Talking Simpsons - Talking Simpsons - The Old Man And The Key With Bryan Quinby

Episode Date: October 26, 2022

This week we welcome back the great Bryan Quinby from Street Fight Radio and The P.O.D.cast as the show travels to Branson in Abe Simpson's quest for love. We discuss seniors driving, buying clothes to prove you've been somewhere, the price of Yakov Smirnoff tickets, and a whole lot about the XFL. Plus a ton more in this discussion of the elderly from 2002 in this week's podcast! Support this podcast and get dozens of bonus episodes by visiting Patreon.com/TalkingSimpsons and becoming a patron! And please follow the official Twitter, @TalkSimpsonsPod!

This podcast is brought to you by patreon.com slash talking Simpsons. Head there to check out exclusive podcasts like Talking Futurama, Talking of the Hill, the What a Cartoon Movie podcast, and tons more. I heartily endorse this event or product. me today as always it's captain bring down and the buzzkillers henry gilbert and who was our special guest on the line it's brian and this week's episode is the old man and the keys on a march i'm waiting for the new xfl season who will win this year's million dollar game this week's episode originally aired on march 10th 2002 and as always, Henry will tell us what happened on this mythical day in real world history. Oh my God. Oh boy, Bobby.

Baby Blues airs its final episode. Linkin Park's In The End tops the Billboard charts and The Shield debuts on FX. Ooh. Yeah. It's a big week week for content man it's a very very 2000s uh type of day the rise of new metal and the fall of baby blues yes yeah you know that baby blues show i only know it because well i it was an okay fine enough comic strip in my childhood but several simpsons folks worked on it from what i read

apparently there really was a second season that got like 80 done and warner decided to not air it and just dump it and take the tax write-off so they've been doing that for a very long time at warner brothers it's not a new business the oldest trick in the book if you look at the newspaper though those parents are still trapped in eternal baby blues. It's a hell of a struggle for them. Didn't they get a... I think they aged up their first baby right and then got a second baby, but they've been stuck in that age ever since then? I believe so, yeah.

I'm not fully aware of baby blues canon, but I'm sure there is a wiki. I forgot about the shield, though. The shield is the greatest. Yeah, I love that show. It's one of my favorite things. I got to watch it. I watched it during the pandemic, the early part of the pandemic, not now. But I watched the whole thing in such a short amount of time.

Because I could not stand up until 4 and 5 in the morning going through it because I just couldn't go to sleep. I loved it. Just like Talking Simpsons, it stars a villain named mackie so big fan you know i haven't watched it yet but i i feel like uh i owe it at least that yeah it stars vick mackie or bob and i think they even spell it the same way i think the correct spelling take that drew mackie our friend drew mackie spells it wrong no yeah i loved the shield i i think i watched it not on debut, but when the second season started airing and the first season came out, I think that's when I started watching it.

I was current with it at least for the fifth and sixth season when it was airing. And, yeah, it was such a cool show. Like, it is so, like, intense, intentionally intense. And so 2000's like, hey, man, sometimes the cops just got to, like, murder a guy. To a kid rock song. To kid rock songs, yes. It rules so much because it's like, when you watch it now, it's like, wow, this is the past. This is like, really, it's like what, it looks just as dated as like when, in the 80s, when people would watch like World Wari comedy and stuff it's like borscht belt almost sort of show because it's

like i i hate being this guy but it's just something they absolutely couldn't make now at all no way and they made it good like all the way to the end like i watched all of sons of anarchy when it got near the end the episodes were all an hour and a half. And it was torture watching those last episodes. Like, I was just like, I should just quit, but I got this far, so I might as well watch it. The Shield never went over that 45-minute mark every time. They got it done, and I love that. I love every season had, like, a like a different like guest star villain for the season yeah walt goggins is like the greatest i love he is such a great actor in every single thing

i feel bad for him that most of his parts are like so you're the racist guy who like says the n-word and like beats up a black person it's like that it's that every role he has to be handed but he's he's a great actor definitely is uh joining us today though is brian quinby of street fight radio welcome back to the show brian you're last with us here for i believe i'm going to praise land yeah yeah and i was i i want that was this is the second episode of the simpsons i've watched in the past two decades this week and the other one was i'm going to praise land i mean you guys i googled what season this was in because i don't know why i had in my and i i'm talking to my wife i'm like oh i

think it's in i'm gonna see what season it's in i was like i wonder how many seasons there are of the simpsons and simpsons and my wife said 60 and i was just like that's too many though because that would be 60 years that i would have had to have been alive 70 really if you think about it because i wouldn't have been watching it till i was like 10 so uh yeah 13 season 13 is i think if the flintstones never stopped they might be on season 60 by now yeah yeah no it again i every time i have to think about season 13 in my brain it's like yeah that recent season not a 21 year old season of television which is what it is like yeah that the shield i mean when we talk about the shield that it was a contemporary with season 13 and now that show's been over for a very long time and it's so in the past and uh yeah i oh and brian you know we mentioned lincoln park also

like we were just in the home of lincoln park the both of us in chicago for for a pro wrestling event yeah the actual lincoln park not the band lincoln park the name lincoln park for the band and i can't i can't tell you the story now because i forget it, but I do a new metal podcast, so we have covered Linkin Park. The name Linkin Park is very weird. The way they came up with it had nothing to do with a park or Abraham Lincoln or Chicago. That's crazy, man. When I was just there, I was like, oh, that's Linkin Park. That's what they named their band after, right?

And now I find out not really. Their original name was there, I was like, oh, that's Linkin Park. That's what they named their band after, right? And I found out not really. Their original name was worse, I think. That was the thing. Like, their original name was something that they couldn't use anymore because I think somebody else had it or some shit, so they switched it to Linkin Park. Big history lesson where I just said, a bunch of stuff happened, but I don't know what any of it is.

So great story, Brian. So Brian, you're on street fight radio, of course, and you've got a Patreon and one of your more popular mini series you do every year. Shocktober.

We are in that this recording day right before it launches. But when this goes live, we're going to be knee deep in shocktober. What can you promise? Is there more grease man coming? Because I think you're responsible for exposing the world, general public to the grease man so i uh uh i got in the mail from their stern out of context on twitter if you want to follow somebody that is cool and sent me stuff uh they sent me a thumb drive with two 400 minute best of the grease man files 40 hours of howard stern

and all of the monsters in the morning uh cds so i am currently working my way through the 10 hours i think 10 to 13 hours of grease man right now i am working my way through it i'm almost done with the uh i'm almost done with the first file which is 400 minutes and it is uh lord i gotta tell you not a talented man not a talented man and you're not gonna believe this he's kind of racist and anti-semitic so no no no yeah uh listening to last year's grease man one was was interesting for me because uh my parents were fans of the grease man what back then he was in our market really oh my god but i shoved all these memories down and of course i remembered when he got taken off the radio for uh his racist comments were you driven to school while the Tuna Fish song was playing?

That's the thing. So, yeah, my mom and dad actually went to see him live once, and they explained to me, like, so this is what it means for, like, his anal sex song, and this is what hobbledy-gee means, and this is what the Tuna Fish, and I was like, oh, yeah. It all came flooding back listening to Brian talk about it. Henry is breaking this to me for the first time. his family is steeped in uh grease man lore don't judge my look

my mom stopped listening after that one time he got taken off the radio she didn't expect him to be that racist but she didn't come back after the second time he got taken i don't think she was aware the first time maybe the funniest thing to me is a guy got fired for racism. And then three years later, he got fired for racism again. It was like, these guys get so many chances anyway. And I said this, I think, last year. Maybe I didn't say it, but it's like an edgelord welfare program for these guys where it's like now they just get to have money for the rest of their lives because they were really like nasty for 10 years. And like, that's what drives me nuts about the grease man.

And I was like, he made millions of dollars and I listened to this stuff and I can't hear a single thing. I like there is nothing that I've heard and this is not me being unfair because people who who know shocktober and who have listened to it know that like i was a fan of some of this stuff this the opiate anthony i was a i was a really big opiate anthony fan until it got ultra racist you know regular amount of racist i was like well you know you're gonna have that with this stuff but like you know, you're going to have that with this stuff. But like, you know, once Obama won the presidency, one of the Anthony went off the rails and just became crazy racist. And now he's like a prominent known like racist guy that does a show. And so it's I'm not unfair. I can admit when something's good.

But if I you know, the Gre man and uh man cow are just they're profoundly untalented men i agree i agree i but please don't think any worse of my mother uh you think worse of my dad but don't think worse of my mother that she enjoyed grease man back in the day please but i i you can see why i wanted to bury that information and forget all the tuna fish talk and all that and the horrors of the grease man uh tuna fish song is brutal though isn't it it's just really and and i have i think the thing i hate more than the tuna fish song which i truly hate with everything in me but we'll play it again this year probably two or three times is the raps he does raps so he did one

called the beer drinkers rap and this year i found the fisherman's rap the guy loves fish i guess and uh when he says he says get down with your bad self it makes me so feel it makes me feel bad inside when he says that oh god well you know the opposite of the grease man is branson missouri i would say yeah yeah the opposite there's there are no shocking disc jockeys to be found in that area i want to go there so bad it's funny that that came up in this episode because i have been trying to talk my wife into going to branson for years because you know I'm I'm an irony guy I like like a lot of low culture stuff or things that I don't consider low culture but other people do and Branson just seems like the coolest place for a guy like me to just walk around and see really

washed up people doing shows I just think it seems so fun and then this episode kind of ruined that for me because they said there's no gambling there which i thought there were casinos there i didn't know there wasn't gambling there so why would anybody want to go there i don't even know if there's if there's drinking in branson i have to imagine maybe like there's some bud light on you have to be able to drink yeah i did i did do a Branson research, but I did not see if you can drink. I mean, you know, obviously it's an all-America town for Christians to visit and see nice things. And they're all drunks. Yeah, they've got to drink.

You think some Southern Baptist dude's going to go there sober like for 48 hours? No way. No weed. Yakov Smirnoff act is two and a half hours long i'm sorry brian yeah there's no weed there yeah there's no like it is just really like when you start to like put it all together in your head no gambling no weed yeah there's booze there but booze don't make a place fun i've been to new orleans and i didn't like it um i don't drink though that's probably why i didn't like new orleans but booze

doesn't like make a place fun there's booze everywhere yeah it just is like all the thing i thought i would go there i would you know see yakov smirnoff maybe see another show i they said charo's there i don't know if charo's still alive but but I would see a show. I would love to go see like washed up celebrity shows, but I also want to be able to gamble or get high or do anything other than that, too. You know, if there's a river nearby, maybe you could sneak in a riverboat and be like, I'm the gambling riverboat of Branson. I'm breaking all the rules. Well, Branson is the fireworks factory of this episode. But, you know, they have been there before in season seven where the kids drive there. And Bart describes it as well.

He says Homer's calls it Vegas as if it was run by Ned Flanders. Yeah. Is the perfect description of Branson. Yeah. I wonder, you know, because this episode was written in pitch by John VD. And I have to think that because he was just around he probably hit from the beginning of the series and came back for this I have to think that he had been talking about the uh this interest in Branson as you know a Harvard educated liberal dude is like Branson isn't that something

and so when Bill and Josh take over in season eight uh seven they're like well what if Art goes to Branson for a scene but they just make it a one-off joke. It's not the act-free destination. It's a brief detour to see Andy Williams. Yes, yeah. Yeah, you guys should make a Patreon goal to go to Branson. We can perform there. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Well, you don't want to do that. I don't think anybody's going to live podcasts in Branson. I don't think we can fill the Yakov Smirnoff Theater. That's 2,000 seats, buddy. You know, this is getting ahead of myself on my Branson research, but because of the aging demographics, it has to change. I would bet 20, 30 years from now,

there will be a live podcast theater of 70-year-old podcasters from your youth performing there. You could see Jordan Jesse go, and they'll open for mark maron it'll be like a jerry lewis uh towards the end of his life show where he just sits in a stool and yells at the audience they should they should start moving into 2000s nostalgia like we have to believe maybe i honestly that that Vegas is going to have like a Limp Bizkit or Korn residency at some point. Like that's going to happen, I think. I don't know. I don't know if they did a residency, but definitely when I went to Double or Nothing AEW Wrestling in Las Vegas and got COVID.

