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{{Quote|In many ways, Maude Flanders was a supporting character in our lives. She didn't grab our attention with memorable [[catchphrases]], or comical accents. But, whether you noticed her or not, Maude was always there ... and we thought she always would be.|[[Reverend Lovejoy]]'s eulogy|Alone Again, Natura-Diddily}}
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name=Maude Flanders|
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|name = Maude Flanders
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gender=[[Female]]|
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|image = [[File:Maude Flanders.png|200px]]
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hair=Ginger|
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|caption = Artwork of Maude Flanders
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age=In 30's|
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|gender = {{Female}}
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job=Housewife|
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|status = Deceased
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relatives=Sons Todd and Rod and husband [[Ned Flanders|Ned]]|
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|hair = Orange
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appearance=[[Dead Putting Society]]|
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|job = Housewife
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voiced by= [[Maggie Roswell]] (till 1999 and Ghost in 2002), and [[Marcia Mitzman Gaven]] (till Maude's death)
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|relatives = '''Parents:''' Unnamed<ref>"[[Trash of the Titans]]"</ref><br>'''Grandmother:''' [[Maude Flanders' grandmother|Unnamed]]<br>'''Sons:''' [[Rod]] and [[Todd Flanders]]<br>'''Husband:''' [[Ned Flanders]]
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|appearance = "[[Dead Putting Society]]"
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|reason = Death after falling from a stadium
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|voiced by = [[Maggie Roswell]] (1990 - 1999; 2002 - present)<br>[[Marcia Mitzman Gaven]] (1999 - 2000)<br>[[Pamela Hayden]]<ref>"[[A Star Is Burns]]"</ref>
 
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'''Maude Flanders''' was the wife of [[Ned Flanders]], and the mother of [[Rod]] and [[Todd]]. Maude was a woman with many positive qualities: faith, chastity, charity. She also loved to draw, which was discovered when Ned found her sketch pad after her death.<ref name=IGTP>"[[I'm Goin' to Praiseland]]"</ref>
  
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'''Maude Flanders''' was a devout Christian.  
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Maude Flanders was a devout Christian who once attended a Bible camp to learn how to be more judgmental.<ref name=BoD>"[[Bart of Darkness]]"</ref> Maude was often partnered with [[Helen Lovejoy]] as they protested against the "evils" in [[Springfield]], and she campaigned strongly against ''[[The Itchy & Scratchy Show|Itchy and Scratchy]]'' with [[Marge]].<ref>"[[Itchy & Scratchy & Marge]]"</ref> Maude died after she was knocked off a grandstand at the [[Springfield Speedway]] in a tee-shirt cannon accident.<ref name=AAND>"[[Alone Again, Natura-Diddily]]"</ref>
  
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She attended Bible camp to learn to be more judgmental and campaigned against [[Itchy and Scratchy]] with [[Marge Simpson| Marge]].
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== Biography ==
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[[File:Maude Every Simpsons Ever.png|thumb|left|250px]]
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[[File:Homer Leers - The War of the Simpsons.png|thumb|left|250px|Inebriated [[Homer]] leering at Maude's cleavage in "[[The War of the Simpsons]]".]]
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=== First meeting with the Simpsons ===
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[[File:Kabf18.png|thumb|right|200px]]
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Ned and Maude met Homer and Marge after their wedding. Ned and Maude Flanders, who were driving by, noticed them as hitchhikers and picked them up. Ned and Maude shocked Homer and Marge by revealing them that they're married (since 2:00 pm that day). Ned attempted to convince Homer not to have any sexual activities with Marge, much to Homer's discomfort. That night, Maude seduced Ned wearing the clothes of her late grandmother.<ref>"[[Dangerous Curves]]"</ref>
  
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She died in a sporting accident — she was knocked off a grandstand when a volley of gift T-shirts shot from compressed-air cannons struck her while [[Homer Simpson| Homer]] was distracted from catching the shirts, due to finding a bobby-pin. Maude made Simpsons history by being the first Simpson character to ever die on screen, have a funeral and actually not return (except in ghost form).
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=== 6 Years Ago ===
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[[Image:Maude Flanders Guitar.jpg|left|100px]]
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Six years ago, Ned proposed Homer to go on a brunch with his wife, leaving [[Grandma Flanders]] with all their kids. Homer accepted. At the restaurant, Ned and Maude were waiting for Homer and Marge, but Maude was furious because Ned only accepted water to drink and Maude needed to go to toilet.<ref>"[[The Kids Are All Fight]]"</ref>
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Maude was a busy homemaker and a devoted wife and mother. She was also a tireless advocate for children in general, whose innocence, she felt, was often sullied by the "evils" of cartoon violence, liberal education and the insidious influences of popular culture.
  
