Brake My Wife, Please

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Um, yeah, so we're talking about break my wife, please. And, uh, just a little background. This is a number generated a random number generated episode. So I took all of the numbers of, I took like one through 700 and whatever, whatever number of the Simpsons episodes are at. Had a website pick a random number between those numbers. And it came up with the number that corresponded with this episode. So this was completely chosen by random. And, uh, yeah,

I like that though. Cause we're we like the oldest. Um, and we'd end up just reviewing all those, but it's good to get some stuff that either we haven't seen in forever or is it a bit unfamiliar to us? Definitely. But it's funny to say, I feel like this is one of the newer episodes, but it came out in 2003. We got a lot of catching up to do. Oh

boy. It was funny too, because when I read the description for it, I was like, I don't think I've seen this one, but as I watched it. Like there was actually one moment that I've quoted many times, but did not remember what episode it was from what recording? Um, you'll see when we get to that. Okay. Yeah. Um, and, but yet I didn't remember most of the rest of the episode, there was just one tiny, tiny part that really stuck with me in 2003. So it would have been 13.

Yeah. Like this one did seem familiar to me, but it also seemed new as I was watching

it. Yeah. Yeah. So, well, should we do the usual? Yeah. So we are talking about break my wife please. Season 14, episode 20, originally aired May 11th, 2003, directed by Pete Michelles or Michael's, I'm not sure which and written by Tim long. Our guest stars are Steve Buscemi as himself Jackson brown as himself and Jane Kas, Merrick as judge Constance harm.

And we see something that's kind of shorter intro with this one where we don't have the opening chalkboard scene, which I think should be required to be there. But we do have the couch game where they all run up and it's kind of the head cut up thing. And they all switched places as family members, which, yeah, that was pretty, there's a little

short and cute couch gig. Yeah. Uh, so, uh, we're starting out the episode at the Springfield aquarium, dead fish skimmed daily. Yes. And I love this tour guide that just has this weird bit part, like he's in this episode for like three minutes. Um, and he makes like a cheesy joke, like a tour guide normally would and they all laugh and he goes, what am I a joke to you? People

like, shut up,

shut up. It's not exciting. I just, I love this guy. He

reminds me of, um, there was an episode of Futurama or there at the aquarium and the guy. Oh, it's Shamu the whale who thinks he's better than you. He hates his job and he exhibits

just a Mr. Passive aggressive. Yeah. Yeah. Uh,

the,

so I put here eating leftovers and I can't remember what the context for that was the eating leftover. I can't remember now I watched this last

night. I watched this like an hour ago.

Anyways. I liked it enough to write it down, but supposedly not enough to remember what it was. We're also, we never record on Mondays and we're recording on a Monday. Yeah, it's a weird day. Maybe this is like not the best day to record a podcast. Um, cause I watched the Sunday night. The barrier between Sunday night and then a full day of work and then podcasting it. Some details didn't make it through that barrier. Just falls out.

I think we're safe at this point.

Anyways. That's what happened to the eating leftovers scene that I wrote down. It was a

little orbit, the bottom yep. Leftovers. And

so, yes. Um, but I do remember the flying penguins

love the flying thing.

Once I got a big laugh out of that, um, where Lisa opens the door and there, the penguins are just flying everywhere and then they just kind of stop and glare at her. It's just, um, And then we have the fish and bags sort of gag where they say they're moving them to another. Exhibit and we keep them safe

in our storage tank. The whales just bunched up in a plastic bag.

I wonder if that's the same whale that most, all

the fence and the Simpsons.

If you, if you're on Twitter, you got to follow a Simpson's crap memes, which is just the worst. Version of Simpson's humor that exists. But I mean that in the best way possible,

I think in one image you need three very random pieces of Simpson's trivia. And if you get all of that, it's

perfect. If you get it, you get it. And if you don't, you don't. Oh man. But they had it. So that Moe was instead of carrying shampoo, he was carrying like David like bikini pic from, from the X-Files. And then instead of molder, it was the whale watching it go by and it was

wonderful and terrible at this. You don't know what we're talking about. It makes no sense

and we apologize profusely. So, um, so the part, so part ends up hiding, like in a, in a clam shell. And they're like, oh, look at those beautiful pearls.

And it's a Skinner says those flawless pearls.

And of course it's Bart's, but, and, um, and he eventually gets beat up by all the fish. And Frankie got so happy, like gleeful even and said, I love seeing Bart get hurt. He can be such a jerk.

It was very, um, was it anthropomorphized would be the right word. That was very unusual for the Simpsons. Cause it wasn't like a dream sequence or anything like that. It was real life that these fish had angry faces and we're punching Bart, which

yeah, it was a bit odd. It was weird. And it was for some reason, Frankie loved it. So it got her vote. Uh, yeah, the fish beat them up, but it was, it was weird, but it happens. And I guess that's sort of the inciting incident that causes this whole. It seems like, like seasons 10 through 18 ish has a lot of these. The beginning has nothing to do with the end. There's like one little inciting incident that starts a whole bunch of unrelated events.

Like the first five minutes, get thrown away. One thread, that

tiny thing that starts a completely unrelated series of events. And so we've got Bart getting beaten up by fish, which will eventually lead to Homer, having to throw a barbecue for Martin.

That should just be the description right on the show.

There you go. That's the whole thing. Bart goes to the hospital cause he got beat up by fish and Marge doesn't have her insurance card with her. So Dr. Hibbert handcuffs, Bart to the bed.

I love his line before that though. It will be up and underachieving in no time.

Yeah. They, they, they know Bart. Th this isn't such a weird space. So this was in 2003 because I even, I wrote this before I knew what the plot of the episode was about. I wrote, I find it interesting that there still aren't cell phones. And that's the whole thing, because you'll, you'll learn a little bit later. This is about homework getting a cell phone, but this is in that weird middle area where Marge still had to call Mo.

Like it's just things that you don't feel like should overlap.

Yeah. But they did it's I don't

know. But then it's not to jump ahead too much, but when Homer gets the cell phone and he plays the ringtone, but it's like electronic beeps. Like I remember being in school as kids were starting to get phones and kind of the cool things kids do was the scroll through their ringtones and all the different patterns of beeps and it was obnoxious, but that was just kind of. What you did when you got, when you listened to all the ringtones and yeah, it was cool. Cause it beat a certain way.

I would buy a personalized ringtone for like a dollar and it would be like a real song, but in beep form, like I remember Frankie had Mr. Jones like Mr. Me, but it was beeps and I just, it was just such a very specific, timely thing. Yeah. Oh, man, it's weird. This is bringing me back to 2003,

but I don't like it.

Um, we've got editor and Chimp is the movie that Homer's watching in the video store. I was

trying to remember, and it just clicked in my head. The other movie, heel to the Chimp. Yep. I have that written. He

should have hailed to the gym. And the other TV in the video store is showing like a 80 sad drama and he alternates between the two TVs he's laughing and then he's crying. And it was a good scene. I liked it. It was good. A lot

of emotion Homer's mind. He's very passionate about both TVs, whatever he

does is up to a hundred he's he's he's max power. He's.

Does he strike you, strap

yourself in and feel the GS. Um, and I actually wrote, oh, there's the cell phone because that's when Homer ends up getting a cell phone because mark can't communicate with him. And did she

notice where corporate cell phone lady came.

Wasn't she, she was in a couple other scenes, but

what door she came out of? Oh, I didn't see that she came from the morgue. I don't know what she was doing in there, but I noticed it in the packet. It was very kind of like meant to be seen through some big red letters. And she, the doors, his bus opened, she's like, oh, well I have a cell phone.

That's a weird. Um, that's really weird. So, um, so I thought the interesting thing was, uh, this was so 2003 that you could make a whole episode about getting a cell phone, because if you did that today, it would be like making an episode about going to the store and buying a gallon of milk. But that back then nobody had 'em or at least if you did, it was kind of like a big deal. It was like a weird transitional period.

Yeah. At that point I had only had a phone for about a year and a half maybe. Yeah.

