why do you think they killed flanders wife?

It had to do with a contract dispute. I never really liked the fact that they killed her off though. It kind of made a funny, happy show sad at times. cheers,

From what I recall reading, the voice of Maude was from Colorado, and wanted to live in Colorado, and when her contract came up for renewal, she wanted a provision for her to have a flight back and forth for every recording session and she was declined. Thinking she had leverage, she didn't sign, and they killed her character off. She has since been re-hired as she was doing and does other voices.

I don't have any idea why they did it. That episode was a laugh. Mostly because of how Maude was killed. It was Homer's fault!

I think they killed the character off to generate some publicity for the show, they've done similar things before when they did the who shot Mr Burns episodes and when one of the Simpson's characters turns out to be gay. I also think it is to do with the person the does the voiceovers, if you notice, the voice of Maude Flanders changes especially in the later episodes. The voice I miss is Troy McLure, unforutnately there is nothing they can do to replace him, the poor man was killed in real life.

Maybe the person who did her voice wanted off the show? Instead of replacing her they just killed her character.

well i dont know the reason but i love keeping him and his assistant Gay...haha that really freaked me out when i came to know it

I think I heard that the person who did the voice wanted to be payed more but did not get what she wanted. I guess she only did one voice while the other cast did more than she.

I remember hearing that they wanted to try and do a soap drama type of episode. Except unlike south park she was gone for good. (no return like kenny) It was during the part the script writers wasn't sure which directions to take things and that could also play apart in it. ~Joey

I wondered that and it was like how did that happen. I guess they wanted to show and see how Ned would do on his own raising 2 kids. I never really thought too much of it to tell you the truth. I guess it must either be a dispute or the fact that a new direction was needed to see how Ned would do as a single father. I'm just curious in a direction where Ned finally finds a woman and Rod and Tod have a step mother.