Talk:Sideshow Bob

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	This article is part of WikiProject The Simpsons, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to The Simpsons on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. See also our guide to sources.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the assessment scale.
High	This article is on a subject of high-importance within The Simpsons.
Tasks you can do: Here are some tasks you can do: edit Copyedit: Merge: Fat Tony→ Springfield Mafia (Discuss first) Cleanup: A Star is Born-Again, All's Fair in Oven War, Bart the Murderer, Bouvier family, Conan O'Brien, Futurama/Simpsons Infinitely Secret Crossover Crisis, Kill Gil: Vols. 1 & 2, Ned Flanders, Politics in The Simpsons, Pranksta Rap, Rod and Todd Flanders, Springfield's state, The Simpsons Road Rage, Treehouse of Horror XI Reference: Bart Simpson, Bart the Genius, Bongo Comics, Broadcasting of The Simpsons, Cheese-eating surrender monkeys, Comic Book Guy, Homer's Odyssey, Itchy & Scratchy in Miniature Golf Madness, Joshua Sternin, Lona Williams, Montgomery Burns, Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror, Phil Hartman, Rainier Wolfcastle, Ricky Gervais, Springfield Elementary School students, Steve O'Donnell The Heartbroke Kid, The Itchy and Scratchy Game, Weekend at Burnsie's, World of Springfield Expand: Stubs: Bongo Comics, Al Jean, Mark Kirkland, Jim Reardon, Bart Simpson's Guide to Life, Josh Weinstein, Bill Oakley, Bartman, More...

He is similar to Lex Luthor. They are both evil geniuses, they can rise and fall repeatedley (creating reputations after another was tarnished), their aim is to kill Superman/Bart Simpson, but not always.

Hehee ... he's an Auditor for Snohomish County, WA[1] =) 142.177.123.204 22:07, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Contents 1 Sideshow Bob's Middle Name 2 Too Long? 3 Die Bart Die 4 On the Trivia section...

[edit] Sideshow Bob's Middle Name

Does anyone besides myself think that Sideshow Bob's full name is really "Robert Onderdonk Terwilliger"?

I know it's an uphill battle here. Everyone, including the biggest fansite (snpp.com) and the series companion book (The Simpsons: A Complete Guide) list the name as "Underdunk". But consider the following:

1. "Onderdonk" is, like "Terwilliger", an uncommon but real surname in the United States.

2. The name, like "Terwilliger", has snooty upper-class associations.

3. The name is of Dutch origin, and there were (and probably still are) may wealthy Onderdonks in the Hudson Valley area of New York State. An area from which a well-heeled and well-connected family might send their children to nearby Yale or Princeton...

4. The first (and, to my knowledge, only) time his middle name was spoken aloud was by Mayor Quimby in the episode "Sideshow Bob Roberts". With Quimby's (Castellaneta's) thick "Boston Brahmin" accent, the vowels in "Onderdonk" could easily be mistaken for those in "Underdunk".

Does anyone agree? Am I crazy? Do I have far too much time on my hands?

I do agree and you are correct. I am going to tell you why. Sideshow Bob is named after Onderdonk, more specifically my father, Dr. Andrew Onderdonk. The story as we have heard it from Conan O'Brien's father (Conan worked on the Simpsons), who worked with my father at Brigham and Women's hospital in Boston, is that Conan was looking at a Harvard directory (he went there and my father is a professor at the medical school) and saw the name and thought it was really cool - said something to his Dad. So he put it in the show.

I'm going to have to vote for "too much time on your hands." Either way, if the above story is correct you will need to have something more than "I heard a story that my dad heard from conan's dad heard from conan." sigh, maybe I have too much time on my hands, also :) Oreo man 14:19, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Its definatly Robert Underdunk Terwilliger. Im sure about that!

Another question: In one episode Bob is rambling about how much he likes the music of Simon & Garfunkel. Does anyone have details?

It states in the article that "Bob had an appearance on Desperate Housewives as Gabby's love interest in 2005". Eeerm....what? Verify or remove this. 86.128.40.201 02:02, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Too Long?

Isn't it a little strange when the article for Side Show Bob is twice as long as Kelsey Grammer? Delmet 03:26, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Die Bart Die

Isn't "die" German for "the" anyway? Even if it is slightly grammatically inaccurate, why even bother including a rubbish thing like that?

[edit] On the Trivia section...

Isn't "Choices" a segment of Bob's kids show (renamed Cavalcade of Whimsey after Krusty was jailed), furnished with European modernist furniture (Mies or Breuer, I forget), in which Bob talks with kids á la Dr. Phil? He happens to call Bart to the stage for a chat, only to have Bart reveal his theory (correct, of course) that Bob framed Krsuty. In the Cheers reference, most of the series cast is shown in cartoon form, and as I recall most of them speak, voiced by the actual actors -- with the unusual exception of the Fraser Crane character, who is silent.PurpleChez 14:10, 31 March 2007 (UTC)