@@GigachudBDEactually only 52% expensive. XD but everything that comes out of the mouth of Elon should be taken with a mountain of salt. Actually that is not even true. Just don't believe it, until you see it.
massive cup holders....news flash....most peoole Don't buy the Mega-Big/Giant-Enormous Big Gulp 😂😂😂 now I honestly wonder how people drive with those things 😂😂😂
@@Mexicano1768 Tumbler cups have been seeing increasing sales for years and a good chunk of them are not *that* far off the size of big gulps. People may not be buying directly from places like 7-Eleven anymore, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t using big mugs, tumblers, and what not.
@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 It’s honestly not that bad. I thought it was pretty interesting. If it drives well and turns well, it’s a good car as far as I’m concerned. The added features are just a nice bonus. And this car had features that no other I’ve ever seen has, so there’s that.
It's probably pretty good, it just needs to rework the goofy style. Not sure why it would cost 82k either, but it's just for the cartoon plot, of course.
yeah so Homer didn't do much but that Homer Simpson car it is just hideous how could Homer look at it and say yeah that's the car for me I do not understand how more pep or it being a big one means it has to look like a ufo
It was his design and his own personal touch. I can understand where Homer was coming from as an adult. Lord knows how many times my mom yelled at me and my brother to stop fighting in the car. She often griped about how cars back then never had a sound proof backseat barrier to block out the noises. I get the need for Homer wanting a separate dome for the backseat to block out Bart and Lisa each time they fight.
He was kind of a fool through. Letting Homer design his company's latest car without any control when he knew he had no experience was just plain stupid.
@@madwatermelon1316 nonetheless he was still a very cool dude. The scene where he makes his employees say good things about Homer just so Bart and Lisa could hear was cool.
@@Asuma492 Oh his heart was in the right place don't get me wrong. He should've taken more responsibility for that disaster though. It was his idea to give Homer the job.
As a kid, I laughed at Homer’s yell as he ran out of the room. As an adult, I laugh harder realizing he must have sustained that yell all the way back to the factory.
Agreed. The engineers wanted him to deal with Homer at once. Herb should've been at the company to supervise and asked him to tone down his ideas for the car.
@@Polyglot_English oh wow, advice from the country that keeps electing the former KGB agent! Thank you sooooo much Vlad, I'll definitely be sure to vote for the candidate with ties to your country's mafia instead of the one with experience in politics. Oh wait, you already lost! Screw off troll
Wonder why the animators never had this car randomly passing by in the background in a later episode. Like they did with other items in other episodes.
In the 80s/early 90s compacts were huge. When car companies realized they could cut costs by using the "light truck" loophole and started marketing trucks and SUVS as "family vehicles" and "masculine" the compact was doomed lol
@@JagoShogunThe US has some janky laws regarding how cars should be made - Obligatory features and measurements that would make cars more expensive to make in the full run. Eventually, companies realized the cheapest vehicles they could make would be "light trucks", the big fuckin cars you see everywhere today. They are categorically light trucks, if I recall correctly, which means they fall under a different set of regulations which makes them far cheaper to produce. You can see the problems of selling light trucks, with inherently less safety regulations, as consumer products. They're mostly responsible for an increase in fatal car accidents.
What's ironic is this actually nailed what modern American truck design is like? If Herbert had pivoted into dropping the back for a bed and dropped 50% of the extras, he could charge double market it as luxury-practicana and have had a licence to print money with the options and fittings filling the former function-space.
@@vm6817 Some people in america used to put unique bobbles on their antennas to more easily spot it in a crowded parking lot. If all of the cars are produced with one of those, it doesnt work to identify your car anymore since they have they same one.
@@lewisjohnston7077 dammit! 21 years ago started playing that and dont think i completed/understood the significance of any of the missions!.....thanks fr the info...
michael lavery I guess so. But this reply isn’t subconscious... why would you waist your time replying to my subconscious comment? I hope you were stoned and sitting on the toilet. That’s what I’m doing. Love ya!
I knew because one of my only VHS tapes was Batman Returns.... "A penguin is a bird which cannot fly, I am a man, I have a name...... Oswald......Cobblepot" Still I could probably quote 90% of the movie and I haven't seen it in 20 years.
He really should've known better and been at the company to supervise the building of the car. Herb should've told Homer to tone down his ideas and look at the designs his engineers have in mind for the Homer.
More like he had no brain cells to begin with. Probably never made his empire/fortune to being with based on that. Just *somehow* found some other way like resource or something.
I think part of his downfall was probably also caused by him having a breakdown on stage. If he had handled the situation in a better way instead of crying "I am ruined" then things might have gone a bit different
Herb learned two important lessons as businessman: 1) NEVER mix family with business, unless they actually know what they're doing 2)NEVER let idiots do or say everything
Exactly. One thing is getting some input from your target customer group. But to place a short-tempered idiot in charge of the whole project, give him complete control over everything, have no checks and balances, and never review his progress... is quite another thing.
Clammyhippo they don’t explote yes but boy all the recalls. They’re good but manufacturers are rushing to have the most advance and futuristic features and don’t test it enough. That’s the problem
Homer basically had a radical concept car. Sure, it was ridiculous, but those things get watered down as the prototype is refined. However, the optional muzzles were a real keeper.
it's supposed to be poetic... that's how big CEOs of companies act. They show a product, then people are like ''what the fuck is this, are you serious'' and the CEO gets a reality check and says to himself ''what have I done!?''
@@Mkmichael001 yeah it's pretty much the attitude of bosses ''I don't care how you do it, get it done'' when he constantly gets asked questions, then he gets upset at the results.
