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Thank you. I heartily endorse this event or product. Ahoy, hoy, everybody, and welcome to Talking Simpsons, where we give our listeners the frowning of a lifetime. I'm one of your host, the P. Pigley Hogswine Super Smorg Night Manager, Bob Mackie, and this is our chronological exploration of the Simpsons, who is here with me today, as always. That's right, money. Your money's happiness is all that monies. It's Henry Gilbert. And who is our special guest on the line?

A boy having an out-of-body experience, Toby Jones.

And this week's episode is Lady Boovier's Lover.

That's not my mother.

I'll be back in a jiffy.

Can I come to?

Oh. This episode originally aired on May 12th, 1994, and Fries Can I come to?

This episode originally aired on May 12th, 1994, and as always, Henry will tell us what happened on this mythical day in real world history.

Oh my God!

The Crow tops the box office, Weezer's Blue album is released, and Phil Hartman leaves Saturday Night Live as a cast member.

Oh man, these are all things I can talk about. Thank God, because we're living in 1994, everybody.

Bob, you just watched The Crow recently, didn't you? If your letterbox, if I remember your letterbox correctly.

Yes, for the second time, and it is such a 90 superhero movie. I have not seen it since it came out on VHS, but I love how in the 90s, we were adapting superheroes no one had ever heard of. And in their movie, we see the Orton story, they do what they're expected to do, and then they go away forever. They either die or they fight the ultimate villain and kill them. So, like, in the first Batman movie, he kills the Joker and that's it. Okay, Batman's story is done.

In The Crow, spoilers, the crow gets the revenge he needs to get, and then he returns to the grave and that's it for the Crow. Although there are two more sequels and a very Vancouver television show to follow. It's all the post-Tim Burton era of these superhero movies because there was the shadow, of course, the Phantom, of course, Dick Tracy.

And what I'm currently in the process of watching, of course, the Darkman series, all of which do indeed follow.

Darkman follows the thing you're describing completely to a T.

I think the crow also was mixed into like, you know, let's pull in the Gothic stuff, but it gets away from like the 40s style. And instead it's like, well, the Ninja Turtles are a popular indie comic book sensation.

What if we pulled in an indie comic that has like seven issues total that were even existed?

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