How The Test Was Won (S20E11)

This test is a joke.

H Skinner.

Today I received an education and how children really learn by seeing their principal run around on top of a shipping container. So children, put down your answer sheet and drop that number two. And yes, I know what that means. I've learned so much today. This is my school and I'm throwing out the test.

From a brainy dust god.

Four Finger discount Ude.

Welcome to four Finger Discount, the podcast where we review season twenty of The Simpsons.

Oh down season twenty.

Everyone's down on season twenty. Everything's down. No, No one likes Season twenty the Simpsons. It seems it just feels like this is the point where people. I was saying to you this to you off the air before I'm down it. By the way, Oh I'm guy. Yes, I was saying to you that. It feels like season twenty is when it felt like people really genuinely stopped not caring about the Simpsons. But just maybe you're caring as the word.

Well, you're talking about people, we're talking about us. Yeah, we're going to be here shouldering the burden for all us sinners. We're going to be looking through season twenty.

Each and every episode digging in.

The dirt looking for those gold nuggets of entertainment and humor and whatever, and I don't know did we find any, and how the test was one?

Let's find out. We're talking about how the test was one, by the way, how the test was one? Indeed, Now, before we get into this review, though, yesterday was April Fool's Day, I want to throw an apology out of everyone who follows our page. And I felt very bad when I wrote it. I felt even worse when I clicked post. But essentially I wrote an April Fools stroke that said the Simpsons Hit and Run is finally getting a sequel. Now, if you're a Simpsons fan, that's the

I don't have an ending funny to say, as you know, So tell us your funny story. You you fooled someone or you got full I got fooled. Yeah, so this will be extra in a place that I never thought I'd be fooled.

Right. Oh, So I took Elliott to school. He goes to a primary school, local primary school, and he always wants to do is play footy. That kid all he wanted to do was be outside in the over playing footy. He's great at school. I shipped it to Elliot. By the way, so his expected range of reading is to be between one hundred and eighteen hundred and twenty four or something two hundred and seventy gosh, maths range was like between one hundred and twenty one hundred and forty

I don't understand any of those numbers, but they sound like his numbers are higher than expect your brain.

Yeah, so he's doing well in the classroom and he's smashing it in sport as well. The pe teacher was like, this kid unbelievable. Anyway, if you love early so much when you're marrying, I mean that's his son. A little bit weird, but anyway, Yeah, so he's doing all he wants to do ab outside kicking the footy, right, so then I'd rather be doing this run. I dropped him off. He's walking into his classroom as I'm walking out with the parent with the parents, the teacher. So the principal

He got me.

Good. April four though, that's pretty good. I've never known a teacher principal to do that.

Well, you're right, because you don't expect it from that particular framework. I trusted you with my child's education and my own sense of you, and.

He got me as well. I was like, what a joke, Well done, mate, Well done, sir.

We don't do it too often, or maybe you do it too often, but Principal Holloway, what a lord.

So we're here today. But actually one more thing. We've got Jet here. Jet has returned. So I actually think I mentioned the podcast that Jet was put to sleep just past aw ways ago. So there's been a tough time here at Fourthing a Discount, which is why things have been late and whatnot. So I apologize for that. But Jet, you can see you on the camera about him cremated. He's only in his little cardboardox at the moment.

I'm wonder if I should make a joke that is in semi bad taste. You know how much I love Jet Way for it. It's like my dog's a box.

A box anyway, but Ali and I'd love it. Takes the box to put it next to his bed at night, and I should hope. So, So Jet's been here since the beginning of Fourthing a Discount and it wouldn't be the same without him. Last week had to record a show without him and just felt weird. So he'll be here with us every single episode on the table here. That's true.

I had to do a bunch of farting in the in the studio to sort of make up for the absence of Jet. I have my former cats, Jackson and Charlie in little boxes like this, little containers.

It's good to have our pals around it is. Indeed. Yeah, good boy Jet, Yes, good boy Jet. Indeed. So how the test was one? This was an episode that I actually didn't mind actually to all that much. I thought the Homer story was actually quite obvious, but still quite entertaining. I would have preferred. So the basic just of the episode is what happens. What happens in the episode is Homer forgets to mail the insurance claim. Is it life insurance,

I thought that was, actually, yeah, a better element of the story, did you ak? I thought they actually did that really well, and it wasn't something that I expected. And it's always good to be surprised, except, you know, when you're taking your kid to school and they're told.

They've got homework club rather than playtime. I heard homework Coluver. I was like, what is going on here? Mather Bridge is going to share? Yes, so yeah, but I hear what you're saying too. And it also kind of makes sense that Homer would want to lay low. He wouldn't want to be out living a normal day, you know, potentially potentially hurting himself. That he realizes he's made it to work, Oh I missed this, So he doesn't go to where he goes home? Well, yeah, but that's pretty

His way back from the plant to because where he's trying to drop it off at the actual office, and they're saying.

So that's one of my trivia questions. Why was the guy out back at three pm? Oh no, he's back at three pm. No idea, stopping his daughter's wedding. That's actually pretty funny.

