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{{Character
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|name = Hans Moleman
hair=None|
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|image = [[File:Hans Moleman.png|230px]]
age=31 (though his heavy drinking has made him look older)|
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|caption = Artwork of Hans Moleman by [[Matt Groening]]
job=Several different jobs|
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|gender = {{Male}}
relatives=Wife - Unnamed|
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|status = Alive
appearance=[[Principal Charming]]|
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|age = 31<ref name="Selma's Choice">"[[Selma's Choice]]"</ref><ref name="Duffless">"[[Duffless]]"</ref>
voiced by=[[Dan Castellaneta]]
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|hair = Bald<br>Formerly blond<ref>"[[The Ten-Per-Cent Solution]]"</ref><br>Formerly brown<ref name="Walking Big & Tall">"[[Walking Big & Tall]]"</ref>
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|job = Various<br>Former mayor<ref name="Walking Big & Tall"/>
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|relatives = '''Wife:''' [[Hans Moleman's family|Unnamed]]<br>'''Father:''' [[Hans Moleman's father|Unnamed]]<br>'''Son:''' [[Hans Moleman's family|Unnamed]]<br>'''Daughter:''' [[Hans Moleman's family|Unnamed]]
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|appearance = "[[Principal Charming]]"
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|voiced by = [[Dan Castellaneta]]
 
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'''Hans Moleman''' is a character in ''The Simpsons'' and is voiced by [[Dan Castellaneta]]. He normally appears in a running gag, where he usually suffers unfortunate, nearly always tragic, events.
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'''Hans Moleman''' (born August 2),<ref name="Selma's Choice"/> also known as '''Ralph Melish''',<ref>"[[Principal Charming]]"</ref><ref>[[Every.Simpsons.Ever.]]</ref> is a 4ft 4 in, 140 lb mole-like man with extremely bad luck. He is also a former [[Mayor of Springfield]].<ref name="Walking Big & Tall"/>
  
==Biography==
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== Description ==
''Hans Moleman'' is the retconned name of the character. He is a 4 ft 4 in, 140 lb mole-like man with extremely bad luck. Although apparently elderly, he claims to be only 31 years old (his driver's license says he was born August 2, 1961; this episode aired in the early 1990s, and birth years have been changed in the series to keep characters the same age), but due to his heavy drinking, he appears much older. He has cataracts and is almost entirely blind(which has severely impaired his reading ability) and has used medical marijuana. He carries a brown cane with him everywhere, which has once been shown to contain a hidden sword.
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He has cataracts and is almost entirely blind (which has severely impaired his reading ability) and has used medical marijuana. He carries a brown cane with him everywhere, which was once shown to contain a hidden sword.
  
Hans usually drives a 1977 AMC Gremlin, although in "[[Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"]]" he drives a 1995 Ford Contour and in ''[[The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer]]'' he drives a pickup truck.In "[[Treehouse of Horror IV]]", when Bart tells [[Otto Mann]] about a monstrous gremlin on the side of the bus, Otto mistakes Moleman's AMC Gremlin vehicle for Bart's claims, and rams it off the road - it veers towards a tree, but stops at a perfect distance, which then only leads the car to exploding, parodying the vehicle's alleged shoddiness). When the [[Department of Motor Vehicles]] (where Patty and Selma work) is shown, Moleman is often getting his driver's license approved or voided.
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== Biography ==
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[[File:Hans Moleman Every Simpsons Ever.jpg|thumb|250px|left]]
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[[File:920 Oak Grove.png|thumb|Hans Moleman's driver's license]]
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Although apparently elderly, Hans Moleman once claimed that he was only 31 years old<ref name="Duffless"/> (his driver's license says he was born August 2, 1961, in a 1993 episode),<ref name="Selma's Choice"/> but due to his heavy drinking, he appears much older. However, this was wrong, most likely due to a combination of an error on his license and a mixture of old age and drinking.
  
