15:09 An interesting piece of foreshadowing on the video:
" YOU'RE what's wrong with AMERICA , Simpson"
Since you just take the emphasized words and you get "YOU'RE AMERICA", which ends up relating to the whole Classic and Modern America representation

15:09 An interesting piece of foreshadowing on the video:
" *YOU'RE* what's wrong with *AMERICA* , Simpson"
Since you just take the emphasized words and you get "YOU'RE AMERICA", which ends up relating to the whole Classic and Modern America representation


I've given it some thought and basically. The Frank Grimes character is the death of the old style of the American Dream where you could break your back doing menial labor and expect social security, a well-paying job that gives you insurance and retirement benefits. Life partners who will marry you for pragmatic reasons, and you raise kids specifically so they'll support you when you are old. <br>That system doesn't exist anymore. If you want to be successful, you need to exploit the meta that wants to entrap you. Work a shitty job for a couple of years and put all your money into something that has a return that's big enough to where you can afford to invest in a dream or a project that you like doing but is expensive. Succeed in doing that, and you can actually have things like a partner who likes you for you and kids you can actually spend time raising to enjoy them.

I've given it some thought and basically. The Frank Grimes character is the death of the old style of the American Dream where you could break your back doing menial labor and expect social security, a well-paying job that gives you insurance and retirement benefits. Life partners who will marry you for pragmatic reasons, and you raise kids specifically so they'll support you when you are old.
That system doesn't exist anymore. If you want to be successful, you need to exploit the meta that wants to entrap you. Work a shitty job for a couple of years and put all your money into something that has a return that's big enough to where you can afford to invest in a dream or a project that you like doing but is expensive. Succeed in doing that, and you can actually have things like a partner who likes you for you and kids you can actually spend time raising to enjoy them.


Now you have to talk about the best episode of the best tv show... Season 5 Episode 14 of Breaking Bad, the only episode on IMDb to have a perfect 10/10 rating with over 100k ratings.


Challenging work, out of doors, guarantee you wont go hungry. Cos at the end of the day, long as theres 2 people left on the planet, someones gonna want someone dead.


you know the video is good when no one in the comments is talking about the over a minute long vsauce intro


"responsible and virtuous role models"

awkward zoom on Bill Cosby's face

"responsible and virtuous role models"

*awkward zoom on Bill Cosby's face*


Fast forward and now the Simpsons caved in a got rid of Apu and made voice actor apologise because some people got offended.

It honestly doesnt matter to me, i dont watch any episode after 1999. Hard to believe people still watch that trash 😕


And that's why I love VSauce. But Michael was kinda different in this episode.


Idea: there will Never Ever be another band like The Beatles (if you need to, use a different/separate video sharing platform to avoid copyright barriers)


If you ever get around to it, I've got a great idea for a future episode: "There Will Never Ever be Another Sitcom like It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia"


crazy how after all these years in that rabbit has the same eyes as the characters in disenchanted. <br>how thats consistency!

crazy how after all these years in that rabbit has the same eyes as the characters in disenchanted.
how thats consistency!


I've never watched this show but the Homer vs Flanders thing sound like what goes between Timmy's dad and Dinkleburg. Not very related to the video's topic, I just thought it was neat


so homer and marge simpson are named after groening's own parents.<br>that's a great way of tribute

so homer and marge simpson are named after groening's own parents.
that's a great way of tribute


I don't know why this episode is so popular - Homer is so over the top mean spirited it's like he's a different character than the one we had grown to know and love. It's bizarre.

This was back when the show was good and this episode at that point where Homer was a perfect contrast to Frank Grimes.


That prononciation of "laissez-faire" though


Lmao I didnt know Frank Grimes was based off of Frank Gallagher. Well, the guy who plays him. I know Shameless came out long after The Simpsons


I absolutely adore the gran turismo music in the background, brings back the best of memories.


Good video, it does remind me of supereyepatchwolf's fall of Simpson's video quite a few times though.


so the moral of the story is that things will always be unfair and you can either fight against it, change nothing, and waste your life, or sit back and relax as everything goes to shit? and that second option is what a modern hero would do? im not even an american but im 100% on grimes side on this one

great vid tho thats just my opinion

The moral is that you should either sit back like Homer or fight against the system, fighting against Homer (Someone who did nothing to Grimes, ADMIRED him, who's suffered a lot more than Grimes ever has, and who only slacks off because of how bad Mr Burns abuses him and the others) instead of Burns represents pure egocentrism and a superiority complex. Homer may look scummy by not trying to change a system that screws over others, but from his perspective all systems are equally trash, and he has supported more people than Grimes has ever supported with his "fairness" stand.


I dunno I still believe in working hard but also not comparing myself to others and being resentful. I'm Frank and Homer rolled up.


Loving the final fantasy 6 and mario 64 music. Great video btw


could it be that Springfield is in Florida, since in the game "Simpsons Hit And Run" Marge has an outfit saying "Florida State" on it?


Eh, Season 9 I still see as extremely classic...a few from 10 but none from 11/12 etc

I honestly cant watch anything past 1999 😟, the drop in quality is astonishing..


14:24 I actually needed this reminder, I already forgot lol.


People like Frank Grimes are not that successful in the USA today but in China Grimes is the ideal type of worker.


Jesus fuck the level of attention to every small clip played with the voice over "getting the short end of the stick" while Moleman is hit in the groin and his stick is left standing lol<br>Hats off to this guy, he knows his simpsons

Jesus fuck the level of attention to every small clip played with the voice over "getting the short end of the stick" while Moleman is hit in the groin and his stick is left standing lol
Hats off to this guy, he knows his simpsons


Out Bloody Rageous - Soft Machine. Great track, cool to hear it included. Thats a deep cut for sure


<b>sigh</b> Time to fall in love with something old again

*sigh* Time to fall in love with something old again


I just like Homer Simpson because he’s dumb and funny


I think springfield is in New York since homer is the one that operates the new york nuclear safety and its shown quite a bit on the show


Homer Simpson: The anti-Stanislav Petrov


gran simpsons : the real american simulator


I like how Fox went from new and progressive while ABC and what not were supposedly conservative<br>Annndd now Fox is the lone conservative and is slowly falling.

I like how Fox went from new and progressive while ABC and what not were supposedly conservative
Annndd now Fox is the lone conservative and is slowly falling.


Bro, some people think the Simpsons writers are time travelers and if they are, do you think they named frank grimes frank grimes on purpose? Because idk it just seems like a coincidence of sorts.


IMO There will never ever be a show like the Inbetweeners


According to the wizard of oz, copper paint.


