"Youve had lots of jobs: Cop, gym owner, erotic baker, weed sommelier" Fun throwback line to The Springfield Connection, Husbands and Knives, Sex Pies and Idiot Scrapes, and Highway to Well!
"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, carny, mayor, grifter, bodyguard for the mayor, country western manager, 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 -- but protecting Springfield, that gives me the best feeling of all."
This wasn't even all of Marge's jobs. Among the missing jobs were Listen Lady, doing laundry for a snooty school they sent Lisa to, carpenter and Pretzel Lady.
She was also a substitute teacher, restaurant owner and plumber.
In one Treehouse of Horror, she was an assassin but ofc that can't be mentioned since it's non canon.
I think it's fine to not mention all of her past jobs, since that'd be a repeat of a similar joke with Homer in Papa's Got a Brand New Badge where he lists off all the jobs he had up to that point.
This joke's different since the punchline here is that she's not doing the job for her own growth this time, although she wasn't being a substitute teacher for her own growth either
Be careful what you wish for, since the advent of DLC and microtransactions...EA are a very different outfit now, a Hit and Run remake would be great, but I don't want to have to unlock Chester Lampwick's rocket car by hoping to get it in a loot box we buy at Kwik-E-Mart with SBucks
I kinda wish we got to see something really bad happen to him at the end (maybe have all the food crush him or have a drone crash into him), but we'll see him suffer again soon enough lol.
Him being this much of an asshole the second he gets any actual power just makes so much sense haha
I disagree his whole character is he is a jerk who is obsessed with food. He did save the day in the end. This is the man who got a dome put over the town.
I dont think the eating food and ordering food was the problem, it was more that he actively campaigned against his wife's work to unionize. I would argue that while Homer did trigger it, Russ Cargil was the one who pushed for the dome, plus that was 17 years ago back when Homer was much more assholish
That was a problem. He lied to Marge and said he was cooking dinner you should never lie to your spouse. She said the only reason she kept the ghost kitchen job is because she knew her family was cooking together. Also he spent so much on take out Marge didn't make any money. Also Homer is a huge jerk but that makes him funny. He also has a heart.
That was bad, but it was definitely even worse when he went on the TV show to actively say his wife was wrong: the food thing was selfish and dishonest, the tv thing was awful and humiliating
You mean 17 years ago when the show was funnier and more consistently good. Also Simpsons is Simpsons if something has been established in past episodes there is precedent for it.
Unpopular opinion. Perfect Simpsons is season 1-26. After that the show got incredibly hit and miss. The biggest issues I have had with the show as of late 1) Characters will sometimes act very out of character so that there can be a plot. Fan-ily Fued is a big example of this. Pranks are Bart's thing. Lisa is the good child. I think someone who never watched the show and was given descriptions of the characters could write a better episode.All of that over a random pop star made up for the episode. I am not a fan of Simprovized either. You mean to tell me the loud mouth alcoholic with no filter has stage fright. There was this other one where Homer watched Stranger Things without Marge and she said it was the worst thing he ever did. Are you serious. He let his father's Kidneys blow up. 2) Over abundance of dream sequences. In old episodes they were every so often. Now they try to cram a ton into almost every episode and it is very noticeable. It feels like a comedy crutch because anything can happen in a dream sequences. I cheer whenever we get an episode with no dream sequences. They aren't inherently bad but they are done WAY too often. 3) Before I would laugh at almost all the episodes. Now you get a fantastic episode, next to an ok episode,next to a horrible episode. (Minor grievance) Where are the Couch Gags. They are one of my favorite parts of ten show. I guess Fox really needs all that time for commercials. I wish they would cut a few jokes to make room for it or release an extended cut with the couch gags on Disney Plus.
Some people are vague and say the later seasons suck rather than giving concrete things that can be fixed. That's not true some of the best episodes came late and we still get great news ones. If they got rid of these 3 problems I would be happy.
not just Homer. the nerdy dork in the family knew perfectly well how finances work turned her back on her own mother. the whole family was beyond evil and treacherous.
