Why did so many people watch this epsiode and think, "Yeah this whiny, pencil neck guy is in the right here"
The fact that people identified with Grimes when it aired back in the 90s was a sign of things to come.
We now live in a society filled with Franks Grimes. Envious, spiteful little bugmen who think they deserve what others have and need everyone to be as miserable as them
Simpsons was always mid.
lardass
t. midwit
If anything, Grimes should've directed his anger towards Mr. Burns, considering he was the one who hired Homer in the first place.
It predicted shitty reviewers too that take cartoons at face level and question the logic in everything.
Is the funny part
Look at me am wacky and silly
I think the episode being to criticize people looking for literalism in a comedy cartoon is ironically really downplayed by viewers. The writers said they really enjoyed torturing and killing Grimes. He us partly a stand on for all of the people complaining when the wacky cartoon logic in a wacky cartoon makes no sense.
Because it took that long for people to wake up to the boomer fantasy of the American dream was total bullshit?
All of a sudden people realized that a college degree did not guarantee a 6 figure job five minutes after graduating, some might take years to get their first entry level job at all. Way too many are seeing that they are just never going to own a house at all ever.
You are either lazy or a moron if you can't afford a house in America
Grampa?
Found the triggered lazy millennial b***h
Fun fact dumbass, a 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath house runs about $200-300K in the US. If you somehow cannot afford $200K in a 15 to 30 year loan then you are either a jobless waste of space that should have a nice day right now and do the world a favor, or one fricking lazy piece of shit who refuses to get a real job or work more than 15 hours a week. either way the problem is you. Get a real job and you might see what you are capable of affording. Stick to part time Gamestop shit and studio apartments until you die are all you will ever have.
>Fun fact dumbass, a 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath house runs about $200-300K in the US
Which shithole state?
I'm guessing Arkansas, Nebraska, or north Dakota.
The rural parts too, not within an hour of many major city, but the tiny small towns where the median income is $30K a year and the only available employers are Waffle House or Walmart.
Waffle House is the only thing I legit miss after leaving The South.
>Fun fact dumbass, a 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath house runs about $200-300K in the US.
Name an actual city with a job market where this is the case.
do you own a house, anon? just curious.
In my hellhole of a state 350K gets you 2 bedroom 1.5 bath. The market is a knife fight.
can it be one with monkeys? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMRi_dZ_sgw
>Fun fact dumbass, a 3 bedroom, 1.5 bath house runs about $200-300K in the US
...in a town full of rednecks and methhead rednecks with a population under 1000, and that 300K house has chipping exterior paint, at least one plywood window, mold problems in the basement, and a cracked foundation.
Meanwhile the same house, when brand new, cost a boomer less than $100k.
>...in a town full of rednecks and methhead rednecks with a population under 1000
sounds like a paradise
i'll take rednecks, but no methheads plz
this guy is right. If you live in America, you live on easy mode and have nothing to whine about. Now if you live in a third world shithole like the UK where doctors and software engineers earn a pittance (<$70k), and 700 sq ft house costs $500,000? Maybe then you have something to complain about.
pic related, saw this earlier. This is what you can make doing some random job at a gas station in America. Unbelievable that Americans still complain
>All the good jobs are filled internally and the sign is a grift
>one sign at one small locally owned business is indicative of every job in america
also
>50 hours
disgusting
that fact it exists is enough, you would not see that in any other country (only Switzerland really competes with America in salaries, and they have higher living costs)
If you're American the options are endless. Just go study computer science and instantly walk into a job making six figures afterwards, instantly making more after graduation than any other software engineer in the world will make at any point in their career. All whilst enjoying significantly lower taxes than average. It's that easy.
>that fact it exists is enough
not really though, because it doesn't exist everywhere. america is a massive country with greatly varying costs of living and opportunities depending on where you are.
>Just go study computer science and instantly walk into a job making six figures afterwards
it really isn't that easy though. you need money and time and resources to get an education in anything, and a job is never guaranteed. computer science in particular is oversaturated with "people" who cannot communicate without using the words "sir" and "please kindly revert" 50 times in an email.
