and they're all very lovable i think the other thing i knew about it i had to double check this, that it was the lead on the show went through terrible contract disputes in the fourth and fifth seasons. To the point that they kept writing him out of the show until eventually in the fifth season, and it ran for six seasons, in the fifth season he goes native and runs into the woods and never comes back. And there's a new doctor, I guess. There's just a new guy who's a similarly white nice dude. I think the other guy went to ER or something, I forget.

He went somewhere. Yeah, and the show ran from 90 to 95, so that's how old, like, it's so out of date. That's how long The Simpsons has lasted. I've watched most of this on Lifetime on reruns, so that's where I'm coming from. So, yes, we have the Studs parody. Mrs. Winfield I wanted to bring up.

A very little-used character. Kind of confused her with Mrs. Glick. Last time we saw her, she was complaining to Homer over the phone about Santa's little helper. No family on Earth would have this dog. And then she was voiced by Tracy Ullman. And the first time we saw her was in Homer's Odyssey with the other guy talking about taking the boulder out for a walk. One of the worst jokes on The Simpsons. Pretty bad joke. Taking his boulder for a walk. Clearly of the worst jokes on The Simpsons. Pretty bad joke.

Taking his boulder for a walk. Clearly they got tired of the Winfield, so they got rid of him. I did like at least this farewell joke to them, that you got to see what a non-Flanders neighbor thinks of Homer as a neighbor. I love Homer's comment, going to run out the clock in Florida, huh? So great. Run out the clock. And she just has to agree, like, yes.

I love how much hay Seinfeld made of that, by the way. That was a great little deviation from New York. Homer goes back inside. I just gotta get that out as the real estate guy is trying to sell the house. I love just the most clearly gay character ever. Now, I don't know much about haggling or

bargaining, so why don't we just agree to pay whatever the Winfields want? That could work. What was that? Sigh. Sigh. There you are. Thought you could get away, huh?

It's all disgusting. That's the sound of a water-soaked hot dog. That he's pulling from his crotch area. His naked crotch. So, yeah, do you... But that was a sigh with a capital th i have a question for you do you see homer as is he naked in that kiddie pool or is his under or is his clothes is bold i beneath the water i believe he's naked because we hear about him

not wearing pants it all adds up in my head yeah but he is wearing like that hat like a fishing hat it's not his fat guy hat which you'll get later i also think they edited it out of order because that scene happens which the end joke is they'll never sell this house the very next shot is bart and lisa sneaking into the house with the sold sign up so it just doesn't like track yeah there's a lot of like shuffling of scenes around in season four episodes yeah both these plots seem like the B plot. They both seem underserved and abrupt. Yeah, a bit. And Homer, I did love Homer treating all the garbage as gold.

Like, oh my God, old newspapers. This is one of the funniest episodes I feel like we've watched so far. If you look, I have more clips than usual. It's got so many back-to-back jokes, I think. They're hitting their stride. And this is the debut of a character? Well, Homer is... Ahoy, matey! If you look, I have more clips than usual. It's got so many back-to-back jokes, I think. They're hitting their stride. And this is the debut of a character? Well, Homer is... Ahoy, mateys!

How do you feel of tacos? Would ye sooner eat a bilge rat than another burger? Then come for all ye can eat seafood at the Fryin' Dutchman. Is it more iced tea ye be needin'? Okay. I love that. It's a sale for the frying Dutchman. Aye, aye, Captain.

Marge, we're going to that restaurant. But I think I'm allergic to seafood. The last time I ate shrimp, my throat closed up, and I went into convulsions. Mmm, shrimp. There's a lot to unpack there. Conan made him, though, right right yeah they he made him up by me he is just like a receptacle for pirate jokes i just can't believe he he's captain mcallister

from the first i thought he got a name a backstory way later it's in this episode i think we learned his first name is horatio somewhere down the line but he's captain mcallister now he's not a real sea captain now no yeah you're right. That's from his first appearance. The writers immediately fall in love with him. He becomes a major character from then on. You'll see him all over season four. He's in the next episode in a major scene.

But they forget that he's a sea captain by his next time. I remember somebody asking them that and like, we need him to be a sea captain. He's a sea captain. He's not. I don't understand what the big deal is. It's such a weird great idea.

Like the scene of him pouring iced tea while cackling madly really feels like a Conan O'Brien idea. It's like why is the mascot of your restaurant also like the manager? Why is he also working there? It doesn't make any sense. It's so crazy.

It should be like Brian McCann on the side of his stage. The pirate who pours iced tea. It's not like Colonel Sanders is throwing out chicken or anything. Also, an animation nerd catch is that Homer drooling over it was reused from his reaction to rich creamery butter on that episode. I almost missed that. And yeah, McAllister here is a guy who owns the Frying Dutchman.

He's not a captain. He doesn't have two glass eyes. He has no affiliation with Handsome Pete. And he's not trying to kill the giant squid. But there is something else about him that he runs the Frying Dutchman. And I have been to the Frying Dutchman where they have one

at the orlando springfield at universal studios orlando it's just like a whole it's like a food court so it's just a front to it and you get uh you know fish and chips there but they do have the neon sign like with the guy throwing into the back guy's yeah it's that like they recreated the neon sign perfectly like i it's those little touches in Universal Studios Springfield that just make you like, you guys are nearing Disney in your dedication to this, and I really appreciate that. It's too bad you don't have any beloved IP.