Shame on me for not remembering that or paying as much as close attention as I should have. Yeah, but for him to have to be yeah, not just in a controlled environment, actually out in the world where bad stuff could.

Happen to you.

But then even making it home is like, oh my god, it's even worse in here, or I'm seeing danger everywhere. That was something I really enjoyed about the episode. I mean, I'm kind of jumping on my favorite moments here. But no, I like the I like the A story with the whole testing thing, even the A one story or a minor story what with Lisa sort of having her rice, and that's part of the test, part of the test story, but it's also its own little ad dout.

The Skinner story was quite fun as well. I thought, oh yeah, yeah, I like you know what, I like he In this episode, Skinner finally earned some respect back that I feel like he's been lacking for maybe five six seasons now. I'm so sick of him being the simp.

Oh yeah, it's very much that he's just the whipping boy for charmers, yeah, or you know, sort of being made fun of.

Buy Well Barton particular. No one fears him anymore, and I don't think they ever really feared him, but now they just see him as a joke where they didn't seem as a joke in the first goal in the Golden Ear, he was seen as, you know, the guy that can get one over, but he still could outsmart them.

Well, it's also yeah, back in the back in those early stages, he's an authority figure that you're making fun of, and there are.

Risks with that, or there are stakes with that. Yeah, you know, but Wood pull his pranks or whatever doing graffiti, Yeah yeah, there's still a possibility like he's going to get detention or he's going to get punished or whatever as a result, whereas now just yeah, we just make fun of this guy and nothing happens, like Okay, well, if the pranks you're pulling, all the gags you're telling aren't super funny for us as viewers, that's the point. And I don't trust them to continue that onto the

Well, it did, and it also tied into the underlying I guess theme of this of this plot line, of this test. Plot lines like this, not that these tests don't mean shit, but you know, if you're going to educate people, educate them properly and educate them in ways that are going to benefit them in all ways, And.

Don't base your self worth on what you get on a test. How many people fail we call it, they call it high st they call hig school, they call highchool America. Yeah, fail high school, don't even complete high school. They're still gone to succeed. Of course, you've got to have the drive in yourself. You've got to also have a bit of a billy and a bit of it's well to succeed. But the thing is, if you don't do well at school, it doesn't mean you're going to fail in life.

No, no, And it's incumbent and maybe upon the school system as well or the people that you have around you are sort of guiding your future. It's like, okay, well maybe book learn is not your thing, you know, let's find something else for you to do. What are you good at. Let's try and identify that early, and let's put you on a path where it's a wonderful, magical land where you know you can do what you love for a living or do something that you enjoy

And you'll never work at the right day. Yeah, all that kind of stuff.

But yeah, I mean I've always been a remind It's like, yeah, try and identify early what you might like doing and what.

You might have an aptitude for, and let's steer you in the direction. We're going to make a little scratch doing that. One thing I also always try to instill an Alley, even as early as now, is the teachers are your friend. Don't look at the teachers they're teaching. You might be boring, it might seem they're being mean, but they are doing it because they want you to succeed. They want you to learn. Their goal in life is to help you achieve goals in life. That's they go

Yeah, my favorite.

What were your favorite moments from the episode. I had a few lines that I really enjoyed. I really liked Helen love Joy Forever, the gossiper right talking about Kleidus. I just love that she's feeding his slop to another woman's pick. It's like there's double meetings there. But I liked it.

Oh yeah, I mean that whole book club meeting turning into a Final Destination sequel.

I thought was pretty good. Yeah. Oh I didn't even pick up on that as well. Yeah, every sort of mask I saw your post about Final Destination six. Is it five or six? Yeah? It's five films, I think, isn't there now.

They've made five films and now they're doing it's not been a number. It's called Final Destination Bloodlines.

I am going to have a marathon of these movies. I'm gonna sit there mondaychoose, and I'm going to watch them all because I remember loving the first one. The second one still haunts me, haunts everybody. No, everyone always says, you can't drive down the highway behind a truck. Just can't be done anymore. Don't do it whenever someone is mowing the lawn. Always, I'm gonna get a thing in my eye. Like Final Destination films, they're great, they grew up and down in quality, but the premise is so

I mean, I think I think they're sort of paying tribute to Finalist Nation. They're not being too explicit about it, but that whole everything around here could kill you at any moment that you know, that light thing could explode all over and no not just explode, but it's a big circle. You get land around my neck, and I'd

Who's margin? Yeah kind of hot. I reckon that that would have been used in the commercial. You don't make those kind of joke unless you're going to be using them to the full amount. And I think that you would have just put that in a bubble in the commercial, gone margins making that Linds Nagle what tune in this Sunday to find out why.

If we if we had social media back then, I have no doubt it would be gift or memed or whatever. Yes, I enjoyed that very much. You're right when it comes to lines more than anything else. I mean, I did enjoy at the very starts.

Uh.

I believe it Skins that you're like, no, no, sorry, Tomer. I think holidays are over. They're sending the kids back to school or whatever. It's like you're a government's problem.

Now. I thought I thought that was uh and uh.

