- “Please don't make me retire. This job is what keeps me alive. I never married and my dog is dead.”
- ―Jack Marley, at his retirement party[src]
Jack Marley is an elderly worker at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. His name is most likely a reference to Jacob Marley from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
History
He is forced to retire, even though he resists, insisting he loves his job (It's implied that Mr. Burns had him retire as an excuse for him to have a party). Marge replaced him. He is still seen around Springfield showing that he stayed there after retiring.[1]
After Marge was put on trial for unintentionally shoplifting from the Kwik-E-Mart, Jack appears as the jury's foreman and states the verdict that he and the other jurors reached:Guilty (although it might be just a similar looking character).[2]
He has also been seen working as a janitor on a ship. Following Homer's court martial, as Jack is mopping passed him, he says to him, "I think you're off the hook" and Homer gives his "woo-hoo" cheer.[3]
Trivia
- In the Latin American dub, he is named Carlos Magaña after his late dubbing actor.
Appearances
Note: Many of his appearances are brief, background roles. Episodes in which he has an actual role are in bold.
- Episode – "Marge Gets a Job"
- Episode – "Marge in Chains"
- Episode – "Rosebud" (At Mr. Burns' party)
- Episode – "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"
- Episode – "Bart After Dark" (In the burlesque house)
- Episode – "In Marge We Trust" (In church)
- Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic" (Among the crowd outside the front entrance of the Simpsons' house)
- Episode – "Lisa the Simpson" (Among the crowd gathering outside the Kwik-E-Mart)
- Episode – "Simpson Tide"
- Episode – "The Trouble with Trillions"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" (In church)
- Episode – "They Saved Lisa's Brain" (Among the crowd in front of the gazebo)
- Episode – "Hungry, Hungry Homer" (Among the spectators at the baseball game)
- Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod" (In the audience at the Good Guy Awards)
- Episode – "The Frying Game"
- Episode – "Helter Shelter" (At the retirement home)
- Episode – "My Mother the Carjacker" (Among the jurors in the courthouse)
- Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays" (At the town hall meeting)
- Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner" (In church)
- Episode – "See Homer Run"
- Episode – "Papa Don't Leech"
- Episode – "Thursdays with Abie" (At the retirement home)
- Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dream" (In the audience at Cheech and Chong's show)
- Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network" (In the courthouse)
- Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"
- Episode – "At Long Last Leave" (Among the crowd on the Simpsons' lawn)