The Simpsons have basically come full circle. The Simpsons used to be a spoof on the "ideal" and "perfect" sitcom families that came before it, but now that has drastically changed. The Simpsons live in a good house, multiple cars, Homer has job security in a decent paying job, the Simpsons _are_ the ideal now, and many of us wish we could live as well as they do.
I've known for nearly a decade I will never live close to as well as they did. It's depressing as shit to live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world and strongly relate to having to choose between affording healthcare and rent
Wasn't Homer's enemy season 8? The same episode where Grimey asks him how can he afford a large house and two cars with lobster for dinner. They've been well ideal for a while now.
@@BlueLightningSky if you stop and think about it homer did so many jobs and more that if anything being at a job that where he basically almost do nothing is the only job he can't fucked up.
@@BlueLightningSky Now with Homer's Enemy I feel that was unfair because Homer was trying to put his best foot forward to make a good impression. What was Homer supposed to do, show Grimes a catalogue of all his hospital visits to show how Homer has paid the price of his stupidity?
I mean in a financial sense they are "ideal" but they portray dysfunction within the american family and society which shows prior to the simpsons would often sweep under the rug.
Bruh, how hard does someone need to work just to get a days meal . The poorest person should at least be able to afford 2 meals a day without working 2 jobs or owning a business
@@Joe.s_475 oh $58 dollars a day will pay for 2 meals a day for a family of 4 ,and literally nothings else. Not rent, water, electricity, or healthcare. Which is why everyone who is making minimum wage also gets government assistance for housing, utilities and Medicare.
@@samtrue1if you have a family of 4 and you only make $58 a day that’s on you. Minimum wage jobs are meant to be for those starting out in the workforce and it’s fairly easy to find jobs that pay more than minimum wage even with just a little college experience
so they finally admitted that the family’s structure is out of date and having three kids, two cars and one working family member is now economically impossible
@@bobkerr2755 problem is when frank grimes made it, it was only somewhat comical, sure a middle class family back then like the simpsons could exist if one member was in a highly specialized field like nuclear engineering but it would have to be under some pretty unique circumstances. Now it’s just full on impossible unless that specialized career is owning a nuclear plant
@@piratekingomega3292 looking back, most 90s sitcom families were living far beyond their means. Homer being hired as a nuclear safety technician with zero college education was always ridiculous. Al bundy being able to afford a house on a part time shoe salesman salary is just beyond absurd and Tim Taylor being able to comfortably support a family of 5 on a cable access tv show host salary is just bordering on parody but I get what you mean. It was somewhat plausable 30 years ago but just plain insulting to our intelligence in 2023.
I grew up outside Detroit in the 1970's. The funny little history lesson here is so true it stings. When I was a teen, some of my friend's dads had jobs pumping gas and being night watchmen. Yet they had a small slice of the American dream. The kids wore hand-me-downs, their only car was a getting old, but they had little suburban homes, took vacations and had a steady lifestyle. Today I know people working two or three jobs who cannot make ends meet, who are literally killing themselves with overwork and cannot provide the basics of a comfortable lifestyle. I hope what I see around me isn't true nationwide, but I suspect it's the new normal. And that it cannot be sustained.
Same. Grew up in the same area in the 80s. Probably more duel income families then but yeah.. all my friends had parents that no matter their job had a decent home, took trips, had a reliable car or two and still saved for kids college / retirement. Now..yeah forget that. Everyone priced out. Thankfully with WFH some folks can escape. Get a good WFH job and move to a small town and be high on the economic scale
As someone living in Ontario, Canada, I unfortunately have to admit that things weren't as easy as they were in our parent's day. My mom and dad were both university drop-outs, but thanks to my dad's income through a job as a lead ground crew employee at Air Canada, we were able to live in wealthier neighbourhoods, travel a lot, and get me and my sister into private school. My sister and I both have numerous degrees but am currently fighting to even get my foot in the door for a part-time night shift job at Costco which 625 (and counting) people have applied for through Indeed alone... It's getting really tough out there, but I'm thankful that I can live with my family and actually save up necessary funds for investments and emergencies. Because without them, I'd likely be homeless...
it is , people working good jobs paying $20+ an hour still living in apartments with roommates and 15 year old cars choosing between taking their first vacation in years and dental work
@@LohengrinX14 I wish that you were kidding, but you perfectly described it. In my case it's girlfriend instead of roommates and I don't have a car, because in Europe we still have somewhat functioning public transport (and there's Uber/Bolt), but I don't remember when exactly I was on last, real vacation and today we postpone dental work or fixing some broken items in rented apartment, because we barely make it without going into debt or completely resigning from our hobbies (because, what's the point, if you work only to have place to live and something to eat?). I don't want much, but it would be great to be able to afford a small house, if you have average salary, but today it's good, if you can afford rent for average apartment and I'm almost 30, so when it's supposed to be start to get better? You can't be just average to have normal life, now you need to exceed expectations or have wealthy parents.
@@senister14 except for the fact that the US economic system is NOT capitalistic, but is rather a mixed economy. Both pure capitalism and pure socialism fail. Regulation is essential. It’s about finding what works and what doesn’t. This video isn’t against capitalism, it’s against the current mixed economy in the US. The issue is rising educational requirements along with making said education less affordable. It’s the cost of living raising without income growth. It’s the institutional systems created so the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. When they say to “burn it down,” they mean restarting from the bottom and proposing a solution where the common American can continue to live a middle class lifestyle.
