{"id":707,"date":"2006-02-16T10:26:11","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/i_wonder_where_they_are_now_doh.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T12:24:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T17:24:23","slug":"i_wonder_where","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/i_wonder_where.html","title":{"rendered":"I Wonder Where They Are Now . . . D&#8217;oh!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please don&#8217;t insert that obnoxious Simpsons laugh <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/62018.htm\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The pudgy-faced Brooklyn teacher charged with fondling three 10-year-old schoolgirls is the real-life model for the school-bully character of Dolph on &#8220;The Simpsons,&#8221; it was revealed yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Groening, creator of the smash Fox show, patterned the stringy-haired thug who terrorizes Bart Simpson after Dolph Timmerman, who was his classmate at Lincoln HS in Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n<p>Timmerman, 51, now a teacher at PS 123 in Bushwick, was busted Tuesday for allegedly touching the buttocks of one girl in a classroom as she bent over, as well as two other girls in the hallway of the school on Irving Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The $43,000-a-year teacher, who has been placed on administrative duty away from kids, was arraigned on six counts of sexual abuse and child endangerment yesterday and released without bail.<\/p>\n<p>On &#8220;The Simpsons,&#8221; the dour-pussed, brown-haired Dolph, who is usually hunched over, and two other kids, Jimbo and Kearney, continually bully Bart at school. Dolph&#8217;s pastimes include breathing in the fumes at the One Hour Photo shop. He has worked as a Kamp Krusty counselor and at Springfield Paper and Printing, as part of the &#8220;Lackeys of Tomorrow&#8221; program.<\/p>\n<p>Groening could not be reached for comment, but in past interviews he has said that while he borrowed Timmerman&#8217;s first name for Dolph, the real-life Timmerman is nothing like the holy terror on the show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[He&#8217;s] a really cool guy,&#8221; Groening once said.<\/p>\n<p>There are no plans to cut Dolph&#8217;s character out of future shows or edit him from past ones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Dolph is just Dolph,&#8221; said &#8220;Simpsons&#8221; spokeswoman Antonia Coffman. &#8220;He has nothing to do with this man or with the show. And our Dolph doesn&#8217;t have a last name.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snpp.com\/guides\/bully.file.html\">The Simpsons Archive: The Exploits of Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please don&#8217;t insert that obnoxious Simpsons laugh here: The pudgy-faced Brooklyn teacher charged with fondling three 10-year-old schoolgirls is the real-life model for the school-bully character of Dolph on &#8220;The Simpsons,&#8221; it was revealed yesterday. Matt Groening, creator of the smash Fox show, patterned the stringy-haired thug who terrorizes Bart Simpson after Dolph Timmerman, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dude_thats_so_weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}