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Edna Krabappel

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"Ha!"
―Edna's catchphrase
Edna Krabappel–Flanders
Edna Krabappel.png
Character Information
Gender:
Female ♀
Status:
Deceased
Age: 41[1]
Hair: Brown
Occupation: Fourth grade teacher at Springfield Elementary
Relatives: Husband: Ned Flanders
Ex-husband: Mr. Krabappel
Stepsons Rod and Todd Flanders
Sister: Unnamed[2]
First appearance: "Bart the Genius"
Voiced by: Marcia Wallace
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Edna Krabappel–Flanders[3] (née Krabappel) (more commonly known as Mrs. Krabappel or, known by Bart as Mrs. K) was a 4th Grade teacher at Springfield Elementary School. Before Edna was married she lived at 82 Evergreen Terrace[4] and before passing away, she lived at 744 Evergreen Terrace.[5]

Biography

Edna held a Master's from Bryn Mawr College, but is thoroughly jaded, a caricature of the American public school system, as evidenced on the occasion when Lisa steals all the teachers' editions of the textbooks (which contain the answers). Edna genuinely wanted to help people in need but it after years of frustration thanks to the school, and Bart Simpson in particular, this wore away on a somewhat tragic note.

Edna's character folder seen in the Hall of Records (circa 2006) when her romance with Principal Skinner was taking place

There is some inconsistency about Edna's origins. Though she is said to have come to Springfield to begin teaching,[6] she can be seen running through the background in Springfield High School in when Clancy Wiggum is being videotaped as a hall monitor.[7] Krabappel, like many other teachers at Springfield Elementary School smoked heavily, especially during school hours. It was also once implied that Edna Krabappel drinked heavily, as when Marge arrived at the school to use a restroom and stumbled upon the horrible conditions of the school, she noticed Edna Krabappel's class where Bart felt he had to sleep in class and uttered "stupid teacher," to which Edna was also sleeping in a similar fashion to Bart and uttering "stupid hangover"[8] and once got fired when she became drunk (although the latter instance wasn't her fault, as her drink was spiked by her students in order to help her become laid back.).[4]

Love life

The most recurring theme about Edna is her non-existent love life, and as a result, loneliness and wish for male company. She was divorced; her husband ran off with their marriage counselor. She had talked about her ex living somewhere else exotic, but at one time, a man at the local gas station, while diagnosing a fault with her car, tastes sugar in the gasoline and states "Your ex-husband strikes again! [9]" As a result, she severely missed male company, and it is occasionally implied that she feels her biological clock ticking. She was shown as very sexually aggressive: she tried to pick up both Joey Kramer (Aerosmith's drummer).[10] She had a relationship with Principal Seymour Skinner.[11] She can be seen at a Green Day concert on top of Seymour's shoulders wearing a T-Shirt saying "Not my boyfriend" with an arrow pointing down at Skinner.[12]

It's shown in a flashback that Edna was in a serious relationship with Moe Szyslak when she first moved to Springfield, before meeting Skinner or even becoming a teacher. She was about to run away with him (and possibly get married) but then changed her mind when she met Bart Simpson, a student she believed needed help (it was revealed, however, that Bart was just stalling while Nelson Muntz stole microscopes from the school). At the end of the episode, Moe and Edna are a couple once again, much to Skinner's jealousy when he caught them making out on school property.[6] Indeed, Edna appears to be the object of many a man's desire, as evident by Sideshow Bob's outrage when his romantic date with her is ruined by a spying Bart: "You only get one chance with Edna Krabappel!" One time, during an "edu-tainment" show at Springfield Elementary School, she did a balloon dance wearing nothing but balloons while she pops them to the tune of "Fever," mortifying the audience (especially Bart, who even went as far as to say "kill me" from witnessing it).[13] She often had dinner at The Pimento Grove with her on again - off again dates. At the time of her death, she was married to Ned Flanders.[5]

