Marge’s Son Poisoning (S17E05)

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Round and a half. Who was Neil Young. He was a singer in the sixties like the Archies and the Banana Splits. Four Finger Discount Dude, Welcome to four Finger Discount, where we are currently at the beginning of season seventeen. It's the podcast where we always love to go on tandem bike rides. This week we hit the review an episode that I rather enjoyed. It

is Marge's Sun Poisoning. I'm Dando. I am guy in the back seat of the tandem bicycle and taking rather a different attitude to my man Dando, because no, I did not think much of Marge's sun Poisoning at all. Started off great, by which I mean it had a really good couch gang, and after that things steadily went down like a tandem bike with a trolley

behind it with an overweight police chief. I've always been a fan of Margin Bart's stories because, in my opinion, you always get the best version of Bart when you have Margin Bart stories, and always find them quite relatable.

Sometimes you get Bart being addicted Margin. By the end of it, he sort of comes to his senses that when he lashes out at Margin this episode, it was believable to the point where because he's getting bullied, right, and when you're ten, the worst thing you want in the world is to be, you know, getting bullied at school, So you don't want to be seen as a mum's boy. You don't want to be teased and things

like that because she brings up the princess kake and things like that. What was nice is that he lashed out at her, but then immediately felt bad apologize and said, hey, happy would do something else instead. So it was that's why I say when I was saying, before you get the best version of Bart, that's what you get. He kind of like Marge being not proud. There's another episode called Bart the Mother. I always finding quite relatable and sweet in saying that I didn't like the B plot in this.

I thought it had it was starting well, somewhat potential, my other is different whatever, but it just seemed pointless in the end because as soon as he arrived, he left, and I was like, just felt kind of what was the point? I know, sometimes I guess you got to think we've got to get home and into the episode, but it's like, well, if it's if it makes sense this here it was almost like a the Homer They fall where most seas, but I hope we're getting beaten up,

and he's like, oh, I can monetize this. Here he sees Homer's arm, Oh I can monetize this, except he doesn't go and face for a championship. He gets there and goes much doesn't care about me. I'm gonna go home again. I'm like, you just got there, this is

your first fight. Yeah, the b plot didn't seem very well thought out or even all that well conceived to begin with your right, It did feel very much like a rehash of the Homer They fall, or just felt like I imagine there's a big folder full of half baked, half conceived ideas that's sitting somewhere on a shelf in the Simpsons HQ, and when there's a gap in an episode, it was like, Oh, we've got to fill some

space, so we've got to feel some time. They almost sort of reach into it at random and pull something thing out, and it's like, oh, yeah, this'll do, you know, I mean, and you know we'll find some way to resolve by the end, you know, through magic or something like that. But yeah, I was not a not a fan of the Homer arm wrestling thing. I don't how it started, how it

ended, anything in it. Oh well, maybe the bit with the Texas Does Texas guy have a named West call him Texas Guy called billionaire Texas Billionaire, Rich Texan is what he's called Rich Texan Okay, Look I didn't mind that so much. I mean, he's usually good value when he shows up, and you know the bit with Homer, you know, pulling his hustle by being a dog and sort of doing a bit of a frank not unfun. But yeah, generally speaking, not a fan of that B plot.

And yeah, when it came to the A plot, Look, you're right. I mean there's certainly some good mileage to be gotten out of the margin bart relationship. Although it tends to feel usually like the same thing over again. You know, Bartle disappoint feel bad about it, There'll be some kind of resolution. I think it was done so much better in March, being not proud all that kind of stuff. This time around. I don't know.

It certainly had mm it had substance to it. You're right. I mean that whole scene where are the three bullies I confronting bart and you know it's like, oh, doesn't want to be seen as a mum's boy or anything like that. Yeah, that rings very True's you can actually you can believe you can see yourself when you're tend doing that without thinking You're just like, hang on, how do I fix this? Because your whole world is school, the schoolyard, or that is your world, and the bullies are

picking on you. Gotta fix that immediately lashing out at your mum. I could see myself when I was ten doing that and regretting it a second later. But I can still see myself doing it in the moment. Yeah, but the way it was executed in this episode, I don't know, it just didn't really engage me in any way. I mean, I found it. We'll be watching these episodes and I'll be sitting all the way through it paying attention, taking notes or the kind of stuff. I honestly felt my

attention just drifting, drifting all the time. It just was really half of this episode too, I know, keep its grip on my attention. Now. Maybe that's because the Oscars are on, We're recording this on a Monday, and the Academy Awards are on. I was sort of half playing attention to that. But in honesty, I mean, yeah, Marche soun poisoning just I don't know, it just really failed to grab me. I don't know. I don't want to be an absolute hater or anything like that.

It just, yeah, it didn't work for me, and I don't know why. I don't want to be an absolute hater, but I can't tell you why. It's because you're live tweeting at the same time out the Oscars that he's suposed to be watching The Simpsons. No, no, I put a break on the live tweeting, and I only live tweeted like three things, and that's mainly just yeah for Key Hi Kwan. By the way, but this will probably be online by the time everyone's seeing the Oscars, so

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mistake. The're getting back together again. But I'm like, but how you're going to get back to the status quo, because that's what they're gonna be gonna get back to the status quo. You can still be friendly, but they can't be best friends because that's just woin't work for the dynamite going forward. I like the way that they turned on Marge. We're Marge realizing, wait a minute, I hang on, he's becoming I'm making him Muma's boy.

I'm turning him into skinner. I like using the skinner Agnes as the example of going Marge saying wait a minute, no, no, I don't want this. We can love each other, but you your job is to give me things to worry about it. Go out and be a boy, kind of like when we were reviewed the Sound Loot to the Sound Loot kids. Go ahead and go ahead and make some trouble. That's true, and

that's a good point. Look, I feel bad that I'm sort of sledging the episode of the way that I am because it's got like a good structure. It's got good architecture to it, you know. I mean, as you said, using the truly toxic mother some relationship of Agnes and Seymour as an example of what not to do or you know, a bad mother son relationship. Yeah, I think that's pretty smart. And no, no folding

into the karaoke thing. I guess it's kind of entertaining. But I just like how where Marge thought she was finally getting what she's always wanted, her son, who was her best friend, and then she realized, no, no, don't be my best friend, which is, let's just be friends. You know, let's just hang out occasionally, but let's just not hang out together all the time. Don't blow off Millhouse to come hang out with me, you know, don't don't have tea parties and stuff like that.

Let's just be friends but not best friends. And so Marge finally sort of found in middle ground between what she's always wanted and what she actually needs and wants. You're explaining it in a very good way, and you are sort of turning my ship around. God, I don't know. I thought maybe it was a tonal thing as well with this episode. You know, when

Marge was depressed, she seemed really depressed. I didn't like the montage where she was like taking the bike to Miami or something like she went to Miami. Why. I think it's a shout out to Midnight Cowboy. Sorry I missed that, Okay, but my apologies. Yeah no, no, no, no, I mean Midnight Cowboys bad as old as me. They did that recently on a Future runer episode, remember the mid Cowboy, especially the same song they used, Well, I don't think it was, was it.

I don't think it was. No. I mean everybody know, well not everybody, but the song Everybody's Talking is kind of the most famous from from Midnight Cowboy. Yeah, it usually gets used whenever you're sort of referencing that, but I think they just use some of the some of the soundtrack from Midnight Cowboy in this particular instance, and it wasn't necessarily a real big,

sort of obvious kind of shout out. But yeah, for nerds like me, it's like, I think that's what they're doing here, because this is when the characters are sort of about their lowest, and this is when Marges had her lowest, and it's like, I get that she's down, but yeah, this feels a little too down, you know, and I'm feeling more sad for it than perhaps I should. It was sad to the point where it wasn't funny because there was one line where she says I was

really looking forward to that. I was like, oh, that's just sad, that's not funny because you do the bike ride with her and then he's just like, no, I'd rather watched TV, and then she's just really sad about it. I was like, oh, and then following that though

she wasn't really sad so much. After that she was just sort of trying to rather bite by herself, and then she just I guess, you know, if you realized at that point no one wants to spend time with her, but but would rather play a video game based on her mother's son ten and Bite ride Maggie pretending that she's asleep, Lisa was just inconspicuously missing from that scene, and and Hope would rather watch TV, so she's you know, no one wants to spend in time with much, so I can understand

why she would have mean sad. I did like though that as soon as Bart realized that she was feeling this way, he tried to fix it. That's true. Yeah, that was good. That was good. I think the end of the reason they had Homo go do the armrest and contest though, so he could come home and see I'm coming home to you. That was the only reason I didn't like that sing Sweetheme Alabama. I thought the

Bart Marge singing the sweethem Alabama riding the Bite together was quite nice. It was pretty sweet, and yeah, I know it's appearanced by male man as well, who just wanted to It was just glad to get sharing their fun. Yeah, because the thing was season seventeen. It's hard. They try and cram these sweet moments into the show, but very rarely do they come across as genuine. And I thought there was a couple of sweet moments in

this episode. Did that did come across as genuine, Like when but tries to tell Talmage, no, I really am sorry, I really do you want to spend time with you. It was just at that point in time, I just was trying to I wasn't beating. I wasn't I wasn't being honest. I was just putting on this act so the bullies would not make fun of me. Yeah. I thought that was a nice sweet moment. And then when they'll just ride the bite together, I thought was quite sweet

as well. Yeah, it had a lot of, you know, genuine moments in there, but I just don't think they were executed quite right. It's like, yeah, they didn't quite pull off. And it's like, oh, I see what you I honestly see what he's trying to do, and you're giving it a red odd go bad. Yeah for me, at least it wasn't quite sick. Yeah that's fine, but I yeah, but I understand how some people would go yourself included dinner. I go, Yeah, they nailed it, good on it. It's not the best episode.

I'm just saying there was. There was a lot to enjoy for me. Yeah, hey, my favorite. What were your favorite moments from the episode, mister Davis? Oh god, were there that many? Because I've actually written down here wrote in ink not a fan of this episode. Well, while you try to find something for your stuff, I enjoyed the bike ride, like I was saying earlier, Um what else? There was a moment with I loved Homer saving them from the pinball machine Devil's advocate and oh was

a Devil's advocate? Yeah, oh okay, I'll not noticed that. Just I just always a pinball machine. I didn't see it was Devil's advocate, too busy watching the oscars about them when he says, well, had this happened? We're trying to impress some girls and think just got away from us. I'm we've all been there. What about you? If you found anything? I think, like I mentioned earlier. I think my probably my favorite moment is just Homer being a dork. I like that when he was doing

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launching that Bob's Burgers podcast all right now, beginning each trivia. Now we're going to be doing our brain Was it a box office Brainbuster? One? Was the title we decided on yes, okay, the box office brainbuster. All right, so this episode originally aired mister Davis November thirteenth, two thousand and five. So what do you think was at number one at the box office for the week of November thirteen, two thousand and five. Before I give any clues, you need to have a stab at it first, and

then we'll give some clues. For some reason, I want to say Revenge of the Sith, but I don't think that's it. He came out in May those films, the Star Wars films, but it was so popular it could have been hanging around forever. I'm going to need that first clue down to come all right and throw me a lifeline children's film from the from our friends at Pixar. No, don't believe. So here's a clue. Not

Stuart, not start. So it's not Little, it's not Stuart. Your clues are really as a Derek man, it's Chicken, Little, Oh oh, Chicken. That's a terrible movie. I remember seeing that thing number one at the box Yeah. Kids, they're silly, they'll go see anything. Number two though, I'll give you a clue if you want to train you wouldn't want this to happen. Oh, well, that's Oscar Winner crash. I'm assuming No, it's a great, great, great movie, of course,

but what specific to train. I'm thinking derailed, derail or to correct that is the one yes, and third was actually Zaura, a space adventure that's not bad, like an unofficial sequel to Jamanji. Yeah, yeah, I always I never I remember watching it once, but it was like at

a party when kids are running around being crazy. It was on, but I never really properly washed it. But it's one I've always gone, I'm going, I'm watched this one day because I know I would enjoy It's always been a big fan of Jamanji. But um yeah, a random a random box office top three for the week of Neverber thirteen and two thousand and five Chicken, Little Derailed and Zura a space adventure. It certainly is. I'm trying to remember who's in de Rail. I think it's Clive Owen and Jennifer

Raniston. Yeah, I watched about Aniston, but it's definitely Clive Owen's. Yeah. Yeah. Two business people having an affair and some some criminals going to out them or something, and they're going to find a way to stop him or something like that. That's right, Yeah, yeah, and yeah. The main thing I remember from this Zathura, I think it was the first time that a story young actress named Kristen Stewart, and I thought young ladies got something. She might go on to start them, I think,

And it turns out she did. So well done me and well done Christen stear all right. My first question for you is why were they tearing down the pier oh um set on a sign? They did? They did? Didn't they for rich people's condos? Yeah, condos for Richard Hits. Yeah, for Richard Hits. All right, what's your first one? Who will provide you with tobacco lotion? Tobacco lotion? Was? Is it lung lung strong, strong lung something strong lung doctor lung strong, doctor lung strong.

Yes. I did write it down, but I could be bother trying to find it my notes. My next one is what is the entry fee for the arm Wrestling Championships. It's the same as the prize money. Uh no, miss that one. Twenty dollars, fifty dollars, fifty dollars. I got a little dyslexic with my numbers there. What is the strong man's name? Oh? I do have that? Also, when there's a starts with R, doesn't it is R? Some what it begins with it does? Indeed? Um, it's not robusto mm a robust store. It's not for

sale. And my final question is what color bumper card does Homer take? Isn't a red one? Isn't it? I read one? Yes, he is indeed, one question for you, Dando, all right, he hit me. Um the leaf Garrett unfortunately has to close due to what in its cakes? Rat droppings, rat droppings. I like that she ended her letter

there with very polite, very sweet. It looks it looked like a nice little place to leave, Garrett. It's one thing living with an English person, certain sayings that I never would have ever heard of my life or said before, and I've now find myself sort of saying it. They love saying proper. Everything's proper. This is prop proper coffee. But it's when they say hello, it's hi. You're right, it's not hi. How are you going? Hi? Hi? You're yeah, you're right? Yeah?

Yeah, how you're right? You're right. Yeah. It's just a continuous loop, all right, Yeah, you're right. Yeah, right, how you're right? And they love saying when you say something's nice right. Just say, for example, Alie, you should have said when did drew me today? They go oh, bless, oh bless, oh bless ye my bless. By the way, I think we should give a shout out to our favorite englishwoman apparently did very well with the running on the weekend. Yeah,

my wife, Nicholas. She ran for the first time fifteen kilometers. She never stopped. She was training for it, but the most she ever got to running continuously was just under thirteen case. But she pushed through and that the turns out was actually fifteen point three ks. But they didn't tell anybody Nicolaus that she tiped over the fifteen came. She's like, you lie, I trusted you. She had like another three hundred meters to run through.

