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Featured Episode

Some Enchanted Evening is the thirteenth non-short episode of The Simpsons. It originally aired on May 13, 1990. It is notorious for its crude animation, a trait shared with the first episode, Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire, and was actually the first episode to be produced, if not aired.

Plot

The episode starts with the Simpson family fighting at the breakfast table. Lisa and Bart are fighting over a doughnut, Homer is reading the newspaper. After the children leave for school, Homer leaves to the power plant without even noticing Marge. Our heroine is left with an asleep Maggie and Arnie Pie on the radio, yelling at Kent Brockman. Suddenly, a commercial comes on the radio, urging Marge to call Dr. Marvin Monroe's on-the-air therapy. She does so, and tells him she's tired of Homer of not treating her like the "hot love object you are." (quoted by Dr. Monroe).

At work, Homer hears his wife talking about him on the phone, and instead of going home that night, goes to Moe's and asks Moe for advice. Moe tells Homer he should take her to a fancy restaurant, spend the night at a hotel, and buy her some flowers. He ends up buying her a box of chocolates and a single rose, as the flowers are very expenisve, and goes home and tells Marge he loves her. Marge's complection softens, and he decides to take her where Moe suggested. During this time, Bart has made various prank calls to Moe's Tavern.