- "BURRRRRRPPPP!!!"
- ―Barney's catch phrase
| Barney Gumble
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| Character Information
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Bernard "Barney" Gumble is the Springfield town drunk, the most prominent of several alcoholic Springfielders and Homer Simpson's best friend.
I pooped on my head
Personality
Joy to the world that Barney Gumble is dead! We BBQ his head Don't worry about the body, we flushed it down the potty, and around and around it goes. And around and around it goes
Behind the Scenes
Barney was partly based on "Crazy" Guggenheim, a character from Jackie Gleason's American Scene Magazine.[2] Matt Groening noted: "Barney was taking the standard sitcom sidekick and just making him as pathetic as possible. And also there was a sort of unspoken rule about not having drinking on television as a source of comedy. So, of course, we went right for it."[2] In "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" Barney was sobered up, a move that many staff members were against believing "a wide-awake, freshly showered, sober Barney just isn't as funny as an unkempt, disoriented, drunk one." Castellaneta did not change his voice after the sobering, because "[he thinks Barney's] still got 15 years of booze left in his veins."[2]
The name Barney Gumble is a parody (and near homonym) of Barney Rubble, Fred Flintstone's best friend on Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones. In several of the episodes of the first season, Barney Gumble's hair was yellow, just like Barney Rubble's hair. He was also born on April 20 1956.
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 indicates that the script writers originally intended for Barney to be Homer's next-door neighbor.
Barney is also a major character on the show and has been central in a few episodes such as Mr. Plow, Homer's Barbershop Quartet, and Days of Wine and D'oh'ses. Barney has also appeared in every single season although in season 19 he made only cameo appearances. In season 2,3,4,5, Barney made lots of speaking appearances aproximately 10-15 episodes, because he was always seen in Moe's. He has appeared in 274 episodes.
Trivia
- In Homer's Triple Bypass, Barney once mistook Homer's heart operation as him trying to go through a sex-change operation.
Appearances
 Episode – "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" - Episode – "Homer's Odyssey"
- Episode – "There's No Disgrace Like Home"
- Episode – "Moaning Lisa"
- Episode – "The Telltale Head"
- Episode – "Homer's Night Out"
- Episode – "Some Enchanted Evening"
- Episode – "Bart Gets an F"
- Episode – "Simpson and Delilah"
- Episode – "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"
- Episode – "Dancin' Homer"
- Episode – "Bart the Daredevil"
- Episode – "Bart Gets Hit by a Car"
- Episode – "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"
- Episode – "The Way We Was "
- Episode – "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"
- Episode – "Principal Charming"
- Episode – "Old Money"
- Episode – "Brush with Greatness"
- Episode – "The War of the Simpsons"
- Episode – "Three Men and a Comic Book"
- Episode – "Blood Feud"
- Episode – "Stark Raving Dad"
- Episode – "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington"
- Episode – "When Flanders Failed"
- Episode – "Homer Defined"
- Episode – "Like Father, Like Clown"
 THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II" - Episode – "Saturdays of Thunder"
- Episode – "Flaming Moe's"
- Episode – "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"
- Episode – "I Married Marge"
- Episode – "Lisa the Greek"
- Episode – "Homer Alone"
- Episode – "Homer at the Bat"
- Episode – "Dog of Death"
- Episode – "Colonel Homer"
- Episode – "Black Widower"
- Episode – "Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes?"
