List of one-time The Simpsons characters
The following is a list of one-time characters from the American animated television comedy series The Simpsons.
Some of the characters have returned to the show, sometimes in just brief speaking appearances, or 'in the crowd' scenes. Other characters, originally intended to be one-time characters have ended up becoming regular cast members, such as Cletus Spuckler, Luigi Risotto, Disco Stu, Groundskeeper Willie, Cookie Kwan and Lindsey Naegle.
For purposes of this list, "one-time" means they were central to an episode one time. Some of the characters listed here have appeared in later episodes, but only briefly. The characters are sorted by episode.
Series characters
- "Life on the Fast Lane"
- Jacques (Albert Brooks) is a bowling instructor who pursued an affair with Marge Simpson. Jacques has since made non-speaking cameos in subsequent episodes, such as "Homer and Apu" (in the MonstroMart's line of single, pathetic men who only pay cash for their groceries and do not chat with the clerk) and "Homer's Triple Bypass" (in the waiting room with his bowling ball stuck on one of his fingers). He makes a quick appearance in the bowling team 'The Homewreckers' in "Team Homer" losing to Homer's bowling team the 'Pin Pals'. He is also seen being startled by Bart on his skateboard (along with Bleeding Gums Murphy, Barney, and Apu) in the opening credits of each episode (up until the middle of season 20, when the opening was changed for high-definition TV and the characters on the street were changed).
- "Homer's Night Out"
- Gulliver Dark (Sam McMurray), a lounge singer and playboy.[3] After Homer's speech about how women should not be seen or treated as sex objects, Dark decides to call his mother, as she sounded depressed the last time she called him. A man who looks and acts similar to Gulliver Dark was seen singing a fiery revenge song about Mr. Burns on the season seven premiere episode, "Who Shot Mr. Burns, part two".
- "Some Enchanted Evening"
- Ms. Botz/Lucille Botzcowski (Penny Marshall) is an escaped criminal, known as "The Babysitter Bandit", who tried to rob the Simpson family, but was thwarted and captured by Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. She deceived Homer into freeing her moments before the police arrived. In "Bart's Dog Gets an F" a news broadcast mentions that she has escaped from prison. She appears in "Hurricane Neddy", pacing back and forth in a cell in Calmwood Mental Hospital. Ms. Botz's name is a parody of Gertrude Baniszewski.[6]
- "Simpson and Delilah"
- Karl (Harvey Fierstein) was Homer's assistant who tried to help Homer succeed as an executive. When Homer was about to be fired for his misdeeds, Karl took the blame, being fired in his place. Karl is the first openly gay character on The Simpsons and kisses Homer after getting fired.[7]
- "Old Money"
- Beatrice "Bea" Simmons (Audrey Meadows) was Grampa Simpson's girlfriend. They met at the Springfield Retirement Castle. After arranging a date for Bea's birthday, Grampa was forced to stand her up when Homer took him to "Discount Lion Safari". When he returned to the Retirement Castle, Bea had died and left all her money to Abe.[10]
- "Lisa's Substitute"
- Mr. Bergstrom (Dustin Hoffman, credited as "Sam Etic"[12]) was Lisa's substitute teacher. Mr. Bergstrom took over for Ms. Hoover after she believed she had got Lyme disease and Lisa immediately took to him because he was the kind of male role model she needed in her life. However, after Ms. Hoover returned, he had to leave Springfield. A distraught Lisa ran to stop him, and Mr. Bergstrom gave her a note saying "You are Lisa Simpson".[13]
- "Stark Raving Dad"
- Leon Kompowsky (voiced by Michael Jackson and Kipp Lennon[14]) was a mental patient who thought he was Michael Jackson. The character was voiced by Michael Jackson (who, for contractual reasons, was credited as "John Jay Smith").[15] The producers of the show were legally prevented from confirming Jackson guest starred at the time, although many media sources (correctly) assumed it was really him.[16][17][18][19] A year after the episode aired, the writers decided to make a sequel where Leon Kompowsky returns, thinking he is the musician Prince (and voiced by Prince himself), who encourages everyone in town to be sexually liberated, but it was later scrapped when Prince declined.[20]
- "Flaming Moe's"
- Collette (Jo Ann Harris), a waitress hired by Moe. Catherine O'Hara originally agreed to do the voice and recorded her part for the character; however, the producers felt that her voice did not fit the role and instead had Jo Ann Harris do the part.[23]
- "Kamp Krusty"
- Mr. Black (Harry Shearer) was Krusty's accountant and the evil camp director of Kamp Krusty who hires local thugs Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney to be counselors to break the kids' spirits (which does not work when Bart leads an insurrection against them). Mark Kirkland was sure that the character was going to reappear later in the series, but he never did.[26] However, he appears in a comic book based on the series where he has Homer sell him a company while "filling in" for Moe, who was literally tied up down under.
