How often have you ever considered Jacques, the four-fingered Lothario tried to steal Marge’s heart?
The French seducer was a memorable character within the season one episode “Life on the Fast Lane” and he’s just made his comeback – 33 years since he last had a line on the long-running show.
Jacques was one the numerous one-off characters who’ve tried to detour either Homer or Marge away from their marriage vows, however the couple all the time found their way back to 1 one other, spurning the advances of an outsider.
Within the 1990 episode, Jacques was a bowling instructor who became besotted with Marge, who had taken up the game to spite Homer after his selfish selection to gift her a bowling ball (along with his name engraved on it) on her birthday.
Resentful at her loutish husband, Marge is tempted by the attentions of somebody recent – but ultimately chooses Homer.
In “Pin Gal”, which aired over the weekend Jacques returns to teach Marge for a bowling tournament. And actor Albert Brooks even comes back to voice the character.
However it’s not his one-time unethical pursuit of a married woman that has fans miffed, it’s that there was a glaring plot hole in the course of Jacques’ return.
Fans on social media identified that in the brand new episode, Homer has no idea of Marge and Jacques’ past, which directly clashes with a scene from the sixth season episode, “One other Simpsons Clip Show”.
In that scene, Homer and Marge are sharing with one another the small print of their many almost-cheating encounters, and it references the incident with Jacques.
So Homer definitely knows.
After all, if you happen to really dived into the continuity of The Simpsons, you’d must ask yourself a bunch of other unanswerable questions, akin to why not one of the characters have aged in 34 years or how will you fit that many Halloweens into one school 12 months?
