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Walter Seymour Skinner (cuyo nombre original era Armin Tamzarian o Armin Skinner en Hispanoamérica, Armando Barreda 3 ) es un personaje de la serie animada Los Simpson. Es doblado por Harry Shearer en la versión inglesa.
- Armin Tamzarian
- Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire[1]
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Walter Seymour Skinner or Seymour Skinner (real name: Armin Tamzarian) is a recurring character in The Simpsons. He is the principal of Springfield Elementary School, and a stereotypical educational bureaucrat. He struggles to control the crumbling school and is constantly engaged in a battle against its inadequate resources, apathetic and bitter teachers, and often rowdy and unenthusiastic students, Bart Simpson being a standout example. A strict disciplinarian, Skinner has an uptight, militaristic attitude that stems from his years in the United States Army as a Green Beret, which included service in the Vietnam War, where he achieved the rank of a sergeant, according to his rank insignia. As a result of his service in the Vietnam War, he is often plagued by horrible memories of his involvement via post-traumatic stress disorder, sometimes even happening at the most inopportune of times. It is also implied that he received a severe injury during the Vietnam War on his posterior to require a metal plate to be installed in it.
In late 2017-early 2018, an old segment of the show featuring Skinner and Superintendent Gary Chalmers having a luncheon went viral, spawning what has become known as the "Steamed Hams" meme.
Out of genuine concern for the quality of education of his students, most of Skinner's actions revolve around ensuring the school has adequate funding. His constant desperate, and usually ineffective attempts at maintaining discipline are an effort to receive good reviews from the frequent inspections of his capricious, temperamental, and whimsical superior, Superintendent Chalmers - who makes no effort to hide his disapproval of Skinner. These inspections usually turn away due to Bart Simpson's elaborate pranks—which playoff Skinner's desperation for order. Over the years of pranks and inspections, though, Skinner has developed a love-hate relationship with each of them; when Skinner was fired and replaced by Ned Flanders, Bart found pranks less meaningful, due to Flanders's lax approach to discipline.
In an accident involving both Skinner and Chalmers, Chalmers showed grief over Skinner before he realized he was still alive. Although he likes to maintain the image of a strict disciplinarian, he is often weak-willed and nervous and has a very unhealthy dependence on his mother who constantly makes demands from him. She addresses him by the nickname "Spanky." Also, it was heavily implied that Seymour Skinner suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder from his days in Vietnam, where he spent eighteen months as a prisoner of war. Seeing his entire platoon devoured by an elephant was one of the many things that led to the development of his post-traumatic stress disorder. Once, his PTSD kicked in in the middle of trying to alert students of a prank that Bart pulled involving heart message candies with crude statements on the PA where he remembered his war buddy Johnny being killed while he was writing a Valentine's Day card for his girlfriend back at home, causing Bart to think he "broke [Skinner's] brain". However, one PTSD related episode didn't deal with the war itself, but rather his experiences after the war, where he was apparently spat upon by people who were presumably anti-Vietnam when he was earlier promised with a parade.
Skinner's unhealthy relationship with his mother began early: it is revealed that Agnes' pregnancy resulted in her failing to win a medal at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952. He originally was quite laid back as a principal, even going as far as to do a jump-flip to catch a Frisbee while telling a student to keep up with his studies, but it all changed when one of his students (Andy Hamilton) managed to fill the pool with worms and locked Skinner in the pool for the whole weekend (plus a Monday and he didn't come out of there until Tuesday morning), causing him to become serious and almost merciless in his approach on rules, even going as far as to shut down the pool and demoting Willie, the swim teacher, to groundskeeper. When Bart attempted to stop Krusty from diving into a worm-filled pool out of fear of Krusty becoming like Skinner, he accidentally blurted what happened to Skinner on the air, causing Skinner to angrily mutter sarcastically that his mother told him that Krusty the Clown was supposed to be a good influence, indicating that he was attempting to repress the traumatic memory. Bart also claimed that Skinner likes dog food when preparing something for Principal Skinner, although it is unclear whether he was being serious about this. Besides his job as Principal for Springfield Elementary School, he also worked as a member of MENSA and was also the acting referee and a major organizer of the annual Civil War reenactment of the Battle of Springfield.
