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Simpson family

January 29, 2023

The Simpson family are the fictional characters featured in the animated television series The Simpsons. The Simpsons are a nuclear family consisting of married couple Homer and Marge and their three children, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. They live at 742 Evergreen Terrace in the fictional town of Springfield, United States, and they were created by cartoonist Matt Groening, who conceived the characters after his own family members, substituting "Bart" for his own name. The family debuted on Fox on April 19, 1987, in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night" and were later spun off into their own series, which debuted on Fox in the U.S. on December 17, 1989.

The Simpsons
The Simpsons family
First appearance"Good Night" (1987)
Created byMatt Groening
Family members
The Simpsons' family tree

Alongside the five main family members, there are a number of other major and minor characters in their family. The most commonly recurring characters are Homer's father Abraham "Grampa" Simpson; Marge's sisters Patty and Selma Bouvier; and the family's two pets, Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II. Other family members include Homer's mother Mona Simpson, Homer's half-brother Herbert Powell, Marge's mother Jacqueline Bouvier, and other minor relatives.

Concept and origins

Creation

Groening conceived of the idea for the Simpsons in the lobby of James L. Brooks's office. Brooks had asked Groening to pitch an idea for a series of animated shorts, which Groening initially intended to present as his Life in Hell series. However, when Groening realized that animating Life in Hell would require the rescinding of publication rights for his life's work, he chose another approach and formulated his version of a dysfunctional family.[1] He named the characters after his own family members – his father Homer, his mother Margaret, and his younger sisters Lisa and Maggie. He substituted "Bart", an anagram of "brat", for his own name,[2] and modeled the character after his older brother, Mark.[3][4]

The five family members were given simple designs so that their facial emotions could easily be changed with almost no effort[5] and so that they would be recognizable in silhouette.[6] Groening submitted only basic sketches to the animators and assumed that the figures would be cleaned-up in production. However, the animators merely re-traced his drawings, which led to the crude appearance of the characters in the initial short episodes.[2] The Simpson family made their debut on April 19, 1987, in The Tracey Ullman Show short "Good Night".[7] In 1989, the shorts were adapted into The Simpsons, a half-hour series airing on the Fox Broadcasting Company. The Simpson family remained the main characters on this new show.[8]

Casting

Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, and Yeardley Smith all began voicing their characters on The Tracey Ullman Show. Nancy Cartwright was the only one of the group who had been trained to be a voice actor[9] while Castellaneta had done some voice over work in Chicago. Castellaneta and Kavner had been part of the regular cast of The Tracey Ullman Show and voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask them to voice Homer and Marge rather than hire more actors.[10][11] The producers decided to hold casting for the roles of Bart and Lisa. Yeardley Smith had initially been asked to audition for the role of Bart, but casting director Bonita Pietila believed her voice was too high. Smith later recalled, "I always sounded too much like a girl. I read two lines as Bart and they said, 'Thanks for coming!'"[12] Smith was given the role of Lisa instead.[13] On March 13, 1987, Nancy Cartwright went in to audition for the role of Lisa. After arriving at the audition, she found that Lisa was simply described as the "middle child" and at the time did not have much personality. Cartwright became more interested in the role of Bart who she found more fascinating because he was described as "devious, underachieving, school-hating, irreverent, [and] clever."[14] Matt Groening let her try out for the part instead, and upon hearing her read, gave her the job on the spot.[15]

The Simpson family

The Simpsons are a family who live at 742 Evergreen Terrace in the town of Springfield in the United States. The state in which in this town is located is never specified, however they do have snow and sometimes wear sweaters in the fall.[16] It's a running joke in the show to be as vague and ambiguous as possible whenever hinting at which U.S. state the town of Springfield might be located in. Homer, the father, works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, a position at odds with his careless, buffoonish personality. He is married to Marge Simpson, a stereotypical American housewife and mother. They have three children: Bart, a ten-year-old troublemaker; Lisa, an eight-year-old child prodigy; and Maggie, a toddler who rarely speaks, but communicates by sucking on a pacifier. The family owns a dog, Santa's Little Helper, and a cat, Snowball II. Both pets have had starring roles in several seasons. Despite the passing of yearly milestones such as holidays or birthdays, the Simpsons do not physically age and still appear as they did at the end of the 1980s. Although the family is dysfunctional, many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care about one another.[17]

Homer Simpson

Main article: Homer Simpson

Homer Jay Simpson (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) is the protagonist of the show and the father of the Simpson family. He embodies several American working class stereotypes: he is crude, overweight, incompetent, clumsy, thoughtless and a borderline alcoholic.[18] He has occasionally displayed flashes of great intellect and fitness whenever the situation calls for it, and an integrity reflecting his own values, including a fierce devotion to and protectiveness of his family. His voice started out as an impression of Walter Matthau but eventually evolved into a more robust voice during the second and third season of the half-hour show, allowing Homer to cover a fuller range of emotions.[11] Homer has since become one of the most influential fictional characters and has been described by the UK newspaper The Sunday Times as the greatest comedic creation of modern time.[19] He has inspired an entire line of merchandise, and his catchphrase, the annoyed grunt "D'oh!", has been included in the Oxford English Dictionary.[20] During the production of the episode Insane Clown Poppy the writers toyed with the idea of giving Homer a long lost illegitimate biological daughter, but when the shows showrunner and writer Mike Scully, as well as Matt Groening rejected the idea, the writers changed the story so the clown Krusty would be the one who finds he has a lost daughter.

Marge Simpson

Main article: Marge Simpson

Marjorie Jacqueline "Marge" Simpson (née Bouvier, voiced by Julie Kavner) is the well-meaning and extremely patient wife of Homer and mother of Bart, Lisa and Maggie. She often acts as the voice of reason, but displays exaggerated behavior traits of stereotypical mothers and takes the blatant dysfunctionality of her family for granted,[21] unlike the other family members, who are aware that they are eccentric. Her most notable physical feature is her blue hair, styled into an improbably high beehive. Julie Kavner received a Primetime Emmy Award in 1992 for voicing Marge in the episode "I Married Marge".[22] For her performance in The Simpsons Movie, Kavner received a nomination for "Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature" at the 2007 Annie Awards, but lost to Ian Holm in Ratatouille.[23][24] Kavner's emotional performance in the movie got positive reviews and one critic said she "gave what must be the most heartfelt performance ever".[25] Part of Kavner's contract says that she will never have to promote The Simpsons on video because she does not want to "destroy the illusion for children".[26] In 2008, CityNews published an article entitled "Top 10 Greatest TV Moms of All Time", and placed Marge in eighth spot.[27]

Bart Simpson

Main article: Bart Simpson

Bartholomew JoJo "Bart" Simpson (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) is the eldest child and only son in the family—at age 10. Bart's most prominent character traits are his mischievousness, rebelliousness, disrespect for authority and sharp wit. During the first two seasons of The Simpsons, Bart was the show's main character. The name "Bart" is an anagram of the word "brat".[28] Groening conceived Bart as an extreme version of the typical misbehaving child character, merging all of the extreme traits of characters such as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn into one person.[28] Groening's older brother Mark provided most of the inspiration for Bart.[29][30] Bart's catchphrase "Eat My Shorts" was an ad-lib by Cartwright in one of the original table readings, harking back to an incident when she was at college.[31] In 1998, Time magazine selected Bart as 46th of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century, and the only fictional character to make the list.[32] He had previously appeared on the cover of the December 31, 1990 edition.[33] Bart is rebellious and frequently escapes without punishment, which led some parents' groups and conservative spokespeople to believe he provided a poor role model for children. This prompted George H. W. Bush to rally, "We're going to keep trying to strengthen the American family. To make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons."[34] Bart, and other Simpsons characters, have appeared in numerous television commercials for Nestlé's Butterfinger candy bars from 1990 to 2001, with the slogan "Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger!"[35]

