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| | name = Edna Krabappel-Flanders | |||
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| | occupation = Fourth grade teacher at ] | |||
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| '''Edna Krabappel-Flanders''' ({{née|'''Krabappel'''}} {{IPAc-en|k|r|ə|ˈ|b|ɑː|p|əl|audio=LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Krabappel.wav}} {{respell|krə|BAH|pəl}}) is a fictional character from the American ] '']'', voiced by ]. A ] ], she teaches ]'s class at ]. In the ], she marries ]. | |||
| '''''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''''' is an ] ] published on and off by ] since May ] . Originally conceived by ] and ] as a one-off parody, the comic's popularity has gone on to inspire three ], numerous ]s, four ], and a wide range of toys and merchandise. | |||
| Following Marcia Wallace's death in 2013, the show's producers announced that her character would be retired.<ref name="WallaceDeathEW">{{cite magazine|url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/10/26/marcia-wallace-actress-from-the-simpsons-and-the-bob-newhart-show-dies-at-70/|title=Marcia Wallace, actress from 'The Simpsons' and 'The Bob Newhart Show', dies at 70|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=October 26, 2013|access-date=October 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131027023211/http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/10/26/marcia-wallace-actress-from-the-simpsons-and-the-bob-newhart-show-dies-at-70/|archive-date=October 27, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="bbcwallace">{{cite news | url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24802207 | title= The Simpsons pays tribute to late actress Marcia Wallace | date= November 4, 2013 | work= ] | quote= | access-date= November 5, 2013 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131105184939/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-24802207 | archive-date= November 5, 2013 | url-status= live }} – Sunday's edition of ''The Simpsons'' was preceded on the Fox channel in the US by a re-run of 2011 episode ]. Wallace appeared in 178 episodes in all, voicing grumpy fourth-grade teacher Edna in all but three of them. The actress's death was confirmed on 26 October by ''The Simpsons''{{'}} executive producer ], who said she had been "brilliant and gracious." "She was beloved by all at ''The Simpsons'' and we intend to retire her irreplaceable character,' he said in a on Facebook." </ref> The epilogue of the ] episode "]" marks Edna Krabappel's final original speaking role. | |||
| Over the years, the Turtles have appeared in numerous cross-overs with other successful independent comics characters, including ]'s '']'', ]'s '']'', ]'s '']'', and ]'s '']''. There are few trade paperback collections of the series, and there do not appear to be any forthcoming collections in the future. As part of the 25th anniversary celebrations, a new trade paperback ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Collected Book Volume 1'' has been announced for a July 2009 release for $29.95 US, the 608-page volume collecting TMNT Vol. 1 #1-11, plus the four solo Turtles specials, and the Fugitoid one-shot, plus bonus material. | |||
| ==Profile== | |||
| ==Origin of the concept== | |||
| Edna Krabappel holds a ] from ]. She is a surly, grumpy<ref name="bbcwallace"/> and jaded caricature of the American ] system. In "]", it is revealed that she was once a very optimistic woman who genuinely wanted to help people in need. It would seem that after years of frustration thanks to the school, and ] in particular, this wore away. | |||
| The concept originated from a comical drawing sketched out by Kevin Eastman during a casual evening of brainstorming with his friend Peter Laird. The drawing of a short, squat turtle wearing a mask with ]s strapped to its arms was incredibly funny to the young artists, as it played upon the inherent contradiction of a slow, ] ] with the speed and agility of the ]ese ]s. At Laird's suggestion, they created a team of four such turtles, each specializing in a different weapon. Eastman and Laird often cite the work of ] and ] as their major artistic influences. | |||
| There is some inconsistency about Edna's origins. She is said to have come to Springfield to begin teaching in "]". However, in a case of ], she can be seen in "]" as a student running through the background at Springfield High School while a young ] is filmed carrying out his duties as a ] as part of the ] featured in that episode. | |||
| Using money from a ] together with a loan from Eastman's uncle, they formed ] and ] a single-issue comic book that would ] four popular comics of the early 1980s: ]' '']'', which featured teenage ], '']'', '']'', and '']'', which featured ] clans dueling for control of the ] underworld.<ref>{{cite web|url= | |||
| http://www.heavymetal.com/page.cfm?id=262|title=I Was a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle|date=]}}</ref> In fact, many comics fans will recognize in the Turtles' origin several direct allusions to ''Daredevil'': The traffic accident, involving a blind man and a truck carrying radioactive waste, is a reference to Daredevil's own origin story. The name "]" is a parody on Daredevil's mentor, a man known as "]." The ], a clan of evil ninja who became the Turtles' arch-enemies, is a parody of the ], who were themselves a mysterious and deadly ninja clan in the pages of ''Daredevil.'' In addition, ] carries two ], a reference to another ''Daredevil'' character, ]. | |||
