Dave Shutton

David Shutton
Character Information
Gender	Male ♂
Status	Alive
Age	45
Hair Color	Blue
Occupation	Investigative journalist
Relations	Wife: (Unnamed) Son: (Unnamed)
Behind the Scenes
First episode appearance	"Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"
Portrayed by	Harry Shearer

Dave Shutton is a journalist who works for The Springfield Shopper. He wears a fedora similar to those worn by reporters of the 1940s.

History

His main appearance was in the Season 2 episode Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish, where he was the reporter who helped Bart and Lisa expose the story of the Nuclear Power Plant poisoning the water and creating Blinky, the three-eyed fish. In the Season 3 episode Radio Bart, he was the reporter who first heard "Timmy O'Toole" in the well.

Kent Brockman seems to hold him in slight contempt, possibly because they work in different news mediums. When Shutton arrived at a scene and asked what was going on, Brockman replied, "Oh, do your research, Shutton!"

In his most recent, eminent role, Dave comes across Santa's Little Helper in the Simpsons' backyard. He finds the dog balancing a beer can on his nose and Dave, finding this action to be noteworthy, takes a pic of him, saying "A shot like this only comes once in a lifetime." The last four words he repeats after the can begins to fall of dog's nose and the photojournalist places the can back on it. The shot is subsequently featured on the front page of the Springfield Shopper, which would grab the attention of Duff Beer.

Non-Canon

Dave is also seen among the media hounds who ask questions about King Homer and take his pictures, which enrages the giant gorilla. When King Homer breaks free from his restraints and gets loose in the theatre, all the journalists and photographers flee for their lives, except for Dave, who screams in terror before being squashed dead when King Homer steps on him.

Appearances

Note: Many of his appearances are brief, background roles. Episodes in which he has an actual role are in bold.

• Episode – "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"
• Episode – "Three Men and a Comic Book"
• Episode – "Radio Bart"
• Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror III" (King Homer)
• Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"
• Episode – "Homer's Triple Bypass"
• Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail"
• Episode – "Marge in Chains"
• Episode – "Rosebud"
• Episode – "Bart's Inner Child"
• Episode – "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"
• Episode – "A Star is Burns"
• Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)"
• Episode – "Bart After Dark"
• Episode – "Grade School Confidential" (Among the crowd outside Springfield Elementary)
• Episode – "A Tale of Two Springfields"
• Episode – "I'm Goin' to Praiseland" (Waiting in line at the titular amusement park)
• Episode – "Old Yeller-Belly"
• Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays" (Among the crowd outside the Kwik-E-Mart who gather to sign Marge's survey)
• Episode – "The Bart of War"
• Episode – "The Fool Monty"
• Episode – "The Simpsons Guy"
• Episode – "Frinkcoin"
• – The Simpsons Movie
• Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out

The Simpsons: Season Two
"Bart Gets an "F"":	"Simpson and Delilah":	"Treehouse of Horror":	"Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish":	"Dancin' Homer":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Minor	Absent
"Dead Putting Society":	"Bart vs. Thanksgiving":	"Bart the Daredevil":	"Itchy & Scratchy & Marge":	"Bart Gets Hit by a Car":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish":	"The Way We Was":	"Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment":	"Principal Charming":	"Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Bart's Dog Gets an F":	"Old Money":	"Brush with Greatness":	"Lisa's Substitute":	"The War of the Simpsons":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Three Men and a Comic Book":	"Blood Feud":
Cameo	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Three
"Stark Raving Dad":	"Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington":	"When Flanders Failed":	"Bart the Murderer":	"Homer Defined":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Like Father, Like Clown":	"Treehouse of Horror II":	"Lisa's Pony":	"Saturdays of Thunder":	"Flaming Moe's":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk":	"I Married Marge":	"Radio Bart":	"Lisa the Greek":	"Homer Alone":
Absent	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"Bart the Lover":	"Homer at the Bat":	"Separate Vocations":	"Dog of Death":	"Colonel Homer":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Black Widower":	"The Otto Show":	"Bart's Friend Falls in Love":	"Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Four
"Kamp Krusty":	"A Streetcar Named Marge":	"Homer the Heretic":	"Lisa the Beauty Queen":	"Treehouse of Horror III":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Minor
"Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie":	"Marge Gets a Job":	"New Kid on the Block":	"Mr. Plow":	"Lisa's First Word":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Homer's Triple Bypass":	"Marge vs. the Monorail":	"Selma's Choice":	"Brother from the Same Planet":	"I Love Lisa":
Cameo	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Duffless":	"Last Exit to Springfield":	"So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show":	"The Front":	"Whacking Day":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Marge in Chains":	"Krusty Gets Kancelled":
Cameo	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Five
"Homer's Barbershop Quartet":	"Cape Feare":	"Homer Goes to College":	"Rosebud":	"Treehouse of Horror IV":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo	Absent
"Marge on the Lam":	"Bart's Inner Child":	"Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood":	"The Last Temptation of Homer":	"$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)":
Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Cameo
"Homer the Vigilante":	"Bart Gets Famous":	"Homer and Apu":	"Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy":	"Deep Space Homer":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Homer Loves Flanders":	"Bart Gets an Elephant":	"Burns' Heir":	"Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song":	"The Boy Who Knew Too Much":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Lady Bouvier's Lover":	"Secrets of a Successful Marriage":
Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Seven
"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)":	"Radioactive Man":	"Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily":	"Bart Sells His Soul":	"Lisa the Vegetarian":
Minor	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Treehouse of Horror VI":	"King-Size Homer":	"Mother Simpson":	"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming":	"The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Marge Be Not Proud":	"Team Homer":	"Two Bad Neighbors":	"Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield":	"Bart the Fink":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Lisa The Iconoclast":	"Homer The Smithers":	"The Day The Violence Died":	"A Fish Called Selma":	"Bart on the Road":
Absent	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"22 Short Films About Springfield":	"Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"":	"Much Apu About Nothing":	"Homerpalooza":	"Summer of 4 Ft. 2":
Absent	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Nine
"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson":	"The Principal and the Pauper":	"Lisa's Sax":	"Treehouse of Horror VIII":	"The Cartridge Family":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Bart Star":	"The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons":	"Lisa the Skeptic":	"Realty Bites":	"Miracle on Evergreen Terrace":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"All Singing, All Dancing":	"Bart Carny":	"The Joy of Sect":	"Das Bus":	"The Last Temptation of Krust":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Dumbbell Indemnity":	"Lisa the Simpson":	"This Little Wiggy":	"Simpson Tide":	"The Trouble with Trillions":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo
"Girly Edition":	"Trash of the Titans":	"King of the Hill":	"Lost Our Lisa":	"Natural Born Kissers":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

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