YMMV / The Simpsons S 11 E 7 Eight Misbehavin

• Alternative Joke Interpretation: Was Allen Wrench really an alien found inside a meteor or a person in a costume trying to mess with Bart?
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The implication that Allen Wrench is some sort of alien lifeform.
  Bart: Cool costume!
  Allen Wrench: [sotto voce in a grating, metallic voice] It's not a costume. They found me inside a meteor!
  Marge: Where are your hamper lids?
  Allen Wrench: [normal voice] Hamper lids? Third floor. [to Bart in metallic voice] Help! I need tungsten to live! Tuuuuuuuuuuungsten!
• Esoteric Happy Ending: The octuplets are rescued from the zoo and they're all Apu and Manjula's again... which means the two go back to the stressful and joyless experience of raising eight kids with their limited resources again, and Homer presumably will have to do his act until their contract expires. Future episodes only go on to show how Apu and Manjula's marriage only gets worse from here.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: When this episode came out, there were no recorded cases of surviving octuplet births, with Apu and Manjula's number merely one-upping the real-life McCaughey septuplets (and, In-Universe, being beaten in turn by a set of nonuplets born in Shelbyville). 2009 saw the high-profile case of "Octomom" Nadya Suleman, all eight of whose babies survived.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Matt Groening is now a father to ten children, counting one stepchild and two sets of twins.
• Older Than They Think: Viewers who've watched the episode for the first time in The New '10s and beyond might think its storyline to be a reference to Nadya Suleman, the "Octomom" who became a celebrity for a while after giving birth to octuplets in 2009. The episode was actually produced close to a decade before this, and was actually partly inspired by the real-life Dionne Quintuplets, and partly by the case of Mandy Allwood, a British woman who became pregnant with octuplets after using experimental fertility drugs a couple of years before the episode was produced (though unlike Manjula or Suleman, Allwood miscarried all of her octuplets).