@Clayton Cullers I know, it sucks. When did pure capitalism fail? No it's popularizing socialism, something has never worked. Normally I would agree but education went over a cliff with CRT. Income growth stopped because of taxes and inflation, small business can't survive without it. No the rich are becoming the new poor, because taxes are to high, another thing that's never worked in history, just look at the French revolution. Yeah more like with the government controlling everything just to stay in power while the people suffer
Most people in the working class are one medical emergency or unexpected large bill (car repairs, home repair, fumigation, etc) away from complete financial ruin.
@@ef1876 Then guess what? They're not middle class anymore! No one wants to see themselves as being on the bottom, which is why so many delude themselves into thinking they're "middle class" when they're totally not. If someone could be quickly ruined if they lost their job tomorrow or had any kind of major financial event happen, such as medical, then they're firmly working class!
Not true. They plane lack of union participation as one of the reasons. That’s a lie. The reason wages are low is because technology and women in the workforce
@@fyfyi6053 The decline of unions, rampant corporate greed, Wall Street malfeasance and the rise of shortsighted politics Noones saying communism is an alternative, but the current system needs to be changed, you are poor and you are happy.
my dad, despite working as hard as he can each week, our household of 10 living paycheck to disability check to paycheck to disability check, still believes in the idea of the billionaire "having earned it". the reason america is still in this horrible, downward spiral is because too many americans view themselves not as a disenfranchised working class, but as temporarily disgraced millionaires. the belief that those with money rightfully earned it, no matter how vast their estate becomes or how many lives they must destroy to obtain such wealth, is a poison onto the people.
@@tylerlillard2224 I love all of it of course it's not all perfect but I think it's insanity to say that only 150 episodes are good the rest are crap. People just need to watch it. Or at least realise they grew up
Not really.. the main network isn't a political arm trying to influence America. Disney would do well if the middle class came back. I mean.. Disney could do better if they treat their workers better.. but if everyone was forced to be better, disney would ultimately profit.
@@boomerzoomerfigureitout3806 "the song about a ruined middle class is corpo propaganda" that's the kind of logic that cost Andy Wakefield his credentials
“Paycheck-to-paycheck” workers included the middle class forever. The term “working class” was created decades ago because it became too confusing classifying because more than 90% of people considered themselves “in the middle.”
This is the Simpsons warning you the middle class is about to be gone. Everyone needs to start opening their eyes to what’s happening around us in society.
@@goldenpineapple8838 sadly I don’t have a solution considering I’m not a person high up in power. All you can do prepare your self and your family any way you can
@@MaryJosephrobi it’s still here momentarily (unless your in a place like California where it is already gone ) you’ll notice when it’s fully gone it’ll be a epidemic of people loosing homes,food shortages and panic. They are collapsing the dollar to put the final nail in the coffin cause after that happens only the extremely wealthy will be left and every one else will be extremely poor
@@DaVid-lw1xc actually you can. You have to motivate people to unplug themselves from party politics and divisive tricks used by the establishment. It's one big establishment but we the people are bigger. Stop seperating yourselves into two camps
By shipping jobs overseas and union busting, shortsightedness caused serious erosion of the middle class and a large portion of consumer demand with it.
I know right. It’s like if people don’t have money they can’t buy things to drive the economy. This along with the utterly stupid obsession with exponential growth.
Homer is supposed to be 39 years old, meaning that if he dies at 44,. Bart will be Fifteen and wouldn't be able to get a job at a power plant anyways. But then again Mr. Burns did once hire a chicken.
This song was so poignant. I literally watched open mouthed 😅 It's the kind of song you want all kids and adults to watch, be terrified & angry and then burn the system to the ground 🔥 🔥 🔥 But alast 🥲😭🙄 I knew I recognised the voice, but I couldn't pinpoint the actor. Hugh Jackman is always a legend 🎉
@@janushunyadi9612 you do realize burning the system to the ground isn’t literally suggesting arson, aren’t you? It’s a way of metaphorically saying we need to all come together as a collective in order to fight to preserve the middle class, as well as vote for people who will strengthen unions and pass legislation to limit corporate oversea jobs.
Burning everything down would just make us all destitute. I think just repealing all the tax breaks for the wealthy starting with Ronald Reagan should do the trick. His own VP, George Bush Sr., called Reagan's policies "Voodoo Economics."
THIS SONG SLAPS! This entire episode was golden! I believe this is a Simpsons renaissance, it is really coming back around and I say this as a Season 4 preferrer! Jerkass Homer is dead!
Grimes' biggest flaw was being mad at Homer when Homer wasn't the cause of any of his problems. He should have been mad at the people who weren't paying/treating him fairly (or the people that made it harder to get an education or whatever).
Especially conidering time changing. Simpsons were designed as middle class, earler episodes show simpsons as strugiling with money, homer being jealous of flanders, or so...Homer is lucky he isnt fired , but Grimes basicaly accused him of leeching of people like him, because homer has better than him-that is he owns house and 2 cars. Not supposed to be luxury.
@@sebastienholmes548 Take your bread and circuses and shut up. Imagine being like this. Compared to housing, job stability, single income households etc. who gives a fuck about smartphones?
Fun fact of the day: Hugh Jackman (the singing janitor) plays P.T. Barnum in The Greatest Showman, one of my favourite musicals ever, so of course he was the best choice for this. Also 1:43 WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT _HOLD EVERYTHING_ In the bottom right... IS THAT SCROOGE MCDUCK?!?!
I feel kind of like Bart and Lisa watching blank-faced as they watch Johnny Carson whiffing on the Tonight Show and saying that it was at least fun to stay up late. I agree with the message, but boy oh boy, do I miss jokes about "rich man's heaven" and having to live above a bowling alley and under another bowling alley.
