The Simpsons One Time Characters Seasons 1 To 10 / Characters

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Season 1

Ms. Melon

She is the fourth grade teacher at the "Enriched Learning Center for Gifted Children" that Bart briefly attended after cheating on an intelligence test.

Foil: She is calm and nurturing to her students and encourages independence and creativity in a pedagogically progressive environment, which heavily contrasts Mrs. Krabappel.

Howard

Voiced by: Susan Blu

Debut: "Moaning Lisa"

Howard is the cool kid at Noiseland Video Arcade who teaches Homer how to beat Bart at video-game boxing.

Cool Shades: He wears sunglasses.

Howard's Mother

Voiced by: Pamela Hayden

Debut: "Moaning Lisa"

Almighty Mom: Even Homer is scolded by her for playing video games with little children.

Jacques

Voiced by: Albert Brooks

Debut: "Life on the Fast Lane"

Jacques is a bowling instructor who pursued an affair with Marge Simpson.

The Bus Came Back: After making cameos, he once again has a major role in Season 34's "Pin Gal".
The Casanova: Jacques is somewhat of a Casanova and mainly seems to try to seduce his clients instead of actually teaching them anything.
Everything's Sexier in French: Has a French accent and is a Casanova.

Ugolin and César

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Voiced by: Dan Castellaneta and Harry Shearer. Hank Azaria plays both in "To Courier with Love".

Debut: "The Crepes of Wrath"

Ugolin and Ceaser are two French wine makers who force Bart to be their slave using the foreign exchange student program.

Bad Boss: They treat Bart like a slave by forcing him to do most of the work while they sit around and yell at him.
The Bus Came Back: Aside from a few cameos, they reappear as antagonists in the Season 27 episode "To Courier With Love" and in a comic book story "Bart de Triomphe".
Fat and Skinny: César and Ugolin respectively.
French Jerk: Two hostile French wine makers, later leather makers.
Hate Sink: They have no likable qualities and only exist to make the viewers root for Bart.
Jerkass: They are very mean men and they give Bart very little food, force him to sleep on the ground, and make him taste the antifreeze-laced wine.
Knight of Cerebus: Downplayed. Though they're still comedic Jerkasses, they're the first villains in the series whose actions are played seriously. They treat Bart like a slave and could have killed him by giving him antifreeze-laced wine. Their reappearances usually amp up their goofiness, though make their motives even crueler, like trying to murder Bart or other Simpson family members.
Lighter and Softer: They reappeared in the comics, but while still trying to kill Bart their actions are portrayed less seriously, such as escaping prison by over-peppering a soup.
Moral Myopia: They view Bart as simply an Ungrateful Bastard despite the cruel labour they force upon him, and after being arrested, they blame it all on taking up a student exchange program. A return appearance in the comics (where they try to kill Bart as payback) makes evident they still think they treated Bart fairly and he betrayed them unprovoked.
Pet the Dog: They genuinely care about their work donkey, Maurice. This just makes them come off as even worse, though, since they treat Bart worse than a donkey and force him to take on some of Maurice's workload.
Revenge Myopia: They return in the comics in a Villain Team-Up with Sideshow Bob against Bart for getting them arrested in their animated appearance. Bart even makes a lengthy expositional lampshade about all the crap they did to him first, to which they retort he was an Ungrateful Bastard over it.
Rogues' Gallery Transplant: They return as antagonists in "To Courier With Love", though this time for Homer and Lisa, who are protecting a snake they want to use for leather.
Would Hurt a Child: They treat Bart like a horse and risk his well being by testing antifreeze laced wine on him during their duration in the foreign exchange program. In a follow up appearance in the comics, they return from prison to try and help Sideshow Bob kill him.

Adil Hoxha

Voiced by: Tress MacNeille

Debut: "The Crepes of Wrath"

Adil Hoxha was a foreign exchange student from Albania. He stayed with the Simpson family while Bart was in France.

Affably Evil: He's very polite to everyone and seems to genuinely like his foster family, even though he's a spy stealing nuclear secrets for Albania.
Famous-Named Foreigner: Named after then-Prime Minister Adil Carcani and former dictator Enver Hoxha.
Karma Houdini: He gets off scot-free for his crimes of espionage because The CIA and Albanian Intelligence do prisoner exchanges
The Mole: He was discovered to be a Communist spy.

Lucille Botzcowski

Voiced by: Penny Marshall

Debut: "Some Enchanted Evening"

Lucille Botzcowski, aka. Ms Botz, was once the babysitter of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.

Babysitter from Hell: Her true identity is a criminal who tried to rob the place after posing as babysitter. Bart, Lisa and Maggie manage to defeat her and flee to a pay phone, though Homer unwittingly helps her escape while they are gone.
Cool and Unusual Punishment: She ties Bart and Lisa up and forces them to watch "The Happy Little Elves" (even if Lisa, a fan, decides to make the best of it). When they escape, they return the favour.
Ms Botz: (traumatized) Please turn off the TV...
Karma Houdini: Homer unwittingly lets her get away, thinking she'd been beleaguered by Bart and Lisa.
Karma Houdini Warranty: In Season 8's "Hurricane Neddy", she's shown among the inmates at the Calmwood Mental Hospital, which would suggest that she'd been arrested at some point between the two episodes.
Knight of Cerebus: When she appears, things drift a lot further into Black Comedy territory.

Season 2

Karl

Voiced by: Harvey Fierstein

Debut: "Simpson and Delilah"

Karl is a former diehard assistant of Homer.

Foil: To Smithers. Both are personal assistants to executives at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant (Karl for Homer, Smithers for Burns). But while Smithers grovels to Mr. Burns and enables his worst interests, Karl empowers Homer and helps him grow into being a better man.
Heroic Sacrifice: When Homer is exposed for using the company's health plan to buy the Dimoxinil for his hair, Karl takes the fall to avoid Homer getting fired.
I Just Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He takes the fall when Homer is exposed for insurance fraud because he loves Homer enough to take a bullet.
Sharp-Dressed Man: Karl is always seen dressed very well in suits of assorted colors and the occasional turtleneck and scarf.
Straight Gay: Although it is never directly said, it is been suggested that Karl is homosexual. There are many indications as he kisses Homer during his pep talk and explains, "My mother taught me never to kiss a fool" before slapping Homer's buttocks.
Taking the Heat: He willingly took the fall when Homer was about to be fired for insurance fraud.
Undying Loyalty: He goes to nearly any length to ensure that Homer's career is successful.

Master Sushi Chef

Voiced by: Sab Shimono

Debut: "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"

A Japanese chef who works at The Happy Sumo.

Asian Cleaver Fever: He's shown swinging a knife around, tossing fish up in the air, and slicing through it several times while it hangs in midair. By contrast, the assistant sushi chef does no such thing while preparing Homer's fugu — he's too nervous and overwhelmed to make any such motions.

Emily Winthrop

Voiced by: Tracey Ullman

Debut: "Bart's Dog Gets an F"

A dog trainer brought in by the family to make Santa's Little Helper behave after he destroys several objects, most notably Marge's heirloom quilt. Her methods are harsh, belittling and seemingly ineffective on Santa's Little Helper.

Deadpan Snarker: Often when Bart hasn't persuaded Santa's Little Helper to succeed.
Defrosting Ice Queen: For most of the episode she's in, she's rude and unhelpful. But when Bart gets SLH to pass, she warmly comments "good show".
Fair-Weather Mentor: Of a sort. She is full of praise for those dogs and owners who do well, but will belittle and be mean to those that fail.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: She's a parody of Margaret Thatcher in her mannerisms. She was actually based on British dog trainer and author Barbara Woodhouse.

Beatrice "Bea" Simmons

Voiced by: Audrey Meadows

Debut: "Old Money"

Grandpa Simpson's short-lived girlfriend.

Death by Despair: Jasper and the others try to reassure Grandpa that her death was natural (she died when a ventricle in her heart burst and staff were unable to save her), but Grampa is convinced — and makes sure Homer knows it — that Bea died of "a broken heart" (because he wasn't there to celebrate her birthday).
December–December Romance: She's an elderly lady that dates Grandpa.
Died on Their Birthday: She tragically dies on her birthday after Grandpa Simpson had promised he would spend her special with her but was dragged into a discount lion safari by Homer and his family. When Grandpa returns to the Retirement Castle later that night, he finds out that Bea died and feels personally responsible.
Distaff Counterpart: She shares several similarities to Grandpa. Her first name, Bea is an anagram for Abe and her last name, Simmons is similar to Grandpa's last name.
The Lost Lenore: To Grandpa Simpson.
Nice Girl: Very much so. Her ghost tells Abe that he should forgive Homer.
Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Homer thought she was imagined by Grandpa because of his loneliness in the retirement home.
We Hardly Knew Ye: She dies not long after we first see her. It's quite sad.

Professor Lombardo

Voiced by: Jon Lovitz

Debut: "Brush with Greatness"

An art teacher at Springfield Community College.

Bunny-Ears Lawyer: An eccentric artist that nurtures Marge's talent.
Compliment Backfire: While he tosses compliments like candy to his students and even the custodian, Lombardo himself doesn't take compliments well as he gets annoyed at Marge when she compliments him, saying how every teacher should be like him.
Cool Teacher: He's very supporting and encouraging. He warmly praises all his students' work, and even praises the college custodian's work painting banisters and posters. He's also disgusted when he hears how Marge's high school art teacher Mr. Schindler insulted her work, considering the man a fool. His "Lombardo Method" for learning painting technique also helps Marge when she's practicing painting a portrait of Homer.

Mr. Bergstrom

Voiced by: Dustin Hoffman (credited as Sam Etic)

Debut: "Lisa's Substitute"

A substitute teacher who briefly takes over Miss Hoover's class when she comes to believe she has Lyme Disease. Enthusiastic, kind, and devoted to his students, Lisa soon begins to develop a Precocious Crush on him. He encounters Lisa and Homer once outside of the classroom, and sensing that something is lacking in their relationship and that Lisa is looking for that from him, he tries to inspire Homer to be a better role model for Lisa.

Actually Pretty Funny: He encourages students to make fun of his name and is amused by a picture of him captioned with "the singing dork".
But Now I Must Go: Accepts a job at another town and leaves Springfield.
The Cameo: A few episodes have made references to him or he's shown up just briefly, including once when he stops by the Simpson house and Lisa doesn't realize he's there.
Cool Teacher: He is an intelligent, sophisticated, dedicated, loving, excellent teacher who really does care about the students. He becomes a giant inspiration for Lisa.
Dynamic Entry: He shows up in cowboy attire and fires off fake gunshots into the air, scaring the wits out of Vietnam veteran Skinner. These days, doing something like that wouldn't be tolerated, even if the guns were fake.
Friend to All Children: One of the reasons he's so beloved.
Master of None: Tells Lisa that in reality he and other substitute teachers are this knowledge wise, they know just enough about a whole bunch of subjects to teach it for a day or two.
Nice Guy: Easily one of the best people to ever have been in Springfield.
Real Men Wear Pink: He openly cries at the end of Charlotte's Web.

Artie Ziff

Voiced by: Jon Lovitz (Dan Castellaneta in "The Front")
Debut: "The Way We Was"

Marge's second Love Interest whom she found disgusting for his No Sense of Personal Space advances on her. Ever since their break up, Artie managed to hit it big in life but still holds a fervent torch for Marge after all these years.

Abhorrent Admirer: To Marge, who found him disgusting. He doesn’t help his case by trying to forcing himself into her during their prom date.
Ascended Extra: He appears for the first time in "The Way We Was" as a minor character of the Homer and Marge flashback. Later, he becomes the main focus in "Half-Decent Proposal", "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" and "Hail to the Teeth".
Bolivian Army Ending: During the end of "The Ziff Who Came To Dinner", while upon being incarcerated, he begins spraying the cigarettes of all the fellow inmates. As an angry mob grows around him, Marge sadly tells the family to take one last look at Artie. This would be his last appearance (barring flashback and non-canon appearances) until he returned in "Hail to the Teeth".
Broken Ace: He's a charismatic, tech-savvy, self-made billionaire, yet has spent years pining after a woman who rejected him after a single date.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Of a corporation that is based on Enron.
Foil: To Homer. Being a genius, he got rich, powerful and earned respect, but he lives alone and the collection of Marge-resembling art around his mansion shows that he never got over Marge rejecting him. Unlike Homer, Artie only likes Marge for her aesthetic appeal and doesn't respect her opinions.
Hidden Depths: "Hail to the Teeth" shows him to be an expert in robotics, as he builds a line of robotic versions of Marge.
I Reject Your Reality: No matter how times Marge makes it clear that she's not interested, he just keeps on trying to woo her. In "Hail to the Teeth", he puts together a fake wedding (with a robotic duplicate of Marge as the bride), fully believing that seeing him about to marry another woman will make Marge "realise" she loves him.
It's All About Me: He has a big narcissistic love of himself.
Jerkass:
- An arrogant, self-absorbed, and greedy jerkass who was first depicted as a popular and charismatic high school upperclassman that turned into an animal of a horndog trying to get it on with Marge post-prom.
- He offers Marge and Homer a million dollars to have Marge stay with him for the weekend, saying that he won't try anything funny, and then tries to anyway. Then it's implied that he's spying on her through a camera in the mouthpiece that helps with Homer's snoring. His sexism is indicated very early on when he asked Homer if Marge would spend the weekend with Artie, ignoring the fact that it's Marge's decision that truly matters, not Homer's.
  Homer, I will give you 1 million dollars to let me spend a weekend alone with your wife.
- When he is in debt and trying to escape from it, he bets his company in a poker game and Homer wins it, which directly ends up passing the debt on him and sentences him to jail. Artie keeps quiet even when Marge protests, though he comes to his senses in the end.
Lonely at the Top: Despite his riches, Artie's life is not complete. He lives alone and the collection of Marge-resembling art around his mansion shows that he never got over Marge rejecting him.
Love Redeems: In "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner", after framing Homer, Artie finally turns himself in after spending a night with Selma.
Nerds Are Sexy: He was considered the hottest guy in school and popular among the ladies despite having the look of a stereotypical nerd.
No Sense of Personal Space: If he keeps touching Marge for too long, his sensual behavior turns nasty.
Politically Incorrect Villain: He's utterly sexist and sees Marge as just an object of his affections. On prom night, he nearly raped Marge and when he proposed a weekend with Marge, he asked for Homer's permission and didn't consider Marge's feelings on the matter until she said no and dragged Homer to the helicopter.
Put on a Bus to Hell: And came back for minor cameos. Can't say that his stay in prison was essentially a good time, however.
Riches to Rags: In "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner", he reveals that he ran his company, Ziffcorp, into the ground spending investors' money on such extravagant items such as marble toothbrushes and solid gold underpants. He was left penniless when the "dot-com bubble" burst, and secretly moved in the Simpsons attic to avoid capture.
Slimeball: He's a perverted, self-entitled and a Smug Snake who feels a constant need to get whatever he wants.
Small Name, Big Ego: After what happened at the end of their prom date, Artie urged Marge not to tell anyone, claiming that he was so respected that the information would damage the entire town.
Stalker with a Crush: He hasn't forgotten about Marge after 20 years. And he has a room covered in pictures of Marge. Creepy. This takes even more further in "Hail to the Teeth" as he resorts to making robots in her likeness in order to fill the void in his life.
Too Dumb to Live: When Artie goes to prison, one of his first acts is to begin extinguishing other prisoners' cigarettes with a squirt bottle (allegedly to save their lungs). He is last seen continuing to squirt other prisoners' cigarettes while an ever-growing angry mob advances on him. What happened to Artie after that isn't known, and Marge provides some harrowing foreshadowing (unless you read the comics). His reappearance in "Hail to the Teeth" confirms that he did survive said events.

Season 3

Leon Kompowsky

Voiced by: Michael Jackson (credited as John Jay Smith), Kip Lennon (singing), Hank Azaria (normal voice).

Debut: "Stark Raving Dad"

Leon is a mental patient who acts like Michael Jackson.

The Bus Came Back:
- Leon makes an appearance in Mr. Lisa's Opus, 26 years after his debut, once again singing a happy birthday song to Lisa.
- If one counts the Bongo Comics as canon, he also reappeared in 1997's issue 31, playing Fallout Boy to Homer's Radioactive Man (Homer took a blow to the head and believed he was the real Radioactive Man, Leon played along for fun).
But Now I Must Go: He leaves town after revealing he's not really Michael Jackson.
Face of a Thug: He's a big, intimidating-looking guy that first shows up in a mental institution. He's also one of the kindest souls to ever show up in Springfield.
Napoleon Delusion: Played with; while he claims to be Michael Jackson for most of the episode, at the end of it he completely drops the persona and admits the whole thing was an act he did to deal with his anger issues. That he was only acting like Michael Jackson without truly believing himself to be so may be why he was allowed to leave the institution so easily.
Nice Guy: He's a kind-hearted, gentle, friendly, nice, musical, and caring man. He explains in his backstory that he used to be cranky, but after he learned to talk in a nice way, he learned that he could make people happy, so he decided to be a nice person.
Vocal Dissonance: A large man with the smooth voice of Michael Jackson. It turns out it's not his natural voice, but a very good impersonation.

Bob Arnold

Voiced by: Hank Azaria
Debut: "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington"

The U.S. Congressman representing Springfield. He greets the Simpsons when they tour the Capitol, but later Lisa overhears him accepting a bribe from a lobbyist to secure a permit to chop down Springfield Forest.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: At first, he seems like a decent guy, as evidenced by Moe and Barney's opinion of him, and even Lisa's.
Broken Pedestal: Lisa looked up to him, hoping that she could vote for him once she's old enough.
Corrupt Politician: He takes a bribe to demolish the forest that inspired Lisa's essay, and is willing to allow oil drilling on Teddy Roosevelt's head. Though that second one was a sting operation to have him arrested.
Hatesink: Just look at the other tropes describing him
Heel–Faith Turn: According to a newspaper, he becomes a born-again Christian after his conviction. (This is a fairly obvious Take That! at the many Real Life criminals who claim to find religion in an attempt to win sympathy, and perhaps a reduced sentence.)
Laser-Guided Karma: Lisa writes a second essay exposing his corruption, which leads to him getting caught in an FBI sting operation, expelled from Congress, and sent to prison.

Aristotle Amadopolis

Voiced by: Jon Lovitz (Dan Castellaneta in "Homer at the Bat")
Debut: "Homer Defined"

The owner of the Shelbyville Nuclear Power Plant.

The Rival: To Mr. Burns, his business competitor.

Collette

Voiced by: Jo Ann Harris
Debut: "Flaming Moe's"

Colette is a waitress who worked at Flaming Moe's.

Expy: Of Diane Chambers from Cheers.
Morality Pet: To Moe. She discovers that Moe stole the recipe from Homer, and convinces him to sell the "Flaming Moe" for $1,000,000 and give half of the money to Homer.

Lurleen Lumpkin

Voiced by: Beverly D'Angelo (Doris Grau in "Marge vs. The Monorail")
Debut: "Colonel Homer"

Lurleen Lumpkin is an attractive, aspiring country western singer. Homer used to be her manager once.

Alliterative Name: Lurleen Lumpkin.
Because You Were Nice to Me: Lurleen falls in love with Homer because he is the first man in her life who treats her with respect and genuinely cares for her.
The Bus Came Back: Lurleen Lumpkin returns in "Papa Don't Leech" and stays with the Simpsons (despite the fact Marge still really hates her after "Colonel Homer") so she can revive her dead career and search for her long-lost father.
Country Music: Lurleen Lumpkin is a country musician.
Hopeless Suitor: She quickly starts falling for Homer and it comes out in her song lyrics, but Homer remains oblivious. Then she makes an open attempt to seduce him with a seductive song called "Bunk with Me Tonight". Homer realizes that managing Lurleen could hurt his marriage, so he abruptly quits as her manager in the middle of a TV appearance and goes home.
Parental Abandonment: Her father Royce abandoned her when she was four years old. Marge realizes that because of this, Lurleen had given up faith in all men and decides to get the two Lumpkins back on a proper parent-child relationship.
Serial Spouse: When Lurleen returns, we find that she has been married 5 or 6 times, all to men that look and act just like Homer. At the end of the episode, she falls for yet another man who resembles Homer.
Unknown Rival: Marge hates Lurleen to near-Yandere levels and wants her out of the family's lives out of fear she'll take Homer away from them. Lurleen mostly ignores her. Subverted in "Papa Don't Leech" where she is aware, mostly because Marge is really clear about this point:
"If you ever come near Homer again, I'll strangle you with your own hair extensions. That's right, I know."

Samantha Stanky

Voiced by: Kimmy Robertson
Debut: "Bart's Friend Falls in Love"

Samantha Stankey is a new student at Springfield Elementary School and love interest for Milhouse.

Alliterative Name: Samantha Stanky.
Distinctive Appearances: It's easy to single out her character design since she's one of the only Simpsons characters that has dental braces.
Love Interest: To Milhouse.
Nice Girl: She forgives Bart for telling her father about the romance with Milhouse.
Put on a Bus: Her father sends her to an all-girl convent school, where she is locked away from the outside world, and she hasn't been seen or referenced since.
Reused Character Design: Even though Samantha was put in an all-girls school and never mentioned again after her final kiss with Milhouse, there have been a number of girls that closely resemble her who have made brief cameos throughout the series (one of which attends Springfield Elementary).
Sickeningly Sweethearts: She and Milhouse spend a great deal of time together kissing, making Bart feel left out in the process.

Mr. Stanky

Voiced by: Harry Shearer
Debut: "Bart's Friend Falls in Love"

Samantha Stankey's strict and overprotective father.

Boyfriend-Blocking Dad: His response to Samantha being in a relationship with one of her classmates? Put her in a school for naughty girls, equalling her not being to meet with Milhouse again.
Papa Wolf: Takes it a bit too far.

Season 4

Mr. Black

Voiced by: Harry Shearer
Debut: "Kamp Krusty"

The camp director of Kamp Krusty.

Bad Boss: Mr. Black does very little work, instead relying on the services of the school bullies Jimbo Jones, Dolph and, Kearney, who run the "Kamp Krusty" with an iron fist, to "crush their spirits".
Card-Carrying Villain: He gives a toast saying "Gentlemen, to evil!"
Faux Affably Evil: He never raises his voice and always acts in a professional, if boring, dour and soulless, way. He's still a Card-Carrying Villain who revels in his evil.
Karma Houdini: Aside from the camp being overthrown, he and his cronies appear to face no real repercussions for their actions (although aside from a few appearances in the comics, Mr. Black never appears again in the series).
Meaningful Name: He has black hair, a black suit and a black heart.
Villainous Widow's Peak: A modest widow's peak to go with his understated but clearly evil character.

Llewellyn Sinclair

Voiced by: Jon Lovitz
Debut: "A Streetcar Named Marge"

The musical director of Oh! Streetcar!

Bad Boss: By his own admission, he's not easy to work for, often driving cast members (including children) to tears.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's obnoxious, hammy, and possibly crazy, but the play is a smash hit.
Incoming Ham: His intro is bursting through the door shouting, "HELLO?!"
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: With a slight more emphasis on the "Jerk". He belittles everyone about everything, is quite demanding and somewhat of a perfectionist elitist when it comes to his work, and he even fires one of his play's cast-members (Otto) on the night of the performance, but he is passionate about his work, can see talent when it truly presents itself, does his best to draw out the best of his actors, and even if a bit vain, adores the audience, feeling they help make the production as it is as well. It's just that he's not without his flaws, like most of The Simpsons cast.
Large Ham: The commentary notes that his bombastic introductory speech is actually the "smallest" take Lovitz did.
Prima Donna Director: He actually winds up on stage when he takes over Otto's role right before the performance, having realized Otto wasn't good enough.
Small Name, Big Ego: He carries around a good review he got for directing a fourth-grade play.
Llewellyn Sinclair: Did I expect too much from fourth graders? The review "play enjoyed by all"... speaks for itself!

Laura Powers

Voiced by: Sara Gilbert
Debut: "New Kid on the Block"

Ruth Powers' teenage daughter, who Bart develops a crush on. Sadly for him, she already has Jimbo as a boyfriend. However, when Bart makes a prank call and Jimbo runs away crying like a wimp, she dumps him, and decides she might go on a date with Bart when he's older after all.

All Girls Want Bad Boys: To Jimbo Jones, until she breaks up with him thanks to Bart's crank call.
Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: She hasn't been seen after her first appearance. She is mentioned in "Marge on the Lam", when Ruth says she has to get home before her daughter watches that "naked talk show" and brought up in a story from Bart in "Another Simpsons Clip Show", but hasn't appeared since.
Cool Big Sis: Acts like this towards Bart and to a lesser extent towards Lisa.
Cool People Rebel Against Authority: Gives off a big vibe of this to Bart blended in with his Precocious Crush.
Dad the Veteran: The one who probably gave his trench coat to her. Laura was also said to have been strictly disciplined as a child, as he held the once held rank of Corporal and presumably moved on up as seen on the rank on her trench coat.
Disappeared Dad: Mr. Powers, who disappeared and stopped paying child support. Ruth has very unflattering things to say about him.
Deadpan Snarker: A very dry sense of humour.
Freudian Excuse: Lightly implied with her love of "bad boys" and "quasi-thugs". Considering her dysfunctional family life, she might have some daddy issues that are vaguely hinted at with Ruth's actions and motives in "Marge on the Lam".
Generation Xerox: Of Ruth Powers, in that they both have terrible taste in men.
Girl Next Door: Though she fits the bill of being next door, she's actually a subversion in that her personality is more in line with Bart's own: mischief making and rebellious. She's also pretty cultured and loves to mess with people psychologically.
Horrible Judge of Character: Though her rebellious spirit gets her to bond with Bart, it also causes her to fall in with bully Jimbo Jones.
Love Makes You Stupid: Dates Jimbo Jones, who's generally a bully and a Jerkass, though it's justified in that she never knew him in full as she just moved to Springfield. After Bart helps her realize what a loser Jimbo is, she breaks up with him.
Military Brat: Implied, since she wears an army coat that used to belong to her father.
Omniglot: Official materials say that she knows at least eight different languages thanks to her travels around the world, and can even recognize regional dialects of the English language. Her favorite though would have to be "the universal language of the wedgie."
Precocious Crush: To Bart. Almost counts as First Love, because she's his first official Love Interest in the series. She even admits she might date Bart if he was closer to her age.
Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: She appears this way, and it's implied her mother has influenced her to follow this hyper-feminist way of thought. She actually likes wearing dresses, making her a subversion.
Rebellious Spirit: As stated in her character profile, she dislikes authority.
Unmanly Secret: For a tomboy like Laura, she admits that deep down, she still has a strong love for wearing dresses.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Of a lighter variety. She still is, but her "painfully strict" childhood upbringing was implied to have given her a sarcastic sense of humor.

Lyle Lanley

Voiced by: Phil Hartman
Debut: "Marge vs. the Monorail"

I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook, and by gum it put them all on the map!

