That scene in one of the earlier seasons when Marge shows up at the bar and Homer is about to take his first drink and he looks at the guys who are miserable and Marge who looks hopeful and he chooses her and they ride on a bike together singing "Why do birds suddenly appear" has always made me think similarly to you
That’s a good way to describe it. Heavy status quo. That’s my issue with most serialized television. I wish the children in the shows would grow up. I’m tired of the Bob’s Burgers kids being the same age they were when the series started there’s something disturbing about it. So many characters would’ve had such a nice endings. So many episodes have such meaningful character arks that are just thrown away the next episode.
To be fair to Homer, Barney's reaction to drinking a single beer for the first time in one go wasn't foreseeable and it was bound to happen one way or another if he had gone to some frat parties at Harvard.
It makes me wonder all that much more about Barney's background. Did he have a high ACE score? Is alcoholism common in his family? Or was it all just self-sabatoge, an excuse to be free of the pressures of being so gifted?
@@proton8689 Being prone to sudden addiction is very much a thing, coming from someone who suffers like that. Drink once, I'm immediately going to take it too far without friends to make sure my "just one" is actually just one. Smoking is the same. God knows what would happen to me if I got something stronger. Gambling too, I'm so happy I never take money out with me when I'm not buying something or I just end up betting it.
@@proton8689 True, but you can become an alcoholic after your first intoxication. My Grandfather didn't have a drink until he was 38 and after he got drunk that was it, he didn't stop until it killed him. For the sake of time I think the cartoon obviously sped past that.
I think he was eclipsed in later seasons by Moe. Whose deep emotional problems and constant suicide attempts are actually ameliorated in the most recent seasons I would still like them to give Barney some sort of happy ending before the main voice cast passes on to the hereafter.
This is very true! Moe - himself a very interesting character - took that spot away in some sense. And I agree, it would be lovely to see Barney get a full ending before the series finally runs it’s course
Hope you're staying sober! Today is my one year anniversary. Life might not be perfect, but at least this way people and things aren't constantly slipping away from me.
We've all had/have demons man.... you're no better or worse than the next man. We'll pray for u... if you're not religious then we'll still pray for u ❤
I remember as a child I used to laugh at the scenarios Barney found himself in due to alcohol. Now I’m 30 in a very similar boat and it’s no longer funny but a haunting warning for younger viewers, in Australia alcoholism is very normal and even celebrated in parts so Barney just seemed like someone who couldn’t handle their drink, thank you for such a beautiful video showcasing such an interesting and troubled character.
Bro, celebrated is an understatement haha, if you are abstaining from alcohol people will think you're trying to be some "fitness freak" or str8 up think you're boring etc bunch of things. Alcoholism is terrible in aus and it's fuckin shit
@@CallofFreaky There's a definitely a culture of drinking here, but, particularly among the newer generations, I feel like people aren't critical of people who don't drink.
Alcoholism is a progressive condition that doesn't just happen overnight. The problem begins when you start using to self medicate life's issues which ultimately creates more problems that it "solves" and it drains your wallet and also rewires your brain so that you can't just have a few anymore. You just keep wanting more and more and it's just never "enough." I briefly worked for a boss that had this... I lasted 3 weeks.
The biggest turning point with any addiction is when your realize people like you more that way and encourage you to do it. There is little else to do but abandon "normal" society if you want to quit.
I feel like one of the worst things as an alcoholic is that it INCREASES creative output, work ethic, and how likable people see you as... every facet of our society encourages it the second it makes you more "normal". I'm in the middle of trying to quit now after relatives, ex friends, and ex partners I had to get away from made it clear they prefer me this way, even if I'm unhappy... and it's not like it kept them from judging me for drinking on top of it. It's a lose lose and you just have to create a new life with better people. Alcohol TAKES AWAY the numbness and lets me feel and think things again, but that's the problem! It turns me into a producer vs a consumer and in this society that is constantly encouraged even if it kills you. Drinking simply makes people treat you better, but with no actual care for your well being.
This is a very delusional take. Either this just isn’t true or no one around you has actually ever cared about you and you need to surround yourself with far better people and make actual solid relationships.
Reading this last night made me really sad man. I’m really wishing the best for you. I really think you need to reevaluate all relationships in your life. I find it insanely hard to believe that anyone is a more likeable person when they’re drunk. Just because you’re more social and outgoing does not at all mean you’re a more likeable person. All that shows is you can attract temporary attention. If someone prefers you to be drunk over sober I promise you that person does not care about you. Drinking in moderation is totally cool. But you saying people prefer you drunk should immediately tell you that they don’t care about your health and only care about what they can get from you. I got sober 2 and a half years ago. I had to cut literally everyone out of my life because I was feeling exactly how you’re saying. But I promise you man. Thinking an intoxicated you is a better you in any format is just delusional thinking.
I can relate I'm 42 single with bipolar but I just hit a year and four months sober I drowned twenty years of my life due alcohol.Addiction is a lonely tragedy with a dark resentment for life.But it can get better if you want the help to change.
That’s an incredible brave move to make, and a big congratulations on your sobriety! I can’t imagine how much of a struggle that must’ve been for over 20 years
@@trysta73you have to stay far far away from those people. Those aren’t your friends those are demons. You’re nothing but a court jester and the entertainment for the evening when you drink to appease them.
I am 24 now, ever since school I developed a dependency on alcohol. My parents however caught onto that early on and have kept a tight leash, sounds pathetic I know, it feels like I'm on detox in rehab 24/7 my access to alcohol is limited and I drink at every chance I get. I always found characters like that amusing and relatable but videos like this just hit too close to home.
It’s not pathetic at all, it’s incredibly brave to say and admit that you have a dependency - I’d advise to think about the reasons why you drink and assess whether alcohol actually benefits any part of your life. Often times we look for answers externally, but I think looking within is often the best start - I wish you all the best, and I’m always here, as are many others to support!
Not pathetic. You're being supported. I think if more parents were harder on their kids about alcohol we would have less of a problem with it these days. Be happy they care enough to watch over you, but ultimately the one who will make the biggest change is you. When you feel that pang, you have to commit to being responsible. You have so much time... So much time man... So much life still to live to enjoy drinking here and there. Just learn to think without the drinking... You eventually reform yourself. Just keep at it, you got this.
Literally same bro. I’m 24, turn 25 on Sunday and have gone through the same. I need a a short leash tho cause I can’t help but show why I need a tight leash anytime I’ve ever been given any slack. Addiction is a bitch.
i curbed my roomates addiction by taking his cards away (with his consent of course). it actually helped a lot. he'll still binge as soon as he gets them back, he needs therapy and more serious work, but its a good halfway there solution honestly. he lost a lot of weight fast and became more emotionally stable to actually think about his behaviors and shame and stuff
Homer might get Barney back into drinking, but it isn't done in a facetious way. You've got to remember that Homer is dumb but kind,he doesn't see a problem with beer. To him beer is what he can always rely on and what he always turns to, to numb the pain. So why wouldn't he offer Barney a beer, that's how they've always communicated with each other.
