The 15 Best Homer and Marge Episodes for Valentine’s Day
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Springfield is not a romantic place. It’s a place of layoffs, bad ideas, public humiliation, minor disasters, and at least one person eating something they found in a parking lot.
And yet, somehow, Homer and Marge keep their marriage intact.
Not untouched. Not graceful. But intact. These episodes trace the strange durability of a relationship that survives jealousy, temptation, separation, grand gestures, terrible gestures, and the long, ordinary stretches in between. Love, in Springfield, isn’t perfect. It’s persistent.
The Playlist
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The Way We Was
Season 2, Episode 11
When the TV dies, Marge resurrects a far riskier form of entertainment: the story of a blue-haired overachiever and the underqualified boy who loved her immediately and without a business plan. It’s a tender reminder that great romances are built on big feelings, questionable decisions, and at least one extremely sincere prom disaster.
I Married Marge
Season 3, Episode 12
Young love, limited funds, and a series of increasingly desperate career choices culminate in the most romantic gesture Springfield has to offer: a man willing to pledge lifelong loyalty to both his wife and a tyrannical boss. Marriage, the episode suggests, isn’t about perfection, it’s about panic, persistence, and showing up again after you’ve already left.
The Last Temptation of Homer
Season 5, Episode 9
When Homer meets a woman who likes the exact same snacks, naps, and questionable life choices, he faces the most dangerous threat to his marriage: effortless compatibility. A quiet, grown-up love story about temptation, loyalty, and the radical choice to go home to the person who knows you best.
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Secrets of a Successful Marriage
Season 5, Episode 22
Homer accidentally turns marital privacy into a lecture series, proving that nothing threatens a relationship quite like oversharing to a room full of strangers with notebooks. A chaotic love story about boundaries, forgiveness, and the strange, enduring comfort of being someone’s absolute, unqualified responsibility.
And Maggie Makes Three
Season 6, Episode 13
Homer quits the job that crushes his spirit, then returns to it anyway because love, it turns out, is less about dreams fulfilled than about showing up, clocking in, and quietly choosing your family every day. A romance told in reverse: not the moment you fall in love, but the moment you decide to stay there.
A Millhouse Divided
Season 8, Episode 6
After witnessing a marriage implode over Pictionary and passive aggression, Homer spirals into the terrifying realization that love is less permanent than he assumed and immediately attempts several deeply misguided romantic gestures. A sweet, anxious ode to recommitting, overcorrecting, and occasionally renewing your vows before anything has technically gone wrong.
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El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer
Season 8, Episode 9
After a chili-induced vision quest suggests Marge might not be his true soulmate, Homer sets out to find someone who understands him only to discover that being known, anticipated, and gently managed may actually be the highest form of romance.
Natural Born Kissers
Season 9, Episode 25
When anniversary romance arrives flat, Homer and Marge accidentally rediscover the one thing that still sparks their marriage: the thrilling possibility of being caught doing something they absolutely shouldn’t be doing. It’s a love story about long-term commitment, mild chaos, and the dangerous chemistry of two people who still find each other wildly, inconveniently exciting.
I’m with Cupid
Season 10, Episode 14
When Apu’s grand romantic gestures accidentally raise the citywide expectations for Valentine’s Day, Springfield’s husbands form a panic-driven task force dedicated to lowering the bar back to something realistic. Meanwhile, Homer achieves romance the only way he knows how: through sabotage, confusion, and a last-minute airborne crisis involving roses and possible internal injuries.
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Take My Wife, Sleaze
Season 11, Episode 8
After winning a motorcycle in a nostalgia-fueled dance contest, Homer accidentally invents the least intimidating outlaw gang in America and then immediately loses Marge to a group of actual bikers who appreciate her emotional stability. What follows is a rescue mission powered by jealousy, poor judgment, and the quiet understanding that Marge is, in fact, the most competent person in any room she enters.
Three Gays of the Condo
Season 14, Episode 17
After discovering that one terrible night almost ended his marriage years ago, Homer spirals into separation, self-discovery, and an ill-advised bachelor phase fueled by margaritas and denial. It’s a detour through resentment, nostalgia, and the uncomfortable realization that Marge didn’t stay because she had to, she stayed because she wanted to.
The Way They Weren’t
Season 15 Episode 20
A childhood almost-romance resurfaces to reveal that Homer and Marge’s love story includes mistaken identities, emotional damage, and one extremely sincere heart-shaped rock carried across decades. Some relationships begin with destiny, this one begins with bad timing and a boy who kept the evidence anyway.
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Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play
Season 17, Episode 22
After their everyday affection accidentally becomes relationship inspiration on the Jumbo-Vision, Homer and Marge find themselves reluctantly cast as Springfield’s least qualified marriage experts. Between mixed signals, grand gestures, and one extremely hazardous blimp message, they prove that their real expertise is simple: staying on the same team, even when everything else is wildly off-script.
Love, Springfieldian Style
Season 19, Episode 12
Stranded in a Tunnel of Love while their children actively sabotage romance, Homer and Marge pass the time by casting themselves as history’s most dramatic couples: outlaws, strays, and fools who keep choosing each other anyway. Because in Springfield, true love isn’t smooth sailing; it’s staying in the boat when the water turns to Jell-O.
Dangerous Curves
Season 20, Episode 5
A Fourth of July road trip sends Homer and Marge drifting through their relationship’s timelines, newly in love, deeply irritated, and briefly one bad decision away from completely different lives. It’s a reminder that their marriage hasn’t stayed strong by avoiding the detours, but by somehow finding the same road again every time.