When I went to that, multiple wrestlers went to a biscuit show like there was at least a biscuit show happening that weekend I don't know if they were doing a residency there but definitely they're playing Vegas a lot I don't I think so I just I feel like there is there was a kiss one all right oh yeah I believe so and Aerosmith and it just seems to me like I don't think corn really works for Vegas because it's maybe too dark but like like a Limp Bizkit residency I think would probably do really well which then means in like Branson they could have dope or track or something like that and then have nice little new because they gotta start moving into that you can't keep doing rat pack shit because nobody i mean i don't feel like anybody younger than me

at all identifies at all with the rat pack because i'm 43 and i think the rat pack is stupid actually got yelled at for saying that in vegas on stage but oh damn you know well i mean uh we'll get to the the great song in this episode my favorite thing about the episode but about half the people in that song are dead so uh that was 20 years ago and they were talking about how the stars of the 60s and 70s are now in branson now it's more like the stars of the 90s and the aughts are gonna end up in branson if they're not already there you know they should uh i do you think creed is too big for a Branson residency or are they too but I haven't kept up with Creed their their level of stardom as an expert in that type of music too I know I'm an expert and all anything that is like white trash I think it's the best way I can describe it uh I don't think Creed's getting back together anytime soon scott stapp is a he's wild like he's really

christian i've listened to a lot of interviews with scott stapp and i just i don't even see him going back out on tour he's one of those guys that like you know there are a lot of guys in that era especially or any era that make a bunch of money and it makes them so weird that they just have to live on that money for the rest of their lives. And they can't. There's a guy like, I'm taking it back to this, but a guy like Opie from Opie and Anthony. There isn't a less talented man in the entire world. It's just he's not funny.

He's not interesting. He's not smart. There's nothing and like he made millions and millions and millions of dollars in the late 90s and 2000s so now he's just gonna sit around his house and do these weird live streams where he doesn't call it a show so now people go in and say is this the show is this the show and then he gets mad at him because it's not a show and like but he gets to just do that and i think scott stapp is one of those guys it's just like i made a bunch of money i turned really really weird i'm just gonna live out the

rest of my life like doing christian podcasts and stuff like that yeah you know branson residency might be just the thing he needs you know just maybe branson maybe they'll calm down yeah but but yeah i uh i did note the yeah this was john viti's return to the show and it was his first writing an episode since his contractually obligated clip show of episode 138 um and based on the timeline it seems that his deal with king of the hill must have ended and so he was open to take on a three i don't think he was staffed though i think it's just i don't think he was yeah yeah because uh it said i mean this is skipping ahead but the song it said that it's written by him but it was actually written by everybody but i think he just got the credit because he wrote the script or his name is on the script

and he'd leave king of the hill for this and then after this he'd write he'd write the first alvin and the chipmunks movie which he claims was a better movie yes in his first draft i love that i love it but and he was working on the leg show at the same time like so which made him like he wrote for some for borat so he was writing alvin and the chipmunks and borat at the same time he's uh john vd an interesting man yeah i have seen alvin and chipmunks 7 000 times because it was like my daughter's thing of course she was when she was really little so i have seen that movie so many times uh i've seen all three of them i've heard david cross justified it's just like look i'll never buy a mansion with money from mr show it doesn't make that money so just let me let me buy a nice

house with money from alvin and the chimunks and don't judge me okay the scary movie too money can buy him like a shed yeah or a pool yeah he got to work with friedberg and seltzer though two other guys that i'm an expert in. Oh, God. God, the worst. And yeah, this was also inspired not just by their love of Branson, but also they had read a then recent article that must have been making all the rounds in TV writers that old people living in assisted living. It becomes kind of a high school click in how there's more women than men at them and the guys you know if you if you're able to live into your 80s as a man you got your pick of the of the widows there because i i swear the same writers for sopranos read that are the writers brands

read that same article because there was many episodes about that as well and the seniors who could drive were the kings of assisted living yeah and queens yeah there was a period where the old people can't drive thing was like just such a common common joke it was constant with with like uh oh and i can barely see over the steering wheel and she's driving too slow and stuff like that and i remember and this maybe still happens but like 2020 and like news magazine shows would do articles about like, should we take old people's license away from them? I remember seeing those a lot when I was younger. I think a couple of years after this was when South Park did their old people driving episode. That's when it was in the news about like you know more than one horrific uh

accident of an old person driving through like a farmer's market yeah that was yeah and though i mean old people aren't any better drivers now it's just a different generation of old people getting worse at driving i think but yeah i mean we we did a whole uh king of the hill about an old man losing his license and again it's like once you can't drive in america you're not a person anymore and so yeah you just sit in a chair until uh they take you to the morgue yes you can see why the elderly don't want to give up their their driving ability uh i mean what are they supposed to get public transit it's like that's not in any place you can't never do that you can't have that that would be horrible and uh and one other preamble thing I've got is that I didn't like this episode much when it first premiered. And I don't particularly love it now either.

Though there's some stuff I do like. But I think a reason I really didn't like it when it first aired was it aired two weeks. Just two weeks after the King of the Hill episode, The Bluegrass is always greener, where they also go to Branson. And it actually is a much nicer view of Branson that treats it with respect. It's just like, hey, people like being here and seeing Yakov Smirnoff. And they actually got Yakov for it. And Charlie Daniels. Yeah, yeah.

It was a better episode than this. I'm not a fan of this one for a lot of reasons. We'll talk about them. But probably the XFL sl slander how dare they makes me sick that somebody would say something bad about the xfl uh so yes uh well the episode begins uh after a blue man group couch gag which i've seen the blue man group live in las vegas and it's perfectly fine it's you know you do know exactly what you're getting they will make paint fly around everywhere they won't change their expression and it's fine it's a nice little

afternoon thing i think i need to see the jabberwockies i think they're probably cooler i think the the guys with the masks oh yes when i went to vegas i wanted to go see Chris Angel mind freak so bad that is what I want to see is some Chris Angel mind freak how how much are those tickets because I looked at David Copperfield tickets and the cheap ones were like 200 a seat I was like I can't ironically see this like I could have ironic I would have ironically paid $200 to see mind freak but i think you just couldn't even get tickets they there were not i because i looked and was like i would i i gotta see chris angel he's he's the only magician that speaks to my like type of guy oh yeah i agree well if something costs too much you just have to ask yourself can this be a podcast oh sure yeah man. That'd be like a dozen podcasts going to see Criss Angel.

Yeah, he's so cool. But yes, we have an opening clip here that I must play because it's probably one of the only reasons people remembered the XFL for many years. Honey, I've got some bad news for you. Not now, Marge. I'm waiting for the new XFL season. Who will win this year's million-dollar game? Who? Who?

Honey. The X is for extreme. There is no XFL this year. The league folded. Who is it? Who told you? Last year's MVP. He sweeps up toenails at the beauty parlor.

Hello? Hello. This is the Springfield Retirement Castle. Your parent... Abraham Simpson... Is dead. Oh, my God. He died from... Complications of a medical nature. The nursing home was not responsible. Oh, no. Your father's dead. The nursing home was not responsible. Your father's dead.

And he never even lived to be a vegetable. That's a good one, man. But all right, the XFL. I mean, Brian, you remember the XFL as a wrestling fan as well, its debut. It was the hubris of Vince McMahon that he thought, I'm successful at pro wrestling now. I can also be successful at a football league. My memories of the XFL, I never watched a single game,

but I remember being in college and the XFL being new and thinking, wow, I'm an adult and now there's a new kind of football. The world is changing. This is before September 11th. Oh, yes, yes. I was in the hospital the day of that first game and uh well okay i had

a kidney stone it hurt right i got the kidney stone in the morning hurt very bad but then they you know this is the early 2000s so they gave me a lot of percocet so it actually was really awesome and i went home and i I still remember watching the first. I remember watching the first game and I wasn't like a big football fan, but I was a big Vince McMahon and wrestling fan. And I was lit up. You know, I'm smoking weed and I'm popping pills and it's just really fun. I'm having the best, best time of my life and uh then the next week you start seeing the news the next week because the day after the news is like the ratings for the xfl are so crazy they're so good and then

the next week they just dropped by like half and i was just like what is the weird like why what happened like it's just football i thought because i don't know what good football and bad football looks like so i didn't even understand it i thought it seemed like a lot of fun also yeah the other funny thing is that their pre-game hosts i don't know if people remember this their pre-game hosts like uh they're like the nfl pre-game where they have like like phil sims and stuff like that on there talking theirs were opie and anthony oh my god i didn't know that's perfect oh fuck yeah well they they made big news too because they got while he was still governor jesse ventura uh was a commentator

uh on it as well if you want a a really good history on the xfl watch the 2017 uh 30 for 30 documentary this was the xfl it's done by a nepotism baby the son of dick ebersole but thanks to that that's the only person vince mcmahon would ever talk to about the xfl is the son of his best friend dick ebersole and so he's actually very open about how angry he is that it failed. Like once it failed. So it debuted in February, the week after the Super Bowl. If you still are excited for football and you're sad it's over because NFL's over, keep watching football.

It's on here now. But they put themselves as like, you know, the NFL is the no fun league. And this is going to be sexier. It's going to be harder hitting it's going to have more dynamic camera angles we're going to do all this cool shit our local team was named the demons oh the san francisco demons right yeah they played in the final game that's the only reason i know i looked up their names i i remembered seeing that the xfl had a lot of fans in vegas because vegas didn't have football and they got like a real team like they did that

vegas fans really remember them but it was like the new jersey assassins like they had a bit of edge to the names as well they did i like that i like that the xfl was the the the idea of having the cheerleaders being like supposed to date the players and then you would be able to like follow their dating which i think is crazy but the best thing about the xfl is that when he relaunched the xfl it was specifically the no fun league they were like you can't have any sort of criminal record you can't have this you can't have that and it was like well who wants to watch that that doesn't sound fun at all the fair there's fair catch because that was the big xfl thing i think was like people were really amped about there being no fair catch because that means when you punt you can

just get like the guy that catches it can get murdered by somebody running as fast as they can for 30 yards. Which one of the problems of that is then your players get injured a lot more, meaning your teams get worse and it's worse football like that. They also had a thing instead of a coin toss to see who starts with possession or whatever of the ball, they did a scramble where it's just two guys had to do like a rush for like 20 yards. And the first guy to grab the ball, their team gets possession. And the very first time it happened, a guy tore his like bicep and was out for the rest of the season. And the only season.

Yeah. Can I tell you how they introduced that to the players or to the viewer? How they introduced how they do the coin toss to the viewer was they had Opie and Anthony do one. It is really bad. Did they do a bit with the coin? They had to run to get the ball, but it's done in slow motion. And you could tell it was really corny. But it was really funny to me and it's so funny that like we know that vince wanted howard

stern type of thing he he would have rather had but howard stern's not gonna do that there's it's just not him so he had to get the guys right underneath the the branson howard stern uh yet they they had eight teams the season started in february ended in april with their super bowl which was as homer said the million dollar game uh is won by the los angeles extreme and this was from the wiki that million dollars is won by the team and spread out around the team, which according to the wiki, if divided gave each player less than the losing team gets in the pro bowl. So nice. Nice. I was wondering that because if you're given each person a million dollars,

now I'm looking at something that I can wrap my mind around, something that I'm getting kind of excited about. But when you're looking at whatever that amount of money is, it's like, not gonna injure myself i'm still trying to get in the nfl i don't want plenty of xfl the simpsons will be right back. New from Kellogg's, no problemos. Yummy loops and chocolatey biscuits. Do anything to get your hands on them. New Bart Simpson's no problemos.

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part of the ownership group to to correct marge uh the mvp tommy maddox actually did go on to play for the steelers and would win a super Bowl. So he wasn't cleaning up toenails. But when Vince relaunched it in 2017, so he announces it for relaunch in 2018. But it's so funny because they do that doc in 2017 and it pisses him off because, again, he's a crazy old asshole, Vince McMahon. And when he had to do a whole documentary about how he failed at something, he then decided, like, literally sells $100 million of shares. So he has $100 million to restart the XFL and this time succeed. But also he was spurred on by he really hated Colin Kaepernick. And guys, it was supposed to be like, you cannot kneel for the flag or the anthem at my thing.

No way. I did say that in the press the press conference which i watched live i did watch that press conference live he's such a disturbing looking dude and the name of the company he started to relaunch the xfl was alpha sports which that's good yeah you could have called it chad sports if they had waited like two years but yeah i think honestly in a covet free world it would have failed anyway when it launched like That's good. Yeah. You could have called it Chad sports if they had waited like two years. But yeah, I think honestly, in a COVID free world, it would have failed anyway when it launched. Like nobody wants to watch worse football. But I think that with the rock, I always think the rock is going to succeed and everything.

