Ironically, this was Burns actually being responsible and doing his job as the leader of the plant. And wow, Homer, you're getting paid to just sit there and choke on donuts? Lucky.
I would love if mister Burns could have screamed "my fuel rods! do you even know how much they cost?" to give an in character motivation for taking over the controls
As a reactor operator, this sounds like a loss of reactor coolant scenario, his motivation is more likely “A lot of people are about to die unless this is fixed and we’ll lose my plant due to a total nuclear meltdown”.
@@marcellXcatalystnot only that, Jobs like that are real. They exist as a kind of box taking exercise That's meant to maintain the bureaucratic machine despite serving Littles no purpose and don't really do much the way they've been useful.
That's because you're hateful. It's ACTUALLY funny part of life how specialized professionals develop a one-track mind, and how crucial things often need this kind of, let's call him a Noble Savage. Oh, which is that, racism or cultural appropriaton to call Homer that? If you can actually love your fellow man you can find the joy in these things, and that's why Simpsons got off the ground, being written by engineers and GK Chesterton types in beautiful harmony. Making fun at THEIR OWN expense as representatives of ALL society. The self-pity writing required this Homer to be like "I was NEVER useful" when the scene could easily have been that Homer was made obsolete at a LATER date. Make the episode about NO LONGER being useful. But modern audience would be offended at the idea of having to EXPAND their skills and stay fresh, because modern audience is diversity hires, who think once you get a foot in you can just coast on GETTING IN and not do the studies. They can land in this, second week-trainee situation, even twenty years into the job.
@@sboinkthelegday3892 Dude. It's not that deep. Diversity hires? Why does everything have to be a thing? Isn't that utterly exhausting? Maybe stay off the internet for a while.
Me I rationalized Burns keeps him arround because a real safety officer would implement actual safety measures or shut down the plant and that costs a lot more than Homer's salary.
It’s actually weirdly refreshing to see the plant staff actively being competent and burns being an involved, helpful boss/owner, if only for one scene.
To be that, you can blame that on the flanderization of all the characters. Even burns at one point was reasonable and just developed into a evil monster and homer into a dimwit who despite being intelligent is always viewed as the idiot of the show.
@@funkmantim2661 yeah, and the flanderized stupidity seems to have generally been extended to most of the plant staff as well including unnamed/background character workers. Like even in-universe logic, that plant should be going Chernobyl every few weeks.
I've always envisioned Lenny and Carl being legit engineers who like hanging out with Homer. Seeing them act serious isn't out-of-character, but it's a long stretch that Montgomery is an expert engineer in the field seeing his track record across the cartoon. I mean, it logically makes sense that he knows how power plants work, but that wouldn't be funny would it?
Even in other episode its show that honer was a good worker in the begining but he become the worst later thats why the guy who was mad of him for having everything without doing nothing was mad of him
True..but if it wasn't for his crusade there wouldn't be the safety officer role as it is. That's how he got it and the end of episode joke where he swears to make the plant a paragon if safety under his supervision then immediately cuts to him asleep at his new, now iconic console. People forget Homer was initially a core handler despite it being thrown in our faces at every theme intro. He's been getitng that same rod stuck in his shirt and throwing it out the window for over 30 years despite not being anywhere near directly interacting with them for the vast majority of it. Hilariously enough, it's been forgotten to upgrade this but in a lot of flashbacks they forget this was the case causing for a lot of continuity issues. One famous example is the reason he has no pictures of Maggie in the house. A beautifully touching episode with Maggie's first word even ending it (with no one present of course.) The pictures are revealed to cover a sign burns put up at homers consol reminding him his but is owned by the old fart so it instead reminds Homer he does this for her..except he didn't get that job until after she was connonically a year old. 😂
The automated systems in nuclear reactors actually do all the work. I've attended a symposium by reactor operator instructors, they joke that the best way to respond to an alarm is to get on the phone and order a pizza to be delivered. When it arrives eat the pizza. If when you've finshined eating the alarm hasn't resolved itself, then you can pull out the first manual and start going through the appropriate checklist to resolve the issue. The reactions in a reactor can take place faster than a human can respond. So we do t rely on humans. The reactor instructors also joke that the ideal control room has a dog and an operator. The operators job is to feed the dog. The dogs job is to keep the operator away from the controls.
There was an episode where there was a dog and Homer asleep in his office when the alarm goes off. Homer does nothing and the dog shuts the alarm off and goes back to sleep
Homer wasn't initially the Safety Inspector. He got this job during the first season, episode 3. In that episode Homer got obsessed with safety after he got fired by Mr. Burns. He became very successful at fixing safety hazards all across the town, then realized, that the power plant is the biggest safety hazard itself. Homer convinced people, that the power plant is a safety threat and so people started to protest in front of it. That gave Mr. Burns an idea: He hired Homer again, but this time as a Safety Inspector, that way he can no longer claim the power plant is unsafe, after all he's now responsible for its safety himself. That's how he got the job, despite being totally unfit for it.
Homer is literally the fall guy. If shit really went down, Homer would be the one to blame. But if the crisis can be averted, they will just sweep it under the rug.
Dont think that would work. The code violations from old episodes would not make Homer to blame for jack anything. He was fired before and threatened to be fired a few dozen times. This is out of character. The fact Mr Burns spends all that money to make a fake area is also absurd. The original episodes they had the guy sweeping toxic waste under a rug because he did not want to buy another barrel. He is comically cheap when it comes to this stuff.
@@matt_sa He wasn't always like that. He used to be an average person but since ppl love dumb dads so much, they continue to make him stupider as the seasons went on. Now it's to the point where he'll endanger his family, friends, and self for laughs. At the beginning, he used to always sleep and waiting to leave but he knew he's job. Now he's just there.
There is an episode in the old seasons where they explained that new government regulations demanded every nuclear power plant needs a dedicated safety inspector, so they hired homer at a higher than average salary because he was so dumb that he wouldn't notice all the corners they cut and to keep him there just to satisfy the government requirement, it was called "Porject Bootstrap". It happened on episode 5 of season 3, back in 1991, homer defined. Here is the direct quote: Computer Voice: Warning, problem in Sector 7-G. Mr. Burns: 7-G? Good God, who's the safety inspector there? Smithers: Uh, Homer Simpson, sir. Mr. Burns: Simpson, eh? Good man, intelligent? Smithers: Actually, sir, he was hired under Project Bootstrap. Mr. Burns: [bitterly] Thank you, President Ford. In this episode, he straight up CAUSES a nuclear malfunction. He has always been incompetent at his job. It is why he was hired.
I feel like the better joke would to have Homer keep chatting away as everyone gets more and more panicked before Homer walks over and solves the issue himself to shut the buzzers up. Meanwhile everyone is looking at him like "What the hell?". It would be funny that despite his incredible idiocy he is actually really good at exactly one thing.
You’re referring to the season six episode “And Maggie Makes Three” where Homer alters that plaque with pictures of Maggie so it reads “Do It For Her”.
That's only half the story: in that episode Homer was fired from the plant. He was going to jump off a bridge, but when Marge and the kids came to stop him, he saved them from being hit by a car. Angry that his family was almost killed, he went to the town hall to fight for a stop sign to be installed there. When the council approved it, he realised he could make a difference so he began fighting for safety all over Springfield. He decided to take on the plant as part of his crusade. Burns hired him back to get the pressure off from the town. It should also be noted that Homer did save the town from a meltdown in a later episode, although it was by going "eeny-meeny-miny-moe"
@@liomurasakipretty sure he has a bunker below the facility, one button is to open the trapdoor on the people on his room while the other is to his safe room
What happened after I stopped watching this show? There's an entire episode from the 90's about Homer getting his safety job. He took the job knowing it was an empty job meant to get him off Burns' back.
when The Simpson's was new, the writers wanted to write a sitcom free of the limitations of live action now the writers just want to write The Simpsons
I think what happened was Burns gave him that job to shut him up but then after Homer demonstrated his incompetence repeatedly such as by only saving them by blindly pushing a button in that one episode Burns realized it was too risky and he arranged to have Homer’s console unplugged.
