Former The Simpsons showrunner Josh Weinstein celebrates the 30th anniversary of season 4’s “Marge vs. The Monorail” by revealing a long-lost moment cut from the final episode. In the 1993 episode, Springfield gladly gives a vast donation of money to a shady businessman to build the city an impressive, song-worthy Monorail network, but Marge’s (Julie Kavner) suspicions uncover a scam that could destroy the town. Since it first aired, the Conan O’Brian-penned episode has become one of the series’ most celebrated episodes by staff and audiences.
With January 14 marking 30 years since the celebrated The Simpsons season 4 episode aired, Weinstein shared a cut moment from the episode on Twitter.
In the scene, Lisa (Yeardley Smith) reads to Maggie from a monorail-themed Thomas the Tank Engine parody book. While Marge disapproves, Maggie catches “Monorail Fever”.
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The Simpsons
The Simpsons is a long-running animated TV series created by Matt Groening that satirically follows a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield. Homer, a bit of a schmoe who works at a nuclear power plant, is the provider for his family, while his wife, Marge, tries to keep sanity and reason in the house to the best of her ability. Bart is a born troublemaker, and Lisa is his super-intelligent sister who finds herself surrounded by people who can’t understand her. Finally, Maggie is the mysterious baby who acts as a deus ex machina when the series calls for it. The show puts the family in several wild situations while constantly tackling socio-political and pop-culture topics set within their world, providing an often sharp critique of the subjects covered in each episode. This series first premiered in 1989 and has been a staple of Fox’s programming schedule ever since.
- Release Date
- December 17, 1989
- Cast
- Tress MacNeille , Julie Kavner , Harry Shearer , Pamela Hayden , Nancy Cartwright , Hank Azaria , Dan Castellaneta , Yeardley Smith
- Seasons
- 35
- Story By
- Matt Groening and James L. Brooks
- Network
- FOX
- Showrunner
- Al Jean
