Large Marge
- "Large Marge" redirects here. For the film character, see Pee-wee's Big Adventure.
"Large Marge" is the fourth episode of The Simpsons' fourteenth season. The episode aired on November 24, 2002.
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[edit] Plot
Lisa and Homer make a bet on who won the 1948 presidential election. Lisa wins and she gets to choose the activity for Daddy-Daughter Day. Her activity is taking part in building homes for a Habitat for Humanity analog called Domiciles for the Destitute alongside Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and George H. W. Bush. While painting, Homer takes off his wedding ring in order not to get paint on it, and Lindsay Naegle and Cookie Kwan mistakenly think Homer is a bachelor. Marge, driving by, sees Homer appearing to flirt with the women (though he is actually acting out Marge going into labor when she was pregnant with Bart). She worries that Homer has lost interest in her, so she decides to get liposuction, on the advice of Manjula. Unfortunately, a mix-up causes her to get breast implants, which were intended for one of Mayor Quimby's female interns. The doctor says that Marge must wait for 48 hours before the implants can be removed. Marge is furious with the new implants, but the doctor is dismissive of her threat to have Homer "perform a little malpractice" on him.
Meanwhile, Bart and Milhouse watch an old episode of Batman, featuring Krusty as a villain named Clownface, who threatens the pair with a rapidly spinning carousel of death. Bart and Milhouse like the idea, inspiring them to recreate the stunt, with Bart putting Milhouse on a merry-go-round in school. Otto uses the bus to kick-start the merry-go-round, spinning it at an incredible speed. The bolts give way and the merry-go-round goes flying through the air, knocking over the school flag. Milhouse vomits on the flag while Iwo Jima veterans are visiting the school. As Principal Skinner catches Bart for it, Bart confessed that he and Milhouse saw Krusty do the stunt on TV, and in response, Skinner leads a group protesting against Krusty, who is now seen as a dangerous influence to children. Krusty’s show is revamped to exclude anything considered dangerous and imitable, even going so far as to return Mr. Teeny to the jungle.
After coming home from her surgery, Marge realizes that her very large breasts are making her life difficult in doing even the simplest tasks. Marge tries to hide her breasts from her family, but Homer and the kids find out Marge's secret after a few short hours. Homer, Marge and the kids go out for dinner to the local Italian restaurant. Luigi, who had just rejected Ned Flanders and his family, immediately admits the Simpson family after seeing Marge’s boobs. Kiki Highsmith, a trade show executive, approaches Marge and offers her a modeling job. Marge accepts and initially enjoys the experience, but later experiences back pain because of her heavy breasts. She also finds herself being ogled and pinched by every man in Springfield.
At the Springfield Shoe Expo, Marge is further humiliated and objectified by lustful men while promoting shoe horns. At the same time, Bart helps Krusty to win back his popularity, using Milhouse and Stampy, Bart's old pet elephant in a stunt. The stunt quickly goes out of control when Stampy stuffs Milhouse and Bart in his mouth. Homer tries to save them, but get stuffed into Stampy's mouth too. Krusty forgets the word that was supposed to make Stampy submit and lie down. The police decide to shoot at Stampy, which would endanger Homer, Bart and Milhouse. Marge appears on the scene, and after unsuccessfully trying to dissuade the police shooting, distracts the police by flashing her huge breasts to the assembled crowd. Krusty, still hated by residents of Springfield, saves the day by accidentally saying Stampy's safety word, "Magumbo" while ogling Marge. Stampy releases Bart, Milhouse and Homer, and Krusty is hailed as a hero and his popularity is restored with the town (even though Krusty's brave rescue is relegated to a paragraph on The Springfield Shopper while news of Marge flashing everyone to distract the police gets the headline, "CRAZED MOM GOES TOPLESS!" and 25 pages worth of photos). At the end of the episode, Marge has her implants removed.
[edit] Trivia
- The sequence at the home-build, Domiciles for the Destitute, depicts three former presidents of the United States; Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton reenacting classic slapstick comedy in the style of Larry, Moe, and Curly (respectively) of the original Three Stooges.
- In the Batman episode, Krusty is acting in the villain role in a character bearing likeness to The Joker, under the moniker Clownface.
- With this episode, Adam West and Burt Ward appear as The Dynamic Duo on a fourth network: Fox. Previous times were Hanna-Barbera's Legends of the Superheroes: The Challenge/The Roast (NBC, January 18/25, 1979), Filmation's The New Adventures of Batman (CBS, 1977), and, of course, the original Batman TV series (ABC, 1966–68).
- The Baha Men perform two modified versions of their hit single, "Who Let The Dogs Out?" for this episode- a family friendly version which plays on Radio Disney in Marge's car called "Who Left The Milk Out?", and "Who Got Her Jugs Out?", which plays during the ending credits. The latter features Homer's D'oh!s replacing the 'who's in the chorus.
[edit] See also
- A character named Large Marge made its first appearance in Pee Wee's Big Adventure as a truck driver he meets when hitchhiking.
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