Lindsey Naegle

Lindsey Naegle (often spelt Lindsay Naegle) is a resident of Springfield and is often known as Springfield's residential business link.

Biography
Lindsey is known to be a common youth-hater. Outraged at having paid high damage fees for a particular riot that the youth had caused, she formed an anti-youth group, SSCCATAGAPP (Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples And Teens And Gays Against Parasitic Parents), and lobbied to deprive Springfield of all child-friendly things. Her campaign nearly succeeded, but it was thwarted at the last moment when Bart, Lisa, and the other kids in Springfield hugged all the adults, infecting them with "kid germs." The adults collapsed with sickness and became unable able to vote, causing the campaign to fail.

Lindsay is an alcoholic (she said so matter-of-factly to Homer when she appeared in Moe’s Tavern). It's revealed that she's the head of the Alcoholics Anonymous branch in Springfield.

She is often seen as a member of the Springfield Republican Party. However, she was once seen attending a Democratic Party meeting.

Lindsey tends to flatly admit things that might be considered insensitive. She admitted to being a sexual predator, and once said that she cannot cry due to a botched face lift.

Jobs
Lindsey has popped up in several capacities, seemingly working at a different job every time she appears. Job titles have included the aforementioned network executive, as well as marketing researcher, financial planner, public relations consultant, venture capitalist, advertising executive, cell phone company executive, insurance salesperson, and executive with the Child Development Group. After she introduced herself (again) to Homer and Marge, Marge said, “We’ve met you many times, Ms. Naegle. Why do you keep changing jobs?” Lindsey flatly replied, “I’m a sexual predator.”

Commercial actions and influences
Due to her role as a business and network executive figure, Lindsey (like any business CEO or network executive in the media) tends to or commercialize anything that she has creative control over, which causes initial problems for other characters, based on the plot of the episode.

In The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show, Lindsey was part of the committee of writers at Itchy & Scratchy International, who felt that the character Poochie should be edgy, have plenty of attitude, and be "Rasta-fied" by 10 percent, as well as "proactive" and a "totally outrageous paradigm". However, due to Poochie's unpopularity with the audience, Lindsey along with the rest of the writers decide to kill him off of The Itchy & Scratchy Show. Even though Homer implores the audience to give Poochie a fair chance (instead of reading the intended script), the character is edited out at the last second, leaving Homer feeling betrayed, as he put his soul into the character he voiced.

In Girly Edition, Lindsay tells Krusty the Clown that the FCC feels that kids aren't learning anything from Itchy & Scratchy and that they need educational programming. She then suggest a kid-oriented news show called "Kidz News", where the network would cut ten minutes out of The Krusty the Clown Show. During the run of the news show, Lisa Simpson is recruited as a news anchor, while Bart is later chosen and made a sportscaster. After Bart livens up the show, Lindsay promotes him to co-anchor, which makes Lisa jealous. Lisa argues that she does need a co-anchor, Lindsay tells her that Bart has what she doesn't: "Zazz!", "Zing!", "Zork!", and "Kapowza!" Despite Lisa's reasoning of that trivializes the whole idea of Kidz Newz, her argument goes unanswered. After Bart and Lisa decide to resolve the disputes and make a good educational news program, they are abruptly canceled in favor of "The Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Choc-O-Bot Hour".

Love Life
Lindsey once dated Ned Flanders, but the date was interrupted when she received a fax informing her that she had been indicted. She is an enthusiastic practitioner of the child-free lifestyle, and at one point spearheaded a movement to make Springfield less child-friendly. Once romantically linked with Judge Roy Snyder, she is a graduate from the Wharton Business School. She is a stereotypical upper-management executive, and her ventures frequenrtly feature the business buzzword “synergy”.

She also implied at a democratic party meet that Julio was her ex-husband.

It's been implied that at one time she'd been sleeping with Krusty the Clown.

Marge told Homer that, if she died, he would be allowed to Lindsey; this is seen on a list in the back of his closet. Ironically, Lindsey was in the bank with Marge when she gave Homer this permission.

Non Canon Appearances
Lindsey's anti-child attitude was spoofed in a story in "Margical History Tour" where she plays Anne Boleyn. She marries Homer, who plays King Henry VIII, on the basis she can get pregnant with a son for him.

When Homer imagines accidents resulting during a time that he was uninsured, Lindsey Naegle and Marge Simpson started making out after they were the only ones who survived besides Homer Simpson.

In Treehouse of Horror XIX in the opening of how to get ahead in dead- vertizing on the building pictures she is on one of them.

Behind the Laughter
Lindsey makes her first appearance in “The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show”. In this episode her character was simply referred to as “Female Network Executive”, and had brunette hair instead of her usual blond hair. She later returned in "Girly Edition". In “They Saved Lisa’s Brain”, the character was introduced as Lindsey Naegle, a member of the Springfield Mensa Society and head of Advanced Capital Ventures, specializing in synergy and books on how to cheat at bridge.