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{{Character
|name = Edna Krabappel–Flanders
|image = [[File:Edna Krabappel.png|200px]]
|gender = {{Female}}
|hair = Brown
|age = 41<ref>"[[The Fool Monty]]"</ref>
|status = Deceased
|job = Fourth grade teacher at [[Springfield Elementary]]
|relatives = '''Husband:''' [[Ned Flanders]]<br>'''Ex-husband:''' [[Mr. Krabappel]]<br>'''Stepsons''' [[Rod]] and [[Todd Flanders]]<br>'''Sister:''' Unnamed<ref>"[[Stealing First Base]]"</ref>
|appearance = "[[Bart the Genius]]"
|last appearance = "[[The Man Who Grew Too Much]]"
|reason = Death of [[Marcia Wallace]]
|voiced by = [[Marcia Wallace]]
}}
'''Edna Krabappel–Flanders'''<ref>[http://www.simpsonsworld.com/video/283744835990 SimpsonsWorld.com (Script View for Every Episode)] [http://i.imgur.com/1z9s2J4.png (link for non-US users)]</ref> (née '''Krabappel''') (more commonly known as '''Mrs. Krabappel''' or, known by [[Bart]] as '''Mrs. K''') was a [[Fourth Grade|4th Grade]] teacher at [[Springfield Elementary School]]. Before Edna was married she lived at [[82 Evergreen Terrace]]<ref name="BGAZ">"[[Bart Gets a "Z"]]"</ref> and before passing away, she lived at [[744 Evergreen Terrace]].<ref>''[[Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda]]</ref>

== Biography ==
Edna held a Master's from Bryn Mawr College, but is thoroughly jaded, a caricature of the American public school system, as evidenced on the occasion when [[Lisa]] steals all the teachers' editions of the textbooks (which contain the answers). Edna genuinely wanted to help people in need but it after years of frustration thanks to the school, and [[Bart Simpson]] in particular, this wore away on a somewhat tragic note. 
[[File:Edna Folder.png|thumbnail|left|Edna's character folder seen in the Hall of Records (circa 2006) when her romance with [[Principal Skinner]] was taking place]]
There is some inconsistency about Edna's origins. Though she is said to have come to Springfield to begin teaching,<ref name="SNES">"[[The Seemingly Never-Ending Story]]"</ref> she can be seen running through the background in Springfield High School in when [[Clancy Wiggum]] is being videotaped as a hall monitor.<ref>"[[Springfield Up]]"</ref> Krabappel, like many other teachers at [[Springfield Elementary School]] smoked heavily, especially during school hours. It was also once implied that Edna Krabappel drinked heavily, as when Marge arrived at the school to use a restroom and stumbled upon the horrible conditions of the school, she noticed Edna Krabappel's class where Bart felt he had to sleep in class and uttered "stupid teacher," to which Edna was also sleeping in a similar fashion to Bart and uttering "stupid hangover"<ref>"[[Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh]]"</ref> and once got fired when she became drunk (although the latter instance wasn't her fault, as her drink was spiked by her students in order to help her become laid back.).<ref name="BGAZ"/>

=== Love life ===
The most recurring theme about Edna is her non-existent love life, and as a result, loneliness and wish for male company. She was divorced; her husband ran off with their marriage counselor. She had talked about her ex living somewhere else exotic, but at one time, a man at the local gas station, while diagnosing a fault with her car, tastes sugar in the gasoline and states "Your ex-husband strikes again! <ref>"[[Bart the Lover]]"</ref>" As a result, she severely missed male company, and it is occasionally implied that she feels her biological clock ticking. She was shown as very sexually aggressive: she tried to pick up both Joey Kramer (Aerosmith's drummer).<ref>"[[Flaming Moe's]]"</ref> She had a relationship with Principal [[Seymour Skinner]].<ref>"[[Grade School Confidential]]"</ref> She can be seen at a [[Green Day]] concert on top of [[Seymour Skinner|Seymour's]] shoulders wearing a T-Shirt saying "Not my boyfriend" with an arrow pointing down at Skinner.<ref>''[[The Simpsons Movie]]''</ref>

