"Margical History Tour" | |
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The Simpsons episode | |
Episode no. | 324 |
Directed by | Mike B. Anderson |
Written by | Brian Kelley |
Showrunner(s) | Al Jean |
Production code | FABF06 |
Original air date | February 8, 2004 |
Couch gag | The couch is replaced by a giant microwave. Someone (presumably the Comic Book Guy) puts a tray inside and presses a button. The Simpsons rise from the tray as it cooks. |
Commentary | Al Jean Brian Kelley Ian Maxtone-Graham Matt Selman Tim Long J. Stewart Burns Tom Gammill Max Pross Mike B. Anderson |
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"Margical History Tour" is the eleventh episode of The Simpsons' fifteenth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on February 8, 2004. This is one of several Simpsons episodes that features mini-stories.
Marge takes Bart, Lisa, and Milhouse to the library to study. When they go inside, they realize that the library has removed all the books except for the popular ones. Marge makes the best of this situation by telling stories about history.
King Henry VIII (Homer) is a gluttinous slob who stuffs his face while singing, "I'm Henery the Eighth, I am." When his wife, Queen Margerine of Aragon (Marge), tells him to stop singing, Henry wipes his face with Magna Carta and gripes that Margerine has born him only a daughter (Lisa). That night Henry dreams of a son (Bart Simpson) and strangles him, screaming, "Get out of my dreams and into my wife!"
When Anne Boleyn (Lindsay Naegle) promises to produce a son were she his wife, Margerine intervenes and drags Henry to a marriage counselor (Doctor Hibbert). Henry explains that he wants to marry Anne, but can't execute his wife because her father is the King of Spain. The counselor tells him that while his feelings are valid, marriage is hard work. Henry then threatens to behead the terrified counselor, who quickly reverses his position.