A well earned thumbs-up, although I am still in the camp that says season 9 was pretty great, too.

Now that I think about it, Season 9 was the last season of the golden age. It may not be the biggest masterpiece but it felt like it was just a fun season to watch. You have episodes like The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson, Treehouse of Horror VIII, The Cartridge Family, Realty Bites, Bart Carny, The Joy of Sect, Dumbbell Indemnity, Girly Edition and King of the Hill. These are just one of a few episodes of the season I found to be amazing. The season is also home to my biggest guilty pleasures like Miracle on Evergreen Terrace, The Last Temptation of Krust and The Trouble with Trillions. I also feel like the season still has some brilliant political commentary, some heart, great laughs, solid character writing and fantastic satire. Even if this season doesn't always have these traits as often as earlier seasons. They're still there consistently throughout Season 9. It's a season later when these traits slowly begin to deteriorate. In my opinion, Season 10 may have classic episodes like Mayored to the Mob and Mom and Pop Art but I have a hard time putting the entire season in the golden age


@17:17 "Many Americans now experience disillusionment with the American Dream, believing that we are subject to the same kind of tyrannical oligarchy from which our forefathers originally fled. The only difference now is that we have run out of oceans to cross." goddayum those two sentences hit hard


"The engine of America is powered by turmoil."

I really like that man.

Breaking news: Americans discover that they're also human and that we are all flawed


That's television for you!<br>A show can either die a Reboot or live long enough to become the Simpsons.

That's television for you!
A show can either die a Reboot or live long enough to become the Simpsons.


This video is amazing. You should be very proud of yourself


great video, made me look at the simpsons in a whole new light


The generation X explanation literally describes my parents perfectly, and I'm not even American (continent)


I'd always thought of him as a bit of a tribute to Michael Douglas's character in Falling Down.


Strangely enough, at around 33:00 I had the strongest urge to break down and cry.


only the simpsons could jump the shark with one of the best episodes...all though some people will say the episode where they truly jumped the shark was when bart becomes a jockey


Having recently rewatched some Alf episodes including one where he hits on Willie's daughter in front of him I think it was a poor choice to put it in that montage of shows that were conservative and sanitized. It was noticeably more edgy than anything else on TV in the mid 80s, until Married with Children hit in 87 which was the real combo breaker, not the Simpsons. The Simpsons just took what these other shows did and ran with it. Where Married is a mad cap parody, Simpsons is more a cynical deconstruction.


By the way: Mission Hill is one of the most underrated and amazing shows people never paid attention to.

@Christopher St. Christopher Yeah bro, so many good memories man. Wish we could return to those days.

That was my shit, way back in the golden years of AS.


Grimes acts like homer is rolling in dough but many, many Simpsons plots and set pieces suggest that they are barely getting by.  For me this just made Grimes seem petty and vindictive, a self defeating character so obsessed with what he is due that he repels success (an Elliot Rogers basically), which makes his end fitting.  The 'older/younger self' take is interesting though, the corporate grind takes young hungry craftsmen and reduces them in the end to homers and grimes.  Either you become so obsessed with success/status/control you can't attain that it drives you mad and bitter or you say 'fuck it' and in the words of Simpsons Merry Poppins "Just do a half assed job!"


37:00 most think the Principal and Pauper is the jumping the shark episode, something so ridiculous as completely deconstructing a longtime character and saying "yeah everything about them is fake" was a huge punch in the gut to fans, all in a way to "surprise" people are they've already done so many other tricks and people know what's coming.


i dont get why this episode is so widely beloved. I dont particularly like it. But i do prefer the older episodes (i assume season 2 and 3).

This video certainly makes a strong case, but i suspect I was a bit too young (and sadly didnt see the series in order only through reruns) to experience this. Born in 1995 for context. Wouldn't hav started watching until the early 2000s.


The use of the gran turismo backing music really pulled me in. Well done.


“You die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain”


this video was absolute masterpiece. holy shit thank you so much for this video


Well, yeah, all the great writers left a long time ago, so...that's a no brainer


The dynamic between Homer and Frank seems to parallel that of Spongebob and Squidward


EmpLemon needs to do a troll video for April Fools day like "there will never be another singer like Rick Astley".


This has become a nostalgic episode it reminds me of a better time


I havent seen the simpsons in ages and remember this episode almost entirely.


I try to always live by the most philisophical of Home Simpson quotes, "I have 3 kids and no money. Why can't I have no kids and 3 money?"


The thing is that if. You see the Simpsons from newest to oldest then the show doesn’t Get worse and worse it gets better and better

And then it’s kind ok at best at the very end. And it’s weird that Ned suddenly has his wife resurrected.


Your Never Ever series got me inspired to do a fan episode of it


I just want to state that the music in this video is outright awesome


Excellent video, I appreciate the effort of trying to pronounce "Laissez-faire", but it's a bit more like Lucifer in pronunciation


The Bill Cosby zoom in was classic, summed up that era, responsible on the face of it but rotton to the core

Are we really better off knowing the truth? Are we really okay knowing that rock bottom has a basement? Are we really better knowing that life can get so much worse, and there's absolutely nothing we can do to change that?


That vsauce impression in the beginning is just perfect


The first part is exactly like a vsauce video<br>The "eye.... m d b" thing is exactly like something micheal would do

The first part is exactly like a vsauce video
The "eye.... m d b" thing is exactly like something micheal would do


"William H Macy usually plays working class roles". Let me introduce you to the show Shameless. To be fair that's just one show. But that's what I know him the most for. (He plays an awful drunk, drug addicted, scheming dad)


This is such a great video. I'll have to use an expression from my mother language, portuguese.

"Puta video foda!!"

Congrats man, thats amazing


to be fair there hasnt been a real simpsons episode since like season 12.


In reality, they are yellow because at the time research had proven that yellow was eye-catching and they figured if the characters were yellow they would catch people's eyes as they flipped through channels. Then the comedy and drama would make them stay


Litterly number 1 of my favorite episodes


My conclusion about 40 minutes of deep analysis about the Simpsons is: How fucking genius was, and is, the Gran Turismo 3 soundtrack.


I wonder how it would be if the Simpsons familly characters were reversés: homer is a intelligent, hardworking, a good dad

And bart : the rejected genius
Lisa be the actual bart personnality
Maggie being a boy

And marge being an alcoolic lazy obèse, and an absent parents

@Neogears for marge i meant if she was like homer but you are right

I think that assessment really undersells homer’s character. He was never absent, he explicitly got a job that would allow him to be there for his family despite it compromising his dreams. He just struggles to relate to his kids. Lisa is a genius for her age and very politically focused while Homer is a layman who doesn’t put much thought into that stuff. Bart is a delinquent and a ball buster and Homer has a short fuse. He’s always willing to be there for his family. He just is very bad at getting to know them.


ngl when of my favourite Simpsons moment is when after, Homer ask Grimes son how is father is and then he says he died in the most angry way, ive always loved that.


what I've never understood about Simpson's and family guy and I'm sure many others is why not make the characters age? sure at first you wanna keep the status quo at first but these shows have been going on for so long, they're a joke(not the funny kind) and at best background noise if they're watched at all, why not change things up?, imagine juxtaposing how Bart and Lisa would go through highschool/college/get jobs/raise a kid? you could inject new life into a show that's older than i am by simply aging characters


This is one of the best video essays on youtube


in a show free to poke fun at all things culture, religion, politics, and anything like that, they removed Apu because he was to "offensive" of a character, give me a   f u c k i n g   break

to be fair apu wasn't that much of a recurring character in the show anyway, and if they'd removed him without making it public no one would've noticed


Rusty looks like a de-aged John Hurt. Change my mind.


that intro was so vsauce-esque i love it


I thought of a possible next video in the series: there will Never Ever be a guitarist like Eddie Van Halen! What ya think?


7:11 "It's remarkable just how different the simpsons was than anything else on television at the time. It was edgy, subversive counterculture..." cough cough Married with children cough cough.


This video leaves out a key part to make him look a lot worse than he is. When he saves Homer’s life, Homer immediately blames him for the wall getting destroyed knowing that he’ll face serious consequences whereas Homer would just get a warning. RIGHT AFTER HE SAVED HIS LIFE.


"BECAUSE I'M HOMER SIMPSO-"

despair creepily entering

"BECAUSE I'M HOMER SIMPSO-"

*despair creepily entering*


I didn't expect GT4 menu songs to fit so well in a narrarion


Simpsons beat Cosby, something even the American judicial system can't even do


Some days I'm Frank, some days I'm Homer.


I could care less if some guy on the internet tells me the Simpsons aren’t funny I love it and that’s enough


Its so weird seeing them all not be green in a video of yours.


Me sometimes: Emple-mon<br>Everyone crying to me: Emp-lemon!

Me sometimes: Emple-mon
Everyone crying to me: Emp-lemon!


Old-school Simpsons: Owned by FOX... constantly trashing FOX (And Disney)
New Simpsons: Sold by FOX... now worshipping Disney

If Disney had any respect for the Simpsons, they'd DEMAND that the Simpsons regularly trash Disney. The Simpsons is the original Punk-Rock, and Disney is the oldest establishment media still standing. There's no way they should be allied!

If Disney wanted ownership so badly for their streaming service, fine... but you've got to do SOMETHING to promote the anti-establishment identity of the property. That's literally the show's number 1 defining characteristic.

If Disney wanted to do right by the Simpsons, they would Make Disney their new Burns. Hell, I'm pretty sure most Simpsons fans would actually RESPECT the gesture of Disney allowing itself to be the villian in one of its biggest properties... and it would CERTAINLY make for a more watchable program and punctuate the transition to Disney ownership.


There will never be another YouTube channel like EmpLemon


woah! wasn't expecting to hear Soft Machine in the soundtrack, nice!


Homer and Grimes were the original SpongeBob and Squidward


This wouldn't be as good without that odyssey theme


I always thought the Simpsons were yellow because it was like a child's crayon coloring of a white person, since cartoons are usually aimed at children, but in a satirical way as the show was aimed at adults.


