I believe that is the response the writers were looking for since the whole point of the episode was to put a normal person into the Simpsons universe to show how we’d react 😂
It's funny watching Grimes start out with respect for Homer, like "he must've done something to earn his position," only to have that image quickly shatter
@@pyromare4879 well your right there he did it cause he was hungry shame he didn't eat grimes could have saved him from that awful electrocution death at the end
Yeah, I was just a lil kid when I saw this episode for the first time. Gotta admit. I laughed when Frank tried to imitate Homer and died.🤭 But now I'm a hard working adult, I can see why Frank got mad and feel sorry for him. Life is not as easy as it looks. 😒
taught us that a man can triumph over adversity. And even though Frank's agonizing struggle through life was tragically cut short, I'm sure he's looking down on this right now.
Yeah @@crazyforcoffee5950 reading n seeing that are any of those adversity's true I means jobs r hiring those who actually committed a felony or vouchers n even those who has kids or not finished school i mean seriously can employers be any unfairer ? 🤔🤔
The divided reaction to this episode is completely the point. This is a pretty meta episode of The Simpsons because it's really picking apart its own universe and the show's warped sense of reality. It pretty much turns to the viewer and asks, "Here's the oafish man you know and love, who enters your living room every other evening and entertains you...could you actually live with him though?" By the end of the episode, everyone's got an opinion on it.
I agree. Homer's antics wouldn't be so hilarious and wacky if they actually happened in a real world that had consequences. His behavior comes across as incredibly insensitive and mean-spirited. Grimes has done nothing to deserve this other than by pointing out just how offensive Homer's behavior is. The episode makes me uncomfortable because I really can't tell what the writers intended. Grimes is written as being haughty and uptight (with good reason), and thus he somehow . . . deserves Homer's wacky comeuppance? That's the impression I get. And everyone else at the plant thinks Homers antics are endearing and funny. How am I supposed to FEEL, writers?
@@KneelB4Bacon Well, much the show is framed around satirizing our actions through the actions of Homer; Folding Ideas has an excellent video exploring that. With that in mind, the episode seems to me to be trying to get you to consider when and if you, the viewer, have treated your colleagues inconsiderately. Whether that was the writers' intention, well, la morte de l'autor.
@@KneelB4Bacon I feel like the 'said character hates Homer so he tries to make amends' was a side plot to the whole concept they made so it wasn't TOO mean spirited and Homer had at least a small smidgeon of self awareness so you didn't hate him. An attempt at a balance in sympathy, though this only makes the episode MORE divisive. Of course it's sympathy from both a real world and a cartoon perspective. From real perspective, Homer is incredibly moronic and inconsiderate. From cartoon perspective he isn't THAT below everyone else and has a point he TRIES to reel in his behaviour, he just doesn't get how, because, well, he is a cartoon and Frank has real world standards.
@@samrentfro858 While it is true that it's actually the amps that kill you, "Amperage" is the measurement for *current* , and the more voltage there is, the more current flows through the material. Basically, voltage is directly proportional to the current based on the resistance of the material the current is flowing through. High voltage + low resistance = high amperage/current. In this case, the voltage going through poor Grimes' body (his body being the resistance) was enough to cause a high current to kill him.
This scene solidifies just how thoughtless and annoying Homer is, because he even has the audacity to finish the sandwich before giving it back. That is both infuriating and hilarious to me.
I genuinely feel sorry for this guy. He is basically the Simpsons incarnation of the American Dream, and how absolutely frustrating it is to see people who don't deserve it benefit from it the most.
For me, this episode isn't about society (and it certainly isn't about politics). It's rather more profound than that. Grimes is a man dogged by misfortune wherever he goes, and for no reason at all, while others - equally undeserving - enjoy all the blessings of Fortune. He doesn't suffer because of his own failings (or indeed because of Homer's), but simply because his life is blighted by the unjust and arbitrary gods. He is, in short, a figure of tragedy.
yeah. it's more of a commentary on character than anyone else, and on people who are just hilariously (and tragically) unlucky. It's an anti-karma episode...
It seems someone did not watched the episode and pretends to know better. Even more, you have a miserable life if your family is so anti social that they depend on child labor to stay afloat.
Adam Ohm above hit the nail on the end - like he said it's also about how entitled and pompous Grimes is just because he went to university. Some people really think like this and thinks they deserve more success and higher wages than everyone else just because they spent more years of their life studying instead of working.
I heard of those below apartment business @@crazyforcoffee5950 but a bowling alley a church n laundry mat maybe but. I had old ties who lived under a church but whoa
The writers of this episode deliberately exaggerated Homer’s negative traits to provide a contrast to Grimes. His stupidness, selfishness, laziness, thoughtlessness were all cranked through the roof to showcase how a real person (in this case, Grimes) would react to someone like Homer in reality, and how maddening it would be to actually interact with them. However, this version of Homer ended up becoming his default character in later seasons. The intentionally over the top and thoroughly unlikable character in Homer’s Enemy, which was only meant to be a one off occurrence, has become the standard
And over time he changed like idk like, 8 season ago to be more positive, nice person unironically. Honestly, the simpson seems like a shpw that over time 9t would lose its footing but gain it back by relating to the new old generation.
