- “Lisa said a dirty word!”
- ―Janey[src]
- “Are you going to marry a carrot, Lisa?”
- ―Janey[src]
- “We'd like to include you, but you just don't fit in.”
- ―Janey[src]
- “With friends like her, who needs acquaintances?”
- ―Lisa's on Janey[src]
- “If you pile up all my dolls, it'll reach the moon!”
- ―Janey[src]
Janey Powell (variously called Janey Henderson in 2006,[2] Janey Jackson in 2013,[3] Jacqueline Jones in 2016[4]) is Lisa Simpson's best friend, or at least the classmate closest to her, and is Lisa's second most frequently appearing classmate after Ralph Wiggum.
Biography[]
Janey is noted as "Lisa's fair-weather best friend", and this is an accurate description. Though she is often seen hanging out with Lisa, at other times she teases her along with the other children for her misfortunes or idealistic views. (For example, when Lisa first decides to go vegetarian, Janey is one of the first to mock her for it, asking whether Lisa was planning to marry a carrot.) She is not nearly as intelligent or nerdy as Lisa, once blowing a bubble with chewing gum rather than engage in Lisa's current conversation.
She has spent the night at the Simpsons' house, and Lisa is seen watching cartoons at her house on numerous occasions. She is also seen reading "The Babysitter Twins" with Lisa. Janey is also seen to be concerned for Lisa's well-being, one is evident in Separate Vocations, when a depressed and sulky Lisa attempts to enter the girls', bathroom inhibited by rebellious fifth grade girls. She tries to warn Lisa in vain not to enter it, only for her to ignore Janey and enter the bathroom anyway.[5]
Janey may have had a crush on Milhouse Van Houten, who has a crush on Lisa.[6] In The Simpsons Game, she asks Bart where Milhouse is and calls Lisa cruel for leading Milhouse on. She sells cupcakes in school.[7] She also said that Milhouse doesn't like Lisa when other students were mocking them about it, which made the students mock her for liking Milhouse instead.
According to The Lisa Book, Janey is considered to be one of the most popular girls in second grade, in a poll that she conducted herself. She is very fashion-conscious, being particularly wary of clothes that look Canadian. She also enjoys the company of other girls, especially when they fawn on her. From Janey's perspective, either you're with her or you have "cooties"[8].
Description[]
Janey wears a pink or purple dress with a white collar, pink or purple ankle high socks, and white shoes. She has dark brown hair and brown skin. In The Burns Cage, she had her hair in a ponytail, using a hair tie.
Trivia[]
- Because of Janey's fickle and fair-weathered treatment towards Lisa, her downplayed role in more recent episodes, and the fact that Lisa herself stated numerous times that she has no friends, Janey can be best considered as a recurring acquaintance. In addition, her role towards Lisa is much like the role of some of Marge's acquaintances, Luann Van Houten and Helen Lovejoy.
- Janey's one talent is the ability to touch her nose with her tongue[9].
- Janey is also an online friend of Taffy[10].
- Janey is Lisa's best friend while Milhouse is Bart's best friend.
- In a Simpsons Tapped Out quest, Janey says, "My dad's not allowed to have a credit card... on account of being wanted for counterfeiting. It's why I've had so many last names." This is a way to explain the several controversies about her last name: in most of the merchandise (for example, her Simpsons Comics "collectible stamp" and at least one set of trading cards), her last name is Powell, in the Simpsons Uncensored Family Album, her last name is Hagstrom, in the TV episode "My Fair Laddy", her last name is Henderson, and in the episode "Yellow Subterfuge", her last name is Jackson.
- On the Xbox 360 and PS3 version of The Simpsons Game, if the player talks with Janey, she might say that if all of her dolls were piled up, it would reach the moon.
- Janey does not like ice cream as shown in “The D'oh-cial Network”.[11] Although there have being times that have shown that Janey likes Ice Cream, such as in "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" where she is seen waiting for Ice Cream.
- In 2022, she was recast with Kimberly Brooks.
- She shares the same surname as Herbert Powell.
Gallery[]
Non Canon Appearances[]
Future[]
In "Future-Drama", Janey is at the senior prom despite being a junior.