Herb's company was doomed from the start anyways, his designers don't listen to Market Research, were condescending, and went out of their way to not be helpful to Homer. Herb put too much faith into Homer himself when Homer is just some schmoe from Springfield, he doesn't have any design knowledge. Also who the hell lives in America and says that Americans don't want Big Cars?
When this was originally written/aired (90-91), there was an oil price crisis. Small, affordable cars with high gas mileage sold the best. Homer's car would probably do well these days!
mysteryman111100 Should be done on planes. I can't tell you how tiring and annoying a flight can get from sitting close to crying babies and screaming kids.
A lot of old luxury cars - and some modern luxury cars and taxis - have that as an option. Not for kids, granted, but to separate passengers from their professional driver, but the point stands. It's not a crazy idea.
Accept Jesus now, and turn from sin, to escape what's coming. The Christian Rapture will happen very soon, and right after many folks will die. Babylon the Great, of the Book of Revelation is the USA. The children murdered in the womb, and innocent civilians killed for oil worldwide, their blood is crying out for repayment. No more time for warnings.
I really appreciate the attention to detail the animators put into this, e.g they remembered to add the little ball to the top of the ariel just like Homer mentioned during the briefing.
plus herb ignored the warnings about homer from another employee. its the scene where herb says to the caller, 'i want you to say the opposite of everything you just said'. and the caller says 'homer is a brilliant man with many well thought ideas'...etc
@@sonicmastersword8080 No, Homer's ideas were stupid. Nobody needs 15 mega cup holders or a separate compartment for your kids to sit in. That's just disaster written all over it.
The entire consumerism concept is built around people being told what they want, rather than what they actually want. Love the brilliance of this episode.
@@AdamantLightLP It's the same in any engineering field really, whether it's software or rocket science - customers dream of impossible stupid things and it takes a lot of work to extract what they really want out of what they say they want. Eg: They'll claim they want a game with gorgeous, real-life graphics, but then in the next sentence claim that they want the game to be extremely well optimized, fast and able to run on any hardware. Then after months of painstaking back and forth you'll finally learn what they really wanted was not realistic lighting and ray tracing, with high detailed 3d models and motion capture animation etc, but a 2d isometric platformer with a gritty art style and harsh difficult gameplay and no handholding, which yes, you could run on pretty much any hardware.
@@AdamantLightLP Wants everything for nothing? What does that even mean? Is that just a redundant saying that you just made up? Of course a customer is going to want to get what they would pay for.
To a degree, meanwhile some design decisions baffle me. Like not being able to disable email being sent to my junk mail folder automatically in outlook
When I was a kid and watch the episode the very first time, I thought that Homer's car design was pretty fantastic. After many years, even more so after I just realized how practical and rational it is. I mean, it even have it's own soundproof bubble room for kids! I don't know why anyone would go against this masterpiece of a car.
I remember this episode and having the same reaction as Herb. a "uh oh, that's hideous" Homer didn't necessarily have bad ideas, but the ideas were not scoped properly. Your average car CAN in fact fit things like X-Large Slurpee's, and why most of those fast food cups are all around the same size today, when they never used to be. The consequence of that is that now anything that is not that size, no longer fits (which is why the better ones have these little friction-grippers so anything reasonably sized.) But the ideas right at the beginning "big and pep" and they didn't have them. Because The Simpsons was a product of the 80's (the episode in question was from 1991) and all the cars at the time were these boxy-ugly-fuel-efficient models that were so utterly gutless to drive if you tried to drive them outside a city. What Herb was selling were "big city - compact cars" when what Homer wanted as a "small-town - luxury sedan"
I'm not married but I've been in the car with people who have more than one kid. Yes I having a bubble dome for your kids was fantastic. I'm not being sarcastic personally I think they should have two one for the boys and one for the girls
Several things I never noticed the first time I saw this over a decade ago. Homers brother is voiced by Danny DiVito! The company is already failing! Homer only helped it along. Just like in real life, no one listens to the engineers.
TheVitaminQ yeah if you look at it, if Homer brother had simply met in the middle ground it would have been a dodge charger or German sports sedan, both nice cars
I just realized that Herb’s adopted last name is yet another Portland, Oregon reference. I googled “Powell Motors” while looking up something about the episode, and got a hit for a used car dealership that’s been operating in Portland since 1933
Pretty impressive the business has been operational for almost 90 years. Plus they started in 1933 when the country was probably in the worst economic crisis in it's existence.
@@dragonknightleader1 Fins at least add style to what would otherwise be a dull redesign of everything we see nowadays, which is basically curves, werid looking face, awkward angles. Though really, an option to soundproof the backseat is a great idea.
The real mistake was that he didn't monitor the development process. Homer had several great suggestions, but there needed to be someone to sort out the good from the bad.
TheReaverOfDarkness Well in defense of Homer's brother he didn't realise how dumb Homer really was, I mean someone who is "qualified" to work in a nuclear power plant who is in charge of safety and emergency procedures/protocols cannot be a half witted imbecile can he?!! lol then again I listen to the president speeches from time to time and I could be wrong...
Thomas Sven Whittaker You bring out a good point, I would say they we're both at fault cause they we're A Simpson. In the words of Bart to his father failure at one point: " it's quite simple dad, you are a loser and your father is a loser and his father was a loser, it's genetics man!.... D'oh!! "
I remwmber watching this as a kid and loving the car Homer designed so much. Back then a science fiction-y car with a bubble in the back was my dream car 😂😂
Wow Simpsons has changed so much in quality and speed and ambiance. I guess going from cartoon to computer graphics aided animation also affects my perception.
The offer/demand paradigm. Reagan/Thatcher fans think that if a company produce coffee maker in masses, people will magically have the will and the money to by a lot of coffee makers
marketing exists for a reason; and its not just "getting your name out on the block". its about using every psychological trick in the book to sell you something you thought you didn't want.