His home address is 920 Oak Grove, [[Springfield]], USA 90701. (In reality, ''90701'' is the zip code for Artesia, California.) He has also been seen living at the [[Springfield Retirement Castle]].
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Moleman is a former mayor of Springfield. Whilst he was the mayor, he bought a town anthem off a traveling salesman, which had also been sold to many other towns and cities. He also balanced the budget eight times during his time as mayor. When it was revealed that former Mayor Moleman had bought the town anthem and not written it himself as he had claimed, he was ejected from Springfield by being tied to a horse and sent out into the desert. After a long time, Moleman said "whoa" and the horse stopped and took him off its back.<ref name="Walking Big & Tall"/>
  
==Careers==
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Hans was once mistaken for Bart and accidentally "de-programmed" (Homer and Marge had hired a cult de-programmer, hoping to convince Bart to move out of Mr. Burns' mansion and back in with them), apparently leading him to believe he is [[Bart|the son]] of [[Homer]] and [[Marge]].<ref>"[[Burns' Heir]]"</ref> At one time, it was revealed that Hans Moleman slept with Lars Ulrich's grandmother, and is considered by [[Metallica]] to be a "real fan".<ref>"[[The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer]]"</ref>
He runs an early morning radio show, on [[Springfield]]'s jazz station KJAZZ-FM, in which he introduces himself as "This is Moleman in the Morning, Good Moleman to you". One of his other jobs was driving a truck filled with sugar (which he subsequently flipped onto its side, spilling its contents, much to Homer's delight.) He is often seen driving other types of trucks as well. In another episode ("[[Homer's Triple Bypass]]"), he is seen transporting the birthplace of Edgar Allan Poe in a truck. He also teaches an orange-eating class at the Adult Learning Centre in Springfield. [[Itchy and Scratchy Land|On another occasion]], it is implied that he works at a bird sanctuary, as he has to order a bird seed bell ("No, that's too big"). He once worked as a postal worker. He once worked as a janitor at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]] and received a severe head wound ("Oh no, my brains.") from [[Mr. Burns]] when Moleman asked Burns for seventeen dollars for a push-broom rebristling; Burns, high on ether, mistook him for the Lucky Charms leprechaun and went to his skull with a power drill.  He has also been seen representing a Solar Power company in [[The Last Temptation of Homer]]. In [[Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder]], in a reference to the supervillain Mole Man, Homer stumbles across Hans Moleman as the leader of a race of Mole People in an underground fortress complete with earthquake machines ("There is no escape from the fortress of the Moles!"). Before now he has also been working in  a prison as someone giving out books.
 
  
Most recently, he has been sighted working as a teller at the [[First Bank of Springfield]]. He also worked as a Duff Delivery man in ''[[Mypods and Boomsticks]]''
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Homer once stumbled across Hans Moleman as the leader of a race of Mole People in an underground fortress complete with earthquake machines.<ref name="Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder">"[[Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder]]"</ref>
  
==Accidents==
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Moleman's home address is [[920 Oak Grove]], [[Springfield]]. He has also been seen living at the Springfield Retirement Castle and he is shown to live in a small house directly below the dam that was erected (and subsequently destroyed). Apparently, he had a father who lived at Springfield Retirement Castle with whom he does the wheelbarrow race with, indicating that he may actually be younger than he looks.<ref>"[[In the Name of the Grandfather]]"</ref>
Hans has escaped death innumerable times, usually highly improbably. He survived his car blowing up, catching on fire due to the powerful magnifying effect of his glasses, [[Montgomery Burns]] drilling into his brain, capital punishment (in a local jail) after Homer eats his last meal, being buried alive, getting stranded in the snow surrounded by wolfs, getting ran over by the school bus and being engulfed by the "anti-escape bubble" that was attempting to catch Marge (a parody of the Rover security device from the 60s show ''the Prisoner''). Many times people will totally disregard him, usually leading to something like death, or simply imprisonment, but since he appears, even after "dying", those later appearances could indicate he survived. He has also had several accidents where he was not severely injured. He further angered the crowd at [[Lisa on Ice|Bart and Lisa's junior hockey final]] because he fell down the steps then shouted 'We paid for blood!'. He also crashed his 1959 Cadillac into the side of Springfield's Planet Hype restaurant (which Marge mistook for a clever decoration). One time, due to Homer's stupidity and intolerance of Muslims, he nearly drowned in his truck when it sank into the river after Homer blew up the bridge between Duff Brewery island and the rest of Springfield.
 
