Simpsons Histories - Cletus
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Published 2023-11-29
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All Comments (21)
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I was surprised Cletus ended up being one of the longer Simpsons Histories. I think it's a combination of having a surprising number of spotlight episodes, as well as a lot of specific family details. I thought about doing a Simpsons Mysteries about his kids but decided manually counting them would be kinda boring. Also please pardon a few fuzzy images in here, it looks like something weird happened during the YouTube render 🤔
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I love when Cletus is suddenly and randomly articulate. Like when he throws the boots back to "await a woman of less discriminating taste" or how home schooling the kids "is a lesson in futility"
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I am shocked that Lenny and Carl have not yet gotten a Simpsons Histories yet. Homer's oldest and most loyal friends.
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The fact that Jim fully committed to the naming Cletus' kids gag rather than cutting it off is both hilarious and admirable.
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Blue Haired Lawyer is an interesting pick. He's been all over the place in terms of competency.
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You know TheRealJims is the real deal when he names each of Cletus' children one-by-one
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I’ll never forgive Cletus for sidelining Lenny’s role of distracting the villain in the Simpsons movie
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Some folk'll never eat a skunk But then again, some folk'll Like Cletus, the slack-jawed yokel!
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I have always been a fan of Stabbed-in-Jail Spuckler. The delivery on "we'll see who stabs who" gets me every time
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Squeaky Voiced Teen is absolutely needed. They changed this guy’s design so much in the earlier seasons that it would become a Simpsons Mysteries quite quickly.
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5:33 - regarding the whole "Cletus is secretly wealthy" thing, there's actually a quest in Simpsons Tapped Out that gives some interesting merit to that, even if it's canonicity is questionable It's revealed Cletus's family has a longrunning family feud with Mr Burns of all people, which had it's roots in Civil War era politics, but after the Spucklers lost their railroad business, they ended up liking their country hick lifestyle more than that of a stuffy aristocrat. Interesting food for thought
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I love how 22 short films treats Cletus like he’s a strongly established character that some “folk’ll” love and have made a fanbase around, despite the fact that he only had like 4 prominent roles as a background character at that point, and that’s made extremely obvious in the his title sequence. I think you could argue that was the intention of 22 short films: to basically turn Cletus into a character overnight by treating him as someone who was firmly established already. Even if he wasn’t
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I love "Bart the Elephant". Second favorite episode after "Homer gets a Smithers".
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Please do Bumblebee Man. He's such an odd and random character, it would be interesting to know his complete history and usage on the show. Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney would also be interesting since they've been on the show since season 1 and the show has done a lot of different things with them.
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I definitely want a Lindsey Nagle. I think she’s a really interesting issues character
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4:00 I think this joke would have been even funnier if he had come out asking for 27 free pretzels, with Marge saying one per customer and he then would have called out his 25 kids each holding a coupon.
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Love this series. I remember being so confused about Cletus's appearance in 22 short films of springfields when i was a kid, but dying laughing watching it now. Throwing my hat in for blue haired lawyer or that squeaky voiced teen.
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I just love that he got his own theme song.
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Rarely does a day go by where I don’t randomly think “I can’t, I simple can’t”, or “Hey Ma! Get off the dang roof!” Legend
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For a future episode, I'll keep recommending Comic Book Guy: probably one of the characters who changed the most thoughout the years as geek culture became more mainstream and how he reflected that.
