Hi, everybody. This is the Simpson show. I'm Robbie with my c, Matt, And we are here to talk about the Simpsons from the beginning, Matt. How are you? I'm fantastic, Robbie. I love stories about evil people becoming heroes for inexplicable reasons. And also courtroom drama. In the same episode. I don't. Where's Matt Murdock when you need him. Matt, I can't even Like, this is nothing to say at this point. It's fine. But there's just nothing here. This just. Like, I'm not upset, like, I
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hard. Like I just feel like I'm literally pointing out that's the only thing I liked about there percent. I'm... It's... I'm so ambivalent. This week episode r ab b f 10 originally aired 03/17/2013 written by Billy Kim and Ian Max graham. Took 2 people to write This this direct. I don't... I don't know how that's possible. You took 2 2 different guys, and they turned in this. Directed by Mark Kirkland received any 2.6 rating with 4900000.0 viewers.
Chalkboard. Yeah. Jesus last words were not TTFI think god it's Friday. God. I'd be on the top of all the other bets with that. That's Matt. That's more... That's a more clever chalkboard guy than as that that line, that 1 liner is more clever than anything in this episode. Like, that's that. Oh, absolutely Yeah. Absolutely. The couch guy Marge Bart said Maggie our Easter eggs play something Grass nest
on the couch homer comes in. And sits on them, du... I thought most people would just use boiled eggs, to paint on, not God I hope so. But did plastic or hard boil, there are no raw eggs. I whatever. Who cares. Did the joke me, the joke of the sharp of the couch guy, they need to be raw. So they're there's there's Riots. The guest... Episode guest stars Matt Already asked ask me a question for recording I'll right now. That's a guest stars Janet Reno as herself and Maggie Rin Her as Janet Reno.
That that the explanation for this, man. Is that they wanted Jan, and they called her up, and she suffering from Parkinson's. She couldn't really do her her voice. She couldn't be herself effectively. So they have her sister play her because her sister sounds a lot like her. Okay. And I think they credited Generator just because they wanted to give her a credit. Yeah. I mean, hopefully, she got to review her lines. III assume so. I think, I mean, the... As the story goes, that they even had to
have her her sister had to literally... Like, Janet Reno is in such bad shape. That her sister had to call and tell the simpsons about what happened, which is I think why they probably offered it to her because they went, Oh, you sound just like her. I don't know. I don't... I I have very little opinion about Janet Reno, the actual person. I definitely don't like her in the simpsons. I don't know. Whatever this arena does not reflect well on the episode. Whatever this is.
I don't... It's not her fault. You put anyone in that role. It's gonna be bad. But alright no. Thank you. We start the episode with Kent Rock reporting on Easter Sunday. It's Easter and we're having blue bonnet at hats. Does that matter. Nope. Doesn't matter. This is just a... I will say that they get the inside incident is actually here, Matt. We're not... We don't got a lot of, like, a fluff. To get to an actual inside incident is right here. If the plot was good at all, I
would applaud them. Yeah. But it was... It's it's over very quickly. Like, the inside instant is literally an inside incident. 1 thing happens and boom were in the plot. So if the rest of the episode was good, Like Robbie said. Okay. Fine. Unfortunately, it is not. Or funny or memorable or or I don't know. Oh, who boy. So we have... Can't reporting. It's Easter. Everyone's out for Easter Sunday. Including the... I have a academy. Okay.
Including the school band. We have the school band performing, and in the midst of this performance, the the the the horns, blow and launch hundreds of eggs and sp them onto the entire crowd. The crowd is covered with eggs. I... Mh. I... Matt, it's just this entire Like, I I don't know what this is anymore. I I think that's really where I'm at with the Simpsons in general in this episode. It just paints a big spotlight on it. It is filled with just cartoon physics nonsense.
It's less realistic than loo tunes, even. Like, I like, it is just filled with just nonsense after nonsense after nonsense. It is never grounded in any sort of humanity or or or logic or earth like earth behavior, Like, no 1 no 1 acts actually a human in this. And I immediately, there is just immediate reaction for me? Like, do I need 1 of Quote unquote Bart Prank, which is... That is 1 of the plots of this episode is is this is a mystery about who actually did this prank.
And I don't need them all to be obviously make a lot of sense, but this is kind of again, where I point out when you write something, you decide everything about it. They can make the prank seem more realistic very easily. But instead, we have how many kids are in the band. Like 40. None of them checked and at all. No 1 they have eggs in there. Obviously, they're not... Trump is not gonna blow an egg hundreds of feet into the air. Like, it's just... I immediately go no. This didn't happen. Like,
what is this? Why Why is this the thing? You can't do better than this? This is the best you got? And that's basically my reaction to everything and misses. This is the best you got. This is the best joke you can do here. This is the best way you can have someone big prank. I'm immediately like, like, okay. So eggs sp on everyone. Crowd immediately thinks. Bart doing it. Bart laughs real hard and everyone gets spiral eggs. They think it's him Yeah. For some reason, he's not in the
crowd. He's just nearby. You would you could say that the the person who actually did it is trying to frame part, but I don't think they even thought that far ahead. This is just coincidence. Barr hasn't been targeted. The crowds going after him. This is where we get to the b plot, Matt. And this is... I could maybe forgive this a a plot. I could maybe forgive. It's not good, but I could forgive it. The b plot is the lame saddest treehouse horror reject story
filled with... We've had multiple of these over the past handful of seasons. Of like, oh, this is clearly just a battery of horror. Like, if this was a trail of my hard bit, I'd feel upset, it's even worse than a normal episode. Because here we get burns it caught in the crowd, him and smith is hide. Get out of the way of the the stamped eating crowd and jump into the comic bookstore. And this is where we get the first scene, every scene,
I... I'm struggling. Every scene in this plot I cannot believe. I just can't believe it's happening that I'm watching it that it made through this entire process. Because we have burns in the Comic bookstore, pick up an old comic and Immediately go, oh, I used to love comic books. Get a flashback vaccine when him is a child reading, like, like, a a pulp, like a, a like, a a shadow type detective character, pro superheroes, the phantom, the the the shadows of the the Dick Tracy even
he's reading 1 of them. His dad hates it. This dad ends buying the publisher and burning it down with everyone inside. Burns immediately buys all of the comic bookstore. Every comic. Mh. They use this to make a math joke. Christine place for that. I I don't know. It's fine. I'll get smart, Matt. I'll say that. I don't really... It's like, I don't believe burns would be the 1 saying it. This seems like a frank joke to me, but whatever. Yeah. Burns buys out comic book guy.
We we see... We don't see comic book guy ever again. I don't know what he does with his new 96000 dollars. So now we're back to the Quote unquote a plot. Why this is where I'll pause matt and say, why is it that every time that they weave A and b plots together nowadays. I wish they hadn't. Like, yeah. Because they... Obviously, we said before we like when they do that. But that was when plots over, like, you know, oh, Bart getting back to school
closed and least homeowners stealing cable. Like gave... 0II don't think this was the same episode. But some that, When you have burns being fruit batman and bart on youth trial it like, how the heck are those supposed to come together creative. It's it's it's... They're just vote... If they're ain't the 1 we're good, I would, maybe say, yeah, it's fine. But they're both at. So bart at home, he swear his in a sense and they know it's true because he passes the Maggie test,
which is the first time then. This has ever come up, but apparently, Maggie could tell if someone's lying or not. Like Bart squares innocence because maggie buys of the rest of the family does, and this is when we cut to the band outside calling for bart blood. Hand over your son, so we can administer banned justice. I know this looks bad. And I admit I would totally lie in a second to Lisa or mom or dad but I would never lie to Maggie. I did not do that prank. Wow.
