![]() Season 2 does have him quote the Bible on one occasion. Season 1 makes no mention of his faith, just that he's Homer's well-off neighbor. It's sort of funny to watch his first appearance, where he's so indifferent/oblivious to Homer's obvious financial problems that it reaches Jerkass proportions and he actually seems fully deserving of Homer's enmity. ![]() In his earlier appearances his personality had drifted towards being nice and meek.Cerebus Retcon: His Verbal Tic is his way of expressing repressed anger.Catchphrase: "Hidely ho!" and "Diddly!". ![]() But in an episode following the death of her voice actress Marcia Wallace, Ned is seen wearing a black armband and looking at a picture of Edna, revealing she died off-camera. His first wife, Maude, was killed in a freak accident by a T-shirt cannon. Cartwright Curse: Ned Flanders has been twice-widowed.Broken Ace: Officially becomes this after the episode "Hurricane Neddy" and after Maude's death.He generally appears be a nice guy, and in some episodes he is a genuinely nice guy, but in other episodes, he's actually a obsessive religious jerk. Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Depending on the Writer.He straight-up knocks out Homer with one punch after he relentlessly teases him! On two different occasions! Beware the Nice Ones: The nicest guy you could ever wish to meet, but as his Precision F-Strike shows, you do NOT want to push him too far.Beta Couple: With Maude, until her death, to Homer and Marge.As the Good Book Says.: Flanders quotes the Bible often.Was played up a lot more in the early seasons. Always Someone Better: Is this to Homer, which is why Homer doesn't like him (add to the fact that Flanders has a prettier wife - or used to - and kids that aren't a pain in the ass to him).Affably Evil: If he's a villain in a Treehouse of Horror short (such as when he turns out to be Satan, or becomes the dictator of the world in an alternate timeline), he's still as genial as he usually is.Subverted in later episodes, where he goes through multiple losses and failures that are arguably worse than anything that Homer has had to go through. The Ace: Early on, he always found success in areas where Homer failed and generally had a perfect life.The reason why Todd had a crisis of faith was that he was missing his mother and confused about why such a tragedy would take place. A direct example is in " Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me" Ned disowns Todd for having a crisis of faith, he prays for God to punish Todd for his lack of faith and sends him to live with the Simpsons so they'd make Todd afraid of God.In Bart Has Two Mommies, Rod and Todd reveal that Marge makes them feel genuinely happy because she gives them more freedom than Ned. They are also religiously bigoted and seem to be sexually confused, as they plan to lose their virginities to each other in their vow of abstinence. Rod and Todd are oversensitive and have poor social skills towards others. Ned's sons are highly sheltered and overprotected.Abusive Dad: Not in a violent manner, rather in the over-protective variety.As of Season 29, he has taken over his late second wife's job as the fourth grade teacher, before the job was given to Rayshelle Peyton in Season 33. His being a doormat in the name of being nice to others faded. As the seasons went on, his "sweetness" and his religiosity grew until he became a byword for fanatical religious faith and doormat-like pleasantry. Originally, Ned was just a "better Christian" than Homer, being affable, polite, intellectual, friendly, and sincerely religious. The nice guy next door neighbor to the Simpson family. Debut: "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
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