When the Emperor Hadrian asked the Oracle at Delphi about Homer, the Pythia proclaimed that he was Ithacan, the son of Epikaste and Telemachus, from the Odyssey.

In " When You Dish Upon a Star ", Homer meets and befriends Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger and Howard.

When Groening originally designed Homer, he put his initials into the character's hairline and ear: the hairline resembled an ' M ', and the right ear resembled a ' G '.

When Homer loses his temper and punches Burns in the face, Mr. Burns learns to become self-reliant and this results in Smithers being fired.

When he thought he finally won Marge's heart, he promised to be a better lover than Homer.

When Homer saw a news report showing that Barney had been trapped in an avalanche, Homer immediately drove to the mountain and rescued Barney.

When Homer has a heart attack in front of him in response to this news, he says, unmoved, that the cost is now $ 40, 000-hinting the heart attack made him now require a quadruple bypass.

When Bart and Homer return home, Santa's Little Helper is assumed by the rest of the family to be a Christmas present.

When Sun learned of the successful rebellion against the Qing emperor from press reports, he immediately returned to China from the United States accompanied by General Homer Lea on 21 December 1911.

When Bart and Homer return home, Homer attempts to come clean to the family, but all is forgiven with the arrival of Santa's Little Helper who is assumed to be a Christmas present for the whole family.

When asked in interviews, members of GFR have confessed to be incredibly flattered about having Homer as a fan.

When the record store owner advises him to look at the ' Oldies ' section, Homer takes out a Styx record and says " Oldies ?, but you got all the top bands in here.

When the school psychologist, Dr. Pryor, studies the results, he identifies Bart as a genius, to the delight of Homer and Marge, who enroll him in a new school.

When he was created, he was intended to just be a neighbor who was very nice, but whom Homer loathed.

When Johnson nominated Fortas, he also nominated Homer Thornberry to fill Fortas ' seat.

When Homer was thirteen, Charles gave up the hardware store business to seek a fortune in the California gold rush.

" When a young record shop employee asks what that is, Homer says " The US Festival, sponsored by that guy from Apple Computers!

" When Bart returns home from a Junior Campers meeting Homer asks " How was jerk practice, boy?

" When Mr. Burns appears on a radio show in an attempt to boost his popularity in " Monty Can't Buy Me Love ", Homer tells him that he has a list of jokes explaining the differences between white and black people ; Homer later states, " White guys have names like Lenny, whereas black guys have names like Carl.

When Homer collects supplies to protect his family and home from the marauding zombies, he decides to pursue a black sports car — which he believes belong to the aliens — to the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.

When Allen was about five years old, Leila Ellsworth married Homer Ludden Jr., an electrical engineer and the son of H. D.

When a player misses, the Homer figure screams or says one of his trademark lines such as " D ' oh!

When Barney spent the second half of 1901 in the United States, Vivien chose not to follow ; upon Natalie's return, she refused to see her.

", which satirizes Norm's entrance When a bartender similar to Woody Boyd asks him how he is doing, Barney burps in response.

When in 1961, Mel Blanc was recovering from a motor vehicle accident, Daws Butler stepped in to voice Barney Rubble in five episodes of The Flintstones ( The Hit Songwriter, Droop-Along Flintstone, Fred Flintstone Woos Again, The Rock Quarry Story, The Little White Lie ).

When openly-gay Congressman Barney Frank was asked if Dreier was not elected House majority leader because he was too ' moderate ', Frank replied: " Yes, in the sense that I marched in the moderate pride parade last summer and went to a moderate bar.

When describing Wells ' landmark success in 1964, former Motown sales chief Barney Ales:

When the Colonels folded, Barney Dreyfuss became the owner of the Pittsburgh franchise and tapped Clarke, Wagner, Waddell, Deacon Phillippe and others to accompany him.

When she finally did mention them to Barney, he was sympathetic, but not too concerned, and the matter was dropped.

When Barney next met with Dr. Stephens, he asked about hypnosis.

When his friend and political colleague Barney Danson was appointed Minister of Defence, Deacon worked with Danson and Jacques Hébert to create Katimavik, a national service program designed to enable unemployed youth help others and themselves at the same time.

When he succeeds in getting Vinnie to a suburb in California and a private house, Barney has one more problem: he must make sure the jovial and sometimes mischievous Vinnie conforms to Witness Protection protocol until he is sent to Federal Court to testify against mob kingpins.

When Zena, Manny, and Joe move into the cinder-block cottage next door, Barney is intrigued by their glamorous, exotic lifestyle.

When speaking to an upper-crust snob in another episode, Betty declares Barney is in " top-secret " work ; but that might have been a cover for a low-level job or unemployment, or perhaps an in-joke meaning that Barney's job was unknown even to the show's writers.

When Bamm-Bamm grew into a teenager, Barney joined the Bedrock police force with Fred for a period of time as part-time officers.

When he wakes up the next morning, he sees a TV show with Barney Fife, telling him to quit the pity-party and fight crime.

When Andy calls Barney's bluff and asks him to explain it to Opie for his history class, Barney becomes defensive and blurts out that it was a proclamation for emancipation, and leaves irritated.

When Andy orders Barney to return to the scene, he sees the same farmers panic and rushing to get off the road upon seeing him, Barney believes they are at last taking him seriously and, as usual, begins to puff and swagger.

# Grandpa For Loan – When the father-son picnic is coming up, Fred loans his grandfather to Barney when his father is unavailable.

When business is slow at the courthouse, Andy can be found playing checkers with Barney, sitting in front of the barber shop chewing the fat with idlers, playing pranks, or conducting personal errands.

When a Duff beer truck comes to a sudden stop, spilling its contents in front of a weakening Barney, Homer refuses to let him give up on sobriety and drinks an entire six-pack in his place.

When it comes to Maggie's birthday party, Moe annoys everyone with his behavior and his gift to Maggie: a toy-sized rendition of his bar, featuring " Classic Drunk Barney " and " Drunk Talking Homer ".

When a party is arranged at David's country property the party goers are left devastated as a bomb planted by Roger's men explodes claiming Barney Adams as a fatality and leaves Alan Brandon with life changing injuries.