Editing The Call of the Simpsons

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|image = The Call of the Simpsons.png
|Episode Number = 7
|productionCode = 7G09
|originalAirdate = February 18, [[1990]]
|blackboardText = "I will not draw naked ladies in class."
|couchGag = The Simpsons all pile on to the couch and nothing extraordinary happens.
|specialGuestVoices = [[Albert Brooks]] as [[Cowboy Bob]]
|Show Runner=[[James L. Brooks]]<br>[[Matt Groening]]<br>[[Sam Simon]]
|Written By = [[John Swartzwelder]]
|Directed By = [[Wes Archer]]
|DVD features=yes
}}

"'''The Call of the Simpsons'''" is the seventh episode of [[season 1]]. It aired on February 18, [[1990]]. The episode was written by [[John Swartzwelder]] and directed by [[Wes Archer]]. [[Cowboy Bob]] and [[Rod Flanders]] make their first appearance in this episode.

== Synopsis ==
{{Desc|It's a camping misadventure for [[Simpson family|the Simpsons]]. First, the Simpsons get lost in the woods and lose all their camping equipment. [[Bart]] and [[Homer]] go get help, but get washed down a waterfall, and lose all their clothes. Meanwhile, [[Maggie]] meets up with some bears, while Homer is confused for [[Bigfoot]] after he goes in a mud pile.}}

== Plot ==
The episode begins with Bart doing yard work on a muscle-powered mower while Rod Flanders drives a steering mower. Bart complains to Homer about using obsolete equipment, and Homer retorts it is pointless to keep up with the Joneses. [[Ned Flanders]] pulls up in his brand new RV, the [[Land Behemoth]], and shows it off to Homer and Bart. In an effort to try to keep up with Ned, Homer takes the family to [[Bob's RV Round-Up]] in search of an RV of their own. Bob the RV salesman comes out and introduces Homer to an RV called the [[Ultimate Behemoth]], and gives the family a tour. During the tour Homer and the kids express their awe of the RV and Marge worries about the cost. Bob takes Homer into the office to work out a price and run a credit check. It turns out the Ultimate Behemoth is a little out of Homer price range. So, Bob shows Homer the most [[Crappy RV|run down, beaten up, small RV]] on the lot and pressures him into buying it, ignoring the disapproval of the rest of his family. Later, after loading up their "brand new" RV Homer gloats to Flanders about his purchase and the Simpson family head out to go camping. On the way Homer take a less beaten path and ignores Marge's suggestions for a map or stopping for directions. Calling his RV an all-terrain-vehicle, and much to the worry of everyone else, Homer plows through a forest and decides to stop randomly in the middle of nowhere. When the RV finally comes to a screeching halt it ends up teetering on the edge of a cliff. Everyone quickly gets out of the RV and it plummets over the edge along with everything they brought with them, resulting in a fiery explosion at the bottom of the drop.

The family is now in wild backcountry, lost in the middle of a forest with nothing except the clothes on their backs. Homer tells everyone to relax because he is "an experienced woodsman." He then builds a makeshift shelter for Marge, Lisa and Maggie, and takes Bart along with him to find help. Marge and Lisa watch as Maggie follows behind Homer and Bart; however, they are not aware of Maggie behind them. When Homer and Bart hear Maggie sucking on her pacifier they think it is a rattle snake and take off running scared leaving Maggie far behind. Homer and Bart then stumble through some brush and end up falling off another cliff and into a raging river below. Meanwhile Marge and Lisa seem to be just fine, they are tidying up their camp and have built a much better shelter for themselves. Cut to Maggie who has been left all alone, a [[Springfield Bears|bear]] approaches her on its hind legs and roars; Maggie unafraid sticks an extra pacifier in the bear's mouth which calms the bear down. After Homer and Bart fall down a waterfall Homer sees Bart's lucky cap float by and he thinks Bart has drowned. Bart tells a crying Homer, "Don't have a cow man." Homer is relived to see Bart alive and they both realize the waterfall claimed their clothes, leaving them both naked as jaybirds. Back to Maggie, who is being carried by the bear back to its cave where she is accepted as one of the group by 3 other bears. Meanwhile, Homer and Bart look for food after clothing themselves with shrubbery. Homer's attempts at catching rabbits for food fail. Back to Maggie, the bears find another family of campers and steal things from their site, like a bottle and baby toys and bring them back to Maggie. Meanwhile it is nighttime and Marge and Lisa have made themselves a fire and comment that if they were able to do that without any prior wilderness survival skills imagine what the men have done, while miles away Homer and Bart shiver without a fire and try to go to sleep and Maggie is sleeping warmly with her new family of bears.

The next morning Homer and Bart look for food and come across a bee hive. When Homer steals some honey the bees attack him. To stave off the bees Homer jumps into a muddy stream where a naturalist cameraman is filming footage a deer. The cameraman runs off scared after seeing Homer covered in mud and screaming incoherently due to the big glob of honey still in his mouth. Cut to a breaking news report claiming the existence of Bigfoot and using the footage of Homer as proof. A 5000 dollar reward is offered for "Bigfoot's" capture. The next day at the edge of the forest Bigfoot mania has set in, people are selling Bigfoot memorabilia and the press is everywhere covering the event. Marge and Lisa, who have been found by a park ranger, are surprised to see all the excitement and they realize it is Homer and not Bigfoot everyone is after. However, this only serves to further the Bigfoot hysteria as Marge is now tabloid fodder. Meanwhile, Homer and Bart, accidentally come across the bear cave with Maggie inside, just before the bears are about to maul Homer and Bart, Maggie communicates to the bears that it is okay. Homer takes Maggie back and along with Bart they wander back out into the woods. After awhile Homer is spotted in the forest by hunters looking for Bigfoot and is shot by a tranquilizer gun. After being tested and studied Homer is released to go back home. Dr. [[Marvin Monroe]] announces at a press conference that the evidence is inconclusive as to whether or not Homer is Bigfoot. They determine he is either "an intelligent beast" or "a very stupid human being". Back in the Simpsons residence, Homer and Marge watch the press conference in their bedroom. Homer worries that he will be the butt of the jokes from the guys at work for this, but Marge consoles him by saying he is an "intelligent beast" before they go to bed.

== In other languages ==
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|frName=L'Abominable Homme des bois
|frTrans=The Abominable man of the woods
|qu=yes
|quName=Les Simpson, coureurs de bois
|quTrans=The Simpsons, Woodsmen
|de=yes
|deName=Vorsicht, wilder Homer
|deTrans=Caution, Wild Homer
|es=yes
|esName=El abominable hombre del bosque
|esTrans=The Abominable Man of the Forest
|la=yes
|laName=La llamada de Los Simpson
|laTrans=The Call of the Simpsons
|it=yes
|itName=Il richiamo dei Simpson
|itTrans=The Call of the Simpsons
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== External links ==
*{{TheSimpsons|1|7|The Call of the Simpsons}}

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