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Raphael

“ Mmm-hmm... „
~ Raphael's catchphrase
“ Ey, pal-ey. „
~ Raphael's other catchphrase

Raphael (also commonly known as the Sarcastic Clerk, Wiseguy, or Middle-Aged Man) is a recurring background character in The Simpsons - his main purpose is to carry out a job or sell a product that gets a plot rolling. His voice is also often used for loudspeaker announcements.

Raphael's character model has varied perhaps the most of any recurring character, with hair color, style and mustache all changing despite his distinctive voice. It wasn't until later seasons when the page image became the standard model for when his voice is used.

Raphael tends to make dry comments when confronted about the prices or quality of his services. He has even been sarcastic towards Comic Book Guy.

History[]

Jobs[]

One-Time Jobs[]

He has held numerous jobs in Springfield including: garage owner, mail man, taxi driver, gun salesman, giving water to plants, exterminator, and various shop clerks and handymen. He was also seen as a money changer in the First Church of Springfield after it had its makeover.[1] He is seen driving the Krusty glass vans around Evergreen Terrace.[2] He is also seen working alongside Sideshow Mel as a security guard for the Springfield Museum, and attacks Homer and Bart for "being in serious violation of his authority" [3], and has acted as a cameraman for at least one children's show. He acts just like Grover Monster from Sesame Street who has a Job License.[4]

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One of Raphael's jobs

Usual Jobs[]

Raphael's most common job is as a repo man, of which when he "accidentally" hurts Milhouse, he says, "Ha ha! I love this job!" [5] However he's frequently seen working in the Noiseland Video Arcade.

Character Traits[]

He is usually seen as a balding smoker with gray hair and a gray mustache, and generally appears lean, although there was one instance where he appeared overweight. He usually refers to people as "boyo" or "pally". In Boy Meets Curl and I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot, he had brown hair, and in the season 4 finale Krusty Gets Kancelled, he had black hair. As some of his nicknames imply, he also is quite sarcastic. He also apparently enjoys low-brow humor as evidenced when Bart easily distracted him with a (false) mention of a bawdy limerick graffitied onto the men's bathroom. He apparently owns a Scottish terrier, as after Homer discarded his pajamas out the window in order to emulate Thomas Edison, he was seen walking said dog breed before sarcastically requesting for Homer to do everyone a favor and "invent" underpants.

Character[]

His voice is intended to resemble Charles Bronson, as seen when the Simpsons try to travel to Branson, Missouri, but mistakenly end up in Bronson, Missouri, first.

Real Name[]

Sideshow Bob identifies his first name as Raphael.[6]

List of His Jobs[]

  1. Voice on the loudspeaker
  2. Limo driver
  3. Magazine store, clerk
  4. Cab driver
  5. Clerk, Foreign Exchange
  6. Worker, U.S. coin mint
  7. Straight and Narrow Storage Co., mover
  8. All Creatures Great and Cheap, employee
  9. Clerk, Nick's Bowling Shop
  10. Mechanic, assisting Mrs. Krabappel
  11. Googol-Plex Cinema, ticket booth
  12. Crane operator, Homer's funeral
  13. School Carnival, caricature artist
  14. Krusty Co., repairman
  15. Salesman, car show
  16. Worker, hog fat rendering plant
  17. Gas station, pump jockey
  18. All Creatures Great and Small, clerk
  19. The "Gabbo" show, cameraman
  20. Selling Malibu Stacey dolls, Springfield Swap Meet
  21. Delivers I & S animation sells
  22. Aphrodite Inn, clerk
  23. DNA lab professor
  24. Potato bug sprayer
  25. Electric Company, workman
  26. Ogdenville Outlet Mall, salesman
  27. Copy Jelopy, clerk
  28. Noiseland Arcade, assistant to Donkey Kong
  29. In and Out Piercing, employee
  30. Miscellaneous, Etc., clerk[7]
  31. Repo Depot, employee[8]
  32. Bloodbath and Beyond, clerk[9]
  33. Sportacus, clerk
  34. Sex offender registration office, clerk
  35. Yukingham Palace, clerk
  36. Eatie Gourmet's, lobster salesman
  37. High-Pressure Tire Sales, auto mechanic
  38. Delivery man, Luigi's
  39. Worker, The Springsonian
  40. Delivery man
  41. Worker, Springfield Airport
  42. Bet taker, Springfield Downs
  43. Clerk.
  44. Mechanic, "Dentz" auto garage
  45. Enant, "Broken Dreams Storage Lockers (This Job, We Learn his name.)[10]
  46. Toy Shop Salesman[11]
  47. Plumber
  48. Cake Shop Owner
  49. Janitor at Springfield University
  50. Clerk, Candy store (Springfield Mall)
  51. Cryogenic Facility employee
  52. Airplane Weighter
  53. Springfield Municipal Golf Course, clerk[12]
  54. Krusty's Kristmas on Ice, Arena Changeover staff[13]
  55. Springfield Dry Cleaners, employee[14]
  56. A Bugs Death, exterminator[15]
  57. Furniture delivery man[16]
  58. TSA employee[17]
  59. Springfield Museum of Natural History, employee[18]
  60. Springfield County Fair, CD salesman[19]
  61. Texxon, Gas Station Manager[20]
  62. You Forgot-Me-Nots (The Last-Minute Gift Store), clerk[21]
  63. AAA (American Automobile Association), employee[22]
  64. Circus Freak[23]
  65. Apple Store, employee (at former Alley McBalls location)[24]
  66. Pet Shop Salesman (All Creatures Great And Cheap)
  67. Train Mechanic[25]
  68. Health Inspector[26]
  69. Mechanic, "Body Shop" (helping Principal Skinner)[27]
  70. Demolition Supervisor[28]
  71. Theater Attendant, The Screens - Towne Centre at Springfielde Glenne[29]
  72. Security Guard, Dizzneeland[30]
  73. Delivery Man [31]
  74. Drive-thru Booth Attendent, Fotohut Photo Processing [32]
  75. Bureau of Licences and Permits employee [33]
  76. Broadway Box Office Attendant [34]
  77. Indoor Water Park employee [35]
  78. Airport Shuttle Driver [36]
  79. Travel Agent [37]
  80. Clubbb Sinnn strip club employee[38]
  81. ChoreMonkey[39]
  82. Boat Mechanic[40]
  83. Rideshare Driver[41]
  84. Duff Delivery Driver[42]
  1. ↑ She of Little Faith
  2. ↑ The Simpsons Hit and Run Level 1
  3. ↑ The Simpsons Game
  4. ↑ Krusty Gets Kancelled
  5. ↑ The President Wore Pearls
  6. ↑ Day of the Jackanapes
  7. ↑ The Homer They Fall
  8. ↑ Yellow Subterfuge
  9. ↑ The Cartridge Family
  10. ↑ Day of the Jackanapes
  11. ↑ The Dad Who Knew Too Little
  12. ↑ Judge Me Tender
  13. ↑ Kill Gil: Vols. 1 & 2
  14. ↑ Old Yeller-Belly
  15. ↑ Helter Shelter
  16. ↑ Pulpit Friction
  17. ↑ Elementary School Musical
  18. ↑ The Monkey Suit
  19. ↑ Simple Simpson
  20. ↑ Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life
  21. ↑ Treehouse of Horror XIX
  22. ↑ Days of Wine and D'oh'ses
  23. ↑ Treehouse of Horror XXIV
  24. ↑ Four Regrettings and a Funeral
  25. ↑ Dangers on a Train
  26. ↑ The Winter of His Content
  27. ↑ Luca$
  28. ↑ Opposites A-Frack
  29. ↑ I Won't Be Home for Christmas
  30. ↑ The Man Who Came to Be Dinner
  31. ↑ Sky Police
  32. ↑ The Kids Are All Fight
  33. ↑ Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words
  34. ↑ Lisa with an 'S'
  35. ↑ Lisa the Veterinarian
  36. ↑ How Lisa Got Her Marge Back
  37. ↑ To Courier with Love
  38. ↑ There Will Be Buds
  39. ↑ Dad Behavior
  40. ↑ Gorillas on the Mast
  41. ↑ Manger Things
  42. ↑ From Beer to Paternity

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Appearances[]

