Editing Gil Gunderson

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|name = Gil Gunderson
|image = [[File:Gil Gunderson.png]]
|caption = Artwork of Gil from ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''
|gender = {{Male}}
|hair = Gray
|age = 
|status = Alive
|job = Various
|relatives = '''Wife:''' Unnamed
|appearance = "[[Realty Bites]]"
|voiced by = [[Dan Castellaneta]]
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'''Gil Gunderson''' (usually referred to as '''Ol' Gil''' or '''Gil''') is an unsuccessful and unlucky businessman of [[Springfield]].

== Biography ==
Gil seems to have attended Southern Illinois University, but ended up a few credits short of graduation.<ref>"[[Super Franchise Me]]"</ref><ref>"[[Sky Police]]"</ref>

Gil has held many different jobs, all of which he eventually quits because something bad happens to him: For example, being shot in his first day as a bank security guard.

Gil frequently refers to himself in the third person ("C'mon, help ol' Gil out here!"). He has a tendency to punch people violently in the arm while trying to tell a story. Gil has been married, as evidenced by his mentioning that his wife was going to leave him if he didn't start "bringing in the green". Later, when he telephoned his wife and overheard her carousing with his friend, he didn't have the heart to stop her.

He has several health problems, including bronchitis and a bad back. He's also a strong moocher, and is adept at piano singalongs.<ref name="Kill Gil">"[[Kill Gil, Volumes I & II]]"</ref>

Among the large number of jobs Gil has had is real estate agent. When [[Marge]] started working as a realtor, [[Lionel Hutz]] told her, "Welcome to the big league, Marge. There's over fifty years of experience right in this room! And forty-two of those years are Gil's!", which seemed to imply that before he ran into Marge, Gil actually kept professions.<ref>"[[Realty Bites]]"</ref> He used to be a salesman, but he didn't sell any cars. He was almost going to sell one to [[Homer]], but another salesman took his sale.<ref>"[[Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"]]"</ref> He has sometimes tried to be a lawyer, like when he assisted Marge with her anti-sugar campaign, one of his few successful jobs,<ref>"[[Sweets and Sour Marge]]"</ref> though it was not the same when Homer and Marge went to prison.<ref>"[[The Frying Game]]"</ref> He once worked at the [[Kwik-E-Mart]], but he slipped and hurt his leg.<ref>"[[Eight Misbehavin']]"</ref> He used to work at [[The Springfield Shopper]], trying to sell newspaper subscriptions, but one of the customers on the phone told him to dance for it. Although that person couldn't see Gil, he danced anyway, desperate to sell something.<ref>"[[Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?]]"</ref> He tried pitching a product for Amway - a multi-level marketing company - during an AA meeting after supposedly losing three jobs in two days.<ref>"[[Days of Wine and D'oh'ses]]"</ref> He was a "Coleco" computer salesman, asking the school to buy lots of computers to help "Ol' Gil".<ref>"[[Lisa Gets an "A"]]"</ref>

One of his most miserable jobs was one as a bank security guard, where he was shot several times by robbers just as he was entering the bank for his first day of work.<ref>"[[I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings]]"</ref>

[[File:Kill Gil, Volumes I & II promo.png|thumb|left|Gil as a Mall Santa]]Gil got a job as a Mall Santa, where he brought a [[Malibu Stacy]] out of the back room stock for [[Lisa]] as a [[Christmas]] present, but it was for [[Mr. Costington]]'s daughter, so he fired him. [[Simpson family|The Simpsons]] let him stay in their house for one night, but he brought all his stuff in and made it into an extended stay. He got on the entire family's nerves, but Marge found herself unable to kick him out because she could not say "no" to him. After an entire year, Gil finally moved to Scottsdale because he got a job as a house salesman. Marge still had to say "no" to him, so the family went to Scottsdale to talk to him. There, they discovered Gil was actually successful at this job, as everyone acclaimed him. But when Marge finally confronted Gil and shouted at him because of his being so annoying, Gil's co-workers thought was a miserable man, so he was fired. Marge regretted her actions and offered to buy a house in Scotsdale so Gil could keep his job. This was successful and Gil celebrated Christmas with the Simpsons again.<ref name="Kill Gil"/>

Another of the few successful moments Gil has enjoyed is when he won a crossword contest, but only because he fooled Lisa by making her take his glasses, which he didn't actually need.<ref>"[[Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words]]"</ref>

Gil has had several homes. He once lived at the Springfield Men's Mission (a hostel for down-and-outs) but was forceably ejected from the premises because he had overstayed the "six month occupancy limit." A defiant Gil walked straight into a shady organ donation clinic to sell his eyes for cash.<ref>"[[Old Yeller-Belly]]"</ref> Gil used to live in a hot-air balloon, which was stolen by Homer and Marge. Gil's lone possession in the balloon is a hot plate (on which he still had two more payments to make).<ref>"[[Natural Born Kissers]]"</ref> Gil has also been living in a storage locker.<ref>"[[Day of the Jackanapes]]"</ref> He was once seen climbing out of a sewer before remembering that he lived there.<ref>"[[Changing of the Guardian]]"</ref>

