♪ Llama, llama, llámame ♪
♪ Llama, llámame, llámame ♪
- ♪ Llama, llama, llama... ♪
- (DOOR OPENS)
(HOMER HUMMING)
(MARGE HUMMING)
♪ ♪
Mmm, cookies.
They're not cookies, they're biscuits.
That's British for cookies.
And they're not for you or you or you.
Or you or you. Not you.
Not for you.
HOMER: D'oh!
- These treats are for my lady friends.
- (ALL GRUNTING)
They're coming over
to watch a very classy
historical British streaming show,
and none of you are invited.
ALL: Aw...
Cor blimey. Mmm.
- (MARGE GROWLS)
- Ow!
Now here's a distraction
for each of you.
BART: Mmm.
LISA: Mmm.
I downloaded you a podcast about beers
that you don't hear much about anymore.
Ooh, there's a whole
episode about Löwenbräu.
If no one minds,
I brought a few beverages
to lubricate the evening.
- Me, too.
- Same. - Way ahead of you.
So what the hell are we waiting for?
Let's dial up the Netflix.
I've got Helen Lovejoy's password.
She came to live with us
when she and the Reverend
were taking a break.
She swore me to secrecy about that,
but whoops.
(LAUGHTER)
♪ ♪
FEMALE BRITISH NARRATOR:
The Springfield ladies had
a marvelous time
journeying back to an era
when England was filled with
eligible young ladies in corsets
courted by hot, multiracial dudes
with rock-hard abs.
♪ ♪
The writing on this show is amazing.
Oh-ho. Men can have muscles
on their chests now?
The ad in the beer podcast
is an ad for beer.
That is so smart.
I've just swum back from Europe.
We've just won the
Battle of Knicker-bulge.
Let us all doff our clothes in triumph.
¡Ay, caramba!
Bart, don't watch that.
Now go to bed.
BART: Oh!
Mmm, looks like
the Earl of Sixpackingham
is showing the whole walking stick.
Ooh, I'll drink to that.
(ORCHESTRA PLAYING SPICE GIRLS'
"WANNABE")
(ALL CHEERING)
(GROANING)
Honey, what's wrong?
You look like what I see in
the mirror every morning.
Also, a strange blender
is on your nightstand.
(GROANS) I think I drank just
a toonsie-teensy bit too much
with the girls last night.
Marge, you need to take
a long look at yourself.
We can't be a two-hangover household.
We just can't.
I'm sorry, sweetie,
but I just don't think
I can go to church this morning.
Oh, my... Aw...
No church? Oh, no.
Well, I guess
I'll have to find another way
to spend my Sunday.
(HUMMING HAPPILY)
(CROWD CHEERING ON TV)
(MUNCHING LOUDLY)
Mmm, chest chips.
I meant you'll have to
take the kids to church
- on your own.
- D'oh!
- (PAINED GROAN)
- Aw, it's not fair.
I always go to church hungover.
It's always the committed
drinkers who get punished.
Boozehounds just can't catch a break.
- (ORGAN PLAYING)
- _
♪ Praise God from whom
all praisings flow ♪
♪ Praise praise and
let all praisings go ♪
♪ Praise, praise, praise, praise ♪
♪ Praise, praise, praise, praise. ♪
You know, hymns like that
make God come off a little thirsty.
Now I'd like to invite
our littlest angels
to head to Sunday school
with Mrs. Lovejoy.
(KIDS GROAN)
Try spending a weekend with
her in the Wisconsin Dells.
This week's Junior Jesus Jamboree topic
is "Honor Thy Mother and Father."
- Who would like to go first?
- Oh! Oh!
Sunday school presentations
don't affect my grades
and won't help me get into college,
and I'm not even a practicing Christian,
but I still have a sick need to excel,
so pick me! Pick me! Pick me!
I think we'll start with... Hmm.
(SNIFFS, GROANS)
(KIDS LAUGH)
Bart Simpson. Oh, but I'm guessing
you forgot all about your presentation.
(CHUCKLES)
You know, Helen, for a woman of faith,
you have so little of it in me.
For this assignment, I was born ready.
(HUMS)
(COUGHS, CLEARS THROAT) Well,
it's not hard to honor my mother.
Marge is a class act all the way.
As for my father, well, with a dad
like Homer Simpson,
how could I not honor him?
(HOMER SNORES)
(MUTTERS, SMACKS LIPS)
He's so hardworking and dignified.
Mmm.
- (SNORES)
- (LISA GIGGLES)
(SNORES, BURPS)
(KIDS LAUGH)
And he carries himself with
such class and panache.
ANNOUNCER: Mascot, oh, goes for the kiss
and, oh, he goes into the
proposal with the bouquet.
Tosses it away and he
faints out of love,
and the big, fat guy
is having none of it
and he's giving chase.
