The Simpsons S08E23 Homer's Enemy - Frank Grimes 

It plays to his ego. It's saying you can't do better than what Burns has already done.

Well he did add the racing stripe

@@AnEnemySpy456 Yup, it's something children can't easily understand. Homer outsmarted them!

@@dragonmaster5377 looked good as well

Burns liked Homer's design because it honored the original. The ol' interview hypothetical with a burger on the side. Why add ketchup, if its already good.

Dude, he ate EVERYTHING within that power plant, and nothing effected him nor his body, he's like a legit power man of the near future 😂

the idea of the whole episode was to remark the absurdity of thw whole serie

The fact they were even there completely exposed just proves Ol Grimey's point lol

the next scene would be him waking up in the hospital, as dr hibbert says something and laughs

@@wren5685 May I remind you that a man is dead... Oh, wait, I just got it!

But it REALLY generated power - it was lighting the room at that moment! 😆

​@zbr76 he loses- get off Mr Burns' property!

“Where’s the heart man?” 😂

Lol. It was ultimately a design contest and Martin saw it as a contest between who could do electricity design as a kid

@@johnkim3899 But his design was perfect also.

agreed. first prize!

But that is the point.

Frank grimes is if you or I entered the simpsons universe and realized everything revolves around them

Burns looked like he's seen employee's lose their minds many times before

this random things that made the show special.

Dr. Tom Trollington, right. Serves Grimey right 4 goin stark ravin mad.

Right. Homer has Godzilla's durability.

Homer has Plot Armour that borders inviniciblity

Homer has a thick skull which acts like a helmet. It is called The Homer Simpson Syndrome.

Lol

I can't remember Homer Simpson ever grabbing something high voltage because he was Homer Simpson🤣

​@@raven4k998I don't think that Homer is dumb enough to touch extremely high voltages without safety gloves.

@@vincentfichtler7758 he might be dumb enough to touch them but not dumb enough to touch them cause he's homer simpson🤣

@@vincentfichtler7758 To be fair, Homer would *definitely* survive touching those - he’s practically invincible.

Robin Gilliver would you care to explain what is insulting about being called a dumb invalid?

Robin Gilliver “TAKE THIS CARTOON SERIOUSLY!!!” God damn you even sound like a loser

@@WEndro333 Not bait, facts. Grow up.

@@WEndro333 Your trolling is funny. "Wah! He's a troll". Grow up. You know I'm truth itself.

Ironically you are not wise. Using the "bait" meme as if it were valid.

Coolidge Dollar it honestly seems like everyone was purposely trying to piss Grimes off in my opinion lol

Precisely -- very poor luck. When I first saw this episode at age 12, I felt extremely sad about Grimes, and now as a grown adult I realize that it was all just the writers deciding to have some fun and/or be jerks to the sensitive viewers ... all while making a profound point about real life, of course.

Ever heard of the old saying : there's a time and place for everything or the even better saying : work, rest and play which homer Simpson does where frank grimes didn't so Frank's meltdown was bound to happen anyway. That's what happens when think better than other people and take life too seriously and try to sabotage others especially after Karl and Lenny explained everyone makes mistakes - karma"s a bitch

Coolidge Dollar u copycat

He was like that for when homer gained 300 pounds

Say what you want, but Wiggum really loves his kid.

Agreed. Especially since I never hear men call their sons "sweetheart". I hear women call their kids that, I hear men call their _daughters_ that, but never men calling their sons that. I love it ❤

Say what you want about Clancy but he loves his son dearly.

he was always creative

They missed an opportunity by not incorporating it into future episodes when they show the Nuclear Power Plant.

Yeah Chernobyl wouldn't have happened if it had racing stripe

@@SuperCratoss Chernobyl did add some speed holes in 1986 make it go faster.

@@SuperCratoss Needed mag wheels.

Also he’s gay. (Or heavily hinted)

@@user-qz3vn1xk2c no hes 100% gay. They come straight out with it in later seasons. Back on the 90s it was heavily implied though.

