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Carl Harry Carlson is known for Cedar Rapids (2011), The Citizen (2012) and Beyond the Mask (2015).
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Sep 25, 2020 · Actor Alex Désert is to replace Hank Azaria as the voice of Homer's workmate Carl Carlson in the first episode of the new season of The Simpsons. Désert, who has appeared in TV's Better Things...
May 14, 2024 · The Simpsons star Harry Shearer has said recasting him with a Black actor has negatively “affected” one of the show’s main characters.
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Carlton Carlisle "Carl" Carlson, Jr. (born April 20, 1955) is a recurring character in The Simpsons and a supporting character in The Simpsons Movie. He is a safety operations supervisor from Sector 7G of the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, where he works alongside his childhood friends Lenny Leonard and Homer Simpson.
Carl is a self-restrained organized (although not maniac about it, like Frank Grimes) employee and likes to call himself "an urban Lenny". It is hinted in the series that he and Lenny may be more than just friends.
Carl also attended Springfield A&M University and possesses a master's degree in nuclear physics. He also possesses an IQ of 214, making him the smartest adult in the series, second only to Martin Prince. Mr. Burns once implied that he was a war hero.
Carl is an African American Buddhist who apparently grew up in Iceland (he once nostalgically referred to his "Icelandic boyhood"). He holds a master's degree in nuclear physics and is fond of bowling and drinking at Moe's Tavern.
Lenny, Carl and Homer have apparently been friends for most of their lives. Flashbacks show them as friends during childhood and high school, and they all began working at the nuclear power plant around the same time.
Video Games
In The Simpsons: Hit & Run, Carl appears in Level one as the boss for the mission, The Fat and the Furious. In The Simpsons Game, Carl and Lenny are shown arguing while bird-watching, and having forgotten Lisa and Bart's names when they save Lenny and Carl from logging machinery, even though Lenny and Carl have known them in their whole lives. During a conversation in the Springfield Hub, Carl and Bernice Hibbert are hinted to have had a past relationship that Carl wants to rekindle. He also mentions in this game his support for Obama.
The Simpsons Guy
In "The Simpsons/Family Guy" crossover he sits next Cleveland Brown, where they assume that they are the two funny guys in their towns.
Carl is also part of "The Guys", a friend group which consists of him, Lenny, Homer and Moe.
Carl is a Buddhist, although not a very dedicated one like Lisa (Richard Gere described Lenny and Carl's mediation practices as "way off"). He is sometimes seen in the Christian First Church of Springfield.
Character origins
In the early seasons, Carl was rarely seen with Lenny and did not have a consistent voice, but on some occasions, he can be heard with Lenny's voice and vice versa. In "Principal Charming", Carl's name is spelled "Karl"- like Karl from "Simpson and Delilah".
•In "A Star Is Torn", Carl appears to be Caucasian when he is seen in the audience from behind. This might have been an animation goof.
•In the Italian dub of the show, he speaks with a Venetian accent.
•In "Principal Charming", Carl's name appears to be spelled with a "K" when Homer looks at him in his Terminator mode.
•He has a tattoo of Foghorn Leghorn on his right thigh.
•His last name is a patronymic surname. Carl's adoptive father's first name with a "son" at the end of it, which is a tradition in Iceland (patrilineality is quite rare in Iceland). It should technically be spelled "Carlsson" (with two s's) to show Carl is "Carl's son". (see Icelandic name)
•His IQ is 214, as seen in "Specs and the City".
•Episode – "Simpson and Delilah"
•Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge" (slightly different appearance)
•Episode – "Bart Gets Hit by a Car"
•Episode – "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"
•Episode – "Principal Charming"
•Episode – "Brush with Greatness"
Sep 25, 2020 · Carl Carlson, Homer Simpson’s nuclear plant co-worker and Lenny Leonard’s best friend, will not be voiced by Hank Azaria, at least in the season premiere episode. Carl will now be voiced by...
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Sep 24, 2020 · In the episode, Carl Carlson — Homer Simpson’s nuclear plant co-worker, and best friend to Lenny Leonard — is now voiced by actor Alex Désert (“Better Things”). Désert replaces Hank Azaria in...
