Hey, cannon Ball, I like your statement. When life takes a cheap shadow you you stand your ground. Billy Corgan smashing pumpkins homage, Simpson smiling politely. You know, my kids think you're the greatest, and thanks to your gloomy music, they finally stop dreaming of a future I can possibly provide. Well, We try to make a difference. Four finger Discounted. Welcome to four figure discount A very special classic review gone all the way back to
season seven of the Simpsons. This week, we're here to review Home a Paloozer. I'm Denk and I am gud. This is classic rock. You know, we we're excited. We rub a hands together sometimes and sometimes I couldn't believe how much I related to this one from a whole new perspective. I hadn't gone back and review this one since maybe twenty seventeen did this with Mitch. I've maybe watched it one or two times since then, But this one here, I watched it going, holy shit, I'm home now.
When you're in, when you're at thirties and you're sort of reaching in mid thirties as you have, yeah, that's when it really starts to kick and it's like, oh, yeah, the generation gap is real and I am on one side of it. Yeah. The thing is this episode, right, it feels like a real time capsule. However, because of the story told within it, right, it's an episode that feels timeless as well, rather than dated, because it's a it's spoken Vickiet Generation X, right,
and it's got a nineties vibe to it. But just the story of feeling out of touch will forever be relatable. Well, it's incredibly summed up in that bit the the Grandpa meme. Yeah, it was like, yeah, I used to be with it. Now what now? What it is is just scary and unfamiliar to me. It's going to happen to you too, It's like, and of course we'll change what it was. When you now see that as a young person, you're like, well, I think the zone're even saying this episode, No way, man, I'm cool forever,
a rock on forever, forever forever. Yeah, and now it's incredible. I mean I've got a few, uh say, a few years, a few decades on you. But for me, it was funny looking at the way Generation X, my generation is depicted in this and how of course I'm an old man. I'm kind of shaking my fist at the Zoomers and the millennials, going, you're just not with it. Their mood, their attitude
is very similar to me at least. It's like, oh, so this is how I probably looked to my parents order people like, oh, you know, you're apathetic and you know, oh you don't believe in anything, and you just you want everything handed to you. It's like, was I really like that? Because that's how I regard the kids these days. Every generation feels like the generation after them has it easy. Oh absolutely, in
my day. Every once in a while someone will bring up it's like there was some graffiti on the walls in like ancient Greece or ancient Rome, we had a philosopher saying, but children they believe in nothing. Yeah, they are lazy and shiftless and all these kinds. Oh my god. It's always
it has always been this way, and it will probably always be. It feels like generation always feels when he gets like forty to fifty, you feel like the younger generation you're scared of them, because now quite often he people. We used to be able to leave the front doors unlocked and it's like, we can't do that anymore. And it's like, I do think it
feels a little bit more dangerous now too. But also the world is so much more accessible now where we're hearing all these horrible news stories on a more global scale. Yeah, and you wonder if it becomes a bit of a self perpetual, self fulfilling prophecy in that regard. It's like, oh, okay, so so I'm talking about I used to be able to leave my door unlocked, and now people think my door's unlocked. Way better lock my door. Yeah. Yeah, it's an interesting but that's just the dynamic.
That's not necessarily the story here. No, the story here is Homer feeling out of touch with his kids. Yeah, this is just I used to be cool and now I'm not cool. Yeah, yeah, which I'm going through now. Or you know, you are still cool, but you're cool on your terms. Yeah, but someone else is setting the terms, or someone who is setting society's terms. Because we always think the kids know what's what. Sometimes they do sometimes they don't. I mean, is this they
talk about what do they actually call the festival? And this they don't call it? Home holor loser holoor Palooser. But but this is based on Lollapalooser. Yeah, and I don't know if we actually talked about it on air, but there's a documentary on Paramount Plus I'm called Lola, the Story of Lollapalooza, the festival and how you said it's worth watching. It's pretty interesting. Yeah, it was the Woodstock one though, right, No, no,
but that is so good. Well that's because it was such a you're talking about Woodstock ninety al. Yeah, I'm just so glad we have all the footage of it. I'm like, this was fucking crazy, I know. Yeah, but looking at this this three part doc o called Lola,
I mean it's very much. It's executive produced by Perry Farrell, who was the front man of Jane's Addiction and basically established a Lola Paloser and so and so you a lot of You've got a lot of these people from say Rage against the Machine and all these other bands, right, yeah, yeah, you're thinking about Perry Farrell, is he is a genius? And then he got Perry Farrell saying I don't know, I think I just you know, I just wanted to get a lot of people together and have play some music.
It's like, Perry, you're pumping up your own tires here. Lu and I were we watched together when we were Cut of Love. I think Perry Farrell might be the you know, president of the Perry Farrell fan club. By the n we're going. He was kind of onto something. He's a bit of a he's a little up himself, but justifiably so. If you are a subscriber to Paramount Plus or you want to get that Sweet Sweet you know what is it free week trial or something like that, Lola is
definitely worth checking out. But you're watching that as as I said a member of Generation X. It was launched in the early nineties and had you know, these terrific bands that are now sort of iconic bands of that era in their early stages like yeah, Iced Tea is there? Yeah, Rage against the Machine, all these others, Pearl Jam, et cetera, et cetera. Nirvana thought it would be selling out, so they didn't do it.
They did do They did Redding Festival. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, but look at they go, Wow, that's so incredibly vibrant and cool. Look at these great bands. You know, music was never so good. And then Lolla Blois went away for a while, got re launched, and they were like, I don't recognize any of these bands are artists, and the one that they do, they straighten me is pop sellouts. They don't
like them, Billy I, at least you do. That's cool. What was that festival that just went to ship about three or four years ago as a whole documentary about it, five Festival. Yeah, I still haven't watched that documentary. Pretty fun. Yeah, just if you're like watching shit go up in metaphorically go up in flames as opposed to Woodstock with the shit literally went up. Yeah, it was Fred Dorsa says break ship or something.
