Lurleen Lumpkin

Lurleen Lumpkin is an attractive, aspiring country singer. Homer used to be her manager at one point.
==Personality==
Lurleen is a talented, passionate, and attractive country musician. In her first appearance, she apparently wanted Homer to herself due to him being nice to her and being the guy who made her music dream come true. Despite that, she never really wanted to hurt Marge or the Simpsons family. She actually is a very polite, friendly, well-meaning lady.
She apparently also has some daddy issues with her father Royce. He even abandons her again even after getting close to her again.
She says she never went to school. Despite this, she is very intelligent.
==Physical Appearance==
Lurleen has blonde hair in a ponytail with a blue headband while wearing a red country shirt with blue jeans with a white belt and pink/white boots. She also wears pink lipstick. In "The Joy of Sect", she has red hair.
==History==
Homer discovered Lurleen in a bar in the middle of nowhere. She sang "Your Wife Don't Understand You" for the rowdy bar crowd, and Homer was amazed by her voice. He decided to help her launch a singing career, much to the chagrin of Marge.
Lurleen was very grateful to have someone helping her with her career, but she quickly started falling for Homer, and it came out in her song lyrics.
First, she flirted with him in "Bagged Me a Homer," which angered Marge, but to which Homer remained oblivious. Then she made an open attempt to seduce him with a seductive song called "Bunk with Me Tonight."
When Lurleen sang the song for him, it finally dawned on Homer that Lurleen was attracted to him. Later he had another epiphany. He said all he wanted to do was get people to be able to hear her singing, not commit adultery. He abruptly sold her contract to Rebel Yell Records, then returned home.
Saddened but wiser, Lurleen then sang on the show a new song called "Stand By Your Manager," which she had written on the spot. Happily, Homer and Marge were able to make up before the show was over."Colonel Homer"
Lurleen enjoyed a brief period of success after Homer quit managing her. At what Kent Brockman described as the peak of her career, she appeared as a celebrity guest on The Muppet Show.
Lurleen sang "Bunk with Me Tonight" for Kermit the Frog, which got him into trouble with Miss Piggy.
After that, however, her career went into a downward spiral,"Papa Don't Leech" and she started drinking heavily."Marge vs. the Monorail"
She also never got over Homer, marrying and divorcing three times—with all of her ex-husbands, despite being from diverse ethnic backgrounds, bearing striking resemblances to Homer."Papa Don't Leech"
Lurleen was present during the opening of the Springfield Monorail, where she revealed to Kent Brockman that she had been to the Betty Ford Clinic and had "spent last night in a ditch."
Lurleen was also seen at the Bowlarama as one-fourth of a bowling team called "The Home Wreckers," the other three members being Jacques Brunswick, Mindy Simmons, and Princess Kashmir."Team Homer"
Lurleen resurfaced when Mayor Quimby was aggressively rounding up citizens who owed back taxes and was arrested. She pleaded to Judge Snyder that she couldn't afford to pay anything because all of her money was going to her ex-husbands, but Snyder was unmoved and ordered her to start paying her taxes.
Homer and Marge promised to help her get her career back on track, and Marge helped reunite Lurleen with her deadbeat father.
When her father betrayed her again (stealing one of her new songs), Lurleen retook control of her career and went on to open for the Dixie Chicks.
She still didn't have all her personal issues resolved, though, as she fell for yet another man who resembled Homer."Papa Don't Leech"
==Songs==
*"Your Wife Don't Understand You"
*"Bagged Me a Homer" (feat Lisa Simpson)
*"Bunk with Me Tonight"
*"Stand By Your Manager"
*"Daddy's Back"
*"Lurleen's Sad Song"
==Behind the laughter==
In her debut appearance in "Colonel Homer," Lurleen is voiced by American actress and singer Beverly D'Angelo, who reprises her role in the Season 19 episode "Papa Don't Leech." D'Angelo was cast because of her role as country music singer Patsy Cline in the film Coal Miner's Daughter. D'Angelo wrote the songs "Your Wife Don't Understand You" and "Bagged Me a Homer." In "Marge vs. the Monorail," Lurleen is voiced by Doris Grau. Lurleen Lumpkin's alliterative name (L.L.) and her feisty style suggests she is based, at least in part, on Loretta Lynn. Lurleen was based at least in part on Kathi Kamen Goldmark, founder of the all-author band The Rock Bottom Remainders, whose members included Matt Groening.
==Appearances==
Note: All of her appearances are mostly brief background roles. The episodes in which she plays a major role are in bold.
==Gallery==
Lurleen and Homer.jpg|Lurleen trying to kiss Homer.
8f19 homer und lurleen.jpg|Lurleen flirting with Homer.
Lurleen Singing You're Wife Don't Understand You.jpg|Lurleen singing "Your Wife Don't Understand You".
Bagged Me a Homer.jpg|Lurleen singing "Bagged Me a Homer".
Bunk with Me Tonight.jpg|Lurleen singing "Bunk with Me Tonight".
Realty Bites - 01.png|Lurleen at the Springfield Office of Unemployment in "Realty Bites".
All About.PNG|Lurleen (left), as she appeared in "All About Lisa".
THOH XIX-HowToGetAheadInDead-Vertising Intro8.png|Lurleen was seen in the opening sequence to "How to Get Ahead in Dead-Vertising" from "Treehouse of Horror XIX".
Zombie.png|Lurleen, next to Cletus, as a muncher in "Treehouse of Horror XX"
Lurleen.jpg|Lurleen with her father.
Lurleen Lumpkin figurine.jpg|Toy of Lurleen.
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==Citations==
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