But the we're waiting at the air near the finish line, and the photographer it was there. We're sort of like clapping all everyone that we're getting the kids to clap through. I was with my mom and my dad. The other contestant says, are running past us, and they appreciated the little clapping and stuff. But the photographer was there. It's like, here's your mum coming and yeah, like all right, we sit down and clap and

he took a photos from the addie. Somebody there's going to be afraid of Nicola in the paper somewhere this week finishing off her race with the kids cheering her on, which which is nice marvelous stuff. Well, running fifteen k's NonStop, I mean, go on, I don't think I could do that unless there was some one with the shotgun behind me. Never then, do

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two thousand and five. Production code gab F two zero, written by Daniel Chun About Daniel Chunt, the writer of this episode. This was the first one he ever wrote for The Simpsons. He went on to become the head writer and executive producer of the Office. Well done, Daniel, Yes, moving on to I Dare I say bigger and better things by this point? I think because The Office is one of the most acclaimed US sitcoms of all time, especially in the last twenty years, certainly of recent years, certainly

the twenty fifth century. Yeah, I mean it's one that people just keep going back to and back to and back to. Yeah. I mean, it's probably one of the things that Netflix was built on. It really was. Yeah. Well, do you think that's probably Steve Carrell's best role ever? Is that? Is that if if he had to put something on his tombstone when it came to a role, is that what's going on there, I reckon. So, yeah, I think that's is there a bigger role

than Michael Scott. You know, he's the fort y old version of things like that, But I don't think it gets any bigger than that for him. I think when the time comes and we bid farewell to Steve Carrell a little saying in his um in his obituary, that'll be the first thing Star of the Office, Steve Correll. Yeah, I think The Office too was one of those shows that seemed to be meaned a lot more than others when when gifts and means became a thing. Yeah, absolutely, when that first

started. Yeah, you were seeing a lot of a lot of Office reaction shots. Yeah, it seemed. I don't know if it started doing that in response to it or if it started. I mean, because you hear about movies and TV shows that are basically crafting scenes like oh yeah, they'll meme this or they'll turn this into a gift. So but yeah, I think The Office was definitely one of the first to be adopted by by social media in that regard. Reason I bring up The Office once again, All

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and the couch gay. Let's discuss the couch game. He said at the start that you enjoyed it. It was almost like a mini horror movie, wasn't it. It was? It felt direct out of Treehouse of Horror. It really did. I mean, there should have been what started Treouse of Horror sixteen last week? You'd think so, yeah, because and it's like, oh, okay, oh they've been the couches a monster it's eating them or they're running away from the couch. That's oh, that's all good.

Now let's get on the episode. D No, No, that's there's more. Oh, this couch is all over town. That are, you know, snapping people up, whether it's Sherry and Terry, Moe is being attacked by multiple couches someone other people are getting devoured. Had a nice, uh, spooky horror movie feel to it. And yeah, we're on a little

longer than I expected, but just long enough. And didn't you know, didn't outstay It's welcome, I know, not at all, because last week, what did our stays, wellcome, I say last week, I mean never the last episode of seasons seventeen, Treouse of Horror sixteen that the Cane and Curtis watching the baseball that just went on and on and nine and nine

and nine. Yeah, yes, and I know they have to cram Cane and Cotis into the tree House of Horrors somehow, but you literally could have had this couch gag, just have them get eaten by the couch on the ship or something like that problem solved. It would have been far more enjoyable. I think, so. Yeah, anyway, but yeah, it's a good couch gate this one. I wonder who who did it. I'm not too sure. I wonder what there was like a guest animal doesn't say anything

on the wiki page. But anyway, So the episode kicks off with the family at Paradise Pier and March says she always wants to write that ferrest wheel, but it explodes because they're tearing the pier down to build condos for rich idiots, and but says, what are the joke is going to do? Or were they going to do their drugs? What are they going to re under? I don't worry, They're strong people. They'll find something that's back. Have you ever had a run in with a junkie under a bridge?

I've said this story on the podcast before we did. There's a bridget goes over. There's numerous bridges, but there's a bridget goes over, sort of like the middle part of the Las Vegas strip. And we'll better go up and over the stairs. And I remember Nickel on a honeymoon. We'll better walk up. And this guy's just like a mate. How much for your wife or how much for your missus for half an hour? Or how much for your game from a half an hour? And I was like how much

you got? No? I was just like Nicola, just keep I mean was flattered, like Nick, you're junk under a pitch. You got to take those compliments when you can get them. I guess absolutely. I don't know how committed that gentleman is to the junkie lifestyle. Yeah, he should be spending his money on drugs rather than other people's wives. Or maybe you didn't actually ask money. I think you just said, can I borrow your missus for half an hour? I think he just sets something Okay, committed

to the junk because it was just cadging. He wasn't going to pay You're just like, yeah, three feet lend is your wife, We pay you back back. Always wants to be a to score the junk. He's come up to you at the bus stop. Hey mate, you got home. You've got money for a pack of smokes. I'll pay you back tomorrow. I'm like, well, you're really mate, you need to get home if you got two fifty oh get we need to use the phone. Remember they starts money for the phone. Yeah, that payphones died out. That was

sucking at that little scheme, but they go. I did really enjoy actually here when they're pulling down there the various little stores in games, how the

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down home. It goes to Captain Dodgems or before that though, the guy who approaches that they do the jackhammer and I think it's like the sledgehammer or whatever, the bottles trying to get him to fall over. Then Rosco from the steel mill factory arrives to check it out. Oh my gosh, that worke hard. We play hard. That was in. There were a few there are a few shout outs in this episode, or a few callbacks. I mean, the whole life partner thing is apparently a bit of a callback

as well, is it to what? Yeah, that's what I'm trying to That's I was trying to remember, because I'm like, who said, where did you see this? Who said it was a callback? I saw it on the internet, which wouldn't lie to me. Okay, yeah, um, well it looked they didn't say to what it was a callback too. Yeah, I too sure. Um anyway, but he goes to the other dodging cars and he takes the red one and he connects to the tram line. I'm assuming it's a tram line, and that's how he gets driving along.

I did love did love wise guy or guy with the wax guy boy saying shouldn't be a problem, and he bumps into the cops and they treat like the dodging cars. I hate this, right, there's always that one kid that just gets stuck in the corner on the dodgings or that you know, there's always that one where like the dad can't operate it properly, so that the guys trying to fix it, and he's just the dad's so embarrassed and he can't operate the fucking dodging. He's like hanging on with one hand

and ship trying to steal the car, giving it a shake. Then we see all the different things getting pulled down. King Neptune saltwater bath which cures imbacility is how he said the word in facility inmbciles imbacility. I'm not even sure it's basil. He is a word. Tell let's go with it, Let's go with it, Ah, doctor Lunstrong's tobacco station and sulfur pops. That loud pronouncement means it's working. And magnesium vapor soaked tubs. But what's

one of these? Much as No, So he goes limp, just behaving like a even ture little child that kids tend to do. Lisa, my daughter, Holly's just learned how to do that, so doesn't get what she wants. You're holding her hand, Limp and oh no. To the people who are watching it, it's like, look look at that awful man dragging his child. It's like she's not walking to drag it. What do you want me to do? So? You know, and even Marge here they

actually pointed out in this moment he's just faking that he's lost vitality. Yes, I believe it's like no years. And then Homer says it is Robusto for sale. He's not for sale, but he wants to um sell of his stuff. So Homer buys his last dumbbell for five dollars. And this is where Marge sees the tandem bike. She's very intrigued by this. And I looked at this and went, that's actually a really fun idea. I don't know if Nicola and I together would have the coordination to operate one though.

They seem like you'd have to be perfectly in sync, like one person slightly off and it's old game over, you know. That's the thing. It seems very much like a test of your relationship. And if you couldn't be in sync riding and riding a bike, then you'd probably start snapping it. Well, no, it was your fault on whatever. I don't know. To me attend them bike just does not look like fun at all, because like that point, it would have been twenty I want to say,

you've maybe fifteen, twenty sixteen. Maybe I've brought this story up years and years ago were probably going to happen. But we're in Adelaide and they've got these bike ride tours where you're you're ride like mountain bikes right up through the hills and through the bush and ship and then you end up riding through the city a bit and you come to like suburbia, and then you ride at this guy's place who sort of runs the place right sort of at his house

in Suburbia. Nikola, fine, fucking up these hills, down these hills, no issue. Through the city of Adelaide. No, it's kind of like a big gelong Adelaide. But she's stopping at the traffic. She's fine, blah blah blah. We get to suburbia, sort of just ride along giant, wide fucking street, barely a car part on the side of the road, no one around. I was here, crash splash, turned around Nicolas laying in the gutter if they bite titty hanging out of her dress,

just fucking lay in there. Nicola, what happened? She's like, I don't know, I lost control. I'm like, this is where you lost control. And there's the whole time when she's just laying there, boob hanging out. This is guy who's watering his front lawn like his natures trip, just looking at her, none of us saying that, noting I was just watering his grass watching looking at it. What a creep. I was just like her. I was just like, Nicola, should put a bob away.