At one point, when the Vice President's Assessment Test was coming up, Skinner and Superintendent Chalmers came up with a plan to lure all of the underachievers away from the test day by faking a perfect score on the pretest and then tricking them into going for a Chopper ride to a Pizza Party in Capital City (going as far as to disguise the School Bus as a chopper). However, when the plan reached fruition, Skinner ended up being betrayed by Superintendent Chalmers with the latter tricking Skinner into boarding the bus to "get his sunglasses." He then has to get the kids back to the school, and also saved Ralph Wiggum when he somehow managed to board a garbage barge, to which Skinner impresses Bart and the other underachievers by saving Wiggum using the Conservation of Angular Momentum. Luckily for them, the Garbage Barge was also heading to Springfield Elementary School, so Skinner reads the newly motivated underachievers The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the rest of the way, and after returning, stops the Vice President's Test, and also re-institutes dancing in school.
Skinner wears a cerulean business suit (purple in season 1), grey leather shoes, a rose petal pink tie, and a lavender dress-shirt. It is sometimes stated that he wears a toupee.
He has yellow skin, short, straight, grey hair styled in a generic fashion, and a large nose. Unlike most Simpsons characters, he has a gap between his eyes.
"The Principal and the Pauper"
Skinner's backstory was revisited in the episode "The Principal and the Pauper", where it was revealed that Skinner is an impostor. Born Armin Tamzarian, it emerges that he was a troubled orphan until he was forced into the United States Army during the Vietnam War (although he also had other options such as jail, and apologizing to the woman he stole from and judge he accidentally struck while trying to escape; Skinner stated he would have chosen to apologize instead had he known there was a war going on at the time). There, he was befriended by Sgt. Seymour Skinner, who he came to idolize as the big brother he never had and made him believe there was more to life. This episode is assumed by some (who?) to be non-canon. When Sgt. Seymour Skinner was reported missing and presumed dead, Tamzarian returned to Springfield to tell Skinner's mother, but she deliberately mistook him for Seymour, despite believing she knew he wasn't really her son, Tamzarian assumed his former sergeant's identity and followed Skinner's dream of becoming a school principal. It is revealed that Skinner (AKA Armin Tamzarian) was born in New Orleans. The real Seymour Skinner had been alive after all, and briefly returned to Springfield to take his rightful place as Springfield Elementary School School Principal, but had proved hopelessly unpopular and the Springfielders ran him out of town on the railroad. Judge Snyder granted Tamzarian Skinner's "name, and his past, present, future, and mother", and decreed that no one will mention his true identity again "under penalty of torture" (however, Lisa calls him by his true name teasingly when he comments on her decision of calling Snowball V "Snowball II", without consequences), thus everything returned to normal.
Treehouse of Horror
In the final segment of "Treehouse of Horror III", Skinner is of the many Springfield Citizens who turned into zombies. In "Treehouse of Horror IV", in the second segment Skinner rides on the school with the children due to his mother hiding his car keys as punishment for talking to a woman the phone. During the bus ride, Skinner eventually becomes annoyed with Bart telling people there is a gremlin on the outside the bus and forces Bart to sit next to Üter Zörker. He then finally gets rid of Bart by sending him to a mad house. In the final segment of "Treehouse of Horror V", he and most of Springfield Elementary School staff eat children after he finds that Jimbo Jones tastes delicious after Doris Freedman spills stew all over him. Causing all of the teachers to become monstrous cannibals as a result. This all turned out to be Bart's nightmare all along. In the second segment of "Treehouse of Horror VII", Skinner gives Bart the prize for winning the school science fair. In the first segment of "Treehouse of Horror VIII", Skinner is one of the people who survived the nuclear explosion but is turned into a horrifying mutant as a result. In "Treehouse of Horror XII", Skinner, as Wizard Skinner, presents many magical performances done by the students of Springwarts Elementary School. Including Lisa Simpson. In Treehouse of Horror XIII's parody of Dr. Moreau, he was turned a baby joey with his mother as a kangaroo. In "Treehouse of Horror XIV", Skinner's skeletal system is ripped out by the regenerated body of Professor Frink's father. In "Treehouse of Horror XX", Skinner was killed by Bart. In the opening of "Treehouse of Horror XXIV", he is seen running from Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, the Wolfman, the Mummy, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, the Bride of Frankenstein, the Metaluna Mutant, and the Invisible Man. In the second segment, Skinner is unable to start his car, he gets out of the car when he cannot do it and cries on the ground.
