Robert Terwilliger, Sr.
Robert Underdunk Terwilliger Sr.
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Character Information
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Robert Underdunk Terwilliger Sr. is Sideshow Bob's father. He appeared in Funeral for a Fiend.
Debut
His debute was in "A Funeral for a Fiend".
Role in the episode
When Sideshow Bob was put on trial for trying to kill The Simpsons, he claimed that Bob had suffered from an illness caused by his desire to kill Bart Simpson. Bart threw Sideshow Bob's medication out of a window (believing it to be a biological weapon). This subsequently caused Sideshow Bob to "die". In reality, Bob was injected with a death simulation drug by his father prior to the fated trial in order to conduct a complex plan to kill Bart Simpson via locking him in a coffin and cremating him.
Hair
Surprisingly the Terwilliger brothers get their distinctive hair from their mother's side. Cecil's hair is relatively normal.Sideshow Bob and his brother Cecil got the shape of their head from their father.
Bridge
He is quite good at Bridge, which he plays with Cecil and Gino, while he, and the rest of the Terwilliger family, are in Prison.
Prison Sentence
He, and the rest of the Terwilliger family, are in prison for 87 years.
Trivia
He is voiced by John Mahoney, who also plays the father of the two brothers in Frasier. The two brothers are voiced by Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce the voice actors of Sideshow Bob and Cecil Terwilliger who are brothers in The Simpsons. Kelsey and David also star as Frasier and Niles Crane.
