# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/41 "2002-12-04T00:08:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by B.Pants \* > **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.** We also know that he has a long lost twin brother in Shelbyville. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/42 "2002-12-04T00:08:17Z")
We do know that Lugash came to America after cartwheeling over the Berlin Wall, but that’s about it. And we also saw Rainier Wolfcastle in a Oscar Meyer commercial when he was a little kid. For my bit character, I’m gonna throw out Roy, the bit character who lived with the Simpsons briefly when Homer was Poochie the Rockin’ Dog. _Put a sock in it, Roy!_ ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/43 "2002-12-04T00:24:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mojo \* > \*\*Lugash. \*\* Wasn’t Lugash the Kalkalash vendor at the WTC? ---
**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 4, 2002, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/44 "2002-12-04T00:53:08Z")
I think Lugash was Lisa’s gymnastics teacher. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/45 "2002-12-04T01:16:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > \*\*We also know that he has a long lost twin brother in Shelbyville. \*\* Wait a minute. De he have a long lost twin in Shelbyville or was he the long lost brother of Bleeding Gums Murphy, or both? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/46 "2002-12-04T01:48:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Osiris \* > \*\*Wait a minute. De he have a long lost twin in Shelbyville or was he the long lost brother of Bleeding Gums Murphy, or both? \*\* He was Hibbert’s long lost twin. It was in the episode where Homer finds out that he had a half-brother (voiced by Danny DeVito). Homer goes to try and find the adoption records for his brother, only to be confronted by the director of the orphanage (or whatever it was) and told that no one get’s to see the records, not even the director, who has a twin brother. It’s painfully obvious that the guy’s Hibbert’s _twin_ brother and that only a half-wit like Homer would miss it. Murphy was Hibbert’s _older_ brother. ---
**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 4, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/47 "2002-12-04T02:06:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lost4life \* > \*\*Cletus the slack-jawed yokel and his lovely wife Lorleen (?). They deserve their own spin-off! \*\* I believe you are referring to Brandeen. Lurleen Lumpkin was the country singin’ waitress who served Fudd. ---
**Author:** ![Blackeyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f6c823/32.png) [@Blackeyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackeyes)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/48 "2002-12-04T03:21:00Z")
I wanna see an episode that explores what happened to Hibbert and his family. ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/49 "2002-12-04T03:31:58Z")
I’ll admit that Lugash sounds like the Crab Juice vendor but I don’t think they’re the same guy. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jehovah68 \* > \*\*The slick salesman. He appears in different settings, with different personas. \*\* Not only that but I could swear he was the limo driver on Marge & Homer’s prom night and also Lisa’s caricature artist (“You like rollerskating, little girl?” “No.” “Yeah, evvverybody loves rollerskating.”) ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/50 "2002-12-04T04:23:21Z")
The characature artist was a pro football player, wasn’t he? I can’t remember who exactly. ---
**Author:** ![Mojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mojo)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/51 "2002-12-04T04:56:06Z")
Well, there was that episode with Troy Aikman, but the one I was thinking of was the caricature artist on the episode where Lisa gets to be Little Miss Springfield. ---
**Author:** ![markdiscordia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@markdiscordia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdiscordia)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/52 "2002-12-04T05:11:05Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. We know he didn’t have a _license to practice medicine_ at the time of that episode. Whether he went to medical school is unknown, but there’s no reason to think he didn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Banger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@Banger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banger)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/53 "2002-12-04T07:32:31Z")
Considering the potential for such an episode, I should remind the posters here that the aforementioned Eugene and Rusty were the “perverts” from the house of burlesque episode. Of course, the “potential” would be a TVMA episode that would end an already faltering series… …then again, they might pick up some of the **South Park** demographic! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2002, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140/54 "2002-12-04T08:02:32Z")
Corporal Punishment and Tina Ballerina, two of Krusty’s sidekicks, haven’t had any dialog, let alone backstory. And I’m miffed that **markdiscordia** beat me to the Hibbert nitpick. Ga-huh-huh-huh-huh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-simpsons-characters-will-not-get-their-own-episodes-or-pasts-delved-into/140140.md?page=2)