@@marcellXcatalystnot only that, Jobs like that are real. They exist as a kind of box taking exercise That's meant to maintain the bureaucratic machine despite serving Littles no purpose and don't really do much the way they've been useful.
That's because you're hateful. It's ACTUALLY funny part of life how specialized professionals develop a one-track mind, and how crucial things often need this kind of, let's call him a Noble Savage. Oh, which is that, racism or cultural appropriaton to call Homer that? If you can actually love your fellow man you can find the joy in these things, and that's why Simpsons got off the ground, being written by engineers and GK Chesterton types in beautiful harmony. Making fun at THEIR OWN expense as representatives of ALL society. The self-pity writing required this Homer to be like "I was NEVER useful" when the scene could easily have been that Homer was made obsolete at a LATER date. Make the episode about NO LONGER being useful. But modern audience would be offended at the idea of having to EXPAND their skills and stay fresh, because modern audience is diversity hires, who think once you get a foot in you can just coast on GETTING IN and not do the studies. They can land in this, second week-trainee situation, even twenty years into the job.
@@sboinkthelegday3892 Dude. It's not that deep. Diversity hires? Why does everything have to be a thing? Isn't that utterly exhausting? Maybe stay off the internet for a while.
Ironically, this was Burns actually being responsible and doing his job as the leader of the plant. And wow, Homer, you're getting paid to just sit there and choke on donuts? Lucky.
I would love if mister Burns could have screamed "my fuel rods! do you even know how much they cost?" to give an in character motivation for taking over the controls
As a reactor operator, this sounds like a loss of reactor coolant scenario, his motivation is more likely “A lot of people are about to die unless this is fixed and we’ll lose my plant due to a total nuclear meltdown”.
Me I rationalized Burns keeps him arround because a real safety officer would implement actual safety measures or shut down the plant and that costs a lot more than Homer's salary.
It’s actually weirdly refreshing to see the plant staff actively being competent and burns being an involved, helpful boss/owner, if only for one scene.
To be that, you can blame that on the flanderization of all the characters. Even burns at one point was reasonable and just developed into a evil monster and homer into a dimwit who despite being intelligent is always viewed as the idiot of the show.
@@funkmantim2661 yeah, and the flanderized stupidity seems to have generally been extended to most of the plant staff as well including unnamed/background character workers. Like even in-universe logic, that plant should be going Chernobyl every few weeks.
I've always envisioned Lenny and Carl being legit engineers who like hanging out with Homer. Seeing them act serious isn't out-of-character, but it's a long stretch that Montgomery is an expert engineer in the field seeing his track record across the cartoon. I mean, it logically makes sense that he knows how power plants work, but that wouldn't be funny would it?
Homer wasn't initially the Safety Inspector. He got this job during the first season, episode 3. In that episode Homer got obsessed with safety after he got fired by Mr. Burns. He became very successful at fixing safety hazards all across the town, then realized, that the power plant is the biggest safety hazard itself. Homer convinced people, that the power plant is a safety threat and so people started to protest in front of it. That gave Mr. Burns an idea: He hired Homer again, but this time as a Safety Inspector, that way he can no longer claim the power plant is unsafe, after all he's now responsible for its safety himself. That's how he got the job, despite being totally unfit for it.
The automated systems in nuclear reactors actually do all the work. I've attended a symposium by reactor operator instructors, they joke that the best way to respond to an alarm is to get on the phone and order a pizza to be delivered. When it arrives eat the pizza. If when you've finshined eating the alarm hasn't resolved itself, then you can pull out the first manual and start going through the appropriate checklist to resolve the issue. The reactions in a reactor can take place faster than a human can respond. So we do t rely on humans. The reactor instructors also joke that the ideal control room has a dog and an operator. The operators job is to feed the dog. The dogs job is to keep the operator away from the controls.
