Conspiracy theory Frank grimes was abandoned cause his parents were arrested for fraud he's been to foster homes after foster homes never loved possibly abused he earned his way the hard way for bad intentions homer also earned his position too only difference his intentions are good he was loved by his pastor,pastors wife also by his old friend Barney also by his shrink also by his mom who later divorce his dad but his dad won custody of him becoming a bad dad Frank grimes had no one to love him at all he was completely on his own sad story
@@sulaimandaud9581 yeah pain is very important there was a guy in the 1920's who drank irradiated water because it gave him energy he lost the ability to feel pain and then one day his jaw fell off because the water had deteriorated the muscle and bones in his jaw he should have been in immense pain but his nerves were completely fried
I think the joke was more that he relearned to feel the only thing he has ever felt, which was pain. Normally you would hear of someone relearning things they could already do; walk again, run again, play the piano again, etc., as a mark of 'back to their best'. The joke here is that Grimey only knew two things to relearn; listening and feeling pain.
I just realized that Frank Grimes claims to live above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley, yet he collected his diploma in front of a house.
That line is to reference Homer's lost dream of working in a bowling alley that he gave up for the good of his family, one man's trash is another man's treasure
There isn´t really so many nuclear powerplants,so maybe he just had to sell his house in his home town and bought apartment between bowling alleys,because he wasn´t able to buy house in Springfield.
The fact that Mr Burns #1. brought him in to be his executive VP and then #2. the next day dropped him for the position for a dog should have right of the bat been a warning sign to Grimes that Homer wasn't the only crazy person working there.
@@jeffw8218 I think Shelbeyville would have been worse for him for 2 reasons: - They seem to have their own brand of crazy - They really dont like Springfielder's as shown in a couple episodes
If Frank wasn't so wrapped up in his cult of work and demands for fairness, he might have learned how envious Homer was of Ned Flanders, how he had been fired from the plant more than once, how he had wanted to work at a bowling alley, how he had been nearly destroyed over innocently removing a candy from a woman's behind, and on and on. Envy destroys and causes the loss of rational thought, that is one of the lessons of this episode
He also would have seen that Burns had all of Homer's problems magnified by a million. He also would have seen that Carl and Lenny would have let Homer drink the acid.
When Grimes had his self-righteous, self-pitying Randroid diatribe at Homer, I'm surprised Lisa didn't stick up for her dad and tell Grimes to back off and that he was full of shit. Then I remember John Schwartzwelder wrote the episode and that would have contradicted the "conservative libertarian" message he was trying to push.
@@chrissawyer1484 Holy shit, you're right. He rubbed his hand on his pants really quickly before shaking. I think the writers may have intended for him to have OCD but purposely kept it open to interpretation
Ohhhhh. If that's true then it makes so much sense now. When he complains to Homer that all he has to show for it is the haircut and his briefcase. And in falling down, Michael Douglas has nothing but an empty briefcase
I think they ruined his character when they revealed he had a son. What they should’ve did is show he had a twin brother, they just chose him over Frank. They gave franks brother a good life where he never really had to work hard and is often rewarded for little effort. One day however he learns he had a brother who died in Springfield so he decides to check it out. And as usual to franks existence no one really remembers or cares. He visits the grave and laments that it would’ve been nice to know his brother Frank. He goes to moes for a drink where he meets Homer and he learns he’s the real reason why Frank dies. While Homer and franks brother have a lot in common he cannot forgive Homer for being responsible for his brothers death so he dedicates his time there to get back at Homer. That right there has more potential than Frank having a son.
I think if they made the son someone who also suffered through hardship and was abandoned by Frank himself that would work too as Frank is meant as a foil to Homer and as many episodes established, the Simpson males are in a cycle of each father being a terrible parent.
Homer did a bunch of stuff to irritate Frank, but it wasn’t on purpose (I love that comedic trope), but Frank’s general bitterness and anger was highly misdirected.
Everything about the news piece is so darkly excessive and hilarious. The parents waving goodbye, Frank shlepping all the way across a field only for the silo to explode the second gets into it.
Something i never realized, Grimes has the complete opposite backstory as Mr Burns. Instead of abandoning his parents to live with a wealthy billionaire, his birth parents simply abandoned him without hesitation. If only Burns's parents knew Grimes...oh well at least they still have his little brother George.
