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"
Natural Born Kissers" is the season finale of
The Simpsons' ninth season which originally aired on the
Fox network on
May 17,
1998.
Homer and
Marge discover that the fear of getting caught while making love is a turn on and start making love in public places. It was the first episode written by
Matt Selman and was the only episode to be directed by Klay Hall.
Plot
It is
Homer and
Marge's eleventh
wedding anniversary and
Grampa doesn't arrive at the Simpsons house to babysit the children. As a result, they decide take
Bart,
Lisa and
Maggie to a fancy restaurant with them. However, Bart objects and takes them to a family restaurant shaped like an airplane, which spoils Homer and Marge's evening together. Later that evening, Homer and Marge attempt to have
sex, but lack enthusiasm. The following day, it's discovered Homer left the freezer door open, causing the refrigerator motor to burn out. Homer and Marge make their way to a hardware store to buy another motor, but the car gets stuck in the muddy driveway in the middle of farm country. Meanwhile, Bart and Lisa stay at the Springfield Retirement Castle with Grampa, and they discover a
metal detector in his closet. Later in the episode, they use they uncover a suppressed, happy ending to the film
Casablanca in which Ilsa Lund and Rick marry. The
Old Jewish Man steps forward to reveal that in his younger days, he was a studio executive that had tacked that happy ending onto the picture. He then gives Bart and Lisa twenty dollars to re-bury it, along with another film reel labeled, "
It's a Wonderful Life: Killing Spree Ending".
Homer and Marge rush into the nearest
barn to avoid a sudden storm. A farmer discovers the barn door is open and suspects trespassers. He enters the barn, nearly catching Homer and Marge, who are hiding in the hay loft, but leaves after failing to locate them. When the coast is clear, Homer and Marge have inspired sexual intercourse in the hay loft. They think their marriage has been recharged and go for a romantic weekend at a
Bed and Breakfast, but soon fall into their old patterns. However, a maid walks in on them and they conclude they're both aroused when they risk being caught during intimate moments.
Their love life is recharged and one day they begin to have
sex on the same miniature golf course
windmill where Bart was conceived. This time they come
too close to being caught, and while they manage to escape, they've to flee through
Springfield in the
nude, even using a hot air balloon. The
Crystal Cathedral and its former senior pastor,
Robert H. Schuller, were depicted in the episode as Homer is dragged nude across the glass roof of the cathedral, holding on to a rope tied to the balloon while pleading for Marge to "make the balloon go a little higher." Dr. Schuller and the congregation sit aghast below, inside the sanctuary, while the pastor exhorts his congregation to keep their eyes focused on "God's floor" during the ordeal. In the end, the two are seen in a
football stadium, and a
naked photograph of Homer and Marge appears in the local
newspaper. The episode was the only time that Mike Scully ever got a call from Fox where they suggested not doing the episode. They were worried about the sexual content, the nudity and how it was going to be handled. They disliked several of the phrases used in the episode, such as the term "ass forkin'". The producers fought the
censors and in the end, very little of the script was changed.
Klay Hall, a director on
King of The Hill returned to
The Simpsons to direct this episode.
Cultural references
The episode's title is a reference to the film
Natural Born Killers, directed by
Oliver Stone. The airplane restaurant "Up, Up and Buffet!" is based on a submarine shaped restaurant that was near the Fox studio named "Dive". The authors of the book
I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, called it "a superb episode which actually makes Marge and Homer's love life seem very real; everyone needs a bit of spice now and again, and they find theirs. The balloon trip is hysterical, and the attempts to explain their behaviour to a very worldly-wise Bart and Lisa are magnificent." The DVD release was also reviewed favorably by Louis R. Carlozo in the
Chicago Tribune, where the episode was seen as "more ridiculous" than "
Large Marge".
Further Information
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