The Ayn Rand School For Tots (The Simpsons)

From season 4 episode 2: A Streetcar Named Marge

[@Slazors]

Stop turning off comments you invalid

[@comdam]

yes i wanted them on to. i wonder why he had them off but now they are on

[@Ben-mr6rt]

@@Slazors therealjims is fantastic

[@TheConorsmithusa]

@@Slazors you're really kissing ass now huh...

[@diehardrvdfan22]

If comments were turned off at the time, then how did you post this?

[@Slazors]

@@diehardrvdfan22 At the time this was like the only video on the channel with comments on

[@gwendolynstata3775]

Okay, but the Ayn Rand school being, "the only daycare not under investigation by the state" is such an underrated joke.

[@M_SC]

Took me a minute!

[@nilzero5686]

The fact the only daycare in town that's reputable is the Ayn Rand one is probably why there's so many mean people in Springfield.

[@gwendolynstata3775]

@@nilzero5686 no, no, the joke is that Objectivism says that capitalism/businesses should be unregulated by the government.

[@harringt100]

@@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.

[@Srythian]

@@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"

[@killervacuum]

i like the idea that Krusty would merchandize something as mundane as a hanger

[@SimpleManGuitars1973]

Also that he would insinuate that it's ok to catch his doll on fire. LOL!

[@anirudhn3301]

Shit, I didn't even notice that. The attention to detail is insane

[@canaisyoung3601]

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.

[@sats2407]

Welcome to the 90s

[@jst_TV]

@@SimpleManGuitars1973 I thought it was implying the doll was made from asbestos lmao

[@AZNXXXful14]

Maggie has the boldness of Bart and the smarts of Lisa.

[@54032Zepol]

And the voice of a generation!!

[@SuperWolsey]

And the leadership of Abe

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

She's the most powerful Simpson.

[@TheRealBlazingDiamond]

@@54032Zepol whats that mean?

[@54032Zepol]

@@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.

[@cnote2458]

Maggie is the perfect hybrid of Bart and Lisa. Barts rebellious attitude with Lisa's intelligence.

[@coolbrotherf127]

All the Simpsons kids are smart and rebellious, just in different ways depending on their personalities.

[@muttproductions2536]

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

[@jamesricker3997]

She's going to be dangerous when she gets older. Mr Burns will attest to that

[@RoachDogg_JR]

My parents took 3 tries to get it right too. The first was a miscarriage, the second was me (a failure), and the third was my sister (a housewife).

[@freedomandguns3231]

Maggie is an alien though

[@luffyduffy7817]

The way Homer pushes Bart and Lisa out with him in fear like a protective father is both adorable and hilarious

[@michelerich1590]

it's a nod to The Birds

[@andreabaj5529]

@@michelerich1590 yeah, the guy passing at the end is a Hitchcock caricature

[@blairbrown4812]

Little realizing that the threat he fears the most is the one in his arms.

[@oddessyGordon]

“Kids, stay back, animals have invaded the daycare”

[@Shanethefilmmaker]

@@andreabaj5529 Which oddly enough looks like a giant baby walking by.

[@cane6074]

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?

[@Orzufancylad]

No one. That's regulation and the joke of the school is that it's run of the philosophy of Ann Rand.

[@callmek186]

Maggie came back with Mr Burns' gun and finished the job.....

[@TheRojo387]

​@@Orzufancylad And she's portrayed just like Agatha Trunchbull in this cartoon!

[@Lnclt-tc3ln]

Also: the guy with the dog walking past the place? ALFRED HITCHCOCK ! (so, yeah, hint of something "bad" going on ;)

[@melkaman8200]

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.

[@mrsnrub2952]

''A toddler chooses, a baby obeys''

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Would you kindly give me your pacifier?

[@GreatMewtwo]

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.

[@tsipher]

“Look Mr. bubbles, it’s an angel.”

[@diego001]

Ryan the Lion says “choke on that pacifier, you parasite.”

[@mecharick]

Ms Sinclair....

[@Ability-King-KK]

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.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

SUCC

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

He is, after all, doing it for her.

[@fubartotale3389]

Just like penguins. (You could look it up)

[@Badassdude1234]

You could actually hear it too! Such a nice subtle touch as he traverses the sea of babies, and you faintly hear Maggie shortly after.

[@theopoldthegamer4284]

@@fubartotale3389 What exactly do I look up

[@TruckeeDoggo]

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.

