Someone Has Calculated How Often Female Characters Actually Speak on 'The Simpsons'

he Simpsons is easily one of the most hilarious and groundbreaking television shows ever created. 

Now, after pulling scripts over the past 27 years from Simpsons World, developer Todd W. Schneider found that the differences in the amount of dialogue between the genders is dramatic.

In a blog post published on his site, he breaks down his exact findings in helpful visual charts.

“Women account for 25% of the dialogue on The Simpsons, including Marge and Lisa, two of the show’s main characters," - so to begin with, females are only speaking a quarter of the time. However, it gets even more interesting...

It turns out, the number of supporting characters in the show that are women is extremely limited. Only five out of the top fifty supporting characters are females.

Which, of course, means that there’s an insanely small amount of female dialogue once Marge and Lisa are taken out of the equation.

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Furthermore, nine out of the ten writers are male, too.

We wonder whether it would be different had there been more female writers? Who knows.

Read the full blog here.