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Patreon Print - August 2022
So a bit of a unique Patreon print this month! This is every speaking character that I've drawn for this project, from the Tracey Ullman shorts to "Moaning Lisa", to celebrate a full year.If you'd like this as an A5 print, be a £10 or higher patron this month and it'll get sent ...
BONUS! Murphy's Band
Technically these guys should come after tomorrow's entry, as they appear at the end of the episode, but I want to keep Friday's slot open for a wrap-up post. You got a problem with that? Well then I'M SORRY. I'll try to do better.This is most of Murphy's band from the jazz club ...
0124 - Kid
This is one of two kids we see talking to Lisa at the end of "Moaning Lisa":(Spoilers for Thursday's entry: they both get lines.)Kid #1 is a true one off character, as far as I can tell he has literally no other appearances. MOVING ON.This post is part of my "Every Simpsons Character...
0123 - Howard's Mum
No deep dive on Howard's judgemental mum I'm afraid, she's as one-dimensional as they come:I like her boots.Come back Monday for more insightful commentary.This post is part of my "Every Simpsons Character Ever" series. For a list of my rules in this project, click here.
August Patreon Print Preview Poll...Problems
SO I have a minor dilemma.The Patreon Print is one of my selling points for this whole project, and I love doing it. To mark a full year of the Patreon being in full swing*, I had planned to mark the occasion with a special print, featuring EVERY "numbered" character we've encountered so...
BONUS! NOT Howard
I often use the Simpsons Wiki as a basis for my research, but I feel COMPELLED to make my voice heard in matters as AGREGIOUS as this.I went though every episode listed in Howard's appearances, from yesterday. The first couple, I found him near instantly...but then I could not find hide nor hair...
0122 - Howard
In some other version of the series, Howard is a regular background character. He has more going for him than most of the bozos we see here, in that he has a) a name b) a distinct appearance and c) even a gimmick. If the Simpson family had had many more videogame/arcade based adventures, perhaps How...
0121 - Kid At Arcade
A kid who has no qualms with talking to the adult man that has approached a group of children:I always feel a need to provide a screenshot for these blink and you'll miss them characters. Like, until I rewatched this episode, I could not have told you this guy existed. And now, I will never thin...
BONUS! Girl At Arcade
The more obscure ones are my favourites. Can you tell?This post is part of my "Every Simpsons Character Ever" series. For a list of my rules in this project, click here.
0120 - Arcade Owner
Another guy behind a counter for Homer to briefly interact with. He joins the ranks of classic characters as the Santa pay cheque lady, the racetrack guy, the pawn shop guy and Dr Monroe's receptionist. This is starting to be a theme!I'm making assumptions about him being the arcade owner, i...
BONUS! Customer At Moes
This guy caught my eye:I'm paying more attention to Sam and Larry more than I ever have, in the hope they speak soon, but I'm fairly certain this dude will never appear again.I hope the patrons at Moes enjoy the...melting bowling ball show? It's a colour TV! Moe must have upgraded since ...
0119 - Dream Boxer Bart
This b-plot about Homer and the boxing game is giving us as many characters as the "main" Lisa plot in this episode. Lisa is often an unserved character, and I feel bad that even in her first proper episode Bart and Homer are taking over!This post is part of my "Every Simpsons Character ...
0118 - Dream Boxer Homer
This is a weird week. I mean, I suppose they're all weird weeks. But this is especially weird.It's one of those situations where these "characters" are part of Homer's subconscious, but they're visually different enough that I'm counting them as separate and unique from t...
0117 - Jacqueline Bouvier
Marge's mother actually first appears in a dream sequence, but it felt only right to do her "regular" appearance too.Her name is a reference to Jacqueline Kennedy (whose maiden name was Bouvier), although it doesn't come up here. She was always a mysterious character that I wanted to...
0116 - Bleeding Gums Murphy
Here's a fairly recognisable character, despite never being popular. Did I make a similar comment for Dr Marvin Monroe? Who can even remember.Murphy is actually somewhat similar to Dr Marvin Monroe in that he appears more than you might think throughout the show. He has two "headline" ap...
