Leslie Nestle is an agricultural housewife from the 1920's, who lived on a little old farm in Smalltown, U.S.A.. She is the mother of Wesley Nestle and wife of Presley Nestle. She purchased Mr. Butlertron to get some extra help around the farm and pretended he was the twin brother of Wesley for fun. She appeared in "For Your Consideration".
Biography[]
In the 1920's, Leslie Nestle married a man named Presley Nestle and together, they had a son named Wesley Nestle and they lived a quaint and humble little life on a farm in Smalltown, U.S.A..
To make doing chores a little easier around the house, Leslie and Presley purchased a robot butler known as a "Mr. Butlertron" so that he could do their work for them. Their son, Wesley, really liked this robot and played games with him all the time, seeing him as a twin brother, who was eventually named "Besley". Leslie thought that this was cute so she went along with the game that Wesley and Besley were brothers, often time pretending to get the two mixed up, even though she knew how to tell them apart. As brothers, Wesley and Besley made a pact to stay together forever, even after they die and go to Heaven.
One day, The Nestle Family went to get Wesley baptized so that he could go to Heaven. Besley came with them but when he tried to go in the water, Leslie and Presley stopped him, telling him that as a robot, he can't get wet or he'll get rusty. The two of them were very blunt in how they revealed to Besley and Wesley that the former was nothing more than a soulless robot, who had no chances of getting into Heaven anyway, baptized or otherwise. The charade of the two boys being "twin brothers" sharply came to an end and this broke both of their hearts.
When Besley left the family out of sadness, Leslie didn't seem to bat an eyelash, and truly assumed that Besley knew from the start that he was just a robot. She didn't care at all about him leaving forever and gave him nothing but a Embroidered Pillow to take with him as he fled the house. The pillow said "When then going gets tough, get on a bus.", which is exactly what Besley did. Since that say, Leslie and Presley never looked back on their robot butler and moved on with raising their real son to adulthood.
Sometime before the 1970's, Leslie and Presley both died of natural causes, getting hit by a train, due to her house being built on train tracks.
Appearance[]
Leslie Nestle is a tall, skinny white woman with raven hair that she wears in a bun. She has a long nose and has dots for eyes and a bean-shaped mouth. She dresses modestly with a long, floor-length dress that has long sleeves and a tall collar. Due to her only appearing in the 1920's segment of the show, she was only shown in black and white.
Personality[]
Leslie Nestle is a humble housewife, who lives a quaint little life on a farm with her husband, her son, and her robot butler. She has a hobby of knitting and making embroidered pillows. Leslie is a very conservative and religious woman, being a devout Christian, who makes a point of baptizing her son so that he can get into Heaven. She apparently also fears witches, hence why she makes anti-witch prayers a regular chore in her house. However, she is also weirdly progressive in other areas in that she married Presley Nestle, a black man and birthed an interracial child with him, which is especially odd for the 1920's.
As loving a woman she she is to her husband and son, she is very cold and uncaring toward her robot butler, Mr. Butlertron. Leslie and Presley initially bought Mr. Butlertron to help out with chores around the farm and because their son, Wesley, took a liking to him, they pretended that Mr. Butlertron was his twin brother and would go along with the little charade that they were twins, thinking it was all just a game. When the time came for them to reveal the bitter truth, Leslie had no problem with breaking Mr. Butlertron's heart, when she let him know he was a soulless robot, who wasn't getting into Heaven and sent him off with nothing but an embroidered pillow that said "When the going gets tough, get on a bus".
Trivia[]
- Her appearance is based on Olive Oyl from the Popeye the Sailor Man cartoons of the 1920's.