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 Roper seems reluctant, Han shows him the mutilated corpse of Williams, hinting that Roper will face the same fate if he refuses to cooperate.

When Hector is killed by Achilles, the Greek warrior treats the body with disrespect and refuses to give it back.

" When a horrifed Sir Thomas refuses to go along, King Henry has him shot out of a cannon.

When Godai refuses, he wakes up the next morning to find her gone and her room empty.

When Captain Dana " Dynamite " Holmes ( Philip Ober ) learns of his reputation as a talented boxer, he recommends that Prewitt join the regimental boxing club that he heads, and promises that Prewitt will be promoted to corporal or even sergeant, if he helps win the boxing trophy on December 15, but Prewitt refuses, though he keeps silent about his reasons.

When interviewed, he usually remains on the subject of his business career and refuses to answer specific questions on politics, candidates, or his past activities.

When the hospital is abandoned, Hana refuses to leave and instead stays with her patient.

When the king dies the Countess attempts to raise their son, Adrian, to reclaim the throne, but Adrian opposes his mother and refuses to take the throne.

When she refuses his advances, he drags her into a forest and rapes her.

When Antiochus refuses, the Battle of Magnesia is fought near Magnesia ad Sipylum, on the plains of Lydia in Anatolia, between the Romans, led by the consul Lucius Cornelius Scipio and his brother, Scipio Africanus, with their ally Eumenes II of Pergamum, and the army of Antiochus III the Great of the Seleucid Empire.

When Romulus refuses, they confront him in battle and are defeated.

When the colonel refuses to attempt his rescue, McGregor and Forsythe go without orders.

When the Jewish financier refuses, Hynkel reinstates and intensifies his persecution of the Jews.

When Regina asks Horace outright for the money, he refuses, so Leo, a bank teller, is pressured into stealing his uncle Horace's railroad bonds from the bank's safety deposit box.

When Tom refuses to tell Legree where Cassy and Emmeline have gone, Legree orders his overseers to kill Tom.

When she refuses, he uses force: he breaks her concentration and terrifies her by throwing her out of the airplane, catching her with the airplane, and he uses this to kiss her.

When the engineer refuses to stop the train, she rides ahead and stands on the track.

When she refuses him, he grows desperate and unsuccessfully tries to rape her.

When Odysseus goes to save his men, Eurylochus refuses to guide him and urges him to escape and leave the men to their fate.

When Demophon refuses and begins to prepare for war, an oracle informs him that Athens will be victorious only if a noble maiden is sacrificed to Persephone.

When asked his name and lineage, he refuses to answer and is challenged to a duel.

When Hymir refuses to provide Thor with bait, Thor strikes the head off Hymir's largest ox to use as his bait.

" When Motss refuses to back down, Brean has him killed and makes it look as if he had a heart-attack while tanning next to his pool.

When asked, Prahlada refuses to acknowledge his father as the supreme lord of the universe and claims that Vishnu is all-pervading and omnipresent.

When asked, Prahlada refuses to acknowledge his father as the supreme lord of the universe and claims that Vishnu is all-pervading and omnipresent.