Marcus Le Marquez

Marcus Le Marquez
Character Information
Gender	Male ♂
Status	Alive
Alias(es)	Marbles
Hair Color	Black
Occupation	Jazz Musician
Relations	Ex-wife: Unnamed (deceased)
Behind the Scenes
First appearance	Jazzy and the Pussycats
Voiced by	Hank Azaria

Marcus Le Marquez is a jazz player, double bass player, who appears in The Simpsons in the 18th season episode "Jazzy and the Pussycats"; in which Lisa takes Bart to play drums at Jazzy Goodtime's, a concert hall that serves meals. On this day there is a children's brunch with jazz performances. Marcus and his friend Defonzo Palmer, leader of the band Skinny Palmer Trio, see Bart play and want him for a musical improvisation, to the despair of Lisa who always dreamed of playing with these artists.

Musicians satisfied with Bart's "tic tock" invite him to join the group. The new trio is successful and Bart appears on magazine covers. Days later the boy takes his friends to celebrate, to have a smoke in the attic of the house, but Lisa had filled the place with several animals that she "adopted". That night the animals make a noise and Lisa will try to calm them down before her parents find out, getting there she sees Bart and asks what he does there. Bart replies that he was not smoking. Marcus and Defonzo appear and Marcus says that no one there was smoking a joint.

However, still in the attic, Defonzo accidentally drops a tiger cub near Bart, who ends up getting several bites on his right arm. Bart is hospitalized, Dr. Hibbert says he will recover but will never play the drums again. In fact, afterwards Bart returns to Jazzy Goodtime's to play and stay with the trio, but he can't. Marcus suggests that he do arthroscopic microsurgery; Bart replies that this surgery is very expensive, 78,000 $, but Marcus guarantees that with a charity show they get that money and Defonzo thinks the idea is very good.

The benefit show takes place and many jazz stars participate; Bart receives the money raised but, to everyone's surprise, passes all the money on to build a shelter for abandoned animals, in honor of Lisa. The episode ends with Marcus and Defonzo planning (another) benefit show. Defonzo asks if he is still married to Marcus' sister, but Marcus replies that she is already deceased.

Appearances

• Episode – "Jazzy and the Pussycats"
• – The Simpsons Movie
• Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out

The Simpsons: Season Eighteen
"The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer":	"Jazzy and the Pussycats":	"Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em":	"Treehouse of Horror XVII":	"G.I. D'oh":
Absent	Major	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Moe'N'a Lisa":	"Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)":	"The Haw-Hawed Couple":	"Kill Gil, Volumes I & II":	"The Wife Aquatic":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times":	"Little Big Girl":	"Springfield Up":	"Yokel Chords":	"Rome-Old and Julie-Eh":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Homerazzi":	"Marge Gamer":	"The Boys of Bummer":	"Crook and Ladder":	"Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"24 Minutes":	"You Kent Always Say What You Want":
Absent	Absent

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