Herman Hermann

Herman Hermann
Gender/Sex
Status
AKA	Herm (by Homer)
Hair Color	Brown/Orange
Occupation	Owner of Herman's Military Antiques
First episode appearance	"Bart the General"
Portrayed by	Harry Shearer

"The key to Springfield was always Elm Street. The Greeks knew it. The Carthaginians knew it. Now you know it."

―Herman

"God closes a door, he opens a gunshop!"

―Herman

"Looks like the spider caught himself a couple of flies!"

―Herman to Snake & Chief Wiggum

Herman Hermann is the owner of Herman's Military Antiques. He dresses in military fatigues.

Role in The Simpsons

Herman's not a very important and known person in Springfield, but he'll often participate in large mobs and crowds. He is shown to be an instigator, mainly because conflict at the roots of his military shop. Apparently, Herman bought one of Homer’s DJ pizza robots, which he later sold to a JJ Abrams film crew.

In "Homer Goes to Prep School", he appears as a member of the Preppers (People who believe society will end at any moment). He's also an insectivorian.

Arm

Herman formerly had two arms. He told Bart that the other arm was lost by sticking it out of the window of a moving bus (hailing) and it was torn off by a truck driving in the other direction. It was also implied it was him, as Ms. Krabappel said not to do it because a kid once lost an arm that way, while on a bus. However, in To Cur, with Love, it was revealed that he stuck it out on a street while trying to hail a car, resulting in the arm being torn off by a passing dogcatcher truck driven by Chief Wiggum. It is similar to Hawaiian surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm in a shark attack while surfing by the beach, which occurred around the time the episode "Treehouse of Horror XIV" aired.

Talents

He's a skilled military tactician, though his sanity's somewhat questionable (Bart considered him "a little nuts", while Abraham Simpson actually said he was "out of his mind"). Herman was instrumental in Bart’s victory in water balloon combat against Nelson, and the negotiation of the peace treaty between the two combatants.

Friends

He's friends with Abraham Simpson, to whom he sold a hat, claiming it was previously owned by Napoleon. He also claimed that he owned "the hat McKinley was shot in". He also has a mysterious friend called Zed, who presumably is the same Zed as in the movie Pulp Fiction; a homosexual rapist. Herman was a member of The Stonecutters, and possibly the "No Homers" club. He was also a poker buddy of Homer Simpson.

Criminal Activities

Herman in the Simpsons' garage selling counterfeit jeans.

He once sold counterfeit jeans out of the Simpsons' garage, and held Homer hostage when he stumbled upon his job. He was foiled by Marge Simpson, though he wasn't put in jail because the evidence was stolen by the Springfield PD.

He once captured Chief Wiggum and Snake Jailbird and held them hostage. He also attempted to hold Kirk Van Houten hostage to silence him, but was thwarted (accidentally) by the latter's son Milhouse, wielding a flail.

Behind the Laughter

Harry Shearer does an impression of George H. W. Bush for Herman's voice. Herman's facial design is modeled after the show's most prolific writer John Swartzwelder, who created the character. The writers had originally planned for Herman to give a new explanation for how he lost his arm every time he appeared. However, the second joke, involving Herman having stuck his arm in a ball return at a bowling alley, got cut, and the writers never pursued the idea thereafter.

Appearances

Note: The episodes where Herman has an actual role are in bold.