There was an episode where there was a dog and Homer asleep in his office when the alarm goes off. Homer does nothing and the dog shuts the alarm off and goes back to sleep
True..but if it wasn't for his crusade there wouldn't be the safety officer role as it is. That's how he got it and the end of episode joke where he swears to make the plant a paragon if safety under his supervision then immediately cuts to him asleep at his new, now iconic console. People forget Homer was initially a core handler despite it being thrown in our faces at every theme intro. He's been getitng that same rod stuck in his shirt and throwing it out the window for over 30 years despite not being anywhere near directly interacting with them for the vast majority of it. Hilariously enough, it's been forgotten to upgrade this but in a lot of flashbacks they forget this was the case causing for a lot of continuity issues. One famous example is the reason he has no pictures of Maggie in the house. A beautifully touching episode with Maggie's first word even ending it (with no one present of course.) The pictures are revealed to cover a sign burns put up at homers consol reminding him his but is owned by the old fart so it instead reminds Homer he does this for her..except he didn't get that job until after she was connonically a year old. 😂
They have changed Homers ability to perform his job so many times it isn't even funny. Originally when he got the job he actually cared about safety and did a good job. There was also a time where they claimed he was only hired to be a fall guy if and when something went wrong due to using cheap parts.
I'm pretty sure he's been being paid all these years, to just Not be a Problem, they know he got fired for being an absolute idiot at working the floor, why would they give him an even more important job? Nah, they gave him the title because it worked with his Safety Campaign, and then made it so that he didn't Really need to do anything, at first letting him feel like he was, and then eventually just making it so that he waited in his office doing whatever he wants all day... Just so long as he Doesn't bring the plant up on Safety Regulations >.>
There is an episode in the old seasons where they explained that new government regulations demanded every nuclear power plant needs a dedicated safety inspector, so they hired homer at a higher than average salary because he was so dumb that he wouldn't notice all the corners they cut and to keep him there just to satisfy the government requirement, it was called "Porject Bootstrap". It happened on episode 5 of season 3, back in 1991, homer defined. Here is the direct quote: Computer Voice: Warning, problem in Sector 7-G. Mr. Burns: 7-G? Good God, who's the safety inspector there? Smithers: Uh, Homer Simpson, sir. Mr. Burns: Simpson, eh? Good man, intelligent? Smithers: Actually, sir, he was hired under Project Bootstrap. Mr. Burns: [bitterly] Thank you, President Ford. In this episode, he straight up CAUSES a nuclear malfunction. He has always been incompetent at his job. It is why he was hired.
@@matt_sa He wasn't always like that. He used to be an average person but since ppl love dumb dads so much, they continue to make him stupider as the seasons went on. Now it's to the point where he'll endanger his family, friends, and self for laughs. At the beginning, he used to always sleep and waiting to leave but he knew he's job. Now he's just there.
There is an episode in the old seasons where they explained that new government regulations demanded every nuclear power plant needs a dedicated safety inspector, so they hired homer at a higher than average salary because he was so dumb that he wouldn't notice all the corners they cut and to keep him there just to satisfy the government requirement, it was called "Porject Bootstrap". It happened on episode 5 of season 3, back in 1991, homer defined. Here is the direct quote: Computer Voice: Warning, problem in Sector 7-G. Mr. Burns: 7-G? Good God, who's the safety inspector there? Smithers: Uh, Homer Simpson, sir. Mr. Burns: Simpson, eh? Good man, intelligent? Smithers: Actually, sir, he was hired under Project Bootstrap. Mr. Burns: [bitterly] Thank you, President Ford. In this episode, he straight up CAUSES a nuclear malfunction. He has always been incompetent at his job. It is why he was hired.
