10 Best "B" Plots In The Simpsons
2. Maggie In Daycare – A Streetcar Named Marge
Maggie Simpson is one of the most underrated characters in the show and her B-Plot in Season 4's A Streetcar Named Marge proves this perfectly.
Whilst Marge rehearses for her role in the Streetcar Named Desire musical, Maggie gets sent to a daycare centre run by a tyrannical dictator. The owner of the centre confiscates Maggie's and the rest of the babies' pacifiers, so Maggie hatches a daring plot to steal them back.
What follows is a beautiful Great Escape-inspired sequence of Maggie and her fellow inmates devising numerous schemes to get their prized possessions back. Using whatever they can find, Maggie and the babies great a number of gadgets and gizmos to aid them in their heist, all without saying a word.
It's the lack of dialogue in this plot that elevates it to another level. The show is able to tell an effective story without using a single word of speech, relying on Maggie's facial expressions and a beautiful orchestral score.
Maggie gets so much character development in this scene and she does it in total silence. Any character that can convey emotion without speaking is a character done right and this plot is probably the best example of why the youngest Simpson is also one of the best.