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* [[The Alcoholic]]: He's the king of this [[Trope]].

* [[Alcohol Induced Idiocy]]: Actually manages to act dumber after sometimes drinking a few too many.

* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]

** Some of us can already hear in our heads the sound of [[The Protagonist|Homer]] uttering that EXACT phrase.

* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Falls victim to this a lot.

* [[Convenience Store Gift Shopping]]: [[The Protagonist|Homer]] has a very bad habit of doing this sort of thing. It was justified in the episode ''Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire'', however, as he really didn't have any other option than to buy his family cheap Christmas gifts (including a dog toy for [[Brainy Baby|Maggie]]) because he really couldn't afford any regular gifts due to [[Big Bad|Mr. Burns]] denying his workers a Christmas bonus.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: Strangling his son is a great example.

* [[The Ditz]]

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: [[Daddy Had a Good Reason For Abandoning You|His mother left him as a kid]], and his [[Shell Shocked Senior|father]] didn't know how to raise him. It's also implied that his abuse of Bart was stemmed from being abused by his own father. That, and his father's emotional abuse may have at least contributed to his lack of intellect. He also is a glutton due to mental scars of finding {{spoiler|Waylon Smithers Sr's}} corpse clogging a pipe for a lake.

* [[Functional Addict]]: Depending on the writer

* [[Idiot Hero]]

* [[Informed Deformity]]: He is considered extremely fat and unfit. Actually he is only 239 lbs, and tall to start.

* [[Jerkass]]: Always.

* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: Sometimes

* [[Large Ham]]: Don't try to deny it!

{{quote| "BERSERK IS RIIIIIIIGHT!!!"}}

* [[The Protagonist]]

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: He drives a {{color|pink|pink}} Sedan.

* [[Sarcasm Backfire]]: Homer had Bart take a sanity test for him. When Bart asks Homer if he hears voices in his head, Homer, who was watching TV at the time, sarcastically says "Yes, while I'm watching TV!" Bart interprets this as a legitimate answer and checks it off. Guess what happens to Homer afterwards.

* [[Screams Like a Little Girl]]

* [[Took a Level In Jerkass]]: post-[[Flanderization]]

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Early episodes, it was pork chops and doughnuts. Later episodes, it was just doughnuts, though [[The Protagonist|Homer's]] appetite doesn't discriminate (see [[Extreme Omnivore]]).

* [[Villain Protagonist]]: In later episodes.

* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: In the episode "Homer Goes to College," Homer is convinced his college experience will be exactly like the [[Wacky Fratboy Hijinx|party atmosphere]] college is often depicted as in [[Animal House|movies]], not realizing he's in a satire that thoroughly subverts the trope.

 

* [[Closer to Earth]]: Though admitedly she is only sane ''in comparison'' to [[The Protagonist|Homer]] as seasons progress. In many cases [[Not So Above It All|even he is shocked at some of her actions]].

* [[The Comically Serious]]: Noted for her rather dull and no-risk demeanor, occasionally getting dizzy thrills out of monotonous activities like household chores (she does desire excitment and diversity every once in a while however, which is revealed to be a partial reason she likes Homer).

* [[Feminine Women Can Cook]]: [[Action Mom|Marge]] seems to buy into this quite a lot.

* [[Flanderization]]

* [[Talking to Himself|Talking To Herself]]: [[Action Mom|Marge's]] voice actress (Julie Kavner) also voices [[Action Mom|Marge's]] sisters, Patty and Selma, and Marge's mom, Jackie.

* [[The Voiceless]]: In the episode ''Krusty Gets Kancelled''.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]

 

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{{quote| The original [[The Protagonist|protagonist]] of the show in early seasons, a self-professed hellion and mischief-making little punk, though not incapable of good things for the right reason. Voiced by [[Nancy Cartwright]].}}

 

* [[Arch Enemy]]: To Sideshow Bob and Doctor Demento.

* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]

* [[Attention Whore]]: Many of his pranks are merely for recognition or approval from his friends.

** May stem from the fact that when he started school he was taught by the current lunch lady who constantly told him he was a failure. When this was brought to his parent’s attention they completely ignored it and instead brought Lisa a saxophone.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Severely injure Santa's Little Helper, and he certainly would have a good enough reason for wanting to severely injure the person who did it.

