Wait a second, in that episode they remove the crayon and Homer accidentally proves there is no god. So how can Homer be god when he proves it impossible? And how can he go on to meet god several times after mathematically disproving it? If anything The Simpsons is a universe that takes place inside Homers daydream, that way he can be mortal and fallible but still prove all the points in this video.
Bdeamo N That's true, but saying that most high quality tv series only run for about 10 episodes with descending quality, so even that system isn't working that well anymore!
Homer could be actually dead, and he is just living his afterlife (heaven or hell depending on how you look at it) This would explain how he can't die, but others can. How he lived a long time ago, and now. It also explains how the world lives around him, but he has no actual control over the world. Obviously, he doesn't know about his past life. This also can explain any changes in the timeline (like heaven or hell or correcting itself to make him happy or hurt more).
Craig Bennett II interesting theory.. but could this be said for any cartoon character? Or maybe any character in regards to there being no actual timeline in the series
Kinda. It could even be said about your life (you don't know if you can die without dying, and you have no idea if the world just appears like it doesn't live around you but it actually does). BTW, obviously I don't believe this, I was just making a point. But I think it would fit a bit more with the Simpsons over many others. But note similar arguments could be made for shows like Family Guy, American Dad, King of the Hill, and so on. It could even be made for some shows on outside of animation like The King of Queens. But I think the Simpsons and American dad would be the best for this theory. Both does end up meeting their gods. Both massively screwed up their timeline a few times. Both have a center person around the show. Even American Dad went as far as showing this theory might actually be true with a Christmas special a few years back.
There is also the possibility that Homer is quantumly unstable, and constantly slips from one reality to a parralel one, so that he lives in various times, has constant adventures without staying injured or dying, and he seems to have wayyyy more actions that could fit in his familys lifespan. He is like sliders without the remote.
Jonathan Brooks The problem with that theory is the universe seems to be forcing homer to go on these adventures. It doesn't seem homer actually seeks out these adventures. The only way that theory could work is if someone like the baby is really in control.
@@kristophergray9826 I do like the idea of Flander's being Homer's right hand man or something and he's watching over him while he's ignorant to his true power.
My hipotesis is that every episode takes place in a different universe, that's why Homer can both popularize grunge in the late 80's and create the equivalent of the beatles during the 60's, mathematecally prove that god doesn't exist in one episode and talk to him in other,etc.
Connor Tyler He's got like this sort of benign narcissism/superiority complex... But he's charming enough to get away with it--not to mention genuinely nice.
So Homer Simpson is a god who is unaware that he is god, and is just living his comfortable, happy life, occasionally interrupted by wacky hijinks. Holy Homer, he's Haruhi Suzumiya!
He does that all the time, that or he just flat out says he's a god. For example, In the one episode when they are discussing what everyone is doing over their break and they make a comment about his rock climbing he goes on about how what he's going to be doing is like "High fiveing God, well a fellow god"
not to mention she just gets hotter and hotter every single episode. hell remember back in the first few episodes, she had that frumpy look? Last few seasons, she's just beautiful. Wait, was Candice the original and was replaced by Katie and this episode they accidentally let it slip?
Cracked just don't, stop making these, I love them a lot and it's like one of my favorite shows you do, but I know you are tired of them, so do what makes you happy
Not exactly Shinto or grace, but the closest thing I know of is itadakimasu, roughly means in context "let's eat" or "thank you for the food" although it literally means something like I humbly receive/accept
my two favorite after hours theories/ideas/jokes is 1: the entire show is just in Dan`s head/mind/imagination 2: that Sorin is an ageless deity and/or perfect man
Wertsir And who could possibly be intelligent enough to disprove the existence of God EXCEPT God? You have to accept the existence of a Godlike intelligence if you accept that someone mathematically disproved God... And the paradox this creates further lends credence to the idea that Homer is God: Paradoxes are only a problem for limited human intelligences. God not only CAN reconcile paradoxes, it is an essential aspect of Godhood in the absolute, monotheistic sense.
The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Wertsir, "the Crayon episode of the Simpsons is a dead giveaway isn't it? It proves that you exist, and so therefore you don't. QED." ""Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that", and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Oh, that was easy," says Wertsir, and for an encore he goes on to prove that black is white, and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.
I am willing to entertain the notion that Homer Simpson _may have been_ god, but after he denied his own existence mathematically in a way he finds satisfying in the Crayon episode he is for sure not a god anymore. Think of it this way: in the Crayon episode Homer Simpson uses his godlike powers to increase his own intelligence for the first time in a long time, having done so he decides to tackle the great problems of life, like 'why do we exist' 'what is the meaning of life' and most importantly 'does god exist'. Using his enhanced intelligence/omniscience homer realizes his godlike abilities, he knows that he is the smartest and most powerful being in the universe, but he also realizes that despite his great intelligence and power, he is not _happy_, that all he really wanted was to live as a dumb, mortal man with marge. The episode is all about knowledge/power, and how greater abilities do not translate into greater happiness. in the end home decides to put the crayon in his brain again, this symbolizes the denial of his godlike powers and his _choice_ to live as a powerless mortal man (plus or minus a few things to make his life easier). The proof he gave Flanders did not disprove gods existence, it proved that god did exist, and that the logical thing to do when given omnipotence is to destroy it, thus if god did exist then he would be dead. homer then acted on that chain of logic, bringing us to the end of the episode. He showed it to Flanders for two reasons: 1) because he did not want to be alone. that episode was about how superiority creates isolation, and how knowing things others don't only drives a divide between you and those you love. Homer did not want his family to carry the burden of knowledge, but he needed someone to do so in case his powers re-manifested themselves and he decided not to increase his intelligence again (this way Ned could demonstrate the logic needed for homer to make the right choice). why Ned? well that brings us to 2) SCREW YOU FLANDERS!
