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Marge Simpson
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Female
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Extremely high dyed blue beehive (really colored gray)
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34
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None permanent, occasionally collects Unemployment Insurance
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police officer, real estate agent, pretzel cart owner, nuclear technician
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Husband Homer , son Bart , daughters Lisa and Maggie , father-in-law Abe , father, Clancy Bouvier , mother, Jacqueline , and sisters Patty And Selma (See Simpson Family )
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(''née '''''Bouvier''') (voiced by
Julie Kavner ) is a
Fictional Character featured in the
Animated Television Series ''
The Simpsons ''. She is the well-meaning and patient wife of
Homer . Her most notable physical feature is her blue hair, styled into an improbably high
Beehive (kept in place by Johnson's Water Seal); she is proud to have never met anyone with taller hair outside
Graceland . It was once mentioned, by
Homer , that she actually dyes her hair blue, as she's been "gray as a mule since seventeen". With a few exceptions, Marge spends most of her time tending to housework, minding
Maggie , being supportive of
Lisa , and either disciplining
Bart or defending him from Homer's rage. She was named after Margaret "Marge" Groening, mother of
Matt Groening , creator of ''The Simpsons''.
In a first-season episode ("
Life On The Fast Lane "), Marge's age was said to be 34; several later episodes, however, have given Marge's age as 38, possibly a reflection on her and Homer's attending their twentieth anniversary
High-school Reunion in one episode. Her birthday may be
March 18 (working from the air date of "Life on the Fast Lane"); a more recent episode would suggest that her birthday is in February, as she said that
Emeralds would have been her birthstone if she had been born three months later (emeralds are the birthstones for May), but in the episode aired on 4/9/2006 named Kiss Kiss Ban Bangalore, she says her birthday is indeed in May. She's apparently fluent in
French and
German .
Marge has taken on various jobs, many of which have lasted only one episode each, among them:
Marge's family are fairly recent
Immigrants . They chose to come to Springfield rather than Stenchburg because they admired the life story of
Jebediah Springfield .
Having the maiden name Bouvier, it's possible (though never mentioned) that she is related to first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. The irony of this is while one Bouvier married into additional wealth, Marge married Homer Simpson.
When Marge was young she harbored aspirations of becoming an astronaut.
During her youth, Marge was a talented painter. She had such an intense crush on
Ringo Starr that she painted numerous portraits of him (including one in which they get married) and wrote to him.
Marge claims her greatest moment of stardom was back in high school when she and her friend on the school paper, Chloe, busted a younger
Moe Szyslak , who was a cafeteria worker and had spat in some soup to "teach them to give him his first job outta prison!"
After
High School , and before marrying Homer and giving birth to Bart, Marge worked as a "roller-waitress" at a
Drive-through restaurant. She sometimes collects
Unemployment Benefits from her short lived professions.
Marge has two older sisters, twins
Patty and
Selma (both also voiced by Kavner). A brother named Ardie was once mentioned to never be spoke of again. Her father, a former flight attendant (air steward), is deceased, although when or how this occurred has not been explained. Her disapproving mother,
Jacqueline , lives on but is rarely seen. All members of the Bouvier family (except, of course, Marge) smoke heavily and have gruff voices and sarcastic, snarky demeanors. None of the other Bouvier family members approves of Marge's marriage to Homer.
In spite of her reputation as a stereotypical
Sitcom mother and her relatively higher morals compared to some characters, Marge has had her share of escapades, which have earned her the moral disdain of Springfield's less forgiving residents. Having a brief stint as the only female police
Cop in the Springfield Police Department, taking classes for
Road Rage , time in jail for "
Misdemeanor Shoplifting ", a
Gambling addiction, a predilection for alcoholic beverages, a memorable cross-country police chase (à la ''
Thelma And Louise ''), having
Sex with Homer at the miniature golf course, which led to Homer and Marge running all over town completely naked, ultimately ending with them on a football field in broad day light being photographed, to which a humiliated Marge grumbled "It would have to be camera day...", and mistakenly having
Breast Implants are just some of the situations that Marge has found herself in. She also apparently makes very bad
Ice-cream Sundaes , though she is otherwise a cook highly regarded, especially for her celebrated
Pork Chops ; Marge manages to feed her entire family with only twelve
Dollars a
Week (she pads Homer's food with
Sawdust ). She also prepares commemorative
Hams , including an emergency ham, a condolence ham, an
Earthquake ham, and a celebration ham. She is also extremely jealous towards women that perform better as parents to her children.
Marge is the only member of the family who actively encourages
Church attendance.
Politically, Marge generally aligns with the
United States Democratic Party . She once mentioned that she voted for
Jimmy Carter and supported the candidacy of their unnamed state's Democratic
Governor Mary Bailey .
As a child, Marge developed a fear of flying when she was shocked to learn that her father was an airline
Steward (flight attendant). On her first day of school, she was teased for having a
Lunch Box with a picture of
The Monkees on it.
Marge briefly participated in
Student Activism as a
Teenager in high school. After her initial (and only) protest, she was punished by the school and was forced to serve detention, where she happened to meet Homer for the first time. Eventually, the two began dating each other. Marge became pregnant with her first child, Bart, in her mid twenties; in response, she and Homer married, in a low-budget wedding at a combined wedding
Chapel and
Casino across the state line.
Besides husband Homer Simpson, Marge has had a number of admirers in the past, including "); his most recent plot in tempting her to "become his" in Aruba is in Season 16 ("
Mommie Beerest "). Moe and Marge's
Love-hate Relationship has become a regular and famous gag of the show.
Marge's height is somewhat inconsistent. In the episode "'s bimbo.
Her favorite foods are buttered
Noodles , julienned
Potatoes and
Peach crumble.
She said in
Burns, Baby Burns that spring and winter are her favorite seasons, followed by autumn and summer (by implication) is her least favorite.
She has also suggested that if she was born three months later her birthstone would be an
Emerald which is the birthstone of the month of late May or early June (confirmed in episode 17x17 to be May). This makes her birthstone
Amethyst .
She is afflicted with various untreated mental illnesses, including psychosomatic stress from her family and childhood trauma from a rich tapestry of discovering that her father was a pioneering airline stewardess, being raked by biplane machine gun fire in a cornfield, having her toy airplane cart catch fire, and being teased with her food as a baby.
