"But Before he could do that, Matt Groening had to enter hell."

Shows Los Angeles.

"But Before he could do that, Matt Groening had to enter hell."

_Shows Los Angeles._

@Kevin Mason You have my sympathy.  I hope it gets better soon.

I promise you, it’s hell out here. Beautiful, full of fun, but so expensive and gilded in myth 🥴

@minty_ Thesaurus04  Alright.  I get your point about the substance abuse and what not.

I personally would consider the lack of a college degree to be a good thing because, to me, that would imply that they at least have agency, and chose to go their own way as opposed to buying into a system which has time and again screwed over many other individuals who were simply doing what they were told.

Also, a question that just popped into my head, are these surveys including illegal immigrants, More specifically the drug cartels and trafficking peeps?

I don't want to paint with broad strokes, but if we're including that, then I wouldn't consider that to be the fault of the red states, it could be the fault of an unsuccessful border policy.

An unsuccessful border policy from 2014.  Because that's when the video and article were uploaded.

Granted, the article was updated in December of 2017, so almost an entire year into the Trump presidency, but Surges of immigrants isn't something that can be controlled, it's how many get in that is the question, and to my knowledge, Donald didn't let too many illegals in.

And even then, I don't know what was edited or changed.  For all I know, they could've just corrected some spelling errors.

If I'm wrong, please correct me, I'd actually like to keep talking to you because I think we've got a constructive conversation goin' here.

@minty_ Thesaurus04 I was linked the exact same video by another guy.

1.  The reason I made the comment was because I found the joke Emp Lemon made to be funny.  Nothing more, nothing less.  I was not asking people to link me this video.

2.  A lack of happiness could be from literally anything.  People could be unhappy for all of the previously stated reasons.  But they could also be unhappy because they lost an election.

Maybe they're unhappy because they don't like the direction that the country is heading.

Maybe they're unhappy because they don't think they're properly being represented by their government and are being ridiculed by Mass media on a daily basis.

3.  I haven't been to LA, I've been to Florida, but that was when I was much younger and not really thinking yet, so I won't pretend to be an expert, or even heavily informed, on these things.

But I will politely ask for any other sources you've got, because if it's just that one guy, then while tested, I remain unconvinced.

@KND the other reasons being, the politicians there make horrendous policy decisions that tend to spread to the rest of the US. It's also a syndrome where only the cities rule, and the other areas get the shaft

@Jim Thompson You've made me chuckle good sir.

But in all Seriousness, I would like him to explain his reasoning for commenting something like that.

Who knows, maybe he gives us something to think about.

@Jim Thompson Jesus dude, Let him back up his statement or explain his thinking before you crucify him like that.

@mannhouse wow really nailed us there, not like Texas where I was born has a massive Hispanic and Latino population, or North Carolina where I currently live has a massive Black problem, in reality you probably live in a mostly or all white area and there is a black area that Californians disregard like Compton or Oakland

@Jim Thompson Yeah but do u know Gilles Villeneuve?

@NoobedNate there will never be a powerback like Earl Campbell

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

@Marcos Cárdenas Alright, Why do you say that?

PS. Sorry if I came off too, 'punchy' I guess, It's just you came off as rather arrogant and I... I didn't want waist my time going on a tyraid berating you for statement.  Although my retort really wasn't helping matters either.

So in short, My appologies, that was rather rude of me.  Now please go on and explain your thinking.

@Marcos Cárdenas And yet I'm willing to bet they're living happier lives than you are.

@Hyper Tails the Fox it's a feasible joke, but I'm not convinced it was the joke he was going for.

@Matt McConaha yes but by the way he says "shows los angeles" implies that the irony it's that it's called los angeles, not that is considered hell

@Hyper Tails the Fox I mean, there is irony in the fact that the city of angels is hell, but for the most part people would still call it hell by any other name.

@Generic Commentator55 Texas is likely, but I'd say more generally that they either live in a conservative rural area or they wish they did.

no one gets the joke here, "angeles" is angels in spanish

@KND At least one reason is the crazy homeless people who will just be shooting up Heroine in the middle of the sidewalk.

I'm no expert so I'm not the best person to ask but I hope I could be of some help.

i'm not american, can you explain why americans depict Los Angeles as hell?

@Matt McConaha How much you wanna bet they’re from Texas?

@TVB sounds like you're failing to recognize that California is more than just LA and SF. I'd say California contains regions which are more or less equivalent to what you can find everywhere else in the US. Or rather it may be more succinct to say, for the majority of US towns, you can find a nearly equivalent town in California.

That's an insult to hell. The entire state of California in general is worse than hell.

@TVB - No. California is <i>beyond</i> Hell.

Fun fact Matt Groening went on Epstein's plane

I thought he was talking about the town in Michigan

@Jim Thompson Because California is hell. Detroit is as well. Come to think of it, Hell seemed nicer than either the two.

Yeah not sure why he would bash hell like that

Because of South Park I expected Mexico.


Actually, I think it firstly is a bit overrated for some weird psychological reasons (a kind of soppiness the internet likes), it is good but doesn't necessarily stand above many classic episodes. Secondly, and more importantly, I think it is actually one of the episode types or modes that is most likely to reoccur and that is most present in modern Simpsons... A quasi-serious drama, where jokes fall to the wayside (it wasn't like that there, but is so now), and the plot is overconstrued and some kind of serious point (including some completely personal point about a character) is tried way too hard.<br>That is, they don't make episodes that live up to it, but it's definitely one of the episodes that is particularly similar to modern Simpsons.

Actually, I think it firstly is a bit overrated for some weird psychological reasons (a kind of soppiness the internet likes), it is good but doesn't necessarily stand above many classic episodes. Secondly, and more importantly, I think it is actually one of the episode types or modes that is most likely to reoccur and that is most present in modern Simpsons... A quasi-serious drama, where jokes fall to the wayside (it wasn't like that there, but is so now), and the plot is overconstrued and some kind of serious point (including some completely personal point about a character) is tried way too hard.
That is, they don't make episodes that live up to it, but it's definitely one of the episodes that is particularly similar to modern Simpsons.


The Rev Lovejoy saying 'Grimes...or Grimey as he liked to be called' had me pmsl as a kid and it still hits hard.


Me: haha, simpsons funny<br>This guy, an intellectual:

Me: haha, simpsons funny
This guy, an intellectual:


What's almost scary is that I myself feel almost the same way that Grimes does towards nearly every person I see (but for reasons unlike Grimes). Even when I see everyone driving new vehicles, and I'm lucky that the one I'm driving is still running. Sometimes it seems like everyone is wealthy but me. It instantly gives me an attitude towards most people. Though I never show it.

@C-RT That's a good point. Though sometimes you can just tell when a person is wealthy. Not only from their vehicles, but even where they live (and how well landscaped they are) etc. Even my own truck was just given to me by my dad a couple months before he died. I might be just riding a bicycle right now if it wasn't for that. I've always had problems with envy. It's one of my downfalls. I avoid people when they're too successful or wealthy. I hold grudges towards people I don't even know. Hehe. I know I should just be grateful for what I do have, and stop comparing myself with others. But it's hard.

I drove my used rent-a-car for years until the transmission finally gave out. I began making payments on a brand new car after that, but was only able to do so because my mother had died rather suddenly and left me some money.

Not knowing that, you would see my new car as a sign that I have some level of success. The reality is that I suffered a crippling lose, and would rather have my mother back.

Point is, reality isn't always what it seems to be. Ultimately you're just comparing yourself to what you imagine other people's lives are like, and then getting mad about what you imagined.


Work like Frank Grimes at the things you love like hobbies or whatever your true passion is in life, work like Homer Simpson at everything else.

@Remember to take showers please yeah by “work like homer” I meant give the absolute minimum energy to ensure everything’s working properly if you don’t like or feel a sense of accomplishment from your job. <br>Ofc you’re not literally gonna be sleeping on the job if you’re working at a nuclear plant and don’t like your job.

@Remember to take showers please yeah by “work like homer” I meant give the absolute minimum energy to ensure everything’s working properly if you don’t like or feel a sense of accomplishment from your job.
Ofc you’re not literally gonna be sleeping on the job if you’re working at a nuclear plant and don’t like your job.

Not everyone lives the kind of life where they can afford to slack off at everything they don't absolutely love.  Some people have bosses that know what they're doing, others have jobs or obligations that they might not enjoy doing but are necessary to do well for the safety and well being of others.

Even if society depends on your services or if you work with nuclear materials. Good advice, bro.

This is my favorite quote ever I'm gonna live by this


This video feels like what English teachers want you to learn from a single sentence but better worded


The title is true bc Grimes is the one man who went out of his way to point out Homer's lack of competence, just to be told to his face that people don't care. He's astounded at the crazy amount of privilege that Homer has, and probably shouldn't have.<br>Bc no matter how hard ppl like Grimes work to achieve what they want, there is always a Homer who just gets things handed to him.

The title is true bc Grimes is the one man who went out of his way to point out Homer's lack of competence, just to be told to his face that people don't care. He's astounded at the crazy amount of privilege that Homer has, and probably shouldn't have.
Bc no matter how hard ppl like Grimes work to achieve what they want, there is always a Homer who just gets things handed to him.


BRAVO...MAY THE SIMPSON LIVE ON FOREVER!!!!


Even Simpson’s today I find to be still good and can still give me a chuckle.  Sure they are not the same, but I don’t think they suck either.  Some people just say they suck worhiut watching it


Homer was never his enemy, the system that valued Homer more was his enemy.

Correction: the system is his enemy because it values him less than any other person

excellent point!
       here's an example of over analyzation. "why do we like homer?" no need for all that - he represents us all - stuff. we like homer because he's written as a comedic character. HE'S FUNNY! his dialogue is a series of dimwitted and observationally perceptive one liners placed into different contexts, references and plots.

          he's also written as a sympathetic character. things ALWAYS go wrong for homer. but he usually ends up back on his feet anyway, right where he started all along. the "enemy" episode was more of an antithesis to this sympathetic driven character. so, no need to over analyze the simpsons. the show is liked because its funny, fast moving, creative and unpredictable.

