Hmmm...let's see - if kids are picking up the message that homer is fat and drunk and always eats donuts, what are they getting from other shows? Barney is fat, blueclue is a talking dog who likes icecream, strawberry shortcake likes to eat cake and lives ina big strawberry, dora the explorer talks to a monkey, max and ruby have no parents....give me a flipping break!!!!!!!!!!! Good lord, our children are not that susceptible to homer simpson, and neither are we...

i have never gone out and gotten drunk and loaded on donuts becuase homer did! The shocking thing is that people are PAID to come up with this garbage!

Granted, I don't think most kids are going to start eating like Homer, but a friend of mine stopped letting her kids watch The Simpsons when her kids starting talking to her like Bart (using a lot of the same phrases).
Kids are influenced by and at times will mimic what they see on TV. I've seen and heard my own kids acting out things that they have seen on TV and using phrases from some of the shows they watch. Most of the time, it's harmless but I do draw the line at mimicing disrespectful attitudes and behavior.