So now I'm like, maybe it's going to work out now with the rock. I don't really believe that, but we'll see. I think it could like people would just be like, well, now that the rock i don't really believe that but we'll see i think it could like people would just be like well now that the rock's involved but then lately i've been starting to feel rock fatigue where people are kind of like i don't really like the rock you know we'll we'll see how people react to that black adam movie because that's his attempt of like i've got my own superhero thing now this is my guy will everybody love it or will everybody will it be when people say like i've got my own superhero thing now this is my guy will everybody love it or will everybody will it be when people say like i've had enough of this rock you know i get to see young rock on tv all the

time and now the this uh the return the xfl yeah it was him and a bunch of venture capitalists guys he pulled them together like hey let's just buy this thing and relaunch it which i guess we'll see in the spring of 2023 how how it goes a third time for the XFL. Prove us wrong, XFL. Prove us wrong. No way Black Adam is a success. No, not any possible way. He can put all the work in the world he wants into that.

I hated Shazam. So now he's like him saying like Black Adam, he superman's he's gonna go after superman it's like that's lex luther all we know is lex luther we don't know any of the other people rock we don't know who black adam is and like it being a dc thing i mean like the internals i would consider wasn't it successful and that's in the mcu black adam just no possible way and the rock hasn't done a good movie in i mean i watched that fucking red notice oh no yeah you know he's in another i was looking this up his next movie is a amazon prime studios movie that's called like red one but it's not related to red notice but it's like why are all these forgettable like streaming only movies red something red notice gray man we found people

like colors the algorithm telling that's like yeah and hey it does good if it's a color name it no i hate oh and one one last funny bit about the xfl is it appears in the 2000 film end of days which is set in 2015 so it predicts that the XFL will still exist in 2015. Fresh. That's cool. End of Days was a big deal to me. I was so excited when that came out. And I believe it is yet another Arnold Schwarzenegger movie that nobody liked that had a cool soundtrack, if I'm not mistaken.

It's like that, what is that one? The Last Action Hero. Which, by the way, a movie I've seen five million times. cool soundtrack if i'm not mistaken it's like that uh uh what is that one the last action hero was which by the way a movie i've seen five million times i don't know why people didn't like it i loved that movie but like yeah but i think it would do well now in the way that every movie does well now but yeah you know you can watch well i don't know if it's true anymore but when the net when the wwe network launched the xfl games were on there and i do i think wwe has made a little money off of licensing xfl footage to movies because you know it's hard to get nfl footage for your movie but if you want something that looks like professional football for your characters to

watch on tv you can you can apparently afford XFL footage if you want, but I mean, they could put the whole season up and like all of the tertiary stuff. And I can guarantee you that two weeks after that happened, there'll be a podcast. We're going to watch every bit of the XFL stuff and talk about it. I can guarantee. I,

it probably would be me, but all right. anyway uh grandpa's not dead though but they think he's dead i don't think even when i first watched this no way did i think no i think i mean i i trusted the show to not kill him and then the commercial showed you what this episode was about yeah that's true that's yeah i coming up next grandpa's got a new girlfriend i think that was like the post-Futurama commercial. Yeah, yeah, you're right. I do like how you can tell Abe is reading a note that says the nursing home is not responsible.

That's a good joke. But yeah, so they head to Abe's home. They're going through his stuff. And yeah, I mean, the family being sad. Old Spice is the smell of Grandpa's. But honestly, I kind of like smelling like Old Spice now. Well, you did turn 40 recently. I use Old Spice body body wash i don't put it on like cologne or anything but i went to had been trying to use the like deodorant for like people who are responsible you know like

like the the harry's deodorant that says underneath it like something like a rock smell and stuff like that like i tried to use all of the weird different deodorants none of them smelled strong enough so now i'm on that old spice deodorant because i put that on and you can smell it in a room next to me and i'd like dna i i feel like like i feel like when it comes to deodorant people for some reason don't want to smell it and i want it to be extremely strong well with old spice it was the grandpa stench but then they redefined themselves for the youth market with their uh terry cruise commercials and the tim and eric style bits they do now so now it's like well no we're reclaiming what axe took away from us it's true yeah they now who talks

about axe anymore you know wait until axe becomes hip though wait until axe like has like a meeting where they're like did you see how good old spice did and then now axe is like hey we're for dumb idiot men or something like that whatever whatever the campaign would be hey you remember this trashy stuff well you can get it now and it's not trashy anymore it's or being trashy is cool uh i mean it can be the retro aughts style now really yeah they could sneak it into like a manscape package where you have like your ball deodorant or whatever just stick an axe logo on that i hate those manscaped ads i'm sorry if you guys do manscaped. We do not do them. I've actually turned them down. Yeah, I can't talk about my nuts.

Being a podcaster that has to talk about their smelly nuts, and, you know, obviously it's funny if you do that as a joke, but, like, you're doing a commercial, and you're like, hey, my nuts stink. You should try this stuff. They've made my nuts not stink anymore. We all know how bad our nuts feel. I mean, we've talked about ball deodorant before on this podcast but i feel like if that's an issue you

gotta jump in the shower buddy yeah don't freeze your genitals yeah yeah a nice shower and take it yeah get get a night take a nice shower i was just listening to one of the shock jar i can't remember who it was it might have been opie but it doesn't matter who it was they were talking about how like they read an article that people were putting uh deodorant on their taint and he was like i'm not gonna let the pc police tell me i gotta put deodorant on my taint and i'm just like that is such a fucking misunderstanding of what political correctness even is like nobody's saying that no they they hold you down they tell you what pronouns are and then they just put a big stripe on your taint yeah they tag your taint take a shower dude just do that then everybody's sobbing and sad that grandpa's dead and he comes in the room what are you crying about you don't have to live here when the kids hug grandpa and stretch his skin down it's horrifying it's like out of

like hellraiser or something the way his skin stretches turns out it was stamps in down the hall ha ha ha so much for mr i can button my own shirt so i do like that homer does learn no lesson from he's like oh my father's not dead well see you later i'll send you a fruit basket or something like i think this is the last time homer acts like homer in this episode because i do think homer has to act a bit out of character that he even cares about abe or like cares about his car or whatever homer's mr crazy yeah it's uh one of the reasons i don't like this episode that much is because homer has to act out of character he has to be the angry dad of a teenager so he feels more like or like season one homer just like a grumpy dad i don't feel like i'd

ever i don't think i've ever seen this episode although it did come out at a time where i might have been i was probably watching syndicated simpsons and you know i said this before i haven't seen a ton of episodes of the simpsons i probably made it like season six or seven i actually felt like marge was an entirely different character than what i associate with marge in this episode like entirely it's true marge is usually not called other women stone cold hoochies yeah it's not very marge yeah it's funny yeah it didn't feel like marge simpson to me at all and there were other a few other times i think in the episode where i was like man this doesn't this is this seems like a whole different person it is funny to hear julie hit cavern go hoochie that yeah that's about it that's

that's it's a cheap it's a cheap laugh yeah but but yes this is when when Abe makes a new friend. What's got into you punks? The home told us you were dead. Me? I ain't dead. It was Stamson down the hall. So much for Mr. I-can-butt-my-own-shirt. Oh, Dad. We've got what people never get. A second chance.

Yeah, there's so many things we can... Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We'll call you or send you some fruit. Look, Grandpa. You're already getting a new neighbor. Hi, I'm Zelda. I put the ass in assisted living. Holy mackerel.

Abe Simpson's name. Now that you're here, I'm changing my instructions to do resuscitate. So that is the late Olympia Dukakis. Yes, the star of Too Many Grandmas. Yes, they mocked her heavily in a previous season. Yeah, she passed away in May of 2021 at 90. Really best known for her Academy Awardwinning role in moonstruck and lots of uh other roles that are notable like steel magnolia as mr holland's opus and uh of course jane austin's

mafia the classic jay war film oh god uh but yes uh just uh character actor a ton of stage work a ton of screen work and she is kind of debasing herself as this old slut yeah it's uh kind of beneath her this role honestly but i think she does a fine job i also you know she was 70 when this aired and there's a weird bit of a side about hot old ladies and al jean says a weird thing about how they're like yeah al amir is pretty hot because this was back you know in uh 17 years ago when people talked about how hot alamir was which he is an attractive woman but then aljean says something like i think she knows she's she knows she's hot that makes her less hot i was like okay all right interesting opinion yeah uh i'm surprised they didn't mention uh so they talked about this being inspired by an article

in which you know here are like the clicks of assisted living homes and here's like what what it means when you can drive they didn't talk about what i heard about later where it's like old people in these rest homes get frisky and like stds can be a problem oh right yes yeah i had heard that yeah so yeah i guess that maybe that article was later but it feels like maybe that was part of whatever they read because we don't think about it but it's like the people still have sex lives and i guess they're raw dogging it at their age because they're like well you're not gonna get pregnant exactly yeah hence the spread of stds i mean i wouldn't like who would why would anybody at all care if they got an std when they're that old other than it's like sort of uncomfortable you know like if it's

crabs or something but if it's just someone i'd be like i'm gonna die anyway how many more times am i gonna have sex i mean you've got those uh you've got those shaky hands you're gonna put on a condom yeah that's oh man yeah no way boy i didn't even imagine that i think the std story though is more of a this decade like because the villages became such big news over the past little while which by the way my in-laws lived in the villages oh like five or six years they left and they were they voted for obama two times they came back and now they're doomsday preppers that i think the jews run the world so it's like you can also catch other kinds of mind diseases like mind diseases when you're in one of those places it this also feels like a reference to the then new

10 things i hate about you which is i mean lots of movies have the explain the clicks scene in it like mean girls had i was gonna say mean girls yeah but that came out after this yeah so yeah i think this was a 10 things i hate about you reference and uh also those comatose people i think they're just dead they're just that was my grandma we put her in a home because she had a massive stroke and uh couldn't talk or respond or even know where she was so she was just like mouth hanging open in a chair for the last couple months of her life you know my my grandparents they they both died before they could get in the home the one heart attack the other cancer took him before they needed assisted living so uh that's i didn't get i only knew the these uh elder care homes from the jokes and stuff

yeah my my grandma my great-grandmother lived in one for like a decade almost and uh i used to love going there but it was because it was like a high-rise building not high high-rise but it was a tall building and i could go sit on her patio and hang out so i never had a i'd never been on a balcony before so i liked that and it felt like kind of like a hotel but i'll always remember the smell of that place a lot of old spice and medicine i guess it's all i think it's the food just because like every generation has their own foods and you smell like what that generation was into and you're like oh god it's like it's like when you think about like going to a bar and slamming beers and eating pickled eggs like it doesn't seem like it tracks,

but like, uh, back then that's like what they did and, uh, that they're still eating. Like, that's why they still make like Vienna sausages and, and like stuff like that is because people in the generation before us

needed Vienna sausages. They would have them like every week, once a week, it's Vienna sausage night, liver and onions. Yeah. Yes. Yes. have them like every week. Once a week, it's Vienna sausage night. Liver and onions. Yes. Yes.

All types of compotes. Yeah. Yeah. I was going to say that Brian was not with us for the episode where they went to Toronto, but this episode reminds me of that a bit in that the female guest character is very poorly written. We don't know who she is. We don't know what she is. And she's also a fickle bitch. Yes. also fickle um and i have a problem with that and i feel bad for

olympia ducacus where uh basically she plays this character there's nothing to her except that she's like promiscuous and then it ends with an entire theater of people calling her a whore and her running away in tears yeah yeah and all because she chose to date a man who wasn't abe when she wasn't dating abe either like they were not that was the weirdest thing to me it was like what is her relationship with abe and why like she's just the the character is woman that will date anybody with a car that's like what the whole character is and the thing is i'll date anybody with a car that's like what the whole character is and the thing is i'll date anybody with a car i'm into it which i mean i don't think that's bad if you want to date people with cars only then go for it but i don't think that should be the entirety of your character if that's the

rules of the relationship going into it abe should know that and yes like deal with it yeah she's like hey until if you don't have a car then we're're not together. But yeah, we get to meet Zach, the tall drinking Malox, who's the hottest guy in town. Hank Azaria does a voice like Clark Gable for him, which is really good. And I love when he talks to those three women and they get turned on. They go like, oh, and then they need to reach for their oxygen because they gasp too hard. That's that's a good joke. You can't swoon when you're that old. And he promises his wheelchair lift as well which we do see in act three so they set it up we then find out abe can't drive anymore which at some point in the series he

has lost his license but we've already seen him say in seasons five rosebud smashes through their front door uh wall and say like i just i had three people on my way here and i don't have insurance how's how's about you i also i double check those credits i don't know who makes that killer whale sound it's a welker's not on it but it does sound like a dude made the sound that's let's say dan and you know when i see a shamu type way a killer whale i do think of dairy queen because black and white i think of the black and white blizzard i miss i miss living in places of dairy queens i almost had some dairy queen while i was in chicago because i was like oh shit they got dairy queens here they're not there's no dairy queens in in berkeley california or any of san francisco so so abe thought he was driving

towards a giant peanut buster parfait yeah yeah i'll say that is that what happened that's my i'm gonna go to the dairy queen that's uh five blocks from me tonight just to you know have a reese's cup blizzard that sounds good they should do a ghost kitchen shouldn't they i mean that yeah because i was talking to a guy from on the collins show that i do i was talking to a guy who lives in he's an ohio native that moved to eugene oregon and uh we're sort of talking about the columbus style of pizza and uh he was like oh yeah you can get donato's now they make it in like ghost kitchens and i was like oh wow so you can like be in eugene oregon and have like ohio's columbus style pizza but like the worst version of it, but still good. You know what I mean? So you can get the Columbus style pizza.

