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The Copper Slipper

2025-08-20T11:28:23Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1:

{{Location
|name = The Copper Slipper
|image = [[File:The Copper Slipper.png|250px]]
|town = [[Las Vegas]]
|use = Club
|appearance = "[[Marge Gets a Job]]"
}}

'''The Copper Slipper''' is a club in [[Las Vegas]].

== History ==
[[Mr. Smithers]] found {{Ch|Tom Jones}} performing at a Vegas club called The Copper Slipper.

== Behind the Laughter ==
The Copper Slipper is a parody of the former Silver Slipper in Las Vegas which closed in 1988.

== Appearances ==
*{{ep|Marge Gets a Job}}

{{Las Vegas}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Copper Slipper, The}}

[[Category:Clubs]]
[[Category:One-time locations]]

Snowshoe Casino

2025-08-20T11:26:32Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1:

{{Location
|name= Snowshoe Casino
|image= [[File:Snowshoe Casino.png|250px]]
|district=
|town= [[Las Vegas]]
|use= Casino
|owner=
|employees=
|appearance= "[[Viva Ned Flanders]]"
}}

'''Snowshoe Casino''' is a casino in [[Las Vegas]].

== Behind the Laughter ==
Snowshoe Casino is a parody of the Horseshoe (1951) in Las Vegas.

== Appearances ==
*{{ep|Viva Ned Flanders}}

{{Casinos}}
{{Las Vegas}}

[[Category:One-time locations]]

Dupes

2025-08-20T11:23:26Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Behind the Laughter */

{{Location
|name= Dupes
|image= [[File:Dupes.png|250px]]
|district=
|town= [[Las Vegas]]
|state = [[Nevada]]
|use= Casino
|owner=
|employees=
|appearance= "[[Viva Ned Flanders]]"
}}

'''Dupes''' is a casino in [[Las Vegas]].

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out decorations/Billboards and signs|Dupes}}

== Behind the Laughter ==
Dupes is a spoof of the casino {{W2|Dunes|hotel and casino}} in Las Vegas, while the tent structure behind the Sultan is taken from Circus Circus. The real Dunes closed in 1993, 6 years before ''Viva Ned Flanders'' aired.

== Trivia ==
*Dupes appears on the VHS cover of "[[Viva Los Simpsons]]".

== Appearances ==
*{{ep|Viva Ned Flanders}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Tapped Out|(sign)}}

{{Casinos}}
{{Las Vegas}}
{{Tapped Out decorations|signs=yes}}

[[Category:Businesses]]
[[Category:Recurring locations]]

Hostile Kirk Place/References

2023-03-18T17:45:44Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Continuity */

{{TabR}}
{{EpisodePrevNextRef|Bartless|Pin Gal}}

== Cultural references ==
*The episode title is a wordplay on the labor law term "{{W|Hostile work environment|hostile workplace}}".
*The storybook telling of the story is a parody of {{W|Dr. Seuss}} books.
**[[Barney]] is seen puking in a blue version of the hat from ''{{W|The Cat in the Hat}}''.
*[[Groundskeeper Willie]] reads ''[[Weeder's Digest]]'', a parody of ''{{W|Reader's Digest}}''.
*The fuse box in [[Springfield Elementary]] has a "Vote Aye on Scottish Independence" badge in, a reference to the {{W|2014 Scottish independence referendum}}.
*[[Kirk]] tells [[Milhouse]] than [[Grandpa Van Houten]] prepared a {{W|Caesar salad}} for [[Dean Martin]].
*The Spray-On Music can plays ''{{W|The Price Is Right}}'' losing horns sound.
*Kirk demands that the school bans "Critical Brace Theory", a reference to {{W|critical race theory}}.
*[[Superintendent Chalmers]] mentions missing the new episode of ''{{W2|The Equalizer|2021 TV series}}'' starring [[Queen Latifah]].
*Kirk speaks to [[Tucker Carlson]] on ''[[Fox News]]''.
*"{{W|We Wish You a Merry Christmas}}" plays at the Springfield Egg Nog Days festival.
*Kirk says "with great power comes great 'you have to like me'", a parody of the phrase "{{W|With great power comes great responsibility}}" from ''[[Marvel Comics]]''.

== Trivia ==
*In the [[Great Springfield Gazebo]] flashback, several odd pairings are formed of counterparts of established characters:
**[[Lenny]] and [[Selma]]
**[[Otto]] and [[Patty]]
**[[Sideshow Mel]] and [[Lindsey Naegle]]
**[[Barney]] and [[Ms. Albright]]
**[[Seymour Skinner]] and [[Agnes Skinner]]
**[[Moe]] and [[Cookie Kwan]]
**[[Krusty]] and [[Mrs. Muntz]]
**[[Gary Chalmers]] and [[Princess Kashmir]]
**[[Coach Krupt]] and [[Lunchlady Dora]]

== Continuity ==
*[[Bart]] is seen reading ''[[The Death of Radioactive Man]]''. ("[[Married to the Blob]]")
*The people in the Great Springfield Gazebo sing "[[I Will Always Be True]]" from ''[[The Christmas That Almost Wasn't But Then Was]]''. ("[[Skinner's Sense of Snow]]")
*[[Gloria Prince]] mentions "darkest chapters" in [[Springfield]]'s history, such as the [[Springfield Monorail]] ("[[Marge vs. the Monorail]]") and {{Ch|Lady Gaga}}'s visit. ("[[Lisa Goes Gaga]]")
*[[Miss Hoover]] and [[Gil]]'s Great Springfield Gazebo counterparts are paired up. Our Miss Hoover and Gil married in "[[Habeas Tortoise]]".
**Similarly Krusty and Mrs. Muntz's counterparts are paired. Krusty and Mrs. Muntz slept together in "[[All About Lisa]]".
**Sideshow Mel and Lindsey Naegle's counterparts are also paired. They dated in "[[Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays]]".

== Goofs ==
*Twice during the Great Springfield Gazebo flashback, Gil has [[Mr. Mackleberry]]'s colours and once vice-versa.

{{Season 34|R}}

[[Category:Cultural references]]
[[Category:Continuity]]

Jasper Beardley

2023-03-17T00:56:57Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Relationships */

{{Quote|[[That's a paddlin']].|Jasper Beardsley famous phrase|The PTA Disbands}}
{{Character
|name = Jasper Beardsley
|image = [[File:Jasper Beardsley.png|200px]]
|caption = Artwork of Jasper from ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''
|gender = {{Male}}
|status = Alive
|age = Over 90<ref>"[[The Mansion Family]]"</ref>
|hair = White (beard), formerly dark brown<ref>"[[The Ten-Per-Cent Solution]]"</ref>
|job = Retired
|relatives = '''Wife:''' Estelle (deceased) '''Granddaughter:''' Unnamed '''Son:''' [[Jasper Beardsley's son|Unnamed]]
|appearance = "[[Homer's Odyssey]]"
|voiced by = [[Harry Shearer]]
}}

'''Jasper Beardsley''' is a resident of the [[Springfield Retirement Castle]], and is often seen around [[Springfield]] and is a friend of [[Abe Simpson]].

== Biography ==
Jasper is a [[World War II]] veteran. Jasper also tried to avoid the draft by disguising himself as a woman and staying in Springfield to play in the local women's baseball league, along with his friend Abe, who was also avoiding the war. He has been a substitute teacher who confiscated everything made of tin (according to [[Lisa]]) and got his beard caught in the pencil sharpener.<ref>"[[The PTA Disbands]]"</ref> He also preceded [[Reverend Lovejoy]] as minister at the Simpsons' church in Springfield.

Jasper unsuccessfully auditioned for [[The Be Sharps]] by singing "Theme From A Summer Place".<ref>"[[Homer's Barbershop Quartet]]"</ref>

An actor played a version of Jasper in the film ''{{ap|Bart's Not Dead|film}}''.<ref>"[[Bart's Not Dead]]"</ref>

=== Health Issues ===
==== Vision ====
It is implied that Jasper is slowly going blind. This ailment was once cured by a laser fired by a house's security protection equipment, but he was blinded again almost immediately. He accepted this very quickly: "Oh well. Easy come, easy go." Despite the sight problem, Jasper is both a light sleeper and is still quick with his reflexes. When Abe Simpson tried to steal his dentures one night, Jasper turned on the light immediately and, with a gun aimed at Abe, foiled the nocturnal theft. Also, when everyone comes to watch the [[Itchy & Scratchy]] episode "[[The Beagle Has Landed]]", he looks down to [[Bart]] and asks "Hey little girl, is this seat taken?", Bart replies angrily with "I'm not a little ''girl''!! Are you blind?!", in which Jasper replies sadly with "Yes".

==== Other Major Accidents ====
Jasper was put in crude "suspended animation" in the [[Kwik-E-Mart]]'s freezer, and under advice from [[Dr. Nick Riviera]], [[Apu]] kept him frozen. When Jasper's frozen form became popular with customers, Apu started exploiting the spectacle, and transformed the Kwik-E-Mart into a special interest store dealing with weird items, or perfectly ordinary ones which had been made out to be abnormal (for example, a cash machine that dispenses pictures of "dead presidents"). He put a Viking helmet on Jasper (or "Frostillicus," as Apu renamed him), but when Jasper was accidentally unfrozen and stepped out into what he thought was a future world, Apu's dreams of wealth were once again crushed. Apu was considering selling him to [[The Rich Texan]].
Jasper has unfortunate events like [[Hans Moleman]] because he has had many accidents.

==== Minor Accidents ====
Jasper was shot in his artificial leg by [[Waylon Smithers, Jr.]], on the same night of the nearly fatal shooting of [[Mr. Burns]]. He also claimed to have "broke" his beard during a Death Race accident with Abe Simpson and [[Old Jewish man]], and even managed to get his beard stuck in a pencil sharpener while substituting for the striking teachers of Springfield Elementary. He also mentioned that he is diabetic, and was shot in the arm.<ref>"[[Who Shot Mr. Burns?]]"</ref> One time, Jasper, under the mistaken belief that it was Wednesday, took some of his Wednesday pills until he learned it was actually Friday, which caused him to morph into a similar creature to a Lorax from the Dr. Seuss stories.<ref>"[[The Springfield Files]]"</ref>

=== Fake Leg ===
Jasper is shown to have a fake left leg while sparring with Old Jewish man. Smithers also shot Jasper in the wooden leg while in a drunken stupor. However, when he substituted for Lisa's class, he was wearing sandals and clearly had both feet.

=== Relationships ===
Jasper is a friend of fellow resident [[Abraham Simpson|Abe Simpson]], but not always. When Abe's girlfriend [[Beatrice Simmons|Bea]] died, Jasper told him what had happened and comforted him. However, Jasper possibly bullies Abe regularly - on one occasion, he steals Abe's newspaper because he wants to do the crossword puzzle. He had a wife, Estelle, now deceased. He apparently had her cremated and had his successor, Reverend Lovejoy, proceed with the cremation ceremony, although it later became apparent that the ceremony was invalid as it took place during the three months that Lovejoy's ministering license expired.<ref>"[[Wedding for Disaster]]"</ref>

He once dated [[Edna Krabappel]] however he was too old for her liking.<ref>"[[Bart the Lover]]"</ref>

He and [[Alice Glick]] once attempted to make an erotic film titled "[[What the Pool Boy Saw]]", however cameraman, Abe Simpson fell asleep, leaving the film unfinished.<ref>"[[A Star Is Burns]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
==== Default ====
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Oldies|Jasper}}

==== Number 5 ====
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/More Stonecutters|Number5}}

==== Baseball Jasper ====
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Sporty Oldies|BaseballJasper}}

== Behind the Laughter ==
Jasper has become famous over the Internet for his quote, which has became his catchphrase to many online, "[[That's a paddlin']]". The line from the episode "[[The PTA Disbands]]" has became a [[meme]] over the Internet.

=== Foreign dubs ===
{{Dub voices
|deVoice=[[german:Werner Abrolat|Werner Abrolat]] ([[season 1]] - [[season 5|5]])
}}

== Appearances ==
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'''Comic Book Guy: The Comic Book:'''
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{{TC}}
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== References ==
{{Images|Jasper}}
{{Reflist}}

{{MultiNavbox|
{{Bart's Not Dead}}
{{Bowling Teams|oldies=yes|team=no}}
{{Retirement Castle}}
{{Stonecutters|others=yes}}
{{Teachers|former=yes}}
{{Springfield Elementary|previous staff=yes}}
{{Tapped Out characters|oldies=yes}}
{{Simpsons characters|springfield=yes}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Beardsley, Jasper}}

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[[Category:Characters introduced in season 1]]

Jonathan Frink

2023-03-17T00:45:10Z

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{{Character
|name = Jonathan I.Q. Neidelbaum Frink, Jr.
|image = [[File:Jonathan Frink.png|200px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Brown
|age =
|status = Alive
|job = Professor Inventor College Professor at [[Springfield Heights Institute of Technology]]
|relatives = '''Father:''' [[Jonathan Frink, Sr.]] '''Mother:''' Unnamed<ref name="Frinkcoin">"[[Frinkcoin]]"</ref> '''Wife:''' [[Mrs. Frink]] '''Son:''' [[Professor Frink's son|Unnamed]]
|appearance = "[[Old Money]]"
|voiced by = [[Hank Azaria]] [[Karl Wiedergott]]<ref>"[[The Blunder Years]]"</ref> [[Josh Groban]]<ref>"[[I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh]]"</ref>
}}

'''Professor Jonathan "John" I.Q. Neidelbaum Frink''', better known as simply '''Professor Frink''' and once referred to as '''Doctor Frink''',<ref name="Future-Drama">"[[Future-Drama]]"</ref> is [[Springfield]]'s local scientist and college professor, and is extremely brilliant, though somewhat socially inept.

== Biography ==
[[File:Professor Frink Every Simpsons Ever.png|thumb|left|250px]]
Frink is Springfield's local mad scientist. He has a trademark mannerism of using Tourette syndrome-like gibberish when excited, such as "GLAVIN!" and shouting other words that have no relevance to the situation at hand. He also occasionally refers to the importance of remembering to "carry the one" in various mathematical calculations. He is almost never seen without his glasses and has only taken them off once.<ref>"[[Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy]]"</ref>

Frink has an IQ of 197; 199 before he sustained a concussion during the collapse of Springfield's brief intellectual junta. He is a member of the [[Springfield Mensa]] <ref name="IQ">"[[They Saved Lisa's Brain]]"</ref> and a college professor at [[Springfield University]].<ref name="Frinkcoin"/>

Professor Frink is the [[Professor Frink's inventions|inventor]] of, among other things, hamburger earmuffs, the flying motorcycle and the 8-month after pill. Some of Frink's inventions, such as the automatic phone dialer, work better than others, such as his radio-controlled plane, which carries babies as passengers under their parents' control, or a secure house that sprouts legs and runs away from potential danger (the legs of which often collapsed causing the house to crash to the ground and catch fire).

Professor Frink has frequent contact with [[Lisa Simpson]] better than the rest of the Simpsons family because she is more interested in science and makes more frequent visits to places such as the Natural History Museum and the Observatory.

=== Early life ===
Jonathan Frink was the world's second test tube baby, who his parents created. His parents were both chemists but didn't seem to love each other, loving science more. As a baby, John Frink had to learn science and change the pitch of his voice frequently to get attention from his parents. All through his childhood and teenage years, Frink tried to get a scientific breakthrough but never managed to get one.<ref name="Frinkcoin"/>

In the 1960s, Professor Frink made napalm to drop on [[Da Nang]].<ref>"[[Homer's Paternity Coot]]"</ref>

=== Family ===
Frink formerly had a wife, though they have since separated or divorced, and a young son who looks similar to him. When his son crashed through a window during a demonstration of a remote controlled airplane, he says "my wife is going to kill me",<ref>"[[Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?]]"</ref> but his son is seen alive later,.<ref>"[[I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot]]"</ref>

=== Relationships ===
At some point he had a relationship with [[Edna Krabappel]]<ref>"[[The Ned-liest Catch]]"</ref> and went on a couple of dates with [[Miss Wyoming]].<ref>"[[Replaceable You]]"</ref> He also got together with [[Miss Hoover]] during "Grownup Halloween"<ref>"[[Halloween of Horror]]"</ref> and again at a screening of [[Forward to the Past]].<ref>"[[The Dad-Feelings Limited]]"</ref> When he made himself more desirable to women he slept with [[Cookie Kwan]] and went on dates with several other women including: [[Booberella]], [[Crazy Cat Lady]], [[Selma Bouvier]], [[Lunchlady Dora]], [[Mrs. Muntz]], [[Constance Harm]], [[Ruth Powers]], [[Lindsey Naegle]], [[Agnes Skinner]], [[Astrid Weller]], [[Audrey McConnell]] and [[Miss Springfield]].<ref name="Love is in the Air">"[[Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4]]"</ref>

Frink has a love-hate relationship with a fellow university professor, [[Professor Hessler]]. Whilst they didn't seem to get along, when Frink returned after ten days of being away, the two of them started to make out after Frink told her that he was happy to see her again.<ref name="Frinkcoin"/>

=== Science and inventions ===
{{Main|:Category:Professor Frink's inventions}}
Professor Frink has made several scientific advancements and discoveries. He once made himself into a man that women find attractive.<ref name="Love is in the Air"/> Frink also created a test to find the best and brightest minds in Springfield, the [[Personal Value Quotient]] test.<ref>"[[Frink Gets Testy]]"</ref> Frink also temporarily became the richest man in Springfield after he created the {{ap|Frinkcoin|cryptocurrency}} cryptocurrency.<ref name="Frinkcoin"/>

== Non-canon ==
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=== Future ===
Eight years into a possible future of Bart and Lisa's, a bespectacled skeleton dressed in a lab coat is observed hanging on a rope from a rafter in Frink's basement laboratory—indicating the professor has committed suicide in the interim, his death gone unnoticed by family and friends.<ref name="Future-Drama"/> Another future shows him alive and well as he leads a team trying to discover the cure for seventeen stab wounds in [[Mr. Burns]]' back, stating "Well, we're up to fifteen!".<ref>"[[Lisa's Wedding]]"</ref>

=== Treehouse of Horror ===
It is revealed that Frink had a strained relationship with his [[Jonathan Frink, Sr.|father]] (guest voiced by [[Jerry Lewis]]). Frink said they got along like "positrons and antineutrinos." The senior Professor Frink was a "he-man" scientist who, according to his son, worked on the atom bomb by day, slept with Marilyn Monroe by night, and sold secrets to the Russians at lunch. Frink brought his father back to life after he died from a Shark Attack, but he went on a rampage and younger Frink was forced to kick the elder in the testicles, killing him. It is indicated in this episode that their shared middle name is "Neidelbaum". The two rebuild their relationship when the elder Frink is proud of his son for stopping him like a man.<ref>"[[Treehouse of Horror XIV]]"</ref>

=== The Simpsons Game ===
In ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'', he lives inside the Game Engine and marries a Koopa Troopa from Super Mario Bros.

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
==== Professor Frink ====
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Oddballs|Frink}}

==== Costumes ====
<gallery>
File:Number 314.png|[[Number 314]]
File:Sorcerer Frink.png|[[Sorcerer Frink]]
</gallery>

==== Standalone ====
<gallery>
File:Baby Frink.png|[[Baby Frink]]
File:Advisor Frink.png|[[Advisor Frink]]
</gallery>

== Behind the Laughter ==
Professor Frink is voiced by [[Hank Azaria]]. The character was originally written as a mad scientist. However, when cast member Hank Azaria ad-libbed a voice for Frink, he did an impression of [[Jerry Lewis]]' character, Julius Kelp, from ''{{W|The Nutty Professor}}'', and the writing staff started making Frink more of a parody of Lewis.

Frink was named after writer [[John Frink]]; however, that was before he became a writer for the show. This was because [[Jay Kogen]], a writer at the time, knew Frink and named the character after him. Frink was originally animated without his buckteeth. The nonsensical utterances that Frink makes are written in the scripts as "Frink noise".

=== Foreign dubs ===
{{Dub voices
|deVoice=[[german:Kai Taschner|Kai Taschner]]
|czVoice=Pavel Tesař
|esVoice=Abraham Aguilar
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== Trivia ==
*The character's popularity has led to him giving name to a computer programming language.
*He thinks nerd stands for "Not Even Remotely Dorky". ("[[Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind]]")
*His [[Stonecutter]] number in [[The Simpsons: Tapped Out Stonecutters content update|Tapped Out]] is 314, which could be a reference to the number Pi/π which is 3.14159...
*It's mentioned that he is one of Springfield's most renowned scientific minds, he discovered the element Frinkonium, discovered and cured Frink's disease and created the 8 month after pill.<ref>"[[Springfield Up]]"</ref>
*He has an IQ of 197. It used to be 199 before he hit his head and lost two points.<ref name="IQ"/>

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== References ==
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Jonathan Frink

2023-03-17T00:44:36Z

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{{Quote|Glaven!|Frink's catchphrase}}
{{Quote|With the (random object) and the (other random object) and the hey hey hey|Another one of Frink's catchphrases}}
{{Character
|name = Jonathan I.Q. Neidelbaum Frink, Jr.
|image = [[File:Jonathan Frink.png|200px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Brown
|age =
|status = Alive
|job = Professor Inventor College Professor at [[Springfield Heights Institute of Technology]]
|relatives = '''Father:''' [[Jonathan Frink, Sr.]] '''Mother:''' Unnamed<ref name="Frinkcoin">"[[Frinkcoin]]"</ref> '''Wife:''' [[Mrs. Frink]] '''Son:''' [[Professor Frink's son|Unnamed]]
|appearance = "[[Old Money]]"
|voiced by = [[Hank Azaria]] [[Karl Wiedergott]]<ref>"[[The Blunder Years]]"</ref> [[Josh Groban]]<ref>"[[I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh]]"</ref>
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'''Professor Jonathan "John" I.Q. Neidelbaum Frink''', better known as simply '''Professor Frink''' and once referred to as '''Doctor Frink''',<ref name="Future-Drama">"[[Future-Drama]]"</ref> is [[Springfield]]'s local scientist and college professor, and is extremely brilliant, though somewhat socially inept.

== Biography ==
[[File:Professor Frink Every Simpsons Ever.png|thumb|left|250px]]
Frink is Springfield's local mad scientist. He has a trademark mannerism of using Tourette syndrome-like gibberish when excited, such as "GLAVIN!" and shouting other words that have no relevance to the situation at hand. He also occasionally refers to the importance of remembering to "carry the one" in various mathematical calculations. He is almost never seen without his glasses and has only taken them off once.<ref>"[[Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy]]"</ref>

Frink has an IQ of 197; 199 before he sustained a concussion during the collapse of Springfield's brief intellectual junta. He is a member of the [[Springfield Mensa]] <ref name="IQ">"[[They Saved Lisa's Brain]]"</ref> and a college professor at [[Springfield University]].<ref name="Frinkcoin"/>

Professor Frink is the [[Professor Frink's inventions|inventor]] of, among other things, hamburger earmuffs, the flying motorcycle and the 8-month after pill. Some of Frink's inventions, such as the automatic phone dialer, work better than others, such as his radio-controlled plane, which carries babies as passengers under their parents' control, or a secure house that sprouts legs and runs away from potential danger (the legs of which often collapsed causing the house to crash to the ground and catch fire).

Professor Frink has frequent contact with [[Lisa Simpson]] better than the rest of the Simpsons family because she is more interested in science and makes more frequent visits to places such as the Natural History Museum and the Observatory.

=== Early life ===
Jonathan Frink was the world's second test tube baby, who his parents created. His parents were both chemists but didn't seem to love each other, loving science more. As a baby, John Frink had to learn science and change the pitch of his voice frequently to get attention from his parents. All through his childhood and teenage years, Frink tried to get a scientific breakthrough but never managed to get one.<ref name="Frinkcoin"/>

In the 1960s, Professor Frink made napalm to drop on [[Da Nang]].<ref>"[[Homer's Paternity Coot]]"</ref>

=== Family ===
Frink formerly had a wife, though they have since separated or divorced, and a young son who looks similar to him. When his son crashed through a window during a demonstration of a remote controlled airplane, he says "my wife is going to kill me",<ref>"[[Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?]]"</ref> but his son is seen alive later,.<ref>"[[I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot]]"</ref>

=== Relationships ===
At some point he had a relationship with [[Edna Krabappel]]<ref>"[[The Ned-liest Catch]]"</ref> and went on a couple of dates with [[Miss Wyoming]].<ref>"[[Replaceable You]]"</ref> He also got together with [[Miss Hoover]] during "Grownup Halloween"<ref>"[[Halloween of Horror]]"</ref> and again at a screening of [[Forward to the Past]].<ref>"[[The Dad-Feelings Limited]]"</ref> When he made himself more desirable to women he slept with [[Cookie Kwan]] and went on dates with several other women including: [[Booberella]], [[Crazy Cat Lady]], [[Lunchlady Dora]], [[Mrs. Muntz]], [[Constance Harm]], [[Ruth Powers]], [[Lindsey Naegle]], [[Agnes Skinner]], [[Astrid Weller]], [[Audrey McConnell]] and [[Miss Springfield]].<ref name="Love is in the Air">"[[Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4]]"</ref>

Frink has a love-hate relationship with a fellow university professor, [[Professor Hessler]]. Whilst they didn't seem to get along, when Frink returned after ten days of being away, the two of them started to make out after Frink told her that he was happy to see her again.<ref name="Frinkcoin"/>

=== Science and inventions ===
{{Main|:Category:Professor Frink's inventions}}
Professor Frink has made several scientific advancements and discoveries. He once made himself into a man that women find attractive.<ref name="Love is in the Air"/> Frink also created a test to find the best and brightest minds in Springfield, the [[Personal Value Quotient]] test.<ref>"[[Frink Gets Testy]]"</ref> Frink also temporarily became the richest man in Springfield after he created the {{ap|Frinkcoin|cryptocurrency}} cryptocurrency.<ref name="Frinkcoin"/>

== Non-canon ==
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=== Future ===
Eight years into a possible future of Bart and Lisa's, a bespectacled skeleton dressed in a lab coat is observed hanging on a rope from a rafter in Frink's basement laboratory—indicating the professor has committed suicide in the interim, his death gone unnoticed by family and friends.<ref name="Future-Drama"/> Another future shows him alive and well as he leads a team trying to discover the cure for seventeen stab wounds in [[Mr. Burns]]' back, stating "Well, we're up to fifteen!".<ref>"[[Lisa's Wedding]]"</ref>

=== Treehouse of Horror ===
It is revealed that Frink had a strained relationship with his [[Jonathan Frink, Sr.|father]] (guest voiced by [[Jerry Lewis]]). Frink said they got along like "positrons and antineutrinos." The senior Professor Frink was a "he-man" scientist who, according to his son, worked on the atom bomb by day, slept with Marilyn Monroe by night, and sold secrets to the Russians at lunch. Frink brought his father back to life after he died from a Shark Attack, but he went on a rampage and younger Frink was forced to kick the elder in the testicles, killing him. It is indicated in this episode that their shared middle name is "Neidelbaum". The two rebuild their relationship when the elder Frink is proud of his son for stopping him like a man.<ref>"[[Treehouse of Horror XIV]]"</ref>

=== The Simpsons Game ===
In ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'', he lives inside the Game Engine and marries a Koopa Troopa from Super Mario Bros.

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
==== Professor Frink ====
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Oddballs|Frink}}

==== Costumes ====
<gallery>
File:Number 314.png|[[Number 314]]
File:Sorcerer Frink.png|[[Sorcerer Frink]]
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==== Standalone ====
<gallery>
File:Baby Frink.png|[[Baby Frink]]
File:Advisor Frink.png|[[Advisor Frink]]
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== Behind the Laughter ==
Professor Frink is voiced by [[Hank Azaria]]. The character was originally written as a mad scientist. However, when cast member Hank Azaria ad-libbed a voice for Frink, he did an impression of [[Jerry Lewis]]' character, Julius Kelp, from ''{{W|The Nutty Professor}}'', and the writing staff started making Frink more of a parody of Lewis.

Frink was named after writer [[John Frink]]; however, that was before he became a writer for the show. This was because [[Jay Kogen]], a writer at the time, knew Frink and named the character after him. Frink was originally animated without his buckteeth. The nonsensical utterances that Frink makes are written in the scripts as "Frink noise".