Lol ya

It’s the little callbacks that fans like.

hehe it's pretty good sir

It’s more that Homer lacks imagination, but for absolutely no reason at all other than the plot demands it, Burns thinks his is the best anyway. 😅

@@kisbie I mean, in the episode where Homer wanted to be like Edison, he showcased his creativity. What his ideas usually lack is practicality, or thought behind it, or to follow OSHA regulations.

@@M4x_P0w3rElectric hammer would be killer if you could control it, all I am sayin

@@horsehay that’s already a thing, just not in that form Edit: google “auto hammer” and click images

And he lowered wind resistance.

Lol yeah the whole thing made me laugh so much

The Simpsons were always full of Easter eggs lol.

Not everything that isn't immediately obvious is an easter egg jeez. What's making everyone use that phrase all the time and how do I stop it?

lol, never caught that

Probably both

Why you think Homer have no hair think about it what happens when you get zapped the hair starts to smoke

@@sitdowndogbreath I thought he lost his hair because he yanked 90 percent of it out when Marge told him she was first pregnant with Bart, then with Lisa.

@@Jarock316 no he had hair back then working with nuclear power and electricity trust me you start losing your hair baby

@@sitdowndogbreath That's really not what happened, first off, it's a cartoon and isn't accurate at all to real life, second off, Jarock actually said what happened, and third off he's one of the protagonists, he can't die in any way.

@@skiplet87 wrong everything and everybody is replaceable including your mother

Hey, they DID put up a warming sign 😂

@@profchaos91 that’s good enough for me, they put warning labels in things I tend to just follow those labels

@@tsipher yeah me too especially the ones predicting possibile and gruesome death

Actually is not homer’s fault Mr burn don’t give a care if his employees die or not and if homer say something about it burn could just fire him in the spot.

@@profchaos91 the sign was probably there because somebody else did Homer's job 😁

Syncretic Views In devijones locker

too cold and sterile

@StudiosOfAwesome But it really generates power, it's lighting this room right now

@@frankmiranda707 *You lose, get off my property!*

What _is this?_ *A power plant **_for ants!?_*

Jeremy Winner He's right about everything he said about Homer. The thing is, he's an ass about it.

+Brian Tully That was a killing joke reference, right?

Hound Nobelman Yes. Did it make you laugh? ...Did it? No? Why not? ...Why aren't you laughing??

Hound Nobelman it is

Brian Tully I

This is underrated

good one

He’d have to avoid electrocution himself to death to be a viable supervillain.

This made me laugh more than I expected 😄

Naw it would've had Frank going "Look at me, I'm Homer Simpson and I can jump into this pool of nuclear waste!" before plunging in but manages to survive and emerge as a disfigured abomination.

Homer Simps....

emptyhand777 **electrocution sounds**

Shh your making us miss the contest

Agreed! 1st Prize!

That's what obsession does to a man.

Well, he is the one who "pulls a Homer"

And also he is the safety consultant so it’s makes sense the place he works in ends up being one big death trap

Homer would have survived that though...

Homer has the brain to not touch the wires.

This is the same place that just left sulfuric acid that was concentrated enough for one vial to completely burn through the wall just sitting there for Homer to accidentally almost drink.

They should paint the cooling towers for that Starsky and Hutch colors

Agreed. First prize!

@@noahfessenden6478 I won the internet for today

Agreed!!! They gangstaaa

It's not dope. It's sharp.

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He's not real: his parents abandoned him, even waving as they left; he spent his childhood delivering toys to rich kids; got blown up in a silo explosion; and lost a high-paying job to a dog.

A clown world, as it were...

True

If I spent a single day in Springfield, and seen how their power plant was run, I'd get as far away as I can, asap. One look at their basement with leaking waste is enough for me. Their entire energy grid is monopolized by a power plant that is a future Chernobyl. Springfield's power plant's future will make Chernobyl look like a Three Mile Island incident.

That part always gets me, because Ralph is so babied by Clancy and Sarah.

