The Simpsons: All's Fair in Oven War
All's Fair in Oven War
- 337.
- Season: 16
- Episode: 2
- First Aired: 11/14/2004
- Prod Code: FABF20
The house next door is for sale and Marge and Homer go inside to check it out; Marge falls in love with the kitchen. Back at home Marge asks Homer for a new kitchen. Rather than hire someone, Homer decides to do the renovation himself. While demolishing the kitchen, Homer unleashes his old collection of Playdude magazines. He tells Marge he keeps them for the articles; she obliges him by cutting up the magazines, keeping only the articles. Now that they are useless, Homer throws them away, only to have them found by Bart and Milhouse. Using these 1970's era magazines as a model, Bart decides to renovate the Treehouse. After Homer has made a mess of the kitchen remodeling, Marge is finally able to hire a contractor, who completes the job "on-time" two years later for $100,000. Marge's first new dish out of her kitchen gets rave reviews and she decides to enter the Ovenfresh Bakeoff with her Dessert Dogs. At the bakeoff Marge encounters stiff and ruthless competition, so ruthless that Marge resorts to cheating to get even, much to Lisa's dismay. Chief Wiggum and other concerned parents talk with Homer about Bart's spreading the Playdude philosophy to the other children. Homer has a talk with Bart about the facts of life, which a horrified Bart quickly spreads to the other children. Meantime, in the finals for the bakeoff against Brandine, Marge admits to her foul play and Lisa's faith in her mother is restored. Add a recap »
- Writers:
- Matt Selman
- Director:
- Mark Kirkland
- Stars:
- Julie Kavner (Marge Simpson, Patty Bouvier, and Selma Bouvier)
- Hank Azaria (Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Lou, and others)
- Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson)
- Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, and others)
- Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, and others)
- Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Waylon Smithers, Kent Brockman, and others)
- Recurring Role:
- Karl Wiedergott (Additional Voices)
- Pamela Hayden (Milhouse Van Houten, Rod Flanders, Jimbo Jones, and others)
- Marcia Wallace (Edna Krabappel)
- Tress MacNeille (Agnes Skinner, Brandine Del Roy, Dolph and others)
- Guest Star:
- Thomas Pynchon (Himself)
- James Caan (Himself)
- The headline "Father of eight missing" and a picture of Apu appears on the front page of the news paper that Marge is reading. This happens shortly after Apu "jokes" about leaving his family and changing his name. edit »
- The song being played as Homer imagines living next door to himself is "Separate Ways (World Apart)" by Journey. edit »
- Blackboard Joke: None.
Couch Gag: The couch is outdoors but mounted on the end of a catapult. The family members sit in their usual places on the couch, which is then launched by the catapult sending the family off into the distance. edit »
- Marge: (Reading a note from Lisa) I look up to you... because you let me down. That's clever. And devastating. edit »
- Marge: I stretch out your father`s meat loaf with sawdust. edit »
- Homer: A contractor? Those guys are the biggest crooks around. They charge for materials AND labor. Pick one, jerks! edit »
- Marge: Wow, a breadmaker maker. edit »
- Marge: Oh my God! Someone somewhere says I'm better then someone else. edit »
- When Homer tells Marge that she'll always be the best chef in their house, she responds with, "Eh, B.F.D." This acronym stands for "big f***ing deal", which is very out of character for Marge. edit »
- Sign outside the First Church of Springf: "Church Potluck. What a Friend We Have in Cheese Puffs"
The sign outside the church, announcing the church potluck, is a play on the gospel hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." edit » - :
Plenty of references to Playboy magazine:
• Playdude magazine – Homer's old magazines found when the kitchen remodeling commences.
• The Playdude Mansion – Bart turns his treehouse into a girlie hangout, and Bart and Milhouse dressing a la Hugh Hefner. Don't forget the parties and special guests. edit » - Plenty of food mascots in Homer's dream, including:
• Planters Peanut's Mr. Peanut (Homer identifies as Mr. Cashew)
• The mustached-Pringle's Chip.
• Charlie Tuna of Star-Kist Tuna.
• The Keebler Elves (the Simpsons' equivalent being the Koobler dwarves).
• Rice Krispies' Snap, Crackle and Pop (or, in the world of Sprinfield, Snip, Krinkle and Poof).
• The Pillsbury Dough-Boy.
• The Indian Maiden from Land-O-Lakes butter.
• Toucan Sam from Froot Loops cereal.
• Count Chocula from his eponymously named cereal.
• The Jolly Green Giant (of Green Giant frozen vegetables).
• Twinkie the Kid (Homer bearhugs "Twinkle the Kid," crushing him and causing the angry mascots to stalk Homer). edit » - The Godfather
James Caan getting ambushed by gunfire at the toll booth in the closing scene – by slack-toothed yokel variants, Cledus' revenge for Caan's stealing Brandine's heart – and being shot repeatedly, even after suffering the fatal wound, is reminiscent of the 1972 film The Godfather. Caan was shot more than 60 times as he tried to escape his car, and his body took at least a dozen more bullet wounds after he collapsed to the ground. edit »
All's Fair in Oven War
The Bottom Line: "Series classic"12/02/07 09:32am | report abuseSeason 16 is two for two so far..... The "A" story and the "B" story were both excellente.... ...Continue »
All's Fair in Oven War
The Bottom Line: "Filler episode"08/17/07 04:05pm | report abuseIt's not bad as such, but it's definitely far from good. It's one of the first episodes where humour hasn't really mattered, as long as there's a good plot. Except the plot's not all that good.. ...Continue »
All's Fair in Oven War
The Bottom Line: "Painful to watch"05/25/07 11:15pm | report abuseOne of the worst episodes. ...Continue »
All's Fair in Oven War
The Bottom Line: "Another great installment"05/06/07 06:43pm | report abuseI like this episode because all of the family members are involved in the plot. Plus you get to see new sides of Marge and Homer's talk with Bart about birds and bees. ...Continue »
All's Fair in Oven War
The Bottom Line: "Another great installment"04/18/07 09:28pm | report abuseThis episode is definently worth your time. ...Continue »
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