Chief Wiggum pulls Troy McClure over for dangerous driving. He asks McClure to wear glasses, but McClure doesn't want to. So he goes to the DMV to get his license changed to remove the requirement. He offers to take DMV employee Selma Bouvier to dinner if she lets him pass the eye test, to which she agrees. The next day, Troy's agent, MacArthur Parker, calls and says that he can get work again if he continues seeing Selma. As Troy continues to date her, his career starts to recover. His agent tells him to marry Selma, and when Troy asks Selma for a marriage, she says yes.
At Moe's, Troy tells Homer he doesn't really love Selma and plans to use her as a sham wife to help his career. At the marriage, Homer fails to tell Selma, but when Marge and Patty tell Selma, she accuses them of being jealous. She confronts Troy, who admits that their marriage IS a sham. Troy explains to Selma that even though their marriage is a sham, she has everything she wants.
Selma accepts the situation only because she fears being alone. Meanwhile, Parker thinks he can get Troy a great role upcoming famous movie, but says he will have a better chance if he has a family. Unfortunately, Troy and Selma feel comfortable with their situation, and Selma leaves after deciding that bringing a child into a loveless family is unsuitable.
My thoughts:
Storyline: This is a rare episode that focuses on two secondary characters in The Simpsons (although there were some involvements from Homer and Marge). The plot especially on wrongdoings of Troy, heavily satirizes on the celebrity lives and the ways that one would do to promote their image as fresh as possible, and it's satirized well through his actions (he being fond of Selma in his private sense, yet trying to look as lovely as possible in front of public) and converted into the flow of the overall plot of the episode. My only concern was that the plot was a bit slow.
I don't think the episode really had much of humor, but several scenes were memorable (Planet of the Apes musical, for example), and I laughed so hard with Homer's brain. "Da-da-da-da-hey! (x2)" Troy was funny enough, he had good jokes with Wiggum, Parker, and a waiter. The episode was not a gagfest, but it was fine.
Overall, a good episode with minor flaws.
My grade: B/B+
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