Yeah, they just got to rent them at high cost. So I think we're going to meet Laura next, right? We do meet Laura. Oh, I love Laura. Friend. Friend. meet laura we are we do meet laura um oh i love laura friend friend hey kid wake up who are you i'm laura your new neighbor you're right she's beautiful say something clever i fell on my bottom so yeah laura played by roseanne sarah gilbert who like i think that was like my platonic ideal for a girlfriend growing up like i want to date

a girl like that who's cool and who's rude and into comics and cool stuff i was very attracted to darling yeah especially her snl appearance snl sarah gilbert's snl appearance i thought she was right samokin And she jokes about being sisters with Melissa Gilbert, too, right? Yeah, Little House on the Prairie. And I forgot, I get Bart's crush because as a little kid I had a best girlfriend

who was several years older than me. Taught me how to kiss before I wanted to. Wait, how many years older than Chris? Three, four? Okay. Because I feel like if someone is just two years older than Chris? Like three, four. Okay. Because I feel like if someone is just two years older than you at this age,

you're like, they're so cool and old and they know everything. But I mean, that's the age difference between Bart and Laura here. I love that moment of saying the embarrassing thing

to your crotch. I think anybody can identify with that. But also, I was super, I was super new to being Sarah Gilbert too. It was one of those rare times in the early episodes where I i know that guest star i see them on roseanne all the time

another one a sad history of chris's crushes which include ellen page and jody foster as well it's just a guarantee it'll never happen in there chris big bird is totally you have a type you have a type but uh big bird has no pussy and that the laura too that laura too is uh she's that type of girl in the army jacket like that is a very specific type yeah i hope that still exists there was linda carlini's character in freaks and geeks and so yeah i wonder if that i just realized my girlfriend wears an army jacket sometimes hey this is our coming together and i mean in teenagers. So the new people that move in, it's Laura and her mom, Ruth Powers.

And they thought of her as a potential Marge friend, and she only ever appears one other episode. But significantly. Yeah. Actually, it's twice to my knowledge. We have the Thelma and Louise parody, of course, but then in like season 14 or 15, in that season, they give Marge huge breasts, and they also make her really

buff, and Ruth teaches her how to be buff to get over PTSD from being robbed. So Ruth shows up as a bodybuilder. Same actress, Pamela Reed. Pamela Reed, here's a clip of her. My mother's inside, Mrs. Simpson. Please go right on in. Oh, you speak so politely to adults. My upbringing was painfully

strict, ma'am. That's sweet. And finally, Moe's Tavern has contributed a coupon as their way of saying welcome to Springfield. Thank you. This is all so nice. I actually had some doubts about moving to Springfield, especially after that time cover story, America's Worst City. You could see our house in that photo. I have to say this. That spoke to me because I come from one of the worst cities in America, and I'm sure we will make the cover of Time one day.

But people still talk about it because it's in Battleground State. Oh, yeah, yeah. Every four years, people mention our town. So more presidential candidates come through there than they would, like, say, some shitty town in idaho or wherever they just film b-roll look at the american economy and they'd get the hell out hold up the flag and be like we're gonna fix this then they'd leave it like it's a movie set and come back but this is like all i have just a ton of clips from this because this all back-to-back sequences all

really great jokes laura's about the divorcee yeah but like it even starts out like right away with laura's mind games Over Dolph and Kearney Do you know what A wet willy is? Is it this? Hey baby How about putting

Your finger in my ear? Well I don't know Your boyfriend Looks like the jealous type Hey what the That chick's messing With our minds Let's get out of here

Now Where were we? Oh yeah I was gonna tell Your fortune Huh? Oh man you're gonna be rich whoa there's your mansion there's a tennis court there's a swimming pool see you later bart these are all classic kid pranks i think someone did this to me before this episode but i'm sure it taught a generation of kids to how to spit in someone's hand to get away with it i know it

didn't bother me back then but i would like well this is the generation of kids to have a spit in someone's hand. I know it didn't bother me back then, but I would like, well, this is the end of that friendship forever. You spit in my hand. You have crossed a line, sir. Now that's unsanitary, this eight-year-old me. But that is, it is really great casting out of there. And when I re-watched it,

I at first was like, why isn't Jimbo with those guys? I was like, oh yeah, that's why Jimbo's not there. But it is weird not to see him with Dolph and Kearney. Sarah Gilbert is the third funniest person on Roseanne and it would be a lot higher if it wasn't for Laurie Metcalf and John

Goodman. I'm kidding. What about Becky Wong? Never mind. One's a great actor, one's hot. Sarah Gilbert's, which one's the hot one, Sarah Chalmers? The second one. The Rick and Morty one. Darlene's character I like in the show goes through, like, she becomes a goth halfway through the show.

Like, or in season four, pretty much. She stops being just the standard kid and, like, I hate everything and I wear black all the time and I'm not changing. She starts as sort of like a smart-ass tomboy and then becomes, yeah, the goth. But then I was always attracted to, like, like not just attracted friends with a lot of girls like uh the tomboy ones the ones who like gross stuff and pranks and like to be funny uh so i really love this character i didn't get the das boat joke the das butts and my line of the show is homer arguing with sanzal hopper do you have that no all right my like it's just such a great joke of just career,

career, career, and then just Homer arguing with Santa's little helper over there. Yes, it's a great cutaway. And then Mar just like groans after that because she realizes

what she's done with her life. Yes, but the never wash hands again thing is so great. Never wash this hand again. Dad, make Bart wash his hand. Sorry, Elise.

