High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Great Wife Hope" is the third episode of The Simpsons` twenty-first season. Originally broadcast on the Fox network in the United States on October 11, 2009, it sees the men of Springfield taking immense interest in a new combat sport called mixed martial arts (MMA). Marge is appalled by the violent sport and demands that the creator puts a stop to it, but he agrees only if she fights him in a match and wins.