My Big Fat Geek Wedding
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| The Simpsons episode | |
| "My Big Fat Geek Wedding" | |
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| Episode no. | 330 |
| Prod. code | FABF12 |
| Orig. Airdate | April 18, 2004 |
| Written by | Kevin Curran |
| Directed by | Mark Kirkland |
| Chalkboard | None |
| Couch gag | The family enters through a Play-Doh Fun Factory and each member is a different color. |
| Guest star | Matt Groening as himself, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel. |
| Season 15 November 2, 2003 – May 23, 2004 |
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"My Big Fat Geek Wedding" is the 17th episode of The Simpsons' fifteenth season, first aired on April 18, 2004. The episode was originally planned to air on April 4, 2004, but due to the voice actors going on strike, FOX aired a rerun instead.
[edit] Synopsis
Love is in the air when Principal Seymour Skinner and Edna Krabappel are finally getting married. They each have their bachelor party, with Mrs. Krabappel having hers at the Simpson house with Duffman and a topless Chief Wiggum as strippers, and Principal Skinner having his at Moe's with Homer. However, at his party, Skinner admits that he has doubts about marrying Mrs. Krabappel. When the wedding is held at Springfield Elementary's gymnasium, Edna learns that Skinner does not want to marry her, and runs away from the ceremony. The wedding is called off.
After it is called off, Homer and Marge try to get Skinner and Krabappel to be engaged again, but it is halted by Homer and Marge's own marriage problems. Mrs. Krabappel returns a wedding gift to the Comic Book Guy, and she finds him to be an interesting man. Homer gets Skinner to serenade Krabappel using a band made up of Bart, Milhouse, and Martin, but that fails when he learns that the Comic Book Guy and Krabappel are in love. The family visits the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con to confront Comic Book Guy, who proposes to marry Krabappel after the family sees Futurama and the Simpsons creator Matt Groening. Skinner, dressed up as Catwoman, battles the Comic Book Guy. Krabappel interrupts their fight to declare that she has no interest in either man. Later, at the Simpson house, Homer asks Marge to remarry him, by which she does in a mock Klingon wedding.
[edit] Trivia
- After Bart, his friends, and Skinner sing their song, a Superman tattoo can be seen on Comic Book Guy's butt when he turns around.
- One interesting note is that it states Futurama is a fictional series in the Simpsons universe. Previously, it had been stated that The Simpsons is a fictional series in Futurama's world, when Bender finds a large stack of Bart Simpson dolls on a giant meteorite made of trash. In this episode, Milhouse is seen with a Bender doll in tow. Also, there have been two crossover stories between the series in comic form - however, these seem to exist in separate continuities. This creates a rather interesting double negative.
- When Groundskeeper Willie is mowing the lawn and drives over the ball Nelson kicked, he is clearly whistling the theme song of The Lord of the Rings.
- The wedding altar in Multi-Purpose Room B is adorned with four letters from the Klingon writing system pIqaD. When transliterated into romanized Klingon they read love, although this is not an original Klingon word.
- During the zoom out when the Simpsons arrived to the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con, there are three Boba Fett, all standing in the same pose.
[edit] Cultural references
- The title is a play on the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
- The Catwoman costume Skinner uses looks like the one from Batman Returns.
- At one point in the episode, Barney speaks to an imaginary life-sized rabbit, a likely reference to the Mary Chase play Harvey, and the movie Donnie Darko.
- The song that Bart, his friends, and Seymour Skinner sing to try to win Edna's heart back is a parody of Solomon Linda/The Tokens' hit The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
- The tune that Willie is murdering on the bagpipes at the wedding is Pachelbel's Canon.