You said we all live in Springfield cause it represents America? I live in Canada so you’re wrong good sir


Pigs tend to chew. I’d say he eats more like a duck


Well playing the lottery is not completely out of control


This episode messed me up as a 10 year old in the 90s


that grand tourismo 3 music in the back ground is hitting me in a deep place


You're blowing manifest destiny?<br>I'm sure the rezzy folks will love it. Lol

You're blowing manifest destiny?
I'm sure the rezzy folks will love it. Lol


I just kinda figured they were green to keep the copyright goblins away.


I got this video recommended just now<br>How tf does youtube know I watched this episode a couple days ago

I got this video recommended just now
How tf does youtube know I watched this episode a couple days ago


Talking about 32:50, Mediocrity. I feel like people are too invested in a show like this. Eventually stories have been told and there's nothing completely new to be written. I gave up on watching The Simpsons for it's plot a long time ago, and just enjoy watching it away. Even though shows get more stale and effortless, I still feel like watching it. Just like Family Guy, eventually you just watch it brainless with a pizza in your hand during dinner. Stop trying to get something back that ended a long time ago, just enjoy the fact it's still on tv and you can still enjoy it brainlessly. I still prefer these cartoons over shows like Modern Family of Friends


Listening to the gran turismo 3 soundtrack music in the background just hit hard


Bart is indeed running this sucker into the ground.


The virgin Frank Grimes vs the chad Homer


Gen X had to watch the president resign in shame. Millennials and zoomers: "y'alls' presidents had shame?"

We were very young then; we didn't pay attention to it.


looks around so I guess I’m gonna be the one to say it?

Grimey died of Red Pill Rage

*looks around* so I guess I’m gonna be the one to say it?

Grimey died of Red Pill Rage


Tldw

But came to say 41 minute video on a 20 mins episode, good work.


What’s the song that plays when he says “you’re what’s wrong with America”?


Maybe the fact that I never liked Homer to begin with was the reason I didn't care that much for the episode?


"Responsible and virtuous role models"
- Zooms in on Bill Cosby

Big oof.


Is using a parody of a parody of a comercial as a comercial genius or just decadent?


LOL cue the gran turismo franchise music. It makes for good bg music. Also, a dkc 3 gba remix. Wow, we have similar taste in videogames, haha. Nice video!


The Simpsons had to exist. But they are also one of the worst monument to capitalism and greed destroying art and culture over time.


'The name of this episode,is homers enemy' <b>gran turismo music intensifies</b>

'The name of this episode,is homers enemy' *gran turismo music intensifies*


Being smart  Can have down side but so dose being ignorant


Strange how Fox and the big 3 broadcasters kinda swapped roles...


07:36 Is that Conan right in front of bart?


I really appreciate when people use TF2 music


i cant believe that Richard Nixon caused the simpsons


Did you watch the whole thing? Wer in a club now.


Homer literally strangles his son every day


This video is longer than the episode itself


You should do a Never ever on Video game sequels Pokemon Gold and Silver


There will never ever be another Mario Kart 64 player like Matthias Rustemeyer?


Do "There will never ever be another band like pink floyd".


What's the background music from about the 8 minute mark. Its so memorable yet I can't think where I know it from. A spongebob game?


I watched this whole thing, and wondered why they never mentioned the episode where grime’s son comes back for vengeance 🤷♀


wonder what that outlier episode in season 27 is


looks like 9th season to me. the only episode more boring than this is that of frank grimes jr (can't see it more than 1 minute)


It's the scott tenorman must die of simpsons


ALRIGHT, FINE. I'LL WATCH IT, YOUTUBE. ARE YOU FUCKING HAPPY NOW?


Didn't they say that Springfield is supposed to be in oregon?


Copying the Vsauce system was very nice, I don't know if a trust if you related those facts honestly but I love it.


wow rusty cage referenced the knife game song but not WGFD that is his magnum opus


Jesus man, you've gotten huge since your ytp days haha. And the quality has gotten insane. Keep up the good work, and you deserve every bit of success that comes your way


man, the simpsons had always prediction over the years. this episode prove a point. it seems now and says everyone can be rich and famous without any talent or much skills, or work hard.


i really fucking hate ads but that skit at the end was great


I binge watched the entire Never Ever series last night, and now I see this??? You spoil us Emp <3


It's Not bad to be one or the other or either but it's great to be both


I think this guy loves ps2 gran turismo

Me too :D


This episode haunted me to the point that I could never enjoy the character of Homer Simpson again.

I thought it was really funny as a kid lol, still had a laugh after rewatching the episode after this video

Frank Grime killed himself and Homer Simpson, but brought new life to both.

The last scene made me uncomfortable to say the least. The show should have ended in that season and spare us the ninth with its "The Pauper and the Principal".


“I’m better than okay, because I’m Homer Simpson!” - Frank ‘Grimey’ Grimes


Hyped. Homers enemy has been analyzed to the core. Let's see if the emp can bring something to the scene


A brilliant analysis of a great episode - it's true it's one of those that I always remember.


You know, I thought this might be an interesting video to watch, its too bad the focus of the video is not so much the episode but... literally everything about the simpsons.  I am 6 1/2 minutes in and hes talking about gen x, like wtf why would i watch this crap for 41 minutes.  too long buddy


Should have terminated the show at the 10 year mark.


When I saw a "Never Ever" I dropped everything I was doing to watch it


an insanely insightful commentary on the simpsons, and also, america! grimes proves that anyone who calls out the simpsons reality will be killed on sight.


EmpLemon Homer: Heart of Gold<br>Objective Homer: Routinely strangling son

EmpLemon Homer: Heart of Gold
Objective Homer: Routinely strangling son


Clicked this one like my life depended on it, fuck yeah Homer's Green Enemy


There was a also a follow up episode in the later years where the son of Frank Grimes tries to kill Homer.. but it wasn't as memorable

The joke could have worked had they implemented the son more thoroughly into the episode...
He appeared like a combined total of 2 minutes and then he was gone ...
Something that did not help is that they kept on coming back to Frank Grimes's tumb stone but we never got to see the son ever again...

yea it was like trying to revive an old joke everyone has heard hundreds of times already


Mans literally made a documentary about a Simpson episode lmao


@NickThePringle you must not know who pad is bro

@kiwi toothpaste it was just some loser getting mad over a checkmark appearing in the comments like it's a big deal, too many of those in others sadly

Why are emplemons viewers so toxic. Every video he makes has a theme of enjoying something while it's there. If you listened to him you would realize that yelling at one guy will hurt him and nothing else. Stop spending your time hurting others and enjoy the good in the world

VERIFIED?!?! WAAAAAAAAAAH! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA WAAA WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!

Hello, person who invites guests on his channel and doesn't disclose that they are heavily involved with the source material for some reason.

New Never ever episode wake the whole planet up

There should be, there will never ever be an F1 driver like Gilles Villeneuve.

Cool seeing other creators you watch supporting each other!

Welcome everyone to... “what started a comment war now!” Where we look at seemingly normal comments and dig deeper to see the people that love to hate! Weather it’s hating the comment, hating the haters, or hating the hater haters, or even hating the the hater hating haters on the haters! We’ve got all the haters!

@NickThePringle Sheesh what's wrong with you? I know this dude, it's clearly by passion that he watches stuff like that (having talked about lots of underground musical stuff). can't he have the right to watch and enjoy something like the rest of us. I actually watches his videos, that verified mark is 100% worthy.

That's basically what I said on his tweet about this new video. Babe wake up new EmpLemon vid.

@tHEChannel are you seriously gatekeeping commenting on a video right now

Bruh guys just chill not like it’s hurting you guys and everybody has opinions and we may not agree with them but doesn’t mean we should revoke their right to speak

So wait, a video about the Simpsons turns into a deconstructionist of modern Politics, History, Problems and Solutions, and the conceivable idea of Freedom

damn everyone lets it slide when unverified accounts make this joke but the moment a verified channel dares to do what everyone else does it's evil cause they have a checkmark

“Now Pad, I don’t wanna alarm you but...”

“Now Pad, I don’t wanna alarm you but...”

there will Never Ever be another genre of music like vaporwave video featuring Pad confirmed?

Let's make YouTube look a lot more like Pad and Emp, and a lot less like Jimmy Kimmel!

AYO MA ! IS FRANK GRIMES ON DA CITRUS SQUID MAN SHOW !

Italian finger thing

AYO MA ! IS FRANK GRIMES ON DA CITRUS SQUID MAN SHOW !

*Italian finger thing*

Didnt expect vaporwave man here but hey whats up

@tHEChannel you acting like every comment gotta be this highly thought out funny groundbreaking statements that you find funny, the world doesn’t revolve around making you laugh bro

Did you notice that he put some esprit in the background?

Isn't pad just the vaporwave emplemon? They even have the same sounding voice.

I see you're a man of culture too Pad ^_^

I see you're a man of culture too Pad ^_^

@Moist Marsupial emp's also included, he loved the comment lol

@tHEChannel i can understand if all of the  comments weren't about the video but this one is not a big deal. as corny as it is.

Love you pad, this comments reply’s are hilarious

Love your videos on Vaporwave Music too.

Love your videos on Vaporwave Music too.

@KM did I say they can't enjoy content? Did I say they cant be normal? No. My problem, as I stated above, is with these generic, like begging, redditor-esque comments verified channels make. If he left some comment like "hey man, great video as usual" when the vid got posted 2 minutes ago, then hes lying, sure, but at least it's not unfunny. Generic, sure, but its not the unfunny type of generic. That, I would be fine with. This, I'm not fine with.

@tHEChannel  I mean he's just commenting

@tHEChannel  I mean he's just commenting

@NickThePringle I don't think you realise youtubers are people as well, pad comments often, before and after being verified.

@tHEChannel yeah imagine people with 100k subs being normal like everyone else and enjoying content.

Woah pad I didnt expect to see you here!

Woah pad I didnt expect to see you here!

Oh pad I didn't know you were a emp fan!!!

Oh pad I didn't know you were a emp fan!!!

@w4str | haze archive I don't have a problem with that. My problem is with the comment. Stop cherrypicking nonexistant info.<br>Edit: I just looked over my comment, and I forgot to add in "when you make these comments" to my top reply. That prolly resulted in some confusion.

@w4str | haze archive I don't have a problem with that. My problem is with the comment. Stop cherrypicking nonexistant info.
Edit: I just looked over my comment, and I forgot to add in "when you make these comments" to my top reply. That prolly resulted in some confusion.