** Bart puts up with a ''lot'' under the appalling conditions at Kamp Krusty, making it through the day with firm belief that "[[Madness Mantra|Krusty is coming]]". When it becomes clear that Krusty ''isn't'' coming, Bart channels [[Apocalypse Now|Colonel Kurtz]] and takes over the camp.

* [[Blond Guys Are Evil]]: Or at the very least Anti-Heroic.

* [[Book Dumb]]

{{quote| "Eat my shorts!"<br />

"Don't have a cow, man."<br />

"Get bent"<br />

"[[Gratuitous Spanish|¡Ay, caramba!]]" (That last bit was actually his first words, in fact) }}

* [[Dumb Blonde]]

* [[Enfant Terrible]]

** On that note, he also defended her on at least one occasion. One notable occasion being when [[The Ace|Ned Flanders]] went into a total breakdown in regards to what happened and lashed out at everyone, and tried to defend her telling [[The Ace|Ned]] to back off. Later leads into an [[Even Evil Has Standards]] moment below.

** He absolutely hates it when someone severely injures his pet dog, and had [[Big Bad|Mr. Burns]] not happened to have brought his gun, he certainly would have attempted to brutally beat him up when he arrived at the town meeting discussing [[Big Bad|Mr. Burns's]] vile behavior.

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: He showed a lot of creavity when he first started school, but was beaten down by the teachers and written off as a failure for not conforming to standards. ''When he was 5''. This is probably why he is [[Book Dumb]] and a [[Class Clown]].

** [[Abusive Parents|His father could also count.]]

*** Repeatedly being told you were never wanted does that to you

* [[Hidden Depths]]: Practically prides himself on being [[Book Dumb]], but has consistently managed to outwit [[Arch Enemy|Sideshow Bob]] on several occasions. He's also shown to have latent artistic ability and an untapped intellectual potential almost on par with [[Granola Girl|Lisa's]].

* [[Jerkass]]: Always.

* [[Lovable Rogue]]: Most of the time (there are cases when he is genuinely just being a [[Jerkass]] however, especially later on).

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]

* [[Mouthy Kid]]

* [[Naughty Is Good]]

* [[Omniglot]]: Has spoken French, Vietnamese ("Mau! Di di mau!"), Japanese, and Spanish ("[[Catch Phrase|¡Ay, caramba!]]").

* [[Out of Focus]]: Still a [[Main Character]], but was THE [[Main Character]] early on.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: At the end of the 500th episode, {{spoiler|when Skinner's been forgotten in Springfield, Bart comes to get him on a wooden helicopter bike. Sure, Skinner hits the Jebediah statue and both of the nuclear plant's pylons (or whatever), but it was still pretty nice of Bart.}}

* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: Manly Man to Milhouse's Sensitive Guy.

* [[Shipper On Deck]]: Not a full-blown example, but when Lisa started showing interest in Nelson, Bart did stick up for Milhouse.

* [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist]]

* [[Villain Protagonist]]

 

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** Parodied in one episode where she reveals her crush on a boy who works at the library. His "bad boy" behavior is pretty much limited to being annoyed at people who confuse the juvenile and young adult sections.

{{quote| '''Lisa:''' Ooooh...if only someone could tame him...}}

* [[Author Avatar]]

* [[Bi the Way]]: During Holidays of Future Passed, she's shown in the family picture having been with three different women.

* [[Bratty Half Pint]]: In her original form, she was almost as childish and mischieveous as Bart. Toned down as [[Divergent Character Evolution]] kicked in, though she still has her moments.

* [[Bob Haircut]]: Gets this hairstyle, complete with dyeing her hair {{color|brown|brown}}, in the subplot of "To Surveil With Love".

** She's also frequently yells out a shrill "MOOOOMMMM!!!" in response to [[Big Brother Bully|Bart's antics]].

** And, of course, there is "Meh."

* [[Cute Bookworm]]

** It is implied that Lisa was neglected by Homer as a baby, when Homer observes some old videos of him completely ignoring her early talents, he is driven to tears in guilt.

* [[Dumb Is Good]]: Averted, as she is easily the nicest character on the show.

* [[First Kiss]]: A [[Shut Up Kiss]] from Nelson Muntz. Lampshaded.

* [[Granola Girl]]

* [[I Can't Dance]]: She eventually mastered jazz dancing, but she's terrible at tap and ballet.

* [[Smug Snake]]: On her bad days.

* [[Too Clever By Half]]: Frequently done. Lisa is a genius, but occasionally arrogant and misguided about it, not to mention lives in quite the [[Crapsack World]].

