History Teacher Reacts to Homer Simpson's Voting History
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
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Mr. Terry checks out Homer Simpson's presidential voting history. See who Homer voted for in 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020! Is he MAGA? Is he a lib? Is he a-political? Or how about it's just a cartoon? Mr. Terry reacts and gets to talk about those elections.
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#thesimpsons #uspolitics #presidentialelection #homersimpson
Would you vote for Homer?
of course!
This is like asking if Earth is round, obviously yes
Kodos, because why throw your vote away on Perot? Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others.
Can't be worse than the current options.
No.
To summarise, his intention was to vote:
Obama '08
Romney '12
Hillary '16
Biden '20
So if these episodes are to be believed he's a boomer lib, which I suppose isn't that out of character with the way he's been presented before, I mean he was literally a union leader.
And a hippy when he was younger (homer)
@Nativeebets true!
I'd say for '20, he had no intention to vote. He could have voted when Marge reminded him, but he chose the route of fuck it and went back to sleep. Yes, all the other times he did vote Lib and therefore would still be considered at least a former boomer lib, but I think it's worth mentioning that he clearly didn't give a damn about 2020 and could be currently considered apolitical.
Except in '08, although we see him press the button for Obama, but the end, as he is being sucked into the machine, he cries out "I only meant one of those votes for McCain!" So we are left with some wiggle room on that one.
And don't forget, he voted for Kodos!
"Ike" is a shortening of "Eisenhower" and the whole family used it. It wasn't shortening "Dwight". I don't know why it was shortened that way, though.
@Merennulli Probably because it is very German, and we were fighting Germans at the time. Also, people were less literate, and 4 syllables would be a bit overcomplicated for the common folk of the time.
@@Mike-eg9ok He was 24 when WW1 started and it was already a family nickname when he was a child. He was "little Ike" and his brother was "big Ike".
The show was always liberal (they did that George Bush episode early on), but didn’t outright tell you how to vote or think. But 21st Century comedy writers don’t understand nuance.
Realistically, living in Springfield, Oregon, in a job that was obviously union protected, he would be a "Vote blue no matter who" Democrat.
I mean, Homer was a hippy.
Has the state ever been specified? Flanders made a joke during the Simpson movie that Springfield borders 4 states that couldn’t possibly be neighbours. Maine and Kentucky were 2 of them
Edit, it was Ohio, Nevada, Maine and Kentucky.
I think the Ohio jokes go as far back as the 1990s. (Case in point: The Animaniacs episode in which the Warners play games with Death and they ask "Are we dead, or is this Ohio?")
He voted for kodos.
Also, it was never apolitical. Definitely not as direct. But, for instance, they did not like Clinton as early as 95 or 96
Even in the 90s it was obvious that the producers, and by extension the characters, were left-wing.
At least as early as the Season 6 (1994) episode where Sideshow Bob runs for mayor.
I think Putin was disguised as Scorpio, the bond villain that hired Homer for his volcano base in the early seasons
2:43 I thought that joke was referring to the Bush/Gore election.
11:15 Ross Perot disagrees.
Mr Terry for President! Who would be your VP? 🤔
I say Mr beat
@MalikF15 Great choice 👌
@@FilmNerdy frankie
77 million would vote for Homer
Two thoughts...
Election humor from Ohio was from 2004 when John Kerry Won and there was the initiatives in Ohio that blocked voting. The vote was "Close Enough" that had Kerry won Ohio he would have won the election, but Kerry didn't win the popular vote. That's where the joke comes in 2008... Ohio was the 2004 version of Florida ...
(Side Note... One of my favorites stories to tell was about the 2000 election. I saw an interview with Pat Bucchanan. He had been on the ballot for the Reform party narrowly beating out Donald J Trump in the Reform Party Primary (yea people forget the Ross Perot farce of a party), And of course the election is over and the recounts are going to court. Pat was on a news show and they asked him his thoughts what happened in Florida and does he believe that people made mistakes with the ballot. The Politician said the most honest thing I ever heard from a politician... "I can't believe all those people voted for me either."
10:15
You felt like the Simpsons were apolitical when you were growing up because that is a function of being a child. Had you been an engaged adult then, you would have been better equipped to parse the politics
They forgot Treehouse of Horror VII, in which Homer voted for Kodos (who had been impersonating Bill Clinton) in the 1996 Election. They make fun of the guy who said to vote Third Party, so I looked at the Third Party candidates in 1996:
•Ross Perot - Reform Party
•Harry Browne - Libertarian Party
•Ralph Nader - Green Party
•John Hagelin - Natural Law Party
•Howard Phillips - US Taxpayers' Party (now the Constitution Party)
10:32 - Pretty much, but it's not just The Simpsons. The Animaniacs Reboot also did it, amongst many others. Basically, Hollywood is part of the Ministry of Propaganda of the Democratic Party, yet despite all the celebrity endorsements, Harris still lost.
Don't forget when the whole world became Homer Simpson thanks to a contagion in the Treehouse of Horror segment Loutbreak TV chef Guy Fieri became President of the United States.
