Blog:Grust's Top 10 Jerkass Homer Moments

Jerkass Homer is a term used to describe the mh:loathsomecharacters:Flanderization of Homer Simpson from the animated series, The Simpsons. While he always had some jerkass tendencies in the older episodes, it was around season 9 when Jerkass Homer showed up when Mike Scully became the showrunner. While in the older episodes some of Homer's jerkass tendencies would either bite him in the ass like being forced to wear a dress or he would feel empathy and try to undo his actions like with "When "Flanders Failed," Jerkass Homer rarely receives any comeuppance for his idiocy or jerk behavior so I'm going to take a look at my top 10 Jerkass Homer moments. For this list I'm only looking at moments from Season 9 and beyond as stated before Season 9 was when Jerkass Homer was born.  To be fair I like some of the episodes so I'll let you know if I do or don't.

10. Framing his Wife From Co-Dependents Day: While Marge is one of my 2 most hated cartoon characters of all time, even she didn't deserve this. Becoming Homer's drinking buddy, she tries to quit but after a festival, both a drunk Homer and Marge try to get home, only for Homer to crash the car. Not wanting to lose his license, Homer places Marge in the driver's seat and she's arrested. Homer does confess but Marge forgives him way too easily. Seriously, Marge? I hated this episode because of how easy she took him back.

9. Trying to Sabotage Apu's Romance with Manjula From I'm With Cupid: After Apu disappoints his wife, he vows to shower her with romantic gestures everyday leading up to Valentine's Day. While Manjula is happy, the wives of Springfield's men are jealous and consider their husbands cheapskates. Rather than fix this image, the husbands, led by Homer seek to sabotage his plans for Manjula just so their wives won't expect much. It culminates in Homer fighting an elderly sky writer for doing his job. While it does end with Homer getting injured by roses, Marge sees it as Homer surprising her with flowers and to be fair, Apu gets Elton John to sing for Manjula. This was a hit or miss episode for me because I did get a laugh out of it.

8. Taking Advantage of his Narcolepsy From Every Man's Dream: This is the episode that made me quit watching The Simpsons because of the confusing ending. Anyway, after Homer is diagnosed with Narcolepsy, he is given a note about his condition which he exploits to be an even lazier bum than ever. Marge separates from Homer and they find other people, but then, it was all a dream within a dream within a dream and nothing was resolved and Marge and Homer were still together.

7. Spending Bart's Money on Incriminating Photos From Barting Over:  Although advertised as the 300th episode this was actually the 302nd, but that's not what the blog is for. In this episode, Bart learned he was used as a star for embarrassing commercials but Homer squandered his money to buy back some photos of him endangering Bart's life. Homer shows no remorse over this and admits he'd work Bart like a dog when he's 17. This got so heated that Bart was actually able to get Judge Harm to get Bart emancipated from his family. In order to get Bart back though, Homer stars in a impotence drug commercial which repays Bart who forgives him, despite the abuse. Didn't really care for this episode.

6. Abandoning Bart for 50$ From The Parent Rap: While Judge Harm is the bigger jerkass this episode, she was right in calling Homer a bad father in this episode. While Homer was was driving Bart and Milhouse to school, he heard of a contest to win $50 and soon abandons the two when the opportunity showed up. Bart and Milhouse then crash Wiggum's car. While Homer did get a punishment of being tethered to Bart, what really should have happened was Bart and Lisa and Maggie being taken from the home and put in Foster care. Also Homer and Marge should have been put in prison after sinking Harm's boathouse... and her grandmother's quilt. I dislike this episode because Homer and Marge never receive punishment for sinking her home.

5. Marrying Another Woman From Viva Ned Flanders: After Ned realizes he never lived a day in his life (he's 60), he asks Homer to help him have fun for once. Homer takes Ned to Las Vegas. While Ned's extreme Christian beliefs make him want to leave, Homer makes him gamble and drink. The next morning, they find they have accidentally married two waitresses, Amber and Ginger. While Ned is terrified and Homer only loves Marge and they only married while heavily drunk, the jerkass in this stems temporarily from Homer having bigamy fantasies (though it's about Amber and Marge chopping wood) and Ned had to slam him back to reality. After being kicked out of Vegas, homer promises to change for her despite trying to run. I like this episode and find it funny.

