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    1. Characteristics

  • Yellow skin
  • Brown hair worn in a pony-tail
  • Fat and constantly eating
  • Waddles when walking
  • Highly sarcastic attitude
  • Owns the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop
  • Voiced by Hank Azaria

    2. Major Appearances

  • [7F21] Sold Radioactive Man #1 to Bart, Martin and Milhouse
  • [2F17] Tells Bart and Milhouse about the proposed Radioactive Man Film
  • [3F02] Dealer in souls
  • [3F07] Gives Bart a lesson in sarcasm
  • [3F13] Copying his screenplay
  • [3F16] Screening 'Itchy and Scratchy meet Fritz the Cat' on the 75th Anniversary of Itchy and Scratchy
  • [3F18] Sells Hamburglar comic to Milhouse
  • [4F03] Returning the Ultimate Belt
  • [4F12] At the Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie signing
  • [4F12] Giving his opinion of Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie to Bart
  • [4F15] Accosted by Rex Banner

    3. Minor Appearances

  • [9F21] Holds stall at the Springfield Swap Meet
  • [2F17] Plays slot-car racing with Otto
  • [3F12] Leaving restaurant with a wheelbarrow full of tacos
  • [3F16] Sells Bart an antique Itchy drawing (CBG is only heard in this scene)
  • [3F20] Seen briefly as the bear is loaded onto the truck and again outside the Immigration and Naturalization Service building
  • [3F23] Waving goodbye to the Simpsons
  • [4F03] Seen briefly at the burlesque house demolition
  • [4F07] Seen briefly at the Kwik E Mart buying provisions
  • [4F13] In the wheelbarrow line at Dr. Nick's clinic

    4. Items For Sale by the Comic Book Guy

  • [7F21] Radioactive Man #72
  • [7F21] Radioactive Man #9
  • [7F21] Radioactive Man #1
  • [7F21] Radioactive Man figurine
  • [7F21] Gutar comic
  • [7F21] Carl Yazstremski 1973 baseball card {hp}
  • [9F21] "S' Wonderful, S' Marvellous, S' Krusty" Album
  • [9F21] "Melvin and the Squirrels" Album
  • [9F21] "Spinal Tap" Album
  • [9F21] "Meet the Be Sharps" Album
  • [2F17] Comics: Batboy; Birdguy; Mr. Smarty Pants; Catgirl; Dog Kid; Bat Chick; Snake Kid; Power Person; Manboy; Nick; Treeman; Mr. Hop; Lava Lad; The Human Bee; Mister Amazing; Star Dog; Iguana Girl; Radiation Dude; Radioactive Man
  • [3F02] Alf Pogs
  • [3F02] Bart's Soul
  • [3F02] Krusty comic
  • [3F02] Mary Worth comic strip in which she has advised a friend to commit suicide
  • [3F07] Bonestorm video game
  • [3F07] Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge video game
  • [3F16] Krusty lunchboxes; Happy Little Elves lunchboxes; Uncle Ant dolls; Disgruntled Goat dolls; Ku Klux Klam dolls; Itchy figures; Scratchy figures; Antique Itchy drawing
  • [3F18] Photo of Sean Connery signed by Roger Moore
  • [3F18] Hamburglar comic
  • [3F18] Radioactive Man comic
  • [3F18] 'Atomic' cherry bombs
  • [4F03] Ultimate Belt

    5. What Is The Comic Book Guy's Name?

    This has been much debated on alt.tv.simpsons but the fact is that we still haven't been told what the Comic Book Guy's name is. The closest we ever came to finding out was in the [4F12] Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie episode where CBG asked Homer to sign his autograph, "Kindly make one out to me, and three out to my friend of the same name".


    6. Comic Book Guy Quotes

  • [7F21] Three Men and a Comic Book
    At the 12th Annual 'Close Encounters of a Comic Book Kind'
    Convention.
    CBG:  Tell you what. I'll show you something very special,
          if you promise to put your grubby little hands behind
          your back and keep them there.
    (CBG unlocks briefcase and opens it)
    CBG:  Behold.
    Bart: Wow! Radioactive Man number one.
    CBG:  None other.
    Bart: I bet it's worth a million bucks.
    CBG:  It is my lad, but I will let you have it for a hundred
          because you remind me of me.
    Bart: Aw, all I got is thirty.
    CBG:  Then you cannot have.
    Bart: But I must. Until this moment I never knew why God put
          me on this earth, but now I know, to buy that comicbook.
    CBG:  Your motion is out of place here, son.
    
