Sam and Larry Sam and
Lawrence "
Larry"
Dalrymple (voiced by
Hank Azaria and
Harry Shearer, respectively), also known as "Barfly #1" and "Barfly #2", are two regular patrons of
Moe's Tavern. Their first appearance is in "
Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". Virtually nothing is known about them, except that Sam, whose design is based on co-creator
Sam Simon, always wears a cap and glasses and Larry has an orange jacket and a balding head and either looks extremely drunk or very depressed. Sam has spoken only a few times throughout the series; on the season three episode "
Lisa the Greek", Sam asks Homer what he bet on outcome of the Super Bowl, and in "
Radioactive Man" he simultaneously says "That makes sense" to Moe, along with others at the bar, when Moe tells the barflies that the child actor who played Alfalfa that Moe killed was an orphan who was owned by the studio. In "
Worst Episode Ever" Sam is shot in the back by
Moe, for trying to pay in
Sacagawea dollars. Larry also rarely speaks, except simultaneously with Sam,
Barney Gumble and
Homer Simpson in "
Radioactive Man" and in fantasy sequences (in "
Marge Be Not Proud", Larry utters a garbled, "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" after Bart receives a soiled wig during Bart's image of spending Christmas in juvenile hall and in "
Simpson Tide", Larry grumbles, "This stupid machine took my money!" when Apu was thinking of his loved one—in this case, his Kwik-E-Mart cigarette machine that steals money and does not dispense cigarettes). Larry dies while drinking at the bar in "
Cremains of the Day". After his death, it is revealed that he had been smuggling sapphires for Fat Tony. He apparently considered the other regulars at Moe's to be his best friends even though they knew very little about him. It is also revealed that Larry's home address was 652 8th Avenue, enjoyed fishing and Larry told his mother, Iris Dalrymple, about the regulars being his best friends.
Sanjay Nahasapeemapetilon Sanjay Nahasapeemapetilon (voiced by
Harry Shearer) Like Bernice Hibbert and Martha Quimby, she is a background character who appears most frequently in a nonspeaking role. However, in
The Simpsons Game she only ever says "Clancy!", whether hit by or in Marge's
mob. In the episode, "
A Star Is Born Again", at the Jellyfish Dance, Clancy mentions she was more beautiful at that moment than the day he arrested her, to which she giggles in reply. He then mentions he only planted the
crystal meth on her so she would "notice" him so he has an excuse to arrest her and fall in love with her, despite not doing the crystal meth, any drugs, or any crimes in general. Sarah (according to Clancy) is his "home force" and he lovingly calls her "
Poppin' Fresh". In the episode "
Grade School Confidential", she immediately dials the authorities to Clancy's command. Ralph apparently gets his appearance from her, as the two look very similar. According to "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind", Marge does not like Sarah at all and tried to keep her from Homer's cruise party. But in later episodes such as "
The Great Wife Hope" and "
The Devil Wears Nada", Sarah is seen with Marge in groups with other Springfield moms in outings or charity meetings, apparently making an effort to get to know her better. In the episode "
Uncut Femmes", her only major role to date, she reveals her true self to Marge entirely different than what she was before, including flashbacks of how she and Clancy met, of which the story was heavily retconned from what was said previously. She was a professional criminal tasked with distracting Clancy, then a security guard, in the course of a heist gone wrong. In the present, she and Marge retrieve one of the stolen items from the heist and she eventually reveals her past to Clancy, who is intrigued by her history. In the episode "
Poorhouse Rock" Sarah is seen again in her new retconned voice and personality, but is in the original character design in a guest appearance. In one of the unaired "storylines" leaked in the episode "
Lisa the Boy Scout", Clancy confronts Sarah for cheating on him with Eddie the cop, who is revealed to be the actual father of Ralph. In this appearance, she acted like her old self when it comes to her mannerisms.
Scott Christian Scott Christian (voiced by
Dan Castellaneta) is a
newsreader from the early seasons of the show. Christian and
Kent Brockman shared the anchor desk equally, but eventually Brockman started to become the more commonly used anchor. In his final appearances, Christian was used mostly when Kent was in the field and an introduction was needed. His final speaking appearance was "
The Boy Who Knew Too Much", save for one syllable in "
Radioactive Man". Christian was supposed to be permanent anchor, always filling in for an absent Brockman, but was quickly phased out as the show progressed. He briefly appeared (with red colored hair) with the other Springfield celebrities in the season 18 episode "
Homerazzi" and made an appearance in "
Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?". He reappears, then dies in "
Burger Kings". He was back in "
Cremains of the Day".
