"I can't believe it. The system works." Oh that just breaks my heart. . .

@TheLurker1647

Жыл бұрын

It's a comedy show.

@remembergandhi5583

Жыл бұрын

That does not change it

@chompythebeast

Жыл бұрын

@@TheLurker1647 It's satire, and comedy can break the heart in ways that tragedy doesn't even attempt

@matthewriley7826

Жыл бұрын

It would be nice if once in a while they decided to bring down the hammer on one of those scumbags, for being dumb enough to get caught if anything.

@christopherbennett6571

Жыл бұрын

I'm confused. Are you a communist who's upset that democracy works?

I love how the joke is that the system actually works as intended. Really hilarious.

@bikespj22

Жыл бұрын

What?

@megaultradamn

Жыл бұрын

The joke started with the "little girl lost faith in democracy." As if the feelings of little girls could change anything.

@milesmartig5603

Жыл бұрын

That's not the joke. At the end all of the other corrupt congresspeople throw out that specific guy to restore popular trust without actually changing the system, keeping corruption around, but making it look like they did something about it. That's what happened with Nixon, that's what happened with the Iran-Contra scandal, and that is what is happening now with Trump. Kick out one of the corrupt bastards to make everyone else look better, when they are doing the same shit. Democrat and Republican. Its time for a change in system.

@MrHeavy466

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant really.

@Lancaster-hu6jy

Жыл бұрын

@@bikespj22 The joke is that in reality, the senator would've gotten away with corruption.

It legitimately hurts and saddens my soul knowing how nothing close to this justice ever happens

@americanpatriot8492

2 жыл бұрын

If this happened real life what would be different

@sadlobster1

2 жыл бұрын

@@americanpatriot8492 I'd love it if Cheeto-Head got taken down as quickly as Bob Arnold did here

@peterpeterpeterpeterpeterp1431

2 жыл бұрын

That was performative justice to reinstate popular trust and support for the system. I think that was the point of that scene…

@CPT85

2 жыл бұрын

@@sadlobster1 Hell, if it would happen to a whole bunch of other corrupt senators on both sides of the aisle in real life.

@laughingsnake1989

2 жыл бұрын

@@sadlobster1 you mean corn pop

"Imprisoned Congressman becomes born again Christian" Old Simpsons jokes were just God Tier

@MinscFromBaldursGate92

Жыл бұрын

Trying to get sympathy from the fundies.

@crimsondynamo615

11 ай бұрын

@@MinscFromBaldursGate92and it always works with that group

@poletooke4691

11 ай бұрын

@@MinscFromBaldursGate92the what? Is that like a tv award or something?

@FireLordJohn3191

10 ай бұрын

What's wrong with people becoming Christians?

@Saintnick90

7 ай бұрын

@@poletooke4691 Fundamentalists.

Weirder than the fact the whole investigation, arrest and expulsion from Congress happened in a few hours, is that the newspaper had a new issue for the afternoon.

@someguy3752

2 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing that some Tomorrow Never Dies type shenanigans are going on.

@WontonBurritoMeals

2 жыл бұрын

Very British

@kerrydavis4290

2 жыл бұрын

Many largest cities have an early edition newspaper, they might have the next day's comics and such, and some breaking news stories that will also be in the next day's regular edition.

@thiagodeandrade7081

Жыл бұрын

It was big news. How often is there a politician involved in corruption?

@jameskuckkan2326

Жыл бұрын

It was an older convention that many cities would have a morning and an evening paper-this isn’t actually too far from accurate.

"Shouldn't we tack on a pay raise for ourselves?" lmao

@AdamLB

10 ай бұрын

"NO!"

@ulufmatril7208

5 ай бұрын

The joke is how he's booed

@arZ1v4ld

5 ай бұрын

All: NO!

@13thvarebel16

4 ай бұрын

Exactly why we're trillions in debt and the dollar has a quarter of its buying power since this aired.

@theevilascotcompany9255

2 ай бұрын

Wait a minute, I want to tack on a rider to that bill: $30 million of taxpayer money to support the perverted arts.

"And this will be one nation, under the dollar, with liberty and justice for none." Brilliantly worded and tragically accurate.

