-_-;; nvm I just described the episode you got

Okay, off the top of my head:

- Bart goes on exchange to France, Homer gets an kid who tries to steal the blueprints of the nuclear power pant.
- Simpsons go to Japan
- Salma (or her sister) adopts a Chinese girl
- Homer gets abducted in Brazil
- Simpsons go to Canada (horrible episode -_-)

Family Guy would've been awesome

BlackJack

United States10009 Posts

March 01 2009 21:46 GMT

their doctor is black

lovelyrose

Canada160 Posts

March 01 2009 21:47 GMT

there's the episode where the germans? I don't really remember if they were german, but they take over the power plant when they buy it from mr. burns, and they try to run the plant using their ways and such. it turns out going horribly and they resell the plant back, not really sure if there's much positive to use in the episode, but there may be something in there.

unfortunately I can mostly only think of negative things.

s_86

United States191 Posts

March 01 2009 21:51 GMT

Homer The Heretic, season 4 episode 3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homer_the_Heretic
Homer stops going to church and has to deal with everyone trying to convert him back. He then sleeps on the couch while his house is on fire, and the volunteer fire department composed of people of many religions such as Apu and Krusty (which are kind of inherited from their ethnicities), come to save him.

FragKrag

United States11538 Posts

March 01 2009 21:57 GMT

There's the one where Bart and Lisa try to help Krusty get his jewish dad's respect.

Raithed

China7078 Posts

March 01 2009 22:05 GMT

bart goes to australia to apologize.
groundskeeper willie going to ireland/deported?

mahnini

United States6862 Posts

March 01 2009 23:05 GMT

#10

apus arranged marriage!

shmay

United States1091 Posts

March 01 2009 23:34 GMT

#11

the one where they go to africa

then there's that whole episode where everyone's worried about getting deported, and apu pretends to be married to marge and his mom comes to springfield?

benjammin

United States2728 Posts

March 01 2009 23:41 GMT

#12

anything apu is a gold mine to write about, and i think there's more to glean there than any other character or episode. i'd focus on how the show portrays difference as difference without judging it, sort of that different cultures/ethnic groups are not the same as others and that's absolutely fine in the simpsons universe

ambit!ous1

United States3662 Posts

March 02 2009 00:15 GMT

#13

Holmer getting stoned

decafchicken

United States19917 Posts

March 02 2009 01:08 GMT

#14

thanks for all the replies so far!

Malongo

Chile3468 Posts

March 02 2009 01:36 GMT

#15

Apu went with homer searching for the Mart-chief in india or something. Dont remember the name.

GTR

51270 Posts

March 02 2009 05:38 GMT

#16

On March 02 2009 08:34 shmay wrote:
then there's that whole episode where everyone's worried about getting deported, and apu pretends to be married to marge and his mom comes to springfield?

actually apu was the top bachelor at some fire-fighters fundraiser. he enjoys his bachelorhood but receives a lotus in a letter from his mother. he fakes that he has a wife in america and his mother surprises him by arriving to see her. so thats where the fake marriage with marge came from.

Straylight

Canada706 Posts

March 02 2009 06:00 GMT

#17

Remember that episode when they're playing bball and Carl is like "Guys, just cause I'm African American doesn't mean I'm good at basketball" or something along those lines.

Then he does like a 360 tomahawk dunk or something.

fight_or_flight

United States3988 Posts

March 02 2009 06:46 GMT

#18

It would probably be best to take a few episodes that seemingly make other cultures look bad, but show how they actually put them in a positive light. In other words, they initially show other cultures in a way that a typical "intolerant" american would view them, but then turn that around.

Taking an episode that is overall positive can simply be countered by an episode that is seemingly negative.