No. Money down. Welcome to No Money Down, your regular source of Simpsons trivia. I'm Andy. And I'm Rob. And we're here today, guys, to talk Season 12, Episode 1, Treehouse of Horror 11. 13, 14. Well done. Well done on getting all those numbers straight in the title. Thanks, mate. God, it feels so weird to be here at season 12. I know. Where has the time gone? It's the final countdown. It is the final countdown. You guys have got us four.
Well, what, 24-ish? Yeah, something like that. More episodes and then, man. We're done. Yeah, we're done. We'll have to come up with whatever we're going to do from there. One hell of a ride it's been, Rob. And it ain't over yet. So looking forward to seeing what the next lot of episodes has to come. So I was thinking, right, so this is a trivia podcast. It is. It is. Thank you.
We have, as in Chloe and I, have been doing trivia every Wednesday, like for the past few months, with Chloe's brother and his partner. Dude, we've been having such a good time and actually having a bit of success. So we were first doing trivia at one place that does like wings and beers and stuff and it was fucking great. And we played and played and played, sort of got...
you know, fifth, fourth, you know, a couple of podiums. But then we won it. Yeah. And it was like a $100 bar tab. Sweet. And it was great. Yeah. We went to another place, not this one just gone, the one before, our first time there, and we won it. Amazing. And now we've gone to another place. Now you're just going around plying your trade. Dude, we went to another place this week.
and missed out on winning by one point. Wow. Like the winning team got 50 and we got 49 or something. So we've been having a good run. But it has really made me think... When you're on the receiving end of sitting down at Trivia and you listen to how other people word their questions, it's interesting how... I've always wondered how you go about coming up with your Simpsons questions.
Are there particular things that you look for when you're watching an episode? It'd be like, that would make a good question. Yeah, really good question. And I think for you and I... It's very different. Yeah. Mine's much more what people said, whereas yours is like, what could you see on the screen kind of thing? What are you looking at? Yeah. Like visual jokes rather than like, you know, actual verbal jokes. Yeah.
Yeah, I try to come up with questions that you've got like a 7 out of 10 chance of getting. Yeah. You're like a person who is very good at Simpsons trivia has a 70% chance of getting it. Like a newbie still has some chance, but it's hard. Maybe a 30% chance or something. Something like that. Is that what you're sort of getting at? Yeah, but also like...
When you're watching a scene and you go, boom, that's going to make a good question. Is it a joke that sort of makes you... think about the question or is it something more in or is it like oh that's an intelligent moment in the show it's a for me it's about being memorable if i like watch something and then I'll pause it really quick because I remember what the next line is going to be. I'll write a question about that because that's something that's stuck in my mind. Yes. Yeah. Okay.
That's really interesting. Yeah, I like, obviously, a lot of my questions are visual, like, and have been historically. Like, you know, if there's a particularly funny slogan underneath, like, a building sign or something like that. which I do have a question like that on this episode, those really stick out to me because I think I am a more visual kind of person. But really for me, it's whenever there's like a, hey, what do you see over there?
I see a bleh, you know, or, you know, Homer, how are you feeling right now? Something and something. Like that would make a good question because it's like a memorable little snippet from the episode. Exactly. Yeah. All right, we also should have mentioned this is an up late with Rob and Andy. Yes, it is. So if you couldn't have told from the quality of that banter just now, we're up late and we're living large. We're having a bit of fun. Living large and in charge, baby.
Yeah, so it is... I'm bloody glad it's the weekend. Oh, man. I was so happy just riding home today. It was one of those really good moods just to be finishing my... Because this is my first full week back of work. Yeah. Of the year. How are you finding it?
Oh, like, yeah, it's always a bit rough starting again, but like, no, this is pretty good. For you, you just pretty much pick up where you left off, right? 100%. Yeah. It's not like there's been things happening whilst you've been away. I mean, I guess to some degree.
Yeah, because some lawyers have been working the week before, so a couple of letters have come in. Yeah, or if a case has progressed to a certain point, you get back and be like, oh, okay, now I know where it's up to. Yeah. Interesting. It was funny this afternoon, so I came over to Rob's at about 6.30 so I could see the girls before they went to bed. And Lucy, who is also my goddaughter, is just...
