Homer, left in total charge of an overgrown power plant on an isolated river, appraises the Hindu deities and decides he might be a god himself.
They explain that they already know, and that they worship him because of the American workplace routines he has instituted, like coffee breaks, early retirement, and personal days.
Back in Springfield, Patty and Selma meet their Hollywood heart-throb, Richard Dean Anderson, who played MacGyver.
He stops by to ask for directions to a convention about his newest show Stargate SG-1, and tells them he is totally uninterested in MacGyver and only did it for the pay.
Exhilarated at having performed a MacGyver-style escape in real life, he requests Patty and Selma put him through increasingly complex kidnapping trials.
Patty and Selma eventually tire of Anderson's antics, and drive him away by showing him slides of their vacation to the horse-drawn carriage museum in Alberta, Canada, overwhelming him with boredom.
[2] The way Homer dresses is a reference to what Mola Ram wears in the 1984 film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.
[5][4] The song sung at the end of the episode is Kishore Kumar's "Pal bhar ke liye" from the 1970 Indian film Johny Mera Naam, starring Dev Anand and Hema Malini.
[9] On Four Finger Discount, Guy Davis and Brendan Dando liked the subplot with Richard Dean Anderson more than the main plot and thought that people would not understand the Temple of Doom reference.
[12] Professor Rini B. Mehta of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said that the scene of Homer teaching Indians to form a union was portrayed as if colonizers were conveying their culture to natives.