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Ned Flanders is voiced by Harry Shearer. Ned, along with the rest of his family, is a deeply devout Christian, and is often used to satirize organized religion. The Flanders family lives next door to the Simpsons. They are often held up as a caricature of the "perfect family", in contrast to the Simpsons. Homer's envy of Ned and his family is a recurring subtext. Ned has the habit of attaching "diddly" and other nonsense phrases to sentences ("Hi-diddly-ho"). He quit his earlier career as a pharmacist to open a store in the mall called The Leftorium, which specializes in products for left-handed people. Ned presumably named his sons Rod and Todd because both names rhyme with God. Despite an outward appearance of exceeding meekness, Ned has an exceptionally well-built physique under his sweater-vest. This is even more impressive upon considering that Ned is actually a very young-looking senior citizen.

Ned was raised by two nihilistic beatniks whose terrible parenting skills made him a childhood terror. He was eventually put on an experimental eight-month spanking therapy program (the University of Minnesota Spankological Protocol) which taught him to suppress all feelings of anger.

There was a relative of Flanders who served in World War II. He was a superior to Sgt. Abe Simpson. (Note: When Abe threatened to report Pvt. Burns to Flanders, Abe indicates that his rank was commander, which isn't a rank in the United States army)

Maude Flanders was a devout Christian who attended Bible camp to learn to be more judgmental. She died in a sporting accident — she was knocked off a grandstand when a volley of gift T-shirts shot from compressed-air cannonprojectile, or cannonball, is labelled 1. The gunpowder is labelled 2. The fuse is inserted in the hole labelled 3. A cannon is a large, smooth-bored, muzzle-loading gun used before the advent of breech-loading, rifled guns firing explosive shells. A canns struck her while Homer was distracted from catching the shirts, due to finding a bobby-pin . Her dream of opening a Christian-themed amusement parkAmusement park is the more generic term for a collection of amusement rides and other entertainment attractions assembled for the purpose of entertaining a fairly large group of people. An amusement park is more elaborate than a simple city park or playgr was posthumously realized by the grieving Ned, who memorialized her with the motto: "She taught us the joy of shame and the shame of joy."

It is rumored that Maude was killed off because her voice actress demanded more money, and was denied; other sources say the actress was tired of multi-state commutes for only occasional work.

Rod Flanders is voiced by Nancy CartwrightNancy Campbell Cartwright (born October 25, 1959) is an American voice actor and actress. She is best known for providing the voice of Bart Simpson on the animated television show The Simpsons''. She has also loaned her voice for Margo Sherman on The Crit, while Todd Flanders is voiced by Pamela HaydenPamela Hayden is an American actress, best known for providing various voices for the animated television show The Simpsons ( 1989). Her voices include characters such as Milhouse Van Houten. Hayden, Pamela..

The GreenbeltThe Greenbelt festival is the largest Christian arts and music festival in the world, taking place annually in England around the last weekend of August. Since its start in 1973, Greenbelt has grown from a youth event, to which 1500 people came, to seeing Christian arts festival sometimes runs a Ned Flanders lookalike contest in tribute to one of TV's best-known Christians.

One little known fact about Ned is that he was a huge fan of The BeatlesThe Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 as part of their first tour of the United States, promoting their first hit single there, " I Want To Hold Your Hand". The Beatles were one of the most influential music groups of the rock era. Initially they affected the post. Over the years, he collected a large amount of Beatles memorabilia, which include the band's Ed SullivanEd Sullivan ( September 28, 1902 October 13, 1974) was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the emcee of a popular TV variety show that was at its height of popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s. Sullivan was originally a show suits and novelty drinks. This collection was kept in the basement of the Flanders' house; however, it was destroyed when Bart and Milhouse broke in and panicked when police came.