Checkmark? Better like the comment even though their content has nothing to do with  the topic of the video at hand!

-every mindless 12 year old drone ever

@tHEChannel fr I don't give a rat's ass about verified accounts they just commenting for attention

Yay, another veri-
You know what, I don't know if you guys think you're quirky or funny when you make these comments, but if you do, just remember:
YOURE NOT.


"You leach off hardworking men" except almost everybody in Springfield leach off of Homer like Moe, Apu, Burns, Krusty, Wiggum etc.<br>Even his family technically did the same thing and they have done nothing but give headache after headache for him and yet Homer continues forward because he loves his family.

"You leach off hardworking men" except almost everybody in Springfield leach off of Homer like Moe, Apu, Burns, Krusty, Wiggum etc.
Even his family technically did the same thing and they have done nothing but give headache after headache for him and yet Homer continues forward because he loves his family.

@Sara Fontanini grimes biggest flaw was putting the blame on homer, rather than the system. the episode (unintentionally) serves as a cautionary tale about how not to work, as frank performs backbreaking labour in the efforts to become rich, while never achieving this goal, homer retains his dignity as a worker by not buying into frank's "cult of work" and spending his time enjoying himself while making more than he needs to survive.

@Sara Fontanini If only he knew what Springfieldians really are.

ultimately grimes biggest flaw was his inability to see the nuance of the simpsons, he only had a suraface level viewof homer's life


As a jaded 20-something living in one of the most expensive cities on Earth,  I really needed a video like this to remind me that wealth isn't everything. Thanks, Emp.


I feel like I've just watched a classic youtube documentary. Like one of those vids that you come back to years later to reminisce on because the writing and research was just that good.


The Simpsons were so fascinating and interesting at the beginning because they were so different, nowadays its nothing special anymore because we all became the Simpsons.

@Majin Vegeta Bender's Big Score has a good message, but the only character i like is Amy Wong.

@Terenceyou either die a hero like futurama or live long enough to see yourself become a corporate sell out 😳

It was good show, what a rotten way to die

So the people screwed over the simpsons...and the people are trying to deflect the blame by blaming the simpsons...got it

Once we became the Simpsons.The Simpsons became the waltons


I feel like Frank Grimes draws parallels to Squidward. And Homer to SpongeBob.

Except Squidward THINKS he has talent. Frank Grimes HAS talent. So does spongebob, actually, at least in what he loves to do.

"I feel like these 2 characters that have similar mindsets are similar in some way"

I wonder if the writer staff at Spongebob Squarepants ever watches  that Simpsons episode and inspired by it?

Never Ever S1 E1<br>I think EmpLemon may be onto something...

Never Ever S1 E1
I think EmpLemon may be onto something...


I'm drunk and I apologize if I'm talking out of my ass, but after watching this video, I think it's very interesting that your youtube career took a turn upon parodying the Homer's Enemy episode. You said in this video that Grimes represents the traditional American dream, while Homer represents the modern idea of exploiting the system and achieving the dream. I imagine that you, Emp, were also on the cusp of making a decision between those two ideals. Like you said in your Frying Comments video, you had the option to go to school and work a 9-5 job or continue to make youtube content as a career. And nowadays children are all looking up to youtubers and trying to become famous rather than pursuing that traditional American ideal. You decided to make Youtube more than just a hobby for yourself and from my perspective have benefited, though I guess only you can make that ultimate decision. It's just fitting that you started your own path to achieving the modern American dream by parodying an episode that tackles the same topic, and I think that you're one of the best people to analyze this episode based on your experience. Loved the video.


Season 8 ended on May 18, 1997. Someone born the day after will be turning 24 years old next month. From infant to adulthood without a single good season of The Simpsons in their lifetime. Amazing.

People that speaks this way is so crazy. Because there were countless amazing seasons and episodes clear until season 20. That's the one that sucked. I haven't seen any other seasons beyond 20.

I was born 2000 and started watching it daily when I was about 7-8 years old for years xD<br>It was my standard evening series and I never noticed the "newer" episodes were more "bad" at the time. Personally I like the episodes after 2004 too, maybe because I grew up with all episodes.

I was born 2000 and started watching it daily when I was about 7-8 years old for years xD
It was my standard evening series and I never noticed the "newer" episodes were more "bad" at the time. Personally I like the episodes after 2004 too, maybe because I grew up with all episodes.

My birthday is June 10th, 1997 -- errie.

@NoahGMD hmmm... arguable...<br>Season 9 is my favourite and I was born no more than 1 day before the first episode of that season.

@NoahGMD hmmm... arguable...
Season 9 is my favourite and I was born no more than 1 day before the first episode of that season.

I feel like Season 9 had some good episodes (The City of New York vs Homer Simpson, Lisa's Sax) but they would be so young when they aired they wouldn't remember them.

I just turned 12 when I began to watch the Simpsons in 2006 and I noticed the difference between seasons 1-13 and the modern ones. And I preferred the ones before 13. But hey, the important is that I was the right age to enjoy the Simpsons through and through.

Although as a small kid in the '90s I remember that whenever the Simpsons were on, they'd usually show something that would stick into my mind. Like the Halloween episode where Homer becomes 3D. God, what a trip that was.

But does it matter? I was born after that date and still enjoyed all the good seasons on DVD (and don't forget Hit and run!).
I suppose it's unfair though. I too have had thoughts about people being born from "impossible years" now being as old as I was when I began to suspect that my life had  peaked some time before and that the downward spiral had sworn me in. (It's all OK now tho)
It must just be human nature. It must just be like our parents (or grandparents) talking about people being born after The Beatles ...but we know nothing about that band, right?

With no disrespect this is just a flawed comment to me. While I always agreed that Season 8 was the end of the Golden Age of the show it's not like there aren't still great episode's scattered about over the next few years. I mean "Das Bus" was season 9 and it's one of my personal all time favorite episode's. Maybe it's just me idk

@CopperGuide no season 8 has tons of great episodes including this one

Season 8 ended at the same time that the millennial generation did, gen z was all completely born without quality Simpsons

Oh please shut up with that, as if the Simpsons were lame after season 8, come on season 9 and 10 got plenty of great episodes. The show changed by the years but it remained funnier and more clever than most shows on tv.

I've heard that 9 is pretty good despite its flaws

Hey what's up.

Yeah when I was a kid I only ever saw reruns of season 1-8 (we don't get Fox channels in my country).
I always got super exited on the odd occasion they showed new episode only to be supremely disappointed by the episode itself.

I was born in 2003, but I still happily go back and watch the quality television I missed. Sure, perhaps the newest airing episodes have always been mediocre, but my favourites when I was younger were always the reruns of old seasons. Yes, I missed out on the episodes when they were new, but I still enjoyed watching them for the first time, even if I was a bit late to the party. This applies to The Simpsons, SpongeBob, and a number of other shows that simply lost their quality to the sands of time, and of course greedy executives who refuse to let them die with integrity.

I was born in 1999 and love this show so much. Sure there is SpongeBob but man going home at 4pm as a kid was the best part of my day for a while.

True I was born in 97 but still watched golden age simpson reruns and there’s Futurama just as good after it ended and prime spongebob

@Eugene Arduno But the "golden age" of that show ended, when they were only about 6-7 y/o in 2004.

But at least they got to watch the older seasons as reruns


Dude what music is this playing throughout?


I've always hated that "life is unfair" philosophy. Life is entirely fair. It's fair because it's random and chaos. It is only unfair from an extremely selfish perspective.

I got a 4 mm kidney stone last month. It was either going to happen or it wasn't. Fair.

Well you most certtainly are getting there. A true Son of Ur.
All against all in some wierd manner of twisted chaos.
After all, I am thankfull for all the pain and harm inflicted upon me. I do not seek revenge or anything but it has opened my eyes wide. I would not change a single thing.

I've come to notice that when people say things like "life isn't fair," or, "that's just life," it's usually in regards to a decision that one PERSON made which affects another person in a way that they don't like. Example: I had a coworker who noticed that she'd been scheduled for eight days in a row with no day off. She had expressed to the manager that she wasn't happy with this and that she had been looking forward to spending time at home with her new puppy, to which the manager told her "that's life."

No. That's BULLSHIT. It's a part of human narcissism (HUGELY a symptom of the human condition) to take one's "authority" and put it on the same level of fate, destiny, life, what have you. This sort of overarching mentality of "the system" or "standard procedure" or whatever... this idea that a structured system can be put into play by enough people that it absolves incidents and occurrences of any and all accountability. Its why people are okay with the death penalty. It's why people accept war/military activity. It happened to us just this past year. "2020 did this to us" or "Covid did this to us" is a lazy way of accepting horrible things that are done to us. Neither 2020 nor Covid took away concerts/live events. Those decisions were made FOR us. I'm not debating the necessity of it, I'm just calling it what it is. We're worshipping abstract ideas and conceptual things as if they are sentient beings. As if they are omnipotent gods. It's the modern-day equivalent of sacrificing a firstborn to keep a volcano from erupting. Then again, this world is heavily populated by people who will blame anything and everything on "Mercury being in retrograde."

I guess I'm just trying to say that life itself is fair. You live, you die. You get sick or you don't. Some have more and some have less. Some work harder, some don't.

But things that are done to us by other people, ESPECIALLY what's done to us under the guise of a faultless and blameless system, is highly unfair.


It is Gran Turismo 4 menu music playing throughout, isn’t it?


l find really amazing how you talk about every aspect of the episode except the most ovbious fact. That Frank Grimes worked hard and studied his entire life while homer was out there living it. l think that is the most important message from the story


You have single-handedly made me want to watch the first 8 seasons, and I have never seen any of the Simpsons.

1-2 is very 1980s. 3-8 is the golden age. You'll probably stop somewhere between 9-12. Have fun!


"Laisser-faire" is pronounced LESS āˈfer 18:55

Not Laz āˈfer

I thought it you were speaking German or Latin maybe.

"Laisser-faire" is pronounced *LESS* āˈfer 18:55

Not _Laz_ āˈfer

I thought it you were speaking German or Latin maybe.


it was a pretty confronting episode, but I guess it was designed to deliberately confront the idea of homer. Sometimes writers come to work and hate their job, and thats a method of generating creative energy.


