10 Times The Simpsons Jumped The Shark
3. Marge's Boob Job
Clip show episode “Gump Roast” ends with a song entitled “They’ll Never Stop The Simpsons” which lists the type of lame plots the show might resort to in order to keep things going. This includes Moe getting a cellphone, and Bart owning a bear. Less than one year later, they made an episode in which Marge accidentally receives breast implants, which is worse than just about anything they mention in the tune.
“Large Marge” highlights the show’s occasional struggle for coming up with decent plots for Marge. Too often, the writers will simply have stuff happen to her, rather than her taking an active role, and this is one of the most obvious examples of this issue. She’s the title character, but plays an almost entirely passive role in this story.
Whether or not you enjoy this episode really comes down to how funny you find it that the animators have drawn one of their characters with a larger than normal chest. They start off with a bad premise, and manage to do very little with it.