List of recurring The Simpsons characters: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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===Billy===

'''Billy''' (voiced by [[TressNancy MacNeilleCartwright]] in "[[Lisa the Simpson]]" and [[Russi Taylor]] in "[[Bart the Mother]]") is [[Troy McClure]]'s assistant who appeared in "[[Lisa the Simpson]]", and "[[Bart the Mother]]". He was supposed to appear in more episodes, but due to the death of McClure's voice actor [[Phil Hartman]], he was retired along with McClure. Billy is a child who appears in Troy McClure's educational films. He appears in the films "Birds: Our Fine Feathered Colleagues", and "Someone's in the Kitchen with [[DNA]]". A similar child named Jimmy (who at one point McClure also calls Billy) appears in "The Meat Council Presents: 'Meat and You: Partners in Freedom{{' "}} in the episode, "[[Lisa the Vegetarian]]".

===Birch Barlow===

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===Brunella Pommelhorst===

'''Brunella Pommelhorst''' (voiced by [[Tress MacNeille]]) is the [[Physical education|gym teacher]] at Springfield Elementary School. Pommelhorst first appeared in "[[Stark Raving Dad]]", although Pommelhorst's name is not mentioned until "[[The PTA Disbands]]" (when a little girl left hanging on the [[Rings (gymnastics)|gymnastic rings]] after the teachers walk out due to a strike calls for "Mrs. Pommelhorst" to let her down). Pommelhorst's name is a play on ''[[pommel horse]]'' and she has blond hair and usually wears a whistle. She takes a tough-as-nails approach to teaching. In "[[Little Girl in the Big Ten]]", Pommelhorst decides to fail Lisa because of an oath she took on ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess|Xena]]'' but allows her to make it up by taking private lessons. In "[[My Fair Laddy]]", Pommelhorst takes a leave of absence to get a [[Sex reassignment surgery|sex-change operation]] and returns as "Mr. Pommelhorst" (implying that Pommelhorst is a [[transgender]] man), the new shop teacher. She is replaced by [[Coach Krupt]]. Despite this, the character has appeared in later episodes as a woman.

===Bumblebee Man===

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{{redirect|Carl Carlson|the character from the television series Eureka|List of Eureka episodes#ep5}}

'''Carlton Carlson''' (voiced by [[Harry Shearer]] in "[[Homer's Night Out]]" and "[[Brush with Greatness]]"; [[Hank Azaria]] from season 2 to 31;<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/28/entertainment/alex-desert-hank-azaria-simpsons-trnd/index.html|title=Alex Désert takes over for Hank Azaria voicing Carl on 'The Simpsons'|first=Lisa Respers|last=France|work=CNN|date=September 28, 2020|access-date=September 28, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.indy100.com/video/culture/alex-desert-debuts-as-carl-carlson-on-the-simpsons-pOGkLMab|title=Alex Desert debuts as Carl Carlson on The Simpsons|publisher=Indy 100|date=September 28, 2020|access-date=September 28, 2020}}</ref><ref name=newcarl /> [[Alex Désert]] since season 32)<ref name=newcarl>{{cite news|url=https://www.reporter.am/the-simpsons-debut-voice-actor-for-carl-carlson-after-hank-azaria-steps-down/|title='The Simpsons' debut voice actor for Carl Carlson after Hank Azaria steps down|author=Jasyson|publisher=The Armenian Reporter|date=September 28, 2020|access-date=September 28, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/the-simpsons-carl-voice-alex-desert-hank-azaria-1234782691/|title='The Simpsons' Season Premiere: Here's Who Took Over Carl's Voice From Hank Azaria (EXCLUSIVE)|first=Michael|last=Schneider|work=Variety|date=September 24, 2020|access-date=September 24, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/TV/2020/09/25/The-Simpsons-Alex-Desert-to-voice-Carl-in-Season-32-premiere/2991601042282/|title='The Simpsons': Alex Desert to voice Carl in Season 32 premiere|first=Annie|last=Martin|publisher=UPI|date=September 25, 2020|access-date=September 27, 2020}}</ref> is Homer's friend and co-worker (sometimes identified as his supervisor) at the [[Springfield Nuclear Power Plant|Nuclear Power Plant]] and is often seen with Lenny. He likes to call himself "an urban Lenny." He attended [[Springfield (The Simpsons)#Colleges/universities|Springfield A&M University]].

Carl is an [[Icelandic American|Icelandic]]-African American, with a master's degree in [[nuclear physics]], fond of bowling and drinking at [[Moe's Tavern]]. Carl is frequently said to be among the most attractive men in Springfield; in "[[Principal Charming]]", Homer concludes that Carl is too attractive for [[Patty and Selma Bouvier|Selma]]. According to "[[They Saved Lisa's Brain]]", he might be [[Diabetes mellitus|diabetic]], while according to "The Dad Who Knew Too Little" he might be severely [[schizophrenia|schizophrenic]]. In {{"-}}[['Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky]]", it was revealed that Carl spent at least part of his boyhood in Iceland.

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===Cesar and Ugolin===

'''Cesar''' (voiced by [[Harry Shearer]] in most appearances, [[Hank Azaria]] in "To Courier with Love") and '''Ugolin''' (voiced by [[Dan CastallanetaCastellaneta]]) are a nephew-and-uncle pair of stereotypical Frenchmen who, in "[[The Crepes of Wrath]]", make Bart a slave at their "Chateau Maison" winery and [[1985 diethylene glycol wine scandal|put antifreeze in their wine]].

In "[[Lisa the Greek]]", they are briefly shown watching TV in their apartment.

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The [[Boxing at the 1984 Summer Olympics|1984 Olympic gold medalist]], he first became world champion after defeating Watson in the heavily promoted "Bout to Knock the Other Guy Out", a fight Homer and his friends watched on his [[Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment|illegal cable hookup]]. He was so feared inside prison, he could stop [[prison riot|riots]] just by telling the rioters to "shut up". Tatum also appears in "[[Bye Bye Nerdie]]", in which Lisa swabs him with nerd sweat, which forces [[Nelson Muntz]] to involuntarily get up and start punching Tatum and give him a [[wedgie]], to little effect. A sobbing Nelson tries to apologize but Tatum rolls up his sleeves and declares "you leave me little recourse".

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 makespeak pseudo-intellectualin commentsa likesurprisingly formal manner ("I insist that you desist" and, "your behavior is unconscionable”,). andIn in onethe episode, "Highway to Well", he haseveb sports a facial tattoo on his face resembling that of Tyson's. He also has an unscrupulous manager named Lucius Sweet who closely resembles Tyson's promoter and manager [[Don King (boxing promoter)|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 [[Tyson (1995 film)|1995 Tyson biopic]], took the role instead. Another episode shows him in the role of a shoe company endorser who is extremely candid, when he describesdescribing the shoes as "butt-ugly" and followsbefore upruefully stating "My forthrightness is my undoing".

===Duffman===

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===Helen Lovejoy===

{{for|the rhetorical appeal to children's interests|Think of the children}}

'''Helen Lovejoy'''{{Sfn|Groening|2010|p=64}} (née '''Schwartzbaum''';{{Sfn|Groening|2010|p=988}} voiced by [[Maggie Roswell]];{{Sfn|Groening|2010|p=1111}} understudied by [[Marcia Mitzman Gaven]] in "[[Tennis the Menace]]" and "[[Large Marge]]"{{Sfn|Groening|2010|p=1111}} while Roswell was in a pay dispute{{Cn|date=August 2024}}) is [[Reverend Timothy Lovejoy|Rev. Lovejoy]]'s judgmental and gossipy wife, and the mother of [[Bart's Girlfriend|Jessica Lovejoy]]. She introduced herself in the episode "[[Life on the Fast Lane]]" as "the gossipy wife of the minister". Her catchphrase is [[for the children (politics)|"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 implies Helen is a transgender woman who used to be named Harold Schwartzbaum. In "[[E Pluribus Wiggum]]", it is 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 non-canon "[[Treehouse of Horror XX]]" story, "Don't Have a Cow, Mankind", Helen is Lisa's godmother. She also serves as an antagonist to [[Marge Simpson]] as she usually is the one who opposes or antagonizes her. While in her [[Sky Police|extrovert "Belladonna" personality]] she displayed bisexual tendencies, inviting Marge to join her and Timothy's tryst - albeit unaware that it's Marge's voice she can hear.<ref>[[Sky Police]]:

* Helen: Oh, Asphodel... Your corpse bride is getting cold.

* Timothy: Uh, one second Belladonna... Helen and I have found that, er, these new personas have been quite liberating.