That last joke is even funnier now that rusty cage is bald


Great choice with the mario 64 bowser level music!


There's a reason the greats die young...? You're an odd writer...


I think someone on youtube did end up figuring out where the Simpsons live


you should do "there will never be another Top Gear"


the 'american dream' idea, truth was it's never been achievable, and the attempts in 1950 for the housing market, for example, had ripple effects creating a worse situation today


24:49 - 25:11 Someone please tell the ever growing presence of anarcho-communists in America this.


there will Never Ever be another video game/fps like Team Fortress 2? I know you like it, you keep using its music and your old ytp have lots of references to it


32:47 No emplemon it’s a they started a DOWNWARD SPIRAL


Suggestion:never ever will there be another company like Apple


Grimes represents the people who feel cheated out of the American Dream where you'll be rewarded for your hard work and despise people like Homer who, embodies a different version of the American Dream where living a carefree life is it's own reward.


The music near the beginning sounds like menu music from one of the first Gran turismo games.


nitpicky but 16:35~ we didn't overthrow the british monarchy, we defeated their army though.


"you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain"


Please do a Never Ever on Kentaro Miura.


I like the gran turismo lounge music. Lol


Hell there is a Springfield in Northern Ireland


So he just wanted to ..... Rage against the mach-


The episode itself was a classic, but Grimes was just not a likable character. He's bitter, stuck up, and was constantly trying to prove he's "superior"


Gran Turismo music? Absolutely fantastic.


The question of fairness is not that complicated yes there are things in this world that is out of our control but what is unfair is how people makes things unfair like bad parents giving everything to one child and ignoring the other and when the kids says it’s unfair the parents say the world is unfair there are plenty of examples of people all over the world making things unfair for other people


imagine having to pay for your prescriptions lol america


the simpsons are green cause they made a whole lot of money for 20th century fox


Imagine there an episode called there will never be another quarterback like Tom Brady


That shirt of yours seems to be a bit too tight


Then: This video<br>Now: "Apu is racist"

@strange hominid Oh wow, fairs. Still, very sad.

This video came out after the apu is racist debacle


Please do there will never ever be another footballer like Zlatan Ibhrahimović.


I live about 10 minutes from Springfield Louisiana😂


Is the music at the end from Aqua Teen, or am I just uncultured swine?


John swarzwelder recently did a fucking interview the interviewer should of showed him this fucking video lol


American ideal = laissez faire. hahaha the ideal is so American that the word is French


are you pointing out how unfair it is that Asians have to work twice as hard as other poc to get into Harvard with that graph? 25:34


raw models....  close up and... whops! hahaha


17:05 Is it just me or do I hear Stromae?


from 1:00 onward I was hard vibing to the music. Gran Turismo 3 anyone else?


No way.you showed MOONMAN???? LOL moonman hates em


"Don't you know how close you were to drinking acid??"<br>Homer:  :D

"Don't you know how close you were to drinking acid??"
Homer:  :D


At 3:02 you can hear a New Zealander raised as an Australian shouting “Heads Up!”, as he flings a jar of questionable yellow liquid at you.


There will never ever be another YouTuber like Emplemon.


I love how Emp went full out to make a Vsauce episode for the intro.


I'm sure to say there will Never Ever be another youtuber like EmpLemon


This shit just opened up my third eye<br>whoa

This shit just opened up my third eye
whoa


(Born in 1999) I will never forget the night my father brought home a DVD copy of the first season of Simpsons, made some popcorn, and "introduced us to our ourselves"


Man that generation X portion of the video had me going: "Gee that sounds familiar" a million times over, my generation (and the two following) had to deal with very similiar bullshit.

Its like we've been stuck in a loop since the 80's.

@Paul Webb Doesn't have to be the worst to be complete and utter dogshit.

@Paul Webb and so? Do we only need to be grateful? <br>Ok boomer

@Paul Webb and so? Do we only need to be grateful?
Ok boomer

When you think you're living in the worst time in history, look at history and think again.


Is it bad that when Emp said “Hi, Everybody!” I immediately responded “Hi, Dr. Spiral!” <b>with the video itself?</b>

Is it bad that when Emp said “Hi, Everybody!” I immediately responded “Hi, Dr. Spiral!” *with the video itself?*


"He is...the Legendary Super Simpson."

"Why is it kinda...green?"

"BECAUSE IT'S *LEGENDARY.*"


You think free episodes could be posted on yt by changing their color?


"The name of this character is..."
Sideshow Bob!
"Homer Simpson!"
Oh

My immediate answer was Mr Burns... I don't even know how well he fits the question.


HONEY GET OVER HERE.
PUT EVERYTHING DOWN.
EMPLEMON HAS UPLOADED!


20 minutes in and I still don't know why there will never be another episode like this. Video should be titled something like "how The Simpson's were a reflection of the US in their early years"


I was literally just thinking last night after watching the Stanislov video, "Damn he hasn't put out a never-ever for a year, I wonder if he's gonna do them anymore" then blam, next morning I get this.

@_deadrabbit Nice! My lil bud is 3, His name is Patrick :)

Your profile pic is a green cheek conure i have a green cheek conure his name is donut


I was watching The Real Jims when getting this, so great timing Emp

Edit: Hey theres The Real Jims right now, i thought i accidentally clicked reverse


Since the Simpsons have been around since the late 80s they've been around for 5 different decades.


yeah this was a masterpiece, as the Simpson's was.


Another reason the Simpsons were green was to avoid getting a copyright strike.


My friend has been using this character as an avatar for nearly a year now for good reason.


The Simpson's are based in Massachusetts.  It's just a fact


34:40 This doesn't really count as one of their predictions, I mean who else didn't see Siegfried and/or Roy getting attacked by a tiger?

I mean Trump running for president and the Towers being attacked were also really telegraphed and predictable but that won't stop people from thinking that Matt Groening has a magic 8 ball that works.


I hate seeing recent events and things in simpsons episodes. I didn’t watch it as a kid so I can’t miss the “old” way it was. It’s just weird now. They shouldn’t have iPhones. They shouldn’t have YouTube. I don’t like it.


Finally, Never Ever has returned. And the topic is my favorite show of all time.


Great video, I have one question though. The graph you show about racial differences in SAT scores seems to portray a societal bias, not random unfairness as stated. The graph shows the average scores of students admitted to Harvard, to me this only shows that Asians are expected to have high scores, not that Asians trend towards higher scores.

