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| − | name='''Barney Gumble'''| | + | name=Frederick Jethro Jebadiahnex Farleyborough| |
| | gender=Male| | | gender=Male| |
| − | hair=Messy brown| | + | hair=brown| |
| − | age=39, same as [[Homer Simpson|Homer]]| | + | age=26| |
| − | job=Once became a sailor after tasting the all-syrup Squishee, was also once a snow-plow driver which may still be his current job| | + | job=bum| |
| − | relatives=Arnie Gumble (father,deceased), Unnamed mother (U.S. Naval officer)|
| + | appearance=[[{{appearance}}]]| |
| − | appearance=[[Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire]]| | + | voiced by= [[Zorgin Hmorgin]] |
| − | voiced by= [[Dan Castellaneta]] | |
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| − | '''Barnard "Barney" Gumble''' is voiced by [[Dan Castellaneta]]. He was born on April 20 of an indeterminate year. | + | '''Fred''' is voiced by [[Zorgin]]. He is a kick ass. He is famous not only for his superhero work but also because he is a retarded welfare bum who lives with his family. Originally thought to be a teenager, he later turned out to be in his 20's. |
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| − | ==Bio==
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| − | Barney is the [[Springfield]] town drunk, the most prominent of several alcoholic Springfieldianites. He is almost always seen in [[Moe's Tavern]], where he is a regular. His desperation for alcohol has been the source of many jokes. He has a quavering, slightly broken voice and a distinctive loud belch (although he sings in a completely different voice, rather like Jim Nabors). He remains friendly and good-natured despite his unfortunate condition. Heavyset, slovenly, and unmarried (though occasionally seen with women), he lives in a messy, sparsely-furnished apartment while he is also seen living at Moe's Tavern. Barney first appeared in the episode, "[[Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire]]", in which he worked as a department store Santa and gave Homer a tip for winning at the dog track. The season 1 DVD for the series indicates that the script writers originally intended for Barney to be Homer's next-door neighbour.
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| − | ==Occupation==
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| − | He is occasionally seen doing some sort of menial labor, such as working for his uncle--not also named Barney, but named Al--at [[Barney's Bowl-O-Rama]], but has also been the owner of a successful snow ploughing business and been employed as an astronaut. Barney is generally portrayed as being [[Homer Simpson]]'s best friend, known from when they were at school, although they have the occasional fall-out during the series. In the episode, "[[Mr. Plow]]", Barney was inspired by Homer's Mr. Plow business to have his own snow removal service, calling himself the [[Plow King]] and buying a snow removal truck much bigger than Homer's. He even got Linda Ronstadt to sing on his commercials. "We've been looking for a project to do together for a while," he explained. He took away all Homer's customers and earned the key to Springfield.
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| − | Barney served in the United States Navy for a short time, as a submariner on the USS Jebediah ("[[Simpson Tide]]") with his own mother as his superior officer.
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| − | ==Early Years==
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| − | As a teenager, Barney showed much potential until Homer introduced him to beer. Later on, with Homer, he was a member of [[The Be Sharps]] barbershop quartet, which introduced his splendid basso profundo voice. It was heard again in the episode with Sherry Bobbins and in "[[Mommie Beerest]]".
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| − | ==Artist==
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| − | Barney showed his artistic side again in, "[[A Star is Burns]]", in which Barney won top prize at the Springfield Film Festival for a moving documentary about his life as an alcoholic, called "Puke-a-hontas". Also in that episode, Barney's first name was revealed as Barnard. Since [[Montgomery Burns]] caused Moe's Tavern to close down, ( "[[Who Shot Mr. Burns]]? Part I"), Barney became a major suspect for shooting Burns after Burns blocked the sun.
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| − | ==Alcohol==
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| − | In the episode, [["Days of Wine and D'oh'ses]]", Barney kicked the alcoholism habit. For his birthday, Moe gave him a gift certificate for helicopter flying lessons, not expecting Barney to actually use them. "Can you imagine this boozehound at the wheel of a whirlybird?", Moe asked. Barney went to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, became sober, and took the helicopter flying lessons. He became fairly proficient at it, though he admitted he only knew to make left turns. This new skill helped Homer rescue [[Bart Simpson| Bart]] and [[Lisa Simpson| Lisa]] from a forest fire. Unwilling to lose a customer, Moe figured out a way to transfer Barney's addiction to espresso, which led to the disappearance of his trademark belch. He had relapses in "[[The Blunder Years]]" and "[[I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can]]" and was back on the sauce in "[[My Big Fat Geek Wedding]]" (in a scene that was a parody of Jimmy Stewart's Harvey). Homer also encouraged Barney to have a beer when he played Ulysses S. Grant is a reenactment of the Battle of Springfield (though this, surprisingly, did not cause him to become alcoholic again). By the end of season 15 he was back to his old, alcoholic self. Early in season sixteen, though, in a nice continuity nod, he briefly sobered up and got back behind the controls of his helicopter to rescue [[Chloe Talbot]] an old girlfriend from a volcanic lava flow.
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| − | [[Image:Barney gumble and chloe talbot.jpg|right|200px| Barney Saved Chloe]]
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| − | Something of a running joke in the series and the comics is that Barney is considered extremely desirable by the opposite sex. In the episode where Selma goes to the Springfield Sperm Bank, Barney walks out from the donation room and is greeted with familiarity by a staff member. Seconds later a mother with a baby appears on screen, Barney exclaims that the baby is a beautiful little girl, whereupon the baby removes her pacifier and emits Barney's distinctive belch. The next shot shows a line of happy mothers and babies trailing from the Sperm Bank, and a continuous chorus of Barney Belches following them.
| + | He is as desirable to the opposite sex as his father Slade. However, he is very desirable to the same sex, as he is loved by both Erwin and Ez. |
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| | ==Future== | | ==Future== |
| − | Barney is seen in only one future episode, Bart to the Future. Here, he frequents a different bar run by an adult [[Nelson Muntz]] and seems quite the same.
| + | He is shown in the future, to be one of a few survivors after a bomb. The other one is extremely voluptuous. He spends the rest of his life lusting after her and then dies and goes to hell. |
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| − | ==Trivia==
| + | He is the teenage kickass, a moronic ball of poof who beats up a gay dragon. |
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| − | The name "Barney Gumble" is a parody (and near homonym) of "Barney Rubble" of Hanna-Barbera's [[The Flintstones]]. Barney Rubble is Fred Flintstone's best friend.
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| − | Barney shares his birthday with Adolf Hitler and another character from the same show, [[Marge Simpson]].
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He is as desirable to the opposite sex as his father Slade. However, he is very desirable to the same sex, as he is loved by both Erwin and Ez.
He is shown in the future, to be one of a few survivors after a bomb. The other one is extremely voluptuous. He spends the rest of his life lusting after her and then dies and goes to hell.
