Jeremy Freedman, more commonly known as Squeaky-Voiced Teen, Pimple-Faced Teen, Puberty Boy, Geeky Teenager, Teenage Clerk, Steve, Pop, Mr. Peterson -Old Man Peterson, and Jeremy Rexford, is one of the few teenagers in Springfield and is perpetually trapped in a series of dead-end jobs. Jeremy has acne and his voice is in the process of breaking.
Jobs[]
He is often seen working in a Krusty Burger and has also worked for the Grocery Store and the Aztec Theater.
He was once an employee at the Mom & Pop Hardware store to try and get with "Mom", him being "Pop". He also worked at Barney's Bowlarama, where it was revealed that his mother was Lunch Lady Doris.[2] He was also employed at Book Returns[3] and Moe's Express. A rudimentary version of the character was employed at the Springfield public access television station (see "Homer Badman" episode).
He was in a managerial position at a shoe store, employing Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney.[4]
Furthermore, he worked at a Mexican restaurant called The Brown Burrito, in which he wore a name tag bearing the name Steve.[5]
Personal life[]
He once tried to commit suicide by jumping off a cliff, because FOX cancelled Futurama. He landed in a car, in which two teens were making out, crushing one of them. The attractive girl, shocked he crushed her boyfriend, assumed he must be awesomely good at love-making and immediately proceeded to make out with him.[6]
He was also in a relationship with Mom, an employee at the Mom & Pop Hardware store.[7]
When Lindsey Naegle once suggested they "kill every child... friendly thing in town", he lost his squeaky voice to "become a man".[8]
Family[]
Little is known about Jeremy's family, and it is very rarely ever discussed in episodes. However, we know that his mother is Doris Freedman, who has disowned him, and he has worked in her cafeteria before. It is unclear if Doris truly disowned him or just said this as she was upset at not being able to get a lane to bowl.
He also has an unseen Catholic aunt mentioned in the comics.
Behind the Laughter[]
Name[]
Seymour Skinner refers to the character as "Jeremy" in a deleted scene on The Complete Fifth Season DVD. In "G.I. D'oh" where the bullies Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney work at a shoe store, they refer to him as Mr. Freedman.
In "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy", Abraham Simpson refers to him as "Mr. Peterson", Peterson being his mom's maiden name.
Jeremy appears briefly in The Simpsons Ride, a theme park attraction in Universal Studios Hollywood and Orlando. He complains that the audience needs to keep quiet while he studies for a math test and aims to get a C. In the episode: "Beware My Cheating Bart" he has a nameplate that shows his name is Steve.
Appearances[]
- Episode – "Brush with Greatness"
- Episode – "Homer Alone"
- Episode – "Selma's Choice"
- Episode – "Whacking Day"
- Episode – "Krusty Gets Kancelled"
- Episode – "Bart's Inner Child"
- Episode – "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood"
- Episode – "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy"
- Episode – "Homer Badman"
- Episode – "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" (deleted scene)
- Episode – "Bart of Darkness"
- Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy Land"
- Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VI"
- Episode – "King-Size Homer"
- Episode – "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"
- Episode – "Team Homer"
- Episode – "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield"
- Episode – "The Springfield Files"
- Episode – "Lard of the Dance"
- Episode – "Bart the Mother"
- Episode – "Mayored to the Mob"
- Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"
- Episode – "Mom and Pop Art"
- Episode – "They Saved Lisa's Brain"
- Episode – "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can"
- Episode – "The Regina Monologues"
- Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays"
- Episode – "Fraudcast News"
- Episode – "G.I. (Annoyed Grunt)"
- Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer"
- Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want"
- Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs"
- Episode – "Dangerous Curves" (flashback)
- Episode – "Boy Meets Curl"
- Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX"
- Episode – "Beware My Cheating Bart"
- Episode – "Pulpit Friction" (Seen at town square)
- Episode – "Dangers on a Train"
- Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" (Seen at church and at town square)
- Episode – "Steal This Episode"
- Episode – "Days of Future Future" (The Gilded Truffle)
- Episode – "Brick Like Me"
- Episode – "The Simpsons Guy"
- Episode – "Super Franchise Me"
- Episode – "Opposites A-Frack"
- Episode – "Walking Big & Tall" (School auditorium)
- Episode – "My Fare Lady" (Working at Springfield Playhouse)
- Episode – "Waiting for Duffman"
- Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-caused Hurdles" (Mentioned)
- Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow"
- Episode – "Lisa the Veterinarian"
- Episode – "Fland Canyon" (voice only)
- Episode – "Simprovised"
- Episode – "Fatzcarraldo"
- Episode – "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me"
- Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used To Be"
- Episode – "Gone Boy"
- Episode – "Haw-Haw Land"
- Episode – "No Good Read Goes Unpunished"
- Episode – "King Leer"
- Episode – "Lisa Gets the Blues"
- Episode – "Forgive and Regret"
- Episode – "Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy"
- Episode – "D'oh Canada"
- Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill"
- Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror"
- Episode – "Bobby, It's Cold Outside"
- Episode – "Highway to Well"
- Episode – "Wad Goals"
- Episode – "Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?"
