Richard

For others named Richard, see Richard (disambiguation).

Richard
Gender/Sex
Status
Hair Color	Gray (sometimes light blue)
Occupation	Student
Relations	Grandparents: Richard's Grandfather and Richard's Grandmother Mother: Richard's Mother Father: Richard's father
First episode appearance	"Bart the Genius"
Portrayed by	Jo Ann Harris Nancy Cartwright Pamela Hayden

"This get's uglier every year, any sign of Bart and Milhouse?"

―Richard

"We're never gonna get anything past Principal Skinner."

―Richard

Richard is a student at Springfield Elementary School and one of Bart's friends. He is the best friend of Lewis.

Biography

Richard appears frequently in events involving the Springfield children. After school as shown in the second and third opening sequence, he often participates in the school band and plays catch with Milhouse and Lewis. In earlier seasons, he, along with Lewis, was commonly seen hanging out with Bart and Milhouse and was considered to be one of Bart's best friends, often hanging out with them and getting involved in his mischief. However, as Bart's time with Milhouse increased and as Nelson went from being an antagonist to a friend of Bart, Richard became far less often seen with Bart and was relegated to a background character who rarely speaks.

He usually wears a blue leather jacket. His hair usually stays gray, but for unknown reasons it will sometimes randomly be brown, black, blonde, and others. Also for some reason, his eyes are normally squinted, giving him something of an Asian appearance. This was later confirmed to be untrue, in "Duffless", Principal Skinner mentioned that the school had no Asian kids. (Although this was stated in Bart's dream sequence, so it may not be a fact.)

Richard doesn't appear to be a very good student, for in the opening of the episode "Bart Gets a "Z"", Mrs. Krabappel gave him an F in his Math exam. He also was involved with Bart's mischievous deeds and was part of the fourth graders that were going to brawl with the fifth graders. He was also seen strangling Ralph in one episode, which showed his wild personality that episode was "Skinner's Sense of Snow".

Appearance

He often appears to have a smug or squinted expression on his face. In some episodes, he has blonde hair in the background.

Non-Canon Appearances

The contents of this article or section are considered to be non-canon and therefore may not have actually happened/existed.

Future

He is seen dancing with Allison Taylor at the school prom in the episode, "Future-Drama".

Treehouse of Horror series

In the final segment of "Treehouse of Horror XIX", he is dancing at the Halloween party at Springfield Elementary School.

Gallery

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

Appearances

Note: Many of his appearances are brief, background roles. Episodes in which he has an actual role are in bold.

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• Episode – "Bart the Genius" (Debut episode)
• Episode – "Homer's Odyssey"
• Episode – "Bart the General"
• Episode – "Moaning Lisa"
• Episode – "The Telltale Head"
• Episode – "Homer's Night Out"
• Episode – "The Crepes of Wrath"
• Episode – "Bart Gets an "F""
• Episode – "Bart the Daredevil"
• Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge"
• Episode – "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"
• Episode – "Principal Charming"
• Episode – "Lisa's Substitute"
• Episode – "The War of the Simpsons"
• Episode – "Three Men and a Comic Book"
• Episode – "When Flanders Failed"
• Episode – "Bart the Murderer"

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II"

