* Marge Piercy's He, She and It presents a rather feminist view on the cyborg issue with Yod who, however, is provided with some male attributes.

Following the real staff is a lengthy list of pun-filled fictional staffers and sponsors such as statistician Marge Innovera (" margin of error "), customer care representative Haywood Jabuzoff (" Hey, would you buzz off "), meteorologist Claudio Vernight (" cloudy overnight "), optometric firm C. F.

The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie.

Marjorie " Marge " Simpson ( née Bouvier ) is a fictional main character in the American animated sitcom The Simpsons and part of the eponymous family.

Marge is the well-meaning and extremely patient matriarch of the Simpson family.

Marge is the moralistic force in her family and often provides a grounding voice in the midst of her family's antics by trying to maintain order in the Simpson household.

Marge Simpson is the wife of Homer and mother of Bart, Lisa and Maggie Simpson.

In " The Way We Was " ( season two, 1991 ), it is revealed via flashback that Marge attended Springfield High School, and in her final year met Homer Simpson.

" While Marge is her most famous character, Kavner's favorite characters to voice are Patty and Selma because " they're really funny and sad at the same time.

Marge is generally a stereotypical sitcom mother, and she also plays the " long-suffering wife " who puts up with the antics of her children and her oafish husband.

He is at first unsuccessful, but gains the interest of the class when he starts giving away family secrets, many of which concern Marge.

Upon finding this out, Marge is incensed and throws him out of the house.

The next day, Homer is dirty and disheveled, and begs Marge to take him back, saying the one thing he can offer her that nobody else can is " complete and utter dependence.

Marge is a caring, understanding, and nurturing parent to Bart, but she refers to him as " a handful " and is often embarrassed by his antics.

Marge is the only member of the family who encourages church attendance.

As Lisa rants about the people who believe it is an angel, Marge informs her that she also believes it is an angel.

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.

" Various episodes in which Marge is prominently featured have been nominated for Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program, including " The Way We Weren't " in 2004 and " Life on the Fast Lane ", which won the award in 1990.

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.

The cover and a three-page picture spread, as well as a story inside entitled The Devil in Marge Simpson, is a celebration of the 20th anniversary of The Simpsons, but is also part of a plan to appeal to younger readers.

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Lane's persona has been referenced in The Simpsons: on the audio commentary to the episode " Marge in Chains ", its director Jim Reardon states that Lane's performance in It's a Wonderful Life inspired the character of the snide, humourless Blue-Haired Lawyer who appears in that and other episodes in the series.

The Ultrahouse ’ s fascination with Marge was inspired by the science-horror film Demon Seed by Donald Cammell.

He tells Bart and Lisa that after Marge bought a Baby on board sign, Homer wrote a song inspired by the fad.

The episode's subplot, which revolves around Marge listening in on phone calls using a baby monitor, was inspired by former showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein, who also listened to private phone calls with a monitor.

When the coast is clear, Homer and Marge have inspired sexual intercourse in the hay loft.

Marge begins to write a novel about whaling times ( inspired by the boat painting in the living room, " Scene from Moby Dick "), and proceeds to write several sentences.

Marge creates the characters for her novel: Temperance, the dutiful lady, inspired by herself ; Temperance's loving whaler husband, Mordecai, inspired by Homer ; and Cyrus Manly, inspired by Ned Flanders.

Marge and Homer's high school classmate Artie Ziff makes a brief appearance in the episode ; his conversation with Homer inspired the season 13 episode " Half-Decent Proposal ".

" Lisa on Ice " was inspired by Scully's love of ice hockey and featured many experiences from his childhood, as was " Marge Be Not Proud " ( which he wrote for season seven ) which was based " one of the most traumatic moments " of his life, when he was caught shoplifting aged twelve.

Matt Groening believes that episodes featuring Marge are among the most difficult episodes to write.

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.

During the third season of the show, most of the writers focused on Bart and Homer, so David M. Stern decided to write a Marge episode, which became " Homer Alone " ( season three, 1992 ).

Despite being well aware that he is not a good Cop, Clancy does not like of being criticized about his work or his mistakes, visible in Smart and Smarter when Clancy ask to Marge write her opinion about his work before he continue his search for Lisa, but when Marge writes her concern about the latter's incompetence, Clancy is offended and refuses in find Lisa unless Marge gives a more positive critic about him, much to Marge's anger.

When the story of Marge having a crush on Starr was pitched out, Roberts took the opportunity to write Starr into the script because he had always wanted to meet a Beatle.

There were no openings on the staff at the time, but Oakley and Weinstein were hired to write the episode " Marge Gets a Job ", based on an idea by Conan O ' Brien.

Jeff Martin was assigned to write the episode because he had done another flashback episode in the past, " I Married Marge ".

This meeting inspires Marge to write a novel.

At home, Marge suggests that Bart and Lisa write a letter to Cosmic Wars creator Randall Curtis.

All four episodes revolve around the romance between Homer and Marge.

" He added: " I can't figure why, if Fox was going to put together a set of this theme, they couldn't have included some of the more classic episodes about Marge and Homer's romance.

Marge takes a shine to Brother Bernard, while Lily lures the dashing Nicholas ( David Kernan ) away from his jealous ( and implied gay ) friend, Robin ( John Clive ), and Marge and Brother Bernard develop an innocent romance.

In the episode, Marge reads a romance novel in bed, and it prompts her to have a family meeting, where the Simpson family recall their past loves in form of clips from previous episodes.

Marge is reading The Bridges of Madison County one night and wakes up Homer to ask if he thinks the romance has gone out of their marriage.

In the morning, Marge gets the family together to discuss romance, but they can only come up with vignettes from their failed relationships ( and in the parents ' case, near-extramarital affairs ) in the form of clips from previous episodes.