- Episode – "Uncut Femmes"
- Episode – "Mother and Child Reunion"
- Episode – "The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A."
- Episode – "A Serious Flanders: Part One"
- Episode – "Mothers and Other Strangers"
- Episode – "Pretty Whittle Liar"
- Episode – "Girls Just Shauna Have Fun"
- Episode – "Poorhouse Rock"
- Episode – "The Many Saints of Springfield"
- Episode – "Carl Carlson Rides Again"
- Episode – "Write Off This Episode"
- Episode – "Homer's Crossing"
- Episode – "A Mid-Childhood Night's Dream"
- Episode – "Clan of the Cave Mom"
- – The Simpsons Movie
- The Simpsons Game Level – "Bartman Begins"
- Video game – The Simpsons Road Rage
- Video game – The Simpsons: Hit & Run
- Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out (as Squeaky-Voiced Teen)
- Video game – The Simpsons Ride
- Comic story – 3000's Company
- Comic story – The Burger Kings of Comedy!
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 | Absent |
"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 | Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent |
"Three Men and a Comic Book": | "Blood Feud": | |||
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 | Voice only | Absent | Absent |
"Homer's Triple Bypass": | "Marge vs. the Monorail": | "Selma's Choice": | "Brother from the Same Planet": | "I Love Lisa": |
Absent | Absent | Minor | 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 | Minor |
"Marge in Chains": | "Krusty Gets Kancelled": | |||
Absent | Minor |
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 | Minor | Minor | Absent | Minor |
"Homer the Vigilante": | "Bart Gets Famous": | "Homer and Apu": | "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy": | "Deep Space Homer": |
Absent | Absent | Minor | Minor | 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 | Voice only |
The Simpsons: Season Six | ||||
"Bart of Darkness": | "Lisa's Rival": | "Another Simpsons Clip Show": | "Itchy & Scratchy Land": | "Sideshow Bob Roberts": |
Minor | 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 | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"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 | 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": |
Minor | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Treehouse of Horror VI": | "King-Size Homer": | "Mother Simpson": | "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming": | "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular": |
Minor | Minor | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Marge Be Not Proud": | "Team Homer": | "Two Bad Neighbors": | "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield": | "Bart the Fink": |
Absent | Absent | Voice only | Minor | Minor |
"Lisa The Iconoclast": | "Homer The Smithers": | "The Day The Violence Died": | "A Fish Called Selma": | "Bart on the Road": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"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 |
The Simpsons: Season Eight | ||||
"Treehouse of Horror VII": | "You Only Move Twice": | "The Homer They Fall": | "Burns, Baby Burns": | "Bart After Dark": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"A Milhouse Divided": | "Lisa's Date with Density": | "Hurricane Neddy": | "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)": | "The Springfield Files": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Minor |
"The Twisted World of Marge Simpson": | "Mountain of Madness": | "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious": | "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": | "Homer's Phobia": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Brother from Another Series": | "My Sister, My Sitter": | "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment": | "Grade School Confidential": | "The Canine Mutiny": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"The Old Man and the Lisa": | "In Marge We Trust": | "Homer's Enemy": | "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase": | "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson": |
Cameo | Absent | Absent | 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 | Absent | Absent | Minor |
"Bart Star": | "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons": | "Lisa the Skeptic": | "Realty Bites": | "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"All Singing, All Dancing": | "Bart Carny": | "The Joy of Sect": | "Das Bus": | "The Last Temptation of Krust": |
Absent | Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent |
"Dumbbell Indemnity": | "Lisa the Simpson": | "This Little Wiggy": | "Simpson Tide": | "The Trouble with Trillions": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"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": |
Minor | Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent |
"D'oh-in' in the Wind": | "Lisa Gets an "A"": | "Homer Simpson in: "Kidney Trouble"": | "Mayored to the Mob": | "Viva Ned Flanders": |
Absent | Minor | Absent | Minor | Minor |
"Wild Barts Can't Be Broken": | "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday": | "Homer to the Max": | "I'm with Cupid": | "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"": |
Minor | Cameo | 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 | Minor | Absent |
"Monty Can't Buy Me Love": | "They Saved Lisa's Brain": | "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo": | ||
Cameo | Minor | Absent |
Trivia[]
- In the episode "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood" Jeremy is seen twice with different hair and different jobs at the start and at the end.
- In the episode "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" he is seen working at Springfield hardware, missing his iconic acne. When he confronts Bart misusing a paint mixer, Bart tells him, "There's a guy outside handing out free stridex pads"(a acne care product), Jeremy runs off yelling, "Wow I'm in pizza-face paradise".
- His voice was inspired by Shaggy from Scooby-Doo.
- In earlier episodes, Jeremy appeared in several other forms. Those could just be other teenagers, as some had different personalities.
- Jeremy Freedman drinks beer.
- This was proven in "Lard of the Dance" when multiple look-alikes are shown working at Krusty Burger.
- This could also mean Lunchlady Doris isn't really his mother, as that teen looked different.
- He is interested in the "MARVEL" universe