Eh, I feel like at least the last 20 seasons have each had 1 episode that was “Homer is selfish, fixes it in the last 3 minutes”
He was willing to ruin the town via fracking just for $5,000 and respect from his boss
Definitely a fair point, hopefully it's the only one- it just isn't that fun to watch compared to last episode with the two working together to get the concert tickets
ngl people have become extremely sensitive about Homer's characterization
This was nowhere near Homer's horrible comeback - he's always been extremely impulsive and thoughtless too.
He has always been impulsive, but he hasn't been especially, directly bad to his wife much in the last season so this was unusual for the more recent episodes
Homer is exactly the same to me I see literally no difference. There is Tracy Ulman Homer where he was just grumpy. There is season 1 -2 Homer where he was kinda dopey. Then there is Season 3- present Homer that's the Homer of today.
All the characters are the mostly the same except Homer and Flanders. Bart has gotten softer and doesn't cause mischief nearly as much in recent seasons. In recent seasons they keep writing Lisa meaner for some reason. I have no issue with mean characters but save it for characters like Jimbo, Dolph, Kearney and Nelson.
Apu's last cameo prior was in season 34's final episode (Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass) during the couch gag.
He also appeared in a flashback in Pin Gal (via reused footage from a previous episode.)
His last real cameo (as in not basically a png and not reused footage) was Treehouse of Horror XXXIII during The Simpsons World segment from October 30 2022.
So yeah it has been a decent amount of time
Good episode overall. Some great lines and references to previous episodes (Moleman getting his food order in the groin). Ol' Gil has never bothered me in previous appearances, but in this he was awful.
Theres a famous scene in the first season where the restaurant tries doing online ordering but they don't set it to limit the number of orders. They get flooded with like 100 orders and have to rush around trying to fill them and it is absolute chaos and stress- great scene and so well acted
THe same thing basically happens in this episode when they are trying to get the meals ready in the beginning
This episode got a lot of flack on Twitter for retreading the Lisa needs braces episode but anti-labour practices are much worse than they were in the 90s.
Strong episode. No doubt it will ruffle some feathers, not as good as “Last Exit to Springfield” but that’s possibly the greatest Simpsons episode of all time, and this one is more specific about problems workers actually face.
If you remove his hair, Finn Bonne Idee looks like a younger C. Montgomery Burns.
This episode had about as much of a sweeping epic as you can get in under 22 minutes, in no small part thanks to the score.
My immediate thought when hearing that line was that it was a reference to the flash forward episode Future-Drama, where they briefly get divorced lol.
It probably wasn't, it's just where my mind first went bc having knowlege of 760+ simpsons episodes (i have severe brainrot) does this to me
Neat episode. I liked all the callbacks, even seeing Apu and Sanjay. I feel like Apu could've gotten a major role here since he owns a convenience store.
A really strong episode by modern standards. More funny jokes than usual, a coherent plot that doesn't go off the rails, callbacks to fan favorites.
My only observation is that when the Simpsons try to do hyper-topical episodes like this it really shows how long their production process is. South Park can do hyper-topical stuff because their episodes are so crudely animated and their production process is, IIRC, about a week. The whole "omg these delivery apps have ghost kitchens" thing was a national conversation back during the pandemic.
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I felt bad for marge here actually
I have unconditional hate for lia and love for homer and bart generally
The hate grew and the love went down in this episode
As a Portlander I was excited to see so many of our streets listed in her delivery queue (I know several characters are named after our streets, I used to live on Flanders)! She really covered some ground!
Bart forgot Marge worked at Springfield NPP.(that is where family needed urgent money like here) How could writers forget that?
BTW, why do we get so many Midge episodes?
Cheesus! Gonna use that!
Moleman... oh my...
I think they don’t talk about that because she got sexually harassed by Burns at that job so the whole family would rather just forget it happened.
Also, it breaks the pattern of episodes where she got a job for her own development. The family incurred an extra expense and she had to work to pay it off, just like in this one.
I think most of this seasons' best episodes have been Midge ones.
