Best Childhood Cartoon (Scooby Doo vs. Simpsons)

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Episode Transcript

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Welcome to Arguing Ever After episode 2.
My name is Luke and this is my lovely wife Amber.
Hello, we are the Lord and Lady who lock horns.
The count and Countess of contention.
The Duke and Duchess of Disagreement.
And the king and queen of quarrels.
We have been together since highschool and we've been married

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for over 20 years. We've argued about practically
everything and yet we're still together and happy.
We have a great teenager who currently doesn't think we're
lame, and most of our family still talks to us.
All in all, pretty darn good. Every day, all over the world,
couples are fighting battles based on mole hills that don't
matter and sometimes mountains that send spouses to go sleep on

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couches. In this entertainment only
podcast, we'll bicker about all things big and small, and the
audience gets the final say on who the winner is.
We do not claim to be relationship experts by any
means, but if we can have meaningless arguments for the
sake of friendly competition, why not give it a listen?

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We will debate lots of topics, some of which we've come up
with, and many are frequently submitted by our listeners.
So if you have a topic and want us non professionals to cross
swords on it for a preview of how it could go down before you
bring it up in your own relationship, please send it to
us at [e-mail].
Perhaps this completely unscientific method of letting

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the masses decide who is right can settle your fight too before
you even have it. So the other day I came home and
I saw that Luke was watching something odd on TV and I looked

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and I to make sure was our daughter in the room.
She's not. And I said, Luke, are you
watching cartoons? Yeah.
And I said hell yeah, This was agreat video game because I was
watching ATV show that just cameout on Netflix that was based on
a video game that I really likedto play when I used to play lots

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of video games. And I thought it was totally
normal and totally fine. Well, it kind of got me thinking
about like back when I watched cartoons and which was a little
bit ago maybe, and it kind of got me reminiscing about some of

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my favorite cartoons when I was a kid.
I remember my first favorite cartoon when I was a kid was a
show called # puppies. I even had a little stuffed #
puppy animal and I. Had the tent.
I don't know if any of you remember the tent, I don't even
know how I got it, but I had thetent.
I remember the tent, the first sleepover friend sleepover I had
as a kid. She had a tent and I was so

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jealous. So I'm still a little jealous of
you today that you had the poundpuppy tent.
I mean, knowing my mom, it's still in her house.
But that used to be the thing when we were kids, like when we
you'd get up Saturday morning and watch cartoons, we had like
7 channels only. So you had to be there on time
to watch those cartoons. Yeah, unless someone in your

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family was a wizard who could figure out how to record Avhs.
If you had AVHS, yeah, there's, there's that whole thing too.
And it was kind of like a, a great babysitting tool, if you
think about it. Parents knew where their kids
were from, you know, whatever, 98 to probably 11:00.
I don't even know what my parents were doing that at that

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time. We think they might have run
errands. We don't.
We don't really go. Yeah, because I don't know.
I don't know. Either I Remember Me and my
brothers watching cartoons, which I feel like everybody was
doing. Yeah, maybe the parents all had
like a secret Saturday morning party.
They just hang out with each other.
Could be. That's possible.
Well, I also remember fighting with my sisters because there

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were always a couple cartoons that would have different
timing. And again, this is before the
really recording age, you know, So you had to be there for it.
And it was just really brilliant.
And I feel like they knew that was brilliant.
I'm sure they did. I feel like.
I don't remember which cartoons were on like which channels.

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Well, I remember some of that, but I mean, I'm not like you had
lots of great ones in the mornings on Saturdays, but like
do you think that like the powers that be utilized that
great babysitting tool for us latchkey kids because.

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It checks out. I think when we were kids, like
during the summer, it was just pure madness.
We were running everywhere. We were gone all day, you know,
I mean, like it. It's not uncommon to hear kids
talk about I was home by the time the street lights were on
and whatever I did from the timeI woke up to when I got home, it

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was kid wars and things like that.
Did all sorts of things during the summer rock.
Fights. Sure.
I mean, I didn't have a rock fight.
That sounds really dangerous it.Was only situation, maybe my
brothers just like to throw rocks at me.
Sound like that could have happened.
We also played cops and robbers.Yes, we rode bikes.