• Episode – "Bart the General"
• Episode – "Bart Gets Hit by a Car"
• Episode – "Old Money"
• Episode – "When Flanders Failed"
• Episode – "Bart the Murderer"
• Episode – "Flaming Moe's"
• Episode – "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"
• Episode – "Radio Bart"
• Episode – "Lisa the Greek"
• Episode – "A Streetcar Named Marge"
• Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail"
• Episode – "Marge in Chains" (with dark skin, red hair)
• Episode – "Homer's Barbershop Quartet"
• Episode – "Rosebud"
• Episode – "Bart's Inner Child" (ad in the papers)
• Episode – "Homer the Vigilante"
• Episode – "Homer the Great"
• Episode – "A Star is Burns"
• Episode – "The Springfield Connection"
• Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"
• Episode – "22 Short Films About Springfield"
• Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing"
• Episode – "Homerpalooza"
• Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"
• Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns"
• Episode – "Bart After Dark"
• Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter"
• Episode – "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII"
• Episode – "Trash of the Titans"
• Episode – "The Last Temptation of Krust" (In Moe's Tavern)
• Episode – "When You Dish Upon a Star"
• Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"
• Episode – "Homer to the Max"
• Episode – "They Saved Lisa's Brain"
• Episode – "Monty Can't Buy Me Love"
• Episode – "Brother's Little Helper"
• Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"
• Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod"
• Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XII"
• Episode – "Half-Decent Proposal" (Seen at Artie Ziff's prom)
• Episode – "Poppa's Got a Brand New Badge"
• Episode – "How I Spent My Strummer Vacation"
• Episode – "The Strong Arms of the Ma"
• Episode – "My Mother the Carjacker"
• Episode – "Simple Simpson"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XV"
• Episode – "See Homer Run"
• – The Simpsons Movie
• Episode – "Lost Verizon"
• Episode – "Coming to Homerica"
• Episode – "Chief of Hearts"
• Episode – "To Cur, with Love" (flashback)
• Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School"
• Episode – "Pulpit Friction"
• Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" (Church)
• Episode – "Steal This Episode"
• Episode – "The Simpsons Guy"
• Episode – "Opposites A-Frack"
• Episode – "Simpsorama"
• Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
• Episode – "Halloween of Horror"
• Episode – "Simprovised"
• Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used To Be"
• Episode – "From Russia Without Love"
• Episode – "The Clown Stays in the Picture" (flashback)
• Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill"
• Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror"
• Episode – "Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?"
• Episode – "The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A."
• Episode – "One Angry Lisa"
• Episode – "Hostile Kirk Place"
• Episode – "Do the Wrong Thing"
• Episode – "Bart's Brain"
• Music video – "Do the Bartman"
• Couch gag – "Citizens of Springfield couch gag"
• Comic book – Clip Clip Hooray!
• Comic book – Comic Fan No More
• 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":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Major
"Moaning Lisa":	"The Call of the Simpsons":	"The Telltale Head":	"Life on the Fast Lane":	"Homer's Night Out":
Absent	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":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Minor
"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	Minor	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	Cameo	Cameo	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":
Cameo	Absent	Cameo	Minor	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	Cameo	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	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":
Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Five
"Homer's Barbershop Quartet":	"Cape Feare":	"Homer Goes to College":	"Rosebud":	"Treehouse of Horror IV":
Minor	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	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Homer the Vigilante":	"Bart Gets Famous":	"Homer and Apu":	"Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy":	"Deep Space Homer":
Minor	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 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":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo
"Fear of Flying":	"Homer the Great":	"And Maggie Makes Three":	"Bart's Comet":	"Homie the Clown":
Absent	Cameo	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	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"The PTA Disbands":	"'Round Springfield":	"The Springfield Connection":	"Lemon of Troy":	"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)":
Absent	Absent	Major	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	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":
Minor	Absent	Cameo	Cameo	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	Minor	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	Cameo
"Dumbbell Indemnity":	"Lisa the Simpson":	"This Little Wiggy":	"Simpson Tide":	"The Trouble with Trillions":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Girly Edition":	"Trash of the Titans":	"King of the Hill":	"Lost Our Lisa":	"Natural Born Kissers":
Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Ten
"Lard of the Dance":	"The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace":	"Bart the Mother":	"Treehouse of Horror IX":	"When You Dish Upon a Star":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo	Cameo
"D'oh-in' in the Wind":	"Lisa Gets an "A"":	"Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"":	"Mayored to the Mob":	"Viva Ned Flanders":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Wild Barts Can't Be Broken":	"Sunday, Cruddy Sunday":	"Homer to the Max":	"I'm with Cupid":	"Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"":
Cameo	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"Make Room for Lisa":	"Maximum Homerdrive":	"Simpsons Bible Stories":	"Mom and Pop Art":	"The Old Man and the "C" Student":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Monty Can't Buy Me Love":	"They Saved Lisa's Brain":	"Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo":
Cameo	Cameo	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Eleven
"Beyond Blunderdome":	"Brother's Little Helper":	"Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?":	"Treehouse of Horror X":	"E-I-E-I-D'oh":
Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder":	"Eight Misbehavin'":	"Take My Wife, Sleaze":	"Grift of the Magi":	"Little Big Mom":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Faith Off":	"The Mansion Family":	"Saddlesore Galactica":	"Alone Again, Natura-Diddily":	"Missionary: Impossible":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Pygmoelian":	"Bart to the Future":	"Days of Wine and D'oh'ses":	"Kill the Alligator and Run":	"Last Tap Dance in Springfield":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge":	"Behind the Laughter":
Absent	Absent

Trivia

Herman's early designs for Bart the General

• In the Simpsons Comics #100 - Clip Clip Hooray!, Herman reveals that he tells people that he lost his arm in an accident, but actually wore it down to a nub by drawing so many comics.
• According to "Homer's Odyssey", it's possible Herman's the person who got his hand cut off by the truck, or like he said in "Bart the General" as a kid, he could have had his hand stuck in between the bus doors.
• Due to his reasons for kidnapping Wiggum and Snake, it is possible that he is bisexual or gay.
• His password is "Let me in you idiot".
• He's a Stone-cutter.
• He is left-handed.

Gallery

As Captain America

Herman in the comics