Episode
The Simpsons: Diatribe of a Mad Housewife
Overview
Marge writes a romance novel with characters based on Homer and Ned Flanders that becomes a hit. Meanwhile, Homer gets fired from the power plant again and becomes an ambulance driver.
Details
- Series
- The Simpsons
- Season
- Season 15
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2004-01-25
- Runtime
- 23 min
Episode context
Diatribe of a Mad Housewife is Episode 10 in Season 15 of The Simpsons. It aired on 2004-01-25. The runtime is 23 min.
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Episode 9: I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot
Homer builds a battle robot to win Bart's respect, and places it in a tournament against other robots. What Bart does not know, though, is that the robot is actually Homer in costume. Meanwhile, Snowball II dies and Lisa tries to find a replacement cat.
Episode 11: Margical History Tour
When the local library proves to be useless for the kids' class project, Marge tells Milhouse, Bart, and Lisa three Simpsons-style historical accounts: Henry VIII's (Homer's) attempts at siring a son, Lewis and Clark (Lenny and Carl) exploring the USA's wilderness with Sacagawea (Lisa), and Salieri (Lisa again) out to ruin piano-playing virtuoso Mozart (Bart).
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