On the one hand, watching Mr. Burns be a serious and competent nuclear engineer and team-leader and not just a flat out evil man was amazing. On the other hand, i kind of liked the idea that Homer was at least competent at his job.
@@hollowshield2315 🤷♂ While i understand Homer is intended to be a bumbling idiot, it'd at least be nice to see him being a skilled and competent nuclear technician in the background, even if it's written off as more of a "muscle memory" kind of thing or something idk. As-is, he's kind of falling into "Too stupid to live" territory. The guy just has no positive traits other then "is funny and gets into hyjinks because he's dumb". Just give him SOMETHING he knows how to do. some positive quality or trait that gives us a reason to want to keep him around.
@@TamTroll the way i'd do it would be that Homer doesn't really know anything about nuclear safety, but he knows that the gauges are supposed to be in the green, and if they start moving away from green which buttons he needs to press to get them back into green. a bit like the robots in the Isaac Asimov short story 'Reason'.
It’s nice to see Mr Burns demonstrate why he’s the Boss. Not just because he’s wealthy and a greedy conglomerate but because he’s a businessman and an experienced nuclear power operations manager. And the fact he pays Homer despite not giving him any responsibilities is both favouritism yet heartwarming because it says he likes him being around showing Mr Burns isn’t all bad, he has a heart for his employees.
It's more fun to watch an episode that shows how many aimless jobs there are now 😂. I see a lot of people who are basically ghosts in their companies. They get hired to report on an employee quote to satisfy some investors or directors. But they can disappear and no one will notice. Several of them are even below the capacity of the market and their area. But they have a nice-sounding title or experience so there they are.
Awful writing. The whole joke behind Springfield's Nuclear Plant is that it's manned and supervised by absolute jokes, like Mr Burns who likes firing people at random because he's cruel or Homer who doesn't know anything about nuclear safety but still has a position of high responsibility. That's the joke. Here we're supposed to believe that Mr Burns is kind enough to lie to protect Homer's feelings? Why? And Homer saved the whole city before, what the heck
They have changed Homers ability to perform his job so many times it isn't even funny. Originally when he got the job he actually cared about safety and did a good job. There was also a time where they claimed he was only hired to be a fall guy if and when something went wrong due to using cheap parts.
I'm pretty sure he's been being paid all these years, to just Not be a Problem, they know he got fired for being an absolute idiot at working the floor, why would they give him an even more important job? Nah, they gave him the title because it worked with his Safety Campaign, and then made it so that he didn't Really need to do anything, at first letting him feel like he was, and then eventually just making it so that he waited in his office doing whatever he wants all day... Just so long as he Doesn't bring the plant up on Safety Regulations >.>
There is an episode in the old seasons where they explained that new government regulations demanded every nuclear power plant needs a dedicated safety inspector, so they hired homer at a higher than average salary because he was so dumb that he wouldn't notice all the corners they cut and to keep him there just to satisfy the government requirement, it was called "Porject Bootstrap". It happened on episode 5 of season 3, back in 1991, homer defined. Here is the direct quote: Computer Voice: Warning, problem in Sector 7-G. Mr. Burns: 7-G? Good God, who's the safety inspector there? Smithers: Uh, Homer Simpson, sir. Mr. Burns: Simpson, eh? Good man, intelligent? Smithers: Actually, sir, he was hired under Project Bootstrap. Mr. Burns: [bitterly] Thank you, President Ford. In this episode, he straight up CAUSES a nuclear malfunction. He has always been incompetent at his job. It is why he was hired.
I LOVE how educated and brave Mr. Burns is about his work, even if this is a one-off gag. He's usually shown as feeble and greedy so to see him in action is awesome.
@fabiopauli420 last time something like that happened (the episode whete homer saved the power plant) he did nothing other than steal smothers radiation suit to keep himself alive
Ok I know Simpsons + continuity is a joke and I definitely would not expect that from the newer seasons to begin with, but…Homer has saved the entire town before (although just from sheer luck). His console also did do the “beep boops” before, but there was a dog that would fix it while Homer slept during “company nap time” Also this feels weird seeing Mr Burns going out of his way to help out. The same guy who tried to use an escape pod to escape or was too senile to know what to do last time he was on the Conley
I think that since the new seasons (with people getting modern technology requiring higher amounts of electricity), it caused Burns to get more money out of the place than before which would result to him not wanting to shut it down and loose a lot of money. Also, noting how Homer most of the times is seen as a scapegoat (sent to projects just for the sake of it or to use him incase it fails so they can blame the fat guy + to show off that even the less intelligent worker is capable of doing an extremely hard job) they really just have him there as a convenience when needed. Nobody would really think that the others would mess up, but Homer is kind of known for being a mess so it would be easy to pinpoint a disaster onto him.
in one episode about meggie there was a scene with homer and mr. berm´s, and mr. berm´s placed a board where it say´s "your here forever" great job srcurity rilly, waht a nice guy
Burns has money to spare, and isn't afraid to spend it to make a point, in this case to Homer that he only can feed and clothe his family because he came crawling back after thinking he could make it pursuing his dream.
That explains why he's so lazy at work and the most he gets is a stern talking to from Burns. But he also gets fired every now and then,because Homer causes way too many problems for the plant
I think I'd prefer it if homer was actually good at his job.. The long running joke that he's a bumbling buffoon at every aspect of his life... but then to see he actually really knows his stuff about health & safety in a nuclear powerplant, would be an interesting juxtaposition. How is this idiot in charge of such a vital part of.. oh... that's why, it's the one situation he's actually not an idiot. And then he goes back to slacking and sleeping
Or does that old walk up does one thing problem fixed. How? ohh i noted in the schematic a loopback point and i just had the meltdown just run itself out in it. Better then trying to shuffle dance the whole grid as the manual says we should do it.
That would be better writing than this. It makes no sense: a) For Burns to actually work b) Burns to tolerate this c) Burns to co-mingle with workers and be jovial
That would actually be so much funnier Imagine Homer being dumb then suddenly just locking in and handling everything himself It's like the one part of his brain that isn't being affected by the crayon
... You know to me the biggest shock is not that Hommer job be a sham, it is that Mr Burns is actually shown as competent in nucelar engineering. Often he is shown as a boss who only cares of the economic/profit side of things, this must be the first time we see him tht involved int he ctual operation fop the plant..
Yeah exactly my thought. Despite being always showed as incompetent, he is the boss for a reason. In reality he knows exactly how to operate a nuclear power plant.
@@PerfectlyFunctioningAI Homer is still working there for Mr. Burns convenience. The chronological order in-canon it's a little fuzzy, but you can still make sense of it if you follow closely.
@@NoSmokeTV Not really. Old Eps showed Mr Burns has no idea how the plant runs. Especially its safety. There was a few eps where Homer comically saved the day and was the only one who could. This is out of character.
It was nice to see Mr Burns working and collaborating so intensely and seriously with his employees. Everyone (except Homer) was very competent and focused
Weird, they forgot that Homer by chance saved the powerplant from a meltdown by pressing a random button, the entire episode revolve around "pulling a homer" which is getting something done out of dumb luck. His job was very real, until that episode at least
@@thewewguy8t88 And caused the Simpson family grief despite not remembering Homers' name! -How he caused Mona to be a fugitive -How he stole Grampa's date (which is Marge's mum) and tried to kill him to get the paintings -How he's antagonistic to Lisa's environmental views and that one ep where she made an independent news press against him when he brought the news. -That one time he had a thing for Marge only to fire her for having a husband -When he tried to brainwash Bart to be his heir to even brainwashing SLH to be a vicious hound. -And lastly, how Maggie shot Mr.Burns. If you really think about it, he's kind of the Dr.Doom to their Fantastic Four.
“Homer, once a month you spend a week doing something expensive, dangerous to others or borderline suicidal. Most of what you do isn’t illegal it just spirals out of your control so mr burns, Mayor Quimby, Carl and I have just decided to keep you distracted with unimportant, time wasting crap. It’s why you’ve had free Wi-Fi wherever you go.”