After Hours has always been amazing, but even now you guys are making great episodes, and this has to be one of my favourites - Can't wait for the next one!
Did they really forget that Maud died too? Of all the characters who died on the show, she was one of the most important, seeing as she's the neighbor of the Simpsons, was in several episodes, and, was mentioned in episodes after her death. Regardless, great episode.
Alls you need to remember is the part where Homer tells Bart "Oh, cartoons don't have to be realistic." As he simultaneously sits in his living room and walks by the window.
Fun fact, "Shinto" isn't actually a confession, but a collection of animistic believes. Most japanese people practicing Shinto actually see themselves as "without confession". There was a brief attempt to make Shinto into a confession during the Sakkoku time, but that failed simply due to the greatly syncretic nature of Japanese approaches to religion.
zerosysko Not exactly, I mean 'confession' in the sense that it is something you are actively a member of or not. That hasn't necessarily got anything to do with organization, Wicca is a confession but not an organized religion for example ( as far as I know at least). Shinto, on the other hand, you just practice as traditions and folklore. There's no actual 'awareness' of actually practicing a specific 'religion' involved there.
Sorry for nitpicking, but during that Book of Exodus segment where you said Homer was the only person there we'd seen before, there was a guy we'd seen before on screen - Jacques, the bowler who Marge almost had an affair with. Everyone in that scene represented something forbidden by the Ten Commandments (hence "Homer the Thief"), and Jacques was there to represent adultery. Either Jacques is immortal too or, as I interpret it, the people in this universe just get reincarnated as the same dude again every time they die.
Ash Waghorn the usage of that clip was to show that despite being told be God that he would be dead in six months, he was still alive 40 years later. The aging factor was merely an artistic decision to prove that an extended period of time had elapsed.
viljamtheninja I think it's more implied that as Homer does believe in God, and does not believe HIMSELF to be God, that he manifested an image of what God should look like. There was also that time that, during the Apocalypse, Lisa was about to be saved and was rising to Heaven, and Homer flat out pulled her back to Earth.
viljamtheninja It doesn't disprove the theory. If there is a God, he/she/it is not limited by Aristotelian laws... the law of identity, I mean: "A is A". The law that says you can't be more than one thing at the same time in the same way. This is how the Christian concept of God, the Trinity, works. God is one and three simultaneously. Three entities, one God. It is a logical impossibility, but that's only a problem for OUR reality. God could be 3 in 1 or 3000 in 1 (which is kinda what the Hindus have going).
So the four fingers could be the constant reminder that you are in "the matrix" and not the real world; always present but not really affecting too much. Like in lucid dreaming how you check your wristwatch at regular intervals when you're awake to train the ability to tell when you are dreaming. If that makes any sense to anyone else lol
"Homer is the only character weer recognise in the mount Sainai scene." he's stood next to a guy who is the exact design of Marge's bowling teacher with a beard slapped on.
TheFireflyGrave But as we discovered Flanders is the Devil. If homer was an omnipotent being would certainly explain why it's worth Flanders taking so much crap to keep an eye on him.
Danjanon Not by After Hours rules though. Or... Actually even by Simpsons ones. In a different Simpsons episode of After Hours they reference 'the guy with the Brooklyn accent who does all the different jobs' - Known as Raphael in all his iterations. He's a recurring bitpart character that usually always looks slightly different and is still always meant to be the same guy. He's always Raphael even if his hair, face, skin, clothing, or whatever else change. By that logic the dude at Mt Sinai was still Jacques... Wait... Did the Jacques character at Mt Sinai have Raphael's voice..? I... I think he did, but without the accent! Is Jacques actually Raphael?? Is Raphael also a god? 😮
Jordan Horne Amen to that this is by far their best video series. like a perfect day in my world is when there's an after-hours video and a buckholtz article
TheOtakuX Jacques isnt referred to by name, so it may be an ancestor. Homer is referred to as "Homer", and considering Homer is a name of greek origin - not hebrew, so it must be the same Homer; not an ancestor of Homer.
Shinto Believers do have grace, it's the entire go to line for the manga Toriko and pretty much the only word all people know in Japanese "Itadakimasu" loosely translating to giving thanks for the bounty (of the meal) to all creation [Banbutsu], and the myriad gods [Yaoyorosu]
What about Bart who in one episode specifically mentions how old he is in relation to how long the show has been running? Unlike all the other characters Bart seems to fully aware of his fictional existence in a long lasting cartoon series. In the opening titles he has also written messages about the first of the next 300 episodes and apologizing for predicting Trump's rise to power in a previous episode.
You didn't cover the fact that Homer had an actual childhood with flashbacks of his parents, and that his mother came back. If he is immortal how do you explain that? Also, if he met with God, how can he also be God? I am in fact shocked, yes shocked that you would allow this evidence to go uncovered. Also, it sounds like you are saying that Homer is similar to Jar Jar. Both are incredibly lucky, exercise mind control and give the outward appearance of being an idiot. However, Jar Jar may be a Sith lord but no one ever suggested that Jar Jar is God. Signed, Comic Book Guy
Homer could be an Avatar (Hinduism not James Cameron), he comes down to earth every now and again, born in a human, carries the same name and appearance, and then returns to Paradise after a certain amount of time has passed.
I think Homer Simpson is immortal because he had a uranium rod stuck to his back and didn’t die. Also, he has had many painful experiences such as head injuries and other stuff, a heart bypass, drinks too much and has alarmingly high cholesterol
No, I'm saying that saying the events of the book of Exodus happened 2000 years ago is literally crappy biblical scholarship, it was probably written during the Babylonian exile and is about events taking place in the 6th century BC...
