The Simpsons Kills Off Alice Glick After 35 Seasons in Shocking Episode Twist
The animated series The Simpsons has eliminated a recurring character from its cast, with the death of Alice Glick occurring in the seventh episode of its 37th season.
According to the TV Insider, the episode, titled Sashes to Sashes, aired on Fox on November 16, 2025. Glick, the organist at Springfield's First Church, collapsed onto her instrument during a sermon delivered by Reverend Lovejoy, interrupting the service attended by the Simpson family and other residents.
A memorial for her followed at Springfield Elementary School, where her estate funded a new music program after Principal Skinner initially considered redirecting the inheritance to other uses.
Executive producer Tim Long confirmed the permanence of the character's exit, stating, “In a sense, Alice the organist will live forever, through the beautiful music she made.
But in another, more important sense, yep, she's dead as a doornail.”
Glick first entered the series in 1991 during the second season episode Three Men and a Comic Book, where Bart Simpson performed odd jobs at her home to earn money for a rare comic book, receiving only 50 cents for his efforts.
Actress Cloris Leachman provided her voice in that debut, while Tress MacNeille handled the role in subsequent appearances, including over 30 episodes where Glick featured in background scenes at the church, hospital, or retirement castle.
The character, depicted as an elderly woman with a brother who died in World War I and a fondness for daytime dramas she called "her stories," once sold items like a Stradivarius violin for five cents at a swap meet and tripped into a garbage can while carrying groceries.
This marks the second instance of Glick's on-screen death, following a 2011 episode in the 23rd season where a robotic seal attacked her, after which she reappeared both as a ghost and in living form without explanation.
Long addressed the prior incident by affirming the current death stands as final.
The series previously removed other characters permanently, such as barfly Larry Dalrymple in its 35th season and writer Dan Greaney in a non-canon segment.
