Editing Simpson Safari

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|originalAirdate=April 1, 2001
|blackboardText="I will not flush evidence"
|couchGag=The living room turns into a giant circus, with everyone performing in a kick line.
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|Episode Number=265
|Written By=[[John Swartzwelder]]
|Directed By=[[Mark Kirkland]]
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"'''Simpson Safari'''" is the seventeenth episode of the Simpsons twelfth season.

== Plot ==

When [[Maggie Simpson|Maggie]] eats a magazine, [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] demands that [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] go to the grocery store to pick up some food. While there, Homer (and all the other shoppers) offends the bag boy, causing all the bag boys in [[Springfield]] to go on strike. The bag boys also prevent anyone from carrying their groceries to their cars. When all the food in the [[742 Evergreen Terrace|house]] is gone, Homer becomes desperate and goes in the search of some food. [[Santa's Little Helper]] finds a 30 year old box of [[wikipedia:Animal cracker|Animal crackers]]. Homer bites into a giraffe-shaped cracker and realizes it's made of gold, which means that the family has won a trip to [[wikipedia:Africa|Africa]]. The makers of the animal crackers (who no longer produce the crackers) refuse them the trip, but when Homer hurts himself on the corner of the box, they reconsider, as they don't want to be sued.

When they arrive in [[wikipedia:Ngorongoro Conservation Area|Ngorongroro]], [[wikipedia:Tanzania|Tanzania]], the Simpsons see billboards with messages such as "Hail President Muntu", who their guide, Kitenge, informs them recently seized power. We then see the family staying in a treetop hotel, then going on safari in the [[wikipedia:Masai Mara|Masai Mara]], visiting [[wikipedia:Olduvai Gorge|Olduvai Gorge]], and spending a day with some Maasai tribesmen. The family then join the tribesmen in a tribal dance, and Homer, while attempting to play the drums, accidentally beats the rear end of a hippopotamus, which enrages it. They use a tribal shield as a makeshift raft to escape down the river, but take a wrong turn, get swept over a waterfall, and end up far from the Maasai village. Suddenly, a chimpanzee appears, and lead them to "Joan Bushwell's Chimp Refuge", which is run by [[Dr. Joan Bushwell]] (who is voiced by [[Tress MacNeille]]). Dr. Bushwell tells the Simpsons that she is in Africa because she is researching chimpanzees, but, when [[wikipedia:Greenpeace|Greenpeace]] arrive at the refuge, the family discover that she has enslaved the apes and is making them work in a diamond mine beneath the refuge. Fearing the repercussions for what she has done, Dr. Busswell attempts to bribe the Simpsons and the people from Greenpeace with handfuls of diamonds. The next scene starts with the family sitting on the plane to go back to Springfield, with all of them but [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]] carrying a small fortune in diamonds. Out of the window of the plane, they see a new billboard which reads "Hail President Kitenge", with a picture of their old guide in the presidential robes that Muntu was wearing earlier in the episode. Marge asks "What happened to President Muntu?", at which point Muntu appears dressed as a flight attendant and says "I don't want to talk about it.". Muntu begins handing out peanuts, and the family all laugh as the plane takes off.


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