Why Homer Simpson Might Be God - After Hours

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  • @mememdetame
    @mememdetame 4 ปีที่แล้ว +177

    For a split second, we can all pretend the After hours still goes on. In a blink, it's gone.

    • @YourXavier
      @YourXavier ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That makes no sense. Once any hour has been, all further hours must be After Hours. Therefore, After Hours is always right now.

    • @usagiwerd6664
      @usagiwerd6664 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@YourXavierproably talking about the show and the running. But okay

    • @mikeblalock4116
      @mikeblalock4116 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      R.I.P.

    • @iamdocjesta
      @iamdocjesta 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      R.I.P. indeed

    • @FatBz887
      @FatBz887 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Glad I'm not the only one revisiting this, happy 2024?

  • @Edgemaster72
    @Edgemaster72 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1708

    Homer lacks the self awareness to realize his deity level powers because of the crayon shoved up his nose

    • @dudleybone8993
      @dudleybone8993 7 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      Wait a second, in that episode they remove the crayon and Homer accidentally proves there is no god. So how can Homer be god when he proves it impossible? And how can he go on to meet god several times after mathematically disproving it?
      If anything The Simpsons is a universe that takes place inside Homers daydream, that way he can be mortal and fallible but still prove all the points in this video.

    • @biohazard724
      @biohazard724 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Dudley Bone So the Simpsons is just the end of St. Elmo's Fire stretched out over several decades?

    • @QuinSkew
      @QuinSkew 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Eltonic I am God therefore I am God

    • @QuinSkew
      @QuinSkew 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      James Daniels Oh fuck I'm God

    • @negascoot23
      @negascoot23 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thou Art God

  • @bryannacassidy1806
    @bryannacassidy1806 7 ปีที่แล้ว +830

    you forgot that homer is almost the complete opposite to Flanders who is the devil .

    • @GarrettMoffitt
      @GarrettMoffitt 7 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      Halloween horrors aren't cannon.

    • @AlanisBored
      @AlanisBored 7 ปีที่แล้ว +46

      Cannon... BOOM

    • @Nathankinamorh
      @Nathankinamorh 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Homer has been depicted as God at least once.

    • @kenzofinucane4057
      @kenzofinucane4057 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      +Garrett Moffitt nah flanders is the devil cause christianity is

    • @matthewdalessandro5975
      @matthewdalessandro5975 7 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      bryanna cassidy + Lol that's actually such a good point; Flanders is literally the devil in an episode ..... daaaaaamn lol

  • @elinathan8363
    @elinathan8363 7 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    Shintos do say grace, they say "Itadakimasu" before a meal, it mean, "I humbly receive"

  • @SylvesterAshcroft88
    @SylvesterAshcroft88 7 ปีที่แล้ว +463

    This is better than most tv shows nowadays.

    • @pppfan103
      @pppfan103 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The Simpsons or After Hours, because I agree for both.

    • @SylvesterAshcroft88
      @SylvesterAshcroft88 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Jackson DeStefano both and yes homer is god...of donuts.

    • @bdeamon1
      @bdeamon1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      yeah, but it's a quantity vs quality sort of thing

    • @SylvesterAshcroft88
      @SylvesterAshcroft88 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bdeamo N That's true, but saying that most high quality tv series only run for about 10 episodes with descending quality, so even that system isn't working that well anymore!

    • @ma1ist
      @ma1ist 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      annnd it's gone.

  • @Sahantara
    @Sahantara 7 ปีที่แล้ว +376

    So Homer is basically Haruhi Suzumiya?😂 Ha... Wait... Homer Simpson, Haruhi Suzumiya - they both have same initials!!!😱

    • @jaymalby
      @jaymalby 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Sahantara yep

    • @skyrogue1977
      @skyrogue1977 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Sahantara And their both equally annoying.

    • @prettydeviangel
      @prettydeviangel 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sahantara I disliked that show. but yeah Homer def would be a good comparison

    • @kwakwakita
      @kwakwakita 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Damit Sahantara, that was exactly what came to mind for me xD

    • @knarfzednem
      @knarfzednem 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      (gasp!) They're the same person!

  • @Prospitfox
    @Prospitfox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    “Homers real power is mind control” that would explain why Bart is canonically telepathic

    • @jacktowers7533
      @jacktowers7533 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      *MeowMeowMeowMeow*
      *MeowMeowMeowMeow*
      *MeowMeowMeowMeow*
      *MeowMeowMeowMeow*

  • @TlalocW
    @TlalocW 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I love Michael grabbing food off everyone's food while they're distracted on their phones.

  • @Jaybaybay2838
    @Jaybaybay2838 7 ปีที่แล้ว +763

    the only show cracked needs to make

    • @sparkymist
      @sparkymist 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      Christian Rodriguez thank you, no truer words have been spoken...all hail the Church of After Hours!!!