Yeah, the nice ruse that the school plays when they yeah, you think you're sending these kids off to what do they call it? A genius copts genius copter, there's conn air. Yes, all these are what shall we say, disadvantage you did indeed, I'm not going to do that. If I was going to use my analog of that word, well, we'd be in a whole lot of trouble. Yeah, because we're able to use that word when oldier kid.

I do think that this is a bit of a retread on a previous story where Skinner wants the bullies out of the school when charmers arrive. Yeah, and they're all put down in the in the basement or something. I believe it's Duffless. Anyways, the episode when Skinner locks the boys the bullies in the room, Yes, and because he promises the promises mountain bikes. Yeah, at the end, what if they're dead, sir? We ride these bikes to Mexico. Really, but the bullies having like a little encounter group at

Yeah, I was like, there's a no genius coptic, there's a conn air because who's on the it's the bullies.

And Ralph and Bart essentially on the Yeah, it was the same kids as the previous episode, except've added Ralph in there as well for comedic.

Effects, of course, well for comedic effect.

I do think that Michael Price, though, my man Michael Price knows how to write Ralph. I think Ralph was nowhere near as dumb down in this one. This felt very much more based on earlier era Ralph, where you know, he's singing the spice skills. Whatever, are you done yet? I was done before I came in that kind of ject. I didn't mind that. I thought, I just don't think he was as our words.

Yeah, there's a tendency to make Ralph, yes, completely ignorant, ignorant on a grand thermonuclear scale, where it's just like, no, he's just kind of naive and silly.

It is waking day, by the way, it's waking day. I'm like, it can't be waking day now, it is waking day. So the entire waking day, the kids are locked in the room.

Don't second hress yourself, man, So I enjoyed those all those things very much from how the test was.

One and I also enjoyed it's just a couple of lines, and the last one here I've got is several. That's more than a few, and almost a bunch, just little lines like that. I don't mind.

Next question you there eating the beast.

Trivia time here on a four figure discount. My first question for you is what did the banner say at the school the first time we get to the school the assembly to announce the test, but as a banner out the front first day of school?

Well this might be mine as well, if we're talking about the same thing. But is it about that super teacher, Miss Caldocott is now mister Newberry. That's correct, yeah, indeed, well yes, what was the new idea for Miss Caldicott? And it is mister Newber. My next question, Your next question is what flower did the library group remain? So I think it's mister Becker said, O deal oal for the dills A little sidebar. I had to fix a chance.

Right. So he goes to all the assemblies and he was just making sure all the chances that were chosen were the right ones. Right. One of the chants at the last chance was basically putting down the other color, saying Red's too slow and red meant stopped. Blah bla blah. It was the whole ways, like no nix and that because you know what we do. We don't put down the other ones. We just say how great we are, and you can say how great you are, but we

You spent a lot of time on this episode justifiably praising teachers for all the good work they do. We also have to recognize that they are human beings, occasionally flawed, and they might take.

Issue with I'm coming in and doing their job for him like you did. And he's reading back, that's a good chart. He's reading back through it and there's more to the champ but that was just the start of it. And he's reading back through it, and he goes so, I've changed this too, simply, and Miss Hollway goes in points to me, and I think the teacher was like.

I think we all like mister Holloway, but don't be throwing your employees at the bus like that.

Even the praise dander But yeah, so I was like, it's see, yes, it's obvious, it's right there. Well yeah, I let him get up. After the third time, I was like, I have to have to fix this. And after school, Alliet was like, was a way better one that you did. I was like, I know, son, I know, but that what we're doing that chance? What are we talking about? Chance for daffidils? Daffidils? Yes, the daffodil chant. Yeah, of course it does reminded me of that moment. I

I had to do a bit of freeze framing. But it is one hundred balloon payment, boulevard b.

Loo payment, balloon payment, balloon payment toa loon payment.

All right.

My final question for you is what color was the shipping container that Skinner used where he was running on. Just turn the momentum around. I want to say orange. No, you said it before. It's blue.

Oh oh well okay, then blue it is?

It is? Yes, it was. I think it was like brown. Maybe you are right now you now you've got me second guessing myself again.

Well that's the thing. You second guess each is nice, second guess you. It all works out. You're probably right.

There's no video of it. I could go on Disney Plus. How about we just leave it and we just have it? The listeners like right in, this is right.

This could be like that wonderful mean thing where it's like, what color is this dress? I think it's blue and yellow? No, you're kidding, that's gray and red? What are you talking about?

It turns out it's yellow. Turns out it's the box is yellow? Even a dress? All right? So one more question? Can hit me? One more question? Okay?

And they are doing the test in the classroom. What time is it on the clock when the test actually starts. Lisa looks up at.

It would be three oh four because I form intes behind I thought it was ten oh four. I was it ten? What? I think? Three? Three? Three oh one? When Homer had hit Burns it was yeah, it was four whatever it was? Did you even watch this episode? Four figure discount is brought to you by our incredible supporters on Patreon. With your support, we're able to hire editors, purchase new equipment, and everything else that goes into producing top quality shows. Each and every week, our supporters get

Let's name those b Big Van Dyke Show, Bick Van Dyke Show, Brady Bunch, and Cheers.