A smarmy salesman (really a Con Artist) who comes to town just after Mr. Burns has been fined for pollution and the money is going over to the town. He shows up at the town hall meeting where the people are talking about how to use the money and convinces the town to build a monorail. He then steals most of the money while building the rail as cheaply as possible and in a substandard manner which is likely to fail.

Alliterative Name: Lyle Lanley.
Captain Ersatz: In costume and motivation, he is very similar to Harold Hill in the musical The Music Man, not to mention the fact that he talks in song. However, he displays absolutely none of Harold Hill's redeeming qualities.
Con Man: A con artist and shyster who sold faulty monorails to several towns.
Cutting Corners: As part of his swindle, he cut corners everywhere on the monorail: it had bad brakes, bad wiring, no fire extinguishers, the vehicle was itself recycled from a World's Fair, and the celebrity guest of one of the previous openings was pretty lousy.
Dirty Coward: Flees as soon as his scheme is completed, though to be fair he'd be stupid to hang around.
Evil Gloating: Non-verbal example. When Marge goes to his office to question him, she finds his paperwork, which has drawings of him celebrating with money he stole from the monorail project, while the town falls victim to the poorly-constructed train.
Faux Affably Evil: Kind, flattering, charismatic, and friendly to all he talks to, he's also planning to scam Springfield out of a good deal and get many people killed in order to swindle a profit.
Idiot Ball: He leaves his childishly drawn plans lying around in his office, where anyone could read them, which he even acknowledges is a stupid move, and that's in addition to leaving his trailer unlocked.
Karma Houdini Warranty: He almost gets away with defrauding Springfield, but ends up getting beaten up (and possibly killed) by the people of North Haverbrook after his plane makes an unexpected stopover there.
Laser-Guided Karma: After fleeing Springfield, he lands in another town he's swindled as his flight has to make a brief stop. He's promptly rushed by an angry mob and beaten, possibly to death.
Manipulative Bastard: He not only charmed the whole town, but even got Lisa on his side.
Meaningful Name: Lyle Lanley, professional liar.
Oh, Crap!: When he realizes where his plane has stopped. See Laser-Guided Karma.
Lanley: North Haverbrook, where have I heard that before? ...Oh no. OH NO!
Uncertain Doom: He's last seen being brutally attacked by an enraged mob, many of whom were carrying weapons, and since he makes no more appearances afterwards even as a cameo (the closest he's had is a brief flashback in a clip episode), it's probably safe to assume he was killed. Not that he didn't deserve it.

Sideshow Raheem

Voiced by: Michael Carrington
Debut: "I Love Lisa"

Krusty the Klown's sidekick before Sideshow Bob, likely from the 1970s era.

All There in the Manual: Various media like trading cards and books reveal more of his background. His birth name was either Steve Johnson or Russell Mason before he changed it to Raheem Banjoko, he attended Juilliard on an "angry poetry" scholarship, quit Krusty's show after one episode, had a successful career doing both live-action performances and animation voice work, and even authored the self-help book ''Don't Get Mad, Get In The Moment: An Actor's Guide To Anger Management."
"Angry Black Man" Stereotype: He changed his birth name of either Steve Johnson or Russell Mason to the more "Africanized" Raheem Banjoko, dresses in traditional African-style clothing, and went to Juilliard on an "angry poetry" scholarship. Krusty even sympathetically said he was an "angry, angry young man."
Due to the Dead: Despite only appearing on one episode of Krusty's show, he attended Krusty's funeral.
Gentle Giant: Despite being very large and very angry, he doesn't seem like that bad a guy if you don't cross him. He was nice enough to warn Krusty not to hit him with a mallet, and apparently thought well enough of Krusty to attend his funeral.
One-Shot Character: An In-Universe example. Raheem spent exactly one episode as Krusty's sidekick before he decided he wasn't interested in Krusty's slapstick abuse.
Palette Swap: He bears a striking resemblance to Disco Stu, except that he's black, has black hair, black glasses, and different clothes.
Scary Black Man: So scary Krusty doesn't dare abuse him with pies to the face and other such pranks like he does to Sideshows Bob and Mel. That said, he apparently got on well enough with Krusty to attend his funeral.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: He was Krusty's sidekick for all of one episode before he quit, not wanting to put up with Krusty's slapstick.

Season 5

Nigel

Voiced by: Harry Shearer

Debut: "Homer's Barbershop Quartet"

The agent who signed the Be Sharps to a record deal and managed them during their 15 minutes of fame.

No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's a mix of both The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein and their producer George Martin.

Brad Goodman

Voiced by: Albert Brooks

Debut: "Bart's Inner Child"

A self-help guru.

Snake Oil Salesman: As per Lisa, he's just selling a bunch of easy answers.

Mindy Simmons

Voiced by: Michelle Pfeiffer

Debut: "The Last Temptation of Homer"

An attractive new employee at the power plant, Homer quickly develops a strong attraction to her, which is compounded by the revelation of their many similarities and the two being sent on a business trip together.

Ambiguous Situation: More episodes later, Homer mentions that Mindy became an alcoholic and lost her job at the plant after his time with her, but future episodes "Team Homer" and "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" show Mindy as sober and working at the plant.
Big Eater: She likes junk food just as much as Homer (but somehow remains thin).
Birds of a Feather: With Homer.
Distaff Counterpart: She's a female Homer, except attractive. She likes cheeseburgers, a quick nap before lunch, foot-long chili dogs, whipped cream straight from the can, raspberry swirl doughnuts with a double glaze, drinking Duff beer, watching TV, and roasted anything. Mindy also has a tendency to drool like Homer when thinking about food and even uses his "Mmm..." catchphrase.
Drowning My Sorrows: A later episode says that she became an alcoholic some time after the episode and was fired from the Plant as a result.
Graceful Loser: When Homer confesses his feelings for Mindy but also says that he does truly love Marge as well, Mindy urges him to think about what he really wants. When he decides to remain with Marge, Mindy is shown as being okay with this and she and Homer part as Just Friends.
The Lad-ette: She's essentially a female version of Homer (except she's slim and attractive). She loves drinking beer, watching TV and eating junk food. She also drives a motorbike.
Ms. Fanservice: She is rather attractive, which causes Homer to have temptations of infidelity.
Nice Girl: Mindy is very friendly and sweet-natured.
Not Good with Rejection: Averted in the episode itself, where she's fine with Homer's decision. A throwaway line in a later episode however indicates that she took it hard and wound up depressed as a result.

Molloy the Cat Burglar

Voiced by: Sam Neill

Debut: "Homer the Vigilante"

Molloy is a cat burglar who lived at Springfield Retirement Castle.

Affably Evil: If it weren't for his stealing and, at the end, tricking everyone into going on a wild goose chase so he can escape prison, he'd just be affable (and even then, he left a politely worded letter to explain the purpose of the wild goose chase). If anything, Springfield's attempts to deal with the cat burglaries cause more damage than he does.
Molloy: While I may have stolen all of your treasured possessions, rest assured, your town has stolen my heart. (All of the citizens of Springfield go "aww" at that and say that they should let him go)
Batman Gambit: He convinces everyone to leave him unguarded so he can escape by sending them on a wild goose chase.
Calling Card: He leaves his business card at his crimes, saying that he's been in "business" since the 70's.
Cool Old Guy: He's a polite old man who gives up everything he stole once he realizes he's been caught.
Crazy-Prepared: Left a briefcase with a signed confession buried on the edge of town, which he uses as a distraction should he ever be imprisoned.
Easily Forgiven: After he's caught, he talks the citizens into forgiving him. The trope is subverted when, despite this, Chief Wiggum arrests him and he has to escape.
For the Evulz: This appears to be the only reason he takes to catburglary.
Gentleman Thief: After being caught at the end of the episode, he graciously returns the items he has stolen.
Graceful Loser: He calmly returns everything he'd stolen after being caught.
Hidden in Plain Sight: The most prolific cat burglar in Springfield hides in the Springfield Retirement Castle, completely Beneath Suspicion by the regular folks. Even Grampa Simpson didn't think that there was something odd about his room being full of loot until Molloy took the gigantic cubic zirconium.
Karma Houdini: Zig-zagged: The whole town was just going to let him go, but in a moment of rare smarts, Wiggum arrests him anyway. Molloy managed to escape custody afterwards thanks to the fact everybody left to look for his "treasure".

Stacy Lovell

Voiced by: Kathleen Turner

Debut: "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy"

Stacey Lovell is the creator of the Malibu Stacy franchise.

Lady Drunk: Initially. She tosses her glass into her home's fireplace when she decides to help Lisa... and a massive fireball erupts from the fireplace as a result.
Serial Spouse: She's been married and divorced five times. Her former husbands are Ken, Johnny, Joe, Dr. Colossus, and Steve Austin. Joe makes an appearance in this episode to win her back, while Dr. Colossus appears in "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part Two".

President of Kwik-E-Mart

Voiced by: Harry Shearer

Debut: "Homer And Apu"

The president of the Kwik-E-Mart corporation, headquartered in India.

Stampy

Debut: "Bart Gets an Elephant"

A big elephant that was given to Bart by the KBBL radio channel. He soon proved too much for the Simpsons to handle due to his size, and the enormous quantity of food he needed, so Homer initially tries to sell him to a poacher and ivory dealer. However, he changes his mind when Stampy saves him from drowning in tar, and decides (though not without some insistence from his kids) to release him in a wildlife preserve.

Androcles' Lion: Inverted when he lifts Homer out of a tar pit, and Homer, in turn, decides not to sell him to the ivory dealer.
The Bus Came Back: He reappears in "Large Marge", involved in a plan by Bart to help Krusty the Clown restore his public image.
Cruel Elephant: The family initially assume he's just unhappy and end up sending him to a sanctuary, but he bullies the other elephants there. Like people, some elephants are just jerks.
Giant Eye of Doom: Marge is horrified when she wakes up and sees Stampy's eye peeking through her bedroom window.
Jerkass: When introduced to other elephants, his first reaction was to headbutt them until they pass out.

Freddie Quimby

Voiced by: Dan Castellaneta

Debut: "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"

The nephew of Springfield's mayor, Joe Quimby.

Berserk Button: He really doesn't like it when people mispronounce "chowdah".
Defense Attorney: You certainly would never lose your temper over something as trivial as the pronunciation of the word "chowder".
Freddy: That's "chowdah!" "Chowdah!" I'll kill you! I'll kill all of you! Especially those of you on the jury!
Defense Attorney: Wow, that didn't go well. The defense rests.
Disproportionate Retribution: He threatens to kill everybody in the courtroom because his own lawyer doesn't say "chowder" as "chowdah". This one backfires on him hard because he does it right after testifying that he doesn't have such a Hair-Trigger Temper.
Evil Is Petty: The case against him is so open-and-shut because he is the kind of guy who would clobber someone just for not saying a word the way he wants to... even if it's inside a courthouse.
Hair-Trigger Temper: Having it go off in the middle of declaring under oath that he didn't had it almost did him in.
Hollywood New England: Like all the Quimbys, he has a Kennedyesque Boston accent. In fact, his insistence that the French waiter pronounce chowder "correctly" as chowdah is the whole reason the trial is taking place.
Hypocritical Humor: He tries to mock the waiter's accented pronunciation of chowder. Not only does he have an accent of his own, but he is in fact incapable of decoupling his own accent from his mockery.
Karma Houdini: Played with. He doesn't do anything to the waiter except act like a jerk, so he does deserve a not-guilty verdict. On the other hand, he's also a massive jackass, and it's very easy to see why the jury would believe he assaulted the waiter (and he even did so in a deleted scene, which lands him back in court and makes Bart's sacrifice pointless). One review of the episode says that part of what made it interesting was that beating up the waiter was probably the only thing Freddy wasn't guilty of.

Season 6

Allison Taylor

Voiced by: Winona Ryder ("Lisa's Rival"), Pamela Hayden (subsequent appearances)

Debut: "Lisa's Rival"

A girl in Springfield Elementary, who acts as Lisa's de-facto rival. Everything Lisa does, Allison can do better, despite being a year younger than her.

