| “ | We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas. | „ |
| ~ Capri Flanders[src] |
Mona "Capri" Flanders (née Turnipseed) is the mother of Ned Flanders and Nediana Flanders, wife of Nedward Flanders, Sr., the daughter-in-law of Neduchadnezzar and Winifred Flanders, the sister-in-law of Nedwynn Flanders, and the paternal grandmother of Rod and Todd Flanders.
Biography[]
Capri Flanders was and remains a beatnik artist. As a little boy Ned was out-of-control terror yet she and Ned's father still never made any rules or disciplined their son. As part of radical treatment known as the University of Minnesota Spankalogical Protocol they left young Ned to be spanked by Dr. Foster all day, every day for 8 months. Dr. Foster now believes the treatment worked "too well" leaving Ned unable to express any anger at all so Homer is brought to Calmwood Mental Hospital to antagonize Ned into expressing anger. Homer gets Ned to admit he does not like everything. "You might even say I hate the post office... That and my parents. Lousy beatniks." Saying he hates his parents means for Dr. Foster that Ned is now cured and released from the mental hospital.
Flanders once said, "Homer, you met my parents" (to which Homer replied, "Not naked I haven't", as she was naked at the time), an indication that they are still alive.[1] In Season 23, it is shown that she and her husband are alive, since they both attended Ned and Edna's wedding.
According to the Simpsons Comic "Granddaddy-o!" (printed in Simpsons Comics 204), she and Nedward were Bleeding Gums Murphy's godparents.
Trivia[]
- There is a discrepancy with her name. She is named Agnes "Kookie" Turnipseed on the Flanders Family Tree in the Flanders' Book of Faith. In "Black-Eyed, Please", Ned introduces her as Capri which also Capri Flanders is used in character unlock message on The Simpsons: Tapped Out mobile game. In "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" the flashback has Ned Flanders' father called her Mona and "Bottle Episode" Mona is recorded as the mother's name on Ned Flanders' birth certificate.
Gallery[]
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Appearances[]
Episode – "Homer Loves Flanders" (mentioned)- Episode – "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" (flashback)
- Episode – "Lisa's Date with Density" (mentioned)
- Episode – "Hurricane Neddy" (flashback)
- Episode – "Marge Gamer" (mentioned)
- Episode – "Ned 'N Edna's Blend"
- Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please"
- Episode – "Walking Big & Tall" (flashback)
- Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven" (flashback)
- Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out (as Capri Flanders)
- Comic book – Simpsons Comics 204
- Book – Flanders' Book of Faith
| The Simpsons: Season Five | ||||
| "Homer's Barbershop Quartet": | "Cape Feare": | "Homer Goes to College": | "Rosebud": | "Treehouse of Horror IV": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "Marge on the Lam": | "Bart's Inner Child": | "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood": | "The Last Temptation of Homer": | "$pringfield (or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "Homer the Vigilante": | "Bart Gets Famous": | "Homer and Apu": | "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy": | "Deep Space Homer": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "Homer Loves Flanders": | "Bart Gets an Elephant": | "Burns' Heir": | "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song": | "The Boy Who Knew Too Much": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Cameo | Absent |
| "Lady Bouvier's Lover": | "Secrets of a Successful Marriage": | |||
| Absent | Absent | |||
| The Simpsons: Season Eight | ||||
| "Treehouse of Horror VII": | "You Only Move Twice": | "The Homer They Fall": | "Burns, Baby Burns": | "Bart After Dark": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "A Milhouse Divided": | "Lisa's Date with Density": | "Hurricane Neddy": | "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)": | "The Springfield Files": |
| Absent | Absent | Minor | Absent | Absent |
| "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson": | "Mountain of Madness": | "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious": | "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": | "Homer's Phobia": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "Brother from Another Series": | "My Sister, My Sitter": | "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment": | "Grade School Confidential": | "The Canine Mutiny": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
| "The Old Man and the Lisa": | "In Marge We Trust": | "Homer's Enemy": | "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase": | "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson": |
| Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent | Absent |
Citations[]
- ↑ "Marge Gamer"