--- description: Homer takes the challenge title: ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: The Simpsons and Homer Do Their Own image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb77a0e94e2ad5cb9/6986a11bd0b6f236ab305d8d/screen-shot-2014-08-27-at-1-17-37-pm.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Homer Simpson Take the Ice Bucket Challenge  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Aug 27, 2014 3:27 PM CUT   by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Aug 27, 2014 3:27 PM CUT Homer Simpson is jumping on the Ice Bucket Challenge bandwagon. The clip parodies the movement that’s dominated social media in recent weeks, in which people dump ice water on themselves to raise money and awareness for research into ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Homer dumps a tiny cup of water on himself and pretends to suffer: “But it was all worth it to raise awareness for ALS.” But then his kids raise the stakes, finding something a bit more frigid to dump on Homer. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3194113/als-ice-bucket-challenge-simpsons-homer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3194113/als-ice-bucket-challenge-simpsons-homer/"},"headline":"Watch Homer Simpson Take the Ice Bucket Challenge","datePublished":"2014-08-27T15:27:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:52:39.124Z","description":"D'oh!","url":"https://time.com/3194113/als-ice-bucket-challenge-simpsons-homer/","keywords":["Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb77a0e94e2ad5cb9/6986a11bd0b6f236ab305d8d/screen-shot-2014-08-27-at-1-17-37-pm.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb77a0e94e2ad5cb9/6986a11bd0b6f236ab305d8d/screen-shot-2014-08-27-at-1-17-37-pm.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Simpsons Ice Bucket Challenge","caption":"Simpsons Ice Bucket Challenge","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3194113/als-ice-bucket-challenge-simpsons-homer/","name":"Watch Homer Simpson Take the Ice Bucket Challenge"}}]}] ```