When voting easier all for a certain persons votes come in at 4 am . Right that's normal
Homer once wore a 'Death to Disco' Shirt, which because of the large role of black and gay artists involvement in Disco, is actually regarded by some as big deal in the lead up to the Reagan Era, and the Anti progressive backlash of the 1980s. So yea I can see it.
That wall of text in the 2020 one was unbelievably cringeworthy. Restating your favorite opinions / media hoaxes isn't comedy. They even had "Destroyed democracy" in there. I miss funny Simpsons.
The best political cartoon gag is futurama, were Nixon get voted again because he get hes head a super robot form. But before that there a debate between 2 clone of the same guy going at each others. Jack Johnson vs John Jackson
The Simpsons included culture and family so it couldn't really have been apolitical.
the Simpsons has always had political satire...
I am a HUGE fan of the Simpsons. I love it so so much::):):):) I love the 2008 one. I remember watching it as an 8 year old kid.
Not political (looks at their predictions)
Too bad these didn't start until the Simpsons were well of their golden age. Just watching these clips is depressing, not because of anything specific in them but because of how far this show fell from it's glory days
Make The Simpsons Great Again
Yeah, a lot of shows have stop being apolitical. South Park is the only one that’s manage to stand a test of time.
South Park is very political, more than most animated shows
Bruh, clearly you have your kid glasses on
@@Jarlowe they make fun of both sides of the aisle.
@@MalikF15 They're hard-core libertarians, and even if they weren't it's still political to make fun of "both sides"
@@Jarlowe they literally broke and failed at a season finale when Trump won 2016 because of how sure they were of Hillary.
The Simpsons was more subtle in the 90s, but claiming they were apolitical is like claiming Star Wars was apolitical and is entirely incorrect. The Simpsons has always had a left leaning slant, it's just that the right has gone so outside of the mainstream that they're now very clearly the more outrageous party.
I respectfully disagree.
Then why did they win the popular vote?
@reviewerreviewer1489 Who is "they"?
In the 90's you had Sideshow Bob bragging as he was arrested that he and all of his criminal friends would be out of prison as soon as a Democrat took back the White House. You'd also have a shadow cabal of the richest and most influential figures in Springfield meeting as Republicans to decide how they could keep themselves wealthy at the expense of the rest of the town. These days the writers are noticeably more one-sided and less clever in their political humor.
And don't pretend like it's only the Republicans who have moved further away from the center.
@reviewerreviewer1489 They did not get 50% of the vote
10:06 they 100% did but it was less overt then
Yeah, i miss the times when TV shows made fun of everyone... nowadays they sadly cant make fun of the "good guys" anymore, which sucks... Also parroting misinformation just because it's misinformation about the right target and therefore seen as a kind of white lie is so common, it's just sad...
Do you play battlefield 1? I sniped a MrDrTerryPhD lol
THIS WAS RELEASE FOR $$$ FIRST
Tf you talkin about
10:17 most those things, did a fast read, have been found inaccurate
A lot of them are just straight up talking points handed out by the Democrat party. It's sad to see such a once revered trendbreaker become an institutionalized mouthpiece.
Nup~
@Inucroft
Yeah a lot of them are. A lot of them aren't even terrible lol. The most egregious lies here though (that I'm aware of. Half of the ones that actually sound scandalous I've never heard) are the "very fine people" hoax and the US soldiers bounties lie
I preferred the days when the Simpsons remained apolitical. The first one was a fun one time gag, but the fact they kept doing it and it kept getting more and more one sided is just not ok. Especially when it contributes to a long time tradition of vilifying one side of the aisle. I don't care what anyone says, Trump won in 2016 because he was vilified as a racist, fascist dictator who was worse than Hitler and he clearly wasn't that bad. But because the Dems painted that picture and then went after Republican voters regardless of why they were voting Trump, it just encourage more and more people to vote in secret, fearing being honest and upfront about their political leanings. And this is not good for politics. We need to be open about it. We need to realise that opinions that are not our own aren't automatically wrong. We need to stop vilifying people for having different opinions. And we need to stop letting TV shows, comedians, celebrities and late night talk show hosts tell us what to think and who to vote for. It's ruining America, it's ruining the West, and it's frankly pathetic to see grown ass people crying because they didn't get their way in an election. The world will not end because your party didn't win. And I would know because in all my adult life, I have never been on the winning side of a referendum or election. So we need to stop politicizing everything, we need to stop crying about loosing, and we need to accept the opposite party to our own are not evil. I really am getting so sick of it all.
The Simpsons have never been apolitical.
just the GoP has gone full Far-Right Fascists
@Inucroft spoken like a far left extremist.
@@Inucroft please define fascism
@@michaeltunnicliffe4935 That willful ignorance of their is what cost them 2024.
i totaly agree that people shuld be hoest about who they suport but anonomus voting is also important because it lets you vote honestly without fearing how people will judge you
but one thing is sertain you don't convince anyone by vilefying them
Watch monument mythos
wow they did simpsons in the elections?... thats how you know there aren't any good ratings XD
I know it just broke your heart when Trump won but come on man🙄
Fighting ghosts are we?
Trump turned a broken State into outright HELL.
What are you even whining about? Lol