I was like, you're done. He's just It's just like he's just like standing there watering nare sip, watching her laying in the gutter. But yeah, I just remember always thinking Nicholas you went through the hills, through the traffic in the city of guests. The suburbia just done, so defeated

by the suburbs of Adelaide. Whenever I get intreated by the idea of a tandem bike, I think of that moment and go, if you can't write through suburbia, if you can't handle the streets of Adelaide, maybe the streets

of Gelong out a question. By the way, we mentioned parking on our recent review of the parking space for Talking Seinfeld, and we've got a message from a one of our listeners, one of our patrons, of course, oh i'll say his name, So if you're a fan of signf I check it out, but you'll we will be responding to it because it was It wasn't a heated message, but it was from It was defending the idea of putting a bike lane in Geelong. It was one of a man, Dan

Motter, and he is he's an American who's never been a Gelonge says, granted that, but he's a city planner who specializes in transportation, so he was very Look, he didn't agree with our opinion and he's got to give this big spear and I was like, I think we need to retort to this on our talking sign of our podcast, so listen out for an episode of The Keys. We were retorting to that. Indeed, indeed, I

won't go into it town because that's for that episode. Yeah, Dan, I believe I prefaced my ramp by saying, these guys have got good intentions and a good idea, and it be better if cities were all a bit more bike. But at the same time, you went about it all wrong, Shave. We can't blame you for the traffic congestion because you had good intentions. But we'll talk well, Dan, Prepare for a Prepare for a big rebuttal Yeah, that's a tease for our episode of Talking Sipop for The

Keys the season finale of season three. A bicycle belt for two and I could be one of those two on me. If I buy a bicycle belt for two, will you ride with me? I don't hate your mother, I just won't be sad when she dies forty seven forty eight. I was asking for something, Yes, sure, whatever you want ninety five ninety six, thirteen sixty four Banana. It was. It was pretty much a joke

throughout this whole opening at home. I'll just being a dickted margin whenever situations like this OC I tend to ride in my notes, Oh, great homes being a joke? This time I write great homes being an asshole? Do you think when he really was? Do you think moments like that cause you to sort of switch off a bit when you're watching the Do you think it

puts the bad taste in your mouth? And do you think that's what's caused you to not really see the positives of the marsh story because you're not fixated on the home, but it just leaves a bad taste, like, Oh, it's one of these ones, I think. So I wouldn't be surprised if that was actually the case. When you know, you push the jerk angle just into the red I'm like, really, you're going to be like this, I don't know, man, If you're not going to meet me

halfway, forget about it. So she crosses tent buying a tandem bike off her bucket list. She also wants to visit holy Land and return safely, download something that never get new hairstyle though, yeah, and never never change hair do, and try wheatbread. This is the speaking of wheatbread. Right when you go to subway and you say I want wholemeal bread, they give your wheatbread. And what this motherfucker is not weak. This is not wholemeal

bread like multigrain bread. It's wheatbread. I'm like, there's no grains on this, Like that's the closest thing we have. I'm like it might be the closest, but I asked for LTI gram bread. Used to have multigran bread. I wouldn't have it anymore. I'm like, well, you just need to tell me that next time instead of just assuming I want your wheatbread. I've met a subway in a while. Is it still? Is it

still a tasty sandwich? I haven't been. I didn't go because we had a letter shortage here in Australia recently and they started putting cabbage in with the letters and I was like, I'm not eating a solid sandwich of cabbage in it. No, thank you, It's just not happening. Yeah, And I haven't again. It's been six months. I just I prefer to just make my lunches. Now now that I'm working from home, I've sort of

have more time to make my own lunches. I used to get Subway when I wanted a healthy year option for lunch when I was working in the office. But now that I'm at home, I'm like, do my shopping on a Sunday, buying my ship for the week, and i make my salid roles for lunch, and I'm happier. Yeah, save your money. That makes a whole bunch of sense. Yeah. So now we're at home and Homer's not refusing to ride the buck of Marge. He's just showing no interest

at all. He'd rather watch TV. And but also, and that's when Marge says, I was really looking forward to it. I was like, oh man, this is really not heartbreaking. It's just like it makes home to look give them work us, you know, Like I said, I think that was the one two punch that's like, this episode is copying an attitude that I don't necessarily enjoy. Yeah, we all see marges like our mother. She's our country mother, and we don't like her seeing her feel

sad. So but at first, you know, he'd rather play the video game, which you know, I like the joke that the fact that he was playing tennem Bike Robbing one and Maggie pretends to be asleep, so Marge tries riding it by herself. She keeps crashing, and she finally is the hang of it. But Bart's in the treehouse of with Nelson and Millhouse and they point out how lonely she is and where Bart sees it, and you know, he wakes her up in the morning and offers to go for a

bike ride and she's like, there's gotta be a catchy. He's like, nope, he just wants to be a good son. I was like, oh, that's nice. That was a nice turn. That made me think this was could be going somewhere. It might might right redeem itself. And dear that this whole following sequence where they're you know, riding through the streets and having a mid of a having a bit of fun together, Yeah,

it was heartwarming. One say she brings up. I think she says, you're just trying to get me a call pizza in the morning or something, which leads to calling Dominoes which isn't open yet and having an argument with a recorded message. Because it's season seventeen, Homer Barton Marge and now singing Sweet Home Alabama as we come back from commercial just driving through the streets of Springfield,

taking it all the scenery and all the various things going on. I do like it when they just sort of go through Springfield, whether it were driving through or right and a bike. In this example, you just see life in Springfield just happening. A day in the life of Springfield. I like it. We see moments like this and they end up going through a scary woods and then they arrive it. I think it was a place called Springshire. Was that where what it was called the place they arrived at.

That sounds right. Just double check lets Springshire in my notes, but for some reason that does seems to like it's going to be wrong. I'm just gonna double check spring Shire, Simpsons. It is, Yeah, Springshire, that's what it's called, all of you in England, Springshier. It's Lincolnshire, lincoln not Inncolnshire, Lincolnshire, Springshier, Springshire. I guess we should probably say Springsher, considering that there it seems British like tea tea tea pot.

Yeah, it's got a little bit of a British field this episode. Say, I wouldn't be surprised, spring Shier, Springshier, what sounds nice. I think spring Shire sounds nicer Springshire. They're both nice. They're both nice. Yes, but I can't we buy, can't we? You know, bet on both the you know, being good. I like the idea that there has always been this nice place, but Marge has never visited because you're scared to go through the dark woods, like there's gonna be a little

there's a reason why they have never gone here before. But they arrive, they come across the what was the place called the leaf Garret? The leaf Garrett, Yes, a little bit of a plate. You're far too young to be aware of. A seventies pop star named Lafe Garret lost them. I knew this would have been something, but I'm like, guy, will explain to me. It was lost on me. My sisters were very big

on him back in the back in the late seventies. I'm like, hey, this girl looks like a wiener because I was a charming little brother. Is it because also, too that you think that, you know, when I've never had I had a younger sister, when he had older sisters. When they started taking notice of boys, were you protective of your sisters or because they were older, you didn't have that sort of element to you.