The Ace: To the point that Lisa feels threatened by her.
Always Someone Better: Is smarter, younger, more productive and a better saxophone player than Lisa.
Ambiguously Absent Parent: Her mother is never seen.
Ambiguously Related: To Annette, the squishee lady from The Sweetest Apu, because of a scene in the episode Dark Knight Court where Allison is seen holding hands with her.
Bully Magnet: Being smarter than Lisa has the consequence of attracting more attention from bullies than her.
Child Prodigy: She's younger than Lisa, but she's even more of a prodigy than she is.
Extracurricular Enthusiast: She likes to make dioramas, to the point of having finished hers one week before the diorama contest. She has also participated in football, tap dancing and a lot of other activities as evidenced by her room full of trophies.
Fangirl: By the time she's introduced, of the same Bleeding Gums Murphy. She's even got an autographed photo of him, implying she presumably one upped Lisa by actually going to a show of his before his spiral downwards, but...
Fair-Weather Friend: She can be nice at Lisa sometimes, other times she can laugh at her.
Graceful Loser: She didn't mind about losing the diorama contest.
Grade Skipper: From first to second grade due to her intelligence.
Informed Attribute: Her Always Someone Better and Child Prodigy status eventually become this later on as she becomes but another Living Prop. Though Lisa might be flanderized (for better and for worse) in later seasons, she has a lot more achievements under her belt that makes Allison look like a thing of the past. This includes a touching first time meeting with Bleeding Gums Murphy, which helps Lisa ease and soothe her sorrows with his blues jazz with a musical spiritual experience, and being there at his deathbed, including helping spread his music throughout Springfield in reverence to him when he passes on.
Innocently Insensitive: She seems to be completely oblivious to just how inferior she makes Lisa feel until the end of the episode.
Kids Are Cruel: After her debut episode, she become just like any other kid in the show, so she can be mean at times.
Living Prop: Allison can be later seen as a background character in many episodes revolving around the Springfield children. Presumably, it's down to not wanting to get Winona Ryder for one-off lines.
Mirror Character: Allison becomes a rival to Lisa mostly because the two are almost exactly alike, except Allison is slightly better than Lisa at everything. They are both kind, intelligent, nerdy girls who play the saxophone, get picked on by bullies and have Ralph badgering them for the answers to test questions. After Lisa gets over her jealousy, the two become friends due to their many common interests.
Missing Mom: she only lives with her father, but whereabouts of her mother is not shown or mentioned.
Not So Above It All:
- Perhaps a bit of a Flanderization as well down the line, the flavor picture for the Season 6 DVD set special features menu of the episode is supposed to show a profile mug series of Lisa, but Allison out of nowhere comes in from the left and shoves her over, taking Lisa's forward facing photo in a rather triumphant manner.
- As a Living Prop, she often engages in the juvenile antics of the other kids at Springfield Elementary. Case in point, singing the fart song in "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer". Note that Lisa, who originally shared many similarities to her, does not partake in said song.
Nice Girl: She's not actively malevolent in any way, just a rival.
The Rival: Lisa develops a one-sided rivalry with her.
Took a Level in Dumbass: Zigzagged, as a result of becoming a living prop. Sometimes she can be even less intelligent than Janey, and others she can still be a genius (although nowhere near being as intelligent as she was in her debut episode). Also she lost any remotely intellectual hobby, so she is hardly ever seen playing her saxophone again.
Took a Level in Jerkass: Again, because of she becoming a living prop, she went from the nice girl who wanted to befriend Lisa to just another girl who bullies her as anyone else, with some exceptions, usually depending of how the kids around her react to Lisa.
Tuckerization: She was named after two of Mike Scully's children, Allison and Taylor.
With Friends Like These...: In the few times where Allison is still Lisa's friend, she can still be mean to her, like leaving her alone or just by laughing at her.

Birch Barlow

Voiced by: Harry Shearer

Debut: "Sideshow Bob Roberts"

Birchibald "Birch" T. Barlow is a right-wing conservative talk show host on the radio station KBBL. He also has a show on Fox News.

Fat Bastard: He's very rotund and very abrasive to anyone who doesn't fit with his political beliefs.
Irony: One of his favourite points to go after Quimby about is his stance on crime. But Birch is aiding a felon in the form of the attempted murderer Sideshow Bob. One that he helped free from jail, no less.
Jerkass Has a Point: He's an unpleasant man to talk to unless you align with him politically, but he's absolutely right regarding his criticisms of Quimby, if nothing else.
Meaningful Name: "Birch" is likely meant to be a reference to the infamous John Birch Society, a radical conservative/conspiracy theory group formed during the 1950s.
The Nicknamer: Makes pejorative nicknames for anything remotely liberal, using alliterations and portmanteaus.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: Of Rush Limbaugh. He even has a gold microphone.
Pompous Political Pundit: He labels Quimby as one of the biggest obstacles in the improvement of Springfield as a city (he's right, of course, but his delivery is as ham-fisted an Attack of the Political Ad as it gets) to the point he endorses and helps a convicted criminal, and when it comes to asking on debate night, well:
Birch Barlow: Mayor Quimby, you are well known, sir, for your lenient stance on crime. But suppose for a second that your house was ransacked by thugs, your family tied up in the basement, with socks in their mouths, you try to open the door but there's too much blood on the knob—
Mayor Quimby: What is your ah, question?
Birch Barlow: My question's about the budget, sir.

Jessica Lovejoy

Voiced by: Meryl Streep

Debut: "Bart's Girlfriend"

Reverend and Helen Lovejoy's daughter, who feigns being as sweet and pleasant a girl as one would expect of a Reverend's daughter, but who is actually such a bad girl she unnerves Bart.

All Girls Want Bad Boys: Subverted. At first, she seems like the typical sweet preacher's daughter who happens to be attracted to a bad boy, but she turns out to be even worse than he is.
Attention Whore: One of her last lines is demanding her father pay attention to her.
The Bad Guy Wins: Subverted. She seemingly manages to seduce Bart into doing her punishment work at the end of her episode — when she leaves, he snickers about how bad a job he is going to do on the steps to get back at her.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Everyone believes that she's a sweet, innocent minister's daughter, but (much to Bart's dismay) she's actually a manipulative little bitch.
Blue Boy, Pink Girl: The pink girl to Bart's blue boy.
Child Prodigy: She has an amazing I.Q. and reads at a higher grade level than normal. Subverted in that Bart only thinks she is; her I.Q. is 108 and she reads at a fifth-grade level, both putting her only actually slightly above average, but enough to amaze Bart.
The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Of Reverend Lovejoy, of all people. When she is introduced, she is but a quiet but sweet little girl who had just come back from an all girls boarding school. As soon as the episode caps off, the real reason why she came back was that her want for attention eventually turned into a nasty want to become a child menace, including pranking to the point of causing school rioting and property destruction. It appears that Lovejoy's ineptitude by laziness and apathy isn't just exclusive with Flanders, as he can't even morally console and instill his own daughter properly.
Daddy's Girl: Which is the main reason she desires his attention so badly.
Everyone Has Standards: Invoked when she finally confesses to stealing from the collection plate, though the reason has more to do with her disgust at Reverend Lovejoy's willful blindness than it does with any remorse for letting Bart take the blame
Evil Counterpart:
- While Bart is openly a troublemaker, he also has moments of sympathy and morality. Jessica, however, hides behind an image of being the pure-hearted Reverend's daughter, while acting in ways that horrify even Bart.
- As an early season 6 girl that outperforms a Simpson kid in what they're best at and makes semi-frequent background cameos after their episode, she's an unintentional one to Allison Taylor as well. They even look similar and sometimes get their colours mixed up in said cameos.
Eviler than Thou: Bart discovers to his shock that she's even worse than he is. She even frames him for stealing from the church.
Fille Fatale: Amongst boys smitten by her, she falls right into the role of femme fatale, and isn't afraid to use it.
Freudian Excuse: Apparently the reason she acts like a total bad girl is that she craves attention, due to her father not giving her any and only caring about his projected image of her.
Hate Sink: Just look at the tropes that describe her. In addition, she calls Bart "yellow trash," clearly a play on "white trash," a pretty vile classist insult.
Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: She makes Bart look like a saint in comparison. Also, every time he seems to think he's talked Jessica into changing her ways, she screws him over.
Kick the Dog: Talks Bart into going up to the top of an impossibly steep hill, then shoves him down it.
Kids Are Cruel: A very naughty girl who's around Bart's age.
Light Is Not Good: She wears a pink and white dress, and is definitely not good.
Living Prop: After her debut episode, Jessica has since made cameos throughout the series. She also appears in the new opening sequence, playing the flute in the school's music class.
Manipulative Bitch: She uses her beauty to manipulate boys and uses timidity to manipulate adults and girls.
Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Her 108 IQ (slightly above average) and reading at a fifth-grade level (not bad if she's in fourth, but hardly impressive) are treated as her being "a criminal mastermind." By Springfield standards, that seems very probable.
Pink Means Feminine: She usually wears pink and purple outfits.
Preacher's Kid: She falls into the category of the rebellious troublemaker who pretends to be sweet and nice so that everyone thinks she's innocent and can do no wrong.
Smug Snake: Full-bore. When Bart first accuses her of being too far with the wrongdoing, she tells him that as the Reverend's kid she will be believed and not him, and when Lisa tries to indirectly tell her in front of the other churchgoers to please tell the truth, she just smugly smiles back, which breaks Lisa's Rage Breaking Point. To cement this, she hid the money in an obvious spot, and the only reason she wasn't suspected was that her father willfully ignores every bad thing she did rather than being the devious mastermind she's credited as.
Lisa: Oh, what the hell, (points at Jessica) it was Jessica Lovejoy!
Troll: Among the things she talks Bart into doing is eating ice cream in front of overweight people exercising.

Ashley Grant

Voiced by: Pamela Hayden

Debut: "Homer Badman"

Ashley Grant is a graduate student and feminist who works as a babysitter.

Easily Forgiven: Homer seems to hold no grudges for all the crap he's been through and quickly accepts Ashley's (albeit sincere) apology.
Straw Feminist: She condescendingly says men are easily and deservedly manipulated, even children like Bart (although Bart specifically was being a chauvinist brat toward her). That said, she had every reason to think Homer was harassing her, her views and character take a massive backseat to the ensuing media circus, and she does admit she was wrong when shown evidence to the contrary.
Villain Has a Point: Though she's an antagonistic force in the episode, her reasons for doubting Homer's account is frankly entirely reasonable—he has every reason to lie, it's not what you'd call the most believable story, and he ate the evidence. We the audience know that Homer is innocent of sexual harassment, but all she knows is he grabbed her butt.

Godfrey Jones

Voiced by: Harry Shearer

Debut: "Homer Badman"

Godfrey Jones is the host of the tabloid news program Rock Bottom.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Offers to help Homer, then uses his own words against him. When called out on this, his apology is a rushed list that scrolls by too fast to be read.
Easily Forgiven: Homer seems to forgive Rock Bottom, despite what they did to him (and, unlike Ashley, their apology wasn't that sincere).

Dr. Zweig

Voiced by: Anne Bancroft

Debut: "Fear of Flying"

Dr. Zweig is a psychologist who helps Marge overcome her fear of flying.

Blatant Lies: Says she's not going to judge anyone, as she immediately pegs Homer as a serious problem for Marge's mental health.
Ignored Expert: Tries to talk about Homer, who immediately drags Marge away.

Guy Incognito

Voiced by: Dan Castellaneta

Debut: "Fear of Flying"

A man who, except for having a mustache, slightly lighter-colored muzzle and an unusual accent, looks and sounds exactly like Homer.

Identical Stranger: He looks exactly like Homer except with a mustache, and sounds almost exactly like him, except with an upper-class kind of voice. Homer is amazed until he sees a dog with a puffy tail.
Inexplicably Identical Individuals: He and Homer are virtually clones, much to Guy's misfortune.
Riddle for the Ages: How or why does he look just like Homer? Homer wonders until he sees a dog with a puffy tail.

Number One

Voiced by: Patrick Stewart

Debut: "Homer the Great"

The head of the local Stonecutters chapter.

Card-Carrying Villain: Played for laughs, he and the other Stonecutters proudly sing about evil deeds that are mostly Poke the Poodle acts, but when Homer takes over and tries to actually make them do good acts, they quickly rebel.
The Comically Serious: He's voiced by Patrick Stewart, who provides his usual Shakespearian delivery to everything the man says, including the Stonecutter's induction ritual, which involves asses and paddles.
Only Known by Their Nickname: His real name is unknown.
Start My Own: When he and the other Stonecutters disagree about the direction Homer's leadership takes them in, they start a new secret society that explicitly forbids Homer from joining.

Don Vittorio

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "Homie the Clown"

Don Vittorio DiMaggio is a commanding mafia leader. The mobsters of the Springfield mafia show him respect.

While Don Vittorio's been seen or heard a couple times since, his debut episode has been his only onscreen speaking role to date.

Affably Evil: He apologizes as he is about to shoot Homer (believing him to be Krusty) and decides he won't do it on the condition of having the "Spin-Cycle Fantastic" trick performed for him (which Homer fails), then apologizes again when the real Krusty shows up at the last second; and ultimately lets them both live when they successfully pull off the trick together. He even politely gives Krusty back his change after he overpays his loan.
Coat Cape: Wears a black topcoat with the sleeves loose over his suit.
Disproportionate Retribution: Almost has Krusty (and Homer) killed over a measly $48.
The Don: And more powerful than Fat Tony.
Even Evil Has Standards: After nearly being killed for not paying his debts, Krusty pays the money anyway, which turns out to be the ridiculously low sum of $48. The boss is happy and even gives him back his change.
Evil Old Folks: He's the Don of the Springfield mafia and threatens to kill Krusty over $48.
Stop Being Stereotypical: Defied. When he calls himself an "old Italian stereotype", Fat Tony tries to reassure him that's not the case, but Vittorio waves him off, having made peace with it.

Evan Conover

Voiced by: Phil Hartman

Debut: "Bart vs. Australia"

Evan Conover is the "Undersecretary for International Protocol: Brat and Punk Division" and a member of the US State Department.

"Ass" in Ambassador: In order to appease Australia, he offers nothing but Disproportionate Retribution for Bart's actions — the fact that the "public apology" option would include Bart getting his ass kicked was something he "helpfully" decided not to mention in order to make the Simpsons accept it.

Tobias Drundridge

Voiced by: Nancy Cartwright

Debut: "Bart vs. Australia"

An Australian boy who was tricked into accepting a six-hour, $900 collect call from Bart.

Expy: An Australia counterpart to the Flanders boys.

Bruno Drundridge

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "Bart vs. Australia"

Tobias' father.

Beware the Silly Ones: Bart thought taunting Bruno over the phone would be enough to put his prank-calling behind him. He was wrong.

Gus the MP

Voiced by: Dan Castellaneta

Debut: "Bart vs. Australia"

The Member of Parliament for Bruno Dundridge's district.

Prime Minister Andy

Voiced by: Harry Shearer

Debut: "Bart vs. Australia"

Andy is the Prime Minister of Australia.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He seems reasonable enough at first, but has Bart sentenced to an additional corporal punishment after his apology because he doesn't the former sattefacory on its own.
Disproportionate Retribution: He wanted Bart to be kicked with a giant boot over a stupid phone call.
Lazy Bum: He's introduced lounging naked on a floating tire in a lake, rather than doing his job.
Monster of the Week: Only appears (besides a picture cameo in "Holidays of Future Passed") in "Bart Vs. Australia" in which he is the main antagonist.
President Evil: Or Prime Minister Evil in this case.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Subverted. He seems perfectly fine accepting Bart's apology, until he has him arrested for an additional punishment, the booting, because "A mere apology would be a bit empty".