    • @jesserothhammer7378
      @jesserothhammer7378 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Christian Rodriguez Except for Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder and bringing back Does not Compute. RIP Clippy. :,(

    • @negascoot23
      @negascoot23 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Jesse Rothhammer So basically they should just green-light everything these 4 are involved in, and lose everything else?😀

    • @Jaybaybay2838
      @Jaybaybay2838 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      James Daniels they can keep Roger

    • @negascoot23
      @negascoot23 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Sardonicus I would watch the hell out of a Katie-hosted show😁

  • @TheFireflyGrave
    @TheFireflyGrave 7 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    'I'm smarter than the devil.'
    -Homer Simpson/God

  • @yetiefer6935
    @yetiefer6935 7 ปีที่แล้ว +100

    This makes me want to watch every season of the Simpsons again and rethink my life

  • @ThecrazyJH96
    @ThecrazyJH96 7 ปีที่แล้ว +208

    Every time he speaks about God, Flanders shows up

    • @kristophergray9826
      @kristophergray9826 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Or. He's truly God's servant

    • @agioiutdrdgfyfyfhgky
      @agioiutdrdgfyfyfhgky 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@kristophergray9826 I do like the idea of Flander's being Homer's right hand man or something and he's watching over him while he's ignorant to his true power.

    • @juliancamp8404
      @juliancamp8404 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Flanders the devil. Remember when he was running hell?

    • @FeinryelRavenclaw
      @FeinryelRavenclaw 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Are Halloween episodes worth counting?

    • @Seth9809
      @Seth9809 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@FeinryelRavenclaw Nope.

  • @BrettGuster
    @BrettGuster 7 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    "Daniel Day Lewis! The world is ready for a method Homer"
    Dying...

  • @ArchonPook
    @ArchonPook 7 ปีที่แล้ว +245

    Did anyone else catch Soren implying he's a god?

    • @randomleagueoflegendsthres1034
      @randomleagueoflegendsthres1034 7 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      Soren isn't God.
      God wishes he was Soren though

    • @frozenaorta
      @frozenaorta 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Soren is the new Chuck Norris of memes.

    • @LorieLynn
      @LorieLynn 7 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      He does that all the time, that or he just flat out says he's a god. For example, In the one episode when they are discussing what everyone is doing over their break and they make a comment about his rock climbing he goes on about how what he's going to be doing is like "High fiveing God, well a fellow god"

    • @shwilson2029
      @shwilson2029 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      +LorieLynn We need more theories on this

    • @xanatos8920
      @xanatos8920 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Theory: Soren is God's testicle.
      Figure it out.

  • @joshdavis6830
    @joshdavis6830 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Miss you guys still. Thanks for all the laughs

  • @gulliver831
    @gulliver831 7 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    My hipotesis is that every episode takes place in a different universe, that's why Homer can both popularize grunge in the late 80's and create the equivalent of the beatles during the 60's, mathematecally prove that god doesn't exist in one episode and talk to him in other,etc.

    • @GippyHappy
      @GippyHappy 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      gulliver
      Nice hippotities

    • @gulliver831
      @gulliver831 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      tenks meit,dat gaive mi 'lots off guork to meik oud, ai dink i had do dink 'bout id leik 4 du minats orr somding

  • @joydoe7938
    @joydoe7938 7 ปีที่แล้ว +96

    Maude... you didn't mention maude.

  • @Connor_Tyler
    @Connor_Tyler 7 ปีที่แล้ว +761

    Does Soren think of himself as a God? That's kind of the impression I've gotten over a number of episodes.

    • @EricTheKei
      @EricTheKei 7 ปีที่แล้ว +37

      Pretty much, yeah. He says as much in this one.

    • @Mr_Phox
      @Mr_Phox 7 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      No, I'm pretty sure he is a god.

    • @negascoot23
      @negascoot23 7 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      Connor Tyler He's got like this sort of benign narcissism/superiority complex...
      But he's charming enough to get away with it--not to mention genuinely nice.

    • @BritishCommentWriter
      @BritishCommentWriter 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Fuck Soren and fuck his kids too.

    • @darkersandman2328
      @darkersandman2328 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      SOREN has the saved by the Bell power to stop a manipulate time but...I think cracked forgot that continuity error

  • @Samuel_Freakin_Adams
    @Samuel_Freakin_Adams 7 ปีที่แล้ว +75

    Homer Simpson is Haruhi Suzumiya

    • @triblademaster
      @triblademaster 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was gonna type that at 9:30, glad I searched the comments.

    • @edgyusername4191
      @edgyusername4191 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Elliot Burns a character from an anime called The melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Worth a watch.

  • @WDSimp
    @WDSimp 7 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    So Homer Simpson is a god who is unaware that he is god, and is just living his comfortable, happy life, occasionally interrupted by wacky hijinks.
    Holy Homer, he's Haruhi Suzumiya!

  • @MaskedManMikeMD
    @MaskedManMikeMD 7 ปีที่แล้ว +202

    she's a snake handler... "IF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAAAYYYINNNNN". ....sorry.

    • @ollysmith5447
      @ollysmith5447 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      A. Mikey B. Shame.Shame.Shame.

