Luigi Risotto

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Luigi Risotto
Gender/Sex
Status
AKA	Chef Luigi
Hair Color	Black, almost bald, sometimes gray
Occupation	Chef, Hollywood's foreign press
Relations	Mother: Mrs. Risotto Brother: Mario Risotto
First episode appearance	"Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"
Portrayed by	Hank Azaria

Luigi Risotto (real name Lothar Folkman), is the proprietor of Luigi's.

Biography

A cooking prodigy, Lothar Folkman opened his Italian restaurant in Springfield to critical success, but empty seats. No one wanted to eat Italian food prepared by someone named Lothar. But after making a fake Italian accent, changing his name, and getting a makeover, his eatery became packed almost every night. Unfortunately, the charade has driven Luigi into a love/hate relationship with his customers that occasionally bubbles to the surface like tomato sauce in a pot that's one size too small.

Luigi owns an Italian restaurant in Springfield, that serves average Italian food. Luigi often treats his customers rudely, insulting and belittling them (such as calling Bart “the ugly kid”); at times under his breath, at other times in a conversational tone, and sometimes shouting the slurs to the (unseen) chef Salvatore (”Hey, Salvatore! Give the ugly kid a plate of the red crap!”). Luigi seems to have some connections to the mafia. Local gangster Fat Tony is a frequent customer at his restaurant, despite the fact that he was one of the targets of Fat Tony's plan to get rid of all other food retailers except Marge's. He does not actually speak Italian, only "fractured English" with a strong Italian accent, as did his parents. He says the phrase, "I guarantee," a lot.

Luigi may be an illegal immigrant because he disappeared during an immigration officer's introduction at Luigi's restaurant and took the citizenship exam with Apu.

When Homer was a food critic, he gave Luigi's eatery a poor review; in retaliation, Luigi hired a friend to place a horse's head in Homer's bed (a reference to The Godfather). Homer subsequently ate the head and gave it a bad review.

His one on-screen companion is Giuseppe the monkey.

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He can play the accordion.

Luigi's real hair.

In The Simpsons: Tapped Out (app for Android and iOS), Luigi has a slip of his tongue and reveals his true accent is British. He quickly realizes his mistake and returns to his Italian. He also reveals that his mother died from getting her mustache caught in a dough mixer.

Behind the Laughter

Luigi is a parody of the "Italian pasta/pizza chef" stereotype, but seems to be aware of his status as a stock character. His surname is a reference to the Italian food risotto. His name may also be a reference to inventor and musician Luigi Russolo. He also seems to be a parody of Tony from Lady and the Tramp and also sounds like Mario and Luigi of Super Mario Brothers.

Gallery

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

Appearances

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• Episode – "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"
• Episode – "Lady Bouvier's Lover"
• Episode – "Homie the Clown"
• Episode – "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds"
• Episode – "Team Homer"
• Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing"
• Episode – "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"
• Episode – "Lard of the Dance"
• Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XI" (image cameo)
• Episode – "A Tale of Two Springfields"
• Episode – "I Am Furious (Yellow)"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIV"
• Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner"
• Episode – "Large Marge"
• Episode – "The Wettest Stories Ever Told"
• Episode – "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play"
• Episode – "Homerazzi" (On a cover of an magazine)
• Episode – "Crook and Ladder"
• Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas"
• Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend"
• Episode – "Million Dollar Abie"
• Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style"
• Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony"
• Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises"
• Episode – "Bart's New Friend" (Billboard)
• Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
• Episode – "Halloween of Horror"
• Episode – "Much Apu About Something"
• Episode – "The Burns Cage"
• Episode – "Simprovised"
• Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used To Be"
• Episode – "Mr. Lisa's Opus"
• Episode – "Gone Boy"
• Episode – "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
• Episode – "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh"
• Episode – "The Fat Blue Line"
• Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill"
• Episode – "Screenless"
• Episode – "The Wayz We Were"
• Episode – "A Made Maggie"
• Episode – "The Many Saints of Springfield"
• Episode – "Pin Gal"
• Episode – "Lisa Gets an F1"
• Episode – "Night of the Living Wage"
• Episode – "Bart's Brain"
• – The Simpsons Movie
• Video game – The Simpsons Game
• Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out

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	Absent	Minor	Absent
"Lady Bouvier's Lover":	"Secrets of a Successful Marriage":
Minor	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	Absent	Absent	Minor
"Bart vs. Australia":	"Homer vs. Patty and Selma":	"A Star is Burns":	"Lisa's Wedding":	"Two Dozen and One Greyhounds":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Minor
"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	Minor	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	Cameo	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	Absent	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	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Wild Barts Can't Be Broken":	"Sunday, Cruddy Sunday":	"Homer to the Max":	"I'm with Cupid":	"Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"":
Absent	Absent	Absent	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	Cameo	Absent
"Monty Can't Buy Me Love":	"They Saved Lisa's Brain":	"Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo":
Absent	Absent	Absent