- Episode – "Kamp Krusty (Episode)"
- Episode – "A Streetcar Named Marge"
- Episode – "Homer the Heretic"
- Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror III"
- Episode – "New Kid on the Block"
- Episode – "Mr. Plow"
- Episode – "Homer's Triple Bypass"
- Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail"
- Episode – "Selma's Choice"
- Episode – "I Love Lisa"
- Episode – "Duffless"
- Episode – "So It's Come To This: A Simpsons Clip Show"
- Episode – "The Front"
- Episode – "Whacking Day"
- Episode – "Marge in Chains"
- Episode – "Krusty Gets Cancelled"
- Episode – "Homer's Barbershop Quartet"
- Episode – "Cape Feare"
- Episode – "Rosebud"
- Episode – "Marge on the Lam"
- Episode – "Bart's Inner Child"
- Episode – "Boy-Scoutz N the Hood"
- Episode – "The Last Temptation of Homer"
- Episode – "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"
- Episode – "Homer the Vigilante"
- Episode – "Homer and Apu"
- Episode – "Bart Gets Famous"
- Episode – "Deep Space Homer"
- Episode – "Homer Loves Flanders"
- Episode – "Bart Gets an Elephant"
- Episode – "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"
- Episode – "Lady Bouvier's Lover"
- Episode – "Secrets of a Successful Marriage"
- Episode – "Another Simpsons Clip Show"
- Episode – "Sideshow Bob Roberts"
- Episode – "Homer Badman"
- Episode – "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy"
- Episode – "Fear of Flying"
- Episode – "Homer the Great"
- Episode – "And Maggie Makes Three"
- Episode – "Bart's Comet"
- Episode – "Homer vs. Patty and Selma"
- Episode – "A Star is Burns"
- Episode – "Lisa's Wedding"
- Episode – "'Round Springfield"
- Episode – "The Springfield Connection"
- Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"
- Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)"
- Episode – "Radioactive Man"
- Episode – "Bart Sells His Soul"
- Episode – "Lisa the Vegetarian"
- Episode – "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular"
- Episode – "Team Homer"
- Episode – "Two Bad Neighbors"
- Episode – "Lisa the Iconoclast"
- Episode – "Homer the Smithers"
- Episode – "Bart on the Road"
- Episode – "22 Short Films About Springfield"
- Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing"
- Episode – "Homerpalooza"
- Episode – "You Only Move Twice"
- Episode – "The Homer They Fall"
- Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns"
- Episode – "Bart After Dark"
- Episode – "Hurricane Neddy"
- Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer"
- Episode – "The Springfield Files"
- Episode – "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious"
- Episode – "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"
- Episode – "Homer's Phobia"
- Episode – "Brother from Another Series"
- Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter"
- Episode – "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment"
- Episode – "Grade School Confidential"
- Episode – "The Old Man and the Lisa"
- Episode – "In Marge We Trust"
- Episode – "Homer's Enemy"
- Episode – "The Simpsons Spin-off Showcase"
- Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"
- Episode – "The Principal and the Pauper"
- Episode – "Lisa's Sax"
- Episode – "The Cartridge Family"
- Episode – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons"
- Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic"
- Episode – "Realty Bites"
- Episode – "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace"
- Episode – "All Singing, All Dancing"
- Episode – "The Joy of Sect"
- Episode – "The Last Temptation of Homer"
- Episode – "Dumbbell Indemnity"
- Episode – "Simpson Tide"
- Episode – "The Trouble with Trillions"
- Episode – "Trash of the Titans"
- Episode – "King of the Hill"
- Episode – "Lost Our Lisa"
- Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IX"
- Episode – "When You Dish Upon a Star"
- Episode – "D'oh-in' in the Wind"
- Episode – "Lisa Gets an "A""
- Episode – "Mayored to the Mob"
- Episode – "Viva Ned Flanders"
- Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"
- Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"
- Episode – "Homer to the Max"
- Episode – "I'm with Cupid"
- Episode – "Marge Simpson in Screaming Yellow Honkers"
- Episode – "Maximum Homerdrive"
- Episode – "Mom and Pop Art"
- Episode – "The Old Man and the "C" Student"
- Episode – "Monty Can't Buy Me Love"
- Episode – "They Saved Lisa's Brain"
- Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"
- Episode – "Beyond Blunderdome"
- Episode – "Brother's Little Helper"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X"
- Episode – "E-I-E-I-D'oh"
- Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"
- Episode – "Eight Misbehavin'"
- Episode – "Faith Off"
- Episode – "The Mansion Family"
- Episode – "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"
- Episode – "Pygmoelian"
- Episode – "Bart to the Future"
- Episode – "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses"
