Sam (barfly)

"Sam" redirects here. For other uses of Sam see Sam (disambiguation).

Sam
Gender/Sex
Status
AKA	Herbert Dingleton
Hair Color	Gray
Occupation	Target store employee
Relations	Wife: Unnamed
First episode appearance	"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
Portrayed by	Hank Azaria Dan Castellaneta (The Simpsons Game)

"Okay, okay."

―Sam

Sam is one of the two barflies who's usually seen at Moe's Tavern, along with his late barfly friend, Larry. Their first appearance is in "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". Virtually nothing is known about Sam. He always wears a light green cap and glasses and appears to have severe scoliosis. Sam is a wife dodger, but Homer says good things about him. Sam is 42, just like Larry. Sometimes his cap may have some writing on it, as in "The 7 Beer Itch", it was dusted off to reveal a fire chief cap.

In "Worst Episode Ever", Moe instructs him to "get out, and take your Sacagawea dollars with you" before giving him one out of a promised three seconds after which he appears to shoot him to the apathy of the fellow barflies; however, Sam has appeared alive and well since.

Sam very rarely talks, but when he does, he makes it count. In "When Flanders Failed", he is passed by Bart at the mall apparently engaging in either phone sex or consensual relations, stating over the phone in a suave voice, "Baby".

Sam's victory pose

He speaks again in "Lisa the Greek" where he believes that Homer literally bet his daughter on a football game and then remarks "Wow! What a gambler!" In "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment", he is briefly seen without his cap. In "Bart's Dog Gets an F", he is seen with his dog.

Sam had another brief speaking role in "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)". When Homer goes to Moe's Tavern in hopes of finding his real soul mate (which he called Barney, who says he's more of a chum), rather than saying they're soul mates, each of the patrons there give him one word answers of what they are to him. In Sam's case, he replies "sympathizer".

Another instance where Sam talked again was at the end of "Waiting for Duffman". Homer had just sat down thinking about his experience of briefly being Duffman, Sam was lying drunk on the counter next to him until he woke up hungover. Sam proceeded saying to Homer in a drunken manner, "Hey hey, yo-yo-you used to be Duffman, can I get a picture with you?" before falling back to sleep. Because of the little recognition that Sam gave to Homer, he finally felt appreciated for being a "has been".

At the end of the episode "Gal of Constant Sorrow", Sam is seen going through rehab with others like Krusty, Disco Stu, and the Sea Captain. It may be implied that Sam was there to get cured from being an alcoholic as Barney was also present. Although his rehabilitation didn't take effect as he and everyone in the rehab center had escaped to Moe's Tavern to start drinking again. Sam was also seen having a drink with Dr. Hibbert's wife Bernice, as they seem to know each other.

During the flashback of Homer and Marge in "3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage", a much younger and lively Sam is seen enjoying the performance that Moe is putting on at the roller disco. This younger Sam sports a purple cap and has much longer hair than he does now, he also wears a grey-green jacket and looks very hip with proper 1970s attire. While Homer and Marge are twirling, Sam is seen in the background briefly with a woman, this could presumably be his girlfriend and soon to be wife if this is the case.

In the episode "Flanders' Ladder", Sam had died and turned into a ghost in Bart's coma when Moe had served him, Barney, and Larry lacquer instead of liquor.

Sam sharing a drink with Larry.

He is also a customer at La Maison Derrière.

