"Jacques, I'm a married woman."

That puss has squeezed out three kids. It must be like poking meringue. You can do better, Jacques, my man.

Also a few more double-titled episodes for your knowledge:

Bart's Girlfriend / Lovejoy's Little Devil
The Last Temptation of Krust / Clown Time is Over
Natural Born Kissers / Margie, May I sleep With Danger
Children of a Lesser Clod / The Kids Stay in the Picture
Helter Shelter / This Old House

I hate this episode in particular, because one episode earlier Marge was furious at Homer for dancing with a stripper for shits and giggles at a bachelor party.
Didn't touch her. Didn't act crude. Just danced.
Having an affair with some bowling ball guy is A-OK though.

Most of these alternate titles aren't very good anyway, I can see why they didn't use them.

Homer's Night Out at least had some killer jokes in it. LOTFL is pretty low on the fun factor.

I don't think there really is a lot to talk about when it comes to the character, but I wonder how he reacted to Marge never arriving at his place.

It's funny, they've shown Jacques in background shots loads of times but he never had another speaking part. Did Al Brooks just not want to voice him again?

Probably more that the animators just use whatever character models they have on hand and maybe it's an intentional nostalgia/callback to Season 1 thing.

how many episodes did the Simpsons have of Marge and/or Homer almost cheating on each other? how in the fuck did their marriage survive so long?

I never understood why Marge said Homer was setting a bad example for Bart? How is being comfortable and confident around women a bad thing? Women love a man who can dance!

Lol it only lasted because of Maggie,Lisa and Bart

Jacques's character design holds up better and it fit the show's art style as it evolved post-Season 2 more than some other early characters. Take for example Albert Brooks's other Season 1 character Cowboy Bob. He looks too much like Season 1 and would feel out of place in the newer animation style.

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Meh, she'd only cheat on Homer if it was Ruth.

With the HD animation the Simpsons themselves look out of place.

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>"My mind says Sneed, but my heart and hips cry Chuck!"

I don’t see him as a regular character at all. I consider regular characters to appear at least semi-frequently and deliver lines in most of their appearances. Jacques has been in more episodes than one might think, but it’s hardly frequent compared to actual secondary characters.

There's not a whole lot more that they could do with Jacques, he didn't exactly have a lot of depth. I think as a character, he did what he needed to do. He was a suave charmer who tempted Marge, and I don’t think he should really go out of that role. And I think they use him in the background just to have a familiar face in the crowd for the fans who recognize him.

Jacques does tend to show up a bit but I'm not sure it's really special. In later seasons especially you can usually find other characters around semi-frequently, I tend to notice Allison and Jessica in school crowd scenes quite a lot. Maybe someone in the layout artist group likes those characters, I sure know I'd stick my favorite guest characters into background roles as much as possible, so long as it actually makes sense for them to be there.

I have no idea why everyone is always talking about him so much, when he's just a one time character who served as a plot device in a season 1 episode and wasn't even useful as waifu b8 like Jessica Lovejoy or something. I've already mentioned this before but Ruth Powers regularly appear in crowd shots as well, despite only having lines in two episodes.

He just seems more noticeable, to be honest Ruth Powers barely stands out like Jacques does I barely even notice her where as Jacques just seems to pop up everywhere and stands out when he does. If you hadn't have mentioned Ruth appearing regularly in crowds I wouldn't have even noticed.

He’s probably more noticeable because he has that unique drawing of the early seasons, whereas Ruth's design isn’t really anything special.

>I've already mentioned this before but Ruth Powers regularly appear in crowd shots as well, despite only having lines in two episodes.
I remember at least 3, the one where she moves in, the Thelma and Louise one and the one where Marge takes steroids

Probably so yeah, he does have a unique look about him too, he's probably more remembered than Ruth in a way also as I think his episode stands out more and seems a bit more centered around him. Be interesting to see what Ruth's appearances are.

Just had a look, yeah there's a lot, Ruth has way more than Jacques.

simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Ruth_Powers

Whereas:

simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Jacques

I don't like the episode at all. Marge would never do something like that and I hate her. Homer just comes off as pathetic and cucked, also the pacing is absolutely glacial.

Imagine the Twitter screeching if this episode would’ve come out today

A boring episode, slow, lacking or almost always devoid of gags. One of the least humorous episodes of the whole series. I hardly laugh on two or three scenes.

But I could never hate this. It's humor level is nil, but it is so Simpsonian... Lots of episodes about Homer and Marge have been written, but this one is the quintessential marriage crisis' episode.
The main reason is, again, a perfect use of characterizations, they would be easily in a series' top5. The charming and seductive Jacques, the way Marge gets seduced gradually by him, how Homer suspects the situation, their fabulous interaction in the slice of sandwich scene... That specific scene is particularly great, too much to be explained in a few words. Homer is SO real there, praising Marge clumsily but looking too serious and resigned; while Marge listens patiently, and feels guilty about the situation. The wonderful pace for this dialog, the harsh realism that it showed, the high peak in characterization and emotionality that it meant, all its components turned this scene into a Simpsons' pinnacle.

The pacing in Season 1 can be numbingly slow, but it's perfect for this episode. They really highlight some of those small moments, like the invisible wall that gets built between Homer and Marge. These days, you wouldn't see that awkward silence between them as they go to bed.

