Marge Gets a Job
"Marge Gets a Job" is the seventh episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.
In this episode, Marge gets a job at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant to pay for foundation repair at the Simpsons house.
When a job opens at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant (because Mr. Burns has forced the retirement of an employee who has worked at the plant for 45 years), Marge decides to apply for the job opening so she and Homer can collectively earn enough money to pay for the foundation repair.
The idea for the show came from Conan O'Brien, who thought of Marge getting a job at the power plant and that Mr. Burns has a crush on her.
[3] The original subplot for the episode was Mr. Burns telling Homer to dress up as Mister Atom and have him go to schools to talk to the children.
[3] While Mr. Burns is looking through the surveillance cameras, "The Imperial March" from the Star Wars films is played in the background.
[3] Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide commented, "We like Bart's fantasy of the radioactive Marie and Pierre Curie, and Smithers' fantasy of his loved one flying through the window.
"[6] Empire placed the "Mister Burns" dance number as the show's fourth best film parody, "the pick of a big bunch" from the show's many Citizen Kane parodies, coming "replete with Wellesian camera angles and subtly altered lyrics".
[9] In the original airing of this episode, Mrs. Krabappel names several different diseases Bart has faked in order to get out of taking his English test, one of which is Tourette's syndrome.
"[10] This scene garnered many complaints from people who thought it was tasteless of the writers to make fun of an actual condition[10] and Joshua Smith, a boy in Renton, Washington began seeking legal action.
[11] Executive producer Mike Reiss replied with an apology saying "We kind of feel like we made a mistake this time.
[12] In the version of the episode released on the season four DVD boxset, the part with Bart demonstrating his supposed Tourette's syndrome to Mrs. Krabappel was kept intact, but Krabappel's line about Bart having "...that unfortunate bout of Tourette's syndrome" was replaced with "...that unfortunate bout of rabies.
[14] Following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the associated nuclear emergency, the episode was pulled from an Austrian network due to jokes about radiation poisoning.
