Homer becomes an opera singer after injuring his back — and ends up being managed by a crazy fan (voiced by Maya Rudolph).
Tropes:
- Animal Assassin: Julia's first attempt to kill Homer involves sticking a cobra in his cereal, but Homer survives by repeatedly whacking it against the fridge door before it can attack him.
- Badass Biker: Julia first appears on a motorcycle when she rescues Homer and Marge from a mob of fans.
- Bed Trick: Homer becomes a world-famous opera singer following an accident, then finds out that the woman he hired to be his manager, Julia, is a Yandere stalker. At one point she sneaks into his bedroom and pretends to be Marge by donning a tall blue wig, but it's so unconvincing that even Homer sees right through it.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: In the beginning, Julia appeared as a woman of good manners and friendly, but upon discovering her obsessing interest in Homer, she manipulated Homer into keeping her advances secret and tried to kill him when he rejected her.
- Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Averted. Julia stalking Homer is portrayed seriously, and Homer is incredibly disturbed. When Julia makes an attempt at Homer's life, Chief Wiggum puts up a large amount of security for Homer.
- Dress Hits Floor: Julia isn't subtle about her intentions, and the second Marge leaves the room she stands and unzips her biker leathers, dropping them and revealing her naked body to Homer (complete with a Between My Legs shot).
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!:Homer: Oh, I can't wait to taste that hot fudge, and caramel and crushed nuts all slathered over a delicious... ELDERLY CORPSE?!
- Falling Chandelier of Doom: Defied; the police decide to "pre-crash" them out of fear that this will happen. Then played straight when the last one gets dropped on Julia, who not only survives this but the poison she'd been hit with as well due to the chandelier squishing it all out of her.
- False Rape Accusation: It's all but confirmed (the only ambiguity being that the word "rape" wasn't used) that Julia threatened to get Homer in trouble this way if he told Marge about Julia's advances.
- Fan Disservice: Julia keeps appearing before Homer while scantily clad, but Homer is disturbed and disgusted by the harassment.
- Glass-Shattering Sound: Homer's loud operatic singing shatters the penalty box at the hockey game.
- Goggles Do Something Unusual: When he's being chased by a bunch of crazy opera fan spinsters, Homer hides behind some garbage cans in an alley, and one of the spinsters then pulls out her opera glasses, which turn out to have Infrared X-Ray Camera mode.
- Hidden Depths: Homer discovers he can sing operatically, but only when he's lying on his back.
- Hurricane of Puns: After the Simpsons leave church, they pass several restaurants with punny names: "Griddler on the Roof", "Thank God It's Fried Eggs", "Luftwaffles", "Bodacious Frittatas", and "Buffet the Hunger Slayer".
- If I Can't Have You…: Julia's response for not getting Homer is to try to kill him.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: At one of Homer's performances, Marge is able to stop Julia with her own poison dart. Then Chief Wiggum gives the go-ahead for the Police Department snipers to fire. Each sniper fires multiple times — only one hits her and it may have been fired by a guy covering his eyes. She even looks at her watch for a moment.
- Logo Joke: Plácido Domingo's very long note during the Gracie Films logo.
- Loony Fan: Homer is constantly being hounded by fans. Julia rescues Homer and Marge...only to be much worse.
- "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: When Dr. Hibbert explains that lying on his back gave Homer a powerful singing voice by lodging his stomach under his diaphragm, an exasperated Bart asks, "Is that a real thing?" Lisa tells him that it is and adds that tenor Andrea Bocelli has recorded music lying down.
- Subverted in the epilogue, Homer switches to painting claiming that opera made him a great painter. Bart turns to Lisa and repeats the question, to which Lisa responds with a flat "no".
- Not So Above It All: Even Marge is willing to sneak into a stranger's house for food so she doesn't have to cook. Although she's mortified upon learning the family crashed a funeral.
- Revenge: As she's being taken away, Julia swears vengeance on Marge.
- Samus Is a Girl: Marge calls Julia "sir" until the latter pulls her motorbike helmet out.
- Shameless Fanservice Girl: When Julia reveals her true intentions to Homer, she strips naked and says he can have her anytime he wants. Over the next few days, she keeps appearing in sexually suggestive positions.
- Shout-Out:
- When Homer discovers his operatic baritone voice, he sings "If Ever I Would Leave You" from Camelot, very similar to how Robert Goulet originally sang it.
- The scene of Homer being chased by his fans is a clear nod to The Beatles as particularly portrayed in A Hard Day's Night.
- Sistine Steal: The episode ends with Homer hard at work on his version.
- Special Guest: Maya Rudolph as Julia and Plácido Domingo As Himself.
- Stalker with a Crush: Julia is crazily obsessed with Homer and follows him wherever he goes.
- Written-In Infirmity: In-universe. In order to accomodate Homer's need to lie down while singing, La Bohème gets a brief introductory line explaining that Rodolfo has hurt his foot.
- Yandere: Julia tries to seduce Homer, but he refuses. Not accepting refusal, she tries to kill Homer.
