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Homer Simpson Article

All of the evidence to support the writers claim that Homer Simpson is enjoying an ‘an inexorable rise’ is as follows;

Homer has emerged as one of the greatest-ever Americans according to a recent international poll.
He left Abraham Lincoln in second place and knocked Martin Luther King down to third.
The Simpson’s, the show which Homer stars in, is shown in over 70 countries and leaves adults and children repeating Homers lines such as “D’oh!”
According to another poll, Homer outshines Gary Lineker, Lenny Henry and David Beckham as the best father in the world. Also, according to this poll, 22% of children would happily swap their dad for Homer.
Psychologists hold up Homer as a fatherly role model.
In a Channel Four poll Homer Simpson was voted the greatest television character of all time.
Highly thought of celebrities such as Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton, Ringo Starr, Meryl Streep, Paul and Linda McCartney, George Harrison and Elton John have all been keen to appear alongside him. Even Tony Blair took time out from the Iraq Crisis to star alongside Homer.
Homers show has received 17 Emmy awards. It has a 2 billion-dollar merchandising industry and is America’s longest ever running primetime television sitcom.
Homer has many famous addicts including former actress MP Glenda Jackson, Dr Rowan Wiliams, the Archbishop of Canterbury and AS Byatt.
In some American Universities they courses on the “D’oh!” of Homer.

All of the reasons ‘folk of rectitude’ will ‘lament’ Homer Simpson’s popularity are as follows;

He is the father of America’s most dysfunctional cartoon family.
Homer is a maladjusted, a slob, lazy and greedy.
His brain has the cutting edge of all the doughnuts he eats.
Homer’s children think he is an unfit father.
Homer is bald, fat and has a triple heart bypass because of the doughnuts, pizza, burgers and beer he endlessly consumes.
He often tries to strangle his son, ignores his younger daughter Maggie and is humiliated by his cerebral, idealistic older daughter Lisa.
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All of the reasons ‘folk of rectitude’ will ‘lament’ Homer Simpson’s popularity are as follows;

He is the father of America’s most dysfunctional cartoon family.
Homer is a maladjusted, a slob, lazy and greedy.
His brain has the cutting edge of all the doughnuts he eats.
Homer’s children think he is an unfit father.
Homer is bald, fat and has a triple heart bypass because of the doughnuts, pizza, burgers and beer he endlessly consumes.
He often tries to strangle his son, ignores his younger daughter Maggie and is humiliated by his cerebral, idealistic older daughter Lisa.
He graduated at the bottom of his high school class and failed at many jobs including a door-to-door salesman, snow-remover, managing a country music star and selling grease.
Homer once made his wife Marge carry a flat tyre through the desert to a gas station.
He often gives stupid advice to his children such as “kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.”

Why I think Homer Simpson is so popular even with all of his faults is as follows;

Firstly I feel that Homer is an anti-hero and the main reason he is so popular is because I feel that the public are a lot more sympathetic to anti-heroes. I think that he is an anti-hero because when you look at stereotypical heroes such as Superman, Batman, Spiderman and Daredevil, I can see that all of them have certain common qualities, which Homer Simpson seems to have the complete opposite of. For example one common quality of the stereotypical hero is courage and a lot of brainpower, but when I look at Homer’s qualities in these areas he has the complete opposite. In a scary situation Homer would seem to shy away from it and when he is faced with a problem he seems to not have any common sense when trying to solve it. But alone I don’t think that just him being an anti-hero would make him so popular, I feel another major role in this is that his heart is always in the right place. Such as, when Homer tried to get his family nice christmas presents, he bet all of his money on one racehorse and lost it. In many peoples view, this would be seen as wrong behaviour, but still I can see that Homer’s heart was in the right place.