Mervin Monroe - Helen Lovejoy

For the rhetorical appeal to children's interests, see Children's interests (rhetoric).

Helen Lovejoy (née Schwartzbaum), voiced by Maggie Roswell and Marcia Mitzman Gaven, is Rev. Lovejoy’s judgmental and gossipy wife, and the mother of Jessica Lovejoy. She introduced herself in the episode "Life on the Fast Lane" as "the gossipy wife of the minister." Her catchphrase is "What about the children?! Won't somebody please think of the children!?" which she always says among a crowd when something bad is happening in the city. In "Wedding for Disaster", the parson who tells Reverend Lovejoy that his license expired implies that Helen Lovejoy is actually a male-to-female transsexual who used to be named Harry Schwartzbaum (though, if it were true, then Helen would not have been able to give birth to her daughter, Jessica). In E Pluribus Wiggum, it's revealed that Helen is a Republican (she is seen at the Springfield Republican meeting, which takes place in a scary castle atop a hill). In the "Treehouse of Horror XX" story, "Don't Have a Cow, Mankind," Marge appointed Ms. Lovejoy as Lisa's godmother.