Maya

Maya
Character Information
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AKA	Maya
Hair Color	Brown
Occupation	Stage magician
Relations	Fiancé: Moe Szyslak
Behind the Scenes
First episode appearance	"Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe"
Portrayed by	Tress MacNeille

Maya is a beautiful woman whom Moe met over the Internet. She’s a little person, standing at about three feet tall.

History

While Moe and Maya were corresponding online, Moe was captivated by her looks, and by the fact that she liked his jokes and thought his photo was cute. When they met in person, Moe was shocked to see just how small Maya was. In Maya's online pictures showing her posing next to famous landmarks, camera angles plus the fact that she was actually in Legoland posing with small-scale replicas of the landmarks had made her appear to be of average height.

Despite this, they ended up hitting it off and had a good time going on dates. Moe worried what his friends and bar patrons would think of her, but Homer and Marge didn't even pay attention to her height, instead being impressed by her looks and her knowledge of how a Power Plant works.

Maya nearly married Moe, but he got too comfortable joking with her about her height, much to her chagrin. Moe tried to make it up to her by arranging to have a risky height-reduction surgery (to literally knock himself down to her size), but she convinced him not to. She was touched by how much he cared for her after he told her that being with her was something he cherished. However, she left Moe because she was put off by his willingness to try something so crazy, and also because she wanted to be with a man who was truly comfortable with her size. Moe's seeking the surgery, therefore, showed Maya that he wasn't the right man for her.

Moe was sad to see Maya leave, but he had many happy memories of her and kept her picture in his bar.

During the episode, Homer states that "if someone loved you once, they can love again." This could be a possible suggestion that Maya may come back, which eventually happens later.

Maya made a non-speaking cameo in "The Great Simpsina" among other small magicians, in a room opened by Raymondo, which suggests that Maya could be a stage magician.

Maya also appeared in the episode "Treehouse of Horror XXIV", in the third segment "Freaks No Geeks".

Maya next appeared in "Looking for Mr. Goodbart", where she was playing Peekimon Get.

At the end of "Flanders' Ladder", she is shown to be one of the many wives of Ned Flanders.

In "From Russia Without Love", Maya was seen in a flashback and mentioned by Moe as one of the women who broke his heart.

She returned in the Season 33 episode "The Wayz We Were", where she and Moe reunite. It appears Maya has forgiven him and invited him to talk. They get back together and are now engaged to be married.

Gallery

Maya with Moe.

Moe showing a photo of Maya to Lenny and Carl.

Moe with Maya.

Maya.

Maya in the Little Magician's room.

Maya pretending to have turned into a doll.

Maya's picture hangs on the bottom left corner.

Maya in "Treehouse of Horror XXIV"

Maya meets Moe in person for the first time.

Maya rejects Moe.

A photo of Maya and Moe.

Maya becomes annoyed when Moe keeps making jokes about her height.

On a double date with Homer and Marge.

Meeting Homer and telling him about how a power plant does work

Maya and Moe reunite

Maya and Moe in a Cafe

Moe proposes to Maya again

... to which Maya happily agrees this time

Maya and Moe hugging after becoming engaged (Homer is singing in the background)

Appearances

• Episode – "Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe"
• Episode – "The Great Simpsina" (cameo)
• Episode – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" (Freaks, No Geeks)
• Episode – "Looking for Mr. Goodbart" (cameo)
• Episode – "Flanders' Ladder" (picture)
• Episode – "From Russia Without Love" (flashback)
• Episode – "The Wayz We Were"
• Episode – "Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass" (opening sequence standing next to Moe)
• Episode – "Marge and Homer and Moe and Maya"

Citations

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	Absent	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":
Major	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	Cameo	Absent	Absent
"500 Keys":	"The Ned-liest Catch":
Absent	Absent

The Simpsons: Season Twenty-Eight
"Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus":	"Friends and Family":	"The Town":	"Treehouse of Horror XXVII":	"Trust But Clarify":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"There Will Be Buds":	"Havana Wild Weekend":	"Dad Behavior":	"The Last Traction Hero":	"The Nightmare After Krustmas":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"Pork and Burns":	"The Great Phatsby":	"Fatzcarraldo":	"The Cad and the Hat":	"Kamp Krustier":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
"22 For 30":	"A Father's Watch":	"The Caper Chase":	"Looking for Mr. Goodbart":	"Moho House":
Absent	Absent	Absent	Minor	Absent
"Dogtown":
Absent