Homer Jay Simpsons, the boorish doughnut-lover father of the Simpson family, has been named the greatest character created for television in the last two decades
Homer Jay Simpsons, the boorish doughnut-lover father of the Simpson family, has been named the greatest character created for television in the last two decades. The Simpsons beat Harry Potter and vampire slayer Buffy in the survey conducted for US entertainment magazine Entertainment Weekly. Here's some info on Homer:
>>u00a0Homer was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office.
>>u00a0He first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in The Tracey Ullman Show 'Good Night' on April 19, 1987.
>>u00a0Voiced by Dan Castellaneta, the Simpson family got their own series on Fox on December 17, 1989.
>>u00a0Homer's family comprises wife Marge and three children - Bart, Lisa and Maggie.
>>u00a0His catchphrase, the annoyed grunt 'd'oh!', was included in The New Oxford Dictionary of English in 1998 and the Oxford English Dictionary in 2001.
>>u00a0Castellaneta has won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance and a special-achievement Annie Award for voicing Homer.
>>u00a0In 2000, Homer, along with the rest of his family, was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
>>u00a0Homer has held over 188 different jobs in the first 400 episodes of The Simpsons. In most episodes, he works as the Nuclear Safety Inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position he has held since 'Homer's Odyssey', the third episode of the series.
>>u00a0The Simpsons uses a floating timeline in which the characters do not physically age, and, as such, the show gets the assumption of being set in the current year.
>>u00a0Homer's age has increased as the series developed; he was 36 in the early episodes, 38 and 39 in season eight, and 40 in the eighteenth season.
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