Simpsons Tall Tales

"Simpsons Tall Tales" is the twenty-first and last episode of Season 12, as well as the last episode before the 9/11 terrorist attacks which caused production delays and scenes to be altered for most of the TV Shows and Movies.
==Synopsis==
The family rides the rails to travel to Delaware. While on the train, a hobo tells them some famous tall tales, casting them and other Simpsons characters into the stories.
== Full Story ==
===Introduction===
After the Simpsons win a trip to Delaware, Homer refuses to pay a $5 airport tax for his flight. The family jumps onto a freight train and meets a singing, although clearly weird, hobo who tells them three tall tales.
=== Paul Bunyan ===
Homer plays Paul Bunyan, starting with his birth where his mother afterwards asks for whiskey. Many years later as a grown giant he is a great burden on local townspeople, as he crushes their houses and consumes all their food (along with anyone near it at the time). Eventually, the townspeople drag him out of their town after they drug him with beer and Jamitin (as seen in the program where Ned Flanders, Rod Flanders and Todd Flanders create their own film). Out of loneliness, he carves a block of stone from the mountains into a blue ox that he calls Babe, who is rendered alive by an electric shock, similar to lightning, which apparently originated from the northern lights. Homer later meets Marge, and though she is initially frightened of him, the two fall in love. When a meteor is soon to hit the town, the townspeople call Paul back to help them. Paul obliges and throws the meteor towards Chicago, starting the Great Fire there, but not before it hits him in the backside.
As the hobo was telling this story, Lisa points out that Paul never fought Rodan and that Paul's size kept varying throughout the story, the hobo shrugs her off. After he done telling the story, the hobo asks them for a sponge bath as compensation. Disgusted, Homer is forced to oblige, as nobody else will do so, but the hobo does not mind anyone seeing his nakedness.
=== Connie Appleseed ===
The hobo's second tall tale is loosely based on the legend of Johnny Appleseed, except that Lisa portrays a female version of him and her name is adapted to "Connie Appleseed". Connie is part of a wagon train, and all of the travelers shoot and eat great numbers of buffalo. Connie, who is against the practice, states "If you don't stop this slaughter, you'll wipe out the buffalo." After which they all ridicule her, she is worried that no one is eating a renewable source of food, but a voice guides her to an apple tree and finds some apples for the pioneers to eat, unaware that it was Hans Moleman sinking in quicksand. The pioneers reject the apples (Homer spits them out in disgust when he realizes they are apples and not buffalo testicles) and leave Connie behind when she refuses to travel any further unless they switch to apples. Eventually, she changes her last name to "Appleseed", and leaves to journey across North America and plant apple seeds wherever she goes. Meanwhile, the Simpsons change their surname to "Bufflekill" and they succeed in killing nearly all the buffalo in the land, leaving them with only two left, both of whom Homer shoots and kills immediately after Bart points them out.
As winter rolls by, the travelers start to starve and are soon driven to cannibalism to survive, picking Homer as their victim for being the fattest. Just as they are about to cannibalize Homer, Connie returns and offers them apples. They like them, and Homer is spared, even though Moe Szyslak is seen eating him and asking, "What, so now we're not eating Homer?" They all cheer for Connie Bufflekill.
=== Tom and Huck ===
As Lisa points out before the story begins, this isn't an actual tall tale, but a story that the hobo tells based on Mark Twain's story about Tom Sawyer, portrayed by Bart, and Huckleberry Finn (Nelson). Huck is caught holding hands with Becky (Lisa) and is forced to marry her by her father (Homer). During the wedding, Homer points a shotgun at Huck, and at that time it's revealed that this is exactly how Homer and Marge got married, with Abe Simpson still pointing his shotgun at Marge. Huck dodges this marriage and goes on the run with Tom, leaving Missouri for Missoura. However, they are chased by townspeople led by Becky's father and their families. They flee to a river boat, but Moe throws them overboard into the Mississippi River and the townspeople catch them. The scene shifts to the funeral of Tom and Huck a few days later. The pair look as if to be secretly watching the proceedings from the rafters, until Reverend Lovejoy orders their bodies lowered into the caskets, revealing that Tom and Huck are actually dead. 
The family arrives in Delaware and disembarks from the train, but the hobo reminds them that they owe him two more sponge baths as compensation. Homer promises to catch up with them in an hour and volunteers to stay behind to do the dirty work.
== Citations ==
fr:Histoires de clochard
pl:Simpsons Tall Tales
pt:Contos da Carochinha
Category:Trilogy Episodes
Category:Anthology
Category:Season finales
Category:Homer episodes
Category:Lisa episodes
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Category:Nelson episodes
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Category:Written by Matt Selman
Category:Written by Don Payne
Category:Written by John Frink
Category:Directed by Bob Anderson
Category:Episodes without Maggie
Category:Adventure episodes