Heartbreak Hotel

"Heartbreak Hotel" is the 641st episode of the American animated television series The Simpsons and the second episode of season 30. The episode was written by Renee Ridgeley and Matt Selman. In the episode, Marge and Homer take part in a reality TV show. Plot The Simpson family is watching a reality TV survival show called The Amazing Place. Marge reveals her expert knowledge of the show's contestant challenges comes from her lifetime of watching the past 47 seasons. Bart and Lisa heavily encourage Homer and Marge to audition, but Marge shows them samples from their past tryouts for the show, which were all rejected. Lisa edits the efforts into a new submission without telling Marge and Homer, and shows it to the producers at an in-person audition. The producers are attracted to the idea of rewarding an ultimate fan of the show and the show's host Tad Tuckerbag visits Homer and Marge to invite them onto the show. At the first challenge, while still at The Amazing Place'''s tarmac starting line, the contestants play "Suitcase Stowaway" to find an item in their own luggage that does not belong. Marge and Homer immediately lose and are eliminated. Heartbroken, they then find out they cannot leave for six weeks and are to be sequestered at the airport hotel. While Marge is miserable and homesick, Homer cheers her up with all the freebies they are given including room service, food, booze, and movies. At the hotel, the two find the post production room and a furious Marge discovers that Homer caused their loss by eating the "stowaway" item, a bar of chocolate. In a black and white vignette, five weeks into the competition, a bickering Marge and Homer invite another eliminated married couple, Nick and Honey, over to their room. Marge proceeds to make Homer jealous by flirting with Nick. The next day, Tuckerbag shocks the eliminated contestants by telling them that two of them can re-enter the game to compete in the final $1 million challenge—but only if they do the "Dead Weight Drop" where they dump their partner and choose any of the other contestants to replace them. Everyone else declines except for Marge, who declares she will cut Homer loose and join forces with Nick. The final "Mango Tango" challenge involves picking mangoes, creating mangorita cocktails with them, and crossing a log-covered trench while playing a penny whistle to calm down a pack of ravenous mango-loving monkeys.