- Episode – "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Marge"
- Episode – "Behind the Laughter"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XI"
- Episode – "A Tale of Two Springfields"
- Episode – "Insane Clown Poppy"
- Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger"
- Episode – "HOMЯ"
- Episode – "Tennis the Menace"
- Episode – "Bye Bye Nerdie"
- Episode – "Trilogy of Error"
- Episode – "I'm Goin' to Praiseland"
- Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod"
- Episode – "Simpsons Tall Tales"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII"
- Episode – "Homer the Moe"
- Episode – "The Blunder Years"
- Episode – "Sweets and Sour Marge"
- Episode – "Jaws Wired Shut"
- Episode – "Tales from the Public Domain"
- Episode – "Weekend at Burnsie's"
- Episode – "Gump Roast"
- Episode – "The Sweetest Apu"
- Episode – "The Frying Game"
- Episode – "Papa's Got a Brand New Badge"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XII"
- Episode – "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation"
- Episode – "Large Marge"
- Episode – "Helter Shelter"
- Episode – "Special Edna"
- Episode – "Pray Anything"
- Episode – "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can"
- Episode – "C.E.D'oh"
- Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo"
- Episode – "Dude Where's My Ranch"
- Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please"
- Episode – "The Bart of War"
- Episode – "Moe Baby Blues"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIV"
- Episode – "The Regina Monologues"
- Episode – "Today I Am A Clown"
- Episode – "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife"
- Episode – "Smart and Smarter"
- Episode – "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner"
- Episode – "Co-Dependent's Day"
- Episode – "My Big Fat Geek Wedding"
- Episode – "Simple Simpson"
- Episode – "The Way We Weren't"
- Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner"
- Episode – "Fraudcast News"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XV"
- Episode – "She Used to Be My Girl"
- Episode – "Mommie Beerest"
- Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass"
- Episode – "There's Something about Marrying"
- Episode – "The Seven Beer Snitch"
- Episode – "Don't Fear the Roofer"
- Episode – "The Heartbroke Kid"
- Episode – "A Star is Torn"
- Episode – "Home Away from Homer"
- Episode – "The Girl Who Slept Too Little"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVI"
- Episode – "See Homer Run"
- Episode – "Simpsons Christmas Stories"
- Episode – "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere"
- Episode – "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"
- Episode – "Bart Has Two Mommies"
- Episode – "Homer Simpson, This is Your Wife"
- Episode – "Million Dollar Abie"
- Episode – "The Wettest Stories Ever Told"
- Episode – "The Monkey Suit"
- Episode – "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play"
- Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats"
- Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em..."
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVII"
- Episode – "G.I.D'oh"
- Episode – "Moe 'N' a Lisa"
- Episode – "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)"
- Episode – "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times"
- Episode – "Little Big Girl"
- Episode – "Springfield Up"
- Episode – "Homerazzi"
- Episode – "The Boys of Bummer"
- Episode – "Crook and Ladder"
- Episode – "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot"
- Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want"
 – The Simpsons Movie - Episode – "He Loves To Fly And He D'ohs"
- Episode – "The Homer of Seville"
- Episode – "Midnight Towboy"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVII"
- Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend"
- Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"
- Episode – "E. Pluribus Wiggum"
- Episode – "That 90's Show"
- Episode – "Papa Don't Leech"
- Episode – "Any Given Sundance"
- Episode – "Mona Leaves-a"
- Episode – "Lost Verizon"
- Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX"
- Episode – "Homer And Lisa Exchange Cross Words"
- Episode – "The Burns and the Bees"
- Episode – "How the Test Was Won"
- Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally"
- Episode – "Wedding For Disaster"
- Episode – "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe"
- Episode – "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly"
- Episode – "Father Knows Worst"
- Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure"
- Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe"
 Video game – The Simpsons: Hit and Run - Video game – The Simpsons Road Rage
- Video game – The Simpsons Skateboarding
- Video game – The Simpsons Game
- Video game – The Simpsons: Minutes to Meltdown
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