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Salem Witch Trials, Havana Syndrome, Medieval Dancing Plagues, nuns acting like cats... MASS HYSTERIA!!! Author, Screenwriter and former head of Cracked Video, Robert Brockway (1-900-HOTDOG), joins Michael Swaim on to take this episode of The Simpsons Taught Me Everything Podcast into a slightly different direction with a heavy focus on mass hysteria. It's not just depicted in The Marge vs. The Monorail episode but in quite a few episodes. Michael and Robert break down not just the science behind the root causes of mass hysteria with the help of a whole bunch of Simpsons references to make the case.  Subscribe: http://www.youtube.com/user/cracked?sub_confirmation=1  Follow the Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stmepod/  00:00 You're Thinking Of A Different Robert 03:02 Simpsons Predictions  06:17 The Three Big Radishes Game 12:17 This Is Not A Town Anymore, It's A Cult 16:02 Mirror Morons: Did You Spot The Simpsons Reference? 32:03 The Fear Corner 37:11 The More Kids That Go Down 41:56 Then Everything Is Wrapped Up In A Nice Little Package 45:52 Dancing To The Point Where They Are Dying 52:26 What Name Is Shared Across Characters From The Simpsons, Futurama & The Critic?  Cracked.com: http://cracked.com Facebook: http://facebook.com/cracked Twitter: http://twitter.com/cracked Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/cracked/_created/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cracked/  #simpsons #podcast #cracked

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00:00so i think the crux of the music man that probably inspired conan to pitch the simpsons ep

00:05was of course the central idea of a con artist using song and the excitement of hey we're all

00:12gonna sing about it to sell a town full of idiots something they absolutely don't need

00:17on just pure groupthink interestingly in that episode the monorail is shitty and broken and

00:24any cut corners much like when robert terwilliger builds the hydroelectric dam oh wait that was his

00:30brother but we blame him so they're interchangeable um meanwhile in the music man the marching band

00:37doesn't even exist and they have to fill that gap with movie magic musical magic whatever you call

00:43it the cracked writer in me insists on calling it an outbreak of mass hysteria as i mentioned in this

00:51case they resolve the situation by getting the whole town to head out into the streets and agree

00:57that the kids are doing a great marching band job and clap and scream while they stumble down main

01:01street and borrowed rags blowing through rusty tin cans and getting all nice and tetanus-y just in time

01:07to die in world war one

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