Even in other episode its show that honer was a good worker in the begining but he become the worst later thats why the guy who was mad of him for having everything without doing nothing was mad of him
What actually pisses me off is this is non-canonical to Homer in general. He knows how his job works. If anybody actually remembers an episode where he couldn't sleep and he went in early, he cleaned up his desk, he cleaned up his work area, he grabbed the book and he started reading it. He knows everything about the plant. However, they still treat him like an idiot. Anybody who knows Homer knows that they're still a crayon in his brain. He's actually incredibly smart he's just unable to use it. It leaks out a little at a time and that was a prime example
If we go by the newer seasons instead of the early ones there was an episode based on john wicks continental hotels, where Moe goes to a secret bar only for bartenders to relieve them of the stress of dealing with the patrons at there bars. Tldr Moe accidentally reveals the secret to the guys at his bar, the boys (lenny, Carl, Barney, homer) as punishment were given a serum making them unable to get drunk. During their tolerance to alcohol the guys were actually a whole lot more productive in their lives so beer definitely plays a major role on homers intelligence, the few times his genius is able to break away from his brain are good
There is an episode in the old seasons where they explained that new government regulations demanded every nuclear power plant needs a dedicated safety inspector, so they hired homer at a higher than average salary because he was so dumb that he wouldn't notice all the corners they cut and to keep him there just to satisfy the government requirement, it was called "Porject Bootstrap". It happened on episode 5 of season 3, back in 1991, homer defined. Here is the direct quote: Computer Voice: Warning, problem in Sector 7-G. Mr. Burns: 7-G? Good God, who's the safety inspector there? Smithers: Uh, Homer Simpson, sir. Mr. Burns: Simpson, eh? Good man, intelligent? Smithers: Actually, sir, he was hired under Project Bootstrap. Mr. Burns: [bitterly] Thank you, President Ford. In this episode, he straight up CAUSES a nuclear malfunction. 93 of you lemmings upvoted the completely wrong information given by a guy who is talking out of his ass.
You’re referring to the season six episode “And Maggie Makes Three” where Homer alters that plaque with pictures of Maggie so it reads “Do It For Her”.
Homer is literally the fall guy. If shit really went down, Homer would be the one to blame. But if the crisis can be averted, they will just sweep it under the rug.
Dont think that would work. The code violations from old episodes would not make Homer to blame for jack anything. He was fired before and threatened to be fired a few dozen times. This is out of character. The fact Mr Burns spends all that money to make a fake area is also absurd. The original episodes they had the guy sweeping toxic waste under a rug because he did not want to buy another barrel. He is comically cheap when it comes to this stuff.
There is an episode in the old seasons where they explained that new government regulations demanded every nuclear power plant needs a dedicated safety inspector, so they hired homer at a higher than average salary because he was so dumb that he wouldn't notice all the corners they cut and to keep him there just to satisfy the government requirement, it was called "Porject Bootstrap". It happened on episode 5 of season 3, back in 1991, homer defined. Here is the direct quote: Computer Voice: Warning, problem in Sector 7-G. Mr. Burns: 7-G? Good God, who's the safety inspector there? Smithers: Uh, Homer Simpson, sir. Mr. Burns: Simpson, eh? Good man, intelligent? Smithers: Actually, sir, he was hired under Project Bootstrap. Mr. Burns: [bitterly] Thank you, President Ford. In this episode, he straight up CAUSES a nuclear malfunction. He has always been incompetent at his job. It is why he was hired.
What happened after I stopped watching this show? There's an entire episode from the 90's about Homer getting his safety job. He took the job knowing it was an empty job meant to get him off Burns' back.
when The Simpson's was new, the writers wanted to write a sitcom free of the limitations of live action now the writers just want to write The Simpsons
That's only half the story: in that episode Homer was fired from the plant. He was going to jump off a bridge, but when Marge and the kids came to stop him, he saved them from being hit by a car. Angry that his family was almost killed, he went to the town hall to fight for a stop sign to be installed there. When the council approved it, he realised he could make a difference so he began fighting for safety all over Springfield. He decided to take on the plant as part of his crusade. Burns hired him back to get the pressure off from the town. It should also be noted that Homer did save the town from a meltdown in a later episode, although it was by going "eeny-meeny-miny-moe"
On the one hand, watching Mr. Burns be a serious and competent nuclear engineer and team-leader and not just a flat out evil man was amazing. On the other hand, i kind of liked the idea that Homer was at least competent at his job.