It's it is like the crummy Donato's version of it, but it's closer than anything else gets anywhere you go. So they should do Dairy Queen. You should be able to get a blizzard anywhere in the world why not make a machine now I'm fucking thinking about why not make a fucking blizzard machine that could that seems easy to like I feel like I could do that I'm gonna make a blizzard vending machine that's my I mean they trust 14 year olds to operate that equipment it can't be that difficult yeah I you know I learned from our pal Mike carlson about how if your dairy queen's old enough you get to have old like grandfathered in menu items that they don't allow new dairy queens to have like you can have like cherry dipped cones that they don't allow at the newer places they got those here i'll tell you something that's that's like really in columbus at least when i was in taco bell does that has grandfathered in

stuff so like in columbus ohio you can get the chili cheese burrito at any taco bell here and you can't get it anywhere else because i try because that's what i get when i go to taco bell i remember i was in michigan i was like i'll have four chili cheese burritos they're like we don't have that like i don't even know what that is it's like it's everywhere here because they sold them in the cafeterias at our high schools in the like late 90s so people just got kind of addicted to them and now people in columbus eat them like crazy but you can't get them anywhere else and they never even do them as special menu items anywhere else so i really feel sorry for the rest of the country when i go to vancouver and go to dairy queen there i can't get a mr misty like i can in ohio oh that's sad man those are my favorites

though you know what honestly sonic does better mistys than dq's mistys if i'm gonna get their ice their ice is a little bit off on their mr misty like i like a smooth i like an icy brand icy that's really the only what slurpy slurpy and icy brand icy because they have like a smoothness to them that the mr misty doesn't have now the mr misty with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or like some vanilla ice cream in it that's a that's a beast snack it's so good you know i served too many icies in my time working at an amc theater that i can't the smell and texture of them just grossed me out now. I can't do it.

I was trying to figure this out yesterday that the Cherry Icy's white and also the Cherry Gatorade is white. I actually say it's cum color, but it is the Cherry Gatorade is white. So I was trying to figure out like, like, what is white so i was trying to figure out like like what is white about cherry like i can't figure out why other than they don't want to put the uh coloring in it maybe i guess i think that's it i think it's they don't need to make it red and if a parent sees a red beverage they're gonna say i'm not getting that for you it's gonna stain everything that was our reasoning in the at the amc concession stand was that if you spill a white icy on our carpet, it's not so bad. But a red icy will make it much worse look.

That was our guess. But yeah. Oh, I like that. Now I like it. You're not making a mess in my house with that red shit. You got to get the white flavor. I want a giant cum stain on my carpet, not a blood stain. When somebody told me that Gatorades come come gatorade i was

like oh my god that is that is that color they should make it they should make a viscousy version of it and sell it like uh as a candy like when i was a kid they had like the liquid jolly ranchers you know what i'm talking about like if you went to the porno store and they handed you a big dildo and you squeezed it and the thick cum flavored gatorade comes out there's another million dollar idea for me those those cowards call it frost flavor or whatever come on come on we all know what color that you know in the in the gatorade factory where the guys are when where the people are working on it they're like we need 10 more gallons of cum or whatever they would say in the factory so uh so we go home to the simpsons house and it's game night uh they're paying playing scrabble ship a made-up game for bart and homer playing scrabble and battleship at the same time on a scrabble board

and this is when abe comes in and demands to get to drive again homer won't let him do it because it's too dangerous which again it's like i don't know feels out of character that homer would think something is too dangerous shouldn't marge think something is too dangerous but at least they bring up the difference of like well homer is actually an incredibly dangerous driver i've never lived in a state where dw i is a thing it's only duis apparently it varies from state to state. I think now it's like OVI universally. Oh, is it? In Ohio, it's OMVI. OMVI, okay.

Yeah, OMVI in Ohio. But we also call it the BMV here. And for some reason, it drives people who don't live here nuts to hear BMV for Bureau of Motor Vehicles. Oh, instead of DMV. I see. I didn't even know that yeah it drives people so crazy the pizza and the the fact that we say bmv makes people go absolutely ape shit from outside of ohio also lisa then uses a stat backwards from how you would normally think she does it's like give him a

chance studies show that they drive at least as well as sleep deprived apes which would seem to make the opposite point uh but i do like the line of homer saying well you brought me into this world so no uh that feels like a very dina gould line to me a little bit uh but yes abe lies on the ground pretends to be dead until they accept to drive uh take him to driving lessons which are taught by Wiggum. That looks like a nice place to eat. Carla's daughter works in that building. You know, it's kind of ironic. These old people are being kept alive by the organs of the young people they ran over. Makes you think, Chief. Not really.

That's a good exit line. Wigga makes the ironic point, and then he doesn't think about it at all. It doesn't make him think even a little. I mean, the old people driving school i thought they were going to spend a little more time there but they're like and we have our four jokes yeah just one little scene yeah old people they gotta pee i again al gene is now in his 60s i i think he these uh old jokes aren't so funny to him anymore yeah especially the very very dark ones yes yeah he i bet he's not laughing about how old people have to pee now.

Oh, no. I'm not laughing about how often old people have to pee. I mean, I'm 40, and I think I get up to pee twice every night. You know, I can sleep through just one time. If I can empty it before bed, I do pretty good so far. We'll see. Everyone needs to know this by the way and then the next scene is uh marge very sweetly escorting grandpa to meet with her sisters at the dmv i

really love that abe's wink disgust petty so much that she just hands him a driver's license even though he definitely shouldn't be driving and then this leads to probably the mainly remembered thing from this episode. Next. Grandpa's here to get his driver's license. Okay. Look at the eye chart and cover your left eye. That's my seeing eye. The right one's my winking eye.

I'll give you your license if you never do that again. Oh, everything's the last time I do everything. Can't you just use this recent photo? Alright. Here you go. Woohoo! Who's laughing now?

Shut up! Yes, Old Man Yells at Cloud has lived on long past anyone remembering this episode oh yeah i believe the joke written by dana gould but uh it is it's it's been a meme for a while but then it was even on like the daily show and things like that in the in the late aughts referring to john mccain i believe aljean says on the commentary yeah yeah i remember seeing it a number of times on on the daily show in the 08, 07 era of Daily Show. Yeah, I think that that beamed it before Twitter got around and then Twitter kept it going.

I mean, it's an easy way to make fun of the elderly that they just yell at a cloud. Like that's how angry they are all the time. It's interesting. I was wondering when I saw that if that was a reference to it happening before. Like because it was it just seems like such a ubiquitous thing in my mind the old man yells a cloud thing there's a wrestling show named after that with progress did one that is like the enduring thing that i felt like i was seeing history happen when i when i saw that yeah it's uh it fully outlived this episode of The Simpsons for sure.

I mean, to the point where I do believe on the show in a recent season, a character uses that meme themselves in the show as well. Though, I mean, honestly, if they're going to accurately portray an eight-year-old with a phone on the show at this time, they probably would just share that meme. Can I ask if this is in the time where the simpsons was good because you guys don't seem to like this episode is this like a less good episode yeah okay well i mean but would if if we had watched a different episode in this season would we still be in the glory days or are we past the glory days already i feel that we are past what

most people would identify as the glory days but this is a particularly not great episode in season 13 we've had fun with other ones not much fun to be had although i will again i say uh the song at the end i was thinking about it in the bathroom before the recording and laughing laughing while peeing an old man yells a cloud is a funny guy i also do love the Oh, everything's the last time I do everything. That's a great line. There is some funny stuff, just because Abe's always funny. And people forget, I always forget that, you know, we all remember the headline,

but then it's instantly followed up with him still shaking his fist at a cloud. But the cloud gets the last laugh on him at the end of the break. So yes, we start act two abe is feeling good he's dressed up in a zoot suit uh he's asking to drive the car i love homer's response of i'm not giving you my car you probably drive it uh and then god it's a really funny joke that abe first calls homer and marge two scoops of milkshake and then when homer turns him down he says you ungrateful milkshake like he calls him a milkshake twice that's a good joke but yes they decide that they'll go on a double date together to uh

another thing that really parodies comedy of the time dude where's my virginity which is uh you know this is the american pie era of horny comedies i like the idea of a person named bridget fonda jr yes and also that judd nelson has now aged into the uh the role of dean probation lee he's no longer uh bender uh it's you know judd uh judd nelson at the time uh six months after this uh before this aired he was in j and style bob strikes back oh boy it's the choosier where his career was i'd rather be in dude where's my virginity yeah i i like uh i i like dude where's my virginity is not a super funny name but like the the concept of going to see it at a drive-in was kind of funny to me i think my favorite thing like the the thing that i love the most and it's that i actually there is something i love in this episode and i think it's coming up soon so i guess i'll hold on to

that but there i think there is something good i think comedy writers were uh very fixated on the movie title dude where's my car because there are many dude where's my blank jokes and the simpsons will have an episode next season called Dude, Where's My Ranch. Right. Yeah. They even do it themselves. Yeah. I think it's one of those things where, because I, you know, I didn't know any writers then.

But I, you know, obviously I know a lot of like TV writers and stuff now. And like one thing that is common about all of them is that they hate big budget Hollywood comedies because they're stupid yeah yeah well i feel like this era of comedy the horny american pie style comedy is dead now honestly because teens can look at boobs whenever they feel like it like they don't need to watch a trailer that shows like shannon elizabeth is going to show her boobs in this movie i was thinking of shannon elizabeth yeah exactly you don't it hurts the careers of the shannon elizabeth's out there it killed all of the lad mags yeah yeah mr skin never recovered you know i i feel like yeah mr skin it still exists but it's like i don't

know there's not even as much nudity in movies now are they like fake it like how does like how does mr skin classify like uh digital body doubles like it like uh cersei lannister used in uh house uh in the game of thrones i think his theory his theory is skin is skin okay i feel like that's an it should get an asterisk next to it because it's like not really that actress being naked is he really pro is he like i wonder if he's still making any money off of that because it does seem like an incredibly stupid thing now other than if somebody wants to fast forward like wants the old vibe of fast forwarding through a movie to see the titties i believe he was on uh the gilbert gottfried podcast back when gilbert was alive and i think mr skin is doing very well

for himself and he has really changed with the times okay man i mean are they showing me like are men listed on mr skin now i i think there is a mrs skin oh mrs skin look i can't can't i be a mr skin wanting to see male skin hey these these websites were named in like 1996 yeah you're right sounds like mr skin's gone woke. No! Not Mr. Skin! The website's name is Mr. Skin He Him. WSD, the double date at the drive-in doesn't go so great. Cut it out!

I can work the brakes myself. No, you can't. You're slow to react, Dad. Baloney! Woo! This is the best party of my life! Bro, you tapped the septic tank! Dude sure got his comeuppance.

In real life, he would die. Oh, hey. Oh, it's Suda! oh hey watch the movie movies were better in our day for a nickel you got two movies a cartoon a bag of popcorn and a whooping kept your mind on your business now that good i was thinking about this because my wife and i just watched Austin Powers 2 in a bar with the sound off. We got the gist of it. The captions were on and she had never seen it before.

And I was pointing out all of the jokes my mom loved and would talk about endlessly. And him drinking fat bastard shit. I think it's a good scene because there's such a big wind up to it. And my mom would quote forever, she'd sip her coffee and go, it's a bit nutty. You're at school. There you have it.

Austin, it's shit. It sure is. Oh, so it's not just me. And then he drinks more. You know, it disgusted me, but I did like that line. Just like literally a comedy character saying, you're like, no, it's shit.

