YMMV / The Simpsons S16 E10 "There's Something About Marrying"

• Fair for Its Day: This episode drew a lot of praise and controversy in the lead-up to its debut and was the only episode in the show's history to have a disclaimer about content before its original broadcast, since same-sex marriage was still a touchy and divisive topic at the time. With the growing acceptance of same-sex marriage and the prioritization of other LGBTQIA+ issues, the episode at best doesn't come off as particularly groundbreaking. And at worst, unintentionally transphobic, given the reveal of Patty's partner being a man in disguise.
• Genius Bonus: During the montage of Marge not getting that Patty is a lesbian, Patty puts a poster of her crush, Miss Hathaway from The Beverly Hillbillies on her wall. Nancy Kulp, who played Miss Hathaway, was a lesbian in real life.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Krusty defends himself on Smartline with the claim that the Krusty Burger Whatchamacarcass Sandwich doesn't have diseased meat, it has "non-diseased meat from diseased animals", and that supposedly "everyone does it!" In 2014, a California slaughterhouse got in trouble for selling 9 million pounds of meat from diseased animals. The owner even got sentenced to a year in prison.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: While looking at himself in the mirror, Homer imagines himself marrying and making love to a clone of himself. In the "Treehouse Of Horror XXXIV" segment "Lout Break", Homer accidentally sets loose a virus that turns everybody in town (except Bart, Lisa, and Maggie, who are immune thanks to already having his DNA) into clones of himself, including Marge, whom he finds attractive, which makes him ignore Professor Frink's pleas to help him stop the spread of the virus.
• I Knew It!: Fox made a huge deal about how a well-known Simpsons character would come out of the closet in this episode. Most people correctly guessed it would be Patty, since Smithers coming out of his Transparent Closet would be too obvious and anticlimactic.^note Although, Smithers would later come out proper 11 seasons later.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The main plot of this episode concerns the topic of same-sex marriage which became legalized in all 50 U.S. states and all American territories on June 26th, 2015.

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