

As the family's provider, he works at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant as safety inspector. He and his wife Marge have three children: Bart, Lisa and Maggie. He is the nominal foreman of the paternally eponymous family.

The show was later acquired by Disney in 2019. After appearing for three seasons on The Tracey Ullman Show, the Simpson family got their own series on Fox, which debuted December 17, 1989. He named the character after his father, Homer Groening. Groening had been called to pitch a series of shorts based on his comic strip Life in Hell but instead decided to create a new set of characters. Homer was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of producer James L. He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared, along with the rest of his family, in The Tracey Ullman Show short " Good Night" on April 19, 1987. Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons. 742 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield, United States