No, I'm not protective of all my sisters. I mean I think there was some element of me that was like part of me wanted to defend them if they needed defense. And Bart of me also recognized there's not much I can do against this guy who's got maybe two feet on me, also has a mustache. I meanwhile, I'm talking like that, you'd be nice to my sister, you like me to deal with or else or else, but it needs the bathrooms. They go into the tea house and Bart is enjoying

all the various sweets. That's the thing about having a tea. It's like a there's an it's like called English tea. What's the call when you go out for like a small supply tea? Yes, high tea, that's it. Yes. And I remember one time Nichols, we're going to a high tea like we'll got in England and her dad organized and I was like, high team. I don't drink tea, God damn it. And I'm like whatever, we're here, we're here, let's just do it. And we're

then it's like what how many cakes would you like? And I was like, this is a high tea. This is like the endless scones. I was like, this is awesome. I hope you sort of you took him inside, said you got a branding problem. Yeah, you're calling this high tea? Why don't you call it all? Are you going to eat cakes? I get the feeling you would quadruple your aladiness. Cake buffet is what

it should be called. Homer then enters mos. He finds the more stuck under Devil's Advocate, and I can't believe he didn't realize that you're falling. No, it's your favorite moment that hurts. Hey, what's the big idea? Getting trapped under that thing? Long story. We were trying to impress some girls and things kind of got away from us. Just from a record, I regretting Latin Homer, how'd your right arm get so strong just lifting this stumbo nine fifty? I'm pretty happy with it. Maybe no, it's

lefties turn. Oh no you don't. I just got an idea. Hey what you yeah? Son? Bart goes through the fridge and all he can say is healthy food. Now, did Marge take away all the treats? Out of the fridge, so that Bart would want to go back to the tea house. Is that? What is that the idea you got from this? That's a pretty savvy move, I think. I think Marge and might

have pulled a bit of a swifty there. You know. Either way she wins, you know, but it's like, oh, well, I guess I'm gonna have to have some of these healthy snacks or you get on the bike and your ride to the cake place. Yeah, either way, Marge is coming out of win and so is Bart. This is getting some exercise that he wouldn't be getting otherwise, that's true. And you know, all that all that bike riding is going to earn the gate, all the sugar.

He's interesting or some of it at least. Anyway, as you think points that he bales on Millhouse, I think it with a dentist appointment or something like that. And it's a lazy eye. Lazy eye, that's right. Yeah. So you can see here that Bart is now putting Marge above his friends, which is nice, but it's not a healthy relationship all the time. Balance moderation, Yeah, everything in moderation, which Texan and arrives and Mow and hammer are going to swindle him, and I just really enjoyed

this. I love a good hommer remost scheme. Give me a bottle of bourbon. I got a new liver and I'm breaking it in. Excuse me, mister Barker third man, I have a sugar free kinky rail and make it flat. Your bibbles being made buds gold durn it son? What the hell kind of cissy are you? Hey? Are you calling my life partner a sissy because a hundred bucks says he could whoop you an arm wrestling jexis penny it is? Yeah, gol, dang it, i'n't played like a

dim which kazoo? Yes, we make a dyn of my team. Huh with your arm and my head? Gonk, we're going right to the top. Whoa, This is one texting who don't like when he's made out to be a fool. Well, what do you like? I don't know? A good book? Long walk on the beach. So we kind of even things up here, not yet, I want to play some frisbee bastely Marge and Bart and they've arrived at the teahouse, but unfortunately it's closed because they

had rat droppings in the cakes because they just weren't paying attention. So Bart then sees this and he's like, when just doesn't have to be the end of our little adventure. You come to my treehouse and Marge's taking it back. You're inviting me to your treehouse, And I'm thinking when that happened, I was like, you're right, Marge has never been in the treehouse by invitation. True, But I think mothers would have enough mindfulness to go.

That's for the kids go. I mean, you'd stay out of there only in only in case of emergency would you go in. You know, you've

got to respect some boundaries in that regard. I was watching this shot though, when she's sitting there with Bart. You had tall marges with her hair and stuff, and she's sort of sitting on her bum and nowhere any touching the roof, And it gave him the idea for a video or an editorial or some kind of the unexplained sort of layout of BArch tree House and the size of this new some weeks to have a yeah, the weird geography of

Springfield, Yeah, or just BArch Treehouse in particular. It's just because sometimes there's giant parties with adults, and yeah, some weeks it's been for James Kahn. Sometimes it's too small for yeah anything else. Yeah, but it's like how big is this tree exactly that this treehouse is in. But yeah, for Marges, I'm not quite a fan of how dirty the places. There's some standing water that began as a bowl of cereal and Marches look,

I can turn this treehouse into a tea house. Nice play on words there by March I actually like this. She pretends to throw out his comics like you got him. I mean we mentioned on what would have been review the Trust where it was I was the King of the Hill podcast who recently did the Order of the Straight Arrow talking about trust between a father and son. You don't want to play jokes and your kids all the time because I never

trust you in the end. But it's okay to occasionally have a little sort of jab here, like marshes I threw out of your comics. Why would you do that since she's just laughing. Pulling pranks is different to sort of having a bit of a joke, you know. So this is just a nice little joke from March here, and then she steals them. In my last so you can never read them again. And I think the younger, the child, the quickie, you've got to let him know. Oh yes,

it's like my dad can't let it linger. We mentioned in that podcast that my dad constantly would make these jokes with me growing up to the point Wright has never trust him anymore, and he sometimes makes these jokes of Alliott, and I'm like, no, no, no, I'm like, this kid is for He takes everything literally. He's like, he's like directs from Guardians the Galaxy. He got no sense of irony, no, no grasp

of nuance. If you tell him that that nugget he's just eating is actually dinosaur pooh, he will believe you and he won't eat nuggets ever again. So please, sir. Maybe not such a bad thing, but yeah, but if it's the only thing he eats, and to get food, to get poating in him somehow, mister Davis, very good point. But this is where we see Homer and Mode they're leaving for the arm wrestling circuit. How will this affect your job at the plant? Negatively? Ascatively? I

assume they mightn't make this joke anymore. To be honest, To be honest, do we ever even see him working at the plant anymore. I forgot it even has a job. It's been a while and they may as well have just like ended his job at the plant. It's given him some other way of making money, whether it be like a worker's comp or something. Just don't worry about that job anymore, you know. Yeah, this kind of felt like the instance where the air sort of came out of the tires

when there's like, don't you have a job? Yeah? I mean you're not even coming with ways to sort of work around it anymore. It's just like, yeah, I don't go to work an him. I wonder if, ah see, there's pros and kinds of this idea, but I wonder if, like, to say, season thirteen that has went all right, an accident happens at the power plant and Homer gets workers where it gets paid a weekly amount of money. He doesn't get it all in one lump sum.

He gets it paid weekly or whatever, right, so the family can live. But then would the viewer not be able to relate to Homer because you need to have him, but he's not working anyway. Though, So the idea of like Homer being relatable is that he was like a middle class He had a dead end job, and he was relatable because seventy people feel like their job's a dead end job. It's like, oh, you know,

he's pain, you're working to pay the bills. But if you never actually see him at the plant, what's the point in having it in the first place. He might as well of just having living as workers company. At least that would make sense as to why he's able to go on adventures all the time. It makes sense. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. Maybe after seventeen seasons, the idea of, yeah, following Homer to work again, it's like, oh, yeah, that's a bit dull.

Yeah, I mean, but I'm not coming up with the story ideas that are work related. Can't be that hard, surely, and or coming up with ways to sort of fold the side hustle into Homer's everyday life that includes his job. That would be far too much worse. Like it just don't have him, just have him not do that job anymore. It would just make far more since he's living off workers. In my opinion, this

would have been far easier. I get where you're coming from, because I think a lot of people's disdain for the Homer character in these later teen seasons came as results like how is he like? And just the writing in general? How was he able to do all these things when he's supposed to have a job, you know, because in the earlier seasons it wasn't very often he was off doing something that would forever take him away from his job.

