Alice Green/History

This article describes the history of **Alice Green**, Bill Green's mother, the wife of Ernest Green, the grandmother of Cricket and Tilly Green, and the tough matriarch of the Green family.

## Early life

Alice Green was born on October 10, 1943, in the original Green house to an unnamed father and mother.

When Alice was around 7-10 years old, none of the crops grew due to a lack of rain for months, and thus her father threatened to have the farm sold and the house to be destroyed. Alice, not wanting to give up, tries to dig lots of holes, but when it seems she had lost all hope, one of her apple seeds begins to sprout. Realizing there's still some water, Alice uses the loader that is to destroy the house to dig a hole next to the sprouting, where a huge spout of water bursts out of the hole. The farm was saved, Alice's father decides to put their new well where she found the water.

In some unknown period, she fought in a war, and has piloted planes and nursed other soldiers during her time in the army. On the front lines of battle, she would never leave a man behind.

Some time in her teenage years, Alice fights a bear and completes the Green family rite of passage.

When Alice was in her late 20s to early 30s, her car breaks down on the side of the road. A man, Ernest, comes to help out, but she sneaks off in his truck and leaves him behind. Ernest runs into her again on the rainiest day of the summer and uses his newspaper as an umbrella for her. Some time after that, Alice finds a trail of pebbles which lead to the garage, where Ernest surprises her by presenting her fixed car. He proposes to her with his mother's pearls because he didn't have enough money for a ring, and she happily accepts under the condition he takes her last name. Some time after that, Alice and Ernest were married.

At a time during her marriage, Alice became a racer with the nickname "Hot Rod Alice". Alice also gives birth to a boy, Bill Green; at first it was believed he was born in the plumbing section of a hardware store. ("DIY Guys") However, Alice revealed that he *wasn't* born in a hardware store; for he was born while she was doing her Tuesday routine when having a burger at Greasy Gus's. ("Super Gramma!") Sadly, Ernest passes away some time after Bill's birth, leaving her to handle the farm by herself.

At some point after Bill's birth, Alice has a major injury that causes her to lose her left leg and it is replaced with a prosthetic lookalike, where she keeps the first clue to the Green family "treasure" inside in case the farm is threatened to be sold again.

When Bill was a child, business eventually suffered at the farm due to Ernest's passing. Alice encounters a man named Quisling who wants to buy their farmland, much to Bill's sadness. To get her to change her mind, Bill tries doing the farmwork, but he nearly loses his finger to the hay baler when trying to unclog it, so she bans him from all farm chores. Bill then decides to get a job somewhere else, and ends up joining a shady man's daughter, Nancy, in the faraway Big City to con kids at an arcade out of their money and replace them with black market tokens made in a factory. Eventually they are caught for this and jailed, and Alice takes Bill home and expresses her worry for him. Bill then decides to accept Quisling's offer, and she reluctantly agrees. They take up the offer, downsizing the farm, and Quisling soon sells that to the city developers, resulting in Big City expanding and being built around the house to Alice's annoyance.

When Bill was a preteen, Alice became his coach when he wanted to try out gymnastics, but she treated him rather harshly, causing him to run out on his first meeting.

Despite Alice warning Bill not to go near Nancy again as she has a bad influence on him, Bill still kept continuing to see her, to the point of eventually falling in love with each other. They are soon married (with Alice being the only one who objected), start their own farm in the country, and give birth to Cricket and Tilly; but a few years after, Bill eventually divorced her upon learning of her bad influence. Since then, Alice has held a grudge against Nancy.

Some time during Bill's young adult years, he ends up losing his finger to the hay baler for real, and she gives him her famous Feel Better Butter Biscuits as a get well gift. She also gives them to Nancy only once after a motorcycle accident.

Eventually, Nancy is arrested for liberating cows from a dairy factory when it stole business from the family farm, and the farm was foreclosed, so the family had no choice but to move to the original Green house in Big City to live with Alice.

## Present life

### Season 1

When the Greens made it to her house after going through an adventure to get their truck back, Gramma initially played dead, scaring the Greens, but sprung up quickly, welcoming them to their new home. ("Welcome Home")

When Cricket and his new friend Remy is in need of a slingshot, they search Gramma's room. A sound made by her cat clock dropping jolts her awake, and she threatens to sword them. However, she lets them off, only after they kiss her cheek. ("Space Chicken")

On the day of Cricket's Rite of Passage, Gramma challenges Cricket to find the toughest animal in Big City and pin it down, but he has until sunset to do so otherwise he won't be a Green anymore. He is initially unable to find any wild animals -- he scares away Keys' horse Buttercup, Gramma refuses to let Cricket fight a dog because it's on a leash, and she doesn't count a fight with a squirrel because, in her words, it isn't considered a "real-life monster" unlike the time she fought a bear for her rite of passage. It isn't long until Cricket realizes *Gramma* is the wild animal, and wrestles her; when it looks like she's winning, Cricket seemingly gives up the fight and gives Gramma the victory, knowing he's a Green by heart, only to reveal this was a trick to let her guard down. He uses the family quilt to pin her down by sundown, making him an official Green. ("Cricket Versus")

### Season 2

Bill sees that the Greens aren't getting any visitors, outside of the occasional land developers and invited guests; this is due to Gramma dressing up as a "Swamp witch" and scaring everyone. To prove that swamp witches aren't real, Bill sets up a barbeque, which Gramma and Cricket is able to ruin by using the most obvious of effects, though the visitors aren't easily fooled. The situation escalates by nightfall, when the visitors Bill invited over earlier instigate a "witch hunt" with actual pitchforks and fire. Seeing this, Gramma goes out herself to face the crowd and reveals she is just a regular gramma... by kissing Cricket in public. Now convinced, the visitors decide to continue the barbeque. ("Urban Legend")

When the Greens notice an old box full of grampa Ernest's belongings, Gramma tells the story on how she and Ernest met. ("Garage Tales")

When the Greens get a phone, Gramma learns that driving for Swyft will make her money. In pursuit of a 5-star rating, she drives her clients to their locations somewhat recklessly. Her big break comes when the couple Bash and Bella, fresh off a robbery at the Big City Bank, are driven by Gramma and she gets a 5-star due to her flooring the gas pedal trying to get away from the police and the reckless driving. When Bill makes her realize she has actually brought criminals, Gramma asks Officer Keys if she can borrow his car; she is able to catch up to Bash and Bella. Keys compliments her driving. ("Gramma Driver")

When Gramma gets cataracts surgery, she is unable to see, though she insists on doing her weekly Tuesday routine. While she is hampered by her lack of vision, Cricket and Tilly helps her complete the tasks; this is until she enters a seedy elders' bar and challenges a woman named Gertie to a game of darts; the winner gets a limited-edition figurine. While Gramma doesn't win, she takes the figure for herself, and Gertie is about to give chase, but her hips have cracked. ("Super Gramma!")