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The Flandereses are not geeks! Okay, Rod and Todd are and the wife has a thing for me, but she hides it behind a mask of low-key hostility.
~ Homer Simpson[src]
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Ned, Maude, Rod and Todd Flanders.

The Flanders family consists of Ned, his two sons Rod and Todd and their dog Baz. They live at 744 Evergreen Terrace and are neighbors to the Simpson family. During his life, Ned was married to Maude, Ginger and later to Edna.

Family tree[]

Flanders Family Tree

Household[]

Ned Flanders

Ned Flanders

The Flanders house is situated at 744 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield and is next door to 742 Evergreen Terrace, home of the Simpson family.

The home phone number is 636-555-8904.

Baz (Flanders' dog)

Baz

The house is a two-story detached house with a connected garage. The house itself is pink-purple in color, with red window frames and a blue-orange canopy above the front-door.

Inside the house, most if not all the rooms include religious imagery and photographs of the late Maude Flanders. The house is well furnished with expensive-looking furniture, which Ned claims he buys cheaply because it used to be "evidence from a murder trial".

The layout of the house appears to be similar to that of 742 Evergreen Terrace, with two front rooms and two back rooms. The basement of the house has been converted to a 'rumpus room', with a bar and snooker table (oddly since Ned later confesses to being a teetotaler). The house also has a panic room and a secret room stashed full of Beatles merchandise. The Flanders' residence once had a bomb shelter in the backyard, but this was destroyed by a small meteorite.

Maude Flanders

Maude Flanders

The Flanderses have a satellite dish but locked out 230 of the channels it offers. It is implied the only channel not locked out is one which airs Christian programming for children.

The Flanderses also have air conditioning, which Homer steals in one episode, in order to gain relief from the heat.

Ned, Rod and Todd sleep upstairs. Rod and Todd share bedrooms, and there is also at least one spare bedroom where Bart Simpson slept when he was younger, which Ned later rents out. The garden of the house includes a patio and a barbecue and is often used for Ned's barbecue and birthday parties.

(Note: Although the house is generally labelled 740, in one episode it is at number 744 Evergreen Terrace, and in another episode 738 Evergreen Terrace, and since very early episodes of The Simpsons had 742.

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Rod Flanders

Evergreen Terrace at different numbers, (it is reasonable that 740 Evergreen Terrace used to be different as well).

Extended Family[]

Ned's parents: his mother is Capri Flanders, and his father is Nedward Sr.. Maude had unnamed parents that were mentioned in Trash of the Titans and an unnamed maternal grandmother. Ned has relatives from all over the globe. Several are seen in Lisa the Vegetarian. They include José Flanders, Lord Thistlewick Flanders and many others that all look like Ned, Maude, Rod, or Todd. In addition, one of his relatives, his cousin Ted Flanders and his daughters Bonnie and Connie, moved to 740 Evergreen Terrace shortly after its former occupant was arrested for attempted murder at Five Corners, just two houses down from Ned, much to Homer's anguish due to being caught between the two houses and having to deal with two Flanders.

Jose

José Flanders

Other information[]

The Greenbelt Christian arts festival sometimes runs a Ned Flanders lookalike contest in tribute to one of TV's best-known Christians. In Groening's hometown of Portland, Oregon, Simpsons fans vandalize the signs that say NE Flanders Street to say NED Flanders Street.

Thistle

Lord Thistlewick Flanders

Relationship with the Simpsons[]

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Todd Flanders

The Flanders live next door to the Simpsons, and these two families could not be more different. The Flanders are well-kept, pious individuals. Constantly being harassed by the Simpsons, they have surprisingly gone through a lot. Homer was in one episode good friends with Ned, but became obsessed with spending time with him. At the end of the episode, everything was back to normal. When Bart and Lisa were taken into protective custody by child services from their 'unfit' parents, the Flanders were their foster parents, and almost went through with baptizing them, if Homer hadn't stopped them. Bart tied with Todd in an ego-boosting golf tournament. Ned and Homer took a wild trip to Las Vegas, where, in their inebriation, married some waitresses. Even with all the crazy things that happen to them, the Flanders and the Simpsons families have managed to live together for all these years.

Edna Krabappel

Edna Krabappel-Flanders

Behind the Laughter[]

Matt Groening has indicated that the Flanders family is named after NW Flanders Street in Portland, Oregon.

Ginger Flanders

Ginger Flanders

See also[]

The Simpsons Characters
The Simpsons and relatives
Homer SimpsonMarge SimpsonBart SimpsonLisa SimpsonMaggie Simpson
Santa's Little HelperSnowball IIAbraham SimpsonPatty BouvierSelma BouvierMona SimpsonJacqueline BouvierLing BouvierHerb Powell
Around Springfield
Jasper BeardlyComic Book GuyKumiko AlbertsonBarney GumbleMaude FlandersNed FlandersProfessor FrinkGil GundersonJulius HibbertLionel HutzHelen LovejoyReverend Timothy LovejoyCaptain Horatio McCallisterAkiraHans MolemanMarvin MonroeBleeding Gums MurphyApu NahasapeemapetilonMayor Joe QuimbyDr. Nick RivieraAgnes SkinnerCletus SpucklerDisco StuSqueaky-Voiced TeenMoe SzyslakSam and LarryKirk Van HoutenLuann Van HoutenClancy WiggumEddieLouCrazy Cat LadyLindsey NaegleCookie KwanWiseguyBrandine SpucklerThe Yes GuySanjay NahasapeemapetilonBlue-haired LawyerJudge Roy SnyderRich TexanLuigi RisottoOld Jewish ManMrs. Glick
Media Personalities
Itchy & ScratchyKent BrockmanKrusty the ClownTroy McClureSideshow MelRainier Wolfcastle | Arnie PyeRadioactive ManDuffmanBumblebee ManBill and MartyDrederick TatumMr. TeenyScott ChristianBooberellaGabboLurleen LumpkinCelebrities
Springfield Elementary School faculty and students
Superintendant ChalmersSeymour SkinnerEdna KrabappelElizabeth HooverGroundskeeper WillieOtto MannLunchlady DorisDewey LargoRayshelle PeytonDr. J. Loren PyrorMilhouse Van HoutenRalph WiggumNelson MuntzMartin PrinceRod FlandersTodd FlandersSherri and TerriWendell BortonDatabaseJimbo JonesKearney ZzyzwiczDolph StarbeamÜter ZörkerJaney PowellLewisRichardBashir bin Laden
Springfield Nuclear Power Plant
Charles Montgomery BurnsWaylon SmithersCarl CarlsonLenny LeonardCharlieBlinky
Villains
Snake JailbirdKang & KodosHermanSideshow BobFat TonyFrankie the SquealerJohnny TightlipsLegs and Louie
Families
The SimpsonsThe BouviersThe FlandersThe Van HoutensThe Wiggums
Guest Stars
Matt GroeningConan O'BrienStan LeeStephen HawkingMark ZuckerbergKaty PerryLady GagaElon MuskLizzoTaika Waititi
Miscellaneous
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