Editing Elizabeth Hoover

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| name        = Elizabeth Hoover
| series      = [[The Simpsons]]
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| voice       = [[Maggie Roswell]]
| gender      = Female 
| occupation  = Teacher
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'''Elizabeth Hoover''' is a second grade teacher at Springfield Elementary, voiced by [[Maggie Roswell]] and [[Marcia Mitzman Gaven]] while Roswell was involved in a pay dispute. Miss Hoover has been worn down by her years in the public school system, and in "[[Lisa Gets an "A"]]" implies that she frequently drinks during lunch. In the episode "[[Lisa's Substitute]]", she thought she had [[lyme disease]]. She is very apathetic and bored with her job. She is often seen smoking even while teaching, once even under a "No Smoking" sign in the assembly hall. Her desperate attempts to regain her stability include rushing out of class to recite "Calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean" with her eyes closed, getting into her car and driving off on two occasions, and even letting [[Ralph Wiggum|Ralph]] teach the class after she was granted tenure and therefore free to do almost anything she wants.

Miss Hoover is not against drinking significant quantities of [[alcohol]]. She seems overwhelmed with stress, seeking whatever remedies she can to alleviate it. She is often seen smoking even while teaching, once even under a "No Smoking" sign in the assembly hall. Her desperate attempts to regain her stability include rushing out of class to recite "Calm blue ocean, calm blue ocean" with her eyes closed, and even, on one occasion, getting into her car and driving off. 

She is in particular weary of dealing with [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]]'s unbridled enthusiasm (though initially she seemed proud of Lisa) and [[Ralph Wiggum|Ralph]]'s mishaps and inanities. A typical response to one of his difficulties is, "The children are right to laugh at you, Ralph." She was replaced by a substitute teacher, Mr. Bergstrom, (voiced by [[Dustin Hoffman]], under the pseudonym Sam Etic) when she thought she had [[Lyme disease]]. It turned out that her condition was [[psychosomatic]], which, the children thought that meant that she was both "faking it" and "crazy." At the begining of the series, her hair was blue.

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