Springfield Elementary School Students
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This is a list of the students who attend the fictional Springfield Elementary School from The Simpsons. Springfield Elementary is shown to have many under-achieving students, with the exception of a few students, such as Lisa and Martin Prince. In one episode, it is said that there are no Asian students either.
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[edit] Major Characters
[edit] Bart Simpson
Bart Simpson is a known troublemaker at school and often vandalises under the name of "El Barto". He is a constant headache for both Ms. Krabappel and Principal Skinner.
[edit] Lisa Simpson
Lisa Simpson is easily one of the best students at Springfield elementary, and the only real competition she has is from Martin Prince and Allison Taylor. She has many extracurricular activities, including playing on the school band and yearbook editor.
[edit] Milhouse Van Houten
Milhouse Van Houten, Bart's best friend. Although he is treated like a lackey by Bart, they are both considered to be on the same level of popularity by the school in general (Although Bart is arguably far more respected.) One of the most common targets for bullying, there is a running joke that he is gay, despite the fact that he has a crush on Lisa. The school faculty often takes advantage of Milhouse, such as changing his permanent record with that of a kid with worse grades.
[edit] Nelson Muntz
Nelson Muntz (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) takes delight in the pain of others, but is arguably the least cruel of the bullies. He is notorious for his unabashed displays of schadenfreude, invariably accompanied by his trademark "Ha ha!" laugh. He is also a fan of Andy Williams. He lives with his mom, who got fired from Hooters, has been addicted to cough drops in the past, and is very poor. Nelson's dad appeared to have left after saying that he was going to the store to buy cigarettes. In some episodes, however, Nelson's father is still around to raise him: in one episode, he is Nelson's soccer coach. However, Nelson's dad returned in the 16th season. As it turned out, his dad took a bite out of a chocolate bar, not knowing it had peanuts and had an allergic reaction. He ran out of the store and ran into a circus, who mistook him for a freak, taking him along for years. It is assumed that Nelson, unlike his peers Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney, is actually a sensitive boy who was raised in the wrong circumstances. So far the only two people to notice this are Marge, who played surrogate mother to him in one episode, and Lisa, who dated him briefly. It's still indicated that he might still have feelings for her.
[edit] Ralph Wiggum
Ralph Wiggum, son of Chief Clancy Wiggum and the school's resident "weirdo kid". He is considered by many to be psychologically abnormal, although he is often shown hanging out with other kids in the background and does participate in misadventures with Bart and Lisa from time to time. Although no one can quite tell whats going on in Ralph's head, he may have high potential in performing arts.
[edit] Martin Prince
Martin Prince, an exceptionally outstanding fourth grader. Martin Prince would have been assessed to be a genius, had Bart not switched their I.Q. tests. He was a reporter for The Daily Fourth Gradian. He was also the student body president until one of his fundraisers ended in a disaster. Sometimes an ally to Bart, sometimes an enemy, but always easy cannon fodder for bullies.
[edit] Rod and Todd Flanders
Rod and Todd are a pair of highly religious brothers (not twins) who are also extremely weak. Their father is Ned Flanders.
[edit] Dolph
Dolph (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is another bully who is rarely seen without Jimbo and/or Kearney. One of his eyes is usually covered by his long hair. Little is known about him, though a recent episode revealed that he is Jewish and attends Hebrew school.
[edit] Kearney
Kearney (voiced by Nancy Cartwright) is a pudgy kid with a disarming habit of punching his fist into his other hand. Although he appears to be of similar age to Bart, he can drive, has dated Jimbo's mother (though he insists she initiated the affair), and has been seen shaving and has a young son (who sleeps in a drawer). He is said to have witnessed the Bicentennial of the United States and remembered the mood of the country following Watergate, making him at least in his late twenties to early thirties. His father used to work at KFC. In an episode where Professor Frink's astrology machine is used, he is the vice principal. He also owns a Hyundai. However, he needed a fake ID to buy beer from the Kwik-E-Mart.
[edit] Jimbo Jones
Jimbo Jones (voiced by Pamela Hayden) wears a toque and a black T-shirt with a skull on it. He enjoys torturing his schoolmates and shoplifting. In Bart on the Road, it is hinted that he comes from a well-off family. In another episode Jimbo becomes the boyfriend of Bart's babysitter Laura Powers (voiced by Sara Gilbert), on whom Bart had a crush. In one of the Halloween editions, he was turned into "Sloppy Jimbo's" by Principal Skinner. In another episode, Principal Skinner attempts to sell him.
