u/InvisibleAstronomer

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E I E I DOH

I get milk duds every time at the movies. I'll have to ask for butter next time.

Lots of blink you'll miss it gags from the Marquee movie titles to the credits of the Zoro flick.

How have I gone my whole life and never heard the glove slap parody of Love Shack 😂

So this old southern Colonel reminds me a lot of the old Foghorn Leghorn cartoon.

Love that the Christmas tree is just in the car.

Holy shit Carter was building housing back then too? Good for him.

Didn't they burn down Homer's childhood home in the love potion episode?

I'll weed the floor! 😆

Oh, sneeds feed and seed! I've heard about this famous hidden joke.

Bart is adorable in overalls.

Wtf random elephant. 🐘

No fhankth I'm thtill finithing my fthithlth 😂😂😂

The glow effect on the field is the best graphics this show has ever had.

I can't wait to see what happens. The suspense.

Tomacco 😂

We got breaking bad twelve years early. Wait what happened to the southern dude.

Did you see the way Amelia was looking at that guy? Hoo hoo I think there was something going on there.

Holy shit the attacking animals was hilariously alarming.

Kinda funny how Laramie ciggs is such a consistent brand.

Honestly that was a great episode. 4 evil tomatoes.

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My kids are spending a portion of the summer at their grandparents house in another state while I am busy with work. I love to bake and thought it might be nice to mail them some homemade cookies but I'm not sure if that is a good idea. Anyone do that and have Success With It?

I don't particularly like these questions because they are shallow and cliche and often follow a prescribed social script that both client and therapist are overly comfortable with. It also doesn't help that it's a bit of a waste of time because other than as a really mild Icebreaker it does not tend to typically provide much useful information. At the very least it can be a pain to overly rely on this single question every session.

I occasionally mix it up with questions like what has been on your mind? Or, what is it like to be here today? Or even, when you came in today for our session, what did you bring with you?

THOH X

Yeesssssssssssss

I KNOW WHAT YOU DIDDIDIDIDIDLY DID

Smacks or whatever that rice golden puff cereal was called was so lame.

How many THOHS involve Ned dying. 🤔

The way Homer talks to Ned's body was hilarious.

This whole minisode is great.

Wtf 😳 that ending with Homer screaming off the camera and getting mauled would have freaked me tf out as a kid. Somehow it's more disturbing bc they don't show the action. I liked this mini horror story pretty well though.

XEEKING XENA

We STILL calling people point Dexter??

I have always always hated stretchy power. From LUFFY Monkey to Ms Incredible to Mr Fantastic.

Whenever you notice something like that a wizard did it. 🤣

I remember half of one episode of Xena....

Near mint condition and a mylar bag lol.

Best. Death. Ever.

That whole mini was just meh.

LIFE'S A GLITCH

Happy 2000? Are we finally at y2k?

OH, Huh yeah we are. Wow.

My family spent Y2k new years praying in church in fear of the end of the world.

Operation Exodus. Oh geeze. This is still kinda believable with all the billionaire doomsday bunkers.

Only allowed to take one parent with you.MOM

I barely remember who any of these people are on rocket 2.

Not fast enough! 🫪🤯

It was a fun enough Treehouse. Part 2 was a bit weak but Ned werewolf was great and the y2k one while a bit meandering and too "what if" has the benefit of some fun historical nostalgia.

4 tickets to Mars

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I'm a new therapist in my first year on the field. Listening a lot to various podcasts and the most recent episode of EOTC has me scratching my head. They describe a viral TikTok video of a woman who fires her T after intake bc the session went 5 mins past the hour, fifteen minutes from ending at 00:50. This created a lot of buzz in folks who thought the client was being harsh and the T was being generous with their time and going over five mins(or 15)on an intake isn't a big deal. The client expressed that their tiem wasn't valued and as a trauma victim they need clear boundaries which the T broke.

The pod hosts also say they basically always end exactly around the 50 minute mark. As a new T in a group practice, I was told to basically always end between 53-59 in order to bill for 90837s. Now I'm wondering about the episode, but also, I basically end somewhere between 53 and 59 minutes and have never had clients complain about it. It also seems somewhat.... White culture largely to be so hung up over a few minutes? Is this even a concern among other ethnicities? Guess I'm just wondering where other people are on this

GUESS WHO'S COMING TO CRITICIZE DINNER?

Is it patty and selma?

I remember a school teacher telling the class a joke about Patty in the shower and Homer jumps in thinking it's Marge and she shouts don't look at me and he shouts but you're everywhere!

