Plastic White Female (S01E12)

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I want my first kiss to beperfect. You know something sweet I can
keep with me my whole life.Hey, Bobby, can we practice on
each other? You want to kissme? No? Just practice? Oh
okay, close your eyes this isstupid. Let's try it with our eyes

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open. Was that right? Ithink? So? Do you have any
hikeies? I don't see anything.Junior come home for dinner. You're finally
getting cold. I better get tothat party. Hey, good luck.

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Thanks what you're listening to, Sam, I don't think you like it.
Welcome to very special episode of Speakingof a Hill, because here we are
going to be reviewing the finale ofseason one. We've made it through the
entire first season of The Hill hereand Speaking of the Hill, and we're
going to be reviewing, of course, plastic white female. I am Dando
and I am guy Freshman Germany.That freak tolerant culture, very tolerant over

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there, very tolerant. I'd lovehow the Germans have just become They've got
a shoulder the freakiness for the wholeworld, or they've just become the brunt
of like, oh my God,Germans are so freaky. That's the Japanese.
For some reason, I don't knowwhy I feel this way or thought
fought this way. Especially when Iwas growing up, it always felt like
Germans are deaf or anything. Whenit comes to the bedroom, it's just

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like they're freaky garden like. Iknow why I always thought that, but
it's just someone's played to that ideain my mind somewhere popular culture, I
imagine. Yeah, I mean,here's the thing. And I don't want
to get too racy or even getus demonetized or anything like that, but
I mean listeners of the show willknow that. When I was a little
boy, when I was about nineten years old, we lived in England

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for a year, but we alsodid a little bit of a tour of
Europe and my folks because they werenot always paying attention or we're just incredibly
progressive. Like I go over lookin that window in Amsterdam. Yeah,
I'm sure there's nothing there's going towarp you or anything like that, but
they're looking windows of like the wholeplaces. Oh well, I mean they're
out on the street and this islike the late seventies, early eighties,

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and we're still a fairly permissive timechose to the point where you know,
I remember because this is kind ofimpactful for a ten year old, much
like little Bobby Hill in this episodewe're about to talk about, um,
you know, you're still sort offiguring out things about the world, and
you know, especially the opposite sex. I think we're in Amsterdam and like
they had like hardcore pawn like inbookshops just you know, Hey, here's

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the latest novel by so and so. Oh, and it's a bunch of
naked teenage it's froligging around, andI mean in the hindside, I'm looking
going I think some of these peoplewere incredibly young. I'm not saying I
was looking at legitimate job rebuildiness.Yeah, I don't think you're much older

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than me. But that's going todo an episode hear the finale of season
one of King of the Hill beforewe still listening after after my story,
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there's not a trivial question that woman'sname. I don't know if they even
mentioned it or not. I thinkthey did, but I can't remember.
That's the kind of in depth qualitycommentary you come to speaking the hither don't
remember that character's name now, asyou guys are while aware, we're watching
King of the Hill for the veryfirst time, so we don't know what's
coming up in the next episode inseason one episode one of season two?

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Did you watch this episode at theend? Go? Was that meant to
be a cliffhanger or was that justlike an unresolved ending? Which is odd
for a Kick of the Hill episodeto end this way because I felt so
on King of the Hill like tohave an ending like that which doesn't really
goes very unexplained. I mean,you can, you can let your mind
wonder, But I'm like, isthis going to be followed up on with
season two? Are we, Bobby? Where you watching the same episode?

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I mean we're talking because the bestof my recollection, this episode ended with
a kiss, Bobby pouncing at Nancy. Oh of course, yeah. Oh
no, I think that's just awrap up of you know, Bobby again
misconstruing the way that men and womenand boys and girls sort of relate to
one another. I don't think he'sa Cliffhanger or anything like that. I
think it's just, oh, Bobby'syou know, you're doing pretty well.

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You seem to have, you know, grasp the nuances of you know,
spin the bottle, nascent relationships,all that kind of stuff. But it's
like, oh, well, thebottle lands on Nancy, don't give her
a kiss. It's like Bobby,but I need to hear I need to
see the repercussions of like what dayhad day responded to Bobby kissing his misses
and to Joseph seeing Bobby kisses Mumand Peggy funny at that Bobby's kissed one

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of her best friends. And Ithink there's a long standing tradition of sitcom
sort of ending episodes ending with likesomeone about to do something wacky. It's
like, no, and yeah,as we've seen with the Simpsons, they'll
be returned to status quo with theat the start of the next episode.
Although you know, we haven't watchedKing of the Hill. We could get
to season two and you know,maybe the friendship between Hank and Dale could

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just be ripped asunder because because ofBobby's misbehavior. Who knows. I just
thought there's a lot of humor couldhave there with Dale saying she's mad woman.
No one gets mad woman. Meanwhile, the whole town know. I
love how they keep playing that.It's it's kind of a joke that never
really gets old. Yeah, Ithink would Yeah, the airs would have
gone out of the tie. That'sthe first two or three times. But

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every time you see John Redcorne rockcupp and he's just this study, you
know, waving as he's playing.You know, it sounded like cool,
sort of eighties adult rock on hisjeep, you know, stereo or whatever.
It's like, that's still getting thejob done. I think. I
think it's a horrible person that you'dlike to see him get this come uppets

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get absolutely cucked like this. Whatdo you think of the episode overall?
Though, in regards to being aseason finale, I this could have been
any episode of the season. Reallydidn't really have a season finale feeling to
it. It was somewhat of acoming of age story, but that doesn't
necessarily mean it has to be aseason finale episode. Yeah, you're right.
It didn't feel like, oh,we're wrapping things up for the first

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season of Our Friends and Land.No, it was just I guess in
some way you had some progression,if not resolution, for both Luan and
Bobby. I mean, Bobby's asall good as ever, if not more
so. I mean, I thinkthe last couple of episodes we've seen him,
he be like it's goods a weirdo. That boy's not right, I

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tell you why. But for himto I don't know, gain a little
more confidence, i'llbeit sort of takena long way to get there, or
taking you know, un expected andweird routes to get there, but to
become a little more confident around girlsand things like that, and to the
point where and I mean the bitat the end with him and and came

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junior Connie, Yeah that's the cplant. I thought it was really sweet
and I was like, oh,yeah, that's a that's a step forward
in the right direction. And Ithought it was just a really nice sort
of yeah round out to the episode. And likewise for Louanne, I mean,
who's just you know, suffering thiscrisis of confidence. I guess they're
out the season, but especially throughoutthis episode because in all honesty, the
way that that course was being struck, it's like, man, this seems

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hard. Yeah, I don't wantto go to beauty school. That seems
stuff, but for her to forit to be acknowledged as like her way
of doing things. You know,it's not exactly by the book, but
it works and it works for her, and it works for her clients and
all that stuff, so she's actuallyon the right track. Yeah. I
get the feeling that these were nicesteps forward and maybe nice ways to round
out a round out of season aswellsode to be one of the main story

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through lines of the season is Luannewith her beauty school, but also Bobby
as well, just sort of discoveringhimself. You know, he's any thirteen
years old, he's becoming a teenager. He's going to discover things like girls
and not that kind of stuff andsmoke and drinking, sort of figuring himself
out and figuring out who he isand and I guess Hanks sort of doing
it as a father as well.But like it's mainly Bobby and Lawanne trying
to figure themselves out and who theywant to be in who they're going to

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turn into. So I guess wekind of get a conclusion to that somewhat
there where Bobby is a bit moreconfident, but we also get there.
You mentioned that Connie moment. Asa view you're watching it going, oh,
well, that's where he needs togo. He hasn't quite figured that
part out yet though, but they'reletting you know that's that's where these two
need to end up. They're clearlymade for each other. They're great friends,

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and they just a perfect fit.And even and it's such a perfect
fit they don't even realize it.Yeah, and if not necessarily made from
one another, and in terms oflike oh yeah, together forever or anything
like that. The sometimes you meetthe right people at the right time.
They're just the right speed for you, if you know what I mean.
Especially when you're you know, you'rea young person and you're kind of learning
how how the world works. It'sgood to have someone who wants to travel

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at the same pace as you.Let's not take it too far, Let's
go a little bit. Let's saytwo steps forward and one step back,
that kind of thing. Yeah,yeah, I mean, and that applies
in across the board as well.I think that applies in you know,
in ronance, that kind of thing, but also just in maturity and just
becoming more of a person it's like, yeah, I'll smoke a cigarette with

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you. I'm not going to smokecrack with you. You know. I
think before that moment where from amale perspective, we've liked a girl and
we've liked him a lot, butthey're just like, I mean, I
like you and I enjoy being withyou, but I don't want to I
still want to go do some shitfirst, you know what I mean.
And it's like, oh, myheart is breaking. You're the one,
and then you realize the years later, they weren't the one you would just

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right for you at that time,but the way the person you've grown into
be, they probably wouldn't be rightfor you anymore. It's probably a good
thing that you went different directions,you know. But as a as a
teenager, you meet that girl thefirst when you fall in love with you
like you and meet together forever,baby, and they're like, no,
fuck off. Oh yeah, lookI mean, oh, I say the
lovely lawyers because you know, wemet at a later stage in our lives.

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We met, you know, afew miles and a meter. What's
so you both retire? I toldyou met each other the ages and will
not stand but honestly. I mean, look, I like to think that
we would have fallen in love andbeen wonderfully happy at any stage we would

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have met each other. But Ithink we met each other just the right
time in our lives. Certainly,I've got enough life lessons that I think
I've learned, um, that Ican be a good partner and a good
man and that kind of stuff inand particularly the lawyers, So hopefully that's

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the case. Nicola always says tome that, Um, next she goes,
if I had met you wherever Imet, YA would have loved you.
But it's like, I'm glad Imet you after I'd traveled a bit
and then done some stuff. She'slike, you might have. She just
says, forever I would have sortof been like, oh, if only
i'd done this, and if onlyI'd done it. She's like she's gladually
got what she wanted to do outof the way first before she met me,

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and vice verst. It works bothways as well. I mean,
you you've got to you're you're gonnahave some fun first before you settle down.
I think, yeah, or evenlearn stuff as well. Yeah,
you know, other relationships, particularlyin my marriage I don't want to.
You know, I'm not going todisrespect my ex wife Libyan anyway. But
you know, the time that wespend together taught me a great deal about

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myself. Taught me how to howto love essentially and be loved. Yeah,
that's a lesson you keep learning throughoutyour life. But yeah, I
don't know, getting allfully deep andphilosophical. Yeah, but it's also another
element to this episode where it's notjust the kids for learning, it's also
Hank and Peggy learning to like.For example, Peggy's learning to not she

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says baby Bobby so much Hank's lynnto deal with. At first, I
thought, oh, this is gonnabe one of those episodes where he thinks
that Bobby's gay and we're getting likea homophobia type episodes. I thought we
might have been getting at the Startard'slike I don't like girls. I was
like, oh, man, hesgonna be homophobia. I'm like, Hank
Hill and homophobia. I'm not surehow this is going to go. It
doesn't go down that path, obviously, but but Hank trying to come to

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terms with the fact that Bobby mightbe a late bloomer and things like that,
and he gets really paranoid and angryabout it, like you can really
see their learning as well as parents. I like to think, and maybe
this is me projecting, I don'tthink Hank would be I think I think
Hank could probably be taken aback ifBobby was gay. Yeah, but I
think Hank is such a straight downthe line guy that he's probably like,

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oh, well, they're gay people. I'm fine with that. But I
don't think he wants Bobby to bea freak, like in terms of like
he says, like most states won'tlet him marry a plastic head. I
don't. I think he'd be fineif Bobby was gay. I think if
Bobby was like a furry or somethinglike that, or you know, like
I don't want a woman. Ijust want to live with a real dog.