He passed the Maggie test. And remember how Maggie solved cookie gate. Oh, too will. To prove my brother's innocence, I demand a youth court. That's right. Bart must not be judged by these kids. But by a jury. Of kids. Mostly these kids. There's only so many kids. I'm afraid once the youth court has been demanded. We are legally obligated to shut Mob Rule as decided in the case of rubber v glue and reaffirmed by I know you are v, what am
I? Son, if says blunt thing I've learned as a defendant and a juror, it's day out of the courtroom. It's so freaking boring. Run. I'll create a distraction. These skin jokes are terrible. We then get homer conducting the band for a minute of That's it? I'm yeah. That's it. There's just a minute of a homework conducting the band? And it's just why? Why am I watching this? What is this? And why are we distracting? They just agreed to youth court? Why are they gotta to run for? What are
they running for? Like again, does make sense? I don't know what youth court is Like it's just this is supposed to make sense to me for some reason. I don't know why... Like, it's... It... What this is... Like, I just sent, like, my mind me I was like, what's youth court? What happens to bart versus... Like, what are the stakes of this? Again, we don't know. We go to our first commercial at 6 minutes and 45 seconds. And we come back to... Immediately, we're
on the stage for youth court. Lisa is green up on all the rules, and we find out that, oh, Abe argued in front of the Supreme court. Don't no worry. Not actually the Supreme Court in front of the Supreme Court building where he happened to see Jan reno. And they decided to play chess by mail for a decade or more afterwards because, you know, reasons, I... Everything in this have a say, matt is reasons. Like, it's just... You don't know why... Like, why is any... I at any point... I
don't know why anything's is happening. Ever. I don't know. Why is reno? I don't know. Because she... I don't know she was member Janet Reno? That's it. That literally reno. You remember January reno? I'm, like, yeah. Vaguely. I was a child. Yeah. Vaguely aurora reno. Yeah. So we then switch immediately back to the bp part. There's a lot of bouncing back forth. 1 scene in the other. These scenes are less than a minute piece, usually. We see burns reading all the comics that
he bought. He burns most of them for being impractical until he he comes across a you know, a 30 style comic of, of batman in the original ink and incarnation when he was just out fighting crime, regular old crime and decides, oh, burns wants to be the batman, but not the regular batman, the fruit batman because I don't know. He doesn't wanna, camp on Batman's copyright right, I guess. I I don't know. I don't know. Matt, I don't know why they made it fruit batman.
The only thing I could think of is, like, this is a weird of tooth, like Smith gay joke. It could be. It could be you know. But it is. Alright I want to be the, a, kind of, a bat that sucks out the life essence. And you're, like, oh, a vampire bad bat. I get it. No. Fruit. I don't... Like, it's just lame. I will say that that, ultimately, this soup... Is it's, like, this becomes a superhero spoof. What this b plot is. It's a superhero spoof. Now. It's just the link...
Like... But do you know what the joke is, but you wanna know what the joke is Here, I'll tell you where? The joke that the... Because they tell you 1 joke for 10 minutes of this episode, the b plot. The joke is burns is weak. He's very weak. He can't actually if Current. U. Well, the the joke I think is that, Burns is super weak and could never actually be a real superhero. So we have smith pain people off to pretend like he is. But you would just do that 1 time.
Right? And then you would move to other Robbie you sweet summer child. You would just do that. Like, the first time, you we see it and then you just move on other jokes and try and you know, do new twists and surprise the audience with fun new stuff. Oh bad. So we're gonna start off. Okay. So Bruce is decided to be fruit batman. But instead of seeing that followed? Through we go back to Youth court where things are shutting up in the in the first place.
Alright. You soft called knit. Sit up straight because we finally have someone in this school who deserves your respect. Former attorney general Janet reno. Thank you, Gary. Grandma story was true. First, I would like to say, rook, to e 8. Check me. Ne. Youth court is now in session. God. I love gambling. Mister prosecutor. Over the next few days, you're going to hear how the defendant Bart, Simpson, AKA Lee springfield Egg. Check and initial. Sustained.
She sustained me. I'll, Bart all you, Simpson won egg this town with mill house of ortho. Now hold on. Principal skinner. Are you wearing hard soul shoes on this gym floor? No, ma'am. Sneakers. You're wearing sneakers? To a trial. Oh, god. It impress is gonna have a field day with this. Yay. Field day. I can go K and no 1 can stop me. That's exactly what George W Bush said when he was ina. People don't remember that. About that. I don't... What what what is it... What has happening?
Help me. I'm like, I, like, I I wish I could tell. I this might I do... We'll say this, man. I don't just have much to say about all this stuff. I could just... I'm gonna just mostly make noises because I just don't know what's going on. Like, why what is We're in the... Okay. I I do wanna try... Like, what is youth court? Exactly? Like, we're in this school gym there's like an audience. There's a jury of kids.
Skinner is the prosecutor. I don't know why He's the prosecutor wise skin with a prosecutor? That's what I was wondering. Because you... You think, okay. This is youth court. So that means kids are the if you're the in prosecuted something like, you know, Martin is 1 of the band kids. He's the smartest of the band kids, you think you'd have you know, versus Lisa because they're both the smart kids in school, and then you can have a smart kid or a smart kid thing.
What are the stakes of this? What happens if Bart loses this? It's not jail. Yeah. Well, and you think if it's youth court why is skin of the prosecutor? I I... It's just obviously. It's, like, it... The burn stuff is very clearly stupid and silly and pays no attention to logic. The problem is the this a plot also does that? Because I... Why is Jane Reno here because Abe called in a favor. Like we... I... In and and we're making george w bush jokes in the year 20
13. Is this what we're doing, guys? Is this you know what Been a great time to make George of your bush jokes? 2005. There's are 3. It's just... I know Robbie. I I this this I I'll... This is the first I'm gonna say in this episode. This is not... This is not the simpsons. I don't know what this episode is, but it's not the simpsons. No. Unfortunately not. But don't worry, Robbie, because we're out of this plot immediately. You go back to birds. I don't wanna go back. I don't want
no more burns. It's a joke. Okay. We're back to Burns being a superhero here. So he goes to it to fight his first crime. Of course, bean burns. He's incredibly slow and gets caught by his cape. So Smith runs in and says, hey, Apu and snake, I will give you each a thousand dollars if you pretend to let mister Burns... Oh, or he's. He said that this old person... This old guy pretend to stop this crime. And they say, yeah. Sure. Okay, and they do. So he stopped the
he stops the cry. There's but and ryan. What is it going on here? What is this? Why? There's I told you Robbie. It's just, you know for 1... But this is like the perfect here. It's like, served on a platter. This is like the perfect. This is all this It only gets the worse from here. I'm holding the microphone. This is what my kid. This is absolutely... I really wanted to circle quickly, but now, I can't help myself. I'm holding his microphone again, like, Henry Rollins. Like, it is just
bananas. Like, this is a perfect run up to for a joke. Right? You have burns, he thinks he's a superhero. Okay. It's silly. I'll, if you get me laughing, I can forgive it. And you're like, okay. So he wants to stop this crime. Sm... We have the set up for the jokes. Smith comes in and says, oh, we'll give you a thousand dollars each if you just let burns. Stop the crime. And you're like, well, that makes sense, snake in in a poo. I would... Most people would say, oh, I'll... For
a thousand dollars. Immediately... Okay. Yeah. But you would think you would you add something to this. You have Snake or ab who do something else. You have more layers But I they don't have time for more layers. I am gonna strangle the simpsons. Like, I feel like homer right now. Like, it's just, like, I just wanna throttle the show. Like, it's just absurd... I it's so boring, Matt. This episode is so boring and it never surprises you. It never tries to do something new. It never adds.