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===Jack Marley===

'''Jack Marley''' (voiced by [[Dan Castellaneta]] with a voice resembling [[Droopy Dog]]) is a former worker at the [[Springfield nuclear plant|Nuclear Plant]] who was forced to retire with a lavish retirement party. He tries to get out of it by saying his job was all he had, since he never married and his dog died, but Mr. Burns' hired goons threwthrow him out anyway. He is seen in "[[Marge in Chains]]" at the court as the foreman of Marge's trial.

Jack is later seen in "[[Simpson Tide]]" mopping the floor and informs Homer he is off the hook when all the Naval Judges leave, having been indicted in various scandals. He possibly lives in the Retirement Castle and is rarely seen in the series.

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===Mary Bailey===

'''Mary Bailey''' (voiced by [[Maggie Roswell]] in later appearances,{{sfn|Richmond & Coffman|1997 |p=179}}, [[Tress MacNeille]] in "[[The Seven-Beer Snitch]]") is the Democratic [[governor]] of [[Springfield (The Simpsons)#Location|Springfield's state]]. 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|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 [[Springfield (The Simpsons)#Capital City|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 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".

===Mary Spuckler===

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===Mayor Quimby's bodyguards===

'''Mayor Quimby's [[Bodyguard]]s''' (both voiced by [[Harry Shearer]]) are two unnamed large and expressionless men in dark suits and sunglasses. They are usually seen flanking the mayor at town meetings, but sometimes they appear as members of a crowd. On one occasion they neglected their duties while admiring passing clouds, oblivious to Quimby being in danger. This resulted in their being temporarily replaced by Homer. When Cookie Kwan presented a baby that she claimed was Quimby's, the mayor passed it off to one of the bodyguards and tellstold him to raise the child as his own. The bodyguardsbodyguard put sunglasses on the baby.

===Milhouse Van Houten===

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'''Sam''' and '''Lawrence "Larry" Dalrymple''' (voiced by [[Hank Azaria]] and [[Harry Shearer]]), 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, whose design is based on co-creator [[Sam Simon]], 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 what he bet on outcome of the Super Bowl, and in "[[Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode)|Radioactive Man]]" he simultaneously says "That makes sense" to Moe, along with others at the bar, when Moe tells the barflies that the child actor who played Alfalfa that Moe killed was an orphan who was owned by the studio. In "[[Worst Episode Ever]]" Sam is shot in the back by [[Moe Szyslak|Moe]], for trying to pay in [[Sacagawea dollar]]s. Larry also rarely speaks, except simultaneously with Sam, [[Barney Gumble]] and [[Homer Simpson]] in "[[Radioactive Man (The Simpsons episode)|Radioactive Man]]" and 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).

Larry dies while drinking at the bar in "[[Cremains of the Day (The Simpsons)|Cremains of the Day]]".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-25 |title=I Simpson hanno ucciso dopo 34 anni il personaggio Larry "The Barfly". I fan lanciano l'hashtag #riplarry |url=https://www.ilmessaggero.it/televisione/simpson_larry_dalrymple_morto_homer_chi_e-8079512.html |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=www.ilmessaggero.it |language=it}}</ref> After his death, it is revealed that he had been smuggling sapphires for Fat Tony. He apparently considered the other regulars at Moe's to be his best friends even though they knew very little about him. It's is also revealed that Larry's home address was 652 8th Avenue, enjoyed fishing and Larry told his mother, Iris Dalrymple, about the regulars being his best friends.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-04-25 |title=The Simpsons fans shocked as series kills off character after 35 years |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/simpsons-season-35-larry-death-b2534466.html |access-date=2024-04-25 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref>

===Sanjay Nahasapeemapetilon===

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===Sarah Wiggum===

'''Sarah Wiggum''' (née '''Kanickee''', voiced by [[Pamela Hayden]] in most episodes,<ref name="Gimple87"/> and [[Megan Mullally]] in "[[Uncut Femmes]]", "[[Poorhouse Rock]]", "[[Lisa the Boy Scout]]", “Iron"Iron Marge”Marge" and “Bart’s"[[Bart's Brain”Brain]]") is the gentle wife of [[Chief Wiggum]] and mother of [[Ralph Wiggum]]. She first appeared in the [[The Simpsons season 4|fourth season]] episode "[[Duffless]]".<ref>Groening, Matt (2004). Commentary for "[[Duffless]]", in ''The Simpsons: The Complete Fourth Season'' [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.</ref> Like Bernice Hibbert and Martha Quimby, she is a background character who appears most frequently in a nonspeaking role. However, in ''[[The Simpsons Game]]'' she only ever says "Clancy!", whether hit by or in Marge's [[Ochlocracy|mob]].

