Kavner has won several awards for voicing Marge, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance in 1992.

Marge has been unemployed for most of the series, choosing to be a homemaker and take care of her family.

While Marge has never expressed discontent with her role as a homemaker, she has become bored with it.

Marge was named after Groening's mother Margaret " Marge " Groening, who has said she bears little similarity to the character, stating, " It's really weird to have people think you're a cartoon.

He felt that they could achieve a " deeper vein " of comedy in an episode where Marge has a nervous breakdown, and James L. Brooks quickly approved.

Marge often provides a grounding opinion for Homer and their marriage has often been shaky.

Marge admits that she " put up with a lot in marriage ," and has left Homer or thrown him out of the house on several occasions.

Through it all, Marge has remained faithful to Homer, despite temptations to the contrary such as the one in " Life on the Fast Lane " ( season one, 1990 ), where she resists the charming Frenchman Jacques and instead chooses to remain with Homer.

Marge has expressed understanding for her " special little guy " and has defended him on many occasions.

" Marge has a good relationship with Lisa and the two are shown to get along quite well.

Marge has higher morals than most other characters, once leading a family values crusade against the violent Itchy & Scratchy Show and being a prominent member of the " Citizens ' Committee on Moral Hygiene.

While Marge has learned to cope with her addiction, it has never completely disappeared and remains an underlying problem that is referenced occasionally on the show.

Marge has been ranked highly in lists of the top television mothers of all time.

AOL has named Marge the 24th " Most Memorable Female TV Character ".

Religious writer Kenneth Briggs has written that " Marge is my candidate for sainthood [...] She lives in the real world, she lives with crises, with flawed people.

* Woman on the Edge of Time ( 1976 ) by Marge Piercy, the story of a middle-aged Hispanic woman who has visions of two alternative futures, one utopian and the other dystopian.

He has long been infatuated with Marge Simpson, whom he calls ' Midge ', and has on occasion tried to win her away from Homer.

When Marge objects that the Bible has strict guidelines concerning marriage and divorce, Lovejoy states that " according to the bible, just about everything is a sin, technically we can't even go to the bathroom ".

Bill Oakley believes that the " junior " writers are usually given Marge episodes because he and writing partner Josh Weinstein were given several to write during their first season.

In May 2012, Marge was one of the 12 moms chosen by users of iVillage on their list of " Mommy Dearest: The TV Moms You Love ".

Lionel Hutz is an inept ambulance chaser and, according to Lisa Simpson, a " shyster " whom the Simpsons nonetheless repeatedly hire as their lawyer ( a fact remarked on by Marge Simpson in a typically self-aware aside ).

" In the same episode, Marge and Ruth Powers elude Wiggum during a nighttime car chase by turning off the lights on their car, leading Wiggum to exclaim, " It's a ghost car!

" He also has been known to arrest people impulsively, disregarding their involvement of a determined situation or crime, evident in " Brother from Another Series " where he arrested Sideshow Bob by the incidents of the episode, despite Bart and Lisa ( the main witnesses ) confirming his innocence, and in " The Frying Game " where he gleefully condemns Homer and Marge to death for murder without using a lie detector or making a DNA examination.

A writer for The Grand Rapids Press wrote in 2002 that " we all know who Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are — heck, most Americans probably recognize their pets, Santa's Little Helper and Snowball II ".

Chick and Marge would have celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary on August 13, 2002.

Additionally, in one scene of The Simpsons Movie, when the family moves to Alaska, Marge knits a doormat that reads " Nome Sweet Nome ", revealing their exact location.

In the 1999 episode of The Simpsons, " Marge Simpson in: ' Screaming Yellow Honkers '", Superintendent Chalmers and Principal Skinner try their hand at being Abbott and Costello, but Skinner botches the routine six seconds into the act with delivery of the line, " Not the pronoun but a player with the unlikely name of Who, is on first.

:* Similarly, on The Simpsons, in the 1999 episode " Marge Simpson in: ' Screaming Yellow Honkers '", Superintendent Chalmers and Principal Skinner try their hand at being Abbott and Costello, but Skinner botches the routine six seconds into the act with delivery of the line, " Not the pronoun but a player with the unlikely name of Who is on first.

Marge asks Bart and Lisa for their letters to Santa.

" Then He Kissed Me " was the opening song to which Elisabeth Shue danced around her bedroom in Adventures in Babysitting ( 1987 ); it was the song in which Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco enter the Copacabana on their first real date in the movie Goodfellas ( 1990 ); and it was featured during the episode ' Homer and Marge Turn a Couple Play ' on The Simpsons ( 2006 ).

In the eighth season, the episode " In Marge We Trust " would examine the relationship between Lovejoy and Flanders, and shows the history of their relationship and how Lovejoy became increasingly uninterested in Flanders ' problems.

The series is referenced in episodes of The Simpsons, primarily detailing Marge Simpson's sisters Patty and Selma's obsession with the show and their crush on the MacGyver character.

Marge eventually discovers the plan and convinces Homer and Larry to abandon their plot, but as they leave the house they are spotted by a news helicopter and are chased by reporters and police.

Other hotel guests are shop owners Marge Guttman ( Garn Stephens ) and Buddy Kupfer ( Ralph Strait ), Buddy's wife Betty ( Jadeen Barbor ) and their son Little Buddy ( Bradley Schacter ).

Homer and Marge are going to their high school reunion.

Dr. Hibbert goes to their home and diagnoses Marge with agoraphobia.

Homer and Marge take the kids to get their shots.

Homer and Marge enjoy their summer alone, with Homer losing weight and growing hair.

The writers also thought that " it would be fun if while the kids are gone Homer and Marge find that as the kids are miserable their marriage is better than ever.

Meanwhile, Marge and the kids shiver their way through a rambling sermon, only to find themselves trapped at the end since the door has frozen shut.

After failing to sell the house to Apu and Ralph Wiggum, Homer and Marge complain to their congressman, Horace Wilcox, who has been Springfield's representative since 1933.