  
==Character origins==
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=== Love life ===
Moleman first appeared as a character model for the season two episode "[[Principal Charming]]", but he looked so shrivelled and unrealistic that some one proclaimed to look like a "mole man". However, he was used in several episodes and later became a recurring character.According to the episode "[[Principal Charming]]", his name was '''Ralph Melish''', which is a reference to the Monty Python sketch "The adventures of Ralph Melish: Hot Dog and Knickers" from The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief.According to a DVD commentary for one episode, some number of viewers were offended by Moleman's appearance, and he was reused in order to annoy people of such a viewpoint.{{Fact|date=October 2007}} Matt Groening has claimed that Hans Moleman was inspired by Tex Avery's Droopy Dog, who shares many of Moleman's deadpan and unassuming mannerisms.{{Fact|date=October 2007}}
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Moleman once went on a date with [[Selma Bouvier]]. However, when she imagined what life with Moleman might be like, she kicked him out of her car (outside the wrong house). Moleman also went on a date with [[Lunchlady Dora]] at [[Holding Hands Point]], Moleman claimed they were putting their relationship back together. Moleman and Dora were later seen together at a screening of "[[All the Wrong Reasons]]".<ref>"[[Homer Scissorhands]]"</ref><ref>"[[Beware My Cheating Bart]]"</ref> He was seen at "Grownup Halloween" with both [[Princess Kashmir]] and [[Stephanie Brockman]].<ref>"[[Halloween of Horror]]"</ref>
[[Category: Retirement Castle Residents]]
 