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It's like I don't know about that. So yeah, I think he'd
be more like, live your lifeanyway, but don't be too freaky.
Just don't tell anybody. Well,I mean, what does he say about
the guy you let him watch theMuppets, frogs kissing pigs. Anything was
going to happen. I was like, hey, hey, calm down,

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buddy, we all say some things. And here the moment. But this
is why dand all the start ofthe episode. Should we keep watching the
show? You know, I'll putit out to the I'll put it out
the listeners. But if I gotto the uets, I don't know if
I want to come back for seasontwo next week A Muppet podcast is the
beginning this crap? All right?What were your favorite moments from Plastic White

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Female? As always just worshiping atthe altar of Brittany Murphy. I think
she's given a wonderful pool and onceall season it's gotten quirkier and a little
older as it's gone along, whichis something that I really dig I mean,
for a show that is about verystraight laced people, it's not afraid
to get weird every once in awhile, and not in you know,

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they're huge ways, although you knowthe sort of the weird dream sequence that
the Bobby has where all the womenare just you know, turning into attacking
the fifty four woman and stuff likethat, and that was interesting. But
I just love, you know,when she when Luanne gets the fake head
that she's got to work on andyeah, someone's admiration. It was just

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great. Um, this is areally obvious gag. I mean, I'm
pretty sure this had whiskers on itwhen they did it in vaudeville back in
the day, back in the nineteentwenties. But you know had comes in
bills, bills, bills, Whydo weep getting bills? Mail's but boom,

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that listens clearly, you're clearly you'renow aware that guy never listens to
the podcast because that is actually ourmail bag intro. But it's a fantastic
gag though it is so good itBill Bill really isn't And I mentioned the

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clothes out with Bobby and Connie.I thought that was just that was just
really sweet. I mean, I'ma sucker for the first kiss narratives,
I think, and that was athat was a really good example of it.
But I think my favorite part ofthis episode, and it's a song
that I've heard so many times andI'm guessing you have as well, and
I'm guessing a lot of people,But wouldn't it be Nice by the Beach

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Boys. You're listening to the lyricsof that, and it's like, it's
just a sweet ass song. Imean, it's you know, from from
a quote unquote more innocent time.I mean, I'm pretty sure people have
been wanting to shack up and getit on for goodness knows how long.
But the Beach boys are like,oh, well, you know, society
says we've got to you know,get married and live together. But wouldn't

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it be nice if we were doingthat, and you know, we could
wake up together and we could havea great day and then you know,
we'd hold each other we went tobed that night. It's just a really
really sweet song and to ux notjuxtapose it, but to have it as
the that's the backup of Bobby sortof romancing his head but also learning again,
as I said, learning to growbecause everybody needs practice. It is

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true. But were outlets to thisepisode though, where I felt like that
they were heading down the end episodeagain. I was like, Oh,
this is going to be Was thisanother weird Bobby storyline or he was like
in factor way with his head?I was like, oh, And they
kind of got around it with thewhole I'm just practicing for the real girls.
I'm like, okay, but momentsWhere'm just like, he in love
with a plastic head here, What'swhat's going on here? Yeah? I

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mean I think the direction of it. The direction of the episode kind of
weirded it up more than it neededto be. I mean, I think
Bobby had the right mindset all theway there. It's like, yeah,
I am practicing and all that.But the other way they the way it
was directed, and all the anglesof music and all that kind of stuff.
Not yea Beach Boys. Notwithstanding,he was like, yeah, there's

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like a Hitchcock movie. This islike Vertigo or something like that, where
it's turns into a weird tale ofsexual obset. But what did you enjoy
out of this episode? I reallyenjoy the and that's why Blinds don't necessarily
have more fun. I just Ijust gotta big kick out of the teacher.
I just thought she was hilarious.But I also I disliked that.

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So Hank's like, you know,I think they might have found a cure
for the cooties. Oh you meanlike chlamydia. What By the way,
listeners, if you haven't yet,I've mentioned this on the Fourth Finger Discamp
podcast before in the past. Lookup Robin Williams on Craig Ferguson's show as
one of his last of interviews.I think it's on YouTube It's called the

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funniest TV show interview you ever see, as Robert Williams and Ferguson just back
and forth bantering. But there's abit on there about a girl being named
Chlamydia and it's one of the fueof my favorite improbs you'll ever see.
Robin Williams talking about naming your kidsafter um STIs like, gone a rha
Chlamydia and fuck he says this bitas as worthy time. You will not

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regret it. Look at Robin Williamsand Craig fergus and the show. Just
watched the entire thing. It's justtwo old friends just bantering and it's the
best time. That's what I loveabout the Craig Ferguson show. It was
like it didn't feel like though they'reto promote anything. It was just getting
his mates and they're just fucking havinga good time. Fergus Yeah, he
was like one of the last standsof old time. And dar Dare I
say better to nachos and chat shows? Yeah? I mean I think the

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chat shows a kind of They've alwayshad them during the day as well,
but I think you know, ifyou really want talk shows, they're on
during the day now, and they'reusually they're hosted by the likes of,
well, it was Ala degenerous andnow it's Drew Barrymore that I kind of
the really big ones. That DrewBarrymore show is apparently huge. I've never
watched it. I didn't. Idon't even know it's on an Australia,
but apparently it's amazing. Apparently she'slike lovely and she's just great to watch.
Yeah, well yeah, I meanit's all very sort of empathetic,

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and you know, everyone sort ofbears their souls and it's all very touchy
feely, and I mean that cango awfully wrong in the wrong hands.
But I think you know, yourgirlfriend, Drew Barrymore is like it's just
a legitimately nice person. Well yeah, Ellen de Generes was supposedly very nice

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person and apparently don't have to bequite terrible behind the scenes, whereas Drew
might be the real deal. Youwatch Alan, though, and it's like
it felt like, oh, you'retrying too hard to be fun. Oh
everyone dance and everyone to say,hey, look at the guys of that's
like you're trying way too hard tolook like you're calling fun. Where you
watch Drew Barrymore is just like She'sjust a lovely middle aged woman who's up

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for a chat. She's been throughsome ship, she's got some she's got
some things to share with us.I am a proud ignorant woman and no
one is going to change that.Now. That is the stupidest thing I
ever heard anyone say. All right, mister Davis, hit me with your
first and the final, your firstquestion of the final trivia for speaking in

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the Hill of the season one.I don't have that many questions, though,
but I will hit you with thefirst one. Where did Alma Campbell's
hair relax? Where would I haveheard that? I'll try? And that
was during the first lesson at thebeauty at the beauty school. No idea.
It happened at a certain boutique ina certain place, No idea.

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I remember her talking about it.It's eighteen something, wasn't it wasn't it?
No, No, it happened atCastle Linger like Castle Linda last Cruches.
And my first question is what doesBobby have a lunch box of?
I knew you love it, missusdown fire like, Well, I want
this lunchbox, speaking Bobby. Mynext question This is probably an obvious one

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because I'm pretty sure it would havebeen seen before, but it caught my
What is Bobby's school named after?Or who is his school named after?
Oh, we've had it before.It's Thomas something, isn't it. It's
Tom Landry Middle School, Tom LandryMiddle School. Yes, and it was
Tom Thomas something like that. YetI want to say he's a football coach
or something along those lines. TomLandry. It was the Simpsons home He

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gets his hat Tom Landry's hats,right, Yeah, football football coach.
Yeah, maybe even a player aswell, but no, he's known for
being the best coach. Tom Landry'shat off the Tom Landry hat of course.
Yeah. I did he get itwhen he went to Cypress Creek for
Hank Scorpio, because I know hegets one of the Beer Barren episodes.
Look at me, Beer Barren,I've had a new hat. I don't

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think it's Tom Landry's hat in thatone, though, But anyway, My
next question is what was on saleat Sears? Oh? Um, it
was jockey shorts. Jockey shorts,Yes, my underwear wom probably my underwear
of choice when I was a younglad as well. Keep keepable with your
parts snug. Now it's a boxof time. Yeah. You you mentioned

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that you wore box of shots andI was like, I'm going to try
on this year because I haven't wornupon. I was like a teenager and
I wore box of shorts and itwas the sweatiest, most uncomfortable day of
the last year. Like, Ijust can't do it. Man. They
kept like the scene kept like squashingmy ball and I was like, this
is terrible. I'm not about totell another man how to house his junk.
But okay, go back to thetrunks. You're on the trunks thing.

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Yeah, the briefs there, yeah, I've got I've got those as
well. But most of the briefsare like the ones that look like shorts,
right, the briefs are the onesthat look like speedos. Oh no
no no, no, no nono, no boxes. It must be
trunks, the ones with legs,yeah, ones with legs, yes,
Okay, their trunks are that.That's what I was wearing. Jocks.
Jocks are weird. Yeah, thereis a no jock don't yeah, Nicholas,

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like Nikola said to me, becauseI had this one pair of jocks
in dry it must be for likeyears and years and years years ago and
nowhere. I've never can't remember beenwearing them. Nicholas, Like, if
I ever see you walking around thehouse, we're in these jocks, we're
gonna have to have a talk whenyou slid in doing the risky business stand.
Yeah, anyway, do you haveany more questions for me? I

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have one, although I hope I'vegot it right, because um, it's
one of those ones. I wrotedown the answer and then I was like,
but I wrote it down a littlewhile after it was on screen,
I'm like, oh, I gotthis. Nor what are the two bolo
ties that Hank offers Bobby to choosefrom. What's bull and cow? Is
it bull and cow? Because Iwrote down bull's head and deer's head,

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No, it's cow bull? Andwhich one does he go with? I
didn't pay attention at the end therebecause he's wearing it. At the end
it looked like the bull because itlooked it had horns. Okay, yeah,
it makes sense, And I thinkthat's why I may have said bull's
head deer's head because they both gotsort of like antlets. Well, if
you're going to appear like a bigmasculine man, you'd be wearing the bull.
You don't want to be rocking uplike a cow. I'm a bull
baby. No exactly. Oh,I'm sure we've talked about the fact that,

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yeah, when I was when Iwas a teenager, bolowed ties came
back in for a while. Yeah, I remember. Yeah, my friendship
group's answer to Leonardo DiCaprio Timmy Austin, he rocked one and I'm like,
yeah, he could do that.I can't do that. Don't you hate
it when you see people and it'slike if only I was beautiful. It's
just like this person, you know, it's like, Oh, it's not

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fair. It's not fair that youjust wear those pants and look good.
I wear those pants. Look likea fucking Christmas ham. Damn you and
your shapeley buddocks. Yeah. Myfinal question for you, though, is,
speaking of our shapeley bodies, whatdoes Bobby the weather Man order for
breakfast? Oh? You look soyou look like you look like a weatherman

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when he's dressed all nice. Ohthat's right. He wants um a glass
of skim milk and some melon.Well, technically right, it's fruit,
fruit and skim milk. Yeah,fruit and skim just some fruit and skim
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link is in the description of thispodcast. The original air date of Plastic
White Female was May eleventh, nineteenninety seven. It was written by David
Zuckerman and directed by Jeff Myers.The episode kicks off with Bobby and Joseph
on the bridge and they're doing yourclassic spitting over the edge. Now,
I wonder what date the episode Twentytwo Short Films About Springfield originally aired.

