Homer Simpson gets his own profile in the London Times with a bow to Matt Groening.
The great triumph of Groening and his team is to allow even this hopeless case to be redeemed through love.
The effect is irresistible because Homer’s failings are our failings, his appetites are gargantuan versions of our own. He just lets it all hang out. We spend our lives concealing it. The world loves Homer because he tells us it’s okay to be us.
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Homer became a global, cross-cultural saint. He has been voted the greatest TV character of all time and children across the world prefer him to their own dads. He is studied by theologians and philosophers and his unorthodox parenting skills are celebrated by psychologists.
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Homer makes celebrity out of what we all have – incompetence – and what we all want – love. And, when it all goes wrong, as it always will, he utters what has become the curse and prayer of Everyman – “D’Oh!”
There's nobody like him...except you, me, everyone