Homer's Back Fat Meme Generator
Drag text anywhere on the Homer's Back Fat template, style every box its own way, drop in your own images, then download, copy, or share it.
Click a text box to edit it. Drag to move, corners resize, top handle rotates.
What is the Homer's Back Fat meme?
Homer's Back Fat is a two-panel Simpsons scene in the couple's bedroom. In the top panel Homer stands in his briefs with hands on hips, suddenly slim, wearing a smug half-lidded grin while Marge looks on. In the bottom panel he turns around and the trick is revealed: all the excess skin and fat has been gathered behind him and pinned in place with clips, bulging in a lumpy mass from his back up to the folds clipped behind his head. The meme compares a polished front to the ugly mess holding it together behind the scenes.
Origin: The scene is from The Simpsons episode "Husbands and Knives," first aired in November 2007, in which Homer turns to cosmetic surgery to keep up with Marge.
Also known as: Homer Simpson's Back Fat, Homer Back Fat, Homer Skin Clips.
How to use the Homer's Back Fat meme
The top box sits on the slim, confident panel and names the thing that looks great from the front: a product, a website, a codebase demo, a tidy room. The bottom box sits on the reveal and names what is actually holding it together: hacks, debt, duct tape, a closet stuffed with junk.
It lands when the hidden mess is relatable and specific. Engineering, renovation, social media versus real life and suspiciously cheap budgets are all strong targets.
Homer's Back Fat meme ideas
- our sleek new app / 4,000 lines of if statements
- my clean room on video call / the chair with all my clothes
- my instagram / my camera roll
- the club's new signing / the club's debt
- my legacy code / one more feature
- the polished demo / hardcoded test data
About the Homer's Back Fat meme template
The Homer's Back Fat template (homer-back-fat) supports 2 lines of text. A classic example reads “my legacy code / one more feature”. Read about its origin on knowyourmeme.com.
Use it from the API
This meme is also just a URL. Replace the text in the path to generate your own image:
https://memegenscript.com/images/homer-back-fat/my_legacy_code/one_more_feature.png