Lisa Simpson

Main article: Lisa Simpson

Lisa Marie Simpson (voiced by Yeardley Smith) is the eldest daughter and middle child of the family. She is an extremely intelligent 8-year-old girl, one of the most intelligent characters on the show. Lisa's political convictions are generally socially liberal.[36] She is a vegetarian, and a supporter of the Free Tibet movement,[37] and while still supportive of the Christian church in which she was raised,[38] Lisa became a practicing Buddhist following her decision to follow the Noble Eightfold Path.[39] She is musically proficient on the saxophone; besides the occasional riff during the opening credit sequence Carole King's Jazzman and Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street have been prominently placed during episodes. In the Tracey Ullman Show shorts, Lisa was more of a "female Bart" and was equally mischievous. As the series progressed, Lisa began to develop into a more intelligent and more emotional character with "Krusty Gets Busted" being one of the first episodes where her true intelligence is fully shown.[40] When she was a baby, Bart started out not liking her, although he became nicer to her after Marge pointed out that Lisa loves him. Her first word was "Bart", with Bart happily teaching her more names. Many episodes focusing on Lisa have an emotional nature, the first one being "Moaning Lisa". The idea for the episode was pitched by James L. Brooks, who had wanted to do an emotional episode where Lisa is sad because the show had done a lot of "jokey episodes".[41] In 2001 Lisa received a special "board of directors Ongoing Commitment Award" at the Environmental Media Awards.[42] "Lisa the Vegetarian", an episode from the seventh season, won both an Environmental Media Award for "Best Television Episodic Comedy"[43] and a Genesis Award for "Best Television Comedy Series, Ongoing Commitment".[44] In Japan, the broadcasters of the series found they were able to turn the apparent viewer dislike of the series around by focusing marketing attention on Lisa. Lisa's well-intended but ill-fated struggles to be a voice of reason and a force of good in her family and city struck a chord with the Japanese.[45]

Maggie Simpson

Main article: Maggie Simpson

Margaret Evelyn Lenny "Maggie" Simpson is the youngest of the five main family members and is almost always seen as a baby. She has blonde spiked hair like Lisa. Her first word was "daddy", shown at one point after Homer tucks her in. She is almost 2 years old and still uses a pacifier despite teething, although this was mentioned in a Treehouse of Horror episode ("Starship Poopers") and is not considered canon. She was quite prominent in the Tracey Ullman Show shorts, often being featured alongside Bart and Lisa but has since become the least seen and heard of the five main Simpsons. It has been revealed that Maggie has outstanding artistic and academic abilities, much like her sister Lisa. The episodes taking place in the future often show her as some kind of businesswoman.[46]

Maggie rarely speaks, but has been voiced by several different actors including Jodie Foster, Elizabeth Taylor,[46] James Earl Jones,[47] Harry Shearer (who used his Kang voice) in "Starship Poopers",[48] Yeardley Smith,[49] and Nancy Cartwright.[50]

Abe Simpson

Main article: Grampa Simpson

Abraham Jebediah "Abe" Simpson II (better known simply as Grampa, voiced by Dan Castellaneta) is the patriarch of the Simpson family and the father of Homer. He is a World War II veteran who was later sent to the Springfield Retirement Castle by Homer. He is known for his borderline senility, his long rambling (and probably apocryphal) stories and his love of Matlock. He shares his name with one of Matt Groening's relatives, in this case his grandfather. However, Groening says he refused to name him, leaving it to other writers to choose a name. By coincidence, the writers chose the name Abraham.[51]

Mona Simpson

Main article: Mona Simpson (The Simpsons)

Mona Penelope Simpson (née Olsen, voiced by Glenn Close) is Homer's long-lost mother, Marge's mother-in-law, and Abe's estranged first wife. Her first major appearance was in "Mother Simpson" where she reveals that she was forced to abandon her family after being caught up in the hippie movement and participated in various acts of activism. The writers used this episode as an opportunity to solve several little puzzles, such as where Lisa's intelligence came from.[52] Prior to the seventh season, Mona Simpson had only made two brief flashback appearances, the first being season two's "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" and the second being season six's "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" and in both episodes she was voiced by Maggie Roswell.[53] Mona dies in the episode "Mona Leaves-a", as Homer struggles to come to terms with her death. The character is named after writer Richard Appel's wife, whose name is Mona Simpson.[52] Mona was designed in a way so that she has little bit of Homer in her face, such as the shape of her upper lip and her nose.[54] There were several design changes because the directors were trying to make her an attractive older and younger woman, but still be Simpson-esque.[54] Glenn Close recorded original material for another episode, season fifteen's "My Mother the Carjacker". Mona also has a speaking appearance in season ten's "D'oh-in in the Wind", this time voiced by Tress MacNeille.[55]

