Echo Canyon/Quotes

% H = Homer, M = Marge, B = Bart, L = Lisa
 %
 % The Simpsons family car (with luggage tied to the roof) skids to a halt
 % at a scenic viewpoint.
:Homer: (car arrives) Well, here we are.
:
 % The kids raise their heads from their comics.
:Bart: Where? Winny Barn?
:Lisa: Yum! I have a couple of jumbo corn dogs, please.
:
 % Back to the front seats, where we see that Marge is also reading a
 % magazine.
:Homer: No, you little fools. We're in another scenic view point.
:Lisa: Oh.
:Homer: Everybody out of the car.
 % No reaction.
:Now!
 % A mad dash for the door. Everybody hops out and stretches. (Maggie
 % stretches too far and falls over.) Everybody except Bart, who leans
 % against the car reading his comic book. Homer walks over, snatches
 % the comic book...
:(grabs Bart's comic) Gimme that!
 % ... and tosses it over the cliff. Bart watches it sail into the
 % river below.
 
 B: [disappointed] Great. Now I'll <never> know what happened.
 
 % Marge and the girls discover a sign that reads ``Echo Canyon''
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 % Marge and the girls discover a sign that reads ``Echo Canyon''.
:Marge: Oh, look, children. This canyon is famous for it's echo.
:Homer: Well, what do you know.
:Marge: Let's take turns yelling into canyon. Lisa, you start. 
:Lisa: Okay. (then starts) Boooooorrrinnnnng!
 % Her voice echoes through the canyon.
:Homer: Lisa!
 % Maggie tugs on Homer's pant leg. Homer looks up and sees Bart
 % carefully balanced atop a huge boulder at the top of a nearby hill.
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:Bart: (stands on a boulder) Cool, man.
:Homer: Bart!
:Bart: Whoa.
:
 % ... and falls off the boulder, sending it crashing (*thud*) (*thud*)
 % down the hill towards the car.
:Homer: (screams)
:
 % The boulder reaches the bottom of the hill and luckily bounces right
 % over the family car.
:Homer: Phew. Why you little! (starts chasing Bart) Bart! (echo three times)
:Bart: What? (echo three times)
:Homer: I'm going to kill you! (echo three times)
:Bart: Don't have a cow, Homer. (echo three times)
 % Marge and the girls watch from the scenic viewpoint.
 
 M: That is a remarkable echo.
 L: [not excited] Whatever you say, Mom.
 
 % Lisa and Maggie produce their magazines and resume reading.
 % Marge does the same.
 %
 % [End of Act One. Time: 1:07]
Category:Quotes