Talking Simpsons - Talking Simpsons - Simpson And Delilah

Episode Date: October 21, 2015

Using just a smidge of health insurance fraud, Homer obtains a miracle hair growth formula. Will it work? You’ll have to look at the picture above…

Ahoi hoi everybody and welcome to Talking Simpsons, the Later Time Podcast Network's chronological exploration of the Simpsons. And this week we're brought to you by Gorilla Man's Skelp Blaster, which may or may not work. I'm sorry guys, I just, I'm reading the copy as it was provided to me. And this week's episode is Simpson and Delilah, the second episode of the second season, which aired on October 18th, 1990. Chris, what happened on this magical day in history? Oh, news, news, news.

Oh, my God. Well, Bob, a two-life crew is on trial over obscenity. Legendary composer Leonard Bernstein dies. And Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and his part for ending the Cold War. Way to go. But I thought it was Reagan.

They told me it was Reagan all along. They didn't even give Reagan no Nobel Peace Prize, man. They gave him a library. That was enough. So people who weren't alive don't understand

any of those words. But since we were, I just love emphasizing how fucking old The Simpsons is. I will say, Two Live Crew was very important for free speech laws. Yeah, I'm so glad they're a Me So Horny song.

Me and Hank being Floridians, it's also where we got to be introduced to Jack Thompson on television every day. That's right, because... That was his first whale that he chased out. Rap was scarier than video games at one point, right? It's pretty nuts. I mean, it's all fairly hard. It's just like a bunch of, you know, just a couple black dudes rapping about their dicks. Like, it's not...

They're the worst things in the world. It's wonderfully misogynistic. But the children... But again, that wasn't the problem. Yes. And this episode is totally about Homer getting hair. I love this. And it was a direct reference to Damoxenil. Damoxenil. Oh, wait, sorry. Is it... Minoxidil.

It's Damoxenil. Damoxenil is the parody. Yeah. Minmox-a-nil. Oh, wait, sorry. Is it? De-mox-a-nil. It's De-mox-a-nil. De-mox-a-nil is the parody. Yeah. The real thing is De-mox-a-nil. Oh, I see. That's why my parents had to explain that to me. I had no idea. Like, oh, people lose hair? Oh, and there's a thing that gives you back hair?

Yeah, it gave me the impression that if I ever go bald, there's an expensive option. Yeah. Well, it's not a... It's now over-the-counter, Minoxidil. You can just buy it on the store shelves. I think Rogaine is as well. And I don't think anyone at the Leisure Time Podcast Network can identify with it. We're all hair suits, I guess.

I disagree. But this episode is about Homer getting hair. I had a freckle underneath my hairline, and I told myself... I think I told this story only once somewhere else. If I ever see that freckle, I will take countermeasures to retain my hair. So about ten years ago, for about three years, I had a Propecia prescription that I got. It's like purely preventative of like something ever happened.

It helped the short and curlies on the back not come in, because, man, did those come in after I stopped taking it. Is that a pill or a suppository? It's a pill, Bobby. I had a friend who had a topical cream Rogaine, and when he moved to Japan, and it was a losing battle. He's now pretty, I think he just gave in and shaved it off.

But this is 10 years ago when he moved to Japan. He actually asked me to mail him Rogaine because you can't buy it over the counter in Japan. Oh, wow. You just go bald and get curmudgeonly in Japan. Can I just get this clip out of the way? Oh, yeah, go for it. I love it so much.

It's the opening of the episode. Okay, the capital of North Dakota is named after what German ruler? Hitler! Hitler, North Dakota? Bismarck. Bismarck! Hey, I'm still beating you, boy.

At the end they reveal it's a grade school. It's an elementary school. Grade school challenge. And Homer still loses. I do enjoy the Simpsons eating while watching TV because I rarely ate any meal at a dinner table. But a lot of friends did. Like, I was always eating in front of the TV with my parents. My parents are really against that.

All those TV trays. Now, we totally. If we were eating looking at this TV screen in the same room, that would still be a big deal. Yes. My parents are really against that. All those TV trays. Now, we totally... If we were eating, looking at this TV screen in the same room, that would still be a big deal. Yes. We just went to separate rooms. I have written down,

like, however, at this point, a giant family, even with extended family, watching a single screen is absolutely Rockwellian. Yeah. It is.