[@letsburn00]

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.

[@nathanielgarza9198]

@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

[@lordoftheflies7024]

@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?

[@lordoftheflies7024]

@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.

[@GigaBoost]

@@lordoftheflies7024 coercion is consent

[@samalvey8168]

"Maggie, time to go to the- AAHH!" In fairness, I'd be really creeped out by that sight as well.

[@kyndrablankenship1758]

Me too. Now we know why that lady took all the pacifiers away.

[@geoffreyforbes9568]

I wanna know long how the the parents are gonna leave the babies there. It’s already getting dark.

[@mohammedashian8094]

4:00

[@Loneguy22]

Yeah that was pretty disturbing.

[@katemissfilanpurrmcdevitt]

@@geoffreyforbes9568 That’s what I was wondering too? Where are they? Xx

[@pchwang]

I love that this is a whole parody of the Great Escape, even with the ball bounce xD

[@jamesalvarado3961]

Also taking shots at Ayn Rand. The caregiver even looks like her.

[@yosefdemby8792]

Also Alfred Hitchcock's _The Birds_ . (A caricature of Hitchcock even appears at the end.)

[@christophermaine4085]

Maggie was the cooler queen

[@balok63a40]

@@yosefdemby8792 It's Hitchcock's cameo from The Birds.

[@yosefdemby8792]

@@balok63a40 I know.

[@ryandooley287]

I love how this points out the hypocrisy of objectivism. It praises individuality until someone actually asserts their individuality in away Ayn Rand disapproves.

[@radscorpion8]

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.

[@riffler24]

@@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

[@DewMan001]

So in brief; "We aim to nourish the bottle within without such crutches!" "Ok, my bottle within involves enjoying a pacifier!" "No, wait"

[@ryandooley287]

@@radscorpion8 I am an anarchist and it is way more sane and consistent than anything Ayn Rand said or wrote.

[@paulbrule5897]

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?

[@Dagger33]

I love how Jon Lovitz voices both the daycare teacher and the theater director in this episode.

[@thepumpkinking1841]

I thought they were related when I first saw this

[@IronMan-tk8uc]

Lovitz, like Mike McDonald in music, are the jack of all trades in their respective fields!

[@HylianFox3]

@@thepumpkinking1841 They aren't? I though they were brother and sister. He even is the one who tells Marge to take Maggie there.

[@randybob275]

I knew it had to be his voice.

[@jeffallen55]

@@HylianFox3 She is his sister. He states that specifically. You can also see the nameplate on her desk says Sinclair.

[@MrMegaManFan]

Underrated joke - the “A IS A” sign on the wall.

[@Afterburner215]

Is that for Citizen Kane? Idk the reference

[@davidparker527]

​@@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]

@@davidparker527 Yes but it doesn't make the law any less true, of course

[@284mbp]

@@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.

[@captainphoenix]

...and that a growing, far-left contingent now necessarily reject on principle.

[@LostCosmonauts]

_Mum, dad, get in here! ThingsICantFindOtherwise let us comment on videos again!_

[@lavaknight3682]

Do you know why we couldn’t?

[@maximusthedude8305]

@@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

[@lavaknight3682]

@@maximusthedude8305 ah, thanks

[@socraturtles7648]

@@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.

[@CarlosSC10]

Such a pleasure seeing our favourite astronaut around here!

[@nicks1451]

The Ayn Rand School for Tots is still one of the greatest Simpsons jokes of all time

[@boefwellington562]

Yeah I love it when Ayn Rand parodies have no connection to what she was about.

[@CocoNut-yd1ri]

​@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!

[@goinggoinggone535]

​@@boefwellington562Yeah, they should've shown the libertarian administrator also on welfare while claiming to be against it, just like Rand was about.

[@boefwellington562]

@@goinggoinggone535 Because it's a bad deal for the taxpayer, not for the welfare recipient.

[@goinggoinggone535]

@@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?

[@HylianFox3]

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...

[@sophiefrancis8295]

I like how Maggie finds a Bart figure when she’s trying to find things to suck.

[@mohinderbauer]

Yes, and Bart wearing a blue t-shirt like he did in early merchandise.

[@KJ-ud9uf]

WE CAN COMMENT AGAIN!

[@insertobligatoryreferenceh489]

Why couldn’t we before?

