Strong Arms of the Ma
Plot
The Simpson family goes to Rainier Wolfcastle’s bankruptcy garage sale, after three divorces in three months have forced the action superstar to declare bankruptcy, where everything that he owns is for sale at extremely low prices. Homer asks Rainier if he has anything that will increase in value when he dies and is shown an old weight-lifting set, complete with dumbbells and bench press. Homer takes it and packs everything and everybody in the car in the style of a Tetris game. The car ends up being so overpacked that Homer has no room in it and ends up being carried home by Rainier Wolfcastle in a baby harness built for an adult and used in My Baby is an Ugly Man!, a (fictitious) movie Wolfcastle starred in with Rob Schneider.
On the way home, Marge and the kids smell something awful. They pinpoint the source to Maggie, who has soiled her diaper and needs a change. Marge quickly pulls into the Kwik-E-Mart, and Apu is reluctant about letting Marge use the restroom, but when he smells Maggie, he allows it. Later, as Marge comes out with a much sweeter-smelling Maggie, a shady character in a Goofy hat accosts her and threatens her with a gun. Finding only diapers in Marge’s purse, he grabs Marge’s pearl necklace and takes off. Marge, stunned, walks to her car in a daze and breaks down sobbing at the wheel in front of her kids.
The next day, they inform the police and Chief Wiggum declares he will investigate immediately. Later, as Marge is about to leave the house, Homer gives her some pepper spray and some tips on how to handle an attacker. She pulls up to the Kwik-E-Mart, but she becomes startled when Ralph greets her. She pepper-sprays him, and feeling guilty, drives back home where she feels safe. When she reaches home, Bart tells her she is parked over the mailman. Marge is a nervous wreck and cannot bring herself to cross the threshold of her house to help the mailman. Dr. Hibbert goes to their home and diagnoses Marge with agoraphobia. Homer and the kids try their best over the next few days to encourage her to go outside, but to no avail. Eventually, she moves into the basement. There, feeling a bit safer, she prepares breakfast for the family and sets up a bed for herself. One day, when she is alone at home, feeling bored but still afraid to venture outside, she eyes Rainier Wolfcastle’s weight-lifting set and decides to use it to pass the time.
In two weeks, she builds herself up and even gets a well-defined washboard stomach (much to Homer’s delight). Suddenly, she dashes out to the garden to get some lemons. Realizing that she is not afraid anymore, she starts running around town in happiness. Suddenly, she runs into her mugger, who insults her about living in fear. But this time, she beats him so intensely (the same way Sonny Corleone beat up Carlo Rizzi the The Godfather) that he is left an unconscious, bloody mess. Homer gleefully declares “It’s like I’m married to Shaft!” The cops arrive and arrest the crook. Marge, excited and encouraged after catching the crook, starts exercising even more (to the theme from Rocky). One day, as she jogs by an open-air gym at the beach, an accurate portrayal of Muscle Beach in Venice, California, she runs into Ruth Powers, her old neighbor (from “New Kid on the Block” and “Marge on the Lam”). Ruth, pretty buffed herself from her years as “Miss Mexican Mafia” in prison, tells Marge that she owes it all to steroids. She talks Marge into using them, attacking her inability to stop trying to be stronger, and also advises Marge to enter a women’s bodybuilding contest. Marge, using the steroids, exercises harder than ever, and becomes very muscular and estrogen-depleted, resulting in extreme bad temper and belligerence. Homer, seeing these changes, starts to lose his attraction to her. When Homer refuses Marge’s sexual advances the night before the contest, trying to convince her that the steroids are a bad idea, she callously ignores his worries and then proceeds to pin him down and “have her way” with him, before leaving him completely sore and exhausted to take care of the kids the next morning. At the contest, despite her massive training, she wins second place, which irritates Marge when her muscular ears overhear her family’s unhappy conversation in the audience.
Later that night, at Moe’s, Marge tells everyone at the bar that she is going to exercise and take more steroids so she will never come in second place again. Things get worse when Moe, whom tries to tell Marge she is not attractive anymore says Marge that “I don’t got enough booze to make you look good”. She loses her temper and goes into an uncontrollable rage, proceeds to beat up all comers (even taking out five sailors as they march in to fight her) and ultimately trashes the bar. Homer (who has been hiding in the back) comes out to confront his wife as she prepares to hurl Lenny. Terrifed, Homer tells Marge that he wishes that she was the sweet woman he married instead of the steroid-pumped monster she has become. Marge, horrified with what she has done, apologizes, drops Lenny, and leaves with Homer. Moe, in order to cover the costs of repairing his bar, sets fire to it; however, Carl points out that he has not insured the place yet (even though it was established in “Dumbbell Indemnity” that Moe did have insurance for his bar). Later, at the Simpson house, Marge burns the weight set in the furnace as the show ends. Homer asks if Marge is ready for a “real workout” which turns out to be a request to wax the car, after which he gets beaten by Marge into meekly saying that he was just kidding.
Reception
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Cultural reference
The episode spoofs The Godfather, as Marge attacks her mugger and then kicks him to under a fire hydrant before onlooking spectators.
As Marge gulps down steroids in the manner of Popeye eating spinach, the Popeye theme plays.
Marge’s license plate reads the code for this episode.
The scene where the mailman is about to read a magazine and finds out his glasses are broken is a spoof of a Twilight Zone episode “Time Enough At Last”
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