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"The Fat and the Furriest"

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"The Fat and the Furriest" is the fifth episode of The Simpsons' fifteenth season, which originally aired November 30, 2003. The episode is about Homer fighting a bear.

Plot

Having bought Marge the same thing as Bart for Mother's Day Homer goes to Sprawl-Mart, and he buys her a "Kitchen Carnival" on the advice of Patty and Selma, a machine that produces cotton candy, caramel and deep fried things. Eventually Homer uses it to make a giant ball of deep-fried, caramel-covered, cotton candy. The ball is much too big for the family to eat, and it gets dirty. Finally Marge insists Homer get rid of it. He takes it to the dump, and is confronted by a large, angry grizzly bear, from which he cowers. The bear eventually wanders off without attacking, apparently bored by Homer's crying.

Homer becomes a nervous wreck, hallucinating and seeing bears everywhere. To make things worse, a tape was made of him cowering from the bear, and his coworkers and Bart's friends make fun of him incessantly. Grampa tells him to confront the bear, and Homer eventually does so, contacting a hunter named Grant. He then makes a suit of armor out of household junk. Ignoring Marge's requests that he not fight the bear, he sneaks out of the house, is joined by Bart, Lenny and Carl, and goes to fight the bear.

The four of them make camp in the woods. As his homemade armor is hot, Homer eventually takes it off and bathes in a stream, where he is again attacked by the bear. With Bart, Lenny and Carl dancing to the radio and paying no attention, the bear drags Homer to his cave. Homer discovers that the bear is only angry because of a painful electrical prod attached to his ear. In the mean time, Marge and Lisa have discovered Homer, Bart, and the suit of armor missing, and Lisa hires Grant to help track Homer down.

Freed of the electrical prod, the bear and Homer become friends; going through garbage (Homer, however, is the pig out of the two and the bear, repulsed by his manners, hands him a spoon), and going on friendly walks. Homer later decides to take the bear to a nearby wildlife refuge, but on the way, they are attacked by Grant and some other hunters with shotguns (including the Springfield redneck farmer). Homer dresses the bear up in his armor, which blocks the gunfire and allows the bear to reach the wildlife refuge, where he is promptly attacked by an elephant, but then fights back against him.

Quotes

(When Marge suggests that Homer get rid of the candy ball, Homer looks at it. He imagines that it comes to life)

Candy Ball: I think you should get rid of her. Then, we can be together - FOREVER!!

Homer: Ugh, Maybe you're right, Marge. Or maybe you're right, Candy Ball. No! Marge ... or maybe ... no!

Homer: (looking at a children's book) "The Bear Went Over The Mountain"?! (looks at another) "The Berenstain Bears"!! Ah! Ah! (sighs in relief as he looks at another) "Goldilocks." (sees the rest of the title) AND THE THREE BEARS!!! (He flees in a panic)

(After Homer throws a pine cone into the clearing, hunters emerge and pelt it with shotgun blasts. The bear whines)

Homer: Wait, stop. I know bullets can be scary, but I have an idea. First, we pull off all your fur.

(He pulls out a chunk of the bear's fur. It roars in his face)

Homer: All right, all right, I'm still thinking! (gasps, gets an idea) They're looking for a male bear, right ... ? (pulls out a large knife, the bear smacks it out of his hand) Oh, it's so easy to condemn, so hard to create!

(Grant is telling his fellow hunters how to deal with the bear)

Grant: ... Unless we take him down! (cocks shotgun)

Cletus: Yeah, all the way down. (cocks shotgun)

Grant: What you said didn't really add much. (cocks shotgun)

Cletus: I know. I just wanted to belong. (cocks shotgun)

Grant: Well, we all feel that way sometimes. (cocks shotgun)

(The bushes rustle, all the men, including Grant and Cletus, cock their shotguns)