He’s an absolute piece of shit and everything he does is horrible but I find it hard to hate him.

I think the show does an {excellent} job of making him look pathetic and pitiable, maybe there’s something to that overruling the digust I inevitably feel from everything he does or says. He’s definitely someone I never tire of joking about or referrring to as a short hand for senility and capitalism embodied, i dunno, I feel more sad for him. Like its lonely at the top and its worse if thats all you have.

Maybe sometimes I feel not so different from him (of course without all the money and the psychopathy lol)

  • Rikudou_SageA
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    3 days ago

    Simpsons is a very over-the-top kind of thing. Most of the characters are horrible if they were real.

    Like, Homer literally physically abuses his son. Skinners basically fucks up education for the kids. And there are many, many more I could write about.

    But you still like them, while you’d (hopefully) despise someone who chokes his son when he’s angry at him.

    So, that’s your answer, it’s very over-the-top and it’s funny because of that. That’s why you like Burns, even though he would be a total piece of shit in real life.