Jesus and the New Testament are 2000 years old. The Old Testament goes back thousands and thousands of years, to the dawn of monotheistic religions, i.e. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Old Testament is where the stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses, Noah, Kind David, etc etc etc are. The New Testament is Jesus and the Apostles. That's what the BC and AD is all about when discussing Western history: BC is before the New Testament, and AD is after Jesus died and Christianity was adopted by Rome (and then forced onto the rest of the world).
GermsFromUranus hans has died hundreds of times and seems to remember each time, yet he comes back just as he was, perpetually on the verge of death... kinda like a potato. cut it in half, bury it, and it's still a potato. I should have known. the answer is always potato.
“God who doesn’t know he’s god and gets to live life guilt free” is kind of the premise of the irl religion Gnosticism. Or the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, whether you subscribe to the explicit “haruhi is god” paradigm or the theoretical gnostic “kyon is god” paradigm.
Homer may be A god, but he is not THE God. Homer was in heaven for a brief period of time, and spoke to God himself, and he can't pray to himself to get tickets, both of which they showed in clips. This demonstrates that he is subject to a higher power, so Homer MAY be a minor god. Or he might be a member of the Q Continuum from Star Trek... You never know...
Jesse Guidry Another view point to look at it from is that according to any monotheistic religion their god is God so Swaim is kinda right. Just not unilaterally.
Jesse Guidry he could still be God even while praying to a higher power, himself, if he is unaware of his godhood then it makes sense that he would pray to himself. also when he has visions it is always depictions of mainstream image of God and heaven thus a projection of his own image of what God and heaven are. it's like people taking hallucigeons seeing Jesus or buddha. it's not because they are seeing Jesus or buddha but because subconsciously that is their idealisation of spiritualism.
Jesus talks about (and to) God as a separate entity, yet also says "I and my father are one" and Christian tradition has it that they are separate and one being. Saint Patrick described the Catholic concept of the Holy Trinity using the three leaves of a shamrock, three which are one. So... Homer could be THE God, in a different manifestation. Since Jesus and God have both been depicted by The Simpsons, Homer could be the Holy Spirit - if you stuck with the Christian version. Of course, there are also plenty of other gods - Christianity doesn't really deny this. It could be defined as Monolatrist rather than Monotheist (the insistence on worshipping one god, without denying that others exist) - as in the 10 commandments "worship no other gods before me" or using the plural word "gods" in Genesis, or in the New Testament "though there are those that are called gods whether in heaven or on earth, but to us there is one god" or "there are many gods and many lords" with lesser or no authority, and one god with supreme authority - to them.
There seem to be three types of After Hours: The ones where they ignore suspension of disbelief and tropes to make a "Theorist"-level point (like here), the ones where they assume a fictional world is real and talk about consequences (like the one stranded on the road or the one about commercials), and finally the ones where they look at fiction as fiction, and discuss unintended implications / reasons for tropes (like the one about dead moms or the one about Forest Gump). Type 1 I could live without, Type 3 is my favorite.
2:14 - Michael says "Homer is the only character that we recognize" just as the ancient version of Jacques (the bowler Marge has an affair with) shows up, with a beard. He's not voiced by Albert Brooks in the 2nd Commandment episode, but he does represent the sin of adultery, and the face is basically the same.
Except that homer does die and has been a child, so the idea that it is one consistent homer from the time of moses, there could still be a reincarnating homer or every now and then god needs a break and becomes homer.
I can give Homer demigod status. A god must be all-knowing, all powerful and all good. Homer barely makes the threshold for all powerful. Good and knowing are still out of reach.
andersoncherub True, but a Christian monothestic god is and Homer lives in that religion and culture. If you are willing to say the Christian god is fallible, belligerant and/or impotent then you charge has weight. But in the Simpson, God is a five fingered, face never revealed entity who often does act in the world. I call him a demigod because like Hercules or Theusus, he has power but very liyttle brains on how to use it.
The "all powerful, all benevolent, all-knowing" god condition has been disproved over and over again. "Why is there suffering in the world?", and all that. In a polytheistic way he might well be a god in the Dionysos kinda way. He is hedonistically all powerful, immortal, and sufficiently all-knowing to support his own hedonism. Actually not knowing 'everything' works in favour of his own hedonism. He doesn't actively know about what would make him upset but always learns it throughout an episode and resolves it by the end.
Mt Sainai scene - Homer isn't the only recognizable character, Jaques is there with a beard! That's 100% Jaques, Marge's brunch loving bowling alley fling. He has a beard, but so does Homer. His voice is different though, but that's not enough to make him a completely different character - Not by After Hours rules, or even by Simpsons ones. So Jaques off-model is still Jacques... But we *do* know the voice. In a different Simpsons episode of After Hours they reference 'the guy with the Brooklyn accent who does all the different jobs' (known as Raphael in all his iterations), he's a recurring bit-part character that usually always looks slightly different and is still always meant to be the same guy. That's the voice Bearded Ancient Jaques speaks in. But he's always Raphael, even if his hair, face, skin, clothing, or whatever are different... Holy shit, is Jaques actually Raphael the whole time? Is Raphael also a god?? Cracked, I need answers!
I mean, I always knew Homer's teachings were the guiding light in my life, but I thought I was just oddly obsessed with a TV show. Now I know it's the one true faith and I don't need to be ashamed anymore. Thanks Cracked!
Think about this, if he was a god and taking on generation after generation of families, wouldn't it be out of the ordinary to look the same as you did and your mate looking extremely older during 40 years? I'd say his healing factor doesn't kick in until he thinks he's gonna die, then reverses his aging process for the next wife.
What's like a respectable, scholarly way of saying Katy is absolutely hawt? Maybe I should send her a Christmas card. Or should I wait till Valentine's day?