It never layers in jokes. It just says here's a joke. The joke is, burns is a va being a superhero sm broad people. Yep. That's it. That's the entire joke for the entire rest of this supply. Yep. So burns foil, the crime in progress. We go back to Court for really nothing. Not almost nothing happens at It's just more, you know, fake witnesses and, basically, it comes down to no 1 saw bart do this. They have no evidence that Bard did this whatsoever. So therefore they can't prosecute.
And and, you know, unlike most of Bart prank Bart says, no I didn't do this. So what heck are they gonna do? We get more burn stopping crimes that are actually crime. I wanna it... Matt, I wanna read out my notes. I wrote down the note. I wrote the notes in this for this episode. Okay? I... I'm gonna read out this line. Verbatim. Court ben burns, dash. This is all caps. Terrible, dash just more and more of this. I thought this this superhero stuff would be going on in the background.
There's just there's so much of this episode that is just us watching burns be a bad superhero. Like... It's Yeah. Because I mean, like you said, if this was literally happening in the background. So, oh, it's in the background of scene where something important to the main plot is happening. Okay, that's kind of funny, but it's not. They have to stop the a plot to do this burns plot and it's And again, it's the same joke Over and over and over again. It is burns is bad and superhero.
Because, of course, he is. They, like... And I... Will also add, like, there's multiple jokes of him, like, they treated him, like he's, like, a flying squirrel Like, he just glide... Like, he... Like, they lit generally, like, let him have, like, cartoon physics. For... And and, like, if you do it for a scene or something you know, normal episode. I'd be like, whatever it's 1 scene. Just over and over and over again Birds is just jumping off buildings,
no damage. Nothing wrong with him He's fine. And sm paying off people, and you're, like, are you gonna add to this? You're gonna... Like, this is supposed to be comedy show, guys. I just... I Did you laugh at a anything this up something? Laugh. Yeah. Laugh. You know. Sounds kinda like that? Let let me read through the notes again. No. Absolutely not. No. No. Definitely not. Oh, hell. No. No. I did not let at anything in this episode. No. I didn't either. It's I it's I... It's just so bland.
So bland. This goes up forever. By the way. It goes on for a very long time. Eventually, we get back to the the end of act 2 with mil house on the stand talking about, you know, what has happened, and We see Lisa make a key mistake. So Bart kind have taken the eggs. I was winning on the whole weekend. You'd make up any life for that Simpson boy. I wouldn't you. Yeah. But I pee my pants. Nelson. Draw as a bone. Now that's what I call legal brief.
Why are you here? I thought of a joke and rushed over. Your honor, I think we've seen enough. I have demolished the prosecution claims and made the prosecutor sweat through 2 shirts I move that you dismiss this case and release this sweet lovable boy. Motion denied. Miss Simpson, your grand standing sum salvation contained a g error. By calling your brother sweet
and lovable. You open the door to testimony from anyone who doesn't think he's sweet and love The prosecution calls everyone in the world. So this is the end of Act 2, but I wanna make a point. This is actually a good idea because I'm in a point well, wait. This is how actual court works. And that would be an interesting way for lisa to screw up and for Bart to be in actual danger. Now are they gonna completely sq this? Oh, yes. Absolutely.
But this is an interesting idea as someone said, hey, what if Lisa makes this tiny little verbal gap because she's not a lawyer. She's never gone a law school She's never argued in front of a jury. Although this being in the simpsons you probably had. At some point I, I'm just not remembering, this would be an interesting way to introduce this, but it's completely sq. And also, skinner... Oh, I wanna call everyone like, come on. And it's not funny. It's not interested to
whatever. We go to a commercial now. We go to commercial wow. So see now... Worry. It's only 3 minutes. Not even 2 and a half minutes for Robbie. It is a very short third act. I'm gonna say, in count... I'm a counter you immediately Mad say, I don't care if it's how real Court works. This is so terrible. I hate it. I think it's stupid. I feel like this is just a short circuit to them not actually building a real proper mystery, and I absolutely... In a real absolutely
This is... Okay. Well, the the problem with this is, Lisa should have made this this issue should've have made that gap earlier because now this was basically over overall all she had to do is keep her mouth shut and say, hey. I moved, you know, to to close this, you know, we're we're done here. And she would've gotten part off very easily, but they just made her do this to make it go on longer. I don't, Matt. I still don't care. Don't want it
to be about random court lawyer crap. I want it to be about a solid mystery, a solid... If you have... This is clearly like, okay. Bart didn't do it. Someone did. We spend no time in this... In the first 2 acts. Like, they have here spoilers Willie did it. It's obviously it's complete random why. Willie did it. But we do have random cuts to a nervous willie, I think twice in this episode. Whatever. There's never any time. What I want out of this episode event is not random core
crap. I don't want John G. I want them trying to figure out who actually did it to get bart off the hook. I want them to have convincing framed bart for the crime, and Bart just goes, no. A innocent. No. I'm innocent. No. I'm innocent. I don't... I don't... I'm not interested in watching this really boring court case. And really boring semantic arguments about, oh, well, because Lisa brought up the fact that Hump Parts innocent in a sweet boy. Now that we can... Now
we can have character witnesses. I don't care about any of that. It's just I I want them to actually do work and build a story. There's no... What's the story of this episode. There's just nothing. Oh, boy. We come back from commercial. 13 minutes and 38 seconds. Now we just get character witnesses, and here, matt, if you want character witnesses. Oh, boy. Oh boy boy. I've gotta see. I've got something for you. Okay? So we have moe, testifying in youth court.
Mister says like What name did the defendant ask for when he called you at your bar? He asked for. Mike Ro. And then what did you say? Well, I said, I said Mike Ro. Mike Ro, and then I... I'm sorry. Take all the time you need. I yeah. I I yelled out, has anybody seen Mike Raj. You see they you see they thought I was asking if anybody wanted to see my no, man. This is so painful. My. Thank you for your bravery today. I just had to make sure that he never did this to another bartender.
