So alive. Hi everyone and welcome to the Nelly Up North podcast. Isn't Nelly podcast was the bar in all the notes? I am one of your hosts Sam.
And I'm either host Paul and we are joined this week by the lovely Sonia and the Amieres and Jake. So making the grand returns, Jake's first pod pass away is on two in a row in quite a long time because let's be honest Jake is very choosy on which episode he will allow us to have him on. The elusive Jake I like the call myself. I'm tired now it's two weeks in a row.
When I'm stopping and we're going to comment something in a bit. We'll get a union on us. So sorry we are a little bit late this evening. I did try to entertain you with some Simpson videos as well.
I hope you enjoyed that. Yeah, thank you. It was me. I was literally just drove back from York, opened the door, turned the computer on and set up.
That's it. So we were all in these lists. So yes. I thought that you was down.
So this week's episode was chosen by Jake again I think because he had the choice for last year. If you only know if you only will, come on. Episodes when he puts forward I think that's the ex-reals now. That's how it works.
And I think it is next year the return of the twitches shall we see it. Because we've got the two twitched my stores like the Nerdy Up Northern and Son Boz the Twitch Queen as well. So yeah, something bad. Do you want to ask you a few of his questions?
Are you trying to get it away with now? Well it's working. So I don't know what you want about it. Just how have you been?
How have you been? How have you been? What have you been watching? A lot.
You could wait at last. Sorry boss. Son, what have you been watching this week? Anything at the table?
You know I'm actually really bad watching TV. Like I do watch it but I've been watching it before. I do watch it, but I've been watching if I've seen before, but this week I've just started watching something I haven't seen before, which I'm annoyed I've left so long, which is a bit of call soul. And I'm really, really glad I've started watching it.
The reason I put it off was because I feel like nothing can replace breaking bad, but actually it's bloody brilliant. So I'm annoyed. No, I think you've done it right because I watched it like as it came out and it was like, it was like really slow. So I feel like you can get like a good like chunk of watching in and be like satisfied, whereas I was kind of like, well, I'm not sure on this yet and I'll check the next week out.
But at a certain point, it does get it's like breaking bad pace back. Once you kind of understand what it's going to be, but yeah, it's fun. I thought that of course I was bad when I was bad. I'll see it.
It's just because I didn't like Skylar and she was breaking bad for me. So I just wanted to punch her in a face and make her normally an aggressive man. I haven't seen you play Sonic. This is the trial of Hall.
The true self will come at one bit. Nobody says the nice stuff I do. I've never actually watched by the call, so I'll end for the same exact reason you didn't watch it is because it will in my eyes. Like it's not going to be great and bad.
Yeah. The final season is amazing though. Yeah. One of the I know we talked about like, yeah, we had endings to TV shows and stuff like that, but it is up there.
And it's because when you're seeing the show, like, great and bad, you kind of expect what's going to happen and stuff like that. So you know, the journey so goes down, but to see it and like, the surprises that come away and the characters that give you a part of it, I really enjoyed it. You got something to look forward to then and some. Still got that like really good, really good bad guys show up as well.
Like you really don't want to see succeed. And yeah, like Jimmy and Kim's like relationship, which wasn't in Breaking Bad at all, or even Hinnadat is like one of the best parts. I would say. Definitely.
And I'm just getting annoyed at the chat as well because the chat's going to shift for cinemas. Because people who know you. I chat with it. I will lose.
I will ban you as all. I thought that was Jix power. I got the concomer. So, Jix being watching anything interesting?
I mean, I don't think I've ever talked about this on the show before, but I watch a lot of One Piece, which has been going since the 90s. And that's been very good lately. That's like, you episode every Sunday type of thing, a little ritual with the coffee in the morning. I mean, it's quite accessible.
One piece is this one for me to do with it? Yes, that's all right. Yeah, just I just bought him to do it for because he's obsessed with one piece. So you can see for he does.
I mean, you bought yourself something so you've had to buy Anthony something. I only bought myself a comic actually. And I bought my stuff a comic and I bought a comic and I bought it. Yeah, it's like one of those super really long running enemies.
That's like episode one thousand sixty or something like that. Well, yeah, but I'm up to date like a madman. Wow, that's impressive. He's made me watch one of the films before.
Yeah, I did see movies. Sorry. I heard myself say films the other day on the podcast and I was like, no, he's made me watch one before and get what was going on. Big anime fight shouting.