@@turmspitzewerk Market Research also exists for a reason. Left to their own devices Corporations will always go for whatever they think will make them the most Money, often times working off flawed information that leads them to false conclusions. A current example would be the pants on head stupid idea that a Transperson makes for a good representative of a Beer that otherwise Targets a more conservative crowd. That was so unfathomably dumb that you could almost think it was the result of letting their Competitors do their Marketing.
yeah i saw a marvel snap ad that was bragging about how you can't speed up the grind to get cards and i was just sitting there in awe, the fact they were using "we're taking away your freedom" as a selling point was actually insane to me
I've never understood why Herb could put all the blame on Homer. Really it was his fault for hiring him and telling him to do what he wanted. The buck stops with him.
They did actually build that car and sold it to honor the simpsons. Limited pieces and sold out darn fast though. Might find used ones yet in the 100k upwards
Zachary Lash there used to be a bunch of CZcams videos showing all of the predictive programming in media (especially 9-11) but all of it has been wiped from CZcams in the past couple years.
2 things from this clip have been baked into my personality for decades. The way the engineer grabs the phone, and the noise Herb makes when he sees the car.
The irony in this was that Henry Ford "told the customer what they want". The quote "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." comes to mind
Homer Simpson is a... brilliant man, with lots of well thought out... practical ideas. He is ensuring the financial security of this company for years to come. Oh yes, and his personal hygiene is above reproach.
More like... Homer Simpson is an idiot, with lots of poorly thought out, impractical ideas. He is insuring the death of our company within months. Oh yes, and his personal hygiene is repulsive.
3:47 all I’m focused on is the reused shot of the audience from the Christmas pageant in the first Simpsons episode. A very clever way of cutting corners in the era of cell animation
I WANT BULLET PROOF GLAS, I WANT STAINLESS STEEL, I WANT A CAR WITHOUT MIRRORS, WITHOUT WINDWIPERS, I WANT A CAR WITHOUT CRUMPLE ZONE
- Homer Musk
What the cyber truck is missing is a mine flail.
I don't want any chance of the pedestrian surviving a collision.
MAKE IT HALF THE ADVERTISED RANGE AND DOUBLE THE PRICE
@@GigachudBDEactually only 52% expensive. XD but everything that comes out of the mouth of Elon should be taken with a mountain of salt. Actually that is not even true. Just don't believe it, until you see it.
AND A DASHBOARD MADE OF GRANITE FOR YOUR HEAD TO COLLIDE WITH IN THE EVENT OF A CRASH!
@@JaxymannAnd plenty of sharp corners to maximize pedestrian injuries!
I love this plot because it proves that Homer is in fact not an average guy (as Herb thought) but a wholly unique, once-in-a-generation idiot
Na, all the male Simpson are idiots, homser is just especially stupid
Also, Herb is homer's brother
This comment has me dying 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
No, in reality Homer is probably 90% of the population of the US.
Yeah you don't know how many Homers are out there... There are alot
I thought his ideas were revolutionary… massive cup holders, sound proof back seat… I think the engineers just dropped the ball on aesthetics.
I mean, Homer specifically asked for those aesthetics, saying "Some things never go out of style, like Bubble Domes or Tail Fins"
massive cup holders....news flash....most peoole Don't buy the Mega-Big/Giant-Enormous Big Gulp 😂😂😂 now I honestly wonder how people drive with those things 😂😂😂
IIRC, they made a comparatively chic Jetsons-looking red car in their designs, then Homer told them that it sucked and drew this monstrosity.
@@Mexicano1768 Tumbler cups have been seeing increasing sales for years and a good chunk of them are not *that* far off the size of big gulps. People may not be buying directly from places like 7-Eleven anymore, but that doesn’t mean people aren’t using big mugs, tumblers, and what not.
@@Mexicano1768 they make adjustable cup holders now. Much more useful than only having one size
Still looking better than Tesla's Cybertruck!
There's the right way; there's the wrong way; and there's the Homer's way, wich is like the wrong way, but faster.
Heu Valadao no that’s the Max Power way.
@@UnenthusiasticPerson Yes, it is.
@@UnenthusiasticPerson Precisely!
And expensive, don't forget that.
Salve BRs!!!
"And I wanna pay you $200,000 a year!"
"AND I WANNA LET YOU!"
classic simpsons, what a pile of garbage it is now
nirvanafan7895 Ik and he doesn't even have 200 k
😂😂😂
😂😂😂
Yes that is what he said
*As a kid, I didn't understand why the car was 'bad'. **_It looked awesome!_*
I still don't understand why the car is *bad* except for the price
It's ugly and has gimmicky features that no sane person would want.
@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 It’s honestly not that bad. I thought it was pretty interesting. If it drives well and turns well, it’s a good car as far as I’m concerned. The added features are just a nice bonus. And this car had features that no other I’ve ever seen has, so there’s that.
It's probably pretty good, it just needs to rework the goofy style. Not sure why it would cost 82k either, but it's just for the cartoon plot, of course.
@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 you’ve never had kids, the separation bubble would be a godsend
To be fair, Herb's company was in deep trouble already. The Homer just mercifully put it out of its misery.
yeah so Homer didn't do much but that Homer Simpson car it is just hideous how could Homer look at it and say yeah that's the car for me I do not understand how more pep or it being a big one means it has to look like a ufo
For it to get destroyed after just a single business deal like that, I agree.
@@raven4k998 It was quite possibly the worst-looking vehicle in existence.