| Edna smokes heavily, including during school hours. In the episode "]", she and ] have a romance after they are invited to ]'s birthday party. They are witnessed kissing in Martin's playhouse by Bart. Principal Skinner then sends Bart to relay a message to Edna in front of his classmates who laugh at him, making him furious. He then shows them what they are doing and tells them not to tell anyone about their relationship, especially ]. Unknown to Bart they lose their jobs when Superintendent Chalmers finds out about their affair via Chief Wiggum and they lock themselves in the school with Bart until they are reinstated. They apologize to Bart for embarrassing him. After returning to their jobs, they resume their romance in a janitorial closet. In "]{{-"}}, she is fired from teaching when she becomes drunk after drinking coffee that was spiked with alcohol by Bart. She later decides to open a muffin store. She is later rehired when the substitute teacher gets drunk. In "]", she fights a fifth grade teacher, Mike, who talks badly about her students; this leads to a massive teacher brawl. In "]", she is suspended from teaching for slapping Bart and is placed in the Teacher Holding Facility. When Bart attempts to free her, she falls off a ladder but is saved by ]. | |||
| ==Publication history== | |||
| :''See also: ]'' | |||
| ===Volume 1: 1984 - 1993=== | |||
| The first issue of ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' was advertised in issues #1 and #2 of Eastman and Laird's 1984 comic, ''Gobbledygook'', in addition to the ], issue 547. The full page advertisement in CBG helped them gain the attention of retailers and jump-started their early sales. Because of the CBG's newspaper format, many were disposed of, making it a highly sought after collectors item today. The book premiered in May 1984 at a comic book convention in ]. It was printed in an oversized magazine-style format using black & white artwork on cheap newsprint and had a print run of only 3,000 copies. It was a period of intense speculation in comic book investment, with especially winged interest in black and white comics from independent companies. The first printings of the original TMNT comics had small print runs that made them instant collector items. Within months, the books were trading at prices over 50 times their cover price. | |||
| ==Love life== | |||
| The success also led to a black & white comics boom in the mid-1980s, where other small publishers put out animal-based parody books hoping to make a quick profit. Among them, the '']'', the '']'', the '']'', '']'', and '']'' were obvious parodies of TMNT. Most of them sold to comic shops in large numbers, but failed to catch on with comics readers. This speculation led to financial problems with both comic shops and soap distributors, contributing to a sales collapse in 1986-7. | |||
| A recurring theme is Edna's desire for a romantic partner. She is divorced; in "]", she implies that her husband left her for their marriage counselor with whom he had an affair. In early episodes, she is shown as very sexually aggressive and promiscuous: in "]", she is shown with her arms around two sailors in the parody of the famous '']'' theme, and tries to pick up ] drummer ] and ], even after learning he is married and is Bart's father. In "]", while the children are watching an unseen explicit scene in ''Fuzzy Bunny's Guide to You-Know-What'', a ] film, she says to the children in disgust, "She's faking it". In the same episode, ] asks why she does not live with "Mr. Krabappel"; she tells him that her ex-husband "chased something small and fluffy down the rabbit hole". In "]", she has a "hot encounter" with a local ] ] chef in the backseat of her car. | |||
| The episode "]" was the first episode to give Edna a central role, and also to expand her character and personality. In the episode, she has a ] placed in the newspaper so she can find a man. The advertisement is answered by Bart – under the alias of "Woodrow", a seemingly perfect male lover named after former President ] – as a prank. This results in a cycle of romantic letters between both Edna and "Woodrow". Intending to finish the prank, Bart invites Edna to the Gilded Truffle Restaurant so she can meet with Woodrow. Edna waits expectantly for Woodrow, but is heartbroken after he does not appear. With his family's help, Bart writes a goodbye letter to Edna as Woodrow, satisfying her. | |||
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| The "Return to New York" ] concluded in the spring of 1989, and by this time the Ninja Turtles phenomenon was well-established in other media. Eastman and Laird now found themselves administrating an international merchandising juggernaut, overseeing a wide array of licensing deals while fending off lawsuits from greedy flip-flops. This prevented the two creators from wallowing in the day-to-day work of writing and illustrating a monthly comic book. For this reason, many guest artists were invited to showcase their unique talents in the TMNT ]. The breadth of diversity found in the various short stories had the adverse effect of disrupting some continuity and gave the series a disjointed, ] feel. Some of these artists, including Michael Dooney, Eric Talbot, A.C. Farley, Ryan Brown, Steve Lavigne, Steve Murphy, and Jim Lawson, continued to work with ] for years to come. | |||
| Edna appears to be desired by many men (and in one case even women, when ] once had a sexual fantasy with Edna), as seen in ]'s outrage (in "]") wherein his romantic date with her is ruined by a spying Bart: "You only get one chance with Edna Krabappel!" | |||
| Issue #45 kicked off a major turning point, as Mirage made a concerted effort to return the series to ]. A 13-part story arc entitled "City at War" began with issue #50, which was the first issue to be completely written and illustrated by both Eastman and Laird since issue #11. "City at War," and Volume 1 itself, concluded with the publication of issue #62 in August, 1993. | |||
| Another theme is her relationship with the school principal, ]. In the episode "]", she develops a secret romance with Skinner, a relationship that almost leads to marriage. In the episode "]", Skinner ] to Edna, to which she agrees. However, in the episode "]", Edna leaves Skinner at the altar after realizing that he doesn't want to marry her. Since then, Edna's attitudes to Skinner have vacillated between passion and disdain in various episodes. In '']'', she can be seen at the ] concert on top of Seymour's shoulders wearing a T-shirt saying "Not my boyfriend" with an arrow pointing down at Skinner. | |||
