#Barney simpsons tv

He has a quavering, slightly broken voice and a distinctive loud belch (although he sings completely differently, having a beautiful 'Irish tenor' type voice), as well as a characteristic wandering eye. His desperation for alcohol has been the source of many jokes. His clothes and hair quickly began a mess and he ran out of Homer's house.īarney is almost always seen in Moe's Tavern, where he is a regular. After giving into Homer, Barney took his first sip and quickly downed the entire can. īefore Barney started drinking, he was a very intelligent young man, but while studying for the S.A.T.s Homer offered one of Abe's beers. īarney served in the United States Navy Reserve for a short time, as a submariner on the USS Jebediah with his own mother as his superior officer, although he briefly served in the U.S. Burns caused Moe's Tavern to close down and was shot later, Barney became a major suspect for shooting Burns after Burns blocked the sun (despite his easygoing nature, Barney apparently carries around a derringer at all times). Barney is seen driving his plow as the Plow King again in several occasions.

Homer ends up saving Barney, they become friends again and team up, only to find the snow melting (after Homer comments 'When two best friends team up, not even God himself can stop them.' To which a voice from the sky replies 'Oh, no?' and promptly beams down a ray of light to melt the snow), and Homer's truck repossessed. Homer eventually fools Barney into traveling to 'Forbidding Widows' Peak' to plow through the snow for a $10,000 bill, but is caught in an avalanche. He took away all Homer's customers and earned the key to Springfield (which was taken away from Homer). 'We've been looking for a project to do together for a while,' he explained. He even got Linda Ronstadt to sing on his commercials. Plow business to have his own snow removal service, calling himself the Plow King and buying a snow removal truck much bigger than Homer's. Black also hired Barney to act like Krusty the Clown for the campers at Kamp Krusty saying that Krusty has larangytis and a bad back(meaning he won't be saying or doing anything), although Bart was not fooled by his attempt at defaming Krusty (as Barney was poorly disguised as Krusty), and also ends up confirming Bart and the rest of the campers suspicions of Black just 'slapped a clown suit on some wine-o' by answering that he is 'Krunchy the Clown,' as well as declaring for Krusty's return (or as he calls him, 'Krunchy') īarney was inspired by Homer's Mr. Barney showed his artistic side again when he won top prize at the Springfield Film Festival for his moving documentary about his life as an alcoholic, unfortunately titled 'Puke-a-hontas'. Later on, with Homer, he was a member of The Be Sharps barbershop quartet, in which his stellar Irish singing voice was discovered. He used to have blond hair, but later dyed it brown.

#Barney simpsons tv

He took to drinking after his high-school sweetheart Chloe Talbot left Springfield to become a successful TV reporter. He was Harvard-bound until Homer introduced him to beer on the night before they had to take the SATs. Barney once had a near-death experience in which he expects to be reunited with 'my loved ones, my dad, and that plant I never watered, ' perhaps implying that he did not get along with his father, though this line could also be interpreted as Barney reuniting with his 'loved ones: my dad and that plant I never watered.' Īs a teenager, Barney showed much potential.

His father, Arnie Gumble, died in a 1979 parade float accident along with Sheldon Skinner, Iggy Wiggum, Etch Westgrin, and Griff McDonald, all of whom had served in Abe Simpson's WWII squad, the Flying Hellfish. Barney was born on April 20, sharing his birthday with Adolf Hitler.