She is shown as the specter of George Washington's reluctant second choice for first female President after Lisa disappoints him, to which Lisa fiercely objected on the grounds Janey would just fill the Supreme Court with boys[12].
Treehouse of Horror series[]
In the "Treehouse of Horror IV" segment, Bart Simpson's Dracula she is shown as vampire.
In the "Treehouse of Horror XXVII", segment BFF R.I.P. she is playing hide and seek with Lisa when Ned Flanders's lawn mower suddenly turns on and kills her.
In the "Treehouse of Horror XXXI", segment Be Nine, Rewind she is seen at Lisa's ninth birthday party.
Episode Appearances[]
Note: Many of her appearances are brief background roles. Episodes where she has an actual role are in bold.
- Episode – "Moaning Lisa"
- Episode – "The Telltale Head"
- Episode – "Dancin' Homer"
- Episode – "Bart the Daredevil"
- Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge"
- Episode – "Lisa's Substitute"
- Episode – "Bart the Murderer"
- Episode – "Flaming Moe's"
- Episode – "Separate Vocations"
- Episode – "Radio Bart"
- Episode – "Lisa the Greek"
- Episode – "Homer Alone"
- Episode – "The Otto Show"
- Episode – "Bart's Friend Falls in Love"
- Episode – "Kamp Krusty"
- Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror III" (opening; Clown Without Pity)
- Episode – "Marge Gets a Job"
- Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail"
- Episode – "I Love Lisa"
- Episode – "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" (flashback)
- Episode – "Whacking Day"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IV" ("Terror at 5½ Feet"; "Bart Simpson's Dracula")
- Episode – "Bart's Inner Child"
- Episode – "The Last Temptation of Homer"
- Episode – "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"
- Episode – "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy"
- Episode – "Bart of Darkness" (at the Simpsons' pool)
- Episode – "Lisa's Rival" (at school)
- Episode – "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy"
- Episode – "Homie the Clown" (at Milhouse's birthday party)
- Episode – "The PTA Disbands"
- Episode – "Lisa the Vegetarian"
- Episode – "Homerpalooza"
- Episode – "Lisa's Date with Density"
- Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter"
- Episode – "Grade School Confidential"
- Episode – "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"
- Episode – "The Principal and the Pauper"
- Episode – "Simpson Tide"
- Episode – "Girly Edition"
- Episode – "King of the Hill"
- Episode – "Lard of the Dance"
- Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"
- Episode – "Last Tap Dance in Springfield"
- Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow" (on the school bus, in Bart's class, and in the cafeteria)
- Episode – "Bye Bye Nerdie"
- Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod"
- Episode – "Little Girl in the Big Ten"
- Episode – "Old Yeller-Belly"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIV"
- Episode – "The President Wore Pearls"
- Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays"
- Episode – "Sleeping with the Enemy"
- Episode – "Fat Man and Little Boy"
- Episode – "The Heartbroke Kid" (at school)
- Episode – "We're on the Road to D'oh-where" (in Mrs. Krabappel's class and music class)
- Episode – "My Fair Laddy"
- Episode – "Girls Just Want to Have Sums"
- Episode – "The Monkey Suit"
- Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" (on the bus and at school)
- Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple"
- Episode – "Yokel Chords"
- Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want" (Krustylu Studios)
- – The Simpsons Movie
- Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" (Krusty Burger)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX"
- Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words"
- Episode – "The Burns and the Bees" (at the playground)
- Episode – "Waverly Hills, 9-0-2-1-D'oh"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX"
- Episode – "Rednecks and Broomsticks" (Heard saying "yes" with Lisa as they high fived
- Episode – "The Color Yellow" (in Miss Hoover's class)
- Episode – "Postcards From the Wedge" (in Bart's class)
- Episode – "Homer Scissorhands"
- Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed" (Avatar only)
- Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network"
- Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"
- Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me"
- Episode – "Lisa Goes Gaga"
- Episode – "To Cur, with Love" (School bus)
- Episode – "A Test Before Trying"
- Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please" (in Miss Hoover's class)
- Episode – "Dark Knight Court"
- Episode – "Whiskey Business" (hanging out with Lisa)
- Episode – "The Saga of Carl" (The Science of Ki-Ya Karate Monsters)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV"
- Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" (at town square))
- Episode – "Yellow Subterfuge" (at school)
- Episode – "Married to the Blob" (outside of The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop)
- Episode – "Specs and the City" (in Miss Hoover's class)
- Episode – "Diggs" (at the playground and school bus)
- Episode – "Luca$" (Cafeteria)
- Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" (School bus and playground)
- Episode – "Pay Pal" (Playground and gym)
- Episode – "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge" (Field day)
- Episode – "Bart's New Friend" (Playground)
- Episode – "The Musk Who Fell to Earth" (School entrance)
- Episode – "My Fare Lady" (Springfield Public Pool)
- Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot" (Various birthday parties)
- Episode – "Mathlete's Feat" (Class)
- Episode – "Cue Detective" (School auditorium)
- Episode – "Halloween of Horror" (School entrance)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVI" (Wanted: Dead, Then Alive)
- Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-caused Hurdles" (Playground)
- Episode – "Much Apu About Something" (Parade)
- Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow"
- Episode – "The Burns Cage"
- Episode – "Simprovised" (Ralph's birthday party)
- Episode – "Orange is the New Yellow" (Springfield Park)
- Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" (Springfield Bowl)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" (BFF, R.I.P.)
