"Maggie never gets to gives back to Homer for his sacrfice." **Attacks people with lethal force on two occasions to save Homer's life, rescues him from the tow jockey's basement, etc.**
I like how Homer has three hairs on his head during the flashback... until he realises that Marge is pregnant and pulls one of them out, giving him his familiar two for the rest of the episode
Dumb just dumb.. Homer cant even remember he has a third child. “Her” to me, means Marge. I think Marge made this for Homer. Homer then thought, who in the hell is that baby...?
This episode gives me goosebumps just thinking about it. The ending is the sweetest, smartest and most genuinely tear jerking moment in all of television for me. I can’t explain it, but the payoff with “do it for her” gives me a lump in my throat. I’ve not even watched the whole video and just typing this out, knowing that it’s coming... I feel like I’m about to start sobbing haha
Great video! Honestly, And Maggie Makes Three is my favorite Simpsons episode. It's a perfect combination of a funny and relatable story with some great insight into what is basically Homer's motivation to keep his job in the rest of the series. The humor and outlandish gags help break up the drama. A perfect balance between the heartfelt Season 2 style and the wacky 5/6 style. I'm glad you decided to revisit this one. Even if it isn't your favorite I'm still glad that you gave it the video it deserves, though I still feel that you were on to something in your original video.
"We have three kids, Homer." "Marge, the dog doesn't count as a kid." - Separate Vocations, Season 3 I know what you mean - Homer barely seems to notice Maggie most of the time. And on another note, this was the last episode to air before I was born.
Hannah Shribman-Brown also Judge: And, er, Margaret? Homer: Who? Lady, you got the wrong file. Marge: [whispering] It's Maggie! Homer: Oh, Maggie. Er, I got nothing against Maggie.
I was born between "Krusty Gets Kancelled" and "Homer's Barbershop Quartet". Actually, 6 days before the latter to be exact. I guess I was a baby on board.
To be fair, she doesn’t do a lot in episodes, but that makes sense because she’s a baby that doesn’t talk. A reason why I like episodes such as “Itchy and Scratchy and Marge,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” and even “Moe Baby Blues” is because Maggie actually contributes to the plot, which seems like somewhat of a rarity.
I just noticed. Ruth Powers is in the flashbacks when it covers the baby shower. But she wasn't in Springfield at that point from what we know. Damn it Simpsons. Can you go 5 seconds without screwing up your timeline.
This is a great episode as it shows Homer does loves his children. and actually reacts in a real way to unplanned pregnancy unlike with The Bart birth episode
Simpsons mystery: What if this is the reason Homer can't get fired from the plant? Even if he leaves for days or even weeks at a time to do other jobs. Burns controls almost everything in Springfield. He knows Homer isn't there at the plant and he doesn't care. He knows Homer will have to come back. When he said you're here forever, he meant that. The contract makes him essentially own Homer for life, even if Homer isn't there for days or weeks. He has to come back eventually. Burns enjoys this control so much that he will never get rid of him. Burns also doesn't care how the plant runs. He pays off the inspectors regardless, and he has a complete Monopoly on the tower for the whole town (and likely more). So Homer not being there to keep things *safe* doesn't matter the majority of the time. He's just a toy to burns. The fact he has these other adventures but always has to come back to this job that he hates probably makes it even more amusing for burns, who of course is aware of whatever else Homer is doing. Burns has a hand in every sector of Springfield, it's even been mentioned in episodes and video games that he has cameras throughout Springfield. He knows what's going on.
SmashTurtle It’s probably more in line with the fact that Homer has the job as Saftey Inspector because Burns is keeping Homer on a leash from going on a crusade against him.
@Saskaruto16, just one question though, if Mr. Burns has Homer on a leash, knows he'll always come back when he leaves, and knows that he owns him for life, why does he keep forgetting who Homer is then?
