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 == Synopsis ==
-{{Desc|[[Frank Grimes]], the new employee at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant|power plant]], is annoyed with [[Homer]]'s incompetence and work ethic and becomes extremely irritated with this, declaring himself an enemy of Homer. Meanwhile, [[Bart]] buys a factory for a dollar and operates it along with [[Milhouse]].}}
+{{Synopsis|[[Frank Grimes]], the new employee at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant|power plant]], is annoyed with [[Homer]]'s incompetence and work ethic and becomes extremely irritated with this, declaring himself an enemy of Homer. Meanwhile, [[Bart]] buys a factory for a dollar and operates it along with [[Milhouse]].}}
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-"'''Homer's Enemy'''" is the twenty-third episode of [[season 8]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the one hundred seventy-sixth episode overall. It originally aired on May 4, [[1997]]. The episode was written by [[John Swartzwelder]] and directed by [[Jim Reardon]]. It guest stars [[Frank Welker]] as the [[executive vice president dog]]
+"'''Homer's Enemy'''" is the twenty-third episode of [[Season 8|broadcast season 8]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the one hundred seventy-sixth episode overall. It originally aired on May 4, [[1997]]. The episode was written by [[John Swartzwelder]] and directed by [[Jim Reardon]]. It guest stars [[Frank Welker]] as the [[executive vice president dog]]
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 |couchgag=The family sits, but Bart is green; Homer messes with the dials on the TV, turning Bart red; finally, Homer smacks Bart upside the head, correcting Bart's color.
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-{{Desc|[[Frank Grimes]], the new employee at the power plant, is displeased with [[Homer]]'s incompetence and work ethic and becomes further annoyed with this. He eventually declares himself an enemy of Homer. Meanwhile, Bart buys a factory for 1 dollar and operates it along with Milhouse.}}
+{{Desc|[[Frank Grimes]], the new employee at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant|power plant]], is annoyed with [[Homer]]'s incompetence and work ethic and becomes extremely irritated with this, declaring himself an enemy of Homer. Meanwhile, [[Bart]] buys a factory for a dollar and operates it along with [[Milhouse]].}}
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-"'''Homer's Enemy'''" is the twenty-third episode of [[season 8]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the one-hundred and seventy-sixth episode overall. It originally aired on May 4, [[1997]]. The episode was written by [[John Swartzwelder]] and directed by [[Jim Reardon]]. It guest stars [[Frank Welker]] as the [[executive vice president dog]]
+"'''Homer's Enemy'''" is the twenty-third episode of [[season 8]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the one hundred seventy-sixth episode overall. It originally aired on May 4, [[1997]]. The episode was written by [[John Swartzwelder]] and directed by [[Jim Reardon]]. It guest stars [[Frank Welker]] as the [[executive vice president dog]]
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 |airdate=May 4, [[1997]]
 |couchgag=The family sits, but Bart is green; Homer messes with the dials on the TV, turning Bart red; finally, Homer smacks Bart upside the head, correcting Bart's color.
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 |guests= [[Frank Welker]] as the [[executive vice president dog]]
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 The show opens with a news report about [[Frank Grimes]], an orphan who experienced many hard times in his life, and finally self-educated himself enough to enter the workplace. [[Mr. Burns]] sees the newscast and orders [[Smithers]] to hire him at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant|nuclear plant]] as Executive Vice President. The next day, Burns forgets this decision and gives the job to a courageous dog, and assigns Grimes to a low-level position. Shortly thereafter, Grimes crosses paths with Homer and doubts him. It may have something to do with the fact that Homer is lazy, annoying, and thoroughly unqualified for the job he has, yet he's so well off in life, unlike poor "Grimey".
-Meanwhile, while on a trip to a local government building, [[Bart]] wanders away from [[Marge]] and ends up buying an abandoned warehouse at a tax auction for a single dollar. He moves right in, and then hires [[Milhouse]] to act as a security guard. Since it is unusable and Bart in only 10, he doesn't bother hiring anyone else since they'll only play in it anyway.
+Meanwhile, while on a trip to a local government building, [[Bart]] wanders away from [[Marge]] and ends up buying an abandoned warehouse at a tax auction for a single dollar. He moves right in, and then hires [[Milhouse]] to act as a security guard. Since it is unusable and Bart is only 10, he doesn't bother hiring anyone else since they'll only play in it anyway.
 Back at the plant, Grimes' dislike for Homer heats up as he furthers witness Homer's ineptitude. When he brings this up to Lenny and Carl, they don't see his point, and disagree with Grimes' opinion of him. When Homer accidentally almost drinks acid, Grimes' knocks the vial out of his hand and ends up wrecking the cafeteria wall, for which he then gets blamed by Mr. Burns and is given a final chance for his job, although a decreased salary. Grimes angrily approaches to Homer, confessing his hatred of him and declaring that they are enemies.

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 == Plot ==
-The show opens with a news report about [[Frank Grimes]], an orphan who experienced many hard times in his life, and finally self-educated himself enough to enter the workplace. [[Charles Montgomery Burns|Mr. Burns]] sees the newscast and orders [[Waylon Smithers, Jr.|Smithers]] to hire him at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant|nuclear plant]] as Executive Vice President. The next day, Burns forgets this decision and gives the job to a courageous dog, and assigns Grimes to a low-level position. Shortly thereafter, Grimes crosses paths with Homer and doubts him. It may have something to do with the fact that Homer is lazy, annoying, and thoroughly unqualified for the job he has, yet he's so well off in life, unlike poor "Grimey".