So funny. Like it's her birthday in a couple of days time. Oh, that was the best. Yeah. So she's like, are you going to buy me a present? It's like so direct. Yeah. And I was like, of course, darling. Like what, what would you like? Because she said that you guys were getting a notebook. She said she asked for a notepad for her birthday. And then Andy was like...
Should I get you some pens? And she's like, yeah. And I said, Lucy, I'm going to get you the best pens in the whole world. And Lucy's like, just get me some pens. Yeah. She literally looked at me like cockeyed. Just get me some pens. And I... See that you do. Oh, man. I nearly laid an egg. I was laughing so hard. That kid kills me, eh? She's so funny.
All right, well, why don't we get into a synopsis for this episode? Let's do it. Okay, so the opening sequence is done as a parody of The Munsters, with Homer as Herman, Marge as Lily, Lisa as Marilyn... Bart as Eddie. And Grandpa as Grandpa Munster.
While at the front of the mansion, an angry mob of townspeople attack the Munster Simpsons. They stab Marge and Grandpa in the chest with stakes, set Homer on fire and activate a bear trap on Bart's head, leaving Lisa unharmed. She then walks away from the scene while whistling, pretending that she had no...
connection to the monstrous family yeah and she's dressed as a real sort of like goody two-shoes kind of prissy girl yeah okay so then we get into the first part of the episode which is ghost dad Oh yeah, I forgot about the G's and D's. Yeah. So Homer's blooper blora bloop says that he will, horoscope, says that he will die that day. He dismisses it and leaves for work, narrowly escaping death several times on the way there. Hey, who cut out Beetle Bailey?
I need my Miss Buxley fix. I don't like you ogling her. Why don't you meet Kathy? She's hilarious. Eh, too much baggage. Ooh, my horoscope. Taurus, today you will die. What? And you may get a compliment from an attractive co-worker. Lenny? It really says die? That sounds unusually specific for a horoscope. Maybe I better check mine. Today your husband will die. Homer, I'm scared. Scary newspaper. Don't hurt me, horoscope. I'm afraid. Ow! Oh, paper cut, paper cut!
He is still alive at the end of the day, but is finally killed by a piece of broccoli. In heaven, St. Peter informs Homer that he has not done a good deed in his life and he must perform at least one within 24 hours before he can officially be let into heaven. Although this is reduced to 23 hours when he re-eats the broccoli that killed him and re-guys. You have 23 hours. That was a funny moment. Yeah. I like that.
Over the next 24 hours Homer tries to do good deeds such as saving Bart from being bullied by Nelson and helping Principal Skinner's mother Agnes across the street which ends up with him dropping her to her death and Homer defending his actions by stating that she was going to be the next Hitler.
With only one minute left, Homer saves a woman's baby in a runaway stroller. Confident, he returns to St. Peter with the news of his good deed. Unfortunately, St. Peter did not see Homer perform his good deed as he distracted himself by reading a newspaper. Homer is then sent to hell, where Satan puts Homer in a headlock and gives him a noogie for all eternity. Homer screams in pain, but Satan tells him to be quiet as he will wake up John Wayne, who has already woken up for his day in hell.
Alright, part two. Scary tales can come true. In a fairy tale setting, the Simpsons are peasants living in a pumpkin cottage. After Homer lost his job as a village oaf, he abandons Bart and Lisa in the woods to solve the family's food shortage. Hello, wife. Hello, children. Who's up for a marriage egg? Oh, who am I killing? I'm not Mary. I lost my job as an oaf today. What? Oh, why are the oafs always the first to go? Maybe you could be a Dutch father. Really? Hey! What do you think?
Do you love it? Oh, I'm no dunce. I was born an oaf and I'll die an oaf. But husband, without your weekly pittance, how shall we feed our children? Don't worry. No child will ever starve in my home. So long, kids. Enjoy your new home. Say hi to your other brother and sister.
