How old is homer
How Old Homer Is (& How His Age Has Changed)
By Adrienne Tyler
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The characters from The Simpsons never grow old, but Homer's age has been very inconsistent from the beginning. Here's how old he really is.
Time doesn’t really exist in The Simpsons, which is why the characters haven’t aged, but there are some whose age has changed over the course of the series. Such is the case of Homer, whose age has been very inconsistent from the beginning. Created by Matt Groening, The Simpsons began as a series of animated shows for The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987 before making its proper debut on Fox two years later. Since then, The Simpsons has become the longest-running American sitcom, with over 30 seasons and no signs of stopping anytime soon.
The Simpsons follows the daily adventures of the title family and their friends and enemies in the town of Springfield. Like many other cartoon shows, the characters in The Simpsons never age, and some have even had repetitive birthdays (as is the case of Bart and all his 10th birthdays), but even though time passes by weirdly in Springfield, the ages of some characters have been quite inconsistent. Such is the case of Homer, who even though is usually described as being 38 years old, has actually been younger and older over the course of more than 30 seasons.
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In the first episodes of The Simpsons, as well as in the Treehouse of Horror comic books, Homer Simpson was 34 years old, but in season 4, he was suddenly 36. Homer aged again in season 8, where he was 38 and 39 years old, and the most recent reveal about his age was in season 18, with Homer now being 40. However, the ages of the rest of the Simpsons family haven’t changed, which along with some specific events at certain points in time make Homer’s age even more confusing.
For example, he was shown falling in love with Marge as a senior at Springfield High School in 1976, and Marge became pregnant with Bart in 1980, but they were later shown as a 20-something couple with no kids in the early 1990s.
The inconsistencies in Homer’s age don’t stop there, and unlike other characters from The Simpsons, Homer’s birthdate has been shown on screen, although briefly. In season 4, there was a quick look at his driver’s license, which has his birthdate listed as May 12, 1956, meaning that by the time the series began, Homer was 33, but during season 4 (which ran from 1992 to 1993), he was 37 years old. Showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein shared that, during their time in the series (season 7 and 8), they found out that as they aged, Homer seemed to do so too, so they changed his age to 38, which is the number many viewers take as the definitive one – and it makes more sense with the ages of the rest of the family, as Marge is 36-years-old, Bart is 10, Lisa is 8, and Maggie is 1.
Of course, no matter how old or young Homer is, his personality doesn’t change, and he continues to be lazy, dumb, and with anger issues, though he also shows his loving and caring side from time to time, especially with his family. Homer’s age is somewhat open to viewers’ interpretation, as there’s no official number, so fans of The Simpsons can choose the age that seems more fitting with the character, or take the above birthdate as the definitive one and do the math.
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Adrienne Tyler is a features writer for Screen Rant.
She is an Audiovisual Communication graduate who wanted to be a filmmaker, but life had other plans (and it turned out great). Prior to Screen Rant, she wrote for Pop Wrapped, 4 Your Excitement (4YE), and D20Crit, where she was also a regular guest at Netfreaks podcast. She was also a contributor for FanSided's BamSmackPow and 1428 Elm. Adrienne is very into films and she enjoys a bit of everything: from superhero films to heartbreaking dramas, to low-budget horror films. Every time she manages to commit to a TV show without getting bored, an angel gets its wings.
When she's not writing, you can find her trying to learn a new language, watching hockey (go Avs!), or wondering what life would have been like had Pushing Daisies, Firefly, and Limitless not been cancelled. Breakfast food is life and coffee is what makes the world go round.
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Simpsons fans unearth Homer’s ‘real age’ in surprising Easter egg | The Independent
Some eagle-eyed fans of The Simpsons celebrated a notable in-universe milestone on 12 May: Homer Simpson’s birthday.
The date is commemorated thanks to a classic Simpsons episode which gave viewers a fleeting look at Homer’s driving licence, where the date of birth was written in tiny print.
Even though Homer’s age has long been said to be 39, his birth date, which reads “05-12-56”, means that in the year 2020, he would be turning 64.
People posted about the occasion on Twitter, noting their surprise at the character’s advanced age.
“How can Homer be 64?” asked one commenter.
“Seems too young, but grandpa simpson is still around, so I guess they just started young,” joked another. ”Of course, Bart is in his 40’s so all things are relative.”
Of course, The Simpsons has always had a fairly lax attitude to continuity.
With a few exceptions, the series has always reverted to the “status quo” at the end of each episode, with events seldom carrying over from one episode to the next.
The series has also presented multiple conflicting versions of some key events, such as Marge and Homer’s courtship – which was initially shown to occur in the 1970s and early 1980s, but was later moved to the 1990s in the 2008 episode “That 90s Show”.
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As in most animated shows, the age of the characters is not very important for the authors, including in The Simpsons. It is known that Homer, like his family, has never "technically" aged since the series was released.
Therefore, they all look the same as 30 years ago. Homer is a middle-aged employee at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, his wife Marge is an energetic housewife, son Bart is a bully boy, daughter Lisa is an excellent student at school, and their younger sister Maggie is a baby with a pacifier.