Oh yeah, yeah, break stuff. It's like they did, okay, Fred, I love like there's a point like in the documentary was like mid like performance, everyone's like, oh shit, to cut the mics. Oh
yeah. But this episode I also thought looked at the relationship with Homer and Bart in particular and sometimes Lisa. Yeah, but his main focus is the arc of Homer appearing uncool and embarrassing to his kids, particularly, but it embarrasses him in front of his friends, to the person that he admires the most, to by the end being the uncool parent again, despite the fact
that he put his family first. I feel like I'm at the moment there with Aliott not not yet, but I'm dreading them where I'm not cool to ali anyonere because right now I'm not his world. But it's like everything I do, it's like he looks up to me. They'll get a point where he wants to take on the word himself and I won't be cool anymore. But I think we all go through that phase of our parents aren't cool. They're talking about they just trying to tell us off, tell us to do
things because they are our parents. They want to boss us around. And you get to like maybe seventeen eighteen, you're like, oh shit, you were just trying to me up for life. Oh you had a point. Yeah, all those stories there was a meaning to them. Yes. So I just love the way that the arc there of it was uncool. He admired him. He's uncol but eventually he will, yeah, realize it's funny.
Lou had to pick a daughter up in Melbourne, yeah, from a concert on Sunday night, and they were driving back and you know, the girls in the back are talking about something and have you tried anel as a
conversations in jo of Nicholas. At one time, Nichola was out at a went out for dinner with her friends from mother's and the mom picked up the girls right, No, it was at a handstone note anyway, and the mother of one of the girls picked him up, was driving him home and when it was like, so if you guys tried anal and then one of the guys like, because I like the chick say it was in the front with her mum's just like Nicholas, like, it was so fucking awkward.
Lou's story is relatively tame, I think to a conversation and basically, can you explain the Drake Kendrick Lamar beef to me? And the girls then did so and then put on some songs and now lose algorithm as but Spotify playlist is now just but you came. I think I'm I think I'm team Kendrick. Though Drake sounds like a dirt back just throws in a bit of a
cally ca Well, that was my job back in the day. Also, I appreciated the satire of just music festivals in general and the specialization of them all just the ticket well that yeah, but that's very much what Lolapalooza is as well. Yeah. I mean I think music festivals prior of that probably had no they would have had setups of things like that. But again Perry Farrell sort of pumping up his own tires. He was like, yeah, we also had art stands and political stands, and you know, all these
things could be all these showcases and not just one side of politics. We wanted to have everybody on this budget jump for racism or something, yeah, like exchange other ideas and things like that, and having them go into oh god, I forgot the name already home Hulla Blues Holabalooser Yeah, but with a Hella baloos Hella Balooser. Yeah, having them go in and it's all these different corporations and everything like that. Yeah, this feels very much like
you're trying to thread the needle of art and commerce. Yeah. Yeah, so, and we also got a very thought a South parkish ending, not quite the end, but towards the end. Words like, we learned something today about with the music festival. I think it was especially Pumpkins, yeah, who were saying, it's just like you know what you know, and that's where they realized that they're rich. I think, Oh, Billy Corgan, especially Billy Corgan, he was. It was a real good sport.
Yeah, him, him and em and Peter Frampton man. But let's talk a bit about the musical lineup. Yes, yes, they had in this episode because it was Cypress Hill was the one I think everyone remembers the most, maybe specially Pumpkins, but Cypress Hill and the fucking orchestra. Yeah,
very much so. But prior to the people that they actually got for this, they wanted now a bunch of others and some turned them down and some were not included for other reasons because apparently they've got Peter Frampton in there. Frampton very big in the seventies. Anyone who's watched Wayne's Well knows, you know, they were Basically I still don't know who he is. I just know from the Simpsons. Yeah, you got his pig wouldn't work. That's
not allies lunch. If you're in the if you're around in the nineteen seventies, basically every house had a copy of Frampton Comes Alive. Really okay, yeah, that was his live album. It was a double album. But yeah, just huge. In the nineteen seventies, Wain's Well says, you know, I think they're he and Wayne and Tea Carrera at like the record shop and like what's this? Yeah, every every home came with this. You bought a house, You've got a copy of Framden comes Live. He's
kind of the elder statesman in this. They initially wanted Bob Dylan and yeah, and Dylan. I think she said no, thanks. Sorry anytime Dylan's mentioned I've got it. Oh again, Sorry, it's time for things. Guys saw on Twitter there was some tweet last night where this woman wrote, uh, my husband seeing wheels on the bus in the style of Bob Dylan, and now my baby is unbelievably angry. I saw that while I was on the couch with Lou and again I was just laughing at like why are
you laughing. Sometimes you see things on social media like this is what the Internet's for very much. It's just just a snappy comment that you would normally hear at the pub or something. It's like oh, my husband saying it was on the buzz like Bob Dylan. It just pissed off the kid. The weird and the bad It's like, have you seen a video of people have frogs doing a frog splash? Have you seen a video? Is that the one you sent me with the frog on the ladder? Yeah? The
frog on the table and they played John sens visico. Did the frogs flash through the table? This is what the Internet was made for? But someone else they wanted, well, they want to Courtney Love and Whole. Yeah, and or she originally had the line of the smiling politely that's right. I mean it would have been, oh, Homer, I'm a big fan Courtney Love, which when Homer replies, Homer grateful, which is not work as well. That's not unfunny, But for mine, it's it's a top
ten Simpsons exchange. Its politely Yeah, Billy Corgan's smashing punkins. What was Simpson smiling? You could just retire? Yeah, written that, I mean, you might as well just hang up your guns. It was almost like Courtney Love and Hole turning down The Simpsons was like the universe trying to set
them up for this perfect gag. But did they turn them down because apparently Sonic Youth, who appear in this episode were like, we're not going to be on this episode if Courtney Love is in this Well, they didn't respond to the to the quest. Yeah, Love was wanted specifically for one joke, which was the exchange, and they it's never got back. But that has been said that at something Weekly said that that johny Youth wouldn't appear.
