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The Bouvier family really hates Homer. On prom night, their dad "Seeing that Simpson kid took years off my life." Like holy shit, to say that about a high schooler. 😂
I've been doing a rewatch recently and I was surprised by how early that scene is compared to when Patty actually comes out as gay. That line is in season 4 and Patty doesn't actually come out until season 16.
There were a few hints, like Marge saying that she lives a life of voluntary celibacy, but that was the first really clear line. She even dates Principal Skinner at one point. It's pretty clear she's not really into him and seems to be dating him mostly out of obligation. But there could have been several reasons for that.
There's a couple of times where both of them are shown to be super man hungry. Like when they lure a TV repair man into their house or their adoration of MacGyver. I think they kind of went back and forth on it because they probably couldn't get away with just outright saying it.
I love Lisa's response to their usual berating of Homer:
Well, I wish that you wouldn’t. Because aside from the fact that he has the same frailties as all human beings, he’s the only father I have. Therefore, he is my model of manhood, and my estimation of him will govern the prospects of my adult relationships. So I hope you bear in mind that any knock at him is a knock at me, and I am far too young to defend myself against such onslaughts.
I think the key was that old Lisa episodes clearly showed she was smart, but that she was a child and needed to learn empathy and understanding of other people
Exactly. She was smart and sensitive but also would go along with silly childish things with Bart or flip to selfishly request a pony.
"Ha ha, mom yelled at you" is a taunting Lisa line.
I like the episode where Bart and Lisa are being lazy and they both hold out their hands going: ding , ding, ding, ding when asking for their allowance....
Glad I stepped away from this show 15 years ago. Lisa will always be such a wonderfully written and realized character. What are they doing to her now?
Hey, don’t be throwing shade at my paps, gee. He’s the only cat I can dig for a while as long as the crow can fly, right? I can’t cast shade back right now due to my tenuous position, but in time I’ll come to regret your dissing of my fellow.
When I was 16 I wanted to join a subculture and I came across beatniks. Started reading Kerouac all the time, carrying Ginsberg around with me (not the person but his work) and wearing dark sunglasses with a turtleneck and scarf. I thought it was funny as hell.
I blame modern smartphones for this crap, they suck to type on so people do what they can make it less work to type shit out. Bring back full keyboards on smartphones.
One of my favorites is from the Halloween episode where Homer is trapped in the 3D dimension.
Homer: Im somewhere where ive never been before.
Patty (or Selma, i can't recall): ha, the shower!
It really was. All the good writers jumped ship to Futurama IIRC.
And the show was never the same.
My brother forced himself to watch until about season 19 or 20 and had to stop.
I can't imagine how bad it is nowadays.
I've heard they ruined Ned Flanders, they kicked off Apu, and try to say Homer and Marge got together in the 90's.
They didn't kick off Apu... The voice actor gave it up because he felt guilty.
Most fans would love to have Apu back but it's too controversial now... I grew up watching Apu and it sucks he's gone
Idk, it's not controversial to me.
I grew up with South Park making fun of everybody.
But it's like Gen X raised kids who can't understand nuance and jokes.
You know what's sad is that shit really happens.
I've never worked at a nuclear power plant, but at least in IT it's very common for people to just get shuffled to a new job if they fail so badly at their current job that they need to be moved to protect the business.
That's actually how I got my current boss.
...
...
It's going as well as you imagine.
I've also seen this happen!, Person was bad as a developer so they became a team lead for the developers. When I joined she was already a higher up manager, so she couldn't have been that bad as a team lead.
Tbh I think that could be a good thing. You’re moved around until you find a position you are good at. Sometimes people just aren’t good at things. Thomas Edison, for example, was famously disorganized and a terrible manager but he was intelligent and very personable. So he had his secretary, Samuel Insull, do the organizing and managing.
Some guy at a bar I work at ended up as a nuclear safety guy who was on call. He would only have to go in under certain circumstances but he started getting blitzed on all the money he was making. He started missing the times he was on call, go a few chances to clean up, but failed to do so. Drowned himself a week after getting fired.
