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Homer Simpson Lamb Push refers to a scene from the American animated television series The Simpsons in which Homer Simpson, the patriarch of the family, pushes a lamb aside in order to see a cuter lamb. Animated gifs of the scene are used online to illustrate preference of one thing over another, usually similar, thing.

Origin

On October 15th, 1995, Fox aired The Simpsons episode "Lisa the Vegetarian."^[1] In the opening scene, the family visits a petting zoo and see a cute lamb. Another, less cute, lamb walks in front of it, and Homer shoves the less attractive lamb out of the way so the family can continue to observe the cuter lamb.

On February 26th, 2013, a Redditor ^[4] posted a gif based on the scene in the /r/Funny subreddit. In the gif, the Redditor photoshops the heads of Emma Watson and Jennifer Lawrence over the lamb's faces. The post (shown below) received more than 1,700 points (89% upvoted) and 250 comments since archiving.

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Two months later on November 5, 2013 Dota2.com developer forum member SaurX used the gif in a reply to fellow user Sigma.^[3]

On September 24th, 2014, derpibooru user Background Pony #C1BF uploaded a version of the gif with adding the faces of different versions of Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony: Equestria Girls.

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