Hans Moleman
| Hans Moleman | |
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| The Simpsons character | |
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| Voiced by | Dan Castellaneta |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Various, but many involve truck driving |
| Relatives | Father: Elder Moleman |
| First appearance | |
| The Simpsons | Principal Charming |
Hans Moleman is a recurring character on the animated television series The Simpsons. He was created by series creator Matt Groening and is voiced by Dan Castellaneta, and first appeared in the episode "Principal Charming". His appearance usually comes in the form of a running gag, in which, as a bystander to disastrous events, he suffers unfortunate, often seemingly fatal accidents, only to return in later episodes completely unharmed.
Hans Moleman is the retconned name of an earlier character named "Ralph Melish". A seemingly elderly man, Moleman is sometimes portrayed as a resident of the Springfield Retirement Home, although in a deleted scene from the episode "Brother from Another Series" he is shown to live in a small house under a dam. He has cataracts and is almost entirely blind, which has severely impaired his reading ability and has led to repeated revokings of his driver's license. He carries a cane to walk with. Although he appears to be elderly, in fact, Hans Moleman claims to be 31 years old, and that "drinking has ruined [his] life". However, in episode 13 of season 26, "Walking Big & Tall", he is revealed to be the former mayor of Springfield; however, he is banished from Springfield on a horse by the angry townsfolk when Moe the bartender discovers that a song Moleman made Springfield's city anthem 30 years before was in fact a rip-off of another town's anthem.
Like many recurring characters, Hans Moleman does not have a fixed occupation, but rather has had a wide variety of careers over the course of the series.
Much of the humor associated with Moleman has involved his cheating death innumerable times, usually under highly improbable circumstances. He survived his car blowing up, catching on fire, trepanning, the electric chair, being left inside a fluoroscope for possibly an entire weekend, being buried alive, being left forgotten and alive in a morgue, and being engulfed by an anti-escape orb. He was also run over by Homer in "The Parent Rap", after the whole family promised they would not commit any crimes for a whole year. Homer ran over Moleman again in The Simpsons Movie.
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