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{{redirect|Rod|[[Rod (disambiguation)]]}}
 
{{Character
 
{{Character
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|image= [[Image:Rodflanders2.gif|100px]]
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|name = Rod Flanders
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|name=Rod Flanders
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|image = [[File:Rod Flanders.png|120px]]
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|gender=Male
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|caption = Artwork of Rod from ''[[The Simpsons: Tapped Out]]''
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|hair=Brownish Redish
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|gender = {{Male}}
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|age=10
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|status = Alive
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|job=Student at Springfield Elementary School
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|age = 10
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|relatives='''Parents: [[Ned Flanders]] and [[Maude Flanders]] <br> '''Sibling:''' [[Todd Flanders]]
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|hair = Auburn
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|appearance=“[[The Call of the Simpsons]]”
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|job = Student at [[Springfield Elementary School]]
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|voiced by=[[Pamela Hayden]]
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|relatives = '''Parents:''' [[Ned Flanders]] and [[Maude Flanders]] (deceased)<br>'''Stepmothers: '''[[Ginger Flanders]]<br>and [[Edna Flanders]] (deceased)<br>'''Brother:''' [[Todd Flanders]]<br>'''Grandparents:''' [[Nedward Flanders Sr.]] and [[Capri Flanders]]
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|appearance = "[[The Call of the Simpsons]]"
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|voiced by = [[Pamela Hayden]]<br>[[Hank Azaria]]<ref>"[[Mother and Child Reunion]]"</ref>
 
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'''Rod Flanders''' is voiced by [[Pamela Hayden]], Aurelia Bruno in French and Gabrielle Dhavernas in Canadian French. Rod prays often, first thing in the morning and last thing before bed. He prays for God to watch over him and his little brother, [[Todd Flanders|Todd]]. He prays for the success of his father's [[Leftorium|business]]. He also prays for all of the naughty little boys and girls, like his neighbor [[Bart Simpson]], who are too bad to pray for themselves. Aside from praying, Rod enjoys playing wholesomely with his brother and eating lots of "Nachos, Flanders-Style" (cucumbers with cottage cheese). His one regret is that he cannot pray at school. His favourite song is "Bringing in the Sheaves", followed closely by "Noah and the Arky-arky" and "I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart". Rod has diabetes and has described being quiet during trips as one of his favourite hobbies, including clapping during songs.
 
  
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==Background==
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'''Rod Flanders''' is the elder son of [[Ned Flanders]] and [[Maude Flanders]].
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Rod, like his parents, is very religious. He enjoys attending church, Bible stories, watching religious cartoons, and playing religious-themed board games. These games include ''[[Good Samaritan]]'' - though they do not use dice because Ned says that dice are wicked. Instead they just move one space at a time - he believes "It's less fun that way".
 
  
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Maude and Ned prohibit them consuming foods containing sugar, as they fear it will make them behave badly, in which it does or send them into diabetic shock. He is also extremely entomophobic (particularly with moths and ladybugs), a behavior probably learned from their father, who considers an insect flying near someone a "bug attack". They enjoy stories about robots named Rod and Todd, though these also frighten them.
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Rod often prays, first thing in the morning and last thing before going to bed. He prays for God to watch over him and his little brother, Todd. He prays for the success of his father's business. He also prays for all of the naughty little boys and girls (like Bart), who are too bad to pray for themselves. Aside from praying, Rod enjoys playing wholesomely with Todd and eating lots of "Nachos, Flanders-Style" (cucumbers with cottage cheese).<ref>"[[Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily]]"</ref> His one regret is that he can't pray at school.
  
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Rod prays often, first thing in the morning and last thing before bed. He prays for God to watch over him and his little brother, Todd. He prays for the success of his father's business. He also prays for all of the naughty little boys and girls, like his neighbor Bart Simpson, who are too bad to pray for themselves. Aside from praying, Rod enjoys playing wholesomely with his brother and eating lots of "Nachos, Flanders-Style" (cucumbers with cottage cheese). His one regret is that he cannot pray at school. His favourite song is "Bringing in the Sheaves", followed closely by "Noah and the Arky-arky" and "I've got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart". Rod has diabetes and has described being quiet during trips as one of his favourite hobbies, including clapping during songs. In the episode "[[Crook and Ladder]]", Rod appears to have gray hair in the whole episode. His French voice actor is [[Aurelia Bruno]], and his Canadian French voice actor is [[Gabrielle Dhavernas]].
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Rod's favorite songs are "{{W|Bringing In The Sheaves}}" (followed closely by "Noah And The Arky-Arky") and "I've Got The Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy Down In My Heart."
  