@@hollowshield2315 🤷♂ While i understand Homer is intended to be a bumbling idiot, it'd at least be nice to see him being a skilled and competent nuclear technician in the background, even if it's written off as more of a "muscle memory" kind of thing or something idk. As-is, he's kind of falling into "Too stupid to live" territory. The guy just has no positive traits other then "is funny and gets into hyjinks because he's dumb". Just give him SOMETHING he knows how to do. some positive quality or trait that gives us a reason to want to keep him around.
@@TamTroll the way i'd do it would be that Homer doesn't really know anything about nuclear safety, but he knows that the gauges are supposed to be in the green, and if they start moving away from green which buttons he needs to press to get them back into green. a bit like the robots in the Isaac Asimov short story 'Reason'.
I think what happened was Burns gave him that job to shut him up but then after Homer demonstrated his incompetence repeatedly such as by only saving them by blindly pushing a button in that one episode Burns realized it was too risky and he arranged to have Homer’s console unplugged.
Ok I know Simpsons + continuity is a joke and I definitely would not expect that from the newer seasons to begin with, but…Homer has saved the entire town before (although just from sheer luck). His console also did do the “beep boops” before, but there was a dog that would fix it while Homer slept during “company nap time” Also this feels weird seeing Mr Burns going out of his way to help out. The same guy who tried to use an escape pod to escape or was too senile to know what to do last time he was on the Conley
I think that since the new seasons (with people getting modern technology requiring higher amounts of electricity), it caused Burns to get more money out of the place than before which would result to him not wanting to shut it down and loose a lot of money. Also, noting how Homer most of the times is seen as a scapegoat (sent to projects just for the sake of it or to use him incase it fails so they can blame the fat guy + to show off that even the less intelligent worker is capable of doing an extremely hard job) they really just have him there as a convenience when needed. Nobody would really think that the others would mess up, but Homer is kind of known for being a mess so it would be easy to pinpoint a disaster onto him.
Weird, they forgot that Homer by chance saved the powerplant from a meltdown by pressing a random button, the entire episode revolve around "pulling a homer" which is getting something done out of dumb luck. His job was very real, until that episode at least
That explains why he's so lazy at work and the most he gets is a stern talking to from Burns. But he also gets fired every now and then,because Homer causes way too many problems for the plant
So the every so many years time line reset (that is unannounced and has to be figured out) has then officially over written the episodes where Homer did save the plant "pull a Homer". I know some years back they overwrote all the 80s and 90s episodes by having Marge and Homer going to college during the 90s.
I haven't seen the old one but I think the way they can retcon this is by saying, while homer was trying to save the plant, the real safety team was doing it too
... Wasn't it stabilished LOOOOONG ago that Homer was hired as nuclear safety exactly because Burns needed someone in that position that was dumb enough to oversee all the irregularities runiny amock in the power plant?! This scenario makes no fucking sense!!!
... You know to me the biggest shock is not that Hommer job be a sham, it is that Mr Burns is actually shown as competent in nucelar engineering. Often he is shown as a boss who only cares of the economic/profit side of things, this must be the first time we see him tht involved int he ctual operation fop the plant..
Yeah exactly my thought. Despite being always showed as incompetent, he is the boss for a reason. In reality he knows exactly how to operate a nuclear power plant.
Getting paid enough to own a 2 story home on a large lot of land, 3 kids, a stay at home wife, 2 cars, and not seem to worry about any bills while doing actually nothing at work? I'll take his job if he doesn't want it
in one episode about meggie there was a scene with homer and mr. berm´s, and mr. berm´s placed a board where it say´s "your here forever" great job srcurity rilly, waht a nice guy
Burns has money to spare, and isn't afraid to spend it to make a point, in this case to Homer that he only can feed and clothe his family because he came crawling back after thinking he could make it pursuing his dream.
You don't understand, he isn't that worthless. You see, if there's any accident on the site, Homer is here to take the blame instead of the company. That's what his real job is.
It was nice to see Mr Burns working and collaborating so intensely and seriously with his employees. Everyone (except Homer) was very competent and focused
@@MrDisgruntledGamer1 Homer is still working there for Mr. Burns convenience. The chronological order in-canon it's a little fuzzy, but you can still make sense of it if you follow closely.