When Homer returns to the cottage, Marge has him go out looking for the children after admonishing him for throwing them out instead of selling them. Meanwhile, with the help of Lisa's copy of Grimm's Fairy Tales, she and Bart manage to allude...
the dangerous creatures in the forest, including a troll like Moe and the three bears who viciously maw Goldilocks after Bart and Lisa leave the three bears cottage, locking her inside. The siblings eventually come across a gingerbread house owned by a witch. Lisa is wary, as it is exactly like the story Hansel and Gretel, but Bart is too busy eating treats to care.
Come on in, my darlings. The best candies are inside. Wait, let me check the book. She seems nice. I'm gonna go with my gut and trust her. You're probably right. Sweep faster. It's almost time for your beating. Oh, this is horrible. Horribly delicious. You know, she's only fattening you up so she can eat you. Eh, what are you gonna do? Well, at least stop basting yourself. Lisa tries to stall the witch by claiming she is lonely. The witch denies is claiming that she has a boyfriend.
when Lisa scoffs at this the witch attempts to throw her into the oven but Homer arrives to save the children eating his way through the gingerbread house's walls The witch turns Homer into a half-chicken, half-fish creature with donkey ears and broom arms. She then tries to shove him into the oven, only for Homer to overpower and shove her back into the oven to her death, before the boyfriend then comes to the door.
The Simpsons are reunited and are now living happily ever after with a mostly restored Homer, still having a chicken slower body as he produces eggs for the family, meaning that they'll never go hungry. All right. I love how they sort of like transitioned into that like etching drawing of Homer laying the egg. In the book. Yeah. Okay. And our third and final segment of the episode is Night of the Dolphin.
In a parody of The Day of the Dolphin and the Birds, Lisa takes pity on the star attraction of Springfield's marine world, a dolphin named Snorky, whose trainers let him be humiliated while forced to perform stunts for the crowd's amusement. After Snorky's show, Lisa sets the dolphin free to swim in the ocean. Unbeknownst to Lisa, Snorky is actually king of the dolphins and organises the world's dolphins into an army to declare war on humanity.
The Dolphins attack Springfield, first killing Lenny during his whiskey-soaked night swim. Alcohol and night swimming. It's a winning combination. And then the sea captain, who claimed he could stop them before marching towards the town on their tails. During the meeting, Snorky takes the stage and reveals that he is capable of speaking. Snorky tells Springfield that dolphins used to live on the land but were banished to the ocean by humans.
Now the dolphins want to banish all mankind to live underwater. Our top story, killer dolphins. Killer dolphins? The recent wave of murders. It's dolphins. We have to stop them. If we speak in low-frequency voices, I don't think they can... Ow! People, please! We're all frightened and horny. But we can't let some killer dolphins keep us from living and scoring. Willy, must you do that now? You want streaks? Because if you interrupt me, that's what you'll get.
approaching the podium surely it cannot speak snarky talk man i'm sorry let me start over eons ago Dolphins lived on the land. What did he say? He said dolphins used to live on the land. What? Then your ancestors drove us into the sea. Where we've suffered for millions of years. But you seem so happy in the ocean. All that playful leaping. We were trying to get out. It's cold, it's wet.
Every morning I wake up phlegmy. Plus all that sewage we keep dumping. That was you? It was her, all right. Take the one who wronged you. I, King Snorky, hereby banish all humans to the sea. Pushy dolphins. I don't like that. I tuned out. Where are we going? The humans refuse to submit to the dolphins' will without a fight, only to find the dolphins greatly outnumber them.
When Lisa is bitten by a small dolphin after removing a set of bottle rings from around its face, Homer encourages the townspeople to fight back. A battle ensues between the dolphins and the humans. Like gangs of New York style. Yeah. with heavy casualties on both sides. The end of the story reveals the humans lost the war and have been driven into the sea. Lisa admits she regrets freeing Snorky in the first place, but Marge comforts her.
by saying that everyone will have to adjust to their new life as marine animals. As Marge says, there's several corpses, including crusties, floating past them. form the words, the end, question mark, nearby, much to her disgust and sadness. And then finally in the epilogue with Kang and Kodos,
The two aliens complain that they have been left out of the Halloween special until they get an offer to do commercials for Old Navy, which they accept. And that is the very long synopsis. Yeah, well done. Internet. Yes. Well done, Andy. Well done, Internet. Okay. Shall I take us through some tidbits? Please. So...
