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17th episode of the 17th season of The Simpsons

"Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore"

The Simpsons episode
Episode no.| Season 17
Episode 17
Directed by| Mark Kirkland
Written by| Deb Lacusta
Dan Castellaneta
Production code| HABF10
Original air date| April 9, 2006 (2006-04-09)
Guest appearances

* Richard Dean Anderson as himself
* Meher Tatna as an Indian passenger

Episode features
Couch gag| Homer deals a wild royal flush, consisting of the jack of diamonds (Bart), the queen of diamonds (Marge), the king of diamonds (Homer), the ace of diamonds (Lisa), and the joker (Maggie), then shouts "Woo-hoo!".
Commentary| Matt Groening
Al Jean
Dan Castellaneta
Deb Lacusta
Ian Maxtone-Graham
Matt Selman
John Frink
Marc Wilmore
Tom Gammill
Richard Dean Anderson
Mark Kirkland
David Silverman
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“Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore” is the seventeenth episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. In this episode, Homer is put in charge of outsourcing the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant and managing the Indian employees, and Patty and Selma abduct Richard Dean Anderson, unintentionally reigniting Anderson's enthusiasm for his character MacGyver. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 9, 2006. Dan Castellaneta & Deb Lacusta were nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Writing in Animation at the 59th Writers Guild of America Awards for their script to this episode.[1]

## Plot

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After showing a movie about outsourcing at the nuclear power plant, Mr. Burns announces the plant is being shut down and moved to India. Homer is the only employee to be transferred. Arriving in India, he seeks help with outsourcing from Apu's cousin Kavi. Homer spurs the natives into a working frenzy; the natives, not understanding his confusing speech, assume that if they cheer, they will be allowed to return to work. Homer, Smithers, and Burns get a positive impression from this, and Burns takes time off to have fun floating down the Ganges. Homer, left in total charge of an overgrown power plant on an isolated river, appraises the Hindu deities and decides he might be a god himself. A week later, Lenny and Carl come to the India plant, invited by a card claiming that Homer is to become a god.

The rest of the Simpson family, worried about Homer, travel to India and, with Burns, journey upriver on a PBR boat and find Homer ruling the plant like a god. Horrified, Marge and the kids tell the plant workers that Homer is not a god. They explain that they already know, and that they worship him because of the American workplace routines he has instituted, like coffee breaks, early retirement, and personal days. Lisa admits that she is proud of Homer. However, Mr. Burns decides to close down the plant and move it to an area where workers are "more desperate and ignorant" — Springfield. He fires all the workers, who are delighted due to the various firing clauses Homer wrote into their contracts.

Back in Springfield, Patty and Selma meet their Hollywood heart-throb, Richard Dean Anderson, who played MacGyver. He stops by to ask for directions to a convention about his newest show Stargate SG-1, and tells them he is totally uninterested in MacGyver and only did it for the pay. Patty and Selma kidnap Anderson and tie him to a chair. He escapes by using one of his contact lenses to focus the sunlight and burn the ropes. Exhilarated at having performed a MacGyver-style escape in real life, he requests Patty and Selma put him through increasingly complex kidnapping trials. Patty and Selma eventually tire of Anderson's antics, and drive him away by showing him slides of their vacation to the horse-drawn carriage museum in Alberta, Canada, overwhelming him with boredom. However, Patty and Selma later track him down to India and join the Simpsons family.

## Cultural references

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The title is taken from the 2005 film Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. A small part of the episode is a reference to Indiana Jones. For example, the way Homer dresses is referent to what Mola Ram wears in the film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. As well, the people chant to Homer in a similar way as they do for Mola Ram in the film, and the India portion of the episode is similar to Temple of Doom overall.[2] The scene in which the Simpsons along with Smithers and Burns travel up the river is a direct reference to the PT boat in Apocalypse Now and the Indians' apparent worship of Homer is also a reference to this film as well as the song "The End" by The Doors. In part of the episode, Homer pulls out a cutout of Mac Tonight.

The Dixieland Band plays an instrumental of "Alexander's Ragtime Band" By Irving Berlin. The song sung at the end of the episode is Kishore Kumar's "Pal bhar ke liye" from the 1970 Indian blockbuster Johny Mera Naam, starring Dev Anand and Hema Malini.

Although it is never mentioned by name, the horse-drawn carriage museum in Alberta is the Remington Carriage Museum in Cardston, Alberta. The slides that Patty and Selma show depict the museum's main building, a statue of the museum's founder, Don Remington, and several carriages in their collection. When the episode first aired, museum officials said they were honored by the reference, even if it was in the context of boring summer vacations.[3]

## References

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* The Simpsons portal

1. ^ DiOrio, Carl (December 14, 2006). "HBO, NBC dominate WGA noms". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
2. ^ "The Simpsons". TheRaider.net. Retrieved July 4, 2009.
3. ^ "'Simpsons' Features Alberta Museum". CBC.ca. 2006. Retrieved September 14, 2010.

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