So probably gonna be the joke the joke of, oh, now you have character witnesses his and then a whole bunch of people stand up to, you know, say, to b character witnesses, that's all you needed. You didn't need to have actual no See, this is easier than having to write scenes so, like things happen out. Instead we just get a fourth wall breaking joke talking about bits from season 3. Like, I hoo boy. I I So we cut from this mo gag to
gag. Quote what's with. The Simpsons of dinner, Bart angry at Lisa, We are... I am, like, wait. I'm like, Are we ever gonna get to, like, investigating who actually did this? Like, that is, no. We're not, like, we're not gonna have a fun bit where Boar and Lisa go out at night. To investigate the... And, like, they're gonna find clues. They're gonna go back to the scene of the crime. No. We're not gonna do... We're not gonna treat this like it's a mystery. We're just
gonna... Things are just gonna crap happening. We have a joke about gravy. So Lisa sees the news about fruit batman and decides that she's gonna get his help. If it fit... About we're 50 minutes of the upset, by the way, by this 0.3 quarters sleeve for this subset. And lisa like, oh, I need burnt... She knows it's burns by the way. Does anyone not know its burns? Everyone knows... Actually knows its burns. Right? They
have to. Yeah. Yeah. I I think it's like, the only person who thinks no 1 knows is burns himself. So she knows his burns she goes... Because she goes to burns house. And ask him for help. I go, why would she ask burns for help with this? I don't know. I think it... Like, why no 1 has bought in, like, everyone in town We've gotten multiple scenes now. Where... It's revealed basically, everyone in town is aware that burns is the fruit batman. They're getting paid off by smith. Like, they've that
we've... Have we've already... Have we gotten that that that parties? That's in the the end of the second act where you get this fake cocktail party. Oh my god. It's so bad. So burns says no. I'm not gonna help you. And then Lisa leaves, and smith now is upset because burns has been given a chance who actually help someone, and he chooses not to help, and some there's tails burns that I've been paying people off the entire. I Why I I just every time there's b on it? I just go... I don't...
What are we doing? I don't want this. Does anyone want this? Does anymore? Yes. This is this is literally the definition of a b plot. It should be in the background we should hit. Maybe 5 to 6 minutes of this That's it. But they're treating it like it's actually batman At. They're like, they're treating this like it's Bruce Wayne deciding to help someone. Yeah. Why? Are you doing this to my show? So, sm it's the truth. We have a burns signal, the fruit bat signal going up.
Helicopter crashes, that's when we go to our final commercials 16 minutes and 7 seconds. And when we come back, things get wrapped up real quickly, we start off with March, who is basically going through and washing everyone's clothes from the egg stuff because she volunteered even then she thought it was barb, and it's just... It... There is no investigation here. It is immediately obvious who has done this and they just not bothered to it until now. So here you go.
And so I've learned that the only true batman men are Christian Bale and Adam West. Why are you washing bumblebee man's pants? I volunteered to wash the egg exchange off everyone's clothes. It's 1 of those things you say and hope nobody picks you up on it. That's odd. What's on? This skirt has a small sp. Sp. Sp is if the egg had crushed against it by hand. I don't thought like someone faked being hit so they wouldn't be a suspect. Interesting. Except you miss
1 thing. What's that? It's not a skirt. It's killed. So, yes, this is then figured, oh, it's a kill. Obviously, Willie did it. Like, yeah, I will say I appreciate the drag net back and forth. Okay. What you were going for there? I'm not gonna laugh at it, but I appreciate it. I not U. I'm glad you're being positive today because I don't care. I just I just don't care. I just want... Like I said earlier, like, oh, you would have bar and Lisa go to the scene of the crime.
You would have... You... Like, this is That's how you write a, like, a mystery. Like, you you have a bread a trail of bread breadcrumbs. You have some red herring in there. You would... I would have that this happen concurrently with a court case. The court case would be getting worse and worse for Bart. And so Lisa and I guess, Bart, because Bart doesn't an in jail. I like that's the other thing. There's no... There... What hap...
Again, they had never established what happens to Bart if he loses this. What happens? It's not real. This is not real court. This is a ji court, youth court, I I mean, I guess if he loses the band gets to execute him. I that's... I mean, I'm... Am I supposed to believe that, nah is that they murder barred the the, a bunch of children just kills just stomp bar to death, he beat him with AAT bone until he dies. This so what's gonna happen. It's so... Good question. Robbie. We don't know.
We don't at this point. I just don't care. Yeah. It's it's this... This is just feels very lazy. You mean that. It's just very like, oh, well, we need to point... We have to we have to get the culprit now because the the episode about the end. So marge just doing the laundry and they find evidence. Like, They find the Willie kill has a different egg stain. And you're like paying. Such great attention. I know I I don't... I don't... Maybe I'm just very lot Laws... Liza La,
fair. Why can't I fair? Well, I can't talk today, matt. Hoo boy? I'm very la fair about my laundry? But I'm just throw it into a... I have a big heap of it and all goes in the washing machine. I don't like examine every piece of clothing this you how it's stained. Baby that's just me. I just... It's just... This is lazy all. As especially if it's gonna be your longer. Some brando laundry like got egg on it that you're doing in your house. Like, 1, I probably wouldn't do that in my
house. I go to laundromat and to ew who I would be wearing gloves up to my shoulder at that point. And I'm I'm not a... I'm not a very sq ish person, so I probably can handle it. Clear eye, but I... Those people don't wear... I mean, most of Scottish people don't wear under underwear under their kill. So if I saw a kill in there, I would start making. It it's more it's more just. I... This is just lazy. There's just in case... Instead of writing real mystery, they just have them solve it in
1 scene. There's literally what happens. Indeed. And that's gonna happen right now. Because we if we go right from them figuring out to immediately confronting willie. All wood chip. Is there any sm music? Why you doing what, Willie? Because the world is better off with for few Wi? Wait What are we talking about? This kelp that you framed my brother. Why? Because I hate easter Y. Sea ladies is or not just a press. I'm Scottish all believer per presbyterian.
All believers don't recognize holidays not celebrated by the original apostles. Especially 1 named after the pig and goat he. But how did you get the key? I'm made sweet loved the lunch lady daughter. Then copy the gears she slept. M. Now as for real evidence, Behold the pointed use of justice.
Well, a human fully but. And after this, we get a nice chase scene where burns chases after Willie and uses his likeness and giant utility belt full of money to cause Willie to crash his tractor into the school, essentially knocking him out, burns Floats to the ground is if you were a piece of paper, and it's caught by smith. And this part, whatever. It's a stupid chasing is a opinion that's So they coat a court and burns shows up feeling much better, of course, and has Willie
who confess in everything's immediately over. Janet Reno the debt is like, alright. Well, there we go. Ga Ga, Bart is free. Janet Reno it says, alright. Here you go. You're free. You know, Lisa and burns have a quick. God. This is so stupid. Burns says, hey. I've done good for once. Lisa says, hey. Maybe you she shouldn't tense your fingers when you say excellent. He goes by. He he goes to str her as a better thing He just, you know what to stick was tempting. Like, Oh your god.
It's... I... My I, like, I... Legitimately, like, this is... There's not... You could not tell me in the million years this wasn't written. In, like, 10 minutes. Like, it's so absolutely. Like, this... The pacing is so strange. This the the the the the so much b plot filler scenes. It feels like everything in the b plot was... They just wrote, hey, animators figure it out. Hey, director. Hey, Mark Kirkland, make this good. Make it... Like it's the old Stanley special. Where are he just like,
hey, Jack Kirby. Draw... Write this comic book for It feels very much like, the a plot has lots of written dialogue. The b plot is just a much of nonsense, and it feels very much like they just said, hey. Fill it in. Make it okay. Make it look nice. And, like, you bright this. That's what it feels like. They... There's no nothing written in this b plot. And this is, like 1 of those scenes where it's, like, lisa's like, telling burns not to tent his fingers. This is what we got. Like, this
is a... This is where I go at. Like, this is what you're doing in simpsons. This is the best we can do? You can't. Alright. Is. You can't you can't punch up this joke. Like, it literally is a small joke. About burns now having done good. And Lisa going hey, maybe keep it up. Or if you wanna be good, maybe don't invoke so like so much like a villain. In this small interaction, there's leagues of of kinds of jokes you could write. This just feels like the first thing they thought of,
and then they just went with it. Come on, man. Come on. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. So, we then get a long phone call. Like this this... Because this whole part this episode has been not serious at all. But for some reason, the most stuff is taken deathly seriously because we get the earlier testimony for Moe that Robbie played for us. And now we get a phone call Tom Moe say, oh, he wasn't convicted So my nightmare goes on as if it's the most serious thing in the world about
getting a prank phone call. I just... It I... Again, matt, it's the same joke. This is the same joke. And it's not even like, this... They didn't come up with this. This is from season 3. Like, They're just, like, oh, what's... What if wouldn't it be hilarious if Moe was like, traumatized by these really bad print phone calls by bart? No. That's my answer. No, it's not funny. No. No it is not. And don't worry.
