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Homer Simpson: an iconic, modern-day Everyman

There have been few comic creations to ever match the range and relevance of Homer Simpson, the bald, stubble-studded face of fatherhood and the working man's struggles, surviving in the wider universe that unfolds around him in the first ten series of animated sitcom classic The Simpsons.

As the show evolved from post-Reagan slapstick phenomenon to deep-reaching social and political commentary, the character of Homer Simpson stood, always slightly perplexed, in the middle of it all - stuck in a dead-end job to keep things afloat, struggling to relate to his complex and variantly brilliant children, while somehow keeping his marriage to long-suffering Marge together on little more than good intentions and co-dependence.