Barbara Belfry

Barbara "Barb" Belfry-Van Horne is Ned Flanders' short-lived girlfriend, who turns out to be married to Sideshow Mel, leading to their breakup. She first appears in the episode "A Serious Flanders: Part One". Presumably it is a reconfiguration or redesign of the wife of Mel seen previously in other episodes, Barbara Van Horne. She works as the manager of a children's orphanage, to which Ned donates the money. 
She is in an open marriage with Mel and often sleeps with various men, which is why Flanders broke up with her. Later Ned sleeps with her to get the money from the orphanage, which culminates in her throwing a flag at him and her car. 
That caused him to crash. Then she makes everyone see a Homer Simpson as a hero and Ned as a bad man. At the end of the episode, she is seen in a sequence, where she appears after having slept with Horatio McCallister.
She appears to have a soft and loving personality and seems to really love kids as she is the manager at an Orphanage.
==Trivia ==
* She sounds and looks a lot like Maude Flanders, Ned's late wife, both of which have an upper midwestern accent. She is much heavier than Maude though.
**That may be a joke regarding her being Ned's short-lived girlfriend.
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Category:Female characters
Category:Ned's Love Interests
Category:Married
Category:American Characters
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Category:Doppelgangers
Category:Van Horne Family
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