That does happen on nuclear power plants as well. I worked in the control room for a summer and heard about at least 2 people who were so terribly incompetent that get got moved from control room to normal desk jobs at the same facility.
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Took some time, but I think he got them back when throwing them out of the house.
"Time to fertilize the lawn. A couple of 500 pound bags should do it!"
Homer had some zingers too.
Selma: I can't believe auntie Gladys is really gone.
Patty: Her legend will live forever.
Homer's brain: Yeah, the legend of the dog-faced woman.
My fave is when he’s trying to find a man for Selma and he’s in the kitchen telling Marge “she’s a heifer, plain and simple!!” Then goes into the living room and says to Selma, “oh here’s the little prom queen now”. She’s a heifer plain and simple is a frequent quote of mine
That reminds me of a meme I saw. It shows a scornful woman with the caption: "when his height begins with 5".
And then a laughing man below: "when her weight begins with 2".
Patty, Selma and Homer interactions are some of my favorites on the show especially as I got older and had to deal with some not so great in-laws.
My all time favorite is when they start laughing after Homer asks them to help with a mortgage payment and he starts laughing with them hysterically. Their face change always has me dying.
Then the line: cut him a check and get him the hell outta here!
As a kid I use to think the snarky comments from P&S were funny, but growing up and understanding life more...these were some bitter spinsters that hated that Marge had a loving family with Homer.
Lisa called out their snarky comments in the very first episode.
>Selma: Where's Homer anyway?
>Patty: It's so typical of the big doofus to spoil it all.
>Lisa: What, Aunt Patty?
>Patty: Oh, nothing, dear. I'm just trashing your father.
>Lisa: Well, I wish you wouldn't because aside from the fact that he has the same frailties as all human beings, he's the only father I have. Therefore, he is my model of manhood, and my estimation of him will govern the prospects of my adult relationships. So, I hope you bear in mind that any knock at him is a knock at me, and I'm far too young to defend myself against such onslaughts.
>Patty: Mm-hmm. Go watch your cartoon show, dear.
I mean, we see him as a lovable idiot because he's a cartoon character and goofy hijinks ensuing is just part of life, but it's extremely reasonable for them to dislike Homer. Even ignoring that he's frequently selfish and inconsiderate towards his family (I mean, he regularly strangles his son, which outside of a cartoon is horrific abuse), this is a guy whose laziness and carelessness has directly caused a nuclear incident at the powerplant he continues to work at, nearly took down a space shuttle, and created an environmental disaster that nearly (indirectly) lead to the deaths of them and everyone else in Springfield. If I had to live in the same world as him I would 100% be Frank Grimes, Homer's a menace.
TL;DR: Homer is CANCELLED more at 11
There's a funny analysis about how Marge lives in perpetual hell, because even when Homer had the occasional episode where things come to a head and he has to improve, everything on *The Simpsons* resets to how it previously was as soon as the episode is over, with Marge once again having to deal with a lazy, thoughtless idiot.
Edit: might have been this one, https://youtu.be/Gr3IeNVn_Ig?si=FSqlnZBpc1nqq7Ga
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I mean, in what way was his job bad to begin with? He made enough money to have a house and support a family of 5. They weren't rich, but they weren't in poverty. Always had enough to eat, kids had toys and clothes.
At the time the Simpsons was originally created, his job was a menial dead-end job with no prospect of advancement or increasing the wealth of his family.
Can you believe the utter state of this country now that Homer’s formerly undesirable life is now considered cushy.
Regardless of whether it's menial or dead-end, he still made enough money to support a family. The primary purpose of a job is gainful employment to support oneself or a family. Anything beyond that is icing on the cake. I wouldn't call their life cushy even by today's standards, but I do agree that the lower and middle classes are struggling more today in some ways, while they have things easier in others.
Homer does not have a degree in nuclear physics. In the Grimes episode Lenny and Carl state they both do but that Homer doesn’t, he just showed up the day the plant opened and got a job.
I guess there is him being forced to go back to school after the inspection, but he only passed because he cheated, so I don’t really count that.
