Homer Simpson is a Millennial (Now)

This video is a sequel to my Simpsons Past and Present Timeline videos. Except with more existential dread. 😉 I had always wanted to do a follow-up and figured 2023 was a good time to do it, since it lines up weirdly now with Lisa's First Word. There is something deep inside me that cringes a little when Homer and Marge are doing contemporary stuff like having YouTube channels and stuff like that. Where I kinda miss them just being out-of-touch boomers. So I figured this topic would be a good way to explore how weird things have become after 30+ years of a floating timeline.

In a few years Homer is going to be younger than The Simpsons.

The fact that Bart was originally born in the 70s but the show is old enough that now he was born after Gangnam Style is existential crisis inducing

Homer can't be a Millennial, he has a job and owns a house.

As a member of Gen Z I can’t wait to see Homer flashback episodes where he plays Club Penguin as a child

It’s so bizarre that at one point Bart was characterized as a rebel by listening to music that Homer now gets nostalgic for

Homer Simpson is married, has three kids, owns a two story house with like five bedrooms, owns two cars, has no student debt, and can pay for all of this with a job that requires no qualifications... How can he be a millenial?

Becoming Homer is a self-fulfilling prophecy, you'll only become him if you think you'll become him.

The problem is the show still isn't built like a modern millennial life. He's still got the trappings of a boomer, meaning the 4 bedroom two-story house and a wife and kids in a nice suburb on a single income without a college degree. He works at a nuclear plant and spends his evenings in a bar. All the rhythms of the story remain locked in the late 1980s but they keep trying to staple the modern era on top of it, and it ends up just being REALLY incongruous. You can't take a guy like Homer and just say he listened to Smashing Pumpkins in high school and likes video games and boom he's a millennial. This is why the show feels so unnatural. It has the entire structure of its origins as a sendup of old-fashioned sitcoms but they keep trying to awkwardly force modernity into it. Ugh and ugh again.

the idea of Homer someday being a Zoomer is the scariest thing in the world to me.

Homer can't be a millenial, he has a two story house, two cars, a wife, 3 kids and a stable job that can actually pay the bills on a single income. I have yet to meet anyone my age living that dream.

Mr Burns is the only character you can keep in a floating timeline as he being born in the 19th century was already pretty far fetched for someone alive in 1989. It's supposed to be silly.

The Simpsons should do an episode where the original characters had aged realistically through the years. An elderly Homer and Marge with their middle-aged kids. Kind of like a peek into an alternate timeline where, in addition to being revolutionary in its own right, the show had also pioneered this Bojack-esque continuity for the characters. No whacky future jokes, no scfi nonsense, just what it would look like if these characters were allowed to grow up and grow old.

If he aged continuously since the Tracey Ullman shorts, Homer would now be 75.

When the Simpsons launched I was younger than Bart I am now older than Homer Dear god

I remember thinking it was cool when I reached Bart's age as a kid. I had a very different reaction to reaching Homer's.

When the "Homer Creates Grunge" episode came out I joked about how a future episode will re-reboot the timeline so Homer starts My Chemical Romance, look at where we are now

As a later millennial, I've got less than a decade until Homer catches up to me. Can't wait for an episode about a young Homer going to see The Phantom Menace in theatres with Abe.

Homer Simpson being a millennial like me but also the show not existing when I was born is all stages of grief at once.

With how long Simpsons will clearly be dragged on for, Homer becoming a Zoomer is inevitable. At least seeing him playing Minecraft will be pretty funny