When the day comes for Homer to take Bart and Lisa to Duff Gardens, he falls ill from food poisoning after eating a hoagie that became spoiled days, if not weeks earlier after he took it home from a company picnic. The Witch Is Dead" from The Wizard of Oz. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Well, he passes the Selma Test. Synopsis: Selma and the Simpsons travel to China to adopt a baby. ", Selma actively sought out a husband, having been married a total of six times. In the “few days” Selma and the Simpsons have to experience Chinese culture before taking the baby, the viewer is again treated to Chinese culture as we’ve never imagined. Selma is then given pills by a man she assumes is a doctor, who informs her he isn't. However, Bart and Lisa would rather not be around when their aunts visit. All goes well until Hans tries to kiss her goodnight; Selma envisions herself as the mother of several ugly, blind children and kicks Hans out of the car to prevent that future from happening. When Lisa says "I am the Lizard Queen! The cameraman tells Selma to tell about herself. Synopsis: Selma and the Simpsons travel to China to adopt a baby. Although Homer dislikes Selma and Patty, he showed occasional bouts of kindness towards them, and Selma in particular (much to the Twin's surprise), although, he often does this more because of his love for Marge than for any love for his in-laws. [4] Due to a childhood bottle rocket accident, she lost the senses of taste and smell. At one point she was considering using a sperm donor.
Jub-Jub made his debut appearance in this episode; the name of the iguana Jub-Jub came from Conan O'Brien. On the video will, Great Aunt Gladys advises Patty and Selma not to die alone, as she did. Unable to control the children, Bart manhandles several animatronic characters and Lisa goes on a psychedelic trip after drinking "water" from an It's a Small World - like boat ride (later swimming naked in the Fermentarium and exclaiming "I am the lizard queen!"). Unlike Homer, who usually makes a perfunctory (if not particularly sincere or committed) effort to be polite to his sisters-in-law out of respect for his wife, Patty and Selma have no hesitation in treating Homer with open rudeness and contempt. Eventually, however, they realized they just cannot make it work because of his age and her career and called it quits. Patty and Selma appear in the level NeverQuest in the form of a two-headed dragon who attack the Hobbit-like forms of Rod Flanders, Todd Flanders, and Ralph Wiggum. [7] The group is seen performing a kid-friendly version of the Lou Reed song "Walk on the Wild Side". When the fraud was exposed, Selma managed to keep the baby, as a Chinese dignitary (voiced by Lucy Liu) who had also been raised by a single parent became sympathetic.
Oh puh-leese! Awww! In this episode, they are noticeably larger. Schließlich gehen die Kinder mit ihren Tanten Selma und Patty ohne Homer. [2] After acquiring Jub-Jub, Selma sings "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman", a reference to the season four finale of the sitcom Murphy Brown, in which reporter Murphy Brown sings the song after giving birth to her baby. In fact, Selma is responsible for reuniting Homer with Marge after they split up, despite an agreement with Patty not to do so.[8].
OK, I concede the dragons are cute. Also watch out for references to films such as Vertigo and Gone With the Wind. [4] as Lisa's hallucination where she sees Selma after drinking the water on the ride is based on the work of artist Ralph Steadman, particularly in the novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Join to talk about the wiki, Simpsons and Tapped Out news, or just to talk to other users. "Celebrating new life with my soulmate," Jessica Simpson wrote on Instagram after little sister Ashlee Simpson Ross' baby shower bonanza. Nor are the Chinese on pogo sticks trying to get over the Great Wall of China. [4], Though research is usually done when real languages are used on the show,[4] the foreign language heard on Selma's ham radio is fictional. [18], Selma had a seemingly on/off relationship with Apu. With Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith. Discussion: Maybe I’m getting senile in my old age, but I don’t remember this episode at all. -- "Selma's Choice" Selma wants a baby, and Maggie fears for her life. Selma Bouvier-Terwilliger-Hutz-McClure-Discothèque-Simpson-D'Amico or Selma Bouvier is one of Marge's older chain-smoking twin sisters, who works at the DMV and possess a strong dislike for her brother-in-law, Homer. Madam Wu is delightfully disarming and even though her bureaucratic backflip is entirely predictable, Lucy Liu delivers the performance brilliantly. [11] They later attempted to set up Marge with a (rather sleazy) friend as a replacement for Homer, regardless of the fact Homer was still very much alive.
