The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer

Bus driver Otto meets the Metallica group, whose bus broke. Otto offers them to ride with him on the school bus, but Bart steals it and Metallica leaves with Hans Mole . When Bart takes the children to school, Otto punishes him, and Skinner removes him from driving the bus. As a result, their parents began to carry the children to school.

The first carries children to Marge's school. She picks up Milhouse , Nelson , the sisters Sherry and Terry, and the turn comes to Michael. It turns out that he forgot the textbook on mathematics , and Marge decides to drive to his house, where it turns out that his father is the head of the mafia Fat Tony .

At school, everyone begins to be afraid of Michael: they part in front of him, and school gardener Willy even lays in vomit so that he would not step into her. No one sits with Michael in the dining room, except for Lisa , who is not afraid of him. Michael shows excellent cooking skills and tells Lisa that he always wanted to be a chef, but his father wants him to run a family business: “waste management”.

Fat Tony invites the whole Simpsons family to dinner at his mansion, where he is due to meet with Dante Calabresi, the head of another mafia. At the meeting, he says that his son will avenge him in case of his death, but at this moment, he brings a tray of cookies of his own preparation and declares that he wants to become a chef. Emboldened, Calabresi fired from a helicopter the room in which Fat Tony is located, and he ends up in the hospital. Michael has no choice but to take on the work of his father, in which Homer and Bart help him.

Homer becomes the real leader of the mafia, but Michael decides to get them out of this business and makes an appointment for Calabresi in the Simpsons house, where they are poisoned by Michael's dishes.

Lisa does not believe that Michael poisoned them, but it was he who did it, thereby avenging his father, and, having made a temporary peace, got rid of his business rivals.

• The title of the episode is taken from the film "The Chef, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover" , 1989 .
• The music of Metallica , which plays when Hans Mole and the band drives away, is a loss to the song Master of Puppets , 1986.
• When Fat Tony takes the kids home, the theme song from the series “ Soprano Family ” - “Woke up this Morning”, performed by “A3”, sounds.
• Fat Tony's son Michael is named after Michael Corleone, the son of Don Vito Corleone in the Godfather trilogy, his hair style is the same as that of Al Pacino .
• According to Homer, he learned a gangster case thanks to “The most gangster film of all time” - “ Underwater Brothers ”.
• The final scene in which Kearney closes the door to Lisa is a parody of the end of the first part of The Godfather , the music from the film also plays throughout the credits.
• During a conversation with Lisa, Michael said that his father is involved in garbage collection - this is the legal cover of Tony Soprano in the series " Soprano Family " .

• Otto studied with Kearney in third grade, but since Otto finished all eleven grades, Kearney was probably left indefinitely for a second year in fourth grade.
• Hans Krot slept with the grandmother of Lars Ulrich , drummer of Metallica.
• This is the second time Bart is spanked, the first time he was spanked by George W. Bush .
• Michael was first mentioned in The Seven-Beer Snitch .
• In this series, the cook Doris speaks, despite the fact that the actress Doris Grau, who voiced her, has died.
• The plot of this series as a whole mimics the plot of the movie "The Godfather" : the son of the mafioso, who did not want to do family business, had to manage his father's henchmen. The most obvious parallels are the name of the son of Fat Tony (Michael - just like in The Godfather) and the final scene of the film (Michael enters his office and the door closes behind him), parodied at the end of the series. In addition, the scene in which Fat Tony is fired from a helicopter is taken from the movie "The Godfather 3" , a sequel to The Godfather. Joe Mantegna (voice of Fat Tony), played Joey Zasu, one of the heroes of the movie "The Godfather 3" , who was sitting in a helicopter during the attack.
• In the final credits, Metallica is listed as an Invited Group .
• In the series, bassist Robert Trujillo plays a pick, in real life he plays with his fingers.
• The series uses the “Metallica” loss, which was recorded by bassist Cliff Burton , not Robert Trujillo, who plays it at the beginning of the episode.
• Kirk Hammett is one of the guest actors in this episode.
• Judging by the episode, Metallica performed in the Springfield Arena in 1997, and Otto sat in 64th place in the 20th row.
• This is the second time ghosts fly out, like in Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Ark . The first time was in the Homer the Great series .
• One of Homer's phrases, which he says, looking at the antique statue in front, in the original is a play on the words “Your statues are winners (wieners)”, the first is a winner, the second is a fool, a goat, a male genital organ.
• During the episode of the poster, there was a commercial for the upcoming clip “Turn around”, which will be in 2007.
• In Russia, she appeared on REN TV in 2009, and on 2x2 in 2008.
  • The series was watched by 11.5 million spectators.

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• The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer on the Internet Movie Database
• "The Mook, The Chef, The Wife and Her Homer" on The Simpsons.com