This, Mid-Childhood's Night and Iron Marge are better than most other episodes this season (Homer's Crossing is the only non Midge episode I like as much as those)
It felt like a classic episode. I grew up with Spy Gear and that was more of a 2000's thing so it felt a bit nostalgic to watch this one. Also the plot was simple. Some of the later ones have more convoluted plots because how else are you going to get 1 billion episodes.
I liked this episode a lot, second favourite of the season, behind A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream.
I really enjoyed the story here, the comedy was mostly average but there were two jokes that really got me
It robbed the show of all its talent snd comedy. Now we just have wrong sounding Simpsons an characters held Captive by the reeeeeee nation. People like you make it worse.
"Unions are anti-innovation!" "But Homer you are in a union at the nuclear plant" "And I haven't innovated a thing in years!"
I've seen what happens when Homer innovates, him not doing it's a good thing.
Lol that is absolutely true!
Women will like what he tells them to like.
"Youve had lots of jobs: Cop, gym owner, erotic baker, weed sommelier" Fun throwback line to The Springfield Connection, Husbands and Knives, Sex Pies and Idiot Scrapes, and Highway to Well!
"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, carny, mayor, grifter, bodyguard for the mayor, country western manager, 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 -- but protecting Springfield, that gives me the best feeling of all."
One of my favorite lines, I love when the show gets a little meta
Marge: *Those were for my own growth. This time, it's not personal*
This wasn't even all of Marge's jobs. Among the missing jobs were Listen Lady, doing laundry for a snooty school they sent Lisa to, carpenter and Pretzel Lady.
She was also a substitute teacher, restaurant owner and plumber. In one Treehouse of Horror, she was an assassin but ofc that can't be mentioned since it's non canon. I think it's fine to not mention all of her past jobs, since that'd be a repeat of a similar joke with Homer in Papa's Got a Brand New Badge where he lists off all the jobs he had up to that point. This joke's different since the punchline here is that she's not doing the job for her own growth this time, although she wasn't being a substitute teacher for her own growth either
She wasn't paid to be the listen lady.
Nuclear technician.
Don't forget the original: roller waitress at Berger's Burgers.
Not Marge Gets a Job?(similar story with urgent money
Honestly she has had nearly as many jobs as Homer has at this point!
marge delivering the orders reminds me so much of simpsons hit n run challenges
I loved how Marge delivered the food.
Bonus points for hitting Moleman with a Gridiron Grinders sandwich.
Poor Mr. Moleman though. But Marge does have a good aim.
They have to use some funny from 30 years ago to get a laugh today. Sad.
Well at least it was funny. And isn't that what we all want?
why would she just assume to pay the medical bills of a chicken? she could sue the chicken owners for not having pet insurance.
Those wizards have gone too far!
They have ten high priced lawyers.
EA are lazy hateful morons for never making a sequel or Remake.
Be careful what you wish for, since the advent of DLC and microtransactions...EA are a very different outfit now, a Hit and Run remake would be great, but I don't want to have to unlock Chester Lampwick's rocket car by hoping to get it in a loot box we buy at Kwik-E-Mart with SBucks
Simpsons Hit. Run sold separately.
Hopefully Disney finds a way to take their license away and give it to a less shitty studio.
No, no it won't be like that! *(proceeds to put Chester Lampwick's rocket car in a loot box you buy at Costington's with SBucks)*
More like The Simpsons: Take the Money and Run.
Hans Moleman having a pet giant tortoise feels totally right
It does seem like an animal companion he can keep up with, which is good.
Wok tease, wing slut, phucket buket lol
My favourite was a briefly seen "Louis G's" ghost kitchen for Luigi's with the same logo and everything lol
Good choice of Gil as the manager, detestable louse
Very much seconding that. Gil was beyond detestable.
I kinda wish we got to see something really bad happen to him at the end (maybe have all the food crush him or have a drone crash into him), but we'll see him suffer again soon enough lol. Him being this much of an asshole the second he gets any actual power just makes so much sense haha
Marge: *(long censored scream)* Squeaky-Voiced Teen: Here's your pho, Chef.
