I've never filed my taxes

@@develynseether4426 Quiet, you don't know how big this Internet is! It goes all the way to the president!

No, it’s not.

@@Carl_McMelvin Disregard

I say that every year.

You can feel the workplace tension in that line. Kent knows what he's doing by interviewing Krusty.

Lol

At this point, everything said in the Simpsons before 2010 is the best line ever.

No. Mildly funny at best. However: "I paid my taxes over a year ago" is one for the ages.

Most people during tax season

Or like the line will be unbearable

There Flanders is yapping away like it’s 8:35

@@davefuller84 At least he didn't forget the mints.

Well, he's got to beat the rush!

Maude, eh?

...Not to mention adding that he'd better not "risk" it, implying he thinks it possible the government could find out AND nail him for tax purposes for enjoying the smell. These 212 seconds contain about 100 grade-A jokes.

Lies again? Serie A Leader Income Tax

I don't get the joke. I'm sorry me not smart.

@@SpikeTheWolf Let me see if i can explain it. Ned bought the ink to use in his store, so he can put it down in his taxes as a business expense. By doing so, he's essentially saying to the government, "look, i had to spend some money to run my business, which reduces my net profit, so i don't need to pay as much in taxes." That's perfectly fine. But, if Ned were to claim that something was a business expense when in reality it wasn't, like a car that he bought for his wife, that would be fraudulent and would get him in trouble with the IRS. Ned says that he enjoys the smell of cash register ink, so even thought he bought it for his business, he believes it could be considered a personal expense, which would mean he doesn't get to claim it as a business expense. He says "better not risk it" and files the ink as a personal expense instead, because he believes it's better to pay slightly more in taxes than to get in trouble with the IRS. The joke is that of course the ink is a business expense, but Ned doesn't want to take the chance in case the fact that he enjoys the smell classifies the ink as a personal expense. Hope that clears it up

Well, he better not risk it

He’s like an NPC in a video game where they just go back to what they were doing

He was convinced everyone else was wrong

@@rosecitystud1908 Otto: Man...am I so out of touch? Nah, it’s the taxpayers who are wrong.

Perhaps it would have been even funnier if Brockman had posed that question.

That's a pothead for you.. But a better question...is why snake was there.

She has lived with Homer for so long this is normal.

@@emberfist8347 Yeah, she's probably used to his bullshit by now.

If he can't hear you, it's not illegal

Tax is fruad, so there is no way of doing taxes without committing fruad.

She just wants Homer to get his taxes done on time even if he cheats on his taxes so be it. 😂

Also, he has a huge cock

what they do to flanders now i havent seen the Sampsons in a very long time

​@@maelkew3337 Flanderization. It's a trope named after ned. used when a character has a singular trait exaggerated out of proportion to a point they no longer even resemble their original characterization anymore

@@sudanemamimikiki1527 thanks for the info

@@sudanemamimikiki1527so every character now?

true, Ned does it the first day of the year, home does it the very last minute

I mean "Flanderization" is a trope for a reason. Good ol' innocent but lazy Homer and positive, hard-working Ned aren't going to be a thing ever again

@@D0NU75 you could even call it ned flanderization.

You can't make Ned a compelling and interesting guy when you as a writer have nothing but contempt for his religious belief structure that makes him so.

​@@michaelcallistoIndeed. Predisposition and bias are the reason more and more media is increasingly becoming more like mouthpieces for particular beliefs instead of simply portraying life and beauty as it is. People like to point out the hypocrisy of religious people as "proof" the belief system is useless, while ignoring all the positive things it produces. Almost all of the best citizens I have known are all religious people. I am sure that if enough statistical studies were to be made about this, they would reflect the good impact Christianity has on people.

No he clearly hates them. Best line in simpsons

@@illuminatiaqi6130 I initially took that line as "Ah who cares, they can do what they want," but honestly, I could just as easily see it as the classic stereotypical passive-aggressive "nice" person who smiles to your face but judges you behind your back.

@@HellqueenRoz Ned probably has some repressed anger toward them but he’s also a genuinely nice person most of the time. I think it’s probably a bit of both, leaning towards being charitable.

It does my heart good to con some Class A suckaroonies.

@@HellqueenRoz He volunteers with the homeless so no, I don't think that's the case

Makes me want to get my shit together.

