Us: I'm from NY Everyone: So what's NYC like did you hate living there? What's the traffic like, did you see the Mob? Did you experience 911? Have you been to Times Square? Me: sigh
"Really? Well, I'm from Utica, and I've never heard anyone use the phrase 'steamed hams.'" "Oh, not in Utica, no. It's an Albany expression." (Sorry, couldn't resist.)
the fact that Syracuse is never mentioned (unless you count the unnamed crumbling highway & Otto), but Buffalo gets like 5 shout outs, sort of says everything. Syracuse is the Upstate NY of Upstate NY
Born and currently still living in Rochester, we're famous for Garbage plates, Zwiegle's hot dogs, and pot holes....many, many pot holes 😂 good job, Simpsons!
Gregory Blosser i thought it captured a lot of the generic stuffs NY offers...like too well done. love it and the snow at the end is too perfect for Buffalo
Let’s check in on the Adirondacks! Perfect nature playground and everyone is your friend in the summer! Snowshoeing up a mountain by yourself in the winter.
It's a badge of honor that the Simpsons went after upstate, think of all the rust belt that is jealously wishing it was them (PA, OH, IN, MI, IL, and on and on). Syracuse was mentioned, but maybe one of the writers is from there, so it got a pass.
I'm from Gloversville and I was annoyed when the politicians wanted The Simpson's to talk about the good parts of Upstate. They're making fun of us, that's the point! Even those of us who live here thought it was funny!
Sleep in a city that never wakes, that's pretty much every area in Upstate. They do obsess over wing sauce out here, and young people claim "early retirement," by going on disability. I was recently a victim of violence out here and reached my breaking point. Upstate NY is terrible, absolutely terrible.
@@strawberryseasonAdirondacks>Finger Lakes. We have the mountains, most of our lakes are still wild and undeveloped, and we’re close to both Vermont and Canada.
I live in the City. But have been to Syracuse, Albany, Rochester and Buffalo. Syracuse and Albany seemed fine. But Buffalo was a dump and Rochester seemed like an abandoned city. It's sad, cross the border into Canada, and it's beautiful.
I'm from NY City as well and I've been to all of those places also and I can confirm as well. Although they do have some nice places as well like Williamsville and Amherst in Western NY. They forgot to mention other disgusting shithole dumps like Newburgh and Poughkeepsie, also Peekskill.
@@Gsmooth10455 I used to live in Poughkeepsie and you are exactly right! so glad I don't live there anymore. One god thing about it, Newburgh was worse but that's not saying much.
Hey! We used to be a hotbed of some of the finest religious insurrectionists, IRA chapters, confederates, abolitionists, this country has ever seen, and that was just in the 1800’s!
There is no such thing as "Buffalo Wings". Only clueless outsiders call them that. And since the Bellisimo family sold the place, it's nothing for a tourist joint now ... (for folks like Homer).
i live in upstate New York, the only places I like to visit upstate is probably old forge for the snowmobiling or lake placid for the food and stuff, other than that, there is really nothing here
@@busteronlyfullscreenmodeIn defense of the North Country, it’s usually only the people who spent half of their school days at BOCES that talk like that.
Born and still living in Batavia not gonna lie this song is sorta accurate also I hate living here. And I’m glad that they aren’t talking about NYC and they say Upstate NY because everyone likes to assume the whole state is NYC.
as someone living outside Syracuse I don't know whether to laugh at the accuracy of life here in Upstate or cringe at how bland and unoriginal the Simpsons writing has gotten
There ain't nothing up here anymore. Everyone drives to see either the Adirondack, Buffalo/finger lakes, nyc, or Niagara. There used to be resorts as far as the eye could see. Mineral water springs. Now there's only a few floundering cheesy motels left and all that's up here is just a bunch of people waiting for something interesting to happen. Ever since the 1960s when the cruise ship industry became more popular we have been suffering, forgotten. Empty husks of bottling plants and dilapidated resorts are the only reminder left of what this place once looked like. What it is supposed to look like.
Can somone please explain this to me. I did my undergrad and doing grad in the nano college in Albany and lived in Albany County my whole life yet I've never heard this expression
It is truly honor to wear the badge 🎖 PROUD to be from 🦬🦬🦬 BUFFALO NY. This is funny hilarious 😂. So true best sports fan 🏈🏒🥍 and love my hot buffalo wings at Duff's. 🍗🍗🍗🌶🌶🌶
I loved this episode. But I've always loved the Simpsons since the Tracy Ulman Show. I'm in Batavia, which was mentioned before this in the pretzel episode. Weirdly by a Mafia boss, and there is a Batavia connection to the Mafia.
