Mayored to the Mob
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| Episode no. | 212 |
| Prod. code | AABF05 |
| Orig. Airdate | December 20, 1998 |
| Show Runner(s) | Mike Scully |
| Written by | Ron Hauge |
| Directed by | Swinton O. Scott III |
| Chalkboard | "'The President did it' is not an excuse." |
| Couch gag | The family is crushed into a block. |
| Guest star | Mark Hamill as himself and Leavelle Joe Mantegna as Fat Tony |
| Season 10 August 23, 1998 – May 16, 1999 |
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"Mayored to the Mob" is the ninth episode of The Simpsons' tenth season. It aired on December 20, 1998.
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[edit] Synopsis
While watching Roger Corman's version of Titanic, the family sees a commercial for the "Bi-Mon-Sci-Fi-Con", a science-fiction convention featuring Mark Hamill, ALF, and robots from Battlestar Galactica and Star Wars. The family agrees to go to the convention, but it is crowded, and Homer resents that the convention is full of nerds. When Mark Hamill and Mayor Quimby, at the convention, are in danger of being trampled by a riot (over who should play Obi-Wan Kenobi in a skit with Mark Hamill), Homer comes to the rescue to save them. In appreciation, Mayor Quimby makes Homer his new bodyguard.
Homer goes to "Leavelle's Bodyguard Academy", where he learns how to become a bodyguard. After his graduation, wherever Mayor Quimby goes in Springfield, Homer follows him, even if it means taking a bribe. One day, Mayor Quimby makes a deal with Fat Tony to have him provide milk to the schools of Springfield. When Homer finds out that the milk Fat Tony is delivering to the schools is really rat's milk, he confronts Quimby and accidentally knocks him out the window. Discovering Quimby hanging on the ledge, Homer makes him promise to expose Fat Tony in exchange for pulling him back inside.
Mayor Quimby arrests Fat Tony and his goons, but Fat Tony threatens Quimby's life on the news. Homer takes Mayor Quimby to the dinner theatre to see Mark Hamill play Nathan Detroit in Guys and Dolls. Fat Tony is there with his henchman, Louie, who tries to stab Quimby but is stopped in a scuffle with Homer and Hamill (who is dressed like Luke Skywalker). During the struggle, however, Fat Tony savagely beats Quimby with a baseball bat. At the end, Homer and Hamill escape from the paparazzi á la The Bodyguard.
[edit] Trivia
- Mayor Quimby's bodyguard's names are Ernie and Big Tom.
- To date, this is the last episode of The Simpsons to be animated overseas by Anivision.
[edit] Cultural references
- The song "Luke be a Jedi" is a parody of the song "Luck Be a Lady" from Guys and Dolls.
- The watermelons used to represent protectees are labeled Sting, Madonna, Al Gore and Ann Landers.
- One of the cardboard Stormtroopers Mark Hamill knocks down with his plastic lightsaber is actually a cut-out of Wonder Woman.
- The title of this episode is parody of Married to the Mob.
- The maître d' at the dinner theater is patterned after Frank Nelson, a character actor who had a recurring role on The Jack Benny Program and later appeared on "I Love Lucy". He later became a recurring character, next seen in Homer vs. Dignity.
- The scene where Homer, horrified, watches the kids drinking rat milk, references Soylent Green.
- When the bodyguard instructor lays on top of the wagon that has a green mound on it holding a sniper rifle, it parodies the grassy knoll theory of the Kennedy assassination.
- At the convention, Uter wears a Futurama shirt.
- Among those signing autographs are Gort from The Day the Earth Stood Still, Doctor Who, Godzilla, Dr Smith and the Robot from the original Lost in Space television show and Neil Armstrong (whom everyone ignores).
- In the background at the convention is a booth for Roswell, Little Green Man.
- Homer thinks he has seen Louie in "Rent, or Stomp, or Clomp, or some piece of crap."
[edit] External links
- "Mayored to the Mob" episode capsule at The Simpsons Archive
- "Mayored to the Mob" at the Internet Movie Database