(26:40):
Twenty two Short Films Springfield when theoriginally air because it starts the exact same
way with Millhouse and Bart on thebridge, except they're not spitting over the
edge. They're spraying source over theedge. They originally aired April fourteenth,
ninety six or a year beforehand,so I'm not saying they're copying it,
but it's just had a similar Itreminded me of that moment anybody. That
episode starts with Barton Millhouse on thebridge. This episode starts with Bobby and

(27:03):
Joseph on the bridge and just havinga bit of a conversation as they're spitting
and squirting. I'm always terrified ofstuff getting thrown off bridges, but I
mean you're hearing. You hear theoccasional story about young hooligans throw stones or
rocks off a bridge onto a highway, I'm like, yeah, oh my
god. Imagine just driving along itlike one hundred kilometers an hour, all
of a sudden it just rock.It's your windscreen. You'd be an absolute

(27:26):
It would be a shamozel. Peopledie as a result of it. I
end know what's ever happened to meand didn't actually hit my car. But
we live on the golf course,right, so you've got to drive through
the streets and the occasional golf ballyou might see flying over. But one
time I was driving down Thompson Road, which runs parallel to a state but
there's a golf hole right on theroad there, so if you hit it
sideways, it's just there's no highfence, it's just straight out into the
fucking one of the busiest roads inthis an area of Geelong, and over

(27:48):
driving and seen this, I waslike, is that a b And all
of a sudden, just coming towardsand I was like, that's coming towards
the car and it bounce and Ikid you not, it was so close
to the car when it bounced onthe road that I didn't see it bounce,
like it was like right in frontof the car and it just went
boom. And I've fucking never seena ball bounce so high in my life
like it just if I had adriven, I'm like, just a second

(28:08):
faster, Like it was a littlebit faster, it would have smashed me
right in the windscreen, like okay, so close, but just like boom
and it was just gone. Iwas like, where the where that fucking
golf end up? I have noidea, but like it missed me by
just inches, but it was itwas genuinely terrifying. I thought it was
over. It was just it wasjust a golf ball, but it was
scary. Man. It's like comingstraight for me as one of those things

(28:29):
where like you're still trying to processwhat it is at the same time,
so you don't slow down. You'relike, what is that? Why am
I still driving towards a brain break? Please? Please break? Why would
you break me? I'm having aparty next Sunday? Can I come?
I guess on the hote on torpedoes? You're gonna be coke now hard?

(28:57):
Good? Give for a how's wegirl far? Now? Did you notice
that the intro theme music was differentin this one? I did not because
I broke one of my rules andI skipped intro, didn't. Ah,
you dirty dog. There's only somany hours in the day, man,

(29:19):
there isn't. I'm trying to,you know, generate atomic habits and save
a precious few seconds. How wasit different? Well, it's just it's
just they had a little guitar sortof solo during it, and that the
drum sounded different, had more likejust sounded rockier, more grungier than the
usual theme. Interesting. Yeah,interesting, one thing a person should do,

(29:41):
because what what what you find now? With new shows? Netflix?
And whatnot. A lot of thetime they just make it really short intro
because I know people are just goingto skip them anyway. Right. Succession
didn't do that. Succession had anintro that I would dare say was too
long. Um, But I feellike you can find a good middle ground
because you want people to watch thecredits so they see your name, right.
I think it's important that people noacknowledge the people who are going who

(30:02):
are writing this show and making thisshow. So I think if you're gonna
make an intro going forward, you'regonna make a little bit right Bald,
so people stick around. No thatsome way, like two thirds into the
intro, there's something right Bald,So you can't skip to that part.
You can't skip the intro and rewind. It's like it's it's it's far enough
into it, we've watched enough ofthe credits. But it's also so not
far away enough from the end wereyou can't just skip in this go back.
So I think a little bit moreright bald intros to shows is what

(30:25):
I think this world needs. Rightnow. Okay, well this is not
right Bald, But I don't knowif you've heard about this, but There's
been a bit of kerfuffle about theintro sequence to the new Marvel Disney Plus
show Secret Invasion, which at thetime of recording, premiered last night.
It's AI apparently, yeah, generatedby AI. Those those damn computers.

(30:47):
The computer don't see that in frontof the computers. But yeah, a
lot of people are like, youknow, there doesn't take an actual human
artists out of business, and itlooks kind of sketchy and all this kind
of stuff. I actually didn't mindit. I thought it looked interesting and
kind of cool and kind of unsettlingand the way that in a way that
the show wasn't I was. Iwatched the first episode of Secret Invasion last

(31:08):
night, and I was kind ofit. This is actually bad, like
badly made. It's terrible. Canwe are a society just all agree upon
that the MCU died with Infinity War, right, that was it? Like,
it's just it's never been the samesince, and anyone who says it
is is lying. It's never beenthe same. We were there that that's

(31:29):
what we were there for. Wewere there for that story, and they're
just like, here's a new one, guys, it's just as good.
And it's like it's really not AndI think by like for few years later
and now everyone's this kind of guy. Yeah, I think we're done.
I think we might be tapping outnow. I think it's time to move
on and find something else. We'rea little burned out. I mean,
yeah, you're making If you're makingsix or seven a year, maybe make
two or three a year and reallyfocus on certain characters and focus on certain

(31:56):
storylines. But yeah, don't tryto overwhelm us the way we will think
we've had too much ice cream fordinner. You know, it needs we
need some their jees. Yeah,but our Secret Invasion just wasn't good.
It's a damn shame because Australian andBen Mendelssohn isn't it And he's actually the
probably the best thing in it.But the rest of it is just it
was just not good at all.It was very disappointed. Maybe there's a

(32:21):
podcast, how about a good show? But we kick up here with with
Arlan Beauty Academy and Luanne gets calledout in class and I always felt bad
for the kid in class who gotcaught out by the teacher, whether especially
when the teacher knew they didn't knowthe answer. It's like, what are
you being a bitch for this?Just leave him alone. That's not It's
not like Luane was being disruptive foranything. It's just she is not as
no knowledgeable as other kids. She'sstill trying. No, she's not.

(32:45):
It's not from lack of effort,So why are you singling her out and
making her look like an idiot?Is just going to make it different worse
for her. I thought, Ireally, they really made you dislike the
teacher from the get go, whichis what their goal would have been.
But it kind of is. It'salways kind of bracing, especially when you're
a young kid, to realize thata teacher doesn't like you personally or but
you know, teachers have got eyeson you. And was like, yeah,

(33:07):
you're sucking up, I mean,and not because you're being intentionally disruptive,
just like it was just being me. Yeah, I mean I remember,
Yeah, I'd a grade five teacherwho just did not like me at
all, And I'm like what Ido? And then years later, another

(33:30):
teacher pulled me and another kid asideand said said to the other kid,
you just better watch yourself because youknow word could get words sort of getting
out about you. And then hepointed me and said, words already out
about you, And I'm like,what the fuck it's already out about you.
I honestly wish i'd said what thefuck? That would have been great,
that would have that would have justifiedit. Yeah, it's already out

(33:54):
about you. Your old news notdone with you. You're fucked. Yeah,
you're you're already a low school andthe like fuck you. Man.
It's one of those times when youwant to sort of go back in time
and just whisper, you know,when your young selfs He was like,
tell this guy to go fuck himself. You won't regret do it. Then

(34:14):
you do, Then you do thatthing where you're fuck with your timeline and
you wake up back in your oldself and you're sleeping in a ditch.
My whole life, I should havenever told that teacher to go fuck himself.
Man. Oh boy, don't knowhow we got to that. So
oh yeah teacher teachers. Yeah,but then I think I've told this sorry

(34:38):
before as well, But every teacherbesides one loved me at school. I
wasn't a teacher's pet, but Ijust I got my work done. I
never fucked around. I was justyou know, I was an easy student
basically. But there was one teacher. I don't get what was her name.
I won't have a name because anyway, but I remember she was like
a feeling for like a semester forlike a math teacher who was like going

(34:58):
away holiday. So we had likeas a replacement a whole semester was just
his teacher. I remember I wentup to her desk and I was like,
can you explain to me what thismeans? I thought in my head,
it's gonna be too hard to explainthis sum So I will grew up
and I will show her and I'llpoint it to it go up and she
points it short if she looks atme funny, I look at her funny,
and then she sort of goes,yeah, it's like this, okay,
now, nicorette, seat, It'sall good. And I was like,
all right, cool. So Isat down and continued on, thought

(35:20):
nothing of it, and then thenext day get called into the vice principal's
office and the vice principle was like, look, Brendan, I know you
didn't mean anything by this, butI just need to let you know that
we've had a complaint from a particularteacher who has complained that she felt sexually
harassed that you were standing too closeto her. Oh, I don't know
that you're staying to didn't say her. They felt sexual harassed that you're standing

(35:43):
too close to them, and Iwas like what. I was like,
who who? What? Woice song? I'm standing so close to me.
I was like, are you Iwas like, I remember saying, are
you sure they meant me, andthey're like yes, And then that's where
he said yes she said, andhe goes, I shouldn't have said she.
I'm like, well, it's notfucking bloke, mate. But then
I was like okay, but Isaw I was still too close. I

(36:04):
was like, who do I standingclose to it? And I was like,
well, the end person I stoodnext to was this one. It
was when I was asking the question. And he goes, well, okay,
that's that's that's what's been brought up. You didn't hear from me.
He goes, look, look Ididn't tell you, and don't go and
say anything. But yes, there'sbeen a situation where you apparently you were
you were standing right next to herto the point you were almost touching her
and I was like, she wassitting at her desk and went next to
her to show in my book,or she feels like you sexually She just

(36:27):
feels like she was a bit harassedand she felt like you were in her
comfort zone. And I was like, what the fuck? I would never
again. And then we had parentteaching interviews at the end of the semester,
and I remember she was just like, Brendan's a great student, blah
blah blah. And I don't justgo yeah, I know, right,
tend to sexual harass people at times, though, and she just went like
bright red and I was just likesuper awkward. I was like fuck you
yeah, And I was like,what do you mean sexual harassed? And

(36:50):
then she and I was like,don't worry, but mom, don' worry.
But I was just a joke,just a joke. She's like,
well, it's very inappropriate joke tobake Brendan. Your mom turned into um
for a second. What are youtalking about? Yeah, She's like she's
Mom's like, did you keep upthree fitty? It's like I wanted to

(37:13):
but um, but yeah. Soyeah, I remember getting accused of sexually
harassing a teacher by going up tothe desk and asking for some help my
moth's own work. And yeah,that's the only the closest I've come to
being sued for sexual harassment. Gosh, so far. But anyway, we're
now returning it to plastic female.Yes, we're still at the start of
the episode. So as she saysthat there's a final exam next week,

(37:37):
there's going to be h So thisis where she's practicing her questions with Bobby
while she's doing Connie's hair. Sothroughout the episode you keep seeing Connie.
Connie sort of like the sea place. She's at the beginning, she's at
the end. She's sort of thethrough line to sort of remind Bobby,
Well, remind view is that she'sthe one who Bobby will end up with.
You would assume anyway that you're rootingfor anywhere. This This just works.
This is nice. They're both goodfor each other. Um, she

(37:59):
said, no, she's bit isan art. And this is where we
get that, you know, whydo I keep getting bills mail? And
then she offers to him give hima new look, and he says,
don't mess with success. Hanks.Very I'm not used to seeing Hank vane,
but I can buy into the factthat he thinks that his look is
part of what helps him sell thepropane. Anyway, he says it's been
almost a week, so eventually agrees, like, okay, I'll let you
do. It's been almost a week. My hair's getting a bit long.