Complete horseshit. Homer even after this isn’t unlikable. He’s a bumbling idiot but he doesn’t do disrespectful shit like eating someone’s lunch in their faces.
Homer didn't mean to, but yes, the jealousy only kicked in when Grimes went to Homer's house and realized how good a life Homer has. That this man that for Grimes has caused so much headache and misery ever since he got to the plant has enormous success despite not working nearly half as much as Grimes did to earn that. It all started with Homer being lazy and causing mistakes that no first year nuclear plant technician would make. One mistake Grimes got blamed for and Homer pointed the finger at him. Then Homer accidentally ate Grimes' sandwich because he was hungry. What added salt to the wound later on was that Grimes realized Homer could easily afford to buy his own lunch where he didn't need to get into Grimes' food. Homer has a wife that could make him up a bunch of sandwiches. It was only when Homer started to try to make things right where things got even worse.
@@rh5466 How is a mistake in the first place? Its there to show you the cartoon logic of Homer acting as he usually does, and to show that any sane and normal person wouldn't survive in the simpsons world
Man this Episode just shows how much your view of the world changes from being a kid to becoming an adult. As a Kid i hated Frank Grimes and laughed when he died... as an Adult i feel sorry for him and i get really sad when he dies. Brilliant Episode.
I don't like that they made Homer's antics so extreme for this episode, because that's not the norm for him. Most days aren't like this for Homer, and he usually has a lot more thought and heart about his interactions that aren't here. This Homer was the equivalent of a child without any self preservation, which is astonishing for what we know the character as. This doesn't come across as someone normal living in the Simpson's world, this comes across as someone normal living in a Simpson's parody where everyone is 10x dumber.
@@DgardsGaming By the table Grimes uses, he is probably an architect and has to draft on a paper sheet with pencils. Dude probably just kept missing them and decided to buy a bunch lol.
I love the voice acting for Grimes because it's Hank Azaria doing an impression of William H. Macy. Really good and doesn't even sound like Hank's other characters at all, mad talent.
It's weird seeing this as a kid vs as an adult. I thought everything Homer did was hilarious as a kid. But now, I empathize with Frank and would be annoyed as hell if someone was like that at work.
It was funny but even as a kid I knew that stealing someone’s lunch was wrong, of course I love that no one talks about the obsessive amount of pencils Frank had I mean seriously why.
Worse, if they did that and got constantly praised and promoted while you kept getting shit for doing your best. You would realize you are living in a madhouse, or as we like to call it nowadays, clown world
I mean, sure your world view changes over time, this is obvious. But you don’t need to broadcast the fact that you weren’t an intelligent enough kid to see both sides. People trying to get likes
I love the really realistic sounds Grimes makes at points like 0:13 and 0:25 and 0:34. I get these fleeting moments of feeling like I'm watching real life, and not a cartoon, just because of that voice work.
I think that was the whole point of the episode. People were obsessed with the Simpsons back then so this almost felt like a deconstruction of that love
I suppose, but then later he intentionally went out of his way to humiliate Homer and showed just what kind of bitter entitled person he was deep down.
this episode completely portrayed how sad reality is - rude impolite idiots get the best of everything and honest, hardworking people get a smack in the face
The world isn't like this though really, fortunately. I've been working for about 12 years and can tell you that employees who put people's lives at risk and have a tendency to eat other people's lunches usually lose their job or suffer from the consequences one way or another.
@@sonic8005 well the eating of other people's food is foul, rude, and almost considered stealing. But if you're a generous guy than what can you do. Now getting other employees hurt at work, calls for consequences.
@@sonic8005 well yeah it is wrong no doubt. But I'm speaking in the sense of being generous. If somebody ate my lunch at work, the first time I would not be angry. That's me. After the first time yes.
Homer was unnecessarily and particularly a terrible person and workmate in this episode. I mean, Grimes wasn't pushed over the edge by the regular kinda dumb Homer we know.
+Shane Fraley you're a Christian trying to shove your beliefs down my throat, so I'm allowed to argue against you. You can't see, hear, feel or sense a soul in any way, so they aren't real. You have no proof.
Do anyone else thinks there ia a parallel here? In the rivalry between Homer and Frank and the rivalry between Homer and Flanders I think how Frank feels here is how Homer feels about Flanders whenever he does something nice and Homer gets jealous The roles were swapped here, I think
it's a funny episode but in a way it hits hard at the same time not caring, not worrying, being lazy and having an inflated ego does pay off more than actual hard work in way too many cases
No. Grimes was his own worst enemy. He was angry resentful jealous and his whole life he had driven away any body that would have cared for him helped or supported his efforts. He did't take the time to get to know some one before making some harsh judgement of them. such folks are in my opinion better off dead. Attitude trumps ability in the real world. When you are young and interviewing for a job you try to convey how talented and brilliant you are. In my later years i found better results if you remember this rule. Act like a dumb shit and they will treat you as an equal. Sometimes i say, hey you guys do such amazing work, i don't know if i can keep up, to which they reply, Hey we can teach you that pretty quick.
As someone who worked in an office setting for many years sometimes its needed. You would be surprised how many people have sicky fingers. I work in construction now and I still put my last name on all my tools and ladders. People are grimy af.