What's, like, a respectable, scholarly way Of saying Katy is absolutely hawt? Maybe I should send her a Christmas card. Or should I wait till Valentine's Day? I read this in an English accent and the poetry seriously moved me. Perfect! The slant rhyme, context, substance, and timeliness! Or have I had too much to drink? Oh well, it was a great poem!
Homer lacks the self awareness to realize his deity level powers because of the crayon shoved up his nose
Wait a second, in that episode they remove the crayon and Homer accidentally proves there is no god. So how can Homer be god when he proves it impossible? And how can he go on to meet god several times after mathematically disproving it?
If anything The Simpsons is a universe that takes place inside Homers daydream, that way he can be mortal and fallible but still prove all the points in this video.
Dudley Bone So the Simpsons is just the end of St. Elmo's Fire stretched out over several decades?
Eltonic I am God therefore I am God
James Daniels Oh fuck I'm God
Thou Art God
Shintos do say grace, they say "Itadakimasu" before a meal, it mean, "I humbly receive"
For a split second, we can all pretend the After hours still goes on. In a blink, it's gone.
That makes no sense. Once any hour has been, all further hours must be After Hours. Therefore, After Hours is always right now.
@@YourXavierproably talking about the show and the running. But okay
R.I.P.
R.I.P. indeed
Glad I'm not the only one revisiting this, happy 2024?
you forgot that homer is almost the complete opposite to Flanders who is the devil .
Halloween horrors aren't cannon.
Cannon... BOOM
Homer has been depicted as God at least once.
+Garrett Moffitt nah flanders is the devil cause christianity is
bryanna cassidy + Lol that's actually such a good point; Flanders is literally the devil in an episode ..... daaaaaamn lol
This is better than most tv shows nowadays.
The Simpsons or After Hours, because I agree for both.
Jackson DeStefano both and yes homer is god...of donuts.
yeah, but it's a quantity vs quality sort of thing
Bdeamo N That's true, but saying that most high quality tv series only run for about 10 episodes with descending quality, so even that system isn't working that well anymore!
annnd it's gone.
the only show cracked needs to make
Christian Rodriguez thank you, no truer words have been spoken...all hail the Church of After Hours!!!
Christian Rodriguez Except for Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder and bringing back Does not Compute. RIP Clippy. :,(
Jesse Rothhammer So basically they should just green-light everything these 4 are involved in, and lose everything else?😀
James Daniels they can keep Roger
Sardonicus I would watch the hell out of a Katie-hosted show😁
This makes me want to watch every season of the Simpsons again and rethink my life
Miss you guys still. Thanks for all the laughs
So Homer is basically Haruhi Suzumiya?😂 Ha... Wait... Homer Simpson, Haruhi Suzumiya - they both have same initials!!!😱
Sahantara yep
Sahantara And their both equally annoying.
Sahantara I disliked that show. but yeah Homer def would be a good comparison
Damit Sahantara, that was exactly what came to mind for me xD
(gasp!) They're the same person!
Homer could be actually dead, and he is just living his afterlife (heaven or hell depending on how you look at it)
This would explain how he can't die, but others can. How he lived a long time ago, and now. It also explains how the world lives around him, but he has no actual control over the world. Obviously, he doesn't know about his past life.
This also can explain any changes in the timeline (like heaven or hell or correcting itself to make him happy or hurt more).
Craig Bennett II interesting theory.. but could this be said for any cartoon character? Or maybe any character in regards to there being no actual timeline in the series
Kinda. It could even be said about your life (you don't know if you can die without dying, and you have no idea if the world just appears like it doesn't live around you but it actually does). BTW, obviously I don't believe this, I was just making a point.
But I think it would fit a bit more with the Simpsons over many others.
But note similar arguments could be made for shows like Family Guy, American Dad, King of the Hill, and so on. It could even be made for some shows on outside of animation like The King of Queens.
But I think the Simpsons and American dad would be the best for this theory. Both does end up meeting their gods. Both massively screwed up their timeline a few times. Both have a center person around the show. Even American Dad went as far as showing this theory might actually be true with a Christmas special a few years back.
There is also the possibility that Homer is quantumly unstable, and constantly slips from one reality to a parralel one, so that he lives in various times, has constant adventures without staying injured or dying, and he seems to have wayyyy more actions that could fit in his familys lifespan. He is like sliders without the remote.
Jonathan Brooks
The problem with that theory is the universe seems to be forcing homer to go on these adventures. It doesn't seem homer actually seeks out these adventures.
The only way that theory could work is if someone like the baby is really in control.
Craig Bennett II Good point.
“Homers real power is mind control” that would explain why Bart is canonically telepathic
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Every time he speaks about God, Flanders shows up
Or. He's truly God's servant
@@kristophergray9826 I do like the idea of Flander's being Homer's right hand man or something and he's watching over him while he's ignorant to his true power.
Flanders the devil. Remember when he was running hell?
Are Halloween episodes worth counting?
@@FeinryelRavenclaw Nope.
I love Michael grabbing food off everyone's food while they're distracted on their phones.
My hipotesis is that every episode takes place in a different universe, that's why Homer can both popularize grunge in the late 80's and create the equivalent of the beatles during the 60's, mathematecally prove that god doesn't exist in one episode and talk to him in other,etc.
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Nice hippotities
tenks meit,dat gaive mi 'lots off guork to meik oud, ai dink i had do dink 'bout id leik 4 du minats orr somding
"Daniel Day Lewis! The world is ready for a method Homer"
Dying...
Totally missing this joke tbh
Does Soren think of himself as a God? That's kind of the impression I've gotten over a number of episodes.
Pretty much, yeah. He says as much in this one.
No, I'm pretty sure he is a god.
Connor Tyler He's got like this sort of benign narcissism/superiority complex...
But he's charming enough to get away with it--not to mention genuinely nice.
Fuck Soren and fuck his kids too.