- Episode – "There Will Be Buds" (Bleachers)
- Episode – "The Last Traction Hero" (School bus)
- Episode – "Pork and Burns" (Class)
- Episode – "Springfield Splendor" (Food Shed)
- Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven"
- Episode – "The Girl on The Bus"
- Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror"
- Episode – "Hail to the Teeth"
- Episode – "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" (seen at Lisa's birthday party)
- Episode – "The Road to Cincinnati"
- Episode – "Sorry Not Sorry"
- Episode – "The Dad-Feelings Limited" (seen at birthday party)
- Episode – "Panic on the Streets of Springfield"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXII" (Dead Ringer)
- Episode – "Mothers and Other Strangers"
- Episode – "Bart the Cool Kid"
- Episode – "My Octopus and a Teacher"
- Episode – "Step Brother from the Same Planet"
- Episode – "A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream" (seen on playground)
- Episode – "Iron Marge"
- Episode – "Murder, She Boat"
- Episode – "Lisa Gets an F1"
Video game – The Simpsons Game
Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out
- Comic story – Springfield is Not Enough!
- Comic story – 24 Hours in the Life of Ralph Wiggum
- Comic story – Lunch Pales
- Comic story – Scheme Supreme
- Comic story – Bartzan and the Ancient Forbidden Golden City of Gold!
- Comic story – Little Buddy Day
- Comic story – Bart's Got Spirit
- Comic story – The Kiss of Blecch!
- Comic story – Heatie Jeebies
- Comic story – How Miss Hoover Got Her Groove Back
- Comic story – Children off the Cob
- Comic story – Eat the Pie Slowly
- Comic story – Model Citizen Simpson
- Comic story – The Face That Launched A Thousand Blecchs
- Comic story – Girl Power!
- Comic story – Everybody Really Hates Bart
- Comic story – New Girl in Town
- Book – Bart Simpson's Guide to Life
- Book – The Lisa Book
- Commercials – Hard Times
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": |
Minor | Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent |
"The Crepes of Wrath": | "Krusty Gets Busted": | "Some Enchanted Evening": | ||
Absent | Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Four | ||||
"Kamp Krusty": | "A Streetcar Named Marge": | "Homer the Heretic": | "Lisa the Beauty Queen": | "Treehouse of Horror III": |
Cameo | Absent | Absent | Cameo | Cameo |
"Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie": | "Marge Gets a Job": | "New Kid on the Block": | "Mr. Plow": | "Lisa's First Word": |
Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Homer's Triple Bypass": | "Marge vs. the Monorail": | "Selma's Choice": | "Brother from the Same Planet": | "I Love Lisa": |
Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent | Minor |
"Duffless": | "Last Exit to Springfield": | "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show": | "The Front": | "Whacking Day": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"Marge in Chains": | "Krusty Gets Kancelled": | |||
Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Five | ||||
"Homer's Barbershop Quartet": | "Cape Feare": | "Homer Goes to College": | "Rosebud": | "Treehouse of Horror IV": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"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 | Cameo | Absent | Cameo | Cameo |
"Homer the Vigilante": | "Bart Gets Famous": | "Homer and Apu": | "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy": | "Deep Space Homer": |
Absent | Cameo | Absent | Cameo | Absent |
"Homer Loves Flanders": | "Bart Gets an Elephant": | "Burns' Heir": | "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song": | "The Boy Who Knew Too Much": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo | 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": |
Cameo | Cameo | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"Treehouse of Horror V": | "Bart's Girlfriend": | "Lisa on Ice": | "Homer Badman": | "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy": |
Cameo | Cameo | Cameo | Absent | Cameo |
"Fear of Flying": | "Homer the Great": | "And Maggie Makes Three": | "Bart's Comet": | "Homie the Clown": |
Absent | Cameo | Absent | Cameo | Cameo |