    • @Merilirem
      @Merilirem 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      You had me right up until you apologized.

    • @MsCunningLinguistic
      @MsCunningLinguistic 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It would feel cheap, except I totally read it in Candice's voice, so good on you.

    • @MaskedManMikeMD
      @MaskedManMikeMD 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      MsCunningLinguistic ...that was the point :) and i see what you did there

    • @artistwithouttalent
      @artistwithouttalent 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      *bangs fist on table* NOBODY KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING!

  • @Marc83Aus
    @Marc83Aus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Season 7 really loved that "who is this smithers?" joke.

  • @originalindigodingo
    @originalindigodingo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    "Homer is the only character we recognise"
    he says over an image of Homer and Jacque, a character we all recognise.

  • @TheAIKnowledgeHub
    @TheAIKnowledgeHub 7 ปีที่แล้ว +115

    Homer could be actually dead, and he is just living his afterlife (heaven or hell depending on how you look at it)
    This would explain how he can't die, but others can. How he lived a long time ago, and now. It also explains how the world lives around him, but he has no actual control over the world. Obviously, he doesn't know about his past life.
    This also can explain any changes in the timeline (like heaven or hell or correcting itself to make him happy or hurt more).

    • @zzyzzzyz6445
      @zzyzzzyz6445 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Craig Bennett II interesting theory.. but could this be said for any cartoon character? Or maybe any character in regards to there being no actual timeline in the series

    • @TheAIKnowledgeHub
      @TheAIKnowledgeHub 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Kinda. It could even be said about your life (you don't know if you can die without dying, and you have no idea if the world just appears like it doesn't live around you but it actually does). BTW, obviously I don't believe this, I was just making a point.
      But I think it would fit a bit more with the Simpsons over many others.
      But note similar arguments could be made for shows like Family Guy, American Dad, King of the Hill, and so on. It could even be made for some shows on outside of animation like The King of Queens.
      But I think the Simpsons and American dad would be the best for this theory. Both does end up meeting their gods. Both massively screwed up their timeline a few times. Both have a center person around the show. Even American Dad went as far as showing this theory might actually be true with a Christmas special a few years back.

    • @jonathanbrooks4969
      @jonathanbrooks4969 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      There is also the possibility that Homer is quantumly unstable, and constantly slips from one reality to a parralel one, so that he lives in various times, has constant adventures without staying injured or dying, and he seems to have wayyyy more actions that could fit in his familys lifespan. He is like sliders without the remote.

    • @TheAIKnowledgeHub
      @TheAIKnowledgeHub 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Jonathan Brooks
      The problem with that theory is the universe seems to be forcing homer to go on these adventures. It doesn't seem homer actually seeks out these adventures.
      The only way that theory could work is if someone like the baby is really in control.

    • @jonathanbrooks4969
      @jonathanbrooks4969 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Craig Bennett II Good point.

  • @vallraffs
    @vallraffs 7 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    Snake handlin' tonight

    • @Curtis006
      @Curtis006 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Valter Östberg gross

    • @Curtis006
      @Curtis006 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      NUDE PHOTOS AND VIDEO?!?! SIGN ME UP!

    • @Its_Lu_Bu
      @Its_Lu_Bu 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      she can handle my snake whenever she wants to

  • @dangercats77
    @dangercats77 7 ปีที่แล้ว +173

    "Unkillableness is like the minimum prerequisite of godhood"--does someone wanna go tell Thor?

    • @negascoot23
      @negascoot23 7 ปีที่แล้ว +41

      dangercats77 Thor is an extradimensional alien who was considered a god by ancient Scandinavians, not a god in the literal sense.

    • @GarrettMoffitt
      @GarrettMoffitt 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thor is not dead.

    • @Merilirem
      @Merilirem 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Indeed, the magical comic book thor was also unkillable to the perfectly fine point. Sure he dies, but he comes back so it's cool.

    • @shirleycupp466
      @shirleycupp466 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Garrett Moffitt

    • @ThatWeirdo04
      @ThatWeirdo04 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or every other Norse god and goddess for that matter

  • @thickmclargehuge4448
    @thickmclargehuge4448 7 ปีที่แล้ว +207

    man, Candice was on point in this episode

    • @kevinducharme3988
      @kevinducharme3988 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      not to mention she just gets hotter and hotter every single episode. hell remember back in the first few episodes, she had that frumpy look? Last few seasons, she's just beautiful. Wait, was Candice the original and was replaced by Katie and this episode they accidentally let it slip?

    • @Danjanon
      @Danjanon 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What am I missing here? Who is Candice?

    • @patrickbachtell3567
      @patrickbachtell3567 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Danjanon pay attention dude

    • @Danjanon
      @Danjanon 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I thought I was

    • @billyjoebobtheunicron2179
      @billyjoebobtheunicron2179 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Danjanon the dude is just kidding

  • @Tensolin01
    @Tensolin01 7 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    What about maggie she can talk to and control animals dosen't that make her a demigod?

