Martha Prince

Martha Prince is Martin Prince's mother and was Martin Prince Sr.'s wife.

History

Martha is probably best understood for attempting to sell Martin's extremely valuable Star Wars merchandise to Comic Book Guy for an extremely cheap price. She was warned by Bart and Milhouse before she sold them and she chose to not to sell it.^[1] In "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken", it is revealed by her son that she "shoplifts all the time, mostly just for stuff she doesn't even need."

She was also responsible for all of the guests at Martin's birthday party (with the exception of Seymour Skinner, Edna Krabappel and Bart and Lisa Simpson) getting food poisoning because she had served diseased oysters instead of cake.

Seymour and Edna didn't get sick because they were in Martin's pink playhouse and therefore didn't receive any oysters.
Bart didn't get sick because he fed his serving of oysters to the Prince family's pet cat (who got sick from eating them instead).
Lisa, being a vegetarian, didn't actually eat any of the oysters--as she explained to her brother, she simply wanted an excuse to leave the party without seeming rude so she faked having food poisoning.

Trivia

In "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken", Martin claims that his mom shoplifts all the time (mostly for stuff she doesn't need). From that, it's possible that Mrs. Prince might have kleptomania, which is "a recurrent urge to steal, typically without regard for need or profit."
- Mrs. Prince is also seen stealing hamburgers in Tapped Out.

Appearances

Note: Many of her appearances are brief background roles. The episode in which she has an actual role is in bold.

Episode – "Bart the Genius"
Episode – "When Flanders Failed"
Episode – "Kamp Krusty" (Sending her son off to the camp)
Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail" (Riding the monorail with her husband)
Episode – "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)" (Running out of the town hall)
Episode – "Bart on the Road" (At the Prince home)
Episode – "Lemon of Troy" (Among the parents outside the Simpson house)
Episode – "Bart After Dark" (At the town hall meeting)
Episode – "Hurricane Neddy" (In the Kwik-E-Mart and among the crowd outside the Flanders' rebuilt home)
Episode – "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment" (Among the crowd at the catapult launching)
Episode – "Grade School Confidential" (At Martin's party at the Prince home and among the crowd outside Springfield Elementary)
Episode – "In Marge We Trust" (In church)
Episode – "Homer's Enemy" (Among the audience at the power plant model contest)
Episode – "The Principal and the Pauper" (In the auditorium and among the crowd outside the train station)
Episode – "Bart Star" (At the health convention and among the spectators at the peewee football game)
Episode – "Lisa Gets an "A"" (In church)
Episode – "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" (Among the adults confronting the kids at the billboard)
Episode – "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo" (In the audience at the seminar)
Episode – "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" (Dining at a restaurant)
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" (In church)
Episode – "Faith Off" (At the religious revival)
Episode – "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" (In the audience at the dance recital)
Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger" (Among the crowd gathered in the forest)
Episode – "Homer vs. Dignity" (At the zoo)
Episode – "Worst Episode Ever"
Episode – "Tennis the Menace" (Among the spectators at the tennis match)
Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod" (In the audience at the Good Guy Awards)
Episode – "She of Little Faith" (In church)
Episode – "The Strong Arms of the Ma" (In church)
Episode – "Pray Anything" (In church)
Episode – "I'm Spelling as Fast as I Can" (Among the spectators at the Spellympics)
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIV" (Among the spectators at the baseball game)
Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War" (seen at church pot luck)
Episode – "Fat Man and Little Boy" (Among the customers at Bart's T-shirt stand and in church)
Episode – "Papa Don't Leech"
Episode – "Father Knows Worst" (At the balsa wood model competition)
Episode – "The Great Wife Hope" (At the PTA meeting)
Episode – "Judge Me Tender" (In the audience at the Ugliest Dog In Springfield contest)
Episode – "The Fool Monty" (Waiting in line outside Springfield General Hospital for a vaccination)
Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts" (At the Springfield Elementary fundraising auction)
Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network" (In Springfield's courthouse)
Episode – "How I Wet Your Mother" (Among the mothers who support drunk driving in one of Homer's dreams)
Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me" (Among the patrons at Krusty Burger featured in a documentary)
Episode – "A Test Before Trying" (Seen at the nuclear plant)
Episode – "Pulpit Friction" (Appeared at town square and church)
Episode – "The Saga of Carl" (Seen at The Science of Ki-Ya Karate Monsters)
Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" (Seen at church and at town square)
Episode – "Yolo" (Seen at the PTA meeting)
Episode – "The Kid is All Right" (Auditorium)
Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship" (Church)
Episode – "Opposites A-Frack"
Episode – "Simpsorama" (Town Square)
Episode – "Covercraft" (The Springfield Cabbage Festival)
Episode – "Walking Big & Tall" (School auditorium)
Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot" (Two birthday parties)
Episode – "Bull-E" (Springfield Founder's Day Parade)
Episode – "Mathlete's Feat" (Community meeting)
Episode – "Gal of Constant Sorrow"
Episode – "Lisa the Veterinarian" (Martin's birthday party)
Episode – "The Burns Cage"
Episode – "Simprovised"
Episode – "Orange is the New Yellow"
Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus" (Lard Lad statue)
Episode – "The Serfsons"
Episode – "Springfield Splendor" (Food Shed)
Episode – "Flanders' Ladder" (picture)
Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill"
Episode – "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson"
Episode – "Frinkcoin"
Episode – "Highway to Well"
Episode – "The Dad-Feelings Limited"
– The Simpsons Movie
Comic book – Bart Simpson 21 "Batter-Up Bart"
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	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Moaning Lisa":	"The Call of the Simpsons":	"The Telltale Head":	"Life on the Fast Lane":	"Homer's Night Out":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"The Crepes of Wrath":	"Krusty Gets Busted":	"Some Enchanted Evening":
Absent	Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Five
"Homer's Barbershop Quartet":	"Cape Feare":	"Homer Goes to College":	"Rosebud":	"Treehouse of Horror IV":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo	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	Cameo
"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	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"Lady Bouvier's Lover":	"Secrets of a Successful Marriage":
Absent	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	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Fear of Flying":	"Homer the Great":	"And Maggie Makes Three":	"Bart's Comet":	"Homie the Clown":
Absent	Absent	Absent	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)":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Cameo	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	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Treehouse of Horror VI":	"King-Size Homer":	"Mother Simpson":	"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming":	"The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular":
Cameo	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	Absent	Cameo
"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	Absent	Cameo
"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	Cameo	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	Cameo	Cameo	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	Cameo	Cameo	Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Nine
"The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson":	"The Principal and the Pauper":	"Lisa's Sax":	"Treehouse of Horror VIII":	"The Cartridge Family":
Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Bart Star":	"The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons":	"Lisa the Skeptic":	"Realty Bites":	"Miracle on Evergreen Terrace":
Cameo	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"All Singing, All Dancing":	"Bart Carny":	"The Joy of Sect":	"Das Bus":	"The Last Temptation of Krust":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo	Cameo
"Dumbbell Indemnity":	"Lisa the Simpson":	"This Little Wiggy":	"Simpson Tide":	"The Trouble with Trillions":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Girly Edition":	"Trash of the Titans":	"King of the Hill":	"Lost Our Lisa":	"Natural Born Kissers":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Gallery

The full image gallery for Martha Prince may be viewed at Martha Prince/Gallery.

Citations

↑ "Worst Episode Ever"

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