@Findinglio Spugolingi I agree, the statement “life isn’t fair”, while true, doesn’t mean that we should never try to make it fairer. We may never live in a perfect world, but that means we can always live in a better one

I think it implies that acceptance into Harvard only depends on the best SAT scores, which I disagree with (success in college, work, and everything in life comes down to many factors including work ethic and character, not just 'intelligence'). The implication behind THAT, I think, is that we should never EXPECT full equality, affirmative actions taken towards it or no. And while I MILDLY agree that some things will be unequal no matter how hard we try to change them, I feel like saying "unfairness will always exist so don't try to fix it" is akin to saying "you're going to die eventually so why bother living".


South Park evolved into what the Simpsons wanted. But South Park got a network to tell a story a legit adult would enjoy in today's culture.

The simpsons dumbed it itself down so much only babies & kids could watch that crap 😳


Homers Enemy actually got a sequel. It’s an episode we’re a mysterious man is trying to kill Homer and Homer is wondering who is trying to kill him. Sideshow bod helps out Homer into finding this mysterious man until a concert or something Homer finally finds out who is trying to kill him. Frank Grimes Jr (Franks son)

That sounds really dumb and makes me wish that The Simpsons ended at S8 even more

@George Liquor Not at all. A man who couldn't dedicate time to his personal time, could only express his feelings with a hooker.

Or maybe I'm just overthinking about a 2000's Simpson episode, where you just laugh because it's funny XD, not because it's funny.

Ruins Grimes' character by implying he loves hookers. Not the same Frank we know.

@אורי ניסים שורץ I thought it was alright. Sideshow bob teaming up with The Simpsons was a bit weird but I still enjoyed it.

אורי ניסים שורץ


"Often times the greatest art doesn't give us all the right answers, it makes us ask the right questions"


It just about messed me up. The good folks at Springfield were LAUGHING at the guy being buried!!<br>I couldn't believe it!

It just about messed me up. The good folks at Springfield were LAUGHING at the guy being buried!!
I couldn't believe it!

@Paper Sonic Either way, lt was bizarre.

They were laughing at Homer, not at Grimes.


9:30 - The history of simpson showrunners (S1-7)
13:35 - Season 8
18:05 - Why do we like homer simpson ?


I can't shake off the feeling that this is the spiritual part 2 of the spongebob episode


I know there are a lot of visuals but I also just like listening to Never Ever episodes like it's a radio story


"Laissez-faire" and the american dream are lame but ok

@Pròchazka  oh yeah, the famous slavic bs

@Oda Swifteye can't stand a blunt opinion ? The video is great btw, only the american dream isn't.


Literally one of my favorite Simpson episode. No joke

@peter gibbons very fun at parties aren't you mr reddit?

@peter gibbons let people enjoy things man


Funny how Gen X and Millennials are so similar we may as well just be one giant generation. Despite media still thinking Gen Z are Millennials... I will never understand their misplaced cultural labeling of people largely in our 30's to early 40's now, as if we're all 15.

@Henrique Melchior Gomes Ain't that a sad truth.

when you still have 70-80 years old people running the world, you doesn't have any reason to be an adult


i'm 3 minutes in & new to this channel and the editing already goes hard as hell


"There will never ever be another anime like Gurren Lagann"<br>I will legitimately trade my soul for this video

"There will never ever be another anime like Gurren Lagann"
I will legitimately trade my soul for this video

@Giga Chad Or anything Satoshi Kon made.<br>Sigh... why did he had to die so soon...

@Giga Chad Or anything Satoshi Kon made.
Sigh... why did he had to die so soon...

Cowboy bebop might be a better contender

That's your opinion. He's not making these videos based on suggestions or what other people think is popular.

I dunno, School-Live! probably deserves one too, but Emp probably doesn't want to be an anime channel.


I had absolutely no idea I wanted this much analysis of The SImpsons.


It’s capitalism. The issue is that 4 people own everything. That’s why work doesn’t equal success.

I dont think that was the point of the episode though. It was more about what happens when you allow bitterness about how unfair life is to ruin you. It can apply to anything. How pretty you are, how tall you are, how smart you are. Nobody EARNS those things, but getting angry at those who have them wont hurt them, it will just hurt you


Under Communism, Even Illness Becomes Wellness


"Matt Groening would have to enter hell."
map pans to Los Angeles
absolute gold

"Matt Groening would have to enter hell."
*map pans to Los Angeles*
absolute gold


so fox fox said lets do wat every other companies did but no


Great and totally unique content from you, as always.


I like how he classifies every philosophy he says in America implying that just moving to Britain will be like finding heaven


I just recently found out this goldmine of a channel. The way you deliver your commentary is unmatched in the Youtube landscape. I spent non-stop 4 hours watching as much of your content, and I still do not feel a burnout by your content. You deserve all the praise and subscription, continue doing what you do. But, I have a few questions, do you have a Patreon link to donate? Secondly, will there be a commentary on anime shows like Attack on Titan or Death Note, or Code Geass? I would love to see how you interpret these shows and the themes presented in them.


Don’t know why I keep watching this video above all your others. Really well written


This is an incredible interpretation. Bravo 👏 Subbed!


I know it is trendy to say that the Simpsons had been declining for 20 years, but I still like the show. I think people get tired of things over time and that is a bigger reason for the show's decline than the show's actual quality. Also, as we have been watching the show for so many decades now, we can see all the jokes coming. That said, I still find those jokes funny, even if I see them coming from a mile away.


He was right about 5 years ago, but since then the show has really worked hard on its satire, even compared to the early years.


I do like the connection you've made between Ned and Homer and Frank. It's an exploration of God through creativity. Ned is blessed by God, Homer comes to be blessed by God (in the show being successful). This leaves Frank, who is also blessed by God in that he is given death and escape from the miserable trap of his existence. Like a mercy killing. I always loved the ending personally - it's a sharp dose of unpleasant reality, like all truly hilarious comedy.


Well done on this video! and thank you for it :)


What I got from this is we should be more like homer simpson in life.


Maybe its a little to obvious, but you should do one of these on the End of Evangelion. It's such a monumental series on it's own, End of Eva just caps it off in such a spectacular way. Not to mention there was plenty of controversy about the original series ending, and countless fan theories and conclusions that can be drawn from the actual movie itself.


The Simpsons has gone entirely downhill after S11, E05 at precisely 10:49. Never has a single Simpsons scene surpassed that, nor will there ever be one to even come close to it again.


homers enemy represents everything society laughs AT: hard workers, ppl who make an honest living, ppl who think rational thoughts and have logic, etc...