I no longer control the hand. The hand controls me. Dad! Shut up, you little monsters. Hello, I was wondering if you'd like to babysit my little angels. Sorry, this isn't Abby. This is her sister. I look after her now.

No, Bart. Put it down. Put. No, Bart. Put it down. Put it down, Bart. It's so dark. It's so dark. That unwashed hand reminded me of the touch of death from Flanders when Flanders failed.

It amplifies it more with him getting stuck to the dog. Yeah, I like that. There's gum and a spider web. And that's what's establishing this weird relationship that Homer and Marge want to go out to eat to an all-you-can-eat seafood restaurant and need a babysitter. And Laura's going to be the babysitter.

It's good connective tissue. Totally. It's great. It ties the whole story. And I think the reason why I look at it as two not quite fulfilling B stories is because it might just be one big story. They find a way to make a lot of fat jokes in this episode. Really, that's what the brunt of the B-story is. I just love...

It's not my line of the show, but it's my favorite interaction. Homer and Laura's mother root together. I'll send Laura over to babysit as soon as she gets home. Great. Oh, and there was something else. Something I was supposed to tiptoe around. My divorce.

That's it. I'm glad one of us remembered. That's it. Woo-hoo. I'm glad one of us remembered. That could have been embarrassing. Well, I know what you're thinking, and the answer is yes. I want to be fixed up with one of your friends as soon as you can arrange it. After all, Homer,

I do have the normal appetites. I know what you mean. Just let me make sure we're not talking about food. I'm not. Right. Me neither. We're talking about sex, right? Right. I hear you loud and clear. We're not talking about food, but Ruth is thirsty. You know, this felt dated to me a little bit, how they were treating

like, ooh, a divorced single mom? This is weird. Just that it was a talking point not that they were judging someone for being divorced but there was a story point that people were uncomfortable discussing divorce well i'll go i'll do you one better because it was halloween and i recently watched nightmare on elm street and i traced it back as best i could that is the first divorced family i can remember seeing on screen with with the possible exception of E.T. What about the Parent Trap, Chris? Never saw the Parent Trap.

Well, shit, maybe you're right. But they weren't on television. That's true. And when people got divorced, it was like, oh, my God. I remember my parents saying, oh, my God, your friend Charlie's parents are getting divorced. All my friends' parents got divorced, though. And they all treated it the same way. Like, oh, my God.

It's not really that shocking anymore. Well, as Bob has mentioned on previous episodes you were of shame like you were in catholic school and shamed over your parents a lot a lot of friends uh parents and like the catholic school i went to did kind of shame me because i was down upon and i mean even in even in the show i think like these non-traditional things that were happening like homer knocking up march before they got married were seen as like like a little risque so i feel like it was a different yeah well now you know this also takes me back to joel hodgson's great speech on some uh i think it was a manos episode of just talking about how now i was manos but talking about how

parents had to be widowers in old sitcoms instead of divorce to get together like the brady family both had to be widows to get together because it would have been too horrible for them to be divorced like you. Death is better. The very idea of my three sons. You have three sons? Big fucking deal. But the point is he's single. He's single because she died.

And we need to make room for daddy. Well, I think those things work too because people didn't talk about their grief all that much back then it's like okay you buried your grief and now you've got a new wife and bury your grief we might have another war for you to fight thank you the simpsons will be right back. 10 what is loot crate loot crate is a monthly mystery box with the best geek and gaming gear from collectibles apparel tech gadgets art pop figs epic gear it's like I called it comic-con in a box once but since this is October it

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You sick sons of bitches. I mean, you walk in that door on your two legs, all fat and cocky, and looking at me in my chair, and you tell me it's all in my head? I hope that both of you have sons, handsome, beautiful, articulate sons who are talented and star athletes, and they have their legs taken away. I mean, I pray you know that pain and that hurt. Don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby! Don't you put that on us!

You are not paralyzed! Oh, man. That makes me so happy. Don't you put that evil on me. It's so good. That's 302010, a weekly look at what happened in pop culture 30 years ago, 20 years ago, and 10 years ago, every Thursday right here on the Lazer Time Network.

302010! 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. 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? So I see up next, Chris, well, do we have more babysitting?

This is almost my line of the show because it's Bart taking a bath. Bart, are you taking a bath? Yes, I am. And it would be nice to have a little privacy around here for a change. This wouldn't have anything to do with Laura coming over, would it? Hey, sometimes a guy just likes his skin to look its yellowest. Dude. So, that is the first time they've referred to their skin as yellow, at least on the show.

Maybe in the shorts they did. I remember Homer saying, kiss my hairy yellow butt. Was that on a previous episode or a later one? No, I think you're right. Maybe, but this is something they kind of... It's controversial in Simpsons because Homer famously says, I'm a white male, age 18 to 34. Yeah, everyone listens to me. We're all white and we're kind of pinkish.

