The Simpsons: 10 Classic Characters You’ll Never See Again

Springfield explores all walks of life; from school children to the retirement home, from the Police force to the criminal underworld.

Mob boss Fat Tony and his henchmen are part of some great episodes not to mention one-off gags throughout Simpsons history. However, if you abandoned the show before 2010, it seems pretty likely that you don’t know that Fat Tony has joined the dead Simpsons characters club.

Then again, if you tuned in today you’d see a character that is essentially the same person so… what gives?

In a supremely weird turn of events, season 22’s Donnie Fatso has Fat Tony suffer from a heart attack and pass on. When Homer visits the grave of the former Mafia don, he is abducted by Tony’s cousin Fit Tony. Taking over the syndicate gets the better of the skinnier mob boss and he begins to pile on weight - becoming indistinguishable from the former character.

Thus, Fit Tony became Fit-Fat Tony… most often just referred to as Fat Tony.

This character change is so pointless but they are, technically speaking, different people. Fat Tony’s replacement has gone on to appear a great many times in the last decade despite the fact that his cousin, the original Fat Tony, is dead and buried.