Bro i thought they were green cuz of copyrighted idfk man


He's also one of the few citizens of Springfield that has eyebrows...

@The Artisan Luanne doesn't have eyebrows though, that's why the Van Houtens were late to the party.

@Raymunator I can only remember the Drs., The Milhouse Family and this guy

Holy shit I never realized that most Simpson characters don't have eyebrows


the simpson’s are green because of copyright


This should be sent to the Simpsons team with a note attached "Remember what made you great."


i always felt bad for that guy for dying in the end, as a kid that was one of the earliest times where i cringed at something in fiction that i thought was just, wrong.


Damn us in Wisconsin was like “bruh this name is so good. Let’s just name 5 towns that”


‘Figure head like Mickey Mouse or The Queen of England’ <b>spits out tea in shock and disgust</b> “JAMES! THE COLONIALS HAVE GONE TOO FAR AGAIN’”

‘Figure head like Mickey Mouse or The Queen of England’ *spits out tea in shock and disgust* “JAMES! THE COLONIALS HAVE GONE TOO FAR AGAIN’”


Seriously? 25:00 isn't that music from GT 3?


“The Simpsons are green” <br>me who’s colorblind: wot

“The Simpsons are green”
me who’s colorblind: wot


I'm surprised you didn't mention Frank Grimes mentions in later episodes like the episode where his son tries to kill Homer


New EmpLemon video, time to drop everything and spend 40 minutes having my mind blown at the details behind something I never previously noticed!


Not everything that's good has to be revolutionary.  The narrator makes it sound like the Simpsons invented and/or popularized a more cynical view of family life.  In fact, "Married.. with Children", another FOX show, beat them to TV by two years, and arguably did it better and more cynically.    On Simpsons, Lisa didn't sleep around, and Homer showed much less contempt for his wife than Al Bundy did.


Nigga there will never be another episode like ANYTHING BETWEEN SEASON 3-12


Came in expecting humor and a good laugh<br>Left with an actual life lesson

Came in expecting humor and a good laugh
Left with an actual life lesson

It was like an acid trip... i left w a profound life changing experience 😏


This episode was a Story of a good man driven to insanity and eventually death how the simpsons managed a to balance such a sad story with such hilarious comedy will always be a mystery


I've always thought Grimes was the most toxic character ever. Like just chill man, the system will never notice you despite how hard you push yourself. Why feeling the need to be the sharpest tool? Why wanting to be a tool?


Good work guy...very provacative. I remember when that episode aired brand new and I was blown away. I remember thinking...'people aren't gonna like this.


I argue that The Simpsons was fantastic from seasons 1-9, good from seasons 10-12, decent from seasons 13-14, the movie was great, and now it’s a big mixed bag of a show with good/bad episodes.


Too bad almost EVERY survey regarding the best Simpsons episode found online doesn’t have the Grimes episode as number one, let alone in the top 5.


Although im an Australian this show has always been a big part of my life ever since i could remember and it still is


this is an incredible video man. you are an excellent creator and an inspired documentary maker, this fuckin rocks


Frank Grimes believed that putting your nose to the grindstone and never looking up would make him wealthy and happy.

Homer Simpson knew that all working harder did was make your boss richer, instead opting to game the system to get by financially and letting his actual life outside of work be his source of happiness.

Homer saw through the lies that Frank bought, and Frank resented Homer for it, because seeing Homer defy everything he believed shattered his view of reality and ultimately his sanity.

He hated the player.
He should have hated the game.

Its something I try to tell my parents all the time. They are honest at every turn and about 90% of the time it bites them in the ass. I would literally steal a big screen TV from Walmart and not feel a hint of guilt, yet if I dont hold a door for someone I feel bad. The world is built to fuck you, you cannot beat the system.

The internet was supposed to put the power of media in the hands of the people, mega corporations own more of the total entertainment than ever before.

You cant work your way up in a company, they dont even care if you do a good job. They want their own kind, a yes man, a person who makes them look good and maximizes their profits.

There is no morality in the face of billionaires. No crime against them holds any quandaries, no grey area. They are leeches that will eventually return society to nothing but slaves and slave owners through sheer economic power. I would watch public executions of anyone worth more than $100 million and feel joy


7:45 animation is not a genre. It's a medium.


Season 8 has always been my favorite for many reasons... However I still like some of the newer episodes


this video is seriously the best thing i have watched on youtube, amazing work


Good analysis vid! This taught me a lot, including that I HAVE to go watch the Simpsons!


I'm Scottish I'm 21 I've been raised with my own culture, English culture and American culture and can say Ithink what's wrong with America really boils down to the fact that you think you're superior to everyone else in the world but refuse to acknowledge that it just isn't true. It's why you almost elected a dictator and It's why your country is so divided just like England is and it's really down to the fact that just like our Empire yours is crumbling too and people don't want to admit it because that would mean admiting that America isn't the best which goes against everything you were raised to believe. The Simpsons was so revolutionary because it wasn't afraid to say yeah America we're fucked up too just like everyone else is. We're not perfect but that's ok because no one is and in a way they're a more realistic representation than any other family on TV because they acknowledge what's wrong with them


18:51: “Homer embodies a totally opposite but equally American ideal, Laissez fare”

The irony of using a French word to describe an American ideal. I suppose the French gave America the Statue of Liberty, so it all checks out.

@Jerm70 Not true of collectivists.  There are just very few collectivists in American society.

Well American and French ideals often traveled back and forth. Laissez Fare has been engraved in the American Psyche so much so that even the most collectivist of people can't comprehend the sheer ideal of being forced to do something for the greater good at the expense of what you wanted to do.


I see this all the time- this sense of fairness you refer to- it plays a huge role in political thinking in the United States. Ppl want to apply this one for one, tit for tat- type justice to every situation- it just gets way more complex and nuanced in reality though- nothing is ever that straight forward. The world we live in can not be broken down into black and white, wright and wrong- and therefore this childish sense of fairness really doesn't apply to a lot of situations. But- politicians know exactly how to appeal to it, and it works every time.


Azaria's Portrayal of Apu is the best voice work in the series.

Apu had some very deep character development.

Now, the cancel culture deprives us of it for no reason other than "progressivism."


"in a way everyone lives in springfield"
me, living in chile: woah

"in a way everyone lives in springfield"
*me, living in chile:* woah

@MS el doblaje latino de los simpsons es superior a todos, incluido el original

@MS Seh, de hecho tal vez hay una correlación entre latinoamericanos que aprenden ingles y los Simpsons, ya que es una serie alrededor de la cultura Norteamericana, dónde se habla inglés, y tiene un gran impacto cultural.

Es que los simpsons tuvieron muchísima influencia en latinoamerica también, lo cual es bastante curioso cuando te lo pones a pensar.

Fua wn no esperaba encontrarme a un vecino acá.<br>Saludos desde argentina capo.

Fua wn no esperaba encontrarme a un vecino acá.
Saludos desde argentina capo.


Thanks to this I know I watched enough Simpsons in my life. I don't need to watch all the seasons. I stopped watching in the middle of season 10 and I was probably bored sooner.


15:13 the music that starts playing needs to be part of the normal episode now

15:13 the music that starts playing needs to be part of the normal episode *now*


This episode should’ve been the series finale


What a god, my guy made a 40 min video and waited to the end to do an ad, beautiful.


Although I agree withthe Philosophy of the episode, I still feel bad for Frank.


I would like to make a note that many people disregard.

While the quality has declined, it still remains popular because the benchmark was high to begin with.
People dont acknowledge that the quality is still above most other content on american tv.


frank snatching the bottle of acid from homers hands and throwing it and homers reaction was like an idiot getting wacked with a ball bat to knock some sense into him and he looks at you like he didnt even feel it. its very evident that homer doesnt learn from anything.


Grimes and Homer aren’t opposites though they are the 2 halfs of a truly successful person. You need to both work hard and bend the rules.


When I was a kiddo, my DVD player was messed up and made the Simpsons look green like that.


I guess Homer can be glad that there was no social media at that time in front of all twitter. Considering what some false allegations can do to a middle age yellow man.


wow this was deep. I never though much of that episode but i guess it was much different at the time it aired.


I've literally never realized you've recolored Simpson's clips you used. My colorblind ass... But now that I know that's just fuckin' golden! 😂😂


“But first, he had to enter hell.” <b>Los Angeles, CA</b> as a born Californian this was the funniest part of the video.

“But first, he had to enter hell.” *Los Angeles, CA* as a born Californian this was the funniest part of the video.


I still don't see what's wrong with simpsons later seasons. I actually like that it evolves with the times. It's pretty much why I kept watching it. I love that did character development with other Springfield residents. The family also less 80s sitcom more human. I do get concerned Disney might ruin it though coz were carrying fox so had creative freedom. Not sure if will have it with Disney.


Has this guy watched the show and actually paid any attention? Homer IS the antagonist. That's why "the older generation" hated this episode. This episode marks the change from when it turned from a Tragic-Dramedy (which is almost impossible to write, I literally can't think of another one) into a slapstick comedy.


3: 27 "Matt Groening had to enter hell"
Goes to California
Makes sense too me

3: 27 "Matt Groening had to enter hell"
*Goes to California*
Makes sense too me


People all around the world Unite to rate everything a 7/10 that killed me 😂😂😂😂


“Seen by the human I…M D B”

That shit SMOOTH

“Seen by the human I…M D B”

That shit *SMOOTH*


This is my favorite episode of the simpsons, but you mislabeled GenX'ers like my self with Baby Boomers.  I guess Millennials' can't tell the difference.   With that said.  Thanks for you're work on this video.


this is prob one of the darkest Simpsons ever to exist.


I love that at 9:29 the Spinach Rag from Final Fantasy VI starts playing


you either die a rebel, or live long enough to see yourself become the status-quo.


guy explained everything but the actual episode and people are ok whit it.


0:33 that clip right there nearly killed Emps channel.


The chapter names out of context sound like an album's tracklist


I don’t know if you’re a sports fan. But we need another video about “why there will never be a championship like super bowl 52” like go over the patriots dynasty, the Carson wentz injury, the true comeback story of Nick foles, the back and forth game. And the underdog mentality of the never before champs the Philadelphia eagles.