- "Lisa the Beauty Queen"
- Amber Dempsey, (Lona Williams) a professional child beauty queen who once won Pork Princess and Little Miss Kosher in the same week. She also has eyelash implants (which are only legal in Paraguay) and is referred to by Lisa as "the Jack Nicklaus" of the pageant circuit. Amber wins The Little Miss Springfield Beauty Pageant, but the crown is turned over to Lisa (the first runner-up) after Amber gets struck by lightning during a store opening and becomes "Little Miss Intensive Care".[28]
- Jack Larson (Harry Shearer), was a slick spokesman and now president for Laramie Cigarettes and once owned the Springfield Isotopes. He also was the spokesperson in a commercial for the Little Miss Springfield pageant, with Laramie cigarettes as the main sponsor.
- "New Kid on the Block"
- Laura Powers (Sara Gilbert) was Bart's first crush. Her family moved next door to Bart after the Winfields moved out. Bart developed a crush on her, but ended up in heartbreak when he found out her boyfriend was Jimbo Jones.[29]
- "Marge vs. the Monorail"
- Lyle Lanley (Phil Hartman) is a smooth talking con man who talks the people of Springfield into buying an expensive monorail after Mr. Burns was forced to give the town three million dollars (although it's revealed at the town meeting to decide how to spend the money that one million dollars has mysteriously disappeared, most likely taken by Mayor Quimby). He then suggested that Springfield should buy a monorail. He uses the money to go on vacation without concern for the Springfieldians. However, an angry mob of North Haverbrook residents attacked him, having previously fallen for his monorail scam.[30]
- Sebastian Cobb (Harry Shearer) A scientist who built North Haverbrook's monorail for Lyle Lanley.[30]
- "Brother from the Same Planet"
- Tom (Phil Hartman) is Bart's "Bigger Brother". Bart decided to get him as a bigger brother when Homer failed to pick him up from soccer practice. At the aquarium, Homer got into a fight with him. At the end of the episode, he became Pepi's big brother. The part was written for Tom Cruise, but Cruise declined so the role was given to Phil Hartman instead.[31]
- Pepi (Tress MacNeillie) is a poor boy who lives in Springfield who becomes Homer's little brother. At the end of the episode, he became Tom's little brother.[32]
- "I Love Lisa"
- Sideshow Raheem (Michael Carrington): the militant black Sideshow partner Krusty had on his show in the 1970s. Has an Afro and wears a dashiki and dark sunglasses. Was seen at Krusty's funeral on "Bart the Fink".
- Rex (Dan Castellaneta): a melodramatic boy in Lisa's class who auditioned to play George Washington during the school's Presidents' Day pageant, but was turned down for Ralph Wiggum by Ms. Hoover (so she can have the Denver boot removed from her car tire). Was cast as George Washington's butler who appeared near the end of the performance. Another boy with a similar personality to the Rex in this episode appeared in season six's "Bart of Darkness," but his appearance was drastically altered, looking somewhat like Hugh Parkfield, the Englishman Lisa almost marries in "Lisa's Wedding."
- Johnny (Dan Castellaneta): Principal Skinner's Army buddy who was shot down during the Vietnam War while stationed in Da Nang. Was seen in Skinner's flashback of how Valentine's Day is not a joke.
