Saturday Night Cartoons

“Our first night together as man and wife.” – Marge Simpson “Hey, lovebirds, keep it down!” – Patty Bouvier “I Married Marge” is a wonderful example of a process that’s not quite world building, but pretty close. We already know Homer and Marge get married, we know their oldest is Bart, we know Homer works at the nuclear plant. All of these elements have already been established. But in showing us how it happened, they deepen and expand both the characters and Springfield as a whole. How does someone like Homer end up working at the plant? He marched into…