- “Isn't it amazing the same day you got a pool is the same day we realized we liked you?”
- ―Sherri[src]
- “The timing worked out great. Don't you think?”
- ―Terri[src]
- “You ruined our undefeated season. You ruined everything, ruiner. ...My sister likes you.”
- ―Sherri[src]
Sherri Mackleberry[3] is the sister of Terri Mackleberry, and is the eldest of the twins by two seconds. She is in the same class as Bart Simpson at Springfield Elementary School.
Biography
The twins are quite bright students (they even have their own language known as cryptophasia in most areas of the spectrum of twins) and are often very conniving and mean, even to each other. When it comes to Bart they are quite stuck up, and never miss an opportunity to berate him. They fed Bart intentionally false information on American history, however both girls correctly guessed that Bart had not prepared himself for a test and was looking to get all the answers from a student who studied, so the prank was arguably to teach Bart a lesson in slacking; since if he had studied he would have realized the information was false.
Principal Skinner apparently considers Sherri smarter or more talented than Terri, because in Simpson Tide he announces, "In the event of nuclear war, we can only save our best, and brightest. Therefore, space in the fallout shelter will be reserved for: Lisa Simpson, Martin Prince, our championship kickball team, and Sherri, but not Terri."
Bart appears to have a crush on one of them.[4] Sherri (or possibly Terri) referred to Bart as an ugly, smelly dork, but was convinced by Homer to go on a date with Bart after he told her that neither she nor Bart could do much better. One of the twins stated that her sister had a crush on Bart it is unknown if this is the truth or if it is just teasing.[5] She also has a "boy crazy" cousin who has a crush on Bart.
When it comes to Lisa they are just as inconsistent. One minute they will be friends on the schoolyard playing together and the next they will be ganging up on her. More often than not it is the latter, usually not including Lisa because she is too smart or too weird. Once they said her butt was too fat causing Lisa to go on a diet.
In the Simpsons and Family Guy Crossover episode Sherri is pushed by a kid into Terri causing Otto to hit them with his school bus.
Appearance
Sherri has dark purple hair, eye color unknown due to the cartoon series having the characters with only black pupils, pale yellow skin and wears a purple dress with matching purple shoes, a matching purple headband, and short white socks.
Non-canon appearances
Future
Professor Frink shows Bart and Lisa a possible future with his astrology machine. It is revealed that Nelson simultaneously dated and impregnated both Sherri and her sister, who bore him four children (two sets of twins, naturally) shortly before Nelson's high school graduation. He abandoned them during Bart's graduation party, using the same statement his father said to him before abandoning him.[6]
Video-Games
The Simpsons Arcade game
Sherri and Terri appear in stage 1 and 2 carrying a burger in a plate for the Simpsons to gain their health.
The Simpsons Game
Mob Rules
Sherri and Terri appear with an Itchy mask and act as enemies that must be defeated.
Big Super Happy Fun Fun Game
Sherri and Terri also appear as one of the holders of the three Sparklemon that Homer and Lisa must defeat.[7]
Behind the Laughter
Creation They have similarities to the Grady Twins (ghost girls) Danny sees in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation The Shining, of Stephen King's novel of the same name. In a deleted scene of the parody of the Shining called "Treehouse of Horror V" they are ghost twins seen by Bart. They also take on this role in The Simpsons Game; they are in a game engine elevator saying "Come play with us, Simpsons".
Trivia
- Matt Groening said Sherri is always on the left in an episode commentary.
- Both she and Terri bear some resemblance to the twins Patty and Selma, as both hold an enjoyment for tormenting the males of the Simpson family, but for different reasons, and have a close relative who have a romantic crush on one of the Simpsons.
- It is implied that Sherri and Terri are not actually twins, but two thirds of conjoined triplets, although this is conjectural, and should be considered non-canon until said 'sister' officially appears.
- She apparently doesn't like Arby's restaurants, and would only eat there if she were starving.[8]
- Sherri and Terri's last name was finally revealed in the new episode Yellow Subterfuge, written on Principal Skinner's list of students.
