List of recurring characters from The Simpsons

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

Jasper

Jasper is a somewhat senile resident of Springfield Retirement Castle and a good friend of Abraham Simpson. Though in earlier episodes it was implied that they were enemies.

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When called in to help replace teachers (who are on strike), he gets his beard stuck in a mechanical pencil sharpener; while teaching he also confiscated everything in the room made of tin, and two children passed out from the fumes of his ointment; he also threatens everyone with 'a paddlin'. When kids steal the electronics from the television set in the Retirement Castle, replacing them with a cat, Jasper stares at the cat in the television, pressing buttons on the remote control while mumbling "Two hundred channels and nothing but cats". After becoming stuck in a freezer, he was briefly showcased as the Kwik-e-mart attraction Frostilicus.

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In some episodes, there is evidence to suggest Jasper is blind from cataracts (the most compelling - when he is shot in the eye by a laser and proclaims that his cataracts are gone and he can see, and is immediately shot again and proclaims that he is once again blind). However, in other episodes, he can clearly see, and even drives a car. He has broken his beard in the past.

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Jasper was also shot in his wooden leg by Waylon Smithers while walking down the sidewalk.

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