Appearances

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• Episode – "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
• Episode – "Homer's Odyssey"
• Episode – "Moaning Lisa"
• Episode – "The Telltale Head"
• Episode – "Some Enchanted Evening"
• Episode – "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"
• Episode – "Dancin' Homer"
• Episode – "Bart the Daredevil"
• Episode – "Bart Gets Hit by a Car"
• Episode – "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"
• Episode – "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"
• Episode – "Principal Charming"
• Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
• Episode – "Bart's Dog Gets an F"
• Episode – "The War of the Simpsons"
• Episode – "Three Men and a Comic Book"
• Episode – "Blood Feud"
• Episode – "Stark Raving Dad"
• Episode – "When Flanders Failed"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II"
• Episode – "Flaming Moe's"
• Episode – "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"
• Episode – "Lisa the Greek"
• Episode – "Dog of Death"
• Episode – "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"
• Episode – "Homer the Heretic"
• Episode – "New Kid on the Block"
• Episode – "Mr. Plow"
• Episode – "Homer's Triple Bypass"
• Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail"
• Episode – "Duffless"
• Episode – "Last Exit to Springfield"
• Episode – "Marge on the Lam"
• Episode – "Bart's Inner Child"
• Episode – "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"
• Episode – "Sideshow Bob Roberts"
• Episode – "Fear of Flying"
• Episode – "Lisa on Ice"
• Episode – "Homer Loves Flanders"
• Episode – "Bart Sells His Soul"
• Episode – "Lisa the Vegetarian"
• Episode – "Lisa the Iconoclast"
• Episode – "Bart on the Road"
• Episode – "22 Short Films About Springfield"
• Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing"
• Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)"
• Episode – "The Springfield Files"
• Episode – "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious"
• Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns"
• Episode – "Bart After Dark"
• Episode – "A Milhouse Divided"
• Episode – "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"
• Episode – "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment"
• Episode – "Grade School Confidential"
• Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"
• Episode – "The Cartridge Family"
• Episode – "Lisa the Simpson"
• Episode – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons"
• Episode – "The Last Temptation of Krust"
• Episode – "Dumbbell Indemnity"
• Episode – "Homer to the Max"
• Episode – "The Old Man and the "C" Student"
• Episode – "They Saved Lisa's Brain"
• Episode – "E-I-E-I-D'oh"
• Episode – "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"
• Episode – "Faith Off"
• Episode – "Pygmoelian"
• Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger"
• Episode – "Worst Episode Ever"
• Episode – "Simpsons Tall Tales"
• Episode – "The Frying Game"
• Episode – "The Strong Arms of the Ma"
• Episode – "Pray Anything"
• Episode – "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can"
• Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo"
• Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War"
• – The Simpsons Movie
• Episode – "Midnight Towboy"
• Episode – "Papa Don't Leech"
• Episode – "Boy Meets Curl"
• Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dream"
• Episode – "Love is a Many Strangled Thing"
• Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch"
• Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed"
• Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"
• Episode – "At Long Last Leave"
• Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School"
• Episode – "Whiskey Business"
• Episode – "The Saga of Carl"
• Episode – "The Simpsons Guy"
• Episode – "Waiting for Duffman"
• Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow" (Epilogue)
• Episode – "The Burns Cage" (Seen in the school auditorium)
• Episode – "Simprovised"
• Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus"
• Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII"
• Episode – "The Cad and the Hat"
• Episode – "Dogtown"
• Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be"
• Episode – "Gone Boy"
• Episode – "Forgive and Regret"
• Episode – "Flanders' Ladder"
• Episode – "'Tis the 30th Season"
• Episode – "I'm Dancing As Fat As I Can"
• Episode – "Gorillas on the Mast"
• Episode – "Frinkcoin"
• Episode – "Bart the Bad Guy"
• Episode – "The 7 Beer Itch"
• Episode – "Podcast News"
• Episode – "Diary Queen"
• Episode – "Yokel Hero"
• Episode – "The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A."
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXII"
• Episode – "A Serious Flanders: Part One"
• Episode – "Pretty Whittle Liar"
• Episode – "Poorhouse Rock"
• Episode – "One Angry Lisa"
• Episode – "From Beer to Paternity"
• Episode – "Homer's Crossing"
• Episode – "It's a Blunderful Life"
• Music video – "Deep, Deep Trouble"
• Video game – The Simpsons Game
• Video game – The Simpsons Tapped Out

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	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"Moaning Lisa":	"The Call of the Simpsons":	"The Telltale Head":	"Life on the Fast Lane":	"Homer's Night Out":
Cameo	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"The Crepes of Wrath":	"Krusty Gets Busted":	"Some Enchanted Evening":
Absent	Absent	Cameo

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)":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo
"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":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	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":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo
"Treehouse of Horror V":	"Bart's Girlfriend":	"Lisa on Ice":	"Homer Badman":	"Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy":
Absent	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"Fear of Flying":	"Homer the Great":	"And Maggie Makes Three":	"Bart's Comet":	"Homie the Clown":
Cameo	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	Cameo	Absent	Cameo	Absent
"The PTA Disbands":	"'Round Springfield":	"The Springfield Connection":	"Lemon of Troy":	"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	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	Absent	Cameo	Cameo
"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	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Lisa The Iconoclast":	"Homer The Smithers":	"The Day The Violence Died":	"A Fish Called Selma":	"Bart on the Road":
Cameo	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Cameo
"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":
Cameo	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent

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":
Cameo	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Cameo
"Bart Star":	"The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons":	"Lisa the Skeptic":	"Realty Bites":	"Miracle on Evergreen Terrace":
Absent	Cameo	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"All Singing, All Dancing":	"Bart Carny":	"The Joy of Sect":	"Das Bus":	"The Last Temptation of Krust":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo
"Dumbbell Indemnity":	"Lisa the Simpson":	"This Little Wiggy":	"Simpson Tide":	"The Trouble with Trillions":
Cameo	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Girly Edition":	"Trash of the Titans":	"King of the Hill":	"Lost Our Lisa":	"Natural Born Kissers":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Gallery

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