What is up everybody welcome back to the mmm donuts podcast
Thanks so much for being here. I hope that you have enjoyed these so far as I've made them
I hope you enjoyed the tree house of horror
I've kind of as I've done these first eight or nine episodes. I've kind of realized that I've
Fallen away from what I really wanted to do and I'm gonna kind of go back to
Just readjust and pivot
It's still open to any feedback that you'd like to offer
And it's nothing too dramatic, but
So you might notice a little bit of a difference in the flow just in the the outline that I've created
But you know, it's it's this is just what I had in mind for the show
So anyway, I hope you like it keep listening. Thanks very much. I appreciate it and
Let's jump into it. So
I can't run a little bit low on motivation because
You're probably getting tired of hearing this but it's just hard to watch the first season
Second season isn't much better. So I want to push through these but I will continue to still
Be doing some other episodes like those Halloween episodes that I did
From last week. I guess about it. Yeah, we could go
I think I'm gonna jump ahead and do some of my favorite episodes here soon
And just throw them in there and still be labeled as the right season and episode
So as I do all of these in the future
Episodically, it'll show up, you know the way that it should
but
anyway
That's where we are. So this episode is called the call of the Simpsons and
This is it's an okay one. It's got some good jokes. It's got some
Okay writing it's got a good guest star in my opinion. So
Just to recap we've we've had like two or three guest stars so far. There were two in the last episode
morning Lisa and then one in Homer's Odyssey Sam Mcmurray
So the one up in this episode is Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks is also in the telltale head in a few episodes
Albert Brooks you may remember him from such other movies as
Finding Nemo and Dr. Doolittle
Dr. Doolittle
Yeah
He plays the the tiger in that one and he's my favorite
plays the the tiger in that one and he's Marlon in
In Finding Nemo Nemo's dad that is Albert Brooks albeit several years prior
So he sounds a little different, but he plays Bob the RV dude cowboy Bob. So
And I'm pretty sure he's a French guy in the next episode. He's in but we'll get to that
Here are the gags
So first of all, this this came out in 1990 just like the last several but this is February 18th and again at the time we were
We were waiting for these Sunday night
Seven o'clock
Simpsons wrong. We loved it. I hated when there was like sweeps week
You might have to look that one up
We'd miss a week for here and there but then
Aside from the summer. It's what got us through school
We could watch the Simpsons every weekend and we go back and talk about it Monday morning
very very fun past time for me growing up, so
Anyway chalkboard gag says I will not draw naked ladies in class now
I
Don't know about you
but
Who would have who would have done? I did I did that I got in trouble for that once
Who didn't though, right?
Shut up. You're not perfect
The couch gag is kind of meh. It's just the family all piles in
onto the couch and nothing extraordinary happens and they use that again in the last episode of this season, so
You know womp womp. There are a lot of great ones though, and I'm a broken record
But they get much better as the seasons go on. So let's plow through
we'll get some good stuff eventually there are some some hidden gems though and
There's a really funny scene in this episode that I'll talk about
You know, I'm gonna jump ahead
I don't care one of my favorite episodes growing or one of my favorite scenes from this episode growing up is when Bart and Homer are
trying to trap a rabbit using a
little sapling a small, you know, very young tree and
When the rabbit goes in the little circle to get its fifth
Thing the seriously just snaps into action like there's no there's no trigger
To activate it even as a kid. I was like, well, that's dumb
But then I was I immediately forgot it because it was such a funny
Sound and then sight to see that little rabbit just launched hundreds of yards away. It's just
You know slapstick humor. I loved it that kind of stuff
So anyway, this this episode is the one where Homer who's envious of Ned Flanders is
new RV buys a
dilapidated one and takes the family on a
disastrous
camping trip
The RV along with many of their possessions gets destroyed
He lost in the woods Homer's mistaken his big foot and Maggie is adopted by a family of bears. So
That's the end of the episode
so that's the plot summary
I've got some trivia. All right, so if you did your homework and if you watch these the episodes
before before these then you're gonna have a good time and if you didn't then you're you're not and
Shame on you. Like really? What else do you have better going on that? You can't just
Spend 22 minutes and 38 seconds. Okay. Sorry. That was all okay question
Number one, what is the motto of Bob's RV roundup?
They're actually a couple of signs out front, but one of them is is a motto
And I don't want to have an argument that well, I mean all that could be considered no there's one that's a motto and
Then the other they're just they're just signs. So what's the motto?
Question number two from the same scene
It's because it's good
How many deep fryers?
Does the ultimate believe behemoth RV have?
