Martha Quimby

Martha Quimby
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Hair Color	Black
Occupation	La Maison Derrière (Former)
Relations	Husband: Joe Quimby Nephew: Freddy Quimby Brother-In Law: Clovis Quimby Sons: Joey Quimby and Joey's twin
First episode appearance	"Bart Gets Famous"
Portrayed by	Maggie Roswell

“	Joseph!	„
	~ Martha Quimby, after catching her husband in the act of womanizing

Martha Quimby is the long-suffering wife of Mayor Quimby and the First Lady of Springfield.

She is portrayed as an aristocratic, upright woman generally exhausted with her husband's antics. Like the mayor himself, she has a strong New England accent, and is intended to be a satire of the Kennedy political family in the United States.

History

She met Joe Quimby while working at the La Maison Derrière according to the song "We Put the Spring in Springfield".

Relationship with Mayor Quimby

Martha is well aware that Mayor Quimby cheats on her; she only stays with him because she enjoys the power that goes with being the mayor's wife. Martha puts up a brave front of being all right with the mayor's cheating, but on one occasion she revealed her true feelings. Marge Simpson was visiting the Quimby house and talking to Martha in the mayor's home office. Martha accidentally pressed a button that transformed the office into a combination bar/strip joint, and broke down in tears at the sight of scantily clad women in cages being lowered from the ceiling. It is also implied that Mayor Quimby frequently cheats on her because he was unhappy that he married her, as when insisting to Homer (who wanted to invite Quimby out so he wouldn't have to worry about the mob targeting him) that he'd rather stay home and spend time and love with her, he pauses and then sighs in disappointment before saying "wife".

During Trappuccino, Martha Quimby was part of the angry mob hunting Homer down after he poisoned Springfield Lake and caused the entire town to be trapped under a giant dome by the EPA.

In Mommie Beerest, it is revealed that Miss Springfield became Mayor Quimby's secret wife, suggesting that Martha is either dead, divorced, or he became a bigamist.

Martha is also the "Tight-Assed Trophy Mom" type of mom you meet at the PTA.

Relatives

Martha is related to actor Rainier Wolfcastle's wife, Maria.

With her husband Joe

She and Joe have two non-identical twin sons.

Behind the Laughter

In her first brief appearances she was voiced by Maggie Roswell with an upper crust accent. In "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas" Tress MacNeille provided the voice and doing a take-off of "Baba Wawa" (Gilda Radner's impression of Barbara Walters on Saturday Night Live), but it does not last. In subsequent episodes she goes back to having her more generic posh accent.

Like Sarah Wiggum and Bernice Hibbert, Martha is one of the less notable and more sane characters on the show. Also, like Mrs. Wiggum and Mrs. Hibbert, Martha plays the role of the quiet housewife, the wife to a corrupted husband.

Martha often wears a pink suit and pillbox hat, a style similar to the one that Jacqueline Kennedy made famous. She is clearly based on her.

According to a Simpsons Comics story, she is right-handed.

Gallery

Mayor Quimby defuses her catching him cheating on her when by using Bart's then-popular "I didn't do it" catchphrase in "Bart Gets Famous"

Martha in "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas"

Delivering a speech at the gates of the Quimby Compound

Martha at Rainier Wolfcastle's wedding in "Homerazzi"

Martha, Joe and Joe's mother Daisy

Martha in The Serfsons

Mrs. Quimby in "The Simpsons Movie"

Appearances

• Episode – "Bart Gets Famous"
• Episode – "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"
• Episode – "Bart After Dark"
• Episode – "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" (seen watching Tango de la Muerite)
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XI"
• Episode – "The Wandering Juvie"
• Episode – "The Last of the Red Hat Mamas"
• Episode – "Homerazzi"
• Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally"
• Episode – "Pulpit Friction" (Seen at church)
• Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral" (Seen at church)
• Episode – "The Burns Cage" (Seen in the school auditorium)
• Episode – "The Serfsons"
• Episode – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used To Be"
• Episode – "Flanders' Ladder" (picture)
• Episode – "The Yellow Lotus"
• Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out
• Book – The Marge Book
• Comic story – Springfield is Not Enough!