+The show opens with a news report about [[Frank Grimes]], an orphan who experienced many hard times in his life, and finally self-educated himself enough to enter the workplace. [[Mr. Burns]] sees the newscast and orders [[Smithers]] to hire him at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant|nuclear plant]] as Executive Vice President. The next day, Burns forgets this decision and gives the job to a courageous dog, and assigns Grimes to a low-level position. Shortly thereafter, Grimes crosses paths with Homer and doubts him. It may have something to do with the fact that Homer is lazy, annoying, and thoroughly unqualified for the job he has, yet he's so well off in life, unlike poor "Grimey".
-Meanwhile, while on a trip to a local government building, [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] wanders away from [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] and ends up buying an abandoned warehouse at a tax auction for a single dollar. He moves right in, and then hires [[Milhouse Van Houten|Milhouse]] to act as a security guard. Since it is unusable and Bart in only 10, he doesn't bother hiring anyone else since they'll only play in it anyway.
+Meanwhile, while on a trip to a local government building, [[Bart]] wanders away from [[Marge]] and ends up buying an abandoned warehouse at a tax auction for a single dollar. He moves right in, and then hires [[Milhouse]] to act as a security guard. Since it is unusable and Bart in only 10, he doesn't bother hiring anyone else since they'll only play in it anyway.
 Back at the plant, Grimes' dislike for Homer heats up as he furthers witness Homer's ineptitude. When he brings this up to Lenny and Carl, they don't see his point, and disagree with Grimes' opinion of him. When Homer accidentally almost drinks acid, Grimes' knocks the vial out of his hand and ends up wrecking the cafeteria wall, for which he then gets blamed by Mr. Burns and is given a final chance for his job, although a decreased salary. Grimes angrily approaches to Homer, confessing his hatred of him and declaring that they are enemies.
 Upon advice from [[Moe]], Homer decides to invite Grimes to dinner at his house to try and be friends. He has Marge prepare a lobster dinner and the family dress in their usual church clothes. However, when Grimes arrives he only gets angrier. This wasn't the life someone like Homer Simpson should have; he sees the house (he describes as a mansion), the two cars, Bart owning a factory (he is not thoroughly informed of the rather unglamorous details), [[Lisa]] having a Intelligence Quote of 156, his beautiful wife and learns of Homer's unlikely accomplishments (like becoming an astronaut, winning a Grammy, being on tour with the [[The Smashing Pumpkins|Smashing Pumpkins]] and being friends with ex-president [[Gerald Ford|Ford]]). Grimes rants that it is inconceivable that such a screw-up could achieve so much, when he worked hard for everything and the only thing he has to show for it is his briefcase, haircut and a tiny apartment between two bowling alleys (which impresses Homer). He says people like him are what is wrong with the country and that if he lived anywhere else he'd have starved long ago, a point which Homer casually concedes, while still laughing.
-The next day Marge comforts Homer telling him that Frank doesn't hate him, he's just frustrated that life has always been hard to him while easy for Homer, and tells him if he cleaned up his act a little maybe Frank would be less hostile. After hearing this, Homer decides to clean up his act (in his own way), and appear more professional on the job. Grimes still disapproves him, at break he once more tries to convince [[Lenny Leonard|Lenny]] and [[Carl Carlson|Carl]] that Homer is an idiot but once more fails despite pointing out that the number of accidents and meltdown has skyrocketed since Homer got his job. He says he would die a happy man if he could just convince them.
+The next day Marge comforts Homer telling him that Frank doesn't hate him, he's just frustrated that life has always been hard to him while easy for Homer, and tells him if he cleaned up his act a little maybe Frank would be less hostile. After hearing this, Homer decides to clean up his act (in his own way), and appear more professional on the job. Grimes still disapproves him, at break he once more tries to convince [[Lenny]] and [[Carl]] that Homer is an idiot but once more fails despite pointing out that the number of accidents and meltdown has skyrocketed since Homer got his job. He says he would die a happy man if he could just convince them.
 He decides to trick Homer into entering a children's contest "Design Your Own Power Plant" of a flyer by masking those areas that betray its juvenile theme. Homer decides to participate, unaware that it is for children. Meanwhile, the warehouse Bart owns collapses in the middle of the night, leaving the rats to swarm [[Moe's tavern]]. Bart angrily confronts Milhouse over not watching it, but calms down when Milhouse proves he was indeed watching by accurately describing how "first it started falling over, then it fell over".
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 At the contest, Homer's diorama is a crude representation of the current plant, but with fins to improve air resistance and a racing stripe. Mr. Burns, impressed by his effort, awards Homer first prize, beating out [[Ralph Wiggum]] and [[Martin Prince]], the latter whose model was actually generating the power for the auditorium. His plan having backfired, Grimes starts to call everybody in the crowd insane. He finally snaps, and begins to rampage through the plant, imitating Homer as he loses his sanity. Having completely lost his mind, in a last desperate demonstration, he grabs an open conduit and electrocutes himself to instant fatal death.
-At the funeral, [[Timothy Lovejoy, Jr.|Reverend Lovejoy]] says that Frank liked to be called 'Grimey'. Homer gets the last laugh as he drools and talks in his sleep, believing in his state of stupor that the whole funeral is merely being played out on television, and deeming it boring, and requesting that Marge change the channel. All the mourners and Lovejoy laugh at Homer's antics as Grimes' coffin is lowered into the ground.
+At the funeral, [[Reverend Lovejoy]] says that Frank liked to be called 'Grimey'. Homer gets the last laugh as he drools and talks in his sleep, believing in his state of stupor that the whole funeral is merely being played out on television, and deeming it boring, and requesting that Marge change the channel. All the mourners and Lovejoy laugh at Homer's antics as Grimes' coffin is lowered into the ground.
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