Coup de Grace
It was his design and his own personal touch. I can understand where Homer was coming from as an adult. Lord knows how many times my mom yelled at me and my brother to stop fighting in the car. She often griped about how cars back then never had a sound proof backseat barrier to block out the noises. I get the need for Homer wanting a separate dome for the backseat to block out Bart and Lisa each time they fight.
"Do you understand?"
"Sort of..."
"Homer, answer me again with self-confidence."
"SORT OF!!!"
Jodomo AARRRGGGHHHGGAARAGAHGRAGHAGGHAHHHAAAAAAA
Dak Lamerbusch Couldn't of put it better myself
Dak Lamerbusch Still funny? .....Still funny? My toothbrush is funnier than the modern Simpsons.
Jodomo homer 2k17
+Dak Lamerbusch favourite one is "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas"
Homer's brother was actually a pretty cool dude.
He was kind of a fool through. Letting Homer design his company's latest car without any control when he knew he had no experience was just plain stupid.
@@madwatermelon1316 nonetheless he was still a very cool dude. The scene where he makes his employees say good things about Homer just so Bart and Lisa could hear was cool.
@@Asuma492 Oh his heart was in the right place don't get me wrong. He should've taken more responsibility for that disaster though. It was his idea to give Homer the job.
@@madwatermelon1316 Exactly. You can't really be angry at Homer if you ask him to design a car and he does what you tell him to.
Am I as fucking high as you
It was so sweet how uncle herb wanted Bart and Lisa to respect Homer.
As a kid, I laughed at Homer’s yell as he ran out of the room. As an adult, I laugh harder realizing he must have sustained that yell all the way back to the factory.
His engineers tried to warn him. It's not Homer's fault. Herb has no-one to blame but himself.
I am the 69 thumbs up good point
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Agreed. The engineers wanted him to deal with Homer at once. Herb should've been at the company to supervise and asked him to tone down his ideas for the car.
@@Polyglot_English oh wow, advice from the country that keeps electing the former KGB agent! Thank you sooooo much Vlad, I'll definitely be sure to vote for the candidate with ties to your country's mafia instead of the one with experience in politics.
Oh wait, you already lost! Screw off troll
@@isaacberger6721 moron
Wonder why the animators never had this car randomly passing by in the background in a later episode. Like they did with other items in other episodes.
Probably got blown up or crushed.
Didnt they have it in Simpsons Hit and Run?
@@ValentinoDagher yes they did lol
Kinda the point is that the line probably got cancelled, especially as the manufacturer either went broke or ejected Herb from the company.
It did not sell. It was probably melted down or put in a display next to the Edsel.
0:18 Americans don't want big cars? That's a good joke
In the 80s/early 90s compacts were huge. When car companies realized they could cut costs by using the "light truck" loophole and started marketing trucks and SUVS as "family vehicles" and "masculine" the compact was doomed lol
@@GamePlayWithNolan Yeah I guess. I prefer mid size or full size sedans myself
@@GamePlayWithNolan Can you tell me more about this? It's interesting.
@@JagoShogunThe US has some janky laws regarding how cars should be made - Obligatory features and measurements that would make cars more expensive to make in the full run.
Eventually, companies realized the cheapest vehicles they could make would be "light trucks", the big fuckin cars you see everywhere today. They are categorically light trucks, if I recall correctly, which means they fall under a different set of regulations which makes them far cheaper to produce.
You can see the problems of selling light trucks, with inherently less safety regulations, as consumer products. They're mostly responsible for an increase in fatal car accidents.
And yet here we are years later facing an SUV apocalypse.
Homer's later line is my fav: "I can't help but feeling partly to blame."
Who's here after watching the Tesla cybertruck reveal?
holy shit 100%
That's messed up. Lol ,🤣
hahaha first Thing that came to mind, second, the delorean :)
Lets see how reality unfolds, and if the Tesla´s stocks prices drop :S
First thing I thought of lol
"His personal hygiene is above reproach" is a personal favourite quote of mine.
The writing at that time was amazing
One can say.. “above reproach” XD
Lies again? Game Design Google Drive
@@NazriBwhat?
Homer stinks. 🙊👃💩😰
@@NazriBSchizo
What's ironic is this actually nailed what modern American truck design is like? If Herbert had pivoted into dropping the back for a bed and dropped 50% of the extras, he could charge double market it as luxury-practicana and have had a licence to print money with the options and fittings filling the former function-space.
Homer didn't design a car for the average american, he designed a car for the average Homer.
such a good car in the Simpsons hit and run game
Sam Wesson-Smith Absolutely fantastic memories
Ooooh yeah, it was really fast wasn't it??
Really mediocre at the point in the game where you get it
La cucaracha!
damn nostalgia
"You know that little ball you put on the aerial so you can find your car in a parking lot? That should be on every car!" Hilarious underrated joke
I didn't get that one
VM6 that means you are unique and special, just like everyone else.
@brian michaud VM6 yeah really I didn't get it. Is that some joke about parking lots in america? I don't know what it's referencing
@@vm6817 Some people in america used to put unique bobbles on their antennas to more easily spot it in a crowded parking lot. If all of the cars are produced with one of those, it doesnt work to identify your car anymore since they have they same one.
@@TheKillerStove thanks for that explanation
Herb's enthusiasm for having found he had a brother clearly clouded his judgment. He'll bitterly regret it soon...
"the big one"
"we don't have a big one"
literally standing to the left of a van
I'm sure years later Homer's car is a highly priced collectors item.
Mateo San yes. The camaro is a very nice muscle car.
Edit: HOLY CRAP HOMERS CAR WAS CREATED LOOK AT THE TESLA TRUCK
Selim Sultan Akbar yeah and what do you have, a skateboard with a yugo engine?
Selim Sultan Akbar and that makes Camaros....
Bad??
