I love how Frink is the only one with integrity here. Everyone else uses stupid props or a 976 dial a scam, but he's got the pure honesty of ac5tually being annoyed by how crappy his equipment is.
He's a true scientist, capable of acknowledging when the results of an experiment or simulations are wildly unlikely and most likely caused by errors in methodology or equipment.
You mean statisticians of all subjects should use props. “Statisticians of all professions” implies that the field of statistics is segregated by which profession it is measuring. No.
I remember calling one of those lines back in the Sega Genesis era. It was just a recording of a bunch of game codes and tips. I hung up before they got to any games I cared about. I made sure to ok the call with my mother before making it.
@lanceknightmare I’d did the same thing, I didn’t clear it because it was supposedly in the same city I was in turns out it was in a different country lol
For those of you too young to understand the “900 call” many of us called those lines from everything in between “how to win at NES games” to WWF results. There was literally a line for everything. Of course a month later when the phone bill came in we got our ass beat.
Parents were hypocrites. You couldn’t call 900 numbers yet they’d call the psychic hotline and talk to some scammer for two hours a week then yell at you for making one long distance call to a friend who moved and lived in a different area code
If I had to guess why the Gambletron 2000 thought Cincinnati would win by 200 points, it was because it was analyzing every football game ever played, including the 222-0 clobbering Georgia Tech gave to Cumberland College back in 1916
That's why before clicking on videos like that, I check the time of the video, and weigh that into how much time I presume would be reasonable for conveying the information I'm after. If the video seems way too long for the information, I look elsewhere. As for written articles, I might skim through the first paragraph, and if they haven't gotten to the point yet, I'll usually leave unless the information I require is imperative.
@@MarvinMonroe But that also would've made people hang up sooner in frustration. To keep the caller hopeful and listening, you need to mix in sprinkles of hope that it might not take as long as they think.
Prime Simpsons had some of the best misdirection lines ever, like the "knots" line and Homer's response to Bart's first mention of the father-son whitewater rafting trip
@@rafaelc2029 Know this. Nostalgia, is bullshit. It makes grown adults regress into children who argue about meaningless minutia while the world burns.
The funniest part about the New England blowout of Denver in this episode is the fact that the New England Patriots were absolutely terrible at this time. This episode uses the 1991 NFL season, which was one year removed from the Patriots worst season ever, where they only won one game. They didn't improve much in 1991.
This is a reference to all those "call Santa" styled hotlines which would talk REALLY slow to waste your money. Reason why you don't hear from those these days is because they were made illegal and way harder to pull off.
Haha yeah the subtle joke is too here that at 52% with the VIG you would just break even or so. Simpsons writers were always super smart, albeit probably not something a kid would understand. But here we are 25 years later watching clips so now you can get the jokes more as an adult.
Thats not a subtle sarcastic dig btw, i know we're on CZcams but i was just saying it's cool that 2 people noticed the same thing from different perspectives. I miss the old Simpsons sometimes.
It’s the only professional sports coach that actually dresses like the players,same uniform and everything unlike the suits of NBA and the Carhartt jackets of NFL.
Whenever I give a friend a wrong pick on a football game, I always use the "when you are right 52 percent of the time, you're wrong 48 percent of the time. It seems to get me off the hook most of the time.
Some time in the future: The Cincinnati Bengals beat the Miami Dolphins in a blow out. Idiots from the future: Oh my god did the Simpsons predict that! (Shares this video)
"If you are right 52% of the times, you are wrong 48% of the times" It is even worse than that. You can achieve this kind of probability by throwing a coin: you are going to be, on average, right 50% of the times and you can easily have random oscillations of few percents. With such probabilities the information that your prediction brings about the real event is a tiny 0.15 bit, almost nothing; that is, your prediction says almost nothing about the real event.
I never bothered with calling numbers like that back in the day but of course I was a child so it just wasn't something that came to my mind. I wonder how many of these numbers that charge you by the minutes actually did intentionally talk really slowly to try to get you to listen longer and pay more and more.
Me and my friend used to call one of those numbers for video game tips when we were kids... And yes those numbers added up quickly even if we were just calling with ONE question
Peeps this is why companies have small amount of customer support staff answering via phone. They profit from you calling to them while you wait and wait.
In high school my friend's brother called a per-minute 900# for adult talk using his church's phone. We all thought it was hilarious until he got caught.
As a kid I called a 900 line Nintendo had for gaming hints. I got the hint I needed within the first minute but then the helpline guy asked me if I had any other games. we then got into a whole conversation about other games i had and the strategies me and the helpline agent had used to beat them. A one minute call turned into 20. My dad got quite upset when the bill came.