  • @sebandya2885
    @sebandya2885 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The best Christmas present is an After Hours episode tbh

  • @Wertsir
    @Wertsir 7 ปีที่แล้ว +284

    Counterpoint: homer mathematically disproved the existence of god when he had the crayon removed from his brain. QED.

    • @negascoot23
      @negascoot23 7 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      Wertsir And who could possibly be intelligent enough to disprove the existence of God EXCEPT God?
      You have to accept the existence of a Godlike intelligence if you accept that someone mathematically disproved God...
      And the paradox this creates further lends credence to the idea that Homer is God:
      Paradoxes are only a problem for limited human intelligences.
      God not only CAN reconcile paradoxes, it is an essential aspect of Godhood in the absolute, monotheistic sense.

    • @GarrettMoffitt
      @GarrettMoffitt 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Of Flanders God.

    • @GeriatricFan1963
      @GeriatricFan1963 7 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      The argument goes something like this:
      "I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing."
      "But," says Wertsir, "the Crayon episode of the Simpsons is a dead giveaway isn't it? It proves that you exist, and so therefore you don't. QED."
      ""Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that", and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
      "Oh, that was easy," says Wertsir, and for an encore he goes on to prove that black is white, and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.

    • @Wertsir
      @Wertsir 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I am willing to entertain the notion that Homer Simpson _may have been_ god, but after he denied his own existence mathematically in a way he finds satisfying in the Crayon episode he is for sure not a god anymore.
      Think of it this way: in the Crayon episode Homer Simpson uses his godlike powers to increase his own intelligence for the first time in a long time, having done so he decides to tackle the great problems of life, like 'why do we exist' 'what is the meaning of life' and most importantly 'does god exist'.
      Using his enhanced intelligence/omniscience homer realizes his godlike abilities, he knows that he is the smartest and most powerful being in the universe, but he also realizes that despite his great intelligence and power, he is not _happy_, that all he really wanted was to live as a dumb, mortal man with marge.
      The episode is all about knowledge/power, and how greater abilities do not translate into greater happiness. in the end home decides to put the crayon in his brain again, this symbolizes the denial of his godlike powers and his _choice_ to live as a powerless mortal man (plus or minus a few things to make his life easier).
      The proof he gave Flanders did not disprove gods existence, it proved that god did exist, and that the logical thing to do when given omnipotence is to destroy it, thus if god did exist then he would be dead. homer then acted on that chain of logic, bringing us to the end of the episode.
      He showed it to Flanders for two reasons: 1) because he did not want to be alone. that episode was about how superiority creates isolation, and how knowing things others don't only drives a divide between you and those you love. Homer did not want his family to carry the burden of knowledge, but he needed someone to do so in case his powers re-manifested themselves and he decided not to increase his intelligence again (this way Ned could demonstrate the logic needed for homer to make the right choice). why Ned? well that brings us to 2) SCREW YOU FLANDERS!

    • @negascoot23
      @negascoot23 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Douglas Adams lives 😉

  • @pokegard
    @pokegard 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    my two favorite after hours theories/ideas/jokes is
    1: the entire show is just in Dan`s head/mind/imagination
    2: that Sorin is an ageless deity and/or perfect man

  • @davididiart5934
    @davididiart5934 7 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I want the complete Nerd Prayer. Now.

    • @ederanged7960
      @ederanged7960 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Dear Lord,
      Keep Women and EA out of our things.
      Amen.

  • @limerence8365
    @limerence8365 7 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Their was that time when Bart was Jesus and Jesus is the sun of god....

  • @wrywh
    @wrywh 7 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    "Homer is the only character weer recognise in the mount Sainai scene." he's stood next to a guy who is the exact design of Marge's bowling teacher with a beard slapped on.

    • @TheFireflyGrave
      @TheFireflyGrave 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe that guy is the devil and doesn't know it.

    • @wrywh
      @wrywh 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      TheFireflyGrave But as we discovered Flanders is the Devil. If homer was an omnipotent being would certainly explain why it's worth Flanders taking so much crap to keep an eye on him.

    • @manfromnantucket9544
      @manfromnantucket9544 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Luke Watson His name was Jacques. Glad someone else noticed too lol

    • @Danjanon
      @Danjanon 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yeah, but he had a beard AND a different voice. In Simpsons world that's enough for it to be a completely different person :D

    • @bryntendo
      @bryntendo 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Danjanon Not by After Hours rules though. Or... Actually even by Simpsons ones. In a different Simpsons episode of After Hours they reference 'the guy with the Brooklyn accent who does all the different jobs' - Known as Raphael in all his iterations. He's a recurring bitpart character that usually always looks slightly different and is still always meant to be the same guy. He's always Raphael even if his hair, face, skin, clothing, or whatever else change. By that logic the dude at Mt Sinai was still Jacques... Wait... Did the Jacques character at Mt Sinai have Raphael's voice..? I... I think he did, but without the accent! Is Jacques actually Raphael?? Is Raphael also a god? 😮

  • @vortex3013
    @vortex3013 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The melancholy adventures of Homer Suzumiya

  • @ConsiderableGravity
    @ConsiderableGravity 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Not exactly Shinto or grace, but the closest thing I know of is itadakimasu, roughly means in context "let's eat" or "thank you for the food" although it literally means something like I humbly receive/accept

  • @chaosmastermind
    @chaosmastermind 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Alls you need to remember is the part where Homer tells Bart "Oh, cartoons don't have to be realistic." As he simultaneously sits in his living room and walks by the window.