@@PurpleBunnySlippers Well tools and personal equipment I can understand, in a construction environment. Your shit is your shit, but I do agree mostly to be fair. Too many light fingered folk and clowns passing for work staff/colleagues these days.
The good art doesn't give you the right answers, the good art makes you ask for the right questions. That's it, as simple as that, the reason why this episode is the best of the series, or at least top three. You can make dozens of big questions about life, work, family, personal interest, College, etc. and at the same time have fun with the brilliant jokes from a terrific scrip with gret dialogues and an amusing history. The episode doesn't provide "the right morality" rather shows the fight we all have to discover which road is the right one to our own happiness in the simplest and funniest way possible.
You can tell which commenters you'd never want to have as coworkers by their penchant for defending Homer's behavior throughout this episode. Frank Grimes wanted a modicum of respect but never got it, and it finally made him snap.
Homer is a likeable guy. Dumb, sure. Lucky, sure. But he has respect because he loves his friends and family. I completely understand and sympathise with Frank, but I'd never take his side cos he went on expressing his frustrations completely the wrong way.
Andreas Wong he tried the right way multiple times. Even in this clip. He told homer in future be more careful about eating his lunch and homer decides to almost finish the sandwich. Then what? Ask nicely again?
"Frank Grimes wanted a modicum of respect" You sound like an entitled millennial. Merely existing is NOT a modicum of respect. All Frank Grimes did was go to college, and he just waltzes into the job demanding respect without actually doing a damn thing to earn it. He spends most of his time at the plant belittling and insulting a man who has at least ten years of seniority over him. If you tried something like that where I work, you'd be fired. Frank Grimes is like every other millennial who thinks they're entitled to a high-paying job just because they are college educated. Sorry, but that's not how the real world works.
It's like people watch comedy but then get offended cause they take it too serious. Like, it's a comedy... Made for laughs. You don't have to analyze it frame by frame.
If his pencils didn't get chewed by work colleagues all the time he wouldn't need to keep buying them. But then again, work colleagues chew on his pencils because he has so many. A chicken-egg situation
I love the fact Frank is just us everyday people but in the Simpson's world. Like this is exactly how a regular real person would react to someone like Homer.
When I was a kid, I thought Frank Grimes was an uptight prick. Now that I'm older, the guy is just trying to get through the day without killing himself.
So pretty much Never Bring food with you to work unless you literally have it next to you all day, or bring a gun cause Homer Simpson didn’t get his Donuts and is on a war path.
Homer isn’t a jerk, he’s just in his own world. He’s characterised by his desire to do his own thing. He doesn’t always think of the consequences, but his intentions are bad, shown by the effort he puts to make Frank like him during most of the episode. Even Frank’s insanity and death was caused by Homer’s attempts to impress him
I worked with a guy that wrote his name on his lunchbox. One day someone ate his lunch and (we'll call gabe) went balistic. Come to find out they both had identical bright yellow lunch boxes. The guy who ate his lunch apologized but aince he violated company policy by taking something that didnt beling to him he was fired. Gabe was let go ahortly after for missing a mandatory day despite having it approved off.
It isn’t that Homer can’t read, he just has a complete disregard to anyone when it comes to food. Even his own Wife’s well being is Second to Food. Even if it was something that was rotting for god knows how long, the Man will Eat It.
Why is everyone looking so deep into this? The episode was meant to be about a person with realistic personality inside of a cartoon world. Homer usually isn't even like this
I think Grimes only really had an episode or two at most in him before he’d get annoying tbh. You can already tell by the comments section here that a lot of people think he’s kind of a dick. And not in the way Homer is where you can excuse it I as simple mindedness, or Bob where he’s kind of a pantomime villain. Grimey’s just too close to the kind of people that exist in real life,
I worked at a job where the district manager stole someone's baked chicken and dressing because she claimed it was in the same type of container she used to bring her lunch in. Her lunch was a sandwich. ... I had to lock all of my stationary in my desk whenever I went on break. The employees stole anything not tied down. So glad I don't work there any longer.
Homer is so gluttonous that you don't even have to tamper with your own food-bag in order to trick them into eating something horrible. You can offer them a poisoned donut, and they'll probably eat your hand with it.
The pencil part gives me anxiety because I can't STAND it when someone invades my personal space/ belongings. I wanna kill Homer everytime I see this scene 😂😂😂
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Let's admit it, we'd all be Frank Grimes if we worked with someone like Homer.
I feel like I'm a homer
I am homer
@Bingo Duff Lmao, I don't give a shit what you think
The idea was to have a scenario where a regular person from real life would encounter Homer Simpson.
I believe that is the response the writers were looking for since the whole point of the episode was to put a normal person into the Simpsons universe to show how we’d react 😂
It's funny watching Grimes start out with respect for Homer, like "he must've done something to earn his position," only to have that image quickly shatter
I like how homer is like me play dumb and you can eat anyone's lunch hehe
Wait till he finds out he got it so he wouldn't rile up Springfield to shut the plant down
@@pyromare4879 well your right there he did it cause he was hungry shame he didn't eat grimes could have saved him from that awful electrocution death at the end
@@raven4k998 Na, Homer is a legit idiot. Your a dick and I hope you get your well deserved karma. Good day
@@raven4k998 The difference is that Homer isn't playing.
You really see this differently when you are older.
Yeah,
I was just a lil kid when I saw this episode for the first time.
