Spuckler family
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The Spuckler Clan
The Spuckler family lives off of Rural Route #29. The Father Cletus is a dirt farmer by trade. The Mother of the family Brandine has had a many jobs including Dairy Queen employee, topless bar dancer and Ms. Ovenfresh. The family is the largest in Springfield. Although none of the children goto school.
Cletus Spuckler
Cletus Spuckler, a/k/a Cletus Delroy, is the father of the Family. He was first seen in "Bart Gets an Elephant" he is usually referred to as the slack-jawed yokel He's a stereotypical hillbilly though usually good-natured, he is thin, has brown hair in an indeterminate style but shaved in the back, a meager attempt at a moustache, and several fewer teeth than even the average
Cletus works as a fifth generation dirt farmer. In addition to this, Cletus owns a successful chain of moonshine stills, and was delighted when it was decided that his drink would be used to flavor the latest version of Southern Cracker.[2] As seen in "A Star Is Torn", he and Brandine own a vegetable shack beside the Kwik-E-Mart. He is currently in the process of opening a family business that sells miscellanious animal parts. In "Yokel Chords" Cletus took advantage of the money his children were making and used it to his own personal satisfaction.
Cletus' family name is "Spuckler"; in the episode "Sweets and Sour Marge", Cletus signs this as his name (in surprisingly elegant cursive, which is reminiscent of the signature of John Hancock) to Marge's petition to ban sugar from Springfield, and in "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays" his name is given as "Cletus Spuckler" in a news report. A mailbox standing outside Cletus' shack in the video game The Simpsons Hit & Run reads "Spuckler". But his last name was given as "Del Roy" in the episode "Behind the Laughter". In "Yokel Chords" Brandine refers to him as Cletus Del Roy Spuckler, implying that Del Roy is his middle name.
Brandine Spuckler
Brandine Spuckler is the Mother of the family and Wife of Cletus. Brandine and Cletus are depicted as stereotypical representatives of so-called “trailer trash.”
A running gag through the series is the multiple relationship with her husband. Throughout the entire series, the two are shown to be brother/sister, cousin/cousin, aunt/uncle, boyfriend/girlfriend and each other's parents. In Little Big Girl, her child shows a family tree revealing she is the daughter of Cletus and an alien. Brandine and Cletus were married by Homer Simpson. She has suffered from rabies and admitted to being illiterate. She has 39 children. She once interviewed for a job as a stripper, although she refused to wear the combat boots that her husband had found, stating she did not want to scuff the topless dancing runway. Both Brandine and Cletus are claustrophobic according to Cletus's line of "Just 'cause we's afraid of using the "uppity-box"" (an elevator) . She also has apparently worked at Dairy Queen at some point, which she referenced in refusing to wear a shirt Cletus gave her, citing she had to wear “the shirt what Dairy Queen give me.” In “Yokel Chords,” it was shown that Brandine was in Iraq, fighting in the Iraq War to "stop 9/11." She came back to stop Cletus’ exploitation of their children, and to tell him that he was only the father of the two untalented kids, casting doubt over the paternity of the 37 other Spuckler children. She once was briefly under consideration as a foster mother to the Simpson children. She and her family live on Rural Route #29.
Cletus and Brandine's Relationship
Cletus and Brandine are generally happy together, however most episodes show them arguing. Once, Cletus has an apparent stronger love to the pig, rather than Brandine. In Stop, Or My Dog Will Shoot! Brandine wields a shotgun at him determined to hit him for giving the family pig a day of "beauty and make-up" and not her.
Children
- Tiffany, Heather, Cody, Dylan, Dermot, Jordan, Taylor, Brittany, Wesley, Rumer, Scout, Cassidy, Zoe, Chloe, Max, Hunter, Kendall, Caitlin, Noah, Sasha, Morgan, Kyra, Ian, Lauren, Cubert, and Phil from "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson", children of Cletus and Brandine
- Witney, Jitney, W, Incest, Crystal Meth, International Harvester, and Birthday from "Yokel Chords", children of Brandine, two of whom are also children of Cletus.
- Gummy Sue, "Helter Shelter", daughter
- Rubella Scabies, "I'm Spelling As Fast As I Can", daughter
- Ma, Cletus's mother/mother-in-law
- DiaBetty, cousin, diabetic
- Cousin Merl, cousin
- Big Hungry Joe, indeterminate relative
- Curly Sue, indeterminate relative
Pets
- Geech, "Brother from Another Series", smellhound, deceased