Monday, April 6, 2009

April 5th episode - Eeny Teeny Maya Mo

This episode was all about Moe, who is the character that I’m focusing on for my group project. It was one of the few episodes that I’ve seen where he was pretty much the main character of the entire episode. He is seen chatting online with a woman named Maya, and when the two finally meet for a date, Moe discovers that she is a little person. My prior opinion of Moe was that he was very shallow, grumpy, short tempered, and rude. However, I think that this episode showed Moe in a new light, as we saw that he was capable of falling in love and being a thoughtful boyfriend, for the most part. Everything is going perfect with Maya, and he even ends up proposing to her. But, like typical Moe, he ruins his chances with her when he goes too far with making short jokes, and her feelings get hurt. Moe wants Maya back in his life, so he takes another thoughtful but drastic measure to try to win her back. He goes to get an operation to make himself shorter, but he doesn’t go through with it because Maya says that she doesn’t want to be with someone who looks at her as short, but someone who sees her as beautiful. In the end Homer tells Moe that at least he knows that he was able to fall in love once, so maybe he can fall in love again, and this uplifts Moe’s spirits a little bit. I thought this was a very nice thing that Homer said and I think both of these characters surprised me a lot in this episode as being more compassionate people.

1 comment:

  1. It is true that Moe shows a sensitive side in this episode. But you can see his regular self shining through pretty much the whole time. Like in the beginning when he first starts talking to Maya and alters his photo, then decides not to start a relationship in a lie because he claims “lies come later in relationships.” Also, Moe repetitively makes fun of Maya’s height, thinking that she is okay with it, but really I think it made him feel better about his own appearance.

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