Line #17 Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E19TheSweetestApu


1	'''Original air date:''' 5/5/2002
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3	'''Production code:''' DABF-14
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5	Homer stumbles upon an illicit affair between Apu and his Squishee delivery girl, and when Manjula finds out too, Apu is made to go on a "12 Labors of Hercules"-style journey to forgiveness.
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7	!!Tropes featured:
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9	* AffablyEvil: Manjula's lawyer is surprisingly friendly, and isn't bothered when she compares him to a monkey demon who slaughtered her family's chickens.
10	* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Happens InUniverse with the Civil War reenactment, with lots of AnachronismStew and InUniverseFactoidFailure too.
11	-->'''Homer:''' Are you sure you don't want to come? In a Civil War reenactment we need lots of Indians to shoot!\
12	'''Apu:''' (''groans'') Ugh, I don't know which part of that sentence to correct first.
13	* BackingAwaySlowly: Homer does this when he tries to return the dented keg and witnesses Apu and the squishee delivery girl having sex in the stockroom. He walks all the way back from the Kwik-E-Mart to his house, where he falls asleep and dreams of himself backing away from Apu and the delivery girl again. He does this again in the last shot of the episode when Apu and Manjula reconcile and have sex. This time, he hops backwards on a ladder, presumably all the way home.
14	* BaitAndSwitch: Homer tempts Barney, a recovering alcoholic, with some beer, saying one drink won't hurt. This sequence is deliberately set up to show Barney go on a drunken bender, not unlike what happened in "Deep Space Homer" (which was non-alcoholic champagne as well). When Barney finally drinks the beer... nothing happens.
15	-->'''Barney:''' Oh... hey, you're right. I was afraid it would start me drinking again, but it didn't.\
16	'''Homer:''' Mm-hmm.
17	* BlatantLies: Homer's attempt to convince Apu the keg he bought already had dents. He merely wrote "This keg had dents" and signed as "Apoo".
18	* {{Bookends}}: Apu's infidelity is discovered by Homer and he backs out of the Kwik-E-Mart all the way home. The episode ends with him backing away from Apu and Manjula's apartment on a ladder after watching them in bed.
19	* CallBack: This is not [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E7TheTwoMrsNahasapeemapetilons the first time the family have tried to fix problems in Apu's life by having at least one of them pretend to be Ganesh.]] This attempt works about as well as the first one.
20	* CallingYourAttacks: During the Civil War reenactment:
21	-->'''Lenny:''' (''holding rifle'') Bang, bang!\
22	'''Carl:''' (''holding pistols'') Pow, pow!\
23	'''Moe:''' (''holding tree branch'') Hit with stick, hit with stick!
24	* ColorblindCasting: InUniverse and mixed with UnderageCasting. One of Apu’s ways to earn reconciliation is to perform Theatre/MyFairLady with a cast consisting of himself and the Octuplets.
25	* EveryoneHasStandards: Krusty finds no humor in Apu cheating on his wife when they have that many kids.
26	* FamousFamousFictional: The Battle of Springfield was fought by the North, the South, and ''The East'' "to keep Springfield in, out of, and next to the Union respectively".
27	* FreudianSlipperySlope
28	-->'''Homer:''' The score is dirty love... I mean, thirty, love! I mean, anyone for penis?!... I'll just get the cock... shuttlecock!
29	* GilliganCut: Homer wants to tell Krusty about Apu cheating on Manjula. Marge asks what that would do, and Homer says that Krusty's reaction would be hilarious. SmashCut to Krusty:
30	--> '''Krusty:''' ''(downbeat)'' That's sad. All those kids.\
31	'''Homer:''' I think he's building to something.
32	* {{Jerkass}}:
33	** Apu for cheating on Manjula.
34	** Manjula's anger at Apu for cheating is completely understandable. Her mocking him for attempting suicide? Not so understandable.
35	** The guy who stabs Homer's rented keg for no apparent reason during the reenactment also deserves a mention.
36	** Abe and the other seniors too, between forcing Tom Brokaw into their apparent slavery, and joining in the reenactment unprovoked with the South Springfield players seeing them as reinforcements.
37	* LampshadeHanging: After Skinner lists the East as a side that fought in the Battle of Springfield, it cuts to a group of men standing in the parking lot and looking confused.
38	* OverlyLongGag: Homer backing away after seeing Apu and Annette lasts for nearly a full minute, with him walking all the way from the Kwik-E-Mart to home, then continuing after he falls asleep. ''[[BrickJoke Then]]'' [[BrickJoke it continues at the end of the episode after he sees Apu with Manjula]].
39	* PietaPlagiarism: Homer does this [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S13E19/237487.jpg with a keg of beer]] after someone stabs a hole in it during the Civil War reenactment.
40	-->'''Homer:''' This was supposed to be a mock battle! MOCK!!
41	* ShoutOut: Part of the Civil War reenactment is a giant mechanical spider controlled by Professor Frink, spoofing ''Film/WildWildWest''.
42	* TakeThat: On Apu's reincarnation chart, one of his past lives was a "clod" (Alfred E. Neumann from ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' magazine) and one of his future reincarnations is assistant to ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' executive producer, creator, and showrunner Creator/LorneMichaels.
43	-->'''Apu:''' It is going to be a rough couple of lifetimes.
44	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Apu's reaction to the Simpson children dressing up as the Hindu God Ganesh to convince Manjula to stay with him.
45	-->'''Apu:''' Oh, I am truly screwed.
46	* TimeTravelTenseTrouble: Apu seems to already know what he's going to become when he gets reincarnated, and he mentions it like it already happened.
47	* UnsoundEffect: Moe saying "hit with stick" during the war reenactment.
48	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Both Homer and Marge. While Homer accidentally caught Apu committing adultery and told Marge about it, they both handle it in a sloppy manner. They keep quiet about the affair until Manjula finds out and Marge’s attempt to get the couple to reconcile through a dinner party only made things worse when Manjula demanded a divorce from Apu.
49	* WomanScorned: Manjula doesn’t respond well when she finds out that Apu cheated on her. She initially kicks him out of the house and was prepared to divorce him. She decides to not divorce and instead subject him to a list she constructed with some of the items being rather mean-spirited.

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