- “I'm Charlie! Everyone's favorite Dangerous Emissions Supervisor of Sector 7G!”
- ―Charlie[src]
Charlie is the Dangerous Emissions Supervisor of Sector 7G at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. He is one of Homer's friends. He drives a Duesenberg J.[1]
History[]
Charlie is known to have recurring bad luck. He was arrested for threatening officials over the slow progression of HDTVs to beat them up.[2] He was once disabled as claimed by Lenny after Homer notices he is not at the plant’s exercise.[3] However, he later recovered in his next appearance. Charlie, along with other employees, were caught on fire because of Homer's negligence, and stupidity.[4] As a member of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant softball team, Charlie uses his sister's wooden leg as a baseball bat.[5]
Charlie was replaced by Mindy Simmons after he, Homer, Lenny, and Carl play a prank on a worker and cause a radioactive gas leak and Charlie complains to Mr. Burns that the plant requires a real emergency exit rather than one which is painted on. Burns lowers a giant tube which sucks Charlie up, sending him to an Asian country where he is forced to dance on a table.[6]
When Homer sees Charlie exiting the plant and asks if he wants a lift, Charlie declines. Stating that he got tipsy the night before and that he lost something of his, therefore waiting for and expecting a callback.[7]
During a town meeting discussing Springfield's two different area codes Charlie can be seen sitting on the wealthy side as the other side leaves to form their own town. [8]
After some new, German owners take over the plant, Charlie is later seen arriving to work in a new car.[9]
When Mr. Burns tells Homer that natural gas doesn't create worker mutating radiation, a mutated Charlie appears telling Homer to prepare to watch the game.[10]
Charlie appears in a flashback where he attends a party and the Rollers Rink Couples Night. He appears to be with another woman who doesn't appear to be like his current wife. Although the woman might most likely be an ex-girlfriend of Charlie or his current wife had a completely different appearance. [11]
Resemblances[]
Characters in The Simpsons[]
Charlie bears a resemblance to Sam, one of the barflies at Moe's Tavern. This could be because they both have big glasses, they both have trouble with alcoholism, they have scruffy looks, worried eyes, and have bags under their eyes. They also occasionally are seen hanging out at Moe's Tavern as well.
Characters in other media[]
In Matt Groening's second show, Futurama the character Terry appears to resemble Charlie including his primary role of being a background filler and his usual role of having bad luck.
Creation[]
Voice[]
He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta, who said that he was "Just [doing] an imitation of Lenny", according to the commentary for "Homer at the Bat". His voice sounds similar to the Blue-Haired Lawyer, Arnie Pye and Louie, who are also voiced by Castellaneta.
Appearances[]
Episodes where he has an actual role are in bold.
The Simpsons: Season One | ||||
"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire": | "Bart the Genius": | "Homer's Odyssey": | "There's No Disgrace Like Home": | "Bart the General": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Moaning Lisa": | "The Call of the Simpsons": | "The Telltale Head": | "Life on the Fast Lane": | "Homer's Night Out": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Minor | Minor |
"The Crepes of Wrath": | "Krusty Gets Busted": | "Some Enchanted Evening": | ||
Absent | Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Five | ||||
"Homer's Barbershop Quartet": | "Cape Feare": | "Homer Goes to College": | "Rosebud": | "Treehouse of Horror IV": |
Absent | Absent | Cameo | Cameo | Absent |
"Marge on the Lam": | "Bart's Inner Child": | "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood": | "The Last Temptation of Homer": | "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Minor | Absent |
"Homer the Vigilante": | "Bart Gets Famous": | "Homer and Apu": | "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy": | "Deep Space Homer": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"Homer Loves Flanders": | "Bart Gets an Elephant": | "Burns' Heir": | "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song": | "The Boy Who Knew Too Much": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Lady Bouvier's Lover": | "Secrets of a Successful Marriage": | |||
Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Six | ||||
"Bart of Darkness": | "Lisa's Rival": | "Another Simpsons Clip Show": | "Itchy & Scratchy Land": | "Sideshow Bob Roberts": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Treehouse of Horror V": | "Bart's Girlfriend": | "Lisa on Ice": | "Homer Badman": | "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Fear of Flying": | "Homer the Great": | "And Maggie Makes Three": | "Bart's Comet": | "Homie the Clown": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"Bart vs. Australia": | "Homer vs. Patty and Selma": | "A Star is Burns": | "Lisa's Wedding": | "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"The PTA Disbands": | "'Round Springfield": | "The Springfield Connection": | "Lemon of Troy": | "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Seven | ||||