You will not ever see... It's like, it's so positive and warm and it makes me very happy to see and I'll never see it again. This is not The Simpsons, but I do like how Rick and Morty has characters just looking at their iPhones or playing with an iPad at the dinner table. Because that is modern reality. And it feels like The Simpsons being represented in this area, too.

So the plot is Homer gets hair, and he succeeds, and then loses the hair, and he's back down to the bottom. And it just shows how arbitrary the business world is. Homer fills upwards because of his hair, and that's basically it. I have a clip of Homer wanting hair. So I love this clip because I love the commercials. That hair is the best. But it also shows you how early in The Simpsons it is. I edit a lot of audio, and what you'll hear in here is Harry Shearer take a deep breath before he starts rattling stuff off.

Ooh, okay. It's something you wouldn't hear nowadays. I used to think that losing my hair was as inevitable as the tides. Then I found out about DeMoxinil, the new miracle breakthrough in hair regrowth. Miracle breakthrough? There's been a miracle breakthrough? The odds are DeMoxinil can help me grow as much or as little hair as I want to. Hey,

today I'm gonna do it. For your free brochure, send $5 to Damoxynil, 485 Hair Plaza, Hair City, Utah. Hair. Hair. Just like everybody else.

Just like everybody else. I did hear the Yeah, you can hear him take a huge, huge breath. Yeah. The joke goes by really fast, but that's actually one of my favorite jokes

of the thing. Dude. For free brochure, send $5 to Hair City, Utah. Hair City, Utah. Beautiful. There was like a San Pueblo, Colorado free pamphlet advertised on TV a lot in the 90s. I forget what it was for. I don't remember that one. Please let us know if you remember. No, I love those old infomercials where it's like if if you want more information, first get an envelope,

then get a pen, then get a stamp, and then maybe, maybe. They get two envelopes, a self-addressed stamped envelope. Self-addressed stamped envelope. Oh my God. S-A-S-E. I will say that what I thought about this episode was, episode one of second season was Bart has his miracle. This is Homer's miracle.

Yeah. Because demoxanil is like a magic hair growth potion. It is the perfect drug. Yes. It works better than any drug ever has for anything. Literally overnight, Homer has more hair than I do, and I'm a long-haired hippie jerk. Yeah, and not only that, I love all, like, every scene is a different hairstyle. Yes, that's great.

That was intentional, too. Yeah, it's so funny, and, like, I also, oh, man, when he talks to his health care provider, sorry, he talks about his health care, and like, the Moxonel's $1,000. Let me get this out of the way. Lenny and Carl, Lenny almost, almost now sounding like Lenny. If you listen to our first season. But this is Lenny and Carl working as a team too.

They are. This is the first Lenny and Carl. But he also doesn't sound like Mo like he did in the first season. Patreon.com slash laser time to hear the first season, people. Yeah. Oh, man, don't be a sap all your life. Just fill out a few medical insurance forms creatively. Charge that DeMarx and all stuff to the company.

But it's a thousand bucks. Burns would can my butt in no time flat. Ooh, a thousand bucks. So what? To Mr. Burns, that's one less ivory back scratcher. Yeah. Besides, you pay money into the insurance fund every week. What do you ever get out of it?

Nothing. Well, that newsletter. That is true because I had a 401k for about nine months and every maybe two months, I received an entire package about it. Like, there is no money in this. Leave me alone. How much money did they spend on mailing it?

I had a job with a major company. I lost that job and I wanted to get my medication. Hey, if you listened to the last episode, it was Adderall, which I can't. If anybody wants to send me some, that'd be great. But, like, Damoxanil is $1,000. And he's like, without health insurance, I'm like, can I get one more prescription? And he's like, I have one day left on my health insurance. Can I get a prescription?

And he's like, what if I picked it up tomorrow? And he's like, you couldn't afford left on my health insurance. Can I get a prescription? And he's like, what if I picked it up tomorrow? And he's like, you couldn't afford it. Like, what do you mean? How much are these generic... They're generic versions of the pill. How much? And it was like $6,000. Yeah, like $1,000 was like... That's like toenail fungus treatment in today's insurance world.