[@nahuel6136]

:D

[@thedickfartyshow6197]

So there is hope for others

[@chrissegura1246]

I don't like the looks of those teenagers

[@xmiyukix]

Yay!!!!

[@fernandoginer5068]

The pacifiers are a metaphor for the comeback of comments

[@seththomas9105]

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'.

[@DR---]

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.

[@Discotekh_Dynasty]

@@DR--- she was a shitty writer and a hypocrite. Log off and touch grass

[@eccotom1]

​@@DR--- because she was unintelligent

[@philbecker4676]

OLD SIMPSUNS GUD NEW SIMPSUNS BAD LIKES PLZ

[@autumntaylor2533]

Ayn rand died alone in abject poverty. And after I read your comment, i wished she had a terrible skin rash as well

[@p.l.537]

"Why were we unable to comment for so long?" "It's a secret." "Shut up!"

[@MrZillas]

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

[@billyeveryteen7328]

This episode aired four years before the movie Mission Impossible came out. So if anything, that movie had a reference to The Simpsons.

[@rileyk5228]

The Batman one is a bit of a stretch

[@FerHardRocker]

The Birds and Hitchcock are the same reference, since he appears walking the dogs in that movie.

[@user-zy8cy6hn6o]

That full metal jacket one makes absolutely no sense

[@MrZillas]

@@billyeveryteen7328 Yeah, or maybe it was shown in the TV-series in 1966 and they reused it for the movie. Who knows. I find it very similar.

[@livelongandtroll9108]

I forgot how adorable this episode was. The movie/cultural references are just the icing on the cake.

[@spencerpennington07]

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. 😂

[@samreagan6292]

Did you get the reference to “the crows”

[@wizardsuth]

@@samreagan6292 Did you mean _The Birds_ ? The Hitchcock cameo at the end was a bit of a hint.

[@samreagan6292]

@@wizardsuth oh yeah! You’re right

[@gregbors8364]

@@samreagan6292Oh yeah… isn’t “The Crows” that movie where all of Bruce Lee’s kids got accidentally shot?

[@MrTroyman8]

This is why Maggie is my favorite character in the whole show. There’s nothing she can’t do.

[@chrisrj9871]

Maggie's the secret badass!

[@mangarrian]

Maggie is the best.

[@thrillhouse4151]

I love Jon Lovitz falsetto Monty Python voice for that character.

[@GeoffreyBronson]

holy shit now that you said it I can hear it!

[@yosefdemby8792]

_Is_ it "Monty Python"? Just because a male's doing a female voice?

[@GeoffreyBronson]

@@yosefdemby8792 Yes.

[@yosefdemby8792]

@@GeoffreyBronson Yes yes, of course, Monty Python _invented_ it!

[@GeoffreyBronson]

@@yosefdemby8792 Who else? The Goodies? Fuck off Bill Oddie.

[@ZombieFlanders]

0:12 Marge saying “Baba” gets me every time.😂

[@Jordannadroj20]

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.

[@roganmorrow]

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.

[@Jordannadroj20]

The Ayn Rand School For Tots, with a director that focuses on the child's individualism, had nothing to do with Ayn Rand?

[@roganmorrow]

@@Jordannadroj20 How does the director focus on the child's individualism?

[@Jordannadroj20]

@@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."

[@roganmorrow]

@@Jordannadroj20 She enforces a nap-time curfew and does not allow children to do as they please, that is not focusing on individualism.

[@craigmiller1870]

Maggie combines the rebelliousness of Bart with the intelligence of Lisa. The kind of personality revolutions are led with!

[@MythicFox]

I was a kid when this first aired and so much of it was over my head then.

[@tommyt1971]

Never noticed how the ball bounces off Maggie’s forehead when she’s in the box.

[@firemaster9293]

3:28 Gotta Love Homer’s Scream lol

[@nickarteaga175]

Who noticed all the Rand stereotypes? A=A, “helping is futile.”

[@alnokltchen]

When Maggie topples the tower she built for herself, we can see afterwards that the lady is reading “The Fountainhead Diet”

[@radscorpion8]

Ayn Rand, the greatest mind of our generation

[@T4REK]

@@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.

[@shitlordflytrap1078]

@@radscorpion8 in what way lmao

[@davidbastardo4154]

@@T4REK You spelled Althusser, Deleuze and Derrida wrong.

[@marcodiaz6322]

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”).