Yeah, but he refers to himself as white. In the Simpsons world, yellow is white. They are the white they in the simpsons world yellow is white they're they are the white person in that in the in america whenever they do that it's like well why did you bother then why are they yellow in the first place because they're gonna have carl it looks cool it does look cool hey thank klaski chupo for that one yeah some russian lady did it but yeah but black people are black people asians are asian like mexicans are mexicans like do not call them yellow henry they're asian people but the but this but white there aren't white people in the simpsons world black people. Asians are Asian. Mexicans are Mexicans. Do not call them yellow, Henry. They're Asian people.

But there aren't white people in the Simpsons world. It felt like, to me, the first time I've seen in a reviewing, them refer to themselves as yellow skin. Yeah. Then we cut right away to them at the frying Dutchman.

I love this. Holy shit. It's like a monster here. I'm sorry, man, but everything on the menu has fish in it. What about the bread? Does that have much fish in it? Yes. Well, I have some Tic Tacs in my purse. Excellent choice.

And for the gentleman. All you can eat. All you can eat. All right. When you're ready, take this plate over. Please, don't take the steam tray, sir. I mean, we've seen homer eat before we eat a lot before like at the sushi restaurant this is like uh unimaginable and cart like beyond cartoonish he's like literally eating all the food you would think but i am a is he taking

breaks to poop i'm a fucking pig and i i love saying like i oh i gained 10 pounds over the summer i'm like you know how how Christopher gains 10 pounds catering? Free food. Like I will eat till like just where I have like diarrhea and still shoving food in my mouth. Free food, I'll eat the shit out of. And to be fair to Homer, well, one, I love the whenever you go to an all-you-can-eat restaurant and you have to do that thing where like you wait for permission to go get your shit. You have to like, I'm going to have the all-you-can-eat, which you're not do that thing where you wait for permission to go get your shit. You have to like, I'm going

to have the all-you-can-eat, which you're not even billing me for. Just let me go get a plate. God damn it. I love that, but seafood never gets me full. I can eat seafood all goddamn day long, including if you really, like, let's see if we can make it a Patreon tier. I'll eat a steam tray full of shrimp.

I bet you I can. It feels like it goes faster. It doesn't sit with you like, say, red meat does. You should wash it down with white wine, Chris. Yeah, I love buffets and I do love that moment of you are waiting for your drink order like, I gotta make my drink order

but the food's right over there. And also, you've had, you're pushing yourself to have a third plate to make it worth it I need to get value out of this at the expense of my own health I do not go to buffets because I cannot trust myself the last buffet I went to was in Vegas

and it was with friends of the show Brett and Carolyn and like I thought I was going to be the one who ate the most but Carolyn like destroyed crab legs like she ate like two dozen crab legs I, but Carolyn destroyed crab legs. She ate two dozen crab legs. I would go for the crab legs if they were unlimited.

But all of us were so stuffed, none of us had a meal the rest of the day. That was the day I did a day trip to Las Vegas to see a WWE wrestling event. But that's neither here nor there. Eventually Homer gets thrown out. That man ate all our shrimp and two plastic lobsters.

Tis no man. Tis a remorseless eating machine. Six bells, time for closing. Can't talk, eating. Fairly warned, BD, says I. Ha ha ha. Hey! Hey!

Hey! Toot! Toot! Ha! But the sign said all you can eat. Did say all you can eat. I feel like that all you can eat joke just kind of wrote itself and they based the episode on it. I mean, part of it is just like, what if a guy couldn't get all he could eat? I worked at a kind of hick located Chinese restaurant all you all-you-can-eat buffet definitely says all-you-can-eat, but because of the nature of people, had to have a lot of caveats at the bottom. No Tupperware. Well, they had a to-go option. You just go to the buffet and fill up a thing.

And it's like, we have to make a rule. You have to be able to close the lid. You have to be able to close the lid. You to, you have to be able to close it. You've got like a three foot tall pile of rice. I mean, seriously, people would walk out with a mountain of like Mugu Gai Pan. A Jenga of frog's legs. I mean, that's the thing at a Chinese buffet. It's like, look, you can make rice anywhere. Just don't like, why fill up on rice?

And they had a time limit. Wow. For real. Did they play the double dare music? But it was like two hours. But it's only because like a couple, it's in a time limit. For real. Did they play the double dare music? But it was like two hours. It's only because it's in a poor area. So people would come in and a couple people sat in there all day. You can't go to the bathroom and vomit.

We're sorry. They had a TV with sports on. Why not? The chair's comfortable. Just eat yourself into oblivion and watch football. So it's fairly warned be ye, says I. Is that the Pirates? That is the Pirates ride, right?

I don't think so. It's been a good six years since I've been on that ride. I don't think so. I thought it was just a wonderful example of excessive use of limited pirate vocabulary. Yeah, like antiquated English. Fairly warned. I forgot how important... I watched Peter Pan on VHS endlessly.

I was wearing a Peter Pan shirt a second ago. It's one of my favorite movies ever. The Disney one? The Disney one. For years, I didn't know how to spell Bilge Rat. It wasn't in the dictionary. There's no subtitles on my clamshell VHS. Learning how to spell Bilge Rat was one of

the most exciting things for me. You learned what a bilge is. Actually, I just double-checked this. I thought I'd see this. Jeffrey Martin tweeted this when the episode aired during Every Simpsons Ever two years ago. He says, Fairly warned BD, says I, paraphrases talking skull at the start of Pirates of the Caribbean ride. Oh, wow. So that's where he got it from.

