As much as Lionel Hutz gets repeat appearances and a lasting legacy, his seemingly long-suffering secretary does not get as much of a chance to shine after this. At least she gets a name, which is more than most!
Homer does not seem to recognise her, even though she was at Shotgun Pete's, the ch...
2024-07-22 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
There must be balance in the universe. We covered two major characters this week, so we must even things out with two characters you never knew existed:
This is the way.
It is possible that Homer...
2024-07-19 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It feels pretty set in stone that Miguel Sanchez here is one of the all time great Simpsons characters. I'd probably put him in my personal top ten, alongside classics like Man and 2024-07-18 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hmm, this might be a tricky one to define.
This is the first appearance of "Devil Classic", as I am going to call him. He appears a few times very early on, in the "Do The Batman" video, or three episodes from now in "Homer vs. Lisa and the Eighth Commandment":
2024-07-15 08:00:01 +0000 UTC
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A few bits and bobs from the opening two minutes and twenty five seconds of this episode.
This lady's snazzy dress stuck out for me, so here she is, forever immortalised. Congratulations, old lady with dog, you made it!
2024-07-12 08:00:01 +0000 UTC
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One of those characters where it's debatable how much he "counts" for our little project. But if you listen closely, you can hear his grumbling as he strangles his (presumed) son. That counts as a line!
Bart refers to him specifically as "Great Grandpa SIMPSON", and so we can determine that this...
2024-07-11 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This episode is FULL of major characters! More significance per capita than perhaps ever before.
But not this guy.
He has a Homer-esque scream as Bart skateboards over him, retreats to the sewers, then briefly returns. It's not the strongest story arc the series has had, but at least he ge...
2024-07-08 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I know that Roger Myers Jr is the most "important" new addition to the Springfield cast, but I'm pulling rank here and giving MVP to the Marge Squirrel.
I didn't cover it with any specific character, but a lot of this episode is inspired by Terry Rakolta, and her protest of Simpsons channel mate Married......
2024-07-05 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Another day, another reporter! I wonder if we'll ever stop the tradition of meeting new reporters for a single scene.
By my count, this is the eighth unnamed news reporter we've encountered, and that's not including old favourites like 2024-07-04 08:00:01 +0000 UTC
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This protestor is one of those fun designs that stuck out to me.
And while I checked the episode for screenshots, I noticed he had already popped up at the Simpson house.
On a similar theme of "a...
2024-07-03 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Another two print month! It would have seemed unfair to separate these two.
Lenny was a kind of self-indulgent piece celebrating the fictional character who has probably had most impact on my life. I didn't expect other people to like it so much, but people voted for it! Everyone loves Lenny! And Mt Carlmore was an experimetation with a new style for me, I've been trying to branch out in ...
2024-07-02 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm noticing the further we get with these single-appearance nobodies, the less documentation they have in the online fandom. This gentleman appears in two scenes but has no dedicated page on the Simpsons Wiki - either of them.
Here he is tastefully covering Michelangelo's David's penis, even though it...
Firstly, we needed to cover the rest of the writers/board room members.
We have now spent approximately two weeks discussing this single shot. It's over, move on.
Secondly, this Cliff Clavin look...
2024-06-28 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The main event! The character you have all been waiting for from this episode.
You can just hear her already, can't you? "Don't do that, don't do that!" I know that technically Roger Myers Jr is a more significant addition to the Simpsons-verse from this episode, but this angry squirrel is far more mem...
The last of the maybe-writers to speak at this table is this lady.
The script refers to her and the previous gentleman as board members, so their leanings towards cartoon violence are somewhat welcome.
Despite her distinctive appearance, we won't see this lady again.
This post is part o...
2024-06-24 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I've categorised all these guys as "writers", even though we all know writers don't dress like that.
I guess it's possible these are corporate executives of some kind, but this guy suggests they hit Marge on the head with a piano, and corporate executives aren't usually that fun.
I do not believe...
2024-06-20 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a strange one! If you were to ask me to list every Simpsons character before I started this project, I absolutely would have remembered Corporal Punishment eventually, but I'm not sure he ever gets a line or anything more significant than a cameo.
Maybe he is a good example of how deep I was in...
This gent shows up early in the episode, reading Marge's angry letter:
But it is not until the boardroom scene in which Roger Myers Jr asks for suggestions that he gets a line:
And perhaps most crucially in th...
This one might be controversial? This guy raises his hand in Marge's SNUH protest and possibly says "YEAH!" in Dan's voice.
There's no real lip-sync, but I believe it is fully the show's intention that he is the one loudly answering Marge's question ("How many of you were his in the head with ...
I don't really enjoy drawing Itchy and Scratchy, for some reason, I never feel like I get them "right". But nevertheless, my compulsive dedication requires me to document their alternate appearances in the two shorts shown at the start of this episode.
2024-06-11 08:00:01 +0000 UTC
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Is it Myers or is it Meyers? This episode gives us both options. Sometimes names are multiple choice, baby!
This is the first of three appearances in which this character is voiced by Alex Rocco - his ...
2024-06-10 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The last two minutes of this episode make it one of the most important ones we've covered yet in terms of the show finding its footing. Looking ahead, I can only see one other episode this season with a moment that comes close to the Springfield Gorge jump, and when combined with the introduction of Dr Hibbert (our biggest character this season so far?), "Bart the Daredevil" is probably the one...
2024-06-07 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We have covered every speaking character in this episode, but let's skip back a bit for a bonus-o-rama.
My favourite joke in the episode is not Homer falling down Springfield Gorge, but is Lance Murdock adding a lion to the deadly pool he jumps over. It's very silly, and is made funner by the fact that the lion seemingly gets his revenge moments later.
2024-06-06 08:00:01 +0000 UTC
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The final character of "Bart the Daredevil" is an extremely minor one, with only one line: "Hello children, and welcome to Springfield Gorge".
In the production script, she has a larger role: her name is Ranger Smythe, and she gives a few facts about Springfield Gorge before Bart decided to jump across...
The most significant introduction of this episode, by far! Suffice to say, I will not be doing that thing where I track down and list every single one of this character's appearances.
Dr Hibbert's first appearance is not what we're used to from him, and not what the character is known for. His demeanou...
Lance has a very big debut here, being Bart's inspiration for the episode and then later getting a full scene with our main characters.
This well rounded (certainly more prolific than most of the weirdos we c...
2024-06-03 08:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
There were a few potential prints vying for people's attention last month, so in June/July I'll be sending out two prints to people! It's two print Summer!
This month the prints will be Legend of the Mole-Man and Kako's Order. This is the first Mole-Man thing I've printed, but there might be more coming soon! And Kako's Order looks like the sort of thing you can classily hang in your stud...
2024-06-02 08:00:44 +0000 UTC View Post
We're seeing more and more stadium crowds in the show, it feels like. Bad for the animators perhaps but good for me, a weirdo archiving strange Simpsons background characters.
I especially like the freaks with beady eyes and/or "Simpson flesh hair", in which they are possibly bald but have weird shaped...
It's Leo G Clark, inventor, owner and operator of Truckasaurus!
He's so specifically named, and even designed, that I thought maybe he could be a reference to an existing person. Robosaurus's inventor was Douglas Malewic...
He's like, an insurance claims inspector or something. I don't know. The production script refers to him as "Jack Scraper", I can't tell if that name is super cool or super lame (apologies to any Jack Scrapers reading this.)
It seems strange that he's even a part of the episode, he's just there ...
2024-05-27 08:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post