@@gwendolynstata3775 Is that the joke? I mean, I know that's what objectivism says but just because you name your business "Ayn Rand" doesn't mean the state doesn't regulate you.
@@harringt100 yeah what I think they were hinting at was that "we're the only daycare not under investigation by the state because we refuse to submit to licensure and the required investigation for that and in fact are operating illegally"
He merchandises everything from alarm clocks that burn you to dolls with blades in them to home pregnancy tests that cause birth defects and lady mustache removers that cause your upper lip to bleed.
If the Simpson kids could be summed up in bowling scores: Bart: about two, maybe 3 pins. Smart enough when he feels like showing his wits. The only thing keeping Bart from being a gutterball is that he wants to entice you, drop your defenses and maybe throw you a bone if he feels like it. Lisa: 7/10 split. Leans a bit more into intelligence than rebellion. You might be able to turn her into a spare, but you'd have to match your brains and wits against hers. Good luck. Maggie: Brooklyn. A simply strike isn't enough to describe what you hit here. No, you hit the pins just to the left of the king pin. A textbook Brooklyn shot. Equal parts rebellious and wise, and knows full well how to use them
@@TheRealBlazingDiamond in a later episode they have a montages of the future with the kids getting older Maggie becomes a famous Rockstar and the headlines print out that she's "The voice of a generation" wich is funny because she doesn't talk the entire time.
It's time to end this little masquerade. There ain't no Atlas, kid. Never was. A guy in my line of work takes on a variety of aliases. Heck, once I was even a Korean for six months. But you've been a sport, so I guess I owe you a little honesty. The name's Herschel Krustofski. I gotta say, I had a lotta business partners in my life, but you... 'Course the fact that you were genetically conditioned to bark like a cocker spaniel when I said "Would you kindly" might have had something to do with it, but still... Now as soon as that machine finishes processing the genetic key you just fished off Burns, I'm gonna run Springfield tops to toes. You've been a pal, but you know what they say: never mix business with friendship. Thanks for everything, kid. Don't forget to say hi to Burns for me.
I like the fact that the kindergarten teacher is never seen or heard again with no explanation after Maggie escapes, it's both spooky and funny at the same time! Who's watching the kids?
She is in the audience, watching the play. In another clip, you can see her in the row in front of Homer, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. But I did also always wonder, who was watching the kids at the preschool? And why was this all never mentioned again? I feel like I should be wearing my "Genius At Work" shirt while asking these questions.
This is classic Simpsons. They take the pacifier away from Maggie to build her independence. She then shows ultimate independence and creativity by hatching a complex Great Escape-like plan to reclaim the pacifier, not just hers but for the entire class.
Which is itself a parody of Rand. Since it was the group collectively working together that helped the individuals to have what they wanted to overthrow the dictator. Plus there was a single figure who exerted control over the others, yet claimed to espouse freedom and self reliance which was easy for them since they were already in charge, but then they used that power to control others. Much like how Rand and the ultra free market people will lead to semi-feudalism and the road to effective choice of living under arbitrary slavery or you can instead chose to have nothing. It's such a subtle and perfect joke. Of course it 100% went over my head as a child, I just thought it was a great escape joke.
@T S man you know you did something right when we are arguing if it is for or against Ayn Rand I would say it is leaning against, as the last scene the babies are with pacifiers in unison suggesting a form of collectivism Though Ayn Rand herself would actually argue they are working in there individual interest in a common goal. They are not doing it for the greater good or comradeship so it would be like capitalism. They all got their pacifier not just Maggie I think the actual joke is the events of this daycare is exactly like an Ayn Rand novel. The Main character goes against the system to achieve what he wants, told by the men in charge he is wrong and by his own stubborn will able to succeed
@T S tell that to the healthcare sectors in other modern nations. They're tightly regulated by the state. Those policies have been able to make healthcare affordable and universal. "Maggy exerted her control over others" They ALL WILLINGLY JOINED HER CAUSE. Are u people so anti authority that BASIC leadership skills being employed is now an example of authoritarianism?
@T S "There are high wait times with M4A" Ahahah, please. The US only has low wait times WHEN UR INSURED. If ur like millions of Americans and are uninsured, or the millions more that are UNDERinsured, u WILL experience a wait time. After all, people don't go to the doctor if they can't afford it. The length of time it takes to get better insurance IS a wait time and that can last months or even years. And the amount of time it takes to pay off ur debt is something to consider as well. But, not to leave u hanging; Canada had about 120,000 deaths associated with lack of care (according to the CONSERVATIVE Fraser institute). These people died from lack of care within a 15 year period starting from the 90s. In the US, in a single year, anywhere from 33,000(a good year)-45,000 deaths(a bad year) occur from lack of (affordable) care. In other words, in just 5 GOOD years, the US healthcare system claims the lives of about as many people as the Canadian system does in 15. Is the Canadian system perfect? Nope. But is it an improvement? Most definitely 😁 "They copy the private sector's success in other countries" Oh ffs, we have the NIH, the world's largest PUBLIC health sector. The private sector even purchases the rights to drugs that had PUBLIC funding towards it's research. Utter nonsense. "Coercion is not consent, we have no proof Maggy got consent" U also don't have any proof she did coerce the babies, now do u? Ur just ASSUMING she threatened the other babies. A baseless threat seeing how they were all happy to help her and never looked at her with fear in their eyes.
