Doris Freedman

Doris Freedman (née Peterson)
Character Information
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AKA	Lunchlady Doris Lunchlady Dora Dora Freedman
Hair Color	Brown, naturally gray
Occupation	Cafeteria chef and nurse at Springfield Elementary School
Relations	Son: Jeremy Freedman Husband: Richard Freedman (deceased) Boyfriend: Moe Szyslak
Behind the Scenes
First episode appearance	"Lisa's Pony"
Portrayed by	Doris Grau (1991-1995; 1996 ("Team Homer"); 1997 ("Lisa's Sax") Tress MacNeille (2006-present)

“	Don't b*tch to me, bossman.	„
	~ Doris Freedman

Doris Freedman (née Peterson) also known as Lunchlady Doris is an overweight, middle-aged, laconic and foulmouthed cafeteria chef at Springfield Elementary.

Biography

Lunchlady Doris

As the cafeteria chef at Springfield Elementary, she constantly prepares bad food, serving to students such appalling dishes as whole beef hearts, horse testicles, and shredded newspaper. During school cutbacks, she uses gym mats as a meat substitute, and other non-edible items .

Due to the school's low funding, she also doubles as the school nurse. She was seen as a mail carrier.

She has been implied to have a relationship with Groundskeeper Willie, and her son is Squeaky-Voiced Teen.

She once dated Hans Moleman. Ironically, all three characters debuted in the episode Principal Charming.

Doris with Hans Moleman.

She is a vegetarian and an insectivore, after serving beetle mash to Lisa, she revealed that a lot of vegetarians eat insects and that chocolate bars have bug parts added in accidentally, which made Lisa become an insectivore.

She often smokes on the job, similar to Mrs. Krabappel and Miss Hoover.

She was shown to be a member of the Big is Beautiful group and attended several of their protests and Albert's funeral.

She is heard to be swearing a lot, and this has been further proven in the Bart Simpson Comics story, "Lisa's Bad Word!", where after Lisa has a bad day at school, she has to be Lunchlady Doris' assistant as punishment, but she keeps ordering Lisa the things she needs to do for her, accompanied with her swearing (which is censored due to censorship).

Behind the Laughter

Voice Actor

After Doris Grau's death in 1995, Lunchlady Doris was retired out of respect for over 10 years. Due to the delay between recording some episodes and the time they actually air, archived audio files of Grau's voice were featured in "Team Homer" and "Lisa's Sax" because those episodes were made prior to her death. Lunchlady Doris then became a silent background character and was mostly been seen in crowds and groups of other faculty members. She didn't speak at all during her silent background character years and didn't speak again until Season 18, where she was voiced by Tress MacNeille and was also renamed as "Lunchlady Dora" in "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" to respect Doris Grau's death. She is currently voiced by Tress MacNeille since this episode.

Gallery

The full image gallery for Doris Freedman may be viewed at Doris Freedman/Gallery.

Appearances

• Episode – "Lisa's Pony"
• Episode – "I Love Lisa"
• Episode – "Whacking Day"
• Episode – "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"
• Episode – "Treehouse of Horror V"
• Episode – "Lisa's Wedding"
• Episode – "The PTA Disbands"
• Episode – "'Round Springfield"
• Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"
• Episode – "Radioactive Man"
• Episode – "Lisa the Vegetarian"
• Episode – "Team Homer"
• Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing"
• Episode – "Lisa the Iconoclast"
• Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"
• Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter"
• Episode – "Lisa's Sax"
• Episode – "Girly Edition"
• Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow"
• Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer"
• Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple"
• Episode – "Papa Don't Leech"
• Episode – "To Surveil With Love"
• Episode – "Homer Scissorhands"
• Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch"
• Episode – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants"
• Episode – "Ned 'N Edna's Blend"
• Episode – "Penny-Wiseguys"
• Episode – "A Test Before Trying"
• Episode – "Black-eyed Please"
• Episode – "Luca$" (Cafeteria)
• Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
• Episode – "Halloween of Horror"
• Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow"
• Episode – "Simprovised"
• Episode – "Dogtown"
• Episode – "The Serfsons"
• Episode – "Springfield Splendor"
• Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used To Be"
• Episode – "Haw-Haw Land"
• Episode – "Flanders' Ladder" (picture)
• Episode – "Go Big or Go Homer" (picture seen on side of food truck)
• Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill" (briefly seen in crowd at school play; back half of head is seen on right edge of screen)
• Episode – "Bart the Bad Guy"
• Episode – "The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds" (seen on cruise)
• Episode – "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas"
• Episode – "Panic on the Streets of Springfield"
• Episode – "Poorhouse Rock" (seen in church)
• Episode – "Game Done Changed"
• Episode – "Clown V. Board of Education"
• Episode – "McMansion & Wife"
• Episode – "Lisa Gets an F1"
• Episode – "Desperately Seeking Lisa"
• Episode – "Women in Shorts"
• Episode – "Bottle Episode"
• Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out
• Comic story – Cool Hand Bart (has blonde hair)
• Comic story – The Burger Kings of Comedy!
• Comic book – That's Hairable!

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	Minor	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	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	Absent
"Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie":	"Marge Gets a Job":	"New Kid on the Block":	"Mr. Plow":	"Lisa's First Word":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Homer's Triple Bypass":	"Marge vs. the Monorail":	"Selma's Choice":	"Brother from the Same Planet":	"I Love Lisa":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Minor
"Duffless":	"Last Exit to Springfield":	"So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show":	"The Front":	"Whacking Day":
Absent	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	Absent	Absent	Absent	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	Minor	Absent
"Lady Bouvier's Lover":	"Secrets of a Successful Marriage":
Absent	Absent

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

The Simpsons: Season Seven
"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)":	"Radioactive Man":	"Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily":	"Bart Sells His Soul":	"Lisa the Vegetarian":
Cameo	Minor	Absent	Cameo	Minor
"Treehouse of Horror VI":	"King-Size Homer":	"Mother Simpson":	"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming":	"The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Marge Be Not Proud":	"Team Homer":	"Two Bad Neighbors":	"Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield":	"Bart the Fink":
Absent	Minor	Absent	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":
Cameo	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	Minor	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	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Cameo
"Girly Edition":	"Trash of the Titans":	"King of the Hill":	"Lost Our Lisa":	"Natural Born Kissers":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent