Mrs. CrumpleBottom

Mrs. CrumpleBottom is an elderly NPC Sim-woman featured in The Sims 2 Nightlife. She frequents Downtown lots and is usually considered an obstacle in the lives of Sims.

The CrumpleBottoms from The Sims: Hot Date and The Sims 2 Nightlife are not actually the same Sim, but distant relatives. It has been revealed that Agnes Crumplebottom was Miss CrumpleBottom from The Sims: Hot Date.

Personality
Mrs. Crumplebottom is a very old-fashioned, stern, and strict woman who appears to abide by a moral code from the Victorian Era. She detests when two Sims do any romantic interactions in public. When Mrs. CrumpleBottom sees any of these actions taking place on a community lot, she will promptly scold the Sims, smack them, or beat them with her purse. If a Sim innocently wanders out in his/her underwear or bathing suit, Mrs. Crumplebottom will lecture him/her until he/she changes back into his/her everyday clothes. For this reason, you do not want to make a public pool as a Downtown lot.

Dear old Mrs. CrumpleBottom is also impossible to change. If one welcomes her into his/her home through use of cheats, namely testingcheatsenabled, and try to use the Sim Modder, her behavior will not change in the least. Even with full niceness, she will still reprimand Sims for showing affection, showing too much skin, or slacking off.

Mrs. CrumpleBottom may not even be a Sim in the strictest sense of the word. Upon being bit by a vampire, Mrs. CrumpleBottom has the same stricken gesture as any other bitten Sim, however she does not convert and remains the same as if she were immune to the bite. It is believed that this is because of the game treating her as an object instead of a character.

If the player has The Sims 2 Seasons expansion pack, if a Sim wishes for Romance into a wishing well, There is a 50% chance that Mrs. CrumpleBottom will crawl out of the well and hit the Sim with her purse. (Perhaps a reference to the horror movie The Ring.)

Preventing the Purse
So far, there are six (known) ways to avoid Mrs. CrumpleBottom:
 * 1) Don't go out. You don't have to go out for a date. A nice cozy night in sounds just as good as a night out. Mrs. CrumpleBottom can't come on to private property, (unless you cheat her on, which you don't want to do) so your Sims can show love as much as they want without being beaten with a purse, slapped, or yelled at. This will also save you money because you don't need to buy a car, call a taxi, or build a garage. This does not sound like the best choice, especially if your Sim's want is to go out.
 * 2) Go to a bowling alley or bar for a date or romantic outing. Although Mrs. CrumpleBottom is mean and cranky, she still likes fun as well as drinks. Your Sims can be WooHooing right in front of her and she wouldn't care as long as she was bowling or drinking. (Or even better, bowling and drinking). Look at Distractions article below.
 * 3) Cancel her action before she can complete it. She is an old woman, so she is slow. While she is walking to your Sim(s), X out her action by clicking on it. It is a picture of her at the top left corner. If she is running toward your Sim(s), pause the game and X out her action. Try to overwrite it by making the Sim(s) to something else like talking to each other or something like that. She will still yell at your Sim(s), but they won't know because of the action they are doing at the moment. Look at Experiences article above.
 * 4) Use boolprop TestingcheatsEnabled true, then use force error on her. That will let you delete her from the lot. This has worked, though it is unknown if it will cause glitches or corruptions.
 * 5) Have a date on a community lot located in your main neighbourhood. Special sims introduced with the Nightlife EP (namely: vampires and Mrs. Crumplebottom) appear downtown only. So, if you have a club or a public swimming pool in the main neighbourhood, she won't bother you.
 * 6) Use mods specifically designed to do such a thing. There is one on modthesims2 that does this. It doesn't appear to do anything bad, and it gets rid of her.

Distractions
She loves bowling more than she hates love, so romantic Sims are safe in bowling alleys. She will play a game of bowling and never stop.

She also loves to drink; if a Sim is working at a bar, she would be his/her best customer.

If the player has 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 both of these characters are 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. These ridiculous interactions may give the player some time to finish up in the lot and head home to safety.

Also, if the player uses boolprop to load her into a lot, she will never leave. It is possible that she might leave with a pop up message that says that you invited her and that it is to late after a few nights. Mrs. CrumpleBottom is possibly nothing but a decorative object, and the only way by deleting her is by force erroring her or deleting her with moveobjects. The player can use one of the distractions to make sure she doesn't pester His/Her Sim!

Do not, under any circumstances, attempt to add Mrs. CrumpleBottom to the family or try to turn her into a supernatural creature, such as a vampire, a werewolf or a witch: due to the unique nature of this NPC doing so will, in most cases, result in a corrupted game.

Clothing
Mrs. CrumpleBottom almost always wears her signature outfit. This includes a long, straight "Appe 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 tanned cream color. Her hair is grey and is always tied in a very tight bun. Her hair and outfit are unavailable for female elders without the testingcheatsenabled cheat.

MySims Cameo
In the spin-off game, MySims, Mrs. CrumpleBottom makes a cameo as a costume. There is a dress that resembles her's along with a hat with hair in a bun like hers. There are also eyes that look like those of an elderly person along with a craggy mouth. Elmira Clamp is also the niece of Mrs. Crumplebottom and appears to have adopted a somewhat similar personality partially due to being babysat by her.

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 and philanthropist, Robert CrumpleBottom (mentioned in The Sims: Hot Date and The Sims: Vacation). During his Winter Charity Event, a chandelier dropped full two stories and ending his short, yet inspiring life. His demise could have made Mrs. Crumplebottom very sad, and made her very, very very, VERY cranky.
 * 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.

Trivia

 * Mrs. CrumpleBottom is the head of the Old Town Senior Citizens Tour Group (as mentioned in a Medical career track chance card). She is also the main investor of Landgraab Industries (mentioned in a Business career chance card).


 * When editing in SimPE her gender is checked off as Male. This is the same with the Hula Zombie.