So the every so many years time line reset (that is unannounced and has to be figured out) has then officially over written the episodes where Homer did save the plant "pull a Homer". I know some years back they overwrote all the 80s and 90s episodes by having Marge and Homer going to college during the 90s.
I haven't seen the old one but I think the way they can retcon this is by saying, while homer was trying to save the plant, the real safety team was doing it too
@@SpiderkillersInc Honestly it does not fit the characters. Mr Burns would not keep him around like this. There is no point. He fired Homer a few times and threaten it a few other dozen times. Seems really out of character to do this.
The whole joke of Homer at the nuclear plant is supposed to be how they have allowed someone so lazy and hopeless to be in charge of nuclear safety. This scene completely undercuts that, because it turns out he's actually not. Mr Burns supporting employees in averting nuclear meltdown is obviously also completely out of character (based on his original character that is), it would make more sense if he were evacuating to some sort of personal bunker for example. Also I don't think Homer would feel very upset with this situation as shown here - he'd probably be glad that everyone is giving him such an easy ride and he's earning money for nothing (oh, also, in what world is Mr Burns doing that?) There is something fun about the lifeless "Safety Console" vs the active Real Safety Console in the meltdown situation. There is still some stuff here that is funny, it's just kind of lame to see all these characters acting in such a wholesome way rather than for example lazy (Homer) and evil/selfish (Mr Burns).
Boomer, it's been 35 years. Let me phrase it in a way you might understand. "If Cartoon do thing again and again and again, cartoon not funny, so cartoon do new thing. Cartoon maybe not as funny when cartoon do first thing, but cartoon funnier than when it do first thing for 4000th time."
TBF, it's been years since that episode. Also, Burns seems to be a bit more hands on now, seeing as his arms aren't as spindly thin like that old episode where he went for a check up. Heck, it looks as normal as Lenny's. Probably since that episode where he went "undercover boss" with a robot suit.
@@carlost856A job I don’t really need to focus on that will also pays enough for the employee to own a two story house and provide for three kids is a job I will take in a heartbeat. No real job stress, since the job isn’t really a job. Good pay. And a good amount of time off. I’d rather be a “patsy” that can actually enjoy my life than someone with an “impactful” job who has to live with their parents or 6 roommates.
You don't understand, he isn't that worthless. You see, if there's any accident on the site, Homer is here to take the blame instead of the company. That's what his real job is.
Honestly tho he could be their scapegoat with how stupid he is and truly believes he's the safety inspector, so if something bad were to happen he'd be "responsible" and it would be believable with his low intelligence and clumsy ways
He would if it meant keeping Federal organisations off his back. "Have you a Safety Inspector?" "Yes." "I'm satisfied, see you in another two years,Mr. Burns"
Homer is canonically most likely the most powerful force in his universe, so no matter burns reasoning as the rich puppet master Springfield it's in his best interest to keep homer close limited and happy or he could have a zany day could destroy everything.
1:01 it took him this long to get that his job means nothing ? Yeah I don’t buy this episode bin which he realizes he has no worth even though it’s a cartoon
Because it doesn't make sense, Mr Burns is practically giving Homer money for free, as he isn't actually working, and that alone should be enough of a point, without even needing to look at past episodes
@@minatoreoshino8613 homers the fall guy if something bad happens all the blame will be pushed onto him burns is paying him as a way to get out of alot of trouble
@@minatoreoshino8613 Homer was first brought on as the nuclear safety inspector because the last time they fired him, he brought the power plant to its knees with a protest to demand safe working conditions, and Mr Burns had to hire him back as "nuclear safety inspector" as a bribe, to make him feel like his protest did something. Mr Burns knows he's no good at the job when he hired him, but knows he'll become a formidable enemy if given the right push.
I thought they were keeping him just as a facade for the inspectors coming to check! if he actually did his job, the power plant would most likely have to implement a lot of security measures that would cost burns millions, meanwhile Homer doing nothing save burns money
Carl sounds off. Also, when Homer works from home, he nearly causes a meltdown, so he definitely does at some point have a supposedly active role. Remember he got the role because he was the annoying safety guy around the town.
If this Episode is AFTER these situations he caused them... im no wonder they give him Fake Console insted. Its Safety for all if he do not touch stuff
Well it has sense. Throughout all the seasons it was made clear that Homer didn't actually do much in the plant and he spent most of his time sleeping, eating or chating with his colleagues. Also, remember that in the first season he was rehired by Mr. Burns merely for political reasons as a way to appease the enviromental activist group of which Homer was the leader.
That's post-hoc excuses. They would have written it that later on, homer's duties were reduced and all the equipment replaced. But they can't write like that, because they target sensitive audiences who respond to this emotional hurt, over realizing your job was "always" a sham despite previous evidence. What they're actually doing is like force Daria writing into Beavis and Butthead, because the only goal is to necromance this zombie IP, next to failures like the Disenchantment audience that doesn't show up the way they did for Daria.
What actually pisses me off is this is non-canonical to Homer in general. He knows how his job works. If anybody actually remembers an episode where he couldn't sleep and he went in early, he cleaned up his desk, he cleaned up his work area, he grabbed the book and he started reading it. He knows everything about the plant. However, they still treat him like an idiot. Anybody who knows Homer knows that they're still a crayon in his brain. He's actually incredibly smart he's just unable to use it. It leaks out a little at a time and that was a prime example
If we go by the newer seasons instead of the early ones there was an episode based on john wicks continental hotels, where Moe goes to a secret bar only for bartenders to relieve them of the stress of dealing with the patrons at there bars. Tldr Moe accidentally reveals the secret to the guys at his bar, the boys (lenny, Carl, Barney, homer) as punishment were given a serum making them unable to get drunk. During their tolerance to alcohol the guys were actually a whole lot more productive in their lives so beer definitely plays a major role on homers intelligence, the few times his genius is able to break away from his brain are good
There is an episode in the old seasons where they explained that new government regulations demanded every nuclear power plant needs a dedicated safety inspector, so they hired homer at a higher than average salary because he was so dumb that he wouldn't notice all the corners they cut and to keep him there just to satisfy the government requirement, it was called "Porject Bootstrap". It happened on episode 5 of season 3, back in 1991, homer defined. Here is the direct quote: Computer Voice: Warning, problem in Sector 7-G. Mr. Burns: 7-G? Good God, who's the safety inspector there? Smithers: Uh, Homer Simpson, sir. Mr. Burns: Simpson, eh? Good man, intelligent? Smithers: Actually, sir, he was hired under Project Bootstrap. Mr. Burns: [bitterly] Thank you, President Ford. In this episode, he straight up CAUSES a nuclear malfunction. 93 of you lemmings upvoted the completely wrong information given by a guy who is talking out of his ass.
@@geekerandy8773 I rather be rich and take a possible legal fail, than poor and be falling my entire life. The former of which can afford lawyers at that.
@@Sanbaddy If we take a look at How I Met Your Mother's PLEASE job, you basically sign away your rights for a lotta money and thus take the legal and pretty much indefensible fall for the company. While that show is a dramatization of the concept, being turned into a scapegoat is pretty hard to try to even lawyer your way out of.
@@geekerandy8773 It’s better than the alternative, poverty and scraping near homeless. Keep in mind Homer is the only one making money in paid off house, raising 3 kids at that, with a VERY happy marriage. He’s doing what most people today can’t come close achieve. If this was 1989 then _maybe_ I’d be with you. But as a millennial, and one whose been homeless for 3 years, I’d take the scapegoat any day.
... Wasn't it stabilished LOOOOONG ago that Homer was hired as nuclear safety exactly because Burns needed someone in that position that was dumb enough to oversee all the irregularities runiny amock in the power plant?! This scenario makes no fucking sense!!!
@@jameshamaker9321 Didn't Homer save the plant like twice, once with his butt, second time with some dumb kids song just to remeber what button to push... Is it just me or has Homer become more and more dumb? I have not watched the Simpsons in ages.