@@liambaylis9365 you do realize that Ralph is the definition of the word “dumbass”

So cute

I like how bloodhound gang put that in one of their songs

@@danbirmingham1168 yeah the song Ralph Wiggum

while Grimes is right that Homer did sort of fall upwarts all his life, Grimes ignored the real reason to why. Which is that Homer is nice and likeable. People want Homer in their lives since he makes it better and wants to be everyones friend. So, they want good things to happen to him. While Grimes is all about work. He has no friends, because he is too goal focused to let anyone in and get close to him. Of course no one will give him a promotion, he is an ass to everyone. I like to think that this realization is what broke him. Everyone hated him and not Homer. Love and friendship isn't earned accademically or at the work place. He wasted his life doing something he hates alone, assuming that the sheer act of doing stuff you hate and nothing else means success. While Homer was content by explicatly not doing that.

@@frankwest5388 This. Homer provides for his family and he's a great guy to have a beer with and hang out. Even those that Homer has hated over the years, such as Flanders, Homer still showed him humanity at Flanders lowest point. When Marges sisters were in trouble, he was enjoying it but immediately saved them when he saw Marge upset. Frank Grimes had no such humanity. He died as he lived. Nothing but bitterness in his heart for all around him.

I think what really broke my heart for Homer trying to be Frank’s friend was that he actually invited him to dinner and Frank just lost it on him when he came to the house.

@@mariafox9226 Whats making that scene worse is that Homer and his family is really trying their best to show a sense of respect for Grimes with providing the best food they can have and even dress for the occasion. It's just Grimes was too hell bent on see this as a mockery rather than a respectful act.

“It’s pretty good, sir” is probably my favorite line in this scene lol

That was the genius of the old episodes

Oh yeah, I forgot about that 😂

Omg I just caught that 😂

White Smith First prize!

What?!

Way to go, Homer!

sugarcat1997 Your number one homer!!

I would have loved if in the background they showed burns had added racing stripes to the plant later

That's because grimy tricked him into doing so just to humiliate him out of spite.

​@@harrisonbetker2271well his plan backfired and instead of humiliating him they cheering for him.

@@vincentfichtler7758 tbf, grimey could've just ignored homer and move on. But grimey being grimey, he let it get to him up to this point.

@@harrisonbetker2271is because he is a self pity idiot even if homer was a “good employee” he could just be there looking for someone to yell and judge.

For someone who saw the rise and fall of Prussia, and is still alive to this very day, it wouldn't surprise me.

You mean comparatively or intellectually?

Social Security Number: 000-00-0002 (Damn Roosevelt)

Given that he’s estimated to be at least 104 years old most living things on the planet would be considered a child aged to himself lol

@Boris Poetrevski Are you really buying into his Pangaea claim?

I'm peeing on the seat give me a raise

The macaroni fence is the best.

@@raven4k998 Yes, we all saw the video.

​@@FireLordJohn3191I didn't notice it. I'm just having a beer looking for a laugh and what a surprise: I found the asshole in the comments. I want a ribbon like homer's

I hadn't even noticed the macaroni until I read your comment.

No changes or pay upgrades if the plant still work in his mind his just say “every is going perfect”.

Ironically he was smart here to Fans making sure the towers don't fall over. Meltdown or spill preventative. Shows maybe homer is smart when he wants to be. He's just lazy. (Heck look @ earlier episodes he legit works hard and is serious minus the donut eating)

Exactly!!!! The delivery of that line was hilarious. LMAO it never gets old. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 1:08

What’s there to explain? He’s an idiot!

Yeah in he’s mind was just room for “my life sucks” and “homer is a idiot” nothing more and nothing less what a waste of energy and life.

+CM Nights since I never liked this jerk to begin with, I laughed a lot on his freak out.

Angelus Was he truly a jerk? Or he was a sane person in a Insane world

Jago Nexus, he was a hater.

Right, Angelus. He was a hater.

The whole point is that he's like a real life person put into a cartoon show with cartoon logic. I can't blame him for losing his sanity, most would if they were put into such an irrational world.

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I didn’t even notice even after all these years lol wow

Notice it was the same animation looped 3 times. Happy expression sad expression happy expression sad expression happy expression sad expression

Just proves life can suck and the world can be cruel.

That’s why God condemns those who call good evil and evil good.

Homer did feel bad about it and tried to patch things up, but that just made things worse. Ultimately, the trope went both ways.

@@pyromania1018 If Homer wanted to “patch things up” he should have taken responsibility and told Mr. Burns the truth.

