Eight Misbehavin'

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The Simpsons episode
"Eight Misbehavin'"

Episode no.	233
Prod. code	BABF03
Orig. Airdate	November 21, 1999
Show Runner(s)	Mike Scully
Written by	Matt Selman
Directed by	Steven Dean Moore
Chalkboard	"Indian burns are not our cultural heritage."
Couch gag	Once the family sits on the couch, it turns around and shows a Vincent Price-like scientist chain an upside-down Ned Flanders to the wall. The scientist laughs maniacally as Ned screams.
Guest star	Jan Hooks as Manjula Garry Marshall as Larry Kidkill Butch Patrick as himself
Season 11 September 26, 1999 – May 21, 2000
Beyond Blunderdome Brother's Little Helper Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner? Treehouse of Horror X E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder Eight Misbehavin' Take My Wife, Sleaze Grift of the Magi Little Big Mom Faith Off The Mansion Family Saddlesore Galactica Alone Again, Natura-Diddily Missionary: Impossible Pygmoelian Bart to the Future Days of Wine and D'oh'ses Kill the Alligator and Run Last Tap Dance in Springfield It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Marge Behind the Laughter
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"Eight Misbehavin'" is the seventh episode of the eleventh season of The Simpsons. It aired on November 21, 1999. The episode's story is loosely based on those of the McCaughey septuplets and Dionne quintuplets. The title is a parody of the famous song "Ain't Misbehavin'".

1 Synopsis
2 Trivia
3 Cultural references
4 External links

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The family visits Shøp, a Danish furniture store chain, and when they eat there, they meet Apu and Manjula. They say that they would like to have a baby. They eventually do, and Manjula gives birth to octuplets because the Simpsons and Apu slipped her fertility drugs (Which she had been taking herself, already). It makes headlines across Springfield, with local companies giving the Nahasapeemapetilons free products. However, their feat is eclipsed when a family in Shelbyville give birth to nine babies (All of the gifts given to the Nahasapeemapetilons were instantly revoked upon the hearing of the Shelbyville birth). After the feat is made, Apu and Manjula have to deal with raising eight kids all at once.

Later, Apu is met by the owner of the Springfield Zoo, a man named Larry Kidkill. Kidkill offers to put Apu's children in a nursery. Although Apu is not open to the idea at first, he caves in and reluctantly accepts. The children are the stars of a show at the zoo named "Octopia", but Apu is not impressed and he wants to liberate his children from the zoo's owner, but he won't let them because they are under contract. Apu talks with Homer, and he suggests that they, with Butch Patrick's help, perform at the zoo through a new contract.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Trivia

When Apu says "How do you get cradle rash when you sleep in a suitcase?", closed captions read "How do you get cradle rash when you sleep in a turkey pan?"
The names of the babies are Poonam, Sashi, Pria, Uma, Anoop, Sandeep, Nabendu, and Gheet (who resembles Apu's brother, Sanjay).
which of those babies are girls?
Two of Apu's pet names for Manjula are "Curry Face" and "Chutney Butt".
Homer's conversion about being sterile is a reference to the third season finale edisode, Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes? in which his sterility was first discovered.

[edit] Cultural references

The mega-store SHØP is a parody of real-life furniture shop STØR.
The eight babies being placed in an exhibition mirrors the fate of the young Dionne quintuplets.