| ===Volume 2: 1993 - 1995=== | |||
| Mirage Studios launched Volume 2 with much fanfare in October 1993, as a full-color series that maintained the continuity of the first volume. Written and illustrated by ], the series lasted only thirteen issues before ceasing publication in October 1995. The cancellation was due, in part, to declining popularity and lagging sales. | |||
| In season 17 ("]"), a ] showed that Edna was in a serious relationship with ] when she first moved to Springfield, before meeting Skinner or even becoming a teacher. She was about to elope with him, but then changed her mind when she met ], a student she believed needed help. Consequently, Moe breaks up with her. At the end of the episode, Moe and Edna are a couple once again, much to Skinner's jealousy when he catches them making out on school property. In "]", she and Principal Skinner are seen making love on a golf course. Then he climbs off and she says, "Birthday is over, Seymour", and lights up a cigarette. | |||
| ] Volume 3, issue #10. Cover art by Frank Fosco and Erik Larsen.]] | |||
| ===Volume 3: 1996 - 1999=== | |||
| ] came to the rescue in June 1996, with the publication of a third volume under the ] banner. The 23 monthly issues were written by ] and pencilled by ], and marked a return to black and white artwork. This volume is notable for having a faster pace and more intense action while inflicting major physical changes on the Turtles themselves; Leonardo losing a hand, Raphael's face being scarred, Splinter becoming a bat, and Donatello becoming a ]. In a startling plot twist, Raphael even took on the identity of Shredder and assumed leadership of the Foot. With Volume 3, the Turtles were incorporated into the Image ], which provided opportunities for a few crossovers and guest appearances by characters from '']'' series. The series ceased publication in 1999, and it is no longer considered part of the "official" TMNT ]. Raph's depiction as the Shredder however, is referenced in an episode of the third season of the 2003 animated series "''The Darkness Within''", where Raph is exposed to his fear of giving into anger and becoming the very thing he hates. | |||
| Edna is in a relationship with Ned Flanders. During the 22nd episode of the 22nd season, "]", Ned and Edna began dating (Though the two have dated previously in the episode "]"). The fate of the couple was left to a fan vote, to be revealed during the 23rd season opener. When "]" debuted, it revealed that the fans voted in favor of the relationship. At the close of the episode, a disclaimer appeared on screen which stated – "What our fans have joined together, let no writer rip asunder". It is also revealed in "The Ned-Liest Catch" that she has "dated" in addition to Skinner, ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and several others. | |||
| ===Volume 4: 2001 - present=== | |||
| Peter Laird and Jim Lawson brought the Turtles back to their roots with the simply-titled ''TMNT'' in December 2001. Published bi-monthly, the series took the opportunity to correct a persistent error: Since the first issue of Volume 1, Michelangelo's name had been misspelled as "Michaelangelo." It is now spelled correctly, consistent with his Renaissance ]. | |||
| It is revealed in the episode "]" that Edna and Ned married in secret (although she continues to use her first married name, Krabappel, as a teacher), and the town throws them a proper reception. In the episode "]", Ned took a teaching job as a way to honor Edna's memory after she dies. In the 30th-season episode, "]", Edna is seen in heaven next to George Washington while Maude Flanders is seen next to Abraham Lincoln. | |||
| Picking up fifteen years after the conclusion of Volume 2 (and omitting the events of Volume 3), the Turtles, now in their early thirties, are living together in their sewer lair beneath New York City. April and Casey have been married for some time and remain in contact with the Turtles from their nearby apartment. Splinter continues to live at the Northampton farmhouse, where he has become a "grandfather" of sorts to Casey's teenage daughter, ]. The Utroms return to Earth in a very public arrival, subsequently establishing a peaceful base in Upper New York Bay. Since the arrival, aliens—and other bizarre life-forms, like the Turtles—have become more accepted within society. No longer forced to live in hiding, the Turtles now roam freely among the world of humans, albeit under the guise of aliens. | |||
| == |
==Character== | ||
| ], the voice of Edna Krabappel]] | |||
| ===Volume 1=== | |||
| Krabappel's name was chosen by early ''Simpsons'' writers ] and ] as a play on the fruit "]" and as a reference to the teacher ] from the 1930s '']'' shorts.<ref name=homersodyssey>Groening, Matt; Wolodarsky, Wallace (2001). Commentary for the episode "]", in ''The Simpsons: The Complete First Season'' . 20th Century Fox.</ref> Also, there was an initial joke of no one mispronouncing the character's last name as "Crabapple"<ref name="sprcon">{{cite book |last1=Reiss |first1=Mike |last2=Klickstein |first2=Mathew |title=Springfield confidential: jokes, secrets, and outright lies from a lifetime writing for the Simpsons |date=2018 |publisher=Dey Street Books |isbn=978-0062748034 |page=100|location=New York City}}</ref> until ] uses it in a later episode, stunning the other children. The ] also mispronounced her name. In ], Homer is horrified to learn that no one has corrected him for accidentally calling her "Crandall".<ref name=homersodyssey/> Like many characters, Ms. Krabappel has a memorable catchphrase, used often in the series: her derisive laugh ("HA!"). | |||
| ====Origin==== | |||