@@sirgentlebread7302there is an obituary page with his name and face on it. i dont think its proper to link it, but you can easily find it through google
@@KracklinDark Almost surely -- and, for what its worth, no one person can be responsible for another person's alcoholism. Like maybe you were the one who gave the first beer, but its also that receiver's choice to drink. And then make that choice again. And again. And again. I don't care who it is, you simply won't "accidentally" become an alcoholic. Nobody will be force-feeding you alcohol against your will long enough to give you alcoholism. Even if the choice seems thoughtless because its easy, its still a choice. People may feel compelled to drink to have fun, but until that alcoholism sets in and youre truly addicted, its not true compulsion, just a temptation you give in to. Anyways, all this to say you really cant trace back an alcoholic's origins and blame it on a singular drink a friend gave them. Its about developing a history of drinking, and that requires a series of small, sometimes imperceptible choices.
@@Atylonisus the issue is, there have been researches done into it. Some people actually have an alcoholism "gene" that is fine most of the time, but literally one drink is enough to trigger it and push them into full blown alcoholism. Edit: still can't blame Homer, no one can know if you have that or not
@@Atylonisus yeah, Homer gave him the first one, but Barnie chose the second one, the third one, the fourth one and so on. Even with a predisposition to addiction, it was Barnie that chose to become what he became.
The Non-Alcoholic wine portion may have actually been placebo. Similar to how a User Dream can induce "drug-like" effects on the body despite not having consumed any.
I was held hostage for several years by an alcoholic ex. I made a last ditch attempt to escape... and was sent to a sober living home instead of a DV shelter. It was mostly traumatizing, but I learned a lot. Like even an alcoholic at death's door can turn their life around if they find that shining reason. Most importantly- never make the mistake of taking that first drink. It's only been a month... but several of my friends there have relapsed and passed away. My best friend narrowly avoided getting shot outside a bar last week. I thought he was dead and so did his family. It tore us all to peices. There are people who love and care about you. You can recover, and live a better life than you ever thought possible. Take that first step and seek help- whether from friends/family, church, a doctor, sober living program, or your local AA chapter. You have a lot of options and a bright future. Stay strong.
I’m so sorry you had to experience that, and that’s great advice to seek out help in whatever way possible before resorting to such an addictive pattern of drinking!
I been saying it for a while now, Barney had it ALL. Ambition, creative potential, drive, raw power (he KO'd homer with 1 punch, not even Drederick Tatum hit Homer that hard). And it was alcohol that was his only real downfall. But he's still got all that potential. By how he can pilot a helicopter after just a few days away from the bottle. If he ever managed to kick the habit for good, he would be the one running springfield.
I'm 26 yo and I'm an alcoholic, so I Do understand your pain as no one does. And this sounds absurd because how it's possible in your years and your 20's suppose to be about parting and drinking, maybe for some works, but not for me It slowly and invisible turned me into depending on alcohol When I started communicating with AA guys, they asked me about my age and they were proud of me , because I admitted my problem despite my age . Also I read from creators of The Simpsons they maked Barney relapse because they had no idea what to do with sober Barney which is sad. Barney deserves to be happy and admitting their idealess about sober Barney tells a lot, more like Homer who forced him into drinking. Also there a lot of animated TV series showed alcoholism as it from different angles, but my favorite I watched recently :BoJack Horseman, Moral Orel, Tuca & Berdie. Trust me watch, you jaw'll fall down from how realistic they are sometimes, furs two shows how alcohol is gateway or a sign of something bigger and you copping, last one good also because they have character who drinks, but doesn't become bad person, just does hurm for himself. I hope you sober and all right. Good luck, and watch them.
Firstly you are indeed very brave to admit and own any kind of problem, especially one like alcohol which is so normalised at a young age! And for sure I love Bojack and Moral Orel has some incredible dark moments related to drinking (camping trip is definitely the darkest imo)
@@harryfromends, thank you, we'd been forced from all media idea of drinking is cool, no fun without it, people who don't drink lifeless. I still work on it and hope one day I'll remember it just as life experience I got from drinking. I remember when I was a kid I saw a poster of Barney on ice rink with saying "Don't drink and ride" which I didn't understand at the time and I thought it was funny because how Barney acts in the show, now it looks sad. Because you Do understand now. I'm glad you healthy by all means , and I agree episodes from Moral Orel Nature 1&2 are too real (even before we knew Clay is drunk, but this one is dig in really deep) and they captured the real problems and mindset of a drunk and alcohol dependent, I mean his look in the bottle with this scary quote "Why do you quit working on me?!"I get scary to because this is what I felt when I realized alcohol doesn't work on me any more it gives me now only sorrow and no happiness. It's already proven alcohol isn't antidepressant, but indeed true depressant. Which is scary because a lot of people use it to make themselves happy, but makes them more depressed. And monolog about women where Clay progects all his problems and weaknesses on his son calling him a sissy lady when this is all Clay's problems, which'll be showed again in episode Sacrifice, because we saw how Clay repeating saying "I'm a man.!" and wants Orel being a man and associates violence with love and manhood from his traumas, he sees kindness as girly thing (said a guy which boyfriend is Danielle), but we see Orel is more man than he'll be so he drinks because drinking is easy to forget about your problems and not to try get better, yes there's a fault of Blobberta who forsed his into drinking in the first place, but he choose to stay drunk all the time for not to see how miserable he is and everyone said "Just quit drinking if this is bad for you", but you need courage for that and work on your problems which Clay refused to do it because he enjoys the pain. It's easy and this is some kind of sick fetish of his. it's also in fanarts we see Clay with demonic dog head simbolizing his demonic nature, I didn't understand why only after I realized creators of the show did it already in Orel's short movie. I think this is one of reasons.Orel's kindness is what makes him a man, also his grandpa who build this foundation in him that'll be shown if show didn't get canceled and was probably only father figure in his life, and by the way, grandpa Puppington is the only one in Orel's family we saw who hugged Orel and asked him what he thinks about God, basically introduced him concept of christianity which Clay was afraid and basically to tell him anything. Because a man admits his mistakes Clay never does he repeat his mum's saying "There are no mistakes, accidents etc", he refuses to take responsibility as a man and drinking shows it as his getaway, so drinking is not illness, this is just a syndrome. I think even as creators left sighs it was all miss Censordoll voodoo magic to push Clay to shoot Orel he choose it, they admitted it, it was supposed to be a plot for next 2 seasons before canceling the show. It was choice of Clay all along to hurt his son, especially when he drank rubbing alcohol just to get drunk because Orel shoot his last bottles of liquire from first aid which Orel bought from money from his job in Stephanie's show is more heartbreaking.Just to punish him and acted like nothing happened. I'm suggesting nothing you covered how drinking destroyed good soul as Barney, but it'll be interesting to see on Moral Orel example (Clay) , plus maybe BoJack Horseman how alcohol is open key for some people be bad, to punish themselves or just an excuse for not changing themselves because it's easy. I know wrote to much, hope I'll read it and maybe I gave you new idea for vid. Thank you for answering and stay sober and healthy. 😊🙏
Never had a problem with alcohol (thank god) But I was heavily addicted to painkillers for many years (l am still really. I'm sober but that "need" never left me for it.), taking enough in a day that would lay out a horse. When I see videos like this they really help in an indirect way, kind of a way of reminding me that "yes, it's worth it to try my best and stay sober. I relapsed just after Christmas, only for a week but that feeling of losing all the progress and reverting to an isolated and lonely depressed state is terrifying to me. It's just hard to bare that in mind a lot of the times when fighting the "urge". Thanks for the video, don't watch Simpsons but these kind of things really do help, addictions may be different but the experiences are always eerily similar when the addiction has full control of someone.
