Agnes "Kookie" Flanders (née Turnipseed)[1], also known as Mona Flanders[2] and Capri Flanders[3], (born 1910) is the mother of Ned Flanders and Nediana Flanders, the wife of Nedward Flanders, Sr. and also the paternal grandmother of Rod and Todd Flanders.
Biography[]
Agnes Flanders was a beatnik, revealed when a much younger Agnes and her husband were seen bringing Ned to Dr. Foster.[4] Although Ned Flanders is willing to help Agnes Flanders, he secretly hates her as well as his father, which he admitted when various psychiatrists attempted to trap him in a room with Homer to get Ned to admit to any kind of anger he may have felt that led to him suppressing it due to Dr. Foster's treatment backfiring.
Flanders once said, "Homer, you met my parents" (to which Homer replied, "Not naked I haven't", as she was naked at the time), an indication that they are still alive.[5] In Season 23, it is shown that she and her husband are alive, since they both attended Ned and Edna's wedding.
According to the Simpsons Comic "Granddaddy-o!" (printed in Simpsons Comics 204), Agnes and Nedward were Bleeding Gums Murphy's godparents.
Trivia[]
- In "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", she looks very different than her younger self in "Hurricane Neddy". However, in "Ned 'N Edna's Blend", she looks like an older version of how she appeared in "Hurricane Neddy".
- It is likely that Grandma Flanders is actually Ned's grandmother, since the Flanders family tree in Flanders' Book of Faith is exactly canonical to the series.
- There is a discrepancy with her name, as in the Flanders' Book of Faith, her name is shown to be Agnes, but in "Black-eyed Please", Ned refers to her as Capri, and in "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song", she is referred to as Mona.
Gallery[]
Appearances[]
- Episode – "Homer Loves Flanders" (mentioned)
- Episode – "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song" (flashback)
- Episode – "Lisa's Date with Density" (mentioned)
- Episode – "Hurricane Neddy" (flashback)
- Episode – "Marge Gamer" (mentioned)
- Episode – "Ned 'N Edna's Blend"
- Episode – "Black-eyed Please"
- Episode – "Walking Big & Tall" (flashback)
- Episode – "My Way or the Highway to Heaven" (flashback)
Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out (as Capri Flanders)
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"Marge on the Lam": | "Bart's Inner Child": | "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood": | "The Last Temptation of Homer": | "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)": |
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"Homer the Vigilante": | "Bart Gets Famous": | "Homer and Apu": | "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy": | "Deep Space Homer": |
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"Homer Loves Flanders": | "Bart Gets an Elephant": | "Burns' Heir": | "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song": | "The Boy Who Knew Too Much": |
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The Simpsons: Season Eight | ||||
"Treehouse of Horror VII": | "You Only Move Twice": | "The Homer They Fall": | "Burns, Baby Burns": | "Bart After Dark": |
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"A Milhouse Divided": | "Lisa's Date with Density": | "Hurricane Neddy": | "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer (The Mysterious Voyage of Homer)": | "The Springfield Files": |
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"The Twisted World of Marge Simpson": | "Mountain of Madness": | "Simpsoncalifragilisticexpiala(Annoyed Grunt)cious": | "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show": | "Homer's Phobia": |
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"Brother from Another Series": | "My Sister, My Sitter": | "Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment": | "Grade School Confidential": | "The Canine Mutiny": |
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"The Old Man and the Lisa": | "In Marge We Trust": | "Homer's Enemy": | "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase": | "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson": |
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