He rarely shoots anyone though. And bark he does. Relationship Status… single with few prospects. With his looks, Moe has lots of trouble getting women. Moe gets a few chances at love, but his short temper usually blows the whole thing out of the water. An anonymous caller has been pranking Moe for years.

Little does he know, the culprit is none other than Bart Simpson, the son of bar regular Homer Simpson.

It should be pretty obvious by now. Personality… angry, rude, and guarded. He has a cat named Mr. Snookums , of whom he is very fond. Moe is also kind towards the rats that live in his bar. On Wednesday nights, he reads to the homeless in a local soup kitchen and he also reads to sick children at the hospital. Until it was destroyed, Moe had a fondness for a jar of pickled eggs. He saved the owner of King Toot's music store and his wife from a flaming car.

Moe has expressed distaste of cruelty towards animals. He saved the life of Maggie Simpson ironically at a time that he was about to jump from a bridge and took efforts to protect her [20].

Moe engaged in charity work in South America or Africa, using a flying fan to fight forest fires and deliver medical supplies to people devastated by floods.

Moe has knowledge of automobiles and dancing. Also, in the middle of the baseball game, he ran naked on a field in front of everyone to help Bart and gain another try for him to catch a ball. When Moe noticed that Homer , Apu and Timothy Lovejoy had relationship problems with their wives, Moe fake-threatened to run away with one of them, in hopes that the men would appreciate their wives. It is also implied in the same event that he had gotten into enough trouble with saying several things that were worded in a way that sounded worse than intended to have to neurotically state it's not what he meant, as when calling Apu about one of his kids being left at the bar, he ended up having to repeatedly make very clear after relaying the message on Apu's voice mail that it was not a kidnapping ransom or kidnapping threat.

Club that was stranded on an island, but exactly how he did it is unknown. Moe has been implied to be an illegal immigrant at least twice in the series. When asked to listen to his inner child at a self-help seminar hosted by Brad Goodman , a younger Moe appears, telling older Moe, "what's-a matter, Moe?

You no longer speak in your accent no more" in an Italian accent and to this realization Moe proclaims "mamma mia! The second time was during Proposition 24 where Moe takes a citizenship test but wearing a false mustache [24].

Another implication to Moe's foreign descent is when Homer does a background check on his character and calls him Momar which causes him to become embarrassed [25]. However, this probably cannot be trusted as early in the season he is referred to as "Morris" by his bartender Colette. He has shown to dabble with voodoo such as stabbing a miniature rag doll of Barney with a beer bottle to get him to drink again which can only be assumed how Moe gets all of his customers.

He also practices Santeria, an Afro-Caribbean religion based on Yoruba beliefs and customs. When Barney decided to go sober but ultimately returned to his bar, Moe silently thanked a shrine underneath his counter with a picture of Barney and a skull, claiming "Santeria, you're the greatest'.

Aside from this he was a former Movementarian but left the cult when their religion was exposed as a fake and once claimed to worship a dog's bad dreams to his bowling team. He also at some point believes that a snake-handling church is the true faith; in "Pray Anything", when he asks Elijah Hooper which of the true faiths he belongs to, he answers Hooper with "That's the wrong thing to say to a snake handler!

At one point Moe started his own cult, where he is the god. He claims to have done this to get out of court and so he pretended to be crazy. Kearney and his family were members of this cult until Moe revealed it to be fake. Moe is the owner and, except for a few instances where temporary help is hired, the only employee of Moe's Tavern. Moe is notoriously cheap with his customers, refusing to give them free drinks, or throwing them out when they are out of money and in one case, calling designated drivers "cheapskates" [26].

He encourages his customers to drink as much as possible to grow their tab. Moe removed games from the bar, noting that "people drink less when they're having fun". He enthusiastically abandons his bar, its regular customers, and his friends when a better opportunity comes along, such as the drink " The Flaming Moe ", the opening of his postmodern bar "M" [28] , and the conversion of his bar into a family-themed restaurant called Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag. Moe is often engaged in shady or illegal activities at his tavern, including smuggling pandas and orcas, hosting Russian roulette games, operating an unlicensed casino, serving liquor without a license his expired in and it is only good in Rhode Island as well as being signed by Moe himself , running a speakeasy during Springfield's brief flirtation with Prohibition, and performing unlicensed surgery.

While Moe and his bar have gained occasional popularity, the phenomenon tends to be short-lived. They both go out on a date, but Moe must visit the bathroom each time to see Grampa, until she discovers his plan. She forgives him for his efforts.