Gil once attempted suicide by hanging himself with Christmas lights. He appears later ice skating near Homer's house with the Christmas lights around his neck.<ref>"[['Tis the Fifteenth Season]]"</ref>

Gil nearly hit [[Snowball V]] in his car (just before [[Lisa]] adopted her), missing her and hitting a tree instead. Lisa saw the near-accident as a sign of good luck and decided to keep the cat, but Gil was left with a smashed-up and burning car. He still danced around celebrating, though, saying that thanks to insurance he'd be eating that night.<ref>"[[I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot]]"</ref>

Gil got a job working as a bagger at Swapper Jack's

== Non-canon ==
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Gil has also been seen as a farmer. He had a thiriving field of corn which would have yielded a bumper crop, but unfortunately, it was completely devoured by Homer's clones. The clones then ate Gil.<ref>"[[Treehouse of Horror XIII]]"</ref>

In ''[[The Simpsons Road Rage]]'', Gil appears as a pedestrian throughout Springfield and can be run over.

In ''[[The Simpsons: Hit & Run]]'', Gil works as a car salesman and in all levels the player character can buy vehicles from him.

=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
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== Behind the Laughter ==
Gil is based on [[Jack Lemmon]]'s portrayal of Shelley Levene in the film version of ''{{W|Glengarry Glen Ross}}'': a nervous, middle-aged man with the inability to hold a steady job due to strings of misfortunes that tend to hit him at the worst times.

=== Foreign dubs ===
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|czVoice={{W|cs:Jiří Plachý mladší|Jiří Plachý}}
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== Appearances ==
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*{{ep|Realty Bites}}
*{{ep|The Last Temptation of Krust}}
*{{ep|The Trouble with Trillions}}
*{{ep|Natural Born Kissers}}
*{{ep|Lisa Gets an "A"}}
*{{ep|Mayored to the Mob}}
*{{ep|Viva Ned Flanders}}
*{{ep|Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"}}
*{{ep|Maximum Homerdrive}}
*{{ep|Monty Can't Buy Me Love}}
*{{ep|E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)}}
*{{ep|Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?}}
*{{ep|Eight Misbehavin'}}
*{{ep|Faith Off}}
*{{ep|Days of Wine and D'oh'ses}}
*{{ep|Day of the Jackanapes}}
*{{ep|Homer the Moe}}
*{{ep|Sweets and Sour Marge}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIII}}
*{{ep|The Frying Game}}
*{{ep|'Tis the Fifteenth Season}}
*{{ep|Million-Dollar Abie}}
*{{ep|Kill Gil, Volumes I & II}}
*{{mov}}
*{{ep|I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings}}
*{{ep|Funeral for a Fiend}}
*{{ep|Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words}}
*{{ep|No Loan Again, Naturally}}
*{{ep|The Fool Monty}}
*{{ep|The Blue and the Gray}}
*{{ep|The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants|(cog in [[Homer]]'s head)}}
*{{ep|Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson}}
*{{ep|Them, Robot}}
*{{ep|Beware My Cheating Bart}}
*{{ep|Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda}}
*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
*{{ep|Changing of the Guardian}}
*{{ep|Gorgeous Grampa}}
*{{ep|Pulpit Friction}}
*{{ep|Pay Pal}}
*{{ep|Super Franchise Me}}
*{{ep|Opposites A-Frack}}
*{{ep|Simpsorama}}
*{{ep|I Won't Be Home for Christmas}}
*{{ep|My Fare Lady}}
*{{ep|The Princess Guide}}
*{{ep|Dogtown}}
*{{ep|My Way or the Highway to Heaven}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXIX|(Intrusion of the Pod-Y Switchers)}}
*{{ep|Baby You Can't Drive My Car}}
*{{ep|From Russia Without Love}}
*{{ep|Werking Mom}}
*{{ep|Krusty the Clown (episode)|pipe=yes|3=Krusty the Clown}}
*{{ep|Daddicus Finch}}
*{{ep|Girl's in the Band}}
*{{ep|I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh}}
*{{ep|Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion}}
*{{ep|Go Big or Go Homer}}
*{{ep|The Fat Blue Line}}
*{{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XXX|(Danger Things)}}
*{{ep|Gorillas on the Mast}}
*{{ep|Marge the Lumberjill}}
*{{ep|Thanksgiving of Horror|(A-Gobble-Ypto)}}
*{{ep|Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?}}
*{{ep|Bobby, It's Cold Outside}}
*{{spec|The Simpsons SU2C PSA}}
*{{ad|Hard Times}}
*{{bon|Somewhere Over the Brain-bow!}}
*{{bon|Slaves of New New York!}}
*{{bon|The Death of Comic Book Guy! (Part Four)}}
*{{bk|The Marge Book}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Road Rage}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Hit & Run}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Tapped Out}}
*{{merch|Simpsons Mania! (Inkworks)|Simpsons Mania!}} 
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== References ==
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