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=== Present day ===
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Maude and [[Ned]] attended the weekend marriage counseling retreat, as they were working on fine-tuning some issues in their marriage. The main one, according to Ned, was that sometimes Maude would underline passages in Ned's Bible when she couldn't find her own.<ref name=TWOTS>"[[The War of the Simpsons]]"</ref>
  
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Her dream of opening a Christian-themed amusement park was posthumously realized by the grieving [[Ned Flanders| Ned]], who memorialized her with the motto: "She taught us the joy of shame and the shame of joy."
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Even though she spent much of her free time in prayer and reading the Bible, Maude was known to let her hair (and her neckline) down for the occasional dinner party at the home of her neighbors, [[Simpson family|the Simpsons]].<ref name=TWOTS/><ref>"[[A Milhouse Divided]]"</ref> Homer has repeatedly demonstrated his {{W|lust}} for Maude,<ref name=BoD/><ref name=TWOTS/><ref>"[[Dead Putting Society]]"</ref><ref name="Homer Loves Flanders">"[[Homer Loves Flanders]]"</ref><ref>"[[Das Bus]]"</ref><ref>"[[Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder]]"</ref><ref name="Treehouse of Horror XIII">"[[Treehouse of Horror XIII]]"</ref> even going so far as to convince himself that she also "has a thing for me" although he did acknowledge that she was good at hiding it "behind a mask of low-key hostility.<ref name="Homer Loves Flanders"/> [[Moe]] was also attracted to her.<ref name=AAND/>
  
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It is rumored that Maude was killed off because her voice actress demanded more money, and was denied; other sources say the actress was tired of multi-state commutes for only occasional work.
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Maude held a deep love for ficus plants,<ref name=BoD/> unflavored ice milk<ref name=HSHDD>"[[Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily]]"</ref> and ''[[Newsweek]]'' magazine.<ref name=HSHDD/>
  
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Maude and her mother were briefly held prisoner by militants while visiting the Holy Land.<ref name=MSMS>"[[My Sister, My Sitter]]"</ref>
  
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==Posthumous appearances==
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She was once seen on one of [[Mr. Burns]]' surveillance monitors eating an entire tub of ice cream.<ref>"[[Burns' Heir]]"</ref>
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* At the start of "Treehouse of Horror XIII", originally broadcast November 3, 2002, [[Simpson family|The Simpsons]] and Ned Flanders held a seance and summon Maude's ghost, who proceeds to tell them three horror stories
 
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* The regular episode "[[Bart Has Two Mommies]]", which aired March 19, 2006 showed her looking down on her sons from heaven, saying 'My little boy is growing up". Maggie Roswell voiced her, but was uncredited in the premiere airing. When it reaired, the credits were amended to include her name.
 
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* Maude is also shown to be alive in Season 6 in the episode "[[Lisa's Wedding]]" which was set in the future after the Simpson children had grown up, but written before Season 11 when Maude was killed. However, it should be noted that this was a vision by a possibly illegitimate psychic, and might not be considered canonical.
 
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* In "[[Kill Gil Part 1]] & 2  ", aired on December 17, 2006 Maude appeared in the special Christmas themed opening sequence when the camera pans to The Simpsons house.
 
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* Any time the full opening theme is played (Chalkboard through to Couch Gag), she can still be seen in the quick fly-by leading to when Bart lands on top of Homer's car.
 