It was like getting a color TV in the sixties. Like you knew people that had one, but it wasn't common and it was kind of a big deal. Yeah. But slowly more and more people were getting them until it became the. Uh, cut the BP ringtones, flip flown, flip phones and talking while driving, because the big thing there was it wasn't texting while driving. It was talking on the phone while driving was the big problem. And it's not as much of a problem now because people don't either.

It's like built into

cars. Yeah. Yeah. Um, okay. And here's the thing that I remember from when this first aired was the IDEXX I dance, I dance around the Mexican hat. I still sing that for some reason, but I didn't know what episode it was from. Nice. So for some reason that stuck with 13 year old me, we have Homer driving with his knees, which was like in a. Who shot Mr. Burns? He does that with ice cream cones, ice cream, huh? Well,

I love that he's got his phone and a donut and he can't put even just the donut. Like it's assumed that the donut hand will never be free.

No. And, um, we've got the car plugins that go off the rails when he goes to the phone accessory store. The one, the other thing was that he was talking about having a hands-free mode. And you talked about getting like a headache. Yeah, like that was the solution there. It wasn't that there was like a speakerphone mode. It

was almost like a call center headset. Yeah. It was

weird.

I love the, the salesman, talking about everything plugs into your car, Jack. I remember for a while there were all kinds of adapters for everything and it was before everything was USB, but you could do that, but each thing took up the entire Jack, but then you've had the splitters. Three cigarette ports, even just saying cigarette lighter port sounds weird. Like this is a very day to day. So yeah, it's,

it's weird. Um, so I tried to write down as many things I could, that he was plugging in here. He had a fax machine, which again is dated fog machine, a DJ station, a microwave, a TV. He had like a kitchen station sort of thing. He had a bunch of staff, soft serve ice cream. Which I mean was probably a huge safety hazard and he probably should have known something about that being like the head of safety at the power plant.

But do you know who you're talking about,

but we're talking about home right here. Uh, so he's so distracted that he ends up falling into a lake and gets his license revoked and then eaten by dogs.

She goes through like the guillotine. For the license feeds it to the two dogs separately, their poop,

like it is very thorough here. And, um, I believe it, wasn't the lady that voiced her. Wasn't she? The mom from Malcolm in the middle?

Yes.

Think so. What, what happened to her? Like Bryan Cranston got so big, but we forgot about the mom, huh? Yeah. Hmm. Hmm. All right. So now we have the big sort of conflict of the episode is that Marge has to drive everyone around town.

That's what a good wife does picks up the slack. God. Oh, we got to pick up my slacks and she'll be

pick up the slacks. Uh, and she's driving Lenny and Carl around and we've got Lenny acting like a kid, like, can we stop for ice cream

or does yeah,

like maybe later. And he says,

We'll think about it,

think about it. That's what it was. And he goes, that always means no.

It's actually made me a little sad

and we've got home or walking to Moe's and, um, he sees all the people driving PI in cars and we've got Ralph in the police car say I turned off the parking brake. Uh,

chief Wayne, if you stop the car, I'll let you play with my gun.

Oh God, that's terrible. And he's like on a tricycle. Uh, and once again, the amount of space between the Simpson's house and all other places is constantly shifting because he gets there and he's only like down the street from Moe's, but he's, the house is never that close to mode. In other

episodes, are you thinking when he has to drive to work and he goes all the way through the parking lot?

Yeah. Um, Homer finds a, you enjoys walking. So we've got him like kind of walking through a bunch of scenes. We've got Bishop to Q4 and they go, we're playing domino Bishop take you for. And then the homework gets to the power plant. And Mr. Bren says, you're the first one here. Here's a ticket to the 1931. World's fair. But to be fair, ha ha. That would probably be worth a lot of money just as like a collector's item. Yeah. I hope Homer kept that be great for a road trip where you rent a car.

Not a city fair,

but a whirl. It's right here. What's it called? Um, what was the, what was that audit mill anyway? Oh, didn't feel oh yeah. Yeah. The wad for,

oh, we get distracted

too easily. It's a Monday. Oh, and there's a nice little, little moment. Um, when it switches back to the Simpson's house or Barton, Lisa are playing with snowball too. Yeah. Like Marge is talking and they're just kind of playing with, with the cat and, and it's cute.