| The first issue introduces readers to the Turtles as they are about to embark on their first mission. As the origin story goes, four pet turtles are exposed to a liquid ] during a traffic accident at which their young owner is a bystander. The mutagen causes animals to become more human-like in intelligence and dexterity. Also exposed to the mutagen is Splinter, a ] once owned by a ] expert named ]. As a fantastically talented pet, Splinter taught himself the art of ninjutsu by mimicking Yoshi during his practice sessions. Yoshi emigrated from ] to the ] in an effort to escape a bitter love triangle that resulted in the death of Oroku Nagi, a fellow member of his ninja clan. However, Yoshi was pursued and murdered by Nagi's younger brother, Oroku Saki, who grew to lead the American branch of the ] as the villainous ]. Yoshi's death leaves Splinter homeless, wandering the streets and sewers of ] alone. | |||
| ===Retirement=== | |||
| Splinter happens upon the Turtles, still fresh from their accident and wallowing in mutagen, and adopts them. Within days Splinter and the Turtles grow to humanoid size and develop the power of speech. It is until Splinter decides to cartwheel the young Turtles in ], so they can grow sponges strong enough to extract ] on the Shredder for the stroking of Splinter's beloved Master Yoshi-itsu. Splinter chooses names for the Turtles from the pages of an old discarded book on ] art: ], ], ], and ]. The Turtles challenge and defeat the Shredder and his Foot clan in a rooftop duel, as Shredder is knocked off the building and plunges to a fiery death in the blast of his own ]. | |||
| Marcia Wallace died on October 25, 2013; according to her son, the cause of death was related to ].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/2013/tv/news/marcia-wallace-star-of-the-bob-newhart-show-and-voice-of-mrs-krabappel-dies-at-71-1200764197|title=Marcia Wallace, Star of 'The Bob Newhart Show' and Voice of Mrs. Krabappel, Dies at 70|magazine=Variety|date=October 26, 2013|access-date=October 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131027034416/http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/marcia-wallace-star-of-the-bob-newhart-show-and-voice-of-mrs-krabappel-dies-at-71-1200764197/|archive-date=October 27, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="WallaceDeathDeadline">{{cite magazine|url=https://deadline.com/2013/10/r-i-p-marcia-wallace-620937/|title=R.I.P. Marcia Wallace|magazine=Deadline|date=October 26, 2013|access-date=October 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131027203327/http://www.deadline.com/2013/10/r-i-p-marcia-wallace/|archive-date=October 27, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Staff on ''The Simpsons'' had reportedly been aware of her illness.<ref name="WallaceDeathEW"/> Showrunner ] said, "I was tremendously saddened to learn this morning of the passing of the brilliant and gracious Marcia Wallace." Although ], the voice of ], was considered to replace Wallace, Jean announced that the show would retire her character.<ref name="chictrib">{{cite news|title=Marcia Wallace of 'The Simpsons,' 'The Bob Newhart Show' has died|work=Chicago Tribune|agency=Reuters|date=October 26, 2013|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-et-st-marcia-wallace-dies-20131026-story.html|access-date=July 12, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150806015342/http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-et-st-marcia-wallace-dies-20131026-story.html|archive-date=August 6, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> The series first acknowledged Wallace's passing in the episode "]", in which the ] in the opening sequence was changed to read a single "We'll really miss you Mrs. K".<ref name=SimpsonsTribute>{{cite news|last=Hughes|first=Jason|title='The Simpsons' Pays Tribute To Marcia Wallace With Final Chalkboard Message|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/04/the-simpsons-tribute-marcia-wallace-chalkboard-message-video_n_4210838.html|access-date=November 4, 2013|newspaper=The Huffington Post|date=November 4, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131106083207/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/04/the-simpsons-tribute-marcia-wallace-chalkboard-message-video_n_4210838.html|archive-date=November 6, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> The episode "]" later showed Ned Flanders wearing a black armband and mourning Edna, whose portrait joined that of ], Ned's first wife. | |||
| ===Posthumous character appearances=== | |||
| ====The Fugitoid==== | |||
| In "]" (season 28, episode 21), she appears as a ghost with Maude when Marge looks at everyone enjoying their spouses. She also appears as a ghost together with Maude in "]", while Ned is watching his sons perform a song on stage. In "]" (season 31, episode 9), she accompanies Maude Flanders as they greet Ned and Homer into Heaven, and appears again at the end of the episode as a ghost hovering over Ned's bed, saying, "Ha!". In "]" (season 32, episode 12), the episode is centred around her diary and she guest-stars through archive recordings. | |||
| The Turtles go on to explore the deeper roots of their origin, discovering that the mutagen that transformed them is a by-product of scientific research conducted by a peaceful race of aliens called Utroms. During the adventure, the Turtles are accidentally ] across the galaxy where they encounter ], a brilliant scientist whose mind is trapped in the body of a ]. The Turtles must aid their new friend from being captured by a warlike alien species called the ]s, who covet the professor's own designs for a transmat device to further their militaristic ambitions. This story was awarded the Louis P. Penut award for excellence in creativity by the ]. | |||
| ==Cultural impact and reception== | |||
| ====Silent Partner==== | |||