  
==Apperances==
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=== Careers ===
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[[File:MolemanEarthquake.png|thumb|left|260px|Hans Moleman with his earthquake machine]]He runs an early morning radio show, on [[Springfield]]'s jazz station KJAZZ-FM, in which he introduces himself as "This is Moleman in the Morning, Good Moleman to you". One of his other jobs was driving a truck filled with sugar (which he subsequently flipped onto its side, spilling its contents, much to Homer's delight.) He is often seen driving other types of trucks as well. He was seen transporting the birthplace of Edgar Allan Poe in a truck.<ref>"[[Homer's Triple Bypass]]"</ref> He also teaches an orange-eating class at the Adult Learning Centre in Springfield.
* [[Principal Charming]]
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* [[Old Money]]
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On another occasion, it is implied that he works at a bird sanctuary, as he has to order a bird seed bell ("No, that's too big").<ref>"[[Itchy & Scratchy Land]]"</ref> He once worked as a postal worker. He once worked as a janitor at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant]] and received a severe head wound ("Oh no, my brains.") from [[Mr. Burns]] when Moleman asked Burns for seventeen dollars for a push-broom rebristling; Burns, high on ether, mistook him for the Lucky Charms leprechaun and went to his skull with a power drill. He has also been seen representing a Solar Power company.<ref>"[[The Last Temptation of Homer]]"</ref> Homer stumbles across Hans Moleman as the leader of a race of Mole People in an underground fortress complete with earthquake machines.<ref name="Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"/> Before now he has also been working in a prison as someone giving out books.He has also made a short movie for the Springfield movie festival entitled "Man getting hit by football" in which his only three words were "Ow, my groin".
* [[Treehouse of Horror IV]]
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Most recently, he has been sighted working as a teller at the [[First Bank of Springfield]]. He also worked as a Duff Delivery man in <ref>"[[MyPods and Boomsticks]]"</ref> and a janitor at the Power plant.<ref>"[[Million Dollar Maybe]]"</ref><ref>"[[Team Homer]]"</ref>
* [[The Last Temptation of Homer]]
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* [[Lisa on Ice]]
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=== Accidents ===
* [[Team Homer]]
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Hans has escaped death innumerable times, usually highly improbably. He survived when his car exploded, after Otto mistook the gremlin on the side of the schoolbus, for Moleman's AMC Gremlin (a car). He survived being thrown out of a 2 story building, he survived catching on fire due to the powerful magnifying effect of his glasses, [[Charles Montgomery Burns|Montgomery Burns]] drilling into his brain, capital punishment (in a local jail) after Homer eats his last meal, being crushed by a pizzeria rubble, being buried alive, getting stranded in the snow surrounded by wolves, getting run over by the school bus, mysteriously flying into the side of a restaurant,<ref>"[[My Sister, My Sitter]]"</ref> sinking completely into quicksand, being run over (while carrying a "U Suck" sign in the middle of countless "Keep Out" signs) by Homer Simpson when trying to dump the Pig Crap into Springfield Lake, and being engulfed by the "anti-escape orb" that was attempting to catch Marge from escaping a [[Movementarianism|Movementarian]] compound (a parody of the Rover security device from the 60s show ''the Prisoner'').
* [[My Sister, My Sitter]]
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* [[The Simpsons Spin-off Showcase]]
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Many times people will totally disregard him, usually leading to something like death, or simply imprisonment, but since he appears, even after "dying", those later appearances could indicate he survived. He has also had several accidents where he was not severely injured. He further angered the crowd at Bart and Lisa's junior hockey final because he fell down the steps then shouted 'We paid for blood!!'.<ref>"[[Lisa on Ice]]"</ref> He also crashed his 1959 Cadillac into the side of Springfield's Planet Hype restaurant (which Marge mistook for a clever decoration). On one occasion, due to Homer's stupidity, he nearly drowned in his truck when it sank into the river after Homer blew up the bridge between Duff Brewery island and the rest of Springfield.
* [[The Joy of Sect]]
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* [[The Frying Game]]
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== Non-canon ==
* [[Burns' Heir]]
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{{Noncanon}}
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In unaired episodes leaked by hacktivists from "[[Pseudo-nonymous]]" included the [[opening credits]] except when [[Homer]] threw the radioactive rod stuck in his back out of [[Pink Sedan|his car]]'s window, it landed in the beverage cup in the hands of a young man who upon sucking from his straw was immediately transformed from handsome and muscular into Hans Moleman. He pleaded with the woman he was with that he is the same man on the inside, but she still ran away from him screaming.<ref>"[[Lisa the Boy Scout]]"</ref>
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=== The Simpsons: Road Rage ===
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In ''[[The Simpsons: Road Rage]]'', Moleman is one of the characters who can be picked up as a passenger. He lives in an [[Moleman's apartment|apartment]] on a back street near the [[Springfield Grocery Store]].
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=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
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==== Hans Moleman ====
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{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Squeaky-Voiced Teens & Molemen|Moleman}}
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==== Others ====
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<gallery>
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File:Hans Mechman.png|[[Hans Mechman]]
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File:Iron Lung.png|[[Iron Lung]]
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== Behind the Laughter ==
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[[File:Principal Charming Moleman, Man With Nice Stride.jpg|thumb|left|Sketch of "Kindly Old Gent" and "Man With Nice Stride"]]
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Moleman first appeared as a character model for the season two episode "[[Principal Charming]]", but he looked so shriveled and unrealistic that some one proclaimed to look like a "mole man". Before this, Moleman was known as "Kindly Old Gent". However, he was used in several episodes and later became a recurring character.
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According to the episode "[[Principal Charming]]", his name was '''Ralph Melish''', which is a reference to the ''Monty Python'' sketch, ''The Adventures Of Ralph Melish: Hot Dog and Knickers'', from ''The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief''.
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According to a DVD commentary for one episode, some number of viewers were offended by Moleman's appearance, and he was reused in order to annoy people of such a viewpoint. Matt Groening has claimed that Hans Moleman was inspired by Tex Avery's Droopy Dog, who shares many of Moleman's deadpan and unassuming mannerisms.
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Latest revision as of 11:45, December 15, 2024