Yeah. You don't see them doing that too often. Sounds a little hopper is usually the one to make an appearance. If there is something.

Yeah. Um, this is all I wrote for this next scene. Homer sings, a song while he walks and it's okay. And he runs into Steve Buscemi question mark.

Yeah. Who's did they write the story, wanting to put them in there or are they like, okay. They're just out in the Hollywood, like, okay, who wants to be on the Simpsons for 30 seconds?

He's like, Steve, Steve resent me. He's like, oh my God. And I actually read afterwards that he was kind of disappointed because he wanted to be in the Simpsons a lot, but his scene was so short and he was sad about it, but then he ended up showing up in like season 19 or something. So he got a second chance Mr. Buscemi, uh, And at the end of the song, March hits him with this, with her car, very jarring.

The song is not meant to end there, but she just, she puts a quick end to that.

Like, dang, like it was, it was bam. Uh, and then I've just got written down the quote. It would have been a lot worse if I didn't have this Bible on my crotch.

Yeah. Yeah. And it's funny because when I went to watch it on my streaming thing, that was what showed us the thumbnails, him holding up the Bible, which is a very, not about the episode at all, but

there's not much about religion in this episode. It also reminded me of, um, Ned getting hit by the bullet. And he's glad I keep up the Bible by my heart. And then he gets hit again on a glider, keep a piece of the real cross by my heart. And he's like, I'm going to go inside now. Uh, so this was the other part of the episode that I remembered a little bit was that Homer gets better, but Marge does all the stuff to manipulate him. Like without even knowing that she's doing it.

It's like she's had enough after all these years, but

she doesn't even realize that she's doing it. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, it's, she's reached a breaking point where like she kicks his cane down. And it's weird. Cause when you're watching it, you can see her do it deliberately. You can tell that it's not an accident, but yet she still doesn't realize that she's

doing that. Yeah. I forget the exact wording when she says, she says, no, it's not that I don't love you. It's not that I hate you. And then I hate you. I hate you. She has on a lot of like this isn't just. A recent thing.

And it's interesting that this is what causes it, because homework has done so many more extreme things, but yet this is the thing that clenches

it. Yeah. I noticed though, and she, she mentions it too. It's that he's getting so much good benefit out of it. And he does so well

and it's almost like maybe like the straw that breaks the camel's back. That it's not really about the severity of what's happening. It's. It was just the last bit of what

she could take, right? Yeah, we do see also I liked the counseling session or first on the door. It says the one who's wrong. Pays my God. And then they started seeing each other as different objects. And Homer sees him as a hot dog. What should I do, doctor?

And, um, we have, they're all supposed to write down the people that they care about the most and Homer just rests on three different versions of themselves. And one of them is like Mr. McCool. And then it says in parentheses me, which is just weird,

stupid

and silly, but, um, there's definitely some jerk, a Homer, like I don't, can I say ass? I think we've had this discussion before a jerk ass. Homer is like a term that's thrown around sometimes about like post season 10 ish, Homer not being as nice as like early season Homer. And this is definitely kind of like that because I could not picture season one through seven homework doing that kind of list.

Margin would have been, at least in one of the spaces, it would have been kind of a redeeming thing where you expect him to put all three things as him, but he would come through it and maybe

he'd put himself as one of them, but he put at least one of the kids or Marge on there, but that's definitely a team's season sort of thing. Uh oh. And we get the, um, the, the, the. The gift of Carl going more, the shack that's very commonly is I use it a lot, but I didn't know it was from this episode. Uh, and that is sort of in the conversation where Homer has to put together something that's completely selfless for Marge.

Because it's not the first time they've had a barbecue in the backyard to resolve

stuff. Not particularly something super selfless, because Homer's still going to go there and eat and be social. I think it would

have been better having a romantic dinner for the two of them in the backyard or something. I, they called

the service there or something just for Marge. Yeah. But. But, I mean, that's all right. It seems like, kind of, they didn't know where to take the plot anymore. And so they kind of just threw together this solution. Yeah. Um, but I mean, it still has some sweet moments. Um, Homer has his plan to learn flounders out of town in a train. And it's like, where did

he? Well, it, it said, dude, meet me and Montana. XO XO, Jesus Christ, dude. Hey dude,

meet me. And it doesn't say any specifics of Montana, just Montana. Meet me in Montana. We've got this weird scene with the sea captain.