• Episode – "Saturdays of Thunder"
• Episode – "Flaming Moe's"
• Episode – "Radio Bart"
• Episode – "Pin Gal"
• Episode – "Homer Alone"
• Episode – "Separate Vocations"
• Episode – "Bart's Friend Falls in Love"
• Episode – "Kamp Krusty"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror III" (opening, wraparounds)
• Episode – "Marge Gets a Job"
• Episode – "Mr. Plow"
• Episode – "Homer's Triple Bypass"
• Episode – "Brother from the Same Planet" (Riding in the back of a truck with Milhouse and Lewis)
• Episode – "I Love Lisa"
• Episode – "Whacking Day"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IV" ("Terror at 5½ Feet")
• Episode – "Bart's Inner Child"
• Episode – "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood"
• Episode – "The Last Temptation of Homer"
• Episode – "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"
• Episode – "Bart Gets Famous"
• Episode – "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"
• Episode – "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy" (Among the kids gathered in Bart's treehouse)
• Episode – "Homer vs. Patty and Selma"
• Episode – "Lisa's Wedding"
• Episode – "Team Homer"
• Episode – "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"" (In Bart's class)
• Episode – "Lisa's Date with Density" (In the school's hallway with other kids)
• Episode – "Hurricane Neddy" (Among the crowd cheering on Ned when he exits the mental institution)
• Episode – "Homer's Phobia" (In the Simpsons' basement)
• Episode – "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" (Among the boys cheering on Bart at the St. Patrick's Day parade)
• Episode – "Grade School Confidential" (In Bart's class)
• Episode – "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" (On a field trip at the police station)
• Episode – "Bart Carny" (At the carnival)
• Episode – "Bart Star"
• Episode – "This Little Wiggy" (In Bart's Class)
• Episode – "Simpson Tide"
• Episode – "Girly Edition" (On the school's playground and in the newsroom of a t.v. station)
• Episode – "King of the Hill" (At the church picnic playing Capture the Flag)
• Episode – "Lisa Gets an "A"" (In Bart's class)
• Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" (In the neighborhood, throwing a frisbee)
• Episode – "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday" (On a field trip at the post office)
• Episode – "Simpsons Bible Stories" (Among the Hebrew slaves)
• Episode – "The Old Man and the "C" Student" (On the bus)
• Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" (On the field at the Springfield Shopper)
• Episode – "Take My Wife, Sleaze" (In Bart's class)
• Episode – "Grift of the Magi" (Seen in Bart's class)
• Episode – "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" (Seen in Bart's class)
• Episode – "Homer vs. Dignity" (Among the spectators at the parade)
• Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow" (In Bart's class and the cafeteria)
• Episode – "Worst Episode Ever" (In the comic book store reading a comic)
• Episode – "Hungry, Hungry Homer" (In Bart's class)
• Episode – "Bye Bye Nerdie" (In Bart's class)
• Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod"
• Episode – "Brawl in the Family" (On the school's jungle gym)
• Episode – "The Lastest Gun in the West" (On the school's playground)
• Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" (In Bart's class)
• Episode – "Large Marge" (Among the kids gathered at the school's kiddie carousel)
• Episode – "Special Edna" (Seen in Bart's class)
• Episode – "The President Wore Pearls"
• Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays"
• Episode – "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times"
• Episode – "My Fair Laddy"
• Episode – "We're on the Road to D'oh-where" (Appeared in the hallway and class)
• Episode – "Girls Just Want to Have Sums"
• 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 having his backpack checked)
• 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 – "The Debarted"
• Episode – "Little Orphan Millie"
• Episode – "Lost Verizon"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX"
• Episode – "Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words" (Lemonade stand)
• Episode – "The Burns and the Bees"
• Episode – "How the Test Was Won"
• Episode – "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly"
• Episode – "Father Knows Worst"
• Episode – "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh"
• Episode – "Homer the Whopper"
• Episode – "Bart Gets a "Z""
• Episode – "The Great Wife Hope"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX"
• Episode – "The Devil Wears Nada"
• Episode – "Pranks and Greens"
• Episode – "Postcards From the Wedge" (Seen in Bart's class)
• Episode – "Stealing First Base" (Seen in Bart's class, Mrs. McConnell's class, the hallway, and at the playground)
• Episode – "The Bob Next Door" (School bus)
• Episode – "Loan-a Lisa" (Among the patrons outside Nelson's bike company)
• Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life" (Seen at the playground)
• Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget" (Among several other 4th Graders that were participating in the fight against the 5th Graders)
• Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch" (In the gymnasium)
• Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" (Running in the school's hallway with Lewis)
• Episode – "Replaceable You" (Seen in Martin's imagination and at school)
• Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson" (With Ted Nugent)
• Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network" (Playground)
• Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises" (Cafeteria, boy's bathroom, and Willie's shed)
• Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me" (In Bart's class)
• Episode – "To Cur, with Love" (School bus)
• Episode – "A Test Before Trying" (Seen in Bart's class and at the school)
• Episode – "Dark Knight Court"
• Episode – "What Animated Women Want"
• 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. Krabappel'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 – "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee" (Appeared in the gymnasium)
• Episode – "Luca$" (Cafeteria)
• Episode – "What to Expect When Bart's Expecting" (School bus and Art class)
• Episode – "Brick Like Me"
• Episode – "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge" (Field day)
• Episode – "Clown in the Dumps" (Krustylu Studios)
• Episode – "Simpsorama" (Class)
• Episode – "Blazed and Confused" (Class)
• Episode – "Bart's New Friend" (Playground)
• Episode – "The Musk Who Fell to Earth" (School entrance)
• Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
• Episode – "Peeping Mom" (Class and playground)
• Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot" (Milhouse's birthday party, airport)
• Episode – "Bull-E" (School dance)
• Episode – "Mathlete's Feat" (Class)
• Episode – "Cue Detective" (School Auditorium)
• Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow" (Black & White photo montage)
• Episode – "Lisa the Veterinarian" (Chlorine Dreams Indoor Water Park with blonde hair)
• Episode – "The Burns Cage"
• Episode – "Simprovised" (Ralph's birthday party)
• Episode – "Orange is the New Yellow"
• Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII" (Dry Hard, BFF R.I.P.)
• Episode – "There Will Be Buds" (Field)
• Episode – "The Last Traction Hero" (School bus)
• Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror"
• Episode – "I, Carumbus"
• Episode – "Podcast News"
• Episode – "Three Dreams Denied"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXII" (Dead Ringer)
• Episode – "Pin Gal"
• Episode – "Bart's Birthday"
• Music video – "Deep, Deep Trouble"
• Music video – "Do the Bartman"
• Video game – The Simpsons: Hit & Run
• Comic book – Bart's Junior Camper Demerit Badge Manual
• Comic book – The Kiss of Blecch!
• Comic book – Easy Writer
• 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 – I'm Lisa Simpson, Who the Heck are You?
• Comic book – New Girl in Town
• Comic book – That's Hairable!
• Comic book – Wall or Nothing
• Comic book – Cool Hand Bart