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Yes, yes, I mean, and the the TVin the summer was terrible.
It still kind of is today, I'm not gonna lie.
Thankfully, we're summer. TV is not that great but there's
a lot more than 7 channels. There's a lot more than 7
channels. No, that's true.
That's true. But I'm, I'm thinking though,
like maybe this is the conspiracy theorist in me.

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Maybe like the education system,our parents and the
entertainment giants, right? They got together and they said
how can we get kids home after school so they actually get
sleep and are rested for the next day and that they stay
home. And then they created the best

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cartoon lineup that they could have created for sure.
And it had older siblings cominghome to watch their younger
siblings, who were for sure going to turn on the TV to watch
what? For sure.
We were watching all kinds of stuff.
We were watching DuckTales. Awesome show we.
Were watching Darkwing duck. Pretty good, pretty good we.

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Were watching. Rescue races were my favorite.
I was going to say the rescuers.No.
Maybe it was just a different. Yeah, thing, but yeah, that one.
Wait, is that the one that had Chip and Dale?
Yes. Rescue Rangers.
That's it with the jingles they.Were solving the mystery.
Chip and Dale, Yeah, yeah, but wasn't there one?

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Gadget or Gidget? She was great.
She was the best part. What's her name?
Gidget or gid I think it was. Gidget.
I think it might have been Gidget, I don't know.
And Monterey. Jack was his friend.
What was the one that had Baloo and he flew a plane?
Tailspin. That was one of them that was on
Gargoyles was one of my all timefavorites.
You know, and I heard they mightbe making it into a movie or

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something. Sign me up, I'm ready for front
row clipping in coach. Yeah, yeah, it never.
I've never wanted something so much as a gargoyle on top of my
house. And even still today I would
love. I actually we have some little
gargoyle less things that I've put out in my yard, but they
don't turn into well, you're the, you know, night saving what

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saving the night of. And transform into live
creatures, unfortunately. Really depressing, yeah.
And have cool names named after New York.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, they could be named
after our local. There was.
Brooklyn Hudson. Bronx.
Bronx for. Some reason Goliath, that's not
from New York, but he was the leader, so.
I mean and big. And big.

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And then what was the girl's name?
I don't, I don't know. I feel bad for not remembering
it, but she had. She had Goliath figured out.
Pretty. Was it?
I'm not gonna remember. I've been thinking of April from
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Well, it wasn't her Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles. That was a great one.
Also Batman. How about Batman?

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Batman. Batman.
Oh, Crusader, come. On I don't know there were.
His parents died in an alley. I mean, do you have a better
start than that? There's a ton better start and
then parents. Turned all of his riches into
real fancy toys and weapons to to beat up the bad guy to be.

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Alone. Well, he had a troubled past, as
we just said. Yeah, OK, well, parents dying in
an alley would probably be pretty bad.
Don't get me wrong. Pretty bad.
I don't understand a lot of the makeups and I know if I ask too
many questions we will upset many viewers all.
Three of them already at. We're at least at 10.

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I know, I know. It's so exciting.
I did want to say thank you all for tuning into our first
episode, and I'm so happy. If you're turning into the
second one, if you haven't watched the first one, you
should go back and watch the first one.
Yeah, because we love the streams.
But but so I again, I don't wantto upset anybody about Batman
because I know there's very, very strong opinions about the

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the superheroes. But it was just sort of amazing,
though, like when you would go to school the next day when at
our age, you know, everybody wastalking about duck tales.
Did you see the episode Magic and Duck magic, Dispel Spell
Spell. Oh, she was great.
I want name. Can we just for a second,
whoever came up with what's her name going to be Magica Dispel?

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And they were like, yes. She was phenomenal.
I really wanted to be like her. But you had a voice too.
She sounded like she smoked 400,000.
I mean, no, she sounded and there was a wickedness in her
voice all the time. You think that's you OK?
Yes, yes, it's me. I'm gonna call you Magica from
now. It's a.