- "Bart's Inner Child"
- Brad Goodman (Albert Brooks) is a self-help guru. After talking to Bart Simpson during a lecture at Springfield, he encourages the town to be more like Bart and to "do what you feel like", which causes disastrous consequences. His is the third character to be voiced by Brooks in the show.[38]
- "Homer the Vigilante"
- Molloy the Cat Burglar (Sam Neill) is a thief and cat burglar who steals many objects from the townspeople of Springfield, including Lisa's saxophone. He is later caught by Homer after Grampa reveals the identity of the burglar but escapes while the town searches for his 'buried treasure'.[40]
- "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy"
- Stacy Lovell (Kathleen Turner) is the inventor of Malibu Stacy. Was fired in 1974 for funneling profits to the Viet Cong and because "her way of thinking wasn't cost-effective". She lives in an exact replica of her Malibu Stacy Dreamhouse in a neighborhood for recluses and once dated an African-American man who looks like a G.I. Joe action figure.[41]
- "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"
- Freddie Quimby (Dan Castellaneta) is the nephew of Mayor Quimby who is accused of assaulting a waiter. He reappears in "Trash of the Titans" as one of the people in line at the courthouse to register as a sex offender (along with Patty and Selma, Jimmy the Scumbag from "Lisa's Date with Density," and Moe, who complains about how long the sex offender line always is) and later in "See Homer Run" (with a somewhat altered voice and appearance) as his uncle's press secretary.[43]
- "Lisa's Rival"
- Allison Taylor (Winona Ryder), Allison is a first grader who is skipped up into Ms. Hoover's second grade class, and is better than Lisa at everything that makes Lisa special, such as intelligence and saxophone. At first Lisa is jealous, but they end up being friends.
- "Itchy & Scratchy Land"
- Bort, churlish patron of Itchy & Scratchy Land's gift shop, who shares his name with the son of a woman he encounters (as well as innumerable other park enthusiasts, given the wild popularity of the novelty license plates bearing the name in the park's souvenir racks).
- "Bart's Girlfriend"
- Jessica Lovejoy (Meryl Streep) is the daughter of Timothy and Helen Lovejoy, and appeared in the episode and was Bart's Girlfriend. Initially appearing as a calm, sweet girl that came back from boarding school, she also enjoys causing mischief, but reveals that she is even more of a wild misfit, even more than Bart; she was actually expelled for destroying school property, stealing and starting up fights. Wooing Bart the first day they met, she soon became his girlfriend, but later revealed a manipulative femme fatale side. Though she only had one major role on the show, she appeared many other times in Simpsons Comics such as when she became fat (along with the rest of Springfield Elementary because Nelson stopped Bullying).
- " Homer Badman"
- Ashley Grant (Pamela Hayden) is a pro feminist graduate student who babysits Bart, Lisa, and Maggie; she falsely accuses Homer of sexual harassment after he mistakenly grabs the seat of her pants and calling her "Precious Venus", prompting a protest and media circus against Homer.[44]
- "Fear of Flying"
- Dr. Zweig (Anne Bancroft) is a psychologist who tries to help Marge get over her fear of flying. She appears as one of the judges at Marge's insanity hearing in "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge".[45] Though a competent psychologist of her own, she is hypocritical and she, was Homer fears, suspect that Homer is the main responsible for Marge's problems, due the latter's stupidy. In "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge", she and hers colleagues proved to be completely ignorant of religion education and faith, visibly when they mistakely assumed that Marges belief in God and his omnipresence are symptoms of schizophrenia.
- Guy Incognito (Dan Castellaneta) is a seemingly upper-class man who is identical in appearance to Homer Simpson. After Homer is banned from Moe's Tavern, Guy Incognito appears at the bar and introduces himself. He is mistaken for a badly disguised Homer and is subsequently beaten up and thrown out of the bar.[45]
- "Lisa's Wedding"
- The Fortuneteller (Maggie Roswell), a woman dressed as a gypsy at the local Renaissance Fair who shows Lisa's future in the year 2010 as a graduate student who nearly marries a British man who wants Lisa to be cut off from her family.[50]
- Hugh Parkfield (Mandy Patinkin), a British college student whom Lisa nearly marries, is a parody of English actor Hugh Grant.[50][51]
- "Marge Be Not Proud"
- Don Brodka (Lawrence Tierney), chief of security at the local Try-N-Save store. Bans Bart for life from the store after Bart is caught shoplifting the Bonestorm video game.[54]
- "Bart the Fink"
- Handsome Pete, a dock showman who dances for nickels with an accordion, he bears resemblance to a deformed Krusty the Klown.
- "Homer the Smithers"
- Mrs. Burns, Mr Burns' 122 year old mother (though there was another woman who was said to be Mr. Burns' mother on season five's "Rosebud"). She is seen briefly when Smithers phones to tell her she has a call waiting from her son, who she refers to as "that improvident lackwit", but Homer accidentally cuts her off before they can speak. According to Smithers, Burns hates talking to her having never forgiven her for an affair with President William Taft.