Selim Sultan Akbar you literally said crap.
Selim Sultan Akbar is it figurative crap? Does that make it any better?
"Answer me again with self confidence!" "SORT OF!!!"
That is one of my favorite exchanges in the entire show.
Now go get them!
Throgg KingofTrolls DAAAAAAAAAAGGH ALL RIGHT YOU EGGHEADS I WANT A CAR WHERE I CAN PUT MY DRINK IN!!!
NOW GO GET EM!
GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHLLRIGHT YOU EGGHEADS, I WANT A PLACE IN THIS CAR TO PUT MY DRINK!
_Sir the car has a beverage holder_
I know it looks like monstrosity. But it was an absolute beast in Simpsons hit and run 🚗
Was on Simpsons Road Rage aswell
@@lewisjohnston7077 was it???
@@cyrillmcduff6723 it was yes. If you complete the 10 missions. The prize was the car built by Homer.
@@lewisjohnston7077 dammit! 21 years ago started playing that and dont think i completed/understood the significance of any of the missions!.....thanks fr the info...
And that children is how the Pontiac Aztek came to be.
Never realized Danny Devito played this part.
Ikr 😆
So that makes this comment subconscious.
michael lavery I guess so. But this reply isn’t subconscious... why would you waist your time replying to my subconscious comment? I hope you were stoned and sitting on the toilet. That’s what I’m doing. Love ya!
I knew because one of my only VHS tapes was Batman Returns....
"A penguin is a bird which cannot fly, I am a man, I have a name...... Oswald......Cobblepot"
Still I could probably quote 90% of the movie and I haven't seen it in 20 years.
Guess your ears didn't work
Herb’s downfall is that he trusted his blood over his brains
He really should've known better and been at the company to supervise the building of the car. Herb should've told Homer to tone down his ideas and look at the designs his engineers have in mind for the Homer.
Here's enthusiasm of finding a family clouded his common sense.
Powerful words...
More like he had no brain cells to begin with. Probably never made his empire/fortune to being with based on that. Just *somehow* found some other way like resource or something.
I think part of his downfall was probably also caused by him having a breakdown on stage. If he had handled the situation in a better way instead of crying "I am ruined" then things might have gone a bit different
Herb learned two important lessons as businessman:
1) NEVER mix family with business, unless they actually know what they're doing
2)NEVER let idiots do or say everything
Listening to the consumer and letting them design the product are two very different things.
Exactly. One thing is getting some input from your target customer group. But to place a short-tempered idiot in charge of the whole project, give him complete control over everything, have no checks and balances, and never review his progress... is quite another thing.
Ha homers car would be a hit today. Ahead of his time.
I'm sure it would be more reliable than the rubbish they make these days
Ahead of our time*
Joey Dragonz can’t be our time because we thought it was hedious
Clammyhippo they don’t explote yes but boy all the recalls. They’re good but manufacturers are rushing to have the most advance and futuristic features and don’t test it enough. That’s the problem
there is a reason why youtube put this in featured videos ...
To put it into perspective as to how expensive it is - $82,000 in 1991 is roughly $154,000 in 2019.
A Bugatti is still more expensive lmao
@@tadas7985 umm obviously...
Yes , but do you still get the super Cup holders?
Still 82k
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
"When I gun the motor, I want people to think the world is coming to an end!" Kills me every time!😅
Basically a Dodge Challenger hellcat straight pipe
Homer basically had a radical concept car. Sure, it was ridiculous, but those things get watered down as the prototype is refined. However, the optional muzzles were a real keeper.
"Oh yes, and his personal hygiene is *above* reproach"
Plans for the Creative Commons I read your comment exactly when it came
Somehow I doubt that, Kitten. Your reply came 6 months later. :P
He meant when it came on the video, i think.
He meant when it came all over his face
Plans for the Creative Commons I
I like how Herb Powell doesn’t even see the car until the presentation.
it's supposed to be poetic... that's how big CEOs of companies act. They show a product, then people are like ''what the fuck is this, are you serious'' and the CEO gets a reality check and says to himself ''what have I done!?''
@@llVIU one would think that would be obvious, but apparently not
Well he did say he didnt want to see anything until its done
@@Mkmichael001 yeah it's pretty much the attitude of bosses ''I don't care how you do it, get it done'' when he constantly gets asked questions, then he gets upset at the results.
llVIU Yes that does happen. But usually the CEO previews the finished product before he has to give a public presentation on it.
Herb's company was doomed from the start anyways, his designers don't listen to Market Research, were condescending, and went out of their way to not be helpful to Homer. Herb put too much faith into Homer himself when Homer is just some schmoe from Springfield, he doesn't have any design knowledge.
Also who the hell lives in America and says that Americans don't want Big Cars?
Are we sure they're not *Canadians* ?
When this was originally written/aired (90-91), there was an oil price crisis. Small, affordable cars with high gas mileage sold the best. Homer's car would probably do well these days!
@@spiffymarc this is true, that said again market research the designers weren't listening to.
At Herb's board meeting he cries that they're losing ground to the Japanese -- famous for Big Cars with lots of "pep".
@@kingofthezinger9777 putting it like that with smart helpful engineers the company could have been a pioneer of SUV bullshit and made a ton of money.
Netflix creators took this episode to heart.
a seperate compartment for the kids makes sense
mysteryman111100 Should be done on planes. I can't tell you how tiring and annoying a flight can get from sitting close to crying babies and screaming kids.
Dr. Gallinazo sleeping gas is better
jakep1979 you should be allowed to beat loud kids to within an inch of their life
Dim Wit okay now you've gone full psycho, you never go full psycho unless someone else is trying to kill you.
jee was only joking
"his personal hygiene is above reproach" LOL
I love how recognizable Danny DeVito's voice is. Character looks nothing like him but the voice alone is enough.