@@NoSmokeTV Not really. Old Eps showed Mr Burns has no idea how the plant runs. Especially its safety. There was a few eps where Homer comically saved the day and was the only one who could. This is out of character.
Well it has sense. Throughout all the seasons it was made clear that Homer didn't actually do much in the plant and he spent most of his time sleeping, eating or chating with his colleagues. Also, remember that in the first season he was rehired by Mr. Burns merely for political reasons as a way to appease the enviromental activist group of which Homer was the leader.
That's post-hoc excuses. They would have written it that later on, homer's duties were reduced and all the equipment replaced. But they can't write like that, because they target sensitive audiences who respond to this emotional hurt, over realizing your job was "always" a sham despite previous evidence. What they're actually doing is like force Daria writing into Beavis and Butthead, because the only goal is to necromance this zombie IP, next to failures like the Disenchantment audience that doesn't show up the way they did for Daria.
@@geekerandy8773 I rather be rich and take a possible legal fail, than poor and be falling my entire life. The former of which can afford lawyers at that.
@@Sanbaddy If we take a look at How I Met Your Mother's PLEASE job, you basically sign away your rights for a lotta money and thus take the legal and pretty much indefensible fall for the company. While that show is a dramatization of the concept, being turned into a scapegoat is pretty hard to try to even lawyer your way out of.
@@geekerandy8773 It’s better than the alternative, poverty and scraping near homeless. Keep in mind Homer is the only one making money in paid off house, raising 3 kids at that, with a VERY happy marriage. He’s doing what most people today can’t come close achieve. If this was 1989 then _maybe_ I’d be with you. But as a millennial, and one whose been homeless for 3 years, I’d take the scapegoat any day.
Carl sounds off. Also, when Homer works from home, he nearly causes a meltdown, so he definitely does at some point have a supposedly active role. Remember he got the role because he was the annoying safety guy around the town.
Carl’s voice actor was forced to step down because he wasn’t the same race as a CHARACTER he was ACTING as. Really stupid. A lot of other voice actors had to do the same. Apparently they’re not allowed to voice characters if they don’t match the ethnic background of them. Makes no sense and sounds a little racist
'Doing nothing' still pays well enough for Homer to be able to afford a stay-at-home wife, two cars, a house, three children and regular vacations around the world. Then again, the Simpsons represent a lower-middle-class family from the 1980s, so this was to be expected.
Then again, in the older episodes Mr. Burns specifically ask for a plant safety inspector to be illiterate and has tried to bribe the USNRC for overlooking many violations including Homer being unfit for the job...
@@KevinWarburton-tv2iy 'A hobbyist who dabbles in side hustles'. Sounds like a nice way to spend time. But somebody has to earn a stable income to support the family in the meantime, right? That's where Homer comes in. Marge might supplement the family income from time to time but she doesn't have to do that in order to uphold the Simpsons' standard of living, does she?
“Homer, once a month you spend a week doing something expensive, dangerous to others or borderline suicidal. Most of what you do isn’t illegal it just spirals out of your control so mr burns, Mayor Quimby, Carl and I have just decided to keep you distracted with unimportant, time wasting crap. It’s why you’ve had free Wi-Fi wherever you go.”
I thought they were keeping him just as a facade for the inspectors coming to check! if he actually did his job, the power plant would most likely have to implement a lot of security measures that would cost burns millions, meanwhile Homer doing nothing save burns money
I think I'd prefer it if homer was actually good at his job.. The long running joke that he's a bumbling buffoon at every aspect of his life... but then to see he actually really knows his stuff about health & safety in a nuclear powerplant, would be an interesting juxtaposition. How is this idiot in charge of such a vital part of.. oh... that's why, it's the one situation he's actually not an idiot. And then he goes back to slacking and sleeping
Or does that old walk up does one thing problem fixed. How? ohh i noted in the schematic a loopback point and i just had the meltdown just run itself out in it. Better then trying to shuffle dance the whole grid as the manual says we should do it.
