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The Simpsons Season 33 Image: Kerry Washington Becomes Bart’s Teacher
The Simpsons season 33 will introduce Kerry Washington as Bart Simpson's new fourth-grade teacher at Springfield Elementary School following the retirement of his former teacher, Ms. Edna Krabappel, in 2013. The character suddenly left the school nearly a decade ago due to the fact that her voice actor, The Merv Griffin Show veteran Marcia Wallace, had died just shy of her 71st birthday. In season 25, episode 13, titled «The Man Who Grew Too Much,» Krabappel's death was implied by her husband, Ned Flanders, wearing a black armband in the episode, and both Ned and Nelson Muntz saying that they miss her.