0115.5 - Super Slugfest Referee (plus BONUSES)
Ooh, this may be controversial.See, this guy appears in the game that Homer and Bart play in the b-plot of this episode. The technical limitations of 1990 video games means he has no "lines"...at least not audio lines:But a speech bubble clearly indicates that he is speaking, right? Plus he ...
0115 - Gym Teacher
We've marvelled a few times at the consistency of nobody characters, most recently the Retirement Castle receptionist a couple of weeks back, but sadly there is no consistency in Lisa's gym teacher, and frankly I think it's time we rioted about it.I was surprised that this character from...
Patreon Prints - July 2022
What's that you say? Prints? PLURAL? Absurd.This Patreon launched in August 2021 so to celebrate a full year of Patreon prints, I thought I'd do something a little special this month. I'll be sending out TWO A5 prints, Lenford and Carton, at no extra cost, to supporters at the £10 or hi...
0114 - Janey Powell
It's a sad thing that the closest thing Lisa Simpson has to a "best friend" is quite an obscure character, relatively speaking. Janey exists mainly as someone for Lisa to talk to in a scene, sometimes as a friend, sometimes as a bully.Often Janey is a figure that does not understand Lisa...
Bart The General - round up!
Our lightest episode to date! And the fact that they're mostly kids make this look very thin in terms of characters. We really breezed through this one, but it was nice to see the iconic introduction of classic characters such as Nelson, Herman, and...um...We're up to 113 characters total, o...
BONUS! Sailor Kid
This kid was more memorable than the other three this week, so he felt worthy of inclusion here, although I was surprised to discover he doesn't get a line, excluding him from a valued and coveted numbered entry.The moment is a reference to the famous V-J Day in Times Square photo. Honestly, thi...
0113 - Kid
The FINAL character of "Bart the General" is the one who gets most to do from this whole week. Dare I say, you may even remember him:Although I'll forgive you if you don't.I'm having a strange déjà vu type feeling where I feel like this kid appears elsewhere in the series, but ...
0112 - Kid Who Falls In Bin
We get a better look at this kid than yesterday's offering, he even gets to share screen time with our old buddies Richard and Lewis!He falls into a bin and is never heard from again. I have a soft spot for beady-eyed characters like him, partially because that's how I tend to draw eyes myse...
0111 - Kid
We're in the home stretch of this episode...we're also deep in the weeds here.Bart trains up an army to take on Nelson, elevating Nelson's threat level far beyond where is would be in the future, and we are treated to a montage of them in his boot camp. During this sequence we are introd...
0110 - Herman Hermann
I always got the impression that Herman was based on an actual person from a writer's childhood or something. He's very specific, and has the sort of odd creepy energy that might linger in someone's memory for years.After a couple of significant early appearances, Herman quickly becomes ...
0109 - Retirement Castle Receptionist
This lady is surprisingly consistent! I think when most people think of employees at the Retirement Castle they think of the nurse with the gun, but this lady makes a couple of appearances.First she appears in this episode:By season two's "Old Money" she has dyed her hair blue, I am unab...
BONUS! Kids, Dead Part and Punching Bag
BART THE GENERAL SPEED ROUND ACTIVATE.Am I pushing it by including:a) a duo that Bart briefly runs past with less than three seconds of screentimeb) a dead character, that we've already covered, within a fantasy sequencec) an inanimate object?I sure am! I can't help it, I like drawing, and t...
0108 - Black Weasel
What can be said about Black Weasel that hasn't already been covered in the White Weasel entry? Turns out...not much.Since I rewatched this episode I have seen another few odd episodes here and there and I have noticed the weasels pop up as minor background characters on rare occasions. So why a...
0107 - Kid Behind Door
This is a real blink and you'll miss it character.He does not speak (qualifying him for inclusion) until after the crowd cheers and he peeks out.The fact that he calls Bart a hero after being slammed behind a door by him is a minor joke I had never noticed before. This idea of Bart being a hero ...
0106 - Nelson Muntz
I think Nelson is genuinely quite scary in his first appearance, although that is partially because I first saw him torturing Bart when I was at a bullyable age myself. I guess I'm still technically at a bullyable age. Please don't bully me.For years Nelson represented the threat of the scho...