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Rod's largest role was in "[[Bart Has Two Mommies]]", where he obtains new climbing skills and rescues Bart from a gorilla atop a church. This episode also reveals Rod thinks of [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] as the most fun they've ever had ever since [[Maude Flanders|Maude]] died.
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Rod has diabetes<ref>"[[Midnight Rx]]"</ref> and has described being quiet during trips as one of his favorite hobbies (including clapping during songs).
  
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He may also be a transvestite as in [['Tis the Fifteenth Season]] he says he is jealous of girls because they get to wear dresses, and [[Ned]] responds by saying "One problem at a time boy."
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== Biography ==
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[[File:Rod and Todd Every Simpsons Ever.png|thumb|left|250px]]
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Rod, like his parents, is very religious. He enjoys attending church, Bible stories, watching religious cartoons, and playing religious-themed board games. These games include ''[[Good Samaritan]]'' - though they do not use dice because Ned says that dice are wicked. Instead they just move one space at a time - he believes "It's less fun that way",<ref>"[[My Sister, My Sitter]]"</ref> and ''[[Billy Graham's Bible Blaster]]'', a video game in which players try to "convert the heathens" by firing Bibles at them. It cheered him and [[Todd]] up when their [[Maude Flanders|mother]] died.<ref>"[[Alone Again, Natura-Diddily]]"</ref>
  
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==Age discrepancy==
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[[File:Rodfolder.PNG|thumbnail|left|Rod's character folder from the Hall of Records on The Simpsons website.]]
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There is also some controversy as to which of the two is the elder. In "[[Dead Putting Society]]" the commentator at the golf tournament states that Todd is 10. In ''[[Homer Bad Man]]'', one of the corrections that the TV-magazine show ''[[Rock Bottom]]'' makes is to their claim that "the older Flanders boy is Todd, not Rod". (although this could have been included purely to stir up fans). Later, in ''[[Bart Sells His Soul]]'', the Flanders family eat out for Rod's "big ten-oh", suggesting the two are of similar age (however, the present time in at least one other ''Simpsons'' episode has been set two years before that of others, as shown by ''[[All's Fair in Oven War]]''). However, in "[[My Sister, My Sitter]]" Lisa, when babysitting Rod and Todd, tells a story about a robot named Todd who "had a brother named Rod, who was two space years older than him". Todd responds by saying, "I don't like this story!"
 
  
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As Rod is shown to be quite a bit taller than Todd, the claim that Todd is the older brother is disputed. Both Rod and Todd were born after Lisa (who is eight), Todd appearing a younger age than Bart (who is 10) in the episode "[[Lisa's First Word]]" (when Bart was entering "the terrible twos"). This suggests that Rod Flanders is slightly older than the Simpson children.
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Maude and Ned prohibit them consuming foods containing sugar, as they fear it will make them behave badly, in which it does<ref>"[[Homer Loves Flanders]]"</ref> or send them into diabetic shock. He is also extremely entomophobic (particularly with moths and ladybugs), a behavior probably learned from their father, who considers an insect flying near someone a "bug attack". They enjoy stories about robots named Rod and Todd, though these also frighten them.<ref>"[[My Sister, My Sitter]]"</ref> He may be a transvestite, because he claims he's jealous of girls because they get to wear dresses.<ref>"[['Tis the Fifteenth Season]]"</ref>
  
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Despite these discrepancies, the Simpsons official website states that “Todd is the youngest and most impressionable member of the happy Flanders clan”. This seems to trump any inconsistency concerning age seen in the episodes. On the other hand, the character profile for Rod Flanders in [[The Simpsons: A Complete Guide To Our Favorite Family]] describes him as the "youngest of the Springfield Flanders." Another possible reason for the variation is that, in the DVD commentaries for show, the writers have stated that they are never sure which Flanders sibling is Rod and which one is Todd and are often forced to check character models to be sure. According to the commentary, early show writers used two different mnemonics to identify the taller brother; first that Todd started with T and was Taller, or that Rod was long like a rod and hence taller.
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Rod obtained new climbing skills and rescued Bart from a gorilla atop a church. Rod thought of [[Marge]] as the most fun they've ever had ever since [[Maude]] died.<ref>"[[Bart Has Two Mommies]]"</ref>
  