- "You Only Move Twice"
- Hank Scorpio (Albert Brooks) is an evil genius. He is also the cheerful, friendly owner of Globex Corporation. Scorpio is considered by some to be Albert Brooks' best voice performance on The Simpsons[59] and for this and four other guest performances he was named the greatest guest star in the show's history by IGN.[59] Brooks ad-libbed many of his lines.[60] Homer and his family never knew that Scorpio is an international criminal and they will never know about it. His name is a reference to Frank Serpico. He also appeared once in Simpsons Comics #117, "Sandwiches Are Forever", as well as Simpsons Comics #132, "A Brand New Burns (Part Two)" and Simpsons Comics #66 "Homer's Luv Boat" + "A top secret tour of Globex with Scorpio" and made a small cameo in Simpsons Comic #69 "How Marge got her curtains back".
- "Bart After Dark"
- Belle (Tress MacNeille) the owner of the Maison Derrière, a local burlesque house where Martha Quimby met her husband, Mayor Quimby. According to the season eight DVD commentary, there were auditions held for a celebrity to voice Belle, but this was dropped in favor of veteran voice actress Tress MacNeille.[63]
- "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"
- Frank Ormand (Jack Lemmon) is the founder of the Pretzel Wagon company who convinces Marge to start her own pretzel-selling business. He later dies in a car accident before Marge can start up her business.[66]
- "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious"
- Sherry Bobbins (Maggie Roswell) is a magical British nanny modeled after Mary Poppins and hired to care for the Simpson children after Marge is revealed to be going bald from stress. After realizing she can never make The Simpsons functional, Bobbins flies away, and (unknown to the rest of the family) dies when she gets sucked into the jet engine of an airplane.[67] In an unusual coincidence, she reappeared on the opening sequence of the 2nd and 6th episodes of the 21st season, "Bart Gets a 'Z'" and "Pranks and Greens", flying by the clouds instead of the crow, alive and well.
- "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"
- Roy (Hank Azaria), a young adult who briefly lives with the Simpson family. Before his introduction Lisa states "Adding a new character is often a desperate attempt to boost low ratings." At the end of the episode he leaves the Simpson house to live in an apartment with two sexy ladies. Before production began, a Fox executive suggested the staff add a new character to the show, who should come and live with the Simpsons on a permanent basis because it would "liven up the show".[68] The staff rejected the idea. Instead they inserted the one-time character Roy, with no explanation as to who he was or why he was there. This was as a reference to the executive's proposal (and a meta-joke about long-running shows bringing in annoying characters to boost ratings).[69] Roy was originally conceived for the "Time and Punishment" segment of the season six episode "Treehouse of Horror V", living with the Simpsons in an alternate reality where Homer has an annoying teenage son.[70]
- "Homer's Phobia"
- John (John Waters), who is voiced by and modeled after John Waters, is the owner of Cockamamie's Collectibles Shop, an offbeat store filled with various "camp" items. Homer becomes friends with him, but breaks it off when Marge tells Homer that John is gay.[71]
- "The Canine Mutiny"
- Laddie (Frank Welker) a finely-bred, pre-trained collie which Bart buys using his credit card. When Bart realizes he misses Santa's Little Helper (after Bart lets Santa's Little Helper get repossessed when Bart has everything he bought with the credit card taken from him), he gives Laddie to the Springfield Police Force.[73]
- "Homer's Enemy"
- Frank "Grimey" Grimes (Hank Azaria) was a 35-year-old everyman who was the consummate professional, which clashes with Homer Simpson's idiocy. After several attempts to expose Homer fail, Grimes makes one final attempt by tricking Homer into entering a nuclear power plant design contest intended for kids (by leaving a flyer on Homer's desk about the contest, with all references to them removed). After Homer is declared the winner, Grimes snaps, declaring that he can be as lazy and moronic as Homer and get away with it. As he runs amok through the plant, Grimes — declaring that he does not need safety gloves, simply because he is Homer Simpson — grabs two high-voltage wires and is fatally electrocuted. Grimes has been referenced in several later episodes, first in "Natural Born Kissers", where Homer finds an old pamphlet to Grimes's funeral. In "Treehouse of Horror XII", Grimes is one of the faces on the Wailing Wall. His tombstone appears in "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" and was also kicked by Homer in "My Mother the Carjacker". His son, Frank Grimes Jr., sought to avenge his father's death by killing Homer in "The Great Louse Detective". His tombstone can also be seen in the new opening sequence for the show (during the flash through the town from Marge and Maggie in the car to the front of the Simpsons' house, Ralph Wiggum can be seen playing in the dirt infront of the tombstone).