Gotta admit. I laughed when Frank tried to imitate Homer and died.🤭
But now I'm a hard working adult, I can see why Frank got mad and feel sorry for him.
Life is not as easy as it looks. 😒
@@tiiatanner7616 Grimes was a dork though
Me at 11yo: Hah HAA!!
Me at 32yo: omg 🤕
Thats life. Get over it. Live. Or die. Up to you.
@@billylee4460 kind of a shitty excuse for theft isnt it?
Grimey, as he liked to be called.
Ooh know that word "grimey" I use it more then ghetto he he ah fads
taught us that a man can triumph over adversity. And even though Frank's agonizing struggle through life was tragically cut short, I'm sure he's looking down on this right now.
Yeah @@crazyforcoffee5950 reading n seeing that are any of those adversity's true I means jobs r hiring those who actually committed a felony or vouchers n even those who has kids or not finished school i mean seriously can employers be any unfairer ? 🤔🤔
zoid Lloyd 773 ??
@@crazyforcoffee5950 think about it y does employers make up excuses
Fun fact, Hank Azaria considers Grimes as the hardest, most emotional performance he has ever had to give in the history of _The Simpsons._
I believe it.
😂
That is actually very sad for all the other episodes and performances on simpsons
Makes sense, he's trying to use common sense in an insane world.
source?
The divided reaction to this episode is completely the point. This is a pretty meta episode of The Simpsons because it's really picking apart its own universe and the show's warped sense of reality. It pretty much turns to the viewer and asks, "Here's the oafish man you know and love, who enters your living room every other evening and entertains you...could you actually live with him though?" By the end of the episode, everyone's got an opinion on it.
I agree. Homer's antics wouldn't be so hilarious and wacky if they actually happened in a real world that had consequences. His behavior comes across as incredibly insensitive and mean-spirited. Grimes has done nothing to deserve this other than by pointing out just how offensive Homer's behavior is.
The episode makes me uncomfortable because I really can't tell what the writers intended. Grimes is written as being haughty and uptight (with good reason), and thus he somehow . . . deserves Homer's wacky comeuppance? That's the impression I get. And everyone else at the plant thinks Homers antics are endearing and funny. How am I supposed to FEEL, writers?
@@KneelB4Bacon Well, much the show is framed around satirizing our actions through the actions of Homer; Folding Ideas has an excellent video exploring that. With that in mind, the episode seems to me to be trying to get you to consider when and if you, the viewer, have treated your colleagues inconsiderately. Whether that was the writers' intention, well, la morte de l'autor.
@@KneelB4Bacon I feel like the 'said character hates Homer so he tries to make amends' was a side plot to the whole concept they made so it wasn't TOO mean spirited and Homer had at least a small smidgeon of self awareness so you didn't hate him. An attempt at a balance in sympathy, though this only makes the episode MORE divisive.
Of course it's sympathy from both a real world and a cartoon perspective. From real perspective, Homer is incredibly moronic and inconsiderate. From cartoon perspective he isn't THAT below everyone else and has a point he TRIES to reel in his behaviour, he just doesn't get how, because, well, he is a cartoon and Frank has real world standards.
Jokes on you, I had an opinion before I watched the episode.
Well the writers did say that Frank Grimes is supposed to be a normal person in The Simpsons universe.
What's this? Extremely high voltage? Well I don't need to wear safety gloves because I'm Homer Simp....
⚡️💀
I never understood that, because isn't it the amps that kill you?
@@samrentfro858 While it is true that it's actually the amps that kill you, "Amperage" is the measurement for *current* , and the more voltage there is, the more current flows through the material. Basically, voltage is directly proportional to the current based on the resistance of the material the current is flowing through. High voltage + low resistance = high amperage/current. In this case, the voltage going through poor Grimes' body (his body being the resistance) was enough to cause a high current to kill him.
*”S•I•M•P”* Grimes is indeed...
And im pretty sure we've seen Homer get electrocuted umpteen times before so that really drives the point home all the more
This scene solidifies just how thoughtless and annoying Homer is, because he even has the audacity to finish the sandwich before giving it back. That is both infuriating and hilarious to me.
remove the hilarious and ur right
That’s the best part of the clip 😂
@@hubbadouble8025 perfect summary my ma guy
Everyone in Springfield shouldnt be followed, except for Flanders and Lisa maybe.
But even then, he doesn't finish all of it and is willing to raid the bin to retrieve the last bit of it after Frank throws it out.
I genuinely feel sorry for this guy. He is basically the Simpsons incarnation of the American Dream, and how absolutely frustrating it is to see people who don't deserve it benefit from it the most.
I mean some people get through easily and some have to work for it.
For me, this episode isn't about society (and it certainly isn't about politics). It's rather more profound than that. Grimes is a man dogged by misfortune wherever he goes, and for no reason at all, while others - equally undeserving - enjoy all the blessings of Fortune. He doesn't suffer because of his own failings (or indeed because of Homer's), but simply because his life is blighted by the unjust and arbitrary gods. He is, in short, a figure of tragedy.
yeah. it's more of a commentary on character than anyone else, and on people who are just hilariously (and tragically) unlucky. It's an anti-karma episode...
It seems someone did not watched the episode and pretends to know better. Even more, you have a miserable life if your family is so anti social that they depend on child labor to stay afloat.
