"Moe Baby Blues" is the finale of the fourteenth season of The Simpsons. It aired on May 18, 2003. The title is a play on the Spike Lee film, Mo' Better Blues. In this episode, Moe starts spending time with Maggie, leading to Homer thinking that Maggie is seeing Moe as the father figure, rather than himself. The song "You're My Best Friend", performed by Queen, was featured in this episode. Simpsons redirects here. ... Image File history File links EABF17. ... May 18 is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Al Jean is a TV comedy writer most known for his work on The Simpsons. ... The Simpsons writing staff in season 13, including current show runner Al Jean (fourth from left in middle row) and previous show runners Mike Scully (first from left in back row), David Mirkin (sixth from left in back row), and Mike Reiss (fourth from left in back row). ... J. Stewart Burns is a writer and producer for The Simpsons. ... The three people are caricatures of (left to right) Rich Moore, Wes Archer and David Silverman[1] The following is a list of directors who have worked on the Fox animated television series The Simpsons. ... Lauren MacMullan is a television animator. ... The couch gag is a running visual joke in the opening credits of the animated television series The Simpsons. ... The Simpsons 14th season (November 2002 - May 2003) began on Sunday, November 3, 2002 with Treehouse of Horror XIII. The season contains five hold-over episodes from the season 13 (DABF) production line. ... is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... May 18 is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Treehouse of Horror XIII is the first episode of The Simpsons fourteenth season, as well as the thirteenth Halloween episode. ... How I Spent My Strummer Vacation is the second episode of The Simpsons fourteenth season. ... Bart vs. ... Large Marge is the fourth episode of The Simpsons fourteenth season. ... Helter Shelter is an episode from the fourteenth season of The Simpsons that aired December 1, 2002. ... The Great Louse Detective is the sixth episode of The Simpsons fourteenth season. ... Special Edna, also titled Love and Marking, is the seventh episode of The Simpsons fourteenth season. ... The Dad Who Knew Too Little is an episode of the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Strong Arms of The Ma is the true 300th episode of The Simpsons. ... Pray Anything is the tenth episode of the fourteenth season of The Simpsons. ... Barting Over is an episode of The Simpsons advertised by FOX to be the 300th episode of the show. ... Im Spelling as Fast as I Can is the twelfth episode of The Simpsons fourteenth season. ... A Star is Born-Again is an episode from The Simpsons 14th season. ... Mr. ... C.E. Doh is the fifteenth episode of The Simpsons fourteenth season. ... This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long. ... Three Gays of the Condo is an Emmy Award-winning episode from the fourteenth season of The Simpsons that aired April 13, 2003. ... Dude, Wheres My Ranch? is the eighteenth episode of The Simpsons fourteenth season. ... Old Yeller Belly is the nineteenth episode of the fourteenth season of The Simpsons. ... Brake My Wife, Please is an episode of the fourteenth season of The Simpsons that aired on May 11, 2003. ... Bart of War is an episode of the fourteenth season of The Simpsons that aired on May 18, 2003. ... The following is an episode list for the Fox animated television series The Simpsons. ... The Simpsons 14th season (November 2002 - May 2003) began on Sunday, November 3, 2002 with Treehouse of Horror XIII. The season contains five hold-over episodes from the season 13 (DABF) production line. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... May 18 is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This section has been identified as trivia. ... Mo Better Blues is a 1990 drama film starring Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, and Spike Lee, who also directed. ... Youre My Best Friend is a song penned by John Deacon and performed by Queen. ... Queen are an English rock band formed in 1970 in London by Brian May, Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor, with John Deacon joining the following year. ...

Plot

The town goes to the Springfield Botanical Gardens to see the blooming of a Sumatran Century Flower (based on the Titan arum). However, when the flower opens, it emits an odoriferous smell, sickening everyone and causing the town to flee. When the town starts to drive away from the Botanical Gardens, the Simpsons become trapped in a traffic jam. Homer is informed that the traffic is moving by Lisa, however he accelerates too hard and hits the brakes suddenly. The force sends Maggie flying through the sunroof. Moe, who is standing depressed on the edge of a bridge about to jump, catches Maggie just as she is about to fall into the river below the bridge. Moe is then instantly declared a hero. Springfield is a fictionalized version of Springfield, Vermont, in which the animated American sitcom The Simpsons is set. ... Inside the United States Botanic Garden Inside the Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden (Brazil), 1890 Botanical gardens (in Latin, hortus botanicus) grow a wide variety of plants primarily categorized and documented for scientific purposes, but also for the enjoyment and education of visitors, a consideration that has become essential to... Sumatra (also spelled Sumatera) is the sixth largest island in the world (approximately 470,000 km²) and is the largest island entirely in Indonesia (two larger islands, Borneo and New Guinea, are partially in Indonesia). ... Binomial name Amorphophallus titanum (Becc. ... Traffic jams are common in heavily populated areas. ... Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ... Lisa Marie Simpson is a character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Yeardley Smith; Lisa is the only character Smith voices on a regular basis. ... Margaret Maggie Simpson is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Open sunroof in a Peugeot 206. ... Morris Moe Lester Szyslak (pronounced //) is a fictional character on the animated series The Simpsons, voiced by Hank Azaria. ... Rather than surrender to US soldiers, the Mayor (Bürgermeister) of Leipzig Germany, committed suicide along with his wife and daughter on April 20, 1945. ...

