Simpsons Histories - Richard & Lewis 

Season 1 Background characters especially

They really are fascinating charactes

Not Ralph and Milhouse's friend that looks like Akbar & Jeff

Especially season 1

How bout supernintendo chalmers or grounds keeper willie

This is an awesome idea. They could even do it as a Halloween segment if they wanted to up the creep factor for Milhouse

yes i love this idea. that would explain why we dont see bart hanging out with bashir, donny, etc anymore. also it would make sense why nelson still gets to occasionally hang around with bart because milhouse obviously couldnt get rid of him. maybe also add a joke about how milhouse tried to replace santa's little helper himself, but the dog food contains actual food, which he is allergic to it or something lmao. as for making richard and lewis active characters, even tho it think that it would be cool to change the status quo, tbh i also dont see it happening, bcs if a simpsons writer were to write this into an actual episode, i bet they'll end it with bart telling milhouse that he's the only friend he needed anyway or something like that.

I love this idea! Would be so cool to see!

This is a genious idea, and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Would love to see some guest stars come back for that episode, like Topher Grace as Donny or Daniel Radcliffe as Diggs.

Huh, neat. Makes me wonder if that was taken from an internal character outline, or written by whomever designed the calendar

That would be such an interesting role for him. He could be the guy who says Bart can't do [outlandish feat that kicks off the plot], with Bart never noticing his ill-intent, or something.

He could have been like their Hustler Kid( From Recess)

He seems really assertive. No wonder girls like him more than Milhouse.

@@quenotedariayo And he got good drip.

I, too, would like to see that spreadsheet

700

@@quenotedariayo 700 is 500+

You put the idea on his head.

not surprised Tariq is a fan too

@@foxbuns They have collabed already.

Hell yeah

I think the only reason the barflies never get used is because Lenny, Carl, and Barney exist, so the barflies are kinda redundant

Have they ever gotten a line at all, now that i think about it? Outside of drunkenly singing while Barney can't drink or stuff like that

A great idea, but is there enough material to an episode about the barflies?

@@VICTORZITOSS Sam has a line in ‘Lisa the Greek’ where he asks what Homer’s betting on the game. When Homer says “my daughter” he replies “What a gambler!” Later, in ‘The Mysterious Voyage of Homer’, when Homer is looking for his soul mate at Moe’s, Larry says “colleague” and Sam says “sympathiser”.

kinda like the simpsons spin-off of season 8 where the main family made minor cameos.

Another 22 short stories about springfield

@@benjaminbarraza8972 Yeah, something like that, although it's kind of late to do that since Richard and Lewis would have been a bit more recognized in the older episodes

I´d watch the shit out of it, but if it was made today I´m not sure if it worked out too well. Would have been great during the mid 90s.

Yeah Like how they did in my little pony for the wedding episode

Oh my god his name is richard! Ive been calling him ricardo! Ahhhhhh!

@@cancelculture4920 I mean he could be, we don't know if he is hispanic or not

I'm surprised they didnt add richard when they added lewis.

Tapped Out has a ridiculous number of weird and irrelevant characters, like Moe's barflies. Surprised to hear Richard isn't in it...

@@kafkaesque6459 they have bort too

A shit. I kinda wanna see that timeline

I guess if the simpsons ever gets a reboot of some kind that would be a good starting point

I was literally just coming in here to make this comment. I use his one line a lot "Yarrr not a looker in the bunch."

I second McAllister! I always love a good scurvy sea dog in a cartoon series! ARRRRRRRR!

WOW this comment just taught me what his name was all this time and I’ve been watching simpsons since I was a little kid lol

@@MrJACKBaird next one: what is comic book guy's name?

Isn’t it a fact that he’s not a real captain?

Me too, He's the kind of kid I would have had a crush on back in elementary

To be fair, he does have a pretty sweet jacket

@@rubywest5166 is one of the few kid character that actually wears a jacket.

That nice hair and his 🔶 on his shirt makes him stand out. Also cool jacket.