Adam Ohm above hit the nail on the end - like he said it's also about how entitled and pompous Grimes is just because he went to university. Some people really think like this and thinks they deserve more success and higher wages than everyone else just because they spent more years of their life studying instead of working.
Episodes like this makes me happy that Bart tortures Homer on a regular day basis.
Like breaking a chair against Homer while he's in the bath?
sonic8005 it’s a common stunt, jeez
Homer tried to make it up! Remember he tried to have lobster for dinner with him.
@@justnoah2073 and then crashed into Frank's car
@@sonic8005 yes.
Frank is the perfect antithesis of Homer and this episode is perfect in the way it flows. My all time favourite.
Thumbs up for Breaking Bad!
Frank Grimes is a reversal of Ned Flanders.
This episode feels like how a real human would interact with the world of the Simpsons. The fact that he literally dies helps sell it.
Ironically I think the lunch thig is what triggers everyone the most this episode
It must be from personal experiences
@Otto Coldbeer
This kind of situations require laxatives. A sneaky way to beat the shit out of him. :D
@@Javitomanzano brilliant mare 🤣🤣
Especially Ross Geller. MY SANDWICH!!?! *MYYY SANDWICH!!?!!*
I would've fractured his face-piece
His special dietetic lunch is white bread, ham, and lettuce?
He must be saving money.
It was probably gluten free bread
Uh dietic lunch he sure he needs it 🤔🤔
Kind of tough to know for sure that that’s white bread and ham
and can only afford to live above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley
I heard of those below apartment business @@crazyforcoffee5950 but a bowling alley a church n laundry mat maybe but. I had old ties who lived under a church but whoa
“In an insane world, the sane person is considered insane by all”
He spent his youth delivering toys to more fortunate children
This is how a normal person would react to meeting/dealing with Homer Simpson.
Normal person except for the pencils, like I get having maybe 3 or 4 but seriously the excessive amount of pencils he had does not seem normal. 🤣
Probably right 👍
The writers of this episode deliberately exaggerated Homer’s negative traits to provide a contrast to Grimes. His stupidness, selfishness, laziness, thoughtlessness were all cranked through the roof to showcase how a real person (in this case, Grimes) would react to someone like Homer in reality, and how maddening it would be to actually interact with them. However, this version of Homer ended up becoming his default character in later seasons. The intentionally over the top and thoroughly unlikable character in Homer’s Enemy, which was only meant to be a one off occurrence, has become the standard
And over time he changed like idk like, 8 season ago to be more positive, nice person unironically.
Honestly, the simpson seems like a shpw that over time 9t would lose its footing but gain it back by relating to the new old generation.
I can see Season 1-8 were the best for the The Simpsons
Complete horseshit. Homer even after this isn’t unlikable. He’s a bumbling idiot but he doesn’t do disrespectful shit like eating someone’s lunch in their faces.
You know... it seems that there is more than just jealousy involved... Homer actually kept on causing Frank problems... THEN the jealousy kicks in...
Homer didn't mean to, but yes, the jealousy only kicked in when Grimes went to Homer's house and realized how good a life Homer has. That this man that for Grimes has caused so much headache and misery ever since he got to the plant has enormous success despite not working nearly half as much as Grimes did to earn that. It all started with Homer being lazy and causing mistakes that no first year nuclear plant technician would make. One mistake Grimes got blamed for and Homer pointed the finger at him. Then Homer accidentally ate Grimes' sandwich because he was hungry. What added salt to the wound later on was that Grimes realized Homer could easily afford to buy his own lunch where he didn't need to get into Grimes' food. Homer has a wife that could make him up a bunch of sandwiches. It was only when Homer started to try to make things right where things got even worse.
Love how Homer goes for his lunch after Grimes throws it away.
sc30002001 it was a Good Sandwich. Would you blame Homer Simpson from wanting to Finish it lol😂😂😂😂
Homer threw away food that makes no sense he would never do that.
I don't love it. I think Homer was an asshole for doing it. And I think the writers made a mistake here.
@@rh5466 Actually his more of a dumbass.
@@rh5466 How is a mistake in the first place? Its there to show you the cartoon logic of Homer acting as he usually does, and to show that any sane and normal person wouldn't survive in the simpsons world
Frank had the patience of a saint
Here, he *sure* has!
Man this Episode just shows how much your view of the world changes from being a kid to becoming an adult. As a Kid i hated Frank Grimes and laughed when he died... as an Adult i feel sorry for him and i get really sad when he dies. Brilliant Episode.
As an adult I still laugh when he dies lol
@@stevenkollin4409 That’s strange. But then again, it’s just a stupid cartoon.
@@stevenkollin4409 Seriously only slaves would sympathize with grimy.
Why would you hate Frank Grimes? 💀
@@rodrikofharlaw6848 Like more than half of the population iz
I don't like that they made Homer's antics so extreme for this episode, because that's not the norm for him. Most days aren't like this for Homer, and he usually has a lot more thought and heart about his interactions that aren't here. This Homer was the equivalent of a child without any self preservation, which is astonishing for what we know the character as. This doesn't come across as someone normal living in the Simpson's world, this comes across as someone normal living in a Simpson's parody where everyone is 10x dumber.
