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| Staff: "Wow, someone sure likes his kidney mush!" Homer: "Damn right!" |
At a bachelor auction, its learned that Springfield's bachelor pool is... pretty bad. One notable exception is Apu, who eventually makes himself known. After listing his credentials, five ladies pool $900 to each have a date with Apu. As he's having these dates, he comes to enjoy the bachelor life, telling Homer some stories one day at the Kwik-E-Mart. Just then, he gets a letter from his mother, which tells him that its time for his arranged marriage, one that was agreed upon when Apu was still a child (this was touched upon in Much Apu About Nothing, back in Season 7). Unwilling to lose the bachelor life he just gained, he gets help from Homer and decides to call his mother to tell her that he already married. With that out of the way, Apu goes back to enjoying himself.
Some time later, again with Homer hearing Apu's stories at the Kwik-E-Mart, Apu is stunned to find his mother coming out of a taxi. Realizing that she here to see Apu's "wife", he desperately has Homer come up with a new plan. Homer casually comes up with the idea to have Apu pretend Marge is his wife, and goes home to get things ready. Of course, Homer forgets about it, and only tells Marge just seconds before Apu arrives with his mother. Put on the spot, Marge reluctantly agrees to go along with the charade, barely able to fill the kids in on what's happening as well.
Needing a place to hide, Homer finds that Moe is going on a vacation so instead he goes to the retirement home to visit Grampa. There, the staff confuse Homer with another, otherwise unaccounted for patient, and Homer is more than happy to play the part. While having fun eating mush, riding in wheelchairs and getting others to do the most basic tasks for him, Homer is eventually busted when the actual patient returns, having previously escaped to go on a bender. Homer returns home to Marge, but a bit too early as Apu's mother sees Homer and Marge in bed, forcing Apu to admit that he does not have a wife and that he really doesn't want to go through with the marriage. His mother understands but still forces Apu to go through with it, having his bride Manjula flown in as soon as possible.
Perhaps to make up for playing a part in the ruse, the Simpsons host the wedding in their backyard. Apu continues to dread the event, but his attitude starts to change when he actually sees Manjula, who is a very attractive young woman. The two quickly get to know one another, and despite Homer's last second attempt to sabotage the wedding, the two become wed.
Quick Review
I'll say this to start: the entire scene regarding the wedding was hardly funny. Homer, and to a lesser extent Moe try to add humor to the scene but it just wasn't working for me. Most of it was either making sure they portrayed the Hindu ceremony correctly or it was Apu and Manjula trying to make the situation more humorous than it was, and it just wasn't happening.
What saves the episode is the rather short subplot when Homer hides out at the retirement home and sees just how babied the residents of said home truly are. Without this portion of the episode, which one could argue was thrown in to fill time, I have a hard time seeing this as being a good episode.
Final Score: 8.0
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