List of recurring The Simpsons characters

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Agnes Skinner[edit]

Agnes Skinner (voiced by Tress MacNeille)[2] is the mother of Principal Skinner and first appeared in the first season episode "The Crepes of Wrath" as an old woman who embarrassingly calls her son "Spanky". However, as episodes progressed, the character turned bitter.[3] She is very harshly controlling of Seymour, and treats him like a mother would a small child, once grounding him because he did not say who was at the door after answering it, when it was "The Sugarman". She hates Edna Krabappel.[4] Agnes has married a total of four times, once with Skinner's father, Sheldon Skinner, and following Sheldon's death she then married three more times, each time, to a tow truck driver.[5] Several Springfield residents (including the Simpsons) are afraid of her.[6] When "the real Seymour Skinner" arrives in Springfield, Agnes turns him away, unhappy with her new living situation, largely because the true Seymour Skinner is a man who can stand up to Agnes and make his own decisions. Although she appears to not care for the fake Skinner, it turns out she really loves him, although she denies it in "Large Marge".[6] This was evident when Agnes convinces Armin to come home to Springfield as he was the only one who put up with her constant demands without talking back to her unlike her true son.

Agnes' first name was revealed in the seventh season episode "Bart the Fink".[7] Before that, the character was known as "Mrs. Skinner".[8] In the beginning of the series, the writers made several references to Agnes and Seymour's relationship being similar to that of Norman Bates and his mother's in the film Psycho.[9] In "Boy Meets Curl," it is revealed that some of Agnes' resentment to Seymour may have derived from even before Seymour was born — during the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Agnes competed in the pole vaulting event while 9-months pregnant. When Seymour makes his first kick, he hits the bar, thus, making Agnes lose and subsequently crushing her dreams.[10] However, this would contradict the earlier episode when it is revealed that Seymour is not her birth son; most likely a retcon. In Grade School Confidential, it's revealed that Agnes enjoys collecting pictures of cakes that she cuts out of magazines, a hobby she began in 1941. She does not like to eat them however.



Allison Taylor[edit]

Allison Taylor (voiced by Winona Ryder, Pamela Hayden) is in Lisa's class but skipped a grade and has a lot in common with Lisa. She first showed up in Lisa's Rival in which Lisa feels threatened by Allison's talents and abilities. During a school competition Lisa has Bart sabotage Allison's Tell-Tale Heart diorama with a cow's heart in a box and hides the original diorama beneath a floorboard. Wracked with guilt, Lisa returns Allison's real diorama. Both Lisa and Allison lose to Ralph Wiggum and his Star Wars Figurines. Afterwards, Lisa apologizes and the two make amends. Allison has had a few speaking roles after that and has been friends with Lisa, Janey, Sherri and Terri at the school and on the bus, as she has been a background character most of the time. Allison is a favorite character of the Internet Simpsons fan community and features prominently in fan-produced artwork and scripts.



Arnie Pye[edit]

Arnie Pye (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) is a disgruntled, somewhat eccentric helicopter traffic reporter for Springfield's KBBL-TV (Channel 6). His name and appearance are a parody of the famous Pulitzer winning 1930s journalist, Ernie Pyle. His segments are titled "Arnie (or "Pye") in the Sky". He has an apparent dislike of anchorman Kent Brockman, with whom he often gets into arguments on the air. Brockman once snarled that Arnie was a "jackass", with Arnie responding that he believes Kent's soul is "as black as the ace of spades". In earlier episodes he had the name Bill Pye.

Arthur Crandall and Gabbo[edit]


Artie Ziff[edit]

Artie Ziff is a narcissistic Internet entrepreneur who is infatuated with Marge, his former classmate. He is voiced by Jon Lovitz, except for a brief appearance in "The Front" (1993), in which he was voiced by Dan Castellaneta.[12] Animator David Silverman based Ziff's appearance and body language on a former high school classmate.[13]

Artie first appears in "The Way We Was" (1991), in which he takes a young Marge Bouvier to senior prom. When Artie tries to grope her in his car, Marge flees and Homer takes her home. In adulthood, Artie tries repeatedly to coerce Marge into choosing him over Homer, with Patty's encouragement as she saw him more as the ideal husband for her sister.

In "Half-Decent Proposal" (2002), Marge learns that Artie has become extremely wealthy, and she reluctantly accepts a $1 million offer to spend a weekend at his mansion. Homer assumes the two are having an affair, but Artie admits that he could not win her over. Artie maintains that people dislike him because they are anti-Semitic, but begins to acknowledge that his selfishness is to blame.

In "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" (2004), the Simpsons discover Artie hiding in their attic after he squandered his money and started an accounting scandal at his company, Ziffcorp. Artie manages to scapegoat Homer, with Patty and Selma's help. He eventually confesses his guilt to the authorities when Marge berates Artie for his poor character and she reveals that his own selfish needs are the real reasons why no one likes him. After that, Artie is seen being comforted by Selma, whom both spend the night together.

In "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" (2012), Bart time-travels to 1974 and happens upon Marge, who is still a high school student. After he warns her not to marry Homer, Bart returns to 2012 and finds that Marge has married Artie. Marge leaves Artie after she instantly falls in love with a host of time-traveling Homers. She says that seeing them made her realize that she had married the wrong man.

Baby Gerald[edit]

Gerald Samson, better known as Baby Gerald, also known as "the one-eyebrowed baby", is Maggie Simpson's archenemy, known for his large unibrow. He makes his first appearance in "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", where Lisa refers to Baby Gerald as Maggie's rival. On a few occasions, Gerald has been shown being pushed in a stroller by his mother outside the Simpson house as in "Lady Bouvier's Lover", as the two babies glare at one another. He was also featured in the Simpsons theatrical short The Longest Daycare. The character's name was revealed in the episode "The Canine Mutiny".[14] In The Blue And The Gray and Papa Don't Leech, a possible romantic attraction between Maggie and Gerald is hinted at. Baby Gerald appears in the show's title sequence.

Benjamin, Doug and Gary[edit]


Bernice Hibbert[edit]

Bernice Hibbert (voiced by Tress MacNeille)[19] She is Dr. Julius Hibbert's wife and is loosely based on the Clair Huxtable character from The Cosby Show.[20] She has two boys and a girl with Julius. Nevertheless, her marriage is on the rocks;[21] Bernice refuses to kiss Julius, even when an entire audience is looking at them.[22] Her drinking has been joked about on several occasions; she faints when she reads that prohibition had been introduced to Springfield[23] and attends Springfield Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.[24]

Bill and Marty[edit]

Bill and Marty (voiced by Harry Shearer and Dan Castellaneta) are two radio show hosts and DJs on Springfield's own radio station KBBL. Marty is middle-aged and balding, while Bill is younger and has a full head of hair. They are responsible for giving Bart his elephant, Stampy, although they were surprised when Bart wanted Stampy, because they thought he would choose the other prize, $10,000. When Mr. Burns monopolized the local media in Fraudcast News, he fired the duo, but they have returned to the job in later episodes.



Birch Barlow[edit]




"Bleeding Gums" Murphy[edit]

"Bleeding Gums" Murphy (voiced by Ron Taylor and Daryl L. Coley)[25] was a jazz musician, idol, and mentor of Lisa Simpson. His real first name has never been mentioned, though Murphy claimed his nickname came from the fact he had never once been to a dentist, as "I got enough pain in my life as it is". His significant roles were in the episodes "Moaning Lisa" and "'Round Springfield", though he also appears in other episodes such as "Bart the Daredevil" (where he is yellow), "Dancin' Homer", "Old Money", "Flaming Moe's, "Bart Gets an F", "Radio Bart", and "Lisa's Pony". In "Dancin' Homer", he was voiced by Daryl L. Coley.[25] In "Round Springfield" we learn that at one point he had enjoyed a fairly successful career, releasing an album ("Sax on the Beach") and appearing on Steve Allen's Tonight Show,[26] and as one of the Cosby children's four grandfathers on an episode of The Cosby Show, but quickly lost his money feeding his $1500-a-day habit of purchasing and smashing Fabergé eggs.[27] He had taught Lisa to display her emotions through music, prompting Lisa to hold him as an important figure in her life.[27] His last appearance was in "'Round Springfield",[28] when after Bart ends up in the hospital, Lisa wanders off to find Murphy dying in a nearby ward. He explains about his life, family, and work to her as well as giving her advice for her upcoming school performance, giving her his saxophone. When Lisa returns, she finds out that Bleeding Gums has died from circumstances which are never revealed. No one, except for Lisa, attends Murphy's funeral. Lisa soon learns that though he may be gone, he still is alive in her.[26] It is strongly hinted that Murphy and Doctor Hibbert are long-lost brothers, most notably by Murphy's quote: "I don't really have a family. All I had was a little brother who grew up to become a doctor. He used to laugh at the most inappropriate times." Hibbert then laughs inappropriately and says, "Hey, I've got an older brother that I'll never see. He's a jazz musician or some such. Oh well, bye, bye."[26] Bleeding Gums Murphy is loosely based on Blind Willie Johnson, at whose feet the young Bleeding Gums character learned.[29] The voice of Bleeding Gums Murphy was provided by Ron Taylor, while his saxophone playing is provided by Dan Higgins.[30] As a sign of respect for the character, Murphy has been a fixture of The Simpsons opening sequence since the second season. Originally, even after his death, Bart would skateboard past him on the street. In "The Great Wife Hope" Bleeding Gums Murphy is mentioned and supposedly according to Carl he is still alive after Homer asks Carl if he knows African-American boxer Drederick Tatum; Carl takes offense, saying that just because he is African American, he doesn't know all the other African-American citizens in Springfield. Carl then says that he met Drederick Tatum while he was at a party with Dr. Hibbert at Bleeding Gums Murphy's house.[31]


Blinky is a three-eyed orange fish featured primarily in "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish". Likely mutated by toxic waste from the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant pouring into the river, Blinky became a major news story when he was caught by Bart Simpson. Mr. Burns defends the fish, arguing that his extra eye is merely the next step in evolution. Mr. Burns later goes to the Simpsons' house for a meal to boost his race for governor. Marge, a supporter of Burns' opponent Mary Bailey, deliberately serves Blinky for dinner. Mr. Burns spits the fish out and subsequently loses the election. Blinky was briefly seen again in episodes "Homer's Odyssey" and "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"". Blinky also made a brief appearance in an underwater section of tube-way Fry travels through in the pilot episode of the animated series Futurama, which was created by Simpsons creator Matt Groening.

