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0329 - Homeless Man
🕑 Added 2024-04-29 08:00:01 +0000 UTCThe first of two men who befriend Bart after he gives blood.
They are a presence for the rest of the episode and very few jokes are made at their expense - I think the show's intent is not to make fun of the unhoused, but to humanise them, for a bit of holiday sentimentality. An unfortunate by-product of this is that while these two are nice and pleasant, there's not a lot to them.
Simpsons Wiki lists his name as "Casey", but this is not said in the episode at all, nor does he have any further appearances as far as I can tell. This led to me tracking down a production script of the episode where, yes indeed, these two are named:
This particular page also reveals we missed out on some potential Scott Christian action. Alas.
This post is part of my "Every Simpsons Character Ever" series. For a list of my rules in this project, click here.
