I'm with Cupid - Revision history

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	As of January [[2026]], "I'm with Cupid" has a 7.2 rating on {{W\|IMDb}}.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701135/ IMDb - "I'm with Cupid"]</ref>		As of January [[2026]], "I'm with Cupid" has a 7.2 rating on {{W\|IMDb}}.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701135/ IMDb - "I'm with Cupid"]</ref>
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		+	== In other languages ==
		+	{{LanguageBox
		+	\|de=yes
		+	\|deName=Apu und Amor
		+	\|deTrans=Apu and Amor
		+	\|es=yes
		+	\|esName=Apoyo a Cupido
		+	\|esTrans=I support Cupid
		+	\|la=yes
		+	\|laName=Me acompaña Cupido
		+	\|laTrans=Cupid is with me
		+	\|fr=yes
		+	\|frName=L'Amour au curry
		+	\|frTrans=Curried Love
		+	\|qu=yes
		+	\|quName=Massacre de la Saint-Valentin
		+	\|quTrans=Valentine's Day Massacre
		+	\|it=yes
		+	\|itName=Io sto con Cupido
		+	\|itTrans=I'm with Cupid
		+	\|jp=yes
		+	\|jpName=アープーのラブラブ大作戦
		+	\|jpTrans=Apu's Great Love-Love Strategy
		+	}}

	== References ==		== References ==

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 |airdate= February 14, [[1999]]
 |blackboard= "Hillbillies are people too"
-|couchgag= The Simpsons sit on the couch; hair dryer helmets land on every family members' heads. When the helmets come off, every family member has each other's hairstyles. Maggie falls off the couch because Marge's bouffant is too heavy to support her.
+|couchgag= The family sits as hair dryers descend onto their heads, then lift up, revealing that the family members have all swapped hairstyles. Homer has Maggie's, Marge has Bart's, Bart has Lisa's, Lisa has Homer's, and Maggie has Marge's, which is so heavy that it causes her to fall off the couch.
 |guests= [[Jan Hooks]] as [[Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon]]<br>[[Elton John]] as {{Ch|Elton John|himself}}
 |showrunner1= Mike Scully

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	The night of Apu and Manjula's dinner with Homer and Marge arrives, and Apu leaves [[Sanjay]] in charge of the Kwik-E-Mart, but phones him just before the dinner to check in on the store. Manjula stops Apu from rushing to the store to help out, and Homer and Marge arrive while Apu and Manjula are making out, letting themselves in as the door is unlocked. During the meal, it comes out that Apu has been lying to Manjula about American work culture, claiming that it was traditional for people to work eighteen-hour days every day of the week, including weekends. This leads to an argument between Apu and Manjula, and Homer and Marge awkwardly leave the apartment.		The night of Apu and Manjula's dinner with Homer and Marge arrives, and Apu leaves [[Sanjay]] in charge of the Kwik-E-Mart, but phones him just before the dinner to check in on the store. Manjula stops Apu from rushing to the store to help out, and Homer and Marge arrive while Apu and Manjula are making out, letting themselves in as the door is unlocked. During the meal, it comes out that Apu has been lying to Manjula about American work culture, claiming that it was traditional for people to work eighteen-hour days every day of the week, including weekends. This leads to an argument between Apu and Manjula, and Homer and Marge awkwardly leave the apartment.

		+	[[File:Chocolate Apu.png\|thumb\|left\|A chocolate-coated Apu is delivered to Manjula.]]
	The week before [[Valentine's Day]], Homer gets Marge a card with monkeys on it and the caption "You're a-peeling" written on it. As he's checking out, Homer mentions to Apu that there's still a week before Valentine's Day, which gives Apu an idea. The next day, the Simpsons read a romantic poem in the newspaper from Apu to Manjula. The same night, he also covers their bed in wildflowers. Later, Marge and Manjula play badminton with each other while Manjula tells Marge about how romantic Apu has been. A parrot then flies in and starts singing "[[I Love the Nightlife]]" to Manjula. That night, Marge tells Homer about how romantic Apu has been recently, but Homer tells Marge that he has something special planned for Valentine's Day. When Marge asks if it's the monkey card, Homer starts to worry.		The week before [[Valentine's Day]], Homer gets Marge a card with monkeys on it and the caption "You're a-peeling" written on it. As he's checking out, Homer mentions to Apu that there's still a week before Valentine's Day, which gives Apu an idea. The next day, the Simpsons read a romantic poem in the newspaper from Apu to Manjula. The same night, he also covers their bed in wildflowers. Later, Marge and Manjula play badminton with each other while Manjula tells Marge about how romantic Apu has been. A parrot then flies in and starts singing "[[I Love the Nightlife]]" to Manjula. That night, Marge tells Homer about how romantic Apu has been recently, but Homer tells Marge that he has something special planned for Valentine's Day. When Marge asks if it's the monkey card, Homer starts to worry.