In Scary Tales Can Come True, the three bears kill Goldilocks in the episode that we saw. An early version of the story ended with the main character, like the Lisa character, being killed by the bears. Oh, really? Yeah. So they toned that back. I think that was a good call. Absolutely. The witch in Scary Tales Can Come True claims to have a boyfriend named... George Cauldron.
George Cauldron. This is a reference to the famous Brady Bunch episode, The Not-So-Ugly Duckling, where Jan Brady has a make-believe boyfriend named George Glass. George Glass. Yeah. Did he end up being real? However, George Cauldron, unlike George Glass, turns out to be a real person and not just a made-up name. Oh, so George Glass was... Just a made-up boyfriend, yeah. In the Brady Bunch? Yeah. This is the first Treehouse of Horror episode to be released in...
The 21st century. There you go. Do all the Treehouse of Horrors come out around Halloween? I think for the first one or two, they didn't. They just came out at random times because The Simpsons had no kind of pull with the network. But since then, I think it's always been around Halloween. Yeah, right. This is the fifth time that groundskeeper Willie has died in a Treehouse of Horror episode after dying in all three stories of Treehouse of Horror 5 and one in Treehouse of Horror 6. Far out.
That's so funny. I love that as a recurring gag. Groundskeeper Willie getting killed. Yeah, that's really cool. So when the townspeople walk outside after the town hall meeting in the dolphins episode and all the dolphins are sort of like standing on rooftops, tossing coins and little billy clubs and that sort of thing. That is a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. Yeah. Which was also referenced in season four's A Streetcar Named Marge when they exit the Iron Rands Tots for Kids. Sorry.
School for Tots. Yes. And all the birds are outside. Sorry, like around and you see Homer's spats going. Mm-hmm. Speaking of Alfred Hitchcock, have you ever seen the remake of The Babadook? I don't know what The Babadook is. It's an Alfred Hitchcock story. And it's a horror film. Okay. And it is really good. Scary? Very. If you think it's scary, then I don't want to watch it. It's an Australian film as well. Oh, cool. Yeah. And it's really, really, really good. Okay. Yeah. I loved it.
But you love really scary movies. Yeah. Those ones that make your skin crawl. No, I don't like them. No, thank you. You know, speaking of scary shows, like scary in inverted commas. Did you ever read Goosebumps books as a kid? Oh, God. All of them. Yeah. Me too. Yeah. There's a Goosebumps show out now on Disney, I think it is. I've seen that. I've been too scared to have it ruin my childhood.
No, dude. It's good. Yeah, okay. So, the first two episodes are like part one, part two. Monster blood? No, it's... something about don't go into the basement. Okay. Anyway, we watched both of them last night. I'm trying to get Chloe to like sit and watch it. She was like, like, but it ended up being really good. And David Schwimmer was the lead actor. David Schwimmer. Yeah. Man, I love him. Yeah. My favorite role of his, Captain Sobel.
You know what's funny? I told Chloe about Sobel last night. For those that don't know, David Schwimmer played... Band of Brothers. Yeah, Captain Sobel, who ran the boot camp in Band of Brothers. And then he ends up... You know, being deployed and Major Winters at the time outranked him. And there was a really cool interaction between Sobel and Winters. Anyway, I said to Chloe, I'm like, he plays such a good actor, but I just...
Fucking hated him as Sobel. Oh, he's the worst. We salute the man, salute the rank, not the man. Yeah. That reluctant salute. Oh, man. Four miles up, four miles down. We're running Curry. I hated him in that movie, but you can't deny that he played the part brilliantly. And what a range. Say what you will about Friends, but you can't deny that the man has comic timing as Ross in Friends. Yeah, he's funny.
Anyway. Man, we went on a tangent. That was a tangent. I'm like, where are we up to in the episode? We're doing the tidbits. And those are the tidbits. Break it up, break it up, break it up. All right. What do you give it? I give it a B+. This wasn't my favorite Halloween episode, but it would be like a definitely up there overall episode.