SOREN has the saved by the Bell power to stop a manipulate time but...I think cracked forgot that continuity error
'I'm smarter than the devil.'
-Homer Simpson/God
SMRT
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@@Saucesovs I see what you did there.
So Homer Simpson is a god who is unaware that he is god, and is just living his comfortable, happy life, occasionally interrupted by wacky hijinks.
Holy Homer, he's Haruhi Suzumiya!
Did anyone else catch Soren implying he's a god?
Soren isn't God.
God wishes he was Soren though
Soren is the new Chuck Norris of memes.
He does that all the time, that or he just flat out says he's a god. For example, In the one episode when they are discussing what everyone is doing over their break and they make a comment about his rock climbing he goes on about how what he's going to be doing is like "High fiveing God, well a fellow god"
+LorieLynn We need more theories on this
Theory: Soren is God's testicle.
Figure it out.
"Homer is the only character we recognise"
he says over an image of Homer and Jacque, a character we all recognise.
man, Candice was on point in this episode
not to mention she just gets hotter and hotter every single episode. hell remember back in the first few episodes, she had that frumpy look? Last few seasons, she's just beautiful. Wait, was Candice the original and was replaced by Katie and this episode they accidentally let it slip?
What am I missing here? Who is Candice?
Danjanon pay attention dude
I thought I was
Danjanon the dude is just kidding
Cracked just don't, stop making these, I love them a lot and it's like one of my favorite shows you do, but I know you are tired of them, so do what makes you happy
Homer Simpson is Haruhi Suzumiya
I was gonna type that at 9:30, glad I searched the comments.
Elliot Burns a character from an anime called The melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Worth a watch.
Not exactly Shinto or grace, but the closest thing I know of is itadakimasu, roughly means in context "let's eat" or "thank you for the food" although it literally means something like I humbly receive/accept
she's a snake handler... "IF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAAAYYYINNNNN". ....sorry.
A. Mikey B. Shame.Shame.Shame.
You had me right up until you apologized.
It would feel cheap, except I totally read it in Candice's voice, so good on you.
MsCunningLinguistic ...that was the point :) and i see what you did there
*bangs fist on table* NOBODY KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING!
"Unkillableness is like the minimum prerequisite of godhood"--does someone wanna go tell Thor?
dangercats77 Thor is an extradimensional alien who was considered a god by ancient Scandinavians, not a god in the literal sense.
Thor is not dead.
Indeed, the magical comic book thor was also unkillable to the perfectly fine point. Sure he dies, but he comes back so it's cool.
Garrett Moffitt
Or every other Norse god and goddess for that matter
my two favorite after hours theories/ideas/jokes is
1: the entire show is just in Dan`s head/mind/imagination
2: that Sorin is an ageless deity and/or perfect man
Counterpoint: homer mathematically disproved the existence of god when he had the crayon removed from his brain. QED.
Wertsir And who could possibly be intelligent enough to disprove the existence of God EXCEPT God?
You have to accept the existence of a Godlike intelligence if you accept that someone mathematically disproved God...
And the paradox this creates further lends credence to the idea that Homer is God:
Paradoxes are only a problem for limited human intelligences.
God not only CAN reconcile paradoxes, it is an essential aspect of Godhood in the absolute, monotheistic sense.
Of Flanders God.
The argument goes something like this:
"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
"But," says Wertsir, "the Crayon episode of the Simpsons is a dead giveaway isn't it? It proves that you exist, and so therefore you don't. QED."
""Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that", and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
"Oh, that was easy," says Wertsir, and for an encore he goes on to prove that black is white, and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.
I am willing to entertain the notion that Homer Simpson _may have been_ god, but after he denied his own existence mathematically in a way he finds satisfying in the Crayon episode he is for sure not a god anymore.
Think of it this way: in the Crayon episode Homer Simpson uses his godlike powers to increase his own intelligence for the first time in a long time, having done so he decides to tackle the great problems of life, like 'why do we exist' 'what is the meaning of life' and most importantly 'does god exist'.
Using his enhanced intelligence/omniscience homer realizes his godlike abilities, he knows that he is the smartest and most powerful being in the universe, but he also realizes that despite his great intelligence and power, he is not _happy_, that all he really wanted was to live as a dumb, mortal man with marge.
The episode is all about knowledge/power, and how greater abilities do not translate into greater happiness. in the end home decides to put the crayon in his brain again, this symbolizes the denial of his godlike powers and his _choice_ to live as a powerless mortal man (plus or minus a few things to make his life easier).
The proof he gave Flanders did not disprove gods existence, it proved that god did exist, and that the logical thing to do when given omnipotence is to destroy it, thus if god did exist then he would be dead. homer then acted on that chain of logic, bringing us to the end of the episode.
He showed it to Flanders for two reasons: 1) because he did not want to be alone. that episode was about how superiority creates isolation, and how knowing things others don't only drives a divide between you and those you love. Homer did not want his family to carry the burden of knowledge, but he needed someone to do so in case his powers re-manifested themselves and he decided not to increase his intelligence again (this way Ned could demonstrate the logic needed for homer to make the right choice). why Ned? well that brings us to 2) SCREW YOU FLANDERS!
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After Hours has always been amazing, but even now you guys are making great episodes, and this has to be one of my favourites - Can't wait for the next one!
Did they really forget that Maud died too? Of all the characters who died on the show, she was one of the most important, seeing as she's the neighbor of the Simpsons, was in several episodes, and, was mentioned in episodes after her death.
Regardless, great episode.
Maude... you didn't mention maude.
She was smoten.
Or Bleeding Gums Murphy
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Or Edna
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What about maggie she can talk to and control animals dosen't that make her a demigod?
Season 7 really loved that "who is this smithers?" joke.
