48 Facts About Marge Simpson

Marjorie Jacqueline "Marge" Simpson is a character in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons and part of the eponymous family.

Marge Simpson based the character on his mother Margaret Groening.

Marge Simpson is often portrayed as a stereotypical television mother and is often included on lists of top "TV moms".

Kavner has won several awards for voicing Marge Simpson, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 1992.

Marge Simpson was nominated for an Annie Award for Best Voice Acting in an Animated Feature for her performance in The Simpsons Movie.

Marge Simpson is married to Homer and mother of Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson.

Marge Simpson was raised by her parents, Jacqueline and Clancy Bouvier.

Marge Simpson has a pair of sisters, the joyless Patty and Selma, both of whom vocally disapprove of Homer.

Marge Simpson was at first wary of Homer, but agreed to go to the prom with him, although she ended up going with Artie Ziff after Homer received tutoring lessons as a means to get to know her better, while knowing that she needed to sleep for a school meet.

Marge Simpson then told Homer she should've gone to the prom with him and he fixes her snapped shoulder strap with the corsage.

The episode "That '90s Show" contradicted much of the established back-story; for example, it was revealed that Marge Simpson and Homer were childless in the early 1990s although past episodes had suggested Bart and Lisa were born in the 1980s.

In season one episodes "Life on the Fast Lane" and "Some Enchanted Evening", Marge Simpson was said to be 34.

In "Regarding Margie", Homer mentioned that Marge Simpson was his age, meaning she could have been anywhere between 36 and 40.

Marge Simpson has been nonworking for most of the series, choosing to be a homemaker and take care of her family.

In "The Springfield Connection", Marge Simpson decided that she needed more excitement in her life and became a police officer.

Marge and the Simpson family remained the main characters on this new show.

Matt Groening believes that episodes featuring Marge Simpson are among the most difficult episodes to write.

Marge Simpson felt that they could achieve a "deeper vein" of comedy in an episode where Marge has a nervous breakdown, and James L Brooks quickly approved.

The entire Marge Simpson family was designed so that they would be recognizable in silhouette.

Marge Simpson's hair is then drawn on top as a long tube coming out of the sphere.

An original idea the animators had for when Marge Simpson walked through doorways was that her hair would be forced down as she walked through, then once clear of the door, it would spring back and forth.

Groening's original plan for Marge Simpson's hair was that it would conceal large, Life in Hell-esque rabbit ears.

Marge Simpson's voice is performed by Julie Kavner, who does the voices of Marge Simpson's mother Jacqueline and her sisters Patty and Selma.

Kristen Bell provided Marge Simpson's singing voice in "The Star of the Backstage".

Marge Simpson is generally a stereotypical sitcom mother, and she plays the "long-suffering wife" who puts up with the antics of her children and her oafish husband.

Marge Simpson often provides a grounding opinion for Homer and their marriage has often been shaky.

Marge Simpson admits that she "put[s] up with a lot in [their] marriage," and has left Homer or thrown him out of the house on several occasions.

Marge Simpson is at first unsuccessful, but gains the interest of the class when he starts giving away family secrets, many of which concern Marge.

Marge Simpson is more caring, understanding, and nurturing toward Bart than Homer, but she refers to him as "a handful" and is often embarrassed by his antics.

In "Marge Simpson Be Not Proud", she felt she was mothering Bart too much and started acting more distant towards him after he was caught shoplifting.

Marge Simpson has expressed understanding for her "special little guy" and has defended him on many occasions.

Marge Simpson has a good relationship with Lisa and the two are shown to get along quite well.

Marge Simpson maintains a good relationship with her mother Jacqueline and her sisters Patty and Selma, though they disapprove of Homer and are vocal about it.

Marge Simpson has tolerated their criticism, but has occasionally lost patience with them, once referring to them as "ghouls".

Marge Simpson often provides a voice of reason for the town itself, but many of the townspeople are frustrated or contemptuous of her failure to recognize or react correctly to breaches of social norms.

Marge Simpson is the only member of the family who encourages, and often forces, church attendance.

Marge Simpson is known to suffer OCD as shown when she won a house cleaning but she then cleaned the whole house herself and it thus led to her accidentally causing her to suffer Amnesia.

Marge Simpson was deeply affected by the death of Lyndon B Johnson, to the point where she wanted him to be alive so badly that she kept seeing him everywhere she looked.

Marge Simpson has been ranked highly in lists of the top television mothers of all time.

Marge Simpson was ranked first on Entertainment Weekly's list in 1994; first on Fox News' list in 2005; eighth on CityNews' list in 2008; and was included in Time's list of the "10 Best Moms Ever".

Still in 2004, Marge Simpson was ranked third in a poll conducted by the Opinion Research Company.

In May 2012, Marge Simpson was one of the 12 moms chosen by users of iVillage on their list of "Mommy Dearest: The TV Moms You Love".

In 2004, Marge Simpson appeared on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom for the Alternative Christmas message, which is annually broadcast at the same time that Queen Elizabeth II gives her Christmas message.

Marge Simpson has appeared in each of The Simpsons video games.

Besides the television series, Marge regularly appears in issues of Simpsons Comics, which were published from 1993 to 2018.

Marge Simpson appeared in a 2005 advertisement for Dove Styling, where her normal beehive hair was exchanged for a more stylish look for a series of ads featuring several popular cartoon women.

Marge Simpson appeared on the cover of the November 2009 issue of Playboy, becoming the first cartoon character to appear on the cover.

The cover and a three-page picture spread, as well as a story inside entitled The Devil in Marge Simpson, commemorated the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons, but as part of a plan to appeal to younger readers, a decision which has been criticized due to a page in which the character is depicted nude.