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(birds singing)

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- Mm.
- (exhales)

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Yes, another glorious Sunday.

4
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Oh. Scone for my muffin?

5
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Nyum, nyum, nyum, nyum, nyum.

6
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And for you,
five breakfast burritos.

7
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Ah, the Voltron.

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Our lives are
in perfect balance.

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(knocking)

10
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Oh, it is just last‐second
birthday gift shoppers.

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Ignore them.

12
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I know you're in there,
you lazy dork.

13
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I can smell the burritos!
(sniffing)

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Four. No! Five!

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They can't be closed.
We're booked solid

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with birthday parties today,
and we have no presents.

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Don't worry, I got this.

18
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<i>Auto Trader</i> for the girls.

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<i>Adult Escort Express</i>
for the boys.

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Kids are adults, right?

21
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Fine, fine, whatever.
Let's just go.

22
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Let us wander as aimlessly
as the plots

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of the four
upcoming <i>Avatar</i> sequels...

24
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I can only assume.

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I love your contempt
for things that don't matter.

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(moaning)

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♪ ♪

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(gasps)

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Do you hear that?

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Ah, silence.

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(children laughing, shouting)

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(Homer panting)

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HOMER:
Come on, let's go.

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Time to go
to Milhouse's puppy party.

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If we go late,
you'll get a crappy dog.

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That's it, I'm coming in.

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Ow! No! Ow! No!
That's where I had my surgery!

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(upbeat jazz playing)

39
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- (toddlers bawling)
- (others shouting)

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Mm! Miyazaki marathon with
chilled lobster spring rolls.

41
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Mm, mm.

42
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Oh, crap!

43
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I just realized I
haven't eaten anything all day.

44
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They're out of pizza,
but I built you a slice

45
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out of trash scraps.

46
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Well, hide me behind your coat
while I eat it.

47
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(chomping, grunting)

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I need to be around grown‐ups.

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BOY:
Excuse me.

50
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You just passed my street.

51
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Who the hell are you?

52
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Leland Huebner III.

53
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Go back and get Bart.

54
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Hold on,
this one seems all right.

55
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A little stuck up,
but all right.

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Thanks so much for the
last‐minute dinner invitation.

57
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There never was any dinner.
You fell for a scam.

58
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You're babysitting.
No money.

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MARGE (gasps):
Adults!

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- Pull over!
- (tires screech)

61
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Wow, Moe, you really gussy up
the place for trivia night.

62
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Hey, where are the regulars?

63
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Ah, keg storage.

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- Hey! We're thirsty!
- (grunts)

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BARNEY:
Thank you.

66
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I've always wanted to do
a trivia.

67
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Who knows what I might know?

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Please, join our team.

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(quietly):
But they're noobs.

70
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Even the humble noob has a place
in the seasons of trivia.

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Ooh. Once again
I am in awe of your decency.

72
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All right, all right, weirdos.

73
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I want to welcome you dorks
to trivia night.

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Now, shut your nerd faces
for the first question.

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"List the four players
with the most fighting penalties

76
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in NHL history."

77
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Oh, sports.

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The very lowest genus
of trivium.

79
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Let's see. Tie Domi,
Dave "Tiger" Williams,

80
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Dave "The Hammer" Schultz,
and, of course,

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Stu "The Grim Reaper"
Grimson. Duh.

82
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All right, next category:
20th Century Vacuum Cleaners.

83
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Just give me the pencil.

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"The mascot
for this Boston‐based..."

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Cuppy, the Dunkin' Donuts
coffee cup.

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"This English
prog rock supergroup

87
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scored a hit
with 1970's "Lucky Man."

88
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Emerson!

89
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Lake!

90
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And!

91
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Palmer!

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(whooping, laughing)

93
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Okay, <i>okay.</i>

94
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And the winning team is...

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"Han Shot First."
What does that mean?

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- Is that dirty?
- It's from <i>Star Wars.</i>

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I never heard of it.
I‐Is it dirty?

98
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Who cares, who cares.
Here's your trophy.

99
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(cheering)

100
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To fat guys with hot wives.

101
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This one's for you, Kevin James.

102
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Take a poncho.

103
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I always carry extras in case
Homer eats anything slurpable.

