Marge, Bart and Lisa then go to Springfield Airport where they are greated by Apu who is aboard a cargo plane to India. After breaking up the wedding Marge tells Bart that she had a trick up her sleeve - instead of sending Lou back to the compound, she sends Homer in a cow suit. So, Homer and Marge must break the two up. However it doesn't work, and instead she helps him steal Lou from the compound.īecause Bart can't take care of Lou, he gives Lou to Mary, but her father tells Bart that to them, a cow it is a token of marriage. Once Lou is sent off to be slaughtered, Lisa becomes to see Bart's affection for Lou, and tries to trick him into being a vegetarian by playing mooing sounds on a CD. Eventually Lou wins the contest, but Bart doesn't realize all that means is he'll get slaughtered first. Bart is left with the runt, while Ralph gets a cardboard cutout, 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. 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. When Homer realizes no parent participation is involved he immediately signs Bart up. Homer and Bart go out to Shelbyville to refill their bean bag chairs, and they see Martin plowing fields for the 4-H club. It guest stars Zooey Deschanel as Mary Spuckler. The episode was written by Jeff Westbrook and directed by Nancy Kruse. " Apocalypse Cow" is the seventeenth episode of season 19 of The Simpsons and the four-hundred and seventeenth episode overall. This is an allusion to the Bayeux Tapestry, a 50 cm by 70 m embroidered cloth which explains the events leading up to the 1066 Norman invasion of England. ![]() The family rests triumphantly on their couch as Ned Flanders lays dismembered on the floor before them. Having the story focus on the kids was a nice departure from what can sometimes become "The Homer Simpson Show." And maybe I'm just being sentimental, but after years of watching this FOX network staple, it was nice to hear - cheesy though the line might have been - that Bart finally had a cow, man.A story is told through pictures on a medieval style scroll: The Flanders clan captures the Simpsons' couch and the Simpson clan crosses the open waters to do battle with the Flanders and take back their couch. Also, don't be a cow.") but the half-hour was solid entertainment from beginning to end. There were no indelibly quotable lines in the episode, (though there might be an argument for Homer's "Never work hard and don't form emotional attachments. That cute voice of Mary's was provided by Zooey Deschanel ( Elf) and fit the character well, never crying out, "This is a guest-star voice!" Marge's rescue of Bart from marriage and Lou from death smartly brought the episode to a close, including a Casablanca-referencing airport scene and Homer's heavy-on-the-meat declaration to never again eat meat. This was an unexpected twist, and it was fun to see Bart nearly go through with it to keep Lou happy. As it turned out, Mary was Cletus and Brandine's daughter and the offering of a cow constituted a formal proposal of marriage. Once Bart freed his cow Lou from the feedlot - and doing so with funny-not-preachy sight gags about high-density housing and growth hormones - he could only think to offer the cow to his helper Mary. It also gave the episode a great bit by having the "Anguished Animals 3" CD be performed by Tress MacNeille, a prolific contributor of voices on The Simpsons. Lisa's attempt to guilt Bart into never eating meat again was funny and suited her character. The story then took an expected turn and set Bart out on a mission to save his cow from the slaughterhouse. After the win, Bart was informed his prize-winning cow would be taken to a feedlot to be slaughtered. At the fair, where we saw Ralph had added a head to his sawhorse, Bart won the coveted blue ribbon. Soon, we saw Bart getting his cow in shape via a Rocky-like montage that included the bovine surreally boxing a frozen side of beef. At first, Bart wasn't sure how to raise his runt, but he got some help and inspiration from a fellow kid farmhand named Mary. ![]() Nelson picked a tough cow, Ralph picked a wooden sawhorse and Bart was stuck with a runt. As a final assignment, the kids had to raise a cow in the hopes of it winning a blue ribbon at the county fair. Bart took his own combine ride over a variety of items, including clothes that came out folded, fish that came out in cubes of water and manure which came out as copies of Pirates of the Caribbean 3. From there, we followed the eldest Simpson child on several tasks around the farm. Once Homer learned he wouldn't have to be involved as a parent, Bart was allowed to join the club. Things started rolling after Bart saw Martin driving a wheat combine and discovered that the 4-H Club had the most finger-loss of any youth organization.
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