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Lindsey Naegle (aka Red[1]) is a resident of Springfield and is often known as Springfield's residential business link.

Biography[]

Lindsey is understood to be a common youth-hater. Outraged at having paid high damage fees for a particular riot that the youth had caused, she formed an anti-youth group, SSCCATAGAPP (Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays against Parasitic Parents), and lobbied to deprive Springfield of all child-friendly things. Her campaign nearly succeeded, but it was thwarted at the last moment when Bart, Lisa, and the other kids in Springfield hugged all the adults, infecting them with "kid germs." The adults collapsed with sickness and became unable to vote, causing the campaign to fail.[2]

Lindsey is an alcoholic (she said so matter-of-factly to Lenny when she was asked why she was in Moe’s Tavern). Despite this she is the head of the Alcoholics Anonymous branch in Springfield.[3]

She is often seen as a member of the Springfield Republican Party. However, she was once seen attending a Democratic Party meeting. She is also a member of the Springfield Book Club, and was the person who caused the town to finally crack under the strain of being trapped in the dome when she threw a book at Helen Lovejoy, only to for it to miss and spill the coffee in the adjacent Alcoholics Anonymous meeting.

Lindsey tends to flatly admit things that might be considered insensitive. She admitted to being a sexual predator,[4] and once said that she cannot cry due to a botched face lift.[5]

In "Homer Goes to Prep School", she's a member of the Doomsday preppers along with Gary Chalmers, Herman Hermann, L.T. Smash and Lloyd. When Superintendent Chalmers demonstrated a rifle scope that makes any human face look dangerous and threatening (by placing an angry brow appearance on people's faces), he pretended to shoot her holding it. She asks what it was for, and he says "You thought I've gone mad with power, weren't you?". Lindsey responds "I wasn't but I am now." and Chalmers pretended to shoot her a couple more times.

Jobs[]

Lindsey has popped up in several capacities, seemingly working at a different job every time she appears. Job titles have included the aforementioned network executive, as well as marketing researcher, financial planner, public relations consultant, venture capitalist, advertising executive, cell phone company executive, insurance salesperson, and executive with the Child Development Group. After she introduced herself (again) to Homer and Marge, Marge said, “We’ve met you many times, Ms. Naegle. Why do you keep changing jobs?” Lindsey flatly replied, “I’m a sexual predator.”[6] Her business card reads "Lindsey Naegle: Does Everything".[7]

Commercial actions and influences[]

Due to her role as a business and network executive figure, Lindsey (like any business CEO or network executive in the media) tends to over commercialize anything that she has creative control over, which causes initial problems for other characters, based on the plot of the episode.

In "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show", Lindsey was part of the committee of writers at Itchy & Scratchy International, who felt that the character Poochie should be edgy, have plenty of attitude, and be "Rasta-fied" by 10 percent, as well as "proactive" and a "totally outrageous paradigm". However, due to Poochie's unpopularity with the audience, Lindsey along with the rest of the writers decide to kill him off. Even though Homer implores the audience to give Poochie a fair chance (instead of reading the intended script), the character is edited out at the last second, leaving Homer feeling betrayed, as he put his soul into the character he voiced.[8]

In "Girly Edition", Lindsey tells Krusty the Clown that the FCC feels that kids aren't learning anything from The Itchy & Scratchy Show and that they need educational programming. She then suggest a kid-oriented news show called "Kidz News", where the network would cut ten minutes out of The Krusty the Clown Show. During the run of the news show, Lisa Simpson is recruited as a news anchor, while Bart is later chosen and made a sportscaster. After Bart livens up the show, Lindsey promotes him to co-anchor, which makes Lisa jealous. Lisa proclaims that she doesn't need a co-anchor, Lindsey tells her that Bart has what she doesn't: "Zazz!", "Zing!", "Zork!", and "Kapowza!" Despite Lisa's reasoning of that trivializes the entire idea of Kidz Newz, her argument goes unanswered. After Bart and Lisa choose to resolve the disputes and make a good educational news program, they are abruptly canceled in favor of "The Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Choc-O-Bot Hour".[9]

Love Life[]

When Ned Flanders considered remarrying, he went to a dating service where he saw a video of Lindsey promoting herself as a girlfriend very much akin to a cover letter. Ned took Lindsey out to dinner, where she continued talking about herself until she got a fax and excused herself. Presumably that date went poorly as Ned was later seen dating other women.

