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The Simpsons Confirms Canon Death of Longtime Character Alice Glick

Producers confirm the on-screen exit is permanent, resolving years of continuity confusion.

Overview

  • Co–executive producer Tim Long told Entertainment Weekly and People that Alice Glick is definitively dead.
  • The death occurs in season 37’s episode that aired November 16 on Fox, titled “Sashes to Sashes.”
  • Glick had appeared since 1991, first voiced by Cloris Leachman and later by Tress MacNeille.
  • A previous on-screen death in the 2011 episode “Replaceable You” was later treated as non-canonical.
  • The episode uses her exit to launch a new storyline connected to Springfield Elementary.