_After evaluating millions of pieces of data in the blink of an eye_ _the Gambletron 2000 says the winner is... Love?!_ _Who's been screwing with this thing?_
0:44 Is Frink's little bit a homage to Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory? It reminds me of that one guy who makes a machine to predict where the remaining tickets are and ends up getting mad at it.
Because of this clip, whenever my brothers and I are discussing football and the Bengals come up, we always refer to them with the same slow cadence as the hot line.
This was the '91 season. Miami was 7-6 going into this game. (Miami -8) The Bengals were bad, but they just beat the defending champions, Giants, the previous week.
There was no _per second billing_ for those services back then. $5.00, for the first minute, was a one minute minimum charge. At best, presume at least a two minute call to actually get the tip.
Five dollars for the first minute and 2$ dollars for every additional minute, if you ever called one of those old betting lines it was just like that, the recording would be so slow and they would go on & on about all kinds of BS just to run up the cost on you, by the time they gave you a winning team name you were going to pay $30 - $50 bucks.😂🤣
I love how Frink is the only one with integrity here. Everyone else uses stupid props or a 976 dial a scam, but he's got the pure honesty of ac5tually being annoyed by how crappy his equipment is.
I like how the Gambletron isn't a prop somehow
Dude, I agree that the lock is clearly some visual cue to bring in the stupid, but that shoe? That's a different story.
That and either his machine is made of tin foil or he's much stronger than he looks
I’m amazed Frink understands football well enough to know that prediction is utterly insane
He's a true scientist, capable of acknowledging when the results of an experiment or simulations are wildly unlikely and most likely caused by errors in methodology or equipment.
Statisticians of all professions should use props.
Should be a requirement
You mean statisticians of all subjects should use props. “Statisticians of all professions” implies that the field of statistics is segregated by which profession it is measuring. No.
Indeed, the props are really appealing to the easily duped.
Kinds of like jingling keys but then for adults.
They help you make good cases.
They used to.
I wouldn't recommend it
The guy talking as slow as possible on the other end of the line is the most accurate thing in this clip.
I remember calling one of those lines back in the Sega Genesis era. It was just a recording of a bunch of game codes and tips. I hung up before they got to any games I cared about. I made sure to ok the call with my mother before making it.
$5 for the first minute... $2 for each additional minute Lol. This scene always makes me laugh
I believe the guy is talking slow cos it's more money for him lol
@lanceknightmare I’d did the same thing, I didn’t clear it because it was supposedly in the same city I was in turns out it was in a different country lol
@@joshlunt7827that’s the joke…
For those of you too young to understand the “900 call” many of us called those lines from everything in between “how to win at NES games” to WWF results. There was literally a line for everything.
Of course a month later when the phone bill came in we got our ass beat.
Now the manuals say "We do not offer hints"
Yeah... but it was worth it! (just like Barney said about charging all the drinks to Mr. Burns)
Kinda reminds me of a much, much shittier version of how we get information from the internet these days
You got nature results? Odd.
Parents were hypocrites. You couldn’t call 900 numbers yet they’d call the psychic hotline and talk to some scammer for two hours a week then yell at you for making one long distance call to a friend who moved and lived in a different area code
If I had to guess why the Gambletron 2000 thought Cincinnati would win by 200 points, it was because it was analyzing every football game ever played, including the 222-0 clobbering Georgia Tech gave to Cumberland College back in 1916
Sure, but you'd think that the model would rule it out as an outlier. Maybe it forgot to carry thectwo or something.
@@oz_jones It's a good thing it didn't forget to carry the one.
You're a point.
@@JD-xh4yfincurring the wrath and the truncheons
Thanks for mentioning that. It’s a truly amusing read.
Love it how the coach talks really fast in the commercial and talks really slow on the line 😂
Don't you realize that was costing him money (on tv)
Saves money on tv, earns money on hotline
he talks fast on the advertisement to save, add, buddy, and slow on the phone call to make money, lol
Likely automated
How CZcamsrs work.
Thumbnails full of vibrancy and excitement, then when you watch the video, they take 10 minutes to get to the point.
I love the joke of him hanging up at "Knots" and shouting "Miles per hour"
That's how I feel reading a clickbait article when all I want to know is THE ONE PIECE OF INFORMATION ALLUDED TO IN THE TITLE
And then after skimming for the relevant info it's just the title written with more words.
“Dang, this isn’t telling me about the One Piece at all!”