And what makes it even smarter is the stuff they don’t tell you. Like Grimes rant at Homer’s house which becomes funnier if you remember how other episodes show the house isn’t as good as he thinks it is or how Homer worked hard to get his Grammy.
Am I supposed to feel sorry for Frank Grimes or hate him because he's an antagonistic jerk to Homer? It's kinda hard to tell how the writers wants us to view him.
The writers madr me hate him. He couldve easily avoided being annoyed by homer with the pencils and the lunch. But he shows his jealousy because he wishes he had homers life and he hates him for not havin it as easily.
Frank Grimes deserved a better lot in life than he got, but not by a whole lot. He never made an effort to do anything good for someone else, unless it served him in some practical way. Lenny and Carl fit the same desciption (except in 'Hurricane Neddy'), but even they found Frank to be a bit of a wet blanket. Unlike them, Frank never took the slightest interest in the lives of his peers, except when he could critisize or insult it. Frank Grimes (or Grimey, as he liked to be called) was never a good person. For most of his life he was a harmless man, at best a productive member of society. When life forced him to take a stance, he chose to be malevolent. Which, if true, means death for us all.
I do agree that frank grimes deserves a better life, but the reason why he never made an effort to help anyone but himself was because no one has ever done anything for him. His mother abandoned him and he had to work from the bottom. He hatred homer because he's ideology was that with hard work comes with reward and him seeing homer's laziness was basically a huge insult to all the efforts he made during his life.
It was a dark episode. It wouldn't have been so bad had Grimes not only lived, but quit his job and then went to Shelbyville or Capitol City to do alright for himself where his boss would treat him a hell of a lot better than Mr. Burns did.
If he’d had any sense he should have walked out the moment they brought him in under the pretence that they were going to make him Vice President, and then not only ditched him, put a dog in the position instead. The trouble with Grimes is that throughout the episode he’s in he doesn’t show that much actual initiative. A sane man would leave a place like that.
@@olivercuenca4109 Not always that easy. We forget that he is meant to an actual person placed in an cartoon world. In real life, it cannot be as easy to just quit a job especially if you are struggling to make ends meat. Homer was in the same position in the shows' earliest seasons. Before he *became* an cartoon character.
As sad as his story was, Frank brought a lot of his problems on himself. What Frank fails to realize is that being likable will offset a lot of incompetence-as was the case with Homer. If he wasn’t as uptight and neurotic and just took things in stride (like being called Grimey or letting Homer keep the pencil) he’d probably see his fortunes change. People like Frank are toxic in a workplace no matter how competent they are.
When you work hard at your job only to see people with no care showing up late and doing the bare minimum, you'll understand. Frank had every right to despise Homer. It was the company culture that was the real problem.
Frank also failed to notice that Burns had all of Homer's problems magnified by a million, Carl and Lenny would have let Homer drink the acid, and that it seems like everyone else already knew everything he was saying about Homer.
At 2:24 the animators messed up the drawing, homer somehow spills the pencils over the desk lamp that's above the stack of papers, basically they float in space.
“Kent’s People” is actually a rip-off of the successful (but blatantly falsely informing) “Bart’s People”, when Bart Simpson became news anchor for “Kids News”, taking over the original anchor, Lisa Simpson.
0:52 wait just a damn minute. Frank said he lived above one bowling alley and below another bowling alley. So who's house is he getting his mail shipped to??
For what it’s worth if I recall in an episode Homer than just show up he was able to win Mr. Burns begrudging respect and get his attention… Until Mr. Burns completely forgot who he was
Grimes is as petty and daft as any of them, its a great sketch when he organises the power plantvredesign competition, with the express purpose of showing Homer up for what he is, only to have it backfire spectacularly and realise that is actuall he himself who is the odd one out. The dog joke and the bird trying to nick his diploma is brilliant. Classic Simpsons, dark material but umpteen punchlines because it is so tightly written.