If only we could all have our shit together like Flanders

I did my taxes on midnight last year lmao

Flanders is a psychopath

Well, I definitely do have some interest building up on things, so to speak

straight facts

I watch it every January and it immediately puts me in a tax preparation mood.

I always do my taxes as soon as possible. But I am always told to do it like 1 month before the deadline.

Oke-ily doke-ily!!!

But he was in a big rush anyhow

The best part is that it's technically correct.

@@tweer64 The best kind of correct lol

I don't get it

@@danx9194”11th hour” is an expression similar to “last minute”. It’s funny here because it’s the 11th hour (as it’s about to close)… but the “literally” part complicates it (in a funny way) because 10pm obviously isn’t the 11th hour (which literally would be 11).

​@lukefreeman828 When we talk about the 12 hours from Noon to Midnight, 10pm is the start of the 11th hour, just FYI. 12:00pm -> 12:59pm = 1st hour 1:00pm -> 1:59pm = 2nd hour 2:00pm -> 2:59pm = 3rd hour Etc... 10:00pm -> 10:59pm = 11th hour 11:00pm -> 11:59pm = 12th hour 00:00am (midnight) occurs immediately after the 12th hour finishes, and is the start of the 1st hour of the next cycle (midnight to noon). 00:00am -> 00:59am = 1st hour 1:00am -> 1:59am = 2nd hour Etc...

Hey I bet even the justice league needs an accountant

Yet he's still filing his taxes at 11PM on April 15.

more of a suicide squad member....

@@tcorourke2007 OMG!!!!

@@nicbentulan IF you like that, here's another one: The Sea Captain is not a pirate...

"...heh heh."

Dr Hibberts laugh really seals every line he says 😂

gang of ppl really die on new years lol

And then at 1:25 Dr. Hibbert is thinking back to that day and realizing he should have followed Ned’s advice…

17 year's later. OHHHHH i get it. LMAO

And he adds on a whole sheet of stamps, just to make sure he has sufficient postage.

He’s going for an any% World record

​@@sdd1018I want this to be a real challenge now.

Cool!

The joke gets funnier every year we get further from Vietnam

What I like is Homer had to estimate that they had 9 kids, but immediately did the math to figure out how many people maggie needed to be.

“If I don’t hear you, it’s not illegal!” -Homer Simpson

@@tOSdude I like that he's smart enough to figure out how to maximize tax return that quickly

Underrated line

whyd you have to go and make things so complicated? i see the way youre acting like youre somebody else. gets me frustrated. simply admit that i am the funniest and greatest and sm*rtest and coolest and strongest yout*ber of all time! admit it, dear sr

It's actually true.

@@AxxLAfriku this was a suggesting video under Avrils new song Love it When You Hate Me and now it’s all come full circle.

Hilary and her email

As a regular person i don't even get the info till like late February. Then i hope that April 15 is a friday so i really have until April 18

Business owners have to file tax returns every 3 months

How did it go?

My condolences

yurafag

Not to be the guy thats not fun at parties - isnt that technically true?

@@Garfie489 Yeah. It’s exactly like centuries. Like the 1900s are called the 20th century.

12 a.m. would be the next day, so 11 p.m. is the 12th and 10 p.m. is the 11th

@@MeesterTweester stop being smart

If 12pm is considered the first hour, 1pm would be the second. 10 pm is the 11th hour lol

I think it may just be he's so high he doesn't think about taxes, ever.

I am so unpretty 😭 When I go to the bank, they turn the cameras off. At least I am a big star on KZfaq. So don't feel too bad for me, dear jac

@@AxxLAfriku We do not care.

@@AxxLAfriku You should rob the bank then, no evidence will be found.

I get the feeling Otto doesn't pay taxes

It's also true. More people die around the holidays. I used to work for a union and I processed burial benefits for members. I got so many requests in the winter months. It was pretty sad, tbh.

He waited until April 15th on his taxes too. He’s in the line at 1:27 .

Avoision

That's how they got Al Capone

He is not THAT criminal lol.

Not even the Joker crosses the IRS.

Avoision*

Hope I do when I end up doin taxes

@Muddobber McCrablice dad...!!! 😕😕😕😕😕

Good thing that I don't need to do taxes. Well for 2020 I needed to do taxes and I did them for 2019 at the same time (when I'm not required to do them, I can wait 3 years to do them). Also it's pretty easy when your income is straight forward, at least here in germany. Just entering some data from your paper or auto fill them, remembering how many days I drove to the office and how far it is. Then including extra expenses where you get more money back and then send it. With the software I buy it's pretty easy and I always got more back then I paid for the software. I don't need to leave my house for that. The only thing where I need to wait is until my boss did the papers and gave it to me.

Wake up at 12:01AM January 1st or your slacking!

Yeah I do them in the beginning of February every year now

Like the boogeyman or Boogeymen in the house?

@@dans.7002 exactly

OMG!!!!

No, he views Lisa as a child who'd read a picture book. That's the joke.

Hahahaha when he said that to her I almost cry laughing 😂 talking to her like that knowing how smart and independent she is

He must have also owned his house outright and had no investments. No waiting for 1098 or 1099s

@@thecyclist01 No investments i can see. I can also see him just not taking the mortgage deduction.

And how quickly they accelerate lmao

@@prettypointlessvideo It was so quick you didn't even hear the engine turn over 🤣

That and the sound of running and the front door opening and closing

Or the footsteps and the airplane lol

This.

Unless the people you hire is like this guy: 2:14 - 2:28.

Dude, that still scared the shit out of me at 27.

Does everybody in the US need to file a tax report? Here in Germany you have the right to do so (and many people do because you can get good amount of money back) and at a certain income its mandatory (or if you have a more complex income situtation then it its mandatoy too, like earning money with renting out stuff or just working besides a normal day job in in general)

And the unions for people you hire to do it lobby like crazy for the system to never improve so you'd have to keep paying them for doing this shit for you until the inevitable collapse of the country. Legal corruption is fun!

@@MizantropMan Here in Germany we have good tax software, the software just asks you questions and guides you through the whole thing. You dont really need an professional you can do everything yourself, except if you have a medium sized business (or bigger, or a complex construct) then you may should get a professional (also its his fault then if he fucks up and so its usually good invested money, and also the amount you spent on the guy is tax deduactable (correct word?) so if you make revenue, litteraly free)

Even when ure right?

@@CesarACastillo Especially then!

I hope you say it sarcastically and not sincerely.

@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 Kind of depends on the situation. What can I say? She isn’t always wrong.

Divorced yet?

Nah, he'd just get a call from the IRS. They REALLY don't like sending people to prison over mistakes on a tax form.

@@moonman239 fair enough, I forget Homer tried to commit straight up tax fraud in this episode.

@@moonman239 you might get audited though, which is the second-least fun thing the irs can do to you.

@@Doc_Fun better lube up, daddy IRS has its pants off

They don't audit over a math error, they just send you a letter saying what the number was supposed to be a few weeks after they pay you what your refund would be if it was done correctly, or the letter and a bill for the correct amount if you owe them.

But you can't go inside the Post Office on the first of January bc it's a Federal holiday. Writers' mistake?

@@stephenwright8824 It's not explicitly mentioned, that he made his taxes on January 1st. Also "holiday-related fatalities" bit confirms, that by the time Ned did his taxes, holiday is already over.

To be fair, most people can't start their taxes exactly on January 1 and file it on January 2 when the Post Office opens like Ned. Most people have to wait on their employer to mail their W2 first. But, yeah, most people don't really have an excuse to not get it done by February. Personally, I file and pay in March. It's late enough to procrastinate but still early enough to not have to worry about it.

⁠@@sonniepronounceds-au-ni9287 Ned can do so because he’s the employer and business owner in question. Of course, that means he has to do all the number crunching himself.

​@@stephenwright8824 yes you can. The main room is closed. But the room where you get the po box has a mail slip

He's smart enough not to miss with irs

I totally don't wish to be Ned.

*we're

Nah, that’s just y’all. Best way to handle stuff is handling it early so you don’t have to worry about it later

@@DOSRetroGamer you do. he has hot wife and live good, pretty rich and morally good, not 100% as him, but you surely want to be more like him than homer. of course i'm not gonna count the shit low hit porpaganda made to him by made his 2 son gay.

@@dagan8659 also ned is RIPPED

Aren't business owners the only one who do their own taxes? And would normally hire a bookkeeper/accountant anyway?