Upstate New York (including western New York) > New York City How's that? We in Upstate NY are completely different from NYC (you will notice differences in culture & whatnot). At least here, Homer's acknowledging that there's more to the state of New York than just New York City. We have suburbs, farmland, forests (including Allegany National Forest), 2 of the Great Lakes & Niagara Falls. Oh & yes, we usually do get a lot of snow in Winter.
As someone who lives in a small farming town 20 minutes from Broadway in saratoga...yeah...school up here talks about how important the "battle of saratoga" was in the revolution yet nobody in other states learned about it
And up in the Lake Champlain area it was all about how important Fort Ticonderoga was. Saratoga would get mentioned, but a ton of emphasis was put on how the Green Mountain Boys took Fort Ticonderoga from the British by surprise; also the fort’s importance in the Seven Years War, and how it was originally French and called Carillon… We also got a lot about Forts St. Frederic and Crown Point, which were located a little ways north.
At least they know of upstate New York and dont assume its in NYC like everyone else
True true true
Yep. We're 2 diff states practically
also could be because Homer HATES New York City, lol
@@SuV33358 I also see it that way
Us: I'm from NY
Everyone: So what's NYC like did you hate living there? What's the traffic like, did you see the Mob? Did you experience 911? Have you been to Times Square?
Me: sigh
I grew up in Albany, went to college in Rochester, and currently live in Buffalo. This seems more or less accurate to me.
yep
That’s what I’m saying mannn
Yeah
Aaaaa you live 5 hours away
518. Yeah, it’s accurate. Except Niski is actually a high-end town in the Capital Region.
Upstate Ny Rochester native, it hurts because it’s true!!!! Especially the dancing opiates bottle dancing across the street
Those are called "neighbors"
As a CNY resident for all my life, I appreciate they didn’t even have a sunny day the whole song!
Come to think of it, Homer has always kind of had a Rochester accent.
I’m from Rochester and I used to have an old landlord that sounded like Homer
Can confirm, we sound like homer
"Really? Well, I'm from Utica, and I've never heard anyone use the phrase 'steamed hams.'"
"Oh, not in Utica, no. It's an Albany expression."
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
the fact that Syracuse is never mentioned (unless you count the unnamed crumbling highway & Otto), but Buffalo gets like 5 shout outs, sort of says everything. Syracuse is the Upstate NY of Upstate NY
That it is
The mascot was in there wym
Hell no 315ers
Ithaca didn’t get mentioned at all & it’s probably the most respected town in Upstate New York by NYC elites.
@@jacobr5627 probably
Born and currently still living in Rochester, we're famous for Garbage plates, Zwiegle's hot dogs, and pot holes....many, many pot holes 😂 good job, Simpsons!
Yup white hots and Stevie T's are a good way to eat lunch
lol my dance recital is at kodak every year rip
@@ranch67
I just went to Kodak to see a Shrek play 2 weeks ago 😄
Introverted Oreo i love shrek
I fucking love garbage plates. What's that one restaurant that man vs food was at? I live in ithaca so I'm like and hour a way.
While Kodak has indeed demolished a good chunk of its facility, it's actually still open, just running at a fraction of the capacity it once did.
As a Binghamton resident, I’m shocked they didn’t take aim at us! Binghamton is the comedy equivalent of a hanging curveball.
Gregory Blosser i thought it captured a lot of the generic stuffs NY offers...like too well done. love it and the snow at the end is too perfect for Buffalo
As NOT a Binghamton resident, I forgot Binghamton existed until I read this comment.
@@pinkymixology4965 There's a reason people forgot about Binghamton...
People forget about Binghamton but know Ithaca. I enjoyed my time living in Bing town
@@Unatcowomensbathroom I live near Ithaca 😃
I died at “Go on disability.”
So, so true.
Everything is true about this.
Everyone from Rochester has multiple friends/relatives who "used to work at Kodak"
E V E R Y O N E
My mom and aunt
lmao my grandpa worked for kodak
KODAK
Rochester isn’t upstate
That’s a shocking amount of Utica Buildings that we’re accurately drawn. I’m kinda impressed.
