Things have gotten intense when Marge Simpson speaks out. The Simpsons Twitter account tweeted out a short video on August 14th featuring Marge personally responding to a comment from Trump campaign advisor Jenna Ellis. The comment, which was apparently meant as an insult, claimed that vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris’ voice sounded like Marge Simpson.
Marge’s speech was quick and to the point, though not without throwing a subtle bit of shade at Ellis. “I usually don’t get into politics,” she began, “but the president’s senior advisor, Jenna Ellis, just said Kamala Harris sounds like me.” (At this point, some viewers may have realized they’ve been pronouncing “Kamala” wrong this entire time.) “Lisa says she doesn’t mean it as a compliment,” Marge continued, sounding just a bit hurt by this news from her eternally 8-year-old daughter. Lisa is known on the show for being more socially aware than the rest of the family, so it would make sense for her to be the one who breaks that unfortunate news to her mother.
“If that’s so,” Marge went on, “as an ordinary suburban housewife, I’m starting to feel a little disrespected. I teach my children not to name-call, Jenna.” The not-so-passive-aggression behind that last line dripped with an accusatory tone, before she added as an aside, “I was going to say I’m pissed off, but I’m afraid they’d bleep it.” That last comment is very much in character with Marge’s personality, as someone who often puts more stock in avoiding offensive language than other pressing issues.
It should come as little surprise to long-time Simpsons fans to see Marge give her two cents on a real world event. The character famously wrote to former First Lady Barbara Bush in 1990 regarding comments calling The Simpsons “the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.” Marge is also known on the show for being soft-spoken but defensive of her family. However, this video response appears to be a bit less about defending her family’s integrity and more about calling out the attempted insult for being ill-conceived and childish.
A response like this tends to hit extra hard coming from Marge, since she is widely seen as one of the kindest fictional characters on television (with perhaps a few exceptions). So being called out specifically like this means somebody has really messed up. While Marge is far from the first to fire back about Ellis’ comments, her motherly disapproval makes her open reply feel much more weighted than most.
So perhaps there’s a lesson to be learned here. It’s probably best for people to leave Marge Simpson out of their petty attacks. She has (or at least her writers have) no time for your negativity. She’s been raising a family for 31 years, so you know she’s committed.
Source: The Simpsons/Twitter, Deadline
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