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Marjorie "Marge" Simpson (née Bouvier) is one of the five main characters in The Simpsons. She and her husband Homer have three children: Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Marge is the homemaker and moralistic force in her family and often provides a raspy and grounding voice in the midst of her family's antics by trying to maintain order in the Simpson household. Aside from her duties at home, Marge has flirted briefly with a number of careers ranging from a police officer to an anti-violence activist.

She is voiced by Julie Kavner, who also voiced her sisters Patty and Selma Bouvier and her mother Jacqueline Bouvier. Kristen Bell voiced her singing voice in "The Star of the Backstage", who also voiced Harper Jambowski in "Friend with Benefit".

Homer and Marge are the same age. The two have a floating timeline, making their birth and childhood difficult to place. Homer said he was 24 years old in 1980. In the 2000s, Homer mentioned being ten years old in "the '60s or '50s, or maybe it was the early '70s". Homer and Marge were in high school anywhere from 1974 to 1999. They were also depicted as young adults in the mid to late 1990s.

Marge Bouvier was born to Clancy Bouvier, a photographer-turned-steward, and Jacqueline Bouvier. In flashbacks to her childhood both her mother and father called her "Margie," She is the youngest daughter of the Bouvier family. She has a pair of older sisters, the joyless twins, Patty and Selma, both of whom passionately disapprove of Homer Simpson. A family tree showing Marge's known family members and descendants can be seen here.

Marge originally met and went on a date with Homer Simpson at Camp Land-A-Man when they were ten, though they did not realize that at the time as Homer used a different name and wore an eye patch, and Marge did not give her name and had burnt her hair so that it was brown.

Marge attended Springfield High School, and in her senior year, she met Homer Simpson. She was wary of Homer at first but agreed to have a study date with him, only to find out that Homer was only doing this to get her to go to prom with him. She ended up going with Artie Ziff. Artie took her home and she later picked up Homer, who she found walking home, in her car. Marge told him how much she regretted going to the prom with Artie instead of him, causing Homer to fix the strap of her dress with the corsage he got her. After that decision, her sisters showed their discontent towards him and ultimately thought he was wrong for her.

In one episode, Homer and Marge got an apartment together at Springfield Place. Marge was accepted into Springfield University, with Homer paying for her tuition from his job at Simpson Laser Tag. When Homer started a grunge band called Sadgasm, the two split up and Marge began a relationship with associate professor Stefane August. Marge, not appreciating Stefane did not want to be married, and realizing she was in love with Homer, got back together with Homer. According to other episodes, however, Marge did not pursue a career or go to college because she stayed with Homer, or because her parents filed for bankruptcy after being sued for Lenny Leonard falling off the roof of Marge's house at a party Sasha Reed held. At some point, Marge, who was still in a relationship with Homer, was living with her mother and sisters again, and Homer Simpson shared an apartment with Barney Gumble.

Marge has always been rather innocent and has also been said to be rather awkward in certain scenarios, especially when she is drunk.

An example of this is when Marge is taking place in a magic show as a contestant and at this time, she is rather drunk, so she keeps blabbering about certain things. The magician, Diablo, finds this annoying and pulls out a ball gag and while Marge is blabbering shoves it into her mouth, so her drunken talk becomes muffled sounds. This could also link to Marge's famous voice which throughout the Simpsons has been considered annoying.

Marge continues to make muffled sounds from her gagged mouth while a sack is put over her head during the magic trick.

After the two had been dating for several years, Marge and Homer got married in a small wedding chapel near the state line some time after Marge was pregnant with Bart.

Marge is the mother of three Maggie Simpson, Lisa, and Bart. Sometimes she feels like shes the mother of four, whenever Homer doesn't act his age. Marge is the only member of the family who encourages church attendance. She also appears to have a significant athletic ability. She is bilingual, being fully fluent in French. Her marriage to Homer is also very strong. They once spurned to participate in a key party as soon as they realized what a key party was and promptly left, although Homer also took the key jar with them, most likely to find his car keys.

Despite these tendencies, Marge has had her fair share of wild escapades throughout the history of the series. She worked as a police officer in Springfield, took therapy for flight fear, was a real estate agent, sold pretzels, was a painter, was imprisoned for shoplifting, became a gambling addict, showed alcoholic tendencies, was at one time known as The Listen Lady, was an unwilling participant in a cross-country police chase, overdosed on steroids, cheated on a cooking competition and developed amnesia.