Alls you need to remember is the part where Homer tells Bart "Oh, cartoons don't have to be realistic." As he simultaneously sits in his living room and walks by the window.
Fun fact, "Shinto" isn't actually a confession, but a collection of animistic believes. Most japanese people practicing Shinto actually see themselves as "without confession". There was a brief attempt to make Shinto into a confession during the Sakkoku time, but that failed simply due to the greatly syncretic nature of Japanese approaches to religion.
Thank you for that interesting fact, I love Japanese history and culture like this, so it's great when there are others to talk about it with!
I don't understand your use of the word "confession" here... Do you mean 'an organized religion?'
zerosysko Not exactly, I mean 'confession' in the sense that it is something you are actively a member of or not. That hasn't necessarily got anything to do with organization, Wicca is a confession but not an organized religion for example ( as far as I know at least). Shinto, on the other hand, you just practice as traditions and folklore. There's no actual 'awareness' of actually practicing a specific 'religion' involved there.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I think confessional faith refers to a commitment to formal doctrinal statements, and acceptance of a whole theological teaching.
Sorry for nitpicking, but during that Book of Exodus segment where you said Homer was the only person there we'd seen before, there was a guy we'd seen before on screen - Jacques, the bowler who Marge almost had an affair with. Everyone in that scene represented something forbidden by the Ten Commandments (hence "Homer the Thief"), and Jacques was there to represent adultery. Either Jacques is immortal too or, as I interpret it, the people in this universe just get reincarnated as the same dude again every time they die.
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I want the complete Nerd Prayer. Now.
Dear Lord,
Keep Women and EA out of our things.
Amen.
Their was that time when Bart was Jesus and Jesus is the sun of god....
Who is the moon of god?
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The melancholy adventures of Homer Suzumiya
this theory contradicts itself with the age bit because of the '40 years later' at 2:20 he ages
he died 39.5 years before that shot.
Ash Waghorn the usage of that clip was to show that despite being told be God that he would be dead in six months, he was still alive 40 years later. The aging factor was merely an artistic decision to prove that an extended period of time had elapsed.
He also actually talks to God. It's interesting that that isn't even brought up.
viljamtheninja I think it's more implied that as Homer does believe in God, and does not believe HIMSELF to be God, that he manifested an image of what God should look like.
There was also that time that, during the Apocalypse, Lisa was about to be saved and was rising to Heaven, and Homer flat out pulled her back to Earth.
viljamtheninja It doesn't disprove the theory.
If there is a God, he/she/it is not limited by Aristotelian laws... the law of identity, I mean: "A is A". The law that says you can't be more than one thing at the same time in the same way.
This is how the Christian concept of God, the Trinity, works. God is one and three simultaneously. Three entities, one God.
It is a logical impossibility, but that's only a problem for OUR reality. God could be 3 in 1 or 3000 in 1 (which is kinda what the Hindus have going).
God and Jesus on the Simpsons are the only characters to have five fingers. Homer has four. Discuss.
So the four fingers could be the constant reminder that you are in "the matrix" and not the real world; always present but not really affecting too much. Like in lucid dreaming how you check your wristwatch at regular intervals when you're awake to train the ability to tell when you are dreaming. If that makes any sense to anyone else lol
MikkiJoeRingtail It is an alternate universe where the laziest human transcended into godliness through his sheer laziness. His name is Homer.
God created man in his image
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@@julianbeldham8684 Does that make homer the god of the people in the simpsons?
"Homer is the only character weer recognise in the mount Sainai scene." he's stood next to a guy who is the exact design of Marge's bowling teacher with a beard slapped on.
Maybe that guy is the devil and doesn't know it.
TheFireflyGrave But as we discovered Flanders is the Devil. If homer was an omnipotent being would certainly explain why it's worth Flanders taking so much crap to keep an eye on him.
Luke Watson His name was Jacques. Glad someone else noticed too lol
Yeah, but he had a beard AND a different voice. In Simpsons world that's enough for it to be a completely different person :D
Danjanon Not by After Hours rules though. Or... Actually even by Simpsons ones. In a different Simpsons episode of After Hours they reference 'the guy with the Brooklyn accent who does all the different jobs' - Known as Raphael in all his iterations. He's a recurring bitpart character that usually always looks slightly different and is still always meant to be the same guy. He's always Raphael even if his hair, face, skin, clothing, or whatever else change. By that logic the dude at Mt Sinai was still Jacques... Wait... Did the Jacques character at Mt Sinai have Raphael's voice..? I... I think he did, but without the accent! Is Jacques actually Raphael?? Is Raphael also a god? 😮
Micheal just grabbing everyone's food when they go to their phones just kills me
Never clicked on a video so fast- love this series!
Jordan Horne Amen to that this is by far their best video series. like a perfect day in my world is when there's an after-hours video and a buckholtz article
"Homer is the only character we recognize" while a bearded Jacques is on screen.
TheOtakuX Jacques isnt referred to by name, so it may be an ancestor. Homer is referred to as "Homer", and considering Homer is a name of greek origin - not hebrew, so it must be the same Homer; not an ancestor of Homer.
That guy looked like Jacques but he had a different name and voice
Last After Hour for the year people! SAVOR IT! SAVOR IT LIKE A FINE WINE.
The crazy thing is that 75K in 2016 would be closer to 100K today due to inflation.
The best Christmas present is an After Hours episode tbh
Shinto Believers do have grace, it's the entire go to line for the manga Toriko and pretty much the only word all people know in Japanese "Itadakimasu" loosely translating to giving thanks for the bounty (of the meal) to all creation [Banbutsu], and the myriad gods [Yaoyorosu]
Excited to see how many people get pissed and offended
I for one am pissed and offended. You're welcome!
Ender Wiggins I was being entirely facetious. I really enjoyed this episode.