Dingus 💢

Johnny newspaperseed. The whole concept of Johnny appleseed feels like weird nationalist propaganda.

I could even eat a baby deer lala la 🎶 🎶 😆

A famous novel exists without the letter E used once.

What's the English equivalent of "Huaghlafhahgaaaa"

Wait what happened to Uter?

At some point Homer is going to stop choking Bart.

Well, we DID get patty and selma. 👙🤢

Homer job as a food critic. Should have guessed.

These scenes are great honestly. All the food critic bits.

"people will think what I tell them to think when you tell me what to tell them to think!" amazing line. (also the motto for fox news)

Omigosh when are we getting rid of typewriters.

Wait why did the dog talk? "chewy?"

It's worth noting just how often restaurant owners show up in this show. I mean, pirate guy, Mario and the blowfish Japanese guy...

Wait is this a spoof on the Ides of March?

Kinda odd that they want to like murder Homer?? I mean... Like, pirate guy is a pretty regular random character. Who I kinda hate.

Thank God it landed in that smoking crater!

The ending was... Dumb. Homer gets mobbed and gets his come uppance? They kept repeating that line like it was supposed to be funny. It wasn't. But the overall plot was funny enough.

Was close to a 4 but the ending was so rushed and poorly executed it lost half a point. 3.5 poisoned ecclairs.

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BROTHERS LITTLE HELPER

something I haven't emphasized enough is how fun this project has been. I've become a Simpsons fan, yes. But also, it's always exciting to click NEXT EPISODE and know that I'm in for a completely new surprise in Springfield. That feeling of fun and uncertain anticipation happens at the start of every episode, whether I end up liking it or not.

So are we getting an episode about SLH? Haven't featured the family dog in ages.

The couch gag of the Asian animators filling in the paint by numbers, wasn't this show animated overseas?

At my house we call em Uh Ohs.

I keep hearing that Maud dies at some point? Thrown from the bleachers or soemthing.

ADD? Fun fact, it's now called ADHD exclusively. I was late diagnosed at 30. 🌈

The kids swapping drug stories on the playground was great 😂

7 Habits of highly effective preteens? Haha. Decent book although it's easiest to watch a summary video.

The Carl and Lenny scene was 👌 🥤

Did he say "Regei funny or OJ funny?" not sure what he means.

I'm always losing my needle nose pliers also Homer.

This video was likely bc of the hayday around Ritalin in the 90s and a lot of controversy around ADD diagnosis. Not sure if this is lampooning the controversy or contributing to it.

"I went to the Persian gulf and all I got was this lousy syndrome." Damn, this episode is really hammering home the psychology health care angle.

OMIGOD I LOVE the twist of the satellite😂😂😂😂 You think Bart went from super genius to plain crazy but then realize he was actually right all along.

And everyone just gives in to the baseball fame rather than address the surveillance.

Yes yes, Popeye reference. Very nice.

This episode really doesn't deserve 4.5 pills, but I must say I really did enjoy it. Maybe bc I'm ADHD, maybe bc I work in mental healthcare, maybe because it was fun seeing Flanders catch on fire. I dunno but this for me was a fun episode and one I'd definitely watch again.

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Psychologist David Schnarch should be much better known in the field. He has this interesting view that most couples have a cultural disposition to think communication is the biggest issue facing their marriages, but it is very often not that. Schnarch says "couples can talk till they're blue in the face" and not improve bc what matters isn't miscommunication but just differences in values, or beliefs, or preferences, or priorities.

I read him in grad school. Now I'm in the field and almost all of the folks i see with troubled marriages come in telling ME communication is their biggest relationship problem. And I can't help wondering if this is even true, or a learned script they follow. Curious what other's experiences are with couples work and this concept.

BEYOND BLUNDER DOME

What an awful title.

You know, I've always wondered if, once I'm solidly out of the golden years, if I might just go through the remaining seasons and only do the first and last episode of every season, or all of the THOH episodes or something.

Electaurus? Wild that fully electric vehicles felt so entirely scifi once.

People cared about Mel Gibson back then? I kinda feel like he's.... Gone down hill. Sexiest man alive? No way.

I just saw flubber for the first time a few months ago.

Booty call? Is that like a butt dial?

Okay I actually got the joke about Jimmy Stewart and the giant rabbit 🐰😆

I really don't care for these "Springfield slobbers over celebs" videos.

Homer's about face on Mel was a great scene actually.

"Robert Downey Jr is shooting it out with the police!" I don't see any cameras. Okay this joke is pretty funny knowing he'd turn his life around and reach mega stardom.

