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Agnes Skinner (voiced by Tress MacNeille and once by Dan Castellaneta) is an elderly widow and the adopted mother of Principal Seymour Skinner.

First Appearance

She first appeared in "The Crepes of Wrath".

Current Appearances

She is harshly controlling of Seymour, who spends more time with her than with his old girlfriend, Edna Krabappel.

Voice

Her voice is similar to Mom from Futurama, who is also voiced by Tress MacNeille.

Personality in First Appearance

She first appeared as a kindly old woman who embarrassingly called her son "Spanky". According to the DVD audio commentary it is said that her current mean streak can be attributed to the incident involving Bart that took place in that episode in which, while sitting in a urinal stall, Bart caused the toilets to explode.

Hair

Agnes sports a wig (revealed in "All's Fair in Oven War").

Catchphrase

Agnes Skinner's catchphrase is "Seymour!" often used to snap her son's attention (as opposed to Superintendent Chalmers's catchphrase, "Skin-NER!").

Relationship with Seymour

Agnes shares an unhealthy relationship with her son, which often borders on psychosis. Examples include Agnes covering up "her half of the television" with cardboard to spite Seymour. When Seymour is out of the house, Agnes phones him regularly demanding to be taken out of the bath, shielded from the glare of car lights on the street, and other such petty requests. She hides his car keys as a punishment for his talking to a woman on the phone. Seymour himself is very obedient and almost distressingly physically and emotionally close to her (for example, when Edna agreed to marry Seymour, Agnes murmured under her breath "three in the bed!").

Real Son

In "The Principal and the Pauper", Agnes' biological son, the real Seymour Skinner (voiced by Martin Sheen), returns to Springfield from war. Agnes, unhappy with her new living situation with her biological son, travels to Capital City to take back Armin Tamzarian, (the other Seymour Skinner). She and other Springfieldians, who have grown to like Tamzarian, force the real Seymour Skinner out of Springfield, tying him to a freight train cart headed out of the town.

Husband

Her Husband look likes Armin Tamzarian(now legally Seymour Skinner) and the husband does not look like his biological son, the real seymour skinner, this does not make sence to what happerend in the principal and the pauper. It is presumed that Armin(now legally seymour)'s mother was dating sheldon and sheldon made the seymours mother pregnant, without knowing it he left her and married agnes skinner