    At the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop
    Martin:   Can you let me have it for forty dollars?
    CBG:      Forty bucks?! Forget it! You made me get off my stool
              for that?
    Martin:   It's all I've got! I sold seeds, I visited my aunt in
              the nursery home, I fished a dime out of the sewer
              for God's sake.
    CBG:      No way. (Turns to Bart) What do you want?
    Bart:     Can I have it for thirty-five.
    CBG:      No! No, freakin' kids. I do not need this, I've got a
              masters degree in folklore mythology.
    Milhouse: Excuse me. Do you have the Carl Yazstremski baseball
              card from 1973, when he had big sideburns?  {hp}
    CBG:      Show me the thirty bucks, 'cos if you a'int got it,
              I a'int getting off the stool.
    (Milhouse waves thirty bucks in the air)
    CBG:      Okay.
    (CBG goes to retrieve the baseball card)
    Bart:     Wait a minute. Martin, if you, Milhouse, and I went
              in together, we could buy a copy of Radioactive Man
              number one right now.
    Martin and Milhouse: Wow!
    CBG:      Here you go, mutton-chop Yaz.
    Milhouse: I don't want it.
    CBG:      Freakin' kids.
    Bart:     Look pal, we've got a hundred bucks and we'd like to
              buy Radioactive Man number one, so why don't you just
              waddle over there and get it.
    CBG:      Yes sir.
    
    Outside the shop
    Bart:     Wow! Breathe it in boys.
    Martin:   Ah, this is the stuff dreams are made of.
    Milhouse: It smells like my Grampa.
    Bart:     Oh-oh, looks like rain. We'd better get this baby home.
    (All three boys take different directions with one hand on the
    comic)
    Bart:     Oh-oh.
    CBG:      Looks like you bought more than you bargained for boys.
    
  • [9F21] Homer's Barbershop Quartet
    At the Springfield Swap Meet
    Bart: What the hell's this?
    CBG:  Melvin and the Squirrels, part of the rodent invasion of the
          early sixties.
    
  • [2F17] Radioactive Man
    At the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop
    CBG:      So you kids fancy youselves experts eh?
    Bart:     Well, between us we've read all eight hundred and 
              fourteen issues of Radioactive Man.
    Milhouse: Yeah, and we both have a special limited edition issue
              where he and Fallout Boy get killed on every page.
    CBG:      Well I suppose you know then that Hollywood is planning
              a feature-film about Radioactive Man.
    Bart and Milhouse: (hats fly upward) Gasp!
    CBG:      I have got to do something about that air conditioner
              suction.
    Bart:     Who's gonna play Radioactive Man?
    CBG:      I will tell you in exactly seven minutes.
    (He moves to his computer)
    CBG:      Okay, here we are, alt dot nerd dot obsessive. Need
              know star RM pic.
    
    CBG and Otto are racing slot-cars
    Bart: Have you seen Milhouse?
    CBG:  No. Now go away, we are racing for the title of Champion
          of the Universe.
    
  • [3F02] Bart Sells His Soul
    Bart waits for the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop
    to open
    CBG:  If you are waiting for the 'Hi and Lois' signing, you are
          too late. It has been moved to the Springfield Colosseum.
    Bart: Please, you have something of mine on a little piece of
          paper.
    CBG:  Oh, so you're Bart Simpson, eh. Well since my breakfast
          burrito is congealing rapidly I will be blunt. I sold your
          soul last night. I found a buyer right away for that item.
    Bart: Who?
    CBG:  I am not at liberty to divulge the party, but they were
          most interested in having possession of little boy's
          soul.
    (Bart bangs his head repeatedly on the counter)
    CBG:  Er, excuse me. No banging your head on the display case
          please, it contains a very rare Mary Worth in which she
          has advised a friend to commit suicide. Thank you.
    
  • [3F07] Marge Be Not Proud
    Bart sees a sign in the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card
    Shop window
    Bart: (Gasps) 99 cents.
    (Bart enters shop)
    Bart: I want to buy a copy of Bonestorm, here's 99 cents.
    CBG:  Huh. Allow me to summarise the proposed transaction. You
          wish to purchase Bonestorm for 99 cents, net profit to
          me, negative 59 dollars.
    (CBG opens the till)
    CBG:  Oh, oh, please take my 59 dollars, I don't want it, it's
          yours.
    (Bart reaches for the money)
    CBG:  Er, er, er. Seeing as we are unfamiliar with sarcasm, I
          shall close the register at this point, and state that
          99 cents is the rental price.
    Bart: Oh, then may I please rent it, please?
    CBG:  No you may not, I am all out, though I do have a surprising
          amount of Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge.
    Bart: Aww.
    
  • [3F12] Bart The Fink
    Leaves restaurant with a wheelbarrow full of tacos
    CBG:  Yes, this should provide adequate sustainance for the
          Dr. Who marathon.
    
  • [3F13] Lisa The Iconoclast
    At 'The Copy Jalopy'
    CBG:   Question: Is your name Ridley Scott or James Cameron?
    Homer: No, it's Homer.
    CBG:   Well then, I would thank you to stop peering at my
           screenplay, Homer. And if I see a movie where computers
           threaten our personal liberties, I will know that you
           stole my idea.
    Homer: I'm just waiting for my kid.
    Homer's Brain: Mental note: steal his idea.
    