Blue Haired Lawyer[edit]

Mr. Burns' Lawyer[32] also known as "The Blue-Haired Lawyer" (voiced by Dan Castellaneta)[33] is Springfield's most prominent and powerful lawyer. He first appeared in the second season episode "Bart Gets Hit by a Car".[34] He is known for his blue hair and nasal New York accent. He also occasionally appears to serve as a prosecutor. Unlike Lionel Hutz or Gil Gunderson, he is a competent though not necessarily ethical lawyer. He has served as Mr. Burns' head lawyer, helping him out with threats of the Power Plant closing down and of Burns losing his money. He is a member of the Springfield Republican Party. His clients often tend to be antagonists of the Simpsons. He also recurrently appears representing the estates of artists plagiarized during the course of the episodes, usually with the catchphrase: "I represent the estate of (some artist). I have a court order demanding an immediate halt of this unauthorized imitation". The Blue Haired Lawyer also played a very important role in Bart's emancipation in "Barting Over" and works at a law firm named "Luvum and Burnam", so it is possible (but never stated) that he is either Luvum or Burnam.

The character's demeanor, as well as Dan Castellaneta's voice for the character, are based on Roy Cohn, best known as Joe McCarthy's chief counsel during the Communist witchhunts in the 1950s. Animator Jim Reardon modeled the character's appearance on actor Charles Lane.[35]



Brandine Spuckler[edit]

Brandine Spuckler (voiced by Tress MacNeille)[2] is the wife of Cletus Spuckler. Brandine and Cletus are depicted as stereotypical yokels. Throughout the series, the two are shown to be brother and sister,[36] boyfriend and girlfriend,[37] mother and son,[38] and father and daughter.[39] She is apparently the daughter of Cletus and an alien. She has suffered from rabies,[40] and admitted to being illiterate.[41] More recently, Brandine is shown fighting in the Iraq War.[42] She comes back revealing Cletus is the father of only two of the kids, casting doubt over the paternity of her other children.[42] Assuming that all of the children believed to be Cletus' are also hers, Brandine has 45 specifically named children. Brandine and Cletus were married by Homer during his brief stint as a priest.[43] On April 27, 2008, more is revealed about Cletus and Brandine in an episode entitled "Apocalypse Cow"; Brandine had married Cletus at the age of 13, and had married four times before that. Some of the most distinct features of Brandine are that she speaks in a thick accent, wears her red hair up in a high ponytail, and always appears pregnant.

Brunella Pommelhorst[edit]


Bumblebee Man[edit]


In general, Bumblebee Man only speaks in simple, over-enunciated (and inaccurate) Spanish sentences. His catchphrases of choice are typically "¡Ay, ay, ay, no me gusta!" ("I don't like it!"), "¡Ay, ay, ay, no es bueno!" ("That's not good!") and "¡Ay, Dios no me ama!" ("God doesn't love me!"). Quite commonly, his phrases will be intentionally sloppy Spanish. For example, in the episode "22 Short Films About Springfield", there are several words used that are not real (such as "wudpequero" for "woodpecker", rather than the correct pájaro carpintero). The crude Spanish is used so that English-speaking viewers would still understand what was being said.[44] On occasions, he also speaks English, such as briefly in "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington". In "Bart Gets Famous", he anchored the news with an articulate English accent, filling in for the regular, Kent Brockman, who would not report the news because of a missing cheese Danish.


In 2003, Hank Azaria won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for voicing Bumblebee Man, and various other characters.[47]

Capital City Goofball[edit]


Captain Lance Murdock[edit]

Captain Lance Murdock is a professional stunt devil who appeared more in the early days of the show rather than the newer episodes. He first appeared in "Bart the Daredevil" which featured him in more scenes than other episodes. He later appeared in "I Married Marge", "Selma's Choice", and "Viva Ned Flanders". He was most recently featured when Krusty was flicking channels on his TV in "Today I Am a Clown". He also appears in Lisa's lecture about Lake Springfield in The Simpsons Movie sitting in the audience. His stunts often end in disaster, such as in "Viva Ned Flanders", and in "Bart the Daredevil" he states that he has broken every bone in his body. His signature bike is the suicycle and has his own action figure complete with ambulance.

Cecil Terwilliger[edit]





Chase, also known as Pyro, is an American Gladiator. He is a parody of the real-life Gladiator Nitro. He first appears in the episode "A Milhouse Divided", when he is dating Luann after she divorces Kirk. Their relationship ends when she's caught cheating on him with his best friend Gyro. He also appears in "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken", "Mom and Pop Art", "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily", It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge, Day of the Jackanapes, A Star Is Born Again and "The Bart of War". He is voiced by Hank Azaria.

Cookie Kwan[edit]


Corporal Punishment[edit]

Corporal Punishment is a cast member on the Krusty the Clown show. Once a group of protesters started booing Krusty so he threatened to bring out Corporal Punishment, who then stomped onto the stage. He later appeared as back up on many other Krusty shows. When Krusty fakes his death, he was at his funeral. At the funeral, all of the sideshows, (except Sideshow Bob) were there. Corporal Punishment is there too and he started to cry. He first appeared in the episode "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" as the enforcer for the show. He is a large man and is always seen in military uniform.

Crazy Cat Lady[edit]




Crusher and Lowblow[edit]



Database, or Data, (real name is Kyle according to Yellow Subterfuge) is a nerdy student who attends Springfield Elementary School. He first appeared in the episode "Bart's Comet" as a member of "the Super Friends". He has since had speaking parts in several episodes. He is usually seen with his fellow nerd Martin Prince. Database is a common target for Nelson, Dolph, Jimbo and Kearney. He is by far the most prominent of the superfriends. Database is part of the group of boys who invade Shelbyville in "Lemon of Troy". He is one of the Pre-Teen Braves in the episode "The Bart of War". He is a member of the school band, as seen in "The PTA Disbands". Database is known for his annoying, nerdy voice which is supplied by Nancy Cartwright. Database's father is shown in "Lemon of Troy", although he utters no dialogue and is only in the background and has not appeared since that episode.[64] Matt Groening has stated that Database is his least favorite character in the show.[65]

Dave Shutton[edit]

Dave Shutton, voiced by Harry Shearer,[2] is a reporter for The Springfield Shopper. Writer John Swartzwelder named Shutton after a friend of his.[66] His first appearance was in the season two episode "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish." Since then, his roles have become less relevant and have been reduced to cameos and appearances in crowd scenes. According to "Who Shot Mr. Burns", Part 2, Kent Brockman does not like Dave Shutton and thinks he is unprofessional.[67][68][69]

Declan Desmond[edit]

Declan Desmond (voiced by Eric Idle of Monty Python fame) is an odd and skeptical English documentary filmmaker who has directed several films, including Do You Want Lies with That?, American Boneheads: A Day In The Life Of Springfield Elementary, Growing Up Springfield, Ain’t No Mountain: A Blind Man Climbs Everest and "The Spy Who Learned Me". Growing Up Springfield is his most notable documentary. It follows the lives of the inhabitants of Springfield, starting when they were in third grade and continuing every eight years. It is a parody of Michael Apted’s Up Series. Desmond appeared in the episodes "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky" and "Fat Man and Little Boy" and his Growing Up Springfield series were featured in the episode "Springfield Up". The character is based on real English filmmakers David Attenborough and Desmond Morris[citation needed].

Dewey Largo[edit]

Dewey Largo, voiced by Harry Shearer, is the music teacher, whom Lisa credited with proving that any piece of music could have the soul sucked out of it. He is very uncreative and is a poor, pathetic music conductor. He is always seen in the opening sequence, teaching his class and throwing Lisa out of his band class when she plays a funky/jazzy tune on her saxophone. His last name Largo is also an Italian word for a slow, broad musical tempo, a possible reference to the fact that he can make any piece of music uninteresting. He is a lover of the music of John Philip Sousa, and is incredulous when Lisa suggests the school band plays something different.

He has not played a large role in the series, but was originally intended to be an uptight foil for Lisa, and her non-conformist ways. After the first few seasons, Mr. Largo was rarely seen. However he has since resurfaced as a recurring character in the seventeenth season, making appearances in several episodes after. In the 17th season, in the episode "Homer's Paternity Coot" it is revealed that Largo was accepted to the Juilliard School, but never got the letter as it was frozen atop Mount Springfield. He ended up at Springfield Elementary instead. In season 22's Elementary School Musical, after attending a performing arts camp, Lisa is warned by Mr Largo that he also attended one as a child, and that they just 'fill your head with sugarcandy dreams that can't come true'. A recurring gag since the 17th season episode "See Homer Run", are allusions that Largo is gay. The 22nd season episode "Flaming Moe" confirmed Largo is gay and in a relationship with an older man. In "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe", Dr. Nick mistakenly makes Mr Largo shorter, instead of Moe. It is implied Dr Nick was about to give Moe the sex-change operation that was originally meant for Largo, as he is heard to cry: "I look nothing like Julie Newmar!".

Disco Stu[edit]

Disco Stu, real name Stuart Discothèque[70] (voiced by Hank Azaria[71]) is a man who is mentally stuck in the disco era.[72] He is normally featured wearing a rhinestone-encrusted leisure suit. Stu was introduced as the punchline to a joke in "Two Bad Neighbors". In a garage sale, Homer attempts to sell a jacket on which he had once tried to write "Disco Stud" in rhinestones, but having made the letters too big he did not have room for the final "d". After Marge remarks that nobody would ever want to buy a jacket that read "Disco Stu", another customer recommends it to Stu, but Stu replies, "Disco Stu doesn't advertise."[72] Stu's speech pattern is similar to that of Duffman, also voiced by Hank Azaria; he speaks in the third person, often referring to himself as "Disco Stu" (emphasizing "Stu" and then pausing before saying anything else; whatever follows usually rhymes with "Stu"). According to "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation", Stu actually is aware disco is dead, does not like disco music at all, and worries that his personality may make him a "one-note guy". He is a Roman Catholic, having gotten an annulment from Pope John Paul II after a brief marriage to Selma Bouvier.[73][74] In "How I Wet Your Mother", Professor Frink created a device that allowed people to enter the dreams of others. He stated he had already used the device "To cure another Springfielder of his particular obsession" at which point Stu walked into the frame in khakis and a collared shirt saying "Normal Stu likes normal things." It is yet to be seen whether this transformation is permanent. In Homer Scissorhands, Stu is seen attending a ball alone, saying his girlfriend isn't feeling well. She is then seen arriving arm-in-arm with Krusty the Clown.