I didn't listen to this podcast for politics. It's not politics. It's something that really happened to me. It is the reality of the insurance world. I had that recently where I thought I still had my work insurance, but it had run out like the day before. And so when I got there, I said, well, okay, then I'll just pay whatever it is to have this appointment that isn't even a prescription thing. They're like, well, it'll cost $100. I'm like, I don't like that, but all right, I should do it. And they said, well, no, it's $100, and then another charge later. How much? i don't like that but all right i should do it and they said well no it's a hundred and then another charge later how much we don't even know so i would

just be agreeing to you can charge me whatever number you think if you have to ask you can't afford it yeah but that's so weird with health care like it's pretty unbelievable actually like it's it's like the secret it's it's fucking stonecutters horse shit like if you're in the club so when i get a normal price. For sure. When I think of how much I hate rich people and all their power, I always think back to that ivory backscratcher thing. It's just like, oh, no, this guy won't.

Oh, well, they taxed the rich with another $3,000 thing. They won't be able to get that ivory backscratcher. And Burns explicitly mentions that backscratcher. Okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But I got another Burns clip. Oh, awesome. Because Homer has grown, he gets the moccasin and he grows hair.

And I love his first haircut, by the way. The fucking bob. Oh, that's right. Yeah. And like, he goes to get a haircut from his barber and he's like, I haven't seen you in 20 years. You finally got rid of those sideburns. And I'm so happy to know in the flashback sequences, Homer has giant sideburns.

Oh, that's right. Yeah. It checks out. In the way we was, right? In the way we was. He gets his 72 haircut, which is how long it's been. So Burns is scouring the security cameras. I love Burns.

Pathetic morons in my employ stealing my precious money. This is hopeless. None of these cretins deserve the promotion. It's in the union contract, sir. One token promotion from within per year. Wait, who is that young go-getter? Well, it sort of looks like Homer Simpson, only more dynamic and resourceful.

Simpson, eh? I do like the commentary, like, the union is that weak, that they can only get one token promotion per year. For a junior executive, which is like the biggest joke of a title ever. Yeah, it's just like, yeah. Yeah, and Homer would be completely out of his league if it wasn't for one dude. And Carl... I love Carl.

Carl, to me, is the weirdest guest star ever on The Simpsons. He hobby-fires things. He hobby-fires things. That's such a fun voice to do. But think about all the guest stars The Simpsons have. None of them do good. And none of them leave. They're all flawed or they're all assholes.

Like, this is like the only... Oh, you mean the characters they play. Yeah, the character of Carl, there's no other guest star like Carl. He's a sterling human being. Yeah. And I will say, like, I was reading about this. Exemplary. Harvey Fierstein, the character was supposed to look like him, but he said, I don't look

like a typical gay guy. So they made him like this beautiful, muscular, blonde, like Adonis. See, that was my next question. Like, knowing now, which I didn't know back then that Harvey Fierstein is gay, is Carl gay? He's totally gay. Yeah, right? And they talk about it during the commentary. And it's been a while since I've seen this, maybe like 15 years.

But I'm watching this knowing Carl is gay. Like, I'm going to go say goodbye to the gals in the typing pool. It's like, yes, of course. All that stuff, the pat on the butt, the kiss on the lips. And when they show his apartment, it's just like, it's such a defeat apartment. It reads, a gay man's apartment in 1990. So much of these early scenes. Did they set up your gaydar, Hank?

Well, I actually, I didn't know who Harvey Fierstein was. Me neither. That's what Mrs. Doubtfire. I found out who he was because my mom told me like no you know he's the the saturday night live character i just want to be loved the john lovitz right yeah he does the harvey what is harvey firestein famous for uh he was a playwright and an actor he did the torch song trilogy in the 80s he was right he was at the vanguard of 80s gay theater and writing mrs doubtfire that's all I got.

And he also, like, he's one of... Independence Day. Uncle Frank and Aunt Jack. And another positive for Harvey is that, fortunately for him, he didn't die from AIDS like so many, so many of his contemporaries, so he's still around today, which is great. Just think of how many... I don't want to get people too sad, but just imagine how much more awesome art and theater would be if millions of gay people didn't die.