[@xXDOREMIVSSONICXx]

Nancy Cartwright voiced Chuckie after Christine Cavanaugh retired

[@aparks6463]

2:55 "if I break, buy a new one! Haha!" 😂

[@kingmany1]

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

[@3of12]

Yeah completely misrepresenting philosophy and putting Republicans in a cartoon villian castle is so nuanced.

[@kingmany1]

@@3of12 there are plenty of Democrat rips, “history’s greatest monster” is a good one.

[@3of12]

@@kingmany1 okay I'll check it out

[@Rockzilla1122]

@@3of12 did you manage to wipe the drool off your chin before you finished typing this one out?

[@3of12]

@@Rockzilla1122 literally months later and it's still a completely retarded interpretation of objectivist philosophy

[@SleepyMatt-zzz]

This whole episode flew over my head as a kid. I just thought it was a silly episode about babies, not wealth distribution 😂

[@proletariennenaturiste]

I just now learned that.

[@Mantis42]

it's a riff on The Great Escape

[@MadMusicNerd]

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...

[@ClarisseRockinThatBow]

From the movie, "The Birds."

[@dreamguardian8320]

So cute that Maggie had the secret abilities of a Rugrat. Too bad it was the only chance for her in the entire series.

[@marklion315]

She's shot multiple people

[@dreamguardian8320]

@@marklion315 Only Mr. Burns, who else?

[@adamloga3788]

​@dreamguardian8320 the thugs that were coming to shoot Homer for running Springshield.

[@lawrencefeldman7744]

Remember Homer's nightmare where Mag says " It's your fault I can't talk!" blew our minds thirty odd years ago? Who was the voice for that?

[@JP-sb6ll]

ThingsICantFindOtherwise enabled the comment section? “This is a sign people. The end is nigh.”

[@davidemelia6296]

Give Ms. Sinclair her credit - she turned a room full of toddlers into commandos, so she wasn't doing too badly!

[@edfreak9001]

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.

[@discordlexia2429]

@@edfreak9001 But creating jobs is altruism!

[@Thomasmemoryscentral]

@@edfreak9001 Wonder if Mrs Sinclair went into an offscreen meltdown once she came upon All those sucking pacifiers?

[@TheModdedwarfare3]

That is some God gave me cancer to test my faith shit.

[@granudisimo]

​@@TheModdedwarfare3 Yep, it wasn't thanks to her but despite her. It's like those who think poverty is a motivator instead of a hindrance...

[@jasonjamrs7413]

Thank you for reminding us of how good the Simpsons used to be

[@nicnew]

This is probably my favorite Maggie moment next to her saying her first word and 'The Longest Daycare' short.

[@fornello123]

1:45 the way she squeaks “the BOX!”

[@KohanKilletz]

As a daycare worker, I can confirm this is not far from how many teachers treat their children

[@WilliamSmith-mx6ze]

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.

[@Zamboro]

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.

[@luketran9140]

Yes I do agree 1:02 is an adorable sigh

[@thekindcat]

1:13 this is the cutest seen ive ever seen in simpson. ❤ edit: btw this reminds me of "chicken run" 😂

[@NorthernWisconsinandStuff]

Watched this episode as a kid the day it originally aired on tv. Maggie instantly became my favorite Simpson. Stupid babies need the most love.

[@Good_Horsey]

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..

[@jacobmassey3897]

That little sigh from Maggie is heartbreaking 😢

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

the Great Escape theme made this episode so epic

[@outtakontroll3334]

life tip- if you encounter someone quoting ayn rand, move away and avoid.

[@SimpleManGuitars1973]

The first time I seen the sign "Ayn Rand School For Tots" I laughed extremely hard. LOL!

[@kgldude]

And so at the Ayn Rand school for Tots Maggie learned the importance of collective action and equitable distribution of resources.

[@DialecticalMaterialismRocks]

This is literally individualism vs collectivism. Victory with collectivity, defeat with individualism. Great video!

[@TokuDean]

4:02 Alfred Hitchcock cameo :)

[@MontaguStudios]

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.

[@CoriSparx]

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...

[@M_SC]

And the great escape. If you haven’t seen it you must

[@CoriSparx]

@@M_SC Ah yeah, that too!

[@MaleOrderBride]

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...

[@Yozora_Ultima]

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”

[@bellamovie2]

Yes I just had the same thought

[@Neobahamutfr36]

And you have Alfred Hitchcock walking his dog at the end.

