A Made Maggie
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"A Made Maggie" is the tenth episode of Season 33, being the 716th episode overall. It originally aired on December 19, 2021. The episode was written by Elisabeth Kiernan Averick and directed by Timothy Bailey. It features guest stars Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony.
Plot[]
Fat Tony becomes Godfather to Maggie Simpson.
Full story[]
The episode opens with the Simpsons, except Maggie Simpson, at a ripoff Harry Potter park called "The Overpriced World of Angelica Button Park" while at home, Grampa is babysitting Maggie. When the Simpsons come home after Homer causes a huge fight after being submitted by the Categorize Cap to Grizzledum, who are rivals to Pufflesnuff, they find that Maggie is gone, but Ned Flanders managed to find her and return her. Then Ned explained about how Maggie has never been baptised, and he declined the offer to become Maggie's godfather since he's raised enough kids. Feeling bad, Marge asks Homer to go out and find Maggie a godfather to help take care of her. Homer then goes over to Moe's Tavern to ask Lenny, Carl, Moe, and Barney, but immediately checks them off, seeing them as unfit. After going to the police station, he, too, counts Chief Wiggum out as unfit due to how he raises Ralph Wiggum.
Then he finds Fat Tony after the latter saves him and Maggie from a falling piano accidentally dropped by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy by pushing the two out of the way by pushing a Virgin Mary statue in the piano's fall path instead, and in gratitude, Homer hires Fat Tony to be Maggie's godfather upon also learning that Fat Tony is also religious. When Marge finds out about this, she is concerned about it due to Fat Tony being the leader of the Springfield Mafia Crime Syndicate. She then says that the Simpsons would be better off with Mr. Burns being Maggie's godfather, but Fat Tony, upon arrival at their house, surprises the Simpsons with a new car that's safer to drive in for Maggie's sake in the form of a new Lexus SUV complete with a Ferrari Protectarossa seat to replace the obsolete one the Simpsons have. They accept the gifts after playing around in the car for a bit, especially with Fat Tony offering more stuff for Maggie in the future. The next day at the First Church of Springfield, Maggie is baptized with Selma also becoming her godmother, despite that she divorced Fat Tony before.
At Luigi's, the act of Fat Tony towards Maggie teaching her about religion convinces Marge even more on it. Legs and Louie then become babysitters for her, while Maggie starts to act like a boss herself. As Fat Tony becomes more attached to Maggie and her family, Johnny Tightlips starts to see this change and, due to becoming jealous of Maggie, starts thinking of something to do about it with Don Castellaneta and the other mafia members. Fat Tony also admits Maggie into the Preschool for the Performing Arts, but when Fat Tony forces the Simpsons to go to Sunday church, which was part of their deal, Homer and Marge start thinking of backing out of Fat Tony being Maggie's godfather. Homer, however, couldn't find the courage to talk Fat Tony out of it, and Fat Tony invites the Simpsons to a showing of "Itchy and Scratchy's Christmas on Ice," in hopes to prove to the Simpsons that he can stay in Maggie's life.
At the Springfield Mall, Fat Tony opens a new store called the Bambino Depot, and Johnny, having seen enough, plans on acting on it and talks Legs and Louie into it. At the Preschool for the Performing Arts, Marge starts seeing how Maggie is starting to act towards the other babies and imagines Maggie, as a grown femme fatale, starting a fire in a changing room with a guy inside tied to a chair, and asks Fat Tony to stay away from her infant child, but Fat Tony, again, proposes to Homer to give him one more day and a chance to prove he's out of the mafia business with the "Itchy and Scratchy's Christmas on Ice" showing, especially when he helps change Maggie's diaper and asks Legs and Louie to dispose of it, which they do by burying and shooting at it like they were disposing a body. At the Springfield Sports Arena, the "Itchy and Scratchy's Christmas on Ice" showing is being prepared, and the mafia members are suspiciously hiding guns everywhere for some reason. Despite Homer and Marge hoping to have witnesses in the arena so they can convince Fat Tony to stop being Maggie's godfather during the show, Fat Tony, however, reveals that he bought the whole arena for Maggie, under the mafia's surprise request, which means no witnesses, so Marge, in desperation, proposes to Fat Tony in becoming his "Mama" instead of him being the godfather, but he refuses, insisting on going through with this.
However, the actor performing as Itchy then reveals himself to be Johnny, attempting to betray Fat Tony by murdering him out of revenge for spending more time with Maggie and her family than with the mafia, hence revealing that the mafia requesting Fat Tony to buy the whole arena for Maggie, and hiding their guns, was all a trap and a murder plan. But Legs and Louie, loyal to Fat Tony, quickly restrains Johnny, stopping this. Fat Tony, angered at Johnny's attempted betrayal and murder, punches Johnny in his face with his gun in his hand, but upon seeing Maggie's horrified reaction to him getting back to the mafia business, he becomes guilty and then, after punching Johnny a little more in his head, agrees with the Simpsons to step down as Maggie's godfather, after reaccepting the car and its keys and carseat he gave the Simpsons and changing Maggie's diaper one last time, with Legs and Louie burying the diaper again afterwards.
Videos[]
Just Like The Godfather - Season 33 Ep. 10 - The Simpsons
Diaper Disposal - Season 33 Ep. 10 - The Simpsons
External Links[]
- "A Made Maggie" at the Internet Movie Database
- "A Made Maggie" press release via The Futon Critic
- "A Made Maggie" script via Springfield! Springfield!