It's going to get worse because as soon as the most stuff is over, we get a trailer essentially for the dependable, which is an avengers spoof with fruit batman I forget who the rest of the them are. I remember Hans Mo is in an iron lung, and you got a flash analog that's the oh, old lady And Jasper bay is there for some reason... It's just all the people... Again, Matt, why is there a fake trailer for the old people at Avengers at the end of his episode. It's like a minute long.
Yeah. Because they were like, hey, animators do bar job for us. I mean, it's just It's just clear evidence that they didn't write a full episode. Like, it feels like they they wrote the a plot, and then they needed to fill in. Like, fill in some... Like, all these b's... All these b plot scenes that are just, like, endless nonsense, like, really bad loo tunes effectively. It's just Filler. They're just filling in time. They didn't say, oh, well, we have...
It made me... I've literally had this thought today, man. Like, I I saw this not too long ago. If I think it surfaced after, it was after richard simmons passed. And someone posted the clip that deleted scene of robo Richard Simmons. You remember where it's, like, the t 1000, but it's. Yeah. And someone posted that clip, But that's... That was not in the original episode. Despite the fact that, like, because of I've seeing It's... I believe they showed in the hundred and t episodes spectacular.
And but because I've seen the t episodes spectacular so many times my memory sometimes play tricks on me and thinks that it was actually in the episode. It wasn't. Wasn't actually in the episode. That's what they used to do, matt. They used to make so much good stuff. They could not fit at all. They did not have enough time so they had to cut things. They had to make choices and go. Oh, this doesn't make... This isn't as good as the other thing. Or it's a little bit too cartoony
It's a little too bit too silly. Let's cut it, and we'll we can put them on Dvds. We can do it in the hundred t episode spectacular. And this episode it's not... It's not alone, but it's just so empty that they literally had to, like, make stuff at the end to fill it up, and you're like, and sure they did it at the in the golden years, but it feels like almost every other episode. We are we are getting this where it's like, just... We needed to fill stuff. We need...
We the thing we wrote is not long enough. Because... And if the episode also made sense and told a story and was funny, probably cut some Slack. And and what who cares Who cares they have a fake trail yet. But there's no story to this. There's there's no story. There's no conflict There's no stakes. And I at any point, I don't know why anyone is doing anything. I don't know why. Like, why are we having used court why? Or have court Why
is Janet Reno there? What are the the stakes of Bart when you were losing? Why is Burns to decided to be a good person because he read superhero comics as a boy because he reads a batman comic and goes, oh, this guy resembles me I'll will be a superhero now. And it's okay, Robbie. You know this better than anyone. Okay. Superhero comics are power fantasies. Yep. Do you know who doesn't need to enact a power fantasy, rich people. Mh. Already powerful. They're already very powerful.
It it's it's also, like, this app... And it does... It just goes set in the Mat. And this is it actually something similar to the wrestling episode. Where Burr is, like, so disconnected from reality. He thinks superheroes are, like, real He thinks wrestling is real... Like, it's like, Burns is not... He might be out of touch, but he's not in. Idiot. Like, like, he doesn't know superhero comics aren't real that you can't actually be as super...
Like, it's just it's just so... And it I I shouldn't waste more time talking about this up. Episode so we'll rank it at the end of the show. Robbie, is this a broken? No. You are right the first time we a quick fix idea. Let's see. Quick fix Quick fix. U. I... Yeah. Of course. Not... Like, yeah. Of course, it's broken, but if you fix it, it becomes and it's not even... There's nothing comparable to this. Like, if if you fix it and make a fixed version,
it doesn't... It's not... It's so different than this. It's not... Like, there's weird in there. There's no fixing this because this plot doesn't make any sense. You would have to completely modify everything that happens and actually again with the reasons and those reasons would completely change what the outcome is. Like, we've had homer b pie man Like you wanna go watch that episode. If you wanna see your hair spoof in simpsons,
go watch Pie man. Pi is not even that good, But pi man's way better than this. And if you wanna see, like, bart on trial for something he didn't do. Go watch child hair again. Like, it's like that. Like, it's that's that episode, basically. But it's way much it's way better. Like it's just... Again, these are, like, the 2 worst versions of better episodes. Just smashed together. It told really la and no jokes.
Like, there's there's a there's a lot of good episodes with, like, Bart and Lisa doing mysteries and solving problems or or bard on trial. We've gotten borrowed on trial a bunch of times in the show, and they're all better than this. You wanna to ship spoof. They've done it in treehouse of horrors and they've done it just in regular simpsons episodes and all examples are better than this. Like, I don't even know at certain point. I don't know it feels like this is a joke on
us. Like, we're gonna make the worst thing possible and just release it. And it's also, like, the other thing about this 1. It's just completely forget in in essential. I'm gonna forget about. And, like, in 2 months where 1 of us is gonna go dark knight court. Which 1 is that? Right? And we're gonna... You're gonna go Jan reno. I'm gonna go, Alright. Janet. Yeah. We're not well no We're Gonna fix this. Wait, there's nothing to fix. Like, I'm just gonna be writing a new episode. Come on, man.
Got things do today. We can move on to our next time time for comments in his group. Okay. Here we are. Malt dot nerd dot. Constant Group is where I ask are patrons, patreon dot com slash, the Simpson show. Anyone... Sport any level can leave a review first from Da. First off, in defensive last week's episode, I too have wanted to punch homer, be unnecessarily mean Lisa due to the last few seasons. It's fine. Are. It's fine. Yeah alright. I I really have no idea on this 1.
It was a tree of horror ups, episode mixed for the last episode of Seinfeld. And really, Janet Reno? Honestly say I thought it was Jane Lynch again. However missed minuscule it was... This adds a 4 story of this season for example history. Did laugh a couple times to be fair, which hits the bare minimum required for this season to be a good episode. But it's 6 best episode of season 24 for mid mild humor and getting into the point rather quickly. Ps bad news for you guys, but season 25 and 26
are gonna be the real dog days. As those season tend ranked high rank high in the worst season lists. I know the lego episodes in 1 of them is season 25, I think. And that's... I know the leg episode pretty good. I don't know what the rest though. We're getting to the point where the show in in the power... The podcast are overlapping. And we're soon, Matt, we'll get to points where we've seen the episodes before. We have. Yeah. We'll it'll be a second time around.
