Overview
- The Season 37 installment "¡The Fall Guy-Yi-Yi!" reframes Bumblebee Man with an origin that identifies him as Pedro and situates his career at a Spanish-language studio, explicitly nodding to Chespirito and Channel 8.
- Homer is recruited as Bumblebee Man’s stunt double, with the episode using their partnership to celebrate slapstick and honor the often-unseen craft of stunt work.
- Coverage highlights direct homages to Mexican television comedy, presenting slapstick as a universal language that crosses cultural and linguistic borders.
- A brief cameo by Pepi marks the character’s first on-screen appearance since Season 4 in 1993.
- ComicBook.com reports that longtime Spanish voice of Homer, Humberto Vélez, receives an English-language credit, and notes that a line referencing a real-life case has drawn widespread attention on social media.