* [[Took a Level In Jerkass]]: For a while in the later seasons [[Granola Girl|Lisa]] could be quite rude and pushy about her beliefs. Recent seasons have mostly fixed this by having Lisa focus on self-improvement and making friends instead of political activism.

* [[Vague Age]]: In "[[Granola Girl|Lisa]] the Beauty Queen":

{{quote| The youngest of the children. Typically a marginal figure, but does get her share of scenes. {{spoiler|Most famous for turning out to have accidentally shot Mr. Burns in the series' first two-parter episode.}} Voiced by [[Elizabeth Taylor]], [[Jodie Foster]], [[James Earl Jones]], [[Nancy Cartwright]], and [[Yeardley Smith]].}}

 

* [[Badass Adorable]]: Saved Homer's life on ''four'' separate occasions and {{spoiler|shot Mr. Burns}}.

* [[Berserk Button]]: Losing her pacifier

* [[Brainy Baby]]: Numerous episodes have implied she's very smart for her age. She may be more intelligent than the rest of the family. Yes, even Lisa, as demonstrated when two-year-old Maggie effortlessly played her sax.

* [[Drop the Hammer]]: When she saw Itchy bonk Scratchy on the head with a mallet, she did the same thing to Homer. The blow knocked him out cold.

* [[Enfant Terrible]]

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: It turns out he's a [[World War II]] veteran and his stories about his fighting days are generally true. It resurfaces when Burns threatens Bart.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Is often ignored, treated with contempt, and otherwise left to rot at the nursing home by his own son.

* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Partly due to his senile disposition, though he seems on par with most other Simpsons.

* [[December December Romance]]: Has had several, with [[Action Mom|Marge's]] mom, Beatrice, and a hoochie named Zelda.

* [[I Was Quite a Looker]]: "I was once the handsomest man in Buffalo!"

* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: At times, particularly in his younger days, despite being a gruff, uniterested father figure, he did dress up as Santa Claus for Christmas to cheer up Homer, and sold his house in order to allow Homer and Marge to buy a place of their own.

* [[The Munchausen]]

** Although there is the occasional implication that his rambling and nonsensical stories are ''actually true.'' There is also at least one implication that he is actually aware that he is rambling nonsense, but does it anyways because he thinks his grandkids don't actually pay attention to his stories anyways.

* [[Rambling Old Man Monologue]]: "So I tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say. Now where was I... Oh yeah. The important thing was that I had an onion tied to my belt, which was the style at the time. You couldn't get white onions...."

** Actually parodied twice: The first was in ''Double, Double, Boy In Trouble'', where in the middle of Grampa's ramble, "Bart" (actually Simon Woosterfield) exclaims shock and pride that Grampa shot a buffalo. Grampa then turns around and expresses shock that "Bart" was even listening to his ramble, and complains about now having to find an ending to his nonsense. The second is after Homer saves his life from an ax-crazy humanitarian journalist trying to kill him, and rewards Homer with the opportunity to have his "first ramble," indicating that its a family tradition to have the Simpson Male's do rambling.

* [[Shell Shocked Senior]]

* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: He recovers from a variety of disturbing conditions.

** To make it especially confusing, in one episode, Mayor Quimby is trying to determine the oldest person in town by having everyone stand up and then sit down when Quimby calls out a number greater than their age. At about eighty, Grampa sits down, and then at ninety, ''he stands up again.''

** One episode says he's 83.

* [[When I Was Your Age]]: He loves these

 

* [[New Age Retro Hippie]]

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Voiced by ''four'' actresses in various appearances.

 

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* [[Does Not Like Men]]: Patty especially, but Selma applies as well.

* [[Gossipy Hens]]

* [[Hates Being Touched]]: Patty.

* [[Jerkass]]: Both but Patty is by a long shot the most embittered and spiteful of the two.

** They tried [[Moral Event Horizon|to ''murder'' Homer Simpson.]]

* [[Looking for Love In All The Wrong Places]]: Selma has about 4 or 5 failed marriages under her belt. Patty is a subversion in that, while she occasionally laments being the only single girl left in the family, when she sees Homer stuffing his face full of hors d'oeuvres she realizes that it could be worse.

* [[Maiden Aunt]]: Both embody the "bitter spinster" archetype to a T.

* [[The Mistress]]: Selma becomes this to Fat Tony for an episode, although she has been led to believe she's actually his wife. She is heartbroken and angry with Fat Tony when she finds out...but then gets into a [[Cat Fight]] with another woman who also claims to be Fat Tony's wife.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Selma, who is shown to be much more likely to do this than Patty due to her craving for someone to love, which she eventually achieves by adopting Ling. She's also the one most able to act in kind towards Homer, even though such a thing is very rare.

* [[Promotion to Parent]]: With some help from Homer (and a sympathetic Chinese bureaucrat), Selma adopts a baby girl named Ling. (Patty does help take care of Ling, too.)

* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Patty is a lesbian}}

* [[Victoria's Secret Compartment]]: Used by Selma

{{quote| Lisa's pet cat.}}

 

* [[Female Feline Male Mutt]]: The female cat.

* [[Furry Confusion]]: When she and Scratchy show up together in ''[[Treehouse of Horror]]'' IX segment, "The Terror of Tiny Toon."

* [[Pals With Jesus]]: Even though his religious zeal didn't develop until later seasons, even the early seasons had Ned being in obvious favor with [[God]], to the point that politely stating skyward "It's me, Ned" had his golfball suddenly jolt forward to give him a hole-in-one and he once called down a lightning bolt with a prayer to God to save Todd, after which God gave him the "OK" hand sign and told him it was no problem.

* [[Parting Words Regret]]: "I can't believe my last words to (Maude) were 'no footlongs.'" [[It Makes Sense in Context]].

{{quote| "OH, HELL, DIDDLY-DING-DONG CRAP! CAN'T YOU MORONS DO ANYTHING RIGHT?!"}}

* [[Rage Breaking Point]]

* [[Nice Guy|Nice Gal]]

* [[The Other Darrin]]: After Roswell left, Marcia Mitzman-Gaven took over for what would be Maude's remaining episodes.

 

=== Rod and Todd Flanders ===

* [[The Chew Toy]]: Is ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]''' answer to Kenny on ''[[South Park (Animation)|South Park]]'' (read: he gets killed or injured in every episode just for laughs)

* [[Iron Butt Monkey]]: [[Up to Eleven]].

* [[Shout Out]]: In his first appearance in season 2's "Principal Charming", Moleman was actually called Ralph Melish (as seen on his driver license). The latter is a reference to Monty Python.

* [[Sword Cane]]: "You call that a knife? ''[[BFS|This]]'' is a knife. [[Butt Monkey|Whoooa, down I go.]]"

* [[Pink Elephants]]

* [[Singing Voice Dissonance]]: Although he has an odd-sounding conversational voice, Barney has a beautiful singing voice (much like Jim Nabors).

* [[Status Quo Is God]]: In a rare subversion on the show, Barney sobered up in season 11 and stays that way for several seasons.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Once charged a tab to Mr. Burns. He later woke up in a landfill.

* [[Affably Evil]]: [[Depending On the Writer|Sometimes]].

* [[Angry Guard Dog]]: "Release the hounds".

* [[Antiquated Linguistics]]: He does this all the time in his version of [[Two Decades Behind]]. In one example, he went to the post office in order to send a letter to the Prussian consulate in Siam by the 4:30 auto-gyro. The person working at the post office [[Lampshade Hanging|even informed him how much he]] [[Did Not Do the Research]].

* [[Big Bad]]: Whenever the show needs one, anyway.

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: He may be senile, but he is a brilliant businessman.

* [[The Caligula]]: Mr. Burns usually treats his workers, and even his own workplace, far too shabbily to even be considered a sane boss, never mind a good one.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Excellent."

** "Release the hounds!" could be his second [[Catch Phrase]].

* [[Looks Like Orlok]]

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

* [[The Other Marty]]: Only for the first few episodes, Mr. Burns was voiced by Christopher Collins, before being replaced by Harry Shearer.

* [[The Power of Hate]]: {{spoiler|This is what's keeping him alive.}}

* [[Up to Eleven]]: His villainy goes into this level when he does things like block out the sun.

 

=== Waylon Smithers, Jr. ===

{{quote| The second-in-command and most competent minion of Mr. Burns, Smithers is fanatically devoted to his master (fortunately for Burns, who is so physically feeble and out of touch with the modern age he depends on Smithers to do everything for him), which is eventually revealed to be due to him being in love with him. Voiced by [[Harry Shearer (Creator)|Harry Shearer]].}}

 

* [[Battle Butler]]

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Though usually a bit of a doormat to Burns, [[Kick the Dog|some of the schemes Burns comes up with]] will have Smithers objecting to them at the risk of losing his own job.

