In all fairness, Homer and his family are usually good for a laugh or two even during their absolute worst years, but the fact remains the hilarity is nowhere near at the level it once was.
During the first nine years it was on the air, The Simpsons was easily the funniest show on television, perhaps even the greatest program the medium has yet to create. No matter how big a Simpsons fan someone is, chances are they missed a couple seasons when the show reached its mid 20s, and who could blame them?
If you think you know it all, take our quiz and find out how well you know the golden age of The Simpsons. From the very beginning, Lisa Simpson is presented as significantly different from the rest of her family. It was the biggest television mystery of The owner of the nuclear power plant where Homer Simpson works, one C. Montgomery Burns, had been shot in what would be broad daily. Ultimately, however, it turned out there was a lone gunman, who almost no one suspected…unless they were paying attention to the many clues.
Believe it or not, of all the mischief Bart has gotten up to over the past 30 years, his biggest caper was arguably one of his first. Cutting the head off a local statue definitely garnered Bart the most attention, albeit not the kind he was looking for.
Bart was simply trying to impress a few older kids who took him to a cool movie. From the moment the two towns were founded, residents of Springfield and people living in Shelbyville have had trouble getting along.
It all goes back to the day Jebediah Springfield forced Shelbyville Manhattan out of his new settlement for suggesting inhabitants be allowed to marry their cousins. Since then, there has been constant pranking, taunting, and serious amounts of fighting whenever the local sports teams wage war. Homer Simpson is a funny, entertaining guy.
Before long, he was wanted in Capital City, allowing him to dance for sports fans all throughout, uh, whatever state Springfield is in. For all their faults, Homer and Marge Simpson have stayed together over 30 years with only a small number of major fights and arguments between them. Instead, Marge went out with a more articulate, intelligent fellow, who had a downside in that he turned out to be all hands.
They fight, and bite, and fight, and bite, and fight. Fight, fight, fight, bite, bite, bite. Enter cat, enter mouse, the two fight, cat usually dies in ridiculous fashion. The end. Unfortunately, producers being producers, network execs decide a new character was needed to the show so it could connect with kids, creating a dog to join the other animals in their antics.
Even with Homer providing the voice, the hound was a huge failure. A fling with a carnival worker even produced a son, also an older brother to Homer. One of the greatest tools sitcoms have at their disposal is parody of popular film, and The Simpsons excelled in this area like so many others, particularly during Halloween season with the Treehouse of Horror specials.
Heck, even the Comic Book Guy seems to have some level of adoration for the hero clad in red spandex, using nuclear based puns to fell his enemies into submission. Unfortunately, the concept of shared ownership soon drives them all mad with envy. Being a kid who already loves committing real life violence, the allure of being able to do so in a world without repercussion is obviously overpowering for Bart Simpson.
When a cool new game tells kids they should run up to their parents and demand they buy it for them immediately or go to hell, Bart takes up on that advice. Unfortunately for him, Homer and Marge show rare signs of good parenting and decide the boy is violent enough already.
Things get even worse when Bart takes matters into his own hands and gets caught trying to steal the game himself. Depending on how one feels about religion, it might just make perfect sense that most residents of Springfield are devout Christians. That might be the problem, as Reverend Lovejoy is one of the least committed men of the cloth television has ever borne witness towards. After several years of questionable behavior, Mr. Burns forces Homer Simpson to take a psychiatric aptitude test for daring wear a pink shirt to work on day.
Too lazy to fill out a quiz in his 30s, Homer hands the quiz over to Bart, inadvertently getting his dad locked up in a psychiatric facility. Once it starts talking, though, Lisa gets furious at the implications, abandoning her false idol to create more progressive toys.
Unsurprisingly, the business has a little trouble getting off the ground, until Homer takes pity on poor Ned and tells all his lefty friends about the store. In fact, the Simpsons happened to live across the street from two Presidents during their time in Springfield, yet only one seemed to have a particular problem with them.
Maybe he would have done better living near the Waltons. Throughout the majority of The Simpsons run, the most popular alcoholic beverage in Springfield is probably Duff beer. However, things change in a major way in the few short weeks after Homer shared his secret recipe for an incredibly alcoholic super drink, which Moe almost immediately steals and renames the Flaming Moe.
