Apu responded by purchasing a forged birth certificate from the Springfield Mafia that listed his parents as U. S. citizens Herb and Judy Nahasapeemapetilon, but when he realized he was forsaking his origins, he abandoned this plan and instead successfully managed to pass his citizenship test with help from Lisa and Homer Simpson.

In the Odyssey of Homer, the sorceress Circe tells Odysseus of the " Wandering Rocks " or " Roving Rocks " that have only been successfully passed by the Argo when homeward bound.

After successfully petitioning the city council, Homer embarks on a public safety crusade that involves placing speed bumps and warning signs throughout the town.

Sexual Inadequacy " ( an episode of The Simpsons ), Abraham Simpson asks Homer whether pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is what's wrong with Marge ; a cartoon episode of Rocket Power, in which a dimwitted character named Twister successfully spells the word on his spelling test ; High School Musical 2: What's What Edition refers to this as the longest word.

The submarine successfully escapes, and Prof. Frink tells them there is time to save Homer, but he is wrong, as Homer instantly returns to his original size inside Mr. Burns ' skin.

Homer stops the show and successfully manages to make a plea to the audience to treat women with respect.

On the day before the election, Homer successfully reveals the candidates ' real identities.

* Homer tells Marge to " publish or perish ", which refers to the constant pressure in academic environments to publish their work in order to successfully further their careers.

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, thought well of the episode, calling it, " A quite charming little adventure in which, in an effort to impress Bart, Homer undertakes a dangerous adventure and comes through successfully.

* The Epigoni, attributed in antiquity to either Antimachus of Teos or Homer: a continuation of the Thebaid, which told the story of the next generation of heroes who attacked Thebes, this time successfully.

Homer applies the term of both the Greek and Trojan heroes as well as major female figures, such as Penelope, the wife of the Greek hero, Odysseus.

Homer is rejected by every college he applies to, but Burns helps him get into Springfield University.

Homer applies for a job as a guard, but is rejected after Otto switches his urine sample with Homer's and Mr. Burns mistakes Otto's sample for Homer's.

Homer applies for a job at the power plant once more, this time marching into Mr. Burns's office and telling him that he will be the perfect employee.

The Odyssey of Homer referred to a gift given to Helen by the Egyptian queen, a drug bringing oblivion.

* In the episode " Midnight Rx " of The Simpsons Homer goes to a Canadian drug store called " Dudley Do Drugs " with an image of Dudley in effect of the drugs.

At the Simpson house, Homer is embarrassed when he watched the final product, an advertisement for an impotence drug, but Bart tells him that nobody will remember it in 50 years.

Political topics addressed on The Simpsons include homophobia and gay marriage ( in the episodes " Homer's Phobia " and " There's Something About Marrying "), immigration and border control (“ Much Apu About Nothing ,” “ Midnight Rx ”, “ Coming to Homerica ”), drug and alcohol abuse (" Brother's Little Helper ", " Weekend at Burnsie's ", " Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment ", " Duffless ", " E-I-E-I -( Annoyed Grunt )", and " Days of Wine and D ' oh ' ses "), gun rights (" The Cartridge Family "), environmental issues (" The Old Man and the Lisa ", " Trash of the Titans ", " Lisa the Tree Hugger ", " The Wife Aquatic ", " The Squirt and the Whale ", in addition to being an important plot device in the feature-length film ), election campaigns (" Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish ", " Sideshow Bob Roberts ", " Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington ", " See Homer Run ", " E Pluribus Wiggum ", " Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson "), and corruption (" Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington ").

Duff insists that they are not moving and he has Duffman drug Homer to cover up the truth.

While his family and friends worry about the drug altering his personality, Homer becomes Mr. Burns's vice president after cracking up at Burns's antiquated jokes.

However, Homer is also depicted spending more time with other drug users than with his family, and his friends find that his personality has changed.

Like Achilles, he is represented ( although not by Homer ) as living after his death in the island of Leuke at the mouth of the Danube.

Homer appears to know nothing of all these tragic occurrences, and we learn from him only that, after the death of Thyestes, Aegisthus ruled as king at Mycenae and took no part in the Trojan expedition.

A 1973 diagnosis of colon cancer, however, led Atkins to redefine his role at RCA, to allow others to handle administration while he went back to his first love, the guitar, often recording with Reed or even Homer & Jethro's Jethro Burns ( Atkins's brother-in-law ) after Homer died in 1971.

Homer decides to return to the orphanage after the death of Dr. Larch, to work as the new director.

Finally, even after accepting the various alterations admitted by Homer, some lines remain impossible to scan, e. g. Iliad I. 108 “ not a good word spoken nor brought to pass ”:

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.

She was forced to leave school and Homer with her family after her father, after having " insured it heavily ", burned the family's rotting gristmill.

Henry ( portrayed by Homer ) quickly orders Anne's beheading after realizing she is a he.

* 8th century-Homer tell that Polydamna supplied the Greek forces besieging Troy with healing drugs Homer also tells about battlefield surgery Idomeneus tells Nestor after Machaon had fallen: A surgeon who can cut out an arrow and heal the wound with his ointments is worth a regiment.

He named the character after his father, Homer Groening.

Homer was named after Groening's father.

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.

Fat Tony puts out a contract on Homer after his private security business interferes with the mob's interests in " Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge ".

In early episodes, she is shown as very sexually aggressive and promiscuous: in " Flaming Moe's ", she is shown with her arms around two sailors in the parody of the famous Cheers theme, and tries to pick up both Joey Kramer ( Aerosmith's drummer ) and Homer Simpson, even after learning he is married and Bart's father.

In “ Treehouse of Horror IX ,” he injects himself with anesthetic after punching Homer in the face in order to knock him out before performing a hair transplant on him, using a pizza cutter.

Brockman's penchant for using offensive language works against him in the 400th episode, " You Kent Always Say What You Want ", where, after Homer accidentally spills coffee on Brockman's crotch, he shouts, what Ned Flanders calls, a " super swear " that shocked everyone who watched it.

Bart pleads with Homer to keep the dog as a pet and he agrees after it affectionately licks him on the cheek.

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.

Oscar was one of numerous PBS personalities chasing after Homer for not being able to pay a pledge in a Simpsons season 11 episode, " Missionary: Impossible ".

Some older sources of the myth, including Homer, state that Oedipus continued to rule Thebes after the revelations and after Jocasta's death.