And that that's something you're really interesting. Yeah. From Tim. I'll lead off with the prediction of 400. I doubt this is gonna rank on the top 01:50. So that spares me from a week. Second week being 266. Sorry, Tim. Sorry about this wasn't as bad as advertised. The 2 stories stretched they were. Did make me laugh a couple times as well. Even know if the fruit batman line was used way too many. Times. I did like how the crusty pos was just using 1 of submit setups. We really do need a
sides show mail dedicated up. So not canon it could be perhaps without Jan and a better name for burns. Derek, I mean, it's right there. He is the vampire bat. If you wanna do a superhero spoof with burns, He has to be a bad guy who accidentally does good things. Like, it's right there. It's it's so you make him the vampire bat, and, you know, he sucks the blood and he accidentally, he he targets Like, those are the jokes. You right? He's like, oh, it's an orphanage.
I wanna... You know, he wants to do something terribly evil. And it accidentally does something really good. And he does it over and over and over again. He he really thinks he's doing things that are good for him. It's just things that are good for him that are coincide did only also good for other people or, oh, where he acts... Like, again, it those are... It require some creativity so they didn't do it. From Derek, gotta be honest with you.
I could barely pay attention this, and so this review life, my last few will be very iconic as opposed to my usual velocity. Sure it'll be sat... Y'all all be sad to hear. Although the fact that was completely zoned out it's surely an indication of this episode quality and the fault lives of the episode and not with me. Can't help this is so boring and annoying of no interest in giving the time of day. Look, 3 weeks ago, I was dying, get my neck cut open so They I could stick the
potassium down in it. I a new world and I don't wanna waste my time on crap like this. Life is far too short. Oh, hey, Best say anyway. Sue. Right are. Wherever wherever you go, there you are, Eric. Wherever you go. There you are. No. I mean, if I didn't have to podcast about this episode. I wouldn't be able to pay attention to it. There's just nothing to going on. God No. I didn't, I'd need to looking on my phone. I'd be like, oh, look, Oh, what's the weather today?
Oh, 5 minutes passed. Like, I wouldn't... I'm like, Wanna miss anything either. Like, it's I guess this this is the perfect second screen Simpsons because you don't need to pay attention from tal. I think this is the best of the season. Nonsense nonsensical as it was. It wasn't needlessly cruel like the others. No 1 acting like a psycho path and Bart wasn't dumped down to the point where he's compared to Ralph. I even found myself
laughing a couple times. The fact that it had a short couch gag might have been attributed to that. I will say it's not mean. It's not... Like, that's why I don't hate it, like, did last week, leslie leaks except really single and dark Oh, yeah. This one's not... It's just just nonsense. From mitch 100. For me, this episode indicates my saying would opinion on last week's episode. If I've been harsh on it there when it had been room on my rage spectrum
to appropriately measured this piece of trash. I hated this week's up on every level. But it's always my primary requirement for the simpsons is to make me laugh. I can and do forgive many feelings from the show if it just gives me a eye smile once or twice. There were 0 chuckle to be at here. The janet Reno stuff in particular, it was inter. Mister Burn stuff and everything in between and before and after. Yeah. I agree with you there. From Jj. Maybe season 24 is rotting my brain. I
was like, ultimately didn't mind this episode. It's very silly Obviously, nothing is meant to be taking seriously. Mean with plots about Child court and Gym na and burns running around pretending big batman, how can it be. Plenty jokes still fall flat and revealed the true prank is insurmountable disappointing. No mystery seeds were ever planted and Willie has a joke motive. Use of Janet reno is also pretty cringe. But but we've been long overdue for Bart
Lisa team up. I found the scenes of moa having trauma from Bart phone calls I'm amusing. There's the ab obama doctor Lenny, the Maggie test and the closet Chop Gag. Jesus is the last words for not T f. This is the perfect episode to switch your brain off too because at least it's not turned until a rich story means it means they can't really fail. Got the whole spectrum in this week, every... Every with that spectrum going from it was so boring and I could barely
pay attention to. It was so bad. I wanted to, you know, throw into hell. In season 24, yes. That is exactly It is... I hated it to my bar so love that it's fine. Exactly. That's where we're at. Honestly, it's healthier now Just let it be that. If you wanna leave a review, I post it on our patreon every week, support us at any level, we've been a dollar a month. Right of employee. I... And I haven't... Our prices have been the same for 8 years now? No. I've not... In... I've
not Rose with with inflation. Probably should to have at some point, raise prices, but I don't. But ba dollar month let you leave a review. Of course, you didn't have to watch episodes. Some sorry for you if you do that. Yeah. We can move on. No next segment is time Question a week. Let's try. 1 more number. Hello? K kb is gonna give me something still. Well dog. We have a winner. Yeah? I'll list your question week this week. Is what is your favorite simpsons meme?
Lots of great answers. Alright. Take it away. First up from Andy, when homer slowly fades backwards origins into the shrubs slash pushes it can be used all the time. There's a reason this 1 is first because I'm sure that was 80 percent of the responses. From Tim Helen Mu, won't want somebody please think of the children will always be in high rotation. From Timothy, different from Tim, who shot who with the what now to describe any be situation is definitely in my daily category.
From Aaron, I'll go with... I'm a brick, which is ironic because it comes from my all time least favorite episode. I'm a brick, Which episode is that? Believe I mean I'm pretty sure that I wanna see get thrown say getting thrown through the window. Mh. But but which happened I. It's okay, Matt. You don't need to know. Alright. Next up from Da, Technically, it's from family guy, but Ralph Chuck saying I'm in danger is my c 2. Second place is the Least detroit gang. I love that cake. From Jay.
I can't answer this week's question. My planet needs me. From Zach as a Los Angeles Kings fan, I thought I might submit this 1 for Robbie enjoyment. I saw it circulating after their gm miraculously watched his hands, the pier Luke to walk contract. It's homer saying on top of C racing raising to mug in the caption is to rob blake the cause of and solution to all Los angeles this problems. I definitely don't get that, but Robbie, I hope you funny. I I definitely... I mean, I'm
I don't like the Kings because we've... The boilers have play literally 3 playoff series. 3 playoffs in row we face the kings and the opening around. It's getting really tiring. I... But It's also the point where the whale beat them in 7 games and then in 6 games and now in 5 games. In the times, the whale have certain... Have I've gotten better. And the kings have just gotten worse and worse and worse. I have no idea how Rob Blake has a job. They... He has gotten that team in in
worst position every year. A 3 years ago, they were a terrifying team. They almost beat the oil. Now they're they've gotten worse and were... It's better that they don't appear luc on their team anymore, but I... He's... I've... I'm... It's at the point where I'm like, starting to feel bad for kings, the king's fans. Because, like, I'm very, like, rob. You should fire Rob blake. He's not good. He's not a good gym. And you guys need but unfortunately... See, I'm just evolving in
a hockey talk. I'm Thank you, Zach. I'll say that. Thank you. I got it. I appreciate that. I hope you get a battery elder listeners. Got. I don't... I Zack... I hope you hope they fire Rob blake and they don't hire what's his face from Montreal as the nude. That's the... See, that's the real issue. This is just a zach basically mad. If they fire up blake, they're gonna hire... What's his name? He was in he was in Montreal now. He's, like, the assistant Gm. And he's just as bad. Sorry. Mh. Mh.