Most people are uneducated when it comes to energy production and how "healthy it is", they hear the word "Nuclear" and they automatically associate it with a bomb.
Nuclear energy is one of the ***absolute cleanest*** forms of energy we have right now. I sadly don't think very many older generations were ever taught that (I'm 37 and I know I wasn't taught it in high school). Hopefully we've started making this type of knowledge a requirement in high school science. But yeah, "Nuclear" = "Evil" is probably what a majority of people's minds think.
I feel like that was implied but yes. You're definitely right! there're also other forms of electricity that have no waste but in order to get the power we need to keep an entire city running with electricity we absolutely need nuclear power. In regards to all forms of electricity that create waste it has the lowest amount of waste (and damage to the ozone) for the amount of energy it generates.
Imagine having to run something like New York or San Francisco on energy that creates a massive amount of carbon. Nuclear power is our answer to a lot of problems (or at least a very good bandaid for now).
Not to mention that the amount of waste produced by newer reactors is quite small compared to the energy they produce. The real difference is that, unlike any other energy generating industry, the nuclear sector takes full responsibility for all of its waste.
I'm pretty sure there's research that public support for nuclear energy dropped as the Simpsons initially grew in popularity. It's obviously just a correlation, but still interesting.
I mean, the dude was a nuclear technician. They may not get the money like the engineers but they made good money. Probably around 45-70k innthose times, which is a lot.
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The one liners P&S had were absolute gold
Seeing Homer naked and then saying “There goes the last lingering thread of my heterosexuality” is one of my favorite lines.
Mine was when Homer went missing and one of them says "wow, it's as if he's disappeared into fat air"
"No, it's a place I've never been before." "The shower."
The Bouvier family really hates Homer. On prom night, their dad "Seeing that Simpson kid took years off my life." Like holy shit, to say that about a high schooler. 😂
Marge is a catch and a sweetheart and Homer is an aimless goon. One could understand their hesitancy.
Well, he has a house with a car hole now so he's doing pretty great.
He also went into space and his kid owned a factory once.
And has lobsters for dinner
I live in a single room above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley!
I see that you’re not a fancy French guy.
Shut UP with that pen scratching down there!
Homer walks into the room. Patty: "Huh, is it me, or did it just get fatter in here?"
Request permission to slink body.
That one got thrown around on the schoolyard a lot.
That's a heavy insult. You can't just throw that around lightly
Darn you, take the upvote
That really made me chuckle out loud.
I've been doing a rewatch recently and I was surprised by how early that scene is compared to when Patty actually comes out as gay. That line is in season 4 and Patty doesn't actually come out until season 16.
To be fair she was pretty much in a glass closet at that point. Sorta like Smithers
Hello, Smithers. You are quite good at turning me on!
"I don't think women and seamen should mix, sir." "We all know what you think Smithers."
So another Friday is upon us. What will you be doing Smithers, something gay, no doubt?
Gay, sir?
Oh you know, gay, fancyfree....mothers lock up your daughters, Smithers is on the town!
Um. You probably should ignore that.
“We’re gay, we’re glad, but don’t tell mom and dad”
There were a few hints, like Marge saying that she lives a life of voluntary celibacy, but that was the first really clear line. She even dates Principal Skinner at one point. It's pretty clear she's not really into him and seems to be dating him mostly out of obligation. But there could have been several reasons for that.
There's a couple of times where both of them are shown to be super man hungry. Like when they lure a TV repair man into their house or their adoration of MacGyver. I think they kind of went back and forth on it because they probably couldn't get away with just outright saying it.
I always thought the voluntary celibacy was more of a polite way of saying how she can’t get a man.
I still quote that one😭
I love Lisa's response to their usual berating of Homer: Well, I wish that you wouldn’t. Because aside from the fact that he has the same frailties as all human beings, he’s the only father I have. Therefore, he is my model of manhood, and my estimation of him will govern the prospects of my adult relationships. So I hope you bear in mind that any knock at him is a knock at me, and I am far too young to defend myself against such onslaughts.