A seperate cab for your children is actually a pretty good idea.
A lot of old luxury cars - and some modern luxury cars and taxis - have that as an option. Not for kids, granted, but to separate passengers from their professional driver, but the point stands. It's not a crazy idea.
A lot of small limos have retractable inner windows with extra sound proofing
Right up until you need to stop them fighting.
Almost didn't recognise Danny Devito in the role of that businessman
Sounds way different when he was young lol but still notice his tone, definitely can tell lol
FireWater Tequila Noticed it immediately, bcuz he sounds like the villain in Space Jam, and he Danny played that villain.
SERIOUSLY?!
AFTER RE WATCHING THIS WHEN I SAW UR COMMENT I WAS LIKE HOLY SHIT THATS MY BOY DANNY. I DIDNT EVEN NOTICE IT AT FIRST. VERY COOL BRO
Had flashbacks to him in Matilda immediately since he played a car salesman lol
“When I gun the motor, I want people to think the world is coming to an end.”
YEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!
POWAAAAAAAHHHH!
My exact reaction lmao
ChuckO
VVVVVVRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Arfir98 do you have to bro? Really?
Accept Jesus now, and turn from sin, to escape what's coming. The Christian Rapture will happen very soon, and right after many folks will die. Babylon the Great, of the Book of Revelation is the USA. The children murdered in the womb, and innocent civilians killed for oil worldwide, their blood is crying out for repayment. No more time for warnings.
82 thousand dollars!? THIS MONSTROSITY COST EIGHTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS!?!?!?
I really appreciate the attention to detail the animators put into this, e.g they remembered to add the little ball to the top of the ariel just like Homer mentioned during the briefing.
I really hated how Herb lashed out at Homer in the end. It was really his own fault for giving Homer too much creative control.
plus herb ignored the warnings about homer from another employee. its the scene where herb says to the caller, 'i want you to say the opposite of everything you just said'. and the caller says 'homer is a brilliant man with many well thought ideas'...etc
If he had not, it would not be funny.
Unoriginal Username agreed if someone does not what their doing never hire them
They do make up in a later episode.
The Simpsons wouldn't have been funny if It wasn't set in a crapsack world filled with idiots and sociopaths.
TBH, Herb had the right idea . Companies NEED to start listening to their customers. He and his engineers just ended up listening to the wrong one.
Aren't all customers the wrong ones? That's why they're not engineers.
Rhythmic Thrashing
I agree. Some customers can come up with ludicrous ideas and are often very abusive.
@@8menincostume No he didn't
Actually, the problem is slightly more complex. Most of Homer’s ideas were good. The execution was poor.
@@sonicmastersword8080 No, Homer's ideas were stupid. Nobody needs 15 mega cup holders or a separate compartment for your kids to sit in. That's just disaster written all over it.
The entire consumerism concept is built around people being told what they want, rather than what they actually want. Love the brilliance of this episode.
The average customer wants everything for nnothing.companies have to work around that to find a compromise.
@@AdamantLightLP It's the same in any engineering field really, whether it's software or rocket science - customers dream of impossible stupid things and it takes a lot of work to extract what they really want out of what they say they want. Eg: They'll claim they want a game with gorgeous, real-life graphics, but then in the next sentence claim that they want the game to be extremely well optimized, fast and able to run on any hardware. Then after months of painstaking back and forth you'll finally learn what they really wanted was not realistic lighting and ray tracing, with high detailed 3d models and motion capture animation etc, but a 2d isometric platformer with a gritty art style and harsh difficult gameplay and no handholding, which yes, you could run on pretty much any hardware.
@@AdamantLightLP Wants everything for nothing? What does that even mean? Is that just a redundant saying that you just made up? Of course a customer is going to want to get what they would pay for.
Probably for the better because most people don’t know what they want let alone what other people want
To a degree, meanwhile some design decisions baffle me. Like not being able to disable email being sent to my junk mail folder automatically in outlook
$82,000 still cheaper than most used cars in 2023 xD
When I was a kid and watch the episode the very first time, I thought that Homer's car design was pretty fantastic. After many years, even more so after I just realized how practical and rational it is. I mean, it even have it's own soundproof bubble room for kids! I don't know why anyone would go against this masterpiece of a car.
MaxRideWizardLord well I mean in all seriousness, if I ever have kids k wouldn't want that.
Well it looks like crap but it's an useful car.
@@Ardkun00 just like the tartan prancer
It just looks bad, but c'mon, the separate soundproof child space is a neat idea for long trips.
Yes soundproof so u can never hear them crying for help
Tesla Truck better play “la cucaracha” or I’m not buying it
Model 3 "Hold my beer" I have a fart sound 🔊
I like that muzzle and restraint idea too.
It will
Sir, you’re a gentleman and a scholar.
Is this trick2g related??
I remember this episode and having the same reaction as Herb. a "uh oh, that's hideous"
Homer didn't necessarily have bad ideas, but the ideas were not scoped properly. Your average car CAN in fact fit things like X-Large Slurpee's, and why most of those fast food cups are all around the same size today, when they never used to be. The consequence of that is that now anything that is not that size, no longer fits (which is why the better ones have these little friction-grippers so anything reasonably sized.)
But the ideas right at the beginning "big and pep" and they didn't have them. Because The Simpsons was a product of the 80's (the episode in question was from 1991) and all the cars at the time were these boxy-ugly-fuel-efficient models that were so utterly gutless to drive if you tried to drive them outside a city. What Herb was selling were "big city - compact cars" when what Homer wanted as a "small-town - luxury sedan"
The front grille with the pillared classical style together with the giant muscle car spoiler in the back always gets me.
