"Love Is a Many Strangled Thing" is the seventeenth episode of the twenty-second season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.
After saving Mr. Burns' life, Homer wins tickets to an NFL game between the Springfield Atoms and the Miami Dolphins, and takes the whole family.
Later that night, Marge scolds Homer for hurting Bart's feelings, and encourages him to enroll in a fathering enrichment class taught by therapist Dr. Zander.
Dr. Zander takes Bart and Homer on a trip while Marge and Lisa spend their time watching sad horse movies.
[1] Futurama is another animated series created by Matt Groening, and was officially renewed for a seventh season the same week the episode aired.
[5] In its original American broadcast, "Love is a Many Strangled Thing" was viewed by an estimated 6.14 million households, with a 2.8 Nielsen rating and 8 share of the audience between the ages of 18 and 49.
Club writer Rowan Kaiser called the episode "solid" commenting that "There was just a consistent stream of amusing lines, steadily increasing in frequency, until I realized that I'd been chuckling essentially from the start of the second act until the end of the fourth.
Complaints were made to Ofcom, the broadcasting standards authority, who deemed that the scenes of hanging and Homer not being able to resist being strangled by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar would be unsuitable for children.