@@pokemonjhotomaster He was too stupid to realize what had happened. All he understood was that Grimes hated him, without knowing why.

@FuckYouAllToPieces and Grimes was wasting company resources (i.e the electricity)

Something. I Can't Remember Anymore. Same

@@fairystail1 And all of that is *AFTER* he had already spilled Burn's precious acid and destroy his wall!!!

Mr Burns: Inside that cold exterior beats the heart of a poet

Where’s the heart?

I can identify way too much with that. While I'd never go the full route to actually smash stuff or scream at someone my previous workplace was quite similar - we were still working with internal tools written in Flash in 2020. 2 weeks ago I got my termination letter, even tho I was considered "one of the best that came in a few years" ... maybe I should have taken 20 minute trips to the vending machine, avoiding work watching netflix, putting in minimal effort by the scheme "at least I tried" and failing simple tasks like some of my former workmates.

This is both disappointing and accurate. May God have mercy upon us all.

So thats the reason why the new gmail sucks? Because of innovation? Good luck Grimes ;)

Lots of people would kill to not spend some extra money. Simple modifications are often cheaper than large ones.

That's the problem with having the ability to just buy a business if you have the money. You can be a completely lacklustre boss in necessary departments, and yet, you have everyone's lives and jobs on your hands. There was a video a while back. 'I'll show them who is boss, arsenic and old lace', you might like it, Xavior. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BIbXOn5zjko.html

SirXavior like I said. Grimes was martin’s model, highly efficient and a better model but cold sterile with no heart. Homer is the barely passable model that impressed with its simplicity. Many great products have been invented but pitched to the wrong crowd. Look at green energy as a perfect example....

yeah and Homer beat their brains out

*were

Even if he did it wouldn't have shocked him like Frank. LOL

GBoi1 yeah exactly

Dibbo 92, right. Grimey went stark raving mad.

GBoi1, right. Grimey went stark raving mad.

I think all that blubber would somehow have saved him.

yes, it is very sweet he's a doll that Homer🤣

@@CT-lj2zjyeah because homer can tell when someone is having a bad situation

I think he'd end up becoming a great villian.

his son does appears in a late episode and tries to kill him, but fail

He'd have permanent brain damage if he survived

@@Ricardo_Rick And they recruited Sideshow Bob to help them

frank's son did tried to kill homer

There are tons of situations like that. You have many underskilled workers in high positions but they survive in their shortcomings because everyone loves a clown/someone who makes them smile.

"That's our homah"

i mean in the intro he litrally fools around with Cobalt-60 a substance so dangerous that is usually is imprinted with "drop and run"

@adderall admiral Yeah but not as good as the prior ones, since the simpsons was sold to Fox who made the series starting with said season

I am thinking Season 8 was last great season

Seasons 3 to 8 was *defiantly* Homer's power plant.

+the GWAGon1 I don't need to do my work cause someone else will do it for me! D'oh, d'oh, d'oh!

+Retro Gaming Guitarist Hey are you ok, Grimey?

+CWS Spectrum-Man I'm better than "ok", I'm Homer Simpson

+Gus Wagner Oh hi Mr. Burns, I'm the worst worker in the world! Time to go home to my mansion and eat my lobster!

Gus Wagner bzzzzzzz bzzzz buzz

Did he.

@@kofola9145 Considering it's been in there since he worked at the plant and hasn't touched it, I guess so?

He literally tried drinking acid earlier in the episode.

@@snnnaaaaaakeeeee4470 Didn't he grab that by accident when trying to eat his lunch? Probably easier to do than accidentally touching the high voltage thing

And he ate like a pig He doesn’t chew, he swallows

Truth

*And Frank Grimes was not!*

Hank Azaria voiced Frank

Coupled with a "they had to remove the guns because birds were flying through the thing on a drunken dare"

Nope lol. That would get annoying.

🥺

@@user-wt4kw1co6b ???

@@stevencoates3382 i think that was cute.

Lenny: That's our Homer!

"Frank Grimes, or Grimey as he liked to be called, taught us that a man can triumph over adversity and even though Franks AGONIZING struggle through life was TRAGICALLY cut short we can be assured-...." "CHANGE THE CHANNEL MARGE!!" "that's our homer!!"

