The family visits Shøp, a parody of
IKEA, and run into
Apu and
Manjula. Manjula is entranced by
Maggie and the couple decide to have a baby. With the help of
fertility drugs, Manjula gives birth to
octuplets. This makes headlines across
Springfield, with local companies giving the Nahasapeemapetilons free products. However, when nonuplets are born to a family in
Shelbyville, the donors redirect the gifts to them instead. The stress of raising eight children at once soon leaves Apu and Manjula exhausted and short of money. The owner of Springfield Zoo, Larry Kidkill, offers to help if the parents sign a contract permitting him to display the children. They reluctantly agree, but discover that he is going to use their children in a show called "Octopia" several times a day. Apu wants to liberate them, but Kidkill will not allow him to break the contract, and
Chief Wiggum refuses to help having been bribed by Kidkill with free peanuts. Apu and
Homer sneak into the zoo at night and steal the babies back. They rush the octuplets to the Simpson household but Kidkill tracks them down. Homer makes a deal with Kidkill: he will perform instead of the octuplets. He rides a
tricycle with
Butch Patrick on his shoulders, both dressed as
Eddie Munster, among venomous cobras. Onstage, Homer and Patrick are mercilessly attacked by cobras and by a
mongoose put in to contain them. ==Production and themes==