I'm adding a rubber. That's about right. Other than that, no, I've been corrupted by Paul to watch things on the Discovery Network. Discovery Network is a new to the trash TV.
I'm telling you, I've been watching naked and afraid, which that's been fun. I'm not really learning anything, but I'm seeing the side of human nature. That would have happened if we were to trap the load together in the forest or whatever. The only thing I don't care about the show.
I do like it. I'd like to I was obsessed doing lockdown watching this as well is why they have to be naked door and they're just blow up the bits and you see like the bus walking around all the time. Yeah, it's like sure. I'm a fan of seeing the bus.
That's that's good. That's a plus column. You're right. Those sometimes to make shoes, but other producers say like I can't pick pants.
They're like, come on. Like sometimes the fashion shoot like sandals out of like leaves and or in the episodes, like on the negative and afraid Excel episodes and when I can test and taps out or leaves, like I have a medically tapped up book. This is what's brilliant about these shows. People actually need to die in real life.
It's like I'm a celebrity girl here. We're put in the middle of Africa or in like the most part, just like the Amazon rainforest. And I've got to live there for 30 years or 60 days depend on it. So someone actually catches an infection that get ever out of us.
Because someone in the hall will collapse on malnutrition as well. And it's a really good. So like I've followed like one block. I was like, I was going on saying I'm the old man.
I would say I'm a natural man and stuff. I got walking on a hill, step over and broke his knee. So on the first day, there was an amazing amount of instant karma or like Shadden fraud, whatever you want to call it, where you just see the absolute worst people get like, you know, it's stoned by wasps and that and you're like, you deserve this. But if I leave like a quint on the bags, it's all got like a bag of like a sashot to keep the stuff in the sometimes fashion like bras and like pants out of like these bags.
So it's always quite like the interesting one is like a big group of them saying how long like the last type thing. Not last two seconds. I have no creativity in these fingers. Like I am making shit.
Like I'm walking around naked constantly. Like there's nothing getting made out of these hands. That's just like a normal day for you. You've canceled this wonder.
You're lucky. I didn't get it. I was literally going to just rip me trousers off. Now I think we should do a nerdy survival thing though and just see how like take a stop.
No, I'm straight away. Meghan try. Do you want to be coming out with Donna? When if Donna started one, she would stop eating us all to death.
She'd be the first one to eat us. I'm an excellent team player, but you best believe that if anything goes wrong, I'm going to be like the one smashing someone's head in with a rock to gain power over the Wow. We went up pretty quick. We went up pretty quick there.
Wow. I'm just starting cannibalism straight away. Geez. Like, you know what I would do?
Whoever was the most like powerful like whoever had the most power. I'm jumping on that. This is how I guess how and why. I'm sorry.
Absolutely. If you show like if you show any sign of like you are the strong, that's where I'm going. So what we're going to see in here to navigate the like the strongest member. But when I do a WWE style of oil rumble, last month, wins and has power over the group.
And also if I get bit by a zombie, I'm going to hide it until it's too late. I'm just saying that. Wow. I feel like I just don't know you at all.
But you just got to be honest with yourself. To be fair, I'd probably do the same. I'm like, okay. I'm good.
I'm good. I suppose you're covering the corner of the center. Please don't hit me. Please don't hit anyone.
Be my bitch. To be fair, to be fair, good. I'd probably mean him. We played fantastic before we together.
Me and him went ahead. Got the soft shit. So I'll be in him hiding somewhere. I thought you'd do something.
What have you been watching? Oh, gosh. Oh, that's right. So Monday.
So I did the, I went to a convention on Sunday, did the podcast, stayed up stupidly late and then went to work for the 10 hours the next day. I thought, you know what? I'm just going to watch two episodes of Happy Valley for last season. And then when I'm going to call it a night and go and have an early night and be a sensible human being.
I did not. I was going to be a third season on Monday night. Didn't finish it about one o'clock. It was worth it.
Well worth it. So the last season, Happy Valley was great. And we've been, this is how bad we are with the comes of seasons. We watch big fan theory on the back of the episode we did.
And then we finished it. And then we got lonely and we started watching the game and like halfway through in last night, I just went, I want to watch how I met your mother. And I started watching how I met your mother. So I'm on that train now.
But like the only thing that really in time, like I'm watching it all because I can't wait to get the wrong sparkles episode. And then we got to go to the top tier British drama to bottom of the barrel. With an ending. The shark.
