The+Spuckler+Family

//__ Cletus Spuckler and his family __//



// Cletus // Cletus Del Roy Spuckler is a good-natured stereotypical redneck, real “trailer trash”. He is about 35 years old, skinny with brown hair that’s shaved in the back and he has a snake tattooed on his arm. You often see him in a sleeveless shirt and jeans and he drives a pick-up truck. Spuckler does not change so much in the seires. He is called Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel, because he is a slack-jawed fool. Cletus had a strong and loving relationship with his mom (Maw) while he was growing up. He is claustrophobic and does not seem to be able to read, but he has a beautiful signature. Cletus first appeared as a “one time laugh”. He was one of the slack-jawed yokels in the episode “Bart Gets an Elephant”. In “22 Short Films About Springfield” he is introduced as a character, voiced by Hank Azaria. The Spuckler family is minor characters in the series. He is known as the idiot in Springfield. It was once questioned why his kids were not going to school. Cletus said:” We home school’em, I teach the big ones and the big ones teach the little ones. But no one ever taught me, which make the whole thing just an exercise in futility.” The schools test results would also drop so low that they would loose all funding if they let his kids go there. In The Simpson’s Movie he appeared every time they needed some one stupid. The mayor needed someone to test if a wall was idiot proof. He calls for Cletus and asks him to drop something in the lake. Cletus walks straight in to the barrier (which he could easily climb over). He replies, really confused and upset, that he “simply can’t”. In another scene in the movie he tries to distract Cargill with faking to pull of his thumb while everybody else tries to escape the dome. Spuckler drank mercury from a thermometer and got some sort of chronic illness, it badly affected his memory. One of his less peculiar hobbies is wood whittling "piney babies" for the children. Sometimes he whittles what he sees instead of remembering it. The wood carvings helped the police finding Bart and Gina when they ran away from jail. Cletus also possess a strange gift of foresight trough his carvings. He carved an incident where Chief Wiggum got attacked by a bear, which really occurred later on. Some of the other, more abnormal hobbies he has are digging trough garbage, hanging raccoons and searching for roadkill. The best food he eats is fresh skunk and raccoons. Spuckler is an industrious and social man. He is a dirt farmer, his family has been dirt farmers for five generations and he has some very successful moonshine stills that are producing alcohol, used to flavour the Southern cracker. Though, he does drink a lot of it himself. I suspect that there was about four generations of inbreeding going on in his family. Brandine, his wife, and Cletus are operating a vegetable shack, and he is also working to open a family business where they will sell various animal parts. // His family //

The Spuckler family lives on Rural Route 29, in Springfield. They live almost isolated there in a typical rundown yokel house with a porch. Cletus has a relationship with the orange haired Brandine. Brandine is illiterate, claustrophobic as Cletus and she once had rabies. No one is really sure if they are married and if they are siblings, each other’s children or cousins. It’s really complicated. This is also stereotypical; that incest occurs among hillbillies. The relationship is said to be happy, but they have a lot of disagreements. Brandine turned a shotgun at him at one time, because he gave his pig “a day of beauty and make-up” instead of her. Once, when Cletus was exploiting his children for money she came back from Iraq to stop him. She then worked as a soldier. This was in “Yokel Chords” when Cletus signed a contract (witch he could not read), to let the children work in Crusty’s show. He did not care about the children, only the money, witch he spends on what he calls necessities, like a monster truck. Brandine has a bunch of children, 39 are counted and they also include a sheep and a walking hotdog. In the beginning there were “only” 26 children. The paternity of these children is not certain. Brandine says that only two of the seven children that figures in “Yokel Chords”, the lamest ones are his so the contract Cletus signed was not legit. She does not seem to have any problems with giving birth to so many children. Heather, Dermont, Jordan, Dylan, Tiffany, Cody, Taylor, Brandine, Brittany, Wesley, Rumer, Scout, Cassidy, Zoe, Cletus, Chloe, Condoleezza Marie, Max, Hunter, Kendall, Caitlin, Noah, Sasha, Morgan, Kyra, Ian, Lauren, Cubert, Phil, Whitney, Jitney, Incest, Crystal Meth, Dubya, International Harvester, and Birthday are some of her children’s names. Birthday is actually wearing a potato sack as clothes. When one of his sons was accused of cheating, Cletus said “ I have sired a dumb-dumb, a mush-head, a whatsit, a dogboy, and something with a human face and fish body what we called Kevin. But my young’uns are not dirty players!" In the comic books the Spucklers are related to the Simpson’s, but it is not mentioned in the series.   Cletus Spuckler, Brandine and the children are basically a hilarious stereotype of a crazy, inbreed hillbilly family. They do not have any important reason to be in The Simpson’s, but I am glad they are there.



[|wikipedia]