There is an episode in the old seasons where they explained that new government regulations demanded every nuclear power plant needs a dedicated safety inspector, so they hired homer at a higher than average salary because he was so dumb that he wouldn't notice all the corners they cut and to keep him there just to satisfy the government requirement, it was called "Porject Bootstrap". It happened on episode 5 of season 3, back in 1991, homer defined. Here is the direct quote: Computer Voice: Warning, problem in Sector 7-G. Mr. Burns: 7-G? Good God, who's the safety inspector there? Smithers: Uh, Homer Simpson, sir. Mr. Burns: Simpson, eh? Good man, intelligent? Smithers: Actually, sir, he was hired under Project Bootstrap. Mr. Burns: [bitterly] Thank you, President Ford. In this episode, he straight up CAUSES a nuclear malfunction. He has always been incompetent at his job. It is why he was hired.
Homer is probably there just for insurance purposes. Mr Burns and the rest of the crew most likely use Homer as a Red Herrin in the event a dangerous situation is unable to be fixed by the actual safety crew. They prob use Homer as the fall guy in that event, to blame him as the one responsible for not being able to mitigate any damages. Ngl, its not that bad. Homers an idiot, and its an ingenius strategy to use him as a strawman for insurance purposes.
It's a bribe he once picketed the power plant and got it shut down for being unsafe. So they made him Mister Safety as a bribe to get him to stop picketing. Evidently, Homer has forgotten. Or the writers did.
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It's nice to see Mr Burns gets his hands dirty. Mr Burns must really like homeer to pay him to do nothing
Or he keeps him around as scapegoat in the event they can’t stop the meltdown.
@@AWriterWanderingthat's pretty much the plan
Simpson eh?
I mean, apart from ruining Burns' political aspirations, The Simpson Family has helped him a LOT of times. They saved his life at least once.
@@Another_Aussie the baby also shot him so there's that
Ironically, this was Burns actually being responsible and doing his job as the leader of the plant. And wow, Homer, you're getting paid to just sit there and choke on donuts? Lucky.
I would love if mister Burns could have screamed "my fuel rods! do you even know how much they cost?" to give an in character motivation for taking over the controls
@@sarowie Now you see why I was shocked by the sheer professionalism of the situation.
@@Numbah12ADhe does better at plant work then investing 😂🤣😂🤣
Bro you killing me ... Not the paid to choke on donuts 😂😂😂
As a reactor operator, this sounds like a loss of reactor coolant scenario, his motivation is more likely “A lot of people are about to die unless this is fixed and we’ll lose my plant due to a total nuclear meltdown”.
It kinda ruins the joke for Homer's job to be a lie. The point is its hilarious that someone like Homer could be responsible for nuclear safety.
Exactly. There's even an old episode where Homer did save everybody "twice" by closing his eyes and pushing a button.
@@marcellXcatalystnot only that, Jobs like that are real. They exist as a kind of box taking exercise That's meant to maintain the bureaucratic machine despite serving Littles no purpose and don't really do much the way they've been useful.
That's because you're hateful. It's ACTUALLY funny part of life how specialized professionals develop a one-track mind, and how crucial things often need this kind of, let's call him a Noble Savage. Oh, which is that, racism or cultural appropriaton to call Homer that?
If you can actually love your fellow man you can find the joy in these things, and that's why Simpsons got off the ground, being written by engineers and GK Chesterton types in beautiful harmony. Making fun at THEIR OWN expense as representatives of ALL society.
The self-pity writing required this Homer to be like "I was NEVER useful" when the scene could easily have been that Homer was made obsolete at a LATER date. Make the episode about NO LONGER being useful.
But modern audience would be offended at the idea of having to EXPAND their skills and stay fresh, because modern audience is diversity hires, who think once you get a foot in you can just coast on GETTING IN and not do the studies. They can land in this, second week-trainee situation, even twenty years into the job.
@@sboinkthelegday3892 Dude. It's not that deep. Diversity hires? Why does everything have to be a thing? Isn't that utterly exhausting? Maybe stay off the internet for a while.
@@marcellXcatalyst Things are as deep as you want them to be, he makes a fair point...although i do agree with you that needs to touch grass
I always equated with Homer being paid to be the fall guy for any nuclear catastrophe.
Same here.
Me I rationalized Burns keeps him arround because a real safety officer would implement actual safety measures or shut down the plant and that costs a lot more than Homer's salary.
Seeing Mr Burns actually do something heroic like that is surreal.
yeah knowing him he'd probably want the reactor to blow up so he could collect the insurance money
@@hollowshield2315 There won't be a insurance place to go to anymore if that happens.
It’s actually weirdly refreshing to see the plant staff actively being competent and burns being an involved, helpful boss/owner, if only for one scene.
To be that, you can blame that on the flanderization of all the characters. Even burns at one point was reasonable and just developed into a evil monster and homer into a dimwit who despite being intelligent is always viewed as the idiot of the show.
@@funkmantim2661 yeah, and the flanderized stupidity seems to have generally been extended to most of the plant staff as well including unnamed/background character workers. Like even in-universe logic, that plant should be going Chernobyl every few weeks.
I've always envisioned Lenny and Carl being legit engineers who like hanging out with Homer. Seeing them act serious isn't out-of-character, but it's a long stretch that Montgomery is an expert engineer in the field seeing his track record across the cartoon. I mean, it logically makes sense that he knows how power plants work, but that wouldn't be funny would it?
Damn, seeing Mr burns actually managing the power plant hands on is actually sick as hell
Do you know what else this ruins? Ones of the greatest Simpson's Moments: 'Do it for Her'
Even in other episode its show that honer was a good worker in the begining but he become the worst later thats why the guy who was mad of him for having everything without doing nothing was mad of him
Homer may not be thought of as the best at his job but at least he can come home, look his baby daughter in the eye and say, "I did it for you".
Don't worry, just think this is another timeline to the original seasons...
Lenny and Carl both have their masters in nuclear physics, while Homer just showed up the day the plant opened...
True..but if it wasn't for his crusade there wouldn't be the safety officer role as it is. That's how he got it and the end of episode joke where he swears to make the plant a paragon if safety under his supervision then immediately cuts to him asleep at his new, now iconic console. People forget Homer was initially a core handler despite it being thrown in our faces at every theme intro. He's been getitng that same rod stuck in his shirt and throwing it out the window for over 30 years despite not being anywhere near directly interacting with them for the vast majority of it. Hilariously enough, it's been forgotten to upgrade this but in a lot of flashbacks they forget this was the case causing for a lot of continuity issues. One famous example is the reason he has no pictures of Maggie in the house. A beautifully touching episode with Maggie's first word even ending it (with no one present of course.) The pictures are revealed to cover a sign burns put up at homers consol reminding him his but is owned by the old fart so it instead reminds Homer he does this for her..except he didn't get that job until after she was connonically a year old. 😂
The automated systems in nuclear reactors actually do all the work. I've attended a symposium by reactor operator instructors, they joke that the best way to respond to an alarm is to get on the phone and order a pizza to be delivered. When it arrives eat the pizza. If when you've finshined eating the alarm hasn't resolved itself, then you can pull out the first manual and start going through the appropriate checklist to resolve the issue.
The reactions in a reactor can take place faster than a human can respond. So we do t rely on humans. The reactor instructors also joke that the ideal control room has a dog and an operator. The operators job is to feed the dog. The dogs job is to keep the operator away from the controls.
Lol
There was an episode where there was a dog and Homer asleep in his office when the alarm goes off. Homer does nothing and the dog shuts the alarm off and goes back to sleep
Homer wasn't initially the Safety Inspector. He got this job during the first season, episode 3. In that episode Homer got obsessed with safety after he got fired by Mr. Burns. He became very successful at fixing safety hazards all across the town, then realized, that the power plant is the biggest safety hazard itself. Homer convinced people, that the power plant is a safety threat and so people started to protest in front of it. That gave Mr. Burns an idea: He hired Homer again, but this time as a Safety Inspector, that way he can no longer claim the power plant is unsafe, after all he's now responsible for its safety himself. That's how he got the job, despite being totally unfit for it.
Wasn’t that retconned with the episode when Marge was pregnant with Bart?
@@youthoughtaboutit6946 Quite possible. The flashbacks in the series very often contradict the established canon.
Homer is literally the fall guy. If shit really went down, Homer would be the one to blame. But if the crisis can be averted, they will just sweep it under the rug.
Dont think that would work. The code violations from old episodes would not make Homer to blame for jack anything.
He was fired before and threatened to be fired a few dozen times. This is out of character. The fact Mr Burns spends all that money to make a fake area is also absurd. The original episodes they had the guy sweeping toxic waste under a rug because he did not want to buy another barrel. He is comically cheap when it comes to this stuff.
I like this scene. But shows the biggest issue with how the show has become. Homer has become the most obvious "Idiot dad in animations"
Always has been.
@@matt_sa He wasn't always like that. He used to be an average person but since ppl love dumb dads so much, they continue to make him stupider as the seasons went on. Now it's to the point where he'll endanger his family, friends, and self for laughs. At the beginning, he used to always sleep and waiting to leave but he knew he's job. Now he's just there.
Doubt it. Peter Griffin takes that spot with flying colours over Homer.
There is an episode in the old seasons where they explained that new government regulations demanded every nuclear power plant needs a dedicated safety inspector, so they hired homer at a higher than average salary because he was so dumb that he wouldn't notice all the corners they cut and to keep him there just to satisfy the government requirement, it was called "Porject Bootstrap".
It happened on episode 5 of season 3, back in 1991, homer defined.
Here is the direct quote:
Computer Voice: Warning, problem in Sector 7-G.
Mr. Burns: 7-G? Good God, who's the safety inspector there?
Smithers: Uh, Homer Simpson, sir.
Mr. Burns: Simpson, eh? Good man, intelligent?
Smithers: Actually, sir, he was hired under Project Bootstrap.
Mr. Burns: [bitterly] Thank you, President Ford.
In this episode, he straight up CAUSES a nuclear malfunction.
He has always been incompetent at his job. It is why he was hired.
1:28 Considering how many times you almost caused a nuclear meltdown, yeah!!!
He averted two
I feel like the better joke would to have Homer keep chatting away as everyone gets more and more panicked before Homer walks over and solves the issue himself to shut the buzzers up. Meanwhile everyone is looking at him like "What the hell?". It would be funny that despite his incredible idiocy he is actually really good at exactly one thing.
I thought that was going to be the joke when I saw the thumbnail.
Remember what Burns said the first time he hired him back. "Don't forget you're here forever."
Now he has to eat those words realizing he's basically paying a guy to do nothing but look useful
You’re referring to the season six episode “And Maggie Makes Three” where Homer alters that plaque with pictures of Maggie so it reads “Do It For Her”.
In the old Simpsons, Homer was given the job as a publicity stunt.
That's only half the story: in that episode Homer was fired from the plant. He was going to jump off a bridge, but when Marge and the kids came to stop him, he saved them from being hit by a car. Angry that his family was almost killed, he went to the town hall to fight for a stop sign to be installed there. When the council approved it, he realised he could make a difference so he began fighting for safety all over Springfield. He decided to take on the plant as part of his crusade. Burns hired him back to get the pressure off from the town. It should also be noted that Homer did save the town from a meltdown in a later episode, although it was by going "eeny-meeny-miny-moe"
@@Mac3622 those were the classic Simpsons.
@@normanlee9657 I need to re-watch the Simpsons as an adult... I just watched it as a kid who barely spoke English.
Interesting to see that Mr. Burns actually knows about nuclear power.
He and Smithers did run the power plant by themselves that one time
@@nimpsonkinkson1924 True.
I mean... Getting payed enough to own a house, a car AND support your family for doing literally nothing? Sounds like a win to me.
All that with just one parent working. This is unheard of now.
this is unironically the only time i've seen burns do anything besides scheme and not gaf about anything
He ran the plant with Smithers during the strike.
Nice touch to add Burns working and knowing about nuclear energy since it has been stated he used to be more active in the plant.
If only frank grimes knew.
He's probably rolling in his grave 😅
He knew. He even called him.out on being lazy and useless
Awh Marge change the channel
I love how Mr. Burns is actually worried and works with the team to save the facility from a meltdown
You can't leave fast enough
He must've been close by
@@liomurasakipretty sure he has a bunker below the facility, one button is to open the trapdoor on the people on his room while the other is to his safe room
@@lucky6961 yeah but meltdowns are mot very saferoomeable
@@liomurasaki he's the same guy that goes trough a daily medical procedure to extend his life one more day, everything is on the table at this point
What happened after I stopped watching this show?
There's an entire episode from the 90's about Homer getting his safety job. He took the job knowing it was an empty job meant to get him off Burns' back.
It's existed for so long that some of its writers today literally hadn't been born yet when that episode aired.
when The Simpson's was new, the writers wanted to write a sitcom free of the limitations of live action
now the writers just want to write The Simpsons
It’s crazy how this clip shows that Mr. Burns has actual knowledge and experience in the business he runs. It’s a rare sight lol
I refuse to believe this. The do it for her episode is too powerful to be overwritten.
It WAS used in the past, but they decided to lighten his workload. No homer does nothing and keeps the town safe!
Zombie Simpson theory at its best. Just like they destroyed Skinner for a bad pun
I think what happened was Burns gave him that job to shut him up but then after Homer demonstrated his incompetence repeatedly such as by only saving them by blindly pushing a button in that one episode Burns realized it was too risky and he arranged to have Homer’s console unplugged.
So weird actually seeing Mr. Burns being an effective team leader
But it was cool.
On the one hand, watching Mr. Burns be a serious and competent nuclear engineer and team-leader and not just a flat out evil man was amazing.
On the other hand, i kind of liked the idea that Homer was at least competent at his job.
Didn't grimes point out that accidents and safety concerns had increased exponentially since homer was hired?
@@hollowshield2315 🤷♂
While i understand Homer is intended to be a bumbling idiot, it'd at least be nice to see him being a skilled and competent nuclear technician in the background, even if it's written off as more of a "muscle memory" kind of thing or something idk.
As-is, he's kind of falling into "Too stupid to live" territory. The guy just has no positive traits other then "is funny and gets into hyjinks because he's dumb".
Just give him SOMETHING he knows how to do. some positive quality or trait that gives us a reason to want to keep him around.
@@TamTroll the way i'd do it would be that Homer doesn't really know anything about nuclear safety, but he knows that the gauges are supposed to be in the green, and if they start moving away from green which buttons he needs to press to get them back into green.
a bit like the robots in the Isaac Asimov short story 'Reason'.
@@MarkoDash i mean hey, that'd be okay by me :P
So he get paid for doing...
Nothing?
I kinda want that job
No he paid to be the fall man
You don't, trust me.
It feels like he's in that room JUST to call a higher up to say if something went wrong
No he's there so they can pin a safety violation on someone to protect corporate.
Look on the bright side. Mr Burns is paying you to do nothing. That is very generous of him.
immediate red flag of writing, having Mr Burns and generous in the same breath.
It’s nice to see Mr Burns demonstrate why he’s the Boss. Not just because he’s wealthy and a greedy conglomerate but because he’s a businessman and an experienced nuclear power operations manager. And the fact he pays Homer despite not giving him any responsibilities is both favouritism yet heartwarming because it says he likes him being around showing Mr Burns isn’t all bad, he has a heart for his employees.
It's more fun to watch an episode that shows how many aimless jobs there are now 😂.
I see a lot of people who are basically ghosts in their companies.
They get hired to report on an employee quote to satisfy some investors or directors.
But they can disappear and no one will notice.
Several of them are even below the capacity of the market and their area.
But they have a nice-sounding title or experience so there they are.
No it's not nice seeing Mr Burns working with his employees, that just doesn't stick at all with his personality, which made the thing funny
@@Piineapple.Exactly. It's fundamentally against his character. Shitty writing
Awful writing. The whole joke behind Springfield's Nuclear Plant is that it's manned and supervised by absolute jokes, like Mr Burns who likes firing people at random because he's cruel or Homer who doesn't know anything about nuclear safety but still has a position of high responsibility. That's the joke.