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The Simpsons: Season Two
"Bart Gets an "F"": "Simpson and Delilah": "Treehouse of Horror": "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish": "Dancin' Homer":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"Dead Putting Society": "Bart vs. Thanksgiving": "Bart the Daredevil": "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge": "Bart Gets Hit by a Car":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish": "The Way We Was": "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment": "Principal Charming": "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?":
Absent Minor Absent Absent Absent
"Bart's Dog Gets an F": "Old Money": "Brush with Greatness": "Lisa's Substitute": "The War of the Simpsons":
Absent Minor Absent Absent Absent
"Three Men and a Comic Book": "Blood Feud":
Absent Absent
The Simpsons: Season Three
"Stark Raving Dad": "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington": "When Flanders Failed": "Bart the Murderer": "Homer Defined":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"Like Father, Like Clown": "Treehouse of Horror II": "Lisa's Pony": "Saturdays of Thunder": "Flaming Moe's":
Absent Absent Minor Absent Absent
"Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk": "I Married Marge": "Radio Bart": "Lisa the Greek": "Homer Alone":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"Bart the Lover": "Homer at the Bat": "Separate Vocations": "Dog of Death": "Colonel Homer":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"Black Widower": "The Otto Show": "Bart's Friend Falls in Love": "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?":
Absent Absent Absent Absent
The Simpsons: Season Four
"Kamp Krusty": "A Streetcar Named Marge": "Homer the Heretic": "Lisa the Beauty Queen": "Treehouse of Horror III":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie": "Marge Gets a Job": "New Kid on the Block": "Mr. Plow": "Lisa's First Word":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"Homer's Triple Bypass": "Marge vs. the Monorail": "Selma's Choice": "Brother from the Same Planet": "I Love Lisa":
Absent Cameo Absent Absent Absent
"Duffless": "Last Exit to Springfield": "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show": "The Front": "Whacking Day":
Minor Absent Absent Absent Absent
"Marge in Chains": "Krusty Gets Kancelled":
Voice only Minor
The Simpsons: Season Five
"Homer's Barbershop Quartet": "Cape Feare": "Homer Goes to College": "Rosebud": "Treehouse of Horror IV":
Minor Absent Absent Absent Absent
"Marge on the Lam": "Bart's Inner Child": "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood": "The Last Temptation of Homer": "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"Homer the Vigilante": "Bart Gets Famous": "Homer and Apu": "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy": "Deep Space Homer":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"Homer Loves Flanders": "Bart Gets an Elephant": "Burns' Heir": "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song": "The Boy Who Knew Too Much":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"Lady Bouvier's Lover": "Secrets of a Successful Marriage":
Absent Absent
The Simpsons: Season Six
"Bart of Darkness": "Lisa's Rival": "Another Simpsons Clip Show": "Itchy & Scratchy Land": "Sideshow Bob Roberts":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"Treehouse of Horror V": "Bart's Girlfriend": "Lisa on Ice": "Homer Badman": "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Minor
"Fear of Flying": "Homer the Great": "And Maggie Makes Three": "Bart's Comet": "Homie the Clown":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Minor
"Bart vs. Australia": "Homer vs. Patty and Selma": "A Star is Burns": "Lisa's Wedding": "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"The PTA Disbands": "'Round Springfield": "The Springfield Connection": "Lemon of Troy": "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
The Simpsons: Season Seven
"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)": "Radioactive Man": "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily": "Bart Sells His Soul": "Lisa the Vegetarian":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"Treehouse of Horror VI": "King-Size Homer": "Mother Simpson": "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming": "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular":
Absent Minor Absent Absent Absent
"Marge Be Not Proud": "Team Homer": "Two Bad Neighbors": "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield": "Bart the Fink":
Absent Absent Absent Minor Absent
"Lisa The Iconoclast": "Homer The Smithers": "The Day The Violence Died": "A Fish Called Selma": "Bart on the Road":
Minor Absent Absent Absent Absent
"22 Short Films About Springfield": "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"": "Much Apu About Nothing": "Homerpalooza": "Summer of 4 Ft. 2":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
The Simpsons: Season Eight
"Treehouse of Horror VII": "You Only Move Twice": "The Homer They Fall": "Burns, Baby Burns": "Bart After Dark":
Absent Absent Minor Absent Cameo
"A Milhouse Divided": "Lisa's Date with Density": "Hurricane Neddy": "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)": "The Springfield Files":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Minor
"The Twisted World of Marge Simpson": "Mountain of Madness": "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious": "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": "Homer's Phobia":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"Brother from Another Series": "My Sister, My Sitter": "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment": "Grade School Confidential": "The Canine Mutiny":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"The Old Man and the Lisa": "In Marge We Trust": "Homer's Enemy": "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase": "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
The Simpsons: Season Nine
"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson": "The Principal and the Pauper": "Lisa's Sax": "Treehouse of Horror VIII": "The Cartridge Family":
Cameo Absent Absent Absent Minor
"Bart Star": "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons": "Lisa the Skeptic": "Realty Bites": "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"All Singing, All Dancing": "Bart Carny": "The Joy of Sect": "Das Bus": "The Last Temptation of Krust":
Absent Absent Absent Absent Absent
"Dumbbell Indemnity": "Lisa the Simpson": "This Little Wiggy": "Simpson Tide": "The Trouble with Trillions":
Absent Absent Absent Minor Absent
"Girly Edition": "Trash of the Titans": "King of the Hill": "Lost Our Lisa": "Natural Born Kissers":
Absent Minor Absent Minor Absent

Gallery[]

The full image gallery for Raphael may be viewed at Raphael/Gallery.

Citations[]

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