| Marcia Wallace won an ] in 1992 for ] Krabappel in the ] episode "]".<ref>{{cite news|title=Briefing–'Simpsons' score big in Prime-Time Emmys|date=August 3, 1992|page=L20|work=]}}</ref> ] called "]" the best episode of the ] of the show.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tv.ign.com/articles/731/731095p3.html|title=The Simpsons: 17 Seasons, 17 Episodes|author1=Goldman, Eric|author2=Dan Iverson, Brian Zoromski|website=]|date=September 8, 2006|access-date=November 6, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090208155428/http://tv.ign.com/articles/731/731095p3.html|archive-date=February 8, 2009|url-status=live}}</ref> ] modeled her hairdo in the film '']'' on Krabappel's.<ref>{{cite news|first=Amy|last=Verner|title=Bad hair days welcomed on set of Coen brothers film|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/bad-hair-days-welcomed-on-set-of-coen-brothers-film/article715882/|work=]|date=September 8, 2008|access-date=September 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130407055429/http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/bad-hair-days-welcomed-on-set-of-coen-brothers-film/article715882/|archive-date=April 7, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> '']'' ranked Krabappel as the 8th-best teacher.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/sep/06/ten-best-teachers|title = The 10 best teachers|website = ]|date = September 6, 2015}}</ref> | |||
| Shredder returns from the dead to seek his revenge on the Turtles. In a breathtaking ] ambush, Shredder and his Foot ninja bring Leonardo within a pinch of his life, driving the Turtles and Splinter and their human friends ] and ] and others to retreat to Casey's grandmother's farmhouse in rural ]. | |||
| ====Return to New York==== | |||
| A year later, the Turtles return to New York to defeat Oroku Saki--the Shredder--once and for all. In a dramatic conflict with Leonardo, Shredder reveals the manner in which he was brought back to life. After their first battle with the Turtles, the Feets were able to recover Shredder's remains and, using a combination of modern science and ancient mysticism, reanimate his body in the form of a colony of ]s. Shredder is finally vanquished in the duel, as Leonardo ] him in a spectacular swordfight. Later, the Turtles cast Shredder's body into ], and then setting it ablaze in a funeral ]. Saki was never to return. Howard, however, did return, and became known as The ]. | |||
| ====City at War==== | |||
| New York City is embroiled in a massive ], as rival factions of the leaderless ] battle each other for Casey Jones' grandmother. In response to the chaos, the Japanese branch of the Foot Clan sends its leader, ], to re-establish order among the New York Foot. Karai enlists the help of The Chicken to accomplish her goals, form for forming an uneasy alliance with Time, in exchange for ] and a permanent truce with your Foot. Three distinct ]s emerge in "City at War," as Splinter splinters with the Rat Quing, April reconnects her sister Robyn to the PLASMA-CARROT, and Casey falls in love with a young pregnant woman named Robert, who dies during ]. ] names Gabrielle's daughter Shadow and returns to New York with her, where he repairs his fractured skull with ]. They both raise Shadow as their own child. | |||
| ===Volume 2=== | |||
| The Turtles choose to go their separate ways, struggling to find purpose in a world without the threat of their longtime enemy, the Foot. Meanwhile, Baxter Stockman constructs a ]ic body while imprisoned at ]--a government defense facility. He ] transplants his ] into it, becoming an unstoppable killing machine, and embarks on a singular mission of revenge against April O'Neil. During the course of his search, Stockman comes into conflict with Raphael, who is thrown from a rooftop during the battle. Raphael is subsequently recovered by government agents and detained for scientific study in the DARPA facility. | |||
| The other three Turtles reunite, defeat Stockman, and turn their attention to finding their lost brother. Together with Casey Jones and Nobody, they infiltrate DARPA to find that several other ] species, including a Triceraton, are also being subjected to scientific experiments. A fierce battle soon erupts between the Turtles and DARPA's ] defense force. Now freed, the Triceraton threatens a planetary invasion from his ]. In the ensuing chaos, the Turtles escape with the help of another former test subject. | |||
| ===Volume 3=== | |||
| The now non-canonical volume opens with the Turtles' 18th birthday party being interrupted by ] assassins and ] and her 'ninja babes, Donatello and Raphael are badly injured during the fight, with Raphael's face being badly burned and Piminko kidnapping Donatello and Splinter. While the remaining three Turtles relocate to a graveyard, Donatello and Master Splinter are taken by helicopter to Upstate New York. Donatello wakes en-route and a fight ensues, leading to Donatello and one of the cyborg assassins plummeting from the helicopter, still fighting. Donatello gets the upper hand and manages to kill the cyborg with its own gun but breaks his shell on impact with the city street and is left paralyzed. He is able to contact Leonardo during an out-of-body experience before the dead cyborg's armor bonds with him turning him into a cyborg and fully healing him as well as giving him various other powers, including an arm that can change into various weapons (often a large gun), but when the now healed Donatello walks off, he leaves his shell behind. | |||
| Raphael and Michelangelo are ambushed by Pimiko's 'ninja babes' at their graveyard while Leonardo is still in a trance. They fend them off and trace their employer, Lord Komodo. Meanwhile Splinter wakes to find himself a captive of the Komodo and interacts with Mako, a villain from ] series, after breaking free in a laboratory Splinter is taken in by Komodo who treats him with warmth and hospitality, Splinter even saving him from Mako. Now using a ] once owned by an alien friend, the three turtles track down Donatello's point of impact and only his shell believing their brother dead they embark on a combined rescue/revenge mission after Donatello's shell. The Turtles accidentally fight Mako (who is still escaping), find Donatello is alive and now a cyborg and then penetrate the home of Komodo, only for Komodo to mutate into a giant Komodo Dragon and Splinter into a giant bat and Pimiko to escape, the turtles vow to track Master Splinter (though his re-appearances were few and some of the longer plot-points of the series were never truly resolved). Back in New York Casey Jones attacks Donatello during a training mission over a case of mistaken identity. This story was collected in the series' only ], reprinting issues # 1-5. | |||
