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With great hesitation and extremely low expectations, I decided to watch last night’s episode of The Simpsons, in which Marge Simpson tries to put a stop to Springfield’s new obsession with mixed martial arts, and ends up cage-fighting a male promoter in order to save her community. And yeah, it was pretty lame that MMA was referred to as "Ultimate Punching," and was portrayed as a referee-less bloodsport in which men can fight housewives in a septagon, of all shapes. But I have to admit I L’dMFAO, and if you have 20 minutes free during your workday, you should definitely check it out. Some things I liked:
— The KILL/SKILL bit at 3:22.
— Chuck Liddell shows up at 4:12 and is thankfully given only one line.
— The writers went to great lengths to make sure that fictional MMA promoter Chet Englebret (a grey-haired, bespectacled southerner) was nothing like Dana White…though the gruesome battle-cry he lets out after declaring himself the public face of the sport seemed like a very subtle in-joke.
— Speaking of subtle in-jokes, that sequence at 18:34-18-37 has to be a shout-out to GSP, right?
— The cameos by the crazy cat lady, Mr. Burns, and Moe.
— The line "That woman has natural breasts…this can’t be good."








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comments1. Marge is bringing back rhythmic aerobics like Machida is bringing back karate.
2. Bart is all ground game with no chin.
3. Lisa has some power in those fist and can Marquadt a motherfucker
4. Ether-weight will be the new weight class in the WEC.
Family Guy would have made it a lot spicier and funnier I'm sure.
Homer's Boxing episode may have been better though.
Good episode.
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