For all the shade that gets thrown at post season 10 Simpsons, Barney's start on the road to sobriety will always be among my favourite episodes, perhaps of anything, because never before or since did I want a fictional character to succeed more than Barney in his battle against alcoholism. Even though I haven't seen The Simpsons in a while, I'll always hope for Barney to come out on top.
TV can be such a great medium for teaching us about life's struggles. This was great episode. Barney is a great/terrible example of alcoholism. When I was a kid my first time seeing alcoholism for the terrible disease that it is, was watching Dr Cox on Scrubs. When things would go wrong this smart confident doctor turns to alcohol, becoming this shadow of himself that was hard to see. And that is why I avoid alcohol myself when life gets tough.
I've recently got out of a friendship that was bad for me and I got back into AA, in 9 days I'll be 3 mouths sober. My drinking was similar to Barney's, thank you for making this video it was very impactful to me.
This character analysis made me realize how much more intellectual, sophisticated and all around better writers were in early season. So much so I had to go and track who was working on early seasons. Humor was deeper, how its just quantity over quality of gags
I drank whiskey everyday for over 10 years and now i am on my 5th year sober and I 100% do not regret it and for those who struggle just know you are not alone and it is possible!
It is true people who are alcoholics and think something is alcoholic will have a psychosomatic response to it. They will get drunk even though there's no alcohol inside the drink.
Well done on a thoughtful and well-researched video. I also respect you for opening up about your own battle. 2021 was a terrible year for anyone with tendencies in the direction of addiction.
had a wonderful boyfriend, he got me into heavy drinking, and now that hes gone, i miss him all the time (he didnt die he just left me) but now when i drink it makes me so bittersweet because i can recollect some of the feeling of being with him, but it makes me miss him even more, i hope one day i meet him again, hes since cleaned up and is doing well now, i am not, im having a hard time quitting
Great video. Barney is such an underrated character. His talent and heart are literally drowned by alcohol.
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Luckily I can't tolerate alcohol, if I drink enough I get drunk and have a good time, but the journey there is tiring for me because the alcohol makes me sick and gives me stomach pains. This only disappears when I've drunk enough . However, since the feeling of happiness while intoxicated isn't enough for me to justify going there, I don't drink anything. The last time I was drunk was at one of my friends' bachelore partie. That was over a year ago, so unless I have a good reason, I don't have a drop.
I can relate: i always drink, at best, 1/3rd of a glass, for about 3-4 glasses, be it wine or beer (same quantity but in tiny glasses for strong alcohol products), 'cause more gives me stomach pains and i don't like my head spinning. I always get laughs and jokes from my friends about it, but who cares...
I feel like Barney alot these days. Met a person who was bad for me and I was drinking so so heavily that I constantly was making a fool of myself constantly. I alienated everyone and everything that mattered to me. Im currently in recovery but a lot of damage has already been done. Even tho this is just a video about the Simpsons, I resonate with it very deeply.
Ive watched my mil struggle with alcholism for over 10 years Her partner isnt the best person to be around when recovering or tryong to do better in your life (going as far as handing her drinks and constantly putting her down whenever she tries to do better) She had lost her kids (not due to alcoholism due to a basket of laundry not put away) It took her 3 years to get them back due to her alcoholism she was 3 years sober when she spiraled She now has to quit again along with smoking due to her health complications from drinking from a tween to almost 50
Never really been "gripped" by the bottle, but there's been times in my life where i was sufficiently buzzed almost every night. Honestly, it is an act of God that I'm not an alcoholic.
I grew up watching the simpsons. I remember the episode where Barney made his movie and I remember crying a lot when he said “don’t cry for me, I’m already dead” and I never understood why. I never saw at the time that I saw my father in Barney and alcoholism killed him in December of last year at 44. I’m 23 and I will always see my father in Barney.
I am only in my mid 20’s and I’m an alcoholic. I grew up in a family of Russian immigrants where it was okay if started drink liquor at 15-16. In 2020, I had a beautiful southern girl in my life. We were in love and recently engaged. Covid hit so I started hitting the bottle. I gained 30 pounds, I became emotionally numb and abusive, and I became a sex addict. I would drink Jack every day until I was buzzed enough to not feel sad. I hurt her so she left me. I hurt myself in a lot of different ways I’m surprised I’m not dead. I remember the nights laying in the grass of my backyard throwing up blood because I drank too much. The only times I could be sober is once a year when I fast 30 days for Easter. Not because I want to change but to prove to God I’m willing to change. I never make it the whole 30 days. I wish I could quit drinking but I love it too much. I don’t drink with friends, I just drink alone because I can’t feel my emotions when I’m drunk.
I’m sorry to hear this brother, I’d say try to treat each individual day as a fast of some kind - use the day to try and put something positive into the world, and perhaps in the process of the day, you’ll have stopped caring about drinking
My mom stopped drinking when she realised she was turning into copy of my grandma. "Beering is not alcoholism, don't i deserve to relax in the evening!?" Was practically her catchphrase. 3 beers and 3 drinks might not be that much once in a while but even small amounts repeated daily turn you into a dimwit.
Man, old Simpsons was so good. I know that it has been said many times, but seeing some of those old clips reminded me of how clever/ funny that those first seasons were 😂
He really does present a great foil to Homer. Though I don’t watch the Simpsons anymore, I always remember Homer and Barneys relationship as being one of the more interesting in the show. Both bond over their shared love of alcohol, and have serious drinking problems, but unlike Homer, Barney has no one to help him. He doesn’t have someone like Marge to push him back onto the straight and narrow, to reach out a hand and help him up when he hits rock bottom. He has no family to keep him grounded, or who could get hurt as a consequence of his actions. This is highly ironic when you consider the backstories of both characters. Barney was brilliant when he was young. He had potential. He was going to an Ivy League school. Homer, on the other hand, wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. He wasn’t smart or talented in school. He was average at his best. Despite this, however, Homer ends up with a wife and kids, a fairly nice house, a career at the Nuclear Power Plant, and manages to achieve far more than someone like him would typically be able to accomplish, while Barney ends up with nothing, and even when he does manage to do something his alcoholism or Homer always manage to drag him back down.
Nobody caused Barney to be a drunk he probably would've went to Harvard to a party and got drunk there. Homer is a father makes money and works. Barney is the reason he is a drunk he could've said no I don't want the drink.
beautiful video once again proof that creations of personal things are the greatest Martin Scorcese‘s MEAN STREETS dealt with things personal to scorcese and paved his career for the first time after unsuccessful movies I hope you can make the best out of things good video!
Thank you! And I agree I think it’s important to write about not only what you know, but also what impacts you the most - that’s how even the worst of what we go through can be turned into beautiful art!
I love Barney so very much. He is my favourite character in the show. However, in terms of comedy I don't find him as funny as much as I find him pitiable, endearing and extremely sympathetic. Behind the goofy facade he is a warning, a dead man walking - once a genius, crippled by his addiction. I am lucky to not have an addiction to anything stronger than caffeine, but if there's anything The Simpsons has shown me it's that an alcohol addiction ain't fun. Lovely video. Stay safe ❤️
This video caught me at the right time, jk I was already drunk when I saw it. (in all seriousness, great video, I don’t drink much but like you said it’s a slippery slope, you gotta check yourself sometimes to make sure your not on a path you don’t want to be on, thank you for the video)
it was one of the few episodes of the simpsons i actually caught and watched in full as a kid. one i always felt bad about and solidified my ideas about homer being a bit of a dick and one of the formative points of why i dislike sitcoms and shows that can't progress at times. barney's film was one i could understand when it re-ran as i was 3/4 years old, i can't recall the exact age and it doesn't matter for my point. i grew up with a much more blunted D.A.R.E. program looming in the background of PE class and a family that smoked and sometimes drank. i saw first hand the small problems that came of those substances and staked my position against them far before i learned of the much much worse things that could have come from them. the episode "a star is burns" will always have a spot in my mind for barney's film, a short vignette of a broken man saying he's already dead from what was taken of him in his addiction, laden with words i could not place, and ideas i could not grasp, but a feeling of emptiness that held me still with what i could hold onto and comprehend. i always hated how broken he was from his drinking, and from my youth i only remember seeing the character collapsed drunk somewhere on the streets of springfield, or planted in a bar stool at MOE'S. but this video showed me what i forgot about this episode. homer's near stupid pick of football in groin wasn't the punchline, it was the truck of DUFF that had me quiet now some 2 decades later from when i first saw the episode. and what's worse, its a reoccurring cycle for barney he cannot escape that i never knew about. a man who has so much going for him but consistently taken down by an addiction his friend led him to, and constantly reals him back towards. i thank you for this information. it gave me a moment to reflect on something i genuinely loved in a show i genuinely do not care for at large, and gave me context for how much more of a sting it should have been.
Just turned 22 recently, decided to stay sober since I don’t really see drinking sugary ethanol as a privilege. Cautionary tales like Barney’s struggle with alcoholism serve as gentle reminders that it’s okay to feel like you’re not missing out on some things in life.
Barney bouncing on the Pillow Factory's roof instead of crashing into it is just the kind of subversive meta humor that Simpsons pulls off. It's a cartoon, but it's also grounded in reality when it would be funnier that way.
In retrospect, a lot of the Simpsons characters have a hidden potential that conflicts with their personality. There's already the "Simpsons are geniuses" fun fact and Moe's the other one that comes to mind.
This was a great Video. There was a time, where my Body was craving for cigarette and short after, I smoked. I only smoke at Partys and I only go 2-3 Times a year at Partys. But one day after Work, I could almost feel how addiction feels. I didn't want to, but my Body craved for Just one. And my mind was trying to make every excuse, why I need one. It's a reminder for me. I still have a Box of cigarettes and I haven't smoked since, though addiction can always happen.
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Barney was so overpowered and overtalented that God had to nerf him through alcoholism.
She had to be nerve to worse than Sebastian from OverWatch
Just like The Irish
@@fishbord Agreed, the Irish society was progressing well on their way to intergalactic colonization until the discovery of beer.
Not God, Homer.
@@Nexus9118 Homer is God
Ive always seen barney as the trajectory homer would have gone down if he hadnt gotten marge
This is a great way to look at it - you can see it in the early seasons when Marge kicks him out and he’s living in Barney’s mess, even if briefly
That's me
@@user-pi6hp9yh1ha lonely alcoholic?
Wasn't Homer roommates with Barney at some point? We see him eating cookie dough with Barney when Marge was trying to tell him she's pregnant.
That scene in one of the earlier seasons when Marge shows up at the bar and Homer is about to take his first drink and he looks at the guys who are miserable and Marge who looks hopeful and he chooses her and they ride on a bike together singing "Why do birds suddenly appear" has always made me think similarly to you
Barney is one of the reasons why I hate maintaining a heavy status quo in a lot of series
That’s a good way to describe it. Heavy status quo. That’s my issue with most serialized television. I wish the children in the shows would grow up. I’m tired of the Bob’s Burgers kids being the same age they were when the series started there’s something disturbing about it. So many characters would’ve had such a nice endings. So many episodes have such meaningful character arks that are just thrown away the next episode.
@@everythingwithashton5876like vessels stuck in time
@@sludgerat666 this aint netflix you dicks
Always sunny is status quo done right.
@@everythingwithashton5876 did it ruin bobs burgers for you?
To be fair to Homer, Barney's reaction to drinking a single beer for the first time in one go wasn't foreseeable and it was bound to happen one way or another if he had gone to some frat parties at Harvard.
Very true
Also, no one gets addicted to just 1 beer. Barney was secretly a sober alcoholic beforehand
It makes me wonder all that much more about Barney's background. Did he have a high ACE score? Is alcoholism common in his family? Or was it all just self-sabatoge, an excuse to be free of the pressures of being so gifted?
@@proton8689 Being prone to sudden addiction is very much a thing, coming from someone who suffers like that. Drink once, I'm immediately going to take it too far without friends to make sure my "just one" is actually just one. Smoking is the same. God knows what would happen to me if I got something stronger. Gambling too, I'm so happy I never take money out with me when I'm not buying something or I just end up betting it.
@@proton8689 True, but you can become an alcoholic after your first intoxication. My Grandfather didn't have a drink until he was 38 and after he got drunk that was it, he didn't stop until it killed him. For the sake of time I think the cartoon obviously sped past that.
God bless you and congratulations on your recovery from alcoholism, Conway from ends
Thank you very much! I now need to find a way to do more Conway Twitty songs in full suit 🤣
@@harryfromends hey, April fools is in 2 days
I think he was eclipsed in later seasons by Moe. Whose deep emotional problems and constant suicide attempts are actually ameliorated in the most recent seasons
I would still like them to give Barney some sort of happy ending before the main voice cast passes on to the hereafter.
This is very true! Moe - himself a very interesting character - took that spot away in some sense. And I agree, it would be lovely to see Barney get a full ending before the series finally runs it’s course
I’m an alcoholic. This was a really great video.
Thank you
I wish you all the success on your journey, it's a tough task but small steps!
Hope you're staying sober! Today is my one year anniversary. Life might not be perfect, but at least this way people and things aren't constantly slipping away from me.
