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Cletus Delroy or Cletus Spuckler (voiced by Hank Azaria) is a "slack-jawed yokel," a stereotypical hillbilly character. As once introduced in song: "Most folk'll never eat a skunk / and then again some folk'll, / like Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel!" (second verse goes, "Most folk'll never lose a toe / but then again some folk'll, / like Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel!") (complete with a follow-the-bouncing-ball).
Generally a good-natured fellow, Cletus has been known to take advantage of others, as when he presents Marge with 300 coupons for free pretzels from her pretzel business. Cletus has 27 children: Tiffany, Heather, Cody, Dylan, Dermot, Jordan, Taylor, Brittany, Wesley, Rumor, Scout, Cassidy, Zoe, Clo, Max, Hunter, Rubella, Kendall, Caitlin, Noah, Sascha, Morgan, Kyra, Ian, Lauren, Q-bert, and Phail, as well as a wife, Brandine, who refused to wear boots to her strip club audition on the grounds that it would scuff up the stage, telling Cletus he "best take 'em back where from ya got'em." It is also implied that Cletus and Brandine are siblings, as in one episode they are parked at an auto racing event, and Brandine remarks "Why did you have to park so close to my parents?" to which Cletus responds "Hey, they're mah parents too!"
Cletus' last name is either "Delroy" or "Spuckler"; the Simpsons 2002 Trivia Calendar indicates the former, while at least two episodes (the first being Sweets and Sour Marge, in which Cletus signed his name to Marge's petition to ban sugar from Springfield, and the second being Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and s in which it appears on the screen in a news report) give his name as "Spuckler", as well as in "The Simpsons: Hit and Run" video game, where the mailbox outside his shack says "Spuckler".
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