- “(Referring to Bart) Sometimes that kid just goes too far.”
- ―Lewis[src]
- “He's Wendell, I'm Lewis.”
- ―Lewis[src]
Lewis Clark[1] is a student in Springfield Elementary School. He is one of Bart's friends, and one of only a handful of African-American students at the school. His best friend is Richard.
Biography
Lewis is one of Bart's friends and fellow fourth-graders in Mrs. Krabappel's class. He once annoyed a guilt-ridden Bart when he hid under a pile of leaves and pretended to be Principal Skinner's corpse,[2] and he failed to vote for Bart in the class presidential election.[3] He is most commonly seen playing in the schoolyard with his friend Richard.
Lewis was one of the children in the Model UN Club that were stranded on an island and, thinking he was going to die, Bart mistook him for Wendell.[4] Lewis also plays on the Mighty Pigs pee-wee hockey team and according to gossip is a very good ballroom dancer.[5] He apparently owns a gun as he was seen discharging it in school during the episode [6] as the class cheered after learning they were going to have a movie day.
Non-Canon
In The Simpsons Game, Lewis witnessed Jimbo, Kearney, and Dolph go through the museum and tells Homer and says it's the first sign of the Apocalypse. Later, he doesn't know how he feels about Homer saving the Museum. Lewis found out about the Eating Contest at the Duff Brewery and tells Homer. Lewis watches the Eating Contest on TV and strangely gets the sense that Homer could've eaten more at the Eating Contest. Lewis later gets the New Grand Theft Scratchy with the other school kids and later with the kids they randomly appear in places of the city causing mayhem. The game is later banned by Marge, Lisa, and the Mob. Lewis later sees the aliens attacking the Mall, Lard Lad attacking, and The Dolphins. Lewis laughs and guessed that Lard Lad messed with the Wrong Fat Man. Lewis later wonders if the aliens Homer killed went to Heaven.
In The Simpsons Game, Lewis is voiced by Pamela Hayden.
Behind the Laughter
In earlier seasons, Lewis could be considered as Bart's second-best friend. As the roles of Nelson and Milhouse were enlarged, Lewis was seen with Bart less and less often and was finally Returned to Background character status.
Throughout the series, Lewis has been voiced by Jo Ann Harris, Nancy Cartwright, Pamela Hayden, Russi Taylor and Maggie Roswell. Due to the fact that he rarely speaks, he has no specific voice actor.
His most recent speaking role is in "Stealing First Base", when after Edna Krabappel's class is moved to another classroom, he asks a student if he can sit with him. He was seen with Nina Skalka at the Le Petite Appetit during the episode, "The Daughter Also Rises". It's likely the two were dating during the episode and it's possible Nina is Lewis' girlfriend.
Description
Lewis normally wears a tanned shirt with a single cream stripe, green shorts, and tanned shoes. He has black hair. In "Bart of Darkness", he was seen wearing orange swimming trunks. In the episode "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", his hair color and skin complexion changed during one scene in the episode. At night, he wears purple pajamas and purple slippers.
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Trivia
- Lewis's full name ("Lewis Clark") was revealed on the episode Yellow Subterfuge, written on Skinner's list of students. It is possible that this name is a homage to Captain Meriwether Lewis and Second Lieutenant William Clark, two noted American explorers.
- Lewis is one of the few in Springfield Elementary that sometimes criticize Bart.
- According to Lisa's bus seating plan, Lewis is a Leninist.
Episode Appearances
Episodes were he had a speaking role are in bold.
- Episode – "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" (Debut episode)
- Episode – "Bart the Genius"
- Episode – "Homer's Odyssey"
- Episode – "Bart the General" (Told Milhouse to pass on a note written by Bart in class)
- Episode – "Moaning Lisa"
- Episode – "The Telltale Head"
- Episode – "Homer's Night Out"
- Episode – "Bart Gets an "F""
- Episode – "Simpson and Delilah"
- Episode – "Dancin' Homer"
- Episode – "Bart the Daredevil"
- Episode – "Principal Charming"
- Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
- Episode – "Lisa's Substitute"
- Episode – "The War of the Simpsons"
- Episode – "Bart the Murderer"
- Episode – "Radio Bart"
- Episode – "Kamp Krusty"
- Episode – "Homer at the Bat"
- Episode – "Brother from the Same Planet"
- Episode – "Bart's Inner Child"
- Episode – "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood"
- Episode – "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"
- Episode – "Bart Gets Famous"
- Episode – "The Last Temptation of Homer"
- Episode – "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"
- Episode – "Bart of Darkness"
- Episode – "Sideshow Bob Roberts"
- Episode – "Homer vs. Patty and Selma"
- Episode – "'Round Springfield"
- Episode – "Lemon of Troy"
- Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"
- Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)"
- Episode – "Team Homer"
- Episode – "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish""
- Episode – "Lisa's Date with Density"
- Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"
- Episode – "Grade School Confidential"
- Episode – "Homer's Phobia"
- Episode – "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"
- Episode – "The Principal and the Pauper"
- Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic"
- Episode – "Bart Carny"
- Episode – "Das Bus"
- Episode – "This Little Wiggy"
- Episode – "Simpson Tide"
- Episode – "King of the Hill" (Seen playing Capture the flag)
- Episode – "Girly Edition"
- Episode – "Lard of the Dance"
- Episode – "D'oh-in' in the Wind"
- Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken"
- Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday"
- Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories"
- Episode – "The Old Man and the "C" Student"
- Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?"