Frank wasn't really spiteful or nasty until he saw how Homer lived and had zero ill will towards anyone else and was all just against Homer who he already despised for good reason. You're obviously projecting qualities you hate about yourself onto Grimes based on very tangential similarities.
>Frank wasn't really spiteful or nasty until he saw how Homer lived
That's literally what I said you fricking tard. He's bitter because he found out homer has a nicer house than him.
I'm guessing you mean figuratively because you didn't. I'm guessing you're somewhere on the autism spectrum because you expect others to read information you didn't actually imply but were thinking when writing.
It's more real today than it was in 1996. It's fricked up to believe there was ever an era when a no college, high school dropout managed to land a decent paying job. A job that eventually led to a comfortable stable position where they can frick around and do nothing all day, and every coworker knows it. And as a single income family afford a 5 bedroom house with two cars in a nice neighborhood.
Even then the show actually explained all of this. People coming in late are in the same boat as Grimes, they have no idea how it happened and assumed there was no struggle at all and Homer just buffooned into success every time.
>Only got the house because Abe sold his for the down payment
>Homer actually did have to fight to get his entry level rod replacement job, and was under qualified for it since he had no degree
>Early seasons showed the family was just barely making it paycheck to paycheck and were clearly the poor ones of the neighborhood
>Homer only got the safety inspector position due to a workers strike and Burns thinking he was some mastermind leader of the union that needed to be bought off
The issue is you're trying to read this as greater commentary beyond the premise of "what if the Buffoonery of this world ran up against someone too Humorless to exist in it" Homer's struggle doesn't matter, the economy of the day doesn't matter, none of it matters, it's just a joke of what if we just took every turn to drive the guy crazy.
You can drop out of school and start learning a trade at 16, you think the lardass plumbers and painters and electricians coming to you house to do real work are breaking their backs to do menial tasks your "education" didn't teach you?
Let's not even mention all the fricking cushy office and wfh jobs these days that a degree (4 year holiday/ party) can land you
The episode was specifically making fun of those type of people. Intentionally. "Society" was already filled with those homosexuals 40 years ago.
>Why did so many people watch this epsiode and think, "Yeah this whiny, pencil neck guy is in the right here"
Who? When? Where are you seeing this?
This is one of the most acclaimed episodes of the whole series. I think it's in the top 5 according to scores I've seen.
This episode was bad, with everyone acting out of character for the sake of the message. It was also the point where Homer became a complete moron with no redeeming qualities
I think it's weird how Homer and Peter Griffin had near opposite transformations in their series
>Homer started out as a lazy, angry, low class white trash piece of shit that eventually turned into a well meaning cartoon moron with a smile on his face at all times
>Peter started out as a smiling, well meaning cartoon dumb guy that eventually transformed into an angry drunken butthole piece of shit that picks fights with anyone and hates his family
Peter was a low class misogynist idiot, he just was trying to do best by his family. Him and Homer were pretty much the same. The only difference was Simpsons' willingness to be slightly darker and realer in the beginning.
>Let's not even mention all the fricking cushy office and wfh jobs these days that a degree (4 year holiday/ party) can land you
Barely any?
Honestly I could kind of get his point at the begging, but after Homer made a genuine attempt to break bread I just lost all sympathy. I mean if someone invites you into their home and gives you a nice meal then the last thing you should be thinking about how fricked up it is.
yeah, fr. he lost his shit over the family having lobster for dinner (when it was for the special occasion of him being a guest). he should've become friends with Homer and networked instead of being bitter.
>We now live in a society filled with Franks Grimes. Envious, spiteful little bugmen who think they deserve what others have and need everyone to be as miserable as them
You sound kind of spiteful and miserable OP
i feel no sympathy for grimes
Life is tough when you live above a bowling alley.
(And below one, too)
I would rather be surrounded by men like Grimes all day than lazy, good-for-nothing trolls like OP any day. Frick you, wasting electrons on this garbage again and again. It's been over 20 years, if you can't figure the episode out by now that's on you.
i hate that you're right but shut up anyway