"My name is Hans. Drinking has ruined my life. I'm 31 years old!"
―Hans Moleman[src]
Hans Moleman
Hans Moleman.png
Artwork of Hans Moleman by Matt Groening
Character Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Status:
Alive
Age: 31[1][2]
Hair: Bald
Formerly blond[3]
Formerly brown[4]
Occupation: Various
Former mayor[4]
Relatives: Wife: Unnamed
Father: Unnamed
Son: Unnamed
Daughter: Unnamed
First appearance: "Principal Charming"
Voiced by: Dan Castellaneta


Hans Moleman (born August 2),[1] also known as Ralph Melish,[5][6] is a 4ft 4 in, 140 lb mole-like man with extremely bad luck. He is also a former Mayor of Springfield.[4]

Description[edit]

He has cataracts and is almost entirely blind (which has severely impaired his reading ability) and has used medical marijuana. He carries a brown cane with him everywhere, which was once shown to contain a hidden sword.

Biography[edit]

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Hans Moleman's driver's license

Although apparently elderly, Hans Moleman once claimed that he was only 31 years old[2] (his driver's license says he was born August 2, 1961, in a 1993 episode),[1] but due to his heavy drinking, he appears much older. However, this was wrong, most likely due to a combination of an error on his license and a mixture of old age and drinking.

Moleman is a former mayor of Springfield. Whilst he was the mayor, he bought a town anthem off a traveling salesman, which had also been sold to many other towns and cities. He also balanced the budget eight times during his time as mayor. When it was revealed that former Mayor Moleman had bought the town anthem and not written it himself as he had claimed, he was ejected from Springfield by being tied to a horse and sent out into the desert. After a long time, Moleman said "whoa" and the horse stopped and took him off its back.[4]

Hans was once mistaken for Bart and accidentally "de-programmed" (Homer and Marge had hired a cult de-programmer, hoping to convince Bart to move out of Mr. Burns' mansion and back in with them), apparently leading him to believe he is the son of Homer and Marge.[7] At one time, it was revealed that Hans Moleman slept with Lars Ulrich's grandmother, and is considered by Metallica to be a "real fan".[8]

Homer once stumbled across Hans Moleman as the leader of a race of Mole People in an underground fortress complete with earthquake machines.[9]

Moleman's home address is 920 Oak Grove, Springfield. He has also been seen living at the Springfield Retirement Castle and he is shown to live in a small house directly below the dam that was erected (and subsequently destroyed). Apparently, he had a father who lived at Springfield Retirement Castle with whom he does the wheelbarrow race with, indicating that he may actually be younger than he looks.[10]

Love life[edit]

Moleman once went on a date with Selma Bouvier. However, when she imagined what life with Moleman might be like, she kicked him out of her car (outside the wrong house). Moleman also went on a date with Lunchlady Dora at Holding Hands Point, Moleman claimed they were putting their relationship back together. Moleman and Dora were later seen together at a screening of "All the Wrong Reasons".[11][12] He was seen at "Grownup Halloween" with both Princess Kashmir and Stephanie Brockman.[13]

Careers[edit]

Hans Moleman with his earthquake machine
He runs an early morning radio show, on Springfield's jazz station KJAZZ-FM, in which he introduces himself as "This is Moleman in the Morning, Good Moleman to you". One of his other jobs was driving a truck filled with sugar (which he subsequently flipped onto its side, spilling its contents, much to Homer's delight.) He is often seen driving other types of trucks as well. He was seen transporting the birthplace of Edgar Allan Poe in a truck.[14] He also teaches an orange-eating class at the Adult Learning Centre in Springfield.

On another occasion, it is implied that he works at a bird sanctuary, as he has to order a bird seed bell ("No, that's too big").[15] He once worked as a postal worker. He once worked as a janitor at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and received a severe head wound ("Oh no, my brains.") from Mr. Burns when Moleman asked Burns for seventeen dollars for a push-broom rebristling; Burns, high on ether, mistook him for the Lucky Charms leprechaun and went to his skull with a power drill. He has also been seen representing a Solar Power company.[16] Homer stumbles across Hans Moleman as the leader of a race of Mole People in an underground fortress complete with earthquake machines.[9] Before now he has also been working in a prison as someone giving out books.He has also made a short movie for the Springfield movie festival entitled "Man getting hit by football" in which his only three words were "Ow, my groin". Most recently, he has been sighted working as a teller at the First Bank of Springfield. He also worked as a Duff Delivery man in [17] and a janitor at the Power plant.[18][19]

Accidents[edit]

Hans has escaped death innumerable times, usually highly improbably. He survived when his car exploded, after Otto mistook the gremlin on the side of the schoolbus, for Moleman's AMC Gremlin (a car). He survived being thrown out of a 2 story building, he survived catching on fire due to the powerful magnifying effect of his glasses, Montgomery Burns drilling into his brain, capital punishment (in a local jail) after Homer eats his last meal, being crushed by a pizzeria rubble, being buried alive, getting stranded in the snow surrounded by wolves, getting run over by the school bus, mysteriously flying into the side of a restaurant,[20] sinking completely into quicksand, being run over (while carrying a "U Suck" sign in the middle of countless "Keep Out" signs) by Homer Simpson when trying to dump the Pig Crap into Springfield Lake, and being engulfed by the "anti-escape orb" that was attempting to catch Marge from escaping a Movementarian compound (a parody of the Rover security device from the 60s show the Prisoner).

Many times people will totally disregard him, usually leading to something like death, or simply imprisonment, but since he appears, even after "dying", those later appearances could indicate he survived. He has also had several accidents where he was not severely injured. He further angered the crowd at Bart and Lisa's junior hockey final because he fell down the steps then shouted 'We paid for blood!!'.[21] He also crashed his 1959 Cadillac into the side of Springfield's Planet Hype restaurant (which Marge mistook for a clever decoration). On one occasion, due to Homer's stupidity, he nearly drowned in his truck when it sank into the river after Homer blew up the bridge between Duff Brewery island and the rest of Springfield.

Non-canon[edit]

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In unaired episodes leaked by hacktivists from "Pseudo-nonymous" included the opening credits except when Homer threw the radioactive rod stuck in his back out of his car's window, it landed in the beverage cup in the hands of a young man who upon sucking from his straw was immediately transformed from handsome and muscular into Hans Moleman. He pleaded with the woman he was with that he is the same man on the inside, but she still ran away from him screaming.[22]

The Simpsons: Road Rage[edit]

In The Simpsons: Road Rage, Moleman is one of the characters who can be picked up as a passenger. He lives in an apartment on a back street near the Springfield Grocery Store.

The Simpsons: Tapped Out[edit]

Hans Moleman[edit]

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Others[edit]

Behind the Laughter[edit]

Sketch of "Kindly Old Gent" and "Man With Nice Stride"

Moleman first appeared as a character model for the season two episode "Principal Charming", but he looked so shriveled and unrealistic that some one proclaimed to look like a "mole man". Before this, Moleman was known as "Kindly Old Gent". However, he was used in several episodes and later became a recurring character.

According to the episode "Principal Charming", his name was Ralph Melish, which is a reference to the Monty Python sketch, The Adventures Of Ralph Melish: Hot Dog and Knickers, from The Monty Python Matching Tie and Handkerchief.

According to a DVD commentary for one episode, some number of viewers were offended by Moleman's appearance, and he was reused in order to annoy people of such a viewpoint. Matt Groening has claimed that Hans Moleman was inspired by Tex Avery's Droopy Dog, who shares many of Moleman's deadpan and unassuming mannerisms.

Appearances[edit]

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References[edit]

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