You Only Live Twice (novel) the previous novel, "On Her Majesty's Secret Service". James Bond is drinking and gambling heavily and making mistakes on his assignments when, as a last resort, he is sent to Japan on a semi-diplomatic mission. Whilst there he is challenged by the Head of the Japanese Secret Service to kill Dr. Guntram Shatterhand. Bond realises that Shatterhand is Ernst Stavro Blofeld and sets out on a revenge mission to kill him and his wife, Irma Bunt. The novel deals on a personal level with the change in Bond from a depressed man in mourning, to a man of action bent
You Only Move Twice not let them use it. The writers went with "Bont" because they felt it was the most similar name that they could legally use. The final scene at Globex contains several references to action and "James Bond" films. The episode title and many references are from the Bond film "You Only Live Twice", as well as an allusion to "A View to a Kill". A character modeled after Sean Connery's Bond is tackled by Homer and killed after a parody of the laser scene from "Goldfinger". Miss Goodthighs from the 1967 James Bond parody "Casino Royale" makes an appearance in