All right, did you know it? Okay third what TV program was interrupted when the local news broke
When they broke the story on Bigfoot
So now I gave more thought into this trivia if you have been watching the episodes
You already know the trivia answers. So why wait till the end and
Me risk forgetting to give the answers but right why wait till the end?
So the motto of Bob's RV roundup is we'd rather make a friend than a prophet
How many are deep fryers are on the ultimate behemoth RV for one for every part of the chicken and
What TV program was interrupted when the local news broke the story on Bigfoot a presidential address
It's good stuff
Okay, I'm gonna go into some of the jokes now because this really is the reason that I started this podcast
It's to just go through the jokes
They're a lot better later on and they're a lot more deep like I don't know seasons 5 through
12 I might have to do hour-long episodes like they're just chock full of jokes that are good and deep or have layers
But there's still some some good ish jokes in these so we're gonna go through them for example
the first one that I noticed was
When Bart is he's mowing the lawn and he's complaining that that Todd is on a riding lawnmower and has it
You know, he's got a different voice since his first line doesn't talk again till like middle the next season
He has has his voice. We all know the high-pitched one. But anyway, he's like hard enough for you
It's dumb
You're riding lawnmower with a camisole and like a glass of lemonade
so stupid
Which is in itself, you know a good joke
But anyway Bart's complaining and asking Homer why they can't have one of those two and Homer says Oh Bart
Don't try to keep up with the Flander is
It's the dichotomy there it's like they're opposite
From how they end up, you know, they're fully developed characters. It's just funny not even now not even swapped. It's just Homer's
It's not Homer
But it's funny. So
Funny in retrospect. It's more irony than than that
but then also the joke is that then Ned pulls up with his
Big RV and then you know
Homer has to have a better one or he has to go and get one so
Immediately goes back on what his advice is to his son. The next joke comes rolling right back after that
when when they're looking at the and then the RV and
Homer says to Ned, how can you afford something like this Ned?
I get your mail once in a while and you make only $27 a week more than I do
There's there's a couple of great jokes there
Obviously first being it is committing mail fraud and that
Flanders is just fine with it. But that's his character forever is Homer does something crazy and obnoxious or destructive and
Flanders is like well, okly-dokly
That's that's the running gag with with Ned I love it it's funny
but also
He somehow only makes $1400 a year more than than Homer and he's in pharmaceutical sales
so
There's something there's something missing there. I just think that I don't know if that was intentionally written to be a joke
I think that was just poor writing. It probably just didn't really understand what
The difference is in income
because
Yeah, that's
anyway
More silly and dumb than than funny that part of it. But but there you go
So and obviously there are other jokes here and there I'm not gonna go through every single joke like first episode
I did mr. Lisa goes to Washington. I'm gonna redo
when
When we get to that season the next season because I just went through like every scene and analyzed it was a full hour
It's now an Apple exclusive. So if you want to go listen to it, it still has lots of listens lots of downloads
But I mean speak out if you really actually enjoy it tell me you know, give me some advice
Let's move on though
the RV scene
Sorry, the RV lot scene is
It's chock-full of some good jokes. The signs are funny. I'm sorry
The signs are funny
the the sleazy
used car salesperson
Character that um, you know that is bob cowboy bob is just so funny. He epitomizes
The sleazy salespeople of you know used car lots
Does that perfectly? It's funny really really good
Has lots of lots of dirty and underhanded things that he says to Homer and just takes advantage of being stupid and
Then Homer of course epitomizes
the ability to take advantage of dummards
especially in this situation, so
good humor
Good jokes in my opinion the the next little bit. I mean, there's the
Scene where they go out camping a couple of jokes on the ride, but um
They finally get home or to stop he reaches down and pushes a button and then
Like is now going 10 times faster than he did before
So, you know, why wasn't he? No, we're not gonna break down and talk about how realistic it is because it's a cartoon
So calm down
But when he stops
They're on on the edge of an arve of a cliff and they're teetering back and forth
and when
You can see when the family's all in there
The RV is packed to the brim
with their possessions including their TV
Everything from their house is in there like it's a decent size RV and it is floor to ceiling completely packed with all their junk
And so they all get out miraculously and the RV
plummets
and blows up and
It's the first of many times
That the simpsons suffer a loss of
Practically everything they own and then return the next week as if it never happened
But they do however get much better at creating comedy
And they even poke fun at creating closure later, which i'll point out when it when it starts to happen
but
but anyway
So this this next one
I'm not I don't think it was intentionally written as the as a joke the way that i'm taking it
But it's because they you know, the writers hadn't fully developed homer yet or anything
really, so homer walks off and is acting calm and then
Starts freaking out
Which is another joke because he screams, you know horrible things and there's a loud echo so
Some good slapstick echo humor can't go wrong there, but then
He throws his hands up and he says of all the fates of heaven and earth
What is the most horrible thing that ever happened to him?
