Simpson family

The Simpson family are an American family based in Springfield and its tri-city area.^[1]

Though not a hugely wealthy family, multiple members had confronted Springfield's most powerful man and Homer Simpson's boss, Charles Montgomery Burns,^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] (though Burns also respected Abraham "Grampa" Simpson in his role as 1950s heel wrestler Glamorous Godfrey),^[8] and had a significant impact, both on Mr. Burns's life and elsewhere.^[9] Homer Simpson have had success as a musician when he was younger,^[10]^[11] was a talent agent,^[12] and a successful talk show host,^[13]^[14] had caused massive environmental crises from neglect,^[15]^[16] and financially ruined his half-brother Herb Powell's automobile company Powell Motors^[17] and the Groovy Grove Juice Corporation.^[18] Bart Simpson was a child star,^[19] and Bart and Lisa had written popular cartoons.^[20]^[21] According to Homer, "The Simpson family is a long line of horse thieves, deadbeats, horse beats, dead thieves, and even a few alcoholics."^[22]

History[]

The family in the Springfield area[]

Abraham "Grampa" Simpson was either an only child^[23]^[24] or one of at least 12 siblings.^[25] Grampa and his parents^[26] moved to the United States from the Old Country;^[24] his family eventually settling in Springfield's tri-city area.^[1] He mentioned a brother called Bill Simpson,^[27] and was implied to have brothers called Chet^[28] and Tyrone.^[29] Other relatives that lived in Springfield's tri-city area included Dr. Simpson and Stanley Simpson.^[1]

Grampa had two illegitimate children: Abbey, who was conceived and born in England,^[30] and Herb Powell, who was conceived at a local carnival and left at the Shelbyville Orphanage before moving to Detroit.^[17] He had a son called Homer, Abbey and Herb's half-brother, with his wife. While most accounts maintained Homer's mother was called Mona,^[7]^[31]^[32]^[33] one account identified her as Penelope Olsen.^[23] After Mona disappeared, Grampa married a singer called Rita LaFleur, but mainly raised Homer on his own after Rita began touring.^[34]

Homer married Marge Bouvier and had three children called Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.^[35] Homer also drunkenly and impulsively married Amber in Las Vegas.^[36]

Grampa Simpson's ancestors[]

There were conflicting accounts of Grampa Simpson's ancestry before he lived in Springfield. One family tree identified the earliest known Simpsons as Sven Simpson and Claretta Elridge, Grampa's great-great-great-great-grandparents and Homer's great-great-great-great-great-grandparents. They had two children. One of them, Rupert, married Winifred Running Goat and had five children. Two of them,Trixie, married a man from the Stemple Family. Garwood married Clowta Stillman, and they had four children, including Howland. Howland married Gabby Crouse and then he had five children, including Lou and "Old Tut". Lou married Zorina Ovadia and they had three children: Eckhardt, Bob and Twyla. Eckhardt married Griselda Johnson and four children named Verna, Vern, Eckhardt II, and Lotus. "Old Tut" Simpson married "Happy" Dinsdale and they had four children, including Grampa Simpson's father Orville.^[23]

However in one episode, the earliest progenitors called Simpson were Grampa's great-great-grandparents, Virgil and Mabel Simpson, neither of whom were born with the name Simpson. Mabel was previously married to Hiram Simpson and had a daughter called Eliza. In 1860, Mabel fled the United States to Canada with a freed slave called Virgil. She divorced Hiram, but as Virgil had no last name, he took the name Simpson when Mabel married him and they had a son called Abraham (Grampa's great-grandfather and Homer's great-great-grandfather). Eliza married Milford Van Houten.^[22]

In another instance, when Lisa said the Simpson family immigrated to America, Grampa responded that "The Simpsons' story begins back in the Old Country," suggesting that Grampa and his father's generations were the earliest Simpsons to live in America.^[24]

Other ancestors were Bart-Beard the Pirate, Abigail Simpson (the Pittsburgh Poisoner), and Adam and Eve Simpson (aka Julius and Ethel Rosenberg).^[22]

Intelligence[]

According to Abe Simpson, a member of the Simpson family's intelligence is reduced over time, although this only happens to male members of the Simpson family. Herb Powell appears to be the only exception, as he has shown signs of intelligence, as this is due to him being adopted.

