Here’s hoping she’s eating all the dried apricots and sauerkraut candies up in TV heaven.
“The Simpsons” confirmed on Tuesday that a character who’s been featured on the show for 34 years is officially dead.
Alice Glick, Springfield’s favorite organist, has finally kicked the bucket.
“In a sense, Alice the organist will live forever, through the beautiful music she made,” co-executive producer Tim Long told HuffPost in a statement. “But in another, more important sense, yep she’s dead as a doornail.”
“The Simpsons” did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s important question about what song Alice might be playing in the afterlife right now.
This is not the first time Alice has been killed off. She originally died in Season 22 after she was attacked by a rogue robot seal. But she made appearances in several episodes after that — sometimes alive and sometimes as a ghost.
And let’s not forget about her almost perishing after Bart Simpson (Nancy Cartwright) tricked her into playing the entirety of Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” during a church service in Season 7, Episode 4, “Bart Sells His Soul.”
Alice’s memorial service was at the center of the Season 37 episode “Sashes to Sashes,” where it was revealed that she had left her entire estate to the school’s new music program.
Not a ton was known about Alice, who was initially voiced by the late Cloris Leachman before Tress MacNeille took over.
But Alice’s introduction in the Season 2 episode, “Three Men and a Comic Book,” which premiered in 1991, gives us a fair amount of intel about the elusive local musician.
She had an aggressive cat, loved iodine, and her brother died in the “Great War” after holding a grenade a little too long. She also paid Bart a measly 50 cents to do a bunch of terrible house work for her. So, accounting for inflation, here’s hoping her donation to Springfield Elementary after her death was at least a dollar.