          AND, thanks to the Lisa character, the show offers an intellectual side. its perceptively critical of society. and perhaps this is where people see themselves. personally, i relate to Lisa more than any other character. she's the smartest, most aware and perceptive, most underappreciated and most misunderstood member of the cast. i can relate to that.

         so the mystery of why people like the simpson's has been solved. just set back, enjoy the damned show and try to learn something from it. its as simple as that.

@CraftyArts That would be a contradiction, though. If nihilism is true, how can an environment be "improved?" There is no real existing standard that a situation can be improved or progressed toward. A standard of goodness would just be puffs of breath or ink on a page, nothing more.

yep profit driven inequality and its systemic imbalance

@Matthew Idk why people in the comments don't see it this way, systemic issues are definitely important here. If everyone just sat back and kept working instead of trying to change things we would still be laboring in fields for feudal lords. Sure, lots of issues and are because life isn't fair. That's understandable. But some things are, in fact, within our power to change if we actually take action and work together. Homer's approach is not perfect, nor is Grimes. And I love EmpLemon's work, but he is not the arbiter of truth, this is an opinion piece.

@Evan 2 electric boogaloo lmso no Homer keeps the system going jsut barely enough because he doesnt give neough of a shit to want change, its a terrible outlook

@Matthew ya, that sums up what I believe as well.

growing up with the simpsons, my view is that it dealt with events that were happening at the ime, and even had a point of view toward ideology from time to time, but the simpsons family and their personalities made the show.

Writers used hot button issues to give characters room to develop their personality, not the reverse.

The boy down a well episode is one of the most memorable episodes, maybe the best episode of the series. Mass hysteria is generated with almost no input from any one person, aside from a boy's prank blown out of proportion. At the finale Bart learns an invaluable lesson in honesty.

In this way the simpsons is a modern telling of Mark Twain. Twain and the simpsons both honour individual human personalities and personal relationships.

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

@Matthew Look up "optimistic nihilism" I guess another way to describe the state of mind is that for many people don't bother trying things over fear of loss or failure. Or they settle for the bare minimum because they think there is some afterlife awaiting after they die. Sometimes (stress sometimes) you get the "mirror effect" as a result where people look at their own lack of success and then degrade others who have success (depends on how you measure success for yourself of course). Though without talking further a good book to look into is "The subtle art of not giving a F*ck"

@Axileus I ain’t even consider that, that’s a pretty good analysis. I think that can draw a lot of parallels between how he functions in Springfield and how people irl conduct themselves with political ideologies. When people get too entrenched in an ideology they will never be able to step back and think of the world outside of their own perspective.

@Matthew look up "optimistic nihilism" sometime

@E I didn’t, the point is for emp to share his reasons on why there won’t be an episode like this again. This isn’t the “true hidden meaning”, it’s one mans opinion and we are allowed to disagree with it you sheep on a stick lol

@CraftyArts that sounds like the opposite of nihilism lol. Nihilistic people wouldn’t shoot for the stars cause nothing matters. But I mean hey, I would rather ppl be hopeful and call it nihilism than actually nihilistic

@Evan 2 electric boogaloo lol I like your analogy with that and I totally get what you mean. Idk how serious you’re taking this cause it’s a YouTube comment but to me, there’s too many people who can’t be a homer/termite because they just trying to survive. Fighting against the status quo will bring the house down faster than exploiting it, sitting back and letting it run its course and letting people suffer.

@Flying Chimp  The point of the video is for emp to share his reasons why he thinks there would never ever be an episode like this. It’s a video essay my guy. Just cause you really like/agree with his analysis doesn’t make it correct or even the only way to look at it. You make a fine sheep my friend :)

@CraftyArts Nihilism is an admission of defeat in a meaningless universe. You never were supposed to have any goal from the start, but if you wanted to believe in religion, you could. You could choose to make meaning out of your existence, make your own and the lives of others a bit more meaningful, but you instead chose to dismiss that possibility and instead chose to believe that any venture into meaning is a waste, or worse yet a delusion. Sure you could believe this, but it's not going to make you anything other than depressed.

Besides, it's impossible to know what lies beyond death, or what tomfoolery exists beyond this life, if there even is anything beyond it - who'd know? nobody's really come back from being fully dead to tell us how things have gone for them. The whole aspect of the brain experiencing hallucinations during these moments of cardiac arrest in hospitals, or whatever else tend to make any reproducibility and accuracy as well.

You're best off worrying about finding a place for yourself in this short existence of yours, and making it as meaningful as possible. Otherwise, your enjoyment of life will be tainted by your edgy 12 year old syndrome philosophy values.

Everybody is happy in Springfield, the system is working as intended. Grimes was just too up tight and entitled, believing he was owed some level of reverence within his personal value system, failing to consider the world outside of his own beliefs. this video analysis misses this entirely.

@Shaun Robinson It may just be me, but I've had my fair share of interactions where, mid conversation/argument, someone just pulls a dc;da or nihilism to try and stop instead of either changing mind or elaborating further, it's a bit of a non-argument because it's just a fact of life turned get out of jail free card

@Shaun Robinson Yeah, kinda only useful when trying to be a smartass about stuff. Being right does not make that kind of interactions where your argument or passion is called irrelevant less annoying

@Familia Youtuber You have to accept nihilism and at the same time act as if it doesnt exist. It is true. But believing it to be true and acting as if it is so will not help you in any way shape or form. It is one of the few forms of truth that is not useful.

@CraftyArts Most people grow out of Nihilism when they reach their 30s or so. Mostly because at that point they've actually experienced enough of the world that they've been talking shit about their whole lives and realized the bullshit of such a mindset in a vacuum

@Extra Crispy nihilism is truth, nothing we do matters so why not shoot for the stars because in reality in the grand scheme of things we have nothing to lose. What can be more motivating then that to risk as much as you can to improve current situations if not the environment at least your own.

@Flying Chimp I don't think that's a fair assessment. Homer more effectively embraces nihilism than anything else, and realistically if everyone was nihilist, and while aspiration does often lead to disappointment, nihilism just as equally leads to general decay. You can't have innovation or improvement if the best you'll get from the world is an embracing of mediocrity, or in the very least a lack of care for anything outside of your own life. If you care about how Matt feels, you're just as equally the point of contention made in that episode as you state matt to be; focused on the wishes of others, and not simply satisfied with yourself.

If you want to embrace the practicalities of the episode, your critique of others becomes effectively unnecessary, because worrying about others becomes unnecessary, because the outcome of others beyond those directly connected to the outcome of your own life are irrelevant. Unless of course, you aren't a nihilist.

@Matthew As Emp points out Homer is Noble because he is abusing the system not fighting against it. I Feel like in the long term enough Homers are like termites to society gnawing away at the inside of the system to eventually force change. If a Termite tried to take over someone's house it would be squashed.

@Matthew Wait, there's a part of the video that states it's wrong to identify success/failure with your own worth and also relating it to your wealth. Minute 22:30 more or less, whe he starts talking about 'The death of a salary man'.

@Matthew Completely missing the point of the video. Amazing. You'll make a fine activist

Amen! Idk how people  still think we live in a meritocracy. Even emp after all that analysis chalks up fairness to just random chance and ignores every social factor that plays into success/failure. We gotta fix the system in order to fix ourselves.


It’s a Saturday night, I’m in college, and here I am watching a 40 minute long video about a Simpsons episode from the nineties


Nice deep dive into this episode, thanks for posting it


Damn this was really good. The only thing that makes me more impressed with the Simpsons is that there is a clip that corresponds to  literally every single thing he says. Very impressive that you were able to do this.


4:43 responsible and virtuous rolemodels...I see what you did there 😂


The thing about this episode is that it puts me on both sides equally, homers just having fun with life but is unaware of his laziness and grimes is a hard worker but he pushes his issues onto homer when he is completely unaware

@CeeStyleDj Read my comment, Homer cares for his family much more than himself whereas Grimes is an envious prick, and targets the supposed "Wrong american" instead of the executive.

The writers HAD to be on Homer's side. By this point, Homer's character was very developed. His backstory (Which nullifies Grimes' tragic upbringing), his motivations, and most important his beef with Ned. The only way the writers could write an episode like this and be on Frank's side is if they didn't watch all the previous seasons, or were huge hypocrites towards Homer.

@CeeStyleDj So much so that by the end everyone laughed at his funeral

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@Gabriel López and I agree it was definitely social criticism, but Who side are you on? Homers?? I think the writers actually wanted you to be on Grimes side....

@Gabriel López I think you have it slightly the other way around. I wouldn't say 180, degrees but let's say 140. Do you really think the writers are anything like Homer Simpson? The episode was saying why the hell does an ignorantly Blissful person get to get somewhere in life while not really giving a s*** about other people besides himself, while your Average hard worker who is AWARE of his surroundings gets so pissed off at the injustice of it all, trying to do things the right way,  that he winds up going overboard. So yes, I think the episode was about saying that these aren't role models, it is just entertainment, and if you think that the Simpsons family reflected the average American family at the time, well, I don't know what ideological or political background you come from,  but my very first impression was definitely not familiarity. Again, it's entertainment. But the protagonist in the story was not Homer, it was Grimes. But unfortunately he took it too far.

well, now you're off the rails

this isn't "just entertainment", nothing valuable is

this is social criticism, they did not make The Simpsons to create role models, but to depic the role models we had irl and understand how we can laugh at ourselves and our own flaws through a fictional show

I don't know if I want to be like Homer, but I'm sure I don't want to be like Grimes. The show was, once again, making us look at ourselves and think if that is how we want to be. And if that isn't social criticism, I don't know what is

@TragedyplusTime but do you realize the creators were not creating The Simpsons as role models? You do realize that this is entertainment right? Do you think that the writers feel that people should act like the characters in The Simpsons? I think you and the person who analyzed this video are both pushing your political agendas off of a comedy cartoon series.... instead of just enjoying it for what it is, entertainment.

