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This article is about the character. For the guest star, see Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Character Information Gender: Male ♂ Status: Deceased Age: 63 Occupation: 32nd President of the United States Relatives: Wife: Eleanor Roosevelt Fifth cousin: Theodore Roosevelt Fifth cousin once removed: Kermit Roosevelt First appearance: "I Love Lisa" Voiced by: Himself (voice archive) v • d • e • h

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in office in 1945 where his four administrations toke place over the Great Depression and World War II. From age 39 Franklin Roosevelt remained paralyzed from the waist down and relied on a wheelchair and leg braces for mobility. A two-pack-a-day smoker, he was often seen with a cigarette holder clenched in his teeth in photographs, political cartoons, and in the public imagination.

History

When Ralph Wiggum wanted to play the part of George Washington in a school play he dresses himself with glasses, a cigarette holder and by seating himself in a wheelchair. Lisa then says: "Eh, Ralph...", presumably to inform him he dressed himself as the wrong president.^[1]

He is featured in a 1940s cartoon of The Itchy and Scratchy Show, kicking Scratchy and Hitler, despite the fact that Roosevelt was a wheelchair patient. This is a reference to the fact that during his term not many people in the general public knew he was a wheelchair patient.^[2]

Krusty the Clown as Franklin D. Roosevelt in a staging at Springfield Performing Arts Center of Sunrise at Campobello was used as example as why Springfield was ranked dead last in culture in Kent Brockman's report.^[3]

Mayor Quimby was throw from his treadmill and out his office window. His new bodyguard Homer was trying to pull him up, but the mayor told him not so fast as he can see into the window of the story below which was the interns' restroom saying to one of them, "Did you know this is how FDR met Eleanor." before she slapped his face.^[4]

When Raphael did a crossword he searched after Roosevelt's middle name. He through it was "excitement" but that don't fit so Lisa started helping him and told him it was "Delano".^[5]

Roosevelt appeared in a story told by Marge. In order to deal with Bonnie and Clyde, President Roosevelt recalled all the air defenses from Pearl Harbor. He then asked to be reminded to move them back again after, with a Japanese ambassador saying that he'd remind Roosevelt.^[6]

A fictional version of Roosevelt was in the opening of Head Butt with Nash Castor where he and Ronald Reagan fought against each other.^[7]

A picture of him was seen in a book that Superintendent Chalmers showed Bart, before Bart developed an interest in Theodore Roosevelt. Lisa said she liked Franklin Roosevelt more than Teddy Roosevelt.^[8]

When Lisa searches for the radio station Bart was on, she runs into Roosevelt's Pearl Harbor speech in 1941 "A date which we'll live in infamy".^[9]

When Lisa was reading her Social Studies book, there was a picture of Franklin and Eleanor in it. Lisa imagined Ms. Cantwell's face coming onto Eleanor's head and she then pushed Franklin, in his wheelchair, off a jetty into water.^[10]

Mr. Burns was filling out the patient intake form at the Mayo Clinic and when writing his social security number, 000-000-002, where he cursed, "Damn Roosevelt" as the Social Security Act was part of the New Deal.^[11]

Mr. Burns removed the daily donuts at the nuclear power plant's break room "until Mr. Roosevelt's New Deal starts working, this country's still in a depression." Mr. Burns was being typically out-of-date as the U.S. midterm elections of 1938 is often marked as the close of the New Deal era.^[12]

Non-canon

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Harvard College had a picture on the wall of Franklin D. Roosevelt (member of the class of 1904).^[13]

One of Homer's clones went to the retirement home and listened to another of Grampa Simpson's go-nowhere stories. Part of it was that after World War II FDR (who Grampa never mentioned was already dead by the time World War II ended) was challenged by Superman (a comic book character) to a race around the world and FDR won by two furlongs.^[14]

The Simpsons: Tapped Out

Franklin D. Roosevelt Icon Update Dialogue Treehouse of Horror XXXI Stairway to Hell Pt. 4

Behind the Laughter

Archive audio of Roosevelt's famous line, "A date which we'll live in infamy", was used in "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" although he was uncredited.

Appearances

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