The Simpsons (TV Series) Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore (2006) User Reviews

Perhaps the best sub-plot in the entire series

[glorious-1 · 10 April 2006]

This episode took place on 2 different places: India (which Homer mistakes for Indiana and to some extent Illinois) and back in Springfield. While Homer is running a nuclear plant in Springfield and begins to believe he is a god, Richard Dean Anderson, aka MacGyver and Major General Jack O'Neill (from Stargate SG-1) accidentally runs into a MacGyver convention run by Patty and Selma. After being kidnapped by the MacGyver crazed sisters, Richard Dean Anderson escapes his bindings through MacGyver-like means. So impressed with his experience, he returns to tell Patty and Selma to "do it again". After having Richard Dean Anderson escape several times, the sisters devise a plan to rid themselves of the annoying actor.

Richard Dean Anderson has been a fan of the Simpsons for years and the episode portrays his enthusiasm. The performance was well worth the wait.

Nutshell ;This is perfect episode for out of US

[sinan50563 · 10/10 · 16 August 2011]

You might say why this episode is excellent? If you r living in third national like India,They show outside of US and they didn't kidding with that country.I mean Im Turk When I've seen episode in Rio i was upset about it.I think this is the episode about chancing in looking view of 3rd nation.

Also Richard Dean Anderson played in that episode.Im fan of Sg-1 and sci-fi.I think he changed sci-fi he gave it humour.i think he gave inspiration to Big bang theory(Sci-fi fans in comedy series).

All in All, I mean that episode may not be funniest episode in Simpson's but it is about changing mentality also it has a great guest.

Homer and his Indian adventure

[safenoe · 10/10 · 21 October 2023]

I'm catching up on the Simpsons episodes I missed out on all these years ago when I pretty much stopped watching after season 10, but Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore is a worthy episode. Made just three years before Slumdog Millionaire swept the Oscars, and about 15 years before an Indian became UK Prime Minister (mis-pronounced as Rashi Sanook by the US Head of State), we get Americans' impressions of India at a time when it was starting to assert its authority.

Sure, the stereotypes are there, with call centers and all, but it's fun although eventually Hank Azaria apologized for voicing Apu. It's a shame Apu didn't appear in this episode.

23 minutes wasted

[gabrielgomesciv · 2/10 · 12 February 2024]

There are no spoilers here. Nothing in this plot is worth discovering.

MacGyver's plot is put in anyway, without any development.

The characters are not at all believable. Everything they do is just for the "joke" itself. The main plot is also introduced in the first scene.

I give it one star just for the jokes in the first scene.

The India plot is just a sequence of cheap jokes, one after the other, just for the sake of the joke.

This episode seems to exist just to fill the "out of USA" quota. Different from the Japan, Australia and others, which had some cheap jokes, but with development of the plot; this one is just 23 minutes I regret wasting.