So it's not about wine. Sooooo whhattt?! I don't have a red phone to Groening's office and this is the only publicity I get. Copyright 2009, Jon Armstrong:
The episode starts with Marge looking through her senior yearbook. She develops a longing to reconnect with her high school youth. It turns out she's lost contact with everyone and tries many unsuccessful approaches until Mrs. Lovejoy advises Marge to try online at "Fakebook". Sure enough, through "Fakebook", Marge finds and reacquaints her old friends. Then she develops jealousy because everyone on "Fakebook" seems to have a better life than she. In order preserve her pride, she begins to lie on "Fakebook". She starts staging home videos of the kids. She uses Photoshop to doctor the faces Bart makes on photos, she starts lying about how she's "feeling right now". She gets lots of great feedback and her old friends attempt to meet in person. Once she realizes that she cannot continue the lies in person, she publishs ("Tweaks") that she's been a phoney on "Fakebook". This creates a cascade of similar admissions and the fakes on "Fakebook" ultimately bring down the institution since no one wants to reconnect with, as Homer describes, "losers like themselves".
What do you guys think? Comment to attract the attention of the show's producers.
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