He throws his hands up and he says of all the fates of heaven and earth. Why does this one befall me?
And it was so funny. I I had to google it. I was like that's
Is that shakespeare?
you know like
I was fully expecting it to be from from macbeth or something
um
And it's it's not it's if you google of all the fates of heaven and earth
Why does this one befall me? It's from homer simpson
And it's just so highbrow
That I mean that's that I think is is just a joke because he's he's portrayed as dumb and even later in this pretty soon in this
episode
Um portrayed is very very dumb, but there's this
stark contrast
Of his lines so they get a lot better at continuity as they move on with homer, which is good
but it just
As I watch these episodes, I'm I honestly i'm thinking
I'm glad there wasn't anything else on you know
To to convince fox. Hey, this is good people like this. I'm really glad there was an other competition that could
That could throw this out because it ended up being an amazing show
but geez
there were a lot of flaws a lot of
A lot of swings and misses
So and I think i've told you guys
I I watched these episodes right before I create the outline or finish the outline and then record the episode
but i'm also watching
The simpsons just you know an everyday life and i'll put it on while i'm making dinner or something or
watch an episode before I go to bed
and um
So i'm currently in like
I think season 13 now and
It's just
it's so
funny to see
how far they've gone
but it's also my motivation for for doing other episodes here and there because
it's going to get me through these first two three seasons it really is because
when they hit
I think seasons like five through twelve
Could be the greatest
Of the whole series. I think that's when they peaked
uh, and and they don't like plummet after that but
Gosh, I think I even said this in a recent podcast
I am not intentionally trying to be repetitive. I promise you that
But I do have lots of opinions and sometimes they're the same opinion
sorry
uh, but anyway, so
Homer and Bart walk off and then maggie starts to follow him and lisa's like oh should we be worried and marzah?
I'm sure that she's in good hands
She's in good hands
Yeah, it's just silly
Again in retrospect you're like well, of course, she's not in good hands
But at the time we didn't know everything we know about homer now. So it was believable question work
and her whole
Adaptation into a family of bears is pretty funny
um
Particularly her complete lack of fear of the bear and he just she just shoves in an extra pacifier into its mouth
And then their their family. It's funny
It's funny. I don't care who you are. You're not going to convince me. It's not
uh, one of the best jokes, I think is
the
The subtle humor about homer being dumb and smelly
so like on the ride to the
Forest the kids are playing a game. What's that smell and it ends up being homer's feet?
Um, so, you know pointing out that he's that he's smelly but also when he's caught his big foot they catch him
and they talk about his smell and his intelligence and
They still are like
It's inconclusive whether or not he's actually big foot
I mean, it's just funny because that's just how dumb he is and he's like lamenting
Um guys at work are gonna have a field day over this one
It's pretty funny
So anyway, what do you think? Did I miss any jokes?
And I told you I'm not putting them all in the episode
But like did I miss one of your favorites? Are you listening to this at home or your car?
Or in your shower? Don't listen to it in the shower
Uh, and you're just like well, why why didn't you?
Why didn't you why didn't you talk about this joke? This was the best joke of the whole series
To prove it
prove it message me
You know how i'll tell you again anyway
in a minute
So anyway, um
That's it. That's what i've got. Uh, i'll end with with uh, just one more
piece of
trivia, I guess
Um, but what I wanted was to I originally wanted these episodes to be about 20 22 minutes long because that's how long the episodes were
uh, I didn't love getting into
You know longer as much as I wanted to wax philosophical and ask you to you know respond and give me your other your
Your thoughts on this
there will be episodes where I do that, especially when i've got a guest with me, but
for now, it's just going to be let's talk about the jokes and
Maybe you missed a joke when you watched it
And and I could shed some light on it
And you can send me some money for that
Um, because no i'm just kidding
Uh, but you can know if you really want anyway, the call of the simpsons the name of this episode
Is it's a reverence a reverence. It's a rev reference
to a brief novella like a short novel
By jack london called the call of the wild
There are lots and lots of references like that in simpsons episode names
I'm sure you've probably caught on by now
I will always try to explain what the reference is
Because even now today I saw one in depth in season 13. I didn't understand it
So i've got to google it when that time comes but at this point
We might not be getting to season 13 until after the apocalypse or I mean for like seven more years. So
Seriously, if people listening to this the analytics tell me there are it's got hundreds of downloads and i'm grateful
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