His niche? In the end, it is Homer’s excess girth which saves the town from a toxic gas disaster that was of his own doing, and he is reverted back to his original size with no consequences. Woo-hoo! The antics which energized the citizens of Springfield do nothing for the big city folk in Capitol City. Photo Credits: Netflix; Pop TV; Robert Viglasky, Hartswood Films; Fred Hayes/Disney+, Fox, PopTV; Bettina Strauss/Netflix; Nicole Rivelli/Amazon, Netflix, Frank Masi/Apple, Disney, Jasper Savage/Hulu; Diyah Pera/CW. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. In one of Homer’s more harebrained schemes, he attempts to sell sugar that he stumbles upon when a transport truck crashes. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. ( Log Out /  Hey, the first time may have been the luck of "eenie, meenie, miney, mo," and the second time may have been due to his gargantuan size, but he still saved the town. 16. 11. Becoming the "Beer Baron": In Season 8's Homer vs. At the suggestion of Reverend Lovejoy, Marge decides she and Homer should go to a marriage counseling retreat after the embarrassing incident at their own house party; Homer is more interested in catching General Sherman, a massive catfish. The episode culminates with Homer getting into a fistfight with Bart’s big brother, which ultimately sends Homer to the hospital. He then decides to throw another surprise party for Marge asking her to remarry him…after showing her the divorce papers. "Let the man march, boys! In another season eight episode, “A Milhouse Divided”, Homer is worried about the status of his relationship with Marge after watching Milhouse’s parents break up at their house party. 7. A one-stop shop for all things video games. Okay gather round, kids. Outsider art - art created by a hillbilly, monkey or mental patient. Overall, this is a solid episode. With Moe, Carl and Lenny (later substituted with Barney and Disco Stu), the show is a ratings bonanza and Homer becomes the talk of the town. Imagine my shock when I realized some women actually leave you when you act like the men you’ve modelled yourself after. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. In one corner, we see the man's discarded Union Army jacket and canteen. Dad apologizes for colossal boner, male writers pull a forgiveness ex machina out of the nagging wife. The father and daughter are the first to hear its song in thousands of years. Homer Simpson TM and (C)2008 TTCFFC All Rights Reserved/Fox, 'The job of the actor is to play someone who they are not,' Shearer said. RELATED: 10 Of The Best Visual Jokes In The Simpsons. But deep down in its bowels, it’s every other sitcom with an aging turd of a patriarch who we elevate as a hero because, well, a lot of writers are aging, turd-like, and benefit from patriarchy (I fit at least two of those descriptions, myself). The Eighteenth Amendment, alcohol is prohibited in Springfield. RELATED: The 10 Best Homer Simpson Quotes. A man that has no clear concept of shame, here are ten times Homer Simpson has committed some truly shameless acts. But it was not wise to gain her admiration through false pretenses; her charity comes at the expense of her promising future, and she immediately rejects Homer when he confesses the truth. Not even the "So You've Decided to Steal Cable," pamphlet can dissuade him of the valuable lesson his daughter taught him. 14. Thankfully, Homer eventually comes to his senses and realizes his relationship with Marge is more important than catching some big game prize, thus tossing General Sherman back into the lake shortly after catching him. After unwittingly helping Scorpio to do away with nemesis James Bont, Homer is given the Denver Broncos. accomplishment, Homer nabs the hat and bell from rightful crier Ned Flanders (who, let's face it, does suck-diddly-uck) in season seven's Lisa the Iconoclast. Even Homer’s showdown with General Sherman is framed as accidental. He throws it back once he sees what his selfish ways have done to his wife. Classic Simpsons Reviews: “Three Men and a Comic Book” is a much smarter episode than it gets credit for. It has children speaking truth to power. Saving Springfield from nuclear meltdown... twice: In both season three's Homer Defined and season seven's King Size Homer, Safety Inspector Simpson manages to "turn a potential Chernobyl into a mere Three Mile Island." While watching The Simpsons, Homer J. Simpson is many things: husband, father, son, churchgoer, nuclear safety technician – the list goes on. Thankfully Artie Ziff, played by Jon Lovitz, is an absolute creep, and it leads Homer back to Marge's car at the end of the episode. Let the man march." Becoming an artist: In season 10's Mom and Pop Art, Homer's destruction of a barbecue grill piques the interest of art critic Astrid Weller and Homer becomes the hottest new thing on Springfield's art scene. While the gesture was well-intentioned, the overkill nature of the solution makes it baffling why Homer would want to go through all the red-tape of getting legally divorced, only to get back together, as if it was literally the piece of paper that held their union together. Homer agrees to go but only because the retreat is being held at Catfish Lake, where Homer hopes to catch General Sherman, a legendarily large catfish. The company sees Homer as a walking publicity stunt and convinces him to try to climb The Murderhorn, a mountain in Springfield. A lover of all things animated, Sylvie once spent a year producing a podcast entirely about the 90s Nicktoon "Hey Arnold!". After Homer makes a drunken ass of himself at a party, Marge decides to sign up for a weekend of marriage counseling hosted by Reverend Lovejoy and his wife, Helen. Much to the anger of Marge, Homer decides to go fishing to capture the legendary General Sherman. Homer’s sacrifice of throwing the fish back in a lake is enough for Marge to stay in their marriage, which should astonish me, but it really doesn’t, considering the barrage of messaging we get that says men are entitled to a woman’s approval. Homer J. Simpson, one of the leads of The Simpsons, surely has a few positive features. It turns out the fish resides in the very lake Homer and Marge are going to.