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- Overview
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- Personality
- Bullies
- Enemies
- Friends
- The Guys
- Skills and Abilities
Homer Jay Simpson (born May 12, 1956) is a man from Springfield and the protagonist of the animated television series The Simpsons.
He is a crude, ignorant, and slobbish individual, although he is fundamentally a good person and shows great caring and loyalty to his family, friends and on occasion, to those he barely knows or those he considers his enemies.
Homer works as a low-level safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in Sector 7G, although he is often incompetent and negligent towards his duties. He spends a great deal of his time at Moe's Tavern with his friends Barney Gumble, Carl Carlson, Lenny Leonard, and Moe Szyslak. At home, he can often be found sitting on the couch mindlessly watching TV while snacking on food and drinking Duff. Homer is also the only son of Abe Simpson II and the late Mona Simpson, but he has two illegitimate half-siblings on Abraham's side. He is married to Marge Simpson and has three children with her: Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. When provoked, he often strangles Bart for pressuring him. Even though he mutually hates his wife's sisters Patty Bouvier and Selma Bouvier, he played Selma's husband for her to adopt Ling and agreed to be the minister for Patty's intended homosexual marriage. As a result of this, Homer is her legal adoptive father.
Homer could just simply be a normal man, but he has had many great achievements and experiences in his life. He has won a Grammy, an Academy Award, a Pulitzer Prize, been to space and saved Springfield many times.
Born somewhere in Springfield, Homer has a floating timeline, making his birth and childhood difficult to place. Homer once had a driver's license issued in 1992 which gave his date of birth as May 12, 1956. Similarly, he said he was 24 years old in 1980. In the 1990s, Homer daydreamed about watching President John F. Kennedy on television and scaring cows as a child in 1963. In the 2000s, Homer mentioned being ten years old in "the '60s or '50s, or maybe it was the early '70s". He was in high school somewhere from 1974 to 1999. Homer was also depicted as a young adult in the mid to late 1990s. His mother was said to have disappeared the year of an early Super Bowl in the 1960s which Joe Namath was in, or circa the 1980s to 1990s, about 30 years before the Patriots traded Brady.
Homer Jay Simpson was born to Abraham and the now late Mona Simpson. He was raised on the Simpson family farm until they were forced to move out because Homer was jumping out of a hay bale and scaring the cows into giving sour milk, making the bank to foreclose it. At some point in his childhood, Homer started to drink alcohol like his father did and accidentally caused a traffic jam in a Playskool car. According to a family tree designed by Matt Groening, the creator of the show, Mr. Charles Montgomery Burns, his boss, is a distant relative of him. You could view the family tree showing Homer's known family members and ancestry here if you'd like.
When Homer was around six or nine years old, his mother went into hiding following a run-in with the law. Homer mentioned Abe told him she died while Homer was at the movies although in another episode's flashback Abe told Homer she was dead when she had already been missing for a while. Before her disappearance, Mona took Homer and Abe to Woodstock, where Homer ended up briefly adopting the hippie lifestyle, much to Abe's disapproval. Homer discovered she was alive either seven or twenty-seven years later.
When Homer was 10 years old, his father forced him to attend Camp See-A-Tree, where he went on a date with Marge Bouvier from Camp Land-A-Man; unfortunately, though, he fibbed about his name and sustained an injury while Marge was changing her appearance. Later Homer, accidentally stumbled into Camp Flab-Away and escaped too late to meet up with her again, which is something that left him as heartbroken as Marge.
When Homer was 12, he, Lenny, Carl, and Moe went to a deep gorge to swim but the water was drained. When investigating why the lake was reduced to a muddy pit, he stumbled upon a decomposing corpse inside a nearby pipe, greatly traumatizing him.
When he was 15, Homer participated in a drinking contest by lying that he was 22. However, he became so intoxicated to the point that he ended up drinking a whole entire beer keg used to fill the other contestants cups. Eventually he was hungover enough that he missed almost a complete month of school.
