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Joan Bushwell

The evil Joan Bushwell

Joan Bushwell (Tress MacNeille) is a villainess from “Simpson Safari”, episode 12.17 of The Simpsons (airdate April 1, 2001). The episode had the Simpson family receiving a getaway to Africa as a result of Homer suffering a minor injury from a box of Animal Crackers.

During the trip, Homer angered a hippo during a party in a village, which resulted in him and his family being chased into a river. After being swept down Victoria Falls, the Simpsons were led to Bushwell’s chimp refuge by one of the animals, with Lisa excitedly gushing about how Bushwell famously lived alongside the chimps to study them. Taking the Simpsons into her home, Bushwell served them a dinner of grubs before explaining how her whole day revolved around her work with the chimps.

Pointy, one of the chimps, then began to panic as a group of men (presumed to be poachers) suddenly arrived outside the refuge, demanding Bushwell hand over the chimps, which she immediately refused. Bushwell implored the Simpsons to help her defend the refuge with them using the environment to thwart their entrance. However, Lisa was shocked to learn that the “poachers” were in fact members of Greenpeace who were there to rescue the chimps. The Greenpeace leader then took Bushwell’s whistle from her and blew it, causing some chimps to exit a hidden diamond mine with this serving as Bushwell’s villainous reveal.

After unsuccessfully trying to feign shock at the discovery, Bushwell had her hut raided, revealing she had diamonds stashed everywhere, even on the soles of her shoes, with her “research reports” merely being taken from monkeys in movies. The evil Bushwell angrily ranted about how her loneliness had led to her heel turn before maniacally offering the witnesses diamonds in exchange for their silence. The episode’s final scenes revealed her offer had been accepted, indicating that the villainess continued exploiting the chimps.

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