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Great nickname. I've been told that I have a
wicked laugh sometimes so and I don't mind it, but like
everybody was talking about it. All the kids knew about it.
There was like, that is what youdid until, you know, video game
video games came out. But there were so many good
cartoons of like forever. I mean, I think about other

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cartoons that I watched, you know, that just were on forever,
like the Flintstones on forever.They made vitamins about them,
you know, I mean, that's true. And Fruity Pebbles.
That's some reach. Yeah.
You think about it, They had a cartoon that somehow turned into
vitamins. Vitamins, like, literally, this
is how you know your child is healthy.
You're feeding them Flintstone vitamins.
Yeah, you know, and you had the Jepsons, which kind of turned

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out to be a bummer because I think by now we should be flying
cars. Where are the flying cars?
You know we have. Importantly, I want a robot.
Yeah. All of my chores.
Yes. All of them, even if she's got
an attitude and does it wrong. So we also do have a I'm ready,
a robot who vacuums. We named her Rosie, which was a
mistake because she did actuallyturn out to be just like Rosie

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with the attitudes. I'm not working today, you know,
it's it's not my day on, you know, and it's just like, who
are you? You're supposed to not be this
SO life hack #2 Don't name your vacuum robot if you're fortunate
enough to get one. Don't name her Rosie, because
she will. Not she'll turn on you.
Not work hard, but it's OK, it'sOK.

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So so that was a great one. Of course, the classics, you
know, that were really huge. Also that came.
It had a big come back while we were in middle school, or at
least while I was in middle school or sometime in my life.
There we go. Was the Warner Brothers with
Bumps Bunny, and then they did this whole other relaunch with
the Looney Tunes something something and dot wacko dako and

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dot or yacko wacko and dot something.
I think it was. I think it was yacko, wacko and
dot. Yes, yes.
And pinky in the brain, which we're always trying to take over
the world. Who made the Wile E Coyote and
and? Just Warner Brothers.
Was that Road Runners? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And then you got the Hanna Barbera that that whole era when
you had like the, there was likea the purple gorilla.
I don't know, it was like a grape ape.
I feel like it might have been called Grape Ape.
Wasn't that a food? Maybe.
I don't know this car. Maybe there was some crossover
and there was like Yogi Bear. Yes, and a picnic basket.

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That's right. Yeah, Rocky and Bullwinkle.
No great great great villains inthat one.
How? About The Smurfs.
Oh, The Smurfs. Oh, Gargamel or Gargomesh or.
Gilgamesh Oh, that's a real, that's a real start.
I think it was Gargamel. Gargamel Yeah, yeah.
And the cat. And what was the cat's name?

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I wanted to eat The Smurfs all the time.
It started with the EI, can't remember.
Azrael. Azrael.
Yes. Yes.
Years ago I worked at a veterinary clinic and a cat that
came in was named Azrael. And the second she brought that
cat in, I was like, I see you. Yeah, I know you.
We are. Y'all supposed to ain't Smurfs?

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Yeah? Can you blame her though?
They're like little bite size things.
She probably was like, oh look, it's a blue mouse, I'm going to
eat it. I know no one remembers this
except for maybe my sister is one of our three listeners, 10
to. 12 Something like that. But there was this really
delicious thing that came from The Smurfs called Smurf Berry
Cereal, and I've been searching for my whole life.

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I mean, we maybe got that box twice, but the back to food with
me. Oh my God, I'm a major.
A lot of our life is about. Food.
It is true. It is true.
My mom was a a mean mean woman about cereal cuz she wouldn't
let us have colored sugary stuff.
We just had to eat kicks. Wait, no, is that the one that
was the little corn puff? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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That was it. Kicks.
Have you put enough sugar on them?
They were OK. Was that tricks?
No tricks was the fruit. Oh, we couldn't have that one.
Tricks was the fruit. Well, that was the cool thing
too, right? So all those cereal companies
would link up with the cartoon companies or some of them you.
Could have an episode about cereal.
Well, go. We will.
We will I. Thought about a whole bunch of
different cereals. But save what, like the good

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ones would put in a prize that is frequently from one of the
cartoons that we were watching. So it was like, really?
They did a cereal. I our kid has had plenty of
cereal. She won't get no prize.
She does it, She does it. Maybe it's only McDonald's does
that anymore. Oh, that would be sad.
Well, McDonald's. We don't need any free stuff,
but if you want to, like, feed the homeless, that'll be, you

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know, Yeah. Yeah.
No endorsement necessary. Thank you for the French fries
in the 90s. They were delicious.
We're moving on. We're here to talk about
cartoons. Look, I got you derailed.
You really did. You really did.
But like the just all of the theintertwineness of those cartoons

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and how they really did find a way to hit us every like the
marketing was. Brilliant.
It was like a whole, like a culture shift.
Yeah, yeah. And so.
But back to my original. Did our parents have cartoons?
I don't think they. Yes they did.
They have Woody Woodpecker and stuff.
Like, Oh yeah, I remember. My, that was my dad's favorite
was Woody Woodpecker, which I was like, this dude just hits

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his head on a tree and just and I'm sorry.
Those birds in real life are gigantic though.
There's different sizes, yeah. The pilliated redhead
woodpecker. Whatever it is, real big
woodpeckers. I've got into a backyard.
They have it recently because wehave a bird feeder.
So but we won't, we won't go to that.

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But yes, they're, they're huge. I saw a couple, but you know,
that was, it was OK. It wasn't as good as like the
deep plots of the cartoons that we've had.
I mean. And they could string something
on for a number of episodes because back in the day, like
unlike now, it seems like I don't know so much about
cartoons, but like popular showsare like 6 to 10 episodes is
like a whole season. And like, cartoons back in the

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day would just be like, I don't know, 30 episodes last the whole
like six months of the year. You'd have cartoons to watch.
Yep, and there. You have like a Part 2, Part 3
conclusion. Uh huh.
If you missed one, that was. That was the thing why you got
to get home. Because if you missed 1, you
missed a major part of the plot.And then you had to have your
friends tell you and it's just not the same.

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Or you'd have to wait for rerunslike in the summer and you
didn't know. I mean, have these things.
This is for children's educational purposes, right
here, right now. Anyone who's over will know.
Educating the young. Educating the.
Young right now. So they had these things back in
the day. There were two places you could
find out what was on TV. One was the newspaper, which was

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a piece of paper that would go to your house and it would tell
you all of the news for the day or the week.
Kind of like a newsreel that exists online, so it'd be listed
in there, or you'd have something called a TV Guide if
you were lucky, and that had like the whole week's worth.
Didn't they sell those for like money?
Yes, they sold them from. Actual money go to the gas

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station to buy ATV. Yes, yes.
But it would, it would tell you the whole week's worth of TV.
So you could plan everything. But you know, I don't recall if
they really talked about the reruns.
So like what was? Definitely making me feel old,
right? Now, well, again, educational
purposes for historical knowledge for these young UNS
who may or may not be listening they're.

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Probably not. You know what if you flip this
on for them, then when their teachers ask them what they
learned over the summer, this could be one of those things
they. Learned something from us, yes.
CB guides cartoons serial. Put it on my resume educating
the young. Yes, why not?
Why not? I mean, and, and like the great

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things that we have that they just don't have any more, you
know, but but cartoons were justreally something back then.
They were really, they shaped somuch of who we are.
So, Luke, let me ask you a question.
Now the event you have all been waiting for.

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In this corner we have Amber claiming to weigh in at 135 lbs
with one win and 0 losses. We are in episode 2 after all.
She has over 25 years of practice in the art of
insignificant lover spats and isarmed with her amazing wit which
she will need today. And in this corner, we have Luke

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at his prime weight of 185 plus and sporting a luxurious red
beard. He's been arguing since he was
born to a very competitive family, that's true.
And he has zero wins and one loss.
So Luke, tell us today, what do you really think is the greatest

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cartoon of all times? Oh, I guarantee you, everyone
that just heard you say like kind of the same reaction that I
did. All time, all time.
There you go, happy. For two reasons.
One, for all times, but two, thereal truth is everyone goes, why
do you got to make me pick the best thing, the best?

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Anytime someone says that to me,they're like, what's your
favorite song? What's your favorite?
It's like, what? How do you pick one?
It's not even fair. But that being said, to be a
contender for the best cartoon of all time or times, it's got
to be a pretty big deal. So staying power would be

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something to think about, reach,reach would be something to
think about, and influence wouldbe something to think about.
Because there's been a nearly endless list.
Like can we just name some of the ones we remembered off the
top of our head from being kids?And I'm sure all of you out
there that are watching this, depending on when you grew up
and what was on and whatever, you got a whole different list.
Like our kids got shows that make no sense to me that she

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watched all these series and episodes and like some of them
were great and some of them, youknow, I'd watch with her and be
like, what are we doing? This is anyway.
That was when we used the TV as a babysitter.
That's true. We had our moment.
It was like, you know, I don't know what to do.
Why don't you watch 75 hours of this Netflix special about elves

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and Dragons and cats and whatever else?
Anyway, so back to the question.So the best cartoon of all time
that I would like to have be my contender is The Simpsons
because it has all the things I talked about.