Damn, I never thought a Simpsons analysis video could change my life, but here we are lol.

It just made me realize I’ve been Frank Grimes my entire life.  And it’s been very difficult.  While I don’t necessarily wanna full on become Homer Simpson, I definitely could learn to take it easy sometimes.

Thanks for the great video.  Really made me think.


watching 40 minutes of Rick and morty and the simpsons, yeah this is where I am rn

Rick & morty blows the simpsons straight outta the water 😤


Frank Grimes - Squidward Tenticles<br>Homer Simpson - Spongebob Squarepants

Frank Grimes - Squidward Tenticles
Homer Simpson - Spongebob Squarepants


"there comes a time in all of our lives that we want to go out and change the world but eventually, Life catches up to us" - a youtube pooper who just made a video reviewing the simpsons


Holy cow I just realized you used Gran Turismo 4 ost in the first minutes of your video, damn the childhood memories


The Sniper theme on this vid was soo good you should use this track more often man !


I'm just here to witness another wonderful video by summoning salt....wait...oops, wrong channel 😁


5:17 Funny how the 1970s seems to be looping back in on itself in the 2020s. Remind me again who was it that said the 2010s were like a modern re-enactment of the 1960s?


Never thought I’d hear the gran trurismo 3 menu music in a simpsons review, but here we are


The music in this video is frankly superb


This is one of the best videos on youtube


Parts of this are scarily close to an Of Mice and Men essay


2:50
Excuse me. Springfield is, officially, in Vermont. Which is ironic, because Vermont is basically Canada.

I was wondering if he realized this. I personally felt like that was the final betrayal of the show, the possibly longest running joke of never knowing where the town was


4:40 responsible and virtuous role models …. Bruh…


I hope that emp makes a video on etika. And how there will never ever be another creator like him.


ok now you have to do a never ever episode on daft punk


Steamed Hams: Allow me to introduce myself


Sadly it might not be Homer that's wrong with america. But Frank is wrong for America.
When Homer's lazy awful life style promotes him while Frank goes unappreciated. Then it's America that is wrong.
Cause no matter how well or much he does, the system he's in won't recognize him after the rules they both acknowledge. Cause one doesn't want to put in effort to acknowledge it.
In a life or death situation his efforts are well supported.
But in an office environment where profits go to his boss or in war where both sides loose. Then no amount of work will actually work.
And going against the system obviously means you see something unjust have been done. And if your work is appreciated and your ethics are aspired, then is the one you attack in the wrong?
He says Homer is what's wrong, but when lashing out and questioning everyone's attitude, then it's the system that's wrong. But he's also wrong for assuming america goes by the same standards he thinks they do or should. It's a sort of illusion of what is right when in reality the system wasn't made to be any of that.
So he's not right in demanding the system to be right, cause it was wrong for him in the first place. And the only way to get what he deserves is by learning their rules and abusing it.
Work gives security but manipulation reaps rewards.


Possible suggestion.

There will never ever be a game like Team Fortress 2


but in "Lisa Needs Braces", Homer was very active instead of laissez faire


Took me a minute to adjust to the Gran Turismo music but dang does it actually work well


Oh my god, that Bill Cosby joke fucking killed me


This is one of those videos that I have to watch multiple times- and I still don’t fully understand them


I was about to say, but there are more good Simpsons seasons, then I saw that all the episodes I could mention were indeed part of the first 8 seasons, but well I don't remember watching the past 2013 and I just stopped using cable for over 5 years, I only have a cable box becuase my ISP is a cable company and they always bundle cable with their internet plans, but as The Simpsons, it's just a memento from a different time.


Looks like emp discovered how to use PowerPoint.


I’m not a big weeb , but can you do a never ever of evangelion ? I really wanna see your interpretation on it .


Well there are plenty of reasons to hate homer, but the question is wether hes redeemable, does hateing him fix any of his irresponseble attitudes?


Me after seeing a reference to Dankmus: I have seen enough, I'm satisfied.


(15:08) Andrew Ryan approves this message.


fuckin love the gran turismo 3 soundtrack. fuckin love me simpsons. simple as


I think TF2 would make a pretty good subject for a never ever, especially with it's current state.


This tought me why themes are implemented in writing


"...the show was animated, a genre ..."
No.

"...the show was animated, a *genre* ..."
No.


i love the picture of the morrissey fans, emp.


Teen sitcoms are popular at times but not to be immortal


The bowling alley gag shows homers apathy


15:55 Does anyone know what clip this comes from?

I want to say with Office Space or Parks and Rec, but I'm not entirely sure.


6:37 ok if the simpsons were based on the the creators family including himself? That means that it should take place where he was born which means that it should take place in Springfield Oregon

Film theory made an episode about it. He went through the geography and yh it's Springfield oregon usa

In the video, he says "The true location of the Simpson's home may forever remain an enigma," but it's literally based off of Springfield, OR, a town just South of where Matt Groening was born and raised, and Matt said so himself during an interview with the Smithsonian back in '12


i agree but i do still like watching the simsons

Me too .
It's like in his finnaly part of his video he countradics everything he said .
Stay ignored
Don't stay ignored
Me
Can you make up your mind
If I stay ignored should I even care what a rich YouTubers opinion is about the Simpsons and why are they still going .
If they can come up with New ep should I care .


Grimes appeard one other time in a sideshow bob episode


Of course not, the Simpsons were are 1990's show. It have been over for decades. Don't confuse it with the Zombie Simpsons, or The Zimpzonz.


There will never ever be another movie like Ratatouille.


27:25 The more recent generation loves this episode? For which reason?

Same reason why people love Squidward

A lot of kids grew up watching SpongeBob. They loved the jokes and wondered why Squidward didn't go with the flow. Then, they grew up and realized that life can be terrible. In that moment of clarity, they resonated with Squidward.


In this day and age you sort of have to create your own American Dream because the traditional one was destroyed when we became a PC Society


Real location is Springfield Oregon. Film Theory solved it.


Still waiting for there will never ever be another movie monster like Godzilla


Woah!! I haven't seen this channel sense there was some spiral


I feel like one of the most famous cinematic moments is when Darth Vader tells Luke, "no, I am your father"


There will never ever be another movie like Falling Down


♫ I am so smart. I am so smart. S.M.R.T - I mean S.M.A.R.T. ♫


if you feel oppressed, it's really your own fault.  Freedom isn't about getting what you want, but doing what you need to do in your own terms.  You have the freedom to change jobs and move.  IF you don't it's because you chose not to.


You keep saying "Homer is successful because..." as if there is any real way a guy like him could own a big house and 2 cars these days. Homer is successful because he's an imaginary cartoon who the animators wanted to draw in a big house. There is no lesson we could learn from him that applies to the real world.

@Salty Candy Stuff Oh my god!  I've disappointed you?  Noooooooo!  Please say you forgive me!  I can never live with myself knowing some random person on the internet is disappointed with me. Please!  Please!  I take it all back!  I'm so sorry I had an opinion about a cartoon show that was different than yours!

@Will Menta The fact that you keep undermining the message of the episode by saying that it's a cartoon is extremely sad and disappointing.

If you value the message of art by simply seeing what form it is in then you are never worth my time discussing the simplistic values of an art piece.

You have wasted my time by completely failing to understand a point that is laid in front of you three times and it is almost like you are deliberately attempting to completely misunderstand everything said to you.

I'm done with this. You seriously need to broaden your basic scope of artistic appreciation rather than devaluing a message by constantly saying "It's a cartoon" because it just makes you look like a buffoon.

@Salty Candy Stuff First, you are kinda shifting your argument away from my original point. I was disagreeing with when the video said Homer was successful for certain reasons, not that he was happy for certain reasons.  I was, and always have been, addressing the point about Homer having a big house, 2 cars etc...  That's what Grimes was mad about, I'm simply saying that's unrealistic.  I have said it again and again.  How do you keep missing the point? I am baffled that you can't understand this.

2nd, even if you are trying to make Homer out to be some kind of Buddha role-model for contentment, it's still JUST A CARTOON, I argue that you're simply not going to learn anything useful from Homer Simpson, nothing about him is realistic.  I GET that you think it's a good lesson, and I disagree. I don't miss the point, I disagree with it.

How do you keep missing that point? I'm baffled you can't understand this.

@Will Menta It's not a lesson on luck, it's a lesson on contentment. Grimes loses his fucking mind when he sees how Homer lives and instead of simply being content with what currently he has or take advice from Homer he simply hates him for it, when he has nothing to do with it.

How are you missing this point? I'm baffled that you can't understand this

@Salty Candy Stuff Again, I understood that the first time. And I disagree. I don't think there is a single man in America who owns a 3-story home and supports 3 kids and a stay at home wife, and 2 cars and sleeps all day on the job.  That was my point.

I GET that some people are lucky and succeed even though they are lazy.  What I disagree with is the idea that there's any useful lesson to be learned from imitating Homer.  You can't be lucky on purpose.

@Will Menta Cartoons are exaggerated for a reason but it doesn't mean they can't be symbolically realistic. Homer is successful even though he doesn't "deserve" to. He barely works or does anything useful yet he is a lot more wealthy than any average American. Grimes however works as hard as he can and with as much effort as he could possibly put into his job but is not even close to Homer financially. This isn't just because it's a cartoon, it's symbolic of real life. You see this everywhere, where people who work much, much harder than others are less successful, while those who put barely any effort into their lives are living happily.

However Grimes looks at this disparity in wealth and his world-view is completely shattered. His entire life he worked thinking that if he works harder he'll be more happy. When seeing how Homer lived, this view completely derailed and he became jealous, frustrated, hopeless and angry at not only Homer but himself. When Grimes explains his living conditions to Homer, the only thing Homer does is see the advantages and the good in his lifestyle. This alone shows one thing that's completely different between Grimes and Homer.

This is literally symbolic of real world living conditions. The fact that this flew completely over your head shows that you either haven't paid attention how different people live or you simply didn't pay any attention to the video.

@Salty Candy Stuff I disagreed with the point. Totally different. But hey, if you want to put forth a counter-argument I would totally hear you out, as it stands you have not done that at all.


Oh my GAWD! Overload of nerd facts, I can't fucking watch this.


