Jacqueline Bouvier

Jacqueline Ingrid Bouvier (née Gurney)

Current
Younger

Sex

Status

Alias(es)

Grandma
Ingrid Gurney
Mrs. Bouvier
Mom
Jackie^[3] (by Aunt Gladys)

Hair

Gray

Blue (Formerly)

Occupation

Retired

Relatives

Parents: Alvarine Bisque (Deceased), Ferdinand Gurney (Deceased)

Sister: Gladys Gurney (Deceased)
Brother or Brother-in-Law: Uncle Lou (Deceased)
Husband: Clancy Bouvier (Deceased)
Ex-Fiancé: Charles Montgomery Burns
Daughters: Patty Bouvier, Selma Bouvier, Marge Simpson
Son-in-Law: Homer Simpson
Ex-Sons-in-Law: Robert Terwilliger, Lionel Hutz, Troy McClure, Stu Discothèque, Abraham Simpson II
Grandchildren: Bart Simpson, Hugo Simpson II (non-canon), Lisa Simpson, Maggie Simpson
Adoptive-Granddaughter: Ling Bouvier
Great-Grandchildren (future): Zia Simpson, Skippy Simpson, Jiff Simpson and Maggie Simpson, Jr.

First appearance

"Moaning Lisa" (flashback)
"Bart vs. Thanksgiving" (present-day appearance)

Voiced by

Julie Kavner

“I have laryngitis and it hurts to talk. So I'll say one thing. You never do anything right.”

―Jacqueline Bouvier^[src]

“(To Homer) You ruined my nap, just like you ruined my daughter’s life.”

―Jacqueline Bouvier^[src]

Jacqueline "Jackie" Ingrid Bouvier (née Gurney) (born 1909; 1941 in 2021), occasionally referred to as Mrs. Bouvier or Grandma Bouvier, is the mother of Selma, Patty and Marge Bouvier, the daughter-in-law of Pepe Bouvier and Bambi Bouvier, the sister-in-law of Charlene Bouvier, the maternal grandmother of Bart, Hugo (non-canon), Lisa, Maggie Simpson and Ling Bouvier and the mother-in-law of Homer Simpson, and the widow of the late Clancy Bouvier. She also had a sister named Gladys who died of a bowel obstruction.

She is age 80, born 1910.

Background

Residence

Jacqueline used to live with her husband and their daughters in a house in Springfield, where she first met Homer when he pretended to be Marge's prom date.^[4] Nowadays, she lives in the Hal Roach Apartments but was also seen living in a house near a lake when her family visited her on her 80th birthday.^[5]

Common Bouvier Traits

Jacqueline shares many Bouvier family traits with her daughters. When Marge was a little girl, Jacqueline had a blue beehive hairdo like Marge's, and her voice was also very similar to Marge's as an adult. However, Jacqueline also has traits in common with Patty and Selma, including a pessimistic and critical outlook on life and rarely smiling. She used to smoke as well.^[6] However, unlike Patty and Selma, Jacqueline seems to have stopped by now.

Like most of Marge's relatives (including Patty and Selma), Jacqueline has a generally negative opinion of Homer, but, usually, she does not express it as much as Marge's sisters. She once told Marge that Homer would end up in a mental institution one day.^[7] She also told Homer never to call her "mom" again, although this may have meant she did not like the term, not necessarily that she did not like having Homer for a son-in-law.^[8] Jacqueline's attitude towards Homer seems to have softened over the years; she even stated that "Patty and Selma are a sort of evil" when they purposely provoked Homer one night.^[9]

Romantic Relationships

Jacqueline was married to Clancy Bouvier, who is now deceased.^[10]^[11] Jacqueline had a brief romance with Abraham Simpson, her son-in-law, Homer's father.^[12] However, she broke up with him when she was wooed by billionaire Charles Montgomery Burns, whom she nearly married before Abraham's intervention made her decide she was better off alone; Abraham was delighted nevertheless and said "That's good enough for me!". However, Abraham and Burns are still seen battling for Jacqueline's affections at times.^[13]

Behind the Laughter

Simpsons creator Matt Groening named Jacqueline after Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. She has the tallest hair of all Simpsons characters. According to a DVD commentary, her appearance was created by "taking Marge's model and squashing it."

