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The Simpsons episode
"Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays"
Episode no.	321
Prod. code	FABF03
Orig. Airdate	January 4, 2004
Written by	Jon Vitti
Directed by	Bob Anderson
Chalkboard	None
Couch gag	Knives land above each member of the family's position, but when Homer reaches for a bowl of chips, a knife nearly hits him.
Guest star	None
Season 15 November 2, 2003 – May 23, 2004
Treehouse of Horror XIV My Mother the Carjacker The President Wore Pearls The Regina Monologues The Fat and the Furriest Today I Am a Clown 'Tis the Fifteenth Season Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays I, D'oh-Bot Diatribe of a Mad Housewife Margical History Tour Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore Smart and Smarter The Ziff Who Came to Dinner Co-Dependent's Day The Wandering Juvie My Big Fat Geek Wedding Catch 'Em If You Can Simple Simpson The Way We Weren't Bart-Mangled Banner Fraudcast News
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"Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays" is the eighth episode of The Simpsons' fifteenth season, first aired on January 4, 2004. It is the first episode screened in the US in that particular year.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Trivia 3 Music 4 Cultural references

When Bart and Lisa fight over which show they should watch, they accidentally change the channel to a show hosted by a children's entertainer named Roofi, a parody of the children's entertainer Raffi. This does not appeal to Bart and Lisa, but Marge and Maggie like it so much they buy a Roofi CD and play it everywhere, which annoys Bart, Homer, and Lisa. Marge even buys tickets to Roofi's concert, held on Cletus's farm. Unfortunately, there is rain at the oversold and crowded concert (thanks to some unscrupulous promoter), and a riot ensues.

In response to the disaster, all childless adults of Springfield, outraged at paying high taxes for the damages the babies have caused, revolt and form an anti-youth group, led by Lindsay Naegle, named SSCCATAGAPP (Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples And Teens And Gays Against Parasitic Parents), and lobby to deprive Springfield of all child-friendly things.

This is not over yet when Marge lobbies to get a grassroots voter initiative, "Families Come First", as the cause of PPASSCCATAG (Proud Parents Against Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples And Teens And Gays). Her lobbying efforts do poorly at first, but fair support grows, thanks to Mr. Burns loaning his signature on Marge's petition, because he cares about children, even though he's still evil. Other Springfield residents follow with him and Marge, and the proposition (Proposition 242) gets on the ballot. The campaign does poorly at first, but thanks to the infectious nature of children planned by Bart and Lisa, all opposition to Proposition 242 falters, staggers, and finally collapses.

• The third headline when Homer, Bart, and Lisa were watching the news said "Raffi denounces Roofi."
• Due to the long title of this episode, it is often referred to by fans as Marge vs. Everyone.
• The Rudy Giuliani parts of this episode were recently cut out of the USA airing.
• The parody of the Crocodile Hunter has been removed in some repeat airings of the show after the death of Steve Irwin.

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• Roofi is a Raffi parody, and in name is similar to "roofie", the slang term for Rohypnol
• The concert is a spoof of Woodstock and Altamont.
• This episode is a parody of similar campaigns by Family Value groups.
• At the end of the episode, the members of SSCCATAGAPP are defeated by children's germs, "God's lowliest creature". This is a reference to The War of the Worlds, in which the Martians are defeated by bacteria.
• At the end of the scene where the adults go on a rampage, a tearful Milhouse watches with arched eyebrows and a blubbery lip. His expression is a parody of a famous World War II photograph/newsreel of a forlorn Frenchman in a crowd witnessing his country's capitulation to the Nazis.
• When Bart and Lisa fight over the control of the remote, they accidentally switch over to King of the Hill, where Hank Hill can be heard in the background saying, "Bobby, I've got propane in my urethra." which pokes fun at Hank's character.
• At the beginning of the episode, Bart watches TV. The program is called "The Gator Baitor". It's an obvious parody of the Crocodile Hunter, complete with a Steve Irwin-esque host. Near the end, the host limbs were severed after being attacked by a crocodile. It's believed by some that some people watch "Crocodile Hunter" to see on whether Steve Irwin will be mangled by the animals, just like what Bart expected in "The Gator Baitor". Shockingly, Steve Irwin was killed two years later while filming a documentary.
• The scene in which Roofi's helicopter takes off from the concert with babies still hanging on references a similar scene in Apocalypse Now, where soldiers hang onto a helicopter that takes off after the crowd becomes unruly.
• The toppling of the Itchy and Scratchy statue scene resembles the toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue.
• When Maggie has the long handled pliers and grabs Homer by the nose, he rolls over and screams out just like Curly Howard.
• The Channel 6 news story on the baby riot is accompanied by a graphic which reads "The Tot Offensive," a reference to the 1968 Tet Offensive.