{"id":61247,"date":"2025-11-20T01:27:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/61247\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:27:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:27:26","slug":"this-simpsons-character-is-officially-dead-as-a-doornail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/61247\/","title":{"rendered":"This &#8216;Simpsons&#8217; character is officially &#8216;dead as a doornail&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Simpsons\u201d is saying goodbye to one of its residents after 35 seasons.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;The Simpsons&quot; lost one of their own on November 16. (Courtesy: Fox)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7ed667b8-7c94-48fe-8ba0-62543f9c1883-TheSimpsons2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Simpsons&#8221; lost one of their own on November 16. (Courtesy: Fox)<\/p>\n<p>On the November 16 episode of the long-running series, Alice Glick, the organist at the First Church of Springfield died mid-sermon.<\/p>\n<p>In the episode, titled \u201cSashes to Sashes,\u201d Alice was honored at Springfield Elementary, where it was revealed she left her estate to fund a new music program for the school.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Organist Alice Glick is &quot;dead as a doornail&quot; according to executive producer Tim Long.{ }(Courtesy: Fox)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/25cc617b-018e-4c22-9fad-fd18edffedef-Simpsons_AliceGlick.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Organist Alice Glick is &#8220;dead as a doornail&#8221; according to executive producer Tim Long.{ }(Courtesy: Fox)<\/p>\n<p>Alice has apparently died before in a season 22 episode, seemingly killed by a Robopet gone wild, but she returned several episodes later alive and well.<\/p>\n<p>Executive producer Tim Long told <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/the-simpsons-permanently-kills-off-longtime-character-after-after-35-seasons-11851972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">People<\/a> in a statement, &#8220;In a sense, Alice the organist will live forever, through the beautiful music she made. But in another, more important sense, yep she&#8217;s dead as a doornail.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alice made her debut in the season 2 episode \u201cThree Men and a Comic Book\u201d back in 1991. The late Cloris Leachman initially provided her voice, followed by series regular Tress MacNeille.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Alice Glick made her first appearance back in season 2 and was originally voiced by the late Cloris Leachman.{ }(Courtesy: Fox)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/e0c7299f-209f-4cf8-8d3e-15deabee1470-Simpson_AliceGlick2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alice Glick made her first appearance back in season 2 and was originally voiced by the late Cloris Leachman.{ }(Courtesy: Fox)<\/p>\n<p>While most of the \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d characters are basically immortal at this point, a few have been killed off permanently.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent was Larry \u201cthe Barfly\u201d Dalrymple, who died in the 2024 episode \u201cCremains of the Day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Just a fraction of the cast from 36 seasons of &quot;The Simpsons.&quot;{ }(Courtesy: Fox)\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2602e71c-9672-4fba-b95e-6d2f872bde7e-TheSimpsons.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Just a fraction of the cast from 36 seasons of &#8220;The Simpsons.&#8221;{ }(Courtesy: Fox)<\/p>\n<p>Some others include Ned Flanders\u2019 wife Maude, Homer\u2019s mom Mona, Lisa\u2019s jazz idol Bleeding Gums Murphy, and Rabbi Hyman Krustofksy, Krusty the Clown\u2019s dad.<\/p>\n<p>The character of Edna Krabappel was retired but not killed off, following the death of her voice actress Marcia Wallace in 2013. The show handled the sad news in a sweet way during an episode, with a chalkboard gag from Bart that read \u201cWe\u2019ll really miss you Mrs. K,\u201d and acknowledgement from Ned Flanders (who she was married to in later seasons) and Bart\u2019s classmate Nelson that they would miss Edna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Simpsons\u201d is saying goodbye to one of its residents after 35 seasons. &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221; lost one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61248,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-61247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61247\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}