The Simpsons: Season One
"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire":	"Bart the Genius":	"Homer's Odyssey":	"There's No Disgrace Like Home":	"Bart the General":
Absent	Minor	Cameo	Absent	Cameo
"Moaning Lisa":	"The Call of the Simpsons":	"The Telltale Head":	"Life on the Fast Lane":	"Homer's Night Out":
Cameo	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Cameo
"The Crepes of Wrath":	"Krusty Gets Busted":	"Some Enchanted Evening":
Minor	Absent	Absent

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	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo
"Homer the Vigilante":	"Bart Gets Famous":	"Homer and Apu":	"Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy":	"Deep Space Homer":
Absent	Cameo	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	Cameo	Absent
"Lady Bouvier's Lover":	"Secrets of a Successful Marriage":
Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Six
"Bart of Darkness":	"Lisa's Rival":	"Another Simpsons Clip Show":	"Itchy & Scratchy Land":	"Sideshow Bob Roberts":
Cameo	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Cameo
"Treehouse of Horror V":	"Bart's Girlfriend":	"Lisa on Ice":	"Homer Badman":	"Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy":
Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	Absent	Cameo
"Fear of Flying":	"Homer the Great":	"And Maggie Makes Three":	"Bart's Comet":	"Homie the Clown":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo	Absent
"Bart vs. Australia":	"Homer vs. Patty and Selma":	"A Star is Burns":	"Lisa's Wedding":	"Two Dozen and One Greyhounds":
Absent	Minor	Absent	Absent	Absent
"The PTA Disbands":	"'Round Springfield":	"The Springfield Connection":	"Lemon of Troy":	"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)":
Cameo	Cameo	Absent	Cameo	Cameo

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	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	Absent
"Treehouse of Horror VI":	"King-Size Homer":	"Mother Simpson":	"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming":	"The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Marge Be Not Proud":	"Team Homer":	"Two Bad Neighbors":	"Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield":	"Bart the Fink":
Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Lisa The Iconoclast":	"Homer The Smithers":	"The Day The Violence Died":	"A Fish Called Selma":	"Bart on the Road":
Cameo	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	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo

The Simpsons: Season Nine
"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson":	"The Principal and the Pauper":	"Lisa's Sax":	"Treehouse of Horror VIII":	"The Cartridge Family":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Bart Star":	"The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons":	"Lisa the Skeptic":	"Realty Bites":	"Miracle on Evergreen Terrace":
Cameo	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"All Singing, All Dancing":	"Bart Carny":	"The Joy of Sect":	"Das Bus":	"The Last Temptation of Krust":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Dumbbell Indemnity":	"Lisa the Simpson":	"This Little Wiggy":	"Simpson Tide":	"The Trouble with Trillions":
Absent	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"Girly Edition":	"Trash of the Titans":	"King of the Hill":	"Lost Our Lisa":	"Natural Born Kissers":
Cameo	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":
Cameo	Cameo	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	Cameo	Absent	Cameo	Absent
"Wild Barts Can't Be Broken":	"Sunday, Cruddy Sunday":	"Homer to the Max":	"I'm with Cupid":	"Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"":
Cameo	Cameo	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	Cameo	Absent	Cameo
"Monty Can't Buy Me Love":	"They Saved Lisa's Brain":	"Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo":
Absent	Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Eleven
"Beyond Blunderdome":	"Brother's Little Helper":	"Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?":	"Treehouse of Horror X":	"E-I-E-I-D'oh":
Absent	Cameo	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder":	"Eight Misbehavin'":	"Take My Wife, Sleaze":	"Grift of the Magi":	"Little Big Mom":
Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	Cameo	Absent
"Faith Off":	"The Mansion Family":	"Saddlesore Galactica":	"Alone Again, Natura-Diddily":	"Missionary: Impossible":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Pygmoelian":	"Bart to the Future":	"Days of Wine and D'oh'ses":	"Kill the Alligator and Run":	"Last Tap Dance in Springfield":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge":	"Behind the Laughter":
Cameo	Absent