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performs a parody of the song, titled "Brain Freeze", leading a miserable Homer to become bored with his own fame. Marge and August accidentally hear a snippet of Homer's song during a date, shortly before sharing their first kiss. When running onto the beach, August shocks Marge by revealing that he
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from Springfield University. Homer and Marge look shocked to find it, and claim it was from their dating years, confusing Bart as Marge told him he was conceived right after Marge and Homer left high school. Lisa does some calculations and realizes that, because Bart is 10, and Homer and Marge are in
474:'s death) interrupts, revealing Sadgasm has broken up and Homer is holed up in his mansion with an alleged narcotics addiction. Arriving there, Marge destroys Homer's drug needles and soon begins caring for him, although it turns out that the needles were 494:, though Bart and Lisa fall asleep during the revelation. As Homer and Marge end their story, August, who has been watching the couple's recollections transpire outside their window, mockingly brands them "townies" and walks away. 337:", depicted Homer and Marge's early romance in the 1970s, this episode portrays their lives as a young couple in the mid-'90s, paradoxically the same time period in which the early seasons of the show were produced and set. 438:). Marge arrives at the concert, admitting she finds Homer's new music unnerving, while Homer mocks her attraction to August, causing them to end their relationship. Marge begins dating August, leaving Homer devastated. 366:
their mid-to-late thirties, Bart must have been born later in their parents' relationship than they thought. Marge and Homer proceed to describe one of the darker points of their relationship, the mid-to-late 1990s.
454:, angering Marge as she desires to get married someday. Marge breaks up with August, breaking his heart. A miserable Marge is surprised to see Homer made a song dedicated to her, called "Margerine" (based on " 385:. One morning, Marge wakes up to find out she has been accepted into Springfield University, but is shocked to learn of the high cost of tuition. Homer, taking pity on Marge, decides to take up work at 148:
The family is sitting on the couch. The screen zooms out to show them as a painting in a museum with the handwritten caption "Ceci n'est pas une couch gag." ("This is not a couch gag."), a reference to
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In the flashback, younger Homer and Marge are happily dating, living together in an apartment after graduating from high school. Marge is an avid reader, and Homer is part of an
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on the phone and makes him listen to the song, stating that it might be the new sound he has been looking for. This is a reference to a scene from the movie
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for "Guitar Rock Utilizing Nihilist Grunge Energy." His band is renamed to "Sadgasm" and they sing a song Homer calls "Politically Incorrect" (based on "
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warehouse in order to pay for it, where he is abused by the children. At Springfield University, Marge is impressed with her surroundings and with her
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Richard Keller of TV Squad enjoyed the many cultural references to the 1990s, but felt disappointed that the episode changed the continuity of
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Marge quickly admires August, and both form a mutual attraction. August begins manipulating Marge by telling her Homer is a simple "
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with a pretentious history professor and a dejected, self-destructive Homer achieves brief fame as the frontman of a
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and asks for a beer, Moe tells him he turned his establishment into a cigar bar, a reference to the 1990s'
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When Homer's band is playing "Politically Incorrect", a character named "Marvin Cobain" calls his cousin
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both guest star as themselves, this being the second time for Yankovic. The episode was written by
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was dead. The episode title is a reference to another popular, but live-action, Fox sitcom
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and Marge recount one of the darkest points of their relationship, in which Marge has an
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is suffering inside their freezing house because Homer (counting on
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An estimated 7.6 million viewers tuned into the episode.
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Homer performs a new song, called "Shave Me" (based on "
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professor Stefane August, despite Homer's disapproval.
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Index

The Simpsons

Kurt Loder
Mark Kirkland
Matt Selman
Kurt Loder
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Couch gag
The Treachery of Images
Matt Groening
Tim Long
Tom Gammill
Max Pross
Raymond S. Persi
Yeardley Smith
E Pluribus Wiggum
Love, Springfieldian Style
The Simpsons season 19
List of episodes
nineteenth season
The Simpsons
Fox network
Kurt Loder
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Matt Selman
Mark Kirkland
That '70s Show
Bart
Lisa
Marge

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