@TRoller927

Жыл бұрын

It is legitimately one of Lisa's best quotes to this day. I didn't like this episode as a kid, because political stuff bored me. Now I love it because it is so appropriate and still relevant.

@MinscFromBaldursGate92

Жыл бұрын

One nation under the Orange Menace and the Russian Dwarf.

@Cap_Cage_11

Жыл бұрын

Even though she said that in this episode it's actually very true even now in real life America still sucks.

@k-leb4671

Жыл бұрын

What does "under the dollar" mean?

@radthadd

Жыл бұрын

​@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 Biden isn't orange 😂

A president who considers the American people the true bosses of the nation is just wholesome

@cobaltbuster4907

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Though irl that style of governance adheres more to a populist philosophy, which can be both good and bad depending on the prevailing views of a leader's constituents.

@jackmonaghan8477

Жыл бұрын

Shame Bush Sr didn't have nice things to say about the show (he loved his moral panics like Reagan did), pardoned criminals involved in Iran-Contra and appointed Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.

@fermintenava5911

Жыл бұрын

No, it's just cute he thinks they all voted for him.

@koolaidblack7697

Жыл бұрын

@@jackmonaghan8477 Isn't Thomas the 1st and 2nd Amendment guy? Honestly you're making me like Bush Sr where I didn't before.

@trainfire2008

Жыл бұрын

The Greater Bush

I like how the other kid's family arrived 4 MONTHS ago and they already learned English and own a nationwide chain of wheel-balancing centers.

@armorpro573

2 жыл бұрын

LOL anything can happen

@lionelhutz5137

Жыл бұрын

It's that immigrant grindset, man.

@pedrolmlkzk

Жыл бұрын

that's propaganda for you

@kaniel_outis1

Жыл бұрын

@@lionelhutz5137 the joke is that his family is scamming the country nation wide.

@darwincity

Жыл бұрын

The cute thing is that he does include the small possibility that this success story might have been possible in Canada.

Love that Bart respected her for this.

@DuskBeforeDawn2008

Жыл бұрын

Cool a ruckus!

@Crosswizz

Жыл бұрын

Bart is just chaotic neutral

@trainfire2008

3 ай бұрын

“CESSPOOL‼️ CESSPOOL‼️”

"That's why whenever I see the Stars and Stripes I'll always be reminded of that wonderful word: flag." Goddamn! The old Simpsons writers slayed.

_Yep, all 250 million of them!_ NGL, when I first heard that line, I legit thought it was a joke about the President of the United States having an absurd number of superiors (not the voters)

@LepusProd

Жыл бұрын

You would be correct

@johnnyballenatl

Жыл бұрын

250 million was our population in 1991-92 (when this episode aired).

@GuldstrandLin66

Жыл бұрын

So did I

@hawrnball

8 ай бұрын

I absolutely love that line

@BeaverChainsaw

2 ай бұрын

Damn the us population increased like crazy in only 30 years

i never realised how funny this was as a kid. Now i'm grown and realise it really doesn't work that way

@MAN-xs2lq

3 жыл бұрын

Right

I wish this would happen in real life more often.

@Auriorium

3 жыл бұрын

You bet. And in every nation not just USA.

@drugbuddy665

3 жыл бұрын

It does. It just doesn't have any real impact. Arrest as many congresspeople as you'd like, it won't fix the faulty system that encourages & facilitates their scummy behavior.

@BeaverChainsaw

2 жыл бұрын

Well to be fair to congress, gridlock is a way bigger problem than corruption

@kademcarthur5362

2 жыл бұрын

@@drugbuddy665 true, but that doesn’t mean the people who replace them can’t try to fix and reform the system.

@nicholasrogers7276

2 жыл бұрын

lol about britexit too lisa views on it like thus be funny 🤣

Ah... this aged like a fine wine....

@thedrinkinggamemaker9749

2 жыл бұрын

How?

@bigmeknurgle

2 жыл бұрын

American democracy is a lie. That's the joke.

@UltimatumNo5

2 жыл бұрын

@@thedrinkinggamemaker9749 It turned sour.