Show runner Bill Oakley described the original Disco Stu as "a black, wrinkly John Travolta". Stu was originally to be voiced by repeat guest star Phil Hartman. However, when the animators remodeled the character, Hartman was not available to dub the voice and so Hank Azaria took over the role.[75] Out of 25, IGN named Stu the 24th top peripheral character in The Simpsons.[76]

Doctor Colossus[edit]


Dolph Starbeam[edit]

Dolph Starbeam, voiced by Tress MacNeille (though on "The Telltale Head," Dolph was voiced by Pamela Hayden, while Tress MacNeille voiced Jimbo Jones), is a bully and student at Springfield Elementary School. Dolph is recognized by his asymmetrical haircut which covers one eye; he wears cutoff shorts and basketball shoes. He is left-handed and does not talk as much as the other bullies. He usually comes across as very intelligent and speaks a variety of languages including Esperanto, Swahili, and Klingon. It turns out Dolph is Jewish and attends Hebrew school; in "White Christmas Blues", he is seen enjoying an American Jewish Christmas Day tradition (eating Chinese food) alongside Krusty the Clown, Rabbi Herschel Krustofsky, Krusty's agent, and (amusingly) Mr. Teeny. Despite the fact that he appears to be wholly Caucasian, in the episode "Little Big Girl" he shows up to multicultural day with a disked lower lip, suggesting some African or South American descent. He lied to his friends about not having a bar mitzvah, later claiming it had been "just family" to a suspicious Kearney, implying he did not want his bully friends at this event for unknown reasons. He has also mentioned the fact that he has two fathers. Dolph is seen to have esteem issues in "The Fool Monty", when he pretends a dazed, amnesia-suffering Mr Burns is 'that guy at the youth center who really believes in him'. Dolph engages in a pretend dialogue with him, nodding the unresponsive Burns' head with a stick, before breaking down and running away in tears. Dolph was named after one of Matt Groening's classmates from Lincoln High School named Dolph Timmerman. Groening stated that Timmerman was not a bully but just a real cool guy.

Drederick Tatum[edit]


A former 1984 Olympic gold medalist, he first became champion after defeating Watson in the heavily promoted "Bout to Knock the Other Guy Out!", a fight Homer and his friends watched on his illegal cable hookup. He was so feared inside prison he could stop riots just by telling the rioters to shut up. Tatum also appears in "Bye Bye Nerdie". Lisa tests her nerd spray on him, which forces Nelson Muntz to involuntarily get up and start punching Tatum, to little effect. A sobbing Nelson tries to apologize but Tatum rolls up his sleeves and declares "you leave me little recourse!" At one point Tatum is seen to have kept pigeons.

Tatum is a parody of Mike Tyson, with a high-pitched lisping voice, a menacing demeanor, a criminal record, financial problems and a tendency to make pseudo-intellectual comments like "I insist that you desist" and "your behavior is unconscionable". He also has an unscrupulous manager named Lucius Sweet, who closely resembles Tyson's promoter/manager Don King. Indeed, in "The Homer They Fall" Homer notes that Sweet "is as rich and famous as Don King, and looks just like him". King and Tyson were asked to appear in the episode but declined. Paul Winfield, who played King in a 1995 Tyson biopic, took the role instead.


Duffman, voiced by Hank Azaria, is a recurring character, who according to Turner, "embodies all the self-importance and over-statement of contemporary marketing."[77] He is the mascot for the fictional Duff Corporation that sells Duff Beer,[78] and is based on Budweiser's former mascot Bud Man.[79] Duffman is a muscular actor, dressed in a superhero costume who spouts slogans while he thrusts his hips.[77] Duffman's thrusts were first acted out by Brad Bird.[80] His catchphrase comes from the song "Oh Yeah" by Yello, which the producers say became extremely popular after Ferris Bueller's Day Off and many advertisers started using it. As a result, the writers felt that the song and phrase "Oh yeah!" would be a suitable leitmotif for the character.[79] While usually loyal to his corporate sponsors, in the season 15 episode "Co-Dependent's Day", Duffman reveals he is ashamed of betraying his Jewish heritage by doing a Nazi-esque performance at Oktoberfest ("This reich will last a thousand beers! Oh, ja! [muttering]: I do this, and I'm Jewish."). In the season 17 episode "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play", it was revealed that there were two more Duffmen working (but it is kept a secret so as not to disillusion children) and Jaws Wired Shut revealed that all the actors who have played Duffman have died ("Duffman can never die; only the actors who play him"), which sheds some light on the so-called continuity error in which Duffman was referred to as "Larry" in Pygmoelian, Howard K. Duff called him "Sid," in Hungry, Hungry Homer, and in Old Yeller Belly he self identifies (while out of character) as "Barry Duffman."


Eddie, voiced by Harry Shearer,[2] is one of the Springfield police officers. He first appeared in the first season episode "There's No Disgrace Like Home".[81] Like Lou, he does not have a surname. He is smarter than Chief Wiggum, but not as smart as Lou. In "Bart vs. Thanksgiving", Eddie was animated to Lou's voice and Lou was animated to Eddie's.[82]

Elizabeth Hoover[edit]



Fallout Boy[edit]


Additionally, Fallout Boy also appears in a real-life comic book titled Radioactive Man, published by Bongo Comics (a comic created in part by Matt Groening, the creator of The Simpsons). In these comic books, Fallout Boy's real name is Rod Runtledge, he has a brother named Dodd Runtledge, and they live in Zenith City. Rod is a high school nerd living with his aunt, Aunt June.



Francesca Terwilliger[edit]

Francesca Terwilliger is the wife of Robert Underdunk Terwilliger, better known as Sideshow Bob. She first appears in the season 17 episode "The Italian Bob", when Sideshow Bob moved to Italy to get away from Bart for a fresh start. He became the mayor of a small Tuscan village and married Francesca, with whom he had a son called Gino, although Sideshow Bob never told her, or indeed anyone about his murderous past. However, when the Simpsons visited Italy, Lisa got drunk at a feast and told the whole town of the things he had done. After being thrown out of his village, Bob swore a vendetta against the Simpsons, which Francesca surprisingly encouraged, saying that they brought dishonor to the whole family, and helped her husband try (and fail) to kill them at the Colosseum. Her second appearance comes in the season 19 episode "Funeral for a Fiend," in which Sideshow Bob fakes his own death in a complicated plot to murder Bart. She is voiced by Maria Grazia Cucinotta.

Frankie the Squealer[edit]


Gil Gunderson[edit]

Gil Gunderson, a.k.a. Ol' Gil, is voiced by Dan Castellaneta[33] and first appeared in the ninth season episode "Realty Bites" as a real estate agent with Lionel Hutz's Red Blazer Realty.[83] He is a spoof of actor Jack Lemmon's portrayal of Shelley Levene in the 1992 film adaptation of the play Glengarry Glen Ross.[83] (Lemmon himself voiced a character similar to Levene in the eighth season episode "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson".)[84] Show runner Mike Scully said that the writers thought that Gil would be "a one-shot thing".[85] "Dan Castellaneta was so funny at the table read doing the character", Scully elaborated, "we kept making up excuses in subsequent episodes to put him in."[83] Writer Dan Greaney said that it was a great take-off on Levene to make Gil more desperate than he was. Even so, the writers like to write Gil with "a little bit of the old sparkle" left in him.[86] With the retirement of the character Lionel Hutz (after voice actor Phil Hartman's death), Gil has been working as the Simpsons' lawyer in later episodes. He had several jobs but suffers an unfortunate fate. For example, he was shot on his first day as a security guard in the bank. Having not succeeded in any of his jobs, he is often seen pleading with people, usually his bosses. His sales patter is terrible, as he is naturally bumbling, and tends to come off as needy, especially as he often refers to himself in the third person, as 'Ol' Gil'. It is revealed in "Natural Born Kissers" that he lives in a balloon.


Gino Terwilliger[edit]

Gino Terwilliger, voiced by Tress MacNeille, is Sideshow Bob and his wife Francesca's toddler son. He shares the same unusual hair style and hatred for Bart Simpson as his father (in fact, when the Simpsons first meet him, he is described as having had a strange, apparently random recurring nightmare featuring Bart). He first appears in the season 17 episode "The Italian Bob" when Sideshow Bob moved to Italy to start a new life, without anyone knowing, not even his own family, about his murderous history. That is, until Lisa became drunk at a feast and told the whole town everything, even though the Simpson family had promised not to mention anything since Bob fixed their car. The Simpsons flee the town, with Gino and his parents in hot pursuit. When they finally corner the Simpsons at the Colosseum, Gino is seen to be extremely agile and adept with a knife, as well as having a taste for violence; so much so, in fact, that Bob is heard to whisper to Francesca: "I don't want to brag, but he's evil on a tenth-grade level." Unfortunately, for him, they were saved by Krusty, who needed some people to help him smuggle antiquities. Gino makes his second appearance in the season 19 episode "Funeral for a Fiend", where it is mentioned that after leaving Italy, he and his parents toured around London for a while before sneaking into America on a train. He, and all of the other members of Bob's family played a part in a complicated plan to finish off Bart for good. However, they were foiled by Lisa Simpson and were arrested by Chief Wiggum.


Gloria, voiced by Julia Louis-Dreyfus is Snake's girlfriend. She is a meter maid. She first appears in "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love", dating Mr. Burns. She ends up leaving him to return to her ex-boyfriend Snake, for criticising but unintentionally complementing him in the same sentence. Gloria visits Snake in prison in "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." She appears once again in "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes", where she is now pregnant. However in "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" they have broken up. Then, in "Wedding For Disaster" they seem to have gotten back together and apparently got married.



Grady and Julio[edit]

Grady, voiced by Scott Thompson and Julio, voiced by Hank Azaria are two gay men who become Homer's roommates when he leaves Marge in "Three Gays of the Condo". Julio reappears in "There's Something About Marrying", marrying another man, in "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" as one of the bank robbery hostages, and has speaking cameos in "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" and "E Pluribus Wiggum". He appeared in the episode "Four Great Women and a Manicure", in which he was seen as "King Julio" in Lisa's first story, "Elizabeth the First". He works as a photographer, as seen in "The Devil Wears Nada". Grady made his second appearance to date in "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words", in which he persuades Homer to break up his (Grady's) relationship with Julio, so that he could pursue a relationship with Duffman. Julio made further appearances as Marge's Hairdresser in "The Blue and the Gray" and "Homer Scissorhands".

Gunter and Ernst[edit]

Gunter and Ernst, Las Vegas-style entertainers voiced by Harry Shearer and Hank Azaria, are obvious parodies of Siegfried & Roy: they speak with German accents, their act involves magic and white tigers, and one has black hair while the other has bleached-blond hair. The duo appear in the episodes "Viva Ned Flanders", "$pringfield", "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons", and "Jazzy and the Pussycats". In "Jazzy and the Pussycats", they are seen at Amber Simpson's funeral. In "The Simpsons Game" it is revealed they performed at an aquarium.


The Happy Little Elves[edit]


Helen Lovejoy[edit]

Helen Lovejoy (née Schwartzbaum), voiced by Maggie Roswell and Marcia Mitzman Gaven, is Rev. Lovejoy’s judgmental and gossipy wife, and the mother of Jessica Lovejoy. She introduced herself in the episode "Life on the Fast Lane" as "the gossipy wife of the minister." Her catchphrase is "What about the children?! Won't somebody please think of the children!?" which she always says among a crowd when something bad is happening in the city. In "Wedding for Disaster", the parson who tells Reverend Lovejoy that his license expired implies that Helen Lovejoy is actually a male-to-female transsexual who used to be named Harry Schwartzbaum (though, if it were true, then Helen would not have been able to give birth to her daughter, Jessica). In E Pluribus Wiggum, it's revealed that Helen is a Republican (she is seen at the Springfield Republican meeting, which takes place in a scary castle atop a hill). In the "Treehouse of Horror XX" story, "Don't Have a Cow, Mankind," Marge appointed Ms. Lovejoy as Lisa's godmother.