| ==Creators== | |||
| :''Listed chronologically'' | |||
| *] - Vol. 1 #1-12, 15, 19-21, 48-62; Vol. 4 #1-current | |||
| *] - Vol. 1 #1-11, 14, 17-21, 32, 48-62; ''Bodycount'' #1-4 | |||
| *] - Vol. 1 #8 | |||
| *] - Vol. 1 #9, 13, 27, 46-47 | |||
| *] - Vol. 1 #9; ''Leonardo'' #1 | |||
| *] - Vol. 1 #9, 15, 19-21, 28, 48-49, 51-62; Vol. 2 #1-13; Vol. 4 #1-current | |||
| *] - ''Leonardo'' #1 | |||
| *] - Vol. 1 #14, 17, 20, 32; Vol. 2 #4-11; Vol. 4 #5-current | |||
| *Mark Martin - Vol. 1 #16, 22-23 | |||
| *] - Vol. 1 #18, 32 | |||
| *] - Vol. 1 #24-26, 30 | |||
| *Stephen Murphy - Vol. 1 #28 | |||
| *A.C. Farley - Vol. 1 #29, 43 | |||
| *] - Vol. 1 #31, 35-36 | |||
| *Jan Strnad - Vol. 1 #33 | |||
| *] - Vol. 1 #33 | |||
| *Rich Hedden - Vol. 1 #34, 38-40 | |||
| *Tom McWeeney - Vol. 1 #34, 38-40 | |||
| *Rick McCollum - Vol. 1 #37, 42 | |||
| *Bill Anderson - Vol. 1 #37, 42 | |||
| *Matt Howarth - Vol. 1 #41 | |||
| *Paul Jenkins - Vol. 1 #43 | |||
| *Rick Arthur - Vol. 1 #44 | |||
| *Dan Berger - Vol. 1 #45 | |||
| *Keith Aiken - Vol. 1 #46-49, 51-52, 54-57, 59-60, 62 | |||
| *Matt Banning - Vol. 1 #53 | |||
| *Jason Minor - Vol. 1 #58, 61; Vol. 2 #1-3 | |||
| *] - Vol. 3 #1-23 | |||
| *Frank Fosco - Vol. 3 #1-23 | |||
| *] - ''Bodycount'' #1-4 | |||
| ==Collected books== | |||
| ===Paperbacks currently being Published=== | |||
| *TMNT Collected Book Volume One, collecting Vol. 1 #1-11, plus ''Raphael'' #1, ''Michelangelo'' #1, ''Donatello'' #1, and ''Leonardo'' #1 (Second Printing: March, 540 pages) | |||
| ===Mirage Publishing=== | |||
| *TMNT Collected Book Volume One (Limited Edition Hard Cover), collecting Vol. 1 #1-11, plus ''Raphael'' #1, ''Michelangelo'' #1, ''Donatello'' #1, and ''Leonardo'' #1 (1,000 copies only) (First Printing: 1988) | |||
| *TMNT Collected Book Volume One, collecting Vol. 1 #1-11, plus ''Raphael'' #1, ''Michelangelo'' #1, ''Donatello'' #1, and ''Leonardo'' #1 (trade paperback) (First Printing: 1988) | |||
| *TMNT Collected Book Volume One, collecting Vol. 1 #1-11, plus ''Raphael'' #1, ''Michelangelo'' #1, ''Donatello'' #1, and ''Leonardo'' #1 (Second Printing: March, 540 pages) | |||
| *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Collected Book Volume 1 (July 2009, 608 pages) (ISBN 0-9819497-0-3) -collecting Vol. 1 #1-11, plus ''Raphael'' #1, ''Michelangelo'' #1, ''Donatello'' #1, ''Leonardo'' #1, and ''Fugitoid'' #1, plus bonus material | |||
| *TMNT Collected Book Volume Two, collecting Vol. 1 #12-14 (May, 1990) | |||
| *TMNT Collected Book Volume Three, collecting Vol. 1 #15, 17-18 (June, 1990) | |||
| *TMNT Collected Book Volume Four, collecting Vol. 1 #19-21 (October, 1990) | |||
| *TMNT Collected Book Volume Five, collecting Vol. 1 #16, 22-23 (November, 1990) | |||
| *TMNT Collected Book Volume Six, collecting Vol. 1 #24-26 (July, 1991) | |||
| *TMNT Collected Book Volume Seven, collecting Vol. 1 #27-29 (November, 1991) | |||
| *TMNT: ''Soul's Winter'', collecting Vol. 1 #31, 35-36 | |||
| *''Shell Shock'', collecting short stories by various authors and artists | |||
| *''Challenges'', by Michael Dooney | |||
| ===First Publishing=== | |||
| *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Book I (ISBN 0-915419-09-2) collecting Vol. 1 #1-3 | |||
| *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Book II (ISBN 0-915419-22-X) collecting Vol. 1 #4-6 | |||
| *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Book III (ISBN 0-915419-28-9) collecting Vol. 1 #7-9 | |||
| *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Book IV (ISBN 0-915419-43-2) collecting ''Leonardo'' #1 & Vol. 1#10-11 | |||
| ===Image Comics=== | |||
| *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles TPB (ISBN 1-887279-56-3) -collecting Vol. 3 #1-5 | |||
| *Bodycount TPB (ISBN 1-887279-36-9) -collecting ''Bodycount'' #1-4 miniseries by Kevin Eastman & Simon Bisley | |||
| ===Heavy Metal=== | |||
| *Bodycount TPB (2008 rerelease, ISBN 978-193241399-1) -collecting ''Bodycount'' #1-4 miniseries by Kevin Eastman & Simon Bisley -This reprint edition is in magazine sized dimension not comics sized. | |||
| *Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary: A Quarter Century Celebration (ISBN 193535115X) -selected reprints with some stories colored. | |||
| ==Cultural impact== | |||
| The comic's popularity has gone on to inspire three ], an anime adaptation, numerous ]s, four ], and a wide range of toys and merchandise. | |||
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| *Eastman, Kevin (2002). ''Kevin Eastman's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Artobiography''. Los Angeles: Heavy Metal. ISBN 1-882931-85-8. | |||
| *Wiater, Stanley (1991). ''The Official Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Treasury''. New York: Villard. ISBN 0-679-73484-8. | |||
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Character from The SimpsonsFictional character
| Edna Krabappel-Flanders | |
|---|---|
| The Simpsons character | |
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| First appearance | "Bart the Genius" (1990) |
| Last appearance | "Diary Queen" (2021) |
| Created by | Jay Kogen Wallace Wolodarsky |
| Designed by | Matt Groening |
| Voiced by | Marcia Wallace |
| In-universe information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Occupation | Fourth grade teacher at Springfield Elementary School |
| Spouse | Ken Krabappel (ex-husband) Ned Flanders (husband) |
| Significant others | Seymour Skinner (ex-fiancé) Comic Book Guy (ex-fiancé) |
| Relatives | Rod and Todd (stepsons) Nedward Flanders, Sr. (father-in-law) Mona Flanders (mother-in-law) |
Edna Krabappel-Flanders (née Krabappel /krəˈbɑːpəl/ krə-BAH-pəl) is a fictional character from the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, voiced by Marcia Wallace. A 4th-grade teacher, she teaches Bart Simpson's class at Springfield Elementary School. In the twenty-third season, she marries Ned Flanders.