@@Attmay As long as they're not eating it straight from the silo. (IIRC it's the dust kicked up by large stores of grain that's the real fire hazard, which makes sense-- otherwise bread would explode every time you tried to make toast)
I know that Frank was conservative, critical, snobby, pedantic, grumpy, antagonistic, and jealous. But, I do think Homer came off like an ass too, just an asshole in a different way! He was inconsiderate, selfish, stupid, shallow, and just annoying. He violated every boundary Frank said not to cross. I know that people love Homer, but they made him a bit more overexaggerated in this episode. I felt bad for Frank Grimes, even if he did try to embarrass homer in front of everyone at the powerplant. I honestly felt that he probably should have seen a therapist for his childhood issues, or he could have just stop caring about Homer Simpson.
@@allwalledup When I said conservative, I meant reserved (closed off, shy, insular ). I didn't mean politically Conservative. This is my clarification! I like Homer, but Jesus was he obnoxious in this episode at times!
I enjoy this episode, but it left many fans divided at the time it came out, and still does today. And I can understand why somebody would say they didn't like this episode. Yes, Frank was misanthropic and unpleasant, but it seemed like they made Homer more obnoxious and troll like on purpose to bring out Grimes' antagonistic stance against Homer. When Homer is in Grimes' office goofing off, I would feel pretty annoyed too if I was in there just trying to get my work done. Plus the fact that he threw Grimes under the bus with the acid beaker incident was pretty shitty too. Homer was never too bright or competent, but they seem to "flanderize" those traits specifically for this episode. Had Grimes met Homer in an earlier season, he wouldn't of liked him but probably would of tolerated him more.
@@allwalledup His rant at Homer was pretty much full of the usual "bootstraps", cult of work tropes that many people who subscribe to that ideology tend to trot out. You know he would have thrown in a "Welfare Queen" jibe if he could.
Kind of ironic that Grimes is well known/important enough to be featured as a bio piece on the local news yet is stuck living above a bowling alley, working two jobs just to make ends meet. You would think with publicity/notoriety like that (even IF it is very minor), he would be living a better life.
Frank Grimes a one shot Simpsons Character with more tragedy in his life then Moe Syzlak or Gill Gunderson or other down on their luck characters. his life was a tragedy from start to tragic finish. I felt sorry for him. and I think Frank Grimes Jr would of been a better person if Frank Grimes was still alive but Homer and Mr. Burns made his life cut short tragically.
So I'm guessing he would of had his son at 18 that makes his son 17 because no one ever ages. Edit: he would of had him before the accident the real question is who is the mother
He got hard life but he still living and finally got his diploma, got shtty job, and shtty workplace. but then, he blames it to homer for the unfairness but isn't life is unfair to begin with? him blaming homer is understandable but him choose to stay and not going out find another job (which is will be pretty hard but hey you got to blame homer and take revenge) and make fortune to mock homer he instead stay and whine his heart in that shtty company? man does people really relate to him or just in the first part of his life?
Not only did Frank’s parents abandon him and videotape it, they happily provided the tape when Brockman’s show asked for it
Those parents are the actual makers of this show and Frank is their real kids.
"brockman's show" - you mean the news?
*What parents they were!* 😡
His parents recorded a tape abandoning their child and waved at him as if they are proud xD jesus that's dark.
more like BAD parenting
Poor grimes
QUACK DUCKER Then sent it to the news
yowza
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Conspiracy theory Frank grimes was abandoned cause his parents were arrested for fraud he's been to foster homes after foster homes never loved possibly abused he earned his way the hard way for bad intentions homer also earned his position too only difference his intentions are good he was loved by his pastor,pastors wife also by his old friend Barney also by his shrink also by his mom who later divorce his dad but his dad won custody of him becoming a bad dad Frank grimes had no one to love him at all he was completely on his own sad story
Frank Grimes is the most tragic person in the Simpsons universe.
A real life person trapped in the Simpsons universe.
Lmaooo, so true.
Chris Purolover i dont feel bad
Most accurate discription ever.
Chalmers is as well, however he knows not to question too far into things or else he will die as well.
I think barney deserves that accolade...he had potential, but homer turned him into a wino
Wait... Lenny and Carl has a masters in nuclear physics?!
Yup.
@kim Jong-un i'm sorry, Homer found a *corpse!?*
@kim Jong-un which episode?