- "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"
- The Commandant (Willem Dafoe) is the head of Rommelwood Academy, who is wary of Lisa attending military school, but has no qualms over Bart joining (since Rommelwood Academy is an all-boys school).[75]
- "Treehouse of Horror VIII"
- Fox Censor (Harry Shearer), a Fox network censor with the same name as his title. He edits a Treehouse of Horror script to lower the rating to TV-G, but then gets stabbed repeatedly by a sword that came from the sign, which goes from TV-PG to TV-14 to TV-MA to TV-21 and TV-666 (the last two of which do not exist on the American TV rating system).
- "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace"
- Alex Trebek (Alex Trebek) The host of Jeopardy!. Alex Trebek is angry with Marge for not knowing how to play "Jeopardy!", since Marge ends up with a $5,200 deficit. Later, Alex Trebek is seen among the townspeople when it comes to "stealing" what's in the Simpsons' house.
- "Simpson Tide"
- Captain Tenille (Rod Steiger) is the captain of the USS Jebediah nuclear submarine, on which Homer was stationed. Tenille was fired out of a torpedo shooter, after leaving Homer in charge.[83]
- Drill Sergeant (Michael Carrington), the sergeant who whips the new Naval Reserve recruits into shape, and is angered at Homer's hare-brained antics.[83]
- "Trash of the Titans"
- Ray Patterson (Steve Martin) is the former Springfield sanitation commissioner who gets defeated by Homer by convincing the public with "crazy promises". When Homer abuses his power, Patterson is called back, but does not return to his post.[85]
- "D'oh-in in the Wind"
- Seth (George Carlin) and Munchie (Martin Mull) are two aging hippies/natural juice businessmen, who were friends of Homer's hippie mother, Mona (voiced by Glenn Close). They keep a cache of psychedelic drugs for their personal use which Homer, feeling guilty over a snafu that ruined Seth and Munchie's real harvest, mistakenly uses to make a batch of Seth and Munchie's trademark juice, causing the townspeople drug-induced fantasies. Seth and Munchie also appear in the rally in "Weekend at Burnsie's" and make an appearances in "Mona Leaves-a" at Mona Simpson's funeral.[87]
- "Lisa Gets an "A""
- Pinchy, a pet lobster raised by Homer after being bought live from a grocery store. Homer later became attached to the lobster to the degree of considering him part of the family and not wanting to cook him, until he accidentally gave him a hot bath in the bathtub. Homer is seen eating Pinchy while crying at the end of the episode.
- "Mayored to the Mob"
- "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)"
- Southern Colonel, a colonel who accepts a duel by Homer after he gives a glove.
- Emil (does not speak), Mindy (Tress MacNeille), and J.P. (Harry Shearer): Executives of Laramie Cigarettes, who hope to purchase Homer's new invention, tomacco, for $150 million (US). He spurns the offer, demanding $150 billion, which they will not pay. They steal Homer's last tomacco plant, but are killed when their helicopter crashes, due to the presence of a tomacco-addicted (and thus insane) sheep on board.
- “Missionary: Impossible”
- PBS Man (Hank Azaria): An official in the pledge-collecting department of PBS. When Homer mistakenly pledges $10,000 to PBS, this man appears at Homer's house to collect the pledge; Homer then escapes to the bank, where a clerk refuses to give him the money. Homer tries to stab the PBS Man in the heart with a chequewriting pen — which is attached to the counter. He appears again in the ending, hoping to collect money for the FOX Network, to which Bart calls with the purpose of donating $10,000.
- Ak (Hank Azaria), Q'Toktok (Harry Shearer) and Lisa Jr. (Yeardley Smith): Residents on the South Pacific island where Reverend Lovejoy sends Homer to teach religion.