Here we're supposed to believe that Mr Burns is kind enough to lie to protect Homer's feelings? Why?
And Homer saved the whole city before, what the heck
They have changed Homers ability to perform his job so many times it isn't even funny. Originally when he got the job he actually cared about safety and did a good job. There was also a time where they claimed he was only hired to be a fall guy if and when something went wrong due to using cheap parts.
I'm pretty sure he's been being paid all these years, to just Not be a Problem, they know he got fired for being an absolute idiot at working the floor, why would they give him an even more important job? Nah, they gave him the title because it worked with his Safety Campaign, and then made it so that he didn't Really need to do anything, at first letting him feel like he was, and then eventually just making it so that he waited in his office doing whatever he wants all day... Just so long as he Doesn't bring the plant up on Safety Regulations >.>
There is an episode in the old seasons where they explained that new government regulations demanded every nuclear power plant needs a dedicated safety inspector, so they hired homer at a higher than average salary because he was so dumb that he wouldn't notice all the corners they cut and to keep him there just to satisfy the government requirement, it was called "Porject Bootstrap".
It happened on episode 5 of season 3, back in 1991, homer defined.
Here is the direct quote:
Computer Voice: Warning, problem in Sector 7-G.
Mr. Burns: 7-G? Good God, who's the safety inspector there?
Smithers: Uh, Homer Simpson, sir.
Mr. Burns: Simpson, eh? Good man, intelligent?
Smithers: Actually, sir, he was hired under Project Bootstrap.
Mr. Burns: [bitterly] Thank you, President Ford.
In this episode, he straight up CAUSES a nuclear malfunction.
He has always been incompetent at his job. It is why he was hired.
That's actually so nice of Mr.Burns to employ him and pay him for doing nothing.😂
Two words
Fall guy
When Berns is working you already know it's serious
I LOVE how educated and brave Mr. Burns is about his work, even if this is a one-off gag. He's usually shown as feeble and greedy so to see him in action is awesome.
To be fair: if the powerplant exploded Burns would likely be dead since he lives in spirngfield and even if he wasnt it would cost him alot of money
@fabiopauli420 last time something like that happened (the episode whete homer saved the power plant) he did nothing other than steal smothers radiation suit to keep himself alive
Ok I know Simpsons + continuity is a joke and I definitely would not expect that from the newer seasons to begin with, but…Homer has saved the entire town before (although just from sheer luck).
His console also did do the “beep boops” before, but there was a dog that would fix it while Homer slept during “company nap time”
Also this feels weird seeing Mr Burns going out of his way to help out. The same guy who tried to use an escape pod to escape or was too senile to know what to do last time he was on the Conley
I think that since the new seasons (with people getting modern technology requiring higher amounts of electricity), it caused Burns to get more money out of the place than before which would result to him not wanting to shut it down and loose a lot of money.
Also, noting how Homer most of the times is seen as a scapegoat (sent to projects just for the sake of it or to use him incase it fails so they can blame the fat guy + to show off that even the less intelligent worker is capable of doing an extremely hard job) they really just have him there as a convenience when needed. Nobody would really think that the others would mess up, but Homer is kind of known for being a mess so it would be easy to pinpoint a disaster onto him.
@@DaniesHere Plus, Burns cares about the company as it prints him money. And well, if you want something done right, do it yourself
@@chrisdiokno5600 exactly!
@@DaniesHere And, the episode points out that them making Homer's console redudant was a fairly new thing they did
I’m pretty sure he too don’t want a nuclear meltdown.
If he doesn’t have access to safety controls, then why is he employed? He literally doesn’t do anything, so why does Burns still give him a paycheck?
in one episode about meggie there was a scene with homer and mr. berm´s, and mr. berm´s placed a board where it say´s "your here forever"
great job srcurity rilly, waht a nice guy
he implemented jean short wednesdays!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fall guy. If anything goes seriously wrong, Homer's the one taking the heat.
@@js1031 That makes a disturbing amount of sense...
Burns has money to spare, and isn't afraid to spend it to make a point, in this case to Homer that he only can feed and clothe his family because he came crawling back after thinking he could make it pursuing his dream.
Season 1 Homers Odyssey
Burns gave homer the job as Safety inspecter *AS* a do nothing job to get homer off his back
That explains why he's so lazy at work and the most he gets is a stern talking to from Burns. But he also gets fired every now and then,because Homer causes way too many problems for the plant
This new season isn't even related to the old, Disney reset the timeline as fox did once year 2000 hit.
I think I'd prefer it if homer was actually good at his job..
The long running joke that he's a bumbling buffoon at every aspect of his life... but then to see he actually really knows his stuff about health & safety in a nuclear powerplant, would be an interesting juxtaposition.
How is this idiot in charge of such a vital part of.. oh... that's why, it's the one situation he's actually not an idiot.
And then he goes back to slacking and sleeping
Or does that old walk up does one thing problem fixed.
How? ohh i noted in the schematic a loopback point and i just had the meltdown just run itself out in it.
Better then trying to shuffle dance the whole grid as the manual says we should do it.
That would be better writing than this. It makes no sense:
a) For Burns to actually work
b) Burns to tolerate this
c) Burns to co-mingle with workers and be jovial
That would actually be so much funnier
Imagine Homer being dumb then suddenly just locking in and handling everything himself
It's like the one part of his brain that isn't being affected by the crayon
He used to be capable at his job, just lazy.
Though by the flanderisation of his character, he is just becoming more and more an idiot.
Bros complaining about having a job where he gets paid for doing nothing
... You know to me the biggest shock is not that Hommer job be a sham, it is that Mr Burns is actually shown as competent in nucelar engineering. Often he is shown as a boss who only cares of the economic/profit side of things, this must be the first time we see him tht involved int he ctual operation fop the plant..
Yeah exactly my thought. Despite being always showed as incompetent, he is the boss for a reason. In reality he knows exactly how to operate a nuclear power plant.
Mr. Burns in this episode just revealed how much he loves Homer to the point he would allow him to even work.
Reminder that Fox canceled Futurama, but never this.
Real shame.
true, and now Futurama is continued on Disney plus and they got the original cast and animators to maintain the same soul it had to begin with
So Mr. Burns actually knows how to run a nuclear power plant?
@@romankvapil9184 Mr. Burns is evil not stupid.
He also pays and gives a completely useless employees benefits. Its wild how insanely kind this makes mr burns look.
@@PerfectlyFunctioningAI Homer is still working there for Mr. Burns convenience. The chronological order in-canon it's a little fuzzy, but you can still make sense of it if you follow closely.
@@PerfectlyFunctioningAI Probably gets some kind of government subsidy for employing him.
@@NoSmokeTV Not really.
Old Eps showed Mr Burns has no idea how the plant runs. Especially its safety. There was a few eps where Homer comically saved the day and was the only one who could.
This is out of character.
It was nice to see Mr Burns working and collaborating so intensely and seriously with his employees. Everyone (except Homer) was very competent and focused
Respect to Mr. Burns for getting involved and leading his team instead of just being the kind of boss who stands in the back and points.
Actually, I like this. While it defeats the running joke. It shows that even Burns values him as a friend.
Weird, they forgot that Homer by chance saved the powerplant from a meltdown by pressing a random button, the entire episode revolve around "pulling a homer" which is getting something done out of dumb luck. His job was very real, until that episode at least
yes thats why they say " i ve made an homer" :D
Well, they did say they changed the console out later, so both can be true at the same time
They changed the console it once was a real one
Except for all those times Homer did actually save the day of course
King Size Homer!!
1:07
Even Mr. Burns felt sorry for having to break the news to Homer!
And he LOATHES him!
He does not even rember who he is most of the time lol.
@@thewewguy8t88 And caused the Simpson family grief despite not remembering Homers' name!
-How he caused Mona to be a fugitive
-How he stole Grampa's date (which is Marge's mum) and tried to kill him to get the paintings
-How he's antagonistic to Lisa's environmental views and that one ep where she made an independent news press against him when he brought the news.
