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William McDougal, better known as Groundskeeper Willie, is a recurring character on The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. He is head groundskeeper at Springfield Elementary School. Willie is a Scottish immigrant, almost feral in nature and immensely proud of his homeland. He is easily identifiable by his flaming red hair and beard, as well as his stereotypical Scottish accent.

Willie is the groundskeeper at Springfield Elementary School and is an angry Scotsman. Willie is an uncouth and unpleasant, though essentially harmless, character. He has claimed to originate from several different places in Scotland, and frequently gives contradictory accounts of his past life before arriving in Springfield. These contradictions are referenced in "The President Wore Pearls" when Willie tells a story of working at a mine that caved in, saying, "No one made it out alive, not even Willie!" He has also said that he is deaf but can read lips (poorly). Willie is portrayed as being incompetent, quick to anger for little or no reason, and slow-witted. He has shown great animosity towards both his employer Principal Skinner and nemesis Bart Simpson. Willie is often the target of Bart's cruel childhood pranks, while Skinner frequently forces Willie to perform demeaning labor, which even included an unwitting part in the "Scotchtoberfest" sting-operation in "Bart's Girlfriend." Despite his hatred toward Skinner, Willie is shown at times to be fiercely devoted to his job. He is regularly shown living in a shack on the school's property and takes great pride in maintaining the school's "award winning" landscape in many episodes. In "Lisa Gets an A," Willie is shown gleefully plunging a severely clogged toilet with his own arm, and in "Bye Bye Nerdie," he panics and rushes immediately to change a restroom towel dispenser that was nearly reaching its end.

As far as family, Willie once told Skinner that he had seen his own father hanged for stealing a pig and, on another occasion, he expanded on his father's death, relating that his corpse had simply been thrown into a bog rather than receive a proper burial (presumably in the aftermath of his sentence for pig theft). However his father's fate was later called into question in "Monty Can't Buy Me Love," in which he met two very similar characters that he claimed were his parents. In "Lemon of Troy," it is shown that the female groundskeeper at neighboring Shelbyville Elementary School looks and speaks identically to Willie. Despite his usually gruff, unrefined mannerisms, on occasion Willie has demonstrated gentlemanly behavior. He once came to the aid of wrongfully accused Homer Simpson ("Homer Badman"), where Willie revealed that his pastimes included secretly videotaping couples. Willie's amateur video exonerated Homer of his sexual harassment accusations, although ironically the publicity led the to Smartline's profile of the groundskeeper as 'Rowdy Roddy Peeper.' Not always a bachelor, Willie was once engaged to Shary Bobbins as mentioned in "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious", until she recovered her eyesight—at which point, in Willie's words, "Suddenly the ugliest man in Glasgow wasn't good enough for her!" During a Springfield Elementary Science Fair, student Lisa Simpson featured the Scotsman in her project. The experiment showed high society was not beyond reach of the lowliest member of society (aka Groundskeeper Willie).

Willie was once given the job of teaching Bart Simpson in "On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister." Lisa had taken a restraining order against Bart, so he couldn't legally go to the same school. Willie became Bart's teacher because, according to Principal Skinner, Willie's shack is the only place on school grounds "outside all laws of Man and God." In Season 19's The Debarted, it is revealed that Willie uses his left arm for a diary and because of his lack of money he is forced to cut the words into his arm with a tattoo needle. Also in this episode Principal Skinner gave Willie a elementary school diploma for snitching on Bart. His years of heavy work have given him amazing strength and a very muscular physique, which has been observed many times; for example, he rescues Bart from a marauding Alaskan timber wolf by wrestling the wolf into submission. Much like Ned Flanders, though, his physique is unremarkable when he is clothed, and seemingly morphs as soon as he is partially nude.

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