Extra Seconds - The PTA Disbands

If you don't like this episode, that's a paddlin'.

Music Selections:
0:00 "abstractions of rain" (Super Dodge Ball) by posu yan
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[TheRealJims]

This one was on my mind recently because of recent vids this year (Shelbyville, Uter, Chalmers) and then the writer's strike stuff. When re-watching it, I was enjoying it so much but also wondering, "Why isn't this as popular as Last Exit to Springfield" (their other strike episode)? So the review kinda shifted around me wondering about that

[LannaDru]

"Hello, mother, dear" and "In this house we obey the laws of THERMODYNAMICS!!!" are the most iconic moments of the whole show, IMHO.

[ashwolftheva]

You left out one of the best jokes!
MRS. POMMELHOOOORRRST! …. I’d like to get down now!”
Kills me every time.

[Onering]

It took the children 45 minutes to locate Canada on the map. Oh, Marge. Anyone can miss Canada, all tucked away down there.

[SpiralSine]

I swear to god, “the finger thing means the taxes” was engraved in my brain when I first heard it, I can’t believe how funny such a simple line is.

[galactictexas]

Not liking the video, you better believe that’s a paddling

[ravenwilder]

A key difference between this and "Last Exit to Springfield" is that Skinner and Mr. Burns are VERY different characters. I don't just mean that they're very different as people, but they fulfill very different roles in such a workers' strike story.

Burns is the supreme autocrat of the nuclear powerplant - they COULD give back the dental plan anytime they wished, so Homer needs to use the union to force them to do so. But Skinner is simply a school administrator - if the school is underfunded, nothing Skinner does can change that. And even if you passed the buck up to Superintendent Chalmers, they couldn't change the situation, either. As pointed out at the PTA meeting, the only solution is to raise taxes, and the only people who can decide to make such a tax increase are the townspeople as a whole.

As such, you don't get the sort of personal conflict, where Homer and Burns represent each side of the labor dispute - Krabappel represents the workers' side, but while Skinner serves as the enforcer of management's side, there is no leader to face off against. Lacking such a personal conflict, I think it makes sense to just focus on how the situation impacts various characters, and give it a totally abrupt and bizarre resolution at the end.

[BuddySweyzer]

People remember every single gag from this episode, but they never remember which episode they're from

[kennylauderdale_en]

The guy jumping out and then back IN the window is so disorientating. Not because of the joke, but because on second viewings I noticed it's NEW ANIMATION. I always thought they just ran the cartoon in reverse for that joke.

[ivratsdargy]

An underrated joke from this episode has to be Skinner saying in a flattered tone of voice
"Me? Go to my office?"

[matti.]

I actually like how this episode treats Bart as this chaos being that, without the school there to contain him, will destroy society itself. Bart learns of his ability to manipulate people and immediately spreads chaos all over the town.

[geschirr]

Üter's "death scene" is from Von Ryan's Express. A film from 1964, about allied POWs escaping on a train to Switzerland when Italy surrenders. The scene is when Von Ryan, played by Frank Sinatra, is running after the train and is shot and collapses. Good movie, highly recommend.

[captaindreadnought]

the perpetual motion machine gag may actually be one of my favourites from the entire series

[Wepospalient]

It may sound dumb, but "purple monkey dishwasher" is one of the most iconic simpsons bits to me. Like when I think of simpsons lines, purple monkey dishwasher is always somewhere in my brain. That's a paddlin' is super iconic too. This episode definitely has some memorable bits.

[TMIINemises]

"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics" is one of my favourite Simpsons lines of all time

[johnumphrey]

The Laws of Thermodynamics joke, as well as Lisa's exclamation about her perspiacity and Homer's response are 2 of my favorites from the whole series, not to mention the cannon joke

[KyleRDent]

The delivery of, "I'd like to get down now, " always got me, don't know why.

[Killermike]

I think you hit the nail on the head in your Top 10 Season 6 Episodes video:

"Some of these (runner-up) episodes would have made my Season 5 list. They just live in a very competitive neighborhood."

[Big]

"The finger thing means the taxes" quote lives in my head around tax season

[horridJ]

“If you don’t like this episode. That’s a paddlin’.”

This episode I would say is actually really underrated! I enjoy it :)


Love the videos Jim :)