Of course not, the Simpsons were a good show that lasted about 8 seasons, and was filled with memorable episodes and served as a sharp commentary on the American culture.<br>And than it got replaced by the Zombie Simpsons, or Zimpzonz which is nothing but endless roes of pandering without any originality and spirit, and who like a zombie walks despite being quite dead (having no brain activity) Its just that no one have had the guts to kill it.

Of course not, the Simpsons were a good show that lasted about 8 seasons, and was filled with memorable episodes and served as a sharp commentary on the American culture.
And than it got replaced by the Zombie Simpsons, or Zimpzonz which is nothing but endless roes of pandering without any originality and spirit, and who like a zombie walks despite being quite dead (having no brain activity) Its just that no one have had the guts to kill it.


Homer Simpson - American middle class 1950-1980<br>Frank Grimes - American middle class 1990-2020

Homer Simpson - American middle class 1950-1980
Frank Grimes - American middle class 1990-2020


as usual great exposition and extremely questionable philosophizing. thanks, was great


I dont normally like video essays, but yours are awesome you can make it fun


I'm gonna guess that Stanley Kubrick is the next "Never Ever" video in the works


What an incredible deep dive, excellent, excellent video.


We have all worked with a Frank Grimes in our career and on the other hand we have all worked with a Homer Simpson.


Season 9 had some good episodes too. There were definitely a few dumb ones but season 10 is 100% where they lost me. When they killed Maude Flanders in season 11, I tapped out.

@Squid Man Nuva I heard that one was pretty funny. I have all of the seasons up to 12 on DVD I think. I'll check it out. Thanks!


I disagree with the claim that Homer places a high value on those around him.  He is an alcoholic that often neglects his family, physically abuses his son and doesn't even remember his youngest daughter's name.  The sprinkled instances of him being kind or caring to them just serve to show that he is not a psychopath, but they are clearly not his top priority.   That honor goes to self indulgence in alcohol, food and entertainment.  Like how he was willing to risk his job and livelihood in order to go to a  tour of a brewery, or how he forgot to pickup his son from soccer practice because he was busy watching tv.


The simpsons are so interesting, that when I watched the simpsons on Disney + I went through multiple seasons without noticing a thing


The Simpsons, my favorite animated series ever.

I agree although the series really went downhill after 1999...


2:30 that image for nevada sums it all up, like they really nailed it.


Maybe it's just me; I wasn't so impressed with this episode. I think The Simpsons had reached its peak a couple of seasons before this. I used to looooove the Simpsons but I haven't watched many episodes in the last 15+ years or so.


There's also a reason why the 80s and early 90s sitcoms were the best. Nuclear family! Even Fresh Prince, Family Matters showed that the black family functions best with the nuclear family and of course the most important thing, a strong black father (employed, married, owns a home, defends the family, teaches life lessons, and works hard at family and career).


"The first show to extensively reference other popular media"

I'm afraid that recognition goes to St. Elsewhere. It's much less accessible to a modern audience, but if you really want to understand how and why TV changed you can't ignore that show.


A lot of ppl fail to notice that homer caused grimed to be depromoted and had to pick up a night job when homer almost drank acid and grimes tossed it out of his hand. He has a right to be pissed at homer and didn't deserve ppl laughing at his funeral (but is all to realistic). I feel if he knew how homer got that job as safety inspector (it's realy a bribe from burns) he wouldn't have gone so over the edge.


The simpsons may not be what it was. But it went from counter culture to becoming culture. And you can't have one without the other.


Nice one, loved the soft machine in the background too!


I like the new episodes still. Not much the old ones. Even though they are the classics, I find a lot of good episodes from the seasons 20-30.


19:03 - "Only by relinquishing control over others can we ensure our own agency to do as we please."

That only works if EVERY SINGLE PERSON WITHOUT EXCEPTION agrees to do the same. Of course some people's version of "doing as they please" is to control others, which is why the rest of us can't afford to relinquish whatever control we have over those people.

@Eric Glenn: That accusation makes absolutely no sense in this context. Maybe you're projecting.


Interesting perception but it's based purely on hypocrisies. Homer IS just really lucky and reality IS just really depressing. The thing is though that neither can exist any other way. For someone like homer to exist not only do they have to have all the qualities you mention but they have to be one of the lucky few people with those exact qualities whose life isn't destroyed by the consequence of their own mistakes. The episode is so funny because of this simple concept, the sheer unlikeliness for a Grimes to fail and for a Homer to succeed is what makes it so funny when it happens, but then again ONLY before we consider the real-life consequences to their actions. Even if you exclude the scientifically impossible events from the series there exists no actual person as lucky as Homer.

Fundamentally humans always mistake the entire world to be revolving around them in some way/shape/form and this ingrained narcissism is actually a survival tactic and defense mechanism because ironically to believe you don't believe the world revolves around you means you actually see yourself as so much more important than the average person sees themselves that you are actually even more self-centered than if you realized you were.

Why write a whole paragraph to explain that one concept though? Aren't I just trying to knock you down a peg or off some high horse you may not actually be on? Well no, but it is understandably the instinctual response to such pretentiousness. Consider this though: For >99% of us Homer is who we convince ourselves we are just to get through life and that is why we relate so much with him despite no one being anywhere even close to as lucky as him, and yet Grimes who we really are if we strip away all our delusions and see ourselves from a completely different existence. Really they are both just as incompetent but Grimes thinks too much of Homer and Homer thinks too little of Grimes. Homer tries so hard to impress Grimes in the exact same way as Grimes trying to devalue Homer. Homer actually fails Grimes in this episode but is too incompetent to care, and this is no different from how we fail ourselves and drive ourselves to madness by idolizing luck the way Grimes does. It may not seem like it but Grimes idolizes Homer, Homer is everything Grimes wishes he was. If Homer were smarter he would have helped Grimes instead of driving him insane but we need to remember that this is a show and not an actual 2 person dynamic. So if we go back to looking at both of them as if they are just 1 individual trying to understand themselves THEN we can see something very interesting.

What is so interesting is how they both have things backward about the other and their only middle-ground is that neither of them got to choose how lucky they are. They could learn from each other but they outright refuse to, and both are actually very straightforward about this. Grimes communicates this with words and by trusting the world around him with having the same intentions as himself, and this is his actual fatal flaw. Not his working hard for nothing approach or being stuck up or being unlikable or even his outlook on life, not any of the things we(Homer) perceive as his fatal flaw actually is. His fatal flaw is in his failure to accept that he only sees the value of everything around him through his eyes. Ironically this is also Homer's fatal flaw but Homer is simply lucky. They are the same person but with completely opposite lives and sadly the lucky one doesn't care enough about the other guy to save him(the lucky guy only cares about himself), BUT the unlucky guy ALSO doesn't care enough about the other guy to save him in an exact mirrored representation. The lesson is that it is foolish to mistake ourselves as superior regardless of whether we are a Homer or a Grimes. If either of them simply tried to take on the others advice then there would have actually been a chance of them surviving, but the reality is that they are just as horrible/lovable and flippant/balanced as each other.