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=== Death ===
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[[Category: Characters|Flanders, Maude]]
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[[File:Maude death.png|thumb|left|Maude is hit by the T-shirts]]
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Maude died after being knocked off a grandstand by a T-shirt cannon barrage from the cheerleader group [[Fan-Demonium]] at the [[Springfield Speedway]], an incident that was both precipitated and exacerbated by [[Homer Simpson]]. Homer loudly insisted that the T-shirt girls give him a shirt, to the point of taking off his own shirt and painting a target on himself with ketchup while he continued to taunt them. The girls responded by firing their cannons at him ''en masse''. However, Homer ducked out of the way at the last second (being distracted by a bobby pin) and the shirts hit Maude instead. Because she was in the back row, the impact knocked her off of the grandstand and she fell to her death. Homer later admitted to Ned that he had "provoked the lethal barrage of T-shirts" and also that he had parked in the ambulance zone, preventing any possibility of resuscitation.<ref name=AAND/>
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Maude's [[In-show deaths|death]] was a crushing blow to Ned Flanders (as well as Todd and Rod), who, though used to some measure of hardship (their house getting destroyed <ref>"[[Hurricane Neddy]]"</ref> and car crashes among them), assumed that they would always be together.<ref name=AAND/>
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At Maude's memorial service, Homer apparently fell in her grave, which Ned later mentioned.<ref>"[[Kill the Alligator and Run]]"</ref> [[Reverend Lovejoy]] eulogized her as follows: "In many ways, Maude Flanders was a supporting character in our lives. She didn't grab our attention with memorable [[catchphrases]], or comical accents. But, whether you noticed her or not, Maude was always there ... and we thought she always would be."<ref name=AAND/>
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=== Impact ===
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==== Praiseland ====
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After Maude's death, the grieving Ned saw in her sketchbook a series of drawings that outlined a plan for a Christian-themed amusement park named "Praiseland". Realizing this park to be her final dream, Ned acquired the defunct amusement park "Storytime Village" from Colonel Antoine "Tex" O'Hara ("The Rich Texan") and, with the assistance of Homer and other townspeople, built and opened Praiseland. He memorialized Maude there with a statue of her, and placed on its base a plaque bearing the phrase "She taught us the joy of shame and the shame of joy." Praiseland sold Maude memorial items such as masks. Praiseland gained popularity among the residents of Springfield when they erroneously attributed to the statue of Maude the performance of miracles providing religious experiences. The religious experiences were actually hallucinations, caused by gas that was leaking from a gas line near the base of the statue. Feeling that profiting off the memory of his dead wife was wrong, and even more so after candles near the gas leak nearly caused an explosion, Ned closed down Praiseland.<ref name=IGTP/>
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==== Later impact ====
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In a coma dream that [[Bart]] had, Maude was one of the ghosts who came to Bart to get help to move on to the afterlife. Bart put off helping her for ages, waiting until Maude was the last ghost left. Maude then asked Bart to get revenge on Homer as she blamed him for her death. Bart then arranged for the bullies, dressed in masks, to shoot at Homer with T-shirt cannons, which killed him. Maude then moved on to [[Heaven]], only for Bart to tell her that Ned remarried after she died.<ref>"[[Flanders' Ladder]]"</ref>
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== Non-canon ==
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{{Noncanon}}
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After Maude died, the [[Simpson family]] and Ned Flanders held a {{W|séance}} in order to contact her. While everyone joined hands around the table and concentrated to summon Maude's spirit, [[Bart]] snuck into the room dressed in a wig and women's clothing to prank Ned by pretending to be Maude. The prank turned out to be a dud, and it backfired when Maude's real ghost appeared behind Bart, startling everyone. Homer and Ned admired Maude, but Homer's admiration quickly turned lascivious. Maude's ghost then became angry and turned into a hideous ghoul, which terrified everyone except [[Lisa]], who, oddly, wasn't afraid of the ghost's demonic appearance.<ref name="Treehouse of Horror XIII"/>
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Maude appears as the lover of the Devil, and says "Honey, come back to bed.". She is quite likely his wife, as she herself has a tail.<ref>"[[Treehouse of Horror XXII]]"</ref>
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Thirty years into the future, Ned had apparently gotten remarried to Maude's ghost after Homer had accidentally killed [[Edna]]. Maude's ghost insisted that there was no God, but merely an empty void. Ned however, refused to hear the idea and dismissed it by laughing her off.<ref>"[[Holidays of Future Passed]]"</ref>
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=== The Simpsons: Tapped Out ===
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{{TranscludeSection|The Simpsons: Tapped Out characters/Flanders Family|Maude}}
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== Behind the Laughter ==
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An action figure of Maude was planned for series 17 of the [[World of Springfield]] toyline; however, it was cancelled when the series came to an end. A picture of her was included as an accessory with Rod and Todd.
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=== Foreign dubs ===
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== Gallery ==
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File:MaudeGhost.png|Maude before she turns angry
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File:Halloween 2013 update trailer.png|Maude's ghost angry
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File:Ghostfutur.png|Ghost Maude with Ned in the future
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{{Images|Maude}}
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{{Flanders family}}
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"In many ways, Maude Flanders was a supporting character in our lives. She didn't grab our attention with memorable catchphrases, or comical accents. But, whether you noticed her or not, Maude was always there ... and we thought she always would be."
―Reverend Lovejoy's eulogy[src]
Maude Flanders
Maude Flanders.png
Artwork of Maude Flanders
Character Information
Gender:
Female ♀
Status:
Deceased
Hair: Orange
Occupation: Housewife
Relatives: Parents: Unnamed[1]
Grandmother: Unnamed
Sons: Rod and Todd Flanders
Husband: Ned Flanders
First appearance: "Dead Putting Society"
Voiced by: Maggie Roswell (1990 - 1999; 2002 - present)
Marcia Mitzman Gaven (1999 - 2000)
Pamela Hayden[2]
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Maude Flanders was the wife of Ned Flanders, and the mother of Rod and Todd. Maude was a woman with many positive qualities: faith, chastity, charity. She also loved to draw, which was discovered when Ned found her sketch pad after her death.[3]

