The Twisted World of Marge Simpson

] The episode's final scene, the mob war, was conceived by Matt Groening as no one else could come up with an ending.

Cultural references

The scene in which the Springfield Mafia destroy all of the competition to "Pretzel Wagon" is based on a scene from "Goodfellas". Frank Ormand's "You'll be there" speech mirrors that of Tom Joad from John Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath". Lemmon's portrayal of Frank Ormand is based on the character Shelley Levene in "Glengarry Glen Ross", also played by Lemmon. The character Gil Gunderson, who would not be introduced until the episode "Realty Bites", was also based on Levene. Rumer and Scout, two of Cletus's children, are named after Bruce Willis and Demi Moore's children.

Reception

The authors of the book "I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide", Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, called it "A clever, and rather unusual, idea for an episode that shows a frightening bitchiness beneath the middle-class veneer of smalltown businesswomen." The scene with Cletus's children is one of two scenes from this episode that Josh Weinstein considers to be "classic", with the second being the sequence when the crowd throw their free pretzels onto the baseball field, knocking Whitey Ford unconscious. The Ford scene was placed twenty-fourth on ESPN.com's list of the "Top 100 Simpsons sport moments", released in 2004. Greg Collins, the author of the list, added that "Every time it looks like a fight is about to start at a baseball game, I start quoting this scene." [cite web|author=Collins, Greg|title=The Simpsons Got Game|publisher=ESPN.com|date=2004-01-23|url=http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page3/story?page=simpsons/part4|accessdate=2007-03-29] The A.V. Club named the baseball commentators line "Aaaannnd heeerrre come the pretzels" one of the quotes from "The Simpsons" that can be used in everyday situations. [cite web|url=http://www.avclub.com/content/node/47756/2|title=Beyond "D'oh!": Simpsons Quotes For Everyday Use|author=Bahn, Christopher; Donna Bowman, Josh Modell, Noel Murray, Nathan Rabin, Tasha Robinson, Kyle Ryan, Scott Tobias|date=2006-04-26|accessdate=2007-04-24|publisher=The A.V. Club]

References

External links

* [http://www.thesimpsons.com/episode_guide/0811.htm "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"] at The Simpsons.com
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* [http://www.tv.com/episode/1449/summary.html "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"] at TV.com
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701266/ "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"] at the Internet Movie Database