The Simpsons - Working at the bowlorama
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- Homer Simpson at his dream job working for the Bowlarama
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I love how Homer describes it as his dream job and the first thing it shows is people recognizing Homer and saying his name
Mr. Burns really had an effect on the poor guy
Burns have an effect on everyone, guy's hateful
@@ratedr7845 burns is contagious
@@scotty3739 yeah
Burns remembers everyone's name except Homer
remember the kecthup or katsup joke?
Only one piece of gold missing from this video:
Barney: Uncle Al can Homer have a job?
Al: Sure............Barney you're fired.
"Oh, and bring a spare pair o' pants."
"Why?"
"When it happens, you'll know."
Lies again? Olympic Penis Spank Bang
Poor barney
The brilliance of this episode is how it portrays Homer’s “dream” job not as something that is not impossible to obtain but as something quite achievable that he has a genuine passion for. His enthusiasm makes him productive and rubs off on everyone, he’s liked by the bowlers and in turn respected by them. He gives all of his attention to the alleys with joy. It shows you don’t need to have a high paying job to be happy in yourself, it’s better to follow your heart and your interests and you will naturally be outstanding at your job.
This to me is the real, wholesome value I get from these older episodes that you just don’t see in the new ones any more.
Too bad he then was forced to quit this job so he could support Maggie.
You stoned or somethin
As in this shows reason why homer lazy at his job because he dose not want be there
It unfortunately didn't pay enough the moment something comes up, the owner even says homer deserves to get paid more but he just doesn't get enough business for it.
Thanks to Patty and Selma blabbing about Marge's pregnancy even though they knew she told them not to say anything about it.
This is one of the best old episodes. It shows the sacrifice he had to make to raise his family.
And people wonder why natality rates are dropping in first world countries
@@user-unos111 natality
He's doing such a horrible job that his kids never grow older.
@@TheKrensada lul XD XD
@@ashley-ww1rx Scorpion wins!
I feel like Homer asked someone if they make a new pin each time it's knocked down, and some guy sarcastically told Homer, "Yes, they really do that" and then not realizing the sarcasm, Homer really believed that.
That's brilliant.
And whenever he sees someone has thrown out a refrigerator, he always mourns the death of the little man who lived inside it working the light.
no thats how they do it
taht makes so much more sense now.
They DON’T do that??! 😳
Having been a bowling alley technician in the past; I can confirm this is completely accurate
I don’t believe u there is not enough wood in the world
The only thing missing is a joke about the pinsetters breaking. The 10-lane alley I worked at had a pile up every 15 minutes or so.
@@WaleighWallace had the GSX where i worked. Quality
can agree as well
I thought you were called shoe bitches according to The Office
Surprised he never once ran into frank Grimes who lived up or down stairs
I think this was when Frank was still recovering from that silo explosion.
Also... I think he just got that place when he started at the plant. Can’t afford that luxury on a foundry night shift wage.
I may be over analyzing but if you re-watch the Frank Grimes episode (and I'm talking to the part where Kent Brockman shows the video package featuring Grimes) the mailman is seen giving Grimes' diploma behind a typical house. I assumed Frank lived there first before it got destroyed or he got kicked out somehow. Knowing how much bad luck Grimes has, it's not unfeasible. Even if he did live next to the bowling alley at the time, he never said he lived next to the Bowl-O-Rama. He could of lived next to a different one.
I live in a single room above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley
@Urrcreavesh basement?
Or mare's lover Jacques.
I love how they use a whole tree trunk to make each bowling pin!
"I'm going to cut down all the forests in Springfield, and turn each tree into a single luxury toothpick!"
"Great idea, Mr Burns. One tiny question- won't that lead to, um... environmental disaster?"
"If you want to make an omelette... you have to wreck a few planets."
"Well said, sir... well said."
Republican paradise!
Whatever You love THE joke?
