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"The Strong Arms of the Ma"
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"The Strong Arms of The Ma" is the ninth episode of season 14. The episode was written by Carolyn Omine and directed by Pete Michels. Pamela Reed guest stars as Ruth Powers.
Synopsis
- "Marge takes up bodybuilding to boost her self-esteem after a mugging, but the family finds they just can't cope with a Marge that can bench-press 500 pounds."
Plot
An episode of Eye on Springfield features Rainier Wolfcastle, who has gone bankrupt. As a result, he throws a bankruptcy sale to make some money back, selling off a lot of his possessions. The Simpson family attend the sale and buy a lot of Wolfcastle's items, including a set of weights. After loading the car up, they have no room left for Homer. so he has Wolfcastle take him home whilst Marge drives the family home. On the way back, Maggie needs a diaper change so they stop off at the Kwik-E-Mart to do so. After Apu smells Maggie, he lets Marge use the store's toilet to change Maggie's diaper. As they leave the toilet, a mugger confronts Marge and takes her pearls, leaving Marge incredibly shaken up and panicky.
After the mugging, Marge attempts to go shopping at the Kwik-E-Mart again, but gets too scared and accidentally pepper sprays Ralph before going home again empty handed. As Marge rushes home, she accidentally parks her car on top of the mailman, and then realizes that she's too scared to go out and move the car again, hallucinating the mugger as she tries to leave. Dr. Hibbert then makes a house call and tells Marge that she has agoraphobia, the fear of leaving the house. The family attempt to get Marge's courage to leave back, trying to help her take a few steps out of the house and putting on small acts so she can regain her confidence. During a small act they were putting on, Milhouse played the mugger, which caused Marge to panic and hide in the basement.
Marge refuses to leave the basement, using radios to keep in contact with the family. Eventually, they move the bed down to the basement and eat meals down there. Whilst Marge was bored, she started working out with the weights that Homer bought from Rainier Wolfcastle. This gave her the confidence to actually leave the house, to grab a lemon from the lemon tree in the back yard. Upon realizing that she was no longer scared, Marge ran around town, telling everyone that she was no longer afraid. On this run, she met the mugger again and beat him up, leaving the police to take him away.
Marge got fully into bodybuilding and went to the Springfield Beach where she met up with Ruth Powers again. Marge and Ruth decided to catch up at Let's Hear It for the Soy where Ruth gave Marge Ragin' 'Roids steroids to take so she could enter The Iron Maidens competition. After taking the steroids, Marge becomes stronger than ever and earns second place in the competition, which disappointed her. At Moe's Tavern, Marge thinks that the reason she only came second in the competition was because she's still somewhat womanly. When Marge threatens Moe, the patrons in the bar all attack her to calm her down, with Marge beating them all. Homer then gets Marge to realize what the hormones in the steroids were doing to her and decides to stop, as Moe then tries to burn down his bar to claim the insurance, which [{Carl]] then reminds him that he doesn't have. At home, Marge throws the weights in the furnace before taking Homer up to bed.
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