Homer Simpson completes the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge (Video)

Homer Simpson has joined the charge and accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

If you have been on any of the various social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and more over the course of the past few months, there is less than a one percent chance that you have not come across someone, whether it be one of your friends or a celebrity, dumping a bucket of ice cold water over their heads in the name of raising awareness for ALS.

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Since its inception, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has raised over $60 million for ALS Research to help wipe out the debilitating disease.

Everyone from your friends and neighbors to celebrities like Tyler Perry, Oprah Winfrey, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Bill Gates, Henry Cavill and Amy Adams, Misha Collins, and so many more have stepped up and accepted the challenge.

Now, the phenomenon has made its way into the animated world. The Simpsons patriarch Homer Simpson is the newest name to join the ranks of those who have accepted the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

Yes…Homer Simpson. You have to see this for yourself.

You just knew that he was going to try to take the easy way out of this, but Bart was never going to let that happen. Homer has called upon his neighbor Ned Flanders and his best friend Lenny to take the challenge next.

Whether or not we will see any of the other Simpsons characters take the challenge is unknown at this point, but it was certainly interesting watching a fundraising campaign like this one make its way into the animated realm.

Just in case some of you are not familiar with what ALS truly is, it is a debilitating disease more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The actual name for the disease is Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and is “a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.”

The motor neurons in the body eventually begin to die off which leads to a complete loss of muscle control and eventually death. It is a horrible disease and not something that you would ever want to watch a friend or family member go through.

That is why this challenge is so important, because it brings awareness to a sometimes forgotten disease and has helped incredibly in raising money to continue researching a cure for the crippling disease.

If you would like to know more about ALS or how you can get involved yourself, you can visit the official site of the ALS Association.