Yeah. It's easy because I really like the Halloween episodes. I'm predisposed. It doesn't take too much to make a good Halloween episode for me. Yeah, I agree. And I think B plus is a really fair ranking. You know, for me... Like, it's been ages since I've seen this episode, so it seemed kind of new to me, and maybe that plays into my ranking a little bit. But I thought all three segments were really, really well done in their own right.
And I love, you know, it was just very true to a classic treehouse of horror. Yeah, absolutely. Totally agree. So I agree. B plus. All right. Shall we get down to the guest questions? Let's do it. Now for my favorite part of the show. Well, that's a talk to the audience
Oh, God, this is always death. All right. Our first set of questions comes from new writer, Joseph Pollack. Hey, thanks, Joseph. Thanks so much. He says, I've been loving the podcast and I'm excited and sad that the last season has been reached. I thought this was the... Finally, the perfect time to submit some questions. So thank you so much. Thank you, mate. Darryl, Day of the Dolphin carries it to a B for him. So pretty much in our ballpark. Yeah. Yeah, I think that's a very fair ranking.
Okay, so his first question is in relation to the ghost dad segment. Yeah. Which co-worker does Homer believe to be attractive? Lenny? I don't know, I'll go Carl. It's Lenny. Yeah, remember he's like, you'll also get a compliment from an attractive co-worker. I hope it's Lenny. Ah, yes, that's it. Okay. Very good. One nil. In relation to scary tales can come true. What did Homer lose his job as? An oath. Yes. I would have got that. In Night of the Dolphin, who kills Lenny according to Wiggum?
I know it. Unruly teens? No, you're very close. It's rowdy teens. Alright, I'm claiming that. Dolphin bites, flipper burns. This is like the work of rowdy teens. All right, and those are his questions. Thank you so much, Joseph. Thank you, Joseph. Mate, great to have you on board. Please keep writing in if you'd like to.
All right, and on that trend, we have another first-time writer-innerer tonight, Stephen Ravencroft. Dude, what a night, a double yoker. Oh, mate, thank you so much for writing in. Great to hear from you.
So he says, G'day chaps, long time listener, first time writer and writer here. First, thanks for your work on the podcast. I always enjoy the banter at the start of an episode. I don't get much time to watch The Simpsons now, but being born in 1980, I remember what a cultural phenomenon it was. when it started airing here. One of my favourite Simpsons-related memories was going over to a mate's house for sleepovers as a kid. Oh, man. 40-year-olds unite. Absolutely. He said...
He would record episodes of The Simpsons onto an audio cassette and would listen to them in bed as he fell asleep as well. Oh, cool. Man, that's so good. And he says, cheers, Steve Ravencroft from Melbourne. Thank you so much, Steve. On to his questions. Question one. According to Hibbert, what is the deadliest plant on earth? Broccoli. Yes. All right. Which two Springfield characters slip on Ghost Homer's undigested squishy?
I was going to write a question on this so I know the answer. Okay. It's a man and a woman. Yes. Miss Hoover? No. Close. Agnes? No. Edna? Yes. And Otto? No. Okay. Frank. Yeah. I'll give you half. Blue. Green. Blue. Purple. Yeah. Green. And his final question, what series of transformations does the witch put Homer through after he breaks the load-bearing candy cane? Oh, man. That was like a really sort of spin-out anime kind of bit.
Where she's like shooting lightning at him and... Yeah, and he's like, his body parts are changing. Yeah, he gets chicken legs, a fish head, brooms for arms. Yeah. And like donkey years. Yes. Correct. Very well done, mate. Thank you. I could see you scratching the recesses of your brain for that one. And thank you to Steve, mate. Yeah, awesome. Two new radar areas in a night. So great.
to have you right in. Thank you very much. Thank you. And our final set of questions comes from the cat. Hey, Andrew Pellicati. Thank you so much. Okay, so he says, Happy New Year. This was a decent Treehouse of Horror episode with some nice parodies of fairy tales and plenty of violence. I give it a B+, so exactly the same as us. Two, his questions. One.
