List of recurring characters from The Simpsons
Artie Ziff
Marge Simpson's prom date in high school, now a nerdy software millionaire.
Baby Gerald
Maggie Simpson's enemy, has unibrow.
"Some folk'll never eat a skunk and then again some folk'll, like Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel!"
Generally a good-natured fellow, he has been known to take advantage of others, as when he presents Marge with 300 coupons for free pretzels from her pretzel business. Cletus has 26 children (Tiffany, Heather, Cody, Dylan, Dermot, Jordan, Taylor, Brittany, Wesley, Rumor, Scout, Cassidy, Zoe, Clo, Max, Hunter, Kendall, Caitlin, Noah, Sascha, Morgan, Kyra, Ian, Lauren, Q-bert, Phail) and a wife, Brandine, who refuses to wear boots to her strip club audition.
Cletus' last name is either "Delroy" or "Spuckler"; the Simpsons 2002 Trivia Calendar indicates the former, while at least one episode (Sweets and Sour Marge, in which Cletus signed his name to Marge's petition to ban sugar from Springfield) has it as "Spuckler."
A noted science fiction buff, he has a bumper sticker that reads "MY OTHER CAR IS A MILLENNIUM FALCON", given to him by a Harrison Ford-lookalike. His license plate is NCC-1701, the serial number of Star Trek's USS Enterprise. He wears prescription pants. He also owns a T-shirt that says "C:\\DOS C:\\DOS\\RUN RUN\\DOS\\RUN" He is a fan of the comic strip Hi & Lois. His store contains a section full of illegal videos. He was once romantically involved with Principal Skinner's mother Agnes.
"I must hurry back to my comic book store, where I dispense the insults rather than absorb them!"
He can be seen as a criticism of fandom, including The Simpsons' fandom.
He first appeared during a Springfield-wide yard-sale day. Homer was reminiscing about his "disco stud" sequined jacket from the 1970s, that only read "Disco Stu" since he ran out of room on the back of the jacket. Marge told Homer that the jacket wouldn't sell.
Someone exclaims, "hey, Stu, you should buy that" to which he replies, "Disco Stu doesn't advertise!" He doesn't buy the jacket.
In another episode he says "Disco Stu was hooked on the white stuff," and gets a bag of sugar.
Disco Stu has also been seen with dead goldfish in his hightop shoes, hitting on Marge Simpson at a ski lodge (until he finds out she has children), telling his troubles to a taxi driver with a hidden camera, dancing with Homer after Homer discovers his love of walking, and, most recently, a regular on Homer's talk show.
He is often seen in flashbacks (eg Lisa's birth, Bart's accidents as a toddler), and each time has a different hairstyle (afro, Bob Marley-ish, Mr. T, etc).
It's implied that he and Bleeding Gums Murphy are long-lost brothers.
Dr. Marvin Monroe is a goofy, strangled-voiced local psychiatrist, who was Mr. Burns' therapist. Also promoted series of subliminal weight-losing audio cassettes. Has since died, and the Springfield hospital has been named in his honor. Voiced by Dan Castellaneta, who reportedly wanted Dr. Monroe removed from the show because doing the character's voice hurt his larynx.
Nick Riviera (voiced by Hank Azaria) is the most incompetent doctor ever seen on our screens. He constantly appearing on infomercials promising all sorts of bizarre medical offers and turning his operations into a TV spectacle. Riviera has a quasi Eastern-Europeanan accent, a medical degree from a community college at which he apparently spent much of his time prescribing "anything I want" to a succession of attractive women back in the 1970s, and a great deal of luck. Dr. Riviera also studied at the Hollywood Upstairs School of Medicine.
Riviera is notable for his exclamation upon entering a room of "Hi, everybody!" which is followed by a response of "Hi, Dr. Nick!" from the other characters.
He has operated on the Simpson family a couple of times, notably when Homer Simpson could not afford a heart bypass from his regular doctor. Lisa Simpson attended the live audience for the operation and saved the day by guiding the obviously clueless Dr. Riviera through the operation.
He is also shown as an inventor/huckster (in the style of Ron Popeil) on "I can't believe they invented it".
"This won't hurt a bit, until I jam this down your throat!"
"Holy smokes!, you need booze!" (a medical opinion of Mr.Smithers and his multiple bee stings)
In his own words: "Duffman can never die, only the actors who play him." His real names have been said to be Sid, Larry, and Barry.