  • @Permafry42108
    @Permafry42108 7 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    OMG Homer is Haruhi Suzumiya!!!

  • @fite-4-ever876
    @fite-4-ever876 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Micheal just grabbing everyone's food when they go to their phones just kills me

  • @MikkiJoeRingtail
    @MikkiJoeRingtail 7 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    God and Jesus on the Simpsons are the only characters to have five fingers. Homer has four. Discuss.

    • @JordanBartholme
      @JordanBartholme 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      So the four fingers could be the constant reminder that you are in "the matrix" and not the real world; always present but not really affecting too much. Like in lucid dreaming how you check your wristwatch at regular intervals when you're awake to train the ability to tell when you are dreaming. If that makes any sense to anyone else lol

    • @angryreader8857
      @angryreader8857 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      MikkiJoeRingtail It is an alternate universe where the laziest human transcended into godliness through his sheer laziness. His name is Homer.

    • @julianbeldham8684
      @julianbeldham8684 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      God created man in his image

    • @yeetskeet9082
      @yeetskeet9082 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jason Goatcher neon genesis Simpsons

    • @Handlessuck1
      @Handlessuck1 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@julianbeldham8684 Does that make homer the god of the people in the simpsons?

  • @Toastmaster_5000
    @Toastmaster_5000 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Did they really forget that Maud died too? Of all the characters who died on the show, she was one of the most important, seeing as she's the neighbor of the Simpsons, was in several episodes, and, was mentioned in episodes after her death.
    Regardless, great episode.

  • @izzy1221
    @izzy1221 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Last After Hour for the year people! SAVOR IT! SAVOR IT LIKE A FINE WINE.

  • @RainbowDemon
    @RainbowDemon 7 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Cracked just don't, stop making these, I love them a lot and it's like one of my favorite shows you do, but I know you are tired of them, so do what makes you happy

  • @thebackup2121
    @thebackup2121 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    After Hours has always been amazing, but even now you guys are making great episodes, and this has to be one of my favourites - Can't wait for the next one!

  • @Nenilein
    @Nenilein 7 ปีที่แล้ว +57

    Fun fact, "Shinto" isn't actually a confession, but a collection of animistic believes. Most japanese people practicing Shinto actually see themselves as "without confession". There was a brief attempt to make Shinto into a confession during the Sakkoku time, but that failed simply due to the greatly syncretic nature of Japanese approaches to religion.

    • @erinconyngham3427
      @erinconyngham3427 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you for that interesting fact, I love Japanese history and culture like this, so it's great when there are others to talk about it with!

    • @zerosysko
      @zerosysko 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I don't understand your use of the word "confession" here... Do you mean 'an organized religion?'

    • @Nenilein
      @Nenilein 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      zerosysko Not exactly, I mean 'confession' in the sense that it is something you are actively a member of or not. That hasn't necessarily got anything to do with organization, Wicca is a confession but not an organized religion for example ( as far as I know at least). Shinto, on the other hand, you just practice as traditions and folklore. There's no actual 'awareness' of actually practicing a specific 'religion' involved there.

    • @jessicalee333
      @jessicalee333 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    • @wendyleeconnelly2939
      @wendyleeconnelly2939 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think confessional faith refers to a commitment to formal doctrinal statements, and acceptance of a whole theological teaching.

  • @Loremastrful
    @Loremastrful 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I can give Homer demigod status. A god must be all-knowing, all powerful and all good. Homer barely makes the threshold for all powerful. Good and knowing are still out of reach.

    • @andersoncherub
      @andersoncherub 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Rahsaan Footman, since when does a god have to be any of those? Polytheistic deities are none of those.

    • @ultimatedespairgamer6722
      @ultimatedespairgamer6722 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rahsaan Footman why does he have to be good and knowing, for example the Christian God is all good or all knowing

    • @ultimatedespairgamer6722
      @ultimatedespairgamer6722 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "Isn't" goddamn spellcheck

    • @Loremastrful
      @Loremastrful 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      andersoncherub True, but a Christian monothestic god is and Homer lives in that religion and culture. If you are willing to say the Christian god is fallible, belligerant and/or impotent then you charge has weight. But in the Simpson, God is a five fingered, face never revealed entity who often does act in the world. I call him a demigod because like Hercules or Theusus, he has power but very liyttle brains on how to use it.

