![]() As the Good Book Says.: Flanders quotes the Bible often.Affably Evil: If he's a villain in a Treehouse of Horror short (such as when he turns out to be Satan, or becomes the dictator of the world in an alternate timeline), he's still as genial as he usually is.Ancestral Name: His Beatnik dad is also named Nedward "Ned" Flanders.Subverted in later episodes, where he goes through multiple losses and failures that are arguably worse than anything that Homer has had to go through. The Ace: Early on, he always found success in areas where Homer failed and generally had a perfect life.The reason why Todd had a crisis of faith was that he was missing his mother and confused about why such a tragedy would take place. A direct example is in " Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me" Ned disowns Todd for having a crisis of faith, he prays for God to punish Todd for his lack of faith and sends him to live with the Simpsons so they'd make Todd afraid of God.In Bart Has Two Mommies, Rod and Todd reveal that Marge makes them feel genuinely happy because she gives them more freedom than Ned. They are also religiously bigoted and seem to be sexually confused, as they plan to lose their virginities to each other in their vow of abstinence. Rod and Todd are oversensitive and have poor social skills towards others. Ned's sons are highly sheltered and overprotected.Abusive Dad: Not in a violent manner, rather in the over-protective variety.As of Season 29, he has taken over his late second wife's job as the fourth grade teacher, before the job was given to Rayshelle Peyton in Season 33. His being a doormat in the name of being nice to others faded. As the seasons went on, his "sweetness" and his religiosity grew until he became a byword for fanatical religious faith and doormat-like pleasantry. Originally, Ned was just a "better Christian" than Homer, being affable, polite, intellectual, friendly, and sincerely religious. The nice guy next door neighbor to the Simpson family. Shot down again!Ī Clean and Sober Barney Gumble, w/ the rest of the regulars at the posh newly-renovated "M" (formerly Moe's Tavern).Debut: "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" The G-Man himself, age 17, asking a girl to the prom. Get Ready to Go "AWWW!" Here are some pictures! He was also in the Navy w/ Homer for a short, short time. Barney sings- "That's what beer has done to me! Sockitomesockitomesockitomesockitome.")Īside from all that though, he's also a helicopter pilot, a Hero (he saved Bart and Lisa from a fire w/ said helicopter), and he sings like an angel, as evidenced by his performance in Homer's barbershop quartet, the Be Sharps. He yells "Relapse!" "R-E-L-A-P-S-E!" Lisa shouts back triumphantly. ![]() "Wrong," Otto answers, "You forgot the lightning bolt." She jogs over, and Barney's there on the sidewalk. Otto goes, "Spell AC/DC!", to which Leese answers "A-C-D-C!". (It's a pretty funny scene actually: Lisa is going to the Spellympics, and she's jogging around in gray sweats à la Rocky, spelling words thrown at her by the ppl she passes by. Alas, though, in the Simpsons' celebrated 302 nd Episode, he was seen lying on the ground, holding a bottle of Duff. He's been sober for a while, too, seen often in the background at Moe's Tavern, drinking coffee. ![]() Drunken sot one day (each day for twenty years), clean and sober the next. He's also got a hell of alot of willpower, as evidenced by the episode 'Days of Wine and D'ohses', where he went sober. He's exceptionally intelligent, beleive it or not, and could have gotten into an Ivy League college, if he hadn't started drinking. Oh, but don't make the mistake of underestimating him! He's got alot more talent than comic releif. ![]() But we love him anyway, don't we folks? ::applause:: Damn Straight, we do! Is it because he wasted his life, and we can empathize? Or is it just because he's funny as hell? Probably that second one.
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