Edna also had relationships with Groundskeeper Willie,[14][15][16][17] Superintendent Chalmers,[16] Jacques,[18] Homer, Lenny, Carl, Barney, Professor Frink, Drederick Tatum, Krusty, Bumblebee Man, Cletus, Reverend Lovejoy, Arnie Pye, Kent Brockman, Patty,[17] Disco Stu,[4][17] Kirk Van Houten[19] and Sea Captain.[20]

Non-canon

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Mrs. Krabappel
Image Cost Unlock method Unlocks with Unlock message
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Staff Needs 		Krabappel Apartment Those who can't, teach. Ha!
Technical Information ID Groups Internal Name
37 Regular Characters, Regular Female, Pessimist, Investorettes, Adult, School Workers, Normal Springfielders, Teachers Krabappel

Trivia

  • She had a red marking pen named "Old Red".
  • Edna Krabappel (before marriage) is featured in a version of Monopoly, called "Edna Krabappoly".[21]

Behind the Laughter

Creation

Her last name is a play on the fruit "crabapple" and it is also a reference to the teacher Miss Crabtree from the 1930s The Little Rascals serials. Part of the original joke of her last name was that nobody ever mispronounced her name and called her "Miss Crabapple",[22] Milhouse was the first to make this joke which had the other students in class amazed and feeling stupid for not noticing it before.[23]

International versions

  • In France, Edna Krabappel is called Krappabel: "Kra" sounds like "cra-cra" which is used by young children to describe something dirty and "ppabel" sounds exactly like "pas belle" (not pretty). Homer Simpson even calls her "Cracrapoubelle", which has "cra-cra", which infants in France say for "dirty", and "poubelle" which is French for garbage can. In the Québec French version, she retains her original name.
  • In Italy, she is called Edna Caprapall: Capra in Italian means Goat, and Caprapall recalls the image of a goat.
  • In Spain, her name is pronounced Edna Carapapel: in Spanish it means paperface. The Latin American version of the show, dubbed in Mexico, keeps "Krabappel" as the US name, though in earlier seasons, when many names and surnames were replaced with Spanish ones, her surname was "Clavados" ("nailings").

Retirement

David Silverman's tribute to Marcia Wallace.

The Simpsons say good-bye to Edna Krabappel

On October 25, 2013, Marcia Wallace died in her home in Los Angeles after a battle with pneumonia. Due to this, Simpsons executive producer and showrunner Al Jean revealed that Edna was not going to be the character that was being killed off in the season 26 premiere but the character will now be retired.[24] The character was retired in the Season 25 episode "The Man Who Grew Too Much" with a special scene at the end of the episode in which she and Ned dance a tango dance, but it is, in fact, a dream by Ned, who wears a black band on his arm and says "I sure do miss that laugh", with a picture of Edna sitting next to another photo of Maude. That's when class bully Nelson pops up with his own laugh "Ha Ha!", to then say: "I miss her too.", confirming that Edna had died sometime prior to the episode via unknown causes.

Foreign dubs

Language Voice dubber
Germany.png Deutsch Inge Solbrig

Appearances

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References

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  1. ↑ "The Fool Monty"
  2. ↑ "Stealing First Base"
  3. ↑ SimpsonsWorld.com (Script View for Every Episode) (link for non-US users)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Bart Gets a "Z""
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"
  7. ↑ "Springfield Up"
  8. ↑ "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh"
  9. ↑ "Bart the Lover"
  10. ↑ "Flaming Moe's"
  11. ↑ "Grade School Confidential"
  12. ↑ The Simpsons Movie
  13. ↑ "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers""
  14. ↑ "My Fair Laddy"
  15. ↑ "To Surveil with Love"
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?"
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 "The Ned-liest Catch"
  18. ↑ "Burns' Heir"
  19. ↑ "Dumbbell Indemnity"
  20. ↑ "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays"
  21. ↑ "Brawl in the Family"
  22. ↑ Springfield Confidential Chapter 6
  23. ↑ "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
  24. ↑ Variety - "Marcia Wallace, Star of 'The Bob Newhart Show' and Voice of Mrs. Krabappel, Dies at 70"


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