It seems relevant to express that while I attended a Christian College that banned all R rated movies on campus, the only ones we were allowed to watch were Mel Gibson's Patriot and Braveheart and Passion. Something something conservative values.

Legit Homer's ideas for editing the movie are hilarious and I really want to see Homer's version of Mr Smith Goes to Washington. Yes I have seen the Jimmy Stewart original.

I don't think I even realized how long Ellen DeGeneres has been famous but given how young she was in that cameo... actually Robert Downey Jr was really young in his cameo too. Damn it this show makes me feel old.

I'm so glad we got to see at least a portion of Homer's edited version because that was hilarious and honestly enjoyable. Yes I caught the Three Stooges gag. The whole debacle still seemed more tame than current year.

Yeah. Huh. Yeah. Huh. Yeah. Huh. Fired.

Is that from somewhere?

Couple of fun cameos in the vehicle Museum

Vomiting butterflies, 😆

Worst. Ending. Ever.

Okay that whole episode was funnier than it had a right to be. 3.5 shifty eyed dogs.

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30 MINUTES OVER TOKYO

Chalk board gag: I'M SO VERY TIRED

Why do I feel like a desperate animator snuck that in. Anyway, I feel the same.

Is Wired still a thing? Damn I should have bought stock in every company featured in wired since 1998. Too bad I was a stupid 10 year old.

Stealing candlesticks? What is this, Les Mis?

I remember electric can openers.

"12 ways to get rich Wallstreet won't tell you, plus three ways to get back to the highway including a shortcut cats don't want you to know!" 😐.... You know, you can be a conman grifter like this and use the same damned script for 35 years... And never run out of money to make or people to scam. I mean... It's so cliche it's depressing. Why did I have to be born with a conscience.

33 cent store? It's Ollie's!

"If we wanted to see Japanese people we could haven't gone to the zoo." *spits coffee*

Okay I'm not sure impressed with the Japanese culture humor stuff it feels really dated, but the everyone falling down and having "seizures" is about the most tone deaf and unfunny this show has been so far. It's not just NOT funny, it feels in poor taste.

That Nantucket bucket fuckit Limerick has been around for decades, huh?

Okay the jokes about the time spent in jail and speaking in the Japanese between the boys was funny.

Is this a game show or Saw??

OK there was that weirdest show that live streamed a Japanese man living in solitary for like two years 😬

Okay I hated the ending. Mothra and Godzilla are just real now too? All for a cheap two bit two second ending gag?

Episode had a couple good jokes but really fell flat and felt fairly tone deaf, I mean there absolutely ARE ways to lampoon foreign cultures and do so in a way that poke golf natured fun at things but this just felt... Bleh.

2 piñatas.

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Oh we got George Takei? Knew he sounded familiar.

So that was season 10....

Worst. Season. Ever.

I don't remember giving out many 5s or 4s even. I think I gave the Bible story one a five? So many episodes where either actively bad or just uninteresting or unmemorable. I adored the Le Grille joke, but the rest of the episode was only okay. Guess we're heading into season 12 now... The show is definitely losing its magic though. As many people have said, a key factor is the episodes aren't really memorable anymore. Stuff happens but you'll forget about it an hour later. Come along I guess.

THEY SAVED LISA'S BRAIN

Okay I'm almost concerned how they're going to mess up the episode with a title like that.

I despise the sound of people chewing. Grandma plopwell freaking me out.

Wait has Bart worn that face mask before?

Rewarding people for acting like buffoons? How else do you expect us to decide elections? Competency??

The popcorn suit was legit funny 🍿

Damn these people rioting like it's a Knicks game. 😑

Wait she's using a TYPEWRITER 💀

Book burning mobile 😵 Churches I grew up in legit had shit like that.

I have an uncle in Mensa. It never impressed him.

RISE TO VOTE SIR

It IS a palindrome. 😃

Microfilm? RIP

Okay the C:DOS run shirt was fuckin great. I need to get that for some friends.

Another Ren Fair? Second time we've done that. Oh they're just LARPING. Carry on.

I legit loved Quimbys escape sequence.

the Bright Pack running Springfield might be the lost jealous I have ever been of his town.

I kinda like the comic book guy. He's grown on me.

the boudoir sub plot is not interesting but the dictionary moment was great 👌

Oh shit Stephen Hawking!

... Wait, wasn't he in the files? 😵

A donut shaped universe? Final fantasy is a donut world.

Well the ending was sudden. Honestly enjoyed the episode more than I expected. 3

3 spark plugs 🔌 🔌 🔌
Be honest how many of you scroll to the score right away before reading lol

Get out of here Freudians.