He always had this latent James Dean vibe, but was too cool to stand in the focus

@Marc Carran on average, the most common type of person in Asia, heck even the world, is..... Chinese..... so obvious

West and South Asia tend to be associated with darker skin tones - India, Pakistan and Bangladesh all fall into Asia too

@Marc Carran I dug out my Season 1 DVD and found the script in question (Bart the Genius). The stage directions say, and I’m copying this verbatim: “In a corner of the playground is Bart, surrounded by a group of boys, including Milhouse, who is white, Richard, who is Asian, and Lewis, who is black.” So, yeah, I get where you’re coming from, but that’s what it says, so take it up with Jon Vitti. I’m not American, but from what I’ve heard it’s common in American English for “Asian” to be shorthand for East Asian, and judging by the character’s final design, I’m pretty sure that’s what he meant. (Unlike in British English where “Asian” is shorthand for South Asian.)

@Marc Carran You're right, there is no one way to look Asian. Unfortunately, the Simpsons was created by mainly white guys in the 80s, so the art direction didn't reflect this. East Asian characters, like Akira, have thin eyes and look anaemic in the early Simpsons, Indian and MENA characters all have brown skin and black hair, and they almost always inserted embarrassing stereotypes and impressions every chance they got for many, many years.

@Marc Carran We get it man, you're the white knight in this scenario. Do you want a medal?

Hell yeah

Far more funny characters!

@@roddydykes7053 Not going to argue with that but the obscurity of these characters is what makes for an interesting analysis.

According to the wiki their names are Sam and Larry, Sam is the one with glasses I think

Had the same idea!

And what about the Crazy Old Man?

Better than being a Bort.

I'm lucky if I make it as a Just Stamp the Ticket Man, even in my own story.

At least I'm not glasses kid

Bart, you'll notice, doesn't spend all his time writing comments on videos.

@@waynemarvin5661 Boy do I have some bad news for you about what Bart does in modern series

Yep. Similar to this is the way that sometimes the writers will assume that anyone or anything invented for the Simpsons' world (e.g. Itchy and Scratchy cartoons, Troy McClure) is based in Springfield.

that'd be neat

Plus there's that big air of mystery about him in regards to his death

They even rose him from "the dead" by him saying he was "Really sick"

I think he was hard to voice also

It seems they kept bringing him back to do the "Lol remembering this character who appeared one early on and never again?" The show pointed out Marvin Monoe's obscurity so much that he kinda stopped being obscure.

@@Aeneiden One on commentary the crew mention they found voice annoying

I could see that

Does he attend Maude's funeral? Does he ever appear at Ned's backyard parties? That would probably help your case.

They should do a video of him

he's an important character for no other reason than no elementary school setting would be complete without the one kid who always throws up for no reason

I like Wendell because his hair is the same color as his skin, so it makes the Simpson kids normal kinda

You mean Rosen-Carl and Guilde-Lenny.

​ @Skye Callin' Jasper D-tier? That's a paddlin'.

Duffman has been said to not be the original Duffman a few times. If it was the one time I could accept that it's not in continuity but they've repeated it a few times.

He sticks out because he's off color compared to the rest of Springfield. Even if he's supposed to be sick.

honestly to me he isnt even the puke kid anymore, bc i cant remember the last time i saw a puke joke with him as the centre hes just a background character who looks interesting but nothing really happens to

@@ashaler__ They did a puke joke with him in early season 27 IIRC. It still happens, just not a lot.

Well now I have the "Eye on Springfield" theme song in my head. Thanks so much!

Don't forget that episode where he reads off the lottery numbers and realizes he's the winner. That affected what quality home he goes back to at the end of the day.

