Would you need to feel some measure of responsibility for someone killing themselves because you drove them crazy with your undeserved success relative to your incompetence?

he chose to do it. he saw the cables. he knew they were uninsulated. he purposefully put his hands on them knowing he'd die.

>would I feel guilty someone died because they observed my luck
Not at all. Also skill issue

>>149361738
balance of his mind was disturbed

>>149361685 (OP)
aside from the fact he was clearly having a mental breakdown, no, because if I were in Homer's position it wouldn't have been my intention to cause Grimey any harm, and I could hardly be blamed for living a life he would eventually turn out to be envious of when I didn't even know the guy more than a week

>>149361774
Well even if it is dying because of it makes learning any sort of lesson off the back of the experience relatively impossible.

>>149361973
Use more punctuation or something, bro

Should have been the final episode.

No.
I understand why would he get a mindbreak, but Homer holds no responsibility over Franks madness.
Its no ones fault that Franks life was absolutely shit and had to get the very little he has through sheer effort while Homer has almost everything he had through nepotism and being an impulsive fuck with iq on the two digits (and even with that its not like if Homer hasn't got his shit kicked in many times).
Frank just couldn't accept that.
And in no moment did Homer was malicious towards Frank in any way at all.

>>149361685 (OP)
>Would you need to feel some measure of responsibility for someone killing themselves because you drove them crazy with your undeserved success relative to your incompetence?

Even if we deem Homer innocent of driving him nuts, he still watched the guy kill himself when he could have reasonably intervened. So fuck him either way.

>>149361685 (OP)
we all share in the responsibility when one of our flock strays.. but none to the extent they can be individually punished for it, least of all for succeeding.
>>149362188
I wanna say they had to balance that episode carefully, because they knew Homer would come off irredeemable if they made him malicious. I think I read that somewhere. And given that this was ankles-deep into Jerkass Homer era, which.. yknow, at the time, was funny... that was very carefully done.

>>149361685 (OP)
If it were me I'd say yes, however it being Homer I would tell him he has no reason to feel guilty at all. Remember we suffer more in our imagination that we do reality so Frank really did himself in and has no one to blame but himself for his own death. He should've just learned the rules, hell Carl and Lenny tried to tell him how things worked at the plant earlier in the episode too.

Regardless of how lucky Homer was, Frank was wrong to be jealous of him. In reality both Frank and Homer are good examples of the two extremes of taking life seriously. Homer doesn't take life seriously at all and Frank takes it way too seriously. It's best to find a balance

>>149361685 (OP)
There is a very distinct change in overall tone after this episode. Simpsons can literally be carved into the halves of pre- and post-Grimes.