@kim Jong-un Stand by Me
Certainly better than Frank’s bachelor degree too, which is added insult to injury
I like how it's implied that he lost his ability to feel pain and then optionally got it back 😂😂😂
The ability to feel pain is really important, otherwise you wouldn't be aware if you've injured yourself, for example
@@sulaimandaud9581 yeah pain is very important there was a guy in the 1920's who drank irradiated water because it gave him energy he lost the ability to feel pain and then one day his jaw fell off because the water had deteriorated the muscle and bones in his jaw he should have been in immense pain but his nerves were completely fried
@@sulaimandaud9581 Very true unless a person has Congenital insensitivity to pain and anhydrosis (CIPA) then there's a real problem
I think the joke was more that he relearned to feel the only thing he has ever felt, which was pain. Normally you would hear of someone relearning things they could already do; walk again, run again, play the piano again, etc., as a mark of 'back to their best'. The joke here is that Grimey only knew two things to relearn; listening and feeling pain.
It wasn't implied it was outright told xD.
"I'm Lenny.... and this is Carl and Homer......I'm Lenny"
Weenie Hut Jr's Most likely on purpose, because it's Lenny
Can Lenny have this pencil?
supamariosoniku no!
I just realized that Frank Grimes claims to live above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley, yet he collected his diploma in front of a house.
That line is to reference Homer's lost dream of working in a bowling alley that he gave up for the good of his family, one man's trash is another man's treasure
@@davirafaelfranke9303 I never realized that but that's true!
Maybe that was before he moved to Springfield.
well maybe when burns had reduced his salary he had to move into that apartment with a bowling ally on top and below
There isn´t really so many nuclear powerplants,so maybe he just had to sell his house in his home town and bought apartment between bowling alleys,because he wasn´t able to buy house in Springfield.
The fact that Mr Burns #1. brought him in to be his executive VP and then #2. the next day dropped him for the position for a dog should have right of the bat been a warning sign to Grimes that Homer wasn't the only crazy person working there.
Exactly, Frank could’ve gotten a job at the Shelbeyville Nuclear Power Plant.
@@jeffw8218 I think Shelbeyville would have been worse for him for 2 reasons:
- They seem to have their own brand of crazy
- They really dont like Springfielder's as shown in a couple episodes
I always thought Burns was THAT senile!
He should’ve worked for Hank Scorpio
It should have been a giveaway that everything Grimes was saying about Homer was true for Mr. Burns on a million times larger scale.
I love how his parents recorded abandoning their son
And the best part is when they sent the video to News lol
And they wave at him went there going now
I guess you would do same for your own children.
I love how he just stands there and watches them drive off, then somehow obtains the tape😂
Why did they just abandon him like that?
If Frank wasn't so wrapped up in his cult of work and demands for fairness, he might have learned how envious Homer was of Ned Flanders, how he had been fired from the plant more than once, how he had wanted to work at a bowling alley, how he had been nearly destroyed over innocently removing a candy from a woman's behind, and on and on. Envy destroys and causes the loss of rational thought, that is one of the lessons of this episode
homer wouldnt have told him all of that
Exactly. And don’t try to blow out someone else’s candle just to make your own candle brighter.
He also would have seen that Burns had all of Homer's problems magnified by a million. He also would have seen that Carl and Lenny would have let Homer drink the acid.
Wdym homer could've gotten everyone killed. He should've been fired but hasn't by some miracle@@princessmarlena1359
When Grimes had his self-righteous, self-pitying Randroid diatribe at Homer, I'm surprised Lisa didn't stick up for her dad and tell Grimes to back off and that he was full of shit. Then I remember John Schwartzwelder wrote the episode and that would have contradicted the "conservative libertarian" message he was trying to push.
Grimey arranging everything tiny detail on his desk, he might've suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder
Anna Fowdy O.C.D
I thought how he shook hands was an O.C.D. thing as well.
I have it as well
@@chrissawyer1484 Holy shit, you're right. He rubbed his hand on his pants really quickly before shaking. I think the writers may have intended for him to have OCD but purposely kept it open to interpretation
He was obviously "off" even before he met Homer. Homer was just the last straw.
Frank Grimes is modeled after Michael Douglas's character in Falling Down.
