Who was in the right in this episode?

Carl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjQXbvLEr9k

>>92835758
Homer was right. Grimes was a libertarian asperger who doesn't understand that connections matter.

Homer does well in life because he is a likable guy.

Do you guys think Homer has ever done drugs?

>>92836024
yes, he smoked weed

Grimes was right to envy Homer but was too short sighted to realize that Homer succeeded not because he was a hard worker but because he was able to get everyone to like him and he was a pretty friendly guy

Homer didn't do anything to be wrong or right though.

Homer didn't do anything. Grimes was just being a jealous asshole.

>>92835758
jokes on homer, he is stuck in the wors show on tv for the next twenty years while grimmes got to quit early

Depends.

In universe or in the real world?

Homer did nothing. Grimes is just an asshole.

Homer routinely put people's lives in danger and worked at a job he was dangerous underqualified to perform, in that respect Grimes was right. Homer is also very obnoxious so I can't fault him for that, also Homer fucking squealed to the boss about the acid being thrown.

>>92835758
The first half of the episode Grimes was right, the second half, when Homer was actually trying to better himself around Grimes, Homer was right.

>>92835758
>so many people in this thread shitting on grimes
he did literally nothing wrong.

>>92837888
he was being an asshole for literally no reason
he was 100% in the wrong

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>I'm right because I'm Homer Simpson.

>>92837888

IT'S BECAUSE HE'S HOMER SIMPSON AND HE CAN DO ANYTHING
JUST WATCH HIM OPEN THIS POWER SUPPLY
HE'S HOMER SIMPSO-

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The whole episode was a critique of what the societal definition of what "success" is. Grimes was orphaned and shit on his whole life, but managed to go to college and make something of himself through sheer hard work and willpower. By any conventional means, he would be the embodiment of success, of the American Dream that you can do anything with your life and thrive regardless of your background.

Homer on the other hand is his antithesis. He's a total idiot who somehow bumbled his way into a position of power. He didn't work for it, he didn't strive for his success. He just got his gf knocked up and needed a way to pay the bills. If this wasn't a cartoon universe, Homer would be seen by society as the deadbeat loser.

And yet, Homer has everything a "successful" person should have: the big(ish) house, wonderful wife, two and a half kids, etc. Grimes saw that, realized working his ass for years was ultimately pointless, and went insane. He just couldn't fathom that someone as blatantly stupid and incompetent as Homer had a better life than him due to his "charming" nature and ineptitude of everyone around him to recognize his idiocy.

It wasn't so much who was wrong or right. Both of them erred. It's US, and our ingrained ideas of what is required for a happy successful life, that are in the wrong.

tl;Dr is YOUR GODAMN FAULT Frank Grimes is , America!

I fucking hate this episode because it makes me feel pretty uncomfortable.
I mean, both of them were wrong but it wasn't their fault.

>>92836186
nah, he was too short-sighted to see that if the plot is obviously favoring someone, you shouldn't cross them!

Grimey busted his ass ten times over to scrape together the meager life he had, sure, but he was also a neurotic, entitled, self-important asshat.

If he had any sense, he would have recognized that Homer was friends with everyone, made peace with Homer when he was invited to dinner, and used him to establish connections among his coworkers. That way, if an opportunity for promotion were to come up, he'd be a much more attractive prospect, being both a diligent worker and someone easy to work with.

tl;dr Frank was in the wrong for making an enemy out of Homer instead of an opportunity.

>>92835758
Homer.

Grimes should have known what he gotten himself into once Burns replaced him with a dog.

Grimes was objectively not Homer Simpson, so he shouldn't have grabbed the power line

you for watching it

Absolutely homer. Not only did he not do anything malicious to grimes, he actively went out of his way to be his friend even though by rights he should have told him to go fuck himself.

Too bad he couldn't stop being a salty autist.

>>92835758
Grimes was the kind of guy who hinged everything on his own hard work and academic success. The very fact that Homer could compete and succeed, without a fraction of the talent, pretty much broke him. Even though Homer got where he was because of Burns's complete lack of caring towards actual safety, Bart bought a shitty factory for barely anything, and Marge legitimately loved Homer.

Frank Grimes was the kind of guy who expected everything to favour the guy who works hard, which, while fair, is inaccurate. The Simpson family were opportunists - Homer even went for the Power Plant job just by showing up the first day. Bart took the opportunity to get the factory. Grimes could have easily done what they did in the same position, but he's unable to understand that luck and taking the opportunity have as much to with success as your intelligence.

Grimes was in the wrong, because he was unable to comprehend that a factor other than intelligence entered into life. It broke him, when pretty much every human being understands this.

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>>92838469
good post

>>92835758
You can clearly see Homer on the right. That's Frank Grimes on the left.