=== Foreign dubs ===
{{Dub voices
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== Trivia ==
*The character's popularity has led to him giving name to a computer programming language.
*He thinks nerd stands for "Not Even Remotely Dorky". ("[[Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind]]")
*His [[Stonecutter]] number in [[The Simpsons: Tapped Out Stonecutters content update|Tapped Out]] is 314, which could be a reference to the number Pi/π which is 3.14159...
*It's mentioned that he is one of Springfield's most renowned scientific minds, he discovered the element Frinkonium, discovered and cured Frink's disease and created the 8 month after pill.<ref>"[[Springfield Up]]"</ref>
*He has an IQ of 197. It used to be 199 before he hit his head and lost two points.<ref name="IQ"/>

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Halloween of Horror/References

2023-03-17T00:20:17Z

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== Cultural references ==
*The three horrifying tales [[Homer]] was telling the following week were going to be:
#''[[Psycho]]'', with [[Principal Skinner]] and [[Agnes]].
#''{{W|The Muppets' Wizard of Oz}}'', where Homer would be a "Scarecrow-[[Fozzie Bear|Fozzie]]".
#One where furniture gets smart and takes over the world, a reference to an {{W|AI takeover}} scenario.
*[[Marge]] wants to buy a [[Yoda]] costume for [[Santa's Little Helper]].
[[File:Striped Hamburger Thief and Restaurant Meat Clown.png|300px|thumb|[[Restaurant Meat Clown]] and [[Striped Hamburger Thief]] are parodies of [[McDonald's]]' advertising mascots [[Ronald McDonald]] and {{W|Hamburglar}}]]
*Among the costumes [[Apu]] has for sale at [[Official Halloween Headquarters]] are [[Restaurant Meat Clown]] and [[Striped Hamburger Thief]], references to [[McDonald's]]' advertising mascots [[Ronald McDonald]] and {{W|Hamburglar}}, respectively.
*The "Señor Skeletinos" found at the Halloween store are dressed as {{W|Mariachi}}.
*The entrance of the Krustyland attraction is very similar to the real-life entrance of ''[[The Simpsons Ride]]'' at Universal Studios.
**The [[Krustyland]] event "Halloween Horror Night" is a likely reference to {{W|Universal Studios}}' {{W|Halloween Horror Nights}} events which are done at Universal's theme parks in Orlando, Hollywood, Singapore, and at Osaka, Japan.
*The house on the hill in the background at Krustyland is the house from ''[[Psycho]]''.
*The monster [[Cthulhu]] appears behind [[Lisa]] when Homer is trying to calm her.
*The evil baby in the carriage is a reference to the 1974 film ''{{W|It's Alive (1974 film}}''.
*The chestbuster creature from ''{{W2|Alien|franchise}}'' attacks Lisa from the inside of a security guard. This is a reference to the franchise films ''[[Alien]]'' and ''{{W|Alien 3}}''.
*Kids are dressed as:
**[[Sherri]] and [[Terri]] as aliens.
**[[Üter Zörker|Uter]] as the [[Stay Puft Marshmallow Man]] from ''[[Ghostbusters]]''.
**[[Janey]] as [[Dorothy Gale|Dorothy]] from ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''.
**[[Database]] as [[Minecraft]] protagonist.
**[[Bart]] as a pirate.
**[[Lewis Clark]] as {{W|Austin Powers}}.
**[[Martin Prince]] as [[Bender]].
**[[Lisa]] as a zombie version of [[Frida Kahlo]].
**A kid is dressed as a {{W|Ancient Rome|roman}}.
*Lisa mentions the domestic cat types {{W|Tabby cat|tabby}} and {{W|Calico cat|calico}}.
*The three employees wear a ''{{W2|Scream|1981 film}}'' mask, a ''{{W2|Carrie|1976 film}}'' mask and a ''{{W2|It|1990 film}}'' mask.
*Marge gives [[Raphael]] a "Zip Line Adventure" {{W|Groupon}}.
*The attraction "Alien Will Say Your Name" at [[Pine Hills]] has [[E.T.]] repeating anything the kids say.
*Homer whistles the theme song from the 1978 horror movie ''{{W2|Halloween|1978 film}}'', referring to it as a "happy tune".
**The song can also be heard during the credits when [[Maggie]] is facing forward.
*The song "[[NC-17 Halloween]]" that the adults sing is a parody of the "{{W2|Time Warp|song}}" song from {{W|The Rocky Horror Picture Show}}.
**To drive home the parody, Sideshow Mel dresses as Riff-Raff.
*Adults can be seen dressed as popular characters:
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*[[Otto Mann]] and [[Horatio McCallister]] as {{W|Hobbit|Hobbits}},
*[[Cookie Kwan]] and [[Lindsey Naegle]] as crayons,
*[[Chief Wiggum]] as [[Frankenstein]],
*[[Sarah Wiggum]] as {{W|Zatanna}},
*[[Moe]] as an Egyptian {{W|Pharaoh}},
*[[Hans Moleman]], [[Princess Kashmir]], [[Stephanie Brockman]], [[Miss Hoover]], [[Professor Frink]], [[Kumiko]] and [[Comic Book Guy]] are dressed in {{W|Steampunk}} outfits.
*[[Gil Gunderson]] dresses like a member of {{W|Devo}}, using an {{W|Energy dome}},
*[[Apu]] as a {{W|Sultan}},
*[[Miss Springfield]] as {{W|Carrie White}},
*[[Patty]] as {{W|Marie Antoinette}},
*[[Selma]] as a {{W|Caveman|cavewoman}},
*[[Sanjay]] as [[Saddam Hussein]],
*[[Judge Harm]] as [[Cruella de Vil]],
*[[Akira]] as {{W|Bruce Lee}},
*[[Snake Jailbird]] as [[Elvis Presley]],
*[[Lunchlady Dora]] as a policewoman.
*[[Ruth Powers]] as {{W|Daenerys Targaryen}},
*[[Lurleen Lumpkin]] as a {{W|Southern belle|southern belle}},
*[[Bumblebee Man]] as the [[Pope]],
*[[Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon]] as {{W2|Jeannie|I Dream of Jeannie}},
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*[[Mrs. Muntz]] as [[Wonder Woman]],
*[[Kent Brockman]] as [[David Bowie]],
*[[Dr. Hibbert]] as the [[Devil]],
*[[Bernice Hibbert]] as the {{W|Angel}},
*[[Sideshow Mel]] as Riff-Raff (The Rocky Horror Show),
*[[Herman Hermann]] as [[Prince]],
*[[Barney Gumble]] wearing the {{W|Borat Sagdiyev|Borat}} lime green bikini,
*[[Rainier Wolfcastle|Wolfcastle]] as {{W|Jessica Rabbit}},
*[[Groundskeeper Willie]] as {{W|We Can Do It!|Rosie the Riveter}},
*[[Krusty]] as an {{W|Ancient Greek}},
*[[Agnes Skinner]] as {{W|Amy Winehouse}},
*[[Reverend Lovejoy]] and [[Helen]] as [[Sid Vicious]] and [[Nancy Spungen]],
*[[Waylon Smithers, Jr.]], [[Grizzly Shawn]], [[Dewey Largo]] as {{W|Geisha}},
*[[Old Jewish man]] as [[Zorro]],
*[[Disco Stu]] as {{W|Nacho Libre}},
*[[Nick Riviera]] wears a Steampunk outfit,
*[[Mayor Quimby|Quimby]] as {{Ch|Hugh Hefner}},
*[[Lou]] and [[Eddie]] as {{W|Bert and Ernie}},
*[[Superintendent Chalmers]] as {{W|Zardoz}},
*[[Ms. Pommelhorst]] as {{W|little red riding hood}},
*[[Jasper Beardsley]] as {{W|Dusty Hill}}.
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*There is a box in The Simpsons attic that says {{W|Festivus}}. It is both a parody and a secular holiday from the American sitcom {{W|Seinfeld}}.
*The song "Halloween is so bueno" is a parody of the Mexican song "{{W|Cielito lindo}}".

== Continuity ==
*A person dressed as [[Cthulhu]] appears in Krustyland. ("[[Treehouse of Horror XXIV]]")
*A [[Pumpkin House]] decoration appears. ("[[Treehouse of Horror XI]]")
*[[Lenny]] and [[Carl]] are dressed as [[Kang]] and [[Kodos]]. ("[[Treehouse of Horror]]")
*Ned asks Homer if they're they're heading up to the treehouse, to tell three horrifying tales? and Homer answers they're doing it next week, referencing to the following week episode "[[Treehouse of Horror XXVI]]". ("[[Treehouse of Horror series]]")
*[[Reverend Lovejoy]] and [[Helen Lovejoy]] are dressed in the same costumes they wore when they disguised themselves at a casino for a card counting operation. ("[[Sky Police]]")
*Agnes Skinner and Willie hook up again. ("[[My Fair Laddy]]")
**As do Sea Captain and Lindsey Naegle. ("[[Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda]]")

== Trivia ==
*According to [[Al Jean]], this was a canon [[Halloween]] episode making it the first of its kind and aired in addition to "[[Treehouse of Horror XXVI]]" but aired in a different week.<ref>[https://twitter.com/AlJean/status/545699938844160000 Al Jean Twitter]</ref>
*The production code TABF22 is on the Groupon for a zip line adventure.
*This episode has yet to air in the UK however this might have been done due to its higher rating.

== Goofs ==
*During the "Adult Halloween" musical number, [[Sideshow Mel]] is drawn too tall in some shots.
*[[Professor Frink]]'s glasses change throughout the "Adult Halloween" scene.
*When [[Homer]] sits on the couch to calm [[Lisa]] down, he puts a popcorn bowl beside her, but when the three employees ring the doorbell, the bowl disappears and [[Homer]] places a puzzle box on its place.
*The products at [[Apu]]'s Official Halloween Headquarters change places between scenes.
*After Lisa plugs in the decorations, when Homer cries for help, his mouth doesn't move.
*[[Bernice]] costume switches from white to purple when Marge returns home.
*When [[Homer]] and [[Lisa]] are running upstairs from the invaders, Tailee disappears from Lisa's hand and reappears when they are upstairs.
**The same mistake occours when [[Lisa]] is climbing onto the roof: Tailee disappears when [[Homer]] is holding her and reappears when she gives it to [[Homer]].

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Season 27|R}}

[[Category:Trivia]]

Leo (The Old Man and the Key)

2023-03-17T00:16:25Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Appearances */

{{Title|Leo}}
{{Chdisambig|Leo}}
{{Character
|name = Leo
|image = [[File:Leo.png|250px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Gray
|age =
|status = Alive
|job = Seniors
|relatives = '''Wife:''' Unnamed
|appearance = "[[The Old Man and the Key]]"
|voiced by =
}}

'''Leo''' is a man who took driving license lessons at the [[Springfield Community Center]] with his wife.

== Appearances ==
*{{ep|The Old Man and the Key}}
*{{ep|Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart}}
*{{ep|Gorgeous Grampa}}
*{{ep|The Road to Cincinnati}}

{{Character stub}}
{{Simpsons characters}}

[[Category:Seniors]]
[[Category:Non-speaking characters]]
[[Category:Recurring characters]]
[[Category:Characters introduced in season 13]]

Podcast News/References

2023-03-17T00:14:04Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Continuity */

{{TabR|nogags}}
{{EpisodePrevNextRef|The 7 Beer Itch|Three Dreams Denied}}

== Cultural references ==
*The title of the episode is a play on the name of [[James L. Brooks]]' 1987 film, ''{{W2|Broadcast News|film}}''.
**The title is also a reference to the [[season 15]] episode "[[Fraudcast News]]".
*[[Marge]] mentions {{W|Hoda Kotb}} and her ''{{W|Today|American TV program}}'' show.
*''Falcon Landing'' is likely a reference to prime time soap operas ''{{W|Falcon Crest}}'' and ''{{W|Knots Landing}}''.
*The stories in ''[[Big Time TV Star]]'' include "Is ''[[M*A*S*H]]'' Sexist Enough?", "Inside {{Ch|Norman Lear}}'s Hat" and "''{{W2|Roots|1977 miniseries}}'' Announces Toy Line".
*[[Tabitha Shingle]] mentions {{W|James Reeb}}'s case and says that the case is being adapted into a series on [[Amazon]] Prime starring {{W|Alexander Skarsgård}}.
*The Chat in the Hat podcast by Dr. Seuss is a parody of ''{{W|The Cat in the Hat}}'' by {{W|Dr. Seuss}}.
*The podcasters hanging out at [[Streami's]] with [[Kent Brockman]] are [[Michael Lombardi]] of ''The GM Shuffle'', [[Karina Longworth]] of ''You Must Remember This'', and [[Nick Wiger]] and {{Ch|Mike Mitchell}} of ''{{W2|Doughboys|podcast}}''.
*Pictures on the walls consist of: [[Desus Nice|Desus]] & [[The Kid Mero|Mero]] of ''Bodega Boys'', [[Sarah Koenig]] of ''{{W2|Serial|podcast}}'', [[Dan Carlin]] of ''Hardcore History'', and [[Karen Kilgariff]] and [[Georgia Hardstark]] of ''{{W|My Favorite Murder}}''.
*{{Ch|Yeardley Smith}} appears in person and mentions her true crime podcast ''Small Town Dicks''.
*{{Ch|Stellan Skarsgård}} is approached to star in the ''[[Guilty Grampa]]'' series.
*Zihuatenejo, Mexico is the same place that Andy Dufresne goes to after escaping from jail in ''{{W|The Shawshank Redemption}}''.

== Trivia ==
*Though dead, [[Alice Glick]] appears, saying that [[Grampa]] murdered her once.
*[[Maggie]] is missing her pacifier in the episode.
*The production code for the episode, ZABF22, appears on the crime scene bulletin board and as Grampa's prisoner number on [[Guilty Grampa]]'s merchandise.
*The episode was dedicated in memory of [[Alex Trebek]] who passed away on November 8, seven days before this episode aired.

== Continuity ==
*Some characters from previous episodes appears at the [[Springfield Playhouse]]:
**[[Alcatraaz]]. ("[[Pranksta Rap]]")
**[[Milo]] and [[Strawberry]]. ("[[Husbands and Knives]]")
**[[Zachary Vaughn]]. ("[[Bart Gets a "Z"]]")
**[[Calliope Juniper]]. ("[[Flaming Moe]]")
**[[Neil Gaiman]]. ("[[The Book Job]]")
**[[Terrence]]. [[Emily]] and [[T-Rex]]. ("[[The Day the Earth Stood Cool]]")
**[[Seth Rogen]]. ("[[Steal This Episode]]")
**[[Dawn]]. ("[[The War of Art]]")
**[[Maxine Lombard]]. ("[[Opposites A-Frack]]")
**[[Freddy Freeman]] and [[Peter D'Abbruzio]]. ("[[Covercraft]]")
**[[Der Zip Zorp]]. ("[[Waiting for Duffman]]")
**[[Quinn Hopper]]. ("[[The Girl Code]]")
**[[Guthrie Frenel]]. ("[[Springfield Splendor]]")
**[[Manacek]]. ("[[Homer Is Where the Art Isn't]]")
**[[Marv Szyslak|Marv]], [[Minnie Szyslak|Minnie]] and [[Morty Szyslak]]. ("[[King Leer]]")
**{{ap|Carmen|Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy}}, [[Erica]] and [[Piper]]. ("[[Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy]]")
**[[Mike Wegman|Mike]] and [[Maureen Wegman]]. ("[[Go Big or Go Homer]]")
**[[Evelyn]]. ("[[Livin La Pura Vida]]")
**[[Zane Furlong]]. ("[[The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson]]")
**[[Lauren]] and [[Desmond]]. ("[[Highway to Well]]")
*[[Comic Book Guy]] is watching ''[[Vindicators: Crystal War]]''. ("[[Bart the Bad Guy]]")
**He is also seen playing [[Conflict of Enemies]]. ("[[E My Sports]]")
*The silhouette pictures of [[Skinner]] are a reference to "[[The Principal and the Pauper]]".
*[[Brittany Brockman]] is seen wearing the [[Springfield Preparatory School]] uniform from "[[The Bart Wants What It Wants]].

== Goofs ==
*In one scene, Maggie's onesie is teal instead of light blue.
*At the [[Springfield Playhouse]], Shauna's lipstick and freckles disappear.
*In a scene, {{ap|Gary|nerd}} appears yellow instead of his normal colors.
*In a shot of the audience, two [[Arnie Pye]]s appear.
{{Season 32|R}}

[[Category:Cultural references]]
[[Category:Continuity]]
[[Category:Trivia]]
[[Category:Goofs]]

Hostile Kirk Place/References

2023-03-16T21:51:18Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1:

{{TabR}}
{{EpisodePrevNextRef|Bartless|Pin Gal}}

== Cultural references ==
*The episode title is a wordplay on the labor law term "{{W|Hostile work environment|hostile workplace}}".
*The storybook telling of the story is a parody of {{W|Dr. Seuss}} books.
**[[Barney]] is seen puking in a blue version of the hat from ''{{W|The Cat in the Hat}}''.
*[[Groundskeeper Willie]] reads ''[[Weeder's Digest]]'', a parody of ''{{W|Reader's Digest}}''.
*The fuse box in [[Springfield Elementary]] has a "Vote Aye on Scottish Independence" badge in, a reference to the {{W|2014 Scottish independence referendum}}.
*[[Kirk]] tells [[Milhouse]] than [[Grandpa Van Houten]] prepared a {{W|Caesar salad}} for [[Dean Martin]].
*The Spray-On Music can plays ''{{W|The Price Is Right}}'' losing horns sound.
*Kirk demands that the school bans "Critical Brace Theory", a reference to {{W|critical race theory}}.
*[[Superintendent Chalmers]] mentions missing the new episode of ''{{W2|The Equalizer|2021 TV series}}'' starring [[Queen Latifah]].
*Kirk speaks to [[Tucker Carlson]] on ''[[Fox News]]''.
*"{{W|We Wish You a Merry Christmas}}" plays at the Springfield Egg Nog Days festival.
*Kirk says "with great power comes great 'you have to like me'", a parody of the phrase "{{W|With great power comes great responsibility}}" from ''[[Marvel Comics]]''.

== Trivia ==
*In the [[Great Springfield Gazebo]] flashback, several odd pairings are formed of counterparts of established characters:
**[[Lenny]] and [[Selma]]
**[[Otto]] and [[Patty]]
**[[Sideshow Mel]] and [[Lindsey Naegle]]
**[[Barney]] and [[Ms. Albright]]
**[[Seymour Skinner]] and [[Agnes Skinner]]
**[[Moe]] and [[Cookie Kwan]]
**[[Krusty]] and [[Mrs. Muntz]]
**[[Gary Chalmers]] and [[Princess Kashmir]]
**[[Coach Krupt]] and [[Lunchlady Dora]]

== Continuity ==
*[[Bart]] is seen reading ''[[The Death of Radioactive Man]]''. ("[[Married to the Blob]]")
*The people in the Great Springfield Gazebo sing "[[I Will Always Be True]]" from ''[[The Christmas That Almost Wasn't But Then Was]]''. ("[[Skinner's Sense of Snow]]")
*[[Gloria Prince]] mentions "darkest chapters" in [[Springfield]]'s history, such as the [[Springfield Monorail]] ("[[Marge vs. the Monorail]]") and {{Ch|Lady Gaga}}'s visit. ("[[Lisa Goes Gaga]]")
*[[Miss Hoover]] and [[Gil]]'s Great Springfield Gazebo counterparts are paired up. Our Miss Hoover and Gil married in "[[Habeas Tortoise]]".
**Similarly Krusty and Mrs. Muntz's counterparts are paired. Krusty and Mrs. Muntz slept together in "[[All About Lisa]]".

== Goofs ==
*Twice during the Great Springfield Gazebo flashback, Gil has [[Mr. Mackleberry]]'s colours and once vice-versa.

{{Season 34|R}}

[[Category:Cultural references]]
[[Category:Continuity]]

Los Souvenir Jacquitos

2023-03-10T17:41:43Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* History */

[[File:Los Souvenir Jacquitos.png|250px|thumb|The Group]]

The '''Los Souvenir Jacquitos''' are a group of senior citizens who wear jackets based on popular culture. Their leader is the [[Los Souvenir Jacquitos leader]].

== History ==
They once challenged [[Grampa]], the [[Old Jewish man]] and [[Jasper]] to a death race, which they lost.<ref>"[[The Old Man and the Key]]"</ref>

The group attended the [[Green Day]] concert and [[Lisa]]'s town meeting about [[Lake Springfield]].<ref>''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''</ref>

The group were among the many old people who's eyes fell out due to a drug created from a flower.<ref>"[[The Scorpion's Tale]]"</ref>

They also watched Grampa and [[Bart]] wrestle in a tag-team match.<ref>"[[Gorgeous Grampa]]"</ref>

The member with the Hard Rock Cafe jacket had a relationship with [[Mrs. Muntz]].<ref>"[[Better Off Ned]]"</ref>

== Appearances ==
*{{ep|The Old Man and the Key}}
*{{ep|Midnight Rx}}
*{{mov}}
*{{ep|The Scorpion's Tale}}
*{{ep|Gorgeous Grampa}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIX|(Geriatric Park)}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Simpsons characters}}

[[Category:Seniors]]
[[Category:Character groups]]
[[Category:Recurring characters]]
[[Category:Characters introduced in season 13]]

Lou

2023-03-10T17:40:38Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Family */

{{For2things|the character|Bart's cow in "[[Apocalypse Cow]]"|Lou (Apocalypse Cow)|the relative of the [[Simpson family]]|Lou Simpson}}
{{Character
|name = Lou
|image = [[File:Lou.png|200px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Black
|age =
|job = Police officer
|status = Alive
|relatives = '''Ex-wife''': {{ap|Amy|The Dad Who Knew Too Little}} '''Son:''' Unnamed<ref>"[[Dad Behavior]]"</ref>
|appearance = "[[There's No Disgrace Like Home]]"
|voiced by = [[Hank Azaria]] [[Alex Désert]] [[Harry Shearer]]<ref>"[[Bart vs. Thanksgiving]]"</ref>
}}

'''Lou''' is a police sergeant, and, by far, the most intelligent and competent officer of the Springfield Police. He is a foil to [[Chief Wiggum]], and often takes the time to point out Wiggum's mistakes (often while a crime, or the pursuit of a criminal is still in progress).

== Biography ==
Lou speaks more than his counterpart [[Eddie]]. Although he rarely comes up, when he does he is in a police uniform. Lou once said he wants to leave the force as there is more money in private security, nothing ever becomes of this though.<ref>"[[The Bart Wants What It Wants]]"</ref> His favorite on duty beverage is beer.
[[File:YellowLou.png|thumb|Lou with yellow skin.]]

=== Education ===
Although he has never stated so explicitly, other people around [[Springfield]] have insinuated that he is a graduate of Princeton University. Following his undergraduate career, Lou applied and was accepted to law school at an unspecified university, but was forced to drop out as he could not afford the tuition. His talents are abusing power and intimidating suspects.

=== Family ===
Lou was married to a woman named Amy, but later divorced.<ref>"[[The Bart of War]]"</ref> He complains occasionally that Eddie has been seeing his ex-wife, causing [[Chief Wiggum]] to act as mediator. Lou became the temporary owner of Santa's Little Helper, who was trained to be a police dog.<ref>"[[Stop, or My Dog Will Shoot!]]"</ref> At around this time, it was revealed that Lou has a girlfriend named [[Charquelle]] who had wanted to party with him. Lou once joined a GRUNGE band with [[Homer Simpson]], [[Lenny Leonard]] and [[Carl Carlson]] called "[[Sadgasm]]", which broke up later.<ref>"[[That '90s Show]]"</ref> His unintelligible joy is hot and cold running chicks.

At some point he had a relationship with [[Mrs. Muntz]].<ref>"[[Better Off Ned]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
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== Behind the Laughter ==
*According to the Season One DVD commentary, Lou was based on Lou Whitaker.
*In "[[Krusty Gets Busted]]" and "[[There's No Disgrace Like Home]]", the color stylists mistakenly colored Lou yellow. "[[Bart vs. Thanksgiving]]" was the first appearance of African-American Lou.
*In Lou's early appearances, he was voiced by [[Harry Shearer]]. This was later changed to [[Hank Azaria]]. [[Alex Désert]] took over the role of Lou from Hank Azaria starting in [[season 32]].

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== References ==
{{Images|Lou}}
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Trucker 2

2023-03-10T17:39:08Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* History */

{{Title|Trucker}}
{{Conjecture}}
{{For2|other truck drivers appearing in the series|Trucker}}
{{Character
|name = Trucker
|image = [[File:Trucker 2.png|150px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Gray
|age =
|status = Alive
|job = Truck driver
|relatives =
|appearance = "[[Maximum Homerdrive]]"
|voiced by = [[Harry Shearer]]
}}

The '''trucker''' is a truck driver whom [[Homer]] met while driving [[Red Barclay]]'s truck to [[Atlanta]].

== History ==
After Homer decided to drive Red Barclay's shipment to Atlanta, he and [[Bart]] were behind schedule, needing to drive 2200 miles in 10 hours. In order to get there on time, Homer took a bottle of [[Stimu-Crank|pep pills]] so he could drive all night. However, because he had also taken a bottle of sleeping pills to "balance it all out", he eventually fell asleep at the wheel. The truck then proceeded to drive itself, stopping Homer and Bart from driving through a guard rail and down a cliff.

As he awoke next morning at a [[The Gassy Knoll|truck stop]] he related his amazing tale to two truckers. Not surprised in the least, the truckers explained to Homer that the [[Navitron Autodrive System]]s installed in the trucks allow the vehicles to drive themselves. The two men then threaten Homer to keep quiet and not spill their secret.

Despite Homer's promise, their secret still gets out and the two truckers, as well as three others, chase Homer down in their trucks, eventually forming a blockade. Homer manages to get past them, though, and speeds off to Atlanta. As he disappears into the distance, [[Trucker 3|one of the truckers]] suggests that they stop using the Autodrive systems and go back to using their hands and wits. They quickly decide against it, instead agreeing to smuggle {{W|Beanie Babies}} as their new scam.<ref>"[[Maximum Homerdrive]]"</ref>

At some point he had a relationship with [[Mrs. Muntz]].<ref>"[[Better Off Ned]]"</ref>

== Appearances ==
*{{ep|Maximum Homerdrive}}
*{{ep|Bart to the Future}}
*{{ep|Kill the Alligator and Run}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Simpsons characters}}

[[Category:Adults]]
[[Category:Characters voiced by Harry Shearer]]
[[Category:Recurring characters]]
[[Category:Characters introduced in season 10]]

City worker

2023-03-10T17:38:33Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* History */

{{Conjecture}}
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|image = [[File:City worker.png|250px]]
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|appearance = "[[Mother Simpson]]"
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}}

The '''City worker''' is a man who has held numerous jobs relating to the city and it's citizens.

== History ==
He was first seen operating the computer in the [[Springfield Hall of Records]] and encouraged [[Homer]] to visit his [[Mona Simpson|mother]]'s grave.<ref>"[[Mother Simpson]]"</ref>

He was seen acting in a play about the [[Betty Ford Center]].<ref>"[[The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson]]"</ref>

He was later seen administrating a realtor test.<ref>"[[Realty Bites]]"</ref>

He was seen working at a pet shop for helper animals. Homer came in for a monkey, but after being told the monkeys were for the disabled, Homer fetched [[Abe Simpson]] and got [[Mojo]]. After Homer had mistreated Mojo and made him overweight, Mojo was returned to the pet shop and typed into a computer "Pray for Mojo".<ref>"[[Girly Edition]]"</ref>

At some point he had a relationship with [[Mrs. Muntz]].<ref>"[[Better Off Ned]]"</ref>

== Appearances ==
*{{ep|Mother Simpson}}
*{{ep|The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson}}
*{{ep|Realty Bites}}
*{{ep|Girly Edition}}
*{{ep|Wedding for Disaster}}
*{{ep|Blazed and Confused}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Simpsons characters}}

[[Category:Adults]]
[[Category:Characters voiced by Harry Shearer]]
[[Category:Recurring characters]]
[[Category:Characters introduced in season 7]]

Bleeding Gums Murphy

2023-03-10T17:37:51Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Biography */

{{Featured article}}
{{Character
|name = "Bleeding Gums" Murphy
|image = [[File:Bleeding Gums Murphy.png|200px]]
|caption = Artwork of Bleeding Gums Murphy from ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Brown
|age = 49 (at death)
|status = Deceased
|job = Musician
|relatives = '''Son:''' [[Monk Murphy]] '''Brothers:''' [[Julius Hibbert]] and [[Julius Hibbert's brother|One unnamed]] '''Ex-Wife:''' [[Vela Murphy]] '''Nephew:''' [[Bleeding Gums Murphy's nephew|Unnamed]]
|appearance = "[[Moaning Lisa]]"
|voiced by = [[Ron Taylor]] [[Daryl L. Coley]] [[Kevin Michael Richardson]]
}}

'''Oscar "Bleeding Gums" Murphy''' was a jazz musician, and an idol of [[Lisa Simpson]].

== Biography ==
Bleeding Gums learned his musical skills "at the feet of [[Blind Willie Witherspoon]]". Willie wanted to give Bleeding Gums his saxophone, only to be finally told that it wasn't a saxophone and actually an umbrella, meaning that Willie had actually been playing an umbrella for some thirty years. Bleeding Gums explained to Willie that no one informed him of the mistake because "we all thought it was funny".<ref name="Round Springfield">"[['Round Springfield]]"</ref>

At one point, Murphy was married to a woman named [[Vela Murphy|Vela]], who was also a singer. At some point, they got divorced, but Vela still used her ex-husband's last name in a professional capacity.<ref>''{{ap|Springfield Shopper|comic}}''</ref>

Murphy had one child, [[Monk Murphy]]. When Monk was born, Bleeding Gums wrote "[[Monk's New Tune]]". Monk was born deaf, which saddened his father because it meant Monk could never hear his music. Bleeding Gums tried to raise the money to pay for cochlear implants for his son, but only made $16. He then wrote the song "Sixteen Bucks Just Ain't Enough".<ref name="The Sound of Bleeding Gums">"[[The Sound of Bleeding Gums]]"</ref>

Murphy recorded only one album, titled ''[[Sax on the Beach]]'', which was extremely lucrative for him. However, he soon went broke after spending his money on his Fabergé egg addiction. He revealed that he had once made a guest appearance on ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' in 1986 as the Huxtable children's grandfather, as well as appearing on ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' when {{Ch|Steve Allen}} was the host.<ref name="Round Springfield"/>
[[File:The Cosby Show.png‎|200px|right|thumb|nail|Bleeding Gums on ''[[The Cosby Show]]''.]]

Bleeding Gums was a mentor to [[Lisa Simpson]] until his early death. He played and sang a [[Moanin' Lisa Blues|blues song written by Lisa]]. It pleased Lisa to see the performance of her own song in the club "[[The Jazz Hole]]", but not everyone in the family was happy with the lyrics, as they were sharply critical of [[Homer]] and [[Bart]], and mildly critical of [[Marge]].<ref>"[[Moaning Lisa]]"</ref>

Bleeding Gums once sang a twenty-six minute version of the American national anthem "{{ap|The Star-Spangled Banner|Dancin' Homer}}" at a [[Springfield Isotopes]] game.<ref>"[[Dancin' Homer]]"</ref>

He served as one of the three judges for a talent show once, giving Bart a 10 for his impersonation of Principal Skinner.<ref>"[[Lisa's Pony]]"</ref> Murphy also joined with a group of local celebrities in singing the song "[[We're Sending Our Love Down the Well]]" as a benefit for [[Timmy O'Toole]].<ref>"[[Radio Bart]]"</ref>

When [[Springfield]] was hit by a freak snowstorm and [[Mayor Quimby]] declared a snow day for the whole town, Murphy and Lisa were seen playing their saxes in the crowd of townspeople enjoying the snow.<ref>"[[Bart Gets an "F"]]"</ref>

[[Allison Taylor]] has a photo of Bleeding Gums on her wall. It may be possible that Bleeding Gums was also Allison's one idol.<ref>"[[Lisa's Rival]]"</ref> Lisa also has a picture of Bleeding Gums on her wall.

