“ | Please don't make me retire. This job is what keeps me alive. I never married and my dog is dead. | „ |
~ Jack Marley, at his retirement party[src] |
Jack Marley is an elderly worker at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. His name is most likely a reference to Jacob Marley from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
History[]
He is forced to retire, even though he resists, insisting he loves his job since it's all he has left (it's implied that Mr. Burns had him retire as an excuse for him to have a party). Marge replaced him. He is still seen around Springfield showing that he stayed there after retiring.[1]
After Marge was put on trial for unintentionally shoplifting from the Kwik-E-Mart, Jack appears as the jury's foreman and states the verdict that he and the other jurors reached: Guilty (although it might be just a similar looking character).[2]
He has also been seen working as a janitor on a ship. Following Homer's court martial, as Jack is mopping passed him, he says to him, "I think you're off the hook" and Homer gives his "woo-hoo" cheer.[3]
Trivia[]
- In the Latin American dub, he is named Carlos Magaña after his late dubbing actor.
Appearances[]
Note: Many of his appearances are brief, background roles. Episodes in which he has an actual role are in bold.
- Episode – "Marge Gets a Job"
- Episode – "Marge in Chains"
- Episode – "Rosebud" (At Mr. Burns' party)
- Episode – "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"
- Episode – "Bart After Dark" (In the burlesque house)
- Episode – "In Marge We Trust" (In church)
- Episode – "Lisa the Skeptic" (Among the crowd outside the front entrance of the Simpsons' house)
- Episode – "Lisa the Simpson" (Among the crowd gathering outside the Kwik-E-Mart)
- Episode – "Simpson Tide"
- Episode – "The Trouble with Trillions"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" (In church)
- Episode – "They Saved Lisa's Brain" (Among the crowd in front of the gazebo)
- Episode – "Hungry, Hungry Homer" (Among the spectators at the baseball game)
- Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod" (In the audience at the Good Guy Awards)
- Episode – "The Frying Game"
- Episode – "Helter Shelter" (At the retirement home)
- Episode – "My Mother the Carjacker" (Among the jurors in the courthouse)
- Episode – "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays" (At the town hall meeting)
- Episode – "Bart-Mangled Banner" (In church)
- Episode – "See Homer Run"
- Episode – "Papa Don't Leech"
- Episode – "Thursdays with Abie" (At the retirement home)
- Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dream" (In the audience at Cheech and Chong's show)
- Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network" (In the courthouse)
- Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"
- Episode – "At Long Last Leave" (Among the crowd on the Simpsons' lawn)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIX"
- Episode – "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?"
- Episode – "Highway to Well"
- – The Simpsons Movie
The Simpsons: Season Four | ||||
"Kamp Krusty": | "A Streetcar Named Marge": | "Homer the Heretic": | "Lisa the Beauty Queen": | "Treehouse of Horror III": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie": | "Marge Gets a Job": | "New Kid on the Block": | "Mr. Plow": | "Lisa's First Word": |
Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Homer's Triple Bypass": | "Marge vs. the Monorail": | "Selma's Choice": | "Brother from the Same Planet": | "I Love Lisa": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Duffless": | "Last Exit to Springfield": | "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show": | "The Front": | "Whacking Day": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Marge in Chains": | "Krusty Gets Kancelled": | |||
Minor | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Five | ||||
"Homer's Barbershop Quartet": | "Cape Feare": | "Homer Goes to College": | "Rosebud": | "Treehouse of Horror IV": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent |
"Marge on the Lam": | "Bart's Inner Child": | "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood": | "The Last Temptation of Homer": | "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Homer the Vigilante": | "Bart Gets Famous": | "Homer and Apu": | "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy": | "Deep Space Homer": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Homer Loves Flanders": | "Bart Gets an Elephant": | "Burns' Heir": | "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song": | "The Boy Who Knew Too Much": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Lady Bouvier's Lover": | "Secrets of a Successful Marriage": | |||
Absent | Absent |
The Simpsons: Season Six | ||||
"Bart of Darkness": | "Lisa's Rival": | "Another Simpsons Clip Show": | "Itchy & Scratchy Land": | "Sideshow Bob Roberts": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Treehouse of Horror V": | "Bart's Girlfriend": | "Lisa on Ice": | "Homer Badman": | "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Fear of Flying": | "Homer the Great": | "And Maggie Makes Three": | "Bart's Comet": | "Homie the Clown": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Bart vs. Australia": | "Homer vs. Patty and Selma": | "A Star is Burns": | "Lisa's Wedding": | "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"The PTA Disbands": | "'Round Springfield": | "The Springfield Connection": | "Lemon of Troy": | "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
The Simpsons: Season Eight | ||||
"Treehouse of Horror VII": | "You Only Move Twice": | "The Homer They Fall": | "Burns, Baby Burns": | "Bart After Dark": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
"A Milhouse Divided": | "Lisa's Date with Density": | "Hurricane Neddy": | "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)": | "The Springfield Files": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"The Twisted World of Marge Simpson": | "Mountain of Madness": | "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious": | "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": | "Homer's Phobia": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Brother from Another Series": | "My Sister, My Sitter": | "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment": | "Grade School Confidential": | "The Canine Mutiny": |
Absent | Cameo | Absent | Cameo | Absent |
"The Old Man and the Lisa": | "In Marge We Trust": | "Homer's Enemy": | "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase": | "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson": |
Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent | Cameo |
The Simpsons: Season Nine | ||||
"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson": | "The Principal and the Pauper": | "Lisa's Sax": | "Treehouse of Horror VIII": | "The Cartridge Family": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Bart Star": | "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons": | "Lisa the Skeptic": | "Realty Bites": | "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace": |
Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent | Absent |
"All Singing, All Dancing": | "Bart Carny": | "The Joy of Sect": | "Das Bus": | "The Last Temptation of Krust": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
"Dumbbell Indemnity": | "Lisa the Simpson": | "This Little Wiggy": | "Simpson Tide": | "The Trouble with Trillions": |
Absent | Cameo | Absent | Minor | Cameo |
"Girly Edition": | "Trash of the Titans": | "King of the Hill": | "Lost Our Lisa": | "Natural Born Kissers": |
Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |