Jacques

Jacques
Gender/Sex
Status
Hair Color	Brown
Occupation	Bowling Instructor (Formerly)
First episode appearance	"Life on the Fast Lane"
Portrayed by	Albert Brooks

Jacques is a bowling instructor who pursued an affair with Marge Simpson in the episode "Life on the Fast Lane".

History

After Homer Simpson bought a bowling ball for himself and diguised it as Marge's birthday gift, Marge went to bowling, where she met Jacques. Jacques, captivated by Marge, agreed to give her lessons in the hopes of wooing her. Marge, though charmed by Jacques, eventually confessed that she was already married, though Jacques was undeterred and offered to take Marge to brunch, during which he asked her to meet with him at his apartment in Fiesta Terraces. Marge accepted, but remembering her commitment to Homer, she chose to stick with Homer and abandoned Jacques. Notably, Marge believed that his last name was "Brunswick", because it was engraved on his bowling ball yet that was really only the brand of his ball.

He is later as a part of a bowling team called the Home Wreckers, consisting of Princess Kashmir, Mindy Simmons, and Lurleen Lumpkin.

He appeared in The Simpsons: Tapped Out as a character exclusively for the Pin Pals mini-event, and it's his very first appearance in a Simpsons video game.

He returned when Homer hires him to prepare Marge for the bowling tournament that will save Barney's Bowlarama, unaware of his interest in Marge. Jacques once again tries to woo Marge despite swearing on cheese that their relationship is professional. Homer eventually finds out and storms into Jacques' apartment where he finds a shrine to Marge. Homer and Jacques battle with bowling balls and Homer eventually wins, but Marge stops Homer and assures him that nothing happened with Jacques and that she loves him. Jacques competes against Marge in the bowling tournament as revenge, but Marge wins once again leaving Jacques with nothing. He then gets deported back to France, as he had been living in the US on an expired visa.

Seen in the crowd

Personality

Jacques is somewhat of a Casanova and mainly seems to try to seduce his clients instead of actually teaching them anything. In later episodes he can be briefly seen. In "Burns' Heir" he is seen kissing Edna Krabappel on a secret camera. The footage is briefly seen in Burns' Surveillance Room.

Behind the Laughter

• Jacques was voiced by Albert Brooks in the episode "Life on the Fast Lane", his second appearance on the show.
• Beginning with Season 2, Jacques was in the opening sequence.
• "Life on the Fast Lane" initially saw Brooks voice Björn, a Swedish tennis instructor, but Brooks thought a Frenchman would be funnier so it was changed.

Trivia

• He maybe has a relationship with Elizabeth Hoover, as they are seen dancing with each other in "Haw-Haw Land".
• A picture of Jacques was hanging in a bowling shop in the episode Homer Alone, when Marge was going to fix Homer's bowling ball.
• Coincidentally, Marge would later be revealed to be of French heritage, similar to Jacques's country of origin.
• Jacques loses his French accent when he yells the line "four onion rings," hinting that he is faking his accent and even his nationality. Though it could've been a mistake on the actor's part.
• As revealed in "Pin Gal," Jacques comes from Paris and was in the U.S. with a bowling visa.

Gallery

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

Appearances

• Episode – "Life on the Fast Lane"
• Episode – "Bart Gets an "F"" (Cameo)
• Episode – "Bart Gets Hit by a Car"
• Episode – "Bart's Dog Gets an F"
• Episode – "Old Money"
• Episode – "Flaming Moe's"
• Episode – "Homer Alone"
• Episode – "Homer at the Bat"
• Episode – "Homer's Triple Bypass"
• Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail"
• Episode – "Selma's Choice" (picture in 101 Frozen Pops magazine)
• Episode – "Burns' Heir"
• Episode – "Another Simpsons Clip Show" (Flashback)
• Episode – "And Maggie Makes Three"
• Episode – "Team Homer"
• Episode – "Make Room for Lisa" (Deleted scene)
• Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"
• Episode – "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love" (Name seen on paper)
• Episode – "My Big Fat Geek Wedding"
• Episode – "The Heartbroke Kid"
• Episode – "Little Big Girl"
• – The Simpsons Movie
• Episode – "Singin' in the Lane" (non-speaking cameo)
• Episode – "Haw-Haw Land" (non-speaking)
• Episode – "Pin Gal"
• Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out
• Music video – "Do the Bartman"

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	Absent
"Moaning Lisa":	"The Call of the Simpsons":	"The Telltale Head":	"Life on the Fast Lane":	"Homer's Night Out":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Major	Absent
"The Crepes of Wrath":	"Krusty Gets Busted":	"Some Enchanted Evening":
Absent	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	Cameo	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	Absent
"Fear of Flying":	"Homer the Great":	"And Maggie Makes Three":	"Bart's Comet":	"Homie the Clown":
Absent	Absent	Cameo	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	Absent	Absent
"The PTA Disbands":	"'Round Springfield":	"The Springfield Connection":	"Lemon of Troy":	"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

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	Absent	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	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Lisa The Iconoclast":	"Homer The Smithers":	"The Day The Violence Died":	"A Fish Called Selma":	"Bart on the Road":
Absent	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	Absent	Absent	Absent