 The Simpsons introduced a character named Frank Grimes in "Homer's Enemy" who suffers a similar fate at the hands of the cosmically careless Homer Simpson.Owen Gleiberman summed up "Pure Luck" in his D- review as, "a numbingly repetitive farce in which the cursed Short trips, walks into walls, trips, spills an entire saltshaker onto his breakfast, trips, sets people on fire, trips ..." Roger Ebert gave the film one and a half stars, and zeroed in on the emptiness of much of the film's comedy