That makes no sense. Once any hour has been, all further hours must be After Hours. Therefore, After Hours is always right now.

@@YourXavierproably talking about the show and the running. But okay

R.I.P.

R.I.P. indeed

Glad I'm not the only one revisiting this, happy 2024?

Wait a second, in that episode they remove the crayon and Homer accidentally proves there is no god. So how can Homer be god when he proves it impossible? And how can he go on to meet god several times after mathematically disproving it? If anything The Simpsons is a universe that takes place inside Homers daydream, that way he can be mortal and fallible but still prove all the points in this video.

Dudley Bone So the Simpsons is just the end of St. Elmo's Fire stretched out over several decades?

Eltonic I am God therefore I am God

James Daniels Oh fuck I'm God

Thou Art God

Halloween horrors aren't cannon.

Cannon... BOOM

Homer has been depicted as God at least once.

+Garrett Moffitt nah flanders is the devil cause christianity is

bryanna cassidy + Lol that's actually such a good point; Flanders is literally the devil in an episode ..... daaaaaamn lol

The Simpsons or After Hours, because I agree for both.

Jackson DeStefano both and yes homer is god...of donuts.

yeah, but it's a quantity vs quality sort of thing

Bdeamo N That's true, but saying that most high quality tv series only run for about 10 episodes with descending quality, so even that system isn't working that well anymore!

annnd it's gone.

Sahantara yep

Sahantara And their both equally annoying.

Sahantara I disliked that show. but yeah Homer def would be a good comparison

Damit Sahantara, that was exactly what came to mind for me xD

(gasp!) They're the same person!

*MeowMeowMeowMeow* *MeowMeowMeowMeow* *MeowMeowMeowMeow* *MeowMeowMeowMeow*

Or. He's truly God's servant

@@kristophergray9826 I do like the idea of Flander's being Homer's right hand man or something and he's watching over him while he's ignorant to his true power.

Flanders the devil. Remember when he was running hell?

Are Halloween episodes worth counting?

@@FeinryelRavenclaw Nope.

Christian Rodriguez thank you, no truer words have been spoken...all hail the Church of After Hours!!!

Christian Rodriguez Except for Obsessive Pop Culture Disorder and bringing back Does not Compute. RIP Clippy. :,(

Jesse Rothhammer So basically they should just green-light everything these 4 are involved in, and lose everything else?😀

James Daniels they can keep Roger

Sardonicus I would watch the hell out of a Katie-hosted show😁

SMRT

Mads +

@@Saucesovs I see what you did there.

gulliver Nice hippotities

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Soren isn't God. God wishes he was Soren though

Soren is the new Chuck Norris of memes.

He does that all the time, that or he just flat out says he's a god. For example, In the one episode when they are discussing what everyone is doing over their break and they make a comment about his rock climbing he goes on about how what he's going to be doing is like "High fiveing God, well a fellow god"

+LorieLynn We need more theories on this

Theory: Soren is God's testicle. Figure it out.

Pretty much, yeah. He says as much in this one.

No, I'm pretty sure he is a god.

Connor Tyler He's got like this sort of benign narcissism/superiority complex... But he's charming enough to get away with it--not to mention genuinely nice.

Fuck Soren and fuck his kids too.

SOREN has the saved by the Bell power to stop a manipulate time but...I think cracked forgot that continuity error

Craig Bennett II interesting theory.. but could this be said for any cartoon character? Or maybe any character in regards to there being no actual timeline in the series

Kinda. It could even be said about your life (you don't know if you can die without dying, and you have no idea if the world just appears like it doesn't live around you but it actually does). BTW, obviously I don't believe this, I was just making a point. But I think it would fit a bit more with the Simpsons over many others. But note similar arguments could be made for shows like Family Guy, American Dad, King of the Hill, and so on. It could even be made for some shows on outside of animation like The King of Queens. But I think the Simpsons and American dad would be the best for this theory. Both does end up meeting their gods. Both massively screwed up their timeline a few times. Both have a center person around the show. Even American Dad went as far as showing this theory might actually be true with a Christmas special a few years back.

There is also the possibility that Homer is quantumly unstable, and constantly slips from one reality to a parralel one, so that he lives in various times, has constant adventures without staying injured or dying, and he seems to have wayyyy more actions that could fit in his familys lifespan. He is like sliders without the remote.

Jonathan Brooks The problem with that theory is the universe seems to be forcing homer to go on these adventures. It doesn't seem homer actually seeks out these adventures. The only way that theory could work is if someone like the baby is really in control.

Craig Bennett II Good point.