Ballet Teacher

Voiced by: Susan Sarandon

Debut: "Homer vs. Patty and Selma"

A Springfield Elementary School employee, who teaches the school ballet class.

Cool Teacher: She is one of the few teachers to successfully teach Bart Simpson anything, immediately welcoming and encouraging him to enjoy ballet.
Ink-Suit Actor: She was drawn to look like Susan Sarandon.

Señor Spielbergo

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "A Star Is Burns"

The non-union Mexican equivalent to famed director Steven Spielberg whom Burns hires to direct his biopic A Burns For All Seasons

Bilingual Dialogue: He doesn't seem to speak any English, but works with Mr. Burns and his team nonetheless.

Hugh Parkfield

Voiced by: Mandy Patinkin

Debut: "Lisa's Wedding"

A British student who becomes engaged to Lisa 15 years in the future, but after he insults her family, she breaks their engagement off.

Always Someone Better: Reads faster than Lisa.
Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Lisa. At first, the two quarrel over a book in the library, but the pair eventually fall madly in love.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He lets slip that after the wedding he plans for them to return to England and never see Lisa's family again.
Foil: He's this to Mr. Bergstrom from "Lisa's Substitute". At first glance, they're both everything Lisa wants from a companion: witty, intelligent, cultured, sensitive, putting her at odds with her seemingly oblivious father Homer. But while Mr. Bergstrom helps Lisa understand that Homer does love her, Hugh tries to cut him out of her life, which makes Lisa realize that he doesn't really care about her.
Gentleman and a Scholar: While at first he seems to be this, it's subverted at the end of the episode, revealing him to be a Jerkass.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: He was clearly modeled on Hugh Grant.
Stiff Upper Lip: His only real reaction to the trouble he faces at Homer's hands? "This is all quite trying."

Jericho

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "The Springfield Connection"

Jericho is the jeans counterfeit who helped Herman illegally sell counterfeit jeans.

Shelby

Voiced by: Tress MacNeille

Debut: "Lemon of Troy"

Shelby is a boy and apparent bully who lives in Shelbyville.

Identical Stranger: He looks similar to Bart, with the exception of his hair, his pants, and the color of his hat.
The Rival: To Bart, even for one episode.

Shelbyville Milhouse

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "Lemon of Troy

Character Catchphrase: "Radical", much to Milhouse's anger, since he insists it's his catchphrase.
Commonality Connection: He and regular Milhouse bond over their shared name, and the pain it's caused them.
Similar Squad: He's the Milhouse to Shelby's Bart.

Shelby's father

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "Lemon of Troy"

Determinator: Maintains his glare on the Springfieldians even as his eyes water and keeps shaking his fist ineffectually as they retreat.
Evil Gloating: He eats one of the stolen lemons in front of Homer. His face puckers up.
Meet Your Early-Installment Weirdness: He sounds like Walter Matthau, a la early Homer.
Unnamed Parent: His name is not revealed.

Shelbyville Manhattan

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "Lemon of Troy"

Namesake Gag: You'd think Shelbyville got named after somebody called "Shelby". Well, you'd be wrong.
We Used to Be Friends: Jebediah Springfield wanted a town devoted to chastity, abstinence, and a flavorless mush called "root-marm", whereas Manhattan thought they'd establish a town where people could marry their own cousins (the thought of which sickened Springfield). They swiftly became foes, extending their rivalry to the towns they each started.

Season 7

Doctor Colossus

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "Who Shot Mr. Burns, Part 2"

A Day in the Limelight: The comics give him a one-off story showing him trying to be a supervillain, and just how bad he is at it.
Cartoonish Supervillainy: He is the partial Trope Namer. While in his jail cell he tries to activate his "Colosso-boots", and slams his head against the ceiling, leaving him to sigh and ask when his lawyer's showing up.
Epic Fail: He's a supervillain so bad Chief Wiggum can catch and contain him. Chief Wiggum. In the comics, meanwhile, he's so ineffectual Wiggum doesn't even think he's worth arresting, no matter how much property damage he causes.

"Radioactive Man" Producer

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "Radioactive Man"

"Radioactive Man" Director

Voiced by: Dan Castellaneta

Debut: "Radioactive Man"

"Radioactive Man" Editor

Voiced by: Harry Shearer

Debut: "Radioactive Man"

Classy Pig

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "King-Size Homer"

A pig that Homer imagines during his imagination of his weight goal.

No Celebrities Were Harmed: He is based on Cary Grant. The creators even wanted Grant to play the pig until they remembered he'd been dead for years.

Colonel Leslie "Hap" Hapablap

Voiced by: R. Lee Ermey

Debut: "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"

An Air Force officer.

Incredibly Lame Fun: Thinks box-kites are interesting. The audience disagrees.
Large Ham: Being voiced by R. Lee Ermey will do that to you.
Shout-Out: His entire character is one to Gunnery Sgt. Hartman from Full Metal Jacket, right down to being voiced by the same man who played him.

Detective Don Brodka

Voiced by: Lawrence Tierney

Debut: "Marge Be Not Proud"

The store detective at Try-N-Save. He catches Bart stealing a video game (Bonestorm) from the Try-N-Save.

The Dreaded: Bart spends the entire episode scared of returning to the Try-N-Save store because of him.
Inspector Javert: He catches Bart immediately, but doesn't see Jimbo and Nelson shoplifting. And it's probably not the first time.
Jerkass: He has every right to be pissed about Bart's shoplifting, (attempt to) notify his parents, and ban him from the store... but when Bart and his family come back to get their picture taken, Brodka could have at least waited until their picture was done before he chastises the boy again. But he doesn't, and the picture shows a husky arm grabbing Bart.

Xoxchitla

Voiced by: Tress MacNeille

Debut: "Marge Be Not Proud"

A Brazilian actress who is the main presenter of the children's television programme, Teleboobies.

The Capital of Brazil Is Buenos Aires: A minor case. She has an Aztec/Incan-sounding name despite being Brazilian.
The Bus Came Back: Her debut is a no-speaking scene in "Marge Be Not Proud" when Krusty the Clown introduces a few people for his "Krusty Kinda Christmas" holiday special. She returns six seasons later (with a major role) in "Blame It on Lisa", where she is the host of a Brazilian children's television show named Teleboobies, which amuses Bart.
Ms. Fanservice: Especially in "Blame It on Lisa" where she wears very revealing outfits (the most iconic is a low-cut pink leotard that shows off her quite ample cleavage).
No Celebrities Were Harmed: She is a parody of Xuxa, an actress and TV show host from Brazil.

Hollis Hurlbut

Voiced by: Donald Sutherland

Debut: "Lisa the Iconoclast"

The head of the Springfield Historical Society.

Alliterative Name: Hollis Hurlbut.
The Comically Serious: When Lisa jokes about having "Chester A. Arthritis", he only says "You have arthritis?".
Life's Work Ruined: He was so horrified at the thought Jebediah could have been a criminal, thereby making a mockery of his life and career, so he hid the tongue.
Poke the Poodle: After Lisa learns the truth about Jebediah Springfield, he immediately bans her, her future children, and her future children's children from the historical society... for three months.

Chester J. Lampwick

Voiced by: Kirk Douglas

Debut: "The Day the Violence Died"

The original creator of Itchy, and father of cartoon violence.

Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He refused to do the chores Grampa Simpson and Krusty hired him for because he didn't like the food they paid him with, but when he finally gets the riches he deserves for creating Itchy, he pays the Simpsons the $1,750 they shelled out to hire Lionel Hutz and buy the evidence to prove his claim, as well as a little extra.
Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: As soon as he's rich, he buys a solid gold house and a rocket car.
Riches to Rags: In The Simpsons Movie, he's seen as part of the mob sporting his bum rags, implying he's lost his fortune.

MacArthur "Mac" Parker

Voiced by: Jeff Goldblum

Debut: "A Fish Called Selma"

Troy McClure's agent.

Ink-Suit Actor: He looks an awful lot like Jeff Goldblum.
Punny Name: His name comes from MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, CA and the song that it inspired.

Erin

Voiced by: Christina Ricci

Debut: "Summer of 4 Ft. 2"

A girl who vacationed to Little Pwagmattasquarmsettport with her family.

Nice Girl: She and her friends avoid Kids Are Cruel and are pretty nice people. When they learn Lisa's unpopular nature, rather than shun and bully her, they decorate the family car in seashells (which turns pear-shaped when Homer catches them and a flock of seagulls peck at the car when they drive home), sign her yearbook, and tell her that they don't mind — and actually like — that she's a brainy girl.

Season 8

Hank Scorpio

Voiced by: Albert Brooks

Debut: "You Only Move Twice"

The president of the Globex Corporation, which includes a rival nuclear power plant. He tried to entice Smithers with an offer to switch jobs, and when Smithers turned it down, the same offer was quickly made to the next longest-serving employee of the Springfield plant: Homer. As a boss, he's everything Burns is not: friendly, outgoing, hip, and concerned about his employees. He's also a Bond villain. Easily one of the most popular one-off characters.

Affably Evil: Polite, benevolent to his employees to the point that they're his number two concern (number one being his schemes), and all in all a great guy to hang around with. He's also a supervillain.
Anti-Villain: Despite wanting to Take Over the World, he's genuinely an Affably Evil Benevolent Boss, he's a friend instead of an enemy to the Simpsons, and it's implied that his successful East-Coast-takeover is actually a benevolent dictatorship at worst.
Ax-Crazy: Especially in the episode's climax.
The Bad Guy Wins: Successfully takes over the East Coast. Though given his personality it may not be too bad.
Beard of Evil: He has a beard, and he is evil.
Benevolent Boss: Very much so. To the point that even after Homer leaves, Scorpio tells him to call if there's anything he needs, and Scorpio even sends him a gift that will hopefully help Homer work up to his dream of owning the Dallas Cowboys. (Although Homer is rather disappointed at only getting the Denver Broncos.)
Better Living Through Evil: What he promises, although he may not tell you about the evil bit.
Beware the Nice Ones: For all that he is one of the greatest guys around, he did blow up a bridge just to prove a point to the UN, and has a man shot repeatedly. And he builds a giant laser cannon, with the apparent intention of using it on France.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's definitely a bit odd but he did run a massive evil organization and succeeds in his goal of taking over the East Coast.
Cloud Cuckoolander: For some reason he keeps (unpackaged) sugar and cream in the pockets of his pants.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: All benevolent traits aside, he's still seeking to use his business to advance his plan for world domination.
Doomsday Device: Which he uses to blow up a bridge in New York City as part of his threat against the UN.
Evil Genius: Damn, the guy's smart.
Evil Laugh: Indulges in one when he breaks out his flamethrower, although his laugh is close enough to normal that it can be mistaken for a guy in the middle of having a really good time.
Evil Virtues: We may as well add the whole list.
Frontline General: He happily fights alongside his employees against the invading soldiers.
Just the First Citizen: Claims to dislike being called boss or anything that elevates himself above others.
Karma Houdini: Gets away scot-free, though he's just so Affably Evil that you're probably rooting for him anyway.
Kill It with Fire: Shows a real enthusiasm for using a flamethrower...
Laughably Evil: He's so damn polite and hilarious, even when trying to murder a James Bond Captain Ersatz or fighting off troopers with a flamethrower.
Mood-Swinger: One second, he'll be cheerfully discussing hammocks, the next, he'll be blowing up a bridge in order to prove a point. Then it's right back to hammocks.
Motor Mouth: Talks really fast.
Mundane Solution: When the James Bond Captain Ersatz escapes from a Death Trap, Scorpio has him shot a few dozen times by armed guards.
Resignations Not Accepted: Averted. When Homer comes to him in the middle of an assault by the US Military to talk about how his family isn't happy there and wants to move back to Springfield, Scorpio advises Homer to do what's right for his family and just adds "On your way out, if you could kill somebody, it would help me a lot."
Slave to PR: Likes moccasins. Unless Homer doesn't like them. In which case the moccasins can get lost so that Scorpio appears relatable to his newest employee.
Take Over the World: According to his Villain Song, it's one of his two obsessions. The other is the health of his employees. By the end of the episode, he's apparently taken over the East Coast of the United States.
Tech Bro: Though he predates the archetype's formation by some time, Scorpio resembles something of a proto-incarnation of it: an obsessively modern and far more visually casual businessman and entrepreneur working in a high-tech field. It's just that said field is supervillainy.
Villain of Another Story: A bizarre example; Hank never antagonizes Homer and his family despite being a villain.
Villain Protagonist: The perspective is shared with Homer, his Unwitting Pawn.
Villainous Valor: He doesn't cut and run when his lair is being overtaken by soldiers, throwing grenades and gleefully using a flamethrower.

Lucius Sweet

Voiced by: Paul Winfield

Debut: "The Homer They Fall"

A crooked boxing promoter who once represented Moe when Moe was a fighter. When he hears that Moe is involved with the boxing game again, managing Homer, he sets up a match between Mike Tyson analogue Drederick Tatum and Homer.