Herman Hermann[edit]

Herman Hermann, voiced by Harry Shearer,[2] is the owner of Herman's Military Antiques. He lost his arm in an accident involving a vehicle; he tells Bart that the arm was lost when he stuck it out the window of a moving bus as a kid. In the episode "To Cur with Love", he is seen in a flashback losing his arm hitch hiking when he is sideswiped by an animal control van. He wrote an autobiography. A brilliant military tactician, Herman was instrumental in Bart's victory in water balloon combat against Nelson and in the negotiation of the peace treaty between the two combatants in "Bart the General", which is his most significant and first appearance.


Harry Shearer does an impression of George H. W. Bush for the voice.[88] Herman's facial appearance is modeled after Simpsons writer John Swartzwelder.[88] The original idea behind Herman, said Groening, was that each time he appeared, he would give a different explanation for how he lost his arm. However, the second joke, involving Herman having stuck his arm in a ball return at a bowling alley, got cut, and the writers never pursued the idea.[89]

Janey Powell[edit]



Jasper Beardly[edit]




Jay Sherman[edit]

Jay Sherman is a critic who was the main character of The Critic. In "A Star is Burns", he came to Springfield to be a judge during the film festival. In Hurricane Neddy, he was a patient at the Calmwood Mental Hospital. He also apparently became a regular patron to Moe's Tavern. Voiced by Jon Lovitz, Sherman was originally the main character on The Critic, which was created by Al Jean and Mike Reiss. His appearance in "A Star is Burns" was a crossover to promote The Critic which made its FOX debut after the episode. The Critic was later canceled.

Jebediah Springfield[edit]





Jimbo Jones[edit]

Corky James "Jimbo" Jones, voiced by Pamela Hayden[2] and originally by Tress MacNeille in his first appearance in the first season episode "The Telltale Head"[90] is a bully at Springfield Elementary who wears a purple knit cap and a black T-shirt emblazoned with a menacing skull. He is often seen hanging out with Dolph, Kearney, and sometimes Nelson. He is acknowledged as the leader of this clique when Nelson isn't around. He enjoys intimidating his schoolmates and shoplifting. It is hinted that he comes from a well-off family, most notably in season six's "The PTA Disbands" when — with the school closed for a teacher's strike — he and his mother watch soap operas and sip tea together in a very nice living room. In season four's New Kid on the Block, he briefly dates Laura Powers until she leaves him for crying in front of Moe for being threatened when Bart exposed his true personality by prank-calling him, as she viewed him as not man enough. In season seven's "Bart the Fink", Bart discovers that Jimbo's real name is Corky. In one episode, it is revealed that he is bald on top, with hair around it. Jimbo's other known aliases are Jamesbo, Dr. J and Hector Gutierrez. Jimbo is named for executive producer James L. Brooks.[90] Jimbo runs for mayor in the Season 17 episode "See Homer Run", with a campaign slogan of "Tough on Nerds. Tougher on Dorks."

Johnny Tightlips[edit]

Johnny "John" Tightlips, voiced by Hank Azaria, is a member of the Mafia and associate of Fat Tony. He says very little, which spares him from accusations of being a "squealer", but his reticence tends to be unhelpful to others and even himself. In "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" he tries to help Fat Tony in taking away Marge's earnings from her 'Pretzel Wagon' franchise. In "Insane Clown Poppy", there is a shoot-out in Fat Tony's mansion and Tightlips is shot by accident. When asked where he's injured, he says "I ain't sayin' nuthin'!", and when asked what to tell the doctor he says, "Tell him to suck a lemon." His first appearance was in the episode Insane Clown Poppy.[91]


Jub-Jub is Selma Bouvier's pet iguana and was originally owned by Aunt Gladys. It was first seen in "Selma's Choice". Gladys gives Jub-Jub to Jacqueline Bouvier, who is highly unattached to it. As a result, she later passes it on to Selma. Selma once said that Jub-Jub will eat her remains upon her death.

The name Jub-Jub was coined by then-writer Conan O'Brien.[92] He often said nonsensical things around the office for no apparent reason, one of which was "Jub-Jub". (There is, however, a Jubjub bird in The Hunting of the Snark.) Fans of Sports Radio 1310 in Dallas voted that Jub-Jub be the new nickname of morning radio host George Dunham. O'Brien, on October 17, 2007, mentioned his creation of Jub Jub and asked Joe Buck, the play-by-play commentator of the MLB World Series on FOX, to say it during his broadcast. O'Brien promised $1,000.00 to the charity of the announcer's choice. On October 24, 2007, during Game 1 of the 2007 World Series, Buck called field level reporter, Chris Myers, "our own little Jub-Jub." Jub-Jub was used as the first Twitter hash tag for O'Brien's "Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour" in 2010.

Judge Constance Harm[edit]

Judge Constance Harm, voiced by repeat guest star actress Jane Kaczmarek, is a harsh, unforgiving disciplinarian.[93] She enjoys creating cruel punishments for criminals in her court and frightening them with a miniature guillotine on the bench. She might be a transsexual based on a statement she makes during her first appearance in "The Parent Rap": "you remind me of me, when I was a little boy" to which Snake replies startled "did she say she used to be a dude?". Her name is a play on "constant harm". The character is a parody of Judge Judy. In "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister", she reveals she has a husband. Although Judge Snyder resolves court cases, Judge Harm has mainly been used for handing down negative verdicts, such as sentencing a family member to prison. She also appears in "Brawl in the Family", "Barting Over", "The Wandering Juvie", "Brake My Wife, Please" and "Chief of Hearts".[94]

Judge Snyder[edit]

Judge Roy Snyder, voiced by Harry Shearer,[19] is a Springfield judge known for his lenient punishments and somewhat unorthodox rulings (as in the episode "Sweets and Sour Marge," when he bans sugar from Springfield). The character was originally named "Judge Moulton", but show runners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein did not know that, and called him "Snyder".[95] His appearance is modeled on Robert Bork.[95] Snyder's skin color has gone back and forth between yellow and brown repeatedly throughout the series.[96]

"Just Stamp the Ticket" Man[edit]


Dr. J. Loren Pryor[edit]


Kearney Zzyzwicz[edit]

Kearney Zzyzwicz (pronounced [dʒiz-wɪtʃ]), voiced by Nancy Cartwright, is one of Springfield Elementary's many bullies. He has a buzz cut, and wears a torn white T-shirt, blue shorts, and studded wristbands. Although he looks and sounds to be around Jimbo and Dolph's age, Kearney is actually older. He is the only Springfield Elementary School student who remembers the Watergate Scandal and the 1976 Bicenntenial (according to Principal Skinner), was in Otto the bus driver's third-grade class (according to Otto), owns a car (even though he rode the school bus on "A Milhouse Divided", "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife, and Her Homer", and "How the Test Was Won"), regularly shaves, has custody of a child from a divorce, is old enough to vote in a general U.S. election (despite that he may be a felon), was sent to prison (though "Marge Be Not Proud" and "Lisa the Skeptic" depicted Kearney in juvenile hall), and pays taxes.


Kearney's last name (Zzyzwicz) was revealed in a computer file in season 18's "24 Minutes". Prior to that episode, Kearney's surname was never mentioned. Kearney's newly revealed last name implies that he could be of Polish descent. In "Bart Gets a 'Z'", Kearney can be seen sitting in the back row of Bart's classroom, implying that Kearney is a fourth grader. Kearney's father was shown on the season eight episode "The Homer They Fall", but in "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?", Kearney reveals that both of his parents are incarcerated and they only meet when the prison and insane asylum have their annual mixer.

Kirk Van Houten[edit]

Kirk Van Houten is voiced by Hank Azaria. He is the father of Milhouse, and the remarried husband of Luann Van Houten. He wears glasses just like his son and wife. He first appeared in "Bart's Friend Falls in Love," but it wouldn't be until season eight's "A Milhouse Divided" that Kirk would be portrayed as a stereotypical middle-aged male loser and deadbeat dad. Much of his character revolves around his extreme emotional depression after his divorce from his wife Luann. Luann got custody of Milhouse when they divorced, but Kirk has visiting rights and is often seen with Milhouse in later episodes. Kirk suffers from the need to cry all the time after his divorce, even in good times. The Van Houtens remarried in the nineteenth season episode "Little Orphan Millie". In that episode it was established that Kirk is of Dutch and Danish ancestry. Kirk previously served in the U.S. Army, and attended Gudger College. Apparently Kirk's mother is of Greek ancestry, based on the nineteenth season episode "Husbands and Knives". In the episode, Milhouse says, "But that's the money Yiayia Sophia gave me for Greek Orthodox Easter!".



Legs and Louie[edit]

Legs, voiced by Karl Wiedergott (formerly voiced by Hank Azaria), and Louie, voiced by Dan Castellaneta, are the two Springfield Mafia hitmen who accompany Fat Tony at all times. The two lack any real definitive characteristic and are almost always seen together. Legs has a dark blonde short haircut and raspy voice. Louie has a slight black afro and a more high-pitched, even squeaky tone. Castellaneta based the voice on actor Joe Pesci, one of the several references to Goodfellas used in the episode "Bart the Murderer".[98] Louie says that tear gas is "[his] one weakness," though this is likely an embellishment. Dan Castellaneta was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 2011 for the voice of Louie, Homer Simpson, Barney Gumble, and Krusty the Clown thanks to the episode "Donnie Fatso."[99]





Lindsey Naegle[edit]

Lindsey Naegle is voiced by Tress MacNeille[19] and first appeared in the eighth season episode "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show".[102] In that episode, she had no name and was known only as "The Generic Female TV Executive".[16] She appeared again in "Girly Edition", also as a generic female TV executive (only her hair and facial features differed from her first appearance).[103] In "They Saved Lisa's Brain", she was introduced as "Lindsey Naegle", a member of the Springfield Chapter of Mensa, and has since become a recurring character.[102] The writers modeled Naegle on a number of network executives that they have encountered while working on the show.[104] The character gets her last name from Hollywood talent agent Sue Naegle, president of HBO Entertainment and wife of Simpsons writer Dana Gould.[105][106] Writer Matt Selman chose the first name "Lindsey" because he thought it sounded like the name of an annoyingly talkative woman.[105] Naegle-like characters have appeared throughout the series, such as the OmniTouch Rep from "Make Room for Lisa" and Laramie executive Mindy from "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)".[107] In "Blame It on Lisa", it is revealed that she frequently changes jobs because she is a sexual predator. Chris Turner, author of the book Planet Simpson, called Naegle "an excellent allegory for the modern corporate age: you don't see through her because there's nothing else to see."[108] Her political allegiances are not concrete: In "You Kent Always Say What You Want," she is shown at the Republican Party headquarters; in "E Pluribus Wiggum," Naegle is conversely depicted as a Democrat. In "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays", she is seen to lead SSCCATAGAPP's anti-youth campaign, declaring, "Children are the future, today belongs to me!"