I hope you find peace with whatever you're dealing with brotha
We've all had/have demons man.... you're no better or worse than the next man. We'll pray for u... if you're not religious then we'll still pray for u ❤
My brother just got acute liver failure. Some people need to lose everything first.
I remember as a child I used to laugh at the scenarios Barney found himself in due to alcohol.
Now I’m 30 in a very similar boat and it’s no longer funny but a haunting warning for younger viewers, in Australia alcoholism is very normal and even celebrated in parts so Barney just seemed like someone who couldn’t handle their drink, thank you for such a beautiful video showcasing such an interesting and troubled character.
Bro, celebrated is an understatement haha, if you are abstaining from alcohol people will think you're trying to be some "fitness freak" or str8 up think you're boring etc bunch of things. Alcoholism is terrible in aus and it's fuckin shit
@@tyronebiggums5547 And alcohol is literally poison.
It’s the same in Denmark, but we start way too young
@@CallofFreaky There's a definitely a culture of drinking here, but, particularly among the newer generations, I feel like people aren't critical of people who don't drink.
Alcoholism is a progressive condition that doesn't just happen overnight. The problem begins when you start using to self medicate life's issues which ultimately creates more problems that it "solves" and it drains your wallet and also rewires your brain so that you can't just have a few anymore. You just keep wanting more and more and it's just never "enough." I briefly worked for a boss that had this... I lasted 3 weeks.
The biggest turning point with any addiction is when your realize people like you more that way and encourage you to do it. There is little else to do but abandon "normal" society if you want to quit.
What was this boss like, would he drink in the work place, or get everyone to join him at the bar after work?
I feel like one of the worst things as an alcoholic is that it INCREASES creative output, work ethic, and how likable people see you as... every facet of our society encourages it the second it makes you more "normal". I'm in the middle of trying to quit now after relatives, ex friends, and ex partners I had to get away from made it clear they prefer me this way, even if I'm unhappy... and it's not like it kept them from judging me for drinking on top of it. It's a lose lose and you just have to create a new life with better people. Alcohol TAKES AWAY the numbness and lets me feel and think things again, but that's the problem! It turns me into a producer vs a consumer and in this society that is constantly encouraged even if it kills you. Drinking simply makes people treat you better, but with no actual care for your well being.
This is so me fr
I don't need it but I'm just a better and happier person with it, assuming I stop at a certain amount lol
@@joebowl8315 thats the alcohol talking. i thought the same thing about alcohol and cigarettes
This is a very delusional take. Either this just isn’t true or no one around you has actually ever cared about you and you need to surround yourself with far better people and make actual solid relationships.
That last sentence isn’t entirely true. Consumerism is pretty rampant these days
Reading this last night made me really sad man. I’m really wishing the best for you. I really think you need to reevaluate all relationships in your life. I find it insanely hard to believe that anyone is a more likeable person when they’re drunk. Just because you’re more social and outgoing does not at all mean you’re a more likeable person. All that shows is you can attract temporary attention. If someone prefers you to be drunk over sober I promise you that person does not care about you. Drinking in moderation is totally cool. But you saying people prefer you drunk should immediately tell you that they don’t care about your health and only care about what they can get from you. I got sober 2 and a half years ago. I had to cut literally everyone out of my life because I was feeling exactly how you’re saying. But I promise you man. Thinking an intoxicated you is a better you in any format is just delusional thinking.
I can relate I'm 42 single with bipolar but I just hit a year and four months sober I drowned twenty years of my life due alcohol.Addiction is a lonely tragedy with a dark resentment for life.But it can get better if you want the help to change.
That’s an incredible brave move to make, and a big congratulations on your sobriety! I can’t imagine how much of a struggle that must’ve been for over 20 years
It's rough, especially when so many encourage it and make it clear they like you better that way.
@@trysta73you have to stay far far away from those people. Those aren’t your friends those are demons. You’re nothing but a court jester and the entertainment for the evening when you drink to appease them.
You got this ! People around you are so proud and you can now enjoy your life at the fullest
I am 24 now, ever since school I developed a dependency on alcohol. My parents however caught onto that early on and have kept a tight leash, sounds pathetic I know, it feels like I'm on detox in rehab 24/7 my access to alcohol is limited and I drink at every chance I get. I always found characters like that amusing and relatable but videos like this just hit too close to home.
It’s not pathetic at all, it’s incredibly brave to say and admit that you have a dependency - I’d advise to think about the reasons why you drink and assess whether alcohol actually benefits any part of your life. Often times we look for answers externally, but I think looking within is often the best start - I wish you all the best, and I’m always here, as are many others to support!
Not pathetic. You're being supported. I think if more parents were harder on their kids about alcohol we would have less of a problem with it these days. Be happy they care enough to watch over you, but ultimately the one who will make the biggest change is you. When you feel that pang, you have to commit to being responsible. You have so much time... So much time man... So much life still to live to enjoy drinking here and there. Just learn to think without the drinking... You eventually reform yourself. Just keep at it, you got this.
Literally same bro. I’m 24, turn 25 on Sunday and have gone through the same. I need a a short leash tho cause I can’t help but show why I need a tight leash anytime I’ve ever been given any slack. Addiction is a bitch.
womp womp
i curbed my roomates addiction by taking his cards away (with his consent of course). it actually helped a lot. he'll still binge as soon as he gets them back, he needs therapy and more serious work, but its a good halfway there solution honestly. he lost a lot of weight fast and became more emotionally stable to actually think about his behaviors and shame and stuff
I always like Barney he was a good friend
He was always the truest friend to Homer, but Homer has almost always betrayed his trust
@@harryfromends wonder why?
@@harryfromends in season 1, Barney offered Home a place to rest at when Marge discovered a photo of him belly dancing at a stag party
All things in moderation. Even moderation.
Homer might get Barney back into drinking, but it isn't done in a facetious way. You've got to remember that Homer is dumb but kind,he doesn't see a problem with beer. To him beer is what he can always rely on and what he always turns to, to numb the pain.
So why wouldn't he offer Barney a beer, that's how they've always communicated with each other.
Ngl this made me remember mittensquad (fallout/skyrim challenge RUclipsr who died from alcohol poisoning)
And that, is where, the real game began 😥
He didn't die, I don't think there's been any evidence of that, he just took a long hiatus
@@sirgentlebread7302there is an obituary page with his name and face on it. i dont think its proper to link it, but you can easily find it through google
@@sirgentlebread7302He was littery pronounced dead.
@@purple-eyessilverdrago6895 Where?
I really hope one day, when the Simpsons end, they give him a good ending
I hope so too, he’s a tragic hero for now and hopefully a hero by the end!
if it wasnt for *homer* barney would have a better life *homer gave him his first beer in collage*
Yeah this fact always makes me a little sad
If it wasn't Homer, someone else would have given it right?
@@KracklinDark
Almost surely --
and, for what its worth, no one person can be responsible for another person's alcoholism. Like maybe you were the one who gave the first beer, but its also that receiver's choice to drink. And then make that choice again. And again. And again.
I don't care who it is, you simply won't "accidentally" become an alcoholic. Nobody will be force-feeding you alcohol against your will long enough to give you alcoholism. Even if the choice seems thoughtless because its easy, its still a choice. People may feel compelled to drink to have fun, but until that alcoholism sets in and youre truly addicted, its not true compulsion, just a temptation you give in to.
Anyways, all this to say you really cant trace back an alcoholic's origins and blame it on a singular drink a friend gave them.
Its about developing a history of drinking, and that requires a series of small, sometimes imperceptible choices.
@@Atylonisus the issue is, there have been researches done into it. Some people actually have an alcoholism "gene" that is fine most of the time, but literally one drink is enough to trigger it and push them into full blown alcoholism.
Edit: still can't blame Homer, no one can know if you have that or not
@@Atylonisus yeah, Homer gave him the first one, but Barnie chose the second one, the third one, the fourth one and so on. Even with a predisposition to addiction, it was Barnie that chose to become what he became.
Youll never truly understand how something really is like until you've been there yourself.
Barney is such a tragic Charakter.
The Non-Alcoholic wine portion may have actually been placebo. Similar to how a User Dream can induce "drug-like" effects on the body despite not having consumed any.
I was held hostage for several years by an alcoholic ex. I made a last ditch attempt to escape... and was sent to a sober living home instead of a DV shelter.
It was mostly traumatizing, but I learned a lot. Like even an alcoholic at death's door can turn their life around if they find that shining reason.
Most importantly- never make the mistake of taking that first drink. It's only been a month... but several of my friends there have relapsed and passed away. My best friend narrowly avoided getting shot outside a bar last week. I thought he was dead and so did his family. It tore us all to peices.
There are people who love and care about you. You can recover, and live a better life than you ever thought possible. Take that first step and seek help- whether from friends/family, church, a doctor, sober living program, or your local AA chapter. You have a lot of options and a bright future. Stay strong.
I’m so sorry you had to experience that, and that’s great advice to seek out help in whatever way possible before resorting to such an addictive pattern of drinking!
I been saying it for a while now, Barney had it ALL. Ambition, creative potential, drive, raw power (he KO'd homer with 1 punch, not even Drederick Tatum hit Homer that hard). And it was alcohol that was his only real downfall. But he's still got all that potential. By how he can pilot a helicopter after just a few days away from the bottle. If he ever managed to kick the habit for good, he would be the one running springfield.
I'm 26 yo and I'm an alcoholic, so I Do understand your pain as no one does. And this sounds absurd because how it's possible in your years and your 20's suppose to be about parting and drinking, maybe for some works, but not for me It slowly and invisible turned me into depending on alcohol When I started communicating with AA guys, they asked me about my age and they were proud of me , because I admitted my problem despite my age .
Also I read from creators of The Simpsons they maked Barney relapse because they had no idea what to do with sober Barney which is sad. Barney deserves to be happy and admitting their idealess about sober Barney tells a lot, more like Homer who forced him into drinking.
Also there a lot of animated TV series showed alcoholism as it from different angles, but my favorite I watched recently :BoJack Horseman, Moral Orel, Tuca & Berdie. Trust me watch, you jaw'll fall down from how realistic they are sometimes, furs two shows how alcohol is gateway or a sign of something bigger and you copping, last one good also because they have character who drinks, but doesn't become bad person, just does hurm for himself. I hope you sober and all right.
Good luck, and watch them.
Firstly you are indeed very brave to admit and own any kind of problem, especially one like alcohol which is so normalised at a young age! And for sure I love Bojack and Moral Orel has some incredible dark moments related to drinking (camping trip is definitely the darkest imo)
@@harryfromends, thank you, we'd been forced from all media idea of drinking is cool, no fun without it, people who don't drink lifeless. I still work on it and hope one day I'll remember it just as life experience I got from drinking. I remember when I was a kid I saw a poster of Barney on ice rink with saying "Don't drink and ride" which I didn't understand at the time and I thought it was funny because how Barney acts in the show, now it looks sad. Because you Do understand now.
I'm glad you healthy by all means , and I agree episodes from Moral Orel Nature 1&2 are too real (even before we knew Clay is drunk, but this one is dig in really deep) and they captured the real problems and mindset of a drunk and alcohol dependent, I mean his look in the bottle with this scary quote "Why do you quit working on me?!"I get scary to because this is what I felt when I realized alcohol doesn't work on me any more it gives me now only sorrow and no happiness. It's already proven alcohol isn't antidepressant, but indeed true depressant. Which is scary because a lot of people use it to make themselves happy, but makes them more depressed.
And monolog about women where Clay progects all his problems and weaknesses on his son calling him a sissy lady when this is all Clay's problems, which'll be showed again in episode Sacrifice, because we saw how Clay repeating saying "I'm a man.!" and wants Orel being a man and associates violence with love and manhood from his traumas, he sees kindness as girly thing (said a guy which boyfriend is Danielle), but we see Orel is more man than he'll be so he drinks because drinking is easy to forget about your problems and not to try get better, yes there's a fault of Blobberta who forsed his into drinking in the first place, but he choose to stay drunk all the time for not to see how miserable he is and everyone said "Just quit drinking if this is bad for you", but you need courage for that and work on your problems which Clay refused to do it because he enjoys the pain. It's easy and this is some kind of sick fetish of his.
it's also in fanarts we see Clay with demonic dog head simbolizing his demonic nature, I didn't understand why only after I realized creators of the show did it already in Orel's short movie. I think this is one of reasons.Orel's kindness is what makes him a man, also his grandpa who build this foundation in him that'll be shown if show didn't get canceled and was probably only father figure in his life, and by the way, grandpa Puppington is the only one in Orel's family we saw who hugged Orel and asked him what he thinks about God, basically introduced him concept of christianity which Clay was afraid and basically to tell him anything. Because a man admits his mistakes Clay never does he repeat his mum's saying "There are no mistakes, accidents etc", he refuses to take responsibility as a man and drinking shows it as his getaway, so drinking is not illness, this is just a syndrome. I think even as creators left sighs it was all miss Censordoll voodoo magic to push Clay to shoot Orel he choose it, they admitted it, it was supposed to be a plot for next 2 seasons before canceling the show. It was choice of Clay all along to hurt his son, especially when he drank rubbing alcohol just to get drunk because Orel shoot his last bottles of liquire from first aid which Orel bought from money from his job in Stephanie's show is more heartbreaking.Just to punish him and acted like nothing happened.
I'm suggesting nothing you covered how drinking destroyed good soul as Barney, but it'll be interesting to see on Moral Orel example (Clay) , plus maybe BoJack Horseman how alcohol is open key for some people be bad, to punish themselves or just an excuse for not changing themselves because it's easy.
I know wrote to much, hope I'll read it and maybe I gave you new idea for vid. Thank you for answering and stay sober and healthy. 😊🙏
I prefer coke.
@@harryfromendsIt is not “brave” to admit to being an alcoholic.
am I brave if I say I am addicted to porn?