Anyway, do you let a client in on the nature of the therapy process, or is it more effective if they are "in the dark?" Say you have a client who lacks insight on an aspect of their interpersonal skills. You ask a certain question "Have you ever considered that the reason for X being true is because of Y?" And they have a moment of clarity.

But, do you ever explain "the reason I asked that question is bc you seem to have a common pattern of XYZ and this question helped you understand blah blah blah...."

I guess this is somewhat related to psyched, but it's more about the inner workings of your role. Same thing with rapport. I mean, you spend five minutes talking with a client about their hobbies and interests not bc it's just small talk, but because it helps build rapport and allows them to practice interpersonal relational skills in a safe environment. But you don't come out and say "This small talk helps us feel closer while also practicing interpersonal skills" etc.

Are there certain aspects where explaining these things helps? Are there certain things you always explain? Or never explain?

MONTY CANT BUY LOVE

full intro AND the cancan dance? They must have struggled to fill this ep.

Antique road show!

Good old fashioned family walk? I'm so glad other families do that too.

"I don't know how much longer I can complain" 😆

Okay it's interesting noticing the high quality of animation on the dog Bart rides around on here versus the goofy ass design of Santo Little Helper or the puppies from the 101 Dalmatians spoof.

A mall? Only for fifteen years.

Talking banana? Peanut butter jelly time!

Wonder why they did a cutaway on Muhammad Ali getting socked.

Who is this guy anyway.

Flamboyant fuck? ??

Oh, fop. Lol.

Fun loving billionaire vs joyless brooding mansion billionaire? In 2026 we have Space billionnaires and Robo Apocalypse billionaires🫰

Juggling uranium rods. Homer does have some talents.

The coinspray blood fountain is one of the rare gross out things not in a THOH.

kudos was an oddly popular slang in the 90s.

The white people black people joke was oddly funnyish.

WOW A BLUE CAR!

Kinda weird the radio host mocking burns for being queer after the implied pedophile picnic thing. 🤔

Why tf are we looking for the Loch Ness monster. And why was everyone obsessed with it in 1995

What's gonna happen to Nessie...

That was... So.. Lame.... The monster, the flashbulbs, the dramatic zoom out with the "love meeeeee" it was... Wait and he works at a casino? This honestly might be one of the worst episodes ever. That and the beach house celebrity cameo thing and.... THAT episode.

1.5 dollars.

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THE OLD MAN AND THE C STUDENT.

BUT WHICH MAN WILL IT BE? Abe? Burns? Beardy? Jasper was it?

They don't have the Olympic rings interlocking bc that's trademarked.

How tf do you end up on the committee of determining where the Olympics are held anyway.

"Same boom" lol. Don't the Olympics famously screw up local economies.

That was my favorite scene with SNOWBALL II ever. We need so much more snowball II. 😼

"We will do anything, including but not limited to anything" 🤣

Damn, haven't seen patty and Selma in aaaaages.

Cute children future song but how the hell did Nelson agree to sing.

First actual mic drop in the show. Wonder if we'll ever get another.

Intercourse PA is an actual town. I've been there and yes they play it up for laughs to tourists.

Are those used tampons or bullet hole plugs.

I need to figure out how to say "fireworks candy and puppy dog store" every week.

"got me? I've been volunteering here for a year!" 🥹 how do people hate Lisa? She's so sweet.

This episode is not awful. It's just throughly middle of the road so far. You probably don't even remember it do you.

I just saw my future and it's 600 more episodes of random ideas with yellow people.

Damn the torpedoes! Put on some tuxedos? I want taquitos.

The B plot with springs is better than the A plot. For once.

Omg I didn't need Burns as Kate Winslet.

who tf is jack walayne.

Odd episode when the a and b plots resolve together. Cute ending with the sky hook. Overall episode was just okay. 3 springs.

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Google informs me that the average caseload for therapists is 15 to 25 cards per week but that just seems so utterly unfeasible with the current reimbursement rates. I have six slots open Monday through Friday every day and honestly feel like I need to have eight sessions a day to really be a comfortable with my income level. Given the time spent on paid doing notes Etc I suppose 35 a week would be a decent cap but that seems to be out of the ordinary?

That it's important for me to be a human. That being fully and richly myself, including necessary hobbies and self care, can make me be MORE present and authentic as a therapist. For awhile I zeroed in on soooooo many books and theories on therapy, convinced that it would be necessary to be a better therapist. Even more so, I felt almost guilty or unproductive if I read anything unrelated to my work.

