Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in The Tracey Ullman Show short \”Good Night\” on April 19, 1987. As patriarch of the eponymous family, Homer and his wife Marge have three children: Bart, Lisa and Maggie. He embodies many American working class stereotypes: he is obese, immature, outspoken, altruistic, aggressive, balding, lazy, ignorant, unprofessional, and addicted to beer and junk food.
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Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in The Tracey Ullman Show short \”Good Night\” on April 19, 1987. As patriarch of the eponymous family, Homer and his wife Marge have three children: Bart, Lisa and Maggie. Homer embodies many American working class stereotypes: he is obese, immature, outspoken, altruistic, aggressive, balding, lazy, ignorant, unprofessional, and addicted to beer, junk food and watching television. He was named the greatest character of the last 20 years by Entertainment Weekly, was ranked the second-greatest cartoon character by TV Guide, behind Bugs Bunny, and was voted the greatest television character of all time by Channel 4 viewers. His signature catchphrase, the annoyed grunt \”D’oh!\”, has been included in The New Oxford Dictionary of English since 1998 and the Oxford English Dictionary since 2001. For voicing Homer, CastellAneta has won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance and a special-achievement Annie Award. In 2000 he and his family were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Simpsons is generally assumed to be set in the current year in which the characters never physically age, and, as such, the show generally uses a floating timeline in which Homer’s life is generally linked to specific time periods. However, several episodes depict Homer’s mother, Mona, as a radical who went into hiding in 1969 following a run-in with the law.
The episode ‘That ’90s Show’ depicts Homer and Marge as a twentysomething couple in the early 1990s, portraying Homer as a childless, childless couple due to Marge’s early pregnancy. In the first half of the series, the writers developed an explanation about how he got fired from the plant and was then rehired in every episode. In most episodes, he works as the nuclear safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position which, whilst being wholly unsuitable for, he has held since \”Homer’s Odyssey\”, the third episode of the show. Despite the suburban blue-collar routine of his life, Homer has had a number of remarkable experiences, including going to space, climbing the tallest mountain in Springfield by himself, fighting former President George H. W. Bush and winning a Grammy Award as a member of a barbershop quartet. He has appeared in other media relating to The Simpsons—including video games, The Simpsons Movie and The Simpsons Ride, commercials, and comic books—and inspired an entire line of merchandise. The British newspaper The Sunday Times described him as \”The greatest comic creation of time\”. In 2010, he was ranked as the second most popular cartoon character in the history of television, after Bugs Bunny. Homer held over 188 different jobs in the first 400 episodes of The Simpsons, and each of his other jobs has lasted only one episode.
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