I am learning this. That's a ride that's great for you. But I's where he got it from. I am learning this. That's a great story for you. But I have just, oh, God, I love that line. He's, every McAllister line is amazing. Yeah. Oh, and in between here

is the only scene of Bart's courtship with Laura. Sir! Come on, Bart. If I can teach Maggie to waltz, I can teach you. Just follow me. Put your hand on my hip.

Okay. Great scene. I love how the music transitions into a full orchestra and it reminds me of the scene with marge dancing with jock in season one very similar black and white the the dwindling fantasy sequences in this season yeah but there's a couple goodies in this one and wes archer does a very good job of them. Well, his team, he was the director. And also the taste of Kabul, like the Afghanistan references, I didn't know it was Afghani. They were eating until, obviously, the post-9-11 world. Americans are very aware of places in Afghanistan. That really feels like what my town would have done with a super ethnic, non-white food place. Like, we're not going there.

Like, Indian food was weird. Traditional Mexican food was weird. Taco Bell was as far as we would go off of the white spectrum of casseroles and potato-based meals. They'll go Mediterranean with Greek food, but any farther south, they're not into

that. I want a Mediterranean burger and some Mediterranean fries. I just saw them wrestling over the two Afghani brothers wrestling over the telephone. That was funny. I was like, sometimes I think you want us to fail. Shut up. But this is all leading into what my line of the show is. I got it.

It's one of the few jokes I got then. I get it now and I still love it. Go for it. Tell me in advance if you want a different line of the show next time. Because this is my line of the show. That's the joke. All you can eat. Ha!

Mr. Simpson, this is the most blatant case of fraudulent advertising since my suit against the film The NeverEnding Story. So, do you think I have a case? Homer, I don't use the word hero very often, but you are the greatest hero in American history. Woohoo! He grabs his head when he says that. I love this quote, but my quote's coming up later.

This is rigged. This whole thing is rigged against me. Not to bring him up, it does... It makes me feel like Donald Trump just hears a Lionel Hutz in his head all the time. Lionel Hutz is so good. Everything you're thinking is correct. You've never been wrong you're a total

hero a drunk failed attorney in your head that's homer deciding to sue which that was he comes to that decision with the don quixote line which i love that line because it is one of those things like i can see my dad doing of just like being so insistent and by the way this is before this is before the internet guy so he had to look up in an encyclopedia or something in the house to find it out. But just the way he goes, like, I really think it was Don Quixote. I'm going to fight this thing. Oh, please don't. For me?

Sorry, Marge. This is my quest. I'm like that guy. That Spanish guy. You know, he fought the windmills. Don Quixote? No, that's not it. What's his name? The man of windmills. Don Quixote? No, that's not it. What's his name? The man of La Mancha. Don Quixote?

No! I really think that was the character's name. Don Quixote. Fine! Now look it up. Well, who was it? Never mind. That's great. You can't know La Mancha and not Don Quixote. Number one, don't compare yourself to Don Quixote

because you're just calling yourself a fool who's misguided. I don't think Homer understands that. I've never read that book, but I have watched The Man of La Mancha play, which is actually very good. It's like a gigantic book full of several vignettes and stuff. It's really, really big. It's funny, though. Yeah, it's funny.

Well, he's like, we've never read it in Spanish, though. I guess we're missing all the puns. The localization censored the hell out of that. Too many modern-day references. The musical Man of La Mancha is really great. I love it. I experienced that through the Pinky and the Brain parody of it. The full-length episode parody of Man of La Mancha.

Why did that show ever air? I don't know. I first experienced Man of La Mancha through the episode of Quantum Leap, where he quantum leaped into a person starring in Man of La Mancha and so he had to put on the show. That is where the song The Impossible Dream comes from just in case anyone is confused. I did want to get

to some music here. We've got a lot of great comments on LasertimePodcast.com. TalkingSimpsons.com if you don't want to go through the awesome chuffa that is our great content. Get that British out of here Chris. TalkingSimpsons. But if you don't want to go through the awesome chuffa that is our great content. Get that British out of here, Chris. Talking Simpsons. But we get a lot of great comments from animation fans and animators.

Oh yeah, our geeking out really paid off. Yeah, and thank you guys so much for that. So I wanted to reward you with this, with something really specific. Bart goes to Grandpa for love advice. Grandpa, I need some advice. Did you ever have a crush on an older woman? I had a crush on the oldest woman.

120 years old she was. Here's a picture of her delivering Yubi Blake. What happened? She fell in with that Guinness Book of Records crowd. Suddenly, she didn't have any time for me. I wore a 15-pound beard of bees for that woman, but it just wasn't enough. Yubi Blake. Never heard of the guy.

I actually didn't look it up. I don't know why. He's an old-timey jazz musician born during cowboy times. He was famous for being old. Yes. Like, he died in 1983 at the age of 96. He wrote a musical called Shuffle Along, which starred Josephine Baker and this song premiered in. I love Josephine Baker.

No way. I'm just wild about Harry and Harry's wild about me. The heavenly blisses of his kisses fills me with ecstasy. That's just a rough idea, you understand. Love this cartoon. Yankee Doodle Daffy, 1943. Oh, man. Performing like a 20-year-old song. Is that a McKimson one? I can't tell. It looks like a McKimson. Love this cartoon. Yankee Doodle Daffy, 1943.

