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The episode sees Apu Nahasapeemapetilon marry Manjula, and incorporates several aspects of Hindu wedding ceremonies, which the writers researched during the episode's production. Appel pitched the episode several years before season nine but the idea was not used until Mike Scully became showrunner .
Apu and Manjula have a mostly happy marriage, despite understandable marital problems caused by Apu's workaholic nature and long hours, and the strain of caring for eight children. A strain came up when Manjula learned that Apu works longer than he needs to, resulting in Apu showering Manjula with many gifts.
With the help of fertility drugs, Manjula gives birth to octuplets. This makes headlines across Springfield, with local companies giving the Nahasapeemapetilons free products. However, when nonuplets are born to a family in Shelbyville, the gifts are revoked. Apu and Manjula are soon exhausted, raising eight children at once.
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 jealous from all the attention Manjula is receiving, and find their men to be cheapskates (including Maude Flanders ).
In addition to Apu, Azaria played nuclear power plant employee Carl Carlson and police officer Lou, while Harry Shearer portrayed doctor Julius Hibbert. On Family Guy, Henry, 54, had voiced ...
Apu sells Homer a beer keg for the American Civil War reenactment of the Battle of Springfield.At the reenactment, Principal Skinner watches as Springfielders disobey him and hold a rather inaccurate battle (featuring an orange plaid clad "East" faction, a roller skating Stonewall Jackson portrayed by Disco Stu, and a giant steam-powered super spider made by Professor Frink).
The movie, premiering this month, is based on real events in the early 1990s, when a group of young people in Cuba were looking for freedom from government repression.
Andrea Martin as Apu's mother ("The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons") Jan Hooks as Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon ("The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons") Stephen Jay Gould as himself ("Lisa the Skeptic") Alex Trebek as himself ("Miracle on Evergreen Terrace") George Harrison as himself ("All Singing, All Dancing") Jim Varney as Cooder ("Bart Carny")