"Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes" is the first episode of the twentieth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons.

[5] Robert Forster provides the voice of Lucky Jim, and Joe Mantegna returns as the recurring character Fat Tony in the episode.

Marge realizes that Patrick owns an erotic bakery after seeing Patty and Selma pick out a suggestively-shaped cake.

Due to his involvement in the riot and his criminal history, Homer is arrested and his bail set incredibly high.

Homer helps Ned but causes them both to fall and land in a pool of wet cement, which sets before they can escape.

[10] Robert Forster guest stars as bail bondsman Lucky Jim in the episode, the same job his character held in the 1997 film Jackie Brown.

[4][9] The bail bondsman Wolf is a parody of Duane "Dog" Chapman, the star of the series Dog the Bounty Hunter,[9] while one of the bounty hunters lining up to chase Homer down, before Ned takes the job, is Rose McGowan's character Cherry Darling from Robert Rodriguez's 2007 film Planet Terror.

[9] In the opening St. Patrick's Day brawl, Marvel Comics characters The Thing and The Incredible Hulk have cameos, while before that Bart notes that he misses the IRA, a reference to the ending of their armed campaign in 2005.

The episode's couch gag parodies The Empire Strikes Back, with Boba Fett appearing and carrying away the family frozen in carbonite as he had done to Han Solo.

[9] The highly choreographed sequence where Ned chases Homer through a construction site is a reference to the 2006 James Bond film Casino Royale.

[11] Justin Gagnon of The Daily Collegian called the episode "worthwhile viewing for both big fans and occasional watchers and proves that even after 20 seasons the show still can dish up some fresh laughs.

"[19] Gregory Campbell, a Northern Irish MP for East Londonderry in Northern Ireland said "The Simpsons is a humorous cartoon but the context of using a line like that about an organisation which caused so much death will lead people to have very mixed views, some people may take it as a light-hearted reference, while others who were affected by the real life violence of the IRA and are still suffering with that legacy, will not.