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  Agnes Skinner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Agnes shares a troubled relationship with her son Seymour, always neurotic and often bordering on psychosis.
Footage exists of a young Agnes as a flapper and engaging in a wingwalking display.
Agnes originally appeared in the season one The Crepes of Wrath as a kindly old woman who embarrassingly called her son "Spanky".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agnes_Skinner   (829 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Agnes Skinner
Agnes Skinner (voiced by Tress MacNeille) is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons, and Principal Seymour Skinner's mother, with whom he still lives.
When Seymour is out of the house, Agnes phones him regularly demanding to be taken out of the bath, etc. Seymour has been seen commenting that Agnes hid his car keys as a punishment for talking to a woman on the phone.
In the episode "The Principal and the Pauper," it was revealed that Skinner is actually Armin Tamzarian, a troubled orphan that Agnes mistook for her son when he showed up at her door to tell her that Seymour, with whom he served in the Army in Vietnam, was dead (he believed himself the cause).
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Agnes_Skinner   (578 words)

  
 Seymour Skinner - Wikisimpsons - A Wikia wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Seymour Skinner is the principal of Springfield Elementary School.
Believing the real Skinner to have been killed in combat in Vietnam, Tanzarian assumes the role of "Seymour Skinner" when he goes to Springfield to inform Seymour's mother Agnes Skinner of Seymour's death.
In the course of the episode it is revealed that Agnes knew all along that Armin was not her son, but for whatever reason played along and encouraged the charade.
simpsons.wikia.com /wiki/Seymour_Skinner   (480 words)

  
 Pets, Zoos and Animals: The World's First Look at Shaping Or B.F. Skinner's Gutsy Gamble
Skinner also described in that paper something very much like our modern practice of target training, although he didn't call it that and didn't expand upon how a target can be used to prompt other behavior which can then be strengthened by reinforcement.
Although Skinner had intended the stripes to serve purely as stimulus aids to his behavior, i.e., stimulus support for his behavior of sighting higher and higher movements of the dog's head, the photographs clearly suggest that the stripes may also have turned out to provide very important stimulus support for the dog's behavior.
Skinner's faith in shaping was vindicated and reinforced, and the field of operant conditioning continued to evolve.
www.behavior.org /animals/animals_worlds_first.cfm   (3489 words)

  
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Skinner likes dog food." Wiggums junior and senior both had hilarious lines throughout, though I think Ralph is being reduced almost to a state of mental retardation.
Skinner stated that he knew that the student coming in would be from Albania.
Skinner: I've never been happier, or prouder to be Seymour Skinner, but, these last few days as that hot-headed rouge Armin Tanzarian has taught me a thing or two.
www.snpp.com /episodes/4F23.html   (6953 words)

  
 Seymour Skinner - Simpsons
Voiced by Harry Shearer, Skinner is the prototypical educational bureaucrat, constantly concerned with a low-grade battle against the school's inadequate resources, apathetic, bitter teachers, and largely rowdy and unenthusiastic students--Bart being the standout example.
Principal Skinner's name is a joking reference to the famous psychologist B. Skinner, famous for his theories that with appropriate reward and punishment conditioning techniques, any behavior could be introduced into an individual.
However, in an episode devoted to filling in the character's backstory, it was revealed that Skinner actually an impostor, having stolen the identity of his platoon sergeant at the end of the war.
www.esimpsons.com /seymour_skinner   (301 words)

  
 Seymour Skinner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Skinner is a stereotypical educational bureaucrat, the principal of Springfield Elementary School.
Skinner eventually decides to rejoin the military as a drill sergeant, feeling that he would never be happy doing anything not related to being an administrator, and Bart found that he missed Skinner on two levels-- as a friend, but even more as an enemy.
Skinner is made Assistant Groundskeeper, humiliating for the erstwhile principal who in previous episodes makes it clear that he considers Groundskeeper Willie to be the school's lowest status employee.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Principal_Skinner   (1695 words)

  
 Footballguystalk > I want to hear something from...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Skinner: And for the first time ever, our computer lab actually has a computer in it.
Agnes Skinner: Seymour! The house is on fire!
Dec 21 2006, 03:17 AM Skinner: As I was saying, my yearly evaluation couldn't have come at a better time.
forums.footballguys.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t296764.html   (540 words)

  
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Skinner, who had been spying on the two through a knothole in % the fence, makes her presence known.
Skinner: And there are those who might try to use it against us for their own advantage.
Skinner: Mother doesn't approve of me dating so I need you to keep her busy for a few hours while Edna and I sneak out.
www.snpp.com /episodes/4F09   (6724 words)