Yes. All in the span of a week. But what I also did is watch the first episode ever for me of Moo Shina's with Paul. That was a fucking experience.
You fucking got me gross. I loved it. Excuse me. Yeah, I absolutely loved it.
The episode itself is just like, you know, I got to see what he's being on about. It's when he showed us the drama. Like everything changed. Sorry.
I've got the sneezes. I've been sneezing most often. I do apologize. And not over guys.
Don't worry. You can't catch me. Not in the same room. It's my allergies.
My apologies. And yeah. So I watched the drama filled part of moonshine is and I was completely invested. Like I wanted to know more.
So yeah, it was so much fun. That's my watch. What have you been watching this week? Well, I'll start with some high class BBC entertainment.
Which grip British menu started up again. And I forgot. So binge watch that. I don't know if anyone's watch it's on like the 20, 100 season or something like that.
Each region but like say for the North East have included Yorkshire and ever something like no idea. I am half Yorkshire. We're interested. But still.
We exist. There's dozens of us. It's just basically like a co-control like MasterChef where they got these high end chefs like top of the range steps to basically try and put the best menu for what comes to be like a like a bang with. And this year's brief is animation and animation and illustration.
So the thing doing like a one of them did like a Banksy dessert where I was like the cheese cake that was made like a little girl in the balloon which was just absolutely phenomenal. Saying someone make food look like a piece of art. Someone used like a cover of worms to compute a game. I was sitting like little like things but they matter food and like normally it's quite competitive where the chefs are quite dicks to each other.
But this time they've been quite nice. But like say the scores and everything's been out this world. But yeah, so they're watching a bit of high class BBC entertainment as well. And then we took it to the land of the trash and I think I did watch it any sort of moonshine as I did.
The guy that's not his name now is who's come up and he's taken other people's business so people are getting angry at him. So he's one of these people, he's sitting on people's stores. But he made this mimosa moonshine that was crossed the watermelon so it sounded quite nice. And he forgot the turn he still still off though when it was emptied so it exploded.
Okay, I've seen how important that shit is. And I've got some sad news for you Sam as well. Oh what? You know the two old blocks that you like that you saw sitting in the chair.
One of them's been harassed by the law so he's retired on the other side. I was like, why are you going to sit there and explode it too? The one with the hat on. The one who told you to sit down boy.
No, no, he's still going to continue but he's part of it because the law came to his door and started harassing him. So he says it's too hot for him to do it at this moment. They were so funny like the acting hard as fuck. They were really intimidated but they can like switch it like 180 in like a matter of seconds.
It was just like it was so heated and then all of a sudden he's like, I ain't your enemy boy. I broke out and it was so great and then we're going to spill some really old gin that was quite important to them. And then we just going to set it on fire until the guy with the hat was like, yeah, I don't think that's a good idea. That's why I always explode.
That's why I love the answer. Oh that's so sad. I'm sad that the police are chasing them. It's the real police because as you said, this is a reality TV show about an illegal act back.
You do get like jail time in America for doing where they're doing it in Haydn with a film crew. Yeah, I'm presently selling this product somewhere. I felt like $100 in the jar. The jar is just like one minute.
We need to get one when you do a taste test. No, no, because he was saying on the episode of the way he was, you know, this people who think that they drink in 180, 180, 180 proof alcohol when really only drinking 100. That shit will kill you. Okay.
Yes. So that's an old updated moonshine now. We did try not to live on YouTube but Youtube took it down. So if you do not want to watch Sam's reaction we were able to upload a small clip.
It's on Youtube. Yeah, but it's for some reason it's banned in Germany. Youtube is banned in Germany. I'm curious to the Germans.
It is up on the Patreon as well. So you can watch the full episode on our Patreon. And I know Sam's now got three episodes of a Game of Thrones episode, a total on the Patreon. And a special treat to you guys.
I am gonna upload the first episode tomorrow on YouTube. Give everyone a taste of what the missing out on Sam and one and Sam to promote Game of Thrones. Yeah, I'm gonna make that work. That's Sam, one and Sam too.
Yeah, come and join us. Honestly, the first episode is, and just an intro into, what is the intro into my work? You know how we found Game of Thrones? Into the madness.
Well, actually, that's the second episode, into the Koreans, it's about the bloodline of the Targaryens. And it's not your typical talk of what you would think of Targaryens. So it is really interesting. Cause I wanna be talking about it.
Just use the typical talk of Targaryens. Typical talk of Daenerys. This is knocking like that. We go a little bit more deeper.
So if you do wanna be a Patreon, go on, go on, go on. And I believe I'm gonna put it on the spot here as well. Cause I know Sam was thinking about doing a lot of the rings one soon. And I know Sam, you got quite excited when we mentioned that before.
We just need to figure out the logistics of it. But yeah, I do wanna do something with a lot of the rings. So you are definitely in my forefront. So I mean, when I do that.
You have my axe, I mean. Shall we get into this week's episodes? So do you wanna do you just blame on that? We will panic and think we're gonna have to remember it.
Ah, bless you. So everything that's in today's episode is our opinions and our opinions a lot. If you'd like to discuss anything from today's episode, please come and join us in the Facebook group where we can have an open decision for what we want to have. As anyone coming for us, tell us our opinions are wrong.
We know the Greek is very random. So let's give it a fun, give a kind and keep the toxic behaviour out of notism. Very well done. And when we say keep the toxicity of notism, I'm laughing at the chakas best, sweating the head good, well in the fear, so I don't know what's happening there.
It's not as toxic. Yeah, we're trying to be positive Beth. It's a positive day because that's what we do Beth. And to be fair though, because let's say with Sam being big-time now, we're gonna come on there.
She didn't know Danny Jones, Joel's honest to you, but she was at the comic con with the cast of Red Wall and he turned up late. So she thought, oh, he can do it. I'll do it as well. He did.
Yeah, he should. He rocked up. His cue was like massive and he just rocked up half an hour late and he was like, oh, I'm so sorry. And Chris Barry just went, dear, give us a hug.
And then I was about it. I saw them was, I'm just before we get this week episode. I saw Danny John Jules take a woman in a wheelchair and run her around the convention center. Like without a consent or?
No, no, she was fucking loving it. It was, I called up with her later on. I was like, was that fun? And she went, it was the best experience of me goddamn life.
Like it was just so unpredictable. I thought it was great. So yeah, I got the witness that today. Anyway, the Simpsons.
Yes. Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do. I absolutely love you, picture. Some people took us a while.
I was like, what is this? Like, I need glasses so badly. My eyes are not focused on properly. No, no, we're only gonna talk about Tracy and we'll enjoy your innocence.
Oh shit. But yes, that was a good starting point as well. Like I said, with the Simpsons, I think we were talking about before, it is the show that will never die. It'll just continue on forever last.
Everyone who works in the Simpsons will probably have died, most of them have died. But yes, 1989, I believe this started. Wow. Like are we talking 1989 this version?
Like what we can see on Sunday? Are we talking like? Well, that was a Simpsons starting point 1989. And I think it was 30, how many?
I know I had this. The feel is 34 and she was born in 1989. So I'm just not think I'm in season. So I was born in 1988.
So I am one year older. That's horrible. Wow. I hear the fact that I have more years on years.
That's a... Remember the pre-Simpsons world we talk. I do. I remember not just only that, I remember the promotion leading up to the Simpsons.
I remember it all. I remember a big massive billboard in Sunderland that now is a bunch of flasters past the bridge. It'd be a huge billboard and the picture of Bart Simpson was there for ages. I used to love going past that picture.
And I've just got 34 seasons of the Simpsons as been. 34, think of that. Yeah. So yeah, it's as old as me.
It's even less. I can see it's only yeah, right? I know some times there was like a... Like, you know, right?
The strikes and stuff. It was like a shorter season. But it was normally 22 episodes. I can't...
It's usual. That is usual for like an American show. It's like 22. Mm-hmm.
The interesting thing about Simpsons is you don't really miss it when there isn't new episodes because they'll just replay the old ones. Like when we were kids and stuff, like, the channel 2 was behind, but like you could get new ones on Skye, but then you always had your channel 2 like every night to fall back on. So you never like missed it per se. Well, this is going to show how it all means Sami are here.
Because as you said, with the Martin campaign that goes on, it wasn't like as the Simpsons. It was the Martin for the launch of Skye TV. Skye TV when Skye 1 was launched. That was the big thing that was promoted by the same person as it was.
You have to get Skye TV to be able to watch this in American TV called The Simpsons. Yeah. It was the first month. Yeah.
And it was the first quarter. It was on every Sunday and it was on 7.30 or 7 o'clock. On a Sunday night. So I didn't have it.