@@HydroSnorter3000, of course. Admitting a problem is one step for recovery.
Never had a problem with alcohol (thank god) But I was heavily addicted to painkillers for many years (l am still really. I'm sober but that "need" never left me for it.), taking enough in a day that would lay out a horse. When I see videos like this they really help in an indirect way, kind of a way of reminding me that "yes, it's worth it to try my best and stay sober. I relapsed just after Christmas, only for a week but that feeling of losing all the progress and reverting to an isolated and lonely depressed state is terrifying to me. It's just hard to bare that in mind a lot of the times when fighting the "urge". Thanks for the video, don't watch Simpsons but these kind of things really do help, addictions may be different but the experiences are always eerily similar when the addiction has full control of someone.
For all the shade that gets thrown at post season 10 Simpsons, Barney's start on the road to sobriety will always be among my favourite episodes, perhaps of anything, because never before or since did I want a fictional character to succeed more than Barney in his battle against alcoholism. Even though I haven't seen The Simpsons in a while, I'll always hope for Barney to come out on top.
TV can be such a great medium for teaching us about life's struggles. This was great episode. Barney is a great/terrible example of alcoholism.
When I was a kid my first time seeing alcoholism for the terrible disease that it is, was watching Dr Cox on Scrubs. When things would go wrong this smart confident doctor turns to alcohol, becoming this shadow of himself that was hard to see. And that is why I avoid alcohol myself when life gets tough.
This was really well put together and incredibly heartbreaking. Good on you for working hard to wean yourself off of alcohol. It’s a hard struggle.
no matter how far barney falls he will always be gods drunkest driver
I suffer with alcoholism it's so normalized in some parts of the world its hard to when to stop.
I've recently got out of a friendship that was bad for me and I got back into AA, in 9 days I'll be 3 mouths sober. My drinking was similar to Barney's, thank you for making this video it was very impactful to me.
This character analysis made me realize how much more intellectual, sophisticated and all around better writers were in early season. So much so I had to go and track who was working on early seasons. Humor was deeper, how its just quantity over quality of gags
Deep Space Homer is so funny, I almost was driven mad.
Hail 🐜’s
I drank whiskey everyday for over 10 years and now i am on my 5th year sober and I 100% do not regret it and for those who struggle just know you are not alone and it is possible!
You’re doing brilliantly and it’s all a learning experience that you can now use to guide others in the right direction!
Former alcoholic/heroin addict. Thank you for this video, and we are so proud of you ❤
I came here thinking this was an Evita parody.
Sober three year
It is true people who are alcoholics and think something is alcoholic will have a psychosomatic response to it. They will get drunk even though there's no alcohol inside the drink.
Really awesome video, love the editing and music. Keep it up man.
Thank you sir! Got a lot more vids in the work, hopefully you enjoy them!
@harryfromends Looking forward to it, mate!
Barney's short film is a masterpiece
This makes homer look like a monster
I've never touched a glass, bottle, or can. I know where my life is, and the last thing I need is another vice
This was beautiful
Well done on a thoughtful and well-researched video. I also respect you for opening up about your own battle. 2021 was a terrible year for anyone with tendencies in the direction of addiction.
had a wonderful boyfriend, he got me into heavy drinking, and now that hes gone, i miss him all the time (he didnt die he just left me) but now when i drink it makes me so bittersweet because i can recollect some of the feeling of being with him, but it makes me miss him even more, i hope one day i meet him again, hes since cleaned up and is doing well now, i am not, im having a hard time quitting
Great video. Barney is such an underrated character. His talent and heart are literally drowned by alcohol.
Luckily I can't tolerate alcohol, if I drink enough I get drunk and have a good time, but the journey there is tiring for me because the alcohol makes me sick and gives me stomach pains. This only disappears when I've drunk enough . However, since the feeling of happiness while intoxicated isn't enough for me to justify going there, I don't drink anything. The last time I was drunk was at one of my friends' bachelore partie. That was over a year ago, so unless I have a good reason, I don't have a drop.
I can relate: i always drink, at best, 1/3rd of a glass, for about 3-4 glasses, be it wine or beer (same quantity but in tiny glasses for strong alcohol products), 'cause more gives me stomach pains and i don't like my head spinning. I always get laughs and jokes from my friends about it, but who cares...
I feel like Barney alot these days. Met a person who was bad for me and I was drinking so so heavily that I constantly was making a fool of myself constantly. I alienated everyone and everything that mattered to me. Im currently in recovery but a lot of damage has already been done. Even tho this is just a video about the Simpsons, I resonate with it very deeply.
Ive watched my mil struggle with alcholism for over 10 years
Her partner isnt the best person to be around when recovering or tryong to do better in your life (going as far as handing her drinks and constantly putting her down whenever she tries to do better)
She had lost her kids (not due to alcoholism due to a basket of laundry not put away)
It took her 3 years to get them back due to her alcoholism she was 3 years sober when she spiraled
She now has to quit again along with smoking due to her health complications from drinking from a tween to almost 50
Never really been "gripped" by the bottle, but there's been times in my life where i was sufficiently buzzed almost every night.
Honestly, it is an act of God that I'm not an alcoholic.
i have the same birthday as barney, which goes some way to explain why i drink as much as the average scottish person.
No. Funny excuse, though.
I grew up watching the simpsons. I remember the episode where Barney made his movie and I remember crying a lot when he said “don’t cry for me, I’m already dead” and I never understood why. I never saw at the time that I saw my father in Barney and alcoholism killed him in December of last year at 44. I’m 23 and I will always see my father in Barney.
Damn.. that’s tough. Stay strong brother
Am I a tragedy?
This seems eerily familiar.
Did I already die?
Probably.
Always look out for the friends that are helping you lose.
I am only in my mid 20’s and I’m an alcoholic. I grew up in a family of Russian immigrants where it was okay if started drink liquor at 15-16. In 2020, I had a beautiful southern girl in my life. We were in love and recently engaged. Covid hit so I started hitting the bottle. I gained 30 pounds, I became emotionally numb and abusive, and I became a sex addict. I would drink Jack every day until I was buzzed enough to not feel sad. I hurt her so she left me. I hurt myself in a lot of different ways I’m surprised I’m not dead. I remember the nights laying in the grass of my backyard throwing up blood because I drank too much. The only times I could be sober is once a year when I fast 30 days for Easter. Not because I want to change but to prove to God I’m willing to change. I never make it the whole 30 days. I wish I could quit drinking but I love it too much. I don’t drink with friends, I just drink alone because I can’t feel my emotions when I’m drunk.
I’m sorry to hear this brother, I’d say try to treat each individual day as a fast of some kind - use the day to try and put something positive into the world, and perhaps in the process of the day, you’ll have stopped caring about drinking
one must imagine barney happy
My mom stopped drinking when she realised she was turning into copy of my grandma.
"Beering is not alcoholism, don't i deserve to relax in the evening!?" Was practically her catchphrase. 3 beers and 3 drinks might not be that much once in a while but even small amounts repeated daily turn you into a dimwit.
