- “(Referring to Bart) Sometimes that kid just goes too far.”
- ―Lewis[src]
- “He's Wendell, I'm Lewis.”
- ―Lewis[src]
Lewis Clark[1] is a student in Springfield Elementary School. He is one of Bart's friends, and one of only a handful of African-American students at the school. His best friend is Richard.
Biography[]
Lewis is one of Bart's friends and fellow fourth-graders in Mrs. Krabappel's class. He once annoyed a guilt-ridden Bart when he hid under a pile of leaves and pretended to be Principal Skinner's corpse,[2] and he failed to vote for Bart in the class presidential election.[3] He is most commonly seen playing in the schoolyard or elsewhere with his friend Richard.
Lewis was one of the children in the Model UN Club that were stranded on an island and, thinking he was going to die, Bart mistook him for Wendell.[4] Lewis also plays on the Mighty Pigs pee-wee hockey team and according to gossip is a very good ballroom dancer.[5] He apparently owns a gun as he was seen discharging it in school during the episode [6] as the class cheered after learning they were going to have a movie day.
Non-Canon[]
In The Simpsons Game, Lewis witnessed Jimbo, Kearney, and Dolph go through the museum and tells Homer and says it's the first sign of the Apocalypse. Later, he doesn't know how he feels about Homer saving the Museum. Lewis found out about the Eating Contest at the Duff Brewery and tells Homer. Lewis watches the Eating Contest on TV and strangely gets the sense that Homer could've eaten more at the Eating Contest. Lewis later gets the New Grand Theft Scratchy with the other school kids and later with the kids they randomly appear in places of the city causing mayhem. The game is later banned by Marge, Lisa, and the Mob. Lewis later sees the aliens attacking the Mall, Lard Lad attacking, and The Dolphins. Lewis laughs and guessed that Lard Lad messed with the Wrong Fat Man. Lewis later wonders if the aliens Homer killed went to Heaven.
In The Simpsons Game, Lewis is voiced by Pamela Hayden.
Behind the Laughter[]
In earlier seasons, Lewis could be considered as Bart's second-best friend. As the roles of Nelson and Milhouse were enlarged, Lewis was seen with Bart less and less often and was finally returned to Background character status.
Throughout the series, Lewis has been voiced by Jo Ann Harris, Nancy Cartwright, Pamela Hayden, Russi Taylor and Maggie Roswell. Because of the fact that he rarely speaks, he does not have a specific voice actor.
His most recent speaking role is in "Stealing First Base", when after Edna Krabappel's class is moved to another classroom, he asks a student if he can sit with him. He was seen with Nina Skalka at the Le Petite Appetit during the episode, "The Daughter Also Rises". It's likely the two were dating during the episode and it's possible Nina is Lewis' girlfriend.
Description[]
Lewis normally wears a tanned shirt with a single cream stripe, green shorts, and tanned shoes. He has black hair. In "Bart of Darkness", he was seen wearing orange swimming trunks. In the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", his hair color and skin complexion changed during one scene in the episode. At night, he wears purple pajamas and purple slippers.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Lewis's full name ("Lewis Clark") was revealed on the episode "Yellow Subterfuge", written on Skinner's list of students. It is possible that this name is a homage to Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark, two noted American explorers.
- Lewis is one of the few in Springfield Elementary that sometimes criticize Bart.
- According to Lisa's bus seating plan, Lewis is a Leninist.
- Despite his small role in the series (similar to Shermy in Peanuts) he along with Janey (another African American child character) were recast with an African American voice actor Kimberly Brooks.
- Lewis is one of the only students who has a gun to school in the episode The Spy Who Learned Me
Episode Appearances[]
Episodes where he had a speaking role are in bold.