It's shown in a flashback that Edna was in a serious relationship with [[Moe Szyslak]] when she first moved to Springfield, before meeting Skinner or even becoming a teacher. She was about to run away with him (and possibly get married) but then changed her mind when she met [[Bart Simpson]], a student she believed needed help (it was revealed, however, that Bart was just stalling while [[Nelson Muntz]] stole microscopes from the school). At the end of the episode, Moe and Edna are a couple once again, much to Skinner's jealousy when he caught them making out on school property.<ref name="SNES"/> Indeed, Edna appears to be the object of many a man's desire, as evident by [[Sideshow Bob]]'s outrage when his romantic date with her is ruined by a spying Bart: "You only get one chance with Edna Krabappel!" One time, during an "edu-tainment" show at Springfield Elementary School, she did a balloon dance wearing nothing but balloons while she pops them to the tune of "Fever," mortifying the audience (especially Bart, who even went as far as to say "kill me" from witnessing it).<ref>"[[Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"]]"</ref> She often had dinner at [[The Pimento Grove]] with her on again - off again dates. At the time of her death, she was married to [[Ned Flanders]].<ref>"[[Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda]]"</ref>

Edna also had relationships with [[Groundskeeper Willie]],<ref>"[[My Fair Laddy]]"</ref><ref>"[[To Surveil with Love]]"</ref><ref name="How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?">"[[How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?]]"</ref><ref name="The Ned-liest Catch">"[[The Ned-liest Catch]]"</ref> [[Superintendent Chalmers]],<ref name="How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?"/> [[Jacques]],<ref>"[[Burns' Heir]]"</ref> [[Homer]], [[Lenny]], [[Carl]], [[Barney]], [[Professor Frink]], [[Drederick Tatum]], [[Krusty]], [[Bumblebee Man]], [[Cletus]], [[Reverend Lovejoy]], [[Arnie Pye]], [[Kent Brockman]], [[Patty]],<ref name="The Ned-liest Catch"/> [[Disco Stu]],<ref name="BGAZ"/><ref name="The Ned-liest Catch"/> [[Kirk Van Houten]]<ref>"[[Dumbbell Indemnity]]"</ref> and [[Sea Captain]].<ref>"[[Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays]]"</ref>

== Non-canon ==
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== Trivia ==
*She had a red marking pen named "Old Red".
*Edna Krabappel (before marriage) is featured in a version of [[Monopoly]], called "[[Edna Krabappoly]]".<ref>"[[Brawl in the Family]]"</ref>

== Behind the Laughter ==
=== Creation ===
Her last name is a play on the fruit "crabapple" and it is also a reference to the teacher Miss Crabtree from the 1930s ''[[The Little Rascals]]'' serials. Part of the original joke of her last name was that nobody ever mispronounced her name and called her "Miss Crabapple",<ref>''[[Springfield Confidential]]'' Chapter 6</ref> Milhouse was the first to make this joke which had the other students in class amazed and feeling stupid for not noticing it before.<ref>"[[Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore]]"</ref>

=== International versions ===
*In France, Edna Krabappel is called Krappabel: "Kra" sounds like "cra-cra" which is used by young children to describe something dirty and "ppabel" sounds exactly like "pas belle" (not pretty). Homer Simpson even calls her "Cracrapoubelle", which has "cra-cra", which infants in France say for "dirty", and "poubelle" which is French for garbage can. In the Québec French version, she retains her original name.
*In Italy, she is called ''Edna Caprapall'': ''Capra'' in Italian means Goat, and Caprapall recalls the image of a goat.
*In Spain, her name is pronounced ''Edna Carapapel'': in Spanish it means paperface. The Latin American version of the show, dubbed in Mexico, keeps "Krabappel" as the US name, though in earlier seasons, when many names and surnames were replaced with Spanish ones, her surname was "Clavados" ("nailings").

