The Simpsons episode
"All's Fair in Oven War"
Promotional artwork
Episode no.	337
Prod. code	FABF20
Orig. airdate	November 14, 2004
Written by	Matt Selman
Directed by	Mark Kirkland
Chalkboard	None
Couch gag	The couch is outside in a clearing and mounted on a catapult. The Simpsons sit down and get launched over a mountain range.
Guest star(s)	James Caan and Thomas Pynchon
Season 16 November 7, 2004 – May 15, 2005
Treehouse of Horror XV All's Fair in Oven War Sleeping with the Enemy She Used to Be My Girl Fat Man and Little Boy Midnight Rx Mommie Beerest Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass Pranksta Rap There's Something About Marrying On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister Goo Goo Gai Pan Mobile Homer The Seven-Beer Snitch Future-Drama Don't Fear the Roofer The Heartbroke Kid A Star Is Torn Thank God It's Doomsday Home Away from Homer The Father, The Son & The Holy Guest Star
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Plot

Marge and Homer attend an open house when the house next door is put up for sale. Marge is seduced by the large extensive kitchen. She realizes her own kitchen is substandard and wishes she had a better one. So she asks Homer to hire a contractor to rebuild the kitchen. Homer, disdainful of this idea ("A contractor? Those guys are the biggest crooks around - they charge materials AND labour! Pick one, jerks!") decides to renovate the kitchen himself instead. Marjorie Marge Simpson (née Bouvier) is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons and is voiced by Julie Kavner. ... Homer Simpson is also a character in the book and film The Day of the Locust. ...

While demolishing the kitchen, Homer unearths his old collection of Playdude magazines. He innocently tells Marge he kept them only for the articles, and she decides to make sure by cutting out all the nudes from the magazines. Now that they are useless, Homer throws them away (angrily saying "What man would want you now?"), but they are discovered by Bart and Milhouse. They read the articles and are greatly inspired. Using these 70s-era magazines as a model, Bart decides to renovate the Treehouse into a sort of Playboy Mansion replica, replete with James Caan. Playboy is an adult entertainment magazine, or pornography magazine, founded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner, which has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. ... For the comic book series of the same name, see Bart Simpson comics. ... Milhouse Mussolini Van Houten is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Pamela Hayden. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... James Langston Edmund Caan (born March 26, 1940) is an American Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated American film, stage and television actor. ...

After Homer's remodeling makes the kitchen useless, Marge hires a contractor to complete the job, and after two years and $100,000 spent the Simpsons enjoy their new kitchen. The dishes that come out of Marge's new kitchen get rave reviews and, on Ned's suggestion, she decides to enter the Auntie Ovenfresh Bakeoff with her Dessert Dogs. She is successful and goes through to the second round of the contest. At the bakeoff, Marge encounters ruthless competition, as the chefs mock her and sabotage her cooking. Her Dessert Dogs are almost ruined by the end of the time limit, and she barely manages to make them presentable and get them to the room where the entries have to be stored. Still fuming about the behavior of the other chefs, she gains revenge by spiking the other entries with Maggie's ear medicine, much to Lisa's dismay. Not to be confused with Desert. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... For the singer-songwriter, see Maggie Simpson (musician). ... Otitis media (also known as glue ear) is an inflammation of the middle ear, usually associated with a buildup of fluid. ... Lisa Marie Simpson is a character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Yeardley Smith; Lisa is the only character Smith voices on a regular basis. ...

Meanwhile, Chief Wiggum and other concerned parents talk with Homer about Bart's spreading the Playdude philosophy to the other children. Homer has a talk with Bart about the true facts of life, which a horrified Bart quickly shares with the other children, who are just as horrified. Homer notes "It's better they learn this now--than from their own parents, when they're old enough." Marge's cheating gets her to the finals, and Lisa confronts her. Marge retorts saying that the other chefs deserved it for the way they treated her; Lisa urges her to do the right thing. In the bakeoff finals, Marge admits to her foul play and Lisa's faith in her mother is restored. Brandine's "Alco-Hog" dish wins by default. When they are shopping at the Kwik E mart a few months later, they discover the new flour cover with Brandine Spuckler on it. When Marge expresses disappointment because it was almost her, they run into Cletus Spuckler, who is upset that Brandine has left him for James Caan, but he swears he's "gonna fix his wagon." When Caan stops at a toll booth, Cletus' friends emerge and gun him down in a scene reminiscent of the death of Sonny Corleone (Caan's character in The Godfather). However, despite being completely bullet-ridden, he opens his eyes and mutters "That's it, next time I fly." In the television series, The Simpsons, the Wiggum family consist of Clancy (father and police officer), Sarah (mother), and Ralph (child). ... The following are a list of fictional recurring characters in the animated television show, The Simpsons. ... Cletus Del Roy Spuckler (voiced by Hank Azaria), also known as Cletus the Slack-Jawed Yokel, is a fictional character on the long-running animated television show The Simpsons. ... Santino Sonny Corleone is a fictional character in Mario Puzos 1969 novel The Godfather and its 1972 film adaptation. ... This article is about the 1972 film. ...

Censorship

• In the original airing of this episode, there is a part where near the end of the episode, when Homer tells Marge that she'll always be the best chef in the Simpson house, she responds "Eh, BFD" (big, f*****g deal). In some FOX repeats, Marge's line is intentionally scrambled to remove the offensive acronym. Surprisingly in syndication, Marge's line is intact.

Cultural references

• The title is a play on the saying "All's fair in love and war", a proverb found in John Lyly's 16th century book Euphues^[1] that is commonly used to justify cheating.
• Playdude is a parody of Playboy magazine.
• The Simpsons watch the movie Blacula Meets Black Dracula, a reference to 1970's Blaxploitation Films.
• The music Bart's friends play in his treehouse is "Take Five" by Paul Desmond.
• The music Homer asks himself to turn down is the classic 80's power ballad "Separate Ways" by Journey.
• Among the food-related characters Homer imagines are Pringles and Snap, Crackle and Pop mascots. The one he kills is named "Twinkie the Kid"
• The final scene where the hillbillies ambush James Caan at the toll-station is a spoof of the scene in which Sonny Corleone is killed in The Godfather.

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