'Merica!
one the tree has no limbs or roots the trunk is then called a log
He doesn't say "D'oh" after he breaks the floor. It's not seen as a failure by him, it's something he knows how to fix.
Jon Noto clever!
Genius
Alexander Weller I was saying do’urns
There's a lot of subtlety in the older seasons :(
Certainly books and books could be written on psychoanalyzing Homer Simspon........
I love the callback to Jaques and the fact that he steps over the faultline at 00:46
*OVER THE LINE!*
@@crimsondynamo615 Smokey, this is not 'Nam, this is bowling. There are rules.
@@douglasbabb1725 your entering a world of pain!
foul line
fault line is a geological term
I love the dude who gets angry when Homer doesn't hand him a drink lol 1:15
Wow that's an attention to detail
He’s then pleased when Homer gives him a drink after all.
This is such a good episode. The fact that Homer did really well at the bowling alley shows that he isn't inherently lazy and is capable of being very productive. He's only lazy and unproductive at the power plant because its a job he hates
Yeah, but he couldn't help them figure out how to get more business.
Homer essentially invented quiet quitting.
It's mostly like that with everyone. Difference is most still do stuf out of fear of being fired.
Also, because he’s completely unqualified. A regular guy doesn’t have much to add to nuclear power plant procedures.
Which is weird considering how passionate he was about safety in the episode where he first became safety inspector (remember he had previously been a technical supervisor)
What happens to the pins always gets me.
+Luke sewell he meant it's funny.
It’s such a great gag.
Hit ‘N’ Run took it to the next level. One of the greatest cop-killers, if you time it perfectly lol.
Do you know what it’s not too far from the truth
does anyone know where that scene is riffed from? I'm sure I've seen it somewhere else...
I LOVE this episode! Seeing Homer so happy to follow his dreams, he loves his job, and he's passionate and good at his job, and everyone loves him there, I always remembered this episode. A great life lesson :) "I'm gonna make it after all!"
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The lesson is that children ruin everything.
That's what I took away from it.
It really show how much of a difference moral makes. At a job he hates he's a fat, lazy, incompetent screw up. At a job he loves he a fat, energetic, competent, and productive worker.
Really puts Homer's Enemy into perspective IMO. Watching that episode made it sound like Homer didn't care about Frank Grimes' story, but when put into perspective of this episode, Homer probably didn't even realize Grimes was ranting about having to live in an apartment above and below a bowling alley because that'd be like a dream for Homer.
Next time they do a future episode, it should be one where with Bart and Lisa out of the house and Maggie growing up, Homer can finally afford to return to the Bowlerama.
That would have been a great way to end the series, something they should probably have done 15+ seasons ago
Shame the writers hate Bart too much to let him move out and become independent
@@liquidsandwich1052 or do anything besides the typecast
Unfortunately, almost every pure bowling alley in the United States, is bankrupt and closed nowadays.
And he's not divorced from Marge for once
I like it that Homers dream is having a simple and happy life.
You mean simple like a wonderful wake-coma?
Maybe Homer's not so stupid after all...
@@danieleyre8913 Only stupid people can be happy with a simple life.
@@dukebaloof2540 Ah… ….no.
Love how the owner casually checks his hair from Homer's dome.
Henkka82, did you polish your head in the Shine-o Ball-o?
If this was Family Guy, that would have been a 3 minute bit with celebrity cameos and a racist joke somewhere. The Simpsons is really good at understated humor
It’s remarkable how Homer did his job and did it well. Wasn’t lazy. And was enthusiastic about it.
We’ve all had that job. Then a micromanaging bitch becomes your new boss.
Homer...did you shine your head in the shine'o-ball'o?!
Ummm no...
Okay then.
Yazite pew
Okay then.
*fixes hair*
My favorite (in another episode) is when the bullies use the machine on Milhouse
"You're polishing bone!"
I love how the pin replacement process is literally as inefficient as it could possibly be, maybe outside of reducing each log to a single chip and combining several logs together to make one bowling pin.
