In "Half-Decent Proposal" (2002), Marge learns that Artie is extremely wealthy, having made his fortune in computers by inventing an adapter that turns dial-up modem handshaking noises into easy-listening music.

Birchibald "Birch" T. Barlow (voiced by Harry Shearer in "Sideshow Bob Roberts" and "You Kent Always Say What You Want") is a conservative talk show host on the radio station KBBL, modeled after Rush Limbaugh.

Booberella's name alludes to Vampirella (Forrest James Ackerman's comic book vampire character) and to the 1968 cult film Barbarella, which stars Jane Fonda in the title role.

(voiced by Dan Castellaneta), short for Childlike Humanoid Urban Muchacho, is a robot that Martin Prince built in "Fat Man and Little Boy" for a science fair at Springfield Elementary School.

Database (alternatively voiced by Nancy Cartwright, Tress MacNeille, and Pamela Hayden; real name Kyle according to "Yellow Subterfuge") is a nerdy student who attends Springfield Elementary School.

The 1984 Olympic gold medalist, he first became world champion after defeating Watson in the heavily promoted "Bout to Knock the Other Guy Out", a fight Homer and his friends watched on his illegal cable hookup.

Tatum is a parody of Mike Tyson, with a high-pitched, lisping voice, a menacing demeanor, a criminal record, financial problems, and a tendency to speak in a surprisingly formal manner ("I insist that you desist", "your behavior is unconscionable”).

When they finally corner the Simpsons at the Colosseum, Gino is seen to be extremely agile and adept with a knife, as well as having a taste for violence; so much so, in fact, that Bob is heard to whisper to Francesca: "I don't want to brag, but he's evil at an eighth-grade level."

When Jasper's frozen form became popular with customers, Apu started exploiting the spectacle, and transformed the Kwik-E-Mart into a special interest store dealing with weird items, or perfectly ordinary ones which had been made out to be abnormal, called the Freak-E-Mart.

It is hinted that he comes from a well-off family, most notably in season six's "The PTA Disbands" when—with the school closed for a teacher's strike—he and his mother watch soap operas and sip tea together in a well-furnished living room.

He is the only Springfield Elementary School student who remembers the Watergate scandal and the 1976 Bicentennial (according to Principal Skinner), was in the third-grade class of Otto the bus driver (according to Otto), owns a car (even though he rode the school bus on "A Milhouse Divided", "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife, and Her Homer", and "How the Test Was Won"), regularly shaves, has custody of a child from a divorce, is old enough to vote in a general U.S. election, was sent to prison (though "Marge Be Not Proud" and "Lisa the Skeptic" depicted Kearney in juvenile hall), and pays taxes.

Dan Castellaneta was nominated for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 2011 for the voice of Louie, Homer Simpson, Barney Gumble, and Krusty the Clown thanks to the episode "Donnie Fatso".

Lurleen next appears briefly in "Marge vs. the Monorail", sporting torn clothing and an unkempt hairstyle; the episode reveals that she has recently undergone treatment at the Betty Ford Clinic and "spent last night in a ditch".

The nineteenth-season episode "Papa Don't Leech"[173] follows up on her story with her moving into the Simpsons' home and taking a waitress job at Moe's to pay a $12 million tax bill, having lost most of her earnings over the course of several failed marriages to men who all heavily resembled Homer.

After Bart and the rest of his family travel to The Big Apple, he eventually finds her at her address, and discovers that she has matured, becoming slightly taller and slimmer, and also learns that she now works as a writer and has a performance option on Saturday Night Live.

Ms. Teresa Albright (voiced by Tress MacNeille[4]) is the First Church of Springfield Sunday school teacher, who is constantly forced to deal with the children's questions about the more difficult to explain aspects of religion, leading her to yell "Is a little blind faith too little to ask?".

It was established that Homer believed that his mother was dead, a lie his father, Abe, told him when in reality she was on the run from the law after she sabotaged Mr. Burns's biological warfare laboratory, living under the name "Anita Bonghit".

He frequently appears on infomercials, pitching all sorts of bizarre medical offers or endorsing dubious devices and products such as Sun and Run (laxative sunscreen), and often turns his operations into TV spectacles.

[226] This removed sequence is a slightly alternate ending of the movie when the townspeople are rebuilding the Simpsons' house and involves Plopper, a squirrel mutated by the lake's pollution and Santa's Little Helper painting a doghouse.

The movie was never completed due to budget overruns caused by constant price-gouging by Springfield vendors, and Milhouse snapping from the pressure of the role, and refusing to continue to portray Fallout Boy.

In the episode "Havana Wild Weekend" the Rich Texan says New Hampshire is his home state, and in "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times", he is from Connecticut, despite his brash, stereotypically Southern persona (parodying the fact that although former president George H.W.

In the episode "The Day the Violence Died", when I&S Studios is bankrupted following their trial against Chester J. Lampwick and Bart and Lisa are too late in providing information that could save the company, he tells them condescendingly "Great, mail it to last week when I might have cared.

But in later episodes such as "The Great Wife Hope", and "The Devil Wears Nada", Sarah is seen with Marge in groups with other Springfield moms in outings or charity meetings, apparently making an effort to get to know her better.

In the episode "Uncut Femmes", her only major role to date, she reveals her true self to Marge entirely different than what she was before, including flashbacks of how she and Clancy met, of which the story was heavily retconned from what was said previously.

Pimple-Faced Teen, real name Jeremy Friedman or Steve Friedman,[25] is one of few teenagers on the show and is perpetually trapped in a series of entry-level jobs, usually working at Krusty Burger (as a cashier, a cook, or, in the case of "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy", a supervisor in charge of training new employees), the grocery store (as a bagboy as seen in "Selma's Choice" and "Simpson Safari"), or at a movie theater (as either a ticket master in "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie", a concession stand clerk in "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)", or an usher in "Jaws Wired Shut"; in the video game The Simpsons: Road Rage he also talks about cleaning out the urinals).

[267] Matt Groening called Squeaky-Voiced Teen his second favorite "unnamed" character after Comic Book Guy, whose name was finally revealed to be "Jeff Albertson" in the episode "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass".

Whether due to immaturity or a means to break away from his parents' (his father's especially) relentless sheltering, whenever Todd comes into contact with anything outside his family and their pious ways, such as the time he was tricked into eating a Pixy Stix by Bart Simpson, he turns aggressive.

While only continuing to serve Nelson on very rare instances after much earlier seasons, the Weasels still appear frequently throughout the series, sometimes in scenes involving the other bullies yet primarily as background characters, especially in Lisa's 2nd grade class.

Wendell Borton (alternatively voiced by Jo Ann Harris, Pamela Hayden, Nancy Cartwright, Russi Taylor and Grey DeLisle) is a perpetually nauseated and very pale boy with worried eyes and curly hair.

The Yes Guy is a tribute to Frank Nelson, a supporting actor in The Jack Benny Program, I Love Lucy, and Sanford and Son, whose trademark greeting in all his characters was a loud, drawn-out "Ye-e-e-s?!"