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The Simpsons episode
"Bart has Two Mommies"
Episode no.	370
Prod. code	HABF07
Orig. Airdate	March 19, 2006
Written by	Dana Gould
Directed by	Michael Mercantel
Chalkboard	None
Couch gag	A laser grid protects the couch. After sneaking past, Homer's head falls off.
Guest star	Antonio Fargas Susan Sarandon Randy Johnson Dave Thomas
Season 17 September 11, 2005 – May 21, 2006
Bonfire of the Manatees The Girl Who Slept Too Little Milhouse of Sand and Fog Treehouse of Horror XVI Marge's Son Poisoning See Homer Run The Last of the Red Hat Mamas The Italian Bob Simpsons Christmas Stories Homer's Paternity Coot We're on the Road to D'ohwhere My Fair Laddy The Seemingly Never-Ending Story Bart Has Two Mommies Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife Million Dollar Abie Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore The Wettest Stories Ever Told Girls Just Want to Have Sums Regarding Margie The Monkey Suit Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play
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Bart has Two Mommies is the fourteenth episode of the seventeenth season of The Simpsons. It aired on March 19, 2006, as the 370th episode overall.

Ned Flanders wins a new computer and offers it to Marge, as he has no use for it. In return, Marge babysits the Flanders children like letting them use a real seesaw that actually moves up and down. With Marge spending so much time at The Flanders', Homer must look after Bart and Lisa, though he is actually sleeping while Bart and Lisa joust with brooms and break the TV and lamp. Homer takes the kids to an animal retirement home, but the trip goes awry when Toot-Toot the monkey pulls Bart into her cage and holds him hostage when Bart offers her a bit of his ice cream. Marge listens to Rod and Todd's prayers which include them having a wonderful day along with Miss Simpson not eavesdropping on them but forgiving her. Ned comes back home and sees one of the Flander kids wearing a band-aid and tells them to crawl to their bed. Marge tells him that he should support adventurism and shows him a flier about an activity center with everything covered in foam, Ned agrees after some thought.

She comes back home for dinner and when she asks where Bart is Homer makes a clever ruse involving Marge always worried about Bart and even though he is gone for 2 hours she gets worried which fools Marge. Marge takes Rod and Todd to a children's activity center to encourage adventurism in them, as she secretly feels Ned is overly worried about his sons when he shows up. Rod attempts to climb a wall and discovers a new activity he enjoys, but he falls and suffers a minor injury after Ned screams up to him that he can get hurt. Although not seriously hurt, Ned is shocked at what happened and tells Marge to stay away. Marge learns of the kidnapping when it is a breaking news report and she must figure out a way to get her son back. The monkey grabs Bart and takes him atop the church, à la King Kong. Reverend Lovejoy hands her a sign which signals he believes that Bart will die while Marge cries after seeing it. Rod, putting his newly acquired climbing skills to use, climbs the scaffolding in an attempt to rescue Bart using Toot Toot's son as an exchange.

Ned learns that he must believe in his son and not worry about harm in order for Rod to make it to the top and successfully rescue Bart from the monkey. Bart tells him to not hold his hands because that would look gay. When Rod asks him what gay means Bart makes up a lie about how it means someone was afraid but that person isn't afraid any longer. Rod then screams down "I'm gay, Daddy! I'm gay! Mrs. Simpson made me gay!" which makes Ned glare at a nervous Marge. The episode ends with Maude Flanders looking down with pride, and Bob Hope walking off with God.

• Marge calls herself a "Star Wars" after making a Darth Vader mask out of a paper plate.
• The title is a reference to the children's book Heather Has Two Mommies.
• Homer thinks the title creatures from Gremlins will be at the animal retirement home.
• Antonio Fargas makes an appearance as Huggy Bear (from Starsky and Hutch), who has mistakenly been caged in the animal retirement home. This is not Huggy Bear's first appearance on The Simpsons, but it's his first speaking role. In "Homie the Clown", we saw "The Son of the Guy who played Huggy Bear."
• Homer yells "Springfield High football rules!", paraphrasing a famous line from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
• The scenes where Rod is struck by fear of heights parody Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.
• Toot-Toot carrying Bart up the church steeple parodies King Kong.
• Ode to Joy was the music played when Rod and Todd got accustomed to the unconstrained see-saw.
• When Ned is covering his backyard with foam for safety of Rod and Todd, he sings a parody of the song "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses about making the yard safer.
• As Homer is crunched and mutilated as he goes through a series of gears "Powerhouse" by Raymond Scott plays on the soundtrack. This was a signature tune used by Carl Stalling in many of his Warner Brothers cartoons, and later by Richard Stone. The sequence, visually, is also a tribute to Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times.
• When Toot-Toot retrieves her son Louis, the song played is "Reunited" from Peaches & Herb.
• In the animal retirement home Seymour (Fry's Dog) from Futurama can be seen in one of the cages.

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