# What Simpsons characters will not get their own episodes or pasts delved into? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2002, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140 "2002-12-03T03:18:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raymond_luxury_yacht/32/4099_2.png) [@Raymond\_Luxury\_Yacht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raymond_Luxury_Yacht)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/21 "2002-12-03T14:51:04Z")
The slick salesman. He appears in different settings, with different personas. If you don’t know, he is the one who puts the comic book guy in his place: Comic book guy: Yes. I would like to return this quote unquote ultimate belt. Salesman: Do you have a receipt, quote unquote sir? and Salesman: Whoa, whoa, a fat sarcastic Star Trek fan. You must be a hit with the ladies, pal. I know that I’m missing some dialogue, any help? Also, Sideshow Mel, Luscius Sweet (sp.), and Lunchlady Doris. BTW, Miss Hoover has a drinking problem. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/22 "2002-12-03T15:01:40Z")
I think it’s amazing how Disco Stu has grown from a one-shot gag - Homer’s failed rhinestone embroidery effort - to a recurring character. - Rick ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/23 "2002-12-03T15:08:00Z")
How about Gunther, the tubby little German exchange student. “Don’t make me run, I am full of chocolate!” ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/24 "2002-12-03T15:17:14Z")
I thought Uter was missing. Wasn’t there an episode where Uter’s parents were in Prinicpal Skinner’s office asking what happened to him? ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/25 "2002-12-03T15:21:01Z")
Uter. Crap, your right. Was that a treehouse of horror episode- because I remember he got turned into Bratwurst on one of them. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/26 "2002-12-03T15:22:40Z")
Yup, Uter’s parents wanted to know why he never came back from the field trip to the Civil War reenactment camp. He was the child who couldn’t catch up to the bus and was beaten to death by the soldiers. As his mother said, “We just vant closure!” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/27 "2002-12-03T15:35:14Z")
I was always amazed at the resemblence between Baby Gerald and [Helena Bonham Carter](http://web.ukonline.co.uk/carter.jsrpages/2fhcx.htm). ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/28 "2002-12-03T15:54:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Troy McClure SF \* > \*\*Lionel Hutz and myself, unfortunately. \*\* ☹ Indeed. But then that thing with the fish was really more than we wanted to know about you anyway 🙂 . ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/29 "2002-12-03T16:35:15Z")
Dolph, (I think its his name) Kerney gets more lines, and we know he has a kid. Jimbo cries when A knife is drawn on him and poked a dead body with a stick, but what of Dolph the straight heaird member of the trio? How about Grimey when is he coming back?.. What ever happened to him? ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/30 "2002-12-03T16:46:52Z")
Grimey died by trying to be as stupid as Homer and grabbing some high-voltage wires, so we won’t be seeing any more of him. He’s gone the way of Dr. Monroe and Bleeding Gums Murphy. ---
**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/31 "2002-12-03T16:47:30Z")
Don’t forget the KrustyBurger Drive-Thru Kid! “It’s a federal offense to taunt the drive-thru workers sir!” (or something like that) Has Dr. Hibbert had a dedicated episode/storyline? How about the old Sea Captain? ---
**Author:** ![elf6c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c57346/32.png) [@elf6c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elf6c)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/32 "2002-12-03T16:53:05Z")
Yarrr, the Sea Captain get plenty of good lines. How about Lindsey- the high powered women executive type (last scene checking out the “newly single” Homer). ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/33 "2002-12-03T17:12:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lno \* > \*\*Yup, Uter’s parents wanted to know why he never came back from the field trip to the Civil War reenactment camp. He was the child who couldn’t catch up to the bus and was beaten to death by the soldiers. > > As his mother said, “We just vant closure!” \*\* Uter has appeared in at least one additional episode since then, “Skinner’s Sense of Snow.” I know this because I saw him and yelled “Uter’s back!” thus incurring odd looks from the people with whom I was watching. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/34 "2002-12-03T18:44:31Z")
Yeah, I love how Disco Stu has evolved, too. And I think we did get a little window on his soul there, for just a bit, with the taxicab confessions thing. As for characters who won’t get fleshed out: Capitol City Goofball (although he’s in politics now…Perhaps a skeleton will come sneaking out of the closet?) Maude Flanders (I think all chance of THAT is gone. Hehe…flesh.) Helen Lovejoy Each individual Nahasapeenapetilon octoplet. Does Dazzle EVER get it together? Does Gheet/Red Baron ever take off that horrible beard? Stampy the Elephant. (Who IS the man behind the elephant?) How about a list of characters about whom we know more than we need to? Ahem, I’m looking at you, Seymour Skinner. Lousy writers… ---
**Author:** ![kingpengvin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@kingpengvin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingpengvin)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/35 "2002-12-03T18:58:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Skammer \* > \*\*Grimey died by trying to be as stupid as Homer and grabbing some high-voltage wires, so we won’t be seeing any more of him. He’s gone the way of Dr. Monroe and Bleeding Gums Murphy. \*\* I know… just Quoting a recent episode where homer pulled out Grimey’s funeral Pamphlet and asked what happened to him. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/36 "2002-12-03T19:10:42Z")
I was going also going to suggest Sea Captain. “Yarrr! I need back-history!” ---
**Author:** ![B.Pants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@B.Pants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/B.Pants)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/37 "2002-12-03T19:58:18Z")
We know Hibbert never really went to medical school, from the episode where the kids are given a curfew after homer drives through the school, and the kids start telling secrets. What about Rainier Wolfcastle? He needs an episode! “Upon closer inspection, these are loafers.” ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/38 "2002-12-03T20:21:44Z")
> [@](#): > > I was always amazed at the resemblence between Baby Gerald and Helena Bonham Carter. Actually, to me, there’s more of a resemblence to [Jennifer Connelly](http://web.ukonline.co.uk/jennifer.connelly/scansc/connelly/s.htm) (not that I mind). There was a bit of background on Rainier Wolfcastle in the episode where Bart was dating his daughter. What do we know about Sideshow Mel aside from the fact that the bone in his hair is from a disasterous attempt to remove bubble gum? ---
**Author:** ![lost4life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@lost4life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lost4life)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/39 "2002-12-03T21:50:32Z")
Cletus the slack-jawed yokel and his lovely wife Lorleen (?). They deserve their own spin-off! ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2002, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/40 "2002-12-03T22:23:07Z")
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