@troperhghar9898

2 жыл бұрын

While the country aged like room temperature milk

@chris101ward

2 жыл бұрын

And it just keeps getting better.

Something I appreciate is how Bart thinks Lisa is cool for her speech (or rather, the reaction it garners)

The pride in "I work for Uncle Sam" almost brought a tear to my eye. Damn it if only...

@lightbringer34

5 ай бұрын

There are people who do take pride in that. Not just military personnel, but civil servants who could earn more working for contractors and corporate officers, but who choose to work for the people of the United States in whatever capacity they can. We also take oaths to “preserve, protect, and defend” the Constitution and that does mean something important.

@normalguycap

5 ай бұрын

@@lightbringer34 Yes, just not enough people do that.

@hydra7427

4 ай бұрын

@@lightbringer34 Completely false. The government hates you, never forget it.

"The system works" best Simpsons joke of all time

As a kid I had faith, now as an adult just laugh in sadness

This is one of those episodes that never stops being relevant.

The punchline is the last line clearly. Well done to the writers

When I first saw this as a kid, I legit thought that’s how the federal government keeps itself in check. Now that I’m an adult, I see that this is just a “in a better world” joke scenario.

Let’s all just pretend this is even remotely possible

When I was a kid I understood this was ironic; only later did I realize it was a complete joke.

I love how they let him smoke in the House Chamber. lol

"You work fast." "I work for Uncle Sam." Oh if only.

@TheMrPeteChannel

10 ай бұрын

Now they just work for deep state-ers.

"I can't believe it, the system works .." Aaahh ... If only ...

If only if it was that happy of an ending in real life...

I was 12 when this episode came out. But everything Lisa said in that essay is true!

@GenerationZ313

2 жыл бұрын

I was very young when I first watched this episode and I didn't really understand why Lisa did what she did but knowing what I know now I completely understand why she did it

Back when The Simpsons was viable satire, not pop-culture referances hobbled together.

"You work fast" "I WORK FOR UNCLE SAM!" Yeah, no. I know people who work for the government who are like "It takes two weeks just to get them started TALKING about actually doing sonething."

@CryptidMech

Жыл бұрын

That's the joke

@Tzizenorec

Жыл бұрын

@@CryptidMech Yeah, but he didn't just explain the joke; he added more information. So it's good.

@Onigirli

Жыл бұрын

@@Tzizenorec He didn't explain it at all! He just refuted it like someone who couldn't tell that was the joke in the first place. "Yeah, no."

@Tzizenorec

Жыл бұрын

​@@Onigirli True, but his refutation was still interesting. And the original joke _was_ of the "wrong in a way that's irritating" variety.

@EugeneOneguine

6 ай бұрын

That's the joke Einstein

“I can’t believe it. The system works” God it burns. This isn’t the country my dad fought for.

@princessmarlena1359

Жыл бұрын

Or my my dad, or my older brother.

@bloodwrage

5 ай бұрын

The wrong side won WWII

@kentuckyfriedcommunist9496

5 ай бұрын

@@bloodwragei don’t know man I wouldn’t go that far

@bloodwrage

5 ай бұрын

@@kentuckyfriedcommunist9496 Look at that, a communist having an objectively wrong take.

@bloodwrage

4 ай бұрын

@@kentuckyfriedcommunist9496 Red detected. Opinion discarded.

This is genuinely one of the funniest jokes of the Simpsons, and gets funnier every year, both as things continue to deteriorate, and as more fucked up shit happening at the time comes to light.

@Morgan_rulz_okay

Жыл бұрын

Bush Senior was the president in this skit. Just a decade later, his son would send us to war based on lies; lies that the top people in this country consciously manufactured.

@SpencerLemay

11 ай бұрын

The government is run by a Satanic pedophile cabal btw.

[insert non-coherent, partisan rant here]

@cat1554

Ай бұрын

[insert a somehow even less cohesive rebuttal]

The system works?? Sure. As long as the "gears are greased" well.

"Where else but America...or possibly Canada." Accurate statement is accurate.

250 million of them? I didn't know Israel's population was so high, wow.

A brief glimpse of a world we all dream of, but will never be.

