When was Selma married 3 times? OTTOMH (some of these may have been Patty) Sideshow Bob, Troy McClure, and - that’s it. IIRC Skinner proposed to her, but she turned him down.
Re The Twist
Wow. What a way to weasle. So the Patty/Veronica kiss shown earlier was not a lesbian kiss. Plus, none of the characters seemed to realize the contradiction between Patty’s demanding acceptance and her rejecting somebody based entirely on gender. She didn’t say ‘You lied to me!’, or ‘I feel hurt and betrayed!’. She said “I like girls.”
When Apu is about to be deported, he proposes to her out of desperation. She says “My name’s already Selma Bouvier-Terwilliger-Hutz-McClure.” That’s the only reference to her marrying Lionel Hutz, but they appear to have actually remembered the joke, which impressed me. As did the episode in general, actually, I was rather thrilled despite the weaseling.
As I said in the post in question, I wasn’t sure. Despite being a devoted Simpsons fan, I’ve never been able to remember which is Patty and which is Selma.
That was pretty good, although I don’t know why the weaseling out at the end. After all, the ability to marry is what seperates us from the animals! (except the weasel).
Selma and Sideshow Bob also saved it for marriage, and that one didn’t turn out well either.
Marge, planning the wedding: So, the wedding dress–errr–what color—uhm—
Selma, abruptly: WHITE!
Nah. For me that was a season finale of Beauty And The Beast. There was much buzz on whether Vincent would kiss whatsername or not. After rushing across the city to be with eachother, they embrace and- There’s a freezeframe and semitransparent silhouettes leave their bodies and kiss.
What, did they need to have the whole family get a tattoo that said “gay marriage is great?” They said what they wanted to say in an unusually direct manner and also decided to work some comedy into their sitcom. I felt bad for Patty, actually, which impressed me as far as the way they did the rest of the episode. This does fulfill the weekly “Worst. Something. Ever.” quota, though.
Dude, it’s a sitcom! Whenever a regular character on a sitcom is going to get married, 95% of the time something stops the marriage at the last minute. It’s just one of the Rules of TV.
Besides, would you go through with a marriage to someone who turned out to be a different sex from what you thought they were?
Right, and they weren’t going to break Patty and Selma up, especially with yet another marriage.
The ending was not quite the cop-out it could’ve been. They had a chance to get Patty together with the guy, and instead, what’d they do? “I LIKE GIRLS!”
Patty made out with a woman during Marge’s remeniscence.
There’s no contradiction between demanding acceptance of your sexuality and then refusing to marry someone who is of the gender you’re not attracted to. And as making statements goes, “I LIKE GIRLS” beats “You lied.”
I think the hayseed at the beginning of the show was based on Huell Howser, who does a program called “California’s Gold” which airs on PBS stations in California, and in which he visits various towns in the state.
BTW, there was a news story on ABC on Friday about the controversy about the show. As you’d expect, a lot of Christian groups were unhappy, but one minister pointed out that the show has more religion in it than virtually all entertainment shows (and one of the few born-again Christians in Ned Flanders).
But I thought the parental discretion warning was odd.
