List of one-time characters in The Simpsons

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This following is a list, by episode, of one-time fictional characters from the American animated television comedy series The Simpsons.

Further information: List of characters from The Simpsons and List of recurring characters from The Simpsons

Some of these 'one-time' characters have returned to the show, sometimes in just brief speaking appearances, or even just '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 & 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.

Contents

Series characters

Season 1

  • "Bart the Genius"
    • Mrs. Mellon (Marcia Wallace) Teacher at a school for gifted children that Bart is sent to after cheating on an I.Q Test. She was the only other character Wallace voiced other than Edna Krabappel. She has been making background appearances in more current episodes.
  • "The Call of the Simpsons"
    • Cowboy Bob (Albert Brooks), owner of Bob's Roundup RVs. He has had non-speaking cameos after this episode, but made a brief speaking appearance in the season sixteen episode "Mobile Homer", and is seen in the episode "Bart gets an F".
  • "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 don't 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 episode Team Homer losing to Homer's bowling league 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.
  • "Homer's Night Out"
    • Gulliver Dark (Sam McMurray), a lounge singer and playboy who sang "I Could Love A Million Girls" (during the part where Homer searches for Princess Kashmir so he can show Bart that she's more than just a sex object).
  • "The Crepes of Wrath"
    • César (Dan Castellaneta) and Ugolin (Harry Shearer) are two hostile French winemakers who force Bart to be their slave.
    • Adil Hoxha (Tress MacNeille), a foreign exchange student from Albania who replaced Bart when he was deported to France. He was actually a Soviet spy who was deported back to Albania and exchanged for an American spy caught in Albania.
  • "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.

Season 2

  • "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.
  • "Treehouse of Horror"
    • Serak the Preparer (James Earl Jones) is a cohort of Kang and Kodos who made the Simpson family dinner while on their way to their home planet. Kang and Kodos have since appeared in every Halloween episode, but Serak has since not reappeared.
  • "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"
    • Toshiro the Apprentice Chef (Joey Miyashima) The Master Sushi Chef's apprentice. Appears in the line at the Retirement Castle in "Old Money".
    • Master Sushi Chef (Sab Shimono) Sushi chef at a Japanese restaurant who messed up Homer's sushi when he was dating Ms. Krabbapel.
    • Hostess at Japanese Restaurant voiced by Diane Tanaka.
  • "Old Money"
    • Beatrice "Bea" Simmons (Audrey Meadows) was Grampa Simpson's girlfriend and they first 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.
  • "Lisa's Substitute"
    • Mr. Bergstrom (Dustin Hoffman, credited as "Sam Etic") 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".

Season 3

  • "Stark Raving Dad"
    • Leon Kompowsky (Michael Jackson & Kipp Lennon)[1] 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")[2] but his singing was done by Jackson's sound-alike, Kipp Lennon. Kompowsky was set to later return, thinking that he's Prince, but the idea fell through when Prince turned the part down.[3]
  • "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.[4]

Season 4

  • "A Streetcar Named Marge"
    • Llewellyn Sinclair (Jon Lovitz) is a short-tempered perfectionist who is a theatre director. He casts uptight Christian fundamentalist Ned Flanders as Stanley Kowalski and Marge as Blanche DuBois in a production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Sinclair has since made brief cameo appearances and appeared in a crowd shot in "Sweets and Sour Marge".
    • Ms. Sinclair (Jon Lovitz) is head of the Ayn Rand School for Tots. She is the sister of the aforementioned theatre director, who recommends his sister's day care center to Marge Simpson.
  • "Lisa the Beauty Queen"
    • Amber Dempsey, (Lona Williams) a professional beauty queen who won The Little Miss Springfield Beauty Pageant, but got struck by lightning making Lisa win.
  • "New Kid on the Block"
    • Laura Powers (Sara Gilbert) was Bart's first girlfriend. Her family moved next door to Bart after the Winfields moved out. Bart then developed a crush on her, but ended up in heartbreak when he found out she was in love with Jimbo Jones. Is also seen as a part of the mob in the The Simpsons Movie.
  • "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 (However, 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 "Diamond Joe" Quimby). He then suggested that Springfield should buy a monorail. However he decided to use the money to go on vacation and have the Springfieldians get badly injured, being the careless con man he is. However, he got injured himself when an angry mob of North Haverbrook residents attacked him, thus teaching him a lesson about swindling once and for all.
    • Sebastian Cobb (Harry Shearer) A scientist who built North Haverbrook's monorail for Lyle Lanley. In "Treehouse of Horror XV" he is an addict at Mao's Opium Den.
  • "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.[6]
    • Pepi (Tress MacNeillie) Homer's little brother. At the end of the episode he became Tom's little brother. Was once a poor boy who lived in Springfield.

