9 Ways Homer Simpson Depicts The Average Indian Middle Aged Man Quite Perfectly

The ungracefully balding, paunchy guy who loves to guzzle the beer down his throat while the communication gap between him and his pre-teen children grows as far as light years is quite a common story in India. Homer Simpson, the quintessential frustrated and eccentric middle-class man was sketched to represent every other middle-aged dude in America but today, it seems like he perfectly steps into the shoes of most Indian guys of his age as well.

Let’s find out how Homer Simpson represents the average Indian middle-class man quite well.

1. He’s lucky to have a wife who won’t leave him

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Like most frustrated Indian men, who have succumbed to the pressures of life and completely lost it, Homer Simpson has a wife who loves him in spite of him giving her no reasons to.

Marge, who is the object of desire of many men in Springfield remains devoted to his bloated balloon of a dimwit, selfish, lazy and less than average husband.

 

2. Being partial to the male child

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Let’s face it, it’s still quite prevalent in India that the boy child is preferred over the girl no matter how much more talented the girl is. Take Homer Simpson in the episode, Lisa’s Substitute – Homer is so busy with Bart, his son’s insignificant little election campaign at school that he completely fails to notice that his intellectual little daughter, Lisa, is actually relating more to her substitute teacher, Mr. Bergstrom, whom she even fancies taking him as her new father.

 

3. Beating the shit out of kids

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Most Indian fathers, if not all of them, assume the right to beat the living daylights out of their kids. Sometimes, it is considered an act of tough love for instilling discipline and sometimes, we all know, it just to vent out the frustration pent up from life. Just like any other average Indian father, Homer Simpson would often lose his barren mind, hold Bart by his neck and shake him up while his tongue and eyes almost came out.

It almost became a reflex for Bart who’d be surprised and confused to pieces in case someone proceeded to reason with him instead of beating him up whenever he made a mischief.

 

4. But can take a bullet for his family

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In spite of everything, an average Indian family man would do anything for the safety of his child just like Homer did when Bart was about to run down the mountain cliff on his skate board. It was surprising to see Homer, the bumbling idiot actually stepping up as an ideal dad, snatching the skate board off Bart and telling him that since he can’t be reasoned with, he will skate down the cliff himself so that Bart understands what it’s like to see a family member risking his life.

Now, there we see a father son moment for a while before Homer actually slips down the slope and falls down the gorge. It was a steep fall and Homer was badly injured but it was funny because it was Homer.

 

5. His in-laws hate him and he hates them too

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As much as we think that Indians put their “Jamai Rajas” on a very high pedestal, a few years down the marriage, Indian men hardly enjoy such status anymore when it comes to his in-laws. Homer and his family is often visited by his wife, Marge’s sisters, Patty and Selma Bouvier who are more than vocal about their strong disapproval of their sister’s choice in a husband. However, like every other man, Homer puts up with the tantrums of his in-laws and gulps down the insults as he grumbles on his own.

 

6. He hates his neighbors just like an average Indian man should

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If there’s an annoying neighbor who acts a little too holier than thou, it’s the responsibility of an average Indian guy to hate him from the pits of his guts and secretly wish that his neighbor’s business goes to the dogs. That’s exactly what Homer, the jealous 38 year old lump of flesh wishes for his overtly Christian neighbor, Ned Flanders and this quality of Homer makes him all the more relatable to middle-aged, stuck in career Indian men who just can’t tolerate their neighbor’s success.

 

7. As laid back as a Sarkari Babu at work

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If you have ever been inside an Indian government office, you’d be aware of the rigidity of workflow because of sheer lethargy on the part of the employees. Homer is the perfect counterpart of our Sarkari Babus who just don’t like the idea of working for what they are being paid for and at times, even gets a chance promotion while others who actually work hard face the most hardships.

Representing everything that is wrong with America, Homer Simpson also portrays the laid back bureaucratic babu culture of India in very dorky manner.

 

8. Has no idea of what fitness is

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A big balloon of cholesterol and fat, Homer Simpson, like most middle-aged Indian guy doesn’t give a rat’s ass about fitness. He’s been eating like a pig and drinking like a fish at Moe’s bar for years and the routine had led to his oafish body, which looks something in between a barrel of wine or just a sack of potatoes. The fact that Homer’s just a little too proud of his inflated dad-bod makes him all the more Indian.

 

9. Knows that alcohol is the answer

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Homer Simpson is a man who can deal with anything that life throws at him with alcohol. He’s the guy who is stuck at a dead end job, gradually growing apart from his children and acknowledges deep down that he has achieved very little in life to deserve someone as beautiful as Marge for a wife.

Therefore, he drinks his introspection away and lives a life of happy denial just like most average middle-aged men of India.

There’s a Homer in all of us. It’s evident in some while it’s about to come out in the rest.

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