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"Orange Is the New Yellow"
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Episode Information
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Cupid flies over the screen with a banner that says "Season Finale". A dragon appears and burns him and the banner.
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Wiltered Mother's Day roses. 1% off
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| Showrunner:
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[[{{{showrunner}}}]]
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"Orange Is the New Yellow" is the 22nd episode of season 27 and it aired on May 22, 2016. It's the season finale.
Synopsis
- "When Marge gets arrested for letting Bart go to the park unsupervised, she serves time only to realize that prison is a welcome break from the demands of her life as a mom and wife. In her absence, Homer struggles to manage all of the parenting responsibilities that Marge usually handles."
Plot
Homer was leaving the Power Plant on Thursday and received a phone call from Marge, promising her to come home for dinner. However, Homer gets delayed by Mr. Burns to fix a gas leak, requiring its level to be measured with a plumb bob (A procedure that takes three hours to complete).
At home, Marge has trouble with the kids, and when Lisa asks for help dressing her as a male seahorse while feeding Maggie, Maggie spills baby food all over her. Bart offers to clean up, but combines chemical products, creating a hole in the floor. Marge sends him to play outside while she cleans up the mess, and Bart goes to Springfield Park, where Martin Prince sees he's unattended and calls the police. Taking Bart back home, Chief Wiggum arrests Marge for leaving him alone outside.
At the trial, after trying to convince judge, with the result of her mother being arrested too, Marge is sentenced to ninety days at the Springfield Women's Prison. In jail, she realizes she can have time for herself away from her chaotic home. Meanwhile, Homer is helped by Ned Flanders and the other neighbors to deal with being alone and dealing with the kids.
In prison, Marge fits in well, using her hair to fight against bullies, attending to flowers in the garden, and being happy there, she refuses to be set free when the Blue-Haired Lawyer finds a loophole to get her out. She fires a guard's gun and gets two more months in jail.
Parents become overprotective of their kids after what happened to Marge and starts walking them on a leash, with Homer as a sitter. Having enough of their attitude, the kids decide to break free from Homer's care and go to the park, where they end up finding themselves in trouble when a tornado forms. Back at the prison, Marge sets the others on prison break by mistake, and in the middle of the chaos, Homer, undercover as a prison guard, helps her escape to safety, her hair ricocheting a warning shot from a guard to stop her from escaping.
Back home, Marge can't get away from Bart and Lisa becoming overly attached to her and the whole family ends up hugging inside the closet.
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