A full grasp of English and a nationwide chain of wheel-balancing centers in only four months? I'd be willing to buy either one, but both is definitely a stretch.

I have no idea if it's true or just some rumor the internet made up but I always heard that they intended to end this episode with Lisa getting booed out by the angry crowd and nobody but her family taking her claims seriously with the sort of bittersweet moral of "the system doesn't always work but maybe kids like Lisa will grow up to change it", but they were forced to add this whole sequence by the network or something because it was "unamerican" or whatever

@allegedlyfalse6779

Жыл бұрын

It kind of sounds like the type of thing that Fox would force on them, and the type of sarcastic response they would make in return, that's for sure.

@dimitrisolejak26

Жыл бұрын

Totally believable

@SirIsaacMewtonIII

Жыл бұрын

sounds pretty likely. imagine being a writer on the simpsons, and having fox breathing down your neck to do stuff that wasn't unamerican/unpatriotic. probably happened a lot. that whole scene with george bush seemed like pure propaganda, didn't seem like something the simpsons writers did themselves tbh, seems like something they were told to add in/change about the plot

Crazy how the country grew an additionally 100 million since airing

@nigelo92

Жыл бұрын

Funnily enough, the current amount of voting age people is at 250million! And turnout was 160million in 2020!

@curious1053

Жыл бұрын

Never got around to that securing that southern border.

@deadmeatjb

Жыл бұрын

@@curious1053 there are only 62 million Spanish speakers in the us, do you think they all got here after 1993?

Only in America… or possibly Canada gets me every time

1:50 When I was younger, this part never made sense. Usually this is the part where they DO tack on pork to a bill.

I love when Lisa sticks up for her principles episodes. A true 90s girl!

Classic Simpsons writing always ages like a fine wine.

The wonderful satire that is this episode, that everyone who watches it really knows that the congressman being sent to jail would never happen. And that's the point of this episode.

We regret to inform you that Episode 2 of Season 3 was a dream.

Lore of A Littlle Girl Is Losing Faith In Democracy! (The Simpsons) momentum 100

As if politicians would ever face consequences

@armorpro573

2 жыл бұрын

A few of them do occasionally

@snakey934Snakeybakey

Жыл бұрын

Only when they go against the establishment. Otherwise they are above the law. These days if I hear a politician is being investigated by the FBI or DOJ it makes me like them more.

KZread reading my mind. I was just thinking of this last night.

I like how IRL this process would never even reach the first phase because no congressman is stupid enough to take a raw bribe instead of just getting funds from lobbying and utilizing the laws they passed which lets them participate in insider trading for even more revenue.

So did this just confirm that spring field is in South Dakota

Most honest speech ever

I wish that justice was that fast here

That sting was definitely entrapment

@Cabinetbog06

2 жыл бұрын

The FBI certainly aren't above that though are they? 😂

This happens, then the next week they're bast to normal

The Senator didn’t look busy. He could’ve said "What is it, Son? You sound distraught."

@Onigirli

Жыл бұрын

Like he should be worried? lol

@THOMASINTHE1980S

5 ай бұрын

@@Onigirli He also could've said "Calm down, son. What is it?"

"This will make my bosses happy all 250 million of them" man if only politicians actually thought like this instead of forgetting who they're supposed to be working for

"Imprisoned congressman becomes born-again christian"

This episode gave great hope. Although it was a pretty long time ago.

I never had faith in it to begin with.

CESSPOOL! CESSPOOL! CESSPOOL!

Lisa are you perhaps asking that the swamp be drained?

i find it rather wholesome that the president referred to the American people as his bosses

It’s amazing that all that was accomplished in like 2 hours.

@maliksmith9003

Жыл бұрын

Mfs printed and distributed a whole new paper in 30 mins.

when I see the stars and stripes, I will always be reminded of that WONDERFUL word...FLAG!

If only the system worked this quick. I think in my country we are still trying to put behind bars a corrupt official from Austro-Hungary.

Damn 250 million people? Our population increased exponentially since that time

@rootfish2671

2 жыл бұрын

What's the population now? 300 million?