I mean the Simpson Halloween special especially in the last few years I’ve noticed had a pretty progressive message, but this is also pretty introspective of the modern economy.
Yup Ronald Reagan did his part to Bring back trickle down economics and at the same time he reduce the amount of antitrust laws and other policies that kept big corporations from becoming too powerful But he was largely acting under the influence of a group of Rich people that make up what you would know of as the ( Koch network ) Over the years this group has worked to bring corporate monopolies back to America because It's basically made-up of greedy rich morons. Other presidents that helped with this deliberately were George Bush senior and George Bush junior Even Bill Clinton ended up making a deal with the GOP which resulted in even more of those legal restrictions on big companies being gotten rid of. Donald Trump was also involved in this group's activities he was not their favorite person nor was he their first pick in fact many of the Koch networks membership hate and dislike trump But when you've been planning to take over a country for a little over 4 decades sometimes you have to settle for what you can get Donald Trump did give them almost everything they ever wanted when it comes to changing the system and helping them accomplish their end goals but at the same time he occasionally backfired on them Creating problems that they had to clean up. / It's kinda funny because They thought they could manipulate and somewhat control trump But since trump is a narcissist and a con man at heart he would sometimes act like a big toddler throwing temper fits and creating international incidents in the end through his selfishness and stupidity Donald Trump has forced the koch network To make a final push a all or nothing bet for control of the USA Going on right now in the next couple of years will decide whether America stays more of a democracy or will the koch network succeed and turn America into their personal corporatocracy it's one hell of a prize Fight don't you think. LOL P.S The trick in trickle down economics is that the trickling of money trickles up from the poor to the rich that's the trick
@@DavidJohnson-pu2jh Funny enough, The guy who owns the business that owns Fox News used his news paper (New York Post) to get Reagan elected. In turn Reagan got rid a silly little law that stopped people that say, owned a print media company like New York Post, from buy a tv media company, like say Fox News. But like the GOP often says, pay no attention to the billionaire behind the curtain.
@@senister14 Reagan helped tax cuts for the rich, and paved the way of cutting systems helping poor and Middle class families also helped raise the prices for health care and education. So no.
@@exchangediary968 those tax cuts made America the power house, that's why all the tech suddenly jumped. Trickle down economics makes business grow which then let the workers benifit. You mean systems that enable laziness. Education is free, the state pays for it by taxes, not that it does any good considering the teachers union holds too much power. So yeah, Regan was pretty great.
@@senister14 and that's how the gap between the rich and the not rich has grown, you have families living in trailers , mothers working 2-3 jobs to feed her children, Americans die because they can't pay for life saving treatment and the USA has been declining in quality of life and happiness since the 80s. But continue talking about being a power house when your military veterans are homeless. Those rich powerful folk don't give a dam about you lol.
@@exchangediary968 no it grew because of people not getting with the times, they kept being lazy and expecting everything to be handed to them. They don't want to put in the real work for good college degrees. Living in trailers and doing drugs, America is the land of opportunity if you want to work for it. Children that they got pregnant with without getting married or choosing a good earner. Yes because they couldn't get a good job, because they thought college wasn't important, we'll most of the time it's going to be, that's why all the tech money people are college drop outs. Yeah the 80s because we were busy kicking everyone but. We held our own against Russia, those were the days. We are a power house, we always have the draft. Sucks about that, I always try to help those men and others. I don't need them too, I'm an entrepreneur just like them, I made my money by working hard and giving it my all. Like a farmer I planted my seeds and made $$$ because of my harvest. I didn't just lie around getting hand outs.
It's pretty funny that they got Robert Reich to sing about jobs being lost and selling out the unions, as though he wasn't the very person who oversaw that through NAFTA.
This is an underrated comment. Granted Reich seems to have had some crisis of conscience and is at least on message nowadays - but that he doesn't own his part in putting gas on the fire is disingenuous and would go a long way to rebuilding that trust and credibility.
One point I saw on Tumblr: _The Simpsons_ is not radical. It had edge in the early seasons, but as _The Simpsons_ turned from scrappy satire to genre-defining juggernaut, it dulled, reflecting mainstream opinions back at the masses. So either the writers had a change of heart that Fox's executives allowed, or everyone involved realized this kind of anti-capitalist rhetoric is finally mainstream.
Conservatives stopped watching Simpsons, they think its for kids, but then tell their kids not to watch it because it (barely) has cuss words, which makes them WANT to watch it to see what their missing, then the kids end up smarter than the parents because they heard the warnings the Simpsons gave and the parents didn't.
I do not agree with the song in its entire assessment as to what caused the downfall, but I recognize that the institutions that built the past inhibit the present from building for their progeny.
@@violet999ab not that i know of, but its less than a minute long followed by dialogue and then a whole other song so im not surprised. good luck finding it
@@dasicality no, it's the same song; it just has a commercial break in the middle. Tim Long, author of the episode, has talked about how they loved writing the longest song in the history of the Simpsons, so long it came with its own intermission
The Simpsons should have been a musical tv series than just a comedy tv series. Same thing with their 2007 movie, it should have been a musical to then just a comedy movie. Who agrees with me and why?
im guessing bc its really hard to tell but i THINK the crowd says "the country was booming" since the guy after responding "though still pretty racist" makes sense if 'the country' predicates that. but i cant find lyrics anywhere so thats just my guess lol
I draw some tehnical stuff for my work that can be generated by making a program. My boss wants me to do it but I will never do it, since if I do he could fire my ass and hire someone that does not know how to draw anything but can type basic messurments and get better results then me.
