Why did people seethe so much over this people?
It hit too close to home? Made people realize life isn't fair? Made people realize they might have an Homer in their lives too?
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Wagies suffered an existential crisis after watching Grimey commit suicide
Gen X could enjoy the death throes of a meritocracy. Enough of the system still worked for some entitled creative to think his moral decay wouldn't hurt anything.
Look at where we are now, you silly shit.
Look at your fossil of a cultural artifact and look at where we are today.
>Why did people seethe so much over this people?
i did not see this episode when it aired, nerds who gave it bad internet reviews aren't people
Gen X is a very self-aware generation. Even back when they were teenagers and I was a kid, they knew the whole thing would fall apart. I don't know why they were having those types of conversations with a 5 y.o., but some of them were.
Simpsons writers are writers, entitled brats cushioned by daddy's money regardless of the generation.
Gen X is just as responsible for the shitty situation we are in as the Boomers. They're lazy worthless sloths that essentially refused to take over for their boomer parents and let them run shit way to long. Not like millenials are any better having spent more time coveting the possessions of other generations.
Our current situation is the result of Boomer pride, Gen X sloth, and Millenial Envy. I do wonder which sin Gen Z will go all in on, my guess is Lust.
Wonder where wrath comes in.
I should specify that all my hatred is directed toward coastal boomers. Other boomers are A-OK in my book. The pozzed ones are absolutely evil. The kind that had satanic orgies with the feds in the 60s. I hate those types.
>I do wonder which sin Gen Z will go all in on, my guess is Lust.
Gen Z isn't having sex; lust would fit the Boomers and their many summers of love better. Gen Z would probably be wrath, given their love of cancel culture and their moral self-righteousness.
>I do wonder which sin Gen Z will go all in on, my guess is Lust.
That can't be the case, gen z has less sex than every other generation.
BOOMERS would be lust.
Gen Z is pride.
What does Gen Z have to be be prideful of?
Their sexuality of course, which is why they're so open about sharing it with everyone.
But not actually open about having any sex.
I don't see it.
>That can't be the case, gen z has less sex than every other generation.
You don't need to have sex to feel lust or be destroyed by it though.
Sure, but if you want to make the argument about any generation being destroyed by lust, I don't know how you could make that argument for anyone other than the boomers and their summer of love.
How about the Zoomers being born in bawd culture and unlimited porn?
The women bawd it up with a small group of chads while the rest of the men jerk off to the women's onlyfans. Boomers are no where near the coomers that Gen Z has become
Gen Z porn culture was just an extension of millennial porn culture.
Boomers actively led the charge on changing societal norms with their pursuit of lust, everyone else was just continuing that.
Gen Z I'd say gluttony (in a figurative sense) and wrath
Gen Z is probably gluttony, being plagued by materialistic narcissists that consume the next thing without a second thought. It almost amazes me that the generation which grew up surrounded by the borderline-excessive encouragement of individuality is the one most prone to fall into self-destructive trends; though perhaps not terribly surprising in retrospect.
Well personally I have nightmares about being inbetween bowling alleys
I will never understand this reference.
He's poor so he has to rent an undesirable appartment. To take it to cartoon comedy, he's not only next to one bowling alley (which is noisy), but TWO.
John Schwartzwalder believed Grimey had it coming. based
That Frank Grimes was smart enough to be a self-made man and never made anything of himself is somewhat hard to believe.
The fact that his dumb ass had the same job as Homer, most likely same wages, and didn't bother moving into a nicer place, even wasting time trying to sabotage Homer, shows that he kind of deserves his shitty lot in life.
Inflation is at 9%
How? The companies are the one's choosing to raise prices.
That's not what inflation is (though it's not really Sleepy Joe's fault either).
I'm sure with enough socializing, you'll figure it out.
I was going to say that the companies aren't the ones who printed literally half of all american dollars in existence just a couple of years ago, but then I remembered who actually has the most influence on such decisions.
>people
>an
Why do ESL bots continue to repost old threads here?
Pretty much. Anons think money printing is to blame for more than 2% of inflation because it lets them say "president bad".
>Anons think money printing is to blame for more than 2% of inflation
Black person, inflation is literally defined as the decrease in a currency's value as a result of introducing more of itself to the market. How are you this fricking stupid that you don't even know the basic definition of inflation?
You know what, let's all watch a special and see if Scrooge can explain things.
>Black person, inflation is literally defined as the decrease in a currency's value as a result of introducing more of itself to the market.
no it isn't lmao.
Cope
Back to Facebook with your shitty boomer meme.
Eat crow libtard
What the hell is crow?
>That Frank Grimes was smart enough to be a self-made man and never made anything of himself is somewhat hard to believe.
He wasn't really a self made man though. He was just a hyper competent cog, content to work with his nose at the grindstone and accept what life threw at him. He didn't aspire to anything better, or try and connect with people, he just fricked hookers and grew more and more bitter that his ship never came in.
Homer, for all his faults and gross incompetence, is a dreamer that takes risks, wants more, and can get along with most people. He's got an appetite for life and so he gets more out of it.
>he just fricked hookers
That's a retcon; it's not in the episode.
I can see it leaving a bad taste in people's mouths because the absurdity is in that Grimes just has a really depressing life and all his misfortunes up until a failed prank to embarrass Homer drives him insane isn't his fault. Then in the end basically he goes unmourned while everyone laughs at Homer inadvertantly ruin his funeral. It's funny but if you're not into it it's just really fricking bleak.
