Marge Simpson Poses For Playboy

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Marge Simpson Poses For Playboy

Posted by samzenpus on Monday October 12, 2009 @05:30AM from the drawn-to-please dept.

caffiend666 writes "'Marge Simpson is posing for Playboy . The magazine is giving the star of The Simpsons the star treatment, complete with a data sheet, an interview and a 2-page centerfold. 'We knew that this would really appeal to the 20-something crowd,' said Playboy spokeswoman Theresa Hennessey. Playboy even convinced 7-Eleven to carry the magazine in its 1,200 corporate-owned stores, something the company has only done once before in more than 20 years." Worst issue ever!

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Wow . . . by AshtangiMan · 2009-10-12 05:31 · Score: 5, Insightful

Playboy has to jump the shark?
1. Re:Wow . . . by Anonymous Coward · 2009-10-12 05:39 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I just want to see if she's a natural bluehead.
2. Re:Wow . . . by mcmonkey · 2009-10-12 05:54 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  Playboy jumped the shark loooooong time ago.
  I found the quote about appealing to 20-somethings particularly funny for a couple reasons.
  A 20-something has never seen a relevant current issue of Playboy, and likely cannot remember a relevant current episode of The Simpsons.
  I mean, I think The Simpsons is still funny, but the time when it was ground breaking entertainment spurring on social examination of how the modern American family is portrayed on television, those days are long gone.
  And I don't mean to make a lot of folks feel old, but Simpsons has been on the air for 20 years. The big fans are not 20-somethings anymore. We're 30- and 40-somethings.
  (And we get our pr0n on the internet.)
3. Re:Wow . . . by Anonymous Coward · 2009-10-12 06:08 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  It was revealed by Homer in Secrets of a Successful Marriage that Marge dyes her hair with blue dye #56; "She’s been gray as a mule since she was seventeen."
  From wikipedia =p
4. Re:Wow . . . by Dishevel · 2009-10-12 06:24 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I'd still rather see Lois than Marge.
  
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5. Re:Wow . . . by yo_tuco · 2009-10-12 07:05 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  "But does she dye there too?"
  No. And no need to. She has a Brazilian wax. I've seen the shots.
6. Re:Wow . . . by Frnknstn · 2009-10-12 09:30 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Post:
  by religious freak (1005821) ...
  I want a real name without a number attached to it.
  I suspect you've come to the wrong place...
  
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7. Re:Wow . . . by lewko · 2009-10-12 16:03 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I'd do Betty, but I'd be thinking about Wilma...
  
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As a 20-something... by clone53421 · 2009-10-12 05:32 · Score: 4, Interesting

Worst issue ever!
As a 20-something, I must say I agree.

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1. Re:As a 20-something... by Afforess · 2009-10-12 05:51 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  It's even funnier though because this story is right above "FOSS Sexism Claims Met With Ire and Denial."
  
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2. Re:As a 20-something... by Mooga · 2009-10-12 06:04 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  They are trying to draw in a younger audience they their traditional readers (who are getting old). Personally, as a 20-something, I wouldn't be attracted to it as much as disturbed by it. That fact that BOTH Playboy and whoever currently owns the rights to the Simpsons thought it was a good idea is proof that they are BOTH in a lot of trouble. I have no motivation at all in seeing a "sexy" Marge Simpson. I think they confused "20-something" and "Anime Perverts." HUGE difference.
  
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3. Re:As a 20-something... by Jaysyn · 2009-10-12 06:22 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Best. Story. Placement. Ever.
  
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4. Re:As a 20-something... by Tony+Hoyle · 2009-10-12 06:51 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  I just don't get why *this* issue is supposed to appeal to 20 somethings when the usual magazine full of naked women doesn't?
No Patti and Selma? by cfa22 · 2009-10-12 05:33 · Score: 5, Funny

Come on, they're TWINS.
1. Re:No Patti and Selma? by wiredlogic · 2009-10-12 06:18 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Come on, they're TWINS.
  And one of them is a lesbian right? Maybe more up Hustler's alley.
  
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For crying out loud; by fridaynightsmoke · 2009-10-12 05:34 · Score: 5, Insightful

At the risk of being modded down furiously, I would like to express my opinion on this:
1) Cartoons are seldom sexy
2) The Simpsons jumped the shark years ago. Since then it has been repeatedly jumping the shark, again and again, once every day at least in the vain hope that somebody notices that it has jumped the shark. So far very few people have.
3) Cross-promoting press release opportunities like this bore me to tears. I can understand Slashdot covering this, but I have seen this "news" in 'serious' newspapers. FFS.
That is all.

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1. Re:For crying out loud; by jacktherobot · 2009-10-12 05:42 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  don't have a cow man
2. Re:For crying out loud; by lastchance_000 · 2009-10-12 06:07 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  But what about the articles?!
3. Re:For crying out loud; by Stuart+Gibson · 2009-10-12 06:09 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I'd go with Betty. But I'd be thinking about Wilma.
  
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In related news by Reason58 · 2009-10-12 05:34 · Score: 3, Funny

All of Hefner's girlfriends begin dying their hair blue.
Seems odd . . . by MBGMorden · 2009-10-12 05:35 · Score: 4, Insightful

This seems very unexpected. Not that Playboy would do it, or even that people would buy it, but rather than the owners of the Simpson's copyright (I presume Fox?) would agree to it.