Ling Bouvier[edit]

Ling Bouvier is Selma's adopted daughter. In Season 16's Goo Goo Gai Pan, Selma experiences menopause symptoms and becomes concerned that she will never fulfill her dream of being a mother. After an unsuccessful kidnapping attempt of one of Cletus's children, she takes up Lisa's proposal to adopt a baby from China. Since China does not allow unmarried people to adopt children, Selma convinces Homer to pretend that he is her husband. Although she succeeds in getting a baby from the adoption agency in Beijing, it is later discovered that her marriage to Homer is fake and Ling gets taken away from her. The Simpsons attempt to kidnap Ling back, but run into a confrontation with the head of the adoption agency, Madame Wu. Selma entreats her to let her keep the baby, to which Madame Wu agrees. Since then, Ling has made several appearances on the show including as Maggie's playmate in Rome-old and Julie-eh. In Season 24's The Changing of the Guardian, she has grown to a preschooler and shown as precociously talented, able to play musical instruments and practice painting.

Lois Pennycandy[edit]

Lois Pennycandy is the executive assistant to Krusty the Clown.[109] She swayed Krusty into visiting Bart after he saved Krusty from jail time,[110] and later reunited him with his estranged father the Rabbi Hyman Krustofski.[109] She was at Krusty's side during the auditions in which Robert Terwilliger became Krusty's new sidekick,[111] and was at Krusty's "funeral" when he was presumed dead after crashing his private plane into a cliff.[112] In a phone conversation, Marge once asked her, "How can [Krusty] hurt someone who loves him so?" While looking at a framed photo of Krusty, Pennycandy replied, "Oh, Mrs. Simpson, I've wasted my womanhood asking that same question."[109] Her only speaking roles are in "Like Father, Like Clown" and "Krusty Gets Kancelled", in which she was voiced by Pamela Hayden. Her name alludes to both Miss Moneypenny from the James Bond series and the actress who originated the role, Lois Maxwell. Although rarely featured on the show, Lois has been a recurring character in the Simpsons comic book series.


Lou, voiced by Hank Azaria, is the most intelligent of the Springfield police. Lou is the police sergeant and a competent officer of the Springfield Police. He is a foil to Chief Wiggum, and often takes the time to point out Wiggum's mistakes. Lou has been shown to resent Wiggum, and is aware of his chief's ineptitude.[113] Lou was married to a woman named Amy.[114] Al Jean and Mike Reiss named Lou after Major League Baseball player Lou Whitaker.[81] Azaria based Lou's voice on actor Sylvester Stallone's.[115] Though he has nearly always been African-American,[116] Lou was mistakenly animated with yellow in "There's No Disgrace Like Home"[81] and his other first-season appearances. In "Bart vs. Thanksgiving", Eddie was animated to Lou's voice and Lou was animated to Eddie's.[82]

Luann Van Houten[edit]

Luann Van Houten is voiced by Maggie Roswell. For the period from 1999–2002, during which Roswell left the show, she became a primarily nonspeaking character. Since the season 8 episode, "A Milhouse Divided", Luann was depicted as a promiscuous, single mother, who stuck her successful love life in the face of her ex-husband, Kirk. She first appeared in "Homer Defined," as a concerned mother who barred Milhouse from being Bart's friend due to Bart being a bad influence. She wears glasses and has blue hair, traits that she shares with her husband and son. Luann Van Houten's mother is Italian and often abused her grandson, Milhouse, whenever he spoke English (as Luann's mother was left in Italy by an American soldier during World War II and came to resent America because of it). Her father is Danish American. In Lemon of Troy it is revealed that she comes from Shelbyville, and moved to Springfield in early life. It is stated in "A Milhouse Divided" that she has a sister (from whom she borrows money, as her husband does not provide for her at all).

Luann was married to Kirk for several years, giving birth to a son, Milhouse, yet the marriage was an unhappy one. After an argument over a game of Pictionary, she leaves Kirk after he remarks he cannot draw "dignity", since he gave it up when he married her. Although Kirk found the new liberty of a single life tough, Luann uses her newfound freedom to live life in the fast lane, advising Marge to forget everything she thought she knew about her, to which Marge replied that she really did not know everything about Luann at all. Luann began dating American Gladiator Pyro shortly after her divorce with Kirk for several seasons, but was caught cheating on him with his best friend, Gyro. In Apu Nahasapeemapetilon's bachelor years, she had been one of his bachelorettes. In "Milhouse of Sand and Fog", it is revealed that Luann had also gone out with Disco Stu as well and had begun a relationship with Captain MacAllister.

In "Milhouse of Sand and Fog" the Van Houtens reunited. Since then, they are often seen together (although in the episode "Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)", Kirk was seen with Milhouse at a single father's outing, showing he and Luann were still not married). As of "Little Orphan Millie", they are remarried. The most recent appearance of these two can be found in the episode "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches".

Luigi Risotto[edit]


Lunchlady Doris[edit]

Lunchlady Doris Freedman, voiced by Doris Grau up until her death, and now voiced by Tress MacNeille, is a sardonic chef for Springfield Elementary. She can frequently be seen serving deeply unpleasant meals made from horse testicles, grade-F meat (made of circus animals and filler), shredded newspapers, and ground up gym mats, because of the school's budget cuts. She has also made a handful of appearances acting as a school nurse. In "Whacking Day," Lunchlady Doris took the job as school nurse so she can earn two paychecks, but in "'Round Springfield," she reveals that she was put in the position of school nurse due to the school's many budget cuts (even having the belligerent Scottish janitor, Groundskeeper Willie, as a French teacher). In the episode Team Homer it is suggested that she is the mother of Jeremy Freedman (a.k.a. the Squeaky-voiced Teen).

In "the Simpsons Comics", when being asked by Milhouse Van Houten on the school's new chat show, 'Moments with Milhouse' (formerly Moments with Martin) why the school meals are so bad, Doris admits that a third-grader had once mistakenly eaten her beloved hamster, and she had 'sworn culinary revenge ever since'.


Lurleen Lumpkin[edit]


Lurleen's next appearance is in "Marge vs. the Monorail", a much rougher-looking Lurleen, voiced by Doris Grau, makes a brief appearance, in which it is revealed that she had been to the Betty Ford Clinic and "spent last night in a ditch". In this episode her voice sounds exactly the same as Lunchlady Doris's, rather than her soft, Southern voice she had when she was first introduced.

In "Krusty Gets Kancelled", she is briefly seen in the center square of Springfield Squares.

The nineteenth season episode "Papa Don't Leech"[119] follows up on her story with her moving into the Simpsons' home and taking a waitress job at Moe's in order to pay a $12 million tax bill. In this episode she is again voiced by Beverly D'Angelo, who also wrote the songs. It is revealed she has a father named Royce Boss Hogg Lumpkin, who was never much supportive of her and had been missing for years. Marge undertakes efforts to find him and reunite him with Lurleen. As soon as it happens, Lurleen writes a new, upbeat composition called "Daddy's Back", but Royce sells the song, taking the writing credits for himself (but altering some lyrics), to the Dixie Chicks. As soon as she learns of this, Lurleen confronts Royce and reveals the truth to the Dixie Chicks, who assault him with their musical instruments and invite Lurleen to join their tour. Lurleen ends up engaged to a man who looks very much like Homer (like her previous husbands did) and tours as an opening act for the Dixie Chicks. Papa Don't Leech was widely criticized by Internet Simpsons fans for both poor writing quality and reviving a useless character.

Dr. Marvin Monroe[edit]



Since the seventh season, the character Monroe has been retired. This is because voicing the character strained Harry Shearer's throat and, eventually, the voice became too annoying for Groening, which, he acknowledges, is the point.[124][125] The character's retirement was marked by the broadcast of a Dr. Marvin Monroe Memorial Hospital over Lou's walkie-talkie in "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", Part Two.[126] Since then, several references to Monroe being dead have been made: a glimpse of his gravestone in "Alone Again, Natura-diddily", a Dr. Marvin Monroe Memorial Gymnasium seen in "Bye Bye Nerdie", and a trivia interstitial in the "138th Episode Spectacular" (which was a trick question, as neither Dr. Monroe nor Bleeding Gums Murphy were popular characters). However, Monroe is seen alive in the fifteenth season in "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" purchasing a copy of Marge's novel "The Harpooned Heart", stating simply that he has "...been very sick" when asked about his absence by Marge.

Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon[edit]

Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon is the wife of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and the mother of their eight children. She first appeared as a little girl in Apu's flashback in the seventh season episode "Much Apu About Nothing", in which Apu tells her that he is sorry that their arranged marriage will not happen, before getting on a plane departing for the U.S. to pursue the American Dream. Her first adult appearance is in the ninth season episode The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons.[127] She claims that Fried Green Tomatoes is her favorite book, movie, and food. She has excellent culinary skills, demonstrated by her ability to make a wide variety of dishes using only chickpeas, lentils, and sometimes rice. She is also one of Marge's best and only friends, and they often walk their babies together. Apu is seen to be very romantically awkward, as well as quite distant from Manjula, and he previously told her that it was customary in America to work long hours, seven days a week, and to never see your wife. In another episode he dons a blonde wig, intending to ditch his family and return to India under the name Steve Barnes.


Writer Richard Appel had pitched the idea of Apu marrying years before he wrote "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" for season nine.[128] For that episode, it took several attempts by the character designers to model Manjula because making women look appealing in Matt Groening's drawing style is hard for the animators to do.[129][130] Writer David Cohen named Manjula after a friend of much of the staff.[127] Manjula was voiced by former Saturday Night Live cast member Jan Hooks from seasons 9 to 14,[131] by Tress MacNeille in season 15 (only one appearance) and Maggie Roswell thereafter.

Martha Prince[edit]

Martha Prince, voiced by Russi Taylor, is the wife of Martin Prince Sr. and mother of Martin Prince. Martha is probably best known for attempting to sell Martin's extremely valuable Star Wars merchandise to Comic Book Guy for an extremely cheap price. She was warned by Bart and Milhouse before she sold them and decided to not sell them. It was also hinted by Martin that she shoplifts a lot, "stuff she doesn't even need". She also was responsible for all of the guests getting sick at Martin's birthday party, by serving diseased oysters instead of cake, with the exception of Bart (who fed his oysters to Martin's pet cat), Lisa (who feigned sick to get out of the boring party) and Principal Skinner and Mrs. Krabappel (who hid away in Martin's kid-sized playhouse).