What good deed does Homer finally do? He saves the baby. Yes. What colour is Rapunzel's hair? Blonde. Yep. How do the dolphins kill the comic book guy? Slamming his head in the car door. No. Impale him. Doesn't one of them like burst through his chest? Have a look at the answer. I reckon you're wrong. Okay. Slamming his head in a car door. 2-0. Make you set.
All right, to his non-Simpsons related question, what national rugby league team was originally called the Dolphins before legal threats from the Redcliffe Dolphins forced a name change? No idea. The Gold Coast Titans. Hey, there you go. So what? So they were going to be the Gold Coast Dolphins. And Redcliffe sued them. Yeah, must have threatened them. Yeah.
Oh, that's cool. There you go. Yeah, I like it. The more you know. Okay. Thank you so much. Thanks, mate. Appreciate it. All right. Thank you so much, everybody. And let's get on down to the fireworks factory. Let's do it. And we've arrived. It's that time for Rob and I to launch into our questions for Season 12, Episode 1, Treehouse of Horror 11.
All right, let me get us started for Ghost Dad. What compliment does Homer get from an attractive co-worker? That's a good-looking rattlesnake on your arm? Yeah, there was a striking word there for me. Yeah, it's really quite fetching. Fetching. Yeah. Okay, my first question on Ghost Dad. Which comic strip does Marge not want Homer reading? Kathy. No, she suggests Kathy. Ah. It's like two words both with the first same letter. Ah, you're going to say it and I'm just going to be like, yeah.
Beetle Bailey. Beetle Bailey, that's it. Yeah. I don't want you ogling that Miss Huxley or something like that. Yeah. So, oh, hang on. 3-0. 3-0, yep. Okay. At the dinner table that night, Homer tells the family that... The horoscope predicting his death was ridiculous. Nothing happened to him that day other than the pickaxe in the head, the rattlesnake biting, and the what? The testicle thing. The testicle thing.
So funny. I forgot that joke. You're smoking me on this. All right. On his way to work, Homer nearly dies in which ways? When he's like, stupid horoscope. Well, that's what I just said. The pickaxe to the head. Yeah, that's right. The rattlesnake biting his arm and the testicle thing. No, there's more. When he's actually on his way to... Not when he's back home telling the family. Oh, right. Sorry. Okay. No, I can't remember.
So which ones did you say? The pickaxe to the head, the snake? Yeah. Give me one more. I can't. Okay. I'll give you a half-stomping. So the paper cut? Yep. The lightning striking the tree and it falling on the cart? Yep. And the Planet Hollywood sign coming down. Yes. Crushing the thing. Then he gets the pickaxe. Bloop. Bloop. Yep. Yep. Well done. Three and a half nil. Three and a half nil. Oh, God. We're heading for pantsing. Oh, yeah.
How does broccoli try to warn everyone that it's poisonous? By its horrible taste? Yes. Yeah. With a terrible taste. All right. Homer's eternity of horrible pain consisted of what? My God. I can't remember. I said it in the synopsis. I'm just having a blank. A noogie from Satan. That's right. It was like a... Four and a half mil. Four and a half mil. That's also my final question on Ghost Dad. Okay. I've got two more, so I'll give them to you. Yeah.
Okay. When Homer asks for Marge's help to get into heaven, Marge says that she has a list of chores that he can do. And he says, I'm only trying to get in. I'm not what? Running for Jesus. Well done. What? Did John Wayne say when he was woken up from his sleep in hell? I was already up. I'm already up. Well done. Thank you. All right.
On to part two. What was it called again? Scary Tales Can Come True. It's the Hansel and Gretel type one. Yeah. Okay. Homer lost his job as an oaf and Bart suggested he could be a what instead. A dunce. A dunce. Yeah. Well done. Mo, as a bridge troll, says, I'm so desperately lonely. Name me one other time that a character has said that in The Simpsons. I'm so desperately lonely.
Burns? Nope. Please, I need this. No. It's Mo himself in the spin-off showcase. Oh, yeah. Well done. Thank you. Four and a half to one. Yes, on the board. Why was Marge annoyed that Homer threw the kids into the forest? Was it because they had chores to do? No. I said this in the synopsis as well. I don't know. They could have sold them.
