Lurleen Lumpkin

"I used to play the field, I used to be a roamer
But the season's turning 'round for me now,
I finally bagged me a Homer!"

―Lurleen Lumpkin

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Character Information Gender: Female ♀ Status: Unknown Age: 30s Hair: Blond Occupation: Country Musician Barmaid Relatives: Father: Royce Lumpkin Mother: Unnamed Husband: Unnamed, but resembles Homer Ex-husbands: All unnamed, but resemble Homer First appearance: "Colonel Homer" Voiced by: Beverly D'Angelo Doris Grau

Lurleen Lumpkin is an attractive, aspiring country western singer. Homer was her manager for a time.

History

Homer discovered Lurleen in a bar in the middle of nowhere. She sang "Your Wife Don't Understand You" for the rowdy bar crowd, and Homer was amazed by her voice. He decided to help her launch a singing career, much to the chagrin of Marge. Lurleen was grateful to have someone helping her with her career, but she quickly started falling for Homer, and it came out in her song lyrics. First, she flirted with him in "Bagged Me a Homer," which angered Marge, but to which Homer remained oblivious. Then she made an open attempt to seduce him with an erotic song called "Bunk with Me Tonight." When Lurleen sang the song for him, it finally dawned on Homer that Lurleen was attracted to him. Later he had another epiphany, and suddenly realized that managing Lurleen could hurt his marriage, so he abruptly quit as her manager in the middle of a TV appearance, and went home. Saddened, but wiser, Lurleen then sang on the show a new song called "Stand By Your Manager," which she had written on the spot. Happily, Homer and Marge were able to make up before the show was over.

Lurleen enjoyed a brief period of success after Homer quit managing her. At what Kent Brockman described as the peak of her career, she appeared as a celebrity guest on The Muppet Show. Lurleen sang "Bunk with Me Tonight" for Kermit, which got him into trouble with Miss Piggy. After that, however, her career went into a downward spiral, and she started drinking heavily. She also never got over Homer, marrying and divorcing three times—with all of her ex-husbands, despite being from diverse ethnic backgrounds, bearing striking resemblances to Homer.

Lurleen was present during the opening of the Springfield Monorail, where she revealed to Kent Brockman that she had been to the Betty Ford Clinic and had "spent last night in a ditch." Lurleen was also seen at the Bowlarama as one-fourth of a bowling team called "The Home Wreckers," the other three members being Jacques Brunswick, Mindy Simmons and Princess Kashmir.

Lurleen resurfaced when Mayor Quimby was aggressively rounding up citizens who owed back taxes, and was arrested. She pleaded to Judge Snyder that she couldn't afford to pay anything because all of her money was going to her ex-husbands, but Snyder was unmoved and ordered her to start paying her taxes. Homer and Marge promised to help her get her career back on track, and Marge helped reunite Lurleen with her deadbeat father. When her father betrayed her again (stealing one of her new songs), Lurleen retook control of her career and went on to open for The Dixie Chicks. She still didn't have all her personal issues resolved, though, as she fell for yet another man who resembled Homer.

Songs

• "Your Wife Don't Understand You"
• "Bagged Me a Homer"
• "Bunk with Me Tonight"
• "Stand By Your Manager"
• "Daddy's Back"

Behind the laughter

In her debut appearance in "Colonel Homer," Lurleen is voiced by American actress and singer Beverly D'Angelo, who reprises her role in the Season 19 episode "Papa Don't Leech." D'Angelo was cast because of her role as country music singer Patsy Cline in the film Coal Miner's Daughter. D'Angelo wrote the songs "Your Wife Don't Understand You" and "Bagged Me a Homer." In "Marge vs. the Monorail," Lurleen is voiced by Doris Grau.

Appearances

• Episode – "Colonel Homer"
• Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail"
• Episode – "Team Homer"
• Episode – "Bart on the Road"
• Episode – "Realty Bites"
• Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"
• Episode – "Homerazzi"
• Episode – "Papa Don't Leech"
• Episode – "All About Lisa"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX"
• – The Simpsons Movie

Gallery

• Lurleen and Homer.jpg

  Lurleen trying to kiss Homer

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  Lurleen flirting with Homer

• Lurleen Singing You're Wife Don't Understand You.jpg

  Lurleen singing "Your Wife Don't Understand You"

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  Lurleen (left), as she appeared in "All About Lisa"

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  Lurleen, next to Cletus, as a muncher in "Treehouse of Horror XX"

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