@@vincemarenger7122 thanks! It reminded me so much of the re:loaded version by Stefan Obermaier... which is pretty brilliant, but I always have a hard time remembering that it's Beethoven although I should. 😅
The Simpsons have basically come full circle.
The Simpsons used to be a spoof on the "ideal" and "perfect" sitcom families that came before it, but now that has drastically changed.
The Simpsons live in a good house, multiple cars, Homer has job security in a decent paying job, the Simpsons _are_ the ideal now, and many of us wish we could live as well as they do.
I've known for nearly a decade I will never live close to as well as they did. It's depressing as shit to live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world and strongly relate to having to choose between affording healthcare and rent
Wasn't Homer's enemy season 8? The same episode where Grimey asks him how can he afford a large house and two cars with lobster for dinner. They've been well ideal for a while now.
@@BlueLightningSky if you stop and think about it homer did so many jobs and more that if anything being at a job that where he basically almost do nothing is the only job he can't fucked up.
@@BlueLightningSky Now with Homer's Enemy I feel that was unfair because Homer was trying to put his best foot forward to make a good impression. What was Homer supposed to do, show Grimes a catalogue of all his hospital visits to show how Homer has paid the price of his stupidity?
I mean in a financial sense they are "ideal" but they portray dysfunction within the american family and society which shows prior to the simpsons would often sweep under the rug.
"This isn't true. People just don't want to work hard anymore." - Son of a rich man.
Bruh, how hard does someone need to work just to get a days meal . The poorest person should at least be able to afford 2 meals a day without working 2 jobs or owning a business
Old man Burns.
If you can’t afford 2 meals a day on minimum wage you’re doing something wrong.
@@Joe.s_475 oh $58 dollars a day will pay for 2 meals a day for a family of 4 ,and literally nothings else. Not rent, water, electricity, or healthcare. Which is why everyone who is making minimum wage also gets government assistance for housing, utilities and Medicare.
@@samtrue1if you have a family of 4 and you only make $58 a day that’s on you. Minimum wage jobs are meant to be for those starting out in the workforce and it’s fairly easy to find jobs that pay more than minimum wage even with just a little college experience
so they finally admitted that the family’s structure is out of date and having three kids, two cars and one working family member is now economically impossible
Frank Grimes made this same observation in 1997
At long last, the Simpsons have been exposed as being the cartoons we've all long suspected that they were
@@bobkerr2755 problem is when frank grimes made it, it was only somewhat comical, sure a middle class family back then like the simpsons could exist if one member was in a highly specialized field like nuclear engineering but it would have to be under some pretty unique circumstances. Now it’s just full on impossible unless that specialized career is owning a nuclear plant
@@piratekingomega3292 looking back, most 90s sitcom families were living far beyond their means. Homer being hired as a nuclear safety technician with zero college education was always ridiculous. Al bundy being able to afford a house on a part time shoe salesman salary is just beyond absurd and Tim Taylor being able to comfortably support a family of 5 on a cable access tv show host salary is just bordering on parody but I get what you mean. It was somewhat plausable 30 years ago but just plain insulting to our intelligence in 2023.
dont tell andrew tate
I grew up outside Detroit in the 1970's. The funny little history lesson here is so true it stings.
When I was a teen, some of my friend's dads had jobs pumping gas and being night watchmen. Yet they had a small slice of the American dream. The kids wore hand-me-downs, their only car was a getting old, but they had little suburban homes, took vacations and had a steady lifestyle. Today I know people working two or three jobs who cannot make ends meet, who are literally killing themselves with overwork and cannot provide the basics of a comfortable lifestyle. I hope what I see around me isn't true nationwide, but I suspect it's the new normal. And that it cannot be sustained.
Damn Reagan for what he did to this nation and opened up this nation to. Wages fell from his presidency forward. Literally. It's like graphed and shit
Same. Grew up in the same area in the 80s. Probably more duel income families then but yeah.. all my friends had parents that no matter their job had a decent home, took trips, had a reliable car or two and still saved for kids college / retirement. Now..yeah forget that. Everyone priced out.
Thankfully with WFH some folks can escape. Get a good WFH job and move to a small town and be high on the economic scale
As someone living in Ontario, Canada, I unfortunately have to admit that things weren't as easy as they were in our parent's day.
My mom and dad were both university drop-outs, but thanks to my dad's income through a job as a lead ground crew employee at Air Canada, we were able to live in wealthier neighbourhoods, travel a lot, and get me and my sister into private school.
My sister and I both have numerous degrees but am currently fighting to even get my foot in the door for a part-time night shift job at Costco which 625 (and counting) people have applied for through Indeed alone...
It's getting really tough out there, but I'm thankful that I can live with my family and actually save up necessary funds for investments and emergencies.
Because without them, I'd likely be homeless...
it is , people working good jobs paying $20+ an hour still living in apartments with roommates and 15 year old cars choosing between taking their first vacation in years and dental work
@@LohengrinX14 I wish that you were kidding, but you perfectly described it. In my case it's girlfriend instead of roommates and I don't have a car, because in Europe we still have somewhat functioning public transport (and there's Uber/Bolt), but I don't remember when exactly I was on last, real vacation and today we postpone dental work or fixing some broken items in rented apartment, because we barely make it without going into debt or completely resigning from our hobbies (because, what's the point, if you work only to have place to live and something to eat?). I don't want much, but it would be great to be able to afford a small house, if you have average salary, but today it's good, if you can afford rent for average apartment and I'm almost 30, so when it's supposed to be start to get better? You can't be just average to have normal life, now you need to exceed expectations or have wealthy parents.