He is an athletic and smooth-talking corporate personality who wears blue and red tights, a red cape, white gloves, and the name "Duff" emblazoned across his chest. The ensemble features a red hat, dark sunglasses, and a belt of beer cans around his waist.
Duffman is generally known for his methodically slow speaking with dramatic pauses, a suggestive "Oh, yeah!" and constantly referring to Duffman in the third person.
Fat Tony is a pastiche of characters from endless Mafia movie and TV dramas.
Gil (Voiced by Dan Castellaneta) is a nervous, middle-aged man with the inability to hold a steady job, due to strings of misfortunes that tend to hit him at the worst times. He has been seen holding any number of small menial jobs, including used car salesman, doorbell salesman, real estate salesman, Coleco computer salesman, and newspaper subscription salesman. Since the departure of Lionel Hutz from the show, Gil has been used as a cheap replacement lawyer in court scenes.
The character is based on Jack Lemmon's portrayal of salesman Shelley Levene in the 1992 movie adaptation of David Mamet's Pulitzer prize-winning play Glengarry Glen Ross.
Hans Moleman is a 4-5 foot tall mole-like man. He looks to be quite old, has cataracts and is partially blind, cannot read, and uses marijuana (mentioned in the episode "Weekend at Burnsy's"). He drove the truck that ran over Lisa's "saxamaphone". He is secretly the leader of an underground civilization of "Molepeople".
He created a "hit movie", called "Man gets hit by football." The highlight of this film (in fact, the only scene) is reminiscent of the "Funniest Videos" television shows: Hans awaits a passed football, but he misses the catch, the ball hits him in the crotch, he falls to the ground in pain.
Hans has escaped death innumerable times: Burns drills into Hans's head. He drowns in quicksand. Is run off the road. Run over by Homer J. Simpson. Fell out of a window. Dr. Hibbert forgot Hans and left him in a fluoroscope.
Hans drives a 1977 AMC Gremlin, and carries a brown cane with him everywhere. He has a slight crush on either Patty or Selma.
When Homer hired cult deprogrammers to return Bart to him (in episode "Burns's Heir"), they kidnapped Hans by mistake. He was soon "deprogrammed" and returned to Homer and Marge: "Mom, Dad, I missed you. Cowabunga, dudes!"
He runs an early morning radio show, on which he introduces himself as "This is Moleman in the Morning, Good Moleman to you".
He is a resident of Springfield Retirement Castle, friend of Abraham Simpson.
Funniest moment: probably when he has his beard stuck in a mechanical pencil sharpener in the episode where the teachers go on strike and members of the community are called in to replace them.
A close second for funniest moment is when the kids steal the electronics from the TV set in the retirement castle and replace it with a cat. Jasper stares at the cat in the tv box, pressing buttons on the remote and says "Two hundred channels and nothing but cats".
In the episode when Homer becomes a hippy Jasper and Grandpa Simpson sit on a bench imitating Beavis and Butthead.
Jebediah Obadiah Zachariah Zephaniah Jedediah Springfield is the purported historical founder of the town of Springfield. Springfield said "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man", and was well known for his silver tongue (literally; the silver tongue was a prosthesis, his original tongue having been bitten off in a barroom brawl).
Springfield led a band of wagons westward along with his partner Shelbyville Manhattan; but they parted ways when Manhattan wanted to found a town where people could marry their cousins, and Springfield wanted a town devoted to chastity, abstinence, and a flavourless mush he called root-marm. Manhattan went on to found the rival town Shelbyville.
On an expedition to Springfield's historic "Fort Sensible," Bart Simpson uncovered inconsistencies in the Jebediah legend. Lisa Simpson later proved that "Jebediah Springfield" was a bloodthirsty pirate and enemy of George Washington named Hans Sprungfeld, who had changed his named to hide and who hated the town of Springfield.
Professor John Frink is Springfield's local mad scientist. (voiced by Hank Azaria) He appears to be a slight parody of Jerry Lewis' character, The Nutty Professor. He has a trademark mannerism of using nonsense words when excited (and he's always excited).
In a flashback we see him lecturing at the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology, demonstrating the Frinkiac supercomputer and predicting that "that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them."
"Professor Frink, Professor Frink/He'll make you laugh, he'll make you think!"
A programming language/calculating tool has been named in honor of the brilliant Professor Frink.
Ned Flanders also constantly bothers Reverend Lovejoy for spiritual guidance, which the Reverend dispatches with as much brevity as he can manage ("Ned, have you thought about one of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same"), so that he can go back to what seems to be his true passion - his model trains.
