YMMV / The Simpsons S8 E22: "In Marge We Trust"

• Crosses the Line Twice: Ned sapping Lovejoy's passion for preaching by calling him up about every slightest little thing he did that could be seen as wrong in The Bible, to the point that Lovejoy stops caring altogether? Tragic. The Last Straw being Ned worrying that he may have swallowed a toothpick, which isn't even something The Bible would mention, let alone condemn? Hilarious.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • While he's in the baboon exhibit, Ned shouts that he wants Maude to arrange a fancy funeral for him. Maude, not Ned, would die first, as seen in "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily", three seasons later.
  • One scene has Moe call Marge up to say that he's lost the will to live, to which she tells him that he has plenty to live for. Unfortunately, despite Marge's advice, Moe's suicidal tendencies would only get worse as the series went on, to the point that it's eventually revealed that the Suicide Hotline blocked his number because even they'd given up on him.
• Woolseyism: The Japanese dub, for obvious reasons, took some liberties in the translation of this episode:
  • When Homer calls the company where the Mr. Sparkle soap is produced in Japan, the "He speaks English, you take it" part is replaced with "He's American, you take it" instead.
  • All the Japanese-language dialogue was redubbed back, since it was spoken in broken Japanese in the English version.
  • Mr. Sparkle speaks in a very over-the-top manner, mostly to keep the same style used in the English version, and also as a parody of very similar commercials done in Japan in the early 80s and 70s.

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