@pooper dooper That's what I was saying lmao, Grimes only sees the good in Homer's family yet only sees the bad in Homer himself

Also Homer may be lazy but he's been a much better father than Grimes would ever be, yet Grimey thinks of himself so highly that he bitches about Homer without even knowing him

@TragedyplusTime when grimes was talking about his family, he didn't say that stuff as if it was a bad thing. He meant the opposite. He was pointing out that Homer had all these good things but he's lazy and doesn't work hard enough to deserve any of it

@TragedyplusTime I don't know if I want to take advantage of the lack of regulations. I don't feel comfortable selling cockroach puree for sandwich filling. The problem with your last statement is that Springfield as a place doesn't operate in real life. The fact that Springfield abandons its previous location after Homer botched his job as the city's trashman hammers home they are not representative of a real-life city. They are at best a setting for a sitcom where situations like Ned Flanders being run over by a police car as a side gag has no lasting consequences. The way I see it, Frank Grimes is an expy of us in the real world showing how we cannot live in a toon world with their inexplicable impossibilities...

The thing about this episode, to me, is that a lot of people miss the point. Grimes isn't a good guy, nor should he represent you.

Grimes is a materialistic person that only focuses on what he sees. His entire breakdown on the Simpsons' House emphasizes this, since all of Grimes' points are easily countered. "You guys live in an extremely big, amazing house" (Except EVERYBODY in Springfield has a house that's that big, and the Simpsons' House specifically was bought by ruining Abe's life and it's also usually in complete disrepair), "You have an amazing family that you don't deserve" (Homer, atleast back then, was probably one of the sweetest men on America), "Your wire is beautiful" (She isn't, according to most people, and she also has HEAVY anger management problems), "Your daughter is too intelligent" (That isn't a bad thing at all), "Your son owns a factory" (Not only was he not weirded out by this, he also considers it a bad thing).

Grimes focuses his anger on Homer when Homer is, ironically, the last person who deserves it. He's by far one of the nicest people in Springfield even if he does have his bad days, he's constantly in poverty (Roasting on an Open Fire, anyone?), and he's an intelligent man that stays stupid because the town prefers him that way (HOMR). Grimes may have had a tragic childhood, but that doesn't allow him to disrespect anybody he wants (Especially Homer, who had an even worse childhood). And even if he was that stupid and unjustly rewarded, there are many people who deserve to be called "What's wrong with America" more than Homer. What about Wiggum? Quimby? And the person ruling over the entire power plant who's established as a complete cheapskate? Grimes throws all his rage at Homer because he's a coward and can't bare to directly get through Burns' bullshit. And the irony is that Homer ADMIRES Grimes, and tries to get close to him just to be friends, but Grimes' damaged ego pushes him to the brink of insanity, when ironically he was at the perfect place to live in since Springfield has so little safely regulations he could just act like Homer and get away with it. It's pretty similar to Sideshow Bob's case, where rather than try to take down Krusty until he manages to, he attacks Bart because of revenge. Except Bob atleast KNOWS Bart, Grimes just puts Homer as the walking representation of a lazy idiot within a few days of knowing him. Grimes doesn't represent the downtrodden citizen, he represents the petty squabbler who assumes someone innocent represents a pure stereotype and creates a strawman, rather than trying to go against the people who deserve to be punished.

TL, DR: Grimes doesn't see the forest for the trees. He's too focused on beating someone else down, despite not having any idea about their personal life, instead of going against the system. He also has a massive ego, leading to him not using the opportunity that Springfield's lack of regulations gives. Is he relatable? Yes, but in the worst way possible. Grimes represents our inner ego and blindness, and should not be appealed towards.


I can’t believe he went through this entire video without mentioning Graggle Simpson? He may have had like 1 or 2 scenes, but he embodied the heart of the show.


I don't think the word is fairness. For Grimey, he's obsessed with meritocracy. He, like everyone else who has ever laboured, is in love with the idea that his hard work is worth something meaningful, and that he, or humanity at large, will benefit holistically from his hard work. The realisation that it hasn't, and won't is completely maddening.

The socio-economic doom spiral of living in our time is absurd. People need stories of justice, fairness, and meritocracy to accept the system that they live within, maintain, and can never escape. Homer's retreat is ignorance, but not everyone is afforded that blessing.

That concept is visited in Season 12, Episode 9 when Homer gains average intelligence and has his own grimesian nightmare, faced with a world gone mad.


When all you want are memes but end up getting an existential essay on life itself.


You Only Move Twice has overtaken Homer's Enemy as IMDB's highest rated Simpsons episode.


The Simpsons have lived long enough to see themselves become the villain.

At least it goes with bang before being a villain.

@Mutsu Hanma Did you know that there's a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it.

"You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

@Mutsu Hanma If you have to end your own argument with "think about it" then you didn't make a compelling argument.

You only become the villain if the people change their minds about you. The people are deflecting responsibility and blame and need a scapegoat...think about it.


I remember "Life in Hell" from the Los Angeles Reader. I just looked it up, and I just found out that another strip it carried, "The Angriest Dog in the World", was written by David Lynch.


Responsible and virtuous role models (zooms in on bill Cosby) S tier comedy.


In a way, the Simpsons is kinda like a simulation of the real world


Dude, I didn't even make it passed the "Keeps" add at the start and you've already got me. PRIMO choice of backdrop for that, made me say "Holy shit!" out loud, pause the video and leave this comment.

Good job!


This episode made me cry as a child, and when I went to my parents for comfort... much to their chagrin and my embarrassment I couldn't even explain why. Thank you for reminding me that exists, and thank you even more for taking the time to explain why it had so much more of an impact on me than every other Simpsons episode. The Simpsons can never be described as unimpactful, they often made me feel sympathy, or feel sonder, or laugh so hard I fell off the couch and couldn't breathe, but no other episode did make me run crying to my parents at the unfairness of the world.

@Ullapool Caber Thank You For Your Response. I'll Keep That In Mind.

@Estin Sidebottom they just wish they were given half this much attention as a child, ignore them. Also using caps before every word is a terrible habit to get into, I promise from experience.

lmao bro quit stunning, you cried as a child over this episode? I doubt it 😞


My god, it's chilling how much the "generation x" section of this video parallels what it's been like growing up over the last 2 decades...


This is the first time I have watched a video on this channel and my god this is just brilliant!


Ive never got an exastential crisis from a cartoon until now


The Simpsons is one of my top 2 favorite TV shows!


I worked with a Homer Simpson once. Not a bad guy per se, just a really apathetic worker. Despite this, he not only managed to stay employed, but he had a higher pay than everybody else in the department just because of his seniority

This is part of why I quit my union job.  It can be too easy to sleepwalk through life.

"Of course, old Homer, he didn't need a degree. He just showed up the day they opened the plant." <br> - Lenny

"Of course, old Homer, he didn't need a degree. He just showed up the day they opened the plant."
 - Lenny

Life crushed his enthusiasm.  Your turn will come.


Really needed to hear this message today.  Thanks for the time and effort.


F A N T A S T I C   episode though, capital ideas well executed


This might be the most entertaining video I’ve ever watched.


When emplemon posts a new vid, tears of joy roll down your eyes because no matter what he’s talking about it’s still attention grabbing and super entertaining.

Agreed, I saw this and thought "oh dang, I know what I'm watching later, maybe I'll just see a bit now." <br>It's been about 45 minutes since I thought that, having now watched the entire thing.

Agreed, I saw this and thought "oh dang, I know what I'm watching later, maybe I'll just see a bit now."
It's been about 45 minutes since I thought that, having now watched the entire thing.

are your tear ducts on top of your eyeballs?

might wanna get that checked

...I'm mean.


This long video about a classic The Simpsons episode has racked up over 2.5 million views in 6 months? I'm definitely watching it!


well, this was much deeper than my brain expected to go into. 😳


18:00 no we shouldn’t. Homer’s enemy is just a resentful spineless worm. I’ve got no sympathy for grimes.

24:55 👏🏽 really good analysis.

28:06 lololololololol


wow, that was awesome. thanks for making this.


When you described everything Gen x went through, it really puts into perspective how messed up the world always is, it's not like all this crazy stuff going on today is unique to us, its just as generations go by we dont like talking about the bad things

I hate when americans say "the world". It wasn't and it isn't like this everywhere

@Alex Willis This is way more accurate than I am comfortable admitting.

@Zwenk Wiel Hate your next-door neighbour, but don't forget to say grace..

well, you see, back before 1990, people had a reason to be afraid and real issues with social justice. Today, people have taken first world problems from being a meme, to a way of life.

It was pretty much just the 90s that were alright.

That's also why the music was so bad in the 90:.

@Zwenk Wiel Sounds very interesting, i just think you cannot teeter on the edge for too long. Eventually we will fall it is inevitable and the way society and the world is now, nothing makes sense anymore

@Trippa Snippa there's this song from the 60's called "eve of destruction" by Barry Mcguire, it's also about the world exploding (it literally has a line in there "the eastern world it is exploding") like listening to the lyrics it sounds eerily current. you just need to change a few words and you'd have a modern day protest song. everything from racial tensions in the US to global politics involving stuff like the middle east or tensions with China it's all in there. even the space race gets mentioned which also seems to have come around again with all these billionaires and their space programs.

in any case listening to this song makes me feel better in a weird way. the world has always been on the verge of destruction yet we're all still here. think it's kind of a case of same shit different day TBH.

worth a listen IMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfZVu0alU0I

If you showed someone from the 1930 the world today they would think and apocalypse happened

@JustanEdityGangstar And I'd take World War 1 <b>and</b> 2 over the coming climate crisis.

@JustanEdityGangstar And I'd take World War 1 *and* 2 over the coming climate crisis.

@Trippa Snippa say that when the entire world is going to war and you are first in line. I'd take the pandemic over ww2 any day actually

Nah things are spiralling out of control now, this world is about to explode

"Every generation must know its own suffering."
- Boris Shcherbina, Chernobyl

"Every generation must know its own suffering."
- Boris Shcherbina, _Chernobyl_

Unless it happens to others, like WW2 and Dracula documentaries.


I watched The Simpsons on a bad reception, so for me they were actually green half the time


This episode marked the start of "Jerk Ass" Homer, I believe. He's annoying as hell, and I totally sympathised with Grimes.