- "Pygmoelian"
- Michael Finn (Dan Castellaneta), an Irish bartender from the Green Potato Pub at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport who competes in the Duff Days bartending contest.[101]
- Titania (Pamela Hayden), a blond, large-chested female bartender from Juggernauts in Hollywood, California who competes in the Duff Days bartending contest.[101]
- Dr. Velimorovic (Hank Azaria), a plastic surgeon who operates on Moe. The doctor also appeared in his second speaking appearance in "Large Marge" (when Marge got breast implants) and "Husbands and Knives" (when Homer becomes obsessed with getting plastic surgery in order to keep Marge).[101]
- "Pokey Mom"
- Jack Crowley (Michael Keaton), a sociopathic but artistic prisoner who is granted parole but must stay with Marge. He is Jewish.[110]
- "Bye Bye Nerdie"
- Francine Rhenquist (Kathy Griffin), a new bully at Springfield Elementary who repeatedly beats up Lisa because she senses nerd sweat on Lisa.[113]
- "Trilogy of Error"
- Thelonious (Frankie Muniz), a student at West Springfield Elementary who falls for Lisa when she accidentally ends up at West Springfield.[115]
- Chester is Cletus' pet tick that he would enter the 4H club. He is only seen in the deleted scenes.
- "Sweets and Sour Marge"
- Garth Motherloving (Ben Stiller), head of the Motherloving Sweets and Sugar Company. He is also the leader of a smuggling gang which attempts to smuggle sugar from San Glucos island into Springfield after sugar and sugar-containing products are banned in Springfield.[119]
- "Pranksta Rap"
- Alcatrazz (Hank Azaria), a rapper who lets Bart perform onstage.
- "The Seven-Beer Snitch"
- Officer Krackney (Charles Napier), a guard at the Montgomery Burns State Prison (formerly the Springfield Culture Center), he is remarkably sadistic and abusive, to the point of psychopathy, and even confessing that he cold-bloodedly killed his own father when he was a child.
- "Future-Drama"
- Jenda (Amy Poehler), Bart's high school girlfriend in 2013 who wants Bart to make something of his life, but when Bart takes Lisa's chance at a scholarship, Bart refuses to let his sister down and gets dumped by Jenda.
- "A Star Is Torn"
- Clarissa Wellington (Fantasia Barrino), a young singer who comes in third at the Li'l Starmakers competition.
- Cameron, (Tress MacNeille), a contestant at the Li'l Starmakers competition whom Homer mentors after Lisa betrays him. The boy wins 2nd place.
- "Home Away from Homer"
- Coach Clay (Harry Shearer), a brash coach who moves in next to the Simpsons after Ned Flanders moves to Humbleton, Pennsylvania. Ends up harassing and taking advantage of Homer, just like Homer harassed and took advantage of Flanders. However, while homer is a simple (yet that constant) headache to Ned, Clay is a sadistical Bully, who enjoy in torture homer and shows no respect for him or his family. In the end Ned and Homer Beaten up Clay to submission and forces him in leave.
- Vicki (Pamela Hayden) and Sasha (Tress MacNeille), college students who record themselves in soft-core sexual situations while staying with Ned Flanders.
- "The Girl Who Slept Too Little"
- Gravedigger Billy (Dan Castellaneta) is Groundskeeper Willie's cousin who is a gravedigger at the cemetery next to 742 Evergreen Terrace. He has been a gravedigger for 30 years and walks with a limp. He has a beard and hair identical to Willie's except that he has white hair and a glass eye in his left eye socket. He wears a light blue water proof trench coat and rain hat, blue pants and black boots. In the episode, he steals a watch from a grave and later attacks Willie.
- "My Fair Laddy"
- Coach Krupt (Hank Azaria), the new gym teacher at Springfield Elementary School following Miss Pummelhorst's departure in order to have a sex-change operation. He is obsessed with the game bombardment (dodgeball) and plays it by throwing balls at kids relentlessly. Can be seen in season 20's "How the Test Was Won" training the students for their standardized tests and hurling rubber balls at those who give wrong answers.
- "Million Dollar Abie"
- Dr. Egoyan/Manfred Manslaughter (Hank Azaria), an Armenian-American doctor specializing in euthanasia who gives Grampa the option of committing assisted suicide after Grampa costs the town a chance at a football franchise.
- "Girls Just Want to Have Sums"
- Melanie Upfoot (Frances McDormand), Principal Skinner's replacement following the controversy behind his sexist remarks about women's math skills. Orders Springfield Elementary to be segregated by gender.
- "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play"
- Tabitha Vixx (Mandy Moore), a pop singer married to Buck Mitchell of the Springfield Isotopes baseball team. She includes a lot of striptease acts in her singing, which makes her husband jealous and uncomfortable.
- Buck Mitchell (Hank Azaria), Tabitha's husband and Springfield Isotope professional baseball player.