@shortydancer

2 жыл бұрын

I domt think you know what exponentially means.

@usonly101

2 жыл бұрын

@@shortydancer at a steady or rapid rate. “The American population has increased exponentially over the last 20 years.”

@shortydancer

2 жыл бұрын

@@usonly101 growing exponentially means growing very rapidly. Like the graph of e^x. Steady is not exponential.

@usonly101

2 жыл бұрын

@@shortydancer the literal definition says “Steady or Rapid”

Boy, if only life were like this.

Im surprised they didnt cut the microphone on the first sentence

@cat1554

Ай бұрын

This isn't a political debate!

I would love seeing the Congressman pulling off searching for oil on Mount Rushmore. Buy the way, isn't one of the men on the phone the Congressman who presided over the session to allocate funds for saving Springfield from the comet?

In this cartoon the system works as intended while in real life the system works like a cartoon.

@aiup5710

2 ай бұрын

Tiffany Henyard. To support this fact

This is how Lisa barts.

Oh sure, the problem is a single politician not that the whole system is rigged from the start

@rommdan2716

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I love how the writers made fun of the system while they please it

"what is it, I'm very busy" "A little girl is loosing her faith in Democracy!" "Good Lord!"

I like that they had Homer beat the hell out of George Bush a few seasons later.

Everything has been corrupted by greed which comes from sin which brings death.

The Swamp - she sounds like Trump

The music is so great

Ah, back when you could smoke indoors.

My god, we were so hopeful and naive in the 90s.

@eFMe-fk1xh

Жыл бұрын

r/whoosh

"or possibly Canada" As of 2023 they've invaded Canada

I'm glad she said it. It needed to be said. Even if it cost the family that huge check..

That moment you look up and realize that it was just a cartoon.

I love how time range shows that only problem is willingness - once people have it, there is almost no issue to solve biggest corruption.

Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.

crazy how all of that happened in less than 3 hours

It's actually amazing in this, they got bob arnold and prosecuted him all within 3 hours. Quite the effective.

Would someone please remind me what this is a reference of?

1:32 i like how they both keep staring at the screen for a few seconds

Why the senator kinda looks like the radio host fish to whom mr. Krabs calls to request the song

FBI Agent: "I work for Uncle Sam" Now that shit was funny.

Legitimately if the system worked thats exactly what would happen

It's sad because they did not need to have a happy ending on this episode... and old simpsons were not shy of doing that...

@dramaticScar

Жыл бұрын

@mm4350 yes I did unfortunatly

@aurahoneydew9607

Жыл бұрын

They kinda did since it lampoons the fact that the US would never be able to do this.

This was not realistic. They left out security showing up. Lissa is then forced to go to court where the judge has already made up his mind. I have lived in Illinois all my life through Democratic and Republican presidents. Illinois has not changed in those four decades.

0:32 YEAH YOU TELL 'EM LISA

The greatest lie is the final sentence.

George Santos anyone😂😂

@carguy3910

6 ай бұрын

Considering the time the episode came out and Bob Arnold’s actions and fate, I would say this is based on Michael “Ozzie” Myers and his role in Abscam.

@ranasharma9875

6 ай бұрын

@@carguy3910 oh yeah from American hustle!! It’s probably that event although given the Simpsons ability to predict events that have happened, we can also say this episode sort of predicted santos 😂😂

I remember this. This was back when America still fancied itself as a democracy. Those were good times.

@victorfergn

Жыл бұрын

The USA had exactly the same system back then xD The DNC started voting the Democratic candidates, if a majority wasnt reached, in the 80's.

@MinscFromBaldursGate92

Жыл бұрын

Trump supporters would argue that the USA is a republic and not a democracy.

@RedDevilStudio

11 ай бұрын

Lol there's always been corruption chief

@MP-dn4bs

11 ай бұрын

@@victorfergn and it was only in the '60s that the concept that voters should have a say in who parties choose to run for president at all became a thing. smoke-filled rooms with party bosses choosing their candidate is how America had been for most of its history.

@victorfergn

11 ай бұрын

@@MP-dn4bs I'm not even American :V

"Where else but America except possibly Canada"😂