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McClure's most prominent role occurs in the seventh-season episode " A Fish Called Selma ".

In the episode, McClure begins a relationship with Selma Bouvier, whom he meets when she gives him an eye test at the Department of Motor Vehicles.

The relationship revives his career, leading him to star in Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want to Get Off !, a stage musical version of the film Planet of the Apes.

To further boost McClure's career, McClure's agent suggests that he get married.

Unaware of McClure's motivation, Selma accepts his proposal, and moves into McClure's house, a Modernist building which resembles the Chemosphere.

At his bachelor party, a drunken McClure tells Homer Simpson that the marriage is just a sham to help his career.

Homer says nothing at the wedding, but later offhandedly mentions McClure's admission to Marge, who then informs her sister.

Selma decides to remain with McClure anyway, but she becomes disturbed when McClure's agent advises the pair to have a child ( since " all the big parts these days are going to family men ").

Having a child will secure McClure's casting as McBain's sidekick in McBain IV: Fatal Discharge, but Selma is unwilling to bring a child into a loveless relationship and decides to leave McClure.

McClure ultimately gets the role, but turns it down in order to direct and star in his own pet project, a 20th Century Fox film called The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel.