Homer Simpson
publication date: Friday, December 3, 2004 (part of Round XXIV)
category: 
Cartoons
clue: This gluttonous jerkass has made Fox Television a lot of dough.
explanation: Simpson was the main character on "The Simpsons," an animated sitcom on the Fox network. He was often accused of being a "jerkass" (besides calling others by that name), and was famous for drooling over certain foods and his exclamation, "D'oh!" more…
solved by: Steve West, Denise Sawicki, Matthew Preston, Erik Bates, Steve Dunn, Amy Austin, Mike Eberhart, David Mitzman, Scott Horowitz, Megan Baxter, Lori Lancaster, Aaron Fischer, Mihai Rusu, Jackie Mason, Todd Brotsch, E. M., Christine Marie Doiron, Anna Gregoline, Nadine Russell, Anthony Lewis, Phyllis Joy, Jesse Vengrove, Brad Htnck, John Pierpoint, Jeff Ball, Scott Baumann, Kevin Laudadio, Tracey Lewis, Cory Melanson, Bob Degal, JL Reyes, Brennan Holness, Christina Capehart, Jason Cohen, Jeff Spencer, John Faircloth, Justin Smith, Richard Scoggin, Alberto Bauds, Alex Haag, Darren Sloan, Evan Robinson, Heather Perry, Josh Hannaby, Josh Yaganeh, Lindsey Munoz, Nicole Lovell, Robert Pino, Sarah Lavoie, Hamilton Mitchell, Lasse Pedersen, Patrick Little, Sarah Petersen, and Tom Chan
player landmarks: This was the first goo solved by Jeff Ball and Heather Perry. This was the last goo solved by Richard Scoggin, Brennan Holness, John Faircloth, Justin Smith, Jason Cohen, Alex Haag, Evan Robinson, Nicole Lovell, Sarah Lavoie, Alberto Bauds, Robert Pino, Josh Yaganeh, Lindsey Munoz, Darren Sloan, and Josh Hannaby.
trivia: The site had a temporary surge of users thanks to a link from Something Awful the day this goo was published, and in its first day it broke the record for the most correct guesses. Many of the user accounts were deleted because of obviously fake names; there were actually 64 correct guesses for this goo by the end of the week.
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