"Homer, what's wrong?"

I remember that episode. Episode 338, the one where Barney kills himself and Homer wasn't sad.

Oh please, they would enable each others vices until they were both non-functioning drunks or each bigger than King Size Homer.

No, no, no, stay true to woman who puts up with your shit regardless of the tighter hole that may manifest

Where was his character arc for that episode?

This episode was kind of weird to me because considering Homer's behavior at the end, it seemed like he didn't actually want to fuck Mindy but seemed to believe that he was obligated to.

To get a bit meta, I think Homer does love Marge.
However on some level he's aware that Mindy is hotter, younger and into him. So he feels that he should cheat, after all, rationally speaking what reason is there not to?

But, emotionally, he loves Marge.

It's an interesting and irrational moment.

Homer and Mindy were deeply attracted to each other physically, intellectually and maybe even on an emotional level (which is why Mindy respects Homer's ultimate decision and seemingly cuts herself out of his life). Homer also believes that if he had never married Marge and had married Mindy instead, everyone involved would be happier (considering Homer's success in music careers, if he didn't have to go back home to be with his wife and children, he probably would be as rich as his fantasy). The fantasy wasn't if he cheated on Marge, though. Because the fantasy has to not include his children or the many good years he had with Marge otherwise it's completely unjustifiable to Homer.
During the episode, he's tempted, but repeatedly decides to deny the possibility of happiness with Mindy so that he doesn't ruin the lives of his wife and children. There's an explicit scene where he tries to use the faces of his family to bolster his resolve to squash his impulses, but that backfires because his family is fucking weird and gross during that scene. Homer's in his 30s, remember, and Mindy is probably younger. He could, realistically, start a new life with her, raise a family and be as content as he is now, if not better off (Mindy's also a breadwinner, so their financial situation would be more stable, at least).
But that's all built on the idea of Homer being able to irreparably harm people he loves dearly for his own sake. He doesn't want that, and only gets desperate when he feels like everything in the world is trying to force him into a situation where he can cheat on Marge consequence free, and maybe even find greater fulfillment with Mindy.

But he loves Marge too much to treat her like that. As infuriating as he finds his children, he'd never want to destroy his family. This is the same guy who was going to commit suicide to give his family a life insurance check after he lost his job.
Homer won't betray those he loves for himself.

This was the Simpsons episode that made me avoid watching the show with my parents for a good couple of years.

>Spoiler
Hot.

This episode convinced me that Marge is an utterly worthless character in the show. If the writers want to give some semblance of originality after over two decades of awful sitcom writing, they should write her off.

Marge should've been the one that got killed with the T-Shirt cannon.

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great comment, user. Keep it up

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he's a big fat middle aged guy with a heart condition, he's probably got erectile dysfunction

>he proceeds to imagine her as Marge to not feel guilty
Is this the worst classic The Simpsons™ episode?

Stop it! STOP IT! That’s not what happened!

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why is marge surprised to see the turkey if it's actually mindy

I just watched that episode too!!!!

Why is the turkey still there/edible if Homer left and came back weeks later.

Reminder Marge was the first to consider cheating in their marriage with the French bowler. Homer felt more shame in the same situation however.

To be fair. The scenario was initiated by Marge Marge trying to spite Homer for his selfishness and she ran into someone who made her feel appreciated. Homer just ran into a hot chick with similar interests. Homer had more to be ashamed about because he felt compelled to hurt his wife who did nothing wrong. Meanwhile Marge felt less guilty because Homer was being a dick.

Imagine Mindy with Homer's weight

reminder Homer never cheated while Marge cucked him with a german body double and a clone

>A clone

Treehouse of Horror is non-canon

so the German body double is

>Simpsons Mysteries Guy
Who?

user delivers!

As a 36 yo wizard with a heart condition...yep I get it

>Homer had more to be ashamed about because he felt compelled to hurt his wife who did nothing wrong

Found the boobs, you know the rules swetie

>Homer is a potato with very low self-esteem who knows how undeservedly lucky he is to have Marge
Homer Works in a nuclear power plant he's easily breaking a 100k a year Marge is lucky to have him

It's consistently pretty heavily hinted that Homer is working close to minimum wage and only got his position back in the plant by supplicating himself to Mr. Burns to support his family.

>Homer had more to be ashamed about because he felt compelled to hurt his wife who did nothing wrong.

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He makes like 27k a year. They showed a paycheck in one episode. That was a decade or two ago, so that went farther than it does today, but it was still intended to be laughably low.

therealjims

>It's consistently pretty heavily hinted that Homer is working close to minimum wage
Considering his family's quality of life that's literally impossible even if he's not getting paid what a person that has position should be getting paid he still makes enough money to support his family while still having ample amounts of free time and money left over for non-essential items

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Bring it up with the showrunners then lol.

This is a problem with all sitcoms that use dumb husband smart wife trope the show can tell you all day about how useless and dumb the husband is but if you actually look at what it shows it's clear that almost all sitcom husband are in the top 25% of America. Just from the fact that they are the only financial support for their family they live in nice neighborhoods where they either own or are paying off their home and they aren't shown to work two jobs or overtime on the regular

I’ve always loved the delivery of “we’re gonna have sex”

what do you guys think of the theory that he did fuck her but imagine it marge to feel less guilty ?

They merely formerly fucked.

Sneed.