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Homer Jay Simpson is a main fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons and father of the eponymous family.

He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television in the Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" on April 19, 1987.

Homer was created and designed by cartoonist Matt Groening while he was waiting in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office. Groening had been called to pitch a series of shorts based on Life in Hell but instead decided to create a new set of characters.

The character received his first name from Groening's father. After appearing on The Tracey Ullman Show for three years, the Simpson family got their own series on Fox, which debuted December 17, 1989.