104
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That's so clever.

105
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What other big‐and‐tall
"wife hacks" do you have?

106
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Oh, I've got all kinds of tricks
for fat‐proofing your house.

107
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Come over sometime
and I'll show you.

108
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My <i>chashu!</i>

109
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(chomping, sighing)

110
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See? Here I've welded
high‐tensile steel

111
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under the cushions
to reduce sofa‐sag.

112
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I've lost a lot of furniture
to chubby hubby couch droop.

113
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(Maggie fussing over monitor)

114
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Oh, Maggie's up.

115
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Can you go sit with her
while I warm a bottle?

116
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Oh, but I don't know much
about babies.

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Except how to dress like one.

118
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(fussing continues)

119
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All is well.

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Silence.

121
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You are loved!

122
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(bawling)

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(laughing)

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(singing Japanese lullaby)

125
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Look how much she likes you.

126
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You're a natural.

127
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I just remembered something
I must tell my husband.

128
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Impregnate me at once!

129
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But you never wanted children.

130
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You always said our marriage
is perfect as it is.

131
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I mean, can you imagine a child
playing in this room?

132
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Uh, it's full of toys.

133
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Yes, well, but yeah,
but it's selfish

134
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to bring a new life into a world
with diminishing resources.

135
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The planet is running out
of watchable IP!

136
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They say by 2028
all we will have left

137
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is the General Mills
Cinematic Universe

138
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starring Hamburger Helper.

139
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If I can't convince you,

140
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maybe she can.

141
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(gasps)
Greta, the sexy Gremlin

142
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from the underappreciated‐
but‐still‐terrible <i>Gremlins 2.</i>

143
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(gasps weakly)

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I know this is
your ultimate fantasy.

145
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It's time to feed your desires

146
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after midnight.

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♪ ♪

148
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I must resist.

149
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My will is stronger
than The Great Resisto,

150
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a hero I am inventing
as I reference him.

151
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Uh, my darling, my darling,
I am sorry.

152
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But I have spent every working
hour of my life around children,

153
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and one thing
I know for certain:

154
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I don't want any.

155
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- (camera clicks)
- And... banked.

156
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I want a baby.

157
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I don't want a baby!
(sobbing)

158
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Kumiko's baby fever is
out of control.

159
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Look at all these comments
she left.

160
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It goes really quick
from smiley face

161
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to "Without a baby,
all is horror."

162
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- (groans)
- Well, I think Comic Book Guy

163
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should have kids.

164
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Oh, that's so sweet.

165
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'Cause screw that jerk!

166
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Thinks his childless life
is so great just because it is.

167
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Wakes up whenever he wants.

168
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Doesn't have to lug car seats
onto the plane.

169
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He can store poison in the
fridge so it's nice and cold.

170
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And don't get me started
on their sex life.

171
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They can do it anywhere:

172
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kitchen floor, bathroom floor,
on the microwave.

173
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Set that baby on "popcorn."
Pop! Pop! Pop!

174
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So... we'll help them?

175
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Anything
to destroy their paradise.

176
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Remember, it's up to you two

177
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to make children seem
like a blessing.

178
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Got it. And when she pops out
that kid, we each get a 20.

179
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- Or equivalent gift card.
- BART: Whoa! That's the stuff.

180
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Oh, look,
it's our trivia buddies!

181
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You see movies
at the same cemetery we do?

182
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What a pleasant surprise.
(giggles)

183
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Speaking of children,

184
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these two were completely
planned and wanted.

185
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Shrug, he shrugged.

186
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Uh, why don't we get
some more snacks?

187
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Hello, little azuki bean.

188
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(Maggie giggles)

189
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Yo, Kingpin!

190
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How's the ponytail hanging?

191
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Don't patronize me,
Bart and She‐Bart.

192
00:09:03,956 --> 00:09:06,325
I need silence
to watch the iconic '80s

193
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time travel epic,
<i>Forward to the Past.</i>

194
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Never heard of it.
Is it any good?

195
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Okay, it's a consensus
top ten family action comedy

196
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that has been delighting
bedwetting piglets

197
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like yourself for eons!

198
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Feh! Wah! Hooof!
And again, feh!

199
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- Oh.
- Huh.