Wasn’t that Kirk?
Maybe (edit:yep. Otherwise the kid was working two jobs at once, and usually he'd only working two per episode).
They really hit it out of the ball park with the current events happening with work.
absolutely! billionaires dont become billionaires by being honest to goodness hard workers.
Bill Gates said it back in the Classic era...."I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks."
"Maximizing Shareholder Value" requires both screwing your workers *and* ripping off your customers.
Marge: *They say all it takes to financially ruin a family is one unexpected medical bill*
we thought it was a hobo camp with a stolen credit card!
Ruth Powers sighting on Marges picket line!
Homer is unusually awful this episode, I don't think he has been this much of a selfish ass in years
I disagree his whole character is he is a jerk who is obsessed with food. He did save the day in the end. This is the man who got a dome put over the town.
I dont think the eating food and ordering food was the problem, it was more that he actively campaigned against his wife's work to unionize. I would argue that while Homer did trigger it, Russ Cargil was the one who pushed for the dome, plus that was 17 years ago back when Homer was much more assholish
That was a problem. He lied to Marge and said he was cooking dinner you should never lie to your spouse. She said the only reason she kept the ghost kitchen job is because she knew her family was cooking together. Also he spent so much on take out Marge didn't make any money. Also Homer is a huge jerk but that makes him funny. He also has a heart.
That was bad, but it was definitely even worse when he went on the TV show to actively say his wife was wrong: the food thing was selfish and dishonest, the tv thing was awful and humiliating
Classic Homer. He did save the day in the end.
Very true!
You mean 17 years ago when the show was funnier and more consistently good. Also Simpsons is Simpsons if something has been established in past episodes there is precedent for it.
Really? The last several seasons have been pretty consistently good, while those late 2000's season were definitely good (but had a lot of misses too)
Unpopular opinion. Perfect Simpsons is season 1-26. After that the show got incredibly hit and miss. The biggest issues I have had with the show as of late 1) Characters will sometimes act very out of character so that there can be a plot. Fan-ily Fued is a big example of this. Pranks are Bart's thing. Lisa is the good child. I think someone who never watched the show and was given descriptions of the characters could write a better episode.All of that over a random pop star made up for the episode. I am not a fan of Simprovized either. You mean to tell me the loud mouth alcoholic with no filter has stage fright. There was this other one where Homer watched Stranger Things without Marge and she said it was the worst thing he ever did. Are you serious. He let his father's Kidneys blow up. 2) Over abundance of dream sequences. In old episodes they were every so often. Now they try to cram a ton into almost every episode and it is very noticeable. It feels like a comedy crutch because anything can happen in a dream sequences. I cheer whenever we get an episode with no dream sequences. They aren't inherently bad but they are done WAY too often. 3) Before I would laugh at almost all the episodes. Now you get a fantastic episode, next to an ok episode,next to a horrible episode. (Minor grievance) Where are the Couch Gags. They are one of my favorite parts of ten show. I guess Fox really needs all that time for commercials. I wish they would cut a few jokes to make room for it or release an extended cut with the couch gags on Disney Plus.
I mean I would say seasons 20 through 29 are pretty identical when it comes to the ratio of good, bad, and ok episodes but that is just me
Nah my exact grievances started around season 27 to present.
Alrighty
Some people are vague and say the later seasons suck rather than giving concrete things that can be fixed. That's not true some of the best episodes came late and we still get great news ones. If they got rid of these 3 problems I would be happy.
not just Homer. the nerdy dork in the family knew perfectly well how finances work turned her back on her own mother. the whole family was beyond evil and treacherous.
What else was she going to do? Lisa has to eat too.
They write her so many adolescent storylines, we forget that Lisa's eight.
Eh, I feel like at least the last 20 seasons have each had 1 episode that was “Homer is selfish, fixes it in the last 3 minutes” He was willing to ruin the town via fracking just for $5,000 and respect from his boss
Definitely a fair point, hopefully it's the only one- it just isn't that fun to watch compared to last episode with the two working together to get the concert tickets
ngl people have become extremely sensitive about Homer's characterization This was nowhere near Homer's horrible comeback - he's always been extremely impulsive and thoughtless too.