[edit] Other Children
[edit] Wendell Borton
Wendell Borton is a perpetually nauseated and extremely pale (possibly albino) boy with worried eyes and curly hair, who makes frequent appearances at the School Nurse's Office at Springfield Elementary School. He is a classmate of Bart Simpson, though he is most seen with classmates Richard and Lewis, and voted against Bart in the class election, thus ensuring the victory of Martin Prince. He cannot keep any food down, most notably corn dogs, French fries, mystery meat, Gorditas, the McRib, chicken wings, sausage, liver, tapioca, and tofu. He becomes especially sick on field trips, with a tendency to become even paler than usual. He once died in a freak accident with a pencil in a "Treehouse of Horror" episode (which are not canon-related to the main series).
Throughout the series, he has been voiced by Jo Ann Harris, Pamela Hayden, Nancy Cartwright and Russi Taylor. This is due to the fact the he rarely speaks and thus has no specific voice actor.
He is one of the few characters (like Bart and Lisa) that is colored with his hair in the same color as his skin.
[edit] Database
Database or "Data", first appeared in the episode "Bart's Comet" as a member of "the super friends". He has since had speaking parts in several episodes. His real name is not known, and he is usually seen with his fellow nerd Martin Prince. Database is a common target for Nelson, Dolph, Jimbo and Kearney. Database's father is shown in Lemon of Troy, although he never speaks and is only in the background, he has since not been seen. Database was part of the group of boys who invaded Shelbyville in Lemon of Troy and was also part of the Pre-Teen braves in the episode "Bart of War". In the DVD commentary for Lemon of Troy, Matt Groening states that Database is his least favourite recurring character.
[edit] Francine
Francine (voiced by guest star Kathy Griffin) is a girl who bullied Lisa in the episode "Bye Bye Nerdie".
[edit] Jessica Lovejoy
Jessica Lovejoy (voiced by Meryl Streep) is the rebellious daughter of Reverend Lovejoy and Helen Lovejoy who made her first appearance in Bart's Girlfriend. She was Bart's second crush and proved to be more troublesome, daring and catastrophic than Bart could ever be. Bart unwillingly took all the blame for her deeds but she was eventually found out when Lisa exposed her in Sunday Mass. In a later non-speaking appearance in "I, D'oh-Bot", she and her father were participants in a robot fighting competition. Their creation, a centipede-like machine, was defeated by Chief Knock-A-Homer, Homer and Bart's entry.
[edit] Janey Powell
Janey is the closest thing that Lisa Simpson has to a best friend (Note: Powell is her last name in Bart Simpson's Guide To Life, Henderson is her last name in the episode "My Fair Laddy"). She has spent the night over the Simpsons' house. However, at times, she seems to resent Lisa and her intelligence just as other Springfield Elementary School students do. She once blew a bubble with chewing gum rather than engage in Lisa's conversation. She may have a crush on Milhouse Van Houten (As hinted in Lisa's Date with Density) who has a crush on Lisa. She enjoys reading babysitting books. She is the reluctant second choice of the ghost of George Washington for the first female President after he is disappointed with Lisa. Lisa fiercely objects, saying Janey would just fill the Supreme Court with boys.
She is voiced by Pamela Hayden.
[edit] Lewis
Lewis is a character on The Simpsons. He is Bart's only African-American friend, and one of only a handful of black students at Springfield Elementary. His best friend is Richard and can be seen playing the bassoon in the opening sequence of the show. Although one of the most minor characters in the show, Lewis appears frequently in scenes involving the Springfield children, and occasionally speaks. He is usually seen with Richard. Lewis is perhaps best known for his exclamation of "In your face, fishwife!" when the children broke curfew to watch horror movie The Bloodening at a drive-in cinema. He also failed to vote for Bart Simpson when he stood for class president, helping to ensure his defeat to Martin Prince.
According to gossip, within the episode Girls Just Want to Have Sums, he is very good at ballroom dancing.
In "Das Bus", Bart mistakes him for Wendell.
Throughout the series, he has been voiced by Jo Ann Harris, Nancy Cartwright, Pamela Hayden, Maggie Roswell and Russi Taylor. This is for the fact the he rarely speaks and thus has no specific voice actor.
In a Simpsons Comic Book, Lewis was referred to as Bart's "second best friend" and accompanied Bart and Milhouse.
[edit] Richard
Richard is a gray haired student at Springfield Elementary School and is one of Bart's close friends. He is usually seen with Lewis and has a leather jacket. As one of the most minor characters in the show, Richard appears frequently in scenes involving the Springfield children, and in the early seasons was often involved with mischief. Throughout the series, he has been voiced by Jo Ann Harris, Pamela Hayden and Maggie Roswell. This is for the fact that he rarely speaks and thus has no specific voice actor. In the early seasons he was commonly seen hanging out with Bart, Lewis and Milhouse but in recent years he is only seen in the classroom and in crowd scenes.