200
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It's so sweet you're helping
the Book Guys become a family.

201
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I mean, without kids, come on,

202
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they're just dating
with rings on.

203
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(Homer chuckles)

204
00:09:31,784 --> 00:09:35,388
Oh, Marge, I love your takes.

205
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Ooh, model crypt.

206
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Fancy! Want to see
how the other half dies?

207
00:09:40,493 --> 00:09:42,428
(gasps)
Oh!

208
00:09:42,495 --> 00:09:44,630
<i>We can return to our time</i>

209
00:09:44,697 --> 00:09:46,766
if we can just get
this paddle steamer

210
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up to 99 miles an hour.

211
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Is that relative
to the shore or the water?

212
00:09:51,437 --> 00:09:54,140
Great Steve, Mickey!
I don't know!

213
00:09:54,206 --> 00:09:57,643
Golfer Aoki, four letters.

214
00:09:57,710 --> 00:09:58,744
(gasps)
"Isao."

215
00:09:58,811 --> 00:10:00,379
Hello? Hello?!

216
00:10:00,446 --> 00:10:02,581
The show is up there,
not on your lap.

217
00:10:02,648 --> 00:10:04,092
Look, I got to be honest.
I only like movies

218
00:10:04,116 --> 00:10:05,751
where Deadpool talks
to the camera,

219
00:10:05,818 --> 00:10:07,553
so I'm watching <i>Deadpool.</i>

220
00:10:07,620 --> 00:10:09,822
Okay, eyes up, TikToks!

221
00:10:09,889 --> 00:10:12,792
Tonight, you watch a screen
that is unswipeable!

222
00:10:16,629 --> 00:10:17,797
(both groan)

223
00:10:19,298 --> 00:10:22,301
Premium sound system. Sweet.

224
00:10:22,368 --> 00:10:24,670
(smooth jazz plays)

225
00:10:24,737 --> 00:10:26,138
Honey, just think.

226
00:10:26,205 --> 00:10:27,640
Someday, you and I will be

227
00:10:27,707 --> 00:10:30,343
snuggling next
to each other for eternity.

228
00:10:30,409 --> 00:10:33,679
Oh, Homie, I never
thought about it that way.

229
00:10:33,746 --> 00:10:35,581
(Marge moaning)

230
00:10:35,648 --> 00:10:36,982
(Homer moans)

231
00:10:37,049 --> 00:10:40,319
'Till death do each other.

232
00:10:40,386 --> 00:10:42,521
(both moaning)

233
00:10:42,588 --> 00:10:46,192
<i>Rivers? Where we're going,
we don't need rivers.</i>

234
00:10:46,258 --> 00:10:49,261
(dramatic music plays)

235
00:10:55,668 --> 00:10:57,103
Yes, all right,
you little trolls.

236
00:10:57,169 --> 00:10:59,772
If you must,
tear the classic down

237
00:10:59,839 --> 00:11:02,708
with your snarky little remarks.
Go.

238
00:11:02,775 --> 00:11:05,945
An emotionally satisfying
ending.

239
00:11:06,011 --> 00:11:08,881
Are you sure
this is an American movie?

240
00:11:08,948 --> 00:11:10,616
I can't believe it.

241
00:11:10,683 --> 00:11:12,785
I... cared what happened.

242
00:11:14,387 --> 00:11:16,889
Oh. What is that thrill
I'm feeling?

243
00:11:16,956 --> 00:11:20,960
You are experiencing this movie
again for the first time,

244
00:11:21,026 --> 00:11:23,396
but through the eyes
of children.

245
00:11:23,462 --> 00:11:25,664
♪ ♪

246
00:11:31,137 --> 00:11:34,273
Oh, Homie,
that was so dangerous.

247
00:11:34,340 --> 00:11:36,609
I feel like Mrs. Dracula.

248
00:11:36,675 --> 00:11:38,511
I definitely had a...

249
00:11:38,577 --> 00:11:40,813
(Dracula voice):
good evening.

250
00:11:41,847 --> 00:11:43,582
Hey, it's locked.

251
00:11:43,649 --> 00:11:45,418
(gasps)
Oh, no!

252
00:11:45,484 --> 00:11:48,087
We're trapped
in a crypt full of...

