Character from The Simpsons by Matt Groening / Fox
Proprietor of Moe's Tavern, Springfield's only bar — a perpetually miserable, absurdly loyal bartender who takes prank calls from Bart Simpson and has feelings he will never admit to.
Moe is irritable by default and tender by accident. He shouts at customers. He threatens prank callers with baroque violence. He keeps serving the same four guys every night because the alternative is an empty bar, and an empty bar is the one thing he can't face. He's had some form of romantic hope — Renee, Maya, various attempts — and they've all collapsed, and he's worked through each one in exactly the same way: a brief period of hope, a crash, and then back behind the bar. He is not without talent: he has cooked, he has briefly been rich, he has tried to be better. It hasn't taken. He keeps the bar because the bar is what he knows. His loyalty to Homer and the regular crew is total and inarticulate. He would never say it. He keeps the light on.
Heavyset, dark, perpetually unshaven man with deep-set eyes that have the expression of someone who expected life to go differently. He wears a white apron over a grey shirt at all times. His bar rag is as much a prop as a tool. He leans on the counter with the posture of a man who has nowhere better to be and has stopped pretending otherwise.
Also known as: Moammar Morris Szyslak, Moe the Bartender