The Simpsons episode
"My Big Fat Geek Wedding"
Seymour and Edna's wedding.
Episode no.	330
Prod. code	FABF12
Orig. airdate	April 18, 2004
Written by	Kevin Curran
Directed by	Mark Kirkland
Chalkboard	None
Couch gag	Original Airing: The back wall is a Play-Doh Fun Factory press that creates Play-Doh figures of the Simpsons Repeats and Syndication: The couch is a slot machine that shows Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa in the tumbler windows. Maggie, however, is replaced by lucky number “7” which signals a jackpot as a pile of gold coins spill out. Simpsons redirects here. ... Image File history File links FABF12. ... is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Al Jean (left) and David Mirkin (right), have both been writers for The Simpsons for more than ten years. ... Kevin Curran is an american television writer. ... The three people are caricatures of (left to right) Rich Moore, Wes Archer and David Silverman[1] The following is a list of directors who have worked on the Fox animated television series The Simpsons. ... Mark Kirkland is a director of episodes of The Simpsons. ... Bart writes The Pledge of Allegiance does not end with Hail Satan The chalkboard gag is a running visual joke that occurs during the opening credits of many episodes of The Simpsons. ... The couch gag is a running visual joke in the opening credits of the animated television series The Simpsons. ...
Guest star(s)	Matt Groening as himself, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel.
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Plot

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. ... Ms. ... A bachelor party (also called a stag party, stag night (UK, Ireland, Canada, and NZ), bulls party (South Africa) or bucks party, bucks night (Australia)) is a party held for a bachelor shortly before he enters marriage, to make the most of his final opportunity to engage in activities a... The following are a list of fictional recurring characters in the animated television show, The Simpsons. ... In the television series, The Simpsons, the Wiggum family consist of Clancy (father and police officer), Sarah (mother), and Ralph (child). ... A striptease dancer performing. ... Moes Tavern (also known simply as Moes) is a fictional bar seen on the animated series The Simpsons. ... Homer Simpson is also a character in the book and film The Day of the Locust. ...

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 creator Matt Groening. Skinner, dressed up as Catwoman (who he thought was Catman), battles the Comic Book Guy. Krabappel interrupts their fight to declare that she has no interest in either man. Both seem to accept her decision, though Skinner is still upset. Later, at the Simpson house, Homer asks Marge to remarry him, which is done in the style of a mock Klingon wedding. Marjorie Marge Simpson (née Bouvier) is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons and is voiced by Julie Kavner. ... Jeff Albertson, better known as Comic Book Guy, is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons. ... For the comic book series of the same name, see Bart Simpson comics. ... Milhouse Van Houten In the animated series The Simpsons, the Van Houten family consists of the father Kirk, the mother Luann, and their son Milhouse. ... Martin Prince, Jr. ... Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con is the bimonthly science fiction convention held in the town of Springfield in the show The Simpsons. ... This article is about the television series. ... This article is about the comic book character. ...

Cultural references

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• After Bart, his friends, and Skinner sing their song, a Superman tattoo can be seen on Comic Book Guy's buttocks when he turns around.
• 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 worn by Michelle Pfeiffer.
• At one point in the episode, Barney speaks to an imaginary life-sized rabbit, a likely reference to the Jimmy Stewart movie, Harvey.
• 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 playing on the bagpipes at the wedding is Pachelbel's Canon.
• The Klingon wedding dress is based on the wedding dress worn by Jadzia Dax in the episode You Are Cordially Invited, an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• 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.

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