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It has staying power. It's been on since I think we
said it was the 90s, but it was right on the edge because we
talked about this a little bit earlier, like it came out.
What did you say of Tracey Ullman Show?
Tracey Ullman, Yes. OK.
And then it turned into its own thing, like I think in the
beginning of 1990. So that's a long, long time ago

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because it's 2025. So that's some staying power.
It has, according to the Internet, the most amount of
episodes of any cartoon ever. And then what I think is like
important to reflect on with TheSimpsons is they did something
that hadn't really been done with cartoons before because

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like cartoons, as you talked about, and the ones we enjoyed
so much as children were like, they were like, they had their
like themes, but they were cartoonish themes.
The Simpsons came through and basically turned a sitcom into a
cartoon and kept it cartoony andalso sitcommy.

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So it like blended a couple of genres, which I think is why it
was so successful back then and it's still successful today.
And like a lot of the things that made it successful was like
there was controversy there would like, you know, the the
the mom and the dad would get into arguments and, you know, it
was they weren't the prettiest family.
And, you know, like the dad was bald.

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And I mean, I got a little bit of that going up.
And he had a beer belly. And he like, you know, I don't
know, he sat on the couch a lot.And anyway, so that was
controversial. Then they had the miscreant
child. You know, everyone loved him.
It was America's favorite littleboy, Bart Simpson.
American favorite. Like he would say stuff that was
like off off the cuff or whatever, and he would get in

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trouble and go to detention and have to write stuff on the
board. And so it wasn't perfect.
That's part of what I think madeit attractive because it was
like they were showing you the average sort of sample of the
American family and made into something that little kids would
want to watch and that their parents, if they watched it
wouldn't be like, this is some stupid kids.

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He showed. They'd be like, this is actually
kind of funny. Oh, my parents didn't feel that
way. Well, your.
Parents were a little different.Than my my parents did not
necessarily like that as a watching as a watching choice
for. Us but I think it's staying
power would say that that's one of the reasons it's still around
today running basically the samething like it's been around
since 1990, so 35 years and theyhaven't aged today so so you

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know like there's a reason that that's still famous and like how
many times can you retell the same story now they introduced a
lot of a lot of side stories they had Mr. Burns, they had
Krusty the clown they had. Killed Mr. Burns.
They had, I had the murderous with the Sideshow Bob.
They had that dude, I mean, and then they had the prodigy child

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and they had the baby who never.Was the a sweetheart of the
show? Which was the best?
No question. And then they had the baby who
never sadly figured out how to talk.
They had. Yes, she.
Did when she did I can show you later there was she?
Aged a day, it's amazing. So and then they had the dog

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that at least got replaced a couple of times.
Because if Santos will. Help her like 1-2 and three.
No, no snowball. That could be, yeah.
They also had, I don't know how many actually, cuz at some point
I lost track and stopped watching it.
But like they had, I don't know,two or three movies that came
out of the deal. And then like they have some
like physical intellectual property integrations at

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Universal Studios, at least in Florida.
I don't know if there are other parks have it, but they had like
a little Simpsons Land and we'vebeen there and they have like
rides and they have. Terrible ride.
Oh my God, that's an awful ride.It's like you've been on the
crusty the Crown ride. You have definitely felt your
stomach into your freaking forehead.
It's I kind of. Liked it.
It was kind of fun and they had like, you can get the Donuts and

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stuff and like the Duff Beer andlike all of that stuff is there.
It's to say that The Simpsons isn't the best is is tough.
They had a lot of stuff and they've been doing it for a long
time. You got to look OK.
So while I will agree, obviouslyI have watched The Simpsons,

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there's many good things about The Simpsons, but all of those
things, what'd you say? It needed staying power.
Staying power, reach, influence.And influence, sure, I think was
the there's something that's been on a little bit longer and
you know, your Simpsons might have won if it wasn't for those