It is hinted that Dr. Hibbert and Bleeding Gums are long-lost brothers.<ref name="Round Springfield"/>

He has been featured on ''[[Before They Were Famous]]''.<ref>"[[Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious]]"</ref>

At some point before his death, Bleeding Gums Murphy told [[Bleeding Gums Murphy's nephew|his nephew]] that Lisa was the most promising young musician he had ever met.<ref>"[[Lisa Gets the Blues]]"</ref>

At some point before his death, he had a relationship with [[Mrs. Muntz]].<ref>"[[Better Off Ned]]"</ref>

In [[Bart]]'s coma dream, Bleeding Gums Murphy was one of the ghosts who came to Bart to get help to move on to the afterlife.<ref>"[[Flanders' Ladder]]"</ref>

== Death and legacy ==
[[File:Round Springfield.png|200px|thumb|Bleeding Gums (left) appearing to Lisa Simpson in a cloud, after his death.]]
[[File:Bleeding Gums tombstone.png|thumb|left|200px|Bleeding Gums' tombstone]]
When [[Bart]] went to the hospital after eating a jagged metal [[Krusty-O]], Lisa found Bleeding Gums in a hospital bed in a nearby ward. They played {{W|Carole King}}'s "{{W|Jazzman}}" together, entertaining everyone in the hospital. Bleeding Gums told Lisa about his life, family and career, including his only album, ''[[Sax on the Beach]]''. He also gave her advice for her upcoming school recital and lent her his saxophone. At the recital, only a few of the school band members were present and their performance of "{{W|The Stars and Stripes Forever}}" was about to fall flat, but Lisa saved the day with an inspired impromptu jam on Murphy's sax. Lisa returned from the recital to share her triumph with Bleeding Gums, only to find that he had died. (The cause was never revealed, nor was the reason Murphy was in the hospital in the first place.)

No one, except for Lisa, Marge and Homer, attended Murphy's funeral. [[Reverend Lovejoy]] officiated and got Murphy's name wrong, calling him "Blood and Guts Murphy" and "Bloody Gums Murphy", as well as saying that he was "quite the sousaphone player". Lovejoy's blundering outraged Lisa and moved her to find Murphy's album and have it played on the radio so people would know who he was. However, even the [[KJAZZ|local jazz station]] didn't have the album, and when she found it in [[Comic Book Guy]]'s [[The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop|shop]], it was priced at $500, which she couldn't afford. However, Bart had sued [[KrustyCo Inc.]] over the jagged metal Krusty-O incident and received $500 in a settlement. When he saw how disappointed Lisa was at not being able to buy Murphy's album, Bart bought the album and gave it to her. Lisa then took it to KJAZZ and the DJ played it on the radio. The station's signal was very weak, but a freak lightning strike hit the antenna and boosted the signal so that all of [[Springfield]] heard ''Sax on the Beach'' playing.

Murphy's face appeared from the clouds, thanking Lisa and telling him that he had made her happy. They were interrupted by other famous characters appearing: [[Mufasa]] from ''[[The Lion King]]'', [[Darth Vader]] from ''[[Star Wars]]'' and {{Ch|James Earl Jones}} reciting his "This is [[CNN]]" narration. Murphy asked them to leave, and he and Lisa jammed out to "Jazzman" one last time. Lisa wanted to do it again ("One more time!"), but Murphy protested that he had a date with {{Ch|Billie Holiday}}.<ref name="Round Springfield"/>

A hologram image of him was used by She-Done-Left-Me Records to advertise various products. This caused Lisa to protest against them for using dead celebrities to advertise various commercial products.<ref>"[[Whiskey Business]]"</ref>

After Bleeding Gums' death, the rights to his music were sold off by [[Treasured Artists Publishing]] to various other companies. This led to a song of his, "[[Can't Face Tomorrow]]", being turned into "[[Scratch That Itch]]" and used to advertise the [[Springfield Lottery]]. A giant hologram of him was also going on tour around Europe.<ref name="The Sound of Bleeding Gums"/>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
Bleeding Gums Murphy has a biography called ''[[Floss, I Hardly Knew Ye]]''.<ref>''[[Lisa Simpson's Book Club]]''</ref>
=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/C-List Celebrities|Murphy}}

== Behind the Laughter ==
The appearance of Bleeding Gums Murphy is loosely based on LeRoi Moore, the late saxophone player for the Dave Matthews Band. It may also be an homage to Sonny Rollins, a great saxophone player who famously retired from public performance and was not seen for three years, until a journalist discovered him playing the saxophone alone on the Williamsburg Bridge. Murphy's introductory appearance, where Lisa sees him playing his sax on a bridge in the middle of the night, is a direct reference to Rollins.

Bleeding Gums gave the origin of his nickname in "Moaning Lisa" as thus: "Well let me put it this way... you ever been to the dentist? Not me. I suppose I should go to one, but I got enough pain in my life as it is."

The voice of Bleeding Gums Murphy was provided by [[Ron Taylor]], while his saxophone playing is provided by [[Dan Higgins]]. In the episode "[[Dancin' Homer]]" he was voiced by [[Daryl L. Coley]].

Mufasa, Darth Vader, and (of course) the James Earl Jones CNN narration were voice roles originally portrayed by [[James Earl Jones]], but were performed by [[Harry Shearer]] for their scene in "[['Round Springfield]]".

Murphy has been a fixture of ''The Simpsons''' opening sequence from Season Two on, even after his death. He even appeared in the live-action format,<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49IDp76kjPw Real Life Simpsons Intro] (He appears after 35 seconds) ''YouTube''. URL accessed on December 14, 2006</ref> in The Simpsons Sky One commercial, that was also used for the episode "[[Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife]]". In 2009, the opening sequence had to be updated since the series was now broadcast in hi-def widescreen format. The new, updated sequence removed Murphy completely apart from a picture of him that can be seen in the Music Room when Lisa plays her Sax.

In addition to his onscreen appearances, Murphy also appeared on ''[[The Simpsons Sing the Blues]]'', an album of rock, and jazz music with vocals performed by characters from the show. On the track "God Bless the Child" (a cover of the Billie Holiday song), performed by Lisa Simpson (Yeardley Smith), Murphy speaks up after the final chorus to praise Lisa for her vocals, after which he and Lisa perform a saxophone duet for the remainder of the song. Murphy was again voiced by Ron Taylor for the song, and his alto saxophone part was performed by Kim Richmond.
Everytime Lisa's room is seen after "[[Moaning Lisa]]" a picture of Bleeding Gums Murphy is seen.

=== Foreign Dubs ===
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Capital City Goofball

2023-03-10T17:36:42Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* History */

{{Quote|If there is anything I can do for ya, just squeeze the wheeze|Capitan City Goofball slogan}}
{{Character
|name = Capital City Goofball
|image = [[File:Capital City Goofball.png|200px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair =
|age = 42<ref name="Skybox">''{{ap|Skybox|cards}}''</ref>
|status = Alive
|job = [[Capital City]] baseball team mascot; state legislator
|relatives
|appearance = "[[Dancin' Homer]]"
|voiced by = [[Tom Poston]]
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The '''Capital City Goofball''' is the crowd pleaser mascot for [[Capital City]]'s baseball team, the [[Capital City Capitals]]. He is also a [[Springfield's state|state]] legislator. He is best friends with musician Henry Mancini, and enemy with the Shelbyville Lamprey mascot. During his spare time, he calls [[Dr. Marvin Monroe]]'s hot line for the extremely enraged.<ref name="Skybox"/>

== History ==
The Capital City Goofball shared the stage with [[Homer]] when he did a guest spot as the on-field entertainer for the [[Capital City Capitals]], filling in for the Goofball for one inning break.<ref>"[[Dancin' Homer]]"</ref>

The Capital City Goofball represents Capital City in the state Congress; he spent 80 million dollars out of his own pocket to win the seat. During one congressional meeting, he said that the state should change its flag, as the {{W|Confederate Flag|Confederate Symbol}} on it was an embarrassment, especially because they were a Northern state.<ref>"[[Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade]]"</ref>

The Capital City Goofball appeared as a celebrity panelist on the game show ''[[The Springfield Squares]]'', in the same episode where Homer was the guest center square.<ref>"[[Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder]]"</ref>

At some point he had a relationship with [[Mrs. Muntz]].<ref>"[[Better Off Ned]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
In the future, the Capital City Goofball is shown to be one of many people who have died in [[Moe's Tavern]]. His distinctive outline is seen chalked on the floor, along with many others.<ref>"[[Holidays of Future Passed]]"</ref>

=== Comics ===
He was among the Springfieldians transported to [[New New York]] and was one of the people chosen by [[Zapp Brannigan]] to join the army of D.O.O.P (Democratic Order of Planets).<ref>''[[Slaves of New New York!]]''</ref>

=== Video Games ===
In ''[[The Simpsons Road Rage]]'', several Goofball mascots can be seen around [[Springfield]]. In the [[The Simpsons Road Rage missions|mission]] "Barney's Rage", the objective is for [[Barney]] to run over at least 12 Goofballs in the {{ap|Downtown|Simpsons Road Rage}} level.

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Mascots|Goofball}}

== Description ==
The costume is a creature with a baseball body, with a blue Capital City T-Shirt, yellow arms and legs, a long flat-ended nose, tufts of fur at the side, a red hat with two springs, two costume eyes that look in either direction, and two more eyes that peek outside the mouth (the eyes of the person wearing the costume). It is flame-retardant, vegetable-repellent, an bulletproof.<ref name="Skybox"/>

== Behind the Laughter ==
The episode "[[Homer to the Max]]" implies that the Capital City Goofball was originally conceived as a major recurring character, but has only appeared in occasional background scenes since his debut episode, and only ever had one other speaking role.

He appears on the disc holder in the [[Season 17]] boxset.

=== Model ===
His appearance seems to have been inspired by the {{W|Phillie Phanatic}}, mascot of the {{W|Philadelphia Phillies}}. Goldie, the mascot of the {{W|Winnipeg Goldeyes}}, an independent minor league baseball team which came into existence in 1994, may have been inspired by the Capital City Goofball.

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Hank Scorpio

2023-03-10T17:35:54Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* History */

{{Quote|Don't call me Mr. Scorpion. It's Mr. Scorpio. But don't call me that either. Call me Hank!|Scorpio and [[Homer]]'s first interaction.}}
{{Character
|name = Hank Scorpio
|image = [[File:Hank Scorpio.png]]
|caption = Artwork of Hank from ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Light brown
|age =
|status = Alive
|relatives ='''Father:''' Almighty Overlord Scorpio<ref>''[[Springfield Is Not Enough!]]''</ref> '''Son:''' [[Gold Star|Freddie Scorpio]]
|job = Owner of [[Globex Corporation]] Philanthropist Supervillain
|appearance = "[[You Only Move Twice]]"
|voiced by = [[Albert Brooks]]
}}

'''Hank Scorpio''' is the evil genius owner of the [[Globex Corporation]].

== History ==
Scorpio, despite being an evil genius, proved to be an ideal boss, welcoming the [[Simpson family]] with a condo and a friendly greeting. However, being an evil genius is still his priority, and over the episode he delivers a video threat to the United Nations, in which he destroys a bridge with a giant satellite laser device, but is annoyed that some of them seemed to think the bridge collapsed on its own. Unlike many supervillains, Scorpio does care for his own people in Cypress Creek, even going so far offering his employees health and free dental care. Later, he tries to kill [[Mr. Bont]], a secret agent, who cleverly escapes but is tackled by Homer before being rapidly executed in turn by Scorpio's guards. When Homer comes to Scorpio and tells him that he wants to take his family back to [[Springfield]], a battle between Globex and the U.S government is taking place, and Homer sympathizes with him having problems with the government. Though Scorpio says he would like to have Homer stay, he told Homer to do what he felt he should do, and tells Homer he would do him a favor if he were to kill some people, likely referring to the soldiers sent by the government, before grabbing a flamethrower and killing several soldiers while laughing sadistically.

Scorpio later succeeds in taking over the East Coast of the United States. He sends Homer is a letter saying that [[Project Arcturus]] couldn't have succeeded without him, and gives him the [[Denver Broncos]] as a gift, though he knew Homer wanted the Dallas Cowboys, he said it was a start. He later invites Homer if he finds himself in the East Coast.<ref>"[[You Only Move Twice]]"</ref>

Scorpio was recognized by the Springfield Wall of Fame as being a philanthropist.<ref>"[[Take My Life, Please]]"</ref>

At some point he had a relationship with [[Mrs. Muntz]].<ref>"[[Better Off Ned]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== Games ===
He was hinted in ''[[The Simpsons: Hit & Run]]'' video game on Level 6, when Bart buys a super-villain car from Kearney. Kearny mentions that this villain had also "conquered the East Coast".

=== Comics ===
He was imprisoned in [[Turkey]] for trading ray guns in the country, where he again met Homer, who was trying to smuggle a sandwich out the country, which the guards eat, and catch food poisoning from, leading to their escape.<ref>''[[Sandwiches Are Forever]]''</ref>

He has a son, Freddie, often referred to as "[[Gold Star]]". His son displays many similar characteristics, such as a desire to take over the world. He dresses identically to his father.<ref>''[[Lisa Goes to Camp]]''</ref>

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
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{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Villains|Scorpio}}

==== Mastermind Hank Scorpio ====
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Secret Villains|MastermindScorpio}}

== Behind the Laughter ==
[[File:Hank Scorpio World.jpg|thumb|right|174px]]
Hank Scorpio is a parody of British Billionaire Richard Branson, as well as villains from ''James Bond'' movies, especially Ernst Stavro Blofeld. Unlike the Bond villains, however, Scorpio genuinely seems to care about the well-being of his people—even going so far as to have a heart-to-heart talk with Homer about his family's decision to move while in the middle of a battle in Scorpio's lair, and giving Homer the [[Denver Broncos]] as thanks for his help, semi-fulfilling Homer's lifelong dream of owning the Dallas Cowboys, as he had previously told Scorpio.

The episode "[[You Only Move Twice]]" has a Bond-esque closing song about Scorpio (a direct parody of the theme to ''Goldfinger''), which plays during the end credits.

He was supposed to be the villain of ''[[The Simpsons Movie]]'', but for unknown reasons, this idea was dropped, and he was replaced by new character [[Russ Cargill]] who is also voiced by Albert Brooks.

Scorpio received an action figure in [[World of Springfield: Celebrity Series 3]].

== Trivia ==
*Hank has [[Facebook]] and appears to be friends with {{Ch|Mark Zuckerberg}}.

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*{{ep|You Only Move Twice}}
*{{ep|Take My Life, Please|(name and picture)}}
*{{ep|Loan-a Lisa|(name seen)}}
*{{ep|500 Keys|(title screen)}}
*{{ep|My Fare Lady|(opening sequence)}}
*{{ep|Better Off Ned|(picture)}}
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*{{bon|Sandwiches Are Forever}}
*{{bon|Lisa Goes to Camp}}
*{{bon|...So You Want To Work for Globex, Huh?}}
*{{bon|Big House Homer}}
*{{bon|A Brand New Burns, Part Two!}}
*{{bon|Springfield Is Not Enough!}}
*{{bk|Simpsons World The Ultimate Episode Guide: Seasons 1-20}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Hit & Run|(indirectly mentioned)}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Tapped Out}}

== References ==
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Akira Kurosawa

2023-03-10T17:34:32Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* History */

{{Comp}}
{{Character
|name = Akira Kurosawa
|image = [[File:Akira Kurosawa.png|200px]]
|caption = Artwork of Akira from ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''
|gender = {{Male}}
|status = Alive
|hair = Black
|age =
|job = Waiter at [[The Happy Sumo]] (later [[Swanky Fish]]) Karate teacher at [[Springfield Martial Arts Academy]]
|relatives =
|appearance = "[[One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish]]"
|voiced by = [[Hank Azaria]] [[George Takei]]
}}

'''Akira Kurosawa'''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200125031428/https://twitter.com/NellSco/status/1220903516312567813 Nell Scovell on Twitter - "Akira Kurosawa"] (archived on {{W|Wayback Machine}})</ref> is an Asian man who has served as the sensei of a [[Springfield Martial Arts Academy|karate dojo]], a waiter at [[The Happy Sumo]] and [[Swanky Fish]] and an employee at [[Costington's]] department store.

== History ==
Akira has a mixed relationship with [[Homer]]. Akira helped [[Homer]], [[Bart]], and [[Lisa Simpson]] discover the origin of the mysterious [[Mr. Sparkle]] dishwashing detergent box (Homer was mystified by Mr. Sparkle's striking resemblance to him).<ref>"[[In Marge We Trust]]"</ref> However, he nearly killed Homer (albeit not intentionally) when he served him the fugu blowfish, which can only be properly prepared by the [[Master Sushi Chef]] (who was busy making out in his car with [[Mrs. Krabappel]] when Homer ordered the fugu).<ref>"[[One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish]]"</ref> Also, Akira, [[Luigi]], [[Captain McCallister]], and other restaurant proprietors of [[Springfield]] attempted to assassinate Homer for giving their restaurants bad reviews.<ref>"[[Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?]]"</ref>

On yet another occasion, Akira demonstrated a vibrating recliner for Homer in the furniture department at [[Costington's]]—at Homer's insistence, with the chair set to full power. Homer loved the chair, but [[Marge]] talked him out of buying it.<ref>"[[Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?]]"</ref>

He took part in the world's tallest human pyramid record attempt.

Akira trained Marge in karate for an MMA fight working with her in his own karate studio.<ref>"[[The Great Wife Hope]]"</ref> Bart also signed up for one of Akira's karate classes, but skipped the sessions to go play video games.<ref>"[[When Flanders Failed]]"</ref>

Akira had to take a citizenship test when a proposition called for all illegal immigrants in Springfield to be deported.<ref>"[[Much Apu About Nothing]]"</ref>

He has been seen with [[Cookie Kwan]].<ref>"[[The Dad-Feelings Limited]]"</ref> At some point he had a relationship with [[Mrs. Muntz]].<ref>"[[Better Off Ned]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== ''The Simpsons Game'' ===
Akira is featured in level three of ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'', "[[Around the World in 80 Bites]]". He is shown as the former winner of the [[Duff]] eating contest because of his technique of dipping food in milk then swallowing it whole. In the Wii Version, he is the opponent of the minigame [[Bite Night]] found in the level Game Over.

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Groundskeeper Willie

2023-03-10T17:33:50Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Biography */

{{Featured article}}
{{Quote|Och, nae!|Willie|The Debarted}}
{{Character
|name = William MacDougal
|image = [[File:Groundskeeper Willie.png|250px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|status = Alive
|age =
|hair = Red
|job = Groundskeeper and Janitor at [[Springfield Elementary School]] [[Springfield Elementary]] principal (formerly)
|relatives ='''Parents:''' [[Mr. MacDougal|Mr.]] & [[Mrs. MacDougal]] '''Brother:''' [[Angus MacMoran]] (non-canon) '''Cousin:''' [[Gravedigger Billy]] '''Uncle:''' {{ap|Uncle Ben|...The Permanent Record Room!|Ben}}
|appearance = "[[Principal Charming]]"
|voiced by = [[Dan Castellaneta]]
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'''Dr. William "Willie" MacDougal''',<ref>"[[Lisa the Drama Queen]]"</ref> better known as '''Groundskeeper Willie''' and also known as '''G.K. Willington''' and '''William MacMoran''', is the groundskeeper and janitor of [[Springfield Elementary School]]. Scottish by ancestry, Willie's job is to supervise the children of the School during recess, and clean the halls. He is recognizable with his red hair and thick Scottish accent. He is often either a formidable enemy or an invaluable ally to [[Bart]] and [[Lisa]].

== Biography ==
[[File:Willie Every Simpsons Ever.png|thumb|left|250px]]
Willie is the groundskeeper at Springfield Elementary School and is a stereotypical angry Scottish man with a heavy Scottish accent. He was originally hired at Springfield Elementary as "swim teacher Willie." Unfortunately, after Skinner was trapped in the worm-filled pool for three days, he had the pool destroyed, and made Willie a groundskeeper. During weekends and vacations, he also tends the golfing greens, giving himself the appropriate name ''Greens''keeper Willie.<ref>"[[Lost Verizon]]"</ref> He has claimed to originate from several different places in [[Scotland]], and frequently gives contradictory accounts of his past life before arriving in [[Springfield]]. Willie once told a story of working at a mine that caved in, saying, "No one made it out alive, not even Willie!".<ref>"[[The President Wore Pearls]]"</ref> It is implied that he immigrated to [[USA|America]] illegally, as he had to take a citizenship test.<ref>"[[Much Apu About Nothing]]"</ref> Willie is incompetent and is quick to anger for little or no reason. He has shown great animosity towards both [[Principal Skinner]] and Bart Simpson, the latter of whom is often more than willing to make Willie the butt of his jokes.

[[File:WillieFolder.PNG|thumbnail|left|Willie's character folder seen in the Hall of Records]]

Willie once told Skinner that he had seen his own father hanged for stealing a pig. Groundskeeper Willie once discovered an Oil Well by accident because he was attempting to bury the school hamster. Because of the school's new wealth, he requested a crystal pail. However, after [[Mr. Burns]] stole the oil, which not only resulted in the loss of the school's newly gained fortune, but also causing the school to go into an even worse financial state than before due to the cost of dismantling the oil tower, Skinner was forced to lay off Groundskeeper Willie in order to preserve the remaining school budget, causing Willie to wish to murder Mr. Burns and "wound that [[Waylon Smithers, Jr.|Mr. Smithers]]." However, he ultimately wasn't able to get that chance when Mr. Burns was shot due to arthritis he gained from playing Space Invaders preventing him from even utilizing a gun. He once had a cache of "screw you money", but he ended up losing it all, presumably due to [[Artie Ziff]] cheating out ZiffCorp's shareholders.

Willie's hobbies include videotaping couples in cars, something which proves to the benefit of [[Homer Simpson]] when he is later wrongfully accused of sexual harassment.<ref>"[[Homer Badman]]"</ref> At one time, Willie was engaged to [[Shary Bobbins|Sherry Bobbins]] until she recovered her eyesight—at which point, in Willie's words, "Suddenly the ugliest man in Glasgow wasn't good enough for her!<ref>"[[Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious]]"</ref>" Willie was once given the job of teaching Bart Simpson. Lisa had taken a restraining order against Bart, so he couldn't legally go to the same school. Willie became Bart's teacher because, according to Principal Skinner, Willie's shack is the only place on school grounds "outside all laws of Man and God.<ref>"[[On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister]]"</ref>" His years of heavy work have given him amazing strength and a very muscular physique, which has been observed many times; for example, he rescues Bart from a marauding [[Alaska]]n timber wolf by wrestling it into submission. He also makes a prank on a play however Principal Skinner blamed his prank on Bart and expelled him but he welcomes him back as an apology when he talks to Skinner that he was behind the prank and Bart accepts the apology happily. Much like [[Ned Flanders]], though, his physique is unremarkable when he is clothed, and seemingly morphs as soon as he is partially nude. Apparently, he has had sexual attractions to {{W|Sarah, Duchess of York|Sarah Ferguson}}, Duchess of York (more commonly known as "Fergie"), as he had mentioned while hallucinating as an after effect of Seth and Munchie's Peyote-laced juice (which was thanks to Homer) that he waited a long time for the moment where he could embrace Fergie passionately.<ref>"[[D'oh-in' in the Wind]]"</ref> Willie used to date a [[Sweden|Swedish]] bikini model name {{ap|Inga|The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly}}, but he told her she can't compete against his job because she'll never win.<ref>"[[The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly]]"</ref>

He slept with [[Lunchlady Dora]]<ref>"[[Dark Knight Court]]"</ref> and was later paired up with her by [[Professor Frink]],<ref>"[[Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4]]"</ref> made out with [[Miss Hoover]]<ref>"[[24 Minutes]]"</ref> and was once in a relationship with [[Edna Krabappel]].<ref>"[[The Ned-liest Catch]]"</ref> When he became a proper gentleman, he danced with Edna, [[Lindsey Naegle]] and [[Miss Springfield]], he also got "intimate" with [[Agnes Skinner]]<ref>"[[My Fair Laddy]]"</ref> and later made out with her during "Grown-up Halloween".<ref>"[[Halloween of Horror]]"</ref> At some point he had a relationship with [[Mrs. Muntz]].<ref>"[[Better Off Ned]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
He confessed to his rake that he is not its father, and that he's actually Welsh and not Scottish.<ref>"[[Lisa the Boy Scout]]"</ref>
=== Treehouse of Horror ===
Willie has a tendency to get killed in the Treehouse of Horror episodes, getting killed three times in "[[Treehouse of Horror V]]", each time he attempts to be helpful or heroic, and each time he is felled by an axe in the back (he mutters, "Ach, I'm bad at this" after the third time). He is also killed in "[[Treehouse of Horror VI]]" by being burned to death, in "[[Treehouse of Horror XI]]" by a dolphin, in "[[Treehouse of Horror XVI]]" he is strafed and killed by Burns, in "[[Treehouse of Horror XVIII]]" by getting his head cut off by the tractor, and in "[[Treehouse of Horror XIX]]" by being eaten by the Grand Pumpkin although he is saved later. In "[[Treehouse of Horror XXII]]", though, he has the smallest part of all — he appears at the end as a cyborg cleaner, essentially a cyborg groundskeeper. In "[[Treehouse of Horror XXIII]]", he was seen working at the [[Springfield Subatomic Supercollider]].<ref>"[[Treehouse of Horror XXIII]]"</ref>

=== ''The Simpsons Game'' ===
Willie appears as one of the contestants in the Duff Ultimate Eating Challenge in the level "[[Around the World in 80 Bites]]". He also appears in "[[Mob Rules]]" as one of the people Marge can use in her mob to protest the sales of the ''Grand Theft Scratchy'' video game to minors.

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
==== Default ====
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/School Workers|Willie}}

==== Costumes ====
<gallery>
File:Barechested Willie.png|[[Bare Chested Willie]]
File:Number 85.png|[[Number 85]]
File:Slave Labor Willie.png|[[Slave Labor Willie]]
File:Satyr Willie.png|[[Satyr Willie]]
File:Taskmaster Willie.png|[[Taskmaster Willie]]
File:Willie the Riveter.png|[[Willie the Riveter]]
</gallery>

==== Standalone ====
<gallery>
File:Cyborg Willie.png|[[Cyborg Willie]]
</gallery>

== Behind the Laughter ==
=== Creation ===
Groundskeeper Willie's first appearance was in the season two episode "[[Principal Charming]]". Originally, the character was just written as an angry janitor, and the fact that he was Scottish was added during a recording session. [[Dan Castellaneta]] was assigned to do the voice. Castellaneta didn't know what voice to use and [[Sam Simon]], who was directing at the time, told Castellaneta to use an accent. He first tried using a Spanish voice, which Simon felt was too clichéd. He then tried a "big dumb Swede", which was also rejected. For his third try, he used the voice of an angry Scotsman, which was deemed appropriate enough and was used in the episode.<ref>''[[Springfield Confidential]]'' Chapter 6</ref> Originally thought by the directors to be a one-shot appearance, Willie has since become a common recurring character. [[Matt Groening]] would later reveal that the character was based on Angus Crock, a kilt-wearing chef from the sketch comedy show ''Second City Television'', who was portrayed by Dave Thomas.

=== Development ===
A recurring joke, which was first shown in "[[Radio Bart]]", is that Willie appears to have a pot belly, but whenever he takes off his shirt, he is quite muscular. One of Willie's trademarks is a gruffly-spoken insulting retort, which take the writers a long time to come up with, although they do not consider them that funny.

=== Cultural influence and legacy ===
Groundskeeper Willie's description of the French as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" from the episode "[['Round Springfield]]" has become widely used, particularly in the run-up to the war in [[Iraq]]. The {{W|New York Post}} used the phrase "Surrender Monkeys" as the headline for its December 7, 2006 front page, referring to the Iraq Study Group and its recommendation that U.S. soldiers be withdrawn from Iraq by early 2008. The line was "most likely" written by [[Ken Keeler]].

''The Times'' reported in late 2005 that "he is the most instantly recognisable Scot in the world: better known than {{W|Billy Connolly}} or {{W|Ewan McGregor}}, even {{W|Sean Connery}}." The same article quotes ''Simpsons'' creator [[Matt Groening]] as saying "We wanted to create a school janitor that was filled with rage, sort of our tribute to angry janitors all over the world".

In 2006, Groundskeeper Willie would be named the fourth best peripheral character in the history of the show by IGN, who said "high-points for the character were being trained to be civilized, wrestling a wolf that was let loose in the school and becoming a substitute for the French language teacher - 'Bon jourrr! You cheese-eating surrender monkeys!'" IGN would also name "[[My Fair Laddy]]", the only episode which centers around Willie, the best episode of the seventeenth season. Jim Slotek of {{W|Sun Media}} would call Willie the ninth best ''Simpsons'' supporting character, and also made a Top Ten quotes list, which included Willie's quote "Och, back to the loch wi' you, Nessie." from "[[Selma's Choice]]".

There have been some moments in the show where he has been known to imitate {{W2|Scotty|Star Trek}} of ''[[Star Trek]]'' fame.

