Sherri and Terri
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Description
Sherri and Terri (voiced by Russi Taylor) are the bane of Bart's existence. These identical twins have purple hair and pallid gray skin. These girls are probably based on the creepy twins from Stanley Kubrick's movie version of Stephen King's classic horror story The Shining, and have been featured as such in several episodes. They often speak in unison, and love to torment Bart. They also like to ridicule Lisa in her interests in school. They are usually seen as Lisa's friends. They first appeared in Homer's Odyssey. Even tough they are Lisa's friends they are sometimes tease Lisa like other kids.
Biography
Sherri and Terri, voiced by Russi Taylor (Sherri at times voiced by Nancy Cartwright), are Twins with long purple hair. They are in the same class with Bart at the Springfield Elementary School. In one episode it is revealed that their father is Homer's supervisor at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. He fires Homer for causing an accident while waving to Bart from a cart during a school tour of the plant. Homer, however, had the last laugh when he was promoted above the twins' father to safety inspector. Their mother is shown in Bart Sells His Soul and looks just like her daughters. Sherri was born first; they share their birthday with Rod Flanders.
The girls themselves dress identically, reinforcing their "twin-ness". They are quite stuck up, and never miss an opportunity to berate Bart. Bart appears to have a crush on one of them, as admitted in Hungry Hungry Homer. Sherri referred to Bart as an ugly, smelly dork, but was convinced by Homer to go on a date with Bart after he told her that neither she or Bart could do much better. One of the twins stated that her sister had a crush on Bart in Bart Star. Another time Homer openly addressed Terri as "the one Bart has a crush on". However, Bart seems to have forgotten about his crush (as he has many other loves not long after) and most likely ended the relationship altogether.
The two can also be seen as friends of Lisa and at other times rivals. In Sleeping with the Enemy, the duo taunt Lisa over her big butt; in Bart of Darkness, they mention that "the same day Lisa got a pool" was the day they realized they like her.
In Simpson Tide, when Homer briefly commanded a nuclear submarine into Russian waters, Principal Skinner prepared for nuclear war by selecting a small group of the best, brightest and most promising students to accompany him to a shelter. He selected Sherri, but not Terri.
In the episode Future-Drama set "eight years in the future", it is revealed that Nelson Muntz simultaneously dated and impregnated both of the twins, who bore him four children (two sets of twins, naturally) shortly before Nelson's high school graduation. He abandoned them during Bart's graduation party.
They have similarities to the ghost girls Danny sees in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation, The Shining, of Stephen King's The Shining (novel)|novel of the same name. In a deleted scene of the parody of the Shining called Treehouse of Horror V they are ghost twins seen by Bart.
They appear in the title sequences of each episode playing the Flute in the school band.
In the episode Last of the Red Hat Mamas, it is revealed that they have a secret twin language that only they can understand.