Sea Captain Captain Horatio McCallister (voiced by
Hank Azaria), more commonly known as "
The Sea Captain", created by
Conan O'Brien. His character is based on the stereotype of sailors and pirates, including the stereotypical pirate catchphrase, "Yarr!" He is a member of the Springfield
Alcoholics Anonymous and has a peg leg in which he keeps liquor. In "
The Bart of War" he uses his wooden leg to have a vicious sword fight with
Sideshow Mel's bone. He is commonly referred to simply as "the Sea Captain", though when he took the witness stand in "
New Kid on the Block", Lionel Hutz clearly addresses him as "Captain McCallister". The Sea Captain is always seen holding a corncob pipe and squinting (because he has at least one glass eye, though once he was seen tapping both of his eyes, stating he has two glass eyes). He also has an artificial leg. As an entrepreneur, McCallister is equally incompetent. On several occasions, he acknowledges his incompetence with a depressed: "Yarr, I don't know what I'm doin'." Although he once states under oath (in "New Kid on the Block") that he is not a real sea captain, at various occasions in later episodes he is indeed shown captaining a ship (even though "Bart's Girlfriend" revealed that he "...hate[s] the sea and everything in it" during the part where he watches ships crash). His restaurant,
The Frying Dutchman, is a failing business venture that does not generate enough income to support its owner. During the episode "
Mr. Plow", the Captain pitches his 90 track
sea shanties CD set in a commercial, which aired on
public-access television cable TV channel 92. In the episode "
Lisa Gets an 'A', the captain appears as a penniless bum. When seeing Homer and Marge walking Homer's pet lobster at the beach, he approaches them and claims that he runs a "small academy for lobsters". However, when Marge refuses to send the lobster away to "some snobby boarding school", McCallister asks her for spare change instead. It is implied that he may be bisexual; in the episode "
A Star Is Born Again", he responds to what he believes as Ned Flanders showing interest in him with, "Are you hitting on me? Because I don't do that.....on land." His only main roles were in episodes "New Kid on the Block" and in "
The Wettest Stories Ever Told". In the former, Homer sues his restaurant, The Frying Dutchman, because they kicked him out at the restaurant's closing time before Homer had eaten all he could eat. In the latter, he cannot bring the Simpsons their food for numerous reasons like the "chef having problems with tonight's special", which was an octopus. He then ignores the family while playing pickup
basketball games with the restaurant's staff. Azaria modeled the voice on
Robert Newton, who played pirates in several movies. The writers' "love of sea talk" is what inspired them to invent the Sea Captain.
Shauna Chalmers Shauna Chalmers (voiced by
Tress MacNeille) is a rebellious, promiscuous teenager who is Superintendent Chalmers' daughter. She is usually portrayed as Jimbo's girlfriend, but in "
The D'oh-cial Network", she apparently sent a message to everybody promising to make out with them. In "
Beware My Cheating Bart", she has a relationship with Bart. In "
Girls Just Shauna Have Fun", she and Lisa discover that they have a shared passion of playing instruments.
Sherri and Terri Sherri and '''Terri Mackleberry they share their birthday with Rod Flanders. In one episode when it seemed as if Springfield was going to be lost in a nuclear explosion, it was Sherri—rather than Terri—who was picked for survival by Principal Skinner. The girls themselves dress identically, reinforcing their "twin-ness". They are quite rude and snobbish, and never miss an opportunity to berate Bart and make fun of Lisa. Bart appears to have a crush on one of them, as admitted in "
Hungry, Hungry Homer". Sherri referred to Bart as an ugly, smelly dork, but was persuaded by Homer to go on a date with Bart after he told her that she could not do much better. Sherri stated that Terri had a crush on Bart in "
Bart Star". Another time, in "
Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder", Homer openly addressed Sherri as "the girl Bart has a crush on". In "
The Way We Weren't", they introduce a cousin who has a crush on Bart. In "
The Blue and the Gray", it was revealed that they were actually conjoined triplets, and that the third triplet is seeking revenge. The third triplet is seen by Marge in "
The Daughter Also Rises", but they suggest that she may only be hallucinating. In "
Lisa's Substitute", they nominate Bart as the class president.
