“ | I said I don't want any damn vegetables! | „ |
~ Todd Flanders[src] |
Todd Homer[1] Flanders is the youngest son of Ned and Maude Flanders and a stepson to Edna Krabappel. He is the most impressionable and youngest member of the Flanders family. He wears brown shoes, bluish-green shorts, a pink polo shirt and sports the "Devil's Curly Hair".[2]
Biography[]
Todd is very impressionable, more so than Rod, his brother. In one episode, Todd himself starts to curse. An example would be after Todd heard Homer cursing, he had said "Hell, no" and "I said I don't want any damn vegetables" at the dinner table[3]. When Moe Szyslak loses his temper at Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag restaurant, Todd responds with "Ow, my freaking ears!"[4]. Due to relentless sheltering by his parents, whenever Todd comes into contact with anything outside his family and their pious ways, such as the time he and Rod were tricked into eating a Pixy Stix by Bart Simpson, he turns nasty, telling his older brother to "go to hell, zit-face", much to the delight of Bart [5]. He is often the only one of the Flanders' to question his faith, much to the chagrin of Ned. He typically dresses in shorts and on some occasions wears a floppy "newsboy" cap. After the death of Maude in a freak accident caused by Homer Simpson, Rod and Todd became somewhat withdrawn and even more religious; when Ned married Edna Krabappel, however, they began to act more like normal children. Both boys also spied on Bart and Lisa being bathed in the backyard of the Simpsons house, though they tried to deny it upon being spotted.
Todd can play the violin quite well and is a part of the Springfield Elementary School band. He also plays miniature golf quite well[6]. Both himself and Rod quote rhymes Ned has taught them such as 'Users are losers' and 'Smokers are Jokers'. Todd was born 2 years after Lisa Simpson, as shown in the 700th episode "Manger Things". That would make him 6-years-old in canon.
Flanders' Book of Faith reveals that he used to wet the bed relatively recently but doesn’t anymore.
Non-Canon Appearance[]
Future[]
In his teens, Todd falls in love with a woman named Jenda, who later dates Bart[7]. At age 40, Todd, with his brother, Rod, is hinted to be LGBT.[8] They live with their father, who uses his pension to pay for their estrogen treatments. At age 40, he and Rod still live with Ned and take care of him because his eyes fell out[9].
The Simpsons Game[]
Todd appears along with his brother Rod Flanders and Ralph Wiggum as Hobbit-like children who help Homer and Marge defeat the two-headed dragon in order to get the Keycard[10].
Treehouse of Horror series[]
In the first segment "Treehouse of Horror XXI", he is killed in one the board games.
Behind the Laughter[]
Age discrepancy[]
There is also some controversy as to which of the two is the elder. The commentator golf tournament states that Todd is 10. One of the corrections that the TV-magazine show Rock Bottom makes in the episode "Homer Badman" one of the corrections issued by the tabloid TV show "Rock Bottom" was "the older Flanders boy is Todd, not Rod". (Although this could have been included purely to stir up fans and part of the joke is how it was nearly impossible to read any of the corrections because of how fast the text scrolling past on the TV screen). Later, the Flanders family go out to eat at Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag for Rod's "big ten-o." In "My Sister, My Sitter" Todd ask Lisa to tell him and Rod a bedtime story about robots named Rod and Todd and Lisa starts off her story with a robot named Todd and "had a brother named Rod, who was two "space" years older than him."
As Rod is shown to be quite a bit taller than Todd, the claim that Todd is the older brother is disputed. In a flashback in the episode "Lisa's First Word" both Rod and Todd were walking and talking before Lisa was born (who is 8) with Todd appearing the same size and height as Bart who was entering "the terrible twos". In another flashback in the later episode "Manger Things" Todd is born after the Simpsons have moved in next door and Lisa was already walking and talking by the time he was born.