@@alvexok5523 So a few possible explanations. Firstly: that gag was more so used before the "who shot Mr. Burns" episode which took placd in season 6. So it's possible that this is less of an issue now. For instance, Burns has shown to know him and his family multiple times since season 6. For instance in Season 8, Mountain of Madness, he recognizes Homer and his family, refers to him by name many times, etc. Now while it may have been brought back a few times as a joke at some point after that since there are 30 seasons I'm not going to bother going through them all to check, we could chock it up to the writers not knowing their own cannon and screwing up (if you want to debate if anything is canon after this many years and many writer changes, 4th wall events, etc), or one of the other following reasons. Second: there is a fan theory that Mr.Burns was concussed by Homer at one point and that he has permanent brain damage that causes memory issues. I don't like this theory and don't think it lines up, but I thought I would mention it. Though the brain does tie in to what I think a logical canon reason could be. Thirdly: He is over 100 years old. He loses track of things. He's said before that he's in his 80s, but he's actually over 100. That means at least sometimes his memory is not all there if he's occationally 20+ years off in how old he believes he is. In "The Spingfield files" (also season 8) we see the insane medical procedure he undergoes weekly, just to keep him in the shape he is in and that it leaves him looking/sounding like an alien for hours afterward, and other episodes have hinted at or directly said he's had other procedures done and organs replaced as well to stay alive. It's not unreasonable that as the week goes on his mind deteriorates along with his body until it gets boosted again, or that at any random point he could again forget someone's name or even or what year it is. When he tried to put together a baseball team for the power plant he wanted to recruite a bunch of players that were dead because his concept of the passage of time is so off he not only thought they were alive but in playable shape. Now you might ask why he can remember old stories of how people died or where he was 30+ years ago. That's because the further back the memory the more deeply ingrained it is. Old people with certain medical conditions that can result in deteriorating memory can almost always remember the people/events of their past, it's the things happening more recently and in the present that they don't remember to the same degree. Forth: We could get into the timeline and that in theory every episode is somehow supposed to take place in a short amount of time because no one ages, but that's a whole mess with multiple contradicting examples because like I said in the first paragraph: the writers don't actually care about canon at all and will change/rewite things because they don't know, do it for a story, or even just a one off joke. These videos and fan theories are just for fun so even a well crafted one likely has at least one contradictory example over 30 years of various writers. Hell if you go back far enough Smithers was black. At the end of the day: It's canon if you want it to be.
If there's any video I wish I could re-write, it would be the "And Maggie Makes Three" review. It didn't get a TON of negative feedback (just a few people yelling at me for the forgettable thing)... But I think I editorialized too much. I kinda made the review more about my personal confusion about it, rather than the episode itself. 60 seconds isn't a great format for the kind of review I wrote. I wanted to re-visit this one to give it a more thorough look.
In media, we often get the message that work is something exciting and fulfilling, but the truth is there are millions of Homers out there, men and women working jobs they don't enjoy because they love their families, and this episode is an awesome tribute to them. Doesn't make me envious of those with kids or anything but still. Kudos to you.
didn't homer become safety inspector in season 1's homer's odyssey after maggie was born?....and isn't the reason he takes the job not serious is cause burns made him lie and say his plant is safe when it isn't so homer could get his old well paying job back? so he resents burns for it?..
There was technically Rosebud before this. There isn't a HUGE exploration of dynamic between Homer and Maggie (it's largely a Burns episode) but it does show a similar deal, Homer will put himself in a miserable position to make Maggie happy. In hindsight it's dumbfounding there's episodes where Homer can barely even remember Maggie, he takes a LOT of crap for her sake.
To me, it was an “awwww” moment BECAUSE you don’t get a lot of homer and Maggie. We go from knowing that he doesn’t really do much with her to finding out he did all that for her. It didn’t need a close relationship set up. It’s like finding out that the gruff dad you always wanted approval from liked to boast about your nerdy accomplishments even though you thought he hated them.
I think you’re partially forgetting about Homer alone. It has a very strong story for Homer and Maggie in my opinion. I also heard someone else mention Rosebud and I agree that both of them are great Homer and Maggie episodes but this one is truly the best and has the sweetest ending! Very nice review! I definitely love the phone book joke! Makes me laugh every time . This episode is always a must watch for season six reviews!
DeviousRage28 “ Forget it. The Academy hates me. don’t know why bunch of know-nothing dinosaurs, wouldn’t know entertainment if it bit them in the- hey-hey!”
ngl, this is currently my favourite simpsons episode. it has silliness, like playing burns' head as a bongo drum, but above all shows the most beautiful, real and raw love a parent has for their child. the entire episode us brilliantly down to earth, theres nothing too off the wall or unrealistic which i like. its just a funny, utterly utterly heartwarming episode. maybe its because of my own life experiences but that ending brings me to tears
Bart’s reaction to the family having to switch to cheap toilet paper is one of my all time favorite moments of The Simpson’s. It’s like a two second joke. Its barely a joke. But it rules.
Confession: I actually didn't notice the "Do it for her" message the first time I saw this episode because I was too busy looking at all those cute photos of Maggie (I'm also not a native English speaker but that wasn't really the reason). I'm usually not the biggest fan of the (unironically) sappy endings in Simpsons episodes, but they can be great if there's a clever joke to lighten the sappiness. The "Daddy" ending from Lisa's First Word is already among the best ones because it's simultaneously a funny callback joke and a genuinely sweet moment, but I think "Do it for her" tops that by being really sweet, a clever callback AND a clever sight gag. It's like this hat trick of Simpsons endings. It tecnichally also offers a bit of nice world-building by revealing us what's supposedly always "behind the camera" in front of Homer whenever we see him at his work (although other episodes probably contradict it).
I love that, at this point, they'd done enough of this flashback episodes to start parodying how these episodes go, with Homer being an unreliable narrator, and the intro: "... the domestication of the dog continued unabated."
To nitpick... there is a slight flaw in the show. Ruth Powers (the lady with the red bandanna) moved to Springfield after the Simpsons already had Maggie.