Extended Simpson family

  • Herbert 'Herb' Powell (voiced by Danny DeVito) – As his paternal half-brother, Herb resembles Homer, though he is much thinner, boasts a full head of hair and is more astute. He first appeared in the season two episode "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" when Homer is informed by his father Abe, after the latter suffered a mild heart attack, that he had a half-brother, the product of a short-lived affair between Abe and a carnival dunk-tank worker who was also a prostitute (identified in The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album as 'Gaby'). A year after putting the baby up for adoption, Abe married Mona, who insisted he promise never to tell Homer about Herb or how he was conceived. Herb was raised by his adoptive parents Edward and Mililani Powell (first names given in The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album), put himself through college by working odd jobs, then founded Powell Motors, a car company based in Detroit. Herb is an exception to 'the Simpson gene', which causes all male members of the Simpson family to gradually lose their intelligence as they mature, as Herb is intelligent, successful and an astute businessman. Overjoyed to learn that he had a blood family, Herb bonded with the children and hired Homer, as a representative of average Americans, to design a car. The car was a flop, bankrupting the company, and Herb angrily rejected Homer as a brother and became a street vagrant.[56] The episode was written by Jeff Martin but the idea of having Herb voiced by Danny DeVito had been pitched by Sam Simon.[57] Some were upset with the sad ending of the episode, and as a result, the producers decided to make a sequel.[50] Herb re-appeared the next season in "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?". Now broke and homeless, he briefly settled in the Simpson household, despite his intense continuing antipathy toward Homer. Homer loaned Herb $2000, which he used to build an invention that translated infantile speech into comprehensible English, based on observations he made of Maggie. He proceeded to mass-produce his new product and regained his fortune. In gratitude, he bought gifts for each member of the family and paid Homer back with his forgiveness.[58] Homer's "seldom seen half-brother"[59] has had only one brief speaking part since this episode: DeVito reprised his role for the Season 24 episode "The Changing of the Guardian", in which Powell's answering machine message is heard: 'Hi, you've reached Herb Powell. I'm poor again.'[60][non-primary source needed]
  • Abbey (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) – Abbey is hinted to be Abe's illegitimate daughter and Homer's half-sister from a relationship he had with a British woman named Edwina during World War II.[61]
  • Chet Simpson (voiced by Dan Castellaneta[62]) – Chet is Bart, Lisa, Maggie’s great-uncle who owns an unsuccessful shrimp company.[63]
  • Dr. Simpson (voiced by Tress MacNeille[55]) – Dr. Simpson is the chief of complicated surgeries at the invasive care unit; she is first seen in "Lisa the Simpson".[63] She is the one who reassures Lisa that she will not suffer the defective Simpson Gene because of her sex and also reveals that only male members are affected by it. Dr. Simpson resembles Lisa, minus the spikes.
  • Stanley Simpson (voiced by Dan Castellaneta[62]) – Stanley is the Simpson children's second cousin who shoots birds at the airport.[63]
  • Uncle Tyrone Simpson (voiced by Hank Azaria) – Uncle Tyrone is a cynical elderly Simpson relative who lives in Dayton, Ohio. The family intends to visit him during his birthday in the episode "Catch 'Em If You Can".[64]
  • Great-Aunt Hortense Simpson – Great-Aunt Hortense died before "Bart the Fink" and left Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa $100 each. The rest of her estate was passed to Ann Landers. In a continuity error, Great-Aunt Hortense appeared on Bart's journey to Heaven in "Bart Gets Hit by a Car".
  • A group of unnamed relatives show up in the episode "Lisa the Simpson", when Homer tries to prove to Lisa that not all Simpsons are failures.[63] In the end, only Dr. Simpson and three other female members proved successful.
  • Hugo Simpson (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) – Hugo is Bart's conjoined twin from the "Treehouse of Horror VII" segment "The Thing and I". He and Bart were separated as babies by Dr. Hibbert and was deemed "evil". To hide the secret, Marge and Homer chained Hugo in the attic and fed him fish heads once a week. Later, Bart goes up to the attic and Hugo escapes, wanting to sew him and Bart back together. Dr. Hibbert managed to catch Hugo, but notices that the surgical scar is on the wrong side, meaning Bart is the evil twin. As a result, Hugo is released while Bart is chained in the attic. Hugo resembles Bart, but with ratty clothes, messy hair, and malformed teeth. Since he is a Treehouse of Horror character, he does not exist in the main episode continuity.
  • Mabel Simpson (voiced by Julie Kavner) – Mabel is an ancestor of the Simpson family who was part of the Underground Railroad. She was married to Hiram before divorcing him and fleeing to Canada to marry Virgil. She kept the Simpson surname.
    • Ex-husband: Hiram Simpson (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) – Hiram is a distant relative of the Simpson family who was bribed with a new pair of shoes into revealing Virgil's whereabouts. He is the parent of Eliza Simpson.
  • Virgil (voiced by Wren T. Brown) – Virgil, later Virgil Simpson, is an enslaved African American owned by Mr. Burns's father, Colonel Burns, and rescued by Eliza. He was betrayed by Hiram but escaped with Mabel, whom he later married, from whom the Simpson family are really descended.
  • Eliza Simpson (voiced by Yeardley Smith) – Eliza Simpson is a distant relative of the Simpson family and daughter of Mabel and Hiram. She was part of the Underground Railroad with her mother and initially helped Virgil evade capture before giving him up to Wainwright Burns. In later life, she is revealed to have married Milford Van Houten, being the direct ancestor of the Van Houten family.
  • Abraham Simpson – The son of Mabel and Virgil, half-brother of Eliza, and great-grandfather of Grampa Simpson.
  • Grampa's parents – Grampa's parents both appear briefly in "Much Apu About Nothing" when Grampa tells the story of how his family emigrated to America.[65] Their names were given to be Orville J. Simpson and Yuma Hickman in The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album, but have not been mentioned in the series. In the Season 25 episode "The Winter of His Content", Homer reveals that Abe's father is alive, but Abe ignores him.[66]
  • Cyrus Simpson (voiced by Hank Azaria) - Cyrus is Grampa's older brother who is seen in "Simpsons Christmas Stories". Cyrus crashed his Corsair at Tahiti in World War II's Pacific Theater of Operations during a kamikaze raid. He never left and has 15 wives.[67]
  • Rita LaFleur (voiced by Anika Noni Rose) – Rita is the second wife of Abraham Simpson and a jazz recording artist.[68][69] She was a singer at Spiro's Restaurant and met Abe when he was a waiter. They married[70] and LaFleur left the restaurant, wishing to become a successful singer. She was invited to tour in Europe, but Homer suffered a head injury and Abraham realized that Homer was defenseless and would not survive in Europe, so he stayed behind with him while Rita went to Europe, and the two never saw each other again. It was revealed that she later became a heroin addict which ended up ruining her singing career. In "Gone Abie Gone", Rita reunited with Abraham and they played piano.[71] It was unknown why they were not together.[72][73]
  • Amber Simpson (voiced by Pamela Hayden) – Amber was the Vegas ex-wife of both Homer and Abe Simpson from the season ten episode "Viva Ned Flanders". Homer and Ned Flanders visit Las Vegas for the weekend, get drunk and unknowingly marry two women.[74] Amber reappears in "Brawl in the Family", where the Simpson family trick her into marrying Grampa, and in the process forsake all other spouses. Amber is horrified at the deception and runs away back to Vegas, much to Grampa's disappointment at losing another wife.[75] In "Jazzy and the Pussycats", the Simpsons attend Homer's ex-wife and former stepmother's funeral after Amber’s death from a drug overdose.[76]
  • Bill Simpson is one of Abe's brothers, and is apparently a communist. He is mentioned in Million-Dollar Abie as a member of the Communist Party along with Joseph Stalin and many others. It is unknown how old Bill is, or if he is still alive.[77]
  • Great Uncle Boris – Boris is Homer's great-uncle who left his great-nephew his country home in the episode "Homer Loves Flanders".
  • Mother Shabubu/Cousin Frank/Francine – Cousin Francine is Homer's cousin (it is unknown if she is Abraham or Mona's niece) who was mentioned in the episode "Lisa's First Word".

The Bouvier family

Patty and Selma Bouvier

Main article: Patty and Selma

Patricia Maleficent "Patty" and Selma Bouvier (both voiced by Julie Kavner[78]) are Marge's older twin sisters. They are apparently in their mid-to-late 40s, since Selma has gone through menopause and they were shown as teenagers in flashbacks while Marge was still a small child. They work at the Springfield Department of Motor Vehicles, and possess a strong dislike for their brother-in-law, Homer. Selma is the elder by two minutes, possesses a strong desire for family, and has been married and divorced six times, and also sought to have a child on numerous occasions despite her age. Her sister, Patty, is one of the show's few openly gay (or bisexual, as she once commented "there go the last remaining threads of my heterosexuality") recurring characters[79] although for the most part she has avoided relationships. Kavner voices them as characters "who suck the life out of everything".[80] Kavner makes Patty's voice more masculine and a lower register, while Selma's voice is a little sweeter.[81] The origins of their names are unknown – Matt Groening has a sister named Patty, but unlike the other Simpson relatives, this has not been explicitly revealed.[82]

Jacqueline Bouvier

Jacqueline Ingrid Bouvier (née Gurney, voiced by Julie Kavner[78]) is the mother of Marge, Patty and Selma, the maternal grandmother of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, the mother-in-law of Homer, the daughter-in-law of Pepe and Bambi Bouvier, the sister-in-law of Herman, Charlene, Jojo, Chester, and Arthur Bouvier, and the widow of Clancy Bouvier. She was first referenced in a flashback in the episode "Moaning Lisa" and made her first appearance in the episode "Bart vs. Thanksgiving".[83] She had a spinster sister named Gladys, who is deceased; Jacqueline and her family attended her funeral in "Selma's Choice". Mr. Burns and Homer's father Abe Simpson once battled for her affections; she became engaged to Burns, but eventually decided not to marry either man,[84] although she and Abe still ran away together at the end of the episode.

Although it seems that she disapproves of Marge's marriage to Homer, stating that he is never to address her as "Mom",[85] she does tolerate Homer much more than her elder daughters, Patty and Selma. In "Moe Letter Blues", she admits that Patty and Selma are really to blame for ruining her birthday party, not Homer; also Jacqueline never has been shown to cause trouble in Homer and Marge's marriage, unlike her daughters. Jacqueline has celebrated her 80th birthday twice, in "Moe Letter Blues" and again in "Puffless".

Like all Bouvier women, she is voiced by Kavner, and has large, unique hair, resembling Marge's, only a light gray color due to her old age. In her younger days she smoked heavily but has quit, although she still speaks more raspily than Patty and Selma. The series creator Matt Groening named the character after the former American First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, whose maiden name was Jacqueline Lee Bouvier. Out of all the characters on the show, Jacqueline has the tallest hair.

Clancy Bouvier

Clarence "Clancy" Bouvier (voiced by Harry Shearer[78]) is the deceased father of Marge, Patty and Selma and the husband of Jacqueline Bouvier. His first appearance was in the episode "The Way We Was".[86] He was kind and complimentary to teenage Homer when he arrived to pick up Marge for the prom, but after finding out that Artie Ziff was really her date remarked that Homer "took years off my life". This provoked Marge to go back and go out with Homer.

In "Fear of Flying" it was revealed that he was one of the earliest male flight attendants; Marge initially believed he was a heroic pilot and was traumatized when she discovered he was a flight attendant instead. According to Marge in "Bart the Lover" after Clancy got out of the Navy, he had trouble with his cursing that nearly cost him a job as a baby photographer, but Jacqueline was able to curtail that by having him donate money to the swear jar.

In the episode "Puffless", it is revealed that he died of lung cancer,[87] which provoked Patty and Selma to abstain from smoking cigarettes. While Clancy does not appear with the rest of the Bouvier family in "I Married Marge", implying he was deceased before Homer and Marge were married, he is shown to be still alive when Bart and Lisa were toddlers in the episode "Walking Big & Tall",[88] but he died before Maggie was born. Marge was particularly upset by her father's death, as Homer had to buy her a white noise machine to try and get her to deal with it.

