The Simpsons have to be one of the most generous families in TV history. They’ve opened their doors to so many people — friends, enemies, strangers, celebrities, various animals — that it became a meta-joke on the show back in the show’s eighth season, when Roy shows up, unannounced and unexplained and mostly unidentified, living with the family. Sure, it’s a Poochie joke, but it’s also a riff on the fact that even so early into the show’s run, the “someone comes to stay with the Simpsons” plot had been done and re-done. Double meta.
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Here, then, is every instance I could find of the Simpsons having someone to live with them. In a lot of cases, it forms the episode’s main plot, but I also included the episodes where it’s incidental to the plot.
- Grampa Simpson, before the series starts and then several times subsequently throughout the series
- Adil Hoxha, the Albanian exchange student, in “The Crepes of Wrath”
- “Michael Jackson,” a.k.a. Leon Komposky, in “Stark Raving Dad”
- Otto in “The Otto Show”
- Herb Powell in “Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes?”
- The nerds (Benjamin, Gary and Doug) in “Homer Goes to College”
- Apu in “Homer and Apu”
- Stampy the Elephant (if you want to get technical about it) in “Bart Gets an Elephant”
- Debatably, the three actors studying Homer, Marge and Lisa as characters, including an Estonian little person who plays Lisa, in “Burns’ Heir”
- Also debatably, Hans Moleman was he was brainwashed into thinking he was Bart, in “Burns’ Heir”
- Jay Sherman (although only briefly) in “A Star Is Burns”
- She’s the Fastest (Santa’s Little Helper’s girlfriend), again if we want to be technical about it, in “Two Dozen and One Greyhounds”
- Mona Simpson in “Mother Simpson”
- Chester J. Lampwick in “The Day the Violence Died”
- Larry Burns in “Burns, Baby Burns”
- Shari Bobbins in “Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed_Grunt)cious”
- Roy in “The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochy Show”
- Laddie in “The Canine Mutiny”
- Apu (again) and Apu’s mother in “The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons”
- Cooter and Spud (debatably) in “Bart Carney”
- Pinchy the Lobster (again, if we’re counting animals) in “Lisa Gets an ‘A’”
- Meathook, Ramrod and the rest of the Hell’s Satans biker gang in “Take My Wife, Sleaze”
- Duncan the Diving Hourse in “Saddlesore Galactica”
- Becky, Otto’s jilted fiancée, in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge”
- Amber, Homer’s Vegas wife, in “Brawl in the Family”
- Sideshow Bob in “The Great Louse Detective”
- Artie Ziff in “The Ziff Who Came to Dinner”
- Nelson Muntz in “Sleeping With the Enemy”
- Gil Gunderson in “Kill Gil, Volumes I & II”
- Kent Brockman in “You Kent Always Say What You Want”
- Milhouse in “Little Orphan Millie”
- Lurleen Lumpkin in “Papa Don’t Leach”
- Simon Woosterfield (Bart’s double) in “Double, Double Boy in Trouble”
- Inga, the Ogdenvillian nanny, in “Coming to Homerica”
- Charlie, Bart’s adopted little brother, in “O Brother, Where Bart Thou?”
- Mr. Burns in “The Fool Monty” (and can you believe it took 22 seasons and 470 episodes for it to happen?)
- Wayne the security guard in “The Falcon and the D’ohman”
- Eduardo, Homer’s childhood penpal, in “YOLO”
- A whole slew of randos when Marge turns the house into a bed and breakfast in “White Christmas Blues”
- Jasper and Old Jewish Man (yes, that’s his name) in “The Winter of His Content”
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