RIP Mitten Squad
This video is epic while drunk😂 keep making content man
It's like watching an anti drug add while being drugged 😂
I’m so sad that Barney relapsed, but I choose to see him as a reminder of my own alcoholism and how easy it is to relapse.
Great video 😊 Love it!
>alcoholic
>prosecco
rookie numbers
This was a great analysis
great video dude!!
video essay about barney from The Simpsons? let's go
Mario's movie is awesome with heart
Damn... What a title. Great video
Man, old Simpsons was so good. I know that it has been said many times, but seeing some of those old clips reminded me of how clever/ funny that those first seasons were 😂
He really does present a great foil to Homer. Though I don’t watch the Simpsons anymore, I always remember Homer and Barneys relationship as being one of the more interesting in the show. Both bond over their shared love of alcohol, and have serious drinking problems, but unlike Homer, Barney has no one to help him. He doesn’t have someone like Marge to push him back onto the straight and narrow, to reach out a hand and help him up when he hits rock bottom. He has no family to keep him grounded, or who could get hurt as a consequence of his actions. This is highly ironic when you consider the backstories of both characters. Barney was brilliant when he was young. He had potential. He was going to an Ivy League school. Homer, on the other hand, wasn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer. He wasn’t smart or talented in school. He was average at his best. Despite this, however, Homer ends up with a wife and kids, a fairly nice house, a career at the Nuclear Power Plant, and manages to achieve far more than someone like him would typically be able to accomplish, while Barney ends up with nothing, and even when he does manage to do something his alcoholism or Homer always manage to drag him back down.
Its disappointing how they pushed Barney back as Homer's best friend in favor of Lenny and Carl.
good video, glad to hear your story about alcoholism as well, hope you keep doing well!
I'm always impress how huge potential barney has, as many episodes shown us he has many talents but the alcohol destroyed him
"he's already dead he just doesn't know it yet 🎅🎅🎅", a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do
Screw Homer tbh, he’s what caused Barney to be all drunk and whatnot
Nobody caused Barney to be a drunk he probably would've went to Harvard to a party and got drunk there. Homer is a father makes money and works. Barney is the reason he is a drunk he could've said no I don't want the drink.
Loved the video ❤
poor barney 🥲🥲
beautiful video
once again proof that creations of personal things are the greatest
Martin Scorcese‘s MEAN STREETS dealt with things personal to scorcese and paved his career for the first time after unsuccessful movies
I hope you can make the best out of things
good video!
Thank you! And I agree I think it’s important to write about not only what you know, but also what impacts you the most - that’s how even the worst of what we go through can be turned into beautiful art!
@@harryfromends Yesss! im glad you exactly understood what i was trying to say.. keep going bro
I can tell some of y'all was drunk making these comments. Like me. 😂
May God bless you, my friend. Even though we're just strangers, may God protect you. Inshallah.
Alcohol sounds like a hard thing to get out of.
Mr. Plow made me hate Barney but damn near every other episode dealing with Homer and Barney made me hate Homer.
Bro I remember seeing afew of these wen they aired
I love Barney so very much. He is my favourite character in the show. However, in terms of comedy I don't find him as funny as much as I find him pitiable, endearing and extremely sympathetic. Behind the goofy facade he is a warning, a dead man walking - once a genius, crippled by his addiction. I am lucky to not have an addiction to anything stronger than caffeine, but if there's anything The Simpsons has shown me it's that an alcohol addiction ain't fun.
Lovely video. Stay safe ❤️
This video caught me at the right time, jk I was already drunk when I saw it. (in all seriousness, great video, I don’t drink much but like you said it’s a slippery slope, you gotta check yourself sometimes to make sure your not on a path you don’t want to be on, thank you for the video)
it was one of the few episodes of the simpsons i actually caught and watched in full as a kid. one i always felt bad about and solidified my ideas about homer being a bit of a dick and one of the formative points of why i dislike sitcoms and shows that can't progress at times.
barney's film was one i could understand when it re-ran as i was 3/4 years old, i can't recall the exact age and it doesn't matter for my point. i grew up with a much more blunted D.A.R.E. program looming in the background of PE class and a family that smoked and sometimes drank. i saw first hand the small problems that came of those substances and staked my position against them far before i learned of the much much worse things that could have come from them. the episode "a star is burns" will always have a spot in my mind for barney's film, a short vignette of a broken man saying he's already dead from what was taken of him in his addiction, laden with words i could not place, and ideas i could not grasp, but a feeling of emptiness that held me still with what i could hold onto and comprehend.
i always hated how broken he was from his drinking, and from my youth i only remember seeing the character collapsed drunk somewhere on the streets of springfield, or planted in a bar stool at MOE'S. but this video showed me what i forgot about this episode. homer's near stupid pick of football in groin wasn't the punchline, it was the truck of DUFF that had me quiet now some 2 decades later from when i first saw the episode. and what's worse, its a reoccurring cycle for barney he cannot escape that i never knew about. a man who has so much going for him but consistently taken down by an addiction his friend led him to, and constantly reals him back towards.
i thank you for this information. it gave me a moment to reflect on something i genuinely loved in a show i genuinely do not care for at large, and gave me context for how much more of a sting it should have been.
every time i see barney invite homer over to stay with him for the night i always expect it to cut to a lavish mansion
I think Barney is homer's actual best friend.
11 months sober and the trip has been hell!
Just turned 22 recently, decided to stay sober since I don’t really see drinking sugary ethanol as a privilege. Cautionary tales like Barney’s struggle with alcoholism serve as gentle reminders that it’s okay to feel like you’re not missing out on some things in life.
Barney bouncing on the Pillow Factory's roof instead of crashing into it is just the kind of subversive meta humor that Simpsons pulls off. It's a cartoon, but it's also grounded in reality when it would be funnier that way.
4:38 where did these amazing illustrations come from? This video is so high quality.
In retrospect, a lot of the Simpsons characters have a hidden potential that conflicts with their personality. There's already the "Simpsons are geniuses" fun fact and Moe's the other one that comes to mind.
Good Work
I rarely drink anymore. I just dont like the way i feel when i have too much. Dependant.
9 yrs clean and sober
poor barney was normal character
Alcohol has no benefit; but cause much pain and suffering.
How many times has something horrible happen due to alcohol.
About that beer I owed you...
This was a great Video. There was a time, where my Body was craving for cigarette and short after, I smoked. I only smoke at Partys and I only go 2-3 Times a year at Partys. But one day after Work, I could almost feel how addiction feels. I didn't want to, but my Body craved for Just one. And my mind was trying to make every excuse, why I need one. It's a reminder for me. I still have a Box of cigarettes and I haven't smoked since, though addiction can always happen.
I have a drinking solution, not a problem. 18 - 24 beers a week gets pretty expensive though
Been clean since October 28th no hard drugs or alcohol just healing
I love a good beverage.
as a man who cant go even a week without alcohol, this hits pretty close to home.
Well. Perhaps start with a 3 day personal best and work from there up to a week. 2 till 2025 perhaps.