Lucille Botzcowski

Lucille Botzcowski
Gender/Sex	‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Female ♀ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎
Status	‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ Alive ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎
AKA	Miss Botz The Babysitter Bandit
Hair Color	Robin’s Egg Blue; short
Occupation	Criminal Babysitter
First episode appearance	"Some Enchanted Evening"
Portrayed by	Penny Marshall

Lucille Botzcowski, also known as Miss Botz and the "Babysitter Bandit", is a burglar who poses as a babysitter and robs the homes of the children she babysits. Her only major appearance so far was in "Some Enchanted Evening", when she was hired as the babysitter for Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. She is voiced by the late Penny Marshall.

History

Lucille Botzcowski is an escaped criminal, known as the "Babysitter Bandit". She is hired by Homer from the Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers Babysitting Service to babysit Bart, Lisa and Maggie while he and Marge go out on a date. After her arrival, Bart and Lisa discover her true identity as a burglar when they see her on the TV show America's Most Armed & Dangerous, but they are captured and tied up before they can call the police. She then starts looting the Simpson house. Maggie unties Bart and Lisa, and they are able to thwart and tie up Lucille. Bart and Lisa call the police, but before they arrive Homer and Marge return home to find Lucille hog-tied with her mouth taped shut, staring helplessly at a Happy Little Elves videotape that she forced Bart and Lisa to watch earlier. Deceiving Homer into freeing her, she advises him to not "turn your back on that boy for a second" and drives away after being paid triple the original fee for her trouble, just moments before the police arrived.

Lucille makes a brief appearance in "Bart Gets an "F"" while the Springfield residents stand in a circle and sing during the snow day festivities. She apparently remained free for some time as she was briefly mentioned in a newscast in "Bart's Dog Gets an F" that the police are looking for her.

A wanted sign featuring her photograph was briefly seen on the notice board in the Springfield Police Station behind Chief Wiggum's desk, but showed her sporting brown hair. She later appeared in Calmwood Mental Hospital, pacing back and forth in a threatening manner. The cell door was unlocked and unguarded; it is unknown if she escaped or not, although she did briefly appear in her car in the non-canon^{[citation needed]} Family Guy crossover "The Simpsons Guy".

She also appeared as the boss of Springfield Mall in The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants, where she frequently tried to drop luggage onto Bart, the main protagonist of the game and the player. Depending on whether Marge's name was spelled earlier, she will either deflect any luggage away from Bart, or Bart will have to dodge the luggage. Bart defeated her by throwing the luggage back at her.

Trivia

• A mugshot of her in "Some Enchanted Evening" reveals that she is 6 feet tall and she weighs 178 lbs.
• She is left-handed.
• Miss Botz makes a cameo in the Family Guy episode "The Simpsons Guy" when she was getting her car washed by Peter and Homer.
• She also makes an appearance in 1992 DOS game The Simpsons: Bart's House of Weirdness.
• She is a parody of Gertrude Baniszewski, who was infamous for the 1965 abuse, torture, and murder of Sylvia Likens.

Gallery

The official Miss Botz figure as part of the World of Springfield series by Playmates.

The World of Springfield Miss. Botz figure with her accessories.

Miss Botz's original design.

Miss Botz's cameo in "The Simpsons Guy".

Appearances

• Bold indicates prominent role
• Episode – "The Telltale Head" (Seen in opening chase scene)
• Episode – "Some Enchanted Evening"
• Episode – "Bart's Dog Gets an F" (Picture only)
• Episode – "Stark Raving Dad"
• Episode – "Homer Defined"
• Episode – "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood" (Picture appears in Chief Wiggum's office)
• Episode – "Hurricane Neddy" (non-speaking)
• – The Simpsons Movie
• Episode – "The Simpsons Guy"
• Video game – Bart vs. the Space Mutants
• Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out
• Comic book – BartmanGirl