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	In the scene where Apu and Manjula argue in Indian, [[Hank Azaria]] and [[Jan Hooks]] were given phonetics to speak the lines,<ref name="Hauge"/> and they made sure to get the correct translation of the lines. The parrot that sings "[[I Love the Nightlife]]" was performed by main cast member [[Nancy Cartwright]]. [[Al Jean]] flew to [[Atlanta]] to record Elton John's lines for the show. Jean said that recording John's lines was a "wonderful experience." Elton John had to record the parody of "[[Your Song]]" several times and was very accommodating about it.<ref name="Scully"/>		In the scene where Apu and Manjula argue in Indian, [[Hank Azaria]] and [[Jan Hooks]] were given phonetics to speak the lines,<ref name="Hauge"/> and they made sure to get the correct translation of the lines. The parrot that sings "[[I Love the Nightlife]]" was performed by main cast member [[Nancy Cartwright]]. [[Al Jean]] flew to [[Atlanta]] to record Elton John's lines for the show. Jean said that recording John's lines was a "wonderful experience." Elton John had to record the parody of "[[Your Song]]" several times and was very accommodating about it.<ref name="Scully"/>
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		+	== Reception ==
		+	In a [[2007]] article, Simon Crerar of ''{{W\|The Times}}'' listed Elton John's appearance in the episode as one of "the 33 funniest Simpsons cameos ever."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091005132549/http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2021776.ece The Times - "The 33 funniest Simpsons cameos ever"] (archived on {{W\|Wayback Machine}})</ref>
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		+	In a [[2012]] review of the episode, Robert Canning of ''{{W\|IGN}}'' gave the episode an 8.8 rating. Canning calls the episode "very smart and very funny," praising the final act of the men following Apu around town. However, he dislikes Elton John's guest appearance, thinking that it "feels very tacked on."<ref>[https://www.ign.com/articles/2008/07/14/the-simpsons-flashback-im-with-cupid-review IGN - "The Simpsons Flashback: "I'm with Cupid" Review"]</ref>
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		+	As of January [[2026]], "I'm with Cupid" has a 7.2 rating on {{W\|IMDb}}.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0701135/ IMDb - "I'm with Cupid"]</ref>

