He's right, though. Homer really doesn't deserve what he has by any stretch of the imagination.
why does this episode trigger so many people?
>>218186117Because there's nothing funny about deconstruction.
>>218186327La truka bomba
>>218185783Deserve has nothing to do with it
>>218185783He was the American Boomer. The only problem is he screwed the younger generations
>>218185783>You deserve nothing if you don’t work hard enoughWhy shouldn’t we be able to coast through life?
>if you do everything that's expected of you then everything will be fine>if you work hard you will definitely get rewarded and get ahead in life>good things only happen to good peoplelmao
>>218186117Because the episode exposes that the American Dream is just that, a dream, and most americans in real life are just like Frank Grimes, and theh dont like that realization
>>218185783What someone deserves doesnt matter in life, lmao.
>>218185783Homer is the fool of the tarot, the 0. Even though he comes from nothing and is a lazy, bumbling, stupid, smelly, fat, disheveled, slobby dumbass, he achieves things simply by virtue of being willing to actually do things and take the hit. Grimes never did any of this and he was so gormless that the second he tried to be like Homer he failed miserably.
Imagine being mad at an actual retard who happens to be lucky, instead of his asshole boss who hired him as an executive assistant only to throw him into a random job and docks his pay unfairly. So brainwashed into being a good little wagie that he never questions the boot he's licking, only the others who don't lick the boot
>>218186506Based, came here to say this.
Frank played by the rules too much and was not willing to take the risks needed for success. Is better to regret the things you did than the things you didn't do, as they say.
Grimes is the stand in for a real life person. He is driven to insanity by what Homer has accomplished and gets away with simply by being a main character in a cartoon. Any regular person using real life logic dropped into the Simpsons would react the same way.
>>218185783So? People in life rarely get what they deserve. The world is run by Satanic pedos who deserve to die screaming. It is what it is.
that guy is a spiteful faggot and the fact that people like and relate to him is fucking gay as fuck. quit being a bitter piece of shit
>>218185783Imagine being so bluepilled that you still believe in the big '26 that the concept of "deserving" or "not deserving" has any bearing whatsoever on reality
>>218186686It’s like Forrest Gump, who only ever got into a situation because somebody told him to. He literally joins the army because a recruiter asks him to enlist. He started running on a whim and it took him three years to realize he was tired.
>>218187001Can’t believe it took this long for the answer. Grimes isn’t anything more complicated than, “literally just some guy” who was told to interact and react with a cartoon character.
grimes is just a miserable POS by default and would be regardless of how successful he could have been. he's introduced in his first scene that way before he ever met homer
Homer is the FoolBart is the MagicianLisa is the Great PriestessMarge is the Empress
>>218185783>expecting fairness out of lifeGrimes was a retard who was unpleasant to be around by everyone, not just Homer
>>218186117Emperor Lemon's obnoxious long-winded video on it still manages to make a basic point that answers your question: because Homer and Springfield are particularly further flanderized in this episode than their typical depictions to make Grimey work as an ironic joke "lens" for the us the omniscient viewer.
>>218187061The media did a good job indoctrinating people on “karma” as a stand-in for proactive action against evil like Christianity or Islam.
You just know grimes was a bernie bro
>>218185783Am I the only one that thinks it would be more someone like Grimes doesn't deserve to be as struggling and poor as he's depicted? Homer doesn't actually have a palatial lifestyle. He has an idealized everyman life.
>>218187147everyone already knows this is the basic premise but it still doesn't explain or excuse grimes just being an embittered shithead who blames everyone else for his problems
>>218187149you'd be surprised just how far charisma and people skills take you in life
>>218185783Who says he does? Homer is just a guy who gets lucky, the world's full of them, just like there are people who get unlucky like Grimes
>>218185783Grimey thinks life is a meritocracy, which it isn't, but not just thathe's a very rude, snobbish and pedantic personHomer tried being nice and welcoming to him, but all he did was shut him offHomer invited him to a fancy dinner with lobsters at his house, and all Grimey did was disrespect him and his familyGrimey's frustrations come because he thinks so highly of himself, but he is not given what he believes he deservesif his attitude was different, however, he might have been given better chanceshis social skills are so poor that even though he was in the home of a Grammy winning austronaut who was friends with former president Ford, he did not take a minute to appreciate the man, and instead berated him in his own home
>>218187245I chalked that up to the writers needing a reason for him to question the things he sees. If he was some pleasant working man than you’d never get a satisfying reaction out of him.
>>218186820>he never questions the boot he's licking, only the others who don't lick the bootCan we please stop using this phrase. Every time it makes the person sound like he's 14 years old
he lacks the self-reflection to think "hey well if Homer has a nicer life than me maybe he's doing something i'm not" but instead he has a sense of self-righteousnss that is so overbearing he can't imagine he's at fault instead the system is just conspiring to screw him over
>>218185783Frank blamed Homer for other people lying to him about how hard work was all that mattered, and him being naive enough to think performative charity meant they gave a shit. He was a coward lashing out at the first person he found that would make an easy target.The only thing Homer did wrong was blame Frank for his fuck up, but Frank had already got his tendies in a twist at that point. Besides that, he was clearly using his good fortune to provide for his family while living comfortably.
>>218187280Good, Ralphie.
>>218186117Because it breaks the simple convention of general TV logic, that it exists in a zany and impossible universe.You watch TV to escape, not to be told the main character of the show you laugh at is simply enjoying impossible logical pitfalls to the top. Everyone in their 40s is less accomplished than Homer Simpson at the end of Season 7.A grammy winning former astronaut who leads a Nuclear Technicians Union, is known by two former presidents, published an autobiography, served on a film festival jury. To have a regular guy who has had a shit life point out that the very conceptual house they live in is impossibly large and his fortune impossibly greatTo people who are miserable and people who like to suspend reality while watching TV, it was a difficult concept.The Simpsons was a TV show that in those Golden Age years really did see TV go from the complete hazy non-reality of the 80s (From Bill Cosby's character knowing and being semi-related to every famous jazz musician to shows like Miami Vice and the A-Team's ability to fire off an Uzi or two in a crowded plaza and not kill anybody just disable a car.) Into the deeper 90s real universe TV shows and movies that got a lot of critical acclaim for existing in a realistic universe, the Simpsons themselves managed to bridge the concept in the time in that it was both a real family dynamic (smart daughter has good ideas, bad boy son uses snark and disobedience but has heart of gold, dad often a dimwit, mom often lame) although it increasingly existed in a more cartoonish universe.
Frank is the guy ranting that his bar band deserved more success than RHCP and it's unfair that Anthony Kiedis became a millionaire rock star with his skibbidy bibbidity California bullshit songs and his music (which he at least tells himself is Bob Dylan-level) didn't go anywhere.
>>218186117The episode represents the show making commentary on itself. You don't do that unless you're out of ideas, its a yellow flag.I don't think people reached this conclusion consciously, but subconsciously they do and end up disliking it because its an inversion.Another example of this kind of thing was that one Family Guy episode where the dog gets high and its highlighted in a too-sober fashion how messed up it actually is for the entire family to shit on Meg.
>>218186117a huge number of failures see themselves as grimey and take personal umbrage at his depiction
He could be right but its out of angry jealousy. Also the Homer of seasons 1-3 did deserve what he had till they flanderized him
>deserve
