Homer Simpson

**Homer Simpson** is a meet-and-greet character at Universal Studios Florida. He is one of four main protagonists in *The Simpsons* animated TV series on Fox, and also appears in *The Simpsons Ride* and *Kang and Kodos' Twirl 'N Hurl*.

## Background

Homer Simpson is a resident of Springfield, living with his wife Marge and their three kids Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Although he leads a generally normal life, he and his family have had multiple adventures that are anything but ordinary.

Although he is frequently absent-minded, Homer usually has good intentions for his family and friends, and will recognize when he needs to do something to fix it, even if he's not successful at it.

Homer loves all kinds of food, but his favorite food seems to be doughnuts. He also enjoys drinking beer, though he is a far more responsible drinker than his friend Barney Gumble. When he's not at home or working at his job at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, he can usually be found drinking with friends Gumble, Lenny Leonard, and Carl Carlton at Moe's Tavern.

## Park Appearances

Homer and the rest of his family are the main characters of *The Simpsons Ride*, where they are visiting Krusty the Clown's new theme park, KrustyLand. Their enjoyment is cut short when Sideshow Bob once again plots revenge against them. During the ride, he is hit by a wrecking ball, similarly to when the same event occurred to him in *The Simpsons Movie*. He also ends up on a boat ride with Marge, and dangling from a rope attached to a whale before regrouping with the family as they rescue giant Maggie from Sideshow Bob. Homer also appears with Bart as a background character in *Kang and Kodos' Twirl 'N Hurl*.

Homer and his family are also found doing meet-and-greets with guests in either the Hollywood or Springfield sections of Universal Studios Florida. At Springfield, he can generally be found outside the Kwik-E-Mart gift shop.

As a major character of *The Simpsons*, he is also seen on various merchandise at various gift shops, often representing the franchise on merchandise representing the resort as an entirety.

## Trivia

*For additional and more detailed information about the character of Homer Simpson from The Simpsons franchise, please refer to The Simpsons Wiki Article.*

* Homer is named after the father of his creator, Matt Groening.
* Dan Castellaneta provides the voice of Homer, and returned to voice him in both of the rides based on *The Simpsons* at Universal Studios Florida.
	+ Castellaneta also provides the voices for Krusty the Clown, Abraham "Grandpa" Simpson, Barney Gumble, Groundskeeper Willie, Hans Moleman, and Kodos.
	+ Outside of *The Simpsons*, Castellaneta also provided the voices for Thing 1 and Thing 2 in the 2003 film adaption of *The Cat in the Hat*.
* Homer's characterization in the Simpsons Ride falls in-line with what has been dubbed, "Jerkass Homer", a version of the character heavily used after the show's classic/golden-age run in which the character is placed overly angry, selfish, dumb, reckless and apathetic to his family without empathetic characterization to balance it out. Examples of this in the Simpsons Ride include him forcing the family to get on Bob's death-trap because he was upset about waiting in line, and later expressing happiness to Marge about Sideshow Bob trying to kill the kids as it gave them alone time.