=== Retirement ===
[[File:Edna Krabappel Marcia Wallace tribute.jpg|thumb|left|[[David Silverman]]'s tribute to [[Marcia Wallace]].]]<br>[[File:Good-bye to Edna Krabappel.png|300px|thumb|right|The Simpsons say good-bye to Edna Krabappel]]
On October 25, [[2013]], [[Marcia Wallace]] died in her home in [[Los Angeles]] after a battle with pneumonia. Due to this, ''Simpsons'' executive producer and showrunner [[Al Jean]] revealed that Edna was not going to be the character that was being killed off in the [[season 26]] premiere but the character will now be retired.<ref>[http://variety.com/2013/tv/news/marcia-wallace-star-of-the-bob-newhart-show-and-voice-of-mrs-krabappel-dies-at-71-1200764197/ Variety - "Marcia Wallace, Star of 'The Bob Newhart Show' and Voice of Mrs. Krabappel, Dies at 70"]</ref> The character was retired in the [[Season 25]] episode "[[The Man Who Grew Too Much]]" with a special scene at the end of the episode in which she and Ned dance a tango dance, but it is, in fact, a dream by Ned, who wears a black band on his arm and says "I sure do miss that laugh", with a picture of Edna sitting next to another photo of Maude. That's when class bully Nelson pops up with his own laugh "[[Ha Ha!]]", to then say: "I miss her too.", confirming that Edna had died sometime prior to the episode via unknown causes.

=== Foreign dubs ===
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== Appearances ==
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*{{ep|Bart the Genius}}
*{{ep|Homer's Odyssey}}
*{{ep|The Telltale Head}}
*{{ep|Bart Gets an "F"}}
*{{ep|Dead Putting Society}}
*{{ep|One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish}}
*{{ep|Principal Charming}}
*{{ep|Old Money}}
*{{ep|Lisa's Substitute}}
*{{ep|Bart the Lover}}
*{{ep|Flaming Moe's}}
*{{ep|Grade School Confidential}}
*{{ep|Miracle on Evergreen Terrace}}
*{{ep|Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers"}}
*{{ep|Mayored to the Mob}}
*{{ep|The Frying Game}}
*{{ep|Special Edna}}
*{{ep|My Big Fat Geek Wedding}}
*{{ep|The Seemingly Never-Ending Story}}
*{{ep|Springfield Up}}
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*{{ep|Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh}}
*{{ep|Postcards from the Wedge}}
*{{ep|Stealing First Base|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|Bart Gets a "Z"}}
*{{ep|The Fool Monty}}
*{{ep|Moms I'd Like to Forget}}
*{{ep|The Blue and the Gray}}
*{{ep|The Ned-liest Catch}}
*{{ep|Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts}}
*{{ep|The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants|(cog in Homer's head)}}
*{{ep|Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda}}
*{{ep|Lisa Goes Gaga}}
*{{ep|A Tree Grows in Springfield}}
*{{ep|Black-Eyed, Please}}
*{{ep|Pulpit Friction}}
*{{ep|YOLO}}
*{{ep|The Man Who Grew Too Much}}
*{{ep|Super Franchise Me|(error)}}
*{{ep|I Won't Be Home for Christmas|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles|(seen in a newspaper)}}
*{{ep|Looking for Mr. Goodbart|(grave seen)}}
*{{ep|Dogtown|(dream, grave seen)}}
*{{ep|Left Behind|(archive footage)}}
*{{cg|Bart's Not Dead/Gags|Bart's Not Dead|(archive footage)}}
*{{ep|My Way or the Highway to Heaven}}
*{{ep|Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?|(ghost, angel, archive recording)}}
*{{bon|The Amazing Colossal Homer}}
*{{bon|Bart's Nasty Shirt}}
*{{bon|Little Buddy Day}}
*{{bon|Computer Hackles}}
*{{bon|The Great Train Wreck}}
*{{bon|Shopping for School Supplies the Bart Simpson Way!}}
*{{bon|The Murder Party}}
*{{bon|Like a Boss!}}
*{{bon|Granddaddy-O!}}
*{{bon|Monty's Morphin Power Wrangler}}
*{{bon|Son of Homer's Odyssey}}
*{{bk|The Bart Book}}
*{{bk|Comic Book Guy's Book of Pop Culture}}
*{{bk|The Krusty Book|(mentioned)}}
*{{bk|Flanders' Book of Faith}}
*{{bk|The Marge Book}}
*{{bk|Simpsons World The Ultimate Episode Guide: Seasons 1-20}}
*{{game|Virtual Bart}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Road Rage}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Skateboarding}}
*{{game|The Simpsons Game}}
*{{game|The Simpsons: Tapped Out}}
*{{ad|Bart's Locker}}
*{{ad|Hard Times}}
*{{ad|Piggy Bank}}
*{{ad|Bart's Locker}}
*{{ad|Hit a Homer}}
*{{ad|Springfield's Got Talent}}
*{{ad|Mister Donut commercial|(silhouette)}}
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