10 Best Ned Flanders Episodes of 'The Simpsons,' Ranked

He can make a mean mixed drink, he calls Reverend Lovejoy ( Harry Shearer ) for guidance over the pettiest things, and he gets along well with George H.W. Bush . He calls his bushy brown mustache a "soup-strainer," he screams like a girl, and his religious devotion is rivaled only by his remarkably patient and outgoing demeanor. He even gets upset at his wife Maude ( Maggie Roswell ) when she underlines passages in his Bible when she can't find hers. This man, of course, is Ned Flanders (also Harry Shearer), next-door neighbor to The Simpsons , and easily one of the funniest characters in the show (at least during its Golden Age).

The owner of The Leftorium, the good Christian, the sex symbol ("Stupid sexy Flanders!")—this father of two can add "iddly" onto any word. Flande