Moe Szyslak

Biography

Moe Szyslak either illegally immigrated to the United States from the Netherlands (he reveals his Dutch heritage in "Bart-Mangled Banner") or was born in Indiana on November 24. He used to have an Italian accent, hinting at Italian heritage, though a police background check run by Homer reveals his real first name to be Moammar. In "Lisa Goes Gaga", Moe said that he was "Half monster, half Armenian." It is further referenced in the episode "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" that his father is the yeti that lives on Mt. Everest. In a more recent episode, Moe states that his birth was the result of a "Voodoo Curse" that had been placed on his mother that after five years of gestation he popped out backwards and on fire. However, he has a New York accent and Szyslak is a Polish surname. It is revealed in the episode "King Leer" that Moe had a strained relationship with his father as a result of his past, in which his father ran a series of mattress stores along with him, his sister and brother against a rival competition chain. The strain resulted when he was asked to put bed bugs on the rival's mattress' but refused to go through with it after seeing a picture of the rival chain owners family, only for the rival to go through with putting bedbugs on his father's mattress store, thus closing a series of stores and creating the distant strained relationship with his father and siblings.

Personality

Moe is characterized by a short, violent temper (particularly aiming a makeshift shotgun at customers), a somewhat low self esteem coupled with homicidal and suicidal tendencies and a proclivity towards obsessive behaviors. He has an annual Christmas tradition of attempted suicide, but his attempts are comically unsuccessful (landing on a hot-air balloon after jumping out of a plane, for example). He has called the suicide hotline so many times that they have blocked his number. Although he has a violent temper and homicidal tendencies, there were instances where even he did not approve of violent depictions. This was most especially evident when he saw the Mel Gibson-starring remake Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, where he flatly said "Well, that was disgusting!" while leaving the theater with the rest of the sickened audience regarding the infamous killing spree ending.

look like

gray hair, yellow skin, light blue shirt, red bow tie, wears a dark blue apron, brown pants, cowboy boots