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Assisted by his equally slick and sleazy aides, Joe can be expected to turn up at any public event and promise exactly what the audience wants to hear. For instance, after discovering that the only thing that interests the residents of the Springfield Retirement Home is Matlock (a TVSee TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The term has come to refer to all the aspects of television p detectiveA detective is an officer of the police who performs criminal or administrative investigations, in some police departments, the lowest rank among such investigators (above the lowest rank of officers and below sergeants), a civilian licensed to investigat series that ran between 19861986 is a common year starting on Wednesday. Events January January 1 Spain and Portugal enter the European Community January 1 Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands and is separated from the Netherlands Antilles. January 9 After losing a pa and 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja), he promptly decides to name a new freewayA freeway (also superhighway or expressway is a multi- lane highway ( road) designed for high-speed travel by large numbers of vehicles, and having no traffic lights, stop signs, nor other regulations requiring vehicles to stop. Freeways have high speed l the "Matlock Expressway". He is also known to be a womanizer and to occasionally amuse himself with pornographic playing cardA playing card is a typically hand-sized rectangular piece of heavy paper or thin plastic used for playing card games. A complete set of cards is a pack or deck . Playing cards are often used as props in magic tricks, as well as occult practices such as cs during particularly boring townA town is usually an urban area which is not considered to rank as a city. As with cities, there is no standard universal definition of a town: the criterion in use in any country is likely to arise from national law, custom or administrative convenience. meetings.
It has been implied on occasion that Joe is connected to Fat Tony, the local Mafia Don.
Quimby, a member of the United States Democratic party has been re-elected several times, despite rather open admissions of fraud and wrongdoing. He once admitted to using taxpayer dollars to fund the murder of his enemies, but thanks to a clever use of a popular catch phrase ("I'm a bad wittle boy"), he was re-elected in a landslide. The fact that Quimby was a draft dodger who smokes marijuana and routinely cheats on his wife has earned him the hatred of Springfield's small but vocal Republican elite. With Sideshow Bob as their candidate, the party rigged a mayoral election, which briefly deposed Quimby. He was re-instated when Bob was found guilty of fraud and imprisoned.