Apocalypse Cow
"Apocalypse Cow"
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Episode Information
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"Apocalypse Cow" is the seventeenth episode of The Simpsons nineteenth season. It aired on April 27, 2008. [1] It guest starred Zooey Deschanel as a farm girl named Mary.[2]
Plot
Homer and Bart go out to do a chore and see Martin plowing fields for the 4-H club. When Homer realizes no parent participation is involved he signs Bart up immediately. When Bart joins 4-H, there is a contest to raise a cow, and at the end of the summer the best cow wins a ribbon. Bart is left with the runt, and is totally unaware of how to raise a cow, but with the help of Mary one of Cletus's kids, they name him Lou, and raise him to be very big. Eventually Lou wins, but Bart doesn't realize all that means is he'll get slaughtered first, and is very upset. Lisa sees Bart's affection for Lou, and tries to trick him into being a vegetarian by playing mooing sounds on a CD. However it doesn't work, and instead she helps him steal Lou. Bart gives Lou to Mary, but her father mistakenly believes it is a token of marriage. So, Homer and Marge break the two up. Marge, though, has a plan. Instead of sending Lou back, she sends Homer in a cow suit. Homer, thinking it's a "laughter house" goes into the slaughterhouse, and almost gets killed, but Marge saves him just in time. Afterwards Lou is sent to India on a plane, where cows are considered sacred.[1]
Cultural references
The episode's title is a reference to the film Apocalypse Now.
The cartoon called Transclownomorphs is a parody of Transformers
Bart drives the harvester and turns manure into DVDs of Pirate of the Caribbean: At World's End.
When Lou is being sent off, Bart says, "Here's lookin' at you cud," a reference to Humphrey Bogart's famous line, "Here's lookin' at you kid."
Tress MacNeille
When Lisa tries to trick Bart she plays a CD. Bart thinks it's his conscious, and when he discovers the CD he exclaims, "That wasn't my conscious mooing, it was... Tress MacNeille!" Also at the end of the episode Homer hears a PA system and says "That computer system sounds like Tress MacNeille!"
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Primetime Listings (April 20 - April 27)"FoxFlash. Retrieved on 2008-04-04.
- ↑ Dan Snierson. "Zooey Deschanel, Glenn Close to guest on 'The Simpsons'"Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved on 2008-01-31.
 