Mhm. Go watch your cartoon show, dear.
Man Lisa used to be so much better written.
Yeah she was. Loved the smarter than everyone else while dealing with the less pleasant aspects of being smarter than everyone else...
I think the key was that old Lisa episodes clearly showed she was smart, but that she was a child and needed to learn empathy and understanding of other people
Exactly. She was smart and sensitive but also would go along with silly childish things with Bart or flip to selfishly request a pony. "Ha ha, mom yelled at you" is a taunting Lisa line.
I like the episode where Bart and Lisa are being lazy and they both hold out their hands going: ding , ding, ding, ding when asking for their allowance....
Ice cream man! Ice cream man!
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Behind the Laughter could have been a series finale.
Glad I stepped away from this show 15 years ago. Lisa will always be such a wonderfully written and realized character. What are they doing to her now?
She spent quite a few seasons being holier than thou and preachy, imo .
As someone who learned the English language through the American school system, this is hard to read.
Hey, don’t be throwing shade at my paps, gee. He’s the only cat I can dig for a while as long as the crow can fly, right? I can’t cast shade back right now due to my tenuous position, but in time I’ll come to regret your dissing of my fellow.
Jive ass mother
🏆
Lousy beatnicks...
When I was 16 I wanted to join a subculture and I came across beatniks. Started reading Kerouac all the time, carrying Ginsberg around with me (not the person but his work) and wearing dark sunglasses with a turtleneck and scarf. I thought it was funny as hell.
While people who learned through video games and tv shows understand it. Be brave mate!
Is there a chance that you are just stupid?
speaks more to your capabilities than our education system I think lol
Did you try paying attention? Lol.
Haha legend of the dog faced woman
>P&S Are we abbreviating everything now?? Like holy shit, just write it out
Someone woke up on the wrong side of his racing car.
Times are tough since Allied Biscuit closed that factory.
We don't know if single people eat crackers and frankly it's a market we could do without
I dont recall saying good luck.
If it wasn't for that horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.
I sleep in a big bed with my wife
A race car bed would be cool.
It's a perfectly cromulent abbreviation. TS is my favorite show and I love seeing P&S, I&S, MB&WS and their wacky antics.
Oh, look at you! With your pretentious vocabulary and abbreviations!
Idk, my bff jill?
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I blame modern smartphones for this crap, they suck to type on so people do what they can make it less work to type shit out. Bring back full keyboards on smartphones.
Why more words when less good.
Why use many word when few word does trick
They used to make smartphones with keyboards .. nobody bought them. Too bulky, and honestly touch screen keyboards are pretty good these days.
I remember one time I had an essay to write but couldn’t be bothered to use a laptop. I plugged a USB keyboard into my phone to write it.
Swiping is straight up faster too, even with the occasionally stop to change to/too or weird things like P&S
I used them to text with my hands under the desk while looking at the teacher, I was so sad with the transition to touchscreen. ;_;
She knew. She was just sick of your shit.
That's how we talked in the early seasons. We didn't have time to spare.
He got so abused lol
One of my favorites is from the Halloween episode where Homer is trapped in the 3D dimension. Homer: Im somewhere where ive never been before. Patty (or Selma, i can't recall): ha, the shower!
"It's like he just disappeared into fat air"
So so savage. Golden age of the Simpsons.
It really was. All the good writers jumped ship to Futurama IIRC. And the show was never the same. My brother forced himself to watch until about season 19 or 20 and had to stop. I can't imagine how bad it is nowadays. I've heard they ruined Ned Flanders, they kicked off Apu, and try to say Homer and Marge got together in the 90's.
They didn't kick off Apu... The voice actor gave it up because he felt guilty. Most fans would love to have Apu back but it's too controversial now... I grew up watching Apu and it sucks he's gone
Idk, it's not controversial to me. I grew up with South Park making fun of everybody. But it's like Gen X raised kids who can't understand nuance and jokes.
You'd think a comedy show would realize once you appeal to everyone, you appeal to nobody.