Like I said, my fondest memory was because me, I'm not a granddad. I used to live in a block of flats at Rock Avenue. And this is how stupid Skye TV was. Was in the block of flats.
If one person had Skye TV, the whole block of flats had Skye TV. So it was like Sharon's count is almost like Netflix pack of what Sharon was going back then. And me granddad used to tip the Simpsons and WWF main event on a Saturday and Sunday night. So I used to live with videos from me granda on Monday nights so I can watch the two things.
And that was the first thing I think. I never got. I know the broad, I would like to do videos and videos. But I didn't get watched like the very, very first few episodes of The Simpsons still a little later.
So I think I caught on just after like the, I think the episode was when Lisa gets a new like teacher and he's like a nice teacher. And so it's not creepy. And it's a teaching hall and how to be a better dad and a preacher and stuff. I think that was the first episode I can remember watching.
I can remember the name of it. I just remember that Lisa and the... Lisa's such a issue. Possibly.
Actually, you're cowboy or something. Did you have like a cowboy? You had a guitar. Yeah.
You are Lisa Simpson. That's our one. I'm the famous. Oh, I remember that.
Yeah, when he's on the train. He's kind of done all his crazy stuff. If you're watching all your work, that's a bit crazy. Yeah, you can do that now.
Since he's... I don't think we didn't have Skye until very much later on. Like, well, before The Simpsons was, but my granddad did. So I did catch the occasional, because my granddad loved television.
If I haven't already mentioned this before, my granddad was a telefamed. So the minute Skye came on, he got it because it was just more channels to add to his watching pleasure. But the first thing I remember is me, my mum and dad getting mainly sister matching bar Simpson t-shirts. And I remember them so well, they were just white were bar on it, but the sleeves were green.
Yeah, I remember that. And I got a really good school report once my mum and dad bought me a Simpsons VHS as a well done. The episode was Bart, Bully Nelson, where he's going to get beat up and Bart, like, tries to come up with these schemes to get away with it. And there was another episode.
I generally can't remember what it was, but it was fantastic. It was everything because that was my, like, I didn't have it to go and watch constantly, like on normal telly. No, I remember the cover for the VHS as well, because it had barbed, like, in the front with their army, half the glasses, and it was chilling, like, the piece of it. Oh my gosh, yes!
I remember that. It was white, wasn't it? It was like, you had, like, a yellow rim going around it. You'll get good will going in the same rim, so just be careful.
Apologies. So what was it like to say the first episode that you can remember, Jake, like, to say, name it now until it's exact. I can name it now. It was Simpsons Ross and I don't know when fire.
But anyway, I had a very similar experience to U-Haul in that one of my dad's work friends basically just brought me a tape, that he tipped off Sky. And I think it was, like, pretty much the whole first run, like the first season. So I didn't really see any until I got that tape, because I think it was just a kind of accepted thing back then, when, like, you would see something and then be like, oh, kids will love this. So, like, you know, like, for me, son will be kind of watch Sky type of thing.
My granddad's friend at work, who used to get those wrestling tapes, I had the same thing as U-Haul, where I'd be like, one Tuesday night or whatever, and then I'd go around, as he made the tape yet. He had one of those tape copying machines. He had copying machines, didn't he have a press record? No, he had one for himself.
Yeah, he kept one for himself and then he could, like, show it now. Oh, like, record. Okay, I remember that. And it would have been the first, the weird Christmas episode, which is an odd first episode choice.
Yeah, because it was called the Simpsons Christmas special as well, so that was through me, I was like, is it more before this? Or, like, was it? Santa's little helper. Yeah, I don't think it was the first.
Oh, you had that one. Santa's little helper, yeah. Right. So, I think it was the first in, like, production order, but it was the first one that decided to put out or whatever that's called when the switch stuff around.
Yeah, I looked at Disney plus before we went, like, because when we were doing The Simpsons, I'll need a recap, because I'll be honest, I'm not really up to date with the newer stuff, because I've been told last week, I don't think it is for me. It's not, like, like, for my age group apparently, two old, the Simpsons now. But I look back and that is the first episode on the Disney Plus season one is the Christmas one. So, like, oh, interesting.
Yeah, well, but you, Sonia, what was your first foray into the green people? I mean, the other people, sorry. Green people. Yeah, I didn't have Sky and I never got Sky, so mine was always just channel two, which put me, I just advantaged all the other Simpsons for likes at the time.
