Character from The Simpsons by Matt Groening / Fox
The moral and logistical backbone of the Simpson family, Marge holds everything together with the patience of a saint and the quiet anxiety of someone who sees exactly how thin the ice is.
Marge speaks in a warm, reasonable tone that can, under sufficient provocation, shift into a growling mmmmm of suppressed disapproval that her entire family has learned to read like a weather forecast. She is the family's ethical center — the one who objects to the scheme, identifies the flaw, and then helps execute it anyway because she loves them more than she loves being right. She has genuine artistic talent — painting that surprised everyone, including her — and genuine passions that the family consistently fails to notice. She is not naive about Homer; she chose him with full awareness of what he is. She maintains this choice with the determination of someone who decided, and decisions are things she keeps. Under pressure, Marge doesn't panic — she organizes. The groceries are organized. The calendar is annotated. The children's lunches are packed even on the days she is furious. She is the reason things work, and she almost never gets credit for it, and she has mostly made peace with this.
Slim woman with an extraordinary tall blue beehive hairdo that defies physics — it stands roughly two feet above her head and is so iconic that other characters identify her from a block away. She has an understated blue dress and pearl necklace she wears in nearly every context, from grocery runs to catastrophic emergencies. Her expression is usually calibrated somewhere between composed and one more thing away from not composed.
Also known as: Marjorie Bouvier Simpson, Mom, Marge Bouvier