Eight Misbehavin'

Infobox Simpsons episode
episode_name = Eight Misbehavin'


image_caption= Promotional Artowrk for the episode.
episode_no = 233
prod_code = BABF03
airdate = November 21, 1999
show runner = Mike Scully
writer = Matt Selman
director = Steven Dean Moore
blackboard = "Indian burns are not our cultural heritage."
couch_gag = The Simpsons sit on the couch and the wall spins around like in the season four episode Homer the Heretic, but this time, a mad scientist who looks like Vincent Price and a scared Ned Flanders (who is screaming as the mad scientist is laughing maniacally) who is shackled upside down are on the other side of the wall.
guest_star = Jan Hooks as Manjula
Garry Marshall as Larry Kidkill
Butch Patrick as himself
season = 11

"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'".

Plot

The family visits Shøp, a Swedish 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 (Garry Marshall). 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 will not 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 which makes Butch and Homer pull an act where they ride a trycicle, both of them dressed as Eddie Munster, on a stage as both are being attacked by real cobras and animatronic cobras with venom while Kenny Loggins' song "Danger Zone" playing as background music.

Continuity

Homer's sterility from the nuclear plant references Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?.

Cultural references

*SHØP (which was first seen in the season four episode "Lisa the Beauty Queen") is a parody of real-life American-based furniture chain STØR, as well as Ikea, of which STØR was considered to be derivative. Despite the Swedishness of SHØP, the letter Ø isn't part of the Swedish alphabet. It exists only in the Danish, Norwegian and the Faroese alphabets. The correct Swedish equivalent is Ö.
*The music heard during "Octopia" includes Guns N' Roses's "Welcome to the Jungle", Richard Wagner's "Flight of the Valkyries" and John Mellencamp's "R.O.C.K. in the USA"
*Homer performs his zoo act to "Danger Zone" by Kenny Loggins.
*Apu cries "Oh! Calcutta!" during an intimate moment with his wife.
*The scenario of exhibiting the babies in a theme park echoes that of the Dionne Quintuplets, who were exhibited to the public in "Quintland" during the 1930s in Ontario

External links

*snpp capsule|BABF03
*imdb episode|id=0701093|episode=Eight Misbehavin'