History Recap / TheSimpsonsS8E11TheTwistedWorldOfMargeSimpson

* {{Bowdlerized}}: The gorier descriptions of the Yakuza and the end fight on the lawn have been edited on the UK's Sky One channel.

Marge goes into business for herself with a soft pretzel franchise (with some help from the local Mafia), only to be challenged by her former small business colleagues (who hired the Yakuza[[note]]Japanese mafia[[/note]] to take her down).
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* {{Bowdlerization}}: The gorier descriptions of the Yakuza and the end fight on the lawn have been edited on the UK's Sky One channel.

''(RevealShot shows that he's actually talking to Fat Tony and the Mafia)''
* StartMyOwn: Marge takes Lisa's advice to join a franchise to beat her [[strike:former friends]] enemies, at their own game.

* ProveIAmNotBluffing: When Fat Tony orders Marge to pay him the profits from the pretzel sales:
--> '''Fat Tony''': You have twenty-four hours. And to show you I'm serious, you have ''twelve'' hours. See you at 6 AM.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Bart and Lisa are woken up by the gang war on their lawn, when Lisa asks what's going on, Marge says "It's just a mob war. Go back to back." in the same tone one would say as if it was raining.

* LongList: Cletus calls all of his children outside: Tiffany, Heather, Cody, Dillon, Dermott, Jordan, Taylor, Brittany, Wesley, Rumor, Scout, Cassidy, Zoe, Chloe, Max, Hunter, Kendall, Caitlan, Noah, Sasha, Morgan, Kira, Ian, Lauren, [[VideoGame/QBert Q-Bert]] Phil.

* StartMyOwn: Marge takes Lisa's advice to join a franchise to beat her [[strike]]former friends[[/strike]] enemies, at their own game.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the beginning of the episode, Marge is kicked out of her friends' group and becomes their [[ArchEnemeis arch enemy]], but in the next episode that features her with them, they are all friends once more. Do they even resolve their differences in the end or what? And who won against the Springfield Mafia and Yakuza?

!!This episode contains examples of:

** TheEvilGenus: Edna Krabappel

* TemptingFate: After Marge tells her family about no longer being one of the Investorettes, Homer tells her that she doesn't need to worry about that for as long as he can provide for them. Right after that, he hits one of his eyes with a hot dog he's trying to eat and it makes him unable to work.

* VillainyFreeVillain: the Investorettes weren't really doing anything wrong by kicking Marge out of their investment group (Marge herself admitted she didn't like "the whole idea of 'investing'"), and they were well within their rights to compete with her when they both started up mobile snack businesses. But they're such ''jerks'' about it that you're not sad at all when Marge's Mafia goons blow up their truck.
** Keep in mind, Marge ''didn't'' know about Homer getting the Mafia involved at first, but didn't have much choice to go along with it to save both their necks when they wanted their cut. The Investorettes on the other hand, ''knowingly'' hired the Yakuza to compete and take down Marge.

* StartMyOwn: Marge takes Lisa's advice to join a franchise to beat her former friends, now enemies, at their own game.

* TookALevelInJerkass: The Investorettes, especially [[{{AlphaBitch}} Helen Lovejoy]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the beginning of the episode, Marge is kicked out of her friends' group and becomes their worst enemy, but in the next episode that features her with them, they are all friends once more. Do they even resolve their differences in the end or what? And who won against the Springfield Mafia and Yakuza?

* OutrunTheFireball: Parodied when the mob blow up the Investorettes' falafel wagon. Maude is talking to Chief Wiggum who guides her through the process for throwing herself on the floor in front of the fireball.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome / StrollingThroughTheChaos: The little guy in the Yakuza who is standing perfectly still as the fight rages around him. Homer wants to see him fight and knows it'll be good, but the second Marge gets him to come inside, we hear a barrage of screaming and punching. We see him later [[FunnyBackgroundEvent doing backflips through the Simpson's window]] (he apologizes to them before going back outside).

* TickerTapeParade:Marge stages a fake tickertape parade (with Lisa as an astronaut) to avoid littering laws when she throws flyers for her pretzel business off the buildings.

* TickerTapeParade: There's a gag where the family hold a fake parade (with Lisa as an astronaut) so they can drop leaflets for Marge's pretzel-selling business. Marge stages a tickertape parade to avoid littering laws when she throws flyers for her pretzel business off the buildings.

''(RevealShot shows that he's actually talking to a group of gangsters)''

''(RevealShot shows that he's actually talking to a group of gangsters)''

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the beginning of the episode, Marge is kicked out of her friends' group, but in the next episode that features her with them, they are all friends once more. Do they even resolve their differences in the end or what? And who won against the Springfield Mafia and Yakuza?

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: The little guy in Yakuza. Homer wants to see him fight and knows it'll be good, but the second Marge gets him to come inside, we hear a barrage of screaming and punching.

* {{Bowdlerization}}: The gorier descriptions of the Yakuza and the end fight on the lawn have been edited on the UK's Sky One channel.

* BaitAndSwitch: When it seemed Homer was asking for divine help, he was actually asking a favor from the Mafia.

!!Tropes:

Marge goes into business for herself with a soft pretzel franchise (with some help from the local Mafia), only to be challenged by her former small business colleagues (who hired the Yakuza[[note]]Japanese mafia[[/note]] to take her down).

Marge goes into business for herself with a soft pretzel franchise (with some help from the local Mafia), only to be challenged by her former small business colleagues (who hired the Yakuza to take her down).