I just love this like into inter which they wouldn't appear if whole were there. Of Courtney Love was there. Well, of course there was this ongoing rumor slash urban legend that you know, Kirkerban didn't actually kill him stuff, all that'd vidiculousfomped Corney Love. It's yeah, I don't know kind of you know, riggs and misogyny and jealousy and all this kind of ship. Yeah, I think it's just let's okay, Yeah, let's not get let's not bring the mood down. But you're right, I mean, but no doubt
we're also in this episode. They were. Indeed, it didn't have any line I noticed in the back because Eric was working. Was he right or was the animator on the show animator? I think I think it was an anime. It was an animated Yes, is he animator on the show? Yeah, But Cyprus Hill playing to their strengths or playing into their stereotyp like they were stoned all the time, but also how great is just insane in the brain? Oh god? Or basically anything by Cypress Hill but just so
distinctive, but particularly hearing the orchestra do it though, right. It's one of those things where in theory is like this could be cool, and here you're like, goes now this I life is like it's actually fucking amazing, Yeah, because I mean, is it insane the rain or they're sort of doing like no, itice it is, but it's like a it's like a
jaunty version that they're doing, like his singing as as the violin. Yeah, I thought that was sort of doing another song that sounded a bit like it because a bit of a nerdy reference here, but you've seen The Godfather and Godfather part not all too there's a bit in the start of two where you know they're at this big event and there's an orchestra playing, and one of the mobster guys goes to the band is that you're not playing any Italian
music player Tarantella. Yeah, and the band doesn't know it and they play pop goes the weasel instead. Never it's just all the all the whites are like, that's hilarious, and the mob going oh you uncle, And that's what it's sort of sounds like to me, is like we don't quite get this, but we do. Yeah, I know. I still thought it was very, very funny, but just all that stuff, did you we actually ordered the Oxtra Okay, fine, let's go. Let's go with that
possibly high Cypress Hill. Yeah. I think that they captured the vibe of music traveling music festival as well, because you think of music festivals now right, and then they exist much in Australia at all, but it doesn't feel like a traveling music festival exists anymore when the bands are all like hanging out together. Yeah. I mean, well, one of the things about this Loblo documentary is that how it was a traveling thing, was it really thens
just got two nuts and now it's just based in Chicago. Yeah okay, yeah, which because it's just now bands have their own rooms, they find their own way to get there, which I can get that, but just the idea of the comaraderie that would come with traveling together, yeah, well you see that on this documentary as well. Everyone's so yeah, backing each other up and having fun with each other. It's great. But yeah, I think you're right in that Smashing Pumpkins are kind of the MVP guest performance
in this episode. I mean not just yeah, Billy Corgan, I think is great. Everyone has their moment, some of you have the cooler moment, Smashing Pumpkins especially, And then they actually play a song yeah we can't get insane in the brain as well, but also playing my probably my favorite Smashing Pumpkins song, I love zero. It's a fantastic. Yeah, I love it. I'm very much home with it and nod my head like I was in the band. Oh my god. The early bit of cultural appropriation
from Homer. I love having a batch too cool for this planet. This really strike. This whole episode is great in terms of its references, because it's one thing that I think, you know, a lot of us love about, particularly classic bench Simpsons or whatever. How it throws in just references from all over the place, whether it's you know, I mean, this has got stuff that's very relevant to Lollapalooza and Generation X and all that kind of stuff. But you know, the bit where home is strutting around.
That's like fabulous, very freak brothers. That's seventies alternative animation designed to designed to make him feel old as well. Yeah. Also, yeah, example of es. You know, oh, this was cool when he was a kid, but you know you're gonna have people who were Homer's age at this stage when this episode released, going, at least I got that bit, you know, that's when I was with it. Yeah, And also, I mean, sorry, what was the release date of this episode? This
was in ninety six. Look at up hanging one second. It was released originally May nineteenth, ninety six. Yeah, even the bit where Homer wants to be sort of part of the cool crowd. Those guys at the what do they call it, oh, the second Basemobile, Yeah, they're all the Franken's sign what's the signs? A song by the Winner Group? Yeah, dirt dirt fucking What's a good song. Absolutely, But all the characters around the van are styled like characters from the movie Dazed and Confused, which
came out a few earlier. Okay, yeah, I mean particularly the guy with the blonde hair who's sort of talking about second base. We were that's McConaughey's character from someone's talk about mcnaughey, he's got a bit of a welcome to the second basement. Yeah, so even throwing stuff like that, and I mean Days and FEUs was never a huge hit, but it became a cult hit over the following years. So even to throw that in, it's just like if you know, you know, and that's it's just be so
great for that. It used to be really great. Even if you didn't get everything, there was going to be someone who got it. Because it feels like now that we're reviewing season nineteen episodes, it feels like the're trying to references that a pop culture current at that time, and it's like you forgot the lesson of home a Loser. Yeah, yeah, that's that strikes me as a bit a little bit sad, Yes, but I just yeah, this overall just really really relate to his episode from my host perspective,
which really surprised me. And there's a lot of gags in this that I missed as a kid. I can't remember. I may have missed them when we did our last review, but get into them now with favorite moments. My favorite so one that I really loved. It's just a passing comment. When Homer and Barter in the kitchen and he's telling me the question, how do you wear boxes or briefs? Nope, nope, always lost on me. I was like, that's funny. Great, so many Nope gags like
that are fantastic. I mean, everyone knows that I love you, Beware the Eyes of March. That one, that one's almost as good. So I not that the joke was over my head. I just never heard that. Yeah, yeah, it's the one that it's a throwaway and it's almost a perfect joke. Oh, it's so good. And the suicide Notes formally good vibrations. That is perfect. But suicide Notes is a great name for
a for a music store. Yeah, it's not that it is, yeah, for that year, but also formerly they were walking in there, bright eyed, pushing tailed. Hey where's this? You know? Classic? Right? Yeah, old old oldies. Yeah, it's like, well, I don't know if you listen to the radio in your car or if you sometimes Yeah, but it's there's no more bracing moment I announced to the oldies stage.
