The Car Homer Built
I’ve always been a fan of that balding yellow guy who drinks Duff like its water. Yes, it’s Homer Jay Simpson who recently made it to the big screen. I’ve seen the movie and I think it was great. Matt Groening really knows how to tickle our collective funny bone. We all know his passion for beer and donuts and beers but some may not know that Homer is also an automotive designer.
On the second season of The Simpsons, the fifteenth episode, Homer shows that he can design cars. The episode entitled ‘Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?’ is a show which tells us that Homer may have found his brother. It all started when Grampa thought that he was dying after he suffered a heart attack from watching the latest McBain movie. Grampa said that before he married Homer’s mother, he already had a son with a prostitute. This means that Homer has a half-brother.
Being the “average guy” that he is, Homer decided that he must find his brother. So they went to the orphanage to inquire about Grampa’s other child. They found out that Grampa’s son was named Herbert and was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Powell. Herbert or Herb Powell looks exactly just like Homer except that Herb is taller, slimmer and has more hair. He is the head of an automobile company named Powell Motors. The said company is in danger of being overtaken by the Japanese because of poor management. Even though Herb faces this challenge, he is still very rich and yet sad that he does not know where he comes from.
And so, Herb was overjoyed when he was informed that he has a half-brother. After learning the truth, he invited the whole Simpsons family into his mansion. It was then that Herb decided that Homer, being an “average guy”, should be the one to design the company’s new car. And this is the beginning of the end for Herb. Unfortunately for Herb, he realized too late that Homer is not what you could call an “average guy”. And the result of Homer’s foray into auto design is a travesty.
The Homer as the car is called has some “interesting features” like an extremely large beverage holder, a little ball on top of the aerial, tail fins, bubble domes, shag carpeting, and several horns that plays “La Cucaracha”. For a closer look at the car that Homer built, check out this site.