Cry
guy get a girlfriend already
This was the part that made me mad at Homer. Poor Frank.
The lunch part yes as for the pencils my only thought was why on earth does he have that many pencils like seriously who does that 😂
@@DgardsGaming By the table Grimes uses, he is probably an architect and has to draft on a paper sheet with pencils.
Dude probably just kept missing them and decided to buy a bunch lol.
Way to get Frank Grimes to like you, Homer! 🙄
Frank Grimes is the show’s way of showing how a person from our reality might react if dropped into The Simpson’s reality.
Omg no way
@@AY-qy4jnFor you and the person who liked your comment
@@daniapfel2825 he is equally insane as other characters
@@AY-qy4jn He became insane because of Homer and the others who encouraged him !
I love the voice acting for Grimes because it's Hank Azaria doing an impression of William H. Macy. Really good and doesn't even sound like Hank's other characters at all, mad talent.
"Simpson, you've got a 5:13!"
*looks at watch*
"No, a 5:13, in your procedures manual?!"
*Looks back at watch*
niriop funny part is that youtube sees the 5:13 in this comment as a time in the video
+Umut aktürk CZcams is run by Homer J. Simpson.
niriop s
Oooh? A 5: *13*
niriop Look at your control panel!!
Rav Lovejoy: Frank Grimes or "Grimey" as he liked to be called.
Change the channel, Marge!
That's our Homer!
It's weird seeing this as a kid vs as an adult.
I thought everything Homer did was hilarious as a kid.
But now, I empathize with Frank and would be annoyed as hell if someone was like that at work.
It was funny but even as a kid I knew that stealing someone’s lunch was wrong, of course I love that no one talks about the obsessive amount of pencils Frank had I mean seriously why.
@Emil Hey the Foxhound logo, nice
Worse, if they did that and got constantly praised and promoted while you kept getting shit for doing your best.
You would realize you are living in a madhouse, or as we like to call it nowadays, clown world
I mean, sure your world view changes over time, this is obvious. But you don’t need to broadcast the fact that you weren’t an intelligent enough kid to see both sides. People trying to get likes
@@lotuseater7247 maybe they really aren't that intelligent.
I love the really realistic sounds Grimes makes at points like 0:13 and 0:25 and 0:34. I get these fleeting moments of feeling like I'm watching real life, and not a cartoon, just because of that voice work.
Grimes was a character that had value system of a normal, reasonable person....in a cartoon. Immediately becomes a wet blanket.
Yeah that was the lesson of the episode: Springfield would drive any sane man mad.
Cartoons and shows like attacking the character that has most common sense look at squidward
His purpose was that he was portraying an normal human being in a cartoon world. And thus ending up not coping.
@@pablosanchez5294 It’s called being the straight man in a comedy. You become the butt end of the stick.
"I took the trouble to learn your name so the least you can do is learn mine"
-Frank Grimes
Or "Grimey", as he liked to be known.
Who?
the funny thing is mr burns does the same thing and not remember homers name(sometimes) and in fact was a reason homer could have shot mr burns.
Well I mean why, unless I have to talk to you why would I learn your name. 😂🤣
Frank Grimes may have been portrayed as the bad guy, but in reality he's the only one talking sense!
I think that was the whole point of the episode.
People were obsessed with the Simpsons back then so this almost felt like a deconstruction of that love
That is true.
I thought he was portrayed as the good guy.
I suppose, but then later he intentionally went out of his way to humiliate Homer and showed just what kind of bitter entitled person he was deep down.
this episode completely portrayed how sad reality is - rude impolite idiots get the best of everything and honest, hardworking people get a smack in the face
N that is because there's more bad people in this world than there is good. We learned that in passion of christ when jesus christ was betrayed.
The world isn't like this though really, fortunately.
I've been working for about 12 years and can tell you that employees who put people's lives at risk and have a tendency to eat other people's lunches usually lose their job or suffer from the consequences one way or another.
@@sonic8005 well the eating of other people's food is foul, rude, and almost considered stealing. But if you're a generous guy than what can you do. Now getting other employees hurt at work, calls for consequences.
@@brianticas7671 stealing CAN get you fired. Not always but it can
@@sonic8005 well yeah it is wrong no doubt. But I'm speaking in the sense of being generous. If somebody ate my lunch at work, the first time I would not be angry. That's me. After the first time yes.
Homer was unnecessarily and particularly a terrible person and workmate in this episode. I mean, Grimes wasn't pushed over the edge by the regular kinda dumb Homer we know.
Here, he wasn't being a jerkass like he was in later seasons. Just *unbelievably* ignorant.
I totally agree. I knew people who acted like Homer in high school. I think this episode is without a doubt one of, if not, the best.
At one point everyone's gotta decide, do they want to be Homer or Frank?
I'd rather be stupid and happy than smart and sad.
+Shane Fraley. That's my life right now. :)
i would like to have Einstein levels of intelligence and the happiness of a fully enlightened Buddha. i don't ask for too much.
+Shane Fraley souls aren't real, also it's just a cartoon
+Shane Fraley you're a Christian trying to shove your beliefs down my throat, so I'm allowed to argue against you. You can't see, hear, feel or sense a soul in any way, so they aren't real. You have no proof.