That makes alot of sence
Francis Condon such a good comparison and a great movie ..everything down to his white shirt and haircut/ glasses is the same
Ohhhhh. If that's true then it makes so much sense now.
When he complains to Homer that all he has to show for it is the haircut and his briefcase.
And in falling down, Michael Douglas has nothing but an empty briefcase
No wonder he looks like he's likely to pull a gun on a fast food restaurant because they won't give him a breakfast meal
And believes the same reactionary BS as D-Fens.
If Frank was 35, then he became a dad at around 15.
Tragic 😂
Dam life just builds misery for him lol.
He liked hookers, okay?
He f***** a hooker at 15? Wow
He was molested as a kid by a hooker
"I'm Lenny. This is Karl and Homer. I'm Lenny."
I like to imagine that was just a brain fart in the writers room and they just kept it in lol
I think they ruined his character when they revealed he had a son. What they should’ve did is show he had a twin brother, they just chose him over Frank.
They gave franks brother a good life where he never really had to work hard and is often rewarded for little effort. One day however he learns he had a brother who died in Springfield so he decides to check it out.
And as usual to franks existence no one really remembers or cares. He visits the grave and laments that it would’ve been nice to know his brother Frank.
He goes to moes for a drink where he meets Homer and he learns he’s the real reason why Frank dies. While Homer and franks brother have a lot in common he cannot forgive Homer for being responsible for his brothers death so he dedicates his time there to get back at Homer.
That right there has more potential than Frank having a son.
I think if they made the son someone who also suffered through hardship and was abandoned by Frank himself that would work too as Frank is meant as a foil to Homer and as many episodes established, the Simpson males are in a cycle of each father being a terrible parent.
How Close was He Even To his Dad Frank
@@DaRendogxtreme Not at all.
@@emberfist8347 I forgot the Line Where He Said He likes Hookers
They went for the easy joke and still missed.
Yeah Frank's back story was dark but for him to accomplish what he did was commendable. But for him to make an enemy out of Homer was his mistake
Homer became his scapegoat
Homer did a bunch of stuff to irritate Frank, but it wasn’t on purpose (I love that comedic trope), but Frank’s general bitterness and anger was highly misdirected.
It’s Bart he saves his greatest rage for.
Everything about the news piece is so darkly excessive and hilarious. The parents waving goodbye, Frank shlepping all the way across a field only for the silo to explode the second gets into it.
What the hell is shlepping?
@@repenexus518 To slog somewhere slowly or reluctantly.
most tragedy person ever but smarter.
cyber elf More tragic than Barney?
Jovana Sanchez i think Barney better than him because he got opportunity to change his life . refuse the drink.
cyber elf What about Moleman?
Jovana Sanchez i agree that guy.
Milhouses dad Kirk is by far the most tragic
Grimes’s first mistake was reaching for a handshake without a signaling that the higher rank wanted to shake his hand.
Something i never realized, Grimes has the complete opposite backstory as Mr Burns. Instead of abandoning his parents to live with a wealthy billionaire, his birth parents simply abandoned him without hesitation. If only Burns's parents knew Grimes...oh well at least they still have his little brother George.
"Hehe, Which if true, means death for us all." Greatest start in any episode of any show. XD
I can actually relate to Frank Grimes and his life. I had so many hurdles and struggles to overcome but I feel like I finally made it.
Till you find your Homer.
This is not what the episode tried to do.
You better not hang out with Homer Simpson
So you can’t relate to Frank Grimes.
don't worry I will be your homer
Notice Mr. Burns forgets about Grimes, but actually follows through on making the dog a VP.
“Heh heh. Which if true, means death to us all.” I’m curious as to what exactly that first story was.
Crona 23
Almost as if the silo waited for him to get closer before "choosing" to explode 😆
This might be the smartest episode of the Simpsons ever
And also from the days when The Simpsons was funny.
@@MissDavids This episode was right near the tail end of those days. Like, the edge of the cliff.
And what makes it even smarter is the stuff they don’t tell you. Like Grimes rant at Homer’s house which becomes funnier if you remember how other episodes show the house isn’t as good as he thinks it is or how Homer worked hard to get his Grammy.
