Maggie Roswell: Shary Bobbins • Additional Voices
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The Simpsons
Maggie Roswell credited as playing...
Shary Bobbins • Additional Voices
- Shary Bobbins: Hello. I'm Sharry Bobbins.
- Homer Simpson: [excited] Did you say Mary Pop...?
- Shary Bobbins: No! I definitely did not! I'm an original creation, like Rickey Rouse and Monald Muck.
- Shary Bobbins: It's 8:00, children. Time for bed.
- Lisa Simpson: But we're not sleepy.
- Bart Simpson: Sing us a song, Shary Bobbins.
- Lisa Simpson: Yes, sing us a song.
- Shary Bobbins: I've been singing you songs all day. I'm not a bloody jukebox!
- Shary Bobbins: I do everything from changing diapers to telling stories.
- Abe Simpson: Put me down for one of each!
- Groundskeeper Willie: Shary Bobbins and I were engaged to be wed back in the old country. Then she got her eyesight back. Suddenly the ugliest man in Glasgow wasn't good enough for her.
- Shary Bobbins: It's good to see you, Willie.
- Groundskeeper Willie: [angry] That's not what you said the first time you saw me!
- Shary Bobbins: [singing] Wasted away again in Margaritaville.
- Barney: [singing] Searching for my lost shaker of salt.
- [spoken]
- Barney: Oh, here it is.
- [pours the salt into his mouth]
- Lisa Simpson: Oh, Shary Bobbins, this is ever so much fun.
- Bart Simpson: With you, every day is Guy Fawkes Day!
- Montgomery Burns: Bah, humbug.
- Shary Bobbins: Oh, Mr. Burns, I think you'll find all life's problems just float away when you're flying a kite.
- Montgomery Burns: Balderdash. This is the silliest load of... ooh! Look at it fly! Whee! Look at me, Smithers! I feel practically superduperfragicalicexpiala...
- [storm clouds form and he's electrocuted by a bolt of lightning]
- Montgomery Burns: do... ohhhh! Ooh. What's this strange sensation in my chest?
- Waylon Smithers: [feeling his chest] I think your heart's beating again.
- Montgomery Burns: Ooh. That takes me back. God bless you, Shary Bobbins.
- Homer Simpson: Now, Ms. Bobbins, if you want this job, you're going to have to answer a few questions. First, do you have any bad habits?
- Shary Bobbins: No. I'm practically perfect in every way.
- Homer Simpson: Well, so am I.
- [he boorishly drinks milk straight from the carton while scratching his butt, then belches]
- Homer Simpson: Ah! Okay. Question two. Who was your last employer?
- Shary Bobbins: Lord and Lady Huffington of Sussex.
- Homer Simpson: [leaning over to Marge] Marge, do we know them?
- Marge Simpson: No.
- Homer Simpson: Come on. Isn't he the guy I bowl with? The black guy?
- Marge Simpson: That's Carl.
- Homer Simpson: Oh, yeah.
- [to Shary]
- Homer Simpson: So, you worked for Carl, eh?
- Bart Simpson: I have a question. Pop quiz, hotshot. I'm supposed to be doing my homework, but you find me upstairs reading a "Playdude". What do you do? What do you do?
- Shary Bobbins: I make you read every article in that magazine, including Norman Mailer's latest claptrap about his waning libido.
- Homer Simpson: Ooh. She is tough.
- Shary Bobbins: The policeman on the beat/Needs some time to rest his feet.
- Chief Wiggum: Fighting crime is not my cup of tea.
- Shary Bobbins: And the clerk who runs the store/Can charge a little more/For meat.
- Apu: For meat.
- Shary Bobbins: And milk.
- Apu: And milk.
- Shary Bobbins, Apu: From 1984.
- Shary Bobbins: If... you... cut every corner, you'll have more time for play
- Homer Simpson, Marge Simpson, Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson, Shary Bobbins: It's the American way.
- [as they leave Bart's room, Homer slams the door shut, and everything the kids put away spills back out]
- Shary Bobbins: All right, children. Let's clean up this room.
- Bart Simpson: Oh, man!
- Lisa Simpson: Do we have to?
- Shary Bobbins: Now, now. I know a little secret that will make the job go twice as fast.
- [singing to the melody of "Spoonful of Sugar"]
- Shary Bobbins: If there's a task that must be done/Don't turn your tail and run/Don't pout, don't sob/Just do a half-assed job/If... you... cut every corner, it is really not so bad/Everybody does it, even Mom and Dad.
