* In The Simpsons episode " Homer at the Bat ", Homer Simpson is hit in the head by a pitch while playing for the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team, rendering him unconscious, but forcing in the winning run.

The Simpsons pay a pop culture reference to this film, as King Wrong ( Homer Simpson ) battles Bridezilla ( Marge Simpson ).

* A fictional name for Jesus originally used by Homer Simpson in the Simpsons episode " Missionary: Impossible "

The Lindy Hop was performed by Homer Simpson while dressed up as a panda in The Simpsons episode " Homer vs.

Marge Simpson is the wife of Homer and mother of Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson.

In " The Way We Was " ( season two, 1991 ), it is revealed via flashback that Marge attended Springfield High School, and in her final year met Homer Simpson.

These include working as a nuclear technician alongside Homer at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in " Marge Gets a Job " ( season four, 1992 ); selling houses in " Realty Bites " ( season nine, 1997 ); owning her own pretzel business in " The Twisted World of Marge Simpson " ( season eight, 1997 ), and working at an erotic bakery in " Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes " ( season 20, 2008 ).

King Henry ( Homer Simpson ) is depicted as a gluttonous slob who stuffs his face while singing " I'm Henery the Eighth, I am ".

* October 29 – Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor ( Homer Simpson from ' The Simpsons ')

The Simpsons episode " Catch ' Em If You Can ", aired 25 April 2004, alluded to the snob appeal of The Economist in an exchange between Homer and Marge Simpson while they are travelling first-class aboard an airplane:

* In a scene of the The Simpsons Movie ( 2007 ), Homer Simpson is shown throat singing with an Inuit woman in order to have an epiphany.

Noted for his long-running role as Homer Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons, he voices many other characters on The Simpsons, including Abraham " Grampa " Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby and Hans Moleman.

Castellaneta is most famous for his role as Homer Simpson on the long-running animated television show The Simpsons.

Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Castellaneta and fellow cast member Julie Kavner to voice Homer and Marge Simpson rather than hire more actors.

Homer was placed second on TV Guide < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s 2002 Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters, and in 2000, Homer and the rest of the Simpson family were awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard.

In 1992, he guest-starred in an episode of the legal drama L. A. Law, as a Homer Simpson meetable character at a California amusement park who is dismissed for inappropriate behavior while in costume.

Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional main character that appears in the animated television series The Simpsons as the patriarch of the eponymous family.

Homer Simpson is the bumbling husband of Marge and father of Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson.

She becomes pregnant by her father, and Homer performs an abortion on her.

A drunk Homer performs his first dance to the 1961 tune " Baby Elephant Walk " written by Henry Mancini.

Bleeding Gums Murphy makes a 26-minute long performance of the " Star-Spangled Banner " at the game where Homer performs his first dance.

From the Rastafarians who appear in the crowd when Homer performs ' Baby Elephant Walk ', to the existence of the Players ’ Ex-Wives section at the ballpark, the episode provided a fun and rich program.

The veterinarian advises Homer that if he performs his act one more time, his stomach will burst and he will die.

* The drum solo Homer performs during the first " Pre-Teen Braves " meeting is also the opening drum part of the song " Get Back " and in the middle of " The End ", both by the Beatles.

Homer hopes that his crew will not be sent to " that terrible Planet of the Apes ," only to suddenly figure out the film's ending ; he then unwittingly performs Charlton Heston's final scene in the film.

Mob boss Don Vittorio DiMaggio tells Homer he will kill him unless he performs a loop-de-loop on a tiny bicycle.

The comedian who performs at the telethon whom Homer does not find funny is a parody of Garrison Keillor.

The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie.

Castellaneta chose the title I Am Not Homer as a parody of Leonard Nimoy's famous first autobiography I Am Not Spock, as well as to show that most of the comedy featured " is not the typical Homer comedy.

He survived his car blowing up, catching on fire due to the powerful magnifying effect of his glasses, a hallucinating Montgomery Burns drilling into his brain, capital punishment ( in a local jail ) after Homer eats his last meal, left inside a fluoroscope for possibly an entire weekend, being buried alive, being left forgotten and alive in a purgatory and being engulfed by an " anti-escape bubble " that was attempting to catch Marge ( a parody of a similar device from the ' 60s show The Prisoner ), and he also was run over by Homer in The Parent Rap, after the whole family promised they would not commit any crimes for a whole year.

In early episodes, she is shown as very sexually aggressive and promiscuous: in " Flaming Moe's ", she is shown with her arms around two sailors in the parody of the famous Cheers theme, and tries to pick up both Joey Kramer ( Aerosmith's drummer ) and Homer Simpson, even after learning he is married and Bart's father.

In " The Blunder Years " ( 2001 ), a parody of the film Stand by Me, a teenaged Moe is depicted as a friend of Homer, Lenny and Carl.

* In The Simpsons episode, " Take My Wife, Sleaze ", a parody of Rebel Without a Cause became an inspiration for Homer Simpson to form his motorcycle gang, even though he watched it with his vintage 1955 Harley-Davidson motorcycle he won at a ' 50s nostalgia cafe earlier in this episode.

If there is parody in the Satyricon it is not about the main characters — Encolpius, Giton and Ascyltos — but of the described social reality, and the literary genres of certain famous poets and writers, Homer, Plato, Virgil and Cicero included.

" In the parody, Bart plays the " monster " character who turns Homer into a jack-in-the-box when Homer goes to kill Bart after Bart sends Homer flying into a goal post during a football game.

*" The Stimpsons "-A parody of The Simpsons ( lampooning the fact that the BBC had recently lost the British broadcasting rights to the show to Channel 4 ) in which Homer is really Captain Pugwash, Marge Simpson is Mr Benn in disguise, Bart Simpson is actually Charley the Cat and the sofa is Bagpuss under a blanket.

He also uses the epic style of invocations, lamentations, exclamations and similes, and in some cases adds parody to imitation by following the framework of actual speeches in Homer ’ s Iliad.

Driftwood songs were recorded by Eddy Arnold, Johnny Cash, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Homer and Jethro ( the parody " The Battle of Kookamonga "), Odetta, Doc Watson and others.

Batrachomyomachia ( Ancient Greek:, from, frog,, mouse, and,, battle ) or the Battle of Frogs and Mice is a comic epic or parody of the Iliad, definitely attributed to Homer by the Romans, but according to Plutarch the work of Pigres of Halicarnassus, the brother ( or son ) of Artemisia, queen of Caria and ally of Xerxes.

* Jim Nabors as Private Homer Lyle, a parody of his popular character, Gomer Pyle

The series is a satirical parody of the middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its titular family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.

* When Homer takes all of the presents from Springfield, this is a parody of the How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

Pope also apologizes for using parody of the Classics ( for his poem imitates both Homer and Virgil ) by pointing out that the ancients also used parody to belittle unworthy poets.

There are some wonderful tunes, including the ' Mary Poppins '- ish ' Cut Every Corner ,' Bart and Sideshow Bob performing the score to ' HMS Pinafore ,' the SUV parody commercial ' Canyonero ,' and Homer and Marge's take on the All in the Family theme [...], but too much of it is filler.

Examples of this include the scene where Homer drives through the treacherous mountain roads, a parody of a scene in Sorcerer, and the scene in which Kent Brockman reports Barney's accident, in which his attire ( including glasses ), camera angles and facial expressions are in reference to the manner of Walter Cronkite's reporting of the Kennedy shooting.

Homer and Jethro ( Henry Haynes and Ken Burns ) had a big hit with a parody called " The Ballad of Roger Miller "...