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The Simpsons episode
"Simple Simpson"
The Pie Man and the Cupcake Kid.
Episode no.	332
Prod. code	FABF15
Orig. airdate	May 2, 2004
Show runner(s)	Al Jean
Written by	Jon Vitti
Directed by	Jim Reardon
Couch gag	The Simpsons slides down a pole into the Batcave, where everyone is dressed like the characters from the 1960s Batman TV show (Homer is Batman, Marge is Catwoman, Maggie and Lisa are Batgirl, and Bart is Robin, the Boy Wonder).
Guest star(s)	Nichelle Nichols as herself
Season 15 November 2, 2003 – May 23, 2004 "Treehouse of Horror XIV" "My Mother the Carjacker" "The President Wore Pearls" "The Regina Monologues" "The Fat and the Furriest" "Today I Am a Clown" "'Tis the Fifteenth Season" "Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays" "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot" "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife" "Margical History Tour" "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore" "Smart and Smarter" "The Ziff Who Came to Dinner" "Co-Dependent's Day" "The Wandering Juvie" "My Big Fat Geek Wedding" "Catch 'Em if You Can" "Simple Simpson" "The Way We Weren't" "Bart-Mangled Banner" "Fraudcast News" List of all The Simpsons episodes
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Plot

Homer watches a commercial about a contest that will allow the winner, the finder of a golden ticket, a trip to "Farmer Billy's Bacon Factory", and is intrigued by the commercial. Although Homer buys a surplus of bacon from the Kwik-E-Mart, he is only able to find a silver ticket, which allows him to judge the upcoming placement competition at the county fair. At the fair, Lisa's entry in the place setting competition is wrecked by the Rich Texan, angering Homer, who decides to teach the Rich Texan a lesson. Recalling a warning from Chief Wiggum that he will be arrested if he commits another felony assault, Homer disguises himself as a masked superhero, "The Pie Man", and throws a pie straight into the Rich Texan's face, leaving the crowd laughing. The next day, Lisa is seen drawing her favorite superhero - Pie Man. After Homer hears that the Comic Book Guy has ripped off Bart and Milhouse, he arrives as the Pie Man (with a newer look) and throws a pie in the his face. Nichelle Nichols of Star Trek, whom the Comic Book Guy invited for tea and some chit chat, suddenly shows up and is turned off by the pie on his face. This humiliates him in front of the kids and he runs away in tears. This article is about the Greek poet Homer and the works attributed to him. ... A Golden Ticket from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory A Golden Ticket as shown in the main titles of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory A Golden Ticket is a fictional item created by Roald Dahl in the 1964 novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. ... An exterior of a fictitious typical Kwik-E-Mart store. ... 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. ... This page provides information on these recurring characters which do not have their own articles. ... In the television series, The Simpsons, the Wiggum family consist of Clancy (father and police officer), Sarah (mother), and Ralph (child). ... This article is about the baked good, for other uses see Pie (disambiguation). ... Pieing is the act of throwing a pie at someone. ... Jeff Albertson, better known as Comic Book Guy, is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Milhouse Mussolini Van Houten is a fictional character featured in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Pamela Hayden. ... Nichelle Nichols (born Grace Nichols on December 28, 1932) is an American singer, actress, and voice actress. ... This article is about the entire Star Trek franchise. ...