Yeah, yeah, the stuff that you grew up on is now on great, good times, great, it's on five are Kings of Leona is now in the classics, And I'm like, oh, I guess it's like that old. Yeah, apparently the good criteria now is ten years plus. Okay. I'm like, I don't think have de find classic or oldies like ten years. I guess it's old, but I think it used to be like twenty years to be twenty. Yeah, it used to be. You put class Gold one of four point three's, but isn't a Shaw Gold one
of four point three classic great classic hits. That's what I whenever I use that phrase good times, great class Ye, that's their catch right. Essentially, it felt like when you put it on, it was always rolling stones or beetles or abbro. Now it's stuff from like mid to late two thousand. I'm like, oh shit, the killers are on here. Okay then, but I also enjoyed just the iconic used to be with it. And Homo Siems is smiling politey, But what else did you enjoy? Yeah,
Homo Simson smiling polity is just an Ald timer. I think I've got down boxes and briefs as well. A really great cut in this episode was you know Homer when he's finally got the sort of approval of the crowd and he's shouting his slow they remember kids don't trust anybody over thirty and now Bitter Brampton, very very good. I like the shout out to the Jim Rose circus, which people's that's that's essentially the freak show because that was something that was
that lollapalooza, but also to it itself. When I was riding for Street Press interview Jim Rose, this is baby Yeah. I mean I love how the guy the sort of the entrepreneur he calls it. I like you to be part of my what is it my page on the trans Mundane it's the
freak trip at his office. But this is yeah, this guy called Jim Rose, he essentially set up what was basically an old time Carnie freak show where you had guys who were like, you know, they had weights on them, they had pierced nipples and they would put like weights on them.
Or people who would you put a straw up there, a tube up their nose and dawn it in their stomach and they would pump a lot of beer into it and then they'd regurgitate it and drink it and one things that I'm sorry I keep pumping up the tires of this Lollaballoozer documentary, But they show footage of it where Eddie Vedder and a couple of others come out on stage. While they're doing it, it's like, who's going to drink from this? And anybody was like, I'll take a step, like, yeah,
I drank the bar. I would go into a I never forgot it. It would have been like a maybe seven eight year old birthday party from school and one kid put spaghetti up his nose in at his mouth, has poorn it. Oh, mortified me. I've never forgotten that it would just like this. Yeah, this bar guy is probably like the least a great he just of the Jim Row circus, because you had a guy with like a Prince Albert piercing and a dick and he would like put really heavy weights on
it. And I think I don't know if someone was like hammering nails into their scroat set. But it was really transgressive top which is what we were into in the nineties. We were like, yeah, let's push some boundaries. Then it's not that far, not that far. Yeah, they used to be with it. Memes just hilarious. Suicide notes again fantastic. You've probably got your folder on your laptop of like you know, just pictures that
you've downloaded for the innet or memes or whatever downwards folder. Oh absolutely, And yeah, one that I've got is home it just got You've got the sass. You got the sass? Yeah, which is ja Turkey is a bad person. Is a bad person, but just you've got to have things on hand for when someone just is trying too hard to be cool. You just throw that got assassin, do you assassin' it? So, yeah, something I really love. But there's gonna be I'm sure there's gonna be more
coming. He found something people about something. As I said Generation X member, here is a good line. Like I thought I had an appetite for destruction. I just wanted a club sandwich. That's me. I mean there's variations on that throughout the episode. I used to ruck and roll on it and party every day. Now I can only find half an hour get party every day every day. Appetite for destruction. All I won was a club sandwhich is the better version of that for mine? So I like, I
love that a lot. Next question, you there eating the beast. All right, trivia time. My first question for you is what is the station at Homer is listening to? He is listening to k FSL Fossil one O three. Yes, what done right? Your faxt question of mine? Who provides the competent drum work in Grand Funk Growler, Damn, no, no idea. It was Don Brewer. I like the as Grand Funk. You guys don't know Grand Funk side. Feel free to cut this outside because this
is well, this is a semi relate. Listeners to the show will know that Louise and I love the show ninety Day Fiance. There's a UK very end called naetyd Fiance UK. Who knew but a lot of these people on this show they're looking for love. They will go to the Dominican Republic, which has been abbreviated to the DR. It gets referred to the DR as a lot. This woman on ninety Day UK has found the love of her life in the Dominican Republic and she says she's off to the dom rep LU
and I looked at it, so I said that ain't it. She didn't get the memo she used to be with it. Now what now what whether this change they changed what it was? Now? What she's with isn't it? But it was the lairs that we both look at her. She means the dr, the DR, the dom Rep, the dom Rep. Eh, his tom is good. Your next question for me what worthy promotions on the ticket? Oh? For authentic refreshment yet Clark bar Clark bars, and
I forgot cloud pass rings. Justin's Justin's what done? Yeah? Go Jostin's. The guy behind the counter at Suicide Notes is reading what magazine? No idea. It's called Mondo Frown, which honestly it does sound like the title of a zine. It does. Yeah, oh zines? Oh good stuff. They were the original blog. So my next question is the blog was a what you had before podcasts? What do you get at the vet while you wait? Oh? Oh god, damn it? Cat detailed, cat
detailing. Yes, do I have anymore for you? I've got one more. I'll give it to you. Why are you looking for one? My final one is what or where? Sorry? It? Did Peter Frampton buy the pig? You got them a pink Floyd? Yes, I don't think I've got any more for him because I had k K F s O L A F L. Sorry, what's getting Review of Homer Palouser The visual air date was May nineteenth, nineteen ninety six. Written by Brent Forrester and directed
by Wes Archer. The Cashgaer family enters in a black light haze. Lighting returns to normal when Homer turns on the lights. I thought, just the vibeent it just felt right for this episode as well. Absolutely it does. Yeah, yeah, just the sort. It was all like Neon, wasn't it. Yeah, that whole Clowe in the dark black light poster deal. Yeah. This episode kicks off with Otto he's having a dream about winning the safety award for bus drivers at the school district safety Awards. Millhouse wakes him
up. It nearly hits Jasper. I just thought it's a really fun sequence where it ends up in the wrecking yard and it's squashing it as they're running out. Yeah, it was just animated really well. Just a cool little action sequence. Who's good to keep his secrets and cuts too Marge reading the letter out loud waiving any legal responsibility on the school's part in perpetuity for threat
the universe forever. So Homer is now suggests well, it's gonna be like a road trip to school with your dad, and it kind of comes out of nowhere. But I guess they need to establish early. You can't waste time of Homer becoming uncoollsh home it's just uncol And I guess at that age your parents is always uncol aren't They are the idea of a roach it with your dad. Yeah, not really not really working. And it's the I think it's the enthusiasm home has for it too. It's like, ah,
