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Mob Rules

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Mob Rules is the fifth level of The Simpsons Game. Marge and Lisa recruit angry people of Springfield to claim the prohibition of the violent video game Grand Theft Scratchy.

Description

This is the first level to include Marge as a playable character, as well as all of her powers. Lisa helps Marge and the mob in getting into hard to reach places using the Hand of Buddha.

Plot

Marge and Lisa are walking while reading an article on the Springfield Shopper that shows a senator wanting to stop selling the video game Grand Theft Scratchy to kids, but Mayor Quimby is being bribed by an EA executive. Martin has bought a copy of the game, and jacks Ned Flanders' car to get to his home quick. Lisa tells Marge she has the power of telling mobs to do whatever she wants, and decides to use her powers to get rid of Grand Theft Scratchy. She recruits Ned, Apu and Edna Krabappel to destroy three Grand Theft Scratchy floats. They have to fight kids with bats and Itchy and Scratchy masks and police officers all around the city. They later destroy two more floats. Lisa uses the Hand of Buddha to build a bridge and move cars to allow the mob get across the streets. Smithers later joins the mob. On the upper floor of a parking lot there is a GTS billboard which the mob destroys to get to a rooftop which has another billboard. However, this one is electrified, so Marge places Maggie inside a crawlspace, she steers through the duct and turns off the billboard so the mob, now with Abraham Simpson, destroys the billboard. After Marge, Lisa and the mob go down to a little square with three more GTS floats, they fight the police officer, which now come from gates infinitely. Lisa then uses Buddha's Hand to place the remaining floats to shaped places, and Marge tells the mob to build a ramp to go up out of the square and to build a platform so Lisa can reach a Buddha statue to place a box and stop a water stream. When Moe joins the mob, they destroy a jail wall so Snake can join. After that, they all reach the town's square. The Jebediah Springfield statue has been replaced by a Itchy and Scratchy statue. This part of the town is a caos, full of angry kids, police officers who come from police trucks, and the mob being knocked out by them. Skinner joins the mob, so it's time to destroy the statue. Once it is reduced to little pieces, the head of Itchy falls and rolls to the Springfield Town Hall, which destroys its wall. However, Mayor Quimby and the EA executive are too busy in the mayor's pool and, after the executive gives the mayor his bribe, he calls his sexy interns. Now Marge decides to use their best weapon (Ned pulls out his machine gun, but she doesn't mean that): Maggie. She is placed by Marge inside an air duct, and turns on the heat on Quimby's pool. This forces him and the executive to get out, and the executive sees the senator, the bribe for Quimby is out. Quimby decides to stop selling Grand Theft Scratchy to kids, so Marge, Lisa and the mob celebrate, as Marge kisses the Simpsons Game book.

After a day of using their new powers, the Simpsons family are commenting about them in the kitchen. This leads to an argument, followed by an alien invasion by Kang and Kodos.

Mob Rules characters

Mob Rules was probably inspired in this scene of The Simpsons Movie

• Marge Simpson: Marge is the main playable character, she can jump, kick, place Maggie in crawlspaces and use her megafone to tell people of her mob to destroy and build things and to step on platforms.
• Lisa Simpson: Lisa is one of the playable characters, she can jump, kick, play her saxophone to stunt enemies and use the Buddha's Hand to pick up and drop big things.
• Maggie Simpson: Maggie can be plated when she is placed by Marge into crawlspaces. The camera turns into first person view and you can steer her through the ducts.
• Mayor Quimby: he is seen and heard inside his pool while Maggie steers through the city hall airduct and, after Maggie turns on the heat, he finally gets out.
• EA executive: he bribes Quimby to sell Grand Theft Scratchy to kids in Springfield.
• Mob: these are the people Marge can recruit to the mob on the Playstation 2 version.
  • Ned Flanders
  • Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
  • Edna Krabappel
  • Waylon Smithers
  • Abraham Simpson
  • Moe Szyslak
  • Snake Jailbird
  • Seymour Skinner
• Xbox version
  • All of the above
  • Cletus Spuckler
  • Julius Hibbert
  • Reverend Lovejoy
  • Selma Bouvier
• Police officers: enemies throughout the level, they can wield electric sticks or pistols.
• Kids: more enemies, who are kids who bought a copy of Grand Theft Scratchy, and are now violent. They have Itchy and Scratchy masks and hit you with their bats.
  • Lewis
  • Sherri and Terri

Clichés

Comic Book Guy's video games clichés

• Ivisible Barrier: to get this cliché you have to approach the "Krusty sez-get back" barrier at the start of the level, which prevents you to get to the other side of the street. "An invisible barrier. Sorry, your precious game doesn't go on forever."
• Cracked Up: this cliché is in the lower floor of the parking lot, at a cracked wall. "Yes, waste your youth looking for secret passages in rocky tunnels!"

Trivia

• At one point, the assumed name of the EA Executive was bleeped out for unknown reasons. ^[1]
• Grand Theft Scratchy is a reference to the game "Grand Theft Auto."

Notes and References