ALBANY — "The Simpsons" finally got around to adding upstate New York to the long list of places that have been mocked on the show.

During Sunday night's episode on Fox, the family takes a trip to Niagara Falls in an episode titled "Do'h Canada." (The song appears at about the 3:30 mark.)

While on their way to the city to redeem last-minute credit card points, Homer Simpson gives his take on upstate's places, lack of people and culinary culture in a take on Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York."

"We're headed to the one place that can never decline because it was never that great: upstate New York," Homer says.

"Start watchin' Fox News/Stop watchin' your weight," he sings ("The Simpsons" airs on Fox's broadcast network). "There is no fancy part of it/Upstate New York!/They're fond of their booze/Hot wing sauce is great/I'm gonna clog my heart in it/Upstate New York!"

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Niskayuna makes a brief appearance, its name shown on a leaking water tower early in the song. Utica affords a view of a street-side population counter dropping like the altimeter of a plane in a power dive. The good news: Homer is depicted getting a diploma from Mohawk Valley Community College.

The song also takes a shot at Rochester's Kodak, showing a crowd of people taking selfies as its plant crashes to the ground behind them.

Niskayuna Town Supervisor Yasmine Syed clapped back at the show, and extended an official invitation to the Simpson family to "stay a little longer in Niskayuna."

"I would like to personally invite Homer and his family to swing back through and stay for a few days on their way back from Canada, no hotel points needed," Syed said in a statement. "I hope Homer and Marge will take me up on my offer to be their personal tour guide so they can see for themselves that our water tower is leak-free and that Homer's satirical song rings hollow when it comes to Niskayuna. I can promise they'll like it so much, they may even stay a while and help boost the upstate population by five."

Syed also took the chance to praise the town and upstate in general.

"Homer believes there's no 'fancy part of it,' but during their all too brief pass through Niskayuna they likely missed our splendid open spaces like Blatnick and River Road Park, the scenic Mohawk Hudson bike trail, our gorgeous and safe neighborhoods, our burgeoning retail centers like the Niskayuna Co-op, ShopRite Square and Mohawk Commons, and our award-winning school district, where Bart, Lisa and eventually little Maggie would receive a superior education to anything offered in Springfield," she wrote, referring to the family's beleaguered fictional hometown.

The New York State Fair, meanwhile announced it would send admission and parking passes to the writing staff, included in a basket of state food and beverage products provided by Taste NY.

"We know it's just a TV show, we can certainly take a joke and we love 'The Simpsons,'" said Fair director Troy Waffner in a statement, "but there's so much that's great about the region. We're attracting high-tech industries to Upstate, Utica is the home of the half moon cookie and tomato pie, the star pitcher Patrick Corbin attended Mohawk Valley Community College, and Buffalo has some of the best architecture of any major city in the northeast. We'll show them a great time."

A contrasting response to "The Simpsons" was offered by the state Republican party, which offered a somewhat less rosy view of upstate's fortunes under Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.

"'The Simpsons' may be a comedy, but the failures under Andrew Cuomo are no laughing matter," said GOP Chairman Ed Cox in a statement. " ... New York went from being the Empire State to the butt of jokes."

Not to be outdone, Cuomo's spokesman Rich Azzopardi responded with a statement replete with "Simpsons" references.

"Ed 'Mr. Burns' Cox is clearly trying to block the sun in a feeble attempt to distract from the civil war in his own backyard," he said. "While there is more work to do, the facts are the facts and jobs are up, unemployment is down and millennials are starting to move back."

"Good luck with your race Ed," Azzopardi continued, alluding to the imminent party leadership challenge Cox is facing. "I'm rooting for you, but since your party hasn't won an important race since Disco Stu was an actually funny punchline, I'm not holding out hope."

"The Simpsons" has taken plenty of shots at specific upstate locales before, Albany included, but this one had perhaps the largest geographic range.

The region can't say it wasn't warned about this particular spoof: During a February visit to the New York State Writers Institute at the state University at Albany, veteran "Simpsons" writer Mike Reiss told the audience that the region would be lambasted in song to the tune of "New York, New York" in an upcoming episode.