# Marge Simpson in Playboy (no really) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 9, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236 "2009-10-09T20:44:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sweetums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/1 "2009-10-09T20:44:08Z")
Well this is mundane, and certainly pointless Yahoo news is reporting that the new issue of Playboy will feature none other than Marge Simpson. :dubious: [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap\_en\_ot/us\_playboy\_marge\_simpson](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_en_ot/us_playboy_marge_simpson) Now really, I know that at this point Playboy is on its last legs, but honestly a cartoon character, and they couldn’t even get her to take off her clothes . But enough about Heidi Montag. ``` Does Playboy really think that this will somehow pull in the under 30 demographic? Did someone actually say "hey, kids like cartoons, if we put a cartoon on the cover the young hipsters will buy it?" ``` I really don’t know if I should feel sorry for them, or just laugh! ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/2 "2009-10-09T20:58:40Z")
Marge is hot, though. Just ask Moe. BTW, did anybody notice the name of the new CEO in that link? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/3 "2009-10-09T21:13:17Z")
Meh, not like it hasn’t been done before. Cartman’s mom was in an issue back around 2000. Of course, you could see her hairy balls, as I recall… Hey, wait, does this mean that **South Park** beat **The Simpsons** at something? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/4 "2009-10-09T21:28:27Z")
She’s good looking for a cartoon, but I don’t think this is in character for Marge. She’s got a naughty side but she likes to keep it private - that’s why the exhibitionism thing in “Natural Born Kissers” was a turn-on. When Homer sent her picture to that biker magazine in “Take My Wife, Sleaze,” she got upset. I always liked her roots as a character who wanted to be normal, so I’m not feeling this. It’s funny and an interesting promotion, though. [Modding]Mmmm… Cafe Society…[/Modding] ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/5 "2009-10-09T21:31:31Z")
Hmm – you know that the internet is already full of pictures of nude Marge Simpsons, don’t you? \* I guess this means it’s officially recognized, then. \*This suggests that there are nude pictures of Homer out there, too. I haven’t seen them, and I’d rather not think about them. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/6 "2009-10-09T21:31:34Z")
Jessica Rabbit did Playboy. Hey, if you’re gonna spank it to a cartoon… Well, now that I think about it, most of those airbrushed models are practically cartoons anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Never\_Say\_Dice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee59a6/32.png) [@Never\_Say\_Dice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Never_Say_Dice)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/7 "2009-10-09T21:34:23Z")
I bet that like Seinfeld, she will share the cover with a real nude. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/8 "2009-10-09T21:35:44Z")
[QUOTE=Y! News Article] Marge Simpson has done something that Homer might not like but will make Bart the proudest kid in his school: She’s posed for Playboy magazine. [/QUOTE] Uhh, yeah, 'cause every school boy was real proud of his mom for taking her clothes off for money. Never got teased about it once. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/9 "2009-10-09T21:39:37Z")
Time to get Homer-erotic! I can’t se bart being proud of this either. Marge just doesn’t seem like the Playboy type. Even when she got the gian breast implants. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/10 "2009-10-09T21:41:46Z")
> [@Never\_Say\_Dice](#): > > I bet that like Seinfeld, she will share the cover with a real nude. The article in the OP says the Marge cover will be a collectors’ edition, and the one on newsstands will have a “real” (I guess that does belong in quotes) model. ---
**Author:** ![DiggitCamara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df788c/32.png) [@DiggitCamara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiggitCamara)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/11 "2009-10-09T21:45:35Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > Marge is hot, though. Just ask Moe. > > BTW, did anybody notice the name of the new CEO in that link? [It’s Scott Flanders, not Ned Flanders though.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/chi-thu-burns-playboy-1008-oct08,0,825792.column) Probably no relation. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/12 "2009-10-09T21:45:47Z")
I’m waiting for the spread on Erin Esurance, myself. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/13 "2009-10-09T21:52:51Z")
Marge nude and Flanders in charge? That puts a new spin of “Hidily ho neighborino”… ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/14 "2009-10-09T22:04:25Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Marge nude and Flanders in charge? Stupid sexy Flanders. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/15 "2009-10-09T22:23:40Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > She’s good looking for a cartoon, but I don’t think this is in character for Marge. She’s got a naughty side but she likes to keep it private - that’s why the exhibitionism thing in “Natural Born Kissers” was a turn-on. When Homer sent her picture to that biker magazine in “Take My Wife, Sleaze,” she got upset. I always liked her roots as a character who wanted to be normal, so I’m not feeling this. It’s funny and an interesting promotion, though. > > [Modding]Mmmm… Cafe Society…[/Modding] You realize that Mage isn’t real, she is just a character on TV played by an actress. THe actress playing Marge may be nothing like Marge. Geez let’s get real, here. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/16 "2009-10-09T22:32:02Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > You realize that Mage isn’t real, she is just a character on TV played by an actress. Yes, and I was discussing the character. > [@](#): > > THe actress playing Marge may be nothing like Marge. I’m sure she isn’t, but Julie Kavner isn’t going to be on the cover of Playboy. She may have had input here and for all I know she might’ve done the interview, but it wasn’t Julie Kavner’s decision to put Marge on the cover of the magazine. That call would have been made by the producers of the show. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/17 "2009-10-09T22:34:04Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Yes, and I was discussing the character. > I’m sure she isn’t, but Julie Kavner isn’t going to be on the cover of Playboy. She may have had input here and for all I know she might’ve done the interview, but it wasn’t Julie Kavner’s decision to put Marge on the cover of the magazine. That call would have been made by the producers of the show. ACtually I wan’t referring to Julie Kavner. I was trying to make a joke that didn’t turn out well. So instead I will just crawl away. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/18 "2009-10-09T22:39:52Z")
I should’ve just done a Comic Book Guy-style **“GET. OUT.”** 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/19 "2009-10-09T22:52:09Z")
[Comic book guy] It’ll be the worst… issue… ever! [/CBG] ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236/20 "2009-10-09T22:58:17Z")
Good Lord… Anyways I’d think considering from my degree of knowledge in Cartoonology that Lois Griffin would be a far better candidate for this. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/marge-simpson-in-playboy-no-really/513236.md?page=2)