Nuclear Physicist Reacts to THE SIMPSONS - Homer DESTROYS Springfield

Nuclear Physicist Reacts to THE SIMPSONS - Homer DESTROYS Springfield

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In this video, I react to scenes in the Simpsons nuclear power plant episodes from the perspective of a nuclear physicist. I go through the scenes in the Simpsons episodes and look through what is accurate information about nuclear power plants and radioactivity in the Simpsons nuclear episodes and react to it.

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[YourFriendlyNuclearPhysicist]

As always it is my pleasure to deliver reactions to The Simpsons - nuclear power plant related episodes! Always learning something new! Today it’s nucular, tomorrow who knows? The education source is limitless!😅👩🏽‍🔬☢️

[jimsvideos]

Context for the episodes:

1. This is from one of the Halloween episodes, where the writers get to play with ideas they'd never use the rest of the year. Flanders is the long-suffering deeply religious straight man to Homer's antics.

2. Canary M. Burns _owns_ the plant with C. Montgomery Burns (the old guy) being next in line but not ultimately legally responsible.

[ghost]

Mr. Burns wanted a way to avoid paying income taxes, so he transferred ownership of the nuclear plant to the bird so that he wouldn't have anything to pay tax on.

[Rekowcski]

Ive been DYING for a nuclear physicist to discuss the Simpsons take on the NPP, it's like you made these videos just for me 😂

[michaelmccarthy]

For context Flanders had a head injury that gave him those powers, it's a Halloween special those episodes aren't considered canon.

[squareeyes]

As some others have already mentioned, the first video is a Halloween special. You can tell the Halloween episode in this case from the green font on the credits and the nicknames used. These episodes were standalone and did not follow the main story at all, and any events from these episodes did not affect the regular series.
You are correct in saying it reminds you of a movie, almost all of these Halloween specials were parodies of movies, books or to a lesser extent, television, and in (I think) one case, poetry.

[bbqchezit]

6:00 "Patsy" is the term. Basically Mr. Burns wants someone to run the plant on paper, so that if something goes wrong he can blame Homer

[dmorley]

We need to get the Simpsons writers to write more Homer nuclear power episodes so Elina has more Simpsons material to react to.

[theexiled]

The owner of the plant was technically a bird for legal reasons incase they ever run into legal problems the bird will take the fall for his crimes

[kaitlyn__L]

I love how this time you said “what isn’t the self-destruct button just a red button?“ Before realising what you’ve just said and having to amend it to “in fact, why have it in the first place?“

[benjamintan]

For the first clip, Ned Flanders was Homer's neighbour and he is generally a saint and follow Bible almost word for word. He has 2 kids but unfortunate for him, his wife pass away which made him a single father. In that episode, Ned saw a vision that Homer is going to 'accidentally' destroy Springfield. If you listen carefully, the speaker in that pink control dome is not working correctly, so Homer thought Ned is telling him to press that button.

[robvas]

Haha. I love your reactions with little to no context from the show. It adds to the greatness. 😄🤣

[JW]

Ned Flanders is a VERY religious character who always says "didily" in a sentence or "Okily Dokily" and in the early seasons Homer always saw him as a rival because he had the perfect life unlike Homer. But their dynamic changed when Ned's wife Maude died. He also has two sons, Rod and Todd, who are so religiously raised that they're very emotionally fragiled (but in a fun way).

I think there actually where a religious cult in real life based on Ned Flanders, they all had the same green sweater as the character! XD

This is from a Treehouse of Horror episode, which is a Halloween special that's not canon to the actual show. It mostly parodies horror movies and TV-shows, this for example when Ned can see in the future by touching someone is a parody of the movie Dead Zone, which is based on a Stephen King book.

[PaulN]

I believe them having their own labeled poles is a reference to the 1960s Batman TV show (with Adam West). Whenever Batman and Robin needed to go to the Batcave they'd slide down the Bat-Poles, which were hidden behind a bookcase and each was labeled with one of their names.

[sststr]

"Alienist" - there's a word I only learned by reading literature from a hundred years ago. That's an obsolete word for psychiatrist. Which goes to show how old Mr. Burns is...

[harrycoffie]

At 11:28 of this video, you talked about a round door, but I don't think that you realize that it is a spoof on an old sitcom ( situation comedy ) show called " Get Smart ". The introduction to that show is the main character, Maxwell Smart, going through a series of security features to get into his top secret department. Even the theme music playing in the background is very similar to the theme song for " Get Smart ". Just a little tidbit of information for you, Elina, to thank you for all the work you put into your videos. You are truly amazing!!!!

[DanielJohnson-psxv]

You are definitely my favorite friendly nuclear physicist. No idea how I got your channel in my feed but I’ve learned a lot from your videos. Ok not so much from the Simpson reviews but I love the Simpson s. Win win.

[michaelmills]

Ned Flanders is the Simpson's next door neighbour and he always tries to do the right thing, while Homer relentless abuses and takes advantage of him. That episode was part of a Halloween segment, so that's why Flanders had the power to see the future, even though he normally does not.

Mr. Burns is massively negligent and will always sacrifice safety in order to make more money. In other episodes he is shown to employ criminal behaviours such as bribery as well. In order to prevent himself from being held responsible for his crimes, he made someone else the legal owner of the plant.

Burns and Smithers are not a couple. Smithers is just madly in love with Burns, to an extremely unhealthy degree and Burns is either unaware or abuses that to make Smithers a servant. When Smithers attempts to confess his feelings to Burns, Burns usually shows some sign of homophobic or being complete unaware. The Burns joke sways between him being an selfish asshole and being a living fossil with values and references to things from the early 1900s.

[BrianHartman]

Ned Flanders, as others have said, is hyper-religious, and is frequently the object of Homer's abuse (sometimes good-natured, and sometimes not).

In that Halloween episode, Mr. Burns transfers ownership of the plant to the bird so that he isn't responsible for the nuclear power plant's problems. As others have said, Smithers has unrequited love for Burns. A running gag in the show is that Mr. Burns is clueless as to Smithers' feelings and doesn't even realize Smithers is gay.

[tarSailor]

Gotta love getting off of work and seeing Elina uploaded