So the joke is simply that life favors the lucky and so it's the classic tragedy is comedy routine, we feel the need to laugh about the inequality of their luckiness in life because the truth is so difficult for us to swallow and because as much as we may convince ourselves otherwise neither man actually exists in real life. When you see a Grimes or a Homer in real life you are simply perceiving yourself as the other one.

Ok good, you touch on this in the last third of the video. Maybe you are just better at putting this into words for the general populace but it seems you do understand what I explained, I do think the hypocrisies in the first half of the video were unnecessary but maybe they help get the viewer invested in the video enough to consider what you say in the end.


I think one facet you amy have missed is that it may not be possible to ever be homer simpson in a laize fair sense. I think it may be worth acknowledging that although genX was known for its apathy and distaste for unfairness and homer represents this and goes a step further by accepting unfairness by exploiting the people exploiting him, later generations must now confront the question of what happens when even the ability to live humanely is being broached and taken away. I think this is distinct from grimes specific discontent because grimes is upset that homes is rewarded while he is not. now its a matter of all wages being stifled and there being no clear way at all to get ahead grimes today would be seen as delusional for believing that he could get anywhere and homer, well homer wouldn't exist, he wouldn't be able to start a family or survive. what would a genz or millenial homer look like? maybe the answer to that is also subversive maybe a modern day homer is someone who still lives with their parents working minimum wage, maybe in a multigenerational cramped apartment with his parents and his own family, would he find pleasure in videogames? can he even support a family? the contempt for a modern day grimes would be directed towards societal structures which have been laid bare as corrupt before us but grimes just can't do much about it.


I remember a lot of adults flipping out over the simpsons to the point to where shirts at my school were not allowed, especially the one that said don't have a cow man lol  Pretty tame by today's standards, Must say I've never seen the one that has  Bart Simpson's head on Michael Jordan's body on a bulls T-shirt also promoting air Jordan shoes quoting can't touch this... who gets sued by who,where to start lol


So if the simpsons was base on the creator’s life, is it safe to say that Springfield is in Oregon?


Could it survive if it tried to question the new establishment? Basically the establishment it used to fight?


3:59 That ironic Bill Cosby compliment got me lol


The Simpsons is too busy pontificating about politics and cowtowing to social justixe to make an interesting, poignant episode ever again.


<b>8 minutes in</b> hold on, what does this have to do with Homers Enemy in particular

*8 minutes in* hold on, what does this have to do with Homers Enemy in particular


More than a bit hyperbolic there EmpLemon.  Listening to you it might seem we witnessed the birth of sliced bread. I mean, the episode was good I recall watching it at the time and identified with the whole unfairness of life aspect but didn't really see Jesus in the toast or anything.


Way to get 50 minutes out of this gem of an episode.<br>You should have titled it 'Why there hasmt been a good Simpsons episode in 20 years presented in a Higher Learneing Format stretched out over 50 minutes for max ad revenue' but then again that's pretty long.

Way to get 50 minutes out of this gem of an episode.
You should have titled it 'Why there hasmt been a good Simpsons episode in 20 years presented in a Higher Learneing Format stretched out over 50 minutes for max ad revenue' but then again that's pretty long.


16:38 bwahaha yeah you really 'overthrew' the monarchy. You totally threw them over! You're a winner, Murca! LMAO.


This is my literal 4th time revisiting and re-liking this video. Youtube keeps removing my like for you, Emp. I'm just gonna keep placing the like, you work too hard to get shafted.


I never identified with Homer. When I was younger, this role was fulfilled for me by Bart and sometimes Lisa. I don't like guys like Homer in real life, btw, but I didn't care about him at all to this point. When I got older, the series just got lame.. I still watched it here and there, but from some point on Homer has gotten SO dumb, that I really hate Homer now and don't want to see the series ever again.<br>PS: Yeah, I don't like dogs, too!

I never identified with Homer. When I was younger, this role was fulfilled for me by Bart and sometimes Lisa. I don't like guys like Homer in real life, btw, but I didn't care about him at all to this point. When I got older, the series just got lame.. I still watched it here and there, but from some point on Homer has gotten SO dumb, that I really hate Homer now and don't want to see the series ever again.
PS: Yeah, I don't like dogs, too!


This video was longer than the episode it studied. Fascinating.


This was the first episode of the Simpsons I ever saw.


5:17 almost everything in this description is true for today’s Gen Z except for the resignation of the president and the threat of nuclear destruction


I'm going to argue that Freddie Mercury was a bit past his prime when he died. Most of the great 70s rockers were by the early 90s tbh.


I think when you bring up manifest destiny without mentioning the displacement of native Americans it actually highlights the episode’s greatest oversight, an oversight that comes from the episode writer’s (John Swarzwelder’s) personal politics of right-libertarianism: that individuals don’t and can never represent and/or embody a nation’s collective problems, when the problem is the nation itself.


Notice the only people with the most likes have check marks next to their names? This is exactly what would drive Frank Grimes crazy.

Just because they're popular and thus wealthy? Grimes hated Homer because Homer was also dangerously incompetent and got him in trouble for saving Homer's life. His misfortune angered him too much to coldly document his vs Homer's achievements and deliver that to Burns with a prospect of making more money by cutting down on accidents among other things. Unfortunately the status quo would require an amusing series of events to restore it at the end.


As I was reminiscing to the simpsons, noticing the mario back track. I thought to myself; Am I the target audience for this video? There's a lot of back track, but then I'd thought about the concept and decided, no. They couldn't be so desperate to target me through click bait and then add a back loop of nostalgia to the then there abouts 90's just to placate me. .. Or are they really that desperate for views?


Animation isn’t a genre. It’s an art form, just like film. Animation can cover genres all the way from kid friendly Saturday morning schlock to high stake old westerns, to dark and disturbing psychedelic horror trips. “Action adventure” is a genre. Animation is so much more than that.

@Deadliest Vice No I meant Art form that's why I wrote "Art Form". Medium is just a synonym for Art form and vice versa. Honestly, did you think I was going to thank you for telling ME what I meant?

The word you're thinking of is "medium". Film is a medium, animation is another medium.


