- “Lisa said a dirty word!”
- ―Janey Powell[src]
- “Are you going to marry a carrot, Lisa?”
- ―Janey Powell[src]
- “We'd like to include you, but you just don't fit in.”
- ―Janey Powell[src]
- “With friends like her, who needs acquaintances?”
- ―Lisa's opinion on Janey Powell[src]
- “If you pile up all my dolls, it'll reach the moon!”
- ―Janey Powell[src]
Janine "Janey" Powell (also known as Janey Henderson[2], Janey Jackson[3], and Jacqueline Jones[4]) is Lisa Simpson's best friend.
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's 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's bathroom inhibited by rebellious 5th 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 dress with a white collar, pink 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 time 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's[10].
- Janey is Lisa's best friend while Milhouse is Bart's best friend.
- Janey's last name was shown as "Jackson" on Skinner's list of student in the episode "Yellow Subterfuge", but this is most likely an error by the writers/animators (as was most likely with "Henderson" in "My Fair Laddy").
- 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.[11]
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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].
Episode Appearances
Note: Many of her appearances are brief background roles. Episodes where she has an actual role are in bold.
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Episode – "Moaning Lisa"
Episode – "The Telltale Head" - Episode – "Dancin' Homer"
- Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge"
- Episode – "Lisa's Substitute"
- Episode – "Flaming Moe's"
- Episode – "Separate Vocations"
- Episode – "Radio Bart"
- Episode – "Kamp Krusty"
- Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IV"
- 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" (Seen at the Simpsons' pool)
- Episode – "Lisa's Rival" (Seen at school)
- Episode – "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy"
- Episode – "Homie the Clown" (Seen at Milhouse's birthday party)
- Episode – "Lisa the Vegetarian"
- 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" (seen 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"
- Episode – "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" (Seen at school)
- Episode – "We're on the Road to D'oh-where" (Appeared 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" (Seen on the bus and at school)
- Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple"
- Episode – "Yokel Chords"
- Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want" (Appeared at Krustylu Studios)
- Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" (Appeared at Krusty Burger)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX"
- Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words"
- Episode – "The Burns and the Bees" (Seen at the playground)
- Episode – "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh"
- Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XX"
- Episode – "Rednecks and Broomsticks" (Heard saying "yes" with Lisa as they high fived
- Episode – "The Color Yellow" (Seen in Mrs. Hoover's class)
- Episode – "Postcards From the Wedge" (Seen 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" (Seen in Miss Hoover's class)
- Episode – "Dark Knight Court"
- Episode – "Whiskey Business" (Seen hanging out with Lisa)
- Episode – "The Saga of Carl" (Seen at The Science of Ki-Ya Karate Monsters)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV"
- Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" (Seen at town square))
- Episode – "Yellow Subterfuge" (Seen at school)
- Episode – "Married to the Blob" (Seen outside of The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop)
- Episode – "Specs and the City" (Seen in Mrs. Hoover's class)
- Episode – "Diggs" (Appeared 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)
- – The Simpsons Movie
Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out
- Comic book – 24 Hours in the Life of Ralph Wiggum
- Comic book – Lunch Pales
- Comic book – Scheme Supreme
- Comic book – Bartzan and the Ancient Forbidden Golden City of Gold (Parts 1 & 2)
- Comic book – Little Buddy Day
- Comic book – Bart's Got Spirit
- Comic book – The Kiss of Blecch!
- Comic book – Heatie Jeebies
- Comic book – How Miss Hoover Got Her Groove Back
- Comic book – Children off the Cob
- Comic book – Eat the Pie Slowly
- Comic book – Model Citizen Simpson
- Comic book – The Face That Launched A Thousand Blecchs
- Comic book – Girl Power!
- Comic book – Everybody Really Hates Bart
- Comic book – New Girl in Town
- Book – Bart Simpson's Guide to Life
- Book – The Lisa Book
- Commercials – Hard Times
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