(38:20):
Connie's then says, I can't.I can't see any of the heart lest
he put in my hair. Yes, he can, and you love them.
Then Peggy's hair looks like I've gothere. Peggy's hair looks like a
troll. I too, have writtenfolks down, and I like to keep
it fresh. Much like Dani Nicola, I'd like to give fred no no,
no, So we're not We're notthe conversation that comes to you without

(38:40):
us sort of collaborating. Yeah,but yeah, I have two have written
down troll doll hair on Peggy.Now that this is, you know,
a fairly obvious kind of thing,but I mean your pals down to one
guy here, we're you know,kind of on the same wavelength, and
we hope that you are too withus. I'm not sure you would make
this reference now though, because thisobviously add ninety seven trolls was still a
thing in the nineties. Trolls haven'tbeen a thing for a long time,

(39:02):
and now you had that movie,that CGI film Trolls. Yeah, but
the troll doll hasn't been a thingfor a very long time. I guess
not. But the trolls in theTrolls movie are troll dolls, right,
I mean they're not like troll likea cave troll. No, I don't
think they're troll dolls. They pigmieswith the with the with the spiky hair.
But they're not troll dolls though.They're not meant to be the doll

(39:24):
like, it's not it's a movieabout the troll dolls coming to life or
anything. Okay, I guess not. You think they'd be Italian? You
think, wouldn't you. We're gonnamake a movie about trolls. It's gonna
be called trolls. We're not goingto associate with trolls. They look like
troll dolls, but we're not goingto sell troll dolls because we're allergic to

(39:45):
money exactly. Yeah, I meanit's highly allergic. It's allergy season,
mister Davis. One share, noway, no way, Peggy, Oh
my hair is our liveli the advantagesof propane don't always sell themselves. I'll
set uncle hike lou Anne. I'mthinking about just letting my hair grow.

(40:10):
Oh well, have you ever considereda different color? Man? Don't do
that? I should they do?Even President Reagan did. Hey, Now,
if Ron Reagan died his hair,and I'm not saying he did,
it was only to show his strengthto the communists. And then we Cutain

(40:31):
Dale and he's talking about Joseph's girlparty. He says he's gonna be no
hanky panky on his watch, andI was like, well, they never
actually explained why Joseph was having agirl party, and if Dale was so
against it, I feel like Dalewould be the one who would have been
probat right. I just felt oddthat Dale was the one going to be
no hanky panky at my house.Yeah. But then but then at the

(40:52):
end, okay, but that doesn'treally makes sense because at the end he's
like it's too quiet in here,and I was like, was he coming
in here to say that this shouldbe more stuff going on? Always here
the one saying what are you guysup to? Because it felt weird that
I know it was to set upthe gag of Red Corn dropping off Nancy
in the background as he's saying it. But it just felt weird for the
for the character who was the onesaying, yeah, Joseph, you can

(41:12):
smoke and you can do this,but there'll be no hanky panky. It's
like, it felt odd that Hankwas pro it but Dale wasn't. Didn't
make sense. What you were sayingabout how it doesn't make sense makes sense.
Yeah, I'm not sure exactly whyit played out that way. It's
just like I said, to purelyset up the gag with Red Corn,
there no hay panky at my house. The gag being that there is no
hay in this house is happening atJohn red Collin's house. Do you remember

(41:34):
your first boy girl party, bythe way, my first boy girl party,
Yeah, it would have been likewhen I was like sick. But
do you mean like when there's boysand girls smooth? Yes, yeah,
that's because again you have you haveunisex sort of, you have unisex birthday
parties. When you're a kid,it's like, well, no, all
your friends come, all all yourclassmates come, or something like that.
But then it's like, yeah,but it's some stage. It's gonna be

(41:57):
like there were boys and girls inthis, but I think it would have
been there was a girl's party.And maybe I was four year eight,
so I would have been fourteen.I reckon. I remember Dad was like,
right, make sure you have fun. I was like, of course,
I made have fun. It's aparty. And then I look back
now I'm like he didn't mean funfun. I never forget that, actually,

(42:22):
because I was walking out obviously noless at that point, and I'm
going to a party. See Daddy'slike, make sure you have fun.
I remember, I'm going, Johnny, that's enough. And I was like,
why should I have fun? It'sa party month on your papa Dando?
Any would I love Bobby and this, I don't know when he's saying

(42:43):
this, but what if I getfilled up? Hey there, Bobby,
I guess they found a cure forthe cooties. I don't know what are
cooties. Well, when I wasa boy, that's what we called the
germs you got from girls. Ohyou mean like cham idiot? Uh?
Earth are you two talking about?Bobby was invited to his first boy girl

(43:04):
party, A boy girl party already? Well, I don't think I want
to go, Well, that's justfine, Bobby, would you like a
juice box? Wait a minute,son, why would you not want to
go to a boy girl party?Pieties a fun Bobby. Everybody dresses up
and gets a touch dance, touchdance. I don't know what if I

(43:28):
get filed up. You just needsome practice. Luene's right, all you
need is practice. Do you thinkJeff Foxworthy just woke up one day and
took some funny pills. I didlove the amp to look there that Peggy
gives up gives Luene as well,because Peggy is very against Bobby growing up.
She's just being a mum. Yeah, and I did relate to the

(43:49):
whole you go, you go tothe party, you go, let your
wings fly, all right, andshe's hold to not letting. I'm gonna
be like that. I won't wantmy kids are grow up like I wanted
to grow up, and I'm like, still be kids my friend, because
there is a point where your kidsdon't want to be your friend anymore.
Then they get older they want tobe your friend again. But teenage,
I'm like, I'm not looking forwardto the point in my life where my
kids don't want to hang out withme And hopefully it doesn't have to always
be that way, but it probablywill happen at some point. I just

(44:12):
hope it's not for too long.I'm seeing this with with loose kids now.
I mean, well, of coursethe oldest has gone off to gone
off to university. Um, themiddle one is deep in the weeds of
the teenage years and just you know, we'll occasionally want something to do with
their mum, and you know,when they're interacting and friendly, it's all
it's quite delightful. And the youngestboy is starting to sort of edge into

(44:37):
those teenage years and like, youknow, not really talk, just sort
of mumble. Um doesn't know theirown stings out. They're slamming. Why
are you slamming doors? I'm notslamming or disclosing it. But there'll be
occasion spirit. Everything's most like teenspirit. But occasionally we'll go on Watch
nine and day on the couch andyeah, we'll all have a good love

(44:58):
and it's like, oh, whycan't it stay like this forever? Yeah,
don't you realize I'm cool. I'mstill cool. Don't you want to
hang out with the cool grown upswatching fiance and having a cup of tea.
We're back in class now and they'rediscussing the final exam which is coming
up that Lawe's very stressed out about. And of course she's stressed out because
she's constantly getting singled out once againby this teacher who's an absolute bitch,

(45:22):
as Hank would call her at theend of the episode. That was unexpected.
It was very unexpected when he calledher a bitch at the end there.
I was just like that, that'sum worthy, it's it's will pay
that, it's much deserved, it'sjustified. That's right. This is where
they get given no the practice heads, which basically sets up the story.
So you know, without this head, there is a without Without without a

(45:43):
head, there isn't much to life. Is there not really good without head?
No? That's right, yes,And it reminded me. Therese to
be this wrestler in the late ninetiesearly two thousands in WWF at the time
called al Snow and just after thisepisode Head. It wasn't because of this
because used to do it in theprevious company he was in, but he
used to carry around he was crazyand he would carry around a mannequin head

(46:06):
called Head and he's talked to it, and he like, you use it
as a weapon. It's sort oflike a way of when the refe wasn't
looking, he hits on in thehead with it. But it was just
the WWS way of saying his themeis it was what does everybody want?
And then the Crawdwood chant head,what does everybody need? Head? I'm
like, oh, the late nighties? What a time. But yeah,

(46:27):
so Luans now got her her mannequinhead. And Bobby he's at school here
and he's going through what many ofus, if not all of us,
have gone through at one point inour lives. Just that fear of girls,
the fear of having to look atgirls, talk to girls. You're
developing these feelings for girls, likewhat you sort of you don't quite understand
why you feel this way? Howam I supposed to approach approach them?

(46:47):
What do I do with these feelings? And yeah, he's just terrified.
Oh yeah. You get all mannerof mixed messages from you know, from
the media, from popular culture,from your friends, from your family,
from your male role models, allthose kind of stuff, and it's very
hard to create the tapestry of youout of that sometimes you got just gonna
wing it. But yeah, it'sespecially tough for late bloomers. That was

(47:09):
me. I was a late bloomer, and you know that's all. It's
one of them. Not a crueljoke that nature plays. But nature gets
can get, can get a littleuneven at times, like girls turn into
women quicker than boys turn into men. It's like, I'm feeling left behind

(47:30):
here. What's going on? Whendn'tyou say late bloomer? Do you mean
late to U to getting getting downwith your funky self? Or um in
pretty much all ways? I mean, I feel like I was the same.
But like I remember, so wewent to a party. They would
have been must have been nearly sixteen, it would have been nearly sixteen.

(47:52):
And I won't say her full name. Her name was Emily. I remember.
It's been like she's like, youknow, asking your farmers, Like
no, She's like, come here, I've got you. And I was
like, everyone needs an Emily's goat, come here, and she she showed
you listen me right up, walkyou through it, hand in hand.

(48:17):
Shout out to Emily. What alateness? But yeah, but anyway,
Yeah, so I definitely can canrelate to Bobby here, you know,
when he's only thirteen at the time. At the time, you like to
think that you've got it all handled. But then you go from you know,
grade sixty, year seven, allof a sudden you're the little guy
again, and he's just like allthese big, growing up women walking around.