    • @kernel_cataclysm7306
      @kernel_cataclysm7306 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The "all powerful, all benevolent, all-knowing" god condition has been disproved over and over again. "Why is there suffering in the world?", and all that.
      In a polytheistic way he might well be a god in the Dionysos kinda way. He is hedonistically all powerful, immortal, and sufficiently all-knowing to support his own hedonism. Actually not knowing 'everything' works in favour of his own hedonism. He doesn't actively know about what would make him upset but always learns it throughout an episode and resolves it by the end.

  • @karelfinn2343
    @karelfinn2343 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Sorry for nitpicking, but during that Book of Exodus segment where you said Homer was the only person there we'd seen before, there was a guy we'd seen before on screen - Jacques, the bowler who Marge almost had an affair with. Everyone in that scene represented something forbidden by the Ten Commandments (hence "Homer the Thief"), and Jacques was there to represent adultery. Either Jacques is immortal too or, as I interpret it, the people in this universe just get reincarnated as the same dude again every time they die.

  • @jamietodd2560
    @jamietodd2560 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Homer is his universe's version of John Oldman from _The Man From Earth_.

  • @ash.w
    @ash.w 7 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    this theory contradicts itself with the age bit because of the '40 years later' at 2:20 he ages

    • @davidbeppler3032
      @davidbeppler3032 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      he died 39.5 years before that shot.

    • @benaimjacob
      @benaimjacob 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Ash Waghorn the usage of that clip was to show that despite being told be God that he would be dead in six months, he was still alive 40 years later. The aging factor was merely an artistic decision to prove that an extended period of time had elapsed.

    • @viljamtheninja
      @viljamtheninja 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      He also actually talks to God. It's interesting that that isn't even brought up.

    • @JamesCPotter13
      @JamesCPotter13 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      viljamtheninja I think it's more implied that as Homer does believe in God, and does not believe HIMSELF to be God, that he manifested an image of what God should look like.
      There was also that time that, during the Apocalypse, Lisa was about to be saved and was rising to Heaven, and Homer flat out pulled her back to Earth.

    • @negascoot23
      @negascoot23 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      viljamtheninja It doesn't disprove the theory.
      If there is a God, he/she/it is not limited by Aristotelian laws... the law of identity, I mean: "A is A". The law that says you can't be more than one thing at the same time in the same way.
      This is how the Christian concept of God, the Trinity, works. God is one and three simultaneously. Three entities, one God.
      It is a logical impossibility, but that's only a problem for OUR reality. God could be 3 in 1 or 3000 in 1 (which is kinda what the Hindus have going).

  • @RevengeOfThaNerd
    @RevengeOfThaNerd 7 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Excited to see how many people get pissed and offended

    • @canadamike7461
      @canadamike7461 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I for one am pissed and offended. You're welcome!

    • @canadamike7461
      @canadamike7461 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ender Wiggins I was being entirely facetious. I really enjoyed this episode.

    • @RevengeOfThaNerd
      @RevengeOfThaNerd 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      ***** Yeah I was *entirely* disappointed.

  • @trex70
    @trex70 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    You said "a Homer is there" so Homers is not a single person. He is a definition of being.

  • @ryanswaynow
    @ryanswaynow 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I love how Homer says "homophobe" in his list of jobs; as if someone was paying him to hate John Waters.

    • @twigwigsoso
      @twigwigsoso 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "paying to hate john waters" sounds like a real movie John waters would of made

    • @ryanswaynow
      @ryanswaynow 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@twigwigsoso that’s why he’s a legend

  • @igt3928
    @igt3928 7 ปีที่แล้ว +90

    How everything bible related happened "2000 years ago"? 'cause Moses was already ancient history by the time of Jesus

    • @Fujikorific
      @Fujikorific 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Yeah that's some poor biblical scholarship right there.

    • @JITCompilation
      @JITCompilation 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      So you're saying that in 2000 years, literally nothing changed.

    • @Fujikorific
      @Fujikorific 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      No, I'm saying that saying the events of the book of Exodus happened 2000 years ago is literally crappy biblical scholarship, it was probably written during the Babylonian exile and is about events taking place in the 6th century BC...

    • @LadyMcGiusti
      @LadyMcGiusti 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Jesus and the New Testament are 2000 years old. The Old Testament goes back thousands and thousands of years, to the dawn of monotheistic religions, i.e. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Old Testament is where the stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses, Noah, Kind David, etc etc etc are. The New Testament is Jesus and the Apostles. That's what the BC and AD is all about when discussing Western history: BC is before the New Testament, and AD is after Jesus died and Christianity was adopted by Rome (and then forced onto the rest of the world).

    • @jessicalee333
      @jessicalee333 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      In the clip, it showed the scene happening in 1220 BC, not 2000 years ago.

  • @pimpminya7131
    @pimpminya7131 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    He's just as real.

  • @theotakux5959
    @theotakux5959 7 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    "Homer is the only character we recognize" while a bearded Jacques is on screen.

