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We don't know whether a) Fat Tony ended up getting another wife as well (In The Real Housewives of Fat Tony he was open to having multiple wives after all) or b) whether he divorced Angela and got remarried. Due to her not making a physical appearance, we can't say for sure it's the same character so it would be better to treat them as separate characters unless otherwise confirmed in the future. The Solar Dragon 07:23, April 22, 2024 (EDT)

I'm sorry and this is fruitless on my part to even hope you'll reconsider, but that makes no sense. I get you like to keep things in-universe, but "We don't know" isn't an excuse to make up scenarios to square inconsistencies that are more easily solvable by just noting "one episode she named X and in a later one she was named Y." "We can't know for sure" means just that and your position can't by default better since it as likely to be inaccurate as any other and it doesn't fit with the website's stated policy. Also that's not totally accurate to the episode since the whole point of the episode is Fat Tony fooled Selma and everybody else besides Selma and her family knew she wasn't now his wife and it was all uncovered pretty quickly and when talking just to hired hands Fat Tony didn't call Selma his wife, but his mistress. Why is the article named Angela again? Fat Tony has a wife is establish within the show yet there's nothing that has come to close to backing any idea of divorces (and so many Mafia TV shows and movies which Fat Tony is a parody of are about how Mafiosos don't get divorces and multiple episodes note how Catholic Fat Tony is) show renames characters all the time and that position has some precedent and type up a note in "Behind the Laughter" rather than a bunch of headcannon nobody else could ever know to make it even less accurate. Snowball II (talk) 09:33, April 22, 2024 (EDT)

If she had made a physical appearance in the episode, that would be one thing. But she didn't. So we don't know if he was referring to the same character. Hell, Fat Tony doesn't even refer to Connie as his wife, it's just implied. Therefore we can't say for sure if it's intended to be the same character. Due to the fact we don't know for sure, we're not going to just make it up and say that it's the same character. Because we are not a fan-fiction wiki. The Solar Dragon 10:30, April 22, 2024 (EDT)

C'mon you were the one coming up with offscreen divorces and remarriages so unsure who is you're accusing of fanfic (meant in a teasing voice). You are also setting a standard that doesn't apply to other articles which have way bigger stretches in their implications. A question I'm unsure you'll answer is just simply if it's not his wife, what's the joke of that scene? That's the most direct way to tell something and just seems a better question to ask then dialogue that would never exist in an episode for a 7-second joke (it's a cartoon sitcom so talking like they're in a Wikipedia article doesn't seem like a fair or substantiable ask). I doubt you'd be stratified if someone else demanded that dialogue has as clear as, "Pick up Connie who is not wife" otherwise we can't say she isn't his wife. If you don't know something, you don't know it and can't make a "therefore" conclusion based other made-up scenarios into "Fat Tony's wife" is two separate people. I think I wouldn't push back this much if it was unacknowledged to pretend we don't know is a choice. The wording can be muddled with of course, but least my solutions let's a reader of the article know all the information at once and if he or she wants to draw up the same conclusion as you did, have at it. Citing accuracy disclaimer wasn't to justify fanfiction or write stuff like the day of their wedding anniversary or write how we can't know if Bruno Wife-banger did or didn't go to the airport or he might have gone to Atlantic City's airport or wherever else. The policy was brought up to counter a fear not really based in anything beyond "I'd like the reference to be more explicit" or "later on could be proven inaccurate" to justify removing or not acknowledging info that you wish were more explicit as if it's the winning trump card to stop anything else. Also why the page titled Angela again. Snowball II (talk) 11:14, April 22, 2024 (EDT)

I'm not saying that Connie wasn't his wife, just that it wasn't actually stated in the episode. There's just too many unknowns to confidently state it's the same character. Yes, it could well be the same character. But we don't have confirmation. It's possible her name was changed by the writers, or it was a mistake and they forgot about Angela when writing the joke (the episode she debuted in is pretty forgettable after all), but unless we have solid evidence, we can't say for sure they are the same character.

Hell, it might even be a similar case for Sideshow Mel's wife. Mel has Barbara Van Horne as his wife in most appearances, but then he had Barbara Belfry as his wife in "A Serious Flanders". Yes, those episodes are non-canon, but then she appeared with Mel again in "Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass", which we do have as a canon episode. Matt Selman has stated before that he doesn't particularly care about canon. So it is fully possible for a character to be married to two different people in two different canons within the show. The Solar Dragon 11:27, April 22, 2024 (EDT)

And it's fully possible it's not two canons and you might be wrong and demanding confirmation isn't helpful to fan reference wiki where there's an article about Fat Tony's wife and just erasing the whole scene from the last episode because of "we don't for certain" or some made-up scenarios, fully possibly or not, seems like a disservice on par if not worst.

But you're the one creating unknowns and citing another character in a situation which isn't really in-line to this latest episode. Again "it might be" or it's "fully possible" are doing a lot of work for a pretty simple thing. It just seems odd you created this or that scenario which is way less explicit to the actual episode while also wanting the episode itself to be more explicit. The overly complex scenarios of multiple canons are not backed up beyond your speculation and nobody else would have any way of knowing that. If it were Rev. Lovejoy mentioning the organist by yet another new name and you contention was a church can more than one organist, it would be one thing, but that's not the same as contending it's the same except now multiple wives. Fat Tony has a wife and has been mentioned or seen a few times and the gag of the scene is he needs to pay more attention to the nicknames of the guys he hires and then sends Bruno Wife-banger to pick up Connie. Why do you need a screenshot of a marriage license I still don't get? That's an exaggeration on my part, but not by much. Again he didn't actually marry Selma, he's Catholic and to quote the NTY "Divorce for a Mafia wife is not an option" Also, I think for a third time now (which is a question out of curiosity and not disbelief), how come the page is titled Angela? Snowball II (talk) 13:46, April 22, 2024 (EDT)

"How come the page is titled Angela?" Because that's her name? Why wouldn't it be titled her name? The Solar Dragon 14:00, April 22, 2024 (EDT)