Despite these discrepancies, the Simpsons official website states that “Todd is the youngest and most impressionable member of the happy Flanders clan”. This seems to trump any inconsistency concerning age seen in the episodes. On the other hand, the character profile for Rod Flanders in The Simpsons: A Complete Guide To Our Favorite Family describes him as the "youngest of the Springfield Flanders.", but they have made a few mistakes in that book. Another possible reason for the variation is that, in the DVD commentaries for show, the writers have stated that they are never sure which Flanders sibling is Rod and which one is Todd and are often forced to check character models to be sure. According to the commentary, early show writers used two different mnemonics to identify the taller brother; first that Todd started with T and was Taller, or that Rod was long like a rod and hence taller.
Trivia[]
- Homer delivered Todd Flanders at the Flanders’ house.
- Along with his brother, his name rhymes with God in accents with the cot–caught merger.
- His voice sounds very similar to Ralph Wiggum.
Gallery[]
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Episode Appearances[]
Episode – "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire" (debut episode)
Episode – "The Call of the Simpsons"
Episode – "The Telltale Head"
Episode – "The Crepes of Wrath"
Episode – "Homer's Night Out"
Episode – "Bart Gets an "F""
Episode – "Simpson and Delilah"
Episode – "Dead Putting Society"
Episode – "Bart the Daredevil"
Episode – "Old Money" (mentioned in credits)
Episode – "Blood Feud"
Episode – "Stark Raving Dad"
Episode – "When Flanders Failed"
Episode – "Radio Bart"
Episode – "Bart's Friend Falls in Love"
Episode – "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"
Episode – "Kamp Krusty"
Episode – "A Streetcar Named Marge"
Episode – "Homer the Heretic"
Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror III" (picture; Dial "Z" for Zombies)
Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"
Episode – "Marge Gets a Job"
Episode – "New Kid on the Block"
Episode – "Lisa's First Word" (flashback)
Episode – "Homer's Triple Bypass"
Episode – "Selma's Choice"
Episode – "Brother from the Same Planet"
Episode – "I Love Lisa"
Episode – "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show" (pagan daydream)
Episode – "The Front"
Episode – "Whacking Day"
Episode – "Marge in Chains"
Episode – "Krusty Gets Kancelled"
Episode – "Bart's Inner Child"
Episode – "The Last Temptation of Homer"
Episode – "Homer Loves Flanders"
Episode – "A Star is Burns"
Episode – "Lemon of Troy"
Episode – "Bart Sells His Soul"
Episode – "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"
Episode – "Two Bad Neighbors"
Episode – "Summer of 4 Ft. 2"
Episode – "Hurricane Neddy"
Episode – "Homer's Phobia" (In the Simpsons' basement)
Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter"
Episode – "You Kent Always Say What You Want" (Appeared at Krustylu Studios)
– The Simpsons Movie
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI"
Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch"
Episode – "Dark Knight Court"
Episode – "The Fabulous Faker Boy"
Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" (Seen at church, the flashback to the peach parade, and the town square)
Episode – "Yellow Subterfuge" (Name on list)
Episode – "White Christmas Blues" (Seen at church)
Episode – "Brick Like Me"
Episode – "The Simpsons Guy"
Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship"
Episode – "I Won't Be Home for Christmas" (Mentioned)
Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
Episode – "My Fare Lady" (Carpooling with Helen Lovejoy)
Episode – "Sky Police"
Episode – "Waiting for Duffman" (Springcycle)
Episode – "Peeping Mom"
Episode – "The Kids Are All Fight" (Flashback)
Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot" (Todd's birthday party)
Episode – "Bull-E"
Episode – "Cue Detective" (School Auditorium)
Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow"
Episode – "The Marge-ian Chronicles"
Episode – "Fland Canyon"
Episode – "Simprovised" (Ralph's birthday party)
Episode – "Orange is the New Yellow" (Simpson house)
Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus"
Episode – "The Town"
Episode – "No Good Read Goes Unpunished"
Episode – "Flanders' Ladder"
Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven"
Episode – "Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy" (seen leaving convention center with Ned)
Episode – "Girl's in the Band"
Episode – "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion"
Episode – "Go Big or Go Homer"
Episode – "The Fat Blue Line"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXX"
Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill" (seen in crowd at school play)
Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror"
Episode – "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?"