Or future ep where frank grumes jr out jail seeks revenge


lol when you are colorblind and didnt even notice


You know,
Watching Emp Lemon's YTPs and seeing the usage of the Green Simpsons thing, I should've expected a Simpsons video

But I thought it was gonna be even longer to see a video like this


All of the episodes are the best in my opinion


Homer's enemy would be in the bottom half of attack on titan episodes on IMDB.

@Skeets McGrew why don't you do yourself a favor and actually watch Attack on Titan before talking shit on it. I know I'm late in replying I don't really care...

@Pròchazka So weird to do that. Whats even the point of just hucking your opinions into the wind? Why do this if not to be involved in some kind of discourse? The dude think his ideas are so important that reading them will make the world a better place?


4:15 If you listen to his voice as Australian, he says, "This, is fucked!"


December 17, 1989:
“Why are the Simpsons green?” - the world

February 26, 2031
“Why are the Simpsons yellow ?” -EmpLemon

December 17, 1989:
“Why are the Simpsons green?” - the world

February 26, 2031
“Why are the Simpsons _yellow_ ?” -EmpLemon


man YouTube has had its ups and downs, but the fact that I can watch such high quality content for free is quite amazing.<br>keep up the great work man

man YouTube has had its ups and downs, but the fact that I can watch such high quality content for free is quite amazing.
keep up the great work man


Is that Gran Turismo music playing in the background?


"Be complacent" is the message of Homer's character. Groening was a freemason 12:08 Simpsons is whack


Finally simpsons emplemin recognition, this is BIG


We all see ourselves as the victim sometimes, but Grimes sees himself as the victim all the time.

@Declan Jones Homer isn't working class though, he's firmly a part of the middle class, owning a home with a wife and three kids being supported on a single income, meanwhile Grimey lived in a single bed apartment. Homer may not be "the" problem, but he was definitely a part of it, after all his lethargy places his responsibilities on his lessers rather than his superiors, and his complacencies lead to the unjust treatment of those below him, he benefits enough from the status quo to not wish to challenge it.

He IS the victim though. He is completely right in his critiques of the unfairness of his position. However, much like the majority of the working class of today, he buys in to the competitive nature of the workplace. He believes that another working class person was the problem, not quite understanding that the real issue was with the owning class (burns).


"responsible and relatable role models"
zooms in on Bill Cosby's face
my sides have achieved orbit, thank you very much.

"responsible and relatable role models"
*zooms in on Bill Cosby's face*
my sides have achieved orbit, thank you very much.

@chaallus That Disney movie where he played the devil was a stealth confession.

@Darinae Bill Cosby = role model? Think about it....


Am I the only one that recognises the music from GT3?


This video takes 14 minutes to even grace over the f'n point! The episode itself was 23 minutes and this video was 41 !!!!!

@Neal Patel , sheer boredom. The alternative was the Olympics. =)


I like how an episode that makes you hate the main character would usually just be labeled "tone deaf" or something but instead you said no, art.

What, you didn’t want to have Homer’s semi-charmed kind of life? Homer simply mastered the subtle science & exactly art of falling & missing the ground (not unlike the way Arthur Dent learned to fly in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy).


"They witnessed the mighty and unbeatable US Military get humiliated through a fiasco in some part of the world most of them can't even find on the map"<br>DAMN

"They witnessed the mighty and unbeatable US Military get humiliated through a fiasco in some part of the world most of them can't even find on the map"
DAMN

@Nemo U I can see where you are coming from but you are comparing apples to oranges, the british lost because it wasn't worth fighting long term because it took them months to send soldiers so they decided to cut their loses but if they could have taken it back they would have. The difference is that if the US wanted to it could have razed the whole country and been done with it, it was never a serious war if anything it was more of a virtue signal than a full on war which is why it had little support. Another difference is that the british empire didn't have to care about support because they weren't a republic that lived and died by it's populations opinions.

@Nemo U Yes but I'm saying that Vietnam wasn't really fought over anything the US actually wanted like oil, poppy fields or territory control.

@1810Jeff Plus the same argument can be said about practically every overseas war. Like the British Empire could say "Oh the colonists didn't beat us military, we just didn't have the finance and support to send an even more huge force there to crush them!" At the end it's just a sore loser's response. the US lost the Vietnam war in the same way most wars are lost, and that includes on the battlefield.

@1810Jeff Afghanistan was invaded with the excuse of "the terrorist threat", Iraq was attacked with the excuse of "The WMD threat", Syria "The chemical weapons threat". There is always a manufactured threat to get the war machine going. Oh and big paychecks for military manufacturing corporations.

@Nick Rustyson Yes, that is what I mean when I talk about the US' lack of "will": The *will*ingness to spend the sums and commit the kind of warcrimes that that war required to be won. The Vietcong on the other hand had the will to force the US into committing those warcrimes against their own people, just to make the US too queezy about the whole affair to keep fighting.<br>And that willpower allowed them - along with a number of other factors such as terrain - in the end to compensate for their inferior logistics and technology, and so they were actually the stronger combatant of that war. Results count.

@Nick Rustyson Yes, that is what I mean when I talk about the US' lack of "will": The *will*ingness to spend the sums and commit the kind of warcrimes that that war required to be won. The Vietcong on the other hand had the will to force the US into committing those warcrimes against their own people, just to make the US too queezy about the whole affair to keep fighting.
And that willpower allowed them - along with a number of other factors such as terrain - in the end to compensate for their inferior logistics and technology, and so they were actually the stronger combatant of that war. Results count.

@Odin Sørensen And to my knowledge, it's mostly because the war was sinking in more money than it's worth and the outcry of the American people made Nixon get the troops out of the war. Now were the Vietcong strong? fuck no they were, they were a bunch of farms with USSR weapons, the Americans made new War Crimes just from how many of them we killed with Napalm and Grenade Launchers, the death ratio shows this.

@Odin Sørensen So you're asking which people believe the US pulled out of vietnam because they were losing the war militarily. I've heard a lot of people mock the US for "losing" the vietnam war saying things like how they couldn't beat people with decade old weapons and sticks. If you want an example the quote on the original comment says it all.

@1810Jeff And I'm asking "which people"? Can you describe them in demographic terms or something more personal? Anything?

@Odin Sørensen Yes that is what I'm saying, I'm talking about how people act like the US lost because they were being beaten on the military level

@1810Jeff What people? Everybody I talk to about it knows the US lost because they didn't possess the political and social will and determination to win.

@You Squidding Me? The difference is that the middle east is being fought for a combination of oil, border lines and poppy fields. Vietnam was fought because of it being perceived as a communist threat.

People seem to think the US lost or pulled out from vietnam because they couldn't physically win, the reality of the situation is that you can't fight a long war without the public and the medias support and since the US had neither the war ended.

@You Squidding Me? Eh... To my limited knowledge the Vietcong were better at holding onto territory and waging active war.

@Aqua Lantern Yeah, I got that. I'm not replying to EmpLemon, I'm replying to your comment. What's so significant about that part of the video? You say "DAMN" like it's a big deal.

@Tyler Sane ...and how were they humiliated during the 60s?


Two other great episodes spring to mind: The one where Homer grows his hair back and becomes kind of successful and the one where Skinner lies to superintendent whatsisname about Aurora Borealis while the burgers in his kitchen turn into flames! Ah these memories

Check out 'lisa and the iconoclast' <br>They made nonce words 🤣 Cromulent and embiggen 🤣

Check out 'lisa and the iconoclast'
They made nonce words 🤣 Cromulent and embiggen 🤣


i think this episode has a lot more to say about our current politics and class relations. renegade cut has a great video on it


What a tremendous explanation of the Simpsons as a show!  Now I have an idea on why Simpsons became so influential, even though it was targeted towards a generation that has so little in common with mine.  Academic Agent has covered Gen X in detail, but now I understand its culture a bit better.<br>Also, I like how you included average SAT scores.  They are a nice, subtle redpill.

What a tremendous explanation of the Simpsons as a show!  Now I have an idea on why Simpsons became so influential, even though it was targeted towards a generation that has so little in common with mine.  Academic Agent has covered Gen X in detail, but now I understand its culture a bit better.
Also, I like how you included average SAT scores.  They are a nice, subtle redpill.

I also like how you learn exactly why the simpsons went down hill & dropped drastically in quality.👍


MAN Mission Hill was so good. This show gets slept on so hard, you owe it a watch if you've never seen it.

its written by bill and josh two writers/showrunners from seasons 3-8 of simpsons


"there will Never Ever be another videogame like Bully"

Let's make it happen people.

oh my god i forgot about that game lol but its so good


You spent 41 minutes saying nothing. Why?


The SAT scores based by race is cringe. The obvious reason for the lower scores on kids of color is poorer education in areas with those children.


Did no one else get the Vsauce channel reference? lol!


So what you're saying is... Frank was so obsessed with reality that he became consumed with the ideal of "fairness", whereas Homer is so idealistic that he's able to decide his own reality


This episode redefined the phrase "Downward Spiral".


why tf does this have mario odyssey music in it???


15:08 was the best part of the whole video.


all these 5 paragraph essays looking for attention and emplemon likes a comment simply thanking him for the video. now if thats not meta i dont know what is

There should be, there will never ever be an F1 driver like Gilles Villeneuve.

Apandah making another ironic meme video for 2 year olds

You cannot escape our cries for funny cats 5

Not as amazing as The Lil panda tape but pretty damn close

apandah where is the next sleep deprived podcast


I never considered "Second Death", the last time someone will ever speak your name... Damn lol


Never ever will there be another halfway decent Simpsons episode again. It's woke garbage now. Time to cancel this.

@Wraith Ranger From Beyond all good things must come to an end & thats why im grateful futurama ended when it did, on a high note 👌

@Wraith Ranger From Beyond yeah broski im glad im not the only one who noticed, they really changed the whole vibe & dynamic of the show once corporate took over..

@Majin Vegeta I'm a Beavis and Butt-Head fan. The ended when they should have. They tried a revival and I won't fault Mike Judge for that. I think he wanted to try bringing back entertainment where it should be. But Beavis and Butt-Head would never be allowed to be what they were once.

