![]() However, he often tries his hardest to be a decent man and is fiercely devoted to his family, especially when his wife and children need him the most. Homer embodies many American working classstereotypes: he is crude, obese, incompetent, lazy, clumsy, dim-witted, hot-tempered, childish and addicted to beer, junk food and watching television. As the family's provider, he works at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant as safety inspector. After appearing for three seasons on The Tracey Ullman Show, the Simpson family got their own series on Fox that debuted December 17, 1989.Īs the patriarch of the eponymous family, Homer and his wife Marge have three children: Bart, Lisa and Maggie. He named the character after his father, Homer Groening. Groening had been called to pitch a series of shorts based on his comic strip Life in Hell but instead decided to create a new set of characters. Homer was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of James L. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons.
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