34:13 why is this man standing SO confidently, he looks like a reskined final boss in a cutscene


The Simpsons fought the system so hard, only to become part of the system themselves


The main issue between Homer and Grimes is that Grimes, as you said, has this concept of fairness and when things are unfair he takes out his anger on Homer; but fairness isn't random. In the case of Homer and Grimes, they are co-workers, working for the same boss, Mr. Burns. The fact that Grimes protests the unfairness of how different workers are treated and what they get shows the arbitrary nature of what that workplace really is, and how the man who runs it is. Burns is completely indifferent to the details of his employees; they're all replaceable to him, and he has all the power in the dynamic. Grimes is demanding a moral standard to an institution which can define its own standards of morality, and in this case, it's indifferent arbitrariness. Grimes should be upset at Burns, not Homer. Homer isn't the cause of Grimes' misfortunes; Burns is. But Grimes never considers this bigger picture, instead fighting against his fellow worker because he believes fundamentally in this concept of morality that doesn't exist in the workplace, and never has. Grimes believes a fairy tale; Homer realizes his situation and thus has no allegiance to the false idea of hard work being rewarded by someone who is indifferent to it.

@Kaitlyn L no they don't, social programs are the largest budget expenditure at least in the US and has been for decades, this is not for discussion this is a fact based upon the self published budget reports by the treasury department and congress

@PodreyJenkin138
I pretty much agree with your first two paragraphs, with the wealthy’s tax avoidance and evasion, and offshoring of profits, the middle class does bear a disproportionate tax burden compared to the GDP distribution.

However, I can’t see how that ties into resenting welfare, as if welfare policies ended, it wouldn’t hurt the wealthy and would only hurt the poor, who are also getting screwed-over anyway. So I would suggest desiring and advocating for a rework of tax brackets rather than resenting welfare, personally. (Especially since corporate welfare and military expenditures vastly outnumber those social programmes.)

@Paul Kelly I think I can be equally mad at the bureaucrat and state legislature that taxes me and middle America while also being in bed with big business

Things are bad because the people who were supposed to govern over the market have been seduced by the merchants, most elected officials become part of the 1%

The idea that resenting welfare is some misguided anger that should be reserved for the rich is a derivative explanation for a position that many people hold and would be willing to break down for you if you listen

A lot of wage slaves get upset at the idea that their taxes pay social welfare for someone who isn't working.  Non workers are often seen as the scum of society.  The upset should be at corporations and billionaires hiring accountants to use every trick in the book to avoid paying taxes.


what's amazing is that the length of this one video about a single episode is about two episode length of Simpson's episode.


O Lordy me how excellent an analysis is this! It could be a book


I kind of find it good they set up that Frank Grimes had a son but they never use him after the episode he was introduced in


this is without a doubt the best youtube video I've ever watched. I have no clue how else to explain or describe why


Homer's enemy is down right mean spirited, it doesn't end with any sort of lesson to be learned or positive message, in fact it does the opposite. It subverts a big rule in general story telling of "If you work hard you'll be rewarded"

@TragedyplusTime my man, I think you didn't get the point of the episode. It is supposed to be mean, it is supposed not to teach the viewer anything. The message of this episode is "being a piece of sh*t lazy asshole is way better than being a hard worker". At least inside the Simpson universe.

It's making fun of the classic moral trope lesson that has been beaten into out heads since childhood. Take the 3 little pigs for example. This episode is like if somehow the first 2 lazy pigs are rewarded for being lazy and the last one is punished for being inteligent and hard working, and while he gets eaten by the wolf, his brothers somehow by accident become rich and live nicely. It subverts the expected morality, which is why Simpsons was considered counter cultural back then

It does end with a positive message, don't compare yourself to others and live life peacefully

People who treat Grimes as the hero forget how much of a prick he is, how quickly he assumes Homer's lack of merit just because of a job he may not even like (He doesn't), and how he goes straight against the innocent worker instead of the corrupt executive, Burns. That's why he died being ridiculed.


20:20 quite possibly my favorite line in a YouTube video


Frank Grimes was Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker before Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker, but with less homicidal tendencies.


the reason why homers enemy hits so hard is because it says something everybody allready knows is true but is afraid to say<br>the american dream is a lie

the reason why homers enemy hits so hard is because it says something everybody allready knows is true but is afraid to say
the american dream is a lie


I love when two creators I already love collaborate.

"duhhh muh superior huwhite race and shieet"

@Cope Harder based as fuck, good comment King

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

India was colonized too, maybe even worse than the africans got it (Then again, their occupation was not necessarily negative in a local progress and living standards sense), and they're currently doing noticably better than anyone in Africa, even Ethiopia
Also people who go "muh colonializm bad" also tend to forget that Ethiopia, never touched by colonizers except briefly by fascist occupation in the late 1930s, isn't doing much better than anywhere else in Africa.

At least I'm pretty sure that the italian occupation of ethiopia came to an end when they lost the war, I think they only got to keep libya, but I could be wrong on that. WW2 is not my preferred time of study in history

@Nocansee green I haven't reached that part of the video yet but what's happened to Africa has happened to more or less every country at some point. Colonialism is part of it but by no means the whole story.

@Nocansee green In what way? Sub-Saharan Africa was largely untouched by outsiders up until the 1400s. African people were stretched and scattered across the massive continent, having relatively little contact with each other and leaving entire territories unexplored (such as modern day South Africa) until settlers arrived (transportation being very difficult since Africans lacked domesticated riding animals and seaworthy boats). And frankly, I would wager that foreign settlers were only a boon for them when it comes to technological progress.

Every ethnic group can make up their own oppression narrative based on some historical conflict. But you have to ask yourself how Africa still manages to be so technologically stunted to this day. Imperialism is over with, slavery is outlawed nearly everywhere except Africa itself, and the West has donated trillions of dollars to them in the naïve hope that we could elevate these countries to our level. At the end of the day, a country is a product of its people.

Hey, it's that youtuber that I like!<br>Neat

Hey, it's that youtuber that I like!
Neat

@Asepsis Aficionado being boned repeatedly through history, from within and without?

@SUS Before you cry foul take a good long look at modern day Africa and think for a moment why it's like that

This, realjim is really underrated, i really like his content, even if i dont agree with all of his takes

Well this comment chain took an abrupt swerve!

EmperorLemon I know your based 25:29 to 25:34 have you ever considered its just inheritably in their being to be worse


18:13 "Lust" is definitely not a sin that homer is guilty of. He he is reaching for the gummy Venus stuck on the babysitters butt; he is in fact so overcome with his gluttonous urges that he is oblivious to the female posterior before him. He also resisted the urge to sleep with his attractive coworker Mindy who threw herself at him. I'd actually say that he epitomize the top 4 sins, but not the bottom 3.


I think what this episode shows is how the economy has changed. In the past in the US a hard worker could dream about buying their own house, have a car, etc, etc... but now a days, (or even then that episode was released) hard working class, or even people with high education degrees struggle to get what in the past was standard for mid class, now students have a lot of debt, salaries are low compared to inflation so, buying a house is not a plan anymore... it is a dream


"But in a way, all of us live in Springfield."<br>Me, a european: "Haha yes, relatable"

"But in a way, all of us live in Springfield."
Me, a european: "Haha yes, relatable"


Showing homer simpson with hair is such a strong image to go with a keeps ad


"You went to outer space? YOU?"
"Sure. You've never been?"

Great episode, one of those episodes that's in everyone's top 10


5:05 Jeez, it's no wonder my mom was goth in her teen years. (Then again, I was unsociable (this hasn't changed much) and a fan of Green Day and all of those moody 2000s bands like Blue October, Fallout Boy and Panic! at the Disco in my teen years so I'm not one to talk, though the reasons behind it are entirely different)

Also, now that I think about it, it's disturbing how history repeated itself for both us millennials and the zoomers. Save for the "threat of nuclear annihilation" part because no one in their right mind believes Kim Jong-un has the cojones to actually fire one and I don't remember that remotely being a thing when I was growing up. The USSR had dissolved when I was just four years old and the cold war had ended when I was two years old.

5:05 Jeez, it's no wonder my mom was goth in her teen years. (Then again, I was unsociable (this hasn't changed much) and a fan of Green Day and all of those moody 2000s bands like Blue October, Fallout Boy and Panic! at the Disco in my teen years so I'm _not_ one to talk, though the reasons behind it are _entirely_ different)

Also, now that I think about it, it's disturbing how history repeated itself for both us millennials and the zoomers. Save for the "threat of nuclear annihilation" part because no one in their right mind believes Kim Jong-un has the cojones to actually fire one and I don't remember that remotely being a thing when I was growing up. The USSR had dissolved when I was just four years old and the cold war had ended when I was two years old.


Wasnt... expecting Rusty Cage at the end...<br>Now I have to go binge his channel.

Wasnt... expecting Rusty Cage at the end...
Now I have to go binge his channel.


You should do a video on season 1 episode 9, where Marge is considering having an affair. Her and Homer have a midlife crisis because their marriage is failing, and it starts to affect Bart, Lisa, and Maggie (probably) as well.


One thing I didn’t even notice until now: at 28:03 we can see Homer is asleep during the funeral lol


"In the end, his obsession with fairness ultimately drives him mad."

Probably one of the most relevant lines in the entire video imo. It can be applied to so many groups of people today from multiple political persuasions, left, right, and center.

@rainbow2406 panda although there are far less of them than left or right wingers, I still find a lot of centrists to be similarly obsessed with this idealized fairness.

Wow you include center but why if i ask?

@The Ol' Winkle Dink  Why wastest thou time on Politics when Linguistics are a thing? ;)

@Grilly Grilly that isn't the point of political theory... There are people who are unironic anarcho capitalists, but they still want to give their shit a try

@The Ol' Winkle Dink Real communism has never been tried before for it CANNOT be tried. It is a fantasy incompatible with real life.

@The Ol' Winkle Dink first, pardon the deliberately misspelled words; it seems Susan doesn't like us discussing this subject.