I really liked this. This was good, This was fun. It was a fun couch gag, having such a chase them throughout the different years and they being the nineties one sure.

Yeah, I mean I think it's a good acknowledgment that the Simpsons actually does belong in that tradition of classic family sitcom, classic sitcom hundred percent does.

Yeah. Now, the thing I was going to mention before we discussed all this, because this start of this episode, I feel this episode was the definition in a way of padding out a story. Oh god, yes. So there was a lot of montages, in particular coming from a few moments Homer's injury montage that went forever I looked at it. After that was all said and done, it was like three and a half minutes into the episode. Yeah, and we had an extended couch gag, and that extended

Yeah, my note here running along on material guys. Yeah, yeah, that went way too long. Did culminate in not a bad punchline, however, which was what a week? Yes, that wasn't bad. Yeah, But at the same time, it's like, I don't know if it's worth it. I don't know if that punchline is worth a gag that long. If we're noticing it, and we both noticed it independently, it's kind of like I don't know.

Yeah, well, I'm watching this going normally for a montage and might go for you know, ten seconds or so, or ten to twenty seconds. This felt like it went for a minute. It just kept going. I'm waiting for it to Andrews kept going and kept going, and kept going and kept going. I thought, whoa. To the point where you know, we had the thing in his eye from lart of the dance, they showed the entire bit where he's struggling as well, I'm going, yeah, what the hell's going on here? Now?

You know, comedy of Fiicieronados may say that's the joke, but I don't know, Man, it just felt like it was stretched out way too much.

I would have actually a pred what would you if they had the balls that just do an entire episode of just from that moment on the entire episode it's just injury montage. Yeah, how long would you sit there and watch that? Do you think that's a tough one? Because I mean that's sort of that's ball, that's a South Parks kind.

Of that's going from comedy to anti comedy, back to comedy, back to anti comedy, back to Oh it comes like a not the not the snake swallowing its own tail. But yeah, some weird quantum physics deal when it comes to comedy.

No, no, don't do it. I feel like modern audiences would actually appreciate it, do you. I don't know. I don't know.

I think it's one of those things that's really good in theory. I think it's good to discuss on podcasts. I think if the people at Simpsons Q actually did it, we'd be probably lighting our torches and storming the build and going why.

But do you think if South Park did it and say, season five or whatever season four where it's just clips the entire time. There's no new material until the end. Maybe Yeah, I'm very torn. As I said, I love it. Someone do it and then we can see what happened I and then.

We see it like, oh, this is not what I wanted.

Yeah, I try it once. You can't lose any more the viewers anyway, can they Simpsons? At this point? Can they? Probably not? Right, So the episode kicks off with the happy New Year of school, not happy New Year, happy new year of school, and I get this now after school holidays. Last year was the first Christmas holidays where Elliott was home from genuine school, right, yes, And so it was like sick because I used to go to

Now you reach the event horizon, you're actually at the real halfway mark of like, I've had so much fun, but now I've got an equal amount of time. Yeah, I need to make money now and send you back to school. That's why I'm going to bring your daddy back and turn that into a job. So we can just make more money out of the school holidays.

That'll be nice. Find ways to make money. Tough thing to do in this It is a tough twenty twenty five is indeed a very tough thing to do. But as you were saying earlier, you're the government's problem now. And Bart mentions here that your refers to school as a suckshack and he learnt that word from someone at school. Now, I like that they paid it off later, which we'll get to. Yes, So the insurance bill is June, and March asked Homer to mail it out, And I thought,

You would think so. But yesterday I went over to see the beloved Margaret Mary, my mother almost ninety five, almost ninety five, running some errands for her, Like, guy, would you mind posting.

This letter for me? I'm like, wow, gosh, I feel like one of those old cowboys.

You know, it's like we've got a sack full of letters writing from a coast to coast. I've actually got to put something physical in a mailbox.

Ye, guess what. I haven't done it yet. It's in the pantry. Pantries refer to it. I think you put in the glove in the pantry.

Yeah, what do we still call?

Do you still call them the glove compartment? I caught the glove box. Yeah, glove box. Yeah. Does anyone actually open their glove box anymore? Does anyone actually put gloves in it? Why is it called a glove box? Is that where it originated from? Do people used to keep their gloves in it? Well? I imagine that was the case. Did horse and carriacters have glove boxes? So it was like maybe gloves to Well.

You're probably if you're holding the rain, say, if you're on a stage.

Yeah, so was there a glove box? I guess? So? Yeah, should we look this? I'm going to google this.

This is the kind of quality information you would tune into four finger discount for Impress your friend.

Just google where did the term glove box originate? So the term glovebox or glove compartment? As telling you this originated from the early nineteen hundreds when car starting featuring a storage compartment initially intended for storing driving gloves. So I didn't realize people had driving gloves. Well, they were very back in the day. It's like, oh my hands. Yeah, the steering apparently everyone needs to use driving gloves and needs to store them in their glove compartment.

Well, the steering wheel, I imagine, is just an evolution of the reins that you were holding when you were either horse and buggy or even just on a horse drinking.