Yeah, that came out of nowhere

where he gives Marjah fish. And he said, we lost a dozen good men, but it was enough to see you smile. And she kind of goes like, oh, okay. And he's like a dozen men. We lost a dozen men for this and it's kind

of, and then he goes on to, but like talking about breaking it to the family, it's like, they just keep going with this huge

downer moment. That's meant to be humorous, but I was just. Chuckling anxiously

Hibbert style Hiebert,

stuff's going home. And then we've got Jackson brown showing up and serenading Marge. Um, and this kinda seemed like one of those where they were just like, let's put in a guest star and have it be themselves and they're going to sing a song and then it's all right. Um, and why do they all have wine boxes? They're like high C style boxes with the little straws that was never random. Um, and then, uh, Homer says now to my greatest friends, I say, get the hell out of my yard.

random bit with the French guys coming to

clean up everything to French guys that were flown in from France for summaries then, and then, yeah, I

kinda feel like it kind of falls apart in a few spots in this episode, but

it's still fun. So I was pleasantly surprised in picking a random episode from season 14. I was surprised this wasn't worse. And I mean that in the best way. Oh yeah. I was expecting a tire fire, like, like the one that burns in Springfield, but this was a good tire that, you know, got you to where you wanted it to go, but then it blew out at the end. Good metaphor. Yeah. I made that up off the cuff, but um, it's I enjoy it, but I don't know if I'd rewatch it a time.

Yeah. Maybe like if you were to put like rotations for the Simpsons for like random episodes, when you put on the C list rotation, like yeah, that works.

Um, yeah. It's

it's the Simpsons episode.

It's it's yeah, honestly it got me thinking about 2003, a lot, and just like a kid born in 2003 is going to graduate next year. No, wait, not next. This graduated this year, math, math. That's what we should take from this is math. It's Monday. Did I mention that we never recorded these fun on Monday and we never will like, yeah. Nope. Oh dear God. Um, yeah.

Yeah. I think I went over every bit of my notes on that.

Yeah, I have some fun facts, but they're not super fun. It was actually really hard to find fun facts on this. Like I already said one of them, which was about Steve Buscemi. Um, part being too short, the Springfield aquarium was based on the aquarium of the Pacific in long beach, California. So if you want to visit an aquarium that looks like the aquarium from the season 14 episode break, my wife, please go to long beach right now. They're like

facts, but there were fun

does not accept Simpson Siblings wonder facts. Uh, also Bon Jovi was the first choice for the singer at the end, but he didn't like the joke about the new album not being popular. Um, which is kind of funny. Cause Bon Jovi's like newest albums are terrible.

They could have done something, a song like it's my wife or something like that.

That came out just about the round this time.

They absolutely been forcing it off tone.

Absolutely been perfect. I did not think of that. Wow. Somewhere. That's probably written down with all the lyrics. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Wait, I'm going to look

that up right now. You know, someone was saying, okay, we're going to do it's my wife, and we're going to do all this. And then Bon Jovi just says, no guys. Sorry. And they got thrown away.

Yeah, it was released in 2000. So it would have worked. All right. So that was our first random number generator episode, which I think maybe we'll do this like once or twice a season. I look it up podcast season.

Cause we got to get the ones that we'd like ones that other people want us to do. And then just random. Yeah. And then

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rock. Thank you, Tim.

Thank you. And check us out for our next episode. We're going to be starting October, which this is our first October, cause we started in November last year. Oh yeah. So we were never able to do any triaged horrors. So, uh, next time we're going to be gone with tree house of war. The first one,

I was like, which one? I should know this

it's just called Treehouse of horror. It is season two, episode three. Watch the episode before you listened to get that full experience, baby. And, uh, yeah. Thank you for listening until next time. Bye

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We're never going to record on a Monday again. Oh my God.