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Dr. Julius M. Hibbert, M.D.[2][3] is a recurring character on the television animated sitcom The Simpsons. He is Springfield's most prominent medical professional. Although he has a kind and warm persona, he is also often characterized as greedy and lacking in empathy.
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―Dr. Hibbert's catchphrase
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Dr. Julius Michael Hibbert, M.D., better known as Dr. Hibbert, is Springfield's most prominent and competent doctor, though he sometimes makes no effort to hide or make light of his high prices. Hibbert is very good-natured and is known for finding a reason to laugh at nearly every situation. He is often assisted by Dr. Nick Riviera. He is a minor character in The Simpsons Movie.
Dr. Hibbert is the Simpson's kind-hearted family doctor, a genius, a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Mensa member. As an undergraduate, it is inferred that he was a member of the Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. Hibbert is noticeably less dysfunctional than just about everyone else, though he does have a bizarre tendency to chuckle at inappropriate moments. He also gives questionable solutions to certain medical problems. For example, when Maggie saved Homer from drowning, he replied to Marge's question about how a baby can save the life of a full-grown man, saying "It's very simple. When an adult's life is in danger, a child can summon superhuman strength!" When Homer challenged Red Barclay to eat the "Sir Loins-A-Lot" steak in a contest, Marge feared that Homer might choke on a part of the steak, while Dr. Hibbert claimed that since being 12% owner of The Slaughterhouse (the restaurant they were eating at), his dietary advice suggests "the occasional eating contest". However, when Red dies from "beef poisoning", he attributes the cause to another restaurant. He also runs Dr. Julius Hibbert, M.D. Family Practice to which he showed Lisa a video about DNA.
There are hints that Dr. Hibbert is not above dubious medical practices either. After Marge talks him out of buying an unsuitable house, he tells her if she ever needs a prescription, "no questions asked..." On another occasion, he buys one of Bart's T-Shirts with the legend "DO NOT RESUSCITATE" remarking that it could get him out of some sticky situations. When he realized that Marge was initially unenthusiastic about having a third child, he implied that a healthy baby could bring in as much as $60,000 on the black market. Hibbert covered for himself against Marge's horrified reaction by saying that if she had replied any other way, she would be sent to prison, claiming that it was "just a test". In addition, Dr. Hibbert often has problems of what he should say to the patients, sometimes making the situation seem far worse than it actually was. A notable instance is when, after Bart was injured from a pool-dive gone awry, he told Bart "I'm sorry, but that leg's gonna have to come off", implying that Bart's broken leg will need to be amputated, only for him to correct himself and state that his wet bathing suit has to come off.
Despite his seemingly honest and good-hearted personality, there is evidence that he is, at heart, a committed mercenary. Hibbert announces to Homer that his heart operation will cost $30,000. When Homer has a heart attack in front of him in response to this news, he says, unmoved, "I'm afraid it's now $40,000" (hinting that instead of a triple bypass, it became a quadruple bypass). After Homer's baby-proofing business eliminates child injuries in Springfield, Hibbert is seen holding a cooing infant and complaining that there are not any scratches on him, and he has got boat payments. Hibbert is once shown as running an "H.M.O" ("Hibbert's Money-Making Organization"). He has also been interviewed on television sporting a baseball cap and chain blatantly advertising the wares of pharmaceutical companies. The "interview" ends with him joining in a choreographed raunchy dance routine with several attractive female dancers promoting Pfizer products. He is a committed Republican and attends Springfield's Republican meetings alongside Mr. Burns and Rainier Wolfcastle. Hibbert also freely wears fur coats, believing that while fur itself may not be murder, "paying for it sure is!"
While Hibbert is usually competent and responsible, it was once suggested that he did not have a legal license in medicine, since when Lisa was going to say who has been practicing medicine without a license (who is actually Homer), Hibbert tugs his collar nervously. In addition, he once tricked Homer into signing a malpractice waiver, after his medication caused Bart to lose his hearing, by making him "test out his signature" on the waiver. It has also been strongly hinted that his habit of inappropriate laughter at times is the result of a current morphine addiction.
There is some evidence of serious incompetence on the part of Doctor Hibbert. It is once revealed that the reason the crayon in Homer's brain was never discovered was because he covered up the crayon with his thumb, thereby suggesting he was not even looking at Homer's x-rays before picking them up. Also, Doctor Hibbert once checks Sideshow Bob's pulse before pronouncing him dead, then he throws Bob's hand away because he is touching a dead person. There were also instances where he came up with creative solutions to get his patients to undergo medical treatment, only for it to backfire horribly. A notable instance is where he had various townspeople disguise themselves as him to tail Bart so he could give him a Flu Shot, but ended up as a consequence banned from the library for a very lewd action that Moe Szyslak did while acting as one of his doubles.