Future
In "Lisa's Wedding", he receives an invitation to Lisa's wedding. In "Future-Drama", Skinner is the principal of Springfield High School. In Holidays of Future Passed, Skinner becomes a landlord of The Lofts at Springfield Elementary, a housing block which the school has become, with Bart as one of the tenants. He also tells Bart that he is two weeks late on his rent along with a geography report from thirty years ago. In "Days of Future Future", Skinner is seen with the skeleton of Agnes Skinner at a restaurant. In "Flanders' Ladder", Skinner dies at age 119 from a heart attack after Bart launches fireworks into the air saying that "Skinner sucks".
Skinner, like Homer Simpson and a few other residents of Springfield, has displayed inhuman or unusual skills. He once tracked Bart throughout Springfield with no visible trail and even walked along the bottom of a river to cross it and then climbed a cliff. He also fought with Bart on a bus and went through a concrete bridge completely unharmed.
Skinner is normally quite passive and submissive outside of school. As a former green beret and war veteran, he occasionally demonstrates he is capable of action in spite of his cowardly demeanor. For instance, he once casually took down the Blue-Haired Lawyer and his two giant bodyguards.
Skinner is also highly intelligent. He is a member of the Springfield chapter of Mensa, meaning that his IQ is at least 130 and is at least in the top 2% of the nation. Other than his membership, however, he does not display extreme intelligence but rather seems like an ordinary man constantly irritated by Bart.
Skinner was also a talented, founding member of the Be Sharps Barbershop quartet.
Creation
Principal Skinner first appeared in "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", which was also the first Simpsons episode to air. Matt Groening based him on "all the principals of [his] youth, rolled into one bland lump." Writer Jon Vitti named him after behavioral psychologist B.F. Skinner. Skinner was originally supposed to wear a toupee, but it was dropped because the writers didn't like "that type of joke". The Simpsons Guide to Springfield as well as one of the Blackboard gags did, however, briefly imply that Skinner did wear a toupee. In the newer episodes it is confirmed that he wears one.
Development
In the first few seasons, Skinner resembles Norman Bates, the main character from Alfred Hitchcock's film Psycho. In later episodes, Skinner's behavior was based on teachers that Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein had in high school. Superintendent Chalmers was introduced in the episode "Whacking Day" as a boss for Skinner and Harry Shearer and Hank Azaria, the voice of Chalmers, fell right into the characters and quite often ad-lib between them.
•Skinner's prisoner of war ID number was 24601, which is also Sideshow Bob's prisoner number, a reference to Jean Valjean's prisoner number in Les Misérables .
•Skinner is right-handed.
•Apparently, Skinner has a clown punching beanie in his office to quell stress and anger relating to disruptions, especially ones relating to Bart Simpson, as he was seen punching it to relieve himself of his anger when Bart ended up causing a flood due to misuse of the fire hose on Fire Safety day before talking with Bart's parents.
•Skinner's nickname is Spanky.
•Skinner has been noted to have acid reflux.
•As shown by his multiple traumatic Vietnam War flashbacks Skinner deliberately homages both Cap. Benjamin L. Willard of Apocalypse Now and John Rambo from the Rambo Franchise. "I Love Lisa" directly refrences Apocalypse Now with Skinny's flashback depicting him a patrol boat sailing down a river with his fellow soldiers like Willard does in the film.
Walter Seymour Skinner (anteriormente Armin Tamzarian y Armando Barrera en Hispanoamérica) es un personaje secundario de la serie animada Los Simpson. Su voz en la versión original es de Harry Shearer. En España fue doblado por Antonio Medina hasta la tercera temporada y posteriormente por José Padilla.
Principal Seymour Skinner (born Armin Tamzarian) is a recurring fictional character in the animated sitcom The Simpsons, who is voiced by Harry Shearer.
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Walter Seymour Skinner (cuyo nombre original era Armin Tamzarian o Armin Skinner en Hispanoamérica, Armando Barreda) es un personaje de la serie animada Los Simpson. Es doblado por Harry Shearer en la versión inglesa.
Seymour Skinner. Walter Seymour Skinner (born as Armin Tamzarian ) , better known as Seymour Skinner and Principal Skinner is the principal of Springfield Elementary School, and a stereotypical educational bureaucrat.