Really don't like the people criticising Grimes and saying Homer was ok. "Intentional" or not, he was a complete douchebag towards Frank.
He wasn’t really. He was just oblivious
@Other true.
Cru
Do anyone else thinks there ia a parallel here?
In the rivalry between Homer and Frank and the rivalry between Homer and Flanders
I think how Frank feels here is how Homer feels about Flanders whenever he does something nice and Homer gets jealous
The roles were swapped here, I think
Yep. Think that's the point. Homer now know what Flanders felt.
it's a funny episode but in a way it hits hard at the same time
not caring, not worrying, being lazy and having an inflated ego does pay off more than actual hard work in way too many cases
No. Grimes was his own worst enemy. He was angry resentful jealous and his whole life he had driven away any body that would have cared for him helped or supported his efforts. He did't take the time to get to know some one before making some harsh judgement of them. such folks are in my opinion better off dead. Attitude trumps ability in the real world. When you are young and interviewing for a job you try to convey how talented and brilliant you are. In my later years i found better results if you remember this rule. Act like a dumb shit and they will treat you as an equal. Sometimes i say, hey you guys do such amazing work, i don't know if i can keep up, to which they reply, Hey we can teach you that pretty quick.
Your dumb if you actually believe that😂
For me this a contender for the funniest ever Simpsons episode. And it's so thought provoking too.
Frank is just trying to be nice and polite but Homer keeps screwing him over, I feel so bad for him
Cry me a river
Imagine being such an insipid worker drone that you write your name on the sides of pencils lol
As someone who worked in an office setting for many years sometimes its needed. You would be surprised how many people have sicky fingers. I work in construction now and I still put my last name on all my tools and ladders. People are grimy af.
@@PurpleBunnySlippers Well tools and personal equipment I can understand, in a construction environment. Your shit is your shit, but I do agree mostly to be fair. Too many light fingered folk and clowns passing for work staff/colleagues these days.
The good art doesn't give you the right answers, the good art makes you ask for the right questions.
That's it, as simple as that, the reason why this episode is the best of the series, or at least top three. You can make dozens of big questions about life, work, family, personal interest, College, etc. and at the same time have fun with the brilliant jokes from a terrific scrip with gret dialogues and an amusing history.
The episode doesn't provide "the right morality" rather shows the fight we all have to discover which road is the right one to our own happiness in the simplest and funniest way possible.
You can tell which commenters you'd never want to have as coworkers by their penchant for defending Homer's behavior throughout this episode. Frank Grimes wanted a modicum of respect but never got it, and it finally made him snap.
Id want someone to do their job and be a descent man. Not look at someone being jealous of another employee and embarassing them
Homer is a likeable guy. Dumb, sure. Lucky, sure. But he has respect because he loves his friends and family. I completely understand and sympathise with Frank, but I'd never take his side cos he went on expressing his frustrations completely the wrong way.
Andreas Wong he tried the right way multiple times. Even in this clip. He told homer in future be more careful about eating his lunch and homer decides to almost finish the sandwich. Then what? Ask nicely again?
"Frank Grimes wanted a modicum of respect"
You sound like an entitled millennial. Merely existing is NOT a modicum of respect. All Frank Grimes did was go to college, and he just waltzes into the job demanding respect without actually doing a damn thing to earn it. He spends most of his time at the plant belittling and insulting a man who has at least ten years of seniority over him. If you tried something like that where I work, you'd be fired.
Frank Grimes is like every other millennial who thinks they're entitled to a high-paying job just because they are college educated. Sorry, but that's not how the real world works.
Adam Ohm nigga did u watch the vid? Since when do you have to earn the right to have your labelled lunch not eaten by someone else?
Frank Grimes was right. The bag was clearly marked..
I don't get how anyone can not enjoy this episode, it's one of the funniest and yet one of the smartest
Easy, we aren't pieces of shit
Because a lot of people relate far too much to Grimes
It's like people watch comedy but then get offended cause they take it too serious.
Like, it's a comedy... Made for laughs. You don't have to analyze it frame by frame.
It's a good episode, but I feel too bad for Grimes to enjoy it 🥲
@@dickhanes7094but you are a crying cnowflake. Boohoo mean episode 😂
often at my job I feel like a Grimy surrounded by Homers
Grimey could afford a Simpsons-style mansion if he didn't spend so much on pencils
And hookers
Or work anywhere instead of Burns.
If his pencils didn't get chewed by work colleagues all the time he wouldn't need to keep buying them. But then again, work colleagues chew on his pencils because he has so many. A chicken-egg situation
Oh what? You think pencils just grow on trees?
And dietatic sandwiches!
I had to watch a CZcams ad and then a 30 second ad for a 44 sec vid I remember when CZcams was fun
Grimes is basically the animated version of Michael Douglas from Falling Down.
Actually that's exactly what he ia
You know it's crazy that they were able to portray Homer as someone with a life that has someone incredibly envious of it.
Homer may not be Grime's enemy but he did go out of his way to make Grime's life harder.
I love the fact Frank is just us everyday people but in the Simpson's world. Like this is exactly how a regular real person would react to someone like Homer.
One of the greatest non-main characters they created!
I'm surprised that Frank Grimes never punched Homer
I love it how Homer does not eat the last piece of the sandwich and puts it back in the bag, ruining everything else in it.
