There's Something About Marrying Capsule Submission

No review here, although the episode is somewhere in-between (bad side with Homer�s latest job being too wacky, good side with Homer calling Fox to pitch a reality show and his fantasy of him marrying himself and having a family of tiny Homers).

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Maggie in the Stanley Cup? The �Liberty and Justice For Most� sign at Springfield Courthouse?

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There�s Something About Mary -Title

Banana Boat Song -�Gay-O�

Goofs

Lisa�s mouth doesn�t move when she says �Why you little��

Comments:

MUSIC ALERT: Chubby Checker�s �Let�s Twist Again� (Bart�s �Radio Activity� music) �Que Sera Sera� (music in Marge�s flashback about her noticing Patty�s gay activity)

META HUMOR: -Homer showing his �Map to the Stars� for a few seconds and then saying �Read them all?� is a crack at the way some Simpsons fans try to freeze frame various shots (i.e. movie marquees) to read all the things that the animators put on in the scene. Here, Homer is giving them enough time for the viewers to read everything on the map.

-Homer sarcastic remark after Marge is surprised to discover that Patty is gay refers to the fact that her homosexuality is very obvious.

Where is Springfield: in the ad, Mayor Quimby mentions Route 202, which is located being Maine and Deleware.

There actually is a film called Bride of the Monster. Directed by legendary bad movie director Ed Wood, Bride of the Monster is about newslady who discovers the shocking truth about how a mad scientist (played by Bela Lugosi) has been using atomic energy to create his own army of supermen (which aren�t as super as they look, especially considering how one is played by bald and bulgy pro wrestler Tor Johnson). While it does contain a couple of great sci-fi lines, Bride of the Monster (as seen by its appearance on MST3K) is still a cheesy flick, especially its climax in which Bela Lugosi�s character fights an octopus that is obviously a bogus rubber version. The making of this film is covered in Tim Burton�s film biography of Ed Wood, which star Johnny Depp as the infamous director and Martin Landau in his Oscar-winning performance as Bela Lugosi.

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That ad for Springfield reminded me of one for the city of Philadelphia. In it, a girl, in colonial garb, is checking out a guy, but in the end he's checking out another guy. It was the only tourism commercial that I can remember that was directed at the gay community. of course, it didn't use all of those stereotypes that OFF used.

Somebody claiming to be Joe Klemm wrote in news:[email]:

Considering that Homer started his own religion in "Homer the Heretic", it's not *that* far-fetched for him to become an Internet minister. (Yes, I know he went back to church at the end of "Homer the Heretic", but he's always had an ambivalent attitude towards organized religion.)

It could be a state route 202. A quick Google search reveals one in Redmond, WA; one in the Dayton, OH, area; a loop road in the Phoenix, AZ, area; and one in rural southwestern Tennessee.

The closest Springfield to any of them is in infamous Clark County, OH.

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And also famous for being the film where Lugosi's "He's as harmless as a kitchen" [i.e. kitten] line blooper was left in because they couldn't afford to reshoot it