We can take it further.
We have to chop every tree in a forest and find the fabled perfect pin tree, after that we need to use that tree to make one section of the pin, rinse and repeat.
Just started my job at the bowling alley and I can't stop thinking of this episode lol
Will you shave your head and polish it in the Shine-o Ball-o?
Where do knocked down pins go at your bowling alley?
Is it your dream job?
Still there?
Did you polish your head in the shine-o ball-o?
Homer: I was in heaven. If Horse Racing is a sport of King, then surely Bowling is a... very good sport as well.
lol
I never realized that Homer could turn without moving his legs at 0:10 lol
Having worked at a bowling alley before, I can appreciate this scene.
So, is that how they make the pins?
@@santiagoqr1 Yes it is
I pissed myself laughing as a kid at the Mary Tyler Moore reference. That also means I’m very old.
No, I’m young and even I’ve watch feminist propaganda.
"Homer did you polish your head in the shine-o ball-o"
"no"
gets me every time.
"A wonderful waking coma" That's pure poetry
0:47 OVER THE LINE!
MARK IT ZERO.
Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling, there are rules.
@@potionthekhat8273 but that's Jacques, he has no rules.
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There calling the cops man
Who else still walks into a men's toilet, smells the fragrance of the urinal blocks and goes "mmmm, urinal fresh".
I will now
elephant fresh
I usually hold my breath before entering as those rooms reek because men can't piss properly.
I do!
The bit about where the pins go is timeless
0:56 PTSD flashbacks of crashing into that damn log machine in Hit & Run
that thing was a monster
The "Shine-O Ball-O..."
That never gets old!
+SWG (Games4thapeople)
Homer stuck his head inside the ball-polishing machine, and shined up his bald head.
lol.
Is nobody else noticing Jacque is playing in this clip, yk the one who had a crush on marge
I think everyone may have had a few times in life when they were really happy with everything they were doing. Before it crashed down
Worked at a restaurant. It was a hard job but the boss was amazing and genuinely supportive of me. And I did my best to do what he needed of me in turn.
Then the CEO of the restaurant company came in, one of the richest people in Berlin, and was like "We are overstaffed here for the season. Fire the two newest arrivals"
It was also the same day I invited my family there for a meal on my employee discount.
That's the day I got radicalised.
Imagine if that is Homer's real job, he would hit the jackpot for sure.
The sign only has 6 pins but it should have 4 more
0:33 Homer did you polish your head in the shine-O ball-O mmmm No
Ok then....(checks hair)
I always love how Homer looks left and right before he does something stupid like sticking his head in the shino-ballo.
That bowling pin sequence has been burned into my memory since I was a child
"I'm Gonna Make it After All"
A Nod to The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Homer must slightly be less stressed. He has 3 hairs on his head instead of his usual 2.
I wonder how it must feel to have your head polished in the Shine-O Ball-O. I guess the one requirement is that you must be bald.
It's funny that the entire process of making the bowling pin is automated excepted for the painting of the red stripes.
I like how from this one clip of the logs being brought into the bowling alley the developers of Simpson's hit and run added the very same bowling ball with logs being eaten up constantly
By making it into an annoying obstacle that half the time gets in your damn way when taking the shortcut
@@robonaught
Only if you’re bad at it.
You can't blame Homer for being dumb , he has a powder blue crayon lodged in his brain 😂
"Uncle Al can homer have job here?"
"Yeah sure."
"Woohoo"
"Barney you're fired"
"Ok."
Poor Homer, he totally applied himself at his dream job, but it didn't pay the bills so he had to be half assed at his job at the nuclear plant.😔
Having worked at a job that I hate for over a decade I forget that people sometimes do like their job.
I hope you get a job you enjoy some day!
@@emmafrost7151 I am in between jobs now. Finally left that hell hole after all those years. I am finally on my way to being happy. Thanks for the support.