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==Episode Appearances==
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== Non-canon ==
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* [[The Call of the Simpsons]]
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=== Future ===
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* [[Bart the Daredevil]]
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At age 32, Rod, with his brother, [[Todd]], is a crossdressing lounge singer. They live with [[Ned Flanders|their father]], who uses his pension to pay for their estrogen treatments. At age 40, he and Todd still live with Ned and take care of him because his eyes fell out.<ref>"[[Bart to the Future]]"</ref>
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* [[The Frying Game]]
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* [[The Simpsons Movie]]
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=== The Simpsons Game ===
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Rod appears along with his brother Todd Flanders and [[Ralph Wiggum]] as Hobbit-like children who help Homer and Marge defeat the two-headed dragon in order to get the [[Keycard]].<ref>''[[NeverQuest]]''</ref>
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=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
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{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Flanders Family|Rod}}
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== Behind the Laughter ==
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=== Age discrepancy ===
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There is also some controversy as to which of the two is the elder. In "[[Dead Putting Society]]" the commentator at the golf tournament states that Todd is 10. In "[[Homer Badman]]", one of the corrections that the TV-magazine show ''[[Rock Bottom]]'' makes is to their claim that "the older Flanders boy is Todd, not Rod". (although this could have been included purely to stir up fans). Later, in "[[Bart Sells His Soul]]", the Flanders family eat out for Rod's "big ten-oh", suggesting the two are of similar age (however, the present time in at least one other ''Simpsons'' episode has been set two years before that of others, as shown by "[[All's Fair in Oven War]]"). However, in "[[My Sister, My Sitter]]" Lisa, when babysitting Rod and Todd, tells a story about a robot named Todd who "had a brother named Rod, who was two space years older than him". Todd responds by saying, "I don't like this story!"
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As Rod is shown to be quite a bit bigger and taller than Todd, the claim that Todd is the older brother is disputed. Rod and Todd were both born before Lisa (who is eight), Todd appearing a younger age than Bart (who is 10) in the episode "[[Lisa's First Word]]" (when Bart was entering "the terrible twos").
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Despite these discrepancies, the Simpsons official website states that "Todd is the youngest and most impressionable member of the happy Flanders clan". This seems to trump any inconsistency concerning age seen in the episodes. On the other hand, the character profile for Rod Flanders in the book "[[The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family|The Simpsons: A Complete Guide To Our Favorite Family]]" describes him as the "youngest of the Springfield Flanders.", but they have made some mistakes in that book. Another possible reason for the variation is that, in the DVD commentaries for the show, the writers have stated that they are never sure which Flanders sibling is Rod and which one is Todd and are often forced to check character models to be sure. According to the commentary, early show writers used two different mnemonics to identify the taller brother; first that Todd started with T and was Taller, or that Rod was long like a rod and hence taller.
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"Rod" redirects here. For other uses of "Rod", see Rod (disambiguation).
Rod Flanders
Rod Flanders.png
Artwork of Rod from The Simpsons: Tapped Out
Character Information
Gender:
Male ♂
Status:
Alive
Age: 10
Hair: Auburn
Occupation: Student at Springfield Elementary School
Relatives: Parents: Ned Flanders and Maude Flanders (deceased)
Stepmothers: Ginger Flanders
and Edna Flanders (deceased)
Brother: Todd Flanders
Grandparents: Nedward Flanders Sr. and Capri Flanders
First appearance: "The Call of the Simpsons"
Voiced by: Pamela Hayden
Hank Azaria[1]
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Rod Flanders is the elder son of Ned Flanders and Maude Flanders.

Rod often prays, first thing in the morning and last thing before going to bed. He prays for God to watch over him and his little brother, Todd. He prays for the success of his father's business. He also prays for all of the naughty little boys and girls (like Bart), who are too bad to pray for themselves. Aside from praying, Rod enjoys playing wholesomely with Todd and eating lots of "Nachos, Flanders-Style" (cucumbers with cottage cheese).[2] His one regret is that he can't pray at school.

Rod's favorite songs are "Bringing In The Sheaves" (followed closely by "Noah And The Arky-Arky") and "I've Got The Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy Down In My Heart."

Rod has diabetes[3] and has described being quiet during trips as one of his favorite hobbies (including clapping during songs).

Biography[edit]

Rod and Todd Every Simpsons Ever.png

Rod, like his parents, is very religious. He enjoys attending church, Bible stories, watching religious cartoons, and playing religious-themed board games. These games include Good Samaritan - though they do not use dice because Ned says that dice are wicked. Instead they just move one space at a time - he believes "It's less fun that way",[4] and Billy Graham's Bible Blaster, a video game in which players try to "convert the heathens" by firing Bibles at them. It cheered him and Todd up when their mother died.[5]

Rod's character folder from the Hall of Records on The Simpsons website.

