Homer Simpson has committed various crimes, from mild crimes such as graffiti to extreme crimes such as attempted murder.
Animal Cruelty[]
Animal cruelty - Strangling Santa's Little Helper
In "Homer Goes to College", Homer steals mascot Sir Oinks-A-Lot and makes it drink malt liquor. In "Girly Edition", he allows a helper monkey to eat to exhaustion. In "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"", he hits a lemur at the zoo with a slingshot, triggering rhinos to escape. In "Kill the Alligator and Run", he runs over and injures an alligator with an airboat. In "She of Little Faith", he shoots a hamster into the air in a model rocket. In "The Frying Game", he injures an endangered species, the Screamapillar. In "Bonfire of the Manatees", he sends a manatee to work as his replacement, causing it to dehydrate. In "We're on the Road to D'oh-where", he runs over a horse on the way to pick up Bart from camp; asks Bart to wipe the blood off the car before getting in. In "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)", he drives off-road to get to Marge’s art show, running over an owl, a bear, and a boy scout. In "Homerazzi", he has a photo of him strangling a deer. In "Dog of Death", Marge has a photo of him kicking the family dog Santa's Little Helper.
Attempted Murder[]
Attempted Murder - Try to poison Bashir Bin Laden's family
Attempted murder was Homer's worst crime in "Mypods and Boomsticks". He tried to kill Bashir bin Laden's Muslim family using an American flag cake that had poison in it. This is also listed in the section about hate crime.
Manslaughter[]
Manslaughter - Hitting Hans Moleman with a car
Homer has inadvertently killed Hans Moleman and Maude Flanders. In The Simpsons, killing or attempting to kill Hans Moleman is a crime known as Molemanslaughter, as Milhouse Van Houten was convicted of attempted Molemanslaughter in Barthood, being sent to juvenile detention.
Bail Jumping[]
In "Sex, Pies, and Idiot Scrapes", Homer jumps bail on fighting charges; pursued by Flanders.
Blast Fishing[]
Blast Fishing - Killing fish with a bug zapper
In The Simpsons Movie, Homer uses a bug zapper to electrocute the fish in a lake.
Bootlegging[]
In Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment when Springfield bans alcohol, Homer makes and smuggles alcohol into Moe's speakeasy that has been disguised as a pet store.
Burglary[]
Burglary - Stealing Christmas presents from Springfield residents
In "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", Homer tries to rob Flanders' house. He has been seen successfully stealing from Flanders in multiple other episodes. In "Insane Clown Poppy", he steals a violin from Fat Tony. In "'Tis the Fifteenth Season", he steals the town’s Christmas presents, a parody of the Grinch. In "Fat Man and Little Boy", he steals plutonium from the power plant. In "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment", he steals cups from Moe's Tavern.
Conspiracy to commit Insurance Fraud[]
In "Dumbbell Indemnity", Homer conspires with Moe Szyslak to steal Moe's car and park it on the railroad tracks allow it to get wrecked by a train so that Moe can collect the insurance money.
Purchasing Illegal Fireworks[]
In "Summer of 4 Ft. 2", Homer buys illegal fireworks from a convenience store at the beach.
Tax Fraud[]
In "The Trouble with Trillions" Homer in an attempt to fill out his tax forms at the very last minute, writes in a ton of fraudulent information. These include claiming that he and Marge have 9 children, the ship painting above their couch was a "business gift" even though Marge painted it as a gift to him, that Marge requires 24-hour nursing care, Lisa is a clergyman, Maggie is seven people and Bart was wounded in Vietnam.
Telemarketing[]
Telemarketing - Using an AT-5000 Auto-dialer to scam people
Homer used the Auto Dialler 3000 to scam people into giving him $1 a call.
Child Abuse[]
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Child Abuse - Strangling Bart Simpson
Homer often strangles Bart, and has also choked others. In "Like Father, Like Clown", when he tells Bart he doesn't have to follow in his footsteps, Bart says he won’t even use the bathroom after him, and Homer strangles him. In "Lisa's Pony", a flashback of him being too busy strangling Bart to notice Lisa saying "Dada". In "Radio Bart", he strangles Bart after he realizes Bart fooled him with a fake radio announcement. In "Lisa's First Word", he strangles baby Bart for calling him "Domer" and for flushing his wallet down the toilet. In "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show", he strangles Bart after he admits to shaking up the beer can. In "Secrets of a Successful Marriage", while teaching a class on building a successful marriage, Homer strangles Bart when he says that Homer dared him to steal mail and throw it down a sewer. In "Lisa the Tree Hugger", while protesting in a tree, Lisa looks at the house through binoculars and sees Homer strangling Bart. In "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala-D'oh-cious", just when magical nanny Shary Bobbins thinks she's cured the family’s problems, she sees Homer strangling Bart. In "Children of a Lesser Clod", he strangles Bart after he shows video of Homer’s bad behavior as he’s receiving a citizenship award. In "Brawl in the Family", he strangles Bart after he discovers that he's been cheating at Monopoly by using Lego blocks as hotels. In "Mayored to the Mob", he knocks Bart and Lisa unconscious with a Vulcan death grip maneuver. In The Simpsons Movie, Homer shakes the TV antenna while Bart is on it, endangering his life.
