Thread:Rob Sieger/@comment-43440245-20190809025310

I was trying to imptove the Baby Gerald article but was disallowed as my edits were somehow viewed as "harmful". The following is the draft of my edits, which I believe provides a narrative that is more accurate than the one currently existing. Thanks.

Gerald and Maggie were born on the same day. As the service in Springfield hospital is always horrible, there was only one diaper left and it was given to Maggie. Gerald was wrapped in the discount section of the local newspapers, to his parents' apparent indifference, causing Gerald to develop a bad rash which has never disappeared. Since then, he has blamed Maggie for everything bad that has happened to him.

Once they meet each other, Maggie and Gerald angrily glare at each other. The two were seen fighting in the infamous Springfield St. Patrick's Day riots. They also shake their fists at each other in the supermarket during the new Simpsons sequence. Homer often mistakes Gerald for Maggie, although the two look nothing alike. Gerald was once rescued by Bart's new dog, Laddie, from an unspecified disaster. As Mayor Quimby later told Gerald, "Baby Gerald, we can't help but wonder what mischief you'll get into next."

When Marge started a daycare center, Gerald was one of the babies that she was looking after. During the day, Gerald blamed Maggie for everything he had done, including thing pencils on Marge, spilling Maggie's milk and breaking the lamp. As Marge who didn't suspect anything was rebuking Maggie, Gerald offered to help with cleaning the mess and therefore he got a special reward from Marge. His manipulation eventually led unhappy Maggie to run away from home.

According to some future non-canonical episodes, Maggie and Gerald stopped being enemies, dated, got married, and may have had a baby together, although the last is not certain as there are indications the marriage did not go well due to Gerald constantly interrupting his wife and it is not known whether Gerald fathered Maggie's baby (Margaret Evelyn Simpson Jr.), who looks exactly the same as Lisa and Maggie did when they were born.

The Longest Daycare
Gerald was Maggie's main antagonist for the short The Longest Daycare. His goal is to smash up every butterfly he sees with the mallet he usually carries and add it to his collection by drawing a square around every one he smashes like a painting. He smashes two in her presence and chases Maggie after she finds and protects a pubescent chrysalis (former caterpillar). She manages to evade him until he sees her apparently set the creature free through a window. Gerald slams the blinds down on what appears to be the chryalis. However, it is revealed, to his dismay, that it is actually Maggie's blue beret, which she removed from her hair and pretended was the chrysalis. She actually held the chrysalis in one of her hands and throws it from the window of the car as her mother drives home and a beautiful blue butterly emerges and flies away, to her awe.  