* [[Giving Up On Logic]]: Angrily did this after his [[Sanity Slippage]] and began imitating Homer's stupid antics. It took him about a minute to get himself killed.

* [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]]: His [[Backstory]] describes a ridiculous amount of misfortune that he's had to overcome.

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: "I don't need safety gloves, because i'm Homer Simp..." (electric shocks)

* [[Knight of Cerebus]]: His lone episode "Homer's Enemy" is considered to be one of the darkest episodes in the entire run of the show.

* [[The Bully|The Cyber Bully]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: And how! Comic Book Guy seems to live by the philosophy "If you can't say something snarky or sarcastic, don't say anything at all."

* [[Fat Bastard]]

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: It is heavily implied, if not outright stated, that the reason why Jeff Albertson often is sarcastic and insulting to people is because he himself is a victim of it in regards to his obesity.

* [[Ambiguously Jewish]]: Later confirmed.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Hey hey, kids!"

* [[The Hyena]]: He has a ''very'' hard time staying serious during an interview with Kent Brockman; he is issued a [[First Name Ultimatum]].

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]

 

* [[Butt Monkey]]: He gets his moments, mainly with Krusty and the Krusty show. He doesn't learn to give up though and look for the good things in life.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: In the "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" episodes:

{{quote| '''Smithers:''' Mr. Burns was the closest thing I ever had to...a friend. But he fired me! And now I spend my days drinking cheap scotch and watching [[Comedy Central]]!<br />

{{quote| An aging actor who starred in an incredibly wide variety of B-movies and short-lived serials, who frequently reminds people of the flicks he has starred in as a way to try and cling to a sense of still being a bigshot actor. Voiced by Phil Hartman.}}

 

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: All of Hartman's characters were retired after his death, as production thought it would be in poor taste to simply replace him. (The fact that his children would be watching was often cited.) There is the very rare occasion where they will turn up in the background, though.

* [[Mad Libs Catchphrase]]: "Hi, I'm Troy McClure! You may remember me from such ''[genre he's currently appearing in]''s as ''[title X]'' and ''[title Y]''." A few episodes play with this:

{{quote| '''McMahon:''' Hi, I'm Ed McMahon! Tonight on [[FOX]], from the producers of ''When Skirts Fall Off'', and ''Secrets of National Security Revealed'', it's ''World's Deadliest Executions''!}}

* [[The Other Darrin]]: In an early episode, [[Dan Castellaneta]] did a line of dialogue for him (presumably because Hartman was unavailable or the cost to just have him do one line).

* [[You Might Remember Me From]]: The [[Trope Namer]].

 

{{quote| The highly put upon principal of Springfield Elementary School, a former Army officer and Vietnam survivor, harrassed by Bart Simpson, put upon by his Superintendent, challenged by his groundskeeper, and under the thumb of his domineering, overbearing mother. {{spoiler|It's eventually revealed that the real Seymour Skinner went missing in action in Vietnam and he is actually a boy who Skinner saved, who took up Skinner's identity and came back to America. This revelation is not popular, and is even ignored in-series. To the point where when the real Seymour Skinner returns, he's [[Put On a Bus|put on a train]] and everyone agrees to keep calling Armin Tamzarian, Seymour Skinner.}} Voiced by [[Harry Shearer (Creator)|Harry Shearer]].}}

 

* [[Dean Bitterman]]

* [[Determinator]]: Once parodied [[The Terminator]]. See "[[Non Giving Up School Guy]]"

* [[Malaproper]]: He was quite prone to these in his early appearances:

{{quote| '''Skinner:''' Welcome kindergarteners, I'm Principal Sinner-- Skinner! ''(kindergarteners laugh)'' Well, that's it. I've lost them forever.}}

* [[My Beloved Smother]]: [[Trope Namer]]; he lives with, and is co-dependent with, his mom.

* [[Non Giving Up School Guy]]: [[Trope Namer]].

* [[Retired Badass]]: Former army sergeant.

** He also mentions in one episode that he's an ex-Green Beret (US Army Special Forces).

* [[Stern Teacher]]: He has it in for Bart Simpson, but it's hard to blame him when you realize just what Bart's put him through for so long. He's generally a lot nicer to the other students, and can even be civil to Bart when the latter isn't pranking him.

* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: "This is our last chance to bone up. And bone we will!"

