The Simpsons

by Matt Groening / Fox

69 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Apu Nahasapeemapetilon — Owner of the Kwik-E-Mart and Springfield's most industrious citizen — a PhD in computer science who works 23-hour days and considers the convenience s
• Barney Gumble — Springfield's town drunk and Homer's best friend — a man of wasted potential and extraordinary belching ability who was Harvard-bound before beer inte
• Bart Simpson — Ten-year-old anarchist and Springfield's most famous underachiever — a natural born prankster with a guilty conscience he would never admit to having.
• C. Montgomery Burns — Springfield's oldest, richest, and meanest citizen — the billionaire owner of the nuclear power plant who treats human beings as an inconvenience and
• Carl Carlson — Homer's other coworker and Lenny's inseparable best friend — smarter than his bar-stool position suggests, with an IQ of 214 that Springfield keeps fa
• Chief Wiggum — Head of the Springfield Police Department: obese, corrupt, donut-obsessed, and genuinely convinced he is doing a fine job, all available evidence asid
• Comic Book Guy — Proprietor of the Android's Dungeon: morbidly obese, relentlessly sarcastic, and the undisputed authority on every piece of pop culture Springfield ha
• Disco Stu — Springfield's ageless disco devotee — a man living forty years outside his moment who has committed to the bit so completely that it may not be a bit
• Dr. Hibbert — Springfield's most competent physician: warm, well-dressed, and possessed of a laugh that arrives at inappropriate moments with the reliability of a t
• Dr. Nick Riviera — Springfield's least qualified physician: a cheerful quack with dubious credentials, an open-door policy for malpractice, and the catchphrase 'Hi every
• Fat Tony — Don of the Springfield Mafia — a genteel, well-dressed crime boss who finds the town's general incompetence somewhat relaxing and runs his operations
• Grampa Simpson — Homer's father and Springfield's most garrulous resident — a WWII veteran and nursing home regular who has stories he cannot quite finish and a grip o
• Groundskeeper Willie — Springfield Elementary's Scottish groundskeeper: shirtless at the first provocation, built like a rugby player, and aggressively proud of being the mo
• Hans Moleman — Springfield's unluckiest resident — a tiny, mole-like man of indeterminate extreme age who dies repeatedly by various means and is always back the nex
• Herb Powell — Homer's long-lost half-brother — a self-made auto industry millionaire who found his family and then lost his fortune and then found it again in the s
• Homer Simpson — Safety inspector at a nuclear plant, Homer is catastrophically stupid, genuinely loving, and perpetually one donut away from contentment — or disaster
• Kent Brockman — Channel 6 news anchor and the voice of Springfield's catastrophes — a man of artificial gravitas and real willingness to announce the end of civilizat
• Krusty the Clown — Springfield's most famous entertainer: a cynical, chain-smoking, addiction-riddled clown who hates children, loves money, and is somehow still the mos
• Lenny Leonard — Homer's coworker at the nuclear plant and one of his best friends — a blue-collar regular with a master's degree in nuclear physics and a running prob
• Lionel Hutz — Springfield's most desperate attorney — a shyster who has lost nearly every case he has tried and will take any client because any client is better th
• Lisa Simpson — Springfield's eight-year-old moral conscience, jazz musician, and intellectual outcast — the smartest person in every room, and the loneliest.
• Maggie Simpson — The youngest Simpson, permanently one year old, permanently sucking her pacifier — silent, observant, and statistically the most dangerous member of t
• Marge Simpson — The moral and logistical backbone of the Simpson family, Marge holds everything together with the patience of a saint and the quiet anxiety of someone
• Martin Prince — Springfield Elementary's star academic — a relentless teacher's pet and certified genius who is Nelson's favorite target and Lisa's occasional rival.
• Maude Flanders — Ned's devout first wife and the moral and domestic center of the Flanders household — present in the Golden Age, gone by Season 11.
• Mayor Quimby — Springfield's mayor: a Kennedy-accented political machine of corruption, womanizing, and the specific shamelessness of someone who has never once worr
• Milhouse Van Houten — Bart's best friend: small, nearsighted, deeply susceptible to bad ideas, and sincerely in love with Lisa Simpson, who has not yet figured out what to
• Moe Szyslak — Proprietor of Moe's Tavern, Springfield's only bar — a perpetually miserable, absurdly loyal bartender who takes prank calls from Bart Simpson and has
• Mrs. Krabappel — Bart's fourth-grade teacher: a once-idealistic educator now running on cigarettes, wine, and the specific exhaustion of thirty years in the Springfiel
• Ned Flanders — Homer's next-door neighbor: a devout, relentlessly cheerful Christian who owns the Leftorium and represents the maddening persistence of genuine goodn
• Nelson Muntz — Springfield Elementary's resident bully — a genuinely tough kid from a genuinely bad home life who would rather punch things than explain what's actua
• Otto Mann — Springfield Elementary's school bus driver: a heavy metal aficionado, recreational drug enthusiast, and genuinely cool guy who operates a vehicle full
• Patty Bouvier — Marge's twin sister: DMV worker, chain smoker, confirmed lesbian, and the more aggressive of the two sisters who have made their disapproval of Homer
• Principal Skinner — Principal of Springfield Elementary: a Vietnam vet, mama's boy, and meticulous disciplinarian locked in permanent escalating battle with Bart Simpson
• Professor Frink — Springfield's resident scientist: brilliant, erratic, and burdened by a vocal tic that inserts itself between him and every sentence he's trying to fi
• Rainier Wolfcastle — Springfield's resident action movie star — a musclebound Austrian who plays McBain on screen and is earnest enough about it to miss every joke at his
• Ralph Wiggum — Chief Wiggum's son and Springfield Elementary's most reliably unparseable student — a boy who exists at the outer limit of what words mean.
• Reverend Lovejoy — Springfield's Presbylutheran minister — a man of cloth whose faith runs on institutional obligation rather than passion, largely due to years of Ned F
• Rod Flanders — Ned's older son — a devout, earnest boy who prays before bed, after breakfast, and probably during recess.
• Selma Bouvier — Marge's other twin sister: chain-smoking DMV worker, serial divorcée, and a woman who wants love badly enough to have married Sideshow Bob, Troy McClu
• Sherri and Terri — Springfield Elementary's identical twin girls — always together, always slightly synchronized, and the source of most of the school's social intellige
• Sideshow Bob — Cultured, operatic, and homicidal — Krusty's former sidekick turned criminal mastermind, whose recurring attempts to murder Bart Simpson are the one g
• Sideshow Mel — Krusty's current sidekick after Sideshow Bob's departure — a man of Shakespearean self-importance who plays second banana with grandiose dignity.
• Snake Jailbird — Springfield's most recurring criminal: a valley-accented recidivist who gets arrested, escapes, and returns with the reliable cadence of someone with
• Superintendent Chalmers — Superintendent of the Springfield school district — a permanently exasperated overseer whose inspections of Springfield Elementary always go catastrop
• Todd Flanders — Ned's youngest son — impressionable, sheltered, and the most unsettled by the gap between Springfield's world and his father's worldview.
• Troy McClure — Has-been actor and Springfield's most tireless self-promoter — you may remember him from such films as 'Dial M for Murderousness' and 'Leper in the Ba
• Waylon Smithers — Mr. Burns's perfectly loyal personal assistant, who manages his boss's schedule, his correspondence, and a complicated internal life that Springfield

