Fern Stapleton

Fern Stapleton is a recurring villain from the FOX animated sitcom, The Cleveland Show. She is a realtor who lives in Stoolbend. She's very wealthy and condescending to those who are lower than her, especially Donna. She's also got some deep-rooted racist beliefs, as shown in the episode, "The Blue, The Gray, and The Brown", when she was seen supporting B. Emerson Plunkett V and his decision to keep a statue of his racist, slavedriving owner up in the Stoolbend public park.

She chairs at numerous charity donations, not because she actually cares for the causes she's trying to fight for, but because her unbridled egotism, begging for people to see her in a positive light.

She is the mother of Kyle and Lacey Stapleton. Two other villainous, egotistical children.

She was voiced by Kristen Wiig for seasons 1 and 2, and then by Beth Littleford in seasons 3 and 4.

Biography
In "The Curious Case of Jr. Working at the Stool", she led a charity foundation called Caucasian Heroes Offering Dollars Everywhere, (C.H.O.D.E.) which was done solely to give herself a good image and not even for the sake of those, she was trying to help. When Roberta one-upped her by bringing Rallo there, (who was posing as an adopted African child), she felt defeat, despite having succeeded at helping out kids in need.

In "The Blue, The Gray, and The Brown", she was seen at B. Emerson Plunkett V's dinner party, as one of the extravagant, high-class citizens, who supported the movement to keep the statue of B. Emerson Plunkett up for public display. She knew the reason it was about to be torn down was because the man it depicted was a racist, slaveowner, and his archaic legacy was being continued on. She then joined the other racist members of Stoolbend, when they sang the racist town anthem.

In "BFFs", she antagonized Donna for having a smarter kid than hers. She'd constantly brag about Kyle being far superior to Rallo. Fern gave some backstory to her life, when she lashed out at another woman for stealing her husband, which may be justifying of her cruel behavior.

In "Who Done Did It?", she got into a bidding war with Lydia Waterman and lost. She then taunted her, by putting peanut brittle in her face, when she knew she was deathly allergic to peanuts. Naturally, she was one of the suspects when Lydia Waterman died. She was proven innocent, when she admitted to visiting her sister, Nancy Jean, at that time, but it did turn out that she was robbed, while she was away, presumably by the real killer.

Trivia

 * FOX Promotional images of Fern depicted her with orange hair, when in the show, her hair is blonde.