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 On Valentine's Day, Homer, [[Chief Wiggum]], [[Dr. Hibbert]], [[Moe]], and [[Ned Flanders]] follow Apu around Springfield, waiting for him to start his surprise. After a few stops along the way, Apu goes to the [[Springfield Airport]], where the men see that {{Ch|Elton John}} has just arrived in town on his private plane. They think that Apu has hired the singer for Manjula, but he had actually just landed because the chandelier in his plane had malfunctioned. The men confront Elton John, and Homer gets him into a dog cage before they realize that Apu was really at the airport for [[Fantastic Dan]], a skywriter. Leaving Elton John in the cage, the men rush out to stop the plane, with Homer jumping into the other seat. Homer attempts to stop the pilot from writing the message to Manjula and eventually manages to break the gas container off the plane, leaving the message as "I ♥ U" followed by a star-shaped blob. The women of Springfield see this message, and each one thinks it's for them. Fantastic Dan then flies his plane upside down through a rose field, with Homer getting covered in roses. He then falls out in the backyard of his house, presenting the roses to Marge in what she thinks is a very thoughtful gesture. Later that day, Apu closes the Kwik-E-Mart for the day, as he has Elton John sing a parody of "[[Your Song]]" for him and Manjula.
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 == Plot ==
-[[Apu]] and [[Manjula]], invite the [[Simpson family|Simpsons]] to their house for dinner. However, Apu and Manjula get in a fight, after [[Marge]] mentions to Manjula that Apu does not really need to be as much of a workaholic. There is a week before Valentine's Day, and Apu tells Homer that he is disappointed that Manjula does not love him, until Homer assures him that Manjula will not leave him before Valentine's Day, and Apu agrees. 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 disenchanted from their envy towards all the attention Manjula is receiving, and they find their men to be nothing more than cheapskates. At [[Moe's Tavern]], several men in [[Springfield]] try to find ways to avoid having Apu and Manjula reconcile to save their own relationships and marriages.
+At night, [[Homer]] is telling a bedtime story to [[Lisa]], which turns out to just be about his time at [[Moe's]]. Meanwhile, [[Marge]] is putting [[Bart]] to bed, who tells Marge that he has to make a working model of the digestive system for a school project due the next day. Marge reluctantly agrees to do the project for him and goes to the [[Kwik-E-Mart]] for supplies. At the Kwik-E-Mart, Marge invites [[Apu]] and [[Manjula]] to their house for dinner, but Apu tells Marge that since she hosted his and Manjula's wedding, they should come to [[Apu's apartment|his apartment]] for dinner instead. When Marge gets home, she stays up all night putting together Bart's project. However, on the [[school bus|bus]] to [[Springfield Elementary School|school]], [[Nelson]] puts one of the intestines into the project's mouth, causing it to explode.
-During Valentine's Day, [[Homer]], [[Chief Wiggum]], [[Dr. Hibbert]], [[Moe]], and [[Ned Flanders]] (who is later thrown out of the group for suggesting they should use their time to be more romantic to their wives rather than trying to sabotage Apu) investigate what Apu is doing so they can stop it. They go around town following him to the [[Springfield International Airport|airport]]. But when they see [[Elton John]] at the airport, they think that he supposedly came to Springfield to perform a concert for Apu and Manjula at his insistence (in reality, he had to make an emergency landing because the chandelier on his plane was malfunctioning). However, Apu's actual plan is that he arranged for a skywriter to write "I ♥ U MANJULA". During the trouble that ensues, Homer jumps on the plane during takeoff to try to stop the skywriter from spraying the message. When Homer destroys the plane's canister in mid-air it only sprayed part of the message, which the other women think is for them. While Homer and the pilot fight, Marge remains unconvinced until the plane flies by and Homer drops out of it covered with roses after the plane flew out of control through a thorny rose patch, apparently giving Homer a collapsed lung. Nonetheless, {{Ch|Elton John}} is able to perform a concert for Apu and Manjula, and their marriage is saved.
+The night of Apu and Manjula's dinner with Homer and Marge arrives, and Apu leaves [[Sanjay]] in charge of the Kwik-E-Mart, but phones him just before the dinner to check in on the store. Manjula stops Apu from rushing to the store to help out, and Homer and Marge arrive while Apu and Manjula are making out, letting themselves in as the door is unlocked. During the meal, it comes out that Apu has been lying to Manjula about American work culture, claiming that it was traditional for people to work eighteen-hour days every day of the week, including weekends. This leads to an argument between Apu and Manjula, and Homer and Marge awkwardly leave the apartment.
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 == Synopsis ==
-{{Desc|As [[Apu]] showers his wife with glowing, outrageous [[Valentine's Day]] gifts, the other husbands of [[Springfield]] are made to look bad in comparison. But as his gifts grow increasingly grand, the men attempt to foil his efforts, instigating a Valentine's massacre.}}
+{{Synopsis|As [[Apu]] showers his wife with glowing, outrageous [[Valentine's Day]] gifts, the other husbands of [[Springfield]] are made to look bad in comparison. But as his gifts grow increasingly grand, the men attempt to foil his efforts, instigating a Valentine's massacre.}}
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-"'''I'm with Cupid'''" is the fourteenth episode of [[season 10]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the two hundred seventeenth episode overall. It originally aired on February 14, [[1999]]. The episode was written by [[Dan Greaney]] and directed by [[Bob Anderson]]. It guest stars [[Jan Hooks]] as [[Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon]] and [[Elton John]] as {{Ch|Elton John|himself}}.
+"'''I'm with Cupid'''" is the fourteenth episode of [[Season 10|broadcast season 10]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the two hundred seventeenth episode overall. It originally aired on February 14, [[1999]]. The episode was written by [[Dan Greaney]] and directed by [[Bob Anderson]]. It guest stars [[Jan Hooks]] as [[Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon]] and [[Elton John]] as {{Ch|Elton John|himself}}.
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