Selma experiences menopause and decides to adopt a baby from China. Since the Chinese government won’t allow single people to adopt, Selma claims that Homer is her husband. Homer plays along and off they go to China.
In a rare moment, there’s a happy ending where I’d expected not to see one.
Not a bad episode overall.
Not bad, no. Odd to see a Patty episode and a Selma episode so close together. The jokes about China were pretty uneven (“On this site in 1989, nothing happened” was very funny), but Lucy Liu had some good lines and the happy ending beats the automatic ‘everything’s just like it was.’
Millhouse was funny. “Car is the subject but what’s the verb?” I was laughing really hard at the beginning but then I trailed off.
The dragons killed me, especially the singing one.
Homer apparently likes dressing up as gods to foil plans- he disguised himself as Ganesha during Apu’s wedding, and he showed up as a Buddha tonight.
I had to leave during the commercial after Selma had the kid yanked away. What happened at the end?
I was just thinking that one of Lucy Liu’s jokes would have been better if her character had been named Madame Yu instead of Wu.
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on Yu!”
Seconded. I was laughing out loud at both their appearances, although that may be the “it’s Sunday and I have to work tomorrow oh no sweet Jesus” Smirnoff working it’s magic. The Tianmen gag and Homer as Buddha also were pretty funny.
They disguised Homer to look like a Buddha statue and left him at the front door of the orphanage. After a typically painful Homeresque entry, he went to find little Ling, only to discover hundreds of seemingly identical babies. Only when one grabbed his eyeballs was he able to escape with her.
Evil Lucy Liu discovered what was going on and stopped Selma, but Selma appealed to her, bureaucrat to bureaucrat, and everything ended happily.
A few good bits. One was when Homer compared Asian adoption to outsourcing.
Then there was a funny bit that followed it that made me laugh out loud(in the adoption agency), but for the life of me I can’t remember what it was.
And in my weekly “South Park” did it moment, I offer the Mongols trying to get past the wall.
And I could swear Homer has made the mistake about Buckingham Palace guards. Maybe with a Marine in the Australia episode?
(And the show could have scored a HUGE laugh out of me if they had Butch Patrick pop up and notarize that form!)
Someone’s definitely done it. And I’ve seen it, so it may not just be South Park.
And there may have been a similar joke when they went to England. They’ve made their share of Beefeater jokes.
I missed most of the second half because it was pre-empted here for weather alerts in which a weatherman found every conceivable way to say “if there’s a tornado go downstairs” for 40 minutes, but I loved the “don’t want no more rabies” mother’s line: “Gimme back my belly fruit!”
So Selma really does get the Chinese baby?
Yep.
The parts I liked
[shaolin monk rips homer’s heart out, then jams it back in]
Homer: “I sure hope you washed your hands!” 
Homer’s cooing over the mummy of Chairman Mao “What little angel killed 50 million people? You did! You did!”
[nitpick]Buddha is not a God.[/nitpick]
There was a Great Wall gag in Futurama, I think. Somehow a big hole gets blasted through and a bunch of Mongols come charging through on horseback.
Futurama did it. In the one where Fry’s 1999 girlfriend is unfrozen in 3000, Fry and Bender take the ship out for a joy ride, with the Planet Express building attached by the unbreakable diamond tether. The building crashes through the Great Wall and Mongols charge through as if they’ve been waiting there for 2000-odd years.
Does anyone else think this of Mortal Kombat first when this happened? 
:smack:
Was that George Takai (you know, Mr. Sulu) doing the voice of the dragon who asked Homer for his pillows? I know he’s been a guest and done cameos on the show before. It’ll be interesting to see what they do with Ling’s character.
Probably not very much, is my guess.
On a tangent, I’d like to see Roy again.