Artie Ziff was Marge Simpson's high school prom date in 1974. He has attempted to get Marge to dump Homer for him and he often attempts to kiss her. Ziff is very confident yet nerdy, self-centered and pretentious, believing himself to be the best at everything - he said that it "would damage reputation of the town" if Marge told people about his "busy hands",and once imagined a can-can chorus and audience made up entirely of himself
He is Jewish, once commenting that if people don't like him it's because they're Anti-Semetic. He holds a deep obsession over Marge, and has done since high school: His appearances mainly revolve around his plans to seduce her away from Homer, with the exception of his final encounter with the simpson family.