The Simpsons: Frank Grimes [Clip]

A clip from the episode: Homers enemy

[WheresWalko]

Not only did Frank’s parents abandon him and videotape it, they happily provided the tape when Brockman’s show asked for it

[tableturtle]

His parents recorded a tape abandoning their child and waved at him as if they are proud xD jesus that's dark.

[anglobostonian]

The fact that Mr Burns #1. brought him in to be his executive VP and then #2. the next day dropped him for the position for a dog should have right of the bat been a warning sign to Grimes that Homer wasn't the only crazy person working there.

[peronkop]

Wait... Lenny and Carl has a masters in nuclear physics?!

[Prodrentjet]

"I'm Lenny.... and this is Carl and Lenny"

[ColdFuse]

I like how it's implied that he lost his ability to feel pain and then optionally got it back 😂😂😂

[alexkokkola]

I just realized that Frank Grimes claims to live above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley, yet he collected his diploma in front of a house.

[johnnycornflakes]

I love how his parents recorded abandoning their son

[annafowdy]

Grimey arranging everything tiny detail on his desk, he might've suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder

[franciscondon]

Frank Grimes is modeled after Michael Douglas's character in Falling Down.

[basedbattledroid]

"I'm Lenny. This is Karl and Homer. I'm Lenny."

[GRasputin]

If Frank wasn't so wrapped up in his cult of work and demands for fairness, he might have learned how envious Homer was of Ned Flanders, how he had been fired from the plant more than once, how he had wanted to work at a bowling alley, how he had been nearly destroyed over innocently removing a candy from a woman's behind, and on and on. Envy destroys and causes the loss of rational thought, that is one of the lessons of this episode

[needles]

If Frank was 35, then he became a dad at around 15.

[jongon]

Something i never realized, Grimes has the complete opposite backstory as Mr Burns. Instead of abandoning his parents to live with a wealthy billionaire, his birth parents simply abandoned him without hesitation. If only Burns's parents knew Grimes...oh well at least they still have his little brother George.

[DropkickNation]

Frank Grimes is the most tragic person in the Simpsons universe.
A real life person trapped in the Simpsons universe.

[jonnocotton]

Yeah Frank's back story was dark but for him to accomplish what he did was commendable. But for him to make an enemy out of Homer was his mistake

[xWolf]

Everything about the news piece is so darkly excessive and hilarious. The parents waving goodbye, Frank shlepping all the way across a field only for the silo to explode the second gets into it.

[robertespinoza]

This episode is really a masterpiece because they created a character who had a beginning, middle, and end for a single episode. Who wasn't voice by another actor.

[princessmarlena]

Homer did a bunch of stuff to irritate Frank, but it wasn’t on purpose (I love that comedic trope), but Frank’s general bitterness and anger was highly misdirected.

[IDBTitanosaurus]

Grimes’s first mistake was reaching for a handshake without a signaling that the higher rank wanted to shake his hand.