When I was seventeen (and before that age), I was watching this. It's weird how Homer's nostalic moment has become a nostalgic moment to me, since I'm 30 now.
A 48 second clip in which there are three clear pop culture references (Clockwork Orange, Queen, Sinatra) and two brilliant gags (Homer just casually stepping over his son having a seizure and a flashback to using an hilarious Fake ID) with a genius reworking of the lyrics of the original song AND it's also bittersweet and genuinely quite sad and touching to see a man who's clearly battling his alcoholism. Again all within 48 seconds. It's good to remind yourself just how breathtakingly amazing the Simpsons once was. The best ever
Battle with alcoholism or the negative Pavlov conditioning he has suffered in this culture. Alcohol isn't anyone's problem, just some people make it the solution it never was meant to be.
@@championdesigns That is Queen's Trademarked logo so even if this is a comedy show the surviving band members would have to O.K. the use of it on "The Simpsons".
Groening very likely had little to do with this scene! He's not as involved with the show as we sometimes think. This would have likely been written by either a writer or a showrunner.
I actually had to see A Clockwork Orange to get the reference with the cupcakes, which I didn't see until I was 23...and that was about 17 years later after this episode coincidentally! o.O
@@craigkrane3901 OH!!!! I knew that camera angle was familiar. I knew they were referencing something I couldn't put my finger on it but I knew I had seen it before. Thanks.
Based on Brian McGee's age and DOB, we have to assume that Homer purchased his beer sometime between 2nd August 1974 and 2nd August 1975. We might assume from the colour of the Queen poster behind him that he was listening to 'A Night at the Opera', but neither the album nor any single thereupon was released until later in 1975. Therefore we are left to conclude that Homer most likely fell asleep listening to the band's third album, 'Sheer Heart Attack', which peaked at #12 in the US, and had just one charting single, 'Killer Queen', which also reached #12. Either that or he was listening to one of the first two albums, neither of which cracked the US top 40 on initial release. So while Homer wasn't what you'd call a trendsetter in this respect, he definitely came to enjoy the band earlier than most American listeners would, and certainly has excellent taste in music.
“When I was seventeen, I drank some very good beer, I drank some very good beer I purchased with a fake ID. My name was Brian McGee, I stayed up listenin' to Queen When I was seventeen.”
I think I saw this first when I was like 13. At 41, I still remember it clear as day. The human mind is ridiculous lol. I can't remember a damn thing I learned during my senior year, but this....... Clear as day.
That was a well-known technique of Gordon Jenkins, Sinatra's arranger. Read Mark Steyn's essay on "It Was a Very Good Year," which even mentions Homer's version!
I haven't seen this clip in years (though I've always remembered the song Homer sings). But it's only now that I noticed the "Clockwork Orange" refrence.
We can extrapolate that this happened in 1974. If Homer was 17 then, he was born around 1957. But what kind of “I.D. card” provides a birth date AND an AGE? 😂
What kind of town doesn't age over 30 years and has desert, ocean, canyons, forests and is visited by a guy with a white shirt and green pants despite having no discernable location?
Such a strange feeling if you were younger than Bart when the Simpsons started and now will soon be older than Homer. I also drank beer I had acquired and listened to queen when I was seventeen. But it is not fun in the same way anymore.
It's a form of the art technique "smearing". Since motion blur doesn't exist on a 2D animation, sometimes they use a few exaggerated frames to stretch an expression.
Most of us have been on the receiving end of that, where we knew full bloody well that we were underage, and we didn't know if we'd get served or not, I'm sure! 😅😅😅😅
You'll probably laugh, but that's bloody nerve-wracking! My nervous body-language gave me away pretty much every-soddin'-time, when I tried to buy booze as a teen!
“It was a very good beer” should be the title of the song. After “It was a very good year” with the same opening line...most famously done by Frank Sinatra in 1965.
I'm 39 years old and just yesterday heard the original Frank Sinatra version for the first time and remembered this. Probably 25 years at least I thought this was the original 🤣
I never really noticed that Duff beer is an amber bock, but Moe's draft beer at the bar is a light lager or pale ale when we see the fellas there drinking out of glass mugs.
As a 17 year old myself I think i'm living a similar life now as when Homer was 17. I seem to be in a very early stage of an alcoholic and i'm listening to Queen. This is bad :( EDIT: I'm 21 now, and I seem to be just fine. No worries :)
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HAPPY 69TH BIRTHDAY BRIAN MCGEE
_itzpapalotl lol Hommer is 61 now
Weird
Nice
he's 72 today.
Nice
Subtle detail: I like that they made the Duff can design slightly different as it probably would have been back in the 70's.
