I'm with Cupid

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The Simpsons episode
"I'm With Cupid"
Image:I'm With Cupid.jpg
Episode no.	217
Prod. code	AABF11
Orig. airdate	February 14, 1999
Show runner(s)	Mike Scully
Written by	Dan Greaney
Directed by	Bob Anderson
Chalkboard	"Hillbillies are people too."
Couch gag	The Simpsons sit on the couch; hair dryer helmets land on every family members’ heads. When the helmets come off, every family member has each other’s hairstyles. Maggie falls off the couch because Marge’s bouffant is too heavy to support her.
Guest star(s)	Jan Hooks as Manjula Elton John as himself
DVD commentary	Mike Scully George Meyer Ian Maxtone-Graham Ron Hauge Matt Selman
Season 10 August 23 1998 – May 16 1999
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"I'm With Cupid" is the fourteenth episode of The Simpsons' tenth season. The episode aired on February 14, 1999.

1 Plot
2 Cultural references
3 Mistakes
4 External links

[edit] Plot

Apu and his new wife, Manjula, invite the Simpsons to their house for dinner. However, Apu and Manjula get in a fight, after Marge mentions to Manjula that Apu does not really need to be as much of a workaholic. There is a week before Valentine's Day, and Apu tells Homer that he is disappointed that Manjula does not love him, until Homer assures him that Manjula will not leave him before Valentine's Day, and Apu agrees. Apu decides to shower Manjula with many romantic surprises to regain her love. However, although many of Apu's surprises succeed in fixing his marriage, they ruin other people's relationships. The rest of Springfield's women become disenchanted from their envy towards all the attention Manjula is receiving, and they find their men to be nothing more than cheapskates. At Moe's Tavern, several men in Springfield try to find ways to avoid having Apu and Manjula reconcile to save their own relationships and marriages.

During Valentine's Day, Homer, Chief Wiggum, Dr. Hibbert, Moe, and Ned Flanders (who is later thrown out of the group for suggesting they should use their time to be more romantic to their wives rather than trying to sabotage Apu) investigate what Apu is doing so they can stop it. They go around town following him to the airport. But when they see Elton John at the airport, they think that he supposedly came to Springfield to perform a concert for Apu and Manjula at his insistence (in reality, he had to make an emergency landing because the chandelier on his plane was malfunctioning). However, Apu's actual plan is that he arranged for a skywriter to write "I ♥ U MANJULA". During the trouble that ensues, Homer jumps on the plane during takeoff to try to stop the skywriter from spraying the message. When Homer destroys the plane's canister in mid-air it only sprayed part of the message, which the other women think is for them. However, Marge remains unconvinced until the plane flies by and Homer drops out of it covered with roses after the plane flew out of control through a thorny rose patch, apparently giving Homer a collapsed lung. Nonetheless, Elton John is able to perform a concert for Apu and Manjula, and their marriage is saved.

[edit] Cultural references

The episode title is a spoof of a novelty T-shirt saying "I'm with stupid".
There is an episode of King of the Hill by the same name.
Apu says "My humble message of love has become a Valentine's Day Massacre.
The episode ends in a heart-shaped iris, à la Love, American Style.
Apu owns "concert against Bangladesh", featuring the song "You Make Me Feel So Young" by Frank Sinatra; the album's name is a reference to George Harrison's Concert for Bangla Desh.
Chief Wiggum reads Truly Tasteless Jokes to Sarah to get her in the mood. The beginning of the "hot buttered corn" joke that Wiggum recites the punchline to can be found at the top of this page: http://www.lustylibrary.com/modules/xfsection/print.php?articleid=2588 .
Apu taught a parrot to sing I Love the Nightlife with clever new lyrics. Marge and Homer are impressed, even though they hate the new lyrics. "I Love the Nightlife" was also heard (with the original lyrics) in the season eight episode "A Milhouse Divided" when Luanne packs away her ex-husband's clothes and sets them on fire and in the infamous episode "Homer's Phobia" (also from season eight) when John (the gay antiques store owner voiced by John Waters) comes over for dinner.
Chief Wiggum mentions that Tiffany's now offers breakfast, a reference to the film Breakfast at Tiffany's.

When Apu is talking to Elton John, the logo on the tail of the aircraft next to them is similar to that of United Airlines
Fantastic Dan (the skywriter Homer brawls with) was first seen in Bart Carny, living in the Whack-A-Mole game.

[edit] Mistakes

When Marge asks for the "Scullery Week" section of the paper at the kitchen table, Homer says he is keeping it. The animation clearly shows "Scullery Week" at the top of the section he hands her, which she says is "about investment opportunities in Yemen".