Sideshow Bob Sideshow Mel Melvin Van Horne, better known as
Sideshow Mel (voiced by
Dan Castellaneta), is
Krusty the Clown's sidekick. He replaced
Sideshow Bob after Bob was incarcerated for
framing Krusty for armed robbery. Mel's hiring was never explicitly shown in the series and his full name was only revealed when he announced himself while trying to solve the mystery of who shot Mr. Burns in the episode "
Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" and in the episode "
All About Lisa" on the portrait of Sideshow Mel in the past. He first appeared in "
Itchy & Scratchy & Marge", shortly after Sideshow Bob was sent to prison, filling the exact role that Bob once did. Little is known about Mel. He is a
Cornell University graduate, and a former ''Gulp 'n Blow'' employee (during the time that Krusty's show was cancelled, and Bart and Lisa set out to create a comeback special). Sideshow Mel is revealed, in the episode entitled "All About Lisa", to have been the winner of the prestigious Springfield Entertainer of the Year award. The intoxication of applause made him reduce himself to ridiculous behavior for laughter, which he compared to doing heroin and checking email. Sideshow Mel uses a
slide whistle to communicate on camera, just like Bob. When not in character, Mel speaks in a grandiose English/
Received Pronunciation accent (Castellaneta's play on
Kelsey Grammer's character,
Sideshow Bob) and owns poodles. When Springfield inhabitants form an angry mob, Mel often takes a leading role. Mel wears a bone in his hair that has been used as a weapon. In "
22 Short Films About Springfield", Mel reveals that he got the bone stuck in his hair by trying to dig gum out with it. In "
Homerazzi" it was revealed that Mel was in a bitter
custody battle and that he has a son, who looks just like him except without a bone in his hair. In "
I'm with Cupid", he reveals he has a wife named Barbara, who appears in "
Realty Bites" where they are bowling in a house that Marge tries to sell to them. She is revealed to be giving birth in the episode "
All About Lisa", suggesting that Mel has at least two children. She looks like a European woman, and has light hair. It has been suggested that Mel is very wealthy, able to afford betting thousands of dollars on football regularly. Sideshow Mel is often subject to abuse by Krusty, just as Sideshow Bob was before him. Such occurrences include 'Krusty's Slide', where he is forced into a mixture of pudding, pickle brine and laundry detergent, a tub of rancid
Béarnaise sauce and a tub of
refried beans; another unseen one is in "
Krusty Gets Kancelled" where he states that Krusty once poured
liquid nitrogen down his pants and cracked his buttocks with a hammer. In the episode "
Day of the Jackanapes", it is shown that Krusty can remember Sideshow Bob's name, but not Sideshow Mel's.
Snake Chester Turley or
Albert Knickerbocker Aloysius Snake (voiced by
Hank Azaria), better known as
Snake or
Jailbird, is a recurring character who is
Springfield's resident
recidivist felon, always getting arrested but rarely staying in
jail. He made his debut appearance in "
The War of the Simpsons" in which he was not named but wore the prisoner ID 7F20, matching the episode's production code. His first name was first mentioned by his cellmate
Sideshow Bob in the season 3 episode "
Black Widower". In the script, the writers had simply mentioned a character named Snake and it had been the directors who had assigned that existing character design to the name. Snake was named the 19th (out of 25) of
IGNs Top 25
Simpsons Peripheral Characters. Later she has major appearances in "
The Nightmare After Krustmas" where she wants to spend Christmas with her father despite the fact the difference in their religious faiths (as she was raised a Christian unlike Krusty who was Jewish) to where Krusty almost converts to Christianity, and "
E My Sports", where she participates in an
esports game as a member of Bart's team. In "
When Nelson Met Lisa", set in a possible future, she is shown in a relationship with Jimbo, with both ending up getting married.
Squeaky-Voiced Teen Squeaky-Voiced Teen (voiced by
Dan Castellaneta), a.k.a. Pimple-Faced Teen, real name
Andrew Teen, is one of few
teenagers on the show and is perpetually trapped in a series of entry-level jobs, usually working at Krusty Burger (as a cashier, a cook, or, in the case of "
Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy", a supervisor in charge of training new employees), the grocery store (as a bagboy as seen in "
Selma's Choice" and "
Simpson Safari"), or at a movie theater (as either a ticket master in "
Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie", a concession stand clerk in "
E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)", or an
usher in "
Jaws Wired Shut"; in the video game
The Simpsons: Road Rage he also talks about cleaning out the urinals). The Squeaky Voiced Teen has
acne, and his voice is in the process of breaking. While the Squeaky Voiced Teen's personality is seemingly shy and awkward, he does appear to have a notable degree of peer popularity, as he has been shown to score or at least get along with girls on several instances. He is often concerned about others and usually reports them to his boss; however, when he very rarely is the boss himself, he seizes opportunity and becomes stubborn and evil. Castellaneta lifted his voice for the character from actor
Richard Crenna's as Walter Denton in the sitcom
Our Miss Brooks. Several different models of Squeaky-Voiced Teen have been used throughout the series, featuring counterparts in Mexico, Australia and England.
Steven Dean Moore uses them all as waiters at the ice cream parlor the Simpsons eat at in "
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge".
Matt Groening called Squeaky-Voiced Teen his second favorite "unnamed" character after
Comic Book Guy, whose name was finally revealed to be "Jeff Albertson" in the episode "
Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass". He is also seen in the pre-show of
The Simpsons Ride as one of the ride operators.
