" Reynolds quotes Helios Creed, who identifies The Residents as a keyboardist named " H ", a singer named Homer, and " this other guy called John "; and Peter Principle of Tuxedomoon, who claims that " we eventually figured out that the guy doing the graphics and the engineer in the studio were in fact the Residents.

As Homer's boxing coach in " The Homer They Fall " ( 1996 ), he narrates his career as a boxer, from " Kid Gorgeous " through " Kid Presentable ", " Kid Gruesome " and eventually " Kid Moe ".

They eventually persuaded Homer Plessy to participate in an orchestrated test case.

Homer tries to convince Larry to fake a kidnapping so that Burns will admit that he loves his son, and although Larry at first opposes the idea, he eventually agrees to do it.

Marge eventually discovers the plan and convinces Homer and Larry to abandon their plot, but as they leave the house they are spotted by a news helicopter and are chased by reporters and police.

Homer was born seemingly healthy, but after suffering a drop as a baby, he became a hunchback, eventually standing 5-foot, 3-inches in height and weighing approximately 100 pounds.

Marco, who was the one holding the crystal, eventually passed the crystal to Jake's dog, Homer, who cast the Pemalite crystal into the ocean, and no news of it has been heard since.

During the outro scene, Homer has difficulty opening a wine bottle, but is surprised to hear his son speak French, and eventually opens the wine bottle.

Homer eats eight different kinds of meat, and an embarrassed Lisa wanders off and eventually finds a fortune telling booth.

Homer eventually catches on and starts his own webpage, which contains copyrighted material from other pages.

In 1987 he presented a paper at the international conference of the Mormon History Association in Oxford, where he started a long-lasting co-operation with Swiss historian Jean-François Mayer and with the Utah lawyer and historian Michael W. Homer, which would eventually lead to the establishment of CESNUR in 1988.

Grampa tells him to confront his ursine assailant, and Homer eventually does so, contacting a hunter named Grant, who has revealed to place an electrical prod on the bear to exact his location.

As his homemade armor is hot, Homer eventually takes it off and bathes in a stream, where he is again attacked by the bear.

After several more trips back and forth in time, Homer eventually arrives in a reality that appears normal.

Homer eventually returns the donut to Lard Lad, but that does not stop Lard Lad and his friends from causing destruction.

While she at first denies that she knows anything, Marge eventually tells the kids the truth: Willie was set on fire in a furnace explosion ( caused by Homer, who had increased the temperature of the school's thermostat, ignoring Willie's orders not to ) and burned to death while the parents of the students looked on and did nothing.

To get the leprechaun, Homer uses Lucky Charms cereal as bait, eventually finding a little Irish leprechaun after picking through a group of other magical creatures.

Patty and Selma have occasionally expressed their common hope that Marge will eventually divorce Homer.

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.

His voice started out as an impression of Walter Matthau but eventually evolved into a more robust voice during the second and third season of the half-hour show, allowing Homer to cover a fuller range of emotions.

Homer is eventually taken to the hospital and put in the same ward next to Lance Murdock, where he tells him, " You think you've got guts, try raising my kids.

Homer, initially appalled at what everyone has become, eventually embraces the concept of being a mutant animal who does nothing but eat, sleep, mate and roll around in its own filth upon realizing how well it fits in with his personal lifestyle.

Homer is eventually found guilty and sentenced to ten years in prison.

The song that John picks out and he and Homer dance to is " I Love the Nightlife " by Alicia Bridges, and the song that Bart dances to is Cher's version of " The Shoop Shoop Song ( It's in His Kiss )" by Betty Everett.

Homer finally picks the right button and zaps them both out and Lisa then presses the rewind button to return Bart's body to normal.

It does however catch the attention of Homer, who picks it up and reads it while sitting in a wing chair owned by Archie Bunker, a character from All in the Family.

Homer chooses Dewey, and Lisa picks Truman.

It starts off badly with Homer being beaten up after interrupting U2's PopMart Tour concert, but picks up when Homer, after prompting from Moe, thinks of a slogan for his campaign: " Can't someone else do it?

" Homer stays with Skinner at the hotel, and in a reference to the television series The Odd Couple, Skinner picks up a cigar butt from the floor with his umbrella while cleaning the room, just as Tony Randall does in the opening credits of that series.

* Galinsky, G. Karl, The Herakles theme: the adaptations of the hero in literature from Homer to the twentieth century, Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1972.

In " Bart of Darkness ", Flanders's high pitched scream was performed by Tress MacNeille and in " Homer to the Max ", Flanders comments about cartoons being easily able to change voice actors and on that occasion he was voiced by Karl Wiedergott.

On television, Fierstein was featured as the voice of Karl, Homer Simpson's assistant, in the " Simpson and Delilah " episode of The Simpsons and the voice of Elmer in the 1999 HBO special based on his children's book The Sissy Duckling, which won the Humanitas Prize for Children's Animation.

In the script, Homer was thrown out of the house by Marge, and encountered Karl.

In the 1990 episode " Simpson and Delilah ", the character Karl ( voiced by Harvey Fierstein ) kisses Homer, while the recurring character Waylon Smithers is often shown to be in love with his boss, Montgomery Burns, initially suggestively and since then more overtly.

Homer grows hair, and is given a promotion at work which allows him to hire a secretary named Karl.

As he is about to become an executive, Homer tries to look for a good secretary, but all the applicants fail due to being seductive young women – until Homer finds a man named Karl, who earnestly persuades Homer to tell himself that he deserves everything he has and is the finest creature God ever created.

Karl covers for Homer by hiring a singing telegram service to serenade Marge with " You Are So Beautiful ", which Marge loves.

Smithers gleefully prepares to fire Homer for the fraud, but Karl takes the blame for Homer and writes the $ 1000 check to repay the company.

Homer is deeply saddened to see Karl go after all Karl had done for him, including lending Homer his umbrella before finally leaving in the rain.

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

His fears are alleviated when Karl appears with a pre-written speech for him, but Homer is still convinced he is incapable of accomplishing anything without his hair.

Karl impatiently tells Homer what he had been trying to teach him all along — that all of Homer's achievements had been the result of his own will and effort, not of his hair.

Karl urges Homer to think higher of himself and give the speech, even kissing him on the lips to prove his point.

The episode features a kiss between Homer and Karl, which occurred a decade prior to US television's first real man-on-man kiss on Dawson's Creek.

In the script, Homer was thrown out of the house by Marge, and encountered Karl.

From this age of 10 Weber was already reading The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas, adventure novels by Karl Frederich May, poetry by Victor Hugo and Homer.