  
 The Principal and The Pauper - Wikisimpsons - A Wikia wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Seymour Skinner is about to celebrate his 20th anniversary as school principal, and it goes smoothly until a man who says his name is Seymour Skinner comes in, pointing out that Agnes Skinner is his mother.
Principal Skinner admits he is not the real Seymour Skinner, and is only an impostor.
Back in town, the citizens of Springfield force Sergeant Skinner to leave on a train (actually tied to a chair on a freight train car), and Tamzarian returns to being Principal Skinner through an order by Judge Snyder, saying that no one will mention "Tamzarian" again under penalty of torture (Reset button technique).
simpsons.wikia.com /wiki/The_Principal_and_The_Pauper   (807 words)

  
 BBC - Cult - The Simpsons: Season Nine Episode Guide - The Principal and the Pauper
The real Sergeant Skinner was believed killed on a mission and, upon meeting Agnes, when he took Skinner's effects home, Tamzarian decided to take Skinner's place.
The real Skinner was in fact a hostage in a shoe factory and only released last week.
The revelation that she was as much a party to the deception as Tamzarian is delightful, as is Judge Snyder's brief cameo as he legally changes the Principal's name to Seymour Skinner.
www.bbc.co.uk /cult/simpsons/episodeguide/season9/page2.shtml   (377 words)

  
 Agnes Skinner Information
Sheldon Skinner (Husband, Deceased) Armin Tamzarian (Presumed son), Sgt.
Agnes Skinner (<1920-) (voiced by Tress MacNeille), is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons, and Principal Seymour Skinner's mother, with whom he still lives.
Her hobbies include making silhouettes, collecting pictures of cakes (though she does not like the taste - she considers it "too sweet"), and causing trouble.
www.bookrags.com /Agnes_Skinner   (439 words)

  
 Elementary School - Simpsons
In several episodes he was seen dating Agnes Skinner (much to Seymour's dismay), although he is married.
According to Superintendent Chalmers, Willie is an escaped patient from a mental hospital that Skinner hired.
Although a joke was made of this event in a later episode, with Üter's parents asking Skinner where their missing son was, he has since reappeared, alive and plump.
www.esimpsons.com /elementary_school   (2270 words)

  
 Michael Crawford's Review of the Week
The final full series includes the much anticipated Agnes Skinner, along with the three nerds, Benjamin, Gary and Doug, Artie Ziff, and the variations Evil Homer and Brain Freeze Bart.
Artie and Agnes are the clear winners, both with the most new accessories and the most appropriate.
This is probably the watch that Armin Tamzarian/Skinner gave to the real Skinner in the episode "The Principal and the Pauper" (thanks to SBBED for pointing that out!) Her accessories all make sense, come from very specific and interesting episodes, and are great examples of when accessories go right.
www.mwctoys.com /REVIEW_063004a.htm   (2107 words)

  
 Welcome to The Simpsons.com
It turns out that the Skinner who's lived in Springfield all these years is really named Armin Tamzarian, and met the real Seymour Skinner in Vietnam.
The real Skinner was captured by the enemy, held in a POW camp for five years and then sold to China as a slave forced to make sneakers in Wuhan.
With the real Skinner back, the fake Skinner quits his job at the school, moves out of his mother's house and starts a new life as a loser in Capital City.
www.thesimpsons.com /episode_guide/0902.htm   (250 words)

  
 The Simpsons Action Figure: Agnes Skinner - Series 16 -- eMerchandise
You absolutely need an Agnes in your collection unless you want the rest of your Simpsons figures turning into unruly savages.
Agnes stands 4.5 inches tall and comes with a pocket watch, set of car keys, framed portrait of a sullen Seymore, and an inflatable bath cushion.
Agnes comes to life when you place her on a compatible "World of Springfield" playset -- just move her around any compatible Environment to hear her talk!
www.emerchandise.com /product/AFSMP0036   (196 words)

  
 Simpsons Series 16
Trying to translate the wrinkles in her face and hair into a 3D form is extremely difficult.
Agnes has the most accessories of the series.
She has a neck pillow, opening locket with a picture of herself inside, her car keys and a reused picture frame with a photo of Skinner.
www.tmnttoys.com /reviews/wos/simpsons16/index.htm   (1579 words)

  
 The Simpsons: The Crepes Of Wrath - TV.com
Skinner, Otto, Kent Brockman, Dr. Hibert, Lenny, Rev. Lovejoy, Raine), Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson, Abraham Simpson, Krusty the Klown, Barney, Willy, Sideshow Mel, Mayor Quimby, Hans Moleman, Gil, Itchy, Scott Chr), Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, Kearney, Various), Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson, Various)
Principal Skinner: Actually, he'd be staying in France, in a lovely chateau in the heart of the wine country.
During the entire scene in which Principal Skinner discusses the student exchange program with Marge and Homer, the house layout is incorrect.
www.tv.com /the-simpsons/the-crepes-of-wrath/episode/1296/summary.html   (1038 words)