@Majin Vegeta I agree. I love those characters. Been watching them since their first season. It was funny. Sometimes sentimental even if rarer. There isn't too many shows that has imperfect parents. Homer as much as he doesn't succeed often he never stops trying when he's aware he's doing something wrong or something that could be done better. Marge is a great wife in the show and together they are one of the best husband and wife characters out there. Every character has their faults. For many years it was everyday relatable things among the cartoon antics. They are no longer relatable as they've been stripped of what they once were.

Trueeee...the simpsons should have ended like 20 years ago😞


Green Simpsons sounds like some sort of low budget environmentalist parody of The Simpsons.


>Banksy<br>As in the underground artist who has now become mainstream and corporate?

>Banksy
As in the underground artist who has now become mainstream and corporate?


Truth is that we will never have Simpsons series as good as the old ones.

And this episode is far, FAR from being the "darkest" in the simpsons history. in the first 2/3 series there were dakers epsiodes than that

Im with you broski 100% i cant watch any episodes after 1999. You can really feel the drop in quality as the episodes go on 😳


"Tomorrow you could win the lottery then die from a lightening strike." makes me think of that song "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette.


I think the next Never Ever should be on Team Fortress 2, it's honestly the most unique game in the entire "hero shooter" genre, or class shooter if you're a human. and considering you've said it's your most played, it seems fitting.

@gunner Richthofen cs community is hot garbage, also not even the same category. not to mention tf2 is timeless, literally hitting all time highs by the day. stop


Just like the AVGN, one of Emp’s best sponsorships is a Simpson parody


They said that modern American society couldn't be thoroughly analyzed through the lens of the analysis of a Simpsons episode.

They were wrong.


Gen X grew up in a time where the president was a scoundrel. Hmm sounds close to the most recent ex-president


I saw Frank Grimes and his funeral being more of a metaphor on how millennials were treated and eventually rejected the world as it was. And Homer was the oblivious boomer generation.

@Myron Sanders the observation is actually very astute, and doesn’t inherently not apply to Gen X as well (only to a lesser degree). The last generation with quote/unquote “work ethic” came out of the 80’s (and that was largely fueled by “Toxic masculinity” & copious amounts of narcotics).

...I think I hate myself for having said that... 🤦🏽♂😅😝

Nah. This Episode Aired in 95. The majority of Millennials were in Middle School at the oldest

Funny because the episode is clearly stating that the same effort doesn't equate to same results.

Homer is only oblivious after landing a stable job, he had a harsh upbringing too, while Grimes is unhappy with everything he does but angrier at homer for achieving more with Similar effort.

If anythyng it exemplified how millennials lack the ability to work for themselves always comparing to others, then becoming oblivious and trying to change a world that does not revolve around them.


I disagree with your entire premise of Homer. I don't think anyone looks up to him. I don't think he's a modern American hero except as a satire of it. I think when people see things magically work out for Homer they never expect that in their own lives. I think Homer is a cartoon character, people enjoy the absurdities of his behavior and circumstances. That's it. He's a fool, a jester. He's not an icon. We have no expectation of his outcomes or a desire to be like him. He's a terrible husband, friend, father, son, neighbor, etc.

 If there's any wish fulfillment in enjoying his character it's not as concrete as HIS character it's more emotional. We exist with intangible emotions and desires that more abstract art and commentary can tap into, we are not so singular or one dimensional that to associate anything of Homer is to want to be Homer in total. There are itches humans want to scratch that simply don't fit in our normal lives. We might like a little slapstick violence, but in real life we don't want people to get hurt. A cartoon satiates. We might like a little pettiness, a little revenge, a little laziness, but that doesn't mean that's what we want for our lives, nor does it mean we're jealous of Homer. Merely entertaining the absurdity for brief periods is often enough for people. We have imaginations, and we have thoughts. Ideas can be escorted to natural ends and emotional satiation can follow.

This episode does a good job deconstructing the Simpsons and Homer specifically but it doesn't mean there's anything more deep to it than cartoonish nonsense. There are characters and episodes of old Warner Bros. cartoons that deconstruct their own absurdity. We don't have to identify with those characters any more than we hope or expect our lives to be like Bugs Bunny.

@promontorium So he's just a trolling satire for the 90s?
What about the consistent trends of the same character arcs of those first 9 seasons (like where every time he irreversibly messes up or hurts his family he ends up feeling bad about it later on)? For him to be as malleable as you say he is, he'd have to have inconsistent character traits. But he doesn't- he's always consistent.
IDK, maybe i'm missing something though.

@J Lupus I've been watching the Simpsons since about 1992, I was late to the game, but I made up for it by watching the first seasons about 10 times each as they've been on reruns nearly my entire life.

I appreciate your opinion, but I see Homer as a vessel that various people invent ideas to pour into. I don't think he means anything. As much as I enjoy people crafting "head canon" or tying up plot holes, I also realize there's no unified Homer theory because he's been run and written by so many people, as have everyone else on the show.

I'm sure there's a dozen TV Trope articles about what I'm describing, where over time a character just becomes many things to suit whatever needs at the time. That is what I mean about Homer just being a cartoon character. I don't think he's ever meant to be viewed deeply or consistently.

This only makes sense if you started watching at season 10.<br>Rewatch the pilot and you'll see he's overtly the underdog and Flanders, AKA ideal America, is one of his obstacles.

This only makes sense if you started watching at season 10.
Rewatch the pilot and you'll see he's overtly the underdog and Flanders, AKA ideal America, is one of his obstacles.

Patrick Star is a great example of a lovable bad example


The Simpsons isn't worse, it's literally the same mirror of America that it's always been.<br>It's so terrible today because that's where America is now... it's slow descent into mediocrity is a direct mirror of today's woke America.

The Simpsons isn't worse, it's literally the same mirror of America that it's always been.
It's so terrible today because that's where America is now... it's slow descent into mediocrity is a direct mirror of today's woke America.

@Iron Horn Forge he just pointed out a mistake, chill

@Iron Horn Forge the fuck is a vap? I just wanted to point the mistake out because I was pissed off at how common it is.


“Homers success stems from the intrinsic value he placed on those around him” <b>Cuts to homer trying to choke his son to death for the eight hundredth time</b>

“Homers success stems from the intrinsic value he placed on those around him” *Cuts to homer trying to choke his son to death for the eight hundredth time*

Yeah I thought that was bullshit.  Homer doesn't care about his kids whatsoever.  He cares about Marge and that's about it.  Compare him to Peter Griffin who is literally a manchild who cares only about himself then yeah, he's a saint.


Homer is employed in a position made redundant by technology.<br>The computer terminal does al the work while homer collects the cash.

Homer is employed in a position made redundant by technology.
The computer terminal does al the work while homer collects the cash.


Franklin Brooks stopped commenting on PS Vita


there will Never Ever be another minecraft youtuber like GuudeBoulderfist


18:40 - Homer represents The Last Man.
Homer is the Last Man and Frank Grimes is The Slave in regards to Friedrich Nietzsche.
No, Frank Grimes is not The Higher Man.  Frank failed to create anything of lasting value, failed to create invaluable progress.
What we see here is Frank unable to improve himself or his own life situation.  That was his downfall.
Frank thought himself better than Homer but failed to try to be even better of a man by his own standards.
Frank scapegoated Homer and paid the price for pretending to be like Homer.


I just recognized music from grand turismo 3 on a video somehow...


Gross. I couldn't even keep watching after he said the inbd thing.


'Homer's Enemy' in this story isn't Grimes. It's Mr. Burns. He's the way he is because he's stuck there, doing it all to support his family, having a 'do it for her' plaque on the wall. This is why he has a "boss makes a nickel when I make a dime" attitude to his job and the idea of making an effort to work hard and be productive in the plant actually <b>goes against his own morals</b>

'Homer's Enemy' in this story isn't Grimes. It's Mr. Burns. He's the way he is because he's stuck there, doing it all to support his family, having a 'do it for her' plaque on the wall. This is why he has a "boss makes a nickel when I make a dime" attitude to his job and the idea of making an effort to work hard and be productive in the plant actually *goes against his own morals*


I was just rewatching Emp yesterday...and now there’s a new vide right in the nick of time. SO STOKED!!


1 John 1:9

New International Version

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

☯𝐈𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐘𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐨𝐟𝐋𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭☯


I might never watch a video analyzing the Simpsons again, because in less than an hour you've covered just about everything the Simpsons was, is, and could be.


Jesus christ FINE youtube I'll watch the damn video...


Homer was fired from the Bowling alley.... And then you lost me big time with the Frank Grimes is Homer Simpson conclusion.


I can see where Franks frustration comes from but he is no saint... he is also a big hypocrite.
He has that speech that people that work hard are ignored all their lives but when he came to dinner he pointed out everything that Homer had except the eight year old daughter with a an IQ of 154... meaning he does the exact same thing everyone has done to him all his life.
He also claims that having a beautiful wife is something to show for but having a daughter that inteligent is nothing. Which may give us an in-sight that he is a bit of a machist... if you are not convinced he also likes hookers as explained in an episode further down the line...
This episode is in deed very psychological


Not gonna lie, I didn't expect such depth, complexity and quality from an analysis on one single episode of Simpsons, and more importantly, one single character and his relationship with Homer. I was honestly caught off guard. I feel like I need to watch it a few more times just to start comprehending a part of it in my mind. There so many ideas and concepts being explored here that i have no idea how you managed to cover them all in such clarity and yet I still felt overwhelmed.


This is an incredibly well-made and thought provoking video.


Wow this video and the supplementing analysis were brilliant. I had never seen much of Simpsons as a foreigner but I saw the episode and then the video, absolutely brilliant.


I'm sad I only discovered you recently, you've become my favorite commentator on this platform.


When i was a kid we would watch the simpsons every saturday after my piano lessons qnd those are easily my favorite memories, i think it would of been around season 4-6


It shows how young Emp is. He thinks the Simpsons were doing something different by doing what many shows has been doing for 50 years in covering pop culture or making fun of the President.

Adorbs.


I would say something witty and insightful here but honestly you pretty much said it all about how I feel about the series and that episode. People keep digging into me because I want to call out the mediocre sellout that is new Simpsons, but I keep believing that the show will never again be like it was in this era. Although, I personally believed the show <b>actually</b> jumped the shark in the 2000 episode where Homer dresses up as a baby for Mr. Burns, and gets raped by a panda at the zoo. Yes, that was an episode. I forgot the name of it, it was so awful.