But the first episode, I don't know if it's the first episode I saw or if it's the first episode I can remember, whenever I think back to my childhood experience, I always remember the babysitter bandit, the episode where the babysitter, like, that always comes to my mind the most is like the first episode. And I've seen that episode so many times, it must have just been constantly re-replayed on channel two. Yeah. I might have recorded it from channel two, potentially, and I'll just watch that back.
I remember the babysitter bandit because they had Bart and makes it as freakin' out. It was like, the animation was like disgusting on those early episodes as well. It was actually the Rugrats people, you know, Klatsky Chupo. Like, that's who used to do the Simpsons animation, but all of the Simpsons, like, people hated it.
So, like, that's why it's season two, it changes to like somewhere else. Like, I think that guy, like, I think he's called like Gabor Klatsky or whatever. Like, he's always held a grudge against like the Simpsons staff for dropping them after like one season, because it was obviously became the biggest show in the entire world. Not long after that.
But that's the thing, as a progression goes through, because normally most animations are trying to keep the same look and feel. But the Simpsons gradually got more clearer and like, no technology got better. But it's so noticeable when you watch through the Simpsons, like, you didn't tell like, pretty much the episodes from, depending on how clean or how clear the animation was. And I know that changed the voice on Homer as well, because the Homer one was quite gruff and angry sounding on the first couple episodes.
Yeah, like with a lower register. And he got higher and higher. It's the same guy though. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. It was that sort of friends that he was in, where he's with them, very teller Ross about Marcel the monkey and where he is. And he's sitting there forever going. How do I know this voice?
Not the person. The Simpsons in France, like, I watched it back recently and I was like, oh my god, that's Hank is there. Like, I'll never realize that's Hank is there. Yeah, the show been random places because Homer's in space jam for a little bit.
It's just a guy in the basketball crowd. Then Hank is area I believe is in Godzilla, the 1998 American Godzilla movie. He's like one of like the dude's friends. He's an all sort of tank is there.
He's in like, isn't he a mystery man? He's a mystery man. The best one was it was a guy who bends the spoons or something like that. He throws the spoons.
So he feels all his mums, cut her a cutlery and stuff like that. He's not going to spoon it, everyone. Like that. Oh, this is a man that's weird.
But yeah, I think the biggest thing as well from my childhood, I remember, it's not just like the advertising company. It's like the merchandise, that came with the Simpsons. Like, I know we've had Star Wars and other things that came around about the same time, but the Simpsons was literally on everything. I remember getting a free record, like, DD Trouble from buying a pair of jeans at Jory jeans.
It's a first Jory jeans reference on the podcast. It is. I think the Americans are one of the- It's a Twilight Zone. It's a Twilight Zone.
It's a Jory jeans. Yeah, Americans, it's a social Jory jeans. You'll get a high level of content for jeans fetishes out there. You'll get a few shooting stars, I guess, as well.
Jory james. Under pop. Under pop. That was a good day.
I remember going in because I bought a pair, like a number of items, I didn't put that in because I didn't have to pop money anything when I was getting started. I needed a new pair of jeans. I think it was a eclipse jeans, whether extra baggy and I had drill paraphernalia on the bottom. I had one of them T-shirts where if you press on it, the changed colour.
Yeah, I bought the hyper thingy ones. So any time you're sweating, it just showed you sweat marks and stuff. Sweat actually cleans this too. I got free.
Absolute shits when I had them T-shirts at school. But when I got that, I got free. LP, it wasn't a CD, it was an LP, little mini-mini-chir record of DD Trouble by Bart Simpson. I mean, Dad, most of hilly-chol, I used to play it all the time.
That and match-o-man for some reason, like match-o-match-o-man. Before they did the match-o-man joke. I feel like merchandise is a standard existed. But I feel like Simpson's really popularized the idea of having pop culture merchandise.
Everywhere you looked, it wasn't just clothes. Like, my brother had an alarm clock, but it was the living room and you could interact with bits. I had a different alarm clock. I thought you were going to say the same one.
Mine was like Bart with a skateboard. The time was on the skateboard. It was like so annoying. I never knew.
I was like, you know, I would Bart tell me you got up for school. I had to say, it was Bart Simpson on a skateboard. You know, once I got to flip them. Pointless.
I had one of them. I also had a van that was Hormer's nuclear van like for his job, which he never had in the show. But if you had a people in the back and looked in, you could see a scene, like a clip. And that's where Sam's paper and tonn beer started.
