"Life on the Fast Lane"
Written by: John Swartzwelder
Directed by: David Silverman
First aired: March 18, 1990
S01E09
(7G11)
Episode Background
Episode Background:
"Life on the Fast Lane"
"Life on the Fast Lane"
Written by: John Swartzwelder
Directed by: David Silverman
First aired: March 18, 1990
S01E09
7G11
Episode Background
Life on the Fast Lane was part of the spring lineup of the 1989-1990 US TV schedule. It first aired March 18, 1990 at 8.30pm on Fox following “America’s Most Wanted” and was followed by “Married… With Children”, both of which remain top notch examples of quality television, well worth clearing your Sunday nights to watch on the family TV. Life on the Fast Lane was seen by over 33 million people when it first aired according to Nielsen ratings.
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Plot
The episode deals with how Homer’s thoughtlessness precipitates Marge’s infatuation with her bowling instructor Jacques, leading to a marriage crisis between her and Homer. In the original plan for the episode, Brooks (who improvised much of his dialogue) was to voice a Swedish tennis coach called Björn, with the episode to be titled “Björn To Be Wild”.
The episode features a parody of the film An Officer and a Gentleman and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) in 1990.
“Feel the satiny finish. Caress it. Experience it. Quite smooth, isn’t it?”
Top Quotable Lines
- Bart: “TV sucks”. Homer: “I know you′re upset right now, so I′ll pretend you didn′t say that”.
- Homer: “To alcohol! The cause of and solution to all of life′s problems!”
- Homer: “Hello? You′ll have to speak up. I′m wearing a towel”
Top Ranking Term
Professor Frink has ran advanced ranking algorithms and processed every spoken line of this episode and found that…
“smooth”
… is the top ranking unique term in Life on the Fast Lane.
“I bet you don’t know how to make a 5-7-10 split, do you Marge?”