All's Fair in Oven War

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The Simpsons episode
"All's Fair in Oven War"
Episode no.337
Prod. codeFABF20
Orig. airdateNovember 14, 2004
Written byMatt Selman
Directed byMark Kirkland
ChalkboardNone
Couch gagThe family along with the couch are launched by a catapult
Guest star(s)James Caan and Thomas Pynchon
Season 16
November 7 2004 – May 15 2005
  1. Treehouse of Horror XV
  2. All's Fair in Oven War
  3. Sleeping with the Enemy
  4. She Used to Be My Girl
  5. Fat Man and Little Boy
  6. Midnight Rx
  7. Mommie Beerest
  8. Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
  9. Pranksta Rap
  10. There's Something About Marrying
  11. On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister
  12. Goo Goo Gai Pan
  13. Mobile Homer
  14. The Seven-Beer Snitch
  15. Future-Drama
  16. Don't Fear the Roofer
  17. The Heartbroke Kid
  18. A Star Is Torn
  19. Thank God It's Doomsday
  20. Home Away from Homer
  21. The Father, the Son, and the Holy Guest Star
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All's Fair in Oven War is the second episode of The Simpsons' sixteenth season. It aired on November 14, 2004.

Plot

Marge and Homer attend an open house when the house next door is put up for sale. Marge falls in love with the large extensive kitchen. She realises her kitchen is very damaged and wishes she has a better kitchen. decides to renovate the kitchen himself, insisting that contractors are the biggest crooks around ("They charge for materials AND labour. Pick one jerks!").

While demolishing the kitchen, Homer unearths his old collection of Playdude magazines. He innocently tells Marge he kept them only for the articles, and she responds by cutting out all the nudes from the magazines. Now that they are useless, Homer throws them away; but they are discovered by Bart and Milhouse. They read the articles and are greatly inspired. Using these 70s-era magazines as a model, Bart decides to renovate the Treehouse.

After Homer's remodeling makes the kitchen useless, Marge hires a contractor to complete the job. It takes two years to finish the kitchen (although obviously, no one ages between that time). The dishes that come out of Marge's new kitchen get rave reviews and, on Ned's suggestion, she decides to enter the Ovenfresh Bakeoff with her Dessert Dogs. She is successful and goes through to the second round. In the Wiggum house, Ralph Wiggum is upset because his "Grilled crayon sandwich" did not get through. Chief Wiggum insists it is delicious, despite Ralph knowing he only pretended to eat it. When he does eat it, he starts to look sick, and Ralph asks if he can taste the thumbtacks, to which his father responds with an, "Ah, crap."

At the bakeoff, Marge encounters ruthless competition, as the chefs mock her and attempt to sabotage her cooking (Luigi, who is next to her spreads fish scales on it, Stuart deliberately spills burning bananas on it, blackening it and Agnes Skinner dunks her wig into Marge's mixing bowl). Her Dessert Dogs almost ruined by the end of the time limit, she barely manages to make them presentable and get them to the room where the entries have to be stored. Still fuming about the behavior of the other chefs, she resorts to cheating, by spiking the other entries with Maggie's ear medicine, much to Lisa's dismay. Homer is glad he might meet all the food personalities and has a daydream in which he accidentally kills the (fictional) "Twinkle the Kid" and gets chased by a number of other food personalities.

Meanwhile, Chief Wiggum and other concerned parents talk with Homer about Bart's spreading the Playdude philosophy to the other children. Homer has a talk with Bart about the true facts of life, which a horrified Bart quickly shares with the other children, who are just as horrified.

Marge's cheating gets her to the finals, and Lisa confronts her. Marge retorts saying that the other chefs deserved it for the way they treated her; Lisa urges her to do the right thing. In the bakeoff finals, Marge admits to her foul play and Lisa's faith in her mother is restored. Brandine's "Alco-Hog" dish wins by default.