=== Foreign dubs ===
{{Dub voices
|czVoice={{W|cs:Zdeněk Hess|Zdeněk Hess}}
|deVoice=[[german:Werner Abrolat|Werner Abrolat]] ([[season 2]] - [[season 8|8]])
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== Trivia ==
*In the ''[[Simpsons Comics]]'', it is implied his last name is MacMoran. However, in "[[My Fair Laddy]]", he claims he does not have a last name.
*Willie thinks movies and video games are real.
*Willie has arthritis in his index fingers.<ref>"[[Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)]]"</ref>

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Gary Chalmers

2023-03-10T17:32:01Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Romantic Interests */

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{{Quote|Skinnerrrrr!!!|Superintendent Chalmers' catchphrase}}
{{Character
|name = Gary Chalmers
|image = [[File:Gary Chalmers.png|200px]]
|caption = Official artwork of Gary Chalmers by [[Matt Groening]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|status = Alive
|alias = Superintendent Chalmers Chalmers Super Nintendo Chalmers
|age =
|hair = Gray (balding; toupee<ref name="Replaceable">"[[Replaceable You]]"</ref>) (formerly brown)
|job = Super-duperintendent of [[Springfield Elementary School]] '''Formerly:''' Teacher Superintendent of [[Springfield Elementary School]] Vice-principal of [[Springfield High School]]<ref>''[[The Bart Book]]''</ref>
|relatives = '''Wife:''' [[Rosemary Chalmers]] (deceased)<ref name="Bart Stops">"[[Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts]]"</ref> '''Sister:''' [[Muriel]] '''Daughter:''' [[Shauna Chalmers]]<ref>"[[What to Expect When Bart's Expecting]]"</ref>
|appearance = "[[Whacking Day]]"
|voiced by = [[Hank Azaria]]
}}

'''Superintendent Garibaldi "Gary" Chalmers''' is the superintendent<ref name="Bart Stops"/> of [[Springfield]]'s [[Springfield Elementary School|school]] district.

== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Chalmers originally hails from [[Utica]], [[New York]],<ref>"[[22 Short Films About Springfield]]"</ref> but has also said that he comes from Queens, New York and [[Intercourse]], [[Pennsylvania]]. He attended Ball State University and is a proud owner of a red 1979 Honda Accord (and later, a Camry, which [[Otto Mann]] promptly wrecks). He mentioned to [[Principal Skinner]] that he is a Sagittarius (b. November 22-December 22).<ref>"[[The Heartbroke Kid]]"</ref>

=== Teaching days ===
Chalmers used to teach, until he supervised a group of detention students called [[The Fight Club]] and they beat him up when he mistakenly called them "The Breakfast Club". After this, he never taught again and only superintended. Years later, he ended up teaching [[Bart Simpson]] and several other students about {{Ch|Theodore Roosevelt}} when [[Principal Skinner]] challenged him to take over Bart's education.<ref name="Bart Stops"/>

=== Personality ===
Chalmers is a strict, no-nonsense, and largely humorless man, with a short temper and low tolerance for disorder or rule-breaking. His general demeanor and personality are like those of a military officer. Whenever he visits Springfield Elementary, some sort of disaster strikes. He produces extreme anxiety in [[Principal Skinner]], who offers increasingly improbable stories to explain what is happening. Chalmers is known for throwing open the doors to the room and bellowing "SKINNER!!!" or "SEYMOUR!!!", to which Seymour's usual response is to stammer "S-Superintendent Chalmers!" Evidently, Chalmers' trademark bellowed catchphrase has caused some paranoia in Skinner.<ref>"[[Lisa's Date with Density]]"</ref>

Chalmers's own competence and dedication to his job are questionable. He let [[Ned Flanders]] allow the school to descend into anarchy when he was principal, freely admitting that he had fired Skinner for far less, explaining simply that "Skinner really bugged me." In fact, the only reason Chalmers even allowed Skinner to be reinstated as Principal was because Ned Flanders introduced prayer into the school, and thus was fired because Chalmers felt that religion should never be placed within school walls, just as school or government shouldn't be placed in church walls. He seems disturbingly unconcerned with the school's decline, saying that "the way America's public schools are sliding, they'll all be like this in a matter of months. I say enjoy it — it's a hell of a toboggan ride!" He also promotes people based on personal bias as opposed to actual competence, promoting Principal Holloway, described by Skinner as a "drunk" and Chalmers as a "pill-popper", to assistant superintendent, overlooking the efforts made by Skinner to improve his school's standing.
[[File:Chalmers bald.png|thumb|left|Chalmers with a bald head]]
When Springfield began erecting surveillance cameras around [[Springfield]] and [[742 Evergreen Terrace]] was discovered to be a blind spot and transformed into a crowding place for rebellious activity, Superintendent Chalmers was spotted swinging nunchucks while prancing in a Tutu.<ref>"[[To Surveil with Love]]"</ref>

He was once involved in a large brawl in the teacher's lounge and was knocked out after [[Dewey Largo]] punched him over a wooden balcony.

Chalmers and Skinner have also made [[Chalmskinn Productions]], an organization that the two school workers make when they sponsor [[Lisa]] in a film competition.

=== Romantic Interests ===
Chalmers once dated [[Agnes Skinner]], much to Skinner's dismay<ref>"[[Bart the Fink]]"</ref> (although on other occasions he has mentioned being married). Later, it is revealed that Chalmers is a widower and his wife's name was [[Rosemary Chalmers|Rosemary]].<ref name="Bart Stops"/>

Skinner once received a note by Bart's [[Raymond Bird|carrier pigeon]] stating that Chalmers and [[Edna Krabappel]] were "doing it", after Skinner read it, Chalmers backed out of the room awkwardly and claimed she was on the rebound from [[Groundskeeper Willie]].<ref>"[[How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?]]"</ref> Chalmers also once said that he was dating the mother of one of the [[Springfield Elementary School|Springfield Elementary]] band students.<ref>"[[Flaming Moe]]"</ref>

He hooked-up with [[Brunella Pommelhorst]] during "Grownup Halloween".<ref>"[[Halloween of Horror]]"</ref>

At some point he paid [[Mrs. Muntz]] for sex.<ref>"[[Better Off Ned]]"</ref>

=== Hair ===
When Chalmers was younger and a teacher, he had brown hair.<ref name="Bart Stops"/> However, he has since gone totally bald. His gray balding hairstyle is actually a toupee.<ref name="Replaceable"/>

=== Traits ===
On a few occasions, Chalmers says Skinner's name this way when absolutely nothing has gone wrong, implying that he probably pronounces Skinner's name this way out of habit (e.g. once saying "SKINNNEERR! and [[Agnes Skinner|Mrs. SKINNNEERR!]]") This habit seems to also have an effect on words that rhyme with "Skinner", such as "I must get home to make sure my pool boy is using his SKIMMMEERR!", "...catch a fish for his DINNNEERR!" and "SPINNNEERR" after yelling at [[Bart Simpson]] for spinning in Skinner's chair.

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== Future ===
In one possible future, Chalmers is practically a vegetable, wheelchair-bound and only capable of saying his trademark line: "Skinner!"<ref>"[[Future-Drama]]"</ref>

In another possible future, Chalmers is a colonel of an army that he leads on the planet [[Rigel 7]] to fight the [[Rigellians]], to get [[Hillarium]], a liquid that makes everything funny. He is defeated after Bart makes Chalmers slap himself in a large robot suit that he controls by movement, telling him he had something on his face, thus making Chalmers fall off a cliff.<ref>"[[Treehouse of Horror XXII]]"</ref>

In one comic story he revealed he had been dating [[Lunchlady Dora]].<ref>''[[The "X" Men]]''</ref> Chalmers and Dora were also seen making out in "[[Brick Like Me]]"

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
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== Behind the Laughter ==
[[File:Police Superintendent Chalmers.png|thumb|right|70px|Police Super- intendent Chalmers]]
*In the DVD commentary for "[[22 Short Films About Springfield]]", ''Simpsons'' creators noted that Superintendent Chalmers seems to be one of the few "normal" characters on the show, and Chalmers is frequently alone in his awareness of the show's zaniness.
*His first name was revealed to be Gary in "[[Yokel Chords]]" by Bart.
*In the ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "{{W|Shanksgiving}}", it's revealed that Gary has a brother, Police Superintendent Chalmers, who was raised by their mother after their parents divorced. The two brothers have apparently never met since they were old enough to remember.
*In the [[season 32]] episode "[[The Road to Cincinnati]]", it's revealed that his full name is Garibaldi Chalmers.
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|esLAVoice=Miguel Ángel Botello
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== References ==
{{Images|Gary Chalmers}}
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{{Springfield Republican Party|member=yes}}
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[[Category:Characters voiced by Hank Azaria]]
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Mrs. Muntz

2023-03-10T17:30:13Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* History */

{{Character
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|image = [[File:Mrs. Muntz.png]]
|caption = Artwork of Mrs. Muntz from ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''
|gender = {{Female}}
|hair = Beige Black
|age =
|status = Alive
|job = Stripper
|relatives = '''Son:''' [[Nelson Muntz]] '''Ex-Husband:''' [[Eddie Muntz]] '''Husband:''' {{ap|Clown|How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?}}
|appearance = '''Voice:''' "[[Wild Barts Can't Be Broken]]" '''Person:''' "[['Tis the Fifteenth Season]]"
|mentioned = "[[Separate Vocations]]"
|voiced by = [[Tress MacNeille]]
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'''Mrs. Muntz''' is the mother of [[Springfield Elementary School|school]] bully [[Nelson Muntz]]. Mrs. Muntz is an alcoholic and a stripper, and neglects her son.

== History ==
{{Incomplete}}
Sometime after Nelson was born, Mrs. Muntz's [[Mr. Muntz|husband]] left her, because she developed an addiction to cough drops.<ref>"[[A Milhouse Divided]]"</ref>

Mrs. Muntz began a job as a stripper called [[Hooters]].<ref>"[[Bart Star]]"</ref>

[[Marge Simpson]] once 'adopted' Nelson because his mother was neglecting him. Sometime after this, Nelson's father returned and the family reunited, with Mrs. Muntz having acquired a job portraying Lady Macbeth in the play ''[[Macbeth]]'', after sleeping with the player's director.<ref>"[[Sleeping with the Enemy]]"</ref> However, this was short-lived, when Mrs. Muntz began a relationship with [[Moe Szyslak]],<ref name="No Loan">"[[No Loan Again, Naturally]]"</ref> and then married a {{ap|clown|How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?}}.<ref>"[[How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?]]"</ref> She also had sex with [[Krusty]] to get Nelson a place on Krusty's show.<ref>"[[All About Lisa]]"</ref> She has a wall of exes in her home including but not limited to [[Akira]], [[Barney]], [[Lou]], Krusty, [[Bleeding Gums Murphy]], [[Capital City Goofball]], [[Hank Scorpio]], a [[Police Cops]] executive, one of [[Los Souvenir Jacquitos]], the [[City worker]], [[Trucker 4]], [[Trucker 2]], [[Trucker 5]] and [[Groundskeeper Willie]]. [[Gary Chalmers]] at some point paid her for sex.<ref>"[[Better Off Ned]]"</ref>

Mrs. Muntz seemed more caring to Nelson upon an accident following an unauthorized school trip hosted by Springfield Elementary School's then-Superintendent Chalmers, when she hired a lawyer to sue Springfield Elementary.<ref>"[[Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts]]"</ref>

Mrs. Muntz began a job, also as a stripper, at [[Classy Girls Strip Club]].<ref>"[[The Food Wife]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
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== Behind the Laughter ==
She was seen with black hair a couple of times,<ref name="No Loan"/><ref>"[[The Haw-Hawed Couple]]"</ref> implying that she dyes her hair.

== Appearances ==
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Lindsey Naegle

2023-03-10T11:19:37Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Love life */

{{Character
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|image = [[File:Lindsey Naegle.png]]
|caption = Artwork of Lindsey Naegle from ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''
|gender = {{Female}}
|hair = Blonde '''Formerly:''' Red
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|appearance = "[[The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show]]"
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'''Lindsey Naegle''' (often spelt '''Lindsay Naegle''') is a resident of [[Springfield]] and is often known as [[Springfield]]'s residential business link.

== Personality ==
Lindsey is known to be a common youth-hater. Lindsey, outraged at paying high damages for a particular riot that the youth have caused, formed an anti-youth group named SSCCATAGAPP (Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples And Teens And Gays Against Parasitic Parents), and lobbied to deprive Springfield of all child-friendly things. Her campaign nearly succeeded, but was thwarted at the last moment when [[Bart]], [[Lisa]], and the other kids in Springfield hugged all the adults, infecting them with "kid germs". The adults collapsed with sickness and weren't able to vote, causing the campaign to fail.<ref>"[[Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays]]"</ref>

An alcoholic (she says so matter-of-factly to Homer when she appears in [[Moe's Tavern]]), it is later revealed that she is the head of the Alcoholics Anonymous branch in Springfield. At meetings she says "So we all know why we're here - to be sober .. and to network!"<ref>"[[Days of Wine and D'oh'ses]]"</ref>

She is often seen as a member of the [[Springfield Republican Party]]. However, she was once seen attending a Democratic Party meeting.<ref>"[[E Pluribus Wiggum]]"</ref>

Lindsey tends to flatly admit things that others would be embarrassed to admit. She acknowledged being a registered sexual predator<ref>"[[Blame It on Lisa]]"</ref> and that she cannot cry due to a botched face lift.<ref>"[[Girly Edition]]"</ref>

She is the host of the [[R.O.C.C.]], the Remote Onsite Correctional Center, a new detention center for [[Springfield Elementary School]].<ref>"[[The Winter of Our Monetized Content]]"</ref>

=== Jobs ===
Lindsey has popped up in several capacities, seemingly working at a different job every time she appears. The variety of her jobs is to such an extent that she has made business cards reading simply "Does Everything".<ref>"[[Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion]]"</ref> Job titles have included the aforementioned network executive, as well as marketing researcher, financial planner (making a point that she wasn't a financial consultant), public relations consultant, venture capitalist, advertising executive, cell phone company exec. and executive with the Child Development Group. After she introduces herself (again) to [[Homer]] and [[Marge]], Marge says, "We've met you many times, Ms. Naegle; why do you keep changing jobs?" To which she flatly replies, "I'm a sexual predator".<ref>"[[Blame It on Lisa]]"</ref> She later becomes a replacement for [[Smithers]] when he quits the [[Power Plant]].<ref>"[[The Burns Cage]]"</ref> She was a Mr. [[Burns]]' advisor in his business reconstruction of the [[First Church of Springfield]].<ref>"[[She of Little Faith]]"</ref>

=== Love life ===
Naegle once dated [[Ned Flanders]], but the date was interrupted by Naegle receiving a fax (from a fax machine strapped to her leg) which indicated she had been indicted. She is an enthusiastic practitioner of the childfree lifestyle, and at one point spearheads a movement to make Springfield less child-friendly. Once romantically linked with Judge [[Roy Snyder]], she is a graduate from the Wharton Business School. She is a stereotypical upper management executive, and her ventures almost always promote the business buzzword "synergy". Marge told Homer that if she died, he would be allowed to remarry to Naegle, as seen on a list in the back of his closet.<ref>"[[I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]"</ref>

It is implied that she's been sleeping with [[Krusty]] the Clown, as both were giggling and blushing.<ref>"[[You Kent Always Say What You Want]]"</ref> She has also been seen with [[Moe Szyslak]],<ref>"[[Judge Me Tender]]"</ref><ref>"[[Pulpit Friction]]"</ref> [[Sea Captain]],<ref>"[[Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda]]"</ref><ref>"[[Halloween of Horror]]"</ref> [[Disco Stu]],<ref>"[[The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants]]"</ref> [[Blue-haired lawyer]],<ref>"[[A Midsummer's Nice Dreams]]"</ref> [[Rainier Wolfcastle]],<ref>"[[In the Name of the Grandfather]]"</ref> [[Lenny]],<ref>"[[Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4]]"</ref> and [[Kent Brockman]].<ref>"[[Simprovised]]"</ref> <ref>"[[One Angry Lisa]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
[[File:Lindsey Naegle Red.png|thumb|left|"Red".]]
Before becoming a rich socialite, Lindsey Naegle used to be a jewel thief and brought big jobs to her partners, [[Sarah Wiggum]], [[Bette]], and {{ap|Erin|Uncut Femmes}}. At this time, Lindsey went by the name "Red", and had red hair. On a robbery of jewels from a penthouse, Lindsey sounded the alarm and turned on Bette and Erin, whilst Sarah was busy with [[Clancy Wiggum]]. This led to Bette and Erin getting arrested whilst Lindsey made off with the jewels. Lindsey sold most of the jewels but kept the [[hourglass diamond]], which she had placed in a tiara.<ref>"[[Uncut Femmes]]"</ref>

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
==== Lindsey Naegle ====
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/More Business Owners|Lindsey}}

==== Prepper Lindsey Naegle ====
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Scrappy Fighters|PrepperLindsey}}

== Behind the Laughter ==
*Lindsey makes her first appearance in "[[The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show]]". In this episode, her character was simply referred to as "Female Network Executive", and had brunette hair instead of her usual blonde hair. She later returned in "[[Girly Edition]]". In "[[They Saved Lisa's Brain]]", the character was introduced as Lindsey Naegle, a member of the [[Springfield Mensa]] Society and head of Advanced Capital Ventures, specializing in synergy and books on how to cheat at bridge.
*In ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]'', she was referred to Lindsay Naegle in the files and dialogues, but that was corrected in the {{TOCU2|Bart Royale and Valentine's Day 2018|Bart Royale}} content update.

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== References ==
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Kent Brockman

2023-03-10T11:18:26Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Family & relationships */

{{Quote|Now, at the risk of being unpopular, this reporter places the blame for all of this squarely on YOU, the viewers.|Kent Brockman|$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)}}
{{Character
|name = Kent Brockman
|image = [[File:Kent Brockman.png|250px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = White (toupee)<ref>"[[YOLO]]"</ref>
|age =
|job = [[Channel 6]] anchorman
|status = Alive
|relatives ='''Father:''' Unnamed<ref>''[[He Who Controls the Donuts, Controls the World]]''</ref> '''Mother:''' Unnamed<ref>"[[Walking Big & Tall]]"</ref> '''Daughter:''' [[Brittany Brockman]] '''Sister:''' Unnamed '''Ex-wife:''' [[Stephanie Brockman]] '''Nephew:''' Unnamed<ref>"[[Faith Off]]"</ref>
|appearance = "[[The Telltale Head]]"
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'''Brock Kentman''',<ref name="Skybox">''{{ap|Skybox|cards}}''</ref> once known as '''Kenny Brockelstein''' in his early career, and now as '''Kent Brockman''', is a local TV news 'personality' for [[Channel 6]]. He hosts the ''[[Channel 6 News]]'', ''[[Eye on Springfield]]'' and ''[[Smartline]]''.

== Biography ==
As a child, Kenny Brockelstein was at [[Disneyland]] and decided to interview [[Mickey Mouse]]. The guy in the costume took off the head and told him that he was on his break, which meant the mouse was dead. This turned Kent's hair white,<ref>"[[A Tree Grows in Springfield]]"</ref> however in another flashback in, Kent is shown with black hair.<ref>"[[Four Regrettings and a Funeral]]"</ref>

Brockman represents the worst of his profession: frequently judgmental; careerist to the point of absurdity; and more than willing to film and sensationalize a schmaltzy, emotion driven puff piece for the sake of a few extra ratings points. (As with most Simpsons characters, Brockman's ethics and competence vary according to the needs of the episode.) He has been seen throwing tantrums because he cannot find certain snack foods, and once blithely announced on-the-air that the boom operator on his news program was being fired the next morning (for which he took a clout on the head from the angry soon-to-be-ex-employee).<ref>"[[The Springfield Files]]"</ref> He seems to command excessive levels of power within [[Channel 6]], even having a segment of the news programme to air his own (usually highly reactionary) opinions on current issues called ''My Two Cents''. Despite all of this, he has won a string of media awards, but is most proud of his unspecified trophy from Del Monte. He was also a war correspondent during the {{W|Vietnam War}}, the Soviet war in [[Afghanistan]], and the {{W|Gulf War}} (although, as he just says "[[Iraq]]", he could have been referring to the {{W|Iran-Iraq War}}). He also frequently uses botox, having a saggy face without it. Kent's first big story was the Great Springfield Tire Yard Fire.<ref name="Skybox"/>

Brockman once won the multi-million-dollar ($130 million) state lottery jackpot and left the news desk while still on the air, but he remained a news anchor because he was under contract, though he also admitted that he likes making $500,000 a year.<ref name="Dog of Death">"[[Dog of Death]]"</ref> He also has an ongoing feud with traffic reporter [[Arnie Pye]], and has been shown to criticize Pye's reporting; indeed, he once chuckled sadistically upon hearing the news that Pye had been killed in an accident. He mentioned to Pye that he made some smart investments when Arnie complained about the size of Brockman's house.

He is known for using news-speak in everyday language; for example, "This just in: Go to [[hell]]!" It was revealed that his 'wit' is provided by a microphone, ear piece and a communications team in a nearby van.<ref>"[[Tennis the Menace]]"</ref> He has been seen, more than once, stretching his face and removing wrinkles by clipping a clothes-pin to the back of his head. In addition to his news career, Brockman writes a column for ''PC Magazine'' called "Making the Most of Your Modem". Brockman is revealed to have a 'thing' for {{W|BDSM|bondage}}.<ref>"[[Homerazzi]]"</ref> It is implied that he may be a heavy smoker, as he was seen smoking a cigarette and saying "Oh God, I love to smoke" afterwards [presumably on camera, given his reaction afterwards] before announcing his live broadcast of the opening day of the new ''[[Cosmic Wars]]'' movie: ''The Gathering Shadow''.<ref>"[[Co-Dependent's Day]]"</ref> One time, he hired an accountant to take care of his taxes, but the accountant in question did not do the taxes until the last possible moment, a fact that Brockman did not realize until he was doing a live news broadcast on Tax Day.

=== Religion ===
Brockman was known as '''Kenny Brockelstein''' early in his career,<ref>"[[Mother Simpson]]"</ref> and he can be seen wearing the Hebrew {{W2|Chai|symbol|Chai symbol}} as a gold medallion around his neck,<ref name="Dog of Death">"[[Dog of Death]]"</ref> suggesting {{W|Judiasm|Jewish}} ancestry. Interestingly, however, he also refers to the {{W|Book of Revelation}},<ref>"[[Marge on the Lam]]"</ref> during an editorial in which he states women rebelling might lead to "anarchy of Biblical proportions" (he is promptly cut off by the station and replaced with a "Technical Difficulties" card depicting Brockman in a straitjacket). Revelation is in the New Testament, suggesting Brockman no longer observes Judaism.

=== Language ===
[[File:Brockman-DoFeel.png|thumb|220px|Kent Brockman embraces the "Do what you feel" craze.]]Brockman has been shown to have no problem with using bad or otherwise offensive language on air, and he has been fired for doing so on more than one occasion. Brockman was fired for muttering, "That oughta hold those SOBs",<ref>"[[Krusty Gets Kancelled]]"</ref> after reporting on [[Gabbo]] using foul language while the cameras were on. In the newspaper headline following that scene, it read that Kent Brockman was fired, though he still remained a newscaster the next time he was shown. After [[Brad Goodman]] encouraged Springfield to "do what they feel", Kent Brockman reports that because of Brad Goodman exploiting Bart's irreverent personality, people in Springfield are becoming more open with themselves, then says, "...and this reporter thinks it's about f***ing time!" and isn't fired for his remark (This is presumably because of the "do what you feel" craze making troublemaking rules lenient by a significant degree, as he was also seen spraying whipped cream into his mouth shortly thereafter.).<ref>"[[Bart's Inner Child]]"</ref> When Kent Brockman, after chastising democracy when a last-minute rider in the senate ruined the evacuation of Springfield due to an incoming comet, he decided to announce which people are gay, on the grounds that it didn't matter, as he was going to lose the job anyway.<ref>"[[Bart's Comet]]"</ref>

Brockman's penchant for using offensive language worked against him, when, after Homer accidentally spills coffee on Brockman's crotch, he shouts what [[Ned Flanders]] calls a "super swear" that shocked everyone who watched it. Brockman was demoted to weather man due to the station paying a fine to the {{W|FCC}}, but was then fired when the network executives mistook a ring of Splenda in Brockman's coffee for {{W|cocaine}}. Brockman was later given his job back to silence him (after doing an expose that was seen on [[YouTube]] uncovering the real reason the FCC is cracking down on obscenity in the media), with a 50% raise, making his new salary $750,000 per year.<ref>"[[You Kent Always Say What You Want]]"</ref>

=== Family & relationships ===
Brockman has a [[Brittany Brockman|preteen daughter]] and a preteen son, and has jealously mentioned his sister, who is a [[White House]] correspondent for [[CNN]]. He is mentioned to have a second, adult daughter, who has made out with traffic reporter [[Arnie Pye]]. Brockman owns a collie named Jessica, whom he had {{W|spaying and neutering|"fixed"}}.

Kent is married to [[Stephanie Brockman|Stephanie]], [[Channel 6 News]]'s weather lady, which Brockman says caused "this town been so consumed with rumor and innuendo."

They may be divorced as both have been seen with other people. [[Selma Bouvier]] once claimed that she and Brockman made out in the back booth of a seafood hut, Brockman shook it off stating "We all did crazy things on 9/11".<ref>"[[Rednecks and Broomsticks]]"</ref> Brockman also had a relationship with [[Edna Krabappel]].<ref>"[[The Ned-liest Catch]]"</ref> Kent was seen on a date with [[Lindsey Naegle]] at an improv show,<ref>"[[Simprovised]]"</ref> Naegle later took him for coffee if he got her out of jury duty.<ref>"[[One Angry Lisa]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== The Simpsons Game ===
Brockman appears in the opening cutscene for the level ''[[Shadow of the Colossal Donut]]'' as he and the cameraman follow Bart and Homer into the action of stopping the giant [[Lard Lad Donuts]] mascot statue running amuck through the city.

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
==== Brockman ====
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/C-List Celebrities|Brockman}}

==== Costumes ====
<gallery>
File:Number 66.png|[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Even More Stonecutters#Number 66|Number 66]]
File:Swimsuit Brockman.png|[[Swimsuit Brockman]]
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== Trivia ==
*Kent Brockman has [[Facebook]] and appears to be friends with {{Ch|Mark Zuckerberg}}.

Kent has a tattoo on his back as shown in the intro on [[Eye on Springfield]] of a dragon.<ref>"[[Flaming Moe's]]"</ref>

== Behind the Laughter ==
=== Catch-phrase ===
Brockman's most famous phrase, repeated in various guises on internet message boards and within popular culture, is "[[The Simpsons#Influences on language|And I for one welcome our new insect overlords]]". Another notable quote is "I've said it before and I'll say it again: Democracy simply doesn't work".

=== Inspiration ===
There are a few people who could be the inspiration and/or model for Brockman, including the late [[Los Angeles]] news anchors Jerry Dunphy and Hal Fishman; and Ted Baxter, the airhead news anchor from ''{{W2|Mary Tyler Moore|TV series}}'', played by Ted Knight. He has also been seen to emulate Ted Koppel, Walter Cronkite.