Captain Ersatz: Of boxing promoter Don King, complete with all the baggage that goes along with that. Lampshaded when Homer outright says he looks like Don King and is exactly as rich and famous. Paul Winfield, who voiced Sweet, played King in the 1995 TV movie Tyson.
Delusions of Eloquence: "This is an egregious miscarriagement of taxitude!"
Expy Coexistence: Despite being an obvious expy of the infamous boxing promoter Don King (a fact which Homer very pointedly lampshades), both men apparently exist in the universe of The Simpsons.
Fat Bastard: Is on the portly side.
Improbable Hair Style: One that resembles Don King.
Jerkass: The Simpsons Guide to Our Favorite Family describes him as having no evident soul. Drederick Tatum was touched seeing Moe flying Homer out of the ring, and asks Lucius if he'd do the same for him. Lucius says "Absolutely, I would.", chuckling awkwardly before bluntly telling Tatum to get in their van.
Large Ham: As one would expect from a parody of Don King, Lucius is very theatrical and expressive.
Pet the Dog: Even as he's castigating and insulting Moe, he still gives him a check for Homer's last fight.

Larry Burns

Voiced by: Rodney Dangerfield

Debut: "Burns, Baby Burns"

The son of Montgomery Burns and Lily Bancroft.

Big Fun: Much to his father's dismay. His intense causality, uncouth manner, lack of intelligence, and love of drinking means that he has many things in common with Homer Simpson and they become good friends.
Book Dumb: He does poorly on an aptitude test ("He spelled 'Yale' with a six."), but is quite worldly.
Ink-Suit Actor: He basically IS Rodney Dangerfield with Mr. Burns' crooked nose.
Put on a Bus: After Burns disowns him, Larry returns home, realizing he had not told his wife and children where he was for a week.

Belle

Voiced by: Tress MacNeille

Debut: "Bart After Dark"

An entrepreneuse and the proprietoress of a burlesque house in Springfield called "La Maison Derrière".

Broken Glass Penalty: For Bart's accidental destruction of her Gargoyle, she makes him do community service at her Burlesque House.
Cool Old Lady: Doesn't flinch at Marge's attempts to intimidate her.
Deadpan Snarker: Completely unfazed by Marge taking out a chunk of her house.
Delayed Reaction: It takes her a while to notice Homer's only wearing a grocery bag.
Miss Kitty: Even though the show is set in modern America, the matron of the house plays this trope completely straight and makes Marge look foolish by comparison.
Silver Vixen: Stunningly beautiful for a woman her age.

Jimmy the Scumbag

Voiced by: Harry Shearer

Debut: "Lisa's Date with Density"

A small-time crook.

The Quiet One: According to the Simpsons episode guide, he doesn't say anything without his lawyer around.

Dr. Foster

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "Hurricane Neddy"

Ned Flanders' childhood psychologist.

Large Ham: "In the den? May God have mercy on us all!"
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Fixed Ned's anger problems, but at the cost of making him incredibly repressive. When Ned finally unleashes his anger, it's terrifying.

Space Coyote

Voiced by: Johnny Cash

Debut: "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"

Homer's Spirit Guide (also referred to as "The Space Coyote" or Johnny) is a talking coyote whom Homer meets in a chili-induced hallucination. Homer calls him "Wolfy".

Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: He and the entire experience could have just been the result of Homer consuming "Guatamalan insanity peppers".
My Instincts Are Showing: Starts chewing on Homer's leg. He is a coyote, after all.
Non-Standard Character Design: Much more angular than regular characters.

Frank Ormand, the Pretzel Man

Voiced by: Jack Lemmon

Debut: "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"

The owner of the Pretzel Wagon.

Ink-Suit Actor: He looks very much like Jack Lemmon.
Killed Off for Real: In a car crash, one that also takes the executor of his estate with him.

Shary Bobbins

Voiced by: Maggie Roswell

Debut: "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious"

Shary Bobbins was the Simpson family's magical nanny.

Amicable Exes: A one-sided version toward Groundskeeper Willie.
Cruel and Unusual Death: Sucked into an airplane engine.
Deconstruction: Of the Magical Nanny archetype. While she is briefly successful in cleaning up the Simpsons, she can't stop them from quickly sliding back into their slovenly ways, and get them to care about changing their ways.
Expy: Of Mary Poppins, though she vehemently denies it.
Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Eventually, when the Simpsons admit they're not going to change their ways, she decides to leave.

June Bellamy

Voiced by: Tress MacNeille (normal voice), Dan Castellaneta (as Itchy), and Harry Shearer (as Scratchy)

Debut: "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"

The voice actress who plays Itchy and Scratchy.

Cross-Dressing Voices: An In-Universe example. She's a woman who voices two male characters.
Mean Character, Nice Actor: Bellamy is a very pleasant woman who voices the violent, titular duo of Itchy and Scratchy who always go at it. Itchy, in particular, is a real Jerkass who always mutilates Scratchy in the most gruesome ways imaginable for little to no reason.
Nice Girl: She's very friendly and is the only one to stand up for Homer when the crew wants to kill his character off permanently.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: June is inspired by and named after the late voice actress June Foray.

Roy

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"

A college-aged cool guy who stays at the Simpsons home temporarily.

Breakout Character: Despite only appearing in one episode and adding nothing to the plot, he's still very popular among fans and a regular feature on lists of most popular one-off Simpsons characters.
But Now I Must Go: Leaves as suddenly as he appeared, moving into an apartment with "Two sexy ladies".
Bart: Tough break, dad. I guess people just weren't ready for Poochie. Maybe in a few years...
Roy: (walks in with a letter and a suitcase in his hands) Good news, everybody! I'm moving into my own apartment with two sexy ladies!
Marge: Then I guess this is goodbye, Roy. Maybe we'll see you in a few years.
Disco Dan: His style of dress is about a decade behind the times and his manner of speech is some ungodly hybrid of an eighties surfer dude, white rap enthusiast and a fifties Fonzi style greaser.
Nice Guy: He's very friendly and outgoing and the family except Homer all like him.
Remember the New Guy?: Spoofed. He's introduced like he's always been present right after Lisa comments that adding new characters to a show always seems to be a desperate attempt at boosting low ratings.
Token Houseguest: Parodied. Roy inexplicably shows up in the Simpsons household, he ultimately adds nothing to the plot of the episode he is in, aside from just being there, and only gets four completely irrelevant lines, and at the end he leaves as suddenly as he appeared.
Totally Radical: Like Poochie, he's a parody of what creators think a cool character is like with an aesthetic and style of talking that is painfully outdated.

John

Voiced by: John Waters

Debut: "Homer's Phobia"

Ink-Suit Actor: He looks just like John Waters, only with a squigglier mustache because it's easier to animate.
Nice Guy: Friendly towards the Simpsons family and he has no hard feelings towards Homer, despite his hostility towards him.

Cecil Terwilliger

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Voiced by: David Hyde Pierce

Debut: "Brother from Another Series"

Sideshow Bob's brother.

Always Someone Better: Bob was this to him, in his second appearance he is referred as Laertes to Bob's Hamlet.
Arch-Enemy: To Lisa in the comics, even though he comes to care for her after realizing that they are similar.
Ax-Crazy: Unlike Bob, he isn't amazing at hiding it.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: To the world, he comes across as a polite businessman with the best interests of the town and his company in mind. In reality, he's willing to murder the entire town by letting it be washed away, just so he can get back at Bob for taking his dream job.
The Bus Came Back: After 10 years, Cecil makes his return in the episode Funeral For A Fiend.
Corrupted Character Copy: He's the Niles Crane to his brothers Frasier. On top of them both being criminals and attempted murderers, the Crane brothers communicated mostly through snarking at each other but were the best of friends underneath it all. Cecil also also frequently traded snark with his brother but seemed to still care about him and want to help him get his life back on track, then it was revealed he actually despises his brother for rather petty reasons and helping him get his life back on track was just a ruse to use him as an Unwitting Pawn in his money laundering scheme and was planning to kill him afterwards.
Department of Redundancy Department: He describes himself as "Springfield's chief hydrological and hydrodynamical engineer". These two terms have slightly different meanings — hydrology refers to the movement of water over and through landscapes while hydrodynamics refers to the mechanics of flowing water — but in practice both terms mean that he works with water on a large scale. This is lampshaded by Bob, who's unimpressed by his brother's grandiose introduction.
Cecil: I am Springfield's chief hydrological and hydrodynamical engineer!
Bob: Hydrological and hydrodynamical. Talk about running the gamut.
Evil Is Petty: He's willing to destroy Springfield and everyone in it because Bob got to be Krusty's sidekick instead of him, though he says that officially he did it for the money.
Faux Affably Evil: He is quite polite but in a rather fake way.
Greed: He plans on claiming this to be his motivation for why he destroyed Springfield.
Ivy League for Everyone: He went to Princeton. (Or, as Bob calls it, "clown college".)
Knight of Cerebus: He certainly is an exaggerated version of Sideshow Bob.
The Resenter: Jealous of Bob for being Krusty's sidekick.
Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: Cecil is Sideshow Bob if he was more competent. He tried to kill two children and his own brother.
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Bart invokes this with him in an effort to buy himself more time. However, Cecil is too clever to fall for it and says that if anybody asks him, he'll lie about a more creative way of killing him. He then throws Bart off the dam.

Rex Banner

Voiced by: Dave Thomas

Debut: "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment"

A Jerkass U.S. Treasury officer who was briefly sent to Springfield to uphold Prohibition after Bart got drunk in a live news report, which incited several women to force the city government to declare Prohibition. Aims to stop the Beer Baron, aka Homer Simpson.

Badass in a Nice Suit: Subverted. He's a completely incompentent jerk.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Inverted. Even though he's hyper-focused and extremely serious about his job, he's also really terrible at it — enough so that Homer is easily able to run circles around him.
The Comically Serious: One of the main jokes of his character is how he acts completely stone-faced and stern throughout the episode in spite of the insanity and silliness that happens in Springfield.
Expy: Of Eliot Ness, from The Untouchables. His name in the Latin American dub is "Elio Pez" to boot.
Failed a Spot Check: While interrogating Comic Book Guy, he completely ignores Homer walking by, dragging along a wagon filled with barrels of beer. Homer even talks to him and asks him how everything is going.
Hero Antagonist: Tries to stop Homer's turns out not- illegal bootlegging of alcohol, though he's near-impossible to root for.
Jerkass: Extremely unpleasant and sociopathic throughout the entire episode. At one point he states that the only reason he hadn't killed everyone who looked at him funny was because it would be illegal.
Knight Templar: His solution to illegal shipments of alcohol being brought in by truck? Put up a wall that blocks the road into Springfield, causing a massive car accident. Banner actually smiles when he sees the results of this.
Lawful Stupid: Not only is he totally inept at fighting Homer's bootlegging, he completely ignores all other crime in the process and winds up causing far more damage along the way than he solves.
Skewed Priorities: He's so focused on cracking down alcohol that he completely ignores Fat Tony bluntly telling him that he's going to go back to smuggling heroin.
The Stoic: He tries to laugh at one point, but can only produce a strained, hacking noise.
Unexplained Recovery: He's launched from a catapult in "Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment", but appears alive and well as part of the mob in the movie.

Mr. Sparkle

Voiced by: Sab Shimono

Debut: "In Marge, We Trust"

A Japanese dishwashing detergent mascot that bears a strong resemblance to Homer.

Animesque: He's essentially Homer's head drawn in an anime style.
Identical Stranger: He looks almost exactly like Homer.
Motif Merger: He's the combination of Matsamura Fishworks' and Tamaribuchi Heavy Manufacturing Concern's logos — a cartoon fish and a lightbulb, respectively — merged together.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: One of the comics has him cleaning a manga artist's office, including wiping his drawings blank.

Frank Grimes

"This whole plant is insane. Insane, I tell you!"

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "Homer's Enemy"

A hard worker and Homer's self-proclaimed nemesis.

