Homers Top Business Ideas on The Simpsons That Would Have Worked If Homer Wasnt Running Them [Video]

For the last 35 years, Homer Simpson has been coming up with get-rich-quick schemes that quickly fizzle out by the closing credits, but every now and then, he comes close to a real business breakthrough. One of these days, he’ll finally score his three money.

Back when the entire Simpsons canon sat at roughly 400 episodes, series creator Matt Groening claimed that Homer had held 188 different jobs in his time on the show, though he always returned to Sector 7-G down at the nuclear power plant. As such, Mr. Burns’ declaration of “Don’t Forget, You’re Here Forever” that Homer touchingly turned into a tribute to his youngest child is hilariously off-base, considering how Burns’ most dangerous safety inspector is constantly taking sabbaticals to go into space, or to become a heavyweight boxer, or to voice a divisive character on The Itchy & Scratchy Show before dying on his way back to his home planet.

While no alternative occupation has …