I would say something witty and insightful here but honestly you pretty much said it all about how I feel about the series and that episode. People keep digging into me because I want to call out the mediocre sellout that is new Simpsons, but I keep believing that the show will never again be like it was in this era. Although, I personally believed the show *actually* jumped the shark in the 2000 episode where Homer dresses up as a baby for Mr. Burns, and gets raped by a panda at the zoo. Yes, that was an episode. I forgot the name of it, it was so awful.

Oh good lord. Please tell me you're joking.


if a video has over a mil views and it's 40 min long you know it's good


This episode was always weird to me because Mr. Burns is almost entirely left out of the story. Frank Grimes blames Homer Simpson for all the problems he has, but it's Burns that chooses to pay Homer a middle-class income and doesn't reward Grimes for his hard work. Grimes is a libertarian, blind to the systems that cause his problems.

@Chaz Domingo Grimes was a baby boomer if anything. Didn't this episode air in 1997?

@Finley Kennedy My dad relates a lot to Frank because he's just like him, and he works in a place which is made of like 70% Homers, 29% regular people and 1% Franks (my dad only I guess). The only difference with your comment is that my dad knoes the people that run the factory and they don't even care about it. The Homers have worked there for almost 30 year and there's nothing anyone can do, or else the factory goes to shit. Good luck working in that kind of environment. I always like to come back to this episode and think but it also doesn't reflect the complexity of the situation irl, at least it summarizes it but in reality things are much harder and not that black or white.

In context of who Grimes is it makes sense though, the average employee no matter how hard they work will most likely never meet the man at the top. No Amazon factory worker has probably ever even seen Jeff Bezos in person.


The decline and fall of the Simpsons is a revealing picture of America's collapsing sense of mental wellbeing. Once upon a time, the underlying assumption was the America was imperfect but ultimately good. We lost that though, slowly over many years, both in ourselves and in the media that reflects it.

The earlier versions of the Simpsons gently mock our society; but they do it affectionately. We see that the police are incompetent, the teachers are apathetic, and that fundamentally maybe the American dream was not so perfect. But these jokes were jokes; exaggerated versions of what us cynical people think things are really like. And everyone was treated equally. Everyone has a stereotype. The show plays on that, and subverts our expectations by having broad cartoon characters actually be more nuanced than we thought. Or not; it's still a comedy. Sometimes the joke is that we expected Homer to learn a lesson and he didn't because it's funnier. But even that meta-humour derives from the fact that the audience already know what the lesson is supposed to be. This kind of humour is timeless, and speaks to everyone. It explores what it means to be an American, in a format that is loving, not aggressive.

Even in the earlier days when we look at founding myths of America - With Jebadiah Springfield's silver tongue - And it reminds us that we should look at these myths critically, and that we should also continue to look for historical clues and evidence to give us a clearer picture of who our founding fathers are. However, it also says that the myth itself has value and that it shouldn't be simply tossed away. Lisa chooses to let the town residents believe that their town founder was a good person that they should emulate, because at least that lie encourages them to act in a good way.

This is actually a really deep moment in the show. Lisa generally holds truth and objectivity as the highest virtue, and she has to grapple with that when she sees that truth is a-moral; it is neither good or evil in and of itself and that undermining something that is good and has value simply for the sake of truth is actually a bad thing.

The present version has lost this because it is no longer mocking something that it loves.

Lost alone is right, it’s funny how much like Frank Grimes some people are and will never get it

@DeepEye1994 When Family Guy has a better conclusion to this exact same premise: by sticking the monument of Pawtucket Pat in a museum to be forgotten...

@DeepEye1994 Why is the memory of his victims so important? They're dead and so is he. If believing on a lie is better for society at large and the people who are actually alive, then i don't how that can be a bad thing. It's a harmless lie, and more than that, one that actually does good.

I'd be all for deconstructing the American war crimes in WW2 if the people who suffered from then and perpetrated them were still alive and kicking. But the thing is, they're not. Most are either dead or have one foot in the grave. Meaning that there's not a point to seeking reparations to the victims and punishment to the perps. What are we gonna do? Track down their descendants?

Truth for the sake of truth in itself is meaningless.

@DeepEye1994 the military is done soon. Soldiers need to drop their uniforms and repent while we still have time

I dunno, I'd be fine with praising Jebediah if he wasn't such a scumbag, continuing to keep a blind eye on his monstrousities for the sake of keeping morale up is kinda disrespectful to the memory of his victims.
A stronger message could've been that it doesn't matter if your roots are rotten because you still ended up being better than him, like Dr. Manhattan's speech about miracles in Watchmen. You can still be a good nation even if you accept the bad stuff from your past, instead of pretending they didn't happen.

But no, let's instead encourage the American people to ignore parts of history because their feelings are more important (but let's pretend the victims of those lies don't have feelings). I might not follow Renegade Cut as much as I used to, but I fully agree with his video on the Jebediah episode and why I hate the ending.
Or at least they should've framed it in a more satirical way as "It's crazy that people would do this for the sake of their happiness", instead they kinda played it like an unironic happy ending, like something that it's okay to do.

It's kinda like how some people love to believe Americans did only good in WW2 and want to pretend all the fucking war criminals that took advantage of that chaos to do their worst in France didn't happen. "Well, who cares if some French women got harassed or our boys killed some innocent people for the kicks, in the end we did good so don't bring that up 'cause that's disrespectful to us!" ...See how little sense that makes?
Those fuckers aren't alive, and they shouldn't be blindly celebrated just because they were in a team of good soldiers. And just because some American soldiers in WW2 were awful human beings, that shouldn't discourage you from being better than them, so you can still learn from their better or worse example and be a good soldier.

Wow... this was incredibly well said, good job man A+

Except that people can be good on their own, and most are probably better than people like Leopold II who still have statues in public squares.

Well said bro, i know exactly what you mean 👏 ... the show really has gone down hill 😳 nothing more than a corporate sell out..


awesome video. I loved the Simpsons as a kid even if I didn't always get all the references.


Gotta get a ‘never ever of Ayrton Senna’ one day, would love to see the video you make of that.


Dude, Gran Turismo 4's soundtrack truly makes every monologue and discussion feel more sofisticaded than they would have felt elsewise.


Poor Grimey! He could never catch a break...then Homer makes a farce of his funeral. 🤣


Grimes is the embodiment of a Russian during the late 1800s to early 1900s


You could almost say the Simpsons has been on a <b>downward spiral</b>

You could almost say the Simpsons has been on a *downward spiral*


The Springfield in the Simpsons is based on Springfield, OR. Groening chose to name the city in the show Springfield because of how many cities share the name and wanted more Americans to feel like they can relate to the show. I avoid Springfield, OR at all costs. I've seen the show, I know how bad it is there lol


I have no interest in Melee, WWE, and equaly in Nascar, yet I am praying (atehist here) for more of this series. Duuuuuuuuuuude! Keep this content coming. I'll drink more mezcal (or any other alcoholic bottle in my shelft) while watching your videos.


Its kinda weird that life puts us as Grimeys but everyone wants to be a Homer.


3rd time watching this, lately feeling a lot like Grimes lately. Definitely gona do something stupid and childish this weekend, wish i had a homer Simpsons to hang out with


The simpson's creators were like frank grimes until they did that episode and decided to be like Homer.


Homer's enemy is my all times favorite episode


this is why i was ultimately happy that futurama ended when it did and it didn't have a dragged out death like the simpsons :(

Fr fr ... futurama died a hero & the ending was perfect ❤


You are so good at these videos man.  Have any thoughts on South Park?  Would be interested to see a similar video for them.


You come for a simpsons rundown and stay for a philosophy class.


Grimes was also based on Michael Douglas's character in falling down!


Also, season 9 and 10 aren't that bad. I agree it's downhill from there.

Anything after 1999 is trash tbh...  i hate how they changed the whole vibe & dynamic of the show 😒


homer is a true capitalist. he's selfish but uninterested in hindering other's success. many philosophers actually consider that to be the ideal way of life due to it's reflection of the natural world. a monkey doesn't care what a lion eats, as long as it isn't him. all the monkey cares about is eating bananas in a tree. the limited supply of bananas isn't a problem to the monkey, the only thing he cares about is whether or not there are bananas for him. if some other monkey ends up with an unreasonably large number of bananas, and there aren't a whole lot left in the tree, that makes him a prime candidate to take banana's from. the system is self regulating.

Grimes is the opposite. using the monkey analogy: despite the fact that he still has plenty of banana's, he's angry that some of the banana's he picked where rotten, and he thinks that therefore he's entitled to take from another monkey.

one takes what he needs, the other takes what he believes he deserves. in a weird sort of way, everything's come full circle. the modern generation is more like Grimes, while the older generation is more like homer. this will of course rotate once again with gen z becoming opportunistic again.


I knew you were going to include the Hit and Run car selection music and I’m so glad you did it at the end. Great song for a great video.


Can’t believe I put off watching emplemon for so long these are great


Great video. The general perception of The Simpsons today seems to be "that lame mainstream cartoon that's been unfunny for decades" but people don't know that it initially was the underground edgy cartoon that appealed to the rebellious youth.

Exactly bro, pretty much.. im glad im not the only one who feels this way.


So Ironically Frank Grimes will never die.


Best. Episode. Ever. (Oh, and Mr Sparkle and Springfield's "X" Files). Sadly, no longer watchable as Simpson's writers lecture us via the oh - so - woke, Lisa.


Springfield is based on Portland, Oregon. I live here and the creator of the Simpsons is from here. We even have a neighborhood here with streets named Homer, Marge, etc. Lots of stuff is based on Portland history and folklore. Like the statue of the mountain man. The power plant too.

It's actually based on Springfield, OR, and Matt Groening said as much himself during an interview. The powerplant and the statue of the mountain man are all Springfield, but it's funny that you think it's Portland. In a sense, it's all towns, like the video says, but it's <b>literally</b> Springfield, OR

It's actually based on Springfield, OR, and Matt Groening said as much himself during an interview. The powerplant and the statue of the mountain man are all Springfield, but it's funny that you think it's Portland. In a sense, it's all towns, like the video says, but it's *literally* Springfield, OR