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Character Information Gender: Male ♂ Status: Unknown Hair: Gray Occupation: EPA administrator First appearance: The Simpsons Movie Voiced by: Albert Brooks v • d • e • h

Russ Cargill is a successful businessman and the antagonistic EPA administrator.

Biography

Russ is the United States Environmental Protection Agency's administrator and describes himself as a rich and successful man assigned to the least successful department of the government. He is first seen after a mutated squirrel is captured in Springfield, and presents it to President Schwarzenegger. He then proposes five different solutions to the mass pollution in Springfield and the result is a giant glass dome placed over the town. He appears to the townsfolk via a giant holographic screen and explains that because Springfield has become the most polluted town on the Earth, the government has decided to contain it. Later, the Simpsons escape the dome, and Russ orders extreme and somewhat strange measures to be taken in support of the containment of the town and towards the capture of the Simpsons. One of his henchmen responds by claiming, "Sir I'm afraid you've gone mad with power!" to which Cargill responds, "Of course I have. Have you ever tried going mad without power? It's boring; no one listens to you."

Cargill later appears once again discussing with the president, about a solution to dispose of Springfield and takes advantage of Schwarzenegger's attitude towards reading plans, tricking him into choosing a particular plan, which is to destroy Springfield. Later, Russ appears at a train station in Seattle after learning that Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are on a train headed there and sends his troops in to capture them and return them to the dome. When the family are brought back after Homer's failed attempt to rescue them, Russ contacts the town once again via the screen and tells them that the EPA is going to destroy Springfield and everybody within the dome. A helicopter arrives, lifts a plug off the top of the dome and lowers a bomb on a rope in front of the now-destroyed City Hall. Russ impatiently oversees the countdown, and Cletus Spuckler distracts him so the townspeople can escape up the rope. Homer, who has climbed the outside of the dome, jumps through the hole and knocks everyone and the bomb off of the rope and accidentally brings forward the detonation timer, prompting Russ to disappear at this point. Once the bomb detonates outside the dome and shatters it, a worn and battered Cargill wielding a shotgun ambushes Homer and Bart at Springfield Gorge and prepares to kill them in a final attack, but he is pranked by Bart Simpson about the "Treasure of Ima Weiner" before he is suddenly knocked out (and possibly killed) by a large rock shoved off from a nearby ledge by Maggie before he can fire a single shot. Cargill was either terminated from his job as EPA administrator and arrested for his crimes or died from the blow.

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Russ Cargill Image Cost Unlock method Unlock message Yearbook 80 Secret Agents and Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Three) Premium 30 60 The Buck Stops Here Premium (Shadow Government Mystery Box) 60 Thanksgiving 2018, All American Auction, Blargsgiving, Northward Bound, The Atom Smasher and Cold Turkey Premium (Hidden Agenda Mystery Box) 65 State of Despair Premium (Ballot Box Mystery Box) Technical Information ID Groups Quest(s) Internal Name 173003 Premium Characters, Premium Male, Adult, Villains Another Brick in the Firewall RussCargill Taps Final Update Wave Cost Release 2 80 October 1, 2024 Permanent Jobs Task Time Reward Requires Quest with the task Animated? Go Skating 10m 26, 7 Simpsons' Skating Rink Reject Defeat, Use a Shotgun 60m 105, 26 Go Mad Without Power 4h 260, 70 Overpay for Sex on the Beach 4h 260, 70 Smooches on the Beach Stay at the Swelldorado 4h 260, 70 Swelldorado Try to Win at Blackjack 4h 260, 70 $ Casino Drink and Babysit 4h 260, 70 The Boiled Potato Attend Parenting Seminars 4h 260, 70 Universal Panacea Shop for Cider 4h 260, 70 Mt. Swartzwelder Historic Cider Mill Obtain Anxiety Medication 6h 350, 90 Springfield Medical Center Look up the Treasure of Ima Weiner 8h 420, 105 Springfield Library or Brown House Dance the Señor Burns 8h 420, 105 Chez Guevara Ignore Harvard Alumni Mailouts 12h 600, 150 Brown House Enjoy a Night at the Theater 12h 600, 150 Springfield Playhouse Complain About Electric Buzzing 12h 600, 150 The Buzzing Sign Diner Promote E.P.A. Activity 24h 1,000, 225 Brown House Buy Groceries at a Kindling Store 24h 1,000, 225 Kevin's Kindling Animated Tasks Reject Defeat, Use a Shotgun Go Mad Without Power

Behind the Laughter

The prototype Russ Cargill from a deleted scene from The Simpsons Movie DVD

• In The Simpsons Movie, Russ Cargill is voiced by Albert Brooks. His character has gone through many changes over the course of its development. An early version of the White House scene in the movie (available as a deleted scene in The Simpsons Movie DVD) shows an older model of Russ Cargill, who is arguably less menacing and antagonistic than the current incarnation. The older version is also the version given out in Burger King Kid's Meals promoting the movie.
• It was also originally intended for him to be defeated by President Schwarzenegger with a tree branch but it was changed to Maggie with a boulder.
• Russ Cargill was not the first villain intended for the Simpsons Movie. The original villain was to be Hank Scorpio from the season 8 episode "You Only Move Twice" and also voiced by Albert Brooks, but was changed for an unknown reason.
• In at least one draft of the film, Russ Cargill was going to die in the end.

Foreign dubs

Language Voice dubber Dansk Peter Aude (movie) Deutsch Axel Lutter Polski Adam Ferency

Trivia

• Russ Cargill is the only villain with an ambiguous fate as it's unknown if he was knocked out or killed by the boulder.
• It is unknown how Cargill's clothes got ripped and torn before facing Homer and Bart outside Springfield.
  • There is a possibility that he and his team were just outside the dome when it exploded.
  • It's also possible they got ripped when he climbed the gorge to reach Homer and Bart.

Appearances

• – The Simpsons Movie
• Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" (opening sequence)
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" (Fiendbook post)
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" (trailers only)
• Comic story – The Death of Comic Book Guy! (Part Two)
• Book – C. Montgomery Burns' Handbook of World Domination
• Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out

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