[@mn-ru4li]

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.

[@radiantblack1360]

This reminded me of the Rugrats episode where Tommy was in a strict day care as well.

[@jaimerosado4254]

I remember that Rugrats episode. And just like with the Simpsons, it was part of the 1992-93 season.

[@princessmarlena1359]

The Golden Apple Daycare? I remember that episode. “The Big House”. Funny episode.

[@JustAGuyProduction]

This demonstrates how dedicated the original Simpsons writers were: in order to make this they had to actually read that Ayn Rand garbage.

[@blehblah9309]

What is the deal with the internet's vitriol towards Rand? I'll admit to not having read her work but have seen it summarised and I just cannot fathom why it makes people so angry - even if you disagree with whatever philosophy underpins her work. It doesn't happen in other subjects/individuals - I'm yet to see anyone ranting on about how Ptolemy's geocentric model of the universe was wrong to anything like the same degree.

[@Chronometry707]

@@blehblah9309 Because even a couple minutes' sincere reflection on her philosophy completely pulls it apart. There is no such thing as a completely self-made man; who raised you from infancy, when you couldn't care for yourself? Who taught you science, mathematics, and the spoken word? How can you possibly claim that you have *never* owed anyone anything? For that matter, Galt's Gulch would've fallen apart within a year, I guarantee it. Name me one libertarian who would be happy to be a plumber, or an electrician, or a garbageman (look at the streets of Paris a few weeks ago and tell me they're not vital to society). Ptolemy at least had the excuse of not having enough evidence to disprove geocentrism. It wasn't until we got telescopes and were able to track the phases of the planets that we realised that the geocentric model doesn't hold. Rand doesn't get a similar excuse, because all the information necessary to disprove it was readily available at the time of her theorising.

[@RabbiHerschel]

@@Chronometry707 Some of the smartest and most politically conscious people I know are tradesmen. There's a hundred and one things wrong with Rand's philosophy, but "libertarians don't want to do dirty work" is not one of them. (And that's entirely laying aside the fact that Objectivism is not libertarianism. Nor, for that matter, is it anarcho-capitalism, since Ayn Rand advocated for the existence of a minimalist "night watchman" state.) In fact, if you'd ever worked in a shop, you'd know that the vast bulk of tradesmen who aren't politically conscious default to a broadly libertarian set of beliefs. It's funny that you bring up Paris as an example, given that the reason that the streets of that once-beautiful city are full of garbage is one of Rand's observations that was actually valid. Paris *has* a state garbage collection service, but it is overtaxed to the point of uselessness because the city is home to a massive delinquent and dependent population. (They're also on strike right now, but going on strike is an ancient French tradition.)

[@omegahaxors3306]

@@blehblah9309 Because the entire ideology of libertarianism is basically a shallow cover for pedophilia. It's completely incomprehensible and extremely self-contradictory if you take it at face value because that was never the point of it all.

[@equaltoreality8028]

@@blehblah9309 Its simple really, Rands philophy is so air tight and takes a fair amount of study to understand it (as its a 180 of currently philosophic consensus and she is was right), that the only arguments her critics have is Slander and Insults. Notice all criterics are slander and personal attacks, and when ever they attach the philosophy its always something vague and surface level.

[@lupodelupis3672]

Homer "then Maggie laughed, she's such a trooper"....and here you see why 😜

[@matt13r1]

She would do anything to get her pacifier back.

[@TheShattubatu]

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.

[@TheTolnoc]

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.

[@AmeiWasHere]

Using a Bart toy as a pacifier was funny!

[@june2420111]

This movie actually had such a sad ending so many of them didn't make it and got killed by the Nazis. Despite the famous upbeat music, it's such a tragic story.

[@ponroko630]

Yeah the simpsons movie was wild

[@ccccccasey]

I love how Homer is so precise and cautious when he retrieves Maggie

[@blacksuede]

The Headmistress is reading The Fountainhead Diet. The Simpsons masters of the layered joke.

[@Juiceman390]

Maggie looking for things to suck on because she didn’t have her pacifier made me sadder than it should have lol

[@HilBethJay]

"Hey, how will people know we put a Hitchcock movie reference in here?" "I've got an idea."

[@sofijahavelkova]

Fun fact: This episode reffers a movie The Great Escape.

[@helpmemyspaghettiistryingt959]

As a daycare worker who works with babies, May I assure you that we do NOT treat your children like this!