Season 5

  • "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.

Season 6

  • "Homer Badman"
    • Ashley Grant (Pamela Hayden) is a graduate student who babysits Bart, Lisa, and Maggie; later mistakenly believes that Homer sexually harassed her by grabbing the seat of her pants and calling her "Precious Venus" and leads a protest against him.
  • "Homer the Great"
    • Number One (Patrick Stewart) is the head of the Springfield chapter of The Stonecutters, a secret society. The voice of Number One, Patrick Stewart, is considered one of the best single episode guest stars in the show's history by the show's producers.[8]
  • "Homie the Clown"
    • Don Vittorio DiMaggio (Hank Azaria) is Fat Tony's boss and a self-admitted Italian-American stereotype. He has since made brief non-speaking cameos in later episodes. He made an appearance at the mob meeting in "Insane Clown Poppy".
  • "Homer vs. Patty & Selma"
    • Ballet Teacher (Susan Sarandon), a Russian ballet teacher who encourages Bart to embrace his hidden talent for ballet.
    • DMV Boss (Maggie Roswell), Patty's and Selma's boss at the DMV who almost fire them for smoking in a government building, but Homer (reluctantly) saves them by claiming that he was smoking. The boss then tells Homer that he's "worse than Hitler" and smacks him in the face.

Season 7

Season 8

  • "You Only Move Twice"
    • Hank Scorpio (Albert Brooks) is an evil genius and cheerful, friendly owner of Globex Corporation. Scorpio is considered by some to be Albert Brooks' best voice performance on The Simpsons[9] and for this and four other guest performances he was named the greatest guest star in the show's history by IGN[9]. Brooks ad-libbed many of his lines.[10]
  • "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.
  • "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"
    • Roy (Harry Shearer), a teenager who briefly lives with the Simpson family. In the end of the episode he went to live in an apartment with two sexy ladies. He was originally planned to appear in "Treehouse of Horror V" in one of Homer's alternate realities. He appeared once in Simpsons Comics as part of Homer's boy band, Five from Field.
  • "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 Homer realizes that John is gay and that Bart likes John more than Homer.
  • "Homer's Enemy"
    • Frank Grimes (Hank Azaria) was a 35-year-old everyman who was the consummate professional, which clashes with Homer Simpson's idiocy. He was eventually driven insane by Homer's actions, grabbing some high voltage wires, saying "Well I don´t need safety gloves, because I´m Homer Simps..."; he never finished the sentence. In "Treehouse of Horror XII" he was on Lord Montymort's Wailing Wall. His tombstone appears in "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" and also in "My Mother The Carjacker". His son, Frank Grimes Jr., sought to avenge his father's death by killing Homer several seasons later.

Season 9

  • "The Joy of Sect"
    • The Leader (Hank Azaria) is the founder of the Movementarian cult. He had people join by telling them they would go to a planet Blisstonia and would take their money to build a rocket ship to escape Earth.
    • Greg (Harry Shearer) and Jane (Pamela Hayden) are two recruiters who work for the Leader.
  • "Lisa the Simpson:
    • Dr. Simpson (Tress MacNeille) is one of Homer's relatives, who unlike the Simpson men, is intelligent, socially mature, and professionally successful. She and other accomplished female Simpsons relatives reveal that the "Simpson's curse" (idiocy) is limited to male Simpsons.
  • "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.
  • "The Trouble with Trillions"
    • Agent Johnson (Harry Shearer) is Homer's agent who is really in pursuit of Monty Burns' trillion dollar bill.

Season 10

  • "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 psychodelic 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" they also make a appearances in "Mona Leaves-a" at Mona Simpson's funeral.
  • "They Saved Lisa's Brain"
    • Budoir Photographer (Tress MacNeille), an erotic photographer who took pictures of Homer after he stole runner-up prize from KBBL's "How Low Can You Go" contest.

Season 11

  • "Pygmoelian"
    • Dr. Velimorovic (Hank Azaria), a plastic surgeon who operates on Moe. The doctor also appeared 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).