Totally missing this joke tbh

I was gonna type that at 9:30, glad I searched the comments.

Elliot Burns a character from an anime called The melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Worth a watch.

She was smoten.

Or Bleeding Gums Murphy

Joy Doe Frank Grimes

Or Edna

snowball one

A. Mikey B. Shame.Shame.Shame.

You had me right up until you apologized.

It would feel cheap, except I totally read it in Candice's voice, so good on you.

MsCunningLinguistic ...that was the point :) and i see what you did there

*bangs fist on table* NOBODY KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING!

Wertsir And who could possibly be intelligent enough to disprove the existence of God EXCEPT God? You have to accept the existence of a Godlike intelligence if you accept that someone mathematically disproved God... And the paradox this creates further lends credence to the idea that Homer is God: Paradoxes are only a problem for limited human intelligences. God not only CAN reconcile paradoxes, it is an essential aspect of Godhood in the absolute, monotheistic sense.

Of Flanders God.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Wertsir, "the Crayon episode of the Simpsons is a dead giveaway isn't it? It proves that you exist, and so therefore you don't. QED." ""Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that", and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Oh, that was easy," says Wertsir, and for an encore he goes on to prove that black is white, and gets killed on the next zebra crossing.

I am willing to entertain the notion that Homer Simpson _may have been_ god, but after he denied his own existence mathematically in a way he finds satisfying in the Crayon episode he is for sure not a god anymore. Think of it this way: in the Crayon episode Homer Simpson uses his godlike powers to increase his own intelligence for the first time in a long time, having done so he decides to tackle the great problems of life, like 'why do we exist' 'what is the meaning of life' and most importantly 'does god exist'. Using his enhanced intelligence/omniscience homer realizes his godlike abilities, he knows that he is the smartest and most powerful being in the universe, but he also realizes that despite his great intelligence and power, he is not _happy_, that all he really wanted was to live as a dumb, mortal man with marge. The episode is all about knowledge/power, and how greater abilities do not translate into greater happiness. in the end home decides to put the crayon in his brain again, this symbolizes the denial of his godlike powers and his _choice_ to live as a powerless mortal man (plus or minus a few things to make his life easier). The proof he gave Flanders did not disprove gods existence, it proved that god did exist, and that the logical thing to do when given omnipotence is to destroy it, thus if god did exist then he would be dead. homer then acted on that chain of logic, bringing us to the end of the episode. He showed it to Flanders for two reasons: 1) because he did not want to be alone. that episode was about how superiority creates isolation, and how knowing things others don't only drives a divide between you and those you love. Homer did not want his family to carry the burden of knowledge, but he needed someone to do so in case his powers re-manifested themselves and he decided not to increase his intelligence again (this way Ned could demonstrate the logic needed for homer to make the right choice). why Ned? well that brings us to 2) SCREW YOU FLANDERS!

Douglas Adams lives 😉

dangercats77 Thor is an extradimensional alien who was considered a god by ancient Scandinavians, not a god in the literal sense.

Thor is not dead.

Indeed, the magical comic book thor was also unkillable to the perfectly fine point. Sure he dies, but he comes back so it's cool.

Garrett Moffitt

Or every other Norse god and goddess for that matter

Valter Östberg gross

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she can handle my snake whenever she wants to

not to mention she just gets hotter and hotter every single episode. hell remember back in the first few episodes, she had that frumpy look? Last few seasons, she's just beautiful. Wait, was Candice the original and was replaced by Katie and this episode they accidentally let it slip?

What am I missing here? Who is Candice?

Danjanon pay attention dude

I thought I was

Danjanon the dude is just kidding

Who is the moon of god?

Milhouse

Random League of Legends (Thresh) games Oooh, makes sense.

existenceisrelative ;)

DJ Kinney Get a life, don't get ur knickers in twist just cus of a misspell.

Dear Lord, Keep Women and EA out of our things. Amen.

So the four fingers could be the constant reminder that you are in "the matrix" and not the real world; always present but not really affecting too much. Like in lucid dreaming how you check your wristwatch at regular intervals when you're awake to train the ability to tell when you are dreaming. If that makes any sense to anyone else lol

MikkiJoeRingtail It is an alternate universe where the laziest human transcended into godliness through his sheer laziness. His name is Homer.

God created man in his image

Jason Goatcher neon genesis Simpsons

@@julianbeldham8684 Does that make homer the god of the people in the simpsons?

Rahsaan Footman, since when does a god have to be any of those? Polytheistic deities are none of those.

