Marge Be Not Proud Trivia and Quotes

Air Date

Sunday December 17, 1995

Production Code

3F07

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• In the DVD commentary, one of the show's writers reveals the inspiration of this episode came from a time he was caught shoplifting and what a traumatic experience it was. [edit]
• This episode aired on the 6th anniversary of the series. [edit]
• Blackboard Joke: I will stop talking about the twelve inch pianist.
  Couch Gag: Homer finds a bathtub plug on the floor, pulls it out, and everyone gets sucked down the drain. [edit]

• Lisa: Hey I thought Krusty was Jewish.
  Bart: Christmas is the time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ. [edit]
• (Homer is checking the answering machine)
  Homer: Hmm… we didn't have a message when we left. How very odd.
  Machine (singing): Hello, Muddah, hello, Faddah. Here I am at Camp Granada.
  Homer: Marge, is Lisa at Camp Granada? [edit]
• Nelson: Shoplifting is a victimless crime. Like punching someone in the dark. [edit]
• Marge: (sees a beautiful watch) Oh Homie, look at that watch. I've always wanted a watch like that.
  Homer: Well, maybe someone will get it for you for Christmas.
  Homer's Brain: Now she'll really be surprised when she unwraps that ironing board. [edit]
• Milhouse: I'm more worried about piranhas. Did you see that movie where they send a nuclear submarine to fight the piranhas, and one of them swims right down the periscope and bites the guy in the eye, and he goes, "Aah! Aah! Aah!", and that old lady told him it would happen?
  Bart: Yeah, that was pretty good. [edit]
• Homer: I've figured out the boy's punishment. First, he's grounded. No leaving the house, not even for school. Second, no egg nog. In fact, no nog, period. And third, absolutely no stealing for three months. [edit]
• Homer: Why do you think I took you to all those Police Academy movies? For fun? Well, I didn't hear anybody laughing! Did you?! Except at that guy who made sound effects. (Homer makes sound effects and laughs to himself) Where was I? Oh yeah... Stay out of my booze! [edit]
• Marge: I don't want Maggie's face hidden behind that pacifier. (Maggie starts to cry)
  Photographer: Don't worry, momma, I can put a smile on baby's face. Okay, sugarplum, it's time to meet Mr. Funny Voice. (Breathes air from balloon) Hello, I -- oh, it's just air. [edit]
• (Bart is racing home, so is the family)
  Bart: Gotta change that answering machine tape. Oh God, I gotta change the tape!
  Homer: Gotta change Maggie, dear God, we gotta change Maggie! [edit]
• Brodka: Hey, kid: one more thing. If you ever set foot in this store again, you'll be spending Christmas in juvenile hall. Capisce?.... Well, do you understand?
  Bart: Everything except "capisce". [edit]
• Brodka: I'm calling your parents! Hello, Mr. and Mrs. Simpson? This is detective Don Brodka from Try-N-Save security. That's right, Don Brodka. Your son Bart has been caught shoplifting. Uh huh. Yeah, it's a shame, I know, but...well, try and have a merry Christmas. (Hangs up) They weren't home, uh huh. But I left a message on their answering machine, that's right. [edit]
• Brodka: If i wanted smoke blown up my ass, I'd be at home with a pack of cigarettes and a short length of hose. [edit]
• Marge: Well, life is like a box of chocolates.
  Bart: Mom -- no! Mom --
  Marge: You never know -- what you're going to get. [edit]
• Krusty: Hey! It's respected private citizen Tom Landry! And South American sensation Xoxchisha -- Xoxchoshe -- Xox -- oh, boy. [edit]
• Gavin's Mom: Gavin, don't you already have this game?
  Gavin: No, Mom, you idiot! I have Bloodstorm, and Bone Squad, and Bloodstorm II, stupid.
  Gavin's Mom: Oh, I'm sorry, honey. We'll take a Bonestorm.
  Gavin: Get two. I'm not sharing with Caitlin!
  (employee got two of the same one)
  Bart: (dreamy) That must be the happiest kid in the world. [edit]
• Homer: (Looking at a family portrait where Bart holds up an "I Stink" dialogue balloon behind Homer) Hey, I don't remember saying that. [edit]
• Homer: What are you doing to my son?
  Brodka: I'm afraid your son broke the 11th Commandment, "thou shalt not steal".
  Marge: That's crazy, Bart's not a shoplifter, he's just a little boy.
  Brodka: Oh sure, now he's a little boy stealing little toys, but someday he will be a grown man stealing stadiums and... and quarries. [edit]
• (Bart plays Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge on his computer)
  Carvallo: Welcome to Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge. I am Carvallo. Now, choose a club. (Beep) You have chosen a three wood. May I suggest a putter? (Beep) Three wood. Now enter the force of your swing. I suggest feather touch. (Beep, beep, beep) You have entered "power drive". Now, push seven eight seven to swing. (Beep beep beep)
  (The animated golfer swings, and the ball bounces into the parking lot)
  Carvallo: Ball is in...parking lot. Would you like to play again? (Beep) You have selected, "No." [edit]
• Marge: Since I got my present early, I think you should get yours early too.
  Lisa: Bart got a present early? Then I should get a present early! I want a present.
  Marge: Lisa, you have to wait.
  Lisa: (muttering) This is the worst Christmas ever. [edit]
• Gavin's Mom: (seeing Bart get escorted by security guard) That boy's parents made some terrible mistakes!
  Gavin: Shut up, Mom! [edit]
• Homer: (On Ned being named "Man of the Century") Must have been a pretty slow century... [edit]
• Milhouse: This is great...and all I've done is enter my name! "Thrillhouse".
  (Screen shows "WELCOME THRILLHO")
  Bart: (Walking in) Say, cool dude, can I play too?
  Milhouse: (scrambling) Uh, uh, it's only a one player game.
  Bart: Then how come it says "Second player score"?
  (Pause)
  Milhouse: Mom! Bart's swearing! [edit]
• Santa on TV: So tell your folks, "Buy me Bonestorm or go to Hell!"
  Bart: Buy me Bonestorm or go to Hell!
  Marge: Bart!
  Homer: Young man, in this house, we use a little word called "please."
  Bart: It's the coolest video game ever!
  Marge: I'm sorry, honey, but those games cost up to and including $70. And they're violent, and they distract you from your schoolwork.
  Bart: Those are all good points, but the problem is, they don't result in me getting the game.
  Homer: I know how you feel, Bart. When I was your age, I wanted an electric football game more than anything in the world. And my parents bought it for me, and it was the happiest day of my life. (pause) Well, good night. [edit]
• Marge: Tuck-in time! (singing) All aboard the sleepy train / To visit Mother Goose. Barty's stop is Snoozyland / To rest his sweet caboose.
  Bart: Mom, I'm not a little kid any more! Tuck-in time is lame.
  Marge: Well, if loving my kids is lame, then I guess I'm just a big lame.
  Bart: Mom, it's lame to be proud of being lame. [edit]
• Marge: Homer, didn't you get any milk? All I see is egg nog.
  Homer: 'Tis the season, Marge! We only get thirty sweet noggy days. Then the government takes it away again. [edit]
• Bart: (chuckles, holding the real answering machine tape, he puts it in an Allan Sherman case) Now, to put this tape where no one will ever listen to it. [edit]