...and everybody laughs, including the reverend, while Grimes casket is taken down. 😂

@@milla0722 LOL it's fucking haunting but hilarious at the same time

Even in death, Frank Grimes is disguted by Homer Simpson.

Its kind of terrifying how many people are trying to justify Homer in this episode. Homer is destroying Grimes - eating his pencils, barging into his office, stealing his lunch, getting him in trouble with the boss and nearly sacked - and yet people *still* claim Grimes is unhinged. It reminds me of the recent wave of schoolyard bullies who have grown up to basically claim that the people they bullied kind of deserved it for being so annoying and ugly

@@JarmamStuff well I mean, homer doesn't mean to ruin his life, in fact he tried to be friends with him, its just that he's an idiot, he even invited him to his house and grimes still got jealous and lashed out on homer, its just that it's a realistic man put in this cartoony world, grimes could have simply just ignored him, but the thing is grimes always expect good things to happen to hard working people, which is kinda a bad mindset because employers could just take advantage of that like burns just did

@@JarmamStuff Wow, at last I find someone who thinks with the brain. So many people defending Homer and attacking Grames makes me think how really most people are at the world. Is everybody like Homer? OMG I hope not. Of course he was a bully, he is useless and makes a lot of mistakes. He doesn´t deserve what he has, and the point of making his character is just hipocresy, nothing else. He is not the hero here.

​@@LauRa-re9unhomer was not a bully at all grimes is the bully he was mean to him for no reason wtf

@@LauRa-re9unthe reason why people defend Homer is simply because he wasn’t the problem, Mr. Burns was the issue. Homer is in his position because Burns NEEDS an incompetent moron of a safety inspector who will never do his job or report any problems. He is the perfect person since he is a good natured, durable fool who won’t stir up trouble and keep co-workers pacified. Grimes on the other hand never made friends and just stuck his nose to the grind stone. He was smart, but he failed to see the bigger picture or learn what type of person Homer is. Plus by doing his job, he was doomed to receive Burns’ attention.

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Actually he just got like 3 reason to be annoyed by homer but when homer try to do something nice to him he just became a repulsive man.

That's partly why I can't sympathise with 'Grimey' in this episode.

Exactly, homers still an idiot and most things he does do harm even when he doesn't intend to, but here he genuinely made effort (that says a lot given his usual character) to appeal to grimey, but you cant make peace with bitterness

You obviously didn't watch the episode, throwing Frank under the bus for the acid-hole in the wall when he literally saved Homer's life? That alone is unforgivable.

@@gooel I doubt that Homer would have been able to help with Mr Burns tbh.

I never understand why people say this particular episode was the one where Homer went to being a flat-out selfish jerk. To me, that was "Homer Simpson in Kidney Trouble" from Season 10. Here, this is another "Homer means well but screws up". If any, he didn't. Grimes in my opinion was in the wrong and caused his own demise. Should have left Homer alone and did his job instead of being hell bent on destroying him/getting him fired etc. Or at least be civil in rejecting Homer's friendship offer.

Daniel Anyamele Nah, there are ways to cope with a pointless crappy existence without going fully insane. It isn't easy, but it is possible.

I understood that reference

@@robinhyperlord9053 We have a badass kid over here.

@@vitordelima the man clearly needed Xanax

Pretty girl, bad habit

The racing stripe was the clincher for me

Martin’s was better.

not. is true that the author said he is a person who basically come from reality logic, but he is still a bitter dumbass, there are real peoples like homer in real life who are getting way more than they value, still we don't loose our minds, if someone different was sent there, he would just be pissed, but adapt quicly and not overeact by going "mental".

The true solution for 2+2=5 is to assume there is an unknown variable, not getting angry that it exists. Frank should have accounted for that to turn the current situation in his favor, not throw a temper tantrum that others were thinking differently from him.

... Yup. Sounds like a property of Mr. Burns alright.

Well their safety inspector sucks.

@@timcosgrove707 I dunno...must be doing something right if he lives in a mansion.

How true worlds, Joey.

In the new seasons he probably does.......