History Recap / TheSimpsonsS3E12IMarriedMarge

** JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Selma, at least, reunites Marge with Homer, when she sees how upset Marge is. And she felt guilty for not telling Marge sooner.

* PetTheDog: Selma tells Marge where Homer is working when she and Patty find out, while Jacqueline Bouvier at least has the decency to drive Homer to the hospital.

* WorstWeddingEver: Downplayed: while their hearts were in the right place, the fact that Homer and Marge got married in a cheap, run-down chapel with a insensitive Justice of the Peace to marry them qualifies as this. "A Milhouse Divided" several seasons later elaborates on this further with Marge being bummed out that no family or friends were there and Homer buys her a wedding cake in the form of a Carvel whale.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Marge and Homer saw a ''Star Wars'' film (specifically, ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''). Most future episodes call it ''Cosmic Wars''.

* WorstWeddingEver: Downplayed: while their hearts were in the right place, the fact that Homer and Marge got married in a cheap, run-down chapel with a insensitive Justice of the Peace to marry them qualifies as this. "A Milhouse Divided" several seasons later elaborates on this further with Marge being bummed out that no family or friends were there and Homer guys her a wedding cake in the form of a Carvel whale.

* GodIsLoveSongs: Discussed in-universe, in regards to "You Light Up My Life"

* HappinessInMinimumWage: Homer liked working at the mini-golf course, as his boss was so lenient he clearly didn't notice or care that Homer's incompetence was ruining the customer's games. His view is also tinted by nostalgia, as a promise to someday ''hand out putters'' is followed by present Homer saying it was "a job with a future".
* HonorableMarriageProposal: After Marge gets pregnant, Homer asks Abe what to do, and he suggests that Homer marry her, Homer asks if its because its the right thing to do, and Abe responds that he should do it because he "will never do any better."

** Parodied; the chapel Homer and Marge go to get married is called "Shotgun Pete's"

** {{Series/Dallas}}: Homer wears an "I Shot J.R."-shirt.

-->'''Marge''': Tenth notice... 90 days over due... we break thumbs?

* DisappearedDad: Marge's father, Clancy Bouvier doesn't appear in any of the flashbacks, despite being seen in "The Way We Was". And unlike the situation around Homer's mother in that episode -- she wasn't mentioned, but Homer's and Abe's home was only fleetingly seen, allowing for the implication that she just happened to be out of the house -- we see the Bouvier family home enough times to establish that he really isn't around any more. This implies that he either died or left Jacqueline (later established as the former) at some point after Marge graduated from high school.

* ExactWords: When Homer says the first thing Bart will see upon being born is a man with a good job. His sisters-in-law says it'll be the doctor.

* {{Retcon}}: Back in "Homer Defined" it was said that Homer had been hired to work to the nuclear power plant under a fictitious UsefulNotes/GeraldFord-era employment programme called "Project Bootstrap". Yet here, we find out that he started working at the power plant in 1980, near the end of UsefulNotes/JimmyCarter's administration.

* ShutUpHannibal: Homer delivers an ''epic'' one of these to the Bouvier family at the end in the delivery room before Marge goes into labour.

-->'''Homer''': NO, ''YOU'' LISTEN! This is ''my'' wife, this is ''my'' kid and I'm paying for this delivery, so if you wanna stay, you'd better show me some respect!

* DisappearedDad: Marge's father, Clancy Bouvier doesn't appear in any of the flashbacks, despite being seen in "The Way We Was". And unlike the situation around Homer's mother in that episode -- she wasn't mentioned, but Homer's and Abe's home was only fleetingly seen, allowing for the implication that she just happened to be out of the house -- we see the Bouvier family home enough times to establish that he really isn't around any more, implying that he either died or left Jacqueline (later established as the former) at some point after Marge graduated from high school.

* YouRemindMeOfX: When Smithers is protesting Burns' hiring of Homer, Burns comments that Homer's "feisty, yet spineless" attitude reminds him of "a young bootlick named Waylon Smithers."

* WackyCravings: Marge craves pancake mix whenever she's pregnant.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Marge and Homer saw a ''Star Wars'' film. Most future episodes call it ''Cosmic Wars''.

* ShotgunWedding: Though no one forces Homer to marry Marge, he still does it because he loves her and he doesn't want to get in trouble for knocking her up.

** The scene comes toward the end of the movie.

-->'''Patty''':Hey listen, fat boy-!

* PetTheDog: Selma tells Marge where Homer is working when she and Patty find out.

* HappinessInMinimumWage: Homer liked working at the mini-golf course, as his boss was so lenient he clearly didn't notice or care that Homer's incompetence was ruining the customer's games. His view is also tinted by nostalgia, as he thought the promise to someday ''hand out putters'' meant it was "a job with a future".

* MyGreatestFailure: Watching everything he bought for Marge and their baby be repossessed was this for Homer and he left in the middle of the night so he could find work and send every dollar to Marge.