Roofi

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Character Information Gender: Male ♂ Status: Unknown Age: 40s Hair: Black Occupation: Children's singer First appearance: "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays" Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Roofi is a singer and songwriter who creates music that appeals to very young children. Some of his songs are "I Like Ice Cream," "One, Two, Tie Your Shoe," "Helpful Bear on the 28th Floor," "Tickets, Tickets," and a "Nonsense Song."

History

Marge discovered Roofi's music, played it for Maggie and found that both she and Maggie enjoyed it. Marge then played Roofi's music non-stop for Maggie, much to the annoyance of Bart and Lisa, who couldn't stand Roofi's music. They ended up going to great lengths to avoid it, turn it off, or (at the very least) hear it as little as possible. When Marge took Bart and Lisa to school, she had Roofi's music playing on the car stereo for Maggie. When Marge pulled up in front of Springfield Elementary School, Bart and Lisa jumped out and ran to the building before she had even stopped the car. At the end of the school day, Lisa looked out the window and cringed when she saw Marge and Maggie in the car bobbing their heads in time to the music. Bart, for his part, begged Mrs. Krabappel to give him detention to put off having to hear the music again.

Marge took Maggie to see Roofi in an outdoor concert and discovered that the concert had been vastly oversold. Unsupervised babies were everywhere, and when it started raining, a Woodstock-like disaster was the result. The rain made all of the babies start crying, and Roofi's opening act tried to settle them down, but was unsuccessful. Roofi came onto the stage anyway, and started playing. Not only did the babies keep crying, but one of them also threw a rattle at Roofi, hitting him in the face. Roofi then abruptly ended the concert, parodying one of his own songs by saying, "Show's over. Five, six, so long hicks."

In spite of the bad concert experience, Roofi kept making music and his CDs continued to sell in Springfield. Marge bought a new Roofi CD and played it on the car stereo for Maggie.

Behind the Laughter

• Roofi is a parody of Raffi Cavoukian, a popular children's entertainer from Canada.
• Roofi sounds like the character Fouad from Family Guy.

Appearances

• Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays"
• Episode – "Elementary School Musical" (voice only)

References

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