{"id":2167657,"date":"2025-11-20T00:26:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2167657"},"modified":"2025-11-20T00:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T00:26:17","slug":"the-simpsons-kills-off-1-long-running-character-and-its-for-real-this-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-simpsons-kills-off-1-long-running-character-and-its-for-real-this-time\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Simpsons\u2019 Kills Off 1 Long-Running Character, And It\u2019s For Real This Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entertainment\/topic\/the-simpsons?page=2\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"The Simpsons\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"691de4fde4b0b763ab8d01d9\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/entertainment\/topic\/the-simpsons\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Simpsons<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d confirmed <\/span>on <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuesday that a character who\u2019s been featured on the show for 34 years is officially dead. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alice Glick, Springfield\u2019s favorite organist, has finally kicked the bucket.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn a sense, Alice the organist will live forever, through the beautiful music she made,\u201d co-executive producer Tim Long told celebrity.land in a statement. \u201cBut in another, more important sense, yep she\u2019s dead as a doornail.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Simpsons\u201d did not immediately respond to celebrity.land\u2019s important question about what song Alice might be playing in the afterlife right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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 \u2014 sometimes alive and sometimes as a ghost.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alice\u2019s memorial service was at the center of the Season 37 episode \u201cSashes to Sashes,\u201d where it was revealed that she had left her entire estate to the school\u2019s new music program. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not a ton was known about Alice, who was initially voiced by the late Cloris Leachman before Tress MacNeille took over.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Alice\u2019s introduction in the Season 2 episode, \u201cThree Men and a Comic Book,\u201d which premiered in 1991, <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3JZOESJ0BLk\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"gives us a fair amount of intel\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"691de4fde4b0b763ab8d01d9\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3JZOESJ0BLk\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gives us a fair amount of intel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about the elusive local musician. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She had an aggressive cat, loved iodine, and her brother died in the \u201cGreat War\u201d 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. 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