4. Neglecting his Kids While Running A Daycare Center From Children of a Lesser Clod: In this episode, Homer runs a daycare center after injuring his knee. While popular with the kids, he neglects his own biological children, even stepping on Bart's arm and throwing out a picture of him with his kids to place a child care certificate in its place. To get back at Homer, they ruin an award show that Homer was about to win by putting home movies showing him at his worst, being a drunken slob at Christmas, gambling Maggie away, and chasing Bart with a flail. Homer gets angry and strangles Bart on stage. When the parents got offended, he kidnaps the children but is arrested soon after. He gets off scott-free due to three mistrials in a row. I like this episode because of how Bart and Lisa get their revenge.

3. Killing Maude From Alone Again, Natura-Diddily: The infamous episode involving the death of Maude Flanders. While it was accidental, it was still Homer's fault completely as he allowed the T-shirts to come at him and of course what made him bend down was of all things, a bobby pin. What did he think he was Jill Valentine the Master of Unlocking or something? This caused a barrage of t-shirts to hit Maude Flanders, knocking her off the stadium and to her death. While I like this episode, I acknowledge why it's hated. Personally, it's only a guilty pleasure for me, I personally don't know why I like it.

2. Leaving His Father to Die From Homer Simpson in Kidney Trouble: A notorious episode, the episode starts with Homer refusing to let his father use the bathroom after Abe drank several bottles of sarsparilla during a trip at a ghost town. During the long drive home, Abe's kidney soon explode because of Homer's neglect. Did I mention all this happened on Abe's BIRTHDAY!!!? While he felt guilty and offered one of his kidneys, Homer chickens out and heads out to sea to escape his shame and runs across the Ship of Lost Souls, full of people that want to forget the crimes they committed. When Homer tells them his story, they are appalled and throw him off. Homer tries to make amends and give a kidney but he chickens out again and is crushed by a car. Surviving, Homer is patched up and Hibbert finally takes a kidney, saving Abe. Homer demands it back but Abe leaves. As he embraces his family, he hints he'll selfishly demand a kidney from Bart one day. While notorious, I find the episode a guilty pleasure.

1. Trash of the Titans, as in the whole episode:' I've researched a bit on Jerkass Homer and many believe this episode was the birth of it. Having watched it quite a bit, I have to agree. Homer acts like a jerkass from Love Day to the end. It starts with him tossing out the trash, including the gifts into the garbage and stomping it to not have to take it out. Then when he knocks down the trash and can't get to the sidewalk in time, he insults the garbagemen who cut off his service in return. Acting holier than thou and believing he's fighting a cause, trash piles up in the front yard and Bart even develops the Plague.

When he sees the garbage gone one day, he brags about beating city hall which gets so insufferable Marge admits to signing an apology to the sanitation commissioner with Homer's name. Homer gets it back but treats Ray like a villain despite never wronging Homer in the first place and was being polite. Homer then attacks Ray's parrot for no reason and then signs up for sanitation commissioner out of spite. While he fails in the first half (threatening to beat Bart, insulting his fellow workers, interrupting a concert even injuring a woman in the back), he and Moe make a new slogan, Can't someone else do it? Homer then makes Ray look bad, even cutting the man's brakes to make him late (despite the fact it could have killed him) and telling people he lured kids into a gingerbread house. When Homer wins because Springfield is full of lazy bums who didn't realize what they were doing, Homer act like he and Ray are buddies. When Homer's promises cost him a year's budget in a month, he allows others cities to put their garbage in an abandoned mine for cash. This causes the city to get so polluted they have to move 5 miles down the road. The only punishment Homer receives is a horse whipping and then everyone seems to let it go.

This may not be as bad as leaving his father to die, but he created an ecological mess just to spite one man who never wronged him and screwed over everybody. I agree with the people that say that this is the episode where Jerkass Homer was born and it makes it my pick for for the biggest Jerkass Homer moment. As for how I feel about this episode. I like it I find it funny.

So do you have a personal Jerkass Homer moment? Let me know in the comments.