1x11 The Crepes of Wrath - The Simpsons Episode Guide

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- Episode 01x11

Episode: 01x11
Title: The Crepes of Wrath
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 7G13
First Aired: Apr. 15, 1990

Season 1 » Episode #11 - The Crepes of Wrath

The Simpsons - 01x11 The Crepes of Wrath

Summary: Bart is sent to France as a foreign exchange student and is forced to live with two slave-driving French winemakers. In his place, the Simpson family takes in Adil, a student from Albania, who's actually a spy stealing the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant's secrets. Bart escapes his tormentors' vineyard and manages to speak enough French to tell the authorities. He returns home a national hero.

Who appeared in this episode?

Others	voiced by Dan Castellaneta
Hans Moleman	voiced by Dan Castellaneta
Patty Bouvier	voiced by Julie Kavner
Selma Bouvier	voiced by Julie Kavner
Others	voiced by Julie Kavner
Others	voiced by Nancy Cartwright
Others	voiced by Harry Shearer
Others	voiced by Pamela Hayden
Rod Flanders	voiced by Pamela Hayden

	Season 1 / Episode 11: - The Crepes of Wrath Marge Simpson: Homer! What happened? Homer Simpson: The boy... bring me the boy.
	Season 1 / Episode 11: - The Crepes of Wrath Bart Simpson: Hello... what have we here? Bart Simpson: [gasp] A cherry bomb! I thought I blew all you guys up!

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: During the entire scene in which Principal Skinner discusses the student exchange program with Marge and Homer, the house layout is incorrect. The scene takes place in the living room and in the background, the dining room and the family room have switched places with each other. Thus making the front door and the back door seem to be on the same side of the house, which is incorrect.
FACT: When Principal Skinner introduces Adil to the school in the auditorium, the American flag can be seen in the background. It is hanging incorrectly as the proper way to hang the flag in that fashion is to have the blue field of stars in the upper left corner not the upper right as this episode displays it.

TRIVIA

It's said on the Season 1 DVD commentary that the tenting of the fingers and the phrase "excellent" was taken from the actions of James Downey, who some of the staff worked with on Letterman and Carson. The action was later passed onto Mr. Burns as homage to their former head writer.
Sofa gag: Homer pops out and lands on the floor.
Bart's sentence: Garlic gum is not funny.
The entire idea behind using Albania as the country the exchange student comes from was a combination of the fact that it was a country many didn't know about, and that John Belushi was Albanian and that quote "the staff liked him."
The name of Adil Hoxha was created by the writers. It wasn't until the show went into production that they found out it was the real last name of the then current Albania president, Enver Hoxha.