Dewey Largo

“Nobody likes Milhouse!”

―Dewey Largo^[src]

“Simpson, do you find something funny about the word ¨TromBONER¨?!”

―Mr. Largo talking to Lisa after she giggles at Nelson working for Willie.^[src]

Dewey Largo, MMus, is the music teacher whom Lisa credited with proving that any piece of music could have the soul sucked out of it. He is very counter-creative and is a poor conductor. He is also 53 years old, and seems depressed/hot tempered.

Biography

As a child, Largo was accepted to the Juilliard School of Music, but never got the letter as it was frozen atop Mt. Springfield. His assumed rejection from this school could explain his eventual lack of passion for music.

Mr. Largo is the music teacher at Springfield Elementary School. He is one of the more uptight and mean teachers at the school. Largo teaches Lisa's band class where he often stifles her creativity. He only teaches simple, boring and unoriginal songs to the band causing Lisa to often cause outbursts in class.^[2] Despite this, he can occasionally encourage excellent performances from his students, leading them in playing "Living in America." ^[3]

Once, Mr. Largo had to take over for Groundskeeper Willie for a short time while Willie was working at The Gilded Truffle. He turned out to be even worse at being groundskeeper than music teacher.^[4] He once carpooled with Smithers, but ended up getting into a multi-car pileup thanks in part to Bart stealing the sign "Bart Bvd." as part of a dare by Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney. When Homer (dressed as the Safety Salamander) saved the two of them from the car, Largo stated that they were carpooling, and ended it right there.^[5] He wanted to have a sex change operation to look like Julie Newmar, but ended up becoming shorter instead because Dr. Nick mixed up his surgery file with Moe's.^[6] Dewey Largo presumably had Nelson fix up his bike, but then, due to Nelson unknowingly using a Water Soluble glue, it collapsed during a parade he was in (implied to be a gay pride parade), and he angrily returned it to Nelson. He graduated Springfield University.

In "Flaming Moe", Dewey quits and claims to have found his soulmate (also named Dewey) and goes to Moe's.^[7] However, he is still seen in the opening sequence and later episodes, teaching the music class.

In "Girl's in the Band", he is shown waking up in the morning sharing the bed with a man who apparently stays home all day while Dewey works.

Behind the Laughter

His last name is also an Italian word for a slow, broad musical tempo, a possible reference to the fact that he can make any piece of music uninteresting, or that Largo is a musical term that means broad or slow.

Largo is voiced by Harry Shearer and was once voted the worst character created.

Gallery

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Appearances

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Episodes where he has a spotlight role are in bold.

Opening Sequence — Seen rehearsing his band class
Episode – "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
Episode – "Moaning Lisa"
Episode – "The Telltale Head"
Episode – "Dead Putting Society"
Episode – "Bart the Daredevil"
Episode – "Bart's Dog Gets an F" (picture)
Episode – "Old Money"
Episode – "Blood Feud"
Episode – "Separate Vocations"
Episode – "Dog of Death"
Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"
Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail"
Episode – "Duffless" (Bart's imagination)
Episode – "Whacking Day"
Episode – "Bart's Inner Child"
Episode – "The Last Temptation of Homer"
Episode – "Lisa's Rival"
Episode – "Lisa's Date with Density"
Episode – "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"
Episode – "Homer's Enemy"
Episode – "The Principal and the Pauper"
Episode – "Saddlesore Galactica"
Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow"
Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays"
Episode – "The President Wore Pearls"
Episode – "See Homer Run"
Episode – "Homer's Paternity Coot"
Episode – "My Fair Laddy"
Episode – "Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe"
Episode – "E. Pluribus Wiggum"
Episode – "Father Knows Worst"
Episode – "Coming to Homerica"
Episode – "Elementary School Musical"
Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories"
Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer"
Episode – "Marge Gamer"
Episode – "Girls Just Want to Have Sums"
Episode – "Dial "N" for Nerder"
Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XX"
Episode – "Flaming Moe"
Episode – "The Food Wife"
Episode – "Dark Knight Court"
Episode – "Pulpit Friction"
Episode – "The Kid is All Right"
Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" (Appeared in a photo)
Episode – "Brick Like Me"
Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
Episode – "My Fare Lady"
Episode – "Mathlete's Feat"
Episode – "Halloween of Horror"
Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow"
Episode – "The Burns Cage"
Episode – "Simprovised"
Episode – "Haw-Haw Land"
Episode – "Fears of a Clown"
Episode – "King Leer"
Episode – "Lisa Gets the Blues"
Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven"
Episode – "Werking Mom"
Episode – "Girl's in the Band"
Episode – "D'oh Canada"
Episode – "The Winter of Our Monetized Content"
Episode – "Gorillas on the Mast"
Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill"
Episode – "Frinkcoin"
Episode – "Better Off Ned (episode)"
Episode – "The Way of the Dog"
Episode – "Now Museum, Now You Don't (episode)"
Episode – "Three Dreams Denied"
Episode – "Sorry Not Sorry"
Episode – "Diary Queen"
Episode – "Panic on the Streets of Springfield"
Episode – "Portrait of a Lackey on Fire"
Episode – "You Won't Believe What This Episode is About - Act Three Will Shock You!" (seen at dog park)
Episode – "My Octopus and a Teacher"
Episode – "Girls Just Shauna Have Fun"
– The Simpsons Movie
Music video – "Do the Bartman"
Comic book – Be-bop-a-Lisa
Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out