I love when shows do that because it means they actually put effort into the episodes they are creating
Can't see the difference
@@YoungManDub The font is different
reminds me of pepsi
Who remembers the old steel cans before pull tabs, and you needed a can opener or Church key to open one ?
I like how the clerk glares at Homer as though he's already caught on, yet he ended up selling him the beer anyway.
He doesn’t get paid enough to care.
I am happy he stayed up listening to Queen.
i love how he steps over his son on the floor having a seizure 🤣
I don't think he's having a seizure he's just freaking out cause Lisa broke his brain
Between going to space, meeting 2 presidents on the same day, being conductor of a monorail, and watching grimey die. Homer's seen weirder.
He's used to Bart's bullshit.
Classic America
@@Saif-zf9vb Don't think any country has a shortage of child abuse my friend.
When I was seventeen (and before that age), I was watching this. It's weird how Homer's nostalic moment has become a nostalgic moment to me, since I'm 30 now.
Dieter Lavrijsen I'm having a beer right now, and this song came to mind! ;)
Yeah, turn turn turn eh? :)
Wow
When this episode aired in Italy (late 1994) I was just eleven. To me a seventeen years old guy was a "grown up".
Me too :(
That clarinet mixed with the flute sounds so haunting and kinda sorrowful.
It's a Frank Sinatra song
I first heard many Sinatra tunes through The Simpsons
@@astrobullivant5908 Ranch it up mulatto 🎉
A 48 second clip in which there are three clear pop culture references (Clockwork Orange, Queen, Sinatra) and two brilliant gags (Homer just casually stepping over his son having a seizure and a flashback to using an hilarious Fake ID) with a genius reworking of the lyrics of the original song AND it's also bittersweet and genuinely quite sad and touching to see a man who's clearly battling his alcoholism. Again all within 48 seconds. It's good to remind yourself just how breathtakingly amazing the Simpsons once was.
The best ever
Not anymore sadly, I wish they’d go back to that quality…
Battle with alcoholism or the negative Pavlov conditioning he has suffered in this culture.
Alcohol isn't anyone's problem, just some people make it the solution it never was meant to be.
The look on the store clerk's face as he compares the ID to Homer😂
Hahahaha or while he’s walking up to the counter😂
Also that’s how people look at me when I walk to the counter with beer even though I’m 22 lmao.
Must hate his job
@@frankmiranda707 Pretty sure the Superbad Mclovin scene took inspiration from this Lol.
I love the not so subtle Clockwork Orange reference with not being able to touch the cupcakes 🤣
One of the show’s most genuine moments. We were all Brian McGee, once. Propz to Matt Groening for getting it right, and Queen for allowing it.
Queen allowed what?
@@championdesigns That is Queen's Trademarked logo so even if this is a comedy show the surviving band members would have to O.K. the use of it on "The Simpsons".
Groening very likely had little to do with this scene! He's not as involved with the show as we sometimes think. This would have likely been written by either a writer or a showrunner.
The shopkeeper looks like a young superintendent chalmers
Probably is Chalmers
@@dibbo9264 That's what I was thinking
“BRRRIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAANN”
:Gasp: Customers Sales Clerk Chalmers!!??
im not sure it does look like him but they have used a lot of character templates for example they did it for bart and lisa
Did he ever have hair?
How awesome is it that Homer likes Queen.
Copacetic because queen is awesome
Who doesn't tho
Queen is epic and Bohemian Rhapsody is an incredible movie
Queen is fucking amazing
Dibbo 92 no bohemian rhapsody is not
Homer deserves a Grammy for this.
Nobody likes grammy
He has a Grammy
The music is really excellent in this scene. In general the music goes unnoticed in the simpsons but it’s seriously stellar.
Lol! The song was Homers version of Frank Sinatra's song "It was a very good year"
@@s4dreamland671 thanks for this
@@s4dreamland671 to this day whenever that song comes on i sing these lyrics in Frank's style
The look on the clerk's face is hilarious!
I actually had to see A Clockwork Orange to get the reference with the cupcakes, which I didn't see until I was 23...and that was about 17 years later after this episode coincidentally! o.O
Lol, I dont understand the reference
The cupcakes are tits
you rhymed throughout most of your comment, did you see what you did?
@@craigkrane3901 OH!!!! I knew that camera angle was familiar. I knew they were referencing something I couldn't put my finger on it but I knew I had seen it before. Thanks.
Oh wow, I didn't even realize they were referencing Clockwork. But that's awesome.
