Edna Krabappel

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Edna Krabappel-Flanders
Seymour Skinner (ex-fiance)
Comic Book Guy (ex-fiance)
RelativesRod and Todd (step-sons)
Nedward Flanders, Sr. (father-in-law)
Mona Flanders (mother-in-law)

Edna Krabappel-Flanders (

twenty-third season, she marries Ned Flanders
.

Following Marcia Wallace's death in 2013, the show's producers announced that her character would be retired.

season 25 episode "The Man Who Grew Too Much
" marks Edna Krabappel's final original speaking role.

Profile

Edna Krabappel holds a

public school system. In "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story", it is revealed that she was once a very optimistic woman who genuinely wanted to help people in need. It would seem that after years of frustration thanks to the school, and Bart Simpson
in particular, this wore away.

There is some inconsistency about Edna's origins. She is said to have come to Springfield to begin teaching in "

documentary
featured in that episode.

Edna smokes heavily, including during school hours. In the episode "

Bart Gets a 'Z'", she is fired from teaching when she becomes drunk after drinking coffee that was spiked with alcohol by Bart. She later decides to open a muffin store. She is later rehired when the substitute teacher gets drunk. In "Moms I'd Like to Forget", she fights a fifth grade teacher, Mike, who talks badly about her students; this leads to a massive teacher brawl. In "The Ned-Liest Catch", she is suspended from teaching for slapping Bart and is placed in the Teacher Holding Facility. When Bart attempts to free her, she falls off a ladder but is saved by Ned Flanders
.

Love life

A recurring theme is Edna's desire for a romantic partner. She is divorced; in "

sex ed film, she says to the children in disgust, "She's faking it". In the same episode, Nelson Muntz asks why she does not live with "Mr. Krabappel"; she tells him that her ex-husband "chased something small and fluffy down the rabbit hole". In "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish", she has a "hot encounter" with a local Japanese sushi
chef in the backseat of her car.

The episode "

personal ad placed in the newspaper so she can find a man. The advertisement is answered by Bart – under the alias of "Woodrow", a seemingly perfect male lover named after former President Woodrow Wilson
– as a prank. This results in a cycle of romantic letters between both Edna and "Woodrow". Intending to finish the prank, Bart invites Edna to the Gilded Truffle Restaurant so she can meet with Woodrow. Edna waits expectantly for Woodrow, but is heartbroken after he does not appear. With his family's help, Bart writes a goodbye letter to Edna as Woodrow, satisfying her.

Edna appears to be desired by many men (and in one case even women, when

Patty Bouvier once had a sexual fantasy with Edna), as seen in Sideshow Bob's outrage (in "Brother from Another Series
") wherein his romantic date with her is ruined by a spying Bart: "You only get one chance with Edna Krabappel!"

Another theme is her relationship with the school principal,

Seymour Skinner. In the episode "Grade School Confidential", she develops a secret romance with Skinner, a relationship that almost leads to marriage. In the episode "Special Edna", Skinner proposes to Edna, to which she agrees. However, in the episode "My Big Fat Geek Wedding", Edna leaves Skinner at the altar after realizing that he doesn't want to marry her. Since then, Edna's attitudes to Skinner have vacillated between passion and disdain in various episodes. In The Simpsons Movie, she can be seen at the Green Day
concert on top of Seymour's shoulders wearing a T-shirt saying "Not my boyfriend" with an arrow pointing down at Skinner.

In season 17 ("The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"), a flashback showed that Edna was in a serious relationship with Moe Szyslak when she first moved to Springfield, before meeting Skinner or even becoming a teacher. She was about to elope with him, but then changed her mind when she met Bart Simpson, a student she believed needed help. Consequently, Moe breaks up with her. At the end of the episode, Moe and Edna are a couple once again, much to Skinner's jealousy when he catches them making out on school property. In "Regarding Margie", she and Principal Skinner are seen making love on a golf course. Then he climbs off and she says, "Birthday is over, Seymour", and lights up a cigarette.

