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Nedward "Ned" Flanders is a fictional character on The Simpsons, voiced by Harry Shearer, who lives next door to the Simpsons with his family and is generally considered a pillar of the Springfield community. Since the episode "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" he is a widower. more...
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He is a devout Christian, and is often used to satirize Christian fundamentalism, as well as the cloying "niceness" of doggedly upbeat born-again evangelicals β Homer Simpson once said that Ned is "even holier than Jesus".
He was one of the first characters outside of the immediate Simpson family to appear on the show β his ownership of a vast and sparkling-new winnebago, the Land Behemoth sparked the action of the very first regular episode. It has been revealed that Ned Flanders was named after Northeast Flanders St. in Portland, Oregon, the hometown of Simpsons creator Matt Groening. The street sign, NE Flanders St., is often defaced to read NED Flanders St.
Biography
Ned was raised in New York City by two beatniks. Ned's father looked precisely like his son would as an adult, but with a goatee. Their refusal to discipline Ned and their all-around terrible parenting skills ("we've tried nothin', and we're all out of ideas!") made him a childhood terror. He was eventually consigned to an experimental eight-month spanking therapy program (in "Hurricane Neddy") β the University of Minnesota Spankological Protocol β which taught him to repress entirely any and all feelings of anger. This resulted in Ned bearing a lifelong hatred of his parents, one of only two things that he hates β the other being the post office, whose long lines, surly employees, and confusing machines annoy him.
Ned has the odd habit of attaching "diddly", "doodly" and other nonsensical phrases to his sentences β "Hi-diddly-ho, neighbor-ino", for example. This is the result of sublimated anger caused by his upbring, anger which has no other outlet.
His repressed anger eventually erupted; following the destruction of his house by a hurricane, Ned suffered a crisis of faith and a very public nervous breakdown, during which he pointedly criticized all of Springfield's citizens. For a time, he had himself committed at Calmwood, Springfield's psychiatric hospital. While institutionalized, Ned wore a straight-jacket and read the newspaper with his feet. Upon his release, he expressed his desire never to squelch his true feelings again, much to the jubilation of his friends (his desire to run his enemies down with his car led to slightly less jubilation).
Ned has a sister that he's only mentioned once, in "When Flanders Failed". After selling all the family's possessions and spending the night in the family car, Ned planned on moving in with her. She has never been mentioned since and never seen.
Ned's true age cannot be determined, although he explicitly stated that he was 60, and thus a senior citizen, in the season 10 episode Viva Ned Flanders; this came after conflicting revelations in a number of previous episodes. However, in Much Apu About Nothing, he alleged that he has lived on Evergreen Terrace for over forty years. In the episode The Mansion Family, during the "Springfield Pride Awards", an award is handed out honouring Springfield's oldest citizen. In order to establish who this citizen is, Kent Brockman asks all those who are over 60 to stand up, and in the background Ned Flanders can be seen rising from his chair.
Read more at Wikipedia.org
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