you're a little too eager for this. I've certainly had times when I've had to pick up lose kids from either from school or from their work, particularly Lo's daughter who's a teenage girl who's just got no time for mum's uncle boyfriends. I don't know this guy, stranger danger Amber alert. But I think the first couple of times I was like, I'll make conversation and all of a sudden, it's nice way for it to get to know each other. Now it's just like, how's work? Cool? All right? No more
words until your phone comes out? Oh yeah, absolutely for the fifteen minute drive home. So this is the way it is. No I can I can imagine and that's understandable as well. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Man. For a while I was like, I'm not like, oh, we're going to be best buddies. But you know, this is a nice way to break the ice. Like, no, this is breaking the eyes. It probably is better that you can just becomfortable sitting in the car
like that. Oh yeah yeah, but he brings up those rainbow suspenders are cool way to keep your pants up. But my favorite part about this whole sequence was but continuing nervousness of going Dad, Dad, that Dad. You can see, Oh, he's gonna say something that's going to really embarrass me. But then he tries to teach me how to say jive. Oh see these kids now with jive printed on their shirts. Now I can teach you how you're supposed to say jive. Dad. Please just drive the car,
Dad, I'm watching the road, sweetie. You Jeff Turkey, See, you got to assess it. Quit javing me, Turkey, You got to assesss it. Turkey is a band brutude. Then he puts on the radio and the station is now for playing Abbato Zeppelin and the Comma Lid. Yes, they put on puts on the track and Nelson's just like you tell me time, So he gets me house to say he change the station, and
home is just disgusted. Then they don't know. You guys don't know Grand Funk and the way he details every every person brings their own little element to the band. More information can set you school Ybrary another way of showing these out of touch. I guess in nineteen ninety six, I guess the library is still library. Still question. Yeah, yeah we have the internet, Yeah, yeah, it's true. The next day have it, but yeah it's not as yeah not the go to yeh in ninety six? Do we
really the kids was accessible in ninety sixty incident? Did everyone have ourahome computer with the incident? Oh? I don't think so, but betting Carter and Cyclopedia correct. Next day though, Homer is he's playing Mississippi Queen and he says, yeah, you know, you notice for a good song sometimes no, no, no, don't start the rocket. But he's trying to help in terms of like, well these guys led to Jeffers air Plane, which
then provided the lift up for Jefferson Starship. He's trying to help, but he's also trying to make himself feel Oh yeah, he's well cool, Yeah, this is real credible stuff. Yeah. Everyone feels like they're passing on the wisdom, and in a way they are, because it's like, well whatever, you're an ever an elder person who went to Ford, right, whatever. They'd be telling me things. I always listen because I'm like, these guys have waited for thirty years. They know what's up. So I'm
just a dumb fucking kid. Yeah, And I mean even with culture, I mean, sure, you've got to have your ownership of the stuff that's yours. Yeah, of your era. But I think as you get a little bit further down the line, maybe just a year or two, you realize, oh, well there wouldn't be this without that, So maybe I should listen to that and find out where it came from. Well maybe I'm just an outliwer and a big old nerd. They would make fun of me
for doing my podcast or what's this super Simpsons thing you do? And I'm like, have fun stacking car parts forever, buddy or not? May be? But Bart says this is here related, but says you embarrassed me. No, I'm not. I dread the moment where I embarrass my kids but I don't realize that I am. It's like, oh no, officially I'm that guy. But but then yells at him, so I'm just trying to party with you. Guys. You actually feel really sorry for homing you,
don't you. Yeah, so he says, you know, they say they wouldn't party with you if you'd a last out on Earth, which I thought was a bit harsh. But then Hope and then goes to suicide. It's formally good Vibrations and I'm asked for let's release from uh Bread? Is it? Oh? Yeah, yeah, it's in the oldies Holdies? Where can I find the latest releases by Bread? Oldies Holdies? But you've got all the top bands in here sticks. I just heard them on the King Biscuit
Flower Hour. Now here are some of your no name bands. Sonic Youth, nine Inch Nails. Hallabalooza Hollabaloosa is a music festival, the greatest music festival of all time. There can only be one truly great music festival a lifetime, and it's the US Festival, the What Festival, the Art Festival. Geez It was sponsored by that guy from Apple Computers. What Computers. This is a data joke. A joke that doesn't make sense now sponsored by
what computers. It's like Apple runs the world now, but there was a time where it didn't. Eh, it's crazy to think that Apple in ninety six was seen as like the dying Oh absolutely, the old fashion one. Yeah, one thing I really liked as well. I mean I talked about how this is sort of very representative Generation X, but that whole kind of voice yeah, and passionizing, smart ass tone. Yeah, and I'm just
talking to you, you know. It was like, oh, but as a generation exer, I'm like, my boy never talk like that, And now thinking that's how Zoomer's talk. Yes, it's like, oh no, every young every young generation sort of goes, don't you go get it all man, and has the flashback here that this is arguably the most relatable moment in the history of the Simpsons. I think with that, it'll happen to you. Oh, you'll make me feel like dancing. I want to dance
a mat of way. What the hell are you two doing? That's cold rocking out. You wouldn't understand dead You're not with it. I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with, isn't it? And what's it? Seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you. Everyone will experience this in their life, and I just don't think it can be sort of summed up in words anymore. Then what happens in this moment? Yeah, I think I might have been
mixing up this and Buzz Colder as well, because there is this. Is there a similar thing with buzz Coler No, I don't know about buzz coll Oh. Grandpa tries to be Yeah, he tries to be with it and he's like, uh, he tries to like I'm cool and he's running a bike and he falls off. Maybe he also drinks buzz. The bubbles are killing. This is a different This is completely level, but just let us break it down. I used to be with it, but then they change
what it was like that that then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with, isn't it? And what it is? Weird and scary? To me? It's like that is just life. You can't say anything just changing what it was. Whoever wrote that one line is a genius. I absolutely love that. But of course, you know, being young and dumb, we're gonna rock on Forever. I also appreciated the fact that they're singing Leo Sayer, but we also get the I think actually we have skipped ahead
a bit first, be before that they'll be a second basement Bill. What I really appreciated the most about this was the animation of the strobe blinding being used to full effect here, of him getting closer and closer and then nope, just coming to further, further and further back to the start again. Beautiful animation. Yeah, it's great when Yeah, there used to be sort of terrific visual gags like this as well. Yeah, so so great. So now this is what we get that it'll happen to you, And we
get the transition to him looking in the mirror saying forever forever. Now he's fat, bold, and feeling like he's he's out of touch, he tells Marjor he feels old and march so much. Music store has always been crazy to me. Music's none of my business. I feel like I was kind of in this moment recently where it's like I'm sending to get out of this rut. I felt like just doing the same shit over and over again.