=== Foreign dubs ===
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|E21=yes
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}}
{{Season5A
|E4=yes
|E5=yes
|E5n=Bart Simpson's Dracula
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|E14=yes
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}}
{{Season6A
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|E6=yes
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}}
{{Season7A
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|E12=yes
|E15=yes
|E18=yes
|E19=yes
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|E23=yes
}}
{{Season8A
|E1=yes
|E1n=Citizen Kang
|E2=yes
|E3=yes
|E4=yes
|E5=yes
|E8=yes
|E9=yes
|E10=yes
|E13=yes
|E14=yes
|E17=yes
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}}
{{Season9A
|E3=yes
|E4=yes
|E5=yes
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|E7=yes
|E8=yes
|E10=yes
|E11=yes
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|E18=yes
|E19=yes
|E20=yes
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}}
{{Season10A
|E2=yes
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}}
{{Season11A
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}}
{{Season12A
|E1=yes
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}}
{{Season13A
|E2=yes
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}}
{{Season14A
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}}
{{Season15A
|E1=yes
|E1n=Reaper Madness; Stop the World, I Want to Goof Off
|E2=yes
|E3=yes
|E4=yes
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|E7=yes
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}}
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|E2=yes
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}}
{{Season17A
|E2=yes
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|E9=yes
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|E10=yes
|E13=yes
|E16=yes
|E18=yes
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|E20=yes
|E21=yes
|E22=yes
}}
{{Season18A
|E2=yes
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}}
*{{mov}}
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|E4=yes
|E5=yes
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}}
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|E10=yes
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|E21=yes
}}
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|E4=yes
|E4n=Don't Have a Cow, Mankind
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|E11=yes
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|E20=yes
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}}
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}}
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|E1=yes
|E2=yes
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|E12=yes
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|E15=yes
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}}
{{Season24A
|E1=yes
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}}
{{Season25A
|E3=yes
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|E5=yes
|E6cg=yes
|E8=yes
|E9=yes
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|E17=yes
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|E20=yes
|E22=yes
}}
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|E1=yes
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|E5=yes
|E6=yes
|E8=yes
|E12=yes
|E13=yes
|E14cg=yes
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|E18=yes
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{{Season27A
|E1cg=yes
|E4=yes
|E8=yes
|E12=yes
|E15=yes
|E17=yes
|E21=yes
|E22=yes
}}
{{Season28A
|E1=yes
|E4=yes
|E5=yes
|E4n=Moefinger
|E6=yes
|E10=yes
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|E14=yes
|E17=yes
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|E21=yes
|E22=yes
}}
{{Season29A
|E2=yes
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|E11=yes
|E12=yes
|E13=yes
|E14=yes
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{{Season30A
|E1=yes
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|E9=yes
|E10=yes
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|E18=yes
|E19=yes
|E20=yes
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|E21=yes
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{{Season31A
|E1=yes
|E3=yes
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|E8=yes
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|E10=yes
|E11=yes
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|E14=yes
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|E20=yes
|E22=yes
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{{Season32A
|E4=yes
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|E6=yes
|E8=yes
|E10=yes
|E12=yes
|E13=yes
|E15=yes
|E17=yes
|E18=yes
|E20=yes
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{{Season33A
|E2=yes
|E3=yes
|E3n=Bong Joon Ho's This Side of Parasite; Nightmare on Elm Tree
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|E7=yes
|E11=yes
|E14=yes
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|E21=yes
|E22=yes
}}
{{Season34A
|E2=yes
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|E5=yes
|E6=yes
|E6n=Death Tome
|E7=yes
|E12=yes
}}
'''Specials:'''
{{SpecialsA
|Bartman=yes
|Shake=yes
|TSG=yes
|Bowl=yes
|Bowln=archive footage
|SoD=yes
|SoDn=archive footage
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'''Adverts:'''
{{ButterfingerA
|BF24=yes
}}
{{AdvertsA
|TSTO2=yes
|TSTO3=yes
|TSTO4=yes
}}
'''Simpsons Illustrated:'''
{{SimpsonsIllustratedA
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|I6S2=yes
|I8S2=yes
|I8S4=yes
|I8S7=yes
}}
'''Simpsons Comics and Stories:'''
{{SCASA
|I1S1=yes
}}
'''Simpsons Comics:'''
{{SimpsonsComicsA
|I1S1=yes
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|I2S2=yes
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'''Bartman:'''
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'''Radioactive Man:'''
{{RadioactiveManA
|IOMAS1=yes
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'''Treehouse of Horror:'''
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|I19S2=yes
|I20S3=yes
|I21S3=yes
|I22S3=yes
|I22S3n=mentioned
|B1S7=yes
|B1S15=yes
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'''Bart Simpson:'''
{{BartSimpsonA
|I1S1=yes
|I2S1=yes
|I2S4=yes
|I3S2=yes
|I4S1=yes
|I6S1=yes
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|I92S2=yes
|I98S1=yes
|I98S2=yes
|I100S1=yes
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'''Futurama Crossover:'''
{{FuturamaCrossoverA
|S1=yes
|S2=yes
|S3=yes
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'''Comic Strips:'''
{{ComicStripsA
|S3=yes
|S8=yes
|S18=yes
}}
'''Super Spectacular:'''
{{SuperSpectacularA
|I1S1=yes
|I9S1=yes
|I13S1=yes
}}
'''Winter Wingding:'''
{{WinterWingdingA
|I1S7=yes
|I2S5=yes
|I3S2=yes
|I5S3=yes
|I5S1=yes
|I5S2=yes
|I7S5=yes
|I8S1=yes
|I8S2=yes
|I10S4=yes
}}
'''Summer Shindig:'''
{{SummerShindigA
|I1S5=yes
|I2S2=yes
|I3S1=yes
|I5S1=yes
|I5S2=yes
|I5S3=yes
|I6S2=yes
|I8S3=yes
|I9S1=yes
}}
'''Comic Book Guy: The Comic Book:'''
{{DOCBGA
|S4=yes
}}
'''Homer for the Holidays:'''
{{HftHA
|S5=yes
}}
'''One-Shot Wonders:'''
{{OneShotsA
|IRWS3=yes
|IRWS4=yes
|IPFS1=yes
|ILSS1=yes
|IKCS1=yes
|IKCS2=yes
|IBMS1=yes
|ICWS3=yes
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'''Other Comics:'''
*{{bon|Seems Like Old Crimes!}}
'''Video Games:'''
{{GamesA
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|H&R=yes
|Game=yes
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|Wrestle=yes
|Skate=yes
|Skaten=voice, picture
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'''Books:'''
{{BooksA
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|TBoM=yes
|TBB=yes
|BSGTL=yes
|MBHoWD=yes
|GSGtA=yes
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|SCExtra=yes
|SCSp=yes
|TSFH=yes
}}
{{TC}}
}}

== References ==
{{images}}
{{Reflist}}

{{Bowling Teams|channel6=yes|team=no}}
{{Stonecutters}}
{{Tapped Out characters|c-celebs=yes|emstonecutters=yes}}
{{Simpsons World factfiles|2=yes}}
{{Simpsons characters}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brockman, Kent}}

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[[Category:Podcasters]]
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[[Category:Celebrities]]
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[[Category:Characters introduced in season 1]]

Akira Kurosawa

2023-03-10T11:16:01Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* History */

{{Comp}}
{{Character
|name = Akira Kurosawa
|image = [[File:Akira Kurosawa.png|200px]]
|caption = Artwork of Akira from ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''
|gender = {{Male}}
|status = Alive
|hair = Black
|age =
|job = Waiter at [[The Happy Sumo]] (later [[Swanky Fish]]) Karate teacher at [[Springfield Martial Arts Academy]]
|relatives =
|appearance = "[[One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish]]"
|voiced by = [[Hank Azaria]] [[George Takei]]
}}

'''Akira Kurosawa'''<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200125031428/https://twitter.com/NellSco/status/1220903516312567813 Nell Scovell on Twitter - "Akira Kurosawa"] (archived on {{W|Wayback Machine}})</ref> is an Asian man who has served as the sensei of a [[Springfield Martial Arts Academy|karate dojo]], a waiter at [[The Happy Sumo]] and [[Swanky Fish]] and an employee at [[Costington's]] department store.

== History ==
Akira has a mixed relationship with [[Homer]]. Akira helped [[Homer]], [[Bart]], and [[Lisa Simpson]] discover the origin of the mysterious [[Mr. Sparkle]] dishwashing detergent box (Homer was mystified by Mr. Sparkle's striking resemblance to him).<ref>"[[In Marge We Trust]]"</ref> However, he nearly killed Homer (albeit not intentionally) when he served him the fugu blowfish, which can only be properly prepared by the [[Master Sushi Chef]] (who was busy making out in his car with [[Mrs. Krabappel]] when Homer ordered the fugu).<ref>"[[One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish]]"</ref> Also, Akira, [[Luigi]], [[Captain McCallister]], and other restaurant proprietors of [[Springfield]] attempted to assassinate Homer for giving their restaurants bad reviews.<ref>"[[Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?]]"</ref>

On yet another occasion, Akira demonstrated a vibrating recliner for Homer in the furniture department at [[Costington's]]—at Homer's insistence, with the chair set to full power. Homer loved the chair, but [[Marge]] talked him out of buying it.<ref>"[[Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?]]"</ref>

He took part in the world's tallest human pyramid record attempt.

Akira trained Marge in karate for an MMA fight working with her in his own karate studio.<ref>"[[The Great Wife Hope]]"</ref> Bart also signed up for one of Akira's karate classes, but skipped the sessions to go play video games.<ref>"[[When Flanders Failed]]"</ref>

Akira had to take a citizenship test when a proposition called for all illegal immigrants in Springfield to be deported.<ref>"[[Much Apu About Nothing]]"</ref>

He has been seen with [[Cookie Kwan]].<ref>"[[The Dad-Feelings Limited]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== ''The Simpsons Game'' ===
Akira is featured in level three of ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'', "[[Around the World in 80 Bites]]". He is shown as the former winner of the [[Duff]] eating contest because of his technique of dipping food in milk then swallowing it whole. In the Wii Version, he is the opponent of the minigame [[Bite Night]] found in the level Game Over.

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/More Business Owners|Akira}}

== Appearances ==
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|E16=yes
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|E6cg=yes
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|E16n=picture
|E20=yes
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|E4n=opening sequence
|E6=yes
|E10=yes
|E11=yes
}}
{{Season33A
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|E14=yes
|E22=yes
}}
{{Season34A
|E4=yes
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'''Specials:'''
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'''Adverts:'''
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|TSTO9n=icon
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{{ButterfingerA
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|I68S1=yes
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|I91S1=yes
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|I120S1=yes
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|I203S1=yes
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'''Treehouse of Horror:'''
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|I21S2=yes
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'''Holiday Humdinger:'''
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|Game=yes
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'''Books:'''
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|UEG=yes
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'''Merchandise:'''
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{{TC}}
}}

== References ==
{{Images|Akira}}
{{Reflist}}

{{Simpsons World factfiles|2=yes}}
{{Tapped Out characters|morebusiness=yes}}
{{Simpsons characters|springfield=yes}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kurosawa, Akira}}

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[[Category:Waiters]]
[[Category:Recurring characters]]
[[Category:Characters voiced by Hank Azaria]]
[[Category:Characters voiced by George Takei]]
[[Category:Characters introduced in season 2]]

Cookie Kwan

2023-03-10T11:15:13Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* History */

{{Quote|Stay off the west side!|Cookie|Realty Bites}}
{{Character
|name = Cookie Kwan
|image = [[File:Cookie Kwan.png]]
|caption = Artwork of Cookie Kwan from ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''
|gender = {{Female}}
|hair = Black
|age =
|status = Alive
|job = Realtor
|relatives = '''Son:''' [[Cookie Kwan and Joe Quimby's son|Unnamed]] '''Cousin: '''[[Nookie Kwan]]
|appearance = "[[Realty Bites]]"
|voiced by = [[Tress MacNeille]]
}}

'''Cookie Kwan''' is a [[Springfield]] realtor, the "number one on the west side". She has a stereotypical Asian accent.

== Biography ==
She is very aggressive towards anyone whom she deems a threat to her business, as she once warned [[Marge]] to "stay off the West Side!" and said to [[Gil]] "Were you talking about the West Side?", to which he responds "No, Cookie, I swear! I'm-I'm scared of you!"<ref>"[[Realty Bites]]"</ref>

Cookie is friends with [[Rainier Wolfcastle]], [[Duffman]] and [[Miss Springfield]].<ref>"[[Husbands and Knives]]"</ref>

== History ==
Cookie went to [[Camp Land-A-Man]] with [[Marge]], [[Patty]] and [[Selma]] (the Bouvier sisters), as well as childhood versions of [[Helen Lovejoy]] and [[Luann Van Houten]], when they were all young girls. She had the same comically heavy accent. She was seen reading a book about how to lose an accent but evidently she never did. Marge had a date with Homer, but he wasn't present, so Marge left the camp. Cookie told everyone at the camp about it and spread a rumor that Marge was pregnant.<ref>"[[The Way We Weren't]]"</ref>

Both Cookie and [[Lindsay Naegle]] often look for a man. She once tried to get [[Homer]] to move into her home.<ref>"[[Large Marge]]"</ref> She once had a relationship (like many other women) with [[Mayor Quimby]], and they had a son, whom Quimby gave to one of [[Mayor Quimby's body guards|his bodyguards]]. She later was one of the 37 woman filing paternity suits against Quimby.<ref>"[[She Used to Be My Girl]]"</ref> She and Lindsey Naegle were seen with Rainier Wolfcastle in a hot tub.<ref>"[[In the Name of the Grandfather]]"</ref> She got together with [[Otto]] during "Grown-up Halloween".<ref>"[[Halloween of Horror]]"</ref> Cookie slept with [[Professor Frink]] then introduced him to her cousin, [[Nookie Kwan]].<ref>"[[Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4]]"</ref> She once had a conjugal visit with [[Kirk Van Houten]].<ref>"[[Pranksta Rap]]"</ref> Cookie has been seen with [[Akira]].<ref>"[[The Dad-Feelings Limited]]"</ref>

The only real estate deal she ever transacted with the Simpsons was when she rented Homer an apartment in [[Waverly Hills]].<ref>"[[Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/More Business Owners|Cookie}}

== Trivia ==
*Cookie has [[Facebook]] and appears to be friends with {{Ch|Mark Zuckerberg}}.

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Jonathan Frink

2023-03-10T11:13:44Z

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{{FArticle}}
{{Quote|Glaven!|Frink's catchphrase}}
{{Quote|With the (random object) and the (other random object) and the hey hey hey|Another one of Frink's catchphrases}}
{{Character
|name = Jonathan I.Q. Neidelbaum Frink, Jr.
|image = [[File:Jonathan Frink.png|200px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Brown
|age =
|status = Alive
|job = Professor Inventor College Professor at [[Springfield Heights Institute of Technology]]
|relatives = '''Father:''' [[Jonathan Frink, Sr.]] '''Mother:''' Unnamed<ref name="Frinkcoin">"[[Frinkcoin]]"</ref> '''Wife:''' [[Mrs. Frink]] '''Son:''' [[Professor Frink's son|Unnamed]]
|appearance = "[[Old Money]]"
|voiced by = [[Hank Azaria]] [[Karl Wiedergott]]<ref>"[[The Blunder Years]]"</ref> [[Josh Groban]]<ref>"[[I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh]]"</ref>
}}

'''Professor Jonathan "John" I.Q. Neidelbaum Frink''', better known as simply '''Professor Frink''' and once referred to as '''Doctor Frink''',<ref name="Future-Drama">"[[Future-Drama]]"</ref> is [[Springfield]]'s local scientist and college professor, and is extremely brilliant, though somewhat socially inept.

== Biography ==
[[File:Professor Frink Every Simpsons Ever.png|thumb|left|250px]]
Frink is Springfield's local mad scientist. He has a trademark mannerism of using Tourette syndrome-like gibberish when excited, such as "GLAVIN!" and shouting other words that have no relevance to the situation at hand. He also occasionally refers to the importance of remembering to "carry the one" in various mathematical calculations. He is almost never seen without his glasses and has only taken them off once.<ref>"[[Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy]]"</ref>

Frink has an IQ of 197; 199 before he sustained a concussion during the collapse of Springfield's brief intellectual junta. He is a member of the [[Springfield Mensa]] <ref name="IQ">"[[They Saved Lisa's Brain]]"</ref> and a college professor at [[Springfield University]].<ref name="Frinkcoin"/>

Professor Frink is the [[Professor Frink's inventions|inventor]] of, among other things, hamburger earmuffs, the flying motorcycle and the 8-month after pill. Some of Frink's inventions, such as the automatic phone dialer, work better than others, such as his radio-controlled plane, which carries babies as passengers under their parents' control, or a secure house that sprouts legs and runs away from potential danger (the legs of which often collapsed causing the house to crash to the ground and catch fire).

Professor Frink has frequent contact with [[Lisa Simpson]] better than the rest of the Simpsons family because she is more interested in science and makes more frequent visits to places such as the Natural History Museum and the Observatory.

=== Early life ===
Jonathan Frink was the world's second test tube baby, who his parents created. His parents were both chemists but didn't seem to love each other, loving science more. As a baby, John Frink had to learn science and change the pitch of his voice frequently to get attention from his parents. All through his childhood and teenage years, Frink tried to get a scientific breakthrough but never managed to get one.<ref name="Frinkcoin"/>

In the 1960s, Professor Frink made napalm to drop on [[Da Nang]].<ref>"[[Homer's Paternity Coot]]"</ref>

=== Family ===
Frink formerly had a wife, though they have since separated or divorced, and a young son who looks similar to him. When his son crashed through a window during a demonstration of a remote controlled airplane, he says "my wife is going to kill me",<ref>"[[Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?]]"</ref> but his son is seen alive later,.<ref>"[[I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot]]"</ref>

=== Relationships ===
At some point he had a relationship with [[Edna Krabappel]]<ref>"[[The Ned-liest Catch]]"</ref> and went on a couple of dates with [[Miss Wyoming]].<ref>"[[Replaceable You]]"</ref> He also got together with [[Miss Hoover]] during "Grownup Halloween"<ref>"[[Halloween of Horror]]"</ref> and again at a screening of [[Forward to the Past]].<ref>"[[The Dad-Feelings Limited]]"</ref> When he made himself more desirable to women he slept with [[Cookie Kwan]] and went on dates with several other women.<ref name="Love is in the Air">"[[Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4]]"</ref>

Frink has a love-hate relationship with a fellow university professor, [[Professor Hessler]]. Whilst they didn't seem to get along, when Frink returned after ten days of being away, the two of them started to make out after Frink told her that he was happy to see her again.<ref name="Frinkcoin"/>

=== Science and inventions ===
{{Main|:Category:Professor Frink's inventions}}
Professor Frink has made several scientific advancements and discoveries. He once made himself into a man that women find attractive.<ref name="Love is in the Air"/> Frink also created a test to find the best and brightest minds in Springfield, the [[Personal Value Quotient]] test.<ref>"[[Frink Gets Testy]]"</ref> Frink also temporarily became the richest man in Springfield after he created the {{ap|Frinkcoin|cryptocurrency}} cryptocurrency.<ref name="Frinkcoin"/>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== Future ===
Eight years into a possible future of Bart and Lisa's, a bespectacled skeleton dressed in a lab coat is observed hanging on a rope from a rafter in Frink's basement laboratory—indicating the professor has committed suicide in the interim, his death gone unnoticed by family and friends.<ref name="Future-Drama"/> Another future shows him alive and well as he leads a team trying to discover the cure for seventeen stab wounds in [[Mr. Burns]]' back, stating "Well, we're up to fifteen!".<ref>"[[Lisa's Wedding]]"</ref>

=== Treehouse of Horror ===
It is revealed that Frink had a strained relationship with his [[Jonathan Frink, Sr.|father]] (guest voiced by [[Jerry Lewis]]). Frink said they got along like "positrons and antineutrinos." The senior Professor Frink was a "he-man" scientist who, according to his son, worked on the atom bomb by day, slept with Marilyn Monroe by night, and sold secrets to the Russians at lunch. Frink brought his father back to life after he died from a Shark Attack, but he went on a rampage and younger Frink was forced to kick the elder in the testicles, killing him. It is indicated in this episode that their shared middle name is "Neidelbaum". The two rebuild their relationship when the elder Frink is proud of his son for stopping him like a man.<ref>"[[Treehouse of Horror XIV]]"</ref>

=== The Simpsons Game ===
In ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'', he lives inside the Game Engine and marries a Koopa Troopa from Super Mario Bros.

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
==== Professor Frink ====
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Oddballs|Frink}}

==== Costumes ====
<gallery>
File:Number 314.png|[[Number 314]]
File:Sorcerer Frink.png|[[Sorcerer Frink]]
</gallery>

==== Standalone ====
<gallery>
File:Baby Frink.png|[[Baby Frink]]
File:Advisor Frink.png|[[Advisor Frink]]
</gallery>

== Behind the Laughter ==
Professor Frink is voiced by [[Hank Azaria]]. The character was originally written as a mad scientist. However, when cast member Hank Azaria ad-libbed a voice for Frink, he did an impression of [[Jerry Lewis]]' character, Julius Kelp, from ''{{W|The Nutty Professor}}'', and the writing staff started making Frink more of a parody of Lewis.

Frink was named after writer [[John Frink]]; however, that was before he became a writer for the show. This was because [[Jay Kogen]], a writer at the time, knew Frink and named the character after him. Frink was originally animated without his buckteeth. The nonsensical utterances that Frink makes are written in the scripts as "Frink noise".

=== Foreign dubs ===
{{Dub voices
|deVoice=[[german:Kai Taschner|Kai Taschner]]
|czVoice=Pavel Tesař
|esVoice=Abraham Aguilar
}}

== Trivia ==
*The character's popularity has led to him giving name to a computer programming language.
*He thinks nerd stands for "Not Even Remotely Dorky". ("[[Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind]]")
*His [[Stonecutter]] number in [[The Simpsons: Tapped Out Stonecutters content update|Tapped Out]] is 314, which could be a reference to the number Pi/π which is 3.14159...
*It's mentioned that he is one of Springfield's most renowned scientific minds, he discovered the element Frinkonium, discovered and cured Frink's disease and created the 8 month after pill.<ref>"[[Springfield Up]]"</ref>
*He has an IQ of 197. It used to be 199 before he hit his head and lost two points.<ref name="IQ"/>

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|Feliz=yes
|Felizn=picture
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Elizabeth Hoover

2023-03-10T11:12:08Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Romances */

{{Featured article}}
{{Character
|name = Elizabeth Hoover
|image = [[File:Elizabeth Hoover.png]]
|caption = Artwork of Miss Hoover from ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''
|gender = {{Female}}
|hair = Brown (formerly blue and red)
|age =
|status = Alive
|job = Teacher at [[Springfield Elementary]]
|relatives = '''Husband:''' [[Gil Gunderson]]<ref name="Habeas Tortoise">"[[Habeas Tortoise]]"</ref>
|appearance = "[[Brush with Greatness]]"
|mentioned = "[[Bart the General]]"
|voiced by = [[Maggie Roswell]] (1991-1999; 2002-present) [[Marcia Mitzman Gaven]] (1999-2002)
}}

'''Elizabeth Hoover''' (commonly known as '''Miss Hoover''') is a [[Second Grade|second grade]] teacher at [[Springfield Elementary School]].

== Biography ==
Miss Hoover has been worn down by her years in the public school system, and is not against drinking significant quantities of alcohol. She is very apathetic and bored with her job, and seems overwhelmed with stress, seeking whatever remedies she can to alleviate it. She is often seen smoking even while teaching, once even under a "No Smoking" sign in the assembly hall. Once she was granted tenure, she willingly turned over her teaching responsibilities to Ralph Wiggum.<ref>"[[Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh]]"</ref>

She is in particular weary of dealing with [[Lisa]]'s unbridled enthusiasm (though initially she seemed proud of Lisa) and [[Ralph]]'s mishaps and inanities. A typical response to one of his difficulties is, "The children are right to laugh at you, Ralph." Her bland and indifferent demeanor likely prompted Lisa to identify her as "The Flat Liner" among ''[[The 20 Types of People You Meet in Elementary School]]''.<ref>''[[The Lisa Book]]''</ref>

She was replaced by a substitute teacher, [[Mr. Bergstrom]] when she thought she had Lyme disease. It turned out that her condition was psychosomatic, which the children thought that meant that she was both "faking it" and "crazy."<ref>"[[Lisa's Substitute]]"</ref>

=== Personal life ===
Miss Hoover lives in a small apartment in a bad part of town with her cat, [[Hemsworth]]. To get home from school, she has to take two buses, walk half a mile down a train track, swing across a drainage ditch, and ride a piece of cardboard down a hill to help her back. Miss Hoover suffers from problems with her back and once sprained a disc in her spine. The combination of her living arrangements and health problems lead her to be a lazy teacher who doesn't care about her class.<ref>"[[Sorry Not Sorry]]"</ref>

=== Romances ===
*Ms. Hoover had a one-time date with Apu,<ref>"[[The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons]]"</ref> and at one time she made out with [[Groundskeeper Willie]].<ref>"[[24 Minutes]]"</ref>
*She once went on a date with [[Kirk Van Houten]].<ref>"[[Mayored to the Mob]]"</ref>
*She was once proposed to by an unnamed man. However, she wanted to see other people and hired Homer to break them up.<ref>"[[Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words]]"</ref>
*She was also seen at the Simpsons' Mardi gra party with [[Principal Skinner]].<ref>"[[No Loan Again, Naturally]]"</ref>
*She also attended [[Artie Ziff]]'s prom recreation with [[Otto]].<ref>"[[Half-Decent Proposal]]"</ref>
*She got together with [[Professor Frink]] during "Grownup Halloween".<ref>"[[Halloween of Horror]]"</ref>
**When Frink made himself desirable to women, Miss Hoover was one of the women who took interest in him.<ref name="Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4">"[[Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4]]"</ref>
**She was seen with Frink again at a screening of [[Forward to the Past]].<ref>"[[The Dad-Feelings Limited]]"</ref>
*Frink later paired her with [[Duffman]].<ref name="Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4"/>

==== Marriage ====
Miss Hoover joined a conspiracy group looking for [[Slow Leonard]], who had gone missing from the [[Springfield Zoo]]. [[Gil Gunderson]] was also part of the group. When the two both reached for a ball of [[Mrs. McClellan's Evidence Yarn]], their fingers locked together and the two fell in love with each other. They then eventually got married, with the rest of the group being guests at the wedding. When they found out that Slow Leonard had been found, the group was going to disband, and Gil and Miss Hoover decided that their relationship wouldn't work. However, they then decided to give their relationship a go.<ref name="Habeas Tortoise"/>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== Video games ===
In ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'', Miss Hoover is one of 2 characters that don't have any lines, even whilst exploring the town; the other being [[Lunchlady Dora]].

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/More School Workers|MissHoover}}

== Behind the Laughter ==
*Ms. Hoover is voiced by [[Maggie Roswell]], and was temporarily voiced by [[Marcia Mitzman Gaven]] while Roswell was involved in a pay dispute.
*She is named after [[Matt Groening]]'s first-grade teacher at Ainsworth Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, Mrs. Elizabeth Hoover, who recognized Groening's drawing talent early after seeing his picture of a boat.<ref>[http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/news/all-about-greonings-past-in-portland-and-more Simpson Crazy - "All About Matt Groening's Past in Portland and More!"]</ref>
*At the beginning of the series, her hair was blue, which changed to red, then changed to brown (her current hair color).
*In "[[Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts]]", it's revealed that Ms. Hoover drives an AMC Pacer.

== Appearances ==
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Ruth Powers

2023-03-10T11:09:12Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Biography */

{{Character
|name = Ruth Powers
|image = [[File:Ruth Powers.png]]
|caption = Artwork of Ruth Powers from ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''
|gender = {{Female}}
|hair = Dark brown
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|relatives = '''Daughter:''' [[Laura Powers]] '''Ex-husband:''' unnamed
|appearance = "[[New Kid on the Block]]"
|voiced by = [[Pamela Reed]] (3 episodes) [[Pamela Hayden]] (all other appearances)
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'''Ruth Powers''' is [[Simpson family|the Simpsons']] next-door neighbor.

== Biography ==
Ruth is divorced and has a daughter, [[Laura Powers]], both of whom moved in next door to the Simpsons at the same time.<ref name="New Kid on the Block">"[[New Kid on the Block]]"</ref> Circumstances behind Ruth's divorce aren't explained, but she has said her ex-husband acts similar to [[Homer]], and he was continually stiffing Ruth on child support. For revenge, she stole his car.<ref name="Marge on the Lam">"[[Marge on the Lam]]"</ref>

Ruth and [[Marge]] became fast friends after Ruth moved in next door. One evening, they went to a ballet after Homer, who was originally supposed to go with Marge, literally got stuck at work (with his arms in two vending machines). Later they had a girls' night out where they went line dancing at a country bar called [[Shotkickers]], did some target shooting (using a [[Can Owner|farmer]]'s antique cans as targets), and went up to the Springfield sign overlooking the city. They ended up going on the run from the law, however, after [[Chief Wiggum]] tried to pull them over because of a broken taillight, and Ruth decided to flee because they were driving the convertible which she had stolen from her ex-husband.<ref name="Marge on the Lam"/>

The auto theft charges against Ruth were dismissed, but she was later imprisoned for a short time for another offense (not specified). While she was in prison, Ruth became a bodybuilder, earned the title "Miss Mexican Mafia", and took steroids to expand her muscles. She and Marge met up again when Marge also became a bodybuilder and Ruth gave Marge [[Ragin' 'Roids]] to take.<ref>"[[The Strong Arms of the Ma]]"</ref>

Ruth's house was seen being sold after the Financial Crisis hit [[Springfield]], and it was bought by a disguised [[Sideshow Bob]]. After Bob was arrested and sent back to jail, the house was bought by [[Ted Flanders]], a distant relative of [[Ned Flanders]].<ref>"[[The Bob Next Door]]"</ref> The Powers later moved in again, as in a neighborhood meeting at the Simpson house, Ruth told Marge she hasn't "stopped by to say hello in 25 years, and I live next door".<ref>"[[The Wayz We Were]]"</ref>

Ruth is one of the few female patrons at [[Moe's Tavern]],<ref name="New Kid on the Block"/> and is often seen at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.<ref>''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''</ref>

She was one of five women who bought [[Apu Nahasapeemapetilon]] at a bachelor auction.<ref>"[[The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons]]"</ref> When [[Kirk Van Houten]] was falsely arrested for Bart's kidnap, Ruth was among the women who had conjugal visits with him.<ref>"[[Pranksta Rap]]"</ref> Ruth was seen on a date with the [[Nascar Dad]].<ref>"[[Married to the Blob]]"</ref> Ruth has been seen with [[Sideshow Mel]].<ref>"[[The Dad-Feelings Limited]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
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== References ==
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Sideshow Mel

2023-03-10T11:08:20Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Family */

:''Sideshow Mel redirects here. For the chocolate, see [[Sideshow Mel (chocolate)]]''
{{Quote|Lisa, applause is an addiction, like heroin - or checking your e-mail.|Sideshow Mel|All About Lisa}}
{{Character
|name = Melvin Van Horne
|image = [[File:Sideshow Mel.png|200px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Green
|age = 45<ref>"[[Covercraft]]"</ref>
|status = Alive
|job = Children's entertainer TV personality
|relatives = '''Wife:''' [[Barbara Van Horne]] '''Son:''' [[Sideshow Mel's son|Unnamed]] '''Father:''' [[Norman|Norman Van Horne]]<ref name="TSOOSM">''[[The Secret Origin of Sideshow Mel!]]''</ref> '''Mother:''' Lucille Van Horne<ref name="TSOOSM"/> '''Sister:''' Unnamed<ref>"[[Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play]]"</ref>
|appearance = "[[Itchy & Scratchy & Marge]]"
|voiced by = [[Dan Castellaneta]]
}}
'''Melvin Van Horne''', better known as '''Sideshow Mel''', is [[Krusty]]'s sidekick on ''{{Krusty show}}''.
When not in character, Mel speaks in a grandiose/posh Shakespearean accent and owns poodles.

== Biography ==
[[File:Sideshow Mel Every Simpsons Ever.png|thumb|left|250px]]
Mel joined the cast of ''{{Krusty show}}'' to replace Sideshow Bob, who was sent to prison for attempting to frame [[Krusty]] for armed robbery the previous month. It seems that Krusty unceremoniously replaced Bob with someone even stranger-looking than he was.