Yeah, well, through that bloody car. So, yeah, you can look in and you can see what's about. I'm looking for a stick still from the show. But one time I was looking and something, the must have been like a beat.
I was like, this maggiff magnifies. Not a beat, but like a fly. I don't know. But it's magnifies.
It looked huge. I think it went straight. The nucleus. The nucleus coming to get me.
Yeah, it was like a reflection. It had just been like a tiny fly or something. But because the thing was magnified, it was huge. It was walking around.
With that. So I mean, if you look like a weapon, I get one of those things to make things look bigger. That's a gift to all the loved ones. So I can say pictures to Sam's not.
Sorry. I'm really happy. Wow. Yeah, like the Simpsons merch stuff, like it proceeded past when like all of us were kids.
Like for like Christmas as Europe on your, you would always like get a random Simpsons thing. Like I'm sure I've got like a mini fridge that's like got like home run the side being like alcohol, the cause and solutions. Which isn't a great gift for a kid. Oh, like a mini fridge.
Oh, yeah. When me sister was purely when she was little, when she came out a hospital, she got a bar and it was a bartender and like darling had like the string at the back where he had things. His head was hard. And his body was soft.
Yeah. I remember that. Oh, he was men. She carried him around everywhere.
And his head was like spiky too. I tell you what though, because I know we were going through like most of the time when we were kids, like a lot of cartoons was brought out just to sell figures like he man, like the turtles and stuff like it was almost like the figures came out before the cartoon or times when the Simpsons figures came out because like when you look back at like this now, the stars always makes things that remember greatly because I got the turtles figures by thing I get these are tiny and like not really looking like the turtles. But the Simpsons figures were always highly quality made and looks like I know it was very rudimentary with the cartoon being quite simple, but they always looked spot on and like I remember getting like Bart Simpson, and I know certain ones like was always hard to come by, but that was one thing I remember is like how, like, because you can get shit, you knock off, but like the quality of the figures for the Simpsons was always like up there with like the best products you get. Quality is hard plastic.
I remember when the Simpsons came out as well because there was a lot of controversy when we come to the Simpsons and I know we look back now when you watch the Simpsons episode you think why because when we got like the family guy South Park and should I that. Like to the degrees and extremes the ticket, but the Simpsons used to get like it was all classes like an adult's car and because instead of saying like but the same thing would say us or have like small dirty words and all like small jokes that were classes for adults as well. But I remember like people trying to ban the Simpsons on UK TV because it was a corrupting the youth of the day and stuff like that. Yeah, I mean the make it sorry I was just going to say the joke about this later in the show where like what's like I'm this centuries Dennis the Manus.
I was going to ask Sammy actually was your t-shirt the one that said down with homework because that did get banned in like a lot of American schools because it was like the first part of the cms t-shirt. I think you just said Cowabunga. Right, so maybe we didn't get it down with homework. There's something like that.
I just remember that the sleeves been green. My dad definitely had a bartender in t-shirt that said homework sucks. I broke my wrist when I was young and I got sent to school because my parents always putting it on. So I got sent to school and the teacher was like why can't you hold your pen?
Oh, hands. We're going to have to come and collect you. My dad worked in a manual labor job so he used to like overalls and he turned up to collect me in his homework sucks bathroom some t-shirt. And even today it's one of his favourite stories that he turned up to like six year old daughter with a t-shirt that says homework sucks.
You got to make the statement. It's hilarious how many stories you hear of parents sending their kids to school injuries. I have one and has one. They just didn't believe what we were saying.
It's not like we're in American high school. If you want scream you get almost murdered and then you go to work and go to school the next day to see all your friends. I think you've all basically got a good point though about childhood and hidden messages and whatnot. I was actually having a conversation with my brother earlier and I was saying like there's so many episodes of The Simpsons that you watch as a child.
You don't actually understand until you watch as an adult. And one that really comes to mind is the episode where Bart is in a relationship with his teacher Mrs. Croble but she doesn't know it's Bart. She thinks it's a legitimate admirer.
And that was funny as a kid but watching that back as an adult he fucking breaks her heart. That is a horrendous episode. I never understood that as a kid. I'm like wow.
I can't do that to him. Woodrow. It's awful. Give the first idea of how catfish and good work.
Yeah. It was Bart Simpson. He had the right letters back then. There was a lot of jokes back then that would do when I was human.