Wake Up, here's the school do the same shows. That's why we're starting the pilot podcast something fresh, shaking it up a bit, and he needs to get out of this rut. So Marge says, you need to include button Lisa, if you do this please, So then we cut to the next day and he's driving to pick up the kids, but you straight past millhouse. My Mom'll got me the other end. You know what's great about that is that they didn't have to set it up previously. It's just you
can imagine what the conversation will you smell? And they find the tickets in the glove box easy authenticator spots and Home is very, very excited, and they're kind of like, okay, well we're gonna go to Lolla Losers. So is it yes, because it's got Homo Pollo. It's actually Lola's Hulla Balooes. It's so confusi. But they're on their way to Capital City,
which is thirty miles away. So they arrived though. You get a free nose piercing with every admission, and it's like Woodstock with advertisements everywhere and tons of security guards and they throw out Mackey throw at everything, which apparently was something that one of the writers experience when you went the threat to throw at his homemade make allure, but yeah, throw it at the cameras, any forms of ID throw them in the bin, please Generation X. They may
be show, but at least that tolerant and respect all people. And we get the freak Show, and we introduced to Cypress Hill and they're about to sing this one of those songs, but there's a lost child within an hour and become a property of Blockbuster Entertainment. Blockbuster yeah, gone, yeah, yeah, that was that what they were referring to, was that Blockbuster Entertainment.
Yes, but then smells he smells something his jacket. There was another gag they used on The Simpsons. I believe that smells like the teacher's room. Is that? Yeah, similar kind of vibe hom and then buys his restafarian hat. Did karma karma karma? Oh? I get it. The way that guy says karma always annoyed me. I'm like, I know what it is is karma karma And I'm like, funk off, you didn't do anything. I'm already paying these. You get to a festival, prices are
already through the ring. Oh they get it. Tips at a festival, completely extortionate. Yeah, so kids say you can't wear that, but he's too cool for this planet. Badge a strut, which was from what we're saying, fabulous fairy Freak Brothers. I don't think is an our Crumb cartoon. Was that a take off of when they did the Itching Scrutchy cartoon for adults? Was that what that was? Yeah, a similar vibe with him walking I'm cool baby. Yeah, well I don't have Chrumin's responsible. Oh
no, that's rough. Back in Fritz the Cat, which the cat was what it was? Yeah, Like the tagline says it's X rated and animated, let the kids watch it. What was the X rated Muppets? Was it the Mupets or something that feebles feebles Peter Jackson, Yeah, I'm hiring it as a kid, going, oh my, your video store clerk was derelict in his duty that day. Yes, he was a good dude. You high species. The video store guy, Chris absolute legend because whenever I
would hire a movie that I knew Mum wouldn't let me. I put it in the middle of the pile and you see Chris looking at you and go, look at me. Put it through and I'm like, what a what a lord? He knew all I was supposed to be watching this, but He's like, fucking go for it. This is what Generation X for all Man. You could make a make a decent living being a goddamn video They were the coolest people in the world to me. People that for me as a kid was the dream. It was on a video store and a books
on a record store, yeah, a rental store. Just felt like you were the coolest person in the world to me because you knew all about the movies. You just legends. You know you didn't. You wouldn't necessarily had to make a huge living. But I can make my rent and you know you bag at the end of the week. I'm happy. And I would go there and I would hang out like an hour. You didn't tell me to leave. You just you'd make small small talk with me. Yeah,
and you know you could get your own term. Just reading the back of the covers, Oh my god, what a time. Look at this cover for Kreeberzoids. I really want to go check out video Land that displayed yesterday was up in Melbourne where if you haven't if you live in near Melbourne, in Australia check out video Land. So basically the guy for an exhibition has the theme is joy and he says the most joyous thing for him was video stores and the feeling of being in a video store, and his got like
hundreds. It looks like a video stores video land. It's a custom car park, carpet. Sorry, posters on the wall, box old sr T TVs. The old boxing, whatever it is with with commercials playing, it's just I want to go there, I want to go. What do you What would you say is the smell of a video store? What's the one?
What's the smell for you? How would you define the smell? Because you can smell it when you think of a videos, so you can smell it, But how would you describe the smell of a video It's kind of it's kind of neutral with a slight well I mean plastic, yeah, covers, slightly disinfectant. Yeah, the tapes. Yeah, it's an inter requestion because I think if you're talking about to say, like a video easy or a Blockbuster. Yeah, it's a little more clinical and a little more corporate.
But yeah, indie ones are a bit so as like a wardrobe. Yeah, it's a little a little musty, yeah, maybe a sort of a slight tinger of cigarette smoke because someone's gone out back for a dark couple of faded posters on the wall. Correct, what a time? What? But yes, So they're at there at the festival and Home is now being called a narc hate crime, hate crime, and he gets tossed out.