That would be better writing than this. It makes no sense: a) For Burns to actually work b) Burns to tolerate this c) Burns to co-mingle with workers and be jovial
That would actually be so much funnier Imagine Homer being dumb then suddenly just locking in and handling everything himself It's like the one part of his brain that isn't being affected by the crayon
It is, of course, not accidental that this is the only time in the 35-season history of The Simpsons that Mr. Burns is actually seen rolling up his sleeves and doing any work, or directly supervising employees doing menial work. It's also one of the only times that he recognizes who Homer Simpson is, even if he doesn't use his name in this scene. There is light and darkness in all things.
@@SpiderkillersInc Honestly it does not fit the characters. Mr Burns would not keep him around like this. There is no point. He fired Homer a few times and threaten it a few other dozen times. Seems really out of character to do this.
Mr. Burns one day realized that having Homer Simpson as head of security at the nuclear plant for life was a very bad idea... But since he couldn't break his own promise when he told Homer that he would stay working there for life, he decided to give him a false position and continue paying him rather than showing himself as a man who doesn't fulfill his threats.
Idk having a job doing nothing and having enough money to have a 2 story house, 3 kids, 2 pets, a stay at home wife, a car, and can go on vacation time to time seems like the dream job to me
You say that buddy but I've had a job where I was there just to check a government box (to be vague it was a getting people off benefits and back into work thing) where nothing I did mattered and there was no actual work for me to do (people would show up for the first day so I would log their name so they didn't have to sign on at the job centre for two months then never show up again). It got bad fast, I stuck with it for a few years then quit when I did the maths and realised that if I had a heart attack and died at my desk it would be nine days before anyone noticed, and only then because the office was cleaned every ten days. Trust me when I say having a sense of responsibility and people relying on you is very important for your sanity in a job.
@@theonlytnargmatt I get what you mean and I agree to a point, but for me personally I would spend the time learning other things, making art or little crafts, workout, listen to podcast and music, and do a side business if I can without getting in trouble or fired. If I had no one to talk then it would affect me but I could easily call ppl to chat with to pass the time. I know we need meaning but again for someone like me if I was in that position and not being monitored I would do some of the things I mentioned above to pass the time, stay sane, to improve myself, and try to do a side hustle at my job that I do like and then switch to that full time after it works out without the fear of money as I’m getting bad from the job
I think we all need a sense of purpose/meaning/importance in life, to feel like we matter. I'm recovering from a burnout and one of the worst feelings I've been through is having to shake off my previous identity as the person who had a job (and a very specific one at that) and developing something new.. I'm getting there but until I'm actually there I think it still feels like fiction.
@@dillydraws true, so maybe do it for a few years to make bank and then leave. But also with homer finding out the truth he can document it, so he can prove in court his job does nothing and he can’t be blamed for any accident at the plant
@@thewewguy8t88 And caused the Simpson family grief despite not remembering Homers' name! -How he caused Mona to be a fugitive -How he stole Grampa's date (which is Marge's mum) and tried to kill him to get the paintings -How he's antagonistic to Lisa's environmental views and that one ep where she made an independent news press against him when he brought the news. -That one time he had a thing for Marge only to fire her for having a husband -When he tried to brainwash Bart to be his heir to even brainwashing SLH to be a vicious hound. -And lastly, how Maggie shot Mr.Burns. If you really think about it, he's kind of the Dr.Doom to their Fantastic Four.
Wasnt there an episode where Homer tells Burns to cover him at work, where he then sits down in Homer's chair with legs up on the desk eating a donut and getting scared when Carl and Lenny catch him slacking?
Awareness of his 'main character' status. If Homer wants something, the universe bends to allow the shenanigans to ensue till Homer is fulfilled, or looses interest. Cracked After-Hours did a bit on it with the idea of Homer being an unaware god (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ta3rjuAv9eA.html). Best way to ensure nothing crazy happens is to keep Homer in a state of not needing to act.
