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That's number one in Hitler City, North Carolina. I'm one of your host, the Kami Pig, Bob Mackie, and this is our chronological exploration of the Simpsons, who is here with me today, as always? Henry Gilbert, ready to show off my pipes. And who is our special guest on the line? It's me, Brendan James, and I go to Wrong Fundraiser.

And this week's episode is Bart Mangled Banner.

Welcome everyone to the annual donkey basketball classic.

I'm sure that mule enjoy it.

Yeah, tough crowd.

Would everyone just rise for our national anthem?

This episode originally aired on May 16th, 2004, and as always, Henry will tell us what happened on this mythical day in real world history.

Oh my God!

Troy briefly tops the box office. The series finale of Frazier airs after 11 seasons and 264 episodes

and then recent Simpsons guest star Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9-11 wins the Palm Door at the Con

Film Festival. I have not seen the series finale of Frazier. Do they finally kiss? Daphne and Niles had their baby like the previous season. No, I met Frasier and Niles, Henry. Oh, no, that I don't think they. America wasn't ready for it. I'm a big Frasier head along with one of my best friends and friend of the show Libby Watson. The finale

is solid. Fraser had an interesting thing where, in my opinion, seasons like eight through

ten, they were 11 in total, are quite a dip because they resolved the Daphne Niles thing. And

I think in addition, a lot of oxygen had just gone out of the show. I can't imagine another program in which that's happened. But 11 comes back really strong. I don't know if they like shook it up in the writer's room, but the last season of Frazier is a real return to form. Yeah, when we have nothing else to watch here, we usually put Frazier on Pluto TV because it's free and it's just on in the background. And I feel like I like the mullet era of Frasier the best because those are the ones I watched when they were airing. And once he loses the mullet gets a more sensible haircut, I'm kind of checked out. There's like a transitionary period where it's still good, but he's lost the longer hair. I gravitate toward those earlier seasons because I prefer cheers to Frazier and they flanderize him

quite a bit in Frazier. So the closer you are to the mullet, you're closer to the source of like

the true Frazier in my opinion. At 264 episodes, that's about less than a third of Simpsons now,

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