253
00:11:48,154 --> 00:11:49,789
smooth jazz.

254
00:11:49,855 --> 00:11:51,857
(smooth jazz plays)

255
00:11:56,862 --> 00:11:58,631
Little known trivia:

256
00:11:58,697 --> 00:12:01,600
the time travel vehicle
was originally a tanning booth.

257
00:12:01,667 --> 00:12:04,470
- Whoa!
- That's crazy!

258
00:12:04,537 --> 00:12:06,972
The little ones love
your useless knowledge.

259
00:12:07,039 --> 00:12:10,476
Yes, my factoid will be
passed on for generations,

260
00:12:10,543 --> 00:12:13,546
and in that way,
I will never truly die.

261
00:12:13,612 --> 00:12:16,549
(sighs)
You know, maybe I was wrong

262
00:12:16,615 --> 00:12:20,286
to dismiss the idea
of children so... so quickly.

263
00:12:20,352 --> 00:12:21,987
(gasps)
Do you mean it?

264
00:12:22,054 --> 00:12:24,089
Hurry. Let's return
these loaner kids

265
00:12:24,156 --> 00:12:27,460
and go home
to make a mixed‐race nerd.

266
00:12:27,526 --> 00:12:31,297
Hey, shouldn't Mom and Dad
be showing up about now?

267
00:12:32,731 --> 00:12:36,235
Mom? Dad? Where are you?!

268
00:12:36,302 --> 00:12:38,604
We <i>are</i> in a cemetery,

269
00:12:38,671 --> 00:12:40,773
so maybe
they were attacked by zombies.

270
00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:43,476
Stop it! Stop saying that!

271
00:12:43,542 --> 00:12:45,077
(sing‐songy):
Our parents are undead.

272
00:12:45,144 --> 00:12:47,446
Dad will eat your head.

273
00:12:47,513 --> 00:12:48,781
(Lisa cries)

274
00:12:48,848 --> 00:12:50,282
(sinister cackling)

275
00:12:50,349 --> 00:12:51,517
(doors rattling)

276
00:12:51,584 --> 00:12:53,519
(grunting)

277
00:12:53,586 --> 00:12:55,754
HOMER (zombie‐like):
Let us out!

278
00:12:55,821 --> 00:12:58,591
Great Steve! They <i>are</i> zombies!

279
00:12:58,657 --> 00:13:01,093
(both yell)

280
00:13:02,528 --> 00:13:05,364
(both sobbing)

281
00:13:05,431 --> 00:13:07,600
They demand...
emotional support.

282
00:13:07,666 --> 00:13:09,101
You can do it.

283
00:13:09,168 --> 00:13:10,603
Give them comfort.

284
00:13:10,669 --> 00:13:12,238
(both crying)

285
00:13:12,304 --> 00:13:15,107
Must... act like...
loving father.

286
00:13:16,175 --> 00:13:17,843
I flee.

287
00:13:21,313 --> 00:13:23,649
But you caved!

288
00:13:25,885 --> 00:13:29,622
BOTH:
Mom! Dad! You're okay!

289
00:13:29,688 --> 00:13:30,923
Hey, where'd the dork go?

290
00:13:30,990 --> 00:13:32,958
Your children's emotional needs

291
00:13:33,025 --> 00:13:34,460
have pushed him away.

292
00:13:34,527 --> 00:13:37,563
If I know him, and I don't,

293
00:13:37,630 --> 00:13:39,298
I'm sure he'll be back.

294
00:13:39,365 --> 00:13:43,702
No. He has run to a place
where there is no hope.

295
00:13:49,842 --> 00:13:52,478
I have returned. Forever.

296
00:13:52,545 --> 00:13:55,814
Your room is unchanged...
as are your sheets.

297
00:14:02,288 --> 00:14:04,557
So... your husband ran away
to his childhood home,

298
00:14:05,331 --> 00:14:07,000
leaving you alone.

299
00:14:07,066 --> 00:14:09,102
Maybe forever.
Also, childless.

300
00:14:09,168 --> 00:14:10,403
(groans)

301
00:14:10,470 --> 00:14:12,572
I'm sure you're experiencing

302
00:14:12,639 --> 00:14:14,774
a lot of feelings right now.

