The Sweetest Apu

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The Simpsons episode
"The Sweetest Apu"
Homer's nightmare after actually seeing Apu's affair with Annete.
Episode no. 288
Prod. code DABF14
Orig. airdate May 5, 2002
Show runner(s) Al Jean
Written by John Swartzwelder
Directed by Matthew Nastuk
Chalkboard “I will never lie about being cancelled again”
Couch gag The Simpsons come in just as two repo men take the couch away. Homer sobs loudly, Marge looks confused, and the kids sit on the floor to watch TV
Guest star(s) Jan Hooks as Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon
James Lipton as Himself
Season 13
November 6, 2001May 22, 2002
  1. "Treehouse of Horror XII"
  2. "The Parent Rap"
  3. "Homer the Moe"
  4. "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love"
  5. "The Blunder Years"
  6. "She of Little Faith"
  7. "Brawl in the Family"
  8. "Sweets and Sour Marge"
  9. "Jaws Wired Shut"
  10. "Half-Decent Proposal"
  11. "The Bart Wants What It Wants"
  12. "The Lastest Gun in the West"
  13. "The Old Man and the Key"
  14. "Tales from the Public Domain"
  15. "Blame It on Lisa"
  16. "Weekend at Burnsie's"
  17. "Gump Roast"
  18. "I Am Furious Yellow"
  19. "The Sweetest Apu"
  20. "Little Girl in the Big Ten"
  21. "The Frying Game"
  22. "Papa's Got a Brand New Badge"
List of all The Simpsons episodes

The Sweetest Apu” is the nineteenth episode of The Simpsonsthirteenth season.

[edit] Plot

Apu sells Homer a beer keg for the American Civil War reenactment of the Battle of Springfield. At the reenactment, Principal Skinner watches as Springfielders disobey him and hold a rather inaccurate battle. After the battle, Homer brings the empty, dented keg back to Apu at the Kwik-E-Mart in an attempt to get the deposit. There, he hears a giggle coming from a closet and finds Apu making love with the woman who delivers Squishees to Kwik-E-Mart. He then walks backwards in shock all the way home to his bed.

Marge figures out what Homer saw from the movements of his pupil. They then confront Apu and he says he will break up with the Squishee Lady named Annette. However, he cannot help it, as it gets his mind off the octuplets. Later, Manjula watches the surveillance footage of Apu cheating. To help get them together, Homer and Marge invite them both, but do not tell them that the other one is coming. Manjula then demands a divorce.

Kicked out, Apu moves into the apartment complex where Kirk Van Houten lives. The octuplets then speak their first words, which put together, say “Mommy, will you let daddy come back...cookie!” Marge and Manjula go to Apu’s and arrive in time to prevent him from hanging himself. Apu is then subjected to several tasks to redeem himself, though Manjula says it will take time for everything to get back to normal. In bed, Manjula, finally satisfied with what he has done, kisses Apu while Homer watches from the window, on a ladder. The couple continues and Homer, traumatized, hops backwards on the ladder all the way home, without falling.

[edit] Cultural references

  • Catch-22—Homer refers to the punctured keg of beer as being “so cold...so cold.” These are the words Snowden uses when hit and bleeding, in the novel Catch-22. (Milhouse also says these words in the season seven episode "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily" after Bart complains that nothing happened to Milhouse after playing with the monkey in the Pier One wicker basket.)
  • Wild Wild West—Professor Frink’s giant mechanical spider.
  • The title is a pun on the Sade song, “The Sweetest Taboo.”
  • When Marge is watching the video of Apu’s wedding, Homer gets up with the band and tries to sing the same song from the wedding scene in The Godfather.
  • Apu’s cartoon appears in The New Yorker, which Homer says he purchased only for the photos of Richard Avedon, featuring Lenny.
  • Apu and his octuplets reenact My Fair Lady as part of Manjula’s list.
  • Windex--Moe cannot afford Windex; he has to buy Windel instead.

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