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"In many ways, Maude Flanders was a supporting player in our lives. She didn't take hold of our attending with memorable catchphrases or comical accents. But, whether yous noticed her or not, Maude was ever there... and we thought she always would be."

―Reverend Lovejoy

Alone Again, Natura-Diddily is the fourteenth episode of Season xi.

Synopsis

When Maude Flanders dies in a freak accident, Homer takes it upon himself to assist Ned rebuild his life and go him back into the dating game.

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On a trip to the bird sanctuary, the family sees that a new speedway has been built and is opening that day, much to Lisa's dismay. The family goes to the racetrack and are surprised to encounter the Flemish region family, who have come up non to run across the race, but considering Ned admires the safety equipment the racers utilize and Maude likes the fresh air and looking at the poor people in the infield. Not long later the two families sit downward, a squad of cheerleaders is giving out complimentary T-shirts by firing them from paw cannons into the crowd, and Homer demands i. He takes off his own T-shirt and waves it around, which irritates Ned and Maude, who are seated correct behind him. Needing a break from Homer's antics, Maude goes to buy some hot dogs. Homer draws a target on his breast and finally gets the cheerleaders'due south attending. The cheerleaders transport a full salvo of T-shirts in Homer's direction, only rather than take hold of them, Homer bends down at the last 2d to selection up a bobby pin. The T-shirts hit Maude instead, only as she'due south returning from the hot canis familiaris stand. The shirts knock her over the guardrail, and she falls to the ground several stories below. Ned anxiously looks over the rail and sees a crowd of people surrounding Maude. Dr. Hibbert is at the race, but he's unable to exercise anything except pronounce that Maude is expressionless, to anybody's shock and dismay, especially Ned.

Maude dies.

At Maude'southward funeral, Reverend Lovejoy eulogizes her as follows: "In many ways, Maude Flanders was a supporting player in our lives. She didn't catch our attending with memorable catchphrases or comical accents. Simply, whenever y'all noticed her or non, Maude was always at that place... and we thought she always would be."

A scene from Ned'south dating video.

Everyone shows their condolences for Ned's loss, only Ned has to deal with being a widower and a single parent (and the fact that the last words he ever said to his wife were "No foot longs."). Feeling incredibly pitiful for Ned (and relatively responsible for Maude's expiry), Homer attempts to help Ned find a new partner and secretly makes a videotape of Ned to submit to a video dating service. In his usual bumbling manner, Homer manages to include completely unnecessary and potentially harmful pieces of data about Ned, such every bit a close-up of Ned inbound his Pin number at an ATM machine and Ned taking a shower. Ned gets a few dates via the dating service, simply none of them become well.

1 Lord's day morning time, Ned says he does not want to go to church, because he doubts the Lord for having taken Maude. Guilt-ridden, he afterwards rushes to church (apologizing out loud to God the whole style) and arrives just in time to meet Kovenant, a Christian rock band, starting to perform. Ned likes the song, and finds himself attracted (both physically and spiritually) to the lead vocalist, Rachel Jordan. After the service, Ned helps Rachel load equipment into the ring's van, and strikes upwards a chat with her. It turns out that the attraction is mutual, and Rachel suggests that she and Ned go together afterward Kovenant gets back from touring with the Monsters of Christian Rock. Ned smiles and says, "Maybe we can. My proper name's Ned Flanders, and I'm hither every week -- rain or shine!"

Behind the Laughter

The feel Ned endured through Maude'south death was brought up in the February 5, 2001 edition of Billy Graham's Christianity Today every bit an example of testing ane's Christian faith.^[1]

Criticism

Lowe'due south Motor Speedway president Jerry Gappens expressed his concern over the episode, as information technology appeared to parody an actual incident. During the Indy Racing League IndyCar Serial Visionaire 500k event on May 1, 1999, flying tires in a Lap 62 crash killed three spectators, forcing the track to abandon the race earlier the halfway signal. WCCB, the Fox chapter in Charlotte, North Carolina (the dwelling of Lowe's Motor Speedway), initially refused to show the promotional advertising for this episode.^[2]

Many viewers criticized the evidence at the fourth dimension for killing off a popular and honey character. ^{[commendation needed]} Groening later revealed that the reason he killed off Maude was because her voice actress, Maggie Roswell, moved to Colorado, making it difficult to continue the graphic symbol's role in the show.^[three] Roswell would return to the testify in Season 14.

Citations

1. ↑ https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2001/february5/1.28.html
2. ↑ http://www.snpp.com/episodes/BABF10
3. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCbuwLJ-t6E

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