Marge Gamer

Season 18, Episode 17, Aired
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Marge becomes a spectacle during a PTA meeting for not having an e-mail address, and she decides to take a chance on using the Internet. Amazed and delighted by all the Internet has to offer, Marge decides to join a popular role-playing fantasy game named "Earthland Realms." To Marge's dismay, the game has her interacting with practically the whole town of Springfield, including Bart, who happens to be the game's most feared and destructive player. Meanwhile, Homer saves Lisa's soccer game from cancellation after he volunteers to take the place of a referee who recently quit. However, Homer's refereeing skills only exasperate Lisa, and her competitive streak gets the best of her.moreless
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  • Not as good as I thought.

    7.5
    "Good"
    By Sami5118, Aug 12, 2010 Report Abuse
    Marge joins a popular role playing game called "Earthland Realms". Meanwhile Lisa falls in love with soccer after Homer saves Lisa's soccer game from cancellation by volunteering to take the place of a ref who quit.

    What I liked:
    * Lisa plays soccer. Which is kind of a surprise because she normally doesn't do stuff like that.
    * Homer the ref. I don't think that I would want my dad reffing my soccer games but I thought that it was pretty funny watching Homer ref Lisa's game.
    * Bart accidentally killing Marge on " Earthland Realms"

    What I didn't like:
    * The Marge part of the ep. To me, it seemed like it was yet another pathetic attempt to make Marge look cool.

    Overall, I think that this ep would've been better if they left the Marge part out of it. The rest of the ep was pretty good though. I would give that part an 8.5/10.moreless

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  • Marge bonds with Bart through World of Warcraft. Lisa loves soccer.

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    By Hornets3, Sep 04, 2009 Report Abuse
    Marge becomes a spectacle during a PTA meeting for not having an e-mail address, and she decides to take a chance on using the Internet. Amazed and delighted by all the Internet has to offer, Marge joins a popular role-playing fantasy game called "Earthland Realms." To Marge's dismay, the game has her interacting with practically the whole town of Springfield including Bart, who happens to be the game's most feared and destructive player. Meanwhile, Homer saves Lisa's soccer game from cancellation after he volunteers to take the place of a referee who recently quit. However, Homer's refereeing skills only exasperate Lisa, and her competitive streak gets the best of her. Personally I loved both story lines in this episode. I thought both were well-written. This was just a great episode watch it.moreless

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  • An episode which may just confirm my suspicions that Marge can't carry an episode as well as some of the other established characters.

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    By EddieGuerreroET, Apr 12, 2009 Report Abuse
    Generally I found the episode entertaining and it had some great jokes however I was not overly impressed with the Marge storyline. Firstly I believe they could have found Marge something much more interesting to do with her computer, like Homer when he started all those conspiracies in "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes". In addition I also believe that it should have been the Lisa and Homer storyline heading the episode with Marge and Bart's Story as the sub-plot. The Lisa storyline was quite interesting and was certainly the funnier of the two which could have been made better if it was indeed the main plot of the episode. As far as the cameo goes from Ronaldo I was disappointed although he is by far my favourite ever soccer player I expected more. His appearance made little sense and I found it to be unfunny. I also believe he should have worked on his vocals as his voice sounded unnatural and inexperienced especially in contrast to some of the other great cameo characters we have seen over the years on The Simpsons. Overall I rate the episode 7.5.moreless

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  • another marge episode

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    By bender21345, Dec 12, 2007 Report Abuse
    it is another marge episode that is much better than i expected although it was not that great it is above average for a marge episode and a great homer and lisa subplot in all this was a above average episode

    the episode starts off when marge decides to get a computer there she joins a online game where bart is a notourious member of the game who destroys all the characters then marge decides that she can do what she wants on the site. meanwhile homer becomes a reffree for lisa's soccer team and now she decides that she can win her team the game with her father on her sidemoreless

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  • A fantastic episode; really funny and a great cameo by Ronaldo.

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    By Joymay, Oct 17, 2007 Report Abuse
    This episode was so clever. The idea of Marge and many of the other characters being depicted in a video game is so clever. My favourite scenes were when she was walking into a wall in the game and she says " This is so annoying" then we see that grandpa is doing the same thing but in real life. I also adore it when she's looking at the internet, getting nowhere by pressing refresh and the banner headlines changing all the time. The scene that I rewind about ten times every time I watch this episode though is the one where Marge sees what their house looks like from space, sees Homer and tells him to put on a towel. That is just hilarious.moreless

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    • Music in this Episode "Surfin' Safari" by The Beach Boys "Barber's Adagio For Strings" by William Orbit Edit
    • We see Sophie on Lisa's soccer team (Krusty's illegitimate daughter). This is her first appearance since her introduction in "Insane Clown Poppy". Edit
    • Marge says that she has the same birthday as Randy Quaid (October 1st), but in the episode titled "Kiss, Kiss Bang Bangalore" it's stated that her birthday is in May. Edit

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    • Blackboard Joke: None. Couch Gag: The Springfield Shopper headline reads: "Couch Gag Thrills Nation," featuring a front page photo of the family on their couch. Edit

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    • (While playing Earthland Realms) Apu: That Cobra King over there is actually Snake. Snake: The prison guards think I'm getting my online law degree. Haw haw. Edit
    • (Ronaldo enters as Homer is playing soccer.) Ronaldo: Ha ha ha ha. I have taught you well. (Thinking to himself) Too well. Edit
    • Marge (reading the Earthland Realms user agreement): "For entertainment purposes only, credit card information may be sold to Korean gangsters . . ." Edit

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    • Bart: I'm going off to explore the crevices of Lagrimmar! This is a reference to the Orc capital city in World of Warcraft; Orgrimmar. Players usually call it Lagrimmar because of the high amount of lag. Edit
    • Homer ripping off his shirt after the game is a reference to the Women's soccer player Brandi Chastain, whom after 1999 Women's World Cup final after scoring with a fifth penalty kick and thus winning the game ripped off her jersey baring her sports bra. Edit
    • Canal+ (aka "Canal Plus" or simply "C+") is a French premium pay television channel. Edit

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