I love Homer’s character so much here. I think it’s genuinely one of the best interpretations of how he ticks. The Burns scene where he does such horrible things as take his drink off his coaster is to me one of the best way to show off his aggression. Yeah he’s being kind of a jerk, but it’s to someone like Mr. Burns, and it’s so minor that it’s genuinely funny. I love his enthusiasm for his bowling job, I love his care for his children, I love his relationship with Marge. I think they hit his character flawlessly. It’s great.
I'd probably contest that this has the best screw-the-audience joke (although this is certainly up there as like a top 5 joke of all The Simpsons). My personal favourite is the brilliant reveal of Hans Moleman in Burns' Heir. "Mom. Dad. I missed you."
Sorry Ive you heard thos before but I absolutely adore the atmosphere of your videos, the video and music flow together really well, keep up the good work man
it's an example of an episode that really couldn't be done today, there's no celebrity guest and it's played almost for real with "flexible reality" (you had a head homer).
I remember thinking to myself how I dislike modern Simpsons for having Homer frequently forget about Maggie, and when I said that one Twitter, someone else said they dislike this episode because Homer has always forgotten about Maggie on occasion, even in early Simpsons, and the ending felt too smultzy and disconnected from that. I'm starting to think they might have a point; even though "DO IT FOR HER" is now a meme, I can't think of many other instances where Homer has this special connection with Maggie... Maybe I just need to watch more Simpsons to be sure of this, like I remember one episode where Maggie is outright scared of Homer and Homer tries to fix that, but other than that, there's not much.
AWESOME! I love Extra Seconds, and I often watch the episodes that you review and theorize on, I even count 'Raging Abe Simpson and his Grumbling Grandson' as part of the 'Who Shot Mr. Burns' trilogy. Thanks for making great content, and re-investing me in 'The Simpsons'. : -)
I would put in my top ten episodes. I did feel your original review was little harsh (even though you were positive about it). I agree that feels like it belongs in different season, seems more Oakley and Weinstein era then season 3. So many brilliant joke like telling Aaronson and Zykowski and Marketing. Got to love homer literally burning that bridge when he left the power plant Its defiantly one of the only episodes before season 10 that explores Homers and Maggie relationship (Except 22 Short Films About Springfield or that time she When she swallowed that quarter, he spent all day with her then). I felt homer sudden change in attitude to maggie was supposed to capture what parents say is that instant connection/feeling of love for their child when its born.
What bothers me so much is how they established in S1 how Homer got his job at the plant (hell, they always state he works in safety), and yet people seem to forget how this episode contradicts that.
BigFatCock He went to Mr. Burns in Season3. He shouted at Mr. Burns that he is an "EMPLOYEE WHO WILL LICK HIS BUTT AND CALL IT ICE-CREAM", Mr. Burns gave it to him and said that he will remember his name. In season 1, he got fired, went suicidal then start to become a protest junkie. When he led a protest on the plant safety, Burns hired him back, gave him a raise and put him in sector 7-G as a safety inspector. It is a dig on real-life activists.
You could chalk that up to Homer being an unreliable narrator. Technically they don't mention his job title in this episode, so the only real error is showing the wrong workstation (as he isn't yet the Safety Inspector). A more egregious error is having pictures of the children on the wall before they're born!
Do you think you will go back and do extra seconds for some more of your old reviews? If you do episodes like last exit to Springfield and Homer at the bat might be worth expanding on because they are classics and it has been some years now since you reviewed them.
Yeah, I hope I can revisit a few more to go more in depth on some of them. I wanna mostly do new stuff and not keep re-treading old ground, but it's worth doing revisits now and again. I know "22 Short Films About Springfield" and "Trilogy of Error" didn't get traditional reviews, so they would be good candidates as well.
Please do extra seconds for life in the fast lane. Thats my all time favorite episodes. It hits home because my parents marriage was almost crushed by a budding affair but my parents love for each other kept them together. Id love if you did one
Oof we DO never get many Homer-Maggie relationship episodes. In fact, whenever Maggie is on screen for a joke, the joke is just: "lol Maggie is violent pls laff"
TheRealJims great extra seconds review. I enjoy the details and overview for each of the episodes you back to. Can you do one for Miracle on Evergreen Terrence?
Maggie is in a weird place considering there's not many way to use her in the plot besides as something to be taken care of or to work harder to provide for. You can't really go very deep in her relationship with any of the family members outside of unconditional love considering she can't even talk. I'm surprised they haven't done an episode about Homer using (or abusing) her supposed skill with guns considering that's one of her only character quirks outside of normal baby stuff.
My whole life I never fully understood that screw-the-audience joke with Patty and Selma because it was mistranslated in the Spanish dub, so that it sounded like they actually called everyone from A through Z. My guess is the translators opted for the most "logical" phrasing, possibly thinking the actual joke made no sense.