Might say that though there was a lot of side hustles, but they were side hustles. They weren't really taking him away from his job for long periods of time. Oh no, I mean he did go to space. That's a pretty big anyway, enough thought about it. But that's that's another story. That's another article or video we can do in the future. But how

should Homer's character have been handled his job? But yeah, so she leaves Margins and bothered by it at all, and Home is concerned that she didn't care because she's happy now, she's content, she's got her son, she's got a friend to hang out with with. Homer's gonna be a friend in him, but it's going to be a friend. And Mo says, don't worry about it. You know, he's just thinking about himself. Let's go make some money. So we're now at the mall where the bathrooms are no

longer at the end of a weird hallway. Why is that? I was thinking about that today. Actually, why do you always have to go down it's really weird and dingy, smelly hallway to get to the bathrooms to the toilets. I just think you want to keep the toilets as far away from the place of commerce as possible. That's actually a very good answer. Do you want the smell to be as far away from possible? Yeah? That is correct. Yeah, that makes perfect sense. Thank you for answering that

question for me. There you go, Dan, that's some planning advice for you, my man. I feel it's gonna be a feud here, guy versus Dan. I'm looking forward to it. But margin buy have bought a new T set Crusty Brand tea set from the China Syndrome. Marge is accidentally taking a salesman pen, so while she goes into return the pen to the salesman, but runs through the various crusty teapots sayings, I like that, what's this? I'm not doing that one learn from a professional kid, Yeah,

the bulleys and make fun of him. Hey Simpson, what are you gonna do with that teapot? Gay y'all, I'll answer for you. Yes, what um uh? I just shoplifted this bad boy housewears never knew what hit him. One is still something cool because I'm gonna bring it back to the store for store credit. He are you gonna get credit without a gift re seat? Ass um, Well, we've seen your hanging out with your mom, Simpson. Word on the street is you're a mama's boy. There

is no way that Bart Simpson is a mama's boy. Oh but aren't they jazzy? They match the new curtains we hung in your treehouse. He'll tryers on. I got your child's large because your tummy's getting kind of bloopy from all the cakes weep been having. Somebody here likes princess cakes. Princess cake, Bart, you just got yourself a nickname for life. Hey, Princess's cake. Want some princess cake? Are you having a fight with your boyfriends?

Shut up? I don't want your stupid sweatshirt or your tea set lashing votes my warranty. I have a good life. Mom. I only hung out with you because I felt sorry for you that was weird. But this whole moment here, as I said, I thought it was quite believable in the sense that Bart's lashing out at Marge because he's doing all he can to

keep his image, because he images everything. When you're a kid, your brand, as they talk about it in south Park recently, you can have your brand, and his brand is sort of like the bad boy of the fourth grade. And these bulleys are going to ruin. Actually, they spread the rumors about the princess cake. So he he lashes out at Marge and he says he only hung out with her because he felt sorry, which is true to an extent. It is, but you never say you never say

that to anybody. No, you never say that. But like, he didn't only hang out with her because he felt sorry, maybe initially, but in the end he realized he'd liked hanging out with March. That was the thing, and that's why he was doing what he is now. He just sort of it was he was enjoying it too much, that I guess. But the bully's then ask Marge once he leaves if they can be taught how to smoke, and she says, no, you think they'd know how to

smoke by now, I'm pretty sure you would assume. So. Yeah, So we come back and Barter is tearing down his treehouse all the all the new changes that Marge made, including fixing the booger wall and things like that. Back at my old place of work, I won't name any names, but we had the booger bandit. We referred to them as in the office where in the male's toilets there was just this boogers that would appear on the wall next to it. So the obviously this person would sit down and wipe

their booger on the wall, and the cleaner would clean it. And you go out the next day and there to be boogers on the wall again. Oh my god. We never found out who the booger bandit was. It was a weird one. I had my suspicion. Lisa is concerned. She goes to see Bart. She looked, I'm really worried about mum. She's just been sitting there for two hours, petting the dog and not letting him leave, just just patting him, patting him, patting him. And Margining

goes for a bike ride. We get the weird montage. But you said this was a Midnight Cowboys, which part of this was the bidnight Cowboy reference, just the vibe of it. Yeah, it's sort of closer to the end when, Yeah, things aren't going well for our two main characters at Midnight Cowboy. You know, one of them is getting very sick. Neither of them got any money. Life in New York City is just hard. So they decided to board a bus to Miami. Okay, but there you

go. So he's got the bucket of fish hats tipped on her head. She sees the billboard for hugging your mother. She uses the basket from the bike in a barrel. I'm like, why is why is there a fire at a barrel? What he's going on in your baka makes sense with there going for that parody. Margers said to Bart that she sold the bike to the police. Go for a ride down the hill, and Bart tries to apologize. You know, I didn't mean I was I was just no,

it was just caught up in the moment. So he suggests they do the karaoke night at the school. We never had this at our school. We never had a parent child event at school. The parents were never involved. The parents were part of the crowd and that's it when he came to school. Yes, personally, I'm all for that. I think there should be a separation of church and state when it comes to that kind of deal. Yeah, I don't think your parents should be involved in your school activities.

They should witness them, they should not be part of them. The sort of this doesn't has nothing to do with um with school. But I remember when we used to go to the Geelong Show. My daddy is a hunter, right, likes you know, shoots his guns and the hunts rabbits and foxes and things like that, which I know you don't like hunting foxes, but you know he hunt because they killed the lambs and things like that for

the farmers. But when you go to the Gelong Show. So speaking of carnivals earlier at the pier, and that one thing my dad was always the best at was the shooting the ducks, you know the duck game, right, but he would do is he'd buy it. He'd buy a set, right, buire the gun, work out how they've tweaked it, and then do another lot and go bang bang bang bang bang bang. It just get

like perfect scores every time. So that's one thing my dad was like my dad and I always good at I was like, all right, Dad, I want that toy. He's like, all right, son, you're going to get it, buddy. Like you'd be like all right, he goes, and then the next guy would come. My dad used to always take great joy and go and shoots to the left as an experson to get into us, like, yeah, I worp this one out, heads up, aimed to the right, and but this thing, though, every gun had

its own thing. One shot too high, one shot two fights to the left, and like once my dad had worked it out, it was just like you could never miss, basically. But every one when you know the games are talking about right with a ducks goalong the yeah, yeah, yes, yes, So I know they still do it because you're firing a weapon. Not sure if they're still allowed to do that. But my dad thought the first time he missed a few second time he just never missed. You

just see the car and he's just like shite legend. But we're now at the arm Wrestling Championships. Marge still has not called Homer, pretends that she has. He says, don't worry about it. Get your head in the game. The first matches against Lefty the Right, he left Right. He's only lost once when he had a fight against the literacy. Homer too has lost that battle. Yes, and Homer then calls Marge during the fight.

We pan out when we were revealed that he's actually midfight. When he's calling Marge and she's still answering, I'm like, what is the point of this? Doesn't make any sense? Well, this is the championship. The prize money is fifty dollars, so how are you going to be making money from this moment? Doesn't make any You're not making money because you have to pay fifty dollars to enter and if you win, you getting your money back.

So why are we doing this? Oh? Well, they're not They're not the sharpest tool your own psych gags are killing the story, but most of He wants to make it to the quarterfinals of the East Division Class B over thirty five amateur grouping, but Home is not interested, so he starts heading home. We're now at the drunk paralegal karaoke supplier and March is choosing a

song to sing as a duet with Bart and Skinner. Claims Ebony and ivory, because that's what he and Agnes always sing, or, as people refer to it, scary oke, scary talent. Adays, I'm singing a song with Bart tonight Capitol. My mother and I have been performing together since I was in fourth grade, and it's really brought us closer. Say more, where were you? A brightly colored car? Hurt my eyes? Don't worry, mother, I am your eyebomb and my man birds right here. Good

boy, you can push your crib into mummy's room tonight. It's not a crib, it's a cut. If it has rails, it's a crab. She says, you can push your crib into mummy's room tonight. And I was like, that's this one step over a creepy. Yeah, it's and stupid. It's guys, we get it, Yeah, we get it. What the I cream would have been enough? You didn't need to push the

crib into mummy's room. I was like, it's a cut. So now I have the karaoke night where people get the chance to butcher their favorites, and we have a Pooh getting quite overwhelmed singing where all the Cowboys Gone? Is that what it's called? Were the Cowboys? Gone it is yeah big in the early two thousands, m I think the woman who sang the Dawson's Craig theme song, I think sang that one. I don't want to wait for minute. There's something nostalgic about that song. For me, there is.

