The ice bucket challenge has swept the world in the dominating social media. Recently it reached the animation world, with Homer Simpson taking the plunge, shirtless, yes! Shirtless! The Simpsons' producers have released a trailer of the charming character being poured in ice cold water before the spectacular stunt backfires. Homer challenges, drinking buddy Lenny, Ned Flanders and Donald Trump, the real estate mogul.
However, a curtain of water knocks Homer to the ground, rapidly followed by polar bears, Yeti, ice cream truck, penguins and ice hockey players. But, no prizes for guessing who is liable of this, until the camera pan upwards shows Bart is in the helicopter, just dropped the load on this father's head, makes Homer passed out, saying Fight ALS.
The ALS ice bucket challenge started in latter part of July when ex Boston baseball player and ALS patient Pete Frate challenged his friends to do the challenge in order to promote awareness about the illness. It went viral, with millions of videos about the challenges circulated in the social media and was able to gather enormous amount of donations. Even former President George W. Bush took the challenge, famous celebrities like Oprah Winfrey, Patrick Stewart, Robert Downey Jr., Jennifer Lopes, Will Smith and Tom Cruise.
The challenge, which has been on Facebook and urged hundreds of celebrities, has lead to millions of donations for ALS study and increase consciousness about the illness. After a month or so in the limelight, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is beginning to show that it is cooling down. It earned $100 million in the previous month. That translate to 3,500% raise from the $2.8 million that the ALS organization gathered in the previous year. Almost four million people have sent their donations. However, other challengers have put the challenge the wrong way, they focused on the videos instead on the reasons behind the charity.