The First Church of Springfield is in want of a brand new organist: TVLine has confirmed that Alice Glick, whose first look on the animated comedy dates again to 1991, formally died within the Sunday, Nov. 16 episode.
“In a way, Alice the organist will stay without end, by way of the gorgeous music she made. However in one other, extra vital sense, yep she’s lifeless as a doornail,” government producer Tim Lengthy tells TVLine in a press release.
When you missed the episode, this is the way it all went down (so to talk): The episode started halfway by way of a typical church service, with Reverend Lovejoy’s sermon constructing to a characteristically droll climax. He assumed that Alice was merely being overzealous when a bang from the organ interrupted his preaching, solely to find Alice’s lifeless physique slumped over the large instrument. The invention was met with gasps from members of the congregation, a lot of whom have been having fun with Alice’s music for greater than three a long time.
The episode then lower to Springfield Elementary, the place Principal Skinner precisely launched Alice to the scholar physique as “a lifeless girl you’ve got by no means met.” Regardless of this, Alice apparently left all of her cash to the varsity, with particular plans to fund a brand new music program — as a result of she was all the time an angel.
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We all know what you are in all probability pondering proper now: If the varsity held a memorial for Alice, why is her loss of life even a query? To not get all Comedian E-book Man about it, however our woman has been in an identical state of affairs earlier than, having beforehand “died” again in Season 22 by the hands of a rogue Robopet. Alice has made a number of appearances since then, each as a ghost and as a stay girl, leaving followers to query her place each on this planet of “The Simpsons.” Now, we will confidently say that Alice has rocked out to her final hymn.
The aged organist made her debut in Season 2’s “Three Males and a Comedian E-book,” initially voiced by the late, nice Cloris Leachman. “Simpsons” staple Tress MacNeille took over the function in subsequent appearances.
We will not inform you really feel proper now (grief is sophisticated!), however we predict one of the simplest ways to honor Alice’s reminiscence is to rewatch her most iconic second — and a traditional “Simpsons” second generally — from a Season 7 episode during which Bart tips the congregation into singing a Biblical model of Iron Butterfly’s “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.” When you aren’t holding a lighter up throughout Alice’s organ solo, do you even respect actual music?
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