Marge consoles him by telling him he is a member of a " very exclusive club ": The Simpson Family and only two members have special rings.

Marge is the moralistic force in her family and often provides a grounding voice in the midst of her family's antics by trying to maintain order in the Simpson household.

In 2000, Marge, along with the rest of her family, was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

In " The Way We Was " ( season two, 1991 ), it is revealed via flashback that Marge attended Springfield High School, and in her final year met Homer Simpson.

Marge has been unemployed for most of the series, choosing to be a homemaker and take care of her family.

These include working as a nuclear technician alongside Homer at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant in " Marge Gets a Job " ( season four, 1992 ); selling houses in " Realty Bites " ( season nine, 1997 ); owning her own pretzel business in " The Twisted World of Marge Simpson " ( season eight, 1997 ), and working at an erotic bakery in " Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes " ( season 20, 2008 ).

While Marge has never expressed discontent with her role as a homemaker, she has become bored with it.

In " The Springfield Connection " ( season six, 1995 ), Marge decided that she needed more excitement in her life and became a police officer.

An original idea the animators had for when Marge walked through doorways was that her hair would be forced down as she walked through, then once clear of the door, it would spring back and forth.

" While Marge is her most famous character, Kavner's favorite characters to voice are Patty and Selma because " they're really funny and sad at the same time.

Marge is generally a stereotypical sitcom mother, and she also plays the " long-suffering wife " who puts up with the antics of her children and her oafish husband.

The next day, Homer is dirty and disheveled, and begs Marge to take him back, saying the one thing he can offer her that nobody else can is " complete and utter dependence.

Marge in her first televised appearance in " Good Night ".

Marge has expressed understanding for her " special little guy " and has defended him on many occasions.

Marge over-mothers Maggie, which causes her to become too clingy and dependent on Marge.

Marge begins to miss Maggie, but at the end of the episode, Maggie starts to need her again.

Marge maintains a good relationship with her mother Jacqueline and her sisters Patty and Selma, though they disapprove of Homer and are vocal about it.

As Lisa rants about the people who believe it is an angel, Marge informs her that she also believes it is an angel.

" In spite of her morals, Marge struggles with vices, such as a gambling addiction.

While Marge has learned to cope with her addiction, it has never completely disappeared and remains an underlying problem that is referenced occasionally on the show.

Politically, Marge generally aligns with the Democratic Party, having supported the candidacy of her state's progressive governor Mary Bailey, and voting for Jimmy Carter in both of his presidential elections.

He is at first unsuccessful, but gains the interest of the class when he starts giving away family secrets, many of which concern Marge.

He enthusiastically abandons his bar, its regular customers, and his friends when a better opportunity comes along, such as the drink " The Flaming Moe ", the opening of his postmodern bar " m ", the conversion of his bar into a family-themed restaurant called Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag and a British themed pub with Marge called the Nag and Weasel.

In " Husbands and Knives ", the store was finally closed due to bankruptcy when a rival comic book shop opened up ( whose owner had significantly better customer service ), and Marge bought the land in order to open up " Shapes ", a gym for regular women, on its former site.

Apu tries to wriggle out of the arrangement at first, with Homer making Marge pretend to be his wife until Apu's mother finds her with Homer, but is won over when he meets Manjula face-to-face at the wedding, and the two decide to give the marriage a try ( Manjula notes nonchalantly that they can always get a divorce ).

He tells Marge that he might as well do a Voodoo dance for Abe Simpson when asked to give him the last rites.

Despite being well aware that he is not a good Cop, Clancy does not like of being criticized about his work or his mistakes, visible in Smart and Smarter when Clancy ask to Marge write her opinion about his work before he continue his search for Lisa, but when Marge writes her concern about the latter's incompetence, Clancy is offended and refuses in find Lisa unless Marge gives a more positive critic about him, much to Marge's anger.

Bob briefly returns in the season 20 episode " Wedding for Disaster ", when Bart and Lisa initially suspect Bob of kidnapping Homer to prevent him from attending his second wedding with Marge ( due to a keychain they found had an ' S ' and a ' B '), but Krusty provides him with an alibi, explaining to the kids that Bob was with him the whole day.

Marge was often referred to when a player messed up something that was easy.

Additionally, in one scene of The Simpsons Movie, when the family moves to Alaska, Marge knits a doormat that reads " Nome Sweet Nome ", revealing their exact location.

But when she sees Lisa hiding her true feelings and being taken advantage of by her classmates, Marge changes her tune and tells Lisa to be herself.

At home, Homer is about to defeat Bart in a rematch when Marge unplugs the TV to announce Lisa's recovery.

Batavia was referenced in The Simpsons Season 8 episode The Twisted World of Marge Simpson, when the first order to Marge's pretzel business after securing the protection of the local mafia comes from the Meat Packers Union Hall in Batavia.

For instance, the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad was sent out in the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban book when Harry Potter inflated his Aunt Marge ; they " deflated " her and erased her memory ( the memory modification done by Obliviators ).

Lenny appears to be well liked by the Simpson family – on one occasion, Marge and the kids build a prayer shrine for him when learning he was taken to the hospital.

In " Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder ", Homer goes bowling but tells Marge that Lenny was hospitalized ; when Marge informs the kids, they respond the same way she did and shout, " Not Lenny !".

In " Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play ", Lenny and Carl see Homer and Marge kiss, prompting Lenny to remark, " Remember when we used to kiss like that.

Marge, using the steroids, exercises harder than ever, and becomes very muscular and estrogen-depleted, resulting in a short temper and a new-found violent streak, which is quite harmful to everyone ( including her family ) next to her, especially due to her recent developed superhuman strength ( evident when she stop and lifted the school bus with her bare hands ).

However, Marge begins to get paranoid at her family's newfound love of Becky, and begins to think that she is seducing Homer.

Becky admits to Marge that she hates heavy metal music.

At the wedding, Marge suggests to Becky that she gives Otto an ultimatum: it is either her or heavy metal.

Later, Becky and the rest of the family meet without Marge at an ice cream parlour, and Becky tells everyone that she has found a new apartment and is moving out.

Becky gives him mouth-to-mouth but Marge comes in thinking she is kissing him.

When Marge escapes from the courtroom and goes to the library to see who Becky really is, she realizes that she is insane and being unfair to Becky, after finding nothing bad about her and a newspaper tablet of how Marge ruined Becky's marriage.

Marge apologizes to Becky, but Becky admits she was going to kill Marge and steal her family, but decided not to after she had no shovel.