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Featured Episode

"Marge on the Lam" is the sixth episode of The Simpsons' fifth season, aired November 4, 1993. Marge makes friends with Ruth Powers and finds herself in trouble as Homer tries to compensate for her absence.

Plot

Marge wins a pair of ballet tickets after donating 30 dollars to a telethon that is trying to raise money for public television. Homer promises to go with her, thinking a ballet is a bear driving in a small car. Homer dislikes the ballet and later, gets both arms trapped in tow vending machines. He is told to let go of the can and food so he can take his hands out.

Marge tell Homer she is going out with Ruth, which Homer disapproves of. Lionel Hutz babysits the kids while Homer goes on a night out.

Chief Wiggum and Homer go after Marge but find a car with a busted taillight that is Marge and Ruth, although they do not know this yet. They do not pull over, ending in a chase. Marge is offered by Ruth to be left at a café but she goes with her. They are cornered by police cars but go off road, almost into a canyon. Homer takes a mega-phone and apologizes to Marge and warns her of the canyon, which makes them stop though Homer and Wiggum drive into it, onto a garbage heap.