Like all the Bouvier family, his voice has become croaky through chain-smoking for a number of years. He also shares the same grunt as Patty and Selma, both of whom resemble younger female versions of him, while Marge more resembles her mother.

In "Treehouse of Horror III", he was eaten at King Homer and Marge's wedding by the former. He also appeared as a ghost in "Treehouse of Horror XXVI".

Ling Bouvier

Ling Bouvier (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) is Selma Bouvier's adopted daughter. She shares Selma's laugh. In "Goo Goo Gai Pan", Selma discovers that she has reached menopause and adopts Ling in China, after lying that she is married to Homer, to fool the Chinese authorities into thinking that Ling would be part of a traditional family as opposed to being raised by a single mother. The authorities briefly reclaim Ling, but the adoption agent Ms. Woo relates to her experiences of her childhood with her single mother and allows Selma to adopt Ling.[89] Ling has since become a recurring character and has appeared in several episodes.[90] She seems to get along well with her cousin Maggie. Since Patty told Selma to give up smoking once the baby came home, Selma claimed she would switch to chewing tobacco, although it is shown she has not followed through with this.

Meaux and Genevieve Bouvier

Marge's atheist grandmother Genevieve Bouvier lived in Nazi-occupied France in 1944 during World War II, in Vichy, France. She is discussed in "My Way or the Highway to Heaven" (third episode of the thirtieth season). Genevieve co-managed Cafe Meaux with the café's namesake, her husband Meaux, a Nazi-collaborator, and self-described treasoner. They team up to stop Nazi officers from revealing the impending D-day invasion is to happen in Normandy.

Selma's husbands

Selma has married six times, resulting in the lengthy last name Bouvier-Terwilliger-Hutz-McClure-Stu-Simpson-D'Amico.

Extended Bouvier family

  • Gladys Gurney (voiced by Julie Kavner[78]) – Gladys is Marge's spinster aunt and the sister of Jacqueline. Her death was noted in the episode "Selma's Choice", in which she died of a bowel obstruction. Her final words to Patty and Selma during a video will is a plea that they not end their lives old and alone like herself, prompting Selma to become more intent on having a family.[91]
  • Great-Uncle Hubert – Great Uncle Hubert is Bart, Lisa, and Maggie's great uncle who died in the short "The Funeral". It is unknown which side of the family he came from or how he died. He is only mentioned once. At the funeral, Bart views his great uncle's corpse, which makes Bart turn green and faint. Later, Bart is seen running away up a hill with Lisa and Maggie, resulting in Homer and Marge scolding them in the car.
  • Dot – Dot is the cousin of Marge, Patty and Selma. She gave Selma a video camera at her wedding to Sideshow Bob. This is the only time she is mentioned.
  • Lou Gurney – Lou is the uncle of Marge Simpson, Patty Bouvier and Selma Bouvier. In "Children of a Lesser Clod", Marge is called to identify Lou's body, which turns out to be a very much alive Hans Moleman. While Marge is identifying the body, Homer starts a daycare center for local children.
  • Uncle Arthur Bouvier – Uncle Arthur is the uncle of Bart, Lisa and Maggie, mentioned by Marge in "The Boy Who Knew Too Much". According to Marge, Arthur suffered from auditory hallucinations and went on a homicidal spree before 75 federal marshals brought him down. Otherwise, he is never mentioned and has never made an appearance.

Pets

Dogs

  • Country Cousins' Dog – The Country Cousins' Dog in the episode "The Bonfire of the Manatees" is the brother of Santa's Little Helper. Though the "country folks" are not themselves blood relatives to the Simpsons, they are referred to as "cousins" in the episode because of the dogs' relation.
  • Laddie – Laddie was a collie owned by the Simpson family in the episode "The Canine Mutiny". He joined the family after Bart managed to get a credit card issued to Santos L. Halper (a non-existent person whose name is a corruption of "Santa's Little Helper") and purchased him from a catalogue. Described in the catalogue as the ultimate dog, Laddie was able to perform household chores and use the toilet. Laddie resides with the Springfield Police Department after he incidentally sniffed out marijuana at a blind man's house and Bart gave up ownership.

Cats

  • Snowball – Snowball (also known as Snowball I) was the Simpson family's first cat. She was first mentioned in the series premiere in a Christmas letter Marge is writing where she explains that Snowball died that year and went to "kitty heaven". Snowball was named due to her white fur. Snowball was, according to Lisa in a poem, run over by a Chrysler belonging to Mayor Quimby's brother "Clovis".[93] She is seen during Bart's escalator ride to Heaven in the second-season episode "Bart Gets Hit by a Car" and in flashback in the ninth-season episode "Lisa's Sax". Bart unsuccessfully tries to revive her in "Dial Z for Zombies".
  • Snowball II – Snowball II was the Simpson family's second cat. Although Snowball I had white fur, which inspired her name, Snowball II had black fur. She first appeared in the series premiere but has received little attention in the series. Snowball II and Santa's Little Helper have always been shown as having a good relationship; usually they are seen sleeping near each other. Snowball II's largest role is in the fourteenth season episode "Old Yeller Belly", in which she saves Homer from a burning treehouse. She also has minor roles in "Bart Gets an Elephant", where she tries to get attention; in "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds", in which she is scared by the many puppies; and in "Make Room for Lisa", in which Lisa has a hallucination where she becomes Snowball II.
  • In the episode "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot", Snowball II is killed and is replaced in series by Snowball III and then Coltrane (a.k.a. Snowball IV), both of which also die quickly. A final replacement, Snowball V is essentially identical to Snowball II and proves to be less unlucky. Lisa renames this cat Snowball II and the events of this episode are never referred to again.[93] This cat is the focus of a subplot in the sixteenth season episode "The Seven-Beer Snitch", in which she becomes overweight after abandoning the Simpsons for brief periods to visit a different family but she then goes back to live with the Simpson family.[93]

Other pets

  • Plopper – Plopper, formerly known as Harry Plopper and Spider Pig, is Homer's pet pig.
  • Mojo – Mojo was the helper monkey Homer had in the episode "Girly Edition". Mojo, an intelligent and highly trained service animal when Homer adopted him, quickly adapted to match Homer's lazy and unhealthy lifestyle. When Mojo's condition severely worsens, Homer, fearing the repercussions of potentially having the monkey die under his watch, drops him off at the adoption center.
  • Chirpy Boy and Bart Junior – Chirpy Boy and Bart Junior were Bart's pet lizards.
  • Stampy – Stampy was an African elephant briefly owned by the Simpson family in the episode "Bart Gets an Elephant".
  • Strangles – Strangles was a green tree python that Bart owned during the episode "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot", during which time Santa's Little Helper was a police dog. Strangles' current owner is Groundskeeper Willie. Bart named the snake Strangles while it was strangling Homer on the dinner table.
  • Pokey – Pokey was a guinea pig and Lisa's first pet of her own. It appears in "The Simpsons: Tapped Out" and in the episode "The War of Art" where it destroyed the iconic artwork over the lounge.
  • Princess – Princess was Lisa's pony from the episode "Lisa's Pony". Homer bought Lisa a pony to show her that he loves her, but he has to work two jobs to keep her. When Lisa discovers this she gives up Princess.
  • Pinchy – Pinchy was Homer's pet lobster in "Lisa Gets an 'A'". Homer went to the supermarket to buy a lobster that he could cook for dinner. Homer found that the big lobsters were too expensive, so he bought a smaller lobster with the intention of fattening him up, but he grew attached to the lobster and decided to keep him as a pet instead, naming him Pinchy. At the end of the episode, Homer puts Pinchy in a hot bath, but accidentally boils and kills him. Since his body is cooked, a sobbing Homer eats Pinchy's remains, saying that "That's what he would want".