- The fat guy is on the field.
- HOMER: Come here, you.
ANNOUNCER:
And the Freak is running away,
and he's using the players as obstacles.
And now he's smashing his...
You know something,
that's just not right.
(KIDS LAUGH)
♪ Lord, you are truly great ♪
♪ We are wretched but devout ♪
♪ Your hair looks really awesome ♪
♪ And have you been working out? ♪
(YAWNS)
Sweetie, do your thing.
(CRYING)
Baby coming through.
Crying now and pooping soon.
- (KIDS LAUGH)
- Hmm.
As you can see, wherever my dad goes,
people cheer.
Look, if you didn't want me
to pee in a cup,
then the movie should have commercials.
(CHANTING): Whiz break!
Whiz break! Whiz break!
- (AUDIENCE CHEERS)
- MOE: Get him out of here.
(KIDS AND HELEN LAUGH)
In conclusion, I honor my father
because he is not not not not a loser.
One, two, three, four.
That's an even number of nots.
He thinks I'm a loser.
How dare you show your peers
a supercut of me at my worst?!
(GROWLS)
- (KIDS CHEERING)
- NELSON: Haw-haw!
- Haw-haw-haw!
- (BART CHUCKLES MISCHIEVOUSLY)
- Huh?
- (OVERLAPPING ARGUING)
I hate the Welsh,
but I hate you even more!
(GROANS ANGRILY)
My son has no respect for me.
He shamed me
in front of the whole Sunday school.
Even Ralph. What about all the videos
of me not being a loser?
Where were they?
Oh, boy. It's so sad
that kids just use cameras for shaming.
We've raised a generation
that only loves fails.
My fails.
(SIGHS)
At least I have a lady to rub my face.
Bart's gonna spend the rest
of his life lotioning himself.
Maybe Bart doesn't understand
how hard you work to
provide for this family.
When I was a girl,
my father took me to
work with him one day.
I felt so proud when I
saw him playing pizza
in that antacid commercial.
(GASPS) That's what I should do.
Take Bart to work.
Then he'll be proud of me.
Pizza proud.
BOTH: Mmm.
Seven, eight and nine.
Oh!
- (GRUNTING)
- Watch me work
and be proud, you jerk.
- (GRUNTING)
- No.
I don't want to hear your friends
tell me how big I've gotten.
Hmm. (GRUNTS)
Oh. Well-played, big man.
Larry! Slap a guest badge on him!
Larry!
And this thing over here is
if the core gets too hot.
I'm all over that.
And this dealie over
here is if the core...
goes missing.
Has that ever happened?
Not on my watch.
And the way you can be sure
is that everyone you know isn't dead.
- Hmm.
- Hey, Homer.
Monday morning doughnuts are here.
- (HOMER MOANS)
- (BART GRUNTS)
Take your pick.
Chocolate frosted? Maple bar?
Better hurry or you're gonna get plain.
Doughnuts. Do you have to pay for 'em?
Sure, technically. (LAUGHS)
It's an honor system.
(MUNCHES)
Whoa. A pop machine full of free pop.
A TV showing that jerk Dr. Phil.
A poster on how to choke a guy.
I think that's for after you choke him.
- (BURPS)
- Simpson,
I need that updated spreadsheet
on the hard water degradation rate.
Watch this.
I told you interns
to spread-date the graduation
on the hard lemonade.
So find out what I'm talking about
- and get it done!
- Yes, Mr. Simpson.
_
And you get free markers?
When I get back to school,
I'm gonna go Sistine Chapel
on those toilet stalls.
Why wait?
Here you go, Simpson.
- Best part of the job.
- (CHUCKLES)
You know it, Linda.
Dad, is that your paycheck?
Sure is.
- Can I see it?
- I'll do you one better.
- (HUMS HAPPILY)
- _
Give it to me in singles.
Minus the . % check-cashing fee.
I didn't ask for your life story.
And here's what makes it all worthwhile.
Whoa. You get all that every week?
Every two weeks.
(LAUGHING)
Ah, the laugh of respect.
Oh, my God, is it picture day?
Lisa, quick, let me fix your hair.
Ow! It's not picture day,
and my hair's not pasta.
I am dressed this way to honor Dad.
I never thought about it,
but Homer makes enough
to pay for this awesome crib, two cars,
with enough left over
to fill the freezer
with three kinds of french fries:
waffle, curly and steak-cut.
Dad, all these years
I thought you were just
some uncool roommate
that I got stuck with.
Now I realize you're a winner.
And that's why I want to be
a nuclear safety inspector.
(SNIFFLES)
Marge, he doesn't just respect me.
He wants to be me.
What a feeling.
Oh... this must be
how LeBron feels about...
(CRYING): ...Bronny.
BOTH: Mmm.
