Timothy Lovejoy

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Timothy Lovejoy

Timothy Lovejoy (voiced by Harry Shearer) is the Reverend of the Church (of uncertain Protestant denomination, possibly "Presbylutheran") that seemingly every Christian in Springfield attends. His sermons vary between dreary recitations of the more opaque parts of the Old Testament, to the occasional "fire and brimstone" scaremongering about Hell - and very little of the love and joy that the Reverend's surname makes comment on. Bart and Homer, particularly, find it extremely difficult to pay attention during church. An episode points to how he first came to Springfield eager and full of idealism, but has since become cynical and disillusioned about his flock and his ministry, mostly due to Ned Flanders, who constantly pesters the Reverend with "emergencies" ("Reverend Lovejoy? I think I swallowed a toothpick!" and "I... I'm coveting my own wife!" and so on), which he dispatches with as much brevity as he can manage ("Ned, have you thought about one of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same"), so that he can go back to what seems to be his true passion - his model trains. "I just stopped caring", he explained to Marge. "[But] fortunately, by then it was the eighties, and no one noticed." The producers of The Simpsons have said Lovejoy is one of the few least corrupt and decent characters in Springfield.

The church itself is a clone of the one seen in The Graduate.

Helen Lovejoy is the reverend's judgemental, small minded, moralistic, and gossipy wife. Helen's catchphrase, delivered in times of civic crisis (moral or otherwise), consistently asks, "Will someone please think of the children?"

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