marge simpson

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 series creator Matt Groening, upon whom she is loosely based. In many ways, Marge Simpson is actually modeled after the stereotypical suburban housewife from the 1950s right down to the pearl necklace.

Age

In the 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. In the seventeenth season episode "Regarding Margie", Homer says that Marge is the same age as him, meaning she could be anywhere between 36 - 40. In "Bart After Dark" she claims to have lived in Springfield for 37 years. Her birthday may be March 18 (working from the air date of "Life on the Fast Lane"); the episode "Homer's Paternity Coot" 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 later episode, "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore", she says her birthday is in May.

Employment

Marge has taken on various jobs, many of which have lasted only one episode each, among them:

• Homemaker (1980 to present); this was the only thing on her resume/CV before Lisa added to it.^[1]
• Pretzel maker/saleswoman^[2]
• Police officer^[3]
• Trade-show model^[4]
• Realtor (she sold the infamous "Murder House" to Ned Flanders)^[5]
• Springfield Nuclear Power Plant worker.^[6]
• Actress / musical singer ^{citation needed]}
• Professional artist ^{citation needed]}
• Substitute teacher at Springfield Elementary School^[7]
• Endowed shoe spokesperson^[8]
• Activist against violence in children's television^[9]
• Novelist^[10]
• Waitress on roller skates ^{citation needed]}
• The church "Listen Lady"^[11]
• Female bodybuilder^[12]
• Bartender/waitress at Moe's Tavern^[13]
• Sideshow Marge (although not seen, she references to it in^[14]
• Marriage Counselor^[15]
• Carpenter ^{citation needed]}

Biography

Marge's family are fairly recent immigrants, although she claims to be a third-generation Springfielder. They chose to come to Springfield rather than Stenchburg because they admired the life story of Jebediah Springfield.

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, however it was 25 years before she received a response, which inspired her to paint again.

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). Her father, a former flight attendant and baby photographer, died as a result of a freak roller coaster accident. 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 approve 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, who often appears to be naive and gullible, has had her share of escapades, which have earned her the moral disdain of Springfield's less forgiving residents. Having a brief stint a police officer 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 a 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 getting breast implants (Large Marge) are just some of the situations that Marge has found herself in. Marge also displays surprisingly strong will. In The Joy of Sect she escaped the brainwashing of the Movementarians, and in Bart-Mangled Banner, in prison she questions Lisa when Lisa begins losing her beliefs after watching propaganda cartoons. She also apparently makes very bad ice-cream sundaes, though she is otherwise a highly regarded cook, 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 ("twice" according to Lisa) and supported the candidacy of their 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 flight attendant as oppose to the pilot he told her he was. On her first day of school, she was teased for having a lunch box with a picture of The Monkees on it.

It was revealed in the episode The Way We Weren't that Marge first met Homer when they were both 10, attending summer camp. Although she never knew his real name (he told her it was "Elvis Jagger Abdul-Jabbar"), they shared a brief mutual attraction. The short relationship ended when Homer did not show up for a planned date, leaving Marge heartbroken. It was later revealed that the stand-up was entirely unintentional; Homer had fallen off a cliff and gotten trapped in a fat-camp at the time.

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 second time (although she did not recognize him from the earlier incident). Eventually, the two began dating each other. Marge became pregnant with her first child, Bart, in her mid- to late 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 C. Montgomery Burns; Springfield Isotopes player Flash Baylor; and high school classmate and ex-millionaire Artie Ziff (who recently got over her and is now interested in Marge's sister, Selma). Probably Marge's most persistent and obsessed admirer (who never seemed to get completely over her) is Homer's friend and town bartender, Moe Szyslak. On many occasions, Moe has made an effort to steal Marge from Homer: his first try was in Season 5 ("Secrets of a Successful Marriage"); 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 recurring gag of the show.

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 May (confirmed in episode 17x17 to be May).

She is afflicted with various untreated mental illnesses, including ludopathy, psychosomatic stress from her family and childhood trauma from a rich tapestry of discovering that her father was a pioneering airline steward, 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. In addition to this, she also suffers from chronic foot pain.

Marge has a very parochial worldview that, for example, sees self-denying domestic servitude in the suburbs as the only valid life choice for women. This is evidenced both by her espousing this lifestyle to those around her as opportunity presents, and by her annoyance when more cosmopolitan influences come to town and broaden people's perspectives (especially that of her children). Her insistent adherence to this worldview is likely a coping mechanism that helps her justify being married to what is perhaps the most apish man in Springfield.

Height

Marge's height is somewhat inconsistent. In the episode "Marge in Chains", she is 8 ft 6 in, 6 ft 2 in excluding hair. Her beehive hairdo has been mentioned as being 3 feet tall, which would make her 5 ft 6 in or 5 ft 7 in. In the episode "Homer Alone", her height is 5 ft 4 in, 6 ft 2 in including hair. In "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)", in the couch gag, she is shown to be above 7 ft with her hair, but around 5 ft without it. She is also shorter than Homer, who has been seen as being 6 ft in his police lineup photos in various episodes. In the episode where Marge and Homer's tryst in a miniature golf course is foiled resulting in them running all over town naked, they briefly stand behind a lawn display, a completely naked Marge appears to be only two inches shorter than Homer, suggesting she is 5 ft 10 in. In "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield", Marge was seen playing cards with some other members, and when she realised she had a winning hand, her mind started talking to her, and then various points in her hair joined in. The top of her hair said "Don't listen to me, I'm just hair. Your head stopped 18 inches ago."

Interesting Facts

• Once dated (more accurately will date) Krusty the Clown ("Future-Drama")
• Was a junior member of The Cheery Red Tomatoes, a homage to the Red Hat Society.
• In France, the actor and actress who voice Homer and Marge are married in real life [1]
• Marge appeared on the cover of "Maxim".
• She's apparently fluent in French and German.
• Marge has confessed that her hair isn't really blue, it is, in fact, grey.
• Elisabeth Volkmann, who voiced Marge in Germany, died in July 2006.
• She is left-handed.
• She has webbed toes.
• She appears to have significant athletic ability, as seen in her escape from the Movementarian cult.
• In the episode Krusty Gets Kancelled, Marge, who appears in the episode, has no lines of dialogue.
• Her shoe size is 13AA
• In the episode Homer to the Max, when Homer announces that he has changed his name to Max Power, Marge is concerned about her tattoo that is an undefined place on her body. This suggests that she has a possible tattoo related to the "Homer Simpson" name.
• In the Czech language version, she is voiced by a man - actor Jiří Lábus^{citation needed]}
• Marge's favorite James Bond is George Lazenby
• She is allergic to fish.
• Her fingers are virtually indestructible, due to a lifetime of sewing (she can bend pins by attempting to pierce her fingers with them, and her fingers are fireproof)
• She likes to eavesdrop on others' prayers

See also

• Characters from The Simpsons

References

External links

• Marge Simpson's Christmas message 2004
• TurnInto How to become Marge Simpson