Groundskeeper Willie Groundskeeper Willie Dr. William MacDougal, better known as Groundskeeper Willie, is a recurring character on "The Simpsons", voiced by Dan Castellaneta. He is the head groundskeeper at Springfield Elementary School. Willie is almost feral in nature and is immensely proud of his Scottish origin. He is easily identifiable by his red hair and beard, as well as his aggressive temperament and thick, though inaccurate Scottish accent. Groundskeeper Willie (who was once originally called "Groundskeeper Louie") is the groundskeeper at Springfield Elementary School and lives in a shack on the school grounds. He is a Scotsman with an aggressive temper. Willie
Groundskeeper Willie his shirt, he is very muscular. One of Groundskeeper Willie's trademarks is a gruffly-spoken insulting retort, which take the writers a long time to come up with, although they do not consider them that funny. Groundskeeper Willie's description of the French as "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" from the episode "'Round Springfield" has become widely used, particularly in the run-up to the war in Iraq. The newspaper "New York Post" used the phrase "Surrender Monkeys" as the headline for its December 7, 2006 front page, referring to the Iraq Study Group and its recommendation that U.S. soldiers be withdrawn from Iraq by