Sideshow Mel uses a slide whistle to communicate on camera. When not in character, Mel speaks in a grandiose British/Shakespearean accent and owns poodles. His main accomplishment so far has been successfully removing [[Waylon Smithers, Jr.]] from suspicion of having shot [[Mr. Burns]].<ref>"[[Who Shot Mr. Burns?]]"</ref> Off-screen, Mel is generally very eloquent, educated, poetic and intelligent, with a beautiful singing voice-it is implied that, as with Sideshow Bob before him, his true talents are wasted on Krusty's show. When Lisa Simpson won the "Entertainer of the Year Award"; it was revealed that Melvin also won the award previously for his portrayal of Biff in Death of a Salesman, but his desire to keep his stardom eventually led him to become the sidekick he is today.<ref>"[[All About Lisa]]"</ref> He was once forced to conduct an orchestra of kazoo-playing monkeys. When he pleaded with Krusty to not force him to do it, Krusty simply shouted at him to "shut up and conduct!"

=== Religion and Education ===
Little is known about Mel. He is a Cornell University graduate and an Atheist (though he is occasionally seen at the Presbylutheran church). It is also shown that Mel could be a recovering alcoholic as he had attended several Alcoholic Anonymous meetings.

=== Hair ===
Aside from the bone, Mel has curly green hair in a sort of beehive-like style similar to Marge's only shorter and rounded at the top,his hair also appears to be "fashioned/poised/set" in an upward position because it seems to sit atop his head showing that he has no sideburns or even a hair "tail". Mel perpetually wears a bone in his hair which may or may not be permanently affixed. He once warned [[Lisa Simpson]] not to use a bone to try and get gum out of her hair, as he did and it became permanently stuck there.<ref>"[[22 Short Films About Springfield]]"</ref> However, he was once seen removing the bone and using it as a weapon during a duel. When Springfield was trapped under a dome by the EPA, he was also seen removing the bone and whacking it at the dome.<ref>''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''</ref> Bart also took the bone out of his hair pranking [[Martin Prince]]. He indicated that he could feel meteorological conditions in the bone, such as incoming storms.<ref>"[[Skinner's Sense of Snow]]"</ref> Before he got his bone, Mel was famous in both London and Hollywood and was able to comb his hair.

=== Disabilities ===
[[Bart Simpson]] found out that Mel is lactose-intolerant. Krusty once poured liquid nitrogen down Mel's pants and cracked his buttocks with a hammer.

=== Family ===
He may be married to or living with a woman named [[Barbara Van Horne|Barbara]] with whom he wished to purchase a house from [[Marge Simpson]].<ref>"[[Realty Bites]]"</ref> Mel once complained that Barbara no longer pleasured him with the French Arts.<ref>"[[I'm with Cupid]]"</ref> Mel also has a son (that looks exactly like him but has no bone in his hair) who's name was/is never mentioned directly or indirectly. Mel's last name of Van Horne may suggest his family is of Dutch/Afrikaner origin.

Krusty reveals to Mel that he has been secretly dating Mel's wife, and that he wants to dump her after 11 years since the thrill is gone.<ref>"[[The Great Wife Hope]]"</ref>

Despite being married he has been seen with [[Lindsey Naegle]]<ref>"[[Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays]]"</ref>, [[Princess Kashmir]]<ref>"[[Homerazzi]]"</ref> and [[Ruth Powers]].<ref>"[[The Dad-Feelings Limited]]"</ref>

=== Other jobs ===
After Krusty's show was cancelled following the rise of [[Gabbo]], Mel worked at a taco stand where he initially refused Krusty's pleas to return to his show.<ref>"[[Krusty Gets Kancelled]]"</ref>

He was the jury foreman for the [[Mona Simpson]] trial. The jury was sequestered at a Quality Inn which "more than lived up to its name." <ref>"[[My Mother the Carjacker]]"</ref>

Mel once sat in as a guest soloist with the [[Spuckler Family Band]], playing his slide whistle.<ref>''[[Homer Simpson's Little Book of Laziness]]''</ref>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== The Simpsons Game ===
In "The Simpsons Game" Sideshow Mel is a security guard at Springfield Museum and serves as an enemy in "[[Bartman Begins]]". He is also one of the previous enemies sent by [[God]] in "Dance Dance Revolution".

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
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== Gallery ==
{{Images|Sideshow Mel}}
<gallery>
File:Mel (1).png|Mel's natural hair.
File:SideshowMelSon.png|Mel's son.
File:Mel and Barbara.png|Mel's wife.
File:Mel's family.png| Mel with his family, [[Tina Ballerina]], [[Arthur Crandall]] and [[Gabbo]].
</gallery>

== References ==
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Lisa's Rival/References

2022-07-09T19:13:01Z

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== Cultural references ==
*The scene where a federal agent confronts [[Milhouse]] at a dam is identical to a scene from the 1993 movie ''{{W2|The Fugitive|1993 film}}''. The agent resembles {{W|Tommy Lee Jones}}' character and uses his signature line "I don't care."
*[[Marge]] is seen reading (and fantasizing about) a romance novel titled ''[[Love in the Time of Scurvy]]'', which is a pun on ''{{W|Love in the Time of Cholera}}'' by Gabriel García Márquez.
*Homer's "In America" speech while guarding his sugar pile comes from ''{{W2|Scarface|1983 film}}''.
**His line "Oh, what a world!" when the sugar melts was used by the {{W|Wicked Witch of the West}} in ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''.
*Ralph's diorama contest entry is just original ''[[Star Wars]]'' action figures: his collection includes [[Luke Skywalker]], [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]] and [[Chewbacca]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.starwars.com/community/news/media/f20070724/index.html?page|title=I Bent My Wookiee! Celebrating the Star Wars/Simpsons Connection|accessdate=2008-04-22|date=2007-07-24|author=Scott Chernoff|publisher=Star Wars.com}}</ref>
*Lisa's hiding of The Tell-Tale Heart diorama under the gym floorboards is a parody of [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s "{{W|The Tell-Tale Heart}}".
*The speech patterns of the beekeeper voiced by [[Hank Azaria]] are based on [[Adam West]]'s portrayal of [[Batman]].
*Lisa's nightmare features her playing in a band with famous backup artists: [[Art Garfunkel]], [[John Oates]] and [[Jim Messina]].

== Trivia ==
*Marge says that Homer lost $40 by not going into work that day. Assuming Homer works an average 8-hour shift, that means Homer makes $5 an hour, or not much over {{W|Minimum wage in the United States|minimum wage}}, which was $4.25 an hour in the USA at the time the episode originally aired.
*Bart reads ''Bad Boys Life'' magazine.
*Allison has an autographed picture of [[Bleeding Gums Murphy]] in her room.
*Principal Skinner's favorite Star Wars character is [[Chewbacca]].
*When [[Miss Hoover]] is unimpressed by Allison's diorama, her voice appears to be a sound byte of [[Edna Krabappel]]

== Continuity ==
*Ralph also upstages Lisa and Allison in a contest, and in the same sort of bumbling fashion, in a ''[[Ralph's Room 2|Ralph's Room]]'' comic story.
*Bart also used a fake spider in "[[Sibling Rivalry]]".

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Season 6|R}}

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The Kid Is All Right/References

2022-03-25T11:38:46Z

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== Cultural references ==
*The episode title is a reference to [[Isabel Gutierrez|Isabel]]'s political affiliation. In American politics, the term "right" is associated with {{W|Conservatism in the United States|conservative}} values and with the {{W2|Republican Party|United States}}. (Conversely, "left" is associated with {{W|Liberalism in the United States|liberal}} values and with the {{W2|Democratic Party|United States}}.)
*The episode title may also be a reference to either the 1979 rockumentary ''{{W2|The Kids Are Alright|film}}'' or, more likely, the [[2010]] comedy-drama film ''{{W2|The Kids Are All Right|film}}''.
*The episode title might also reference ''{{W|The Kids Aren't Alright}}'' by ''{{W|The Offspring}}''.
*The name of Isabel and the fact that she comes from Argentina might be a reference to {{W|Isabel Martínez de Perón}}, the first woman president and the one who handed Argentina's presidency to a largely conservative military junta.
*The significance of [[John Kerry]], [[Michael Dukakis]] and [[Walter Mondale]] appearing in ghostly forms during [[Lisa]]'s "losers" nightmare is that all three are Democrats who lost U.S. presidential elections: {{W|United States presidential election, 2004|2004}}, {{W|United States presidential election, 1988|1988}} and {{W|United States presidential election, 1984|1984}} respectively.
*A [[Hypnotoad]] and Space blob from ''[[Futurama]]'' are in the audience at the future presidential debate.
*[[Lisa]] is singing ''{{W2|One|Harry Nilsson song}}'' by ''{{W|Harry Nilsson}}''.
*[[Mr. Burns]] refers to the {{W|Spanish Inquisition|Spanish Inquisition}} and the {{W|Francoist Spain|Franco regime}}.
*The [[Phineas Q. Butterfat's]] flavors "Cone the Barbarian" and "Thrilla in Vanilla" are references to ''{{W2|Conan the Barbarian|1982 film}}'' and ''{{W|Thrilla in Manila}}''.
*Lisa's campaign poster is similar to {{W|Barack Obama|Barack Obama}}'s {{W|Barack Obama "Hope" poster|"Hope" poster}} from his 2008 presidential campaign. Also, Lisa's slogan "Yes we pan... of brownies" is a reference to Obama's slogan "{{W2|Yes We Can|slogan}}".
*The episode makes references to ''{{W|An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge|An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge}}'',, ''{{W|Atlas Shrugged|Atlas Shrugged}}'', {{W|Thompson Twins|Thompson Twins}}, {{W|Mr. T|Mr. T}}, {{W|Mike Singletary|Mike Singletary}}, the catchphrase "{{W|Where's the beef?|Where's the beef?}}", Reagan's "{{W|Tear down this wall|Tear down this wall}}" speech, {{W|Kevin Costner|Kevin Costner}} and several politicians.

== Continuity ==
*Lisa uses the cover of the book "[[Little Women]]" for prevent Bart's prank ("[[The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants]]").
*When Homer and Bart sing a rap about the Super Bowl, Bart sings the line: "If you try to run, you'll get a heart attack" (a reference to [[season 4]] episode, "[[Homer's Triple Bypass]]").
*Banners in the Banner shed include:"WHACKING DAY: SCHOOL CLOSED" ("[[Whacking Day]]"), "CONGRATULATIONS BART, ON BEING A GENIUS!" ("[[Bart the Genius]]"), "COPING WITH THE DOME" (''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''), and "THE NEW FUNZOS ARE HERE!" ("[[Grift of the Magi]]").
*[[Mr. Bergstrom]] comes to the Simpsons' house for dinner, Lisa wanted him to come to dinner in his debut episode "[[Lisa's Substitute]]".

== Trivia ==
*The cover of the ''Horse Etiquette'' book shows a rider doffing his hat to a lady, while his horse curtsies to her.
*This is the second time [[Lisa]] imitates [[Mr. Burns]] by saying his catchphrase "Excellent" and wiggles her fingers together. She did it in a [[Season 11]] episode "[[Little Big Mom]]".
*This is the first and so far only time someone other than [[Mr. Burns]] is at the head of the Republican party table, in this case [[Rainier Wolfcastle]].

== Goofs ==
*At the beginning of the episode, the kids exit through the front doors of the school, a sign reading "Springfield Elementary School" above the doors. When we are shown a further view of the school, it is the back of the school the kids have exited onto.

{{Season 25|R}}
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Springfield Republican Party

2022-03-25T11:29:11Z

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[[File:Springfield Republican Party.png|thumb|250px]]
'''Springfield Republican Party''' is [[Springfield]]'s Republican party. They meet at the [[Springfield Republican Party Headquarters]].

== History ==
At a Springfield Republican Party meeting, [[Sideshow Bob]] announced that he was going to run for mayor of Springfield after [[Birch Barlow]] helped in getting him released from prison.<ref>"[[Sideshow Bob Roberts]]"</ref>

The Springfield Republican Party decided to make recycling a felony offense and scrap anti-pollution laws. Factories start producing massive amounts of waste, owl habitats are destroyed and the wetlands are drained as a result.<ref>"[[Brawl in the Family]]"</ref>

The party met up when asking [[Homer]] to choose their white male President nominee. Homer asked them why he couldn't choose [[Chris Christie]], as he almost choked on some chicken, and went for {{Ch|Ted Nugent}} instead of the other candidates.<ref>"[[Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson]]"</ref>

The party, on one occasion, attempted to endorse [[Isabel Gutierrez]] for second grade class presidency against [[Lisa Simpson]] and ended up winning in the process.<ref>"[[The Kid Is All Right]]"</ref>

== Members ==
=== Inner circle ===
*[[Birch Barlow]]
*[[Charles Montgomery Burns]]
*[[Rich Texan]]
*[[Count Dracula]]
*[[Julius Hibbert]]
*[[Krusty the Clown]]
*[[Rainier Wolfcastle]]
*[[Fat Tony]]
*[[Blue-haired lawyer]]
*[[Bob Dole]]

=== Other members ===
*[[Sideshow Bob]]
*[[Horace Wilcox]]
*[[Lurleen Lumpkin]]
*[[Cookie Kwan]]
*[[Lindsey Naegle]]
*[[Helen Lovejoy]]
*[[Ned Flanders]]
*[[Ralph Nader]]
*{{Ch|Ted Nugent}}
*[[Chris Christie]]
*[[Isabel Gutierrez]]
*[[Mr. Costington]]
*[[Gary Chalmers]]
*[[Waylon Smithers]]

== Appearances ==
{{Incomplete}}
*{{ep|Sideshow Bob Roberts}}
*{{ep|Brawl in the Family}}
*{{ep|Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington}}
*{{ep|E Pluribus Wiggum}}
*{{ep|You Kent Always Say What You Want}}
*{{ep|Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson}}
*{{ep|The Kid Is All Right}}
*{{merch|Simpsons Mania! (Inkworks)|Simpsons Mania|(mentioned)}}

== See also ==
*[[Springfield Democratic Party]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

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Mayor Quimby's body guards

2022-03-16T14:13:30Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* History */

{{Character
|name = Mayor Quimby's body guards
|image = [[File:Bodyguards.png|250px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Brown
|age =
|status = Alive
|job = Body guards
|reatives =
|appearance = "[[Three Men and a Comic Book]]"
|voiced by = [[Dan Castellaneta]]
}}

'''Mayor Quimby's body guards''' are a group of body guards that [[Mayor Quimby]] has to guard him.

== History ==
Despite the importance of their job, they are sometimes lazy and slack off, watching clouds in the sky when the mayor is in danger. This results in them getting fired and being temporarily replaced by [[Homer]].<ref>"[[Mayored to the Mob]]"</ref>

When [[Cookie Kwan]] presented Mayor Quimby with a baby that she claimed was his, he passes it off to one of his bodyguards and tells him to raise the child as his own. The body guard then puts a pair of shades on the baby and smiles.<ref>"[[She Used to Be My Girl]]"</ref>

== Behind the Laughter ==
Their designs have evolved over the years, the main design started out as [[Mr. Burns]]' goons in [[Homer's Odyssey]].

== Appearances ==
*{{ep|Three Men and a Comic Book}}
*{{ep|Stark Raving Dad}}
*{{ep|Saturdays of Thunder}}
*{{ep|Homer's Barbershop Quartet}}
*{{ep|Sideshow Bob Roberts}}
*{{ep|Mayored to the Mob}}
*{{mov}}
*{{ep|She Used to Be My Girl}}
*{{ep|Take My Life, Please}}
*{{ep|Donnie Fatso}}
*{{ep|Walking Big & Tall}}
*{{bon|Wall or Nothing}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

{{Character stub}}
{{Simpsons characters}}

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[[Category:Characters voiced by Dan Castellaneta]]
[[Category:Recurring characters]]
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Bart's Inner Child/References

2022-03-15T21:36:23Z

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{{EpisodePrevNextRef|Marge on the Lam|Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood}}

== Trivia ==
*In this episode, it's shown that [[Krusty the Clown]] lives at 534 Center Street.
*In an earlier episode, [[Moe]] was shown to be afraid of [[Principal Skinner]] (possibly due to his authority), but in this episode, Moe appears to have over come his fear by delivering a hell of a punch to Seymour.
*The word ''"fuck"'' (bleeped) is said by [[Kent Brockman]]. This became the subject matter of the much later episode, "[[You Kent Always Say What You Want]]".
*The seminar in the episode is referenced by a sign on the [[Springfield Community Center]] in Level 1 of ''[[The Simpsons: Hit & Run]]''.
*In the shot of the trampoline ad, other ads seen include: "Fat boy bomb: call [[Herman]]" and "Good new bible FREE!! ask for [[Ned]]".
*Among the rioting Springfielders are:
**[[Snake Jailbird]]
**[[Lenny Leonard]]
**[[Otto Mann]]
**[[Dewey Largo]]
**[[Dr. J. Loren Pyror]]
**[[Kim]]
**[[Margarita]] (actress)

== Cultural references ==
[[File:Wendell yellow hair.png|thumb|Wendell with yellow hair]]
*The scene with a field full of injured children from the trampoline is a reference to the field of injured soldiers shot in the film ''{{W|Gone with the Wind}}''.
*When [[Homer]] pushes the trampoline off the cliff, it bounces on a pillar of rock right back up, lands on Homer and pushes him down into the overhanging rock ledge: an ''homage'' to the {{W|Chuck Jones}}-directed {{W|Wile E. Coyote}} and Road Runner ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' cartoons. The background and music imitate the desert landscape and music from the cartoons.
*At church, [[Reverend Lovejoy]] attempts to play the classic rag ''The Entertainer'' by {{W|Scott Joplin}} on the organ.

== Goofs ==
*At night, [[Homer]] and [[Marge]] listen to some kids jumping on Homer's car. Marge then sits on the bed naked, but when the camera zooms to her face, a little portion of her nightgown is seen on her neck.
*Wendell's hair is yellow instead of its normal white color.

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[[Category:Goofs]]

Marvin Monroe

2022-03-15T09:40:59Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* History */

{{Character
|name = Marvin Monroe
|image = [[File:Marvin Monroe.png]]
|caption = Artwork of Marvin Monroe from ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''
|gender = {{Male}}
|status = Alive
|hair = Black
|age =
|job = Psychologist
|relatives = '''Brother''': [[Mervin Monroe]]
|appearance = "[[There's No Disgrace Like Home]]"
|voiced by = [[Harry Shearer]]
}}

'''Dr. Marvin Monroe''' is a local psychiatrist who was for a long time considered to have died.

== History ==
[[File:Homer Electrocuted (There's No Disgrace Like Home).png|thumb|left|250px|Dr. Monroe explains the family shock therapy treatment.]]

Monroe first appeared in a TV ad for Dr. Monroe's Family Therapy Centre, which [[Homer]] saw while watching a boxing match at [[Moe's Tavern]]. The ad claimed "family bliss or double your money back" and Homer sold the family TV to pay for therapy. Monroe's treatment consisted of a series of tests, including drawing your worst fear. [[Bart]], [[Lisa]], [[Marge]] and [[Maggie]] all drew pictures of Homer, while Homer drew a doodle of an airplane.

When the other tests failed, Monroe turned to the shock therapy method: the Simpsons were strapped in chairs with electrodes attached to them and given controls which they could use to shock other family members. However, it quickly got out of hand, Maggie started, but Bart's zapping Homer accelerated the mayhem before the doctor had a chance to explain the procedure. The family engages in a free-for-all, which consumed so much power that the clinic went dark (causing other patients to flee the building) and the whole town experienced a {{W2|brownout|electricity}}. Monroe threw the Simpsons out, first grudgingly honoring the "double your money back" guarantee when Homer reminded him of it. He then told the Simpsons to never tell anyone they were there. With their money doubled, the family purchased a new television.<ref>"[[There's No Disgrace Like Home]]"</ref>

Monroe was one of the doctors who studied [[Homer]] to figure out whether he was the missing link after Homer was captured by Bigfoot hunters.<ref>"[[The Call of the Simpsons]]"</ref> Monroe hosts his own morning radio show on [[KBBL]] where he takes calls from listeners and tries to help them with their problems.<ref>"[[Some Enchanted Evening]]"</ref> He was a panel guest on ''[[Smartline]]'', in a discussion of TV violence.<ref>"[[Itchy & Scratchy & Marge]]"</ref>

Dr. Monroe is the author of the following books: ''I'm Okay. Why Aren't You?'', ''If Money is the Root of All Evil, Let Me Set You Free'', ''Me, Myself, and I: Memoirs of a Modern Genius'' (an autobiography)<ref name="Skybox">''{{ap|Skybox|cards}}''</ref> and ''Did I Die Or Not?''<ref name="Springfield Splendor">"[[Springfield Splendor]]"</ref> He became wealthy by curing his patients with The "Monroebilizer". A patented method that combines Nordic Track and cattle prod. This "cure" has secondary effects, that causes his patients to loose hand and eye ordination, making him the target of criminal investigations.<ref name="Skybox"/> He also has the hotline "Dr. Monroe's Anxiety Line".<ref>"[[Old Money]]"</ref>

Monroe also took part in the world's tallest human pyramid record attempt.<ref>"[[Sweets and Sour Marge]]"</ref> He is seen right at the start of [[Trappuccino]] when [[Russ Cargill]] introduces himself and the [[EPA]].<ref>''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''</ref> In [[Bart]]'s coma dream, Marvin Monroe was one of the ghosts who came to Bart to get help to move on to the afterlife. This is likely due to Bart being unaware Monroe is alive as Marge was the only family member around when he returned.<ref>"[[Flanders' Ladder]]"</ref>

=== Supposed death ===
[[File:Dr. Marvin Monroe's Canine Therapy Institute.png|thumb|200px|One of the many services Monroe offers]]
[[File:Marvin Monroe's tomb.png|200px|left|thumb|nail|Monroe's Tombstone shown in "[[Alone Again, Natura-Diddily]]"]]

Although it was never specifically shown Dr. Monroe was considered to have died. He stopped appearing on TV and his business closed down. Many people in [[Springfield]] also believed him to be dead because several things had been named after him, such as the [[Marvin Monroe Memorial Hospital]]<ref>"[[Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)]]"</ref> and the [[Marvin Monroe Memorial Gymnasium]].<ref>"[[Bye, Bye, Nerdie]]"</ref> His grave is also shown,<ref>"[[Alone Again, Natura-Diddily]]"</ref> and [[Troy McClure]] reported his death "over the past year".<ref>"[[The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular]]"</ref>

However, several years later, he suddenly appeared at [[Marge]]'s book signing, buying a copy of her book ''[[The Harpooned Heart]]''. Marge, shocked to see him, said that she thought he was dead. Dr. Monroe explained that he had "been very sick".<ref>"[[Diatribe of a Mad Housewife]]"</ref> Very much later, the book "Did I Die Or Not?" can be seen in a bookshelf behind {{ap|Annette|Springfield Splendor}}, a student therapist.<ref name="Springfield Splendor"/>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
When the Simpsons were haunted by their old selves, they had a hard time getting along with each other (especially after they all became ghosts). Dr. Monroe arrived to soothe the situation, Marge asked him if he was alive or dead to which Monroe replied he's in a Limbo where he can phase through things like a ghost but gets stuck halfway.<ref>"[[Treehouse of Horror XXV]]"</ref>

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/More Business Owners|Monroe}}

== Behind the Laughter ==
*He was based in part on {{W|David Viscott|Dr. David Viscott}}, a radio therapist who had a voice that was considered by some to be annoying, but [[Matt Groening]] was a fan.<ref>{{cite video | people=Groening, Matt|year=2001|title=The Simpsons season 1 DVD commentary for the episode "There's No Disgrace Like Home"| medium=DVD|publisher=20th Century Fox}}</ref>
*Monroe was (initially) retired in [[Season 7]] because voicing the character strained [[Harry Shearer]]'s throat and, eventually, the voice became too annoying for [[Matt Groening]].<ref>{{Com|Jean, Al|Some Enchanted Evening|First|2001}}</ref><ref>{{Com|Groening, Matt|Treehouse of Horror II|Third|2003}}</ref>

=== Foreign dubs ===
{{Dub voices
|czVoice= {{W|Antonín Molčík}}
}}

== Appearances ==
{{scroll|
*[[Opening sequence]]
*{{ep|There's No Disgrace Like Home}}
*{{ep|The Call of the Simpsons}}
*{{ep|The Telltale Head}}
*{{ep|Some Enchanted Evening}}
*{{ep|Itchy & Scratchy & Marge}}
*{{ep|Old Money}}
*{{ep|Bart's Dog Gets an "F"|(advertisement)}}
*{{ep|Stark Raving Dad}}
*{{ep|When Flanders Failed}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror II}}
*{{ep|Bart's Friend Falls in Love|(advertisement and voice heard)}}
*{{ep|Radio Bart}}
*{{ep|Marge vs. the Monorail}}
*{{ep|Marge in Chains}}
*{{ep|Bart's Inner Child}}
*{{ep|The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular}}
*{{ep|Bart After Dark|(Couch gag)}}
*{{ep|All Singing, All Dancing|(flashback)}}
*{{ep|Alone Again, Natura-Diddily|(tombstone)}}
*{{ep|Behind the Laughter|(character image)}}
*{{ep|Sweets and Sour Marge}}
*{{ep|Diatribe of a Mad Housewife}}
*{{ep|Kill Gil, Volumes I & II|(opening sequence)}}
*{{mov}}
*{{ep|The Burns and the Bees|(opening sequence)}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXV}}
*{{ep|My Fare Lady|(opening sequence)}}
*{{ep|Every Man's Dream|(couch gag)}}
*{{ep|Flanders' Ladder|(ghost)}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXVII|(seen in painting)}}
*{{spec|Do the Bartman}}
*{{ad|Therapy}}
*{{bon|The Amazing Colossal Homer}}
*{{bon|Patty & Selma's Ill-Fated Romance: My Sister, My Homewrecker!}}
*{{bon|Get Fatty}}
*{{bon|The Exorsister!}}
*{{bon|The Immigration of the Body Snatchers}}
*{{bon|The Homer Show}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Game|(as statue in "[[NeverQuest]]" and Therapy center seen in Springfield)}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Tapped Out}}
*{{bk|Simpsons World The Ultimate Episode Guide: Seasons 1-20}}
*{{bk|Bart Simpson's Guide to Life}}
}}

== References ==
{{Images|Dr. Marvin Monroe}}
{{Reflist}}

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{{Tapped Out characters|morebusiness=yes}}
{{Simpsons World factfiles|1=yes}}
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Talk:Fat Tony

2022-03-13T00:04:47Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Alive or dead? */

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== Fat tony's position ==

he is not the Leader because [[Don Vittorio DiMaggio]] is [[Fat Tony]] would be the capo or underboss --[[User:Owen1983|Owen1983]] 13:51, October 28, 2010 (UTC)

== Well this is going to be confusing ==
Fat Tony died of a heart attack in the latest episode, Donnie Fatso. However, the writers went "Principal Tamzarian" again and restored continuity by having Fat Tony's brother, Fit Tony, replace him and take up his appearance. So what do we do? Do we make a separate article for Fit Tony or do we stick with just one Fat Tony article? [[User:Ldude893|Ldude893]] 11:51, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
:I suggest that it could be handled the same way as [[Snowball V]] / [[Snowball II]]. -- [[User:Mythigator|Mythigator]] 13:42, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
::Damn you for spoiling it >_>. So Fat Tony dies and is replaced by his brother, Fit Tony. Do they look exactly the same? If so, per Myth. ----- It's Magic - [[User:Mr. Blackadder|C]] [[User talk:Mr. Blackadder| Blackadder]] 16:01, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
:::I decided to move Fat Tony to Fat Tony (original) and Fit Tony is now Fat Tony (latest). ☆[[User:Solar Dragon|The]] [[User talk:Solar Dragon|Solar]] [[Special:Contributions/Solar Dragon|Dragon]]☆ 17:30, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
::::Added a <nowiki></nowiki> note to Fat Tony (original)'s appearance section. Please note that any episode, comic etc released after December 12 2010 should place Fat Tony's appearance on Fat Tony (latest) page. ----- It's Magic - [[User:Mr. Blackadder|C]] [[User talk:Mr. Blackadder| Blackadder]] 17:35, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

== Alive or dead? ==
Can someone please explain why Fat Tony is now considered alive? [[User:Bleedinggumsmurphy1|Bleedinggumsmurphy1]] ([[User talk:Bleedinggumsmurphy1|talk]]) 13:20, March 12, 2022 (EST)
:He died in an episode that we consider non-canon. [[User:Solar Dragon|The]] [[User talk:Solar Dragon|Solar]] [[Special:Contributions/Solar Dragon|Dragon]] 17:29, March 12, 2022 (EST)
::What makes it non-canon? Feels more like opinion rather than proven non-canon[[User:Bleedinggumsmurphy1|Bleedinggumsmurphy1]] ([[User talk:Bleedinggumsmurphy1|talk]]) 19:04, March 12, 2022 (EST)

Talk:Fat Tony

2022-03-12T18:20:24Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Alive or dead? */ new section

{{Talkheader}}
{{Article Style Guide Characters}}

== Fat tony's position ==

he is not the Leader because [[Don Vittorio DiMaggio]] is [[Fat Tony]] would be the capo or underboss --[[User:Owen1983|Owen1983]] 13:51, October 28, 2010 (UTC)

== Well this is going to be confusing ==
Fat Tony died of a heart attack in the latest episode, Donnie Fatso. However, the writers went "Principal Tamzarian" again and restored continuity by having Fat Tony's brother, Fit Tony, replace him and take up his appearance. So what do we do? Do we make a separate article for Fit Tony or do we stick with just one Fat Tony article? [[User:Ldude893|Ldude893]] 11:51, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
:I suggest that it could be handled the same way as [[Snowball V]] / [[Snowball II]]. -- [[User:Mythigator|Mythigator]] 13:42, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
::Damn you for spoiling it >_>. So Fat Tony dies and is replaced by his brother, Fit Tony. Do they look exactly the same? If so, per Myth. ----- It's Magic - [[User:Mr. Blackadder|C]] [[User talk:Mr. Blackadder| Blackadder]] 16:01, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
:::I decided to move Fat Tony to Fat Tony (original) and Fit Tony is now Fat Tony (latest). ☆[[User:Solar Dragon|The]] [[User talk:Solar Dragon|Solar]] [[Special:Contributions/Solar Dragon|Dragon]]☆ 17:30, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
::::Added a <nowiki></nowiki> note to Fat Tony (original)'s appearance section. Please note that any episode, comic etc released after December 12 2010 should place Fat Tony's appearance on Fat Tony (latest) page. ----- It's Magic - [[User:Mr. Blackadder|C]] [[User talk:Mr. Blackadder| Blackadder]] 17:35, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

== Alive or dead? ==

Can someone please explain why Fat Tony is now considered alive? [[User:Bleedinggumsmurphy1|Bleedinggumsmurphy1]] ([[User talk:Bleedinggumsmurphy1|talk]]) 13:20, March 12, 2022 (EST)

Crook and Ladder/References

2022-03-10T15:02:43Z

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== Cultural references ==
*The song that plays when [[Bart]] and [[Milhouse]] abuse "Zombie Homer" is [[Edgar Winter]]'s "Frankenstein".
*When [[Mr. Burns]] jumps out of the window, he floats like the feather at the beginning of ''{{W|Forrest Gump}}'', with similar music.
*The song that plays during the montage of Bart, [[Lisa]], and [[Maggie]] looking sadly at [[Homer]] is "Sad Eyes" by {{W|Robert John}}.
*The scene where Homer wakes up in bed next to [[John Lennon]] is in reference to Lennon & [[Yoko Ono|Ono]]'s "Bed-In for Peace", a non-violent anti-war message in the 1960s.
*{{W|Larry Flynt}} (former publisher of ''{{W|Hustler}}'') is mentioned by Lisa as the publisher of ''[[Smothering Mother Magazine]]''.
*[[Nappien]], taken by Homer to cure his insomnia, relates to the current problems of people's over-reliance on pills & medication, such as sleeping pills. The problem of prescription drug abuse is highlighted by Homer's reply to [[Flanders]]: "Kids, you are confusing Drugs with ddrrruuuuugs". Also, Lisa says "I've read that people do strange things in their sleep when they've taken Ambien... I mean Nappien." Ambien is a brand name for Zolpidem, one of the most common insomnia pills. Homer's own zone-out could refer to the well-publicized case of {{W|Patrick J. Kennedy}}, who drove his car and even participated in a United States House vote while under the influence of sleep medicine.
*The commercial for [[Nappien]] shows a dove, much like the [[butterfly]] from the Lunesta commercials, flying into people's bedrooms, and landing on them, causing them to fall asleep. However, the dove excretes a sleeping pill into the person's mouth to achieve this effect.
*The movies jackets given free to the firefighters by [[Rainier Wolfcastle]] is a play on some of [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s movies as well as other contemporary films. (E.g. ''Total Explosion'' ''{{W2|Total Recall|1990 film}}'', ''Frankenberry Wears Prada'' ''{{W2|The Devil Wears Prada|film}}'').
*The man Homer fights during the "Zombie montage" previously made an appearance in season 16's "[[Pranksta Rap]]" and is still wearing the same chain stating it to be "Thursday the 20th." The rapper from "Pranksta Rap" who was used to verify the time can be seen in the background of the fight.
*[[Simpson family|The Simpson family]] has a videotape of ''[[C.H.U.D.]]''
*[[Apu]] tricks Homer and [[Moe]] into thinking he was killed and reincarnated as a cat. Afterwards, he says "You've just been Apu'd!", which is similar in context to ''Punk'd''.
*Moe mentions {{W|Ellen Barkin}}.

