Captain Bowditch

"My name is Captain Bowditch. Your wife signed you up for a week at sea, where you'll live like sailors, eat like sailors and use therapeutic techniques to solve father-son conflicts... like sailors."

―Captain Bowditch

Captain Bowditch

Character Information Gender: Male ♂ Status: Alive Hair: Brown Occupation: Sea captain First appearance: "The Wreck of the Relationship" Voiced by: Nick Offerman

Captain Joseph "Joe" Bowditch is a captain.

History

When Marge sent Homer and Bart on The Relation Ship, Bowditch helped the two have a better relationship. He also helped Arnie Pye and his son, Mr. Clark and Lewis, Ned and Rod and Todd, Apu and Gheet, and Cletus and Gitmo. During Bart's time on the ship, Bowditch promoted him to midshipman. It also turned out that Captain Bowditch suffered from alcoholism, which is why he went to sea in the first place.

Non-canon

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Captain Bowditch was in charge of a former military ship that served in World War II. He hosted a Springfield Elementary School overnight field trip on the ship, where he got the kids to clean the rust off. Sarah Wiggum stole a bottle of Straight on Shore Whiskey from his liquor cabinet. When Marge and Sarah got kidnapped, Captain Bowditch told Homer and Chief Wiggum that he didn't see it happen, but Ralph did.

Appearances

• Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship"
• Episode – "Uncut Femmes"
• Episode – "Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass" (opening sequence)

References

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