Yeah it's not very funny but let's be honest that Marge and Lisa just aren't as funny characters as Bart and Homer.

One of the best episodes from season one. It makes me realize how rarely I watch the first season.

This episode is not as great as people make it out to be, it has plenty of flaws and is far from the best Homer/Marge episodes.

This was the first time in The Simpsons that Homer suddenly acted like a massive jerk and idiot, completely out of nowhere. He was never described like that before. He didn't care for Marge at all, and still didn't throughout the entire episode. His only attempt to win Marge back was a pointless speech about how she makes great sandwiches. Jacques as a one time character wasn't THAT great either. And Marge had 0 reason to go back to Homer in the end. Not to mention the episode had very little to no jokes.

The humor, or lack thereof, seems exaggerated. I suppose it's not as joke-packed as most episodes are, but regardless, it's still funnier than a lot of later episodes that are trying to be non-stop laugh fests. In particular, Jacques himself is funny. A lot of the humor comes from him. He's not exactly likable, but he is enjoyable. May not be a spectacular episode, but it's still good.

Also, unusual intro. Kinda like it as a strange Season 1 anomaly.

You mean to tell me you seriously don't love the art direction in this scene.

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Pretty good for a marriage crisis episode, but it's still a marriage crisis episode, which I hate. Sorta liked Jacques though. The ending I really enjoyed, and was a great tribute to An Officer and a Gentleman.

The concept of Marge wanting to cheat on Homer does seem OOC. That's forgivable as this was still early in the series, and her character hadn't been developed that much I guess, but still, Jacques is a creep if you ask me. But while Homer buying Marge a bowling ball for her birthday is selfish even by his standards, and Marge even considering an affair makes me uneasy, this episode is saved for me thanks to the great ending, stellar direction and animation, and the first instances of me laughing out loud during my rewatch of the entire series. (when Jacques yelled out for onion rings to eat on the bowling lane) I particularly want to call attention to the scene in Marge's fantasy sequence when she and Jacques are dancing together in black and white (in know it's an allusion to a movie but I forget which one) the animation was the best I'd seen thus far in the show. And again, that final scene - one of the highlight's of Homer and Marge's marriage and makes up for her almost straying.

Has Al Brooks come back since this show went to shit?

Glad to see so many fellow Jacquesheads, he's always maintained a quiet fanbase here

I didn't care for this episode. I think Season 1 was a little early to start the marriage crisis episodes, but this is better than most. The problem for me is that Jacques is not charming or interesting, he's just there to charm Marge. Artie Ziff does it better as a seemingly-nice guy with busy hands. Not many of the jokes landed, but the ending is cute and Homer, after his initial blunders, does try to show love for Marge. It's a 2/5, on the low end for Season 1 but better than several later episodes that mine the same marriage crisis territory.

back when I was 15, I fapped to the idea of him fucking the shit out of Marge

But Cowboy Bob did appear in a post-movie episode and his designed was retooled to look more "normal"

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Status quo. I unironically hope they go through with divorcing them in the last season like those rumors that were going around last year or the year before were stating.

The entire Town was in on Homer's escapades before she found out and the picture is suggestive that even more crap could have happened. She was still plenty mad but she at least, presumably, took Homer at his word that all he did was dance a jig with a half naked lady and wasn't out fucking prostitutes left and right all evening.

Also, while many examples later comes to light in future episodes/seasons, Homer does *alot* to undermine her trust in him, on a regular basis. He's no Randy Marsh, but he constantly buys shit for himself on her birthday, lied about failing a class he wasn't even in in order to shake up her plans so he could be with her as teenagers, routinely embarrasses her during social gatherings (including lewding at Maude Flanders while drunk) and has stupidly stumbled into almost affairs with other women at least twice.

And yet she sticks by him and still loves him.

Marge has to put up with so much from Homer and after another public embarrassment in front of her sisters and a ruined birthday she set out to learn to bowl. Maybe she thought it would get Homer to wise but but Marge herself is only human. Jacques was the nicest smooth talker who seemed legitimately interested in helping her out and she had a moment of weakness... that she then squashed and bailed on that scene.

A single moment of weakness after alot of duress is one thing compared to Homer's lifetime of selfish/impulsive moments that are dangerously problematic to say the least.

>Not to mention the episode had very little to no jokes.

It has humor, it’s just not in your face Reddit/meme humor from S5 onwards

>Marge: Doesn't cheat on her husband.
>Homer: Has a drunken foursome with his hated neighbor and two gold-digging sluts in Vegas

I thought that's because Jacques was playing up his accent to get chicks/seem cool.

Cameos always look weird in cartoons, like all the ones in Hey Arthur.

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You mean made to look worse?

They really aren’t cameos, but celebrity guest appearances

He must get some sort of sexual thrill (besides the actual sex) bedding lonely housewives. He probably thinks he's doing her a favor.

Shut the fuck up, boomer

He says he didn't do anything with them

when I was a kid I always wanted a "seduce a married housewife" playset

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>he says

Jacques, the rest of your bowling team are waiting for you to join them on the lane.

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>S5 simpsons
>reddit humor
Why do people try so hard to fit in here?