  
 Descendants of William Campbell
He was born 24 February 1936 in Queens, New York, and died 14 May 1997 in Jacksonville, Arkansas.
Skinner, born 21 December 1962 in Jefferson, Pine Bluff County, Arkansas.
Ricky O'Dell Skinner, born 24 January 1966 in St. Vincent, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas.
www.cuzncarri.com /gencambell/68.htm   (571 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
I laughed at both the Skinner moments ("I'm not principal of the line, mother!" "And you never will be!") and, like so many people on the newsgroup, I laughed my head off during the Mr.
Skinner: [on phone] Reverend, this is Principal Skinner.
Skinner: Mother's gone too far -- she's put cardboard over her half of the television.
andercheran.aiind.upv.es /ftp/pub/simpsons/guides/episodes/4F18   (7616 words)

  
 Agnes Skinner - Reviews on RateItAll
Agnes Skinner is the domineering mother of Principal Skinner.
Agnes - And you never will be either.
This woman is a hard player, critizising her son everywhere he goes.
www.rateitall.com /i-87011-agnes-skinner.aspx   (247 words)

  
 Netphoria Message Board - "Well Seymour, I made it, despite your directions."   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Skinner walks into the kitchen to see smoke billowing from the oven.
Seymour Skinner: Oh ho ho, no. Patented Skinner burgers.
Seymour Skinner: No Agnes Skinner: Seymour, the house is on fire!
forums.netphoria.org /showthread.php?t=123758   (945 words)

  
 Drake
+Samuel Skinner b: ABT 1755 in Woodbridge, Middlesex, New Jersey m: July 6, 1780 in Bedford Co, Pennsylvania d: August 25, 1825 in Perry Co. Ohio -bur.
15 Agnes Skinner b: October 4, 1789 in Lower Turketfoot Township, Smrst.
15 Samuel Skinner b: ABT 1797 in Lower Turketfoot Township, Smrst.
www.hctc.com /~emoyle/drake.htm   (3607 words)

  
 "The Simpsons" The Crepes of Wrath (1990)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Plot Outline: Bart flushes a cherry bomb at school, nearly injuring Principal Skinner's mother, Agnes, in the process.
An exasperated Skinner tells Homer and Marge that since expulsion would not do Bart any good, he's placing him in a foreign-exchange student program.
Bart is sent to France, where his host family are unethical winemakers who plan to employ him as a slave.
imdb.com /title/tt0701232   (222 words)

  
 Movie-Vault.com :: Over 2000 Reviews and Counting...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Tress MacNeille is synonymous with Principle Skinner’s mother Agnes in The Simpsons, and makes no attempt to hide that fact as Shige.
Although grandma Yamada shares similar characteristics with Agnes Skinner, particularly her penchant for obstinacy, both women are still two different persons.
Shige is just as direct and stubborn as Agnes, but is less cranky and clearly shows more patience in family relations.
www.movie-vault.com /reviews/mBfAMQbBwGJXCmaO   (1239 words)

  
 eBay.co.uk - agnes, agnes b, Postcards, Women's Clothing items at low prices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
AGNES B SILK and CASHMERE PURPLE RIBBED CARDIGAN Size 3
John Fred and his Playboy Band LP Agnes English nMINT m
The Eve of St Agnes - Millais - LARGE 24" CANVAS !!
search.ebay.co.uk /agnes_W0QQfrtsZ50QQfsooZ1QQfsopZ3   (205 words)

  
 TSP >> Les Pages Blanches - Lettre S
- Elle est la mère du principal Skinner.
- Elle a porté Skinner pendant 9 mois et 2 semaines parce qu'une fois sorti de son ventre il y est retourné 2 semaines supplémentaires.
- Elle trouve que Skinner a des mains de chimpanzé.
www.simpsonspark.com /wp/wp_s2.php   (2283 words)

  
 Simpsons Characters: The ultimate fluff Thread - Page 6 - Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
I don't think any of her quotes are appropriate for a family friendly board!
Skinner: I'm not principal of the line, mother.
(And remember Skinner calling the 'Listen Lady' - "Mother's gone too far this time.
www.bautforum.com /showthread.php?p=293024#post293024   (1021 words)

  
 "Grade School Confidential"! - Fun Facts, Questions, Answers, Information
Well, I..." Skinner (overhearing): "Good gravy!" Worker: "Oh, thank you!
Agnes: "I collect pictures of cakes that I clip out of the magazines.
It is revealed in this episode that Chief Wiggum's wife is named...
www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/Grade-School-Confidential-122070.html   (397 words)

  
 Comic Book Guy and friends
I've gone through the trouble of downloading them from Napster for this special section, so the least you could do is listen to them."
Wiggum, Lou and Eddie bust in on CBG while in bed with Agnes
CBG shows up at Skinner's house for his first date with Agnes Skinner
www.angelfire.com /geek/comicbookguy/sounds.html   (151 words)

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