Save for flashbacks and flashforwards it seems the SImpsons universe is curiously devois of a teen-ager population. Of course there is the squeeky voiced teen and Dr. Hibbert’s son. Jimbo, Kearny, and Dolph I am thinking are teens, but they go to Springfield Elementary (remember when they were locked in the utility closet to hide them during Superintendent Chalmers visit).
Are there some other obvious ones I am forgetting.
How about when Homer went to college and lived in the dorm? I’m guessing many of his fellow dormmates were 17-19 years of age. (Conan O’Brien wrote that episode, BTW.)
Oh yeah, the three nerds: Doug, Benjamin, and Gary.
The Simpsons used to have that teenager next door who would baby-sit Bart and Lisa, and that Bart had a crush on.
How old is Otto the Bus Driver?
I assumed he was about 19, but he may be much older.
There’s also the pimple-faced guy who seems to work every single menial job in town.
Otto went to Brown!
In one episode, Kearny mentions he is a teenager and a father of a teenager. Neat trick. (Another Kearny kid, about age 1, appears in the episode with Krusty’s daughter. He also dated one of the other bullies’ mom.)
Note that having a lot of superfluous characters is costly. You have to worry about drawing them the same in each episode they occur, making sure the voice actor keeps the voice constant, etc. Since there’s little reason for the Simpson kids or adults to mingle with teens, few are needed. The Squeaky Voiced Teen can fill most purposes.
There was a vapid teen veejay that appeared a couple times. In one episode her palm crystal turned red and she was replaced.
There was also a teen boy who lived with the Simpsons for all of about 5 seconds. Sort of Fonzie-ish in voice. A snipe at introducing new characters to jazz up ratings.
Roy!
There was also that ‘bad’ girl that Bart had a crush on for an episode. I totally forget her name, but know that it was Bart’s first crush or something or other.
When her palm crystal went off, she said something to the effect of, “But I’m only 25!”
Do you mean the neighbor girl or Jessica Lovejoy?
I think he means Laura Powers, the neighbor.
In Illinois, to drive a school bus, you need to be 21.
Now you’re glad there’s a **bus guy ** in the house, right? Go ahead, say it…
Similarly, in Little Girl in the Big Ten, Lisa passed herself off as a college-age gymnast and was able to hobnob in classes and coffee shops with 17-19s.