***** Yeah I was *entirely* disappointed.
What about Bart who in one episode specifically mentions how old he is in relation to how long the show has been running? Unlike all the other characters Bart seems to fully aware of his fictional existence in a long lasting cartoon series. In the opening titles he has also written messages about the first of the next 300 episodes and apologizing for predicting Trump's rise to power in a previous episode.
I love how in every episode, one of the guys will bring up a topic that everyone else thinks is ridiculous but then at the end all agrees.
After Hours: The best thing on Cracked, no question. Worth the subscription; love you guys.
You didn't cover the fact that Homer had an actual childhood with flashbacks of his parents, and that his mother came back. If he is immortal how do you explain that? Also, if he met with God, how can he also be God? I am in fact shocked, yes shocked that you would allow this evidence to go uncovered. Also, it sounds like you are saying that Homer is similar to Jar Jar. Both are incredibly lucky, exercise mind control and give the outward appearance of being an idiot. However, Jar Jar may be a Sith lord but no one ever suggested that Jar Jar is God. Signed, Comic Book Guy
David Nassau Half the show is non canon. Where he meets God and has a childhood is not canon. (Post-Conan)
If you modify the letters, Conan can spell Canon so therefore... everything Conan IS canon.
Homer could be an Avatar (Hinduism not James Cameron), he comes down to earth every now and again, born in a human, carries the same name and appearance, and then returns to Paradise after a certain amount of time has passed.
So did Haruhi Suzumiya.
It’s possible that he can actually be reincarnating but the crayon made him forget perhaps
Best intro you guys have ever done! Still my favorite videos on RUclips, please never stop.
Homer is his universe's version of John Oldman from _The Man From Earth_.
I think Homer Simpson is immortal because he had a uranium rod stuck to his back and didn’t die. Also, he has had many painful experiences such as head injuries and other stuff, a heart bypass, drinks too much and has alarmingly high cholesterol
OMG Homer is Haruhi Suzumiya!!!
You said "a Homer is there" so Homers is not a single person. He is a definition of being.
How everything bible related happened "2000 years ago"? 'cause Moses was already ancient history by the time of Jesus
Yeah that's some poor biblical scholarship right there.
So you're saying that in 2000 years, literally nothing changed.
No, I'm saying that saying the events of the book of Exodus happened 2000 years ago is literally crappy biblical scholarship, it was probably written during the Babylonian exile and is about events taking place in the 6th century BC...
Jesus and the New Testament are 2000 years old. The Old Testament goes back thousands and thousands of years, to the dawn of monotheistic religions, i.e. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Old Testament is where the stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses, Noah, Kind David, etc etc etc are. The New Testament is Jesus and the Apostles. That's what the BC and AD is all about when discussing Western history: BC is before the New Testament, and AD is after Jesus died and Christianity was adopted by Rome (and then forced onto the rest of the world).
In the clip, it showed the scene happening in 1220 BC, not 2000 years ago.
Watched it twice. Cause you're all so nice.
Shintoist here, thanks for the shoutout!
Another excellent video. I was so excited today when I realized this was out, and couldn't wait to get home to see it. Keep it up!
if homer is a god, then what does that make hans moleman? pythagoras?
GermsFromUranus hans has died hundreds of times and seems to remember each time, yet he comes back just as he was, perpetually on the verge of death... kinda like a potato. cut it in half, bury it, and it's still a potato. I should have known. the answer is always potato.
Who do you think Pythagoras was? Are you thinking of Methuselah?
Amanda Marinovich no, I was thinking Prometheus. doh!
potato all the things
I really miss these.
Please do more After Hours. This is why I subscribed, lol.
I think "itadakimasu" said with palms together is the Shinto grace. I saw people doing that before meals in Japan.
I love how Homer says "homophobe" in his list of jobs; as if someone was paying him to hate John Waters.
"paying to hate john waters" sounds like a real movie John waters would of made
@@twigwigsoso that’s why he’s a legend
“God who doesn’t know he’s god and gets to live life guilt free” is kind of the premise of the irl religion Gnosticism. Or the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, whether you subscribe to the explicit “haruhi is god” paradigm or the theoretical gnostic “kyon is god” paradigm.
The adulterer in the Moses scene was modeled on Jacques the bowler
6:36 Hahaha xD This is why The Simpsons is best comedy show of all time! After 24 season have some great jokes. :D
Homer may be A god, but he is not THE God. Homer was in heaven for a brief period of time, and spoke to God himself, and he can't pray to himself to get tickets, both of which they showed in clips. This demonstrates that he is subject to a higher power, so Homer MAY be a minor god. Or he might be a member of the Q Continuum from Star Trek... You never know...
The Simpsons has shown that all religions are right and the other Gods are up there too!
Hopalongtom I guess that proves my point.
Jesse Guidry Another view point to look at it from is that according to any monotheistic religion their god is God so Swaim is kinda right. Just not unilaterally.
Jesse Guidry he could still be God even while praying to a higher power, himself, if he is unaware of his godhood then it makes sense that he would pray to himself. also when he has visions it is always depictions of mainstream image of God and heaven thus a projection of his own image of what God and heaven are. it's like people taking hallucigeons seeing Jesus or buddha. it's not because they are seeing Jesus or buddha but because subconsciously that is their idealisation of spiritualism.
Jesus talks about (and to) God as a separate entity, yet also says "I and my father are one" and Christian tradition has it that they are separate and one being. Saint Patrick described the Catholic concept of the Holy Trinity using the three leaves of a shamrock, three which are one. So... Homer could be THE God, in a different manifestation. Since Jesus and God have both been depicted by The Simpsons, Homer could be the Holy Spirit - if you stuck with the Christian version.