Maude and Ned prohibit them consuming foods containing sugar, as they fear it will make them behave badly, in which it does[6] or send them into diabetic shock. He is also extremely entomophobic (particularly with moths and ladybugs), a behavior probably learned from their father, who considers an insect flying near someone a "bug attack". They enjoy stories about robots named Rod and Todd, though these also frighten them.[7] He may be a transvestite, because he claims he's jealous of girls because they get to wear dresses.[8]

Rod obtained new climbing skills and rescued Bart from a gorilla atop a church. Rod thought of Marge as the most fun they've ever had ever since Maude died.[9]

Non-canon[edit]

Donut Homer.png The contents of this article or section are considered to be non-canon and therefore may not have actually happened or existed.

Future[edit]

At age 32, Rod, with his brother, Todd, is a crossdressing lounge singer. They live with their father, who uses his pension to pay for their estrogen treatments. At age 40, he and Todd still live with Ned and take care of him because his eyes fell out.[10]

The Simpsons Game[edit]

Rod appears along with his brother Todd Flanders and Ralph Wiggum as Hobbit-like children who help Homer and Marge defeat the two-headed dragon in order to get the Keycard.[11]

The Simpsons: Tapped Out[edit]

This section is transcluded from The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Flanders Family. To edit it, please edit the transcluded page.
Rod
Image Cost Unlock method Unlock message
Rod Flanders.png Cash.png67,200 Level 32
Rod And Todd Prelude (with Sir Putt-A-Lot's and Todd) 		Iron helps us play!
Technical Information ID Groups Internal Name
2200 Regular Characters, Regular Male, Youngster, Saint, Kook, Normal Springfielders Rod

Behind the Laughter[edit]

Age discrepancy[edit]

There is also some controversy as to which of the two is the elder. In "Dead Putting Society" the commentator at the golf tournament states that Todd is 10. In "Homer Badman", one of the corrections that the TV-magazine show Rock Bottom makes is to their claim that "the older Flanders boy is Todd, not Rod". (although this could have been included purely to stir up fans). Later, in "Bart Sells His Soul", the Flanders family eat out for Rod's "big ten-oh", suggesting the two are of similar age (however, the present time in at least one other Simpsons episode has been set two years before that of others, as shown by "All's Fair in Oven War"). However, in "My Sister, My Sitter" Lisa, when babysitting Rod and Todd, tells a story about a robot named Todd who "had a brother named Rod, who was two space years older than him". Todd responds by saying, "I don't like this story!"

As Rod is shown to be quite a bit bigger and taller than Todd, the claim that Todd is the older brother is disputed. Rod and Todd were both born before Lisa (who is eight), Todd appearing a younger age than Bart (who is 10) in the episode "Lisa's First Word" (when Bart was entering "the terrible twos").

Despite these discrepancies, the Simpsons official website states that "Todd is the youngest and most impressionable member of the happy Flanders clan". This seems to trump any inconsistency concerning age seen in the episodes. On the other hand, the character profile for Rod Flanders in the book "The Simpsons: A Complete Guide To Our Favorite Family" describes him as the "youngest of the Springfield Flanders.", but they have made some mistakes in that book. Another possible reason for the variation is that, in the DVD commentaries for the show, the writers have stated that they are never sure which Flanders sibling is Rod and which one is Todd and are often forced to check character models to be sure. According to the commentary, early show writers used two different mnemonics to identify the taller brother; first that Todd started with T and was Taller, or that Rod was long like a rod and hence taller.

Appearances[edit]

Episodes:Specials:Adverts:Simpsons Illustrated:Simpsons Comics:Krusty Comics:Treehouse of Horror:Bart Simpson:Futurama Crossover:Comic Strips:Super Spectacular:Winter Wingding:Summer Shindig:Homer for the Holidays:One-Shot Wonders:Video Games:Books:Merchandise:

References[edit]

The Saga of Carl - title screen.png Wikisimpsons has a collection of images related to Rod Flanders.
  1. ↑ "Mother and Child Reunion"
  2. ↑ "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"
  3. ↑ "Midnight Rx"
  4. ↑ "My Sister, My Sitter"
  5. ↑ "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"
  6. ↑ "Homer Loves Flanders"
  7. ↑ "My Sister, My Sitter"
  8. ↑ "'Tis the Fifteenth Season"
  9. ↑ "Bart Has Two Mommies"
  10. ↑ "Bart to the Future"
  11. ↑ NeverQuest


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