-That one time he had a thing for Marge only to fire her for having a husband
-When he tried to brainwash Bart to be his heir to even brainwashing SLH to be a vicious hound.
-And lastly, how Maggie shot Mr.Burns.
If you really think about it, he's kind of the Dr.Doom to their Fantastic Four.
“Homer, once a month you spend a week doing something expensive, dangerous to others or borderline suicidal. Most of what you do isn’t illegal it just spirals out of your control so mr burns, Mayor Quimby, Carl and I have just decided to keep you distracted with unimportant, time wasting crap. It’s why you’ve had free Wi-Fi wherever you go.”
I like these moments when there is a real emergency and they are capable and even Mr Burns handles the situation.
Remember how he got the job
I remember
I don't remember, watched it too long ago
Oh boy.....😢
So the every so many years time line reset (that is unannounced and has to be figured out) has then officially over written the episodes where Homer did save the plant "pull a Homer". I know some years back they overwrote all the 80s and 90s episodes by having Marge and Homer going to college during the 90s.
I haven't seen the old one but I think the way they can retcon this is by saying, while homer was trying to save the plant, the real safety team was doing it too
I mean it's been around forever, I just judge each episode on its own
"floating timeline" nonsense. Every season is its own universe.
Anyone remember the episode where Homer managed to avert a meltdown by doing eenie meenie miney mo?
I do.
probably why they did it
@@jaredfrancis5062 I know, but it still feels kind of mean they didn't find him something else to do.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
@@SpiderkillersInc
Honestly it does not fit the characters.
Mr Burns would not keep him around like this. There is no point. He fired Homer a few times and threaten it a few other dozen times.
Seems really out of character to do this.
Homer earns about 60,000$ a year to do nothing.
And yet he complains. He literally hates working
Sounds like a job for me! Where do I apply?
The whole joke of Homer at the nuclear plant is supposed to be how they have allowed someone so lazy and hopeless to be in charge of nuclear safety. This scene completely undercuts that, because it turns out he's actually not. Mr Burns supporting employees in averting nuclear meltdown is obviously also completely out of character (based on his original character that is), it would make more sense if he were evacuating to some sort of personal bunker for example. Also I don't think Homer would feel very upset with this situation as shown here - he'd probably be glad that everyone is giving him such an easy ride and he's earning money for nothing (oh, also, in what world is Mr Burns doing that?)
There is something fun about the lifeless "Safety Console" vs the active Real Safety Console in the meltdown situation. There is still some stuff here that is funny, it's just kind of lame to see all these characters acting in such a wholesome way rather than for example lazy (Homer) and evil/selfish (Mr Burns).
Boomer, it's been 35 years. Let me phrase it in a way you might understand. "If Cartoon do thing again and again and again, cartoon not funny, so cartoon do new thing. Cartoon maybe not as funny when cartoon do first thing, but cartoon funnier than when it do first thing for 4000th time."
@@ValerieKnight-oj5sq Ok Zoomer
TBF, it's been years since that episode.
Also, Burns seems to be a bit more hands on now, seeing as his arms aren't as spindly thin like that old episode where he went for a check up. Heck, it looks as normal as Lenny's. Probably since that episode where he went "undercover boss" with a robot suit.
If he didn't matter, why would they keep him employed?
As a scapegoat in case things go wrong.
@@XxSliphxXI’m ok with that 😂,
So he gets paid to do nothing and is complaining about it? Sign me up.
Imagine if Frank Grimes Knew This Before Killing Himself
So in words he is being paid to do nothing. Sounds like a good job to me sign me up.
Being a patsy to avoid spending on safety and being responsible for any catastrophe that happens isn't actually a good job.
@@carlost856A job I don’t really need to focus on that will also pays enough for the employee to own a two story house and provide for three kids is a job I will take in a heartbeat. No real job stress, since the job isn’t really a job. Good pay. And a good amount of time off.
I’d rather be a “patsy” that can actually enjoy my life than someone with an “impactful” job who has to live with their parents or 6 roommates.
I cannot see Mr. Burns letting a guy retain his position if he was worthless. He is far too greedy for that.
Remember you're here forever
Yeah, but what’s stopping Homer from them reporting the plant’s unsafe practices then?
You don't understand, he isn't that worthless. You see, if there's any accident on the site, Homer is here to take the blame instead of the company. That's what his real job is.
You underestimate the need for a patsy.
Especially considering how many times burns has fired Homer. Why bring him back?
Burns would never keep an employee on the payroll knowing they weren't providing any real function.
Honestly tho he could be their scapegoat with how stupid he is and truly believes he's the safety inspector, so if something bad were to happen he'd be "responsible" and it would be believable with his low intelligence and clumsy ways
He would if it meant keeping Federal organisations off his back.
"Have you a Safety Inspector?"
"Yes."
"I'm satisfied, see you in another two years,Mr. Burns"
Homer is canonically most likely the most powerful force in his universe, so no matter burns reasoning as the rich puppet master Springfield it's in his best interest to keep homer close limited and happy or he could have a zany day could destroy everything.
Homer still serves a purpose. Burns has put a bird in charge of him before. He certainly wouldn't be above using homer for that role.
1:01 it took him this long to get that his job means nothing ? Yeah I don’t buy this episode bin which he realizes he has no worth even though it’s a cartoon
Because it doesn't make sense,
Mr Burns is practically giving Homer money for free, as he isn't actually working, and that alone should be enough of a point, without even needing to look at past episodes
@@minatoreoshino8613 homers the fall guy if something bad happens all the blame will be pushed onto him burns is paying him as a way to get out of alot of trouble
@@minatoreoshino8613 Homer was first brought on as the nuclear safety inspector because the last time they fired him, he brought the power plant to its knees with a protest to demand safe working conditions, and Mr Burns had to hire him back as "nuclear safety inspector" as a bribe, to make him feel like his protest did something. Mr Burns knows he's no good at the job when he hired him, but knows he'll become a formidable enemy if given the right push.
Kinda ruins the joke that mr burns wants a useless safety inspector to cut costs
Last 10 years of simpsons ruins the joke.
30 years of Mr burns in the office and he proves his knowledge in 20 seconds
He gets paid to do nothing all day whats wrong with him in those new episodes🤣
"My console isn't even plugged in"
Didn't stop him from causing a meltdown in the parking lot. 😅
Wait, so they pay him to do absolutely nothing?
Just in case... he'll be the one to be blamed.
They pay him to do nothing because if they didn't, he would go do something that inevitably causes problems.
Just remember “you’re here forever”.
Mr burns keeping his word no matter how much of a burden Homer is to the company.
@@klikboers like always
It’s amazing the lengths they’d go instead of simply firing him.
I thought they were keeping him just as a facade for the inspectors coming to check! if he actually did his job, the power plant would most likely have to implement a lot of security measures that would cost burns millions, meanwhile Homer doing nothing save burns money
Carl sounds off. Also, when Homer works from home, he nearly causes a meltdown, so he definitely does at some point have a supposedly active role. Remember he got the role because he was the annoying safety guy around the town.
There also case when Homer cause real meltdown on simulator
@@candycornshrimp And how is that relevant to this discussion? Are you a bot or a troll who just shoehorns in controversial comments?
@@candycornshrimp lul funny because most characters are yellow
@@Voli1Beart you’re right, the entire voice cast should step down and be replaced by only people who are jaundiced.
If this Episode is AFTER these situations he caused them... im no wonder they give him Fake Console insted. Its Safety for all if he do not touch stuff
It weird seeing burns actually work ...not complaining it kinda makes since but feels off
Yeah that was actually cool to see. I always like seeing people from upper management do grunt work every now and then
Shitty writing all around
Wow, Mr Burns actually did something
Thanks show for labeling the control panels I was too confused as to which was the fake safety console.
Well it has sense. Throughout all the seasons it was made clear that Homer didn't actually do much in the plant and he spent most of his time sleeping, eating or chating with his colleagues. Also, remember that in the first season he was rehired by Mr. Burns merely for political reasons as a way to appease the enviromental activist group of which Homer was the leader.
Plus with all these close calls this needed to happen lol.