@@bobshanery5152 The show is constantly retconning everything. It cannot be otherwise after so many seasons of characters that do not age. Count how many episodes are about "bart's first love" or "lisa's first love" or how many version we had about homer's chldhood, or how many different futures we had for lisa and bart.
There is an episode in the old seasons where they explained that new government regulations demanded every nuclear power plant needs a dedicated safety inspector, so they hired homer at a higher than average salary because he was so dumb that he wouldn't notice all the corners they cut and to keep him there just to satisfy the government requirement, it was called "Porject Bootstrap". It happened on episode 5 of season 3, back in 1991, homer defined. Here is the direct quote: Computer Voice: Warning, problem in Sector 7-G. Mr. Burns: 7-G? Good God, who's the safety inspector there? Smithers: Uh, Homer Simpson, sir. Mr. Burns: Simpson, eh? Good man, intelligent? Smithers: Actually, sir, he was hired under Project Bootstrap. Mr. Burns: [bitterly] Thank you, President Ford. In this episode, he straight up CAUSES a nuclear malfunction. He has always been incompetent at his job. It is why he was hired.
Just because you don't want to listen to someone complain and whine doesn't mean you regret doing the thing they are whining about. Awkwardly trying to cut off Homer's pity party doesn't mean he felt any sort of guilt.
Kinda a recurring theme throughout the show, Homer’s a genius when he’s motivated and puts his mind to it, but most of the time he’s too lazy and impulsive to actually get anything done.
He's being paid to be held hostage. Gotta remember the episode with Marge getting pregnant with Maggie, his salary in his dream job(running a Bowling Alley) wouldn't have been enough to support them having a third kid, so he had to go back to Burns, who forced him to essentially agree to working at the Plant for Life with being unable to quit or work anywhere else while employed at the Plant
He, or the audience, has this realization every few years. One time he intentionally gained like 500 pounds just to be allowed to work from home and automated his job with a drinking bird toy until that almost caused a meltdown. 😅
For stuff like this is why I don't like this show anymore, the current seasons are constantly denying the older ones and the characters have been simplified to the extreme, I get Homer wasn't the smartest man, but on the of seasons he had a heart, I don't feel that's the case anymore
@@originalShorai no, no, I know the episode you meant, what I meant is that because of episodes like the one shown on this video, it denies the older ones, like the one you mentioned, sorry I confused you
@@argentin2306 It doesn't disregard it in any way. If anything it canonizes it further by acknowledging that Homer can't be trusted with the responsibility which has been an ongoing theme in the openings for years. Canonically Homer didn't get the job because he was qualified and only keeps it presumably because he's the only one at the plant currently licensed to do his job and hasn't really negotiated a pay increase on screen since the 80's. It very Montgomery Burns to have someone two people making peanuts because 1 is trained but unlicensed and the other is licensed but incompetent if he saves $100k on pay.
@@argentin2306 The Simpson story has been stuck, yet kinda not, in a time bubble for 35 years... Of course the newer episodes would ends up contradicting the older ones, it was unevitable and surely started happening years ago...
Don't be fooled, it's self interest. A nuclear meltdown would kill all of them and Burns more than anyone wants to stay alive. He's spent billions trying to stay immortal. Homer is also a convenient scape goat and Burns keeps him around for mostly that reason as well.
Okay my job was nuclear engineering so this whole segment was so goddamn infuriating/confusing like this is why we don’t have nuclear power just a bunch of bs of them yelling engineering terms making it seem dangerous when there’s like 10 different safety interlocks that kick on automatically when something goes wrong
with his overweight homer is the minimum quota he is forced to hire, and he prob doesnt pay him at the lvl he is suposed to dont you worry, as you said it's burn so there is a catch
Mr. Burns would do this. Homer is a "fall guy" if something were to happen like an actual meltdown, he could blame Homer for the failure. Homer is a scapegoat employee for Mr. Burns. All blame gets put on Homer, and nobody of value is lost from being fired in the event of a catastrophic failure. A lot of businesses do this, there is usually one person that's the corporate scapegoat.
