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This week for this episode about motherhood we're joined by special guest Karen Chu of Good Job, Brain! who helps us better understand Marge's need to visit Rancho Relaxo after a nervous breakdown. We get Troy McClure as our video tour guide and learn about omelets, blackhead removal, baby car seats, stealing lightbulbs, and more. When listening to this podcast, be sure to grab Clamato, Mr. Pibb, or soy milk!

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Anonymous

If Q-tips are not made to clean ear wax then why are they explicitly shaped like it. Flagrant false advertising as Otto would say.

Anonymous

You guys pointed how Marge might be getting exposed to radiation on her way to Rancho Relaxo. Radiation used to be an advertised feature of many spas and resorts in the early 20th century when radiation was widely marketed as being healthy for you. Some Japanese spas still promote the health benefits: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20180306-a-spa-where-patients-bathe-in-radiactive-water

April

Are things better for mothers now? Not if you ask any of my female friends/family members who are mothers. It's just anecdotal, but their male partners don't do anything close to 50% of the household work.

deranged hermit

Changing my twitter display name to “Feminine Viewpoint Supporter”

littleterr0r

Ah, I never knew that about the bridge that Marge stops on. I went on a tour of Portland on Wednesday as part of a work thing and the tour guide pointed out "Suicide Bridge" aka the Vista Bridge several times for some reason, once when we were driving across it and then again at the bottom in the Goose Hollow neighborhood.

Anonymous

Karen was such a great guest! I was a little skeptical when she mentioned not being a huge Simpsons fan but she had such charismatic energy and wonderful observations (the point about Maggie's feet is so insightful). Nice job, guys! Loving the revisited episodes

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

You guys are absolutely right about how naming this episode after Homer, despite it being a Marge-centric one has to stem from someone being nervous that the audience wouldn't tune in, which is obviously some big BS. It ALSO bothers me because there's so many bad titles that don't really indicate what the episode is throughout the show's entire history, and Homer Alone is actually a GOOD title, other than that it suggests Homer as the focal point for the episode (and can kind of be confused with Homer the Heretic) -- Also, Karen was a great guest and it was nice hearing her perspective on the show as someone who isn't super familiar with it, but still had a lot to say

nina matsumoto

Another note from the Department of Corrections: the jalapeno popper video is staged. They're just an odd couple on Tiktok that upload planned bits of them teasing each other. There's another vid where they're both chuckling about how many views that video got and how everyone wants to kill him

Anonymous

The name Rancho Relaxo always makes me think of an ad my parents have referenced since I was very young for a Latino-focused bank called Banco Popular that did business in the NYC region. There was apparently a running line throughout the ads of "Banco means bank" which my parents have found hilarious for decades (I have been unable to find a clip of this ad on the Internet despite a decent amount of searching so I only have their memories to go on). I've always kind of wondered if some of the boomer writers on The Simpsons also saw this ad and used it as inspiration for Rancho Relaxo's corny name and "You can't spell Realxo without relax" tagline. So then, Rancho means "Ranch." And Relaxo means "relax." And that concludes our intensive three-week course.

John Harrison

In my reading of parenting books (a new father myself), it is kind of a "yes but no" situation. Husbands now do a lot more of the domestic work when compared to their fathers, but a lot more than almost 0 still isn't close to 50%

Anonymous

OH NO! SINGLE DIRTBAG SKILL! I'm a cook, which is a profession full of dirtbags along full spectrum from likable to not. A friend cook 10 years ago had this story he was always bringing up that "one time I did a Bop-It for like twenty minutes". It was I guess in a toy store and he blew the mind of a young child watching him.

Anonymous

Speaking of multiple cheese omelets have yall seen the weird romantic fanfic some straight lady wrote about buttigieg meeting his husband? There's a 3 cheese omelet involved.

John Harrison

Really great guest. I really enjoy having a perspective outside of the "I grew up watching the simpsons, and especially with syndication and my station was a bit special because it played two episodes every weekday"