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.

With her husband Homer, she has three children: Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.

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

After the two had been dating for several years, Marge discovered she was pregnant with Bart, and she and Homer were married in a small wedding chapel across the state line.

The episode " That ' 90s Show " ( season 19, 2008 ) contradicted much of the established back-story ; for example, it was revealed that Marge and Homer were childless in the early 1990s although past episodes had suggested Bart and Lisa were born in the 1980s.

During the third season of the show, most of the writers focused on Bart and Homer, so David M. Stern decided to write a Marge episode, which became " Homer Alone " ( season three, 1992 ).

The ghosts of Homer and Marge watch Bart taunt Milhouse, and Homer attempts to talk Marge in to having ghost sex with him, only for Marge to tell him that " ghost sex is nothing.

* Since the episode aired in 1992, the Simpsons episode, Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie, ends likely at this year, stating 40 years later, with Bart in his 50s and as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, watches the repeat of the repeat of the Itchy and Scratchy film, with his elderly father Homer.

* In The Simpsons episode " Treehouse of Horror IV ", Homer is seen chasing Bart in a painting parodying the famous M. C.

Homer and his wife Marge have three children: Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.

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

" Mother Simpson " ( season seven, 1995 ) depicts Homer's mother, Mona, as a radical who went into hiding in the mid-1960s following a run-in with the law ; " The Way We Was " ( season two, 1991 ) shows Homer falling in love with Marge Bouvier as a senior at Springfield High School in the 1970s ; and " I Married Marge " ( season three, 1991 ) implies that Marge became pregnant with Bart in 1980.

Left to right: Homer as he appeared in " Good Night " ( 1987 ), " Bathtime " ( 1989 ), and " Bart the Genius " ( 1990 ).

At eight years old, Lisa is the second child of Homer and Marge, younger sister of Bart and older sister of Maggie.

While the roles of Homer and Marge were given to Dan Castellaneta and Julie Kavner because they were already a part of the Tracey Ullman Show cast, the producers decided to hold casting for the roles of Bart and Lisa.

He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and he is also the patriarch of the Simpson family, the father of Homer Simpson, and the grandfather of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson.

Grampa Simpson is the father to Homer Simpson, father-in-law to Marge Simpson and grandfather to siblings Bart, Lisa and Maggie.

In the episode " Burns ' Heir ", Hans is mistaken for Bart and accidentally " de-programmed " ( Homer and Marge had hired a cult de-programmer, hoping to convince Bart to move out of Mr. Burns ' mansion and back in with them ), apparently leading him to believe he is the son of Homer and Marge.

Of the Fat Tony episodes, Mantegna favors " Bart the Murderer " and " The Mook, the Chef, the Wife, and Her Homer ", because it was the season premiere. Fat Tony was also voiced by Phil Hartman in the episode, A Fish Called Selma.

He was designed to look like Homer Simpson with clown make-up, with the original idea being that Bart worships a television clown who looks like his own father.

She was at first wary of Homer, but agreed to go to the prom with him, although she ended up going with Artie Ziff.

" In the episode " Million Dollar Maybe ", Wiggum sees Homer Simpson going 110 miles per hour, and when Lou attempts to pursue him, Wiggum stops him, stating, " Let him go, Lou.

Bodett is known for the Motel 6 " We'll leave the light on for you " advertisements, and the whimsical book about Homer, As Far as You Can go Without a Passport.

Mirkin has been cited as introducing a more surreal element to the show's humor, as shown by his sole writing credit for the show, " Deep Space Homer ", which sees Homer Simpson go to space as part of a NASA program to restore interest in space exploration.

The idea proved controversial to some the show's writing staff, who felt that having Homer go into space was too " large " an idea.

Desperate for a miracle, Homer and Bart go to the dog racing track on Christmas Eve in hopes of earning some money.

He also differed with Kant's philosophy and turned away from the Sturm und Drang movement to go back to the poems of Shakespeare and Homer.

In " Fat Man and Little Boy ", Homer quotes to Lisa " You and science go together like Lenny and Carl – the science is Carl ".

Bart is shown a picture of a lovely château in the heart of France and he immediately agrees to go, much to Homer and Skinner's delight.

Homer and the kids try their best over the next few days to encourage her to go outside, but to no avail.

Unable to go on, Bart finally confesses his crime to his family, explaining that he thought that being popular was the most important thing in the world that Homer told him.

Homer chides Bart for not faking plausible grades, but lets him go to camp anyway because he does not want Bart “ hanging around all summer ".

However, after viewing the weather outside and struggling with his pants, Homer refuses to go.

When they finally get home, Marge is horrified to hear that Homer intends to never go to church again.

So the ' Homer doesn't go to church ' storyline was given to George Meyer.

Homer and Marge are in Atlantic City when they spot the children once more, so they go on the run from them in an instrumental musical montage and an animated sequence.

Ned, The Simpsons, and their garage ( which Homer was assigned to clean, leading Marge to believe he blew up the town specifically to get out of doing so ) go to Heaven as angels and meet God ( again ), who proceeds to give Homer " what he deserves " – his Frisbee.

Homer advises him go out and be the best Barney he can be.

Marge and Homer go to the actual women's conference in search of Lisa, but there see Chloe's live broadcast from the volcano, crediting Lisa behind the camera.

However, the Simpsons do not have enough money so they go looking for Homer instead.

Instead of Homer, Bart, Barney and Moe going deer hunting and ending up at " Santa's Village " they would go back to the steel mill.

Bart and Milhouse go out to spend $ 50 that Bart won when he bet Homer that he could not eat a spoonful of rotten baking soda that Lisa dug out of the back of the refrigerator.