Locations

• 742 Evergreen Terrace — The Simpson family home — a beige two-story house in a middle-class Springfield neighborhood that has been everything from the center of the universe
• First Church of Springfield — Springfield's Presbyterian-Lutheran church — where Ned Flanders worships fervently, the Simpsons appear at Christmas and Easter, and Reverend Lovejoy
• Krustylu Studios — The television studio where The Krusty the Clown Show is recorded — a working production facility with the energy of a place that has been putting on
• Kwik-E-Mart — Springfield's convenience store — Apu's domain, open all day every day, selling Squishees, terrible hot dogs, and everything else Springfield needs at
• Moe's Tavern — Springfield's only bar — a dark, low-ceilinged establishment that smells like thirty years of Duff and serves as the social center for Homer, Barney,
• Shelbyville — Springfield's neighboring rival town — nearly identical in every respect, bitterly opposed in all of them, and the source of constant low-level hostil
• Springfield — A mid-sized American town in a state no one agrees on — the most average place on earth, and therefore the place where everything happens.
• Springfield DMV — The Department of Motor Vehicles — Patty and Selma's workplace and the institutional face of the indignities Springfield residents endure for a driver
• Springfield Elementary School — The school where Bart, Lisa, and most Springfield children learn things they mostly forget — underfunded, crumbling, and running largely on Skinner's
• Springfield General Hospital — Springfield's main hospital — where Dr. Hibbert practices competently and Dr. Nick practices enthusiastically, and where Springfield's injuries are ad
• Springfield Gorge — The gorge near Springfield — officially the third most beautiful gorge in the state, and the site of Bart's most famous failed daredevil stunt.
• Springfield Mall — Springfield's commercial center — a standard American mall where the Leftorium is located, Lionel Hutz has an office, and Springfield residents conver
• Springfield Nuclear Power Plant — Mr. Burns's two-reactor nuclear power plant — Springfield's largest employer, primary power source, and the site of Homer Simpson's daily contribution
• Springfield Penitentiary — Springfield's prison — where Snake is frequently paroled from, Sideshow Bob has been incarcerated and escaped multiple times, and various Springfield
• Springfield Police Station — Headquarters of the Springfield Police Department — where Chief Wiggum operates, Lou and Eddie work, and crimes are processed with the thoroughness Sp
• Springfield Retirement Castle — Springfield's nursing home where Grampa Simpson lives — an underfunded facility that is better than it could be and worse than it should be.
• Springfield Town Hall — The seat of Springfield's municipal government — Mayor Quimby's domain, where civic decisions are made with the rigor Springfield deserves.
• The Android's Dungeon — Comic Book Guy's domain — a comic book and collectibles shop on the Springfield town square where all things nerdy converge and nothing is overpriced
• The Flanders House — The Flanders family home next door to the Simpsons — immaculate, cheerfully maintained, and a visual rebuke to 742 that no one on either side mentions

Items

• Duff Beer — Springfield's beer — the most popular brand in town, Homer's preferred beverage, and a product whose quality control has been described as aspirationa
• Santa's Little Helper — The Simpson family's greyhound dog — a failed racing dog adopted on Christmas Eve who has been mildly catastrophic and deeply beloved ever since.

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