Absurdly Youthful Father: He is stated to be 35 in "Homer's Enemy" but his son is a grown man as well, implying that he had sex with prostitutes as a teenager.
Audience Surrogate: The creators' intention of creating him in the first place.
Berserk Button:
- Homer is a big fat button.
- Also he doesn't like to be called "Grimey". Or "Stretch".
Born Unlucky: Nothing ever goes his way, ever.
Breakout Character: Frank Grimes stands out as one of the most memorable one-off characters of the series. Mainly because of how great the idea was from a writing standpoint to have a normal everyman get wrapped up in the craziness of Springfield.
Butt-Monkey: Very much so. He had to struggle his whole life and only makes the bare minimum while Homer gets to live a decent life despite his lack of intelligence.
Continuity Nod: Nearly every episode that includes Grimes and/or his tombstone expects the viewer to have seen his debut episode.
Cosmic Plaything: Deconstructed. While his criticisms of Homer have some merit and he led a horribly difficult life, Frank's misery was largely his own fault, as he was so blinded by envy and self-pity that he never actually tried to learn anything about Homer's life or build any relationships at work like Homer did, both of which made things worse for Frank. His rivalry with Homer is also one-sided, as he actually has no ill-will towards Frank (and later on, Homer is literally the only employee who is honestly concerned for Frank after he has a mental breakdown.)
Dark and Troubled Past: He was abandoned by his parents at four years old, had to struggle through his childhood by working as a delivery boy, and was caught in a silo explosion so severe he wound up in a full-body cast and had to relearn how to walk and feel pain again.
Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Only Sane Man. The entire point of the episode he appeared in was to explore what would happen if a real-life normal person had to deal with Homer Simpson. To put it simply? Not well. The creators explain it in detail here.
Determinator: He majored in nuclear physics despite his complete lack of formal education, and minored in determination. It's ultimately deconstructed, as his utter refusal to just give up on convincing others of Homer's ineptitude leads to his mental health nose-diving.
Dramatic Irony: His hatred for Homer partially stems from his belief that Homer got awarded everything while never struggling in life like he did. Anyone who's watched the show up until that point would be able to inform him that Homer struggles through life constantly, with even his current position being a result of him sacrificing his dream job to support his family after Maggie was born.
Driven by Envy: His hatred towards Homer increases even after the latter attempts to reconcile with him, due to Homer showing his achievements like going into space, winning a Grammy, going on tour with the Smashing Pumpkins, and befriending Gerald Ford. Frank is of course upset that someone like Homer could do all those things when he himself got nothing from his hard work.
Embarrassing Nickname: Homer nicknames him "Grimey", which he hates. It even appears on his tombstone.
Enraged by Idiocy: To the point that Homer's stupidity drives him insane at the end of the episode.
The Everyman: Frank Grimes is supposed to represent the viewer in this episode. A man that appears in no way remarkable who never got any breaks and had to work hard every day of his life with little to no rewards.
Everyone Has Standards: For all his hatred of Homer, he stops him from drinking acid, showing that he doesn't want Homer to get hurt or killed.
Evil Is Petty: While "evil" is an overstatement, he does tries to humiliate Homer out of pure spite.
Expy: Frank is based on Michael Douglas' character Bill Foster from Falling Down. They both wear glasses, white shirt, black tie, black pants. They both even have the same haircut. To say nothing of their bad tempers and sense of resentment.
Fatal Flaw: Envy. Grimes very quickly develops a pathological hatred of Homer out of jealousy over the latter's better station in life despite Homer's generally slovenly personality when Grimes himself has very little despite his own hard work. This hatred develops into an obsession that ultimately drives Grimes insane and causes his own untimely demise.
Foil:
- He contrasts Homer in every way. Homer is fat, slovenly and incompetent, while Grimes is skinny, tidy and competent at his job. Homer is The Ditz who is Born Lucky and has a loving family, while Grimes is the Only Sane Man who was Born Unlucky and had no known family.
- He has been described by writer Bill Oakley as a foil to Superintendent Chalmers of all people — Chalmers knows everyone in Springfield is crazy, but he's developed a system where he gets by via not asking too many questions, hence why he indulges Skinner's lies. Whereas Frank Grimes simply wouldn't let it go and is driven insane (which results in his death) as a result.
Fourth-Wall Observer: His punishment in Hell is to watch every Simpsons episode in order.
Freak Out: After Homer wins the children's model power plant contest, he flies completely off the deep end and begins acting like a deranged caricature of Homer's worst traits. This leads him to grab a set of dangerous electrical cables without safety gloves, bringing a swift end to his life.
Freudian Excuse: The utterly miserable life he's led would make anyone unstable.
The "Fun" in "Funeral": People laughed during his funeral due to Homer’s disrespectful sleeping. Even Reverend Lovejoy joined the laughter.
Giving Up on Logic: Angrily did this after his Sanity Slippage and began imitating Homer's stupid antics. It took him about a minute to get himself killed.
Grave Humor: His grave is often seen with his hated nickname from Homer "Grimey" on it. In one episode his grave has "(Homer's Enemy)" written on it.
Green-Eyed Monster: Loathes Homer for having a nice house, a loving family, and luxuries in life despite being a lazy slob while Grimes himself has worked very hard for nothing.
Hilariously Abusive Childhood: His Backstory describes a ridiculous amount of misfortune that he's had to overcome.
Hoist by His Own Petard: He tried to trick Homer into joining a plant-modeling contest for kids, and Homer won, much to his dismay.
In-Series Nickname: "Grimey", much to his chagrin.
It's All About Me: He has some subtle shades of this at his worst. He has a somewhat self-righteous attitude born out of resentment and jealousy and he expected the other workers to mock Homer and take Frank's side in their rivalry, despite the fact they've known Homer for years and have known Frank only for a very short amount of time.
Jerkass: Even though Homer not only tries to make it up to Grimes but actually tries to listen to his advice (albeit in a half-assed fashion), Grimes still antagonizes him and tries to humiliate him in front of everyone.
Jerkass Has a Point: He had a terrible life and had to work hard to get his job. He sees Homer, quite rightly, as being successful despite being an incompetent, lazy slob; making a mockery of all his suffering and efforts. This would enrage anyone.
Jerkass to One: While not a pleasant person in general, Grimes at least tries to remain civil to everyone he meets. Homer is the sole exception, taking the brunt of Grimes' insults and antagonism as a result of Grimes' dislike for his stupidity.
Killed Off for Real: He dies at the end of his debut episode, and remains dead in all subsequent appearances. He appears alive in Tapped Out and the comics, but both are considered non-canonical to the show.
Lean and Mean: To contrast with Homer's obesity and kindness, Grimes is skinny and constantly mean to Homer.
Naïve Newcomer: A new employee and a generally normal person (as the Audience Surrogate) who still doesn't know how things work in The Simpsons world and how to deal with people like Homer every day.
Negative Continuity:
- His tombstone has different inscriptions from episode to episode. These include "Grimes", "Frank Grimes", "Frank 'Grimey' Grimes", and "Frank Grimes (Homer's enemy)".
- This occurs even in his introductory episode, where he is explicitly shown living in a house when he receives his degree, but he later claims to live in a studio apartment above (and below) two bowling alleys.
Never My Fault: Sure, he's absolutely right that his horrible life has disproportionately punished him compared to lazy slackers like Homer. However, his tendency to martyrize himself (or at least desire more recognition than he already deserves) and his obsession with humiliating Homer over bettering himself (admittedly otherwise constantly doing such) leads to him finally snapping.
No-Respect Guy: He's smarter and more qualified than his co-workers, especially Homer, but never got any respect. People even laughed during his funeral.
Not So Above It All: He has an illegitimate son, because he apparently liked hookers (according to episode "The Great Louse Detective").
Offended by an Inferior's Success: The crux of his conflict with Homer is that Frank can't handle the fact that a lazy, gluttonous fool like Homer could achieve so much more success in life than the diligent, driven Frank.
Only Sane Man: He's the only person to point out that Homer shouldn't be remotely successful, popular, or even alive given his behavior, and is driven mad when no one else notices or cares. Even the universe is against him, as he's trying to apply real-world logic to a cartoon world. Oakley and Weinstein summed it up best by referring to Grimes as what would happen if someone from the real world met Homer.
Parental Abandonment: Literally. The TV news summary of his life shows them putting four-year-old Frank out of their car in the middle of the road and driving off.
Pet the Dog:
- Despite his hatred for Homer, Grimes goes out of his way to stop him from accidentally drinking a beaker of sulfuric acid.
- His resentment of Homer does not extend to Marge and the kids, and he remains polite to them.
Promoted to Opening Titles: His grave appears in it since 2009.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech:
Frank: I'm saying you're what's wrong with America, Simpson. You coast through life, you do as little as possible, and you leech off of decent, hardworking people like me. Heh, if you lived in any other country in the world, you'd have starved to death long ago.
Bart: He's got you there, dad.
Frank: You're a fraud. A— a total fraud. (walks out, pokes his head back around the doorway, and speaks to Marge and the kids) It was nice meeting you.
Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: In Simpsons: Tapped Out, it's revealed he didn't die but was instead put into a coma. They still buried him.
The Resenter: To Homer.
Sanity Slippage: He eventually has a breakdown and starts impersonating Homer, whose consequence-free stupidity drove him to this point. This ends when he has a moment of genuine stupidity and electrocutes himself. Unfortunately, the same rules don't apply to Grimes and this mistake costs him his life.
Spared by the Adaptation: Although he dies after being electrocuted in the show and remains dead whenever referenced there, The Simpsons: Tapped Out reveals that he was simply in a coma and got buried alive. He rises from his grave and resumes his life throughout a series of quests. This storyline is seemingly continued in a 2015 issue of Simpsons Comics, in which Homer passes by Grimes at the power plant as if he never "died" at all.
Springtime for Hitler: Frank tricks Homer into entering a power plant designing contest for kids as an attempt to show the world what an idiot Homer is. Homer ends up winning, and Frank's sanity utterly disappears after this.
Surrounded by Idiots: The whole premise of his episode is watching a normal person try to cope in Springfield.
This Loser Is You: Grimes is said to be a representation of what a realistic person, who was a hard-working, working-class employee, would be like if they got the misfortune of working with Homer or living in Springfield.
Unknown Rival: To Homer. Grimes utterly hates Homer and wants to get him humiliated, but Homer is completely oblivious and only wants to be Grimes' friend.
We Hardly Knew Ye: Only appears in one episode, which he dies at the end of.
X-Ray Sparks: His death.
Yank the Dog's Chain: At first, it looks like his hard work is about to pay off when Mr. Burns decides to make him Executive Vice President of the plant...only to give the position to a dog instead and just throw Grimes into Sector 7G. Things get progressively worse from there.

Big Daddy

Voiced by: Gailard Sartain

Debut: "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"

"Chief Wiggum's PI's" Arch-Enemy that appears in the "Wiggum, P.I." segment of the non-canon episode "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase".

Acrofatic: Big Daddy rather handily escapes from the parade while being chased by Wiggum and Skinner and later jumps from his chair out a window.
Affably Evil: He may have kidnapped Ralph but he was nice enough to take him to "Mardi Gras" and buy him an ice cream and is very polite to Wiggum at the end.
Calling Card: Played with near the beginning. While Wiggum and Skinner are discussing their current situation, a skull is thrown through the window, and the duo realize they have an enemy. Later on, another skull is left behind after Ralph is kidnapped. Cue Skinner: "Big Daddy's trademark calling card... it's right here inside the skull."
Chair Reveal: The end of the chase scene presents an amusing variation of the trope, while also providing the page image. Big Daddy makes it to his mansion office, and he hops into his chair so he can reveal himself to Wiggum like a villain. Due to the mansion's layout, Wiggum clearly saw Big Daddy get in the chair, yet he still acts surprised when Daddy reveals himself.
Fat, Sweaty Southerner in a White Suit: Big Daddy is a hefty New Orleanian crime boss, one who laments his size.
"Lord have mercy, I wish I weren't so fat."
French Jerk: He's a Cajun crime boss who peppers his speech with French words.
Hidden Depths: He enjoys stamp collecting, a trait he shares with Skinner.
His Name Really Is "Barkeep": Charles Daddy.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: He was based on New Orleans musician Dr John.
This Is Gonna Suck: Big Daddy has this reaction when he is spotted by Wiggum and Skinner and has to run.
Big Daddy: Lord have mercy, I wish I weren't so fat.
Villain: Exit, Stage Left: Parodied in Chief Wiggum P.I., in which Big Daddy swims away through the river... slowly.
Skinner: He's gradually getting away, Chief.
Wiggum: Ah, let him go. I have the feeling we'll meet again, each and every week. Always in more sexy and exciting ways.
Villains Out Shopping:
"New Orleans is my town. I got interests, and I ain't talkin' about stamp collecting, though I do find that extremely interesting."

Fake Lisa

Voiced by: Pamela Hayden

Debut: "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"

An attractive young blonde woman who replaces the real Lisa in The Simpson Family Smile-Time Variety Hour.

Brainless Beauty: Her line in the opening number suggests she's one.
"I'm Lisa! Peppy, blonde, and stunning. Sophomore prom queen five years running!"
Dawson Casting: invoked Lisa is supposed to be 8. If Fake Lisa has been held back four times as a high school sophomore, that would make her 19 or 20.
Expy: She's obviously a nod to Geri Reischl, who took over as Jan on The Brady Bunch Hour when Eve Plumb decided not to participate.

Commandant

Voiced by: Willem Dafoe

Debut: "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"

The commandant of Rommelwood Military School, attended by Bart and Lisa.

Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He is just called The Commandant.

Season 9

Sgt. Seymour Skinner

Voiced by: Martin Sheen

Debut: "The Principal and the Pauper"

The real Seymour Skinner. He was a sergeant in the US Army, but got caught by the enemy and spent five years in a POW camp, and was then sold to a shoe-producing company in China. After the company closed, he came back to Springfield, only to find out that Armin Tamzarian basically lived his life for the entire time he was gone. He took back his place, but because his attitude made the townspeople uncomfortable, he was forced to leave (read: tied to a train and basically kicked out).

A Father to His Men: To Tamzarian, which was partly why Tamzarian decided to assume Skinner's identity.
Foil: Represents everything the representing Skinner fails to be, having a strong backbone and sense of pride and ethics (if naively so). He cares about the school faculty teaching its children properly and thinks independently from his mother, whose shrill browbeating completely fails to beckon him. Expectedly everyone in Springfield soon decides they like him a lot less than the fake Skinner.
Nice Guy: He's described as a "weenie" by Edna and he's noticeably less submissive than the old Seymour but he's overall a kind, sincere person who isn't even all that resentful of Tamzarian for what he did and just wants to live a simple life.
Put on a Bus to Hell: Put on a train and never seen again. His entire existence is forbidden from being mentioned again, under the penalty of torture. In Real Life both fans and some writers pretend this episode never happened.
Retcon: His appearance completely changes Skinner's backstory. However, Judge Snyder grants Tamzarian Skinner's "name, and his past, present, future, and mother", and decrees that no one will mention his true identity again under penalty of torture. The only time this rule has been broken since was when Lisa refers to Principal Skinner as "Principal Tamzarian" when he witnesses her name her new cat Snowball II instead of Snowball V in "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot".
Sucksessor: He takes Armin's place as principal while Armin leaves town. However, despite the real Skinner being a nice and reasonable fellow, the other Springfield citizens decide to kick him out of town (even his mother, who preferred the doormat Armin to the independent Seymour) and get a judge to order everyone never to speak of this again under penalty of torture because... they preferred the old Skinner.
Unperson: Enforced after he was sent away.
What the Hell, Hero?: He rightly calls out the townspeople for ignoring him just because they prefer Tamzarian and later for how they simply run him out of town.