At 0:47, there's a cameo from Jacques
Homer: Why you son of a! How dare you make love to my wife!
he appears every time on the older intro near Moe's
And his foot is ever so slightly over the line
The Champ Over the line! Mark it zero!
He was also in the hospital when Bart was in a coma and he came from hell back into his body
love Jaques playing bowling there, a nice little easter egg
The “where the pins go” segment perfectly satirizes America’s wasteful consumption practices and I love it.
homer's happiness about working at the bowling alley is infectious
This proves Homer isn’t lazy, he just hates working at the power plant.
Homer is singing Sonny Curtis' Love is All Around(1970).
“Shine-O Ball-O”
*where’s that Dwayne Johnson eyebrow meme when you need it?*
The series should end with one final scene of all the characters growing up and living their lives and Homer returning to the Bowl-O-Rama would be the last scene
That'd be a great place to end the series, Bart & Lisa have moved out on their own, and he just has to support Marge and Maggie, being able to go back to the job of his dreams.
I always loved how they'd chuck one pin away, the load an entire tree in and widdle it down to make one brand new one 😂
He just never ran into Frank Grimes who lives above the bowling alley🎳🎳🎳🎳🎳
Congratulations to everyone with a new job
New job? MARGE IS PREGNANT?!?!?!?!
Maybe if Al reused the pins he could afford to give Homer a raise.
“Homer, Did you Polish your head in the shine-o ball-o?”
“No”
“Okay then”
Too bad Homer couldn’t have become a part owner of the Bowling Alley, but then again his marketing tactics were so disastrous it was probably for the best.
0:52 It's A Powerhouse Soundtrack Looks Like Looney Tunes!
At 46 seconds is the guy that tried having an affair with Marge in season 1. He was a great bowler. Awesome reference that only the coolest of Simpsons fans will catch.
The irony to see the guy in purple bowling who almost had an affair with marge
What's ironic about that?
@@BenjaminGoose because homer is working where his wife almost had an affair with that dude
@@frankdux5215 not what irony is
It's not ironic. You can see a bowling instructor being at a bowling alley. That's the joke.
Hey at 1:22 there's an arcade machine called Time Waister, I only just noticed.
Figgy I saw it
Its a reference to a arcade called time crisis
Figgy obligatory "its actually 1:23" comment
I know this is a late reply but I love your Game Grumps compilations
@@goofball1616 Can't be. This episode came out in 1993 and the first Time Crisis came out in 1995.
Moral of the story, having a kid ruins your life.
We're so overpopulated these days. Get married when you feel it's right, then adopt like 5 years later when you've both had your fun
episode shows what a good man Homer is deep down because he gave up his dream job for Maggie and went back to Mr Burns I know sometimes can come off as an ignorant stupid person but deep down he is a good father in spite strangling Bart on more than one occasion
0:51-1:11 "Powerhouse B" by Raymond Scott
It fits perfectly with 'Fell in Love With a Girl' in case you were wondering
THANK YOU!!
Ty. You just ended a 15+ year search for me that started with looney tunes.
at the end of the video:
everyone in the bowling alley: *lets out a loud gasp as they spin around*
You gotta be careful around the Shine-O Ball-O. Before you know it, you're polishing bone.
I'm gonna make it .... AFTERALL! :D
Blup
Reference to The Mary Tyler Show.
a whole log for a tiny pin lmao
It's a classic animation gag
Anyone remember when Bob Vila was doing a commercial for some snack sausages and turnd down a whole 4x4 on a lathe into a little toothpick so he could eat the little sausage?
The Mary Tyler Moore reference at the end had me on the floor!!!😂😂😂
0:56 God don't let Lisa from season 30 see this, she would have the biggest of crisis.
