Gordie Howe

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Character Information Gender: Male ♂ Status: Alive Hair: Brown (in photo) Occupation: Hockey Player (Retired) First appearance: "Bart the Lover"

Gordie Howe is a retired professional hockey player from Canada.

History

Bart was pranking Mrs. Krabappel by answering her personals ad and carrying out a chain of correspondence with her, using "Woodrow" as an alias. When Mrs. Krabappel proposed that they exchange pictures and enclosed a sexy photo of herself, Bart was at first stuck for an idea. However, he started flipping through a book of NHL stars, came across Howe's picture, and decided to use it for Woodrow's picture. As Bart cut Howe's photo from the book, he said, "Strap on your skates, Gordie, you're goin' in."

Behind the Laughter

• Gordie Howe (born March 31, 1928) is generally regarded as one of the greatest ice hockey players of all time. He enjoyed a very long professional career, even playing several seasons on teams with two of his grown sons.
• Howe's career statistics are shown over his picture at the beginning of the episode's closing credits.
• The Simpsons writers originally wanted to have Bart send Mrs. Krabappel a picture of American football player Johnny Unitas, but they were unable to obtain the rights to use Unitas's image for free.

Appearances

• Episode – "Bart the Lover"

External Links

• Gordie Howe at Wikipedia