Bart's Kindergarten Teacher

Voiced by: Maggie Roswell

Debut: "Lisa's Sax"

Bart and Milhouse's kindergarten teacher.

Apathetic Teacher: By far the most deflated and cynical member of Springfield Elementary, to the point where she makes Ms. Hoover look enthusiastic about her job. She teaches her class in a perpetually bored and contemptuous tone.
Create Your Own Villain: She is Springfield Elementary's apathetic deadbeat system at its worst, and is the one that embitters Bart into the faculty's biggest bane of their lives.
Deadpan Snarker: She appears to be a cynical and sarcastic person.
Evil Counterpart: She's Miss Hoover had she totally stopped caring (and that's saying something!), right down to the same voice actor. She is also one to Mrs. Krapabbel, as unlike her, Krapabbel always believes that Bart has potential deep down (even if she may not show it too often) and never gave up on him in spite of him being a troublemaker.
Hate Sink: She is a Sadist Teacher with no likable traits to speak of.
Jerkass: She is the one initially responsible for making Bart feel miserable and unable to fit in at school, which leads him to seek attention through mischievous behaviour.
Karma Houdini: She faces no consequences for her emotional and psychological abuse of a toddler. Ironically she is also about the only member of Springfield Elementary that Bart never victimises onscreen.
No Name Given: They never say her name.
Sadist Teacher: She has no problem in telling children like Bart that they have no future whatsoever just because they aren't as quick to catch on to things as the other kids. That's right, SHE is the reason why Bart is the troublemaker that he is today.
Small Role, Big Impact: Her crushing of Bart's enthusiasm at an early age led to him becoming an attention-seeking delinquent.
What Happened to the Mouse?: She is never seen outside the flashback of this episode with other teachers shown in the present-day kindergarten faculty. Granted, given she was left teaching Bart in the form of a hellion and her clear antipathy for her job in the first place, it's not inconceivable that she quit within that time period.

Cooder and Spud

Voiced by: Jim Varney and Tress MacNeille

Debut: "Bart Carny"

A father-son carny duo.

Graceful Loser: After the Simpsons family trick them and get their house back, Cooder admits that they were outsmarted and takes it in stride.
Jerkass: After spending a day with the carnies, they take the Simpsons' home and the Simpsons have to live in Bart's treehouse.

Movementarian Recruiters

Voiced by: Hank Azaria and Maggie Roswell

Debut: "The Joy Of Sect"

The recruiters for the Movementarian cult.

Faux Affably Evil: They take a friendly guise towards the people they prey upon.
No Name Given: They're never addressed by any names.
Those Two Guys: They're always seen together.

The Movementarian Leader

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "The Joy Of Sect"

The mysterious, seldom-seen leader of the Movementarian cult.

Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": He doesn't have a given name stated onscreen.
Laser-Guided Karma: He tries to escape with his followers' money, but crash-lands on Cletus Spuckler's property, who robs him.
Start My Own: He used to be with the Promise Keepers cult till he started his own.
Villain with Good Publicity: The Movementarians soon buy out every local media outlet and starts painting him as a benevolent figure.

Captain Tenille

Voiced by: Rod Steiger

Debut: "Simpson Tide"

The captain of the Springfield Naval Reserve submarine during its annual war games.

Expy: Tenille is based on Captain Frank Ramsey, a character from the 1995 film Crimson Tide, who was portrayed by Gene Hackman. His episode's title was derived from the same movie.
Horrible Judge of Character: He takes an instant shine to Homer because of a misunderstanding of naval jargon. He later invites Homer to eat with him and, misunderstanding what he was actually saying, concludes Homer's views on peace are the same as his and thus Homer is "like the son I never had." He leaves Homer in command while he goes to investigate the torpedo tube. It ends up costing him his life.
Terse Talker:
Tenille: I'm a man of few words. (beat) Any questions?

Ray Patterson

Voiced by: Steve Martin

Debut: "Trash of the Titans"

Springfield's sanitation commissioner.

Butt-Monkey: He is tormented by Homer and the townspeople who fall for Homer's insanity. He gets his revenge.
Cassandra Truth: He tries to warn the townsfolk that Homer's promises are unworkable, but they just brush him off.
Deadpan Snarker: Inevitable when it's Steve Martin.
Foil: To Frank Grimes from "Homer's Enemy". Both try to warn Springfield about what an incompetent buffoon Homer is, but when Ray's plans fail, he maintains his sanity and simply tells Springfield off before leaving them behind.
Guilt by Association: Homer's vendetta with Patterson stems from two of his thuggish employees skipping his yard on duty and then attacking him and cutting off their services after he complains. While this was poor choice of staff on Patterson's side, rather than simply protest about the incident, Homer being Homer decides to pick a fight with the guy in charge.
I Warned You: After Homer inevitably screws up, Springfield calls him back, but he's got some choice words:
Ray: Oh gosh. You know, I'm not much on speeches, but it's so gratifying to— (sighs) leave you wallowing in the mess you've made. You're screwed, thank you, bye.
Ignored Expert: Ray Patterson was smart enough to see that Homer basically has no clue what being sanitation commissioner is all about.
Ray: All right, fine. If you want an experienced politician, vote for me. But if you want to believe a bunch of crazy promises about garbagemen washing your cars and emptying your kitty litter, then by all means, vote for this sleazy lunatic.
Ink-Suit Actor: He looks just like Steve Martin.
Jerkass Has a Point: Every one of his criticisms of Homer and how impractical and outlandish his campaign promises are is absolutely on point, as is his belief that Homer will mess up the gig which he does, blowing through his entire annual budget in only a month. His telling the town off and leaving them in the mess they've created is also harsh, but given how badly he was treated and how unsalvageable the situation is anyway, it's quite understandable.
Only Sane Man: Compared to many of Springfield's residents, Ray Patterson is one of the more 'sane' characters; hard working and committed to his job. Naturally, considering the nature of Springfield, he winds up becoming the town's butt-monkey thanks to a spiteful Homer.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After Homer was fired for encouraging other cities to dump their garbage in the abandoned mine (in order to solve the budget crisis), Patterson got his job back, but he refused to help clean up the town, instead choosing to leave them "wallowing in the mess you have created".
Take This Job and Shove It: On the other hand, by the time he gets his job back, it's clear to him that thanks to Homer's apocalyptic stupidity, the town is unsalvageable. Furthermore, he's clearly sickened by the town begging him back to clean up the impossible mess they made by voting in a jerk like Homer in the first place, in addition to them gleefully joining in on Homer tormenting him during the campaign. Hence, his brief speech is essentially this, and can anyone truly blame him for wanting to wash his hands off the whole mess and get out of dodge?

Brad and Neil

Voiced by: Brendan Fraser and Steven Weber

Debut: "King of the Hill"

Brad and Neil are two spokesmen for Powersauce Energy Bars.

Slave to PR: When Homer decides to carry on climbing Mount Murderhorn despite their warnings, they disavow him, saying that Homer's signed on to their rivals, Vita-Peach Health Log.

The Sherpas

Voiced by: Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer

Two Nepalese Sherpas tasked with helping Homer climb Mount Murderhorn.

Season 10

Alex Whitney

Voiced by: Lisa Kudrow

Debut: "Lard of the Dance"

A popular "grown-up" girl in Lisa's class. Lisa becomes very jealous of her, because Alex steals her friends.

Alpha Bitch: Definitely the alpha part, though she doesn't really do anything worse than be childishly rude.
Innocently Insensitive: She has a habit of making other people feel uncomfortable or insulted. Unlike most popular valley-girls she isn't being malicious, she just tends to blurt out whatever she's thinking.
Not So Above It All: At the end of the episode, turns out Alex isn't totally above having a greaseball fight for fun.
Valley Girl: She uses Valley Girl slang, which is mainly used by teenage girls.
Verbal Tic: "He-LOO!".
Wise Beyond Their Years: Or so she thinks.
You Don't Look Like You: In "Father Knows Worst" there's a girl who looks vaguely like her but her face is totally different. Given how Janey and the others are shown in the same outfits they wore to the dance in her debut, she probably was meant to be Alex.

Seth and Munchie

Voiced by: Martin Mull and George Carlin

Debut: "D'oh-in' in the Wind"

Mona Simpson's hippy friends in the 1960s.

Leavelle

Voiced by: Mark Hamill

Debut: "Mayored to the Mob"

A professional bodyguard trainer who owns and operates Leavelle's Bodyguard Academy.

Fat, Sweaty Southerner in a White Suit: Judging by his accent, he seems to be from Texas.

Amber Pai Gow (Simpson)

Voiced by: Pamela Hayden

Debut: "Viva Ned Flanders"

Homer's Vegas wife.

Accidental Marriage: With Homer in "Viva Ned Flanders".
The Bus Came Back: She and Ginger come back in "Brawl in the Family". Homer attempts to annul his marriage to Amber, but it is upheld under Nevada law. To get her out of their lives, the Simpson family tricks Amber into marrying Grampa and agreeing to forsake her vows to Homer.
Killed Offscreen: In "Jazzy and the Pussycats", it's revealed that Amber died of an overdose at a theme park in front of a sign warning guests not to stand up on a roller coaster. Her funeral is held in Springfield and attended by the Simpsons.

Ginger (Flanders)

Voiced by: Tress MacNeille

Debut: "Viva Ned Flanders"

Ned's Vegas wife.

Accidental Marriage: With Ned Flanders in "Viva Ned Flanders".
The Bus Came Back: She and Amber come back in "Brawl in the Family". Unlike Homer, Ned reluctantly allows Ginger into his home.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Ginger leaves Ned because he, Rod and Todd are too good (they flushed her cigarettes down the toilet and sang all day).

Wally Kogen

Voiced by: Fred Willard

Debut: "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"

A travel agent who takes Homer and his friends to the Super Bowl.

Tuckerization: He's named for classic Simpsons writers Wallace Wolodarsky and Jay Kogen, who'd written for the show during the first 4 seasons, including the original "Treehouse of Horror" special, "Bart The Daredevil", and "Lisa the Greek", which was also about the Super Bowl.

Red Barclay

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "Maximum Homerdrive"

A man whom Homer meets at The Slaughterhouse. He's a trucker.

Big Eater: He's one of only 2 people to ever finish the Sir Loin-A-Lot steak (the other being Tony Randall).
Death by Gluttony: The second time doesn't work out so well for him.
Pyrrhic Victory: Manages to beat Homer at the Sir Loin-A-Lot contest. But it ends up killing him right as the contest ends.

Señor Ding Dong

Voiced by: Dan Castellaneta

Debut: "Maximum Homerdrive"

The mysterious Spanish mascot of his eponymous doorbell shop.

The Real Remington Steele:
Lisa: I thought you were just a marketing gimmick.
Señor Ding Dong: There was a time when that was true, but now, I am so much more.

Astrid Weller

Voiced by: Isabella Rossellini

Debut: "Mom and Pop Art"

The owner of an art gallery.

Arthur Fortune

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "Monty Can't Buy Me Love"

A wealthy British entrepreneur who enamors the people of Springfield upon opening his Fortune Megastore there.

No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's directly inspired by Virgin Group founder and CEO Richard Branson.

Jerry Rude

Voiced by: Michael McKean

Debut: "Monty Can't Buy Me Love"

The radio shock jock who hosts "Jerry Rude and the Bathroom Bunch".

No Celebrities Were Harmed: He's a clear parody of Howard Stern.

Chuck Garabedian

Voiced by: Hank Azaria

Debut: "Thirty Minutes over Tokyo"

Cutting Corners: He holds seminars teaching cash-strapped people how they can save money for the (somewhat) finer things in life.

Wink

Voiced by: George Takei

Debut: "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo"

A Japanese game show host who has a game show called "Super Happy Smile Time Family Wish Show", which the Simpsons compete on to get tickets back to Springfield.

Sadist: He clearly enjoys the suffering of the contestants.

Characters / The Simpsons One Time Characters Seasons 1 To 10

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Ms. Melon

Howard

Howard's Mother

Jacques

Ugolin and César

Adil Hoxha

Lucille Botzcowski

Karl

Master Sushi Chef

Emily Winthrop

Beatrice "Bea" Simmons

Professor Lombardo

Mr. Bergstrom

Artie Ziff

Leon Kompowsky

Bob Arnold

Aristotle Amadopolis

Collette

Lurleen Lumpkin

Samantha Stanky

Mr. Stanky

Mr. Black

Llewellyn Sinclair

Laura Powers

Lyle Lanley

Sideshow Raheem

Nigel

Brad Goodman

Mindy Simmons

Molloy the Cat Burglar

Stacy Lovell

President of Kwik-E-Mart

Stampy

Freddie Quimby

Allison Taylor

Birch Barlow

Jessica Lovejoy

Ashley Grant

Godfrey Jones

Dr. Zweig

Guy Incognito

Number One

Don Vittorio

Evan Conover

Tobias Drundridge

Bruno Drundridge

Gus the MP

Prime Minister Andy

Ballet Teacher

Señor Spielbergo

Hugh Parkfield

Jericho

Shelby

Shelbyville Milhouse

Shelby's father

Shelbyville Manhattan

Doctor Colossus

"Radioactive Man" Producer

"Radioactive Man" Director

"Radioactive Man" Editor

Classy Pig

Colonel Leslie "Hap" Hapablap

Detective Don Brodka

Xoxchitla

Hollis Hurlbut

Chester J. Lampwick

MacArthur "Mac" Parker

Erin

Hank Scorpio

Lucius Sweet

Larry Burns

Belle

Jimmy the Scumbag

Dr. Foster

Space Coyote

Frank Ormand, the Pretzel Man

Shary Bobbins

June Bellamy