Episode Appearances
- Episode – "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
- Episode – "Homer's Odyssey"
- Episode – "Moaning Lisa"
- Episode – "Bart Gets an "F""
- Episode – "Bart the Daredevil"
- Episode – "Principal Charming"
- Episode – "Lisa's Substitute"
- Episode – "The War of the Simpsons"
- Episode – "Stark Raving Dad"
- Episode – "Bart the Murderer"
- Episode – "Separate Vocations"
- Episode – "Bart's Inner Child"
- Episode – "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood"
- Episode – "The Last Temptation of Homer"
- Episode – "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"
- Episode – "Bart Gets Famous"
- Episode – "Bart of Darkness"
- Episode – "Lisa's Rival"
- Episode – "Bart's Girlfriend"
- Episode – "Lemon of Troy"
- Episode – "Bart Sells His Soul"
- Episode – "Lisa the Vegetarian"
- Episode – "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"
- Episode – "Bart the Fink"
- Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing"
- Episode – "Summer of 4 Ft. 2"
- Episode – "You Only Move Twice"
- Episode – "Lisa's Date with Density"
- Episode – "Grade School Confidential"
- Episode – "Bart Star"
- Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic"
- Episode – "Das Bus"
- Episode – "Simpson Tide"
- Episode – "Girly Edition"
- Episode – "Lard of the Dance"
- Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"
- Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories"
- Episode – "Brother's Little Helper"
- Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"
- Episode – "Grift of the Magi"
- Episode – "Faith Off"
- Episode – "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge"
- Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow"
- Episode – "Hungry, Hungry Homer"
- Episode – "Bye Bye Nerdie"
- Episode – "Jaws Wired Shut"
- Episode – "The Lastest Gun in the West"
- Episode – "I Am Furious (Yellow)"
- Episode – "Large Marge"
- Episode – "Helter Shelter"
- Episode – "Special Edna"
- Episode – "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can"
- Episode – "Barting Over"
- Episode – "'Scuse Me While I Miss the Sky"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIV"
- Episode – "The President Wore Pearls"
- Episode – "Smart and Smarter"
- Episode – "The Way We Weren't"
- Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner"
- Episode – "Sleeping with the Enemy"
- Episode – "Future-Drama"
- Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas"
- Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple"
- Episode – "Little Big Girl"
- Episode – "Marge Gamer"
- – The Simpsons Movie
- Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style"
- Episode – "Dial "N" for Nerder"
- Episode – "Any Given Sundance"
- Episode – "Mona Leaves-a"
- Episode – "All About Lisa"
- Episode – "Mypods and Boomsticks"
- Episode – "How the Test Was Won"
- Episode – "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly"
- Episode – "Coming to Homerica"
- Episode – "Bart Gets a "Z""
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI" (Tweenlight)
- Episode – "The Blue and the Gray"
- Episode – "The Book Job"
- Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed" (Avatar only)
- Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network"
- Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises"
- Episode – "To Cur, with Love" (School bus)
- Episode – "Pulpit Friction"
- Episode – "The Fabulous Faker Boy"
- 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 – "The Kid is All Right"
- Episode – "Yellow Subterfuge" (Seen in Skinner's dream and at school)
- Episode – "Steal This Episode" (Seen in the Simpson's backyard
- Episode – "Specs and the City" (Seen in Mrs. Krabappal's class)
- Episode – "Diggs" (Appeared at the playground and school bus)
- Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much" (Appeared in the hallway)
- Episode – "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee" (Appeared in the gymnasium)
- Episode – "Days of Future Future" (First Church of Springfield)
- Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" (School bus and Art class)
- Episode – "Brick Like Me" (In the hallway)
- Episode – "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge" (Field day)
- Episode – "The Simpsons Guy" (cameo)
- Episode – "Simpsorama" (Class)
- Episode – "Blazed and Confused" Class
- Episode – "Covercraft" (Town Square)
- Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
- Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot" (Various birthday parties)
- Episode – "Bull-E" (School dance)
- Episode – "Cue Detective" (School Auditorium)
- Episode – "Halloween of Horror" (School entrance and Simpson's house)
- Episode – "Barthood"
- Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-caused Hurdles"
- Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow"
- Episode – "Lisa the Veterinarian" (Chlorine Dreams Indoor Water Park)
- Episode – "The Burns Cage"
- Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" (Springfield Bowl)
- Commercials – Hard Times
- Comic book – Lunch Pales
- Comic book – Scheme Supreme
- Comic book – Diary of a Mad Sax Camper
- Comic book – Bart's Junior Camper Demerit Badge Manual
- Comic book – Batter-Up Bart
- Comic book – Bart's Got Spirit!
- Comic book – The Kiss of Blecch!
- Comic book – Class Klown
- Comic book – Yellow Chef!
- Comic book – Children off the Cob
- Comic book – The More, The Merrier!
- Comic book – That's Hairable!
- Comic book – Fangs for Nothing!
- Comic book – Wall or Nothing
Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out (unlockable)