Bruh they really did it to us
Hay I’m from Cattaraugus and this is true
We deserve it.
Yeah
The bills stands being empty was bullshit
LET’S GO BUFFALO!!!
I’ve only lived in upstate New York for a year and a half now, and this has described every one of my experiences up here 🤣
what evil force convinced you to live in this hell
Sounds like you’ve never seen the Adirondacks.
This is true, im from buffalo
1 hour away from Buffalo babyyyyyp
@@knightrust200 I’m guessing ur from Rochester
@@doctor86gonzo i don't even live in buffalo anymore-
Syracuse is freaking great though
Except for that year that Cuomo meddled into it
I think it is an HONOR to be on the Simpson's!
I think you gay
@@jesustorres2569 I think you triply gay
The fact they shouted us out is an honor (And a great joke)
Upstate NY mentioned!
RAHHHHHH!!!!
Yes
As a wise man once said: "It's funny 'cause it's true!"
It basically is true for all of the rust belt.
Utica was spot on with the declining population
Utica has actually been growing in the past last two census.
@@underground9260 it's an Albany stereotype
Didn’t Dunder Mifflin close their Utica sales office?
@@chasbodaniels1744 so did Woolworths…
0:20 Maggie pulling Bart back into the car hahahaha
"If I have to suffer than so do you" - Maggie
@@EssexAggiegrad2011 Exactly. 🤣
Let’s check in on the Adirondacks!
Perfect nature playground and everyone is your friend in the summer!
Snowshoeing up a mountain by yourself in the winter.
It's a badge of honor that the Simpsons went after upstate, think of all the rust belt that is jealously wishing it was them (PA, OH, IN, MI, IL, and on and on). Syracuse was mentioned, but maybe one of the writers is from there, so it got a pass.
My Granpa grew up in Utica and he was dying of laughter when he watched this!
Does he fancy steamed hams?
@@bingobongo1615 how could he? It's an Albany expression.
Rochesterian here, the first part with everything falling apart is way too accurate lmao
I'm from Gloversville and I was annoyed when the politicians wanted The Simpson's to talk about the good parts of Upstate. They're making fun of us, that's the point! Even those of us who live here thought it was funny!
I just moved to Gville! From Albany🤓
Schenectadian here
So you're saying the joke when over the head of political "professionals".
I'm shocked.
Sleep in a city that never wakes, that's pretty much every area in Upstate. They do obsess over wing sauce out here, and young people claim "early retirement," by going on disability. I was recently a victim of violence out here and reached my breaking point. Upstate NY is terrible, absolutely terrible.
Upstate New York is basically Florida for bores.
Finger Lakes are spectacular.
@@strawberryseasonstay out
@@strawberryseasonAdirondacks>Finger Lakes. We have the mountains, most of our lakes are still wild and undeveloped, and we’re close to both Vermont and Canada.
@@PizzaDayEnjoyer If you didn't have pizza in your name I would give you a rude response.
I live in the City. But have been to Syracuse, Albany, Rochester and Buffalo. Syracuse and Albany seemed fine. But Buffalo was a dump and Rochester seemed like an abandoned city. It's sad, cross the border into Canada, and it's beautiful.
I'm from NY City as well and I've been to all of those places also and I can confirm as well. Although they do have some nice places as well like Williamsville and Amherst in Western NY. They forgot to mention other disgusting shithole dumps like Newburgh and Poughkeepsie, also Peekskill.
@@Gsmooth10455 I used to live in Poughkeepsie and you are exactly right! so glad I don't live there anymore. One god thing about it, Newburgh was worse but that's not saying much.
I have to add that Toronto has become one big dangerous dump along with a few suburbs.
@@Gsmooth10455 Toronto isn't so bad but some areas are better than others.
The best part of upstate is the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain area.
As someone born and raised in Rochester, this somehow makes me laugh.
Only thing they got wrong is the stands are packed at bills games
YES! The loyalty of Bills fans is unparalleled!
Especially given the harsh weather they have to sit through at games!
A Utica kid considering going to MVCC...this video speaks to me in a painful yet true way
Do they still make that incredible cheddar in the Mohawk Valley?
@@chasbodaniels1744 yeah, but literally all we have is cheese and depression
The fact that I’m a huge Simpsons fan and multiple shots of my hometown were seen 💜
Hey! We used to be a hotbed of some of the finest religious insurrectionists, IRA chapters, confederates, abolitionists, this country has ever seen, and that was just in the 1800’s!
