He’s portrayed as a loser due to being self-unaware and generally clueless.
There are jobs that provide that kind of compensation (granted, a very small % of total jobs are like that), and it's actually very realistic for an absolute moron to have one of them.
Have you never spoken to someone who makes much more money than you and thought, "wow, what an idiot" in your life?
I had many colleagues like that in my previous job that only required a highschool diploma 🤷
Homer Simpson is why unions are important
Nuclear plant salaries can be huge. Operators make $200k+ per year in the US.
He’s no Al Bundy.
I am so smart
I am so smart
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I mean S-M-A-R-T
Because in the 90s that was like 30th percentile status, not 95th percentile status.
The show was also conceived with Bart as the main character, with the world being from Bart's perspective. As a kid Bart's age of course your dad is dumb. Homer is the irl name of Matt Groenig's dad.
As the show progressed the writers ended up latching onto Homer more and he gradually became the core of the show. Also the characters "Flanderized" (literally!) more and more as time went on and he became more ridiculous. The Frank Grimes episode is pretty genius for capturing all this in a funny way.
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