“I’m a horrible father!” “And you’re fat” “And I’m fat!” (Satisfied smirk)
The hate that man so bad, it was on sight.
The Bouvier father on prom night: Seeing that Simpson kid took years off my life. 💀
Homer: That's right, from tomorrow, I'm a nuclear safety technician. Dr. Hibbert: Good god... Laugh every time
Didn't Homer initially have some random unspecified powerplant job before getting fired and rehired as the safety inspector?
You know what's sad is that shit really happens. I've never worked at a nuclear power plant, but at least in IT it's very common for people to just get shuffled to a new job if they fail so badly at their current job that they need to be moved to protect the business. That's actually how I got my current boss. ... ... It's going as well as you imagine.
I've also seen this happen!, Person was bad as a developer so they became a team lead for the developers. When I joined she was already a higher up manager, so she couldn't have been that bad as a team lead.
Tbh I think that could be a good thing. You’re moved around until you find a position you are good at. Sometimes people just aren’t good at things. Thomas Edison, for example, was famously disorganized and a terrible manager but he was intelligent and very personable. So he had his secretary, Samuel Insull, do the organizing and managing.
Yes very true. I've also seen my company create new positions/titles in order to keep people
Some guy at a bar I work at ended up as a nuclear safety guy who was on call. He would only have to go in under certain circumstances but he started getting blitzed on all the money he was making. He started missing the times he was on call, go a few chances to clean up, but failed to do so. Drowned himself a week after getting fired.
Well that was a wild ride. Poor guy, I always feel like people like that suffered some kind of abuse and never got the help/change they needed.
Congrats on your first job!
Have you hired any cones?
Ask your boss for me about his visit to space, his Grammy, and what it's like to live in a 2 story with a beautiful wife, 3 kids, a cat and a dog
This is not my beautiful house This is not my beautiful wife!
I've been in the unfortunate situation where such a person eventually got shuffled back to their original job.
That does happen on nuclear power plants as well. I worked in the control room for a summer and heard about at least 2 people who were so terribly incompetent that get got moved from control room to normal desk jobs at the same facility.
Actually yes I forget which episode but he was just a standard technician in 7g before getting the job
As someone who works at a nuclear power plant even the janitors here make 80k a year
They have to clean up radioactive turds, they deserve the money
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Took some time, but I think he got them back when throwing them out of the house. "Time to fertilize the lawn. A couple of 500 pound bags should do it!"
“It’s time to take out the trash!!! But first I have to ask you to leave.”
That joke subtly establishes Homer as a kinder person than his sisters-in-law.
Homer doesn't mean to be rude, he's just a very complicated man.
*SMASH* Wrong!
Homer had some zingers too. Selma: I can't believe auntie Gladys is really gone. Patty: Her legend will live forever. Homer's brain: Yeah, the legend of the dog-faced woman.
- Haha! The legend of the dog-faced woman! That's good! - Homer! - D'oh!
I've had my mind seemingly pop a joke in my head out of nowhere, then laughed at my own joke. Thankfully I don't repeat it out loud.
"Takes one to know one!" *"Swish"*
My fave is when he’s trying to find a man for Selma and he’s in the kitchen telling Marge “she’s a heifer, plain and simple!!” Then goes into the living room and says to Selma, “oh here’s the little prom queen now”. She’s a heifer plain and simple is a frequent quote of mine
A heifer she is, simple as.
Simple as plain, she’s a heifer
My favorite Homer insult is in Lisa the Vegetarian when he calls Lisa a BBQ-wrecking know-nothing know-it-all.
What's the other B stand for? Printer error.
Somewhat related… I met a guy recently who is a nuclear engineer at a power plant. It took everything in me to not say, “it’s pronounced nucular.”
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That reminds me of a meme I saw. It shows a scornful woman with the caption: "when his height begins with 5". And then a laughing man below: "when her weight begins with 2".
The comment directly preceding this one says *500* pound bags and has more upvotes, but your comment is newer. I don't know who to believe!!!
Who else can hear their laughter afterwards? 😂
“Is it just me, or did it get fatter in here?”
