| Helen Kemp Lovejoy
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Helen Lovejoy, voiced by Maggie Roswell is Reverend Timothy Lovejoy’s judgmental, moralistic, and gossipy wife and the mother of the Jessica Lovejoy.
Gossip
She introduced herself in the episode "Life on the Fast Lane" as "the gossipy wife of the minister." (Timothy Lovejoy does not support his wife’s gossipy habit, at one point saying "Oh Helen, call off your dogs.") Helen’s catchphrase, delivered at oddly inappropriate times and situations (or crises) is, "Will someone please think of the children?" In the episode "Marge in Chains", she promises to "use [her] gossip for good instead of evil."
Past
When she was younger, she went to Camp Land-A-Man with Marge Simpson, Patty and Selma Bouvier, Luann Van Houten, and Cookie Kwan. A younger Helen Lovejoy is seen getting low marks as she didn't put her forks in order.
Dislikes
Helen apparently has a strong dislike and/or hate of Mayor Quimby. Whenever they are both seen together (and this is usually when Helen and her group of pious women charge into his office) both have furious glares at each other. This was more notably seen in "Homer vs. The Eighteenth Amendment", where she demands that there should be a new Chief of Police, while smashing her fist on the table. He angrily replies with, "Demand? Who are you to demand anything? I run this town. You're just a bunch of low-income nobodies!" It was then brought to his attention that the election was in November, to which Quimby grumbled, "Again? This stupid country!"
As revealed in "Bart's Girlfriend", Helen cannot stand to hear the word "but" despite it being a conjunction, and nothing physical. In one episode, when Chief Wiggum attempted to give her "the ol' Wiggum charm", she became frightened and screamed "pervert!"
