List of recurring characters from The Simpsons

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

Jebediah Springfield

Jebediah Obadiah Zachariah Jedediah Springfield is the purported historical founder of the town of Springfield. Springfield had many famous quotations, such as "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man," and was well known for his silver tongue (literally; the silver tongue was a prosthesis, his original tongue having been bitten off by a Turkish pirate in a grog house fight).

Related Topics:
Town of Springfield - Embiggens - Silver tongue - Prosthesis - Turkish

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Springfield led a band of wagons westward along with his partner Shelbyville Manhattan; but they parted ways when Manhattan wanted to found a town where people could marry their cousins, and Springfield wanted a town devoted to chastity, abstinence, and a flavorless mush he called root-marm. Where people would be free to worship how they wanted and "to grow hemp for making ropes." Manhattan went on to found the rival town of Shelbyville.

Related Topics:
Shelbyville Manhattan - Chastity - Abstinence - Hemp - Shelbyville

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In the winter of 1848 Jebediah reportedly built Springfield's first hospital alone out of wood and mud.

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On an expedition to Springfield's historic "Fort Sensible," Bart Simpson uncovered inconsistencies in the Jebediah legend. In "Lisa the Iconoclast," Lisa Simpson proved that "Jebediah Springfield" was a bloodthirsty pirate and enemy of George Washington named Hans Sprungfeld, who had changed his name to hide and who hated the town of Springfield.

Related Topics:
Bart Simpson - Lisa the Iconoclast - Lisa Simpson - George Washington

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Springfield is said to have dramatically killed a bear with his bare hands. A statue of this sits in the center of the Springfield town square, in front of the city hall. In "The Telltale Head," Bart beheaded the statue, thinking that this would make him more popular. In reality, the town became depressed and angry, leaving Bart to endure "The Tell-Tale Heart"-style guilt before replacing it. Contemporary historians believe that the bear story is probably untrue, and that the bear in fact probably killed him. He is also said to have once tamed an untamable buffalo (although he later secretly admitted that it had already been tame; he merely shot it). The Springfield Marathon commemorates an occasion on which he ran across six states in order to avoid his creditors.

Related Topics:
The Telltale Head - The Tell-Tale Heart

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