Basically all of those off-Broadway New York City. I'm sorry to laugh at that. I've just never heard that said like that before. Yeah, an astounding amount of people are no longer with us. So this is Carl. I have Carl's intro. Awesome. I love it because Homer has no confidence.

This is a very madman moment. Adam's League. You belong here. Huh? a very madman moment. He's clearly out of his league. You belong here. Huh? You don't belong here. You're a fraud and a phony, and it's only a matter of time until they find you out. Who told you? You did.

You told me that the way you slump your shoulders, the way you talk into your chest, the way you smother yourself in bargain basement lime green polyester. I want you to say to yourself, I deserve this. I love it. I am nature's greatest miracle. Go ahead, say it. Trust me, Homer.

Take a step and say it. I deserve this. Louder. I deserve this. Shout it. I am nature's greatest miracle. I am committed to the next time I have sex, which I'm, fingers crossed, 2016, I am going to shout, I am nature's greatest miracle! I am committed to the next time I have sex, which I'm, fingers crossed, 2016,

I am going to shout, I am nature's greatest miracle. I love their relationship because I don't think Homer understands that Carl may have a crush on him or may have feelings for him. That's what I don't understand about the character in general.

I'm not thinking as a predatory gay guy. I never thought of that until watching this episode now in context with every other... I just watched one of the new episodes. Elon Musk is on. There's a lot of jokes at his expense. He's kind of made out to be a loser.

Every guest star on The Simpsons is themselves and flawed. And what other guest star... Carl is Mary Poppins. He really is. That's a good comparison. The Mary Poppins character on The Simpsons is killed by a fucking plane. Yeah. But Carl isn't.

He's treated very well. He's allowed to live at the end. I wonder that... Yeah, well, I also wonder if they made Smithers worse in this episode. I think to make him... Smithers and Carl are like the same side of the coin. Yeah, like... They're different sides of the same coin.

Carl's kind of a toady, just like Smith Smithers but he is like the positive toady and he's just super supportive I need to memorize that all the time, I need that kind of self confidence boost that Carl gives and yeah, his character he's so funny to me when he takes it

one of my favorite lines is conceal it conceal the fat and he does i love that because looking at the episode now like yeah they actually do stick to that they slim homer up yeah uh for like the first time and then this is one of my favorite sequences as a little kid i laughed a lot as an adult i laughed a lot i love the singing telegram guy all right the anniversary homer what our you sure? Well, don't worry, homie. This year you have an excuse for not remembering.

What with your job and... Happy anniversary, Mrs. Homer Simpson. You are so beautiful to me. You are so beautiful to me. Can't you see?

Can't you see? Like, even when the phone calls on, you can hear him in the background. Just like this sad, yelling croon. That is Dan Castellaneta. Of course it is. It's so funny. Has anyone ever been around when someone was hired someone to serenade someone else? That happened to me once in an English class.

The husband of an English teacher hired a mariachi band to serenade his wife, which was an English teacher hired a mariachi band. Oh my god. To serenade his wife which was an English teacher like in maybe the 10th grade. It was very embarrassing. Oh my god.

I can't even imagine liking that. I remember not being a friend with a guy because we went to Pizza Hut for my birthday and he's like I'm going to

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I give that warning on my birthday. No one sings. There's no embarrassment happening today. That's funny because I have been the person on the other side who says like, oh yeah, no singing. Oh, I need to go to the bathroom. I did it awesomely.

We were working at GamesRadar. I'll just say it's Christian Nunn. He was leaving. So I told the entire wait staff at Red Robin that it was his birthday and paid for his Sunday. It had a two minute birthday song sung to him just because he was going to a better job. I think he would have taken it well. He did.

He did. So Burns promotes Homer to junior executive as a way to understand the common man. And Homer throws out his idea as to what would make the common man happy, and that is more tartar sauce for the fish sticks. Bob, is this the line of the show? For me, it is. All right. For the fish sticks. Bob, is this the line of the show? For me, it is. All right. That's the joke.