Frank Grimes was based on the Michael Douglas character from falling down it's pretty much one of if not my favourite episode
Am I supposed to feel sorry for Frank Grimes or hate him because he's an antagonistic jerk to Homer? It's kinda hard to tell how the writers wants us to view him.
Tsumugi Kotobuki Both ways sort of
The writers madr me hate him. He couldve easily avoided being annoyed by homer with the pencils and the lunch. But he shows his jealousy because he wishes he had homers life and he hates him for not havin it as easily.
Frank Grimes deserved a better lot in life than he got, but not by a whole lot. He never made an effort to do anything good for someone else, unless it served him in some practical way. Lenny and Carl fit the same desciption (except in 'Hurricane Neddy'), but even they found Frank to be a bit of a wet blanket. Unlike them, Frank never took the slightest interest in the lives of his peers, except when he could critisize or insult it.
Frank Grimes (or Grimey, as he liked to be called) was never a good person. For most of his life he was a harmless man, at best a productive member of society. When life forced him to take a stance, he chose to be malevolent.
Which, if true, means death for us all.
I do agree that frank grimes deserves a better life, but the reason why he never made an effort to help anyone but himself was because no one has ever done anything for him. His mother abandoned him and he had to work from the bottom. He hatred homer because he's ideology was that with hard work comes with reward and him seeing homer's laziness was basically a huge insult to all the efforts he made during his life.
@@kennysum9150 that makes a lot of sense.
2:45 the only time grimes ever took a joke and it wasn't even a joke
He's envy incarnate which eventually caused his demise
I like how his parents just abandoned him in the middle of nowhere.
He sure didn’t.
Frank Grimes: '' I don't think we are being paid to sleep..''
Homer: '' YEAH ..THEY ALWAYS TRYING TO SCREW YA....'''
Cant breath XD
Frank grimes was one of the greatest... truly a legend.
Or Grimy, as he liked to be called
An real portrayal of what happens when you put an actual human being in an cartoon environment.
@@SuperTed19021but not all human beings work hard
I thought he lived beneath a bowling alley and above another bowling alley.
They couldn’t even keep that consistent within the episode itself!
It was a dark episode. It wouldn't have been so bad had Grimes not only lived, but quit his job and then went to Shelbyville or Capitol City to do alright for himself where his boss would treat him a hell of a lot better than Mr. Burns did.
If he’d had any sense he should have walked out the moment they brought him in under the pretence that they were going to make him Vice President, and then not only ditched him, put a dog in the position instead. The trouble with Grimes is that throughout the episode he’s in he doesn’t show that much actual initiative. A sane man would leave a place like that.
Change the channel, Marge!
@@olivercuenca4109 Not always that easy. We forget that he is meant to an actual person placed in an cartoon world. In real life, it cannot be as easy to just quit a job especially if you are struggling to make ends meat. Homer was in the same position in the shows' earliest seasons. Before he *became* an cartoon character.
@@SuperTed19021 I mean he got hired as a VP once, it seems likely he could do it again with a company that respects him enough.
The issue was that Grimes was misdirecting his anger towards Homer when he should have been blaming Burnns.
He thought himself to hear and feel pain again 😂😂
*How dark can you get?*
He might have been in a coma and that happens if he had suffered brain damage
As sad as his story was, Frank brought a lot of his problems on himself. What Frank fails to realize is that being likable will offset a lot of incompetence-as was the case with Homer. If he wasn’t as uptight and neurotic and just took things in stride (like being called Grimey or letting Homer keep the pencil) he’d probably see his fortunes change. People like Frank are toxic in a workplace no matter how competent they are.
Yup
Yeah, charisma is really important, because we are humans, we have feelings
So you'd rather have Homer than Grimes work for you. Yuck.
When you work hard at your job only to see people with no care showing up late and doing the bare minimum, you'll understand. Frank had every right to despise Homer. It was the company culture that was the real problem.
Frank also failed to notice that Burns had all of Homer's problems magnified by a million, Carl and Lenny would have let Homer drink the acid, and that it seems like everyone else already knew everything he was saying about Homer.
At 2:24 the animators messed up the drawing, homer somehow spills the pencils over the desk lamp that's above the stack of papers, basically they float in space.
Frank Grime should’ve been promoted as the executive Vice President.