@@johnmartinez7440 I get the sense that Ned really likes doing his taxes. Although he stand to be a bit less prudent on what he's unwilling to declare a tax write-off

Best to make hay while the sun shines.

@@johnmartinez7440 Not in America.

@@johnmartinez7440 I get the sense that Ned is a sole proprietor.

For real that’s why I’m watching this lmao

Got mine done.

They came after me for $4 once. I thought "didn't it cost more to mail me than to write it off?"

@@andrewshouse9840 someone I know wasn’t allowed to apply for a home loan because they had a bad debit history- they hadn’t paid a 38 cent thing and had to pay that off first then they finally accepted the home loan

Technically the IRS is illegal. As the following points show: 1) The power of the purse, meaning ANYTHING dealing with fiance goes to CONGRESS only. 2) The Fourth amendment says no UNWARRANTED search OR seizure. Meaning they cannot take ANYTHING from you without YOU committing a crime/ the having a warrant. 3) Only The House can make bills/laws involving money. It starts in the House of Representatives to the Senate to be signed, revised, and/or sent back if not passed to the President. Did you also know the US Constitution states it is not only you right, but responsibility to overturn any tyrannical government? Meaning ANY violation of your rights by the government, especially if done to a large extent like now, lets those wanting to stop it can seek to take those out of power by force is a legit option.

@UCNE6pYI7GwD8tqJ1TCBQhbw holy shit shut the fuck up. Even if that was correct, which it isn't, it doesn't matter. And even if it did matter, which it doesn't, nobody cares. And even if they did care, which they don't, it's a god damn clip from the Simpsons! Nobody is here for tax advice or whatever the fuck you think you're spewing.

@@donellebullock7404 Those institutions have the power to delegate those jobs to others, so no it is not illegal.

Homer mathematics at it's finest

if lisa counts as a dependent then marge would aswell so he would have 10 dependents

@@kazoolordhd6591 Don't give Homer any ideas!

@@jimhuffman9434 Hello

Nothing ironic about that.

That's statement's weird. Because Bart was born some time in the 1980's. But the Vietnam War ended in 1975

@@jimhuffman9434 It would have been even weirder if Maggie was wounded in Vietnam.

@@jimhuffman9434 That's the joke

If I don't see it, it's not illegal!

so basically people who say "fake news" to everything

Top bloke sucker maybe.

Except for the bible stuff

@@legion999 Especially for the Bible stuff……

@@legion999 what do u have against the bible, not upset just generally curious?

Notice: He's also muscular

Even in the 80s and 90s there was still a bias toward seeing the father as the "head of household" and thus responsible for it.

He makes the income and has the most important information. She could try to get copies of all his wages, expenses, and paperwork, but that still requires Homer to do things. In conclusion, because it's funny.

@@hotaru8309 ...that is true. He does have the initial income information. He gets the W2's, the tax stuff, all to him. All in his name.

Idk why it never occurred to Homer to have Lisa do his taxes.

@@Supperdude9 doesn't Marge controll the family spending s,though to be fair Homers inpulse purchases are astounding

In reality, your taxes become null and void due to the incorrect placing of a comna

Why do I bother plundering at all?

You mean 8:45am just before the class it was due for?

And he’s probably the one partying while everyone does all nighters

And Homer was the kid who forgot about the report until that morning.

I did something similar for a college French class. It was a 19th century poetry class, and I had to do a fifteen-minute presentation on a poem of my choice. Because mine was so lengthy, I got an earlier start that I usually would (not the exact same day it was assigned, but very early on). Some of it was because I wanted to cover as many of my bases as possible, some of it was because I genuinely liked the class.

Boy I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder!

@@komodosp A wizard did it.

And Homer's watch only appears for one scene as well.

@@andykishore he didn’t even use the watch 🤔 Also, it’s not the time Kent Brockman said it is

Eh, continuity is for chumps

Well they can’t virtue signal if they don’t make him an over the top bible thumper

@@BriarPatchNyra 100%

The thing that made old-school Simpsons wholesome was how despite his annoyances with the straight-laced Flanders family, Homer does admire Ned to an extent. He may not always tolerate his overly saccharine nature but he does acknowledge that Ned and his family are good people who want to spread kindness. Every character in the old Simpsons episode was likable in their own way.