* [[Badass]]: In "Marge Gets a Job", he fights a timber wolf with nothing but his bare hands.

* [[Bonnie Scotland]]

* [[Cannot Tell a Joke]]: His comedy routine about Scottish golfers.

* [[Covert Pervert]]: Was revealed in the season six episode "Homer Badman" (the episode where Homer is accused of sexually harassing a babysitter by grabbing her butt and calling her "Precious Venus") to be a camera-toting Peeping Tom. ("But every Scotsman does it!")

* [[Fiery Redhead]]

* [[Funny Foreigner]]

{{quote| '''Willie:''' Brothers and sisters are natural enemies like Englishmen and Scots, or Welshmen and Scots, or Japanese and Scots, or Scots and other Scots! Damn Scots! They ruined Scotland!<br />

'''Skinner:''' You Scots sure are a cantankerous bunch.<br />

 

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: His short-lived romance with Lisa.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Haw haw!"

* [[Character Development]]: Though it lead to [[Menace Decay]], Nelson has become softer and is often one of Bart's friends now, while the position of bullying tormentor have been passed onto Jimbo, Kerney and Dorf. Nelson's mother meanwhile cleaned up her act, and his [[Disappeared Dad]] came back.

* [[Creepy Twins]]

* [[Flanderization]]: While Sherri and Terri weren't exactly the nicest girls, nowadays they seem to pretty much hate anyone who's not them. [[Too Dumb to Live|They didn't even become suddenly afraid when Michael turned out to be the son of Fat Tony]].

 

=== Martin Prince ===

** In fact, he ''does'' get into a nasty brawl with an [[Irish Priest]] after the two quarrel about the subject of Catholic vs. Protestant practices.

* [[Hiding Behind Religion]]

* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]: His description of his fight with the baboons at the zoo.

{{quote| And that's when I got ''mad.''}}

 

* [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife]]

* [[Karma Houdini]]

* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]

{{quote| The cat member of the [[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]] parodying [[Show Within a Show]], Scratchy is almost never a bad person in his depictions, but invariably suffers nightmarish deaths at Itchy's hands.}}

 

* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: He suffers one [[Once Per Episode]]

* [[Furry Confusion]]: When he and Snowball II show up together in ''[[Treehouse of Horror]] IX'' segment, "The Terror of Tiny Toon."

 

* [[Barefoot Cartoon Animal]]: When he is not wearing shoes.

* [[Nice Hat]]

* [[Remember the New Guy]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Hello, Bart".

* [[Camp Straight]]

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]

* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: His brother Cecil.

* [[Expy]]: Some viewers see Sideshow Bob as an awful lot like [[Frasier]] Crane. Only he doesn't have a radio show, he's more successful at romance, and he's a crazy maniac ([[Affably Evil|albeit one with very good manners]]) who wants to kill Bart.

* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: His plans to kill Bart.

** And while he hated the indignity of being the put-upon sidekick, when Krusty accidentally erased all those old episodes, Sideshow Bob vowed revenge for him erasing his past.

* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: Does he still want Bart dead or not?!

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]

* [[Everything Is Big in Texas]]

* [[Fat Sweaty Southerner in A White Suit]]

* [[Guns Akimbo]]

* [[Reckless Gun Usage]]

* [[Strawman Political]]: Along with post-[[Flanderization]] Ned, he serves as the show's primary target for [[Take That|TakeThats]] directed at Republicans/conservatives.

** How much he is one is debatable, as he did once mention that he's going to tell his gay son that he loves him.

{{quote| Chief of Springfield Police Department, Chief Wiggum is portrayed as lazy, gluttonous, out of shape, incompetent (if not mildly corrupt) and dim-witted. Voiced by [[Hank Azaria]].}}

 

* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: The episode ''Pranksta Rap'' reveals that if he's motivated enough, he can make some great police work.

* [[Dirty Cop]]

 

* [[Affably Evil]]: In more recent seasons.

** "Goodbye, student loan payments!"

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Bye!"

* [[Known Only By Their Nickname]]: Subverted, since Snake Jailbird is his actual name.

* [[Perma Stubble]]

* [[Children Are a Waste]]: Believes this, and even starts a group for the child-free citizens of Springfield

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]

 

=== Lionel Hutz ===

* [[Ultimate Job Security]]: Frequently lost his cases, but kept getting hired by Homer and Marge regardless. Lampshaded:

{{quote| '''Marge''': You know, we should really stop hiring him. }}

 

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