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Revision as of 09:04, December 14, 2009
Joe Quimby
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Character Information
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Joseph Fitzgerald O'Malley Fitzpatrick O'Donnell The Edge "Joe" Quimby,[1] a.k.a. "Diamond Joe" Quimby, or simply Mayor Quimby (voiced by Dan Castellaneta), is a character in The Simpsons and as the mayor of Springfield.
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Origin of name
Joe Quimby's name partly comes from NW Quimby Street in Portland, Oregon, the hometown of show creator Matt Groening. The rest of the character's name is from Portland mobster and chief of police, "Diamond" Jim Purcell.
Profile
Quimby has long served as the mayor of the fictional city of Springfield. He appears as a slick, opportunistic politician whose chief priorities seem to be keeping himself in office, womanizing, and various forms of corruption (his seal shows "corruptus in extremis"), including infidelity, embezzlement of tax money and taking bribes from mobster Fat Tony. Also, he allegedly hijacked a 747 airliner to go to "any place where girls are going wild".
He is known to be a womanizer, and to occasionally amuse himself with pornographic playing cards during town meetings. He frequents La Maison Derriere which is Springfield's burlesque house. Quimby was once the subject of 27 separate paternity suits; a result, no doubt, of his frequent womanizing. One of the women he allegedly impregnated was Cookie Kwan, who held up a baby remarkably similar to Quimby in both looks and mannerisms. With characteristic evasion, Quimby immediately passed the baby to one of his handlers, instructing him to "Raise the child as your own." Presumably, the paternity suits are still ongoing. Quimby also is frequently noticed in bed with the same blonde woman who is illiterate, who was later revealed to be Miss Springfield in "See Homer Run". He frequently takes overseas vacations, which take him out of town for extended periods of time, leading to the headline "Mayor Visits City" in the Springfield Shopper. He once referred to Springfield as Springfeld at a public meeting.
It has been implied on occasion that he is connected to Fat Tony, the local Mafia Don. It is certain that Quimby will bend the law if it suits his purposes: he once arranged Marge Simpson's release after she was arrested for blocking traffic on a bridge after suffering a nervous breakdown, claiming that if she went to jail, Quimby could kiss the "chick vote" goodbye. He also resorted to bribing witnesses when assault charges were brought against his nephew, leading Bart Simpson to observe that "the system works: just ask Claus Von Bulow".
He does not get along with local Police Chief Clancy Wiggum. Quimby's corrupt personality and love of overseas junkets is perhaps most amusingly highlighted during one episode where he announces that after a three-month "fact-finding mission", he has concluded that it is NOT feasible to build a high-speed rail link between Springfield and the tropical paradise resort of Aruba.
Quimby was once labeled as illiterate by Republican talk radio personality Birch Barlow, as well as "tax-cheating," "wife-swapping," and "pot-smoking." Quimby retorted back towards the radio, "Hey! I am no longer illiterate.", as he watered plants in his office closet. The plants in question are shown as a rather large cannabis plants.
His catch phrase is "Vote Quimby", which he always finds an opportunity to say, even during sex or in situations where it would be disadvantageous to identify himself, like inadvertently being caught by Homer in a motel room with his mistress.
Elections
Quimby was elected Mayor of Springfield in 1986. He has been re-elected several times since, despite rather open admissions of fraud and wrongdoing. He once admitted to using taxpayer dollars to fund the murder of his enemies, but thanks to a clever use of a popular catch phrase ("I'm a bad wittle boy"), he was re-elected in a landslide. Further evidence of his apparent political ideology, Quimby has earned himself the hatred of Springfield's small but vocal Republican elite, themselves portrayed as mostly dark, ghoulish figures who meet in a castle.
When the party nominated Sideshow Bob as its mayoral candidate, Bob rigged the election, briefly deposing Quimby. He was re-instated when Bob was found guilty of fraud and imprisoned. He also survived a recall election in 2005, with no candidate in the race against him (candidates included Rainier Wolfcastle (another Schwarzenegger reference), Kent Brockman, and even Homer Simpson) garnering the 5% necessary to force a recall.
He was replaced by Snowball II for a brief period, until she fell asleep during the whole British Invasion of Springfield.
In Lisa's Wedding, he is later seen as a Taxi Driver. It's implied in the episode that he was thrown out of Office, and he has to try and deflect the embarrassment and shame of the event by falsifying his Drivers License by claiming that his name is Mohammad Jafar.
Comparisons to the Kennedy family
There are many things about Quimby and his family that are similar to Ted Kennedy and the Kennedy political family such as:
- He speaks with a Boston accent, in a style most resembling that of Ted Kennedy, commonly separating words with "er" and "ah".
- The mayor is a Democrat, like the Kennedys.
- He enjoys lavish wealth.
- He lives on a coastal estate (the "Quimby compound") with his family—not unlike the Kennedy Compound in Hyannisport, Massachusetts.
- Quimby is married to a woman who wears a pink suit and pillbox hat similar to one Jacqueline Kennedy made famous, whom he met while she was working in Maison Derrière. She may be also related to actor Rainier Wolfcastle, who is modeled after Arnold Schwarzenegger (husband of Ted Kennedy's niece, Maria Shriver); Wolfcastle has been spotted at Quimby family functions.
- The Kennedy family is Irish and so is Joe Quimby.
- The mayor's nephew, Freddy Quimby, was once tried for assault (a reference to the William Kennedy Smith rape trial) during which Mayor Quimby tried to bribe witnesses.
- One of his many middle names is Fitzgerald, which was president John F. Kennedy's middle name.
During the USAToday.com contest to choose which Springfield would host the Simpsons Movie premiere, Ted Kennedy himself appears in a video in which he invited "Diamond Joe" Quimby to Springfield, Massachusetts, and even mocked his own oft-mocked pronunciation of the word "Chowder" (as "Chow-Dah").
In addition to the clear Kennedy connection, Quimby also has similarities with Charles Foster Kane, including having built an opera house for his girlfriend.
Episode Appearances
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- Bart Gets an F
- Old Money
- Three Men and a Comic Book
- Blood Feud
- Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes
- Mr. Plow
- The Amazing Colossal Homer
- Sideshow Bob Roberts
- Treehouse of Horror XX
- You Kent Always Say What You Want
- Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming
- Brother from Another Series
- See Homer Run
- Crook and Ladder
- Little Big Girl
- Million Dollar Abie
- Homerazzi
- Treehouse of Horror XVII
- Kill Gil Vols. 1&2
- Treehouse of Horror VIII
- Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times
- Funeral for a Fiend
- Whacking Day
- Treehouse of Horror XIV
- A Tale of Two Springfields
- Mayored to the Mob
References
External links
- Official site of Joe Quimby's 2000 presidential election campaign
- Mayored to the Mob: A Mayor Quimby Tribute
