Biography
Both Patty and Selma are noted for their raspy voices and their fondness for cigarettes. The two possess a strong, mutually reciprocated dislike for Homer. Unlike Homer, who usually tries to be polite to his sisters-in-law out of respect for Marge, Patty and Selma have no hesitation about treating Homer with open rudeness and disdain. On several occasions, they do not seem to care even when Homer faced a life-threatening situation; for instance, upon discovering via a telephone call that Homer had suffered a heart attack, the two continued cutting coupons as though nothing were wrong, expressing more shock at a five cent discount on wax paper. The two attempt to set Marge up with a sleazy man named Andre as a replacement for Homer, despite the fact that Homer was still alive. Shortly after Marge's wedding the two bought a tombstone inscribed with the epitaph "Homer J. Simpson. We are richer for having lost him." The same episode reveals that they use the tombstone as a coffee table.
They share an apartment at the Spinster City apartment complex and both work at the DMV. There have been several occasions where they've acted unprofessionally in the course of their jobs, usually when Homer is involved; they've given stoner Otto Mann a driver's license due to their mutual dislike for Homer, deliberately failed Homer to make him feel like a failure (although he did actually fail the test), and ignored applicants at their workstation when they laughed at Homer through their video surveillance camera after kidnapping him. Patty and Selma are very cynical. According to Marge, the two have very brittle necks. The two are avid, sometimes maniacal fans of the TV series, MacGyver, even getting the chance to star in their own subplot with Richard Dean Anderson (the actor who played the title character) in "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore". The two seem to be aroused by the character, taking cigarettes after every viewing of the show. In "A Star Is Burns", guest-star Jay Sherman, on advice from Homer, tells them MacGyver is gay; as a result, they stripped him to his boxers and hung him from the gutters. Prior to Selma's marriage with Sideshow Bob, he insulted MacGyver (describing an episode sarcastically as "that was a well-plotted piece of non-claptrap that never made me want to retch") and the wedding was almost canceled as a result. In "Simpson and Delilah", it is revealed that Patty and Selma both show some attraction to Homer for his newly-regained hair.
Patty and Selma are often shown to have gone on vacations and bringing back long dull slide shows or other activities; in "Treehouse of Horror VI", they bring a pillowcase full of seashells from their trip to Sulfur Bay for them and the family to clean and organize; in "The Wife Aquatic", they display a boring home video about Barnacle Bay; in "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore", they eventually drive away Richard Dean Anderson by showing him slides of their trip to the Remington Carriage Museum in Cardston, Alberta.
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