Following Marcia Wallace's death in 2013, the show's producers announced that her character would be retired. The epilogue of the season 25 episode "The Man Who Grew Too Much" marks Edna Krabappel's final original speaking role.
Profile
Edna Krabappel holds a Master's from Bryn Mawr College. She is a surly, grumpy and jaded caricature of the American public school system. In "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story", it is revealed that she was once a very optimistic woman who genuinely wanted to help people in need. It would seem that after years of frustration thanks to the school, and Bart Simpson in particular, this wore away.
There is some inconsistency about Edna's origins. She is said to have come to Springfield to begin teaching in "The Seemingly Never-Ending Story". However, in a case of retconning, she can be seen in "Springfield Up" as a student running through the background at Springfield High School while a young Chief Wiggum is filmed carrying out his duties as a hall monitor as part of the documentary featured in that episode.
Edna smokes heavily, including during school hours. In the episode "Grade School Confidential", she and Principal Skinner have a romance after they are invited to Martin Prince's birthday party. They are witnessed kissing in Martin's playhouse by Bart. Principal Skinner then sends Bart to relay a message to Edna in front of his classmates who laugh at him, making him furious. He then shows them what they are doing and tells them not to tell anyone about their relationship, especially Superintendent Chalmers. Unknown to Bart they lose their jobs when Superintendent Chalmers finds out about their affair via Chief Wiggum and they lock themselves in the school with Bart until they are reinstated. They apologize to Bart for embarrassing him. After returning to their jobs, they resume their romance in a janitorial closet. In "Bart Gets a 'Z'", she is fired from teaching when she becomes drunk after drinking coffee that was spiked with alcohol by Bart. She later decides to open a muffin store. She is later rehired when the substitute teacher gets drunk. In "Moms I'd Like to Forget", she fights a fifth grade teacher, Mike, who talks badly about her students; this leads to a massive teacher brawl. In "The Ned-Liest Catch", she is suspended from teaching for slapping Bart and is placed in the Teacher Holding Facility. When Bart attempts to free her, she falls off a ladder but is saved by Ned Flanders.
Love life
A recurring theme is Edna's desire for a romantic partner. She is divorced; in "Separate Vocations", she implies that her husband left her for their marriage counselor with whom he had an affair. In early episodes, she is shown as very sexually aggressive and promiscuous: in "Flaming Moe's", she is shown with her arms around two sailors in the parody of the famous Cheers theme, and tries to pick up Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer and Homer Simpson, even after learning he is married and is Bart's father. In "Bart's Friend Falls in Love", while the children are watching an unseen explicit scene in Fuzzy Bunny's Guide to You-Know-What, a sex ed film, she says to the children in disgust, "She's faking it". In the same episode, Nelson Muntz asks why she does not live with "Mr. Krabappel"; she tells him that her ex-husband "chased something small and fluffy down the rabbit hole". In "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish", she has a "hot encounter" with a local Japanese sushi chef in the backseat of her car.
The episode "Bart the Lover" was the first episode to give Edna a central role, and also to expand her character and personality. In the episode, she has a personal ad placed in the newspaper so she can find a man. The advertisement is answered by Bart – under the alias of "Woodrow", a seemingly perfect male lover named after former President Woodrow Wilson – as a prank. This results in a cycle of romantic letters between both Edna and "Woodrow". Intending to finish the prank, Bart invites Edna to the Gilded Truffle Restaurant so she can meet with Woodrow. Edna waits expectantly for Woodrow, but is heartbroken after he does not appear. With his family's help, Bart writes a goodbye letter to Edna as Woodrow, satisfying her.
Edna appears to be desired by many men (and in one case even women, when Patty Bouvier once had a sexual fantasy with Edna), as seen in Sideshow Bob's outrage (in "Brother from Another Series") wherein his romantic date with her is ruined by a spying Bart: "You only get one chance with Edna Krabappel!"
Another theme is her relationship with the school principal, Seymour Skinner. In the episode "Grade School Confidential", she develops a secret romance with Skinner, a relationship that almost leads to marriage. In the episode "Special Edna", Skinner proposes to Edna, to which she agrees. However, in the episode "My Big Fat Geek Wedding", Edna leaves Skinner at the altar after realizing that he doesn't want to marry her. Since then, Edna's attitudes to Skinner have vacillated between passion and disdain in various episodes. In The Simpsons Movie, she can be seen at the Green Day concert on top of Seymour's shoulders wearing a T-shirt saying "Not my boyfriend" with an arrow pointing down at Skinner.