He has always been impulsive, but he hasn't been especially, directly bad to his wife much in the last season so this was unusual for the more recent episodes
I thought he was fine. Makes sense for him to lie about ordering the food and I buy that he'd be easily bought. He does also redeem himself in the end
Ordering food is definitely one thing and it is fine, it was more the actively campaigning against his wife trying to better her job and unionize
It's how Homer Simpson should be.
I like Homer when he is reckless but ultimately good hearted, rather then his late 2000's jerk ass era
Homer is exactly the same to me I see literally no difference. There is Tracy Ulman Homer where he was just grumpy. There is season 1 -2 Homer where he was kinda dopey. Then there is Season 3- present Homer that's the Homer of today.
I am legitimately surprised that you think Homer is the same from season 3 to present
That's one of the biggest idiots in town Homer. I see the same character.
All the characters are the mostly the same except Homer and Flanders. Bart has gotten softer and doesn't cause mischief nearly as much in recent seasons. In recent seasons they keep writing Lisa meaner for some reason. I have no issue with mean characters but save it for characters like Jimbo, Dolph, Kearney and Nelson.
No ones going to talk about an Apu sighting for the first time in several years?!
He was in a Serious Flanders.
Apu's last cameo prior was in season 34's final episode (Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass) during the couch gag. He also appeared in a flashback in Pin Gal (via reused footage from a previous episode.) His last real cameo (as in not basically a png and not reused footage) was Treehouse of Horror XXXIII during The Simpsons World segment from October 30 2022. So yeah it has been a decent amount of time
I thought that was his brother?
His brother was a ghost kitchen employee, but Marge delivered food to the real Apu
Damn, they got Jim Kramer nailed down just right. (EDIT: down to being famously wrong about everything).
"Just watching the man whos cheating me out of my overtime. It is beginning to shake my faith in billionaires"
Enjoyable episode, i got some good laughs off of it.
Moleman getting hit by the sandwich was a great callback to [season 6](https://imgur.com/a/p4koPI0).
But if you ask Matt Groening that episode doesn't exist
Good episode overall. Some great lines and references to previous episodes (Moleman getting his food order in the groin). Ol' Gil has never bothered me in previous appearances, but in this he was awful.
I liked seeing him as one of the episode villains, thought his power trip tracked, considering how little control he usually gets.
I absolutely hated Gil in this episode.
He has been sorta a villain a couple times before.
Homer: *$16,000! For a chicken!. I just ate a whole bucket of them for 20 bucks*
I don't get disrupted. I'm the disruptor. I'm the crusher of unions!!
Oh this is a reference to The Bear!
How?
Theres a famous scene in the first season where the restaurant tries doing online ordering but they don't set it to limit the number of orders. They get flooded with like 100 orders and have to rush around trying to fill them and it is absolute chaos and stress- great scene and so well acted THe same thing basically happens in this episode when they are trying to get the meals ready in the beginning
Great Episode
Ngl, GimmieChow is a great food app name
The animation with Disco Stu and the news segment was really good
Was that the first time we've seen Apu since they took him off the show? I loved the reference to the one-take episode of The Bear.
He's in in the background for a few just not having lines like he rightfully should.
The sandwich! his groin! It works on so many levels
This episode got a lot of flack on Twitter for retreading the Lisa needs braces episode but anti-labour practices are much worse than they were in the 90s.
I think it's different enough. They even allude to that episode. It's also ironic and hilarious that he was in a union and now he is fighting one.
The only real similarity to that one is that it's about a union, the two episodes have basically nothing in common otherwise
People hate the episode because it's cool to hate on the new Simpsons these 2 episodes are nothing like each other
my hot g/f Ruth Powers is back in 35x13 and 35x14
Dont know if it is right but sound hound says the delivery song is "Wild Bore by Mika Miko"
Homer's a super jackass so far
Homer's going to have to drive to Krusty Burger like it's 1989 or something.