Homer has always been somewhat of a selfish jerk but he was especially so in this episode.
love how it's clearly finished yet homer still tries to reach for it in the trash
0:30 The best part xD
Change the channel Marge.
That's our Homer. Haha haha.
(As they lower Crimes coffin into the ground)
This is a very symbolic scene for this entire episode. He literally and figuratively eats his lunch.
Without a doubt the best episode ever made
As a child: "Haha, hilarious!"
As an adult: "Fuck Homer so much."
That was one of the best and most intelligent Simpson episode ever. From the golden 90s Simpsons era
I got to tell you I think this is one of the very best episodes ever of all the Simpsons
I gotta admit homer was being very immature and silly it’s easy to see why grimey hated him
It's a comedy show, baby boy. Cry harder little snowflake. Harder waaaah 😂
When I was a kid, I thought Frank Grimes was an uptight prick. Now that I'm older, the guy is just trying to get through the day without killing himself.
“Simpson do you know who chewed my........”
Homer: **has the rest of Frank’s pencils on his console, in his pockets, in his trouser cuffs, in his ears, his hands, and in his mouth**
Well, Homer's essentially the type to always think with his stomach.
So pretty much Never Bring food with you to work unless you literally have it next to you all day, or bring a gun cause Homer Simpson didn’t get his Donuts and is on a war path.
Or “Grimey,” as he liked to be called.
they say that frank grimes is a "normal person" meeting springfield, but what normal person writes their name on their pencils?
MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE episode of the series!
I feel sorry for Frank. Homer was a complete jerk towards him.
Frank was also an abrasive jerk to everyone he met, which is why no one liked him
@@rohunsaigal2576 okay, say someone who isn't homer and was treated badly by grimes
This just shows you that bad things do happen to good people like Frank Grimes and good things happened to lazy ass knuckleheads like Homer.
Homer isn’t a jerk, he’s just in his own world. He’s characterised by his desire to do his own thing. He doesn’t always think of the consequences, but his intentions are bad, shown by the effort he puts to make Frank like him during most of the episode. Even Frank’s insanity and death was caused by Homer’s attempts to impress him
I worked with a guy that wrote his name on his lunchbox. One day someone ate his lunch and (we'll call gabe) went balistic. Come to find out they both had identical bright yellow lunch boxes. The guy who ate his lunch apologized but aince he violated company policy by taking something that didnt beling to him he was fired. Gabe was let go ahortly after for missing a mandatory day despite having it approved off.
It isn’t that Homer can’t read, he just has a complete disregard to anyone when it comes to food. Even his own Wife’s well being is Second to Food. Even if it was something that was rotting for god knows how long, the Man will Eat It.
He would live a good alternative life as a seagull.
Why is everyone looking so deep into this? The episode was meant to be about a person with realistic personality inside of a cartoon world.
Homer usually isn't even like this
Wish they hadn't killed Grimey he should had ended up being some kind of Homer's own Sideshow Bob IMO
I think Grimes only really had an episode or two at most in him before he’d get annoying tbh. You can already tell by the comments section here that a lot of people think he’s kind of a dick. And not in the way Homer is where you can excuse it I as simple mindedness, or Bob where he’s kind of a pantomime villain. Grimey’s just too close to the kind of people that exist in real life,
@@olivercuenca4109 am only reading comments about people are angry on homers behavior where are the comments that you're speaking of ?
Cain1251 well they could always bring back Junior
I can tell Frank Grimes never read the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
Good ol grimey
Good ol grimey
If Homer was your coworker you'd be like Frank as well.
Did Frank, say special dietitic lunch?
Yes
"HIYA, STRETCH, WHAT'S THE GOOD WORD?"
I watched this episode last night after seeing these clips, I loved it 😂
Who chewed your what, Grimey?
Homer is so good in this one.
He genuinely *tried* to like Homer...
Can we talk about how he cant afford a house but had special pencils made
Grimey actually took it well. I know guys that would slug me if I ripped off their food @ work.
I worked at a job where the district manager stole someone's baked chicken and dressing because she claimed it was in the same type of container she used to bring her lunch in.
Her lunch was a sandwich.
...
I had to lock all of my stationary in my desk whenever I went on break. The employees stole anything not tied down.
So glad I don't work there any longer.
Homer is savagely bullying this man
yes, but I think Homer is too dumb to even know that he is bullying ...
Homer is so gluttonous that you don't even have to tamper with your own food-bag in order to trick them into eating something horrible. You can offer them a poisoned donut, and they'll probably eat your hand with it.
This episode was a tragic story
The pencil part gives me anxiety because I can't STAND it when someone invades my personal space/ belongings. I wanna kill Homer everytime I see this scene 😂😂😂
Frank would have cracked eventually I reckon.
I suddenly keep getting recommended clips from this specific episode. RIP Grimey.
You know what, this is my favourite episode.
Homer is funny the way he tries to reach for Frank’s lunch bag that he threw away while he wasn’t looking 😆
I remember when someone ate my lunch twice boy I was piss.
Twice!? After the first time.....you put cat food in it.
Look, it's one thing to accept that your coworker is an idiot, but I'd be pissed if a coworker ate my lunch.
Frank shouldn't have said anything. Then spiked his next lunch with an ex-lax cupcake.