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Please don’t insert that obnoxious Simpsons laugh here:

The pudgy-faced Brooklyn teacher charged with fondling three 10-year-old schoolgirls is the real-life model for the school-bully character of Dolph on “The Simpsons,” it was revealed yesterday.

Matt Groening, creator of the smash Fox show, patterned the stringy-haired thug who terrorizes Bart Simpson after Dolph Timmerman, who was his classmate at Lincoln HS in Portland, Ore.

Timmerman, 51, now a teacher at PS 123 in Bushwick, was busted Tuesday for allegedly touching the buttocks of one girl in a classroom as she bent over, as well as two other girls in the hallway of the school on Irving Avenue.

The $43,000-a-year teacher, who has been placed on administrative duty away from kids, was arraigned on six counts of sexual abuse and child endangerment yesterday and released without bail.

On “The Simpsons,” the dour-pussed, brown-haired Dolph, who is usually hunched over, and two other kids, Jimbo and Kearney, continually bully Bart at school. Dolph’s pastimes include breathing in the fumes at the One Hour Photo shop. He has worked as a Kamp Krusty counselor and at Springfield Paper and Printing, as part of the “Lackeys of Tomorrow” program.

Groening could not be reached for comment, but in past interviews he has said that while he borrowed Timmerman’s first name for Dolph, the real-life Timmerman is nothing like the holy terror on the show.

“[He’s] a really cool guy,” Groening once said.

There are no plans to cut Dolph’s character out of future shows or edit him from past ones.

“Our Dolph is just Dolph,” said “Simpsons” spokeswoman Antonia Coffman. “He has nothing to do with this man or with the show. And our Dolph doesn’t have a last name.”

See also: The Simpsons Archive: The Exploits of Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney.

Posted: February 16th, 2006 | Filed under: Dude, That's So Weird
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