"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)": | "Radioactive Man": | "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily": | "Bart Sells His Soul": | "Lisa the Vegetarian": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent |
"Treehouse of Horror VI": | "King-Size Homer": | "Mother Simpson": | "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming": | "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular": |
Absent | Cameo | Cameo | Absent | Absent |
"Marge Be Not Proud": | "Team Homer": | "Two Bad Neighbors": | "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield": | "Bart the Fink": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Lisa The Iconoclast": | "Homer The Smithers": | "The Day The Violence Died": | "A Fish Called Selma": | "Bart on the Road": |
Cameo | Cameo | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"22 Short Films About Springfield": | "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"": | "Much Apu About Nothing": | "Homerpalooza": | "Summer of 4 Ft. 2": |
Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Eight | ||||
"Treehouse of Horror VII": | "You Only Move Twice": | "The Homer They Fall": | "Burns, Baby Burns": | "Bart After Dark": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"A Milhouse Divided": | "Lisa's Date with Density": | "Hurricane Neddy": | "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)": | "The Springfield Files": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo | Cameo |
"The Twisted World of Marge Simpson": | "Mountain of Madness": | "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious": | "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": | "Homer's Phobia": |
Cameo | Cameo | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Brother from Another Series": | "My Sister, My Sitter": | "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment": | "Grade School Confidential": | "The Canine Mutiny": |
Cameo | Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent |
"The Old Man and the Lisa": | "In Marge We Trust": | "Homer's Enemy": | "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase": | "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson": |
Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Nine | ||||
"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson": | "The Principal and the Pauper": | "Lisa's Sax": | "Treehouse of Horror VIII": | "The Cartridge Family": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"Bart Star": | "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons": | "Lisa the Skeptic": | "Realty Bites": | "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace": |
Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent |
"All Singing, All Dancing": | "Bart Carny": | "The Joy of Sect": | "Das Bus": | "The Last Temptation of Krust": |
Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent |
"Dumbbell Indemnity": | "Lisa the Simpson": | "This Little Wiggy": | "Simpson Tide": | "The Trouble with Trillions": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Minor |
"Girly Edition": | "Trash of the Titans": | "King of the Hill": | "Lost Our Lisa": | "Natural Born Kissers": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Ten | ||||
"Lard of the Dance": | "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace": | "Bart the Mother": | "Treehouse of Horror IX": | "When You Dish Upon a Star": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"D'oh-in' in the Wind": | "Lisa Gets an "A"": | "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"": | "Mayored to the Mob": | "Viva Ned Flanders": |
Cameo | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Wild Barts Can't Be Broken": | "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday": | "Homer to the Max": | "I'm with Cupid": | "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"": |
Absent | Cameo | Cameo | Absent | Absent |
"Make Room for Lisa": | "Maximum Homerdrive": | "Simpsons Bible Stories": | "Mom and Pop Art": | "The Old Man and the "C" Student": |
Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent |
"Monty Can't Buy Me Love": | "They Saved Lisa's Brain": | "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo": | ||
Absent | Absent | Cameo |
The Simpsons: Season Twelve | ||||
"Treehouse of Horror XI": | "A Tale of Two Springfields": | "Insane Clown Poppy": | "Lisa the Tree Hugger": | "Homer vs. Dignity": |
Cameo | Cameo | Absent | Cameo | Absent |
"The Computer Wore Menace Shoes": | "The Great Money Caper": | "Skinner's Sense of Snow": | "HOMЯ": | "Pokey Mom": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Worst Episode Ever": | "Tennis the Menace": | "Day of the Jackanapes": | "New Kids on the Blecch": | "Hungry, Hungry Homer": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"Bye Bye Nerdie": | "Simpson Safari": | "Trilogy of Error": | "I'm Goin' to Praiseland": | "Children of a Lesser Clod": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent |
"Simpsons Tall Tales": | ||||
Absent |
Gallery[]
Citations[]
- ↑ Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk
- ↑ "The Trouble with Trillions"
- ↑ "King-Size Homer"
- ↑ "Homie the Clown"
- ↑ "Homer at the Bat"
- ↑ "The Last Temptation of Homer"
- ↑ "The Falcon and the D'ohman"
- ↑ "A Tale of Two Springfields"
- ↑ "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"
- ↑ Opposites A-Frack
- ↑ "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage"