Edna Krabappel-Flanders ( ) is a fictional character from the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, voiced by Marcia Wallace. A 4th-grade teacher, she teaches Bart Simpson's class at Springfield Elementary School. In the 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. The epilogue of the season 25 episode "The Man Who Grew Too Much" marks Edna Krabappel's final original speaking role.

Profile

Edna Krabappel holds a Master's from Bryn Mawr College. She is a surly, grumpy Also, there was an initial joke of everyone mispronouncing the character's last name as "Crabapple" until 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 accidentally calling her "Crandall". Staff on The Simpsons had reportedly been aware of her illness. The series first acknowledged Wallace's passing in the episode "Four Regrettings and a Funeral", in which the chalkboard gag in the opening sequence was changed to read a single "We'll really miss you Mrs. K". The episode "The Man Who Grew Too Much" later showed Ned Flanders wearing a black armband and mourning Edna, whose portrait joined that of 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 Emmy Award in 1992 for voicing Krabappel in the third-season episode "Bart the Lover". IGN called "Special Edna" the best episode of the fourteenth season of the show. Tilda Swinton modeled her hairdo in the film Burn After Reading on Krabappel's. The Guardian ranked Krabappel as the 8th-best teacher.

References

  • Edna Krabappel on IMDb

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