Sancho Bob The Simpsons -

His name?

He has no lines. He has no plot relevance. He doesn't even have a canonical house.

Do it for him.

Look for the man with the cactus.

Or as some fans call him: The Prickly Dad. If you blinked, you missed him. Sancho Bob is a background character with a specific, repeating bit of animation. He is a lanky, pale, red-haired man (think a very hungover Professor Frink or a mutated Cecil Terwilliger). But his defining feature isn’t his look—it’s his action . sancho bob the simpsons

And then it happens.

We all know the heavy hitters. Duffman. Disco Stu. Professor Frink’s “Heavens to Murgatroyd!” But if you really dig into the DNA of The Simpsons —specifically the golden era (Seasons 4-9)—you’ll find a bizarre, throwaway character who deserves his own wing in the Springfield Hall of Fame. His name

In at least three separate episodes, you can spot Sancho Bob walking past the Simpson house, usually holding a giant, spiky cactus.