"Do it for her" didn't have an impact on me upon first watch because the picture layout had confused my dumb head into thinking that there was no space between "do" and "it". ...for years, I had thought that a "doit" was some weird adult thing that I didn't understand. ^^'
Did you seriously just gloss over the plot holes of Homer already working as a Nuclear Safety Inspector when he was just a lowly Nuclear Technician when the show started (and Maggie was already born) and how Ruth Powers attends to Marge's baby shower despite she being introduced (therefore the Powers meeting the Simpsons) in S4?
Do you write these review under the assumption that everyone has seen the episode in question? I mean I have seen it so it doesn't bothered me, just wondering if that an assumption you made.
Yeah I did kind of guessed that from the fact you don’t even mention the punchline to the “screw the audience” joke, as you call it. BTW not sure if you came up with that term, because I’ve not heard it before, if so nice name! On the subject of that joke, the delivery of the punchline, where Selma reveals she’s only called those two people, has always bothered me. It’s way too quick and I know a lot of people that missed it. Maybe if they had taken it a bit further it could have worked, like come up with some arbitrary reason why the two people she called, also happened to be the first and last names in the phone book, or why she sounds so tried after making the second call.
Haha, that punchline thing was partially me feeling awkward describing/explaining jokes. I always feel like I'm killing a joke when describing a punchline. I'm not positive on the origin of the term "screw-the-audience" joke, but I think David Mirkin (showrunner of this season) refers to them that way in a lot of his Simpsons commentaries. I know he is pretty fond of that type of joke. I kinda like the quickness and deadpan delivery of the punchline. I feel like the show these days is too eager to show its work sometimes with its jokes, so I like these examples where they just try to catch people off balance.
When I re-watched this episode recently, I sat there wondering why she looked so tired after calling only two people. Then it hit me, and I realized how clever this joke is! Her looking so tired isn't just a fake-out for the punchline, it actually makes sense for her to look like that. She called the two biggest gossips in town. BOTH of them likely blabbed gossip to her for a loooong time, and she was probably relaying the juiciest scandals to her sister in the background. That's why she looked so tired!
I absolutely love the joke that Mr Burns has the supplicant door just so he can say "look who's come crawling back"
The classy thing would be not to call attention.
He also went out of his way to make a DE-motivational plaque.He had to actually go to a printer and buy a frame just to tell people their job sucks
Burns is like how former military people describe drill Sergeants, with creative and unusual punishments.
This joke makes me laugh so hard every time
"Maggie never gets to gives back to Homer for his sacrfice."
**Attacks people with lethal force on two occasions to save Homer's life, rescues him from the tow jockey's basement, etc.**
Homer beats up the Simon Cowell clone because he insulted Maggie
And she saves him from drowning too
Maggie is also the only child to call Homer “daddy” instead of his real name as her first word.
She caught something that was about to hit his head at Bart and Lisa's hockey game too.
She also saved him from drowning.
I like how Homer has three hairs on his head during the flashback... until he realises that Marge is pregnant and pulls one of them out, giving him his familiar two for the rest of the episode
Hey Homah nice job getting Marge Pregnant heh heh heh
This is getting very abstract, but thank you! I do enjoy working at the Bowling Alley
maude:congrats on you new job homer.....homer: marge is pregnant... ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brilliant joke
The ending will never not get me all choked up.
Dumb just dumb.. Homer cant even remember he has a third child. “Her” to me, means Marge. I think Marge made this for Homer. Homer then thought, who in the hell is that baby...?
I love that line "a record number of cops & firefighters showed up. But few stayed to bowl"
This episode gives me goosebumps just thinking about it. The ending is the sweetest, smartest and most genuinely tear jerking moment in all of television for me. I can’t explain it, but the payoff with “do it for her” gives me a lump in my throat. I’ve not even watched the whole video and just typing this out, knowing that it’s coming... I feel like I’m about to start sobbing haha
Great video! Honestly, And Maggie Makes Three is my favorite Simpsons episode. It's a perfect combination of a funny and relatable story with some great insight into what is basically Homer's motivation to keep his job in the rest of the series. The humor and outlandish gags help break up the drama. A perfect balance between the heartfelt Season 2 style and the wacky 5/6 style. I'm glad you decided to revisit this one. Even if it isn't your favorite I'm still glad that you gave it the video it deserves, though I still feel that you were on to something in your original video.
"We have three kids, Homer."
"Marge, the dog doesn't count as a kid." - Separate Vocations, Season 3
I know what you mean - Homer barely seems to notice Maggie most of the time. And on another note, this was the last episode to air before I was born.
Hannah Shribman-Brown also
Judge: And, er, Margaret? Homer: Who? Lady, you got the wrong file. Marge: [whispering] It's Maggie! Homer: Oh, Maggie. Er, I got nothing against Maggie.
Then there's:
"That proves this is screwed up. Who the hell is Margaret Simpson?"
"Your youngest daughter."
I was born between "Krusty Gets Kancelled" and "Homer's Barbershop Quartet". Actually, 6 days before the latter to be exact. I guess I was a baby on board.
To be fair, she doesn’t do a lot in episodes, but that makes sense because she’s a baby that doesn’t talk.
