Yemen Party

**Yemen Party** is the seventh episode of season tree of *The Cleveland Show*. It is the fifty ninth episode, overall.

## Synopsis

Cleveland dresses up as a woman to infiltrate Donna's support group.

## Plot

When Donna joins a women's support group and starts to complain about how Cleveland treats her, she gives Cleveland a list of chores to help out around the house. Telling the guys at The Broken Stool, Cleveland finds out that all of the girls are sharing their thoughts on the guys. Deciding to infiltrate the group, Cleveland gets the idea to dress up in a burqua and pass himself off as a Muslim woman named Fatima. After spreading a tale of woe about “her” husband and family to convince the girls to appreciate what they have, they decides to help out Fatima by sending “her” to Yemen to reunite with her family. Cleveland soon finds himself in the palace of a sheik where he is forced to clean and do housework. Cleveland soon finds out what things are like in Donna's shoes and escapes for home where he expresses his appreciation of Donna, although he still refuses to help with dinner.

Meanwhile, When Rallo decides to jump around on Cleveland Jr.'s bed, Jr. settles him down by placing him in Larry the Leopard's baby carrier. When Rallo awakes, he discovers he can control Cleveland Jr.'s movements while in a baby carrier at the store. Rallo gets the idea for them to join forces to stop the playground bully, Rodney King. Rodney decides to turn the tables by employing his own oversized brother in the same manner. The four battle until both older brothers are knocked senseless and Rallo and Rodney decide to become friends.

## Characters

### Major Roles

* Cleveland Brown
* Donna Tubbs-Brown
* Cleveland Junior
* Roberta Tubbs
* Rallo Tubbs
* Ibrahim Qasim
* Khadijah Qasim
* Rodney King
* Franklin King

### Minor Roles

* Tim the Bear
* Lester Krinklesac
* Holt Richter
* Arianna the Bear
* Kendra Krinklesac
* Lydia Waterman
* Larry the Leopard
* Dwayne Meighan
* Big Boobed June
* Walt
* Lloyd Waterman (Mentioned)

## Quotes

**Donna**: Sweet mayhem and ... *[sigh]* I'm about done with these ... What the hell happened!?

**Cleveland**: Where were you?
**Donna**: At my women's group meeting ... You know, Nags Against Global Sexism of NAGS.

**Roberta**: Bitches should help themselves I work for everything I got.
**Junior**: You can be truly appalling.

**Holt**: What happened to the bow, bro? *["bow" referring to Cleveland's "elbow"]*
**Cleveland**: Donna hit me ... with a list of chores. It's all because *[points to Tim]* this guy's wife told Donna I need to help around the house more. She even made me drive three-quarters of a mile to return our DVDs to *Blockbuster*.
**Holt**: Couldn't you just wait 'til they go out of business?
**Cleveland**: Thank you.

**Kendra**: I'm just saying if Lester wasn't too lazy take out the garbage, I wouldn't be so tempted to eat out of it,

**Cleveland**: *[as Fatima]* This is how you help women? You sit around and drink wine and complain about husbands?
**Donna**: Mmm-hmm. Oh, that reminds me. Cleveland never puts down the toilet seat. I must have fallen in six times yesterday.
**Cleveland**: *[as Fatima]* Couldn't you just put the seat down yourself?
**Donna**: *[laughs]* You're funny, Fatima.

**Cleveland**: *[as Fatima]* You all have it so easy. Fatima's husband drag her here from Yemen, so he could become pushy electronic salesman, but then had affair with LeAnn Rimes.
**Kendra**: So did Lester.
**Cleveland**: *[as Fatima]* Then he go back to Yemen with my children. He say "Me no wanty Fatima." Now, I all alone. Stranded in U.S. So, your husband is slob? Boo hoo. You have man. You have everything. Appreciate husband. Especially, *[in normal voice; nagging]* you, Donna.

**Donna**: Cleveland's not so bad.
**Cleveland**: *[as Fatima]* I'm sure he wonderful. Would love meet him sometime.
**Donna**: How about dinner tomorrow night?
**Cleveland**: *[as Fatima]* I'd love to!
*[Cleveland shows up at his own house, dressed as Fatima and rings the doorbell]*
**Donna**: *[offscreen]* Cleveland, could you get that?
**Cleveland**: *[in normal voice; realization]* I ... did not think this through.

