Later, Howard gives Homer the inspiration to spend more time with his kids and offers him some money that Homer refuses at first but then takes.

At an early age Wiggum played cops and robbers with Homer and other kids his age and he showed a clear ambition to become a police officer.

Bob briefly returns in the season 20 episode " Wedding for Disaster ", when Bart and Lisa initially suspect Bob of kidnapping Homer to prevent him from attending his second wedding with Marge ( due to a keychain they found had an ' S ' and a ' B '), but Krusty provides him with an alibi, explaining to the kids that Bob was with him the whole day.

In " Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder ", Homer goes bowling but tells Marge that Lenny was hospitalized ; when Marge informs the kids, they respond the same way she did and shout, " Not Lenny !".

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

When Homer refuses Marge's sexual advances the night before the contest, she callously ignores his worries and then proceeds to pin him down and rapes him, before leaving him completely sore and exhausted to take care of the kids the next morning.

Homer and Marge take the kids to get their shots.

The writers also thought that " it would be fun if while the kids are gone Homer and Marge find that as the kids are miserable their marriage is better than ever.

" Homer points out that " I'm not a bad guy, I work hard, and I love my kids ... so why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to hell?

Homer hates church, Marge wants the kids to see Homer as an example, and everyone pulls together in the end.

Nibbles makes it to Ned and Homer, breaking the window and reviving them: they crash into a salt silo, melting the snow around the school and badly rusting the car but freeing the kids in the process.

The next day, Homer sees Marge and the kids, who have brought " Weird Al " Yankovic and his band, who play a song called " Homer and Marge ", a parody of " Jack & Diane ", to tell Homer that Marge loves him.

Homer, unaware that the contest is only open to kids, eagerly takes on the challenge to prove his professionalism ; Grimes ' glee at seeing Homer leave to start the contest vanishes when Homer smashes his car into Grimes ' vehicle while reversing out of the car park.

Back in the present day, Homer takes Maggie to bed, commenting on how kids learn to talk back as soon as they learn to talk.

Marge and Homer now need a babysitter and hire Ms. Botz through the local " Rubber Baby Buggy Bumper babysitting service " ( however they have to call themselves the " Samsons ", since their kids have a rather bad reputation with the babysitting service ).

After advising Homer to keep an eye on Bart, Ms. Botz makes a clean getaway, just seconds before the kids arrive with the police and news media to arrest her.

At home later that night, Homer confesses to Marge he is afraid that his life has returned to a dead-end job, that his kids will be disappointed because he can no longer buy the things for them he promised he would, and most of all that Marge will no longer love him as much.

However, Marge reminds Homer that his safety inspector job has always brought food to the table, and that the kids will get over not being spoiled.

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.

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 Bart go inside, leaving Marge ( who is still recovering from her gambling addiction from "$ pringfield ") and Lisa ( who is on the fence about her stance on the morals and ethics behind Indian gambling ) in the car.

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.

Homer pictures Apollo on the side of the Trojans, fighting against the Achaeans, during the Trojan War.

Lastly, his Mouseion ( a word invoking the Muses ) seems to have contained the narrative of the Contest of Homer and Hesiod, of which the version that has survived is the work of a grammarian in the time of Hadrian, based on Alcidamas.

2754: Winter, J. G., ' A New Fragment on the Life of Homer ' TAPA 56 ( 1925 ) 120 – 129 ).

Anaximenes was a pupil of Zoilus and, like his teacher, wrote a work on Homer.

Former emphasis on presumed race, in which John A. Scott could write an article on Achaean blondness, compared to the dark locks of " Mediterranean " Poseidon, on the basis of hints in Homer, has been laid aside.

The original text is found on the preface Blake printed for inclusion with Milton, a Poem, following the lines beginning " The Stolen and Perverted Writings of Homer & Ovid: of Plato & Cicero, which all Men ought to contemn: ..."

Pope: " Thus on a roe the well-breath'd beagle flies, And rends his hide fresh-bleeding with the dart " The Iliad of Homer ( 1715 – 20 ) Book XV: 697 – 8

Despite its explicitly Christian nature, Clement's work draws on Stoic philosophy and pagan literature ; Homer alone is cited over sixty times in the work.

He did some studio work for RCA that year but had relocated to Knoxville again where he worked with Homer and Jethro on WNOX's new Saturday night radio show The Tennessee Barn Dance and the popular Midday Merry Go Round.

Homer Wells grows up in an orphanage where he spends his childhood " being of use " as a medical assistant to the director, Dr. Wilbur Larch, whose history is told in flashbacks: After a traumatic misadventure with a prostitute as a young man, Wilbur turns his back on sex and love, choosing instead to help women with unwanted pregnancies give birth and then keeping the babies in an orphanage.

He is presumed missing by the military, but Homer and Candy both believe he is dead and move on with their lives.

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

In his biography in the Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Suetonius attests to Domitian's ability to quote the important poets and writers such as Homer or Virgil on appropriate occasions, and describes him as a learned and educated adolescent, with elegant conversation.

But the form of the OHG and Gothic words suggests it is also a borrowing, perhaps indeed directly or indirectly from Greek " ἐλέφας " ( elephas ), which in Homer only meant " ivory ", but from Herodotus on the word also referred to the animal.

In Homer, her saffron-coloured robe is embroidered or woven with flowers ; rosy-fingered and with golden arms, she is pictured on Attic vases as a beautiful woman, crowned with a tiara or diadem and with the large white-feathered wings of a bird.

Both Homer and Hesiod described a flat disc cosmography on the shield of Achilles.

* The Greeks ( 1980 ), a cycle of ten plays adapted by John Barton and Kenneth Cavander from the works of Homer, Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles, on the Oresteia legend. The Greeks would also have very great orgys, blowjobs.

Even after Homer had located Hector in Troy for all time, the Thebans held on to their hero, and the Delphic oracle provided the necessary sanction.

Homer expressed her relationship with Zeus delicately in the Iliad, in which she declares to Zeus, " I am Cronus ' eldest daughter, and am honourable not on this ground only, but also because I am your wife, and you are king of the gods.

* 700 BC: Epic poem Iliad by Homer, earliest account on the continent.

Just as Homer drew extensively on a tradition of oral poetry, sung by wandering minstrels, so Herodotus appears to have drawn on an Ionian tradition of story-telling, collecting and interpreting the oral histories he chanced upon in his travels.

Homer and His Guide, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau ( 1825 – 1905 ), portraying Homer on Mount Ida, beset by dogs and guided by the goatherder Glaucus ( as told in Pseudo-Herodotus )