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The Simpson family are the fictional characters featured in the animated television series The Simpsons The Simpsons are a nuclear family consisting of married couple Homer and Marge and their three children Bart Lisa and Maggie They live at 742 Evergreen Terrace in the fictional town of Springfield United States and they were created by cartoonist Matt Groening who conceived the characters after his own family members substituting Bart for his own name The family debuted on Fox on April 19 1987 in The Tracey Ullman Show short Good Night and were later spun off into their own series which debuted on Fox in the U S on December 17 1989 The SimpsonsThe Simpsons familyFirst appearance Good Night 1987 Created byMatt GroeningFamily membersHomer Marge Bart Lisa Maggie Snowball Santa s Little HelperThe Simpsons family tree Alongside the five main family members there are a number of other major and minor characters in their family The most commonly recurring characters are Homer s father Abraham Grampa Simpson Marge s sisters Patty and Selma Bouvier and the family s two pets Santa s Little Helper and Snowball II Other family members include Homer s mother Mona Simpson Homer s half brother Herbert Powell Marge s mother Jacqueline Bouvier and other minor relatives Contents 1 Concept and origins 1 1 Creation 1 2 Casting 2 The Simpson family 2 1 Homer Simpson 2 2 Marge Simpson 2 3 Bart Simpson 2 4 Lisa Simpson 2 5 Maggie Simpson 2 6 Abe Simpson 2 7 Mona Simpson 2 8 Extended Simpson family 3 The Bouvier family 3 1 Patty and Selma Bouvier 3 2 Jacqueline Bouvier 3 3 Clancy Bouvier 3 4 Ling Bouvier 3 5 Meaux and Genevieve Bouvier 3 6 Selma s husbands 3 7 Extended Bouvier family 4 Pets 4 1 Dogs 4 2 Cats 4 3 Other pets 5 See also 6 References 6 1 BibliographyConcept and origins EditCreation Edit Groening conceived of the idea for the Simpsons in the lobby of James L Brooks s office Brooks had asked Groening to pitch an idea for a series of animated shorts which Groening initially intended to present as his Life in Hell series However when Groening realized that animating Life in Hell would require the rescinding of publication rights for his life s work he chose another approach and formulated his version of a dysfunctional family 1 He named the characters after his own family members his father Homer his mother Margaret and his younger sisters Lisa and Maggie He substituted Bart an anagram of brat for his own name 2 and modeled the character after his older brother Mark 3 4 The five family members were given simple designs so that their facial emotions could easily be changed with almost no effort 5 and so that they would be recognizable in silhouette 6 Groening submitted only basic sketches to the animators and assumed that the figures would be cleaned up in production However the animators merely re traced his drawings which led to the crude appearance of the characters in the initial short episodes 2 The Simpson family made their debut on April 19 1987 in The Tracey Ullman Show short Good Night 7 In 1989 the shorts were adapted into The Simpsons a half hour series airing on the Fox Broadcasting Company The Simpson family remained the main characters on this new show 8 Casting Edit Dan Castellaneta Julie Kavner Nancy Cartwright and Yeardley Smith all began voicing their characters on The Tracey Ullman Show Nancy Cartwright was the only one of the group who had been trained to be a voice actor 9 while Castellaneta had done some voice over work in Chicago Castellaneta and Kavner had been part of the regular cast of The Tracey Ullman Show and voices were needed for the shorts so the producers decided to ask them to voice Homer and Marge rather than hire more actors 10 11 The producers decided to hold casting for the roles of Bart and Lisa Yeardley Smith had initially been asked to audition for the role of Bart but casting director Bonita Pietila believed her voice was too high Smith later recalled I always sounded too much like a girl I read two lines as Bart and they said Thanks for coming 12 Smith was given the role of Lisa instead 13 On March 13 1987 Nancy Cartwright went in to audition for the role of Lisa After arriving at the audition she found that Lisa was simply described as the middle child and at the time did not have much personality Cartwright became more interested in the role of Bart who she found more fascinating because he was described as devious underachieving school hating irreverent and clever 14 Matt Groening let her try out for the part instead and upon hearing her read gave her the job on the spot 15 The Simpson family EditThe Simpsons are a family who live at 742 Evergreen Terrace in the town of Springfield in the United States The state in which in this town is located is never specified however they do have snow and sometimes wear sweaters in the fall 16 It s a running joke in the show to be as vague and ambiguous as possible whenever hinting at which U S state the town of Springfield might be located in Homer the father works as a safety inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant a position at odds with his careless buffoonish personality He is married to Marge Simpson a stereotypical American housewife and mother They have three children Bart a ten year old troublemaker Lisa an eight year old child prodigy and Maggie a toddler who rarely speaks but communicates by sucking on a pacifier The family owns a dog Santa s Little Helper and a cat Snowball II Both pets have had starring roles in several seasons Despite the passing of yearly milestones such as holidays or birthdays the Simpsons do not physically age and still appear as they did at the end of the 1980s Although the family is dysfunctional many episodes examine their relationships and bonds with each other and they are often shown to care about one another 17 Homer Simpson Edit Main article Homer Simpson Homer Jay Simpson voiced by Dan Castellaneta is the protagonist of the show and the father of the Simpson family He embodies several American working class stereotypes he is crude overweight incompetent clumsy thoughtless and a borderline alcoholic 18 He has occasionally displayed flashes of great intellect and fitness whenever the situation calls for it and an integrity reflecting his own values including a fierce devotion to and protectiveness of his family His voice started out as an impression of Walter Matthau but eventually evolved into a more robust voice during the second and third season of the half hour show allowing Homer to cover a fuller range of emotions 11 Homer has since become one of the most influential fictional characters and has been described by the UK newspaper The Sunday Times as the greatest comedic creation of modern time 19 He has inspired an entire line of merchandise and his catchphrase the annoyed grunt D oh has been included in the Oxford English Dictionary 20 During the production of the episode Insane Clown Poppy the writers toyed with the idea of giving Homer a long lost illegitimate biological daughter but when the shows showrunner and writer Mike Scully as well as Matt Groening rejected the idea the writers changed the story so the clown Krusty would be the one who finds he has a lost daughter Marge Simpson Edit Main article Marge Simpson Marjorie Jacqueline Marge Simpson nee Bouvier voiced by Julie Kavner is the well meaning and extremely patient wife of Homer and mother of Bart Lisa and Maggie She often acts as the voice of reason but displays exaggerated behavior traits of stereotypical mothers and takes the blatant dysfunctionality of her family for granted 21 unlike the other family members who are aware that they are eccentric Her most notable physical feature is her blue hair styled into an improbably high beehive Julie Kavner received a Primetime Emmy Award in 1992 for voicing Marge in the episode I Married Marge 22 For her performance in The Simpsons Movie Kavner received a nomination for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature at the 2007 Annie Awards but lost to Ian Holm in Ratatouille 23 24 Kavner s emotional performance in the movie got positive reviews and one critic said she gave what must be the most heartfelt performance ever 25 Part of Kavner s contract says that she will never have to promote The Simpsons on video because she does not want to destroy the illusion for children 26 In 2008 CityNews published an article entitled Top 10 Greatest TV Moms of All Time and placed Marge in eighth spot 27 Bart Simpson Edit Main article Bart Simpson Bartholomew JoJo Bart Simpson voiced by Nancy Cartwright is the eldest child and only son in the family at age 10 Bart s most prominent character traits are his mischievousness rebelliousness disrespect for authority and sharp wit During the first two seasons of The Simpsons Bart was the show s main character The name Bart is an anagram of the word brat 28 Groening conceived Bart as an extreme version of the typical misbehaving child character merging all of the extreme traits of characters such as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn into one person 28 Groening s older brother Mark provided most of the inspiration for Bart 29 30 Bart s catchphrase Eat My Shorts was an ad lib by Cartwright in one of the original table readings harking back to an incident when she was at college 31 In 1998 Time magazine selected Bart as 46th of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century and the only fictional character to make the list 32 He had previously appeared on the cover of the December 31 1990 edition 33 Bart is rebellious and frequently escapes without punishment which led some parents groups and conservative spokespeople to believe he provided a poor role model for