To be fair, Homer doesn't have his job because it's suited to his "intellect" the joke is his job is actually pretty complex and important but circumstance had an idiot like Homer fall into it. Albeit when it happened Homer was simply well meaning but unqualified dullard who was hired because he protested the unsafe conditions of the plant rather than criminally negligent and dangerous.
Though Grimes himself only got the job because a sob story inspired Mr. Burns to hire him then discard him into a position he didn't really care about.
Everyone laughing as his coffin was lowered into the ground took it a bit far.
The kind of people that fly on Epstein's plane.. yeah they'd laugh at a hard-working man.
grimey's problem was that he's too uptight, the same problem plaguing this episode's haters
Y'know
It was only background noise. Adequate background filler. Of course one would assume you'd hit a few home runs every now and then.
I think you've been living within a cucoon of fans for too long.
It's a deconstruction that points out that the show isn't realistic or fair, which doesn't really seem necessary for a cartoon sitcom. I like the episode though.
>Why did people seethe so much over this people?
They didn't.
Grimes was 100% in the wrong. He thought the world owed him for hard work and spent his money on hookers instead of actually trying to be an approachable person that people would want to work with.
Nobody gives a frick about your test scores, they want to be able to get a beer with you.
Did the Simpsons predict Nice Guys?
They always existed they just didn't have the name before.
I used to feel sorry for the Simpsons writers having to contend with the new lows introduced by Family Guy. Honestly though, you may just deserve it.
Thought the episode was more funny considering it felt like it was breaking the fourth wall and kinda admitting that Homer's life was way more interesting and worldly than it had any right to be.
Dude was a small town nuclear safety inspector and he was regularly rubbing elbows with presidents and going to outer space.
I've never really thought about this but are nuclear plants really a small town thing?
Imagine the disaster if a nuclear plant in NYC or LA blew up.
I guess I always assumed the kind of infrastructure a plant needs would result in it being bigger than a small town.
there's a reason why they build a "nuclear" village around the plant and get people to move there. Like Fukushima and the towns which had to be abandoned due radiation.
is about white privilege
homer the moron never stop falling upwards because of his skin
Frank Grimes strikes me as the kind of guy that would try and justify his inability to get girls wet.
A lot of people can relate to Grimes. Working hard, following the rules, trying to survive, only to get constantly screwed by bad luck.
Watching someone else who is lazy, slacks off, and is incompetent, yet still gets ahead via the good luck you pray for every day and never receive, is infuriating.
Is Homer's life THAT great?
>Homer can't do a lot of things he wants to do because of family obligations
>Nagging wife with irritating voice & a toxic "keep up with the Jones'" mentality
>Only real Christian is Marge, family only goes to church because she forces them to
>Bratty kids who are always breaking their stuff
>Constantly behind on bills, need to call repairmen every other episode when something goes wrong with the house
>Homer regularly gets in trouble with the law
>Homer's body being wracked by poor dieting & beer consumption
So many things you list as bad are compromises of a life well lived. Perfection is the enemy of happiness.
You didn't even mention the disappeared mom, abusive/neglectful dad, learning disabilities, or teen pregnancy.
>Teen pregnancy
I don't think it was ever teen pregnancy just pregnancy out of wedlock Homer was always in his mid to late 30s meaning bart was always born in Homer and Marge's 20s
>teen pregnancy
I think you've conflated the falling in love/prom episode with the accidental pregnancy episode.
I guess they could have still been like 19.
Yeah the timeline of when Bart was born was a little confusing to me.
I wanted to mention how Homer & Marge conceived out of wedlock & had a drive thru wedding, & how having a kid early made their lives difficult, but I didn't remember everything clearly.
Grimes resonates with people who are comfortable stagnating but feel like they're entitled to more as well.
>tfw you are the Homer
I'm kind of half Grimes and half Homer, so I actually can sympathize with both.
'Homers Enemy' is my favorite episode, However i do understand that it is quite a dark episode and that may not appeal to some people.
Some dude had a horrible life and then had a horrible death, then everyone laughed at his funeral, mind you that his worst crimes were saving Homer's life and being a grouch in cartoon land, for people that are a bit slow on the uptake it made them think
>"Why were they so mean to this one guy?"
The rest could figure out
>"oh, right, this is a cartoon"
but for some it was a more sobering kind of realisation, the kind that makes you feel stupid for feeling anything at all for these characters, and people don't like to feel stupid
>it was a more sobering kind of realisation, the kind that makes you feel stupid for feeling anything at all for these characters, and people don't like to feel stupid
The show works hard to make you feel for the characters in a number of episodes, albeit this was more often true earlier in the show's run. This episode is a self-parody of the tenedency away from this.
>Made people realize life isn't fair?
>Made people realize they might have an Homer in their lives too?
yeah and if you fixate too much over it you'll end up dead like Grimes
Doing this kind of self-referential "Golly, this show sure is silly!" kind of episode should have been a knell for the end of the series, ideally done during the last season.
I'm the homer. Good for nothing neet supported by his two wealthy lawyer parents, soon I'll be going to college to get an it degree and work for my rich uncle.
I have good friends even tho I'm an butthole and two girls tried to get in my pants this year
Last I checked people were complaining that this was an early example of "jerk-ass" Homer. The way he harassed Frank, sabotaging him with Mr. Burns, and falling asleep at his funeral. I felt Simpsons was just fine all the way to S13, so I don't agree with this theory. Then again, I didn't really hate Homer from the later seasons, even if he was different than early Homer. Early Homer existed to be shit on too much for my tastes.
Take your meds and voices will dissapear