That's why the episode's real villain is Mr. Burns.
“He taught himself to… feel pain again.” In hindsight, that tells you everything you need to know about Frank.
Mr Burns a self made man? He inherited all from his grandfather
Francesco Brosolo so the standard trust fund baby we have today
Trump thinks he is self made also... deluded fuckers
He meant he build himself obviously he is a robot duh
@@imirish4702 Well he did get a "small loan" of a million dollars from his dad.
That’s the joke
1:39 No such handshake or welcome from Burns. Also, Smithers is semi-pleased as an dog is less of an threat to him than Grimes.
Poor grimey,classic episode from the golden era
I always wondered if there's now an upstairs and downstairs bowling alley thanks to this episode
Something about the mailman taking just slightly too long to hand him his diploma gets me
nuclear paner plant! lol
I like that grimes has a tiny desk in the corner while homer has his own office
2:20 the pencils land on the desk and somehow end up on top of the lamp. Amazed the animators didn’t see that 😂
So Homer is the nuclear power plant’s first ever employee!
That also contradicts the episode where Bart was born.
At 2:18 Frank wipes the sweat off of his hands on his pants before he shakes their hands
did lenny just called homer "Homie" like marge does at 1:51?
bromance
Nickname, he’s called him before
Ha GAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY
Poor Frank 🥺
the one true King 👑
Anyone else notice he has the same glasses he had when he was abandoned and now as an adult?
This is one of my favorite episodes
One of my favorite episodes
I can't blame him for his difficult youth.
“Kent’s People” is actually a rip-off of the successful (but blatantly falsely informing) “Bart’s People”, when Bart Simpson became news anchor for “Kids News”, taking over the original anchor, Lisa Simpson.
That episode came after this one.
The realisation that I am Frank Grimes at my work place 😂
Homer's Enemy is my favourite Simpsons episode.
Damn Silo explosions...
“Haha, which if true, means death for us all...”
We all know a Frank Grimes of the world.
So Grimes’s parents would record abandoning him and later send the video to Kent Brockman
0:52 wait just a damn minute. Frank said he lived above one bowling alley and below another bowling alley. So who's house is he getting his mail shipped to??
Probably not his house.
@@SuperTed19021 fair
"abandoned by his parents" WHAT A PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR PARENTS, THERE'S NO EXCUSE FOR ABANDONING THEIR SON
Frank Grimes had the opportunity to quit the job and work at another power plant, but lacked the determination.
Frank lived a hard life but he lived a survivor
No he didn't he was just a hater he brought to himself a hard life
Justice for Frank Grimes
His son tried to.
"Well I dunno, I'm kinda dizzy....I think I should go home sick."
I always loved how his parents actually recorded themselves abandoning him lol
"Which if true, means death for us all".
For what it’s worth if I recall in an episode Homer than just show up he was able to win Mr. Burns begrudging respect and get his attention… Until Mr. Burns completely forgot who he was
Grimes is as petty and daft as any of them, its a great sketch when he organises the power plantvredesign competition, with the express purpose of showing Homer up for what he is, only to have it backfire spectacularly and realise that is actuall he himself who is the odd one out.
The dog joke and the bird trying to nick his diploma is brilliant.
Classic Simpsons, dark material but umpteen punchlines because it is so tightly written.
Personally I can’t stand Grimes despite his work ethic
0:59 Frank grimes stopping the crow from stealing his diploma was a mood.
This is possibly one of the most we see of Homer at work
The sad part is that Frank Grimes never had any friends, and before he died, he iced out the only person who ever wanted to be his friend.
When I was a kid, a silo randomly exploding seemed like Simpsons absurdist humor. Now, having just learned how freaking combustible grain is...
And yet we feed this to children and animals?
@@Attmay As long as they're not eating it straight from the silo. (IIRC it's the dust kicked up by large stores of grain that's the real fire hazard, which makes sense-- otherwise bread would explode every time you tried to make toast)
I know that Frank was conservative, critical, snobby, pedantic, grumpy, antagonistic, and jealous. But, I do think Homer came off like an ass too, just an asshole in a different way! He was inconsiderate, selfish, stupid, shallow, and just annoying. He violated every boundary Frank said not to cross. I know that people love Homer, but they made him a bit more overexaggerated in this episode.
