The Simpsons' 10 Most Desperate Attempts To Boost Ratings

Throughout The Simpsons’ history, Marge’s wholesome character promoted reliability and was the ultimate maternal figure. However, unlike a lot of women in primetime, she had never had sex appeal. This all changed when writer Ian Maxtone-Graham decided to bolster Marge’s frame for the sake of an episode.

During Season 14’s fourth episode, Marge worries that Homer will have an affair - insecurity which was shoehorned into the first two minutes of the episode - and so decides to get liposuction to make her more attractive. When Marge wakes up at the clinic, she discovers her ‘maguppies became bazongas’ due to a mishap.

Marge reluctantly goes home with the implants intact and is quickly flattered by the attention she is now receiving from all the male characters in the show, especially Homer. While in a restaurant, the clientele literally has a song and dance about Marge’s mammary glands.

Quickly, Marge feels physically uncomfortable and complains of constant back pain and attention from the wrong people. Later, she ends up saving the day by getting her baps out.

At the episode’s conclusion, Marge reverts to her usual physical appearance, and exclaims, ‘I finally feel like me again.’

While this episode takes a somewhat body-positive stance and highlights how people’s perceptions change after people have modified aspects of their physicality, it comes across as hypocritical, as Marge’s newly-bolstered jubblies were promoted heavily in the advertisements for the upcoming Season 14. They literally had an episode complaining against the objectification of women, by objectifying Marge.