I would like to see Lisa from season 31 go back to the Classic Simpsons era to see her past self. She would've seen how much happier her past self was in being a normal kid and having friends at school. The current Lisa would've realized how much of an SJW she had become currently and realize why everyone hated her in first place. Her past self may be intelligent like her, but she still enjoys doing normal activities in hanging out with her friends and spending time with her family. The current Lisa realized how much she forgotten the simple joys of living a normal life because she felt like she was the only genius in a family of idiots.
Lisa's a bloody annoying moralist and do gooder and pc thug like miss hoover said
Lisa in the shorts and the 1st four episodes of Season 1 showed she was a female Bart. She didn't develop her own personality until after the later episodes of season 1 when she became intelligent. Throughout Seasons 2-6, Lisa was smart and a normal kid who had friends. It was season 7's Lisa the Vegetarian, that made her very unlikable when she tried to force her views on everyone to give up eating meat and be vegetarians. The town found it annoying and made fun of her. Lisa took the intolerance to a whole new level by ruining Homer's BBQ party and pushing the roasted pig down the hill with a lawnmower. It was at the secret garden escape on top of the Kwik-E-Mart, that Apu finally talked to her about her problems. While he understands Lisa's frustration over everyone continuing to eat meat, he also warns her that forcing her views on them to give up meat and be vegetarians can do a lot more harm than help. It was there she learned a hard lesson in her intolerance towards meat eaters
Peter Burke People who would actually use a phrase like “PC thug” unironically are exactly the kind of colossal imbeciles Matt Groening built his career making fun of.
@@StamfordBridge poetic justice then?
I can imagine how Lisa would feel if she found out about the manufacture and disposal of the skittles.
thast where homer got the idea for the beer baron bowling alley acme factory tunnel
Lmao I love how they have a guy with a paintbrush on standby
if you walk around the Bowl-o-rama in Simpsons: Hit & Run you can see the machine dumping the pins and grabbing an entire tree to cut new ones
Fun fact: the wierd metal arm that goes up and down next to the bowlorama in the Simpsons hit and run is supposed to be a reference to this episode and how a new log is fed in through the side each tim to make a new pin
Homer, proving you only have to find a job you enjoy to be happy. Not a job everyone else tells you to do.
I finally understand the log moving thing down the shortcut alleyway beside the Bowlorama in the Hit and Run game comes from.
"Don't worry Joey we'll make it to California someday"
“Sure we will, Mr. Homer. Sure we will. *coughs”
I love the Mary Tyler Moore reference! 🤣
I never noticed the hilarious detail of them skinning a whole tree just to make one pin 🤣
Homer, did you polish your head in the Shine-O Ball-O?
One of the best episodes ever in terms of character.
The ball shiner always reminds me of the Milhouse “you’re polishing bone” scene
I've always wondered where the pins go after they've been knocked down, but now I know.
The song played during the bowling pin segment is from Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse". Added bonus: "La Villa Strangiato" by Rush also uses parts of this very song.
Me: **polishes my bald head in the ball shiner**
Glamrock Bonnie: 🐰”Julius, did you polish your noggin in the ‘Shine-O Ball-O’!”
Me: “Nnnnnno!”
Glamrock Bonnie: 🐰”Well, all right then!”
🎩
🐻”I do not come up here anymore. I miss him!”
Love how they destroy a huge tree for one pin.
It’s little things like the tone of the Shine-o Ball-o changes when Homer shoves his head in it. You’ll never see that level of detail in the Simpsons again 😢
Just love the “I’m gonna make it after all!!”
I adore that the pins are used once and then just thrown away lol
The Shine-O Ball-O gag was adopted into the Splatoon community, where it’s Frye having her head polished and Shiver asking if she did it!
The only inaccuracy is we can make more than one pin out of a tree. The limit is how long the tree is.
0:55 Do anybody realized that is a song name Powerhouse or Tricky song? I was hyped If I hear that.
That's probably raymond scotts powerhouse and it was released in 1930s
And the madness clown was a reused old music from powerhouse
''I'm gonna make it after all''
The Homer Simpson Show
That's EXACTLY what is done with bowling pins. LOL