A reason why I like episodes such as “Itchy and Scratchy and Marge,” “A Streetcar Named Marge,” and even “Moe Baby Blues” is because Maggie actually contributes to the plot, which seems like somewhat of a rarity.
@@ShizuruNakatsu Between seasons too.
I just noticed. Ruth Powers is in the flashbacks when it covers the baby shower. But she wasn't in Springfield at that point from what we know. Damn it Simpsons. Can you go 5 seconds without screwing up your timeline.
This is a great episode as it shows Homer does loves his children. and actually reacts in a real way to unplanned pregnancy unlike with The Bart birth episode
Simpsons mystery:
What if this is the reason Homer can't get fired from the plant? Even if he leaves for days or even weeks at a time to do other jobs.
Burns controls almost everything in Springfield.
He knows Homer isn't there at the plant and he doesn't care. He knows Homer will have to come back. When he said you're here forever, he meant that. The contract makes him essentially own Homer for life, even if Homer isn't there for days or weeks. He has to come back eventually. Burns enjoys this control so much that he will never get rid of him.
Burns also doesn't care how the plant runs. He pays off the inspectors regardless, and he has a complete Monopoly on the tower for the whole town (and likely more). So Homer not being there to keep things *safe* doesn't matter the majority of the time.
He's just a toy to burns. The fact he has these other adventures but always has to come back to this job that he hates probably makes it even more amusing for burns, who of course is aware of whatever else Homer is doing. Burns has a hand in every sector of Springfield, it's even been mentioned in episodes and video games that he has cameras throughout Springfield. He knows what's going on.
SmashTurtle It’s probably more in line with the fact that Homer has the job as Saftey Inspector because Burns is keeping Homer on a leash from going on a crusade against him.
@@sonicmastersword8080 Homer is too stupid for that.
That's right. The powerplant shot Mr. Burns
@Saskaruto16, just one question though, if Mr. Burns has Homer on a leash, knows he'll always come back when he leaves, and knows that he owns him for life, why does he keep forgetting who Homer is then?
@@alvexok5523 So a few possible explanations.
Firstly: that gag was more so used before the "who shot Mr. Burns" episode which took placd in season 6. So it's possible that this is less of an issue now. For instance, Burns has shown to know him and his family multiple times since season 6. For instance in Season 8, Mountain of Madness, he recognizes Homer and his family, refers to him by name many times, etc.
Now while it may have been brought back a few times as a joke at some point after that since there are 30 seasons I'm not going to bother going through them all to check, we could chock it up to the writers not knowing their own cannon and screwing up (if you want to debate if anything is canon after this many years and many writer changes, 4th wall events, etc), or one of the other following reasons.
Second: there is a fan theory that Mr.Burns was concussed by Homer at one point and that he has permanent brain damage that causes memory issues. I don't like this theory and don't think it lines up, but I thought I would mention it. Though the brain does tie in to what I think a logical canon reason could be.
Thirdly: He is over 100 years old. He loses track of things. He's said before that he's in his 80s, but he's actually over 100. That means at least sometimes his memory is not all there if he's occationally 20+ years off in how old he believes he is. In "The Spingfield files" (also season 8) we see the insane medical procedure he undergoes weekly, just to keep him in the shape he is in and that it leaves him looking/sounding like an alien for hours afterward, and other episodes have hinted at or directly said he's had other procedures done and organs replaced as well to stay alive.
It's not unreasonable that as the week goes on his mind deteriorates along with his body until it gets boosted again, or that at any random point he could again forget someone's name or even or what year it is. When he tried to put together a baseball team for the power plant he wanted to recruite a bunch of players that were dead because his concept of the passage of time is so off he not only thought they were alive but in playable shape.
Now you might ask why he can remember old stories of how people died or where he was 30+ years ago. That's because the further back the memory the more deeply ingrained it is. Old people with certain medical conditions that can result in deteriorating memory can almost always remember the people/events of their past, it's the things happening more recently and in the present that they don't remember to the same degree.
Forth: We could get into the timeline and that in theory every episode is somehow supposed to take place in a short amount of time because no one ages, but that's a whole mess with multiple contradicting examples because like I said in the first paragraph: the writers don't actually care about canon at all and will change/rewite things because they don't know, do it for a story, or even just a one off joke.
These videos and fan theories are just for fun so even a well crafted one likely has at least one contradictory example over 30 years of various writers. Hell if you go back far enough Smithers was black.
At the end of the day: It's canon if you want it to be.
If there's any video I wish I could re-write, it would be the "And Maggie Makes Three" review. It didn't get a TON of negative feedback (just a few people yelling at me for the forgettable thing)... But I think I editorialized too much. I kinda made the review more about my personal confusion about it, rather than the episode itself. 60 seconds isn't a great format for the kind of review I wrote. I wanted to re-visit this one to give it a more thorough look.
Glad you took a second crack at this one. As the father of four daughters, I cry every time I watch this one. To me, it is certainly a Top 10 episode.