The Simpsons may have lost their bite in general, but once in a while they can still muster it, sharp and deep.
There's more incisive political commentary in these few minutes than in years of MSN. That says all you need to know.
@@barking_mad6649 yeah, I mean they never talked about all the good capitalism does for America.
Modern Simpsons is a fascismowoke show made for BuzzFeed types to watch, not us my friend.
@@senister14 except for the fact that the US economic system is NOT capitalistic, but is rather a mixed economy.
Both pure capitalism and pure socialism fail. Regulation is essential. It’s about finding what works and what doesn’t.
This video isn’t against capitalism, it’s against the current mixed economy in the US.
The issue is rising educational requirements along with making said education less affordable. It’s the cost of living raising without income growth. It’s the institutional systems created so the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. When they say to “burn it down,” they mean restarting from the bottom and proposing a solution where the common American can continue to live a middle class lifestyle.
@Clayton Cullers I know, it sucks.
When did pure capitalism fail?
No it's popularizing socialism, something has never worked.
Normally I would agree but education went over a cliff with CRT. Income growth stopped because of taxes and inflation, small business can't survive without it. No the rich are becoming the new poor, because taxes are to high, another thing that's never worked in history, just look at the French revolution. Yeah more like with the government controlling everything just to stay in power while the people suffer
Most people in the working class are one medical emergency or unexpected large bill (car repairs, home repair, fumigation, etc) away from complete financial ruin.
Hell, a good chunk of the middle class aren't much better
@@ef1876 Then guess what? They're not middle class anymore! No one wants to see themselves as being on the bottom, which is why so many delude themselves into thinking they're "middle class" when they're totally not. If someone could be quickly ruined if they lost their job tomorrow or had any kind of major financial event happen, such as medical, then they're firmly working class!
In "The Ghost and Molly McGee" one ep was literally that.
This song is true and straight to the point in that special Simpsons singing fashion.
Not true. They plane lack of union participation as one of the reasons. That’s a lie. The reason wages are low is because technology and women in the workforce
Nah, actually this song sounds like something that would come out the S of a communist leprechaun
Where's the truth Johnny? Just give me one point made in this song that is true.
The fact that they put Robert Reich in this scene proves my point.
This song suck
@@fyfyi6053 The decline of unions, rampant corporate greed, Wall Street malfeasance and the rise of shortsighted politics
Noones saying communism is an alternative, but the current system needs to be changed, you are poor and you are happy.
my dad, despite working as hard as he can each week, our household of 10 living paycheck to disability check to paycheck to disability check, still believes in the idea of the billionaire "having earned it". the reason america is still in this horrible, downward spiral is because too many americans view themselves not as a disenfranchised working class, but as temporarily disgraced millionaires. the belief that those with money rightfully earned it, no matter how vast their estate becomes or how many lives they must destroy to obtain such wealth, is a poison onto the people.
Modern Simpsons CAN still be relevant sometimes, who knew...
no
It’s almost like the show isn’t nearly as bad as people make it out to be..
People with a brain and don't hate on shit because it has more than 3 seasons....😶😐
People who actually have seen it
@@tylerlillard2224 I love all of it of course it's not all perfect but I think it's insanity to say that only 150 episodes are good the rest are crap. People just need to watch it. Or at least realise they grew up
Shockingly amazing. Surprised the network even allowed it
Seth McFarland always said the Simpsons can get away with anything because they're the bread and butter
Not really.. the main network isn't a political arm trying to influence America. Disney would do well if the middle class came back. I mean.. Disney could do better if they treat their workers better.. but if everyone was forced to be better, disney would ultimately profit.
@@paulshipper143 who owns fox now? I can't remember if Disney bought them out or not
"Surprised the network even allowed it"
why not it slots right into current day corpo propaganda
@@boomerzoomerfigureitout3806 "the song about a ruined middle class is corpo propaganda"
that's the kind of logic that cost Andy Wakefield his credentials
Everyone now a days considers themselves a "middle class". People are in denial that they are struggling with their paycheck to paycheck jobs.
“Paycheck-to-paycheck” workers included the middle class forever.
The term “working class” was created decades ago because it became too confusing classifying because more than 90% of people considered themselves “in the middle.”
Temporary embarrassed millionaires.
Middle class is net worth owing assets
I'm shocked the Simpsons still had it in them.
There's some good moments in the later seasons
@@slanetroyard92 any episodes you'd recommend?
@@FatherTime89 give me some time and I'll compile a list for you
@@slanetroyard92 Thanks. :)
@@FatherTime89 no problem.
This is the Simpsons warning you the middle class is about to be gone. Everyone needs to start opening their eyes to what’s happening around us in society.
And what's your solution?
@@goldenpineapple8838 sadly I don’t have a solution considering I’m not a person high up in power. All you can do prepare your self and your family any way you can
You mean already gone
@@MaryJosephrobi it’s still here momentarily (unless your in a place like California where it is already gone ) you’ll notice when it’s fully gone it’ll be a epidemic of people loosing homes,food shortages and panic. They are collapsing the dollar to put the final nail in the coffin cause after that happens only the extremely wealthy will be left and every one else will be extremely poor
@@DaVid-lw1xc actually you can. You have to motivate people to unplug themselves from party politics and divisive tricks used by the establishment. It's one big establishment but we the people are bigger. Stop seperating yourselves into two camps
That janitor sure did put on a show just to tell Bart he will have a hard time finding a dead end job.