[22], Their dislike towards Homer even led to push Homer off a bridge, although they halfheartedly claim they did this in order to get him to his surprise party, conveniently on a boat passing under the bridge at the time.[23]. After Bart and Lisa return home, Selma decides she can live without children for now and adopts Jub-Jub, Gladys' pet iguana. Selma once took the Simpson children on a disastrous trip to the Duff Gardens theme park. Homer has a heart attack.
After a round of chicken clucks and "Quit it! She also asks Marge for advice to find love, saying Patty is 2 minutes more beautiful than she is. [9], The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood said, "A nice episode for Selma and good for Marge and Homer as well. Lisa then suggests to Selma that she go through artificial insemination. What we end up with is two distinct parts: Selma (with Homer) trying to keep the baby, and filler. There were several instances where they did not seem to care when Homer faced a life-threatening situation. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. They seem relatively fond of their nieces and nephew, but seem to like them more when they are young: "The older they get, the cuter they ain't." A guy with a camcorder looks on, while Selma sits in a chair, and lights up. [19] However she later slept with him after Homer and Marge's second wedding. Until this episode, he’s been a bit of a loner (except when hanging out with his mother) so we’re seeing another side of him.
She goes to a psychic who tries to sell her a love potion. Later however, a very menopausal Selma adopted a Chinese baby, Ling Bouvier.
The Simpsons, along with Patty and Selma, drive to Littleneck Falls to attend her funeral and the reading of her will.
For instance, when Marge rushes to the hospital after receiving a telephone call Homer suffered a heart attack at work, Patty and Selma — instead of going to the hospital and comforting Marge in her time of need — remained seated at the kitchen table, continuing their activity of cutting coupons, gasping in amazement at a five cent discount and behaving as though nothing was wrong. After watching an advertisement on television for Duff Gardens, Homer, Bart and Lisa decide to go.
Selma later began dating and later married Grampa Simpson, who previously dated her mother. Lisa is soon found swimming nude in the Fermentarium by some workers and is returned to Selma as Lisa proclaims "I am the Lizard Queen!" It’s always nice to see someone other than a Simpson centred in an episode. [17] Selma once claimed she and Kent Brockman made out on the date of 9/11. Synopsis: Marge tells Homer to find a man for her sister Selma, and Homer chooses Principal Skinner. Selma is the adoptive mother of Ling. My eyes were clouded by the cataracts of success. "[2], The author of Planet Simpson: How a Cartoon Masterpiece Documented an Era and Defined a Generation, Chris Turner said it "Fills in with the usual grab bag of great gags" and "The episode had some crowd-pleasing moments."
Later, Homer was convinced by Marge to act as Selma's husband so she could adopt a Chinese baby and did all he could to make sure Selma got to keep said baby. During the adoption process, Selma pretended to be married to Homer, since the Chinese government only allows children to be adopted by married couples. Make an account! The song and ride that Bart, Lisa, and Selma go on, with animatronic kids from all over the world singing is a parody of the song "It's a Small World". [15] She once dated Barney Gumble[16] and may have hooked up with him again during "Grown up Halloween".
Selma tells the camera: "Well, I want to have a baby before it's too late. It's easy, free, and your work on the wiki can be attributed to you. [6] The scene where Homer ate a chip is a reference to the Johnny Carson appearance, where, whilst Young was looking away, Johnny ate a chip from a separate bowl (not of the collection), Young, thinking Johnny had ate a chip from her collection, was shocked, before Johnny cleared up the misunderstanding. Matt Groening said he named the Simpsons after his own parents and two younger sisters; he has an older sister named Patty who is an art dealer.
Selma Bouvier was born two minutes before Patty. She mentioned children and they exchanged a hug, implying Selma is slightly more capable of overcoming her dislike of Homer than Patty.[24]. Unlike Patty, Selma is very desperate to find love after seeing her Aunt Gladys' tape. Wikisimpsons has a Discord server!