Maude Flanders was a devout Christian who once attended a Bible camp to learn how to be more judgmental.[4] Maude was often partnered with Helen Lovejoy as they protested against the "evils" in Springfield, and she campaigned strongly against Itchy and Scratchy with Marge.[5] Maude died after she was knocked off a grandstand at the Springfield Speedway in a tee-shirt cannon accident.[6]

Biography[edit]

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Inebriated Homer leering at Maude's cleavage in "The War of the Simpsons".

First meeting with the Simpsons[edit]

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Ned and Maude met Homer and Marge after their wedding. Ned and Maude Flanders, who were driving by, noticed them as hitchhikers and picked them up. Ned and Maude shocked Homer and Marge by revealing them that they're married (since 2:00 pm that day). Ned attempted to convince Homer not to have any sexual activities with Marge, much to Homer's discomfort. That night, Maude seduced Ned wearing the clothes of her late grandmother.[7]

6 Years Ago[edit]

Six years ago, Ned proposed Homer to go on a brunch with his wife, leaving Grandma Flanders with all their kids. Homer accepted. At the restaurant, Ned and Maude were waiting for Homer and Marge, but Maude was furious because Ned only accepted water to drink and Maude needed to go to toilet.[8] Maude was a busy homemaker and a devoted wife and mother. She was also a tireless advocate for children in general, whose innocence, she felt, was often sullied by the "evils" of cartoon violence, liberal education and the insidious influences of popular culture.

Present day[edit]

Maude and Ned attended the weekend marriage counseling retreat, as they were working on fine-tuning some issues in their marriage. The main one, according to Ned, was that sometimes Maude would underline passages in Ned's Bible when she couldn't find her own.[9]

Even though she spent much of her free time in prayer and reading the Bible, Maude was known to let her hair (and her neckline) down for the occasional dinner party at the home of her neighbors, the Simpsons.[9][10] Homer has repeatedly demonstrated his lust for Maude,[4][9][11][12][13][14][15] even going so far as to convince himself that she also "has a thing for me" although he did acknowledge that she was good at hiding it "behind a mask of low-key hostility.[12] Moe was also attracted to her.[6]

Maude held a deep love for ficus plants,[4] unflavored ice milk[16] and Newsweek magazine.[16]

Maude and her mother were briefly held prisoner by militants while visiting the Holy Land.[17]

She was once seen on one of Mr. Burns' surveillance monitors eating an entire tub of ice cream.[18]

Death[edit]

Maude is hit by the T-shirts

Maude died after being knocked off a grandstand by a T-shirt cannon barrage from the cheerleader group Fan-Demonium at the Springfield Speedway, an incident that was both precipitated and exacerbated by Homer Simpson. Homer loudly insisted that the T-shirt girls give him a shirt, to the point of taking off his own shirt and painting a target on himself with ketchup while he continued to taunt them. The girls responded by firing their cannons at him en masse. However, Homer ducked out of the way at the last second (being distracted by a bobby pin) and the shirts hit Maude instead. Because she was in the back row, the impact knocked her off of the grandstand and she fell to her death. Homer later admitted to Ned that he had "provoked the lethal barrage of T-shirts" and also that he had parked in the ambulance zone, preventing any possibility of resuscitation.[6]