303
00:14:14,841 --> 00:14:16,809
It's okay to let them out.

304
00:14:16,876 --> 00:14:19,078
(inhales and exhales loudly)

305
00:14:19,145 --> 00:14:22,181
I hate you,
you shameless womb tease!

306
00:14:22,248 --> 00:14:24,117
You're like a baby drug dealer!

307
00:14:24,183 --> 00:14:27,320
You give me a taste,
and now I'm hooked!

308
00:14:27,387 --> 00:14:29,122
This is on you, too!

309
00:14:29,188 --> 00:14:31,958
You've crushed
my only chance at happiness,

310
00:14:32,025 --> 00:14:34,594
you ape‐faced
cheeseburger goblin!

311
00:14:34,661 --> 00:14:37,130
(muffled whimper)

312
00:14:37,196 --> 00:14:38,631
Make this right.

313
00:14:38,698 --> 00:14:40,700
Bring back my husband!

314
00:14:47,373 --> 00:14:50,343
Whoa. So this is where
Comic Book Guy grew up.

315
00:14:50,410 --> 00:14:53,880
We'll finally see what kind
of "its" created a "that."

316
00:14:53,946 --> 00:14:55,214
(doorbell rings)

317
00:14:55,281 --> 00:14:57,150
- (door squeaks open)
- (both yelp)

318
00:14:57,216 --> 00:15:01,387
Ah, you must be delivering
my 1912 Polish coronation stamp.

319
00:15:01,454 --> 00:15:03,089
Actually,
we're looking for someone

320
00:15:03,156 --> 00:15:05,124
we call "Comic Book Guy."

321
00:15:05,191 --> 00:15:08,928
Enter.
My son is in here... somewhere.

322
00:15:08,995 --> 00:15:12,131
Oh, well, thank you, Mr., uh...

323
00:15:12,198 --> 00:15:15,335
You may refer to me
as "Postage Stamp Fellow."

324
00:15:19,172 --> 00:15:21,407
What is this crazy place?

325
00:15:26,879 --> 00:15:28,314
<i>BOB BALABAN:
This crazy place</i>

326
00:15:28,381 --> 00:15:30,016
<i>is Comic Book Guy's
childhood home.</i>

327
00:15:30,083 --> 00:15:32,085
<i>An only child,
he grew up surrounded</i>

328
00:15:32,151 --> 00:15:36,022
<i>by an eccentric extended family
of childless aunts and uncles.</i>

329
00:15:36,089 --> 00:15:39,325
<i>However, his family poured their
love into their collections,</i>

330
00:15:39,392 --> 00:15:42,762
<i>instead of into the lonely
little boy wandering the halls.</i>

331
00:15:42,829 --> 00:15:46,532
<i>His aunt collected taxidermized
chestnut‐tailed starlings,</i>

332
00:15:46,599 --> 00:15:49,769
<i>causing her to form a tacit
alliance with her twin brother,</i>

333
00:15:49,836 --> 00:15:52,038
<i>who collected
brutalist birdhouses.</i>

334
00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:55,975
<i>His great step‐uncle,</i>

335
00:15:56,042 --> 00:15:58,378
<i>who had once had his heart
broken by a meter maid,</i>

336
00:15:58,444 --> 00:16:01,981
<i>was a gatherer of discredited
obstetric equipment,</i>

337
00:16:02,048 --> 00:16:03,616
<i>while his younger dowager aunt</i>

338
00:16:03,683 --> 00:16:06,119
<i>collected antique
Chinese cricket boxes</i>

339
00:16:06,185 --> 00:16:07,820
<i>and filled them
with live crickets,</i>

340
00:16:07,887 --> 00:16:09,989
<i>who frequently escaped.</i>

341
00:16:10,056 --> 00:16:11,767
- (cricket chirping)
<i>- The only thing of value</i>

342
00:16:11,791 --> 00:16:14,994
<i>the family did not display
in the home was love.</i>

343
00:16:15,061 --> 00:16:17,630
<i>And the love he sought most
was that of his father,</i>

344
00:16:17,697 --> 00:16:20,633
<i>who spent his days
as an avid philatelist.</i>

345
00:16:23,302 --> 00:16:26,172
(sighs sadly)

346
00:16:36,649 --> 00:16:40,453
Mint. Mint.
Near mint. Very fine.