She is an enthusiastic practitioner of the child-free lifestyle, and at one point spearheaded a movement to make Springfield less child-friendly. Once romantically linked with Judge Roy Snyder, she is a graduate from the Wharton Business School. She is a stereotypical upper-management executive, and her ventures frequently feature the business buzzword “synergy”.

Lindsey Naegle once made out with Marge Simpson during Homer's imagination, despite Marge not being a lesbian.[10]

It is been implied that at one time she had been sleeping with Krusty the Clown.[11]

Marge told Homer that, if she passed on, he would be allowed to marry Lindsey; this is seen on a list in the back of his closet. Ironically, Lindsey was in the bank with Marge when she gave Homer this permission.[12]

Non-Canon Appearances[]

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Lindsey's anti-child attitude was spoofed in a story in "Margical History Tour" where she plays Anne Boleyn. She marries Homer, who plays King Henry VIII, on the basis she can get pregnant with a son for him. However, she is executed after she gives King Henry a daughter.

When Homer imagines accidents resulting during a time that he was uninsured, Lindsey Naegle and Marge Simpson started making out after they were the only ones who survived besides Homer Simpson.[13]

In "Treehouse of Horror XIX," in the opening of "How to Get Ahead in Dead-Vertising", she is in one of the pictures on the buildings.

In "The Serfsons," Lindsey Naegle and Krusty are dating. Krusty ends up transmitting his "Genital Snerfs" (Smurfs) to Lindsey, which toss their hats and sing.

Behind the Laughter[]

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Her original design.

  • Lindsey makes her first appearance in "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show". In this episode her character was simply referred to as “Female Network Executive”, and had brunette hair instead of her usual blonde hair. She later returned in "Girly Edition".
  • In “They Saved Lisa’s Brain”, the character was introduced as Lindsey Naegle, a member of the Springfield Mensa Society and head of Advanced Capital Ventures, specializing in synergy and books on how to cheat at bridge. Starting this episode her hair color was permanently changed to blonde, and her outfit was also altered permanently.
  • Lindsey Naegle's name was modeled after Sue Naegle, the ex-wife of former Simpsons writer Dana Gould.
  • Lindsey sounds and acts very similar to Charlotte Pickles, a character from the Nickelodeon animated series Rugrats also voiced by MacNeille.
  • She appears to be friends with Cookie Kwan.
  • Lindsey is also the "Fast-Tracking Child-Free Executrix" type of mom you meet at the PTA.[14]
  • Lindsey is left-handed.[15]

Gallery[]

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

Appearances[]

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Citations[]

Characters voiced by Tress MacNeille
Ms. Albright | Alice Glick | June Bellamy | Belle | Billy (actor) | Booberella | Colin | Cosine | Crazy Cat Lady | Michael D'Amico | David (Treehouse of Horror XVI) | Devan Woosterfield | Dia-Betty | Mia Farrow | Ginger Flanders | Adil Hoxha | Bernice Hibbert | Cookie Kwan | Lester | Audrey McConnell | Medicine Woman | Mrs. Muntz | Lindsey Naegle | Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon | Opal | Poor Violet | Lois Pennycandy | Pepi | Phillips | Brunella Pommelhorst | Ronaldo (Blame It on Lisa) | Dr. Simpson | Agnes Skinner | Brandine Spuckler | Jitney Spuckler | Whitney Spuckler | Spud | Dolph Starbeam | Clara Stetson | Gino Terwilliger | Judith Terwilliger | Leslie Robin Swisher | Vicki Valentine | Plopper | Princess Diana


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