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Look at that! I'm the first non-Brazilian person to travel backwards through time!

FBI PARTE DUE IS LOOKING AT YOU THROUGH SPACE AND TIME AND HE ALSO GOT A BRAZILIAN BIKINI WAX AND THAT'S WHY HE CAN TRAVEL BACKWARDS THROUGH TIME.
 
The first time Homer travels back in time, he was originally supposed to state "I'm the first non-fictional character to travel backwards through time".[4] The line was later changed from "non-fictional" to "non-Brazilian". Groening was confused as to the reason for the change, since he liked the original so much. In fact, he did not even understand what the new line meant.[6]
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Gaia answered 1 year ago
Maybe he actually WANTED to say he was non-fictional, but because he is fictional in the real world, and the Treehouse of Horror segments are non-canonical, and technically "meta" (AKA they're just stories that, in-series are just horror "fanfic" created by the characters themselves.) This THOH, in particular, is supposed to be a 1947 movie called "200 Miles to Oregon" (Matt would have been 7-year-old!) which actually does not exist in real life. So, if he said he was non-fictional, he would have told a lie, because the "Homer Simpson" in "200 Miles to Oregon\Treehouse of Horror V" IS fictional. (Also, it would have been made 42 years before The Simpsons were made, and we all know Homer is no older than 39.)

And Castaneda s' wikipedia page does not mention time travel, and does mention Brazil only once, but referring to Luis Carlos de Morais, who WAS born in 1947.


And, saying he was the first person who was'nt brazilian, to travel trough time, it does not mean Brazilian people time-travelled before him. And even if they time-travelled before him, they propably also time-travelled after him. And this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Ma... is a time-travel story published in 1895, who has English people in it.

So, basically Homer wanted to say he was not a fictional character, but, since he was, they could not.

I guess it might be just a fluff\ad-lib, Dan Castellaneta was 37 = almost middle-aged, and some middle aged people just want to be funny and say funny things, expecially ones with personalities like Homer's*.

So, it's just Homer Simpson wanting to be funny, not a serious plot-relevant line.

But, if "200 Miles to Oregon" was really a film\TV series in the Simpsons universe, maybe the character who was replaced by Homer in the plot of "Treehouse of Horror V", has a quirk that, once an episode, he says something like "I am the first <demonym for a country, city, or another group, sometimes preceeded by the word "non" to indicate he is not part of it> to <do or make something>"


*Someone with Ned Flanders' personality might say "But time travel was not in the bible! I'm kinda scared." or a similiar reaction.
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It's called Yahoo Answers, not Yahoo Speculation, Gaia!
 
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It takes place in the "retro-future"...made by the man who directed "Time Bandits"...hmm...
 
Mark Johnson's best guess is that Homer was referring to Carlos Castaneda, "a Brazilian who wrote about his chemical-induced `adventures' about twenty years ago. A rather trendy (for the college crowd) set of books from the late-60's, early 70's."
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Why do people keep on repeating this? Why do they keep on spreading LIES?
 
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