In media, we often get the message that work is something exciting and fulfilling, but the truth is there are millions of Homers out there, men and women working jobs they don't enjoy because they love their families, and this episode is an awesome tribute to them. Doesn't make me envious of those with kids or anything but still. Kudos to you.
didn't homer become safety inspector in season 1's homer's odyssey after maggie was born?....and isn't the reason he takes the job not serious is cause burns made him lie and say his plant is safe when it isn't so homer could get his old well paying job back? so he resents burns for it?..
There was technically Rosebud before this. There isn't a HUGE exploration of dynamic between Homer and Maggie (it's largely a Burns episode) but it does show a similar deal, Homer will put himself in a miserable position to make Maggie happy. In hindsight it's dumbfounding there's episodes where Homer can barely even remember Maggie, he takes a LOT of crap for her sake.
“You are so beautiful- you’re everything that I hope for! You are so beautiful~”
To me, it was an “awwww” moment BECAUSE you don’t get a lot of homer and Maggie. We go from knowing that he doesn’t really do much with her to finding out he did all that for her. It didn’t need a close relationship set up. It’s like finding out that the gruff dad you always wanted approval from liked to boast about your nerdy accomplishments even though you thought he hated them.
Homer lighting the match and setting the bridge on fire behind him is the best joke in the series that never gets talked about.
I think you’re partially forgetting about Homer alone. It has a very strong story for Homer and Maggie in my opinion. I also heard someone else mention Rosebud and I agree that both of them are great Homer and Maggie episodes but this one is truly the best and has the sweetest ending! Very nice review! I definitely love the phone book joke! Makes me laugh every time . This episode is always a must watch for season six reviews!
This episode on the simpsons should've won an Emmy for this
DeviousRage28 “ Forget it. The Academy hates me. don’t know why bunch of know-nothing dinosaurs, wouldn’t know entertainment if it bit them in the- hey-hey!”
@@joshmg25 lol oh krusty
Who won instead of this episode?
I can never hear the word "plague" anymore without thinking of "the dreaded plague" "I think you mean plaque, sir"
The covid plaque
ngl, this is currently my favourite simpsons episode. it has silliness, like playing burns' head as a bongo drum, but above all shows the most beautiful, real and raw love a parent has for their child. the entire episode us brilliantly down to earth, theres nothing too off the wall or unrealistic which i like. its just a funny, utterly utterly heartwarming episode. maybe its because of my own life experiences but that ending brings me to tears
Bart’s reaction to the family having to switch to cheap toilet paper is one of my all time favorite moments of The Simpson’s. It’s like a two second joke. Its barely a joke. But it rules.
Honestly this is one of my favourite episodes of the whole show and that ending never fails to choke me up.
You’re right, that phone book joke is one of the all time greats.
I always read it as "DON'T FORGET HER". I guess it's the spacing of the letters/words making my brain want to fill in gaps.
Confession: I actually didn't notice the "Do it for her" message the first time I saw this episode because I was too busy looking at all those cute photos of Maggie (I'm also not a native English speaker but that wasn't really the reason).
I'm usually not the biggest fan of the (unironically) sappy endings in Simpsons episodes, but they can be great if there's a clever joke to lighten the sappiness. The "Daddy" ending from Lisa's First Word is already among the best ones because it's simultaneously a funny callback joke and a genuinely sweet moment, but I think "Do it for her" tops that by being really sweet, a clever callback AND a clever sight gag. It's like this hat trick of Simpsons endings. It tecnichally also offers a bit of nice world-building by revealing us what's supposedly always "behind the camera" in front of Homer whenever we see him at his work (although other episodes probably contradict it).
I love that, at this point, they'd done enough of this flashback episodes to start parodying how these episodes go, with Homer being an unreliable narrator, and the intro: "... the domestication of the dog continued unabated."
To nitpick... there is a slight flaw in the show. Ruth Powers (the lady with the red bandanna) moved to Springfield after the Simpsons already had Maggie.
That's à good point
"Maybe I'm not getting enough....estrogen."
Well, maybe she was just visiting then....or another person s guest.
I sure hope someone got fired for that blunder
I love Homer’s character so much here. I think it’s genuinely one of the best interpretations of how he ticks. The Burns scene where he does such horrible things as take his drink off his coaster is to me one of the best way to show off his aggression. Yeah he’s being kind of a jerk, but it’s to someone like Mr. Burns, and it’s so minor that it’s genuinely funny.
I love his enthusiasm for his bowling job, I love his care for his children, I love his relationship with Marge. I think they hit his character flawlessly. It’s great.
I'd probably contest that this has the best screw-the-audience joke (although this is certainly up there as like a top 5 joke of all The Simpsons).
My personal favourite is the brilliant reveal of Hans Moleman in Burns' Heir.
"Mom. Dad. I missed you."
Guy Incognito! Guy Incognito!