Horses panicked when wheels were invented, like fun, I don't need us anymore. No, we're gonna be glue.

That's when they had to start doing tricks, diving up high platforms like shit, gotta upskill. This is not relevant at all to any of us oil in the twenty first century now, But isn't that interesting? I mean, I think we probably could have gone the rest of our lives not knowing why that compartment in your car was called the glove box.

And now we know that's a beauty of having kids as well, because they ask questions, For example, what.

Although you're about to say that's the beauty of having a co host who would ask.

You there, Oh yeah, kids so much different. But they ask you questions like where does the wind come from? And I'm like, I said to Elliott, I should actually know this, but I don't know this, and I still haven't looked at ups. Why I don't have kids. This is where he just makes it up. What where do clouds come from? And I'm like, I should know this. Where does the rain come from? I'm like, why know it comes from the clouds, But I'm pretty sure it's

When you just go here and you let one rid, you just do a huge part and he would just think you're the best dad ever.

So the kids love Nicholas scratching the back in bed right at bed time? Can you scratch my back? Mum? Mum scratches it? But we all love that. And the other day Holly dropped one whilst Nicholas reaching over to scratch Elliot's essentially in her face. They thought that was the peak of comedy. Comedy, couldn't get any funny out they They were laughing for about half an hour. Nicola, not so much. I understand, because you know, you know when

Oh yeah, absolutely, there's microscopic. Yeah, but bits and pieces of stuff.

Not only is it going to be in you when you smell it, it's now on you. Oh yeah, yeah, take a shower. No good anyway, moving along, please please move on. But we're getting back to so she's asking him to post the bill and the montages work, he says, for when I get hurt, and man, do I get hurt and we get what feels like at least a one minute montage of various grips of him getting injured. It went forever, It did go forever, indeed. But now

I think under the Bush administration maybe there was something called No Child Left Behind Behind AKAY, which was an educational where it's like said, maybe you said left behind, I said left alone here, Who knows. I think the seems probably would have taken.

It slightly ripped it, yesh. I could be wrong, though, but Charmer says, the results will determine how much money this suck shack gets. So I was like, oh, what you paid off? And they didn't bring attention to it. It was just it was just there. If you're listening, you heard it. And they start they said, for the next couple of weeks are going to be drilling into you guys or the facts all the answers for these questions. So you get it. So we another little mini montage

Take your number two pencil?

And what kind of pencil do we take again?

Number two? Take a number two?

Looks like you took a big number two.

Yeah, that's quite so. Is you can see I'm holding a big number two in my hands, enjoying the weed and feel of it.

I know this seems childish, right, but this would slay in primary school. The teacher are saying we're holding a number two. I think kids would find that funny.

Well, yes, is there something we really use in Australia the whole bathroom code thing number one and number two sometimes.

I know I've used it definitely in the past, so it's not something we say all the time. Aliot, holy is just either doing a wee or a poop.

It feels like a very American thing, like so number one or number two. Actually it makes a whole lot of sense. Yeah, I mean, you may have kids are a bit shy. That's saying no, I need to go take a massive dump.

It's weird. I feel like in life you evolve from when you're a kid. You nominate and you announce what you're about to do. If Holly says I'm going to do it, I have to do awi, or she just to do better. I have to do a weez and poos or whatever she's like to do a pooh, she announces it to the room. She leaves. Elliott. Now, since starting school, I think he just now says I have

For a while.

Yeah, it makes a whole lot of sense. The other day, I haven't going to the toilet. I couldn't find my phone. Nicholas like, what do you did your phone for? I'm like, I need my phone on the toilet. Do you take your phone to the toilet? I do? Yeah, you can't even recall the last one you went to the tour without using your phone.

Well, if we're using the phraseology that we've just talked about about in terms of again, I mean I won't be having a Wii and sort of looking down. No, got other things to do with your hand.

So it's a modern Because did you ever take a newspaper or magazine to the Oh yeah absolutely, I rem my uncle Daries have a magazines and I was like it was the best. Oh absolutely, I'd get long, I'd sit there for an hour. Oh yeah, god knows, I certainly did that. You look back and you realize, oh my god, there's so unsanitary. Even still the phone. You think the phone's right, we have the phones in our hand. Then we wipe our ass, and then we go out

I mean, if you thought about everything that could just make you sick, make you sick, or just go wrong in this life, in this world, you wouldn't do anything.

I'm gonna out myself here. It's been years since I have directly with my hand touched a toilet door handle. I don't do it. Oh really, yeah, just it's gross. Mate. If I'm at home, it's okay, right whatever, so be it. But if I'm out somewhere, you know little latches, we I get pissed paper, and i'd do it the paper. No, I'm still use my bare hands from that. I don't know. Even taps in public toilets, I don't. I use my hand my arm here and knock it up. I won't

I think I'm taking it on a case by case basis. If you go into a certain bathroom it's kind of like, it's kind of gross. Yeah, I think I'm gonna have to be using the elbow here, or as you said, just grabbing a water toilet paper, and yeah, I don't want my bare flesh touching anything in this particular establishment.