That's our line of the show, Jingle, in case you don't know. That's why I promoted someone who's in touch with the workers. You. I think you mean him, sir. You, then. How would you improve the worker situation? Well, sir, for one thing, we had a problem every Tuesday when the cafeteria would serve fish sticks. Fish sticks? What in blazes are you talking about?

Well, sir, they cut the head off the fish and chop up the rest of the sticks and then put seasoned bread on top. I know what fish sticks are! Get to the point! Uh, well, you only get this tiny little cup of tartar sauce to dip in them, and I always run out. Will you stop wasting our time, Simpson? Shut up, Smithers! Can't you see what he's saying? A happy worker is a busy worker. Three cents worth of tartar sauce could save us thousands of man hours in labor. I like the cut of your jib, Simpson.

Let the fools have their tartar sauce. Tartar sauce. And then we're treated to a montage of people ladling tartar sauce onto plates. Thick and boys, there's plenty for everybody. It's so gross. It's mayonnaise with relish in it, people. It's not magic. So this is like, number one, I love the way he says tartar sauce.

Then also that what I like the bit next where Smithers is kind of talking about how people can make stats however they want them to be. Like, oh, these things are up and all this. And he says, well, that could be just because Homer's not there bringing down the average. That was part of my job at this super corporate place of making up stats to send around. I'm like, I can make these look however I want. Just damn statistics. This is a worthless job. But Homer does get the key to the executive washroom, which is this beautiful, glorious interior with people playing cellos and

live birds and fountains. I love that sequence so much, and I don't know if any of you listened to the commentary, because I didn't, but there's that transition from Smithers throwing down the washrag... It works very hard on it. And the guy running out to grab it. Fucking great. Oh, the tiles of the bathroom. Yeah, it transitions from the tiles of the

bathroom to the outdoor of the building, and I'm pretty sure that's a direct Hitchcock reference. It looks like a Saul Bass title sequence. Yeah, I have a feeling that's a reference to something. I just don't know what it is. It could be the North by Northwest. It could be. That'll be my second favorite North by Northwest reference.

The best being Follow That Bird, where Ernie and Bert chase down Big Bird in a biplane. It is an astounding sequence. With machine guns? There's no machine guns. Just laughing. Speaking of references, this had one of the earliest very lengthy film references. It's a wonderful life.

Yeah, that's right. For two minutes when he realizes his hair is running. It's the same window thing. Merry Christmas! And the bell is ringing behind him. Yeah, dong, dong. I loved his little dance of celebration with the other guy. Me too.

It's a cute moment. You did it in a previous episode from the first season where you gathered... I tried to gather as many of Homer's hair care products in his medicine cabinet as possible. I have some of these, but please continue. I couldn't read them all. I have Hair and a Drum.

Like 99 cents or whatever. 1999. I have Bald Buster, Hair Master, Gorilla Man Scout Blaster, and my favorite, Hair Chow. Hair Chow. Hair Chow. Before we leave the executive washroom... Homer mis... I wanted to mention that.

Homer mispronouncing resume. Yeah, I didn't catch that. What did he say? He says resume. He says resume He says resume Okay Impressive resume Before we leave

The executive washroom I do want to note That Mr. Burns Was watching a documentary About Rommel On the Dumont network That Dumont On the Dumont

These are references I'm just getting now Because Dumont was kind of Like the predecessor to Fox It was a failed Independent network Yeah Dumont was The fourth network

It was one of the First channels And it completely died ABC, NBC, CBS Did not the fourth network. It was one of the first channels, and it completely died. ABC, NBC, CBS did not. He's like, I like the cut of his jib. But he still calls TV Dumont. I was watching the Dumont. On the Dumont.

And then also that he likes Rommel, the Nazi. That he's like, oh, that Nazi really got things done. Oh, I love any reference to the Dumont network. It was just so happy. Okay, there's a couple moments in this episode. I was like, well, if Burns had even like three years later on the show, they wouldn't,

they'd do a more extreme joke. Like, Burns wouldn't know what fish sticks is. I think a season seven Burns would say, fish sticks? That doesn't sound like oldie time food reference.

