

Two years after Bart was born, Marge became pregnant with Lisa in 1981 (after discovering this, Homer tore out all but three strands of his hair), shortly before the couple brought their first house. He went to work at a taco restaurant called the Gulp 'n' Blow, until Marge found him and convinced him to return home with her. After failing to get a job at the newly built Nuclear Power Plant, Homer left Marge to find a job where he can support his family. They spent their wedding reception alone at a truck stop, before ending up at the Bouvier House, where they lived at the time. The two married in Shotgun Pete's 24 Hour Wedding Chapel, a small wedding chapel across the state line. (After discovering this, Homer tore out half his hair.) At this time, Homer was working at Sir Putts-A-Lot, turning the crank spinning the windmill. In 1979, Marge became pregnant with Bart. Marge realized she really loves Homer, and she went back to him. When Marge became infatuated with her professor, Homer changed the band's name to Sadgasm, and they invented grunge music. Along with Lou, Lenny, and Carl, Homer was also part of a barbershop quartet.

To pay for her tuition, Abe gave him a job at Simpson Lazer Tag. During this time, Marge received a letter accepting her into college.

After high school, Homer and Marge bought an apartment at Springfield Place. Homer attended Springfield High School and fell in love with Marge Bouvier in 1974. When investigating why the lake was reduced to a muddy pit, he stumbled upon a decomposing corpse inside the pipe, greatly traumatizing him and leading to his occasional overeating and fear of corpses. In 1966, Homer, along with Lenny, Carl, and Moe, went over to a deep gorge for a nice swim, but the water was drained. However, before she started protesting, she took Homer and her husband to the Woodstock Music Festival, where Homer ended up briefly adopting the hippie lifestyle (and Abe Simpson attempted to send him off to the Vietnam War as punishment for wanting to be a hippie). In the early 1960s, when Homer was between nine and twelve years of age, Mona went into hiding following a run-in with the law. In 1960, Homer experimented to see if he can push fifteen crayons into his nose, which resulted in one being lodged into his brain and being responsible for his current below-average intelligence. At some point during his childhood, Abe seemed to feed beer to Homer, but he quit drinking beer until he was older upon Barney's suggestion after he caused a multi-car pileup in his playschool car at school. He was raised on the Simpson farm by his parents until they were forced to move out due to Homer spooking the cows by jumping out of a bale of hay and scaring them into giving sour milk. Homer Jay Simpson was born as the third child of Abraham Simpson, and the first (and only) child of Mona Simpson on May 12, 1956.