children This prompted George H W Bush to rally We re going to keep trying to strengthen the American family To make them more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons 34 Bart and other Simpsons characters have appeared in numerous television commercials for Nestle s Butterfinger candy bars from 1990 to 2001 with the slogan Nobody better lay a finger on my Butterfinger 35 Lisa Simpson Edit Main article Lisa Simpson Lisa Marie Simpson voiced by Yeardley Smith is the eldest daughter and middle child of the family She is an extremely intelligent 8 year old girl one of the most intelligent characters on the show Lisa s political convictions are generally socially liberal 36 She is a vegetarian and a supporter of the Free Tibet movement 37 and while still supportive of the Christian church in which she was raised 38 Lisa became a practicing Buddhist following her decision to follow the Noble Eightfold Path 39 She is musically proficient on the saxophone besides the occasional riff during the opening credit sequence Carole King s Jazzman and Gerry Rafferty s Baker Street have been prominently placed during episodes In the Tracey Ullman Show shorts Lisa was more of a female Bart and was equally mischievous As the series progressed Lisa began to develop into a more intelligent and more emotional character with Krusty Gets Busted being one of the first episodes where her true intelligence is fully shown 40 When she was a baby Bart started out not liking her although he became nicer to her after Marge pointed out that Lisa loves him Her first word was Bart with Bart happily teaching her more names Many episodes focusing on Lisa have an emotional nature the first one being Moaning Lisa The idea for the episode was pitched by James L Brooks who had wanted to do an emotional episode where Lisa is sad because the show had done a lot of jokey episodes 41 In 2001 Lisa received a special board of directors Ongoing Commitment Award at the Environmental Media Awards 42 Lisa the Vegetarian an episode from the seventh season won both an Environmental Media Award for Best Television Episodic Comedy 43 and a Genesis Award for Best Television Comedy Series Ongoing Commitment 44 In Japan the broadcasters of the series found they were able to turn the apparent viewer dislike of the series around by focusing marketing attention on Lisa Lisa s well intended but ill fated struggles to be a voice of reason and a force of good in her family and city struck a chord with the Japanese 45 Maggie Simpson Edit Main article Maggie Simpson Margaret Evelyn Lenny Maggie Simpson is the youngest of the five main family members and is almost always seen as a baby She has blonde spiked hair like Lisa Her first word was daddy shown at one point after Homer tucks her in She is almost 2 years old and still uses a pacifier despite teething although this was mentioned in a Treehouse of Horror episode Starship Poopers and is not considered canon She was quite prominent in the Tracey Ullman Show shorts often being featured alongside Bart and Lisa but has since become the least seen and heard of the five main Simpsons It has been revealed that Maggie has outstanding artistic and academic abilities much like her sister Lisa The episodes taking place in the future often show her as some kind of businesswoman 46 Maggie rarely speaks but has been voiced by several different actors including Jodie Foster Elizabeth Taylor 46 James Earl Jones 47 Harry Shearer who used his Kang voice in Starship Poopers 48 Yeardley Smith 49 and Nancy Cartwright 50 Abe Simpson Edit Main article Grampa Simpson Abraham Jebediah Abe Simpson II better known simply as Grampa voiced by Dan Castellaneta is the patriarch of the Simpson family and the father of Homer He is a World War II veteran who was later sent to the Springfield Retirement Castle by Homer He is known for his borderline senility his long rambling and probably apocryphal stories and his love of Matlock He shares his name with one of Matt Groening s relatives in this case his grandfather However Groening says he refused to name him leaving it to other writers to choose a name By coincidence the writers chose the name Abraham 51 Mona Simpson Edit Main article Mona Simpson The Simpsons Mona Penelope Simpson nee Olsen voiced by Glenn Close is Homer s long lost mother Marge s mother in law and Abe s estranged first wife Her first major appearance was in Mother Simpson where she reveals that she was forced to abandon her family after being caught up in the hippie movement and participated in various acts of activism The writers used this episode as an opportunity to solve several little puzzles such as where Lisa s intelligence came from 52 Prior to the seventh season Mona Simpson had only made two brief flashback appearances the first being season two s Oh Brother Where Art Thou and the second being season six s Grampa vs Sexual Inadequacy and in both episodes she was voiced by Maggie Roswell 53 Mona dies in the episode Mona Leaves a as Homer struggles to come to terms with her death The character is named after writer Richard Appel s wife whose name is Mona Simpson 52 Mona was designed in a way so that she has little bit of Homer in her face such as the shape of her upper lip and her nose 54 There were several design changes because the directors were trying to make her an attractive older and younger woman but still be Simpson esque 54 Glenn Close recorded original material for another episode season fifteen s My Mother the Carjacker Mona also has a speaking appearance in season ten s D oh in in the Wind this time voiced by Tress MacNeille 55 Extended Simpson family Edit Herbert Herb Powell voiced by Danny DeVito As his paternal half brother Herb resembles Homer though he is much thinner boasts a full head of hair and is more astute He first appeared in the season two episode Oh Brother Where Art Thou when Homer is informed by his father Abe after the latter suffered a mild heart attack that he had a half brother the product of a short lived affair between Abe and a carnival dunk tank worker who was also a prostitute identified in The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album as Gaby A year after putting the baby up for adoption Abe married Mona who insisted he promise never to tell Homer about Herb or how he was conceived Herb was raised by his adoptive parents Edward and Mililani Powell first names given in The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album put himself through college by working odd jobs then founded Powell Motors a car company based in Detroit Herb is an exception to the Simpson gene which causes all male members of the Simpson family to gradually lose their intelligence as they mature as Herb is intelligent successful and an astute businessman Overjoyed to learn that he had a blood family Herb bonded with the children and hired Homer as a representative of average Americans to design a car The car was a flop bankrupting the company and Herb angrily rejected Homer as a brother and became a street vagrant 56 The episode was written by Jeff Martin but the idea of having Herb voiced by Danny DeVito had been pitched by Sam Simon 57 Some were upset with the sad ending of the episode and as a result the producers decided to make a sequel 50 Herb re appeared the next season in Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes Now broke and homeless he briefly settled in the Simpson household despite his intense continuing antipathy toward Homer Homer loaned Herb 2000 which he used to build an invention that translated infantile speech into comprehensible English based on observations he made of Maggie He proceeded to mass produce his new product and regained his fortune In gratitude he bought gifts for each member of the family and paid Homer back with his forgiveness 58 Homer s seldom seen half brother 59 has had only one brief speaking part since this episode DeVito reprised his role for the Season 24 episode The Changing of the Guardian in which Powell s answering machine message is heard Hi you ve reached Herb Powell I m poor again 60 non primary source needed Abbey voiced by Dan Castellaneta Abbey is hinted to be Abe s illegitimate daughter and Homer s half sister from a relationship he had with a British woman named Edwina during World War II 61 Chet Simpson voiced by Dan Castellaneta 62 Chet is Bart Lisa Maggie s great uncle who owns an unsuccessful shrimp company 63 Dr Simpson voiced by Tress MacNeille 55 Dr Simpson is the chief of complicated surgeries at the invasive care unit she is first seen in Lisa the Simpson 63 She is the one who reassures Lisa that she will not suffer the defective Simpson Gene because of her sex and also reveals that only male members are affected by it Dr Simpson resembles Lisa minus the spikes Stanley Simpson voiced by Dan Castellaneta 62 Stanley is the Simpson children s second cousin who shoots birds at the airport 63 Uncle Tyrone Simpson voiced by Hank Azaria Uncle Tyrone is a cynical elderly Simpson relative who lives in Dayton Ohio The family intends to visit him during his birthday in the episode Catch Em If You Can 64 Great Aunt Hortense Simpson Great Aunt Hortense died before Bart the Fink and left Homer Marge Bart and Lisa 100 each The rest of her estate was passed to Ann Landers In a continuity error Great Aunt Hortense appeared on Bart s journey to Heaven in Bart Gets Hit by a Car A group of unnamed relatives show up in the episode Lisa the Simpson when Homer tries to prove to Lisa that not all Simpsons are failures 63 In the end only Dr Simpson and three other female members proved successful Hugo Simpson voiced by Nancy Cartwright Hugo is Bart s conjoined twin from the Treehouse of Horror VII segment The Thing and I He and Bart were separated as