You really have to live here to understand it. It's so true how they put it.
Yup this sums up Upstate, NY, as someone was born and lives in Hometown, USA.
Oh my gosh- as someone who used to live in Niskayuna and has been to all of these places I can't even, this is hilarious. xD
The best wings are actually at Duffs ,not anchor bar
Anchor Bar invented the buffalo wings.
I know, I stand by my post ,even though I work in a pizzeria that sells good wings.
There is no such thing as "Buffalo Wings". Only clueless outsiders call them that. And since the Bellisimo family sold the place, it's nothing for a tourist joint now ... (for folks like Homer).
My Favorite Upstate New York term are "Steamed Hams". It's an Albany expression.
Lifelong Oswego County resident. No lies detected. 😂
Man you can’t say they ain’t lyin
I literally went to that Community College! XD
Yeah so did I no duh lmfao
Shout out to mvcc !!
I went to HCCC so more or less the same thing 😂
I went there too, for two whole trimesters.
Syracuse born and raised... can confirm this is 100% true
I have never been so offended by something that’s so right
Fun fact, Utica NY was built on a marsh 👍
makes sense
You mean swamp.
It's 99.99% accurate also the Bills are the true NY team the Giants and the jets okay in Jersey I'm western NY born and raised
Prayers for Hamlin and hope the Bills win it all this year. 🙏🙏🙏
Long Island born and raised and I'm a huge Bills fan. It just sucks putting up with the obnoxious Jets fans around here, lol.
This is fucking hilarious
The water tower is literally my hometown LMAO
i live in upstate New York, the only places I like to visit upstate is probably old forge for the snowmobiling or lake placid for the food and stuff, other than that, there is really nothing here
Hunting and fishing is good tho
I grew up in Troy and was a recruiter in around most of the state, I had to laugh so much of it is spot on. lol
Not from Troy, but stuck here because RPI moment. I think this video is accurate, but you’d know better than me.
i live in CNY and this is SOOO accurate!!!
It didnt used to be.
Being someone who lives in the true upstate. (I mean hour away from Montréal and Vermont) this is accurate
oh cha bud welcom to da north country yous guyses gotcha fokn spitter reddy?
@@busteronlyfullscreenmodeIn defense of the North Country, it’s usually only the people who spent half of their school days at BOCES that talk like that.
Proud of the Simpsons here, the skyline at the end is exact
I went to MVCC but dropped out. This feels like a personal attack lmao
Me too. My gf was attending SUNY New Paltz, I moved into her dorm room after two trimesters at MVCC- Never looked back.
@@andyginterblues2961 Did you go back to college? I ended up joining the army just to be able to go back to college
Born and still living in Batavia not gonna lie this song is sorta accurate also I hate living here. And I’m glad that they aren’t talking about NYC and they say Upstate NY because everyone likes to assume the whole state is NYC.
Yeah, but no one cares about Utica(unless you want to get stabbed) or Buffalo. Syracuse is the only place people talk about anymore in upstate.
True. But I live in a very good part of Utica. There are always good and bads in a town.
Cortland
Nickname: Meth City.
If you look up shithole in the encyclopedia our "now entering" sign is the picture.
Kinda buffalo
@@BReynoldsLilPiff HEY NOW DON’T YOU BE INSULTING CORTLAND OR WE WILL FEED YOU TO THE COYOTES AND FROZEN SWAMP MONSTERS
@@plasmawolf7960 aha I live like 20 minutes from Cortland
RPI student here. Troy isn’t *that* bad, but it totally is.
The only good thing there is dinosaur barbecue
Why did Niskayuna get mentioned instead of Schenectady? If you're looking for dystopia, show the actual city and not its suburb.
That’s what I was wondering to I’m from Schenectady and it deserves to be made fun of even tho niskayuna does suck
He roasted us. He killed us
It’s an honor
I m not american. The only reason I know upstate new york exists it’s because of the simpsons
I'm pretty sure that highway in the beginning is Schenectady.
890 does suck
Wouldn't surprise me if it was
I feel that the Utica one is accurate where the population number kept going down
as someone from Rochester, I can confirm
As someone who lives in upstate New York, this is a exact replica of buffalo
I lived near Utica for a little while and I died at the population sign 😂😂😂.
Gotta admit, This is a Pretty great Song.