Rahsaan Footman why does he have to be good and knowing, for example the Christian God is all good or all knowing

"Isn't" goddamn spellcheck

andersoncherub True, but a Christian monothestic god is and Homer lives in that religion and culture. If you are willing to say the Christian god is fallible, belligerant and/or impotent then you charge has weight. But in the Simpson, God is a five fingered, face never revealed entity who often does act in the world. I call him a demigod because like Hercules or Theusus, he has power but very liyttle brains on how to use it.

The "all powerful, all benevolent, all-knowing" god condition has been disproved over and over again. "Why is there suffering in the world?", and all that. In a polytheistic way he might well be a god in the Dionysos kinda way. He is hedonistically all powerful, immortal, and sufficiently all-knowing to support his own hedonism. Actually not knowing 'everything' works in favour of his own hedonism. He doesn't actively know about what would make him upset but always learns it throughout an episode and resolves it by the end.

Thank you for that interesting fact, I love Japanese history and culture like this, so it's great when there are others to talk about it with!

I don't understand your use of the word "confession" here... Do you mean 'an organized religion?'

zerosysko Not exactly, I mean 'confession' in the sense that it is something you are actively a member of or not. That hasn't necessarily got anything to do with organization, Wicca is a confession but not an organized religion for example ( as far as I know at least). Shinto, on the other hand, you just practice as traditions and folklore. There's no actual 'awareness' of actually practicing a specific 'religion' involved there.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

I think confessional faith refers to a commitment to formal doctrinal statements, and acceptance of a whole theological teaching.

Maybe that guy is the devil and doesn't know it.

TheFireflyGrave But as we discovered Flanders is the Devil. If homer was an omnipotent being would certainly explain why it's worth Flanders taking so much crap to keep an eye on him.

Luke Watson His name was Jacques. Glad someone else noticed too lol

Yeah, but he had a beard AND a different voice. In Simpsons world that's enough for it to be a completely different person :D

Danjanon Not by After Hours rules though. Or... Actually even by Simpsons ones. In a different Simpsons episode of After Hours they reference 'the guy with the Brooklyn accent who does all the different jobs' - Known as Raphael in all his iterations. He's a recurring bitpart character that usually always looks slightly different and is still always meant to be the same guy. He's always Raphael even if his hair, face, skin, clothing, or whatever else change. By that logic the dude at Mt Sinai was still Jacques... Wait... Did the Jacques character at Mt Sinai have Raphael's voice..? I... I think he did, but without the accent! Is Jacques actually Raphael?? Is Raphael also a god? 😮

he died 39.5 years before that shot.

Ash Waghorn the usage of that clip was to show that despite being told be God that he would be dead in six months, he was still alive 40 years later. The aging factor was merely an artistic decision to prove that an extended period of time had elapsed.

He also actually talks to God. It's interesting that that isn't even brought up.

viljamtheninja I think it's more implied that as Homer does believe in God, and does not believe HIMSELF to be God, that he manifested an image of what God should look like. There was also that time that, during the Apocalypse, Lisa was about to be saved and was rising to Heaven, and Homer flat out pulled her back to Earth.

viljamtheninja It doesn't disprove the theory. If there is a God, he/she/it is not limited by Aristotelian laws... the law of identity, I mean: "A is A". The law that says you can't be more than one thing at the same time in the same way. This is how the Christian concept of God, the Trinity, works. God is one and three simultaneously. Three entities, one God. It is a logical impossibility, but that's only a problem for OUR reality. God could be 3 in 1 or 3000 in 1 (which is kinda what the Hindus have going).

TheOtakuX Jacques isnt referred to by name, so it may be an ancestor. Homer is referred to as "Homer", and considering Homer is a name of greek origin - not hebrew, so it must be the same Homer; not an ancestor of Homer.

That guy looked like Jacques but he had a different name and voice

I for one am pissed and offended. You're welcome!

Ender Wiggins I was being entirely facetious. I really enjoyed this episode.

***** Yeah I was *entirely* disappointed.

"paying to hate john waters" sounds like a real movie John waters would of made

@@twigwigsoso that’s why he’s a legend

Yeah that's some poor biblical scholarship right there.

So you're saying that in 2000 years, literally nothing changed.

No, I'm saying that saying the events of the book of Exodus happened 2000 years ago is literally crappy biblical scholarship, it was probably written during the Babylonian exile and is about events taking place in the 6th century BC...

Jesus and the New Testament are 2000 years old. The Old Testament goes back thousands and thousands of years, to the dawn of monotheistic religions, i.e. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The Old Testament is where the stories of Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses, Noah, Kind David, etc etc etc are. The New Testament is Jesus and the Apostles. That's what the BC and AD is all about when discussing Western history: BC is before the New Testament, and AD is after Jesus died and Christianity was adopted by Rome (and then forced onto the rest of the world).