Of course, there are also plenty of other gods - Christianity doesn't really deny this. It could be defined as Monolatrist rather than Monotheist (the insistence on worshipping one god, without denying that others exist) - as in the 10 commandments "worship no other gods before me" or using the plural word "gods" in Genesis, or in the New Testament "though there are those that are called gods whether in heaven or on earth, but to us there is one god" or "there are many gods and many lords" with lesser or no authority, and one god with supreme authority - to them.
Can't believe you fired them
Wow.....I think they are determined to explain all of the Simpsons
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These are my favourite videos by far!!
So, Haruhi is just a cuter version of Homer then.
it's a christmas miracle, cracked finally put out another after hours
A person who's god but doesn't know it? THAT IS THE PLOT OF THE MELANCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA
I waited forever for a cracked ep. 😂😂 thank u
He's just as real.
There seem to be three types of After Hours: The ones where they ignore suspension of disbelief and tropes to make a "Theorist"-level point (like here), the ones where they assume a fictional world is real and talk about consequences (like the one stranded on the road or the one about commercials), and finally the ones where they look at fiction as fiction, and discuss unintended implications / reasons for tropes (like the one about dead moms or the one about Forest Gump).
Type 1 I could live without, Type 3 is my favorite.
2:14 - Michael says "Homer is the only character that we recognize" just as the ancient version of Jacques (the bowler Marge has an affair with) shows up, with a beard. He's not voiced by Albert Brooks in the 2nd Commandment episode, but he does represent the sin of adultery, and the face is basically the same.
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thank you. I was going to say this too.
Except that homer does die and has been a child, so the idea that it is one consistent homer from the time of moses, there could still be a reincarnating homer or every now and then god needs a break and becomes homer.
I can give Homer demigod status. A god must be all-knowing, all powerful and all good. Homer barely makes the threshold for all powerful. Good and knowing are still out of reach.
Rahsaan Footman, since when does a god have to be any of those? Polytheistic deities are none of those.
Rahsaan Footman why does he have to be good and knowing, for example the Christian God is all good or all knowing
"Isn't" goddamn spellcheck
andersoncherub True, but a Christian monothestic god is and Homer lives in that religion and culture. If you are willing to say the Christian god is fallible, belligerant and/or impotent then you charge has weight. But in the Simpson, God is a five fingered, face never revealed entity who often does act in the world. I call him a demigod because like Hercules or Theusus, he has power but very liyttle brains on how to use it.
The "all powerful, all benevolent, all-knowing" god condition has been disproved over and over again. "Why is there suffering in the world?", and all that.
In a polytheistic way he might well be a god in the Dionysos kinda way. He is hedonistically all powerful, immortal, and sufficiently all-knowing to support his own hedonism. Actually not knowing 'everything' works in favour of his own hedonism. He doesn't actively know about what would make him upset but always learns it throughout an episode and resolves it by the end.
Fucking hell I miss this show.
“We do this weird nerd thing before every meal.”
But... they don’t eat.
Well done, After Hours crew. This one was really on the ball.
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Joshua Humes what about escort mission?
Egh
Mt Sainai scene - Homer isn't the only recognizable character, Jaques is there with a beard! That's 100% Jaques, Marge's brunch loving bowling alley fling. He has a beard, but so does Homer. His voice is different though, but that's not enough to make him a completely different character - Not by After Hours rules, or even by Simpsons ones. So Jaques off-model is still Jacques... But we *do* know the voice. In a different Simpsons episode of After Hours they reference 'the guy with the Brooklyn accent who does all the different jobs' (known as Raphael in all his iterations), he's a recurring bit-part character that usually always looks slightly different and is still always meant to be the same guy. That's the voice Bearded Ancient Jaques speaks in. But he's always Raphael, even if his hair, face, skin, clothing, or whatever are different... Holy shit, is Jaques actually Raphael the whole time? Is Raphael also a god?? Cracked, I need answers!
"The world is ready for a method homer"
Almost time for a new episode. Can't wait much longer!
Continuity is not one of the Simpsons strengths.
I mean, I always knew Homer's teachings were the guiding light in my life, but I thought I was just oddly obsessed with a TV show. Now I know it's the one true faith and I don't need to be ashamed anymore. Thanks Cracked!
Um, that scene you showed shows that he does grow old.
Think about this, if he was a god and taking on generation after generation of families, wouldn't it be out of the ordinary to look the same as you did and your mate looking extremely older during 40 years? I'd say his healing factor doesn't kick in until he thinks he's gonna die, then reverses his aging process for the next wife.
Evil King I see... I think you've converted me!
May your donuts be glazed in his glory.
Evil King but he isn't self aware enough to do that
Joseph Harding that's what we think... (conspiracy theory)
Okay, the snake handler/Moe reference at the end was extremely well done. Bravo.
Haruhi Suzumiya really is a knock-off ;p
Who?
Alexander Demkin Google is your friend. Though, in short: God except she doesn't realize it.
Simpsons did it.
Hail haruhi
This! Is there seriously not a single anime fan on the Cracked staff that could have low-balled this one into the writer's room?
best After Hours in a long time!
What's like a respectable, scholarly way of saying Katy is absolutely hawt? Maybe I should send her a Christmas card. Or should I wait till Valentine's day?
What's, like, a respectable, scholarly way
Of saying Katy is absolutely hawt?
Maybe I should send her a Christmas card.
Or should I wait till Valentine's Day?
I read this in an English accent and the poetry seriously moved me. Perfect! The slant rhyme, context, substance, and timeliness!
Or have I had too much to drink? Oh well, it was a great poem!
Dear Katy,
The exact arrangement of tendons, muscles, bones and skin that make up your exterior is appealing to my eye.
Sincerely,
Carl
Chris Varghese Exacty what I was looking for lol. Exceeds expectations even! Well done.
I've been going down the rabbit hole on old After Hours episodes for about the last week and I have no regrets.