Homer's appearance is that of an overweight balding man. Despite his overweight status, and hate for exercise, he has on occasion shown surprising physical prowess and agility for a man of his body type, such as when training for Whacking Day and he hits several pop-up Snakes with kicks and even back-flipping. His baldness is contributed by several factors, such as upon finding out whenever Marge was pregnant, he would tear out a substantial amount of his hair. Another contribution is working at the nuclear plant for so many years that the exposure to radioactivity has caused most of his hair to fall out. Another frequent topic on Homer's obesity is his large posterior which is often joked about by Bart. His eyes are blue, and he is 6 feet tall (183 cm). While his weight is debatable, the most common weight given is 239 pounds (though many jokes about his weight would suggest he is much heavier than that). He wears a white polo shirt, blue jeans, white underpants, and gray loafers.
He and the rest of his family were initially really crudely drawn and badly animated in the early seasons of The Tracey Ullman Show (as shown in the 1st picture you spot above from the Good Night short), but they eventually streamlined the characters and they now look like what they do today.
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Homer is a pure moron who can go back and forth from being downright terrible to an extremely caring and loving man. Homer's personality is one of frequent immaturity, frequent stupidity, selfishness, laziness, and explosive anger; one might say it's like that of the "Average Joe". He also suffers from a short attention span, which complements his intense but short-lived passion for hobbies, enterprises, and various causes. Despite his family flaws, he is a loving and devoting father and husband, even if he can be ignorant or oblivious to his family's feelings and ideas. When he thinks he's let anyone he loves down, it really does affect him, and in the end, he will do anything for them. Another contribute to his "Working Joe" persona is that he has also shown to be sensitive about his masculinity; being initially upset over Marge becoming a police officer as he thought it made her "the man of the house", as well as refusing to call a contractor when Marge wanted her kitchen remodeled as to not emasculate his pride.
Homer is noticeably prone to emotional outbursts; he gets very envious of his neighbors, the Flanders family, and is easily enraged at his son, Bart, and strangles the boy in an exaggerated manner. His trademark phrase to strangling Bart is "Why you little...!" and on one occasion, "Why you little bastard!" He also spanks Bart sometimes and, in one case, Lisa. One time, he was too busy to spank them, so he told them to go to their rooms and spank themselves. He does not show compunction about this, and is not attempting to hide his actions from people outside the family, even showing disregard for his son's well-being in other ways, such as leaving Bart alone at a port, or allowing Bart to go court for skateboarding naked on his dare when all he would have to do is attend a one-hour parenting class signifying not only his disregard for Bart but his extreme laziness.
•Abraham Simpson II (sometimes)
•Bart Simpson (sometimes)
•Jimbo Jones
•Krusty The Clown (formerly)
•Mr. Starbeam (Mr. Shapiro)
•Nelson Muntz
•Abraham Simpson II (his father but on occasions)
•Artie Ziff
•Ashley Grant
•B.F. Sherwood
•Bart Simpson (sometimes)
•Beatrice (Dangerous Curves)
•Andy (Moms I'd Like to Forget)
•Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
•Barney Gumble
•Bart Simpson
•Bender (non-canon)
•Buck Mitchell
Homer is one of the four best friends (Lenny, Carl, Moe), who call themselves "The Guys".