You point is you won’t find one.
By shipping jobs overseas and union busting, shortsightedness caused serious erosion of the middle class and a large portion of consumer demand with it.
I know right. It’s like if people don’t have money they can’t buy things to drive the economy. This along with the utterly stupid obsession with exponential growth.
Just like The UK
this goes harder than it has any right to
Homer is supposed to be 39 years old, meaning that if he dies at 44,. Bart will be Fifteen and wouldn't be able to get a job at a power plant anyways. But then again Mr. Burns did once hire a chicken.
Oh, just give it a few, US is fixing that pesky chil labor laws.
Lisa's reveal is epic
2:13 I prefer Bart in that outfit she’s wearing
Beethoven going hard as always
For the record, Homer for a brief time was a fireman! So, Bart in any case became like him!
Homer Simpson's resume is one of legend.
He also looted when he was one
You know, I've had a lot of jobs. Boxer, mascot, astronaut, imitation Krusty, baby proofer, trucker, hippie, plow driver, food critic, conceptual artist, grease salesman, carnie, mayor, grifter, bodyguard for the mayor, garbage commissioner, mountain climber, farmer, inventor, Smithers, Poochie, celebrity assistant, power plant worker, fortune cookie writer, beer baron, Kwik-E Mart clerk, homophobe and missionary.
This song was so poignant. I literally watched open mouthed 😅
It's the kind of song you want all kids and adults to watch, be terrified & angry and then burn the system to the ground 🔥 🔥 🔥
But alast 🥲😭🙄
I knew I recognised the voice, but I couldn't pinpoint the actor. Hugh Jackman is always a legend 🎉
Or at least demand they regularly pay us not to with an automation funded universal basic income
good. lets start with yur home and the homes of the people voicing the simpsons, as they are upper class.
Didn't exactly work out well for Bart....
@@janushunyadi9612 you do realize burning the system to the ground isn’t literally suggesting arson, aren’t you? It’s a way of metaphorically saying we need to all come together as a collective in order to fight to preserve the middle class, as well as vote for people who will strengthen unions and pass legislation to limit corporate oversea jobs.
Burning everything down would just make us all destitute. I think just repealing all the tax breaks for the wealthy starting with Ronald Reagan should do the trick. His own VP, George Bush Sr., called Reagan's policies "Voodoo Economics."
THIS SONG SLAPS! This entire episode was golden! I believe this is a Simpsons renaissance, it is really coming back around and I say this as a Season 4 preferrer! Jerkass Homer is dead!
Jerkass homer been dead for years tbf mate
I feel like Hugh jackman just wants to sing and not be in action movies like an irl Troy bolton
I empathized with Grimes when his episode came. I've empathized with him only more since.
Grimes' biggest flaw was being mad at Homer when Homer wasn't the cause of any of his problems. He should have been mad at the people who weren't paying/treating him fairly (or the people that made it harder to get an education or whatever).
Especially conidering time changing. Simpsons were designed as middle class, earler episodes show simpsons as strugiling with money, homer being jealous of flanders, or so...Homer is lucky he isnt fired , but Grimes basicaly accused him of leeching of people like him, because homer has better than him-that is he owns house and 2 cars. Not supposed to be luxury.
Good ol’ Grimey…
This is the simpsons way of saying that the middle class is going away and it's not coming back.
greedy rich men definitely kicked our ass
With the help of their politician puppets.
agree 100%
@@hammervonjammer1279 oh please they did it fair tin foil
How? By giving you stuff like cars, smartphones, and other luxuries.
@@sebastienholmes548 Take your bread and circuses and shut up. Imagine being like this. Compared to housing, job stability, single income households etc. who gives a fuck about smartphones?
strange watching shows even from the 90s and how incredibly different the world was then
This was from 3 years ago
Fun fact of the day: Hugh Jackman (the singing janitor) plays P.T. Barnum in The Greatest Showman, one of my favourite musicals ever, so of course he was the best choice for this.
Also 1:43 WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT _HOLD EVERYTHING_
In the bottom right...
IS THAT SCROOGE MCDUCK?!?!
of course it is :)
@@magnamaduin and above him is the monopoly man
Holy f*** it is him
I love Hugh Jackman but PT Barnum was a piece of shit and that film was dishonest
@@SaberRexZealot True. Absolutely true. I like the songs in it, not the character...
I knew the simpsons were rad as hell but god damn. This is so good. I wasn’t expecting this. It’s weirdly informative
But obviously we're only depressed because of those gosh-darn smartphones.
And video games
This episode started off with Bart mocking his dad in Sunday School and then ends with a giant song talking about the middle class. What a crazy leap.
I do like this with the guest voice of Hugh Jackman from Oklahoma, Les Misérables, The Greatest Showman and The Music Man
this song scares me...
It should
It had better scare everybody
Lisa’s rap went harder than it had any right to
I feel kind of like Bart and Lisa watching blank-faced as they watch Johnny Carson whiffing on the Tonight Show and saying that it was at least fun to stay up late. I agree with the message, but boy oh boy, do I miss jokes about "rich man's heaven" and having to live above a bowling alley and under another bowling alley.
this is like og simpsons
That's what I'm saying. It's why this song is so fire, it ltierally feels like the classic Simpsons writers somehow came back just for this one part.
I mean the Simpson Halloween special especially in the last few years I’ve noticed had a pretty progressive message, but this is also pretty introspective of the modern economy.
