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|name=Carl Carlson |
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|job= Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Worker |
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|appearance= "]" |
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'''Carl Carlson''' ], usually known simply as '''Carl''', is a supporting character in the ] '']'' voiced by ]. Along with ], Carl is not just ] co-worker (sometimes identified as Homer's supervisor) at the ] but also his friend. He likes to call himself "an urban Lenny." Unlike Lenny, Carl is married.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} He attended Springfield A&M University. |
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Carl is an ]ic-], a ] with a ] in ], fond of bowling and drinking at ]. Carl demonstrates his talent for science in the episode "]". Carl is frequently said to be among the most attractive men in Springfield, notably in "]" where Homer concludes that Carl is too attractive for ]. According to "]", he might be ]. According to "]", Carl spent at least part of his boyhood in Iceland. |
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==Character origins== |
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In the early seasons, Carl was rarely seen with Lenny and did not have a consistent voice - on some occasions, he can be heard with Lenny's voice and vice versa. One example of Carl having Lenny's voice is in episode 218 "]". In an early 1991 episode, "]", Carl's name is spelled "Karl", the same spelling seen for an unrelated character of the same season. |
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==Personality== |
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Carl often serves as a taciturn straight man to Homer and company, because of his harsh opinions of others,{{Citation needed|date=March 2008}} as seen in "]" when he makes everyone in Moe's Tavern cry and in ] mode explains: "See, this is why I don't talk much." He is offended when people stereotype him even though their stereotypes are usually correct. In "]", Homer asks Carl if he knows African-American boxer Dedrick Tatum; Carl takes offense, saying that just because he is African American, he doesn't know all the other African-American citizens in Springfield. Carl then says that he met Dedrick Tatum while he was at a party with ] at Bleeding Gums Murphy's house (both of those characters are also African-American). More notably, in ], during a basketball game, Carl voices his irritation when everybody makes high expectations of his performance, and he remarks that he isn't is a good player only because he is a African American, but proves himself, however, to be a amazing basketball player. Despite being against the ], Carl has some short of ], visible in ] when he suggested to they should to treated Bashir and his family unfairly. He is the intellectual one, but apparently, ], his best friend, dumbs him down for his own sake. In the episode "]", he tells Lenny to shut up as he was tired of "dumbing self down for .". Despite being a good friend, Carl can be very self-centered and workaholic at times - in ], Carl becomes the new supervisor of Homer's sector (for being the most competent of them), and starts to abuse his position by forcing Homer to become his assistant, making him do even the mostly simple and unnecessary tasks (much to Homer's dismay). |
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==Relationship with Lenny Leonard== |
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There are occasional ] overtones in Lenny's and Carl's relationship. In "]", Lenny dreamily recalls carving "Mount Carlmore", a huge bust of Carl in the side of a hill, during "One Wonderful Summer". When Homer asks Lenny what Carl thought of it, Lenny replies "You know, we've never discussed it." In another episode, "]", various characters look at the stars to "see into their souls". ] sees Carl's face in the sky, who also sees his own face. On another occasion, Lenny and Carl are at the Springfield Baseball Stadium, watching the Kiss Cam, and Lenny says: "Hey Carl, remember when we used to kiss like that... with our respective girlfriends?" In the episode "]", Lenny says he can't tell apart the remains of his sculpture with Lenny's remarking "I don't know where Carl ends and I begin!", Carl then says " See, it's statements like that that makes everyone think we're ]." At times, Carl gets annoyed at Lenny. In "]", when Carl learns that he is paired with Lenny in a team-building exercise on a power plant retreat, his irritated response is, "Aw, nuts. I mean... aw, nuts." In the Simpsons Game, Carl and Lenny are shown arguing while bird-watching. |
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In ], Lenny recalls Bart offering Carl and Lenny $1,000 to kiss, and Carl asks Lenny, "Hey, did we ever get that money?" (although this was a ] episode, where the characters are shown as actors portraying themselves). |
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During a conversation in the Springfield Hub, Carl and Bernice Hibbert are hinted to have had a past relationship, that Carl wants to rekindle. It is implied, however, that he has a wife in "]", when he says he'll give a ring to his wife for their anniversary. Also, he is shown with a woman (presumably his wife) attending Homer's marriage class in "]". He also mentions having a family in "]". |
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==Reception== |
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Alongside Lenny, Carl makes 6th on ]'s Top 25 Simpsons Peripheral Characters.<ref></ref> |
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==See also== |
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==References== |
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