Criminal Record
•Being sent to jail seven times, as seen in "This Little Wiggy". •Attempting to smuggle a baby panda from China. •Piracy, as seen in "Steal This Episode". •Graffiti, with his graffiti name being El Homo, in reference to El Barto, not realizing 'homo' is a slur used against gay men, in reference to 'homosexual'. •Shooting 'DO NOT SHOOT' signs, as seen in "Blazed and Confused". •Attempting to poison Bashir bin Laden and his family due to their religion. •Homophobia (this is illegal in most Western countries, including Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Canada, almost all of South America, most of the European Union and many American states, as well as in some other countries, such as Japan, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Israel, and Turkey, as well as partly in Fiji and Lebanon). •Smuggling Ned Flanders' property, such as magnets, toasters and other common household items. He has also smuggled tickets. •Dumping a silo full of pig feces (labeled "Pig crap"), with some human feces, into Lake Springfield (this may be non-canon as it was in The Simpsons Movie. •Participating in Springfield's St. Patrick's Day riots. •Ruining the Conflict of Enemies tournament in Seoul, South Korea, as seen in E My Sports. •Child abuse, when Homer strangles Bart Simpson. This is done as a recurring joke on the show. •Trashing Springfield Elementary School, by driving his car into the school at night, whilst drunk, with Lenny Leonard, Carl Carlson, and Moe Szyslak, after the Springfield Isotopes won the baseball game. •Numerous instances of drunk driving.
Physical Prowess
Homer's skills seem to vary greatly. Sometimes, Homer can find it difficult to run to the smallest distances before passing out from exhaustion, and other times, he has exceeded the prowess of gold medal Olympians. He can have trouble understanding the simplest of concepts to being able to build a functional robot with a working A.I. His physical strength is just as random: At times, he is too weak to even kill a fly by punching it, while at other times, he is able to lift a motorbike above his head, and use it as a sword effortlessly and throw punches that send people flying with ease. Additionally, in his youth, Homer was once a very talented gymnast, even catching high school Marge's eye with his ability. Unfortunately, his father's lack of faith in him caused him to blunder in front of the entire school, which promptly led to the end of his career. Homer also is a proficient bowler. He once bowled a perfect game, leading to short-term fame for him.
Endurance
Homer has shown to have near-superhuman endurance and durability, repeatedly surviving accidents that could easily kill other people. His well-padded stomach allowed him to survive direct cannon fire to the stomach with no immediate injuries, although later it was found that repeated fire had destroyed his stomach which could have killed him. Homer's skull is a quarter-inch thicker than the average skull (dubbed "Homer Simpson Syndrome") that protects him completely from cranial injury up to a certain point allowing him to be beaten by normal folk with no effect but can be hurt by significant force such as getting punched in the face by the world heavyweight boxing champion or falling repeatedly down Springfield Gorge. At one point, Homer even survived having every bone in his body broken from a fall that would have liquefied a regular person. Another time, he managed to get back up and walk around from being mauled by a badger in a failed and foolish attempt to get it out of Santa's Little Helper's doghouse despite having his entire gut torn out and exposing his intestines (which the badger somehow accomplished without ripping his shirt. This could have been accomplished by the badger going under Homer's shirt instead of attacking him through it). Homer is constantly ending up in sticky situations, such as being caught in a fire on at least four occasions, almost drowning, animal attacks and more. In some episodes, he "almost dies" twice, and in one episode, Frank Grimes' son was trying to murder Homer, and all through the episode Homer ended up in situations that would normally kill a person. In Homer Scissorhands, he tries to commit suicide by drinking a container of disinfectant. Once realizing it did nothing to him, he questions why nothing ever seems to kill him, even several simultaneous heart attacks. Homer is not a stranger to pain. He gets hurt in one form or another in almost every episode and frequently breaks bones and ends up in the hospital. He has also needed several life-saving operations, such as a triple bypass and suffering four simultaneous heart attacks. In one episode, Marge gets concerned at how much Homer almost dies as a result of sticky situations and begs him to get life insurance where we find out that he has also had three strokes and is, therefore, not insurable. In an interview with Matt Groening, he jokingly states that Homer is unable to die due to God finding him far too entertaining to kill off and enjoys his pain-induced suffering.
Pro Football Hall of Fame. College Football Hall of Fame. Signature. Orenthal James Simpson (July 9, 1947 – April 10, 2024) was an American football player, actor, and media personality who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Buffalo Bills.
Role in The Simpsons. Homer Jay Simpson is the bumbling husband of Marge, and father to Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson. He is the son of Mona and Abraham "Grampa" Simpson. Homer held over 188 different jobs in the first 400 episodes of The Simpsons.
