List of recurring characters from The Simpsons

This article contains a list of recurring characters from The Simpsons with descriptions.

Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel

Cletus Spuckler or Cletus Delroy (voiced by Hank Azaria) is a "slack-jawed yokel," a stereotypical hillbilly character. He is thin (in fact, one of the thinnest characters on the show), has brown hair in an indeterminate style but shaved in the back, a meager attempt at a mustache, and several fewer teeth than the average Springfield resident. He is nearly always depicted wearing a tank top, exposing a tattoo of a snake and skull on his left arm. As he was once introduced in song, complete with a follow-the-bouncing-ball:

Related Topics:
Hank Azaria - Yokel - Hillbilly - Mustache - Tank top - Tattoo

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:Some folk'll never eat a skunk

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:and then again some folk'll,

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:like Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel!

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Second verse:

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:Most folk'll never lose a toe

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:but then again some folk'll,

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:like Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel!

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Generally a good-natured fellow, Cletus has been known to take advantage of others, as when he presents Marge with 300 coupons for free pretzels from her pretzel business. Cletus has 27 children: Tiffany, Heather, Cody, Dylan, Dermot, Jordan, Taylor, Brittany, Wesley, Rumer, Scout, Cassidy, Zoe, Chloe, Max, Hunter, Rubella Scabies, Kendall, Caitlin, Noah, Sascha, Morgan, Kyra, Ian, Lauren, Q-bert, Phail, as well as a wife, Brandine, who refused to wear boots to her strip club audition on the grounds that it would scuff up the stage, telling Cletus he "best brang 'em back where from ya got'em".

Related Topics:
Marge - Rumer - Scout - Rubella - Scabies - Q-bert

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It is also implied that Cletus and Brandine are siblings, as in one episode they are parked at an auto racing event, and Brandine remarks "Dang, Cletus! Why did you have to park so close to my parents?" to which Cletus responds, "They's mah parents too!". In addition, in the Season 16 episode "There's Something About Marrying," Homer (who has become ordained as a minister) is marrying Cletus and Brandine. Looking at a form, he asks "Wait a minute... are you two brother and sister?" Brandine replies, "We's all kinda things".

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Cletus and Brandine have a daughter named Condolleezza Marie, who was somehow switched with a bag of sugar that Homer had been carrying around for a week.

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Cletus' last name is likely "Spuckler." At least two episodes (the first being "Sweets and Sour Marge," in which Cletus signed his name (in elegant calligraphy) to Marge's petition to ban sugar from Springfield, and the second being "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays" (in which it appears on the screen in a news report) give his name as "Spuckler" and in The Simpsons Hit & Run video game, the mailbox outside his shack says "Spuckler." However, his last name has also been given as "Delroy", causing some confusion.

Related Topics:
Sweets and Sour Marge - Calligraphy - Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays - The Simpsons Hit & Run

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Cletus was introduced in an episode of season five ("Bart Gets an Elephant"), as Lisa complains about "slack-jawed yokels" gawking at Bart's elephant, Stampy.

Related Topics:
Bart Gets an Elephant - Stampy

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In the season 14 finale, when Homer and Marge were set to die, Cletus and Brandine were to become the foster parents of Bart, Lisa and Maggie.

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