Flanders' wife's name Molly?
Mean Mister Mustard
announcing the names of all the people he wouldn't kill, he said "Molly
Flanders," referring to Ned's wife. I don't have a tape... can anyone
confirm if this is correct?
The reason I ask is that it just occurred to me -- "Moll Flanders" was the
name of a Daniel Defoe heroine, a notorious prostitute and thief. In fact,
"moll" was a general slang term for "prostitute" in the 18th century, and
Flanders was renowned as a "city of vice." Makes Mrs. Flanders' name pretty
ironic, doesn't it?
On any other TV show, I'd say this is sheer coincidence, but "The Simpsons"
is subtle and literate enough for this to be deliberate. Makes you wonder
what sinister meaning "Ned" has...
Marc
Nick J Worthey
Molly? by Mean Mister Mustard@wam.
Ned's wife is named Maude.
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Nick
David W. Tamkin
<whK5Fj600...@andrew.cmu.edu>:
| Ned's wife is named Maude.
Close. Her name is Maud. [Nick might be confused with the Lear sitcom
"Maude" from the 1970's, which starred Beatrice Arthur. But that Maude
wasn't married to Ned Flanders; she was married to Walter Findlay (Bill
Macy).]
There's some inside joke that everyone in the family has a name ending in D:
Ned, Maud, Rod, Tod (only one D in "Tod").
David W. Tamkin P. O. Box 3284 Skokie IL 60076-6284
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Nick J Worthey
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> Close. Her name is Maud. [Nick might be confused with the Lear sitcom
> "Maude" from the 1970's, which starred Beatrice Arthur. But that Maude
> wasn't married to Ned Flanders; she was married to Walter Findlay (Bill
> Macy).]
>
> There's some inside joke that everyone in the family has a name ending in D:
> Ned, Maud, Rod, Tod (only one D in "Tod").
>
> David W. Tamkin P. O. Box 3284 Skokie IL 60076-6284
> dat...@mcs.net MCI Mail: 426-1818 +1 312 714 5610
*Actually*, her name was spelled "Maude" on two t-shirts in the
Leftorium episode. Animator's accident or not, that's where I got the
idea that it has an 'e' at the end.
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Nick
Mean Mister Mustard
Nick J Worthey <nw...@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>Excerpts from netnews.alt.tv.simpsons: 8-Feb-94 Flanders' wife's name
>Molly? by Mean Mister Mustard@wam.
>> I seem to recall that in the Cape Feare episode, when Sideshow Bob was
>> announcing the names of all the people he wouldn't kill, he said "Molly
>> Flanders," referring to Ned's wife. I don't have a tape... can anyone
>> confirm if this is correct?
>>
>> The reason I ask is that it just occurred to me -- "Moll Flanders" was the
>> name of a Daniel Defoe heroine, a notorious prostitute and thief. In fact,
>> "moll" was a general slang term for "prostitute" in the 18th century, and
>> Flanders was renowned as a "city of vice." Makes Mrs. Flanders' name pretty
>> ironic, doesn't it?
>> is subtle and literate enough for this to be deliberate. Makes you wonder
>> what sinister meaning "Ned" has...
>>
>> Marc
>
>Ned's wife is named Maude.
Damn! There goes my dissertation.
Marc
S. Vattompadam
>I seem to recall that in the Cape Feare episode, when Sideshow Bob was
>announcing the names of all the people he wouldn't kill, he said "Molly
>Flanders," referring to Ned's wife. I don't have a tape... can anyone
>confirm if this is correct?
No, but you're close. Her name is actually Maude. I remember this from
the episode where Flanders opens the left-handed shop. When Homer bought
all of Flanders' stuff, one of the things he bought was a shirt that said
"Ned (heart) Maude".
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Sanjay Vattompadam
Faculty of Engineering
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
engs...@acs.eku.edu
This is a great theory and I wish that it were true, but Mrs.
Flanders first name is Maude. That was a good episode even without the
18th century allusions, though.
oooooh...cheap meat!
Steve
ar...@oregon.uoregon.edu
> This is a great theory and I wish that it were true, but Mrs.
>Flanders first name is Maude. That was a good episode even without the
>18th century allusions, though.
It still could be true. I noticed the similarity between the names "Maude
Flanders" and "Moll Flanders" the first time I heard Maude's name. It's no more
subtle than "Seymour Skinner".
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