Then it's a Smashing Pumpkins playing your song that you love playing zero, and the teens are dancing in their zombie dance that they're enjoying themselves, maybe ablee, but they're really getting to the crowd home that doesn't understand. Why am I cool? I don't understand. Maybe I just am He's lost, now kicks the balloon gun pick Peter Friendom's pig comes out, boom, hits him in the guts and I was just him of the guts. Now it does.
They were hitting the guts and he's okay if I'm like, oh my god, I can't believe it. And then the guy with the pageant of the transmandine the fiction probably not a shout out or an unexpected connection, but I don't go. Oh, it's a bit sort of mored Flanders vibes, which oh yeah, that came after this of course. Yeah, yeah, yep, But so he wants having to be that I want you to be that fatso and he wants him to get shot with the cannon. Marge is
not impressed at all. So I don't think I always this here again. So you want to go on tour with a traveling freak show. I don't think I have a choice, March. Of course I'll have a choice. How do you figure you don't have to join a freak show just because the opportunity came along, you know, our March. In some ways you and I are very different people. I don't remember this scene, but it was just so funny. It says like I don't have of course you do.
In some way, you and I, it's very different people love that. Yeah when you that strikes me as like the best possible version of like a Homer and Marge's not disagreement, not fighting. Yeah, or there weree times when home is kind of like I've got to do this, yeah, actively sort of loathing towards March though, when she's when when they're not on the same page, Yeah, and this like sometimes we just very feel like we're very different people. I like it when he's sort of snooty or he feels
like he's got the upper hand in the way. It's also a good way of just justifying why he's going to do this as well, I've got to do it, and it's true. Ninety six get invited to go on is traveling Lola Blues and Festival? You're doing it? Oh god? Yeah. So now we're at the at Raleigh Durham. I believe it's pronounced sure at Rally Rally Rally Durham. Yeah, at a new event for Lola Bloeser. It's a Holod Blueser. Sorry, homers into it, but you know,
he's very, very nervous. Is everybody good? And he gets shot and we get the famous slow mo of the cannon hitting the man. Yeah. Now this is a bit of a pop culture I think the name of the actual guy Frank Marshall. Let's look it up. There will be references on the cutter references. So yeah, Frank cannon Ball, Richard's Richards. Yes. Now, I was wondering where i'd seen that picture, and of course it's been around river, but it was I think the main reason I remember
it. It was on the cover of Van Halen three. Oh okay was it really yeah? Released in nineteen ninety eight. Rightly, by the way, Dazing Confused was the van and the opening album version of Prince's song nine Times in nine was where They're talking shoes is based on Okay, yeah, so yeah, so he's been shot with the cannon everyone thinks. Everyone's a
huge fan of it. I don't know if I could wash this, could you wash this the guy getting shot with the cannon ball, I'll be like, I don't know, I'm like, ugh, this has thezars are written all over it does certainly, and the fact that they've gone from the inflatable pig to an actual cannonball, I don't know. But then, like I said, I we went we went crazy for the gym Rows circus and that was just, you know, some pretty gross stuff. Yeah, okay,
Well he signs the cannon ball for the kid. He's famous. Now does they stay in school or something something like that. But Billy Corgan now introduced him smiff and we get the iconic smiling politely. Yeah. I got to think you're gloomy music stop my kids from jimming or a future they can't possibly provide see now this, that's that's great. That feels as fresh as tomorrow. It really does, doesn't it. I think things just keep getting more
and more expensive. Well, our wages go up, but shit always feels like it's just getting more and more expensive, doesn't it. Absolutely, But for him to say this in ninety six, yeah, oh wait a minute, it's still relevant in twenty four yep. But then reads the letter from home A home is telling detailing his his his trip away, and they're driving on the bus. They go to Cleveland, Cincinnati, turn around and don't go to either of them. Sometimes you get a message cross as well.
He's got no litter written on his stomach. Then he's tacking in to the spirit of the self destruction, which is the rock and roll lifestyle. And Astragon behind the bus with Fryan Pansy frying pans for skis. Oh, here comes that cannon ball guy. He's cool, you mean, sarcastic, dude, I don't even know anymore. That's a pretty good way of summing up this generation pretty much. I think. I don't think you know anymore.
I think, yeah, even back in ninety six, when being a generation extra, I was like, yeah, they got out number is they don't trust anyone over thirty or twenty. It's not trusting anyone over thirty, which was very much as hippies. And then Peter Frampton, Now what was with the I know they explained the commentary. I forgot to watch it. With the commentary, he does the weird dance as he gets he strums the catan does like the yeah, I don't know, it's a weird thing. Yeah,
I know there is a thing. Nan I would have discussed it when I did the review years ago, but anyway, tuned into that one may yeah, smashing pumpkins. Then about Springfield, like what's it like? And you know they all mentioned how that they were all freaks as well. You know, she's part of the Audio Visual Club. And Home was like I got kicked out because my political leads and I'm slim projectives home and drix the beer though, and his stomach starts making weird sounds and they're not, like,
that's not right. So I'm gonna look after You're gonna send you to a vet. Then the vet basically says, you know, if you keep doing this, you're going to die, and Home's like not not have any man by the way got any messages for Jimy Hendrix up your dog Hendrix. So Bart is now asking questions to Homer. Homan doesn't really know why he could comes back home new because they've done in the Springfield shown next, and
turns out for a report the person I admired the most. It was a very sweet moment, was like, but then he eats the pie and he's getting the stomach sounds as well. It's almost like, Okay, I'm now the person that my son admires the most. So Cash twenty two. He loves me because I'm doing this, but also I want to be around for him if I do this, It's like, what do I do? What's the best decision here? At what cost? Yeah, And he makes the
right decision in the end, obviously be rare for his family. But they all arrive at the fairgrounds. Homer is now the pride of Springfield. He's got the billboard there. Marge is really excited. Last time she was backstage went but with his pants at the Christmas play and be real Cypress Hill. This is where we get the iconic London Symphony Orchestra. This episode had a
lot of iconic moments. Yeah, it's so so great. But yeah, possibly while high Cypress Hill, look in your direction and as you were saying earlier, the whole let's go for it. What not? Hey man, we order an orchestra? What's up with this orchestra? Where'd orchestra come from? I don't know, man, I didn't tell me about this. Man do something? Oh yeah, yeah, we think we did. Uh do you know what's saying in the brain? We mostly no classical, but we could give it a shot. Marges. Now, this, I like,
is the perfect way to some up that that music. I think I just thought it was sounded so it was like you never picked these two things to blend together like that. But they there's magic Peter Frampton know he's playing his songs and oh man, that guy's guitar is talking, and my shoes are talking too, And I don't like the apparently the video clip for ninty nine or something. I don't know. Yeah, I've been I don't to consider themself a bit of a Prince fan, but I'm not sure I remember that.