Maude's death was a crushing blow to Ned Flanders (as well as Todd and Rod), who, though used to some measure of hardship (their house getting destroyed [19] and car crashes among them), assumed that they would always be together.[6]

At Maude's memorial service, Homer apparently fell in her grave, which Ned later mentioned.[20] Reverend Lovejoy eulogized her as follows: "In many ways, Maude Flanders was a supporting character in our lives. She didn't grab our attention with memorable catchphrases, or comical accents. But, whether you noticed her or not, Maude was always there ... and we thought she always would be."[6]

Impact[edit]

Praiseland[edit]

After Maude's death, the grieving Ned saw in her sketchbook a series of drawings that outlined a plan for a Christian-themed amusement park named "Praiseland". Realizing this park to be her final dream, Ned acquired the defunct amusement park "Storytime Village" from Colonel Antoine "Tex" O'Hara ("The Rich Texan") and, with the assistance of Homer and other townspeople, built and opened Praiseland. He memorialized Maude there with a statue of her, and placed on its base a plaque bearing the phrase "She taught us the joy of shame and the shame of joy." Praiseland sold Maude memorial items such as masks. Praiseland gained popularity among the residents of Springfield when they erroneously attributed to the statue of Maude the performance of miracles providing religious experiences. The religious experiences were actually hallucinations, caused by gas that was leaking from a gas line near the base of the statue. Feeling that profiting off the memory of his dead wife was wrong, and even more so after candles near the gas leak nearly caused an explosion, Ned closed down Praiseland.[3]

Later impact[edit]

In a coma dream that Bart had, Maude was one of the ghosts who came to Bart to get help to move on to the afterlife. Bart put off helping her for ages, waiting until Maude was the last ghost left. Maude then asked Bart to get revenge on Homer as she blamed him for her death. Bart then arranged for the bullies, dressed in masks, to shoot at Homer with T-shirt cannons, which killed him. Maude then moved on to Heaven, only for Bart to tell her that Ned remarried after she died.[21]

Non-canon[edit]

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After Maude died, the Simpson family and Ned Flanders held a séance in order to contact her. While everyone joined hands around the table and concentrated to summon Maude's spirit, Bart snuck into the room dressed in a wig and women's clothing to prank Ned by pretending to be Maude. The prank turned out to be a dud, and it backfired when Maude's real ghost appeared behind Bart, startling everyone. Homer and Ned admired Maude, but Homer's admiration quickly turned lascivious. Maude's ghost then became angry and turned into a hideous ghoul, which terrified everyone except Lisa, who, oddly, wasn't afraid of the ghost's demonic appearance.[15]

Maude appears as the lover of the Devil, and says "Honey, come back to bed.". She is quite likely his wife, as she herself has a tail.[22]

Thirty years into the future, Ned had apparently gotten remarried to Maude's ghost after Homer had accidentally killed Edna. Maude's ghost insisted that there was no God, but merely an empty void. Ned however, refused to hear the idea and dismissed it by laughing her off.[23]

The Simpsons: Tapped Out[edit]

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Maude
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Behind the Laughter[edit]

An action figure of Maude was planned for series 17 of the World of Springfield toyline; however, it was cancelled when the series came to an end. A picture of her was included as an accessory with Rod and Todd.

Foreign dubs[edit]

Language Voice dubber
Germany.png Deutsch Manuela Renard

Gallery[edit]

  • Maude before she turns angry

  • Maude's ghost angry

  • Ghost Maude with Ned in the future

Appearances[edit]

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References[edit]

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  1. ↑ "Trash of the Titans"
  2. ↑ "A Star Is Burns"
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "I'm Goin' to Praiseland"
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Bart of Darkness"
  5. ↑ "Itchy & Scratchy & Marge"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"
  7. ↑ "Dangerous Curves"
  8. ↑ "The Kids Are All Fight"
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "The War of the Simpsons"
  10. ↑ "A Milhouse Divided"
  11. ↑ "Dead Putting Society"
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Homer Loves Flanders"
  13. ↑ "Das Bus"
  14. ↑ "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "Treehouse of Horror XIII"
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"
  17. ↑ "My Sister, My Sitter"
  18. ↑ "Burns' Heir"
  19. ↑ "Hurricane Neddy"
  20. ↑ "Kill the Alligator and Run"
  21. ↑ "Flanders' Ladder"
  22. ↑ "Treehouse of Horror XXII"
  23. ↑ "Holidays of Future Passed"


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