This is Truthiracy3 Levels of under/overstanding analysis. I love it. Subscribed.


The amount of times I have heard tf2's soundtrack in your vids is great lmao


Is there a good analysis on Seasons 9-12 (the slow decline where you still had great quality at moments)?


To have someone try to explain a cartoon is ridiculous!🤪🤪🤪😂😂😂


Ahh takes me back to the days of VSauce.


What's weird My father's name is Frank Grimes


Technically, there is one single person on earth who has no one more fortunate than them, and one single person who has no one less fortunate.

I wonder if there’s an objective scale of fortune we could use to determine that


You should do a "There will never be another motorsport like Group B"


Jokes on you, because I am colorblind and light green simpsons still appear yellow to me.


I have not watch the simpsons for the best part of 2 decades. I will properly never get back into it. But if it were to stop I would but upset and outraged lol


I feel like my brain just expanded 3 sizes


'Life in Hell' was syndicated in free weekly newspapers across the country. Those papers are where the first Simpsons strips appeared.


All this video did was make me miss Vsauce


I've never seen a full episode of the simpsons in my life. Why did I watch this?


Welp, you should analyzed the crap out of The Simpsons, huh? That's cool haha


"why do we like homer simpson"<br>Me: fat man funny

"why do we like homer simpson"
Me: fat man funny


there will Never Ever be another Youtuber like EmpLemon.


My uncle and and mom would say that they had the best time in the x generation cuz they got cars from there dad a nice home <br>I born from a gen x got none of that (always stalked by 5 0 no love poor mom wasn't surprised hearing  about the doomer generation worst of all white guys being racist to me cuz I'm bi racial 1/2 black mom I realized by the time I was five realized people wanted me to play a certain stereotype role I wouldn't do and wasn't like for that in trouble by teachers cuz I disagree about that I have too be a Democrat cuz my grandpa was a black republican I only know how to survive

My uncle and and mom would say that they had the best time in the x generation cuz they got cars from there dad a nice home
I born from a gen x got none of that (always stalked by 5 0 no love poor mom wasn't surprised hearing  about the doomer generation worst of all white guys being racist to me cuz I'm bi racial 1/2 black mom I realized by the time I was five realized people wanted me to play a certain stereotype role I wouldn't do and wasn't like for that in trouble by teachers cuz I disagree about that I have too be a Democrat cuz my grandpa was a black republican I only know how to survive


"Responsible and virtuous role models" <b>zooms in on Bill Cosby</b>

"Responsible and virtuous role models" *zooms in on Bill Cosby*


This is a fantastic video man. I don't need to see anything else subbed


TL:DR there will never be another good Simpsons episode ever


The 90s = Simpsons Era
The Early 2000's = Spongebob Era

Wonder what the next Era of memes that will take the world by storm.

*The 90s =* Simpsons Era
*The Early 2000's =* Spongebob Era

Wonder what the next Era of memes that will take the world by storm.


7:44 Ok so this is dumb and nit-picky, but maybe animation is associated with children because people think that it's a GENRE in which only SPECIFIC stories are told, rather than a MEDIUM through which ANY story could be told.


Let me know when there is never another simpsons episode. They milked that dead cow 25 years ago


That Gran Turismo 4 music still hits hard.<br>Fuck those were the times

That Gran Turismo 4 music still hits hard.
Fuck those were the times


The destroyer prospers, the creator is destroyed


brilliant. i know why yellow. its called corn.


How can laissez-faire be an American ideal, when no American can even pronounce laissez-faire properly. It's not 'lah-zay fair'.


man heres hoping for a "there will Never Ever be another animator like Kitty0706"


Is there a reason images of Bart Simpson that are not on television shows him wearing the light blue shirt instead of the reddish orange shirt seen on television?


Oh, it's my favorite creator: Best Guy Ever, from VSauce.


2:57 I heard Magnum Force kick in! Where's Sniper?


I watched all of this and I've never watched the simpsons


that was the most confusion intro I've seen


I'm really tired of people crediting The Simpsons for what Married With Children did.


So Matt Groening is now worth 600 million dollars, yet somehow the world is unfair and the "American Dream" is dead.  Not for the creator of the Simpsons.  This is true mockery in it's finest form.  Groening produces this edgy, badly drawn cartoon and gets rich on a character, that if he existed in real life, would probably be under a bridge doing drugs, not working for a nuclear energy company and raising a family.  Then we have this discord narrator saying the American Dream is dead, over analyzing and that you will work hard all your life and lose, that all life is unfair.  Groening obviously worked hard and put some serious effort into his creation for it to be so successful, it could have failed in it's first year and died out.  Groening proved the American Dream can still come true, and failure isn't inevitable. He made you live in the cartoon world, yet he worked harder than Frank Grimes.


Simpsons Season 1.  Good luck with your seizures.


40:00 I know for a fact that you used 15.ai, I recognize those broken tf2 voices anywhere


Dont you have to be a 1000 to have watched the simpsons


At 6:27 seconds... are those little dudes inspiration for Vip and Vap from Disenchanted?


33:24 Google, iPhone, Minecraft, Harambe and Tik Tok - the great inventions of the 21st century.

Harambe was not an invention of the 21st century. Almost but not quite.


'Spitting Image' was constantly 'referencing and parodying other media' from around 1982 onward. It was a national sensation in the UK. 'The Simpsons' was not the first to do this. I'm tempted to add 'Monty Pythons Flying Circus from 20 years earlier, but it's before my time.

@Connor Ha. Yes. You often get the impression you are reading an undergraduate essay when the student is somewhat overstating their case. Good effort though. Lots of valid points made after the over long introduction.

@Deadliest Vice I have no idea why you type that. 'Spitting Image' had huge impact. It has been identified as one of the reason Apartheid fell in South Africa. Reason? For young white South Africans, it exposed their cultural isolation and ridiculed the regime. See 'I've never met a nice South African'. You will be aware, that once a very 'hip' and current form of satire has passed it's 'moment', it dies completely and utterly? Yes? Another example would be 'That Was The Week That Was' or even 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh In'. Both before I was born. Also, when you say  'i[t] would've gotten worldwide popularity' I'd suggest you misunderstand international  telecommunications media and the impact of deregulation and 'cable'. The Simpsons was a Fox product. Fox had the capacity to deliver things internationally. Spitting Image was sold independently. I'm unclear you take this into account. Next time, take a very quick peek at Wiki before you type, it could save some time. I've not counted, but it looks like it has something like 40-50 international adaptions and as for 'impact' we see...'According to Avalon Television executive producer Jon Thoday, Ronald Reagan directly contacted NBC, asking for the show to be cancelled.[18]' Cheers.