I can't recall many times when I've gone to a public toilet and it's been terribly gross. But I have to throw a local business under the bus here. Right, Adventure Park in Geelong. We love going to the Venture Park, but Holy needed to go to the toilet the other day, right, and the girl's torlets were being clean, so I was taken it to the men She's still young enough, she can come to the men's she's a cubicle anyway. And I walked in and this you're not just holding her

Lou had this the other day, and I lovely Luis had this not long ago where she was talking about, oh, there was some event that happened. I can think about it, but if I start to tell you about it, it's actually going to try it might make me physically Yeah, I said, well, don't tell me.

Yeah. The two months for me with this one, I have not experienced anything like this where it just my body just tried to just vomit as a result. When it was called Eureka Nightclub, oh, I think it's called Eureka again, but it's now a fancy establishment. It's gone

Because again, sorry not to throw a local establishment under the bus, but noted Geelong night spot.

Lammis lambies Lambi's some call it.

Yes, oh after the senators. It's a below ground establishment and you walk down those stairs to get into.

This place and hazard one o one. Yeah.

The last time I went there, I just felt this kind.

Of coming out to us, like, ah, this this just reeks. Yeah, this ain't great like the Eureka. Maybe where the name comes from, maybe the.

Yeah Urica Dando here mister creative, whether he's coming up with a new chance or you know, sort of urine based what do you call it? Variations on the on nightspot names.

I have not been to. Nick and I went out for a drink. We got probably drunk about three weeks ago and we consider going to Lamby's, but it was it wasn't the right night for it. You have to go on the right nights for Lamby's. I think it was Saturday, and Saturday is no good for Lambia. It's either Friday or Sunday. I think for lamb It's not too sure. Maybe maybe went out on a Friday. I can't remember, but your Lambias is the place I used to really enjoy it. We look back now and think, man,

Well, she's a bit of a bit of an overachiever, Yeah she is. Yeah, Dad, black Juise future, who.

You know who will sell oranges on you? Off rand.

Home and wwocking him saying who's going to sell oranges on the freeway now whatever? I'm like, yeah, it felt cruel when Lisa was saying the other day. But Homer and Bart can I kind of acknowledge this kid's gone. No way. I've set this level, You're probably going to reach this level. Yeah, and we can both accept that. But Homan then checks the pantry. As he calls it, there's a pack of chips, snarees eating some food and we can see the insurance are still sitting in there.

Got wait a minute, what's going on here?

What's going on here?

I must admit though, I mean, is it? This is where he's walking to the helicopter and the school band is playing like the Rocky theme or something? Did wouldn't you like to once in your life enter a place.

And the theme song to.

Introduce to introduce dando, We're going to play the Rocky theme.

It's like, well, you need to get married, that's how you do it. What did you interview your wedding? I don't think we actually had music really. We entered to You're My Best Friend Queen? Like cool theme is? I know what you're trying to say? Though, usually like guys when they walk down the eye with the Greensman, it's like, what are they walking down to?

Or yeah, I say I decided to I don't know, make it late career pivot and going to m m ah.

What would be my theme music is? Can we Max? I entered to my wedding with my Greensman to the Degeneration an X theme song. Wrestling fands that they will know what it is. It's like, are you ready they know? But DX is a faction, a group, and we did the DX pos and we got to the front. Yeah, wrestling fans will know that. One fantastic. Uh listening to something I think it was, I've forgot it was Eddie Murphy,

I love it anyway. But yes, but they get on the get on the helicopter.

Yes, they do get on the helicopter, which turns out to be Conna Air as you mentioned earlier, and Charmers also send skin out there as well. Because I don't know why thinks very little Skinner, they would have needed someone to look after them.

I think so yeah, and yeah, Charmers, that's probably thinking, ah, well, another opportunity to get one over on this shomp.

So they leave Springfield, which is referred to as the armpit of America's butt crack on the sign and Bart explains to the other kids, go the other bulls. They think they're actually going Tottle City. That's where they are going. They think they're going somewhere different though, Oh what was it? I can't quite did you watch this episode? Did you watch this episode? That could be a new running fit?

Oh sure, yeah, I mean I'm wondering what sort of comedic spin you could put on it. What's the premise for it. I mean, I think this is a good premise to sort of have that. But yeah, I love the idea of him just trying to avoid trouble or trying to avoid catastrophe.

In the simplest of scenarios. Oh yeah, we wouldn't normally not think anything could possibly go wrong.

Well, when we talk about those Final Destination movies and it, you know, just the real joy of them is, like you can just tell the glee that the storytellers have got into. Okay, this looks like the most innocent of situations. We're sitting here in Dando's podcast studio. But that light, what's the holy shit, crash bandicoot up there. He looks like he's help some spiky shit that could end up in my skull, all that kind of business, and just take that and you run.

