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Encyclopedia > Marge in Chains
The Simpsons episode
"Marge in Chains"
Promotional artwork for Marge in Chains
Episode no. 80
Prod. code 9F20
Orig. airdate May 6, 1993
Show runner(s) Al Jean & Mike Reiss
Written by Bill Oakley
& Josh Weinstein
Directed by Jim Reardon
Chalkboard "I do not have diplomatic immunity"
Couch gag A miniature family climbs onto a normal-sized couch.
Guest star(s) David Crosby as himself
DVD
commentary		 Matt Groening
Al Jean
Bill Oakley
Josh Weinstein
Jim Reardon
Jeffrey Lynch
Season 4
September 24, 1992 – May 13, 1993
  1. Kamp Krusty
  2. A Streetcar Named Marge
  3. Homer the Heretic
  4. Lisa the Beauty Queen
  5. Treehouse of Horror III
  6. Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie
  7. Marge Gets a Job
  8. New Kid on the Block
  9. Mr. Plow
  10. Lisa's First Word
  11. Homer's Triple Bypass
  12. Marge vs. the Monorail
  13. Selma's Choice
  14. Brother from the Same Planet
  15. I Love Lisa
  16. Duffless
  17. Last Exit to Springfield
  18. So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show
  19. The Front
  20. Whacking Day
  21. Marge in Chains
  22. Krusty Gets Kancelled
List of all The Simpsons episodes

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Contents

Plot

After many of Springfield's residents purchase a 'Juice Loosener', which are shipped from Japan, the dreaded Osaka Flu hits the town. Many of the townspeople are affected by the illness. Due to tiredness from having to look after the rest of her ill family, Marge accidentally forgets to pay for Grampa's bottle of bourbon when shopping at the Kwik-E-Mart. She is then arrested for shoplifting. Due to Mayor Quimby revealing this fact to everyone in town, Marge's reputation is lowered dramatically among the townspeople and they start to conspire against her. As usual the family hires Lionel Hutz to defend Marge at her trial (Bart realizes that you can do anything as a lawyer and plans to become one), but the jury finds Marge guilty and he loses the case. She is sentenced to 30 days imprisonment at Springfield Women's Prison. Respiratory disease properly named influenza(say: in-floo-en-zah ). Some specific varities of influenza with a vaccination available are: A-New Caledonia, A-California, B-Shanghai. ... Bourbon bottle, 19th century Bourbon is an American form of whiskey made from (pursuant to U.S. trade law) at least 51% corn, or maize, (typically about 70%) with the remainder being wheat and/or rye, and malted barley. ... An exterior of a fictitious typical Kwik-E-Mart store. ... For the band Shoplifting see Shoplifting (band), for the album released by Straw, see Shoplifting (album). ... Lionel Hutz is a fictional secondary character from The Simpsons, voiced by Phil Hartman. ...


Marge's absence is felt at home as Homer and the rest of the family struggles to cope without her. Without Marge, the house shortly becomes a complete wreck. The annual bake sale also suffers - without Marge's marshmallow squares, the Springfield Park Commission fails to raise enough money to pay for a statue of Abraham Lincoln. Instead they purchase one of Jimmy Carter. The townspeople are enraged by this and riot, using the statue as a battering ram and generally start to destroy the whole town. So, to save his career, Mayor Quimby has Marge released from jail. The townspeople cheerfully welcome her back and apologise for suspecting her. They even unveil a statue for Marge, though it is just the Jimmy Carter one with Marge's hair added to it. The last scene shows Bart and Lisa playing on the statue, which has been converted into a tetherball post. For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation). ... For other persons named Jimmy Carter, see Jimmy Carter (disambiguation). ... Teamsters, armed with pipes, riot in a clash with riot police in the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934. ... Replica battering ram at Ch teau des Baux, France A battering ram is a weapon used from ancient times. ... For other persons named Jimmy Carter, see Jimmy Carter (disambiguation). ...


Trivia

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  • Jimmy Carter is called "history's greatest monster". In the DVD commentary for this episode, Mike Reiss and Al Jean reveal that they did not like Carter, although they would vote for him ahead of George W. Bush.
  • In the scene where Bart attempts to get his immune system to let the virus win, the voice of the virus is the same as Snake Jailbird
  • Apu calling Marge a bitch was semi-controversial at the time of the original airing.
  • In one scene, after Marge was taken to prison, Homer was seen wearing her wedding dress.

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Cultural references

"A World Without Lawyers"
  • The name of the episode is a reference to the band Alice in Chains.
  • The scene where Maude Flanders spies on Marge in the bathroom through a hole in the wall is a parody of the classic 1960 horror film Psycho.
  • In one scene, Lisa compares Lionel Hutz to famed lawyer Clarence Darrow, although Hutz confuses him with Clarence Williams III.
  • The environment of the Women's Prison in which Marge serves her sentence resembles that as seen in Prisoner.
  • The prisoner nicknamed "Tattoo Annie" has a MAD magazine fold-in tattooed on her back, which when "folded-in" (by pushing her shoulder blades together) shows the face of the magazine's mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, and his famous catchphrase, "What me worry?"
  • In the courtroom scene, the Blue-Haired Lawyer asks the jury who's more attractive, Mel Gibson or Tom Cruise while holding up their pictures, who were both hailed as sex symbols at the time.
  • The scene where the people knock the statue of Jimmy Carter down and call him a monster could be a reference to what people did to the Vladimir Lenin statues in the Eastern European countries after the Soviet Union collapsed.
  • David Crosby appears as Lionel Hutz's sponsor in Alcoholics Anonymous. He is seen looking at a Crosby, Stills, and Nash album and ends his first conversation with the line "and know I love you", referring to "Teach Your Children".
  • Marge's prisoner number is 24601, a reference to the book-turned-musical Les Miserables.
  • The TV show on FOX that Ned watches and laughs at, and thus causes him to believe he is damned, is an animated recreation of Married...with Children.

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Marge Simpson - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (915 words)
In a first-season episode ("Life On the Fast Lane"), Marge's age was said to be 34; several later episodes, however, have given Marge's age as 38, possibly a reflection on her and Homer's attending their twentieth anniversary high-school reunion in one episode.
Marge became pregnant with her first child, Bart, in her mid twenties; in response, she and Homer married, in a low-budget wedding at a combined wedding chapel and casino across the state line.
When Marge was in high school, she had such an intense crush on Ringo Starr that she painted numerous portraits of him (including one in which they get married) and wrote to him.
Marge in Chains (1907 words)
Marge escapes a flu epidemic, but not the eyes of Apu, who catches her accidentally taking an item during a shopping run for flu sufferers.
Marge is released, and her cell-mate reveals that she has a new boyfriend.
Marge is given a warm greeting by the townspeople upon her return.
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