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Someone has worked out what Homer Simpson would look like in real life and it’s awful

Someone has worked out what Homer Simpson would look like in real life and it’s awful

This may haunt our dreams for a while to come

Huw Fullerton

Published: Tuesday, 21 August 2018 at 11:28 am

Fancy seeing a viral tweet that will simultaneously massage your TV nostalgia and haunt your dreams for years to come?

Well lucky you, because that’s exactly what the internet is offering us this week after a “3D re-imagining” of beloved Simpsons patriarch Homer was uploaded to Twitter by Miguel Vasquez.

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If you thought an almost-hairless, jaundice-yellow cartoon character couldn’t look any weirder, then check out the image below and prepare to revise your opinion.

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And it’s fair to say that people on Twitter were equally creeped out by Vasquez’s design.

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Though some others thought that earlier attempts at humanising Homer had been even creepier…

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Anyway, whichever creepy, flesh-coloured monster you favour we can all be sure of one thing – we’re much happier with our vaguely inhuman Simpsons characters when they stick firmly within the realm of hand-drawn animation. Don’t do it again, internet.

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Radio Times commissioning editor Huw Fullerton. He sits in front of a shelving unit, looking at the camera and smiling. He wears glasses and has a moustache

Huw FullertonCommissioning editor

Huw Fullerton is a commissioning editor for Radio Times magazine handling comedy, entertainment and specialist drama. In a previous regeneration, he covered all things sci-fi and fantasy for RadioTimes.com.

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