Superintendent Chalmers Superintendent Garibaldi "
Gary"
Chalmers (voiced by
Hank Azaria) is the
superintendent of
Springfield's school district. He first appears in the episode "
Whacking Day". Chalmers is strict and humorless, with a short temper and low tolerance for disorder or rule-breaking. He is also the father of
Shauna Chalmers. Whenever Chalmers visits Springfield Elementary, some sort of disaster strikes. He produces extreme anxiety in
Principal Skinner, who offers increasingly improbable excuses for the problems. As a running gag, despite his antipathy towards Skinner and his initial skepticism, Chalmers will still wind up accepting Skinner's desperate explanations. Chalmers is known for throwing open the doors to the room and bellowing "Seymour!" or "Skinner!", to which Skinner stammers "S-Superintendent Chalmers!" His catchphrase has caused some
paranoia in Skinner (as seen in "
Lisa's Date with Density"). On a few occasions, he says Skinner's name this way when absolutely nothing has gone wrong, implying that he either pronounces Skinner's name this way by habit, or does it on purpose to scare him. In "
Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words", he even pronounces the words "skimmer" and "dinner" in a similar manner to Skinner's name, who mistakes it as Chalmers wanting his attention. However, Chalmers does on at least two occasions show a fondness for Skinner. In "
The Debarted", both Skinner and Chalmers are lost in the foam of a massive explosion resulting from the mixture of
Mentos and Diet Coke, he screams Skinner's name and upon not receiving an answer, says it again in a softer manner. Skinner then replies to which Chalmers tells him in a frightened voice, "Don't ever scare me like that again." In "
How Munched is That Birdie in the Window?", when
Edna uses a pigeon to taunt Skinner about how much better her life is without him, Chalmers shows compassion for Skinner until Edna reveals that she
had an affair with Chalmers, leaving Skinner angry and forcing Chalmers to flee. In "
Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life", it is revealed that Chalmers has nothing personal against Skinner and that he is aware that the antics within the school are a result of the students' reckless nature and the teachers' indifference, but
scolds Skinner because he would have to face the ire of the parents or of the
teachers' union otherwise, and because he likes Groundskeeper Willie. Chalmers' own competence and dedication to his job are questionable. He lets
Ned Flanders allow the school to descend into anarchy when Flanders is principal, freely admitting that he had fired Skinner for far less, explaining simply that "Skinner really bugged me." He seems disturbingly unconcerned with the school's decline, stating that American public schools are already on the decline and will most likely end up just like Springfield Elementary (or worse) and tells Bart to sit back and enjoy the ride (though Chalmers does ultimately fire Flanders for mentioning God in a public school). He also promotes people based on personal bias as opposed to actual competence, promoting Principal Holloway, described by Skinner as a "drunk" and by Chalmers as a "pill-popper", to assistant superintendent after getting run over by a tractor driven by Bart and blaming Skinner for letting it happen. Chalmers' first name is revealed to be Gary in "
Yokel Chords" and in "
Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" it is revealed that he is a Spanish immigrant named "Señor Chalmers". In the episode "
Replaceable You", it is implied that Chalmers wears a toupee (according to Dolph's science project, a toupee detector). In the episode "
22 Short Films About Springfield", he mentions he is from
Utica, New York, though in "
The Old Man and the 'C' Student" he says that he was born in
Queens, New York. He has also mentioned that he attended
Ball State University in
Muncie, Indiana, after which he moved to
Intercourse, Pennsylvania. In several episodes, such as "
Bart the Fink", Chalmers is seen dating
Agnes Skinner (much to Seymour's chagrin), although in other episodes, he mentions he is married. In "
Pranksta Rap", he takes a job as a bodyguard for rapper Alcatraaz, but only because his wife is really sick. In "
Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts", Chalmers mentions that he was once married and is now a widower, implying his wife died from her illness. "
Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" is the first (and so far only) episode in which Superintendent Chalmers is given a protagonist role. In the episode, Chalmers is challenged by Principal Skinner to get Bart interested in learning, and finds it in the form of teaching him about
Theodore Roosevelt. After an unauthorized school field trip, Chalmers is fired for letting Nelson fall off a cliff, but is re-hired and given the title of Super-Duper-Intendent. In
The Simpsons Movie, in addition to appearances in crowd scenes Superintendent Chalmers is shown in attendance at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting on Day 97 under the Dome. He is one of those who panics when a book thrown from outside the meeting room smashes through a window and knocks over the
Bunn-type coffee maker, apparently destroying the last of AA's coffee supply in Springfield. In the DVD commentaries to "
22 Short Films About Springfield" and "
Grade School Confidential", it is noted that Superintendent Chalmers seems to be one of the few "normal" characters on the show and is frequently alone in his awareness of the show's zaniness (much like one-shot character Frank Grimes from "
Homer's Enemy").
Surly Duff Surly Duff (voiced by Hank Azaria) is a mascot for Duff and one of the seven duffs. He first appears in "
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