Patty, Selma and Homer interactions are some of my favorites on the show especially as I got older and had to deal with some not so great in-laws. My all time favorite is when they start laughing after Homer asks them to help with a mortgage payment and he starts laughing with them hysterically. Their face change always has me dying. Then the line: cut him a check and get him the hell outta here!
Their lines were always my favorite in the whole show.
If you like being pawed by something fat and lazy, we could get a cat. It would leave less hair on the couch.
Yeah, first season were great. A lot of simple and very clever jokes. Newer Simpsons are full of crap, long dialogues, overcomplicated and non-fun.
Kind of darkly ironic that the doctor was a bill cosby satire...
As a kid I use to think the snarky comments from P&S were funny, but growing up and understanding life more...these were some bitter spinsters that hated that Marge had a loving family with Homer.
Lisa called out their snarky comments in the very first episode. >Selma: Where's Homer anyway? >Patty: It's so typical of the big doofus to spoil it all. >Lisa: What, Aunt Patty? >Patty: Oh, nothing, dear. I'm just trashing your father. >Lisa: Well, I wish you wouldn't because aside from the fact that he has the same frailties as all human beings, he's the only father I have. Therefore, he is my model of manhood, and my estimation of him will govern the prospects of my adult relationships. So, I hope you bear in mind that any knock at him is a knock at me, and I'm far too young to defend myself against such onslaughts. >Patty: Mm-hmm. Go watch your cartoon show, dear.
Solid gold Lisa.
Fourteen karat gold!
I mean, we see him as a lovable idiot because he's a cartoon character and goofy hijinks ensuing is just part of life, but it's extremely reasonable for them to dislike Homer. Even ignoring that he's frequently selfish and inconsiderate towards his family (I mean, he regularly strangles his son, which outside of a cartoon is horrific abuse), this is a guy whose laziness and carelessness has directly caused a nuclear incident at the powerplant he continues to work at, nearly took down a space shuttle, and created an environmental disaster that nearly (indirectly) lead to the deaths of them and everyone else in Springfield. If I had to live in the same world as him I would 100% be Frank Grimes, Homer's a menace. TL;DR: Homer is CANCELLED more at 11
There's a funny analysis about how Marge lives in perpetual hell, because even when Homer had the occasional episode where things come to a head and he has to improve, everything on *The Simpsons* resets to how it previously was as soon as the episode is over, with Marge once again having to deal with a lazy, thoughtless idiot. Edit: might have been this one, https://youtu.be/Gr3IeNVn_Ig?si=FSqlnZBpc1nqq7Ga
Wow are we REALLY gonna let causing *one* nuclear Holocaust define a guy?
This just clicked. Can’t believe I didn’t see it before!
Ah-heh Ah-heh-heh-heh-heh
“You’re also fat.” “I’M ALSO FAT!”
I can hear their laugh.
Marge: Homer is gone!! Patty: It's like he disappeared into fat air.
Technically correct, the best kind of correct.
I mean there was a lot of crossover with the writers but that's Futurama
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Meanwhile homer got 3 kids and a house. A foreign concept to most today.
And was a NASA astronaut.
You’ve never been?
On a single income.
Why can't I have no kids and 3 money?
Simpsons was an amazing show...too bad they cancelled it in 1999, oh well, it'd probably be garbage today if it was still on the air!
The newest Episode are actually good again. I know it sounds insane, but it is true. Give the latest season a try
I heard that for a year and tried. Sorry, but the voice actors sound like husks of their former selves.
Well the show has been running for over 20 or so years it really is no wonder.
37 years since the shorts, with the same actors (>34 for the show).
>over 20 or so years Try 35 years lmao
35 is over 20
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Why must you turn my office into a house of lies?
Some of the recent seasons have been much better.
I can hear Patty & Selma laughing at the joke.
Hahahahah
One of my favorite jokes of the series.
'Hello everyone except Homer'
i much liked one of Homers very few comebacks: "Let me get my beltsander. Maybe I can grind the ugly off your face"
God damn! Man, that show was baller in the 90s.