@@AluminumFusion22 Unfortunately it feels like the writers became too focused on keeping up with other newer adult cartoon shows like Family Guy and South Park in their later years. They forgot what made The Simpsons stand out.

Tv tropes even named the term after him Flanderization

Yes. The 11th hour begins at 10PM. The twelfth hour begins at 11PM.

@@seededsoul Just like centuries

@@ruslans2006 just like... everything

The 13th hour is the Dark Hour that is between 12 and 1 AM

@@adamtaurusragnathebloodedg8407 While I like your imagination, no.

Then the look between Bart & Lisa.

Yeah but unfortunately companies make you wait for W2s

Especially if you have a refund coming.

Better get going on those taxes, Christian!

I hope you finished them…

​@@AhsfbvoxWell in Germany there is time till 31st of July. Even more of you hire a tax consultant to do it for you. ;)

He got out of bed to start his taxes after being woken up by the New Years fireworks.

What I think it was is Ned was doing his taxes, almost finished the ones for the Leftorium and was on the fence about counting the ink as a business or personal expense, so he took care of the personal taxes, then went back to the ink, counting it as a personal expense, then finishing up.

@@reillymcwriting nevertheless it is still a fun pararell to homer who pretty much does the same, figures out his taxes in less than 10 seconds and then makes a run for it.

@@reillymcwritingNed had a lot of counting to do with both being a store owner and family taxes separately. That's why he went early to bed and had long 8 hours of calmly estimate his tax work.

At my previous employer we used to call that "shop blindness". It's a phenomenon where you become completely unaware of something that needs attention because it is there everyday and your brain phases it out. When somebody then mentions it to you it becomes blindingly obvious and you wonder how you ever missed it.

Given how mess up a lot of their finances are, I guess it sort of makes sense.

All except Flanders, the captain, snake, and partially Frink

wow

@@meetwheatpodcast9078 :o THAT'S GUUUUUD.

Missed that point all the way up till now. :O (Our dubbers also missed it. So that might be the reason. :D)

It almost looks like he’s whistling. But yeah, no sound.

It's still technically running as of 2022, if you count what they air now as The Simpsons. I'll have to come back here when it finally ends.

Very original never seen 10 comments on every simpsons video like that

​@@bubbythebear6891he's talkimg about the OG Simpsons which were the golden age. After 2002, the Simpsons went to crap

Even criminals fear the IRS.

File your ill-gotten gains with the IRS. Don't even like Copone.

IRS don’t care if you’re a crook, just if you’re a tax cheat

"I may be crazy enough to fight Batman, but the IRS? Nooooo thank you" - The Joker, even criminals pay their dues

Back when this show was actually good

Taxed the ink lol

What are we, to believe this is some magic tie or something? Boy I really hope someone got fired for that blunder!

A wizard did it.

There’s continuity errors ….in cartoons?? That’s crazy to me

Animation error. I just noticed that.

There have been efforts for decades to make American taxes so simple that all the info can fit on a sheet "the size of a notecard", but something (probably accounting services lobbying? and the sheer business/trade volume of the U.S.) always held it back. Now it's become pretty much a moot issue because cheap tax software has simplified the process itself considerably, but it's going to remain a huge problem for millions of people.

Sweden is the Ned Flanders of the world. I would say America is the Krusty

In the US, we now have cheap software. It usually doesn't even take me an hour to fill it out and get the taxes sent away. If you have a business or more complicated returns, then you can hire someone to do it for you. Really, the only people who turn taxes into this big of a pain anymore are idiots

@@carlycrays2831 It is quite easy. It's just a shame that the reason it can't be even easier is that TurboTax, H&R Block, etc. lobby against reform in order to protect their business model. (Imagine hiring a doctor to treat the same disease that he is infecting you with each and every time.) I think it's worth a shot anyway, not to help the "idiots", but just to finally kick those tax service executives in the dick.

In the US, wealthy people and entities hire expensive lawyers to fill in tax forms in a way that's not technically illegal, but is full of lies and mischaracterization in order to minimize taxes paid and maximize returns. If the US gave them the forms containing the proper information, they wouldn't be able to do that. So they lobby. There's a reason the middle class pays almost all taxes in the US.