- Episode – "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" (Seen in Bart's class)
- Episode – "Behind the Laughter"
- Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow"
- Episode – "New Kids on the Blecch"
- Episode – "Bye Bye Nerdie"
- Episode – "Trilogy of Error"
- Episode – "Brawl in the Family"
- Episode – "The Lastest Gun in the West"
- Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade"
- Episode – "Large Marge"
- Episode – "Special Edna"
- Episode – "The President Wore Pearls"
- Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays"
- Episode – "See Homer Run"
- Episode – "We're on the Road to D'oh-where" (Appeared in the hallway and class)
- Episode – "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer" (Seen on the bus and at school)
- Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em" (Seen outside of the school)
- Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple"
- Episode – "Yokel Chords"
- Episode – "24 Minutes"
- Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want" (Appeared at Krustylu Studios)
- – The Simpsons Movie
- Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" (Appeared at Krusty Burger)
- Episode – "The Debarted"
- Episode – "Little Orphan Millie"
- Episode – "Lost Verizon"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX"
- Episode – "The Burns and the Bees"
- Episode – "How the Test Was Won"
- Episode – "Father Knows Worst"
- Episode – "Bart Gets a "Z""
- Episode – "The Color Yellow" (Seen at Lisa's presentation)
- Episode – "Postcards From the Wedge" (Seen in Bart's class)
- Episode – "Stealing First Base"
- Episode – "MoneyBART"
- Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life"
- Episode – "The Fool Monty"
- Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget"
- Episode – "The Great Simpsina"
- Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts"
- Episode – "Replaceable You"
- Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" (With Ted Nugent)
- Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network"
- Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises"
- Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me"
- Episode – "To Cur, with Love" (School bus)
- Episode – "A Test Before Trying"
- Episode – "Dark Knight Court"
- Episode – "What Animated Women Want"
- Episode – "Pulpit Friction" (Seen at Bart's sleepover and at church)
- Episode – "The Saga of Carl" (Seen at The Science of Ki-Ya Karate Monsters)
- Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" (Seen at town square)
- Episode – "Yolo" (Seen at school)
- Episode – "The Kid is All Right" (Seen at the auditorium and gymnasium)
- Episode – "Yellow Subterfuge" Seen at school)
- Episode – "Married to the Blob" (Seen outside of The Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop)
- Episode – "Specs and the City" (Seen in Mrs. Krabappal's class)
- Episode – "Diggs" (Appeared at the playground and school bus)
- Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much" (Appeared in the hallway)
- Episode – "The Winter of His Content" (Appeared in the locker room)
- Episode – "Luca$" (Cafeteria)
- Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" (School bus and playground)
- Episode – "Brick Like Me" (In church)
- Episode – "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge" (Field day)
- Episode – "Clown in the Dumps" (Krustylu Studios)
- Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship"
- Episode – "Super Franchise Me" (Outside of school)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV" (School is Hell)
- Episode – "Simpsorama" (Class)
- Episode – "Bart's New Friend" (Playground)
- Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
- Episode – "Peeping Mom" (School bus and class)
- Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot" (Milhouse's birthday party)
- Episode – "Peeping Mom"
- Episode – "Mathlete's Feat" (Auditorium)
- Episode – "Cue Detective" (School Auditorium)
- Episode – "Halloween of Horror" (Arriving at school)
- Episode – "Paths of Glory"
- Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-caused Hurdles"
- Episode – "Much Apu About Something" (Parade)
- Episode – "Lisa the Veterinarian"
- Episode – "The Burns Cage"
- Episode – "Simprovised"
- Episode – "Orange is the New Yellow"
- Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" (Springfield Bowl)
- Episode – "There Will Be Buds" (Field)
- Episode – "The Last Traction Hero" (School bus)
- Episode – "Lisa Gets the Blues"
Video game – The Simpsons Game
- Comic book – Batter-Up Bart"
- Comic book – Bart vs. The One-Man School
- Comic book – The Kiss of Blecch
- Comic book – Bart Hears A What?
- Comic book – Yellow Chef!
- Comic book – Children off the Cob
- Comic book – The More, The Merrier!
- Comic book – Eat the Pie Slowly
- Comic book – Model Citizen Simpson
- Comic book – That's Hairable!
- Comic book – Fangs for Nothing!
- Comic book – Thumb Wrasslin'
- Comic book – Wall or Nothing