His hairstyle has varied over the years (Afro, dreadlocks, Mr. T-style Mohawk, etc.), appropriate for the time period. At least one of Hibbert's cars is a green Mercedes-Benz G500, he also had a silver Volvo 850 sedan, and he once mentioned his Porsche keys. He was seen muttering angrily over a "rusty tailgate" on a generic-looking station wagon. His hobbies include Judo.
Treehouse of Horror
In the first segment of "Treehouse of Horror VIII", he survives the nuclear France had launched on Springfield but horribly mutated. In the first segment of "Treehouse of Horror XI", he comes to the Simpson house to observe the cause of Homer's death. In "Treehouse of Horror XIII", segment "The Island of Dr. Hibbert", he inhabits a skull-shaped island, where he transforms all of his visitors into animals. The final citizen of Springfield to undergo this fate was Homer Simpson. In "Treehouse of Horror XV", segment "Ned Zone", he falls to his death after Homer asks him to collect a Frisbee from the window-sill. In the final segment of "Treehouse of Horror XVI", he is turned a vampire by a witch and later into a Pacifier by Maggie Simpson. In the final segment of "Treehouse of Horror XVIII", he is seen confronting Homer along with several other Springfield residents about his children's pranks (along with Milhouse and Nelson). In "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII", segment "The Exor-Sis", he was killed by Maggie Simpson possessed by Pazuzu demon, she also reveals he cheated on his wife.
Future
In "Lisa's Wedding", he appears at the wedding of Lisa Simpson and Hugh Parkfield, where he states that Maggie is quite the hellion but she does have an incredible voice to Krusty. At the end "Three Gays of the Condo", which takes place many years in the future Doctor Hibbert is viewing his old video tapes all of which he left and finds out the nurse did steal sponges, thus proving he was right. In "Future-Drama", he is seen sitting in attending a Springfield High School ceremony for one of his children along with his wife. In "Beware My Cheating Bart", he is mentioned to have died from a fall by an Elderly Homer and Marge. In "Holidays of Future Passed", a nurse asks Dr. Hibbert if they should start an epidural on Maggie Simpson, but Dr. Hibbert gives her a pacifier which helps her while she is in labor. In "Days of Future Future", he treats Milhouse Van Houten's zombism.
"The Serfsons"
Julius Hibbert runs a surgery center and barber shop, where he tells that Krusty the Clown went here, where he found out that he had genital snerfs hidden near his genitals, much to his annoyance. Not long later, Homer and Marge brought Jacqueline Bouvier here because Marge discovered that her hand was blue and cold earlier. Dr. Hibbert notices this, and reveals that Jacqueline's blue and cold hand was caused by a bite from an Ice Walker.
Although he wasn't originally based on Bill Cosby's character Dr. Cliff Huxtable from The Cosby Show, when the Fox network moved The Simpsons to Thursdays opposite NBC's top-rated The Cosby Show, the staff made Hibbert more of a parody of Huxtable. Hibbert even owns a collection of rather horrid sweaters, just like Dr. Huxtable. Hibbert is always g...
•Dr. Hibbert has an IQ of 155.
•Dr. Hibbert has Facebook and appears to be friends with Mark Zuckerberg.
•In "They Saved Lisa's Brain", Dr. Hibbert said "maybe I should go back to Alabama", indicating he used to reside there.
•Dr. Hibbert's name in Czech dubbing, Dr. Dlaha, translates as Dr. Splint.
•Dr. Hibbert was originally going to be a woman named "Julia Hibbert."
•In Jay Kogen and Wallace Wolodarsky's original script for "Bart the Daredevil", Hibbert was a woman named after comedic actress Julia Sweeney ("Hibbert" was her married name at the time).
•Episode – "Bart the Daredevil"
•Episode – "Bart Gets Hit by a Car"
•Episode – "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"
•Episode – "The Way We Was"
•Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
•Episode – "Bart's Dog Gets an F"
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2.Maximum Homerdrive
3.Lisa the Simpson
4.And Maggie Makes Three
5.Bart of Darkness
6."Homer's Triple Bypass"
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Voiced most times by Harry Shearer. Images of the Dr. Julius Hibbert voice actors from the Simpsons franchise.
Feb 23, 2021 · Black actor Kevin Michael Richardson will now voice Dr Julias Hibbert, replacing white actor Harry Shearer who had voiced the character since The Simpsons began in 1989.
Feb 23, 2021 · Dr Hibbert will be played by a black actor for the first time in the long running animation, The Simpsons. The creators of the show announced that actor, Kevin Michael Richardson, will take...
