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Simpson family
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The Simpson family is the family featured in the United States animated sitcom The Simpsons. The Simpson nuclear family consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. They live at 742 Evergreen Terrace in the town of Springfield.
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- See also: Bouvier family
- Homer Jay Simpson, father
- Marjorie "Marge" Bouvier Simpson, mother
- Bartholomew Jo-Jo "Bart" Simpson, oldest child
- Lisa Marie Simpson, middle child
- Margaret "Maggie" Simpson, youngest child
The two pets are Santa's Little Helper, a dog the Simpsons adopted in the show's first episode, and a cat named Snowball II.
As well, the family has been shown owning several different fish, turtles and hamsters, although none of them have names or are ever featured in a main plot; they are mainly one-off jokes or small plot details.
Other animals once owned by the Simpsons are:
- Pinchy, a lobster, in Lisa Gets an "A".
- Laddie, a dog, in The Canine Mutiny
- Mojo, a monkey, in Girly Edition.
- Duncan, a horse, in Saddlesore Galactica
- Princess, a horse, in Lisa's Pony
- Stampy, an elephant, in Bart Gets an Elephant
- Chirpy Boy and Bart Jr., bird-eating lizards, in Bart the Mother
- 25 puppies from Santa's Little Helper
- She's the Fastest, mother of the 25 puppies
- Strangles, a snake. When Santa's Little Helper becomes a police dog in Stop, Or My Dog Will Shoot!, Bart adopts this snake.
- Plopper, a pig also referred to as "Spiderpig" or "Harry Plopper" in The Simpsons Movie but will appear in other episodes, so far a Halloween special and a Couch gag opening.
- Abraham "Abe" Simpson, Homer's father
- Mona Simpson, Homer's long-lost mother.
Herbert "Herb" Powell, voiced by Danny DeVito, is Homer's half-brother. He resembles Homer, though a lot slimmer and boasting a full head of hair. His first appearance was in "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?", in which Homer discovered he had a previously unknown half-brother (as his mother Mona insisted on concealing his existence). The product of a short-lived affair between Homer's father, Abraham Simpson, and a carnival prostitute, Herb was adopted by Edward Powell and Mililani Osler. He put himself through college by working odd jobs, then founded Powell Motors, a car company based in Detroit. Herb was overjoyed to learn that he had a birth family and bonded with his nieces and nephew, and - in his role as CEO - allowed Homer to design a car. However, the miserable failure of Homer's car bankrupted the company, and Herb became a street vagrant.
He re-appeared in the episode "Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes?", and briefly settled in the Simpson household, despite his intense continuing antipathy toward Homer. Homer loaned Herb $2000 (from the power plant, as compensation for making him sterile from radiation), which Herb used to build an invention that translated infantile speech into comprehensible English, based on observations he made of Maggie Simpson. He proceeded to mass-produce his new product and regained his fortune. He then proceeded to buy each member of the family gifts and paid Homer back with a vibrating chair.
Herb has not been seen since the end of Season 3, although he appeared in Homer's list of family members who need to lose weight in the episode "The Heartbroke Kid".
"Abbie" Abigail is Homer Simpson's English half-sister from "The Regina Monologues". She looks like a female version of Homer (or Homer in drag) and although the two act similarly she is ½- English. While she is obviously a biological Simpson (aside from her appearance and personality, she was born only about a year after Grampa's affair with her mother) she is not officially recognized by the family and never explicitly called a Simpson; the audience is merely left with a strong indication.
Amber is Homer's former 'Vegas wife' from the episode Viva Ned Flanders. Homer and Ned Flanders went to Las Vegas for the weekend and got drunk, and married two women. (In "Brawl in the Family", the Simpson family trick Amber into marrying Abe Simpson, and in doing so she forsook all others). Ned's Vegas wife's name is Ginger Flanders. In Jazzy and the Pussycats, it is revealed that Amber died of a drug overdose.
Dr. Simpson, the chief of complicated surgeries at the invasive care unit, first seen in "Lisa the Simpson". In the episode, Homer is devastated when he can't find any successful Simpson men to prove to Lisa that there is no genetic condition causing intelligence deterioration. As a last ditch effort, he grabs Dr. Simpson, who explains that the defective Simpson gene is only on the Y chromosome. She makes a brief cameo appearance in "Catch 'em If You Can".
Uncle Tyrone is a cynical elderly Simpson relative who lives in Dayton, Ohio. Judging from his age and appearance, he is most likely Abe's brother. The family intends to visit him during his birthday in the episode "Catch 'em If You Can", but he hasn't been seen since. When the Simpsons were singing "Happy Birthday" to him, he said "Why won't I die?"
Abraham Simpson's older brother. Cyrus crashed his fighter at Tahiti in World War II's Pacific Theater of Operations during a kamikaze raid. He never left and now has 15 wives.
Uncle Arthur was an uncle mentioned in the episode The Boy Who Knew Too Much. When Bart was talking to Marge about telling the truth, she told him about Uncle Arthur:
"Well, Bart, your uncle Arthur used to have a saying: "Shoot 'em all and let God sort 'em out." Unfortunately, one day put his theory into practice. It took 75 federal marshals to bring him down. Now let's never speak of him again."
And a while later...
"Honey, you should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head like a certain uncle did one grey December morn."
- Great Uncle Chet, Abe's brother, is the owner of an unsuccessful shrimp company.
- 2nd cousin Stanley, who shoots birds at the airport.
- A group of unnamed relatives show up in the episode "Lisa the Simpson", when Homer tries to prove to Lisa that not all Simpsons are failures. Some of these relatives (including Dr. Simpson and the female Simpson in the grey pant suit) appear again in Catch 'em If You Can at Uncle Tyrone's birthday.
- Great Uncle Boris. A man who Homer refers to have died at the end of episode Homer Loves Flanders.
In the "Treehouse of Horror VII" episode, Bart discovers he was separated at birth from a conjoined twin by Dr. Hibbert. His "evil twin" Hugo has been consigned to living in the attic of the Simpson home and is given a bucket of fish heads to eat once a week. He also does experimental surgery to prepare for his eventual reattachment to Bart, and created a "pigeon-rat" in the process. They discovered at the end however, that Bart was the evil twin, something he advises the rest of the family & Dr Hibbert not to act surprised about. This implies that tragically, Hugo might actually have grown up to have a normal life, but having spent his entire existence chained up in the attic has driven him violently insane.