It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge

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The Simpsons episode
"It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge"
Episode no.	247
Prod. code	BABF18
Orig. airdate	May 14, 2000
Show runner(s)	Mike Scully
Written by	Larry Doyle
Directed by	Steven Dean Moore
Chalkboard	"I cannot hire a substitute student."
Couch gag	The Simpsons are blank paint-by-numbers figures; Asian animators come in and color the family, but don’t detail their eyes.
Guest star(s)	Parker Posey as Becky
Season 11 September 26, 1999 – May 21, 2000
"Beyond Blunderdome" "Brother's Little Helper" "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?" "Treehouse of Horror X" "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder" "Eight Misbehavin'" "Take My Wife, Sleaze" "Grift of the Magi" "Little Big Mom" "Faith Off" "The Mansion Family" "Saddlesore Galactica" "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily" "Missionary: Impossible" "Pygmoelian" "Bart to the Future" "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" "Kill the Alligator and Run" "Last Tap Dance in Springfield" "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" "Behind the Laughter"
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"It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" is the twenty-first episode of the eleventh season of The Simpsons. It aired on May 14, 2000.

Contents 1 Plot 2 Cultural references 3 Trivia 4 External links

[edit] Plot

Each child in Bart’s class is loaned a video camera for a school project to create a movie. Otto drives the school bus to the drive through where his girlfriend, Becky, works. While hoisting a boombox, he blasts Every Rose Has Its Thorn and proposes. She accepts. On Bart’s suggestion, they decide to have the wedding at the Simpson house and sends out flyers. Marge reluctantly agrees, since she still has everything from Apu's wedding. The wedding is a success up until the point when Otto gets a Poison tribute band to play Nothing but a Good Time. Becky admits to Marge that she hates heavy metal music. At the wedding, Marge suggests to Becky that she gives Otto an ultimatum: it is either her or heavy metal. The wedding is called off as Otto drives off in the school bus with the band. The wedding guests then return the wedding gifts.

Becky stays with the Simpson family, due to the fact that Marge ruined another wedding. Marge consoles her, but begins to worry that her family likes Becky more than her. Eventually, she becomes paranoid that Becky is trying to kill her after her car would not stop on a steep road. Chief Wiggum cannot help her. Becky and the rest of the family meet without Marge at an ice cream parlour, and Becky tells everyone that she has found a new apartment and is moving out. After she buys a large bowl of ice cream, Homer passes out. Becky gives him mouth-to-mouth but Marge comes in thinking she is kissing him. She grabs a cone and smashes it like a glass bottle to attack Becky. She is arrested and declared insane. She then escapes from the courtroom and becomes a notorious fugitive and butt of jokes. When she goes to the library to see who Becky really is, she realises that she is insane after finding nothing bad about her. Finally, she returns home, only to find Homer tied up in what looks like an S & M tableau, Lisa's arms and legs stuck to the wall, Maggie stuck in a cage, and Becky holding a knife in her hands. When she is about to "kill" Homer, Marge snatches the knife from her and strangles her. It turns out that Bart is filming a scene in his movie, but Becky admits she was going to kill Marge and steal her family, but she had no shovel. After looking for a good shovel, she called it off. It is also revealed that while Homer was fixing Marge's car, he accidentally drained the brake fluid. The doctors show up and shoot a dart into Marge's neck, which does not take effect. Homer finally shoots a dart into her to make her fall asleep after she orders Homer to do scrubbing and mopping.

[edit] Cultural references

• The title is a parody of the film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.
• The plot is a parody of the film The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, and even Patty and Selma mention the title at one point.
• Krusty's interview scene is a spoof of the "Celebrity Interviews" skit on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Also, the Mad Marge Dancers (dancing to Sabre Dance) references the Dancing Lance Itos from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
• Homer sings an alteration of David Bowie's song: Changes (Homer: "Ch-ch-ch-changes! Time to change the oil! Changes! Don't want to be an oily man...").

[edit] Trivia

• Otto has made wedding invitations from cigarette papers - "Homer, look, we're invited to Otto's wedding! Ooh, and such delicate tissue paper. [squinting] Eh? Zigzag?"
• Dr. Zweig from Fear of Flying returns as one of Marge's judges, but is no longer voiced by Anne Bancroft.^{[citation needed]}
• The cartoonists in the couch gag are all Asian
• One of Bart's classmates drops his video camera and says D'Oh!
• Becky's name appears to be a reference to The Hand That Rocks the Cradle star Rebecca DeMornay.
• Oddly, the orange station wagon has a "Brakes Cut" line.

[edit] External links

• "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" episode capsule at The Simpsons Archive
• "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" at the Internet Movie Database