page_title: Edna Krabappel
section_title: Character
hierarchical_section_title: Edna Krabappel / Character
caption_attribution_description: Marcia Wallace at the Governor's Ball after the Emmy telecast 9/11/94 - Permission granted to copy, publish, broadcast or post but please credit "photo by Alan Light" if you can
context_page_description: Edna Krabappel-Flanders is a fictional character from the animated American sitcom The Simpsons, who was voiced by Marcia Wallace from 1990 until her death in October 2013. She was a 4th grade teacher, who taught Bart Simpson's class at Springfield Elementary School. In the twenty-third season, she married Ned Flanders, the widower of Maude Flanders, helping raise Rod and Todd Flanders until her death.
  Edna is the only character that Wallace voiced on a regular basis. Following Wallace's death, the show's producers announced their intention to retire the character. Edna Krabappel's final speaking role was the epilogue of the 25th season episode "The Man Who Grew Too Much".
context_section_description: Krabappel's name was chosen by early Simpsons writers Wallace Wolodarsky and Jay Kogen as a play on the fruit "crabapple" and as a reference to the teacher Miss Crabtree from the 1930s Our Gang shorts. Also, there was an initial joke of no one mispronouncing the character's last name as "Crabapple" until Milhouse uses it in a later episode, stunning the other children. The real Seymour Skinner also mispronounced her name as "Crabapple". In one episode, Homer is horrified to learn that no one has corrected him for calling her "Crandall". Like many characters, Ms. Krabappel has a memorable catchphrase, used often in the series: her derisive laugh ("HA!").
caption: Marcia Wallace, the voice of Edna Krabappel
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