Bobo (The Simpsons)
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- This article is about The Simpsons. For the abbreviation BoBo, see bourgeois bohemian. See also Bobo-Dioulasso for the city in Burkina Faso. Bobo is Jamaican slang for Cannabis.
Bobo is the long-lost teddy bear of Charles Montgomery Burns in the animated television show The Simpsons, featured in the episode Rosebud.
As a child, Burns lived with his family and cherished his teddy, but abandoned Bobo when he left to live with a "twisted, loveless billionaire". Bobo lies in the snow until the spring, when a thaw washes him downriver to New York. There, he is picked up by Charles Lindbergh and flown across the Atlantic Ocean.
Upon arrival in Paris, Lindbergh tosses the bear out the window, where it is caught by a young Adolf Hitler. In his bunker in Berlin, Hitler blames Bobo for losing the war and tosses him away. In the next scene, Bobo lies onboard the submarine Nautilus headed for the North Pole. He becomes encased in a block of ice until packed up by an ice-gathering expedition. The bag of ice with him in it is sent to Apu's Kwik-E-Mart in Springfield. Bart Simpson buys the bag of ice, finds Bobo, and gives it to Maggie to play with.
Burns discovers that Maggie has the bear and goes through incredible feats to get it back, including interrupting all TV shows, and cutting off the beer supply to Springfield, in order to get Homer to give it up. Maggie, however, loves the bear, and Homer's conscience prevents him from taking Bobo away from her. Burns becomes deeply depressed and asks Maggie to look after his teddy. Maggie, in an act of pity, lets the desperate Burns have the bear. Burns is overjoyed, but his loving mood does not last.
Trivia
- The episode title is a reference to Charles Foster Kane's dying word in the film Citizen Kane. Rosebud was a meaningful object from Kane's childhood; Bobo is a substitute for Rosebud in this episode.
- Bobo was also the name of a police dog that briefly appears in "There's No Disgrace Like Home" (Season 1)
- A repaired Bobo makes a brief cameo in the end of "Homer the Smithers"
- There were unused historical moments that Bobo went through such as the assaination of JFK.