Now, why do you conflate Fascism with the not sees? They aren't the same thing, obviously.
Surely you can list a few key differences if you know what you're talking about or at least do a quick google search and copy/paste if you don't.
Could you then explain why you're using them interchangeably, like you did in your reply to the other survivor of your ideology?

Could you also give any examples of where communism was not an abject failure that lead to immeasurable death and suffering?

For instance, the Holodomor is one of the greatest acts of evil in the history of the world and it's just many of the "accomplishments" of your dear comrades.
That little feat cost millions of lives, snuffed out in one of the cruellest ways imaginable.

If that wasn't "real communism," who then qualify as purveyors of the one true communism?
Which country has implemented this mythical Real Communism(TM)?
I'll hazard a guess that the answer is "none" and yet you're still convinced if we just tried it one more time , this time surely we'd get it right, no?

In case it matters for some reason, this is coming from an ethnic and sexual minority, which were both targeted by those not sees.
That's how evil communism is to millions who have actually experienced it and lived to tell the tale, like I have.

You come off like a neo-not .. s e e  who's telling a WWII vet "oh, that wasn't real ***ism, real ***ism has never been tried, but trust me, we totally should!"
The answer is and remains "No, please visit the nearest possible helicopter as soon as possible."
Is that non-centrist enough?

@The Ol' Winkle Dink first, pardon the deliberately misspelled words; it seems Susan doesn't like us discussing this subject.

Now, why do you conflate Fascism with the not sees? They aren't the same thing, obviously.
Surely you can list a few key differences if you know what you're talking about or at least do a quick google search and copy/paste if you don't.
Could you then explain why you're using them interchangeably, like you did in your reply to the other survivor of your ideology?

Could you also give any examples of where communism was _not_ an abject failure that lead to immeasurable death and suffering?

For instance, the Holodomor is one of the greatest acts of evil in the history of the world and it's just many of the "accomplishments" of your dear comrades.
That little feat cost millions of lives, snuffed out in one of the cruellest ways imaginable.

If that wasn't "real communism," who then qualify as purveyors of the one true communism?
Which country has implemented this mythical Real Communism(TM)?
I'll hazard a guess that the answer is "none" and yet you're still convinced if we just tried it _one more time_ , this time surely we'd get it right, no?

In case it matters for some reason, this is coming from an ethnic and sexual minority, which were both targeted by those not sees.
That's how evil communism is to millions who have actually experienced it and lived to tell the tale, like I have.

You come off like a neo-not .. s e e  who's telling a WWII vet "oh, that wasn't _real_ ***ism, real ***ism has never been tried, but trust me, we totally should!"
The answer is and remains "No, please visit the nearest possible helicopter as soon as possible."
Is that non-centrist enough?

The worst part is that the tragedy of Grimes in the political aspect is kind of an inevitability. Ever since the Middle ages people just keep killing each other for ideological differences, and like how others have pointed out, in the latter 200 years it has just gotten worse. I personally have resigned from discussing politics altogether because I have lost very good friends over it.

@Mallow Do you know anything about communism? A minute's glance at the wikipedia page would tell you what you need to know. Obviously that's the ideal though, which is hard to put into place in practice. I think its reasonable to assume though that it would be better than fascism.

@Jinxed Swashbuckler I mean, your guess is correct, it wasn't real communism. You laugh, but its true, and you know its true.

With that aside, it should be noted that I am aware of the failures of MARXISM-LENINISM, as seen in the soviet union, and don't support the actions of the soviet union. I never said I supported their actions. the "communist" you're describing seems to be a tankie? People who are supporters of Stalin? I disagree with that position, its pretty clear Stalin was bad. I am talking about communism IN THEORY. Also, no fascist regime survived either, so I'm not sure what the point is that you're trying to make.

A true communist, which I would consider as someone who works for socialism first with the end goal of a communist system, is INFINITELY better than nazism, and I think you would agree with me, unless you don't know what you're talking about. It's pretty hard as a minority, if you are one, to support fascism.

Everyone supports a version of "fairness" that they believe benefits themselves. Real justice demands empathy for others

@The Ol' Winkle Dink Which communist regime did you survive? Were you a Party member? Or are you one of those western armchair "communists" (😂) who have zero firsthand experience of living with the results of their ideology when put into practice nationwide?
I survived East European communism, as a minority no less, which wasn't easy. My family's experience was similar to Gal's like described above.
Let me guess, tho: "B-b-BuT tHaT wAsN't ReAl CoMmUnIsM!"🤣

I lived around thousands of communists for years and I had to conclude that literally all of them are smooth brains, cowards, evil, or any combination thereof, no exceptions, and being civil with them is not only pointless but harmful. Being a centrist about that would be cowardice.

@The Ol' Winkle Dink you lost me when you said communism's intentions were good.

@MrLuckless marx shouldn't be forgotten, most history is recorded for a reason no matter how wrong it might've been. Communism isn't good, but recording it helps us look back to better society today

@4nt don't apologise, that's pretty much right on the mark. That's why vocal left leaners are preachy annoying  while vocal right leaners just spout dumbass memes and desperately try to push buttons, they think this is some kind of game that's supposed to be "won".

@The Ol' Winkle Dink exactly, and similarly, one shouldn't be civil when dealing with a communist, as they have ruined even more lives, killed even more people, and continue to do so at an exponentially superior rate to "muh not sees," and I'm saying this as a Jewish person.

In fact, anyone who has lived only in the relative luxury of western democracies but supports communism should be treated as the brainlets they are, as only experiencing such a regime first-hand (not just as a tourist either, but an actual long-time citizen) can provide a sufficient idea of what the ideology leads to in practice, not just in fanciful theories.

In short, one shouldn't tolerate such defective things anywhere near them.

And yes, I was born and raised in a communist country, and though my family was already poor, the Party took everything from us, including the small house my grandparents had built, and we were stuffed into one of those cramped, tiny, poorly built blocks with no compensation for what was taken from us.
All that considered, if there was a button that would dematerialize every last one of them, I'd press it twice.

Yeah, it's in the very rules of nature. You can't choose to avoid accepting the difficulties of life, to overcome them you have to adapt while staying above the waves. When nothing pushes you to rise up to better yourself you fall into a cycle of letahrgy.

@The Ol' Winkle Dink And no one should be civil with a Communist. Right now, the left is dominated with people that want to radically change or destroy everything in an attempt to "level the playing field" and also cling to ideals from a bygone era that were just as wrong now as they were then. The only difference is for whatever damn reason, appealing to peoples sense of envy and greed is just too strong so that bastard Marx lives on when he should've died unknown and unimportant. At least with the Nazi, it's a more pragmatic form of his idiotic ideas that's upfront with it's evil.

@milesperhour ah, alright, you good then. Although tbf the point of a democracy is to make things as fair as possible, especially in a governmental sense

@The Ol' Winkle Dink Not in the traditional sense of course, moreso a freakish racist anti-semitic one. "Fairness" for germans only. Obviously horrible. Sorry for confusion, I should have clarified or made my point clearer. I see now how it could have been misinterpreted.

@Mallow Perhaps I judged you too harshly. This line of thinking is literally the centrist motto. "Oh both sides are bad and both do bad things so to be fair i won't support either." In other words, yeah i agree with you.

@milesperhour did you unironically just say that the german reich revolved around "fairness?" wtf?

I'd say this hyper competition isn't a new thing, exclusive to "these days" either, it's always an inevitability, in a sense. The obsession of fairness had been one that has essentially existed forever, as one is always comparing themselves to another. Wars of conquest, reform, the French Revolution revolve around fairness. The United States and even totalitarian states such as the Soviet Union, and the German Reich(In a Racist Sense, fairness as a privilege for only germans), had/have this obsession. It's a universal to want to be treated equally, to be treated "fairly". But like many things, fairness is arbitrary, undefined, and by extension of this, conflicts surrounding fairness are inevitable.

That's just militant political activism in a nutshell. Anyone can take things too far. Forgive me for generalizing a bit, but so many people these days aren't civil anymore. All they care about is beating their opposition and pushing their agenda, which entirely defeats the purpose of civic debate. We shouldn't be treating politics like its a sport.

@The Ol' Winkle Dink the funny thing is, I don't consider myself a centrist, and like I said, I would even apply this line of thinking to some centrists themselves.

thank you for this wonderful enlightened centrist take


Oh god whenever an english speaker tries to pronounce a french word I break into laughter 😂


Wait, Matt Groening grew up in Springfield, Oregon??? I lived there for a couple years. Full of tweakers and crazy people. Couple of the most eventful years of my life. That's so funny!


This is my third time, I think, watching this in full, love the most excellent content.


Homer reminds me so much of Andy on Parks and Recreation. The episode shows it here.


“Inconvenience is the price you pay for unconditional affection”
Jesus that made me sit up,
Fuck this whole video is deep. Impeccable job dude, seriously.

@Brakit He means unconditional affection from Homer/the dog. They will love you unconditionally but may make a mess from time to time.

@Brakit You have to make a sacrifice to receive/keep someone's affection, I guess

On principle I like this line, though it doesn't really make sense.
Inconvenience as the "price you pay" makes that affection conditional.
The condition for the affection is inconvenience.

@thinly veiled alien well aren’t most zoomer’s parents gen X? Seems like it’s just history repeating itself.

@Unpixel Maybe not "deep" but more or less "Food for Thought". Regardless, it's true as hell.

I mean that really doesnt make sense let alone come close to being "deep"

if you liked this idea I recommend watching 'My neighbours the Yamadas', the father gives a very similar speech. Now that I'm typing this out I realize that the Yamadas are quite similar to the Simpsons in some aspects.

and he's a zoomer, what am i doing with my life? oh wait he touched on that too, generations are a cycle and zoomers will be the new gen x


The Simpsons was such a great show for the first 7 or 8 seasons... then they lost their way with episodes like 'Das Bus' and "Simpson Tide'. Those were the two that jumped the shark.


"Don't rebel against the system instead..." Are you sure about that


The best ending The Simpsons could get is a meta one that takes place after Season 7 where everyone has aged and that seasons 1 through the last were an in universe Syndicated Sitcom based on the lives of the Simpson family.