Defying a Court Order[]
Defying a Court Order - Breaking out of teather
In "The Parent Rap", Homer escapes with Marge from a tether and stocks.
Driving Without a License[]
In "Homer vs. Patty and Selma", Homer drives a limousine without a chauffeur's license.
Enforced Suicide[]
In Homer's Enemy, Homer drove Frank Grimes completely insane, to the point of killing himself.
Grifting[]
In "The Great Money Caper", Homer, Bart (and later Grampa) commit a series of confidence schemes to con the residents of Springfield out of their money.
Hit and Run[]
Hit and Run - Hitting Gil Gunderson with a car
In Dogtown, Homer hit Gil Gunderson with his car, breaking his neck.
Drunk Driving[]
Drunk driving - Driving drunk with Lenny Leonard,Barney Gumble, and Carl Carlson
Homer has driven his car whilst drunk numerous times before, usually after visiting Moe's Tavern. Some of the more notable examples are "Duffless" and "Co-Dependent's Day".
Framing[]
In "Co-Dependent's Day", he frames Marge of drunk driving when he was the one guilty of the crime.
Piracy[]
Piracy - Pirating movies for the citizens of Springfield
In Steal This Episode, Homer started an outdoor cinema screening pirated movies, with no ads. The FBI arrested him after Marge told them about Homer's illegal cinema, however he escaped them. The Simpson family then sought asylum at the Consulate of Sweden in Springfield. In Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment, he pirated cable television and screened it to various townspeople.
Kidnapping[]
Kidnapping - Kidnapping children who's parents stopped going to his daycare
In "Children of a Lesser Clod", Homer kidnaps the children he took care of at Uncle Homer's Daycare Center after their parents refuse to send them back after seeing a tape of Homer strangling Bart.
Illegal Gambling[]
Illegal Underground Poker[]
- In "The Springfield Connection", Homer hosts an illegal Poker game at his house.
- In "Lisa with an "S"", Homer participates in an illegal Poker game at Moe's Tavern and loses $5000.
Note: Even though both of these episodes aired after $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling), in which Springfield legalized gambling, both Poker games were branded illegal in said episodes, most likely because they didn't comply with local gaming laws.
Illegal Sports Betting[]
- In "The Telltale Head" Homer makes a $50 bet on a football game.
- In "Lisa the Greek" Throughout the episode, Homer again makes multiple bets on football games with Moe as his bookie. In the episode Marge points out that what he's doing is illegal.
Note: Both "The Telltale Head" & "Lisa the Greek" aired before "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)", meaning that at the time gambling was illegal.
Illegal Parking[]
In "The Springfield Connection", Officer Marge catches Homer illegally parked horizontally across three parking spaces reserved for the handicapped. When asked to move Homer refuses to comply.
Giving Alcohol to People Underage[]
Giving Alcohol to People Underage - Spiking punch with Alcohol
In "Homer Goes to College", Homer spikes the punch at a college dance with alcohol. Also in "The Springfield Connection", When Officer Marge catches Homer for illegal parking, Homer states his intention was to buy beer for Dolph, Jimbo & Kearney.
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After Lou wrote up a $50 dollar penalty to Homer for failing to separate bottles and newspapers while recycling, the fine quickly increased to $1,000 after Homer broke several new ordnances with "outrageous financial penalties" that came into effect that day. These were: vandalizing city property, mild obscenity before 10am, telling it like it is, and rounding up his total. He was sentenced to ten years incarceration for attempted bribery of a public official to make the charges go away, but was let out sooner after he cooperated with the FBI as a prison snitch.[1]
Smuggling[]
Alcohol Smuggling[]
See "Bootlegging" on this page.
Attempted Animal Smuggling[]
In Goo Goo Gai Pan, Homer attempted to smuggle a giant panda cub from Beijing, China.
Drug Smuggling[]
In Midnight Rx, Homer, Grampa, Apu, Ned and Mr. Burns all attempt to smuggle prescription drugs in from Canada.
Sugar Smuggling[]
In Sweets and Sour Marge, After all sugar and products containing sugar are banned in Springfield due to Marge's lawsuit against the Motherloving Sugar Corp. Homer, Bart, Apu, Mr. Burns and Count Fudge-ula all attempt to smuggle sugar into Springfield from the island of San Glucos.
Non-canonical crimes[]
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Enforced murder - Convincing Ned Flanders to murder his enemies
In the episode Treehouse of Horror XXII, in the story Dial 'D' for Diddily, Homer impersonates God and by using a voice-changer and a speaker, Homer gets Ned Flanders to murder his enemies including Snake Jailbird, Charles Montgomery Burns, Robert Terwilliger, Patty Bouvier and Selma Bouvier. However, the cover is blown when he greets Bart Simpson.
Cannibalism - Eating Jeremy Freedman
In Treehouse of Horror XXVIII, he ate himself and he also ate several people as a blob in Treehouse of Horror XVII.