It’s really simple. 9/10 russian babes in your area do that one trick 999/1000 doctors can’t stand.
@@hiddenflare6169 Maybe the real One Piece was the friend's weird balloon boobs we found along the way.
That's why before clicking on videos like that, I check the time of the video, and weigh that into how much time I presume would be reasonable for conveying the information I'm after. If the video seems way too long for the information, I look elsewhere.
As for written articles, I might skim through the first paragraph, and if they haven't gotten to the point yet, I'll usually leave unless the information I require is imperative.
“knots” is one of the funniest bits of misdirection ever
Yeah cuz "miles per hour" would have taken so much longer to say which would have fit with everything else
@@MarvinMonroe But that also would've made people hang up sooner in frustration. To keep the caller hopeful and listening, you need to mix in sprinkles of hope that it might not take as long as they think.
@@gurvmlk You're really overthinking this.
@@RootVegetabIe Sure am. But sometimes when one extreme has already been proposed, it can be fun to suggest the opposite end of that spectrum.
Prime Simpsons had some of the best misdirection lines ever, like the "knots" line and Homer's response to Bart's first mention of the father-son whitewater rafting trip
This is The Simpsons I love and remember. Damn that Gambletron.
You live in the past.
@@godzillavkk Modern Simpsons is a cesspool of atrocious writing.
@@godzillavkk naw it’s just fair to say the show was so much funnier back then
@@rafaelc2029 Know this. Nostalgia, is bullshit. It makes grown adults regress into children who argue about meaningless minutia while the world burns.
Cincinnati... by *200 points?!?*
Trust me: EVERY charge-per-minute hotline milked you like this back then.
Exactly... 😅
Wow, thanks for explaining the joke, who would have guessed
@@belhaddim5116they weren’t explaining the joke
Did they really talk slow like that?
@@Adam-XL Today many might think the Simpson joke is an "exaggerated parody" but was pretty much the truth during those days.
"Jimmy: Well folks, when you're right 52% of the time, you're wrong 48% of the time
Homer: Why didn't you said that before?!" 😂
Props to how they tried to pass off Jimmy's wrong prediction at the beginning when the team he tipped to win got walloped
Well when you’re right 52% of the time. You’re wrong 48% of the time
The extra joke is that if you aren’t right 55% of the time you aren’t even profitable because of the vig
Fun fact, 65-10 is a score that has never happened in an NFL game
That's a big lock alright. 😆😆😆😆
@@coyoterx6002 HaHa...ok Jimmy you're off the hook.
Frink is really beating the crap out of the machine there. Two strikes and the tape reel comes right off. Dude is secretly jacked.
Or the machine is badly made.
The geek shall inherit the earth.
“Hello, you’ve reached ‘Bart Chat’!”
“Are you Bart?”
“Suuuure! ‘I didn’t do nothing’!”
“Isn’t the line ‘I didn’t do it’?”
“Sure, whatever!” **belch**
One of the best jobs Barney has ever made😂
"Number 8"
*belch*
"Number 8"
*belch*
"Hey, kids, I'm Krunchy the Clown!"
@@williamshaw9047 Bart: "That's not Krusty the Klown!"
Mr. Black: "W-what, you think I slapped a clown suit on some wino?" *nervous laughter*
@@lionelhutz5137Bart: "We want Krusty! We want Krusty!" Barney: "Yeah, we want Krunchy!"
Hi, you've reached the Corey Hotline. I hope we can get married some day.
Meanwhile, he’s some words that rhyme with Cory….glory..story..
@@seganmansfield3071 ...lavatory...inventory...purgatory...
... allegory
... Montessori
🥰
The funniest part about the New England blowout of Denver in this episode is the fact that the New England Patriots were absolutely terrible at this time. This episode uses the 1991 NFL season, which was one year removed from the Patriots worst season ever, where they only won one game. They didn't improve much in 1991.
Right before Bill Parcells came in, made them a frequent playoff team, and quietly laid the groundwork for the Belichick-Brady dynasty.
When he said “knots” I just lost it
"I'm now telling the computer what it can do with a lifetime supply of chocolate."
Glad I'm not the only one who thought of that!
Ah, former president Tim Brooke-Taylor. 😊
**Furiously punching in data parameters**
This is a reference to all those "call Santa" styled hotlines which would talk REALLY slow to waste your money.
Reason why you don't hear from those these days is because they were made illegal and way harder to pull off.
0:47 Coach Pete Rose always bets against Cin-Cin-At-Ti
It's just like homer to fall for the telemarketing scheme
Telemarketing, eh?