[@roamer1389]

Thats the joke.

[@gamermasta525]

I'm pretty sure the daycare worker also assured Marge of that so bearing that in mind I'd bet your assurnce carries very little weight.

[@TheSapphireLeo]

Why would you feel the need to say this?

[@musik7957]

no wonder Maggie is Punk-Rocker in the Future Episodes. She always had an anarchist streak in her^^

[@theatergeek82]

I love how they used the Great Escape theme

[@mohammedashian8094]

Ain’t Elmer Bernstein a genius?

[@jf_kein_k8590]

1:02 That's the first time I hear her sigh. And it's probably the only time in this series.

[@gabrielstirling3207]

The number of references here is BEAUTIFUL.

[@potapotapotapotapotapota]

an absolute masterpiece of an episode

[@JaeLCR13]

0:25 If you knew what was happening with US daycare centers IRL then this joke becomes a LOT darker

[@shcdemolisher]

Yeah that is a HUGE concern if you think about it.

[@violinsinthevoid4579]

"Soundscape of Reverberated Suckling". Best closed caption in a while, and a perfect name for an experimental album.

[@thelivinglegend2611]

I love the fact that the great escape music even had the Steve McQueen aspect by putting maggie int he box with the ball

[@blairbrown4812]

3:28-4:02 The natural,reasonable reaction to the reality of the common man seizing control of civilization from the powerful.

[@weldin]

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”)

[@zingzangspillip1]

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!

[@Femaiden]

i've always been confused by this scene, with the whole "ayn rand" thing there. finally googling it and apparently, she preaches about humans being self reliant and not helping each other, but rather pursuing their own selfish interests. . so i guess the "caretaker" confiscated the babie's pacifiers so that they would learn the harsh reality and rely on themself for their own comfort? . and then Maggie organized all the babies and convinced them to cooperate to beat the system, proving that ayn rand's theories were wrong and that it is indeed, human cooperation and social organization that truly wins in the end. . although, one could argue that Maghie was motivated by her own self interest. . she just wanted her pacifier back and she used the other babies to help her toward that goal. . . but then, she didn't just keep her own pacifier for herself. she shared the hoard with everyone. . also, i never got that hitchcock reference in the end before.

[@nicks1451]

You completely misunderstand the joke. Ayn Rand is famous for being anti-altruistic and pro-selfishness, literally the opposite of what you’d want to teach a child.

[@Femaiden]

@@nicks1451 you completely misunderstand my comment. i literally said exactly that. i said "she preaches that humans should not be helping each other and instead pursue their own selfish interests ", that's literally the same thing as "anti altruistic pro selfishness"

[@Femaiden]

the "joke" is that ayn rand is wrong. it's a social commentary, just like every joke in the simpsons is social commentary

[@MrDamianesco]

@@Femaiden hi, Maggie would been altruistic if she cooperated with the babies to give them pacifiers without wanting one, in this case all of them cooperated for self interest, which is the point of capitalism and ayn rand

[@equaltoreality8028]

The Joke, is this this is just another failed Strawman of Rands philosophy. I thing Bioshock has actually come the closest.

[@hamursh]

I think that this is how The Simpsons imagined Rugrats...

[@mikeyhanks1547]

Yep, Simpsons season 4 episode 2: A streetcar named marge is the last episode to be animated by Klasky Csupo before Film roman

[@hexazalea1793]

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.

[@samanthamarkle6923]

The Hitchcock cameo at the end of the clip was perfect!

[@Wodehousean]

That music is from the great escape.

[@ridergilwin1494]

One of my absolute favorite jokes from the show

[@JDarach]

I mean maggie did learn self-reliance and self-actualization :rofl:

[@Satherian]

The only school that's not *currently* under investigation

[@vshekar]

One would assume The Simpsons is highly critical of libertarianism, but the most prolific writer in the show’s history, John Swartzwelder, was a hardcore libertarian.

[@rn6312]

That doesnt mean he wrote that specific episode.

[@redstonecasey4713]

The way the sucks echo at the end is just PERFECT.

[@SteelBallRun1890]

Rare scenes like these are why I wish solo Maggie got more B plot episodes in the old Simpsons.

[@johanlovstedt832]

I didn’t know that the caption ”soundscape of reverbarant sucking” would strike me as so profoundly poetic… wonderful!