Groundskeeper Willy |
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Voiced by Dan Castellaneta, Willy is the school's groundskeeper, with flaming red hair and an outrageously exaggerated Scottish accent. His years of heavy work have given him an amazingly muscled physique, occasionally revealed, notably when he had to crawl through ventilation shafts to retrieve Santa's Little Helper. Needing some tance to get through the narrow tunnels, he turns to Lunchlady Doris to coat him with oil, with the memorable lines, "Lunchlady Doris, Have you got any grease?" She replies by saying, "Yes. Yes we do." Willy bellows "Then grease me up, woman!" as he dramatically tore his shirt open, to which she replies, "Okey-dokey."
Sometimes, Willy wears a kilt. He does not however wear anything under the kilt - the mark of a true Scotsman. At Scotchtoberfest, Bart attaches a number of balloons to Willy's kilt. This led to the kilt flying up. The gathered crowd gasped, and one woman fainted. In response, Willy cried, "Ach! 'Tis no more than what God gave me, you puritan pukes!"
In the second part of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", Willy has his kilt on while being interviewed by the police. During the interview Willy uncrosses and then recrosses his legs. In response, the officers point a gun at Willy with a warning to stop doing that. The scene was a spoof of Sharon Stone's interrogation scene from the film Basic Instinct.
In the episode "Monty Can't Buy Me Love", Willy is re-united with his mother and father on the banks of Loch Ness, Scotland, where Mr. Burns leads a successful expedition to catch the Loch Ness Monster - Nessie - and bring it to Springfield.
According to Superintendent Chalmers, Willy is an escaped patient from a mental hospital that Skinner hired. According to Willy, he has worked at the school for 20 years, just as long as Principal Skinner, so he was likely hired soon after Skinner got his job.
At one time, Willy was engaged to Sherry Bobbins, until she recovered her eyesight at which point, in Willy's words, "suddenly the ugliest man in Glasgow wasn't good enough for [her] anymore."
Willy's hobbies include videotaping couples in cars, something which proves to the benefit of Homer Simpson when he is later wrongfully accused of sexual harassment. He says America thinks it's wrong but every Scotsman does it. Compare: Hagrid from the Harry Potter books and films.
It was recently revealed that Willy's personal enemy is another Groundskeeper that speaks with a heavy Irish accent: Seamus.
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