I mean from I don't know if it's from the song so much as the album nineteen ninety nine. It says here so when was it? When was the album? So it says here Otto's drug induice hallucination of his Talking Shoes is based on the opening of the album version of Prince's song nineteen ninety nine, Oh I think that. Yeah, it doesn't sound with don't worry everything is oh that bit? Yes, yeah, okay, it's a bit of a long bird. I really I wouldn't have made that connection if I
hadn't really got Wikipedia, which never lies. Of course not. But this is where the pet doesn't work, because it's just I was fucked it up. But before that we actually get Burns mentioned that he's bought Ticketmaster surcharges again relevant of course we discussed recently. It's like, what is with these surcharges? That the processing fee? And I'm like, but I'm not dealing with the human here. Why am I paying a processing fee? Yeah, isn't
technology meant to make it? You've you've built your website, you've paid it off, it's been the same website for a decade plus. Now you're not paying anything else to make the infrastructure any better. Why am I paying a processing fee? Going on a booking fee? What if I want to if I want to book online, I've got to pay a nextra ten percent or something. But if I go to the cinema, speak to a human being, no booking fee, just whatever. And I had some for the cinema.
Tell me was because you get the book where your seats are? And I'm like, no, no, no no, because I went there and she said, she turned the screen and said which seats would you like? And I'm like, so I can actually book my seats here as well? What the hell is the booking fee for? By the way, you will not see it, but Dano did a very nice fingerwag need you style. But this is where Peter Frampton's had his It doesn't work. The cyper Seals
stole his orchestra. I'm like, that's a great little buttons out game. And then so rating is cooler. You' don't gonna need all that watermelon. Mister franp I they call him. Mister Frampton is the old guy on campus. But it's our time for Homer, the man who embodies everything about rock and roll except the music. And Milu what Homer says? Okay, Homer, don't feel the reaper. Maybe I doe remember I know, Milhouse says, I used to a couple of that guy Marge is really worried though kind
of cannon the design to hurt, design to hurt. It reminds me very similar vibe to when he's in the boxing ring. Uh what does she yell at? Though? Because I know Homer says you gotta fight back. I was like that bull cactus is right, is right. But the family they're putting on the brave face for Homer, I don't let's not see him, let's not let him see us worry, but says you're the coolest that alive. Everyone's incredibly nervous or ale watching and Homer jumps out of the way,
which was the right decision. Then this is where he says that I thought I didn't have enough of destruction. All I wanted was the club Sandwich sonic youth. Then say your hold, loser, it's not about the freaks, It's about the music, the advertising, youth orientated product placing placement, and get nicely toasted the manager that the manager that expects Home's letter of resignation to end his office at the end of the day, which is the hood of
his car. Homer then says, you know, I can't I'm sorry, Billy, I just can't set share your bleak world view. I've got too much to live for. But Billy say, I'm just gonna have to settle for. What is it my legions of fans, millions of dollars, and and my youth. Ye yes, let's go, fir coat, I want to walk in humid off. Apparently Billy Corgan did like really good impersonations of Homer and marg Julie. Okay, said Wrestling Company, I know the n
w WA. It's so bizarre. And the family are now driving home and well, I guess being a family is more important than being cool, and they're just trying to say it was a hip to be square, that they're being uncool, and the family, the kids are trying to explain, you're not cool, and it's not okay. Me not caring that I'm not cool makes me cool? Right? No? What does make me cool? Maybe if you're truly cool, you don't need to be told that you're cool.
Of course you do. How is it? You know? It's like that conversation to me is a lot of the epitome of no one actually knows what cool is? The eternal quandary, Yes, like, how do you be called nobody knows you just some people are call some people aren't. But also, you can't call yourself cool, no, No, being cool is like being tough or being a lady. If you need to say you're you're not.
If you need to say you're the best, you're probably not. Well the quote was it Ti in Taiwan Lanister, He's like, any man who has to call himself king is no true king. Yes, So then we get the closing credit, So I'm like Dando, who's just the king doing their zombie dance sort of just deep. Yeah, is really getting to them, but they're not really doing anything different. And that's just the end of Homer Palooza, an episode that I knew was iconic but forgot to how many
iconic moments we're in it. It's just so fun iconic and just playing fun, playing and playing funny. Yeah, would you say it was funnier or just fun? What did you like it was pretty funny? Didn't? Yeah? I think yeah, But I think for people at have various stages of I don't know, societal development and the various demographics that we're in, which I think the lot of the writers are probably going through at that point in
time as well. Yeah, it's a good time capsule. Yeah, it doesn't feel dated, but it doesn't feel dated because you know everything old is new again and you know, some things just remain. It's forever. It's the story of the forever theme of just being out of touch. Yeah. But yeah, the Quota band that is eternally cool. The song remains the same. I think, yeah, A say that, do they sometimes?
But I think this episode I've never appreciated it more. I think I've always liked this episode, but now that I've truly entered that phase of what Home is going through, I think that's how you really truly appreciate this episode and enjoy it for what it is. You used to enjoy it, now you're living now I'll live it and I love it. Yeah. I just thought this episode was fantastic. So that has been our classic review for this monthe
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