"Referencing and parodying other media" isn't the same as "parodying and satirizing culture and status quo". Had Spitting Image be as successful as The Simpsons i would've gotten worldwide popularity, but evidently it did not. There's always a reason something becomes a hit, merely existing or even being "the first" isn't enough.

Think there was a lot of hyperbole in this video but that’s pretty typical of YouTube content now


The sense of history from the 80s is skewed so bad you clearly have little actual knowledge of the time period.


So, the Simpsons here are green...

Because they just are.


If anyone is wondering what Licorice Pizza is, it was a record store in Socal back in the 80's when I as teen, it was sold to musicland I believe and not sure what happened next.


lol I was playing Smash and recognized the song from Mario Odyssey. I thought it was coming from smash on Smashville so I paused the video haha Song slaps hard though for real


anyone know the music drop at13:33 ? I feel like it's metroid or something.

Specifically bowsers level theme, before the boss fight

I'm an idiot... mario 64.... found the music list in the desc.


Laissez-fair is pronounced lay-say fair. Not la-say fair


what game track is it when they transition to season 8 at 13:41?  this is killing me

@Timothy Babich Omg thank you for answering your own question!


Is this video too similar to the "Te lo resumo" or I am crazy?


USA is probably one of the most unequal country in the western world, yet the video comes to the conclusion midways that the solution is just to stop caring about equality and fairness and adopt the "laissez-faire" way of thinking that created the inequality in the first place. Or maybe did I get the reasoning wrong ? But it's such a weird take when you think about the BLM and lgbt equality movements that have stirred up the country for months now. <br>Not criticizing the opinion, but I feel like it should have been better developed and justified, especially since it is build around the example of a tv show and not the real world.

USA is probably one of the most unequal country in the western world, yet the video comes to the conclusion midways that the solution is just to stop caring about equality and fairness and adopt the "laissez-faire" way of thinking that created the inequality in the first place. Or maybe did I get the reasoning wrong ? But it's such a weird take when you think about the BLM and lgbt equality movements that have stirred up the country for months now.
Not criticizing the opinion, but I feel like it should have been better developed and justified, especially since it is build around the example of a tv show and not the real world.

@atur chomicz this is just a negative way of thinking, change is always possible

Americans really have taken the Red Pill that change is impossible in the 1980s while Social Democracy was steamrolling Europe with Positive Change at the same time, they dont deserve better at this point


Bill Cosby... a roll model.  Yea..... lets go with that ....


You’re a quite a bit off bud. I’m gen x. We were babies if even born during Vietnam and Nixon. We moreso witnessed the failure of Carter and the homogeneous nature of Reaganism - punctuated by the spectacle of the first gulf war and the economic malaise of the early 90s, into the optimism and future forward nature of the late 90s/early 00s.


Ive lived in LA for a couple years.

LA is hell. So is SF where I currently live.


there will Never Ever be another video game like Minecraft<br>or there will Never Ever be another anarchy server like 2b2t

there will Never Ever be another video game like Minecraft
or there will Never Ever be another anarchy server like 2b2t


Gran Turismo music in this video makes me exceedingly moist.


Wtf YouTube unsubbed me and i missed this one


why is there 13:30 of padding before the subject in the video is discussed?


This video is longer than the episode....


This only "aired" cause we have worse entertainment avenues than we've had before, shame on you for capitalising on something that you'd cared about to gain click baits and interlocked into sell out position.

when all you want is to introduce a better entertainment platform than you've had before. < ? :The simpsons was beyond you, and you don''t even understand it enough to critique it, but (BTW) you sit while expecting a pay check. -(AND) I don't know you but shame through, to capitalise off an already established cartoon entertainment channel.BUT clearly, where's this going.


On a side note: Mission Hill was a dope show.


To quote a conversation from criminally underrated character from a criminally underrated movie, that perfectly summarizes the downfall of the Simpsons: "Well, well, well. Devil's Night is upon us again. Figured we'd throw a little party, start a bunch of fires, make a little profit.  Problem is: it's all been done before."

"That's no reason to quit!"

"Wrong. That's the best reason to quit. The only reason to quit. A man has an idea. The idea attracts others, like-minded. The idea expands. The idea becomes an institution. What was the idea? That's what's been bothering me, boys. I tell ya: when I used to think of the idea itself, it put a big ol' smile on my face. You see gentlemen, greed is for amateurs. Disorder. Chaos. Anarchy. Now that's fun!"

"What about Devil's Night?"

"What about it? I started the first fires in this goddamn city. Before I knew it, every charlatan and shitheel was imitating me. You know what they got now? Devil's Night greeting cards. Isn't that precious? The idea has become the institution, boys. Time to move on."


Dude I literally check YouTube every single day and go straight to my subscriptions praying that you have uploaded. It’s like Christmas for me when I see a new EmpLemon video


Here's a question I have:<br>If simpsons ended on season 8, would disney bring it back?

Here's a question I have:
If simpsons ended on season 8, would disney bring it back?

@Funky Chunky Meh Star Wars was already damaged before Disney with the two garbage prequels. At least it's getting better with things like the Mandalorian and Clone Wars season seven. (Except that garbage arc with the SJW sisters.)

Look what they did with Star Wars. Probably


Homer Simpson and Frank grimes are two sides of the same American coin


when I watched this episode for the first time as a kid, it really stuck with me.

i think before people watch homer's enemy they need to watch homer's odyssey. i married marge and maggie makes three plus homer's barbershop quartet the way we was and for context mother simpson....puts in perspective homer's character..you like him better..

@Calum Tatum I’ve known people like Homer and I’ve known people like Grimes and I don’t want to be like any of them. I think a great way to live life is to find the perfect balance between the both of them, to be happy where are you are in life but also want to strive for more.


I feel like if emplemon took acid he would talk his head off. like his stories would go so far off the track that you would wonder what the hell even brought up the conversation.


My mom really identifies with Frank, but I've grown apposed to chasing success for success's sake, but rather as a means to support a worthy cause.

I’ve always greatly appreciated the quote, “A voyage spent looking forward is a wasted trip”. (Drove my family crazy!)


"Homer, Simpson, and the Queen of England."<br>Ah yes, the famous trio.

"Homer, Simpson, and the Queen of England."
Ah yes, the famous trio.


I went to the doctors complaining about loss of hearing.

She asked me to describe the symptoms.

I said Homer's a fat bald guy, Marge has blue hair, Bart rides a skateboard, Lisa plays the sax, and Maggie is a baby.