The Simpsons: Season One
"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire":	"Bart the Genius":	"Homer's Odyssey":	"There's No Disgrace Like Home":	"Bart the General":
Minor	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Moaning Lisa":	"The Call of the Simpsons":	"The Telltale Head":	"Life on the Fast Lane":	"Homer's Night Out":
Minor	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"The Crepes of Wrath":	"Krusty Gets Busted":	"Some Enchanted Evening":
Absent	Absent	Absent

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	Absent	Absent
"Dead Putting Society":	"Bart vs. Thanksgiving":	"Bart the Daredevil":	"Itchy & Scratchy & Marge":	"Bart Gets Hit by a Car":
Cameo	Absent	Minor	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	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Three Men and a Comic Book":	"Blood Feud":
Absent	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	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Bart the Lover":	"Homer at the Bat":	"Separate Vocations":	"Dog of Death":	"Colonel Homer":
Absent	Absent	Cameo	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	Absent
"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":
Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Duffless":	"Last Exit to Springfield":	"So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show":	"The Front":	"Whacking Day":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Minor
"Marge in Chains":	"Krusty Gets Kancelled":
Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Five
"Homer's Barbershop Quartet":	"Cape Feare":	"Homer Goes to College":	"Rosebud":	"Treehouse of Horror IV":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	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	Cameo	Absent
"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":
Cameo	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Six
"Bart of Darkness":	"Lisa's Rival":	"Another Simpsons Clip Show":	"Itchy & Scratchy Land":	"Sideshow Bob Roberts":
Absent	Minor	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Treehouse of Horror V":	"Bart's Girlfriend":	"Lisa on Ice":	"Homer Badman":	"Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Fear of Flying":	"Homer the Great":	"And Maggie Makes Three":	"Bart's Comet":	"Homie the Clown":
Absent	Cameo	Absent	Cameo	Absent
"Bart vs. Australia":	"Homer vs. Patty and Selma":	"A Star is Burns":	"Lisa's Wedding":	"Two Dozen and One Greyhounds":
Absent	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"The PTA Disbands":	"'Round Springfield":	"The Springfield Connection":	"Lemon of Troy":	"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)":
Minor	Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo

The Simpsons: Season Seven
"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)":	"Radioactive Man":	"Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily":	"Bart Sells His Soul":	"Lisa the Vegetarian":
Absent	Cameo	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	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"Lisa The Iconoclast":	"Homer The Smithers":	"The Day The Violence Died":	"A Fish Called Selma":	"Bart on the Road":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	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 Eight
"Treehouse of Horror VII":	"You Only Move Twice":	"The Homer They Fall":	"Burns, Baby Burns":	"Bart After Dark":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo
"A Milhouse Divided":	"Lisa's Date with Density":	"Hurricane Neddy":	"El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)":	"The Springfield Files":
Absent	Minor	Absent	Absent	Cameo
"The Twisted World of Marge Simpson":	"Mountain of Madness":	"Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious":	"The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show":	"Homer's Phobia":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Brother from Another Series":	"My Sister, My Sitter":	"Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment":	"Grade School Confidential":	"The Canine Mutiny":
Absent	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	Absent
"The Old Man and the Lisa":	"In Marge We Trust":	"Homer's Enemy":	"The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase":	"The Secret War of Lisa Simpson":
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	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Bart Star":	"The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons":	"Lisa the Skeptic":	"Realty Bites":	"Miracle on Evergreen Terrace":
Absent	Absent	Cameo	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	Cameo	Absent

Citations

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[1] Elementary School Musical

[2] Opening Credits

[3] Saddlesore Galactica

[4] My Fair Laddy

[5] See Homer Run

[6] Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe

[7] Loan-a Lisa

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