The Simpsons: 10 Best Characters Only In One Episode
3. Lyle Lanley
Always on hand with a penknife for your pudding can, Lyle Lanley put Brockway, Ogdenville and North Haverbrook on the map and placed himself high in the pantheon of Simpsons characters who appeared in only one episode.
As we all know, there's nothing on earth like a genuine, bona fide, electrified, six-car monorail, but the residents of Springfield weren't aware of that fact until they found themselves sitting on a $3 million windfall courtesy of Mr. Burns' shady business practices. Enter Lyle Lanley to charm them all - Marge aside - with his silver tongue and the power of song, skipping town with a bagful of cash and leaving Main Street still all cracked and broken.
A shoo-in for any serious Simpson fans all-time top ten episodes, Marge vs. the Monorail gave us Leonard Nimoy, Homer as a monorail conductor, a family of possums (I call the big one Bitey) and non-stop laughs, but the show quite rightly belonged to Lanley. He led the town in one of Springfield's very best musical numbers, and while his escape plan may have hit the skids when his flight to Tahiti made an unscheduled stop in North Haverbrook ("Mono Doh), his memory lives on.
So, then, mono means one and rail means rail, and that concludes our extensive look at Lyle Lanley.