Season 12

  • "Pokey Mom"
    • Jack Crowley (Michael Keaton), a sociopathic but artistic prisoner who is granted parole but must stay with Marge. He is also Jewish.
  • "Bye Bye Nerdie"
    • Francine Rhenquist (Kathy Griffin), a new bully at Springfield Elementary who repeatedly beats up Lisa because of her attraction to Lisa's nerd sweat. Francine appears briefly in the church scene in The Simpsons Movie.
  • "Trilogy of Error"
    • Thelonious (Frankie Muniz), a student at West Springfield Elementary who falls for Lisa when she accidentally ends up at West Springfield.

Season 13

  • "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.

Season 14

Season 15

Season 16

  • "Pranksta Rap"
    • Alcatrazz (Hank Azaria), a rapper who lets Bart onstage during a hip-hop concert.
  • "Goo Goo Gai Pan"
    • Madam Wu (Lucy Liu), a Chinese bureaucrat who must approve Selma's adoption of a child. ("Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on Wu!!!")
  • "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.
  • "Don't Fear the Roofer"
    • Ray Magini (Ray Romano), a roofer who looks like his voice actor (Ray Romano). He becomes Homer's friend, though everyone else thinks he is an imaginary figure thought up by Homer.
  • "A Star Is Torn"
    • Clarissa Wellington (Fantasia Barrino), a young singer who comes in third at the Li'l Starmakers competition.
    • Cameron/Johnny Rainbow, (Tress MacNeille), a contestant at the Li'l Starmakers competition whom Homer mentors after Lisa betrays him. The boy wins 2nd place.

Season 17

  • "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas"
    • Tammy (Lily Tomlin), leader of the Cheery Red Tomatoes, a larcenous women's group that tries to steal Montgomery Burns' Faberge egg. Agnes Skinner knows the safe's combination, having been given it by Burns many decades previously when Agnes let Burns feel her up.
  • "The Monkey Suit"
    • Wallace Brady (Larry Hagman), a lawyer representing intelligent design in a lawsuit who helped defend Ned Flanders in a court case about the teaching of creationism in public schools. Brady, a folksy Texan, claims Bambi's mother was killed by evolution.
    • Clarice Drummond (Tress MacNeille), Prof. Frink's lawyer who helped defend Lisa in a court case about the teaching of creationism in public schools. She is a scientist from New York, immediately distrusted by the provincial, small-minded Springfield jury.
  • "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play"
    • Tabitha Vixx (Mandy Moore), a pop singer married to Buck Mitchell of the Springfield Isotopes baseball team. 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.

Season 18

  • "Jazzy and the Pussycats"
    • Skinny Turner (Harry Shearer) and Marcus Marbles (Hank Azaria) are two jazz musicians that let Bart in their band.
  • "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.

Season 19

  • "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 David Diddlehopper (Steve Buscemi), a criminal who got arrested after a bank robbery. Marge promised she would visit him in prison. However Marge didn't 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 Dungeon". Unlike the Comic Book Guy, Milo has a girlfriend, isn't 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 from abuses from Bart.
    • Dame Judith Underdunk (Tress MacNeille) is Bob and Cecil's mother and an eminent Shakespearean actress.
  • "That 90's Show"
    • Professor Stefan August (Hank Azaria) Marge's college professor whom she develops a crush on in the 1990s.
  • "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.
  • "Papa Don't Leech"
    • Royce Lumpkin (Harry Shearer), Lurleen Lumpkin's father.
    • Homer Husbands, Lurleen's husbands who all resemble Homer but with a different look and job. Lurleen possibly married them to get the feeling of marrying Homer.
  • "Apocalypse Cow"
    • Mary Spuckler (Zooey Deschanel), Cletus's daughter who was almost forced to marry Bart, due to Bart's having inadvertently violated a hillbilly dating taboo.

