Janey Powell

Janine "Janey" Powell, also known as Janey Henderson, is Lisa Simpson's best friend. "Lisa said a dirty word!"

- Janey Powell

"Are you going to marry a carrot, Lisa?"

- Janey Powell

"We'd like to include you, but you just don't fit in."

- Janey Powell

"With friends like her, who needs acquaintances?"

- Lisa's opinion on Janey Powell

Biography
Janey is noted as "Lisa's fair-weather best friend" and this is accurate description. Though she is often seen hanging out with Lisa, she at other times teases her along with the other children for her misfortunes or idealistic views. She is not nearly as intelligent or nerdy as Lisa, once blowing a bubble with chewing gum rather than engage in Lisa's current conversation.

Janey has spent the night at the Simpsons' house and Lisa is seen watching cartoons at her house on numerous occasions. She is also seen reading "The Babysitter Twins" with Lisa.

Janey may have had a crush on Milhouse Van Houten, who has a crush on Lisa. In The Simpsons Game, she asks Bart where Milhouse is and calls Lisa cruel for leading Milhouse on. She sells cupcakes in school.

According to The Lisa Book, Janey is considered to be one of the most popular girls in second grade, in a poll that she conducted herself. She is very fashion conscious, being particularly wary of clothes that look Canadian. She also enjoys the company of other girls, especially when they fawn of her. In Janey perspective, either you're with her or you have "cooties".

Future
She is shown as the spectre of George Washington's reluctant second choice for first female President after Lisa disappoints him, to which Lisa fiercely objected on the grounds Janey would just fill the Supreme Court with boys.

Appearances
Note: Many of her appearances are brief background roles. Episodes where she has an actual role are in bold. {{scroll| }}
 * {{Ep|Moaning Lisa}}
 * {{Ep|The Telltale Head}}
 * {{Ep|Dancin' Homer}}
 * {{Ep|Moaning Lisa}}
 * {{Ep|Itchy & Scratchy & Marge}}
 * {{Ep|Lisa's Substitute}}
 * {{Ep|Flaming Moe's}}
 * {{Ep|Radio Bart}}
 * {{Ep|Lisa the Beauty Queen}}
 * {{THOH|Treehouse of Horror IV}}
 * {{Ep|Bart's Inner Child}}
 * {{Ep|Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy}}
 * {{Ep|Bart of Darkness}}
 * {{Ep|Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy}}
 * {{Ep|Homie the Clown|(Seen at Milhouse's birthday party)}}
 * {{Ep|Lisa the Vegetarian}}
 * {{Ep|Lisa's Date with Density}}
 * {{Ep|My Sister, My Sitter}}
 * {{Ep|Grade School Confidential}}
 * {{Ep|The Secret War of Lisa Simpson}}
 * {{Ep|The Principal and the Pauper}}
 * {{Ep|Simpson Tide}}
 * {{Ep|Girly Edition}}
 * {{Ep|King of the Hill}}
 * {{Ep|Lard of the Dance}}
 * {{Ep|Last Tap Dance in Springfield}}
 * {{Ep|Skinner's Sense of Snow|(seen on the school bus, in Bart's class, and in the cafeteria)}}
 * {{Ep|Bye Bye Nerdie}}
 * {{Ep|Children of a Lesser Clod}}
 * {{Ep|Little Girl in the Big Ten}}
 * {{Ep|Treehouse of Horror XIV}}
 * {{Ep|The President Wore Pearls}}
 * {{Ep|Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays}}
 * {{Ep|Sleeping with the Enemy}}
 * {{Ep|Fat Man and Little Boy}}
 * {{Ep|My Fair Laddy}}
 * {{Ep|Girls Just Want to Have Sums}}
 * {{Ep|The Monkey Suit}}
 * {{Ep|The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer|(Seen on the bus and at school)}}
 * {{Ep|The Haw-Hawed Couple}}
 * {{Ep|Yokel Chords}}
 * {{THOH|Treehouse of Horror XIX}}
 * {{Ep|Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words}}
 * {{Ep|Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh}}
 * {{Ep|Treehouse of Horror XX}}
 * {{Ep|Rednecks and Broomsticks}}
 * {{Ep|Postcards From the Wedge|(Seen in Bart's class)}}
 * {{Ep|Homer Scissorhands}}
 * {{Ep|Holidays of Future Passed|(Avatar only)}}
 * {{Ep|The D'oh-cial Network}}
 * {{Ep|Moe Goes from Rags to Riches}}
 * {{Ep|The Spy Who Learned Me}}
 * {{Ep|Lisa Goes Gaga}}
 * {{Ep|A Test Before Trying}}
 * {{Ep|Black-eyed Please|(Seen in Miss Hoover's class)}}
 * {{Ep|Dark Knight Court}}
 * {{Ep|Whiskey Business|(Seen hanging out with Lisa)}}
 * {{Ep|The Saga of Carl Carlson}}}

Trivia

 * Because of Janey's fickle and fair-weathered treatment towards Lisa, her downplayed role in more recent episodes, and the fact that Lisa herself stated numerous time that she has no friends, Janey can be best considered as a recurring acquaintance. In addition, her role towards Lisa is much like the role of some of Marge's acquaintances, Luann Van Houten and Helen Lovejoy.
 * Janey's one talent is the ability to touch her nose with her tongue.
 * Janey is also an online friend of Taffy's.