Lyle Lanley
Lyle Lanley
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Character Information
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Lyle Lanley is a confidence man and shyster who sold a faulty monorail to Springfield in the episode "Marge vs. the Monorail".
Role in The Simpsons
Lanley was a slick con-artist who relies on songs a other eye-cathing things to trick unsuspecting towns into buying something useless and unsafe. After planning the crime, he started an academy for Monorail conductors. He picked Homer for the job despite he getting every answer wrong in the test.
Life
Lyle spent his adulthood going to to towns with a lot of money and selling them monorails. Lanley than would open a monorail school and would choose the dumbest student to conduct the monorail. Afterwards, he would put a celebrity on the monorail and turn it on and on it's first run he would leave the town and go to an expensive place such as Tahti with all the money he got from the town. In the meantime the monorails would go out of control and everybody boarding would die and the town he sold the monorail to will be destroyed.
In the end, Lanley was on nonstop flight to Tahiti. The plane seemingly made a stop in North Haverbrook in which Lanley previously sold a Monorail. The citizens heard he was on a flight to Tahiti and procedded to beat him up. All that was heard was Lanley screaming and the plane rocking. His ultimate fate is unknown.
Destroyed towns
North Haverbrook, Odgenville, and Brockway were destroyed by his monorails. Springfield was about to be destroyed but they were saved by the Simpson family. North Haverbrook has been repaired as seen in episode "Little Big Girl" when Bart picks up Darcy from the Cinema and they spend their night together in North Haverbrook.
