Agnes Skinner

Agnes Skinner

Agnes Skinner (voiced by Tress MacNeille in most appearances, Maggie Roswell in "Lisa's Rival") is the mother of Principal Skinner and first appears in the first-season episode "The Crepes of Wrath" as an old woman who embarrassingly addresses her son as "Spanky". However, as episodes progress, her character turns bitter. She is very controlling of her son and often treats him as if he is a child, insulting and ridiculing him every chance she gets. Despite him saving her from danger, Skinner hates her because she is still controlling him. She hates Edna Krabappel due to her son's feelings for the other woman because she is jealous at her. Agnes has been married four times and has dated Comic Book Guy and Montgomery Burns. Many Springfield residents, including the Simpsons, are afraid of her. When "the real Seymour Skinner" arrives in Springfield in "The Principal and the Pauper", Agnes ends up rejecting him, in part because he stands up to her but also because, unlike Skinner/Tamzarian, her biological son is independent and does not need her anymore, while Skinner immediately reverts to a good-for-nothing without her.