May favorit kent Brockmann episode is the one were he and lisa work together to make his own small news Channel remarking how odd it is that fox Entertainment is so progressive while fox news is hard right wing

Whenever people talk about Simpsons catchphrases, there are three that invariably come up the most. Homer's "D'oh", Bart's "Ay caramba" and Lord Thistlewick Flander's "A-googely-doogely"

Gil neeeeeeds an episodeee

@@Smith.S.E. they did one in season 18 kill gill

I agree that she's interesting to cover, but she's always been a lot more extreme than Krabappel on either end - either really on the ball, or she's attempting suicide or lecturing Lisa about being a "straight white male-basher" that makes it hard for her to get a date. I guess the difference is that she lacks a sympathetic motivation. Krabappel really wants Bart to be better, she wants to teach kids even a little despite her cynicism, and she keeps getting screwed over by men she's too good for (until Ned). She can be a bit callous, but rarely does it seem like it's not a little justified. Ms Hoover...she doesn't care about the kids at all. She gives them low marks on purpose to teach them a lesson, admonishes them when they're wrong but gets annoyed when Lisa is right too often, is ready to run out and leave at any chance she gets, and - perhaps the worst - barely even treats Ralph like he's a human, when he should clearly be getting extra patience and assistance compared to other students. Maybe at least *try* to stop him getting picked on or eating worms, teach. She's so cartoonoshly self-centred that there's really no coming back. She's been this awful for this long that it's hard to believe she's going to gain a heart now, even if her lack of decency is a little explained by her mental health problems. As a "severely" mentally ill person myself, it isn't anywhere near an excuse. Just seems like it would be a really depressing episode.

@@theMoporter Part of the reason I'd like to see this. In her earliest episodes, she wasn't really given much character, but what little we did see of her was her being a good teacher who was actually trying at her job, even praising Lisa at the parent teacher conference. As the show continued, she started progressively getting more and more malicious, like you said. It wasn't even a single turning point either, it was more gradual.

@@darthlord1997 I think it's because they needed her to be a foil to Lisa. It's very easy to create tension between Bart and Krabappel or Skinner because Bart is such a troublemaker, and those two are authority figures who are obliged to try and shut him down. It's easy to think of jokes or storylines to fit that dynamic. But Lisa is the sort who tries to please authority figures (so long as it doesn't go against her beliefs) so she needs a teacher who doesn't care, and actively dislikes how much of a good student she is, so as to put that side of Lisa's personality to the test. The way it's turned out, Lisa and Miss Hoover's dynamic is in many ways *more* hostile, and definitely more unpleasant, than Bart and Miss Krabappel's.

umm youre forgetting stewart

@@consumerisms is mindy Simmons still there?

She’s never talked in the whole series, They never acknowledge her, she doesn’t have a Kidrobot or a World Of Springfield figure. And we don’t know what she looks like without glasses.

I think the season 1 episode is the only one where his name is mentioned Yes? No?

@@ddthewolf probably, tbf I usually skip over season 1 on rewatches

Thanks Siobhan, glad you enjoy the videos! I don't sweat the subscriber count as much, because 150k subs is still an unbelievable amount of people to me 🤣

Has Julio really been around that long? I was under the impression that he'd been introduced in the 2010s, but I guess that's just how out of the loop I am when it comes to the HD era.

@@purplemist7 "Three Gays of the Condo" first aired in 2003.

i mean he could technically have 3 dads that are in a polyamourous relationship. didn't dolph get two dads designs too?

Probably Comic Book Guy's wife, Kumiko, who was introduced in Season 25 and has appeared several times since.

I think Jimbo's girlfriend. That's the most recent one I can think of.

@@PhillipOnTakos no, she did her first appaerance in season 20, Comic book guys's wife in season 25

I like Shauna, she's a funny character

Sam & Larry. Sam is the one with a hat, Larry is the one who wears a red jacket.

@@BenCol Yeah, those guys

Homer?

Can people stop saying it’s Homer?

@@dylanmcartoonell1536 no.

He's the most prominent unnamed character in the show, right?

@@youcouldbelisteningtomusic442 has to be

Does blue haired lawyer have a name?

@@cassiuscoombs3313 That's a good point, but I think OJM has more speaking lines and appearances

I've no idea if 'Thecop' is a misspelling or if that is his real last name. I'm half suspecting it's the later which speaks wonders for how lazy the naming became.

@@edstevens2772 I was just making a lazy joke about his job title being his surname, I had a look on the wiki and the show's never given him a real one.

@@10ryawoo gotcha. With Otto Mann, Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson, Lou Thecop seems terrifyingly plausible.