So basically season 1 through 7 happened. And then in universe they went and had lives of their own and then some tv exec wanted to make a show based on their lives.
There could be meta commentary from the cast where they say things like
"Yeah man, only the first 7 seasons were actualy based on events in our lives. 8 and afterwards was just syndication churning new things out cause folks kept tunin in yknow. Some were good. I like the movie haha"


I think the Simpsons has followed along the path it set to point out and criticize when it first started: fresh new realities subverting the old, and eventually becoming the old ones to later be criticized. It’s kind of a good thing the Simpsons has declined, because it shows that they were right all along. 👌🏻 edit: ahhh and now at 35:50 they lay out my thoughts just in time for me to realize my comment wasn’t relevant😂 how ironic


i like how he tricks Homer into participating in a childs contest. When homer wins and everybody cheers homer up he must have realized that not only homer is a lazy idiot but everybody in his whole workplace is LOL

He honestly should’ve realized that the owner of the nuclear factory was a lazy idiot when the man rejected a kids idea even when it powered the room and chose Homers weird idea that probably done nothing but add flair and used children for ideas.


I remember my American cousins (HUGE Simpsons fans) HATING that "you're what's wrong with America" speech.


this is a good video in general I can relate to both characters


"There will never be another episode like it"

Disney executives: " dont test us, Homer's enemy 2 Frank Grimes reborn is still available

"Somehow, Frank Grimes returned"<br>* star wars music starts playing *

"Somehow, Frank Grimes returned"
* star wars music starts playing *


I am in total agreement of everything in this video EXCEPT the shot you used to show Homer embodying 'Lust'. It's from the scene in 'Homer Badman' where he reaches for the Gummi Venus de Milo and NOT for her butt. If anything, that should be used for 'Gluttony'.


This episode is the deepest it ever got. All of the Simpsons imitators never dared to venture into such a real and unsettling topic. Frank Grimes was in the wrong series. Anywhere else he would have been right. He would have been a hero. That ending still makes me uncomfortable to this day. This is perhaps my favorite episode of the series. The Simpsons never before or after got so real.


these kinds of videos are like watching a flat earth documentary but better. They bring up these small things and spin them into something big, like putting a big meaning on a silly cartoon, but the points aren't infuriatingly stupid or bad. Good video.


New Simpsons isn’t bad, it’s just not incredibly amazing like it used to be. It’s like comparing a one hit wonder or bottom of the chart pop star to Michael Jackson. Obviously Jackson is better in most people’s eyes, but it doesn’t mean the rest of the top 40 are worthless, or that music is dead because Michael is dead. It’s a different show now, and that’s fine


I like how you spent so long talking about the deconstruction of the series itself, but didn't bother to mention the don hertzfeldt couch gag


I don’t know why people would rather a show die than it not line up with their meta analysis. I hope it runs forever, it’s dope.


While Frank Grimes is obviously a tragic irony & dark humor, it is also the show poking fun at itself. Grimes is rightfully shocked and appalled of the fact that Homer is an incompetent, happy-go-lucky <b>safety inspector of a nuclear power plant</b> which is also poking fun at ‘The Simpsons’ world in general that would allow this to happen.

While Frank Grimes is obviously a tragic irony & dark humor, it is also the show poking fun at itself. Grimes is rightfully shocked and appalled of the fact that Homer is an incompetent, happy-go-lucky *safety inspector of a nuclear power plant* which is also poking fun at ‘The Simpsons’ world in general that would allow this to happen.

Amusingly, Homer had to work for his safety inspector gig, only getting it so that he'd stop decrying Burns's lack of standards.

I think he’s based of the main character form the movie “Falling Down”

I thought the show was trying its best to defend itself and its place, not make fun of itself


I clicked on this video thinking it was gonna be a Simpsons fan talking about his favorite episode… boy, I wasn’t ready.


"Matt Groening would have to go through hell"
Shows Los Angeles on a map
Yup he went through hell, poor guy. LA is a special kind of cesspool

"Matt Groening would have to go through hell"
*Shows Los Angeles on a map*
Yup he went through hell, poor guy. LA is a special kind of cesspool


Since homer works at a nucular power plant he has to be a genius in disguise


Uh...I've never heard of The Simpsons before. Glad you took all that time to tell us.


I remember when I first watched this episode, my dad was eating something and when Grimes was telling Homer that they were enemies Homer says something like "ok, do I have to do anything?" At the end. My dad, who wasn't really watching burst out laughing at that. He's dead now (my dad) but that was something I remember about it, and it turned out to be one of my best memories of him. Strange how that happens.

@Calendar Factory not quite, crushed under the wheels of a truck, spent a week in ICU before dying from his injuries.

The emotional whiplash from “my dad burst out laughing” to “he’s dead now” honestly caught me off guard.


The Simpsons is a prime example of why you don't grant a series exemption from cancelations.


wow, i totally thought that keeps thing was a fake ad.  but the video is fantastic.  thanks for sharing!


Homer's Enemy is one of my favorite epidodes.


I remember my Dad didn't like this episode, but watched it anyway because he liked the side plot with Bart buying a building for a dollar.

honestly that side plot was actually pretty funny lmao

@Wildan Mustopa no we can't accept that!


Man...that's one impressive analysis! Soft Machine in the background on Laissez-Faire was really distracting me though...


I fell asleep watching this and had the weirdest dream of my life


"In some way, all of us live in Springfield"

Me, a German: Hell no


The true loss in the Simpsons was when they no longer did satire and parody well. As Rageaholic once said after explaining that Itchy and Scratchy was once a parody of the morality police once targeting Tom and Jerry, "The Simpsons used to do parody before they became one."


I would argue that shitposting, ytp, and internet culture as a whole wouldn't be what it is without the simpsons


im from Europe and here it works the same<br>The older generation has classical, religious and familial values while the younger generation tends to be more.... rebelious

im from Europe and here it works the same
The older generation has classical, religious and familial values while the younger generation tends to be more.... rebelious


In other words, there will be never be another good Simpsons episode.


"You... went into outer space? YOU!"<br>" Sure. You've never been?"

"You... went into outer space? YOU!"
" Sure. You've never been?"


Frank Grimes was capable, and definitely deserved better. But he was a sullen sad sack, with a chip on his shoulder, who believed the world owed him. The world is full of Frank Grimes'


5:17 and yet our parents wonder why we are so cynical and done with life when the same exact shit seems to be happening again but somehow worse.


I don’t know exactly why, but I found 20:21 hilarious


Life is one of the most unfair yet forgiving things as well. Its not about the material things that make it worth living, but the people we share life with that makes it worth it. This episode of the Simpsons shows this greatly.


Man, this hits home. Funny enough I've been focusing a lot on a story specifically about the "give and take" cycle of life and how/why the balance becomes so upset so frequently. Every second of this video explains it so well. Working is important when it comes to a stable future and the well-being of others. But when life is a finite collection of moments, living in the present is how we'll truly be happy with just ourselves. It's about striking a balance between the two, the drive and the calm.

@Raymunator Couldn't have said it better myself.

Work like Grimes, but have the heart of Homer


I am NEVER going to have to worry about hair loss, but now I kinda wish I would 😕

Brilliant Spot


after all these years since Emp referenced Jon Bois in his Dale Earnhardt video, I just realized.

Never Ever is Pretty Good.


I still quite like the Simpson’s and have watched new episodes of the new seasons with mild interest, but I understand why people say that it’s fallen so far from grace. When the counter culture becomes the norm and apart of what it used to mock, it kinda ruins the point of the original art no matter how good it still is


2:55 - I've looked at terrain maps of the USA countless times, but I never noticed the depressed face that exists in eastern Washington and Oregon.


Frank Grimes proved that No matter how kind Homer was he would be a pain in the a** Even tho he did not directly try to annoy Frank i wish that Frank survived and stayed around for at least å few more episodes


"In a way, all of us live in Springfield."

people who live in another country be like:


to all of my friends still in high school- be homer. you can forever work as hard as you want, but you can never be happy doing so.


grimes is to homer what homer is to ned flanders broke my brain bro... <b>slow clap</b> outstanding,

grimes is to homer what homer is to ned flanders broke my brain bro... *slow clap* outstanding,


Growing up, I had a particularly nihilistic family. People who were just naturally bitter, who had to work hard and take everyone’s shit, and then there was me, this kind, cheery dude who played video games a lot.

The first time I watched this episode, it also happened to be one of the first episodes of the Simpsons I had ever seen. I was mortified by the conclusion, and I felt nothing but sympathy for Grimes.

Thing is, I actually went through a period of my life when I was beginning to feel spiteful and bitter toward everything. I started to grow up, and I related to Grimes. Big time. I was surprised to learn that I was a lot like Frank Grimes.

Flash forward to me now. 28 years old in April, which is about a month from now. I have seen more episodes of the Simpsons, and funny enough, I relate greatly to the Simpsons, in particular, Homer.

By now I am an associate at an Amazon Warehouse. I help my sister raise her 5 kids in a cramped 2 bedroom apartment in downtown Austin Texas. Have been helping her...since I was 16....

I’ve completed college, and successfully moved out of my humble home of Laredo Texas, a place rife with greed, ignorance, and selfishness.

Now I see this episode, and I’m surprised to say...I’m basically Homer Simpson.

In college, I learned that there was a bigger world out there, and I didn’t have to put up with everyone’s crap. The internet taught me that there were people like me, and I shouldn’t be ashamed of who I am. Living downtown on my own for a year helped me learn my strengths and assert my independence. I sacrificed a lot for my family unconditionally, and live for hilariously simple desires such as owning a bike and a small room with a bed. Vicarious situations such as going to work late, being late on my rent, things that just...work out.

I developed my fragile youthful personality, one that many disputed. I was told to grow up, stop being a kid. Truth is, I absorbed the discipline and sense of responsibility of an adult, but maintained my youthful outlook. I think many people have awoken this outlook as well, and it warms my heart.