In the clip, it showed the scene happening in 1220 BC, not 2000 years ago.

GermsFromUranus hans has died hundreds of times and seems to remember each time, yet he comes back just as he was, perpetually on the verge of death... kinda like a potato. cut it in half, bury it, and it's still a potato. I should have known. the answer is always potato.

Who do you think Pythagoras was? Are you thinking of Methuselah?

Amanda Marinovich no, I was thinking Prometheus. doh!

potato all the things

David Nassau Half the show is non canon. Where he meets God and has a childhood is not canon. (Post-Conan)

If you modify the letters, Conan can spell Canon so therefore... everything Conan IS canon.

Homer could be an Avatar (Hinduism not James Cameron), he comes down to earth every now and again, born in a human, carries the same name and appearance, and then returns to Paradise after a certain amount of time has passed.

So did Haruhi Suzumiya.

It’s possible that he can actually be reincarnating but the crayon made him forget perhaps

Who?

Alexander Demkin Google is your friend. Though, in short: God except she doesn't realize it.

Simpsons did it.

Hail haruhi

This! Is there seriously not a single anime fan on the Cracked staff that could have low-balled this one into the writer's room?

-113;($

Jordan Horne Amen to that this is by far their best video series. like a perfect day in my world is when there's an after-hours video and a buckholtz article

Ben Buckley Productions thank you. I was going to say this too.

Think about this, if he was a god and taking on generation after generation of families, wouldn't it be out of the ordinary to look the same as you did and your mate looking extremely older during 40 years? I'd say his healing factor doesn't kick in until he thinks he's gonna die, then reverses his aging process for the next wife.

Evil King I see... I think you've converted me!

May your donuts be glazed in his glory.

Evil King but he isn't self aware enough to do that

Joseph Harding that's what we think... (conspiracy theory)

It is back! Follow the channel small beans. The new show is called off hours.

What's, like, a respectable, scholarly way Of saying Katy is absolutely hawt? Maybe I should send her a Christmas card. Or should I wait till Valentine's Day? I read this in an English accent and the poetry seriously moved me. Perfect! The slant rhyme, context, substance, and timeliness! Or have I had too much to drink? Oh well, it was a great poem!

Dear Katy, The exact arrangement of tendons, muscles, bones and skin that make up your exterior is appealing to my eye. Sincerely, Carl

Chris Varghese Exacty what I was looking for lol. Exceeds expectations even! Well done.

The Simpsons has shown that all religions are right and the other Gods are up there too!

Hopalongtom I guess that proves my point.

Jesse Guidry Another view point to look at it from is that according to any monotheistic religion their god is God so Swaim is kinda right. Just not unilaterally.

Jesse Guidry he could still be God even while praying to a higher power, himself, if he is unaware of his godhood then it makes sense that he would pray to himself. also when he has visions it is always depictions of mainstream image of God and heaven thus a projection of his own image of what God and heaven are. it's like people taking hallucigeons seeing Jesus or buddha. it's not because they are seeing Jesus or buddha but because subconsciously that is their idealisation of spiritualism.

Jesus talks about (and to) God as a separate entity, yet also says "I and my father are one" and Christian tradition has it that they are separate and one being. Saint Patrick described the Catholic concept of the Holy Trinity using the three leaves of a shamrock, three which are one. So... Homer could be THE God, in a different manifestation. Since Jesus and God have both been depicted by The Simpsons, Homer could be the Holy Spirit - if you stuck with the Christian version. Of course, there are also plenty of other gods - Christianity doesn't really deny this. It could be defined as Monolatrist rather than Monotheist (the insistence on worshipping one god, without denying that others exist) - as in the 10 commandments "worship no other gods before me" or using the plural word "gods" in Genesis, or in the New Testament "though there are those that are called gods whether in heaven or on earth, but to us there is one god" or "there are many gods and many lords" with lesser or no authority, and one god with supreme authority - to them.

Homer is the slumbering god. No matter what happens in the world of the Simpsons it will revolve around Homer, not always directly but it will always weave back into the narrative of the entity known as Homer Simpson, this is because Homer is pure generative consciousness, a single 'point of creative focus'. The flashbacks aren't flashbacks at all; they are happening in the now in the dream delusion godhead Homer has cast itself inside of. Homer is simply the compass needle used by the Brahman to orient and entertain itself throughout eternity.

Raeanne Bedard our Doctor who art in TARDIS, unknown be thy name