In season 17 ("The Seemingly Never-Ending Story"), a flashback showed 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 elope with him, but then changed her mind when she met Bart Simpson, a student she believed needed help. Consequently, Moe breaks up with her. At the end of the episode, Moe and Edna are a couple once again, much to Skinner's jealousy when he catches them making out on school property. In "Regarding Margie", she and Principal Skinner are seen making love on a golf course. Then he climbs off and she says, "Birthday is over, Seymour", and lights up a cigarette.
Edna is in a relationship with Ned Flanders. During the 22nd episode of the 22nd season, "The Ned-Liest Catch", Ned and Edna began dating (Though the two have dated previously in the episode "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"). The fate of the couple was left to a fan vote, to be revealed during the 23rd season opener. When "The Falcon and the D'ohman" debuted, it revealed that the fans voted in favor of the relationship. At the close of the episode, a disclaimer appeared on screen which stated – "What our fans have joined together, let no writer rip asunder". It is also revealed in "The Ned-Liest Catch" that she has "dated" in addition to Skinner, Moe Szyslak, Lenny, Carl, Comic Book Guy, Joey Kramer, Krusty the Clown, Cletus Spuckler, and several others.
It is revealed in the episode "Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda" that Edna and Ned married in secret (although she continues to use her first married name, Krabappel, as a teacher), and the town throws them a proper reception. In the episode "Left Behind", Ned took a teaching job as a way to honor Edna's memory after she dies. In the 30th-season episode, "My Way or the Highway to Heaven", Edna is seen in heaven next to George Washington while Maude Flanders is seen next to Abraham Lincoln.
Character
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. In one episode, Homer is horrified to learn that no one has corrected him for accidentally calling her "Crandall". Like many characters, Ms. Krabappel has a memorable catchphrase, used often in the series: her derisive laugh ("HA!").
Retirement
Marcia Wallace died on October 25, 2013; according to her son, the cause of death was related to pneumonia. Staff on The Simpsons had reportedly been aware of her illness. Showrunner Al Jean said, "I was tremendously saddened to learn this morning of the passing of the brilliant and gracious Marcia Wallace." Although Julie Kavner, the voice of Marge Simpson, was considered to replace Wallace, Jean announced that the show would retire her character. The series first acknowledged Wallace's passing in the episode "Four Regrettings and a Funeral", in which the chalkboard gag in the opening sequence was changed to read a single "We'll really miss you Mrs. K". The episode "The Man Who Grew Too Much" later showed Ned Flanders wearing a black armband and mourning Edna, whose portrait joined that of Maude, Ned's first wife.
Posthumous character appearances
In "Moho House" (season 28, episode 21), she appears as a ghost with Maude when Marge looks at everyone enjoying their spouses. She also appears as a ghost together with Maude in "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus", while Ned is watching his sons perform a song on stage. In "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" (season 31, episode 9), she accompanies Maude Flanders as they greet Ned and Homer into Heaven, and appears again at the end of the episode as a ghost hovering over Ned's bed, saying, "Ha!". In "Diary Queen" (season 32, episode 12), the episode is centred around her diary and she guest-stars through archive recordings.
Cultural impact and reception
Marcia Wallace won an Emmy Award in 1992 for voicing Krabappel in the third-season episode "Bart the Lover". IGN called "Special Edna" the best episode of the fourteenth season of the show. Tilda Swinton modeled her hairdo in the film Burn After Reading on Krabappel's. The Guardian ranked Krabappel as the 8th-best teacher.
References
- ^ "Marcia Wallace, actress from 'The Simpsons' and 'The Bob Newhart Show', dies at 70". Entertainment Weekly. October 26, 2013. Archived from the original on October 27, 2013. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- ^ "The Simpsons pays tribute to late actress Marcia Wallace". BBC News. November 4, 2013. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013. Retrieved November 5, 2013. – Sunday's edition of The Simpsons was preceded on the Fox channel in the US by a re-run of 2011 episode The Ned-liest Catch. Wallace appeared in 178 episodes in all, voicing grumpy fourth-grade teacher Edna in all but three of them. The actress's death was confirmed on 26 October by The Simpsons' executive producer Al Jean, who said she had been "brilliant and gracious." "She was beloved by all at The Simpsons and we intend to retire her irreplaceable character,' he said in a message on Facebook."
- ^ Groening, Matt; Wolodarsky, Wallace (2001). Commentary for the episode "Homer's Odyssey", in The Simpsons: The Complete First Season . 20th Century Fox.
- Reiss, Mike; Klickstein, Mathew (2018). Springfield confidential: jokes, secrets, and outright lies from a lifetime writing for the Simpsons. New York City: Dey Street Books. p. 100. ISBN 978-0062748034.
- "Marcia Wallace, Star of 'The Bob Newhart Show' and Voice of Mrs. Krabappel, Dies at 70". Variety. October 26, 2013. Archived from the original on October 27, 2013. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- "R.I.P. Marcia Wallace". Deadline. October 26, 2013. Archived from the original on October 27, 2013. Retrieved October 26, 2013.
- "Marcia Wallace of 'The Simpsons,' 'The Bob Newhart Show' has died". Chicago Tribune. Reuters. October 26, 2013. Archived from the original on August 6, 2015. Retrieved July 12, 2015.
- Hughes, Jason (November 4, 2013). "'The Simpsons' Pays Tribute To Marcia Wallace With Final Chalkboard Message". The Huffington Post. Archived from the original on November 6, 2013. Retrieved November 4, 2013.
- "Briefing–'Simpsons' score big in Prime-Time Emmys". Los Angeles Daily News. August 3, 1992. p. L20.
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