We could call this the Squidward Effect.


thats right emplemon specified that the simpsons is the longest running AMERICAN show... thats because japan has a show thats been running for way longer Sazae-san

Sazae-san's approach is really interesting, both families don't seem to age but The Simpsons decided to make episodes about modern/relevant things while Sazae-san is still stuck in the old japan times, makes one think what could the Simpsons look like nowadays if they were still set in the 90's.

Has someone made a hour-long video about that?


Never ever will there be another first anything


why does this video use the menu music from Gran Turismo 4?


EmpLemon, or as he liked to be called "limey".


Living in the uk and only ever seeing s3-s9 multiple times on live tv i wondered why they were the only ones we see. Now i get it.

Now that I think about it, it is probably the main reason I see Americans the way they are stereotyped.


"We've run out of oceans to cross" <b>sweats while looking at mars</b>

"We've run out of oceans to cross" *sweats while looking at mars*


I see you covered Cosby in this but left out Matt's repeated trips on a certain airplane owned by certain someone who didn't kill himself.

Groening was on the list too? Well, can't say that I'm surprised.


I’d say king of the hill is a “normal” family with a  crazy surroundings, just straight forwardness vs political correctness

It succeeded at The Simpsons' original intention of "trying to make you forget you are watching a cartoon" better than The Simpsons did. It never insulted its audience, it never bought into the neoliberal agenda, and it ended at the right time.

It succeeded at *The Simpsons'* original intention of "trying to make you forget you are watching a cartoon" better than *The Simpsons* did. It never insulted its audience, it never bought into the neoliberal agenda, and it ended at the right time.


As an English person I completely agree that the queen is nothing more than a symbol at this point.

The spiffing Brit enters chat<br>The spiffing Brit is typing

The spiffing Brit enters chat
The spiffing Brit is typing


4:53 That graph looks like Peter Griffin with a wizard's hat.


like that popular phase: or you die as a hero or you live long enough to become the vilain


A comment for those who heard Gran Turismo under tones


36:33 One piece and south park are still creative, amazing, and have everything what made it's peak special even after more than 20 years airing. The creators still have a passion for the show


"The only thing that is for sure about emplemon is nothings for sure."


Came expecting simpsons fun facts left with insight on my life and how I choose to live it


It's perfectly sane and reasonable to become obsessed with exposing the incompetence of the safety inspector at the nuclear plant you work in.


15:21 Interesting, as William H. Macy himself was conceived to resemble none other than Ned Flanders.


''Don't cry for me, I'm already dead'' - Simpsons 1995


How is it that when he said "he had to enter hell" I instantly knew he was going to say LA


Homer's job is literally to just be an idiot while his boss cuts corners in order to gain more wealth.. he is the butt of the joke and his character is not reflective of the apathy or ability for the middle class to exploit the US... he is literally a joke against the rich and powerful. Any other meaning you are drawing on it is potentially over-blown and unfounded. Grimes represents the actuality and hard work that is required to exist and Homer is the antithesis, not because he is apathetic to the financial or materialistic situation around him.. but because he is a pawn of the rich to get richer while (potentially) the rest of the world literally explodes.


"But before that, Matt Groening will have to experience Hell..."

dramatically pans over to Los Angelos

"But before that, Matt Groening will have to experience Hell..."

*dramatically pans over to Los Angelos*


I was originally planning to write a comment about how potentially disingenuous the section "Life is Unfair" is in its justification of political passivity on the grounds of the unattainability of complete equality (which is a clearly flawed argument, specially in its equation of chance misfortunes with social inequality), but the juxtaposition of the graph of SAT scores by race and the spiel about the inevitability of inequality point to a much deeper problem in the outlook driving this video which makes me extremely suspicious that any comment would ultimately fall in death ears.

Now to write a better, more concise comment, someone who misunderstands the nature of social inequality is perfectly capable of misattributing prevalent social inequality as ‘evidence that meritocracy is conceptually flawed and/or not pragmatic’.

@G. Neves I like to think of it as a (I’ll use the word “critique” even though it’s probably wrong) on the attitude held by people who push for governmental action on social inequality, though NOT a critique of governmental action in itself. Emp, unlike most who deny/abide by social inequality, doesn’t tend to focus on the logistics of social inequality; even when the logistics of social inequality are present in his videos, it’s framed very genuinely around the attitudes of those who favor governmental action towards social inequality rather than the governmental action itself.

Emp has his own biases, and I’d be lying if I said I took his word as gospel. But he does provide insight as to the general rationale  held by (I’ll leave it as “someone who is undecided or against governmental action against social inequality”). But given his video on Jimmy Kimmel, and the fact that he once called out a YouTuber but then APOLOGIZED, strongly points me toward the authenticity of his “life is unfair” section.

I personally believe that his “life is unfair” thesis is genuine. Perhaps misguided, and his SAT graph isn’t the best example for the point he is trying to prove; I think his rationale is one that thinks social inequality issues are purely legal in cause, when they are that and many other things; particularly culturally, and systemically (whether intentional or not).
But this belief (that systemic oppression/inequality is purely legal) is a commonly held, GENUINE, misconception. I speak as one who used to hold that belief myself. From what I can tell, he doesn’t think he’s justifying political passivity; he thinks political ACTION is unnecessary, something that has been “achieved” to the best of its abilities, and that continued support of political action is now counterintuitive to humans being self-sufficient. And while I agree that IF political action had a “point of finality”, where developments would not be effective and/or be counterintuitive to people being self-sustaining, that some (though CERTAINLY not all) people would probably still continue to push for political action for their own self-interest, I, unlike those under the aforementioned misconception (which again, possibly includes Emp), would NOT agree with the idea that social activism has “reached” a point where “if you’re still suffering from the issues created by social inequality you’re just not trying hard enough”

Sorry for the essay.


laissez faire is french for let it be/do


exploiting the system instead of fighting it ... that totally sounds like a strategy I would choose!


Springfield Heights Institute of Technology; what is the acronym?


The recent season seemed like it stop reaching for views and has gone back to it roots.


there home town in is Oregon. this news is almost a decade old  how have you not found this out by now

But that's just a theory.
A Film Theory.
Thanks for commenting.


popularity leads to authority, authority leads to mediocrity, mediocrity leads to rebellion, rebellion will overtake the old and reestablish itself as the new popular thing, leading the an endless cycle of rinse and repeat.


16mn comment made me realised how french the USA are.


Never ever will there be a footballer like Lionel Messi. plz


OK maybe it's not counter culture, the Simpsons is still good, and I for one am glad it's still going its nice to see for once.