Although not a chain smoker like her eldest sisters Patty and Selma, Marge has engaged in smoking twice. One of these times, however, she was implied to be an attempt to drown out the smell of the Annual Chili Cook-Off to hide it from Homer as long as possible due to realizing if he was to find out he had immediately wanted to go there, as she was motivated to go with Homer after their last visit resulted in humiliation when Homer becomes drunk, while Marge has had many jobs, most of which lasted temporarily.

Marge is generally a very kind-hearted and loving woman. In contrast to her husband and son, Marge hardly ever swears and, except on occasional incidents, puts greater effort into controlling her temper. Despite this, she can be protective of her family when she needs to, especially during Homer's "psychopath" moments. However, she cares deeply about everyone she's closest too as well, even her husband. On occasion, she can sometimes get explosive outbursts of anger, but admits her errors and apologizes right after - in such incidents, she is primarily always forgiven but in others, she doesn't.

Marge tends to consider anything that is not completely plain to be amazing or exotic, even if they are not all that special, such as oregano, deviled ham instead of normal ham and buttered noodles instead of un-buttered noodles. She has also been depicted as a killjoy who attempts to stop and even prohibit activities that other characters otherwise find fun - she always believes she has a good reason for doing so, even if it bothers or distastes her alone and nobody else. She once had Itchy and Scratchy banned because Maggie injured Homer after imitating a scene from the cartoon. She tried to demolish a burlesque house, and she outright says that if something isn't to her taste then no one else should be allowed to enjoy it. Homer sums up his wife when he tells her: "If it were up to [Marge], all we would ever do is work and go to church". Marge's plain attitude and love for her family are brought down many times including when she finds a Chanel suit and openly admits after going to a country club party that the rich are better than the way her family acts.

In addition to her killjoy tendencies, Marge has also been shown to be a hypocrite on several occasions such as secretly keeping Homer's handgun for herself after disapproving of his use of it so much that he eventually chose to throw it away. Other occasions of her hypocrisy include using violent methods in order to protest against the violent Grand Theft Scratchy video game, as stated by Lisa, or disapproving the violence in Itchy and Scratchy, yet considering Michelangelo's David a masterpiece. In the Simpsons Comics #100 - Clip Clip Hooray, it is revealed that Marge would occasionally team up with Luann Van Houten, Agnes Skinner, and Sarah Wiggum in a sacred motherly conspiracy called "The Motherlode", where mothers throw away the comic book collections of their children, whenever they get big enough, then sell them off a bit at a time and use the money to buy motherly accessories. It is also revealed that the reason why no one can ever buy the Simpsons comics in Springfield is because Marge is so embarrassed by how the artists draw her that she buys all of the comics on New Comic Day and at Comic-Cons, while Bart and Lisa are at school. In "Dead Putting Society", Marge got mad at Homer, Bart, and Lisa for laughing at Ned Flanders' apology letter, only to go to the next room and giggle herself.

There have also been occasions where Marge's wishes and demands have led to trouble at the expense of her family.

Despite many of Springfield's occasional riots and animosity against any given member of the Simpson family, Marge is still shown to be very trusting, even towards her fair-weathered friends and acquaintances who criticize her family and her tastes on a weekly basis. Marge is definitely extremely unappreciated by her own children and husband.

As a parent, Marge is clearly the more stable person, but she tends to somewhat expect her kids to accept her method of parenting without question. This is often seen through Bart and Lisa when she will sometimes vocally express how she wants them to be as opposed to their current personalities, such as wanting Bart to be a well-behaved boy and somewhat expecting Lisa to be a mother and housewife like herself. Marge also tends to be outwardly supportive of the two during certain occasions but will show her true colors rather quickly, one time with Bart when he wanted to go on a school trip to a submarine and she asked what his favorite comfort food is as she didn't believe he could behave long enough and with Lisa when Marge revealed to Homer that she had been lying about being interested in jazz and mocked the genre. While she will often state the two should grow to be independent, she also secretly states that the two should think of her as their closest friend and occasionally despises the thought of them thinking themselves separately from her and tries to keep them as close as possible.

Marge has yellow skin and dark-blue hair styled into a tall curly beehive hairstyle. She usually wears a long strapless pale olive-green dress, orange low-heeled shoes, and a red pearl necklace. The necklace is a family heirloom, and she is seen to have a big drawer full of them. Doctor Hibbert revealed that she has webbed toes in "Marge in Chains". Marge remarked that she used to have a "perfect 26-26-26" figure. Later seasons have her described/depicted as very beautiful and physically attractive, and she has been sought after by several of the men in Springfield, most notably Moe, and even some of Bart's friends have noted her attractiveness.

On special occasions, she wears a long sleeved dress with white pearls that are very similar to Lisa's and green low-heeled shoes.