When they are shopping at the Kwik E mart a few months later, they discover the new flour cover with Brandine Spuckler on it. When Marge expresses disappointment because it was almost her, they run into Cletus Spuckler, who is upset that Brandine has left him for James Caan; but he swears he's "gonna fix his wagon.". As James and Brandine drive towards a tollbooth, Cletus' hillbilly friends ambush Caan's Ford Mustang and gun him down in a scene reminiscent of Sonny Corleone's death in The Godfather with the difference that James survives.

Cultural references

  • The title is a play on the saying "All's fair in love and war", a proverb found in John Lyly's 16th century book Euphues[1] that is commonly used to justify cheating.
  • Playdude is a parody of Playboy magazine.
  • The Simpsons watch the movie "Blacula Meets Black Dracula", a reference to 1970's Blaxploitation Films.
  • The music Bart's friends play in his treehouse is "Take Five" by Paul Desmond.
  • The music Homer asks himself to turn down is the classic 80's power ballad "Separate Ways" by Journey.
  • The song Bart and Milhouse listen to on the record player is Boplicity by Miles Davis.
  • Among the food-related characters Homer imagines are Pringles and Snap, Crackle and Pop mascots.

References

1. ^ Titelman, Gregory Y. "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings", Random House, N.Y., 1996.
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  1. Treehouse of Horror XV
  2. All's Fair in Oven War
  3. Sleeping with the Enemy
  4. She Used to Be My Girl
  5. Fat Man and Little Boy
  6. Midnight Rx
  7. Mommie Beerest
  8. Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
  9. Pranksta Rap

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November 7 2004 – May 15 2005
  1. Treehouse of Horror XV
  2. All's Fair in Oven War
  3. Sleeping with the Enemy
  4. She Used to Be My Girl
  5. Fat Man and Little Boy
  6. Midnight Rx
  7. Mommie Beerest
  8. Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
  9. Pranksta Rap

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November 7 2004 – May 15 2005
  1. Treehouse of Horror XV
  2. All's Fair in Oven War
  3. Sleeping with the Enemy
  4. She Used to Be My Girl
  5. Fat Man and Little Boy
  6. Midnight Rx
  7. Mommie Beerest
  8. Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
  9. Pranksta Rap

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Season 16
November 7 2004 – May 15 2005
  1. Treehouse of Horror XV
  2. All's Fair in Oven War
  3. Sleeping with the Enemy
  4. She Used to Be My Girl
  5. Fat Man and Little Boy
  6. Midnight Rx
  7. Mommie Beerest
  8. Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
  9. Pranksta Rap

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November 7 2004 – May 15 2005
  1. Treehouse of Horror XV
  2. All's Fair in Oven War
  3. Sleeping with the Enemy
  4. She Used to Be My Girl
  5. Fat Man and Little Boy
  6. Midnight Rx
  7. Mommie Beerest
  8. Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
  9. Pranksta Rap

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Season 16
November 7 2004 – May 15 2005
  1. Treehouse of Horror XV
  2. All's Fair in Oven War
  3. Sleeping with the Enemy
  4. She Used to Be My Girl
  5. Fat Man and Little Boy
  6. Midnight Rx
  7. Mommie Beerest
  8. Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
  9. Pranksta Rap

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Season 16
November 7 2004 – May 15 2005
  1. Treehouse of Horror XV
  2. All's Fair in Oven War
  3. Sleeping with the Enemy
  4. She Used to Be My Girl
  5. Fat Man and Little Boy
  6. Midnight Rx
  7. Mommie Beerest
  8. Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
  9. Pranksta Rap

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Season 16
November 7 2004 – May 15 2005
  1. Treehouse of Horror XV
  2. All's Fair in Oven War
  3. Sleeping with the Enemy
  4. She Used to Be My Girl
  5. Fat Man and Little Boy
  6. Midnight Rx
  7. Mommie Beerest
  8. Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
  9. Pranksta Rap

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Season 16
November 7 2004 – May 15 2005
  1. Treehouse of Horror XV
  2. All's Fair in Oven War
  3. Sleeping with the Enemy
  4. She Used to Be My Girl
  5. Fat Man and Little Boy
  6. Midnight Rx
  7. Mommie Beerest
  8. Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass
  9. Pranksta Rap

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