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Secrets of a Successful Marriage

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Secrets of a Successful Marriage

Rating: 4.1 (155 votes)

Plot

After winning a poker game without realizing, Homer is called slow by his friends. Wishing to prove them wrong, he decides to sign up for an adult education class. Not finding anything, he becomes a teacher himself, running a course on how to build a successful marriage. However, he does not know anything about teaching, and his class is unsuccessful until he starts spilling personal secrets about his love life. Marge dislikes this and tells Homer not to say anything more about their personal life. But when it happens again, Marge kicks Homer out of the house, and he ends up living in the treehouse. Marge will not take Homer back, telling him that he has betrayed her trust. Homer tells her how much he loves her and that he cannot afford to lose her trust again. Marge forgives him.


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Notes

  • Homer tells the family that Lenny said he was slow, when in fact it was Carl.
  • The classes at the Adult Education Annex are "Turn A Man Into Putty In Your Hands" taught by Patty & Selma, "Funk Dancing For Self-Defense" by Moe, "How To Chew Tobacco" by Lenny, "How To Eat An Orange" by Hans Moleman, and "Secrets of a Successful Marriage" by Homer Simpson.
  • Students in Lenny's class include Otto, Willy, Jasper, Grampa, Captain McAllister, Hans Moleman, and the Crazy Old Man.
  • Students in Homer's class include Carl, Apu, Sideshow Mel, Smithers, Principal Skinner, Mrs. Krabappel, Lionel Hutz, Willy, Otto, Barney Princess Kashmir.
  • Smithers still wears his ID badge in Homer's class.
  • Everyone is surprised that Marge's blue hair isn't natural.
  • Moe gives marge 4 flowers, but when she puts them in the vase they become 7 flowers.

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References

  • When Homer is trying to convince the manager that he has a perfect family, he sings a line from "Family Ties."
  • Homer's big speech to Marge is a combination of lines from other films/TV series, including "A Few Good Men," "Patton" and "Chinatown".
  • Smithers' recollection of his marriage parodies "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof."

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Vitals

PCode
1F20

Index
5×22

Aired
19 May, 1994

Aired (UK)
29 May, 1994

Written by
Greg Daniels

Directed by
Carlos Baeza

Starring
Dan Castellaneta
Julie Kavner
Nancy Cartwright
Yeardley Smith
Hank Azaria
Harry Shearer

Also Starring
Pamela Hayden
Maggie Roswell

Special Guest Voice
Marcia Wallace
Phil Hartman

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Season 5

  1. Homer's Barbershop Quartet
  2. Cape Feare
  3. Homer Goes to College
  4. Rosebud
  5. Treehouse of Horror IV
  6. Marge on the Lam
  7. Bart's Inner Child
  8. Boy-Scoutz N the Hood
  9. The Last Temptation of Homer
  10. $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)
  11. Homer the Vigilante
  12. Bart Gets Famous
  13. Homer and Apu
  14. Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy
  15. Deep Space Homer
  16. Homer Loves Flanders
  17. Bart Gets an Elephant
  18. Burns' Heir
  19. Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadassss Song
  20. The Boy Who Knew Too Much
  21. Lady Bouvier's Lover
  22. Secrets of a Successful Marriage