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finding a bobby-pin - wasn't Homer picking food up off the ground? RickK 06:12, 17 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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Shouldn't the line about Ned flanders being the devil either be removed or reworded to something like "In one of the haloween episodes, Ned Flanders appeared as the devil" - what goes on in the halloween episodes is not supposed to be "real" in the series. - Xgkkp 00:25, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I removed it by reverting, It seemed a pretty much pointless line that didn't add anything except confusion. - Xgkkp 00:27, 18 Jun 2004 (UTC)

good move Krupo 22:03, Jun 21, 2004 (UTC)

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Contents 1 What does this mean???? 2 Ned Flanders 3 Maude R.I.P. 4 "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders" 5 Maude's Age 6 Marxist Maude??? 7 maude and rod and todd pages? 8 Flanders Family's Address

[edit] What does this mean????

Homer's slow-motion lunge to prevent Bart's river baptism by Flanders was a prelude to a segment-ending Simpson group hug.

• At the end of the episode where Bart and Lisa are taken into custody, Ned tries to baptise them. When learning of this, Homer becomes alarmed ("In God's eyes they'll be Flanderseses!") and hurries to the baptism river, where he lunges forward to the river to shove Bart out of the baptism water's way. The water hits Homer instead, and when Bart asks him if he's OK, he replies in a sweet, nice, friendly, religious way. Bart asks "huh?" and Homer returns to normal. — JIP | Talk 09:28, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ned Flanders

Flanders appears to have his own article. Why do we need to have a great big section on him when he already has a whole page of his own? ;) APclark 19:51, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Since noone has replied to this, I will remove the whole Ned Flanders thing. :) APclark 17:18, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Maude R.I.P.

On the entry under Maude Flanders, it states that the reason Maude was killed off was because 'her voice actress' suffered a similar fate, but I cannot find any evidence to back this up. According to other entries on Wikipedia, Maggie Roswell left due to a pay dispute and was replaced until her return in 2002. This, however, would not explain why the character of Maude was killed off, since Maggie also voiced other recurring characters like Helen Lovejoy and Miss Hoover.

Maude was never really pivotal in any episode (although, arguably, I'm Goin' to Praiseland could be considered a major, if posthumous, involvement) so the reason could either be the old 'ran out of plotlines' scenario or giving Ned's character more scope and development. Coldsun2005 15:22, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

I removed the line about the actress who played Maude Flanders dying the same way Maude did. The actress is alive and well so there's no point in having that line there TruthHurts

[edit] "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders"

This song's lyrics should be moved to either Dude, Where's My Ranch? or Ned Flanders. ☺ The pathetic APclark Be nice not nasty 19:19, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Maude's Age

How do we know Maude's age? I'll assume she is close to Ned's age, which is probably 60. PrometheusX303 22:27, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marxist Maude???

I am reinserting an addition I made to this article that was deleted. The text of the reinsertion is "Maude may have been a communist, socialist, or other type of marxist, as evidenced by a drawing in her sketchbook of a "white hand shaking a black hand" (a relatively obscure symbol of Marxism)." When it was removed, it was written that the shaking hands were "obviously an anti-racism symbol." I disagree. Please see [1] and [2], where this obscure symbol of marxism is alluded to as such.

While I concede that in this episode mention of this drawing could have been to make reference to it as an anti-racism symbol, I think it is also quite possible it was meant to be read as a symbol of marxism. This would certainly be in touch with the writing style of the Simpsons - intelligent (using an obscure symbol), subversive (consider how this 'subverts' the character of Marge - the devout, middle American Christian), and appealing to a wide viewership while also pleasing a limited "in-group" of viewers. takethemud 03:54, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] maude and rod and todd pages?

do we really need a seperate page for rod and tood, if it's only 1 paragraph, and it's the exact same information that was already on this page? same thing for maude... flanders family belongs on this page... not on their own pages... then there's no point for this page... were' trying to clean up the Simpson information on here, not spread it all over, feel free to join WikiProject The Simpsons if you want to help... - Adolphus79 22:27, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Flanders Family's Address

In the episode, "Regarding Margie", the address they have is 738 Evergreen Terrace instead of 740.