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Lady Bouvier's Lover
Episode Number	102
Production Code	1F21
Original Airdate	May 12, 1994
Chalkboard Gag	"I will not retransmit without the express permission of Major League Baseball."
Couch Gag	Clapboard couch gag (edited)
Written By	Bill Oakley & Josh Weinstein
Directed By	Wes Archer

“He's an awful, awful, awful man! I guess if he makes Mom happy, that's all that really matters.”

―Marge about Mr. Burns

"Lady Bouvier's Lover" is the twenty-first episode of Season 5. It originally aired on May 12, 1994. The episode was written by Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein and Wes Archer directed.

Grampa Simpson falls in love with Marge's mother, Jacqueline, but Mr. Burns woos her away from him. Grampa is broken hearted when learning Jackie is going to marry Burns.

Plot Edit

Maggie has her first birthday, and coming to celebrate are Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Grampa, Patty and Selma, and Grandma Bouvier. At the party, Grampa is feeling lonely, and when he is bored, Marge suggests she set up a date for him with her mother. They do well until when on a night on the town, Mrs. Bouvier goes dancing with Mr. Burns, whom she finds to be more dashing. Meanwhile, Bart hears about an Itchy & Scratchy animation cel which costs $350 when he is watching a TV shopping channel. He buys one with one of Homer's credit cards. He then endures a long and painful wait for its delivery on delivery day (both figuratively and literally, as Bart had to endure punches in the face from irate townspeople for things that Homer Simpson did while waiting for the delivery.) before acquiring it, which to his dismay was just Scratchy's severed arm. Mr. Burns declares that he is in love with Mrs. Bouvier, against Marge's interests. Bart gets $350 from Mr. Burns to pay Homer back.

It is the day of the wedding, and Mr. Burns and Marge's mother attempt to marry. Only minutes before Mrs. Bouvier becomes Mrs. Montgomery Burns, in a scene similar to one from The Graduate, Grampa crashes the ceremony by arguing that Mrs. Bouvier should not get married to Mr. Burns. She declares that she does not want to marry either man, and they hop on a bus and look anxious about their future.

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Homer's Barbershop Quartet • Cape Feare • Homer Goes to College • Rosebud • Treehouse of Horror IV • Marge on the Lam • Bart's Inner Child • Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood • The Last Temptation of Homer • $pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling) • Homer the Vigilante • Bart Gets Famous • Homer and Apu • Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy • Deep Space Homer • Homer Loves Flanders • Bart Gets an Elephant • Burns' Heir • Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song • The Boy Who Knew Too Much • Lady Bouvier's Lover • Secrets of a Successful Marriage