Favourite Simpson character?

+1 for Homer.

Homer from the old season was a loveable oaf: clumsy, foolish, occasionally thoughtless yes, but essentially a good man with a big heart & loved his family very much.

Homer from the latter seasons is .. well, as krudler put it, a psychopath pure and simple. I hate that version & can't understand what the writers are thinking when they script his behaviour; it's awful stuff

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How have they turned Homer into a psychopath (I've not been watching recent series)?

For me, it's always been Maggie.

Ironically, they made Homer more into a cartoon caricature over the course of the years; overplaying his idiocy to the point where he frequently comes across as callous & mean-spirited and much, much less empathetic. A primetime cartoon it may be, but old-Homer had a depth & basic decency that just doesn't exist anymore - and I think the writers know this; there's the odd injoke and wink to the audience that they realise they're just playing up to the mistaken stereotype of Homer Simpson the Idiot.

The rest of the cast suffer from the same fate, but Homer gets the worst of the transformations. Put it this way: to me, Peter Griffin is more well-rounded and likeable than new-Homer, and it's kinda hard to see how Marge would stay with new-Homer really.