Martha Quimby[edit]


Martin Prince[edit]

Martin Prince, Jr.[133] is voiced by Russi Taylor. Martin, a 4th grade student at Springfield Elementary School, is Bart Simpson's classmate (and a temporary tutor on "Bart Gets an F"), Lisa Simpson's rival in intelligence, and Nelson Muntz's favorite target for bullying. He is academically brilliant, a teacher's pet, and is portrayed as a stereotypical nerd.[133] In some episodes, it is also implied that Martin may be a closeted homosexual.[134]

Martin is the son of Martin, Sr. and Martha.[133] He is an academically brilliant student, portrayed when he first appears in the second episode of the series.[133] He is also a teacher's pet with the stereotypical nerd enthusiasms for science fiction, role-playing games and a poor fashion sense. He has an IQ of 216 (which was thought to be Bart's IQ). As the class nerd, he unwittingly becomes the perfect target for ruthless bullying at Springfield Elementary School. He is a member of the Springfield band, and is often seen with a French horn. Martin's most famous catchphrases are "Behold!" and "Excelsior!". In The Simpsons Movie, Martin gets revenge for all the years of bullying by hitting Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney with a plank of wood. In "Dial 'N' for Nerder", Bart's prank causes Martin to fall off a cliff, which he narrowly survives (although everyone thinks he is dead).

In "Holidays of Future Passed", it is revealed that Martin has transitioned from male to female and is known as "Marsha Princess".

Martin Prince, Sr.[edit]


Mary Bailey[edit]

Mary Bailey is the governor of Springfield's state. She is voiced by Maggie Roswell.[2] She ran against Mr. Burns in "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish", winning in a landslide after Mr. Burns spit out a piece of baked Three eyed Fish during a photo-op at the Simpsons' home. Mary Bailey would later appear briefly in the episode "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" when Bart and Lisa's class visit Capital City. They show Bailey their class projects (designing a new state flag). Mary Bailey wails in disgust after unfurling Lisa's flag. Bart had redesigned it to look like a butt with "Learn to Fart" underneath. She also appears in "The Seven-Beer Snitch" where a prison is built out of a defunct concert hall. She decides to release all the abused prisoners to a garbage barge where they would "bare-knuckle box until one of you emerges as king of your floating hell." She looks nearly identical to Bea Simmons, Abe Simpson's former girlfriend in the episode Old Money.

Mary Spuckler[edit]




Maude Flanders[edit]

Maude Flanders, voiced by Maggie Roswell and temporarily by Marcia Mitzman Gaven between 1999 and 2000 when Roswell did not work for the show, is the first wife of Ned Flanders, and the mother of Rod and Todd. While she was not employed outside the home, Maude was a busy homemaker and a tireless advocate for the children, whose innocence is often sullied by cartoon violence, liberal education, and the insidious influences of popular culture. Even though she spends much of her free time in prayer and reading the Bible and helping out her husband at the Leftorium, Maude lets her hair down for the occasional dinner party at the home of her neighbors, the Simpsons. Homer often makes statements insinuating his attraction to Maude. In the second season episode "The War of the Simpsons", Homer ogles Maude's cleavage at a dinner party, which results in him and Marge going to marriage camp.

In the season eleven episode "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily", Maude is killed by a t-shirt cannon at the Springfield Speedway when Homer ducks at the last second to pick up a bobby pin on the ground.[135] She is knocked off the grandstand and her rescue is prevented as Homer had parked in the ambulance zone. Ned is devastated by her death. This kill off was the result of Roswell leaving The Simpsons in spring 1999 after a pay dispute with the Fox Broadcasting Company, which airs the show.[136][137] Voice actress Marcia Mitzman Gaven was hired to fill in for Roswell's characters,[138] including Maude in "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" and the earlier episodes of the eleventh season,[139] although the producers decided to kill the character off to open up new storylines for the show.[138] Roswell returned to The Simpsons in 2002[140] after reaching a deal with Fox to record her lines from her home in Denver.[141] Since returning, she has voiced Maude in flashbacks and as a ghost.[140][142]

Maude's ghost appears in the opening sequence for "Treehouse of Horror XIII", and during the credits of "Bart Has Two Mommies" she is seen in heaven with Bob Hope and God, wondering how her boys are doing. Maude appears through flashbacks in "Dangerous Curves", "Take My Life, Please", and "Postcards from the Wedge". Maude also appears in "Treehouse of Horror XXII" as the devil's wife.

Ms. Albright[edit]

Ms. Albright is voiced by Tress MacNeille.[2] She is the First Church of Springfield Sunday school teacher. She first appeared in "The Telltale Head". She speaks with a soft Southern accent. She appears to be good friends with Helen Lovejoy. She is occasionally seen in the background of various episodes as well as in church scenes (such as in "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star").

Miss Springfield[edit]



Mr. Costington[edit]


Mr. Teeny[edit]

Louis “Mr. Teeny” Toot, also known as Joseph Teeny and voiced by Dan Castellaneta, is Krusty’s trained chimpanzee who frequently appears on the show. He first appeared in "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge". Like Krusty, he is a heavy smoker, and often seems depressed off-stage. He is sometimes seen as Krusty’s driver and butler. Teeny’s uncle was former head monkey at the ministry of tourism in Brazil. Three other monkeys have died while working for Krusty known by the same name. Krusty once said he missed the third Mr. Teeny and the current one couldn’t hold a candle to him. In the episode "Day of the Jackanapes" Teeny saves Krusty from a bomb that Sideshow Bob has attached to Bart. His mother’s name is Toot-Toot, and she refers to him as Louis when they are reunited in "Bart Has Two Mommies". Teeny also was a writer for the “Good Guy Awards” and quit after being insulted on-stage by Krusty. He is an immigrant from Brazil and has been deported but was returned. He wears a pink hat and bow tie but has also been seen in a tuxedo and golden encrusted thong. Krusty has implied that if he can not find a human willing to donate a lung when he gets cancer, he is planning on harvesting one from Mr. Teeny. As of "Wedding For Disaster", there have been seven Mr. Teenys.

Mrs. Glick[edit]


She later dies due to a heart attack caused by Bart and Martin's robotic seal on the episode "Replaceable You".[144] Her final scene is dancing with Jesus in Heaven.[144]

Mrs. Muntz[edit]

Mrs. Muntz, voiced by Tress MacNeille,[19] is the mother of Nelson Muntz. Nelson receives his trademark laugh from her. Early on in the series, Nelson would often mention his parents, and it was often implied that Nelson's mother does not care for him. In "A Milhouse Divided", Nelson tells Milhouse that his mom is addicted to cough drops, which is why his father left the family. Mrs. Muntz works at Hooters in "Bart Star", but was fired in a later episode for gaining weight. She owns a dilapidated house and is depicted as a jailbird, a prostitute, a stripper, or something similar.

In "'Tis the Fifteenth Season", she appears, telling Nelson that his father simply did not like him, and he left with her golden tooth. Nelson's mother was fully introduced in "Sleeping with the Enemy", after years of being mentioned. A loud, high-pitched contemptuous woman, she neglects Nelson. She implies she misses Nelson's father (who, depending on episode, is either divorced from Nelson's mom, went insane and never came home, or was forced to work as a sideshow freak after suffering a peanut allergy). At the end of the episode, the three Muntzes reunite, and she receives a new job as Lady Macbeth, with "the third director she slept with". Since then, she is often seen around in Springfield. Curiously, in Season 18's "The Haw-Hawed Couple", she appears with brown hair. As revealed in "Dial 'N' for Nerder", Nelson even refers to her as Mrs. Muntz.


Nahasapeemapetilon Octuplets[edit]


Old Barber[edit]

Jake the Barber[146] originated in one of the Tracey Ullman shorts, "Bart's Haircut".[147] In the short, he cuts Bart's hair not to his liking and Bart tries several ways to hide it. Dan Castellaneta, who voiced the Old Barber in that short and in subsequent episodes in the series, based the voice on comedian Bob Elliott's.[148]

The Old Barber made his last appearance in the twelfth season episode "Lisa the Tree Hugger". He was voiced by Harry Shearer in that episode.[149] David Silverman had to create a model sheet of the Old Barber for Jim Reardon, who directed "22 Short Films about Springfield". Before then, there was no model sheet for the character.[150]

Old Jewish Man[edit]

Asa, a.k.a. Old Jewish Man, or Crazy Old Man (according to "Krusty Gets Kancelled") is Abraham Simpson and Jasper Beardly's friend. Mayor Quimby once referred to him as "Old Jewish Man"; also, a list of heart recipients in "Homer's Paternity Coot" listed him as "Old Jewish Man". He speaks with a stereotypical Jewish-American accent (voiced by Hank Azaria), and curses in Yiddish in one episode. He is apparently friendly with Krusty the Clown and Krusty's father, according to "Simpsons Christmas Stories". He is often seen yelling at people, and as seen in "Attack of the 50-Foot Eyesores", owns a store called Zip Boys, a parody of Pep Boys. He once had a brief period of stardom after his act of dancing on a street corner singing "The Old Gray Mare" with his pants down became a hit on television. In "Natural Born Kissers", it was revealed that he worked as a studio executive during the making of Casablanca and suppressed an alternate ending to the film. He was also responsible for a "Killing Spree Ending" to It's a Wonderful Life. He observes that the quality of studio management has changed over the years. In "Love Is a Many Strangled Thing" he dies from overexerting himself while dancing (though this does not stop his ghost from dancing), but in "Replaceable You," he is alive.



Patches and Poor Violet[edit]

Patches and Poor Violet are two of Springfield's orphans, voiced by Pamela Hayden and Tress MacNeille, respectively. Introduced in “Miracle on Evergreen Terrace,” Patches gives the dollar they were saving to Bart, which was their vitamin money. They have since had cameos in “I'm Goin' to Praiseland” and “Simple Simpson,” but are seen in many other episodes. Poor Violet often has a cough, while Patches seems to vaguely resemble Tiny Tim from Charles DickensA Christmas Carol. Their skin color is not the “healthy” yellow of the Simpson family, but rather a more sallow, sickly tone.


Plopper, also known as Spider-Pig and later renamed Harry Plopper (a play on the popular fictional character Harry Potter), is a pig who first appears in The Simpsons Movie. Plopper has since become memetic, gaining popularity in the real world and on the internet, especially his theme song "Spider-Pig", which peaked at number 23 in the UK Singles Chart.[151] The pig is voiced by Tress MacNeille. Plopper has also made appearances in the episodes and comics, and also appears in the reanimated opening sequence, featuring in the pan across Springfield.


At one point in the movie, the Simpsons' house is completely destroyed after being sucked into a sinkhole in their backyard. This may lead to the assumption that the pig is killed in the movie. However, during the 2007 San Diego Comic Convention, an official Simpsons Panel revealed that there was a scene at the end of the movie involving the pig that was cut which later appeared on the DVD.[152] This removed sequence is a slightly alternate ending of the movie when the townspeople are rebuilding the Simpsons' house and involves Plopper, Blinky, the Multi-Eyed fish, and Santa's Little Helper painting a dog house. During the following TV seasons, Plopper makes a few more appearances.



