Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play

Season 17, Episode 22, Aired
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Homer and Marge offer up martial advice to the Springfield Isotopes struggling first baseman, who is having problems with his pop star wife.
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  • Homer and Marge become marriage counselors for first baseman Buck Mitchell and his hot singing wife Tabitha

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    By tigerdude22, Feb 03, 2012 Report Abuse
    Homer and Marge offer up martial advice to the Springfield Isotopes struggling first baseman, who is having problems with his pop star wife. I thought that this was a superb episode of "The Simpsons". It was very funny and it was very entertaining for the most part. My score is a little low because I didn't really like all of the men making fun of Buck Mitchell because his wife Tabitha was "putting on a show" at the baseball game plus it got a little boring in the second half of the episode. Homer and Marge being marriage counselors was funny and entertaining. It was very funny when Homer didn't know that was him in the Couple Cam with Marge at the baseball game. More parts in this episode were very funny as well. Overall, a superb episode of "The Simpsons"..... not my favorite but it was funny and entertaining for the most part. 9/10moreless

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    By futuramarama, Jul 02, 2011 Report Abuse
    Homer and Marge counsel a couple on having a good marriage, but things go bad when Homer and the wife of the couple they are counseling are caught in a compromising situation, which makes his own marriage suffer too.

    Good episode. It was another 'marriage fight' episode, and they have had a lot of those in this show, but it still brought some good laughs to the table for me, and that's really all I could have hoped for, so it is a decent enough episode to get a solid "B" as a grade from me. Great episode, i think.moreless

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  • Great way to end season 17, but could have been a bit funnier though...

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    By Iverson82094, Dec 30, 2007 Report Abuse
    When Homer hears that the Isotopes are on a winning streak, he takes the family to the game. The first baseman's game is going bad, caused by his sexy singing wife Tabitha embarrassing him during the game's national anthem. Buck Mitchell sees Marge and Homer's kiss on the game's Kiss-Cam and comes to them for marital advice. They start working with the couple and Buck's baseball career turns around, but it and the Simpson marriage goes awry again when Buck catches Homer giving Tabitha a neck massage. While Marge and Homer try keeping their marriage together they also try to get Buck and Tabitha back together.moreless

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  • not that great

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    By bender21345, Dec 02, 2007 Report Abuse
    it was not the best episode of a terrible season making it a below average episode it was not the greatest episode i ever seen but it was better than the last one.

    the episode starts off with the simpson family goung to a baseball game and the best batter wife makes a whore out of her self during the game causeing the batter to lose his focus and lose the game after the game the main batter (I think his name was buck) comes over to there house for marital advice they accept the offer to help the buck but could this affect there own marrigemoreless

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  • Homer And Marge Are Marrige Therapist.

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    By SimpsonFan0505, Mar 20, 2007 Report Abuse
    This Episode was a very good season finale. It was Funny and Silly. It Had a Good Storyline. Homer and Marge Turn A Couple Play Was awesome. The One Baseball Player On Springfields baseball team was having problems with his marrige. He asks Homer How Do You Have Such A Good Marriage I Think. Homer And Marge Talk Too Them about There Marrige I Think. Man, I Dont Remember all lot. I Remember How I Laughed alot And It Had A Very Good Story Line. Well The Simpsons Keep On Having Funny And Good New Episodes. Like I Said Before I Hope This Series Never Ends. SIMPSONS ROCK!moreless

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    • According to this episode, Sideshow Mel has an as of yet unnamed sister. Edit
    • Music From This Episode "And Then He Kissed Me" by The Crystals. (Used to accompany the "Kiss Cam" segment at the baseball game.) Edit

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    • Blackboard Joke: Have a great summer, everyone. Couch Gag: The family enters the living room, but their couch shows its teeth and begins to come after them. They run out the front door and onto the street, where we see that their neighbors are having couch troubles of their own. We cut to Sherri and Terri's house where the twins are sitting on a bean bag couch that swallows them whole. Meanwhile Springfield's finest are being terrorized in their squad car by a couch and two chairs; Professor Frink's flying sofa is firing energy beams at him and Moe uses a shotgun to dispense with his bar furniture that is on the move. Finally Homer (tired from running) stops to rest at Couch World, where he is smothered by couches. Edit

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    • Moe: Buck! Buck! It's me! That weird guy from the stadium! Buck: There were a lot of weird guys at the stadium. Moe: You know, (sobs) I remembered you. Edit
    • Marge: (Reading from a counseling book) "Try to frame criticism of your spouse in a positive manner." Buck: Well, I'm positively sick of her shaking her lady parts for the world to eyeball. Edit
    • Moe: (While Tabitha Vixx is singing) Hey Buck! How does it feel that your wife is turning on a creep like me? Weird I bet. Heh heh. Edit

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    • The title of the episode alludes to the phrase "turn a double play" which is used in baseball when a team gets two outs simultaneously. Edit
    • The Pietà The file photo of Homer and Marge shown on the news after they help with the marriage counseling is based on The Pietà (artwork based on The Virgin Mary holding Jesus after his death). Edit
    • Homer: (to Tabitha) Why didn't you marry one of your crummy backup dancers? A reference to pop star Britney Spears' former husband Kevin Federline, who used to be one of her backup dancers. Edit

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