Trivia

According to "The Marge-ian Chronicles", she had forbade Marge from marrying Homer. However, since this was a flashback. She was obviously unsuccessful in laying down her punishment for Marge.
In "Fear of Flying", it is revealed that she goes bean-picking with Lisa.
In "Mommie Beerest", when Marge wishes Homer would come with her to her mother's house, Homer declines as it‘s revealed that he hates Jacqueline. However, in "Puffless" he visits her along with the rest of the family and didn't appear to hate Jackie.

Appearances

Most of Jacqueline's roles are brief, background appearances with little or no dialogue. The bold text indicates a larger role with a respective amount of dialogue.

Episode – "Moaning Lisa" (flashback)
Episode – "Bart vs. Thanksgiving"
Episode – "The Way We Was" (flashback)
Episode – "The War of the Simpsons" (mentioned)
Episode – "Stark Raving Dad" (mentioned)
Episode – "I Married Marge" (flashback)
Episode – "Bart the Lover" (mentioned)
Episode – "Black Widower"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror III" (King Homer)
Episode – "Lisa's First Word" (picture; flashback)
Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail"
Episode – "Selma's Choice"
Episode – "Lady Bouvier's Lover"
Episode – "Another Simpsons Clip Show"
Episode – "Fear of Flying" (flashback)
Episode – "And Maggie Makes Three" (flashback)
Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)" (mentioned)
Episode – "Mother Simpson" (photo)
Episode – "A Fish Called Selma"
Episode – "A Milhouse Divided"
Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns" (cameo)
Episode – "The Regina Monologues" (cameo)
Episode – "Sleeping with the Enemy" (non-speaking role)
Episode – "There's Something About Marrying"
Episode – "Wedding For Disaster" (name seen on certificate of marriage)
Episode – "Moe Letter Blues"
Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches" (dancing at Moe's with Patty and Selma)
Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises" (seen in a couch gag)
Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing That Bart Will Never Do Again" (mentioned)
Episode – "Changing of the Guardian" (photo)
Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" (seen at the church)
Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
Episode – "Puffless"
Episode – "Love is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4" (mentioned)
Episode – "The Marge-ian Chronicles" (flashback)
Episode – "Orange is the New Yellow"
Episode – "22 For 30"
Episode – "Dogtown"
Episode – "The Serfsons"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIX"
Episode – "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion"
Episode – "Thanksgiving of Horror"
Episode – "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson"
Episode – "Warrin' Priests (Part Two)"
Episode – "Mother and Child Reunion"
Episode – "The Star of the Backstage"
Episode – "Lisa's Belly" (flashback)
Episode – "Bart's In Jail!"
Episode – "Mothers and Other Strangers"
Book – The Simpsons Uncensored Family Album
Book – The Marge Book
– The Simpsons Movie
Couch gag – "Citizens of Springfield couch gag"^[src]
Video game – The Simpsons Tapped Out