He has since been seen once in a cameo at a funeral in an Itchy & Scratchy cartoon featured in "Little Big Mom".[153] Also in "Treehouse of Horror IX", he skateboards in the road and gets run over by Scratchy driving a car. However he survives only to have his skateboard falling from the sky and hitting him in the head. He also continues to be released in Itchy & Scratchy related merchandise such as on t-shirts in "Fat Man and Little Boy". A matrix Poochie also appears in "Kill Gil Vols. 1 & 2" during the Krusty on Ice show, and a Poochie balloon appears in the cartoon in "Funeral for a Fiend".

Poochie reappears in The Simpsons Game as a boss on the Grand Theft Scratchy level.

Princess Kashmir[edit]



Principal Dondelinger[edit]

Harlan Dondelinger, voiced by Harry Shearer was Springfield High School's principal, first seen in the episode "The Way We Was", a flashback to Homer and Marge's senior year in high school. He later appeared in the episode "The Front" at Homer and Marge's high school reunion and teaches night classes to ease the pain of his wife's recent death. He appeared in "Half-Decent Proposal" when Artie Ziff, Marge's high school prom date, recreated their prom. Dondelinger made his most recent appearance in the twentieth season episode "Take My Life, Please", in which it is revealed that he rigged Homer's high-school, after hearing that his students were going to vote for him for a joke. Upon finding out, Homer was angry with Dondelinger, who claimed that he had only done it to spare Homer's feelings. Homer's anger was later escalated when he dug up the ballot-box, only to find out that he actually won, making him Class President

Rabbi Hyman Krustofski[edit]

Hyman Krustofski is the father of Krusty the Clown who first appeared in the third season episode "Like Father, Like Clown".[154] In this episode, in season fifteen's "Today I Am a Clown", and season twenty-one's "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" he is voiced by comedian Jackie Mason (because in the three episodes, he was a major character, while in cameo speaking appearances, he is voiced by Dan Castellaneta. However, recent cameo speaking episodes have him again voiced by Jackie Mason).

In "Like Father, Like Clown", Rabbi Krustofski had been estranged from his son for twenty-five years. He disowned Krusty when the young man chose to become a clown when Krustofski had wanted him to follow the family tradition of becoming a rabbi. Years later, after much exchanging of Talmud passages between Bart Simpson and Rabbi Krustofski, Bart read the Rabbi a quote from Sammy Davis, Jr. admiring the Jews, which finally convinced Rabbi Krustofski to accept his son for his career in entertainment. He and Krusty reunited on the air of Krusty's show. He later conducted Krusty's Bar Mitzvah, admitting that he had not previously, out of fear that the young Krusty would just make fun of the whole thing. The episode 'Like Father Like Clown' is a parody of the film The Jazz Singer. The parody was writer Jay Kogen's idea.[155] He thought it would be a funny parallel—and a chance to do a lot of easy jokes—if it were a clown instead of a singer who gets rejected by his father.[156] The character's casting was fitting in that the real-life Mason, like Krusty, also came from a family of rabbis but rejected his destiny in order to become a comedian.

Jackie Mason won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his performance as Krustofski in "Like Father, Like Clown" in 1992.[157] The Phoenix named Mason one of the show's 20 best guest stars.[158]

Rachel Jordan[edit]


Radioactive Man[edit]

Radioactive Man is a fictional comic book superhero. The character was heavily featured in the episodes "Three Men and a Comic Book" and "Radioactive Man".[159] Within the Simpsons universe, he was created by Morty Mann. He has been portrayed in many media since his debut in Interesting Stories #27.[160] The first issue of Radioactive Man appeared in 1952. He was featured in at least one 1950s era black-and-white serial, sponsored by Laramie Cigarettes.[161] There was also a campy early 1970s television series resembling Batman. In one episode of The Simpsons, a Hollywood studio attempted to film a Radioactive Man movie in Springfield. The movie starred Rainier Wolfcastle as Radioactive Man. The role of Fallout Boy, Radioactive Man's sidekick, was cast from local children and went to Milhouse Van Houten. The movie was never completed due to budget overruns caused by constant price-gouging by Springfield vendors, and Milhouse snapping from the pressure of the role, and refusing to continue to portray Fallout Boy.[162]

Outside of The Simpsons, the Radioactive Man character also appeared in a real comic book series based on him that was first published by Bongo Comics in 1993.[163] The Bongo comics expanded more on the character, including his powers, giving him several which parodied those of Superman including super speed, flight, and the power to fire beams of "clean, nuclear heat" from his eyes. In the comics, his regular personality, "Claude Kane III" is seen as a useless layabout (in contrast with most superheroes, Claude's main love interest, journalist Gloria Grand, has little interest in him, and dismisses him as a 'rich kid'. The character has also appeared in issues of Simpsons Comics[163] and Simpsons Super Spectacular, and in the 1992 video game Bartman Meets Radioactive Man.[159]

Rainier Wolfcastle[edit]

Rainier Luftwaffe Wolfcastle (voiced by Harry Shearer) is an action hero star and a close parody of actor/bodybuilder/politician Arnold Schwarzenegger.[164] This basis has been drawn out over the series. Wolfcastle's wife is named Maria, just like the real Schwarzenegger's now separated wife Maria Shriver. Maria is a member of the political Quimby dynasty. Like Schwarzenegger, Wolfcastle is an active member of the Republican Party and owns a Hummer. In the episode "The Boy Who Knew Too Much", Bart Simpson tells Wolfcastle that his "last movie really sucked" (Along with Chief Wiggum's line of "'Magic Ticket' my ass, McBain!"), alluding to Schwarzenegger's film Last Action Hero, which performed poorly at the box office.[165] Wolfcastle owns a restaurant named Planet Springfield, a parody of Planet Hollywood, which Schwarzenegger co-owned with other celebrities.[166] Wolfcastle has starred in many action movies, most notably the McBain series (a parody of action movies such as Die Hard) and the movie of Radioactive Man, a loose parody of the Batman (TV series). When clips of the McBain films are played in the order in which they aired, they form a mini-movie with a full storyline.[167] Rainier’s more recent movies have gained less renown, and he is even forced to do comedies and even standup comedy. Wolfcastle has made cameo appearances as an Academy Award presenter, a celebrity spokesperson, and a celebrity judge. In a recall election of Mayor Quimby, Wolfcastle ran for his seat. He has a daughter named Greta who had a crush on Bart in the episode "The Bart Wants What It Wants".

The writers invented Wolfcastle as the action hero McBain for the episode "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?". Because they liked the scene involving the character from that episode, they used him again in "The Way We Was", which was recorded and aired before "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" The McBain films satirize clichés of action films.[168] The character was originally named McBain, until an actual film called McBain was released in 1991. That film's producers refused to allow the show to use the name, so "Rainier Wolfcastle" became the name of the actor playing the McBain role.[169] Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, doubles as Wolfcastle when Harry Shearer is absent from table reads.[164]

In the Simpsons Movie, a characterisation of Schwarzenegger is the President of the United States. He is very similar to the design of Wolfcastle but with more wrinkles under his eyes and a different hairstyle.[170]

Rich Texan[edit]

Richard "Rich" Texan, voiced by Dan Castellaneta.[33] He is a stereotypical rich, callous but gregarious businessman and owner of the Springfield Atoms football team. He is an active member of the Springfield Republican Party and speaks with a heavy Texas drawl. His morality can wildly vary from episode to episode; he can sometimes be selfish and sadistic, and at other times polite and friendly. In the fifth season episode "$pringfield" (the Rich Texan's debut, though a similar character once appeared in the season two episode "Old Money"), Homer addresses the Rich Texan as Senator, although this was never again referenced. Rich Texan sports a bolo tie and a white cowboy hat. He is also obsessive-compulsive, as revealed in "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story". He has stated in "Marge's Son Poisoning" that he enjoys moonlit walks on the beach; in the same episode he held Homer and Moe at gunpoint while forcing them to walk along with him after being tricked by the two. He is well known for pulling out a pair of revolvers and firing them into the air while yelling "Yee Haw!" whenever he is happy or excited. He has a gay grandson, as revealed in "Million Dollar Abie" and a daughter named Paris Texan (who looks and acts like hotel heiress Paris Hilton). In the episode "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times", it is revealed that the Rich Texan is originally from Connecticut, despite his brash, stereotypically Southern persona. This is a reference to George W. Bush's Connecticut roots.


Richard is a gray-haired student at Springfield Elementary School and is one of Bart's friends. He is first seen in "Bart the Genius". He is usually seen with Lewis and has a leather jacket and a shirt with a small diamond embroidered on the center. Richard appears frequently in scenes involving the Springfield children, and in the early seasons was often involved with mischief. He's been voiced over the course of the series by Nancy Cartwright, Jo Ann Harris, Pamela Hayden and Maggie Roswell. In early seasons he and Lewis were commonly seen hanging out with Bart and Milhouse, but in recent years they are only seen in the classroom and in crowd scenes. He had a brief speaking part in "The Haw-Hawed Couple", in which he was voiced by Pamela Hayden. His hair color changes from black to gray, to brown, and then to blue throughout the course of the show. However, in Simpsons Comics, his hair always appears gray.

Rod Flanders[edit]

Rod Flanders is voiced by Pamela Hayden. Rod is Ned Flanders' twelve-year-old son. Rod prays often; first thing in the morning and last thing before bed. He prays for God to watch over him and his younger brother, Todd, as well as for the success of his father's business. He also prays for all of the other children like his neighbor Bart Simpson, who do not pray for themselves. Ned has described Rod's hobbies as including "being quiet during trips, clapping with songs and diabetes". Rod's largest role was in "Bart Has Two Mommies", where he obtains new climbing skills and rescues Bart from a chimpanzee atop a church. This episode also reveals that Rod thinks of Marge as the most fun he has had since his mother died. In the earlier episodes, "When Flanders Failed" and "Dead Putting Society", Rod is overshadowed by his younger brother, who plays parts in both. In "'Tis the Fifteenth Season," he mentions that he is "jealous of girls 'cause they get to wear dresses," suggesting nascent transvestism.


In the flash-forward episode "Bart to the Future", Flanders justifies lending Bart money as a gesture of goodwill to the boy who apparently helped both Rod and Todd to come out as gay.

Roger Meyers Jr.[edit]



He also possesses an extremely obnoxious and short tempered personality, where he only cares about people who can help him. This is displayed in his contempt for the writers of Itchy and Scratchy when Abe Simpson becomes the flavour of the month, going as far as physically abusing a fired writer and sending Lisa and Bart a letter filled with explicit and rude language in the process. And again when holding auditions for the voice of Poochie. After first hiring Otto, he then chooses Troy McClure, telling Otto "Take a hike you bum", when seconds earlier he was "perfect".