In one episode we see the young Lovejoy first arriving in Springfield on a motorbike, his first encounter with Flanders, and how his youthful (and hippyish) idealism was gradually worn down into jaded conservatism by Ned's constant pestering ("Reverend Lovejoy?? I think I swallowed a band-aid!") But "fortunately, by then it was the eighties, and no one noticed."
The church itself is a clone of the one seen in The Graduate.
Helen Lovejoy is the reverend's judgemental, small minded, moralistic, and gossipy wife. Helen's catchphrase, delivered in times of civic crisis (moral or otherwise), consistently asks, "Will someone please think of the children?"
Voiced by Harry Shearer. He is the owner of Herman's Military Antiques, and dresses in military fatigues. He only has one arm; the other arm was lost by sticking it out of the window of a moving bus. He is friends with Abraham Simpson, to whom he sold a Shriner's hat. He negotiated a peace treaty between Bart Simpson and the bully Nelson Muntz. He also tried to sell counterfeit jeans out of the Simpson's garage, but was foiled by Marge Simpson.
The squeaky-voiced teen is the teenage character with all the stereotypes of everyday teenagers. He has worked in several stores, has acne and his voice is always cracking. In one episode, the opening animation had him and an attractive blond girl kissing on the couch when the Simpsons were supposed to sit down.
McClure has a bizarre sexual fetish for fish.Captain Horatio McAllister
A seafood restaurant operator, now known simply as 'the Sea Captain'.Cletus Delroy
(Cletus Delroy or Cletus Spuckler), a slack-jawed yokel.
Cletus is a stereotypical hillbilly character. As one episode introduces him in a song:Comic Book Guy
The local comic book shop owner.
Comic Book Guy (voiced by Hank Azaria) is the fat, hirsute, surly, virginal proprietor of Springfield's "The Android's Dungeon" comic book store, known for his sarcastic quips to customers. He holds a master's degree in folklore and mythology. His catchphrase is the declaration "worst _____ ever!"Disco Stu
A crazy Disco person.
Disco Stu is featured wearing a rhinestone-encrusted jumpsuit, referring to himself in the third person and being mentally stuck in the Disco era.Dr. Julius Hibbert
The Simpson family physician
Julius Hibbert (voiced by Harry Shearer) is the basically kind-hearted family doctor of the Simpson family. He is African-American, one of the few amongst the show's regular characters. He is noticeably less dysfunctional than just about everyone else on the show, though he does have a bizarre tendency to laugh at inappropriate moments.Dr. Marvin Monroe
A psychiatrist (deceased).Dr. Nick Riviera
He impersonates a doctor.Drederick Tatum
Drederick Tatum is a professional boxer. He has appeared in several episodes, most notably when Homer becomes a boxer. Tatum is a parody of Mike Tyson and has a similar criminal record and lisp.Duffman
Mascot and spokesman for Duff BeerFat Tony
A mafia leader
Anthony "Fat Tony" D'Amico (voiced by Joe Mantegna) is the local Mafia Don in the fictional world of The Simpsons. The Simpson family has come into contact with him on several occasions. In a thinly disguised parody of Goodfellas, Bart gets a job serving drinks in the Mafia's local bar (complete with card table with every chair facing the wall). On another occasion, Homer gets mistaken for Krusty the Klown, who owes Fat Tony gambling debts.Gil
A perpetual loserHans Moleman
A short, elderly looking (while being in his mid-thirties) man with very bad luck.Jack Larson
Slick spokesman for Laramie cigarettes.Jasper
Grandpa Simpson's best friend.Jebediah Springfield
The historical founder of Springfield.Luigi
Proprietor of the local Italian restaurant.Professor John Frink
Brilliant scientists and local Springfield professor.Reverend Timothy Lovejoy
The local priest
Timothy Lovejoy (voiced by Harry Shearer) is the Reverend of the Church (of uncertain denomination) that seemingly every Christian in Springfield attends. His sermons vary between dreary recitations of the more opaque parts of the Old Testament, to the occasional "fire and brimstone" scaremongering about Hell - and very little of the love and joy that the Reverend's surname makes comment on. Bart and Homer, particularly, find it extremely difficult to pay attention during church.Herman
The owner of a military antiques store.Squeaky Voiced Teen
A teenager trapped in a long list of dead-end jobs.Troy McClure
B movie actor and host of infomercials. Voice done by the late Phil Hartman. Known for his catchphrase "Hi! I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such ____'s as...". He even uses this phrase in normal conversation such as when he was dating Patty: "You may remember me from such dates as last night's dinner."
