The Crepes of Wrath

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Swaps and spies (English Original title: The Crepes of Wrath ) is the eleventh episode of the first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.

Action

After Bart a bang cherry lights on the toilet at school, while Rector Skinner's mother Agnes sits on this, this goes to his house to talk about it with his parents. Because Barts whole painting Skinner recommends that they be a student exchange program. Then Bart is flying on a vineyard of the two men and Cesar Uguolin to France.

Contrary to his expectations his parents exchange are very hard, because he needs to do heavy work with them, hardly anything gets to eat and no free time has. Bart finally discovered that Cesar and Uguolin stretch their wine with antifreeze and must buy them new, as it is empty in the town. When Bart there encounters a police officer, he told him about it through his new language skills in French, which is why his host parents are arrested.

Meanwhile, the Simpsons get in return the exchange student Adil Hoxha of Albania. This is interested in Homer's job at the nuclear power plant and wants to look at them. After he has done this he sent in a tree house of his reign family in Albania secret messages. Days later was arrested by his espionage by the FBI and sent back to his country Adil.

Ultimately, Bart comes back home and tells his family including his new French language skills.

Cultural references

Cesar and Ugolino are named after the French films Jean Florette and Manon's revenge from 1986. Barts gift from France to Maggie refers to the French children's film The Red Balloon by 1956. Along the way to the vineyard of famous paintings come beard and Ugolino past several scenes, especially Bassin aux Nympheas by Claude Monet, Champ de blé aux corbeaux by Vincent van Gogh, Le rêve by Henri Rousseau and Déjeuner sur l'herbe by Édouard Manet. The choice of antifreeze for the crime is an allusion to the glycol wine scandal from the year 1985.

Production

Swaps and spies was the first episode of The Simpsons, which was written by George Meyer, which she co-wrote with Sam Simon, John Swartzwelder and Jon Vitti. The episode was inspired by the French film Manon's revenge. The authors tried to find out, should come from which country the exchange student, and eventually opted for Albania. They did not have often seen the country on television and decided that the result should be a tribute to the Albanians John Belushi. The authors did not know much about the country and therefore could not have a good name to think, which is why they gave him the surname " Hoxha " after the former Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha. They used both real Albanian in the scene in which Adil says goodbye to his family, as well as real French in the scenes where Bart is in France. The authors did some research on a specific airport in France for the shooting of Bart at the airport in Paris.

Reception

The first broadcast of the episode The Crepes of Wrath ended the Nielsen ratings for the week of April 9 to 15 in 1990 with a rating of 15.9 on the 29th place. She was thus the second most watched show on Fox this week.

The result mainly received positive reviews. Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, the authors of the book I Can not Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, wrote: "The first Simpsons episode, dedicated to the mockery of an entire nation, and where it would be better than to start in France? A masterpiece, [ ... ] " In a DVD review of the first season David B. Grelck gave the episode a rating of 2.5 of 5 rating points and wrote: " While the laughs are a bit dry in this episode, is the. upper plot a reference to the coming madness " Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide wrote: " It is clear that the authors had begun at this time, in this episode was produced to find their groove. Offered from beginning to end, crepes ' solid experience, as the show began to offer more style and Reffinesse " Scott Collura of Hollywood Video praised the episode as part of a review and wrote:". It is one of the best of the first season. "In the year 1997, said David Bauder of TV Guide this episode as the best episode of the Simpsons and the 17th best of all television series of all time. In 2006, the website IGN Entertainment The Crepes of Wrath brought on as the best episode of the first season and said: " It has a strong central plotline with a beard that ships and forced to France as an exchange student for two unscrupulous winemakers to work that mix antifreeze in the wine. " Ken Tucker reviewed in a published on May 18, 1990 Edition of Entertainment Weekly a scene of this episode in which Lisa and Adil at dinner, among others argue about democracy and eventually taught by Homer about as "one of the funniest sitcom moments this year ." The cultural references in this episode on the French short film The Red Balloon was told by Nathan Ditum of Total Film as the third best film reference in the history of the series.

In the book Planet Simpson, Chris Turner author notes that many French characters and settings are derived in this episode largely of American clichés about France. He continued: " [ Caeser and Ugolino ] are perfect versions of the stereotypical Frenchman who abhorred in the United States that." The result is study material for sociology courses at the University of California, Berkeley has become, where it is used to " to examine issues of the production and reception of cultural objects, in this case, a satirical cartoon show ", and to find out what " she is trying to tell the audience, especially on aspects of American society and. lesser extent through other companies "

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