A brand new episode, and a brand new element of the Simpson's life to introduce the audience to! The Telltale Head is our first look at the Springfield church, although our first glimpse of Lovejoy is not through this, but through an angry mob depicted at the start of the episode:
This is perhaps an appropriate introduction to the character intended as a representation of the show's attitude t...
2022-10-10 08:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
And so we come to the end of another episode! Another mix of barely recognisable weirdos - Rod Flanders is clearly the standout of the bunch, but I have a soft spot in my heart for Cowboy Bob.
In assembling this image I noticed something strange - a extremely high hat count. Of these fifteen characters, five have hats. That's a new character hat count (NCHC) of 33.3%! Remarkable. And that's not including the baby, who as we discussed, is NOT part of the official count. Also, without eve...
2022-10-07 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Our final entry in "The Call Of The Simpsons" is this English scientist. I'm afraid I have nothing interesting to say about him as he (and all three of these scientists) are one-timers, as far as I can tell. What a way to finish up the episode.
This post is part of my "Every Simpsons Character Ever" series. For a list of my rules in this project, click here.
2022-10-06 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
A sneaky little extra midweek entry for your eyeballs, as we cover these scientists. This lady is French, and for some reason Simpsons Wiki calls her Fraumaker. I thought this was a reference to the fact that the German scientist calls her fräulien (basically a German word for an unmarried woman), so I went to see if fraumaker was a similar German word and...nope. Googling "fraumaker" brings me back to this ch...
2022-10-05 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
As determined by last month's poll, the A5 print for this month is "The Walls Are Melting Again!"
If you'd like this print, be a patron at the £10 or higher level and it'll get sent out at the start of next month! If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Thanks for your support!
2022-10-04 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We're stumbling our way out of this episode with another theme week, as we cover the three scientists that Dr Marvin Monroe has teamed up with to determine Homer's species.
They are very specifically designed, with distinct appearances. Their foreign accents imply this scientific investigation has been a worldwide media event, making Homer Simpson one of the most famous people in the world aft...
2022-10-03 08:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Although she has no lines, this is the lady that finally fells Homer in the chaos. The man from Monday's entry appears to call her by name, although I have listened to the clip roughly 1000 times and I cannot clearly tell what it is. Frinkiac seems to think it is Johnson, but to my ear it doesn't sound like that.
Our old friends at the 2022-09-30 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
As discussed on Monday, this is the other fellow with the net attempting to capture Homer. As far as I can tell, he is a one-timer. Perhaps by the end of the season we should take a moment to celebrate the true one-timers, the characters who appear for less than few seconds in the longest running animated sitcom.
This post is part of my "Every Simpsons Character Ever" series. For a list of my rules in this project, 2022-09-29 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This gets a little complicated.
So, when Homer is captured by a group of hunters, there are two characters who speak, one voiced by Azaria, one by Shearer. They are both visible in this shot:
After this moment, both are given lines - Azaria is the guy on the right, Shearer is hatless, repeat, hatless.
Shearer's character is shown saying "He's getting away!" before Azaria's characte...
2022-09-26 08:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We have about three minutes left of this episode, and somehow about a third of the characters left from it still to come. This kid is the beginning of the end, in which Homer is captured and mistaken for a mythological beast.
Our friends over at Simpsons Wiki describe him as 10 years old, and alive, although I...
2022-09-22 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This brave soul shooed some bears away from the filming site.
It's not covered in the episode, but he was later mauled.
Some of you may be thinking "Hey Coop, you handsome devil, you left out that reporter guy."
To which I respond: you FOOL, you IMBECILE. Don't you recognise Phil? 2022-09-19 08:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I was taking this lady's appearance from this shot, in which she asks Marge about her husband eats:
I later discovered that a full body shot of her, revealing that she is in fact wearing a skirt, not trousers:
I had hoped further research would prove that at some point this character does wear ...
2022-09-15 08:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I think this print winner was decided by a single vote! The people have spoken, the "Stargazing" print is the Patreon print for this month!
If you'd like this as an A5 print, be at the £10 tier for this month and it'll get sent out at the start of next month! If you have any questions, please get in touch!
Thanks for your support you wonderful lovely people!
2022-09-13 08:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the park ranger who speaks to Marge and Lisa:
NOT the ranger who can see everything beneath the chairlft, although they have a similar voice:
I'm afraid I have little to say about this fella, as he a true One Timer, as far as I can tell. He has too distinctive an appearance to be used i...
2022-09-12 08:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Bigfoot isn't even a character, not yet (I assume he's in, like a season 19 Treehouse of Horror or something), but I liked his design in this news report, so I figured he should have a chance to shine here:
As for Posing Man, it seemed only appropriate to include him in the same post as his beloved Bigfoot, even if it gives him more of a chance to neglect his (presumed) kids in the background ...
2022-09-09 08:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
The first thing astute fans will notice about this newsreader is that he is not Kent Brockman. More astute fans will notice he is not even Scott Christian, the lesser known news anchor. This is a proto-proto-newsreader:
Oddly, in his first appearance he is voiced by Harry Shearer, and then later in the same e...
2022-09-08 08:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
It has been a sparse showing of new characters for this episode, but sixteen minutes and twenty-five seconds in, this guy comes along and changes everything:
He doesn't even really "say" anything, just screams and runs from what he believes to be Bigfoot, but he is our pathway to many more colourful faces. Thank you, videographer, for saving the episode.
This post is part of my "Ever...
2022-09-05 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostHi friends!
After a couple of unusual months, we're back to a vote on what the Patron print should be this month! Adding a couple of non Simpsons designs in here in case people are interested.
If this is your first vote, it's pretty simple! Vote for the design you want as the Patreon print this month, and first/second places will get their time in the sun this month and next!
Here are the candidates:
2022-09-02 08:01:01 +0000 UTC
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If a character is holding a baby, I tend to draw the baby too, but I would like to be perfectly clear: entry number 0129 is the WOMAN and NOT the baby. In a perfect world the baby (who, might I remind you, is not speaking) would get a separate bonus entry, but we play the cards we are dealt. Do you know how much extra time and money it would take to get that baby a separate bonus entry? I'd have to crunch the numbers with my accountant, but I can't see it costing less than £12,500. And frank...
2022-09-01 08:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This guy is a jerk:
He's a Hank Azaria voiced character, which is unusual for the time as Hank was not a regular cast member until season 2, but his voice is distinctive and recognisable here. We've heard him as Moe before, but I don't think of Moe as a Hank Azaria character, I think of Moe as...uh...Moe. Let's say...Moe. (He's also briefly been Wiggum by this point.)
I do tend to think ...
2022-08-29 08:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
There is actually a LONG stretch in this episode - over 10 minutes - where no "new" speaking characters appear. Between Cowboy Bob and Character #0128 there is a lot of The Simpsons pottering about in the woods after their RV is destroyed. As a result, my mind wandered and I found other things to doodle.
2022-08-26 08:00:04 +0000 UTC
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The first Albert Brooks character! This feels like a milestone, although he voices characters less than you might think, and Bob is no-one's favourite (which is a shame, because the natural chemistry he has with Homer as he sells him an RV is still a delight to watch.)
Bob appears a couple of times after this episode:
"Bart Gets An F"
2022-08-25 08:01:01 +0000 UTC
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We covered Todd Flanders back in October, 6 episodes ago. One thing I noted was how it's difficult to tell the two brothers apart, and sure enough, I have already written the wrong name twice and corrected myself in this opening paragraph.
Anyhoo his first appearance is small, at the very start of this episode:
2022-08-22 08:00:04 +0000 UTC
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It's time to finish up
with someone from...the OUTRO?!??!
And unlike everyone else this week, she actually has a line! In fact, she might be one of the characters who appears in most episodes (although not 100% of the time with her classic "shhh").
2022-08-19 08:00:04 +0000 UTC
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No! Stay back! It's
We're going one layer deeper: everyone knows the people waiting at the bus stop, but have you ever thought about those ON the bus? I have, because let me tell you, it was difficult to get these screenshots:
2022-08-18 08:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Wait! Stop! It's time for more
These guys are arguably the biggest change between the original intro and future iterations. Bart steals their bus stop and they are never seen again after the first season.
2022-08-17 08:01:00 +0000 UTC
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Welcome back to
I'm using Girl With Glasses to represent the entirety of the school band that Lisa plays in:
We can see some familiar faces here already, such as Not Howard, or Lewis's Lookalike, and ...
2022-08-16 08:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
And now a brief intermission from your regularly scheduled programming to bring you...
A whole week of nobodies from the show's (original) intro, who have no lines but deserve a minor salute anyway.
First up is this guy from the Power Plant:
He has chosen to take the plant's "b...
2022-08-15 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Six episodes down, and it only took us a year! An odd mish-mash of characters here, mainly brought about by the fact that we have a true b-plot here, making for two threads with different styles of character. Janey is probably the MVP here, although Jacqueline is the last "main" family member we had not yet encountered. At least, it'll be a long time before we get to Herb, or Mona, or Ling.
We're up to 125 characters total. 12.5 are from this episode. Let's never question that 0.5 and m...
2022-08-12 08:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post
This guy is SLIGHTLY more interesting than Monday's kid, in that he appears as a background character more than once. In fact, we've already seen him in "Bart The General", albeit with his hair coloured slightly differently:
By "Marge vs the Monorail", we see his is still in Lisa's thoughts, as she imagines money being put into her class:
2022-08-11 08:01:01 +0000 UTC
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