Ruth Powers[edit]



Sam and Larry[edit]

Sam and Larry, also known as "Barfly #1" and "Barfly #2", are two regular patrons of Moe's Tavern. Their first appearance is in "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". Virtually nothing is known about them, except that Sam always wears a cap and glasses and Larry has an orange jacket and a balding head and either looks extremely drunk or very depressed. Sam has spoken only a few times throughout the series; on the season three episode "Lisa the Greek", Sam asks Homer who he bet on during the Super Bowl. In "Worst Episode Ever" Sam is shot in the back by Moe, for trying to pay in Sacagawea dollars. Larry hasn't spoken, except for in fantasy sequences (in "Marge Be Not Proud," Larry utters a garbled, "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" after Bart receives a soiled wig during Bart's image of spending Christmas in juvenile hall and in "Simpson Tide," Larry grumbles, "This stupid machine took my money!" when Apu was thinking of his loved one—in this case, his Kwik-E-Mart cigarette machine that steals money and does not dispense cigarettes).

Sanjay Nahasapeemapetilon[edit]

Sanjay Nahasapeemapetilon (Hindi), voiced by Harry Shearer,[19] is Apu Nahasapeemapetilon's younger brother and uncle of Apu's eight children. He has a daughter named Pahusacheta (who performed in a beauty pageant) and a son named Jamshed (who, despite his young age, can wield a shotgun and run The Kwik-E-Mart when Apu is not there to do so). Sanjay has a wife, as he asked Apu to promise not to sleep with her if he dies (Apu's response to this request was a cheery "I promise nothing!"). Sanjay was shown as Apu's business partner at the Kwik-E-Mart in the earlier episodes. His final speaking appearance was in I'm with Cupid. However, he has appeared as a background character in Moe Letter Blues, Homer at the Bat (as pitcher for Fort Springfield), and The Simpsons Movie. Sanjay can also be seen in the season nine episode "Dumbbell Indemnity" on a sign outside of "Stu's Disco" that reads, "You Must Be This Swarthy To Enter."

Sarah Wiggum[edit]


Scott Christian[edit]

Scott Christian (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) is a newsreader from the early seasons of the show. Originally, Christian and Kent Brockman shared the anchor desk equally, but eventually Brockman started to become the more commonly used anchor. In his final appearances, Christian was used mostly when Kent was in the field and an introduction was needed. His final speaking appearance was "The Boy Who Knew Too Much". Christian was supposed to be permanent anchor,[173] always filling in for an absent Brockman, but was quickly phased out as the show progressed. He briefly appeared (with red colored hair) with the other Springfield celebrities in the season 18 episode "Homerazzi" and made a cameo in "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?".

Sea Captain[edit]

Captain McCallister (Horatio or Pete), more commonly known as "The Sea Captain", voiced by Hank Azaria.[64] Azaria modelled the voice on actor Robert Newton, who played pirates in several movies.[174] The writers' "love of sea talk" is what inspired them to invent the Sea Captain.[175] His character is based on the stereotype of sailors and pirates, including the stereotypical pirate catchphrase, "Yarr!" He is a member of the Springfield Alcoholics Anonymous and has a peg leg in which he keeps liquor. In "The Bart of War" he uses his wooden leg to have a vicious sword fight with Sideshow Mel's bone.[176] He is commonly referred to simply as "the Sea Captain", though when he took the witness stand in "New Kid on the Block", Lionel Hutz clearly addresses him as "Captain McCallister".



Sherri and Terri[edit]



Sideshow Mel[edit]




Chester "Snake" Turley,[178] also known as Snake Jailbird, is voiced by Hank Azaria.[64] Springfield's resident recidivist felon, he is consistently being arrested for violent crimes but appears rarely to stay in jail. He speaks with a "Valley Boy" accent. He is partial to fast cars and fast women, and has a knack for reckless abandon. He owned a car called Li'l Bandit, which Homer won at a police auction (as seen in "Realty Bites").

Snake first appeared in the season two episode "The War of the Simpsons" as one of the partygoers during Bart and Lisa's wild house party. Whenever Snake appears in prison, his prison number is always 7F20, the production code of "The War of the Simpsons".[86] Hank Azaria's voice for Snake was based on a roommate he had while in college.[115] His name was first mentioned by Sideshow Bob in "Black Widower" when Sideshow Bob was saying goodbye to his prison friends after being granted parole. The character was originally named Jailbird. The animators assigned him to the role of Snake in season three's "Black Widower" and the character has gone by that name ever since.[179]

In the episode "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story", Lisa tells a story in which Snake refers to himself as Professor Jailbird, an Indiana Jones-like archeologist who turned to robbing convenience stores as revenge for the theft of valuable coins he had excavated. Snake attended Princeton University, saying that his mom thinks that the year he took "off from Princeton was the worst decision I ever made".[180] However, it is also possible that he attended Middlebury College, as he robs Moe's Tavern to pay off his student loans and is shown wearing a Middlebury shirt in "22 Short Films About Springfield". He also played lacrosse at Ball State University, according to "Treehouse of Horror IX",[181] although it should be noted that the "Treehouse" episodes are considered non-canon. He has a casually hostile relationship with Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, whose convenience store he robs so frequently that Apu considers the continual robberies perfectly normal. Snake is often used as a cutaway foil for Apu; often, when Apu mentions his absence from the Kwik-E-Mart, Snake is shown robbing it, with various snide remarks. In the episode "Marge in Chains", he literally "shoplifts", stealing the entire Kwik-E-Mart shop via a flat-bed truck, declaring "I'm taking this baby to Mexico!". In "Yokel Chords", he and Apu are seen in a psychiatrist's office, bickering about Snake's robberies and shootings in the manner of an unhappily married couple.

Snake has a son named Jeremy, who looks just like him (who was introduced in "Pygmoelian") and likes to steal bicycles, a trait that Snake encourages. Unlike his father, Jeremy is rather timid as seen in "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story". Snake has another child on the way; however, it has been implied he and the mother, Gloria, are no longer in a romantic relationship in the episode "Homer and Lisa Exchange Crosswords". In the episode "Wedding For Disaster" Snake and Gloria are seen getting married at city hall. In the episode, "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes", he is seen with the pregnant Gloria driving a car.

Squeaky-Voiced Teen[edit]


Castellaneta lifted his voice for the character from actor Richard Crenna's as Walter Denton in the sitcom Our Miss Brooks.[182] Several different models of Squeaky-Voiced Teen have been used throughout the series, featuring counterparts in Mexico, Australia, and England. Steven Dean Moore uses them all as waiters at the ice cream parlor the Simpsons eat at in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge".[183] Matt Groening called Squeaky-Voiced Teen his second favorite "unnamed" character after Comic Book Guy, whose name was finally revealed to be "Jeff Albertson" in the episode "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass".[184] He is also seen in the pre-show of The Simpsons Ride as one of the ride operators.




State Comptroller Atkins[edit]


Superintendent Chalmers[edit]






Tina Ballerina[edit]


Todd Flanders[edit]


Üter Zörker[edit]


The Vanderbilts[edit]



The Weasels are fraternal twin bullies at Springfield Elementary School and Nelson's henchmen, despite being in the 2nd grade with Lisa Simpson. They first appeared in Bart the General. They are almost identical except for their skin colors (one is white and the other is black) and their outfits. The White Weasel (voiced by Susan Blu in Bart the General and Nancy Cartwright in later appearances) wears a red T-shirt, tan shorts, and red shoes and the Black Weasel (voiced by Jo Ann Harris in Bart the General and Pamela Hayden in later appearances) wears an orange T-shirt, tan shorts, and orange shoes with tan soles (although in his Bart the General, his outfit was a yellow T-shirt, green shorts, and yellow shoes with green soles). While only continuing to serve Nelson on very rare instances after much earlier seasons, the Weasels still appear frequently throughout the series, sometimes in scenes involving the other bullies yet primarily as background characters, especially in Lisa's 2nd grade class.

Wendell Borton[edit]


Mr. and Mrs. Winfield[edit]

The Winfields are an elderly couple who live next door to the Simpson family early in the series and often talk about how crude and uncivilized the family is. They first appear in the season one episode "Homer's Odyssey", cracking jokes about Homer. The couple eventually move to Florida in the season four episode "New Kid on the Block" and have not been seen since (though it is implied that they died of old age, as Homer guessed that the Winfields are going to move to Florida to "run out the clock").



Raphael, a.k.a. Wiseguy, is voiced by Hank Azaria.[71] He first appeared as the chauffeur hired to take Homer to the prom (despite that Marge was going with Artie Ziff) in the second season in "The Way We Was", but he has held numerous other jobs in the series.[187] Simpsons sound editor Bob Beecher commented on that, "He doesn't have one name. His character's name always fits the scene so he's gone by many names, 'Clerk', 'Shopkeeper', etc. But in the script the direction given to the voice is 'Wiseguy Voice'. So call him 'Wiseguy' if you want."[188] Azaria does a Charles Bronson-impression for the voice.[115] In "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious", Al Jean and Mike Reiss had Azaria voice a Simpsonized Charles Bronson as a reference to this.[189] As with his profession, the character's physical appearance varied widely with regards to hair and facial features for a number of years, with the voice being the only constant; eventually, he was standardized as a balding, greying man with a moustache. Wiseguy has been dubbed "The Sarcastic Middle-Aged Man" by the show's Internet fans.[190] In "Day of the Jackanapes", Sideshow Bob calls Wiseguy by the name "Raphael".[191]

Yes Guy[edit]


In the Yes Guy's first appearance, Homer asks why his voice is always stretched, and the Yes Guy replies by saying "I had a stro-o-o-oke".[193] He also appears in "Homer vs. Dignity". He works at Costington's department store,[194] works as juror number twelve of the Springfield Panel of Jury,[195] and as an executioner at Springfield Penitentiary.[196] Homer refers to him as "that jerk who always goes Yessss".[197] A Brazilian version of him was seen in "Blame It on Lisa", uttering "Si-i-i-m?!" ("Yes" in Portuguese).

See also[edit]


  3. ^ The Simpsons episode "The Crepes of Wrath"
  4. ^ The Simpsons episode "Special Edna"
  5. ^ The Simpsons episode "Midnight Towboy"
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  38. ^ The Simpsons episode "The Italian Bob"
  39. ^ The Simpsons episode "Little Big Girl"
  40. ^ The Simpsons episode "Goo Goo Gai Pan"
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  44. ^ Season 7 DVD Commentary - "22 Short Films About Springfield"
  48. ^ The Simpsons episode "King-Size Homer"
  49. ^ The Simpsons episode "Homer Goes to College"
  50. ^ The Simpsons episode "Homer the Smithers"
  51. ^ The Simpsons episode "Homer at the Bat"
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  61. ^ The Simpsons episode "Springfield Up"
  63. ^ The Simpsons episode "A Midsummer's Nice Dream"
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  70. ^ The Simpsons episode "Homer Scissorhands"
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  94. ^ The Simpsons "Brake My Wife, Please" - May 11, 2003
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  111. ^ "Brother from Another Series"
  112. ^ "Bart the Fink"
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  114. ^ The Simpsons episode "The Dad Who Knew Too Little"
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  192. ^ McCann, p. 54
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  194. ^ The Simpsons episode "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
  195. ^ The Simpsons episode: "The Monkey Suit"
  196. ^ The Simpsons episode "The Frying Game"