I don't know if I started singing I don't want to wait for my life to be over in Cartman voice or Cartman di around the episode of South Buck but where whenever I sing him, that's how I sing it. The encartment voice is better though, makes it twice it really, I'm just gotta here. This was no. That song was released ninety six by Paula Cole. Well, yeah, but it is the same woman, Paula Cole.

It is the same woman. Yes, yeah, but but she's saying, she's saying when of Dulin's critics was ninety eight, I reckon, don't you? I think so? Yeah? It's okay, very late nineties, early two thousands to stall you when we me. It says here that she gained attentions for her performance as a vocalist. I'm Peter Gabriel's nineteen ninety three to nineteen ninety four Secret World Tour. She released her first album as a result, Peter and Paula nice. Yes, just need Mary. Where is my

Childwen? Where he is my prairies? Where is my ha be? Indeed, God, God, good dude, do do do do? Do? Do do do? What? What do you think of a poosing it? It just sort of felt like absolute filler. I guess I sort of I guess I was. I was emphasizing how lame this night is though, isn't it. I think it's like, yeah, it felt It's like you feel like a gag. You feel like you're meant this feels like it's meant to be you know, a bit, but it's not working. Why is it

the case? You know, he's really sort of going for it, and you know, the audience like we're not buying this up open. I don't know, Yeah, but just it felt uncomfortable more than funny. The margin bart are all dressed up for their for their show, but it's a big fan of his, Tinklis, and he's referring to her as mother. I think he caught a mother earlier in the episode as well. He did plenty of mum mother. Just it's just it's not weird, but it's just like

it's it's my I only do it to take the piss. Yeah, mother, dear mother, Hello mother, Hello, Hello, Hello, mother. Might even have to you're a good buddy. Bat a Skinner and Agnes are here and they start singing their their evany in Ivory, and Wush envisions her and Bart being in the same position in a few years from now. She says, stop the show. She's just a bart. Don't call me mother, And she said, my son has no mumma's boy. Don't want you to turn into that. What a wall. And she says, you know

your job is to give me things to worry about. So she rubs up his hair and she gives them the fire extimulature and he shoots people the fires from her skinner in the crowd and whatnot, and she laughed at him, saying, die die die. Was he okay? S Marge is now at home singing Sweet at Home Alabama by herself. But she has a smile on her face, which she's seeing it at this time because she's sort of remembering by her and Bart their pals. Now she doesn't need Bart there to sing

it. She's like she's it's almost like she's content now with where they're at as a mother and mother and son duo. Yeah, but Homer arrives to sing the song with her, but he arrives with the trophy. I was like, he left mid first match, how does he have a trophy? Yeah, that's a good point. I mean, I know his arm was so strong that he's able to beat left in mcwrites and or writes MC left and or wader whe the hell his name was? But yeah, he shouldn't

have got a trophy out of that. No, and didn't. The trophy didn't really add much to anything. No. The thing is, he talks about how he won a pied he contest on the way home, and I'm like, why didn't you just make the trophy the pied in contest trophy. But they go to bed, they get the bullies because they mentioned earlier that the bullies they wanted to see my Sharona. So they end up seeing my Sharona on the front lawn. Hommer throws the trophy at him and says that

that's a pop music footnote, which is not true. My Sharona is a well, I suppose a bit of a foot No. No, I don't think the knack who sang my Sharona or ever went much further than My Sharona, but still a bit of a classic song. It's a classic song, but I've sort of put it in the same sort of level as Oh, Mickey, You're so fun, just so fun Mickey. Everyone knows that everyone

enjoys it. You played at every wedding, that's true. But yeah, the Knack aren't going to be put into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That plus, you know, watching this with the subtitles on, you realize, oh, wait a minute, creepy song, pretty one. He always gives it up for the touch of the younger kind, is like, who was singing? This is Gary Glitter Death? And then the stairs? But that is our review of Marge's son Poisoning, all right. So yeah,

overall it's um no table. So I really I enjoyed the Marge bart story. The Homer story didn't annoy me. It was just seemed pointless because when as soon as he got there it was over, I was like, what was the balls the point in the first place? Just to kill some time, I guess. But I warmed up to it a little, mainly because of just the warmthy you were giving off, Dan just you live to give and I did a little bit of receiving this time around. So okay,

good for you. What do we learn Bomber? What did you learn from this episode? Mister Davis? Um that I well that if you that if you smash the crusty Bann teapot you have, would avoided the warranty you have. Indeed, I've learned that whenever I go to a high tea, make sure I'll look out for those rat droppings, just in case they weren't paying attention. From knee forward, your name droll me. All right, it's time for the Guy Davis New Name Championship. The current leader board stands

at this in first position, we have Luke McKay. Now, actually we had a bit of controversy last week. Luke messaged me, so Ryan done, that was given the two points and the last guy that was New Name Championship it was actually going to Luke McKay. Luke says, Luke, I don't want to be that that person, but just let you know that the person you gave two points too didn't actually come up with the three that you read out. So they had a similar idea a name for the first segment

and the next two were different. I just read the first name. It was the Treas of Horror. The two points actually last week didn't go to Ryan done that unfortunately, apologies Ryan, They went to Luke McKay. So Luke mcca is in first position on eight points, Nora Coker in second on five points, and in third position we have Garrowed Harrowhill on three points. So it was Ryan nun Lap. Just just rub it in a little bit more extra all right, what were the notable mentions this week? A couple

of notable mentions before we get to the points. How I met my mother? That goes to Luke McKay. So Luke McKay's notable mentions this week, Hey and mom, I'd like to follow what's your thirty three fifty men? Heath? That will be all right. One point goes to Nope the top. Oh, he's no longer n Lap. That's Ryan dune Lap with the one point this week, Ryan, well done Lap. Yeah, a nice play on the Sylvester stallone arm wrestling movie. Over the top. Two points

go to Tea Bartie. Tea Bartie is by Adam Woolhouse. I believe that is Adam's first points on the leaderboard this season. So what on, Adam, You're now in the wild card draw if you do not win this season. So Adam Wollhouse with the two points there on on Woolhouse in the house and three points for a nice bit of word play quality. That's tea time quality time. I really like that, and that's really good. That is by David Mott. Also their first points for this season. So well done.

Some newbies here on the Guy Davis New Name Championship. I'm a fan indeed turned down for Mott. So current leaderboard stands at this now in third position, we have a three way tie all on three points. Good harrow Hill turned down for Matt, David Mott and Ryan Nunlap on three points. In second position. We have Nora Coca still on five and still in first position, Luke McKay on the eight points. Remember to be part of it. Just going to be a part of the Patreon Facebook group, to be

part of the Guy Davis New Name Championship. Now, mister Davis, it's time for some mail bag for Marge's son poisoning. Yeah, Demail is here all right. First one here comes from turned down for Mott David says, what's your go to karaoke song? Mine is actually Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash. I can pull off a not had not half bad Johnny Cash. So that's one that I like to do, although it's a little it was

almost a little too mellow. I'm trying to give a one. I did Tumbling Dice by the Stone, Yeah, and was told that it wasn't too bad, so I wasn't told to get off the stage, So I'll take that. What do you think mine is? And I once bolted this out at the Chinese Place on Yarrow Street here in Geelong, the karaoke place, and got a standing, got a standing ovation. We've talked about this about I wouldn't say was something about the Gunners. No, no, you're thinking

of the one that was Proud Mary. I did Proud Mary once and also got a standing. Ova shad fucking forty year old women that forty women are dancing on their tables at that one. But what do you think is my go to? I'll just tell you my go to is Sweet Transvestite from Rocky Horror. Oh fucking love that song. No, just you got to commit. Yeah, that's a good one. Tim Curry just you can't imagine anyone

else but Tim Cary playing that role, and he played the role. He played the role on the stage Shaw before the movie even came out, Like he just was Frankin further very much. So yeah, and I mean now it seems like every every soap star in the world when they want to branch out into a bit of a bit of theater stuff, was like, we're gonna play Franken for that'll be fun. I'm sometimes it backfires, like it does with Craig McLaughlin. So this one's from Glenn Gomez. Oh, I