• A Streetcar Named Desire
  One of the video games at the Try n' Save is titled A Streetcar Named Death which is an allusion to the play Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire. [edit]
• Mortal Kombat
  During the commercial for Bonestorm, when it shows a game character fighting a tank, that game character is none other than Liu Kang from the Mortal Kombat series. [edit]
• Marge: Life is like a box of chocolates
  This is a famous line from the 1994 film Forrest Gump. [edit]
• Nintendo / SEGA
  When Bart is talking to his conscience about whether or not to steal the game, he sees Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong (Nintendo) and Sonic (SEGA), all characters from video games. [edit]
• Death Be Not Proud
  The name of this episode parodies a sad and true story titled Death Be Not Proud (1949), by John Gunther which took its title from a John Donne sonnet. [edit]
• Bloodstorm
  Bloodstorm (one of the games Gavin mentions) is an actual game. It is similiar to Mortal Kombat and you get to cut the arms, legs, and heads off your opponents. [edit]
• Red
  Guest-star Lawrence Tierney starred in the 1993 film Red, in which he played Louis "Red" Deutsch, a real-life bartender and prank call victim. Red often received telephone calls requesting fake customer names (including Al Coholic and Stu Pitt) and went into hostile fits when he realized he'd been tricked. The bootleg recordings of these calls are the basis of Bart's anonymous prank calls to Moe. [edit]
• Monty Python
  There is a video game in this episode titled Angus Podgorny's Caber Toss. Angus Podgorny was the name of a Scottish character in Monty Python's science fiction sketch. The sketch involved alien blachmanges turning Englishmen into Scotsmen as a means to win Wimbledon. Podgorny, a Scottish kiltmaker who had sold kilts to the aliens so they could turn people into Scotsmen, was the only person left capable of defeating the blachmanges at Wimbledon. [edit]