- "Jazzy and the Pussycats"
- Skinny Turner (Harry Shearer) and Marcus Marbles (Hank Azaria) are two jazz musicians that let Bart in their band.
- "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)"
- The Army Colonel (Kiefer Sutherland) is Homer's somewhat psychotic army colonel, showing no regard to civilians lives or military laws (he invades Springfield without autorization).
- "Little Big Girl"
- Darcy (Natalie Portman), Bart's pregnant girlfriend in North Haverbrook who almost ropes Bart into marriage until she admits Bart is not the father.
- "Yokel Chords"
- Dr. Stacey Swanson (Meg Ryan) is a psychiatrist who is assigned to treat Bart Simpson. They form a close bond, and after the last session, Swanson is forced to see another psychiatrist.
- Dark Stanley a vengefull cook who suffers emotional bullying from students that taunt him for his ruined life, until he has a psychotic nervous breakdown and starts to serve the same students in his soup. Bart invents this history to scare the other students in order to get their lunches, and later revels that he gets the name from a hammer that Homer uses to spank him. However, it's later revealed that, somehow, Dark Stanley was real.
- Withney, Dubya, Jitney (all voiced by Tress MacNeille), Incest (Dan Castellaneta), Crystal Meth (Nancy Cartwright), International Harvester (Cartwright), and Birthday (Pamela Hayden) are seven of Cletus Spuckler's children tutored by Lisa when Springfield Elementary School rejects them. Lisa then takes them on a field trip to Downtown Springfield where they all sing a song. Krusty sees them and briefly gets them to sing on his show.
- "Homer of Seville"
- Julia (Maya Rudolph), Homer's fan who attempted to seduce him; she resorted to stalking and attempting to kill him after he fired her.
- "Midnight Towboy"
- Louie (Matt Dillon), a tow truck driver who gave Homer a job, but when Homer (unintentionally) violated Louie's territory, became his enemy and held him hostage (with 5 other men in similar circumstances) in his basement. Homer and the others are rescued by Maggie.
- "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
- Dwight (Steve Buscemi), a criminal who got arrested after a bank robbery. Marge promised she would visit him in prison. However Marge did not and he kidnapped Marge and took her to an amusement park his mom abandoned him at when he was a kid. There he got injured and sent to jail. Marge then visited him in the end.
- "Husbands and Knives"
- Milo (Jack Black), a local comic book store owner who works right across from the Comic Book Guy's store "The Android's Dungeon". Unlike the Comic Book Guy, Milo has a girlfriend, is not obsessed with keeping comics in mint condition, and treats his customers with respect.
- "Funeral for a Fiend"
- Dr. Robert Terwilliger, Sr. (John Mahoney) is Bob and Cecil Terwilliger's father. He tried to find proof that his son has gone insane due to abuses from Bart. The casting of Mahoney here mirrors his casting as the father of the Crane brothers on Frasier. Actors Kelsey Grammer and David Hyde Pierce portrayed the Crane brothers there, and portray Bob and Cecil Terwilliger in The Simpsons.
- Dame Judith Underdunk (Tress MacNeille) is Bob and Cecil's mother and an eminent Shakespearean actress.
- "The Debarted"
- Donny (Topher Grace) is a new kid at school hired by Principal Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers to rat Bart out whenever he plays a prank at school. He resembles Topher Grace.
- "Dial 'N' for Nerder"
- Betsy Bidwell (Tress MacNeille), a former obese woman who use to weigh 400 pounds, but becomes Homer's nutritionist and assists with his diet.
- "Sneakers" Host (Hank Azaria) the host of a Cheaters-type hidden camera show who only cares about breaking up couples who cheat (be it on another person or, in Homer's case, on their diet) just to get ratings for his show.
- "Mypods and Boomsticks"
- Bashir Bin Laden (Tress MacNeille), Bart's new friend from Jordan. He almost gets beaten up by the three bullies (Dolph, Jimbo, and Kearney) for being Muslim, and Homer insults his parents and accuse them of being terrorists because of their religion (Islam).
- "Lisa the Drama Queen"
- Juliet Hobbs (Emily Blunt), a strange new girl whom Lisa befriends. Together, the two create a fantasy world called Equalia where the two reign as queens. She runs away from home at the end of the episode it is unknown if she returns home.
- "Take My Life, Please"
- Vance Connor, Homer's old high rival who won the student council election after Principal Dondelinger rigged the election.
- "Eeny Teeny Maya Moe
- Maya (Tress MacNeille), is a beautiful woman Moe meets over the internet. When Moe meets her in person, she is three feet tall. Despite this they end up hitting it off, even after Moe worried what his friends/patrons would think of her, to which Homer did not even pay attention to her height. Moe came close to making her Mrs. Maya Szyslak, but got too comfortable joking around with her about her height, much to her chagrin. To make it up to her, he tried to literally knock himself down to her size, but she convinced him not to by leaving him for trying something so insane and insensitive.
- "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly
- Jenny (Anne Hathaway) is the beautiful girl who Bart fell in love with. At first she thought Bart was a nice guy, but then she dumped him. She helps out around the Springfield Retirement Castle. She's a Christian and prays to God at school. Bart tricked her into believing that he was something he was not which is the reason he got dumped and left by Jenny. Bart has not seen her since.
- Inga (unknown), Groundskeeper Willie's Swedish girlfriend. She is a bikini model who lives in his shack.
- "Bart Gets a 'Z'"
- Zachary Vaughn (Hank Azaria): Mrs. Krabappel's replacement teacher after Krabappel is fired (expelled) for drinking alcohol on the job.
- "The Great Wife Hope"
- Chett Engelbrit (Chuck Liddell): The head of the Ultimate Fighting syndicate. Challenges Marge to a fight over whether or not Ultimate Fighting should continue.
- "Pranks and Greens"
- Andy Hamilton (Jonah Hill): An immature, college-aged man who was once hailed Springfield Elementary's prankster after filling the school's pool with worms and turning Principal Skinner into the strait-laced, no-nonsense disciplinarian he is today. Now writes for "The Krusty the Clown" show after Bart urges Andy to do something with his life.
- "Once Upon a Time in Springfield"
- Princess Penelope (Anne Hathaway): A princess character hired to be Krusty the Klown's wife and sidekick in an attempt to get girls to watch The Krusty the Clown Show. Real name: Penelope Mountbatten Habsburg Hohenzollern Mulan Pocahontas. Was a fan of the Krusty show since she was a child; confessed her love for him as an adult. Her father was a station manager for the New York affiliate that aired The Krusty Show back when Penelope was a kid. Sings and plays guitar.
- Gator McCall (Hank Azaria): A headhunter (corporate recruiter) who persuades Homer, Lenny, and Carl to work for the Capitol City Nuclear Plant after Mr. Burns cuts free donuts from the budget at work.
- "Stealing First Base"
- Nikki (Sarah Silverman) A girl Bart is forced to sit with when the two Fourth Grade classes are combined, her attitude towards Bart is very fickle, in the end she claims it is because "There are a lot of things [Bart] doesn't know about girls and [Nikki] isn't going to tell him"
- Brodie
- Russ Cargill (A. Brooks) – Russell "Russ" Cargill is a businessman and head of the Environmental Protection Agency (abbreviated as EPA). After Homer pollutes Lake Springfield and causes the wildlife to mutate, Cargill presents this information to the President, convincing him to approve a plan to deal with the situation. Cargill lowers a giant dome on top of Springfield, sealing the city off from the rest of the world to prevent the toxic fumes from spreading. Upon hearing of the Simpsons' escape and the citizens' attempts to break the dome, Cargill attempts to have Springfield demolished with a time bomb. Ultimately he tries to kill Homer and Bart with a sawed-off shotgun only to be knocked unconscious when Maggie drops a rock on his head. The deleted scenes on the DVD shows that Cargill was originally going to be an older man in a sweater vest and quiff.
- President Arnold Schwarzenegger (Harry Shearer) – Schwarzenegger appears to be inept, as he is easily manipulated by Russ Cargill into authorizing the destruction of Springfield. When Cargill warns of the possibility of a public backlash after learning of Springfield becoming a no man's land, Schwarzenegger laments returning to making family comedies.
- Colin (Tress MacNeille) is a young environmentalist who has moved to Springfield from Ireland. He falls in love with Lisa, and the film ends with them holding hands. Lisa initially suspects that Colin's dad is Bono since Colin is Irish and states his father is a musician; Colin repeatedly says that his father is not Bono. When asked if he plays instruments, he modestly replies, "Just piano, guitar, trumpet, drums, and bass." He writes a song for Lisa, but because she cannot hear him through the dome, he writes the sheet music on the dome's surface. At the end of the film Colin and Lisa go on a date.
See also
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