Just like you, Dad, I can't wait
to live the American dream.
Well, actually...
- What?
- Oh, nothing.
Pew, pew, pew!
I'm a superstar spaceman.
I'm a modern superhero. I can fly,
but I can't process my own trauma.
I'm a nuclear safety guy.
I get tons of money for
not blowing the town up.
Well, the thing about that is...
- What?
- Nothing.
- Forget I said anything.
- (GROANS)
Hey, Dad, guess what.
I made a homemade ID badge,
and Larry just waved me in.
Huh. Where is he?
(SNORING)
Oh, man, what a gig.
Homer's got it made.
JANITOR (CHUCKLES): He sure does.
So, you're visiting your
old man at work today?
I sure am. And this sweet job
will be mine someday.
- Wha...?
- Hate to burst your bubble, kid,
but the kind of job your dad has
- just doesn't exist anymore.
- Why not?
Well, there's no simple answer to that.
- All right. See you later.
- Bart, come with me
to a magical place far in the past:
America in the th century.
Uh, sure.
But you better not start singing.
♪ , we won the w*r ♪
♪ Our boys came back
to the factory floor ♪
♪ The good times rolled,
and smiles were on our faces ♪
♪ With plentiful jobs
for folks of all ages ♪
♪ Even dumb slobs
made excellent wages ♪
♪ The country was booming ♪
♪ Though still pretty r*cist ♪
(ALL MUMBLE)
♪ Oh, and so it came to pass ♪
♪ With hard work
and grit and brass ♪
♪ Bit by bit, we built ♪
- ♪ Our middle class ♪
- ♪ Nice little middle class ♪
♪ I need cash for food and gas ♪
♪ Black light posters,
beer and grass ♪
♪ Time for me to join
the middle class ♪
♪ Oh, boy, that middle class ♪
♪ Go join that middle class ♪
♪ Well, I'm not smart,
I'm not a go-getter ♪
♪ My drinking problem's
not getting better ♪
♪ What job could I possibly do? ♪
- ♪ Nuclear safety inspector ♪
- Whoo-hoo!
♪ Your dad and his
buddies had it swell ♪
♪ But gradually it
all went to hell ♪
♪ Factories closed,
unemployment would spike ♪
♪ Here to explain it
is Robert B. Reich ♪
The decline of unions,
rampant corporate greed,
Wall Street malfeasance
and the rise of shortsighted politics
all contributed to increased
economic inequality,
widespread real unemployment,
wage stagnation,
and a lower standard of living
for millions of Americans.
♪ They chopped salaries
to raise stock prices ♪
♪ Cut up the pie and
kept all the slices ♪
♪ Tax breaks went to CEOs ♪
♪ Never trickling
down to average joes ♪
♪ And so it came to pass ♪
♪ Greedy rich men kicked our ass ♪
♪ Fiddling while they
b*rned our middle class ♪
♪ Poor little middle class ♪
All right,
thanks for the history lesson, nerds.
But what does any of this
have to do with me?
You see, my dad's still working,
and I want to be just like him.
I'm sure you do.
But there's something
else you need to learn,
and my friend here is
happy to teach you.
Ugh, you.
For days, you've been dying to
say something. Just spill it.
♪ You want a job like Dad?
Too bad, so sad ♪
- ♪ You'll never have the life our flabby dad had ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪
♪ What can he do that a robot can't? ♪
♪ These Oreos taste
like nuclear plant ♪
♪ Yo, all I need
is a foot in the door ♪
♪ And I'll take Dad's job
when he dies at ♪
♪ That job you see now needs a PhD ♪
- ♪ While paying student loans leaves you in poverty ♪
- ♪ What? ♪
- ♪ No brand-new car, no fancy house ♪
- ♪ No, cool ♪
- ♪ No hot dinners cooked by your stay-at-home spouse ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪
♪ You're gonna pinch
every dollar and cent ♪
♪ And you'll still have to choose ♪
♪ Between health care and rent ♪
I'll probably just buy a PlayStation .
♪ You're naive, but it'll pass ♪
- ♪ They'll repo your skateboard, you'll grow up fast ♪
- ♪ Mm-hmm ♪
♪ He's Jeff Bezos,
we're just bozos ♪
♪ Goodbye, middle class ♪
♪ These are facts,
they're not controversial ♪
♪ We can't even afford what
they sell in this commercial. ♪
Okay, so, you're saying
maybe I'll have a tough time
getting a job like my dad's.
No, no, I'm saying
you'll definitely never
get a job like your dad's,
and you'll have a tough time
finding something significantly worse.
Thanks for the song and dance,
but I think I'm gonna be just fine.