    • @gaymanlover
      @gaymanlover 7 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      TheOtakuX Jacques isnt referred to by name, so it may be an ancestor. Homer is referred to as "Homer", and considering Homer is a name of greek origin - not hebrew, so it must be the same Homer; not an ancestor of Homer.

    • @nugmoney838
      @nugmoney838 7 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      That guy looked like Jacques but he had a different name and voice

  • @poizonparfait
    @poizonparfait 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    So, Haruhi is just a cuter version of Homer then.

  • @manfromnantucket9544
    @manfromnantucket9544 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The adulterer in the Moses scene was modeled on Jacques the bowler

  • @sirsplintfastthepungent1373
    @sirsplintfastthepungent1373 7 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    if homer is a god, then what does that make hans moleman? pythagoras?

    • @sirsplintfastthepungent1373
      @sirsplintfastthepungent1373 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      GermsFromUranus hans has died hundreds of times and seems to remember each time, yet he comes back just as he was, perpetually on the verge of death... kinda like a potato. cut it in half, bury it, and it's still a potato. I should have known. the answer is always potato.

    • @amandamarinovich6164
      @amandamarinovich6164 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Who do you think Pythagoras was? Are you thinking of Methuselah?

    • @sirsplintfastthepungent1373
      @sirsplintfastthepungent1373 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Amanda Marinovich no, I was thinking Prometheus. doh!

    • @onyx1186
      @onyx1186 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      potato all the things

  • @dasmithstaizzle
    @dasmithstaizzle 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another excellent video. I was so excited today when I realized this was out, and couldn't wait to get home to see it. Keep it up!

  • @TheDevler23
    @TheDevler23 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Best intro you guys have ever done! Still my favorite videos on TH-cam, please never stop.

  • @dreadcthulhu5
    @dreadcthulhu5 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Continuity is not one of the Simpsons strengths.

  • @awfulwarlock91
    @awfulwarlock91 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    These are the best content that Cracked does IMO!

  • @geraldspencer1956
    @geraldspencer1956 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love how in every episode, one of the guys will bring up a topic that everyone else thinks is ridiculous but then at the end all agrees.

  • @RialVestro
    @RialVestro 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What about Bart who in one episode specifically mentions how old he is in relation to how long the show has been running? Unlike all the other characters Bart seems to fully aware of his fictional existence in a long lasting cartoon series. In the opening titles he has also written messages about the first of the next 300 episodes and apologizing for predicting Trump's rise to power in a previous episode.

  • @Angeltech1989
    @Angeltech1989 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The crazy thing is that 75K in 2016 would be closer to 100K today due to inflation.

  • @FiauraTheTankGirlGamer
    @FiauraTheTankGirlGamer 7 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Wow.....I think they are determined to explain all of the Simpsons

  • @lusibenitez6869
    @lusibenitez6869 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I waited forever for a cracked ep. 😂😂 thank u

  • @bentcountershaft
    @bentcountershaft 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I needed this today, thanks.

  • @stevenyanis9051
    @stevenyanis9051 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Watched it twice. Cause you're all so nice.

  • @TheMaplestrip
    @TheMaplestrip 7 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Haruhi Suzumiya really is a knock-off ;p

    • @alexsdemkin
      @alexsdemkin 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Who?

    • @TheMaplestrip
      @TheMaplestrip 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Alexander Demkin Google is your friend. Though, in short: God except she doesn't realize it.

    • @armanhammer
      @armanhammer 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Simpsons did it.

    • @Milliondollarloser
      @Milliondollarloser 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hail haruhi

    • @bshpev
      @bshpev 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      This! Is there seriously not a single anime fan on the Cracked staff that could have low-balled this one into the writer's room?

  • @ilovemartinmilner
    @ilovemartinmilner 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Almost time for a new episode. Can't wait much longer!

  • @JSAVACADO
    @JSAVACADO 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    After Hours: The best thing on Cracked, no question. Worth the subscription; love you guys.

  • @declankelly7528
    @declankelly7528 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A person who's god but doesn't know it? THAT IS THE PLOT OF THE MELANCHOLY OF HARUHI SUZUMIYA

  • @davidnassau23
    @davidnassau23 7 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    You didn't cover the fact that Homer had an actual childhood with flashbacks of his parents, and that his mother came back. If he is immortal how do you explain that? Also, if he met with God, how can he also be God? I am in fact shocked, yes shocked that you would allow this evidence to go uncovered. Also, it sounds like you are saying that Homer is similar to Jar Jar. Both are incredibly lucky, exercise mind control and give the outward appearance of being an idiot. However, Jar Jar may be a Sith lord but no one ever suggested that Jar Jar is God. Signed, Comic Book Guy

    • @kenplamont-diumenti4752
      @kenplamont-diumenti4752 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      David Nassau Half the show is non canon. Where he meets God and has a childhood is not canon. (Post-Conan)

    • @CasualVideoGamer
      @CasualVideoGamer 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      If you modify the letters, Conan can spell Canon so therefore... everything Conan IS canon.

