James Bond Theme Spy Who Loved Me", titled "Bond 77", featured a disco sound, reflecting a style of music which was very popular at the time. "The Spy Who Loved Me" returned briefly to using the surf-rock guitar associated with the theme from the early days. One unusual instance occurred in "Octopussy", when Bond's contact, who is disguised as a snake charmer played a few notes of the tune for Roger Moore's James Bond, presumably as a pre-arranged identification signal; this is an example of the tune being used as diegetic music. In the last Bond film of Roger Moore, "A View to
The Spy Who Learned Me Lisa notes "he is tough on nerds, but easy on the eyes" as Bart stares at her in disbelief. The name of the episode is a pun on the James Bond Film 'The Spy Who Loved Me' Stratavarius Cain is a take on James Bond. Blue-eyed man is based on Tony Montana of Scarface (1983) Rowan Kaiser of "The A.V. Club" said the episode was a "simple, emotional story", noting that most of it had been done many times before by the show, but it still "worked" and was funny, thus earning a B+ grade. The Spy Who Learned Me