Dangerous Curves

"Dangerous Curves" is the fifth episode of Season 20. (originally going to be in season 19). 
==Synopsis==
The Simpsons take a road trip to a cabin in the woods that Homer and Marge once vacationed at 20 years before. In a series of flashbacks, Homer and Marge reflect on some history from their courtship and Bart and Lisa recall some pleasant memories from their very early days.
==Full Story==
On the 4th of July, the Simpson family takes a road trip to visit a cabin in the woods. While driving there, they pick up hitchhikers Jeremy Freedman and his girlfriend, Beatrice. Staring at the two younger teens, Homer flashes back to how he and Marge were, in their pre-marriage years.
In their dating years, a young Homer and Marge are riding their bikes down the highway. They attempt to kiss while biking, but Homer crashes his and Marge's bike, prompting them to walk on foot, lost. Ned and Maude Flanders, who are driving by, notice them as hitchhikers and pick them up. Ned and Maude tell Homer and Marge that the two of them are married (and since 2:00 that afternoon), and that they are on their honeymoon. Back in the present, Homer becomes quite annoyed with Jeremy and Beatrice kissing, and is happy when Bart agrees to not take his eyes off his GameBoy.
In the early years of their marriage, Homer and Marge are more stressed. After Homer is harassed by Patty and Selma, he stops and forces them out of the car. Marge tells him that Patty and Selma have a map. When their car runs out of fuel, they head to a nearby home to borrow the phone. The house owner, Alberto, who is having a party, invites Homer and Marge inside and they accept. Marge, however, is enraged after seeing Homer limboing with a beautiful woman named Sylvia. After Marge falls into a pool and Homer and Sylvia start a sushi fight, she regrets meeting and marrying Homer. In the present, the family drops off Jeremy and Beatrice at a Tongue-Kiss Point, while the Simpsons head off to their cabin.
Homer and Marge flashback to their dating years again, where the Flanders drive to the very same cabins they are at today. Homer and Marge are excited to settle down together, but Flanders forces them to sleep in separate rooms, much to their disappointment. Later at the party, Homer and Sylvia are laughing in the pool, and Alberto finds Marge drying herself in a changing booth, crying. He hands her a dress and pumps. Marge leaves the party with Alberto on his aircraft to the same cabins. Similarly, Sylvia and Homer drive to the cabins as well. When Marge and Alberto hear Homer outside, he hides in a chest. Marge attempts to get Homer to leave with her, but he decides to stay in order to avoid her catching Sylvia outside. Marge has Homer drag the chest outside, but Sylvia finds him. Homer, not knowing Alberto is in the chest, puts Sylvia in there as well. Alberto and Sylvia meet and fall in love while Homer and Marge rekindle their love. In the present, Alberto and Sylvia, now married with a child of their own, arrive at the cabin and run into Homer and Marge, who learn of each others affairs. Disgusted that one of the most important moments in their early years of marriage was based on lies and deceit, Homer regrets marrying Marge and, trapped in a ball of their luggage which happened while unpacking, has Alberto and Sylvia's daughter roll him away from Marge into the woods.
Back in their dating years, Ned tells Homer that if he and Marge were married, he could make all the love to her he wants. Ned jokes to Homer saying that he has better things to do on his honeymoon than following about two teenagers, but Maude is sitting in a tree with a water gun ready to aim at Homer's wiener and Ned is talking to her through a walkie talkie. As she is aiming, Homer carves a heart with "Marge + Homer 4ever" into a tree. In the present, Homer sees his carving on the same tree and feels bad about what happened. Thinking there is still time to save his marriage, he attempts to peel the bark off the tree and show the message to Marge; Marge suddenly arrives to find Homer and accidentally knocks the tree, which had severely weakened roots, over a ravine. Homer clings onto the bark and refuses to let go, but Marge tells him that their love for each other is within themselves, not in the bark. As Homer reaches for Marge's hand, he falls down the ravine toward the river below, still holding onto the bark and peeling it all off the tree, with Marge falling after. Homer catches her, and they both agree to not die mad at each other and accept what they both did 5 years ago. Their fall is spared when the line of bark stops right above the water, allowing them to be saved by Bart and Lisa in their pedal car, which Bart had driven into the river as a shortcut. The episode ends with young Homer and Marge on their bikes, the pedal car, different cars with either Homer and Marge, Patty and Selma, or Ned and Maude Flanders, and Homer tied to the ball with some of them splitting in half at the roundabout.
== Citations ==
fr:Souvenirs dangereux
pl:Dangerous Curves
pt:Curvas Perigosas
Category:Homer episodes
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