Episode – "Frinkcoin"
Episode – "Bart the Bad Guy"
Episode – "Better Off Ned (episode)"
Episode – "Warrin' Priests (Part One)"
Episode – "Warrin' Priests (Part Two)"
Episode – "Podcast News"
Episode – "The Dad-Feelings Limited"
Episode – "Diary Queen"
Episode – "Manger Things"
Episode – "Uncut Femmes"
Episode – "Burger Kings"
Episode – "Mother and Child Reunion"
Episode – "A Serious Flanders: Part One"
Episode – "A Serious Flanders: Part Two"
Episode – "The Many Saints of Springfield"
Episode – "Pin Gal"
Episode – "The Very Hungry Caterpillars"
Music video – "Deep, Deep Trouble"
Commercials – "Crime of the Century"
Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out
Comic book – That's Hairable!
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": |
Minor | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Moaning Lisa": | "The Call of the Simpsons": | "The Telltale Head": | "Life on the Fast Lane": | "Homer's Night Out": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"The Crepes of Wrath": | "Krusty Gets Busted": | "Some Enchanted Evening": | ||
Absent | Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Two | ||||
"Bart Gets an "F"": | "Simpson and Delilah": | "Treehouse of Horror": | "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish": | "Dancin' Homer": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Dead Putting Society": | "Bart vs. Thanksgiving": | "Bart the Daredevil": | "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge": | "Bart Gets Hit by a Car": |
Major | Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent |
"One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish": | "The Way We Was": | "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment": | "Principal Charming": | "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Bart's Dog Gets an F": | "Old Money": | "Brush with Greatness": | "Lisa's Substitute": | "The War of the Simpsons": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Three Men and a Comic Book": | "Blood Feud": | |||
Absent | Cameo |
The Simpsons: Season Three | ||||
"Stark Raving Dad": | "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington": | "When Flanders Failed": | "Bart the Murderer": | "Homer Defined": |
Cameo | Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent |
"Like Father, Like Clown": | "Treehouse of Horror II": | "Lisa's Pony": | "Saturdays of Thunder": | "Flaming Moe's": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk": | "I Married Marge": | "Radio Bart": | "Lisa the Greek": | "Homer Alone": |
Absent | Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent |
"Bart the Lover": | "Homer at the Bat": | "Separate Vocations": | "Dog of Death": | "Colonel Homer": |
Minor | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Black Widower": | "The Otto Show": | "Bart's Friend Falls in Love": | "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?": | |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Minor |
The Simpsons: Season Four | ||||
"Kamp Krusty": | "A Streetcar Named Marge": | "Homer the Heretic": | "Lisa the Beauty Queen": | "Treehouse of Horror III": |
Absent | Absent | Minor | Cameo | Absent |
"Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie": | "Marge Gets a Job": | "New Kid on the Block": | "Mr. Plow": | "Lisa's First Word": |
Cameo | Absent | Absent | Absent | Minor |
"Homer's Triple Bypass": | "Marge vs. the Monorail": | "Selma's Choice": | "Brother from the Same Planet": | "I Love Lisa": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"Duffless": | "Last Exit to Springfield": | "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show": | "The Front": | "Whacking Day": |
Absent | Absent | Minor | Minor | Absent |
"Marge in Chains": | "Krusty Gets Kancelled": | |||
Minor | 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 | Minor | Absent | Cameo | 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": |
Major | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Lady Bouvier's Lover": | "Secrets of a Successful Marriage": | |||
Cameo | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Six | ||||
"Bart of Darkness": | "Lisa's Rival": | "Another Simpsons Clip Show": | "Itchy & Scratchy Land": | "Sideshow Bob Roberts": |
Minor | Cameo | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Treehouse of Horror V": | "Bart's Girlfriend": | "Lisa on Ice": | "Homer Badman": | "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy": |
Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Fear of Flying": | "Homer the Great": | "And Maggie Makes Three": | "Bart's Comet": | "Homie the Clown": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Minor | Absent |
"Bart vs. Australia": | "Homer vs. Patty and Selma": | "A Star is Burns": | "Lisa's Wedding": | "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds": |
Absent | Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent |
"The PTA Disbands": | "'Round Springfield": | "The Springfield Connection": | "Lemon of Troy": | "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)": |
Cameo | Absent | Absent | Major | 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 | Absent | Major | Minor | Cameo |
"Treehouse of Horror VI": | "King-Size Homer": | "Mother Simpson": | "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming": | "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent |
"Marge Be Not Proud": | "Team Homer": | "Two Bad Neighbors": | "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield": | "Bart the Fink": |
Absent | Minor | Minor | 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": |
Cameo | Voice only | Cameo | Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Eight | ||||
"Treehouse of Horror VII": | "You Only Move Twice": | "The Homer They Fall": | "Burns, Baby Burns": | "Bart After Dark": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent |
"A Milhouse Divided": | "Lisa's Date with Density": | "Hurricane Neddy": | "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)": | "The Springfield Files": |
Cameo | Cameo | Minor | Minor | Absent |
"The Twisted World of Marge Simpson": | "Mountain of Madness": | "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious": | "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": | "Homer's Phobia": |
Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent | Cameo |
"Brother from Another Series": | "My Sister, My Sitter": | "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment": | "Grade School Confidential": | "The Canine Mutiny": |
Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"The Old Man and the Lisa": | "In Marge We Trust": | "Homer's Enemy": | "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase": | "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | 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": |
Absent | Cameo | Minor | Minor | Absent |
"Bart Star": | "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons": | "Lisa the Skeptic": | "Realty Bites": | "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace": |
Cameo | Absent | Cameo | Minor | Cameo |
"All Singing, All Dancing": | "Bart Carny": | "The Joy of Sect": | "Das Bus": | "The Last Temptation of Krust": |
Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent | Minor |
"Dumbbell Indemnity": | "Lisa the Simpson": | "This Little Wiggy": | "Simpson Tide": | "The Trouble with Trillions": |
Absent | Cameo | Cameo | Absent | Minor |
"Girly Edition": | "Trash of the Titans": | "King of the Hill": | "Lost Our Lisa": | "Natural Born Kissers": |
Absent | Cameo | Cameo | Absent | Minor |
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": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"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 | Cameo | Minor |
"Wild Barts Can't Be Broken": | "Sunday, Cruddy Sunday": | "Homer to the Max": | "I'm with Cupid": | "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"": |
Minor | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Make Room for Lisa": | "Maximum Homerdrive": | "Simpsons Bible Stories": | "Mom and Pop Art": | "The Old Man and the "C" Student": |
Minor | Cameo | Cameo | Absent | Absent |
"Monty Can't Buy Me Love": | "They Saved Lisa's Brain": | "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo": | ||
Absent | Absent | Cameo |
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 | Absent | Cameo | Cameo |
"Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder": | "Eight Misbehavin'": | "Take My Wife, Sleaze": | "Grift of the Magi": | "Little Big Mom": |
Absent | Absent | Cameo | Cameo | Minor |
"Faith Off": | "The Mansion Family": | "Saddlesore Galactica": | "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily": | "Missionary: Impossible": |
Minor | Absent | Cameo | Minor | Absent |
"Pygmoelian": | "Bart to the Future": | "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses": | "Kill the Alligator and Run": | "Last Tap Dance in Springfield": |
Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge": | "Behind the Laughter": | |||
Cameo | Absent |