He makes a point of maintaining an emotional distance from the orphans, so that they can more easily make the transition into an adoptive family, but when it becomes clear that Homer is going to spend his entire childhood at the orphanage, Wilbur trains the orphan as an obstetrician and then comes to love him.

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

In " Stop or My Dog Will Shoot " ( season 18, 2007 ), Santa's Little Helper becomes a local hero after finding a lost Homer, and the Simpsons decide to enroll him in the Animal Police Academy.

In this episode Homer becomes a crusader for citizen safety in Springfield, and is promoted to his current position as Nuclear Safety Inspector for the entire power plant.

In the episode, Homer becomes ashamed of his family after a catastrophic company picnic and decides to enroll them in therapy.

Although dark hair colours were predominant in the works of Homer, there is only one case of a dark hero, and that is when the blond Odysseus is transformed by Athena and his beard becomes blue-black.

* In a season 15 episode of The Simpsons entitled Simple Simpson, Homer becomes a pie throwing super hero and leaves the following note after pieing Comic Book Guy:

Despite being a good friend, Carl can be very self-centered and workaholic at times – in The Devil Wears Nada, Carl becomes the new supervisor of Homer's sector ( for being the most competent of them ), and starts to abuse his position by forcing Homer to become his assistant, making him do even the mostly simple and unnecessary tasks ( much to Homer's dismay ).

In 1994 Franz made a cameo appearance as himself in The Simpsons episode " Homer Badman "-when Homer is accused of sexually harassing a babysitter, the case becomes tabloid fodder, generating an exploitative Fox telemovie, Homer S .: Portrait of an Ass-Grabber, in which Franz portrays Homer.

She becomes very upset with Homer and does her best to persuade him, but to no avail.

Homer becomes despondent about losing his secret club and replaces every member with monkeys which he gets drunk and makes act out civil war battles.

When Homer says their plane leaves in 30 minutes ( just to make things suspenseful ), a janitor ( who looks like, and is implied to be, Walter Mondale ) arrives and informs them how a bill REALLY becomes a law.

* A promotional advertisement for Joe Millionaire runs on the screen which Homer becomes aware of, he then proceeds to grab it and eat it.

Homer gets shunned by his family when they find out, and becomes even more depressed when he finds out that the Astrolabe cannot be exchanged, thus meaning that Homer can't undo his mistake.

Homer becomes initially despondent at his family leaving him behind, but finds consolation in finding a marshmellow in Burns ' stomach.

In The Simpsons episode " Homer of Seville ", Homer becomes an opera star and gives advice to Plácido Domingo, while referring to him as his " third favorite " of the Three Tenors.

" When meeting the other writers, Gould pitched an episode in which Homer becomes the owner of a security company, which then became " Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge.

It says Homer made it the worst day of her life because Homer, when he was a teenager, during the opening becomes drunk and ditchs Marge so he can play on the Atari arcade machine with his friends.

Homer becomes brainwashed, and moves his family into the cult compound.

Marge then asks Homer out on a date, but he is nervous while preparing for his date and drinks too much margarita.

Clancy gets nervous, and then brings Homer and Bart to Kirk's cell, explaining about how Lisa is going to catch him, while he has already printed out 10, 000 business cards as Commissioner.

Homer is nervous about giving the speech without Karl, but reasons that as long as he has hair, everything will be fine.

In the episode, Homer suffers from a nervous breakdown after taking a quiz that reveals he only has three years left to live.

Homer is confident about going there, but Flanders is nervous.

The censors were nervous about some of the episode's subject matter, such as Homer pointing the gun in Marge's face, and Bart aiming the gun at Milhouse with the apple in his mouth, but ultimately let it go.

Homer wins by default and is selected for space flight, but after watching an episode of Itchy and Scratchy involving space exploration, he becomes very nervous about going.

Homer reveals that his disappointment runs deeper than that and long predated the fatal wreck: " I took that hard, but I buried it!

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.

As he and Lisa leave with Homer, Ned and Ned's son, Homer starts hallucinating again as the car drives woobly into the sunset.

His years of heavy work have given him amazing strength and a very muscular physique, which has been observed many times ; for example, he rescues Bart from a marauding Alaskan timber wolf by wrestling the wolf into submission, and is also shown when Homer, upset over Bart falling in a well, hits the last straw when Bart starts to cry and begins to dig a hole to rescue him, and Willie seeing this mutters " Why didn't I think of that?

Homer, seeing these changes, finds himself less attracted to her.

The stress of seeing Kent Brockman's TV reports on the revolt causes Homer to immediately lose the hair he grew and regain the lost weight.

Upon seeing a newspaper about Homer's award ceremony, he visits Homer, requesting the money to finance his project.

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.

Upon seeing Ned's house and observing his exaggeratedly perfect relationships with his wife and son, Homer erupts at Ned, accusing him of showing off.

Marge finds that Homer has covered the walls with the phrase " No TV and no beer make Homer go crazy ", and attempts to defend herself with a bat, but Homer, seeing his reflection in a mirror, trips and knocks himself out.

They are often quick in pointing out how close he has come to infidelity, and have unsuccessfully offered to help Marge find a replacement for Homer, although Selma eventually gave in and helped Marge find Homer after seeing how truly unhappy she was.

In many episodes, Selma has been seen as The lesser of two evils towards Homer, as shown in the episode I Married Marge, when Patty and Selma see Homer and while Patty attempts to keep Homer and Marge apart, Selma decides to tell Marge after seeing her upset.

Homer and Marge go to see David and Marge expresses her disappointment that the kids are at home watching " a cat and mouse disembowel each other " rather than seeing the sculpture.

A montage follows of Mona catching up on Homer's missed childhood ; giving Homer a bath, watching Homer in the school play, knitting for Homer, teaching Homer how to ride a bike, and seeing a reenactment of the birth of Bart.

Disgusted, Homer is forced to oblige, as nobody else will do so, but the hobo does not mind anyone seeing his nakedness.

Homer becomes furious and angrily blames Bart and begins punishing him by banning him from ever seeing The Itchy & Scratchy Movie.

After a botched suicide attempt, Homer decides to spend time with Maggie after seeing Ron Howard spend time with his children.