Yeah, that's right. Then they went up to Maggie and she was like holding the sign. Five and a half to one. Five and a half to one. This is going to be like a rugby league score. It is. How did Bart solve the porridge too hot next bowl? Too cold dilemma. He poured the cold bowl into the hot bowl. Yes. Yeah. Well, this doesn't take a genius. Next question. What was the witch's boyfriend called?
George Cauldron. Yes, George Cauldron. And that's my last question on this one. Okay, I've got two more. When Bart was chained up in the Evil Witch's house, she was fattening him up to be eaten. What did Lisa say to him that he could at least stop doing? Basting himself. Yes. So funny. All right. Well, I've kind of already mentioned this, but in the final scene of Hansel and Gretel...
the image of Homer laying an egg turns into what? Yeah, like an etching. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So we now move on to the third part of the episode. Yep. Night of the Dolphin. Night of the Dolphin. All right. The scene of Snorky jumping over Lisa was a play on a scene from which iconic film? Free Willy. Yeah, well done.
Okay, after the teleprompter guy was being held hostage by the dolphins, how did Kent Brockman try to cover up the dolphin story? That was my next question. Killer Italians. Did I say killer dolphins? I meant killer Italians. Grey, bottlenosed, intelligent Italians. All right. I've got two questions left. Mayor Quimby addressed the townspeople by saying, people, we're all frightened and what? Horny. Horny. Yes, so good.
And how did Kent Brockman ultimately get killed? Oh, they bounced the beach ball against him? Yes, repeatedly. My final question. To rally the townspeople, Homer said that humans invented which items? There's six. I remember one was the glory hole. Yeah, that's one. If you give me four. Oh, no, there's no chance. What are they? All right. You got one, so I'll give you a half stone. Okay. So you're on six. Thanks.
Computers, leg warmers, bendy straws, peel and eat shrimp, the glory hole, and the pudding cup. The pudding cup. All right. My final two questions to salvage some dignity. What was Homer's rallying cry in the battle against the dolphins after Bart caught one of them? What was Homer's rallying cry? No. Come on, lads. Let's drive him back into the ocean. Oh, okay.
a la Gangs of New York. And after it was revealed that the humans lost the battle and they were just floating in the ocean, Homer says, well, you've got to hand it to those dolphins, complete the sentence. They just wanted it more. They just wanted it more. So good. That is very funny. Okay. So, well, okay. First, congratulations. The better man has won. Oh, the better man. Absolutely. Thank you. Trounced the worst man. Yes.
But next week coming up, we've got a decision on our hands because what we're doing for season 12 is every episode that comes up, we will decide at the end of the last episode whether we're going to do it or sub it out and do...
Another one in view of some of the season 12 episodes are a bit weak. Yeah. So for this season, guys, it can be a little bit tricky writing in questions in advance. Yeah. So we probably encourage you not to do so. Listen to the episode and then figure out what we're going to do for the next one. And then...
you know, write questions accordingly. Yeah, and sorry if that sort of screws people over. Yeah. However, yes, we do have a decision on our hands. Season 12, episode 2 is The Tale of Two Springfields. The one where the Who... like nightly Who concerts. The Springfield divides into New Springfield and Old Springfield and Homer becomes the mayor of New Springfield. Yeah, yeah. So do you have any strong opinions on this one? Yeah, I'd like to do it.
You want to do it? Yeah. Yeah, I'd like to do it. Yeah. So, all right, we'll do it. All right. Good stuff. All right, guys. So, yeah, get those questions in for Season 12, Episode 2, A Tale of Two Springfields in the next couple of days to nomoneydownpodcast.gmail.com. Indeed. And just a quick thank you to everyone that wrote in for this week's episode. A particular shout out to our two new writer-inners, Joseph Pollack and Stephen Ravenscroft.
Thank you so much, guys. Thank you, guys. Really, really appreciate it. And thank you, as always, to the cat. Andrew Pellicati. Yeah. Thank you, mate. Appreciate it. All right, guys. Well... That's been Season 12, Episode 1, Treehouse of Horror 11. Thank you very much for tuning in. From Rob and I, it's time to say goodbye, farewell, and amen. Amen. Ta-ta. Ta-ta and farewell. Bye, guys.