babies by Dr Hibbert and was deemed evil To hide the secret Marge and Homer chained Hugo in the attic and fed him fish heads once a week Later Bart goes up to the attic and Hugo escapes wanting to sew him and Bart back together Dr Hibbert managed to catch Hugo but notices that the surgical scar is on the wrong side meaning Bart is the evil twin As a result Hugo is released while Bart is chained in the attic Hugo resembles Bart but with ratty clothes messy hair and malformed teeth Since he is a Treehouse of Horror character he does not exist in the main episode continuity Mabel Simpson voiced by Julie Kavner Mabel is an ancestor of the Simpson family who was part of the Underground Railroad She was married to Hiram before divorcing him and fleeing to Canada to marry Virgil She kept the Simpson surname Ex husband Hiram Simpson voiced by Dan Castellaneta Hiram is a distant relative of the Simpson family who was bribed with a new pair of shoes into revealing Virgil s whereabouts He is the parent of Eliza Simpson Virgil voiced by Wren T Brown Virgil later Virgil Simpson is an enslaved African American owned by Mr Burns s father Colonel Burns and rescued by Eliza He was betrayed by Hiram but escaped with Mabel whom he later married from whom the Simpson family are really descended Eliza Simpson voiced by Yeardley Smith Eliza Simpson is a distant relative of the Simpson family and daughter of Mabel and Hiram She was part of the Underground Railroad with her mother and initially helped Virgil evade capture before giving him up to Wainwright Burns In later life she is revealed to have married Milford Van Houten being the direct ancestor of the Van Houten family Abraham Simpson The son of Mabel and Virgil half brother of Eliza and great grandfather of Grampa Simpson Grampa s parents Grampa s parents both appear briefly in Much Apu About Nothing when Grampa tells the story of how his family emigrated to America 65 Their names were given to be Orville J Simpson and Yuma Hickman in The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album but have not been mentioned in the series In the Season 25 episode The Winter of His Content Homer reveals that Abe s father is alive but Abe ignores him 66 Cyrus Simpson voiced by Hank Azaria Cyrus is Grampa s older brother who is seen in Simpsons Christmas Stories Cyrus crashed his Corsair at Tahiti in World War II s Pacific Theater of Operations during a kamikaze raid He never left and has 15 wives 67 Rita LaFleur voiced by Anika Noni Rose Rita is the second wife of Abraham Simpson and a jazz recording artist 68 69 She was a singer at Spiro s Restaurant and met Abe when he was a waiter They married 70 and LaFleur left the restaurant wishing to become a successful singer She was invited to tour in Europe but Homer suffered a head injury and Abraham realized that Homer was defenseless and would not survive in Europe so he stayed behind with him while Rita went to Europe and the two never saw each other again It was revealed that she later became a heroin addict which ended up ruining her singing career In Gone Abie Gone Rita reunited with Abraham and they played piano 71 It was unknown why they were not together 72 73 Amber Simpson voiced by Pamela Hayden Amber was the Vegas ex wife of both Homer and Abe Simpson from the season ten episode Viva Ned Flanders Homer and Ned Flanders visit Las Vegas for the weekend get drunk and unknowingly marry two women 74 Amber reappears in Brawl in the Family where the Simpson family trick her into marrying Grampa and in the process forsake all other spouses Amber is horrified at the deception and runs away back to Vegas much to Grampa s disappointment at losing another wife 75 In Jazzy and the Pussycats the Simpsons attend Homer s ex wife and former stepmother s funeral after Amber s death from a drug overdose 76 Bill Simpson is one of Abe s brothers and is apparently a communist He is mentioned in Million Dollar Abie as a member of the Communist Party along with Joseph Stalin and many others It is unknown how old Bill is or if he is still alive 77 Great Uncle Boris Boris is Homer s great uncle who left his great nephew his country home in the episode Homer Loves Flanders Mother Shabubu Cousin Frank Francine Cousin Francine is Homer s cousin it is unknown if she is Abraham or Mona s niece who was mentioned in the episode Lisa s First Word The Bouvier family EditPatty and Selma Bouvier Edit Main article Patty and Selma Patricia Maleficent Patty and Selma Bouvier both voiced by Julie Kavner 78 are Marge s older twin sisters They are apparently in their mid to late 40s since Selma has gone through menopause and they were shown as teenagers in flashbacks while Marge was still a small child They work at the Springfield Department of Motor Vehicles and possess a strong dislike for their brother in law Homer Selma is the elder by two minutes possesses a strong desire for family and has been married and divorced six times and also sought to have a child on numerous occasions despite her age Her sister Patty is one of the show s few openly gay or bisexual as she once commented there go the last remaining threads of my heterosexuality recurring characters 79 although for the most part she has avoided relationships Kavner voices them as characters who suck the life out of everything 80 Kavner makes Patty s voice more masculine and a lower register while Selma s voice is a little sweeter 81 The origins of their names are unknown Matt Groening has a sister named Patty but unlike the other Simpson relatives this has not been explicitly revealed 82 Jacqueline Bouvier Edit Jacqueline Ingrid Bouvier nee Gurney voiced by Julie Kavner 78 is the mother of Marge Patty and Selma the maternal grandmother of Bart Lisa and Maggie the mother in law of Homer the daughter in law of Pepe and Bambi Bouvier the sister in law of Herman Charlene Jojo Chester and Arthur Bouvier and the widow of Clancy Bouvier She was first referenced in a flashback in the episode Moaning Lisa and made her first appearance in the episode Bart vs Thanksgiving 83 She had a spinster sister named Gladys who is deceased Jacqueline and her family attended her funeral in Selma s Choice Mr Burns and Homer s father Abe Simpson once battled for her affections she became engaged to Burns but eventually decided not to marry either man 84 although she and Abe still ran away together at the end of the episode Although it seems that she disapproves of Marge s marriage to Homer stating that he is never to address her as Mom 85 she does tolerate Homer much more than her elder daughters Patty and Selma In Moe Letter Blues she admits that Patty and Selma are really to blame for ruining her birthday party not Homer also Jacqueline never has been shown to cause trouble in Homer and Marge s marriage unlike her daughters Jacqueline has celebrated her 80th birthday twice in Moe Letter Blues and again in Puffless Like all Bouvier women she is voiced by Kavner and has large unique hair resembling Marge s only a light gray color due to her old age In her younger days she smoked heavily but has quit although she still speaks more raspily than Patty and Selma The series creator Matt Groening named the character after the former American First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis whose maiden name was Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Out of all the characters on the show Jacqueline has the tallest hair Clancy Bouvier Edit Clarence Clancy Bouvier voiced by Harry Shearer 78 is the deceased father of Marge Patty and Selma and the husband of Jacqueline Bouvier His first appearance was in the episode The Way We Was 86 He was kind and complimentary to teenage Homer when he arrived to pick up Marge for the prom but after finding out that Artie Ziff was really her date remarked that Homer took years off my life This provoked Marge to go back and go out with Homer In Fear of Flying it was revealed that he was one of the earliest male flight attendants Marge initially believed he was a heroic pilot and was traumatized when she discovered he was a flight attendant instead According to Marge in Bart the Lover after Clancy got out of the Navy he had trouble with his cursing that nearly cost him a job as a baby photographer but Jacqueline was able to curtail that by having him donate money to the swear jar In the episode Puffless it is revealed that he died of lung cancer 87 which provoked Patty and Selma to abstain from smoking cigarettes While Clancy does not appear with the rest of the Bouvier family in I Married Marge implying he was deceased before Homer and Marge were married he is shown to be still alive when Bart and Lisa were toddlers in the episode Walking Big amp Tall 88 but he died before Maggie was born Marge was particularly upset by her father s death as Homer had to buy her a white noise machine to try and get her to deal with it Like all the Bouvier family his voice has become croaky through chain smoking for a number of years He also shares the same grunt as Patty and Selma both of whom resemble younger female versions of him while Marge more resembles her mother In Treehouse of Horror III he was eaten at King Homer and Marge s wedding by the former He also appeared as a ghost in Treehouse of Horror XXVI Ling Bouvier Edit Ling Bouvier voiced by Nancy Cartwright is Selma Bouvier s adopted daughter She shares Selma s laugh In Goo Goo Gai Pan Selma discovers that she has reached menopause and adopts Ling in China after lying that she is married to Homer to fool the Chinese authorities into thinking that Ling would be part of a traditional family as opposed to being raised by a single mother The authorities briefly reclaim Ling but the adoption agent Ms Woo relates to her experiences of her childhood with her single