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10-06-2022, 03:07 AM
https://www.looper.com/1040215/the-untold-truth-of-homer-simpson/
BY WILL FANCHER/OCT. 5, 2022 2:33 PM EDT
He's a family man, but not a family guy (https://youtu.be/JjT-ugtVBpA?t=86). He's the son of not just Abe and Mona, but Matt and Dan. He lives in a town with a gorge, a chasm, and a mountain range, and he's fallen down them all. He never graduated high school but yelled his way into a job as a nuclear technician. He once fought a president in the sewer and maimed a college dean. His consequence-free life once literally annoyed a coworker to death. He's a Grammy-winning recording artist and Johnny Cash is his spirit animal. He is none of us, he is all of us. He is Homer Simpson.
Homer has anchored the iconic Fox animated sitcom "The Simpsons" (https://www.looper.com/65723/untold-truth-simpsons/) since 1990 and has been a loving if negligent husband to Marge and father to Bart, Lisa, and Maggie for even longer, going back to the late 1980s variety series "The Tracey Ullman Show." Many of the show's millennial and Gen Z fans have never lived in a world in which Homer and the rest of the citizens of Springfield haven't provided a funhouse mirror to our foibles and weaknesses. They've even predicted the future (https://www.looper.com/963645/the-simpsons-will-reveal-their-prophetic-secret-in-a-future-episode/) a few times (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXcYMvzZ7jk).
Still, nothing comes from nowhere, and even a cultural institution like Homer Jay Simpson (https://youtu.be/jJjFzPfaOq8?t=254) has a beginning, and perhaps a few things you didn't know about this former minor league baseball mascot turned beer baron turned — well, we'll get to that. Here is the untold truth of Homer Simpson.
BY WILL FANCHER/OCT. 5, 2022 2:33 PM EDT
He's a family man, but not a family guy (https://youtu.be/JjT-ugtVBpA?t=86). He's the son of not just Abe and Mona, but Matt and Dan. He lives in a town with a gorge, a chasm, and a mountain range, and he's fallen down them all. He never graduated high school but yelled his way into a job as a nuclear technician. He once fought a president in the sewer and maimed a college dean. His consequence-free life once literally annoyed a coworker to death. He's a Grammy-winning recording artist and Johnny Cash is his spirit animal. He is none of us, he is all of us. He is Homer Simpson.
Homer has anchored the iconic Fox animated sitcom "The Simpsons" (https://www.looper.com/65723/untold-truth-simpsons/) since 1990 and has been a loving if negligent husband to Marge and father to Bart, Lisa, and Maggie for even longer, going back to the late 1980s variety series "The Tracey Ullman Show." Many of the show's millennial and Gen Z fans have never lived in a world in which Homer and the rest of the citizens of Springfield haven't provided a funhouse mirror to our foibles and weaknesses. They've even predicted the future (https://www.looper.com/963645/the-simpsons-will-reveal-their-prophetic-secret-in-a-future-episode/) a few times (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXcYMvzZ7jk).
Still, nothing comes from nowhere, and even a cultural institution like Homer Jay Simpson (https://youtu.be/jJjFzPfaOq8?t=254) has a beginning, and perhaps a few things you didn't know about this former minor league baseball mascot turned beer baron turned — well, we'll get to that. Here is the untold truth of Homer Simpson.