The Simpsons: Season One
"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire":	"Bart the Genius":	"Homer's Odyssey":	"There's No Disgrace Like Home":	"Bart the General":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Moaning Lisa":	"The Call of the Simpsons":	"The Telltale Head":	"Life on the Fast Lane":	"Homer's Night Out":
Minor	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"The Crepes of Wrath":	"Krusty Gets Busted":	"Some Enchanted Evening":
Absent	Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Two
"Bart Gets an "F"":	"Simpson and Delilah":	"Treehouse of Horror":	"Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish":	"Dancin' Homer":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Dead Putting Society":	"Bart vs. Thanksgiving":	"Bart the Daredevil":	"Itchy & Scratchy & Marge":	"Bart Gets Hit by a Car":
Absent	Major	Absent	Absent	Absent
"One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish":	"The Way We Was":	"Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment":	"Principal Charming":	"Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?":
Absent	Minor	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Bart's Dog Gets an F":	"Old Money":	"Brush with Greatness":	"Lisa's Substitute":	"The War of the Simpsons":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Three Men and a Comic Book":	"Blood Feud":
Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Three
"Stark Raving Dad":	"Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington":	"When Flanders Failed":	"Bart the Murderer":	"Homer Defined":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Like Father, Like Clown":	"Treehouse of Horror II":	"Lisa's Pony":	"Saturdays of Thunder":	"Flaming Moe's":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk":	"I Married Marge":	"Radio Bart":	"Lisa the Greek":	"Homer Alone":
Absent	Minor	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Bart the Lover":	"Homer at the Bat":	"Separate Vocations":	"Dog of Death":	"Colonel Homer":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo	Absent
"Black Widower":	"The Otto Show":	"Bart's Friend Falls in Love":	"Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Four
"Kamp Krusty":	"A Streetcar Named Marge":	"Homer the Heretic":	"Lisa the Beauty Queen":	"Treehouse of Horror III":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Minor
"Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie":	"Marge Gets a Job":	"New Kid on the Block":	"Mr. Plow":	"Lisa's First Word":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Homer's Triple Bypass":	"Marge vs. the Monorail":	"Selma's Choice":	"Brother from the Same Planet":	"I Love Lisa":
Absent	Absent	Minor	Absent	Absent
"Duffless":	"Last Exit to Springfield":	"So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show":	"The Front":	"Whacking Day":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Marge in Chains":	"Krusty Gets Kancelled":
Cameo	Absent

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	Absent	Absent
"Lady Bouvier's Lover":	"Secrets of a Successful Marriage":
Major	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Six
"Bart of Darkness":	"Lisa's Rival":	"Another Simpsons Clip Show":	"Itchy & Scratchy Land":	"Sideshow Bob Roberts":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Treehouse of Horror V":	"Bart's Girlfriend":	"Lisa on Ice":	"Homer Badman":	"Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Fear of Flying":	"Homer the Great":	"And Maggie Makes Three":	"Bart's Comet":	"Homie the Clown":
Minor	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"Bart vs. Australia":	"Homer vs. Patty and Selma":	"A Star is Burns":	"Lisa's Wedding":	"Two Dozen and One Greyhounds":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"The PTA Disbands":	"'Round Springfield":	"The Springfield Connection":	"Lemon of Troy":	"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo

The Simpsons: Season Seven
"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)":	"Radioactive Man":	"Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily":	"Bart Sells His Soul":	"Lisa the Vegetarian":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Treehouse of Horror VI":	"King-Size Homer":	"Mother Simpson":	"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming":	"The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Marge Be Not Proud":	"Team Homer":	"Two Bad Neighbors":	"Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield":	"Bart the Fink":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Lisa The Iconoclast":	"Homer The Smithers":	"The Day The Violence Died":	"A Fish Called Selma":	"Bart on the Road":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo	Absent
"22 Short Films About Springfield":	"Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish"":	"Much Apu About Nothing":	"Homerpalooza":	"Summer of 4 Ft. 2":
Absent	Absent	Absent	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	Cameo	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":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	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	Cameo	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

Gallery

The full image gallery for Jacqueline Bouvier may be viewed at Jacqueline Bouvier/Gallery.

Citations

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[1] Moe Letter Blues

[2] The Simpsons Tapped Out

[3] Selma's Choice

[4] "The Way We Was"

[5] "Puffless"

[6] "I Married Marge"

[7] "Stark Raving Dad"

[8] "I Married Marge"

[9] "Moe Letter Blues"

[10] "Jazzy and the Pussycats"

[11] "Puffless"

[12] "Lady Bouvier's Lover"

[13] "Puffless"

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