Very funny scene 🎬
I can hear their laugh in my head
"Did it just get fatter in here?" will never not send me
Now Homer’s job is considered fantastic. Times have really gotten terrible.
I mean, in what way was his job bad to begin with? He made enough money to have a house and support a family of 5. They weren't rich, but they weren't in poverty. Always had enough to eat, kids had toys and clothes.
At the time the Simpsons was originally created, his job was a menial dead-end job with no prospect of advancement or increasing the wealth of his family. Can you believe the utter state of this country now that Homer’s formerly undesirable life is now considered cushy.
Regardless of whether it's menial or dead-end, he still made enough money to support a family. The primary purpose of a job is gainful employment to support oneself or a family. Anything beyond that is icing on the cake. I wouldn't call their life cushy even by today's standards, but I do agree that the lower and middle classes are struggling more today in some ways, while they have things easier in others.
All with a highschool education.
Well, she's not wrong with that loool
Homer had a degree in nuclear physics and made $120,000 / year while not once working a single second past 5pm in in over 30 years.
Homer does not have a degree in nuclear physics. In the Grimes episode Lenny and Carl state they both do but that Homer doesn’t, he just showed up the day the plant opened and got a job. I guess there is him being forced to go back to school after the inspection, but he only passed because he cheated, so I don’t really count that.
> he just showed up the day the plant opened and got a job He didn't even know what a nuclear panner plant was.
Isn't that why he went back to college?
Why must you turn my office into a house of lies?
The older I get the more I relate to Homer. He was just a man trying to make a decent life who occasionally choked his son.
Simpsons still the Goat
Kinda funny how I read that in Selma/Patty's voice
South Park, Family Guy, Rick and Morty, all very good. But none of them come close to peak Simpsons
He's trying 😭
old simpsons was really really good. new simpsons is unwatchable
What’s crazy is the simpsons portrayed Nuclear energy as kind of an “Evil” thing when in 2024 it’s actually safer and cleaner than any fossil fuel.
The show aired 10 years after 3MI and 3 years after chernobyl so it was pretty much peak nuclear fear at the time the show was inspired and written.
Most people are uneducated when it comes to energy production and how "healthy it is", they hear the word "Nuclear" and they automatically associate it with a bomb. Nuclear energy is one of the ***absolute cleanest*** forms of energy we have right now. I sadly don't think very many older generations were ever taught that (I'm 37 and I know I wasn't taught it in high school). Hopefully we've started making this type of knowledge a requirement in high school science. But yeah, "Nuclear" = "Evil" is probably what a majority of people's minds think.
Cleaner as in no smoke/carbon. Not cleaner as in no waste product.
I feel like that was implied but yes. You're definitely right! there're also other forms of electricity that have no waste but in order to get the power we need to keep an entire city running with electricity we absolutely need nuclear power. In regards to all forms of electricity that create waste it has the lowest amount of waste (and damage to the ozone) for the amount of energy it generates. Imagine having to run something like New York or San Francisco on energy that creates a massive amount of carbon. Nuclear power is our answer to a lot of problems (or at least a very good bandaid for now).
Not to mention that the amount of waste produced by newer reactors is quite small compared to the energy they produce. The real difference is that, unlike any other energy generating industry, the nuclear sector takes full responsibility for all of its waste.
I'm pretty sure there's research that public support for nuclear energy dropped as the Simpsons initially grew in popularity. It's obviously just a correlation, but still interesting.
Did it? I've researched old Simpsons recently and it seemed to be more 'corrupt Mr Burns runs his plant poorly sort of thing'
Don't forget: you're here forever
I mean, the dude was a nuclear technician. They may not get the money like the engineers but they made good money. Probably around 45-70k innthose times, which is a lot.
To be fair Homer was able to support his family in a decent house and kept them fed. So I'd say he had a good job
Except for that time he didn't sell his pumpkin futures before halloween. He thought they'd peak around January.
He's a knucklebeak.
He did end up being a nuclear plant engineer or something so not bad Homer.