I like to think that the only reason Homer was even able to find Maggie in the sea of babies was because he is so used to hearing her sucking on her pacifier that he can recognize how distinct the sound her pacifier makes is.
I love how this points out the hypocrisy of objectivism. It praises individuality until someone actually asserts their individuality in away Ayn Rand disapproves.
hmm I don't know about that. In an objectivist world people are free to form their own businesses with their own internal rules, easily including a daycare that doesn't allow pacifiers. Their only issue is having a government that enforces rules on a free market which is quite separate from the sketch in the video. It isn't just a blind worship of individualism. In other words objectivists are libertarians who still acknowledge the role of a state and privately owned property, they aren't anarchists who reject any and all authority. Both ideas fail in their own way but at least they aren't as insane as anarchists :). That's a school of thought we can all laugh at together, including both forms of anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-syndicalism.
@@radscorpion8 I mean Rand was a massive charlatan and a hypocrite (not to mention a eugenicist and raging bigot) The brand of hyper-individualism that she and her ilk popularized is one of the most pervasive social solvents in the world and has done irreparable damage to society and culture
How so isn't interpersonal conflict as much an expression of individuality as much as interpersonal cooperation? If you are made to tolerate something you find abhorrent is your individuality not suppressed?
@@lavaknight3682 I’m pretty sure the channel was listed as ‘for kids’ which means that you can’t comment plus some other stuff. I think somehow they managed to convince youtube that just because it was a cartoon didn’t make it ‘for kids’ content
@@maximusthedude8305 No that wasn't it I'm pretty sure, I don't remember ever seeing their videos marked as For Kids, and I was able to share them when the comments were off.
@@Afterburner215 It's a reference to Ayn Rand's recycling of Aristotle's law of identity (A=A). She is arguably the worst philosopher who ever lived, if you're charitable enough to call her one at all.
@@Soxviper but it's so basic. there is an argument that it represents an advance in abstract thinking for an iron age culture, but for a 20th century human person? like, good job restating something you learned in middle school.
@Boef Wellington have you read atlas shrugged? It's a novel about how a woman with more than the means to help her fellow man decides she doesn't have to because she's already made it big. So you're right! The real Aym Rand would be disgusted that anyone was offering daycare services to children! Those babies should be pulling themselves up by their bootstraps so they never have to get help from some sissy daycare center! That daycare lady is already rich, why shoukd she use any of it to assist in the care of children? That's what Ayn Rand was all about!
@@boefwellington562Yeah, they should've shown the libertarian administrator also on welfare while claiming to be against it, just like Rand was about.
@@boefwellington562 No it isn't. It's far better for taxpayers of all stripes to have basic economic security should they ever need it as well. It's social insurance. And who says the taxpayer isn't also a welfare recipient?
THIS was Golden Age Simpsons. Writing was spot on. The Ayn Rand school, the music and references to the "Great Escape" and "The Birds" and signs like A is an A. Remember when the Simpsons was one of the best shows on TV? I member'.
This episode is propaganda. Here is a quote from the woman this episode is demonizing: "One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love. A 'selfless,' 'disinterested' love is a contradiction in terms: it means that one is indifferent to that which one values. Concern for the welfare of those one loves is a rational part of one’s selfish interests. If a man who is passionately in love with his wife spends a fortune to cure her of a dangerous illness, it would be absurd to claim that he does it as a 'sacrifice' for her sake, not his own, and that it makes no difference to him, personally and selfishly, whether she lives or dies." - Ayn Rand It's sad that a loving person like Ayn Rand is misrepresented and demonized so often.
So much of this went over my head as a kid. "HELPING is FUTILE" "A is A" Mainly because kid me had no clue who Ayn Rand was, and he was much happier for it...
I first saw this when I was probably eight or nine and I remember bursting out with laughter at Homer’s reaction to all those babies sucking on pacifiers. Just saw this again (after many years) at thirty-four and I laughed just as hard. 😂
Ayn Rand parody and philosophical subversion. Great Escape parody. The Birds parody. Classic Hirchcock cameo. Might be the greatest collection of scenes in simpsons history.
It has nothing to do with Ayn Rand though Hello. If you're reading through this comment thread and you want to give your thumbs up to comments, consider explaining why. An authoritarian woman running an Ayn Rand daycare makes about as much sense as an investment banker running a communist daycare. A poster on the wall doesn't change that.
@@roganmorrow "You know what a baby's saying when she reaches for the bottle? She's saying I am a leech. Our aim here is to develop the bottle within."