In the episode, "[[A Star Is Born Again]]", at the Jellyfish Dance, Clancy mentions she was more beautiful at that moment than the day he arrested her, to which she giggles in reply. He then mentions he only planted the [[Methamphetamine|crystal meth]] on her so she would "notice" him so he has an excuse to arrest her and fall in love with her, despite not doing the crystal meth, any drugs, or any crimes in general. Sarah (according to Clancy) is his "home force" and he lovingly calls her "[[Pillsbury Doughboy|Poppin' Fresh]]".

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===Snake===

'''Chester Turley'''<ref>{{Cite episode |title=The Fool Monty |episode-link=The Fool Monty |series=The Simpsons |series-link=The Simpsons |network=Fox |airdate=2010-11-21 |season=22 |number=6 |time=14:44}}</ref> or '''Albert Knickerbocker Aloysius Snake'''<ref>{{Cite episode |title=Luca$ |episode-link=Luca$ |series=The Simpsons |series-link=The Simpsons |season=25 |number=17 |time=12:28 |quote=Albert Knickerbocker Aloysius Snake}}</ref> (voiced by [[Hank Azaria]]{{Sfn|Groening|2010|p=1100}}), better known as '''Snake'''{{Sfn|Groening|2010|pp=436, 1100, 1188}} or '''Jailbird''',{{Sfn|Groening|2010|pp=1100, 1188}} is a recurring character who is [[Springfield (The Simpsons)|Springfield]]'s resident [[Recidivism|recidivist]] felon, always getting arrested but rarely staying in [[Prison|jail]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.snpp.com/guides/snake.file.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=December 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140330004949/http://www.snpp.com/guides/snake.file.html |archive-date=March 30, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He made his debut appearance in "[[The War of the Simpsons]]" in which he was not named but wore the prisoner ID 7F20, matching the episode's production code.{{Sfn|Groening|2010|pp=97, 436}}

His first name was first mentioned by his cellmate [[Sideshow Bob]] in the season 3 episode "[[Black Widower]]". In the script, the writers had simply mentioned a character named Snake and it had been the directors who had assigned that existing character design to the name.<ref>Mentioned in the DVD commentary for "[[Black Widower]]"</ref> Snake was named the 19th (out of 25) of [[IGN]]'s Top 25 Simpsons Peripheral Characters.<ref name="ign"/>

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===Wiseguy===

'''Raphael''' (voiced by [[Hank Azaria]],<ref name="McCann116"/>, [[Dan Castellaneta]] in "[[500 Keys]]"), a.k.a. '''Wiseguy''', is the [[chauffeur]] hired to take Homer to the prom (despite that Marge was going with Artie Ziff) in the [[The Simpsons season 2|second season]] in "[[The Way We Was]]", but he has held numerous other jobs in the series.<ref>Silverman, David (2002). Commentary for "[[Old Money (The Simpsons)|Old Money]]", in ''The Simpsons: The Complete Second Season'' [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.</ref> ''Simpsons'' [[Sound editor (filmmaking)|sound editor]] Bob Beecher commented on [[alt.tv.simpsons]] 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."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://snpp.com/guides/smam.file.html |title=The Sarcastic Middle-Aged Man File |publisher=[[The Simpsons Archive]] |access-date=September 10, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204100709/http://www.snpp.com/guides/smam.file.html |archive-date=December 4, 2008 }}</ref>

Azaria does a [[Charles Bronson]] impression for the voice.<ref name="barbershop">Azaria, Hank (2004). Commentary for "[[Homer's Barbershop Quartet]]", in ''The Simpsons: The Complete Fifth Season'' [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.</ref> In "[[Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious]]", [[Al Jean]] and [[Mike Reiss]] had Azaria voice a Simpsonized Charles Bronson as a reference to this.<ref>Jean, Al (2006). Commentary for "[[Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious]]", in ''The Simpsons: The Complete Eighth Season'' [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.</ref> Like his profession, the character's hair and facial features varied widely 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.{{sfn|Turner|2004|p=165}} In "[[Day of the Jackanapes]]", [[Sideshow Bob]] calls Wiseguy by the name "Raphael".<ref>McCann, p.</ref>