- [outside, Homer dumps a used couch into Flanders' yard]
- Shary Bobbins: If nobody sees it, then nobody gets mad.
- Bart Simpson: It's the American way.
- Shary Bobbins: I believe my work here is done.
- Marge Simpson: Thank you for everything.
- Lisa Simpson, Bart Simpson: We'll miss you, Shary Bobbins.
- Homer Simpson: You've changed me, as well. I'm no longer the money-driven workaholic I once was.
- Shary Bobbins: I love you all.
- [giving them a final wave and leaving]
- Shary Bobbins: Oh! To think I'll never hear those sweet voices again.
- Homer Simpson: [crashing through the front window, strangling Bart] Aw, you... you... you little...!
- Shary Bobbins: Oh.
- [heading back in, she sees Lisa aimlessly banging on a pot, and gasps upon seeing Maggie using a fire extinguisher to put out the front curtains and Marge shivering, with her hair falling out again]
- Shary Bobbins: Oh, I'll just unpack my things.
- Abe Simpson: [floating outside through the open door] I think we got our umbrellas switched! Whee! I never felt so alive!
- [he begins snoring as he floats away]
- Shary Bobbins: [singing] In front of a tavern/Flat on his face/A boozehound named Barney/Is pleading his case.
- Barney: Buy me a beer/Two bucks a glass/Come on, help me/I'm freezing my ass/Buy me a brandy/A snifter of wine/Who am I kidding?/I'll drink turpentine.
- Moe: Move it, ya drunk/Or I'll blast your rear end.
- Barney: I found two bucks.
- Moe: Then come in, my friend.
- Shary Bobbins: And so, let us leave/On this heartwarming scene.
- Bart Simpson: [falling asleep] Can I be a boozehound?
- Homer Simpson: Not 'til you're 15.
- Marge Simpson: Shary, you did the best you could, but you can't change this family, and neither can I. From now on, I'm just gonna sit back and enjoy the ride.
- Shary Bobbins: But haven't I taught you people anything?
- Homer Simpson: Nope.
- Lisa Simpson: No.
- Bart Simpson: Nope.
- Marge Simpson: No.
- Shary Bobbins: So you like it this way?
- Homer Simpson: Indubitably!
- [singing]
- Homer Simpson: Around the house/I never lift a finger/As a husband and father, I'm sub-par/I'd rather drink a beer than win Father of the Year/I'm happy with things the way they are.
- Lisa Simpson: I'm getting used to never getting noticed.
- Bart Simpson: I'm stuck here 'til I can steal a car.
- Marge Simpson: The house is still a mess/And I'm going bald from stress.
- Marge Simpson, Homer Simpson, Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson: But we're happy just the way we are!
- Ned Flanders: They're not perfect, but the Lord says love thy neighbor.
- Homer Simpson: Shut up, Flanders.
- Ned Flanders: Okely-dokely-do.
- Shary Bobbins: Don't think it's sour grapes/But you're all a bunch of apes/And so I must be leaving you.
- Bart Simpson, Lisa Simpson: [watching her fly away] Goodbye, Shary Bobbins!
- Marge Simpson: Thanks for everything!
- Barney: So long, Superman!
- Homer Simpson: Shary Bobbins! I want another beer.
- Shary Bobbins: Well, you know, Homer...
- [singing]
- Shary Bobbins: If there's a job that must be done/You'll find it's much more fun...
- Homer Simpson: [interrupting] You'll find it's even *more* fun if *you* get it for *me*.
- Shary Bobbins: [continuing] But the beer will taste more sweet/If you get up off your seat...
- Bart Simpson: Lady, the man asked for a beer, not a song.
- Shary Bobbins: Lisa, don't sit in front of that telly like a fly stuck on a toffee. It's a great big world out there.
- Lisa Simpson: Been there, done it.
- Shary Bobbins: I know! We could have a tea party on the ceiling.
- Lisa Simpson: Shh. TV.
- Shary Bobbins: Bart Simpson, this room is a frightful mess.
- Bart Simpson: [throwing cupcakes at the wall] I'll get right on it.
- Shary Bobbins: Bart, don't you remember? Cleaning up can be a game.
- Bart Simpson: I got a better game. It's called "whipping cupcakes."