Performing like a 20-year-old song. Is that a McKimson one? I can't tell. It looked like a McKimson Daffy. We don't know. I think it's Chris Freeling. Isidore. Chris Freeling. Ah, now you love Chris Freeling.

Hey, look, I never hated on Chris Freeling. I hate on him all the time. He was my fourth favorite one, and he directed most of the bad 70s ones. Let's forget about Daffy meeting Speedy Gonzalez. The match made in hell. Everybody can talk about how crappy some of Chuck Jones' stuff in the 70s was. Can't

compare it for his feelings. I'd watch a million Tom and Jerry's by Chuck Jones then. Cool catch. You're not going to watch Bunny and Clyde? Oh, I love Bunny and Clyde. About the great Santa Claus caper, the Raggedy Ann and Andy Christmas special I forced myself to sit through. Look, they're not going to watch Bunny and Clyde? Oh, I love Bunny and Clyde. About the great Santa Claus caper, the Raggedy Ann and Andy Christmas special, I forced myself to sit through. Look, they're not good either, but his chipmunks was okay. Yeah, they're all right.

Right before that scene, though, we get the introduction of another character. You're right. Old Jewish man. Affectionately named Old Jewish man. Hey, hey, hey, can you do this? I looked this up, Henry. apparently he appeared before this is this is his first like personification as the character that we know with his area's voice and yeah like in his area a jewish man is very good at that old jewish man voice and he basically just does that

voice again when he plays uh harold zoid oh you're right. It's the same voice. And on the commentary, it's great. This scene happens and Conan goes, an old man appears, he wastes everyone's time, and he's carried away. That's a Conan O'Brien joke. By the way, the world's oldest woman actually was 122. Jean Calment.

I love being able to say that. No human has ever lived longer than that 122 that's all we got And now we're older than the world's oldest cat The world's oldest cat that died was like in it's early 30's He was born in like 85 or something I know I'm kind of bummed out because a cat in my life

Is not doing very well One of your mom's 17 cats My mom has one cat And look It's a bummer How about One of your mom's 17 cats? My mom has one cat. Look, I'm not going into this. It's a bubber. I'm not going to barge in front of everybody. Our podcast has powers, Henry.

We don't want to use them. Let's listen to Laura rip Bart's heart out instead. Thanks for coming. I pleased to aim. I'm so happy. I just had to tell someone. I have a boyfriend. You won't be needing this.

That scene looks great. It's lit so well. And I think it's cool that, like, Laura is a flawed character, too. Like, she goes for the bad boy, and Bart is flawed as well because he's kind of, like, in the quote-unquote friend zone.

He doesn't understand that. I got friend zone just like this for someone just like Jim. I don't believe in the friend zone. i think it's something that bitter men say and then they post on reddit i would always it's hard to pronounce your feelings for certain things and now i just wish i had all that time back where i didn't tell someone i like them or there's very easy ways to say you're interested yeah and so someone wouldn't putting a lot on the line so well so but that all this time of like it's been eight months and this girl doesn't know that I love her.

And then she's telling me about her boyfriend and it hurts so bad. All I had to do was make some intentions clear. We can talk about it and move forward as friends or not. But it would be scary to do that. Just saying. You might be turned down. I have no time for that nowadays. Was that your life or the first season of Friends?

I can't tell. Yeah, so look, guys go, many american men have gone through this thing so it is also because men can't fucking differentiate between love and lust like it's like it shouldn't be fucking a crime to say you have physical don't go donald trump in it but express like feeling you can express that wrong it's not wrong but it yeah like these dudes write sonnets over like boners they have when like they don't really they just want sad i say i say keep it a secret if it'll make things awkward and make the the other person uh uncomfortable make everything awkward forever uh or just distance

yourself i don't know i don't have a solution yeah but it's it they're not i think you need to learn at some point how to be attracted to people or be friends with people you're attracted to without doing anything i I mean, I wish a woman was on here for this, but I do feel like Laura is being punished or viewed negatively by the show for like, yeah, it's her first boyfriend.

He's a dick. See, she has a bad first boyfriend. I think we are supposed to side with Bart. It's supposed to make it look more anguishing for Bart. It's not just that he's getting ditched. He's getting ditch supposed to make it look more anguishing for Bart. Yeah. It's not just that he's getting ditched. He's getting ditched to where a guy beats him up every day. Yeah, immediately when she tells him who it is,

there's a flashback to him getting, like, swirlyed. With Bart wearing an uncharacteristic green shirt. He's, like, wearing his merchandise shirt. Well, it's, like, it's red shirt, blue shirt, and then green shirt is way below that. It's like a coloring mistake. You're emphasized by this scene, Hank. Good luck in your trumped-up lawsuit, Dad.

Thanks. That means a lot to me. All right, you guys. I want you in bed before Jimbo gets here. What do you like about him? He's just a good-looking rebel who plays by his own rules. I love it when The Simpsons defines which one of its characters is good-looking for me,

so I just have something, some basis of comparison. Oh, Marge is hot. He's no Langdon Ulger olger though i mean jimbo's kind of ugly though he's got an ugly soul he always he wears a dumb shirt he always on has on that stupid hat and he's like just an asshole but like bart asking homer like what do we do when uh when a woman is with a clod that's been either he's like well i married her and march woman is with a clod that's beneath her? He's like, well, I married her. And Marge laughs. I love that joke because I like when Homer is being intentionally joking. Yeah, I like when they have fun with each other.