I felt bad for Frank Grimes, even if he did try to embarrass homer in front of everyone at the powerplant. I honestly felt that he probably should have seen a therapist for his childhood issues, or he could have just stop caring about Homer Simpson.
*That's what I thought about this whole scenario!* Also to think that Homer has now unwittingly found himself in Ned Flanders' position for years.
Uhhh conservative? I don’t remember him expressing any political beliefs in the episode, how did you come to that conclusion?
@@allwalledup When I said conservative, I meant reserved (closed off, shy, insular ). I didn't mean politically Conservative. This is my clarification! I like Homer, but Jesus was he obnoxious in this episode at times!
I enjoy this episode, but it left many fans divided at the time it came out, and still does today. And I can understand why somebody would say they didn't like this episode. Yes, Frank was misanthropic and unpleasant, but it seemed like they made Homer more obnoxious and troll like on purpose to bring out Grimes' antagonistic stance against Homer. When Homer is in Grimes' office goofing off, I would feel pretty annoyed too if I was in there just trying to get my work done. Plus the fact that he threw Grimes under the bus with the acid beaker incident was pretty shitty too. Homer was never too bright or competent, but they seem to "flanderize" those traits specifically for this episode. Had Grimes met Homer in an earlier season, he wouldn't of liked him but probably would of tolerated him more.
@@allwalledup His rant at Homer was pretty much full of the usual "bootstraps", cult of work tropes that many people who subscribe to that ideology tend to trot out. You know he would have thrown in a "Welfare Queen" jibe if he could.
Grimes: "I don't think we're being paid to sleep"
Google Employees: *riot riot riot*
What a great sounding dog.
Kind of ironic that Grimes is well known/important enough to be featured as a bio piece on the local news yet is stuck living above a bowling alley, working two jobs just to make ends meet. You would think with publicity/notoriety like that (even IF it is very minor), he would be living a better life.
I just love the idea that his parents filmed themselves abandoning him, and then the news network somehow obtained footage of it
2:33 -
Homer: "Can I have this one?"
Grimes: "No."
Homer: "Can Lenny have it?"
Grimes: "No."
Poor Grimey.
Homer: (snoring) Change the channel, Cartoon Guy.
why was he running towards the silo before it exploded
lol
You know the worse part about it, grime choose to picks on homer because he was “inferior” to him. Even though he isn’t even that great of a man.
He is a better man than a lot of people today and he wouldn't even need to be great to be superior to Homer.
Frank Grimes never strangled his own son.
“Hahaha which if proved means death for us all…” 😂😂😂😂😂
Poor Grimey
The most Gen X character on the Simpsons meeting the most Baby Boomer character on the Simpsons
Frank Grimes a one shot Simpsons Character with more tragedy in his life then Moe Syzlak or Gill Gunderson or other down on their luck characters. his life was a tragedy from start to tragic finish. I felt sorry for him. and I think Frank Grimes Jr would of been a better person if Frank Grimes was still alive but Homer and Mr. Burns made his life cut short tragically.
Frank said he lives in a single room below a bowling alley and above another bowling alley but at 0:54 he’s standing in front of a decent house 🏠
Beginning Of The End!
So essentially someone that life decided was better off suffering or dead...
So I'm guessing he would of had his son at 18 that makes his son 17 because no one ever ages. Edit: he would of had him before the accident the real question is who is the mother
In the Junior episode he says "He liked hookers, okay?"
@@kirbyofthestarsfan ok
Now you have a guy who last name is grimes Quinton grimes from the knicks
Quite like the idea that Grimes' parents filmed themselves abandoning their son and then distributed the footage to regional news organisations
Wait, why was he running towards the silo, and why did it blow up the second he went inside? Did his parents record them attempting to kill their son?
He got hard life but he still living and finally got his diploma, got shtty job, and shtty workplace. but then, he blames it to homer for the unfairness but isn't life is unfair to begin with? him blaming homer is understandable but him choose to stay and not going out find another job (which is will be pretty hard but hey you got to blame homer and take revenge) and make fortune to mock homer he instead stay and whine his heart in that shtty company? man does people really relate to him or just in the first part of his life?