Liam Gaughan is a writer at Collider with a passion for classic films and the work of Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese.
The Simpsons has some of the greatest characters in the history of animation, but there’s not a more quotable person on the show than Homer. Homer Simpson is everything that audiences want out of a comedic lead; he’s almost unbearably stupid at times, yet has a genuinely good heart and seems to care about Maggie, Lisa, Bat, and Marge. The Simpsons is often at its best when it celebrates just how caring and thoughtful Homer can be.
The relationship between Homer and Bart is often a contentious one, but The Simpsons often explores that there is an underlying level of sincerity between them. While Homer would turn into a bigger jerk in later seasons, this early installment was at a period where he was still the sort of loving, all-American dad that fans of The Simpsons wouldn’t think twice about rooting for to succeed against all odds.
The relationship between Homer and Flanders took some surprisingly dark directions later on in the show, as the death of Flanders’ wife is one of the few moments in which The Simpsons actually got serious. Admirably, Homer seems to show genuine sympathy for Flanders’ sons Rodd and Todd, as he aims to show them a “fun” side of life that they don’t get with their father.
The “Treehouse of Horror” episodes of The Simpsons are funny because they are consistent with the characters’ personalities, even if they introduce seemingly contradictory genre elements. It says a lot about Homer as a character that when faced with an existential threat to humanity, he can only cower out of fear and try to avoid a particularly nasty fate at the hands of the episode’s villains.
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