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| The Simpsons episode | |
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| Episode no. | Season 5 |
| Directed by | Mark Kirkland |
| Written by | Greg Daniels |
| Original air dates | February 10, 1994 |
| Episode features | |
| Chalkboard gag | "I will not go near the kindergarten turtle" |
| Couch gag | The family's heads pop out of the couch with Maggie's head popping up last in the middle of the couch. |
| Episode chronology | |
| The Simpsons season 5 | |
| List of episodes | |
"Homer and Apu" is the thirteenth episode of The Simpsons' fifth season, first aired on February 10, 1994.
Synopsis
Homer buys some spoiled meat from Apu in the Kwik-E-Mart, eats it and gets extremely sick. After getting better, Homer angrily goes to Kwik-E-Mart to complain about the spoiled meat, for which Apu gives Homer spoiled shrimp. Once again Homer eats the shrimp and becomes terribly sick. This time however, Kent Brockman (who was working on the show Bite Back with Kent Brockman) gives Homer a novelty hat spy camera to expose Apu for giving out spoiled food. Once Apu is caught in the act, he is immediately fired from Kwik-E-Mart and replaced by James Woods (though not because he was serving spoiled food, but because he did not blame the store's problems on a scapegoat).
After being fired, Apu does chores for Homer because he thinks that he is in debt to Homer for serving him spoiled food. As time goes by, the family begins to love Apu and his traditions. However Apu begins to miss his job at Kwik-E-Mart so Homer decides to help him by traveling together to the Kwik-E-Mart head office in India. Once they arrive they meet up with the head of Kwik-E-Mart, a man in a white building drinking a Squishee labeled as "The Master Knows All (except combination to safe)." Unfortunately the head of Kwik-E-Mart does not help Apu with his problems and Apu and Homer are forced to return home, disappointed.
Later on, Apu manages to save James Woods from a robber. James Woods became very grateful and gives Apu his job back in Kwik-E-Mart. The episode ends with the Simpsons family hugging Apu as he is in the hospital from the incident with the robbery.
Cultural references
- Kent Brockman's Bite Back show is a parody of David Horowitz's Fight Back
- The "No way man! Get yourself another patsy man!" line is from JFK.
- The scenes of Homer and Apu travelling are similar to that of Lawrence of Arabia.
- When Lisa says "I can see through time" she is making a reference to Dune
- James Wood becoming a convenience store clerk for a movie is similar to Michael J. Fox becoming a cop in the movie from The Hard Way, in which Woods also starred.
- The ham Homer eats when he first gets sick has been expired for 5 years and 4 days
- The tide of cranberry juice resembles the pouring blood fromThe Shining
- The dialogue by the drowning man is a parody of "cran" puns made in cranberry juice commercials
- Apu's song "because to tell the truth I do" is a reference to Ravenal's song "Make Believe" in Kern and Hammerstein's musical Show Boat.
- The part with many passengers clinging outside of cars resembles Flame Over India
- The scene with Apu jumping in front of James Woods is a parody of Clint Eastwood jumping in front of the president in In the Line of Fire.
Censorship
James Woods swearing while scraping the cheese off the walls of the microwave oven was muted out in Australia (despite being already bleeped out for comedic effect in the original episode).
Song
- Apu: Whether igloo, hut, or lean-to, or a geodesic dome, there's no structure I have been to which I'd rather call my home
Grampa: Hello! Ah!
Apu: When I first arrived you were all such jerks, but now I've come lo-ve your quirks!
Apu: Maggie with her eyes so bright, Marge with hair by Frank Lloyd Wright!
Lisa can philosophize, Bart's adept at spinning lies!
Homer's a delightful fella, sorry 'bout the Salmonella!
Homer: He-he, that's ok!
Apu: Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart, now here's the tricky part, oh won't you rhyme with me?
Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?
Marge: Their floors are sticky-mart!
Lisa: They made Dad sicky-mart!
Bart: Let's hurl a bricky-mart!
Homer: The Kwik-E-Mart is real, d'oh!
All: Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?
Apu: Not me-e!
(Simpsons: Forget the Kwik-E-Mart, good-bye to Kwik-E-Mart, who needs the Kwik-E-Mart?)
Apu: Not me!
Apu: Who needs the Kwik-E-Mart? I do-o!
Quotes
- Man #1: I need one twenty-nine-cent stamp
Apu: That's a dollar-eighty-five.
Man #2: I'll have two dollars worth of gas.
Apu: Four-twenty.
Martin: How much is your penny candy?
Apu: Surprisingly expensive! - Apu: Oh, this time I have gone too far. No, no one will fall for--
Homer: Woohoo! Cheap meat!?? - Apu: Silly customer! You cannot hurt a Twinkie!
- Kent Brockman: We've come up with a camera so tiny it fits into this oversized novelty hat.
- Homer: Stop being such babies. You can't be afraid to try new things. For instance, tonight I'm using a... Apu, what do you call this thing again?
Apu: A "napkin"
Homer: (laughs) Outrageous! - Apu: (near the top of a mountain) There she is: the world's first convenience store!
Homer: This isn't very convenient.
Apu: Must you dump on everything we do? - Master: You may ask me three questions.
Apu: That's great, because all I need is one.
Homer: (interrupting) Are you really the head of the Kwik-E-Mart?
Master: Yes.
Homer: Really?
Master: Yes.
Homer: You?
Master: Yes. I hope this has been enlightening for you. - Abe: Ah, there's an interesting story behind this nickel. In 1957, I remember it was, I got up in the morning and made myself a piece of toast. I set the toaster to three - medium brown.
- Apu: Oh, the searing kiss of hot lead, how I've missed you! I mean, I think I'm dying.
- Homer: Apu, if it'll make you feel any better, I've learned that life is one crushing defeat after another until you just wish Flanders was dead.
- Comedian on television: Yo check this out, see, black guys drive a car like this! (pretends to drive while sitting back in the seat with one arm on the wheel and one resting on the window frame) but see, white guys drive a car like this! (pretends to drive in a very rigid and hunched up manner with both hands on the wheel and his chin right up against the top of the wheel)
Homer: Ah ha ha, it's true, it's true! We're so lame! - Marge: Lisa, is that too spicy for you?
Lisa: I can see through time. - Homer: Augh! Rancid...meat...attack!
- After the song is finished
Homer: Hey, he's not happy at all. He lied to us through song! I hate when people do that!
- James Woods: (talking to his agent on a cell phone) Tony, you're my agent.You have to do something about this....How can it be the same movie if they change my character from a tightly wound convenience store clerk to a jittery Eskimo firefighter? (starts cleaning a microwave with a scraper) Uh huh...uh huh...mm hmm...well, actually, that's a pretty good explanation. Now this is gross, right, this'll be gross points in this new...? OK. Yeah, 'cause there's monkey -- yeah, OK, great. OK, good: book me a flight, rent me an igloo, and tell those dorks at the Kwik-E-Mart that boom! I am outta here, I'm a dot, I'm gone, OK?
...What do you mean, I gotta give two weeks' notice? (starts struggling to scrape off some cheese) Why you frickin',no good, motha cheese! ...No, not you,Tony. I'm talking to my oven.
- (Homer & Apu are on a plane headed for India) Homer: Are we in India yet?
Apu: No.
Homer: Are we in India yet?
Apu: No.
Homer: Are we in India yet?
Apu: Wait.........now we are.