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* ThePromPlot: Homer and Marge attend their senior prom, though not with each other. Although Marge initially agreed to go with him, his ploy of pretending to be failing French so she can tutor him but really to get to know her better infuriated her, not just for wasting her time on a lie, but moreso because she had a large county-wide debate the following day which he knew about and storms out of his house while telling him she hates him and then agreed to be Artie's date. Unfortunately, since she didn't [[LoopholeAbuse technically say "no", Homer still showed up to take her,]] to her chagrin and her family's (save for her [[TokenGoodTeammate father,]] surprisingly) disgust.
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* LoveAtFirstSight: Homer experiences this upon meeting Marge, albeit Season 15 would reveal that [[AlreadyMetEveryone they briefly met as children and didn't recognize each other later]].
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* ShotgunWedding: Lisa initially asks to hear the story of how Homer proposed to Marge, cuing a flashback to the two of them finding out about her SurprisePregnancy with Bart. They decide to tell the kids the story of how they met instead.
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* ContinuityNod: A few episodes earlier in "Bart Gets Hit By a Car," Marge notes that Dr. Hibbert has been the family's physician "ever since the day I became a mother." A flashback in this episode shows this to be very literally the case, as Dr. Hibbert was the one who broke the news of her SurprisePregnancy to her and Homer.
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* DumbIsGood: The other candidate for Marge's heart is her debate team rival Artie Ziff, who's as intelligent as Homer is dim. Unfortunately, [[SmallNameBigEgo he knows it]].
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* HonkingArrivingCar: Played with. Teenage Homer is walking on the side of the road, after he ran out of money to pay for his limousine rental for the prom, and Marge arrives in her own car to offer Homer a ride, after Artie Ziff brought her back home. However, Homer initially mistakes Marge's friendly tooting of the horn on her arrival for some blowhard driver being overly aggressive.
--> [Toot Toot!]
--> '''Homer''': Shut up!
--> [Toot Toot!]
--> '''Homer''': I'm over as far as I can go!
--> [Toot Toot!]
--> '''Homer''': Alright! Alright! I'll ''walk in the MUD!''
--> [Toot Toot!]
--> '''Homer''': Shut up!
--> [Toot Toot!]
--> '''Homer''': I'm over as far as I can go!
--> [Toot Toot!]
--> '''Homer''': Alright! Alright! I'll ''walk in the MUD!''
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Episode - 7F12\\
First Aired - 1/31/1991\\
First Aired - 1/31/1991\\
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First Aired - 1/31/1991\\
'''Original air date:''' 1/31/1991
'''Production code:''' 7F12
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* CouchGag: Repeat of the Couch Gag from "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E1BartGetsAnF Bart Gets an F]]", but without Homer saying "D'oh".
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-->'''Bart:''' Hey everybody, if you look real close, you can kinda make them out!
-->'''Homer:''' Hey yeah... yeah! I think I can!
-->'''Marge:''' I think this is sick... They're staring at a dot!
-->'''Homer:''' (despairing) She's right! She's right! (sobs) Oh I miss TV, dear God! Just give me one channel.
-->'''Homer:''' Hey yeah... yeah! I think I can!
-->'''Marge:''' I think this is sick... They're staring at a dot!
-->'''Homer:''' (despairing) She's right! She's right! (sobs) Oh I miss TV, dear God! Just give me one channel.
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* SickAndWrong: After the television goes on the fritz and Bart claims that if they can look really close at the dot on it you can kind of make out something on the screen, a skeptical Marge declares their actions as sick.
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* {{Mooning}}: Homer tries to get Marge interested in him by joining the debate team. His idea of a rebuttal involved showing off his butt.
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* HowDadMetMom: This episode tells the story of how Homer and Marge met in high school.
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* TheSeventies: Complete with several background oddities from the period. The commentary notes of Homer's guidance counselor playing with a Newton's cradle, "In case you forgot it was the '70s."
* SeventiesHair: Homer, Barney, and other men have long sideburns and heavy bangs while the girls like Marge and her friend and sisters have long hair parted in the center.
* SeventiesHair: Homer, Barney, and other men have long sideburns and heavy bangs while the girls like Marge and her friend and sisters have long hair parted in the center.
* MakeUpIsEvil: When Marge is getting ready for prom, Mrs. Bouvier comes in to pinch Marge's cheeks to make them rosier. When Marge suggests using the painless rouge instead, Mrs. Bouvier says "Ladies pinch, Whores use Rouge".
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* TheSeventies: Complete with several background oddities from the period. The commentary notes of Homer's guidance counselor playing with a Newton's cradle, "In case you forgot it was the '70s."
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-->'''Abe''': Why don't you grab yourself a beer, boy?
-->'''Homer''': But Dad, I don't drink-
-->'''Abe''': Cut the crap! ''([[SarcasmMode in a mocking voice]])'' "I just collect the cans, Daddy!" [[INeedAFreakingDrink Now grab yourself a beer and get me one too]]!
-->'''Homer''': But Dad, I don't drink-
-->'''Abe''': Cut the crap! ''([[SarcasmMode in a mocking voice]])'' "I just collect the cans, Daddy!" [[INeedAFreakingDrink Now grab yourself a beer and get me one too]]!
