{"id":175079,"date":"2025-12-09T02:27:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T02:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/175079\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T02:27:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T02:27:09","slug":"the-simpsons-confirms-a-marriage-with-surprise-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/175079\/","title":{"rendered":"The Simpsons Confirms a Marriage With Surprise Return"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Simpsons<\/a> has confirmed a marriage is still very much in place with a surprise return seen in the latest episode of the long running animated series. As The Simpsons continues to work through Season 37 of its run with Fox this Fall, fans have already started to see some major shake ups to each of the characters. This has not only included new team ups, but some major shifts in the status quo<\/a>. But while the series has made changes to its characters before, it often also brushes those changes under the rug in future seasons and years as any new addition becomes less important. <\/p>\n

The Simpsons has made some big shifts in the status quo in the last few years, but they\u2019ve been largely swept under the rug. This has included some brand new faces joining the series, and some have even been outright erased despite seeming important<\/a>. But thankfully that\u2019s not the case for Groundskeeper Willie\u2019s wife Maisie, who is confirmed to still be happily married to Willie with the newest episode as the two of them are still living in the shack at Springfield Elementary. And still very much in love. <\/p>\n

The Simpsons Confirms Willie\u2019s Still Married<\/p>\n

\"WillieCourtesy of 20th Television Animation<\/p>\n

The Simpsons Season 37, \u201cGuess Who\u2019s Coming to Skinner\u201d has a moment where Principal Skinner is staying behind in Springfield Elementary school in the evening and begins to hear something shuffling around in the dark. Heading to Willie\u2019s shack in the back, there\u2019s a \u201cStill Married\u201d message on the door. Willie and Maisie are revealed to be living quite happily, and she even urges him to go kill the \u201cfrightened, defenseless animal that stumbled into the world of man\u201d even if it interrupts their game of Scottish Scrabble. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the only time we see her in the episode, but it\u2019s a pretty big deal. The Simpsons Season 37 has been doing wonders for these kinds of returns as major new additions to the series have thankfully been cemented in place. Earlier this season we even got a return from Moe\u2019s fiance\u00e9, Maya, as it was confirmed<\/a> that they were also happy in their relationship and hoping to marry in the future too. It\u2019s a big deal for these former sad sacks, and reveals that the show isn\u2019t erasing everyone who\u2019s changed the status quo significantly. <\/p>\n

Who Is Maisie? <\/p>\n

\"\"Courtesy of 20th Television Animation<\/p>\n

Maisie MacDougal, first introduced as Maisie MacWeldon, was brought into The Simpsons as Willie\u2019s love interest back in Season 35\u2019s \u201cAe Bonny Romance.\u201d Voiced by Avengers and Jumanji star Karen Gillan<\/a>, she and Willie fell in love before Willie had moved to America. But Maisie\u2019s parents didn\u2019t approve, and told her that he had been killed. Thus when the two of them were planning to leave to America, Willie had gone alone thinking that she had dumped him. The two of them are reunited in Scotland years later, and quickly got married. <\/p>\n

This reappearance in the latest episode confirms that she\u2019s still very much a part of Willie\u2019s life, and it\u2019s a great fate for such a character. Sad sacks in the series have been married off before like Comic Book Guy\u2019s love interest Kumiko, but it\u2019s really a toss up as to whether or not they will actually play a role in future episodes. Especially when it comes to bringing in a major guest star to do so. Luckily in Willie\u2019s case, the two are still happily married with this update.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Simpsons has confirmed a marriage is still very much in place with a surprise return seen in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175080,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[59349,57781,146,85,46,35169,59350,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-175079","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-animation-genre","9":"tag-answer-feature","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-the-simpsons","14":"tag-the-simpsons-franchise","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}