Sunday February 2, 2003
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Marge gets mugged outside the Kwik-E-Mart and she starts feeling vulnerable and becomes scared to leave the house. Dr. Hibbert diagnoses her with agoraphobia. The family tries to help her get back out of the house, but their efforts drive into living in the basement. In the basement she finds their unused weight set and she begins working out. Two weeks later she is stronger than she ever was and realizes that she can leave the house. In fact while celebrating her release from her fears, she confronts and beats the crap out of her mugger. While out working out, Marge runs into Ruth Powers, the neighbor she once went on the lam with. Ruth tells her about how steroids can help her to get bigger. Marge starts taking the supplements and gets into a women's bodybuilding competition. She takes 2nd place, which only entices her to do better next time. At Moe's she tears the place apart when she suffers from steroid rage. Homer makes her realize that she has become everything that she can't stand and she destroys the weight set.
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The family attends Rainier Wolfcastle's bankruptcy sale and purchase a weight bench. Homer makes his own way home as there is no room for him in the car. Marge gets mugged in an alley on the way home, which results in a fear of leaving the house. This soon escalates to her living in the basement. She discovers the weight bench and begins to work out. Eventually she grows stronger to the point where she can protect herself, so she leaves the house and meets Ruth Powers at a women's bodybulding clinic. Ruth introduces Marge to steroids, but she marginally misses out on winning a bodybuilding contest. She puts this down to being too feminine. She starts a fight at Moe's Tavern but Homer makes her realize steroids have turned her into everything she stood against. The weight bench is burnt and things return to normal. Really imformative on the effects of steroids. Marge was very creppy tho as a roided up freak. Give it a watch!
Shows the effects of steroids on a person... hide show
When Marge gets mugged, she becomes agoraphobic and can't leave the safety of her home. She holes up in the basement and starts working out on a weight set. She gets stronger and stronger, enough so that she's able to re-enter the world and beat up the man who robbed her, but she takes it too far and becomes a steroid-crazed bully as she beefs up for the "Iron Maiden Fitness Pageant." When Homer appeals to her to calm down, she finally relents and goes back to being the old Marge. Good episode show's the effects of steroids, and what they can do to you.
See Marge. See Marge get mugged. See Marge get agorophobia. See Marge get buff. See Marge get roid rage. hide show
The first time I saw this, I was amused. I saw it again earlier tonight and, while still somewhat amused, wondered why I was as amused the first time around.
What I really don't get is why one or two of the other reviewers labeled there reviews "informative." If this episode was informative, so was the one where Homer gained 60 some odd pounds to get out of the excersize at work program and collect disability.
I did realize some irony in Marge's character after seeing the part where she decides to take steroids after going off on her little anti-drug speil. For someone with occasional high morals, she gets talked into going against them very easily, then goes all extremo in whatever she's talked into doing.
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Although it is unlike marge to take steroids, this episode does show the side effects of the usage and the episode works quite well. there are some great scenes throughout the episodes such as the re-enactment that homer, bart and lisa come up with (Lisa: i'm a magazine rack). The scene at Moes was terrific and a great way for Marge to figure out what she was doing, destroying the tavern (not to mention the barflies). I also liked the start with homer using the family and shopping as tetris to fit in the car. a risky episode that turned out well, strong arms of the ma is definitely wort watching.
a look at the effects of steroids hide show
this episodes shows some of the effect of steroids and how if you abuse them they can have strange effects like in family guy when peter go's into the pharmacy and the guy behind the counter thinks he wants some steroids and says how those women on espn get big hair faces and their breast become like flapjacks
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