You're drinking shit. And he's like, it's not just me i remember uh again comedy writers they thought uh that was too i remember kevin smith on a commentary said he made a movie with a shit monster and he was like austin powers the man drinks shit for christ's sake that's right what are we doing yeah i want to see clerks three you guys brought it up i now this is so dated it's like i probably have seen it because of when the show comes out but like us i woke up at eight o'clock in the morning and drove to the movie theater to buy me and all my friends tickets to austin powers too when it came out so that we could get in on opening night like i i camped out like it was a fucking concert in the 1980s yeah i saw yeah i saw it twice in theaters it was an event i i did see

it one not opening i don't think opening weekend though i did see austin powers in theaters uh the first one uh me too me too yeah also the this double date would have worked a lot better if you just put them in the backseat to make out so you can watch the movie in the front seat, Homer. Then you don't have to even worry about him driving. I like that you got a whooping, kept your mind on your business. That's all right. But it's kind of a lame joke, you know, bro, tap the septic tank.

Like that's a bad, it's a joke about a bad joke. But I like Marge saying like dude sure god has come up in like that's that's why she likes it and then we have a zz top gag which i don't know about that well you know talk about late 2002 a joke about viagra like it uh and we were pointing that you're pointing this out before the show henry that they were making fun of viagra jokes a few seasons ago but now it's like i guess we got to do one yeah in season 10 they have a joke of marge saying she liked a bad sitcom and saying i've never seen so many viagra jokes in one show making fun of the fact that like it's very obvious to do a viagra joke and then three years later they're like but what if abe took viagra what would that

be like i bet he'd get hard and have sex that that would mainly be what happened they just slammed the little rascals and a popeye reference together yes also yeah oh that's right that's why he's that he's a little rascals thing oh man so not just popeye but little rascals we're the old ones the viagra joke is in the place of what you would say gonorrhea now at an old folks home it would be like they don't use viagra they have gonorrhea all of them but yeah well they have to take their penicillin you know now these guys can take blue chew they don't have to wait for viagra they can just see here here we're talking about things we don't do ads for i'm putting we've talked about nut uh sense and blue nut sense nut sense we should call it nut sense so uh this is where the only deleted

scene in the episode is and i won't play the clip because it's all visual but so after they uh embrace in the car there's a time cut to the next morning and it look the car is rocking but then it zooms in that they are just both asleep in the front seat snoring very hard and so that's you can see why they cut it but yeah that's the that's a gag honestly homer shouldn't be mad that abe was gone all night with his car he should be mad that abe had sex in his car he should have made that should be a clear rule you you can borrow my car but fuck in your house that's for your own bed that is don't nut on my front seat dad yes yeah uh but you know maybe that's part of zelda can only get off in a car maybe that's uh her deal we don't learn enough about her yeah that's my issue with this episode at least we know her name

at least we know her name but yes um abe and homer have a fight and this is where the word hoochie is said for the first time in the series 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? See you later.

I'm going to the library. Lisa gets to do what she wants and you don't yell at her. Hey, I've going to the library. Lisa gets to do what she wants, and you don't yell at her. Hey, I've earned their trust. Oh, everybody trusts Lisa. Precious little Lisa, apple of her daddy's eye. Lisa doesn't borrow my car and stay out all night with some hoochie. She's no hoochie.

Her name is Zelda, and she understands me. Grandpa, I gotta tell you, she's a stone-cold Hoochie. Straight up, Marge. That Hoochie only likes you because you can drive. Shut up! You don't know her! Zelda loves me! I hate this house! Turn that down! You call that music? I just don't know what to do.

He used to be such an angel. Maybe you should give him another chance. No, he's got to learn, Marge. The way my dad made me learn. He is your dad. Cosmic. I feel like they didn't need to make it that obvious. Yeah, we get it. Homer's becoming the father to his own dad. We get it. You don't need to make it that obvious like yeah we get it homer's becoming

the father to his own dad we we get it you don't have to say it you know yeah i mean this would be fine for a scene as a joke but then they extend this role reversal throughout the entire episode and that everyone's out of character like we were talking about earlier though i do like grandpa yelling at lisa like he's a jealous uh younger brother i kind of like that but uh the and that song is in the mood uh made famous by glenn miller that's the that that abe is playing okay you think they wrote the word hoochie because they knew they'd have the charo joke later or do they then later realize oh we're gonna have charo who says coochie coochie coochie and we can have her say hoochie

later like does charo come first or after this i think it was written backwards from charo okay i mean it works great hearing it from old charo but or trust mcneil yes it's not actually i mean the way if i was charo and saw the way they drew me in this show i'd be like fuck you that's what i'd say they're burning a lot of bridges with the entertainment community in this episode. I know, man. But, you know, most old people only accept you in the show if they got grandkids. Maybe that's how they got Olympia Dukakis. Sadly, nobody interviewed Olympia Dukakis and asked them, hey, why'd you do a Simpsons?

Which, honestly, that's how most people, if you interview somebody who ever did the Simpsons, you have to set aside one question for like, and why did you do the Simpsons? Like, that's Wolfgang Puck did that exact thing. That most of uh media interviews for the last five years i'd say it's interesting like hoochie wasn't common slang at that time it wasn't like i would say 95 96 like it was the uh the luke song from friday it ain't nothing but a hoochie mama like that scene maybe that's where they got it but it like wasn't like a and they use it in boys in the hood but that puts that in a weird time for this to exist early 2002 yeah it puts it it makes it i don't know what year friday came out uh but i swear i was still in high school and that's when i would think like hoochie would get out to the most people as my guest is yeah 95 so yeah it's

such an early 90s word it does it does feel like rapping granny humor where it's like what if marge said hoochie yeah yeah yeah what if like yeah it's just like putting that we uh that you know uh the slang word that's kind of now we're saying straight up march yeah yeah or still in stone cold hoochie oh my god and the wedding singer is 98 just three years later and that's really where i feel like that started the rapping granny just became like the hugest thing in the world and i think like if they made this a year later and maybe like 2004 homer would have been like for shizzle marge or something like that it would have been whatever they would have updated that the slang term you know that slang hadn't yet hit the uh almost you know i was gonna say all white

simpsons writers but it's it's not all white it is they i do have uh mark willmore the late mark willmore is in the writer's room uh this time so i can't say it's the all white simpsons we didn't have that uh snoop dizzle televizzle show or whatever that's right yeah yeah it's very weird it is it it was an odd word for me to just i thought it was funny hearing march say it but i just found it like why why hoochie like like and it basically means whore like you're you're like it seems like a really mean thing to say for for mark especially yeah they they all hate this woman and view her as a hoochie. I must retract my statement. Doggy Fizzle Televizzle would air 2002 later in November. So the same year as this one. Created by Vernon Chapman and John Lee of Wonder Shows and Fame.

Right, right. Yeah, I remember I watched it later because of Wonder Shows and stuff. I was like, well, there's no more Wonder Shows than to watch. Oh, I guess I'll dig up the doggy fizzle tell for the like doggy fizzle televizzle it's easy to say you're the one with the problem all right when you guys when you guys do a patreon episode about doggy fizzle televizzle i would really like to be on it okay i i i i mean it's one of the many lost uh mtv sketch shows like the andy dick show and um the jenny mccarthy show all of the sketch shows they did after the states that's right one

one of my favorite jokes is in the andy dick show actually i gotta tell you i don't remember what the sketch was but it's like a reality show and they're the hidden camera is filming on like two people sitting on a couch and andy dick runs behind him dressed like a vampire and he looks the guy looks over to the girl and she's like he's like i swear to god i just fell to dracula in here and i don't know why but calling it a dracula killed me so bad and also classic vampire looking guy with like the cape and everything i don't know why but that has stuck with me since the andy dick show which i probably didn't watch a whole episode of that could have been the first joke to call a dracula sorry to call a vampire a dracula yeah man i i definitely watched it because i knew mr show folks

moved over to it uh and look i don't want to pretend like i didn't like andy dick now obviously you know andy dick bad we all know he like he's a bad you'll be held accountable for your andy dick love but i i liked him when it was an innocent time we you know but yes uh so then they head over uh a but goes off in shame to the quickie mart this is when i don't really like him calling on it like it's just a lame joke of like ah chew not chew poo i got problems with both it's like a marx brothers joke but with some racism thrown in a little bit but yeah this is not hey i didn't particularly love it That joke wasn't good, but the thing I really loved was in this scene. Like, I will think about forever, like the Dracula joke. So, yes, this is when Abe runs afoul of a gang of old men.

Please, gentlemen, violence is not the answer. Then what is? Some sort of death race? That's what I would do. Very well, viejo. You shall have your death race. But it's a death race. And another thing.

No death races. Oh, I better not. Chica, chica, chica. Chica, chica, chica. Chica, chica, chica. Fine. I'll meet you at the abandoned aqueduct. For the death race.

Yes, the death race. All right, seniors and senors. Whichever car makes it through that tunnel first is the winner. But it's only big enough for one car. What are you scared of, old man? Everything. Dogs, Dutchmen, the gathering darkness. All right, when I yank down my girlfriend's tube

top the race will begin what i'm just trying to bring you into my world just go uh you know me and bob we've walked by that very aqueduct uh where they filmed it uh remember on our i was like hey that's where they film all those races. That's the Terminator chase. Yes, the Terminator chase one. Yes, a weird appearance of Gloria, normally voiced by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, but conspicuously silent in this scene. But at least they remembered, like,

hey, we did set up this with his girlfriend. Yeah, but I do enjoy Los Souvenir Jaquitos, where they wear jackets to show you where they've been unfortunately one is just like jurassic park and one is just taz so i guess maybe they've been to like the warner brothers store i guess that's it like or universal studios i love that big ugly taz on the jacket like see we've we said this before taz taz has really fallen out of favor taz used to be he was the hottest Looney Tune in the 90s. Everybody wanted a Taz shirt or a Taz commemorative jacket.

Now Taz shows up in Space Jam 2. Nobody cares. My brother-in-law has two Taz tattoos. Double Taz tats? He has an angel and a devil, Taz. Oh, that's perfect. Are they on each shoulder? Yes.

Yes, they are. Okay, good. They would have to be. They were like tribute to his first two kids maybe it's not an angel and devil maybe it's a girl and a boy because he had a daughter and a son at the time but he does have two taz tattoos on his arm on each arm and it kills me when i i mean i he doesn't talk to me anymore but uh it does it does it is funny for me to think about him having two taz tattoos getting done in like 1998 i remember i was

waiting for chinese food once and this biker guy came in to get his order and i thought i saw a tattoo on his leg and i was like oh that makes sense you know taz tattoo and the guy looks like this uh stereotype i guess but then i look closer and i see it's not taz it's darkwing duck whoa that's unexpected was not expecting that is cool i agree uh that's a that's a deeper cut than taz everybody has taz or tweety or whatever the so he defied stereotypes he thought about getting a taz tattoo and he's like no uh give me that book i care uh i want people to know i love darkwing duck i'm not just a taz guy is darkwing duck related to anything or like is he like daffy duck's brother or donald duck's brother or cousin or i wonder about that he hired scrooge mcduck's pilot that's about as connected

as he is to any other character yeah he lives like two towns over from where scrooge and donald and all them live yeah they just didn't do enough lore back then. It was really a bummer. I think St. Canard is a suburb of Duckburg. I think, yeah, that's probably, you know, they've done a bunch of Darkwing Duck comics and stuff since then. I bet they've fleshed it out more. So they wrote that a souvenir jackets group too, because they joked about going to, you

know, Planet Hollywood and seeing in the gift shop the very expensive jackets i want to say is henry you are becoming a souvenir jaquitos style man i sorry low low t-shirts so low souvenir t-shirt toes now look do i spend 40 on a t-shirt says i was there for a wrestling event yes i do that henry does like buying t-shirts to tell you where he's been it's true i and they even they even say i was there on it that's the whole part of the fun yes brian i know you you didn't partake in uh in one at the wrestling show recently did you but it feels like i need to apologize to you for joking around about how there's no shirts there that i would even remotely consider putting on my body because i got there and i thought it was chilly out so i was like i'm gonna i'm gonna get a hoodie from here and uh i went and

looked at him and i was like you know what i i i mean i i i have been i went to their first like six pay-per-views like i'm past i was there now for me you know but you sound like you've been almost more than me at this point we've been at about the same number i'd say i just can't yeah i love wearing an i was there shirt but i only wear them at the shows now because i save them for other shows i mean really it is about for me i wear the i was there to say you're a newer fan i'm a older fan than you i went to the 2019 show you just showed up because they signed brian danielson or whatever but i was there 2019 that shirt just feels like an that shirt just feels like an alibi you wear where it's like uh you see your honor you unbutton your

jacket i couldn't have been there that night i was watching wrestling do you see november 4th 2022 when the murder took place? I was there. This man is innocent. Thanks. I was looking into, oh, how excited you're. I didn't realize you're in Berkeley. How excited you guys got full gear. It seems so.