We want to get to hear? How do we get there? Yeah? Yeah, it's like putting together mouse trap, very much, very much. Those cool videos you see on YouTube where it's like all these different contraptions to get a basketball to go into a hoop. It's like, are they cool videos on YouTube? There's many cool videos on YouTube? Are they like like six? And it depends on you subscribe to? Okay, you want to get into the dark corners of YouTube, you know when it's like two am and in a dark corner,

I watched one video saying the doomers are right, and now all of a sudden, there's just dooms growing all the time.

Have fun or not?

Dear stupid insurance company. I meant to mail this on time. What do you mean? Too bad? Screw you eh, yeah.

He tries to drop it off, but he's going to be back in three hours or back at three pm. Maybe back I think it's back three pm, like a three pm, Yeah, definitely three Did you can watch this episode? Because he's stopping his daughter's wedding is the reason he's not there anywhere?

Yes, we've got three pm in our heads, but it could well have been.

Well, definitely three pm, because it's that three oh one. When Burns gets hurt.

He's like, oh yeah, absolutely, but yeah, the sign could have said back in three hours, and we were doing the matter.

It was back at three pm. Yeah, that makes more sense, doesn't That's why it has to get two three pm? Yeah? Did you even watch this episode? I try to, But then the pop plant drops on Homer's arm and he just basically tells the bruise to go away. So whatever, It's now time for the test, the actual test in the cafeteria, and Skinner Charmers tries to use some motivation by saying, imagine each question is a baby chicken. If you get it wrong, the baby chick dies. I would

Okay, that's good that you were indoctrinating him from an early I.

Might tugger Wood his dad and like the dad David Beckham's dad was just the prick because I didn't realize all these famous like MJ. Beckham, Tiger Woods, all these number one stars of all time, they all had harsh upbrings like their dads were pricks. Yeah. Absolutely, I don't want to be that. But like I just tried to say to Elliott, you have talent here, Let's not waste it. You know.

Well, to quote Chris Rock, pressure creeds, dumbs not hugs.

A lot of people quoting Chris Rock lately, and Chris Rock says this Chris Rocks, like, can we stop taking advice from Chris Rock please? No?

No, that is full of good, good tips about some things.

Certainly about some things. Yes, he knows how to take a hit, that's for sure.

Apparently Willis Smith referenced the slap in some songs related or released just recently, and everyone's kind.

Of like, yeah, you should be really embarrassed, but you kind of suck as a result of that. Don't release songs anymore, will just.

Be or maybe just go enjoy your untold millions place of an arts island.

But they're four minutes late to start. Is like, go go, go, go go, And Lisa is just hearing all various sounds, and I thought they really captured the vibe of what you're doing a test when you sit in there and yeah, you're nervous, you don't quite understand one of the questions, and you're looking around the room and everything just seems to be like amplified or who sounds everything, It's it's nerve wracking. Oh yeah, absolutely, lot of pressure you put

I have an incredibly vivid memory of when I was in like fifth form or something and doing like.

A history yeah exam, and yeah it was typicult. Seventeen year old wasn't paying attention to history. It didn't give a shit, and I was looking at this I don't know why. I remember this specific question was with like some historical figure in England in the seventeenth century or whatever. It's like, I don't know this at all. I don't know. I've heard this guy's name, but I don't remember a damn thing. And I was like, but I've gone George Washington.

I've got to write something down. I can't remember, like me, what I wrote, but it was just not what was required.

Well, they were rewarded for guessing apparently. Oh yeah, apparently I'm still here, so you know. So they're doing the test and Lisa I liked that they referenced Millhouse's eyebrows here. This is the first time his eyebrows I swear as appeared in a previous episode the eyebrows, But maybe it's not because I use this gift all the time with Millhouse's eyebrows. This must have been the episode that featured it, because I now that I look back, I'm thinking I

That gig yeah, I think this might be the same. I've written a note here. They're lingering a little long on.

The visual gags, okay, and that may be one of the ones where the sign gig yeah, you've stayed on this maybe two seconds too long. I should be able to see it. Wait what yeah? Yeah? As opposed it should be I blinkingly miss it. Yeah, as opposed to Look how funny we are.

You're getting this right? Yeah, you guard it, you guard it.

The kids are still all mocking Skinner, Ralph needs potty and Otto he's just dancing, and Odo is mesmerized by his dance. As we said, oo very expendable at this point anymore. You tell you what I want, what.

I really really want?

So tell me what you want?

What do you really really want?

I'll tell you what I want when.

I really really want, So tell me what you want.

What do you really really want?

Ralph? Are you almost finished?

I finished before we came in. They get back in. The bus has been stripped and stripped. Yeah, I thought Capital City was like the nice place. Apparently it's now the ship place.

Well, every city's got the rocks. Wrong side of the track has indeed.

Yeah, Skinner's worried Tho because they get to the corner of Martin Luther King Boulevard and oars as.

Yeah.

Way, but that's it. There's no that's that's into the gag. Is there a joke there that I'm missing? I would speculate that we've got a whole bunch of white people here, and they are at the corner of a whole bunch of whe people right in the show as well, but that is.

Correct, yes, And they are at a corner of an Hispanic and an African American part of town. They might be like, oh, now we're in trouble.