**Roberta**: *[offscreen]* AAAAH! A black ghost!
**Donna**: Ghosts are white!

*[Cleveland has an offscreen monologue with himself, pretending to talk to Fatima]*
**Cleveland**: *[offscreen]* Oh, you must be Fatima. *[as Fatima]* And you must be Rallo. Ha ha. I'm kidding. You must be Cleveland. *[normal]* Ha ha. There's that famous Middle Eastern sense of humor. *[as Fatima]* Donna, she told me so much about you. Donna so lucky to have you. *[normal]* Oh-ho, no. I'm the lucky one. *[as telegram guy]* Telegram for Mr. Brown. *[normal]* Telegram? I didn't know they still had those. *[as telegram guy]* They do. *[normal]* Where? *[as telegram guy]* In town. *[normal]* What street? *[as telegram guy]* Stewart Street. It's a real street. *[as Fatima]* Sounds like a real street. *[normal]* Says here, there's a cable emergency. I gotta go. Nice meeting you, Fatima. *[as Fatima]* Nice meeting you too, Cleveland. *[as telegram guy]* Hey, how 'bout a tip, buddy? *[normal]* Sure! Coming up.
*[Cleveland enters]*
**Cleveland**: Donna, I'm sorry. I have to go. There's a cable emergency and do you have five dollars to tip the telegram guy?
*[Donna gives Cleveland five dollars; Cleveland takes the money and goes]*
**Cleveland**: *[offscreen]* Here you go. *[as telegtam guy]* Two dollars? *[normal]* Take it or leave it.

**Rallo**: Now, that I'm up chest high, let's go see Big Boobed June.

**Tim**: Thank you, Cleveland, and thanks *[quotation marks]* "Fatima". Our wives now appreciate the below average spouses they settled for and it's all because of you two, *[blinks]* blink blink.

**Cleveland**: Donna?
**Donna**: Yes, Cleveland?
**Cleveland**: Nothing.

**Rallo**: Everybody start throwing dollars, cuz this bitch looks good on a pole.

**Kendra**: *[offscreen]* We forgive you for 9/11!

**Khadijah**: Don't stray from the group! Come. Ibrahim is expecting us.
**Cleveland**: Who's Ibrahim?
**Khadijah**: Our husband, you idiot!
**Cleveland**: *Our* husband!? You best not be talkin' 'bout my man!
**Khadijah**: Who are you, anyway? I don't remember seeing you around the harem.
**Cleveland**: Wha!? Well, I don't remember seein' *you*, either!
**Khadijah**: I am Khadijah Qasim and we need to get home by 6:00 or Ibrahim will have our heads. Now, take a prayer rug and let's go!

**Rallo**: Rallo Tubbs, by the way.
**Rodney**: Rodney King. No relation.
**Rallo**: No relation to who?
**Rodney**: I don't know. My mama just told me to always say that.

**Cleveland**: Ibrahim, you haven't even worn the jacket I bought you. Maybe you could wear it when you take me out to dinner, tonight.
**Ibrahim**: Nah. Just ate a big bowl of cereal.
**Cleveland**: Oh, WHAT!? You know how hard it is to get reservation at T.A.I.F.?

**Cleveland**: I am a man!
**Ibrahim**: What!? Really? But your hands are so feminine and your hips are so wide!
**Cleveland**: Oooh, you smooth.

**Cleveland**: To think, it took being a wife to a husband like you to learn how to be a husband to a wife like me.

**Ibrahim**: You know, you made me realize something very important ... I should probably do a dude check on the rest of my wives.
*[Ibrahim enters his harem]*
**Ibrahim**: Dude check!
**Male Concubine**: Uh-oh!

*[Tim comforts Donna, who misses Cleveland]*
**Tim**: Must be so, so tough with Cleveland gone but uh, you know, maybe letting go is uh, opening yourself up to something new. *[loosens his tie seductively; he and Donna hug]*
*[Cleveland busts in through the front door]*
**Donna**: Cleveland!
**Tim**: Oh. He's alive. Uh, ... yay! Uh, well, uh, I should go. Uh, I-I'll see-I'll see you around, Cleveland. Uh, happy you're back, I uh, ... yeah.

## Trivia

* The Brown-Tubbs Family normally eats dinner at 6:00PM.
* Donna is part of a women's group called Nags Against Global Sexism (NAGS).
* Cleveland reads Farts Magazine.
* The Guys claim not to know any women, despite them knowing Tori at this time.
* Cleveland created an alternate persona, being a Muslim woman in a burka named "Fatima".
	+ Cleveland mispronounces the name, as the Middle Eastern female-given name "Fatima" is actually pronounced "Fah-Tih-Muh" and he pronounces it as "Fuh-Tee-Muh", probably as a result of his stupidity due to years of Americanized desensitization to multicultural awareness.
* Lester once cheated on Kendra with famous singer, *LeAnn Rimes*.

### Cultural References

* This episode's title is a pun on the bait-and-switch porn website, *Lemon Party*.
* Donna reads *The Truth About Diamonds* by *Nicole Richie*.
* Rallo pretends to be *Wall-E* from the eponymous movie.
* Holt says that instead of returning DVDs to *Blockbuster*, Cleveland should just wait for them to inevitably go out of business.
	+ This joke aged rather well, as on March 31, 2019, the penultimate *Blockbuster* shut down, after the company took a corporate nosedive in 2013-2014. (This episode aired in 2011).
* Donna contrasts Cleveland with an *Old Spice* guy.
* Rallo gets *Paul Newman's* blood in a jar.
* Rallo and Junior play *Avatar*.