Mrs. CrumpleBottom

Mrs. Crumplebottom is an elderly NPC sim-woman featured in The Sims: Hot Date and The Sims 2: Nightlife. She frequents Downtown lots in both games, and is usually considered an obstacle in the lives of Sims.

Personality
Mrs. Crumplebottom is a very old-fashioned, stern, and strict woman who appears to abide by a moral code from the late-1800s. She detests when two Sims do any romantic interactions in public, including hugging, kissing, and flirting. When Mrs. Crumplebottom sees any of these actions taking place on a community lot, she will promptly scold the Sims, smack them, or worst of all, beat them with her purse! If a Sim innocently wanders out in underwear or bathing suit, Crumplebottom will lecture him until he changes back into his everyday clothes.

Appearance
Mrs. Crumplebottom almost always wears her signature outfit. This includes a long, straight, dress with a button-up overcoat, along with tight shoes, pearls, a pillbox-hat with a small daisy pinned on, a tight bun, and her large, dark purse. Her dress is a tan/cream color.

Personal Life
One question that is often wondered by inquisitive simmers is "If her name is Mrs. Crumplebottom, then who was her husband?" There are many rumors around the community, and here are some of the most prominent:


 * She was married to the famous puppeteer, Robert Crumplebottom (mentioned in The Sims: Hot Date).
 * She was married to the founder of SimCity/Downtown.
 * She was married to a rich Sim who put a lot of money into the community, and she feels that she runs the town because of it.
 * She was married to a Sim who was crushed by a chandelier, and afterward despised love forever because of the tragic incident.
 * Also it is rumored that she is married to the Grim Reaper. That's why she's still alive, he made her immortal.
 * She was never married. No man would take her because of her grouchy self. She hits people with her purse from pure envy.

Relation to the Crumplebottom Line


Due to the same family name as Mortimer Goth's maternal relatives, it has been proposed that Mrs. Crumplebottom is a relative of Mortimer. It is sometimes said that she is a distant cousin, though many believe she is Prudence Crumplebottom because of her similar appearance and the fact that Prudence's grave cannot be found in the Goth Family Graveyard. It is also possible that she is Prudence's sister or cousin.

There is also some speculation that Agnes Crumplebottom (Prudence's daughter) could also resemble Mrs. Crumplebottom, although she never married. But some nights if you are playing the Goths Agnes' ghost appears from the tombstone.

Mrs. Crumplebottom's niece, Elmira Clamp, appears in MySims for Wii as a strict Librarian. This proves that Mrs. Crumplebottom had/has a sibling.



Distractions
If you have the Bon Voyage expansion pack installed in the game, a new character is introduced. The Unsavory Charlatan, a venturing scam artist, just seems to be attracted to sweet 'ol Mrs. Crumplebottom and if you are lucky enough to have both of these characters in the same lot he will try to have his way with her and serenade the "sweet" old lady. Sometimes it will work or sometimes he'll end up being beat by one of Mrs. Crumplebottom's famous purse-whippings. Now, how does this help you? It might give you some time to finish up in the lot and head home to safety.

She loves bowling more then she hates love, so you are safe in bowling alleys. She will play a game and never stop.

The Sims 3
A trailer shows that she will make an appearance in The Sims 3. Producers have also confirmed this but with Pleasant Valley being a prequel neighbourhood to the original Sims 1 we may be seeing a younger Mrs. Crumplebottom. 

Player stories

 * When I hadn't installed nightlife, and had just come across the boolprop testingcheatsenabled true cheat, I got up the tombstone of L & D, normal, YOU may think ,but no!Click on the stone and where it says add a neighbor to the family, after scrolling through for someone I'd heard of, I found Mrs. CrumpleBottom.(You must remember that I didn't have nightlife installed, so Mrs. CrumpleBottom, still had a stern face but was bald and wore a funny top, with black bottoms! I made her lovey dovey with Don Lothario, but a message came up on the screen saying she couldn't, but the message was too late, so there was Mrs. CrumpleBottom making out with none other than Don Lothario! I checked her memories but nothing was there apart from meeting new people, most of which were sims that I had made up. Her aspiration was family, and her (as you could imagine) ranking was at it's lowest.


 * I used the testingcheatsenabled cheat to delete her. she's so bothersome and really knows how to ruin a date.
 * I don`t have Nightlife installed, so anyway, i entered the boolprop cheat, pressed spawn...tombstone of L & D. Next, i pressed add neighbor to family...Mrs. Crumplebottom!!! Although, she came and still had her stern looking face.. She had a bald head an an athletic outfit! weird... Oh and yes, there is a clear resemblance between Prudence Crumplebottom and Mrs. Crumplebottom.


 * Just a little warning to those of you with expansion packs... Do NOT turn Miss Crumplebottom into a Vampire, Werewolf, Witch, etc... Miss Crumplebottom is not actually a Sim, she was designed as an object! That is why you cannot befriend or marry her. If you mess with her programming, it will mess up your entire game and you will most likely have to uninstall and reinstall.


 * I killed Mrs. Crumplebottom :)


 * My friend married her i heard rumors she KILLED her husband and had kids who got married 2 each other and became the Goths


 * When my sim made a wish for romance at a wishing well and it failed, She CLIMBED OUT OF THE WELL to beat my sim up with her purse and attack another sim.


 * My werewolves howled at the same time while she was at the bar in FM. Along with every pleasantview townie who always fights with your sims, she pissed herself twice before she had a chance to leave.


 * On the original Sims in my story I had a woman walk around downtown to look for a husband. At a magazine store all of a sudden one of my gay couples that I made started making out in the nearest aisle, it didn't take long for Ms. Crumplebottom to walk by and beat them with her purse. She must be homophobic too xD.


 * I was trying my new cheats, "boolprop testingcheatsenabled on".Then unpurposely, I spawn Mrs.Crumplebottom. Then I try to make her lost but it's hard!Then I add her as a family and then I use my computer and then FIND OWN PLACE and leave her.SHE REALLY SCARY U KNOW!!I can't do a woohoo things(That I love~!)


 * With the boolprop cheat, I made her get abducted by aliens. Result? She won't let go of her purse, even though she is trapped in the alien's tractor beam. I recorded the footage and uploaded it to YouTube. Boy, the video did gain popularity! Many people hate her, just like Chris Crocker!


 * I can recall during the Sims 1 days, there was a hack that could turn Miss Crumplebottom into Reese Witherspoon from Legally Blonde. So, giving it a shot and following the instructions I load up the Downtown area, and to my surprise there she was her hair blonde, wearing all pink and her purse matching too. Unfortunately she still was whacking sims with her purse, only this time she looked extra funny smacking that pink purse. :)