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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.

Synopsis

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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. 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's either her or heavy metal. The wedding is called off as Otto drives off in the school bus with the band.

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. Becky and the rest of the family meet without Marge at an ice cream parlour. Marge crashes the party and goes berserk, smashing anything in her grasp. She is arrested and declared insane. She escapes from the courtroom and becomes a notorious fugitive and butt of jokes. Finally, she returns home, only to find Homer tied up in what looks like an S & M tableau. 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 called it off. The doctors show up and shoot a dart into Marge's neck, which doesn't take effect. Homer finally shoots a dart into her to make her fall asleep after she orders Homer to do scrubbing and mopping.

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.
• The scene where Otto proposes to Becky by radio is a parody of the famous radio scene in the 1988 movie, Say Anything.
• Krusty's interview scene is a spoof of the "Celebrity Interviews" skit on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Also, the Mad Marge Dancers references the Dancing Lance Itos from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Trivia

• Otto has made wedding invitations from cigarette papers -

"Homer, look, we're invited to Otto's wedding! Ooh, and such delicate tissue paper. Eh? Zigzag?" - see ].

Quotes

• Skinner: Now class, I want you to be creative with your video projects. I don't want to see thirty Blair Witch knock-offs.
  (The entire class moans in disappointment)
• Milhouse: Otto's got a girlfriend! Otto's got a girlfriend!
  Otto: That's right, I do.
  Milhouse: Uh, I know you do...baby!
• Nelson: Stop hitting yourself, Take One. (begins hitting Milhouse) Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself. Stop hitting yourself.
• Seymour Skinner: Careful, in order to afford those cameras, the school board had to eliminate geography. (padlocks a globe) This globe will never spin again.
• Becky: (interrupting her own wedding ceremony to yell at Otto) You got Poison to play at our wedding?!
  Guitar player: Actually we're Cyanide, a loving tribute to Poison.
  Drummer: And we need a ride home!
• Comic Book Guy (after Marge steals his pants): Hey! Those are prescription pants!
• Bart: Becky, why don't you live with us?
  Marge: Bart, remember that talk we had about you inviting people to stay with us?
  Homer (to Marge): Remember that talk we had about you not ruining other people's weddings?
• Chief Wiggum: Now, Ralphie, what are you going to do if you see Mrs. Simpson?
  Ralph (holds out a handgun): Freeze, you crazy mommy!
  Wiggum: Good. But ya gotta aim it a little higher. (moves Ralph's hands) There, that's a kill shot!
• Bart: (filming Lisa) Tonight, on the Discovery Channel, inside Lisa's nose. What will we find? Boogers or Nazi gold?
  Lisa: Bart, quit it.
  Bart No way.
  Lisa: Bart sleeps with Raggedy Andy.
  Bart: Cut. Cut. Cut.
• Lisa: Oh, Mom. You're not supposed to use rice anymore. Birds eat it, their stomachs swell and they explode.
  Bart: Why am I just learning this now? (he grabs a box of rice and the video camera and runs off chuckling)
• Otto's Father: Son, your mother and I don't approve of this marriage as we have not approved of any part of your life to date.
  Otto: The important thing is that you came.
  Otto's Father: We're leaving.
  Otto: Drive safe!
• Bart: Any words for the bride and groom?
  Principal Skinner: Not now, Bart. I'm trying to urinate.
  Bart: You don't seem to be trying very hard.
• Marge: Oh, you can fix little defects like that with gentle nagging. Make it the background noise of your relationship.
• Becky: Wow, you're a real life Martha Stewart. I mean, without the evil.
• Krusty: (At the studios) Now we got a special guest, she just flew in from the cuckoo’s nest, and boy is she crazy! Crazy Marge Simpson!
  (Mad Marge comes on TV; it's basically a picture of Marge with an animated mouth)
  Krusty: *laughs* look at that!
  "Marge": Hello Krusty!
  Krusty: *Laughs* Oh, that's funny! So Marge, who's your favourite native American warrior?
  "Marge": Crazy Horse! Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! (Crazy Noises)
  Krusty: Alright! Stop it! *Sigh* This bit started! Let's go to the Mad Marge Dancers.
  (Girls dance with Marge masks & straitjackets. They dance to the Sabre Dance)
• Marge: No knife games on the kitchen table.
  Homer:(Homer, having poor aim, has accidentally stabbed all his fingers with the knife) I didn't hit your precious table!
• Selma: Always a bridesmaid; only occasionally a bride.

External links

• "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge episode capsule". The Simpsons Archive.
• "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge" at IMDb

• The Simpsons episodes, season 11