 The satirical take on Rio de Janeiro in "Blame It on Lisa", in which  the streets of the city are teeming with monkeys, rats, thieving  orphans, kidnapping cabbies and oversexed childrens show hosts  dancing suggestively on Carnival floats, provoked a threatened  lawsuit by the Rio board of tourism against the producers of the  show. In response, executive producer James L. Brooks (qv)  released a statement saying "we apologize to the lovely city and  people of Rio de Janeiro," but added, "If that doesnt settle the  issue, Homer Simpson offers to take on the President of Brazil on  Fox Celebrity Boxing." Rio tourism board president Jose Eduardo  Guinle proceeded with exploring legal action, but eventually got  over it. The shows writers, however, did not. After board spokesman  Sergio Cavalcanti told Reuters that Guinle was most offended by "the  idea of the monkeys, the image that Rio de Janeiro was a jungle",  the writers made a running gag of it. In addition to Homers  reference to "the monkey problem getting worse" in Rio in "The  Regina Monologues", Krusty the Klown also reveals in "Mr Spritz Goes  to Washington" that immigration officials are constantly hounding  him because his monkey sidekick, Mr. Teeny, is from Brazil, adding,  "His uncle was the Head Monkey on the Bureau of Tourism."