My Big Fat Geek Wedding
"My Big Fat Geek Wedding"[1] is the seventeenth episode of the fifteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 18, 2004. The episode was originally planned to air on April 4, 2004, but due to the voice actors going on strike, Fox aired a rerun instead.
| "My Big Fat Geek Wedding" | |
|---|---|
| The Simpsons episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 15 Episode 17 |
| Directed by | Mark Kirkland |
| Written by | Kevin Curran |
| Production code | FABF12 |
| Original air date | April 18, 2004 |
| Guest appearance | |
| Matt Groening as himself | |
| Episode features | |
| Couch gag | Original airing: The back wall is a Play-Doh Fun Factory press that creates Play-Doh figures of the Simpsons. Repeats and syndication: The couch is a slot machine that shows Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa in the tumbler windows. Maggie, however, is replaced by lucky number "7" which signals a jackpot as a pile of gold coins spill out. |
| Commentary | Matt Groening Al Jean Kevin Curran Ian Maxtone-Graham Matt Selman Tom Gammill Max Pross Mike Reiss Mark Kirkland |
The story is a follow-up to the episode "Special Edna".
Plot
As Seymour Skinner and Edna Krabappel are preparing to marry, they each have their bachelor party, with Edna having hers at the Simpson house with Duffman and a topless Chief Wiggum as strippers, and Principal Skinner having his at Moe's with Homer. However, at his party, Skinner admits that he has doubts about marrying Edna. On the day of the wedding, Edna realizes that Skinner does not want to marry her, and after picturing a future anniversary in which Skinner is still unable to commit, she runs away from the ceremony.
After the wedding is called off, Homer and Marge try to get Skinner and Edna to be engaged again, but their own marriage problems impede their progress. Edna returns a wedding gift to the Comic Book Guy, and the two soon fall in love. Homer gets Skinner to serenade Edna using a band made up of Bart, Milhouse, and Martin, but that fails when he learns that the Comic Book Guy and Edna are in a relationship. The family goes to the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con to confront Comic Book Guy, where they see The Simpsons creator Matt Groening. Comic Book Guy, proposes to marry Edna, and the room is ready for a Star Trek-themed mock Klingon wedding ceremony. Skinner, dressed up as Catwoman (who he thought was Catman) battles the Comic Book Guy. Edna interrupts their fight to declare that she will not marry either man. When she tells the Comic Book Guy how they had fun but are very different, he accepts her decision, though Skinner is still upset. Later, at the Simpson house, Homer asks Marge to remarry him, which is conducted in the Klingon language, and she accepts (although she accidentally agrees to give their children a Klingon upbringing).
Reception
DVD Movie Guide's Colin Jacobson said that he "never felt particularly interested in the Skinner/Edna relationship, so [the episode] falls in the red. It never quite rebounds from that deficit, as it fails to find much inspiration". He added that "A few laughs crop up along the way, but not enough to redeem it."[2]
Screen Rant rated the relationship of Edna and Seymour one of the "10 Most Heartbreaking Separations", specifically calling out this episode saying, "After so much build-up and interference from Skinner's mother Agnes, it was sad for Simpsons fans to see that this relationship would probably never go anywhere."[3]
References
- "Simpsons Did It!: "My Big Fat Geek Wedding"". Gabbing Geek. Retrieved July 5, 2023.
- Jacobson, Colin (December 16, 2011). "The Simpsons: The Complete Fifteenth Season Blu-Ray (2003)". DVD Movie Guide. Retrieved March 13, 2014.
- Munton, Rebecca. "The Simpsons: 10 Most Heartbreaking Separations". Screen Rant. Retrieved July 5, 2023.
