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.

As Hans is flying through the air he texts Homer " dislike " a number of times and when he hits the ground an ambulance comes and takes his cellphone to the hospital.

Hud, in a true act of adult cruelty ( that reveals his true nature ) comes to recognize Lonnie ’ s desire for an emotional attachment to him, and tries to use this attraction to gain Lonnie ’ s support in his moves against Homer.

The episode's title comes from the Greek epic poem Odyssey, traditionally attributed to the legendary poet Homer.

In The Simpsons fifth season's first episode, " Homer's Barbershop Quartet ", Homer Simpson, along with finding an original copy of the U. S. Declaration of Independence, an Action Comics 1, and a Stradivarius violin, all of which he throws away, then comes across a full sheet of Inverted Jennys in the 5 cent box at a local swap meet.

In 1786 Horne Tooke conferred perpetual fame upon his benefactor's country house by adopting, as a second title of his elaborate philological treatise of " Epea Pteroenta " — the expression ἔπεα πτερόεντα, épea pteróenta ( see " Winged words "), comes from Homer — the more popular though misleading title of The Diversions of Purley.

Fundamentally, all that is known of this Erichthonius comes from Homer, who says ( Samuel Butler's translation of Iliad 20. 215-234 ):

The next day, during dinner, the Blue Haired Lawyer comes to the house to serve Homer with a subpoena and a side of bacon just to get him to open the door.

Homer ( who has been hiding in the back ) comes out to confront his wife as she prepares to hurl Lenny.

Homer comes to church the next Sunday, but sleeps through the service.

* In The Simpsons, fifth Halloween Special ( Treehouse of Horror V ), in the Time and Punishment episode, Homer finds himself able to travel through time by means of a magic toaster and comes across Mister Peabody and Sherman.

Complementary evidence on oral performance of poetry in classical Greece comes in the form of references to a family, clan, or professional association of Homeridae ( literally " children of Homer ").

Safe again, Homer resigns as police chief and offers the job to the first person who comes along, which is Wiggum ( who notes that an identical situation is how he became chief in the first place ).

Homer comes out front to defend Seth and Munchie and hippie honor by reminding the police of the morals taught by the 1960s, planting a flower in each of their guns as he does so.

As she leaves the tavern Homer comes in.

Central Michigan Lifes John Thorpe named it the tenth best episode of the series, and wrote: " The best part comes when Homer decides not to eat the last part of the doughnut, thus saving him from hell.

Meanwhile, at the Simpson family's home, Patty comes out of the closet, saying that she is in love with a pro golfer named Veronica and asking Homer to perform the ceremony.

Flanders comes over and asks if he can chew Homer ’ s ear.

When Homer comes home with news that he has been fired as the village oaf, he abandons Bart and Lisa in the woods to solve the family's food shortage.

Before the witch can attack Lisa and Bart, Homer comes to the rescue, eating his way through the gingerbread house's walls.

A man named George Cauldron comes by, asking Homer, Bart, and Lisa if they have seen a woman named Suzanne.

After Patty comes out, Homer accepts her sexuality despite his past problems with her.

Suddenly, a more futuristic Homer comes in to warn them about guns that have destroyed Earth in the future.

Visiting Moe's Tavern, Artie encounters Patty and Selma, and Selma comes to take Artie to her apartment after he mentions putting Homer in prison.

Homer is somewhat vague about the precise manner of Ajax's death but does ascribe it to his loss in the dispute over Achilles's shield: when Odysseus visits Hades, he begs the soul of Ajax to speak to him, but Ajax, still resentful over the old quarrel, refuses and descends silently back into Erebus.

In accordance with this double meaning, the Aegis appears in works of art sometimes as an animal's skin thrown over the shoulders and arms, and sometimes as a cuirass, with a border of snakes corresponding to the tassels of Homer, usually with the Gorgon head, the gorgoneion, in the centre.

In accordance with this double meaning, the ægis appears in works of art sometimes as an animal's skin thrown over the shoulders and arms, and sometimes as a cuirass, with a border of snakes corresponding to the tassels of Homer, usually with the Gorgon's head, the gorgoneion, in the centre.

The ' 38 club saw Dizzy Dean lead the team's pitching staff and provided a historic moment when they won a crucial late-season game at Wrigley Field over the Pittsburgh Pirates with a walk-off home run by Gabby Hartnett, which became known in baseball lore as " The Homer in the Gloamin '".

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.

Out of over 200 remaining remnants of Sappho ’ s poetry, Fragment 16 and Fragment 44 in particular are considered lyric retellings of Homer epics, as Sappho was known to be very familiar with Homer ’ s poems.

" In The Simpsons Movie, some scenes, such as Marge's video message to Homer, were recorded over one hundred times, leaving Kavner exhausted.

Homer has held over 188 different jobs in the first 400 episodes of The Simpsons.

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.

Homer ran over Hans once again while he was carrying a sign saying " YOU SUCK " in a field of signposts saying " No Dumping " in regards to Lake Springfield in The Simpsons Movie.

Although Hutz loses most of his cases, he does win several cases for the Simpsons, for instance representing Homer in his case against the Sea Captain and the Frying Dutchman restaurant over its " All You Can Eat " offer (" The most blatant case of false advertising since The Never Ending Story ").

This is not his last foray into attempted leadership of Springfield ; in the Season 17 episode " See Homer Run ", he is one of over 200 candidates for mayor, following his usual catchphrase into " BEST MAYOR EVER.

Apu tries to wriggle out of the arrangement at first, with Homer making Marge pretend to be his wife until Apu's mother finds her with Homer, but is won over when he meets Manjula face-to-face at the wedding, and the two decide to give the marriage a try ( Manjula notes nonchalantly that they can always get a divorce ).

Brockman's harangue about the Corvair spacecraft being taken over by a master race of giant space ants in " Deep Space Homer ", which generated the meme, is considered to be one of the show's classic moments.

Homer says they were killed by Apollo before they had any beards, consistent with their being bound to columns in the Underworld by snakes, with the nymph of the Styx in the form of an owl over them.

They colonized Crete and extended their rule over Epirus, Thessaly and by implication over wherever else the ancient authors said they were, beginning with Homer.

In the course of the hunt and its aftermath, many of the hunters turned upon one another, contesting the spoils, and so the Goddess continued to be revenged ( Kerenyi, 114 ): " But the goddess again made a great stir of anger and crying battle, over the head of the boar and the bristling boar's hide, between Kouretes and the high-hearted Aitolians " ( Homer, Iliad, ix. 543 ).

The heroes who participated assembled from all over Hellas, according to Homer ; Bacchylides called them " the best of the Hellenes ".

" If such a tapestry had been made at the time, then it could explain how the battles were remembered in such great detail over the 400 or so years between the siege of Troy and the age of Homer.

" Some scenes in the movie, such as Marge's emotional video message to Homer, were recorded over one hundred times, leaving Kavner exhausted.