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Chief Wiggum thinks she is trying to commit suicide, but she is actually sleeping next to the statue of an ice-cream cone that looks like Marge's head. Not knowing the police have found Maggie, Homer prepares to apologize to Marge. He first talks to himself, practicing explanations for Maggie's disappearance, but then Chief Wiggum arrives and returns Maggie to Homer.
Marge, having thoroughly enjoyed her vacation, calls it quits, and calls Homer. Telling him she is feeling much better, Homer convinces her matters are under control at home. Marge reveals she is coming back and Homer should pick her up in one hour at the train station. Later on, Marge notices a TV commercial for a resort spa called "Rancho Relaxo", and decides that she needs a vacation. Homer tries to talk Marge out of it by reminding her of failed family vacations from the children's misbehavior and how they ended up staying home because of it.
Ep 8: Lisa's Pony
This is the first episode since Season 2 in which Chief Wiggum has blue hair. This is the first episode that shows Patty and Selma's fondness for MacGyver , and Selma says "Richard Dean Anderson will be in my dreams tonight." ―Marge Simpson"Homer Alone" is the fifteenth episode of Season 3. Overall, this is a great episode and my favorite part is Homer trying to find Maggie before Marge returns home. Of course, Bart and Lisa tortuous stay at Marge's sisters is also great to watch.
The old line on The Simpsons used to be that the most realistic show about family life just happened to be a cartoon. That hasn’t been the case in ages, but there was a time when The Simpsons took Marge’s existential angst seriously. Stressed from doing household chores and running errands for her family, Marge hears DJs Bill and Marty make a cruel prank call during their radio show. She suddenly snaps when Maggie accidentally breaks her baby bottle, splattering milk everywhere, and blocks traffic by parking her car across both lanes of a bridge. When the police are unable to convince her to move, Homer persuades her to surrender and she is arrested.
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The background in the sequence references the Hanna–Barbera tradition of using backgrounds over and over and making it look like there is an "endless living room". The scene where Marge is booked in prison references the Coen brothers film Raising Arizona. He had noticed that most of the writers were pitching stories about Bart and Homer, and he thought a "deeper vein of comedy" could be reached by having Marge suffer from a nervous breakdown. Executive producer James L. Brooks immediately approved the idea. Originally, Marge's trip was to a distressed mother's institute so they could show "what made Marge tick".
Since the town's women sympathize with Marge's plight, Mayor Quimby orders her release over Chief Wiggum's objections. While at Rancho Relaxo, Marge listens to a radio station which identifies itself as "WKOMA". "WKOMA" would be east of the Mississippi and isn't really a valid call sign, since it's five letters .
Homer Alone/References
Stern had noticed that most of the writers were pitching stories about Bart and Homer, and he thought a "deeper vein of comedy" could be reached by having Marge suffer from a nervous breakdown. Originally, Marge's trip was to a distressed mother's institute rather than a spa. However, the plot was not well received at the table read for the episode and much of it was rewritten.
The first was Some Enchanted Evening when she roars at the kids. The second Nick's bowling shop that Marge goes to has a picture of Jacques from the episode Life on the Fast Lane. In its original airing on February 6, 1992, on Fox during February sweeps, the episode acquired a 14.2 Nielsen rating and was viewed in approximately 13.08 million homes. It finished 25th in the ratings for the week of February 3–9, 1992, up from the season's average rank of 37th. This is the first episode since season 2 that Chief Wiggum has blue hair. Maggie is then found on the edge of the top of an ice-cream shop by the police.
While Marge is enjoying her vacation, the rest of the Simpsons are suffering without her. Bart has to sleep with Patty, who snores, as Lisa has to sleep with Selma. Homer finds it troublesome feeding Maggie, and changes Maggie's diaper by closing it with a staple gun. As for entertainment, Homer tries to make Maggie laugh through a puppet show, only to scare Maggie. Santa's Little Helper attacks both the puppets and Homer, to which Maggie applauds and laughs. When Chief Wiggum calls Homer in to talk to Marge, he manages to calm her down enough to tell her that he's sorry for taking advantage of her and that he loves her.
The scene at the train station where Marge leaves for Rancho Relaxo includes a brief cameo appearance of a character modeled after Simpsons director Jim Reardon. Reardon dislikes flying, and took trains whenever possible, so the animators always tried to include him in scenes at a train station. Susie Dietter served as assistant director for the episode and animated several of the scenes for the subplot with Bart, Lisa, Patty and Selma. In a scene where Homer sings a song to Maggie, he was designed to look dishevelled because the writers had wanted him to look drunk, although no attention was called to it.
Homer then duct-tapes Maggie to her car seat, securing her tightly to avoid her escaping from him. He then makes his way over to Patty and Selma, to pick up Bart and Lisa. Overjoyed with his presence, they cling onto his feet, forcing Homer to kick them into the backseat. Before leaving town, Marge puts Bart and Lisa into the care of Patty and Selma, but Maggie clings to the front door when she is about to be deposited to her aunts, leaving Maggie in Homer's care.
Homer also mentions about not being a pleasant company when he and Marge go on vacation together. Marge convinces Homer that she needs to go to Rancho Relaxo alone for rest and relaxation. David M. Stern's brother Daniel Stern had starred in the movie as Marv Merchants, one of the main antagonists. In addition, Homer mimics the poster when he notices that Maggie is missing. The quiet desperation of Marge Simpson has been a steady drumbeat coursing through the first few seasons of The Simpsons.
"Bart the Lover"The Simpsons List of episodes"Homer Alone" is the fifteenth episode of the third season of the American animated television series The Simpsons, and the fiftieth episode overall. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 6, 1992. In the episode, stress from household chores and her family's demands causes Marge to suffer a nervous breakdown, so she vacations alone at a spa. She leaves Bart and Lisa with Patty and Selma; Maggie stays at home with Homer but leaves home looking for her mother, causing Homer to frantically search for her. The writers then re-wrote much of the episode, switching the institute to a spa. They also added a video appearance from the fictional actor Troy McClure, voiced by Phil Hartman.
Bart, however, must defend the house when Snake Jailbird tries to rob the house. Meanwhile, the family has to stay longer at the mall because Homer got drunk and wandered off and now is lost. Marge’s pragmatic and ultimately very sad willingness to ignore her own needs for the sake of serving a boorish husband who will never appreciate her was a powerful subtext in last week’s episode.
When the family causes Marge to flip out, she takes a vacation at Rancho Relaxo, leaving Lisa and Bart with Patty and Selma, and Homer alone with Maggie. Then Maggie goes searching for Marge while Homer struggles with the former duties of Marge. In the scene where Marge roars in front of the bus driver, you can hear the 1982 roar track of the Metro Goldwyn Mayer logos. However, movies still continued to use the 1995 track as the 2008 one was very short lived. When Maggie crawls down the street, a car is illegally parked in front of a sign that states "NO PARKING".
During its original airing on Fox during February sweeps, it acquired a 14.2 Nielsen rating. The episode opens with a parody of Road Runner cartoons, freeze-framing the chase scene, using phony Latin names and resuming the chase in slow motion. Originally, Marge's trip was to a distressed mother's institute so they could show "what made Marge tick." However, the plot was not well received at the table read for the episode. On the train, Marge glances at a photo of her family, comparing it to the lesser-good looking family that greets her. In the evening, Marge says she appreciates Homer helping her around the house, to which Homer gladly agrees. Marge then continues asking her requests for help, upon which Bart convinces her that they will do all the chores to help her out.
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