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pesky kids. Oh.
Scooby-doo and the Mystery Machine.
Oh my gosh, like when that show,when I first saw that show, it
developed me as a human being. It.
Created so many things that I wanted in the future.
scooby-doo, this giant dog. I love giant dogs.
I want a scooby-doo. Like the snacking and how they

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could just eat all these great foods.
I wanted to eat all those great foods.
I kind of snack like scooby-doo and Shaggy sometimes.
And the relationship, the bond that the boy had with his dog,
like we saw the bond between Bart and Santa's Little Helper.
It was not that great. Scooby went everywhere.
Shaggy understood what Scooby was saying, so much so that we

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as viewers understood. Rock.
Roll right, I mean and we. Understood, right?
I know, but we understood everything he said through
shaggy eyes. And not just Shaggy, you, Fred,
Velma and Daphne all knew what he was saying too.
So I mean and they had a van. I don't know.
The murder van is not really thing but it kind of works.

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In their theme it was. An anti murder van.
I know it was a Mystery Machine,I get that.
I mean, but it was painted really cool.
The Simpsons car was just some sort of sedan that was maybe
yellow, I can't or pink, I can'treally remember.
It doesn't really like it wasn'tit wasn't memorable.
It wasn't memorable for sure. It was, it was a wagon and
everybody had a wagon back in those days.
Mystery Machine was so memorableand every episode they taught us

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important things about life. The main thing that they taught
me as a young child, which I bring with me today, is you
don't really know anyone. Whoa.
Think about it, you'd watch the whole episode and you'd have the
principal try and help them figure out who the ghost is.
And then Velma would be like, and here's your ghost, RIP the

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mask off. It's Principal Skinner.
See just y'all listeners, I'm just saying maybe chalk that one
up over here, but keep going. Slight point, slight point, but
you know, I mean, so it taught you that not everybody is worth
your trust. It taught you keep those that
mattered really close, but be a little suspicious of those you

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don't really know. And we see this all the time.
You never know. And for me personally, it
developed into a longer interestof mysteries, right?
Like I remember not that, you know, once I passed that cartoon
stage watching things like Unsolved Mysteries and just

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hoping that I would find my Principal Skinner or whoever,
you know, like just maybe I could find and I could solve the
mystery just like the mystery gang.
Like, wouldn't that be awesome, you know?
So I'm going to say I was not motivated, which I think is the
final factor of being a best cartoon by really anything in

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The Simpsons. Oh I see.
I will say this, having listenedto you lay out your argument, it
is impressive how informative toyour character that show was
because you basically are an adult trying to live in that
reality. Yes.
Like. Yes, we're not trusting
everyone. We still definitely want to
catch the bad guy. Yes, and you got to keep your

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friends close, eat a lot of snacks and love your dog.
Love your. Dog, that is quite true.
I mean, The Simpsons were never really a model for how to live.
I mean Mike Schwartzman. As a show, again, I think their
their reach was more about like,like it was more about you could

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see yourself in them. Yes.
Because they were more real. And then The Simpsons, unlike
Scooby-doo, introduced a bunch of characters that were fun,
little adjacent to the story. Like you had the principal who
was always a little questionable.
You had the bus driver who was maybe never sober.

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Never. You had well Speaking of sober,
I'm just saying Scooby and Shaggy.
I mean they were doing y'all know what I'm talking?
About wasn't doing anything eating Scooby snacks.
Those Scooby snacks were laced anyway.
And then they had the the the groundskeeper.
That creepy Scottish dude. Scotland, by the way, I'm
Scottish, love the Scottish and they had the what was the

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teacher that kerbopple, which isspelled crabapple, the one that
always gave birth to detention with the that was smart too.
How they would in every episode they'd have him write I will not
draw on the desk or whatever. They'd pick a different thing
that he did wrong every. Time and it was funny.
Plus the intro. Oh yeah, mine was.