That's post-hoc excuses. They would have written it that later on, homer's duties were reduced and all the equipment replaced. But they can't write like that, because they target sensitive audiences who respond to this emotional hurt, over realizing your job was "always" a sham despite previous evidence.
What they're actually doing is like force Daria writing into Beavis and Butthead, because the only goal is to necromance this zombie IP, next to failures like the Disenchantment audience that doesn't show up the way they did for Daria.
It's nice seeing Burns roll up his sleeves and get involved.
What actually pisses me off is this is non-canonical to Homer in general. He knows how his job works. If anybody actually remembers an episode where he couldn't sleep and he went in early, he cleaned up his desk, he cleaned up his work area, he grabbed the book and he started reading it. He knows everything about the plant. However, they still treat him like an idiot. Anybody who knows Homer knows that they're still a crayon in his brain. He's actually incredibly smart he's just unable to use it. It leaks out a little at a time and that was a prime example
Damn really?
If we go by the newer seasons instead of the early ones there was an episode based on john wicks continental hotels, where Moe goes to a secret bar only for bartenders to relieve them of the stress of dealing with the patrons at there bars. Tldr Moe accidentally reveals the secret to the guys at his bar, the boys (lenny, Carl, Barney, homer) as punishment were given a serum making them unable to get drunk. During their tolerance to alcohol the guys were actually a whole lot more productive in their lives so beer definitely plays a major role on homers intelligence, the few times his genius is able to break away from his brain are good
@@skullknight4579 he even goes to Smithers and tells him about an idea to save the plant money and Smithers is super impressed.
@@torchbearer2175 Yeah, that was actually a good ep
There is an episode in the old seasons where they explained that new government regulations demanded every nuclear power plant needs a dedicated safety inspector, so they hired homer at a higher than average salary because he was so dumb that he wouldn't notice all the corners they cut and to keep him there just to satisfy the government requirement, it was called "Porject Bootstrap".
It happened on episode 5 of season 3, back in 1991, homer defined.
Here is the direct quote:
Computer Voice: Warning, problem in Sector 7-G.
Mr. Burns: 7-G? Good God, who's the safety inspector there?
Smithers: Uh, Homer Simpson, sir.
Mr. Burns: Simpson, eh? Good man, intelligent?
Smithers: Actually, sir, he was hired under Project Bootstrap.
Mr. Burns: [bitterly] Thank you, President Ford.
In this episode, he straight up CAUSES a nuclear malfunction.
93 of you lemmings upvoted the completely wrong information given by a guy who is talking out of his ass.
Gotta love how even Mr Burns didn't care to make Homer feel worse.
Dude, you get paid a ton of money to pretend to be busy. That's like my old job but paying better.
People look at me like an insane person when I say I feel bored/not productive enough. Maybe I am insane 😵💫😂
Yeah but you ”conveniently” take the legal fall for anything bad that happens.
@@geekerandy8773 I rather be rich and take a possible legal fail, than poor and be falling my entire life. The former of which can afford lawyers at that.
@@Sanbaddy If we take a look at How I Met Your Mother's PLEASE job, you basically sign away your rights for a lotta money and thus take the legal and pretty much indefensible fall for the company. While that show is a dramatization of the concept, being turned into a scapegoat is pretty hard to try to even lawyer your way out of.
@@geekerandy8773 It’s better than the alternative, poverty and scraping near homeless. Keep in mind Homer is the only one making money in paid off house, raising 3 kids at that, with a VERY happy marriage. He’s doing what most people today can’t come close achieve.
If this was 1989 then _maybe_ I’d be with you. But as a millennial, and one whose been homeless for 3 years, I’d take the scapegoat any day.
Wish i had a job like that. Just think he's able to have a single family home in the burbs on a single income!
For real. Don't be mad about that, be happy. Find a hobby.
Homer is the plants fall guy. HE PAYS HOMER TO TAKE THE BLAME INCASE OF A MELTDOWN
Kinda like Barney from how I met your mother
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Wasn't it stabilished LOOOOONG ago that Homer was hired as nuclear safety exactly because Burns needed someone in that position that was dumb enough to oversee all the irregularities runiny amock in the power plant?!
This scenario makes no fucking sense!!!
They said they changed it, not that it was that way from the get go, basically he was too much of a liability at one point
its modern simpsons of course it doesnt make sense why od people even bother to watch this crap
Continuity of modern simpsons is basically whatever the writers feel like.
Lets not forget Homer neutralized a core meltdown by himself.
that is true, he used his butt.
@@jameshamaker9321 Which is weird, because usually Homer's butt is reponsible for the release of toxic gas.
@@jameshamaker9321 Didn't Homer save the plant like twice, once with his butt, second time with some dumb kids song just to remeber what button to push... Is it just me or has Homer become more and more dumb? I have not watched the Simpsons in ages.
Retcon, homer saved the plant twice with his console. Lenny is actually hopeless, so it's out of character for him to actually focus on work.
There is an episode in the old seasons where they explained that new government regulations demanded every nuclear power plant needs a dedicated safety inspector, so they hired homer at a higher than average salary because he was so dumb that he wouldn't notice all the corners they cut and to keep him there just to satisfy the government requirement, it was called "Porject Bootstrap".
It happened on episode 5 of season 3, back in 1991, homer defined.
Here is the direct quote:
Computer Voice: Warning, problem in Sector 7-G.
Mr. Burns: 7-G? Good God, who's the safety inspector there?
Smithers: Uh, Homer Simpson, sir.
Mr. Burns: Simpson, eh? Good man, intelligent?
Smithers: Actually, sir, he was hired under Project Bootstrap.
Mr. Burns: [bitterly] Thank you, President Ford.
In this episode, he straight up CAUSES a nuclear malfunction.
He has always been incompetent at his job. It is why he was hired.
seeing mr burns actually work is so fucking weird to see
Seeing them using Charlie at the Plant was a big surprise for me, sometimes I think modern writers forgot there was a 4th guy in sector 7g.
New writers who've never watched Simpsons
Mr. Burns just out of nowhere caring about people's safety. Interesting character arc.
But that wasn’t really caring about people’s safety. That was him stopping the power plant from blowing up and… losing massive profits.
@@ssumbody6251 Still doesn't stop the fact that he saved everyone in Springfield. Mr. Burns is better than the executives at Chernobyl.
I think that's the joke; that even him would do something
@@Asmallcorneroftheinternet Dead people don't use power.
@@sgtkabukiman9411 That sounds like something Burns would say. Maybe in his metal band.
I always preferred idea that homer is a idiot savant of nuclear safety
Same, this kind of ruins it for me.
the one time mr burns does something in the plant and also feels guilty about homer and not enjoying his suffering
I'm surprised burns would even help I thought he would have an escape plan to leave the whole town and let it explode
“For Gods sake Sir there’s two seats”
“I like to put my seat up”
Homer: crying
Me: Wanting the job because you get paid to do nothing.
That's sad imo
Benefits:you get paid doing nothing
Consequence:you are basically a scapegoat and commonly known for being stupid
i would take that job :D
My boi homer is missing the point;Burns is paying you a nuclear salary just to exist sign me up 😅
😂😂😂
Same
burns has to keep him because "he's there forever". he just had to figure out a way to keep him without him actually screwing things up.
They lose the faith in Homer when failed to keep the bee
Homer is probably there just for insurance purposes.
Mr Burns and the rest of the crew most likely use Homer as a Red Herrin in the event a dangerous situation is unable to be fixed by the actual safety crew. They prob use Homer as the fall guy in that event, to blame him as the one responsible for not being able to mitigate any damages.
Ngl, its not that bad. Homers an idiot, and its an ingenius strategy to use him as a strawman for insurance purposes.
So they kept Homer around to fill a job role quota thing?
Scape goat
It's a bribe he once picketed the power plant and got it shut down for being unsafe. So they made him Mister Safety as a bribe to get him to stop picketing. Evidently, Homer has forgotten. Or the writers did.
"Remember, you are here forever"
He's basically a Dei employee
Creative bankruptcy even affects Springfield, apparently.