The next day, the family watches the news and discovers that the Springfield Children's Hospital is going to be turned into a cosmetic surgery clinic. Homer worries about the plight of the sick children. That same evening, two sick and coughing children are pushed away from the hospital by Mayor Quimby. Chief Wiggum, believing that the Pie Man must be stopped because he does not do bike safety lectures, plans to capture him at the event. The Pie Man shows up, pie at the ready. Lenny (who tried to warn Homer), the Pie Man fans, and the other crowd members run for safety because the cops open fire, with Lou hitting Homer in the arm. Homer manages to escape rather flamboyantly. At home, Lisa enters the kitchen and sees Homer, still disguised as Pie Man. Lisa figures out that he is actually her father. Homer, unmasked, brings blindfolded Lisa to his Pie Cave (a.k.a. the basement) but Lisa is not surprised. He promises Lisa (who does not want him to get hurt again) that he will stop his pie avenging. At the power plant, Mr. Burns is particularly cruel to his employees. He whips Lenny and Carl, so that they will eat faster and return to work, and docks Homer a day's pay for being late and fat. Out of his mind, a pie starts telling Homer to throw him when more desserts join the talk and they argue to be thrown. Even though he remembers his promise to Lisa, Homer makes another appearance as Pie Man. Mr. Burns shuts down the showers as soon as Pieman came and splats Burns in the face. However, after watching the video surveillance cameras, Burns sees that Pie Man has tired from his escape and fallen asleep on a couch. Turning around, he sees Pie Man sleeping on the couch in the room. Burns and Smithers lock him in the employee detention center, and unmask him. Burns makes Homer his personal hitman and threatens to reveal his identity to the rest of the city if he does not comply. Plastic surgery is a general term for operative manual and instrumental treatment which is performed for functional or aesthetic reasons. ... Mayor Diamond Joe Quimby Joseph Joe Quimby, Jr. ... ̪ For other people named Mr. ... Lenford Lenny Leonard, MPhys is a fictional character in The Simpsons, voiced by Harry Shearer. ... Carlton Carl Carlson, MPhys is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Closed-circuit cameras are often used to discourage crime Closed-circuit television (CCTV), as a collection surveillance cameras doing video surveillance, is the use of television cameras for surveillance. ... Waylon Smithers, Jr. ... A hitman is a hired assassin paid to assassinate a target via contract killing. ...

His first task is to pie himself, then a girl-scout. Mr. Burns and Smithers come to the town square in disguise to Homer to show that his next assignment is throw a pie in the face of the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual teacher, the Dalai Lama (who Mr. Burns said did something to his Chinese masters). However, at the Dalai Lama's show, Homer - disguised as Pie Man - can not go through with it since Lisa is present and is Buddhist herself. He reveals his identity to the public, but no one believes he could possibly be Pie Man, they all think he is just too dumb and greedy. The Dalai Lama then flies out of the building safely, and to give another lecture at Buffalo, New York. Pie Man is now free from Mr. Burns's control for good. Later, we see Homer and Marge snuggling in bed, and Marge says that she believed that Homer was the Pie Man (namely because it couldn't have been anyone else in the suit). While she laughs at this, Homer makes his way to the roof and states that Pie Man will return, along with his trusty sidekick, the Cupcake Kid (a.k.a. Bart). However, they are soon subjected to a great injustice by Marge...cleaning out the gutter. Tibetan Buddhism, (formerly also called Lamaism after their religious gurus known as lamas), is the body of religious Buddhist doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet and the Himalayan region. ... Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso (born Llhamo Döndrub (Tibetan: ; Wylie: Lha-mo Don-grub) 6 July 1935 in Qinghai [1]), is the fourteenth and current Dalai Lama. ...

Censorship

• When this episode was first broadcast in Asia on the Star World channel on November 6, 2005, all scenes mentioning or showing the Dalai Lama were cut. This act of censorship was to appease the predominantly Buddhist viewers of East, South, and Southeast Asia with regards to any view of mocking the Dalai Lama.

STAR World is STAR Groups premiere English-language Entertainment TV-channel which is shown in the Asian region. ...

Cultural references

• Homer's costume is similar to Superman's costume minus the mask, gloves, underwear, black boots, and weight.
• Bart's superhero ego Cupcake Kid who was wearing a Fallout Boy costume (Radioactive Man's sidekick, a parody of Batman's sidekick, Robin).
• The part where Homer makes his costume is a parody of Peter Parker from Spiderman doing the same.
• Homer's secret lair is a parody of Batman.
• Homer's assignment briefing is a reference to Mission: Impossible.

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