Yes. Yeah. Well, I mean, I am excited, but it took him four effing years to finally come to the Bay Area, seemingly. but it took him four effing years to finally come to the bay area seemingly so for once i'm not gonna have to spend uh hundreds of dollars on a flight to go see a wrestling show yeah but we're talking about a legitimate sport and that's death racing oh death race yes i did like the death race line and that's probably when that death race remake came out too oh yeah yeah in case you're thinking of it uh the chica chica chica thing

we are 18 months out from arrested development airing so they they did a chicken chant first on the simpsons that's right man they ripped them off i you know also these expensive souvenir jackets reminds me of uh susan sarandon how they just did a whole article about how any if you see her out in public she's wearing her simpsons crew jacket that's right like i think i believe our friend of the show will miniker when he took a picture of suit with him and susan sarandon at the at a rally something she's wearing it there too like it's i i love that she still wears it easily identifiable i have to tell the story i don't know if i told on a podcast before but since we're talking about buying things to show people where

you've been this is relates to branson as well oh So my grandma would go to Branson and she was a cigarette smoker. She loved smoking cigarettes. So when she came back, she showed us a shirt that she bought and she didn't quite understand the meaning. She thought it meant something else. So the shirt said, I'd rather smoke and fly than drink and drive. And she thought i'm a smoker i love smoking and this shirt shows the world that i like to smoke but the cartoon character on the shirt was floating through the sky smoking a giant blunt oh that's she just thought it was a regular cigarette the guy was smoking yes a large cigarette maybe she needed a new prescription we all had a laugh oh that's and we said uh you you can't wear this it reminds it reminds me of when we went to washington dc in the eighth grade and uh you know this is like i can't remember what year it is i'm probably 92

or some shit but but nothing but a g thing had just come out and cypress hill was getting big so weed hats hats with marijuana leaves on them and that nothing but a g thing had just come out and cypress hill was getting big so weed hats hats with marijuana leaves on them and that nothing but a g thing video were huge people just being openly into weed again was like this huge thing and uh when we got there the teachers were all like you are not allowed to buy one of these weed shirts no absolutely not so my buddy bought a shirt that had bart simpson uh standing next to a fenced in weed farm and he had a word bubble coming out of his mouth that said keep off the grass yo and my my buddy bought it and he got away with it by telling him no this is just about like not being allowed to walk on the grass and uh it ended

up working out for him he wore that shirt all the time and it was like so i i didn't have enough money or i was too cheap to do it but i i probably would have ended up getting a nice bootleg bart weed shirt too when i was there and a boot bootleg bar we too yeah i i it's no it's just about grass that's like that boy's following the rules as we all know bart loves to do yeah we were i mean like uh street fight in the very very early days uh we made a a zine and one of the one of the zine concepts was a coloring book and my idea which didn't actually end up getting done was that it was just going to be a coloring book of different fictional characters smoking weed because it's like the funniest fucking thing but it ended up becoming more

drugs and stuff like that but i just really like the idea of like daffy duck smoking weed donald duck smoking weed mickey mouse smoking weed i Duck smoking weed Mickey Mouse smoking weed You just have to explore the world of bootleg t-shirts I mean they don't own that art either You might as well steal it too I know that's what we called the Zink copyright criminals And sold it It was really good Spongebob smoking weed

This is just like a lot of stuff In there And very very early on in Street Fight We made a shirt that was called the lonnie tunes t-shirt and uh uh it was the taz and bugs bunny hip-hop like guys but the taz i think i was bugs bunny and brett was taz and they kind of made it based on us and it was a that was also a very cool bit of copyright theft that we did very early on that i would love to carry on that uh thing but i don't know how to get the shirts made now because a lot

of the printers won't print bootleg shirts yeah they're not cool anymore man you really have to hop on a shirt before t public or whatever takes it down i recently got an elf shirt and i was like i was rolling the dice i was like well t public shipped this to me and yes the shirt is no longer there but i have it yeah i guess i got that itchy and scratchy wes archer one where we actually like drew a ball sack in it and they took it down within like four hours i think he well wes archer told me i'm one of 40 people that was able to get that shirt so i i prize that forever now you guys are gonna have me obsessing over t public like i have a shirt that is so bootleg like it is baby deadpool smoking a joint and it has a nike symbol on it and it says just hit it and i bought that thing and i love it so much

but all right so they do the race they say like zapata el diablo which they subtitle intentionally wrong well meanwhile i think old jewish man is not saying actual like yiddish but i i don't think so i don't believe he's saying i wish you good health but maybe he is and uh though clearly they're trying to kill them. As far as they know, they killed those guys making them crash and their jackets on fire. I do love the line, I would rather die than have people not know what stores I have been to. Again, I feel that way wrestling pay-per-views. I admit it.

What is a wrestling show if not a store for t-shirts? I mean, the joke uh the derisive thing people said about all elite wrestling was it's a t-shirt company but i am floating them me and other nerds are floating them with all our t-shirt purchases truly the worst t-shirt company in the world because some of their designs are brutal like i look at i like eddie kingston a lot and i know people like have this shirt but the shirt that said redeem these nuts yeah i didn't buy that you're gonna like wear that you're gonna like walk around wearing that he is wearing a wrestling shirt i don't know if it says where he's been no this isn't one of those but it's pentagon it's my my penta uh shirt actually funny you

mentioned this brian this is i was wearing this shirt when i met eddie kingston at an airport one of the biggest things i ever did was in philadelphia during the dnc there were these people doing game of thrones cosplay like anti bernie game or no anti hillary from the bernie side game of thrones cosplay and i walked up the i was with the Chopo guys and Stephan Heck and just a bunch of people. And I walked up and they were all taking pictures of them to make fun of them. And I walked up and I slumped over and just looked sad and disgusted right next to them. And it became like a meme. The picture's called The Sad Brian. Oh, that's where that comes from.

Okay. I didn't know that's where the origin was okay and the shirt i'm wearing in that is a chris hero t-shirt that is a pro wrestling t-shirt and chris hero has me blocked on twitter so oh that's sad i did a podcast he doesn't like i've been trying to get people to tell him to unblock me i'm like i just did my friend they're my friends i'm sorry that they found a tweet of you saying the n-word and thought it was funny geez i don't know what you want me to tell you so they win the race but then i feel like snake was trying to kill them because he told them to drive through a thing that leads out to a hill that they

almost that they fall off of and crash like he was gonna steal those jackets i think that was his plan to pick their corpses clean like and and honestly this crash should have killed the elderly in a crash like that they're dead like they're every organ exploded as soon as they hit the ground and also as as they're driving through i have a jingle to play everybody hates birds right that's right uh it's the everybody hates birds jingle because a bird is struck by the car yep they smash right into a bird seemingly dead i'd say that's and then homer has to like be a real i don't know it's just weird hearing homer say like uh you it just ends on him saying you can't drive ever and it just ends like i guess i i'm assuming the joke is that it zooms

in on his mouth one extra time like two it gets closer every word he says to the point that his mouth full pills the entire screen just his muzzle yeah yeah i guess that's a joke but i don't know again this is crazy homer he why does he care i yeah i guess that's a joke but i don't know again this is crazy homer he why does he care i mean i guess he would care that his car got destroyed but it's it's just not the usual homer uh antics i don't know but we come back from the break and abe is being chased after by a hubcap which i do like the crazy sound this hubcap makes in this scene yeah but this is when abe learns uh that he's lost his gal oh i can't believe i cracked up my only set of wheels put on a smile high pans i've got a surprise for you i've booked us a room for the weekend

in branson missouri. The Gritz Carlton Hotel. Oh, that's great. But there's a slight hitch, you see. I'm temporarily between cars. But we don't need anything to have fun but ourselves. Give me that old time fun. Give me that old time fun. Give me that old time fun. The kind where we stay home. Zelda, may I offer you a lift? Don't feel bad, Abe.

I'll always think of you as my friend without a car. Don't go, Zelda. I love you. Zelda, I'm going to make you forget about your grandchildren. I think Dukakis adds more pathos to that line than it's meant to. I think it's supposed to be mean, and she actually is like, don't feel bad, Abe. She actually pities him. She's playing it like this character's a real person yes and she really is not

I like Abe's dance for give me that old time fun it's a fun dance it's a good improvised song grits Carlton you know yeah yeah why over the brain well because it's Branson and so it's not the ritz Carlton it's the grits sure Branson's kind of pricey. You know, yeah. You know, tickets for stuff in Branson, not so bad. Also, a real 2002 kind of joke about, like, again, white people first learned, like me, learned about hydraulics around that time. And so they're doing a hydraulic lifting joke with the wheelchair lift on his van. That's the uh also if it if this was made now it could have been the shits carlton but you couldn't get away with that back then you couldn't

do that disney plus is not letting that on their network although i then i just had a waiver recently that's like we have tv 14 things on here and you need to be aware of this yes do you do you want to opt into this new programming oh no not yeah i will say this uh i never use disney plus because there's absolutely nothing i want to see on it i have it because i famously have every streaming service you can ever possibly have and uh i found that the interface for the Simpsons stuff, very cool. It's actually like a really cool looking interface. I kind of hope other people pick that up because I think Disney Plus is maybe my favorite app now that I'll never use. It doesn't have the content you want, but as far as UI goes, it's a good experience. It is.

It is. The Simpsons portal was really cool for some reason i don't know why i just thought it's the least objectionable streaming service in terms of interface yeah i was looking at i mean we're getting to branson in the episode very soon i was looking at like how much does it cost to see yakov smirnov uh and it's not that much in fact a vip ticket is uh 58 for an adult's pretty good. That's a front row seat to Yakov Smirnoff. Front row. Two and a half hours of comedy, three days a week.

You get two and a half hours for $58? That's good. That's a good price. I'm going to be coming into some little more money next year. Maybe I'll take the old wife to Branson to see Yakov Smirnoff. God, she would hate me. She would really be mad at me it's like hey we finally have money so we can travel now yeah let's go to branson

yakov smirnoff theater and see his staunchly pro-american comedy yes exactly i mean i was i was reading our reviews of the show by people who went there presumably not ironically and all the reviews are like so funny so heartwarming so patriotic like that's what i wanted my comedy is patriotism i i feel like though if he saw like one of us in the front row he'd be like all right no i know i'm not performing until we get rid of this irony guy you're here ironically i only perform uh for earnest it's like at the evolution museum they can detect irony like you're too ironic get out of line i never went there i've driven by that thing a million times i never went there because like so many podcasts went to the evolution museum and it's just always

been a thing where it's like i don't want to do what a bunch of other people do but i do almost kind of want to see it for myself so i guess i should do it not for content you know if you give it enough time after other people did it but yeah it is like you know i i think our pals on podcasts when they like look we all have to watch the hunter biden movie i know like it's just this acceptance like they also give it money yeah yeah you can steal it i mean it's that movie's hard to steal give it money. Yeah, you can steal it. That movie's hard to steal. Yeah, it's true. Every podcast, I think eight podcasts covered the 100-Bite-A-Movie,

and they're like, this cost me $19.95. I paid that for Confess Fletch, which I absolutely fucking loved. That's a good $20. I heard it's good. It's very good. I did not know they finally made a third Fletch movie. I did not know that.

It's so good. We were talking about Kevin Smith, and I remember in the early aughts around this time, actually, we all had to pretend to be outraged that Chevy Chase insulted Kevin Smith. Right, right. He wouldn't make his Fletch movie. How bad would that have been? It would have been awful, and Fletch would have been oh it would have been awful and uh fletch would have been jason lee yeah yeah before he became uh my name is earl jason lee which i guess is what he's most famous

for now apparently he's no longer a scientologist thank god i lucked the the fletch the new fletch movie is like a like when they used to make comedies for adults that were like uh uh just kind of a romp you know it's like a smart ass guy going around boston like trying to solve a case i like i really had a good time watching it and i want i i am like evangelizing for it because i just want more movies for grown-ups like people over 25 like they make horror movies for teens. I want something for people that have lived a little bit of a life. But so then Abe decides he's got a steel car and this is when Bart helps him out. Hey, Grandpa. Stealing Mom's car?