Mh. Alright. Next up from, lin. Am I have out of touch? No. It's the children who are wrong. 1 of my favorite skinner quotes. Same. Same. From Max, it's funny. My favorite meme is 1... From 1 of my least favorite episodes. That seems to be pretty common. It comes from season 19 husbands and knives. It's the 1 where home is trying to look sexy and confidence margin. He looks good in the front, but in the back, all the fat is staple than rubber band. I
struggle with moderate severe anxiety in depression. It it's draining, training to seem normal. And this means my I think is so popular because so many people can empathize with it. Absolutely. Next up from highlight comments posted it's space shut up Sure. Alright. I got a post in and assemble this crap every week. I don't wanna hear... I don't wanna hear 1 word about it, mister All I I hap posted notes once in a while. Moving we done? Mister I have a job.
Sorry. I could've have skipped over, but it was way more Matt's just gotta be a big jerk. Alright. Next up from Funny film fan, homer disappear into the bushes. From Real insanity. Mo out of the bar meme or the mo, just give them 1 of though these. That's a good 1. Infinite Gu at 49 20 seventh Meme, homer in March arrived to a parking spot as a nerd is walking by homer leans out of the open passenger side window yelling. Nerds, I'm always happy to see it appear in
common threads. It's how you know you're in a the right comment threads. Robbie, what is your response? I think it's old man at clouds. I think all. That's a good 1. And I forgot about that 1. Old man at clouds is just so it's so like, it's applicable to everything. And also, I am occasionally the old man. So I... You know, if I do feel like... Yeah. Sometimes I... I'm getting I'm becoming ape. Where I'm like, yeah. I'm old, yeah. I'm like, yeah. I'm all yell
at clouds those clouds deserve it. They do. They do. And personally, as an advocate for local digital infrastructure, I am quite frequently literally yelling at the cloud. I mean, with the, widespread outage, the day of recording this, Matt, due to, bad updates to cloud security software. I think a lot of people are yelling at the club. Who would have guessed having a company, it's all low level drivers in your system for. Security quote and unquote, would lead to bad things happening. And not
testing those updates. Crazy. Now what's your answer? My answer is homer disappearing into the bushes, it can be used perfectly for backwards and forward. It's a very versatile meme, and as somebody who likes to disappear from parties and social events, anything where are there other people without being noticed it is... It's meme I live every day. Next week's question. I feel like I've we've had to asked this before. But even if we have, I
don't care. Next week's question, who is your favorite superhero? See, I don't remember answering it. So therefore, I think we haven't asked it before, but it's a tough question. My favorite superhero. Boy. Because I don't have 1 off the top of my head, Matt. I don't have an. I have some contenders. I mean, there's lots of tenders. I'm just like, oh, I don't have a lots. As far as I know Matt, there's only...
Well... That's the problem. I used to make the... I could used to be able to make the joke that, like, oh, there's only 1 guy who has an adamant named skeleton and a clause and healing factor, and he's a little angry Canadian man, but how there's, like, competition among Adamant skeletons and claws and It's already so many different here. Are right now The kids. Wolverine not even the best wolverine. So I mean that's just flo Kitty. Time she's is... Like, that's... I wish he would just be
logan. I think she should stay little wolverine. I wish she was just logan Well, yeah. I think that'd be great. Whatever. We'll talk about that next week. Post this on all our social media, all our quote unquote social media, patreon dot com slash show posted there publicly every week. You can answer it on our subreddit, which is r the Simpson Show. It's mostly just me asking listener questions, but if you wanna post some meme, feel free. And email. You in email It's it simpson
t at g mail dot com. Answer. That I can always just get answer through through good old email. The the the the bot... I was gonna say both reliable and dependable in 1 word, which is not great. Reliable. I was gonna say, d deployable. Not good. We a while our next time time for the new Google Trivia challenge. Hi, yep just mark. Hi Am this smart. Hey martin. I mean, SMART. The no Google chevy challenge for Man n showed each other with each of your questions.
When easy 1 medium in 1 hard and try and stump the other. Unfortunately, matt so substantially. You don't mean? So far. He's lead by a lot, 9 points, and we have, like, 1234567 episodes left in this season. That's probably not the good like making up that many points I that in mana is probably gonna be very difficult on my part. Maybe I could start today. Matt, give me an easy question. Alright. Your easy question. Going back to a classic in lord of the dance, who is the voice of Alex Whitney?
I like the calling Lord of the dance classic, which I believe is Season 10 episode? It is a decent ted episode. Yeah. That'd be Lisa k. You are correct. That's the easy compared to anything we've we've learned. That's the easy question here. Don't mind, matt. Okay. You're easy question, Matt, In Mommy Beer, who helps Moe with his bar. That would be Marge. Oh, god. That is correct. Mark Simpson. Know I'm not gonna any other question. Right? Because I hated episode. Alright. Your medium question.
What is the s on the crusty speaking say? Oh god. What is the s of the crusty speak and say? They actually played the s. S is for s is for... I'm really... I'm I don't know this. I'm gonna guess something, though because I feel like I could puzzle this out if I... Okay. I think about it for a second s would be... So it's crusty. It'd probably be something connected to sell this s is for sellout out. That is a very good guess. Unfortunately, it is not correct. S is for Chic, SHII
think there's a tea in there somewhere. Oh, that's the joke because can't spell it. Okay. That's something bad. See that's a... Hey, Simpsons writers a c 24. That's what you call a joke. Alright. Go back to season 10 of all seasons and season to that level 10 if we did season 10, we would do... We would it we'd go, oh, wow. Like, I... When we rewatch these attempts go, wow. They're funny. Like, they're they don't necessarily make the most sense, but they're funny.
I mean, there's a reason that all those seasons are still away ahead of that they're well above where we are now. All these... There's a reason that all the team... The late teens and all the twenties are on the bottom of the list because there's just no jokes and plot in them. Alright. Your medium question, matt. What 3 different violations does the health and Inspector call out about Moe. Oh, gosh. He ends with these 3. He says, boom boom is 3. And then he says you're suspended for your
help... Your your license is suspended. I believe, oily rags that can catch fire. There's a roach in the pickled eggs, and the women's room is a gladiator arena? I have no clue. No the the 3 answers he gives man. Are chicken skins in the soap a dispenser. Mh. Cigarette butts in the air, and toilet on the roof. On the roof. I mean, that's not a terrible idea. Look it's raining. It's just sitting there man. I don't know what's going on. Like, again, these are not
bigger good jokes, but I'm just... That is what is in the s. Indeed. Alright. You're hard question. What is the scent that Alex wears? I assume it's not a real perfume? You know I don't think so, but... Oh, no. Now we got Matt, like, describing thinking real perfume are fake because they run the Simpsons wants. I'm gonna say it's, like a some sort of calvin Klein joke, because that's the most... Obviously the most probably famous perfume slash cologne at of all time.
