Ned Flanders

English Etymology From the fictional character Ned Flanders of the television show The Simpsons. Noun A nice -- perhaps annoyingly nice -- person, especially a neighbor, who is cheery, naive, conservative in politics and in Christian faith and who may be perceived as boring, one-note or simplistic. en Even Highway to Heaven, an '80s show that was a little less overtly Christian but definitely was heavy on the religious overtones, ran for 111 episodes. The Ned Flanderses of the world need entertainment, and they don't care how tedious, poorly written, and inane it is. If it's sweet and reinforces Christian ideology, they're all in, baby! https://www.google.com/books/edition/99_Episodes_That_Defined_the_90s/pPYYEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22ned+flanderses%22&pg=PA170&printsec=frontcover 170 McFarland Incorporated 99 Episodes That Defined the '90s: Television Milestones from Arsenio to Homer to Yada Yada Yada Chris Morgan 2024 en DOWN IN THE Players and Player Characters section of this book, Erica writes about one-note characters, the Ned Flanders of role-playing games. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Loaded_Dice_2/4-oEEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+Ned+Flanders+of%22+-%22the+simpsons%22&pg=PT106&printsec=frontcover Loose Leaf Stories Loaded Dice 2 Aron Christensen, Erica Lindquist 2020 en This is not limited to gas stations. Pretzels should not be purchased or consumed anywhere. They are the Ned Flanders of snack foods. If you're dying of starvation on a desert island, and there are only pretzels around, eat a handful, then pray to the struggle snack god for the clouds to burst open and rain Doritos. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Culinary_Bro_Down_Cookbook/-akFDgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22the+Ned+Flanders+of%22+-%22the+simpsons%22&pg=PT267&printsec=frontcover Grand Central Publishing The Culinary Bro-Down Cookbook Josh Scherer 2017 en On the other side of the spectrum, the local Ned Flanderses generally preferred to ignore the major local industry. 75 https://www.google.com/books/edition/Too_High_to_Fail/fj_ZCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22ned+flanderses%22&pg=PA75&printsec=frontcover Penguin Publishing Group Too High to Fail: Cannabis and the New Green Economic Revolution Doug Fine 2013 en Most games, Kittle starts by even telling the colossus across the line who'd like to tear his head off, "Good luck" with an ultrakind, "Let's stay healthy." Defensive linemen have told him, in so many words, to shut the hell up and that they will eat him for lunch. He can play that game, too. He has no problem playing that game. But Kittle knows there's a benefit to acting like Ned Flanders in the middle of such a violent sport. Grand Central Publishing The Blood and Guts: How Tight Ends Save Football Tyler Dunne 2022 en If U-turners do indeed have more unacknowledged darkness in their souls, it would explain why their stories tend to be messy, with plenty of collateral damage: people hurt and people left behind. The Ned Flanderses of the world do not pull U-turns. But Pascal would say, the Ned Flanderses—all virtue—never produce the Big Virtues. They are steady. And steady never created a masterpiece. https://www.google.com/books/edition/U_Turn/7T-gAwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22ned+flanderses%22&pg=PA56&printsec=frontcover 56 Bloomsbury USA U-Turn: What If You Woke Up One Morning and Realized You Were Living the Wrong Life? Bruce Grierson 2008 en Even famous semi-wuss George Harrison called the neat-combed Nash's music "soulless." As leader of the Hollies, a squeaky rendition of the Beatles, he incited the hatred of his peers: Screaming Lord Sutch crowned them "diabolical." He then joined David Crosby and Stephen Stills in a grandiose supergroup and turned hippie ideals into the Mommy & Me melody of "Our House" and the chicken-soup platitudes of "Teach Your Children." Smug and sanctimoni-ous, Nash is the Ned Flanders of rock & roll, mustache Blender https://archive.org/details/blender-2006-08-owen-wilson-50-c/mode/2up?q=%22the+ned+flanders+of%22 57 That's What I Call Wussy August 2006 en terms derived from The Simpsons en Fictional characters The Simpsons en eponyms