The Fat and the Furriest

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"The Fat and the Furriest"

Homer develops a fear of bears.

Episode no.

318

Prod. code

EABF19

Orig. airdate

In a parody of the opening of the 1960s sitcom, Get Smart!, Homer goes through many futuristic doors and passageways until he reaches the phone booth, falls through the floor, and lands on the couch (with the rest of the family already seated) .

Guest star(s)

Charles Napier as Grant Conor

Season 15
November 2, 2003 – May 23, 2004

"Treehouse of Horror XIV"
"My Mother the Carjacker"
"The President Wore Pearls"
"The Regina Monologues"
"The Fat and the Furriest"
"Today I Am a Clown"
"'Tis the Fifteenth Season"
"Marge vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens, and Gays"
"I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot"
"Diatribe of a Mad Housewife"
"Margical History Tour"
"Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
"Smart and Smarter"
"The Ziff Who Came to Dinner"
"Co-Dependent's Day"
"The Wandering Juvie"
"My Big Fat Geek Wedding"
"Catch 'Em if You Can"
"Simple Simpson"
"The Way We Weren't"
"Bart-Mangled Banner"
"Fraudcast News"

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"The Fat and the Furriest" is the fifth episode of The Simpsons' fifteenth season, which originally aired November 30, 2003. The episode is about Homer fighting a bear.

[edit] Plot

Unable to buy Marge a diamond necklace for Mother's Day, Homer instead buys her a "Kitchen Carnival", a machine that produces cotton candy, caramel and deep fried things. Eventually Homer uses it to make a giant ball of deep-fried, caramel-covered, cotton candy. The ball is much too big for the family to eat, and it gets dirty. Finally Marge insists Homer get rid of it. He takes it to the dump, and is confronted by a large, angry grizzly bear, from which he cowers. The bear eventually wanders off without attacking, apparently bored by Homer's crying.

Homer becomes a nervous wreck, hallucinating and seeing bears everywhere. To make things worse, a tape was made of him cowering from the bear, and his coworkers and Bart's friends make fun of him incessantly. Grampa tells him to confront the bear, and Homer eventually does so, contacting a hunter named Grant. He then makes a suit of armor out of household junk. Ignoring Marge's requests that he not fight the bear, he sneaks out of the house, is joined by Bart, Lenny and Carl, and goes to fight the bear.

The four of them make camp in the woods. As his homemade armor is hot, Homer eventually takes it off and bathes in a stream, where he is again attacked by the bear. With Bart, Lenny and Carl dancing to the radio and paying no attention, the bear drags Homer to his cave. Homer discovers that the bear is only angry because of a painful electrical prod attached to his ear. In the mean time, Marge and Lisa have discovered Homer, Bart, and the suit of armor missing, and Lisa hires Grant to help track Homer down.

Freed of the electrical prod, the bear and Homer become friends. Homer decides to take the bear to a nearby wildlife refuge, but on the way, they are attacked by Grant and some other hunters. Homer dresses the bear up in the homemade armor, which resists the gunfire and allows the bear to reach the wildlife refuge - where he is promptly attacked by Stampy, but then fights back against him.

[edit] Inspiration

The creation of bear-proof armor after surviving a bear attack (but not Homer's public cowardice) was inspired by Troy Hurtubise whose story was told in the documentary Project Grizzly^[1].