Mr. Burns would not have like a board of advisors. He would be just, just him and Smithers together. I loved those idiots, though. They are great, though. I do, too. Like, we put caffeine in the water cooler loved those idiots, though. They were great, though. We put caffeine in the water cooler.

That's my idea. Those are all my ideas. We could do a round of layoffs to shake the idiots up. That clip, the tartar sauce sequence, that is, I think, it's perfect comedy. And usually, that's why The Simpsons is so great, because if that was written even on a good sitcom, it would pause for laughter like 18 times. Oh, for sure. But it blows by so fast. There's like 16 jokes in that one clip. I love it. So Homer has to give a speech to this

I guess it's just a gathering of employees. Executives. Yeah, I meant to look into it. The art of self-management. Yeah, G. Cole Condry? It's a real thing. I looked it up. It's all about communal working and not having supervisors and just being very supportive for each other and stuff. But he has to give this presentation.

At the same time, Bart basically has this fantasy of growing a beatnik beard. Bart is fascinated by the idea in 1990 of being a beatnik. He must have been watching Dobie Gillis on Nick at Night or something. I know I was. He ends up spilling it all over the floor and Homer is just distraught knowing that he's lost his one key to success. I love this line from Lisa.

He's wiping his hair in the puddle. What did she say? The line is, Dad is taking this in a less than heroic fashion. That line ends the scene, I think. He is sobbing and rubbing his hair in a pile of lice. I only didn't capture it because it didn't work well. It's a wonderful visual joke.

It's the most pathetic he's looked at. If you haven't heard us do... This is going out live to everyone now. We did the whole first season together. There's 13 episodes on patreon.com. Watching the show become itself, that's one of those moments to me. season together. There's 13 episodes on patreon.com slash LazerTime. Watching the show become itself, I don't know, and that's one of those moments to me.

Yeah. Well, same when Homer strangles Bart. It was a nice extreme moment to a joke. But also, they have to go through, they have to jump through a lot of hoops to explain why Homer can't afford $1,000 later when he's making

this executive salary. I think the thing is that there's a scene where he's buying things for the kids and he's like we can afford it. Yeah, let's just buy it all. Marge is saying we're spending a lot of money. I captured this because I thought it was canonically telling us why the Simpsons were still poor. Because Homer saves nothing?

Because he saves nothing. Yeah. A hair care product, a new wardrobe. We're not saving anything for a rainy day. Rainy day? There's never going to be a rainy day, Marge! There's not a cloud in the Simpsons sky! But you guys notice it started raining when the second Burns finds out about the scam

it starts raining. I didn't connect it with that. Wow, that's great. I didn't either but yeah, it's connected at the end of the episode, not a canonical placement of why the simpsons are constantly poor because seriously if you're a promoter to where it looks like homer is even if he's there for like two months that's a lot of extra money yeah compared to what he was making before yeah but um he no longer has his hair anymore i guess it all just falls out overnight it falls out overnight it happens overnight and falls out overnight so now he has to give this speech, and he's about to get fired, right?

Yeah. But Carl takes the bullet for him. Yeah, I didn't capture that. I got Smithers tattling. I love that. Mr. Burns, it is my sad duty to report that one of your executives has built the company insurance plan out of $1,000. What? Bless his hide, the Hades!

And I was going to buy that ivory backscratcher. There we go. Wonderful callback. You hear that thunder, that's the rain starting. And, like, okay, so Carl takes a bullet for Homer, and he gets fired. And Homer freaks out, and, like, Carl's trying to say, like, it wasn't your hair, it's you. Like, you need to be confident, you can do this. But then Homer gives a speech.

Oh, gives him a kiss, like, I'm a fool and uh carl says my mother said never kiss a fool thank you and then he kisses him and homer is not offended he's like carl and then carl slaps his ass on the way out it's great and uh yeah this is carl's carl's goodbye to everyone i love it mr simpson i've taken the liberty of preparing your speech on the enclosed numbered 3x5 cards. All the big words are spelled phonetically. Phonetically. I love it. God bless you.