That being said, politics aren’t my strong suit. Whenever I approached a topic, I found that I either made things worse for others or worse for me. Meanwhile, when I was passive, kept to myself, and agreed with and supported others, things went my way. I didn’t see a viewpoint I disagreed with, I saw a flawed viewpoint that I could reinforce and people I could inform.

Essentially, I was a happy go lucky fella, and ultimately at heart, I still am, but there is also always this part of me who is just Frank Grimes. That will never fade, and that’s okay.

I watch this episode now, and I find it amazing, especially now having Emplemon’s enlightened perspective. I think it’s amazing how wise the writing went into the show. As tragic as it is to see Frank Grimes fail, especially since he reminds me a lot of my family even now, it’s a stark reminder to put these ideals behind, that Frank Grimes is simply obsolete.

I don’t think the world would be better without Grimes. His problem, one many share, is his closed minded viewpoint. The sad thing is he is not entirely wrong. You can’t really correct him, or help him. You can only sort of feel bad for him, and hope he gets better.

I love you sis. You made life easy for me, and difficult for yourself. I hope you find happiness, the way I did.


19:24 the worst thing is that Burns got the power to become the man he is now, he aplied the lazzies-faire. He was in a pretty bad but comfortable status and never had the intention of changing it. Then, a chance of move on to a better status comes out of nowhere, he takes it, and here we are.


2:24 "TV's most iconic yellow family"

I guess lego ninjago just isn't iconic


"most unique character in simpsons history", if not in any tv show. it resonated with me as a child in a way i didnt understand, but i do now... i do now


25:00 exactly its just how the universe works


Frank: "As of today, we are now enemies."
Homer: "Okay....
Do I have to do anything?"
This still makes me laugh, because I've been on both sides of that coin.

@Matt J If anything: I'd like if you looked like the Squishee Delivery Lady with the intellect of Ralph Wiggum!

I like how matter of fact you took my comment.
Do you feel similar, or were you just refocusing the conversation back to where it's relevant?

@The Multiverse ...Okay, sure, but this scenario literally has two roles - Frank and Homer. You want me to be Lenny or something?

@Matt J My reply was meant as commentary moreso regarding seeing both sides of an argument than the specific reason you used the analogy. The idea of "the coin"  proposes a dualistic way of seeing the world, which works idiomatically, although flawed in that a 3 dimensional objects by definition can't have two sides. I think instead of two, you have a mind boggling series of infinite options, more akin to "the coin" spinning so fast as to create a hypersphere which leads you to The Multiverse ✨

@MattheJ1 sounds like you never made good money. You’re finding validity in a penny.

Flanders: Homer, you are the worst neighbour I have ever met.

Homer: Wow, I got off pretty easy.

Whilst that line was in the context of Ned's other insults from that Hurricane episode, this could also showcase Homer's youthful outlook. Being deemed the worst is simple, yet effective to the eyes of those who cared. Homer wasn't one of those people.

It's also perfect in context of the episode. With Grimes going out of his way to be "perfect" and prove to himself he is as worthless as he perceives Homer as, while Homer kinda just goes with it because it doesn't really effect him.

I remember the good days where the Simpsons's humour was actually multileveled and... funny.


36:14 ... Second death sounds way worse than first death...


'So intensely profound we still think about it 23 years later'. Wait until this guy hears about Plato.


Might be a controversial opinion, but I think Futurama is Matt Groening's best work.


Homer started it by eating his lunch, chewing up his pencils, not speaking up to Mr. Burns when Grimes saved his life when Homer almost drank that acid. Not-2-mention...Homer's UTTER disregard for his and everyone at the plant's safety and well-being, by ducking and not caring about his job. Plus, we know how frustrating it is when the lazy bum gets paid, does nothing or ruins everything and no consequences occur....but, if you aren't lazy and take initiative and sneeze wrong....you get demolished....that's Grimes issue.


"Heh, if you lived in any other country in the world, you'd have starved to death long ago." - Grimey

The ironic thing is, the same could maybe be said for him. He was abandoned by his parents at age 4. I think this line really highlights the dichotomy presented in this video.

@Jose Fabian He wouldn't have fun as HOMR proves, but that doesn't mean he couldn't be successful. He could for example blackmail Mr Burns about the nuclear plant issues.

yes indeed, not to mention even if he was picked up. If it wasn't a modern country what kind of life would he have had or education if any at all in the third world countries modern ones like ours exploit for cheap labor and resources.

I think Grimes meant that Homer's laziness & incompetence would've had him starving in some ditch, if he lived in another country or time period. America gives safety blankets for some and harsh falls for others. It is implied (or at least not stated otherwise) that Grimes was was born in America but was given the short end of the stick, in life. Grimes probably did as we in America as he would've done being raised in some third world country. Whereas Homer can only function in America, with the cushy blankets.

@Javid Productions What makes you think competent people flourish in Springfield?

@Drbigt let's plays in short, half dead.

@Predator 20357 Yes, he would be alive but it would seem near impossible for him to flourish. If anything being in Springfield where everyone is dumber and lazier than him could have been his big break. Imagine if he'd studied to do a job, he could have taken nearly anyone's role because no character is good at what they do in Springfield.

@Javid Productions I guess you can call it a counter argument to his claim but the point still stands in the end, A person that was abandoned at the age of 4 or got bedridden at age 18 wouldn’t have even prospered a bit either.

I mean there are a lot of countries outside of the US with at least the scale of governmental safety nets.

Not only abandoned, he also got into a major explosion when he was 18 that made him 100% bedridden for years while also causing him to lose hearing and sense of touch.


For me it’s the old school Gran Turismo music that makes lemon vids. Hits my nostalgia more than the simpsons surprisingly enough


I welcome another generation x with open arms, they were way better than my generation of millennials or gen z.


Sometimes we're Grimes
Sometimes we're Homer
We're all Bart
But also Lisa
None of us are DuffMan


“The ill fated Mission Hill”
Bruh I loved Mission Hill 😢

_“The ill fated Mission Hill”_
Bruh I loved Mission Hill 😢


The sarcasm about Bill Cosby at the beginning was just perfect.


i feel like this should have been the simpsons final episode


We like homer for the same reason we like tony soprano, because its fiction or at the very least  far away from our real life day to day lives (like john gotti, people think hes cool but if he was your next door neighbor you probably wouldn't care for the guy)


One of my top three episodes of all time,,,the other two are War of the Simpsons,,and The cartridge family...awesome..


This is a wonderful examination, themes relevant in the mid nineties that are still at the heart of so many arguments in post industrial countries in 2021


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

I will remember this from now on.


How are you doing Emp. I'm not even subscribed to you but with how broken the algorithm is like you said in the last video I saw from you. It has only taken me to this. Seing you go into a deep dive of what what Homer's enemy brought to the series makes me wonder what you've felt about life recently. So I guess I just wanted to ask. You doing ok?


"Before he could do that, he had to enter hell"
zooms into LA
Sounds about right tbh

"Before he could do that, he had to enter hell"
*zooms into LA*
Sounds about right tbh


I just wonder how you did this without even mentioning capitalism and how a critique of the american dream implicitly is just that lol


Kinda sad how the Simpson’s have been bought out like this


Another Masterpiece Emp, much like your final message, this was made not so much to really give us any kind of answers, so much as for us to ponder and ask the right questions about a show we once all loved. Truly an incredible piece if art.


my mom worked on a project with Matt Groening, and he offered her a position on the team making it. she denied it. she regrets it to this day


Good ol Grimey. I wonder how he's doing these days...


One of those magical random videos that makes my day... At least YouTube still provide us with good moments.


Ngl this, whoolleee video hit me like a truck, emotionally, and I dont know why. Growing up with the simpsons is a weirdly involving life to have


I wonder what if Grimes met Flanders, and or see Homer's resentment and short coming compared him?<br>Would that have saved him from going crazy, or something else?

I wonder what if Grimes met Flanders, and or see Homer's resentment and short coming compared him?
Would that have saved him from going crazy, or something else?

@Baconknight Productions yep the state of ceará em brasil is regarded as the one with the most funny people and the one with the most unforgiving weather conditions one example: a drought that lasted 15 years that happened in the 19th century.

In the book A Stranger In a Strange Land, a human raised by Martians on Mars has no sense of humor. At one point in the story he goes to a zoo. At the zoo there is a monkey enclosure where he sees a monkey with some food. A bigger monkey hits the smaller one and takes his food. The monkey with no food finds a monkey smaller than him and hits them stealing their food. The Mars Man laughs and realizes that comedy is derived from human suffering.

I think it would’ve made him worse but saved his life

Grimes would be seeing somebody succeeding in the American dream even beyond Homer through hard work and a can do attitude which would make him not go through a “I’m Homer Simpson” however  this sight mixed with the sight of Homer’s hatred at this great man would probably make homer even more so detestable to Grimes

Probably not

He's too focused on his own shortcomings compared to Homer


I haven't seen that interview but I wonder if that "because it makes it look like there's somthing wrong with your tv set" was matt groening just being like "I am TIRED of explaining the stylistic choice to people I'm just gonna say some bullshit"


This video is so great. It should be shown in school to teach kids about late Gen Xers / Xennials.


Yeah they shouldn’t have killed him off. These videos are so good


Frank is proof that equity is impossible and the reality is that equity is a terrible idea things should be equal not equitable


is it bad that the Simpsons is now a functional family by today's standards, and that they're living the modern American dream.

I dont find that more shocking than the idea of america being adept of « laissez-faire » when they are typically good at interfering.

@wolfrainexxx Yeah, Fry is what Groening made for us, but he was never as popular as Family Guy.

@Random Guy on the Internet don't want to be political but all the affects we are seeing now is a prelude to a golble crisis. 17 CT style crisis. The next 20 years will be shit..we are going to be the lost ganaration.

@Chaz Domingo Funny, because I see myself relating to Fry.

Yeah, I'm millennial and I always remember thinking Simpsons was an old boring show.  I didn't see it as subversive whatsoever.  Family Guy.  Now that was subversive and irreverent comedy I could relate to.