Based on Brian McGee's age and DOB, we have to assume that Homer purchased his beer sometime between 2nd August 1974 and 2nd August 1975. We might assume from the colour of the Queen poster behind him that he was listening to 'A Night at the Opera', but neither the album nor any single thereupon was released until later in 1975. Therefore we are left to conclude that Homer most likely fell asleep listening to the band's third album, 'Sheer Heart Attack', which peaked at #12 in the US, and had just one charting single, 'Killer Queen', which also reached #12. Either that or he was listening to one of the first two albums, neither of which cracked the US top 40 on initial release. So while Homer wasn't what you'd call a trendsetter in this respect, he definitely came to enjoy the band earlier than most American listeners would, and certainly has excellent taste in music.
Underrated comment right here!!
Was this written by AI?
“When I was seventeen,
I drank some very good beer,
I drank some very good beer
I purchased with a fake ID.
My name was Brian McGee,
I stayed up listenin' to Queen
When I was seventeen.”
In The Simpson's latin version Homer no sing.
-2pac
Homer would be 60 this year in this Simpsons continuity.
What Simpsons continuity?
And he would still be getting proofed.
I think I saw this first when I was like 13. At 41, I still remember it clear as day. The human mind is ridiculous lol. I can't remember a damn thing I learned during my senior year, but this....... Clear as day.
love that queen poster
I remember being a little kid watching this. I'm as old as Brian McGee now
I just learnt this was a parody of Frank Sinatra’s “it was a very good year” homers song is “I had a very good beer”
Judging by the movie and the charts. Lots of folks are staying up listening to Queen in 2018.
I sang this under my breathe at work all morning
I was the same. Couldn't get it out of my head.
While enjoying a beer no doubt.
haha Clockwork Orange
haha Frank Sinatra
haha the myall creek massacre
haha rosie o'donnell
Jason x New York is that way man!
I stayed up listening to queen, when I was seventeen!!!
+MrParkerman6 k
I think Queen was overrated, except for that song that they did with Bowie... Under Pressure. That is the greatest song ever!
@Caitlyn Ratcliffe I do.
I still listen to Queen
Anyone else just randomly have this come into their head with no context?
I'm feeling sad and nostalgic and all of a sudden this popped into my head.
Brian just turned 70.
August 2nd, 1948
Like how the music goes high than low
+Mjflight98 That's life, man
That was a well-known technique of Gordon Jenkins, Sinatra's arranger. Read Mark Steyn's essay on "It Was a Very Good Year," which even mentions Homer's version!
I like how this ID card not only has the DOB, but your current age as well so I guess in Springfield you have to re-new it every year.
I haven't seen this clip in years (though I've always remembered the song Homer sings). But it's only now that I noticed the "Clockwork Orange" refrence.
MY GOSH THIS IS THE SADDEST THING EVER
I love Lisas experiment with Bart so much but it took me until now to notice that Barts seizure is an allusion to "A clockwork orange".
Two references in these scenes:
1. Cupcakes from the movie Orange clockwork by Stanley Kubrick
2. Song “It was a very good year” by Frank Sinatra
I miss the Simpsons having these things that just stuck with you and made you laugh every time you heard something that reminded you of them.
Yeah. Its not what it used to be, right? Its not just me?
C'mon Homer, you could have sold the Beer to Barney!
I miss being an alcoholic
Oh no
I'm still one so don't worry
I will have a drink for you bro
Getting fall over drunk with the guys for no reason besides the fun of getting drunk.
God, those were great times.......
Go ahead, fuck your life up you decadent knobby kneed umbrella toting slob, fuck you and the horse you rode in on. You shouldn’t drink at all.
We can extrapolate that this happened in 1974. If Homer was 17 then, he was born around 1957.
But what kind of “I.D. card” provides a birth date AND an AGE? 😂
What kind of town doesn't age over 30 years and has desert, ocean, canyons, forests and is visited by a guy with a white shirt and green pants despite having no discernable location?
A Night at the Opera came out in 1975. Would be that at the earliest.
Such a strange feeling if you were younger than Bart when the Simpsons started and now will soon be older than Homer. I also drank beer I had acquired and listened to queen when I was seventeen. But it is not fun in the same way anymore.
I’m officially calling this scene canon
Homer must've listened to a night at the Opera
Maybe Bohemian Rhapsody
at 0:03 his face just splits right in half, wtf
Matt Gallagher they do that a lot in the earlier seasons of the show
Burns does the same in the episode when Bart is run over by his car.
Face twists
It's a form of the art technique "smearing". Since motion blur doesn't exist on a 2D animation, sometimes they use a few exaggerated frames to stretch an expression.
It’s Bart’s thing
I just watched this episode on repeat and cannot stop singing this
That goosebumps music in the beginning ☺
Happy 76th birthday to Brian McGee
This is a classic lol.
Thanks for uploading this.
happy birthday Brian McGee
the power of the simpsons is that we are all homer
I just realized Bart was still in the fetal position when Homer sang that song. He heard everything.
The shop clerk's face 🤣
Yeah! *Looks at the fake I.D., suspiciously* "Hmmmm.... okay then...." 😅😅😅😅
Most of us have been on the receiving end of that, where we knew full bloody well that we were underage, and we didn't know if we'd get served or not, I'm sure! 😅😅😅😅
You'll probably laugh, but that's bloody nerve-wracking! My nervous body-language gave me away pretty much every-soddin'-time, when I tried to buy booze as a teen!
“It was a very good beer” should be the title of the song. After “It was a very good year” with the same opening line...most famously done by Frank Sinatra in 1965.
Salute to uncle Brian
LOOOOOL CLASSIC SIMPSONS IS TIMELESS AND WILL NEVER NOT BE FUNNY
Love how he just steps over Bart ignoring his mini seizure or whatever he's having 😂😂
I certainly hope Homer will drink beer again
“I stayed up listening to Queen”….whilst clearly passed out, not up, not listening to anything 🤣
Queen poster!!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BRIAN MCGEE!!!
Happy 72nd Birthday Brian!!!
I grew up thinking these were the real lyrics to this song.
As far as I am concerned, they are.
Am I the only one who really loved that song?
A Clockwork Orange reference AND a Sinatra reference both in a moment? Nice!
Happy Birthday Brian!!!
Now do classical gas!
*Strums it on the old guitar*
When I was 17, I heard this song in mp3 format downloaded from a software like limewire. Now I'm nearly as old as what Homer used to be at the time.
When I was 17, I stayed up listening to Queen too!
I'm 39 years old and just yesterday heard the original Frank Sinatra version for the first time and remembered this. Probably 25 years at least I thought this was the original 🤣
I like how Brian McGees id has his current age on it
This is in one of my top ten sad song in animation.
😢
As a drunk I teared up
Come on, everyone had listened to Queen drunk at night at least once in their lifetime.
Homer was 17 in 1974?
HE WAS BORN IN 1957?! I guess it lines up if hes 38 in 1995.
Shout-out to all those that have been there trying to quit, thinking about quitting or have relapsed from beer
Happy Birthday to Brian Mcgee. May he celebrate by staying up and listening to Queen!!
I fell asleep listening to queen and immediately thought of this so i looked it up
Pure poetry
The only truth about this song with me is that I’m 17 and I stay up listening to queen.
When I was seventeeeeeeen 😭
I never really noticed that Duff beer is an amber bock, but Moe's draft beer at the bar is a light lager or pale ale when we see the fellas there drinking out of glass mugs.
0:16 he starts to sing
I love how pissed off the store clerk is just as homer walks over 😂😂
I only discovered today that this is a parody of Frank Sinatra's "It Was A Very Good Year"
It's my 17th Birthday today. Just saying.
Get yourself some beer and listen to Queen.
My first beer was on my 17th birthday so this hits me in the feels. My dad took me to Mcsorely’s in NY
Was the scene where Bart was reaching up for the cupcakes a reference to a clockwork orange? 😏
This is heartbreaking
I never knew this was sung. In the dubbed LatAm version it isn't.
I love how the clerk is mean mugging Homer, A punk teenager with an obvious fake ID and still sells the six pack.
Genius.
O homer how I would of loved you to sing all that great song all ways makes me laugh
Before the internet I wouldn't even know where to get a fake ID if I had wanted one.
As a 17 year old myself I think i'm living a similar life now as when Homer was 17. I seem to be in a very early stage of an alcoholic and i'm listening to Queen. This is bad :(
EDIT: I'm 21 now, and I seem to be just fine. No worries :)
@Lenin Ruiz This is even worse! You can tell from my profile picture that i have a very long hair D:
That bit where barts eyes go one way and his mouth goes the other
Currently watching The Sopranos for the first time and I didn't realize this song was a parody.
Anyone else listen to Queen while drunk?
MasterVideoStudios yepers and I drank some very good beer too
great Bart reaction a parody to a clockwork orange
Liquor store clerk looks just like superintendent Chalmers
YOU CAN'T DRINK UNDER 21!!!!!!!
Wow you must be young. Drinking age was 18 back in the day
Hence the fake ID.
It simply won't work!
@NERD Incorporated In the US it became 21 to drink in the 80s.
@@NJindypro still 18 in Australia