Moe shows up at the Simpson house, and when Homer leaves for work and Marge ends up having to deal with Grampa, Moe is left babysitting Maggie. Maggie is instantly attached to Moe, and they have a good time. Marge returns and Moe asks if he can babysit Maggie, and she agrees. After a while, Marge is happy that she has had plenty of time to get things done, but Homer feels left out of Maggie's life. Later, Moe tells Maggie the story of The Godfather. When he gets to the part where Don Corleone plays with his grandson, Moe demonstrates how the Don scares him by sticking a cut-up orange in his mouth, and Maggie enjoys it. He later goes on to tell her the sequel. When it comes to Maggie's birthday party, Moe annoys both Homer and Marge, and they decide that they've had enough, and throw him out. Marjorie Marge Simpson (née Bouvier) is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons and is voiced by Julie Kavner. ... Abraham Abe Grampa J. Simpson is a fictional character featured in the animated cartoon television series The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ... The Godfather is a 1972 crime film based on the novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with screenplay by Puzo and Coppola. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... The Godfather Part II is a 1974 motion picture directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a script he co-wrote with Mario Puzo. ...

Moe reverts to being depressed, to the point of Moe imagining the barflies as Maggie. One night, the family is asleep, and Maggie wakes up and hears the mafia outside the house, plotting to kill the Castallaneta family (an in-joke to Dan Castallaneta, voice actor of Homer). When one of the mobsters feels hesitant, he does the Godfather-orange routine to cheer him up, and Maggie recognises it. She manages her way outside, and decides to follow the mobsters. When Homer and Marge find her missing, they automatically assume that Moe kidnapped her, and they track him down with the help of the police. They see Moe at his oven, and they think that Maggie is inside, though it is found that it is only a ham. When Moe is told that Maggie is missing, they decide to search the Simpson's house yard. They find the cut-up orange that was used by Fat Tony, and Moe works out that Maggie must have followed them to Springfield's Little Italy. Look up barfly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Springfield Mafia is a fictional Italian Organized Crime Group based in Springfield in the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Dan Castellaneta Daniel Louis Castellaneta (born September 10, 1958) is an American actor who is most known for providing the voice of Homer Simpson and other characters on the television series The Simpsons and Genie in Disneys Aladdin television series. ... Little Italy is a general name for an ethnic enclave populated (or formerly populated) primarily by Italians or people of Italian ancestry, usually in an urban neighborhood. ...

Maggie follows the mobsters to Luigi's, where Fat Tony's gang and the Castallaneta's are having a meeting. Maggie enters the restaurant where the two gangs are about to start a gun war. The situation deteriorates when they are all point guns at each other and Maggie is in the middle of an "Italian-American Mexican standoff". Homer, Marge and Moe are standing outside and Moe decides to go inside and save Maggie. Moe goes inside, and to prevent being shot, shows the gangsters Maggie's innocence. They start to cry, and Moe and Maggie are safe to leave. The family and Moe make up in the end, and Homer and Moe decide to have a "playdate", with Homer being with the ham, and Moe spending more time with Maggie. This page provides information on characters on The Simpsons who do not have their own articles. ... A Mexican standoff is a stalemate or impasse, a confrontation that neither side can seemingly win. ...

Spin-off

Bongo Comics published a mini-series based on the Maggie and Moe relationship that bloomed in this episode. The comics are called Maggie & Moe Mysteries, appearing in both The Simpsons and Bart Simpson comic books. Bongo Comics is a comic book publishing company founded in 1993 by Steve and Cindy Vance, Bill Morrison, and Simpsons creator Matt Groening. ... A comic book is a magazine or book containing the art form of comics. ...

Cultural references

• This episode's plot seems to be inspired by the film Baby's Day Out, right down to the lost baby retracing the steps of her/his favorite bedtime story and the babysitter finding her/him by realizing where the baby is going. Joe Mantegna was also in this film. There are also shades of Silas Marner, in that a miserly man is redeemed by a small lost child's love. Steve Martin, who appeared in "Trash of the Titans", starred in a feature film adaptation called A Simple Twist of Fate.
• Many references were made to the Godfather trilogy in this episode. The "cut-up orange" gag used by Moe and Fat Tony references how Don Corleone scares his grandson, while working in the garden, just minutes before he suffers a fatal heart attack. Another reference was that Fat Tony complains about paying to see The Godfather III. The actor who voices Fat Tony, Joe Mantegna, was in this final film. Also in the episode, Moe mentions Bridget Fonda, who was in the film as well.

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Trivia

• This episode is the first and only time that Homer's car has been seen with a sunroof.
• The movie that is playing in the Hibbert's SUV is The Beverly Hillbillies Down Under.