They can't be the joke, right, Is it a joke. If it's a joke, it's not a good joke. Yeah, I don't know, just unfounded white panic. Yeah, it just goes nowhere. Homer is sneaking in the front door at home. You just want to hurt himself, and he tells margin needs to be safe or they're going to go to the poor house or back to the poor house, as March says. So she invites me to his book club, and he says, that's the most boring thing ever, Thank you so much. That's going to be I'm gonna be

Yeah, so many variables in the way you drive, so many variables in the way other people do in the car, in the road, other people's cars, mother nature.

Yeah, all it takes us a branch to fall in front of a car. They swerve off, and then that's it.

Yeah, you know, I mean lucky you're with Amy, but sure, yeah, friend.

Of the pod. But Homer sees Haling her hair catches on fire, which and then shoes get thrown to Cookie Kwan's eyes, and Agnes gets cleaved, and a Nagel starts kissing March and that's when you go, oh watch this go fuck. This escalated real fast. But Homer's just imagining Nagel kissing Marge. And yes, I said that kiss totally would have been using a commercial. Lisa is still struggling with the question so she skips the question too, did

Are you mad I forgot to send into payment?

No, sweetie.

At this point in a marriage, a wife should know what her husband can do and what he can't.

Was I to think you can nail and an envelope?

It's such a cop out ending to this. Yeah, but the thing is they're just trying to basically establish at this point that we know it's real. Nothing really matters. It doesn't matter anymore. Yeah, nothing really metrics. Yeah, not really metrics. But then I did like the follow up though, is there snuggle insurance? Because if some I'm about to file a claim And I'm like, okay, at least it's sweet. Yeah,

Well, I mean it's really just the finale of yeah footloots, Yeah, right down to all the dance moves and everything like that. It's almost like a pitch perfect rendition of it. And there's like, uh, another musical outro. I'm not sure about that, but no, Footloose.

Is kind of a jam. So I've never really liked Footloose. The song that's just one of those ones where I've just gone run to Paradise is another one for me. There there's some there's songs that songs that I don't enjoy that. What's the bon Jovi song that I don't really like? It's not is it Living on a Prayer? Living on a Prayer? It's just those songs where I've heard themselves and I go, it's just not for me. I don't know, just I know I'm not saying it's bad,

The original foot Loose is kind of fun. It's very eighties Bacon, right, yeah, Bacon.

Yeah.

And then they did a remake like in the two thousands or the twenty tens or something. Did they really yeah with Was there a TV show foot Loose?

I don't think so. Okay, yeah, I'll take that back.

The remake was fine. Actually one of the first pearances of Myles Teller. Okay, yeah, he was really goodn't it?

Kid?

Can dance Footloose? TV show? Is there anything? Is it? Was there a Roadhouse TV show?

No, but there was a Roadhouse remake that was on Amazon Prime.

Assumed it was a show maybe, Yeah, So when it's on the streaming service, I was always assume it's a show. I get where you're coming from, but your Footloose was twenty eleven. Wow, that long ago. Kenny Warman, there's Ren McCormack. A city. A city kid moves to a small town where dancing is banned.

Apparently apparently it's based on a true story.

Yeah, that's the story of Footloos.

You would have these towns in say like Middle America that were sort of like in the buckle of the Bible belt or whatever, and they were.

Like no dancing at all.

Yeah, they had their reasons, and I'm sure the makers of Footloots just sort of said you can't dance. Wait what Yeah, it was probably part of some other overall statute or something like, you know, you can only dance in say it's certain authorized gatherings or something like that or whatever. It's like, what, you can't dance?

Watch this? Wait a minute, and that's.

What would happen. It's been a long time since I saw.

Footloot, But well, it makes the ending makes a little bit more sense. They're knowing that's a direct reference. I'm just going, why is charmers just dancing for like thirty seconds here? Oh yeah, that makes more sense now. But still padding, Oh, definitely padding, Yeah, more padding in the Paddington. I think if there was less padding throughout the episode, this one wouldn't have felt so.

Yeah.

I mean they they've done this in the past with the end to the Mister Burns Larry Burns episode anywhere you one, what's that that? That's from Caddyshack, caddy Shack. Yes, so it's worked, but it's.

Also a shout out to Rodney Dangerfield as well.

Yeah. Yeah, because there's no really reference too loose throughout the episode at all? Is it not at all? No, not at all. If Kevin Bacon was a guest, start would have made more sense. Makers of the show. Did you even watch this episode? Yeah? Who knows? Anyway, overall, I don't think it was a terrible episode. I thought it was a lot to enjoy.

Actually, yeah, well we certainly found a lot talk about. Yeah, I mean, even if neither of us watched it.

And I think we just need to accept that every episode is going to have moments that make us annoyed. Nothing's going to be fantastic anymore. But just try and find some positives. But we will point out when things are ridiculous as well. Oh yeah, we have to. It's our sacred duty. It is our sacred duty to make you realize what's good and what's bad. In Season twenty The Simpsons, there.

Are so few people doing that in this world.

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I'm very glad that we actually did a little dive into history and found out what a glove box and glove compartment actually the history of it all, that's fantastic.

What did I learn that?

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