This Homer Simpson German Nutcracker
is 7.5 inches tall including the base. He is wearing traditional German lederhosen. Homer from our Christmas Nutcrackers Village People is wearing a white shirt with red lederhosen. The lederhosen are red, have red suspenders, and has a green and yellow suspender clip with a red H on it. The Homer Simpson Nutcracker is wearing socks that are green with purple stripes and black shoes. This Christmas Nutcracker Decorations hat is green with a yellow stripe on it and a red feather. Homer is holding a gingerbread man cookie in his right hand. The gingerbread cookie is brown with red circle buttons. His eyes are white with black pupils and he is smiling. The base is .5 inches high and has a brass plate with the name Homer Simpson on it. Select to see a complete listing of our Christmas Decorations Ideas.

History of Homer Simpson
Homer Jay Simpson is one of the main characters in the animated television series The Simpsons. Homer is the husband of Marge Simpson and the father of Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson, and Maggie Simpson. Although he is often portrayed as gluttonous, lazy or simple-minded, there are times where he has displayed amazing intelligence. Homer has become a popular character and a famous icon in the American culture.
Homer Simpson embodies a number of negative, working class, American stereotypes: he has a low level job, he is crude and fairly uneducated, overweight, intolerant, inept, and a borderline alcoholic. He also has a loose sense of reality. On the other hand, he sometimes is unpredictably adaptable, quick-witted and capable. Furthermore, in spite of his apparently blue-collar status, he has had a number of remarkable adventures, even journeying into outer space. Homer Simpson popularized the annoyed grunt "D'oh!, made memorable through Dan Castellaneta's distinctive voice work, which began as an abbreviated form of Jimmy Finlayson's "Dooooh" from the films of Laurel and Hardy. This modern interjection has become popular enough to be included in the Oxford English Dictionary.
In 2002, Homer Simpson placed #2 on TV Guide's Top 50 Greatest Cartoon Characters of all time, only beaten by Bugs Bunny. In 2005, Homer Simpson was listed as number 5 on Bravo's 100 Greatest TV Characters, beating out beloved and respected characters like Columbo, Frasier Crane, Hawkeye Pierce, and James Kirk. He is one of only four cartoon characters to be on the list, along with Eric Cartman and Rocky & Bullwinkle.

The Story of The Nutcracker.
The combination of a useful tool and a figural form with a human appearance was well accepted by the mid 18th century. In the toy making center of Sonneberg, in the Thuringian Forest, there was mention in 1735 of nut biters that operated according to the principles of leverage. These nut biters were described as sturdy, energetic forms with large heads. Two moving arms on the back of the head allowed the lower jaw to push the nut against the upper jaw. In a carnival parade in 1783, students from Freisingen, Germany presented large models of Berchtesgaden wares, including a nut biter in the form of a little man whose mouth and stomach were one and the same. Select this link to view our Wooden Nutcrackers Soldiers.
The literary career of the nutcracker began with the 1816 publication of E.T.A. Hoffmann's fairy tale Nussknacker und Mausekönig, a children's book that helped bring the nutcracker into broader popularity. In the spirit of a time when the importance of the family and children was beginning to be emphasized, Hoffmann vividly depicted a sympathetic soul, Under the Christmas tree a very excellent little man became visible that stood there still and modest. He waited as if they would all come to him. The job of the nutcracker was to work hard for the children of the family by biting open the nuts. Select this link to view our Large Nutcrackers.
Thirty five years after the publication of E.T.A. Hoffmann's classic, the nutcracker reappeared as a central character in Heinrich Hoffmann's story King Nutcracker and the Poor Reinhold 1851. In this story the poor Reinhold becomes acquainted with the Nutcracker King in a dream.
The nutcracker did not always play the role of the good-hearted fairy tale king. More often he wore a monk's robe or was made into the form of a mean-looking policeman, a Turk, master of the watch, a cavalry man or some other grotesque helmeted figure with a long nose. He appeared, for example, as a