@@theany9765 Maude, eh?
Don’t you realize this is costing me money???
@@synthmalicious7541 does he not realise that's just an answering machine on the other side
Cin... Cincinnati.. Cin... Cincinnati.. Na... Cincinnati... Ti...
I like how Professor Frink kicked a dent in his metal machine.
0:48 That's a badass "yeah"
Professor Frink: In the off chance of a tie, hum-hey, the winner will be decided by... Keiser Wilhelm!? You infernal machine!!
Alright Frink! Don't let me down I bet that Cincinnati will win by 200 points tonight!
Did they?
@@wheeeeeha Who Dey?
The guy was only claiming to be 2% better than the flip of a coin. lol
Haha yeah the subtle joke is too here that at 52% with the VIG you would just break even or so. Simpsons writers were always super smart, albeit probably not something a kid would understand. But here we are 25 years later watching clips so now you can get the jokes more as an adult.
@@Westwoodpizzaco Good fun
0:30 Prof Frink's Gamble-Tron anticipated large-scale deep learning back in 1993! Seems like it's 'hallucinating' however.
Why is a guy running a football predictions hotline wearing a baseball uniform?
Don't EVER question coach again, that is, unless you don't want some of this *fans one dollar bills*
likely a reference to that one time a baseball coach hat to put together a team. they lost 0-222
@@ombricshalazar3869 Georgia tech v Cumberland college 1916, someone mentioned that in the top comment too, nice
Thats not a subtle sarcastic dig btw, i know we're on CZcams but i was just saying it's cool that 2 people noticed the same thing from different perspectives. I miss the old Simpsons sometimes.
More comfortable?
The sheer amount of blinking is hilarious to me for some reason.
Coach is a baseball coach!
lol that part makes me chuckle
It’s the only professional sports coach that actually dresses like the players,same uniform and everything unlike the suits of NBA and the Carhartt jackets of NFL.
Whenever I give a friend a wrong pick on a football game, I always use the "when you are right 52 percent of the time, you're wrong 48 percent of the time. It seems to get me off the hook most of the time.
Well now that you’ve told him that one before, he can’t hold it against you
It's the word knots that finally makes Homer snap
“at five…”
“MILES PER HOUR-“
“…knots.”
Best part of the joke is when homer incorrectly guesses mph instead of knots lol
Smooth Jimmy is legend. 🔒
Some time in the future: The Cincinnati Bengals beat the Miami Dolphins in a blow out.
Idiots from the future: Oh my god did the Simpsons predict that! (Shares this video)
Haven't seen so many jokes in 92 seconds since...ahh ..season 12
Season 12?!?!
*Season 8
I’d agree with season 12. Wasn’t that like ‘98 ‘99? I’ll agree with that. After that? Complete crap
@@sstills951 Season 12 was 2001.
@@Syndiate__ oh ok. Yikes. I stand corrected sir. Then you you’re right.
I'm pretty sure I'm alone in saying that this is my favourite Simpsons episode of all time. It's just perfect.
And the raiders cus they always cheat
Do you imagine how huge is the chain for that big lock?! 😲😁
Rumor has it its Jim Cramers options chain of the week.
@@Helpertin 😁
I think The Coach used to read off the school closures on snow days when I was a kid.
"Cincinnati. CINCINNATI. CINCINNATI!"
"If you are right 52% of the times, you are wrong 48% of the times"
It is even worse than that. You can achieve this kind of probability by throwing a coin: you are going to be, on average, right 50% of the times and you can easily have random oscillations of few percents. With such probabilities the information that your prediction brings about the real event is a tiny 0.15 bit, almost nothing; that is, your prediction says almost nothing about the real event.
*Rainier Wolfcastle voice* that's the joke
Is that Phil Hartmann as Jimmy the Greek?
Yes, and he also played him again on a Saturday Night Live skit...look it up it's pretty funny.
I love this lol.. One of my favorite scenes ever!
0:42 - me when my computer/phone freezes up
Looking forward to this rematch tonight. Lay it on me coach!
Simpsons in its golden age was something spectacular.
damn frink is strong as shit
Cin (Cincinnati) cin (Cincinnati) na (Cincinnati) ti (Cincinnati)🤣
It'd be jokes if, later in the ep, Gambletron turned out to be right, and Frink lost out lol
I never bothered with calling numbers like that back in the day but of course I was a child so it just wasn't something that came to my mind. I wonder how many of these numbers that charge you by the minutes actually did intentionally talk really slowly to try to get you to listen longer and pay more and more.