mother and allows Selma to adopt Ling 89 Ling has since become a recurring character and has appeared in several episodes 90 She seems to get along well with her cousin Maggie Since Patty told Selma to give up smoking once the baby came home Selma claimed she would switch to chewing tobacco although it is shown she has not followed through with this Meaux and Genevieve Bouvier Edit Marge s atheist grandmother Genevieve Bouvier lived in Nazi occupied France in 1944 during World War II in Vichy France She is discussed in My Way or the Highway to Heaven third episode of the thirtieth season Genevieve co managed Cafe Meaux with the cafe s namesake her husband Meaux a Nazi collaborator and self described treasoner They team up to stop Nazi officers from revealing the impending D day invasion is to happen in Normandy Selma s husbands Edit Selma has married six times resulting in the lengthy last name Bouvier Terwilliger Hutz McClure Stu Simpson D Amico Sideshow Bob Terwilliger voiced by Kelsey Grammer Sideshow Bob meets Selma via a prison pen pal program in the season three episode Black Widower After he is released and marries the very smitten Selma Sideshow Bob fools everyone except for Bart who eventually foils Sideshow Bob s plot to murder Selma on their honeymoon Lionel Hutz voiced by Phil Hartman Lionel Hutz is mentioned as Selma s ex husband in the season four episode Selma s Choice However this is the extent to which their relationship is depicted at any point in the series Troy McClure voiced by Phil Hartman Troy marries Selma in the season seven episode A Fish Called Selma It is a sham marriage devised to revitalize his career and image When he tells her this Selma is devastated to have been used by yet another terrible husband For a while she attempts to go along with the ruse if only for the creature comforts she can access When Troy says they need to have a child to divert public attention from rumors of his fetish involving aquarium fish Selma knows this is a line she will not cross and they divorce Disco Stu voiced by Hank Azaria Disco Stu is referenced as Selma s ex husband in the season sixteen episode There s Something About Marrying Despite his last name actually being Discotheque the name Stu was attached to Selma s last name upon marrying him Grampa Simpson voiced by Dan Castellaneta Grampa Simpson married Selma in the season eighteen episode Rome Old and Juli Eh he previously had dated her mother Jacqueline Fat Tony D Amico voiced by Joe Mantegna Fat Tony became Selma s sixth and most recent husband in the season twenty two episode The Real Housewives of Fat Tony The two divorced when Selma discovered that Fat Tony was already married Extended Bouvier family Edit Gladys Gurney voiced by Julie Kavner 78 Gladys is Marge s spinster aunt and the sister of Jacqueline Her death was noted in the episode Selma s Choice in which she died of a bowel obstruction Her final words to Patty and Selma during a video will is a plea that they not end their lives old and alone like herself prompting Selma to become more intent on having a family 91 Great Uncle Hubert Great Uncle Hubert is Bart Lisa and Maggie s great uncle who died in the short The Funeral It is unknown which side of the family he came from or how he died He is only mentioned once At the funeral Bart views his great uncle s corpse which makes Bart turn green and faint Later Bart is seen running away up a hill with Lisa and Maggie resulting in Homer and Marge scolding them in the car Dot Dot is the cousin of Marge Patty and Selma She gave Selma a video camera at her wedding to Sideshow Bob This is the only time she is mentioned Lou Gurney Lou is the uncle of Marge Simpson Patty Bouvier and Selma Bouvier In Children of a Lesser Clod Marge is called to identify Lou s body which turns out to be a very much alive Hans Moleman While Marge is identifying the body Homer starts a daycare center for local children Uncle Arthur Bouvier Uncle Arthur is the uncle of Bart Lisa and Maggie mentioned by Marge in The Boy Who Knew Too Much According to Marge Arthur suffered from auditory hallucinations and went on a homicidal spree before 75 federal marshals brought him down Otherwise he is never mentioned and has never made an appearance Pets EditDogs Edit Santa s Little Helper voiced by Frank Welker 92 and Dan Castellaneta 78 Santa s Little Helper is the Simpsons pet greyhound He first appeared in Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire as a race dog adopted by Homer and Bart and has been in the series since 92 While usually well behaved he can be vicious at times having a female dog giving birth to 25 puppies which angers Bart at first although Bart loves and cares for him deeply Country Cousins Dog The Country Cousins Dog in the episode The Bonfire of the Manatees is the brother of Santa s Little Helper Though the country folks are not themselves blood relatives to the Simpsons they are referred to as cousins in the episode because of the dogs relation Laddie Laddie was a collie owned by the Simpson family in the episode The Canine Mutiny He joined the family after Bart managed to get a credit card issued to Santos L Halper a non existent person whose name is a corruption of Santa s Little Helper and purchased him from a catalogue Described in the catalogue as the ultimate dog Laddie was able to perform household chores and use the toilet Laddie resides with the Springfield Police Department after he incidentally sniffed out marijuana at a blind man s house and Bart gave up ownership Cats Edit Snowball Snowball also known as Snowball I was the Simpson family s first cat She was first mentioned in the series premiere in a Christmas letter Marge is writing where she explains that Snowball died that year and went to kitty heaven Snowball was named due to her white fur Snowball was according to Lisa in a poem run over by a Chrysler belonging to Mayor Quimby s brother Clovis 93 She is seen during Bart s escalator ride to Heaven in the second season episode Bart Gets Hit by a Car and in flashback in the ninth season episode Lisa s Sax Bart unsuccessfully tries to revive her in Dial Z for Zombies Snowball II Snowball II was the Simpson family s second cat Although Snowball I had white fur which inspired her name Snowball II had black fur She first appeared in the series premiere but has received little attention in the series Snowball II and Santa s Little Helper have always been shown as having a good relationship usually they are seen sleeping near each other Snowball II s largest role is in the fourteenth season episode Old Yeller Belly in which she saves Homer from a burning treehouse She also has minor roles in Bart Gets an Elephant where she tries to get attention in Two Dozen and One Greyhounds in which she is scared by the many puppies and in Make Room for Lisa in which Lisa has a hallucination where she becomes Snowball II In the episode I Annoyed Grunt Bot Snowball II is killed and is replaced in series by Snowball III and then Coltrane a k a Snowball IV both of which also die quickly A final replacement Snowball V is essentially identical to Snowball II and proves to be less unlucky Lisa renames this cat Snowball II and the events of this episode are never referred to again 93 This cat is the focus of a subplot in the sixteenth season episode The Seven Beer Snitch in which she becomes overweight after abandoning the Simpsons for brief periods to visit a different family but she then goes back to live with the Simpson family 93 Other pets Edit Plopper Plopper formerly known as Harry Plopper and Spider Pig is Homer s pet pig Mojo Mojo was the helper monkey Homer had in the episode Girly Edition Mojo an intelligent and highly trained service animal when Homer adopted him quickly adapted to match Homer s lazy and unhealthy lifestyle When Mojo s condition severely worsens Homer fearing the repercussions of potentially having the monkey die under his watch drops him off at the adoption center Chirpy Boy and Bart Junior Chirpy Boy and Bart Junior were Bart s pet lizards Stampy Stampy was an African elephant briefly owned by the Simpson family in the episode Bart Gets an Elephant Strangles Strangles was a green tree python that Bart owned during the episode Stop or My Dog Will Shoot during which time Santa s Little Helper was a police dog Strangles current owner is Groundskeeper Willie Bart named the snake Strangles while it was strangling Homer on the dinner table Pokey Pokey was a guinea pig and Lisa s first pet of her own It appears in The Simpsons Tapped Out and in the episode The War of Art where it destroyed the iconic artwork over the lounge Princess Princess was Lisa s pony from the episode Lisa s Pony Homer bought Lisa a pony to show her that he loves her but he has to work two jobs to keep her When Lisa discovers this she gives up Princess Pinchy Pinchy was Homer s pet lobster in Lisa Gets an A Homer went to the supermarket to buy a lobster that he could cook for dinner Homer found that the big lobsters were too expensive so he bought a smaller lobster with the intention of fattening him up but he grew attached to the lobster and decided to keep him as a pet instead naming him Pinchy At the end of the episode Homer puts Pinchy in a hot bath but accidentally boils and kills him Since his body is cooked a sobbing Homer eats Pinchy s remains saying that That s what he would want See also Edit The Simpsons portalReferences Edit Groening Matt February 14 2003 Fresh Air Interview Interviewed by David Bianculli Philadelphia NPR Retrieved August 8 2007 a b BBC 2000 The Simpsons America s First Family 6 minute edit for the season 1 DVD DVD UK 20th Century Fox Paul Alan September 30 1999 Matt Groening Interview Flux 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