It's really cute. And also, we skipped right past Homer's love advice to Bart, which I did love. This is a sacred moment between a boy and his father. Son, a woman is a lot like a refrigerator. They're about six feet tall, 300 pounds. They make ice and... Oh, wait a minute. Actually, a woman is more like a beer. They smell good. They look good. You'd step over your own mother just to get one. But you can't stop at one. You want to drink another woman. So I says, yeah, if you want that money, come and find it,

because I don't know where it is, you baloney. You make me want to wreck. So, like, I love that, yeah, baloney. And, like, my friend Sarah who's listening says it all the time, so hello, Sarah. But Park's face when it goes to the drunk transition is so awesome. He's just half-lidded and tired of it. But then Homer, I mean, in another context, a son watching his father get drunk is a tragedy. But it's hilarious.

It's all about life. But let me jump back, because I love this love my phil hartman i am on a quest to get every phil hartman character i can he's all up in season four oh love lionel hutz um captain mccallister isn't it a fact that you're not a real captain i but but if i i'm giving like sequence of the show, Marge's testimony, regardless of Julie Kavner's delivery, is one of the funniest things ever written, I feel like. Yeah, the emotion she's putting behind what a ridiculous joke. Like him eating a bag of flour, them going fishing. All of this is so great.

Oh, sorry, I gave it away. Mrs. Simpson, isn't it true your husband once consumed a 10-pound bag of flour when no other food was available? Yes, but it was... Your witness. There's a pizza here for... Right here. Mrs. Simpson, what did you and your husband do after you were ejected from the restaurant? We pretty much went straight home.

Mrs. Simpson, you're under oath. We drove around until 3 a.m. looking for another all-you-can-eat fish restaurant. And when you couldn't find one? We went fishing. Did these sound like the actions of a man who had all he could eat? No! That could have been me. Thank you for keeping that. I don't think I go, that could have been me.

It just flashes to a fat jury. Everything about that is perfect. The jury is just a bunch of fat guys. This whole courtroom scene, I remembered it as being in multiple scenes, but it's just an uninterrupted time in the courtroom. It's all hilarious. I think one of my off-the-court

lines is like, that could have been me. When it finally hits this fat guy, I get a funny impression. Any person would have this problem. And I guess it's a parody of saying, like, it's a parody of getting a jury that is in your favor, like, racially. You're all women on a jury with a woman on it.

They were not screened. They should have had less back-up. I just think it's beautiful. Burns' lawyer did a really bad job screening it. Moonlight even Captain McAllister. I expect more from him. But meanwhile, Jimbo's back at the house making out with Laura. My shirt's chafing me.

Mind if I take it off? Well, okay. I would never pay for sex, but during sex I would pay a woman to let me leave my shirt on. That's where I'm at. I would never make broker this deal. Oh, you didn't talk about how homer the resolution was resolution to eat in the window and it's fine he has more stomach than me it was a cute little it just ended it both of these things are like we gotta end

well this is way better like his bart wants to get rid of jimbo by finally calling mose and giving his address and just the it's the incorrect address. Is it? Yeah. But it says, good for one free beer at Moe's. This is Moe's Tavern, isn't it? No, this is Bo's Cavern. Give me my beer. Stupid welcome mobile. I knew it would ruin me.

Hey, just a sec. I'll check. Amanda Hug and Kiss? Hey, I'm looking for Amanda Hug and Kiss. Why can't I find Amanda Hug and Kiss? Maybe your standards are too high. Little esophage. If I ever find out who you are, I'm gonna shove a sausage down your throat and stick starving dogs in your butt. My name is Jimbo Jones, and I live at 1094 evergreen terrace big mistake pal i know we'd slip up sooner or later ah yes rusty and dull so cool so this is really selling out

moe's character like moe's ready to i mean he is this guy from then on like yeah moe's ready to kill like he will murder this child have you seen Moe out of the bar at this point? Yeah, I think so. He went to their party. The boxing thing. True, true, true. He's like college boy. Hide the mugs.

So this is canonically Bart's last prank call. Other characters would call Moe instead of Bart after this. Burns would call him Waylon Smith. It's like, Waylon, you say? Smith is, huh? Or Homer did the reverse one on the Spring Break episode where Bart

said he'd stable an American flag to his butt and mail him to Iran. Yeah, and Lisa was helping him prank. But it's weird because in a season like 13 episode, Bart teaches Homer how to prank when in that Bart on the Road episode, Lisa taught him how to prank. So it doesn't make any sense. The timeline's all screwed up. But the 1094,

they gave multiple different... That's the resolution on the episode. Evergreen Terrace had been their thing. They knew they wanted the street to be Evergreen Terrace, but they didn't settle on a number. They said 1094, other times they said 1092. It would eventually be 742,

but they hadn't settled on it yet. And the original name I pitched for this podcast was a 742 Evergreen Podcast. Terrible. Bad SEO. Yeah, I think that was what we said. Like, we gotta have Simpsons in the name. So on the commentary, Conan O'Brien has made me hate the ending because he really calls out the issue with it which is like that Jimbo is proven to be a coward

because a man threatens to murder him. Toxic masculinity is good. Yeah, a man comes into the house. He knows his name and he's like brandishing a knife. I'm a grown man and I will kill you, 13-year-old. Oh no, please don't kill me.