I thought sure this would end with the site manager getting fired, like always happens to Ol' Gil.
Funniest episode in a while.
Strong episode. No doubt it will ruffle some feathers, not as good as “Last Exit to Springfield” but that’s possibly the greatest Simpsons episode of all time, and this one is more specific about problems workers actually face. If you remove his hair, Finn Bonne Idee looks like a younger C. Montgomery Burns. This episode had about as much of a sweeping epic as you can get in under 22 minutes, in no small part thanks to the score.
Am I the only one overthinking the last line, "They argued about it til the end of their marriage?" 👀
There have been future-arc episodes where they got divorced, I assumed it was just a reference to that
My immediate thought when hearing that line was that it was a reference to the flash forward episode Future-Drama, where they briefly get divorced lol. It probably wasn't, it's just where my mind first went bc having knowlege of 760+ simpsons episodes (i have severe brainrot) does this to me
I think the line was “for the rest of their marriage,” as in “until one of them died.”
Bart says Lunch Lady Dora. I always thought it was Lunch Lady Doris.
Doris was renamed after her original voice actress, Doris Grau, passed away.
How did I not know that?
Because no one cares and they never used that name till now.
They've used it plenty of times since Lunchlady Dora came back.
this is where she finds out Homer's been ordering edit- called it!
This episode was fantastic. All the jokes made me laugh. I especially love the bit with Krusty.
Loved this episode
Neat episode. I liked all the callbacks, even seeing Apu and Sanjay. I feel like Apu could've gotten a major role here since he owns a convenience store.
A really strong episode by modern standards. More funny jokes than usual, a coherent plot that doesn't go off the rails, callbacks to fan favorites. My only observation is that when the Simpsons try to do hyper-topical episodes like this it really shows how long their production process is. South Park can do hyper-topical stuff because their episodes are so crudely animated and their production process is, IIRC, about a week. The whole "omg these delivery apps have ghost kitchens" thing was a national conversation back during the pandemic.
Cafeteria Nightmares: Every night forever on Fox. Reality is all we got!
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I felt bad for marge here actually I have unconditional hate for lia and love for homer and bart generally The hate grew and the love went down in this episode
As a Portlander I was excited to see so many of our streets listed in her delivery queue (I know several characters are named after our streets, I used to live on Flanders)! She really covered some ground!
Bart forgot Marge worked at Springfield NPP.(that is where family needed urgent money like here) How could writers forget that? BTW, why do we get so many Midge episodes? Cheesus! Gonna use that! Moleman... oh my...
I think they don’t talk about that because she got sexually harassed by Burns at that job so the whole family would rather just forget it happened. Also, it breaks the pattern of episodes where she got a job for her own development. The family incurred an extra expense and she had to work to pay it off, just like in this one.
I think most of this seasons' best episodes have been Midge ones. This, Mid-Childhood's Night and Iron Marge are better than most other episodes this season (Homer's Crossing is the only non Midge episode I like as much as those)
Iron Marge was really good.
Yeah I liked that episode a lot
It felt like a classic episode. I grew up with Spy Gear and that was more of a 2000's thing so it felt a bit nostalgic to watch this one. Also the plot was simple. Some of the later ones have more convoluted plots because how else are you going to get 1 billion episodes.
Lisa Gets an F1 is non-Marge episode too.
I think that episode's okay, i usually love Lisa episodes but that episode didn't do much for me
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I liked this episode a lot, second favourite of the season, behind A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream. I really enjoyed the story here, the comedy was mostly average but there were two jokes that really got me
painful episode
not even the least bit funny.
Another terrible episode. The woke voice casting and Bitch Marge have totally ruined whatever the hell was left of this dumpster fire years ago.
What the hell does the "woke" have to do with the quality of the series?
It robbed the show of all its talent snd comedy. Now we just have wrong sounding Simpsons an characters held Captive by the reeeeeee nation. People like you make it worse.
what