"Bart vs. Australia": | "Homer vs. Patty and Selma": | "A Star is Burns": | "Lisa's Wedding": | "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds": |
Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"The PTA Disbands": | "'Round Springfield": | "The Springfield Connection": | "Lemon of Troy": | "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)": |
Cameo | Cameo | Absent | Cameo | 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 | Cameo | Absent | Absent | Minor |
"Treehouse of Horror VI": | "King-Size Homer": | "Mother Simpson": | "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming": | "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Marge Be Not Proud": | "Team Homer": | "Two Bad Neighbors": | "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield": | "Bart the Fink": |
Absent | Cameo | Cameo | Absent | Cameo |
"Lisa The Iconoclast": | "Homer The Smithers": | "The Day The Violence Died": | "A Fish Called Selma": | "Bart on the Road": |
Cameo | Absent | 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 | Minor | Cameo |
The Simpsons: Season Eight | ||||
"Treehouse of Horror VII": | "You Only Move Twice": | "The Homer They Fall": | "Burns, Baby Burns": | "Bart After Dark": |
Cameo | Cameo | Minor | Absent | Absent |
"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 | Minor | Cameo | Absent | Absent |
"The Twisted World of Marge Simpson": | "Mountain of Madness": | "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious": | "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": | "Homer's Phobia": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Brother from Another Series": | "My Sister, My Sitter": | "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment": | "Grade School Confidential": | "The Canine Mutiny": |
Absent | Minor | Cameo | 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 | Absent | Absent | Minor |
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 | Cameo | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Bart Star": | "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons": | "Lisa the Skeptic": | "Realty Bites": | "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace": |
Minor | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"All Singing, All Dancing": | "Bart Carny": | "The Joy of Sect": | "Das Bus": | "The Last Temptation of Krust": |
Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Dumbbell Indemnity": | "Lisa the Simpson": | "This Little Wiggy": | "Simpson Tide": | "The Trouble with Trillions": |
Absent | Cameo | Absent | Cameo | Absent |
"Girly Edition": | "Trash of the Titans": | "King of the Hill": | "Lost Our Lisa": | "Natural Born Kissers": |
Cameo | Absent | Cameo | 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": |
Minor | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"D'oh-in' in the Wind": | "Lisa Gets an "A"": | "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"": | "Mayored to the Mob": | "Viva Ned Flanders": |
Absent | Cameo | Absent | Cameo | Absent |
"Wild Barts Can't Be Broken": | "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday": | "Homer to the Max": | "I'm with Cupid": | "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"": |
Minor | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"Make Room for Lisa": | "Maximum Homerdrive": | "Simpsons Bible Stories": | "Mom and Pop Art": | "The Old Man and the "C" Student": |
Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent | Cameo |
"Monty Can't Buy Me Love": | "They Saved Lisa's Brain": | "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo": | ||
Cameo | Absent | Absent |
Reference[]
- ↑ The Burns Cage
- ↑ "JANEY HENDERSON" is written above her exhibit in this screenshot in My Fair Laddy
- ↑ "Janey Jackson" is written above "Jimbo Jones" in a list seen in this screenshot from Yellow Subterfuge
- ↑ The Burns Cage includes dialogue ""Jacqueline Jones, reading for the part of Ilsa""
- ↑ Separate Vocations
- ↑ Lisa's Date with Density
- ↑ Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words
- ↑ The Lisa Book
- ↑ Lisa's Substitute
- ↑ Homer Scissorhands
- ↑ The D'oh-cial Network
- ↑ Lisa the Iconoclast