(48:38):
It's so amazing. I mean,you get a few, you know,
years under your belt and you realizetwo years doesn't mean shit in the
in the overall scheme of things,no, but in the in the school
yard, it's like, you know, you're in say grade six, and
you look at Form two or youlook at year eight. Oh my god,

(49:00):
it's so grown up. They knowso much more about the world than
not. I remember being in yearseven and feeling like the year twelve students
because in Australia here we go toone prep, which is like before grade
one through to six at primary school. Then we have secondary school which we
call high school, which also whichgoes from seven through the twelve. And
when I was in the year sevenseeing those year twelves, I was like

(49:21):
they are fully grown men. Ohyeah, I can't go to school with
men. What's going on here?But then but then like you see I
drive down the street. Now lookat the year twelves as they're walking in
the street. I'm just like,they're children, But at the time you
felt like they were just like hugeadults. Didn't here oh very much.
Like Yeah, but occasionally, everyonce in a while you'll see someone who

(49:42):
in a school uniform. You're agrown man in a school uniform. What's
going on? You are either whatwas that movie? Do you either Jack?
Or you're Billy Madison? Just yellat next time, Hey, Billy
Madison, I get a job.You're like, you ain't cool and less

(50:04):
what he says your pants know exactlywho it is. It doesn't even talk,
just turns around, pieces pants infront of it. It's just he's
already pete his pants. Yeah,clearly the case. Clearly the coolest guy
at school. Did you have,like have an incident at school where you
like wet your pants or farted toomuch and went, oh shit, that
was a little too heavy. Notto the best of my recollection, No,

(50:27):
I think I wet my pants oncefrom laughing too much, and I
was just like I needed to goto the tool already, and I like
I didn't completely wet it but it'slike a bit and I was like,
oh no, now you'll wait forthis to dry out so no one sees
it, or get my books,like cover myself and figure out something wing
it. There was one kid inprimary school. I've mentioned this on four
fingered Discount once, but his namewas Michael. They say his last name

(50:50):
again, just first name basis hereat four finger Discount or speaking of the
Hill and he shitt his pants.It would have been like grade three or
four, I reckon, and forthe remainder of primary school he's just Michael.
Someone. So who sh the kidof shitty pants? Oh? Yeah,
there's a great line in Super Bad, you know where um I think
Jonah Hill is like ragging on someguy for you know, peeing his pants

(51:10):
or something and the kids. Thatwas like six years ago. Yeah,
people don't forget. It's true.People don't forget. I mean there was
there was this, Yeah, onekid on a school camp when I think
in year seven or whatever. AndI don't think even himsel but someone saw
that he had a really nasty skidin his jockeys and he just became known

(51:31):
as skid Mark for the next twoyears. This guy could this kid could
have like got an early acceptance touniversity, could a cured fucking cancer.
It's like, hey, your skidmark, Hey, you know, and
you see him at like a schoolreunion or something like twenty years later,

(51:52):
a skids, what's going on?Like you'll always be skids that you realize
I run BHP. Now you realizeI'm married to Scarlet Johansson. Right?
Is that right? Skids? Oh? Very nice? Do you know why
we call him skid? Scarlet dida good skin back and his pants back

(52:12):
in the nineteen eighty two. Nothingwrong, We're doing a good skid.
By the way, guys, ifyou've ever shitty pants at school, not
saying it's a bad thing, I'mjust saying that. I remember the story
of this story. But I wasin the classroom this kish his pants,
and I remember being next to himgoing and I could tell he realized he
shit his pants and he didn't wantto say something, and I was like
kind of right next room at thetable, and I'm like, he has
definitely shitty pants, like it stinks, and like he was just acting all
weird, and I was like,do we tell the teacher? Like we

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can't just sit amongst this festive,and like people started going what smells,
what smells? And I'm like,oh, I feel bad for this guy
because he doesn't want to own upto it, but he's just gonna have
to now. And then he didn'tknow. No one sort of announced it,
but he just sort of left theroom with the teacher, and I
was like, Oh, he didit, because the smell is gone.
But yeah, and I always looked. I always look I try to look

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out for those kind of guys.I think I've already told the story of
how I like started like a fuckingfun thing. So this kid who couldn't
afford to go to Grace six graduation, we like, I went to various
teachers and they all chipped in somemoney and we all paid for him to
go to graduation because he couldn't affordit and things like that. So I
was like that guy. I alwayslooked out for the little man because I've

(53:19):
always considered myself the little man aswell. Even though I sort of hang
out with what you call the coolkids, I've always maybe kind of grew
up in like Norlay, which islike the hood and cry of Geelong.
I've never seen myself as anything betterthan anybody else, And that's the best
way to go through life. Youjust you know better than anybody else,
you know what I mean. SoI always look after the little guy.
I always look out for the kidthat shits his pants exactly right. Yeah,

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be the Billy Madison that you wantto see in the world. Hm.
But of course here, So Connie, she's not going to be going
to the party because she asked ifBobby's going to be going, and he
says she says she's not going becauseshe's not married yet. She's not hang
out with boys until she's married.And I didn't get this right. So
obviously just something's just not translating withme, So hopefully you can explain it

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to me. Bobby says he's notgoing because Joseph's got a birthday coming up
in nine weeks. What. Yeah, I was really curious about that.
It's like, is this party hisbirthday party? What's going on? Yeah?
I always did I just assume wrong. I could have sworn it said
it was a birthday party, butI guess he's just having a party.
But for somebody sort just thought itwas a birthday party. For it just

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completely through me. I'm like,I'm I missed something here. Yeah,
you're right. I noticed that aswell, and I was like, so
what he's having a just a party, what like two months before his birthday?
But what's that nine weeks? Soyeah, too much and that ship
doesn't go down Like when when yourkid's birthdays coming up, you don't get

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another party beforehand. It's like forlike the eight to ten weeks before your
birthday, it's like, no,no, you're getting any presents. You
wait for your birthday. You don'thave any parties, you're waiting for your
birthday. Yeah, no, I'mwith you. That's that's that's a that's
a that's a brain teaser. It'sa hit scratcher. Yeah, I hate
then asked Bobby do you want thebull or the skull for his tie?
What are this particular ties called again? Bolo bolo ties. Yeah, Hank

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is worried here because this is whereBobby says I don't like girls, and
Hank's like, oh, oh okay. But Peggy and Hank then then have
a discussion as he suggests that he'sa late bloomer and Hanks just not having
any of it. He blames Peggy, you know you babied him and blah
blah blah, and she doesn't wantto admit that either. I mean she
was baby him, of course,definitely, but doesn't always have the same

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impact that has had on that hashad on Bobby as everybody else. But
you know, she offers him ahot fudge Sunday and it's clear that you
know he's a mumm's boy, andyou'll always be mum's boy, and there's
nothing wrong with being a mum's boy. But Hanks just he's not happy at
all. This is where Lawanne arriveswith a practice head. And just as
you're saying earlier, Duet, what'swhat's the one thing you've owned in your
life where you want to show itoff to everybody but nobody is allowed to

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touch it? Oh? Man,I used to be like that with my
collectibles. I mean, I likethat with Alliott now showing off all It's
funny because I keep all these oldtoys. I'm like, one day I'm
going to show this to my kids, and and I'll showed it to Aliott
and I'm like, stand back,don't get too close. Are you worrying
the special gloves that daddy bought you? What It's like one time because I

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had this mega Zord toy. Istill got it when I was a power
range. It's one of my favoritethings ever. It's one of those ones
that you can take it apart andthey turn into like t rexes and things
like that, and then you transformedthem and they've become this one big robot
the arms and legs and things likethat. And I got that in ninety
three, ninety four, So what'sthat thirty years, thirty plus years,
thirty years. Yeah, And Ishowed it to Elliott like last year or

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year before, and no shit,the kid had it for those no more
than two minutes and he broke somethingon it. And I'm like, I've
managed to have that for thirty years. You've had it for thirty seconds.
And you're fucking Nicolas, like,why do you expect these three? And
I'm like, I know, butI'm still just a little sad. I
know It's look, I'm like Nicola, I'm not angry. I'm not angry

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at him. I'm not even angry. I'm just more disappointed, like I
didn't. I didn't I didn't expressthat met Ellie and I hope. I'm
just like I was just I gotso excited to finally show Elliott something that
I've been hold onto for so longbecause he was into power range at the
time. And then and then thathappened, I was like, I think
Daddy's toys go away again for alittle while, just for a couple more

(57:14):
years, buddy. But yeah,what about you've ever had anything like that
where you've just sort of you've heldit onto it and you've had it for
so long, to the point wherethere's like I've had this for so long
now that I don't want anyone tobreak it. I don't trust anyone else
but myself. It's always for me. It's almost a case of like if
I break at least I can blamemyself. If someone else breaks it,
then I'm going to be annoyed atthem. Yeah, you'll be annoyed at
them. And you also annoyed ityourself for yes, handing it off to

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them. Yeah, you made that, you played yourself. You trusted someone's
trust someone when you lend them amovie or a book that comes back and
it's like Crestor, it's ripped,and maybe that's the case. Yeah,
don't want to come back and hey, there's a dirty going scratch on this
disc. Yeah, why is therehalf a page? You've got a big
ripped up the big I'm just sortof like, why dogg ear the pages

(58:00):
in this book? What's going onyour bookmark and everything? You can't can't
dog ear my book going on here? No dogging happening here, No dogging.
But Peggy's blamed with herself, andof course he's will lower rises the
practice head and Bobby immediately falls forthe mannequin. And I've just got here
in my notes before because I haven'twatched the rest of the episode yet,

(58:21):
I'll know why are they doing thisagain? Because I thought at this point
are they're going for another weird storyline? And it still is weird, just
once he sort of explains he's usingit for practice. I do think though,
that they did cross that line alittle bit where it was no longer
just using it for practice. Hesort of had genuine feelings for his hand,
and I was just like, Idon't know, kind of writing that
right in the fence, isn't ita little bit? Yeah? But I

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think it's it's certainly got one footin reality more. I mean, yeah,
he takes it, he takes ita bit too far. The show
takes it a bit too far,but I can understand, you know,
him wanting to learn more, ifyou know what I mean. He's like,
Okay, well this is how youdo this, and and there's no
fear of dat rejected either. That'scorrect. No, he's just learning how

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to do things. Oh yeah,yeah. They presented in a weird fashion,
but it makes emotional sense, ifyou know what I mean. I
like the stuff with the ants,which is like, no, that's just
odd and never gets explained. Yeah, it's just completely silly. But Bobby
is now watching through the window.Now. Apparently there is a scene in
this episode that gets cut out withum with reruns, and I don't recall

(59:25):
seeing it in this episode. Timeme if I'm wrong, But apparently he
was watching Lawan from it, likethrough a window or something, and she
was unbuttoning her shirt and Bobby waslike creeping on it. Did we recall
that? I remember Bobby watching throughthe window and then she puts the blanket
over the head and he gets disappointed, But she doesn't unbutton her shirt there,
does she. I don't think there'sanything like that now, because that

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would be and I'm glad that getscut out. It's kind of weird that
Bobby would be creeping on his Iunderstand, as we said earlier, you
sort of get confused with these feelings. But I think him creeping on la
And would sit right because it's hiscousin. Yeah, it would lead a
little bit of sympathy away from him, I think, or a little bit

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of relatability at least. Or isit now, because then there's the next
thing. Here is pretending to playthe game Boy, which is actually not
even on. It's just game overand he's just watching her again, Is
it there or she's just sort ofbrushing the hair at that point, Yeah,
I don't think. I don't thinkshe was. I think anytime you
see Bobby sort of like not leeringbut looking at lue I don't think he's

(01:00:30):
really focused on Luans as much asthe head. It's the head. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure she's brushing the hairand getting everything ready. But it's
where Peggy says it's time to goto the mall, and Luene says she'll
come too, because they've got thepants, the jockey pants, jockey shorts,
jockey shorts on sale. But Bobbylies so it doesn't have to go
because you realize there's an opportunity forme to be home alone with Head and

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Bobby. He says he's going tostay home and watching after school special about
Jesus and Peggy's a better watch thatthe whole religious aspect of the family.
They haven't really come into the intothe story yet, hasn't. We haven't
really really. It's implied that godfearing conservative people from Texas. Yeah,
yeah, but I've never seen themat church or anything like that yet,
have we. I don't think no, no, no, I mean,

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considering how much it's it comes upand say the Simpsons, I mean they're
after church fairly regularly. I meanregularly in their lives, but semi regularly
in the show. It's like,I mean, how many episodes perst season
of the average Simpson season, wouldthere be at least one scene whether they're
in church. I'd say there's gotto be at least half easily. Yeah.

(01:01:37):
How many there's episodes just based aroundit? Oh? Yeah, certainly,
But I'm trying to think there aren'tmany. There are more episodes than
not where at least there's sort ofin church briefly or you get illusions to
there's revel love joy or Flanders istalking about religion. Yeah, it doesn't
have there's also a good device forthem to get all the townspeople in one
room as well as opposed to thetown meeting or church. That's a that's

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a very good, very good.So he stays behind. I did like
the little detail here of him puttingthe chair under the doors and make sure
no one gets inclus kind of likeyou know when you're young and you know
you're going to be just say,for example, a young guy is going
to go fiddle with himself. It'slike, I've got to cover all grounds.
Make sure the front doors locked,all the bedroom doors are closed,
just that all the windows are shut. Every window was closed, all the

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lights are down like blinds. It'slike, get smart. Everyone's got to
have multiple layers of security. Somethingunder the door. Put the snack in
front of the doors and no soundcan get from out and underneath the doorlock,
you're just any access. And thenhe has this conversation with the head
and starts dancing with it. Littlelady birds, she's just sitting there utterly
confused that what she's looking at.Do you have it sometimes look at your

(01:02:42):
I don't you have a dog?You got a cat? But sometimes Jet
looks at me or whether I'm exercisingor on doing something, and just a
sort of looking at me, andI'm thinking, I wonder what he's thinking
right now. Is he thinking,what the fuck is this guy doing?
Or is he just like I loveyou too much? I just dogs.
Whatever you want to do is funeby me. Yeah, just wander of
Jets just sort of judging me withhis little eyes, just look at me,
going, what are you doing?I feel that way with cats more

(01:03:06):
than dogs. Cats are far morethey see they seem like they'd be far
more judgmental than a dog. Don'tyou reckon you asshole. They hate us.
We are their servants. That's whyI have cats anymore. Man,
you feed him when they want tobe fed. Clean up this ship.
I know it's a dog, butdogs, okay, I feel like a
dog. You could starve it.I would never do this, obviously,
but you could not feed a doctortwo or three days and they will still

(01:03:27):
the right ways, eye going.I'd really like some food soon, buddy,
I love you. Can you pleasesee me soon? You don't want
it to do today? Okay,I'll still be your friend. I'm going
to about that part and put iton TikTok just so you can starve it.
Where cats can you know you don'tfeed them for a day. They're
like, well, I might justgo visit your neighbor for the next three
months. You know, I'm gonnarun away from home. How often do

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you hear stories of cats is goingto live with the neighbors for a few
because they're getting fed beat Yeah,yeah, I mean the Lovely Louise's cat,
Lottie is quite the social but flyof the of the neighborhood, always
dropping into other people's house, tothe point where she actually got a letter
saying, please keep your cat inat night because of this coming to our

(01:04:24):
sweetheart. They we've got the guysoutside and they're annoyed at Hank because you're
fifteen minutes late, because you knowvarious things, and I'm thinking fifteen minutes,
guys, it's not that long,I guess in their in their world,
it really is. M Did younotice it? There was a scene
here. I don't ever scene,just one shot where Dale's hair was great.
They must have forgot to color itin. Oh my gosh, yeah,

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just he had gray hair under thathat of his and he Hank says
that the hair has been keeping himup all night because I was getting too
long. He does, but hedoesn't want Land to cut it. Bill
then suggests that she can cut thehair of the people that at all the
new recruits. Bill. I thoughtBill was a bit of a champ this
episode, to be honest. Itwas a very mensch move on Bill's part.
And Bill understands here. He's like, can I understand what she's going

(01:05:06):
through? Bob? And then nobodycares Bill, and I was like,
I'm not happy with that, BillBills. Bill's being a good dude here.
He'd be a bit nice to luandand since she's out at the base
Primo haircut, you know, he'sdoing really well. The best part about
that I liked was that these guysdidn't even need the hair cut. They're
gonna get the haircut off anyway,so it's fine to test on them because

(01:05:29):
their hair's gonna cut off anyway.So he just he's just thought about it,
and Luange's to test all her haircutsand stuff. I thought it was
very It was a really good solution. It really was, Yeah, it
worked out perfectly for everybody. ThenBobby comes in his or dressed up.
Now he's old, fancy, he'sfeeling good about himsel because he's got himself
a new girlfriend, even though she'sa plastic mannequin and head. He's dressed
like the weather man. He's gonnawant to try and lose some weight before
this big party. You want somefruit and skim milk. And Hank's now

(01:05:50):
proud, and you're proud. He'schanged his mind. He's going to go
to the party. You know,he's got a man for a boy now.
And then we get a really coolmontage with the wouldn't it be nice?
And just Bobby he's the girl atthe school, so drops his book,
picks it up or confident puts itback in his block and she's like,
oh man, what a man.Yeah, I've never been able to
pull that off, but it's oneof the coolest things when you can sort

(01:06:12):
of flip something up with your footand catch it. Yes, it is
very cool them. What's also awesomeis, and I've never been able to
pull this one off, but whenyou nearly fall over but then you still
keep your feet, is there away of doing that and not looking like
a dickhead, because I've seen somepeople do it, and I'm like,
you made that seem so seamless.Well, don't some people look I do

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it, though, I just seemlike an absolute dickhead. You have to
acknowledge how ridiculous you were going tolook, and you know, sort of
dull that back by about seventy Icould have looked a lot dumber there.
It's like, yeah, you've gotto own it. You're not only like

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that's could have been terrible, butit was only totally darrible. But the
very on the montage, you've gotthe girl at the school, Bobby pushing
the mannequin head on the swing andlooking up at the clouds. I don't
think I've ever done that with itwith like a date, like just gazing
up at the clouds and I'm layingon the grass. And I've never even
been like a lookout guy, orwe just drive it to look out and
just hang out. I've never beenthat kind of Like that kind of date

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just seems kind of boring to me. It's like you're really sort of getting
it on in the car because bydoing that, you're basically saying I'm not
really interested in doing anything fun withyou. I just want to come here
and have sex, and if you'redown with that, that's fine, But
like, don't expect me to actuallymake an effort with this date. It's
just the effort I'm putting into thisdate is I'm bringing you here and now
we're going to have sex and I'mgoing to take you home. Dando clears.

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Sex not fun. That's not whatI was getting out. It's just
like, you know, I knowwhat you're making. Are we going on
a date? It's like cool,Okay, you've brought me to a lookout.
Now what are we doing? Don'thave a good time? What do
you want to have sex? Yeah? And that sums up my sex life.
Look, I've done my share oflike sky gazing or anything like that.

(01:08:04):
But yeah, lovely the Wason I'vegone to down to Eastern Beach and
ok and rolled out the you know, the blanket and just you know,
snuck a camera, cider reach andjust just enjoyed the enjoying the sunshine and
each other's company. And I thoughtit with the kids sometimes sometimes that's quite
nice. I thought it with thekids before just gazing up at the clouds

(01:08:25):
and seeing what their imaginations can runwild with. But get back to Bobby
here, and he's now able totalk to all the girls. I was
a particular fan of Charis. Youstone cold Fox was a Shannis or Sharis.
I think it was Shannis, right, Chanise Schanis was one of who
it was. She's a stone coldFox. What up? And Joseph can't

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Believe's like, wow, you knowyou're so confident, and then he says,
I hope your lips don't fall offdue to all the or the kissing
after the spin the bottle and nowBobby once again, oh my god,
my god, to my guard startspanicking. Then Bobby arrived with the head,
but he's wearing a gown, andI was like, it's getting pretty
creepy. Now this is the bombwhere he brings the flowers and all that.

(01:09:08):
Yeah, and he's always got theketchup because he's basically trying to seduce
this plastic head. I know he'spracticing, but seducing a plastic head to
do spin the bottle with the ketchup. But Peggy, which he doesn't realize,
has a rived home with the groceries. Bobby relax, baby, it's

(01:09:30):
just you and me whereby Yeah,that face of just the fear. Thankfully
my mum and never walked in onme doing anything. But actually true story

(01:09:53):
here. I mean, nothing goesuntold here, but I feel like my
mum wasn't my dad one of themalmost walked in on Nicola and I are
getting down with it once because we'reliving at my parents place and we didn't
think they're going to be home,and it was like we heard the door
handle, we sort of turn andit's sort of sad to open, and
it's sort of closed back really quickly. Again, I'm like, they definitely

(01:10:13):
know we're doing something. I don'tknow they saw something. Have you ever
had a moment like that, notwhere there's another person involved? No,
didn't Bobby walking on you doing somethingonce? I believe so, yes,
not Bobby Hill. Yeah, butparents just they've got an I mean,

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they know that you've been, youknow, taking care of yourself. Yeah,
I mean you like to think thatyou're you know, you've talked about
before, you've got your doors closedand your blinds down and all that kind
of stuff. But I don't knowteenage boys in particular, I mean particularly
you know, once the self careportion of the afternoon or evening or whatever
it's dating care usually not too Youcan sometimes be a bit sloppy with the

(01:11:02):
cleanup or whatever. Over one timeit was like water bills too high.
Whatever you're doing in the shower,do it in your bedroom. And you
know that during your teenage years,you're probably not really cleaning your own bedling
and all That's like you're probably goingafter the lawn, droom and all that.
So yeah, your mum's probably liftingup your sheets, going, okay,

(01:11:27):
reach to that time. Okay,we'll reached that stage of the proceedings,
Hank, you just reported, Margaret, Mary, Yeah, exactly.
Hate just refuses to accept that Bobbywas kissing that because he's in love with
it, you know. And hesays, I know it's not your fault,
Peggy, I know it's not myfault. And I'm like, oh
shit, I've been there before.It's not your fault. I never said

(01:11:50):
it was my fault. Oh shit, I've implied. I've implied. Never
imply, never imply in a relationship, never implies the other person's fault.
But I got a huge out ofthis though. Don't point your finger at
me woman. It took me backto Billy Madison, Felly Madison. Again.
Don't tell me my business devil woman, As I said Nicola all the

(01:12:11):
time. Obviously she knows the gag. It's not me being serious, but
don't tell me my business. Devilwoman gets used a lot in this house.
Then he curses the Muppets, andyeah, not a fan of that
at all, but it was true. What the hell did they think was
going to happen? It's like itwas such a hag Hill observation of the
Muppets, wasn't it. It reallywas spot on frog and a pig.