The no wegmans is troubling
The 518 in a nutshell
As a Fulton resident, they were pretty close but not enough drugs.
I swear on a nice sunny day Fulton can look depressing no matter what
Me: Turns on Simpsons. Homer: pretty much slaps me, a Latham resident, in the face. Me: WHAT THE F-
Not enough trees
1:22 - the stealth pun of borscht wearing a belt! 👏👏👏👏
Yeah, but the Jewish Catskills are long gone.
I always thought the crumbling highway looked like Binghamton to me, since everyone wants to include it as Upstate.
as someone living outside Syracuse I don't know whether to laugh at the accuracy of life here in Upstate or cringe at how bland and unoriginal the Simpsons writing has gotten
I just watched this on a road trip through Upstate NY!
Hey we were acknowledged, that’s all we can ask for
There ain't nothing up here anymore. Everyone drives to see either the Adirondack, Buffalo/finger lakes, nyc, or Niagara.
There used to be resorts as far as the eye could see. Mineral water springs. Now there's only a few floundering cheesy motels left and all that's up here is just a bunch of people waiting for something interesting to happen. Ever since the 1960s when the cruise ship industry became more popular we have been suffering, forgotten. Empty husks of bottling plants and dilapidated resorts are the only reminder left of what this place once looked like. What it is supposed to look like.
I’m so happy they kinda mentioned my town (Kodak building in….)
I live in buffalo...this hurt
Well, at least the Bills are kicking ass this year!
They shouldve driven by a sign in Albany that said "Fresh Steamed Hams"
Can somone please explain this to me. I did my undergrad and doing grad in the nano college in Albany and lived in Albany County my whole life yet I've never heard this expression
Upstate NY is such a "snoozefest" the only 2 things to do here is skateboard and go to Turning Stone Casino
I think it depends on what part of Upstate.
Im from Rochester good god
I love this song! It's so catchy.😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
I wanna be angry..but I'm an opiate addict from Syracuse so....
Wonder if anyone called hamburgers "steamed hams" there
It is truly honor to wear the badge 🎖 PROUD to be from 🦬🦬🦬 BUFFALO NY. This is funny hilarious 😂. So true best sports fan 🏈🏒🥍 and love my hot buffalo wings at Duff's. 🍗🍗🍗🌶🌶🌶
How is it so catchy?
Buffalo NY Is So Close To Canada
I like how Utica is losing population at the speed of sound
I loved this episode. But I've always loved the Simpsons since the Tracy Ulman Show. I'm in Batavia, which was mentioned before this in the pretzel episode. Weirdly by a Mafia boss, and there is a Batavia connection to the Mafia.
Why they do us like that? 😂🤣😂
Cuz we funny 315
Cause that shit is funny cuz.
Upstate New York (including western New York) > New York City
How's that?
We in Upstate NY are completely different from NYC (you will notice differences in culture & whatnot).
At least here, Homer's acknowledging that there's more to the state of New York than just New York City.
We have suburbs, farmland, forests (including Allegany National Forest), 2 of the Great Lakes & Niagara Falls.
Oh & yes, we usually do get a lot of snow in Winter.
As a western New Yorker how the hell did he get it all right
They shoulda gone to Albany and gotten some steamed hams!
That song's a parody of new york new york by Tony Bennett.
Frank Sinatra.
I lived in Fort Erie Canada. Same sh*t different pile. Everything is old and ghetto and closed.
Once again Dunkirk and Jamestown are conveniently forgotten about...
As someone who lives in a small farming town 20 minutes from Broadway in saratoga...yeah...school up here talks about how important the "battle of saratoga" was in the revolution yet nobody in other states learned about it
And up in the Lake Champlain area it was all about how important Fort Ticonderoga was. Saratoga would get mentioned, but a ton of emphasis was put on how the Green Mountain Boys took Fort Ticonderoga from the British by surprise; also the fort’s importance in the Seven Years War, and how it was originally French and called Carillon… We also got a lot about Forts St. Frederic and Crown Point, which were located a little ways north.
@@RandomNonsense1985 here they teach about that too and most schools go on a field trip there but that was like 5th grade though
Spot on.a Rochester native.
As a Vermonter, this seems very accurate of our neighbors next door.
Eh, I’ll take Platts-Vegas over Rut-Vegas any day of the week.
Lol Otto the Orange, Syracuse Alumni here! So accurate