Sweets and Sour Marge

"Sweets and Sour Marge" is the eighth episode of the thirteenth season of The Simpsons. The title parodies the famous dish "Sweet and sour chicken". Homer buys a book on world records published by Duff at a library sale. After boring everyone with world record trivia, Homer decides to break a record himself. He gathers the whole town to build the world's tallest human pyramid. After Jimbo and Kearney move their hands just before the record is cla... more

"Sweets and Sour Marge" is the eighth episode of the thirteenth season of The Simpsons. The title parodies the famous dish "Sweet and sour chicken". Homer buys a book on world records published by Duff at a library sale. After boring everyone with world record trivia, Homer decides to break a record himself. He gathers the whole town to build the world's tallest human pyramid. After Jimbo and Kearney move their hands just before the record is claimed, the pyramid collapses into a giant sphere that rolls through town, taking in Agnes Skinner, Hans Moleman, and a suicidal man about to jump from a ledge onto the street. The entire town rolls to a truck weighing station and the Duff record book officials say that Springfield is the world's fattest town, ahead of Milwaukee (though it should be of note that, at the time of the original airing, the fattest city in America was Chicago, Illinois). The townsfolk are happy to have made it in the record book. Marge is worried that the whole town... less