(01:12:31):
You think of the Muppets and itis absolute insanity. But for some reason,
I've just I was so just mesmerizedby the idea of the Muppets,
and when it came to things likeStar Wars, like Yoda was always my
favorite. The idea of just theseno fucking how did this world characters interacting
with like us in the real world. There was just something that just captured

(01:12:51):
my imagination with them in them,with the Muppets in particular. But I
did like Sesame Street, but theMuppets, Yeah, Gonzo Gonzo was my
man like growing up. I'm justrelated so much to Gonzo. He was
just like that loner that he justhe made you just believe he could do
anything. He's fucking like, youknow, shoo flying out of a cannon
and stuff. It's like he wasnever afraid to be weird. And that's
what related so much with gonz Iwas like, don't be afraid to be

(01:13:15):
whatever you feel like you are.You know, it's a good life lesson.
That's but that's what the Muppets arethere for, exactly right. Yeah,
and how are you when you firstrealized why they will called muppets?
Why are they called muppets? Younever see? This blew my mind as
well, because they look look likemonsters and their puppets that's where the term
muppets came from, their monsters puppets. Yeah, the first the first muppets
were like, look like monsters.It was like monsters and puppets together made

(01:13:38):
muppets. Jim Henson, what brilliant? Yeah anyway, but ye, Hank,
he's just refusing to accept and havinga big argument here with them with
Peggy and cursing the Muppets and everythingelse. Blaming everybody else just does not
does not want to admit that hisson's a little bit, a little bit
odd. Just Peggy suggests they movedto Berlin, you know, because they're
tolerance and they accept all kinds offreaks. And I mean, if I've

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walked in on my kid doing this, you want to be asking some questions.
But I think they're going a littlebit over the top. But I
guess when you take into account asHank and Peggy Hill, it kind of
makes sense. I think, soyeah, yeah, I don't want to
be too close minded, but youknow, you, I think if you
have a kid, which I donot, but you sort of want them
to be generally on the straight andnarrow, the odds sort of like twist

(01:14:25):
and turn in their road. Butit's like, you're normal, You're normal
kid. You're not gonna have bea serial gill around me. And if
you did bust them kissing ahead,I think the first thing you're going to
go is, oh, this kidsare freak as opposed to there's probably a
really sensible logical explanation for this,this thing that seems strange. But you
know, your first instinct is like, oh, no, I've raised a

(01:14:46):
weirdo. He's going to go setthat kid straight, and this is awesome
wanting him coming or coming down thehall. That's us knocking. Eventually they
come in. That's great. Ireally appreciate. I just thought that was
really clever riding and just so onethe money. It's like it really was

(01:15:06):
we we're giving you fair warning becausewe respect you, I guess, but
also we don't want to be surprisedby anything. Get all your weird shit
out of the way. And whenthey opened the door, Peggy's not even
facing him. I'm like, thatis so smart on she's looking the other
way. But it's also she's lookingaway because she doesn't want to see what's
in there. She's looking away becauseshe's just disappointed. I think she doesn't

(01:15:29):
want to see anymore. I meanthat would sort of that would do a
bit of a number on you.They go for a car ride and you
know you can't marry a Manaquin,I don't want to marry it, he
says. He's just he's just practicingand kissing a plastic head and worried about
looking like an idiot. I mean, it's good logic fromm from Hank,
Like you're worried about looking like anidiot. I but things is the thing

(01:15:50):
I can see from both perspectives.I can see from Hank's perspective saying,
you look like a dickhead, it'swhy would you practice on a on a
mannequin head? But I can alsounderstand from Bobby's thirteen year old he is
any just other girls. And youknow, he's had Connie there for for
a little while now, and hehasn't shown any feelings towards it. He
han't showed any feelings towards girls atall. It's all new to him.
So I can see the innocence injust practicing on the mannequin head, and

(01:16:12):
I can sort of also see theinnocence in the confusion of him taking a
little bit step too far once he'snow had that conversation though, he needs
to just turn it down a littlebit. But Hank then hides the head
in the cupboard as a way tosort of prevent Hank, I prevent Bobby
from kissing it any further. ButBobby sneaks up in the middle of the
night, spills the cutlery, andHank ears and I was like, oh
no, I thought Hank was goingto think it was a burglar. I

(01:16:33):
thought he was gonna come and tryand melt him, But no, he
doesn't get pretty angry. Yes,he ties it's time for some tough love,
and he saws the mannequin head inhalf, which was a complete overreaction.
It wasn't a bit by the wayprior to this. I just love
them. You're just using it asa crutch, No, but I just

(01:16:54):
know it's just something I need toget me through the dates. That's the
definition of a grap It's the otherquestion about this story, as well as
that Luanne was so protective of thishead when it first came into the house.
Now it feels like Bobby's just carryingit around everywhere is landa questioning where
her head is? That's true,Yeah, I mean maybe the teacher's got

(01:17:14):
a point. She's a little scatterbrained. But Luan freaks out and hangs
a little bit embarrassed he did it. But then we cut the Hank now
in class and she gets a failbecause she she shaved against the grain.
She's given him the worst side burnsthat this teacher's ever seen. Or what
is something on those lines and aswhat Hank calls her, what a bitch.
And I was like, yeah,what a bad straight And Hank says

(01:17:36):
to Lane's Loine's really sad that shefailed, and he says, don't worry.
The best hair could I've ever had. And you know he's just humoring
her. But still no, butit's great because I mean, yeah,
Luane realizes, you know, she'snot well. I mean, she hasn't
gone by the rule book, butshe's done something even better. She's recky,
knows that each head is individual.It's like, well I noticed this,

(01:17:58):
so I got to do it thisway and blah blah blah blahla And
I mean, no, no,it's it's a nice little character baby wondering
les. No, No, she'sactually thoughtful and precise and get considerate,
good honor. That's the one thingyou don't have to be book smart to
be smart. Sometimes street streets smartesare far more important. I wish I
had him. I don't have anystreets, Bounce, I don't have any

(01:18:20):
either, Miss Platter. I I'msorry I've been mean and unfair. I
guess I just got so far fromthe hair and so into the whole power
trip of running the academy. Iforgot the most important principle of the beautician's
art, repeat business and referrals.You pleased your customer, you pass,

(01:19:01):
And I thought this is just lovely, isn't it. It's nicely Luanne get
the credit she deserves, so justfor being Louanne. Yeah, chalk up
a w Yeah, get the win. Peggy then walks in. I'm Bobby
sizing up Ladybird and I was like, yeah, this is getting super creepy,
like, was he going to kissLadybird? It's kind of odd,
It's really I don't know. Shesays he she doesn't believe that the whole
practice anger, and I was like, really, like that to me seemed

(01:19:24):
like a kind of logical explanation asto why he was kissing the head.
You know, he's just using itfor practice. But she blames herself and
she says, my mother, youtoo much and time to go off,
go be a man, and she'sobviously won't let go of his hand.
And I can get that too.I'm gonna be like that when Elliott and
Holly get older and be like,oh no, being my kids forever.
Bobby then he arrives at the party, sees a girl walking in, gets

(01:19:45):
nervous, and starts bailing, andthis is where he runs into Connie and
they practice kissing on each other,and I was like, all right,
this is going to be the beginning. I see. I know that they
become a couple. I'm not surewhether it is forever. I know they
become boyfriend girl at some point.But I think even just watching, just
not knowing that, you can assumethat there this is going to end end
up with them together, right,because it's just they're so they just work

(01:20:08):
so well together they do. Indeed, it was a very sweet scene.
Yeah, the accident head button,they get their eyes open. I did
love to do I have a hickeylike it's they treat it like, so
buy the book. There's no there'sno emotional connection between the two, maybe
not for for Connie anyway, butfor Bobby just kind of like whatever.
Then he goes to the party andeveryone's worried. This party isn't going down

(01:20:28):
to plan, And that sums upthat part of your life where the idea
of a party you're like yeah,yeah, and then you get there and
you're like, I'm scared. Whatdo I do? Everyone's incredibly nervous.
Boys and the girls as w Daleand Nancy burst in the bottle and that
Bobby spun ends up on Nancy andhe pounces up, pounces on her,
and that is the end of theepisode. And yeah, as well.

(01:20:49):
I asked at the start, wasthis meant to be a cliffhanger, But
no, I think you're just it'sjust meant to be like a He's like
a Photo thirteenth slasher kind of,that's the kind of vibet. It was
like a slash of where sort ofjust like freeze frames on then of attacking
the attacking the victim. But overalla good episode, just not a not
a very season finale, yes kindof episode, or I think I don't
think. For me, I seea good season finale, and I'm not

(01:21:11):
saying I'm right, but I likea good Simpson season for no, that
incorporates a lot of like Springfield.I don't think there was enough sort of
I don't know of Hank's friends sortof brought into the into the equation.
It was just sort of very butI guess that's as someone's up. King
of the Hill though, was well, very sort of straight laced and about
the family, not too over thetop. I think it shouldn't really compare
King of the Hill to The Simpsons, because they're two entirely different comedies,

(01:21:33):
aren't they They are. Indeed,I think if you want to have what
you're considering a more traditional season finale, King of the End Hill would probably
be more like I was going tosay the same thing. Last weeks felt
marker finale because you had the townspeopleor given the lawn at the end,
and it felt a community sort ofending. Didn't as opposed to this one.
This one was a nice ending,but last week sort of felt more

(01:21:55):
like the town we're getting together tohelp me. Yes, yeah, bills,
bills, bills? Why do wekeep getting bills? Mail? All
right, mister Davis, did youknow that we have some mail bag questions
to wrap up this season of theHill? We do, Yes, It's
very exciting times here, all right. I'll just dig deep into this mail
bag and pull something out, allright. First one, here we have

(01:22:19):
from Harrison, and Harrison says here, hey dand Owen, guy like yourselves.
I would see King of the Hillback in the day and wouldn't think
much of it, but decided tostart watching it as my easy watch show
after you both decided to start thepodcast on it. I like yourselves wish
I started watching it as a lotsooner as I've been binging it since and
really enjoyed hearing you both reviewing itand listening to a more in depth analysis

(01:22:41):
of each episode. So I justwanted to say cheers to you both for
the hard work you guys are puttingin with reviewing the show, as well
as everything else you are doing withfour Finger Discount. My question is though,
well, first of all, thankyou, Harrison. Thank you is
a question there as well. Ithought this is going to be just a
whole bunch of compliments, which that'sall very nice too, Thank you,
Harrison. Way. Guys the keyto our heart compliments send them in King

(01:23:02):
of the hillmail bag at gmail dotcom. We'd love to hear more compliments.
But Harrison says here, my questionis though, if it's one of
these ones, that's not one ofthese ones. I thought it was gonna
be one of those if this wasan Australian show, who would you cass?
Which are lucky possible to do onthe spot, But it says if
this show had never existed but waswritten today with the same premise, but
based in Australia instead of in TexasUS. Do you think it could work.