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1. Re:Seems odd . . . by wizardforce · 2009-10-12 05:38 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  Well, Fox probably still likes money and the Simpsons isn't the cash cow it once was so... I'm thinking that Playboy dangled cash in front of Fox and Fox couldn't say "no."
  
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2. Re:Seems odd . . . by dfxm · 2009-10-12 05:44 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  I'm surprised Marge would do it. It seems out of character for her, especially considering she is a member of Springfield's Citizens' Committee on Moral Hygiene...
3. Re:Seems odd . . . by jandrese · 2009-10-12 06:03 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  She also painted Mr. Burns in the buff, so she can't be that prudish.
  
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4. Re:Seems odd . . . by oh_my_080980980 · 2009-10-12 06:09 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Did you read the article? This was done to increase Playboy's sagging sales.
Good luck with that by Skyshadow · 2009-10-12 05:35 · Score: 5, Funny

I'm certain that this will convince all the 20-somethings out there who've been weaned on free internet hardcore to subscribe to Playboy.

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1. Re:Good luck with that by Reason58 · 2009-10-12 05:44 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Playboy is portable and doesn't require internet access or power. I predict that it's still quite popular with that crowd.
  Great points. This will surely prove popular for the large, masturbator-on-the-go market.
peace of mind by bugi · 2009-10-12 05:36 · Score: 5, Funny

At least we won't have to debate whether or not the rack is real, so I can sleep easy for once.
Bah! by Greyfox · 2009-10-12 05:37 · Score: 4, Funny

I can already find a ton of Marge Simpson pr0n on the internet.
Oh internet... Is there nothing you won't show naked?

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1. Re:Bah! by Penguinisto · 2009-10-12 05:48 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Oh internet... Is there nothing you won't show naked?
  Richard Stallman
  (and yes, we are ever grateful that such an event has not occurred).
  
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2. Re:Bah! by David+Gerard · 2009-10-12 06:03 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Found it!
  
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And for Playgirl by Reason58 · 2009-10-12 05:40 · Score: 3, Funny

Playgirl announces plans to feature Homer. When asked what prompted him to do the photo shoot, Homer said he needed the d'oh.
Next issue... by fahrbot-bot · 2009-10-12 05:41 · Score: 5, Insightful

I'm waiting for Leela and Amy.

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1. Re:Next issue... by RiotingPacifist · 2009-10-12 06:00 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  But lack of depth perception is what i look for in a lady!
  
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Oh good. by Jethro · 2009-10-12 05:42 · Score: 4, Funny

This is the first time I've wanted to get a Playboy since I was 12.

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Re:must buy by Penguinisto · 2009-10-12 05:46 · Score: 4, Insightful

You know? I thought the same thing back when Madonna showed up in a Playboy spread... then I saw the armpit hair. We're not talking just a little bit, either... there was enough in there to supply an entire Lilith Fair audience.
Sometimes, there are things in this world that you just do not want to see, curiosity be damned.

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20-something ? by arielCo · 2009-10-12 05:48 · Score: 4, Interesting

We knew that this would really appeal to the 20-something crowd
Given that The Simpsons first aired 19 years ago and peaked not too long after that, try again with "30-something crowd".

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Re:so does marge have blue pubes? by Reason58 · 2009-10-12 05:49 · Score: 3, Informative

This spread is worthless without pink.
To put in a way that slashdotters may understand, it is like an article featuring a new sports car that does not mention its horsepower.
Wanted to moderate but... by JimboFBX · 2009-10-12 06:05 · Score: 4, Insightful

I really wanted to spend my mod points here but was disappointed nobody pointed this out:

*ahem*

How many other Playboy models feature hideous bug-eyes, a monstrous overbite, chimp-like ears, and freakish bee-hive hair?

And to throw in my own opinion: Remember folks, the picture was drawn by someone who probably resembles comic-book guy! Yeah!
1. Re:Wanted to moderate but... by Spazholio · 2009-10-12 06:20 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Heidi Montag?
Re:must buy by Sponge+Bath · 2009-10-12 06:18 · Score: 5, Funny

...call me when Leela does a spread.
Or some hot Leela on Amy action. Ooh, that's so Wong.
Hey Marge! by Vinegar+Joe · 2009-10-12 06:25 · Score: 3, Funny

Show me the blue!

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Re:Rule 34! by jitterman · 2009-10-12 07:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Finally, my sig has relevance!

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All centerfolds are "cartoons" anyway by dbet · 2009-10-12 07:28 · Score: 4, Informative

I gave up long ago even trying to find something sexy in an issue of Playboy. Between air-brushing, filters (the ones that make the entire shot pinkish or blueish), and post-editing, you're no longer looking at a real woman. In fact it often almost looks like a painting, rather than a photograph.

And this is by no means an insult to the models, who are very nice looking in person.
Will the issue be distributed in Australia? by Doug52392 · 2009-10-12 09:57 · Score: 3, Interesting

I wonder if this issue of Playboy will be avialbe in Australia, given their intolerance towards cartoon pornography...