The small Bart action figurine at 0:58. I see what you did there, dear authors! 😜 😂😂😂 And when Homer comes to pick Maggie up: I think this is a reference, but I don't know what. Maybe a movie...
1:08 "Full Metal Jacket" (1987), soap-punish-scene 1:52 "The Great Escape" (1963, Steve McQueen) 2:24 "Mission Impossible" (1996, Tom Cruise) 3:12 "Batman" (1989, escape from art gallery) 3:30 "The Birds" (1963, Hitchcock-movie) 4:02 Alfred Hitchcock and his dogs
Classic Simpsons. Multiple nuances, references and ideologies all rolled seamlessly together. I remember my dad laughing his ass off at all these scenes, I only got the great escape reference. Was not until I studied at uni that I got the others
Seeing Maggie in this mission, there are definitely “Rugrats” vibes in these scenes, coincidentally this was the last episode to be produced by “Klasky-Csupo, Inc.” (the studio that created “Rugrats”).
@@radscorpion8 No one takes her seriously, if you actually learn real philosophy you'd know that her way of thinking is flawed, inconsequential and severely outdated. The greatest contribution to philosophy she ever made was her own death.
Nah, these kids never really developed into that, they simply were moved to act when faced with injustice. (at least Maggie did, but babies are just sometimes surprisingly intelligent in The Simpsons) Being the reason people fight back is not the same as teaching them how.
Maggie shows great ingenuity, she knows what she wants and she gets it through very clever means. She doesn't wait for the government to give it to her. I'm sure Ayn Rand would have loved her.
The old lady has the dress, mannerisms and aesthetics of Aunt Lydia from the Handmaid's Tale. She made me remember this episode of the Simpson's from the 1990s.
They need to give Maggie more storylines now! This is so clever to create a story without words. The modern writers under-utilise Maggie and have hundreds of untapped storylines they could use with her. Instead, we get the million episode of Bart getting into trouble ugh...
HMMM. Maggie was powerless on her own. But enlisting and organizing her peers, a bunch of babies were able to overcome an adult via teamwork, and in the end they all profited equitably.
Nobody seems to have to caught on to the fact Maggie already has a full set of teeth (by Simpsons' standards) 3:04 and yet, she's not off the pacifier..
It took me a second to realize that the end with all the babies sucking, the slow walking was based off the ending of the book and movie called “The Birds”
Back when I saw this as a kid I never really understood the references. Now that I do this whole sequence is even better. I mean damn, a prime-time sitcom making an entire sketch that's basically one big Ayn Rand reference, committing entirely to the bit and doing it in a nuanced way that makes it so you don't even have to know who she is in order to get something out of it. And then it caps it all off with Hitchcock! The Simpsons used to be _SUCH_ a brilliant show...
Looking back, I'm amazed I enjoyed the early seasons of the simpsons considering they were basically wall-to-wall references to films I hadn't seen, places I'd never been and people I'd never heard of.
The thing is, the references they made were to movies that were, themselves, good, and they modified things enough to let it fit in, or kept it there so briefly, you'd easily miss it. It's always just a taste, not a huge, blinking sign about it.
FYI this episode makes a reference to two 1963 films: The Great Escape and The Birds. The latter was directed by Alfed Hitchcock who has a cameo at the end of this video.
30 years later (nearly), I love that the end of this sequence must be becoming more and more obscure. And then the very end is a reference to the reference. Fantastic!
The fact that they have done two separate Ayn Rand segments with Maggie is amazing. (The other being in the final episode of season 20, “Four Great Women and a Manicure”)
As a returning beginner (I recently re-enrolled in online education for the first time after leaving an industry for a long time), I felt emotional connection with Maggie's struggles, and I felt understood and appreciated. I know it is a fun video about a little toddler but I think it shows the power of educational institutions. Besides, Maggie never would have even wanted to unlock a locker if she hadn't been put in such a challenging environment. She would have just been stuck at home sucking on any bottle that was at hand, rather than putting her mind to something and working hard for it. I also loved to see the reward at the end, as she completed her journey. I also loved to see the teamwork, Maggie couldn't have done anything alone. The challenge that the video raises at the end is also important: once everyone is finished cooperating on some big Mission Impossible how to keep them occupied and continuing to learn and challenge themselves? Some challenges are natural but everyone solved it together, so it's a challenge to keep coming up with anything to solve. The natural state of anyone is to relax once they have everything they need. What do you think, could the school have done anything to continue to challenge everyone there?
Are the Tots not entitled to the satisfaction of their own pacifiers? 'No!' says the man in Washington, 'They belong to the Tots.' 'No!' says the man in the Vatican, 'They belong to the Father.' 'No!' says the man in Moscow, 'It belongs to everyone.' No!' says the Woman at the objectivist daycare They belo.... wait what? Wheres your respect for private property? of course Maggie won't nap, the NAP was violated by theft. Private property is a universal right.
rewatching as an adult and knowing all the refrences makes these an all new experience. the scene is essentially "The Great Escape" even did the cooler king bit