♪ 'Cause there's a lot of new
ways a guy can make a dollar ♪
♪ I'll ride the money train,
make it rain, holla ♪
♪ I'll buy and sell Bitcoin,
build a new app ♪
♪ Do pranks on YouTube,
I'm great at that crap ♪
♪ Film TikTok tricks
on my sick motorbike ♪
- ♪ Your chances are slim ♪
- ♪ Go to hell, Robert Reich ♪
♪ Those aren't careers,
they're a million to one ♪
♪ You ain't that lucky
and you ain't smart, son ♪
♪ Who gives a damn?
I'll find my new jam ♪
♪ As an influencer on Instagram ♪
♪ If all else fails,
I got backup plans ♪
♪ I can shake my cans on OnlyFans. ♪
No. Just... no.
Okay, great.
So I have no options whatsoever.
Smell you later, dude.
Isn't it infuriating?
We'll never live as well as they did.
Why doesn't anyone do
anything about this?
Well, there's an answer to that,
but it's not one you'll like.
♪ Moe the bartender,
serve it up on the mic ♪
♪ So, greedy politicians
write bad laws ♪
♪ Throwing goodies to the
rich like Santy Claus ♪
♪ They chew up us poors,
who votes for these guys? ♪
♪ All my friends are
dropping like flies ♪
♪ And where are these voters
getting their cues? ♪
♪ Putin for president,
next on Fox News ♪
♪ And that's why our system
is so out of order? ♪
♪ Cross-dressing drug fiends
are crossing our border ♪
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
♪ We vote for g*n nuts
and climate deniers ♪
♪ Lunatics from QAnon
and con men and liars ♪
♪ They shred our safety
net and gut Medicare ♪
♪ But they get our vote ♪
♪ 'Cause we're incredibly
easy to scare ♪
♪ Cable news declares we're doomed ♪
♪ And Facebook feeds our fright ♪
♪ They convince us
things were great ♪
♪ When gas was cheap
and men were white ♪
♪ So we rally round the crooks ♪
♪ And the creepy and the crass ♪
♪ The vengeful id of our
vanishing middle class ♪
So, as you can see, Bart...
Bart?
♪ I get it, dude, abandon hope ♪
♪ We can't escape
our slippery slope ♪
♪ The future's a sandwich
made of poo ♪
♪ Just tell me,
what do you want me to do? ♪
Burn it.
"Burn it"? Burn what?
Well, that's up to you.
All I know is what a janitor knows.
♪ If it's broke,
don't wait till later ♪
♪ Chuck it in the incinerator ♪
Hmm. I do enjoy destroying things.
And this tie looks flammable.
Wait, Bart, I meant the system.
Burn it down and then reform it.
It was a metaphor.
Eh. I never learned
what that word means.
- Our education system is also terrible.
- No!
♪ And so it comes to pass ♪
♪ Strike a match and raise a glass ♪
♪ All dreams die ♪
♪ So goodbye, middle class ♪
(GASPS)
Oh, my God.
(GASPS) Oh, so this is real?
Help!
I want to live to see the future,
even if it's gonna be incredibly crappy!
(HOMER GASPS)
(SIREN WAILS)
You saved me.
♪ Hang on tight, you'll be okay ♪
Thanks! By the way, how good's your pay?
♪ Pay's good,
and pension's great when we retire ♪
- Nice.
- ♪ Sweet health plan plus cool hat and boots ♪
♪ We're always hiring new recruits ♪
♪ 'Cause luckily the
planet is on fire ♪
FIREFIGHTERS: ♪ Even the ocean ♪
Mom, Dad,
I figured out what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna be a fireman.
Well, it is true that
fire isn't going anywhere.
♪ But you still hold me
in high regard ♪
- ♪ Eat my shorts, you tub of lard ♪
- D'oh!
♪ We save lives and look badass ♪
♪ And we whistle as they pass ♪
(WOMEN WOLF WHISTLE)
♪ The last men standing ♪
♪ In our middle ♪
♪ Class. ♪
- What the hell was that?
- From what I can gather,
a singing janitor took
Bart on a magical journey
through America's postwar economy.
Also, Lisa was a rapper.
I'm a little concerned that
Bart set his tree house on fire.
(CHUCKLES) It does seem
like an escalation.
Maybe we can use this opportunity
to upgrade the backyard.
Yeah. We could get a gazebo.
That'd be nice.
I just read through
our homeowners policy.
We're not covered for musical numbers.
- D'oh!
- D'oh!
Shh!
33x22 - Poorhouse Rock
Moderator: SideshowBob
Watch/Buy Amazon Merchandise
"The Simpsons" - set in the fictional town of Springfield - parodies American culture, society, television, and many aspects of the human condition, and is a satirical depiction of a middle class American lifestyle.
"The Simpsons" - set in the fictional town of Springfield - parodies American culture, society, television, and many aspects of the human condition, and is a satirical depiction of a middle class American lifestyle.