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28-08-2008, 06:33 AM
Lurleen Lumpkin

Lurleen Lumpkin (voiced by Beverly D'Angelo) is an attractive, aspiring country singer who was managed by Homer in "Colonel Homer". Homer discovered her in a bar in the middle of nowhere but was amazed by her voice. He decided to help her launch a singing career, much to the chagrin of Marge. Lurleen started to fall for Homer and tried to lure him with an erotic song called "Bunk with Me Tonight". Homer, who had been ignorant of this, suddenly realized that managing Lurleen could hurt his marriage, so he quits as her manager. A saddened Lurleen sings a song called "Stand By Your Manager". Following that, her next appearance is in "Krusty Gets Kancelled", where she is briefly seen in the center square of Springfield Squares. In a later episode, "Marge vs. the Monorail", a much rougher-looking Lurleen, voiced by Doris Grau, makes a brief appearance, in which it is revealed that she had been to the Betty Ford Clinic and had "spent last night in a ditch". In this episode her voice sounds exactly the same as Lunchlady Doris's, rather than her soft, Southern voice she had when she was first introduced. She was also seen in "Team Homer" as one fourth of a bowling team called "The Homewreckers", with Jacques "Brunswick", Mindy Simmons and Princess Kashmir. In the episode "Bart on the Road", while they were going through Branson, Missouri, her name briefly appears on a banner saying "playing tonight". Lurleen also briefly appeared in the episode "Homerazzi". She could be a parody of Dolly Parton. The nineteenth season episode entitled "Papa Don't Leech" follows up on her story with her moving into the Simpsons' home and working at Moe's after owing the City of Springfield millions of dollars. It is revealed she has a father named Royce Boss Hogg Lumpkin and that she tried to hit on Kermit the Frog by singing the song "Bunk with Me Tonight" to him, to which Miss Piggy's reaction was kicking Kermit. Lurleen also made a cameo in The Simpsons movie in crowd scenes.