== Continuity ==
*This episode most likely predates "[[Brother's Little Helper]]" and "[[Homer the Heretic]]", because in those episodes [[Skinner]], Moe, and Apu are already volunteer firefighters.

== Goofs ==
*The characters refer to the signal to call the volunteer firefighters as a "fire siren," but it actually makes the noise of a bell ringing (sounding a lot like the school bell/fire alarm at [[Springfield Elementary School]]) instead of a siren.

== Trivia ==
*The text under [[Homer]]'s domino head says [[Matt Groening]].
*When [[Rod Flanders]] and [[Todd Flanders]] speak to Homer at wax museum they are oddly in their pajamas. This indicates Homer would've originally woken up in the Flanders' house rather than the museum but the animation for Rod and Todd was kept.

{{Season 18|R}}

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Diatribe of a Mad Housewife/References

2022-03-03T14:34:34Z

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== Cultural references ==
*The title word plays off of the book and film ''{{W|Diary of a Mad Housewife}}''.
*Homer sings a song to the tune of "{{W2|Cars|song}}" by {{W|Gary Numan}}.
*Homer briefly works at the "Boris Car Loft", a reference to {{W|Boris Karloff}}.
*The ambulance Homer buys is based on a 1959 Eureka Cadillac ambulance formerly operated by the {{W|Bogota, New Jersey}} Volunteer First Aid Squad, which has since been restored and is now in the Netherlands.
*Marge denotes the similarity of the picture behind the couch to the classic novel, ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' (the picture is, in fact, called "[[Scene from Moby Dick]]"). It inspired her novel, when she thought "No one's done a book about whaling before!" Moreover, her book is about whaling and its ending has Temperance's husband dying in a similar manner to that of Ahab, from the same novel.
*[[Homer]] quotes the aphorism "{{W|Publish or perish}}", used to describe a concept in academia.
*[[Tom Clancy]] references his novel "{{W|The Hunt for Red October}}" in his endorsement.

== Trivia ==
*This is [[Marvin Monroe]]'s first appearance since [[season 5]]'s "[[Bart's Inner Child]]", partly because [[Harry Shearer]] found voicing Monroe quite annoying.
*Whenever season 15 is re-aired on Channel 4 in the UK, this episode is left out, most likely due to the scene where [[Captain Mordecai]] stabs [[Cyrus Manly]] with a harpoon.

== Goofs ==
*When Homer is reading the book, he says, "Temprance Barrow was heavy with feeling. She "snore"..." but when he is listening to it, it says Temprance Barrow was heavy with feeling. Her" The goof is that Homer says She, but the Olsen's say Her at the beginning.
**As Homer read a first-draft, some lines may have been edited slightly in the final book.
*When the Springfieldians are gossiping, several people who share bedrooms such as Patty and Selma and the Lovejoys have different backdrops in their respective squares.
**In the same scene [[Fat Tony]] has [[Louie]]'s colors.

{{Season 15|R}}

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Lionel Hutz

2022-03-01T12:13:00Z

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{{Character
|name = Lionel Hutz
|image = [[File:Lionel Hutz.png|200px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Brown
|age =
|status = Alive
|job = Various
|relatives = '''Ex-Wife:''' [[Selma Bouvier]]
|appearance = "[[Bart Gets Hit by a Car]]"
|voiced by = [[Phil Hartman]]
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'''Lionel Hutz''' is an incompetent but greedy lawyer in [[Springfield]], desperate for cases, few of which he actually wins. He is financially unsound, extremely poor and willing to do nearly anything for cash.

== Character ==
Hutz is an inept ambulance chaser and, to quote [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]], a "shyster" whom the Simpsons nonetheless repeatedly hired as their lawyer (a fact remarked on by [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] in a typically self-aware aside) most likely because they can't afford a better lawyer. At one point, he claims to have graduated from Princeton school of law, although Princeton has never had a law school. His legal practice, located in a shopping mall, was named "[[I Can't Believe It's a Law Firm!]]". He often tried to entice potential clients with free gifts, including a "smoking monkey" doll and a business card that "turns into a sponge when you put it in water" to which [[Homer Simpson]] was impressed with.

Hutz only occasionally appears in The Simpsons' lives but sometimes plays central roles in events involving them. Marge distrusts Hutz, even remarking once during a trial, "We really should stop hiring him." He was once briefly married to Marge's sister, [[Selma Bouvier]]. He once claimed to be a user of women; dating them just for money. He then demonstrated this by hitting on [[Edna Krabappel]].<ref>"[[Secrets of a Successful Marriage]]"</ref> He was once seen with [[Ms. Albright]].<ref>"[[Bart After Dark]]"</ref>

== Disabilities ==
[[File:LH-Business C.png|thumb|right|Hutz spongy business card.]]
Hutz is a recovering addict, who once hastily left the courtroom after handling a bottle of bourbon in order to consult his sponsor, musician David Crosby. Also, Hutz referred to bourbon as "brownest of the brown liquors" and offered to share with Marge and Homer "a belt of scotch" at 9AM, explaining that he "hadn't slept in days." He believes the American Bar Association is a drinking association, plus he uses a fork to comb his hair.<ref name="Skybox">''{{ap|Skybox|cards}}''</ref>

== Career ==
Lionel got his lawyer degree from a garage sale at the Diddle Diddle Day Care Center. He specializes in the art of ''enhanced'' testimony, and uses dramatic effect to impress the judge and jury alike. He strongly believes that surprise witness make the most impact in court, so that he once called [[Abraham Lincoln|Abe Lincoln]] to the stand. Hutz is such a bad lawyer that on his worst case a client got the death penalty from a parking ticket dispute.<ref name="Skybox"/>

== Beyond the law ==
Beyond the law, he also tried his hand at selling real estate.<ref>"[[Realty Bites]]"</ref> When Homer hired him to babysit the Simpson children, he had renamed himself '''Miguel Sanchez''' following some trouble that prompted him to change his identity and burn all his personal papers, and he was also known as '''Dr. Nguyen Van Phuoc''', a Vietnamese name, in addition to Mr. Sanchez. He also won the role as 'Mitch' in the musical adaption of 'A Street Car Named Desire', whilst simultaneously suing the troupe on behalf of the people who were not cast. He may also be a drug dealer, as when Milhouse lands the role of Fallout Boy, Hutz barges up to him and one of the services offered was "drug deal- errrrrr.... keeper awayer". He also attended an adult education course.

== Cases won ==
[[File:I Can't Believe It's A Law Firm!.png|thumb|Hutz law firm [[I Can't Believe It's a Law Firm!‎]].]]
Although Hutz loses almost all of his cases, he did win several cases for the Simpsons, for instance representing [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] in his case against [[Captain McAllister]] and the Frying Dutchman restaurant over its "All You Can Eat" offer. While the [[Blue-haired lawyer]] tried to show that Homer's eating was far beyond what could reasonably be expected out of an all-you-can-eat offer, Hutz won by putting Marge on the stand and having her reveal the desperate actions she and Homer took after they were kicked out of the restaurant. At Hutz´ urging, Marge tearfully admitted that after searching for another All You Can Eat fish restaurant until 3AM, Homer and Marge "went fishing." Considering Marge's honest nature, it is unlikely that she was lying. The case was helped by the fact that the entire jury was made up of obese jurors. Captain McAllister then struck a deal with Homer, offering him all he could eat in exchange for using him as a sort of freakshow attraction to get more customers.<ref>"[[New Kid on the Block]]"</ref>

Another case he won for one of the Simpsons was when [[Bart]] discovered that an old tramp named [[Chester J. Lampwick]] was the real creator of ''[[The Itchy & Scratchy Show]]'', which was proved by an old drawing by Lampwick. Roger Myers (who had falsely claimed credit for the creation) then had to pay him $800 billion, which forced the [[Itchy & Scratchy Studios]] to close down for a short time. Although this had nothing to do with Hutz's skills as a lawyer, it was him who stalled for time for Bart to get the drawing during the trial, by calling his surprise witnesses once again.<ref>"[[The Day the Violence Died]]"</ref>

Hutz also won another case when Bart sued Krusty after he got appendicitis after eating a piece of jagged metal that was being given away as a prize in his cereal that wasn't even in the safety package all prizes are held in. The case was won and Bart was given $100,000 in compensation. $99,500 of which was taken by Hutz who'd assembled a team of phony lawyers to make it seem to Bart that it was necessary.<ref>"[['Round Springfield]]"</ref>

=== Non-canon ===
Hutz represented Homer against the [[Devil]] ([[Ned Flanders]]). At issue was the rightful owner of Homer's soul. In a hastily assembled courtroom in the Simpsons' living room, before a jury of the damned, Hutz discussed competently the nature of a contract, although his argument ironically was harmful to Homer. Despite the fact that the contract between Homer and the Devil clearly awarded Homer's soul to the Devil upon Homer's consumption of the 'forbidden donut', the jury found a note from Homer to Marge saying that he pledged his soul to her for all eternity thus his soul was not to rightfully give up to the Devil causing them rule in favor of Homer. In retribution for losing the court case, Homer was cursed by the Devil and his head was turned into a giant donut. The case was not won so much for Hutz's skill as an attorney, but by Marge's introduction of the relevant evidence (the photo with a note from Homer on the back, granting his soul to Marge).<ref>"[[Treehouse of Horror IV]]"</ref>

== Behind the Laughter ==
=== Retirement ===
The character was retired after [[Phil Hartman]]'s death in 1998, as well as his other main character [[Troy McClure]]. As the Simpsons frequently appear in court,<ref>Often enough that in "[[The Parent Rap]]", [[Lisa]] is seen to be on a first-name basis with a court officer.</ref> other characters have represented them in legal matters, ranging from just as incompetent to actually knowing what they're doing. For example, in "[[Sweets and Sour Marge]]", the equally-incompetent [[Gil Gunderson|Gil]] stepped in. The [[Blue-haired lawyer]] has also served as the family's attorney, Lionel Hutz still appears infrequently in clip shows and flashbacks, as well as crowd scenes, but only in non-speaking roles. Hutz and McClure still appear in ''[[Simpsons Comics]]'', as a voice actor is not needed.

== Appearances ==
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*{{ep|Bart Gets Hit by a Car}}
*{{ep|Old Money}}
*{{ep|When Flanders Failed}}
*{{ep|Bart the Murderer}}
*{{ep|Flaming Moe's}}
*{{ep|A Streetcar Named Marge}}
*{{ep|Marge Gets a Job}}
*{{ep|New Kid on the Block}}
*{{ep|Marge vs. the Monorail}}
*{{ep|Selma's Choice}}
*{{ep|Duffless}}
*{{ep|Marge in Chains}}
*{{ep|Rosebud}}
*{{ep|Marge on the Lam}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror IV}}
*{{ep|Bart's Inner Child}}
*{{ep|The Last Temptation of Homer}}
*{{ep|Homer the Vigilante}}
*{{ep|The Boy Who Knew Too Much}}
*{{ep|Burns' Heir}}
*{{ep|Secrets of a Successful Marriage}}
*{{ep|Sideshow Bob Roberts}}
*{{ep|Homer the Great}}
*{{ep|'Round Springfield}}
*{{ep|The Springfield Connection}}
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns?}}
*{{ep|Radioactive Man}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Iconoclast}}
*{{ep|The Day the Violence Died}}
*{{ep|22 Short Films About Springfield}}
*{{ep|Much Apu About Nothing}}
*{{ep|Burns, Baby Burns}}
*{{ep|Bart After Dark}}
*{{ep|Hurricane Neddy}}
*{{ep|The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show}}
*{{ep|Brother from Another Series}}
*{{ep|In Marge We Trust}}
*{{ep|The Principal and the Pauper}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Skeptic}}
*{{ep|Realty Bites}}
*{{ep|Trash of the Titans}}
*{{ep|The Trouble with Trillions}}
*{{ep|Lost Our Lisa|(non-speaking)}}
*{{ep|The Joy of Sect}}
*{{ep|The Mansion Family|(cameo)}}
*{{ep|Behind the Laughter|(picture)}}
*{{ep|A Tale of Two Springfields|(non-speaking)}}
*{{ep|Gump Roast|(flashback)}}
*{{ep|Brake My Wife, Please|(cameo)}}
*{{ep|I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can|(cameo)}}
*{{ep|Moe Baby Blues|(non-speaking)}}
*{{ep|My Big Fat Geek Wedding|(cameo)}}
*{{ep|A Star Is Torn|(cameo)}}
*{{ep|Home Away from Homer|(cameo)}}
*{{ep|See Homer Run|(cameo)}}
*{{ep|Rome-Old and Juli-Eh|(name seen)}}
*{{ep|Wedding for Disaster|(picture seen)}}
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*{{ep|Elementary School Musical|(cameo)}}
*{{ep|Pulpit Friction|(cameo)}}
*{{ep|Four Regrettings and a Funeral|(cameo)}}
*{{ep|White Christmas Blues|(cameo)}}
*{{ep|My Fare Lady|(opening sequence)}}
*{{ad|CC's Dare Number 65}}
*{{bon|The Amazing Colossal Homer}}
*{{bon|The Purple Prose of Springfield}}
*{{bon|The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth}}
*{{bk|Simpsons World The Ultimate Episode Guide: Seasons 1-20}}
*{{bk|Bart Simpson's Guide to Life}}
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Chet Manners

2022-02-23T22:06:51Z

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|name = Chet Manners
|image = [[File:Chet Manners.png|250px]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Gray
|age =
|status = Alive
|job = Astronaut (retired) Spokesperson
|relatives =
|appearance = "[[She of Little Faith]]"
|voiced by = [[Hank Azaria]]
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'''Chet Manners''' is a colonel and five-time space shuttle astronaut. He appeared in a television commercial promoting the [[Orbit King]] model rocket.

===Behind the Laughter===
* His design is the same as [[Lieutenant Smash]] only aged with eye bags and crow's feet.

== Appearances ==
*{{ep|She of Little Faith}}

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Artie Ziff

2021-02-25T17:50:14Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Appearances */Artie cameos behind Chief Wiggum at the parade

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{{Character
|name = Artie Ziff
|image = [[File:Artie Ziff.png|200px]]
|caption = Artwork of Artie Ziff by [[Matt Groening]]
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Black
|status = Alive
|age =
|job = Software billionaire
|relatives =
|appearance = "[[The Way We Was]]"
|voiced by = [[Dan Castellaneta]] [[Jon Lovitz]]
}}

'''Artie Ziff''' is a billionaire inventor and business owner.

== Personality ==
Artie is very confident yet nerdy, self-centered and narcissistic, believing himself to be the best at everything - he said that it "would damage the town" if Marge told people about his "busy hands", and once imagined a can-can chorus and audience made up entirely of himself. He is Jewish, and once commented that if people don't like him it's because they're Anti-Semitic. He holds a deep obsession over Marge, and has done so since high school: His appearances mainly revolve around his plans to seduce her away from [[Homer]], with the exception of his final encounter with the Simpson family.

== Biography ==
=== High School ===
Artie was a student at [[Springfield High School]]. He was a member of the school Debate Team (where Homer mooned him for rebuttal), and at the end of the year took Marge to the prom. He ruined a wonderful evening with his "busy hands" in the back of his car, his urges resulting in the shoulder strap of Marge's dress being torn, followed by a slap to the face and a swift end to their date. He drove Marge home.<ref>"[[The Way We Was]]"</ref>

=== Wealth ===
Many years later, Artie was revealed to have become a software billionaire, becoming the fifth richest man in the country. His wealth came from a device that transformed {{w|Modem|modem}} noise into easy listening music. Despite his riches, Artie's life was not complete: He lived alone, and the collection of Marge-resembling art around his mansion showed that he never got over Marge's rejecting him on prom night.

Artie claimed that he would offer a small fortune for a weekend with his childhood love, Marge, in a parody of the movie ''{{w|Indecent Proposal}}''. She accepted, as the money would come in handy, and he seemed harmless. He managed to trick Marge into kissing him at a full recreation of their high school prom (including most of the original guests), which Homer witnessed. She slapped Artie and left. After a fruitless search for Homer, who left believing that they were having an affair, she enlisted Artie's help, using his helicopter to find Homer and bring him home. When they found him, Artie finally admitted defeat to Homer, saying that winning Marge's love was something that he could never accomplish, even with his billions.<ref>"[[Half-Decent Proposal]]"</ref>

=== Ziffcorp ===
Some time later, the Simpsons discovered that Artie was living in their attic. He revealed that he ran his company, [[Ziffcorp]], into the ground spending investors' money on such extravagant items such as solid gold underpants. He was left penniless when the "dot-com bubble" burst, and secretly moved into the Simpson home to avoid capture. Homer won 98% of the company from Ziff in a game of poker; seconds later, SEC agents came to take Ziff, but they took Homer into custody instead (as he had just become the majority shareholder).<ref name="The Ziff Who Came to Dinner">"[[The Ziff Who Came to Dinner]]"</ref>

=== Prison ===
When Artie Ziff finally turned himself in, one of his first acts upon arriving in prison was to begin extinguishing other prisoners' cigarettes with a squirt bottle—for the benefit of their health, whether they wanted it or not. Marge told the children to take a good look at Artie, as his actions dramatically lowered his chances of survival. The family's last view of Artie was of him continuing to squirt other prisoners' cigarettes while an ever-growing angry mob advanced on him.<ref name="The Ziff Who Came to Dinner"/>

=== Release and later history ===
Artie survived the prison yard encounter and was eventually released from prison. He later revealed that he had negotiated an early release by ratting out other CEOs for their crimes, and regained his fortune when they paid him off to keep him quiet.<ref>''[[Marge the Sellout]]''</ref>

His name was seen on a list of Springfieldians taking revenge on [[Mr. Burns]].<ref>"[[The Fool Monty]]"</ref>

Artie eventually got his fortune back after he invented logs that looked like money, which he called "Money to Burn".

Later, Artie invited Homer and Marge to attend his wedding. When they arrived, Homer was asked to walk the bride down the aisle as she didn't have anyone to do so. When the bride took off her veil, she was revealed to look exactly like Marge. After the wedding, Homer and Marge confronted Artie and his wife only to find that the Marge Artie married was [[Marge robots|a robot]], and that Artie had made several other Marge robots. Artie wanted to make Marge realize how perfect she would be with Artie by planning a fake wedding to a copy of Marge, but it failed. Marge then told Artie that he could use his brain to help people rather than try and win her heart.<ref>"[[Hail to the Teeth]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
When Marge decided to break up with Homer, Lisa found a talking picture of Artie telling Marge that it was good that she finally left Homer and that he had finally learned how to unhook a bra with one hand.<ref>"[[Mr. Lisa's Opus]]"</ref>

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==== Young Artie Ziff ====
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== Behind the Laughter ==
*Artie Ziff was voiced by [[Jon Lovitz]] on his first appearance in the Season 2 episode "[[The Way We Was]]" and occasionally by [[Dan Castellaneta]] in the later episodes.

== Appearances ==
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*{{ep|The Way We Was}}
*{{ep|The Front}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Iconoclast|(cameo)}}
*{{ep|Another Simpsons Clip Show}}
*{{ep|Half-Decent Proposal}}
*{{ep|The Ziff Who Came to Dinner}}
*{{ep|You Kent Always Say What You Want|(picture seen)}}
*{{ep|Take My Life, Please|(name on the Springfield Wall of Fame)}}
*{{ep|The Fool Monty|(name on rota)}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIII}}
*{{ep|My Fare Lady|(opening sequence)}}
*{{ep|Mr. Lisa's Opus}}
*{{ep|Hail to the Teeth}}
*{{bon|Marge the Sellout}}
*{{bon|Milhouse the Man, Krusty in the Can, and the Great Springfield Frink-Out|(mentioned)}}
*{{bon|A Brand New Burns, Part One!}}
*{{bon|A Brand New Burns, Part Two!}}
*{{bk|The Homer Book}}
*{{bk|Flanders' Book of Faith}}
*{{bk|Simpsons World The Ultimate Episode Guide: Seasons 1-20}}
*{{bk|The Marge Book|(old high school photo)}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield|(picture)}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Tapped Out}}
*{{merch|Simpsons Mania! (Inkworks)|Simpsons Mania}}
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Bleeding Gums Murphy

2020-11-23T21:19:25Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Appearances */Someone making stuff up

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{{Character
|name = "Bleeding Gums" Murphy
|image = [[File:Bleeding Gums Murphy.png|200px]]
|caption = Artwork of Bleeding Gums Murphy from ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Brown
|age = 49 (at death)
|status = Deceased
|job = Musician
|relatives = '''Brothers:''' [[Julius Hibbert]] and [[Julius Hibbert's brother|One unnamed]] '''Ex-Wife:''' [[Vela Murphy]] '''Nephew:''' [[Bleeding Gums Murphy's nephew|Unnamed]]
|appearance = "[[Moaning Lisa]]"
|voiced by = [[Ron Taylor]] [[Daryl L. Coley]]
}}

'''Oscar "Bleeding Gums" Murphy''' was a jazz musician, and an idol of [[Lisa Simpson]].

== Biography ==
Bleeding Gums learned his musical skills "at the feet of [[Blind Willie Witherspoon]]". Willie wanted to give Bleeding Gums his saxophone, only to be finally told that it wasn't a saxophone and actually an umbrella, meaning that Willie had actually been playing an umbrella for some thirty years. Bleeding Gums explained to Willie that no one informed him of the mistake because "we all thought it was funny".

At one point, Murphy was married to a woman named [[Vela Murphy|Vela]], who was also a singer. At some point, they got divorced, but Vela still used her ex-husband's last name in a professional capacity.<ref>''{{ap|Springfield Shopper|comic}}''</ref>

Murphy recorded only one album, titled ''[[Sax on the Beach]]'', which was extremely lucrative for him. However, he soon went broke after spending his money on his Fabergé egg addiction. He revealed that he had once made a guest appearance on ''[[The Cosby Show]]'' in 1986 as the Huxtable children's grandfather, as well as appearing on ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' when {{ch|Steve Allen}} was the host.
[[File:The Cosby Show.png‎|200px|right|thumb|nail|Bleeding Gums on ''[[The Cosby Show]]''.]]

Bleeding Gums was a mentor to [[Lisa Simpson]] until his early death. He played and sang a [[Moanin' Lisa Blues|blues song written by Lisa]]. It pleased Lisa to see the performance of her own song in the club "[[The Jazz Hole]]", but not everyone in the family was happy with the lyrics, as they were sharply critical of [[Homer]] and [[Bart]], and mildly critical of [[Marge]].<ref>"[[Moaning Lisa]]"</ref>

Bleeding Gums once sang a twenty-six minute version of the American national anthem "{{w|The Star-Spangled Banner}}" at a [[Springfield Isotopes]] game.<ref>"[[Dancin' Homer]]"</ref>

He served as one of the three judges for a talent show once, giving Bart a 10 for his impersonation of Principal Skinner.<ref>"[[Lisa's Pony]]"</ref> Murphy also joined with a group of local celebrities in singing the song "[[We're Sending Our Love Down the Well]]" as a benefit for [[Timmy O'Toole]].<ref>"[[Radio Bart]]"</ref>

When [[Springfield]] was hit by a freak snowstorm and [[Mayor Quimby]] declared a snow day for the whole town, Murphy and Lisa were seen playing their saxes in the crowd of townspeople enjoying the snow.<ref>"[[Bart Gets an "F"]]"</ref>

[[Allison Taylor]] has a photo of Bleeding Gums on her wall. It may be possible that Bleeding Gums was also Allison's one idol.<ref>"[[Lisa's Rival]]"</ref> Lisa also has a picture of Bleeding Gums on her wall.

Sometime before he died, Murphy invited [[Dr. Hibbert]], [[Carl Carlson]], and [[Drederick Tatum]] to a party at his house. {{cn}}

It is hinted that Dr. Hibbert and Bleeding Gums are long-lost brothers.<ref name=RoundSpr>"[['Round Springfield]]"</ref>

He has been featured on ''[[Before They Were Famous]]''.<ref>"[[Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious]]"</ref>

At some point before his death, Bleeding Gums Murphy told [[Bleeding Gums Murphy's nephew|his nephew]] that Lisa was the most promising young musician he had ever met.<ref>"[[Lisa Gets the Blues]]"</ref>

In [[Bart]]'s coma dream, Bleeding Gums Murphy was one of the ghosts who came to Bart to get help to move on to the afterlife.<ref>"[[Flanders' Ladder]]"</ref>

== Death ==
[[File:Round Springfield.png|200px|thumb|Bleeding Gums (left) appearing to Lisa Simpson in a cloud, after his death.]]
[[File:Bleeding Gums tombstone.png|thumb|left|200px|Bleeding Gums' tombstone]]
When [[Bart]] went to the hospital after eating a jagged metal [[Krusty-O]], Lisa found Bleeding Gums in a hospital bed in a nearby ward. They played {{w|Carole King}}'s "{{w|Jazzman}}" together, entertaining everyone in the hospital. Bleeding Gums told Lisa about his life, family and career, including his only album, ''[[Sax on the Beach]]''. He also gave her advice for her upcoming school recital and lent her his saxophone. At the recital, only a few of the school band members were present and their performance of "{{w|The Stars and Stripes Forever}}" was about to fall flat, but Lisa saved the day with an inspired impromptu jam on Murphy's sax. Lisa returned from the recital to share her triumph with Bleeding Gums, only to find that he had died. (The cause was never revealed, nor was the reason Murphy was in the hospital in the first place.)

No one, except for Lisa, Marge and Homer, attended Murphy's funeral. [[Reverend Lovejoy]] officiated and got Murphy's name wrong, calling him "Blood and Guts Murphy" and "Bloody Gums Murphy", as well as saying that he was "quite the sousaphone player". Lovejoy's blundering outraged Lisa and moved her to find Murphy's album and have it played on the radio so people would know who he was. However, even the [[KJAZZ|local jazz station]] didn't have the album, and when she found it in [[Comic Book Guy]]'s [[The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop|shop]], it was priced at $500, which she couldn't afford. However, Bart had sued [[KrustyCo Inc.]] over the jagged metal Krusty-O incident and received $500 in a settlement. When he saw how disappointed Lisa was at not being able to buy Murphy's album, Bart bought the album and gave it to her. Lisa then took it to KJAZZ and the DJ played it on the radio. The station's signal was very weak, but a freak lightning strike hit the antenna and boosted the signal so that all of [[Springfield]] heard ''Sax on the Beach'' playing.