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-->'''Homer''':
'''Homer:''' But Dad, I don't
-->'''Abe''':
'''Abe:''' Cut the crap! ''([[SarcasmMode in a mocking voice]])'' "I just collect the cans, Daddy!" [[INeedAFreakingDrink Now grab yourself a beer and get me one too]]!
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** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E12IMarriedMarge I Married Marge]]," Homer does land a job at the power plant. And, as viewed in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E5HomerDefined Homer Defined]]," it turns out he was hired under Project Bootstrap, which was a Ford Administration program asking companies to hire unskilled workers. This episode's time period is near the end of the Nixon Administration.
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** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E12IMarriedMarge I Married Marge]]," Marge]]", Homer does land a job at the power plant. And, as viewed in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E5HomerDefined Homer Defined]]," Defined]]", it turns out he was hired under Project Bootstrap, which was a Ford Administration program asking companies to hire unskilled workers. This episode's time period is near the end of the Nixon Administration.
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-->'''Barney:''' Ey, will you go to prom with me?
-->'''Random Girl:''' Good God no!
-->'''Random Girl:''' Good God no!
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-->'''Barney:''' Ey, will you go to prom with me?
-->'''Randomme?\\
'''Random Girl:''' Good God no!
-->'''Random
'''Random Girl:''' Good God no!
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* DeadpanSnarker: The Wiseguy voice debuts as Homer's limo drive.
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* DeadpanSnarker: The Wiseguy voice debuts as Homer's limo drive.driver.
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* MissingMom: During the flashbacks we only see Abe and Homer at their home, with Mona (who hadn't yet been created) nowhere to be seen. At the time of this episode's creation the writers hadn't yet decided what to do with the character of Homer's mother, and so decided to leave it to the viewer's determination as to whether she was just out working that night, whether she had passed away, or whether she had left Abe (the latter of which being the one they eventually went with, albeit not because of their relationship breaking down as such).
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Barney goes streaking at the prom, to the chagrin of the principal and amusements of the students.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The critics the family watch right before the TV goes out are clearly supposed to be based on Series/SiskelAndEbert.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Barney goes streaking at the prom, to the chagrin of the principal and amusements of the students.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The critics the family watch right before the TV goes out are clearly supposed to be based on Series/SiskelAndEbert.
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* MissingMom: During the flashbacks flashbacks, we only see Abe and Homer at their home, with Mona (who hadn't yet been created) nowhere to be seen. At the time of this episode's creation creation, the writers hadn't yet decided what to do with the character of Homer's mother, and so decided to leave it to the viewer's determination as to whether she was just out working that night, whether she had passed away, or whether she had left Abe (the latter of which being the one they eventually went with, albeit not because of their relationship breaking down as such).
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Barney goes streaking at the prom, to the chagrin of the principal andamusements amusement of the students.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: The critics the family watch right before the TV goes out are clearly supposed to bebased on Series/SiskelAndEbert.''Series/SiskelAndEbert''.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Barney goes streaking at the prom, to the chagrin of the principal and
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-->'''Abe''': What's the matter with you boy?
-->'''Homer''': Nothing.
-->'''Abe''': You haven't said "Poo" all night and usually I have to wrestle the ''[fried chicken]'' bucket out of your greasy mitts!
-->'''Homer''': Nothing.
-->'''Abe''': You haven't said "Poo" all night and usually I have to wrestle the ''[fried chicken]'' bucket out of your greasy mitts!
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-->'''Homer''': Nothing.
-->'''Abe''':
'''Homer:''' Nothing.\\
'''Abe:''' You haven't said "Poo" all night and usually I have to wrestle the ''[fried chicken]'' bucket out of your greasy mitts!
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Artie Ziff is an intelligent and popular smooth talker where he gets constant accolades from the school and the approval of the Bouvier family but is disrespectful and condescending to everyone around him as well as a sexual predator.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashbackWholeEpisodeFlashback: This episode tells the story of how Homer and Marge first met.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: After Marge has tutored Homer on French, the two are shown dancing to "The Hustle" by Van McCoy, a song that came out in April 1975, even though the scene takes place in 1974.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: After Marge has tutored Homer on French, the two are shown dancing to "The Hustle" by Van McCoy, [=Van McCoy=], a song that came out in April 1975, even though the scene takes place in 1974.
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* ArtisticLicenseHistory: After Marge has tutored Homer on French, the two are shown dancing to "The Hustle" by Van McCoy, a song that came out in April 1975, even though the scene takes place in 1974.
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* MakeOutPoint: Artie and Marge go to one after the prom.
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* MakeOutPoint: MakeOutPoint:
** Artie and Marge go to one after the prom.
** Artie and Marge go to one after the prom.
* MissingMom: During the flashbacks we only see Abe and Homer at their home, with Mona (who hadn't yet been created) nowhere to be seen. At the time of this episode's creation the writers hadn't yet decided what to do with the character of Homer's mother, and so decided to leave it to the viewer's determination as to whether she was just out working that night, whether she had passed away, or whether she had left Abe (the latter of which being the one they eventually went with, albeit not because of their relationship breaking down as such).