Edna is in a relationship with Ned Flanders. During the 22nd episode of the 22nd season, "

Cletus Spuckler
, and several others.

It is revealed in the episode "Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda" that Edna and Ned married in secret (although she continues to use her first married name, Krabappel, as a teacher), and the town throws them a proper reception. In the episode "Left Behind", Ned took a teaching job as a way to honor Edna's memory after she dies. In the 30th-season episode, "My Way or the Highway to Heaven", Edna is seen in heaven next to George Washington while Maude Flanders is seen next to Abraham Lincoln.

Character

Marcia Wallace, the voice of Edna Krabappel

Krabappel's name was chosen by early Simpsons writers

Milhouse uses it in a later episode, stunning the other children. The real Seymour Skinner also mispronounced her name. In one episode, Homer is horrified to learn that no one has corrected him for calling her "Crandall".[3]
Like many characters, Ms. Krabappel has a memorable catchphrase, used often in the series: her derisive laugh ("HA!").

Retirement

Marcia Wallace died on October 25, 2013; according to her son, the cause of death was related to

Maude
, Ned's first wife.

Posthumous character appearances

In "Moho House" (season 28, episode 21), she appears as a ghost with Maude when Marge looks at everyone enjoying their spouses. She also appears as a ghost together with Maude in "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus", while Ned is watching his sons perform a song on stage. In "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" (season 31, episode 9), she accompanies Maude Flanders as they greet Ned and Homer into Heaven, and appears again at the end of the episode as a ghost hovering over Ned's bed, saying, "Ha!". In "Diary Queen" (season 32, episode 12), the episode is centred around her diary and she guest-stars through archive recordings.

Cultural impact and reception

Marcia Wallace won an

fourteenth season of the show.[10] Tilda Swinton modeled her hairdo in the film Burn After Reading on Krabappel's.[11] The Guardian ranked Krabappel as the 8th-best teacher.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b "Marcia Wallace, actress from 'The Simpsons' and 'The Bob Newhart Show', dies at 70". Entertainment Weekly. October 26, 2013. Archived from the original on October 27, 2013. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
  2. ^
    The Ned-liest Catch. Wallace appeared in 178 episodes in all, voicing grumpy fourth-grade teacher Edna in all but three of them. The actress's death was confirmed on 26 October by The Simpsons' executive producer Al Jean, who said she had been "brilliant and gracious." "She was beloved by all at The Simpsons and we intend to retire her irreplaceable character,' he said in a message
    on Facebook."
  3. ^ a b Groening, Matt; Wolodarsky, Wallace (2001). Commentary for the episode "Homer's Odyssey", in The Simpsons: The Complete First Season [DVD]. 20th Century Fox.
  4. ISBN 978-0062748034
    .
  5. ^ "Marcia Wallace, Star of 'The Bob Newhart Show' and Voice of Mrs. Krabappel, Dies at 70". Variety. October 26, 2013. Archived from the original on October 27, 2013. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
  6. ^ "R.I.P. Marcia Wallace". Deadline. October 26, 2013. Archived from the original on October 27, 2013. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
  7. ^ "Marcia Wallace of 'The Simpsons,' 'The Bob Newhart Show' has died". Chicago Tribune. Reuters. October 26, 2013. Archived from the original on August 6, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
  8. ^ Hughes, Jason (November 4, 2013). "'The Simpsons' Pays Tribute To Marcia Wallace With Final Chalkboard Message". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on November 6, 2013. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
  9. ^ "Briefing–'Simpsons' score big in Prime-Time Emmys". Los Angeles Daily News. August 3, 1992. p. L20.
  10. ^ Goldman, Eric; Dan Iverson, Brian Zoromski (September 8, 2006). "The Simpsons: 17 Seasons, 17 Episodes". IGN. Archived from the original on February 8, 2009. Retrieved November 6, 2008.
  11. ^ Verner, Amy (September 8, 2008). "Bad hair days welcomed on set of Coen brothers film". The Globe and Mail. Archived from the original on April 7, 2013. Retrieved September 14, 2008.
  12. TheGuardian.com
    . September 6, 2015.

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