  • [3F16] The Day The Violence Died
    At the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop
    (After a screening of Itchy and Scratchy meet Fritz the Cat)
    Bart: How come I've never seen that Itchy and Scratchy
          before?
    CBG:  Perhaps because you are a pre-pubescent ignoramus.
          This is a bootleg copy of Itchy and Scratchy meet
          Fritz the Cat. Because of it's frank depiction of
          sex and narcotic consumption, it is not for infantile
          intellect, such as yours, now toodle-oo.
    Bart: Aww.
    (Bart and Lisa turn to leave. Bart sees a framed drawing
    of Itchy)
    Bart: Cool! I'll give you ten bucks for that.
    CBG:  Are you the creator of Hi and Lois because you are
          making me laugh. That drawing is worth exactly 750
          dollars American.
    Bart: It's valuable, huh?!
    CBG:  Ooh, your powers of deduction are exceptional. I
          can't allow you to waste them here when there are
          so many crimes going unsolved at this very moment.
          Go, go, for the good of the city.
    Bart: Loser.
    
    Bart runs into Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop
    (Kerching of the cash register)
    CBG:  Thank you.
    
  • [3F18] 22 Short Films About Springfield
    CBG is talking on the telephone
    CBG:      Yes, and one with extra cheese, thank you.
    (CBG puts down the telephone as a distressed Milhouse enters
    the shop) 
    Milhouse: Can I use your bathroom?
    CBG:      No, you may not. The bathroom is for paying
              customers only, if you purchase an item you
              may use the bathroom.
    Milhouse: Aw, ok, how about that?
    (Milhouse points to a framed photo)
    CBG:      That is a rare photo of Sean Connery signed by
              Roger Moore, it is worth one hundred and fifty
              dollars.
    Milhouse: Aw, what can I get for 75 cents?
    CBG:      (sigh) You may purchase this charming Hamburglar
              adventure. A child has already solved the jumble
              using crayons. The answer is 'fries'.
    (Milhouse pays for the comic as his father enters the shop)
    Kirk:     Er, Milhouse, what's going on? You said you just
              needed to use the bathroom, now I find you buying
              comics.
    CBG:      Oh, our transaction is completed, you may take
              the boy.
    Milhouse: Wait!
    
  • [3F23] You Only Move Twice
    CBG waves goodbye to the Simpsons
    CBG:      Toodle-oo
    
  • [4F03] The Homer They Fall
    At 'Miscellaneous Etc.' gadget store
    CBG:         Yes, finally. I would like to return your quote
                 unquote, Ultimate Belt.
    Storekeeper: I see, do you have a receipt, quote unquote,
                 sir?
    CBG:         I do not have a receipt, I won it as a door
                 prize at the Star Trek convention, although
                 I find their choice of prize highly illogical
                 as the average Trekker has no use for a
                 medium-sized belt.
    Storekeeper: Whoa, whoa. A fat, sarcastic Star Trek fan. You
                 must be a devil with the ladies.
    CBG:         Hey, I... Huh... Tha... Oh...
    Storekeeper: Gee, I hate to let you down Casanova, but uh, no
                 receipt, no return.
    Bart:        I'll give you four bucks for it.
    CBG:         Very well. I must hurry back to my comic book
                 store, where I dispense the insults rather than
                 absorb them.
    
  • [4F12] The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show
    At the Android's Dungeon & Baseball Card Shop
    CBG:     Ahem, your attention please.
    I&S fan: Er, in the episode...
    CBG:     Er, your attention please. Mr. Simpson will now be
             autographing 8 by 10 glossies of Poochie. Please
             form a line, there will be no cutting. I'm talking
             to you Mr. Cutter.
    (CBG cuts to the front of the line)
    CBG:     Pardon me. Look out. Pardon me. Excuse me. Hot soup.
             Hi, can you make one out to me and three out to my
             friend of the same name.
    
    After the first episode of Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie
    CBG:  Last night's Itchy & Scratchy was, without a doubt, the
          worst episode ever. Rest assured I was on the internet
          within minutes registering my disgust throughout the
          world.
    Bart: Hey, I know it wasn't great, but what right do you
          have to complain?
    CBG:  As a loyal viewer, I feel they owe me.
    Bart: What? They're giving you thousands of hours of
          entertainment for free. What could they possibly owe
          you? I mean, if anything, you owe them.
    CBG:  Worst episode ever.
    
  • [4F13] My Sister, My Sitter
    In the wheelbarrow line at Dr. Nick's clinic
    CBG: Oh, loneliness and cheeseburgers are a dangerous mix.
    
  • [4F15] Homer Vs. The 18th Amendment
    CBG is accosted by Rex Banner
    Rex Banner: Are you the Beer Baron?
    CBG:        Yes, but only by night. By day, I am a mild-
                mannered reporter for a major metropolitan
                newspaper.
    Rex Banner: Don't crack wise with me tubby.
    CBG:        Tubby? Oh yes, tubby.
    



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