Yeah, it's the only way to win back Zelda. And if I go to prison, I'll get better food and more hugs. It's actually blue wire to win back Zelda. And if I go to prison, I'll get better food and more hugs. Uh, it's actually blue wire to yellow wire. It is? Hot diggity dodge! Next stop, Branson, Missouri! Can I tag along? Sure, why not? School ain't helping you.

Born to be wild! Ah, I hate this hippie crap. And now WOMB, warm and safe radio, takes you back to the golden age of radio theater. It's the Itchy and Scratchy Hour, presented by Hanson's Mustache Wax, the mustache wax Hitler doesn't use. This whole scene, in a way i appreciate it because it does feel like they're trolling the audience where you're going to watch characters

listen to something the thing they're listening to is actually not that funny so uh enjoy i i feel like it should go on longer though yeah family guy would have done it longer it would have been an entire act in family guy but i like bart's little act out of bite uh fight fight fight bite bite bite that's that's funny but yeah you know when i was a kid if i could turn on the radio on a road trip and a family road trip and it did have on old timey radio i was excited i was like no let's listen to this everybody like let's listen to something for 50 i haven't heard this fever mcgee but of course now you know i i haven't i discovered podcasts when i stopped driving and i do wonder like a road trip with podcast feels like a good good time i do it sometimes if i'm like especially when i was on tour because after the show a lot of times brett would be smashed and just fall asleep

and i'm driving six hours and i'm just like uh you know i need something that like i i music first of all i gotta always look for more and with podcasts it's just like well this is two hours killed a lot of times yeah at first i didn't like i thought hearing born to be wild needle drop was too corny but then that's the joke is that abe hates it and calls it hippie crap and turns it off i i like that i and i do conceptually like the idea of what if itchy and scratchy had a radio show it would just be screaming endlessly of pain like the point of itchy and scratchy the cartoon is to see horrible violence and if it's just a radio play then you're just hearing screaming for like minutes on end uh and of course it's voiced by eleanor roosevelt that lady knows funny so uh then uh this is where

marge lisa and homer learn what happened first he wrecks your car then he steals mine your father's out of control oh sure when he does something he does something bad, he's my father. He must have dropped this. So you've settled for Branson. We've got to go after them. But how? Branson is 1,000 miles away, and we've got no car. Oh, that was lucky.

Come on, boys. Yay! Uh, we'll wait for the next one that's a good joke i like one that ned loves going to branson it's made for ned flanders and then that the incredibly convenient car homer won't take it or the bus and also yeah the pamphlets are back you know pamphlet jokes were big in the in al jean's first run on the series now he's back in charge and so pamphlets like you settled for branson back in full force and it's good it's a fun pamphlet joke we have a quick gag about hobo symbols which leads to a joke about mass hobo grave and cellar and seeing the woman throw out a handful of bindles that's a good. This woman who clearly just murdered like 30

guys. Or at least five. At least five guys. And so then we also have a quick visit and clip from Bronson, Missouri. This is good. Here we are. Bronson, Missouri. No, Pally. This is Bronson, Missouri.

Well, how do we get to Bronson? Number 10 bus. Hey, Ma, how about some cookies? No dice. This ain't over. Very, very cute and weird. Yes, yeah. Charles Bronson was still alive then, by the way.

When I Googled that, I was like, wait, he must have been dead by... I'm Abe in this episode of like, no, you must be dead. Like, he was not yet dead, yeah'm i'm abe in this episode of like no you must be dead like he was not yet dead yeah i hope it made him smile uh i i wonder this almost feels like you know retire bronson voice after this it gets no better than bronson missouri all filled with people with the bronson voice and and the look yes they all are drawn to look like him too which uh rafael does not actually look like charles bronson i mean he doesn't not look like charles bronson the bronson voice man but uh and so yes this is when they arrive to the glitziest welcome to sign ever as abe calls it the welcome to branson sign we get some funny signs of andy williams presents glenn campbell and glenn campbell presents andy williams

both long dead yeah so okay I did look this up beforehand. Other than Yakov Smirnoff, everybody else in this thing is not around anymore. They have had to age up by 20 years, the old people that are there. But here are some things of famous people you can see in Branson right now. Okay. You can see Terry Bradshaw live. It's Terry Bradshaw telling you stories. Almost watched that on HBO.

I did come really close to watching that on hbo you can see john schneider of the dukes of hazard singing he seemed like one of the the guys yeah yeah he's a psycho uh actually friend of man cows oh i didn't know this yes there is uh uh you can you can look it up Mancow's microaggressions is his YouTube page. He did an episode with John Schneider that I was like, oh, poor John Schneider. Then I listened to it and I was like, he gets what he deserves because, you know, because when I see that somebody is on Mancow, I feel bad for him but he is he's as conservative as man cow and and believes all the you know all the crazy things about like the chinese are taking over and stuff like that he is really wild and you can see the oakridge boys you can still see them live and uh and i was very disappointed to see i saw dolly

parton stampede and i was like oh so dolly performs here which like no she's in dollywood in tennessee but no it's really just it's a horse show that she endorses like you you won't see dolly there it's just she endorses it and meanwhile a lot of the old people who like andy williams he died in 2012 but there's still the andy williams like theater that still does the andy williams christmas special in his honor to this day and uh and i also learned about you mentioned him earlier chris angel uh brian there is a pd branson chris angel is it called uh is the act called mind soothe no no it's it's reza edge that's his name r-e-z-a edge i'm seeing this now uh it's uh does, definitely his act is angel-like,

Criss Angel-like, but a little nicer. The girls wear a little more conservative clothing, and he looks just like a white guy, but his Reza Edge name feels like you're wanting to think he's not just some white dude. But yeah, it's... He looks like Christian Criss Angel, angel actually you need to get tickets to this reza if you go to branson yakoff and reza edge those are the two you got to see these ticket

prices are for people living off of social security because uh nothing is rarely above 40 dollars hey they know 39 70 is like i gotta find out how close branson is to here because i i do kind of now really i'm starting to feel Branson a little bit calling my name. Henry and I are seeing a live podcast soon. Their tickets cost as much as Yakov Smirnoff. Yes. Man, you know, to sit down to Reza Edge and then have like some chicken fried steak and scalloped potatoes. That'd be a good time.

Oh, 10 hour drive. That's maybe too much. does branson have an airport yeah man does branson have an airport i feel like you gotta just fly into st louis and drive the rest of the way probably oh i should look and see if it looks to me oh it's really far from st louis that's right because i've been to st louis branson does have an airport okay they should call it like the gym Neighbors International Airport or something, but it's just Branson Airport. But this is when they spot her heading into That's Familiar, a great name for a review. Then comes in the song that I'll drop in right here, the Ode to Branson song. Come on, boy.

After him. Remember the stars you loved yesterday? Where did they go? Did they all pass away? Was it drugs or a car crash? Or facelift gone wrong? No, they're right here in Branson And singing this song My name is Charro

I shake my maracas Remember me, fool? I was B.A. Baracus. We're the performers you thought were dead Like Bonnie Franklin and Adrian Semed France is the place we can always be found They took Nick at night and made it a town You can call me Ray or you can call me Jay

Just don't call me washed up, I do three shows a day Charlie Callis doesn't sleep in the ground Yes, I'm still alive and i'm making my sounds so sit back relax and watch our review in soviet union review watches you okay now i complained the entire time i think the song is very funny and i like how i really like how mean it is uh because i forgot about the device of the stage show in which everyone's like dancing around an open coffin and the stars come out of the open coffin to tell you you might think i'm dead but here i am i love the darkness of it although I feel like they were either too afraid to ask these people or a lot of them said no but Bill Saluga said yes we could talk about him soon but

I do love the darkness and the rhymes are great oh yeah I love uh I I mean they took Nick at night and made it a town that's a great line which now what's programming on Nick at night I just checked it's it's friends in seinfeld and mike and molly which that one really does seem too new that does seem too new yeah i i mean look friends in seinfeld it's 25 years old fine put that on nick at night but mike and molly that was just like you know 12 years ago it's not that old nick at night's really funny to me because like i watched like welcome back cotter on there and uh some of the older shows when i was a kid and my daughter has and and and it's all people her age

like 17 like there are tiktoks about it um they love the george lopez show what like it just they're obsessed with like lowrider and and big fans of of George Lopez because that's what came on when they were going to bed wow and uh yeah but my daughter loves George Lopez she just thinks he's the funniest guy in the world it just gives her so much nostalgia that George Lopez and I you know i'm gonna say they the one person they were mean to a lot of people i think they were way too mean to charo like charo yeah she back then she looked good for her age she was like only 50 then yeah and yes she's a woman with large breasts but i've seen char live on a cruise a family cruise which is a bit like branson on the water but it was and the thing about charo is is that

she is one of the greatest classical guitarists alive but she dresses very sexily because people were like wait you're they don't pay attention to her playing guitar unless she dresses that certain way back then but she actually is amazing at playing guitar when you really care about someone you shouted 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 i want to briefly go over everybody so yeah charo still alive mr t remember me fool i was ba

barracas that's a great rhyme riding maracas with barracas that's pretty great uh he's still alive he would be on the show in season 15 today i I Am a Clown. Just two years after this. Yeah. So he would have done it, I think. Bonnie Franklin and Adrian Zamed. More mean jokes. Bonnie Franklin, she is dead. Yeah.

She is in the ground. She was the star of One Day at a Time. Yeah, she was the mom. Adrian Zamed, one of the leads in Grease 2, but also he was the hot-headed rookie like partner of TJ Hooker. That's who he was. I looked at one of his most recent credits is like the movie version of this type of song, Sharknado 4, which the Sharknado films are where you see somebody,

you're like, oh, I thought you were dead, that kind of place. And Charlie Callis, unfortunately, he does sleep in the ground these days. Oh, that's sad. He's not alive making his sounds uh in 2011 the sounds were silenced forever and uh bill so ray j johnson aka bill saluga yeah he would do this because he's looking for any chance to do the ray j thing again that was his comedy bit he is from my hometown of youngstown ohio i heard him on the gobert godfrey podcast uh take a drink and uh he talks about coming up in like the youngstown

comedy scene uh which did not exist when i was a kid uh all the theaters he performed in are now uh abandoned or demolished or uh porno porno porno porno i can't believe they got in because they did two different jokes in the show about how ray j johnson is the least funny person in the world and awful like in crusty gets canceled crusty says we never did a bad episode except when we had ray j johnson on you can call me ray you can call me jay that was funny for about five seconds i'm sure we talked about it before but the entire joke is the bit that he like uh dines off into this very day is uh basically naming all the variants of ray j that you can call him and then the punchline is but you doesn't have to call me johnson yes uh

there's also a funny episode of king of the hill where that's the b plot where bobby and joseph are listening to the record and they don't understand why their parents think it's funny right and they the parents won't explain it to them either so this is what i mean he did a bunch of comedy things but this was his bit yeah actually i if you want to hear some uh him at his height i have a quick clip here of him from natural light beer commercial where it's about uh well here he'll explain it give me an anheuser-Busch natural light. Just say natural. You see, you doesn't have to call it Anheuser-Busch natural light,

and you doesn't have to call it Anheuser natural, and you doesn't have to call it Bush natural. Just say natural. Johnson's right. Oh, you can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay. For a great tasting light beer, just say natural. But you doesn't have to call me Johnson. Two naturals please please don't ask him his name name you can call me ray or you in this in this contemporary commercial they're like don't ask him about ray j we don't want to hear it like even

they're sick of it in this commercial but i forgot about these natural beer well why do they advertise it as natural like is it now it's just known as natty light the the swill that frat boys drink is that really oh yeah natural light is natty light i didn't know this yeah uh natty and they had it dry ice natty ice is what frat boys drink that's right that's right hey i did drink a lot of natural natural light uh because it was plentiful because i think a 24 pack was maybe not 8.99 see i was more of a smirnoff ice guy back then in my youth but i did it before it was a joke i just liked it and yeah you know what they then end the song with the yakov smirnoff appearance because he is still the king of branson and uh his uh yeah

united we laugh that's his current show and uh i i think he is pro mask but his uh the advertisement says you'll laugh your mask off no but please keep it on i mean they're killing it they must be killing people every day in branson with uh who refuse to wear a mask the old folks going there it's got to be a bigger super spreader event than that smash mouth motorcycle party honestly that really had to kill the audience like literally kill the audiences of branson these uh the the fear of the vaccines but yakov smirnoff is ukrainian so he's probably kicking ass right now man actually well you know what though for the ukrainian stuff then he'd have to like side with biden though and that would probably hurt his...