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Artie Ziff, when he drops Marge home, he asks her not to tell anyone about his "busy hands" because he claims he's so important it'll damage the town to hear about it. Marge doesn't agree.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Artie Ziff, Ziff; when he drops Marge home, he asks her not to tell anyone about his "busy hands" because he claims he's so important it'll damage the town to hear about it. Marge doesn't agree.agree, but evidently decides that it wouldn't be worth the trouble of making an issue out of it -- likely because actually doing so probably wouldn't have achieved anything other than mildly embarrassing Artie (and possibly getting him yelled at by Marge's father), given the time period.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: When Ziff asks Marge to not talk about how he treated her tonight, he puts it as how his downfall would "devastate the town".
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* DateRapeAverted: Artie tries to force Marge to have sex with him, and rips her dress. Homer patches it up with the corsage he bought for her. She slaps him in the face, which stops him, and demands to be taken home.
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* DateRapeAverted: Artie tries to force Marge to have sex with him, and rips her dress. Homer patches it up with the corsage he bought for her. She slaps him in the face, which stops him, and demands to be taken home. Later on she passes by Homer on the way home and picks him up. Homer then patches it up with the corsage he bought for her.
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* DateRapeAverted: Artie tries to force Marge to have sex with him, and rips her dress. [[spoiler: Homer patches it up with the corsage he bought for her.]] She slaps him in the face, which stops him, and demands to be taken home.
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* DateRapeAverted: Artie tries to force Marge to have sex with him, and rips her dress. [[spoiler: Homer patches it up with the corsage he bought for her.]] her. She slaps him in the face, which stops him, and demands to be taken home.
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* HilariousInFlashback: Homer, as a student, scoffed at the idea of working at Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.
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Clancy is anything but positive when regarding Homer. "When Simpson showed up, it took years off my life."
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Upon arriving at the Bouvier house, Patty, Selma, and Marge's mother immediately take a disliking to Homer, while her father appeared largely ambivalent. However, after her disastrous date with Artie, Marge over-hears her parents arguing over her suitors, with her father voicing his preference for Homer.
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* WorthIt: Homer considers landing a week's worth of detention a fair exchange for getting to introduce himself to Marge.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Barney goes streaking at the prom, to the chagrin of the principal and amusements of the students.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Upon arriving at the Bouvier house, Patty, Selma, and Marge's mother immediately take a disliking to Homer, while her father appeared largely ambivalent. However, after her disastrous date with Artie, Marge over-hears her parents arguing over her suitors, with her father voicing his preference for Homer.
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* BlatantLies: Abe is pretty aware that Homer's drinking already at his age.
-->'''Abe''': Why don't you grab yourself a beer, boy?
-->'''Homer''': But Dad, I don't drink-
-->'''Abe''': Cut the crap! ''([[SarcasmMode in a mocking voice]])'' "I just collect the cans, Daddy!" [[INeedAFreakingDrink Now grab yourself a beer and get me one too]]!
-->'''Abe''': Why don't you grab yourself a beer, boy?
-->'''Homer''': But Dad, I don't drink-
-->'''Abe''': Cut the crap! ''([[SarcasmMode in a mocking voice]])'' "I just collect the cans, Daddy!" [[INeedAFreakingDrink Now grab yourself a beer and get me one too]]!
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: How Abe recognises Homer is lovelorn, given he's not behaving the way he normally does at dinner (i.e., making crude jokes and stuffing his face)
-->'''Abe''': What's the matter with you boy?
-->'''Homer''': Nothing.
-->'''Abe''': You haven't said "Poo" all night and usually I have to wrestle the ''[fried chicken]'' bucket out of your greasy mitts!
-->'''Abe''': What's the matter with you boy?
-->'''Homer''': Nothing.
-->'''Abe''': You haven't said "Poo" all night and usually I have to wrestle the ''[fried chicken]'' bucket out of your greasy mitts!
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** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E12IMarriedMarge I Married Marge]]," Homer does land a job at the power plant. And, as viewed in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E5Homer Defined Homer Defined]]," it turns out he was hired under Project Bootstrap, which was a Ford Administration program asking companies to hire unskilled workers. This episode's time period is near the end of the Nixon Administration.
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** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E12IMarriedMarge I Married Marge]]," Homer does land a job at the power plant. And, as viewed in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E5Homer Defined "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E5HomerDefined Homer Defined]]," it turns out he was hired under Project Bootstrap, which was a Ford Administration program asking companies to hire unskilled workers. This episode's time period is near the end of the Nixon Administration.
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** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E12IMarriedMarge I Married Marge]]," Homer does land a job at the power plant. And, as viewed in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS3E5Homer Defined Homer Defined]]," it turns out he was hired under Project Bootstrap, which was a Ford Administration program asking companies to hire unskilled workers. This episode's time period is near the end of the Nixon Administration.
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* DateRapeAverted: Artie tries to force Marge to have sex with him, and rips her dress. [[spoiler: Homer patches it up with the corsage he bought for her.]] She slaps him in the face, which stops him, and demands to be taken home.