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The head of the Simpson family from the American animated comedy series named after them. A balding middle-aged fat man who likes donuts, chocolate and pork chops. Works at the Springfield nuclear power plant as a safety inspector. Protestant by religion.
Drives a Ford Sedan. Homer has a wife named Marge and three children - son Bart, daughter Lisa and youngest daughter Maggie. The character is voiced by actor Dan Castellaneta, and in the Russian dubbing by Boris Bystrov.
Creation story
Cartoonist Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, created Homer and his family in the lobby of director and producer James Brooks' office. Matt was looking forward to a meeting to discuss a future series of featurettes for the weekly television show The Tracey Ullman Show.
The Simpsons creator Matt GroeningAt first, Matt was going to use his Life in Hell comics as the basis for these shorts, but realized that he would have to give up the rights to publish an animated version of his brainchild and decided to go in another way. Groening came up with the concept of a cartoon show about a dysfunctional American family on the spot and made sketches of the main characters, whom he gave the names of his relatives.
Groening named Homer after his own father.
At the same time, Matt wrote that in the character of his father there was nothing in common with Homer Simpson, except perhaps for a love of donuts. Groening's father was a writer and director, an intelligent and athletic man.
Homer Simpson first appeared on TV screens in April 1987, along with the rest of the family. The first short on The Tracey Ullman Show was called Good Night. At first, the project consisted of only short inserts in the show. At 19In 1989, the Simpsons animated series first began airing on FOX, and the shorts were adapted into full-length half-hour episodes. Homer and his family have become the central characters of this new animated show.
Homer Simpson in the animated series
Homer is clumsy, stupid and thanks to these qualities he is able to create chaos around himself. Therefore, the creators of the series thought it was funny to send Homer to work at a nuclear power plant, where the hero is able to create a lot of funny and dangerous situations.
Homer often neglects his professional duties and sleeps at the workplace, and the hero's unpleasant boss, Mr. Burns, does not remember at all who this guy is and what he is doing at the station.
The position of nuclear safety inspector is not the only one in Homer's career. For the first 400 episodes of the show, the hero managed to try 188 professions and positions. Usually, at the beginning of the episode, an introduction is given, from which it becomes clear that the hero has once again been fired from the nuclear power plant. Only one episode is given for each new work by Homer.
Homer is not averse to making money, but the hero's ideas are usually ridiculous. In the episode "Fat and Dancing", Homer learns that he can earn extra money by turning in used fat. The hero is taken in enormous quantities to fry the bacon and feed it to the dog, and drain the fat and hand it over. The business is not profitable. In addition, Homer's son has to miss school because his father forced him to help in the "case".
The characters in The Simpsons don't age throughout the show, the kids don't grow up, and Homer is always around forty years old. For ten seasons - from the eighth to the eighteenth - the hero "grew up" by only a year.
In some episodes, Homer's past life is revealed. For example, there is an episode about Homer's mother, Monet. In the 60s of the twentieth century, Mona was a radical and hiding from the law. Another episode tells of Homer's time at Springfield High School and how the hero fell in love with his future wife, Marge. One more episode belongs to 1980 when Marge got pregnant with Bart.
Homer Simpson and Marge Many jokes in the series are connected with the hero's overweight and the fact that Homer constantly eats. In one of the episodes, Homer, having locked himself in the bathroom, feeds his own huge belly with pizza. The hero puts a piece into the fat folds, which he collects with his hand, imitating a mouth. Behind this strange case, his son Bart finds him.
In another episode, Homer imagines that he has entered the land of chocolate, where he tries to eat everything he sees, including a live chocolate dog.
Many funny episodes are also connected with Homer's inhuman stupidity. In one, Homer takes a lie detector test. "Do you understand me?" - the operator asks the first question. Homer, without hesitation, replies: "Yes!" And this provokes an explosion of the apparatus.
Homer Simpson at workIn the episode "Alone Again", Homer killed the neighbor's wife, Maude Flanders. It came out as follows. The Simpsons and Flanders families are present at the circuit and watching the race. The circuit is handing out free T-shirts for fans. To do this, they use an air gun, from which T-shirts are fired into the crowd. Homer wants a T-shirt and in a rude way tries to get the attention of the cannon-operating cheerleaders.
Homer's behavior seems annoying to Mrs. Flanders, and she leaves for hot dogs. Meanwhile, Homer draws a target on his stomach with ketchup.
Fans give a full “t-shirt” volley towards the hero. Homer leans down at this point, and Maud is just returning. T-shirts fired from the cannon hit it, Maud loses his balance, falls from a huge height onto a concrete platform and dies.
In the eighth episode of season 26, Homer begins a midlife crisis. To cheer up, the hero undertakes to play the bass and creates a musical group.
In some episodes, an angel and a demon appear over Homer's shoulders and advise the hero what to do. Viewers are used to seeing Homer with stubble on his face. But in the eleventh episode of the 27th season, you can see how the hero shaves and walks around without bristles.
In season 10, Homer builds a brazier that does not fulfill its immediate function, but one artist recognizes it as a masterpiece of informal art and wants to put this "work" up for auction. So Homer inadvertently finds himself in the role of a conceptual artist.
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Homer Simpson Homer is known for the characteristic phrases and interjections that are associated with the hero.