think this one might be for me. What do you see doing together with your kids? Well, you've got Louise's that's true, Louisa's children do things

with them, um when it comes to avoid each other. I'm just looking forward to just thing things like playing video games with Eliott to the point where like it's actually like a challenge, you know, where like you don't have to sort of pretend to lose, because Alice saw at that age where like he doesn't like to occasionally I all beat him, just keep things interesting, but you have to sort of like make an effort to lose when you're doing

car racing games and things like that. I'm looking forward to sort of playing games against him where it's an actual challenge and I'm like trying to beat him. But that's the day where I realized I can't beat him anymore. That's a day you've aised your lights over. I think it's like the day you realize that your son can beat you up. When it's just like oh Man getting the grave. Andrew J. P says two part question, what's your

favorite Rusty tie in product? The pregnancy test? I thought that was two pac question, like what about two packs? Um, I think I'm just passed with a Rusty Burger. I love that he's got his own franchise. Yeah, yeah, I think that. Yeah, Grusty Burger, I'm all for it. An actual fast food rush chains pretty cool. Yeah. And favorite TV shows slash movies slash celebrity tie in product. He likes licensed video games of movies. A lot of them awful, but there's also a few

good ones. Well. It sort of times this times into this episode in some way because I think I've told this story in the past. But when I was about fourteen years old at school, forgotten my lunch and Mum rocked up with my with a very lovingly prepared lunch. You know, I've got a nice sandwich in there, bottle of something or a can or something. But it was in my old six million dollar Man lunch buns and Mum actually you know, found the classroom that I was in. Go you forgot your

lunch. It's in your lunch box. Six million Dollar Man had been off the air for quite some time. You know, he didn't even write his own episodes, honestly, God, it was very much just the class turned in Unison just pointing at me. Oh man, I know. It was one of those kind of things where it's like, mom, lunch boxes are very cool. Though. I think when you're a kid like Elliott's age, maybe the way like your fashion statement is your school bag, Like what brands

school bag have you got? It's got his light in McQueen one and he's got his Tressy park one. It's like I've got the fucking course, I've got the who's got the cool bag? It's me? It's me. You don't you don't have to tell me. I know, I know it's very important for Elliott to what is on his drink bottle. The drink bottle is a big deal for Alliot at the moment, Like what is his poor patrol

drink bottle? Is it the drassy park because the water tastes different from each bottle, you know, like at bedtime it's going to be this one because you can't be drinking water out of the dressy part room bottle at night time. It just doesn't fly. It's got to be at the port patrol drink bottle, different times a day, different tastes of water. All right, a couple more, Jake McFarlane, did you have a favorite activity you enjoyed doing with your mum growing up or even today? When I was a kid,

I just enjoyed going to the movies with my mum. It was just sort of, you know, my sister will stay home with my dad, would go see a movie. I specifically remember my mum taking me to see Space Jam and yeah, it's just memory. It's always just yeah, it's just the most random, obscure memories to stick with you for some reason. And mum taking me to see Space Jam and getting my Space Jam cup. Speaking of tie in proces, I've always been a sucker for the tie in

movie related cups at the cinema. Yeah, I've still got my space because the space sham one had had obviously the characters and she's on the actual cut, but it had a dome on top with a piece of cardboard in the middle with a little tabs on each side that you can flick a little basketball through to each side. So it was like, my god, mini basketball game. Yeah, it was. It was really cool. Um. Yeah, going to see the movies that my mum was always fun. What about

you. I have a similar movie related memory with my mum, And I was talking about this with her the other day because we saw like a Pink Panther double feature. You know, it's just her and I and I just remember that my and my mom is not a unhumorous person. She know, she liked a good laugh, but I don't think I've ever seen slash heard her laugh quite as much as during these Pink Panther movies where you know, Peter Sells just you know, falling over and making absolute goose of himself.

She was probably on the verge of pissing herself because she was just enjoying it that much. And it's just a very, very fond memory for me. For me similar to like that was. I was like raised on the Muppet Show, right. I loved the Muppet Show on one and my nan used always tape it for me. And she's to work at this place called Grosby Footwear. Do you remember Grosby's in Geelong? Yeah, they're great mate. Yeah, Yeah, she used to work there, Bubby Dog, they're a

great mate. Yeah. And yes, before she used to go to work at six o'clock in the morning, she'd push record on Channel ten and tape the Muppet reruns used to air in the early nineties for me when I was

a kid, I said, always watch Themupets at NaN's place. And there was one segment and because my name's my family really not me, in particularly my whole family, they love country western music, country music, right, And the guest star was Lauretta Lynn at the time, and she was singing a song called Ones on the Way and had the Muppet babies like these little baby, ugly little baby looking things on the Muppets and they're singing the song

with her. Asked me, every time my name watched that, she just burst out laughing. I've never seen my name laugh as much as what she did when she used to watch that segment. I know what it was about that segment, but she just loved it. So whenever now I hear I watched that segment, I remember when Nan passed away back in twenty twenty, the Muppet Show wasn't it went on to Disney Plus long after that, and I put that segment on and it just made me smile. I'm just like,

this remind Nan being happy, you know. So that's that's nice that he sort of had memories like that. But it's good. But final question here is from Ryan King, and he says this is more of an anecdote to than a question. Okay, so it's n He says he's twenty five and he still lives at home with his parents. He and his mum always have their regular movie nights together. They started with him introducing her to the

horror genre, then watching all the great cinema classics. They're currently working their way through the Last of Us series because they played the game together. Do you have any activities that you do with you Okay, so it's the same kind of thing, but do you have any activities that you do now with your mother? Doc? Do you do you still do anything with your mum. My activity. My activity is mom, can you babysit the kids? Mine is I go over and I'd tolerate mums, sort of recounting sky News

talking point not sky News. Yeah, he's got a bit radicalized old Margaret Mary, and you're not Wogaya. Who's that fact dude that resembles the dude from the Simpsons, the one it was just far right. He's he's at night News. He's like the post you're talking about. Oh is it Paul Murray? It's Paul Murray, that dickhead. I remember I met him ages ago when I was writing about TV there was a Foxtel sort of junket and met him and interviewed him, and he seemed he seemed like a really nice

guy, which is a shame. I think a lot of them just they know what gets makes them money and they just play it up. I think. So, I really think that is the case, and that's that's a little bit there, that you've got to be sort of that kind of cynical and you know, maybe you sort of believe what you're talking about, but you don't. You have to amplify it by you know, you're gonna push

it up to eleven just to cut through. By the way, it was Birch Barlows, the guy from The Simpsons to take off of Rush Limbo. Ah. Yeah, yeah, all right, that is Marge's son poisoning. Hope you guys enjoyed our review. The next episode we are reviewing here from season seventeen will be ce Homer Run. But we have some exciting exclusives coming to our Patreon in the coming weeks and eventually you'll hear these on the free

feed. But we're going to be revisiting Homer's Barbershop Quartet with one Ja local comedian here in Australia, very one of the topic comedians here in Australia. We love Sammy Jay's now on ABC Mornings and one of the guys best friends guys been on his show before. So I'm looking forward to our chatting about Homer's Barbershop Quartet with Sammy j as well as the music of the Simpsons with

the man who produces the music of Bluey. Yes, Jeff Bush is going to be coming on the show talk about how the Simpsons inspired him to produce or compose the music for Bluey and his favorite Simpsons songs because he says that the songs in the Kia Springfield was like his Bible growing up. He worshiped that at that album. So if you're a fan of Bluey, make sure you look at for that. That's going to be going up exclusively on our

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at Hombers Barbershop Quartet. We've got Jeff Bush, the composer of Blue Be coming on to discuss the music of the Simpsons. We also recently had the Real Gym's YouTube Simpsons Extraordinaire discussing Chi and Scratchy and Pucci show. Our interview with one Jim Cummings Disney voiceover legend is I'm on our Patreon currently already. Plus we have also Warren from the Bart of Darkness Instagram page. He's going to be coming on the show as well. Plus our man Dan from our

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