Gaby

Gaby
Gender/Sex
Status
Hair Color	Brown
Occupation	Prostitute Carnival worker
Relations	Son: Herbert Powell Lover/Client (former): Abe Simpson
First episode appearance	"Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Portrayed by	Maggie Roswell

“Hey handsome, wanna dunk the clown?”

―Gaby's only dialogue

Gaby was the biological mother of Herbert Powell.

History

When Abe Simpson visited the local carnival at Shelbyville (while courting Mona Olsen before he married her), he was drawn to the young female worker at first sight. She had sex with him for his money, and a year later when the carnival returned to Shelbyville, Abe discovered that she had given birth to their son.

A picture of Gaby (revealing her name) in The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album.

Unmarried and ashamed, Abe and Gaby took their infant son to the Shelbyville Orphanage. What happened to her after this is a mystery, while Abe had married Mona and had Homer a year later. Their son was adopted by the Powell family and renamed Herbert Powell, who went on to be the founder of Powell Motors in Detroit, Michigan.

Description

Aside from the brunette hair, her son Herb seems to have inherited very little from her, because he bears a strong resemblance to his half-brother, Homer Simpson, or by extension, more of Abraham's physical attributes were passed onto Herb. However, because of her sparse on-screen time, it is not known what the mother's precise emotional or mental attributes were that she may have bequeathed to her son.

Appearances

• Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
• Book – The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album

Citations

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