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{{Quote|This is where we store Ann Landers and [[Dear Abby]] for their 23 hours of daily sleep.|[[Springfield Shopper Tour Guide]]}}
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{{Quote|My advice is to free us or let us die.|Ann Landers|Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?}}
 
{{Character
 
{{Character
 
|name = Ann Landers
 
|name = Ann Landers
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|image = [[File:Ann Landers.png|250px]]
 
|gender = {{Female}}
 
|gender = {{Female}}
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|hair = Brown
 
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|status = Alive
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|job = Syndicated columnist
|appearance = "[[Bart the Fink]]"
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|relatives = '''Twin sister:''' [[Abigail Van Buren]]
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|mentioned = "[[Duffless]]"
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|appearance = "[[Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?]]"
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|voiced by = [[Tress MacNeille]]
 
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'''Ann Landers''' is the pen name of journalist {{W2|Ruth Crowley|journalist}}.
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'''Ann Landers''' wrote the syndicated advice column ''Ask Ann Landers'' since 1955.
  
 
== History ==
 
== History ==
 
Ann Landers was the woman that got the rest of Great Aunt Hortense's will money <ref>"[[Bart the Fink]]"</ref> and was also the name on Homer's watermelon he was supposed to bodyguard in bodyguard school.<ref>"[[Mayored to the Mob]]"</ref>
 
Ann Landers was the woman that got the rest of Great Aunt Hortense's will money <ref>"[[Bart the Fink]]"</ref> and was also the name on Homer's watermelon he was supposed to bodyguard in bodyguard school.<ref>"[[Mayored to the Mob]]"</ref>
  
Ned Flanders called Ann Landers a boring old biddy after drinking a blackberry schnapps.<ref>"[[Duffless]]"</ref>
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[[Ned Flanders]] called Ann Landers a boring old biddy after drinking a blackberry schnapps.<ref>"[[Duffless]]"</ref>
  
Ann Landers is stored at the ''[[Springfield Shopper]]'' newspaper where she sleeps for 23 hours a day along with Dear Abby. Dear Abby comments "My advice is to free us or let us die."<ref>"[[Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?]]"</ref>
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Ann Landers was stored at the ''[[Springfield Shopper]]'' newspaper where she slept for 23 hours a day along with [[Abigail Van Buren|Dear Abby]]. Ann Landers said "My advice is to free us or let us die."<ref>"[[Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?]]"</ref>
  
 
== Behind the Laughter ==
 
== Behind the Laughter ==
{{W|Ask Ann Landers|Ann Landers}} was then pen name used by Ruth Crowley in the ''{{W|Chicago Sun-Times}}'' advice column "Ask Ann Landers".
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{{W|Eppie Lederer|Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer}}, who wrote ''{{W|Ask Ann Landers}}'' under the pen name Ann Landers. and her identical twin sister {{W|Pauline Phillips|Pauline Esther "Popo" Phillips}}, who wrote ''Dear Abby'' under the pen name Abigail Van Buren, became embittered and estranged rivals over the dueling syndicated advice columns.
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The column ''Ask Ann Landers'' ended with Lederer's death in 2002.
  
 
== Appearances ==
 
== Appearances ==
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*{{ep|Bart the Fink|(mentioned)}}
 
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*{{ep|Mayored to the Mob|(mentioned)}}
 
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Latest revision as of 13:24, October 22, 2024

"This is where we store Ann Landers and Dear Abby for their 23 hours of daily sleep."
Springfield Shopper Tour Guide
"My advice is to free us or let us die."
―Ann Landers[src]
Ann Landers
Ann Landers.png
Character Information
Gender:
Female ♀
Status:
Alive
Hair: Brown
Occupation: Syndicated columnist
Relatives: Twin sister: Abigail Van Buren
First mentioned: "Duffless"
First appearance: "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?"
Voiced by: Tress MacNeille


Ann Landers wrote the syndicated advice column Ask Ann Landers since 1955.

History[edit]

Ann Landers was the woman that got the rest of Great Aunt Hortense's will money [1] and was also the name on Homer's watermelon he was supposed to bodyguard in bodyguard school.[2]

Ned Flanders called Ann Landers a boring old biddy after drinking a blackberry schnapps.[3]

Ann Landers was stored at the Springfield Shopper newspaper where she slept for 23 hours a day along with Dear Abby. Ann Landers said "My advice is to free us or let us die."[4]

Behind the Laughter[edit]

Esther Pauline "Eppie" Lederer, who wrote Ask Ann Landers under the pen name Ann Landers. and her identical twin sister Pauline Esther "Popo" Phillips, who wrote Dear Abby under the pen name Abigail Van Buren, became embittered and estranged rivals over the dueling syndicated advice columns.

The column Ask Ann Landers ended with Lederer's death in 2002.

Appearances[edit]

References[edit]


External links[edit]