It's probably leaving him in a weird place right now. I don't know. That is true. We'll have to watch all two and a half hours of his act to see where he stands. I looked at his genres on Wikipedia, and it's relationship humor, irony, wordplay, and transpositional pun. Oh, that is his genres. Now I'm looking up my genre. Transpositional puns is pretty accurate.

Yeah, that's the whole in America this, but in Soviet Russia this. So, you know, Mike Scully, who was the showrunner at simpsons but not at this time he got a start under yakov and he was still friends with him but he couldn't score him yakov for this show that that is strange i mean yeah he wrote for uh what a country his sitcom that lasted a very short time and i think the story from king of the hill in which bobby sells yakov smirnoff a joke for 20 that's the story of Mike Scully and other comedy writers. They would sell Yakov jokes when they were living in LA. And I like how King of the Hill is like,

I don't do the Russian jokes anymore. I do more observational humor. I don't want to blow up Yakov's spot, but if you go to his website and look for clips of him on TV shows, which he uploaded, his, whoever controls it, uploaded the full episode of King of the hill that he's on

to vimeo and it's hosted on his site so you can you just watch that whole episode of king of the hill in its entirety on on yakov's website for no no uh not having to pay anything he's bootlegging himself which i like that then we have a quick joke of him running into tennessee ernie ford which he knows he's dead which is true he died in 1991 so he's tennessee ernie ford famous for singing 16 tons 16 tons what do you get you got to do the snaps with it when you sing it that's how my hands are too withered from coal mining uh then they arrive marge lisa and homer marge insists there must be gambling and she is so ready for it she's grabbing lisa's arm hurting lisa marge marge is at least they remember the continuity that marge loves gambling they do remember that but abe gets on stage this is

when bart catches them and says captain bring down and the buzz kills are here you got to move quick uh and so abe takes the stage and this is when a woman is shamed. And it brings a family together in our last clip. It's grandpa. Monster? No, Simpson. Oh, darn, darn, darn. I've driven hundreds of miles to say something very special to someone in this audience tonight.

Zelda, will you come up here? special to someone in this audience tonight. Awwww! Huh? Zelda, will you come up here? Drive me, Abe! Drive me! I just wanna say, we're through! Nobody dumps Abe Simpson! You're nothing but a hoochie! Hoochie, hoochie, hoochie!

Hoochie, hoochie, hoochie! Hoochie, hoochie, hoochie. Hoochie, hoochie, hoochie. Now I'd like my son to come up here. Son, can you forgive an old fool? Only in public. Now let's go home. In Russia, stage is for performers only.

You gotta hear all the sounds. I only know Charlie Callis uh thanks to parodies like tom kenney doing it on mr show uh and and this really i think they're like dan does a lot of impressions oh he does charlie callas let's have him do that so if you if you like dean martin and jerry lewis uh charlie callas was adjacent to them he was the michael winslow of his time michael winslow's so much better at it i think he is yeah yeah i've seen space balls countless times wonder if michael winslow got the vaccine i'm gonna bet no i'm gonna bet he's on the non-non-vax side of things michael winslow uh you know uh you're uh brian your recent

conversation with matt chrisman about uh jim brewer was so so great like just this point of like you know what's he supposed to do he's just like this loser who doesn't get to be famous anymore so meanwhile a bunch of assholes are gonna like celebrate him for just saying like i don't take the vaccine it's like what what else is this guy supposed to do if he wants to like pay for his home you know yeah i mean he's he like i think the thing about him and there are a lot of guys like this out there opie and anthony are some of them too or anthony they think that they're like not famous any or you know they're not getting gigs or whatever anymore because of their politics which is maybe plays a role in it but it's really because like jim brewer did like two things and like nobody cares

about him anymore like listen if he went out and did the half-baked character for like an hour i think that would be wonderful but instead or not wonderful he could be in branson doing the half baked character for an hour but instead he's doing like this thing where he like talks shit about his kids and you know vaccines and all kinds of stuff where you're like dude i don't know you're a little fucking out there man like when i say somebody's out there it really means they're out there i you know that clip he played of him saying like you know i love wanda sykes lover to death but and then he like trashes her saying a thing on the oscars i was like does he still think he's part of like the brick wall brotherhood and he's like look i hate to talk bad about my fellow comedian

wanda sykes who we're equals of course but i have to say i like giving yourself too much credit you know uh you should watch you shouldn't but his video, I've watched a lot of his in the Brunei verse podcast. And he is he I mean, he's as dumb as they come. He is not a smart man. But the thing that makes it good for me to watch is that he thinks he's a very smart man. And those are my favorite people like i look at those people like i wish i wish i had that confidence like and those convictions of like i'm one of the dumbest people in the world but i think i'm one of the smartest people in the world i can't get that myself there's not a way for that for that to make it into my brain because of my low self-esteem but like these guys with unearned confidence they just they blow my mind i just i just can't i don't know how they get through life but i love watching them and uh well also they so they bring up al lewis or grandpa al which of the monsters uh which you know allows them to do a very old joke of her the herman

monster stomping darn darn darn and yeah they're doing their own tv land jokes they really are sorry it was nick at night at the time uh but but yeah i brian though in your howard experience have you seen many al lewis clips of great because i knew he was a howard regular uh old al lewis i have you know the monsters got well it's out now when this airs but it did get it got leaked early and uh i was looking through the people that watched it on uh twitter and it just feels like so many people saying like if you make it all the way through this movie i don't even know what's wrong with you like that it is so bad people not making it 20 minutes in and uh it just that movie seems like something i probably have to see that's like that's my hunter biden movie you know rob zombie loves his wife i appreciate that yeah yeah but

that's true you know what when they think that uh the grandpa al lewis is going to be there in branson i don't think a jewish socialist is all that welcome in branson missouri i don't think so but yeah i mean they make fun of all of this old-timey crap but then they do their own because the ending uh scene over the credits is basically the simpsons doing the beverly hillbillies wave at the camera while the ending theme plays i think they even play the beverly hillbillies theme right yeah it's it's not they didn't write a new one. It just is that. And then if you didn't watch a lot of Beverly Hillbillies like me,

it would always end with Ellie Mae going, this is a Filmways presentation, which is why Lisa says this is a Gracie Foles presentation in an endless Southern accent. I love the way Yardley says it. That's cute. They credit that to the late Mark Wilmore for suggesting it. Yeah, also the i mean

look the wave it's fine but it's like are they doing it because this is an episode about old tv shows i guess or at the end it is i it does the beverly hillbillies connection isn't really full it just feels like they just decided to do it but uh the the last compliment i want to give the episode though i did like when homer says only in public and then once they hug Homer's face turns angry because he does not forgive Abe and it's only because they're in public I like that but yeah everybody makes a woman cry

and leave the stage because she dared to want to date someone else like an Academy Award winner no less yeah it's horrible woman I guess brief final thoughts on this one I do like the Branson stuff I wish they were there for longer I just it's horrible woman i guess uh brief final thoughts on this one i do like the branson stuff the branson stuff i wish they were there for longer uh i i just it's just a long drive to get to the song which i really like and think it's really funny and mean even though

these a lot of these people are dead now but uh yeah it's like homer's out of character marge is out of character uh the woman is underwritten and again uh called a whore by everyone and she leaves the show crying. So not a good look for The Simpsons, but we can at least salvage Old Man Yells at Cloud and Ode to Branson, a very funny song that I still chuckle at to this day. And you know what that song? It was Emmy-nominated for Best Original Song that year,

but it lost at the Primetime Emmys. Two family guys you've got a lot to see from Brian Wallows and no. Yeah. Brian Wallows and Peter Swallows. Peter's Swallows. Peter's. Sorry. Yes.

Yeah. We covered that episode on what a cartoon. We did indeed. You know what? It is Seth MacFarlane doing singing, which he loves. I think it, it's,

it's a catchier song, but I think this is a funnier song. That's a guy was a big i i think i said this last time like i don't like the musical episodes of the simpsons at all i don't like the halloween episodes of the simpsons wow and i hate i hated them oh my god i would get so mad because I used to come home from work and watch The Simpsons every day for like two hours. And at this time, like syndicated stuff and like if it was a treehouse of horrors or a musical, I just was like, well, I guess I'm doing something else. um damn but yeah they just didn't feel like re they didn't feel like the the show i liked um but one of the reasons i got out of watching family guy was the constant musical numbers where it was like oh my god because i at this time that this came out i can guarantee i liked family guy more than the simpsons at this time but seth mcfarland loves to sing he just loves loves

yeah he can't hornball man so so many albums uh again i've heard this story before but i've said it before but of the just hearing the story that for his 40th birthday he made all the family guy writers watch him perform for like an hour of singing songs that is like come to his birthday party and it's just him renting a theater and then he just sings and he makes all the writers stay and listen or i'll say i guess they could leave but then they wouldn't get to go to the fancy party after yeah yes uh eight albums eight eight yeah good god and these aren't even like songs from family guy i'm talking about uh seth mcfararlane doing music one is with another person but i'm looking i'm staring down the barrel of eight and rachel mcfarlane did at least one i know about

but like eight that's crazy to his credit he is a really good singer i know but a lot of people are they don't have five tv shows i feel like after your fifth you go like i've done enough of these five i did five i'm allowing myself five or at least take a little time i've got my own take on my way and i think you'll like it yeah is it all rat packy shit like is that all he does it's it's that's a lot of that it's like swing music and standards and uh he loves old-timey bullshit yeah yeah okay one of the richest men in hollywood though you can't can't question oh i hate him i hate his guts but uh but yeah this uh a week episode with a couple of good jokes that's uh i'll just wrap that up but yeah brian uh any final thoughts yourself uh i mean i

didn't know if it was weak or not it seemed fine i guess i didn't laugh a lot but uh it wasn't annoying i'll give it that it wasn't an annoying episode of the show that i genuine like i generally like i mean i haven't watched it in a very long time but i mean i like the simpsons i think it's hard not to like the simpsons oh yeah of course sometimes we're panning for gold there's a few little nuggets in this one that are worth salvaging yeah yeah but thanks for joining us brian please let us know more about a street fight radio and what's going on in the patreon like we said up front you're right in the middle of shocktober right now or right at the end if you're listening on the free feed but you have other mini series you explored the uh the movie universe uh the the bad parody movies you have the show about uh public apologies by

celebrities which is very funny uh holy boys you have a lot going on in the patreon too the i'm a big fan of all your mini series you put together so yes my patreon runs as a mini series thing where i just do a bunch of episodes in a row about one thing I'm currently doing Shocktober, which is a deep dive into shock jocks. We talk about it's usually, I don't know if we're going to have Felix Biederman for every episode, cause he will be on tour, but it's me and Chris James and a lot of times Felix Biederman. And we talk about different shock jocks from,

you know, that late nineties and two thousands era and we goof on them and it's very fun and you know the main feed now is different because you know i me and my partner uh brett like have split so basically the free feed is one call-in show a week on sunday nights and then a show with a guest host and the guest hosts are all sort of different types of people you know i don't i can't say who it's going to be this week but it's always like a funny person i always shoot for a very funny person and i think the ones i've done so far people have have really enjoyed so i hope uh i hope y'all check it out i think i think you'll really like the Patreon Street Fight Radio Patreon There's a backlog of

Some of the weirdest Possible series that you could ever Listen to and if I could recommend A couple obviously go back and listen to All of the Shocktovers There's three seasons of it already And the other thing That I always

Recommend people is I did a series where I watched like six episodes of real sex and talked about my sex life. And it's really embarrassing. And it's also I'm a prudish guy. So that show I felt was one of the best ones we ever did because I'm such a prude. And I was talking about stuff that made me very uncomfortable so check out heat o'brien unleashed and uh you know there's a few other shows but uh i hope hope you check it out it's very fun oh yeah i can't wait to hear all of shocktober again it's it's such a great it's gonna be fun uh despite my uh related shame of

grease man knowledge but i i'm looking forward to it but we're all healing in our own way yeah but thank you so much yes thank you so much brian no problem thank you thanks again to brian quimby for being on the show please check out street fight radio and their amazing patreon but as for us if you want to check out more of what we do and get all these episodes one week ahead of time and ad free please go to patreon.com slash talking simpsons sign up for five bucks a month to get just that but also access to our extensive catalog of miniseries episodes behind that paywall, over 100 today covering things like Batman, the animated series, The Critic, and Mission Hill. And that will also get you regular monthly access to new monthly episodes of both Talking Futurama and Talking of the Hill. That is only happening behind the $5 paywall, only at patreon.com slash talking simpsons and there is a ten dollar level

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