Murphy's face appeared from the clouds, thanking Lisa and telling him that he had made her happy. They were interrupted by other famous characters appearing: [[Mufasa]] from ''[[The Lion King]]'', [[Darth Vader]] from ''[[Star Wars]]'' and {{ch|James Earl Jones}} reciting his "This is {{w|CNN}}" narration. Murphy asked them to leave, and he and Lisa jammed out to "Jazzman" one last time. Lisa wanted to do it again ("One more time!"), but Murphy protested that he had a date with {{Ch|Billie Holiday}}.<ref name = RoundSpr>"[['Round Springfield]]"</ref>

A hologram image of him was used by She-Done-Left-Me Records to advertise various products. This caused Lisa to protest against them for using dead celebrities to advertise various commercial products.<ref>[[Whiskey Business]]</ref>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
Bleeding Gums Murphy has a biography called ''[[Floss, I Hardly Knew Ye]]''.<ref>''[[Lisa Simpson's Book Club]]''</ref>
=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/C-List Celebrities|Murphy}}

== Behind the Laughter ==
The appearance of Bleeding Gums Murphy is loosely based on LeRoi Moore, the late saxophone player for the Dave Matthews Band. It may also be an homage to Sonny Rollins, a great saxophone player who famously retired from public performance and was not seen for three years, until a journalist discovered him playing the saxophone alone on the Williamsburg Bridge. Murphy's introductory appearance, where Lisa sees him playing his sax on a bridge in the middle of the night, is a direct reference to Rollins.

Bleeding Gums gave the origin of his nickname in "Moaning Lisa" as thus: "Well let me put it this way... you ever been to the dentist? Not me. I suppose I should go to one, but I got enough pain in my life as it is."

The voice of Bleeding Gums Murphy was provided by [[Ron Taylor]], while his saxophone playing is provided by [[Dan Higgins]]. In the episode "[[Dancin' Homer]]" he was voiced by [[Daryl L. Coley]].

Mufasa, Darth Vader, and (of course) the James Earl Jones CNN narration were voice roles originally portrayed by [[James Earl Jones]], but were performed by [[Harry Shearer]] for their scene in "[['Round Springfield]]".

Murphy has been a fixture of ''The Simpsons''' opening sequence from Season Two on, even after his death. He even appeared in the live-action format,<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49IDp76kjPw Real Life Simpsons Intro] (He appears after 35 seconds) ''YouTube''. URL accessed on December 14, 2006</ref> in The Simpsons Sky One commercial, that was also used for the episode "[[Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife]]". In 2009, the opening sequence had to be updated since the series was now broadcast in hi-def widescreen format. The new, updated sequence removed Murphy completely apart from a picture of him that can be seen in the Music Room when Lisa plays her Sax.

[[File:Sax.jpg|thumb|right|Bleeding Gums Murphy with his Sax.]]

In addition to his onscreen appearances, Murphy also appeared on ''[[The Simpsons Sing the Blues]]'', an album of rock, and jazz music with vocals performed by characters from the show. On the track "God Bless the Child" (a cover of the Billie Holiday song), performed by Lisa Simpson (Yeardley Smith), Murphy speaks up after the final chorus to praise Lisa for her vocals, after which he and Lisa perform a saxophone duet for the remainder of the song. Murphy was again voiced by Ron Taylor for the song, and his alto saxophone part was performed by Kim Richmond.
Everytime Lisa's room is seen after "[[Moaning Lisa]]" a picture of Bleeding Gums Murphy is seen.

=== Foreign Dubs ===
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== Appearances ==
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*{{ep|Moaning Lisa}}
*{{ep|The Crepes of Wrath}}
*{{ep|Bart Gets an "F"|(on the family quilt)}}
*{{ep|Dancin' Homer}}
*{{ep|Bart the Daredevil}}
*{{ep|Bart's Dog Gets an "F"}}
*{{ep|Old Money}}
*{{ep|When Flanders Failed}}
*{{ep|Lisa's Pony}}
*{{ep|Radio Bart}}
*{{ep|Colonel Homer|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Lisa the Beauty Queen}}
*{{ep|Marge vs. the Monorail}}
*{{ep|Homer's Barbershop Quartet|(picture on record)}}
*{{ep|Marge on the Lam|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Lisa's Rival|(picture)}}
*{{ep|'Round Springfield|(death)}}
*{{ep|The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular|(clips)}}
*{{ep|Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Lisa's Sax|(Archive clips)}}
*{{ep|Alone Again, Natura-Diddily|(tombstone)}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XII|(face on [[Wailing Wall]])}}
*{{ep|Little Orphan Millie|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Take My Life, Please|(picture and name on [[Springfield Wall of Fame]])}}
*{{ep|The Great Wife Hope|(mentioned)}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXII|(tombstone}}
*{{ep|The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Lisa Goes Gaga|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Whiskey Business|(hologram)}}
*{{ep|Pay Pal|(photo)}}
*{{ep|Peeping Mom|(photo)}}
*{{ep|Super Franchise Me|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Bart's New Friend|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Walking Big & Tall|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Brick Like Me|(photo)}}
*{{ep|Every Man's Dream|(couch gag)}}
*{{ep|Gal of Constant Sorrow|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Pork and Burns|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Looking for Mr. Goodbart|(grave seen)}}
*{{ep|Haw-Haw Land|(as an angel)}}
*{{ep|Lisa Gets the Blues|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Flanders' Ladder|(ghost)}}
*{{ep|Werking Mom|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Daddicus Finch|(picture)}}
*{{ep|E My Sports|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy|(picture)}}
*{{ep|The Winter of Our Monetized Content|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Gorillas on the Mast|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Livin La Pura Vida|(picture)}}
*{{ep|Hail to the Teeth|(picture)}}
*{{TSG|(picture)}}
*{{bon|Lisa's Dream House|(mentioned)}}
*{{bon|Be-bop-a-Lisa}}
*{{bon|Krusty, Agent of K.L.O.W.N.|(picture)}}
*{{bon|Lisa Simpson's Book Club}}
*{{bon|Saxophony!|(picture)}}
*{{bon|Maggie's Crib 27|(picture)}}
*{{bon|Son of Homer's Odyssey}}
*{{bon|Ghøst Bashers}}
*{{bk|The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album}}
*{{bk|The Lisa Book}}
*{{bk|Simpsons World The Ultimate Episode Guide: Seasons 1-20}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Arcade Game}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Virtual Springfield|(tombstone)}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Skateboarding|(skateboard design)}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Game}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Tapped Out}}
*{{alb|The Simpsons Sing the Blues|("[[God Bless the Child]]")}}
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== References ==
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Rodrigo (Homer Alone)

2020-08-16T17:02:52Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Appearances */

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'''Rodrigo''' is a chef at [[Rancho Relaxo]].

== Appearances ==
*{{ep|Homer Alone}}
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)}}

{{Chefs}}
{{Simpsons characters}}

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Rodrigo (Homer Alone)

2020-08-16T16:59:48Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Appearances */

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'''Rodrigo''' is a chef at [[Rancho Relaxo]].

== Appearances ==
*{{ep|Homer Alone}}
*{{so|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)}}

{{Chefs}}
{{Simpsons characters}}

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When Flanders Failed/References

2020-08-13T22:33:11Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Goofs */Added goofs

{{TabR}}
{{EpisodePrevNextRef|Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington|Bart the Murderer}}

== Cultural references ==
*The title of this episode is a reference to the poem ''{{w|In Flanders Fields}}''.
*The final scene is a nod to the final scene in ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]''.
*Rather than go to Ned's barbecue, Homer watches the {{w|Canadian Football League}} draft on television.
**The [[Saskatchewan Roughriders]] are also briefly mentioned.
*Homer asks Ned if [[The Leftorium]] is located in "the merry old land of {{W|Land of Oz|Oz}}", a reference to ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''.

== Trivia ==
*This is the first episode to have [[Ned Flanders]]'s name somewhere in the title and the first episode to primarily focus on Ned Flanders.
*Although [[Ned]] states in this episode that he is left-handed, he was putting right-handed in the episode "[[Dead Putting Society]]".
*This is the last time the prototype theme music from the Season 2 opening titles is played. This is also the last time that Bart's chalkboard gag has its original high color saturation.
*Ned's "Hail to the Chef" apron is later used in the Lego set 71006 The Simpsons House.
*People at the Leftorium include:
**[[Emily Winthrop]]
**[[Professor Lombardo]]
**[[Cowboy Bob]]
**[[Richie Sakai]]
**[[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Wife|Power Plant wife]]
**One of Burns' escorts from "[[Homer's Night Out]]"
*Ned sells left-handed nunchakus.
*[[Chief Wiggum]] plays accordion during the song at the end of the episode.
**At least he holds one in hands during the song.

== Goofs ==
*Near the end of the episode, Homer congratulates Flanders for being the richest left-handed man in Springfield. This would not be true considering [[Mr. Burns]] is also left-handed.
**However, Homer could have meant that Flanders is the richest in terms of friends and happiness.
***Or he may have forgotten Mr. Burns was left-handed.
*During Marge and Homer's argument at the beginning, when Homer says that Ned Flanders is a jerk, his mouth doesn't match what he's saying.
*When Barney is drinking beer at Moe's Tavern, his chest is, for one frame, the same color as his shirt.
*When Mr. Burns is notified about the Leftorium, the can and can opener have disappeared from Smither's hands.
*When Homer discovers that the Leftorium is going out of business, there is a sign that says "Coming Soon: Gum for Less". Later on, though, Ned says the new store is becoming "Libertarian Party Headquarters".
*When Rod and Todd Flanders are roasting marshmallows in the car, Todd's marshmallow was the only one above the lighter, even though both of them have turned black.
*At the beginning, when there is a overhead shot of the Simpsons' lawn, the broken lawn mower has disappeared.
*At the end, you can briefly see Dr. Marvin Monroe. The cigar he is holding instantly changes from white to brown.
*When Homer buys Ned's living room for $75, Bart is wearing a pink "Ned loves Maude" T-shirt but by the end of the scene where Bart says "Hands off my china hutch", his shirt is the standard orange shirt.
*When the family is having dinner, the glasses on the table keep disappearing/reappearing between shots.
*When Homer goes to the barbecue, he grabs a plate of burgers. There isn't a burger at the top of the pile. However, when Flanders talks to him there is a burger on the top.
*When Mr. Burns brings the pile of tin openers to the cash register, Dr. Monroe's beard is brown.
*In the scene where Bart is lying on Ned's sofa in the Simpsons' backyard, he is wearing a pink T-shirt reading "MAUDE LOVES NED". In the scene following the establishing shot, "NED" reads "NEL".
*Furthermore, after this, Bart's T-shirt changes back to its normal light red.
*In the Leftorium several characters are the wrong colours:
**Dr. Hibbert has pale skin.
**Carl Carlson is yellow with brown hair.
**Karl has Kent Brockman's colours.
**Lionel Hutz has blond hair.

{{Season 3|R}}

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[[Category:Goofs]]

Brunella Pommelhorst

2018-03-26T20:30:24Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* History */

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|name = Brunella Pommelhorst
|image = [[File:Brunella Pommelhorst.png|250px]]
|gender = {{Female}}
|hair = Blond
|age =
|status = Alive
|job = [[Springfield Elementary]] Gym Teacher
|relatives =
|appearance = "[[The PTA Disbands]]" (mentioned/off screen)
|voiced by = [[Tress MacNeille]]
}}

'''Brunella Pommelhorst''' is a Physical Education teacher at [[Springfield Elementary School]].

== History ==
Ms. Pommelhorst takes a tough-as-nails approach to teaching and to life in general. When a teachers' strike took place at Springfield Elementary, she left her class the moment the strike was called—even leaving a little girl clinging to gymnastics rings and calling for help.<ref>"[[The PTA Disbands]]"</ref>

She is also a big fan of ''{{w|Xena: Warrior Princess}}'', to the point that she takes oaths by [[Xena]]. One such oath nearly led her to fail [[Lisa]] in gym class. However, in a rare break from her tough-as-nails demeanor, Ms. Pommelhorst relented and allowed Lisa to make up her grade by taking private lessons in order to pass gym.<ref>"[[Little Girl in the Big Ten]]"</ref>

Ms. Pommelhorst announced to her students that she was taking a leave of absence to undergo gender reassignment surgery. According to [[Principal Skinner]], she would be returning to the school as shop teacher Mr. Pommelhorst.<ref>"[[My Fair Laddy]]"</ref> For some time after making her announcement, she wasn't seen as either Ms. Pommelhorst or Mr. Pommelhorst. However, she was later seen running out of the school at the end of the school day looking like a woman and dressed in her usual "gym teacher" outfit, so she apparently decided not to go through with the operation. It isn't known whether she's back teaching gym or has a different job at the school.<ref>"[[The Ned-liest Catch]]"</ref>

She hooked-up with [[Superintendent Chalmers]] during "Grownup Halloween".<ref>"[[Halloween of Horror]]"</ref>

== Trivia ==
*Ms. Pommelhorst's last name is very likely derived from the gymnastics apparatus the {{w|Pommel horse|pommel horse}}.

== Appearances ==
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*{{ep|The PTA Disbands|(mentioned/off screen)}}
*{{ep|Little Girl in the Big Ten}}
*{{ep|The President Wore Pearls}}
*{{ep|Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore}}
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*{{ep|The Fool Monty|(name, on rota)}}
*{{ep|Moms I'd Like to Forget}}
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
*{{ep|Pulpit Friction}}
*{{ep|Blazed and Confused|(picture)}}
*{{spec|Do the Bartman}}
*{{bon|A League of Their Own}}
*{{bk|The Book of Moe}}
*{{bk|The Simpsons: One Step Beyond Forever!}}
*{{bk|Simpsons World The Ultimate Episode Guide: Seasons 1-20}}
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== References ==
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Gary Chalmers

2018-03-26T20:29:10Z

Bleedinggumsmurphy1: /* Romantic Interests */

{{Featured article}}
{{Quote|Skinnerrrrr!!!|Superintendent Chalmers' catchphrase}}
{{Character
|name = Gary Chalmers
|image = [[File:Gary Chalmers.png|200px]]
|caption = Official artwork of Gary Chalmers by [[Matt Groening]]
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|status = Alive
|alias = Superintendent Chalmers Chalmers Super Nintendo Chalmers
|age =
|hair = Gray (balding; toupee<ref name="Replaceable">"[[Replaceable You]]"</ref>) (formerly brown)
|job = Super-duperintendent of [[Springfield Elementary School]] '''Formerly:''' Teacher Superintendent of [[Springfield Elementary School]] Vice-principal of [[Springfield High School]]<ref>''[[The Bart Book]]''</ref>
|relatives = '''Wife:''' [[Rosemary Chalmers]] (deceased)<ref name="Bart Stops">"[[Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts]]"</ref> '''Sister:''' [[Muriel]] '''Daughter:''' [[Shauna Chalmers]]<ref>"[[What to Expect When Bart's Expecting]]"</ref>
|appearance = "[[Whacking Day]]"
|voiced by = [[Hank Azaria]]
}}

'''Superintendent Gary Chalmers''' is the superintendent<ref name="Bart Stops"/> of [[Springfield]]'s [[Springfield Elementary School|school]] district.

== Biography ==
=== Early life ===
Chalmers originally hails from Utica, [[New York]],<ref>"[[22 Short Films About Springfield]]"</ref> but has also said that he comes from Queens, New York and [[Intercourse]], [[Pennsylvania]]. He attended Ball State University and is a proud owner of a red 1979 Honda Accord (and later, a Camry, which [[Otto Mann]] promptly wrecks). He mentioned to [[Seymour Skinner|Principal Skinner]] that he is a Sagittarius (b. November 22-December 22).<ref>''[[The Heartbroke Kid]]''</ref>

=== Teaching days ===
Chalmers used to teach, until he supervised a group of detention students called [[The Fight Club]] and they beat him up when he mistakenly called them "The Breakfast Club". After this, he never taught again and only superintended. Years later, he ended up teaching [[Bart Simpson]] and several other students about {{Ch|Theodore Roosevelt}} when [[Principal Skinner]] challenged him to take over Bart's education.<ref name="Bart Stops"/>

=== Personality ===
Chalmers is a strict, no-nonsense, and largely humorless man, with a short temper and low tolerance for disorder or rule-breaking. His general demeanor and personality are like those of a military officer. Whenever he visits Springfield Elementary, some sort of disaster strikes. He produces extreme anxiety in [[Principal Skinner]], who offers increasingly improbable stories to explain what is happening. Chalmers is known for throwing open the doors to the room and bellowing "SKINNER!!!" or "SEYMOUR!!!", to which Seymour's usual response is to stammer "S-Superintendent Chalmers!" Evidently, Chalmers' trademark bellowed catchphrase has caused some paranoia in Skinner.<ref>"[[Lisa's Date with Density]]"</ref>

Chalmers's own competence and dedication to his job are questionable. He let [[Ned Flanders]] allow the school to descend into anarchy when he was principal, freely admitting that he had fired Skinner for far less, explaining simply that "Skinner really bugged me." In fact, the only reason Chalmers even allowed Skinner to be reinstated as Principal was because Ned Flanders introduced prayer into the school, and thus was fired because Chalmers felt that religion should never be placed within school walls, just as school or government shouldn't be placed in church walls. He seems disturbingly unconcerned with the school's decline, saying that "the way America's public schools are sliding, they'll all be like this in a matter of months. I say enjoy it — it's a hell of a toboggan ride!" He also promotes people based on personal bias as opposed to actual competence, promoting Principal Holloway, described by Skinner as a "drunk" and Chalmers as a "pill-popper", to assistant superintendent, overlooking the efforts made by Skinner to improve his school's standing.
[[File:Chalmers bald.png|thumb|left|Chalmers with a bald head]]
When Springfield began erecting surveillance cameras around [[Springfield]] and [[742 Evergreen Terrace]] was discovered to be a blind spot and transformed into a crowding place for rebellious activity, Superintendent Chalmers was spotted swinging nunchucks while prancing in a Tutu.<ref>"[[To Surveil With Love]]"</ref>

He was once involved in a large brawl in the teacher's lounge and was knocked out after [[Dewey Largo]] punched him over a wooden balcony.

Chalmers and Skinner have also made [[Chalmskinn Productions]], an organization that the two school workers make when they sponsor [[Lisa]] in a film competition.

=== Romantic Interests ===
Chalmers once dated [[Agnes Skinner]], much to Skinner's dismay<ref>"[[Bart the Fink]]"</ref> (although on other occasions he has mentioned being married). Later, it is revealed that Chalmers is a widower and his wife's name was [[Rosemary Chalmers|Rosemary]].<ref name="Bart Stops"/>

Skinner once received a note by Bart's [[Raymond Bird|carrier pigeon]] stating that Chalmers and [[Edna Krabappel]] were "doing it", after Skinner read it, Chalmers backed out of the room awkwardly and claimed she was on the rebound from [[Groundskeeper Willie]].<ref>"[[How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?]]"</ref> Chalmers also once said that he was dating the mother of one of the [[Springfield Elementary School|Springfield Elementary]] band students.<ref>"[[Flaming Moe]]"</ref>

He hooked-up with [[Brunella Pommelhorst]] during "Grownup Halloween".<ref>"[[Halloween of Horror]]"</ref>

=== Hair ===
When Chalmers was younger and a teacher, he had brown hair.<ref name="Bart Stops"/> However, he has since gone totally bald. His gray balding hairstyle is actually a toupee.<ref name="Replaceable"/>

=== Traits ===
On a few occasions, Chalmers says Skinner's name this way when absolutely nothing has gone wrong, implying that he probably pronounces Skinner's name this way out of habit (e.g. once saying "SKINNNEERR! and [[Agnes Skinner|Mrs. SKINNNEERR!]]") This habit seems to also have an effect on words that rhyme with "Skinner", such as "I must get home to make sure my pool boy is using his SKIMMMEERR!", "...catch a fish for his DINNNEERR!" and "SPINNNEERR" after yelling at [[Bart Simpson]] for spinning in Skinner's chair.

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== Future ===
In one possible future, Chalmers is practically a vegetable, wheelchair-bound and only capable of saying his trademark line: "Skinner!"<ref>"[[Future-Drama]]"</ref>

In another possible future, Chalmers is a colonel of an army that he leads on the planet [[Rigel 7]] to fight the [[Rigellians]], to get [[Hillarium]], a liquid that makes everything funny. He is defeated after Bart makes Chalmers slap himself in a large robot suit that he controls by movement, telling him he had something on his face, thus making Chalmers fall off a cliff.<ref>"[[Treehouse of Horror XXII]]"</ref>

In one comic story he revealed he had been dating [[Lunchlady Dora]].<ref>"[[The "X" Men]]"</ref> Chalmers and Dora were also seen making out in "[[Brick Like Me]]"

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
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== Behind the Laughter ==
*In the DVD commentary for "[[22 Short Films About Springfield]]", ''Simpsons'' creators noted that Superintendent Chalmers seems to be one of the few "normal" characters on the show, and Chalmers is frequently alone in his awareness of the show's zaniness.
*His first name was revealed to be Gary in "[[Yokel Chords]]" by Bart.

=== Foreign dubs ===
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|esLAVoice=Miguel Ángel Botello
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== Appearances ==
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*{{ep|Whacking Day}}
*{{ep|Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song}}
*{{ep|The PTA Disbands}}
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)}}
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)}}
*{{ep|Team Homer}}
*{{ep|Bart the Fink}}
*{{ep|'Round Springfield}}
*{{ep|22 Short Films About Springfield}}
*{{ep|Miracle on Evergreen Terrace}}
*{{ep|Lisa's Date with Density}}
*{{ep|Grade School Confidential}}
*{{ep|The Principal and the Pauper}}
*{{ep|Lisa Gets an "A"}}
*{{ep|Wild Barts Can't Be Broken}}
*{{ep|Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"}}
*{{ep|I'm Goin' to Praiseland}}
*{{ep|The President Wore Pearls}}
*{{ep|Fat Man and Little Boy}}
*{{ep|Future-Drama}}
*{{ep|The Heartbroke Kid}}
*{{ep|Marge's Son Poisoning}}
*{{ep|We're on the Road to D'ohwhere}}
*{{mov}}
*{{ep|Girls Just Want to Have Sums}}
*{{ep|Future-Drama}}
*{{ep|G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)}}
*{{ep|Yokel Chords}}
*{{ep|The Debarted}}
*{{ep|Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words}}
*{{ep|How the Test Was Won}}
*{{ep|Waverly Hills 9021-D'oh}}
*{{ep|The Fool Monty}}
*{{ep|Moms I'd Like to Forget}}
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
*{{ep|Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXII}}
*{{ep|Replaceable You}}
*{{ep|Ned 'N' Edna's Blend}}
*{{ep|Lisa Goes Gaga}}
*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
*{{ep|Black-Eyed, Please}}
*{{ep|You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee}}
*{{ep|What to Expect When Bart's Expecting}}
*{{ep|The Wreck of the Relationship}}
*{{ep|Super Franchise Me}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXV}}
*{{ep|Opposites A-Frack}}
*{{ep|Simpsorama}}
*{{ep|Blazed and Confused}}
*{{ep|Covercraft}}
*{{ep|The Man Who Came To Be Dinner}}
*{{ep|Bart's New Friend}}
*{{ep|Walking Big & Tall}}
*{{bon|The Principal of the Thing}}
*{{bon|K-Bart}}
*{{bon|The Secret Life of Bart Simpson|(Bart daydreams that he's "Superintendent Simpson")}}
*{{bk|The Marge Book|(Old high school photo)}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Game}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Tapped Out}}
}}

== References ==
{{Images|Gary Chalmers}}
{{Reflist}}

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Elizabeth Hoover

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{{Character
|name = Elizabeth Hoover
|image = [[File:Elizabeth Hoover.png|200px]]
|gender = {{Female}}
|hair = Brown (formerly blue and red)
|age =
|status = Alive
|job = Teacher at [[Springfield Elementary]]
|relatives =
|appearance = "[[Brush with Greatness]]"
|mentioned = "[[Bart the General]]"
|voiced by = [[Maggie Roswell]] (1991– 1999; 2002– present) [[Marcia Mitzman Gaven]] (1999– 2002)
}}

'''Elizabeth Hoover''' (commonly known as '''Miss Hoover''') is a second grade teacher at [[Springfield Elementary School]].

== Biography ==
Miss Hoover has been worn down by her years in the public school system, and is not against drinking significant quantities of alcohol. She is very apathetic and bored with her job, and seems overwhelmed with stress, seeking whatever remedies she can to alleviate it. She is often seen smoking even while teaching, once even under a "No Smoking" sign in the assembly hall. Once she was granted tenure, she willingly turned over her teaching responsibilities to Ralph Wiggum.

Her desperate attempts to regain her stability include rushing out of class to recite "Calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean" with her eyes closed, and even, on two occasions, getting into her car and driving off.

She is in particular weary of dealing with [[Lisa]]'s unbridled enthusiasm (though initially she seemed proud of Lisa) and [[Ralph]]'s mishaps and inanities. A typical response to one of his difficulties is, "The children are right to laugh at you, Ralph."

She was replaced by a substitute teacher, [[Mr. Bergstrom]] when she thought she had Lyme disease. It turned out that her condition was psychosomatic, which the children thought that meant that she was both "faking it" and "crazy."

=== Romances ===
*Ms. Hoover had a one-time date with Apu,<ref>"[[The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons]]"</ref> and at one time she made out with [[Groundskeeper Willie]].<ref>"[[24 Minutes]]"</ref>
*She once went on a date with [[Kirk Van Houten]].<ref>"[[Mayored to the Mob]]"</ref>
*She was once proposed to by an unnamed man. However, she wanted to see other people and hired Homer to break them up.<ref>"[[Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words]]"</ref>
*She was also seen at the Simpsons' Mardi gra party with [[Principal Skinner]].<ref>"[[No Loan Again, Naturally]]"</ref>
*She also attended [[Artie Ziff]]'s prom recreation with [[Otto]].<ref>"[[Half-Decent Proposal]]"</ref>
*She got together with [[Professor Frink]] during "Grownup Halloween".<ref>"[[Halloween of Horror]]"</ref>
**When Frink made himself desirable to women, Miss Hoover was one of the women who took interest in him.<ref name="Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4">"[[Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4]]"</ref>
*Frink later paired her with [[Duffman]].<ref name="Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4"/>

== Non-canon ==
{{Noncanon}}
=== Video games ===
In ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'', Miss Hoover is one of 2 characters that don't have any lines, even whilst exploring the town; the other being [[Lunchlady Dora]].

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/More School Workers|MissHoover}}

== Behind the Laughter ==
*Ms. Hoover is voiced by [[Maggie Roswell]], and was temporarily voiced by [[Marcia Mitzman Gaven]] while Roswell was involved in a pay dispute.
*She is named after [[Matt Groening]]'s first-grade teacher at Ainsworth Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, Mrs. Elizabeth Hoover, who recognized Groening’s drawing talent early after seeing his picture of a boat.<ref>[http://www.simpsoncrazy.com/news/all-about-greonings-past-in-portland-and-more Simpson Crazy - "All About Matt Groening's Past in Portland and More!"]</ref>
*At the beginning of the series, her hair was blue, which changed to red, then changed to brown (her current hair color).
*In "[[Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts]]" it's revealed that Ms. Hoover drives an AMC Pacer.

== Appearances ==
{{Scroll|
*{{ep|Bart the General|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|Brush with Greatness}}
*{{ep|Lisa's Substitute}}
*{{ep|The War of the Simpsons}}
*{{ep|Bart the Murderer}}
*{{ep|Marge vs. the Monorail}}
*{{ep|Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie}}
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)}}
*{{ep|Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror V}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror VIII}}
*{{ep|Half-Decent Proposal}}
*{{ep|The Frying Game}}
*{{ep|Yokel Chords}}
*{{ep|24 Minutes}}
*{{ep|The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly}}
*{{ep|My Big Fat Geek Wedding}}
*{{ep|Jazzy and the Pussycats}}
*{{ep|The President Wore Pearls}}
*{{ep|'Tis the Fifteenth Season}}
*{{ep|The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons}}
*{{ep|Alone Again, Natura-Diddily}}
*{{ep|Bart Has Two Mommies}}
*{{ep|Trash of the Titans}}
*{{ep|The Principal and the Pauper}}
*{{ep|Treehouse of Horror IX}}
*{{ep|Treehouse of Horror X}}
*{{ep|Dial "N" for Nerder}}
*{{ep|Coming to Homerica}}
*{{ep|Pranks and Greens}}
*{{ep|The Color Yellow}}
*{{ep|Papa Don't Leech}}
*{{ep|Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times}}
*{{ep|Marge Gamer}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIV}}
*{{ep|A Tale of Two Springfields}}
*{{ep|Girls Just Want to Have Sums}}
*{{mov}}
*{{ep|Funeral for a Fiend}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XX}}
*{{ep|The Fool Monty}}
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
*{{ep|Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts}}
*{{ep|Replaceable You}}
*{{ep|The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants}}
*{{ep|Ned 'N' Edna's Blend}}
*{{ep|Lisa Goes Gaga}}
*{{ep|The Man Who Grew Too Much}}
*{{ep|Days of Future Future}}
*{{ep|Clown in the Dumps}}
*{{ep|The Wreck of the Relationship}}
*{{ep|Opposites A-Frack}}
*{{ep|Blazed and Confused}}
*{{ep|Covercraft}}
*{{ep|The Musk Who Fell to Earth}}
*{{ep|Walking Big & Tall}}
*{{bon|Spree for All|(silhouette)}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Tapped Out}}
*{{bk|The Bart Book}}
*{{bk|The Lisa Book}}
}}

== References ==
{{Images|Ms. Hoover}}
{{Reflist}}

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