It is the way of the world. I'm calling the bar and I remember having to piss myself laughing every time I said I said I'm for an IP and they're laughing. But the mental abuse and torment you would go through it like these days had to happen. It would drive you nuts to the point where I'm getting this abuse to shit born and leaves alone.
That's that. One thing I want to bring up there because everyone's saying like all about the parents and stuff. Did your parents all like the Simpsons? That was something that I like to bonded with like my dad with.
We would watch the Simpsons together. We might not watch many other things together because he was probably just like tolerant and cartoons half the time. I think you like Ninja Turtles though. But we all sat down and watched the Simpsons together.
Yes. We did to 100% we did. My parents were very much like that. We there's a lot of programs that could go back over how we all used to sit and watch as a family.
That was one. Miami was another. A bit later on. I don't have memories.
I don't have memories. I don't have memories. I don't have memories. I don't have memories.
I have memories. I have memories. I just don't have any. I don't know if I'm misremembering but I don't have any memory of watching it as a family.
I know I definitely want to watch my brother and maybe my dad but I don't think my mom would ever interest it. I think the only thing she ever watched with us properly was Malcolm in the middle. Yeah. I don't know if I'm doing so.
But I don't know if I'm Joe my director. I don't know if I'm misremembering. But I never felt like I think the only thing we watched altogether properly. Routine.
He was Star Trek on a Sunday. Yeah. With my dad it was a bit sci-fi. It was like all sports like he hated the Simpsons.
He hit like well to be honest he refuses to watch our podcast because of the language I use. That's how supportive. He's like my Tensem would have made fun of him basically. Yeah.
Even to the point where we were talking about the shows today because I got to try to get me mom and dad to watch the last of us and he was in all those two bad language. The girl was swearing to him. My mom was like Alan. People swear.
You've got to get over this. You're in your sixteenths. Let go. And my dad refuses to watch the podcast because I swear so much so the Simpsons was never going to be his bad but he's never been the way away would stop me from watching something but I used to watch it when we brought them on anything else.
I used to like absolutely adore the Simpsons. I know when I had to use to have cohesive stories and stuff. I know it's hard to think but I used to have a start finish where now it's more random stuff to store. Every year was the Halloween tree house.
I used to wear it all year round. I used to even love that they used to have a little disclaimer before the episodes. This episode is not super for kids. It's going to be scary.
So you used to always get really excited for it. Don't come complaining to us tomorrow. It was really like meta. Although there was one year where it had the Fox executive.
The Fox executive was reading the script and being like no. No. No. It was like to mess around with that stuff.
My favorite one of the tree house horrors is always going to be the Amityville. The house. The scene that was always interrupted by aliens. Is that the one or is that?
I think the first one is like I think it's that one. The aliens in the Raven. The Raven never more. I know the monkey paw episode.
Yes. Yes. The Frozen Yogurt. The Yogurt is also nice.
I just want a turkey sandwich. It's good. We're good. The manes.
The turkey is dry. That was definitely the first time I heard of a monkey's paw which is quite famous for his story. I think that was the same thing I had King Homer as well. The King Kong parody.
I love that one. My favorite is Frankenstein. The Homer's brain in a robot. Then he falls over and crushes Mr.
Burns. He dreams and he gets attached to Homer's shoulder. In the next scene, the Homer wakes up from the nightman. He goes to the mirror and he goes to the mirror and he goes to the mirror and he goes to the mirror and he goes to the mirror and he gets the head.
Simpson gets the sword. Yeah. The Homer gets fired and gets the job as a grave digger. He falls asleep in the grave so I think he's a cause.
It's really dark. It's like trying to create the perfect worker but accidentally put the brain of Homer inside of the robot. Yeah. It's a pretty great twist on that whole thing.
I can say I can always remember seeing a certain one. I know the good one with the gremlin on the plane as well. The two. The terror at five and a half feet.
Instead of the plane, it was on the school bus. The school bus arrives at the wheel falls off and the bus explodes or something ridiculous. The kids are all safe and then barks can put in the loony bin and stuff like that. I was used to do good send-ups as well.
The shagging episode was always brilliant up there. One of my favorites as well. That was the first time I ever saw any of these references. Yeah.
Same. I had everything going back through film history and no stupid random celebrities and things about places I shouldn't know but it's all just because of the system. Yes. That was also a great point I wanted to talk about as well.