Too Weird! Greatest American Ever Is... ...Homer Simpson? Yeah, Homer Simpson. This isn't a joke. On Tuesday, the BBC is producing a live 90-minute global television debate about America's place in the world. In conjunction with this show, the BBC is conducting an online poll to determine the greatest American ever. And weirdly, Homer Simpson is squashing the competition of Abraham Lincoln, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and Mr. T. (Yeah, that Mr. T.)
Homer Simpson may be the greatest American ever, but he did NOT make the No. 1 spot as the greatest cartoon character ever in a TV Guide poll last year. Click to find out who did!
Voting continues until the show airs, but as of Friday morning Eastern Time, this is the leader board: 1. Homer Simpson: 40.83 percent 2. Abraham Lincoln: 10.28 percent 3. Martin Luther King Jr.: 10.06 percent 4. Thomas Jefferson: 6.43 percent 5. Mr. T: 8.38 percent 6. Bob Dylan: 6.15 percent 7. George Washington: 5.10 percent 8. Franklin D. Roosevelt: 4.34 percent 9. Benjamin Franklin: 4.52 percent 10. Bill Clinton: 3.92 percent To place your vote in the BBC News Online poll, click here.
See a photo gallery of the real people who give Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie, and the other residents of Springfield their voices.
So should we Americans just laugh at this or should we be offended? Maybe we should just take comfort in the words of the "greatest American ever": "Aw, people can come up with statistics to prove anything, Kent. Fourteen percent of all people know that." --Homer Simpson