- Episode – "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" (Debut episode)
- Episode – "Bart the Genius"
- Episode – "Homer's Odyssey"
- Episode – "Bart the General" (Told Milhouse to pass on a note written by Bart in class)
- Episode – "Moaning Lisa"
- Episode – "The Telltale Head"
- Episode – "Homer's Night Out"
- Episode – "The Crepes of Wrath"
- Episode – "Bart Gets an "F""
- Episode – "Simpson and Delilah"
- Episode – "Dancin' Homer"
- Episode – "Pin Gal"
- Episode – "Bart the Daredevil"
- Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge"
- Episode – "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"
- Episode – "Principal Charming"
- Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
- Episode – "Lisa's Substitute"
- Episode – "The War of the Simpsons"
- Episode – "Bart the Murderer"
- Episode – "Homer Defined"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II"
- Episode – "Saturdays of Thunder"
- Episode – "Radio Bart"
- Episode – "Homer at the Bat"
- Episode – "Separate Vocations"
- Episode – "The Otto Show"
- Episode – "Bart's Friend Falls in Love"
- Episode – "Kamp Krusty"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror III" (opening; Clown Without Pity)
- Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"
- Episode – "Marge Gets a Job"
- Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail"
- Episode – "Brother from the Same Planet"
- Episode – "I Love Lisa" (with yellow skin)
- Episode – "Duffless"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IV" ("Terror at 5½ Feet")
- Episode – "Bart's Inner Child"
- Episode – "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood"
- Episode – "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"
- Episode – "Bart Gets Famous"
- Episode – "The Last Temptation of Homer"
- Episode – "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"
- Episode – "Bart of Darkness"
- Episode – "Sideshow Bob Roberts"
- Episode – "Homer vs. Patty and Selma"
- Episode – "'Round Springfield"
- Episode – "Lemon of Troy"
- Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"
- Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)"
- Episode – "Team Homer"
- Episode – "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish""
- Episode – "Lisa's Date with Density"
- Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"
- Episode – "Grade School Confidential"
- Episode – "Homer's Phobia"
- Episode – "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"
- Episode – "The Principal and the Pauper"
- Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic"
- Episode – "Bart Carny"
- Episode – "Das Bus"
- Episode – "This Little Wiggy"
- Episode – "Simpson Tide"
- Episode – "King of the Hill" (Seen playing Capture the flag)
- Episode – "Girly Edition"
- Episode – "Lard of the Dance"
- Episode – "D'oh-in' in the Wind"
- Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"
- Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"
- Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories"
- Episode – "The Old Man and the "C" Student"
- Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?"
- Episode – "The Parent Rap"
- Episode – "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" (Seen in Bart's class)
- Episode – "Behind the Laughter"
- Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow"
- Episode – "New Kids on the Blecch"
- Episode – "Bye Bye Nerdie"
- Episode – "Trilogy of Error"
- Episode – "Brawl in the Family"
- Episode – "The Lastest Gun in the West"
- Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade"
- Episode – "Large Marge"
- Episode – "Special Edna"
- Episode – "The President Wore Pearls"
- Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays"
- Episode – "See Homer Run"
- Episode – "We're on the Road to D'oh-where" (Appeared in the hallway and class)
- Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" (Seen on the bus and at school)
- Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em" (Seen outside of the school)
- Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple"
- Episode – "Yokel Chords"
- Episode – "24 Minutes"
- Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want" (Appeared at Krustylu Studios)
- – The Simpsons Movie
- Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" (Appeared at Krusty Burger)
- Episode – "The Debarted"
- Episode – "Little Orphan Millie"
- Episode – "Lost Verizon"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX"
- Episode – "The Burns and the Bees"
- Episode – "How the Test Was Won"
- Episode – "Father Knows Worst"
- Episode – "Bart Gets a "Z""
- Episode – "The Color Yellow" (portraying Barack Obama)
- Episode – "Postcards From the Wedge" (Seen in Bart's class)
- Episode – "Stealing First Base"
- Episode – "MoneyBART"
- Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life"
- Episode – "The Fool Monty"
- Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget"
- Episode – "The Great Simpsina"
- Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts"
- Episode – "Replaceable You"
- Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" (With Ted Nugent)
- Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network"
- Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises"
- Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me"
- Episode – "To Cur, with Love" (School bus)
- Episode – "A Test Before Trying"
- Episode – "Dark Knight Court"
- Episode – "What Animated Women Want"
- Episode – "Pulpit Friction" (Seen at Bart's sleepover and at church)
- Episode – "The Saga of Carl" (Seen at The Science of Ki-Ya Karate Monsters)
- Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" (Seen at town square)
- Episode – "Yolo" (Seen at school)
- Episode – "The Kid is All Right" (Seen at the auditorium and gymnasium)
- 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. Krabappel's class)