The Simpsons Movie

  • Russ Cargill (Albert Brooks) - Cargill is a successful businessman and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (abbreviated as EPA) and the main antagonist of the film. After Homer pollutes Lake Springfield and causes the wildlife to mutate, Cargill presents this disturbing information to the President and convinces him to approve a plan to deal with the situation (There are actually five, but Schwarzenegger randomly chooses the third option without bothering to look at the plans). To this end, Cargill has a giant dome lowered on top of Springfield, sealing the city and its inhabitants off from the rest of the world. He later attempts to have Springfield demolished into the "'new'" Grand Canyon. In the end, he tries to shoot Homer on top of Springfield Gorge only to be knocked out by Maggie Simpson with a boulder. Cargill's motivations for trapping Springfield under the dome, although not explicitly stated, most likely stem from owning the company that built the dome and simply having gone mad with power. The deleted scenes on the Movie DVD shows that Cargill was originally going to be an older man in a sweater vest and quiff.
  • President Arnold Schwarzenegger (Harry Shearer) - President Schwarzenegger (a near replica of Rainier Wolfcastle, who is himself a parody of Schwarzenegger) is the President in the world of The Simpsons. He appears to be inept, shown by his phrase of "I was elected to lead, not to read". He is also easily manipulated by Russ Cargill into authorizing the destruction of Springfield, although Cargill cannot completely be blamed for the entrapment. 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, such as "Diaper Genie" in reference to the real Schwarzenegger's failed attempts to leave the action genre.
  • Colin (Tress MacNeille) is an environmentalist who had moved to Springfield from Ireland. He soon falls in love with Lisa, and the film ends leaving both of them holding hands. In the beginning of the film Lisa believed that Colin's dad was Bono since Colin was Irish and he said his father was 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 wrote a song for Lisa, but since she couldn't hear him through the dome, he was forced to write the sheet music in marker on the dome's surface. During the mob, at first he had flowers for Lisa (which touched her), but Carl Carlson lit them on fire, mistaking the bouquet for an unlit torch.
  • Medicine Woman (Tress MacNeille) - The Medicine Woman is an Alaskan Inuit who first appears in the wilderness of Alaska, warding off a polar bear who comes close to attacking Homer. After reviving Homer, she helps him have an epiphany, showing he has to care about others as much as himself. Homer refers to her as "Boob Lady" as a reference to her large breasts.

References

  1. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701217/ IMDB.com page for "Stark Raving Dad"
  2. ^ Washington Post
  3. ^ Mentioned by Mike Reiss in the DVD commentary for "Stark Raving Dad"
  4. ^ Mentioned in DVD commentary for the episode Flaming Moe's by Matt Groening.
  5. ^ Kirkland, Mark. (2004). The Simpsons Season 4 DVD commentary for the episode "Kamp Krusty" [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.
  6. ^ Mentioned in the DVD commentary for "Brother from the Same Planet".
  7. ^ Jean, Al. (2004). The Simpsons season 4 DVD commentary for the episode "Last Exit to Springfield" [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.
  8. ^ Mentioned in the DVD commentary for the episode "Homer the Great"
  9. ^ a b Goldman, Eric; Iverson, Dan; Zoromski, Brian. "Top 25 Simpsons Guest Appearances". IGN. Retrieved on 2008-05-02.
  10. ^ Weinstein, Josh. (2006). The Simpsons season 8 DVD commentary for the episode "You Only Move Twice" [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.
  11. ^ Mentioned in the DVD commentary for "Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment"
  12. ^ Mentioned in the DVD commentary for "The Principal and the Pauper".

See also

v • d • e
The Simpsons characters
The Simpson family and relatives
Homer Simpson · Marge Simpson · Bart Simpson · Lisa Simpson · Maggie Simpson · Abraham Simpson · Patty and Selma Bouvier · Mona Simpson · Santa's Little Helper · Snowball
Around Springfield
Comic Book Guy · Ned Flanders · Professor Frink · Barney Gumble · Dr. Hibbert · Lionel Hutz · Rev. Lovejoy · Hans Moleman · Apu Nahasapeemapetilon · Mayor Quimby · Dr. Nick Riviera · Cletus Spuckler · Moe Szyslak · Chief Wiggum
Springfield Elementary School faculty and students
Seymour Skinner · Edna Krabappel · Otto Mann · Groundskeeper Willie · Nelson Muntz · Martin Prince · Milhouse Van Houten · Ralph Wiggum
Media personalities
Celebrities · Itchy and Scratchy · Kent Brockman · Krusty the Clown · Troy McClure · Radioactive Man · Rainier Wolfcastle
Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Families
Montgomery Burns · Carl Carlson · Lenny Leonard · Waylon Smithers Simpson family · Flanders family · Van Houten family
Villains Miscellaneous
Kang and Kodos · Sideshow Bob · Springfield Mafia · Fat Tony Recurring characters · Fictional characters · One-time characters · Animals · Guest stars
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