What a coward. It's like his shirt's off he's completely vulnerable in mo's defense he was not going to kill yeah he said he's only he's only gonna cut him i wasn't gonna kill you i'm just gonna cut you a little speaking of and there were some jokes in there that were like time filler like mo running by and then the freeze frame of him pulling out the map. F5. And then meanwhile, Barney's heart stopped like that he drinks all... I love that shot. That camera angle of him laying backwards

and just has the tap in his mouth. He looks like he's planking. That's right. Way ahead of that craze. And yeah, she says you're not the man I thought you were, Jimbo. You're crying like, yeah, man threatened to kill me. And yeah, she says like, you're not the man. I thought you were Jimbo. You're crying. Like, yeah, man threatened to kill me. Come on, Laura. Yeah, I guess we didn't see Laura

after this. We saw Ruth Powers. Laura disappeared. She's not even like a background character. She went to boarding school. I guess so. That could be it. And when Ruth, you know, is talking about being behind on child support, they are talking about Laura, but they just don't bring her back. That's true, yeah. even though she lives right next door i think they mentioned her getting

back home so that naked talk show isn't being viewed by her that's right yeah so my daughter didn't see a naked talk show which by the way i once turned a rare time i turned on tv in berkeley i got to the you know public access channel and it really was just like two people nude talking about thing it was just like they had they had quilts over their windows so it's not like a fend or whatever they paid their 20 for that hour but it was just public access channel had fat albert man i don't i never understood that these were unattractive naked people and they were standing about four feet apart from each other a man and a woman like, what was your childhood like? Well, you know, my dad was Mexican. I was like, what's this?

My public access channel at home, people would just air their barbecue videotapes. I would leave them on like, this is three hours of a barbecue. Like, when is this going to end? Oh, thank God there's a Facebook so I can ignore that. It doesn't have to take up the airwaves. Oh, God. So, yes, I guess that was New Kid on the Block. A really good episode. Iaves. Oh, God. So, yes, I guess that was New Kid on the Block. A really good episode.

IMO. I like it. I think the B story is a little cheap, and it kind of cheapens Bart's story. Don't know what the B story is. I love Bart's girlfriend more because it's just about that, and I feel like that character, Lovejoy, is a much better, more fully formed character than Laura. A better foil, and there's a better twist on it. Like, Laura is more idealized.

I think so. Like, Laura is more idealized. Like, she doesn't get to have much of a life while... Is she a manic pixie dream girl? I think a little bit, but she's also idealized from the perspective of an eight-year-old who doesn't really know how to be attracted to somebody just yet. Bart's attracted to the qualities in her that he has. Yeah, he's just liking, you know,

one of the guys type girl. Well, yeah, I'd say this is... I think I just had a breakthrough, I need to go This is a pretty good episode that hits Real highs, like all Captain McAllister Moments Totally the best, Lionel Hutt's the best That March testimony, that's my favorite Yeah, there's some great moments in it

I'm glad Don Rickles said no Because we got Captain McAllister I want to try and get this. We've got to shut it down. We've got to get this under an hour because the next episode is Mr. Plow. I'm here all night. I am terrified. Terrified of how long we're going to go. Wrap up

really quick. I've been your host, Bob Mack. You can find me on Twitter as Bob Servo. I also write for SomethingAwful.com. My other podcast is Retronauts, a classic gaming podcast. You can find that at Retronauts.com every Monday. And I am now a writer for Fandom, so go to fandom.com and read my stuff there, Henry. Who powers that?

Wikia. It's powered by Wikia, yes. Great Simpsons Wiki, too. Bob is now my co-worker. I'm really looking forward to it. Just find out that in two weeks we hate working together. We're good friends, but we never work together. Henry, I hate him.

Bob. No, but seriously, that's where I work. You can find my work there on fandom.com. I'm a games editor there, and also H-E-N-E-R-E-Y-G on Twitter. And you should hear our other exclusive episodes of Talking Simpsons that are the first season on patreon.com slash lasertime, including the season two and season three wrap-ups with deep, deep cuts of Simpsons

goodiness. Indeed. And listen to LazerTime. It's a topic-based pop culture show. Simpsons have entered into almost every episode. In fact, some of our YouTube videos, game streams are like, could you just stop it with the Simpsons references? You'd think this is the perfect outlet. Nope. It's still not enough. We're all diseased.

It's not enough. And oh, and if you like our looking back at stuff, you should definitely listen to 302010. I think you will. If you like Talking Simpsons, you'll love 302010. So oddly enough, what's happening right now, if you don't know what 302010 is, it's essentially like the news segment we do at the top here, but about 30 years ago, 20 years ago,

and 10 years ago. And it's immediate with, immediately kicked off with a Hank Scorpio You Never Move Twice episode. So we try and hold back from talking about that show, that episode, like we would here. We'll get to it in two years. Another two years, we can finally get to it. Thanks. But that is 20 years old. Oh, wow.

Thanks so much for listening, everybody. We'll be back next week with Mr. Plow. We'll see you then wow infotainment