347
00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:43,089
Hi, um, there.

348
00:16:43,156 --> 00:16:46,626
Maybe you might feel better
if you came home with us?

349
00:16:46,692 --> 00:16:48,261
I am home.
From now on,

350
00:16:48,327 --> 00:16:50,930
my only companion is
my comic book collection.

351
00:16:50,997 --> 00:16:52,965
Mint. Mint. Near mint.

352
00:16:53,032 --> 00:16:55,034
- Gem mint. Mint. Mint...
- (Marge sighs)

353
00:16:55,101 --> 00:16:57,870
- Look at the sad little boy.
- Mint. Mint. Mint. Mint.

354
00:16:57,937 --> 00:17:00,506
- Is that you?
- Mint. Mint.

355
00:17:00,573 --> 00:17:03,109
Worst... day... ever!

356
00:17:03,176 --> 00:17:06,879
There's got to be more
to this story.

357
00:17:06,946 --> 00:17:08,614
<i>BOB BALABAN:
There was more to this story.</i>

358
00:17:10,650 --> 00:17:13,786
<i>Without anyone to play with, the
lonely boy turned to baseball.</i>

359
00:17:13,853 --> 00:17:15,888
<i>His favorite pitcher
was Sandy Koufax,</i>

360
00:17:15,955 --> 00:17:18,991
<i>and he perfected a curveball
of rare devastation.</i>

361
00:17:19,058 --> 00:17:22,595
<i>However, his team
would never give him a chance.</i>

362
00:17:22,662 --> 00:17:24,597
<i>But on the day
before the big game,</i>

363
00:17:24,664 --> 00:17:27,600
<i>all the starting pitchers were
injured in a multi‐canoe pile‐up</i>

364
00:17:27,667 --> 00:17:31,404
<i>caused by the sighting of an
unusually large lake sturgeon.</i>

365
00:17:33,539 --> 00:17:35,741
<i>He got the call to pitch.</i>

366
00:17:35,808 --> 00:17:37,928
<i>His dearest hope was that
his father would finally see</i>

367
00:17:37,977 --> 00:17:40,179
<i>his masterful curveball
in action.</i>

368
00:17:40,246 --> 00:17:42,982
<i>But during the biggest moment
of his young life,</i>

369
00:17:43,049 --> 00:17:46,185
<i>his dad was nowhere to be seen.</i>

370
00:18:10,276 --> 00:18:11,978
<i>He escaped his sadness</i>

371
00:18:12,044 --> 00:18:15,481
<i>into a world of heroes,
villains and Jugheads.</i>

372
00:18:18,651 --> 00:18:22,388
<i>In that moment, he became more
than a boy but less than a man.</i>

373
00:18:23,723 --> 00:18:26,192
<i>He became Comic Book Guy.</i>

374
00:18:27,827 --> 00:18:29,962
<i>Marge then confronted
Postage Stamp Fellow</i>

375
00:18:30,029 --> 00:18:32,932
<i>about this life‐changing
incident with his son.</i>

376
00:18:32,999 --> 00:18:35,034
What? Oh. Okay.

377
00:18:37,904 --> 00:18:41,073
Why weren't you there
for your son when he needed you?

378
00:18:41,140 --> 00:18:43,776
This is not a family
to rummage through the past.

379
00:18:43,843 --> 00:18:45,678
Emotionally.

380
00:18:45,745 --> 00:18:48,748
You tell me why you didn't go
to your son's baseball game,

381
00:18:48,814 --> 00:18:50,149
or I'll lick it.

382
00:18:50,216 --> 00:18:51,817
My Inverted Dendermonde?

383
00:18:51,884 --> 00:18:53,185
You wouldn't dare!

384
00:18:53,252 --> 00:18:54,921
(whimpering)

385
00:18:54,987 --> 00:18:56,298
All right, all right!
I'll tell you!

386
00:18:56,322 --> 00:18:58,357
I was buying him that.

387
00:19:01,527 --> 00:19:03,963
Go ahead. Tell him.

388
00:19:04,030 --> 00:19:05,932
I didn't go to your game,

389
00:19:05,998 --> 00:19:07,934
because I was afraid
if you lost,

390
00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:10,403
I wouldn't know how
to comfort you.