His commute to work takes forever, he can never find a parking space when he gets there, and the soda machine is always eating his change. Do they control the world somehow? They do, they do. Being a man of literally infinite means, billionaire nuclear power plant owner C. Montgomery Burns is willing to do absolutely whatever it takes to defeat a rival in an employee softball game.
Smithers does the footwork in finding some more modern baseball legends to help out, soon creating an All Star team featuring all but which name? Aside from cigarettes, the pastime the sisters love sharing the most involves watching their favorite TV show each and every week, something that almost costs Selma her life during her first murderous marriage.
Krusty only cares about more adult pursuits, like smoking, gambling, drinking, and having fun with his depressed pet monkey, Mr. All that said, even Krusty is moved when he sees how horrible the camp bearing his name is to the people who pay to stay there, so he decides to make it up to the kids in epic fashion. All right, this should be a pretty easy one. Far from a creative wordsmith, when Homer Simpson attempts to write a jingle for his plow company, it basically amounts to him saying the name of his business over and over again in slightly rhythmic fashion.
Then again, this is the town that commissioned a giant escalator to nowhere, so rash behavior like this was hardly anything new. Leave it to Lisa Simpson to realize the legend of this holiday is an outright lie, inspired by her belief the method of celebration is violently barbaric and serves almost no point. He is dumb and drinks a lot of beer, but will ultimately do the best he can for his family. He is rude to almost everyone and known for his bad luck with women. Ned Flanders is generally considered a pillar of the Springfield community and to have a perfect family.
While the original intention of his character was to be a genuinely nice person who Homer had no real reason to hate, as the show went on he became a caricature poking fun at the American Right.
Disco Stu is usually seen wearing a glittering retro style leisure suit. It is revealed in the show that despite his style, he is aware that the disco era is over and is not that fond of it. Milhouse Van Houten is Bart Simpson's best friend.
A frequent target of bullies, Bart often takes advantage of his trusting nature and gets him in trouble. Fat Tony is a crime family head whose real name is the subject of dispute. During the show he dies, only to be replaced by his thin cousin Fit Tony, who becomes Fat Tony after he starts stress-eating to deal with being a mob boss. Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky did not talk to his son, Krusty the Clown, after he chose to go into the entertainment industry instead of becoming a rabbi.
Krustofsky was voiced sometimes by Jackie Mason, who came from a family of rabbis and chose to be a comedian. The writers invented him due to their enjoyment of classic sea talk. Apu has a doctorate in computer science and operates the local Kwik-E-Mart. He is married and has octuplets with his wife. Eleanor Abernathy is better known as Crazy Cat Lady. After showing great promise as a young woman, she crumbled under pressure and became a mentally ill cat hoarder.
On the show, she mostly screams gibberish and throws cats at passersby. Carl Carlson is a friend and coworker of Homer who is known for being more serious than those around him. He is considered to be one of the most attractive men in Springfield. Nelson is alternately an antagonist and friend to other students at Springfield elementary school.
He is known for his signature laugh "Ha-ha! Marge Simpson is an archetypical stay-at-home TV mom. She often provides a moral compass and emotional support to her family while trying to manage their antics. Krusty the clown is an unstable addict who hits rock bottom numerous times throughout the show.
He struggles to cope with an apathetic staff and student body, as well as failed romantic entanglements and his controlling mother. William MacDougal is better known as Groundskeeper Willie. He is Springfield Elementary School's wild groundskeeper, who lives on school grounds in a shack.
Jimbo Jones' real name is Corky James Jones. He is an year-old sixth-grader who enjoys shoplifting and beating up younger kids and comes from a wealthy family. While he does ridiculous things to get laughs, when not in character he speaks in a very posh standard UK accent and owns poodles.
Chief Clarence "Clancy" Wiggum is a stereotype of an incompetent, corrupt and lazy police officer. His son is Ralph Wiggum. Kent Brockman hosts the Channel 6 weekday news in Springfield, as well as a number of other shows. He is known for his curmudgeonly personality and his feud with a traffic reporter. Better known as Reverend Lovejoy, this character moved to Springfield initially enthusiastic about helping people.
Over the years he became jaded and gave up, but no one in his congregation seemed to notice. She is jealous, demanding of his time, and hates any woman he shows interest in.
Lenford "Lenny" Leonard is a coworker and friend of Homer Simpson. He spends a lot of time at Moe's Tavern with Homer and their other friends. Elizabeth Hoover is a second-grade teacher at Springfield Elementary School who has been worn down by her years on the job. She drinks and smokes at work and on a few occasions even leaves entirely, letting a student teach for her.
Edna Krabappel was once an optimistic young woman who wanted to help people, but that changed over the course of her years working in public education. She has a secret relationship with Springfield Elementary School Principal Seymour Skinner throughout much of the show.
The omissions I'm talking about are in the first nine seasons. Some one-off characters are here. Some aren't. For example, there's an Albanian exchange student named Adil who lives with the Simpsons for an episode.
He's not here. Bergstrom, Lisa's substitute teacher, isn't here. Principal Dondelinger, the principal from Marge and Homer's high school, appears in several episodes from Seasons , but he's not here either. Stampy, Bart's pet elephant for a single episode, is here. Princess, Lisa's pet pony for a single episode, isn't. I know you can't possibly get everyone, but if I try Mr.
Bergstrom, who was the focus of a whole episode, and he doesn't work, why would I think to try the name of the guy who controlled the Gabbo puppet? Sparkle isn't even a real character. He's a dishwashing detergent mascot that appears in one episode, and he's here. It's just impossible to tell where the line is, and I found it frustrating. I got that much, just couldn't remember the last name. Plus I kept on thinking it was kent brockhouse. Got which was a good score.
Janey is Black and Herb is white. Plus Herb never lived in Springfield. He was adopted as a baby, and as an adult he lived in Detroit. Create Account. About JetPunk. Featured Quizzes. Simpsons Characters Quiz We made a list of the Simpsons characters from the first 9 years of the show. Name as many as you can.
Quiz by Quizmaster. Profile Quizzes Subscribed Subscribe? First submitted December 22, Times taken , Rating 4. Start Quiz. Enter character here:. Pause Quiz Take Untimed Help. The quiz is paused. You have remaining. Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats Retake Quiz. Simpson Family. I'm a big simpsons fan and still only got Not so good, not enough time, need more time then it will be good, i watched my mate get , not long enough.
Make the ambiguous ones a bit more lenient, for example I put 'Texan' and 'Jewish Man' for the rich Texan and the old Jewish man and they weren't counted, since they don't have an actual name variations should be accepted. Non-Canon, i. What about Pinchy? Excellent, fun quiz. Well happy to get Laura Powers, guess that old Simpsons poster I used to have paid off. The missing character that came to my mind was Krusty's sometime sidekick Corporal Punishment.
Looks like they omitted any real-world people. Nice quiz, but a bit annoying that you accept first names for some, last names for some, but only first AND last names for others i. Scott Christian, Birch Barlow. Completely agree with this. Possible additions: Malibu stacy fictional characters , Laddie, pinchy animals , hugo, Mr. I was surprised Mr Bergstrom wasn't in it! I am surprised that people that have never watched it, but have heard about it, only know bart and homer and not marge lisa and maggie..
Your adds keep ruining the counter, running in the background and locking up the quiz. It is possible to find characters that weren't on here, but only if you are a big Simpsons fan like myself. Good job on the list :. This has been my favorite show since day 1 and I am ashamed at my brain failure. Can you accept Mr. Why do you include some one-off characters like Mindy Simmons and Frank Grimes, but not others?
I know. Could you consider accepting Dr. I don't know what it says about me that the least guessed character I could come up with was Boobarella I got krusty's dad but didn't get several of the more known ones eventhough I could picture them Like smithers, marge's sisters, and the bullies' names. This was a very good quiz. However for Aristotle Amadopolis and other names, you should accept the first name, because I put Aristotle not knowing the surname but it would not let me have it.
Great quiz that you can revisit now and again. Just a little nitpick, but on the Simpsons tag page , it says "How many Simpons characters can you name? What about the real Seymour Skinner? Obviously most people would get it via type-in, but I still think he should be included for integrity's sake. You could add: 1. Princess Penelope 2. Lou the cow 3.
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