Players can play as Moe in this game. He has long been infatuated with Marge Simpson whom he often refers to as Midge and has on occasion professed his love for her and tried to win her away from Homer. Moe's romantic attractions have resulted in criminal behavior and run-ins with the law; he has stalked Maude Flanders and other townspeople, he must register as a sex offender, and he had a restraining order placed upon him.

At one point he is seen on his way to a "V. Despite his faults, Moe has been shown to express genuine love and sentimentality, which suggests that he may not be as gruff as he appears.

He has a cat named Mr. Snookums, of whom he is very fond. Moe is also kind towards the rats that live in his bar. On Wednesday nights, he reads to the homeless in a local soup kitchen and he also reads to sick children at the hospital. Until it was destroyed, Moe had a fondness for a jar of pickled eggs. He saved the owner of King Toot's music store and his wife from a flaming car.

He saved the life of Maggie Simpson ironically at a time that he was about to commit suicide by jumping off of a highway bridge into the river and took efforts to protect her.

Moe engaged in charity work in South America or Africa, using a flying fan to fight forest fires and deliver medical supplies to people devastated by floods. Moe has knowledge of automobiles and dancing. He also has a tender fondness for Lisa, who helped him to channel his depression into poetry, and has a deep attachment to Homer whom he easily feels rejected by.

Moe has also been revealed to be good at writing poetry, with help from Lisa who arranged his poems for him. However, Moe's inner beauty was ruined when he refused to share credit with Lisa for his poem Howling at a Concrete Moon in fear that he would get rejected by his fellow authors.

While they determined whose wife Moe supposedly left with and realizing the problems with their spouses , Moe went around Springfield solving all the men's marriage problems. He later confronted the three men, explaining to them why he wrote the letter and told them not to take their wives for granted.

Club that was stranded on an island. Exactly how is unknown. Despite his attitude and less than glamorous appearance Moe has been quite successful with romance, he has dated Selma , Lindsey Naegle , Edna Krabappel , Maya and Renee. Pommelhorst and many others. Moe's most serious relationship was with Maya , a woman that Moe met online.

When Moe realized that she was a little person, he was shocked but quickly started making jokes about it. Moe also tried to stay away from anything including little people. Due to the frequent jokes Moe made about her height, Maya got annoyed and broke up with him.

They rekindled their relationship until Moe got scared that Maya would break up with him again as he wasn't good enough for her. After leaving her for a few days, Moe was convinced by Homer to return to her and propose. Maya accepted the proposal and they got engaged. They both go out on a date, and Moe goes to the bathroom each time to see Grampa, until Betty discovers everything, but still loves Moe because he bothered to do all this just for her.

In the video game "The Simpsons Road Rage", Moe is a character that you can unlock later in the game and drive him. In the brief video when you select his car you can see that he is smuggling a panda, which can be seen in an episode. He is one of the people Marge can use in Mob Rules to protest the sales of the Grand Theft Scratchy videogame to minors.

In the level NeverQuest , he is an enemy, and looks like an Orc. Unlicensed Surgeon Moe. Moe's character was based partly on Tube Bar owner Louis "Red" Deutsch, who was made famous in the popular Tube Bar prank calls when he was repeatedly prank called by two Jersey City residents.

These calls were the inspiration for Bart's repeated prank calls to Moe, and Deutch's often profane responses made Moe's violent side. Hall considered being the basis for Moe "an honour".

Moe's surname "Szyslak" was revealed in " Who Shot Mr. Part One ", the writers found the name in a phonebook and gave it to Moe so that he would have the initials M. He was designed by Dan Haskett.

Moe was the first voice Hank Azaria performed for the show, redubbing Christopher Collins who initially recorded the character's voice for " Some Enchanted Evening ". He used the same voice in the audition, and was told by Matt Groening and Sam Simon to make it more gravelly, with it becoming the voice of Moe. Groening and Simon thought it was perfect and took Azaria over to the Fox recording studio. Before he had even seen a script, he recorded several lines of dialogue as Moe for the episode "Some Enchanted Evening".

Also in earlier seasons, he was seen with black hair instead of his current gray hair. During the episode " Bart-Mangled Banner ", Moe claims to be Dutch, only to stomp out of his bar wearing clogs a few seconds later. Such is the case of Moe Szyslak, whose age has been a mystery to viewers for years. Created by Matt Groening, The Simpsons began as a series of animated shorts for The Tracey Ullman Show in before being developed into a half-hour prime time show and making its official debut on Fox in Since then, The Simspons has become the longest-running American sitcom, and even though the quality of the series has been in decline for years, it shows no signs of stopping soon.

The Simpsons follows the daily adventures of the title family and their friends and a couple of enemies in the colorful town of Springfield. Moe has been through a lot, and his appearance does hint at him being older than Homer and Barney, how exactly how old is he?