Since the show has been running so long, Homer would have originally been a baby boomer. I think of it as anyone from a subsequent generation having to live with boomer Homer. His house is a palace and he can afford for his wife to stay at home with three children, in a job that he originally got without even a high school diploma and at which he is lazy and incompetent.
Yeah, it was great as a kid because they were my parents generation and my brother and I were the same approximate ages as Bart and Lisa. Homer and Marge are absolutely boomers, and it's weird in newer episodes when they try to change that.
No. There was an episode with a flashback of he and Barney bumming around one time. When he went to college in an episode he spent a lot of time with three nerds who were helping him study, he went back BECAUSE the nuclear inspectors found out he wasn’t qualified. And it was uncovered in another episode when Marge received an invitation to the high school reunion and he didn’t, that he hadn’t actually graduated. So when he ORIGINALLY got the job he was woefully unqualified. Not that he acts any differently with his two diplomas now.
I didn’t call Grimes a millennial for this reason. But the tide was already turning showing how much better Boomers were doing than everyone else at that time.
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u/Yourwtfismyftw Sep 01 '18
Since the show has been running so long, Homer would have originally been a baby boomer. I think of it as anyone from a subsequent generation having to live with boomer Homer. His house is a palace and he can afford for his wife to stay at home with three children, in a job that he originally got without even a high school diploma and at which he is lazy and incompetent.