[edit] Sherri and Terri
In The Simpsons, Sherri and Terri (voiced by Russi Taylor) are two identical twins with purple hair. They are in the same class with Bart at the Springfield Elementary School. In one episode it is revealed that their father is Homer's supervisor at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. He fires Homer for causing an accident while waving to Bart from a cart during a school tour of the plant. Homer, however, had the last laugh when he was promoted above the twins' father to safety inspector. Their mother is shown in "Bart Sells His Soul" and looks very identical to them. Sherri is the first-born twin and Terri is the second-born twin. They share their birthday with Rod Flanders.
The girls themselves dress alike, reinforcing their "twin-ness". They are quite stuck up, and never miss an opportunity to berate Bart. However, early on in the series, they had different personalities entirely, and at one point they both kissed Bart in order to get him in trouble on the school bus.
Bart appears to have a crush on one of them, as admitted in Hungry Hungry Homer. One of them referred to Bart as an ugly, smelly dork, but was convinced by Homer to go on a date with Bart after he told her that she and Bart can both do better. One of the twins stated that her sister had a crush on Bart in Bart Star. Another time Homer openly addressed one of the girls as "the one Bart has a crush on". However, Bart seems to have forgotten about his crush (as he has many other loves not long after) and most likely ended the relationship altogether.
The two can also be seen as friends of Lisa and at other times rivals. In Sleeping with the Enemy, the duo taunt Lisa over her big butt; in Bart of Darkness, they tell Lisa that "the same day Lisa got a pool was the day they realized they like her."
In Simpson Tide, when Homer briefly commanded a nuclear submarine into Russian waters, Principal Skinner prepared for nuclear war by selecting a small group of the best, brightest and most promising students to accompany him to a shelter. He selected Sherri, but not Terri.
In the episode "Future-Drama" set "eight years in the future," it is revealed that Nelson Muntz simultaneously dated and impregnated both of the twins, who bore him four children (two sets of twins, naturally) shortly before Nelson's high school graduation. He abandoned them during Bart's graduation party.
They have similarities to the ghost girls Danny sees in Stanley Kubrick's adaptation, The Shining, of Stephen King's novel of the same name. In a deleted scene of the parody of the Shining called The Shinning they are ghost twins seen by Bart.
They are among the few original characters at this point that have not had an episode exploring their personalities and lives in detail.
[edit] Samantha Stankey
Milhouse's love interest in "Bart's Friend Falls in Love" (8F22), voiced by Kimmy Robertson. At the end of the episode, she was forced to move away and has not been seen since.
[edit] Allison Taylor
Allison Taylor is a student at Springfield Elementary School and Lisa's new classmate, introduced in the episode "Lisa's Rival". Allison is as smart (or smarter) than Lisa, younger (having skipped a grade) and like Lisa, a young master of the saxophone. At first Lisa is happy to have a friend as brilliant as her, but eventually Lisa starts to become jealous of having a true rival in school. Regardless, Lisa tries to be her friend, though she battles her envy and jealousy. Allison is soon discovered to be better than Lisa: she wins first chair Saxophone in the school band, Ralph starts asking her for answers, and her father thinks Lisa is juvenile in comparison.
It comes to a climax during Springfield Elementary's annual "Diorama-rama" competition. Allison made a diorama of The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe, showing the lead character going insane while a section of the floor, which contains the heart, beats. With Bart's help and prodding, Lisa decides to sabotage Allison's entry by switching Allison's diorama with a one containing a bloody cow's heart. When Principal Skinner not only criticizes the diorama but begin to question Allison's overall qualifications, Lisa's guilt overcomes her and she confesses to the switch. Lisa and Allison would lose to Ralph Wiggum, whose diorama consisted of a box of Star Wars action figures still in their packaging, objects of sentimental value to Principal Skinner. In the end Lisa and Allison put aside their differences and become friends.
In later episodes, Allison appears as a background character. Originally voiced by Winona Ryder, she later has a few small speaking parts in future episodes, although her voice is provided by Russi Taylor or Pamela Hayden.
[edit] Üter
Üter is the Bavarian foreign exchange student, with odd habits such as offering his already-licked lollipops to others as a sign of friendship, and eating marzipan candies fortified with iodine. He disappeared for a period of time after the Civil War field trip. Although a joke was made of Üter's disappearance in a later episode, with his parents asking Skinner where their missing son was, he has since reappeared, alive and plump. In the German version of the show Üter is an exchange student from Switzerland; Üter's lederhosen, his frequent references to chocolate, and his name suggest a Swiss rather than a German origin.
[edit] Weasels
Weasel #1 and Weasel #2 are Nelson's cronies from the episode "Bart the General". They have made a number of background appearances since then. They attend Ms. Hoover's class. Though they look identical, they are probably not twins as one is African American.
[edit] Alex Whitney
A popular new "grown-up" girl in Lisa Simpson's class in "Lard of the Dance" (5F20), voiced by Lisa Kudrow. She has since made some minor appearances as a background character.