Me and my friend used to call one of those numbers for video game tips when we were kids... And yes those numbers added up quickly even if we were just calling with ONE question
I wonder if gpt4 could be trained to be be Gambletron 2023
Last one reminds me of those calls that go Press 1 if you want this service, Press 2 for this. Goes on and on and you dont get to speak to anyone
I love watching Homer watch tv.
Be more funny!
Poor gullible Homer, falling for every trap those predators set up for him.
Peeps this is why companies have small amount of customer support staff answering via phone. They profit from you calling to them while you wait and wait.
I'm surprised they didn't have a casual throwaway background line later in the episode about Cincinnati winning by 200 points.
I only trust Carl from Aqua Team Hunger Force
In high school my friend's brother called a per-minute 900# for adult talk using his church's phone. We all thought it was hilarious until he got caught.
As a kid I called a 900 line Nintendo had for gaming hints. I got the hint I needed within the first minute but then the helpline guy asked me if I had any other games. we then got into a whole conversation about other games i had and the strategies me and the helpline agent had used to beat them. A one minute call turned into 20. My dad got quite upset when the bill came.
0:18 yes this is a big lock
_After evaluating millions of pieces of data in the blink of an eye_
_the Gambletron 2000 says the winner is... Love?!_
_Who's been screwing with this thing?_
0:44 Is Frink's little bit a homage to Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory? It reminds me of that one guy who makes a machine to predict where the remaining tickets are and ends up getting mad at it.
Smooth Jimmy Apollo picked Denver and they were beat by 45 point LMAOOOOOOOOO
The Cincinnati vs Miami game where Cincinnati won by 200 points was the greatest game of all time.
0:47 Yeahh!!
THE GAMBLE-TRON 2000 - WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Yes. We. Do. That. Is. The. Entire. Point."
I love how it said "knots" even though "miles per hour" would have taken more time to say
I always presumed he was about to give the wind speed in knots, kilometers, miles per hour and feet per second 😅
At five……….knots.
Because of this clip, whenever my brothers and I are discussing football and the Bengals come up, we always refer to them with the same slow cadence as the hot line.
Professor Fink is either strong as hell or the Gamble-Tron 2000 is weak as shit.
How cheap were the material for that Gamblebtron that Frink could damage it?
To be fair, scoring 200 points against the Miami defense today is plausible.
5dollarsforthefirstminute2dollarsfoeachadditionalminute
It was pure gold.
You...............have.....................reached......................
This clip is funnier than the last 20 years of Simpsons combined.
The 7 first seasons of the Simpsons were just so incredible... however the last 20 seasons were just so horrible...
Cincinnati. Cincinnati. Cincinnati.
Is that Pete Rose? 😂
I think about this most times I hear the word "Cincinnati " Cin Cin nat tie
1992 Bengals went 5-11 and Dolphins went 11-5. No one in their right mind would’ve picked the Bengals to beat Miami that year
I picked them at +198 and cruised, even though they lost by 173.
That's why point spreads exist
This was the '91 season. Miami was 7-6 going into this game. (Miami -8) The Bengals were bad, but they just beat the defending champions, Giants, the previous week.
One of my all time favorite Professor Frink moments!
Knots....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati ... Are a lock 🤯
Kinda surprised Coach didn't stretch "versus" out. You could make it a 2.5-syllable word. ver-su-z
Home was calling the scam hotline for 33 second's so it would only cost about $2.50
There was no _per second billing_ for those services back then. $5.00, for the first minute, was a one minute minimum charge. At best, presume at least a two minute call to actually get the tip.
Tony Bloom actually went and invented the Gambletron.
Lay it on me, coach
YOU WANT SOME OF THIS?!!
More proof that early Simpsons writing was pure comedy gold
They DO KNOW it’s costing you money, Homer 😜 😉
Now I go by Carl's Stone Cold Lock of the Century... of the Week.
I can't believe the wind was from the west when it could've been from the west....north........west.
Five dollars for the first minute and 2$ dollars for every additional minute, if you ever called one of those old betting lines it was just like that, the recording would be so slow and they would go on & on about all kinds of BS just to run up the cost on you, by the time they gave you a winning team name you were going to pay $30 - $50 bucks.😂🤣
Tragic!!! Many such cases!!! He didn’t even give you a copy of Muzzy!
Simpsons predicted gambling odds ads lol who would have thought
Nah, these ads were very much a thing on backwoods cable stations in the late '80s and early '90s.
@@pronkb000 yeah I am in Australia we didn't have cable in the 80's but I do believe what your saying