Mrs. CrumpleBottom

Mrs. Crumplebottom


Biography
Appearance in The Sims 2 Nightlife'
Name	Mrs. Crumplebottom
Gender	Female
Age	Elder
Life state	Sim

Crumplebottom Family
Parents	Unknown

Personality

Zodiac sign	Scorpio
Aspiration	Family

Appearance
Hair color	Grey
Eye color	Light Blue
Skin color	Medium
Body shape	Thin

Other Information
Game	The Sims 2: Nightlife
Playability	NPC
Neighborhood	Downtown

Not to be confused with Miss 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.^[1] It has been revealed that Agnes Crumplebottom was Miss Crumplebottom from The Sims: Hot Date.^[2].

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 have 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 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, so be careful of what you do in front of her.

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:

Don't go Downtown. Sims 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 go on to private property without the use of cheats, so Sims can show love as much as they want without being beaten with a purse, slapped, or yelled at. This will also save money because they don't need to buy a car, call a taxi, or build a garage. This is not always the best choice, especially if a Sim wants to go out.
If you do visit Downtown, take your date to a bowling alley, a nightclub with a bar, or a lot with at least one poker table. Although Mrs. Crumplebottom is mean and cranky, she still likes fun as well as drinks. Sims can be WooHooing right in front of her and she won't care as long as she is bowling, drinking or playing poker. See the Distractions section below.
Cancel her action before she can complete it. She is an old woman, so she is slow. While she is walking toward your Sim(s), X out her action by clicking on it. It is a picture of her at the top left corner. Many experienced Simmers know this. If she is running toward them, pause the game and X out her action. Try to overwrite it by making the Sim(s) to something else like talk to each other. She will still yell at them, but they won't notice because of the action they are doing at the moment.
Use boolProp TestingCheatsEnabled true, then use force error on her. This cheat can be used to delete her from the lot. This has worked, though it is unknown if it will cause glitches or corruptions in the game. Unfortunately, doing that doesn't ensure she won't come back.
Have a date on a community lot located in the main neighbourhood. Special Sims introduced with the Nightlife EP (namely: vampires and Mrs. Crumplebottom) appear Downtown only. So, if there is a club or a public swimming pool in the main neighbourhood, she won't appear.
Use mods specifically designed to do such a thing. There is one on ModTheSims 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 plays poker on a lot that has a poker table and she will play forever unless she is interrupted, this is because she has no motive decay and can be useful for the player to have a date there.

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, in which 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 testingcheatsenabled to load her into a lot, she will eventually leave. It is possible that she might leave with a pop up message that says that you invited her and that it is too 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!

Warning

Do not, under any circumstances, attempt to add Mrs. Crumplebottom to a 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.