Lemon of Troy vs. Bart Gets An Elephant

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Lemon of Troy

Marge lectures Bart on the importance of town pride, who realizes how wonderful it is living in Springfield. However, Bart also becomes upset with anti-Springfield sentiments coming from the neighboring town of Shelbyville. Grampa explains that this rivalry can be traced back to the establishment of the two towns. This occurred when the founders Jebediah Springfield and Shelbyville Manhattan discovered they had irreconcilable differences regarding their visions for a perfect town, Springfield favoring promotion of chastity and Shelbyville advocating incestuous marriages between cousins.

The next day, Springfield's lemon tree is stolen by a gang of boys from Shelbyville. Taking his town pride to heart and swearing to keep it, Bart leads Milhouse, Nelson, Martin, Todd, and Database into Shelbyville to search for the tree and bring it back to Springfield. The group splits up. Bart goes undercover and infiltrates the children of Shelbyville that stole the tree by disguising himself. However, he is unable to obtain any information. Eventually, the Springfield children track down the tree to an impound lot where the leader of the boys that stole the tree lives.

Back in Springfield, Homer, using Ned Flanders' RV, leads the men to find the boys. When the two groups meet, the boys tell their fathers of the tree being stolen. At the impound lot, the men demand the return of the tree, while the owner of the impound lot refuses and taunts them. Using a plan similar to the Trojan Horse, Bart steers the RV to the outside of the hospital. The RV is taken to the impound lot after it is found parked outside the hospital. When night falls, the Springfield boys and their fathers get out of the RV and tie the tree to the top. They are caught in the middle of this act by the owner but manage to escape. The tree, though considerably damaged during the escape, is returned to Springfield. The children of Springfield celebrate with lemonade, while those in Shelbyville drink turnip juice, much to their disgust, having made up a story about the tree being haunted to cover the embarrassment of losing to their Springfield rivals.


Bart Gets An Elephant

During a cleaning day at the Simpsons' house, Bart wins a KBBL radio contest after the station's DJs, Bill and Marty, call him. They give Bart the choice of two prizes: $10,000 in cash or the "gag" prize – a full-grown African elephant – and Bart chooses the elephant. This surprises Bill and Marty, who (understandably) believed that no one would ever actually take the gag prize, and thus have no elephant to give away. They instead offer Bart the money and a variety of other prizes, all of which he refuses, saying that he only wants the elephant. Word spreads throughout town about Bill and Marty's refusal to give Bart an elephant, prompting their boss to give them a choice: either arrange for the delivery of an elephant, or lose their jobs to a DJ machine. They decide on the former option.

Bart names his new elephant Stampy and ties him to a post in the backyard. Lisa complains that it's cruel to keep an animal like an elephant as a pet, while Homer is concerned that Stampy will eat him out of house and home. In an effort to offset food costs, Bart and Homer exhibit Stampy by charging customers to see and ride him, but fail to earn enough to cover even one day's food bill. Homer declares they can't afford the elephant and must sell him, much to Bart's dismay. The family is visited by a representative of a game reserve, who says their acres of open land similar to the African Savannah would be a good habitat for the elephant to live in. However, Homer dismisses this as he learns that he won't receive any money for it since the reserve is a nonprofit organization.

A wildlife poacher named Mr. Blackheart then offers to buy Stampy. Homer wants to take the money, but Bart and Lisa are against the idea, especially after Mr. Blackheart openly admits to being an ivory dealer. Homer and Mr. Blackheart reach a deal, but Bart and Stampy run off, wreaking havoc throughout Springfield, and are soon nowhere to be found. The family begins searching and eventually finds them at the Springfield Tar Pits, where Homer still plans to sell Stampy to the ivory dealer for the money. Bart and Lisa then angrily ask if Homer would like to be sold to an ivory dealer himself, to which Homer responds positively, before finding out that he's stuck in one of the tar pits. Bart orders Stampy to free Homer, to which he does (after first pulling out Barney Gumble). A grateful Homer finally agrees to donate the elephant to the wildlife reserve.

While at the reserve, Bart tearfully says goodbye to Stampy. After that, Stampy starts head-butting some of the other elephants, cheered on by Bart. Marge is surprised by this, and the representative explains that, in many ways, animals are a lot like humans: some act badly because they've had a hard life or they've been mistreated; but, like humans, some animals are just jerks (which he says as Homer himself is head-butting him).

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oh shit, another horrible choice.

[LoathedVermin72]

Lemon, very easily.

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[Norah]

Bart Gets an Elephant and it's not even close.

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[MattA75]

Bart Gets an Elephant and it's not even close.

after watching both, Lemon of Troy is better than I would've initially given it credit for, but Bart Gets an Elephant is fantastic

[EJ]

which one's chud?

[MattA75]

which one's chud?

if anything, chud is the station manager telling the on air talent they suck and can be replaced with the machine easily