    • @kaerouse48
      @kaerouse48 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Homer could be an Avatar (Hinduism not James Cameron), he comes down to earth every now and again, born in a human, carries the same name and appearance, and then returns to Paradise after a certain amount of time has passed.

    • @jasonbelstone3427
      @jasonbelstone3427 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So did Haruhi Suzumiya.

    • @nahhhhhhhh271
      @nahhhhhhhh271 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s possible that he can actually be reincarnating but the crayon made him forget perhaps

  • @ruthy6000
    @ruthy6000 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    These are my favourite videos by far!!

  • @LungsOutJem
    @LungsOutJem 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well done, After Hours crew. This one was really on the ball.

  • @kas-qq5ge
    @kas-qq5ge 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    “We do this weird nerd thing before every meal.”
    But... they don’t eat.

  • @CloudyObsession
    @CloudyObsession 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Shintoist here, thanks for the shoutout!

  • @malcomchase9777
    @malcomchase9777 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There seem to be three types of After Hours: The ones where they ignore suspension of disbelief and tropes to make a "Theorist"-level point (like here), the ones where they assume a fictional world is real and talk about consequences (like the one stranded on the road or the one about commercials), and finally the ones where they look at fiction as fiction, and discuss unintended implications / reasons for tropes (like the one about dead moms or the one about Forest Gump).
    Type 1 I could live without, Type 3 is my favorite.

  • @RobFMDetroit
    @RobFMDetroit 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I've been going down the rabbit hole on old After Hours episodes for about the last week and I have no regrets.

  • @isthatzo7703
    @isthatzo7703 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "The world is ready for a method homer"

  • @fredandhiroko
    @fredandhiroko 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Shinto grace is: "itadakimasu."

  • @ryderfisk3450
    @ryderfisk3450 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    please never stop doing this show

  • @Peter_Pennsylvania
    @Peter_Pennsylvania 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Make these more often! They're always good.

  • @jordanhorne8600
    @jordanhorne8600 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Never clicked on a video so fast- love this series!

    • @kevinducharme3988
      @kevinducharme3988 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jordan Horne Amen to that this is by far their best video series. like a perfect day in my world is when there's an after-hours video and a buckholtz article

  • @EnterpriseC14
    @EnterpriseC14 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I miss this

    • @fiyahspinnah
      @fiyahspinnah 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is back! Follow the channel small beans. The new show is called off hours.

  • @chrisoates
    @chrisoates 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I think Homer Simpson is immortal because he had a uranium rod stuck to his back and didn’t die. Also, he has had many painful experiences such as head injuries and other stuff, a heart bypass, drinks too much and has alarmingly high cholesterol

  • @SirQuaks
    @SirQuaks 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    it's a christmas miracle, cracked finally put out another after hours

  • @sarahshah1249
    @sarahshah1249 7 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    Um, that scene you showed shows that he does grow old.

    • @anon123214
      @anon123214 7 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      Think about this, if he was a god and taking on generation after generation of families, wouldn't it be out of the ordinary to look the same as you did and your mate looking extremely older during 40 years? I'd say his healing factor doesn't kick in until he thinks he's gonna die, then reverses his aging process for the next wife.

    • @sarahshah1249
      @sarahshah1249 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Evil King I see... I think you've converted me!

    • @anon123214
      @anon123214 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      May your donuts be glazed in his glory.

    • @ThecrazyJH96
      @ThecrazyJH96 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Evil King but he isn't self aware enough to do that

    • @sarahshah1249
      @sarahshah1249 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Joseph Harding that's what we think... (conspiracy theory)

  • @Echo-Magnus
    @Echo-Magnus 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Please do more After Hours. This is why I subscribed, lol.

  • @DomSCOTLANDD
    @DomSCOTLANDD 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    best After Hours in a long time!

  • @jewfierros5800
    @jewfierros5800 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved this episode of after hours!

  • @buddywedlake
    @buddywedlake 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Homer Simpson is the GOAT!

  • @gilgameshjones4412
    @gilgameshjones4412 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I miss after hours.....

  • @redlimes381
    @redlimes381 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    This marks my 9th time watching this episode... it just doesnt get old

  • @TheDuckofLaw
    @TheDuckofLaw 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    excellent stuff. This was better than the Football to the Groin, and that one had a football to the groin.

  • @fangchick93
    @fangchick93 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I'll follow doctor whodaism or lady firefly of serenity

    • @DeathGodRiku
      @DeathGodRiku 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Raeanne Bedard our Doctor who art in TARDIS, unknown be thy name

  • @flamingbull3438
    @flamingbull3438 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    If Homer is immortal, then how does he have parents?
    They can't be immortal as well because Mona died

    • @GamesFromSpace
      @GamesFromSpace 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The same way jesus had parents?

    • @flamingbull3438
      @flamingbull3438 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      yeah but homer didn't die

  • @janesmith4167
    @janesmith4167 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    yay! another after hours episode! 😀😊😄

  • @akshayb.9693
    @akshayb.9693 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Okay, the snake handler/Moe reference at the end was extremely well done. Bravo.