Although reduced intelligence only affects male members of the Simpson family, Abbey is the only exception, as she has inherited almost all of her half-brother Homer Simpson's characteristics.

Furthermore, the reduction in intelligence may only be exclusive to Homer Simpson's family, as it appears that it does not affect Marge Simpson's family.

Family members not part of canon[]

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

Treehouse of Horror[]

Hugo Simpson is Bart's conjoined twin who were surgically separated shortly after birth.^[37]

It turns out in a flashback to Maggie's birth that Marge really gave birth to another son, but Homer got Dr. Hibbert to swap him for a newborn baby girl without Marge's knowledge. Dr. Hibbert warns Homer she tested positive for pure evil, but Homer just goes, "Still better than a boy."^[38]

Anthology episodes[]

Cyrus Simpson is Grampa Simpson's big brother.^[39]

Deleted scenes[]

The script from "Marge in Chains" when the rest of the family is sick with the Osaka Flu, Grampa calls them all babies because he lived through the Great Spanish Flu of 1918 and then a flashback to Grampa's boyhood with him and his mother.^[40]

Boxing Simpson ancestors Silas Simpson and Gentleman Jim Simpson were mentioned in a scene that was animated, but cut from "The Homer They Fall" although included with the extras on The Complete Eighth Season DVD.

Future[]

In one possible future, Bart married Jenda and had two children together, Jiff and Skippy. Lisa married Milhouse and had one child, Zia, although Zia only got Lisa's genes.^[41]

In some possible futures, Maggie has a daughter, Maggie, Jr.^[42]^[41]

In one possible future, a widowed Marge married Ned Flanders.^[43]

In one possible future, Zia has a daughter, unnamed daughter.^[44]

Simpsons Comics[]

In "A Trip to Simpsons Mountain" Grampa Simpson tells the family about when he still a little boy and known as Abe-Boy and a particular Christmas Eve during the Great Depression when he lived on Simpsons Mountain with his parents Abe and Olidia Simpson, six brothers and sisters Rube Ella, Luke, Jason, Tori-Mae, Lisa Marie and Baby Leroy and his grandparents Grandpa Zeke and Grandma Zza-Zza. Much of the story seems to be based on old TV shows with Bart pointing out his family had opening credits.

In "Call Me Homer" Grampa tells another story about his own great-great grandfather's high seas adventures when he joined the crew of a whaling ship out of Nantucket. All aboard were lost forever somewhere inside the Bermuda Triangle. Lisa points if nobody ever returned, how would anybody know this story also the similarity to between Grampa's great-great grandfather and Ishmael from Moby-Dick so everybody doubts the truthfulness of Grampa's story except Bart who later finds the harpoon from the story in the attic.

In "DNAIN'T Necessarily So" as part of her entry in the school science fair Lisa does a genetic test on samples from herself, Homer and Marge. When the results come back, she learns her biological mother is not Marge, but she is a 100% genetic match to a Dutchwoman named Greta Vanglooten and imagines herself in Dutch stereotype scenarios. She is also shocked that Homer test proves Homer is still her biological father. Only later does Lisa learn the sample she tested was not Marge's real hair, but a wig made in Holland by Greta Vanglooten.

In "Know It All in the Family" a Simpson family reunion is held in the backyard of 742 Evergreen Terrace. Many of the relatives from the episode "Lisa the Simpson" are seen and the theme of Simpson women being successful and the Simpson men are not. Simpson woman at the reunion include the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, brain surgery practice and pole-vaulter in Olympic training. Also overheard conversation as Marge walks around the serving food and drinks include "So I told the President, the way to handle Libya..." and another "...and then Stephen Hawkins said, "Can I steal your theory and put it in my new book."" A variety of Simpson women are there of who Lisa with same triangles hair and wearing pearls and similar lampshade dresses, but different heights and body types. the reunion ends with the Simpson men taken away in ambulances with trichinosis from their contest to see who can stuff the most pork chops in his mouth (Homer wins), but forgetting to cook the pork chops first.

Simpson family

History[]

The family in the Springfield area[]

Grampa Simpson's ancestors[]

Intelligence[]

Family members not part of canon[]

Treehouse of Horror[]

Anthology episodes[]

Deleted scenes[]

Future[]

Simpsons Comics[]

Family Member Gallery[]

The Simpson Family Tree[]

The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album continuity[]

TV series continuity[]

Non-canon family relations[]

Gallery[]

Citations[]