History Characters / TheSimpsonsHomerJaySimpson

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Subverted in an episode when Homer is playing poker with Lenny, Carl and Moe at Lenny's house. He draws four cards and curses his bad hand, before poorly trying to bluff the other players. Lenny and Carl fold, but Moe knows that Homer is bluffing and calls. Homer then reveals that he has a straight flush, and Moe becomes so frustrated at Homer beating him that he ends up choking on his own rage. It looks as though Homer cleverly tricked Moe into playing the hand, but the next morning he tells the family that he didn't even realize he was winning.

* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Sometimes comes off as a male version of this. For all of Marge's complaining, it's occasionally shown, or at least implied, that she does secretly enjoy Homer's antics.

* RealityEnsues: He has suffered multiple heart attacks and had to have a triple bypass, the inevitable result of his extremely unhealthy lifestyle.

"The Simpsons are going to [[MadLibsCatchPhrase [insert location here]]]!"

* DeadpanSnarker: It doesn't happen very often, but Homer does have occasional moments, such as when finding a rescue guinea pig for Lisa:
--> '''Guinea Pig Sanctuary Owner:''' You're doing the right thing adopting a rescue pig. Most of these guys are rejects form the big guinea pig mills in the Mid-west. Oh I can't tell you how many mill pigs we get in here who have bumble-foot or the slobbers.\\
'''Homer:''' You don't have children, do you.

* FamousLastWords: Parodied in "Days of Future Future", where his last words before his death was, "All that's left are clever last words."

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Though not heavily focused on, a handful of episodes heavily imply Homer is attracted to Maude Flanders, such as "Dead Putting Society" (he compliments her butt while ranting to Flanders), "The War of the Simpsons" (he ogles her cleavage while drunk) and "Homer Loves Flanders" (he believes that Maude is secretly in love with him). Owing to both his crude nature and both characters already being HappilyMarried to other people, Maude never returned his feelings and the plotline was quietly dropped when she was killed off.

* AmbiguouslyChristian: He seems to have a volatile opinion/preference of religion, but he's generally irreligious and secular for the most part and only shows devout behavior a few times. He dislikes going to church, but does so anyways most likely as to maintain his marriage to Marge who herself is a devout Christian. This is despite him having a genuine Religeous Experience every time he falls asleep in church (walking around Heaven chatting up The Big Guy). In the movie, he claims that [[HollywoodAtheist God does not exist]] despite how in the show's first 18 seasons he accepted (to varying degrees) Christian theology even without anyone else around him to witness it. In the post-movie seasons, Homer has went back to believing that there is a god or at least some supernatural entity.

* VocalEvolution: He started off with a deeper, mumbling Creator/WalterMatthau-esque voice in the shorts, which evolved into a [[GutturalGrowler gruffer]] but "dopier" voice over the first few years of the show. By season 3 he got higher pitched and talked faster with a lisp, and it's essentially stayed that way since. This change is the most significant among the main family, it's hard to believe it is the same voice actor.

* ButtMonkey: Even with all his {{jerkass}} tendencies, you do feel sympathy for what he goes through at times.

** Homer has always had moments of being a horrible person and being extremely caring. In later seasons, he recreates his first date with Marge so she'll fall for him all over again, repeatedly turns down sex so he can read to Lisa, gets very involved in making Bart a good student and making Lisa popular, lives in a terribly cramped apartment by himself so his kids can go to a good school, and on and on. There's just a strong bias against the later seasons, whether people watch the episodes or not.

* WeWantourIdiotBack: A self-inflicted version in the episode "[=HOMЯ=]" when Homer becomes smarter by getting a crayon that was embedded in his brain (a childhood accident) removed, he becomes increasingly fed up with the loneliness that said intelligence is bringing to him (mostly by making everybody else in town, who are highly anti-intellectual, to shun him). In the end he gets the crayon embedded in his brain again, bringing his smarts back down to their regular level of idiocy (a move that he knows perfectly well will make him less loved by Lisa - he even writes in the letter he makes for her before the procedure that he's sorry for "taking the coward's way out").

** Homer is associated with apes and monkeys so often, Marge [[spoiler:invokes this in "The Monkey Suit" to help Lisa win her case on human evolution]]. He especially likes to do a monkey-like screech every time he's scared or enraged.

* AdaptationNameChange: The Latin-American Spanish dub, besides tweaking his name to "Homer'''o'''", gave him in the dub's version of [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E20TheTroubleWithTrillions "The Trouble with Trillions"]] the middle name "Jimeno" for some reason (although it could be because of [[RhymesOnADime how "Homero Jimeno" sounds]]) whereas at that point in the original version his middle name was only given the initial "J." While this wasn't that much of a problem at the time, it would create a SeriesContinuityError where ''the very next season'' there was [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E6DohInTheWind an entire episode]] about how Homer didn't know what his middle name was and trying to find out, eventually revealing that it was "Jay."

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: He almost always fails to understand metaphors, sarcasm, subtext or statements with implications. Unless he's told something bluntly and directly, it will just fly over his head. So much so that most of the examples shown in the shows own [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/ComicallyMissingThePoint/TheSimpsons page]] for this trope are from him.