But I picked up a novel today, and I remembered how much I bloody love reading fiction. It makes me feel free, and inspired, and ignites my imagination, and all of that, being a person, is so necessary for me to be a better therapist.

You go to the gym and you pick up something heavy. Then you put it down. You pick it up again. Then you put it down again. Then you go home. You are not sure if it helped. You feel sweaty and uncomfortable and sore. You go look in the mirror. You don't look any different. You are not sure anything has changed. But your personal fitness trainer tells you to trust the process.

You go back the next week. You pick up something heavy. Then you put it down. This hurts. It's frustrating, and annoying, and you are not entirely sure before coming that you even want to do this. Your fitness trainer keeps trying to pull more out of you than you think you can give. When you feel worn out he makes you do one more rep. When you feel maxed out he says he knows you can put on five more pounds. So you pick up something heavy. Then you put it down.

Five or six weeks go by. You still aren't seeing much difference in the mirror but you start to notice the weight does not feel as heavy. You are beginning to get used to it, maybe even look forward to it a little. Your trainer assures you you are making progress, and also encourages paying attention to your sleep and diet. A few months go by and slowly your body begins to change. You've lost a bit of weight, gained a bit of muscle, and some confidence too. You are getting stronger.

Of course, it isn't really a gym. It's a counseling office, and the weight you have been lifting is the trauma of your own story. Feeling its power, encountering its heaviness, again and again. Examining it, exploring it, seeing how it has shaped you, is shaping you. But it isn't as overwhelming as it used to be. Or maybe it is, but you are better able to bear it. You are getting stronger.

Another week passes. You go back. You pick up something heavy...

I have a couple of different clients right now wrestling with these emotions after having done things that are admittedly morally wrong and which they rightfully feel bad about. I have made space in session for the clients to feel these emotions and recognize the difference between the two, and I have emphasized that guilt is only useful if it propels us to act differently in the future because it is primarily a negative evaluation of our past Behavior, whereas shame is a negative evaluation of our current selves and generally less useful

MOM AND POP ART.

I have never seen how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, but I seriously love the couch gag for it.

I sometime forget that the lime in the coconut song was real. There was a period where I was sure I'd made it up in my own head.

GOD-- bless him. 😂

Burgerpants name is Pop? I love this pimply teen who somehow works everywhere.

Oh.... I get it. That little jingle after burning evidence in the BBQ pit. This episode is a spoof on Tool Time?

"Le Grille? What the hell is THAT?!".

OH. MY. GOD that might be one of my favorite Simpsons jokes EVER. 😂😂😂😂😂😭

Totally knew he was looking at the manual not the result.

It teaches them while they learn!

Beanie Baby! 💀

Let me guess, it landed on the Mobs car?

Homer randomly has a shotgun now? Didn't we have a whole ass episode about how he DOESN'T have a gun

Most likely to be a mental patients hillbilly chimpanzee? I believe it Homer.

That was your least funny joke, Mater.

Cletus, whatever.

The noise Smithers makes when burns says he's in love 😵 I need more eps with these two. They've tailed off.

Jasper John? Who's that.

"The other day I was a little attracted to Milhouse." Don't worry Bart, we've all been there.

Barney wanting to pay with a drawing is maybe a reference to Salvador Dali who was rumored to have done that. Also, love the gag that he's a gifted artist.

Homer "oh yeah, art." 👀 have had some random Homer is kinda Bi jokes recently.

How would you feel if I entered a belching contest?

"frankly I'd be a little turned on" 😆

Marges disgruntled grumble doesn't get enough recognition.

I love the takedown on modern art critique. My favorite theory is the weird modern art stuff is just a way to launder money for millionaires.

Loving Marges tour of the art museum haha.

The art fever dream was so unnecessary and either filler or the animators just showing off. But it was still fun. Got Dalhi And Warhol but not the rest.

Wait, THIS is the episode that coined the phrase everything's comin up Milhouse!? But the high pants gag wasn't even funny!

So like, we not even TRYING to return to status quo anymore?? Forget Homer getting fired and re hired. Forget returning a $10,000 check. We'll just flood the town and never address it again???

Episode was okay. It DID have the Le Grille line that for some reason made me laugh so long and hard it's one of my favorite Simpsons jokes. But the rest was pretty forgettable. I'll give it 3.5 piles of junk.

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Bit of context I work with some minors and often will use adult coloring pages with clients where they and I color side by side in session while we talk. Mandalas, flowers, stuff like that. I take my time so it usually takes 3 or 4 weeks for me to complete the page. Would it be ethical to give the completed page to my client as a keepsake of our work together, seeing as I work on a specific page with each client.