They could easily be considered higher-class now. I feel like this was foreshadowed in this episode. Frank Grimes worked his ass off his whole life yet never had much to show for it, or atleast that's what he thought. A good example of many people today, colleges and jobs only get harder and harder to find. As generations come and go, people only end up getting frustrated and desperate to even just make a living. This isnt to say Homer took an easy way out being apart of a generation where jobs and colleges were more common, but the fact that he made it through is a testament to people's change in attitude.


Homer looks happy to be scolded by Grimes in the thumbnail…


Make a video about Mission Hill! It needs you Emp, it needs your reach, it’s needs your storytelling, the world has to know about the forgotten Bill Oakley/Josh Weinstein masterpiece and you’re the man to deliver it! You already did Home Movies now do Mission Hill please and thank you love you


I'm with Frank here. You ever work with a idiot who gets promoted before you. I was so insulted, I quit the next day.


"Is true freedom even attainable if its unaltered state inevitably resurrects tyranny?"<br>History-level oof.

"Is true freedom even attainable if its unaltered state inevitably resurrects tyranny?"
History-level oof.


On the one hand, yeah, Grimes is miserable because he's so uptight, but Homer can only afford to be as hapless and blissful as he is because he has all the things that Grimes blows up at him over. Yeah, his happiness doesn't come from his popularity and material wealth, but he can only pursue things that bring him happiness by having those things.

@Amy Mason I would say that's part of the bit the episode is doing; Grimes sees the Simpson home as the height of success even though the show as a whole takes great pains to show the family struggling or even barely getting by.

@Vellichor For someone who lives in a single room dwelling, no multi-room house is 'modest'. For someone who shares a single room with several others, no private single room is 'modest'. And for someone who lives on a private island, their home is 'modest' because they don't rule a kingdom from a literal palace. One of the biggest problems with inequality is that it's so hard to see it from the inside.

Well there's also the fact that Homer's mindset allows him to have people who care for him.

There were times he didn't have popularity, or wealth.  You cannot appreciate popularity or wealth if there aren't times you don't have it.  Cherish your poverty and cherish how people don't know, or don't like you because it is the same thing as when they do like you, or when you do have wealth.  Or what you could do is stop comparing and the dichotomy will disappear.  By the way if the dichotomy can disappear and you believe you gather happiness from it then your happiness is premised on an illusion.  If your happiness comes from nothing then just be happy as you are.  Problem solved your welcome.  Now stop being a crank.

While Homer may be wealthy compared to Grimes, he's actually not successful at all from the perspective of the modern American ideal. The show consistently portrays the Simpsons as lower middle class, and plenty of episodes either focus on their financial struggles or include that as a B plot or backstory. In fact, the pivotal scene where Grimes comes to their house is even more complex than this video indicates, because Grimes's awe at the house is an ironic counterpoint to the many previous episodes that show the house in disrepair (not to mention that the house itself is actually quite modest). I wouldn't say that Homer can afford to be hapless and naïve because of his economic status. Part of the joke is that Homer should have died or become completely destitute by now, but simply hasn't. Meanwhile, Grimes's past is far more harrowing and merciless than anything Homer ever went through, yet everything he does to alleviate his station proves fruitless in the end.


The fact you did a Vsauce style episode even with the random tangents that then make sense


ok so Theme here

1 Sponge Bob - because there is One thing, that made Sponge Bob different from other shows
2 MNR - because it was a Competition between two Wrestling shows
3 Dale Ernhardt - because his number on Car was 3
4 Stanislav Petrov - if it wasn't for him - fourth world war would be Fought with Sticks
5 Hungrybox - because Five Melee Gods
6 Homers Enemy - because there are six Simpsons, I guess.

Which means that number 7 would be... I don't know. Who knows what Emp is up to?


It really is the best Episode of the show. Very dark too…


TheRealJims (in that unnecessary insertion of The Golden Age, but also otherwise) is acting like he is telling "pure reality", but he is simply counting down pretty small-minded personal views and tastes. At least that is always coming through among more basic, structural points, which he also usually gives a too personal colouring (there is simply not such a consensus about seasons which are classical in their way that this or that would be not good, but rather it is not rarely seen as a highlight, and so on).


"A place where everyone can unite and rate everything a 7 out of 10"

Ok that part had me dying LMFAO

Both films are, admittedly, 7 out of 10s.


Honestly I think the Simpsons new episodes get a little over hated. I’ve watched the majority of episodes and one of my personal favorite is the season 29 episode Forgive and Regret, yet is a 6.9 on IMDb but I honestly like that episode over Homers Enemy


so turns out i've been living my life right this whole time: my way.

if you work you loose


According to ToonrificTariq, the creation of the Simpsons happened this way:
Someone from the Network: Hey Matt, your meeting will start any minute. Can't wait to see what different show you got from us, that isn't Life in Hell.
Matt: oh yea- excuse me?!

Apparently the dude made the most important show of television on the fly!


"The Simpsons opened our eyes to the yellowness of the world, after a while we stopped questioning why they were yellow. They simply were. It was only then when just for a moment, the creators had nothing else to do but make them green. Homer's enemy is The Simpsons magnum opus, and there will never ever be another episode like it." *takes the one second where Homer gets up to adjust the TV and makes Bart green and zooms in on Bart, putting the laughter from the end over it*
man oh my GOD that ending is perfect!

"The Simpsons opened our eyes to the yellowness of the world, after a while we stopped questioning why they were yellow. They simply were. It was only then when just for a moment, the creators had nothing else to do but make them green. Homer's enemy is The Simpsons magnum opus, and there will never ever be another episode like it." **takes the one second where Homer gets up to adjust the TV and makes Bart green and zooms in on Bart, putting the laughter from the end over it**
man oh my GOD that ending is perfect!


There must be a way to be a hero and live long as hero until the end...


You did such a great analysis of the show. I grew up with the Simpsons and so did my parents. I never understood why they only stuck to the first 8 seasons. They always told me that whenever they see one of them pick up a phone they immediately change the channel. I now know why that is the case. I wasn’t interested in your analysis of just this episode. I’m more interested in your take on the entire series, it’s concepts, and probably a big question of mine; why do my parents don’t like the more recent episodes. I now know it’s because of the fact they grew up in this early era of the show and that it’s become watered down and unoriginal when this is now the cookie cutter mold for modern cartoon series.

Also green Simpsons reminds me of certain space creatures, let’s just hope the Kraken that is copyright doesn’t get to them.


Simpson minions are the most cursed thing to ever exist


Ah shit, this video just convinced me to start watching Simpsons I guess


"responsible and virtuous role models"

zooms in on Bill Cosby

Oh man another banger from EMP

"responsible and virtuous role models"

*zooms in on Bill Cosby*

Oh man another banger from EMP


I wanna be the guy who had enough courage to punch the guitar playing hippie and just walk away like a king.


I wouldn't say Homer's Enemy is where this show jumped the shark. I always say "The Principle and the Pauper", just a few episodes after Homer's Enemy, was the episode where The Simpsons jumped the shark.


7:12 "It's remarkable just how different The Simpsons was than anything else on television at the time", so are we just ignoring Married with Children, which premiered 2 years before The Simpsons?


Goddamn this is deep as fuck and accurate as well.


“In a way we all live in Springfield” laughs in Australian


that timing on "responsable and virtuous role models" lmao 4:39


Grimes is like the guy from falling down


Grimey just didn't at the end of the day have the plot armor to survie in Springfield. He was an normal man plunged into a cartoon.


it's still so bizarre and beautiful to me how people who made YTPs from many years ago would eventually create master class video essays today


the episode began with The news anchor Kent Brockman introducing Frank Grimes on the simpson's TV, at the episodes end when Grimes is being buried, Homer says "change the channel marge."


I was absolutely prepared to hear “Sniping’s a good job mate” as soon as I heard the Meet The Sniper music


15:15 I like the detail where you fully Capitalized YOUR and AMERICA to give the sentence another meaning


"The engine of America is powered by turmoil."<br>If that's your line, then bravo.

"The engine of America is powered by turmoil."
If that's your line, then bravo.

@D39 street I don't believe America made it unscathed from any of them. The Cold War basically scarred the American psyche so much that they became obsessed with fighting something. The dissolution of the Soviet Union basically meant they had no major enemies left so, instead of healing and repairing, they decided to go find or make a new enemy. To add insult to injury, some of these enemies were former allies - America used Afghanistan to give the Soviets their Vietnam... then Afghanistan turned into America's second Vietnam.

"We are going to do a terrible thing to you. We are going to take away your enemy." - Soviet expert Georgy Arbatov.

Oh how right he was...

Reflecting on it, is it not true? Revolutionary War, Shay's Rebellion, Economic Panics of the early 19th century, the civil war, economic panics of the late 19th century, WW1, Great Depression, WW2, Red Scare, Watergate, Vietnam, 1980's depression, Columbine, Iraq War, Great Recession, and the Pandemic. All of these has happened, and yet America managed to live through them unscathed. I find it impressive when on paper the engine is expected to blow up halfway down the drag strip.


I think one really good example of how the simpsons kind of lives on in the era of the internet in it's most purist form is with phonk. While if you look up phonk today you'll get a bunch of cowbell-laced trap beats, one of the earliest rises in this music genre's popularity was with it's weed-smoking cousin. artists like soudiere, DJ smokey, and DJ yung vamp have all used simpsons screenshots as cover art. It represents the genre as a whole. Anti-culture.

The chill side of phonk is build to never ever be able to break into the mainstream. With copyright laws being as strict as they are, no one would be able to emulate the carefree nature of phonk and get hundreds of millions of streams without some angry lawyers knocking at their door demanding a ciese and decist.

Phonk is deliberately anti-culture. Fuck you, fuck the world, and fuck humanity. You listen to phonk thinking about all of the things that were, all of the things that will be, and you're squarely in the middle. Phonk is a complete subversion of what can and should be popular, and as such, it's no wonder it's genre-defining. It's like the simpsons, and the simpsons live on in it's footsteps.


I recently watched the Simpsons for the first time in my life. I’m 25. It was S8E2 “You Only Move Twice”.


I appreciate this video but embody both Homer and Frank. Obsessed with fairness with a side of "Why should I fucking care?"