The Simpsons: "Hail to the Teeth"

The Simpsons: "Hail to the Teeth." Season 31, episode 11, running count, #673; Fox-TV 5 January 2020. Mark Kirkland director. Elisabeth Kiernan Averick, script. Jon Lovitz, guest star, as Artie Ziff.

The brief description, in its form on Wikipedia (see note 2 above), runs in its entirety, "Artie Ziff invites Homer and Marge to his wedding, only to find that the bride is a robot clone of Marge (and not the first one). Meanwhile, Lisa gets half of a new set of braces, causing her to constantly smile — and finally win popularity among her classmates." Relevant here, the "robot clone" idea. In his obsessive infatuation with Marge, Ziff attempts to reproduce her with a series of robots, all basically Marge, but in a wide range of forms: including an arachnoid (or insectoid?) one, one with a toaster head, another like a Slinky Dog, and several closer to what looks like a perfect reproduction clone of Marge as either a cyborg or a perfectly human — in appearance — robot woman such as robot-Maria in METROPOLIS and later works using the motif.

RDE, Initial Compiler, 5Jan20