Did he deserve it?

There's a character from GATE who's partially inspired by Frank Grimes, right down to hairstyle, glasses, and dour personality. Only difference is that he got to tap some bunnytail

>Homer invited him to dinner to meet his family out of the kindness of his heart

He faked a work emergency.

Frank never found out it was fake, he started bitching at Homer and then left still thinking there was an emergency.

RIP Frank Grimes
formerly alive

No he really didn't. His reaction was not appropriate but he deserved emotional support and a feeling of being heard. Also anyone irl would be right to take issue with someone being irresponsible in a nuclear power plant lol.
When I was really little the episode always struck me as more dark that the usual Simpson episode. I still think it's good but it worries me that anyone could watch it and take away the he got what was coming to him .

He knew what he was doing

No, but he would have led a miserable life so it was mercy...

It is a great movie that has a lot of deep themes about contradiction and hubris

No, but he did bring his death on himself.

The episode was weird because it depicted homers life as incredibly ideal and that he got away with a lot of stuff. While a lot of instances this is true homer still takes his fair share of lumps and is the butt of plenty of jokes.

Imo Frank Grimes lost the high ground when he entered homer into that contest. Its one thing to be mad at people who are blessed but feel like they shouldn't, its another thing to go out of your way to tear said person down because you don't think they should be doing as well as they should.

Yes, and it was hilarious.

CHANGE THE CHANNEL MARGE!

CHANGE THE CHANNEL SNEED

It's a postmodernist look at the Simpsons universe and the kind of people who exist in it. Grimes is the most realistic character in the Simpsons universe because nothing of interest ever happened to him, nor did he ever shut up whenever anything of interest did happen. He's what would happen if a normal person entered the Simpsons universe and their first instinct was to question everything.

"Homer's Enemy" is also the last good episode of the show.

Yes. He's the complete antitheses of the show. This should of been the last episode of the whole series but Fox just has everyone's soul on contract for da' monies and kept it going. He is basically the point where the creators started to resent their own creation and wanted to kill it - but it didn't work. It hasn't worked every other time they've tried.
I feel sorry for Groening.

It's an intense re-imagining of Death Of A Salesman. I liked it despite some cringey 90 stereotypes of gang members, though their drive by failure is hilarious.

>he deserved emotional support and a feeling of being heard.

This honestly. He was a tortured soul who needed someone. too bad they ruined his character by giving him a son

And in the season after this you have "Bart Gets Famous" which easily can be read as the recognition of jumping the shark and declining into the unoriginal and mundane of the future. The future? Oh yeah, that's when he Groening started to conceive Futurama.

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The real asshole in this situation is Burns, not Homer, but Grimes is busy getting angry at the symptoms rather than the disease. I guess that says something about how people in the same disadvantaged class turn their anger on each other instead of those that are truly responsible for their suffering or... ...something?

>"he happened to like hookers"
still makes me chuckle

No.

It's not even that he died by his own actions after losing his shit.

It's that he lived that long, that poorly, and nobody cared about him. Nobody cared that apparently a goddamn film crew followed him around as a child for Kent Brockman's highlight reel of his miserable life nor did the film crew ever try to help him.

Just like that ultimately, nobody (but Grimes) cares that Homer has ultimately been handed little blessings that added up in a way that technically makes his life incredibly fulfilling even if the early show depicted him as also being resentful his life wasn't all Aces all the time.

That's always been the crux of the Simpsons world. People. Do. Not. Care. It presented a world that was selfish and cynical and with so many injustices,wrongdoings are casually carried out and unless it personally impacts them, the populace will not rise up against anything. The cops are corrupt. Burns lives in opulence stolen from the efforts of his works even as he despises them. Lisa's intelligence is treated as a big "So what?" Etc. etc.

Grimes was just another part of the whole mess. Nobody cared when he was alive, or dead. No telling how many more Grimes there were in the Simpsons that we never see...

No, because he's Homer Simpson

This whole episode is just "millenials vs. boomers".

In Log Horizon there's a character named Krusty who got his name because there was a Krusty the Clown toy sitting on his desk when he was coming up with his username. I wonder what's up with Japanese people liking The Simpsons so much. Also, I wonder what kind of person would own a toy of Krusty. Seems like a strange thing to have.

The irony is the closest person to actually reach out to Grimes was Homer.

I liked that one of the grumpy retirees who think they are better than everybody else.

It's a totally solid character study of a guy lashing out at society in an unhealthy and unproductive way, go check it out.

>I wonder what kind of person would own a toy of Krusty. Seems like a strange thing to have.
Clowns look the most like toys out of any kind of human.