Lists of the Simpsons Characters - List of Characters in the Simpsons, Springfield Elementary School (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: List of characters in The Simpsons, Springfield Elementary School, List of recurring characters in The Simpsons, List of one-time characters in The Simpsons, List of media personalities in The Simpsons, List of fictional characters within The Simpsons, List of animals in The Simpsons. Excerpt: The following is a list of recurring characters in The Simpsons. The Simpsons includes a large array of supporting characters: co-workers, teachers, family friends, extended relatives, townspeople, and local celebrities. The writers originally intended many of these characters as one-time jokes or for fulfilling needed functions in the town. A number of them have gained expanded roles and have subsequently starred in their own episodes. According to the creator of The Simpsons, Matt Groening, the show adopted the concept of a large supporting cast from the Canadian sketch comedy show Second City Television. Agnes Skinner, voiced by Tress MacNeille is the mother of school principal Seymour Skinner and first appeared in the first season episode "The Crepes of Wrath" as an old woman who embarrassingly calls her son "Spanky." However, as episodes progressed, the character turned bitter. She is very harshly controlling of Seymour, and treats him like a mother would a small child, once grounding him because he did not say who was at the door after answering it, when it was "The Sugarman." She hates Edna Krabappel. Agnes has married a total of four times, once with Skinner's father, Sheldon Skinner, and following Sheldon's death she then married three more times, each time, to a tow truck driver. Several Springfield residents (including the Simpsons) are afraid of her. In "Worst Episode Ever" she has a brief romantic relation with the Comic Book Guy and even sleeps with him. When Agnes' real son, "the real Seymour Skinner" arrives in...