A producer from The Simpsons has confirmed that another long time character is now officially dead. The show has been around since December 1989 and with more than seven hundred eighty episodes, it is normal that some characters leave the story over time. The show even showed Marge dying in a flash forward in the season thirty six finale, but the producers later explained that it was not real and does not count in the actual story.

But this new death is real. The character is Alice Glick. She was an older woman who played the organ at the Church of Springfield. She first appeared in season two in an episode called Three Men and a Comic Book back in 1991. She was originally voiced by Cloris Leachman and later by Tress MacNeille. In her first episode, Bart tried to earn money from her to buy a comic book, but she barely paid him so he quickly started to dislike her.

Alice has appeared in many episodes over the years as a familiar face in Springfield. In the newest episode that aired on Sunday sixteen November, Alice suddenly collapsed onto the piano and died during Reverend Lovejoy’s sermon. Later in the episode, it was revealed that she left her estate to Springfield Elementary to support its music program.

Some fans were confused though. Alice had already been shown “dying” once before in season twenty two thanks to a wild Robopet. But she kept popping up again afterwards both as a ghost and as a living character, which made viewers unsure about what was real this time.

Executive producer Tim Long cleared it up. He said that her music will live on forever, but in reality she is definitely gone now. His exact words were that she is dead as a doornail.

Fans reacted online with shock and sadness. One viewer wrote that The Simpsons seems to be killing off everyone. Another pointed out that Alice Glick has now died again in season thirty seven episode seven. Someone else simply said that she is dead again.