391
00:19:10,469 --> 00:19:12,972
So I supported you
the only way I knew how.

392
00:19:13,039 --> 00:19:14,740
I purchased you a collectible.

393
00:19:14,807 --> 00:19:16,776
Which I never had the heart
to give you.

394
00:19:16,842 --> 00:19:19,579
(gasps)
Sandy Koufax,

395
00:19:19,645 --> 00:19:21,747
the left arm of God!

396
00:19:21,814 --> 00:19:24,917
Son, perhaps we should
do something we've never done.

397
00:19:24,984 --> 00:19:26,452
Have a catch?

398
00:19:26,519 --> 00:19:28,387
I think I would like that.

399
00:19:32,291 --> 00:19:34,126
- Ow!
<i>- Ow!</i>

400
00:19:34,193 --> 00:19:38,097
Everyone,
my son and I are having a catch.

401
00:19:38,164 --> 00:19:41,200
<i>BOB BALABAN:
Love was finally on display.</i>

402
00:19:42,201 --> 00:19:43,836
- Ow.
- Ow.

403
00:19:43,903 --> 00:19:48,741
Well, maybe Comic Book Guy won't
be so afraid to be a father.

404
00:19:48,808 --> 00:19:50,109
(chuckles)

405
00:19:50,176 --> 00:19:51,811
Sucker.

406
00:19:51,877 --> 00:19:53,879
(crying)

407
00:19:55,348 --> 00:19:57,984
Wife, I have returned...
healed!

408
00:19:58,050 --> 00:20:00,953
I am now...
Changed Better Guy.

409
00:20:01,020 --> 00:20:03,756
(gasps)
My ultimate fantasy.

410
00:20:03,823 --> 00:20:07,660
Mr. Beaver from <i>The Lion,</i>
<i>the Witch and the Wardrobe.</i>

411
00:20:07,727 --> 00:20:10,196
You are ready to make a baby.

412
00:20:10,262 --> 00:20:12,932
♪ ♪

413
00:20:14,734 --> 00:20:17,903
(instrumental intro
to "Ooh La La" plays)

414
00:20:35,755 --> 00:20:38,157
♪ <i>Poor old Granddad</i> ♪

415
00:20:38,224 --> 00:20:41,394
♪ <i>I laughed at all his words</i> ♪

416
00:20:41,460 --> 00:20:44,797
♪ <i>I thought he was</i>
<i>a bitter man</i> ♪

417
00:20:44,864 --> 00:20:46,799
♪ <i>He spoke of women's ways...</i> ♪

418
00:20:51,437 --> 00:20:53,639
♪ <i>They trap you</i>
<i>and they use you</i> ♪

419
00:20:53,706 --> 00:20:56,842
♪ <i>Before you even know</i> ♪

420
00:20:56,909 --> 00:20:59,645
♪ <i>But love is blind</i>
<i>and you're far too kind</i> ♪

421
00:20:59,712 --> 00:21:02,848
♪ <i>Don't ever let it show</i> ♪

422
00:21:02,915 --> 00:21:07,653
♪ <i>I wish that I knew</i>
<i>what I know now</i> ♪

423
00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:09,755
♪ <i>When I was younger</i> ♪

424
00:21:09,822 --> 00:21:14,026
♪ <i>I wish that I knew</i>
<i>what I know now</i> ♪

425
00:21:14,093 --> 00:21:15,928
♪ <i>When I was stronger</i> ♪

426
00:21:15,995 --> 00:21:18,764
♪ <i>The can‐can's</i>
<i>such a pretty show</i> ♪

427
00:21:18,831 --> 00:21:22,001
♪ <i>Will steal your heart away</i> ♪

428
00:21:22,068 --> 00:21:25,771
♪ <i>But backstage</i>
<i>back on Earth again</i> ♪

429
00:21:25,838 --> 00:21:28,374
♪ <i>The dressing rooms are gray</i> ♪

430
00:21:28,441 --> 00:21:30,776
♪ <i>They come on strong</i>
<i>and it ain't too...</i> ♪

431
00:21:30,843 --> 00:21:31,844
Shh!