You are one of Springfield's very special creatures. Your obedient servant, Carl. Oh, Carl. And by all accounts, Homer gives what should have been a rousing speech that no one pays attention to. Yes, so the cynical statement is that, no, it was the hair. No one listens because he doesn't have it. Yeah, his failing upwards truly was arbitrary, and he's going to be back where he belongs. It's like, what is this bald man talking about?

Yeah, the thing. That's one of my favorite lines, too. Not my most favorite, but when Homer says, if I did this, you'd think I'm crazy. He's crazy! Yeah. He's crazy! He jumps up like he's crazy he's burning money but mr burns has like a uh a very like unlikely change of heart which i think is what he does sometimes in these episodes in the early episodes yeah and he's like he understands that the sting of male pattern baldness is a cubicle but why can't mr

burns afford this medication no I know. So here's my reasoning for it. Smithers says, oh, it's DeMoxonell. I know what it is. He's tried it. It didn't work. I guess it doesn't work on everybody. The one guy Homer meets when he's frolicking with his new hair, it worked on him, but maybe it doesn't work on everybody.

The guy who sells DeMoxonell is bald. It's a beautiful story that he was king of the hill top of the crop and in college in his senior year he went bald and and then he feels like you i don't know like i don't i can't speak for bald people everywhere and i won't try but i uh robert siegel the the the host of wait wait don't tell me he wrote a book about bald men in history uh and he did the thesis being that people don't give, like, instinctually don't give respect to bald people.

I believe he said, like, it already looks like you lost a genetic lottery. I thought of that. Again, that's him in an interview. I have not read the book. But he did write a book about it, I believe. Wow. All right. Speaking of, we talked about Homer's age earlier.

Oh, for sure. I want to talk about this. Homer's age here, as a super nerd, I was always remembering, like, okay, he's 81. He said he's 81. Burns is 81. By season, I remember specifically as the episode Homer the Smithers in season seven, Homer says he's 104. He says he punched him in his 104-year-old face.

And in this episode, Homer guesses 102. Right. Yes. So he's 104 he says he punched him in his 104 year old and in this episode homer guesses 102 right yes actually under and since then i feel like no burns is 100 years old that they treat that way it really bugged me at the time especially when season seven they were the big nerds they knew every fact they should have known every fact about the simpsons and here they give they add 25 years to his age did we say he said he's 81 in this episode? Only 81. Yes. And that seems odd because Mr. Burns' mom is like 124 years old too.

Who's still alive, I guess, canonically. Does she ever die? She's never died as far as I know. Striding about as Adam Mill. Yeah, so it really annoyed me that they changed his age like that. For his jokes to work, for him to remember the beginning, the first baseball game ever played. He can't be, even in 1991, 81 is not young enough or old enough to remember that.

Yeah, for sure. And the scene at the end is very James L. Brooks and very not modern Simpsons. But I found it very sweet where Marge is singing, you are so beautiful to me to Homer. And then Homer joins in agreeing with her like I am so beautiful to you I love that joke because it is a cutesy poo hug of a joke but it's also

about Homer's stupidity and his selfishness but he's like he's selfish because he's thinking from his perspective the giving thing to sing it back at her from his perspective agreeing with her yeah beautiful so beautiful to him too but instead he's agreeing to like I am

that to you I am so beautiful to you like no Homer come on and it is still sweet and it is spinning with this character but Marge still like comforts him and that's how the episode ends just like Marge still accepts him even though he failed they point this out in the commentary to that that exists like the episode doesn't end with demoxenel not existing it's still

a thing yeah still prohibitively expensive homer is but we live in the later years where say in uh the episode with itchy and scratchy and chester j lampwick all right bart just says homer can i have seven thousand dollars or whatever he just hands it to him out of his wallet. Buy seven things of DeMoxenel, Homer. You got that money. Maybe he was taken off the market. Maybe he was taken off the market because it was never mentioned again. Maybe it caused birth defects. I think with those extreme results

that they should be. They tampered in God's domain. There has to be a drawback. I feel like even in season three they would have put in a quick line just saying, DeMoxenen was taken off the market because it was too it was causing cancer and some monsterism pleasant taste some monsters and well that was talking simpsons for simpson and delilah we'll be back with another episode the halloween episode so get ready for that as for me i am bob server one twitter and please listen to retronauts the

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