In spite of the years of alcoholism, he still appears to maintain some of his great early potential. Castellaneta altered his voice for the character by no longer slurring. Occupation When alcohol is not readily available, Barney is seen drinking just about anything, such as turpentine, varnish, rubbing alcohol, and brake fluid. [25] When he suggested that an indicted Marge go to a particular rehab clinic to help her kick her drinking habit, he stated that the clinic had "cured him five times," implying that he has been switching between a current and recovering alcoholic. His romantic life, also semi-occasional, has ranger from Linda Ronstadt and Japanese conceptual artist Kako to Selma Bouvier to the woman in front of the drugstore who's always yelling things. In order to pay off his $14 billion bar tab, Barney would need to pay for ten beers a day, at $2 each, for roughly 1.95 million years. When Bart stated that the new Buzz Cola was designed by aliens to control human behavior, Barney is in disbelief that a beverage could do that, only to end up breaking down upon realizing that he hadn't actually had a Duff Beer in over two hours. In 1986, the Be Sharps won a Grammy Award for Outstanding Soul, Spoken Word, or Barbershop Album of the Year. The name Barney Gumble is a parody (and near homonym) of Barney Rubble, Fred Flintstone's best friend on Hanna-Barbera's TV show The Flintstones. In fact, it occurred often enough that Moe even had to hire people specifically to distract Barney during delivery period at Midnight as a paying job, with a then-unemployed. He was Harvard-bound until Homer introduced him to beer on the night before they had to take the SATs. She is seen in the season nine episode "Simpson Tide". [24], Homer encouraged Barney to drink a beer when he played Ulysses S. Grant in a reenactment of the Battle of Springfield. [22] The character's new addiction to coffee was suggested by writer-producer David Mirkin, who has friends who stopped drinking alcohol and became addicted to coffee. Barney was formerly an A-student back at Springfield High, but lost it all due to his drinking alcohol and is since then seen as a disgrace by his whole family, none of whom drinks. Share to Twitter. Barnard Arnold Gumble[1] is a recurring character in the American animated TV series The Simpsons. In the first segment Hell Toupée, he is seen watching the execution of Snake Jailbird. Barney Gumble burp 0 A burp is spontaneous. Barney is the town drunk of Springfield and Homer Simpson's best friend. Barney was born on April 20. Commentary for ", Groening, Matt; Silverman, David (2005). "[11] The writers also patterned the character after Norm Peterson (George Wendt), a character from the sitcom Cheers. According to Homer in what ultimately inspired Barney to become sober, Barney's exact stance at being inebriated depended on how he acted: When slightly inebriated during his birthday party (by comparison, as Barney did not remember the birthday party), or as Homer called him "Professor Barney", he was talkative, coherent (at least by comparison) and even insightful, albeit somewhat offensive, as he was telling Lisa that upon death, there will be a planet each for the French, the Chinese, and presumably any other nationality/ethnicity with the implication that they'd all be happier that way, much to the latter's chagrin. (Sober, slowly going mad and trying to drive Homer, Lenny and Carl home) Well that's just drunk talk. Plow". Barney served in the United States Navy Reserve for a short time, as a submariner on the USS Jebediah with his own mother as his superior officer, although he briefly served in the U.S. Army during his youth. 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