- Episode – "Diggs" (Appeared at the playground and school bus)
- Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much" (Appeared in the hallway)
- Episode – "The Winter of His Content" (Appeared in the locker room)
- Episode – "Luca$" (Cafeteria)
- Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" (School bus and playground)
- Episode – "Brick Like Me" (In church)
- Episode – "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge" (Field day)
- Episode – "Clown in the Dumps" (Krustylu Studios)
- Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship"
- Episode – "Super Franchise Me" (Outside of school)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV" (School is Hell)
- Episode – "Simpsorama" (Class)
- Episode – "Bart's New Friend" (Playground)
- Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
- Episode – "Peeping Mom" (School bus and class)
- Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot" (Milhouse's birthday party)
- Episode – "Peeping Mom"
- Episode – "Mathlete's Feat" (Auditorium)
- Episode – "Cue Detective" (School Auditorium)
- Episode – "Halloween of Horror" (Arriving at school)
- Episode – "Paths of Glory"
- Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-caused Hurdles"
- Episode – "Much Apu About Something" (Parade)
- Episode – "Lisa the Veterinarian"
- Episode – "The Burns Cage"
- Episode – "Simprovised"
- Episode – "Orange is the New Yellow"
- Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" (Springfield Bowl)
- Episode – "There Will Be Buds" (Field)
- Episode – "The Last Traction Hero" (School bus)
- Episode – "Lisa Gets the Blues"
- Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill"
- ’’’ Episode – "Wad Goals" ’’’
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXII" (Dead Ringer)
- Episode – "My Octopus and a Teacher"
- Episode – "Pin Gal"
- Episode – "The Very Hungry Caterpillars" (seen in online class)
- Episode – "Lisa Gets an F1"
Video game – The Simpsons Game
- Comic book – Batter-Up Bart
- Comic book – Bart vs. The One-Man School
- Comic book – The Kiss of Blecch
- Comic book – Bart Hears a What?
- Comic book – Yellow Chef!
- Comic book – Children off the Cob
- Comic book – The More, The Merrier!
- Comic book – Eat the Pie Slowly
- Comic book – Model Citizen Simpson
- Comic book – That's Hairable!
- Comic book – Fangs for Nothing!
- Comic book – Thumb Wrasslin'
- Comic book – Wall or Nothing
- Commercials – "The Bully"
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": |
Minor | Minor | Cameo | Absent | Cameo |
"Moaning Lisa": | "The Call of the Simpsons": | "The Telltale Head": | "Life on the Fast Lane": | "Homer's Night Out": |
Cameo | Absent | Cameo | Absent | Minor |
"The Crepes of Wrath": | "Krusty Gets Busted": | "Some Enchanted Evening": | ||
Minor | 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 | Cameo | Cameo | Cameo |
"Homer the Vigilante": | "Bart Gets Famous": | "Homer and Apu": | "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy": | "Deep Space Homer": |
Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent | 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 | Cameo |
"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 | Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent |
"Bart vs. Australia": | "Homer vs. Patty and Selma": | "A Star is Burns": | "Lisa's Wedding": | "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds": |
Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"The PTA Disbands": | "'Round Springfield": | "The Springfield Connection": | "Lemon of Troy": | "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)": |
Cameo | Cameo | Absent | Cameo | Cameo |
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 | Cameo | Cameo | Absent |
"Treehouse of Horror VI": | "King-Size Homer": | "Mother Simpson": | "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming": | "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular": |
Cameo | Cameo | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Marge Be Not Proud": | "Team Homer": | "Two Bad Neighbors": | "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield": | "Bart the Fink": |
Absent | Cameo | Absent | 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 | Cameo | Cameo | Cameo | 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 | Cameo | 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 | Cameo | Absent | Cameo | 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 | Cameo |
"Brother from Another Series": | "My Sister, My Sitter": | "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment": | "Grade School Confidential": | "The Canine Mutiny": |
Absent | Cameo | 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": |
Cameo | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
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 | Cameo | Absent | Absent |
"Bart Star": | "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons": | "Lisa the Skeptic": | "Realty Bites": | "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace": |
Cameo | Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent |
"All Singing, All Dancing": | "Bart Carny": | "The Joy of Sect": | "Das Bus": | "The Last Temptation of Krust": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Minor | Absent |
"Dumbbell Indemnity": | "Lisa the Simpson": | "This Little Wiggy": | "Simpson Tide": | "The Trouble with Trillions": |
Absent | Cameo | Minor | 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 | Cameo | 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 | 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 | Cameo | Absent | 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 | Cameo |
"Monty Can't Buy Me Love": | "They Saved Lisa's Brain": | "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo": | ||
Absent | Absent | Absent |