All in the same avacado green as the Simpson's 30 year old refrigerator lol
The idea of having a seperate bubble to house squabbling kids was ingenious in my opinion!
That's what trunks are for!
Cup holder for my cup, sold me on this car.
I'm not married but I've been in the car with people who have more than one kid. Yes I having a bubble dome for your kids was fantastic.
I'm not being sarcastic personally I think they should have two one for the boys and one for the girls
I bet your personal hygiene is above reproach
A retractable divider like in limos would work as well
Several things I never noticed the first time I saw this over a decade ago.
Homers brother is voiced by Danny DiVito!
The company is already failing! Homer only helped it along.
Just like in real life, no one listens to the engineers.
TheVitaminQ yeah if you look at it, if Homer brother had simply met in the middle ground it would have been a dodge charger or German sports sedan, both nice cars
TheVitaminQ the trash man himself
TheVitaminQ also, when he asked for a big car, there were several enormous cars on display.
TheVitaminQ "DeVito"
TheVitaminQ I knew he sounded so familiar!
“And I wanna let you.” Maybe smartest thing Homer has ever done.
Homers grin at the end always makes me cry 😂
The fault lies with Homer's brother, for delegating ALL responsibility to Homer.
And also for not diversifying his own personal wealth.
not only that, but making a presentation without even seeing the product first.
I agree, in this instance Homer really didn't do anything wrong. He did exactly what his brother wanted him to do, which was a bad idea from the start
You're completely right. It's all his fault and he puts the blame on Homer.
Also: not giving any boundaries, like a financial limit for the car.
//American's don't want big cars// Three years later, the Hummer makes its debut.
Clockwork Ninja and then discontinued a little over a decade later
Rueben Llongoria Doesn’t matter. The SUV and truck market now overshadow the Sedan.
Rueben Llongoria dude I gotta tell you something about Cadillac’s.
Don’t forget about ford raptors
Clint E Jeep trackhawks.
I just realized that Herb’s adopted last name is yet another Portland, Oregon reference.
I googled “Powell Motors” while looking up something about the episode, and got a hit for a used car dealership that’s been operating in Portland since 1933
Pretty impressive the business has been operational for almost 90 years. Plus they started in 1933 when the country was probably in the worst economic crisis in it's existence.
@@billymarino4452 Too bad one goofy car in the 90s ruined them.
"and another thing, when I gun the motor I want people to think the world is coming to an end"😭😭😭😂
It's Danny DeVito's voice, but I swear it's a cartoon Saul Goodman.
My God... I just can’t see this the same way again. A Cartoon Saul Goodman. I’d watch that cartoon.
The guy from the last Incredbles movie was a cartoon Saul Goodman
@@keithm5224 Well he was voiced by Bob Odenkirk after all lol
"The only way that entire car is worth 82 thousand bucks is if there's an $80,000 hooker sittin' in it".
Adam Dow BCS reference?
"Extremely large beverage holder."
Which actually is standard on cars now. It wasn't until he demanded fins and bubbles that the car got wrecked.
@@dragonknightleader1 Fins at least add style to what would otherwise be a dull redesign of everything we see nowadays, which is basically curves, werid looking face, awkward angles.
Though really, an option to soundproof the backseat is a great idea.
32 years since this aired and I still want a Homer car. It looked awesome then and it still looks awesome now
32??! What?? No way!
The irony is that the average American would love this car
@Prince of Epirus I wouldn’t like it.
@@vrinda5303 you’re not American then
The ideas, yes; the design, no.
You're wrong. Most Americans would despise that car. However, I think it's most likely your dream car.
“Sort of”
“Homer answer me again with self confidence.”
“SORT OF!!!”
Frosty31 thanks, I changed it
I heard "doorknob"
Now go get them!
@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Kentucky Frogman Me too 💀
Adjusted for inflation, this exact car would cost around $158,095 today.
worth it
More like 170k or more...
If you make 200 000 $ a year, you can afford that
My god we need a revolution
@@KakashiKyle9 capitalism bad, free gibs good
He’s right-you can never find a horn when you’re mad!
1:47 "when you turn the lights off at night"
Asking Homer for help was a mistake.
The real mistake was that he didn't monitor the development process. Homer had several great suggestions, but there needed to be someone to sort out the good from the bad.
but it was frank reynolds that asked him for help, i'm sure he had some scheme going and made boat loads of cash.
THEREAPERHARVEST No shit Sherlock
TheReaverOfDarkness Well in defense of Homer's brother he didn't realise how dumb Homer really was, I mean someone who is "qualified" to work in a nuclear power plant who is in charge of safety and emergency procedures/protocols cannot be a half witted imbecile can he?!! lol then again I listen to the president speeches from time to time and I could be wrong...
Thomas Sven Whittaker You bring out a good point, I would say they we're both at fault cause they we're A Simpson. In the words of Bart to his father failure at one point: " it's quite simple dad, you are a loser and your father is a loser and his father was a loser, it's genetics man!.... D'oh!! "
Lady: "...with optional restraints and muzzles for the kids"
Homer: "BULLSEYE!"
I remwmber watching this as a kid and loving the car Homer designed so much. Back then a science fiction-y car with a bubble in the back was my dream car 😂😂
Wow Simpsons has changed so much in quality and speed and ambiance. I guess going from cartoon to computer graphics aided animation also affects my perception.
If I was rich I would actually pay people to build me an exact copy of homers car
I would have my car painted in human blood
@@SamuelBlack84 ...oh...
Ew
@@SamuelBlack84 sounds illegal
@@walterwhite2525 Just a bunch of helpful donations
"Instead of listening to what people want, you're telling them what they want!" Very true words all businesses should listen to.
Problem is, people don't actually tell what they want a lot of the time
They tell what they think most people want
@@CErra310 i want cereal.. fix me some please
Thats called autocratic leadership. Apple does it and it works well for them
The offer/demand paradigm. Reagan/Thatcher fans think that if a company produce coffee maker in masses, people will magically have the will and the money to by a lot of coffee makers
Apple has been telling people what they want for ages, and they've been doing quite well for themselves.
When I first saw this as a kid, I laughed so hard when they unveiled the Homer. Great times 😂
"instead of hearing what they want you aré telling them what they want"
Literally every company these days
"If i had asked people what they wanted they would have said faster horses" ~Henry Ford
The Customer is not always right.
marketing exists for a reason; and its not just "getting your name out on the block". its about using every psychological trick in the book to sell you something you thought you didn't want.
@@turmspitzewerk Market Research also exists for a reason. Left to their own devices Corporations will always go for whatever they think will make them the most Money, often times working off flawed information that leads them to false conclusions. A current example would be the pants on head stupid idea that a Transperson makes for a good representative of a Beer that otherwise Targets a more conservative crowd. That was so unfathomably dumb that you could almost think it was the result of letting their Competitors do their Marketing.
yeah i saw a marvel snap ad that was bragging about how you can't speed up the grind to get cards
and i was just sitting there in awe, the fact they were using "we're taking away your freedom" as a selling point was actually insane to me
“Oh yes and his personal hygiene is above reproach”
I've never understood why Herb could put all the blame on Homer. Really it was his fault for hiring him and telling him to do what he wanted. The buck stops with him.
typical capitalist behaviour. "why do I have to do everything myself?!?"
also, it's a cartoon
yes, he got exactly what he asked for.
mike spence right? Lmao
Fancy seeing you here. I am NOT calling you!
What blew my mind is that the engineers did exactly what Homer told them to do...and that's brilliant.🤣🤣🤣
"Oh! Oh, and his personal hygiene is above reproach" Haha I always lose it there.
WHERE CAN I BUY ONE OF THESE??? 82K IS A FAIR PRICE!!!!
Well there's the model kit and the Hot Wheels version of the Homer.
Mechanical Ninjineer it's like 130 thousand dollars in todays money
They did actually build that car and sold it to honor the simpsons. Limited pieces and sold out darn fast though. Might find used ones yet in the 100k upwards
Yeah! In reality that would never bankrupt an automaker when companies like Ferrari and Rolls Royce make cars costing 3 times more.
MrSupercar55 Yes, but those car brands targets the higher end market, not the "average American" that Homer was being tasked for.
This is a young Danny Devito’s voice!
not that young, he was young in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Middle aged Devito. He’s about 50 there.
Young Danny DeVito: wall street sleezebag
Old Danny DeVito: cute kind old man who's also gross as shit
@@sexhaie Either way, he gets financially fucked over sideways.
@@bombabombom3603 because of his cheating hoor wife
"You know that little ball on the aerial you put on your car so you can find your car in the parking lot? That should be on every car!"
Brilliant
"I want everything with no trade-offs that costs nothing."
Once again The Simpsons predicted the future.
tim tomas I think they’ve just made so many episodes that they had a few coincidences it had to happen tbh
😂
Zachary Lash what?
Zachary Lash it’s called predictive programming
Zachary Lash there used to be a bunch of CZcams videos showing all of the predictive programming in media (especially 9-11) but all of it has been wiped from CZcams in the past couple years.
“Do you understand!?”
“Sorta”
“Homer!! Answer me again in self confidence!”
“SORTA!!”
Justin McFinnegan I love right after that, the “AHHHHHHHHHHH!!
* Sort of
2 things from this clip have been baked into my personality for decades. The way the engineer grabs the phone, and the noise Herb makes when he sees the car.
This is how the Cyber Truck was built
The irony in this was that Henry Ford "told the customer what they want".
The quote "Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black." comes to mind
Of course he did. Ford was a Nazi, wasn't he?
@@elementer5617 he wasn't a Nazi but he was a raging anti Semite and whatnot. Nazi is too heavy a term to be throwing around
Black was used because of its price and ability to dry fast, but sure, whatever it takes to keep you stupid.
Tyronicus Maximus he did donate money to the nazi party
Nazism was created in the US via eugenicism. Thank Madison Grant for that.
Homer Simpson is a... brilliant man, with lots of well thought out... practical ideas. He is ensuring the financial security of this company for years to come. Oh yes, and his personal hygiene is above reproach.
More like... Homer Simpson is an idiot, with lots of poorly thought out, impractical ideas. He is insuring the death of our company within months. Oh yes, and his personal hygiene is repulsive.
Yes. We all heard that, no need to type it again.
Yeah, I expected the kids to catch on.
They are trying to warn you, Herb! Get back your company and oversee what is being made.
Brilliant scene that will never not be funny. One of the best pieces of writing in the entire series.
3:47 all I’m focused on is the reused shot of the audience from the Christmas pageant in the first Simpsons episode. A very clever way of cutting corners in the era of cell animation
It was a shame they never had this featured anywhere else in any other episodes as a gag/reference
Homers personal hygiene is beyond reproach! Brilliant.
I think Homer's brother should've been in more control and aware of the design process of the new car. Maybe then he wouldn't be ruined.
Krakolio yes maybe you should go and tell him
I just felt sorry for Homer's brother but I realized he gave Homer way too much responsibility.
I also feel sorry for Homer's brother. I hope he's okay now.
and ruin the plot?!
Krakolio they made a sequel episode where you can see what happens ☺️
Simpsons writing just ain’t what it used to be
I love the way there's a totally redundant little flight of steps leading up to each door.