Good comedy is progressive imo- reality has a left wing bias and good comedy is based on reality
Let's see how many times the Simpsons has been right over the years
I blame Reagan for that
Yup Ronald Reagan did his part to Bring back trickle down economics and at the same time he reduce the amount of antitrust laws and other policies that kept big corporations from becoming too powerful But he was largely acting under the influence of a group of Rich people that make up what you would know of as the ( Koch network ) Over the years this group has worked to bring corporate monopolies back to America because It's basically made-up of greedy rich morons. Other presidents that helped with this deliberately were George Bush senior and George Bush junior Even Bill Clinton ended up making a deal with the GOP which resulted in even more of those legal restrictions on big companies being gotten rid of.
Donald Trump was also involved in this group's activities he was not their favorite person nor was he their first pick in fact many of the Koch networks membership hate and dislike trump But when you've been planning to take over a country for a little over 4 decades sometimes you have to settle for what you can get Donald Trump did give them almost everything they ever wanted when it comes to changing the system and helping them accomplish their end goals but at the same time he occasionally backfired on them Creating problems that they had to clean up. /
It's kinda funny because They thought they could manipulate and somewhat control trump But since trump is a narcissist and a con man at heart he would sometimes act like a big toddler throwing temper fits and creating international incidents in the end through his selfishness and stupidity Donald Trump has forced the koch network To make a final push a all or nothing bet for control of the USA Going on right now in the next couple of years will decide whether America stays more of a democracy or will the koch network succeed and turn America into their personal corporatocracy it's one hell of a prize Fight don't you think. LOL P.S The trick in trickle down economics is that the trickling of money trickles up from the poor to the rich that's the trick
@@DavidJohnson-pu2jh Funny enough, The guy who owns the business that owns Fox News used his news paper (New York Post) to get Reagan elected. In turn Reagan got rid a silly little law that stopped people that say, owned a print media company like New York Post, from buy a tv media company, like say Fox News. But like the GOP often says, pay no attention to the billionaire behind the curtain.
0:22 - does nobody else notice that Rainier Wolfcastle was apparently fighting with the Americans during WWII?
Many Germans did.
There are many German Americans who fought the Nazis by joining the U.S. Military.
That use of Beethoven 7 is just pure genius
oh damn I didn't hear it until I read this 😅
Surprised this was even allowed on TV under the Simpsons name. It's fantastic.
Brilliant, and I especially love how they used some of Beethoven's somber Seventh Symphony in Lisa's section.
Regan really fucked everything up....
Not Carter did, he's the one who started job outsourcing and brought in walmart.
@@senister14 Reagan helped tax cuts for the rich, and paved the way of cutting systems helping poor and Middle class families also helped raise the prices for health care and education. So no.
@@exchangediary968 those tax cuts made America the power house, that's why all the tech suddenly jumped. Trickle down economics makes business grow which then let the workers benifit. You mean systems that enable laziness. Education is free, the state pays for it by taxes, not that it does any good considering the teachers union holds too much power. So yeah, Regan was pretty great.
@@senister14 and that's how the gap between the rich and the not rich has grown, you have families living in trailers , mothers working 2-3 jobs to feed her children, Americans die because they can't pay for life saving treatment and the USA has been declining in quality of life and happiness since the 80s. But continue talking about being a power house when your military veterans are homeless. Those rich powerful folk don't give a dam about you lol.
@@exchangediary968 no it grew because of people not getting with the times, they kept being lazy and expecting everything to be handed to them. They don't want to put in the real work for good college degrees. Living in trailers and doing drugs, America is the land of opportunity if you want to work for it. Children that they got pregnant with without getting married or choosing a good earner. Yes because they couldn't get a good job, because they thought college wasn't important, we'll most of the time it's going to be, that's why all the tech money people are college drop outs. Yeah the 80s because we were busy kicking everyone but. We held our own against Russia, those were the days. We are a power house, we always have the draft. Sucks about that, I always try to help those men and others. I don't need them too, I'm an entrepreneur just like them, I made my money by working hard and giving it my all. Like a farmer I planted my seeds and made $$$ because of my harvest. I didn't just lie around getting hand outs.
Watched this episode today and was incredibly impressed
As depressing as this reality is that some solid drip Lisa has on.
Part of it was also automation. They don't need as much manual labor in factories anymore.
2:09 - 3:03 Best part
It's pretty funny that they got Robert Reich to sing about jobs being lost and selling out the unions, as though he wasn't the very person who oversaw that through NAFTA.
This is an underrated comment. Granted Reich seems to have had some crisis of conscience and is at least on message nowadays - but that he doesn't own his part in putting gas on the fire is disingenuous and would go a long way to rebuilding that trust and credibility.
One point I saw on Tumblr:
_The Simpsons_ is not radical. It had edge in the early seasons, but as _The Simpsons_ turned from scrappy satire to genre-defining juggernaut, it dulled, reflecting mainstream opinions back at the masses.
So either the writers had a change of heart that Fox's executives allowed, or everyone involved realized this kind of anti-capitalist rhetoric is finally mainstream.
why does this slap so hard
Conservatives stopped watching Simpsons, they think its for kids, but then tell their kids not to watch it because it (barely) has cuss words, which makes them WANT to watch it to see what their missing, then the kids end up smarter than the parents because they heard the warnings the Simpsons gave and the parents didn't.
I don't think kids really give a shit about the message, I watched it alot as a kid and I mostly just remember quotes from it
I know this commenter is like 12
1:42. Classic robber barons. Mr. Burns. Mr. Monopoly Man. Richie Rich. Scrooge McDuck.
