Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)
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| The Simpsons episode | |
| "Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair)" | |
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| Episode no. | 385 |
| Prod. code | HABF22 |
| Orig. Airdate | November 26, 2006 |
| Written by | Carolyn Omine |
| Directed by | Matthew Nastuk |
| Couch gag | The family members all have the bodies of cockroaches, and they scuttle off of the couch (except Maggie, who hides behind it). |
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| Season 18 September 10, 2006 – May 20, 2007 |
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*Not yet aired episode scheduled to air in the future. Episode order may change. |
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Ice Cream of Margie (With the Light Blue Hair) is the seventh episode of the eighteenth season of The Simpsons, which originally aired on November 26, 2006.
[edit] Synopsis
While watching Opal, Marge realizes that she has not done anything special in her life, and she falls into a deep, depressive funk. Meanwhile, Homer gets fired at the nuclear power plant after he runs after a nearby ice cream truck. When he buys an ice cream from the vendor, he pays with a $100 bill, causing the geriatric vendor to collapse while changing the bill into coins. Following the vendor's funeral, Homer offers to take over the ice cream truck business from the widow. Meanwhile a depressed Marge creates popsicle stick sculptures to keep busy. The sculptures quickly become popular and Marge is excited to have a purpose in life.
While reporting a car chase, Kent Brockman sees these sculptures and decides to do a report on it. Thanks to the TV publicity, Rich Texan creates an art show to showcase Marge's talent. On the day of the art show, Homer runs his ice cream route but promises to return by 3 o'clock, when Marge's show will officially open. While exploiting single fathers, Homer realizes that he's going to be late and speeds on an off beaten road to make it back in time. He ends up with a covered windshield and crashes into his own lawn, destroying all of Marge's art.
Marge declares that Homer only cares about himself and locks herself in the bedroom. Homer tries to prove his real feelings by slipping pictures of himself under the door, but falls asleep soon after. When he wakes up Marge is gone and Grandpa Abe is looking after the kids. While looking for Marge, he sees her on top of city hall, where she declares she will show the world how she feels about Homer. Then she reveals the largest popsicle sculpture she has ever made, and the subject is Homer (in his underwear). After mending their relationship the scene shifts 200 years into the future where that very sculpture is the only remaining element of Western art. The episode ends as iPods are shown whipping human slaves "because they like to".
[edit] Trivia
- Greta Wolfcastle can be seen (for the first time since "The Bart Wants What it Wants") with her father Rainier Wolfcastle buying ice cream.
[edit] Cultural references
- The title of this episode is a play on Stephen Foster's song "I Dream of Jeannie With the Light Brown Hair".
- Talk show host Opal is a parody of Oprah.
- The scene in which Homer dresses recreates the opening of Da Ali G Show.
- The revelation of the customized iced-cream truck is a parody of Pimp My Ride.
- The giant popsicle-stick statue of Homer is in the same pose as Michaelangelo's David.
- Marge's twin sister popsicle effigies riding motorcycles refer to the McCrary twins, who were the Guinness World Record "Fattest Twins".
- Comic Book Guy comments on the absence of a good Star Wars movie since the first one, bemoaning as well, the extensive use of CGI in the later re-releases.
- The song playing when Homer first starts his ice cream job is Money for Nothing by Dire Straits
- The song playing when Marge starts to do the Bart and Lisa sculptures, is Feels so Good by Chuck Mangione
- The music playing during the "pimped-out ride" scene is "Get Ur Freak On", by Missy Elliot.