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I wouldn't say there relation was never explored, remember Maggie's first words were "daddy."
it's an example of an episode that really couldn't be done today, there's no celebrity guest and it's played almost for real with "flexible reality" (you had a head homer).
now all we need is an origin story about Maggie's Pacifier.
@@Super_Mario128 They got it at the safeway for $1.95
And your body was a little bit bigger
Ya know you say "i dont know when Maggie and Homer" became a thing, it was season 4's lisa's first word.
agreed
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My favorite joke was when Homer, after leaving the plant, throws a match on a wooden bridge. In other words, he literally burned a bridge.
Great video! I absolutely love this episode, it's just so emotional and attention catching for some reason.
2:48 I never noticed that until now!
I remember thinking to myself how I dislike modern Simpsons for having Homer frequently forget about Maggie, and when I said that one Twitter, someone else said they dislike this episode because Homer has always forgotten about Maggie on occasion, even in early Simpsons, and the ending felt too smultzy and disconnected from that. I'm starting to think they might have a point; even though "DO IT FOR HER" is now a meme, I can't think of many other instances where Homer has this special connection with Maggie... Maybe I just need to watch more Simpsons to be sure of this, like I remember one episode where Maggie is outright scared of Homer and Homer tries to fix that, but other than that, there's not much.
So basically this was the largest window to get a comment in for the Extra Seconds.
...And then I forgot to put any comments in the video. I knew I was forgetting something, lol.
Probably my favourite episode. Watch it atleast once a year
I honestly don't think I've ever seen the episode, but so much makes sense now
Out of all the endings, this is the most sacrificial and relatable to the family.
AWESOME! I love Extra Seconds, and I often watch the episodes that you review and theorize on, I even count 'Raging Abe Simpson and his Grumbling Grandson' as part of the 'Who Shot Mr. Burns' trilogy. Thanks for making great content, and re-investing me in 'The Simpsons'. : -)
This is one of my all time favourite episodes.
My little sister Maggie got her name from this episode because of me and my dads love of the show
But this is one of if not the best ending to an episode of The Simpsons ever
This episode is the first thing I recall anytime I consider how I might go about crying on command.
Tbh this was the first episode I saw just randomly on tv (only good thing on) and it made me emotional
"Maggie! What a great little accident you turned out to be!" - Homer J Simpson, Simpson's Movie
4:03 bro that cut had me thinking my phone died😂😭
Homer and Moe certainly is a thing to go emotional about.
I still cry every time, dammit. You know you do too.
I would put in my top ten episodes. I did feel your original review was little harsh (even though you were positive about it). I agree that feels like it belongs in different season, seems more Oakley and Weinstein era then season 3.
So many brilliant joke like telling Aaronson and Zykowski and Marketing. Got to love homer literally burning that bridge when he left the power plant
Its defiantly one of the only episodes before season 10 that explores Homers and Maggie relationship (Except 22 Short Films About Springfield or that time she When she swallowed that quarter, he spent all day with her then).
I felt homer sudden change in attitude to maggie was supposed to capture what parents say is that instant connection/feeling of love for their child when its born.
What bothers me so much is how they established in S1 how Homer got his job at the plant (hell, they always state he works in safety), and yet people seem to forget how this episode contradicts that.
ebm93 Nice profile picture
How'd he get his job originally?
BigFatCock He went to Mr. Burns in Season3. He shouted at Mr. Burns that he is an "EMPLOYEE WHO WILL LICK HIS BUTT AND CALL IT ICE-CREAM", Mr. Burns gave it to him and said that he will remember his name. In season 1, he got fired, went suicidal then start to become a protest junkie. When he led a protest on the plant safety, Burns hired him back, gave him a raise and put him in sector 7-G as a safety inspector. It is a dig on real-life activists.
You could chalk that up to Homer being an unreliable narrator. Technically they don't mention his job title in this episode, so the only real error is showing the wrong workstation (as he isn't yet the Safety Inspector). A more egregious error is having pictures of the children on the wall before they're born!
Do you think you will go back and do extra seconds for some more of your old reviews? If you do episodes like last exit to Springfield and Homer at the bat might be worth expanding on because they are classics and it has been some years now since you reviewed them.
Yeah, I hope I can revisit a few more to go more in depth on some of them. I wanna mostly do new stuff and not keep re-treading old ground, but it's worth doing revisits now and again. I know "22 Short Films About Springfield" and "Trilogy of Error" didn't get traditional reviews, so they would be good candidates as well.
Great video! I think it would be cool if you did a video reviewing how the Simpsons has changed throughout all the seasons.
I think extra s3conds are my favorite of your videos, along with the mysteries of course
Dude your videos are great!
'You're thinking what we're all saying'
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Please do extra seconds for life in the fast lane. Thats my all time favorite episodes. It hits home because my parents marriage was almost crushed by a budding affair but my parents love for each other kept them together. Id love if you did one
Oof we DO never get many Homer-Maggie relationship episodes. In fact, whenever Maggie is on screen for a joke, the joke is just: "lol Maggie is violent pls laff"
This is my mums favourite episode
"Do it for beer"
That's for employing me for eight years!