There is still a middle class. It lives in China now.
I like your nickname.
Except if you live in the countryside or are muslim
@@cortomaltese5206 Even Erdogan agrees that that shit's just American cope. Chinese Muslims have brewing traditions that are hundreds of years old.
What the hell is Drederick Tatum doing here, he isn’t even Middle Class he is rich
the same with Lindsey Naegle, Kent Brockman, mayor Quimby and Bernice Hibbert.
Hugh Jackman is so talented
Hes an irl Troy Bolton. He’s made to do action movies but he just wants to do musicals
Let's make it like it was in past, no matter how many rich people we have to piss off.
Well Principal Skinner did burped out of mouth loudly: 'The Kids have no Future!' While he was arguing with Edna Krabappel
No, he used that as excuse to not invest money in school. Which will lead to worse situation.
This sounds like what's happening now
I do not agree with the song in its entire assessment as to what caused the downfall, but I recognize that the institutions that built the past inhibit the present from building for their progeny.
I mean, you won't get 100% accuracy when its owned by disney.
there are too many people competing for disappearing jobs
Damn, this cuts one of the best parts of the song!
Oh hey it’s Sam Reich’s dad
He’s been here the whole time!
I'm on when did simpsons get good again You have the rear eye of the writers
Love this song, but it's only part 1. The other half comes after the commercial break...
that counts as a second song, not a second half of this one. its called "here's what i can do" and its a minor reprise
@@dasicality Has that song been uploaded anywhere? I would really like to listen to it, but I’m not sure where I’d find it.
@@violet999ab not that i know of, but its less than a minute long followed by dialogue and then a whole other song so im not surprised. good luck finding it
@@dasicality no, it's the same song; it just has a commercial break in the middle. Tim Long, author of the episode, has talked about how they loved writing the longest song in the history of the Simpsons, so long it came with its own intermission
@@dasicality and the second half is nearly twice as long as the first half
Reaganomics
The fact that they got Robert Reich in on this is amazing. Guy is a freaking hero.
Bro this hit hard
THE GREATEST JANITOR!
This songs just stuck in my head
Wow. That hurts.
This was a pretty good song, impressed by the Simpsons here
Well. That's depressing as hell.
Awesome clip
On point 🤟
Sucks because this episode will be outdated in 10 years wish Simpsons episodes were timeless like they used to be
I remember when the Simpsons was funny. This is too depressing and accurate to be funny.
How can anyone be happy anymore? The world's gone to shit
The Simpsons should have been a musical tv series than just a comedy tv series. Same thing with their 2007 movie, it should have been a musical to then just a comedy movie.
Who agrees with me and why?
Does anyone know the classical song being sampled during Lisa's Rap between 2:20-2:45 - in the background.
Beethoven's 7th symphony. It's the 2nd movement
Damn the Simpsons are funny again
2:14 is when lisas part starts
Btw it cuts before it but in the episode the solution is to burn it all (the system)
Lisa’s come a long way from worshipping Elon musk
Workers need to start fighting back.
Fun fact: Robert B. Reich is Sam Reich's father.
Yes, _that_ Sam Reich.
So when do we eat the rich?
At 0:53, Homer’s flashback hair.
1:10 Mr. Burns flashback hair
I love Lisa Simpson ❤
0:34 what does the crowd sing here? I've listened to it 20 times and can't figure it out
something something booming
‘The country was booming’ I think
im guessing bc its really hard to tell but i THINK the crowd says "the country was booming" since the guy after responding "though still pretty racist" makes sense if 'the country' predicates that. but i cant find lyrics anywhere so thats just my guess lol
@@tk5800thesecond yeah I hear the booming but yea whatever is before it is so unintelligible that autocaption didn't even try to decipher it lol
@@pollyanna0014 oh shit that might be it
Imagine if the song was composed by Andy Street of Madeline and written by John Swartzwelder, that would've been cromulent if that was the case.
❤ the modern Beethoven beats
I draw some tehnical stuff for my work that can be generated by making a program. My boss wants me to do it but I will never do it, since if I do he could fire my ass and hire someone that does not know how to draw anything but can type basic messurments and get better results then me.
“ your never gonna get a job like ur dad “ Bart “ur a janitor dude”
Dammit, what's the song again that plays in the background when Lisa's rapping. 😅
Beethoven - 7th symphony - 2nd movement
@@vincemarenger7122 thanks! It reminded me so much of the re:loaded version by Stefan Obermaier... which is pretty brilliant, but I always have a hard time remembering that it's Beethoven although I should. 😅
@@jensalik Glad to help :)
Is that Sam Reich's dad?
References, cartoons and a good song about social issue: are the Simpsons back?
The Simpsons themselves were what others referred to. there were no returns, they are getting worse every day.
@@atomsk1066 Well, maybe. But this feel closer to old Simpson than anything in the past 13 years
Has been for a while
VOTE for Someone who will Try to help your situation or at least Vote for the Least Evil.
But Not Voting is Voting Twice for the Bad Guy.
Oh hey it's Dropout Game Changer Host Sam Reich's dad Robert Reich
This isn't the whole song... The next bit needs showing.... The treehouse
And if they gave a damn about their own canon this would all be moot because HOMER STILL OWNS THE DENVER BRONCOS.
I hear that Beethoven's 7th Symphony in there
the song was definitely written assuming Reich was pronounced "rike"
It's assuming reich is a credible source.
@@sebastienholmes548cause he is! Hope this helps
@@katec2886 no he's not.
Or at least expecting the audience to assume that.
@@sebastienholmes548 What makes you say that?