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 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 the serving side loses a rally, the serve immediately passes to their opponent ( s ) ( this differs from the old system where sometimes the serve passes to the doubles partner for what is known as a " second serve ").

When two places trade with one another, this doctrine supposes that, if the balance be even, neither of them either loses or gains ; but if it leans in any degree to one side, that one of them loses and the other gains in proportion to its declension from the exact equilibrium.

When the key is released, the tangent loses contact with the string and the vibration of the string is silenced by strips of damping cloth.

When the electron beam interacts with the specimen, it loses energy by a variety of mechanisms.

When a defender successfully stops an attacking player ( who loses the ball over a line ), the play is stopped and restarted by the attacking team from the spot of the infraction or on the nine-meter line.

When the driving toe loses contact with the ground, the recovery phase begins.

When Sisko loses his temper and knocks Q down, an astonished Q says, " You hit me!

When a process loses its parent, becomes its new parent.

When Smith asks if they will take other work at $ 8 to $ 10 a week, the ladies laugh derisively, which loses them public sympathy.

When commodities compete for the role of money, the one that over time loses the least value takes on the role.

When a symbol loses its meaning and power for an individual or culture, it becomes a dead symbol.

When cooled below the glass transition temperature, the quasi-fluid chain segments " freeze " into fixed geometries and the rubber abruptly loses its elastic properties, although the process is reversible.

When a loanword loses foreign cultural associations it has passed into general use in the language.

When he loses his prima ballerina ( Ludmilla Tchérina ) to marriage, Lermontov begins to see Vicky as a possible successor.

When she loses the money, she turns to a wealthy Burmese man ( Sessue Hayakawa ) for a loan.

When this happens, Enrique must make the tough decision of missing the flight to Chicago to be by her side, and thus loses the position.

When she loses her slipper after being recognized by her stepfamily, the king finds her slipper and falls in love with her ( eventually rescuing her from her cruel stepmother ).

When a player loses all his balloons, he is eliminated from the match.

When the man loses his bet and commits suicide, the gangsters are left with the girl on their hands.

When Angel loses his soul and rejoins Spike and Dru, Spike's initial celebration soon turns to resentment when Angelus starts pursuing Drusilla as a lover and taunting him.

When George is ten years old, Fred files for bankruptcy and loses everything, but tries to make George realize that money is not important.

When the man in the episode loses his glasses, he realizes he can still read large print ; his eyes fall out, but he declares he can read Braille ; his hands fall off, and as he screams, so does his tongue and then his entire head.

When the boat overturns at the settlement of New Salem, Abe first sees and loses his heart to Ann Rutledge, the beautiful daughter of the local tavern keeper.