Repeats and Syndication: The couch is a slot machine that shows Homer, Marge, Bart, and Lisa in the tumbler windows. Maggie, however, is replaced by lucky number “7” which signals a jackpot as a pile of gold coins spill out.

Guest star(s)

Matt Groening as himself, Marcia Wallace as Edna Krabappel.

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, (Annoyed Grunt)-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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"My Big Fat Geek Wedding" is the 17th episode of The Simpsons' fifteenth season, first aired on April 18, 2004. The episode was originally planned to air on April 4, 2004, but due to the voice actors going on strike, FOX aired a rerun instead.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Plot

Love is in the air when Principal Seymour Skinner and Edna Krabappel are finally getting married. They each have their bachelor party, with Mrs. Krabappel having hers at the Simpson house with Duffman and a topless Chief Wiggum as strippers, and Principal Skinner having his at Moe's with Homer. However, at his party, Skinner admits that he has doubts about marrying Mrs. Krabappel. When the wedding is held at Springfield Elementary's gymnasium, Edna learns that Skinner does not want to marry her, and runs away from the ceremony. The wedding is called off.

After it is called off, Homer and Marge try to get Skinner and Krabappel to be engaged again, but it is halted by Homer and Marge's own marriage problems. Mrs. Krabappel returns a wedding gift to the Comic Book Guy, and she finds him to be an interesting man. Homer gets Skinner to serenade Krabappel using a band made up of Bart, Milhouse, and Martin, but that fails when he learns that the Comic Book Guy and Krabappel are in love. The family visits the Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con to confront Comic Book Guy, who proposes to marry Krabappel after the family sees Futurama creator Matt Groening. Skinner, dressed up as Catwoman (who he thought was Catman), battles the Comic Book Guy. Krabappel interrupts their fight to declare that she has no interest in either man. Both seem to accept her decision, though Skinner is still upset. Later, at the Simpson house, Homer asks Marge to remarry him, which is done in the style of a mock Klingon wedding.

[edit] Cultural references

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After Bart, his friends, and Skinner sing their song, a Superman tattoo can be seen on Comic Book Guy's buttocks when he turns around.
The title is a play on the movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
The Catwoman costume Skinner uses looks like the one from Batman Returns worn by Michelle Pfeiffer.
At one point in the episode, Barney speaks to an imaginary life-sized rabbit, a likely reference to the Mary Chase play Harvey, and the movie Donnie Darko.
The song that Bart, his friends, and Seymour Skinner sing to try to win Edna's heart back is a parody of Solomon Linda/The Tokens' hit "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".
The tune that Willie is playing on the bagpipes at the wedding is Pachelbel's Canon.
The Klingon wedding dress is based on the wedding dress worn by Jadzia Dax in the episode You Are Cordially Invited, an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
When Groundskeeper Willie is mowing the lawn and drives over the ball Nelson kicked, he is clearly whistling the theme song of The Lord of the Rings.