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Thank you. And then like they also at the
beginning of every episode, theychanged it up a little bit when
he, you know, he's coming up thedriveway and Bart skips off the
thing with the skateboard. And then they somehow all land
on the couch. And sometimes they're in
different positions or they're aliens or whatever.
That was some of the invention and ingenuity of The Simpsons,
as they were always like, they had similar themes, but they

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were always bringing in something new and just going to
touch on the spooky factor one time.
You can't give them credit for nothing without saying they
didn't invent the Halloween special.
Whoa, I'm just saying. Whoa.
The special. They had their own, but they
didn't invent it. That was so before The Simpsons.
This was a huge thing. And there's still my favorite

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episode of any type of sitcom. It's a good Halloween special.
Admin In the cartoon world, we're talking about cartoons.
Treehouse of Terry. They have like a monopoly on who
wins the Halloween special in the cartoon world.
Everyone's done something on a cartoon.
For. Special.
Well, OK. For Halloween, I hear what

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you're saying, except for it wasHalloween every day.
Of course you do. There was always someone in a
mask pretending to be something scary.
That's true. That's true.
Oh, and I don't want to give youno points but Scrappy.
Yeah, Scrappy was. I mean, I shouldn't.
Have never got his own TV show but it was cute though there was

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a little. Do you remember?
I just, I just remembered scooby-doo also had a spin off
so that of scooby-doo scooby-dookids Scooby scooby-doo Doo.
It was a great little show wherethey were like kids solving the
mystery. Like little versions of the same
people. It was great.
I don't get it. Well, you'd have to watch it

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together. And they were already sort of
kids. No, they were like, they were
cool. They were like, you know, in
high school or college or something.
It'll be some good, not college.Not college, they were clearly
not. They were, I don't know, they
were trying to find their way inlife.
You know they created their own company.
Maybe they were dropouts. You don't even know that I don't
know. I'm sure they explained it on an
episode. They might have.
They probably weren't dropouts. But like, if you look at the

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women also role models, right, Role models for US women,
because you had Velma, she was just brilliant, super smart.
Lisa, keep going. Go ahead.
Velma could out anything mentally with Lisa.
She also had the years to help except for when she was in the
the the Young scooby-doo cartoon.

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They probably were at about the same time, but still jinky.
She's definitely got it. And then you have Daphne, who
although we would be blinded by her beauty, she was actually
also really smart. So I think that it was just
overall, it had good morals, good things to push and teach

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people. And I think you can even still
see new episodes today. That could be slightly wrong,
but there's definitely always something that can come at some.
Point we did stop watching cartoons unless it was me
watching a cartoon about just the other day.
Just the other day and also you like that other cartoon that's
like a Star Wars E cartoon, but I could.

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Well, there have been some greatStar Wars.
Cartoons, so there. You.
I'm not hating on cartoons. Clearly, the world isn't either.
Right there they are a mainstay.So you know, I guess, I guess
that's, that's our fight. And I think the best thing to do
is to vote for the best cartoon of all times, which there is no

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mystery about. Oh, that was cute.
Scooby-doo. Or you could vote for The
Simpsons, which has the most episodes, it has the most
relatability to the most number of people.

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And who doesn't love Bart, Lisa,Homer.
And you can't forget the woman who held it all together, March.
She was just handling her business.
So go ahead, vote, y'all. I think it's simple and I think
it's easy and you know it is. OK so the best way to vote is

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through our Spotify link. We're going to put up a poll.
I don't know, our last one was for like 2 weeks but I think
that might be too long. But vote regardless and watch it
through Spotify or whatever, however you find it, I don't
care. Just freaking watch it,
subscribe, like it, download it,and please share this with your

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friends, your family. Your children.
Your children. Did we swear?
I think we swore a couple of times, but again, I don't think
we got too inappropriate. I mean, if they watch The
Simpsons for 35 years, someone swearing.
Absolutely. Don't tell me your parents
watching this episode ain't swearing in front of your kids
At this point, I'm just saying. Yeah, I do think though.
Oh, so so sorry back to what I was saying about how how we can

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get the word out about us right.So you can also share to people
you don't like. If you didn't like this episode,
share to everyone you just. Want everyone to watch it?
Yeah, it would be really great. We've been, like I said, really
kind of surprised. I thought three people would
watch and we've had more than that.
We've had quite a bit of interest so.
Potentially hundreds. We don't even know.

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Who could be? We have no way of knowing that
information, but share it. We love it and we will always
use new topic ideas. If you think this one, I'm going
to do a pun for you. All is a little crusty.
Oh my God, this is what I live with people.
OK, hold on, you're cut off We're done.

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If you have any other ideas, just e-mail them to
[e-mail]. Thanks.
Bye. I just want to do my own thing.
I just want to do my own thing. I just want to do my own thing.