(01:23:24):
I once heard somebody describe Australia asa British Texas, and having moved
here from England and seen the somewhatsimilarities, especially living up here in cans
it is almost uncanny how similar itfeels when you're watching the show. Let
me know what your thoughts are.Choose again, Harrison, there are certainly
similarities there, but there's still alot of differences as well. I think
I think so. I mean thisit's in Texas certainly, but it's a

(01:23:45):
very it's also a very American kindof show. Sorry, I know that
sounds like a not a contradiction interms, more like a but I think
in Australia two were very more opento new ideas. We're not sort of
buy the book, and that's becauseHank Hill is the main central character of
the show. So the sort ofbecause the central character feels that way,

(01:24:05):
sort of you feel like the wholeshow sort of takes that sort of mentality.
I know there's the show that's sortof a more easygoing and whatnot,
but I feel like you watched thisshow and as I said, there are
similarities, but there's also the verynarrow mindedness that I feel like in Australia
we aren't as narrow minded. Inmany ways, some ways we are and
in many other ways we're not.That's a really good way of putting it.

(01:24:26):
Yeah, I mean we're very multiculturalwhere you can't see, Like,
for example, when Carn moved innext door, it was just like,
oh my god, in Asian,you know we're here. We may have
been that way thirty forty years ago, but now we're just it doesn't it
doesn't matter. We're so multicultural inAustralian now you even look twice and anybody
in your more, which is whyI say our fucking national anthem needs to
be we are Australian, but Iam Australian. By I am, we

(01:24:49):
are Australians. We are, Iam you are, we are Australian.
We are as shown by The Seekers, one of my favorite songs. Even
you listen to the words of thatand it's just like that is the song
that sums up what it is,what it is to be in Australian.
We are all one, like fuckoff the that's Australia fan, let's get
this one. I am totally forit. I would totally and I think
it would work as a national anthemas well. Yeah, but I think

(01:25:10):
as Australia. You watch King ofthe Hill here and maybe it gets better.
But I feel like the multicultural aspectof Australia, whilst we still racism
exists everywhere, I think we're moreopen minded when it comes to that than
they what it appears to be inTexas when you watch King of the Hill.
I agree with you one though.It makes a bunch of sense to
me. And we also don't giveout guns as birthday presents loaders, but

(01:25:32):
thank you for sending that in Harrisonto appreciate it. This one here's from
Nora, and I do a quickskim through this one. It seems like
Nora's having a bit of a She'sa bit angry with the idea of the
reboot for the King of the Hilland she's going to explain why. So
here it is from Nora. Shesays, I'm a huge King of the
Hill fan as this series has beenmy livelihood as a child through to adulthood
and it's great looking forward to yourreviews. I just wanted to share my

(01:25:55):
thoughts on the potential reboot. Whatwere the writers strike going on? It
has me in glee because I nowhope that that means the King of the
Hill reboot reboot won't actually come tofruition. I don't trust and haven't trusted
the state of Western entertainment for years, and even before the ultra sensitive era
oh okay came about the creative sphereof entertainment, and they just can't let
things end and have to drag themout and reach a state of decay like

(01:26:16):
shows such as The Simpsons have.I don't agree with that The Simpsons haven't
hid stated decay on the upward trajectorynow the Simpsons, but it says it
was already happening to King of theHill in the later seasons when everybody was
being flannderized and losing that dry sortor touched the show trademark for itself.
If it came back, then there'sthat inherit risk again coupled with the danger

(01:26:36):
of being written in a way thatonly appeals to people like twig Boy.
That cancelor from Tears of the Counselfrom Tears of an Inflatable Clown must be
an episode coming up and the radicalactivist girl Bobby radical activist girl that Bobby
tried to date. We already sawhow unfunny a Left Lenning Mike Judge show
can be with the good family,and to do the same, if not
worse, to a show like Kingof the Hill, which ended on a

(01:26:58):
good note as a long running showin the twenty first century. I can
only hope that it gets laid torest the idea of it being rebooted.
I think it's a bad idea,so clearly Nora not a fan of the
reboot or any form of entertainment newstuff. I understand completely. I mean,
there are times when it feels like, oh, you're just cashing in
on existing ip yet but you're notreally bringing anything new to the table,

(01:27:19):
or you're not um, you're notexploring new storylines or looking at the current
world through this particular lens. It'sjust like, No, people like King
of the Hill and they'll tune infor that. Yeah, So it can
feel a bit, it can feela bit like a cash and I understand
completely. Um, that's it.I mean I'd be interested in seeing I

(01:27:43):
am interested to see what King ofhow King of the Hill perceives the world.
Now, that's what I'm most mostexcited for seeing Hank Hill in,
as Norah put it, the thewoke world as I don't use that term,
but people use a term of wokesociety. I'm excited to hear we'll
see how Hank deals with twenty twentythree. I think that's that's an exciting
proposition for me anyway. But thankyou for writing in, Nora. Thank

(01:28:03):
you, Nora. This when herecomes from Matt Weaver. This last one
here. Hey guys, I'm MattWeaver. I love your new podcast.
Let's listen to every episode so far. Well, thank you, Matt.
I appreciate that, he says.I think it's awesome that you guys are
not only Australian but also viewing thisseries with fresh eyes. I'm American and
I know King of the Hill.I've been watching it since Square Peg aired
for the first time, since thesecond episode. The second episode, I

(01:28:27):
think it's a second or third episode, He says. I'd love to contribute
to your show if you ever wantto have a guest on. Well,
yeah, we did say that.We did take that out earlier in the
season. The other thing is,guys, will break down that fourth wall
here, guys going away on holiday. Shortly, I'm going away on holiday
as well. Just so happening tobe that they just both comincided back to
back. So we've been getting tonsof episodes in the can so that when

(01:28:48):
we're away we don't have to bejust still trying to find a way to
do podcasts. It also means thatwe can just get them done early and
just drip feed them out as we'reon a holiday. So you guys still
getting content in your ears as you'veexpect it, and we aren't having an
actual holiday from the podcast. Soonce we start getting back from our holidays
and back into our routine, thenwe can start getting more potential guests on

(01:29:08):
the show. But yeah, wedo appreciate you Matt for writing in and
thank you for listening to the show. Thank you, Matt much appreciate it.
All Right, Well, that wrapsup season one of Speaking of the
Hill. Like I said, guys, it is very important that if you're
listening to this show, we wantto hear from all of you. So
right in King of the hillmail bagat gmail dot com, let us know
where they enjoy the show. Letus know how we can improve the show.

(01:29:30):
If we can, I don't thinkwe can. Let us know how
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(01:29:55):
get on there, how the morechance people are going to be have this
put in front of their eyeballs andthey can start listening to the show as
well. But thank you all againfor all of your support throughout this first
season. I was very excited toget into this show. I'm glad we
do it because I'm really enjoying Kingof the Hill so far. I'm going
to be honest. It surprised mehow much I'm enjoying King of the Hill.
I always saw it as a boringshow when I was a kid,
whenever I saw a little clip ofor whatever, But this has just been

(01:30:16):
so relatable, don't you reckon?I feel like I've just related to this
show far more than anything we've done, Like we're doing season seventeen of The
Simpsons so far. I can relateto the earlier setons of The Simpsons,
of course, but I've just foundthis show. So I think just relatable
is the most important word there.Just everything Hank does, I'm just like,
this is just me at times.Oh yeah, yeah, I mean

(01:30:36):
I think we are looking at thisat the right times in our lives or
I think, yeah, definitely.I use the term miles on the meter
a fair bit, maybe more thanI should, but I think it's when
you get a few miles on themeter certain things, certain works of arts,
and it's been attainment, you relatemore to them, and you understand
them more, you see more inthem, and you get more out of

(01:30:57):
them. And I think that's certainlythe case with The King of the Hill
with your peals Dan, Go andGo. I think it may have been
earlier in this show or maybe oneof the other shows we'll be doing.
We're doing so many podcasts the lastfew days, but we mentioned how you
meeting your life planner at the righttime in your life. It's almost like
we've discovered King of the Hill.We're watching King of the Hill at the
right time in our life. Youknow, we've able to appreciate it from
we've been through childhood, so wecan appreciate the Bobby stories and now we're

(01:31:18):
old enough to appreciate the Hank Hillstoryline. So at all it's all way
down well, hasn't it very much? The case? Very much? Indeed?
All right, guys, well,thank you once again, We honestly
do it, truly appreciate your supportand if you are enjoying Speaking of the
Hill, we would love if youcould if you can afford to do so,
of course, our support us onPatreon as well. You can do
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So if you want to hear theshow weeks earlier for weeks early about a
week plus earlier each time, youcan follow us on Patreon. Plus.
We also do the exclusive Tales ofFuturama podcast on there as well, so
if you like Futurama, you'll certainlyenjoy that. We're just about to come
to the end of season two.May have already done it, depending on
when this episode actually drops onto thefeed. The season two is done with

(01:32:01):
with Future Umma, which is veryexciting. I love Future Rummas. I'm
sure you'll love that show listening tous as well, But we also do
if you haven't already checked them out, going down to South Park. We
mentioned numerous times on this podcast.We also do four figure discount Simpsons show
and is there anything else that Ido with you that this is the Big
four? Is that the Big fourthat that we do well? Sigin felt
as well, but talking Seinfels ona bit of high edis at the moment.

(01:32:21):
We will be coming back to thatonce we get back from our holiday.
It was just too much all atonce, but we've reviewed the first
I want to say three yeah,three seasons of Seinfeld's are Talking Signfel is
available in your feeds now and thefirst episode of season four is available on
our Patreon that we'll grow up inthe free feed once we relaunched the show.
We also do a friends podcast withmy wife Nicola, the one about
friends, and if you're a fanof wrestling, you can check out Good

(01:32:43):
Day e W which is available aswell. Plus if you're a Disney fan,
and let's be honest, most ofus are. You can check out
tuned In with Jim Cummings, whichis co hosted by Yours Truly and one
Guy Davis, where the man himself, Jim Cummings, who was the voice
of Winning the Poop Tigger Dark Darkbased if you lived in the nineties,
voicey Childhood. We do a showwith him now and that is available on

(01:33:04):
our feed as well. So tunedIn with Jim Coming subscribe to that show,
and that one also has its ownseparate Patreon. We can get audio
commentaries of Jim doing watching rewatching oldDisney cartoons, but as the character.
So we did a Dark Green Duckepisode but he was Jim and Duck Wing
Duck and that was a lot offun as well. But we've got some
guests coming on there. Our firstguest, the one and only Billy West

(01:33:24):
from Futurama, and plenty of bigname guests coming on the Tuned In with
Jim Comings podcast, So exciting times. You're at four finger discount. We'd
love your support. Thank you forlistening to the show, mister Davis.
Any final words for those incredible listenersout there this podcast is right. I'll
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