Eeny Teeny Maya Moe

Homer tries to spend more time with Maggie and eventually brings her to the Mo Tavern. Mo cleans the bar and finds out that his bar has windows that were previously hidden by layers of dirt. Outside the window is a playground, which Homer sees as an opportunity to look after Maggie, spending time with Mo. Homer sends Maggie to play with other children on the street, but they torment her for unknown reasons. Marge notices that Maggie is uncomfortable, and one day, she becomes worried that Homer neglects Maggie. After watching an ad for a CCTV camera fixed in the eye of a teddy bear, Marge buys a camera that she attaches to Maggie’s bow and discovers that she is being intimidated by a group of baby gangsters. At first, Marge is surprised to see that Maggie is tormented by children, but sees that Homer, after he discovered the truth about other children from the playground, is in a hurry to save Maggie, but his son Kearney beats him. Maggie beats Kearney's son to save Homer, after which he says that he loves Maggie and Marge. Touched to tears, Marge tells Homer that he is a wonderful father.

Meanwhile, Mo met over the Internet with the girl Maya, who, upon meeting, turns out to be a dwarf. Mo still loves her, but he is worried about how friends will perceive her. Mo decides to take Maya into a double meeting with Marge and Homer, none of whom are affected that she is small. Homer, seeing Maya's mind and sensitivity, offers Mo to marry her. Mo makes her an offer, but tells Maya jokes about her height, because of which Maya suddenly unjustifiably offends, and rejects him. Saddened Mo consults Lenny and Karl , who advised him to do something risky to get Maya back. Mo decides to have surgery to get shorter, and Dr. Nick Riviera agrees to have surgery. Maya stops Mo before the operation, because she wants him to see her as beautiful, and not as short, which means that Mo does not need to reduce herself to her size in order to love her. Mo, intending to undergo an operation, does not listen to Maya, and she leaves him forever. Homer consoles Mo, stating that even if everything had gone wrong with Maya, Mo found love with a woman who loved him, and that if he ever finds a girl, he will be successful again. Mo says that a small woman like Maya could make him feel big.

• The scene in which Kearney’s son knocks with three bottles on his fingers is a reference to the movie “ Warriors ”.
• Mo mentions people who live in trees, in particular Tarzan and the Berenstein bears .
• Upon learning that Maya finds him attractive, Mo joyfully pronounces the phrase “Oh, brave hero, I sing praise to you” which is a reference to the lines from the poem “ Barmaglot ”.
• When Mo turns on the TV in Maya’s house, he sees a scene from the movie " Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory " in which Umpa Lumps sing.
• Maya says that she sent Mo a photograph from Legoland .
• When Mo invites Maya to the bar, he rips off the Dwarf Throw advertisement and throws out a copy of Little Women .
• Mo asks Maya: “Maya, you were always this size, or you, as in the Benjamin Button case .”

The episode received mostly positive reviews from television critics. IGN Robert Canning gave the episode 7.6 out of 10 possible and said that when Homer consoled Moe, it was “a sweet way to end this enjoyable episode.” ^[1] Eric Espelschegler from TV Verdict wrote: “Spending too much time away from family It has always been difficult for the Simpsons. Allowing secondary characters to shine can be fun, but let's face it: people are determined to look at the Simpsons and not at the Sizlakov or Flanders or Leonard-Karlson. Spending too much time with your family, on the other hand, can be tiring. This week, the Simpsons took a good middle ground, spending most of the episode on Moe's short-lived relationship, but supporting him with a second plot with Homer, Maggie and Marge. Not a single story soared to great heights, but Eeny Teeny Maya Moe was a solid record in the still-solid season. ” Hank Azaria was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice Work for the Role of Mo Sislack in this episode, but lost to his casting colleague Dan Castellanet for Father Knows Worst . ^[2] John Frink was nominated for the Screenwriters Guild of America Award. ^[3] The Simpsons was the only show nominated in the category, with other nominated episodes of The Burns and the Bees , Take My Life, Please , Gone Maggie Gone , and Wedding for Disaster . The latter won. ^[four]

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