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

The Simpsons: Season Eleven
"Beyond Blunderdome":	"Brother's Little Helper":	"Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?":	"Treehouse of Horror X":	"E-I-E-I-D'oh":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder":	"Eight Misbehavin'":	"Take My Wife, Sleaze":	"Grift of the Magi":	"Little Big Mom":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Faith Off":	"The Mansion Family":	"Saddlesore Galactica":	"Alone Again, Natura-Diddily":	"Missionary: Impossible":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo
"Pygmoelian":	"Bart to the Future":	"Days of Wine and D'oh'ses":	"Kill the Alligator and Run":	"Last Tap Dance in Springfield":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo
"It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge":	"Behind the Laughter":
Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Twelve
"Treehouse of Horror XI":	"A Tale of Two Springfields":	"Insane Clown Poppy":	"Lisa the Tree Hugger":	"Homer vs. Dignity":
Cameo	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent
"The Computer Wore Menace Shoes":	"The Great Money Caper":	"Skinner's Sense of Snow":	"HOMЯ":	"Pokey Mom":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Worst Episode Ever":	"Tennis the Menace":	"Day of the Jackanapes":	"New Kids on the Blecch":	"Hungry, Hungry Homer":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Bye Bye Nerdie":	"Simpson Safari":	"Trilogy of Error":	"I'm Goin' to Praiseland":	"Children of a Lesser Clod":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Simpsons Tall Tales":
Absent

The Simpsons: Season Fifteen
"Treehouse of Horror XIV":	"My Mother the Carjacker":	"The President Wore Pearls":	"The Regina Monologues":	"The Fat and the Furriest":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Today, I Am a Clown":	"'Tis the Fifteenth Season":	"Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays":	"I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot":	"Diatribe of a Mad Housewife":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Margical History Tour":	"Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore":	"Smart and Smarter":	"The Ziff Who Came to Dinner":	"Co-Dependent's Day":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"The Wandering Juvie":	"My Big Fat Geek Wedding":	"Catch 'Em if You Can":	"Simple Simpson":	"The Way We Weren't":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Bart-Mangled Banner":	"Fraudcast News":
Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Seventeen
"The Bonfire of the Manatees":	"The Girl Who Slept Too Little":	"Milhouse of Sand and Fog":	"Treehouse of Horror XVI":	"Marge's Son Poisoning":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"See Homer Run":	"The Last of the Red Hat Mamas":	"The Italian Bob":	"Simpsons Christmas Stories":	"Homer's Paternity Coot":
Absent	Minor	Absent	Absent	Absent
"We're on the Road to D'oh-where":	"My Fair Laddy":	"The Seemingly Never-Ending Story":	"Bart Has Two Mommies":	"Homer Simpson, This is Your Wife":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Million-Dollar Abie":	"Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore":	"The Wettest Stories Ever Told":	"Girls Just Want to Have Sums":	"Regarding Margie":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"The Monkey Suit":	"Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play":
Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Eighteen
"The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer":	"Jazzy and the Pussycats":	"Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em":	"Treehouse of Horror XVII":	"G.I. D'oh":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Moe'N'a Lisa":	"Ice Cream of Margie (with the Light Blue Hair)":	"The Haw-Hawed Couple":	"Kill Gil, Volumes I & II":	"The Wife Aquatic":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times":	"Little Big Girl":	"Springfield Up":	"Yokel Chords":	"Rome-Old and Julie-Eh":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Homerazzi":	"Marge Gamer":	"The Boys of Bummer":	"Crook and Ladder":	"Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"24 Minutes":	"You Kent Always Say What You Want":
Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Twenty
"Sex, Pies, and Idiot Scrapes":	"Lost Verizon":	"Double, Double, Boy in Trouble":	"Treehouse of Horror XIX":	"Dangerous Curves":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Homer and Lisa Exchange Cross Words":	"Mypods and Boomsticks":	"The Burns and the Bees":	"Lisa the Drama Queen":	"Take My Life, Please":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"How the Test Was Won":	"No Loan Again, Naturally":	"Gone Maggie Gone":	"In the Name of the Grandfather":	"Wedding for Disaster":
Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe":	"The Good, the Sad and the Drugly":	"Father Knows Worst":	"Waverly Hills, 9-0-2-1-D'oh":	"Four Great Women and a Manicure":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Coming to Homerica":
Absent

The Simpsons: Season Twenty-Two
"Elementary School Musical":	"Loan-a Lisa":	"MoneyBART":	"Treehouse of Horror XXI":	"Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"The Fool Monty":	"How Munched is That Birdie in the Window?":	"The Fight Before Christmas":	"Donnie Fatso":	"Moms I'd Like to Forget":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Flaming Moe":	"Homer the Father":	"The Blue and the Gray":	"Angry Dad: The Movie":	"The Scorpion's Tale":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"A Midsummer's Nice Dream":	"Love is a Many Strangled Thing":	"The Great Simpsina":	"The Real Housewives of Fat Tony":	"Homer Scissorhands":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo
"500 Keys":	"The Ned-liest Catch":
Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Twenty-Four
"Moonshine River":	"Treehouse of Horror XXIII":	"Adventures in Baby-Getting":	"Gone Abie Gone":	"Penny-Wiseguys":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"A Tree Grows in Springfield":	"The Day the Earth Stood Cool":	"To Cur, with Love":	"Homer Goes to Prep School":	"A Test Before Trying":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Changing of the Guardian":	"Love is a Many-Splintered Thing":	"Hardly Kirk-ing":	"Gorgeous Grampa":	"Black-Eyed, Please":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Dark Knight Court":	"What Animated Women Want":	"Pulpit Friction":	"Whiskey Business":	"The Fabulous Faker Boy":
Absent	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"The Saga of Carl":	"Dangers on a Train":
Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Twenty-Five
"Homerland":	"Treehouse of Horror XXIV":	"Four Regrettings and a Funeral":	"Yolo":	"Labor Pains":
Absent	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"The Kid is All Right":	"Yellow Subterfuge":	"White Christmas Blues":	"Steal This Episode":	"Married to the Blob":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Specs and the City":	"Diggs":	"The Man Who Grew Too Much":	"The Winter of His Content":	"The War of Art":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee":	"Luca$":	"Days of Future Future":	"What to Expect When Bart's Expecting":	"Brick Like Me":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Pay Pal":	"The Yellow Badge of Cowardge":
Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Twenty-Seven
"Every Man's Dream":	"Cue Detective":	"Puffless":	"Halloween of Horror":	"Treehouse of Horror XXVI":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Friend with Benefit":	"Lisa with an 'S'":	"Paths of Glory":	"Barthood":	"The Girl Code":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Teenage Mutant Milk-caused Hurdles":	"Much Apu About Nothing":	"Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4":	"Gal of Constant Sorrow":	"Lisa the Veterinarian":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"The Marge-ian Chronicles":	"The Burns Cage":	"How Lisa Got Her Marge Back":	"Fland Canyon":	"To Courier with Love":
Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Simprovised":	"Orange is the New Yellow":
Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Twenty-Nine
"The Serfsons":	"Springfield Splendor":	"Whistler's Father":	"Treehouse of Horror XXVIII":	"Grampy Can Ya Hear Me":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used to Be":	"Singin' in the Lane":	"Mr. Lisa's Opus":	"Gone Boy":	"Haw-Haw Land":
Cameo	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Frink Gets Testy":	"Homer Is Where the Art Isn't":	"3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage":	"Fears of a Clown":	"No Good Read Goes Unpunished":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"King Leer":	"Lisa Gets the Blues":	"Forgive and Regret":	"Left Behind":	"Throw Grampa from the Dane":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Flanders' Ladder":
Cameo

The Simpsons: Season Thirty
"Bart's Not Dead":	"Heartbreak Hotel":	"My Way or the Highway to Heaven":	"Treehouse of Horror XXIX":	"Baby You Can't Drive My Car":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"From Russia Without Love":	"Werking Mom":	"Krusty the Clown":	"Daddicus Finch":	"'Tis the 30th Season":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Mad About the Toy":	"The Girl on The Bus":	"I'm Dancing As Fat As I Can":	"The Clown Stays in the Picture":	"101 Mitigations":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"I Want You (She's So Heavy)":	"E My Sports":	"Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy":	"Girl's in the Band":	"I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Cameo	Absent
"D'oh Canada":	"Woo-hoo Dunnit?":	"Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion":
Absent	Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Thirty-One
"The Winter of Our Monetized Content":	"Go Big or Go Homer":	"The Fat Blue Line":	"Treehouse of Horror XXX":	"Gorillas on the Mast":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Marge the Lumberjill":	"Livin' La Pura Vida":	"Thanksgiving of Horror":	"Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?":	"Bobby, It's Cold Outside":
Absent	Absent	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"Hail to the Teeth":	"The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson":	"Frinkcoin":	"Bart the Bad Guy":	"Screenless":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Better Off Ned":	"Highway to Well":	"The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby":	"Warrin' Priests (Part One)":	"Warrin' Priests (Part Two)":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds":	"The Way of the Dog":
Absent	Absent