Honestly of the main Simpsons family members, i think Bart and Maggie don't have much interaction.
This episode is easily in my top 5 of The Simpsons, possibly even top 3.
2:16 what's the neighborg lady doing there if they met AFTER maggie was born?
Hey, you're right. Ruth Powers shouldn't even be living in Springfield at that point.
Did anybody hold you at a gun point? :D
Wow, you are so analytical and I love it!
Would you ever consider reviewing each individual season?
Just subscribed! Love these videos.
Look... KNIGHT BOAT!
TheRealJims great extra seconds review. I enjoy the details and overview for each of the episodes you back to. Can you do one for Miracle on Evergreen Terrence?
I thought the implication to why Maggie takes to her pacifier was kind of cute; she sees it as a substitute for kissing.
Marge's egg also has her pearls in the center
Look! Night boat. Aww 😂
Not only did they put Marge's hair on her egg I swear that her pearls are also in there.
After rewatch I really hope homer goes back to the bowling alley when Bart and Lisa move out. Next future episode please
Maggie is in a weird place considering there's not many way to use her in the plot besides as something to be taken care of or to work harder to provide for. You can't really go very deep in her relationship with any of the family members outside of unconditional love considering she can't even talk. I'm surprised they haven't done an episode about Homer using (or abusing) her supposed skill with guns considering that's one of her only character quirks outside of normal baby stuff.
Ha Ha well spotted with the hair on the egg thing, first time in my life I did a genuine double take.
My whole life I never fully understood that screw-the-audience joke with Patty and Selma because it was mistranslated in the Spanish dub, so that it sounded like they actually called everyone from A through Z. My guess is the translators opted for the most "logical" phrasing, possibly thinking the actual joke made no sense.
Great video as always! Do you think you'll ever do reviews or showdowns with the newer episodes?
Wow. Two TVs!
I am so emotional about homer and moe!
Isint it a common joke that Homer allways forgets about Margret?
Is the whole bowling alley thing in this episode a parody of some movie?
If more of this kind of, homer, simpsons would have kept the show on track.
I’m just sayin the best screw the audience joke is “damn it’s windy as hell”
This episode has a big continuity error. Ruth Powers is at Marge's baby shower dispite the fact she moved nextdoor AFTER Maggie was born
"Do it for her" didn't have an impact on me upon first watch because the picture layout had confused my dumb head into thinking that there was no space between "do" and "it".
...for years, I had thought that a "doit" was some weird adult thing that I didn't understand. ^^'
Doit for her
@@hkazu63
Exactly, heh...
Windy as hell out there!
Why did you take down the new who shot mr burns video?
Nice video. That cut off, man. That actually freaked me out.
1:55 What joke are you referring to here?
When Marge hears a knock on the door but it was just the wind. Then Homer barges in a second later
2:57 As someone who was having a snack while watching, it's gross.
great review
And Maggie Makes Three > Jurassic Bark
Did you seriously just gloss over the plot holes of Homer already working as a Nuclear Safety Inspector when he was just a lowly Nuclear Technician when the show started (and Maggie was already born) and how Ruth Powers attends to Marge's baby shower despite she being introduced (therefore the Powers meeting the Simpsons) in S4?
Do you write these review under the assumption that everyone has seen the episode in question? I mean I have seen it so it doesn't bothered me, just wondering if that an assumption you made.
Yeah. After so many years, I just work under the assumption that anyone looking up this episode after the fact is familiar with it already
Yeah I did kind of guessed that from the fact you don’t even mention the punchline to the “screw the audience” joke, as you call it. BTW not sure if you came up with that term, because I’ve not heard it before, if so nice name!
On the subject of that joke, the delivery of the punchline, where Selma reveals she’s only called those two people, has always bothered me. It’s way too quick and I know a lot of people that missed it. Maybe if they had taken it a bit further it could have worked, like come up with some arbitrary reason why the two people she called, also happened to be the first and last names in the phone book, or why she sounds so tried after making the second call.
Haha, that punchline thing was partially me feeling awkward describing/explaining jokes. I always feel like I'm killing a joke when describing a punchline. I'm not positive on the origin of the term "screw-the-audience" joke, but I think David Mirkin (showrunner of this season) refers to them that way in a lot of his Simpsons commentaries. I know he is pretty fond of that type of joke.
I kinda like the quickness and deadpan delivery of the punchline. I feel like the show these days is too eager to show its work sometimes with its jokes, so I like these examples where they just try to catch people off balance.
When I re-watched this episode recently, I sat there wondering why she looked so tired after calling only two people. Then it hit me, and I realized how clever this joke is! Her looking so tired isn't just a fake-out for the punchline, it actually makes sense for her to look like that.
She called the two biggest gossips in town. BOTH of them likely blabbed gossip to her for a loooong time, and she was probably relaying the juiciest scandals to her sister in the background. That's why she looked so tired!
4:03 Greta Thunberg foreshadowing