Well, I guess that's not... It is not the most famous cologne at anymore because all the old spice commercials, I think are more famous than it. Those aren't cologne. Those are body wash and deodorant. The 1 of them is a is a is this body spray, which I is effectively just cologne, whatever. That's true. But what know 1 device made they make matter they apply that awful smell to everything. You want that smell on any... Anything you can think of. They have it. You want old spice
cologne they have it. You want old spice the a car freshen. You got that too. Smell like I did when I was 16 years old. It's not good. So I'm gonna say, Calvin klein innocence. You're you're actually kinda close. It is pre hypertension by Calvin Klein. Hypertension, Okay. That's pretty good. Your hard question, out. What is the headline of the springfield shopper framed behind the bar? Oh,
at the bar crystal joke. It's... I wanna say it it it's like, awful tavern opens on side of old murder or something like, it's the best I get. I mean, it's You're on the right truck. Triple murder at mo. That's right the the the murder, of course. And Mo the name of the bars is in the headline. It's the important part. Any publicity. Sure. So 1 the 1, that's not good enough. I can't keep doing... I can't keep just tying
and Matt. I have to beat him. But unfortunately, I have gotten 1 point for Matt in 12345678 straight weeks. 8 stray episodes, Matt, where I've got your easy question, right, and nothing else. See, and I know Matt's or schumacher monster because he feels no shame about this. I mean, I feel a little bit of shame. I I like for you to get the the medium question right every once in a while. Matt, you gotta set your sights a lot lower. Okay? Think you're like, asking questions for, like,
a fourth grader. Like, think of a a solid third or fourth grader question. They watch the Simpsons, what questions did you asked them? Then I might start getting some right. I think there's the only weeks I actually get more double, like, more than 1 point is when you, like, start aiming questions for, like, children. And then I start doing okay. Me not great. I've yet. I've got... I've not gotten 6 points. What... I've not gotten even more than 3
points season at any appointment. I've never gotten... I've never... I've not gonna argue. I mean, have I. You gotten 4 twice. Wow. 4. Okay. Yeah. 4 twice. You got 3 twice and they're a bunch of ones. But I've also gotten a 0. So Not so great. We are absolutely getting harder on each other over the years. It just is a nature of the beast. It's fine. That's it for Trivia, We can move on our final segment the segment with every single up episode with. It's not for best episode. Ever. Best
episode Ever. Best episode ever. The partial man, I ranked their episodes categorically. We'll watch them chronological, eventually compile the list of every episode ever and how good they are. Okay. Well let's get down there. It's definitely. Let's see. Okay. Burns in the bees, matt, Number 04:11. Okay. Burned in the bees. Okay. B's released inside of a hockey arena. I believe there's a basketball camera but what? I would rather watch that to this? Really?
I think so. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Fair enough. Alright. How about we get down to lost Verizon, number 04:14. Oh god. That's that's a rough 1. I really don't like that 1. Me neither, but I still think it's better than this Yeah. Because at least something kind of happens. There's conflict. I... That's where we're at. We're, like, oh, what happens on that up. Okay. Okay. Right below loss horizon is the meg getting kidnapped because she's part of a prophecy.
A see. This is in this season. I've already forgotten. I've already... I don't remember this. Adventures and baby getting. This is... Sorry. I'm thinking of a different 1 Nope. Nope. That's that is incorrect. Okay. The. Think of the wrong 1. This is not this is not the Maggie gets involved in the prophecy. Soon? No. This is, March wanting another baby after buying a car and realizing it's it's finding any reason she doesn't like it. Boy. Oh, yeah. This is even worse than that.
Oh, gosh. Okay. I would say this substance better than adventures in baby getting. I would put it. I would it right between verizon, added adventures in baby getting. I think that's my answer. Oh and the cursed sub plot. Oh, my god. Yeah. This is definitely better than that Hoo boy. Alright. So that's 44545415 04:15. Well, you can tell that the the caffeine has worn off. Time to recap. My brain is not I'm not gonna cafe right now.
I'm gonna save it for later, man. You know, sit stay up and watch you movie tonight. Be... I can't be I can't be crashing during a movie. Of course, not that would be. Be rude. Rude. Would be rude. Okay. So there's a new 04:15 A dark that's dark night court right below lost Verizon right above adventures in baby getting, number 1 of the list is. That me last place list. Is still c day forever made it rain. We're not done though. Yeah. We have 1
more thing to do before we leave. 1 more question to answer that question is, do we shoot this episode out of the candidate. I can't off the top of my head, matt, think of a an episode less essential than this. Oh, this is completely completely pointless. I I just don't You don't need to watch it. You don't even to think about it. Doesn't need to be remembered at all. By the cannon. Goodbye, goodbye Dark night court. And nice known you. We're up 2 really though. Not really though.
We're down we're down 2, I guess, I should say number 200 on the list, matt. As we answer the same question by every. 200 in the list is Season 2, 3 men in the comic book, which is, yeah. Of course. Yeah. Stays. Yeah. 3 minute comic books really good. Really entertaining. Really funny. I it's kinda staggering the gap between in quality between those 2 matt. You're really, really good. 3 minute the comment book is a good episode the Simpsons, memorable. Season 2. It's a little... A little me...
I would say it's a little slow. Aim animation still little jan. But it has so much heart and someone, and there's still a lot of laughs in it and so much hair during it, and it, like, there's like, tension and stakes and conflict. And this is a number 200 on our list. And you compare that to this garbage we watch today. It's just it... And there's like, only only 250 entries in between, but those 250 entries like,
some... We're gonna have to, like, we're gonna have to nail trajectories where that's are just, like, things start falling off cliffs because there are definitely inflection points when they just stop being good, and they stop being okay. Yeah, then they start being and then they start being bad, and then they start being terrible, and then they start being un uncomfortable. 3 minute Got book. Yeah. Of course, it stays. Absolutely. Yeah. Our next. What? Oh, no. What animated women want?
Okay. Sure. Sure. I... Like homer tries to win back, margins love by doing, like, advice from Mike sushi shit... Like Akira and moe and Moe and and they have, like, they get 50 states... Like, they trying to do Bd stuff. Like, what is going on. And for some reason, both walter white and Jesse Pink are in this episode. Literally, the characters are in this episode. And now we hear. What... But in the b plot is Mill House being Marlon Brando and a street card named desire. What?
We already did that guys. He did dentistry car named desire in the simpsons. It was really but not with mill house. Fire 0J0, Walter White and Jesse Pink in the couch gag. Okay. We have a brief Oh, I remember that couch guy Breaking couch guy. Okay. That's off forgive that. That's fine. But it's just... I don't know why they do? Okay. That's nice week. I don't know I'm... I'm not in inflict trauma on myself before I even watched the upset
that. So next week, I'll worry about whatever is going on in this, 50 shades of gray and More Marlon Brando, mil house. That's next time. Yeah. You can watch along with us. You can find everything on our website simpson show dot com or go to our patreon on patreon dot com slash at simpson show I know. I get 50 times a up, but I know I know how many... I see the download numbers, guys. Okay? I know that there are many people downloading this who don't... They're like, why would I
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to talk about good things, Matt. Back when the show was good. If we do make it to the end of the simpsons because I'm not at this point, ever sure that the simpsons are gonna end in our lifetimes, But if we ever do get to the end, we're definitely gonna end with the Golden news, we're gonna go back around and watch the golden news sure because that will make us... It would be joyous again. You find me online at Robbie Do that's torn with 1 0 Matt. I know. It sounds like 2 0 doorman,
but it's not... It's doorman with 10I write novels, guys. To rave reviews, you should go re... Breathe them, buy them. I would appreciate it they're 5 bucks on Kindle, 5 dollars, man. 15 different novels, some are really gross and goo horror novels. Some are kind of very approachable. This book is cursed very approachable book. Feel like... And if you, like goose goosebumps or Twilight zone or black mirror, you would like this book is cursed, I think it's kind of feels like all of those things.
Please go check it out. I would really appreciate it. Matt does not participate in social media. You wanna find him. That's correct. I spend all my time. Literally all of it Taking care of kittens, which you can see at kit turns, KITINTRNS on Instagram, there have been a lot. Kitten season full swing, so they're everywhere. Just all the cute, it's it's so
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